Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1872, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1872. " KANSAS. The War of Fruits Belween Tfis< souri and Eansas. The Border Pomologists Conguering, and to-Conguer. Speciat Corresgondence of The Chicago Tribune. 5 “7 rorex, Een,, Dec.13, 1872 In my lest letter, T ‘brought the proceedings of the State Horticultural Society up to the receiy- ‘ing of the report of the Chairman (Dr. Housley) of the Committes appointed to visit Now York with Kansas froits. It will beremembered that, 2t the State Fair of Kaneas held at Topeka in 1871, your correspondent telegraphed the fact that Missouri had beaten Kensas in a fruit-show et her own Fair, It secms this fact was also trapsmitted on the wings of lightning to her own citizens, who moved immediately to retrieve the mistake. At the .winter rmeeting of this Society, held at Lawrence a year ago, Mr. Murtfeldt, of St. Louis, referred to the fact of Kznsas having beon caught ‘napping 2nd beaten on the show of fruits on her own ground. This increased the anxiety for her deerly-won Iaurels at Philadelphia, Now York, Boston, Rich- mond, and other places; snd bence this contest, 2nd the efforts of Eensas. to show, by repcated exhibitions in the Eastern cities, that her former efforts and successes were not, “ chance-shots,” but that what had been accomplished could be repesated ad libitum. Hence the expadition for which Dr. Housley reported. The Esnsas Agricultural Society offered a premium of $100 for the best show of fruits, opon to competition by States, counties; or districts, and thus challenged each and ell for the championshup. Missouri took up the geunt- let, sent out a circolar to ihe fruit-growers to contribute their products of orchards and vine- yards, and came to the Topeka State Fair in September last. Itisclaimed that the lateness of the issuing of this circular was intended to catch Kansas napping, but this is not so. Kansss had fi;\t}.\erad her fruits to send East ; Yut, lest ehe shonld be vanquished at home, the fruits were diverted to do duty at home first, and soven barrels full and four boxes never reached the East. There scems to have been some fecling, as well on the part of Kaneas as Missour, in getting = eatisfactory Committee, and also in placing the Zruits at the Fair. Membors of the Kansas So- tiety made msny and strong exproesions ; and issouri's representatives were, perhaps, not al- ways in smisble humor. The frnits wers nob placed finally until Wednesday of the Fair-week ; &nd allow me here to digress so far a8 fo say that 2 more magnificent exhubition of fruits was never made in the West, if anywhere. The Awarding Committee firsi selected consistod of Colonel . B. Lines, of Wabunsee, Kan. ; s of Pleassnt, Hill, Mo. ; and Mr. McCrary of lllinois. ‘This last-named gentleman could not then act, because engaged in the stock-ring. Others were solicited and declined. . Finally, the Com- mittee was reconstructed. C. B. Lines wasre- tained ; Mr. Bailis having stated that he could not remain ail the weck, George T. Anthony, of the Kansas Farmer, wes put in his placo ; sud AMr. McCrary being now st liberty, was placed third on the Committee. Kansns tame off victorious. PBut Miseouri will not rest; the contest will bo removed to New Eng- land soil, and at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American Pomological Bociety, also called the silver wedding of President Wilder and this Association. 2 And here allow your correspondent to make & suggestion, which, it is hoped, will catch the eye of some Bostonian horticulturist. If Boston ‘will exhibit fruits at her Horticultural Hall upon silver plales, she had better give an order for & few thousand soon, 5o as to heve them on hand when this flood of Western fruits shall arrive, Eansag concodes that Missouri has as good & fruit-soil, but claims that she has not the varie- ties, nor the men to grow them to perfection. ‘We shall see. After the conclusion of Dr. Housley's report, ‘which included the expenses (account of which will be found in your despatches), amonnting, in the sggregate, for both the Topeka and Bos- ton exhibitions, to nearly 1,000, Mr. Murtfeldt, who was present, expressed the hope that therd ‘W8S Do eling on the part of the contestants on either side, and complimented the Society on its suocesses. He claimed thatthe unprece- dented accessions to the population of Eansas, namely: an addition of 42,000 voters, or 200,000 inhabitants, within tho last two years, was largely due to these exhibitions of fruits and cereals made in the Eastern cities. He said many of these new settlers had come right 8CroBs a8 goml soil as that of Kensas, and had left their footprints only in Missouri. The wonderful and rapid strides of Kansas are due, also, in a great measure, to her enlight- ened system of common schools, and to her 1aws on fencing, stock, &c. Kaneas has indeed 3 vary bright future, and she knowsit. ML . Boi THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: I feel quite sure you would never have ellowed the communication of *‘Uncle Jobn” & place in. your paper, if it wes not your desire to give both eides of the question a fair show. But, if the Liberty League men cannot find bet- ter advocates than my John Bull countryman for a traffic