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11. B. llurd takes his overwhelming defeat
lor Supreme Jedg with bad grace. He has
commenced an action lor uoei agaiusi .u
drew J. Brown, the anthor of a pamphlet Is
sued before the election shjwi-srj up Uurd's
dishonesty ana unatness lor tno juusesuiji.
Judge Breese, of the Supreme court bench,
is the fatestdimocraiic nominee for the White
House. He would make a good president;
ho is an honest, able man; he has ions main
tained an enviable position on the Supreme
bench, and there lifts no kinder, purer man
than Sidney Breese. But there is one thing
agiinst him, and it will beat him if he runs
the Ottawa Free Trader supports him!
Mtndotn Bulletin.
But it won't make the difference of half a
vote not the difference of the purr of a cat or
squeak of a froth worm whether the Meudo
ta Bulletin supports or opposes him.
The leading Catholic journal of this coun
try comes out and fully endorses President
Grant's position on the school question, as
expressed in his annual message. This is a
great discomfiture to the republican blather
skites, who expected to make political capital
out of the echool question.
The New York Sun is inclined to think the
Grant third term party may have made a hit
by lugging ill the school question, if they can
now only get up a ringing watchward by
which to sound the new issue through the
land. Says the Sun: "The Irish Protentants
used to cry out against 'Wooden shoes and
Popery.' The Uisraell Conservatives in Eng.
land, a ceuplo ot years ago, stood up for 'Beer
and the Bible.' Perhaps Grant could not get
up a better cry than 'Third term and Ami
Catholic ;"Nepotisai and Protestantism ;' or
'Crooked Whisky and Straight Religion."
The Pluenix is the name of a new weekly
hailing from Lockport. It is the last of
something less than a score of similar birds
that have risen. Irom the ashes ot the original
Lockport 7'elegraph In the last twenty years,
fluttered their brief day and been cremated.
May the last Phanix greatly exceed Its prede
ccssors In vital tenacity.
At the Uie meeting of the Illinois State
Grange all thcoid officers were invited to
give place to new ones except John S. Arm
strong, Esq., of this county, who was unani
mously re-elected Treasurer. The Sandwich
Eree Preu thus speaks of Mr. A., In connection
with his recent appointment as commission
er oi this state tor the approaching Southern
Exposition at New Orleans:
In selecting Mr. Armstrong the society
has a strong man ; strong financially, morally
and socially; a man of wealth he is one to
be trusted by Illinois as well as the entire
south. Illinois being the greatest agricultur
al state should send a man of large experi
ence, success and influence to meet her sister
states south at this first great exposition ever
held in that Bection, and in sending Mr.
Armstrong she sends a man who commands
as many friends and as much money in the
Grange or in society here as any one in the
country. We hope he will meet with a warm
reception and that the meeting may prove ol
incalculable benefit to all sections of the
country and all branches of agriculture.
The New York Sun tells a pretty Jiard ato
ryon Henry Ward Beecher in connection
with the Chritian Vn,on. For several years
that paper had been profitable, but after the
great scandal came out its patronage fell off
rapidly, aud a year ago the concern was bank,
rupt. It was about this time that Beecher
persuaded a widow lady, a member of his
church, to invest all her ready money in
stock in the Chrintian Union, assuring her 'he
investment was aafe and profitable when he
knew it was like throwing the monev away
A relative of the lady found It out and raised
such a "fuss" that the money was finally re.
turned.
Gov. CliHrnbcrlin, of South Carolina, rcfus
es to commission the thieves and blackguard
recently elected judges by the assemblage or
losfcrs and rowdies known as the Sooth Caro-
lina legislature. It appears the terms of the
present J udees do not expire until alter the
meeting of the next legislature, w hence, un
ier the constitution of the state, which re
quires the judges to be elected by the last
legislature which meets before the terms of
the incumbents txplre, the Governor holds
that the late election was illegal.
