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ffibntshn $dvcriircr. 8. -W. TAIRBR0TK2R 0., Tnftiin. CAlVKUT, : : NKIUtASKA. THE NEWS. Compilod from Latest DiBpatcb.es. ConerrcHHlorinl. Ilnxn were- pusscl In the Senate on lhc Kith: To provide for tbo sale of tbo land of the Mi ami Indlaon tfi Kansas; to nmwid tho article of war Imp nsrH limitation of two years from tbodstooi onl'stncntafitlust proM-cutloirs for docrtoti; to jir vldo lor tho d.snislUon of Koit Larnol inilltirr n serration, khiiss. re storing land to settlement and cultlvullon: to prom ito Uio cmcl"iicy of tlio Nov)-. Hills worn Intro luro It Hv Mr, Iugnlls, to adjust tho claims of Uio onnfedf ratod Poorin Indian of Kansas, by Mr. Hill, to provide suitable iur riuiiltunU ) inds for Uio B utbcrn U t Indiana; ly Mr. Pmtiih, to regulate nr motion In tho nrrnv uti 1 increaso lu cfflelcner In tbo Honso tbo Supplemental Cousu LIU, making. available uio nppropr ntion tor pur m ctnim employes, was passed. A rcsoluton writs adopted culling for information concerning tho perils of Am rienn Missionaries In Persia, etc HUH were introduced: JJy Mr. Hcnidnu. proposing a Constitutional amend ment limiting tbo number of Members of tbo House to JtK; by Mr. Pnyson, prohibiting u pohgHtolst or bigamist from voting or bold Ingoiuooln tlio Territories; by Mr. Ellis forn ship nmal to connect Luke Ponohnrtrain nnd tho Mlslslppl lUver;Ty Mr, Carlislo, to it duo" tbo tax on whisky to lifty cents; bv Mr, West, ton'din orootlnir monuments on Kevo liitloiuiry bnttia-floMn; by Mr, Vwiiit, to abolish National Hank. Mr. Anderson (Kan), from th Ouiitnltti) on Agriculture, reported a bill enlinr,inr tbo power ol the Department of Agr culture, Mr. Hatch (Mo.), from tbo snmo ouinnuttoc1, xcportrd u bill to preer.t tb spread of lnf"oUoui or contagious dieuos among nil ma'. I.v Uio Senuto on tbo 14th n motion by Mr. Edmunds to take up Uio anti-Polygamy bill out of It regular order wus defeated " to 'J& but tbo motion subsequently orovallcd, and the bill wim til W oil tip and laid over ns tbe next business In order nftor Mr. Call should have, on tho 15th, UnlHbed bin remark on the Pension-arrears rewoluUon. Mr. Cull intro- flit.,.,.1 ,1 tilll In nviMntkt 4.ui.1a tT Ij.uu fKtiti twenty-tlvo tons on Inland water of tbo Uult-d States, nnd not carrying passengers, from In spection and lioenscu Mr. Morgun fifferod i u resolution requesting tho President to bring In 'be nttenUon of tbo Gov ernment of Nicurutrua the :iwicnlty of iiminpo for tbo lluul pettlemeut of all unndjUHted datum existing Itetween th Unit dKtHles and Niof.rairuH In tho Houho Mr. WIIIcUd reported u bill tti prevent polyjru uilfla from bolaimr civil olllce In Uio Tcrrl toiieH or M'r'ittrna delejrat'jH In ConcreBjL Mr. Ortlj made an advurno report on the resolu tion !ulllnjr on tho Attorney-Orneral for an opinion an to tbo unimision of tho writ of hab HMeorpuHln Qniut Iiritaln. Tho Appor tlotimutit bill wiih taken up, and Mr. OiiU'b at iruod lu favor of llxliur Uao number of Hepro Bentat.Ti'HHt5a On the 36th Mr. JuukHon Introduced in tbo Pmmto a bill npniriutliiKr SlWl.fKlO to inukti eiod tbo Iohm mmtu tied ut tho handM of Federal troopa, in 1HIVI, by the MethodlNt Hcxik-htiUHo ut NiiHhvUld. A resolution was panned to prmidu ineoHiMifruni for aerou loiidlnir oominltt'iew at fMliO per year. The untt-I'olyuamy bill was debaUid for noino time, but no aotion taken. Mr. Call MHiku in aupport of bin atuoiidinout to tho J'oiiHloiHirruurH reHOlutlou. deolarimr In favor of potialousto aurvivom of Indian warn prior to JtHf. . . lu the HounedlMiUHHiouis upon tbo Apportionment bill nocupled tbo euUro day. In tbu Senuto on tho Kith a uommuniaitlou waMnoehtid fnnn tho Bouretary if tbo lnto rlur. roooinmendintr uu ivjnroirlutUm of tfv (KW.IIOO for Um exilorutlou of Alaska. The bill authorltlnirtherontniaHteiOeneni". to itclluxt certain claims of I'oaUnaater from Jcihh by bunrlard, lire and other unavoidable luiHuultlex van' reported favorably. Tbo anU-l'olyjramy bill was tben taken up, and after debate It wan pmaed by n unanimous vote. Tho bill aa paod taakus polyjfamy a penal offence, dlnponncusca tbo polyguinlut ollloe-hold-er uod dlfrancb(sea tbo oolygamiat voter In Uio Houho blllg wcru reporttwl favorably: lly Mr. Uurniwn, to admit Dakota aa a State; by Mr. Hooker, to provide additional traltilng aebools for Indian youth; by Mr. Dunncll, to fix tbo terra of In