Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1872, Page 2

2 —_— THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1872 DUBUQUE. The Railroad Enterprises of Northern Iowa. How Pubuque Capital and Enterprise Have Reconstructed the Rail- way Riap. The Situation and Progress of Lines Leading West and North. Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Durrquz, Tows, Dec, 12, 1872, Dubugue hes fairly entered upon a new rail- road era. Henceforth, more essentially than in the past, will it be worthy its title: ¢ Key City of Towa.” Ifore firmly snd discreetly will it hold the key to unlock the stores of the ever-widen- ing grain fields, and the silent forest homes of thonorth, bordering upon, or lying between, our two grest boundary rivera. Its means for deing this are its system of railrosds now being rapidly perfected. Of this system and the men who are developing it—their struggles and triumphs—I propose & swift review. The merchants of Dubuque have slways claimed the right toreap the first profit from sales of grain and other products, after these had leit the hands of the farmers in the counties Iying directly west and north of them, and when the Milwankee systom of railroada first threat- ened these rights, via the pass at St. Paul, our people began to grow restive and to devise plans for holding that which, by all rights of geo- graphical position, they called their own. The e2me dengers were threatened by the Iows rail- roads converging at the pass st Clinton, reach- ing northward and cutting off their happy hunt- ing-grounds on the west and south, and out of the purpose to avert thess evils grew TIE DUBUQUE & SIOUX CITY BAILROAD. Tkis road, in the main, being the product of the energies of Dubuque capitalists, its mer- chants fondly hoped that it wonld enable them to retain their trade in the counties contigaons toit. In this they were disappointed: The reasons for this will soon appear. Another railrosd project, called the Eldora project, and to which Dubuque capital largely contributed, was whatis now known as the CENTBAL RAILROAD OF IOWA. 'This road, it was thought, would slso inure to the benefit of Dubuque merchants, but a trans- portation connection, subsequently effected with the Northwestern Boad, entirely diverted the trade of & number of counties west from Du- buque, st the Ackley crossing. A few years later the Dubugue & Sioux City Road was leased in perpetuity to the Ilinois Central Company, and from that time to the present have the mer~ chants of Dubuque had “a hard rosd to travel.” Through all these years the project of & river line of railways, extending into Minnesota, was fostered, and ever and anon its immediate open- ing received hearty advocacy. Its necessity and its practicability were discussed in grin.ts par- ‘ties, inpublic assemblies, and through the press, and finally took definite form by the incorpo- ration of the DUBUQUE & MINNESOTA BAILWAY COMPANY, This Comps.ng was incorporated Dee, 16, '67. Its Board of Directors were Hon. E. f. {Vill- iams, of Clermont; Amos Pearsol, and J. H. Mem’llkfn' McGregor; R. B. Mason, of Chicago; and J. K. Graves, H. L. Stout, and Platt Smith, of Dubuque. Under direction of this Company, J. E. Ains- worth, its chief engineer, made a reconnoissance of the route proposed, and reported his observa- tions. These fully established the feasibility of the route, but that faith which tunnels, if it does not remove, mountains, had not then fully ma- tured on the bottom-lands of Dubuque, and so the enterprise there rested. Meanwhile the merchantsand tha press of Du-~ bugue kept up & vigerous protest against the local discriminations in railroad tariff practised 1y the Tllinois Central Company, but the Central kept zight on about its business, modifying it rates of tariff only as its own interosts dictated. But the merchants zud the press of Dubugue did more than protest; they carried the waronto the floor of the House in the winter of ’69, and won victory in securing the passage of an act prohibiting discrimination, but this pet child was strangled in the Chamber. : ‘The prees of Dubuque, I have said, was active In this long fight fi;nst railrozd monopoly. The Herald was particulerly vigorousand instant in jts advocacy of the people's interests. A se- ries of articles- from the stropg pen of D. A. Mahoney, the.old-time editor of the Herald, was published in its columns, and subsequently re- blished in pamphlet form, and widely cirou- ted. These articles were & very exhaustive ent in favor of the proposed.Dubnque & Minnesots Railroad. Tke year of grace, 1870, opened hopefully for Dobuque. A happy combination of circum- stances was grmua!Yy bringing & NEW BODY OF MEN TO THE FRONT. A dozen or more of our merchants, nided by professional and other business men; had ma- tured s plan for building theriver road. Theylaid down a stocksubscription basie. The preliminary skirmishing, the half-secret, half-open overturea made to different capitelists and corporations to “take hold with us,” would, in reviewal, far ex- ceed tho prescribed - limits 0f this article. Buf- fice it to say that, on the afternoon of Oct. 18, of that year, about s score of onr solid men Tepaired, with picks, and spades, nnd cork- screws, to Eegle Point, on the iver bank, by the northern limits of the city. The ‘thny of this precipitate movement was warmly discussed and Beverely criticised. A very prudent citizen said: “Let us wait until we have secured more sub-~ scriptiona; of the £200,000 fixed npon we have bt & emall portion yet subscribed.” To these cautionary councils the Napoleonic J. K. Graves—now the honored President of four roads—replied : *¢Let us break the soil. Let us prove to the citizens of Dubuque that we mean to build this road. Letus make a beginning—that's what the people want to see, and then your subscrip- tiong will como dovs easier. Tha people havo heard this discussed a8 a proposition, till they are wearyof it. Whatrisneeded now is action This settled tho guestion. The determined spirit took. “Spades to the front!” rang out over the cold waters of the Mississippl, and Wm. An- drew, & prominent hardware merchant, got his cost off first and turncd the firstsod. ~ Then followed a lively throwing up of earth along the entire line for a half an honr or o, and the CHICAGO, DUBUQUE & MINNESOTA RAILROAD enterprise was inaugurated. Boards of Direc- tors and officers were chosen; Petor Kiene, Jr.— present Secretary of the road—was appointed to circulate the stock subscription book. The little differences then existing between the prospec- tive managers of the Upper and the Lower roads were happily closed up, their interests rombined, and the CHICAGO, CLINTON & DUBGQUE RAILROAD became & fixed fact. (I have said the littlo dif- ferences between the prospective managers of this rosd were happil{ closed up. And 80 they were, sufficiently to allow the work to progress, but & fow partics to the differences hugged the mantle of dissatiefaction aboat them, and their igvances are_occasionally heard in the Courts ay.) Mr.J. A. Rhomberg, now_Vice Presi- dent of both reads, sn encrgetic, untiring worker in these river railroad enterprises from the first, became Superintendent of the Construction Company of both roads; Mr. Fred. L. Massey, Secretary, and C, H. McArthur, Treasurer. All the machinery of construction was put in rapid motion, and has been kept running to the pres- ent time, Chief Engineer Cruisus and corps was sent down’ over the proposed line of the Lower road to complete the eurvey ; Mr. Georga Young, & man of large experience inthe dificult dutiesof the position, that of securing rights of ey, wasputintothefield. Mr. S. A. Wolcott, long- time train-mester on the Central, was engaged to take