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The Illinois Stato Temperance Alliance ha
issued a call for a state temperance conven
tion, to be held at Springfield on Tuesday, the
37th of January, 182.
That excellent Baptist paper so long known
as the Examiner and Chronide, has dropped
the latter cognomen, and is now simply The
Examiner. It is a Bplendid family paper, pub
lished in New York City at $2.50 a year.
Rail laying on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad was completed last Saturday
to Laredo. This gives a direct and unbroken
line of 1,300 miles from the Mississippi at St,
Louis to the Rio Grande at Laredo. The road
will be energetically pushed from Laredo to
the City of Mexico, a distance of 700 miles, of
which 300 are already graded.
The executive committee of tho Illinois
Press Association met in Chicago tho other
day and decided to hold the next annual meet
ing at Springfield February 11th, 1882, and it
arrangements can be made with the railway
corporations, to go on an excursion to the Hot
Springs of Arkansas. The committee seem to
Appreciate the need oi the boys to have a good
washing up.
The strange relation comes from New York
that the Rev. John P. Newman, so widely
known as chaplain in ordinary to President
"Grant and a pillar of tlie Methodist Church.
has accepted the pastorato of a Congregations!
Church in New York City, and has lured the
Grants away from Methodism into the same
communion, the gallant and pious General
anu cx-prcsiucm uiniseu ucing a irusico in me
now relislous venture.
' There is not, only no abatement of the small
pox epidemic in Chicago but it appears to be
steadily on the increase. It is said also to be
alarmingly on the increase in St. Louis, while
we reaa daily of the disease appearing in citieH
and villages all over this and adjoining spates.
It was, therefore, no less judicious than in apt
time lor the Illinois Stato Hoard of Health to
issue an order, as they have done, for tho vae
uuiuuu wi an imiuieu niuuiuiug 111 u jiuuiic
schools. Tho order is to take effect from and
after tho 1st of January.
The well and not over favorably known
"Pobb Shepherd," erstwhile of Washington
City, has met with a melancholy fate. Tho cli
mate about Washington having become uncon
genial to his well-being, he betook himself to
Mexico, and it is stated while visiting an old
dine recently in Chihuahua, he was bitten in
the leg by a tarantula. The poison caused an
uuftaat swelling in tho limb, and the prospect
is that the saving of hia life will depend upon
amputatiou.
Among the curiosities at tho great Atlanta
Exposition is the smallest editor in tho world.
'le represents the Key West (Florida) Demo
' is 40 inches high and weighs 35 pounds.
While be don't display much in size, ho is rep
resented as an entertaining talker and is thor
ovgly informed upon any of the usual topics
i. the day. He goes by the name of General
Sawyer, and hits already written several edito
ials on the Kxposition a good deal heavier than
himself.
The JliKon .s'"i issues a Christmas edition
of 1C pages, cut and pasted and tho publisher
raUicr prides himself upon the achievement.
While the Sun is about the most ably edited
Illinois county paper on our exchange list,
there don't seem to be a vast deal to boast of
in getting out a 16 page edition when half the
pGC8 are prepared and printed at a patent in
snJe newspaper manufactory in Chicago, and
thieeor four more pages consist of handbill
advertisements.
The New York papers of Sunday announce
the death in that city on the 17th inst-nf Isaac
I. if ayes, best known throughout the country
a a successful arctic explorer; though In New
York be had attained considerable prominence
7ui, politician, representing a district f the
ci'.y in the state legislature for several terms ol
-2ixh body he was a leading and influential
mcuilx r. Ottawa people will remember him
84 faring, soon after his return from the arc
tic regions, delivered a lecture in tho I.aptist
ckiTcu in this city. His health had been fail-
iLt; lor two or three years past, and he died at
tbe age of forty-nine years.
Toe squabble over the Ottawa postollice ha
caj'.-a mine appointment oi v. t.. iJowman,
Congressman Cullen having urged his ap
jvMDUncnt on the ground, as his organ, the Ot
Uv' t Jlrji'iitlinin, assures us, not only that he
w&s 'OLe peer of any gentleman seeking the
fKMiiion in qualifications, suavity and servic
tioJered both the public and the parry," but
k. petition was signed by the largest number
ot republican citizens interested in the office
It u none ot our funeral, and as no one can
LuU Mr. Uowmtn'a abundant ability to di-
chvge the duties of tbe office and to make a
i'cant,accommodating and popular officer ,we
have nota single murmur touttor against him.
