, 1874-04-19

he made contract to console him Tie fulfilled
his contract; aud when he had done 60 .Coun
Foscos head vas more erect, and Lis ccncrou!
amplitude expanded under Browns CHEEKY innu
eDce. The roses returned to his cheeks. Eli
WAS exubernnt, brink, yiyaclous, and Lis fac<
once more wore that profound look which
always seems to say, IT could, an If would =
But at what price did Count Foaco recover hie
spirits? Echo answers 50, $50. Ne arc surprised
at the Counts paying $9,75O for spiritual COMO
lation, when he could have got it 20 cheap clso-
| where. 4 1.-THE OF tlat sum would have pro-
| cured him consolation from the Catholic Church,
J for instance, and just good consolation as
and that the Rev. Brown, as a pavement lobby
list, got into Count Fosco, and swindled him on
the lot Of consolation which he sold him.
| There is another fact in Count Fosco's state
ments which we cannot accept he SAYS: "If
it bo inquired why paid to ur. Kirkland s72,o
In notes, haze this, among other d,1s,eers: I
had no expectation that it or any part OF it
would bo used for the purpose of official cor
ruption.' This is peculiarly high bred It may
do in the District OF Columbia, but it will hardly
wash in Chicago. There arc too many proba-
bities in the way. Tho range of legitimate ex-
Penses to which $4,000, got out of
paving contract, may be applied ia al
together too SMALL too inhnitesima1, to
induce Us to take large amount OF
stock IN Count Toeoo'a expectations. We are
10th to believe also in such an astonishing dogrce
OF tender innocence and confding susceptibility,
as men 60 in this wicked world. Such abnormal |
purity as this is dangerous, and the poaseseors
Of it usually die young. In the technical but
expressive language Of tho street, it is t' too
thin" We prefer to believe that it WAS deli
cate piece OF irony on the part OF Emory Storrs
-ope Of those little jokes in which no indulgos
sometimes in his sportiye moments. We arc
it, and not appreciated tho fine te1-
,ura OF Count Fosco's counsel's IRONY But
ho Count had =" other reasons," like
ho man who borrowed the brass kottle,
md this vas only ono of them. In one
# his letters to tho late n. S. Huntington,
he Count naively observed: tAs vigilance is
he price Of liberty, 30 ia activity and watchful-
ess the price of paving contract" Tho in
ostigation seems to show rather that the price
paving contract is 1900, plus activity and !.
the cost Of liberty beng thrown
ito the bargain. But there is such wide !.
snge for tho imagination in tho other possible
'asons for the expenditure Of $4,000 that !,
9 abandon that field in despair.
There is one other point which will occasion =
me sadness among Count Foscos numerous =
lends md admirers, and that is, his Indignant :
'nial that he was going to help pay of the :;
ltiona1 debt with the proceeds Of the paving | +,
ntract5. This let's the Count Fopco down q I
e. As q fnancer, patriot, and a statesman, =,
must suffer in tho estimation of his country =,
n We had pinned our faith to Count Fosco rc
: his debt-paylns tendencies, and wo do not y;
G to be disaoused Of the idea that, in procnr- =.
: this paving contract, no pent-up Utica con- :.
cted his po~ere-but TINT the boundless ma :.
nal debt was his'a cnd not ours. Instead of =
), he was squandering the money On spiritual
ISOLATION and such small truck as activity and -,
chfnlness. We had regarded Uount Fosco rs = -
an OF different mold; but it was eyer thus!
. after another tho illusions OF this world
g aud disappear.
everthelees, although Count Fosco's testi- is
ny nay bo thin, it is consoling to know he eg
the model witness, and that the Committee at
ldn't get ahead of him. -Ho has upheld tho tht
nj @1,oc cft,, /
th, and he will como homo with flying co1ors, POI