George II. Pendleton, who la wintering in
Florida, and on bis way south stopped a few
days at Atlanta, Ga-, U thus represented by a
paper of that city aa expressing his opinion
on tue latest phases or national politics:
The democrats must in 1878 adopt a plat
form favoring gradual, and not "stimulated"
resumption of specie Davment. or airnflr
all not of success; Uiey mast also refuse to
countenance any measure for enforcing the
resumption sci oi lura. The coarse of Iirsi
dent Grant on the school ouctiian Mr. IV n
dleton characterized as "a wanton and wicked
attempt to incite the people to religious atrlf
merely that a political party may be retained
in power," and he asserts that the movement
most be met ny tne democrats' "refusing t
accept the issue."
Which shows that George's head is pretty
nterlercj.
THE PACIFIC BALLKOAD OUTBADE.
The entire country will be gratified to
learn, as we do by late Washington dis
patches, that congress is about fully ueter
mined to undo the colossal wrong involved
in the recent decision ot the Supremo Court
of the United States in reference to the inter
est on the bonds lent by the government to
the Union and Central Pacific railroad com
panies. By the law of congress giving those
companies existence, it was stipulated that,
after tha comDletion ol the road, all its earn
ings from carrying mail-, or munitions of
war, or any other service penormeu iur uk
U. S., shculd be applied towards paying the
interest on those bonds. By the recent de
cision of the Supremo Court of the U. &,
however, the companies are released from
paying this Interest until the bonds fall due,
some twenty years hence, when principal
and interest will amount to $200,000,000, and
before which time, as there is a first mortgage
on the road that comes in before the mortgage
of the government, the road will of course
have been sold under that mortgage, ana tlius
the government will have been swindled out
of a clean 200,000,00i), to say nothing of some
$200,000,000 In compound Inters, by that
time.
The power of the government to remedy
the wrong involved in this decision is said to
be unquestionable. Tho acts granting the
charters to the road expressly retained the
right of altering, amending or repealing
them. The decision of the Supreme Court
was based solely on the unfortunate phrase-
ology of a single section of tho charters. The
ight ofcongrcsB to amend that phraseology
and thus in effect reverse the decision of the
court, Attorney General Pierrepont is said to
hold as unquestionable, and therefore equally
so its power to force the companies to pay
the interest on the bonds. It the democratic
majority in congress desire to make one bold,
manly strike for popularity, as well as for
signal right and justice against one of the
most colossal swindles ever attempted in the
world's history, let them lose ho time to
throttle this Pacific Railroad monstrosity.
With a law promptly passed by this congress
that shall secure not only the payment of the
Interest on those Pacific Railroad bonds, but
ultimately the principal, so that the gigantic
stealings of the Credit Mobilier and Pacific
Railroad rings shall fall back upon the
thieves themselves and their congeners and
successors, the democratic party can safely
commit its case to the people next summer,
as having accomplished more in the cause
ot public honesty than was ever achieved by
any previous American congress.
The duty ot congress promptly to right this
great wrong is the more imperative from the
fact that tho soundness of the decision itself,
is, to say the least, exceedingly questionable.
Insinuations even goto the extentot impeach
ing the hunenty of the court in the matter. It
is notorions that shortly beforo the court an
nounced the decision, aU the judges, includ
ing the clerk, dined with the principal coun
sel of the railroad companies in Washington,
and that later, and still before the decision
was announced, several members ot the court
dined with Mr. Sam Ward, the notorious lob
by manager of the railroad companies in
Washington. Taking these fuels in r.nnnco
uou with other facts, that the stock of the
Pacific companies hud long been used as one
of Jay Gould's principal footballs, by load
ing and unloading with which he had at va
rious times made great profits to the ruin of
the small fry of Wall street; and that not
long before the decision in question wus an
nounced at Washington Gould, as if fully ad
vised of what was coming, had loaded him.
self enormously with the stock, and thus re
alized a quarter ot a million on the rise
which followed the decision, taking these
tacts into the account, we say, and the case
certainly has a painfully dark look tor the
court itself.
