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State and Municipal Taxation of Pub-
lie Bonds*
The Governor ofNew York in his mes
sage to-tbc Legislature of that State, calls
attention to the fad “that the personal I
*' property of individuals very largely 1
taxation,” and he urges upon I
that body the adoption of some adequate I
remedy. The Governor of lowa calls at- 1
Unlion to the same grievance. In those
Slates where there is a large assessment of I
personal property, there is always a very I
largcnumber who do not pay any tax, lay- I
ing their share of the public burden 1
upon their more honest or unfortunate 1
neighbors. There is a .vast amount of this I
kind of partial taxation, and, while real !
estate cannot be hidden, tbcic are count-1
loss ways in which personal property may J
escape. Household furniture and stock in 1
banks may be reached, hat hundreds of I
millions of dollars in bonds, stocks, mort- I
gages, notes andolber money investments, I
utterly escape taxation. There are persons I
who move out ol States or cities, where I
the tax-gatherer becomes 100 inquisitive, 1
There arc many Americans now living I
in Europe who arc absent in order to I
escape taxation upon their investments in I
bonds, mortgages, stocks and other money
securities. The Federal bonds are exempt
from tax, but no other bonds arc, and
yet, with the exception of bank
stocks, there is but a small proportion
that i? ever reached by the tax laws of ■
plates or municipalities. Ten millions of
New York Slate bonds might be held in
Chicago for ten years without being dis
covered by the Assessor; and we have no
doubt that three times that sum of State
and other bonds are held here which do
not pay any tax. After a comparison of
the taxing system of Chicago with that
of other cities in the country, it has been
found that we have as searching and as
equitable laws upon this subject as pre
vail anywhere. Under our system wo
have reached an assessment upon
$.’>3,500,000 of tangible personal property
out ot an assessment upon nil kinds
cl estate of Yet it is noto
rious here, as well as in Xcw York and
elsewhere, that a very large amount of
property esirapes taxation, —particularly
that Invested in public securities. In
statement, , or , j^r«onrtY >I jm)jv
erty of all kinds.for the year ISUG was not
over $2-70,000,000, although it includes all
the property ot the corporations of the
State, showing that hut very little of the
money investments had been discovered
by the Assessors, and returned for taxa
tion. In fact this «um amounts to only a
fraction of the personal properly held in
in Xew York city alone.
The clamor which is raised concerning 1
The exemption of national bonds from 1
State and municipal taxation is therefore I
shallow and inconsequential. As a mat-{
Ur offset the States and cities foil to col- I
lect taxes from those bonds which they I
have an undisputed right to lux. Is it I
likely that they would be more vigilant I
if they had the right to tux United States J
bonds? Is it probable that they would I
gel enough money from this source to j
pay for the cost of collection ? If the
bondholder chooses to evude the tax he 1
can easily do so, and he would be very j
likely to if be had been in tbc habit of I
evading it as to his other money invest-1
mcnts. In order to lay a tax effectually the
property must be found, aud not only
found but fastened. Houses and lands,
furniture and live stock, can be easily as- j
sessed, and tbc assessments can be readily
collected. So can slocks in banks, insur
ance companies, gas companies, and other
purely local corporations. Bui the State
of Xew York cannot practically tax the
stock of the Illinois Central Railroad in
tho hands of her own citizens; nor can
the Stale of Illinois lax that of the New
TorkCentral Railroad in the hands of her
citizens. She has no legal means of find
ing the property. As to the bonds, which
pass from hand to hand without any pub
lic or private record, tbc case is still more
difficult. Nor would the revenues of
Stales and cities be materially increased if
United Stales bonds were liable to local
luxation.
The Croat Alarm.
One who never knew ibc history of the
rebels, and who had seen so little of the
world ns to believe all men honest who
but said they were, might think from the
loud professions and boisterous alarm
they and their Northern allies make over
the constitution, and its violations, that
they are nowand always had been it* spe
cial champions and defenders. While the
fact is, since the constitution was first es
• tablished there has been no lime that the
air has not been filled with complaints
end threats, frdta the South, against it
government, as administered un
der it. The most unwearied and strenuous
efforts have been made by the rebel sec
liou from the beginning, cither to wrest
and pervert the meaning of that great law
of libcjly and justice so as to have it pro
. tect and forward their own unjust and
Sectional plans and passions, or, falling in
this, to'overthrow and utterly destroy it.
History shows us no record on all its
pages of such persistent, unyielding, and
vehement effort to bend an instrument,
fashioned solely for the defence of justice
and right, into a ready tool of
injustice and wrong. Having for
more than two generations labored
with all their ability, and with every
lorm of sophistry and chicanery, to make
the constitution the firm and enduring
bulwark ot human slavery in the region
where it already existed, as well as the
most powerful and successful agent for
spreading its poisonous seeds all over the
soil of the whole Union, so long as they
believed that iheiralroeious design would
triumph, and that they could bend and
force the great principles and powers o!
this immortal instrument to their inhu
man purposes, they never ceased with
one accord to extol its eminent merits,
and sing aloud its praises. They said
then, nothing was more excellent than
the constitution and the Union—no crime
blacker than to raise your band against
them, ard no parricide more infamous
than their destruction. But the moment
it was seen or feared that the constitution
could not be made the strong defence of
slavery, and could not be used to extend
and establish that infamous institution
everywhere, there rose from the rebel
section one long howl of rage and defi
ance. They rushed as one man to arms,
and poured out treasure and blood like
water to overthrow an Instrument which
was now, in their eyes, the very em
bodiment of tyranny and wrong. Any
ordinance, statute or constitution,
whatever its origin, be it ever so
low, and whatever its nature, be
it ever so unjust and atrocious, is the
very excellence and perfection of human
law so long as it makes the white man
dominant, with the whip in bis hand, and
the black man under his feet; and so long
as it protects treason, blots out all its guilt,
and restores U to place and power. And I
any lorm of law or government, though I
received direct from Heaven, and written
with the Divine finger, would be thrown
with scorn to the ground, and dashed to
pieces if possible, if It contained no pro
visions for setting up and maintaining in
power Southern whites as a superior
class, for washing them clean from all
their guilt of treason, and for ptyiog them
all they lost by rebellion.
Just now, with one consent, all the
rebel press, and all their Northern allies,
are herd at work to magnify and extol
the constitution. They grow hoarse shout
ing the alarm cry that the constitution is
Jn danger of violation from the Ilenubli
cans. Men who have hear! all this clamor
and croaking oficn bt-lorc know perfectly
what it all means. There is no danger,
pot the slightest, to the constitution. The
men who fought with all their might and
malignity for long years to overthrow and
destroy Uie constitution, are not alarmed
because it is In danger. Nothing would'
please them better than to see it not only
threatened withdangcr.bul utterly broken
to pieces and destroyed. But there is
creal danger and great cause of alarm for
ill the rebels and all their allies. And
the danger lies in the fact that a loyal
Congress mean to re-establish tbo con
stitution In all its original vigor and puri
'y. They are determined to purge it from
all the false glosses of slavcholding and
rebellious interpreters and commentators;
they mean to restore the original text
with not a single letter or word of freedom
or justice blurred or defaced; they mean
to breathe into it a new inspiration and
power, and make it a flaming sword turn
ing every way to keep and guard equal
laws and human rights. This is the dan
ger that looms up before the Copperhead
vision in such portentous form. If it look
any shape hut that his firm nerves might
never tremble; but this, to him, is full of
horrors unspeakable. There is imminent
danger that the constitution and hw of
liberty shall, tor the first time in our his
tory, be made to prevail at the South. If
Congress hold fast to the faith, as we be
lieve it will, If it is determined and bold,
to take every panicle of power from dis
loyal and ledge it in loyal hands; if it ut
terly destroys every hope the rebels have
that they can elect themselves to Con
gress and then pay themselves for their
slaves, for their losses and sufferings by
I the war, for their utter defeat and dread
| ful humiliation, there will be a voice heard
through the land of weeping and loud
lament. There will be bellowing os oflhe
bulls of Bashan, roaring and howling as
of all tbe animals together; but it will all
1 pass away with a great noise, and silence,
I with peace and freedom, reign at last.
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The Canadian Bother,
The Legislature of the Province of
Quebec has directed a committee to in
quire into the causes of the emigration of
citizens of that province to the United
States and to report such measures as
may be necessary to prevent the same.
The other provinces of the dominion
might make the same inquiry. The facts
arc,that of the emigration from Europe to
America about ninety per cent
comes directly to the ports of
1 'he United Stales. The other ten
per cent reach the British provinces;
and of these 75 percent push on to the
I Slates by the most direct route, 15 per
• cut remain in Canada a few weeks or
months, and then follow their compan
ions, and the other 10 per cent, equal to 1
per cent of the whole European emigra
tion, remains in Canada. But, as an off
set to this gain by immigration, there is
a constant loss by the removal of the
young men of Canada to the United
States. They arc only restrainedby their
minojity; when they have the legal
right to act for themselves, they shake the
iSust of the decayed and decaying prov
| inoes from their feet and cost their lot with
I the homogeneous race which, in the Slates
I of American Union, arc enjoying freedom,
liberty, prosperity and have a future be-
I fore them for themselves and for their
I t ~nun ;n. m round numbers, 250,000 cmi
nrants reached tha TT n >t«a ct.»~ ai~~*
from Europe in 1807, Of these, a majori
ty were from countries where the English
language is not spoken. No German or
Scandinavian, or any person speaking
other than the English tongue, ever mi
grates to Cauada, or, gelling there by ac
cident, ever remains there. Those who
emigrate to Canada arc generally
those Scotch, English and Irish
who have friends and relatives
in business in that country. But under
Hie policy of government which has pre
vailed in Canada lor a century, and which,
even under the form of the Dominion,
Ims not been essentially modified, the
Canadas, and all the British provinces,
are complete in population and produc
tion. There is no work for new-comers ;
there is no increase or growth in business;
every avenue of trade, commerce, science,
and labor is already choked by men who
have not business enough to occupy one
third of their time, and hence young men,
and old men, single men, and those with
families, once getting out of employment,
or having any ambition to heller their
condition, move off to the Stales, and
leave the Provinces to vegetate and decay,
in sight of the universal prosperity anil
increase in every State on the opposite
side of the lakes. The government in
the Provinces is now, and always has
, been, conducted upou the policy of hav-
I ing things ns different as possible from
the United States; and the policy has been
successful. They are diflerenu The pros
perity and growth of the one contrasts
sharply with the decrepitude and poverty
I of the other. All races of men seek the
I one as a political refuge, and as a generous
j home for industry and labor, while the
othcr is avoided by emigration
as it it were a land of pesiilcncc.
When the voxels from foreign lands reach
ic American coast, tlie seekers of new
homes gaze long and anxiously that they
may salute the protecting flag of the re*
public, while those whose route is up the
St. Lawrence preserve a sullen silence
until they get beyond the dominion cov
ered with the English flag. In foreign
lands one of the earnest hopes and pray
ers of the poor and the industrious is that
in the succeeding spring, summer, fall, or
winter, they may be able to move by
families, or dozens of families, to free
America, where there is an abundance of
land for those who will work it; but em
igration to Canada Is never heard or
thought of. On the contrary, as in Ire
land, and Germany, Scotland, Sweden,
France and Italy, so it is in Canada, and
little colonies of six or eight, or twenty
families, or little bands of two, four, six,
or eight young men, combine their means
and move together from the province?,
and in the States find that activity,
growth, prosperity and increase unknown
to the laws, customs and policy of Brit
ish American government, llow this
thing can be arrested by legislation of the
Provincial Parliaments, remains to be
seen.
The Democratic National Platform.
The Democrats in the Georgia Recon
struction Convention, declared by their
votes and speeches on Thursday lost:
Ist. That the Stales have a right to
secede.
2d. Tint there is no such crime as trea
son against the United States.
3d. That Jefferson Davis is not a traitor.
4lh. That Georgia has a legal right to
go out of the Union.
The necessary inference from these
promises is:
Ist. That the war was unconstitutional.
2d. That the rebel armies were com
posed of honorable men defending their
sacred and inalienable rights.
Sd. the Union armies were com
posed of murderers.