immediate charge of the construction trains. In the meantime, a8 the man best fitted for the delicate task, Mr. J. K. Graves was com- missioned to visit Mr, J. F. Joy, railroad capi- talist, of Michigan, to solicit aid. His migsion there, like all those he has accepted since, was a brilliant success. Whatever doubts and fears others may have entertained, neither Mr. Graves or Mr. Rhomberg exhibited the slightest mis- givings in rogard to the ultimste, full-rounded guccess of our river railroads. They have mot their full share of opposition in extending their lines, both from private parties and corporations. Injuhctions have been showered down before them from the Bench, and fiery bolts have been turled st them from the Bar, bub they have never davisted from their course, nor tarried, | Mr. Graves,as President of tho Company, met his most formidable opponent in the combined attempts of the Milwaukee, the Northwestern and Midland Comfillnies to block the C., C. &D. below Sabula. Injunctions wére served, but Mr. Graves gave indemnifying bonds and the army of coustruction was kept on its course toward Clinton. The opposition claimed exclu- E1ve rights to the land available for tracks by the river banks,-but Ll.\e.-ymmg hero -coming down from Dubuque anticipated every move of the enemy. From the united testimony of his own and the cnemy’s engincers, he sscertnined that much of iheland in question lay between high and low water mark,—ground which by legis tivo act has been dedicated to public_nse,—and ho went forward condemning and ading. Tho enemy was dumb-founded st the -audacious bearing of the new railroad operator, and one morning, while yet the injunction wWes in as much force 23 it was possible to b, thongh the C., C. & D. construction force was pushing on_the work with renewed vigor, just 85 though injunctions had never been thought of, he telegraphed to Graves to Lknow what he meant by keeping his men at work. This char- scteristic reply was sont back : “I mean to build this road through to Clinton, &nd I shall not bo stopped. 1£Iam impoded, 1 shall domand of the Governor a company of troops to protect my men.” The result of this war proved that this conr- ageous bearing was in no sense fool-hardy. Mr. Graves won & complote, a crushing victory bo- fore tho courts—before it camo up for examina- tion, in fact. The opposition withdrew, and compromises which did not prejudice the inter- ests of the new road were effectod. And_thus the work went forward. The iron was laid on the C., D. &M .,and 8s each snccoed- ing town on the line was reached, a genoral jol- Lification was had, and on the 8th dsy of May of the present year 1 grand colebration of the event of the “iron wedding” of tho two cities was had a Lansing, ninoty-six miles narth of Du- ugue. ‘he Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque Rond was completed tothe junction of the Stbuia Road, & transportation connection of & temporary char~ scter formed with this and the Northweatern Road, and, as many of the readers of Tk Ton- UNE will romenmber, the citizens of Chicago wero singularly impressed with the appearsnce of gaping crowds of Dubuque morchants on tho streets of their own rebuilded city, on Tuesday, the 26th ult. Now, if the reader will gather abont him all the railroad maps of Iowa which had been pub- lighed in the last ten years, select the best one, study it until he becomes utterly confuse: and ~ humiliated by the rude violence it has practiced upon ‘the geography and typog- raphy of our beautiful State, and then burn the entire lot, and with us take the morning train at Dubuque going south, and then again going north, wo will point out to him, if indeed there were need of if, some pleasant features peculiar to our river roads. .Going south, e run for about two-thirds of a mile on the track of the Dubuque & Souix City Road. But this is only atemporaryarrangement. Leav- ing the Central’s track, where that track bears west from the river, we strike on the firmest bed road in the State. Nature, with wonderful pre- science, has Ieft a well-worn beneh along by the tiver bank, forming a natural road-bed most of tho way. And then at conveniont distances she has deposited gravel pits all along the track, gravel which tamps almost as solid 28 rack. Thess two important features are common to both the lower and upper roads. Wo reach Clin- ton in good season for dinner, and free from dust—that d.\sngreenbla feature of the roads of the interior. Thisroad is graded most of the way to_Burlington, and before December 12, 1873, will be completed to St. Louis. Leésving the depot in Dubuque in the morn- ing for St. Paul, we set'out on the road of light- esi grade of any in Jowa. Over this a single engine will draw thoe heaviest train, In passing through the company's yard we ee s Beries of machine-shops, the most oxtensive and best arranged to be found in the West. At Eagle Poin we stop for water running from the bluffi—s natural epring. These have all been considerately set at convenicnt distances all elong this road, snd every one of them, tho President of tho Chicago, Bulington & Quincy . Roed, who passed over tlis road, last summer, declared was “worth ten thousand dollars.” And the acenery—but it can herdly be necessary to remina the readers of ‘Tue TureusE of the sconery of the Upper Mis- sissippi. 7 Atuhe Turkey River crossing, twenty-seven miles north from Dubugue, we lesve an the left the TOUREEY VALLEY BRANCH, graded to o point near Fayotte, where it will in- tersect, and connect with the Y0WA & PACIFIC ZOAD, o which traverses the State_from the Mississippi to the Missourl via Fort_Dodge, and down the Maple Valley. This road is graded over most of its course, and is expected to be in running order within & twelve-month from date. This, 26 & competing line with the Dubuque & Sious City Road, our merchants will thorough- Iy appreciate. Its construction is in the somo hunds’ a3 the O, D. & I Road, which has just completed its connections side tracks at La Crescent, opposite La Crosse. The C., D. & M. Company has effacted transpor~ tation connection with the SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BAILBOAD, end is receiving from thirty to_fifty cars of reight from that road por day. The Milwaukes & B¢, Paul Company will have complsted their round from Winone to La Crescent, and thus an unbroken line by rail given between St. Peul 20d Clinton, along the west bsalk of tho Missis- sippi. %gzu C.,D. & 3L Trunk Road, crossing the riv- er at La Crosee on the new bridge to be built, with transportation connection with the M. & St. P. and-C. & N. W. Roads to Tomah, will then intersect the WISCONSIN VALLEY ROAD. z ‘Thie branch line, opening up as it will the pine regions of Wisconsin, will bo tho most important, tothe C., D. & AL Road. This road is all ready for the iron between Tomah and Grand Rapids, = distance of 45 milea. The rails will be laid early in the spring. Our lumber merchants ‘who control large tracts of Wisconsin pine lands will find the Wiscongin Valloy Road connection with the C., D., & 3. Line of great value, especially in the low water seasons. Theim- ortance to Dubuque of these Minnesotn and {’Viscnuain' feeders to our Trunk Lino of railway, foeders which will be constantly extending and ‘multiplying, can hardly be over-cstimated. OTHER ROADS IN PROSPECT. In addition to the rosds mentioned in the forogoing, We_have in near prospect a line east to Monroe which will pierce tho very heart of the Wisconsin lead region. Another is projected from Dubuque southwest to Maguokets, in Jackson - County, which will alko bring to our morchants the trade from a large tract of the most productive portion of our State. That portion of the DUBUQUE & MONROE BOAD Iying