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work oil an instant. The road lay down O, steep
khili, but my lantern lisGted ME Somewhat! sGs
7, had hardly-got huder fall headway e. when !
heard yell from the party | had so unceremo-
niously Eft. 10 put Whip Ito my hotss.9 HFhe
next memcnti,with a shout they st.rted.I threw
my light away, and left my horse TO pick his
way "A moment IatctI heard q crash-a horrf-
BILE shrisf The wheels came off. Then came the
rush ofthe horses, tearing along with the wreck
of The wag IN. Finally they sseihto fetch up'in
the woods One orlwo, shrieks, | heard AZ |
swept on, leaving them far behind. For some
time hurried my horse-you d better believe
did 1t was little after midnight when I got TO
Mt. Vernon. -: 10
The next day heard that a Moore's prairie
team han run away, and that two men out off0ur
had been so badly hurt that their lives were
despaired of, bu, di,ln't cry. My clients got
their monsy. L didn' travel that road any more.
Monkies in Congress, and How They
take their FoOd-Debate on the Far
| iff Bill.
- lcorrespondence of The Chicago Tribune '-a.
'iIaL z'a~f .WAsHrNaroN. !July7. y
Your readers, doubtless, remember
Fonblanque s story of the monkeys in the
old Geological Gardens of London, which
runs thus: The monkeys in Exeter
Change used to be confined in a row of
marrow cages. each of which had pan in
the center Of its front for the tenants food.
When all the monkeys were supplied with
their messes it was observable that scarce
-ly any Of them ate cut of his own pan! -
Each thrust his arm mthrough the bars, and
robbed his rightor ,left-hand neighbor ~
Half what was so seized was spilled and
lost in the conveyance; and while one
monkey was so unpro6tably engaged in
plundering. his own pan was exposed to
similar dcpredations. The mingled kna-
very and absurdity was shockingly hu-
man,
During the grcater part Of this week
while the tariff bill was in Committee Of
the Whole. an exhibition of this kind was
going on in the House, TO recount all
the scufllcs that took place in intimation
Of the monkeys Of Exeter "Changc" would
make this letter too long. will select q
few of.thc more noticeable jousts where
pans were upset and food plundered and
spilled. Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont; Mr.. Kel.
ley, of Pennsylvania; Mr.. Pike, Of Maine;
Mr.. briggs. Of Michigan: Mr.. Thomas, Of
Maryland, and others, having their messes
before them, proccededto to dine out of eacl,
others pans. Mr.. Morrill, is the tallesi
one in the menagerie.a nd has the longest
arms. He is perfectly honest specimen.
He believes that stealing out Of your
neighhor's pan j., the proper. mode of ia.
king ones food: lie wouldn. take his any
other way. Being the patriarch of the
monkey establishment, it is his business tc
see that each one gets his fair proportion
out of his (, lows mess, and spills the prop.
er quantity in conveying it to his pouch
Mr.. Morrill, dcciIe that fifty cents pei
ton on c,al was enough for Mr.. Kelley
of Pennsylvania, and Mr.. Thomas o
Maryland to steal out7of the pan of Mr.
Boutwell, of Massachusetts,. But Mr.. Kel
ley had got his claws on, dollar and a
half ton; SO he called the whole nenag
eric to his assistance, and sppealed to then
d 10 stand by the old principle of grabbing
! all you can out of the whole row of pans
and they voted by fifty-one to fifty, that Ia,
should have his dollar and a-half. But ii
the scrimmage with Mr.. Boutwell, Isalf th,
plunder was lost and trampled in the dirt
Mr.. Boutwell, can get coal from Noyia SEQ
tia for say, S. per ton. Mr.. Kelley ant
Mr.. Thomas make him buy Of Pennsylya
MIA and Maryland at $3.50. But it cost
Pennsylvania and Maryland 1878 to min
and transport it to Massachusetts. So MIR
kelly's constituents have robbed Mr.. Bout
wells constituents of 81 so per ton, bu
have got only Is cents into their owl
maws. The other 75 cents is lostto tn
: monkey community, but they have save,
great principle--the right of each mon
key to steal out of his neighbor's pan. =
MIR. Boutwell, all the while defended til
principle, but was opposed to the applica
tion of it! D.@ if- an -
/ While the robbery was going on, Mr.
Pike, of Maine. who wanted TO help him
, self to Fifty cents barrel on herring. ou
, of the several pans in the garden, discoy
cred that somebody was taking three cent
/, a pound out of his mess, Oh chain cables
: and made great outcry about it. TIL
thief had disappeared likewise the plau
|, ler), and nobody could tell who or wher
he was, Mr.. Pike protested agains. havin
to pay three cents pound extra for chaiu
! cables; lie was willing to pay two cents Be
cause he was accustomed to it, but thre
! cents Was a. gouge. lie didn't belicv
there was q monkey in the whole lot wh
E would be benefited by it Mr.. Morr
e was sure there was one somewhere. II
e might be Maine, or he might be in Ne
g York, or he might be in some other State
; If there was none, there ought to be one
I and Mr.. Pixies pan ought to be robbed ft
the purpose of starting new one in bus
= ness. These views were received wit
such favor that Mr., Pike did not even ca
d for division on the question. Ills col
stituents are to pay three cents pound e,
! ! ira for chain-cables to hold their ship
while they are out for herring, in hopes
d getting it back by robbing the rest of II
] community fifty cents barrel on what the
= catch. 1t is agreed on all hands that ut
a body is to get the three cents which NJ
q Pixies consti tuents lose, until some one ca
Is be drummed up to, takeit. Meanwhile Il
= rest of the monkcysare to lose fifty cen