4th. That the national debt was illegal
ly incurred.
slh. That slavery is not lawfully abol
ished.
These doctrines will constitute tbc basts
of the Democratic national platform.
They are the doctrines which Geo. 11.
Pendleton has uniforihally and consist
ently maintained. They are the princi
ples for which the unreconstructed whites
of the South are everywhere contending.
To aid them is scenting these “ rights”
the Northern Democracy oppose the rc
construction policy of Congress. A more
comprehensive statement of the issues of
the campaign could not easily be made.
It only remains to add that a rebel sol
dier, who had bad one of his legs shot off,
and who believes that the war is'ended,
made a speech in the convention dcoonnc
log the Democratic party, and demanding
that the new constitution of Georgia
shall have a clause declaring that seces
sion is treason, and that future traitors
shall be punished with death. The trea
son clause was carried by a strict party
vote—73 ayes to 43 noes.
The New York World omits no
opportunity to plant a blow under the
belt of Gworgc U. Pendleton. It describes
the greenback delirium as a sort of hy
drophobia, which its victims imagine can
be cured by a hair of the same dog. Pen
dleton is, of course, the canine referred to,
because be has proposed the largest Issue
of greenbacks—that is, the most thorough
and general distribution of hydrophobia.
Says the World:
*• ILr people of the We*t are beginnlag lo feel
the pitch of bard times. The<xchanr*« from that
reolon are filled with complin.u et the lack of
work to do, and the poor price* paid lor that
which la dene. It it patting straw fAa.', >r<U
rery ft it ae*piio.'i, they cut clamor for hair* of
(Ju dog that ha* taten them. The cry oi the people
ip for more irredeemable paper money, a* U there
were any special virtue In greenback! that would
ease them of tbvlr troubles. Ill* specie, net
greenbacks, that la needed.”
Translated into the vernacular, this
signifies that it is Seymour, and not Pen
dleton, that is needed. The Western De
mocracy will find this out to their satis
faction when their National Convention
Is held.
12?" The Republicans of Tennessee in
their State Convention, held yesterday,
adopted a platform which will challenge
the admiration of every intelligent free
man in the world. It declares as sound
political principles.
1. The unalterable and unconditional
support of the Union.
2. The administration of the govern
ment by those who saved it, and not by
those who sought Its destruction.
3. No steps backward in the cause of
freedom.
4. General Grant for President in 1803,
5. Congress to be supported in its strag
gle with an apostate President.
6. Free education for every child in the
Slate.
7. Encouragement to Immigration.
8. The maintenance of the rights of
manhood irrespective of color or race.
By this sign shall the Republicans of
Tennessee and of the whole Union con
quer in the coming election.
t3f“ln 1801 General McClellan ordered
the arrest of the members of the Mary
land Legislature, then in session at Fred
erick. The justification lor the act was
that that body had determined to pass an
ordinance ot secession, and declare Mary
land no longer a State of the Union, and
to proclaim her adhesion to the Southern
Confederacy. This arrest the Democracy
justified in 16G4 by the nomination of Mc-
Clellan, the convention assuming that
the treason of the mcmbc.s of the Mary
land Legislature was no more defensible
than that of the South Carolina Legis
lature.
But the Democracy of Maryland have
never forgiven the act; they have watched
the opportunity to resent it, and they
have just elected Mr. Hamilton, one of
the leading members in that treasonable
body to the United States Senate.
Another Letter Prom West Point*
Wm Point. N. T., Jan. SO, 19SS.
Sib: In s recent leaseot your*, was published
a “letter” which from Us otter CaUity and exagger
ation woo'd, order mo*t clreosutaocea, be un
worthy of the •Uehleit notice ; but from peculiar
motives, which I think Jortlfjme, 1 would re
qnrvt the name in/uil of the author of the “ let
ter” in regard to toe U. 8. MU. Academy.
Doping that 1 may soon be able to leant the
name—si least—of one who esa fabricate, rtfu
ptiaitaud lit with each facilities.
1 am very truly years, W.P.Culrk,
Cadet U. 8. M. Academy.
To the Edllor of Chicago Tribune, Chlgago, 111.
Anstrtr. When Mr. W. P. Clark, Cadet U.
9. M. Academy, shows his right to demand
our correspondent's name, ha can have It.
Until then we shall not gratify him, however
peculiar may be his motives for making the
requeat. Meanwhile we beg to inform him
that the writer is a graduate of the Military
Academy ; that he was a remarkably truth
ful boy when he entered that institution, and
that if be has learned to “ fabricate,vituperate
and lie,'* he must have acquired those accom
plishments at West Point. We might add,
fur Mr. Clark’s information, that Chicago is
>pcllcd with only one g.
£5?" The friends of Ireland will find Utile
encouragement in the speech of Lord Stan
ley at Bristol. He states that while Ireland
never was in a more prosperous condition,
t*hc was new more discontented than now.
there is no statesmaiunip in mia utterance.
A slave may be very fat and yet very discon
tented with his situation. Irishmen may
have more pototoes now than In the days of
the famine, and yet be ns foully oppressed by
Church and State as then. If the speech of
Lord Stanley reflects the opinion of Parlia
ment, the prospect of reform in Ireland is
very gloomy. It will be a sad day for Eng
land If, with the experience of the past few
months British, statesmen have learned
nothing mere than that because Ireland is
prosperous she ought to be contented. Lord
Stanley seems to have adopted the policy of
Mcttemich— ** give the people amusement
and good living and they will not think of
their rulers,”—a maxim more useful fifty
years ago than now.
A clnb has been organized In Xcw
York city to bring down the exorbitant
charges of restaurants, and has for its imme
diate object the combination of moderate
charges with good cooking and neat service.
The following scale of prices has been adopt
ed: “Soups, fish and meats, roasted or
boiled, generally, 10 cents; lamb, caper
sauce, mutton, beef a la mode, veal,
venison, 13 cents; fowl, 20 cents;
northern vegetables, 3 cents; bread, all va
rieties, 3 cents; bolter, 2 cents; stewed
fruits, tea, coffee, etc., 5 cents ; puddings,
pics, dumpling*, 10 cents,” etc., etc. Who
will originate a similar club in Chicago? The
harvest is ripe for the sickle. The man who
will accomplish the above culinary result
will not oniy.be called blessed by overtaxed
thousands, but will subserve tbc ends ot pure
religion. The preparation of clean, cheap
food is one of the most important brunches
of missionary labor.
There Is a budding Indian war in
Alaska. The telegraph informs us that the
natives have shown a great fondness for
whiskey, of tbc “forty-rod’’ brand, and
that when they get it they become drunk
ond disorderly. It appears that General
Davis has attempted to stop the liquor traf
fic at Sitka, and that whenever he arrests
anybody, or confiscates any of the beverage,
tbc Indians make common cause against him,
and threaten, in the Esquimaux dialect, to
clean out bis establishment. Of course, this
state of things cannot continue. The au
thority of the government must be main
tained at all hazards. The distance to trans-
port soldiers and army stores to put down
this new whiskey rebellion is about two
thousand miles. Nevertheless, as Uncle Sam
has taken the glory he must assume tbc re
sponsibility of his new government.
KT Miss (or Mrs.) Ida Stockton testifies
before the Investigating Committee that the
police annoyed her so that she could not
make any money at her business, which was
that of keeping a bouse of ill-fame. Also
that they dug a bole under her house, to find
the body of a murdered mao, supposed to
have been buried there. Also that they took
away h or license to sell liquor.
Inasmuch as Mrs. Stockton’s testimony is
the most important that has yet been ad-
iuced 1» the investigation, the public frill
rrurrnlly indorse cx-Aldorman Talcolt‘B rea
on? for refusing to appear before tbc com
mltce, to wit :
II- did cot know anvthlng.
11** did cot want to tell.
He did not care a for the committee.
lie was indifferent as to the result ot ttui lures-
Igation.
RcTrnxxn.—General John A. HcClernaud.who
icted for a time with the Radicate, h«a returned
lo tbt- DemocraHc psrty, and )a one of the signer*
if the call far the IllmoU State Convention. Re
»* a ttreng man to the ffeu, md will give bta en
’rc>c«atid eloquence to aid in the triumph of
ronatiiational liberty in the I‘realdonUal can rue.
—Albany Argus.
McClernand never acted with tbc Republi
can party. For a brief period be drove team
for a cab load of politicians, who called them
selves War Democrats," but when Grant
sent him home from the army, he went back
to bis original sin, and has supported tbc
Copperhead party. In his feeble way ever
since. In ISO 4he endorsed the Chicago plat
form, which declared that he war was a
failure—a conclusion which he must have
reached by reasoning a jtriori. Nobody bid
done more to make it a failure than himself.
p*7“The Advance Is exceedingly afflicted
by the improper advertisements In tbc dally
press of Chicago, and In a burst of deeply
religious grief Inquires “Why will decent pub
lishers thus defile their columns and insnlt
their respectable patrons ?” The same issue
of the A'driißce from which our quotation is
taken contains an advertisement of a quick
for the treatment of chronic diseases,
amorg which are specified "all sexual dis
eases, contagious orothcrwlsc.” This would
seem to prove either that the editor of the
.Idttmrr spends so much time editing other
people's newspapers that he cannot attend
to own, or that he U guilty of the grossest
hypocrisy.
tSVSitka is rapidly reaching a proud posi
tion among American cities. Billiard sa
loons, restaurants, comer groceries, pawn
brokers’ shops, and burglars wended their
way tblthcr, together with tbc star of Em
pire, and arc already doing a thriving busi
ness. The progressive spirit of the age and
tbaadaptability of our institutions to all
sorts of places are wonderful. In the mean
time why docs not Brother Moody start a
corps of missionaries for Sitka and establish
a branch of the Y. M. C. A. in that city? The
field Is certainly an Inviting one.
The French Free Masons have lately cele
brated the rrcoclliaUot) which bis taken place be
tween the nral societies known as “ Le Coaseil
Supreme,’’ whose headquarters an la the Ene
Grccelie St-Bonore, and •* Le Grand Orient de
Fierce," of the Roe Cadet. Ninety yean teo all
the French Free Masons were nnder the “Consell
Supreme,” whoae e urate* are the same as those
gtnn to the Free Masons by Frederick the
Great, placing al] appointments In the gift of the
Grand Master, who has also the right of nomi
nating h!s successor. When the revolution broke
onl this aristocratic system led to many dlapotes,
the retail of which su that a schltm took place
In the " Cornell," and the diaaidenta formed
themcidvts Into a separate society, the “ Grand
Orl. nt do France.” under PhilUppe Egallte, father
of K*ng Louis Phill.ppe. Thu society made all
appointment-) elective, and tenable for five years
only. The ‘‘Grand Orient” rapidly rose in num
bers and popularity, and has for some time been
tar more powerful than the •• Consell,” which it
did not recognize. Mutual friends of the two
societies have long endeavored to establish
friendly relations between them, hot they did not
ante ted In their object naUi a few months ago,
and the members of the **Orient” were enter
tained for the brat time by the “Coasst!” at a
baaqaet.
WASHINGTON.
Commissioner Rollins and the In
ternal Revenueßorean.
Who Is Responsible lor Corruption
in the Revenue Service.
How the Service is Debauched
by the President.
From Onr Ova Correspondent,
Wabuikotos, D. C , Jac. SO.
The President has Indicated, not merely to
outsiders, but to Secretary McCulloch, also,
his purpose to ask the removal of Hon. G. 11.
Rollins, Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
I have no Idea that the Senate will consent
to this proposition.
As a man, Mr. Rollins is courteous, up
right, judicious and intelligent. As an
officer, he is laborious, painstaking, above
suspicion, and of more than ordinary capa
bilities. Possibly he may not be of so great
breadth and executive force as ex-Govemor
Boutwell was, hut he Is mnch the superior
of either Mr. Lewis or Mr. Orton, his
more immediate predecessors In office.
Mr. Boutwell Is a greater man
than the country yet knows.
Ho Is no self-seeker; he gives him
self wholly to tbe duty in hand; he has noth
ing of the politician’s art. His service in or
ganizing tbe Revenue Department was such
as very few men In the land could then, have
rendered. It Is hardly fair to compare Mr.
