Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1872, Page 2

32 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 18 —_———— e SEWARD. His Rank and Attachments, - "Souvenirs at the Capital. From Qur Oun Correspondent. " WasEIN Qct. 15, ‘Mr. Seward died after his work was i i he hed taken more rest then Ame: siatesmen generally ask or receive. Stanton was struck down at the foob of the Supreme Bench, where his fervid nature had been doomed to look and listen for the remsinder of life. Many able men have beer dismiszed to poverty or drudgery when the public fazhion or party pique had done with them. Mr. Seward was born, and lived, and led, and died that sort of equel career which comports with a statesman. Poverty never led him into temptation. 3en of vongher natures, like Weed, did thoe politician’s work, and geve him the honorable ecats he képired to, 28 if their affection for bim wounld vot permit that he should eoil his feef, or be yoked to merccnary peoplo with vhbligations. -Bomething in the man must have poiselesely drawn thesg men to him. They were probably proud of Lis talent, and to find that he grew steadily strooger ss ke walked on in hon- ors ; and he posseseed an even nature, averee to quasrels, and philpeophic estimates of mankind, €0 that his friends were never dashed down like mere vases, and ehattered ai his hearth-stone, if be fonnd them empty. He had fow of ithem, and those whom he liked be neither idealized wor berated. They always proved sufficient for bis happiness, and he contributed to theirs; and, if people came to him with stories about them, he gave the stories that kind of ‘brozd humani- tarian hearing which showed that he was wmuneed with his friends’ idiosyncracies rather ‘than struck with their wickednéss. Mr. Sewerd saved himself a vast deal of trouble by not seek- ing tobe tho owner of his friends. He liked their consideration, but ebared their pleasures inrteturn, drank their wine as they hie, and they gmlechefl his honor wherever theirs might BO- Noman wanted to wropg Seward; none rould; for he never watched himeelf as if he were afraid or sensitive, lived s gentleman’s life, and made the State his care, andlet his xeputation take care of itself. ] am not surs but that the most perfect model of the American gentleman of the present day is not to be found in Westera New York. Imight observe to Mr. Conkling that this model is occa- sionally found as far East ss Utice, but not in his, case. Avon, Albion, Rochester, Auburn, and Batavia, where the New England, Holland, and Susquebanna Valley currents coalesce in the noblest climate of North Americe, end tint and model such pears, pumpking, and women 25 make old Pan himsélf hide in the broom-corn to peep st them,—in ono of such towns, Mr. Sawarg spent the prime . of his youth and the residue of his days, among warm and athletic intellects, and a eociety which might be called the social orchard, There ke married, end his wife lived long and cheery, to ghrow an~ other steadfest arm of support arourd him. Sons and daughters grew up, eble in time to car- Ty some of his burdens, and, a5 the least, to re- new his pride of country by theeight of their going and coming. Fortunato is the lznd by whose easy productiveness 2 man may be bleesed with a competenca like this, and still be seid mever to bave been rich. Mr. Seward’s father acquired _the_basis of & comfortablo for- une; he edded to it some profits derived from the agency and attorneyship of the Holland Mnd%nrfimse;- and he mnge gome fees in the practice of the law, though emall ones com- pared to counsel-fees powadays. His estate msy have .been worth from §200,000 fo 800,000 during the art . of his life. - But money became him so easily that one conld write out_all his life, and wever think to allude to the subject of his pecu-~ niary resources. Indeed, the biography of Mr. Seward is nnusually defectiveas to the matler of mesns and processes. Mr. Groeley, ‘his political cotemporary, latter relates, with s quaint satisfaction, 311 the items of thrift and ontlsy pertaining to ‘his little hut at Chappaqua; but Mr. Seward, ‘when the curtain rises, is seen merely revealed in an agreeable mansjon, and so perfectly at home there that we cannot have the bad, manners-to ek How he came by it. o ‘He posgeseed no other qualities than I have mtimated to make him a P‘éfnl” politician, ex- cept a wamm, equel, mildly-Tadiating love of country. Thisfeeling, withoit which no man can be an Americsn in the high sense of public influence, bounded every enterprige and roposition _of his life. The Higher Emv e lifted up was nothing to ecale the Presi- dency upon, but s slowly-grown conviction in ‘his conservative mind thaton this must lean to retain and deserve its _greatness, and that popular an:‘;]me must lepse if all its e owth were to be at 'make Mr. Seward ademagogue. Hedied, I believe, with the phrase unntteredagainst any slaveholder mpire elaveholding. He treated tho agif its importance alone on the Union, must be his erence ; and, had the Somth u]r the n slave-question gigantic parasite 1] apology for ints possessed capaple apd a fanatic in all demagogue B 5a end he would have esses wag Deither, een as ardent gs his nature could permit to advocate some system of compengation o master and slave. _But, in the Sonth, which ghonld have snuffed the tempest from afar, there were no trne statesmen eouth of Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia. They treated, as a piece the candid phraseology of a man of blasphemy, J: with the Empire State st his back, and, wken Payne (or Powell), the aseassin, rushed on Mr. Bewsrd, in the bed-room, to Lill'the arch-Aboli- tionist of the North, he only emote the most copservative statesman and one of the truest entlemen in all this country, North or South. oth and Payne, Lilling their friends when ‘most the Bouth needed them, wers the pupils of an indiscriminately partissn and passionate press, and of s selfish and urscrupulous school of Southern stump-epeakers. 1t is tho businees of & useful press snd s relisble public msn to soften end enlighten the igno- ramt passion of their ‘Had these done their duty in the least degres, the Bouthern States would have computed Mr. Beward fifteen years ago as they ehall lament Wim hereafter. While their blind gnides were seeking, without capacity, to %ovem ‘the revolu- tion they had permitted and sbetted, while they were successful in arms ‘for three continuous and obtained every advantege but states- this Socialist, this Robespierre, as they years, s manehip, this | Y called him, without an angry word or any dis- ement of his countrymen in arms againet a0 Gnion, was the silver foil whoeo cven-tem- pered diplomacy confounded Premiers and Recognized by no om, refuted everywhers, the South had..only to waikthe day of ze}!—eth_?- its Seward was waved away recognition. State in Chrieten tion; and. them, sgein, _the blow vagrant _ assasein dealt at a aimed atia man who had never rejoiced in their dissster. He never did. No bitter sweet can grow upon his grave. v . Seward, however, was - politieian, and be- Jieved in the party 8s at the bottom of affairs; ‘but, with all this, he belonged to no less. than four partiesin his period. He was an Anti- = Republican, and a National Iest. People laugh mowedays In the nejgbbor- Mason, & Whig, Conservative at” at the Anti-Masonic party. this law the land expense of humsan na- e. They seized this phrase and called him, the * High-Law candidate,” but no motive could 0, 83 &° stateemen, they would bavo erceived &8 much, sooner than Seward, and gutaned to make compromises. -The man caltllzzd 0, constituency.