Huron Record, 1880-12-10, Page 3"ME ,ICA1VIleCOP$ OT.TRIAWS.
Correspondence of the Now York ann.
Nem Wzatmanseatt, 1. Ca -Nov. 17, -The
second Wel of the Kant bps murderers has
come to a close, and, as in the previous
Medea, Archie and Allen Mclean, and their
companion Hare, have been found guilty of
the murder of Ceastable Uasher on the 7th
of December lest, and. a settler named blues
Haley four clays later. They were eenteneed
to lie hangedon Jan. 17. Doubte have been
mooed as to the legality of the conviction, and
the case will be carried to Ottawa. Mese young
half-breeds were, for ti-loug time before their
capture, the terror of the Kamloops distriet,
and have long been known as the Katialoope,
outlaws, They have been in jail for /orient)
offenses, one of them for biting off a Siwash's
nose, and had escaped. Tbenthey engaged
in horse stealing, and threatened to kill any
e man who attempted to arreet them. Last
December they made a raid through the dia.
triet, stealing horsee and creating intense ex-
eiternent among the settler& s •
• On Dee. 6, 1879, Oonstable Useher, with
Deputies Pelmer, Shumway, Roberta, McLeod
and Iffialaary, started out on the trent deter-
• mined to biing the thieves to juetice. R.
wards of 6250 eaohlaci been offer& by the
-Government and the Hudson Bey Company
for their arrest. Useher thought there would
, be ma trouble ineapturing them, and when he
and his poese Approached, the outlaws! camp
• on the morning of Deo. 7., andesaw their four
horses saddled, Ussaer said; "They'll never
"'s fire a shot. -Come ; I'll take the lead."
• The weather was bitter cold and the outlaws
had a large fire barnieg. •When within_tah,
naoes-Ortlie fire tne officers came to a halt.
'Been Oaarlie McLean, who was standing on
the other side of the fire, gave a low whistle,
• and a shot was fired, the ball going through
Roberts'a beard, canting off the icicles, 4,nfl
a then through afelleodat ebeek, making the
blood spurt from his lam Allen McLean
then began firbig from 'behind. a tree with a
Pistol as Mot as be could, and tho other out-
laws soon joined in the fueillaae. Roberts fired
at Allen; nde he ;lodged behind a tree,
' then eama oat and began firing again,
,At this point 'flasher got off his herse
and called upon the outlaws to surrender. As
he started to go toward them, Flare ren from
hehind eetremwith a pistol in ono -hand and a
knife:he the other; When tlie tivo teen not
Ussher reached out his left hand and grasped
Hake by tbe right shoulder. Asi he did so•
Hare struolt at him with his knife. Then the,
men grappled each other, and Ussher, who
• was much, the tightetof the . two, fell on his
back. a_erkftreiumited_an top. ofThimewithehis
•knees, Bela him down with his left hand, and.
• again struck at him with his knife. " Don't
, hill Inc, boys1' cried thisher. ..(arohie MeLeen •
then ran out from behincl a tree put a rifle
within eighteen inches Of Vsshet's head, and
fired. . Ussher's knees raieed spasmodically,
• theri his lamealowly straightened out. Home
7-- -dead:. Archie McLean aftozwerd stank him
twipe over the head,wttli the butt �f his 1.•lite.
The posse:, armed with useless weapons, Were
held itt aity bylaw getlans, who fired ralidly
from behindthe trees, vionading 'several of
poor Mather's ,alzaost aleforiseleas companions.
indictment for aiding and abetting his broth- 'GENERAL RROCK.
ere. He was eroded at Bawl:lope while pre •
The Mystery of Hie Death -It is at Last
Solved After Sixty -Eight Yeare--The
Confession Of* Centenarian, ,
(weep], the Philadelphia Times, Nov - Me
chasing food ariel ammunition fpr them, but
beyond that he was in no way concerned an
the rourders. During their incarceration
they have shown intense hatred for their cap.
tors, and repeatedly attenapted to injure those
who were near theta. It has been generally
suppesed they calculated upon being able to
make their escape, but they have been well
watched, and, unless executive Blemency is
exereiged, taey will doubtless receive tbe
punishment they so richly deserve.
CHINESE T.A.DIESr FRET.
why Don't the allivtell.eA? uthorities Inter -
(From the Cincinnati Gazette.]