that is destroying our very best citi- zens every year, then they had better shut up shop. He eays he was a femperance man once, and bad lots of temperance friends, but now they aro allin their graves. Well, I am a tem- perance man now, and haye not tasted a drop of liguor of any kind for forty-seven years. My father and mother aro living, and they bavebeen téetotallers forty years, and are hale, ‘hearty old folks yet. Ihavea very large num- ber of temperance friends in this city, and though many of them have besn associated with me for twenty years, and we have had cholera times'and sickly seasons, strange to eay, most of my friends are still alive, and are still' teetotal- lers. Ilike this English word that our “Uncle Jobn” uses. It was first used by a good old friend of mine in Preston, England; and here let me say thet I have a very large number of temperancs friends in the Old_World and in every State ‘of our Union snd_Canada; and, moraover, 1 have every opportunity of knowin, that there is not & more_healihy eet of men an women living on the globe, - 1f L were permitted £ give tho pames of promineatmen of this cit; who have been carried off in theixfiprima, chould not need to ask the question, Were they temperance men? If I am ot mistaken in my man, “Uncle Jobn * is not quite as sprightly as when'he was a prominent temperance man. 1 agree that intemperance in eating, etc., is wrong; but it don’t male men and women for- get their duties to the poor, dear little children athome. Over-eating mey produce dyspepsia, and other diseases, but it don't destroy the mind, a8 do alcoholic drinks when taken in ex- ocess. Two thousand phyeiciang and leading metro- politan Surgenns, who are conversant tith the wants of the upper ranks of society, and also the wants of the artizan in his workshop 2ud the Inborer in the field, bave signed the following ertificate ‘We, the undereigned, are of opinion : 1. ‘Thats very large proportion of human misery, including crime, disease, and poverly, is induced by the use of alcohoiic or fermented liquors as beverages, 2. That the most perfect bealth is compatible with total abstinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of ardent spirils, or a8 wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, ctc., otc. S, That persons sccustomed to Euch drinks may, with perfect safoty, discontinuo them entirely. 4. That total and universal sbstinence from alco- oiic beverages of all sorts would greatly contribute to $he health, the prosperity, the morslity, and the happl- ness of the human race. = T quote this from Dr, William B. Carpenter, the celebrated Physiologist's, prize essay; an the best physicians in this country fnl{y agree with their Engl;sh brethren. “Tncle John's” observation should have ehown him that teetotalism is not the school for drunkerds, whilst moderate drinking is; and, ifhe wonld have his nephews live pure, virtuous lives, 2nd be good citizens, he must teach them to ab- stain from using drinks that produce nine-tenths of the crime in this city of ours; let him give his name, and I will take him to the Bridewell, to the jail, and the Poor House, where he may have the ‘proof from the lips of the inmates themselves. Yours, for Law, and Order, and Temperance, ‘TroyAs MOULDING, No. 48 Canal street. Om04G0, Dec, 15, 1872, DANGEROUS ARTICLES. o the Editor of Fhe Chicago Tribune: = Bra: A correspondent of yours is apprehen-~ siveaf conseanencesshould s zoneral caveleseness ‘b tolcrated in the handling and storage of crude ils and their products. And ho well may be. No road to ruin is shorter or more direct. Mill- jons. have been already lost in this way, and other millions only await their turn to pass the same gato. But the loss of life by this treacher- | ous cnemy is still more appsliing. Tse Tris- | "ONE hies recorded about onedeath per day during 1872 from this cause alone; and the record is doubtless ‘quito imperfect yot. Some of the tragedies tbus impelled are fresh in the memory of many, and very ead to contemplate. That in which Mr. Williams, of the Hough ' House, Winons, was in- volved, will long haunt the recollection of thousands with horror; and his desrtruction {rom this cause, being so uncxpected and singu- lar, may well be accepted a3 a warning to all who are disposed to argue themselves into the conviction that this material mayin some way be rendered safe and harmless, a8- one of tho utilities of lifo. % Desiring to diminish their gas-bills, the Hough House proprietors put up & generator on their remisessome five yearssince; Ent, ‘the Insurance ompanies objecting, the plan was absndoned, and the gasoline-receptacle remained closed two orthree years. But, some o months since, Mr. Williams, one of {he hotel-firm, entered the plee—hotherwith s ight or cigir is wnknown, ut that he had one or the other is 5 prob’ ablo, as an explosion immediately = en- sued, _entirely destroyipg tho gas-horise, and killing ~ Mr. - Williams instently. Whatever the canso of the explosion, the les- €on is tha same. . There is ‘danger and death in the material, however carefally haodled, and all pretence to' the contrary is & delusich to be avoided. In the caso cited, the cfiuvium froma spent receptaclo of benzite was .cnough todo tho mischief. And this is only ono of many similar