- exception, I believe, found sufficient” nee to indict ; it wag only foreign- s, or for n, who refused 1o indict, and sederally witkoat stating reazons. - Yours, = - A JORYNMAN. Careaso, Ot 1§, 18 —_—— 4= THE TENNESSEE TRIANGLE. Johmson, Theatham, and Maynard at Zedanon. Lebanon (Oct. 10) -Corresponience of the Cincinnati Cemanereic ke speaking Lock rlace {own. A Jirge erowd gathered in from the conn- try, and marched out to the grove liko an army going to, war. The cedars were rather thick, apd the stand was rather high, reaching w among {k:c branches. A great many men climbe up into the surrounding treea. It was & curious sight. Tho limbs immediatoly over the stago hed afl the men they could support. And stand- ing in the dense mass all around the stand were those who could not bo aiforded accommodation in the tree tops. All gorts of people were on hand ; young, ola, middle-aged, white, black, college students, and Confederate conscripts. A sprinkling of negroes were also present, and the best bebnved men on the grounds. The crowd was greatly in favor of ' Johnson, but the Cheatham interest was very noisy. What they lacked in numbers theymade upin ‘noiee. : k Cheatbam opened. He did not confine himselt to his manuscript, but dabbed about here and there, bringing to ibe surface a fragment of Joknzon's record every time. He dwelt at length upon the murder of Mrs. Surratt. Jnhnsnnghad doneit; the blood of that poor woman was upon his hands. Hero broke in & number of voices, Eingin'gi out as follows: # Hurreh for Mrs. Surratt.” ¢Johnsor the woman-killer; Ben. Butler.” % He was s traitor to the South. Yonstood by us, old Frack. Hurrah for Cheatham!” A man on a cedar limb, directly over Johnson's head, eung out, G—d d—n Andy Johnson, tho traitor; harrah for Cheatham!” Great cheering and confusion. A. J. did not look up, although cedar sprigs were falling sl over his head from the ehaking limbs ehove. General Cheatham branched off on to the Mil- itary Governorship. Old men had been sent to thae" Penitentiary for no other cauge than that they loved the South. More interruption, and cries of “Giveit to the old rascal!” ~“Hit him again!” “Down with the woman-murderer!” el stand by old Frank, for ho atood by usi™ This sort of mixed speeking continued ‘for some time. The General would talk awhile and then the crowd would put in energetic if not elegant words of approbation. e Johnson men soon got tired of this and began to-cry for #0ld Andy.” * Come up, Andy, don’t be afraid.” «We'll stand to yon.” ¢ You've got the crowd;” and 8o on. Chestham read from a_speech made during the war, in which he spoke of the dead Bonthern soldiers a8 being in * ignominious graves.” * < He can't get out of it,” eaid the speaker, ex- citedly; “hesaid it.” Cries of “That’s so0;” “ywell ghow him.” Give it to the d—d old demagogue.” *Stand up to bim, Frank.” Matters wenton in this ghape for about half an hour, when Cheatham sat down, having said about all he could think of. - “When Jolmnson arose thers wero cheers, hoots, yells, and cries of all descriptions. ~He looked around upon his noisy audience for a ‘moment, waiting for them to exhaust.. He wag told not to be afraid by some one who thought ho was hesitating throngh a disinclination to proceed. “Afraid?” gaid he; “no, these oyes heve never yet beheld the man who 1aspired this beart with fear."” When Johnson was defending his course dur-~ ing the war, he was met with a tempest of con- demnation and spprobation. = Whilo this was going on, anold man, pret, drunk, rode up, shouting, * Hurra for john Bell and the brim- stone-heater !” After he bad_got through with John Bell and the heater,” he shook his fist at Johueon, ehouting: * Oh, yes, G—d d—n you; you went over to the Xorth and helped them to steal our property.” Hoots, yells, laughter, applause, curses, and Blessings were all mixed up together. But Jolnson kept pounding away &b bis argument, tnroing his exes occasionally to_those swinging limbs over bis hesd, to see if there was any danger of their tumbling down upon him. The whiskey and rnm]{::s Lore ita legitimate fruit—s fight. This tock place near tho stand. Men began to pound cach other over the head. The centro of the fight shifted back and forth, the combatants being surrounded by a great jam of humanity. Men wio wanted * {o. tako a hand,” ns they called it, rushed in, while those in who did not want & band rusked out, May- pard siroked his silvery but feeblo whiskers, Johnson looked on with sour indignation, while Cheatham commanded that they desist, or be would come down and whip them all. The belligerents were finally separated and {aken to different parts of tho grove, where they could not find one another. Mr. Jobnson con- tinued his speeck, and got throngl with the rest of it without serions interruption. ; 1t is & curious fact, but a true one, that BMay- pard’s speech; was more_attentively listened to than either Cheatham's or Johneon's. Party feeling hero between tho supporters of the two Democrats is more intense than againgt tho Radicals, Consequently, Maynard elips along easily. When he gives Johnson & dig the Cheat- bamites cheer, and avhen he digs_Cheatham the Jobnsonites appland. This makes it ploasant for Mr. Maynard. He rather seems to enjoy it. ‘He thinks it & good joke thatbeis the second _choice of both Johngon and Chestliam. b okl MR. FRANKLIN CORWIN. XXis Action in IZcgard to the Support of Spidiexs’ Families, 5 TASALLE, TIL, Oct. 9, 1672, T the Editors of the Ottawa Iree Trader : Sirs: The following outburst of virtuous in- ,gigfl“‘ii“n appeared in the Ottawa Kepublican of ept. 19: AF.': ‘to tho resolution which it Is charged Mr. Corwin introduced in the Board of Supervisore, reducing €ol- diers’ families fo pauyers, it is only necéesary to asy that it is false in every particular. ~Mr. Corwin never offered uny such resolution, nor did he ecer supportany such resolution direetly or indirectly, and the records of. the Bcarc fail to give the leagt color 1o such a charge, The courso of 3r. Corwin, 38 88 member aund Obair- “maan of the Board, was libersl zpd- patriotic towards the defenders of tho Union and their needy families, and his d‘ruux‘fl is one of which his friends may justly e prou “Row, saark, the indignation ths displayed was aronsed by the 7afure- of the chargo preferred ‘sgainst BIr. Corwin by this correspondent in TaE Omcago TRIBUNE of Sept. 14. Tho Republiogn evidently considerod it 8o dam- aging to Mr. Corwin, if irue, asto demand in- stant and utter refutation. Nou wisbing fo rest undeg the imputation of faleebood, your corres- ondent produced proofs, that were published in )i‘m: % ..18UNE of Sept. 24. Andlo! what a great changeis wrought in tho Republican thereby. In itsissue of Oct. 3, virtuous indignation is 88D~ planted by brazen cfirontery. Too mean to re- tract thedle given in its former iesue, it says: «+Liberal’ says Mr. Corwin advocated and voted for this resclution. Suppose he did? What of it?” And then straightway enters into a labored effort to justify Mr. Corwin's course,.relying mainly upon the countar-chuFa that other Su- pervisors voted for it also. Well, Mr. Repubilican, “'Suppoee they did? What of it? Do several wrongs mako one right? The Military Commit- tee’s report convicts Franklin Corwin and Elmer Baldwin of being prime movers in the infamous ‘traneaction, for iheir names are signed to that. document which hurled insult at every husband and father in the army from LaSalle County, in the following langnage: ‘‘And your Committee wonld euggest that, 8o Jong as the county fur- niehes support to their families, the necessily of sending llome money will notbe so urgend, and cedar grove near he's worse than hood where Mr. Seward.lived, this party had s | will be neglected by the volunteers ; and, Jor this i demonstration of the existence of thexightto teke life Perhaps Mz- | county after the first day of next, April. except redemptionfrom | in cages of sickness and absolute dietress.” something which claimed without authority of civil law. sonry owes to Anti-Masonry its the law of barbariem. bo ail right for charity, left hand should 1ot night band doeth. But, when clags of ips took hold of William Morgan, a8 it.did to my eatisfaction when I went reason, e wonld recommend that no relie? be granted to the families of volunteers by.ihe Th secret_society may | Why does the Republican sttempt-to warp_ the on the ground that" the | plain sense of langusge? Tl ho Committee: kpow what the | avowed in the plainest mannerdtheir reason for that | witkdrawing aid allogether,-and it was not be- cause the means was' insufficient, but that the coldiers might, through_the *sickness or dis- over the ground in 1667, ib raieed tho epirit of | {ress” of their families, bo brought to & realiz- the whirlwind. s adherents, and it raz, 1atercolleague in the Cabinet, Selmon P. Chate. To reason from this myeterious lcdge-cratt,up to the despotism of tho mighty mnsonryior Salls County to paes 2 vots of censura upoa lor this later Slave-holding was not, perhaps, & wide lea M:.v Eewud‘.