Term* 51.50 per Annum,in Advanoo. S. T. SHUQERT an.) R. H. FORSTER, Edilort. Thursday Morning, December 23, 1880. A TERRIBLE EXAMPLE. John Welsh, the I'atron Saint of Po litical i'orrnptlonists. SCATtIINd I.ETTKR FROM JOHN a. FOUN'EV EX COS INO THE I MMOIIALITY OK THE I'SE OF LAIIOE SI MS OF MONEY TO INFLUENCE ELECTIONS. I'liiLADKLriiiA, December 1(1. —The following correspondence appears in Progress of last week • ANCHOR WIIITK LI-:AU COMPANY, ") ! CINCINNATI, Dec. (5, 1880. I J Col. John H'. Forney, Philadelphia : DKARSII:: I have just read your J criticism on Mr. John Welsh in Prog- \ rets (December 4, page 51 >, and regret 1 that, in view of the political course of | your paper, and especially this attack on one of your oldest and best friends, | than whom there is no one in Phila delphia who is more esteemed and re- j spected for the purity of his life, I must request you to discontinue send- | ing me the Progress from this date. i Yours respectfully, A. T. < iosiloßV. ( H RICK " PROGRESS," I'i U i, A i K.L i'll l A , PA., Dec. 14, '80. Hon. J. T. Goshom, Cincinnati: MY DKAR SIR: The right to stop a newspaper is like the right to breathe God's air. Hut with certain other rights it may sometimes be abused. So I hold that no man stopping his paper has a right to give confidential reasons insulting the editor. Having gone through this business for more than a generation, I propose to discuss the question with perfect candor in s this public reply to your letter of the j tith of December, 1880. As the wrong : 1 condemned was a deliberate outrage I upon the American people, I claim the full privilege to justify myself in denunciation of it. Twenty-one years ago .las. Huchnn- j an, president of the United States, set the example to his army of office holders by stopping my paper, the Press , because I conscientiously de clared for the freedom of Kansas. I boldly exposed his proscription to the i people, and with their aid broke down i his administration at the polls. When 1 1 advocated, almost alone among my j contemporaries in Philadelphia, the movement in favor of letting the cars run over our streets on the first day of the week for the benefit of the labor ing poor of this great city, my paper was stop{>ed by thousands who now go to church in the same ears every Sun day. For that siucere effort I was G C*°Jed by a concentrated cordon of angry clergymen, one memorable Sab bath day, calling upon the congrega tions to stop the Press; and now most of these men of God frequently ride to and from church on Sunday. When, equally solitary and alone, I pleaded that the colored people should be al lowed the use of the same cars, hun dreds of those who now amiably sit side by side with the negro in those cars, also stopped the Press. Rut my last and crowning crime was that of declaring for General Han cock for president. One man with drew his subscription because he de clared I was dishonoring the fame of the dead General Meade, the most of the survivors of whose family voted in the presidential election for the living hero of Gettysburg. Another, who was one of the loudest to applaud General Hancock in July, I8TI:!, for his magnificent services to our State and city,' stopped Progress because he could not train, he said, with the party which supported IjCc in the re bellion. Still another discontinued his paper because the election of Gen. Hancock, in his belief, would be a de cree against the control of his special ring in this country. < )thci>, not quite so bold, waited to see if General Han cock could be elected in November, in which event no doubt your name would still be inscribed on my books. John Welsh was among the list. He, like you, waited for Hancock's defeat before he aired his anger. In addition to his note withdrawing his name from Progress, lie declared that lie could not stand my theory that the empire was certain to be successful if mere money was hereafter permitted to crush and control free judgment in this country. Now I have your letter of the Gth of December. Instead of meeting the direct issue — instead of discussing on fair grounds the doctrine that thero can be no free untrammeled suffrage in this country if capital is allowed to muzzle conscience and to turn the la boring population into so many white slaves, you speak of Mr. Welsh as "one of your (my) oldest and best friends, than whom there is no ouc in T Philadelphia who is more esteemed and respected for the purity of his life." All of which I freely admit except that which relates to the friendship bet wen Mr. Welsh and myself. That has always been maintained by perfect independence of nil money relations between us. But if, in this remark, vou mean that I went abroad under bis invitation as Uentennial commis sioner, in 1874-75, please remember that, besides doiug my duty lmnestlv, according to your records and the pub lic judgment, I spent thousands of dol lars out of my own pocket, in addition to the $2oO d month allowed by the Una nee coin ir. it tee. So much for that. It is because Mr. Welsh i* precisely what you say he is, because lie is so good u man, because his life hereto fore has been a model, because of the purity of that life (virtues you claim for him, and I concede), that a fatal force was given to his secret applica tion for the money of the millionaires to buy a man into the presidency, con victed by the Republican party of the United States of brazen corruption in the American Congress. The purity of John Welsh's life made the impurity of that example more terrible. l!ntil he signed the monstrous circular of the 14th of September, 1880, Geueral Hancock was the foreordained president of the United States. 