between Monroe and Shullsburg will, in all probability, be completed within tho next 18 months, and oxtended to Dubuque within the next two years. With itg system of railroads, already 6o largely developed, fo much in near prospect, is it a0y wonder Dubuque is jubilant? The rolling stac] of the C., D. & M. Toad already comprises 13 Tocomotives, 7 passenger coaches, 2 sleeping cars, 4 beggage, and 500 freight cars. Should Du- bugue be reproved for indulging & bit of pride? T have said _these grand railroad antfirgriues projected, and thus far prosecuted, by Dubuque men, have suffered no delay in construction since that auspicious October day, 1870, when the turf was first ~ broken at Eaglo Point. This statement may, to some, read better if qualified. It is a fach which will hardly be disputed, that no railroad company in the country, inaugurated under cir- cumstances go difficult to control, has ever met its money obligations more promptly than has the C,, D. & M. The dark fall days of the Pres- idential campaign cast their shadows salong the ‘banks of the Missiesippi, and our railroad con- struction force temporarily felt their chill, but when the air was at its ‘‘bluest,” President Graves, with firm faith that Boston, a8 well as Providence, helps those who help themsolves,” gathered ap his maps, his ekefch books, his sta- tistics, and went down to the city by the sea. He proved to the capitalists of Beston that the 02 B8 M Railrond had opened up & Aeld which was one of tho very best for them to enter, and returned in a few days with a million dollars at his back, Y, 1 havo thus swiftly sketched the rise and pro- grees of Dubuque's system of railroads. Am I Dot right in the assertion that Dubuque has fair- 1y entered upon o new railrosd era? = VESTER. e Curious Investigation by M. Dufour. _Soms interesting a8 well as curious investiga- tions have been made by M. Dufour, as to tho Tate of growth of the nails. Among the results +thus arrived at appears the fact that the nails of the little fingers grow more elowly than those of tha other fingers and the thumbs, the difference being about one-ninth, The mean rate of these —excluding the little fingers—is about the hun- dredth part of an inch in ten days, The rate of growth on the thumbs is apparently greaterthan that on the six longer fingers. Tle nails grow at sbout the same rate onboth hands. The rate of growth is not constant throaghout the length of the nail, it being greater near the base. The substance of the nail advances equally throughe out its breadth. The rate of nail-growth in an individual at intervals of geveral years shows sonsible differonces, and | WASHINGTON. 'Horace Greeley’s Memory-—-A Journalistic Analysis of the Man. His Place in Faine-; -Anecdotes and Points---Tribute to the Defeated. From Our Own Correspondent. ‘WASHEINGTON, Dec, §, 1872, GREELEY'S PROBABLE FAME. At this time, there soems to be some organ- ized effort ta collect all that besrs upon Horace Groeley's career, and the incident of his death is atill overshedowing in this Capital. The rank of great office will always supersede the greatness of greater men in private station; 2nd when other men passed up to the Presiden- cy, the greater Captain was subordinats and subject to power, and so must stand relatively in superficial history. To 2im at tho sceptre and miss if, and then reburn to one'’s broom, has often boen the fateof the real Kings of men, but posterity in bulk is & grest gulled constitu- ency. It still believes that Washington’s behav- ior on tho subject of the little hatchet was the making of him, and leaves the past, gencrally speaking, to its own jury end verdict. Greeley was s beaten man for the Presi- dency; he was ambitious of that office be- cause he considered it a place of grester in- fluence, usofulness, and majesty, than his own bench ; and o it might have been for a man of his wide knowledge, wide acquaintance, and ex- traordinary popularity. He probably kney this country from its seedlings and traditions out to itn vaguely-revealed descrt interior, more fully snd recently than any being amongst us,—sol- dier, or travellor, or head of department, be- cause ho was the editor of the ers, to whom all its vagrancy and exploit came earliest to report. With this knowledge, ho might well have mis- taken himself for a man of administration also, and yearned to cleanse the country of the op- preseions he knew to be, and to correct it of errors which provailed by theiraudacity or men's obtuseness. But he lost that prize of suthority, and Iapsed to citizenship again, so that what is sometimes called the vulgar world will lose him ‘more and more as the country fills up and events multiply. Tohis profession, however, he will always be dear, and the scholarship of history will often look beneath the visible currents of ‘pageantry to raise his effigy. HIS ENCOURAGEMENT. I knew Mr. Greeley but a little, and thay chiefly as one of tho first and most hearty en~ couragers I ever had. Amongst his endowments for the gratitude of his dsy and genoration,” nothing stands out more nobly than his constant indorsements of tho better efforts of the peo- ple. He was a gigantic bull in the intellectusl and commercial stock market,—the editorial Vanderbilt,—ready to bet that a thing would succeed; that it must pan out woll; that it had merit in it and must go. Caira might have been his motto. The whole country is covered over with monuments of his faith, McCormick's Tenpers buzz his praises as they shear the har- vest-fields. He fold Mayor Jozeph Medill to go to Chicago and wait there, and this vindicates the wise advice to # Go Wost.” I metAdolph Sutro, the tunnel-maker of Nevada, tho other day,—a | man who is paying ont from $30,000 to $50,000 & month in wages, and who, if he succeeds, will have revolutionized silver-mining in this coun- try, and he said: “Ah! I havo lost my friend! Evorybody was laughing at me, and it looked dark ahead, when Horace Greeley spent a whola day recding my book. Ho asked no guestions what public opinion had to say sboutit. He said: ‘Thatis a great project, and I believe in you! 1 can 8ay, in like manner, thet when Ireturned from a long absenca in Europe, and moved into what was then that most uncharitable den, New York journalism, Mr. Gree!syrid a rather Joose story of my composition, ent me word, through Charley Halpine, to k€8P at the same ‘business. When I wrote fgihawhile upon the Tribune, and the majority of 8quabs around the offica were profoundly moved at the temerity of & new man venturing to appear there, Greeley gave my work his signet more than once ; and, Guring the last campaign, wherein I never saw ‘him nor addressed him, he picked out of another aper & little song anonymonsly eent there by gxelf i had ey asrly spuilnf me for life by convincing me that I might bave been & poct. There is nothing more refreshing than tho tn- solicited commendation of tho great upon the Iesscr,—the watchful magnanimity which ranges the whole field to ssy to thostruggling vines and settings: ¢ There is growth in youl” And, in wonderful contrast to Greeley’s width snd warmth of encouragement where he had all the power, was the stinted and parsimonious wel- come ‘of many of the chaps around him. To form a mutual admiration society in the New York Tribune was second nature, aund, in- deed, in small-fry newspaper-circles in York generally. After the war, the war-corres- pondents came in from the field, and drowned out most of those young chirps. 