Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 26, 1872, Page 2

9 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: E'I;UESDA ; . Y, NOVEsRug .. ECSTON. The Second DMeeting of the Radical Club. Who Were There, and Who Were Not- Why Emersen Stays Avay. Dr. Bartol on Prayer-—-A New Tan’s Protest---Wi Garrison Thinks ot Mr. on the Subjecs Froin Gur 0in 24 1:0] i5 moro incensed fan of bz err Lo <ho Chicago fire, gort of fery ! hiome-£2ilT 4 city pbou —_— BOETO: at sobi Correspondeit. ov. 18, 1672, Eversbedy in New England lmows, or ought to know, Jorably than Poston: dy saiirizes Boston more en- fans; Lut, of courec, no one o from others than Itiscnthe old Gomestic Wo cen abuso our own, and eee the it; bt let en cutider wag L rection, 2ad woe botido- Lim! s of what o witly s tongue in This is all Dostonian said of the o yoer ago. It was just after hen condogrations formed a to =i couverzations. G1p Dostos ever burns up,” said the wicked Wity tion, to talk el azise from the ashes ATAYSICAT CLUB,. 4 czlmly, in the face of destruc- out the indestructible elements of destraction, or the beneficent blessing and pur: Lot stion of material and gpiritual flames.” eck, when the flmes wero baving it pretty mueh all their owa way.in the twenty-six Genly of my witty Bostoniau's prophecy, 88 1 d thir & I Heaven tomind of irregularity, which let every other eity can’t show, I ihoughtsud- TIE BADIOAL CLUS, whore second mecting of the season wos ap-: pointed in the usual order of things, for the onday of the month, which woald bring it closc upon the heels of the- fire-fiend-and the While I was entertaining great out of e: tement. tnis thought, and serio; ¥ questioning whether, the grest excifertent, that -cslm little company would convene. in the Chest- nui-strect parlors, the miail, to bavo been.streightencd in thie nick of time, brought the sunouncement ‘that_the ~secon meetmg of thé Radical cjub {his soason would ‘be Lizld at 17 Chestnut strect, on . the 18th inst. The printe violet aud vhich seems 13, who furnished the ususl clegant gilt cards of adnuesion, the furniture dealers, who supplied the extra clairs, were bumed up, or .out, in the confligration; but whet were trifies like these to.tlie persistent genius of the Redical Club? At theé proper mo- ent a diligent hand, and pen and ink, did the work of the printers ; and all the other arrange- mentsmet - the needs of the occasion. Ang, at the proper bour of 11, the old parlors ran over, s usual, into balls end sido roome,—what M. Wasuor called the porches of the temple, Thero 1y questioning wes ali answered, and there my Wicked wite probecy comes near enough to the truth 1o serve as & sort of sG:ce piguante for the occasion. their gracdly, Be grei WIIO WEBE' NOT THERE. To be sure, Emer=on was not there; but then, Emerson is scldom there, being confessedly afraid of his orphic sexings losing something of pith snd marTow by reporting—rather 20 inconsistent ground for a man who says g0 et is #1s it 50 bad to be misunderstood? To to be misanderstood!” And Celonel Higginson was not there, which was more of a & pity, simply because the Colonel always brings 1n a lit tile of tho fightiug elementwith him, which keeps us rom a metaphysical ‘‘mush of concesgion.” two or tiree cther iz the worse And, Lesi And ar Bpirits missed dirs. Howe, znd s. WHO WEEE TEERE. > Bat Dr. Bartol wes in the chair; ead, facing i, sat Willim Llord Gsrrison, looking none for his old anti-slavery wear and tear. ¢ Gerrison, the new man amonget (s, Who' telss botter than some of the old ones, the Toglish Lowes, who s a look of blood an Trascle, as woll as brain, whichis an a contrast, now and then, east-wind attenuation. to the New eeabla “ngland T went in a little late, and, at the first glance, I thought we ehoald have rather a tame time of there wero more good listeners than good it, for compare the mortelity with other w: ny estimatic on. ButIwas mistaken. said, Dr. Bartol was in the chair, Fes ways the essayist’s chair. His % THE PRAYER-GAUGE.” by saying thst ho had intended to the fire and its effects,—I dare say ostonian’s_getire_wonld have been d out if he had,—but, as he had 18 day befora to a numerons congre- at theme, and as the sermon was to he refrained from repeating himself, astend talk sbout Prsyer. . His sub- nggested by the.recent discussion ‘brought about by Professor Tyndall's proposal to test prayer scientifically; that is, for instance, %o sct epartaward in » hospitel, nnder the care of first-rate physicians and surgeons, and make it, at the eame time, the object of special prayers; and, ot the end of "a certain pericd to Bimil- arly managed 2s to the surgeons, but lacking as o the epecial prayers. - The Doctor taking this up, proceeded with the question, does prayer make any difference? In the Doctor's opinion, 1T DOES NOT,; when the prayer calls it, against is c&?t, 28 he 1sw; when we usk childishly for the drouth to for fireto be stayed, or pestilence put God does not alter his immutable laws far special cases or special petitions. The ac- septance of tho Deity snd theso laws ag for our’ vesse, paide. 20 %eah Mgbest the only efficacious prayer. ealy personal ends, yood, is ead, good in the in the Do end, is_ the ctor’s opinion, . Prayer that seeks and asks not_for the public idle. 'The grandest epoken petition is “TIY WILLEE DONE.” 2 1% is not something for us to be bowed down and. sroshed by, bub _to riea to. Prayer is: neither K¥ord or phrase, but motion of the mind, aspira~ don, sympathetic relisnca on the law and love.| hichind. a2 God. “To insiance the shsurdities of these special petitions, the Doctor told soxo very d ctories. -One wes about s Congregational fair. Ono of the lesding feminine spinits came with grest carcestness to a sister epirit, and 2id: “Now, just taink of this; wo Lave con- Gucted our fair c= the strictost religions princi- ples; o lare hud o raffes, no Totteries of sny ind, 2nd we have kad very liltle succes thought, srid the Doctor, tbat God miglt have them better enccest o pay given them for the principle. Dat, £ays the Dastor, God I5N'T TEE ALMIGHTY HUCESTER f.kit He is supposed to be by such minds. spet ‘Weiss, and—1I won'y_eay who else.” opuler Clorgyman was then_quoted, who of the Badicals a8 **certain pert essay- ists ;7 *and I suppose,” says the Doctor, slily “{hit he means Emerson, and Higginson, sud “These pert ciseyists,” rccording to the populer clergy- man, “make Christianity, out & deiusion snd & epare. And, if Christianity is o delusion,” says nothin, The Doctor then referred to public the popular clorgyzan Son " Th Kot ab i an "4t is o blessed delu- answers the Doctor; #NO DELTSION IS BLESSED. I am not going to wrap myself in any blessed- ness of that sort. Faith is real, delusive faith is ayers ; eaid that they were difiicalt thinga; that they should be as bricf and simple s possible. In the last week's fiery horror, he said, he took refuge in the Lord's Prayer. And eo, the essey coming to a close, the Dactor, dfopping;his Tole of reader, ascumed his office who is 50 seldom amongst us, to speak, 23 host, ~n INVITED MI. GARRISON, “He bos already given us the’ blessing of his presence,” gaxs tho Doctor; *now we e ant the ssing of