1 lancock's friends had just carried Maine, and Mr. Garfield himself, and the trained bands of his party —the officeholders and the reck less managers who have been getting rich for twenty years from the plunder of the general government—saw and trembled before that "handwriting on the wall." At this point John Welsh took the field against < ieneral Han cock. Up to the Maine election in September, John W el.-h stood aloof". The thrilling record of General Han cock, his splendid contradiction of all charges or suspicions against himself, the attractive incidents of his stainless life, and the graceful dignity with which he avoided all offensive adver tisement of his person and his claims had reached thousands of hearts, and there is no doubt that if these evangel izing influences hub been permitted to control, Hancock would have been the choice of the American people. At this moment John Welsh, of all men, the very man whose purity of life should have led him to yield to these great facts, made his appearance as the author of the extraordinary circular which 1 republish. I p to that time he had stood aloof. And when that paper appeared there was not tt gentleman in Philadelphia, out side of the aspirants for otlice, who did not read this demand for a corrup tion fund with amazement. This shame less circular was a blow in the dark, struck from an unexpected quarter, struck under the mask of confidence in the hope that those it was intended to debauch and destroy woidd never hear of it. Fortunately, such monstrous trans actions always see the light of day. You cannot perform wicked wrong in this age and hide it from human eve.- and hearts, any more than you can hide it front God; and so, when John Welsh promised to keep the money sent to him to buy the suffrage a secret, he admitted all of which he now stands convicted. Iy this pledge of secrecy he confessed he was wrong, j "The purity of his life" was a living reproach upon his deliberate act, ami the success of his wrong crow ned his own dishonor. It was he who sounded the challenge. His was the bugle call to bribery. He re-aroused the elements of hatred against the south. Ho organized capital against labor in the north. He stimulated the worst passions among the worst men, Hi bid was the boldest bid against con science since the days of the Hank of of the United States, and it was a more audacious assault upon individ ual integrity than that great corpora tion. It was a more forbidahle temp-! tatiou to parties and to the press, in proportion as the money John Welsh marshalled against General Hancock was a thousand times more tlmn that organized against General Jackson, fifty years ago, by the Hank of the United Stales. And so, long before the day of elec tion, John Welsh became the text of sectional hatred on the one side and sectional humiliation on the other. The money he raised was the open j treasury from which desperate men could draw ad libitum, and last No- | vembcr the states bought by that money were handed over, like mana- I cled prisoners, to the tender mercies ; of the rescued office-holders and their chief at Mentor. Was 1 to stand silent before such an occasion as this? Was I to re main muzzled before the exposure of the dark secret ? Had I consented to such a shame I would have been a partner in the conspiracy itself. Now, lest you may not have seen this most shameful circular, I reprint it as follows : 2O SOI:TII TIIIRO STRF.KT, PIIII.ADKD- I*II i A, September 14th, IS,SO.—At a meet ing of a number of the business men of Philadelphia, held Thursday, September oth, Hon, John Welsh, ws chosen clinir man, and Cyrus Elder, secretary. The undersigned were appointed a commit tee to procure funds for the use of the Republican party in the present cam paign. You know that on the result of the November election depend the prosper ity of our manufactures, the existence, probably, of our national banking sys tem, and the safety of our national fi nances. POM know that the inevitable and legitimate expenses of such a campaign are large, and that in some gf the doubtful state*, where sue cess is absolutely necessary to our cause, the needful funds cannot be procured. Seven weeks fiom this day the great battle will be fought and, if the prose lit apathy continues — lost. LA ROE HUMS ARE NEEDED IN STANTLY, and to you, as one of the moderate number to whom such an ap peal can be made, the committee look for a prompt and liberal contribution. This