‘s Soms £.3 that he took In Wesetern New York ihe parly claimed tbe: ablest and most respected citizens even for tuo Presidencyy ‘William Wirt, the patron-at-law of Mr. Seward's ing senee of duty toward them, and “feel the urgent necessity of eending home_money,"—2& duty that Dlesers. Corwin and Baldwin seemed to assume they would net otberwise perform. . Tn other words, this Committes, in its oficial capacity, aeked the Board of Supervisors of L;- tbe brave men who were_fighting their battles, by ecbmitting the implied charge that tkey were step beceuse he saw tho clements of populsrity | negligect in duty toward theloved ones at home. in it ; but no statesmsn camx jstence of a wide conviction. Mr. Seward was be blind tc the ex- ‘What resson had Mr. Corwin {0 wupposs acy sach thing? Was it because he fcared-they 0 seo the day when he shoald be preeent at the | would rely top impliciily upon the promises of < dedication of a Masonic Lodge, wrag to ses the day when no agonry ol up sgainst human natare acd the gensibi patriotism. . Gata. FHE GRAND JURY AND THE SALOON CASES. o the Bitor of The Chicago Tribune: * 8im : The reasons aesigned by you, in'your | .4 promptly paid? 419 | of ¢ sickness or Gistress?’ o be relied on 85 evi-, paperof this date, why the Grand Jury faile find indictments in the saloon caseg, isincorrect. No mention was made of alaw ‘ passed in 1843," The American-Rorr Jurymer, 88 you sisie. and the country tand ities of support made by him only & few montls before ? 1t so, his official action cffectually diszipated such hopes, and {ortured maoy o trus heart with: thoaghte of his perfidy, and anxiety for thoe pos- sivlo consequences entailed upon iheir families, who must manifest outward signs of suffering ere this map’s conditional reliet could reach them. Had he tho means of knowing that the goldier's xmonthly stipend would Le Tegularly Or was the manifeetation ddnce that his scanty pay Lad failed to ‘arrive in time to * kecp the wolt from tke door™? Bo curiously snd cunnivgly devised was the wording of that roport, with its refined ‘cruelty and implied insult, that we do not wonder the Republican brings_its heaviest ordnance into requisition, charged to the muzzle with per- fumed Chinese ammaunition, and fires away furi- ouely, hoping to drive people from the scent. The Republican may as well understand that it matters not who else voted for the adoption of the Military-Report -and- Pauper Resolution. Many true men (Democrats t00) opposed bot! MJesers. Corwin and Baldwin are before the peo le, acking their support for important offices. {’t i5 with them we have to deal just now, and they both stand convicted of haying recormend- ed this heartless legisiation, and it rcmains for ihe peoplo to'pass judgment upon them. “The counter-charge that others seconded their action will hardly prove a sufiicient defence. LIBEBAL. FROUDE. Blis Speech at the Dinner Given Him by His American Publishers. At the dinner given to James Anthony Froude, the eminent English historian, by his American ublishers (Messrs. Scribner, Armstrong & Go.), in New York, Oct. 15, George William Curtis, who presided, made an address of welcome, to which Mr. Froude responded as follows: When, = few years gince, an English squadfon was engaged with the forts on the Peyho, one of our ships ran ona bank, snd was suffering severely from the Chinese fire. An American frigate which was in the river came to her help —the commander saying briefly, thet blood was thicker than water. That blood was thicker than water, sent Dr. Kane_into -the Arctic Circle jn search of Sir John Franklin. ' That blood was thicker than water, induced the chivalrous editor of the New York Herald to despatch Mr. Stenley into the heart of Africa to seek and find David Livingstone. The same feeling bas croated in the English nation a- more genuine delight in thie suceess of a private enterpriso of an Ameri- can citizen, than if Livingstone bad been dis- covered and brought homo by the agentsof our own sgcieties. My literary career has been a chequered one.: I havebeen connected from the beginning with subjects ou which passion is still boiling. Those who handle hot coals are apt to burn their fin- gers, and I have now and then burnt mine. Lit- erature, however, has also brought me many pleasures. Of all these plensures, not one has given me 60. much_gratification as the recogni- tion which my writings bave been so fortunate asto receive in thiscouniry. Long ago your Historical Societies at Philadelphia and Boston ere among the first.to hold out a. hand to me. Your rece{:hinn of me hera this evening, gentle- men, would have been the most agreeable expe- rience in my literary life, were it not. that I feel oppressed by your goodness to me. When I see myeelt here surrounded by the most brilliant representatives of American literature—by men whose names have been houeehold words wherever tho English language is spoken—I am sure that you are forming expectations of me which I shall inevitably disappoint. We ara all of us 8o constituted by nature that we can swal- low a large measure of flattery, but the digestive power even here has its limits. I know too well the measure of my own capabilities. You make me feel like Falataff bafore the battle of Shrewe- bury—* would 'twere evening, Hal, and all were well.” Would it,yere a fortnight hence, when Sou havé heard what I bavo to say to you, and Your good opinion of me had remained un- changed. Some eighteen months ago, ata London break- fast table, it was mentioned that onoof themost prominent Fenian loaders was making a tour in tho United States, dilating upon English tyran- ny, and the wrongs of Irelsnd. No doubt tho téxt.is o prognant one, and it probably did nob suffer in the commentary. Irish patriotism has many a charge to_bringagainst England, which can bo but toowell substantiated. Lngland can- not complain if Irishmen have a long memory. There are, however, features in the long tragi- cal story which, if they do not palliate, at lenst explain and make intelligible much that.wecould wish undone—features which paturally enough the Irish overlook, yet which should be borne in mind, if an impartial judgment is to be formed on the controversy.- 1 was aware how great an - influence America possesses in Irelend. The judgment of America has more weight in Treland than twenty batteries of English cannon ; and that judgment ought not to be pronounced after hearing only the counsel for the plaintiff. I sa1d hastily, I think I will go over and give somo lectureson theotherside. 1 spoke without serious intention; but tho ides havingonce presented iteelf tome fm.hered form and fixity. Iamnotan Irishman. [ do not own an.acre of land in Ire- land, but circumstances, during_the lagt - thirty yearg, have thrown me much pmong the Irish People. They are & people who either attract &trongly, or repel strongly. 1 myself had always felt myself specially drawn toward them. When at college, 1 ueed to spend my vacations wander- ing in the Irish mountains. I have lived in peasants’ cabine for months together. I was ‘once laid up with severe illness in the wilds of Mayo, and the poor creatures treated me with a tenderness which I shall never forget. Theit bhistory attracted me. Their condition personally interested me. I knew Ireland befora the famino. I knew it'in the famine. I was in Ire- Jand afterwarde, in 1848, in the Smith O'Brien insurrection. Since that time I have been an Irish tenant. . Indeed, I may say I am an evicted tenant. I have been turned out of my holding, and can sympathize with the special wrong of the country, a8 I wa# very un g to go. " But my landlord simply wanted to live in his own house, and attend fo his duties. 