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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30. 1871. A KEW DANGER TO IAXKAK7. The movement of the German Democrats of New York city is a token of danger to the thieves of Tammany Hall, more alarming than anything else on the political horizon. The Germans of New York have attached themselves to the Democratic party as a refuge from the intolerant legislation which seeks to impose Sunday observance and total abstinence upon them.

They have not shared in the plunder of the tax-payers, and they have ever held in abhorrence the perversion of j'uslice which has coveted the Tammany Judges with inlamy. They poll 20,000 votes in all city an! State elections. It rests with them at any time to turn both city and Slate over to the Republican party. So powerful on element in tbo politics of the Slate is not to be trifled with. If hey demand in the next Democratic Stiatc Convention that Tweed, Hall, Connollyy and the whole Ring be devoted to the internal gods, the demand must compiled with.

It is hardly to be expected that they will, in the first instance, join a party which enacts Sunday observance and prohibitory laws, but it Is quite likely that they will open negotiations with the Republican leaders, 1 with a view to coalition for the pose of smashing the corrupt Ring in New York, if the Democratic party of the State fail to put Tammany to the sword. There will be piping times when the Democratic State Convention meets, and. since the Republicans of New York have failed to unite and reap the advantages otiered to them by the recent exposures of Tammany corruptions, this German movement seems to be the most promising and purifying sign of the times. THE WABEHOUIE LAWS. Messrs.

Hempstead Company operate a grain warehouse at or near the ter- minus of the Chicago Alton Railroad, in this city. The building is connected with the track of the railroad company by a short section of road belonging to another company. The track is not like the side tracks of some of the independ- tat warehouses, laid on so short a curve as to be an obstacle to tho delivery of grain, and hence on excuse for refusing to deliver. On the contrary, the ware- is easy of access, and the railroad company can use it if they want to, and do use it when they want to. Notwithstanding this, the Chicago Alton Com- pany refused to deliver grain to Hempstead A and he brought suit to com- pel them to do so.

The case was carried to the Supreme Court of the State, and a decision obtained which was adverse to Hempstead. The Court decided that, though a railroad company might be compelled to deliver grain to any con whose warehouse might be reached by any lines owned or operated by the Raid railroad company, it could not be compelled to deliver over any section of track, no matter how accessible, the right to use which the company had not acquired by specific contract; and the company could not be compelled, the Court held, to enter into any such contract, even though the cost to the company should be practically nothing. But this decision was rendered under the common law, and without reference to the new constitution and Warehouse law of Illinois, which, though the former went into force before the decision was rendered, were made no part ol the pleadings. The railroad company, however, still rcluses to deliver grain to Hempstead and it is understood that an action has been, or will soon be brought, under the new Warehouse law, to compel the delivery. Thewarehouscmen b-ise their action upon a definite refusal to deliver certain car loads which were owned by the consignee.

The provision of the law upon which the prosecutor of this ease doubtless relies for bringing the railroad corporation to terms is this: Every railroad corporation which shall receive err grain tn bulk for transportation to any place within the State rhall transport and deliver the mine to any cnnrtgr.ee, elevator, warehouse, or place to whom or to It may be or directed; Prortdfd, Snth ptnot. warehouse, or place can be reached by any track owned, leased, or Q-ed, or which can be used by such corporation: and ercry Meh corporation shall permit connections in be made and maintained with its track, to and from any and all public warehouses where grain Uor may be Act of April 15, istl, cs'CHoh 8. The penalties prescribed for wilful violations of this statute arc quite severe. The first refusal subjects the delinquent to damages and costs the second to a further fine of to $5,000, and the third to a virtual confiscation of its railroad it being provided that, in case of a third refusal, a Receiver shall be appointed to take charge of and manage such railroad corporation until all damages, penalties and costs, and expenses adjudged against such corporation for any and every violation shall, together with interest, be fully salit-tied." The causes which led to the enactment of such stringent measures are well known. The abuses of railroad and warehouse combinations which the grain traffic of the Northwest, and led to energetic legislative measures, are familiar to our readers least we have endeavored to make them so.

At the same time the right of the State to enforce all the sweeping provisions of the new Railroad and Warehouse laws will necessarily be made questions of searching judicial investigation and this investigation it is the avowed purpose of both the Commissioners and the railroad corporations to hasten. One of the, ac- tious of which the carriers complain as unjust is that requiring them, not only to deliver carloads of grain to independent warehouses and miscellaneous con- signees, but to give the consignee the free use of the cars containing his consignment for twenty-four hours after notice of arrival shall have been served. This, they complain, Is a serious and unnecessary cost, amounting, in the busy season. of the year, to not less than twenty dollars per day for each or nearly one cent on each bushel of grain brought. This, they claim, would not only render the carrying of grain unremuneruvivc, but occasion serious inconvenience to the producer of by hindering the rapid of that commodity during the season of favorable The farmers will donbt Ibis statement, however, and will at least be willing to run the nsk, during a brief season of each year, rather than endure the greater evils which have usually afflicted their industry during the whole year.

Jt is gratifying fact that since the Ist of July many of the evils heretofore complained of In warehouse management have ceased to exist. The grain traffic of the city and State is now in a pretty healthy condition, and the trade of Chicago is oh the increase. Confidence seems to. be measurably restored, and we hope that, as time goes on, there may be less and less need to resort to the courts to. determine the rights parties ill the business.

But It Is necessary that that feature of the law and of the new constitution, which seeks to establish free competition in grain warehousing, should be tested, and probably there will be no. more opportune occasion than the one to which we have adverted. Our remarks yesterday, concerning the responsibility of railroad and steamboat managers for the wanton waste of human life which has been made so painfully manifest of late, were doubled in emphasis by the news published in onr telegraphic on the same day. Ac account was there given of-a still later, more horrible, and apparently more inexcusable calamity than almost any Of the others, the blowing up of steamboat in Mobile Bay, laden with whom or dozen more or loss arc of no consequence with steamboat owners killed outright and others wounded. It was also mentioned that the lost steamer had been for some time considered boat, and bad always been It should be an business Tor those who' are responsible for the running of such a craft as this is described to be, and the continued exposure of human life upon tbent Let us sec if this Utile contrctsmpi of the unlucky" Mobile steamer shall result unluckily to the personal safety of any of those who shall bd found responsible for, the explosion." How many more such slaughters are w'e to have Within the week? And who will be their victims? And what carrying corporation wUI take any more precautions against them, by reason of those which have gone before? THE FOX SITES CANAL JOB.

Congress, last winter, made an appropriation, among others equally foolish, for the Improvement of the navigation of the Wisconsin River, with a view, by the subsequent improvement of the Fox River Canal, to establish a through water communication from the Mississippi River to Green Bay. In the same law provision was made that no money shotdd be expended on the Fox River improvement part of the work until the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal; Company had surrendered all its property, and claims to the United States, for a sum to be agreed upon. The value of these property was submitted to arbitration. The argument before the arbitrators has just closed, the differ-: ence between the respective parties company asking $2,000,000, and tbo agent of the United States con, tending they were not worth one cent. The claim for two millions of dollars is exactly what might have been expected.

Thecanafwas built principally by money received from the sale of lands granted by the United States. The canal was a failure from the beginning. For twenty years it has been practically abandoned. Until this scheme was got up to sell the canal to the government, not a pound of freight was ever moved by it from the Mississippi to the lakes. No private person would give SSOO for the whole canal improvements, coupled with.thc requirement to pot the same in navagable condition, and keep it In that order one year.

The stock of tho company, upon the basis of two millions of dollars capital, would not sell, with the canal in navigable order, at ten cents on the dollar, and is not now worth one cent on the dollar, except as to the speculative value resulting from a probable sale of the property to the United Slates. The whole thing, from the beginning to the end, is put-up job to sell that worthless, valueless, unproductive ditch to the United States. Whatever the United States may pay will be clear profit, and that much In excess of what the thing Is worth, or what any sane person would give for it. If the United Slates were to offer the company $2,000,000 on condition that it would put the canal in order for the transportation, and keep It In order ten years, the company would not take the money with any purpose to carry out tho contract. Congress is expected to expend eight or leu millions of dollars upon the whole work, exclusive of the sum to be paid to this paper canal company.

Tho arbitrators have to fix the sum to be recommended to the Secretary of War, who, if he approve It, is to recommend it to Congress. We have no idea that tho arbitrators will recommend any such sum as is asked, nor have we any doubt that the canal company will not take what is oQered them, "Whatever they get will represent the clear profit of the ring that to sell this unproductive, unnavigrtble, and valueless canal, bnilt by the public money, back to the United States. ENCOUBAGING INDUSTBY BY TAXATION. A correspondent addresses us the following question, to which he asks an honest and candid reply It very well to vhllmopMxe In nutters raining to the tariff: to proUocc wntch apparently favor jour aide the qneatiua, and to draw cuncluaiona. Ido nut propose to enter into any lengthy argument of the question, but would heg to you a question, to wh'cbl would like to ark yon to plre an boneet and candid reply.

Wbr did tbe tnanofactnre of enpar.from tn France, grow from a elate of Infancy, and, I might tay, hopttetmet, to a great Industrial I Tiranch, nnder the fostering care afforded by I Napoleon 1.. In tbeihspeof a protective truly. I'BOTjonoa. Ai ocbtss, I3TI. The action of Napoleon was a necessity.

The almost total suspension of trade between France and the sugar-growing colonies and countries made it eary to supply the want. A prize of one million of francs was offered for the best method of producing sugtr in France. Long before this the presence of sugar in beets, carrots, and parsnips had been discovered. The cultivation of the beetroot, and the manufacture of sugar therefrom, soon grew into importance, because that was the only source of a supply of sugar. After the fall of Napoleon, West India sugars became once more an article of trade, and the manufacture from beet-roots was in danger of annihilation.

The French Government therefore imposed a heavy duty on foreign sugars, and while that duty is kept up the manufacturers of beet-root sugar will be able to keep up their industry. The same production Is maintained in precisely.the same way in Austria and Uussia. That is the history of the beetroot sugar in. Prance. The manufacture oi bed-root sugar has been protected for fifty years, and, though there have been vast improvements made in the machinery and in the various processes by which the sugar is obtained from the roots, it is still more or less an exotic, and would probably fail if the duty on cane sugars should be taken off.