instances. Indecd, so-called: empty oil~ barrels are doubtless more lisbie to cxplosion and ignition than those well filled with oil, as the gas generated fherein, if loft in the sun, ar stand in largo quantities in warehouses whero ventilation is o porfect and free, only needs o slight contact with firo to do-measureloss mis- jef. Hence, not only should the law be enforced ecluding these Gils from city storage, but the deposit and handling of old oil-casks in exposed localitics should be-probibited as well, would we really protect our lives and property from so fell adestroyer. - F. Cmicaco, Dec. 14, 1872, ANN ARBOR. The Wniversity of Michigan—Iteceps tion of Professor Winchell-Lectures by President White, of Cornell, and Professor Adams—tWater=TWorks. Special Correspondencc of Tha Chicago Tribune, AxN Anpor, Mich,, Dec, 13, 1872, Professor Winchel, who is soon to leave tho University for Syracuse, recently gave s very elegant recoption to the members of the Senior class, To assistin enterfaining the aforeeaid gentlemen, a number of ladies were thought- fully invited, and nothing was lacking to render the enterfainment an entire success. Much re- gret is felt by the class, with whom the Pro- fessor is quite popular, at his prospective de ‘parture. TLast Saturdy, Dr. Andrew D. Whito, Presi- dent of Cornell University, gave a lecture, be- fore the Students’ Lecturo_Association, on the subject of * The Battle-Fields of Science.” It was 2 history of the opposition which men of science have encountered from superstition and fanaticism in all ages. It was & history, in fact, of the nature! sciences, beginning with that of Astronomy. One of the practical results of this obstruction to scientific men has been the re- tarding of discoveries, and the throwing back of the progress of man some hundreds of years. Wo would, by this time, have mastered certain sciences which are but now beginning to be un- derstood. President White kindly gave another lecture to the University, on *Cathedral Builders and Medimval Sculpture.” This lecture proved to be much more interesting in its subject than that of Saturdsy. He compared the Classic and Gothic styles of architecture, and the spirit, or principle, which animated each. We may find in the beautiful Gothic cathedrals of Eu- rope a history of thoughts and ideas of - the time as clearly written in the sculptured stone a8 we can now find in the pages of Guizot. The three charecteristics of Gothic architecture are Life, Earnestness, and The last of these characteristics, viz.: Truth, he suggested, wonld be & valuable motto for thisage of shams, especially of shams in architecture. iss Emily Faithfull, the well-known_ friend of- the workingwomen, who wasrecently in Chi- cago, was here for a few days, and visited the different departments of the University. There is under discussion, at preent, & plan for supplying the town with water, by pumping into a reservoir, on & neighboring hill, from the river. The expense will be about $80,000; and an eleotion for deciding the matter will be held Defore long. At present, there aro o facilitics for watering the town, except by wells and cis~ terns; and, in the dry time, like the present, it is & matter not only of great inconvenience, but even of alarm in case of fire. Professor Adams still continues hig lectures on French History. He has completed, as yet, but half of the course, but will deliver- the re- ‘mainder after the holidays. 8. E. OFF THE TRACK. Accident on the Northern Division of the S$t. Paul Railway«-A Number of Travellers Injured. From the Milwaukee Sentinel, Dec. 16, On Saturday night rumors of a terrible acci- dent on the Northern Divigion of the St. Panl Ruilway were prevelent throughout the city. On receiving the information Superintendent Rock immediztely ordered o_specisl train, and, in company with Hon. J. W. Cary, Attorney of the Compsny, Dr. E. B. Wolcott, and others, started for the sceno of the disaster. With his usnal forethonght in emergencies along the ling under his chorge, the Superintendent ordered carriages and mattresses to the Union depob for the reception of injured passengers, should any ‘be met with. » It was found that the 3 o'clock express train from this city to Borlin and Oshkosk, consisting of baggage, two passenger coaches and a econd- class car, were thrown off the track three miles wwest of Schwartburg station, and hurled down on ombankment. The locomotive, tender, xnd the cars of the train wero badly wrocked, and aa amatter of course_a number of the passengers were quite ecrionsly injured; fortunately, none were fatally hurt. Quite a wrecking party went out on the train which arrived at the place where their sorvices were urgently required at sbout 9:35 at night. Most of the passengers had been released from their cramped and uncomfortable positions in the tumbled cars of the train, The injured_passengers wero attended to as soon 23 possible, and brought to this city by the special train, Among the number were the fol- lowing Milwaukeeans and others : Mr. Edward Dewey, of the firm of Smith, Chandler & Co., received internal injuries of a serious nature, he gentleman and his wife were on their way to Beaver Dam to visit tho Hon, A. Scott Sloan. He was fourd inan in- seneible condition, and brought fo this city on the early train, and then conveyed to his resi- dence, where Dr. Marks made him as comfort- able a8 posyi 3rs. Dewey escaped withont injury, cxveps naveral slight contusions. 