1f all evictions +were a8 innocent a8 mine, there would be little to complain of, and when Igo back I hope to find some other place, in the same county,.which will suit me as well. When I wag writing my History of England, T was led to look closely into the conduct of tho English Government toward Ireland in esrlier times. When that book was off my hands, I be- an to examine into the action of the_celebrated %en&l laws of the last century. I had read what very fow persons have read—the secret corres- pondence between the English and Irish Admin- lstrations during all that period, I felt, in shor! that I had something of importance to.eay, an I wiehed to say it. Iwould not act in such a mattoer without advice. I consulted my friends, _and their answers were generally unfavorable. One gaid I should be mobbed by tho Irieh.. An- other, that he supposed I should tell the truth; there was nothing so unpalatable as truth: I bad better let it alone. Others urged “more gravely that it was unbecoming and improper to discuss questions of our own domestic politics in a for- aign country. There were some, however,—snd those who knew Ireland best,—whe said to me “Go,” and my own instinct said “Go.” As to the Trish, 1 bLave always been on good terms with them, and I believel alwaysshall be. 1hope to spend a large ‘&m of the rest of my life among them, and 3 they have anything to sy to me, they will have an opportunity at home. A8 to truth, it may be unpalatable, but therc isa Fajudice that a little of it is not nnwhoiegome. 'or the more grave objection, if I were in Par- liament, if 1 belonged to any political party, even it I was an Irish lapdlord, I admit that it wounld have weight. It might bo Aupposed that I was indirectly pursning some fiarty object. Butas far as I have any public character it is simply a8 a writer of books,” I address myself equally to all English speaking pco%la ‘wherever they are, and there can be no possible reason why I may not address them as well with my tongue 2s my en. Onco for all, however, I ingiet that Eng- and aud America do not stand to one another as foreign nations—foreign in tho scnse that France or Russia is foreign to us both. Politi- cally separate we may be, Lut we cannot shake off our relationship. Epmni from 'a common stock, with a- common history, common Jaonguage, common laws; charge& as we both are ‘by Providence with ihe carrying out of that grand principlo of Qered liberty, on which, aswe believe, the ameli- oration of mankind deEends, wo may be rivels, ‘but rivals only 28 to whieh of ug’shall represent these principles moat wigely and most, effective- ly. l\ye may quarrel, and when we quarrel it will ‘be with the peculiar bitterness which .distin-+ guishes family disputes. But the very acrimony 18 iteelf an ovidence of the closeness of the tie hich bindsus. For the sting riees from the suppoged absenco of the special good-will which from the other. Be our political position to each other what it may—and for myeelf 1 hope: and believano angry word need- ever more Lo exchanged between us—it is ineyitablo tkat wo must retain an ardent interest in esch other's future, and must remain counected by links of feeling such ascan not exist tetween eitber of us and any other powers. 2 T Tn tho last century, and in the century befors, when the Iriel Catholice remained fized st home, there wae & nu less important Protestant emigration to this courtry. Every seascr, for mare than a hucdred years, they came over in - whiplosds, the very pith and marrow of the col- cpiets whohad Leen planted in Ireland by the Puritane—the sons and grandsons of the Crom- wellian settlers, tho Ulster Presbyterians, the Cslvanist immigrants, English, Dutch,” ard French, who weot thither after the lash con- queet, and were driven out by the intolerance of the Episcopelian laws. They camo here, liko tho Bilgrim Fathers, in ecarch of Jiberty which was depied them &t home, 1In the war of inde- pendence they made England rue the madness whick had baniehed them. And in that same war of indeRendence their friends in Ireland, the Protestants who remained there, were the staunchest friends which America possessed. Gentlemer, it is now 360 years lnce an Eng- | the murder of three members of the party, _@river could return. each of us conceive we haves right to look for |- lishman was éent over from London to eXamine and- report upon the causes of Irish discontent. It was a time when, if ever, the Irish had the management of their own sfairs. The result was universal misery, and thecon- clusion was that the cause was hopeless. . * Our Inehgrs," this writer seid, “could find n6 rem- edy.” They had more wif and_wisdom than we, | How, then, can we findit? Wise men say that~ “the}?er&z that will heal the wound did never grow.” Nearly 400 years havo passed away; we are still seeking for that herb and cannot find it. 1 know not if it grows anywhere, but I yet be- lieve that though no. growth of the old hemiy- phere, it may be discovered ‘in the new. Itis that plant which I have come in searchof. I believe it to be American opinion. - Qurselves at our wit's ‘end, if America will coungel England what to_do that she has left undone, what wrong she can yet redress that Ireland mg{ ginetly complain of, England, Iam c{:e{]t;m, will listen respectfully, cordially, grate~ rully. 4 1f, orf the ‘other hand, & time"is ever to come when political agitation is to end in Ireland— when Celt and Saxon, Protestant and Catholic, are to live side by side in peace and quietness, it will be when America tells the Irish that they haye no longer a grievance which legislation can redress, and that they must depend for their fu~ ture prosperity on their own industry. .. . INDIAN TROUBLES. Killing of Three Members of the Milie tary Escort Attached to the Northern Pacific Surveying Party--Apprehens -sions of a Genernl Savage Uprising Next Year. From the St. Paul (3finn,) Press, Oct. 17, Yesterday morning the Pioneer came out in tremendous head-lines announcing the * start- ling " intelligence that the Indians were again on tho war path, and had attacked, in heavy force, the Northern Pacific Surveying Party, all of which was the grossest of exaggerated untraths, and only originated in the mind of the inventive genius who does its heavy sensi- tional business. The simple basis of fact upon which this fabric of fabulous news was reared laid in o telegram received by General Greene {rom General Stanloy, who is in command of the military escort attached to the surveying party, which telegram wrs received three or four days- sgo. This telegram simply gave a few details of at different times, by roaming bands of Sioux In- dians, and did not convey the slightest intima- tion that the party had been threatened by the red skins, much less attacked. Lientenant Adair, who was Quartermaster of the expedition, had been detailed to ride in ad- vance of the pirty for the purpose of selecting & camp. His dotail was_set upon by Indians, and several shots were exchanged, Lieutenant Adair receiving & fatal wound, and one of the Indians algo being disabled. The Lieutenant succeeded in returning to the main columns, and died in a, few hours. ~ Shortly afterward General Rosser and a few men met this same -band of Indians, and shots were again exchanged. ‘The General, who i8 & crack shot, succeeded in putting a bal flzdrn_ugh the head of the Indian wounded by air. ~The party was =t this time about 60 milss wost of Fort Rice, on the Missouri. > File or six daysafterthe murderof Lieutenant Adair, Lieutensnt Crosby being far from the Vicinity of the main body in the eager pursuit of antelope, met o band of Indian scouts, and was shot and instantly killed. The -other instance was that of a colored-servant of General Stan- ley's. He too was away from the party, chosing gamo. His body was found terribly mutilated. Thus it will be scen that each of these mrirders fva8 committed separately and at different times, 2nd upon atragglers from cnmfi‘ In overy instauce the attacks were mnde by small bodiesof Indians, and no foundation what~ ever exists for the absurd statement in the Pioncer, that o general attack, or_any attack at al), had been made upon the main body, nor is any concern felt for the eafety or welfare of the perty at either military headquarters, or at tho Northern Pacific offices. From the same paper. * Captein James E. Cochrane, who has been stamping over the Indian country for Merriam & Wilder since May, returned to” this city yes- terday. ¥ - The Captain is considerably astoniehed at the report in circulation here ihat an outbreak is threatened by the Indiens, and disclaims that any such movement is anticipated on the border. He esys that the Indinns manifoss no hostility to the whites, except in those cases where they catch stragglers on the plains. The Captain brings the dismal report, how- ever, that the tribes generally aro preparing