Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-17
fuences come to the front. The Republicans advice is good, but it runs no risk of being followed.

The ex-President of the Confederacy wants it understood that he was not captured while wearing the garments of lovely woman. The late Mrs. Dorsey presented da crayon portrait of MT. Davis to the State of Mississippi and he sent letter with the portrait saying: s'It (the portrait) was made after photographic like ness of myself, which was taken in the identical clothes worn when I was captured. Every article then had on appears in the portrait ure, except pair of large spurs which were stolen from me after my capture. had a waterproof Raglan and shawl about my head and shoulders when I left the tent; but on being hailed by cavalryman who rode 8 considerable distance before his comrades, l dropped the raglan and shawl while advancing on my challenger, and thus appeared before my captors in the exact costume represented in the portrait"
 The question whether civil service reform is an unpleasant fiction is again being asked, and the President has received a large number of letters calling attention to violations of his or der prohibiting federal office-holders partici- pating too actively and openly in politics. Some of the sberpest of these letters have come from Chauncey J. Filley of Missouri, who was removed from the postmastership of St. Louis because he persisted in violating that order by retaining his connection with the Republican central committee of his State. Mir. Filley has sent the President lists of of fioials who have been and are engaging in in trigues to secure delegates to Chicago, who will vote for their favorite candidate, and he specifies acts which they have done, which are clearly in disobedience to the spirit and letter of the order. Virginia and North Caro- lima Republicans have also called the attention of the President to similar violations of his order in those States, and complain that ofHce- holders are endeavoring to thwart the will of the people, which was the evil his order was intended to correct.
 It would seem that in country so long in habited by civilized people as France has been, there would not be many wild animals, and yet the return of the number of wolves and other wild animals killed last winter in France, which has just been published, shows the fol- lowing results of the hunters work: Wolves, yOuAS HO1FSS, 1OO AOA0S, U, tt4 onAS- CTS, 5,036; wild boars, 5,328. It is supposed that the returns for the present winter will show vast increase in the number of slaugh- tered wolves in consequence of the exceptional severity of the weather. Most of the wolves which perish in France are slain by the 1ouve- terie, special body charged with that duty. Under the ancient regime the Grand Louvetier of France was an officer of the Kings house. hold, and the office, after having been abol- ished during the revolution, was re-established by Napoleon I. There are now in France 462 ieutenants of louveterie, who keep at their own expense considerable staff of beaters and 1905 hounds. The office of lieutenant is honorary, and merely carries with it few privileges, such as that of hunting the wild boar twice month, during the season, in the State forests. It is held by such men as the Marquis de PAigle, at Compiegne, who is famed for his hounds; by the Prince of Wag- ram, the Vicomte de St. Perier, the Vicomte de Greffulhe, and others. It is complained that in eleven departments the louveterie is not organized, aud that some of these depart ments, especially the Cantal and the Ariege, are infested with wolves. ..