Yet (saying nothing about this cool assump
tion that none but republicans had a right to
be consulted about an appointment in winch
all are so deeply interested) our coteinporary
is "mighty right" in the statement that there
is "sore disappointment" over Mr. Cuilen's
selection and "personal grievances against our
congressman" on that account. For instance,
the Germans are very freely stating around
town that a year ago last April when Mr. Cul
len needed the votes of two or three German
delegates in the La Salle County Republican
Convention to beat Bushncll, In; then and there
solemnly promised, if sent to congress, to urge
the appointment of John I'urrucker as post
matter of Ottawa, and that on that understand
ing alone the German delegates voted for him.
Hut that is one oi those agreements that are
"more honored In tho breech than the observ
ance," and always pass (or very white lies
among republican politician and seldom hurt
them.
THE FATE OF THE JEANETTE
The thrilling intelligence was flashed over
the wires on Tuesday frohi away oil" in North-
Eastern Siberia, that the greater part of the
crew of tho long lost and diligently sought for
Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette had turned
up at the mouth of the Lena river on the
north-east Siberian coast, after the ill-fated veK
sel hatl been crushed in the ice, and the crew,
escaping in sledges and boats, had made a
journey of over three hundred miles, dragging
their boats over tho ice a great part of the way,
arriving finally in a deplorable condition at
the mouth of the river Indicated. The craw
left the wrecked Jeanette in lat. 77 degrees 15
seconds, longltudo 157 east. Tlie catastrophe
occurred on June 11th, 18H1, unou which tlie
crew left in boats and sleds, in three parties,
and made good their retreat in company to
within 50 miles of the mouth of the Lena,
where they were separated in a gale. The
whale boat, in charge of Chief Engineer Mel
ville, with 11 men, reached the mouth of the
river September 17th, but was stopped from
ascending it by ice. A village of natives,
however, was fouud there, who rendered as
distance. Another of the boats, the first cutter,
in charge of Lt. Commander Do Long, with
13 men, arrived about the same time at an
other point on tho mouth of the Lena, in a de
plorable condition, short of provisions and
some of the men badly frost-bitten. Engineer
Melville at once sent word to tho Russian com
mander at Halocmga, who sent instant relief
to the Melville party and promised, Oct. 29th,
to send relief to De Long and his party in the
first cutter, meantime sending sccuts to find
i hem. The second cutter, in charge of Capt.
Duii bar, with 8 men, had not been heard from
when tho intelligence was sent. This had
been conveyed by natives up the river through
frost and suow to Irkutsk, the residence of the
Governor of Eastern Siberia, aud thence trans
mitted by telegraph, Dec. Slat, by way of St.
Petersburg to London, New York, &c.
Of course tho deepest interest is awakened
by the whole civilized world iti the fate of the
unfortunate explorers. The Emperor of Rus
sia, ou being advised of the situation, at once
telegraphed to tho Governor of Eastern Si
beria to draw for whatever amount was neces
sary to afford prompt and effective relief. Sec
retary Frchnghuysen, from Washington, also
telegraphed to IIoH'iumu, tUv Auiorican cliarge
at St. Petersburg, to mako immediate provis
ion for the relief and return of the officers and
men of the Jeanette, and to draw by telegraph
for whatever amount he might need. No
doubt is felt but that, when tho next dispatch
es from Iho mouth of the Leua get through, in
telligence will arrive of tho safety of the other
boat and its men.
All sulely gathered at the mouth of the Leua
river, however, it will be a long and perilous
journey to make in winter even as far south
as IrkuU.k, to say nothing of getting back to
St. Petersburg or Moscow, and thus within
reach of railroads and safe winter travel. I'n-
der the most lavorablo auspices, it can hardly
bo expecteil that the survivors of tho crew of
the Jeanette, whoever they may be, will get
back to their homes in America before next
July or August. It is a great satisfaction,
however, to know that they are comparatively
safe at least havo escaped the fate of the un
happy Franklin expedition, and it is a fur
ther satisfaction to know that the great Arctic
problem of tho fato of tho Jeanette is solved,
and that tho world need give itself no further
worriment over new search expeditions on
that account.