But as above intimated, the soundness of
the decision is very seriously questioned, and
in a way still further to reflect on the integri
ty ol the court. The court decided the case
on purely technical grounds. It looked sole
ly at the letter of the law and tho fact that at
tho time when it passed the nation was in
peril and regarded the building of this road
as a grea tnatlonal necessity. But it ruled out
of the account entirely all the debates of eon
grcss on the passage of the bill, which explain
its language and show what that body meant
by the act and the Interpretation that should
bo put on its words. These debates give tho
key to its meaning, as was clearly shown by
Attorney General Pierrepont's able argument.
That the court should decide a case Involving
$400,000,000 by the mere doubtful words of
the law and cast out of the account the real
feelings, purposes and ideas of the men who
framed it and which are its life, and thereby
traverse the spirit of the law and every prin
ciple of equity and common sense, is an oc
currence so strangely in contrast with what
in Its whole previous history was naturally
expected of the court, as to be at least most
extraordinary and unaccountable.
It la a sad da? for this nation w hen it ran
no longer rely upon the integrity of its high
est Jadicial tribunal, but we w ith we could
feel surer the day baa not come, it is impos
sible to forget that at least some of the pres
ent Judges upon the bench were put there for
a purpose were put there to "pack" the
court to render a certain decision in regard to
the greenbacks. Can entire reliance be
placed upoo a "packed'' court on another
question Involving such a colossal sum as
$ 100,000.0.4 The Pacific Railroad law was
made lor the people and Is interpreted
against the people. Where congress wrote
men the court reads monopoly. Can we shut
our cars to uch facts, and be dumb, and
blind, and nnsue peeling, and tneek aud pas
sive when the pillar of the nation's strongest
safeguard are retting away and the structure
u about to fall upon and crush us
Oa ChrUtmaa day, at Memphis an J New
Orleans, the thermometer stood 80 degrees in
ihe sLaJe, and with the faxhion of burning
i-juib and displaying firewotka in the even
ing, the day seemed to Northerners raw like
a Fourth of July than Christina.
OTTAWA FKEE TRADER:
THE WHIBKY CB00ZEDHESS.
Tho lull that has prevailed for a lew weeks
past in the war on the whisky thieves has
beeu broken during the past week by some
pretty lively guerrilla warlare and ut least
one substantial victory for the government.
The guerilla business is apparently conduct
ed in behalf of Bftbcock, who seems deter
mined not to stand a fair and full trial be.'ore
a St. Louis Jury. On an intimation a week
ago, that Joyce was ready to squeal if a par
don was granted him, and that his tvidcuce
would not only be strong against Babcock,
but other high officials, the prosecution at St.
Louis made a strong appeal to the President
for his1 par-Jon, but the attorney general re
plied that the pardon would not be graated.
This was vicioi.' No. I for Babcock.
Then the Cblcaeo Intcr-Octanoi the 2.1th
creates a decided sensation by a bold splurge
apparently in the interest of Babcock prima
rily, but generally in favor of all tho whisky
thieves, by a four column article, includiuc
nrrtpnded interviews with various parties and
sensational comments. The upshot of all
being, first, to Involve Secretary Bristow Him
self in the crooked whisky business by in
sinuating that he had brothers-in-law or broth
ers of brothers-in-law engaged in making
crooked whisky in Louisville, Cincinnati,
&c, and that, before be was appointed Secre
tary of the Treasury, ho acted as attorney and
adviser of the thieves; and secondly intimat
ing that though Babcock hlmselt was really
innocent of the charges made against him in
connection with crooked whisky, he knew a
great deal on the subject and could make
revelations that would crush certain parties
high in position meuningBristow and that
he was now in negotiation with Randall for
the appointment oi an investigating commit
tee by the house, before which Babcock would
make a clean breast of it; and that Babcock's
inducement to "confess" before such a com
mittee was all tho greater because that would
bar his further prosecution before the court
in St. Louis. Something like this was the
substance of the Inte.r-Oeean's splurge. Un
happily it was se palpably and purely in the
interest of the thieves, and so evidently dic
tated alone by malice against Bristow, with
out one solid fact to lean on, that the kite lias
fallen harmless to the ground and the I. O.,
overwhelmed with imprecations, is rapidly
crawfishing out of the scrape its zeal to earn
its pay from the thieves had led it into.