for somo great movement next year, and thinks tho circumstances point ominously to anything but & continuance of peace. On the 8th inst., o rand pow-wow was beld at Dovil's Lake by the ippewas of Red Lake and Leech Lake, and the Sioux of Devil’s Lake, Fort Wadsworth, and Fort- Rice, at which time a treaty was eniered into between these tribes, and feelings -of tho greatest friendehip seomed to exist. Presonts wWero exchanged on both sidgp, the Sioux being presented with a number of 'ponfes by their new, allies. The Captain eays further, that tho sov- eral tribea seemed to ba working-under au or- ganized plan to burngover tho catire prairios, and this is being dona to a great cxtent. +- The only trouble anticipated by the Northern Pacific survey lies in the fact that the Indians manifest a decided inclination to destroy all traces of the lines run, which they endeavor to accomplish by pulling up-and burning thostakes, and leveling the mounds. No general attack is feared by the expedition. ROBBING A PRIMA DONNA. The Modern Fra Diavolo and His Ap- : pearance. _-Migs Violetta Colville, -the young American prima donns, and ber mother were waylaid. by highway robbers while enjoying = carriage ride Dbotween Albisola and Savons, Italy. The letter rolating the adventure is 8o interesting that we deom it worthy of making some extracts : ““The day bofore we loft Savona 1 thought it would do. Violotta. good to 20 to the besch and walk in the ses air,- shie boing yet not entirely | strong, so we took a carrisge’and drove to the little villsge of Albisola. After walking.abont an hour on the shore of this very beautiful beach—hard and clean from its billions of many- | colored pebbles—we started toreturn home. We had got about half a mile from Albisola when the carriage stopped, and the driver said that something was the matter with the vehicle, and that it could no further. He said we must ‘wait there and he would go into town for another carriage. 1 was not at all suspicious nor alarmg- .ed, and the beauty of the place where we were made me rather plensod than- otherwise to remain for the hour that muat ensue before our We ware in a little valley, or rather a gorge, for the hills rose on each side and the mountnins lay behind when we faced the sea, which was just visible through the gorge. We strolled ahout enjoying ourselves, when I ‘heard Violetta sa{, ** For mercy’s sake, who are these people?” I turned round and eaw adyanc- ing from the seaside five rough-looking men, who, from the shape of the road, had madaged to remain concealed from view until they were within aboul & rod or 60 of us. To run would have been ridiculous ; it would have shown fear where, perhaps, none was necessary ; or, if 8o, we had no dr co to run to; and 8o, although inwardly trembling, I did not allow Violetts to think L. was frightened, but.eaid, ¢QOh, they sare laborers probably returning home,” , But we were quickly undeceived when one of them advanced and nsked in & tobe not at all agreeing with his langaage if we bad not “a few centissimi for a poorman? To gain time, or, Tather, to gather my thoughts, .1 pretended not to iunderstand Italian, and asked-him in TFrench what be desired. Inthe meantime I had slid my hand in my pocket and slipped off my rings from my fingers. “He eaid that he'and his comradee would like a little assistance in the way of money from the mesdames. - 1 had drawn out | my pocketbook and was proceeding to open it whep our brigand, not at all like the brigands of the drams, did not wait to_accept with polite phraso gny offering I _might choose to give him. but . incontinently snatched it from my hand. When he_ opened it the | others crowded around him,-and, seeing its con- tente (there were about six hundred francs in niotes of various dezominations), appeared Ligh- 1y cotented; Lut wiehicg doubtless to have s gouverir of their unwilling benefactress,..re- . quired of me my watch aleo;’ which,. wlen I bad giveu them, they made off with, firét convincing themaelves that Vicletia. bad neither watch nor purse sbout ber. As I, happy that we bad es- coped without furcker logs or injury, looked after the Tascals, I codld not help thinking of the decline of the brigand species. Alos! where were the stesple-crowned Late and flow- ing ribbous? Where were tho silken hoso wound about with many colored tapes that make the lege Gf the opers singers look like eccentric barber poles? Alas! these | real brigands were dirty, half clady sud’ wholly ragged specimens of that humanity most nearly allicd to the brute family. Now, if thiey bud only been stage brigande they would have recognized the young prims donna aseoluta Bignorina Violetla Colville; they would Lave compelled her to sing au aria on tho spot, &c.,! &c.; but, ob, shame for the romance of real life! we lost our maney to aset of ragamuffing, | snd bad ngs ven the consolation of Laving it takon from 18 by & gentleman () with a high- crowned hat, with @’ tail of-gorgeous ‘ribbons,. and who would sing while ho took it, to Eoothe our wounded feelings. There’s where it stings; -there ig where.we.are.humbled. But_to_return Albisola. The driver came shortly after tho _departure of the thieves, and, slthough it conld not be proved against him, I will always believe that He was in league with them.” - — e o MISSING EXPLORERS. From thé Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Stanley, having fairly established hia .claim to have discovered the whereabouts of Dr. Livingstone, has added a chapter: to the melan< choly but interesting history of lost explorers: 'The list of them is longer than might. be sup- posed, including in it the names of those whoae fate has never been ascertained, of those the ‘manner of whose death is known, ‘or conjectured with probability, and of those who have tempo- Tarily di.!nfipaamd from cbservation, among which last Mr. Livingstone may happily now be classed. Romance and mystery shroud the ‘memories or those who have disappeared ** leay- ing not & wreck behind.” There i8 Eric, the good Christian Bishopof Greenland, who, in theyear 1121, started for this continent to_convert the red men, but how long he remained among them,,or whether he.ever got there, is unknown to this day. Then thereis Prince Madoo, the son of Owen Gwyneth, King of Wales, who, in the year 1170, went to seain search of adven- tures, and i8 aid to have reached the shores of this continent and to have left soma of hig people here. He wont back to Wales for more coloniate, and again started with ten ships full ;. but neither he nor his ships were ever heard of afterward, and_there” are now no traces of his colony. _1In, 1503, the Portuguese navigator, Gasper Cortereal, who had already explored the const of Lsbrador, set out on a second explora=- tion of that country, but not returning s soon a8 was expected, his brother sailed ih search of him, No account, however, of either of ‘them: evor resched Portugal. In 1519, the Bieur Do Roberval, & wealthy Frenchman, who had been invested by Henry II. of France, with the empty titles of Lieutenant General, Lord and Viceroy of all the islands and countries then discovered, either by the French or the English, and who had sailed up the St. Lawrence and built two forta near Quebec, started ona voyage of diecovery and was never heard of again, Tn 1696 Captain Richard Chancellor, an English navigator, set out to explore the Arctio Ocesn; but never returned. Mm{ egem after- ward_the remains of two Englich ships were found on the coast of Spitzbergen, but it is not certain that they were. those of Chancellor. A similar uncertainty attaches to the fate of the French navigator, La Perouse, who, in 1774, left France on an exploring expedition in the North "Pacific, in command of two ships, La Boussole and L'Astrolabe ; he never returned. = Xxpedi- tions were sent in search of him, butno trace of ~him were found untll 1788, when another Frenchmsn, (M. Do Lesseps,) landing’ on the - ‘coast of. Eamschatka, discovered rome articles which had_belonged to the missing ships ; hence it was conjectured that they had .been wrecked in the neighborhood. Tho fate of Leichardt, tho Australian explorer, :ig 8till unknown.. ' Hestarted on his exploration | in 111848, gince which time nothing has been heard of him, « The fate of most otherlost explorera has been ascertained soomer or later after their death. Without dwalling upon the mythic instances of the Irish Missionary Ion, who came over to Massachnsetts in the year 1049, and was marder- ed there by savages, or one of the Italinn broth- ers, Njcdla and Antonio Zeno, who, in 1380, did the same thing and mot with the same fate, the list beginning with the Spaniard, Jusn Ponce de Leon, 18 long enough: He was the explorer of TFlorida, and gave that Stato the name she bears, but be fell in a conflict with the patives. Fran- cisco Fernandez de Cordovs, - another Spaniard, attempted the exploration of Yucatan, in 1517, but received a wound there, of which he died on his retum to Cuba. The great Portuguese navi- gator, Ferdinand Magol (or, more_properly, Magelhaens), the first Europesn who egile rourd the world; and gaye the Pacific Ocean the nams it bears, was killed in & fight with-the'-na- tives of the Phillippine Islands, in_ 1520, Pam- giln do Narvuaz, commander of & Spanish expe- ition in seargh of & wealthy empire somewhera in North America, was driven out to sea by a storm from the Bay of Apallachee, and drowned. This was in the year 1528.