his word.” Mir. Garrison replied that ho preferred o Quaker mecting. The Doctor then remarked thet Mr. Garrison would probshl; epeak when ihe Bpirit inoved, and he would move socn. As the Doctor szt down after this, our mew tan, oped it ME, LEWES, turned o determired face, partially to the Chair snd partially to the audience, and vehemently protested against the scientists’, znd the whole cegy far sp wodern racy. frec-thinking, theory of prayer. Hegaid you put prayer upon that basis, and give | erpretation, it will lead to fatalista and BELILVED IN EPECIAL PRAYERS needs; and, with a good deal of feel- | X iug und fervor, spoko of the mother at the bed- £i6o of pick child, praying 10 her. This prad}cli;):n the for it to be spared belief that (his prayer would Le esicacious, were the mother's great help, end that God' mi i pali on, he believe . i e A ed 280 possin Ty P Cu e. W i, . & nilp concentrated point, and wandering ears. It brou; Quaker-mesting silence. didn't lives,” corret field Could she e: The end of the child that is thus “Well, that tone and manner, as if said, with the remark that ‘This a;dn.l ‘goonuntil the American people can see ‘ 3 tosympathizewith! his elan, so to speak,—moro than with son’s colder expression, however judicial his ar- gricked anew GOD FEEDS NO PETITIONING,” But Mr. Lewes was as much of a rock in his way a8 Mr. Garrison wag in his. Like courteous Inights, however, they. rode into’the field of discusgion, end rode out again, agreeing to disa- ce, and Poth certain that the oth owever, and with whomsoeyer onemight symp: thize in belief, it wasimpossible for a hstener not Mr. Lewes’ warmth of spirit,— Mr. Garri- gument. : The meeting at last hroke up reluctantly, and the subject of special prayer was dropped 10 SPECIAL, CHATS, baitery. in knots all about the rooms and in ‘the halls, be- tween old and new friends. - One had a chance, then, to discover that sharpest of newspaper ondents, Warrington,” epublican, who will no & of his lance, in his next letter, against all these special pleaders. At the next mes of the ght Garrison out of his “Hesaid that that phrase < A LONG-SUFFERISG GOD, had elwaye impressed bim; and he th as specially applicable when he thought of the absurd rE;gitiom; that were put up to Him. He ink thathe ever asked -God -to abolish | glavery. There was no difficulty with God; the difficulty was with the American peugle. And, as for fatalism, he believed that cre: Jikely to couso e mucl: danger-as-Tatalism.-Why | should o mother.aek God for her child specially ? ect God to alter His lzwsfor her ? I petition wes to be satisfied with God. These special prayers did no-good, and the petitioner must see that they did no good, in special answer, eventually. * LEWES BETURNED TO HIS ATTACK again with renewed spirit; and, when somebody said, as_rather a knock-down argument, “Bub Emyed for as often dies as but saying that we are mortal; that doesn’t argue anything, retnrned Mr. Lowes. Garrison camo in at a pause, in a cool sort of ere Was no more,to be ought ofit lulity was etitioning er Was wrong. all the A MUNN & SCOTT. The Senior Member- of the Firm on the Witness Stan HMr. Munn Interrogated by the Cook Coun- ty Nafional Bank. - He Gives a Sketch of His Career as an Elevator Man.” = But Utterly Refuses to Answer Certain Questions of ‘a Personal Nature. Mr. Ira Y. Munn, of the firm of Mumn & Scott, bankrupts, wasexamined yesterday before Register Hibbard; -by Mr. George C. Campbell, attorney for the Cook County National Bank, for the Cassanovis, N. Y., National Bank, with & claim of §110,000. O SR Mr. Mann said he had been in Chicago for, sixteen years; when he arrived here he wenb into the elevator business ; was then in partners| ship with Scott ; they did business in the Munn & Scott Elevator; situated on Lot 1, Block K. They did business there bieforethey acquired an interest in any other elovator, which was up to the commencemernt of 1862; in that year they ‘built - Spring- g loubt give a lunge ting, it is whispered that JOIN WEISS WISCONSIN. vote of Wisconsin by counties for Governor in 1871 and for President in 1872, from complete official returns : will be the essnyist. If he is, there willbe a lively time, a8 we all lmow that Mr. Weiss is & mental elect GARTH. - Vote by Connties-1571 and 1872, The following is & comparative table of the . dounties, . 187, *tudnqyengg uey [16,987] 1872, 94D Jj ""‘fl‘&? qfiawa’il , ] £38 i) 86,475 fht answer her Total Republicen maj o 12,523 2 ‘majority in 1870, 4,301 Vote for Congresismen. The followingis the official wote for Congress- menin the different districtsof this State, com- pared with the vote for Congness for the same counties two years ago: 8220 16,606 in'1872, SECOND DISTHICT. -Repablican majorit; 3881 ¥ Rep. 2,062 3,850 39 08 2,559 998 024 6408 10,711 Ty ority, in 1870, 220; in 1672, 5,605, Tab R AW - 8,735 13,4 y in 1870, 7065 in 1872, 1,624, THIED DISTRICT. 9,380 » 6,280, Dem. Hawelton, Smith, 4 3108 1854 S8 50T 4949 3,18 2579 3505 B 2600 | 1,38 11,784 Dem. Barber. Warden: B T 11W 107 o 2las 6T 1 2079 2 2016 1,90 150 1@ Total 051 707 13,145 9880 Bepublican majority in 1879, 2,45 ; in 1873, 3,865. TOURTH DISTHICT, Ecp. m. Winkler.” Mitchell. 3,080 95 500 | 8 143 1655 5T Loor a9 T 950. 2769 tal, 3954 1888 7,100 1331 Democratic majority in 1670, 9,879; in 1872, 6,204, - TIETH DISTRICT. Rep. Dem. Bats. Eldridge. Dodge.... 2458 458 81T b Fond du S0 3704 438 4303 Menitowoc. 16M . 23 20606 Shoboygan. &t 25T 3,082 ‘Total.......15,180 12,204 12,507 15,587 ‘Democratic msjority in 1670, 1,035; in'1872, 3,060 ST DT, = ep. i, Satwyer, Lindaley; Brown, 1,648 2,328 12 103 25 | 2,067 443 Tofal...... 9846 576 16183« 8547 ‘Republican majority in 1870, 6,071 ; in 1872, 7,636, EIGHTH DISTRICT, Rep. Dem. McDill. Carson. 958 820 815 287 34 37 3 6 38 129 3 40 17 124 ks 4 1, 10 i 540 i1 931 - 9%k 2062 147 72 - 0 689 558 1,206 880 1,075 98 139 Lu9 220 1,081 551 143 513 1,00 642 929 553 408 1,098 00 01 18 619 78 1,053 02 1,019 735 362 155 a2 - 465 319 55 611 468 will . THE NORTHWESTERN ELEVATOR on ground leased from the Northwestern Rail- road Company ;- no one had an interest in that elevator, at that time, but himself and Scott; .they next acquired an interest in the Bteele & Taylor, and in the Union Elevators; could not say precisely when that was; it was "64, ’65, or *66; the Steele & Taylor he thought was the first subsequently kmown as the City Elevator; they, the winter of 1871-2 ; they did not continue sole -proprietors of the Northwestern andMunn & Scott Elevators up to the time of : THE CONVEYANCE TO ARMOUR; -sold one-fourth of their interest to George Dun- Jlap, and retained the remaining three-fourths ;i Munn ‘& Bcott: owned five-sixteenths of the .Union, Armour one-eighth, Munger: one-eighth, -McEsy oné-eighth, | Wheeler three-sixteenths, and Smith & Dunlsp one-eighth ; the ownership ‘began in these proportions at the time of pur- ‘chass, and continned in the same proportions up to the transfer ; the City Elevator was owned in the same proportions’ 88 ‘the TUnion’; the- Tlincis Elevator from Hempstead,—Armour & Munger owning & quertér, Wheeler & quarter, Munn & Scott & quarter, and Buckingham & quarter; it was not {rangferred to