And thiH last bold dash of the I,ter-0-ei
in behalf ot the thieves having tlU3 signally
failed, the whole Chicago; ring, involving
fifteen indicted distillers, with numerous
small iry, oh Wednesday stepped forward in
a body and uttered one united, shrill, ear-
piercing, heartrending squeal! They were
beiruiled into this step by the offer of the gov
ernment to let them off with a simple fine, an
offer which, to men who for six months past
had been staring with raised hair at the
yawning doors of the penitentiary, was lrre
fistlble. The squealing of the fifteen brought
into the meshes a dozen of other distillers
who had hitherto dodged an indictment, but
who, on the evidence of tho squeelers, are
now also seized. The same generous offer
that was made to the others is extended to
these, and under the circumstances It is more
than likely thut tbey will accept it, so thai
the prosecution of the whisky ring in Chlca
co may be regarded as virtually at an end,
all the accused having confessed their guilt
and maderestitution to the government of the
amount they had Btolon.
The government, in this lenity, however,
has another object m view. While the manu
facturers, rectifiers, dealers, &3., thus get off
easily, the government expect In return such
evidence from them as will unearth the
agency of the government officials at Chicago
as accessories to the lrauds. How far this
will prove a success remains to be seen. Ths
result up to yesterday was that five ex-gaug-ers
had gone into the confessional and told
what they knew, but with Munn, Wadsworth,
Hoyt and a score of others still shivering
outside, it is believed the Bristow's lightning
cannot fail yet to strike some taller timber
than mere gaugers and underlings.
The New Yoik Sun has stirred up a decid-
ed sensation in Chicago by publishing a cir
cumstantial account of a conspiracy, in which
John A. Logan, II. II. Honore and Fred
Grant wcro chief actors, to legally steal a
Colorado silver mine. To accomplish their
object it was found necessary to remove a
United States Judge, and the President was
induced to do it. It is a humiliating story,
and if true a crime has been committed which
should insure the impeachment of every officer
engaged in it, and the punishment ot all the
others.
Talinadce.tbe Brooklyn sensational preach-
er who for years has been trying to rival
Beecher, naturally takes sides against him on
the question of reading the Bible in the pub
lic schools. Last Sunday, in some of his re
marks, Talmadge was decidedly severe on his
rival. His languge, referring to Beecher
particularly, was: "They are only atheists
and men ot loose religion and loose morality
who object to the reading of the Bible in the
schools."
Congress having adopted a rule thut every
newspaper reporter, before being admitted to
a seat in th gallery apportioned to the press,
must sign a taper setting forth tht he is not
Interested In any claim before congress and
will not attempt to act as a claim agent, the
Chicago 71W pertinently suggests that this
rule somewhat expanded in its boundaries,
should be applied to congressmen themselves.
Most members are expected to give up a large
part of their time to looking after the inter
ests, real or imaginary, honestly or dishonest
ly presented, of constituents, to say nothing
of the time devoted to grinding axes of their
own.
Tice's prediction that the evcr.teec.h,
eighteenth and nineteenth of DccemU-r would
be cold days, was nheu. ,uw look ut
for the twelfth of January.
TheETcatest teat In leleraphleg evr ac
complished was in sending tie I'resident's
message from Washington to New lork In
1 ja-st thirty rtiC rcmr.te.
SATPKDAY, JANUARY ,1, 1876,
MOKTON'S LITTLE GAME.
The editor ol the Ottawa Republican has for
years been "dafl" on tlie subject of southern
outrages, and is probably the only person in
tho Northwest that accepts in simplicity and
honesty as true the telegraph dispatches
which the Chicago Tnttr-Oeean semi-occasion
ally manufacture at home, giving details of
outrages in such portions of the south as the
exigencies of the particular occasion happen
to call for. The I. O. is now manufacturing
nigger murders in Mississippi, to back up
Morton's proposed congressional inquiry into
last fall's elections iu that state, and the Otta
wa Republican instinctively republishes these
highly colored and Impossible recitals, w ith
such grave and ejaculatory comments as to
touchingly portray the editor's innocent
trust iu their truthfulness.