THE PEKU-CHIil MUDDLE
Secretary Rlalnc, on retiring from tho state
department at Washington, felt it necessary for
his vindication, beforo laying down his port
folio, to ask permission to publish his instruc
tions to his pet ministers in South America,
Generals Hurlbut and Kllpatrick, whose
strange and contradictory interpretation ot said
instructions threatened to place him in a very
awkward position. The publication of tbe pa
pers in question, however, seems to havo come
far short of compassing tho vindication desired,
and it bccaiBO necessary tor Mr. Blaine to ask
for the publication of some more papers. It
happens, unfortunately, that with the addition
of every new paper the affair becomes more
clouded and the part Mr. Hlaino is shown to
have bomo in it more questionable and dubi
ous. The later revelatious in the matter un
cover a huge speculation, of which unhappy
Peru was to be the victim, and which reminds
one very much ot that gigantic robber scheme
the (ireat East India Company, in the build
ing up ot which Lords C'llve and Hastings
bore such memorable and disreputable pnrU
Hrietly stated, the case is somewhat as follows:
In one of the "additional papers" laid be
fore the public at the request of Mr. Hlaine is
a missive under date of August 1th from Mr.
H. to Minister Hurlbut referring mysteriously
to certain claim of American citizens upon
Peru, one of which he styles the "Cocket" and
the other the "Laudreau" claim. In regard to
the former Mr. Hurlbut w as to take no step to
commit his government in its favor, but in re
gard to the latter he w h In mx his god offic
es in its behalf.
Now what were these "claim ?" It appears,
about ball a century ago. the government of
Peru, Imagining that the country wai under
laid with vast undeveloped gold and pilfer
OTTAWA FREE TRADER;
mines, all of which the stato claimed to own,
offered a large royalty, said to bo one-third of
the amount, to any person who should make a
new discovery of state treasure. That certain
islands adjacent to the Peruvian coast and be
longing to the republic were overlaid with
vast guano deposits was of courso well known;
but about this time one Alexander t'ochet, a
Frenchman living in Peru, claims tohavedis
covered the importance ot this guano as a fer
tilizer, and as it soon obtained a high commer
cial value, he claimed the bouuty of one-third
of the product of the guano beds. The discov
ery of Mr. Laudreau, an American citizen,
seems to have been of the same character, and
though the full history of his claim is not re.
vealed in tho papers thus lar, it is likely itcov.
ers the same ground that is Covered by the
Cochct claim.
Peru never admitted the claim of either, and
went on selling the guano, it is now insisted
to the amount of $2,700,000,000. Cochtt died,
leaving the claim to his son.
Now appears on the scene one J. R. Ship-
herd, erstwhile a lawyer of none too high re
pute in Chicago, but later of New York. He
slates that "in the ordinary course of business"
these claims were brought to his notice, and
hue another Mulberry Sellers he saw that
"there's millions in it!" In connection with
others he proceeded to organize a huge joint
stock company, in imitation of tho "Honorable
Governor and Directory of the Royal East In
dia Company." Steps were taken by the com
pany for the purchase (for a mere song) of the
Cochet and Laudreau claims, now amounting
to $!MX),000,000 for royalties actually due, and
for $100,000,000 more as ono-taird ot the esti
mated value or $300,000,000 worth of guano
still left on th islands. The company propos
ed to have these claims recognized by Peru,
aud then, after the fashion of Lord Cllve, to
take possession of the country and run its gov
ernment, the company issuing its orders from
Wall street, exactly as the great English Com
pany governs East India through a royal di
rectory in I!ond Street.
Hut first in order was to get the claim re
cognized. To this end it was necessary that
Peru should have a de fnrto government. Ac
cordingly the pretender Calderon was selected,
and the aid of the I'm ted States, through its
facile Minister Hurlbut, invoked to have his
government recognized, and as Chili was
alike anxious to have a government in Peru
to treat with, her military power was lent to
set Calderon and his congress on their pins.