note and your answer or contribution are to be held confidential. Payment* are to be made to Wharton Raker, treasurer, No. 2H South Third i street. • • You will perceive, Air. (iosliorii, that I do not stop to discuss the sin cerity of tlio excuses of John Welsh for this corruption fund. If I did, I might say that there is not an honest man between the two oceans who be lieves that if < ieneral Hancock had been elected president last November In; would have destroyed our manu factures, impaired out national bank ing system, or interfered with the safe ty of our American finances. I lan cock s whole life is :i protest against (lit! scandalous assumption. He is a citizen of Pennsylvania, known to.I no. Welsh, far better known to J no. Welsh than .1 mi. Welsh is known to yon or by you. Hancock was born in .Mont gomery county, almost within sound of the hell of Independence ball, and j yet, because a man whose whole life 1 heretofore has been a single i!lustra- i tinn of "purity of character," ulleges I all these things again-l (Jen. Hancock (I will not insult John Welsh bv the intimation that he believes what he j wrote and signed ), hut because he | alleges such things against (Jen. Han-1 cock, he did not hesitate to recommend the purchase of gnat States, and to take the lead in a crusade against the consciences of t hmisatids of poor work inguicn who had to vote against (len. Hancock on the threat of being turn ed into the streets, or being made beg- J gars and pauper.-. Together with thousands id' others I denounced this most cruel, uupro- j yoked and dangerous proceeding, and ' I am convinced that the American ■ people will never forget the means by j which, under the name of a man boast-1 ing of hi- "purity of life," a brave I soldier litis been deprived >d' his elec toral majority. Under the rule of the British house of commons, the practice of a govern ment to winch .John Welsh was the accredited American minister, a metn- ! her of parliament, elected by the pro cesses recommended by himself in re gard to the choice of the president of j the I nited States, would have been unseated almost without a vote; the j very petition stating the tact that he 1 bad purchased the ballot, would have left hiin without a case. I am glad that you have done mc the honor to strike your name, from my list of subscribers, because I should feel degraded in taking the money of i a iiiati who attempts surreptitiously to proscribe an independent American editor for denouncing practices which if done ny an ordinary citizen would eon-ign that citizen to deserved con- , tempt and shame. JOHN W. FOHNEY. Bl CHAXAN AT ST. JAMES. His Kir-t Impressions of the Knglisli Court. From Fornej'j Prnjn*!. Here are letters from thousands of conspicuous men during the last forty j years. J see their faces as I read their letters, and almost hear their accents | as I ponder over their familiar calli graphy. Naturally enough, the first i- tlie voluminous correspondence of j James Buchanan. There is more than fifteen years of it, beginning almost with bis aspirations for the presidency, titid closing when he grasped the gold- j en prize : and yet now, as in the past, j no line of his has ever been disclosed— I or will ever be disclosed by myself—to I bis discredit. There is so much to his I his honor that may safely see the light now, that I am -tire such extracts as 1 the follow ing will be read with pleasure. | I shall have further decision to refer to this fountain of history, and 1 am ! sure a first glimpse into diplomatic ] society in England will whet the gen eral appetite for what is to roiue : Mv BEAU SIN: "I.ong looked for come at last." I have received your welcome letter on the 2-Bth ultimo, and now feel I the greatest anxiety to learn that you have been re-elected clerk. I trust and j ; believe we shall receive thi- gratifying I intelligence with the President's me-1 sago on Monday next. My social position here will be, in fact ; ! is, all that I would have desired twenty j : years ago when I was a younger man. j i Although they say nobody is in town, I j may dine out as oltcn as 1 please at 8 ; j o'clock in the evening. Although they : j are jealous of us and experience a sort i of undefined uneasiness at our rapid growth in commerce and manufactures, yet, when an American minister min- 1 glea among them with any degree of j tact and talent for conversation, ho can- j | not fail to find himself much nl home. | For my own part, 1 have talked rignt out, with prudence, but with freedom, as I would do at home. What is re markable, I have not met any other for eign minister at their tables," with the exception of a dinner at Lord Palmer ston's. When they speak tomeot their friendship lor our country, as they of ten do, and refer to the mother and the daughter, I answer that their public journals, and especially tlio Tunc*, never tail to give us a "rap over the knuck les" when the occasion oflers, arid that this is a strong evidence of public opin ion. On more than one occasion Mrs. Stowe and her book on American Slavery have become topics oi conversation, and I find them more reasonable on this subject than I bud anticipated. 