8. T. Hooker, Egq., formerly Collector of this port, was severely injured_about the forehead and ono side o his face. Ho also returned to this city for ireaument. An elderly 1ady nemed Anna Kiesling, resi- dent on Milwaukee street, in the vicinity of the Convent of Notre Dame, sustained serious frac- tures of her collar-bono and arm. She was brought in and cered for. The wife of shoemaker Maibohm, 127 Ferry stroet, had her face badly cut up, and narrowly escapad the loss of an eye. She was quartered at Granviue. ‘Stenmboat Inspector Hume, of Oshkosh, was somewhat bruised, and a Chicagoan named Eflé.n’fj'm Borassa, was badly hurt about the head and hips, Mrs, Millen, of New York, sustained a fracture of her collar-bone, and was also hurt about her head and face. A. B. Groot, of Brookfield, editor Starr, of Ripon, and Smith, of Iron Ridgo, were also suf- ferers by the accident. A German girl named Studken, a resident of Ricbfield, was taken from the cars, bruised and mangled toa serious degree. Two Gorman girls —one from Horicon and tko other from Schieis- ingerville—sat on_ the left side of one of the As the cars :gmhes. o : c?faned ova:, ey were owvn to e opposite aid3, @0 fhst their arms wers ihrust ) ~ through the window. Their arms wero caught, and thus they were pinned down until they were relioved. They uttered no word of complaint, but waited patiently to be released from their dangerous position. Fence rails were brought into Tequisition, and finally the car was righted and the sufferers resoned. The girls were glad to find themselves free to go where theypleased, end, without any assistance, marched & distance of. three miles for treatment. e The engineer and fireman were also slightly bruised.. There were others on the train, but thfa: :vere all thet euffered to any considerable extent. Mr., Sherborne Sanborn, ticket agent of the -Chicago & Northwestern Reilway, was on tho train, accompanied by Mrs. Sanborn. He states that he felt the jar as the train struck the broken rail, and immediately expected the coaches would be thrown off the track. He caught Mrs. Sanborn with his right arm and with his left clung to tho arm of his seat. He had scarcely accomplished this when the car rolled over, but Tuckily both _escaped harm. Mr. Sanborn is an accomplished railroader, and owes his immunity from injury to his presence of mind on this try- ing occasion., The engineer stated that he saw the broken rail at & distance, and immediately eignalléd the braliemen. The latter answered promptly, but the momentum of the train could not be-over- come in time to evert the accident. He remained ab his post with the fireman, and afterward ren- dored all the assistance he could in rescuing the passengers. But for Lis discovery of the broken rail and his promptness in whistling on the ‘brakes many would have been killed outright. e THE LAKE SUPERIOR STORM. A Full and Graphic Account from the Purser of the Iron Steamer Jupan. From the Buffalo Express, Dec, 14, ‘We are indebted to the citicient Purser of the iron steamer Japan for tho following interesting account of the experionce of that vesselin the Iate terrible atorm on Lake Superior. The story. is also told of the final escape of the woather- bound crews of somo twenty vessels from the Sault to Marquette on the steamer China, thus suving a perilous overland march of 120 miles. This detalled atory. from an eye-witness'of the storm will be read with much interest. . ‘¢ All went weil on our downward trip until the- 27th ult., at about 5 E m., when, although the sky was cloar and a light wind from the south- oast provailing, the low state of the barometer gave indications of an approaching storm, and in less than two hours it burst upon us with terrific violence, tho wind hauling to the northwest and blowing 'a porfect hurricane, whilst the scas dashed against our staunch vessel with a vio- lenco unprecedented in the exporience of old Lake Superior. At this time we were about ten miles southeast of Whitefish Point, in what at any ordinary time would bo considered a perfect- 1y sheltered position. Captain McDougaH, our brave and energetic commandor, used his utmost skill for nearly two hours, trying with wheel and rudder to provent our being driven on & lee shoro. Our imponding fate socmed unavoida- ble, when it is talen into consideration that the Ies shore we dreaded being dashed against was the rocky cliffs of - Gros Cap, towering 700 feet above us, a8 if they were 500n to be a bidoous. monument of our fate. Our vessel was rolling Irightfally, maling it no_easy tusk to Leop on deck, the roaring of the wind almost preventing the men ot the wheel hearing tho orders of the Captain above them, while the deck load of flour, although tiered too high and secured with extra precantions, added_ to the confusion by rolling with the vessel as if it intended to escape tho storm by dashing through the bulwarks. this crisis and as a_lnst resort, the Captain, trusting in tho noble qualities of the vessel, gave the signal to beck her off. What a ynoment of suspense! While bravo men held their breath, our gellint vesscl responded like thing of