A report has eorue to us from the city of
Cambridge, which we trust's untrue, that the
Chinese instructor at HarvaridOellege--a dig-
intary who dressea in ilk and is the author
of a volume of poems on which no American
eritio has been able to pass an adveree
meat, since there is no Western scholar who
can interpret its tea-chest hieroglyphica -is
eubjeeting his little slaughter to the'famt•bincts
ing proem), a fearful tort= in itself, awl re.
tenting itt making the child a cripple for life.
We have been told that the screams of the
poor child have been heard by the neighbors.
Tho - peva has been olten detteribed.
Bandages ten feet long and two feet wide are
laidon the inside of the instep and carried
over tbe four small toes and Around the heel,
drawing the two extremities nearer , each
otherebalgint the instep, and making a deep
hallow 111 the ease (Moe a
month or oftener the bandage is removed end
the feet are soaked and kneaded. Plat:teed
alum is pat on to prevent the sloughing and
putireseence Wilkie Often occur. kionietiraea
a too or inore drops off. The pain,
whichie intellect oontinuee about a
year, then graduallyaliminishee, and by the
end al the second year the feet are dead and
painless. During the firet twelvemonth the
poor girl sleeps only on her back, lying crose-
wile: the )ed, with her feet hanging down
over the side, so that the edge of the beri.
stead presses on the tendons and nerves be-
hind theeknees in such a way as to dull the
pain somewhat. There she swings her feet
and moans; and even the coldest weather
ceonot *rap hereelf in a. coverlet-, berauge
every.return of warmth to her limbs in-
creases the aching. Tho sensation is said to
be like that of puncturing the joints with
needles. •
While thealainding_le....enainueita_as ever,
after, the feet are uselessfer.purposes of loco-
motion. With • demi feet, only two .inches
long, tho woman • thus' beautiful" is a
wretched cripple. As we have said, it is re-
ported ' that the "learned inatructor above
mentioned is thus treating his daughter. He
has remarked, we are informed, that wore he
to livo permanently in . the United States, he
.elroula not buni her feet; but he •expeetseto
return to China •in a , yen:, or two, and were
she then to.haVe natural loet•her social proa-
pada would be ruined.. This ,may. -true,
but,for the argent he is living in Maseachu-
• . Seenig that nothing eouldbe done, the possie Betts, and under Massachusetts laws, and those
•24•0tUrDed t Katnio najor.lieneratril-e-haadaatalaves--alaould-be--inveleecl-tee-preteet--th
n y epee:alewas at (mem Organized and
•• propetly. &equipped, aud returnedeta the eeene
he
• of tinutder,arriving there after dealt:
• They found 'the camp fire of the. 'outlaws
- still burning.: Usadier'14 body , Was
' lying near tha spat wbeee ho fell. • It :was
frozen stiff. -• The head was covered. with
• blood; and there Was iv bole 'through the
centre of the•-fereheetL thMhullat coining out
near the -jugular vein. The posse started
after the murderers at ono with .all ' speeai
The outlaws made for Nicola. On the letb
of December they appeared before: the house
of James, Kelly and den:tended food. .He gave
them all he had, botaheyealled huin to one
side and tint 'four' bullets.-- through
Alarmed, the Outlaws then made for the
InaittraReeerve 'between Nicola and Kamloops,
but wore surprised on the 125h by the speehili,
who found them in a cabin on the •shores of
Douglasalakee-A-regesier-esiegeaewesHeeta-
anoneed :after the first refusal of the fugitives
to surrender., • The begiegere, who numbered
• nearly ote hnncTredacoinmenced firitig, and.
' • kept am the fusillade until theolimbearding
of.the cabin was blown to. pieces, and a white
• handkerchief was.exhibited by the besieged.
After a Omit parley. the outlawe earee (Intone
' by one; placed their rifles againstea tree, .atid.
surrendered. They were at one° securely
inioeed 'anal taker: thlfainloojea: •0
o tirs tia o mule eter
on March 15, with the chaege ()flit. Justice
Crease to the Grandlury, inwhichlie ref:erred'
to the McLean boys as 80128 of as gallant
who was shot while serving his country in tine
chillcoteen expedition; and hinted that the
state was partly responsible for the predatory
hems they had •sinee led and the dims they
had committed in not caring formai educating
them. The testimony takon was conclusive Of
their.guilt, andahe Judge's Charge bore home
ily against ' the prisoners, • including Archie
McLean; the youngest, whom lie pluttoutaced
as tesporesible ba the.oyee Of the Mee as theagh
ho were a f ullagrowia, man. The jury, after an
abeence.- of twenty-two • minutes, came into
eoutt with a verdict of guilty of willful. murder
against All the font prisoners, in which vex-,
-diet the sejridgm said •-lio 'entirely- concurred.