Now it is a3 well known as any fact in cur
rent history, that the election In Mississippi
last fall was one of the fairest, most quiet aud
satisfactory ever held in that state. Ames
having applied for troops before the election,
without a reasonable pretext, and having been
refused, of course if at the election anything
had occurred to demonstrate the need of them.
Attorney General Pierrepont niver would
have heurd the last of it from Ames. But
not n word bar come from Ames or. a single
onu of his carpet bagger congeners in Mis
sissippi since the election to show that Ihe
troops were needed, and this of course is ofj
itself a lull demonstration that they were not
needed, and that tho election was fair and
honest.
But Morton, in urging the proposed inves
tigation, is influenced by very different mo
tives from concern for honest elections in
Mississippi. What troubles him mostly is
that the election was not as it had always
been when the curpet baggers had their own
way dishonest. The big radical majority
in the U. S. Senate is dwindling down to
nothing at a fearfully rapid rate. Ou by
one the carpet bag governments of the south
especially have dropped out of power, under
the stern demands of a sound public opinion,
and one by ouo these states are sending up
democratic senators, so that the radical ma
jority in that body threatens to disappear
even before the present session is out. Ar
kansas is likely soon to dispense with its only
remaining republican senator as lovely a
specimen of carpet bag putridity as radical
corruption ever raised above the reeking
slums in which he was hatched; Alabama,
also, Is in danger of losing its lovely Spn
cer, another product of reeking corruption
And now comes Mississippi, threatening to
displace another exemplar of radical putridi
ty by the substitution of a ian even, it Is
possible, the hated Lamar.
It Is possibilities like these that are dis
turbing the peace of mind of honest Morton,
and it is to prevent such a consummation
that he wants to get up an investigation in
Mississippi, and then, by such false swearing
ss he knows the Mississippi carpet baggers
so admirably adept in, having made a prima
fucic case ugainst the Mississidpi legislature,
he hopes, by military intervention, to stave
off and ultimately defeat the election of a
democratic senator from that state.
Almost uuy other radical editor in the U
S. would understand Morton's little game
and "boost" it in away to show his conscious
ness of it. But the litpublieAin manifests no
such consciousness, and we think in sustain
ing Morton's movement is simply and stu
pidly honest.
DEATH OF HON. W. A. EICHAED80N.
A week ago telegraph dispatches announced
that the Hon. W. A. Richardson, at hlshome in
Quincy, 111., had received a severe paralytic
stroke, and on Monday came the announce
ment of his death.
Colonel or "Dick" Richardson, as he used
to be familiarly called, had been out of poli
tics so long that his death excites less atten
tion now than it would have received ten or
twelve years ngo. Then the party, of which
he was an accomplished and trusted leader,
was able to place him in such prominent pub
lic positions aa his talents were so well fitted
to adorn, and to have been smitten down
then would have been regarded as a public
calamity. But now, almost forgotten amid
the riotous reign of mediocrity and corrup
tion, the announcement of bis death is re
ceivod like that of the demise of one of a
loreign laud or former age.
Col. Richardsoa in his day was an able
man. In 1S14 he was the acknowledged
leaded of the house in congress a house
which embraced in its membership men like
Bieckenrldge, Orr, Lynn Boyd, Tom. Ben
ton, Alexander Stephens, Gerrit Mnith, Josh
ua R. Gidding, &c, Ac, and in the great
struggle on the Nebraska bill, during which
the house was in session for three days and
three nights, Col. Richardson led the demo
cratic phalanx, making every important mo
tion and meeting every counter motion and
strategic movement of the adverse party with
such consummate readiness and address as
finally to compel the opposition to surrender
at discretion.