1 have not yet uiet the Buchess of Sulh. erland. They speak of the season in I.ondvn as we speak of the season at Saratoga. This usually commences about Kister, and terminates on the adjournment oi Parliament in August. All the rest of the year it is not fashionable to be in town, except for the members of the cabinet ami the other officials. My social relations niHy, and probably will, undergo a great ebange after the queen holds her first drawing room. They have talked so much about my costume, that I do not see how it is pos sible for me to put on gold lace and embroidery. A court lady asked tue the other day if' Oiif president (Beneral Pierce) had not been a general'! 1 re plied certainly ; lie bad been a good and brave general. Well, then, Hiiid she, did he not wear the uniform at tached to ilia rank, and to distinguish him from other inferior officers and privates. 1 answered of course he did. Well, then, she answered, why should not a foreign minister fiorn your coun try do the same thing; I gave her the reasons, which it is not necessary to re peat. I would send for Harriet (Miss l.ane, now Mrs. Johnston, of I'allimure) at once if I could foresee the issue of this affair. I would not care a button about being ostracized myself in the immedi ate court circle, but should be very un willing to place her in tin-, position. If I should pass through the mill unscath ed in plain clothes I shall have to pre- j sent Americans at court in full court , dress, because for them it is certain they j will not relax the rule. .1 A\IKS 111 I II \X \N. More tlum once 1 saw .Mr. Bin ban- 1 ati's court dress, which bcenine 11i- tine ! form and striking face as if lie had j been born to tin- purple. The Ameri- ! can minister always appears in an : evening costume unless when the queen 1 holds her court, when lie dons the ! black silk stockings, low shoes with black buckles, an embroidered dre>- coat, a eliapeau, and a black sword, the same that was worn liv Mr. Bu chanan. A l.!!A I'll It SKKTt 11. MK. I'.\KM:I.I. AT IIOMK AT .UDMMI.I; 1101 -E. From tIK- I<n a spacious open hearth. As the visitor stands examining the place, an aged dame floats out of a side apartment, and ex pressing surprise at the visit, asks "Master Charles" if be wishes that she should provide breakfast. The j master gives the nod, and then re quests his guests to step round the ' house with him. Mr. I'arnell is a man of singularly mild and gracious manners in private life, but one's eyes are constantly directed inquiringly to the cold and bloodless face in the en deavor to reconcile the frigid exterior with the courtesy of the lips. The parlor of Avondale house is neither homely nor cheerful, and the atmosphere of the room is that of the Laureate's forsaken dwelling. • >ue could fancy that the coverings bad just been drawn off the furniture at the expiration of a chancery suit. The pictures are expressionless, and of no great merit; but there is a richly enameled fireplace, the work of an Italian artist, whose method of execu tion, Mr. I'arueli thinks, has become a lost art. The marble of this rhrf (I'mtvre is inlaid in colored earths, delicately shaded and twisted into fan tastic festoons of flowers. A volume of Carlvle's miscellanies lies on a small table beside the tire, hut the presence of this symptom of life is accounted for by the fact that one of Mr. Parnell's sisters from across the Atlantic has been residing for some months under her brother's roof. The drawing room has been painted and ornamented by the same Italian artist spoken of above, the chief feature of the work being a number of cleverly wrought medallions containing sen views. Various blue books are seat ' tered about the apartment, having reference principally to Irish matters, such as fisheries and agricultural re turns. The library of Avondale house is a handsome square room, bookshelves occupy ing every side. There is scarce ly a modern work among these ; but there are many old calf-hound editions of the classics, and a comprehensive collection of all the English authors of note from I'iirs Plowman down ward. "An ancestor of yours has been immortalized by Dr. Johnson, I believe," remarked a guest, taking down a volume of the "Lives of the Poets." "He belonged to a branch of the I'arnell family, but is not a rela tive in the direct line," was the reply. Mr. I'arnell is no great reader. Die only book of recent date, or of appa rent recent use, to he seen were a few novels and about a dozen volumes re lating to Ireland, sueli as the Irish in America, and some histories of the country. "When I have any leisure, I employ my thue in working out new mechanical contrivances," said Mr. I'arnell; "and in helping to tit in its place the water-wheel of my sawmill, I nearly had this finger cut oil'," lifting up a much scarified finger. In the corner of the library is a collection of old volunteer banners, belonging to the Wicklow volunteers before the '!)