'The newspapers of New York City are generally furnished with news and opinions by people from other places. I3 JUSTICE. Mr. ch;ll?y'u jnnlticn mlmmdhtls office finpbeen impeachet eople employed there. He was a S ho rafaasd U3 b bnprud, and, as the Trib- une was often supplied with peoplé who followed the presumptions of the (}mpar too literally, and oro their hair long, and_talked wise nonsense, Greeloy got, after awhile, to bo on generally bad terms with his own young men. Ho avoided beginners there, and people who were of & gush- ing and sprout-like nature. How could hehave gratified the vanity of snch and filled the measuro of his great career ? But to masculine beings who ate strong meat, like Richardson, Ripley, Roid, and Meoker, ho was a collozgue When he chose to be ; and, to the great world of attendsaats, the constituency of the journal, he was patient and inquisitive. Newspaper-men are, a8 & _general rule, the bost men to each other in tho world; gonerous, gre- garious, and boyish; but, in work- times, is s very practical _school, it and the writer who housta his jib and sails in for & compliment every day, saying : Did you read my article on the adeptability of beans &g a mo- tive-power 7 ia s _preposterous bore. Henco, we hear a great deal of soft impeachment of Greeley’s sourness and injustice. ¥ IS GENTIITY. - Ho was not a gentleman in the delicato sense, for ho had too much to do ; but he had & good deal of the real attachment which Dickens affects for outre people : scapegraces, brilliant fellowa without stability, snd peopls who are mnever worthless and yob always shiftless. Of these, Halpine was an extraordinary instance. He waa asplendid typo of Lever's Irishman, without deep feelings or fixed principles, but with tal- ents, humor, facility, and a beaming fece. Greeley “carried him” for years, helped eloct him to s position where he could have saved $200,000, 2nd at last had the office eaved for his family's sdvantage after tho man died. I callod Mr, Greeley's attention to this one day, and he 88id, to my surprise “§ nover eaw o fellow who had o little idos that thero conld be such things as principles in this life ns Halpine ! : “You appeared to believe in him, Mr. Greeley 7" “Oh!no. It wasn't that. He wouldn't let me believe inhim. I took the same interest in him that I would in a delightful heathen. Ha wes enough.of & care to make me attached to him, and enough of s pleasure tonpay me back with interest, When Charley Halpine died, there seemed to be no boys left for me to play with.” I8 COURTESY. The frequent injustice of Greeley's demeanor to persons in his servicehasbeen much made of, but, in_the sweep of a large career, it is to0 much to expect the perennial courtesy of a dancing-master. I waé reading an old copy of ‘Wilkinson’s Memoirs recently, and I came across this anecdote, new tome, of General Waghing- ton, derived both from Generals 8t. Clair and Hamilton : ¢ The army was encamped af somo point on the Raritan River, in New Jersey, and the Gen- eral-in-Ohief was just mounting his horse_to visit his advanced post, when he recollected & letter he had recently received from the British commander, which it occurred to_him he might have occasion for whilst at the lincs. Hecalled to Colonel Hamilton, and roguested him to ‘hand the letter to him.! The Colonel returned to the'office, but, not being able to Pplace his hand on if, reported that ‘It was mislaid’ The. General replied: ‘I must have it!’ Search was again mado, without effect; and Colonel Hamil- ton, returning, repeated that the letter had bean mlsimd, and expressed his sorrow at not being ‘able to find it.’ The General rejoined, with warmth: ¢Sir, you shall find it!” Hamilton was astonished, bu replied promptly: ‘I shall find it, sir,-but must lot you know that, in addressing me, you do not speak to a menial’ Colonel Hamilton retired from headquarters, and, when he was called to tho Portfolio of the Treasury, seid: ‘T had no more expectation of office than Thad of being sppointed Pope's Nuncio. s Now, substitute Horace Greeley for Washing- ton in the above, and you have the counterpart of half s dozen stories which prevail ‘s to hig roughness to individuals. He left no man worso for nis having lived. Like Richelien, ho might say: “My art was Justicel” A live, real man is not marred, but made nol:!putabls and lain to posterity, by his occasionnl aberrations, The great troullo with Washington’s character 15, that thero is too little anecdote about him. He is alweys up and dressed, and grim for his- tory. The colt element in Greeley must always stand out clearly in any estimato of him,—that Iustyexcess of health “which took the rosd of ‘busy labor, instead of flinging up its heels in the pasture-field. IS RIVALS IN TITE PRESS. I met Henry J. Raymond in the lines in front of the City of Richmond, in the summer of 1862. It was at Michic's farm-house, where I was pro- vided with a bed, which I offered to share with him. There wo lnid awake several nights, and he gavome freely his oEinions upon’ Greeley and Bonnett, neither of whom he liked. It was the disliko of mutual avocation, which can be found, to o certain degree, in_any busincss, and pactionlarly in the professions. 1 havo alvaya ad, moro or less, o distrust for ono influential man's opinion of another in the same district of life or country. In the rigor of performance and fecling, we are nover wthly just to that which is in dmli friction with us. Over the grave the better judgment of retrospective 6prings tp, and Thurlow Weed walks by the pall of Greeley, a3 lio may oxpect a reconsidering enemy to do a like justice to his own memory. ‘Wo are worth to the world that which we have done in it, and Greeley’s need of encomium is unusually, even touchingly, h.rga and generous. What a ecourge might ho nob have been, occu- pying, as Le did, the daily domain of thought, criticisms, and news-giving. It is & foarf porer, this gun-mastorship of the deck, this non- elected magistracy of the journal. He never slackened fire ux‘nn the mesn and injurious ; and if, in the discussion of some topics, he passed from tho themo to the opponent, that is the course of all carnostnoss. A littlo uncharity is the spice of the world. When 2 man Bays: ¢! You lie, villain ; youlie!” heis right.up and honest about it. ‘What a flat, stale, and un- profitable prees it would bo if nobody should make a face ot the editor over the way ! {IE THREE EDITORS, The three papers which Raymond, Greeley, and Donnott edited, have beon put side by sido in public comparison, g8 if they were tho peers of each other, and led tho profession. Mr. Raymond was not the equal of the other two,eitherin influence or in admini; tration. He lacked thoir singleness of purposo and conscious_influenco upon_his age, and tho soft and lnxurious side of life drew him from his seat. He told me, in 1861, that he was tired of the newspaper, and wanted more of public life. Mr. Bennott was the great materialist editor,— the miner, shipper, and weaver of the mnews. To his vast concsxfinn of the newspaper, the globe revolved and the stars appesrad as news matter, and no more. Shipwracks, a comet, the conflief of nations, everything was cronted for hisuse. To him, fhe newspaper was o mighty oar, wido open t6 listen to the tread of ovents and repeat them indiscriminately. Grecley was the mind in the news, sometimes unwilling that tho news itself should sppoar in competition with his purpose. Between these two, Mr. Ray- mond built ap & paper softening tho savagery of thenews and the vigor of discussion, and highly entertaining to people with nerves,who did not seo the ueo of 8o much enterprise or 8o much earnestness. Mr. Raymond was -an unusually affablo and cordial man, with the graces rather than the braces of character; but all the fuss that his unworthy saccessors are making abont their fidelity to tho Republican party is aimed at people who do not recollect how Raymond bolted 23 oarly a5 1866, and the Now York Tribune got any