Theyavere tondeninea to be Winged, but Oh;
tained a new trial, which haft ; resulted in a
like conaietioreand eareffinee. '
"The father of:the three .abLeariss was 1» bus
chietfactor of the Hadsoia Bay Qom.piney of British .Columbia. • tle.came to'his
death ha the Obilleoteen taaesaare of 1864
when, with a. band of whites organized at his
own expense, ho endeavored to cheek theeIn-
e
dians when they attemptea to drive the eettleas
from the district. His (loath was regardedme
O calamity. His wile, the thothet e/ the Con -
'yids awning his name., wiia 'a beautiful
s mad, and at her 'death viCte highly • aceone-
• plislitelt although McLean educated her him.
self. Archie McLean, the youngest of the
three brothers, fa a Oat 'Slender youth, with
• • , dark halt and swarthy skin. Although only
• 17 years old, and a hose in appearance, he' is
probably the Most determined soeundrol of the• .
font. Allen aletean is 25 years old, dark and
handsome,With.a splendid' physical develop-
" ment. He hos jet blade hair and Whiskers,
and We that blaze liko coals of fire. He is tell
Ata straight art an arrow, and, with hiastal-
wart frame, swarthy complexion and
air of savage aneencern, ia a type of Hugh,
the half gyPaY, Whose character Dickens so
vitdclly deeetibea in " Barnaby nudge."
Charlie is 10 year:: ola he, too, is tell and
muscular, but he luta heavy, beetling •brows,
. and' a coarse: and sinister expression. Alex.
axidet Hare 1s18 you s told, broad shouldered,
With A squat figure,and of amazing strength.
All four have the high cheek bones and broad
nostrils of the Lidian race, A fourth McLean,
ITectory.the eldeet of the family; is else Mader,
03 I
xreetebed victim of Orioatal Jelly. • • •
•
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DAGGETT'S BOOINkErtAISIG.
. (Prom the Caron Appeal.)
When Congressman Daggett first' Wont to
Waehington, two yearsago, Lo was charged
616.50 for 'extra baggage at Omaha.. This
angered the Congressmen so that he Towed to
iigke 1110 -Ti, btirden jor 'every official orretinr
Una:ea.:Pacific and Central Pacific , railroads.
When he got to Washington ho began.toeship
Sons and tons of Congre*sional .ReOofyls,
which the Union Pacific and Central Pacifies
railroads are 'obliged to wary free .of .charge,
according to a stipulation with Unote Sam,
made when he granted them so much of his
broad public: domain. Daggett shipped boxes
of these documents aver the road, Addressed
todasimself and accompanied by his big frank
emarthen-words-a-Congiessionale-4oeumentse
free." During the first sessien he seat seven:
teen tens ,of this clans of matter over the
road, and as 'soon as he reached home.he
want it back :main; Daggett's ' big boxes of
"Pub. Does.a. .eoon became notorious, and
the face and, figure . of the • Coagresentan
wove ;deo well known. 'Wherever ,he went
he Was sure to seek some of the freight agehts
if they had seen any -of my 'free freight
lately.", ..Efe • always made himeelf known
and--Was—Suree-to Ada, Yon -mus
handle these boxes gently ; they 'contain. the
speeches of some of the greatest mon of the
nation. If you clamage.any of them 'Teem
theroad for the full valise." On election clay
the boys got their revenge,ana evereentotheile
son of them voted agaiest Daggett. Those
wire ran on the Utah divisioalocated their
voting places ite Nevada t11. time to got their
work in oia eleetioh day and they raked. Dag-
get•fere and aft from eunriee to sundown.
When it was known that he was defeated near -
'e
lY (were'. freight and baggage man on the line 1 -6- Bilious Attack Which Wats Ctusd lOY a
got (think; and for a couple of daps • the..road
was utterly demoralitecl. •
vet stelae Z.it giilue.e
. The blacksmith shopsat the headof Gris-
wold street had hardly opened their •deots
yesterday Morning. when a &tiered man RP -
peered at one of. them leading an equine which
slid and walked and hobbled by tarns on the
slippery snow. " Ifhorses over live over a
hundred yeard this ono ho poised that figure.