There is nothing in this that is extraordinary or that is not natural. There is hardly a tropical fruit or other production which might not be profitably produced in the United Stales if tbe government would pay the cost of cultivation from the Treasury. It would not be impossible to so stimulate the growth 1 of sugar-cane In this country, that not a pound of foreign sugar would bo imported. We might also grow all the silk, the tea, the coffee, the oranges and lemons, cocoa-nuts, and, indeed, nearly all the articles we now import. We might also raise elephants, thus growing our own ivory; but the question which addresses itself to the public interest is whether It is best to levy five or six hundred millions of dollars by taxes every year to pay for raising these things, when we can get them without inflicting one dollar of such tax For fifty years the people of France have suffered an enormous tax to pay the cost of making beet-root sugar.

Without going Into the exact details of the protective duty laid, wo will assume that since 1820 the tax has been 100 per cent on sugar. For every worth of sugar used by the French people for fifty years they have paid $2.50. The economical question is, have they not been taxed pretty heavily for the luxury of using sugar raised in one place in preference to another Estimate that the consumption daring that fifty years has averaged ten millions of worth a year, and the tax has been fifteen millions a year, the aggregate tax paid by the French people to build up the manufacture of beet sugar would be in round numbers seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars, and even at this day the Infant manufacture requires that It be kept up by the same tax upon the people. Of course the manufacture of beet sugar would have been ruined at any time, had the cane sugar been admitted at a rate of duty which allowed it to compete with the beet-root sugar, and until the production of cane sugar falls, the root sugar can only be supported by a tax levied for that purpose. In the same way wc might levy a tax 1 of 20 cents per pound on foreign sugars, and giv.c the planters of thxa country tbe monopoly of the United 'States.

The growth of sugar cane would bo vastly and in ten years the amount produced would be enormous when compared with the present production. It is true that at the end of ten years, with a population of sixty millions of wc should not consume annually more sugar than we do now with forty ions of people, but the whole quantity would be grown in the United tJtatcs, and the people would bo paying, in addition to the price at which sugar might be obtained elsewhere, an onnoal tax one hundred millions of dollars to pay the expenses of running sugar plantations, for the personal profit of the owners. tVcare now doing the same thing for the benefit of and iron not for tho sugar-growers There is not a dollar invested in any Industry in this country, or in any other country which depends uponprotectlou for an existence, which has not been withdrawn from some other industry by the prospect of extraordinary profits resulting from the monopoly. Protection docs not create nor give additional employment to When the law offers to any person who will engage in a particular business the monopoly of the market, a protection against competition, and a certain and extraordinary profit, capital and labor arc drawn from other industries to engage in this favored one. The general amount of capital invested and the amount of labor employed remain just the same.

To repeal every protective duty would not destroy capital or take employment from labor. It would take from the protected interest the monopoly it enjoys, and if such protected production should cease, because no longer profitable, the labor and capital thus disengaged would instantly find occupation in some other business that would be remunerative. The production beet su ar might be encouraged in this country as it is in France, but tho cost would ho enormous, and never-ending. Would it profit the country to withdraw capital and labor from other productions to be used in raising beet sugar to be sold to the public at 25 cents a pound, when sugar can be otherwise I obtained at 10 cents per Or! would not the country be more benefited by leaving that labor and capital employed in remunerative production, and thus save to the people the tax of 15 cents a pound on the sugar they If sugar can be imported and sold in this country to consumers at 10 cents a pound, and beet sugar cannot be raised in this country for less than 25 cents a pound, is it not better to purchase the sugar from the foreigner for 10 cents, and have the 15 cents with which to purchase other articles ol necessity or luxury, than to give the whole 25 cents for tho one article, and go without the other? Yet that is the sole aim and result of protection. It Is to reduce consumption by reducing the means of purchase; It Is to destroy abundance and cheapness, and to establish scarcity and high prices.

We thus recommit the subject to our correspondent for further and more thoughtful consideration than ho seems to have given to it. The New York Tribune in answer to General Butler upon the labor question, says We hold every man who to sell hay labor to fie the proper Jttdge in bid own case. If be offers hie labor for sale, he has the right to limit the a nount he of to one boar per day, and one day per week or month, if he fli. No one a right to dictate how much be shall sell, or for what; and the borer of labor precisely equal with the seller. Why nut? We nolvo the problem which perplexes General Holler with one it lit the inalienable right of the laborer to cummod- Ity for the that any one can bo persuaded ti give film tor it; but be cannot, without gross lo of la another, choose to work for yoa, ado to work fewer hour tlmn you require.

Aud to receive higher wage than you choose to Such a demand Is Ju-tl fled by no divine law, and no haman law cun Jut llfjlt. fire repetitions of It ec could not make it a practical role of hu man conduct." Tills is undoubtedly Just, but who confine liberty to one class? Iftbo laborer have the undoubted right to sell his commodity for the most that he can get for it, why not extend the same right to all other men having commodities to sell or exchange? If the laborer cannot, without gross invasion of the liberty of others, how can the manufacturer say to the farmer or laborer: Sir, I choose to make your woollen clothing and your carpets for you and your family, and to give you less ot each for the same number oi dollars than you can get Is such a demand Justified by any divine law, and can any human law justify it? Can five thousand repetitions Be it make It a just rule of conduct? The New York Tribune in exposing absurdities on the labor question, has, In the clearest and most comprehensive manner, refuted the equally pernicious doctrine of protection. General McCook, the Democratic didate for Governor in Ohio, has been retired from the stump by his friends ever since he made the celebrated speech at Dayton. In that speech he Is facetiously reported to have discussed the tariff thus: of the tariff! Two cents a bushel on I mean. Workingmen, think that.

And the bonds ain't taxed, but your salt is taxed, vonr sugar I mean, (wo cents a pound 1 mdsn. And who ears that General Jackson was not a great man who ever heard of him taxing salt, sugar I mean, two cents a hushtl? No, sir. Old uickory swore by the Eternal sugar should be free of Uxt Then there tho debt of twenty-fire thousand billions, and only two hundred and eighty thousand paid off fa Arc Sears. Where has the rest gone to! The Bepnbcans stole it to enrich the iron-masters." Iftbo delivery of such speeches as this (which is not greatly caricatured hy the report) is to result in the silencing of the Democratic orators who deliver them, then there wH he quite a general prohibition put upon that class, for, in point of logic, coherence, and sense, it is equal to the average of Democratic speeches on that subject. In this Stale, with the exception of Mr.

Marshall, there is not a Democratic member of Congress who has delivered a more intelligible speech on the tariff than that attributed to McCook, in fact, taking the speeches and the votes of these Democratic Congressmen together, they furnish the strongest defence that protection now has- Mr. Kelley, when he marshals his forces in favor of the protective tariff, counts among his most zealous retainers the Democratic Representatives from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and from the border States, with a few notable exceptions. Without the votes of these men the protective tariff would have been so smashed, at the last session of Congress, as to forbid all hopes of Its restoration; but Kelley knew his men, and, with the aid of Randall, the Democratic Congressman from tho Democratic members and Senators, with a dozen exceptions, took up banner of monopoly, and went off In a raid against the duties on tea and coficc, and so nothing was done for Revenue Reform. The Russian Ambassador at Washington Is Mr. Catacazy.

His wife, Madame Citacazy.has been In her day one of the handsomest women of the time, and is yet, in point of personal beauty and intellectual accomplishments, the cqualof anyof her sex. It appears that some twenty-five years ago she was divorced from her former husband, and in time married iL Catacazy. Though her history is of course well known to the Imperial Government, she has been received ber present marriage at that Court. She accompanied her husband to Washington, and since her residence there has been received and vlsiled by the whole diplomatic corps. But dorlng the last year or two some of the magnates of Washington society barg concluded that the character of the lady was too deeply affected by the twenty-flvcyear-old divorce, and that however acceptable she might be to the Imperial courts of Europe, and to the social circle of the diplomatic representatives, was not up to the standard of society at the capital of the American Republic.

The result has been a social war, in which the object has been to exclude Madame Catacazy from society, especially official society. Just at-this Juncture, when the campaign disastrous for tho Catacazys, the Emperor of Russia has despatched his son. the Grand Duke Alexis, with a royal suite of Dukes, Counts, Duchesses, and Countesses. with High Admirals and other grand military, naval, and civil, and has consigned them, during their stay In the United States, to the official care of his wellbeloved Catacazys. The Hotel de Catacazy at Washington, from which the virtuous of the republic turn their eyes, whose precincts they avoid, and whose Inmates they refuse to countenance or admit to an acquaintance, Is to be the Imperial residence, and the Catacazys are to be high chamberlains, with the right to admit or exclude whomsoever they please.

The coming season at Is to be eminently Russian. For the time, the Emperor of Russia Is to hold a court, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: AUGUST 30, 1871, through his son, at 'the capital, as the Grand Duke will take precedence of all other foreigners, and, wUh his Immense and brilliant retinue, win be the centre -of fashionable unity. Will Washington society exclude and snub the Grand Duke unless he repudiate the Cstacazji? refuse or accept invitations to the royal levoes, where the presentation must be made by the Catacasys? Will they refuse to visit auy lionse to which the Grand Puke is accompanied hr the Catacarys? Since the days when the Cabinet of General Jackson was broken up on the question of official recognition of Mrs. Eaton. Washington society has not had such a perplexing difficulty.

The MeGatrahan claim, and the annexation of San Domingo, and even the Syndicate Itself will fall to attract the least attention until In republican America decides It will take'the Grand Poke Alexis and his royal suite with or without the Catacazys. The Chicago Census Report, or the Directory, as It may be called, baring been compiled at the request of a large number of our leading citizens, Is now Issued, and Is at once a credit to the compiler and to the city. It contains the names, alphabetically arranged, of the beads of every family In the city, and of all single persons not included In the family groupings. In addition to- this, the word of residence. and the blrthpUfe, with the -total number of males and femsjes represented by each person named, are stated concisely.

