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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 32, 7 December 1883, Page 23

Dublin, Oct. 6.— The Parnell tribute committee to-day adopted an[address to tbe Irish people, congratulating tbem upou the successful result of the movemeut. The address says : " Tbe clearness and the fidelity with which the Irish people have distinguished between the imperishable services of a great leader, and the interested devices of his traducers to weaken his power for further acd greater achievements in the future have enabled us to triumph over all obstacles, aud to make the Parnell national tribute a great and eloquent act of gratitude." The Ist of December is the time fixed for the close of subscriptions to the fund. The presentation will be made on Dec. 10 at a grand banquet, at which the mayor of Dublin will preside. That part of the fund which comes from America •and Australia alone is expected to reach £30,000. The whole will aggregate between £40,000 and- £50,000. A sensational trial is now in progress in the little town, of Gallatin, Missouri. Ie is the trial of Frank James, a member of a band of notorious outlaws which infested some of the Southern and Western States of America for many years after the War of becession, Jesse and Frank James, who were universally known as the James Boys, and who were once- curiously described as " two most atrocious villains, and the sons of a Baptist ministtr," committed in the course of their career innumerable murders and outrages. The elder of the brothers, Jesse, was killed by one of his confederates, with a view to obtain a large reward wbich had been offered by the Governor of Missouri for bis capture. The murderer of Jease, known as Charlie Ford, is now a witness against the surviving brother. Four charges are preferred aeainst Frank — one of them, the murder of the cashier of ihe Gallatin Bank, dating as far back as 1868. Many of the witnesses who vrill be called to testify against him have been robbers and murderers themselves. When the judge announced, on the second daj of the trial, that any person caught within the court-room with revolvers in his possession would be severely punished, two of James's old associates and at least twenty others at once left the room to lay a-ide their arms ! It was expected that several days would be occupied in selecting the jury ; nor is it by any means certain that the pmontr, though he is steeped to tbe lips in crime, will not escape his deseris. Such is the interest taken in the trial that every hotel and boarding-house in Gallatin is crowded with occupants, that large numbers are camping out around the courthouse, and that some of the spectators have come two hundred miles in teams to be present at the proceedings.