His hair waslong, one eye was Closed and he
had so many limpe that it seemed uselesa to
look for a sound log. .
"What I aant to knots," began the owner,
after he ltd taken four turns around it hit*.
jug post with the inch tope used as a halter
"ani about what it Will oost to shoo dis
hove" .
"Two dollen)," Was the arompt.toply. '
"For ao lead's sake 4 but has iron riz up to
deb pitaix ? I'll have to dwelt on deafer a few
minita," '
1Ie dwelt. He Walked areraid his steed,
looked him over carefully, eted, then fetid to
the smith: ' • .
"Now two hyar. I yea war' mewouldn't
you eoli o' keep ais beast fur a eummer
hoss, an' do year winter hitulin' 'on a hanch
sled .
"I would." "
"Bat's what 1 War finkin"botit, tin' tglieSS
save him over till April and call myself a
hosa fro* do winter. Seems like attravagatice
to get bitter: fur me an4 shoes for him all to
ono°. Hold up day', Philander -none os your
maim' up Iteetchint.poets yerol"-De.
troit Fred Press.
Geo, Sir Isaac Brock, the illustrious.13ntisla.
commander who captured Gen. faunal army
,at Detroit, in the war of 1812, fell at the head
of his troops in the battle ale,Queenetown,
November 10 of that year, add at thie late
fay Robert Walcot, a centenarian, of 913
Morris street, wholtagbean brought to hisbed
through weight of years and infirtnitiega
clainm, under oath, to have fired the fatal
bullet. The etory, gleaned from, the old war-
rior is interesting, though, with the exception
noted, not extraordinary, At the beginning
el hostilities in the wareeof 1812 Walcott at
the age of thirty•one, Wads employed as A
blacksmith at Newtowalloade, Massachusetts.
R was not until the oampign was well under
way that he joined the army, and then upder
the preteure of a draft. General Hull and
his entire artny had surrendered to General
Break, and remeltswere briskly mustering
loathe array of the centre On tho Niagara
River, whittle was 'contemplating the invasion
of (armada under General Van Rensselaer.
Walcot left Charlestown' Neck in September
for the frontier, and ander Lieutenant-
Colonel Oallaatiana allayed at Faur.
Mile Creek the daybefore the battle 61
Queenstown. Being robust and athletic, he
.Was assigned to the -Concerti Artillery, then of
the Thirteenth Regiment and under com-
mand of ChnetainLoonard. Tlaat morning an
emeuceeseful attempt heti .been wide by tact
Amerieane to erose the Niagera River from
Lewiston, but %lea was in ;time ' to take
'part in the•invasion that followed. He has
O distinct, reccilleatien of the memorable
events: attending the raid on the 13th of Oct.
ober,
A violent storm had been raging for forty.
sight hours, in the midst of Which a Exarob
Was Made from Fort Niagara to Lewiston,
Here Walcot was selected ataone Of the forty
artillerists to aceonitiany Colonel Solomon
Van Rensselaer, who was in immediate
charge of the invading troops and. who took
the first beet itemise thcariver in the darkness
of the early morning. .The object of attach
was Queenstown .11eights, a point
commanding .the approaches to the town
hard by. The invading party were warmly
reclean& by the British forces, who were
routed, however, from the feet of the heights.
Of the first allots fired Walcot received one in
the right leg, and. in a subsequent engage-
ment -he sustan4ed-a-Vourideinetheleft-thigh.
The ethiamandant, Van Renseehune was ale°
dteabled, and Lieutenant (afterteard General)
Wed succeeded itt co:Mai:Md. Under his di.
rection the liana Of Amorkanabegan an asawit
Of tlact heights toward a -rodeo hatterea located
far up the acclivity, the way being led by the
forty strong artillerists, notwithstanding the
fact that many of them were woueded. •Wale
esot- remenilseretaeeeingetho. blood tticklings
from the sigma of their aominandetaWnel.-
-
In the meantime Gen. Brock, whose head.
(matters_ Werra at • Fort George„tieven Milos
nun; tbe goalie of battle, was hastening to the
spot. " Our troop," seasiseWeleet, • a Were
-ititing-thee-atteekee-I-cour •1
&leek aa .be approached, leading the °image,
and by side macs; another geaeral glamor.'