Now everything promised to movo smoothly.
Calderon was duly recognized not only by
Minister Hurlbut, but his recognition was
approved by Mr. Hlaiue at Washington. Then
the "company" proceeded to business. Cal
deron was initiated Hi tho scheme, in which
he was to bear uu important and profitable
part, and was on the point of signing all the
necessary papers in recognition of the compa
ny's claim, so huge and monstrous that Blaine
says that "through it we should own Peru by
a mortgage which can never bo paid." The
mortgage not only included all there was of
the guano deposits, gold and silver mines and
the territory generally of tho country, but
more importaut and especially tho vast
and valuable nitrate deposits of Peru, over
which the disastrous war with Chili occurred.
At the very 'nick of time," however, when
this hugu bargain wiw about to be consum
mated, Seuor Petruchio Lynch, tho Chilian
naval commander, got an inkling ot what was
going on, and "nipped it in the bud" by the
unceremonious arrest of Calderon, and send
ing him to Chili, and dispersing his extempo
rized congress.
This is the disgraceful history as thus far
revealed. )f course the company had no idea
of encountering tho opposition of Chili to the
consummation of their grand scheme, for had
they not agreed in their articles of association
to provide for paying that government an
ample Indemnity tor their expenses in the war
with Peru? and to quiet the English owners
of some f 250,000,000 worth of Peruvian bonds,
hod they not also agreed to assume that debt?
Oh it was a magnificent scheme! Like Lord
Clivc, tho puissant Shepherd not only projios-
ed that he and his company should possess
themselves of Peru, but after the fashion of the
East India Company tho plan no doubt con
templated Iho ultimate c nqucst and annexa
tion of all South America!
There is of course no evidence that Secretary
Hlaino w as hand and glove with the projectors
in this mousirous conspiracy, for d d he not
admonish Hurlbut to be extra cautious in the
matter of these claims, and to do nothing that
did not recognize the undoubted right of Chili
to exact territorial indemnity from Peru? Hut
that Hurlbut was a mere tool in tho hands of
Shipherd is evident from the fact that he so
far perverted Blame's instructions that he laid
it down as tbo "demand" of tho United States
tbat'organized resistance having ceased the
war must cease," and that "there must be no
territorial Indemnity or annexation." Yet if
Blaine was entirely innocent of all complicity
in or knowledge ot the Shipherd scheme, why
was he so solicitous that Hurlbut should fa
vor the recognition ot the "Laudreau" claim ?
Havk We a Shakkspkaue Amono Is?
Mr. William Young, the author ot "Pendra-
gon," the tragedy whtch had nuch a run lately
at McVickcr's thcatro in Chicago, is a born
Sucker, a son of Dr. J. A. Brown, who for thir
ty years has been a leading physician in Mon
mouth, Illinois. W illiam graduated at Mon
mouth College in the class of '(53, and after at
tending medical lectures in Chicago turned
bis attention to literary pursuits, writing
poems tor tbe Atlantic, Galaxy, Lippincott's
and Scrlbner's Magazines. He early conceit
ed, however, a strong peru-hanl for the drama,
and to fit himself for play writing he sought
much necessary experience by connecting him
self for several years with permanent and trav
eling dramatic companies. Not yet satisfied,
however, he went to Europe, and after several
years of hard study graduated I mm the Con
servatory of Oratory and Drauialic Art In
Paris. Thus fortitied, he returned to thiscouu
try, and alter several years ot bard work prr
duced, as the first ripened fruits of his studies,
tbe play known as "PendrMgon."
It it written In unootn blauk verse, and iU
literary merits arc anid to be such as would In
sure Its sucreiM if published for reading alone.
It la founded upon the legend of King Ar
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24,1881.
thur, of which Tennyson made so much and
such profitable use. With tho names of most
of the characters Tennyson has made us famil
iar, but they are so materialized and vivified
that in comparison Tennyson's characters are
but the shadows of the real heroes. The best
critics seem to unite in pronouncing it not on
ly the best, but the only tragedy worthy of the
name this country has yet produced, and if
the author keeps on writing, and can sustain
himself at this rate, he will fairly earn the title
ol the- "American Shakespeare."