The-volume also contains a large amount of valuable Information concerning the city of a statistical and historical character, from which we have already made a full abstract for our readers. It will be remembered that the work was undertaken in response to a very general expression of opinion that, while the censustaken of some other cities bad done more than was required of them, the full talc of our people had not bfccs taken. The book shows that the opinion was Justified by tho fact, though the extravagant estimates of some were not sastalncd by the official count. The population in 1871 Is shown to be 334,270 persons. We observe that the work docs not contain the advertisements which are almost universally met with in a directory.

The publisher has evidently determined for compensation directly on the patronage ot the citizens for whose Information It was compiled, and we hope they will take care that be docs not lose pecuniarily by an nodcrtaklng involving so much labor and pecuniary outlay. Thatthe work was well and thoroughly performed is evident to any one who will remember that 125 canvassers were employed In collecting the Information, and will scan tho pages of the volume Into which the vast mass of information thus obtained has been so admirably condensed. The Her. Clinton Locke has been orinp to show his hearers that corporations bare souls. He says: Why should railways give half-fare to ministers any more than a association should do their baking (or halt price, or a company o( eell their goods at a great discount Vet all these railways gracefully magnificent in this city alone to thousands of dollars, enabling Christian ministers to do a vast deal of good and enjoy a great deal of Wo cannot bnt repeat the reverend question, Why should railways give half fare to ministers In other words, why should the mass o( railway passengers be taxed exorbitant fares In order that clergymen or editors may ride at half-fare or free Or, if the regular fare is not too blub, why should the.owners of a railroad be cheated out of ono-balf their dues in certain eases, In order that the officers that road may get credit for liberality? The answer Is, undoubtedly, first, tbat clergymen arc poorly paid and a worthy class, to whom such favors are especially welcome; and second, that the railroad managers hare so many sins to answer for that they have a natural impulse to oiler something or other as a propitiatory olfcrlng to the principle of right and Justice.

But, la the first place, the ministers should not be made beggars, on the railroads or anywhere else. They should bo paid well enough so that they can hold up their heads like other men; and to sec that they arc so is the business, not of the mass of railroad passengeis, but of the congregations which protend to support these worthy clergymen. TUB SOUTHWEST. ILLINOIS. Pen has a More that baa been entered fifty thneb by bog cholera la prevailing to a fearful extent in Drown County.

low Sheriff Byen, of Dallas County, had one ol bis eyes crushed In by a cow tbat he waa taking care of the other day. The born came very near entering the brain. Woodruff, aged 10 years, has committed and recited 8,700 Scriptural veraes, since the I6th ot April, at the Union Sabbath School of Louisa Centre, Louisa County. crept Into thebedof a farmer and wife near Sioux City, on Friday night, and rattles. The conple got out of bed, found the snake colled np and ready to spring, but they sprung flat, with an and killed the reptile.

Tlkironvu InMsnlly Wiled by Hsht slug, near Fonlaselle, on TnenUjof Imiwcck and bis Peter SchQtz, who va riding with him, vru knocked senseless, wrr the horses they were dnvlne. The deceased leave a vile and family at Wlnlerset. queer lawsuit has near Oshkosh. between a couple of Germans, owing to the late storm. It seems that such wu the force of the gale that whole shocks of wheat were taken up bodily and carried into aa adjoining field.

The owner of the field the wheat by right of possession, while the loser of the wheat be Is short a number of shocks. Neither one knows definitely the number of shocks be had standing In the field prior to the storm, hut the loser thinks be has not aa many by six or eight, tod sues for that amount. KUbonm City JClrror says: The work of picking hope Is going merrily on. The pickers, however, complain that they unable to make much wages this season on account of the scarcity prevailing. It will require but a few days, the weather remaining favorable, to secure the crop and bare it ready for market.

A few bops have already been sold In this place, but as yet no market has been established, and consequently we have no prices to report. Dealers arc abundant and are Irving to contract for the new crop. But the farmers arc holding off. and refuse offers of SO cents, confident that they will realize better flgv.rea.*’ IttpubU that on last Thursday an attempt to commit suicide wu made by a man nearly 80 years of age, named Daniels, who lived with a son near the railroad mwslng a mile east of Elba Station. The engineer of the alternoon freight train coming west discovered the old man on the track, and two little girls trying to get him off.

By the greatest effort the train was stopped, after barely knocking Mm off the track, slightly Injuring his head. Daniels has been blck for some time, and his mind Is mil sound. man named Clark was murdered near Bloomington, on Friday, by two men. He went out hunting, and they came across him and. quarrelled with him.

One struck him with something on the head, and the other cot Ms head off with an axe. snswtadTi. Up to the Sfitb had been subscribed In Minnesota toward the fails-prescrvatlon loan, leaving a deficiency of only 31JSCELLAXE0VS. Two-thirds of the women In lunatic asylums are wives of farmers. woman who cava the Baptist Board for the education of the freedmen made It a con- dition that not a cent of It ehonld be given to any one who uses tobacco.

new style of croquet boot of Idd, with a mallet knd balls embroidered in light colon on the instep, and the inside of the left boot Is padded wlib cotton. Indian women of Washington Territory all ride astride, with a baby la front, and another a little older sticking among the bundles bag? with which the pony is caparisoned. rare marine cariosity, known as a pipe was taken recently in the Bay of Monterey. Cal. It derives Its name from the shape of its snoot, which Is like a pipe-stem.

This specimen was some two feet long, octagonal la shape, and of the thickness, at the belly, of a lady's little linger, tapering down la an eight-inch tail to a floe point. Ita body for the whole length covered with bony plates, and when dry It was quite hard and nnelasdc. has been favored with a flight of the most beautiful butterflies, passing overhead in a southwesterly direction, for the better part of three days. The Insects are described as about four inches across the wings, and of a rich cinnamon color, deeply veined with black and tines In various patterns, and a broad dark borier, prettily marked by a triple rqw of white spots, as flnely and evenly placed as the most fastidious critic could wish." have a House of Refuge at New Orleans, upon the Inmates of which devilish cruelties are Inflicted. A witness says that one boy, John Coffee, was bit 310 lashes, and another.

McManus, 330. An Idiot boy, Bogans, was compelled to stand for several days successively on a narrow, transverse bar; his hands were tied up most of the time, and his limbs swelled out of all shape. He was also fearfully beaten and lacerated. Another witness, who could not believe the reported cruelty, called the House of Refuge to see the boys. They stripped and showed their backs and bodies.

They were literally covered with bruises and marks of the lasb. Their backs looked like a piece o( raw meat. mana-utres of the Russian troops will be on a grander scale than os nil this year. feature will be the construction of a railroad by soldiers who have been trained for this purpose. a number of troope were sent to the different railroads for instruction, with a view to the ulteHorformation of companies capable of hollaing, destroying, or managing railroads lo time of war.

During the coming these men will Jay down to connect the Peterhoff and Warsaw The distance a little over five miles, and the work mutt be completed In ten days, so that the line can be made use of for the transport of troops during the last four or five days of the manauvres. reports that the heat In the Persian Gulf was so Intense at the time the last mail steamer left twenty-four men the crewoMbe Magpie were tfscmaMf from heal apoplexy, and of the trew of the from the same cause. At 8 o'clock p. m. the heat was 101 deg.

Fahrenheit, It adds; these for tbe Canadian aent to the InUud sea Id the world. Path la admiralty Uie knowledge shown of the which they ordcrveMcla without the least preparation. Waa It ro when wehad aalDdUnnaryfi --MB a year ago a street railway company In a Connecticut town obtained permlsslon'frooi the Legislature to Increase the fare from fix to seven cetns. A regular patron of the road, lufllpoaat at what he deemed he would forth walk from his bouse to his place of builneaa' a hack, and deposit tbe fare be would have paid In a little box at home. Ac cordlngly he has ainec put seven ceata In tbh box before nsrticg out, and seven more cm retiming.

Ills year was op tbe other day, and he opened tbe box. lie fontd In It lIW.BO, which be deposited la the savings Besides, be finds his health and suggestion so much improved by his exercise that he aays seven cents is cheap enough for tbe privilege of walking a mile. cow tree grows on the parched fide of rocks among tbe mountains of Venezuela, and has dry. leathery foliage, with large woody room scarcely penetrating into the ground. For several months of the year the leaves are notjaolstenedbya rhower, the branches look dead and withered, but when the trunk Is bored a bland and nourishing milk flows from It.

The vegetable fountain flows most freely At sunrise, and at that time the Datives arc aeea from all quarters provided with large bowls to receive the milk. which grows yellow and thickens at the surface. Some emptj.tbeir vessels on the spot, while olhen carry their to their children: the increase of intelligence three great a lie Oriental plague, the scurvy, aad the says, have bees comparatively consigned to the With regard to tie latter disease, it is bard to Imagine destructive virulence In old Its average annual death rate seventy years ago. In countries where it was most closely observed, was about' three thousand to million of population, and nearly one-tenth of all who died died from this disease. What vaccination has affected may be inferred from the fact that in Copenhagen, In twelve yean before the Introduction of atlon, 6,500 persons died of small-pox; from the year to ISIS, a period of sixteen years after vaccination had been made compulsory, only 138 had died of small-pox over the whole kingdom of Denmark, oat of a population of two millions and a hall.

Eastern man, who has been travelling In Oregon, complains that be found the people well to do in a certain way, but careless, and living in a thriftless, easy-going, slip-shod style, much In the days when everybody bad gold dust and cattle upon a thousand bills. And be Illustrates their thriftlcssncss by a little story, saying that at one time, thinking he would relish tome milk, he called at several farm-honses In vain for it, the Invariable answer being: "Well, yon see In the summer time the cows get down In the bottom lands and they don't come up." When he ventured to suggest that an enterprising population would go after the cows aad drive them op, he only elicited a mile or a shrug. of the British Science Association waa guilty of playing a practical Joke at its late version In Edinburgh. The London Times thus relates the incident: "The room in which the department met was densely crowded, hot and stifling. It was annooncea that there wquld be an adjournment to Professor Christison's class room, which afforded better ventilation and more room.