Rollins with Mr. Boutwell.
Mr. Rollins baa the personal good-will and I
support of Secretary McCulloch ; bat the !
President is personally and politically hostile 1
to him. He can scarcely say who shall hold
the ordinary clerkships in bis bureau—a por
tion, at least, of his chief assistants arc se
lected directly by the President. With re
spect to his Assessors, Collectors and Special
Agents—the men throngh whose service the
department must manifest itself to the peo
ple—he has very little more control than the
King of Dahomey. The President names
them, not for canacltyor honesty, bat for po
litical reasons. "There are some good men in
the service, in by accident, or say by the fa
vor ofProndence. to show os what might
be accomplished; hat the majority
of the officials In this branch
of the government arc so notoriously cor
rupt or inefficient that nobody pretends to
believe them fit for the places they hold. I
happen to know that last July Mr. Rollins
formally and urgently recommended the im
mediate removal of about a dozen Collectors
and Assessors, and in December he begged for
the removal of nearly as many mure. The
letters In each cose were as strong as earnest
words could make them. I believe the
President has heeded these pressing recom
mendations in but three or four coses—and
in two of them, at least, his new appointments
urc even less honest and capable than the
present Incumbents. This specification bare
ly Indicates the position of Mr. Rollins. He
is expected to collect the revenues with the
aid of men everywhere whom all good citi
zens know to be utterly unqualified for the
Places In which they are put and kept by the
resident, directly orlndircctly. Mr. Boat
well, when be was in the bureau, had al
most supreme authority. Secretary Chase In
vested him with but little less than the
whole power of his department; Assessors,
Collectors, agents, clerks, held their posi
tions at his will solely. Therefore, as I said
before. It is not fair to compare the two men,
or judge Rollins, by the Boutwell standard.
Nobody could make the revenue service
creditable to the country with only each
power as the present Commissioner has. He
is a thorough Republican, but his chief dc
sire is to lilt the administration of his bureau
out of politics. His last annual report shows
that—especially is It shown In letters he bos
addressed to the Secretary. “Give me
honest and capable men,” he says to his
chief; “I ask neither for Republicans nor
Democrats, but only for men who will faith
fully and incorruptibly administer the law.”
I am very certain that Secretary McCulloch
would he glad to see the revenue service re*
deemed. I am confident that he is
disposed to aid Congress and
the Commissioner in purging It of faithless
and dishonest officials. lie may be wrong
in his political and financial views—l am nut
of those who believe that he should bo
held responsible for the present condition of
things in the Revenue Bureau. He is over
ruled by the President—he is hampered by
the President’s stubborn purpose to bend
everything he can to the support of his
“ policy.”
The country doesn’t vet half comprehend
Andrew Johnson. His freaks of passion, hi*
aggressive egotism, his pcltv malice—all
this is seen far and wide; his method of
anger, his sleepless and antiring determina
tion. his steady and fixed purpose to de
bauch every branch of the public service, if
need be. in order to carry out his political
aims—this is not yet seen outside or Wash
ington by very many persons. I am fully
persuaded that wc shall have only disgrace
and fraud and corruption, especially In the
Revenue Department, while the Johnson ad
ministration continues. In this connection
let me quote a paragraph from the article,
“A Talk with our Next President,” In the
new February number of Putnam:
“The close of the war found me people. North
and South, upon the verge of on rra or good led* I
lag. l*retldeat Johnson bed it la his power to !
introduce that era. Instead of doing this, he
►emud deaf to every suggertiou of the time.
The open door to a bright future he abut and
locked. Scarcely had he taken the reins of gev
erutscut waen be undertook to drive the nati jual
team backward. Ee revived the old shlbboMh
of uarty.and every subordinate official whe would
net support til* policy of obstruction waa r*.
moved. Put fidelity counted for nothing. Nei
ther honesty, capacity nor experience could save
aa officer whom the Procrustean teat of “my pel
ley’'bad foned wanting. UUtoeeaty and inca
pacity etood in the wav or no man's
e.evktinn who supported that policy. The
la»t three year* afford a record of offi
cial cotruption unparalleled la the
annals of oor political nutary. For President
Johnson found ready tojhia band opportunities for
coirupiion more attentive loan were ever betore
offered to a President, and he has trailed hlm*elf
of them without limit or temple. Our Immenae
d*-bt had created a vast and complicated svatem
of interns] revenue, and every cog and wheel of
’bit intricate machinery baa fete the touch of the
President’* baud, and been forced to respond to
htewill. Secretary McCnllocbacdCommisiioncr
Rollins seem powcrlets to resist the obstinate
will of the President, and over their heads have
down hi* relentless arrows, piercing our revenue
•ystem through and through.'’
I have not, yon will sec, overdrawn the
picture. General Logan was right when he
said in debate the other dav, “ The record of
the act* of Andrew Johnson is so black that
the world would blush if U could only took
upon it for a single moment.” It never can
be seen, however. He ha* made political
debauchery a science. I do not believe tt
possible for Congress to so frame the Here
nuc law as to deprive him of the chance to
corrupt and debase. Wc arc to have a new
bill—the present law is to be swept a wav en
tirely, and the Wavs and Means Committee
are going to build from the bottom. I doubt
not they will endeavor to make tbclr act to
?laln and explicit that It cannot be evaded,
ct. It will be evaded.- It it notfruerely mv
conviction, bnt that of men much older an*d
wiser, that honesty will be the exception,
and not the rule, in this branch of the pub
lic service until the Incoming of General
Grant's administration. If that brings us
nothing eUe it will bring us upright revenue
officers, 1 am sure.
Mr. Rollins has almost no chance for lode
pendent action, bnt his mere presence blocks
tbc Presidential game. We have had the
story that he was to be removed, over and
over again, for the last Tear—till now, l have
not believed the Preiicfcnl would really nn*
dertake to get him out of the way. Tbit he
has indicated a purpose to do so. Is not now
mere rumor or guess-work. I don't regard
it as certain that this purpose will he carried
out—the Secretary may be able to save the
Commissioner, or the President may discover
tbc hopelessness of the attempt before ask
ing the Senate to make the removal. Who
Is the President’s coming man I don't pre
tend to know. The name is of httle conse
quence—the Senate will not consent to the
change. 1 feel very certain that Rollins, per
sonalty, has no desire to keep the office—in
deed. 1 shall not much err if I say that he
would like to give it up; but you may be
very sure that the Senate will not allow’the
President to turn him out. Israel.
Greenbacks Tor Hondo,
Chicago, Jaq. 34.
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune :
tor the very able manner in which you
have insisted npou maintaining the honor or
the nation and Integrity of the government,
in relation to the payment of its debts m coin,
your paper I? entitled to the thank* and grat
itude of the American people. It is to be
hoped that The Chicago Thibcxe will con
tinue in this position to the end.
We arc surrounded now, as wd were in the
days of the rebellion, by a set of political
knaves and vagabonds who are ever on the
alert to seize every prospect and opportunity
for acquiring political supremacy and power.
When the war broke out. they were arrayed
on the side of the enemies of the country.
They denounced Lincoln as a tyrai t, the gov.
eminent as a despotism, and cheered and
hurrahed when disaster and defeat came
open the Union armies. They svmpathtacd
with the rebellion then, and their efforts
fincc its downfall have been directed to the
restoration of the rebel minions to power
and position. Meeting with an unexpected
ally in the person of Andrew Johnson, they
have succeeded In partially retarding the re
establishment of the policy and principles
which were settled by the war, and now hope
to stave off the final reorganization of the
country cntil they can defeat the Republican
party at the next Presidential election. De*
prived of any pnrclypatrioUc principles upon
which this 'desired object can be effected,
thev have raised the cry of “ greenbacks fon
gold," “pay the government bond*,” they
say: “ with government notes;”* 4 abolish the
national banking system, and the country
will be prosperous and happy!”
Exactly how the changing of the bonded
debt of tie co on try to an enormous issue of
irredeemable promises to pay—insuring a cor
respondingly enormous advance in the price
of gold, gram, flour, wool, clothing,
ana all the necessaries of life—ls to operate
as a benefit of the people, they fail to tell
ns; bat they seek to captirate the ear of the
muse*, and the votes of the people, by de
manding that the rich bondholders be paid tn
paper, and this, they say. Is in some mysteri
ous way to inure to the benefit of the poor.
Wc can only reply to this that it is a scheme
of the wildest delusion and foily; It coaid
onlv bare originated In the brains of anch
eminently patriotic men as Pendleton, Val*
lacdichain, and FerUirdn Wood, and is only
pul In operation to-day far the simple pur
pose of defeating the work of the Republican
party in reorganizing the country.
This demand is not made Sy
those w bo hold the bonds of
the government, by the men who ad
vanced the money to the country when she
stood in need of financial aid. and when suc
cess depended npon the moneyed means
loaned to the government to carry on tne
war, bnt by a set of political adventurers
who hope to achieve success by distracting
the attention of the party of the people from
'he main work at hand, and directing that
attention to collateral and unimportant U
<mea.
As the matter now stands, neither the re*
mmption of specie payments, nor the cos*
version of hoods Into legal-tender
notes are matters of any great
consequence. They do not demand prascsi
attention. The further contraction of the
currency Is stopped by tel of Congress. The
bondholders ash for no change in the rela
tion which they bold to ihe government;
and If the surplus coin In the Treasury were
applied, as it accumulates, to the redaction
of the hooded debt, the finances would
speedily adjust themselves to the wants of
toe people, and specie payment would come
soon enough.
It is, therefore, to be hoped that the atten
tion of those patriotic men, who sustained
the country in the hour of toll and danger,
»ho shouldered the musket and marched to
the field In vindication of that liberty
which the rebellion came so near
destroying, will not be diverted
from the great work yet unfinished, by the
specious schemes and base designs of the«e
political vagrants, whoso only aim is to de
stroy the country that they may rise to
power on her ruins. Then, we say, stand
firmly to the work so nobly begun—sustain
your representatives in Congress, remember
that the culmination of Republican prin
ciples has the abolition of slavery from the
soil of the United Slates, and that it Is yet
the destiny of this party to engrail on this
government the result of the war la the
declaration of equal rights, universal lib
erty. and universal suffrage to all of God's
children, white and black. When this is
done the Republican party may safely yield
the power to other hands, and pass down to
the pages of Impartial history with Imper
ishable renown and glory.
Geo. A. SncFBLDT, Jn.
LITERATURE.
The Burns Anatvenarr<
To-day la the birthday of Robert Burns, a
poet of whom it has been said that during
hu lifetime he was regarded as a phenome
non, and, now that he has been over seventy
years In his grave, he is a phenomenon still.
The leading facta ot his life are known to all.
His bumble descent; his hunger for knowl
edge ; bis early acquaintance with the great
masterpieces of English literature; bU early
sweethcartlng and acquaintance with tavcrni
and “scenes of swaggering riothis mar
vellous genius, so early manifested, for song
writing; his failures as a fanner, and bis
determination, when fa* saw ruin staring him
in the face, to seek better fortune and solace
for a lacerated heart in exile; the publica
tion of his poems, w.hich were received by
the wits of Edinburgh with a tempest of en
thusiasm that made their author tne idol of
th« literary and fashionable world;
bis meteoric career In that city; his
disgust with the brilliant personages who
regatded blm only os a meteor, a wonder—
who looked on him curiously, as one looks
at a strange insect through a microscope;
his determination again to seek “an Inde
pendence at the plowtall;’’the renewal of
his fruitless struggles as on agriculturist;
his 111-requited labors In the office of excise;
the fiual setting of this bright and comet-like
intelligence ; and, lastly, what, though not
a fact of his life, should always be mentioned
in connection with any epitome of its events;
the centenary of 1559, which girdled the
planet as with a blaze of festal fire, and a
roll of triumphal drums—all those facts of
his career sra familiar, not only to“Auld
Scotia’s” sons, but to the world.
Robert Burns, Scotland’s greatest poet,
was emphatically a bard fit to be seen.
Physically, as well as mentally, he gave the
world “assnranceofman.” There are persons
who regard genius as a disease—as a
malady peculiar to physical Inferiority.