temporary profits that might have resulted from his feilure. Mr. Baymond a8 a writer of oo, without identify or marked individuality. o was Blow to ofiend, because vory sensitive himself; and, althongh he was a very successtul man, he nover appeared to mo to have o grent nature, the %mn".y and impact of which could make one feel that something had stirred abroad. = GREELEY'S PRIVATE AFFAIRS. The point thet was often mede against Greeley during the last campnign was, that he could not take care of his own affairs. The samo has nl- ways_beex said of the greatest men. William Pitt died in debt fifty thousand pounds sterling ; Richard Cobden nearly impoverished himself in the Freo-Trado contest; Vashington's property dopreciated steadily until the end; Jefferson’s Intter days were harassed with pecaniary diffi- culties; and Robert Morris, who could save the credit of his country, lived in s dobtors’ jail many years, the victim of his public spirit. When grest’ general purposes absorb & wholo career, personal ift suffers . by the devotion. Had Mr. Greeley accepted a present of 100,000 from tho libereted slaves for his labora in their behalf, probably ho would have lost tho imputation upon his busi- ness-habits, It is as natural for ono wholly in- tent upon accomplishing his ideas to givo away his moncy 48 to givo way his labor. Had MMr. Greeley lost control of his newapaper at any period whilo he held it by the precarious ‘possession of a very small portion of the stock, the criticiem upon his business capacity might apply; but he kaew his strength, and, aithongh virtually mero employe, he was as indispensa~ ble as any man can be in this world. AS PRESIDENT. As o Presidont, had he been olected, his ad- ministration would have vindicated Bup- orters ; for tho - msanner of s eath was but an jrrelovant cordial to his healthy and driving public and private life. He would have givon this Govern- ment the impress of a large and manly natare, pure cnough to have lived without mndulgences, and to baye come to its Magistracy by the most signal and exceptionsble kind of promotion ever secn in our politics, that of professional men promoted overall the grades of parlizmentarians and portfolio people. “The dishonesty which is growing to be the rule of our public and com- mercial lifo would have been rapelled before that discriminate cditorial eyo which could deal with the day's events liko the news of the might, re- jecting thelchaff from the wheat. A moral into- nation would havo passed thronghout the land, and the man’s one term would have been & new starting point in our politics. DEFEAT. e fell upon evil times. The coalition at his nomination inspired distrust amongst timid people, and they stoned him like Stephen, with the vuigar missiles of cartoons and all the blud- eonry of commercial politics. When ho was genten the devil headed a torchlight-procession. Spentand gasping in all the fibres of the great, o'er-burdencd nature, he turned from the disas- ters of the campaign to the familiar associations of his family and wife. The roof-tree was bro- kon. The hearth wes cold. God pity him who ‘hes made tho fiead fight, and lost his chimney- corner as well as the battle ! X FINIS. But this can be said over his grave more truly than over the graves of many Presidents and conquerors : 2 “Hore lios & great public man. He was an engine of his period. = His life was ever busy, and for the gflod not only of the greatest num- ber, but of all. All at some time felt the strength and use of him. The injury that any did him in the formidable period of his energy, all hastened to atone at his grave. For the weakness that he may have had, they shed tears of joy; the prido_of his strangth they remem- bered, and said: ‘ Who can take his place ?’” Gatm. B e — Dlood as Diet. Attention heving been drawn by Professor Panum, of the University of Copenhagen, to the amount of nutritions matter contained in. Dblood and usually entirely lost, Dr. Neilsen of +that city has been endeavoring to solve theprob- lem of fixing blood in forms suitable for food, and at the same time capable of preservation, namely: First, ag sausages, puddings, and cakes—heing mixed with fat, meal, sugar, salt, and a few spices—to serve ns a much cheaper compensation or substitute for meat, and in- tended more especially for the nse of the poorer clasees; and, second, as blood-chocolate, more e!gfcuflly &uitable to be used in hospitals, as well as otherwise in medical practice, in which Iatter form it has been recommended by Pro- fessor Panum, at a meeting of Ybyuiciann at Copenhagen, and is nowbeing employed in some of the hospitals of that city. PR T i —Tho Atchison Champion has the particulars of the killing of Napoleon Brown, better known 23 “Nip” Brown, by ono Thomsd Butler, both residing in the vicinity of DeKalb, &o. Both of them were desperate characters, and both have Dbeen in many fierce encounters whea kuives and ‘Distols were freelv used, l LLCNDON. Brutality -in the Aristocratic Public Schools of Eng- land. The Dangers of Fire---A Pirat- ical Publisher---Walt Whitman, From Our Own Correspondent. Loxpoy, Nov. 14, 1872, 'BRUTALITY IN PUBLIO 6CHOOLS. The great endowed public echools of England, which still remain in the hands of the aristoc~ racy, are behind the poorest of the day-schools inone part of their moral training, The old ‘bratal spirit which led Dukes and Earls to pay men to mair cach other in their prescnce,— the epirit which caused Prime Ministers to visit . cock-fights, and - made bull and boar-baiting the favorite . rural sport, still rules at Eton, Harrow, Winchester, and one or two other educatipnal foundations. Boys are still stripped and flogged, and, what is very much worse, are, at some of the schools, allowed, and even enconraged, to bully and beat cach other. A gross case has just come to light,—gross in itsolf, but by no means excop- tional; and, while tho better part of society. cries shame against the authors, the school itself dofies puhlic opinion, and. is fu- rions at the disapprobation excited. At Winchester, 88 &t some other schools, the Prefects, or Monitors, have the power of thrashing & boy, to an extent limited only by their own bad temper, for the most trifling offences against their rules or mistakes of their orders. It appears that there is at Winchester & system of slang, just as thero is in tho thieves’ Iitchen. Various objects have their slang names, and every now and then the Monitors “ examine " the other boys in this rubbish. The other day, one of the bigger boys refused to heex-~ amined, whereupon the Monitors held a meeting, and decidéd that, by refusing to come, ho had defied their anthority, and must be thrashed, or, asibis called, “tunded.” He appealed to the JHend Master, who" said he must submit, and he was “tunded.” Now, & Prefect’s *tunding” is the most dreadfnl punishment imaginable, and hurts far more than any master's flogging. The instrument is a ground-ash stick—from the seasoning it recoives, tough as whalebone, and {from three to four feet long. Fiftoen cuts from such & weapon will leave the shoulders—it is given zcross the shoulder-blades—so sore thet tho strongest boy will not be able to bear the haud passed roughly over the injured parts for at least a week after without flinching. Now, this boy reccived thirty cuts,—five ground-ashes being broken over his shoulders! A gentleman named Maude, who was at the school five years, wrote to the Head-Master on the subject, ~ Mr. Maude gays: “ As his reply was private I cannot pub~ lish it. Dut this I think I am libertyto state, that he thought the_punishment excessive, and the Prefects wrong in_their decieion. But what isdone? Was the Prefect who gave sucha ¢ tunding ’ expelled, and those who sided