life, slewing enough to assist her rud- derin bringing her head to the sea when her machinery was reversed. Had a wooden vessel been subjected to this trial, and received the heavy scas wo did on_our stern, she would have undoubtedly broken in two. After her hcad was brought to we ran some twenty-fivo miles under lee of Whitefish Point before it was safo to run before the storm into Waiska Bay. All this time & blinding snow added to the gers and discomfort experienced, whilo the ther- ‘mometer ranged from 18 018 degrees below zero. The volumes of water that dashed over us fell on our decks masses of solid ice. The officers on deck were suffering torribly, but heroically kept their posts, while = the steward ~ and cabin employes were doing their best fo save the costly furniture from mtr& destruction, The china and glassware became & total loss at the first fierce onset of the storm, and all the chairs_and everything movable wera completely demolished. On getting into Waiska Bay we Iny off and on until the weather cleared up enough tb get bearings down tho river, and we then found that we bhad not only eacaped ehipwreck by storms, but also by collisions, for the bay seemed for_the moment alive with ves- sels which followed us in. Among them were the barks Cambridge and Escanaba; echooners Golden Rule, Middlesex, and stesmer Arizona. The vessels presented 8 BOITY appearance. They bad lost their anchors, their bosts wero covered with ice, and their eails torn to ribbons. The Arizons had her bows and gangways stove in and her deck load of flour was even more unruly than ours, while the steamer 8t. Louis was strained so badly that her cargo of grain was wet. On oxamination, we found that our gallant vessel had not made water enough to prime the pumps. We felt renewed confidence in the seaworthiness of the craft, and were de- voutful thankful that we had escaped the fate of the barges Jupiter and Saturn, lost, with all hands, above Whitefish Point, just after we had got control of our vessel by reveraing the en- ine. In this storm the schooners W. O. Brown, . R. Owen, and O. C. Griswold foundered with all on board. The weather showing no signs of clearing, and being anxious to reach the canal, wo made & run for it. After getling pnst Point Aux Pins, the wind blowing & galo and snowing so thick that the course could Dot bo taken, 1t was found impossible to prevent her drifting down the river. and we had all hands gotting tho uchor roady to lst go, but found everything so encumbered with ice that we thought it would bo necessary to cut away the bulwarks to free it, but at last succeeded, how- ever, in getting everything in readiness when the westher cleared enough to discern the mouth of the cenal. We could see it was full of ico, and judged that it was packed solid from tho fact” that the sea made no motion in the ice. When we were about 300 yards from the entrance to the canal we_went ahead with throttlo wide open and buried ourgelves our entiro longth in & golid ice bed. The steamers Peerless, St. Louis, Dix, Arizons, and Cuyshogs followed, and endeavored to frec us from our pogition. For three days the crcws of the Eix steamers vorked cliopping us ot of theice, and threo steamers pulled atua for the same length of time before we were extricated. The Peerless, baving some fifty tons of conl on board, then took the lead, and endeavored to force a passago, but, after two days',exertions, she found herself not'so far advanced as we had been by 100 feet. Her fuel being exbausted, and ice making fast, o realized the fact that, in our case, navigation wes over for the season of 1872, so turned our energies in another chaonel, and -commenced leying up on tho 1st of December. Wo sent tvio Tndians, with some despatches, overland to Mackinaw, giving them $60, snd & promise of ~$60 mors when they re- turned with a letter as evidence of their mission being performed. The Indians_at this date have not been heard from, and if is feared they perished in the performance of their task, as the weather was unusually severe. We had all made up our minds to walk to Macki- naw, & journey of 120 miles, and selected our baggago, to be of the lightest description, and appointed ship-keepers for each boat. We wero Tucky enough_to secure the valuable services of Captain Charles Caldwell, who was sppointed Commodore of Ship-keepers, with full suthority 1o use his own judgment in regard to the care of the fleot. His knowledge of the Indian customs, and scquaintanco with the soveral tribos ron: dered him emphatically the right man in the right placo. Hardly had we got’ all these arrangoments perfected, when the glad tidings ware spread that the iron steamer China, which bad just arrived in the Sault River, and contem- plated laying up in tho cenal, finding there was noroomto gebin with us, hed determined to rur back to Marquette, and we could go in her. The invitation was gladly accepted, and somo four hundred of us steamed away on the 2d of December. When we arrived at Marquette, all hands made short work of laying rg 6 China, and, bidding adiou to Captan Dickson, we took the cars for our several homes. The Buffalonians arrived on the 12th, ateful for having escaped unscathed the ‘dangers that besct them during tne most violent storm over known on Lako Superior, the