Be this as it may, it is certain that
Pope was a hunchback, and so puny withal
—stub a dagger of lath—that, aa Falstatl
says, you could have “trussed him and all his
apparel Into an cel-skin—the ease of a treble
hautboy would have been a mansion for him
and a court Scott and Byron were cripples;
Tom Moore was so small that George the
Fourth once threatened to clap him into a
wine-cooler; Sun arrow stood but five feet
one in bis boots; Nelson was little, and lame;
Julius C;csar was troubled with epilepsy,
and never planned a great battle without
going into fits ; Napoleon was nicknamed
“the Little Corporal,” and a few years of
trouble killed him, where, as another has
said, such a man as Cobbett, endowed with
talent, not with genius, would have melted
6t. Helena rather than have given up the
ghost with a full belly. The goldfinch, it is
said, sings all the more sweetly with the hot
needle thrust into Us eye ; and wc know
that It Is not until they have been pierced
that our American maple trees yield their
honied treasures. But, be this as it may—
whether genius be or be not a disease—lt is
certain that Nature is a great economist, and
wastes nothing; and, therefore, in the lot
tery of life, most men have reason to be
thankful if they draw the prize of a healthy
constitution with a crazy mind, or the prize
ol a line mind with a crazy constitution.
But Burns was an exception to the rule; and
In him wc behold a noble, athletic body com
bined with a soul of JEolian tones—a man of
genius, bletscd with good digestion ai veil
as brain—tall, strong, and handsome as any
man that could be picked out of a thousand,
lu country or in town. •
To all the varied excellencies of Barns’
rcrte, it U of course impossible to do justice
in a brief newspaper notice. In his poetry.
qualities the moat opposite arc united—
tenderness the most exquisite, humor
the broadest and the most re
fined, the most delicate perception
ot natural beauty, the highest finish and the
most charming negligence of style. Perhaps
the most striking peculiarity Is the direct-
ness and naturalness of his verse. From the
firs-t line to the last, his poetry, throughout.
is rf«l emotion melodiously uttered. lie has
no feigned emotions; no pumped-up feeling,
or clap-trap sentiment; no wire-drawn re
finings, or hypocritical joys or woes; but
speaks out. or rather unrNu his heartfelt
emotions, because he is too full to be silent.
His songs are not like the exquisite lyrical
snatches with which Sbakspeare or Beaumont
and Fletcher hare sprinkled their dramas,
“ enlivening the bustling seen# and progress
of the action as the progress of the way.
farer Is enlivened by the voice of the birds in
the hedgerows, or the sighlandscentof wild
flowers that have sprung up by the wayside.”
ExcrJses of ingenuity they never arc, hnt
always the utterances of passion wreak
ing its thoughts upon expression, and
ss simple and unaffected as a shout
of laughter or a burst of tears. While he
reeks and riots in humor—a humor able ”to
move wild laughter in the throat of death”—
tears, too, Uc in him, as Carlvlc observes,
‘‘and consuming Arc. as lightning lurks m
the drops of the summer cloud. Ue has a
romance in bis bosom for every note of hu
man feeling; the high and the low, the sad,
the ludicrous, and the joyful, arc welcome in
their turns to his lightly-moved and all-con
ceiving spirit.”
Properly to appreciate Burns* poetry, we
muri remember that he wrote in an ago in
tensely Artificial and pragmatical—the age of
the Laura Matildas, Della Cruscans and other
butterflies, whom Gifford broke on the
wheel of his satire—an age of minuets, and
hoop®, and pomatum, and powdered cn-s,
and purple-velvet doublets—an age ot which
Haylcy was the Juvenal, and Anna Seward
the Sappho—and la which Whitehead,
mounted on his spavined Pegasus, capri
coled as laureate. Deterring the rules of
these mechanical bards, who chose the most
emphatic themes for their songs, and sought
only to dazzle and surprise. Bums wrote, not
from the mere itch for writing, bat from the
fulness of Inspiration, and bU poety went to
the heart, because It cemf from the heart. It
is because they are the spontaneous out gush
ing of his soul, because he did not go far
a tlrMfi.rhUthcnies.bat found LU inspira
tion in his dally life and in the most familiar
objects, that he thrills the reader—just as,
according to the German superstition, every
bullet fired by a huntsman goes straight to
Us mark if it be first dipped in the hunts
man’s blood. Stop from writing* He could
no more do it than a bird from ringing. As
Butler's hero
•* never hi* mouth eou’d ops
But cut there flew a trape,”
so to Burns ringing
no note difficile
Than to s blackbird ’ll* to whlptle."
The fire that bam? through bis songs was
not elaborated, spark by spark. In the closet;
but in tbe open fields. Franklin-like, as Moat*
gomery has said, **he drew the lightnings
from the clond as it passed over him, and be
commnnlcnicd thrro, too. by a touch, with
electrical swiftness and effect.*’ Perhaps, of
all poets. Burns was the most directly »n*
•pirtd. Probably not one of his poems ever
»rcw, like stalactites.'by the alow process of
accretion: like Adam, they had no child
hood—they awoke complete. In his best
things, there U an impetus, a ww, a hurry,
which Indicate that they were thrown off at a
sitting, though they abound in felicities of
expression that might bare bees under tbe
file for years. Alexander Smith remarks that
44 to him a song was the occupation of a morn
ing; his poetic epistles drive along in a fiery
sleet of words and Images; his Tam O’Sban
tcr was written - in a day—since
Bruce fought Bannockburn, the
best single day's work done In Scot
land." And then what a wondrons versatili
ty and variety In his genius! He could
ascend from the u Mouse’s Nest" destroyed
by the plow—the “wee bit heap o’leaves
and nibble,*’ that "cost it monle a weirie
nibble’’—up to the march that ushered Bruce
to Bannockburn; from tbe Mountain Daisv
gemming the sod to the "lingering star
with lessening ray" that recalled hts thoughts
to "Marvin Heaven," He had the rotuth
graphic j<owcr that could etch "The Dell
and Dr. Hornbook," the “TwaDogs," and
Tam O’Shantcr
•• clow’rirp round wl* pmdfnt care*.
L*#X catch cim o-aware*
but he had also the touch which could pencil
with exqubite delicacy the " flowers fit tv be
a posic lor his aln dear May."
Bums’ poetry is, In one sense, of limited
compass; he has no daring flights to tbe
highest heaven of invention. Narrative skill
be has to n wonder ol degree;
and manners ho paints with signal felicity
hr a few rigorous loaches; and
in the region of f»m!Uar humor, mingled
with ft kind of sly and quaint tenderness, he
stands, not supreme, but alone. But he has
little dramatic power, or Shaluperean ability
of losing himself In the creations of his
fancy. Bis blood was too hot, his pulse
best too tumultuously, for that; he was, dnr-
Irg his short life, too much the sport of his
own passions and of many other stormy (n*
flueocee to acquire such power of intellectual
sell-command and self suppression. It is in
eoog writing that he reigns 44 with no rival
mar his throne.” Here—in this, his own
mugic circle—he Is 41 above all Greek, above
all Roman lamea more than Simonides in
pathos, as In bis Highland Jf-irr/—a more than
Tyrtaens In fire, as In his Seoli wha hat tpf
Wallace bUd— a softer than Sappho In lore, as
in his lines to Jaty.
It Is no easy thing to write a good song.
There may be loftier filgkts of poetry—ablgher
species of fame—than that attained by the
song-writer ; but there is no kind of compo
sition which is more difficult, or which re
quires a rarer combination of qualities, to I
Insure perfection, than the lyric. No man, ,
however great his genius, can do It by sit*
ting down deliberately and saying, 44 1 will
write a pong.” As well might he, by taking
thought, add a cubit to his stature. Of the
thousands of songs published from year to
year, how few live beyond the hour! Thomas
Haynes Bailey’s songs were once all the
rage ; but who warbles them now ? And
where are Dlbdin’s ? Where, but consigned
to the lurching, “hcavc-ahead,” red-faced
and big-whiskered Inbber In clean white
trowsers and the Jacket edged with tape, who
does the i 'try nautical business behind the
footlights of the London minor theatres?
Nothing cm be more exquisite than some of
Moore’s polished snatches of melody ; yet
bis songs are mostly Ephemcridcs, the
majority having died and made no sign.
Lever has thrown off a few lyrics
that seem in a fair way to immortality.
Who, that has once beard it, can ever forget
his 44 Rory O’More?” Ground on organs,
scratched on fiddles, blown on coach-boms,
pressed into the service of quadrilles, and
even tortured into a waits—snog in the
wilds of America and on the walls of China,
fifed and drummed by military bands in every
quarter of the globe, Rory, says theZ)uW*n
Univenily Magazine, * 4 still reigns a universal
favorite, and bids fair to go on living by 4 a
lease of lives renewable forever.’ ” But the
songs of none of these lyrists, consummate
masters os they are of their art, can so, In a
moment,
“bid the warm tsar start.
And the smite light the cheek,’
os do those of Burns. They lack the direct
ness, uniqueness, and, above all, and
tuffsfttiieufu, of thoec divine thought* and
harmonies that crowded his brain, inflamed
bis blood, and stirred his soul, as be followed
bis plow uleng the level or the mountain
side.
The songs of Burns are, Indeed, the very
fUme-broath of his soul, ana have not only
thrilled and melted the hearts of his conn-
men, but have floated around the green
arth, finding a welcome In every place
imnaslzed by a ray of fancy or feeling,
‘from throne to cottage hearth.” They
mve trembled on the lips of past and forgot
cn beauty ; and they ere chanted by living
• oiccs that can
sofier music speak
Than summer wind* a-woolau flowers.”
They have been beard in the solitudes of na
lure, and at the festive board. The rude
.-allor has filled up the pauses of his night
watch by whistling them to the shrill winds
and sullen waters; and they have bowed the
head, brought tears to the eye v and awaken
ed thoughts of home In the minds of many a
wanderer on a distant shore. “Auld Scotia’
was the pole to which the poet's soul wa
magnetized, and hence
“ Encamped by Indian rivers wild,
The •oldler, rettitc on bis arms,
In Borns’ carol sweet ti-ca!s
Tbe eocqa that blest him when a child.
At d slows and "loudens at the rb-.rms
Of Scotia's woods and waterfalls.”
Where, In tbw books of song of all nations,
shall we find another so touching—so steeped
In pathos, and saturated with sentiment, os
the lines :
Usd we never loved sae kindly,
Han we never loved sac blindly.
Never met. and never parted.
V*e ne'er had been ao broken-hearted 1’
Colton, the author of Laccn, tells us that
he could never repeat them without tears
coming to hit eyes; and Scott—himself a
wizard, and than whom no one could better
understand their suggestiveuess—said that
they contained the essence of a thousand
love romances. Had Bums but written this
little poem, the lines ‘*To the Violet,’* the
poem on the “ Field Mouse,” the “ Epistle to
Davie,” and “Hallowe’en,” he would still
have been a world’s poet, and would have
merited the eulogium of llatleck:
“ Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines.
Stance* to no code or creed confined,
Tbe Delphian vales, tbe Palestine*,
Tbe Mecca* of Uiu mind.*’
THE OOLE-HISOOOK CASE.
Tbe Forthcoming Trial—An Interview
with the Prisoner—Further Bevela*
lions In the Afialr*
AlbaLjO’. Y.) (Jan. 21) of the
Nm York Tribune,
The line of defence is not known by the »c
used. Since hi» confinement he has left the
"'hoi* ca,-e in the bauds of Mr. Hadley, and
that gentleman professes to have unearthed
•omc facts which General Cole »ays will
startle the people a* muc ha* it has him. Iti
all probability the defence will take the
ground that the murder was committed un
der a temporary insanity—brought on by
coming suddenly In contact with a man
•\hose deeds of wrong wore fre-h In the ac
cused's memory. General Cole, by his own
xtutement. never premeditated the taking of
the lift* of the deceased, unless under certain
circumstances. As soon as he was appraised
by her own lips ot his wife’s dishonor, he an
nounced to her his determination of
a separation, but how best to bring
that about without bringing all the
facta before the public, and have his wife
and little ones made the subject of the scorn
and derision of the neighbors, worried him
the most. He finally decided that the best
thing he could do was to come to Albany
and there consult with Mrs. Cole’s brother,
the Hon. Henry D. Barto. a member of the
Constitutional Convention from Tompkins
County, then turn Mrs. C. over to the future
care of tne latter, and, finally, notify Mr.