About 3UO ladies and gentlemen at once proceeded thither to procure seals piiorto the rush, and their exodus so much relieved the original room that there was no adjournment at all. The emigrants are said to have aat for two or three hours, with a docility eminently favorable for the reception of scientific leaching, before they realised bow completely they had been beguiled." the Tartar drink prepared from milk by fermentation. Is recommended by a Polish physician as an excellent remedy In all complaints arising from feeble digestion, in nervous Irritation, and in different forms of dyspepsia. He says that other kinds of milk will yield though that of marcs is prcferaole. Tbo tru koumiss Is a piquant, sweetly acidulous, fragrant liquor, which, when taken In large quantities, produces pleasurable excitement without any had aftereffects.

It may be varied wtp Its constituent elements by proper manipulation so as to salt different constitutions. The patient Is restricted to Its use as food exclusively, beginning with small quantities at sbort Intervals, and gradually increasing bis allowance until It reaches a gallon dally. Un this diet as much as ten pounds nt flesh has been known to he gained in a month, tho koumiss containing all the plastic, respiratory, and beat-giving elements of tbo body in a form most easy of assimilation. to the Mentille Rrrinr. a London firm, entitled ihc Tapioca Beef Bouillon Company," manufactures a very palatable aud nutritions compound which, by the mere addition of water.

Is converted luto soap. It Is the Invention of Mr. Geyclla. aud consists of granulated Brazil tapioca saturated with Liebig's extract of beef, and thoroughly dried. Each cashier contains the quantity necessary for a pint of good soup; and.

as five of these canisters aresoldfor ashllllng sterling, this tapioca bee! bouillon'' la, obviously. within the means all. Having tasted both that which was unseasoned and that season- cd with vegetables, the writer in the ifvrieir ex- presses his preference for the former, which, la bis opinion, makes a soap fully equal to that supplied by many confectioners at six times the price. As a summer food for those who dislike semipntrid meata, and cannot afford to waste anything, the new food Is recommended worthy of general use. It Is stated that this bouillon was largely furnished to both the French and German armies and ambulances, and that It gave the greatest satisfaction both to the medical men aud their patients.

early as In'S there were, wnbln a circuit of fifteen miles around Baltimore, furty-elx floor mills, grinding the fine white wheat of the Eastern bhorc, besides many cotton and woollen factories, Iron and copper and marble works, and distilleries. In an article In the Forth Amerirat Jtninr, General Harper demonstrated that, in a semi-circle of twenty miles' radius, of which Baltimore li the centre, stiff dent waterpower is found to work a million of and this enormous natural advantage Is enhanced by the most complete facilities of transportation by rail and keel. In IrSO, 3,375,000 bushels of wheat and 3.250,000 bushels of corn were brought to the city and sold. Three hundred thousand barrels of flour were manufactured In the vicinity that year, and 100,000 barrels were Inspected, In nearly 12.000,000 bushels of grain of all kinds were shipped to that market, and the annnal inspection since that year has amounted to fully 1.100,000 barrels of flour, besides Immense quantities of corn meal. Tne fionr mills-In and aronnd the city employ more capital than any other class of the city alone taking in a twelvemonth at least 1,500.000 barbels of wheat.

The cotton mills of Baltimore City and county consume annually over 40,000 hales. In whiskey the annual sales reach 400.000 barrels, of which at least one-third Is the product of the city distilleries. PERSONAL, President Goweu, of the Beading Railroad, (30,000 salary per year. Stanton denies that she travelled throngn California with one leg on each aide of a mole. Stanton charges Horace Greeley with deliberately changing a telegraph despatch In order to stab a woman asd the suffrage nearest surviving relatives of Alice and Phcthe Cary are tuo nieces, who will close their house and dispose of their home treasures.

French girl, only 12 years old. neatly and tastefully dressed, has surprised the people of Vermont by her skill In the use of an axe. She cots and piles np a cord of wood dally, Logan and Anna Dickinson both refuse to be engaged this season through any of the lecture bureaus. The reason given Is that the arc managed entirely by men, and that women lecturers do cot receive fair consideration. Celia Burleigh received a call from the Unitarian Society, Brooklyn, to become Us pastor, an offer which she probably will accept, notw ithstanding the efforts of a wealthy Detroit gentleman to Induce her to settle in the West, where be promises xo build a handsome church for her at his own expense.

peculiar paper which used lor the United States legal-tender notes, fractional currency, Is made at Glen Mills, near Philadelphia. The Messrs. Wlllcox, proprietors the aillla, are paper-makers by inheritance, being of Thomas Wlllcox, the first papermaker in the country. foundation of the new Strashufg University Library was celebrated in the great hall ol the academy with a commemor atlve celebration In honor of Goethe, who took bis degree here one hundred years ago. The Grand Duke of Weimar baa recently made eome valuable to the library.

Garnett, the leading colored preacher of New York city, a curious story of Mr. Holley, who now at the bead of the Episcopal Church in QayU. Hr. Holley bad been writing to successfully tor a Masonic journal in this country that the editor, who waa Ignorant of his color, sent him word that he would like to hare picture to copy it Into the magazine. Mr.

Holley uk" for a while, and then, when he bad writes all he bad wished to. sent picture to the editor. It was not reprinted, and be never beard anythin; more from that magazine. Mark Hardin, now residing in Shelby bom on the banka of the Monoogabela. March 14.

ITHS, and accompanied family on their removal to Eentncky, descending the tails of Ohio tn April, Ue recently Louisville, and, expressing a desire to cross the falls once more, a small party of friends, on Thursday last, accompanied him across the bridge at that city, jnet eighty-five yean and four months after be first navigated the waters Cowing beneath it. It is presumed that no other person can cross that bridge and say to himself, than eighty-five years ago I floated down these bright It is added that Mr. Bardin the Ust guest who was present at the wedding of Henry CUy. J2AILBOADS. The Hudson (Wls.) saysr are 1,800 mep at work on the railroad between here and St.

There is cow no doubt that the Sheboygan A Food du Lac Boad will be extended to St. Paul," Hannibal A Central Missouri Railroad (commonly known as the Moberly) was completed last week, and through trains will toon be running. private letter from Oregon, dated July 15, mjb the railways of that State are good progress. The railway on the cast ride of the if finished fur a hundred miles south of Portlaod, In the direction of California. Twenty-three miles on the west fide of the river and south from Portland will be finished by the Ist of November.

The Northern pacific will complete Its first twenty-five miles north of the Columbia, towards Pngetv Sound, by tbelvtof December. Green Adrocaienjt: getting the very heft of accounts of the progress of the Chicago A Northwestern Railway extension north tram tcls city. There are sow about 1.200 men at work on the line between this city (Port Howard! and Pesbtlgo. and men are fast coming Id, and all are given employment that apply. It expected that by Satorday night there will be upwards of 1.500 men at work on the road.

Camps have been established about one mile apart, and Urge forces of men are at work north from Oconto and foutb from TeshUgo. The road Is already completed, and construction trains running beyond Duck Creek, and." as the heavier work la sow done, the contractors expect tofebe able to lay one-half a mile of Iron per day natU the road completed to Menominee." DOWH THE ST. LAWEEIfCE The Treaty. Effects of Its Repeal. Confederation, Independence, and Dominion Politics.

The Treaty of Washington. Correspondence of Tribune. Rts Beach, S. Aor jl. 1371.

The Dominion of Canada Is about one thousand miles long, with an average of one hundred miles of habitable surface, and contains a population estimated at four millions. three and a half millions nearer the truth. With so much, longitude and so little latitude, the foreign trade of the country would naturally find Its principal outlets at openings along the nordcr rather than at the end of the long spout. And so it did during the ten years that the Reciprocity Treaty was in force. The lumber, barley, fish, worsted wools, bituminous coal, fresh meats, vegetables, winter wheat, oils, of Canada, come into the United States free of duty, and the products and manufactures of the United States were taken back in exchange for railways and shipping earning the principal share of the freights on the traffic.

This trade had gone on so smoothly and satisfactorily that when it was proposed, In 1863, to rescind the treaty, very few people on our side of the Hue, except merenants engaged in the trade, knew what it was. Congressmen of the period wera especially ignorant of its nature. 1 But when it came to bo discussed, and to be generally understood, that here was a treaty from which the Canadians bad been reaping great advantages, there was a stir all over Vheioyal States in favor of its repeal. Canadians, 6t. Albans raiders, blockade run- ners, Mason and Slidell, tbe Alabama, the Florida, and the Shenandoah, were all twisted together in the public mind, and tbe treaty was repealed intianUr.

If I recollect rightly, Mr. Arnold, the Representative of Chicago, attempted to call a halt, and la- i quire what it was that we were going to re-: peal, and Whether tbe advantages of tbe treaty ware not mutual and common to both countries, and whether the right to use the Canadian canals and rivers, and to fish in British waters were not worth something. But the spirit of loyalty was up and the treaty went down. I know that anybody was to blame; certainly no one as specially to blame, for there was hardly a dissenting voice- Mr. K.

G. burton, lu a recent letter to the Boston Pott, says that Nova Scotia was more unanimously for tbe Union at tbe beginning of tbe war than the Northern States themselves were, which is quite probable, as there were no Copperheads In Nova Scotia. A pretty large majority of the Canadians were also friendly to the Union, and in the beginning of tbe conflict furnished a fair quota of volunteers to onr a pretty largo contribution to oar Treasury in the purchase of bonds. But, as the struggle went on, it was inevitable that the provinces should follow the bent of Great Britain, and should share in the measure of odium which the latter enjoyed at our bands. If we had treaty of reciprocity with England at that time, terminable at twelve notice, wc should have terminated it regardless of its advantages or disadvantages That wo shobid terminate a similar treaty with the British colonies under such circumstances Is not to be wondered at.

It would have been surprising, rather, If wc had not done so. uzrmx or tub reciprocity EFFECTS. That the repeal of the treaty was more in- Inrions to Canada than to ourselves cannot ic affirmed; but the injury to onrseltcs being spread over a larger surface has been leas felt. In California and Oregon it has probably not been full at all; In Texas and l.oulslanaaiot enough to make worth any one's while to bestow a thought upon it. In New England and New York it has been felt very sensibly.