Armour; Munn & Scott conveyed their interestin it to. Wheeler; conld not give & description of the property without reference to the papers; one-fourth of the Northwestern was conveyed to Smith & Dunlap; Munn & Bcott never controlled the: Illinois River Elevator; never ran any other elevators ‘than those men- tioned. v THE MUSN' AND 5COTT ELEVATOR and the Northwestern received grain.from the Northwestorn Road ; the City from the North- western, the St. Louis & Alton and the Danville Roads ; and the Union from the St. Lonis & ‘Alton and from the Canal ; made a contract with the - Northwestern Road before the North- western Elevator ‘was built, under which they ~vere to do the business of the road ; that was one of the conditions ‘on which they built- -that - elevator;" - ‘that contract was made in 1862 - for ..ten ‘years; it was ‘| had incurred losses 855 | losses ; | for it; had Tenewed in 1868; the renewal covered all the clevators except-the: Union; gavo the lease to Mr. Hoyt ; in September gave him other papers; Hoyt had not returned them; did not remem~ ber WHEN HOYT LEFT THE CITY; it wes about the 1st of last October; he was ‘back and forth three or four days; did not think of asking him for the papers; would write to Hoyt for the papers ; the original agreement in- cluded old maxn Taylor. Munger bought Taylor's guarter in tho Union and the City after Taylor died; the Northwestern Railroad and the proprietors of the elevators were the perfies to the reuewed contract of 18G6; the agreement was 8%ill in force; the agreement 88 to how the elevitors were t0 borun was in the hands of Hoyt; Wheoler, he thought, had & copy ; ‘. THE OBIGINAL AGREEMENT WAS BURNED; fhe elevators were separated under that agree- ‘ment up to the time they went out of Munn & Boott's hands; the business conaisted in receiving and resting grain; the grain got out when it was delivered ; it was delivered at the elevators to holders of receipts, and nowhere else that he knew of ; the dolivery was into both cars and vessels’; property was delivered on the order of the person bolding the receipt; some of it went ‘East; when receipts were not presented did nob know where the went to; would mot answer whether grain went out of the elevators without~ receipts; "did not’ think he would answer it then ; did.not think it was & compe- tont guestion ; would not say whether he knew the anawer to the question or not; he did not choose to answer; under the agreement of 1866 Munn & Scott were to be THE ACTIVE MEN, ® and run the elevators, the profits to be divided botween the owners;' the North Bide elevators, of _ which _there three, and the West Side tslmmlanai of which there were four, wera a company of 400 shares, of which {the Galens Elsvator, Wheeler & Munger, and Armour were to &et 160, 8 Citg ‘' were the Northwestern and Munn & Scott135, th and Union 125, the remainder to be distributer among the other owners ; Munn & Scott ran the elevatorsand divided the profitd; his interest waa worth about $100,000 & year; could not tell who keglt the books for the whole interest; the North Side elevators kept their own books, and the West Side books were kept by Munn & Scott. Munn & Scott did not run 2 THE NOBTH SIDE ELEVATORS; there was a set of books for each warehouse, showing receipts and disbursements, and a gen- eral le general cash-book for ‘them all counsel conld have the books if he wanted them;; the books could tell more than he could; none of the West Sido_elevators were burned that he'had an interest in; the North Side ele- yators were burned ; .some of the books were ‘burned, but themost valuable were saved; they showed substantially the businesssince 1866; the %mien to the 1866 agreement received dividends;. harley Wheeler made the dividends; the ac- :g\n;,lfl were turned over to bim, and he struck ) vators went into GENERAL POOL; A i they kept their accounts, ‘and the West kept theirs, and balances of the whole business’ were made . and dividends divided -three times & year;. Munn & Scott kept the-West Side accounts, and Munger & Wheeler. the North Side accounts; in_1868-he received | about £100,000; some. years it. was less, some. yeara more; there was a . dividend u’m{’a that year; he swore that bofore, and wonld swear it again if necessary; three _ividends were mnade that year; the “of Munn, Norton & Scott- +was formed ebont 1865 ; theirs was A COMIISSION BUSINESS ; they had no_interest-in' the elevatora; the'par- ties to the 66 ement made no losses in the elevator business;- outside that business -he- o himself—very heavy could * not “say -that losscs Had- been increased by the parties to the '66 .| agreement; Munn & Scott lost, m{‘!;efihalf a ther the mullion in 1872; had no judgment w losses wore more orless ; could not say from his }zerpj onal knowledge, whether any part of .those - osses were made good by the parties’to the ;agreement of '66, or by-anybody ofia; his losses arose’irom paying more for property than it was, worth; - getting less ‘than he. paid had heard that George Armour made ~ ‘his receipts = good; i whose claim against the éstafe is $10,000, and |- they got an interest in; the Steele & Taylor was |. .got an interest in the Ilinois River Elevator_in | was ~ purchased |- to make a present to -Armonr). Declined to asnswer whether the deed waf made to cover Armour’s losges ; conveyed - 3 A'LOT OF RESIDENCE FROPERTY % on"West Washington street to Wheeler ; it cost him $35000, and was subjectto a morigage; eonveyed roperty to Eliza Reineway, or, rather xchanged.other-property forthe-property-son—| veyed to.Wheeler ; mada a conveyancs to Benja-. min. Lombard s few months ago. for .$30,000 ; paid off a mortgage of £5,000, snd gavo the bal ance to—him; Norton;, and Scott, 0 JE 8 note o, $20,000due the Fourth - Nationsl Bank;-began’ doing busiress with Hoyt sbout 1862 ; Hoyt was genenlly in Lis fle'b:ynbp to _1sae;_dms“ with ervis, Poiell & Co, in 1868 ; they failed, and Munn' & Beott loat :3150,000 by .them ; Hoyt _helped - them , to” raise. from. 60,000 to $80,000 to get. over .the .losa , caused by the " failuro ° of | Jervis, Powell & Co,; . 7 - WAS INDEBTED.T0 HOYT * : at the time of raising the. money in’ December, 1868 at the market rates of .that day: he'wonid: owe Hoyt about. $350,000 over and:above the Povwell business; Hoyt hedabout & million bush-| els of wheat and corn in-his hands;, witness had. drawn on Hoyt, who held -the grain against it;, the fell ; .the-loss on that grain,and on .what he had previously sold, prov'eg?b-‘ be $500,- 000, or over; requested Hoyb not to register tlio; .m:rdtiéagq given. him; as ‘it might injure his| M. Campbell said it seemed to been re-: corded the 12th April, 1871, P Mr. Munii continded: - His indebtednes to' Hoyt continued to _increase gup to thespring of; 1871; it was about $200,000 over and above thie! mortgage; from the spring- of 1871t began to’ dearease, and st the beginning of - - - * THE.BANKRUPTOY. PROCEEDINGS =i it was somewhera in the vicinity of $40,000;; conveyed no personal property to any of.the! other parties to the contract of '66; the, convey-i .ance to- Wheeler was to seoure him_$30,000 due! him; declined to etato what convereation took; place between him and