BOND REFUNDING.
Three years ago the democratic majority m
congress, under the leadership of Fernando
Wood, insisted upon passing a bill to refund
the national debt, as rapidly as the 5 ond 0
per cents fell due, at 3 per cent. The banks
opposed the measure, and as JoRu Sherman,
m his capacity of Secretary of the treasury
was but the agent of the banks, who from an
impecunious Ohio attorney had made him a
millionaire, he opposed the measure "tooth
and toe-nail," and insisted that 4 and 4la per
cent, was tho lowest rate at which he would un
dertake to refund the bonds, and congress pass
ed a bill allowing him to refund a portion of
them at that rate. All the bonds authorized
to be issued at that rate were at once gobbled
by a syndicate, who sold them at a premium
of from 8 to 12 per cent, and cleared half a
million by the operation, of which a large
percentage went into John Sherman's pocket.
Then congress again passed a 3 per cent, bill,
the success of the 4 per cents having demon
strated that 3 per cents would sell at par. The
banks, however, had bought up Old Hayes,
and he vetoed the bill, and the last congress
adjourned without any funding measure hav
ing been adopted. Meantime five or six hun
dred millions of tho 5 and C per cent, bonds
had fallen due, and Secretary Windom, with
out any authority of law, proceeded to refund
them at per cent., subject to the approval
congress. And now comes this same John
Sherman, through whose procurement every
previous attempt to refund the national debt
at 3 per cent, had been defeated, and himself
seeks to steal "democratic thunder" by pro
posing in tho senate a bill to refund the bonds
at 3 per cent. Knowing John Sherman and
his ways, however, as the country does, it
would be a violent assumption to suppose that
the "scales have fallen from his eyes" in this
matter, and that in his action he is not influ
enced by "a nigger in the woodpile." The
said nigger is found in a very innocent-looking
clause in his bill, but which, in the light of
his agency lor Wall street and the bankers,
is its very gist and substance. It is that
clause which authorizes the Secretary of
the Treasury at any time after a few years, to
pay any or all of the contemplated bonds at
bis option. Such a power, with the Secretary
under the control of Wall street and the banks,
as Secretary Sherman always was and Secre
tary Folger now is, would place the entire
business of tho country under the control and
at the mercy of Wall street. To illustrate,
suppose the Wall street bulls desire a plethora
of money and to send the stocks up kiting;
all they need do is to order the Secretary of
tne treasury to announce that he will pay ten
or twenty millions of option bonds weekly in
New York. Then having disposed of their
stocks at a big figure, let the Wall street bulls
turn bears and desire a stringency in the mo
ney market to enablo them to buy their stocks
back at a low figure. The obedient head of
the band of robbers at Washington gives a
turn to the screw and announces that the next
weekly or monthly payments of twenty mil
lions of option bonds will bo omitted. Money
will at once become scarce in tho great marts
of trade, interest will run up like mercury
in the tubes of a thermometer, stocks will fall,
and the entire mercantile community will be
embarrassed if not swamped.
There can bo no honest Issue of bonds with-
0 it specifying the day of their maturity and
paying them ou that day. Then the busint ss
community being fully forewarned can De fore
armed and no syndicate of robbers under the
name of national banks or Wall street stock
ibbers can fleece the community by springing
upon them these National Treasury traps.
FK0M WASHINGTON-
The House has thus far done nothing but
receive about 2500 new bills, the presentation
of which, under tho "call of the states," occu
pied two days of last week, and Monday of
this. At the end of the call on Monday the
speaker asked for another day to complete the
committees, and an adjournment was taken to
Wednesday. On the latter day the committees
were announced, and, as usual, created the
utmost dissatisfaction. W. I). Kelly is placed
at the head of the ways and means committee,
H iscock of appropriations, Crapo of banking
and currency, Page of commerce, heed ot the
judiciary, &c. Illinois, however, has no rea
son to complain. She gets four chairman
ships Davis of Military, Marsh of Pensions,
Far well of PostOllice Department and Thomas
of Mississippi Levees. Our member Cullen
Is on the Agricultural and Invalid Pensions.