And so it has boon at Chicago, although other causes have operated to a great extent to neutralise U. Any trade which is carried ou at ail prolitable to both it would cease to be carried on. Slopping the trade by arbitrary means stops a protit to both. It Is not easy to say which party was most benefited by the treaty, nor is it necessary to ask. It is not eflKy to say whether It Smith orlVllbone that derived the greater advantage from a trade which they have made together.

If It was a free bargain, the presumption Is that both reaped an advantage, what tbe use of lugging In all the other Smiths and Pettiboncs, who, perhaps, never meet or trade with each other? Granted that the Smiths arc more numerous than the Pcttihones. That fact may he of Interest to the census-taker, hut does not concern the economist, nor help to decide tbe question at issue. If there are four millions of peoplcln i Canada and four millions in the United who want to trade with each other, why not let them do so Is it likely that the Canuck will overreach the Yankee 7 Let him do It if he can. In order to get at the dollar and cent view of the question, first take a sponge and wipe out every consideration of a political, national, or international characteryou will then find that there is no difference between ihe trade of Maine with New Hampshire, and the trade of Maine with Canada, for there la only an imaginary Vine between all three. What is good lor any two of them is good for all.

Il this Is too great an intellectual feat for any of the readers of The TninfSE (the Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, for instance), let him imagine that Canada were annexed to the United Staten. Would it still ho desirable, in a dollar and cent view, to Impose a duty on the potatoes and bituminous coal of the Dominion 7 Let Mr.

Kelley answer this question, and then go on the stump telling the people that it would be projitdbit to trade with the Canucks, but unpatriotic to trade with your neighbors unless you lose by it. BALANCE OP TRADE. But. says Mr. Lamed, of Buffalo, in bis report to the Secretary ol the Treasury on our commercial with Canada, there are forty millions ui us, and only four millions ol fair.

means, I suppose, that the forty, If allowed to follow their own Inclinations, will buy from the four more than the four will buy from the loity. 1 should like to sec any evidence npon this point, and when 1 look lor It In Mr. report I find that the distressing result which he anticipates Is precisely the result which lias been somehow reached since the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty, for whereas oar imports from Canada in IbtH) exceeded our exfiorts to Canada only tire millions of dollars, ISTO our imports exceeded our exports by a balance vastly too sajs Sir. Lamed, be analyzed Into commercial protits, as an apparently adverse balance of trade often Since the close of the war, and the subsidence of its animosities, an idea has been fostered In certain quarters that if the Reciprocity Treaty is not renewed the Canadians will be forced by commercial considerations to apply for admission into the American Union; as though people who would make their allegiance a mailer of barter would be desirable partners in experiment of self-government. Except, possibly, the French ol Lower Canada, who, like the peasantry of old France, will go for the Emperor, the Republic, or the King, whichever will furnish the best price for their butter, there are no people in the Dominion, eo far as my observation has crone, who will even animation in the light of a money-making business-mot even ihe American-born merchants In Montreal.

There la, among the Intelligent and influential classes of Lower Canada, a perccptihleleaningtoward the American Union; bnt it has no commercial taint whatever. They talk, in a jocose way, of annexing United States, now that slavcryls abolished; but when tbev discuss reciprocity or trade, tber talk cash, and not go farther, and say that the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty has alonemade the confederation of Canada and the maritime provinces possible, by compelling those distant colonies to draw nearer together. Prior to ISG4 they were strangers to each other, while the people of Nora Scotia and New Brunswick, on the one hand, and those of Maine and Massachusetts, on the other, were bound together by the tics of dally intercourse of a profitable and friendlv If the nnion of Canada with the United is desirable, first sup In order to accomplish it is to establish friendship octween them. This can only be brought about by commercial intercourse. Canada has her full share of bigotry, prejudice, and self-conceit.

She Is replete with a species of which Is now nothing bnt a tradition, and we art- surcharged with contempt for the forms ol a monarchy from which monarchy itself has departed, while on the score of modesty, and tolerance for the opinions of others, perhaps on Impartial jnrv would not give os a very handsome verdict as against them. CASJOJIAX The political institutions of Canada are the growth of time. After manv rears of controversy and bloodshed she achieved Her rulers for half a century bad been the viceroys of crown, usually retired army officers, stubborn, narrow-minded, and arbitrary, and answerable for their acts only to the Ministers In Downing street. To govern or and through the will of the majority as expressed in the elections for members of the Legislature, although strictly la accordance with British precedents, was no part of their business, and when riots endued In consequence, they reported to the home government that the spirit of rebellion and separation was rife In the country, and that It must be put down by the strong baud. After the principle of responsible government was established, the Governor being the agent of the people rather than of the Queen, turbulence for the most part ceased, and a constitutional government began.

republican In everything except its mime. The British connection Is now only of the flimsiest weak. Indeed, that the ultra-loyal have more cause to complain, and do in fact complain more loudly, than the republicans themselves. Complete Independence will follow, but it must be the work of time, and the result of thought and discussion among the Canadians themselves Taunts, jeers, threats, and hostile legislation cm Oils side of the line only serve to postpone the day when cither independence or annexation ean take place. Ihe existing government Is the work of more than a century.

It has boon bnilt up in the Lettish fashion, one layer after another, and Is, therefore, stronger la ita Internal composition than a government struck out at a heat. Such a work, being the work of the people themselves, and not of any foreign power or Influence, Is not to be overturned in day. cinmes of oodobcs ox thb or ciKapa. I Union between the United States and Canada, (annexation hateful word, because It Implies coercion) can only take place after the Canadians shall he convinced tnat our form of government is better for them than their own. Upon this point their leading men (not their politicians, however, as a role) arc ready to receive evidence.

So muchhoi been gained. While slavery existed they would bear no evidence upon the subject. As I have already remarked, such can only be communicated to them' byffdally intercourse with oar and such Intercourse can only be had through the channels of commerce. The politicians of the Dominion, 1 fancy, arc not overanxious for a renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty, although they would not oppose a measure which the commercial and agricultural classes so greatly desire. The present government of the Dominion is an able one, and, like most able governments, It concerns itself with measures for the public good as much as is compatible with the permanence of own power.

As the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty tended to push the fcatterea provinces together, bo the renewal of It would tend to relax the bond. The statesmen of the Dominion know this, and here, I suspect, is to. be found the cause of their excessive zeal for the Intercolonial and! Pacific Railways, two works which are not' to he explained upon economic grounds. The government at Washington, by a dash of the pen, can frustrate all the political advantages of these two works, for trade will follow the lines of least resistance. The only resistance to trade between Canada and the United States is that of the Custom Bouses, while the natural obstacles between Canada and the lower provinces are many and great.

NovaScotla and New Brunswick did not want to be annexed either to Canada or tbe United States. They wanted to remain good little British colonics to the end of the chapter. Their leading politicians thought differently, and when confederation was consummated tbe people were very angry. They are angry still, and, finding themselves cut loose from England without their own consent, they are much more likely to gravitate toward the United States at some future time, than if they had been left In tbe condition of contented colonies of Great Britain. This is one of tbe points of danger to the Dominion government, and hence the Intercolonial Railway.

The Macdonald Minstry would undoubtedly prefer to he known iu history as tbe founders of a new nation, rather than as the mere forerunners of a change In a form of government. Intimate trade relations with the United States are not favorable to the permanence of the Dominion as a separate government. Hence I should expect these gentlemen to moke Just enough bustle about eciproclty to keep the Opposition down, and to bend their real energies in another direction. The heavy work in favor of Reciprocity will be left to the Dominion Board ofTrade, and here it has earnest, untiring, and far-seeing friends in every corner of the Dominion. THE CSSXBUS kSD AMEBICAN SYSTEM.

"When friendship, based upon personal acquaintance. mutual good offices. and mutual interests, be -well established between thetwocountries, the work of Union, If It be really desirable to both countries, will not be very difficult of accomplishment; but 1 apprehend It will be man; years before the Canadians wiH abandon, for tbelr local cruments at least, the principle that the Executive Is In strict subordination to the Legislature, so that when the Ministry ceases to command a majority of the legislative body. It shall give place to one which can command such a majority. Of all the safetyvalves that have ever been discovered for republican institutions, this seems to yield the most satisfactory results.

At all events, the Canadians will not cosily relinquish it for a system where the Secretary of the Treasury, for instance, gives his whole time daring a session to passing un obnoxious bill, and failing, gives his whole time after the session to schemes for circumventing bills which hove been passed. There is a very respectable number ofCauadians (not fioliticfaos) who favor the Independence of bo Dominion, and yet think that the cause of free government would be best subserved by two republics accomplishing tbeirmls- Mon side by side, according to tbelr different modes of achieving the same end, government of tbe people, for the people, by the people. This is a view which will be worth considering after the conditions of Union shall have been brought about. THE TBEATT OP Tbe Treaty of Washington was a wise and virtuous measure, creditable to all the parties concerned, and especially so to Sir John A. Macdonald, the Premier of tbe Dominion.

But, upon its promulgation, a storm of opposition was raised against it In Upper Canada, the largest and most populous of. the provinces. The opposition pul itself on the ground that do quid pro had been given to Canada for her concessions as to the fisheries and the navigation of the St. Lawrence. I find it to bo a fact, however, that opposition to the treaty Is in proportion to distance from the fisheries and from the Si.

Lawrence. Of the BriilsL-Amcrkan fisheries more than cue-half, la point of value, Iwlong to Newfoundland, which docs not belong to the Dominion. One-half of the remaining half belong to Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia is in favor of the treaty, as will be proved by the votes of her members in the Dominion Parliament when the time comes. The remainder of the fisheries to which the treaty applies belong to Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Prihec Edward's last not being a part of the Dominion. Now, Lower Canada is not oppoecd to the treaty.