Hlecock that he must leave the country with
in ten days—for if he came across him at the
expiration ol that time be would kill him.
To set at rest the stories that Mrs. Cole and
the accused came to Albany in a different
train, General Cole informed the writer of
this that they both came together and took
two rooms st the Dclavan Ilousc. In one of
these Mrs. Cole remained, while in the ad-
joining one her husband apprised her brother
ol bis sister’s dishonor, and his own deter-
mination as expressed above.
Although the conclusion was different from
what he bad anticipated. General Cole does
not regret having committed the act. In
fact, the evidence to his mind has become
stronger and stronger everr day that the
world is well rid of the deceased. If it be
tllowtd on the trial, General Cole says thi
it can be shown that the deceased practised
for almost a lifetime the same wrongs upon
other families that he did upon bis: that not
only wire the victims generally from the
walks of married life, but iuuoccnt young
girl* confided to his care, to be escorted
from the church to their homes, were assault
ed by him upon the street with the object of
satiating hU brutal pasrione; and. further
more, that one of his victims, the wife
• f a once happy home In Syracuse, is now
the inmate ol a lunatic asylum, the result of
hi:- acquaintance. Even some of those who
were at one time the most vindictive in their
assault upon the action of General Cole,
have since f»>utid out that they, too. have
boon the victims of the deceased. These
statements are given to you as they were to
me. 1 hey may be the creations of a man
who Is not content with sending his victim
into eternity, but must Mari his reputation
forever; but they were stated calmly and
confidently, ard with the as-uranee that If a
chance were given they could all be proved.
The General says tb.tl the sentiment and
feeling of the j-eople of Syracuse i-*, a< far as
he can learn, strongly In his favor. This is
especially the case so far as the ladies of that
city are concerned. Scarcely a day passes
that h* doe# not rtcclve a call or letters trom
this class, who show their warmest sym
pathy in his behalf. Occasionally he re
ceives bccqucts. One of these now* helps to
make hi- cell more cheerful.
1 here i» one thing certain, General Cole,
by his own statement, never knew, until he
saw the inside of an Albany j.vl, the extent
of the criminal Intercourse* between his wife
ard the deceased. When lie came to Albany
!.e thought he knew all. Since hU confine-
ment, facts hare been given him which hare
sta:tied him. and convinced him that his
wire has withheld from him many things she
should not have done. lie doe- not think she
acted so with any intention of criminally de
ceiving him, but to spare his feeling as much
a? possible.
scarcely bad he Itfl home four years ago
when the assaults of the man in whom, above
all others, he had trusted, commenced, and
that, tco, upon a sick bed, beside which he
«a? called as a counsellor. The first act, by
Mr*. Cole's conlession, was Mr. Hiscock
raising her in bed and kissing her.
After she recovered the deceased visited
the house on several occasions on business
connected with her husband, and during one
of these visits be attempted to outracc'Mra,
C. against her will In tbe hall-way of her res
idence. Not succeeding, he partly, by coax
ing and then by threats, persuaded her not
to Inform her husband. Another time he at
tempted the tame thing, and was again on-
Finding brute force would not
accomplish his ends, be added to It the insin
uations of an I ago, and between tbe insinua
tions that her husband did not care for her or
he would not go to the wars when there were
plenlvbeside him who could better afford it,
and Uie threats of exposing her as soliciting
his favor, the deceased accomplished hU pur
pose. Until his confinement, General
Cole thought that his wife was
alwavs tbe unwilling victim ; but be is
now convinced that for a time she was fas
cinated by tbe deceased, and that their crim
inalitv extended solar that Mrs. Cole had to
go through the perils of an abortion at the
Instigation of her guilty companion. This
luiormation has astounded General Cole. At
first b r did not believe it; bat the facts, as
furnished by Lis lawyer, are too strong for
him to now* doubt it.
During the whole of th?so five years the
wre’cbccnessof this -ttnaa m i< have been
ini. use. Atm* time when ./u a visit to her
huslaml in the u:my, she a’tempted filicide,
and he was oblig*!d V* •cad her home with
out ever being able to find out why she at
tempted the ra-’o deed. In thc-e years her
nature teems to have b»ea completely re
versed. When he went away, she was as kind
and loving aa any woman on earth ; when
he returned home, to nae his own words,
“Shemade It a perfect, bell tor me. Bat
alter he asa there awhile, she changed
Spain, and the General is convinced
tl a' her affection for him bad returned —that
the deceased was no more to her than a
fdagne which bad gone, but hid left'some of
is blighting marks behind. Stillsbe was fir
from being the same cheerful woman she was
before the war. Something still oppressed
her. and be never could find It out. lie only
did so, finally, through some suspicions
movements of the deceased on the streets,
and a subsequent indiscreet remark of a Mrs.
(Sjylcr. Hemet Hiscock on the Saturday
afternoon previous to the murder In Syracuse,
and be seemed to be anxious to avoid him.
This, coupled with the remark of the de
ceased, of “when are you going backf’
(meaning to New fork) raised the tusDidon
in Cole’s mind that the deceased bad been
cheating him in some money matters con
nected with his wife’s estate. He nursed
these suspicions until he reached home. The
first per* on he met« aa Mrs. Cuylcr, and to her
he addressed the remark, “By Jove, 1 think
Hbcock has been wronging me. I met him
to-day and he seemed anxious to avoid me
and when he couldn't ho asked me when I
was going away.” Thinking General Cole
knew all, Mrs. Cuyler innocently remarked,
“ Well General there is some talk about that
flirtation.’’ Finding him still more sur
prised she concluded ho was not aware of
bis wife’s doings, and she refused to ansver
another word—thinking It was merely a
harmless flirtation. He asked Mrs. Cuylcr’s
husband about It, and from him learned facts
which startled him. The interview with
Mrs. Cole followed, and she then made the
confession already familiar to the public,
closii g It with the words, “ George this is
the happiest moment I have had for four
years. What a load has been lifted ftom
toe.” The rest of the story Is told above.
Not one word ever crosses General Cole’s
line denunciatory of bis wife. Qe loves to
talk of the days when they were so happy
together, and when, to use his own words,
“ she was the purest woman I ever saw or
knew.” If she Is not that now, not on her
docs he lav the blame. She was merely the
little bird In the power of the snake. If she
was led astray it was not through any loye
for wrong, but through the threats and craft
iness of a man who knew her natural timidi
ty and took advantage ofl; Sirs. Cole has
visited him only once since als confinement.
Although It would be unpleasant for both to
meet, still he has given orders that If she ap
plies for admission to the jail to
grant it. She is at the residence of
her brother, and with her arc her two cbll
dreu.two girKaged twelve and fourteen years.
Pictures of these two are tacked np against
the wall, opposite the table on which the
General writes. They are In sight of him all
day long. On one side of the cell Is on an
chor of hope, made of green flowen, and en
closed in a frame. This was sent to him by
bis eldest daughter, who made It, with a pa
thetic note showing her love and that of her
sister. These—a flute and a number of books,
including the Bible and Shakespeare—help
the prisoner to pais away his hours. Ills ceil
is large and airy, and is In a position where
the run shines In through the windows most
of the day. He receives excellent treatment
from the officials In the jail. Mrs. Cole will
not be a witness on the trial. The stories
about hcrlnfanityarc false. She at one time
gave evidence ofll, but she never wasa hope
less lunatic. He husband's position has added
to her troubles.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
British View of the Congressional Dis
cussion In lifeard to the Bights or
Naturalized Citizens.
From tbe London Time*, Jaon-ry S.
The United States Congress is alreadv act
ing upon llic President’* suggestion, and the
llatitlitles of naturalized citizens must soon
become the subject of serious negotiation.
Wc cannot be e-urpriacd, and wc ought not to
he offended, at the keen Interest manifested
by the Americans In the principle
which, as they suppose. U at
stake. The whole number of foreign-bom
citizens naturalized In toe United Slates has
been istlmuUd to exceed four millions, at
least half of which are Immigrants from
British territories, and more than ooe-third
from Ireland alone. If the strict theorv of
perpetual allegiance were enforced, an? of
these Iriah-Americana who might serve
against Great Britain in the armies ol the
Lnlted States would be guilty of treason
against the lawful sovereign, and, if cap
tured, might he punished accordingly. Of
course, the law would never in practice tie
carried to this length, but a nation so largely
composed of foreign elements must naturally
rebel against a rule which, if applied, would
produce such consequences. Mr. Sum
ner. however, went too far when he
maintained that it is peculiar to English
jurisprudence, and Is not recognized In the
United States. On the contrary, though dis
puted in one case by the American Secretary.
It has been admitted, wc believe, by a’ll
American Judges and Jurists of repute, down
to General Tlalleck. Mr. Justice Story him
self, though he points out tint no Slate can
give au extra territorial operation to its la*s
by requiring another State to execute them,
carefully abstains from denying its right over
natural bora subjects returning within its
own jurisdiction. He elsewhere affirms this
right in express and unqualified language.
Nor Is this all; for the same eminent
authority negatives, as If by anticipa
tion, the untenable notion that American
legislation <am affect the shttutot natural born
British subjects, or any other persons, In
au English court. If our common law cau
not govern the rights and liabilities of native
Irishmen so long as they reside in America,
it is equally certain that no American law
can govern those rights and liabilities when
they return to Ireland. Such matters are ex
clusively within the province of municipal
enactment, and It so happens that, whatever
conflict may exist between the Interests of
the two countries, there Is here no conflict
between their respective codes. On the
other hand, some misapprehension seems to
prevail in America as to tbs nature of tbe
charges upon which American Fenians have
been tried lu Ireland. We have not
the indictments or a detailed report of
the proceedings actually before us,
and are not, therefore, in a condition to
prove a negative; but we are not aware that
any prisoner now under sentence was tried
for ruy treasonable acts committed lathe
United States. *****
But the leas ambiguous the existing law is,
the stronger are me arguments lor its rcvl
ph.-n.and wc cannot but regret that more than
fifty years have elapsed since the Peace of
Ghent without an effort to place it on a more
satisfactory fooling. • It Is not. Indeed, cor
rect to idcutify tbe issue now raised with that
wnlch led to the war oflSlfi, for Great
Britain then Insisted nut only on the
indefeasible allegiance of her subjects,
but on her right to visit and search
American ships for the purpose of impress
ing them. Still, the conclusion of that war
afforded a good opportunity of limiting once
for all the privileges aad duties of allegiance.
Upon grounds or international policy, it is
highly expedient that what ought to have
been cone In I*l4 should be done now, be
fore new difficulties arise. Should agy over
ture have b-en made with that object by the
American Government, we trust it has*been
lavorably entertained by Lord Stanley ; and
if no such overture has been made, we trust
Lord Stanley will take the Initiative In pro
posing a basis of settlement.
THE FAHIfITE IN TUNIS.
Terrible Suffering Among the '(Dhabi
fant»—ll and reds Djlng Dally fron
Starvation.
Mr. S. W. Heap, the United Slates Consul,
at Tunis, writes to Secretary Seward, under
date ol December 20. as follows:
Sin: I regret to report that since my last,
the sufferings of this population, from fam
ine and the’lnclemencyof the weather, have
frightfully increased. A few days since one
hundred and ninety persons died ot starva
tion in the streets of the city, and I was in
formed by a crntleman that while 03 his
wav from the Goletta to Tunis he found the
bodies of three Arabs on the road. The
greatest mortality in the city from hunger
ard cold was on the 10th instant, when. I am
informed, it reached one hundred and forty
two. The news from the interior is equally
distressing. It is im|K>ssible to obtain even
an approximate estimate of the number who
perish daily trom starvation in all parts of
the regency, but It is known to be very great.
Supplies of grain have reached here, but
thousands have not the menu ot purchasing
it. Notwithstanding the rains, wuich prom
ise to give abundant crons, large tracts of
land remain untiiled for tbc want of cattle
i-r seed grain. The price of wheat is SJ.OJ
per bushel, and barley i 1.50.