water having risen six feet in four hours, coming Within an inch of_going over_ the banks of the Sault St. Mario Canal and driving the Superintendent out of his regidence, Fully one-half of the men who were in the storm hed " their hands, feet or_ears more orless frozen, and many of the officers ‘were thoroughly prostrated when the energy in- spired by tho fulfilment of their duties had passed away. The crew and officers of our vessel are all well, and anxions to take charge of tho gallant Jopan noxt season should we be ngain engaged in maritime pursuits, “ H. E. P." Pinchback. From the Cincinnati Commereial. . The name of the glittering Pinchback, of Lou- isiana, wes Dot always Pinchback, though it mever was pure gold or gold eighteen.carats fine, His name, when he ran on_the_river, and F;c in an occasional appearance in this city, was inkey Binart. Ha wos a gavand festive Youth. and prized, with all the intensity of his ardent ‘African nature, the smiles that beauty bestowed. Ho woro 1 great deal of glittering jewelry. The dusky maidens ot whoso feet ha sighed, had heard that all that glitters was not gold, and concluded that the massive chains he sported were pinchback, and called him after the adorn- ments which he had heaped upon his comely person. ‘The name stuck to him, until he adopt- od it, and now he has made it bright in the long list of* great American statesmen. As we have Leretofore remarked, he is not foclish. His eye shines, and his dismond _breast-pin_shines, and his teeth shine, and his hair is brilliant. If Death loves a shining mark, he will take a shot at Pinchback some of these times. . THE DELAWARE HORROR. The Killlng and Mutilation of a Negro —Professor West’s Confession.. From the Milford (Del.) News, Dec. 13, * * % 0, Monday evening, Dec, 2, I went up to my room in Kerbin's building. I liad juat got there and unlocked the door, when Turner came up. I went on up stairs, ahead of him and unlocked the room door up stairs and went in ahead of him. I hed taken my gasometer to pieces that ' dey, intending to fasten a small sledge hammer 1 had taken there to the weights. This eledge Lammer was sitting just inside the door. The other weights were over in the cor- ner, about eight feot furtheron. One of the Weights was a bolt, or piece of an axle. It was sbout two feet long aud about .an inch anda’ quarter in diameter. Ihad just got about whera this bolt had been sitting when I tarned and saw Turner wit h the hammer inhis hand. As soon ns he saw I saw him, hosaid: * Givomo your pockot-book or T kill you.” I enatched up the piece of axle. Just na T did so he struck at me with the ham- mer, He struck me on the top of my hat, dent- ing the hat in but not touching my head. I was stooping over. I siruck at him with tbe bolt or piece of axle, intending' to strike him on the head, but missed his head and struck him on the néck, below the eur. He fell, and I don’t think he’ever. .breathed afterwards. This was just after sunset. Ho fell over on his side. I then left him ; felt his pulse, and found that he was dead. 1 did not intend to Lill kim, but only to knock him down, o that he would not kill me. Ileft the body lying there. Camo and gob my supper at Mr.-Fountain’s hotel. I did not go back &ny more that evening. I went back agein on Tues- day morning about 10 or 11 o'clock. I then thought I would cut him up in pieces, and carry him off and bury him. Icut of his head and feet, and skinned the body. I did it with a pen- knife, having previously broken several of the bones with the bolt of or picce of axle. I camo up to Mr. Fountain's for dinner. This was mnot all done before dinner. I donotre- memberhow much I did do before dinner. Had no fire in my room._ Do notlmow the exact time I went to dinner. Did not go there any more that afternoon, Don’t remember positively whether I went back or notin afternoon. That afternoon I got s Liorse and carriage from Mr. Fountain and went out to Hazletville, thinking it would be dark when I camo back and [ could take the remains away. It was dark when 1 got back—zbout 6 p. m., Tuesday. I bronght down the skin of the man in a water bucket; 1iad s piece of paper over top of bucket, which ‘was about foll. The horse smelt if, and would not let mo take it. I sat it down just inside the outer door, and locked the door. I then took the horse and carriage to the stable. I went to the botel and warmed myeelf. I then thought I could carry off the remains in a bucket, and bury them. I got my supper at Hazlottville. Iwent tothe room about 8 o'clock. I then took the bucket that had the skin in it and started out on the street withit. Had not got 1ar before there were two dogs after it. I went out Loockerman street and through the new street recontly oponed as a continuation of New strest. Found the ground-frozen andI had nothing to dig o hole with. I then turned and brought it back to my room egain, Ithen re- mained in my room awhile® thinking what to do. I concluded I would tear tho large box I had there to picces and make a box that would hold the remains and ship them on the railroad to some point, follow them and b them. I found it was getting late, and that I conld not stay any:later that night. I then came to the hotel and went to bed ; supposo it was about 11 o'cleck—Tues- day night. On Wednesdzy