- Fourteen yeats after- ward the: famous Spanish . noble, Ferdinand Da. Soto, after countless adventures, died on tha banks of the Missiesippi. ‘‘To conceal his denth from the natives, his body, wrapped in & mantle, and placed in a rustic'coffin, in the stillness of ‘midnight, and in the presence of a few faithful followers, was silently sunk in the middle of the stream.” In 1588, Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from England with the design of founding a colony on this continent, but hia ship was wrecked, and all on board perished. | - This brings us to more modern times. In 1779 the illustrious English navigator, Captain James Cook, was killed by the natives of Hawaii, while he was engaged in the humane attempt to stop his men from firing on them. In 1805, the famous Bcotch traveller, Mango Park, having ex- plored the Niger and- reached: Timbuctoo, was attacked by.sthe natives, near this mysterious city, and, in endeavoring to escape by swimming, . he'and all his companions were drowned, This fact was ascertained by s nafive guide, three months afterwards, but it was not known in England until five years later. In 1816, John Williams, sn English missionary to the .New Hebrides, was killed and eaten by the nativee, In 1822, the three . Engliehmen, Denbam, Audoey, . and Clnpxertou, ith others, ex- plored the North of Africa, By way of Tripoli, the Great Degert of Sabars, and the Kingdom of Bornon. Audney died of disesse and privation. The others returned home, but Clapperton, a few months afterw: died while exploring the Niger, and his faithfol follower, Richard Lan- der, perished by the liands of the natives. ~ Ma- Jor'Alozander G. Laing met- with a like fate in- 1826. 1In 1845, Sir John Franklin started on his fatal Arctic voyage, and he and all his compan- jons were lost; his fate was_not ascertained un~ 1il 1859, The lamented missiondry, Allen Gar- dener, died of starvation. on- Pictou Island; in 1851, The German Asiatic traveller, Adolph Schlagenweit, was murdered in 1857, by a native chiettain. The bodies of Burke and” Wills and four other explorers, were- found iu the wilds of Australia, in 1861, With'them our present st oloses, but it i¢ not exhausted. e - MARK TWAIN.. ¥ow He Ins Been Treated by & Lon= don Publisher. To the Fditor of the London Spectator & Sin: I only venture to intrude upon you be- cause I come, in ono sense, in the interest of public morality, and this makes . my mission re- Bpectable. Mr. Jobn Cainden Hotten, of Lon- don, has, of his own: irdividual notion, repub- lighed several of my books in. England. 1do not protest ggainst this, for thereie'no law that conld give effeet to the protest; and, besides, ublichers are not accountable to the laws of eaven or earth country, a6'T understand it. Butmy little grievanco is this: My books are bad enongh just ag they are written ; then what must they be after Mr. John Camdén Hotten has composed half s dozen chap- ters and added the same to them ? 1 feel that ell troe hearts will bleed for an author whoge volumes have fallen under -such & dis- pensation 28 this. If afriend of yours, or if Gven yourself, were to write s boolk and set it adrift among the people, with the gravest ap- ‘prehensions that 1t was not up to what it m:ggt to be intellectually, how would you like to have John Camden Hotten set down- and stimulate his powers, and drool two or three original chap- ters on to the end of that book ? . Would not the world geem i{)ld and hollow to you? ould you not feelthat you wanted to dic and be ab rest? Littls the world knows of. true suffering. And suppose ho should entitle these chapters: “Holiday . Literature,” “Truo' Story . of Chicsgo,” On Children,” “Train up a Child, and .Away he Goes,” and *‘Vengeance," and then, onthe strength of having evolved these ‘marvels from his own consciousness, go_on and n_o‘)yright” the entire hook, and put in tho title-page a picture of & man ‘with his hand in snother man’s pocket, and the legend “All Rights Reserved.” (I only suppose tho picture still, it would be a rather neat thing). _And, farther, suppose that, in the kind- nees of his heart and the exuberance of his un- tanght fancy, this thoronghly well-meening innocent should expunge the modest title which you iad given your book, and replsco it.with-s0 foul an invention 28 thig, * Screamers and Bye- openers,” and went and’ got that copyrighted, too. _And supposo that on the top of all this'ho coctinually and persistently forgot to offer you a eiugle penny. or even send you a copy of your mautilaled book to buru. Let one suppose all this.” Let him suppose it with strength enough, and then he will know something about woo. «Sometimes when I read one of {hoso additional chapters constructed by Jokn Camden Hotten, I feal &5 il I waoted to take 2 broom-straw and go aud kuock that man's brains out: Not in anger, forJ feel none. Oh! mot in ruger: but only to eo, that is all. Mere idle curiosity. B And Mr. Hotteu saystbat ono nom de plume of mineis *Carl Byng." Ihold that there isno afiliction in this world that-makes a man feel so down-trodden and abused as the giving hima Dame that does not belong to him.” How would this sinfel aborigiue feel if I were to call him John Camden Hottentot,' and come out in the papersand soy he was entitled to it by divine right? I do honestly believe it would throw him into a brain_fever, if thero were Dot un in- |_superable obstacle in the way. Yos—to come beck to tho original subject, which is the sorrow that is slowly bat surely au- dermining my health—3Ir. Hotten prints unre- . vised, uncorrected, and in some respects spuri- ous books, with my pame to them as suthor, and thus embitters his customers agaiast cno of tho ‘most innocent of men. Aessrs. Georgo Roatledgo & Sons ate the_ only English publish- ers who pay me any copyright, sud, therefore, it my books are to disseminate either suffering or crime among readers, of onr language, I would ever 8o much rather they did it ‘through that house, and then I could contemplate the epec- tacle calmly as the dividends came in. T am sir, &c., Sadoet, L, CLENMENS (*‘Mark Twain”). Loxnox, Sept. 20, 1872, - THE HEAD DRESS. Arrangement of Colors. AMr. 3. E. Haweis, in the September number of St. Paul's, discourscs again very pleasantly of “‘Head Dreages,” and this time of ** Color.” " He treats of this topic in a manner to interest the ladies very greatly. ' A color suitable for a dress may not do for the head, is his opening axiom. Blue has always been o favorite color, yet it i not easy to account for'its populaiity.” There are very few blue flowers; not many blue birds, nor fishes, nor insects, nor animals: in animals ond in the human race there is no blue at all, ~No beast has blue {fur, nor Les anybody .a blue ekin. Blue eyes, which nfiy;e-hmed perzons all fancy they 088688, are about the rarest things in nature. ‘6 may even give up the “blue vein,” which poets love, as visionary ; the veins perceptible, for the most part, are either grey, mS, or green-, ish, Theold Tyrian dye was not blue, it was puce color, and puce wavers between brown, red, and blue ; but its general hue is a kind of dull red violet—in fact, much the color of