Aside from his marked ability, Col. Rich
ardson was a thoroughly honest man. As his
"companion in arms" during a year of the
Mexican war, the writer had opportunities to
see him iu phases and under circumstances
which, more than probauly any others, are
calculated to bring oat all the points of a
man's character, aul the revelation under
every conceivable test was, that a more thor
oughly honorable and honest man one who
heartily despised everything that wa mean
and little, and made truth and honor his re
ligion with more entire devotion than
William A. Richardson never lived.
In the Chicago liib-mt -not over friendly
or appreciative we iad the following bio
graphical sketch of Col. R :
Hp wa born in Favette County, Kentucky,
in It'll, and erudua'teJ from Transylvania
University, iu" that Stale, while still a boy.
Admitted to the Bar U-foie he was '20 years
of ace, he moved to Illinois which was al
ready, thank to tree labor, outstripping be
older 1 1 val. From 1, h be was elecU-d
State' Attorney, he was almost continuously
in otSce until l-. when he left the foaie
Had be written -Thirty Year io !
State Politics." .e U-k would hrve been
as lntm-!:ng a lknton's "Thirty lcars in
the United States Senate." He was a mem
ber of tho State Legislature in 1830, a State
Senator in 1838, Speaker of the House and
Presidential Elector in 1844. He entered the
Mexican war as a Captain, and was promoted
to a higher command on the battle-field of
Buena Vista, in tho 1'fce-aud-casy military
method of those davs, by tin unanimous vote
of his regiment. From 1847 to 18.16, when he
...... t .... n. i V.i uut In I'finrrrnua nftivn1v aim.
porting his intimate friend, Senator Douglas,
in his struggle for the so called "Popular
Sovereignty" principle, as applied to the
Kansus-Nebrus'lca question. He left Wash
ington to run for Governor of Illinois, but
was defeated. In 1857, Buchauan appointed
him Governor ot Nebraska. He held the
place only one year, and then resigned. In
18(50 and 18C2 he was re elected to Congress.
When Douglas died, O. H. Browning was
appointed by the Governor as ad interim
Senator, but when the Legislature met, Mr.
Richardson was elected for the unexpired
terra. His record as a SeBator was honora
ble, though not brilliant. Since his retire
ment, in 1805, he has lived quietly at Quincy.
His good physique has carried him safely
through several severe attacks of sickness
during the last decade, but he was struck
with paralysis ten days ago, and was unable
to rally from the shock. He participated in
the Bourbon movement of 1872, and has late
ly published one or two Indiscreet letters in
favor ot rag-money, which showed that his
lie leaves nciutiu mm uio recom u a
public career, and a character for personal
and official integrity.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Greitt ItrlUin.
There was a serious disturbance on the
27th at Bannsfoot, county Armagh, Ireland,
growing out ot the marriage of a Protestant
girl to a Catholic. A number of Protestants
attacked the house where tho marriage look
place, and completely wrecked the premises.
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During the bght that followed, a number
were killed and Beveral badly wounded.
The admiralty hits got out a new circular
on the subject of fugitive slaves. Such per
sons escaping to a British man of war are
not to be given up to the claimants, but to be
lau-Jcd in a country where their freedom is
secure, and no demand for the surrender of
the slave is to be entertained by a British
officer.
The Prince of Wales' India tour is getting
to be a great bore. Every post brings long
letters from correspondents sent out by the
diflercnt newspapers to write up the trip but
so sick is the public of the affair that few of
the letters are published. Besides, the Prince
wants more money. The $3,500,000 voted
him for the trip are already nearly exhaust
ed, and he hasn't got half around distributing
presents.
Earl Stanhope is dead.
The Marie Lane EtprtsH1 regular weekly re
view of tho corn market says: "The large
imports since the 1st of September have kept
prices down, but we cannot expect the im
ports to continue while rt3 are so low. The
business in Europe is seasonably dull and
prices barely maintained."
France,
The assembly was occupied all week in
considering the press bill. As adopted, it
provides for a moderately free press, relieved
from many of the annoyances to which the
French press was heretofore subjected. The
prefects are no longer allowed to forbid sum
marily the sale of journals in Ihe streets, by
which 75 journals, now forbidden, are releas
ed. The same bill also raises the state of
siege throughout the country except in Paris,
Versailles. Lyons and Marseilles. The final
approval of the bill is to followed by a dis
solution, and new election, over which the
country is already becoming agitated.