tenial IteveuuoOolloctorfl at four years. Tho Apportionment bill ww tben taken up. and a resolution was pmiHod that tho baalK of dlvlwlon f hall lw Uiut unod In tbo Forty-Sixth Congre'ta. Mr. Andorson'a amendment, flxlnir tbo total memuerbtp of tho Houau fur the next ten yeuni at 3& wiw thou panai d 103 to 101. Tbo Hcnato bill gruntlrur a peiuilou of f5,0U0 to Mrn. Uaiileld waa piuMcd. Domestic. TiK cltlsenaof Greenwood, Steuben County, N. Y., Lave ruslBtod tbo aaloof projicrty to pay Interest on railroad tiondu, and Governor Cor lell ou Uio 14th declared the township In a itate of lnsurroctlon, and warned the people lo desUt from unlawful acts. The propeller Wjfconsln, of tho Goodrich rranDporUUcm Comiany, was wrecked at Grand Haven, Mich., on tho Hth, No lives were lost. Floods In the rlvcra tributary to the Mis. lUsippi aro Rrctttly endangering tho levees of that river. At Delta, Miss., ou rho Hth a crevasse 400foot long was reported. ArinBatTny, (N. Y.),ou the 14th destroyed Gardner's laundry, with 25,000 dor.ou collars and cuffs. Onh Bmeal, a colored man living near Athens, Oil, being suspected of stealing a horse, waa whipped by u mob ou the Hth un til he confessed, and ho was then hanged. Tub second trial of Johnny Liimh for the murder of Oitlcer ltuec, in Chicago, resulted on the 14th In an acquittal. On the first trial he was convicted and sentenced to bo huntf. Lamb had bcon In jail over three j-ears. Hbv. Gkouok a Mils, pastor of Unity (Unitarian) Church of Chicago, having in a recent sermon disavowed his belief In a per sonal God tho elllcacy of prajer and tho im mortality of tho soul, tho Church Society held a meeting on the evening o tho liitli and adopted a resolution 118 to 3 Instruetliifc the Trustees of tho church to at onee give Mr. Mlln a notice in writing that his connec tion with Unity Church, as Its pastor, Is to teriiihmU) at tho expiration of three months from tho delivery of the notice to him. Mr. Mlln demanded that the Trustees should bo In. strueted to furnish him with spccHlc reasons for dismissing him from the pastorate, but this the meeting declined to ifb, saying that after mature delllwiatlon they had determined that tho reasons were sulllclent. Skcuktaht Hunt on the 15th brought about a conference at his olllce of the Naval Com mittees of the Benatc and House, three Ad mirals, nnd other otllcerd of distinction. Chalruiau Harris, of the Houfo Committee, urged tho Immediate construction of seven vesVels, at u cost of 310,000,000, two of them to ho of tho largest and fastest tyjie. Admi ral IMrtcr gave a hearty Indorsement to tho plan. Onb man was killed and several received so rious injuries by a rulho.ul coillslou at Akron, 0., on the 15th. A tjuoic death Is reported from Osniburg, Sttrk County, O. A telegraph operator named Lincoln Murphy, aged twenty-one years, boastfully bared his breast and Invited Daniel Klce to strike him. Klce did so, and soon aft er Murphy sank to the ground and died. A M.ICB half a mile square has fallen from the peak of Bald Mountain, In North Carolina, to the fertile valley below. The rejiort of the State Secretary of Inter nal Affairs shows that thero are ltlT2,7M taxa blcs In l'eunnjlranla; value of taxable real, estate property last car, l,M0,f.W,27H. There was $1(,010,531 worth of property exempt. Thkee students of WIlllton Seminary, Eastharnpton, Mass., were recently suspended for hazing, anil tho two upper cI.ismis refuse to attend recltat.oni until the supeuuVd students are relustatcd. Jacob (Iemseiit, lately Superintendent of Police at Cincinnati, killed himc f with a re volver on the 15th, leavlug a wife and nine children. The report of the Commission ou the cattle plague, which was peut to the Senate by the Secretary tif the Treasury on the Hth, showed that no lung disease existed in the Western centers of live-stock trafllc. The stcamslAp Bahama was lost on the 10th on her trip from Porto llleo to New York. Twenty-five persons were drowned, and thir teen escaped in a small boat and were picked up and brought to New York on the 15th by the Glenmorag. The town of Columbia. Tex., on the 15th was inundated from the Brano HIver. The luhab.taiits had gathered In the churches and were supplied with Jowl by boats. Kailvues were anuouncd In Chicago on the 15th of H. O. Ken; on & Co., a Board of Trade linn, for r'iVI.OOO, and ,7. A. DIx A: Co., fish merchants, for $20,000. Hoiiinsok, Kan., had