clotted blood, and, to most modern eyes, it would probably be an unattractive one. I(uverthalous, in Iarge masses, this is a verg picturesque color, and bendath the bright and glowing skies of Italy it doubtless had s magnificent effect. This was the only purple color keown to the ancient world, and is believed to havo been dis- covered by an inhabitant of Tyre, fifteen hun- dred years before Christ, and perhaps its costli- ness commended it in great measure to the Inxurious Romans, in_ Cicero's day one pound weight of wool double-dyed with this colorbeing valued at 1,000 dendrii (£35) ; and_ when we consider the jmmense numbers of the little creatures (not flees, as the French word puce would indicate) whence it was obtained, that were necessary to dye even a pound of wool, the Isbor of gathering them, and theslowand clumsy process af extracting the tiny drop of color that each contributed, it was really hardly more than it was worth. Green i8 coming in fashion. This color, says Haweis, is becoming in itself, because it annuls 2ny tinge of green which msy be latent in the complexion, and which, in dark persons, is often more obtrusive than the owners are aware of. The most sallow woman would be indignant at a hint of this, and Enem“y contrives to defy her- self by wearing the very colors which increase the defect. Palo green, £o trying to the majority of faces, is, in some cases, & pretty ornament, and may be ‘mixed craftily with pale blue in & most charming menner. The dress gfferad to Enid, * where like & shoaling seathe lovely blue playedinto green,” ia one of Tennyson’s happiest thoughts. It re- quires, however, taste to do this we?l. _ Red is to be arranged with caution. The Span- ish women have made & deep red rosein the herr, just under the ear, an undying fashion. Deep heavy reds are much used in the draperies ‘of the old ltalian masters, especially of Titian theyare always aided and contrasted, as no woman can contrive to be, when moving from “| place to place. Yellow i2 an unjustly despised color. It has many beautiful shedes, and only when too pure is it unmanageable. The cold, pele_primrose, that shines like a light in the hedge- row, msy be massed about a young face _with _impunity. The dandelion must be used only in ain%lg vivid spots of flame.. An older face must -more gently ‘dealt with, by a brownish yellow. The brunette may wear & green yellow, and beall the better for it. Some yellows are more suitable than any other colors to place near the face, so good is the effect on the complexion ;.they make the skin look fairer than it really is, and, of course, enhance the-blues and pinks. What is calle buff, a somewhat_dull, tawny, or warm yellow, i8 oné of these. We all know how beautifal is the effect of yellow hair when it occurs; which i8 not often, certainly; and how finely. a bit of this color lightens and vivifies a picture. “Yellow plso goes pleasantly with a_number of colors. A palo, dull blueis one; but pure_blue and pure yellow are very harsh together. Plum, salmon, maroon, sage, also mix well with yeliow. Primrosge tint may be carefully mingled with pale Yose; but.the more vivid a color is, the more care is needed in mixing it with others withoub ajar. One out of two colors ebould always be dall 2nd not too pure; this is. not generally known, or it is forgotten, and the result is tha coarse and vulgar .contrasts shat we see around .us. Ambers of all shades aro excecedingly good and hecumin%. . o * - But aftér all, in order to dress becomingly one must fling the opinions of the dressmake:, ‘Le barber, and the haberdasher to the four winds, and bring the same care and intelligence to bear wupon dress and other surroundings as are lavished upon higher matters. The Ontonagon Silver Discoverys The Ashland Press eaye the Ontonagon silver ‘discovery ia making considerable noise along down the lake, ‘It adds: c ¢ A man by the name' of Courser - discovered the vein this summer and took specimens of it to Ontonagon. It did not create very much of a stir among the denizens of this once thrifty but now almost deserted copperopolis—some calling i it gray sulphuret of copper, some iron pyrites, ;some one t} and some another—but Courser persevered and found 2 _man that gave him the money to enter the land for half, and off he started for the Land Office at Mnrvauaue hy stage. At the half-way house who should he meet but Archy McKellar, the north shore silver discover- er, just returning to Ontonsgon, his former | Lome.~ Of conrse Conrser-showed bim his spec- imens, and Archy at once saw what he regarded “big_money’ abend. So ho gets Courser out-‘ono “aide, makes another bargein, and back he goes with him to Marquette. When they roburned, Archy owned half the silver-mine, and . Courser the other half. Captain Hurris, former- Iy of the Minnesota mine, heard of it, and imme- iately secured a large proportion of Courser’s half for 31,000 cash. Soon some specimens camo to the notice of Captain Frew, ‘Superintendent of Silver Teland, and he purchased balf of - Mc- |: Eellar's interest, for which he paid him $1,000 ' ash. So that up to the present the original dis- | covery. 160 acres, i in the hands of the North i Shore silver men, -and we understand they make 1o bones of_calling it the biggest thing on Lake Superior, which, 0f course, time will determine. "The vein ig well defined, about two feet wide, be- iween the sandstone and sinte, andis casily traced across the river, with a dip to'the north of an angle of 25 or 30 degrees. The ore isof dark gray color, with quite a little trace of native silver. is is & Lake Superior interest, and we hope it will prove as valuable as its friends seem to oxpect. It will be about sixty miles Iri Ash- land, down the lake shore.” P S Ol Livingstone’s Discoverics ' From Applelon’s Journal. ) Vken.the first intelligence from' Dr. Living- stonc was received through the medijim of Lis discoverer, there wero grave doubts in the minds of many whether the whole affair might not bo an imposition. It-is fair to the enterprising correspondent who, accomplished the relief of the explorer to say that there is no longer room for doubt. No one who had seen Livingstone's despatches has any suspicion that they are other then what they are represented to be, and it remains only to examine the statements in regard to’ .the sources of. the Nilo, to solve which problem was the object of the long and lahorious wanderings of the Scotch geo- apher. For even %m is not infailible. “He Baemot traced tho Nile through its whole extent, 50 as to be Bure that hi theories are absolutely correct. Many of thoso who 'have studicd the juestion refurs altogethor to accept his cou- clusions. But he has exposed the errors of some who have preceded him, and hasgiven, in aclear and distinct form, the reasous which bring him to his presenl judgment. We will endeavor to explain briefly the question “which will soon be debated hotly by the partisans of the several discoverers. . Captainy Speke and Grant, following up 2 Jarge river which they presumed to be, the Nilo, camo toa larga lake, which they partially ex- plored. Paceing to another point they came to & body of water. which they Bupposed to be a part of the eamo lake. In this manner they ex- plored a considerable portion of the country be- tween 1 degres north and 3 degrees south of the equator, aud fancied that sbey bad discovereda great inland ses, covering fwenty thensand Equare miles. This lake thoy named the V. _.oria Nyanza, and roclaimed it the: source of the Nile. Upon” all modern ' maps thie lake Captain Sir_ Samuel Baker, later, adopted the emor of iy lsid down. a foyy years Captain Speke, if error it is, and discovered the Albert Nyanza, which was then, and i3 now, of unknown extent, but is undoubtedly 8 very large Inke. The Albert Iake he claimed to be a second source of the Nile. The mistakes tributed t6 these exploters by Dr.” Livingsto are two-fold in their character. In the first place, ho has established that the Victoria Nyan= 2018 DOt one great inland sea, but a collection of - everal largo Iukes ; and, secondly, he contends that neither the Victoria or the-Albert Lake is the true source of the Nile, but that they. are merely the gources of tributaries- We may il- lustrate both the alleged errors by imsagining what might have bappened when the