Tbe Montreal the organ of the Opposition fiurty, has declined to make any point upon against the Ministry, and lam sure that the commercial classes of Montreal aro favorable to its ratification. New Brunswick Is said to be hostile to the treaty; hut this hostility, if It exists, is surely of a political rather than of a material character. Prince Edward's Island will probably ratify in the end, but ber position not affect the result in the Dominion. Thera remains, then, Upper Canada, and here It appears to me that the opposition to the treaty has for Its motive power the very natural desire of the to overturn the Ministry and gel into their places. Upper Canada is uot interested in the fishery question except in the same sense that Illinois and Minnesota are interested in it.

She is interested in the navigation of the St. is, she interested in having the St. Lawrence navigated by us many ships as possible, for they nil leave more or less toll in her treasury and In the pockets of her citizens. To read the screeds against the treaty one would think American ships were about to carry off tbe water of tbe St. Lawrence ami leave tbe Inhabitants of Upper Canada to perish with thirst.

And yet the Ministry, which is responsible for seems to quail before the gust of words has been let loose against their handiwork. I am quite unable to comprehend this apparent weakness. Whether the treaty Is good or bad, it is their work. If it is voted down, they go down with it; and surely it is better to go down with colors flying than to surrender, and then go down have an impression that the treaty will eventually be ratted, through the average pood sense of the people, aided by the plain desire and mild coercion of the British for If Newfoundland and Prince Island ratifv, more than half of the fishing dispute will bo settled without consulting Upper Canada at all. But at the present'moment, what with the fierce onslaught of the Hon.

George Brown, and the wavering front of the gentlemen whose scalps he Is after, the treaty Is in danger of being rejected, so far as it relates to the Dominion of Canada. XL W. The Pope on the Religions Straggle In Germany, The the German organ of the uluamonUncs, gives Uic following account ol an interview with the Pope: A few davs ago a German gentleman, ho has been well known nl the Vatican lor years, bad an audience with the Holy rather. After some remarks, which displayed an intimate acquaintance with the condition of the Catholics in Germany, and the great interest which he takes in this country, Qis Holiness asked, What, In year opinion, Is the cause of the present unhappy state of things To the Church such things are not new; we find them under different forms and at different times in The German replied, The cause the coquetting of the false liberalism' which leads to Communism, to hrellgion. This it is which makes man forget bb dignity and bis destiny.

One step brings another. With ns, on the conclusion of peace and the formation of new empire, we shonld have regained the ground wc had lost In right and justice, in order to open the wav to an era of internal peace in Germany, fo tnm back was then not difficult, The Holy Father nodded as a sign of assent and replied as follows am very sorry for that 1 can even say it pains me. I should have very much desired that greater justice had been shown to the German Catholics. Ido not deny that I hoped that a clever guide of the rudder of the State as Prince Bismork appears to he would not himself evoke a spirit of discontent in the new empire, since internal peace more necessary even than external peace for the strengthening of the new empire, for Germany Is strong. The Germans always were a positive, prudent people.

Catholics and Protestants have fought bravely side by side. They gave to Carear what is Prince Blsmark would render the greatest service to the new empire If be did not forget that be Is self-sacrificing who believes In God snd religion. He who has no faith gives to tar only what he Is compelled to give. Only he who has faith has a conscience, and a man witbont a conscience Is a of a State. Historv the teacher ol wisdom.

It showed us last year where coqnetting with false liberalism leads; it showed ns that he who Is not With God. the Lord, is destroyed. Nowhim whom God wishes to destroy be blinds, ijet os hope snd pray to the Lord that before He punishes He msy warn. Hitherto, to the Church conflict has only brought good. It made her tinner, united her members, and strengthened her Wounded by Kltro-Glycerlne.

The 111-effects of fooling with nltro-glycer- strikingly snown by an accident In Hadden, on the the particulars of which are thus given by the Hartford Fast: Mr. Nathaniel Tyler, passing by the depot la tbartown, Friday, discovered a tin can In the road, and carried It home: the cap to It was soldered on. and be told his boys, Walter and Everett, Saturday morning, that thev had better unsolder U. This they proceeded to tfo. Everett, aged 15 yean, took tbs can between nis legs as he sat open the door, and applied the hut Iron to It (Walter, aged is, looking when terrible explosion followed.

The poor boy had the flesh tom off the lower part of his body and limbs, and a severe scalp wound; hie arms were also badly mangled, and one of his eyes was tom oat. Walter was very badly injured. Dr. Edgerton. of city, was immediately sent for, and, assisted by the village physicians, did the best he coaid to dress tke wounded parts.

Ha was alive Sunday at but hia injuries are inch aa to make It impossible for him to live, and hia death was momentarily expected. Walter will recover, sue explosion blew the out of the boose, and lifted the floor over the room where the plosion took place. Several other members of the family were In the room, bat were uninjured. The can one that had contained nttro-glyceriue, bat was empty, and bad bean thrown sway by some one of the contractors on the Valley Railroad, of course there waa but a very mlnnte SuaaUty left to but enough to cuss a great eal of'damage, and a probable lose of life." SLAUGHTER. Fartlenlsn.i of hUaitcr on the i Eastern Railroad.

Boston (August 17) ot the Kew Tork The collision, of which the telegraph gave you the first uncertain announcement this morning, was a horrible and heart-sickening disaster, resulting? It from the criminal carelessness of an engineer, and involving a fearful loss of life- It happened at a small way station seven miles by rail from the Boston, terminus of the formerly known as North Chelsea. The name of the town has been changed It is a quiet hamlet near ChelSca beach. The track of the road through Chelsea is fnll of curves, winding now through deep banks, and then across little stretches of marsh. The Revere Station Is a little yellow building set on the outer side of curve, from the trains cannot be seen for more than a quarter of a mile in either direction. All the way trains on the Eastern Roald stop there, but passengers by the express trains never become aware or Its existence.

Tbe tVlnthrop highway crosses the railroad just south of tbe station, and a short distance bevond another road crosses It by a bridge, i Tbe two trains were both outward bound. The first one was an accommodation train, which leaves Boston for Beverly at 7:30 in the evening. It consisted of two engines (which were used together for convenience and not because the weight of, the train), a baggage car, smoking car, and, three passenger cars. It-was crowded with passengers. Some were business men re.

turning late to their homes In Lynn and Swampscolt; there were several clergymen going to Sunday services In these towns; and there were also large numbers of ladles and children on board. This train was detained ten minutes beyond its time of starting, on account of tbe lack of cars at tbe Boston The depot master was obliged to await the arrival of an extra camp-meeting train before making np the accommodation train. About three miles from the Saugus branch of the Eastern Road Joins tbo main line, and here the accommodation train was still further delayed so that It arrived at Revere nearly half an hour late. Eight Is the hour assigned by tbe railroad tables for the departure of the lightning express to Bangor, and last night It started on time, as usual. This train had a powerful engine, and consisted of two or three ordinary passenger cars and a Pullman palace sleeping This train makes only one stop between Boston and Somerville, close to the city.

It Is reported today that Mr. Prescott, the Superintendent of the road, gave special instructions to the engineer of this William Brown, of move slowly and keep a lookout for others ahead; but, if such instructions were given, they were wholly disregarded, and the man drove his train on at full and terrible speed to Its horrid work of death. It was 8:15 when the accommodation train came to a standstill at tbe station. It remained still for, perhaps, a couple of minutes while the few passengers alluhled. 81111 the cars were crowded, and quite a number were standing rpon the plattonus, the night was very worm, while In tbe aisles little children were running about at play.

All the signals were in place. There were lanterns on the rear car, and elevated signals were shown to warn tbe express. How terribly fateful were those two mluutes of delay at the station. Fire minutes additional would have saved two score of priceless lives and a nlgbt of horror. On came the swift express, under the bridge and around the curves, till at sixty rods from the station the devilish glare of the engine lantern broke into one poor victim turning In her scat In tbe rear car at the station, caught sight of the coming demon, and uttered a piercing shriek which was the only alarm her fellow-passengers had of the death at hand.

The crush came Just as twin engines of the accommodation train were starting up again. The fearful sound was heard fur half a mile, and a few saw the collision some men at a distance watched tbe two trains pass beneath the bridges, and knew thut a terrible accident must follow. At tbe lost moment the reckless engineer of lift express reversed his engine, whistled down brakes, and then hud Just time to Jump from his box before the collision came. The fireman Jumped too. The cowcatcher struck the rear end of the passenger car, Jnst abreast the station, and lifted the.

framework up against the boiler, which crashed through It. The whole train was jammed forward for a distance of three length. The last cur, crowded full of unsuspicious human beings, was literally dashed into splinters at the rear end. The boiler of the engine was forced diagonally upward and lifted clear off Its wheels. The trucks of the cars doubled up together bcuealh the engine, which was falrlyjlripped of all its ulterior works by tho framework of the car.

AU that was left of the latter was a pari of Us roof clinging to the upper part of the engine; and the crushed, mangled, turn, bluedog, Instantly killed, others spared for a few consciousness of their torture, laid In the dreadful wreck. Twenty met their death at the moment of the collision. If they were not crushed to death they were scalded by the steam and boiling water which issued from the broken pieces of the locomotive, and fairly cooked some of the bodies before they were taken out. The scene was an epitome of all the horrors that Imagination can conceive. The night was very dark, and the air was moist and oppressive.

The concussion of the crash had alarmed all the residents la the vicinity, and in a few minutes after the alarm was given the inhabitants of the town flocked In a body to the scene. As the crowd of spectators grew in size the confusion became great, while the agonizing shrieks of the wounded and dying tilled the hearts of alt with pain and terror. Of couree, all the cars of the way-train were smashed, but, fortunately, none of the iu them were Injured severely. The platforms were Jammed together, and they were thrown from the track, while the rails beneath them were twisted like straws. The tender and the (rout end of the baggage-ear on the express train were thrown from the track, but the rear end of this car and all other cars remained on the track.

In a few moments after the collision, and almost before the passengers in the forward cars of the way train could get out of them, a new terror was added to the scene. The kerosene oil lamps were upset and their contents spread upon the upholstery, and in an instant tho smoking car was in a blaze. The greedy flames travelled with great speed from one car to another until three of them were embraced in the flery folds. These were subsequently moved up the track half a dozen rods so that the flames should not interfere with the sufferers in the rear car, and then they were allowed to burn until there was nothing left for the flrc.to feed upon. An effort at first made to put out the fire, but this was prevented, and the flames were useful In lighting up the dreadful scene iu the rear and facilitating the services for the wounded.