my foot was hurting me, and T did not go back to my room; suppose it was a8 late as 9 o'clock when I went there. I found the remains smelling 8o that I was afraid to.ship them on the railroad. I was about at different places in the town during the day until after- noon. Got my dinner at the hotel—Fountain's I went back to room sbout 2 o’clock. I took my knife and cut some pieces of flesh from remains —about the abdomen. I cut the lips and nose off the head. I struck the head with the bolt or axle. Iam under the impression that I struck it beforo cutting the nose and lips off, intending to mash the head up eo it wounld not be recog- nized. Could not make any impression on it. was my intention to skin the head, but thought if I only skinned it it would be recognized. ut the head in a bucket and took it out to a = Teap near the railroad, ethiad it out, put some lime in the bucket, and raked the head back into the bucket and carried it to the place where I buried it. Ihad aspade I found lean- ing against Mre. Jones' out-house. I buried it under & heap of desd briars, near the corner of Water street and the railroad. 1 went back to the room sbout ten o'clock at night; had & candle and twolamps in the room— ono lamp for elrohol and the other for burning kerosene. I took the bucket and put the skin in it to carry it away. I went out on tho street with it ; saw somo one coming ; took it back into the room again. I melted some tallow off the candle and stuck the candle up on the floor. T then took one of tho feet and poured alcohol over it and set firo toit. I wanted to see if the alcohol would_changoe the color of the skin, I spilt, somo alcohol on tho floor; that_also caught fire. I had that pight, bofore doing this, piled up the _box and pieces belonging to it over the body. I intended, if the slcohol did change the color of the_ skin ‘on th foot to throw tho ekin of tho body on the floor and change the color by burning alco- hol on it. § 1 found tho burning alcohol did not change thie color of the skin. I intended, if it did, to put. the: skin_back o the body and fit it as well & T could. When tbe alcohol on the floor caught fire I gathored up the fcet, hands, and gkin in my hands and_ got ot of the room as soon 8s I could. I tried to fan the fire out. Turner had knocked over a can of keroseno that was sitting on the box on Monday. I walked to- ward the Mothodist gravoyard with those things in my hand. ;i After I had got off a_considerable piece from the houso, I saw that the firo had gone out—did not sec tho lights & burning. I started to go back to the room again—waa afraid to go back knowing that the candle was sitting on the floor burning. I had gotton up near Mrs. Jones’ new houso when I sew the fire flashup sgain. I then_tumod, weat back towards tho graveyacd whore 1had left the hands, footand skin. 1 fook them up and carried them over into the Methodist graveyard and waited ther until the firo waspubout. Ithen wentsnd buried the skin alongsido tho railrosd. I started up to get the hands and feet to bury them when I board the whistle of the 4 p.m. down train. Reked some lime over them, went up to the depot and. waited until the train came. *I got onbosrd the train, With s bundlo of clothes, and went to Delmar, and walked down thie railroad track to Salisbury, I had taken the clothes out before, snd hid them. I wenb to Tracey's Hotel, in Salisbury, and remained thera until this morning (Fridsy), then gob on the train, and camo up to Farmington. Got off the train’at Farmington. I then walked up to Har- rington, and got on the evening trein_ond ceme to Dover, and delivered mysel? up to tho Sherif, who was at the depot. While at Harrington, I called for a Constable, intending to surrender ‘myself. My life is insured to the amount of §25,000— 10,000 in _the New England Mutual, $5,000 in fho'Jobn Hancock, $5,000 in the Atna, and 5,000 in the Delaware Matual ; about one-hal is of this amount is in favor of my" wife and balance for sélf; the policies are all paid up’ and live; took out the Etna policy five or six years ngo—others last spring. - Tmovor had any diffiully with Turmer; hnd no enmity .against him; knew him only by name never_ having exchanged words with him unti that dsy; thought his name was Joo Turner; had axle in_both hands, snd struck him on the right side, towards the back of his neck; one blow was'all I gave him; that killed him; don’t think he ever breathed after I struck him I felt his pulso as soon ss I could compose myself; it bad censed beating. el Oranges in Florida. The orange culturo pays well in Florida, Mr. H. L. Hext, of Pilatki, on the St. John River, hus a grove covering eight or mine scros, and containing scarcely 500 trees, which, i is said, yielded nim 800,000 oranges last winter, which he sold for throo cents each, thus realizing £24,000 for the product of nine scres of ‘land.