Brock was a fine-looking men, and; 'I un-
derstood, 'very:well liked, Up to this time I
bad not fired a shot at the enemy, although.
I was considered •au • excellent marks.
man. When the English began their .aecant
I aeft my post and went to, an infane
trymine and askea..hina to lend inc hie
Hireelid-ecee..Lactsked-him eaealoar_
many balls are there in this?' He said there
wee ono. 1A:eked him for another and
'reenneditain theme:). I went to the edge of the
linmand, taking 'elm, fired at Brock. His
face was partly turned to the troops as Ifired..
He fall almost instantly, and a hintedback
any post. .' • • • . • •
. " It waii.siame time after I fired ;before the
attack of the.Baglieb. was made. They fought
but a ffiw Moments andthen retreated. My
aptiritranotenememicee'inteeline-aften-shoote-
ing Brock and he ordered me 'under arrest,
and then pointing to the gun told me to take
charge sof it. I attempted to inform lajm
what -I ltd, donee but he- wonlaneit listen.
When the.fightitig had Ceased I was sorry for
my part•in the affair. The main body; of the
Enalielalrom.Pert George, coming am, routed
us in .every-direetion. A large number of our
militia could.be seenon the Atinerican' shore,
-
but 010re/used to.come • to our assistance.
-The-English were infuriated 'because oaf the
death of Brock, and showea no mein. With
severaiothers, I•reaalled the river and swam
across.. While swimming three of our party
were 'Shot claaa. and I was Wounded in the
back of the beck. When able for serviee. I
was promoted tO a captaincy. 1 Was laser -
vice at Sack'ett's Harbor until the close qf the
war." • . ' •
"WHY HEKILLBD H I 8
-Wallace Ross is not a Cantu:lien. He was
one up to Satttrday, but'now we are quite
stare he wtu) a 'Yankee.
Revolver.
• (From the Little11ek Gazette.)
" Yee, I have killed nay man," •remarked
old John Bigelaw When e the ,corivefeatiou
touched.upon the shedding of human .blood.
" I killed one of tag best friends," he eon:
thitteta•lighting lits pipe laid, throwing 'the
largest pair of feetan the conapany .on • to a
chair, with an effort and anbsequent13; twitch.
leg about the face, which. very plainly eohi
that the old Mate was Buffering With Thelma-.
taint.
"What!s hillea your friend," exelaienedone
of the company,
'Yes, As warm a friend as I had on earth."
" Accidentally, wasn't it ?"
" No, sir, purpotely. If Yotx men ain't in a
hurry I'll tell you the eircumstomea,
Bitery oao expressed A desire to 'hoae the
story, and die old man, after a moments' re-
flection, began : •
a I wait_a young feller, and had juin come to
Little Rock, when, ens:night While passing a
saloon on the levee, 1 was attacked by several
ruffians. I fought desnerately,itriottking one
of them down -and Ltill you I was a slick
'buck itt those days -LT was adtancing In an-
other when he 'drew a horse pistol and leveled
it at txte.„ The moon wag ellining and I could
see a fiendish expression of delight on the
face of the ruffian. .toot at that metneht the
pistol was knocked high in the air. 'rim
ruffians fied and' 1. saw before • me a tall
young man. ale asked me if I Was hurt, and
`advancing, took me by the arm Well, We
betatne friends. Eis 1181110*as Geo. Wentek.
Plenty of old people in this town re-
member him.God knows how well .1 do.
You people seem to 138 growing restless. I'll
cut the story short. "!George and r became
room -mates. An attachiment-ono of these
here old.thne friendships -sprang up between
us, Poor follow; he had one. fault-awhiakeye
When drank he was the Moat dangerous mat
I ever saw. Many a time have 1 peen him
walk into a crowd, fbap someone's face, and
NITRO-GLYOERI NE.
'then knook him down for resenting the in. . 1-, • , . —
suit, He need to say, 'John, T AM biliOAqt 4.."1,,tixorting Time in the Harbor
and you know thatlighting is My only Medi- - at Buffalo. _
Oirle.. I anutit have medicine,'
"Otto night he came into the room after an
THE TABOOED CARGO
absence of (several dais, saw that he wait
full and tried to engage bat attention on a
serious subject, but failed, Finally he re-
marked that he was bilious Dna bad to have
tnedkine, He went clown, and several hours
afterward returned with the end of a man'
nose stiolcing on a knife -blade. ,
"'1 got myenedicincia be paid. 'It is not
very 1)40 to hand you a piece of meat with-
out a fork, but en this occasion of emergency
I'll have to use a knife. It was eattler a hard
matter to get the medicine. I had to look all
around. Finally a num came down the atreet.