a $75,000 fire on the Kith hlch destroyed the buslnos portion of the town, Including two hotels, the Matonlc and Odd FellowV'Halls, the Post-otllcc and a dozen stores. At Macon, Mo., on the lflth, the City Sav. lugs Bank and the Farmers' and Traders1 Bank sus;cnded paymcut. Since the decision of the New York Courts against the immigrant head-money law, tho steamship companies have withdrawn their offer to pay fifty cents for each passenger lauded, and the Commissioners of Castle Gar den arc left without adequate funds to aup tKirt the Immigrant Institutions. AccoitwNU to the estimates of the Depart, merit of Agriculture, the cereal products of 1881 will show a reduction of twenty-four per ceut as compared with 1H&0. The total vnluo lu lbSl Is estimated at $1,405,000,000, ugalnst $1,!U,000,000 in 1BS0. Thehe wore 111,713 arrests made by the Killce of Chicago last year. Niaga.ua IUvek, just lielon tho Falls, could lniaston the 10th of the lurgest Ice-bridge ever known there. It was over a mile long, extendiug f nun the Horseshoe Falls to a point lielow the swift drift. A rnvr days ago the County Treiisurcr at Detroit was robbed of $770 Uy a sneak-thlcf and his confederate. At Brooklyn, N. Y., by the explosion on tho lflth of two boilers at Jewell's mills, adjoining Fulton Ferry, one man w as killed and several lujurod. A rniE !n Louisville on the 10th destroyed over a hundred thousand dollars worth of property. It was announced on the 10th that negoti ations were pending In New York City for tho consolidation of the Au.erlcan and United States Express Companies. The Military Aculomy at Chester, Pa., con ducted by Colonel Hyatt, was destroyed by lire on the 10th. Lobs, $135,000. On the 10th Enos Sylvester, of Providence, It I., had au "Inspiration" which told him to 'offer uphls str-year-old boy as a burnt-offering to the Lord. Neighbors Interfered In time to preveut the consummation of the sacrifice. Pergonal nnd Political. Colonel Huckkh, the fiithcr-tu-law of Gen eral Sheridan, has been confirmed by the Sen ate as 0.uartcrmater-General In phieo of Melggs, retired. John C. Nkw of Indiana, was apjiolntcd Assistaut-Sccretary of the Treasury on the' 14th. Genkuai. Cahk was released from arrest ou the 14th, President Arthur declining to order a court-martial on the charges preferred by General Wlllcox In Arizona. Acnt Jt'uv Powkm. (colored) died lu Pitts burgh, Pa., a few days ago at the alleged uge of UU years. She remembered leading events of the Revolutionary War, and saw Gcuorul Washlngtou Just ufter the YorJUown surren der. Ex-Fhksident Wooi.skv, of Yule Collegei who passed his eightieth jeir on tho 15th, was presented by sixty profe-sors with a gold meilul, In recognition of faithful service for half a century. JohnE. MoDonouoh, the actor, dledof star, yutlon in Philadelphia ou the 15th, cancer in his throat making him unable to take nour ishment, Mits. E. T. Weston, of Peterhoro, N. H., In excellent health and with unimpaired facul ties, celebrated on the 15th her 101th birth day. The Chinese professor at Harvard Universi ty died at Cambridge u few days ago of pneu inunla. Tm: death of Bishop Wlghtman, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is an nounced. A LATE Washlngtin dispatch reports Mr. Scovlllo us hard ut work on lilt bill of excep tions in the Guitouu cute. The argument be fore the Court In bane will be made lu April- The New Yoik Assembly elected K. M. Johnson, RcptTullcan, for Clurk on tho 15th. The Tammany members supported hint. Ghnkkai, F. A. Walker, President of tho Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was arraigned in tins Municipal Court in Boston tho other day and lined one dollar for not re moving snow from tho sidewalk In front of the school. CoNTUint'Tiovh towurd the establishment of a Garfield professorship ut Williams College had reached f i'.'.OOO on tho 15th, and only $3,. 