After the announcement of the committees on
Wednesday the bouse adjourned until after
ibe holidays.
Tho chief business of the senate thus far has
been to act upon executive appointments. Of
these it has confirmed the appointment of
Howe as postmaster general, Brewster as at
torney general, J. C. Bancroft Davis as assist
ant secretary of state, Horace Gray as associ-
iate justice of the Supreme Court, and a large
batch of country postmasters, including Pfran
gle at Aurora, Corbus at La Salle, W. E. How-
man at Ottawa, Ac. Hut two bills havo thus
far been passed, both by unanimous consent in
both houses, one giving Mrs. Garfield the
Jranking privilege and the other making Mon-
day the legal holiday lor Christmas when it
falls on Sunday.
The Chicago collettorship prizo has been
borne away by Jesse Spaulding, who was ap
pointed solely on Senator Logan's recom
mcndation.
Both houses have agreed to meet on a day
hereafter to bo fixed by the joint committee on
the Garfield memorial service, and listen to an
address by James G. Blaine on the life and
character of James A. Garfield.
One of the last as well as best acts ol Secro-
tary Hlaino before his retirement wa9 to ask
the Russian Government to invite home its
Minister at Washington, Mr. Michael Bar
tholomei, who has not ouly outraged Wash
ington society by attempting to force into its
circles disreputable women, but who in all
business matters has shown himself a worse
dead beat than Guiteau, running lavishly into
debt with everybody and paying nobody.
AN IMPORTANT CONVENTION.
Yesterday's Chicago papers bring the pro
ceedings ot a more than ordinarily important
convention In that city on Thursday of Illinois
manufacturers and shippers k protest against
and secure a change of the present tarilf of
railroad rales established by the Hoard of Rail
way and Warehouse Commissioners of this
state. The members of that board, beiug se
lected from purely political considerations and
therefore conspicuously ignorant of the nature
of their duties, have naturally proceeded toes,
tahlish such a system of "uniform rates" with
out "unjust discriminations" as to "discrimi
nate" with singular "injustice" "uniformly"
against the manufacturers of this state, to such
an extent, indeed, as to leave them helpless
against outside competion, and as must soon
close up half our leading manufacturing es.
rablishments. For instance, the glass manu
facturers of Rock Island can get their sand and
other material cheaper from Kentucky than
from a point fllty miles away in Illinois, and
the Pittsburg glass manufacturers can ship
their goods to Chicago at 50 per cent, less
freight than it costs the Ottawa manufacturers
to lay down their glass in the same city.
The convention, after a day's deliberation,
resolved itself into a permanent association, of
which the Hon. J. D. Caton was elected presi
dent, and the objects of which are declared to
be "to use its influence to obtain such modifi
cation ot the railroad laws of this state as shall
tostcr the manufacturing, agricultural, and
commercial interests of the state, and not con
fer upon interests outside of tho state undue
advantages over our own, and such as shall be
equitable to both shippers and carriers."
Fokkion. There is no disguising or blink
ing the fact, the repressive measures of Eng.
land to subdue Ireland are shown more and
more each day to be failures. The organiza
tions against paying rent, instead of weaKen
ing, are continually becoming more formid
able. It is regarded as much of a crime to go
into tho land court as to pay rent. Lists of
persons who have been served with notices not
to pay, and those suspected of paying, arc
posted at tlie chapels and other places where
they are likely to be seen, and, although the
police tear them down, they are soon posted
again. So arrests continue, outrages continue,
feverish discontent is on the constant increase.
Never did subsequent events so completely
demonstrate tho commission ot a conspicuous
blunder than that involved in the arrest ot Par
nell. The capture ot a quantity of arms, amuni
tion and dynamite at Dublin on the 17th, how
ever, appears to have been but the unearthing
of some undiscovered operations of the Fen
ians, dating back several years.
Paruellwason Thursday taken out of the
jail at Kilmainham and transferred to Armagh.
Thirty-lour persons were killed and thirty
six injured by an explosion in the coal mine
at Ballon on Monday.