Arab women offer their children to Chris
tian- for a few coppers to purchase bread.
Tliis stricken people bear thiir misery with
patience and resignation. I hear of no*disor
der or disturbance. Men. women, and chil
dren lay literally starvingafew yards from
the provision stalls, gazing with wistful eyes
»m the cotctcd food; but they commit no
act of violence or scarcely ot pilfering.
Among the Christians, who number up
wards ot ten thousand in tbs citv and Its
environs, there is much poverty and suffer
ing, hut they receive some relief.
The Jewish population Is about
twenty thousand. The richer members
of inis persuasion have done more
for the rel.cf of their poor than all the other
Inhabitants combined nave done for theirs.
The Mahometans alone view the sufferings
os their brethren a ith a stoical aoatby of in
difference. They look npon it as a dispensa
tion of Providence, whicn it would be useless,
perhaps sinful, to mitigate. Their fanati
cism ts msde a ready apology for their ava
rice. A feeble effort was made recently to
vlve food and shelter to the Mahometan
poor, but the relief so grudgingly offered
« as totally inadequate.
A Moorish hospital, richly endowed, n*
reives the corpses picked up each morning
in the streets for boriai, but refuses admis
sion to the living. Children, scarcely abls
to walk, are found wandering in the streets,
crying for food, their parents having died or
forsaken them. Many are sheltered and ted
by charitable Christiana. The scenes dally
witnessed In the streets are distressing in the
extreme.
Last Iloon of Bishop Hopkins.
Tbe death cf the late Bishop Hopkins was
occasioned bv bis taking cold after leaving a
hot car, on bis return from a confirmation at
Piattsburg. N. T. Pleurisy and congestion
ot the longs ensued and be suffered exceed
ingly. The CAtirrA Journal, edited by one of
his sons, says: " His illness was borne with
out a murmur, and with tbe utmost sweet
ness. He sold that he had been praying,
*1 by will be done* alibis life, and it* was
time now that he should begin to suffer, if It
were His will. His thankfulness far the past
blessings of his whole life was ever on his
lips, and the hopes ot tbe life to come; but os
to his #mitrings, there was onlv sweet con
tentment, perfect resignation and peace. On
Thursday morting be expressed his convic
tion that his life’s work was done, lilting,
and in bis library, he awaited the end. Oa
Thursday afternoon the oppressed breathing
grew shorter and feebler. The hand foil
helpless dewn at his side. He opened his
eyes and gezed fora moment intently upon
vacarcv, a.- If seeing there what none around
him could see—perhaps the approaching an
gels; and then, while all were kneeling
around him, and bis ton Theodore was offer
ing op tbe commendatory prayer.'the eyes
fell, and the bead drooned gently, and the
breathing bushed so softly that at first they
thought it a sweet sleep, and knew not that
U was the sleep of death,"
LONDON.
English Flays and Play-Writers.
How they are Paid and How
they live.
Interesting Dramatic Reminis-
cences.
From Our Own Correspondent,
London, BngUnd, Jan-19.
ENGLISH PLATS AND PLAT-WHITE US.
There are at the present time in the United
Kingdom about one hundred and seventy
theatres, of which thirty-three are in Lon*
don. Then there are some fifteen or twenty
permanent circuses, and about three hundred
and fifty music halls. Forty of the latter are
found in the metropolis. I must not forget
to say that England can boast also of twenty
“portable” theatres, where melo-drama is
performed In the moat thrilling manner, and
only a penny charged for admission. The
“legitimate” actors and actresses on the
British stage now number four hundred. Be
sides these, we have a new class created by
the music halls, and who are divided into
sentimental singers, 14Gin all; comic sing
era, 170; “Irish comic,” 12; serio-comic, 130;
comic duetists, 150; negro delineators, 800
or 400; dancers, gymnasts and acrobats, 300;
jugglers,! balancers, Ac., dog and monkey
troupes, comic trios, quartettes, ballet com
panies, Ac., with wizards and ventriloquists.
During the year 1567 upwards of 150 new
pieces were produced at the London thea
tres, and at the time I write, twenty-three
new burlesques and pantomimes are compel*
lag for the layer of Loudon families. Be
tween 1552 and ISOS, as many as 2,707 plays
were licensed, and nineteen refused. Among
the latter were pieces with the following
lively lilies: “Tne Spectre Dog,” “The
Blood Spot, or the Maiden, the Miser and the
Murderer“ The Gypsy of Edgware, or the
Crime In Gill’s Hill Lane,” and “ wrath’s
Whirlwind, or the Degraded Man.”
And now. let me notice a few of the best
writers for the English stage, many of whom
are known, by name, at least, in the States.
W. Bayle Bernard, one of the most popular,
as well as the most prolific—he has written
114—though the eon of an Englishman, was
bom In Boatou, next dour to the old house of
Dr. Franklin. For tne first piece he ever
produced he received Just three pounds!
lie would now gotat least£3oo. Mr. Bernard
Is a sound and healthy writer, and with
all bis stage knowledge and experience keeps
up a lively interest- in theology. He is a
zealous Unltariau, and one of the trustees, 1
believe, of the Unitarian chapel in London.
His plays always breathe pore morality, and,
so far as I can remember, escape an unfavor
able late. Besides dramatic pieces, he has
written a couple of novels, a mass of maga
zine matter, and contributions of all kinds
to the metropolitan press. E. L. Blanchard
wrote some thirty farces before he wastwen
ty, and has since illustrated the whole range
of f*irj mythology in a hundred Christmas
axtravaguuzas. Shirley Brooks Is the hero of
three pieces only. William Brough has
achieved successes upon nearly every Im
portant Loudon stage, and has written sev
era) of the best •'entertainments,” with
which the inimitable John Parry lui-s amused
the town; Mr. Bumand Is now one of the
few gotd writers in PuncA, aud actually wrote
a pace which was performed, when he was a
lad at Eton; and Mr. Byron confines him
self to burlesques, and is how the manager of
two Liverpool theatres.
Sterling Coyne is an old man and his once
tall figure U stooped by age. His Is a canons
instance of success on the stage without lit
erary merit. Ills dialogue U bald, and his
stutilucut commonplace, hut so excessively
clevtr are hU plots aud situations that I be
lieve he hardly knows the meaning of the
words “to fall.” He Is still Secretary of
the Dramatic Authors’ Society, and is ’very
generally esteemed. This society was es
tablished for the protection of the rights of
dramatic authors and musical composers.
By the law of England any person who,
without consent in writing first obtained
from the author or his assignee, shall reoro
•cut, or cause to be represented, or shall be
i In any way assisting at the representation of
a copyright piece, or auy part of it. Is liable
for each and every representation to a pen
alty of forty shillings, or to the full amount
of the benefit derived from such representa
tion. A thrillof alarm passed through a
number of private families and literary in
stitutions when it was ruled some time ago
that amaUur actors are equally liable to the
penalties for auy Infringement of the authors’
rights. It Is to Mr, Sterling Covnc that
application for ncnnlssion to plav pieces
written by members, has hi be made. j
Edward Fitzhall Is chielly known as a I
librettist and could never get further than
that, but he is happy in the belief that that
Is the highest distinction mortal meu cau
attain; and Nelson Lee gives still more
amusement by his good-natured vanity. Mr.
Lee has bad a life of curious adventure. He
was at sea; then he went about with a
travelling show ; then gave entertainments
on his own account, and afterwards played
Harlequin at a London theatre in a panto
mime of his own writing. For fifteen years
he was a lessee of a London house, but re
cently he has confined himself to the direc
tion of the Crystal Palace and other holiday
fetes, for the arrangement of which be has
singular tact. Besides many pieces for the
minor theatres, he boasts* he has written
above two hundred pantomimes.
Among the writers for the stage who add
to an ability to master the conditions of
dramatic success, superior intellectual quali
fications, is Andrew Hulliduy, one of Mr.
Dickens* stall. He began his literary career
as a journalist on the Morniuij Chronuir, and
has since contributed widely to the maga
zines and to “AU the Tear Hound.” When
George Sula went olf to Mexico, and left his
tale unfinished, Hallid.iy, at Dickens’ request,
easily Jtook up the threads and finished it.
His latest work for the stage, “The Great
CUt” had a run of one hundred and two
nights at Drury Lane Theatre, and has since
been played with extraordinary success In
most of the large theatres of the provinces.
Ilalllday is a tall, good-looking man of thir
ty-seven, and would be popular enough with
his friends, if he did not so constantly assume
the air of ennui, and of being bored by every
incident of hit life. Jolly, corpulent Mark
Lemon, the editor of Punch, has written
sixty or seventy plays, but he has waxed
rich, and finds that novels fetch more money.
As Lord Lyttnn has not written anything for
the stage since ISSI, he may be supposed to
have finally given up play-writing, hut the
author of the “ Lady of Lyons” aud of
“Money” must not be omitted from any
enumeration of dramatic contributors.
The older school of pity-goers would en
courage more of hope for the future than they
do if they could sec a demand for works so
full ol flue poetic passages as those of West
land Mansion, a true dramatic poet, bat
more prized by literary men thou theatre
goers. Mr. J. M. Morton, who is perhaps un
rivalled as a writer of those one-act farces
which are played last of all, and send audi
ences away in a good temper, Is now engaged
In giving public readings. Mr. Oxenford,
nearly a sexagenarian, continues to adapt
French subjects to the English stage,
and to contribute dramatic criticisms
to the Timet- and the Saturday Review,
and literary life has always gone on swim
mingly with him. H** ha/enriched the iiter
atureofhls country with numerous works
displaying research and an intimate knowl
edge of Gcnaug. Spanl-h, and Italian authors.
He is a singularly fluent and graceful lyrical
writer, aufl numerous songs and operatic li
bretti attest the fertility of his fanev and
the extreme poli.-b of his versification.* His
vUit to the bailed Slates last year gave him
great pleasure t and he is still publishing
agreeable reminiscences in the columns of
the LouifT. He has recently succeeded to a
share in the Timet.
Watts Phillips, who was brought up under
Cruikshank as an artist, has written some
thoroughly sensational dramas, such as the
“Dead Heart,” ‘‘Lost in London,” “The
Poor Strollers,” and “Maud’s Peril.” In
these heavy satires are launched at the world
and a great deal of fiqc sentiment expressed,
hut to me there Is a hollow ring about it
which 1 dislike. Mr. Phillips is
not happily circumstanced in bis domestic
relations, lodging by certain incidents re
ported in toe police courts; and his attacks
on “ the woria.” in his dramas, are perhaps
only anotherform of expressing hiscontempt
for its *• prejudices.’’ Mr. Planch*’s name
recalls a long series of the wittiest of fairy
extravaganzas, under the management of
Mhdam Vcstres. Mr. Pltnche is now up
wards of seventy years old, and enjoys a
well-deserved ea«e In a sinecure appointment
In the Hetald’a College. Mr. Charles Reade
has written a dozen pieces of high merit,
such as “ Masks and Faces,” and “ Never too
Late to Mend.” He is fifty-foor years of age,
and believe? tne best part of his literary Ofe
is before him. Mr. J. Falgrave Simpson is a
mao who is fall of affectations, and almost
efiemiuate in his manners; hat he has hon
estly won a wreath by such pieces as “ Second
Love’’—well-known In the United States ;
‘ • Da dd v Hardacres,” and “A Scrap of Paper.”
Tom Taylor, who has ju«l passed his fif
tieth year, bolds a government situation
worth £I,OOO per annnm, and tor two years
held a professorship in the London Univer
sity, bat it is by hU hundred successes on
the stage that be is chiefly recognized. lie
cribs. I believe, unmercifully' from . the
French, bat then he does it with such grace
that only the critical complain. His best
plays ore’ “Still Waters Run Deep,” “The
Overland Home,” and “The Ticket-of-Leave
Man.” His drama of “Onr American Cousin”
had the largest run ever known, bat this is
owing to fcothem’s impersonation of Lord
Dundreary, and not to anv merit ol the piece
Itself.