000 more was required. It is stated that Mrs. Scovlllc, the sister of Gitttcau, has written it long and earnest letter to Mrs. Garllcld, asking hor to intercede to save his life. Chaules Stankohp has been nominated by tho Republicans for the Now York Senate, to 1111 tho vuciiney caused by thedoathof Webster Wugnor lu tho SpuMen Duyvll disaster. Ret. Dk. Hansen, of Philadelphia, has ac cepted the call to. the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Chicago, AnotT twenty years ago the Wisconsin Leg.slat ure abolished capital punishment. On the 10th a bill pasaed the Senate providing for Its restoration. The National Honce of Repmcntatlves has passed the bill granting a pcnIon of $5,000 to Mrs. Oarfleld. Tickets to represent the full capacity of the hsll of the House of Representatives have already lcn Issued for the Garfield memorial service, and requests continue to jour In from every part of the Union. Forclsn. A Jewish family, consisting of a mother, a daughter aged seventeen and a son aged fourteen, were massacred by peasants In the District of Ananlcff on the 13th. A TANto prevailed in the Madrid stock markets on the 13th and 14th. There was a similar panic at Barcelona. AlbkktD. 8hav, United States Consul at Manchester, reported on the 15th that the prac tice of placing sand in bales of cotton was be Ing extensively carried on at American ports, to the serious Injury of the trade. Frauds of this nature already discovered aggregated 500,000. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal has served notice upon all tenants of church projerty, who are engaged in the liquor traf" fie, to stop It or get out. A co.Nsi'itiAcr has been discovered ut Cairo to replace the ex-Khcdhc. AN Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the 15th says a detachment of Yemen rebels was ad ancltigupou Mecca, via Suadeh, to proclaim thero the spiritual Uepositlou of the Sultan of Turkey und tho restoration of the Arabian Cullphute. A late 8t. Petersburg dispatch said Gener al SkobclelT hud announced his Intention to Joiu tho Herr.egovluluiis lu the war with Aus tria. The British Admiralty office has informed the Royal Geographical Society that It. will contribute $25,000 touurd the expense of a prlvuto Arctic expedition for tho relief of Leigh Smith. A concession for a railway from Teheran to Resht, to run for sixty years, has been granted by the Shah of Persia to a French company. At Edinburgh, Scotland, two boxes contain ing Infernal machines v,crc delivered to two different addresses on the 15th, und ujmjii being opened Injured eight jwrsons. Five buronles in tho county of Rof-common, and twelve lu the county of Waterford. Ire laud, hac been declared under martial law. Bv an explosion in a colliery at Trlmdou Grange, Durham, Eng., ou the 10th, 130 ml. tiers were entombed. Thirty had been res. cued, but It was feared that the others could not be roadie l In time to save their lives. On tho Kith Russian Jews near Klehlucf were attacked by peasants, ten of the former being nearly beaten to death. At Odessa, pe troleum was poured ou u Hebrew's head und set on lire. Tin: Egyptian Ministers ou the 10th dc. elded upon the total abolition of shivery, and to enforce It Kader raslm wax appointed Gov ernor of the Soudan, aud a special department will be created ut Culro Pri:isTEit Bitos., of Munich, fulled on tho Kith, with nubilities exceeding $1,000,000. Thavel on tho Halifax it Cupe Breton Rail way has beeu altogether suspended by reason o u heavy snow-full. LATER NEWS. Rival editors of Guadalajara, Mexico, fought a duel w 1th pistols on the 17th, both falling dead simultaneously. Mum. Gahi'IEI.ii on the 17th acknowledged tho receipt of a letter from Mrs. Scovllle, and authorized the statement that sho cherished no mullce toward Gulteau, and felt profound! pity for his sister und other members of his fuuilly, but nuked to lie left alone with her sorrow. The boiler of tho cur-works at Cartersvlllo, Gu., exploded ou the 17th with such force as to kill seven negroes aud injure Superintend ent Lucus. The Garfield Auditing Committee at Wash ington received ou tho 17th from Mr. Jen nings, of Boston, u hill for $5,000 for the con struction of the cooling uppurutus in tho White House. V. W. MacFahlane it Co., of Now York, lurd refiners, suspended ou the 17th. Liabil ities ubout $200,000. Flvmes broke out ubout midnight on the 17th lu the business quarter of Haveihlll, Mass., und the lutest reports stated that u tract of ten acres was being devastated. Tho loss promised to be several millions. Jambi G. Allison was hanged at Indiana, Ph., ou thel7th, for the murder of his father, Robert Allison, ou tho 18th of June, 18S0. Foiity bodies had been recovered from the colliery at Trimdon Grange, Eng., on the 17th aud It was believed that the loss of lifo would be seventy. A hand of colored singers were recently denied aduilcblon to every hotel in Washing ton, and