Armour when the deed; s ; declined to state whether the deed | wai madb for the benofit of any one else but Armour; declined to answer questions about the deed to Armour; the firmof Munn & Scott were Worth from three quarters of & million to ¥ A MILLION DOLLARS . in 1868, and in the spring of 1869 they were _about ‘even; told Hoyt they could pay if they lt]i:g time, but could not pay if pushed at that 0. Ar. Campbell announced that he would apply to the Court on Wednesday mornin';‘;hiar an order- to g:_u;qglel Mr, Munn to respond to the questions he declined to answer, especially as to whether grain was allowed to go out of the elevators _without receipts being presented, and 1s to the consideration given by grmou: for the deed. THE KANSAS NEUTRAL LANDS. History of an Important Cascw=Decis sion by the Supreme Court. . From the-Eansas City Journal. il The Engmma Court of the United States has -decided the long-contested casa between the sct- tlers on the Cherokee péutral lands in Kansas, and Jemes F. Joy, Tepresenting the. railrond company which purchased them from the Chero- kee Indiens, - The title of the Jand is declared to be in Mr. Joy. & The lands embrace what is now Cherokee and Crawford Counties in Kansas, and -a strip of ecig’bt ;n‘les of the sonthern portion of Bourbon ounty. & 2 7 The history of the title is briefly as follows: ‘When the” Cherokes Indizns were Temoved from their possessions in Georgin forty years ‘ago, lands were givon them in exchanga for their Iands east of the Mississippi, in what is Howthe Indian Torritory, and, in addition theréto, five millions of dollars. : . In one scetion of the treaty itis recited that) fearing the exchanged lands were not adequate to accommaodato all the Cherokee people, thers was sold tothem 800,000 acres of land, addition- 2l to the exchanged ‘lands, for £500,000, which 1ands wero to be conveyed. to £aid In “by patent in fee simple,” foraver. #d 3 By subsoquent act of Congress, the sum of $500,000 was taken from the 35,000,000 referred fo, and covered into the Treasury, and o patcnt iI;B;jed by-Alr. VanBuren, then President, to the ans, 4 From ‘the fact thab the small fribes of Qua- s:;u, Scnecas, and Shawnees, and Seneca In- Qians were located immedintci({ sonth of this purchase, and between it and the. Cherokee Reservation proper, thiey were nover formally occupied by the Cherokees, snd as whito men were prohibited. from settling on them they be- ‘came locally known as the Neutral Lands. There was s further provision in the treaty that these lands should never be included with~ in the boundaries of any State, violated by bex ing incorporated with the State of Kansas, - o Intians, by the treaty of 1866, made the’ United States their trustee for the salo of theza lands. They wergauthorized to besold in two waysg: : g;‘ survey and sppraisement, then to be dis- posed of as Government lands are sold, and the alenco; the profits of the North Side ele- | por oceeds, nfter payment of expenses of surve; g{c., to be deposited in the slexesaury for fli; benefit of the Indians. Or to be gold in a body for cash, the money to. g0 to the Cherokees, " Secretary ‘Harlan, under this suthority sold them to the Connecticut megnmpn Company, the hase money to be paid in instalments. ‘His successor In offico, Secrotary Browning, pona ‘written _opinion’ of Attorney General Stanbery, set aside this eale on the ground that 8 payment by instalments was not s cash sale ander the meaning of tho treaty, . General Fremont then entersd into s treaty for their ‘purchase under cover of aiding in the construction of a railway—the present Atlantic wnd Pucific, The confirmation of this tfreaty wag reeisted before the United States Senate,. on the ground that the proposed railrond did not tonch the nentral 1ands st all, but passed several miles south of them, and that it was con- trary to public policy to appropriate lards to the’ construction of'a railroad that did mot develop. them. ' The treaty was defeated. By 8 subse%nent and’ supplemental treaty, which gettled tho claim of the Connecticut Com-: g'm;, the” whole body of land was sold to James . Joy, representing the Missouri River, Fort' Bcott . & - Gulf Lailroad, for £1 per acre cash, And as this road was located throngh the 1ands themselves, thus opening” them to gettle~’ xs.:ntt and market, the tieaty.was ratified ‘by the =g e Ao Ty S There was o provision, however, in’the treat reserving to itlarn 8l given dste to’ e 160 acres at the appraised value, which had re- duced somewhst the'amount of the prchase, - ~“Tho " other “settlers résisted the title of Mr.. [l Joy, and our readers. remember the excitément” and.violence which attended the building-of the road; troops beingrequired to protect the build- ers and keep the peace. ~ - . o The settlers resisted the title befors the courts, on two grounds, as we remember: 4 * That tho treaty making power had no- author-, xtyTQi]o eia osec%f'uie lmbl;o domain.” = at the Cherokees, by pagjcipating in the rebellion against the d‘évemmné‘t, gnd forfeited the lands, which .thus became Eubject to pre- | emption-2s other public lands. e - v * The firat pbjection was held to be insignificant; but, even if 80, it did not apply in this case, 88 Congress by its subsequent act in taking the e money, under the wreaty, had given it the sanction G? statute law. * Thé second point has been overrnled from the fact, we infer, that whatever forfeiture has beon” incmited by thf ‘Cherokees in consequence of taking part in’ fhe Rebellion, yet by the treafy. of 1866, thet f ture’ was removed, and they restored to all rights.as to lands and an- nuities, existingypefors the war. - en & profracted one, being be- fore Congress for several years, and enterin; !{zrgely 1mto hhg cal exc ma’ntg uf_Kmsasg. REGENT DEATHS. COonnatty, khperiade the afidavits’ relative ex-Senator Doolittle, last summer, died at Har-:| lem, N. Y., last week. 3 Z —Hozea Lewie, father of Ids Lewis, the New- iport, B. fL,'%xue:‘:m:, died l?: Lime R]t‘)[ck Light- onse, of W] e was keeper, on Monday of: Inst woek, 5 o = .-—The Rev. Jogiah »Brewer, - formerly ‘s tutor in Yale College,. and+atterward: principal of a ;boarding school in New - Haven;. disd inzfltudi-‘ bridge, Mass., recently, aged 76. .. &t ‘ames E. Robinson; brother of the Hon. W. E. Robinson, was fdiind dead lest/Friday.night .on the stoop of his dwelling In Jay street, Brooklyn... Cause of death not known. - X —George Coffing, of Salisbury, Ct., the -Re--| _| not kmow that the parties to.the '66 agreement had made the receipts good; had heard rumors to that effect; cmmsef could ask Wheeler & Armour; they did not admitto him that they fl’x‘de l!:epltgood; uou}dd not »a;y d}‘mw -much of 0 receipts were niade good; did not kmow anything about it. gt i -, WOULD ANSWER NO_ QUESTIONS - - on that subject ; knew nothing personally about -it; conveyed his interest in gs tember” in the , the Union, tho Munn & Scott Elevators, . and other property, the consideration being $10 5 e -interest he conveyed was worth abont $650,000 or $700,000 to him, without, ‘Waison's £30,000, or Hoyt's £350,000 mortgaga: no interest had been paid on the Hoytmortgage; on the 1st of October there was six months’ in- terest due on Watson's mortgage; did not know - oot e i b R b et oy publican candidate for Congress as the last elec- tion, died quite suddenly on Thursday. ‘Mr. Ccfli’n&nsamrector ot 'the Housatonic Rail- rosd Company, and a man heavily intorested ‘in the iron basipess. § of Zanegville, . O.. —General Edward lost his life, ‘last- Friday, by a tersible accident. Ho was loading cstfle info 5 stock car when bis foot; got, taught in the frog of a switch: - He was ‘attempting at the time - to get out of. the way of an.approaching locomotive, but was unablo to exiricate himself,’ nnd those near him failed, for some reagon, to -aesist him. The engno struck him and passed over him, mutilating him in s : tarrible . manner. - “He was .instantly Lilled. - General - Ball .:was ‘s -member of Congress _ in. 1853-'57; ° and - subsequently Bergeant-at-Arms of the National House of gapxeasntumeu,mdm o member of the Ohio A R v e S it THE SOUTHWEST. - Texas, Arkansas, and the In- dian Territory.. Movement- of Immigration That Way-:- The Rivers and Railroads, Owrv Correspondent, L 'WASHINGTON, Nov, 17, 1873, Everything indicates an unusual human move- ment towand thist portion of our Republic called - From Our the Great Southwest., _The railway system of | Arkansas, Texas, and the Indian Territory have -develojted-upon a very large scale; and tho dis- contented Southern people are moving upon the new ground-of those remote States “with num- bers and confidgnge, While our | largest railway | leaders and cepitalists are also prepsring the paths and gobbling-up-the-land. Texas leads the whole column of Southern States. It possess- ea “an’ imperial! @omain 6vet. which' it is sov- ereign ; for.it entered the Union reserving £o it~ self all whicli it hind wréstéd from Mexico. The title to its publiclands isvested in the State, and not in the General Government. y .. This portion of our country merits a revived and larger attention than it has ye} attained. I propose to write some sketches of it. THE NEW AREASBAS TEAVELLER. At the last session of Congress, the sum of 85,000 was appropristed o purchase the county histories of Englend,—a small and wise sppro- pridtion ; but, some months after it was made, 1 was surprised to find that; anrongst the twelve- ecore thousand volumes in the Library of Con- gréss, there was not one book-deacriptive of the population of Arkansss. T want to run out there,” said I, *“to peep at what is called our hardest frontier society before it beovangelized. I it possible that e poszess | aState with 485,000 people,—a State in the -Union formore than a third of & centary,—ivhich 48 yet without the most meagre form of history 5 g “That, I believe,” answered the Librarian, “is the only division of the Union on which we have not some book.” : - And, true enough, there was & formidable Lit- -erature upon Oregon, Californis, Utah, and New Mexico. -Even Arizona and Montana were: celo- brated in fresh: books of travel.- To: Arkansas end the Indian' Territory there was neither gazattar, nor guide, hor bit of local history. The plainest study, then, ‘of some of the tritest fentures of this neglocted region,—which might complain, with' Job, that even its-enemies | would not -write books,—may possess some novelty, and encourage some Arkansan to lodge & quarto in tho empty library-niche. FIRST PEEP AT THE SOUTHWEST. _ Bixty hours after making the above inquiry, T stood on the blufl-at Memphis, and looked ncross the Aissjssippi River upon a landscapeof the un- loved Stato ; flat of mud and o fringeof timber’ ‘marking the ountlines of a bluff. . No habitation stood there, except o wharf-boat and some sheds very far upstream, where the railroad to Little Rock emerged from the forest-bottoms. “{fhat's Hopefield,” seid my Mempbis friend at my side. - ¢ It’s nothing but the hole in the woods for one bruised steem train to go once a day, in twelve hours, to Little Rock, 10 miles 2n hour! " If you tzke the steamer Bat Cleburne here at the leves, a1t c: you there in from three dnys to dive, sccording to the water. There is no other way. You ‘#ee Arkansgs is now nearly as bad a3 Do Soto saw it, two miles below here, where the artist makes him discover the Missiseippi!” Tt was 'a good point in art, if not in fret,” sgid I, * Thera is no curve of the river anywhere more jong, and broad, and epic-like, than past this Oliickesaw Bluff: - The busy life and naked “banks this side put the green lawn and woo of the"Arkansas shore in cool relief.” % T’y the highwsy to nowhere,” continued my friend. *“The Texas current goss by Vicksburg and Shreveport ; the trede with the Indian Ter- ritory will fall into the hands of the new Mis- gouri Pacific Reilway. If the Indian Territory were to be opened to settlement to-morrow, half {ihna p’eoplfi of Arksness would move over the TR " These sayings of the proud Pharachs of Mem- phis failed to discourage me. I wanted to ses the social frontier,—that vanishing line which one mzy go to California and never croes,—to Oregon and eee even receding. The next morn- ing I wasa passenger on the ferry-boat for Hopefield, ticketed to Little Rock for $10,— sbout 8 cents & mile. .. H 6 FPICTURESQUE TOUR OF ABEANBAS, From the best eources of information I pos- gess, I ehould advise any future Arkansas trav- ellers who wish to make the tour of the Btate to do it aftor the fashion of the squadsof stump-~ speaking politicians whom I saw set out to- gether from Little Rock : take o rough carrisge’ and drive yourselves, If St. Louis be the place to_start out, and the leisure at will permit, take the Iron Mountain region of Missouri en roule, snd wind through the banks or, otherwise, follow the road of invasion beyond Springfleld, transporting outfit by the Atlantic & Pacifio Railway, andride in “mit Sigel” by the corner of Northwest Arkansas, near Pea Ridge. ‘Another way isto sscend the White River to.the head of navigation, and then drive or ride through to the Boston Mountains toward the northwestcorner, as before, to Fayetteville- or Huntsville, arriving in Missouri, The bean- ties of the White River streams, * coves,” and peaks are to be followed, and the Kaneas crossed at Fort Smith, Then the high cones and table- mountains above the Poteau Valley and the Cos- sitatt Bange may - be explored, and the parallel- ridges follow Eastward, south of the Kansas, to Little Rock. "At Little Rock, the political tradi- tions of the State are assembled, and the war did no greqcinjury to the Statearchives. It will now- ‘be October, and the tour- may be continued to Hot Springs, snd besond to the cotton-growing land between the Red and Washita. Some of the.best and worat parts of Arksnsas, socially, lig in this region; and the Town of Camden is,- like Shreveport, on the Red River, its_entrepot. The journey may be continued to Chicot Coun- 13, .to Napoleon, Arkansas Post, Helens, or Mofnphis; or, ot Camden, the traveller may tako edvantage of the frost, and pass through .the cotton-zone to thé land of sugar. A oheaper tour of Arkansas would be to go idirectly to Little -Rock, at & cost of 850 from ‘New York, and thence f)y river to Fort Smith :or to take Fort Smith round about way past iHot Springs and the mountains of Potean and Fourche 1o Traye; thence, from Van Buren, climb among the Boston Mountains to reach the Misgouri Railroad, or return down White River: The fare is poor, even at Little Rock, but not elsewhere dear. The society is 88 wild ds any- ‘where in the world, yet every house is expected to give accommodation where the inns are in- frequent. . 