Edward King, Paris correspondent of the
Boston Journal, smells "villainous saltpeter"
in the air, and telegraphs on Monday from
Loudon :
There is intenso excitement iu Europe re
garding the activity manifested by France in
increasing its armament France has just or
dered nine hundred new cannon ot Hotcbkiss,
the American armorer, for tho French navy
and other purposes. The French government
have requested Mr. Hotchkiss to double the
capacity ot nis works at St. Denis. The Ger
mans are making several hundred new cannon
at Madgeburg. I he French are building sev
eral new irou-clads. Heavy special appropri
ations for ordnance have just passed
French chamlers.
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We remember well, a good many years ago
while picking type in the stereotyping estab
lishment of L. Johnson in Philadelphia, daily
passing, about a block from Independence
Hall, on George street, a lawyer's office occu
pied by the homeliest man we thought we had
ever seen. He was tall, slender, finely shaped,
but by a scalding accident in his youth his
face had been so frightfully disfigured as to be
positively hideous. That man was Benjamin
Harris Brewster, President Arthur's new At
torney General, the sharpest among the pro
verbially sharp Philadelphia lawyers. Time
is said to have greatly modified and mollified
the disfigurement of his countenance, and he
is now described as a large, portly man of
striking appearance. In dress ho is peculiar
"His coats," says tbe Philadelphia Times, "are
almost invariably light-colored, his vesta are
of velvet, and, being cut low, expose a shirt
front of the finest cambric ruffles. His panta
loons, be they neutral-tinted checks or sombre
blacks, are models of the tailor's art, and his
eafter tops are invariably the whitest of white
Ho wears standing collars, a black stock, rut-
fled cuffs, and an old-fashioned fob chain, with
a heavy gold seal. His white fur beaver hats,
made on a modification of the old bell style,
are worn alike winter and summer. His hats,
clothes and shoes are made in London."
To compensate, however, for his own lack of
comeliness of features, Mr. Brewster has mar
nixt nn pxointionallv handsome wife, the
daughter of President Polk's great finance sec
rotary, the Hon. Robert J. alker, a lady
who tor several seasons had figured in ash
ington society as a leading belle.
Sheiukf's Fees. Mr. Jesse Ruger, in a
communication elsewhere in this paper, con
tributes some strictures on the fees allowed
our SUerifl, concluding that they are largely
in excess of what the statutes on the subject
contemplate. A bile we havo no disposition
t sail Sheriff Clark and have no reason to
believe that in his mode of fieunngup his fees
he differs widely from the practice of other
Sheriffs, the subject is certainly one of legiti
mate criticism, upon which Mr. Ruger, or any
other tax payer, has a right to be heard.
President Arthur finally brought himself up
to the point on Monday of making a nomina
tion for Judge of the Supreme Court in place
of Judgo Cliflord, deceased, nis choice falling
on Judge Horace Gray, late Justice of the Su-
premo Court of Massachusetts. Ho is tho
same whom President Garfield had decided
upon a few days before his assassination to ap
p tint to that position. He is about 55 years
ot age and is said to havo very superior quali
fications for the bench, having made Its duties
a lifelong study, never having sought prac
tice as a lawyer, his great inherited wealth
and aristocratic ideas placing him above such
"menial" service. I It? is a bachelor and a
generous liver, and described as a man of
splendid physique anil commanding presence,
being six feet six inches in height ami propor
tioned accordingly. Politically, before he
ascended the state supreme bench, lusassocia
lion had been with Charles Sumner, Charles
Francis Adams, Henry Wilson, Sec.
The Guiteau trial was resumed on Wednes
day, but tbo colored juror Worniley came so
near giving way that the session was shortened.
Dr. Hamilton of New York concluded his tes
timony, holding throughout the assassin tobe
sane; and Dr. Worcester, of Salem, Mass., tes
tified to tho same effect. Guiteau was obstrep
erous ns usual, Mr. Scoville, his faithful and
patient counsel, coming in for most of his
abuse.
On Thursday Dr. Theodore Dimon, of Au
burn, N. Y., was the chief witness, testifying
that ho believed the prisoner to be a sane man.