until after midnight did not find a place to sleep. The mildness of tho winter In Sweden has prevented the transportation of produce, and there Is grcut dlstiess among the farmers. ' Ax explosion occurred ut tho pyrotechnic works ut Chester, Pa,, on the morning of the 17th. About fifteen persons were killed and fifty otheis wounded, some of the latter fa tally. The building w us usod for tho manu. fucture of dynamite. The number of business failures in the United States', during tho seven days ended February 17, ere 151. IN the United States Senate on tho 17th Mr. Kellogg Introduced a bill to appropriate $1, 775,000 for public buildings and other Im provements in Louisiana. Colonel Rochester wus confirmed us Puymuster-Gcueral of the army, Edward Ferguson to bo Pension Agent at Milwaukee, and Mnrsden C. Bnrch to be District Attorney for Western Michigan. The President sent in tho nomination of Wake, field G. Frye, of Maine, to- bo Cousul-Geucral ut Hulirax. Adjourned to the 30th. In the House tho Apportionment bill, fixing the number of Itenresentutlves in Conirress after I Murch , 18ty, at 335, passed without u di vision. Memorials against poiyganiv in L-ian und Jewish malti eat ment in Russia were presented. Mr. Valentine renortcd the Aerl- I cultural Appropriation bill, which calls for i $!5O3,480. A message fiotn tho President waa presented, transmitting further documents In , regard to the wur in South America. Km. Scovlllc te Mrs. Garllcld. Mrs. Scovllle, sister of Gulteau, has tent the following letter to Mrs. Garfield: Chicago, February. Mrs. Lucretlu Garfield, Cleveland, O.: Dkah Mauam: Humbly I addross you, trust ing you will not turn a deaf ear even upon despled Gulteuu's sister. All these weary months I hnvc patiently waited until the timo should come for mo to speak; when, nfter the verdict, which I be lieved would bo "Notjpillty, by reason of In sanity," I could say without shamefaccdness: "My heart bleeds for you und tho sainted dead." My poor brother wus not his own master when he fired that shot. Forglvo him; look with compassion upon him aud mo. I have counted the hours for tbo timo when I could boldly say to you, in I have said from tho moment when th'i terrible news was broiiKht me on that dark day in July: " Ho was brain-sick, deluded, cru.yj forgive him, even on Christ shall forjrivo us all." Both our mnrtyred President nnd h's fum'ly, hnvlnir shown such nn example of Christian fortitude and tnut In the Mod JIlKh as tho world may well revere, led me to hope that tho sensoof wrong suffered would, when tho truth wus shown, bo tempered with Unit meriolful forgiveness which Is Indeed Chrlst-I kc All theso drcodrul wo-ks of the President's sultcr.iiK I prayed that tho Fat'ior nbovo us nil would npuro hit llfo. Day uu I night my be-s'-echlngcry went up: "God savo tho Presi dent." I thought bo could not die. When tho people of thi whole world cnjled mightily unto Him to lnterpoo In his behalf, 1 said: "Surely Ho will sh'iw forth Ills irlory." Hut, alas I tho t ndortut c.iro of wlfo, family nnd f r ends, the prayers of tho people, could not movo tho Ruler of tho UnUorso to countermand tho decrees of III all-wlt'e and mysterious ProvldoncoMcould not keep In h s poor, despoiled iHxIy his grandly b'uutiful soul. Despite tho vlglN, tho tears and thn prayers of his family, of tho Nation, of tb') world, tho midnight bolls were tollod, thn midnight cry was hcuid: "Tbo President is deud." In July, when it was reported that the suffer ing Presideut was likely to recover, I wrote a letter to you stating tho facta in my brother's llfo nnd ever theory of tbiscuso, thinking that both yourself und the President would bo glad to know that it itoor crazy man hud dono tho deed, instead or tho burdened wretch ho wua painted. At tho timo It was reported tho Presi dent was Interested In anything rcgurdlng tho terrible affair, that he oven said one day: " 1 wonder what that poor fellow would think If ho knew that 1 bud forgiven him!