As soon as the passengers could collect their senses those who were not disabled hurried out of both the nod Beverly trains and hastened to render all possible aid to the wounded. So telegraph offioe was here, or, at least, no wires could be worked. A messenger was mounted on a fleet horse and despatched at breakneck speed to Chelsea for aid. He started the R. 8.

Frost Hose Company, just arrived home from an excursion to Providence, on this way, to nut out the fire, and they, with some of their Providence friends, rendered eminent service. Thclocal police were on hand and active, and all the neighbors threw open their bouses as temporary hospitals, and turned out to tender such assistance as they could. A despatch was sent also to the city, which was not received, however, until 10 The railroad authorities started for the scene soon os possible, and an engine was sent down the line for assistance. For two mortal hours the passengers and others labored to extricate the dead and dvjng from the wreck, and then? were too many to work effectively. The shrieks and groans of the wounded and the scalded, their frantic calls for help, and their wild ejaculations, caused by a frenzy of despair, formed a combination of sounds such ns no mortal could wish to hear a second time.

But they inspired the people to renewed exertions In their behalf. Axes and lanterns were brought In a trice- Dozens of poor creatures were Jammed with wood and ironwork, and could not get out. The axe was apnlied vigorously, and soon a rope was applied to the sides of the car, and all the remaining framework was palled asunder. The dead and mangled bodies were taken out and carefully and speedily placed on tbe platform, or In the depot. Somewereplnned with splinters, some had legs and arms broken, while others were mangled beyond recognition.

fact, the majority of the comparatively free from bruises, but tbe peeling skin, and deathly pallor which overspread the flesh told plainly that steam and scalding water had been frightful and effective agents of death. The bustle, the confusion, the flashing of lanterns, the running to and fro, the whistles, shrieks, and tbe bell-ringing of engines, which had meantime come with cars to assist in the removal of all who must be moved, and the glare over all of the conflagration bnt a few yards off, made the picture an awful one. The dead as fast as they were taken from the ruins were removed Into the depot, and in an hour alter the accident every body had been taken oat. The dead were all laid together, and In one room the floor was entirely covered with corpses. They laid side by side, most of them straight, bnt some In bent positions, just as they lay when struck and stiffened in death.

Almost without exception their countenances were distorted, as if their last feeling had been one of terror or agonizing pain. Several were badly mutilated, and their faces upturned, with the strained and starting eyes under the pale Ucht of a single lantern, and that dimly burning, formed a sight to freeze the blood of any but a strong-nerved spectator. In the adjoining room lay the bodies of three other men, all badly mutilated and bloody, making nineteen In all in this charnel house. The wounded were removed to neighboring houses and to the Tollman sleeping car, which was filled with sufferers and drawn slowly back to the city, where they were taken to tbe hospitals in carriages. Tbe news of the disaster spread through tbe city, and by midnight tbe station was crowded with earnest questioners, who waited anxiously for tbe arrival of the relief trains, to hear whether their friends were safe.

The railroad officials weie almost crazed by the intelligence of the disaster, and, tbongh well disused, acted with little efficiency. The return of the train with the wounded was very much delayed, and It Is reported that it was not until a pistol was presented at the head of tbe engineer of the relief train that be moved bis engine, to do which he bad no orders. After the dead and wounded bad all been removed a gang of workmen were at work to clear the track, and the work was continued all night. Very few of the dead were identified last night, and the Sunday papers contained the names of only one or two. To-day the collision has been the toplcof universal interest In the city, and thousands have visited the scene of the accident.

William Brown, the engineer of the Pullman train, os be was going to bis home Ausila-ttreet, la Charlestown, at aboot-mldnlgbt staled to a police officer of that city that, at the tima of the collision he was hh train' at a very low rale of speed. 12c said that he left the station In this city five minutes late, and that he lost five minutes In going to Everett. From this point be ran his train still more slowly, as the nleht was so dark and the air so thick that he could see bnt a short distance ahead, and thought It well to use more than ordinary caution. He did not see the accommodation train until he was close upon It, andl seeing that It was too late to avoid running into It, be reversed the engine and Jumped to the ground. He jccmvedjo bodily injury except a slight brnise.np'on.RW nose.

The tireroan Jumped at the isame and escaped unhurt. The officer to whom Brown made this statement says that be seemed to be In a bewildered state of and-therefore tbongbt it prudent to accompany him to his home. Boston, Aug. 27. The terrible and entirely Inexcusable railroad accident which occurred on the Eastern Railroad, on Saturday night, becomes more sickening and terrible as Its ghastly details are developed.

The cause of the accident was simply that au engineer on an express train chose to plunge bis train into one standlngatastatlonbeforehlm. The Beverly accommodation train should hare started out at 7:15 p.m. Instead of doing so it was delayed for half an hoar to get more passengers. Then It was for some unexplained reason, de- layed at Everett Station, about six miles from Boston, for several minutes. At tbe second station beyond that.

Revere, there was another delay. This train was crowded, packed. Every seat was filled, and the aisles were crowded. Still It lingered along, stopping at each station as long as there seemed a prospect of another person getting on board. Meanwhile the express train for Bangor was made up and left Boston on time.

It was a train of heavy Pullman passenger cars, and ran st the highest allowable rate of speed. Before fe started tinpcrintendentPrescott sent special orders to tbe engineer, William Brown, to be careful, as there was a train ahead of him. At Everett Station Nolan, the conductor of tbe accommodation train, was warned of the train behind him, and caused two red larUerns to be pat ont on the platform of tbe rear car. With this knowledge of the situation, it would seem as if an accident were almost Impossible, tbe conductors and engineers of both trains being fully aware of the danger which menaced them. At Revere Station, the accommodation train was again slow about starting.

When it seemed as if not another person coold be coaxed or crowded on board, tbe conductor raised a lazy bowl of All and waived his signal to the engineer for starting. At that instant, like of fire behind the doomed train, glowed the headlight of the engine of the Bangor express train, close at hand, rushing on madly. People say that the engineer of that train could not have failed to see, If he bad chosen to look ahead, the red lights upon the rear of the train which blocked the track before bim; that they must have been dearly apparent for nearly a mile off. This may be a little beyond where a curve in the road would bare put them from sight, but certainly they could have been seen for over a half mile. Notwlthatandlng this fact brakes was not whistled, nor an attempt made to check the infernal speed of this express train until it was within a few rods ot the unheeded red lanterns.

Then the express engineer, William Brown, whom It seems a compliment to call a careless, cowardly scoundrel, with his fireman, leaped from their engine, and on it went furiously, at a speed of twenty miles an hoar at say those who saw the rear of tbe crowded accommodation train. A few of those standing near the doors or upon the platforms of the latter Jumped off and so escaped. As a cannon-ball would crush through a band-box, so plunged that engine into tbe rear car, and two-thirds of the way through It. The fearful Impetus which It had lore off, as It crashed through the frame-work of the car, its smoke-stack and all tbe upper works, and smashed the connecting-pipes. Torn by splinters, with broken bones, pinned down by unyielding masses of wood and Iron to tbe surface of the hot boiler, Jammed ami mangled awfully, were over two tieorc men and women.

Among these, enveloping them, scalding, suffocating, murdering them, came a dense cloud of steam from the broken pipes of the engine. Some, fortunate in sudden death, breathed the fatal vapor and were at peace; others uttered terrible cries and screams of agony. The voices of meu, and women, and Utile children mingled in awful lamentations and walls, with the hissing rush of escaping steam. Another horror was added. Kerosene dashed from their fastenings, burst, and, their contents, instantly taking fire, it was bat a few moments before throe cars were lapped'in roaring flames, the inmates hardy escaping with their lives.

Up high In the hcavcus'urose the red glare of flames, lighting up a horrid scene. Miserable wretches, mind, with broken limbs, the skin and flesh peeling from their hideous faces, blood welling from their mouths and nostrils, were being dragged from the wreck. Corpses which seemed to defy so awful bad been the work of the crash the steam in those few moments In disfiguring the strewed about. Maimed ones culled for help, or. If too badly scalded to speak, dumbly waved their hands In appeal for extrication from the wreck.

Wm. Brown, the engineer, and bis fireman looked on In safety. In an time the dead and wounded were all taken from the ruins, the former laid in the little depot, to await recognition, the latter carried to the residence of persons in the vicinity, or. oi a later hour, scot off to the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston City Hospital, and the Chelsea Hospital. It is stated by persons who were present at the accident, that nearly two hours elapsed before the railroad officials present at the scene of the disaster would permit the wounded to be put iuto the uninjured Pullman palace cars to be brought back to the city for medical aid.

for fear that the blood and scalded dropping flesh of the victims would soil the elegant furniture of those The outraged public sentiment of the people about the place at forced this sacrifice on the part of the railroad officials. It is also It is to be hoped that It is exaggerated, at Brown, the engineer, said, as he looked stolidly at the wreck, care a damn I had a right to the traeiy tout Vuu had no trutinest to get in my tray." If this is true. Brown certainly deserves to be hanged. The noise of the collision was heard away over In the little town of Revere. Even in Chelsea, and almost as closely os lightning and thunder cotno together, the startled inhabitants saw the blase of the burning cars reflected in tho sky.

In a very few minutes scores of willing helpers were on hand to carry away, house, and tend the wounded. So prompt and kind were these kind offices that It Is believed that very many persons who were Injured were tbns earned off, and that it will be several days before a full list of the sufferers canbe made oat. Boston (Aug. ST) Cormpoodcace of tie Kev Tork iiJraJd. The scene at itie Town Hall to-day, where has been placed seven of the dead bodies which wore unclaimed, was one which I trust never again to he compelled to witness.