Ex-President Thiers has accepted an invita
tion of the Town of Bclfort to stand for the
Senate. He has received and declined simi
lar invitations from eleven Departments.
Republican leaders are confident that in
the general elections the partisans of a mod
erate Republic will secure a majority in both
Houses ot the New Assembly.
The Orleans princes have ieci led not to
take seats In the senate or chamber of depu
ties. The Due d'Aumale has written a a let
ter, declining nomination for either house.
The statue ol Napoleon was replaced on
the newly -finished Vendome column on Mon
day. The royal palace at Barcelona was des
troyed by fire on the 20th.
Spain denies having violated the neutrality
law by enlisting Italians In New York for
Cuba. The enlistments were made by plant
ers to guard their estates from ravage by the
soldiers on both sides.
The Carlists are bombarding Hernani with
such vigor that it is leared tho garrison
will be compelled to evacuate.
King Alfonso is actively arranging for the
return of his mother to Spain. She is to re
side at Valladolld. as Madrid is not consider
ed a healthy place for her. Tnn feelinc of
hostility and disgust towards ex-queen Isa
bella is so intense among tne Spanish people
that it is believed her return will be the sig
nal for a popular outburst that will end in
placing Don Carlos on the throne.
Germany.
Bkki iv, Dec. 29 The meeting called last
Monday by the citizens of the Lnited States
resid'nc here to irive expression to their ab
horrence of the Bremerhaven crime and to
protest against the unjust comments of the
German press, was held to-night anu was
attended Dy w , " - ,n-T 1
was adopted declaring that the act of Thorn-;
a or Tuomassen. is in no respect a fruit ofj
American civilization; that it affects the!
hoaorofthc human race and not that of a
particular nationality, and protesting against j
the unjust aspersions on American character J
.. annearcd in some German newa-i
papeis in connection with the crime.
Switirtiaail. .
During the Christmas festivities at the vil
lage Iiniikon, in the Canton Aargau,
Switzerland, in a srhoolhouse, the flooring
gave w ay and eighty rcrsons were killed and
fifty or sixty wounded.
Trky.
There I report, whif h needs confirma
tion, of a ereat batlie on the 23J near Nitch-
itza. in Herieirovinia, in which fifteen thous-,
and troop rc encaged, and the Turks were
victorious. .
Tf Ffe lau ra an 4 bico "k!T Timf
KILUHOTQR ENAMEL W0BKB.
Enamelled brick are not in common use
in the West, but it needs no argument to
show their superiority over any other after
using and testing them. Tho Millington Kn
terprixe, In giving an account of the works
for the manufacture of these brick at that
place, thus describes the process or their
manufacture:
The sand (white flint from the Millington
sandbank) is first ground in tho grinding
puns. It is then mixed with the chemicals
composing tho enamel composition, anil
melted in a small kiln. When melted the
compound is very similar to glass. The
mixture is then placed iu the crusher and
broken up in small pieces, after which it is
ground in the pans into a fine flour. After
this it is mixed with water until it is like
paste, and it Is then ready for applying to the
bricks.
Each brick to bo enameled is carefully
dipped in the mixture until a sufficient quan
tity adheres to it, when the bricks are placed
in boxes made of fire clay, which are called
"saggers." These saggers are then carried
to the main kilns.
The main kilns are sixteen leet in diame
ter, and sixteen teet high, with walls twenty
inches thick. They are circular in form, and
contain twelve furnaces each. One of them
will contain about 4,500 Baggers, and each
sagger contains from four to five bricks, the
kilus Dcing caicuiatea to burn 30,000 bricks
apiece. It requires about a week to burn a
kiln, including the time spent m filling and
emptying.
The heating flues are constructed of brick,
and predesigned simply to warm the build
ing. They aro much safer than stoves, and
much more economical in the consumption
of fuel.