I told him that 1 was bdieus and had to have
some medicine, taut mistaking my meaning,
he told me to go to a drug store, This was an
insult, and in nay great need (.4 Medicine I
knocked hint dewn and eat off the end of' his
nose. lito pimple of this town ought to under -
tend that wawa I get bilious 1 want tho medi.
;lineal human flesh and blood. What use is
flesh and blood, anyway? It cermet enter the
Kiegclormof Heaven.. aohn, it I hadn't found
this fellow, I 'Mould have killed you: Hang
it, you ought to know that 1 intuit have medi-
eme P
" He threw the piece. of human flesh on
the table and told me to look at it. I turned
away in disgust, and drawing apistol, be, myi
beet friend, tcild mi
e to put in n any mouth.
I argued with him, but in a wild howl he told
me that Im needed more medicine, and that
if I didn't put the piece of nose in my mouth
he wouldd kill me. He cooked the mishit and
I took up the piece of flesh, And, pretending
to put it in my mouth, dropped it down my
sleeve. This satisfied lib:rte.-mid he went to
bed. I went to the window And threw away
the unfortunate nose and crept down ctairs.
Next morning George got down on his knee%
and with tearcain his eyes implored my for-
giveneee, He . found the' Man 17110 110
suffered the loss of a pert of his nose, and
gave him 5400, every cent of money' he had.
For it king tine he, remaineasober, and the
eireemstanees cif his last ease of biliousness
were almost forgotten. I had become more
and • more attached to him, for overY day I
was impreeeed with the,thnobility of.his char -
actor. . Gee night, at e appointed hour, he
failed, to come home. Another friend of mine
lcd cozno up to pass the evening with us. We
wore reading "David Oopperfield," • and
George, who was it aplendid elocutionist, was
going to read to us. We waited and - waited.
Determining that George would not cone° in
tintil very late, I took up the book and began
reeding. Jest as I got to where Mr. °Mar,
the undertaker was driving nails into -'offing
witliai rat', aatatat, Georgo•avillfaekin;
".I am billieue " 10 exclaimed, arid then
I sewhe was drunk. • • .
Tothoi
oorte_,;II are you going to read
rto
'“ X0.! "he exclaimed; "1 lenive: bean rietid•
lug a medical work -,and I -Ana that I arehll,
lions. John, / Am going out to hunt for some
hutnan medicine. and if I don'S find any. -I 11
have to usent.o.e jug.,
Shat if he iltd not find some ooe to tight lis
maid come back and attitek me, r Bat for a
long time and studied. My friend was talent,
•At length 1 hefted fobtateps on the stairs, and
instinctively I ran to my trnnk and took Out a
pistol. . 1' had just time to again reach the.
Mble when George entered with twaenothibas
hats° pistols, one iueeach hand:"
‘" Billions," he exelahned, and leveled
aimed the pittolea 1 dedgedahelaild -the
table just as he area. X had mei pistol ja
any hand." ' • •
lam billions, I tell you," and. hieleveled
the other pieta •
" Quielt as a tliteli I fired, George fell. I
ranto him, and Yillt4 thcaassistinee Of . my
other •friencl, put him to bed. •an a few me -
meats the room was 'crowded with.peOple.
was not aerested, *for I 'had acted an self-de-
fence. *Next day; steed by George's bedside.
He was sober end•suffered great pejo.. My
ball had passed through his body. • •
a • John,' he said: 'give rae your hind." I
grasped his hand and ' stood 'smiting iuto his
eyes. His Moe changed. •••• '
." John, I will never be billioas and
with omit gasphe died. ••
".Gentlemen; this is Why peoala say that I
have killed iny man," and the old man wiped
tears -from his eyes and knookathe Eiehee
fromhis pipe. ' .
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• ' ENGLISH. MUSIC
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English eimapOsers and rnusioiti'ns obtajued
celebrity earlier than Zagllsh painters, except,
possibly, the Especial °lase !of painters em-
ployed on stained•glass windows for .ecelesi-
eatioal buildings. The English madrigals and
Lour -part musk of Queen Elizabeth's time
are preserved to • this day, and • top known
abroad as well as here. Iulusic, like Many
other refiaing ageacies, was dieeouraged by
the Puritans, but sprang up again into new
life after the Restoration. As to the snatches
of songs introduced in Shakespeare's play,
doubtsatve expressed whether the nationality
of the muele coeird be clearly established,
howetet .charaoteriatie it may be. Mt.