with him punished as they deserved? Nota bit of it. The Prefect was merely to apologize,—to say he was sorry for sn act which wes sa- thorized by the rules of tho school, which per- haps lLas occurred since, and certainly will oc- cur again, unless this power is forever taken from the' handsof boys, who are certsin to abuse it. Iwas at Winchester five years, and remember ecores of these ‘tundings,’ though none 8o gross as this. I canmot call to mind one that, if not wholly undeserved, was not far in oxcess of the offence.” Forty juniors have been thrashed at Winches- ter in one day by the master, and it is stated that a8 many as & hundred lickings have been administored by the Prefects this sutumn. “A Radical Whykehamist” asks us to imagine the soquel to B courso of ‘trouncing” and “gpanking.” ‘A boy,” ho gays, “who hasbeen thrashed more or less since he was 10, on attain- ing to the sixth form, is promptly invested with the power and ‘ground-ash’ of & Prefect. Can he. In nine cases out of ten, be anything but & buily? Ground down to the most degrading du- ties since he was %nite a child, he finds, after years of servitudo, that he has almost unlimited power todo a8 holikes, Thero are few who 1ail to take advantage of it. The whole syatem is a8 obnoxious to Bociety a8 it is unjust to the boy.” “ An iuquirer,” who announces himself 23 a Tory of the deepest dye, describes his own service under a Monifor who. inyented a pair of thumbscrews &nd used his invention freely on the fags. He had also a weakness for borrowing money from them, and reminding bim of it led indirectly to disagreeable conse- quences. ‘“ An Old Wykehamist™ avers that he has seen such wanton brutality as would in after life consign the perpetrator to s prison cell, while many is the boy who leaves echool blasted in the eyes of his fellows by the uiter inhuman- ity of his nature. One correspondent says that one of the Win- chester Prefects (or Monitors) owned to him that the proceeding was a mistake. Neverthe- less: “Soon after_ this, my firend, the Prefact, retired to a fine old wood hard by, whence he re- turned with swhat I took to be a bundle of walk- ing-sticks. I was mistaken. Instead of walk- ing-sticks, they were what you call iiplements of torturo, but, according o my friend, the Pre- fect, ‘only awfully jolly ground-ashes ;' and with these he returned to Winchester.” It cannot be too frequently said that the sys- tem brutalizes both those who inflict and those upon whom it is_inflicted. It inspiresits vic- tims, when their turn comes, with & desire to make others smart for the injurics they received when they were unable to resist, and it teaches those who administer punishment—at s time of life when principles are becoming fired and char- acter formed—to take ploasurein inflicting pein, and to become crucl and cowardly men. THE DANGEDS OF FIRE. The groat fircin Boston again leads to dis- cussion upon the condition of buildings in Lonw don. Summarizing the opinions of the best au- thorities, I may stato that their observation and experiments slow that, in oll the great fireshero, the floors which proved themselves almost fire~ proof were those constructed of light iron joists about two feet apart, filled in with plaster of Paris, or with ordinary brick or tile arches, with the undersides plastered and the tops covered with cement or tile flooring ; these only failed Dy the failure of the unprotected iron supports beneath them. Generally it was evident that good plaster work, either in walls or ceilin , in- variably, in & great measure, was fire-proof; and that stone and iron’ construction without such g;ol.actmn was not only useless, but much more ngerous than good sound tood beams and posts, brickwork of every description, and good ‘wood floors, well pugged” and protected by plas- tered ceilings. What is essentially desired is, that, in great store warchouses, the space of each section of the building should be divided by good brick walls into as small divisions as possiblo, compatiblo with the absolute Tequire- ments of the building,—euch shut off by doubla iron doors; that stono should be used in floors and staircases nowhere except where solidly sup- ported at each end and protected by plastor ; that iron girders should bo laid loose in tha walls 60 as to allow forexpansion, and thattnese, together with all iron supporte, should be en~ caged and protected with plaster. A PIRATE!—A PrRATE! . Every American guthor with o fig-leat of repu~ tation is persecuted and fleeced by one London publisher at lesst. He may escape the tender mercies of +* tho trade ” a8 & body, but_he must reckon well wilh this particular man, Wherever the rights and the courtesies of anthorship are Tecognized, the name of Mr. Holton, of Picca- dilly, is held in disestcemn. What American writer has not been a sufferer by him ? AIr. Holten evidently commenced business with the resolve that ho would have a8 few direct dealings with authors &s possible, Anthors, in his philosopby, were made for publishers to _live upon, It 8 8 work of responsibility, requiring judgment, literary knowledge, and enterprise, to take the manuscript-sheets from a writer, to examine them, and to decide whether ot not they 216 gaod and likely to be popular. There are losses as well as gains, ‘The cleverest “ reader " makes mistakes sometimes. The warohouses of the publishers groan with such miscalculations. On the other hand, when the taste has not erred, when the book catches the interest of the world, the raward is abundant as it is ‘honorsble. M. Holten kmows nothing of all this. He is one of the camp-followers of the publishing army. He comes in with the birds of prey. He profita without risk, and is_ careless of the contempt and the disgust with which his victims regard - him. It is sincerely to be hoped that he will one day get into the fangs of the law: He has been very close two or three timos. Why did not “Mark Twain” prosecute him when he scraped & number of articles together, written, several of them, bz other people, and published them as by * Mar] Twain?” The apologies of this publishér aro 80 Pockenifian thag. they make the Origine offenca the worse. His treatment of Mr. lfml\f. Btanley is the last now being exposed, -but Mr. Holten braves it all out. Immediately attor Mr. Stanley reached London, Holten gathered up all the letters Stanley had written, and, wWithotit any consultation with the anthor, published them in s book under the title of ‘The Finding of va;pgnh)tx‘:le 3 convoying the’ impression that this was Mr. Stanley’s own book. What is Holten’s defence? £t wasdone,” he says, “with thio view of preserv- ing these letters in a collected form for readers Who may desire to compare the earliest with the latest narrative, and for readers who can spare a f::w flsmgmgs fora anNbuok when they can- not. afford a es.” Not a word about the trick of the txtia; not & syliable respecting any compensation to the author whose labors were m{)plym this publishing pirate with his miser- able profits. But is thab all? Nob bit of it Qr. Holten had more of the vulture work to et throngh, His scent detected carrion, andhe hurried toit. BIr. Stanley, for reasons of his own,with which the publinhias nothing to do, has not entertained. th world with the details of his rivate hmta{i. Ho has said nothing sbout s grandmother's enuff-box, or his sisters’ precocity. Ho claims to bo a naturlized Ameri- can citizen, and tho rest i his own business. But Mr, Holten exclaims, * Oh, dear, no! That's my business. Ican make some dollars ont of it " And 8o ho goes off to Wales, and worries and cross-examines some humble ople thers, who only want to be let alone, msefixcn adyer- tises the ‘‘Story of Mr. Stanley’s Early Life,” couching