After opening twenty letters Guiteau under
took to read some ot them to the court, but
Judge Cox suppressed him. He afterwards
sheuted out that Garfield would now be alive
but for the doctors.
Smai.mdx. Dr. Albert. S. Payne, late pro.
fessor of the theory and practico of medicine
in the Southern Medical College at Atlanta,
states as the result of thirty years' study and
practice in smallpox cases, that where vaccina
tion is resorted to within ten oi twelve hours
after the first appearance ot the smallpox fever,
the patient will havo but a slight indisposi
tion, and will recover without the sign of erup
tion, yet with as positive an exemption from
a recurrence of the disease as if he had it in
the most malignant form. The point is to de.
tect by the pulse the firet appearance of the
small pox fever, which he says is peculiar to
that disease and as easy of recognition by the
educated finger as the hemorrhagic pulse is to
the physician who has once learned to detect
the peculiar thrill which that imparts to his
practiced ringer.
The numerous friends in this city of Dr.
John Stout, now of Peoria, but an Ottawa boy
and son of Dr. Joseph Stout, one of Ottawa's
most honored physicians, were Immensely
pleased a week ago to learn that he had been
elected by tho Board of Supervisors of Peoria
county to the honorable and responsible posi
tion of County Physician, at a salary of $1,500.
The appointment will interfere very little
with his other quite extensive practice, and is
one that the best physicians in Peoria contest
ed for. Hut ho was elected on the first ballot.
against five opponents. The Democrat hints
that Dr. Stout owed his success to tho fact of
his being a nephew of Speaker Keifer, whom
he is thought to be able to influence in favor
of getting an appropriation for a government
building at Peoria, an object that city has had
greatly at heart and been laboring for daring
four or five years past.
The statutes of Illinois make six legal holi
days in each year, to wit : New i ear, Wash
ington's Birthday, Decoration Day, 4th of
July, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and when
any of these fall on Sunday "the Monday fol
lowing shall be held and considered as such
holiday." As Christmas, however, is a pure
ly religious festival, and every Sunday is a
feast day of the church, there is nothing incon
sistent, from a religious standpoint, in cele
brating Christmas on Sunday, and no doubt
such churches as are in the habit of observing
the festival at ail, will do it on that day. Yet
there is nothing strange in the resolve of Puri
tanic Galesburg to keep Christmas on Mon
day, nor would it be out of keeping for the
puritan churches generally to follow the ex
ample, where they don't ignore Christmas en
tirely, as their forefathers did.
John Sherman, in his simulated eagerness
at tbe extra session of the senate to have an
investigation of his management of the treasu
ry department, is fast getting himself into the
fix of the unhappy Califmiia miner who
fotched the grizzley." The investigation,
though as yet but barely begun, is making
such nnpleasant revelations that Sherman
insists it shall be conducted with closed doors.
For instance, in the testimony last Saturday
Pitney stated that $800 worth of stationery was
taken from the department to furnish the
Sherman committee-rooms in the last cam
paign, and that the lunch givan at that time
was paid from the treasury funds on vouchers
for candles.
Among tbe ladies newly brought conspicu
ously into notice in Washington society is tho
wife ot Speaker Keifer, in whom, as she is not
unknown In Ottawa and has two brothers re
siding here, our people naturally take some in
terest. Tho Washington correspondent ol tbo
Philadelphia Fret says of her: "She is a tall,
well-proportioned lady, graceful and sensible
rather than strikingly handsome. She was
Miss Eliza Stout of Springfield, Ohio, and was
brought up almost side by side with her hus
band. She has not, however, been much la
Washington during her husband's four years
here."
A Springfield special of last Saturday to one
ot the Chicago papers states that Mrs. Lincoln
has completely lost the use oi her eyes. She
has for a long time been accustomed to sit in
a dark room, which may have weakened her
eyes, although they have only failed her quite
lately. As to her general health she is stated
to be very weak.
Per tontra, a dispatch from New York,
where Mrs. Lincoln is now residing, says the
above dispatch has given her great annoyance,
as her eyes have not failed her, though she ad
mils that she had written to a relative in
Springfield that on account of sitting so much
in a dark room, her eyes were weakened.