Ills confidently expected, after allowing
a wide margin tor delays, that the company
will bo able to place the first 20,000 bricks
upon the market before the New Year begins.
Already they have more orders than they enn
possibly fill in a year, aDd it will doubtless be
necessary to enlarge the capacity of tin',
works iu the spring of 187C.
tlie President of the Abingdon, III., College1
was struck by a billy in the hands of a boy
whom he was trying to epel from a public
entertainment, aud is in imminent danger ot
death.
The Ottawa Fkke Tiiaokr copies an arti
cle from the East St. Louis (iazette, advocating
tho nomination of Judge Breese for the Pres
idency. The democracy might do a great
deal worse than to follow these suggestions
and bestowtheir nomination on Judge Breese.
Chi. Ind. Age.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which pretend
to be a democratic paper but runs crazy alter
the rug-baby, calls congressman Morrison "a
brawling, empty-headed, unknown villa;.'
politician of Waterloo, Illinois."
The "truly loil" city treasurer of Buffalo,
N. Y., has taken a pleasure trip to Canada
or other foreign parts, and the tax payers of
that city are cheered by the information that
the amount of the steal probably don't excecl
$400,000.
Fred Douglass failed to meet bis engage
ment to lecture at Strcator on Thursday night
of last week. He assigns' "sad domestic
trouble" as the cause.
From Rutland.
On Christmas eve Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Parr threw open their new and commodious
house to their relatives for a Christmas tree.
Many of ihem were there; others were kept
away by sickness, bad roads or previous
engagements. The company also included
Mr. Woodward, who this winter is engaged
in the arduous labor of teaching our young
Ideas how to xhtte. Arriving somewhat ear
ly, your correspondent, being divested of out
er wrappings, started on a tour of inspection
through Mr. Parr's beautiful new house.
The house is certainly everything a faimei
can desire, large rooms, well ventilated, ami
remarkably well arranged. There aro a hall,
two large parlors, large dining room with
bay window, (filled with beautiful house
plants,) a spacious sleeping room off it with
closet and bath room, and a kitchen that any
housekeeper might envy, with a pantry con
taining innumerable drawers, shelves and
doort, back ol whish were hidden hosts oi
good things for the inner man ; and from the
kitchen a stairway leads to apartments above
both for male and female servants; and last
but not least, this model kitchen Is supplied
with an abundant flow of pure spring water,
forced by a hydraulic ram from a spring a'
the foot of the hill.
On the second floor, to which one asceuds
by an ample stairway from the hall, are seven
sleeping rooms, all of good sl.e. All is fine
ly finished, the outside in keeping with th'
inside.
Entering the front parlor, I found a large
tree reaching to tho ceiling laden with pres
ents, arranged with great artistic skill. Mrs
Walter Strawn and Mrs. Samuel Parr receiv
ed the most costly ones; but there were many
more both beautiful and valuable, and I re
gret that space will not allow me to give a
list of them. Mr. Sam. Parr refused to ac
cept his, on the gronnd of its gender he was
sure there was something wrong about It. 1 f
the night had been colder I might have
thought he envied Mrs. Slrawn her velvet
cloak and driving gloves.
After the distribution of the presents by
Mrs. John Parr, assisted by Miss Alice Shav
er and Miss Fanny Armstrong, tho tree was
removed, and the party engaged in the social
dance, in which old and young engaged with
the same heartiness-the old forgetting that
they were no longer on th sunny side, aii i
the young unmindful that they would not a!
ways be there. The music was furnisbe 1 by
Samuel Milliken and John Parr, assisted ly
Mrs Armstrong of Sreo and Mrs. John
parr The boys had not practiced together
for a long time, but did their part so wtll as
to show they bad forgotten none of their oM
skill. The dancing wa kept up ntil tLe
"wee imt' hours." when all departed for their
homes acting heartily that there were few
places where host and hostess could make it
more pleasan' for their guest than at the
comfortable borne of Mr. and Mis. Sam Tan
May they live long to enjoy it, is the s ncr
wish of one who was '.Lrre and had a sp'r.
did time.