I must Dot omit Mr. F. W. Robertson,
whose “David Garrick,” “Society” and
•• Oars.” are among the but of what mar be
classed as literary plats. He Is in bis fortieth
year, and I» just tasting fame. Mr. Robert
son has been actlte os a journalist on several
daily and weekly papers, a contributor to
and a writer of numerous articles,
stories and essays for magazines. There is
one T. J. Williams, too, or whom it is men*
tlontd as a statistical fact, that his one-act
fdcces, taken collectively, have averaged
onger “runs” than any other Circes pro*
dneed within the last ten years.
AUTBOa-aCTORS.
British actors, so tar as I have known them,
have generally left on my mind, after possess
ing a Utile of their society, the Impression
that their range of information was singular
ly limited; and the circle ol things to which
their interest was confined, narrow beyond
that even of the average British shop-keep
er. But there are remarkable exceptions.
Macrcady is a man of high intellectual pow
er ; and is passing his old age In maintaining
schools for the Instrnclion of the poor of hU
neighborhood, and in the midst ofletters
and bocks. Charles Kean Is a scholarly
man ; so Is Mr. Ryder, and a few others less
htard of. 1 once met the fine old comedian,
Robert Kcelev, In a publisher’s shop, buying
umks o! LtSsitir. and Feuerbach, and Ilsr
der, and found that he was one of the but
purchasers of books of German philosophy,
lie is now in retirement—too old to act, bat
not too old to enjoy the sweets of learning.
How few of those who have roared at the
drolleries of Keeley would have guessed at
bis favorite pursuit*.
Oftbe acton who are also play-aulhon,
the most popular no doubt Is the comedian
liuckstone, a little, deaf man, who caa be
coarse enough, but vbo has so comical a
voice and manner a* to need only to open his
mouth and speak, to produce a laugh. Mr.
Buckstone baa.written some 150 comedies,
dramas and farces, several of which re.ain a
permanent place on the boards. His
•* Wreck Ashore,'* “Flower* of the Forest,”
•‘Tte Irish Lion” and “Too Green Bashes”
ere still Immensely liked. Mr. Buckstone Is
lend of encouraging young actors by telling
them bow he advanced from thirty shillings
a week to his present position ot affluence.
While making himself useful at the very
modest salary! have named, he wroloa piece
called “ Luke the Laborer,” and sent it to
the Adelphl, bat without inserting his name
or address. Getting no reply ho wrote it
out again irom memory and seat It to a Mr.
Scott, who then bad the Olympic.* Mr. Scott
offered him £3 a week as on actor, and £5 for
the MS. Ten pounds was asked and firmly
refused, and then ten shillings more for the
salary, Wbt Mr. Scott would not assent. A
few days afterwards, while Buckstone was on
bisway to Scott to accept the terms, the hall
porter of the theatre at which be was acting
ran after him and out a note In hts bands. It
was from the Adelphl manager, to the effect
that Buckstone had been discovered to be
the author of “Luke the Laborer,” and
they would like to see Mm. On reaching
the Adelphl. Buckstone found to Ms
surprise that his long-lost drama was
in rehearsal and to be produced In a few
evenings! He was then offered one guinea
for each night of representation, and to be
secured a performance of thirty nights.
Buckstone joyfully accepted, and turned his
steps to the Olympic.. Scott, on bearing
what had occurred, rose with great indigna
tion. placed the MS. written from memory
in the author's hands, und sternly desired
Mm never to put Ms foot witMn the door of
the Olympic again. The piece was so suc
cessful that Buckstone began to write come
dies, and st last joined the Adelphl company,
though they assured him at bis old house
he should have thirty shillings a week as
long as be lived If be would stop. When at
the'Adelphl, Buckstone shared for many sea
sons the applause and laughter of the town,
with bis illustrious companion, John Reeve.
Dion Boucicanlt Is still under fifty, and
may add many more to the *2OO dramas al
ready standing in his name. Most that he
writes Is remarkable, lot bis rivals say what
they please, for literary power and con
structive skill. lie has Known ups and
downs, and has been in*a few scrapes, but is
at the present moment uppermost and has
two or three spirited pieces on the stage,
while be is joining Charles Kcodo In writing
a talc for one of the periodicals. He U
usually spoken of as the son of Dr. Dionysius
Lardner, and it is certain that the latter,
whether father or guardian, gave Mm the
advantages of a superior university education.
Much or Mr. Boocicanlt's success I attribute
to the influence of his wile, who is a delight
ful actress, and still more delightful as a
woman.
The callings of actor and author are united
also In the case of Mr, 11. T. Craven, whose
works are distinguished by genuine origin*
alily. His last bat one, “ Meg's Diversion.*’
enjoyed an uninterrupted run in the year
Just ended, of 330 nights. Last week he
brought out a comedy'in five acts, called
“The Needful,” In which he himself fills
with humor the part of a retired tallow
chandler, with enough of absurdity to render
bis peculiarities amusing and enough good*
ness of heart to make Ids absurdities hear
able. Mr. Edmund Falconer, an Irishman,
Is celebrated as actor, manager and drama
tist—Hibernian comedy being more par*
licnlarly bis forte. He got into pecuniary
difficulties, however, and left the country.
Last week a new three*act drama from his
pen, entitled “A Wife Well Won,” based
upon a tale by Paul de Kock, was produced
at the Haymarket Theatre. Mr. Sothem
does hla best in the plar, but Its
success was owing in a great measure to Mr.
Buckstone, whose humor, constantly called
into activity, never failed when there was
doubt or heaviness, to reawaken the good
feeling of the audience. On the first night
the actors were called for, and, in rcplv to a
summons for the author to appear, Mr. Back
stone announced that he was in America,
receiving a satisfactory reply to his inquiry
whether be might telegraph to Mr. Falconer
a success. Charles Mathews has written
amusing pieces, and has neatly adapted some
oflhe.most sparkling works of the Parisian
dramatists to the English boards. Mr. Ed
ward Stirling, the present stage manager at
Drnry Lanerbas written and adapted about
lt»0 pieces, which have been produced at near
ly every theatre in London. Mr. Benjamin
Webster, now celling to the “veteran” ora.
has attested bis literary ability by several
dramas, and lastly. Mr. Alfred Wigan, the very
model of an excellent actor and a'ccomplishvd
gentleman, is aucces.-/ul also as an author ;
and hU brother Horace, an actor, has fur
nished about thirty comediettas and dramas
to the stage.
MACBBADT IX MOBILE.
Dion Bouclcault says, in a new dramatic
publication, that the following anecdote was
related to him at Mobile, when Macready
was performing at the theatre in that cltv
some years ago. His manner at rehearsal
displeased one of the actors, and this person,
who was cast for the part of Clanaius. in
“Hamlet,” resolved to pay oft' the star.
When in the last scene Hamlet stabbed the
usurper, he reeled forward, and after a most
spasmodic finish, ho stretched himself out
precisely in the place Hamlet required for
his own death; Macready, much annoyed,
whispered fiercely, “ Die further up the stage,
sir.” The monarch lav ineensible. Upon
which. In a still louder voice, the Hamlet
frowled, “Die further up the slaire, sir.”
lereupon the Claudius, silting np. observed
“(I b’lceve I’m king here, and I’ll die where
1 please I” The tragedy concluded shortly
after.
Presentation of tbe Roger Sherman
AVatch to General Sherman.
Washington Dcipsich (Jan. 21) to tic New York
. Press.
. By invitation of Hon. John A. Griswold, of
New Yo.-k, a large and select companv assem
bled at his residence this evening to'witness
the presentation of tbe lloger Sherman watch
to Lieutenant General Sherman. There were
present distinguished Officers of the army,
the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, and members of both houses of Con
gress, uud gentlemen representing the Judi
ciary and other departments of the govern
ment.
Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, during the
evening, addressing Lieutenant General
Sherman, paid he wad deputed by hi. friend
Dr. Charles Rowland, of Brooklvn.Now York,
to present to him the natch owned hr Roger
Sherman a hundred rears ago, and he was at
the Mime time deputed hr ms frieud. Colonel
William S. Rowland, to present to General
Sherman an engraving of Roger Shcrmic,
from uu original portrait by Trumbull. Sen
ator Ferry said he supposed he had been
selected for this pleasant dutv be
cause he represented In some m-asure
the Commonwealth of Connecticut
which Roger Sherman did so much to
honor. He then gave a history of the Sher
man family of Connecticut to which the
Lieutenant General was related, ahd which
bad sustained so important a part in the
Revolutionary war. In his dallv walks, as
he passed the old homestead, the people
pointed to it as associated with glorious
memories. lie then added, ‘•take these
memorials and transmit them to your
children, and children’s children, and when
Ton show them, remind them that Roger
Sherman’s polar star w as dutv to his country,
and that during the revolution, as well as
the last conflict, the members of that family
had well performed their duly.”
Lieutenant General Sherman, in reply,
said it was somewhat embarrassing for him
to follow one so skilled la words. He could
only return thanks for the beautiful present.
He then spoke of the immigration of the
Sherman family to Ohio from Connecticut.
His father, who was Judge of the Superior
Court, bad left his family poor In land, but
rich in friend*. He should band these me
morials to Thomas Ewing Sherman, who was
named after his grandfather, Thomas Ewing.
He was a line boy in his estimation, being
twelve years of age [laughter and ap
planae]. Should this boy fail him,
•pother at ill remained, about a year old
[laughter!. So if they should neglect to ap
preciate thepe tokens of friendship, it would
not be the fault of the lather and mother.
Those who have watched the history of Con
neetient will have no cause t 6 blush for
those who hare gone out from that Slate.
He had travelled a great deal over the conti
nent, and had found plenty of Yankees of
true Connecticut stock.
The above Is mcrelv a notice of the inter
esting proceedings.* The watch Is silver
cased : a lepine. with the date I7!»5; and Is a
double timer. The plate on the box enclos
ing it bears the name of Charles Rowland, M.
D., and also that of Roger Sherman, with the
monogram of W. T. Sherman.
An Old Roman Cola Found Among me
MUckinac Indian*.
From the Detroit Free Press. Jan, 20.
We were shown « few dsvs ago hv G. W.
Wendell, of Mackinac, a relic,ln the shape
of an cld Roman coin or medal, in an excel
lent state ol preservation, with the inscrip
tion? and figures quite distinct and In good
relief. ThU coin, Mr. Wendell state, was
given to him by an Indian at Fort Mackinac,
who said he had lound it, or dug it np. in the
earth. This being the fact, the~ opening for
speculation is wide as to how it came there.
The firsPlhought Is that it was brought to
the New World by the Jcsoit missionaries,
who, in their self-sacrificing devotion to
their chosen duty, penetrated the heart of
the continent generations ago and made
their dwelling-place among tne aborigine-*,
while they endeavored to leach them the
truths of the cross. Or this mate relic of the
ages might have been brought by the Nord
man, who. venturing away from Icelandic or
Scandinavian harbors, coasted at length
along the shores of North America, and from
thence carried inland till It found the resting
SI ace from which U has now been exhumed
r still another hypothesis: The ancient
working of the Lake Sunenor mines, so evi
dently the labor of a more enlightened race
than the Indians,may have bcenthe means of
bnngmg the coin hither. Bat If this were
so, why have not more of them or similar
relics been discovered? The first of the
above premises is no donbt the correct one,
and Ibis coin has served os a pocket piece to
Father Jlaronette, or some one of his coad
jutors. Ann In this condition It might have
a striking significance to some persons, as it
belonged to the time and reign when the
new religion of Christ was beginning to be
preached, having been strnck off In “the be
ginning of the second century. It would
thus be a significant accompaniment to the
introduction of Christianity Into the New
World.
The coin, which Is the size of a nlckle
cent and as thick as an American ten cent
piece (which some of our readers may re
member having seen), bears upon the nee a
medallion portrait of the Roman Emperor
Trajan, surrounded by this inscription:
lmpera»oriTr»janoAorn*to Gtr.—Dac—P. V
T.—B.—Com.—> —P.—R. “The Senate and pe<v
£le of Home to tae conqueror of the Germans and
'actant. Chief Bn<er.”
Upon the reverse is a figure of a Roman
warrior clad m armor, with spear and shield
with these words : ’
S. P. Q. E.-rOptJno PrladpL—“The Senate
“?xSt^prfnc°e f . ao::ie 10 1116 bwt
A Bor Twelve Years Old murders His
Father.