* rebellion. These are somewhat torn and disfigured, but the first laud leaguer lakes much pride in them, since they belonged to his great-grand father, who was colonel of the regi ment. One of these ensigns hears the following inscription : "Independent Wicklow," with the-inotto, "Velox et acor et fidclis auiieis," and an Irish wolf dog for crest. Above Avondale hou.-c, and beyond the amphitheatre of trees, is a clear level space, which had been used by Mr. Parnell's father as a cricket ground. "Mv father was oueo the captain of the Eton eleven," observed Mr. I'ar nell, "and I was always very l'ond of cricket myself before I took to poli tics." J'jinii this spot a view of sev eral of the battlefields of'the rebellion is obtained, with si magnificent sight of the Kerry mountain- and tin- wuter tueotiiig in the vale of Avoca. Mr. I'arnell is very abstemious, drinking little but water or tea. He smokes si great deal, and is never in want of a good "weed," which he prof fers very liberally to Id- friends. At the same time be keeps si neat little wine cellar, and can, when the occa sion arises, regale his guests with si choice vintage. In other respects hi st vie of living is very homely. His only retainers are the venerable ma tron we have already seen, and a man who look- after his horse, the garden and the general afiiiiis of the hou-e. In the interval- of agitation he is a great rider, a moderately keen sports man, something of si farmer, and often speaks of himself si- a ( iiiciiinatu who has been regretfully compelled to relinquish lib cabbage-. Mr. Parnell lias always been si more or imin, seeing little company, and h ail ing rather an introspective life, lie lisis plans and objects la-yond those which he has yet unfohh d ; but be bus no objection to enter fully into si di ens-ion of the merit- of his ease. It i- noticeable tlisil lie i- ready to catch up quickly smd a--iiuilute to hi- pur poses any fact, idea or phrase that may le ea.-nally dropjied in conversation or mentioned in new-papers. SOLIULKS I MIKII KlltK. From tie- Is Unit Fro- I'r. Whenevgr von can find si soldier who, under fire, aims low and -hoot- to make every bullet wound or kill, you will find fifty who are nervously throwing awnv ammunition, seeming to reason thsit th<* report- of their tuis-ket- w ill cheek or drive the enemy. And yet this ncrvoti-tu— need not be wondered at, for they are playing a game of life and death. At Malvern Hill seventeen soldiers, belonging to an ( Miio regiment, took cover in a dry ditch, which answered admirably for a rifle-pit. A (leorgia regiment charged this little band three times and were three times driven back. The fire was low and rapid, and the loss in front of their guns was more than one hundred killed in ten minutes. Kegiments have been en gaged for an hour without losing one half that number. The lire of these seventeen wst- so continuous that Mc- Clcllan forwarded a brigade to their support, believing that sin entire regi ment bad been cut off. At Mine Run the writer wa- just in rear of a New York regiment which was suddenly attacked. A single company of Confederates, cut oft from the regiment and dodging about to re join it, suddenly debouched into a field and found itself face to face with the I nion regiment, fighting commenced at once. A regiment fought a com pany, both lying down for cover. I lay so near a third sergeant that I could touch his heels, and 1 watched his fire. Kvery time he pulled the trigger he elevated the muzzle of his gun at an angle of forty-five degrees instead of depressing it for the enemy lying down. I saw him repeat this operation fourteen different times. The man next to hirn tired as many bullets plump into a stump in his front, and the man on the other side shot into the ground about ten feet aw ay. (>thers must have been wasting bullets the same way; hut that little company was shooting to kill. In tlint ten minutes of fighting the New \ orkers suffered a loss of thirty-six killed and wounded, and then u bayo net charge doubled them hack and opened a gap for the little band's cs en|ie. I walked over the ground and found one chad and one wounded ('on federate. Not a gun, blanket, knap sack or canteen had been left behind. Any soldier will no doubt fight la t ter under cover than he will in open field, hut cover does not always insure good fighting. At Pittsburg Landing live thousand Union soldiers skulked | under the river hank, safe from the j enemy's fire, and many of them threw their guns into the river rather than fire a shot. Again at Yellow Tavern, five of Custer's men, dismounted and lying behind a fence, held five compa nies of cavalry at hay for twelve minutes and killed twenty-four men, and this was without getting a scratch in return. Mine I tun n I nion regiment went into the fight with sixty rounds of ammunition per man, making a total of perhaps four thousand bullets This regiment was placed to art as a check to any advance of the enemy in a certain direction. They did not see thirty Confederate! during the whole day, and yet it was twice more supplied with ammunition. It fired away at least twelve thousand bullet and yet only killed two rebel skir misbers. One cool mail will do more execu tion with bin musket than thirty mi-n firing at random. One must have a will strong enough to crowd down all emotions, and oblige his hands t . cease trembling at the word. Out of every regiment, not more than om hundred men were tighters. Tlie-i : shot to kill. The other.