-" Oh! that I might know from his own wlfo if that woro truo. My heart, bo still I In Heaven wo know, us wo are known: tho sainted Garfield knows now Unit ho " had todo It;" und I feci sure if be could speak ho would say: "Forgive that deluded man, even as I forglvo him: safely Hcop him from doing any mora harm, but (orgivo." i never sent me leiier. uno re port enmo in most Immediately that tho President wus worse, and I know you would not wish to bo troubled with anything from Gulteuu's sister. I had hoped by waiting to como beforo you with a better showing cUulkatal - so fur us In sanity is an oxcuho for crime, but my heart burns within mo. and, notwithstanding that unjust verdict and barbarous sentence, 1 must speak. My poor brother shut away from tho world for months In u tomb-liko cell; not n my of sunshine, not a blade of grusi, not a tiower, not u bird, not a friend to speak a kind word: who Is thero to speak in bis behalf, if not his honrt-brokoii sistor? Did I not speak, tho very stones would cry out! His sainted mother, tho purest and noblest of women, that mother who gave her life for his, who suffered torture lor seven long years because of bis birth, until death uiiulo hor free: that father, tender and kind, but mis taken lu his direction of tho bov, would, if pos sible, mnko their voices heard from boyond tho gruvo. Even, as I verily bellow, would tho glorious Garfield cry out in horror at that verdict. What of that verdict? Was It ac cording to truth, justice and morey? Verily, no. I hud boned to bo ublr to cast myself at tho feet of Judge Cox; to Mi able, so long us I hud brent h, to look up to him us tho grand, tho no Mo, thu Just Judge, who could stand as firm us tho everlasting rocks for the weuk and dc lensclesB against rho whole world. Hut, alas, my Idol I And that Jury! God only knows how I hud trusted In their honesty und steadfastness. L hud wntehed tholr faces day by day, hud seen their eager, absorbed, solemn interest when my brother was reading his lastuddress. When bo cumo to tho recitation of those fuw lines of tho story: " John Brown's body lies a moldcr iug in tho grave, but bis soul goes marching along," commencing In u low. sad melody of tho song, breaking up and ending in tho weird, hysterical laugh, tho awful laugh, of tbo in sun'o, ono could feci the silence. I thought, surely It is enough: no power on curth cun firovtill upon those inonto say that poor luna le, without royeuge, without motive except to obey wliat he deemed tho will of God, com mitted a willful murder. Hut they did. Thoy must have reasoned, us some do, that it is a good thing to bung u cnusy mmi, as nn example to other crazy inon. Knowing him, understanding him. as 1 claim, Ix'tter than any ono else, 1 assert and can prove that my brother has always Intended to do right and live honestly. His shortcomings have been those of un unbalanced, distracted bruin, rath er than a bud hentt. His heart has over been kind and tender as that of a woman. Hut bo hus been most unl'ortuuuto; ho wus neither bom right, reared right, nor married right. Even with his defective orgunlJitlon, had ho, Instead of being forced into thu Oneida Com munity, bocn allowed to obtain u good educa tion, entered upon some practical business, so that his mind would not drilt into 'vaga ries; und, most Important of all, had be, when married, found In his wife u helpful, hon ost woman, ho might have gone through llfo comfortably, happily, and respected to its close, as did his father. But, alius 1 his mother died; father married a wnmuu who disliked bis children, and Charles, tho only ono needing a homo with them, was almost turn d uwuy trom his fath er's house; tender in years, weak lu body aud mind, no one to guldo him, no ono to euro tor him (but mys If, I did what I could, It was but little), tho boy dilttcd out into th cruel world. Everything went wrong with him, and now, with sorrow unspeakable, 1 look upon tho wieck of whut might have been. HIiull tho true story of Charles Gulteuu's llfo ever tie told, tho worjd will seo that he lias been more sinned ugalnst than sinning. He bus never smoked, or drunk, or gumbled, or lied, or been profuno, or beon in uny way vicious. Detectives scouring the country for mouths have found, whut? That ho did not al ways pay ills biard, that lie borrowed 10U from a minister which ho never returned, that ho pawned a watch for $, that ho siiui'd against himself, and only himsdf, tigivo an unworthy woman a legal divorce. I.lttlo did I think tho time would over como when sho, tho woman who could not snv bo had ever wrmged her, would travel ucn s the conti nent to swour his llfo away. When hn dis missed tho woman be bad onco loved, with his blessing, 1 wus moved to terns. If ever my Mior broth r proved Hint tho blond of a gen tleman Hows In his veins, ho provd It then. Wreck though ho Is, 1 wus proud of him. I cannot close this letter without ono word of explanation or o.xouso tor tho strange testimo ny of my brother, J. W. Gulteau. 