Dnring the month of April last, one Ed
mund Fraser, a colored ooy abont twelve
• r . car ■.£*» *hile In the woods of Claren
don District, S. C., killed his Cither under
the most aggravating circumstances. Do
was arrested, tried, and sentcatcd to be ex
ecuted- The jury, however, recommended
the prisoner to executive clemency, and In
▼lew ot his extreme youth. Governor Orr
commoted the punishment to impnsomneat
at hard labor la the Pe&lUattary tor life, la
Ms order giving bis reasons for exerdsio*
this mercy Governor Orr says: *
“The prisoner and his younger brother
Frederick Fraser, a boy of eleven years t»f
age, left the house of their father, Carolina
and mother. Moisey Fraser, on Sunday ahe-!
noon, in April last, taking with them a
diuble-barreled shot-son belonging to bis
father. They slsyid at thclioose of a nd-b
--bur that night. About auu up the n- xt
morning, the father left home without vjr
iug whither he was going ; bat as the by/,
bad gone off and t*ken his pan without per
mistion, it Is probable that he was in {.ur
euit of them. He stated to hU wife that he
would return for breakfast. The youn-jr
brother, Frederick, In his examination, stales
that they bad started home. on Mutulay
morning, when they met their father, lie
proposed to the prisoner that they ahouli
run. Th« prisoner said •* No.” he would n>t
run. The father bad a switch in Lis baud,
and when he came cp within about t'..:;y
feet of the boys, the prisoner, arcordh.g to
the testimony of his brother, raised hi* gun,
cocked it. fired upon his fi*L* r ami k’llul
him instantly. They then dragged the b-nly
by the feet a distance of some fifty yards
from the path in which he bad been mur
dered. ana the prisoner took some hark from
an adjoining stump and covered the body.
He then hid the gun under the side of a !•>»,
and the two boys went home. When th<*y
reached home the mother inquired if the?
had seen their lather. Both of them declar
ed thiy bad not. When she inquired where
the gun was, they replied, “a white man
took It from them.” The gnn had been
loaded a day or two before to shoot erowj.
The boys ate their meals as usual, and i-xM-
Mted no excitement or concern. Some t-n
day s afterward the body was found in a -dale
of great dccomnosltlon. The evidence of
the younger boy was fully confirmed by wit
nesses who went to the spot where the mur
der was committed, ana traced the path
alorg which the body had been dragged.
The nark was also found upon the .body as
described by the younger brother, and tho
. jun was found under the log. The dcitbera
,ion exhibited by the prisoner, and the con
cealment and self-poseessina s’l’neqnently.
shown depravity of heartle«-ness rarclr.it
ever equalled in this country, ami yci, in
consideration of the very :> u.Lr years of the
boy, who Is now less than thirteen years of
age, and that under the law be is barely
responsible for any criminal act which he
might perpetrate, I have been constrained,
from considerations ot humanity, to spare
bis IIP*. In doing so, however, I hare felt
that ssch an atrocious crime should be visit
ed by a punishment second only to that of
death, and I have therefore commoted the
death penalty to imprisonment for lifeathard
labor in the penitentiary
The lounc Doapltal Inmtlsatioa-
Letter from JXr. Packard.
So cm Dnßnri.r>, Hits., Jan. 30,13J8.
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune:
In the report of the legislative committee
respecting the Illinois Hospital for the” In
sane, recently published in The Tiudcx*,
that portion of It that relates to the case of
Mra. Packard, my wife, con-trains me to re
quest the use of your paper to defend myself
against the false and injurious charge therein
contained ol haring represented her as insane
and taken her to the hospital, because of a
“ change of her religions views..'* I deny
moat Indignantly the truth of the calumnious
and outrageous accusation, and boldly ehal-
Itnge her and the committee to produce ono
iota uf evidence to substantiate it, aside from
her naked assertion. The committee assume
“the probability of her sanity.” hold np
her case as a warning against “ the danger of
pronouncing a person insane simply because
of their belief upon each subjects,'* and
represent her with some others “as eminent
ly worthy the fullest credit.” Therefore,
because they endorse her false statements as
credible testimony, and publish tbcircn.lor»o
-ment to the world to my injury, I ask the
opportunity of denying the charge, as I am
able to prove the falsity of the above accusa
tion. T. Packauik
Ad Extraordinary Scene la a Paris
Theatre.
The Paris Temps gives the following ac
count of a curious disturbance at the Ports
St. Martin Theatre:
“On Monday evening, at the flr-t perfor
mance of the Porte St. Martin rrru.% Mile.
Siilv wus upon the stage, and had just paro
dicd.in an apropos song, the tones and gestures
of Mile. Schneider, of the Varieties. It
should be known that parodies of this kind
are customary in rows/that they almost
always amuse the Parisians, who vehemently
applaud them when they are well done.
Thus, on every side there was applause and
a cry of 4 Ki.rorr.' A hiss was heard, fol
lowed by rounds of cheering. The hiss con
tinued its protest. Up to this point nothing
could be simpler. The hl-ser, doubtless, did
not like Mile. Silly, or he liked Mile. Schnei
der. Mile. Silly, advancingto the footlights,
had already repeated the first few w.rds of
her song, when a loud uproar was heard at
the place whence the hissing bad proceeded
in the upper boxes. The artiste stopped;
afterward.- we were all ilanding and looking,
with our backs to the stage. A police agent
was parleying with the msscr, who could bo
distinctly seen, as he was lathe front row.
Nothing of what they sold could be heard,
but it was easy to guess by their gestures
that one was requesting the other to leave,
and that the other energetically refused to
do so. We followed this scene with curios
ity. 4 Tumhimont!” ‘No, no;’ and the
usual jokes nndcr such circumstances. Peo
ple laughed, people shouted, b.l without
any very well ilcfincd.objoct in sh.m ing.
“The police agent withdrew, and already
tranquillity was about to be restored, when
In Pines of ths agent a cocked ha: appeared,
followed by another cocked hat, ami tha
two gendarmes advanced to the rc iici’rant
Lisacr, and put their bands upon hu shoul
ders. The public down below, which atten
tively watched the scene, at first let thing!
take th- lr course without saying much. Hut
my gentleman resist? ; he dings to hi- etail;
the iwo agents o( authority seLs* him br the
cravat, arid tabling it round his neck en
deavour to take him a» ay, notwill! landing
his desperatejofforts and his hoarse exclama
tion-. By degrees the public crow- warn
and exciud; shouts arise from everv part
of the house—‘No, no!* ‘Let him alone'
let him alone I’ A gendarme merely obeys
orders. These carry otf our fne?>d”bodily,
and we see lib !• gs'kicklng by way of final
and mute protest.
“ Immediately there arose a furious uproar,
the like of which I never heard, not even at
(iactana. Shouts of ‘Bring him back !’ 'Let
him return!* are heard amid a frightful up.
roar. The curtain fall-, and the manager
arrives. lie is not oven allowed to make his
three customary bows. ‘No!’ ‘No expla
nation*!’ ‘ Let him return.’ ‘Ho has a right
to do so.’ The unhappy man walks from
one aide of the stage to the other, aud en
deavors to say an unlnteligiMe word nr two.
and with a terrified aspect wipes away the
perspiration which pours down In heavy
drops from his face. After five or six min
utes, which mu»l have appeared ages to him,
wc see him approach the stage-box of Prince
Demidotf, apd he appears to ask him what
the public wants. Afteracolloqnv, of which
we do not hear a word, he goes’oat back
ward.-, leading by the hand Laurent, the
actor. The oauagment. no doubt, honed
that the sight of such a favorite actor would
calm the storm. But the pleasant, simple,
and smiling face of Laurent avails nothing
against this outburst. The tempest recom
mences with more fury than ever. They arc
no longer shouts—they are roars of anger;
every arm is outstretched menanciogly’'to
wants the two men who seem in consulta
tion, and who work their bands, in desnair
like the sails of a wind-mill. * ’
*' Another five minutes passed. What was
beirg dote meanwhile behind ? A delibera
tion, no doubt, was held; perhaps some one
was sent to consult M. Pietrl—to kno-v If
the law was to prevail. Anyhow the scene
lasted twelve or fourteen minutes, and if it
had been prolonged the public wmld have
played havoc, so groat was it- cx.vpr.r.i*l<m.
At last we bear shout- ol ‘There he is!'
‘There be Is!’ and ray gentleman r<Mtip'*ar-.
In fact very pale, but w'Uh a compo-* d aud
modest countenance. On everv aide th-.ru*
then arose tremendous shouts ; In the dres
circle the ladies waved their handkerchief- ;
in the stalls his entrance was hoik'd with
three limes three. The incident w* 3 over.
The public had prevailed.”
Cheap Dinner*.
From the New \ ork Tribune. Jan, IS.
The “Blot Club” is the title of an asso
ciation now being formed in this citv for the
purpose of introducing a new >ystem of culi
nary accommodation and economy. Dining
rooms are to he established, wherein the
very best food will be furnished at the low
-641 possible prices. Prof. Blot ha* educated
toast as culirary director as soon as the
necessary co-operation shall have be-n se
cured. Members will pavso cuch as an Initia
tion fee. Two sub<criptioa-books have been
opened at the drug store on the corticr of
Broadway ana Ann street, one for a clab
rocm between Fulton and Wall street the
other for a room between Fultun and Cham
bers streets, both to be located where they
shall be convenient resorts for down-town
business men. The plan proposed by the
originators of this movement is a very simple
one, and will doubtless meet with general
approbation and support. Of the many
scores of eating-houses in Chambers
street, there are not three at which
one can get a good wholesome
meal at any price. Nearly all are
badly managed, very tew are clean, and none
aresnpplitd with good waiters. The Clot
Club propose to supply a want long felt by
the hundreds who are forced to take at least
one meal a day in a down-town restaurant.
They will establish as many saloons ns mav
be needed by the members,'and at these the
food, always of the beat quaity, will be pre
pared In the best manner by educated cooks
and served by attentive waiters. The fol
lowing Is a general list of the prices which
dishes will be served:
Soaps, flih. and meats, roasted and boiled
10 cents; lamb, mutton, beefa la mode veal
venison, 15 cents ; fowl, *AJ cents; vegetables’
3 cents; bread, all varieties, 3 cents • batter’
- cents ; stewed fruits, tea, coffee, etc., 5
cents; Pnddincs,pies, dumplings, lucents:
etc., etc. To fcicilitate the nnnsnal detail,
the guest wjll use a printed order (simply
underscoring articles wanted); which will
~h ecarver» a - ( i afterward to the
cashier la lien of the ordinary “check,” to
be paid at the time, if preferred, or charged
against a prior deposit of cash.
murder on Board a miaalsalppi
Steamer.
Si. Lorrs, Jsn. S3.—John Sw»a*y, mat*? of the
steamer Armadillo, and brotheroi James Swaaer
killed Wm.D. Graves, passenger. from Hocbos
tcr. Pecu.. on tae Armaoillo. last bwaoev
bad been drank during tbediy, and att-muied
to quarrel wnh several perrons on bo ird, and*x
prevsed a strong desire to blow the clerk's bnias
out, ard subsequently fired at hi* brother Can
t-Ir Swatcy. Later in the eveuisg he went qd to
the Texas and began eattne Itncb. Graves enter
ed scon after, when Swaoey fiercely vked him If
became to rob. Graves au-wrred pteaaa.tlv.
wttn bwaoey shot him. and dragged ffc« bod. to
the edze of the hurricane deck, ana rolled it oret
“'“""“hM the hlooh&oo hi.
hands with c nee from as arc on the laacu-üb!-.
and taen went to bed. A short time aft-r-v-rtts
he arrested by the police, aud commHfd tor
murder mtbe first degree. Graves' body wua sot
found.
_ Atom (.o-alory brick bhildin»,»l Ton
cen, 2i. i., on Saturday last tumbled downwlik
atcmblecra>h- Instanty killing two mennsm*d
Patrick and James Ueagber, brothers, and seri
ously Injuring five other*. One hundred and ifly
osa ot ice wen stored la the upper Mt.