Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-18

l lures of young woman connected with the l family of one of the commissioners sent out | by the American government to secure modi- fcations in the treaty with China. The young woman alluded to visited the iewelry shop of Mishashlya in Yokohama, and though she purchased nothing she carried off one of three oddly-shaped and peculiarly finished lockets. This locket she gave to an English officer who had been passenger in the same ship which took the American Commissioner to Yokohama. The jeweler saw the locket on the guard of the English officer, and it was soon made known that the young American woman had given it to him. The jeweler had the young woman taken before the Amer ican Consul, who investigated the case and tried to pacify the jeweler by telling him that the taking of the locket was case of klepto- mania. The Japanese consulted dictionary, but his limited knowledge of English did not enable him to distinguish between kepto- mania and stealing, so he placed in his show window card bearing on it in large letters this legend By American Law Kleptomania is no Crime"
 The Nihilist known in this country as ''John Baker" who writes to the Springfield RepW5Sican occasionally, had an interesting letter in that journal yesterday. He has no doubt that the people of the United States will be greatly shocked when they receive the news that another attempt will be made on the life of General Tchortkoff, the governor general of the province of Kief, and will again cry out: tsThe Nihilists are nothing 1.,,Ao ] L. not receive through Russian source the in- formation that in Kieff, the city in which the governor resides, is prison, originally built for 300 prisoners, in which of late as many as 900 have been confined at one time, and that in few weeks out of 750 over POO have died from torture and hunger, and the rest, who cannot live much longer, or who will probably die before they are brought to trial, have been removed to other prisons for san- itary reasons, according to telegraphic in- structions from Loris Meikoff. He there fore asks the humane and peace-loving peo- pie of America to be somewhat charitably in- clined if one or more relatives of those who died under the generals care should take the law into their own hands. He recommends Russians and others in this country not to give money to Leo Hartmann, who has announced that he is coming to America and would establish centers where contributions to the cause of Nihilism will be received ''John Baker" says the Nihilists have all the money they need, and continues as follows:
 If the Russians in this country really de- sire to help the cause of freedom in their native land they can do so in a cheaper and much more effective way than by subscribing money, and that is, by writing out their opinions regarding the difference of the gov ernment here and in Russia-the entire sepa- tion of church and state-the purity of the clergy of all the different denominations-in fact all about America just as it is. And above all let them write, that since their resi- dence here they have learned that a man, the father of several distinct families, descending from the Empress Catharine and other har- lots. cannot be divine, and is not God but only man, and deserves not to be worshiped. Let them write that they have learned that the prostitute who succeeded her sister to the adulterous bed is not descended from the Archangel Michael-as the clergy and the Russian press have stated in order to prepare the uneducated multitude for her public off cial recognition, in spite of the remonstran. ces of the czarewitz, who justly fears that this official recognition may cut him of from succession to the throne.
 Those who fear the long arm of the Rus sian police can send their contributions to box 64, Springfield, Mass, and ''John Baker" will see that they reach their destinations. He says the postofice department of the revolutionists is in the best working order.