the announcement in terms which im- foly that the book brought out is with Mr. Stan- ey’ own cognizanco. The book is wrotchedly done. It professcs to give details of 3fr. Stan- ley's_ parentage, snd it does 8o in the most of- fensive way imaginable.. Statements which no one of feeling would &ubfinh, however authentic, are published on the merest hearsay village tittle-tattle. Let us hope that this Piccld.i.fiy pirate will one dey meet with his match. THE WALT WEITMAN DELUSION, A dozon, perhaps & score, of intelligent per- sons ia, tis country regard Walt Whitmen s poet. The rest think his productions beneath any notice, whatsover. I certainly am unable to appreciate him, or even to cam%'::end the ad- ‘miration of his fricnds, but give him the benefit thet is his. Here is pisce of criticiam just writ~ ten upon him, by one of the most thoughtful and refined of European writers, Alr, Willism Michael Rossetti. Mr. Rossetti says: “ }r, Whitman appears to me {0 bo far tho greatest poet that America has produced, and reat among the poets of any nge or country. E‘m‘z, however, would not be an _op- posite _ place = in which to enlarge Tupon his powers or his career, and Iehall, therefore, confine myself to a fow words Tegarding his relation to the Humorous in poet- Ty. In this Fospeot, there is little to bo said, £aV6 in a negative sense. The only piece of his that can in any way be termed humorous, is the one here extracted, and even this has more of a grim, grotesque mgxi?civanesu than of humor, properly so-called. In fact, the absence of hu- mor from the writings of Whitman—treating, as he doos, of every posaible aspect of life, work, scene, and association, in America,—18 & notice- able point, and may even be said to argue ono limitation in his enormously capacious and sym- pathetic mind, and in his faculty for expressing the actualities (o what, in other re, , he is £0 intensely responsive) of modern life. ‘Andit may be added that Americans, generally, whether writers or others, have & peculiar readiness in seizing, and in renlizing in_words, anything smenable to the faculties of humor, wit, or perhaps mora especially) whim and ridicule. 'he reason for Whitman's doficiency may be, that to him nothing is ‘common or unclean.’ Accepting, a8 he does, every fact of life and of circumstance, oddity is not to him 8o 0dd as to be_worth ‘showing up’ from that point of view, nor sbsurdity deserving of castigation or introspection, but m&}y of notice and appraise- ment, He observes these among a myriad of other phenomens, nnderstands them for what they are worth to him, and passes. He does not torn on (if I mayuse such an expression) any special part of his mind to take cognizance of these special qualities and appearances in man; but he rates them, along with all other material, by his perceptive power as a whole. They have their place in th show, and he has his place as spec- tator of it, and does mot care to change that place for the sake of observing these particulars more closely, or with & geater mouat of fol- Jow-feeling or distaste: tever may be the true explanation of the want of humorous tarn in Whitman, this deficiency is, I think, one of the reasons why his writings raise so much dis- like and opposition. He saya s number of things that people consider out-of-the-way, and, finding that he either does not consider them out-of-the-way at all, or has not & humorous rel- ish for them as such, readers detect @ certain lack of rapprochement between the suthor and themsclves, and resent it accordingly. VETERINARY SURGERY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sm: Tho almost entire absence of properly~ qualified Veterinary Surgeons throughout the country, and the enormous damages resulting from tho ravages of disease, have made it im~ perative on the stock-raising community toadopt means to make themselves acqueinied with the Iaws governing the health of domestic animals, and-with the maladies that threaten their flocks and herds. Hitherto almost nothing has been dono in the way of affording agricultural students instruction in the only department of Imowledge that can be of service in werding off or curing the discases of domestic animals; and only Iately have the lesding spirits amongat the stock-raisers of the country taken the necessity for Vetcrinary instruction at our] Agricultura Colleges into consideration. The first National Convention of Short-Horn Breeders of the United States and Canads as- sembled in the City of Indisnapohs, Nov. 27, having for its object the considoration of ques- tions relating to the general interests of tho breeders of the country. This Convention, which was s Mass Convention, unanimously paesed the following rosolutions : WiEREAS, The General Governmentof the Unitefl Btates has made large and libersl appropristions to the Tespectivo States for the establishment of Agricultural Colleges; and - \WHEREAS, The live-stock interest of the country is of vast and growing importance, and entitled to its Justeharo of auch appropriations, with other sgricule tural interests ; and - ‘WHEREAS, Comparatively little is known of the dis- eases of domestic animals, and their treatment and cure; therefore, ba it Resolved, That- we, the breoders of Short-Horns, recommend the establishmentof an efficient Professor- ship of Veterinary Practice in each Agricultural Col- lego; and that said Professorship receive 5 liberal en- dowment from the College fund. Resolved, That wo invite tho breeders of horses and other domestic animals to mnite and co-operate with ua in promoting this object. In the Prairie Farmer, I kad occasion, about o year ago, to write on the necessity of combin- ing Veterinary instruction with the branches taught the agricultural student.” The views I then maintanied, and which I still hold on this subject, are the same as animated tho discussiona of this Convention on thst important subject. Every liberal-minded and progressive man will Tejoice in the prospect of & realization of this needed reform. At lost an effort has been made to break through the trammels of prece- dent. It is one of the wisest and best steps that could bo taken to further the interests of the sgriculturists_in general, and the breeders in particular, and one which will be duly appreciat- ed and sapported. Let grogreaamq continue to bo the rosolvo, and ere long Voterinary Scienca will take its right{ul place, and be, in truth, re- garded es the honored sister aund helpmate of “Agricultural Science. view of the fact that there is scarcely any dieease known to the Veterenarians of Lurope that has not prevailed in America; in tho ab- sence of qualified Veterinary Surgeons throug! out the country; and in view of the enorms losses sustained by the stock-raisers, co’ quent upon want of knowledgo in the maf’ ‘proper preventive and curative means, if vast importance that our sgricultural ¢ should have the opportunity to stud enses to which our domestic animaly ject, as well as the ordinary remedie’ in their curative treatment. The’ should study Veterinary Medicine object of preserving the health ¢ must aim at this more than a’ ease. Stock-owners cannot af’ nary Surgeons’ bills whilst £ : animals, %mt they can spare N disenses, now 8o destructi- 4 their farms. ‘Veterinary Sclence b’ A on the daily business ¢ i study is not only int foraplaceinan of which the knowlr the aggriculturis developing the s with such pra’ i o s to be ep g inent claim, That the By Henry. 