New-York tribune., 1874-05-18


-; ,ho ,os, fye years this energetic dame had
spcpt 20 months in prison for no other oiense than
that of assauting and battering Mr.. Sidney Collins
40 that after ALL the wind has been somewhat tenn
pered To this sborn lamb Of an old gentleman. DC
Sirens of diving without the fear OF quar)ugs before
his closing eyes, he requested the magistrate once
moro to lock up the wife of his bosom ana MS re-
quest was charitably granted In how many house
holds is the quart Jug either abstract or concrete
too often projected
"a dog Of the house of Montague moves me- saws
Sampson full of spite and valor. triie shall stir
the choler Of men already mad. The townOt An
nccy in Upper Savoy. has just been the scene OF
tempest illustrating this wisdom. Inc kepuplcah
Mayor of the town did not profoundly admire the
Conservative Commandant OF Gendarmene whow
likewise possessed by an inability to appreciate the
Mayors charms. But comparative peace was MAIN
tainod until one evening not long ago, when the
Commandant sat meditatngon life and things upon
his own balcony. He heard & Sneeze a gentle cul-
osity seized him discover what man was this that
thus bescreened in night so strangely broke Ills rev.
erie He peeped over the balcony. Horror twas
the Mayor! He had paused exactly before the COm-
mandants door, and, not content with once, or even
twice waking the tortured echoes, he walked them
thrice, and blew trumpet blast with bandanna
beside. Not calmly this to be borne; next morn
ing be found complaint lodged against him for out
rageous insult. From this arose bitter quarrel and
division among the inhabitants of the town. and the
Mayor resigned that he might as he declared, re-
gain the right to sneeze in the open air Of Haute
Savoie The members of the Municipal Council
thought it time to interfere, drew up an address
to the victim of the Commandants rage, and also
resigned in a body. Then the Commandant brought
, OH tIa Nav nt "A publlC
functionary. The case has been tried, and judg-
ment was reserved, perhaps to get the opinion Of
Government upon of the most tremendous affairs
of modern times.
If Mr. Oakes Ames. deceased had gone on making
shovels instead of meddlng with Mcbiier he might
have been living now and honored, and his estate
might have been solvent, which, we regret for the
sake of his creditors it turns ont not to be. Com
missoners have been appointed, and the usual state
ment is made that all in good time, everybody will
be paid in full This may or may not be, for the ex-
pense of settling an ns0yent estate Is usually very
large and too many of the Ames assets are in West
ern and Southern bonds and stocks not very market
able now, and exceedingly in want, so far as par IS
concerned of higher quotation. Mr. AmeS, VINO IN
herited we think, fine business. and who certainly
had an opportunity of becoming a real millionaire
in reputable way was ruined by being sent to Con-
gress where he fell into bad company and bad hnan
cal habits. We need not state the result further
than to say that 1t broke Mr.. Amess heart. he was
a man to whom good commercial reputation was
everything, and his became suddenly bad. Wemight
mention other men who came out of the affair no
cleaner than Mr. Ames, but who still live prosper
Gus. if not respectable. He went to the grave bit
terly bewailng his lost castethey are yet trading,
and will perhaps trade sming y to the end.
Every one knows that the business enterprises in
which Gen. Fremont has been engaged of late years
have been unsuccessful and upon that basis OF adj
mitted fact series of fantastic slanders have been
constructed and set afoat, until many people be-
lieve that the General is rolling in ill-gotten
wealth, and especially that he has allowed his
brother-in-aw, Baron Boeau, to suffer in his stead
in Paris. We are assured, upon excellent authority,
that there is no foundation of truth IN these
injurious SANDERS The better opinion of those who
are informed in regard to the affairs in question is
that Gen. Fremont has incurred no stain to his
honor in the unfortunate transactions where he has
been the chief loser and that in the painful dis
putes which have arisen between him and Baron
Boileau Gen. Fremont has been silent only through
excess of generous magnanimity. The friends who
admired and honOred Gen. Fremont and his accom-
plished and estimable wife in the days of their
conspicuous good fortune, rest assured that they
wero never more worthy of the highest regard than
now.
We Americans are apt to deal barbarously with
foreign tongues and from broken China to boarding
school French the land is strewed with the mangled
parts of the speech of strangers. We have made
BOquet" much commoner than bouquet" and
even when we spell it rightly we accent it wrongly
nine times out often eyen people of educatIon and
newspapers supposed to be edited by such persons
will, from time to time, print "soubriquet" for
sobyiquet" and put circumfex accent over creme,
while coupe rarely gets any accent at all, and
recherche fares no better. Sometimes however this
laundering redeems itself by unconscious witt
ness as when the other day a correspondent wrote
us asking the meaning of the title of Mr.. StOddards
new literary venture, The bric-abrdc Series" of
which one delightful volume has just appeared.
Our rural friend wanted to know why this was
called the brickbat series.D Considering the real
nature of bric-a brac in general could more uncon-
sciously happy definition have been hit upon !
The Massachusetts married women have been
still further emancipated, and soon, we may expect,
they will be rescued from those frghful depths Of
bondage to which they have been so long doomed.
The gallant General Court has just passed a law,
which the gallant Governor has approved, by the
provision Of which the feme covert in Massachu-
setts may convey her shares in corporations and
lease and convey her real estate, and make oral and
written contracts, in the manner as if she were
sole, and to the same extent. She may also be an
executrix, guardian, or trustee, without her hus-