1 very much fear, although uiifitciiff'miJ, that, through his dotermlnut.on to protect tho family name from tbo tu.nt of Insanity, ho has sacrificed his own brother. In this ho has been ably sec onded by tho stepmother and her family. Veri ly, the lxior, Insitno boy has beon grlovously sinned uguiust. My dear madam, I write this to tho widow of our deud President, In bohulf of u man not himself in condition to roullzo tho extent of tho terrible wrong or to understand your suf ferings or mine. Never can I rest satisfied un til I be allowed, upon my bended knees, under tho weight of this humiliation nnd disgnioo, u few brief moments In which to pour forth to your merciful heurt tho pleadings of one who must ever feel u sister's lnvo for an Insano, motherless boy, oven though by tho whole world condemned nnd despised. I beg you let mo say to you and yours what ho would say, if in his right mind: "Forgive, oven us Christ shall forglvo us nil." With tho utmost a irrow and respect, I remain sincerely yours, Fuancks M. Scovillk, US West Monroo street. DoLeng's DicoTcrIcs. The Jcanncttc expedition has, notwithstand ing wreck and sad disaster affecting bravt men, resulted in n very great advancement of Arctic knowledge, aud much of this increased geographical Information is of such a practi cally useful nature as to afford good ground for a continuance of exploration in the remote regions of the North. Through the apparent ly meager statements heretofore received re garding the voyago of the lost Jcinnettc, and later movements of Dc Long and his heroic companions, very great factn arc revealed which show how the meagerness is npparcnt rather than real. Dc Long wan the first to demonstrate the fact that Wningel Land is of a very limited extent northerly. He has shown the Inaccuracy of tho theory of the late Dr. Pctcrmuun, tho distinguished Ger man geographer, th t Wningel Land was the eastern extremity of un Arctic continent. He Iium discovered tho ex istence of a vunt polar ocean northeastrnrd from the New Siberian Islands: he has first discovered at least two islands In the great ocean basin of thu Arctic iolc. Be sides the original discovery of these islands he has proved, in his observation of a third island ut tho northeastward from Now Si beria, the verity of thu claim by Hcdenstrom and Saunlkov in 1810, that laud ex sted there which had been seen. He has proved the ex. lstenco of n mighty current swooping slowly around the curth ut the north of Asia. Eu- rope, Greenland aud AuicjUa, with a great b anch diverging southwesterly around the eastern promontories of Fnuia Josef Land, which is but an extension of Greenland; hehai proved that the temperature of the high lati tudes he attained hclow the Arctie pole is not incompatible lth good health and compara tive comfort, when suitable food und shelter are provided for explorers. He has completely disproved tlieussuinptloa that a "palcocrystlc1' sea, or area of ancient and unthawable ice, cxist-s hi tho high north; for, while caught amid fragments of Hoc ire forming an Immense final Ing field, he drifted about in a vast, open, (Hilar sea during consid erably more than a year und uhalf of tune, und still did not during that period Bight the shores of the lonely ocean uikju which he wus swept and whelmed about in icy armn like n waif in the dreary abvss. As tho experience of Wcy precht and Payer in the Togethoff, while caujjhtln u vast ice Hoe off northwest capes of Nova Zembla und drifting ubout during long mouths in the sea of Franz Josef Laud, proved to those' unacquainted with the fact that this part of the ocean was known to lie navigable bv Norsemen in the fourteenth, fifteenth ami sixteenth centuries, that it wus a sea iucrusted by ice over but a part of Its surface und during a part of tho year, so Dc Long's dreary but important voyage has proved like conditions existing away ut the north of New Siberia. Moreover, the Jean nette expedition has apparently determined It to be a fact that there is no very great body of'land in the extreme polar sea near Aslu, and that climate conditions in the near vicin ity of the Pole are more genial than further south. Arctic shores facing tho north do not pro duce icebergs to uny considerable extent. The