Clierlay epeelts very tavezably of Dr. Arne's
music to a• •few el the favorite songs in the
dramas of Our great national bard, He cites
the,musie to The Tempest and As You Like
It, eepecially the lovely spume Where the
Bee Seeks', and Biota', Blow, Thou Wintry
Wind, as: posseesing alike originality, freshness
and beauty.. Sir Henry R. BishoP's settiftge
of several of Shakespeare's image aro alao ad-
mired for their power and animation. Bid
ale Discourse, the delicious catzenette 13y
the Simplicity of itatins' Devoe, and the
Orpheus Duet, are named; AA examples al-,
most wholly. duo ,Ao' English respiration.
"Bishop had a fairy land of his own.- Pecu-
liarities of (Ammeter alone stood between him
and. European fame. 'And then he fell on
evil daysewhen the Inusio of "tat Oontinent
Was streaming into Bnglanci, and when those
in wheat servieehis life pasiscia"e-i,e., theatre
rataingere and 'music publishers -a tenapted
And perhaps constrained' him 't� make con -
°miens to out then •popular taste; it luckless
andfoolish Shing if it be done' by any artist
in• deaunce of conecienee a sad thing 11 15 be
clotio with acquiescence of conscience." Alas I
the bread•and-cluese question intrudes itself
here, as manytt man of genies knows to bis
sorrow.. It was it good sign that Bishop's
mueie was the best when t110 words to which
he eompoeed it were the best. This denoted
O union of poetry and inutiein the artist,
whether Or not he Over wrote literary poetry,r-
All the Year Round,
-The mortality among theatrical cOmpan•
los continues. "The Tile dub," "Deseret,"
and "Our FlirtAtiotte” awe now added to 'the
detethetiete -
Ships Laden with the Explosive
Buffeted in the storm.
Itureeno, Nov. 24.-Tbere was it flutter 02.2
the decks this morning over the departure of
a Canadian propeller, the Georgian, with a
canto of 20 tons of nilro.glyeerine and 40
tons of giant powder. The Geergian steamed
slowly down the river and out into the lake,
being eagerly watehod from the dock. The
slightest shock might explode the mine in tbe
atetaner'a hold; and as :Me erushea through
the ice many fearetEthe slight ooneassion
might awaken the slumbering -ialcano and
turn the harbor into ebaos. Great care was
usea to prifaent an accident, ea the propeller
moved through the fleet and when she had
paSsea out of the harbor the shipping men
and others in the vicinity of, the wharf ex-
parieneea a Sensation of relief. The Georgian.
with her cargo of nitro-glycerine • and giant
powder lay At the dooke, in the heart of Una
city, for 24 hours. This is tae ettecond'airee
tale oarge hat: been in Buffalo. The explos-
ives aye intended to be used for blasting pur-
poseeafie thew:nape:lion of the Oanadiau
fle Railway. They were shipped at Montreal
an an old pilot schooner-calied tIib George,MI---
Mowbray and consigeea to Fort William, -
Lake Superior. This is thcasecOnd cargo of
glycerine. the Mowbray has boon chartered to
transport ,to Fort William, The first cargo
got there without any raishap, but the cargo
that was last night lying in the laity has
passed through a ecene of remarkable wind;
tuba. After leaving the Welland 'Canal the
schooner encountered very , aevate ,weather,
and on November 7th she was, brought jnto
the Brie basin hero by a tug; thine she lay
eight in the midst Of our shipping, buS 08
80011 as the:dangerous character of het cargo
was ,dipoovered elm was ,required to leave.