3 THE INDIAY TERRITORY. In the estimation of the few white people who have examined the Indian Territory, 1t partakes, for a width of 100 miles westward from the Ar- kansas line, of the fertility of Southern Kaneas gi3d the soft and healing climate of Texas. Lhe Hon. Alexander McDonald, who has been tractor, Indian trader, etc., nd who knows fio . Territory well, says thdt its improvements ¥as good 28 anywhere in the West, and that . the Cherokees and Choctaws cultivate pud with method and with modern imple- and raise stock, cotton, and corn in per- B¢ He 'says that the most eligible site for a large town in the Indian country is the settle- ment called North Fork, where the two branches of the Canadizn River unite. This is. about 80 ‘miles west of . Fort Smith, Ark. .The mountain- scenery throughont this country .is very lovely, the timber large and.equally distribnted, an the! streams pure and clear, and saffording excollent mill-power. The Indian population is probably about 125,000 Coal 18 believéd to urderlie a considerable portion of this Territory, ?:51 salt bas. long been procured in large quan- ities,” 1y: 47,500,000 -acres, or one-fourth larger than Xllinois. - The settlers are said to be literally banked up agsinst the Indisn boundaryin the States of. Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas,—as meny g8 10,000 souls waiting to pass over if tho obstruction bo’ removed; but one must bo ad- mitted to a tribe and renounce civilized protec- tion, toslive in, this snomslous realm. A few Cherokees, like Boudinot, have declared for railway 2id and the dovelopment of the Terri- tory on the white man’s plan; but these find it unhealthy to stay at home. : THE RATLWAYS TOWARD TESAS. The railway movements in the Southwest are of much intorest to Arkansas; but more energy geems to have been used to get round the State than to get into it. _Alissouri slips round to the wesbem%u\m\hry with two_long lines, aimin, for the trade of Texas and New Mexico,- ant PO SN ht -ya I -Av draw e - l —— e Fulton Railroad, however,—another Bt Louis | company,—is ected to reach Little Bock b tho Boat dny of the year 1873, and uten‘gegczd o vance leisurely to Texas, It be tho great beam of light, and probably the controlling mo- nopoly of Arkansas; but it is noticeable thata monopoly in the shape of a public road is the best substitute for public spirit. ~ Seven railways havo been sttempted in Arkansis, aad eleven more empowered to be built; but, _. at _ the _ present .. moment, people of the interior haye only one certain, not to say eafe, outlet: thatto Memphis; and only one other road which proceeds with purpose: that to St. Lonis. Other roads, which havo re ceived nearly $2,000,000 apiece from the State, besides ;mbhc 1and, present a score or two-score miles of frack and ing, and stop in tha woods. “On-one road, it is ed, Iron” was taken up and then relaid on another branch of the seme road, and the money subgidy paid 28 if each arm had been completed” according to law. It does not appear that an; pnrficu?a.r school of ralers set the fashion of these modern improve- ments; the political method in all cages is the same: 10 ecure & charter'and grants, and then to hunt amongst distant capitalists for ready money wherefor to sell the paper road nd the Statonid. Thus the politician goes out of the corporation, and puts up & pew dwelling vm Rogue Hill, or “a ‘new iron block opposite the State-House; while the distant capitalist, satis- fled by -his lswyers _that: he will have no further {romble™ “with ~ Legislatnres and lobbymen, sets to_work, enlarges his *pool,” i et ot ey i, vl SO0 L0 More. - . Toally akos & railvosd, - STt We might have railways by other methods, but nowadays wedo.not get them. Business men pre- for to buy charters outright, rather than hagsle forthem in Legislatares; and s smart Legislature must get up a prime article of charter, as full of g;lun{; a8 Master Horner's pudding,- to. make it able. - - 5 - Texas, with a splendid Commonwealth do- ‘main, and an attractive climate, offera’s mora seductive field for the railway contractor than the acclivities and *“bottoms" of Arkansas. The two diagonal ronds crossing et Little Rock, uniting the Ohio with the Red River, 'and tha Indien Torritory with Memphis, Helena, and ZEunice, will make, however, a very worthy intr duction to thenew era in the * Bear State.” ° THE RIVER SYSTEM OF ABEANSAS, Nature has gmvided natural lines of communi- caiion for Arkansasin a river system of almost unexampled extent and sinuosity, The Arkan- 528 along is navigable throughont all the 600, miles of its windings in this State; and it is claimed” that 43 out of the 61 counties are traversed by navigable streams, mever shut by ice, and affording 2,500 miles of water-highway. Indecd, the superfluity of crooked water-course is in one sense an obstacle, both to railway-building and to the development of towns ; for there are o strategio or focal points for trade amidst so ‘many erratic els, and. pteamboata wander from Memphis and New Orleans, like tha refugees they have followed, to make & landing and take in fuel where they list.. A like pleni- | tude of harbars and rivers provails in fidewater Maryland and Virginia, where towns bave sel- dom arisen and never flourished. These water- courses - disconrage” ‘travel ‘and retard the Bpread of intelligence, by the time they require to tako pnssengers to the cities, and ‘bring mails and newspapers ; ‘at the same timo they incremse the cost of railways. I have already mentioned that threedays is the svorage ‘packef-time betweer Mefuphis nd Little Rock, while the railway between the sameé points, a small matter of -four-or five hours™- it in Iess obstructed regions—is made slow and per- ilous by miles of: trestle-work and pile-bridges over rivers and guiches, and it cost such a sum of money to build and . maintain it that its pro- prietors are said to be nearlyin despair. A river-trip from many of the towns of Arkznses, such ag Jackeonport, on the White River, to Memphis, multiplies the overland distance rela- tively as the route bi Panama_multiplies tho miles from New York to San Francisco. Ths Arkansas towns on _the Ouachita River, which are only about 80 miles from their Stato Capitul by land, are nearly 1,000 miles from the ssme point by _ water. Even worso is the _condition of the ‘Arkenzes towns on the Red River, where Natufe, as if ia pity of separating State-folk so far by so much mockery. of intercommunication, "has built & patural dam or “raft,” to prevent this eail- ing round the globe in order to step across the ey . 