3. Stanley,"—thus |- those of the first order, in so far as it constiv tutes a branch of human industryintimately con~ nected with the well-being of society, few pao- ple will deny; and, assuming its importance as proven. the question to be submitted is, is it cared for and cultivated witk that solicitude and earnesiness befitling a calling £o universally in requisition ? Most certainly not. uch as it is to bo desired that the more es- “sentially scientific part of the sgricultural conrse bo well caltivated, grest care must be taken not to neglect those useful, and mistakenly regarded humbler, branches, without which the stock of agricnliural knowledgo cennot bo complete. uch good may be anticipated from the growing tendency amongst nzg'riculturixte to acqaire & certain amount of Veterinary as of other scien- tific and practical knowledge. In this way, we shall, in the courso of time, securo a rational public opinion in support of ell that is good and usefol in the profession. Tho short-sightod policy of keeping farmers in the dark canno: br too strongly condemned. A few amateur Vet erinariang may spring up among regular prac titioners; but men of sound judgment wi always resort to professional men in cases c dificalty. They. will, in_fact, have botter ~estimato of ' their own ignc iance, and tho difficulty of our ari, | kmowing something about it. They will appr. ciate services rendered. Veterinary Science wi be much more encouraged when farmers becorr better informed ; and T even_sssert that the a uirement by the more intelligent farmers of g clementary knowledge of the Veterinary Art wi. o moro t0 drive quacks and empirics from dak bling in Veterinary practico than anything whicl can be levelled against tham. Therefore, with the exception of tho fe whose lot maybe cast ““far from the busy haant. - of man,” and on whose ovn skill and knowledge thoir stock may ba dependent for medical trest- ment, you will find that the chief valne of the course of study in Veterinary Science will be: _acquaintance with the framos, forms, and habits of our domestic animals; » knowledge of the principles of health, and, therefors, of ease, which aro only modifications of theso;' the amelioration of the _suf- ferings of God's creatures,—those placed lower'in the scala of creation than oureelves; also, to provent diseases amongst them, by tha adoption of those sanitary measures which the lews of science have made us conversant with; and, lastly, a respect for tho skillof the edu- cated practitioner, and, therefore, an appreci tion of the necessity of an early application for this ;x-ulp, When the same is not entirely beyond reacl It is most singular that Americans, who have manifested the greatest activity in the promo- tion of science and the useful arts, have naver Deen able to found a thoronghly efficient Veteri- nafy College. e number among ourselves tut few Veterinarians; most of them—we may say nearly all—havo been induced to leave Enrope. Is it to be wondered at that our live stock are being cut down by disease in a most dissstrons manner? Is it to be wondered at that we are now_asking how we msy remedy an evil which i8 found to be of far greater importanca than we ever before imagined? Agricultural stock suffers serious neglect. I venture to as~ sert that 90 per cent of the domestic animals of the farm, which suffer from disease throughout the United Btates annually, are never seen by Veterinarisn Surgeons. Indeed, the ignorance of those who have held foremost positions amongst us, on the subject of the amount of dis. enso in the country, can be explained by the fact that, if we do not search for information regard- ingmortality mflfi.“ stock,we arenot in the way of gleaning 1t 6 all. Disease ia_raging fright fally without intermission. Truth must prevail in tZe end; and no better confirmation of what Ihave said can be obtained than that derived from the state of anxiety and alarm which ex- ists throughont many portions of our country, where hog—cholen. cattlo-diseases, and mortality amongat horses, aTe among the daily records of our newspapers. Itis eaid that the superiority of Americans consists in having the courage to be whzt Na- ture made us. How much more ennobling to our character swonld that cor 8 be which conld lead us to value more, and hold priceless, tha acquisition of sound knowledge ! "We are com- plete men, somotimes complete fools also ; but thatis something, and has its weight. Thera is too much of an overbearing obstinacy towards Views differant from those already accepted; a kind of wrapping up in & mantle of mistand fog of self-manufacture; an illiberalism which tells of being conglomerate without elaboration. Yours, H. Prazey, V. S. ‘CHI0AGO, Dec. 10, 1872, — e = THE RESIGNATION OF JUDGE NELSON. An Outline of Fifty Years’ Scrvice on the Bench. The home of Judge Nelson, whose retirement from the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, has just taken place, is in Coop- erstovn, N. Y. One of the village nevspagers, the Fre¢man's Journal, whose editor has long been intimately scquainte® with Judge Nelson, contains an account of the principal events of }1\8 publiclife. The body of the article 15 as fol- lows : ¢ After s gervice of twenty-eight years on the bench of the Bupreme Court of the United States, and twen -tw:xsufl a8 a judicial officer of his native State, Judge Nelson on Thanksgiving Day sent to the Becretary of State his resignation a3 one of the Justices of the'Supreme Court, and it was accepted on the 1st instant, *‘And thus closes a most remarkable and highly honorable and distinguished judicial ca- reer, covering a period of half a century. As to point of time and constant gervice, it i3 without recedent in this country or England, end wa SBnht whether it has a parallel in the history of jurisprudence. TLord Mansfield seryed thirty- two years, and Lord Eldon iwenty-eight yea and they were longest on the bench of Greai Britain ; Chief Justice Marshall was thirty-fonr years on the bench, Chief Justice Taney thirty Sears, }r. Justice Story thirty-four years, and Chancellor Kent about twenty-five yeare—and of the distinguished Judges of this country they Jongest held judicial positions. “Judgo Nelson mas appolnted Judgo of th Sixth Circuit, which included Otsego County, in April, 1823, s position which he held until Feb- Tuary, 1831, when he was made Associate Justica of tiie Supreme Conrt of the State of New York, 2nd on the resignation of Chief Justice Savags, - in 1837, he took his placa. In February, 185, e was elevatod to the bench of the Suprema Court of the United States, where he has won the highest honors a8 a Judge of strong common. sense, broad views, the highest sense of honor, and a ready grasp of weighty topice. On ques- tions in admiralty law and intricate patent suits, a writer in a leading Philadelphia paper recently remarked, 2special deference was always paid to the opinions of Judge Nelson. 4 The Judge, has with slight exception, always enjoyed robust health, and has never been nbe sent from duty at the State or United States Courts but one term, that of last year. Attha closing segsion of the Grand High Commission in tho spring of 1871, which lasted seventy days, snd vas nof only 6f vast importanco, bt a times very leborious, Judge Nelson took s se- vera cold from sitting several hours in a room ot sufticiently warmed, anl after his return home was for -geveral monchs confined to his house from its effecta. From this he recovered, and for the past siX months has enjoyed vez comfortable health, while his mind haa retain all its wonted force and vigor. “Judge Nelson completed hig judicial Isbors the week of his resignation by deciding an im= portant and final motion on the s costs, amount claimed about $40,000, T8 . mous suit which had been in the courts dnr: “balf the long timo be haa been on the benc* the ‘Hook-besded Spike Case,’ Troy Iron ar Nail Factory (Burden & Co.), against Erastu: Corning and others. The motion was heard lasd spring, o RS pers too” * —=——inous pae Iabor, /.