The bodies, hiactcncu and distorted as they were, had been brought from the depot like so many logs and thrown down carelessly on the rough board floor. No attempt had been made to straighten oat their limbs or even to clear aWey the tilth which had accamnlated'on their faces and hands and outer garments. There they lay, stiff and cramped as when they were first taken from the wreck, with garments tom and besmeared with blood, and reposing just as they would be placed to occupy the least room. Some were np half double, and there were others whose broken limbs hong loosely at angles from their bodies. A coarse and dirty piece of cloth or blanket was flnng carelessly over their faces to hide the horrible appearance which they wore, and a loose scrap of white paper, on which was rudely scrawled the names and residences of those who had been identified was pinned as a sort of label on their clothes.

The bodies had remained so long without proper attention that nature began to assert Its work, and the Inevitable signs of decay were manifest throughout the rooms, which smelled more tike a sausage factory than apiace devoted to the repose of The suffocating fumes of decomposition soon became so intolerable that the oOicersdn charge procured a backet of chloride of lime, with a long-handled tin ladle, proceeded to dish out the neutralizing compound in the most businesslike and disgusting manner. To all appearance, they seemed to act as If they were dealing with carrion Instead of human beings. As they proceeded with this operation, lifting np the cloth which covered the face of the nearest corpse, the officer coolly damped a half ladle full of lime, almost completely hiding the features from eight, and then scattered an equal quantity on other portions of the body. As fast as one body was thus disposed of, tbe files, which swarmed in great abnndancc, returned to their feast, and the officer passed on to repeat the operation upon the next In order. The spectacle was one of the most erne! and Inhuman sights that was ever presented to the eyes of a civilized community.

The callous faces of those In charge, with a rerv few honorable exceptions, evinced their desire to get rid of their disagreeable task as speedily os possible, and their strong aversion the performance of the ordinary decencies of human nature. Not a single railroad official was present to see that the dead were tenderly cared for, and thus it was that their remains were neglected and made the subjects of desecrations. In one corner of this filthy and temporary charnel house were the remnants of bnmsn slaughter which had been gathered up at daybreak near the scene of the disaster. Amongthem werea full upper set of false teeth; three or four waterfalls, saturated with blood and matted with the parboiled scalps of tbe now ghastly victims, what seemed to be a delicate kid glove was found, upon examination, to be tbe complete skin of a woman's hand, which had dropped off after tbe accident, and was found In tbe middle of the track by a small bor daring the forenoon. The shoe of a chlla and another of a lady were also among the collection.

-And of portcmonnales, little shopping bags, and fragments of bonnets, hats, and other wearing apparel, there was a sad variety, the whole forming a collection almost as melancholy an the array of nun-leu corpses plied np In the other end of the room. A Fiendish Morder- tbe HMOt City mi.) 3. On Sunday night last one of the horrible tragedies that ever came to ovt knowledge was enacted on the A.l*,*! ro about one mile north of Various reports are In circulation concerning the particulars of this bloody transaction, bnt the facts, as near as we can learn, art substantially as those aboard tbe mail train when It left Petersburg at 10:12 p. were two particular yoaog men, to us unknown, De Witt Gardner, and a female. When a short distance this side of Petersburg, one of these young men was with Gardner on the platform of the car, and the other kept the.

female engaged in conversation, so that her attention might nob- be attracted by anything transpiring outside the car. Whilst crossing the bridge over the Sangamon, Gardner i Tiolent blow from a hstchet. Which knocked him off the platform. It is reasonably presumed that two or three were In waiting, who carried Gardner to the river bank, beat bim most placed him In'a small boat, rowed him out to large pile of stone around the middle pier, dipped him Into the water, then laid him upon the roads, and, doubtless, left him for dead. He was found the nest morning by a laborer, taken to Petersburg, and was afterward brought to the residence of bis brother.

Giles Gardner, In this city, where he died on Thursday last. He was unconscious from the'-' time ho was found. There was a terrible gash on the back of his 1 he seemed to bo covered from bead to foot with severe bruises, as if he bad been beaten for several minutes with heavy'clubs. He was a most shocking sight. Few persons have strong enough to have endured so horrible a spectacle but for a moment.

He was delirious at times, would make many inarticulate and would occasionally mention the names of certain persons, and pitconslv beg them to have mercy not to strike him any more. information which we have received, but which we deem Imprudent to giro to the public, we doubt not that every one of the villains engaged In this fiendish otTalr can be 'apprehended and made to suffer the severe penalty of the law, which they greatly deserve. WEONQED WOEEXNU WOMEN. Tbe Female of Lynn Arnytd Agahui the A Public Indignation Speeches and Ringing Lynn, Mass. (Ang.

to the New York The female shoemakers, otherwise known as who arenumberedby thousands in this city, arc just now laboring under an excitement which has not been paralleled since tbe famous strikes of twelve years ago. The Immediate cause of all this can be brieily stated. Some days ago the boss stitchers held a meeting and adopted resolutions in which they say the must give two notice when intending to leave their employ; falling In this, they must forfeit At the same meeting was also action taken looking to a universal reduction of wages. Hearing of this, the girls threw themselves into the breach, called an indignation meeting, and on Thursday night between 500 and WO of them came together to devise means for their protection, when tbe meeting was called to order, and tbe object thereof clearly stated, an organization was effected by the election of Mrs. Emma A.

Lane os President, and Mrs. E. 1. Rogers os Secretary. Addresses were delivered by Messrs.

George Sanderson and A. B. Flanders, of the Crispins, Mrs. Lane, Miss Little, Miss Burke, and many of tie girls who never made a public address before, but were grandly eloquent when their righto were Invaded. The following 'resolutions were unanimously adopted bv a rising vole: Wnraxai.

We. the worfcincmomea in convention assembled, do accept the following resolutions as as earnest expression of oar sentiments; Wnrsxas. We feel that we have long felt the need of protecting oar rights and privileges as free-born women, and we are determined to defend them and our working interest to the fattest extent of our ability, therefore be it BftolrtiL, That we, the worklngwotnen of Lynn, known as upper fitters and finishers of boots and shoes, do entera most solemn protest against any redaction of wages, on any pretext whatever; neither will we submit to any rales binding upon us that will likewise affect oar employers. Rrtolrtd. That we feel grateful to the shoemakers of Lynn for their interest and determination to stand by In our time of need.

Retolcfd. That we, the free women of Lynn, will submit to so rale or set of rules that go toward enslaving or degrading ns. Retailed, That we will accept no terms whatever, either with regard to a redaction ot prices, notices to qnlt, or forfeiture of wages; that whllo we utterly ignore tbe spirit of littleness and liltberalllv which prompted toe late action cf our woald-DC oppressors, we will not forget to recent In a proper manner the onjnat encroachments upon our rights. Retailed. That a copy of these resolutions bo given to each of tbe committee, by them to be presented to each girl In the shop and her signature thereon obtained, that they will adhere to the terms of the rcsolatlons; and should any one of the members of the shop be reduced In her wages or lUlrcatcd, we will drop our work until she la righted.

Retolred, That a copy of the above bo Inserted In (be Lynn papers, and a large surplus number be provided fur ulalrtbnUon among our girls. Not satisfied with this action, another meeting was called for hut evening, at when the meeting was called to order by Mrs. Lane, between three and four hundred neatly dressed, good-looking, hearty, healthy, and hardworking girls, who wore deeply in earnest, were present. They were present to be by themselves, and for the express purpose organizing themselves into a secret that would bring them directly under the wing of the Crispins, and so give greater force to whatever might decide to do. Of course what they did is secret.

A Wife Shoots at Her Husband. Prom the Baltimore American, On Thursday morning last the public were regaled with the particulars where a husband attempted to kill UU wife by discharging a pistol at her, and to-day the publ.c Is treated to like scusikion, with the difference that the wife did the shooting. Tho affair occurred shortly after 0 o'clock lost evening, at the corner of Baltimore am! Gay streets, and for tho time being created the most Intense excitement. Tho parties directly engaged In the affair were Lewis Baker, clerk hi an Insurance ptllce in this city, and residing at 119 Camden street, and wife, Gertrude Baker, residing at Barre street. From what could be gathered, it oppears that the parties were married in January last, but, Instead of marriage proving a happy one, it has been the reverse, and iu June lost the husband parted from his wife and refused to recognize her.

Last evening she met him at the corner of Gay and Baltimore streets, and demanded to know if be Intended to again live with her. He replied that he did not, when she suddenly drew a small revolver and flred, but, fortunately for Loth parties, the pistol was badly aimed, and the bullet ejected from the weapon did no harm. Finding that she had missed her mark, Mrs. Baker was in the net of pulling the trigger a second time, when her arm was grasped and held by her husband until the arrival of Officer Burnett, who disarmed and conducted her to the Central Police Station, whither she was followed by fully 500 persons. The novelty of the affair created desire on the part of humanity to glimpse of her features.

In this, however, the gaping crowd was disappointed for as soon as she found hcxscll In the custody of the policeman she threw a veil over her face, did not remove it until she bad entered the Station House. Justice Hagerty, who chanced to be at the Station when she was brought in, gave her a hearing, and, after listening to the testimony of several witnesses, and the admission of Mrs. Baker that she did attempt to shoot her husband, released her la the snm of 11,000 security for the action of the grand jury. Cities or England and the United The following tables compares the population of the principal cities of England and the United Slates, according to their respective classes: UnUttt tout" Entfitn, Citf. CUg.

Population. I. Newport 542.2W London J. LBerpool fJ3.SK 3. Brooklyn 3M.GS3 4.

St. 5. ciiicigo ar0.301 6. Baltimore Sh-fl-H tSi.in 7. 80-ton liLSJJ Cincinnati 216.2 lti.s/7 V.

New 113.150 18. him Salford It. BuSalu 117,714 801 UIJM 12. Wa-Mnston Icv.lW 11J.JS4 W. Newark Sunderland 14.

LodbrUle 1D0.7M JS.iHI 15. Cleveland 9 KotMoztiasn Mt.fiOi 16. Ittubnreh Nonvlvli sjjjO 17. City SLMS There arc four other cities in the United States which exceed the population of Wolverhamptonl JEWELRY. We have Just received an assortment of fine STONE CAMEO and GOLD SETS, CHAIN and band bracelets, OPERA CHAINS, EAR HOOPS, N.

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