almost total absence of Icebergs in the whal ing seas north of Beliring's Strait nnd in the wide expanse of the huge ixd.ir basin north of Asia lead to the belief that thero may lie no place farther north than Franz Jotcf Laud for their formation and dispersal at our " top" of the world. Besides these points specified, De Long has shown tho case, of Halliner from the ' Lena to New Siberia. The known facts in the Jeannetto's experience confirm the conclusion that Franz Josef Lund divides the grcnt lolr circult current, which Booms to lw largely de tlectcd northwesterly from Wningel Land by the shore and the shoals likely to exist near by. Ho hope can bo reasonably entertained that tho pole can be reached mainly by laud across the lonely mountain wastes and fiords of that anciently known part of Green land now known since Its rediscovery as Franz Josef Land. Equally futile will prove any blind efforts to reach the pole by sea at the north of Spitsbergen. The great gulf there was explored In the thirteenth century and found to be bounded by icy, barren nnd dismal coasts. The fact seems to lw altogether over looked by modern navigators. Leigh Smith In his Elra voyage bus demonstrated the reullty of the discovery of a part of Fruitt Josef Lund early In the eighteenth century, and since called Gil lis Lund. If not wrecked the Elra la probably wintering icc-lockcd in the gulf of Northeast Greenland, northward from Spltz bergen, or possibly In the recess of open waters not far away from Markham Sound and the other channels of Franz 'Josef Lanl explored by Payer of the Tcccthoff. It ought to bo understood by Arctic naviga tors, and would be but from a neglect to study the earliest records of Arctic exploration and colonization thoroughly, that Franz Josef Lund is not rcuiiy now wiiuin u vcrv lew years nrsi known to men. A prosporousllttlo co ouy ex isted there for centuries, and one of the most noted of the early historians of Northern Eu rope was born there. Tho inexplicable igno rance of our modern geographers regarding the historical geography ot tho Arctic regions seems as general us it is surpris ug. The voyage of the Jcanuotte has not only resulted in the Important direct discoveries as indicated, but besides largely inci easing the general interest in northern exploration has led, through the exped tious for the aid of Do Long and his companions, to a tolerably com plete knowledge of Wrungcl Land and the ocean heretofore little known In Its immediate vicinity, Mr. Bennett's unsurpassed enter- prise and graud mun'llcence will beor good fruit not only ftir the cause of science, but for commerce aud the whaling interest. lioxlon AilvcrtUtr. A Conductor's Practical Joke. A few days ago a promising young merchant of Butte left for a visit to 8an Francisco, and by a happy coincidence met a lady on the train who was going a few miles down the road to seo her mother. Being slightly acquainted they became engaged in conversation, aud soon afterward fell Into blissful slumber, the lady ou one scat and the gentleman on tho other. Ou the train was a Sheriff, who liaj peucd to huvo with him a pair of handcuffs, and tho conductor of the train being well ac quainted witli the travelers above mentioned proposed to the olllcer to play a practical joke on tho innocent slumbcrcrs. Assent was given, and tho conductor, taking the hand cuffs, cautiously approached the unconscious pair and attached their listless arms by the otllclal jewelry. He then raised a racket, and the sleepers awoko with a start, only to find that in their sleeping innocence they had been Joined together, nnd that no man without a key could part them asunder. They all joined merrily in the laugh, and though t he gentleman gallantly avowed his cap tivity a most pleasant one, thoudy had lmost arrived at her destination, and asked for a separation. Then and there the trouble arose. The Sheriff had lost the key, and the situa tion, which had beforo been regarded as a right merrily conceited Jest, grow embarrassing in the extreme. The key oultl not be found, aud at tho next station tho conductor was obliged to procuic a file and go through the tedious process of filing the wristlets so that the travelers could proceed on their separate ways rcjolciug. The conductor statos that the next time ho plays a practicU joke he w.ll rigorously avoid the gentle handcuff. .lb taim Jitter JluiutUtln. I - 4. '