3o v 5ot o e A KOTION OF OUBS. The effience of water and the grand scale of the topography in the Southwest should have been adapted to & race of beings with more sluggish instincta“than ours; the locomotive hero appears like a superfluous utility, but yet The ares of the Indian Territory isnear- | the very. missionary of sympsthy :and hotio- goneity. One of the. computations of geolog: Las gettled it that after 72,000-years of attrition, the barrier of Niagara was worn through, andtho waters of the great inland American lake were re- leased eastward, leaving the present diminiched river system of ‘the Mississippi no moro to its former aren than the injected arterial system in a -medical ‘subject” is like the career of the hero whom it propelled. And in similar diminished proportion stands the Lower-Mississippi--system of rivers tothe aspirations of the B%fk“ steam. The alligator basks beside them, like an animated snag; tlhe ent, coarse catfish and the buffalo-fish mope the current; and the gar-fish pokes with his toothed bill in the muddy bottom to- rouss his lethargio prey. The rivers wind_round and backward, bugging the bluf to prolong exist- ence fora shrewd anthority hea eaid that, if Btraightened too much, they must empty too fast and perish as common carriers; they Tequire 1o be crooked to be efficient, like an oid diplo- matist. Therefore they serve and wriggle,— the only courtiers in Arkansss, and dingy enongh,—the Bedlh:ha Big Black, the Saline, the St. Francis, Bayou Bartholomew, an the Ouachits, the White, and the Arkansas Riv- ors, They areold servitors in the mew heir'a halls; they go the old-time ways, and keep Bxlxé: the old elaborste ceremony, but they must Wi 2nd cannot run. WHAT IT COSTS TO IMPROVE THEM. The engineers of the United States Army ara Eerpetunfiy tinkering af the jver system of Av- tansas to mend it. They maihtain s large fleet of enag-boats, crana-boats, flas, and tuge; and these are provided with: acrnparg,d:cdies wreck- ing apparatus, and saws, to take up 5, and cut off and leaning trees. 1 have read all the reports in the last docu- ‘ment of the Secretary of War on this subject It is there computed thatthe Ouachits system =lone will require the removal of the following num~ ber of obstructions: Little Alissouri River, 18,420 leaning trees and 956.6ns e attain 68 miles of navigation ;- Main OQuschits, — navigable in Arkansas above 200 miles,—36 shoals, above 45,000..leaning: trees, nd 2,053 snags and logs ; Bayou Batholomew, obsiruc- tions almost incomputable ; Saline River, ditto, The total navigation of the Ouachita system in -| Arkansas is sbout 550 miles, The Petit Jean River, which is claimed fo be navigable 78 miles, requires theremovalof 60,000 trees and 1,100 snags. The St. Francis, which steamers ascend 185 miles, has 450 enags and trees, and rises in & forest of inundsted stumps. The Little Red River demands, to got 50 miles of unrelinble navigation, the siwing and grub- bing up of 1,000 snags and 6,500 leaning trees. The-Biver Cache country has 84 miles .of .navi- gation, but only 500 voters. The Black River ‘would give 150 miles of shallow navigation if ‘to steamboat-wrecks, 2,019 snags, and 11,936 leaning trees were got rid of. e White River offers 440 miles of navigation at & cost of $170,- 000, and eight wrecks in it are estimated to de- mand $5,000 spiece to remove them. The Arkansas snag-flest comprised: 12 _ snag-boats in the year 1870, besides two double-hullers and thres dredge- ‘boats. And itis related that the weight and re- gistance of the snags in that river often snap links of chain' 23§ inches thick in the fron. . . LOOKS OF THESE RIVERS.®. . . These at, slimy rivers, most of which rise in the wild mountain-spurs of the Ozark, zre the distinguishing featurs of Arkanses. era is a tawny deur about them as they come circniting through deep and gloomy timber ; and Iateral gulches, made by-their overflow, run through the heavy, rich alluvial goil whera few ‘human beings dare spend a night. Tho richest Ccotton county in the State, is Chicot, in the ex~ treme southeastorn corner; and the sparsest settlements are in Northegstorn Arkansas, whero the Government yet owns an_ijmmense deel of ild and broken mineral 4and. In' this corner. o celebrated Sunken -Lands-causedby- the- %r:wfiimfld eerthquake of 1811, which dropped the ground from 8 to 15-feét over & space 80 milles by 30, s0 hab tho St. Francis River covercd Hho region with backwater, Theland is now so flat there that three feet rise of water will at any time make a lake from one to three miles wide ; and the %sa le run off. their cottdm, in times of providential flood, upon flat-boats, moving aver this great shallow basin. When this earthquake rocked and ripped up the ground in this wild part of Arkanses, a far distant movement of the eame_convulsion tumbled the City of Carnccas to ruins, with 12,000 people buried underneath. THE FIRST TERRACE OF THE SOUTHWEST. Pehind the St. Francis, o singnlerridge, cailed Crowley's Ridge, dams off the inundated lands, and running due north and south for-175 miles, supports o its sides and summit (which rise to the - height of 100 feet) theonter terrace of population of Arkanses. “Where thisridgestrikes he Mississippi Biver, the Town of Helena is built st tha.foot, and.also” oif the eminencs.. the. order 1 | places of Arkansas,—the oiys being Camden Fori Smith, and Lattle Roc. < Helena, besides being iihe midst of rich plantations, is in the regior aboriginal towns, fortifications, etc., of brickhich strew all that pert of the country; and tllegend runs . 50mo of the lakes are also pad with theae sun« dried bricks. T ‘Whencs came they? Twoousand years old, £ay experts, they must b¢All Esstern Ar- Lansas is full of them. - ‘Nolksture bas sought to repeople them. Did theinijlders emij 3 orperish on the spot witlhe epizootic;.ox. wero they removed by the Ainsas toothpick 2 ‘We give it up, and paea to thext topic. FRETTY The great Tiver- tho noble siver, in many 16§ river—the noble river, in 3 respecis, west of the Missiseij—is the Whil of Arkanlsas. It arches, wita great Bow purs, cold, flashing water, the ole of Northern ‘Arkanses, end should bear n: of the * River of the Qzark, for it winamongst those , agreeable mountains for nearli0) miles. - It i seid to be better navigable eam than the Ohio, never to close with icend to be full of trout. But it is one of thliveliest paris of Americs, and flows thrgh the geut known, yeb onme of the oldesmown, of our mountain chaing. The White Fer and the Up= per Arkensas do not at all reser the slow and 8llury tivers in the alluvial botto. These rivera flowin past through the mounnous Ozarks; snd there take & more gladdenelace ; for the stand in the sight of beanty, antheir sluggish * Tace is moved by the presenceof ked precipices ead garlanded kmobs and shoulds of rock. “'he Arkansas is a different ver when yeut, gob 60 miles aboye Little Rock,aid a cosmo-' ‘politay commertal traveller fo i “Tho bluffa are no longer of clay; the mounins bogin in earnest, rising right out of tho prries.” 7 3 MUCTITALY BAS - 3 - Yes,"Even'in the Comnty of Title the transformation begins, with oneconical knob ot gancstone, 750 feet above \og Akansas Rivers end, voar it, two &nflm 4iers wiginral stepa descend toward the past boa\en, Soom after, the two, chains of Tourche yuye and Petic Jean rise in view, snd o lstter . terminates by the river in & rock 280 i high, - with s humen profile distinctly marked'von Jta outlites. This is called the ~ofile,. and from the summit of the rock there is's gxy tenivo prospectof the bold Magazine Motgin in £¢ll view, and the parallel chains farther oa:n somis cases of 800 feet altitude, bearing the Frem, - nares besiowed by the ' miners who sought fu- digthe precious metels from the shafts we stilk diFover there, when the Scotch Lsw was the Tk feshion.’ Other mountains sppear a3 wea- isflated pesks anddetached spurs of blue, yellow,” 3! brown conspicuous landmarks-in th phirie, and evidence, according to David Dale’ Ulven, of the extensive denudation which hes,’ sdparated them¥rom the parent range. Even o the brink of the Indian Territory, and beyond it,- ife “lofty ridges sweep, and ‘the E‘eak of e: Sugar-Loaf, where the -Arkansag aveller looks down at the Choctaws’ lovely do- ain enviously, 18 £bove 1,400 feet in elevation. - ar south and west of this, till lost in distan {:c peaks preside ovex the pleasant lands whera -a gathered together nll the di tribes of the outh: the broken svirit of the Creek and 10 dacile Cherokee, the Saminole remrant and 26 many Chickasaws, and at:1ast the Oszgesand- mapaws,—sboriginals of Arfaneas who named ire Ozark Mountains, sccording to Schooleraft. - The Osages had occupied,” ho wrote in 1818, |+ ail the most remarkable gorges and eminencss horth of the Arkansas from the earliest histori-. joal times; and this tribe, with-tho_Pawnees; sre 'apposed fo have held this position since the idoys of DeSoto.” - ¢ e Soto's narrative, indeed,.speaks of pahas, Cayas, and Quipanas, or Qua i Koneag, and Pawnees. LS HEL There live the descendants of the former: Arkanzans, nmongst their brethren wkio have : beon expelled, persuaded, or mercifwlly re- moved from the streams and_ hill-sides 0f the Carolinas and Georgia,wirom Florids, ail the Yalley of the Tennesice, and the. Chichasaw: Blufs, to tho Indien Territory. -There; besides,” arn the tribes whse m@menclature was nos wholly superseded in Louisians by the glib - Creole’s, and which delights even the jack ears ™ of him who must_say _“ Pascagoula,” * Homo- chitto,” and *Tallahals,” even if they fiow by tha, aws Jones and Simpson Counties. Here in the Indian Territory they have learned to saé agein,: “ Alabama " here we rest. ATH.. - GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. = —TIt least thirty rafts ave ice-locked betweert Rock Island and the mouth of the St. Croix. v —The saloon keepers of Indisnapolis have. pmited in an agreement to observe the Sunday ' av. o —Amherst College lost $5,500 by the Boston. - fire, it holding that amoun; of stock in insurancer companies that are bankrupt. —Immense herds of bufalo, snow-bound on. the scuthwestern L!.uns obsiruct the trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Smta Fe Raiivay. —A firm of wool dealers in Hartford, Ct.,- bought a lot of fn:ei(in wol justbefore the Bos~ ton tire, and have sold it snce at the handsome: rdvance of 318,000, —ALout two hundred Lieral voters were ab- gent from the city.of Key West on the day of election, “wrecking ” the geamer Victor. —TIt i3 estimated that 235000,000 feet of pine logs will be cut and banked:n Muskegon Connty,” Rich., during the coming winter. R —Application has been filed at, the Patent- Office for & pPatnt fire-extingnisher, designed. to arrest s fire at ‘the point of its appearance,.- £nd prevent the 8pload of the flames. “—ihe State of Noth Carolina loses $4,000,000: by the eale of the Watern North Carolins Bail- road under foreclpsnregg the first. m.mg,%e, or= dgrjgh%guflzenmk, ofthe United States Court, 8 o. t 2 R —Phillips Academy, Exter, N. H., will receive s legacy: of -850,000, ant Darimouth College- £10,000, by the will of Jeamish Kingman, of Barrington, an sged gentleny, who is very fee- ‘ble and cannot suzvive long. f —South Royalston, Mass., &3 12,000 bushels of shoe-pegs last year, ih Sition to 70,000 trundle-hoops, 6,000 mflq?‘u"meg’ ete. It cen't hope to compete with Ne- Jersey in the metter of turning out ““mosquitorames,” how= ever. —The Forest Park Commissionersyt 8t. Louis, have closed s purchase of 243 acres ¢ land from- Robert Fomyualncnted within the likitg of For- est Park, forthe sum of $200,000, agablein Foreat Park bonds at par. —The Boston & Albany Railroed hsw began the foundation of & new elevator at Eax Bos-- ton, adjoining the present structure. Whem completed, the entire capacity of the Compny's: elevators at East Boston will be about & milion bushels. ¥ s —A project is being “ talked up,” to o1y a company in Michigan City, with & capita} of $100,000, 1o extend the dockage of the barbor, | by the farther dredging out of Trail Creek. —Charles G. Kelsey, the young man tarred 2and feathered on Nov. 4, at Huntington, L. L, and who disappeared, and was suppozed to be ‘murdered, has been found at the homse of & relative. 1678 said he has lost his mind. —William H. Craft, of Keeseville, N. Y., has erformed the feat of walking 120 miles in 100 Enu.m without sleep, Which he accomplished at Moriah, N. Y., last week, beginning Tuesday evening and finishing on Saturdsy. After sc- comphshing the task he walked an extra mile in 9 minates and 15 seconds. —Tiw book-kesper of the Salt Lake Tribune, . T. Bower, recently committed suicide by shooting himeelf in the head. A few weeks ago, his'wife poisored: herself, and this 8o pre; upon the mind of Mr. Boywer, that, after valnly. seeking to quiet himself with liguor, he resort~ ed to the revolver. =} —The London Bookseller calls attention o the falling off in the accuracy with which the Times used to be printed in the days_when, ps the tra~ dition ran, ¢ there was & -well-paid official in. Printing House Square who forfeited a es ‘or every typographical error dotected after the publication.” ¢ Not » day paces,” 8838 the : “Boolkseler, * without errors in every page of the Times.- Nor .are these mere clerical errors. They are biunders implying not carelessness, bat ignorance ; not rapidity, but stupidity.” —At length 1t i8 proved that o man has m:=e vanity than a woman. Thigis-the way that it came topass: A curious investigator watched while & thonsand men passed a 1ookin§g1m d 2s'a “sign_on the sidewalk in Broad- his observation ghowed that nine hundreéd and ninety-nine men glenced complacently at their imege a3 they ~ assed. The other manwas blind. Four hun- od and fifty-two women passed during the eame hour 2nd a helf, andnone of them looked in the mirror—all of them being engaged in- sernuy examining each other’s appearance and ess. —A Detroit man has discovered that pntent sto] cones and Newfoundland pups don't mix Coming home the other night ho placed the cane; heavily loaded, behind 11:0 door, and started for a romp with his three - bright litile ones nnd the sportivo pup. Allhsd a good time till the pup épied the cane; he scized it in his teeth and storted on & promiscus .. ons run among cheirs and tables, regardless of the fact that the slighiest pressure on s littla spring would discharge .the piece. .The father . had just. thrown the lastof the children down stairs when- the - explosion came, - The ball only - broke & 8100 mirror, and..the dog received & fow Beraithesin’, jubping throngh a plate-~lass wine asfend theriver toward Foit Smith,—the high: .