- shot ut ran dom and killed only by nceid* ni. Thirty cartridge* would la t a go< ; lighter for an all-day's light. lin ordinary soldier would lire out hi* sixty in an hour and a half, and like-enough have hi* eyes shut half the time wh'-n lie (lulled the trigger. \ inctiilx i ol the Second Miehigan Infantry hit the ea-e pretty well at Blackburn l ord. When the •kiriouhing began he count ed his cartridges, and said: "Ju-t sixty of 'em, and 1 11 lire three a mi' ute and have these fellers licked in juit twenty minutes to a tick ! A Story of Bismarck'* Voiith. t'IXIU Ills 0i1,!,.- When Prince lii-marck, then .-iinj>. •• Hi i r von lii.-inarck Sclionhau-i n, wa it -indent at (iottingen, lie wa- known for his boldness and undaunted cour age. freely abandoning himself t< the rather rough pleasures ola Ger* man university life, he entered into them with the vigor so often di-playi I by lii>ii in graver matters, l-'irst >ii the "Kiicipe," the student - tavern, and in the; "fechtsoal," tie ir fi neing hall, he was hut little seen in the col lege room*, li-tcning to the lecture- of the learned professor*. I treaded on aeeoiint <>t In-aekn iwlcdgcd skill and prowe-s, there wa- hardly any on among his fellow-student* vcntures'um enough to measure swords with hint. Hut even here the modern Goliath found a David in the j • r.-on of a voting Westphalian, who, ofleini'-1 at Prime Bi-inarck - arrogant manner-, challenged him, although lie wa- vain ly di-stiaded on all sides from a con test with the sturdy I'omint raniau iioblenu.n. Ilerr Bicdcwald, the gentleman in question, stood hi* ground with such -kill that he, after wearying his ad versary by his skillful defence, finally dealt him a heavy blow, the sign* of which are stiil de*cernible on the ( iianccllot 's face. L ing years pa-sed before the two antagonist* again met. W hil-t the one had ri-cn to the high est rank, the other devoted him-elf to the welfare of hi* native town, which ultimately returned him to parliament, where he, a strong representative of the liberal party, found liim-elt obliged to oppose the reactionary measure- of l'rinee Bismarck, whose championship of the rights of the throne and altar had not yet liecu mitigated bv his subsequent success in unification of his fatherland. Ilerr Biedewald's death occurring a few days ago, has vividly recalled the interesting inci dents of his encounter with the lead ing statesman, which also formed the subject of a popular song, well known among < iertuans. The i'ay of NOM INIS. WORKS THAT HAVE IIROIiiHT ORF.AT I Klif-. The £< >O,OOO received by I/>rd Bca conslield for Ids last novel i- believed to represent the largest amount given in fngland f<>r any work til fiction. Scott received $40,00" % "Wood stock," and (ieorge f Mot the same amount lor "Middlemarch." Bulw.r LyttpnV earlier novels, even when lie was the rage, did not bring-Jiim in more than from S.'I,(HMI to but he subsequently received handsome amounts for copyright of a collective edition. I/ml Bcnconsticld * earlier novels, notwithstanding the success of the first, "Vivian Grey," had a very limited sale, and could lie bought for next to nothing within a tew month of publication. They never became in general request as components of a library, and in fngland were lead only with interest by persons familiar with political and social life, "Con ingeby" excited by far the most in terest, and the key, which soon after ward appeared, was eagerly scrutiniz ed. Probably "f.ndyinion," and "l/i --thair" have, together, produced more than double of all the previous works of the author, albeit very inferior to some of them. The "Curiosities of Literature" of the elder Disraeli must I have produced a large; sum of money. I t forms a part of every good collec tion of hnglish books, and lias passed through many editions. Dickens left $400,000, and a considerable slice of this eante from liooks, hut it AABS his "readings which made him ntllueut, and so, too, with Thackeray, for re ceipts from actual writing no one has yet approached Keott. whose income for several years ranged from CIO,Oeeause he was publisher of his own novels. In the pat thirty years french novelists have received very lnrge sums, but Balzac s rewards for his genius and tremendous toil was miserably small. Probably Miss Braddou's receipt* from writing rank among the first half dozen highest among writers of fiction. She lins the advantage of a publisher for a husband, Reynolds, who wrote "The Mysteries of Ixtndon" and other works of n low sensational tvpe, was, from a pecuniary sort of view, one of the most successful of British authors. THE final gobble of a turkev comes alter his death.