When the achooner was just above Brio she .
met another gale of wind, and she made a lee
in the Bay of Presqu' Islee.There she dragged "
her anchor and went ashore, and throughout'
the whole of thestorm butimed violently •
ageinat the -Bentham bar methe foot of the
bay. The crave; aware of •the dangerous
no-
turo of the ,eargo, , abandoned the vessel :
as soon as she farnek. When .
the 'stolen abated An attempts was •
made to get her off, tut, without success. It
was then • decided to unload here, and the. ,*
nitro-glyoerine was traneferfell to a scow'
Aide winetowea to fdipereelady; (ith asolatc4l,.
place where no miens claznage dna have
been done if an explosion had taken place,) .
few.days later; the propeller Georgian vies
chartered t� :convey the nitroeglyeerine to its ,
deatinattoit, And the eiptosive material was
transferred • from the 'Seco to the hold' Of the a
propeller, where there:was already forty tons -
of fnant powder. . The Georgip,n.then started . .
on her voyage, but it woula• seem as, if no
veesel could make -a voyage ha safety with .•
thate--fienclitithcargo ina-the-reugh-weathe '
which prevailed tit the beginning of the week. .;
The eccentric of tho 's propeller was ' broken
andshe drifted at the mew:ref the Waves. .
Yesterday morning 'the. disabled • vessel, al-
thoughats- name and the natura arits cargo
Wa8 not then .known, you? slatted ' oaf Ham •
.butg'and a telegratie •itts forwarded to ;super- . •
intendent Dobbins, of the life orating steam), s •
atincemaing, She . 'fact, arta a, 81111:
boat, mortar' And boa& .-Apparatus .a*
were dispatched by land to the point where it *
was expected the :meal would- conic ashore;
and the tug Crowellwas sent out to bring the
propeller in port, if it .could reach it in: time.
to he of any seryiee. . The Orolvelleeettehed • '
She propeller.in" time to saie it from deetrude.
tion, and brought it safely into pert. When •
it was being.moored to the: what/ near th
Michigan street bridge a, good :deal of difa • ••
oulty-waseineperienced-oMaceennt-of-the-le "
in the river, and the propeller was, hien:age- • • .
cpience, forced throuele the ice in Busch a way '
• that makee those who witnessed the 'occur.
mine wonder that no explosion took place. •
The accident which ilieabted the Georgian
wait repaired 'yesterday, thug; enebling her sto
tentinueler voyage this morning. There was
sufficient nitro-glycerine on board' the Geor-
gian : to have destroyed the greater portion:of •
the city and the whole of the.shipping in the •
harbor. • The Georgian atrieed at Port Col-
bortmethia aftenroon-raind-noWeliterateeme-of
the -wharves in that place.'
JEWS.IN GERMANY. . • '
Causes for the Predent Agitation Against
Otte of the main arguments of the anti.
Jewish agitation in Prnseia him been that the
eountrY was being swamped by the
Of a low claps of 'Jews from Galioia. Dr.
S. Neumann, a member of the town council.
of Berlin, has just published a pamphlet en-
titled k' The Fable of Jewish Immigration,"
in which he proves, by figures theta is .no
4enying, that fOr same years past more Jews
have left Prusata than have ecnne into it, The
Jews have emigrated in specially large numl
bers to America, On the Whole, enotviith.:
standing the random assertions made by
Professor Treitechke and his friends, the
proportion of Jews to the population At large
has : rather dimieishecte than increased
In 1849 thine were 1,841 Jews to every 100,-
000 . inhabitants ; in • 1858 the propor-
tion Wag. 1,366 ; in 1864 it vias 1,360,
while in 1671 it had fallen baelc to 1,344.
The fact that tuna* the Jews the proportion
of births to deaths is'higher than among the ,
Christians hag been used as MI argument by -
their enemies, It has been 'said that the rea-
son lay ba the exemption of the Jewish wo-
men frbm severe phyBical effort, and bitter
things have been saki on the comfort and
proaperity in which the -am igie at the ex-
penee of good Christians. answer to this
Dr. Neuman'refers to tho statement mode
forty years ago by Hofmann, the founder of
statistical research in Prussia, that "thp
giene Majerity, of the Jean: can scarcely gailf
latolerable livelihood and live in the greatest
poverty, despite unweerying industry and
rigid economy).* Ilefinarin points to the
treater temperance of tee ZONV8 as the tree
causeof their great vitafity, andDr. Neuniann
supports this view by reference to the excep-
tionally creditable :position played by the
Jewish part of tho populatioh to the most
reeeat statiaties of drunkenness in Prussia.
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-In France many professors of the art of
cooking tea a family for so math a day and.
an additional atim for each fittest. They 'Wig
the provisions, submit a menu, which May be
ohangetl, and said a cook to live in the house. •
At a dinner party they or their aids superin-
tend. They.are answerable for the took.
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