continent of America wasa ““howling wilderness.” If sn explorer, starting from New York, had travelled in a northwesterly direction until he Lake Ontario, had sailed across it, thence struck into the intertor, still proceeding northwest, un- til he reached the coast of the Georgian- Bay, and thence again to the noythern coast of Lake Superior ; if, following Superior round to_its west and southern coast, thence eeding southeastwardly to the sonthern ond of Take Michigan, and after another land journey reach=: ing the sonthern shore of Lake Erie, he had finally arrived at the point of starting, he might have concluded that he had tr“afied around one fresh water sea of enormous extent, instead of seyeral great inland lakes. This seems to have been precisely what Speke and Grant did. And it is not a little curions that Speke himsel? ot differcnt times calculated' the ‘altitude of Victoria Nyanza very differently, three sev- eral observations at various points giving:him altitudes of 3,740 feet, 3,308 feat, and 5,558 foot. without giving a suspicion that he had_beer mensuring the height of threo several lsker The other mistake which is attributed toform: explorersis as if Captain Speke, searching for the sources of the Mississippi, had_followed the Olio to its Bources, and as if :Sir Samuel Baker had seiled up the Missouri to its head-waters, both leaving the real great tream still unex- plored. The extreme southern limit of the Vic- toria Nyanza is in three degrees of sonthern lat- itade, but Dr. Livingstone claimsto have goua t010 and 12 degrees eonth. His ressons for believing that he examined the trtie Nile basin are chief ‘gtha general lay of thelandand the size of the river which he traced sofar. I& could belong, he contends, to no other river than the Nile. But we must wait until he rectifies our mapa before we can Iearn With anything like accuracy the geography of Africa, and meanwhile wa expect a ver‘livaly opposition to Dr. Livingstone's_theories by the friends.of former explorers whose hasty -cops clusions are so vigorously attacked. - - . GENERAL NEWS ITEMS, ¢ Duluth merchants complain of freights forty ' deys Tgéonlxn New YAaEr;{l o W‘ il —The Insane lum at Oshko: lis., is to cost 3201,140. ey —The St. Panl & Sioux City Railroad ocom- ‘menced running regular trains between those two cities on Wedneedsy. - : —John B. Wilkinson, a brutal wife murdezer, died of Bright's disease of the kidneys, in the: Baltimore jail, last Tuesdsy. —Subscriptions in aid of the railroad to Texas havo been received from New Orleans citizens to the amount of $600,000. —The Milwaukee Supervisors bave extended the time for the completion of the Court House ' until March 1. —The principal machine shops of the Spring= field & Jilinois Sonthwestern Railroad have been. Jocated at Pana, and work on the buildings is to e commenced at once. —Bad River, Mich.. has proved a bad river in- deed for the loggers, since only about 6,000,000 of 60,000,000 feet of loge pat in last season have’ come out. —The Lake Shore Railroad is ln{ing a double track from Wi]loughbyw Paineaville. - " "_At Cherokes, lowa, or Thuraday, Philo Ste- vens was buried alive by the caving of a well ‘which he was digging. MES —Lorain County, Ohio, exported last year 10,000,000 pounds of cheese. The price paid averaged about 12 cents 3 pound. —The dofinite location of the bridge -atLa Crosse having been spproved by the Secretary: of War, the La Crosse papers want the work to egin. & = —Louisville calculates that the late exposi~ tion made 31,768,030 change hands. —Portlond will soon have = second line of Liverpeol steamers. —The money disbursed to_workmen on Rock Island, amounts to about 875,000 monthly. "~~~ —MMaps of France have been struck off by the, g‘lrelich, with Alsace and Lorraine printed in — Pryan, Texas, proposes togive 31,000,000 for tho Incation of the Bate Capigx]l ab that place. —The pecan crop promises an sbundant yield.. This native production affords an immensa Teve- nue to Texas. Z Sangamon County (TIL.) is to have o history and biographical sketches of the old settlers, ¥ work of not less then 500 pages. s = —The corner-stone of the only Presbyterian Church for colored ;enp]e, west of tho AMoun- tains, was laid at Pittsburgh, the 16th.—The’ building will cost $12,000. - —The silverware stolen from Bishop Clark-- son’s residence, 2t Omaha, has been fourd in the possession of James Van Dansker, landlord of the Depot Hotel, who claims ha bought the stu® for $25. o o lodgers ot the O1d Rye Houso, Wash- ington, D. C., retired without turning off the gas’ last Friday night. Major Patrick H. King, for merly Werden of the jail, was found dead, and Bsu:‘junin Cooley, his companion, nezrly- suffo~ cated. Rearney Junction, the futura capital:of Ne— braske, and possibly of the United States asm correspondent of the St. Joseph Herald umem, bhas already a collection of fifty honses, all con= structed within the past two months. g —It is estimated that within five years 20,000,008 buehels of wheat per annum, from Minnesais. 2and the Valley of the Red River of the North, will find their way to tide-water throngh the Saalt Ste. Marie Canal. . ; —J. M. Osborne, charged wlth the murder of AMrs. Mathews, a farmer's wife, at Yates City, 1ast summer, was lmiined before Judge, Smithy oxville, TlL., on Thursday, and pleaded ty. The Court assigned Kretsinger, of nosville, and Humphrey, of Yates City, as his attorneys. * —Jobn Quinn wag committed for trial, at New: York, Thursday, on charge of baving swindled John Challon, 3 Gérman, from Manistes, Mich., out of $1,000: Challon’ was returning to bis native country, and yielded to the persuasions of Quinn to give him his draft for amouitt for sufe-keeping. sepher S5 - —Backenstose's Circns has been sold, at Mem- ‘phis, under an execution, for indebtedness to tha Captain of the steamer Tyrone and, members of the company- c - —Officers of the Bevenue cutter Moccasim have csnsed the seizure of a large lot of dgxfi, which hiad been smuggled into the country, from Tavana, on the schooner Pioneer, 0of New Lion- don, Conn.—not the Cuban Pioneer. . Bystematia smuggling Los been going on, the cigars having been inventoried as.other articles. - Altogether, 100,000 cigars wera traced out by the-detece tives. A i & “—Lew is Holmes and J. F. Eubarks; platers, of Hardeman County, Tenn., had & B 4 Thursday, during which the_latter struck former over the head with a stick of wood, from the effects of which he died.” - 7y —A Washington despatch says that anothes Cuban expedition is being fitted ont on an ex= tensive scale, under thoauspices of the 8o-cs General Ryan, who himself givesinformation: the project, but it is stated that_prominent Cu: ‘ban patriots place no confidence in Ryan. " —A stuge going gouth from Helena, Montaza, was stopped ut 8 o'clock lastsWednesday niiht, three miles north of Pleasant Valley, by iwo Tond ‘agonte, and ST,000 was-taken fromths assepgers. Thers was no'exprees tresfure on oard. % e P ; PERSONAL. Buffalo Bill has been elected to the Nebrasks Legislature. i “Rhinehart is engaged on & bust of Colanel Thomas A. Scott. —FEdvwin Forrest rosd Hamlet, at the Fhix. delphia Academy of Muaig, Tuesdsy evening —The Emperor William I., of Germany, a (?ri\'am rent-roll of 2,000,000 thalers—81,508,- 000. ’ —Itis stated that Colonel A. R. Lamar is about to take charge of the Savannch Adver Liser. 1 _Twoof Archbishop Bayley's predeccssors Whitfiecld and Eccleston, were converts to tht Catholic faith, as well as Archbishop Bayley, who is now the eighth of the line of succes- sion. - A . —All the npewspapers have mentioned that i Fanny Fern ” was the wife of James Parton, but not one of them has mentioned that she wag the mother-in-law of Mortimer Thomson,— Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B ' Horace B. Claflin, the New York dry goods princo, onco insisted on paying 350,000 Tovenue tax in addition to the regular -assessment, be- lieving that amount was honestly due the Gov- ernment, s e —The death of Samuel A. Jones, Agent of the Adams Express Company at Lonieville, by acci~ dental sbooting at Table Rock, Neb., has been announced. Mr. Jones_camo’ to Cincinnafi in 1849, a8 the representative of Green & Co.’s Ex- rccs, and af the dissolution of that Company, an. 1, 1850, he was appointed Agent of Adamg & Cov's Exoress.