— Exchange. #7 1f all the fabulous stories told sbout Hart's orange grove across the St. John's from Pilatki, and sbout other Florida orange groves, were gath~ ered in & bookitwonldbe as large as the rnabridg- od dictionary, With tha excaption of Mr, Hart. you ! you think I sm going; so I am, and be l - trestment, or oms unexplained cuuzo, has made we-suppose there is not another orange grove i Floridn that “‘pays.” In truth the orange cul- ture of Floridais so very precarions that few venture uponit. Mr. Hert, from location, or the business successful, but not to any. such ex- tent a8 is above stated. Had he raised 800,000 oranges in ono year, the product would have been enormous, for ‘he realized at the orchard ten cents each—ten dollars by the hundred— for every orange hLe grew, and thet would have been eighty thousand. dollars. “Three cents, indeed, for an orange in Tlorida! Oranges in Florida cannot be had as cheaply a8 in New York; yea, verily, not as cheaply asin Clevelsnd, thoué;h when love or money czn se- cure you & Florida orangoe in Florids, you get a delicious one. In quite an extended trip lest epring in Florids we had frmt, but wo carried it in & basket from the Washington market of New York. Don't leb tourists smack their lips when they- start South, in anticipation of the tropical and semi-tropical fruits they expect to enjoy. You can’t buy o banana in Charleston, or Savannah, or Jacksonville, that has not been brought from New York.—Cleveland Herald. LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN. From the Cinciniati Commercial. 1t was one of the sententions savings of Dr. Johnson that the value of every story depends upon its being true. That our books of history and biography are full of incidents and_sayings manufactured by historians and biographers, 18 afact familiar to_every discerning or critical reader. From theclassic speeches in Thucydides and Plutarch, down to the dying words attributed to_Mr. Seward, st Auburn, tho other day, the vriters have over been prolificin inventions. Tho heroic and melo-Gramatic_speech put into tho mouth of Cambronne at Wsterloo: *Tho Guard dies, but nover surrenders,” is now known tohavo boen invented by Rongemont, & prolific anthor of mols, two days aiter the battle, in the TIndependant nowspaper. Whet Cambronne real 1y did say when -summoned by tho becf-eating Tnglishman to sumender, is known to most Tenders of that most powerful of ell Victor Hu- go's romances— Les Miserebles.” The last hours and parting words of greet men afford a topic of perennial intorest to man- kind, znd porhaps this may help to sccount for the grest number of striking scntences attrib- nied to tho dsing, froquently upon very uncer- tain and procaricus authority. Did Byron really sey, just as o expired, “T must sleop now,sny more then Seward utlered the words, * Love one anothor,” to his children and friends, just be- foro his eyes closed ? Is Webster's last mémora- Dlo utterance, I still live,” to bo subjected to tho samo skeptical criticism which has demolish- ed tho credit of Canuing's reported last words, “ Give mo_time—give me time"? Aro we to surrender Goethe's dying call for * Mors light— ‘more light,” ta the doubters who have disproved the current story that Rabelaia exclaimed. on his death-bed, * Drop the curtain; tho farce is played out"? ~Friedrich Schlegel, they say, died Sith thesingloword ¢ Aber” (but) in his meuth. But didbe? The Germans sro doubting it, and the English aro discussing whether or nobitt's heart was broken by the disaster of Austerlitz, and whether he died_exclaiming, # My country, oh. my country!” _The story of Addison calling the young Earl of Warwick ‘(others will hava it Tora Lytrieton) to his bedside *‘that Le might ses how & Christian could die,” is long since abandoned as an_afterthought, but must we also givo up Locke's last_words— Life is & poor Samity "7 Letus at least be permitted to be- Tieve what no suthority admitted to be adequate hos impezched, and_aceredit_te John Quincy Adams that finé saying, as he lay dying in the Capitol, % This-s tho fast of carth; I am con: tont.” Henry VIIL. of England, being given over by his physicians, demands s glass of whito wWine, and, on its being presented to_him, cried out, "¢ All 18 lost,” and oxpired. The philoso- her Hobbes, of Malmesbury, it is said, just oforo Lis last_ breath, exclaimed, I am about totake o great lesp into the dark.” Moro at large it is related of Gassondi, the mathemati- cian, that he eaid to & friend who asked him for his ‘dying sentiments: I know not who | brought me into the world, what I am here for, nor why I am taken away.” The last words of great_soldiers aro often quoted, Those of Genoral Wolfe, at the siego of Queboe, on hearing, in Lis lagt moments, oxclamation ©See ho they rnn ! ” were, ““Then God be praised! I shall die happy.” 2 Tho French General Montcalm, the antagonist of Wolfe, ieceived a mortal wound whilo rally- ing his mon, and died the next day. When told that bis end was approsching, he replied, *So ‘much the'better ; 1shall not live then to seo tho surrender of Quebge.” - The last words of Lord Nelson were: Thank God, I have done my duty."” Napoleon at St. Helena, as has been s thou- sand timos repeated, exfi:ed amid visions of battle, exclaiming with his. last breath, Tete darmee!” Wheon Calanus asconded the burning funersl pile, and Aloxander asked him if he werein need of snything, ho replied: *Notbing. The duy after to-morrow I shall seo you.” The predic- tion was strangely verified, for Alexander died two days later. y 'An old woman of Troyes, noted for her miger- 1y disposition, reviving from & stupor she had fallen into, blew out with her last breadth an inch of candle at her bedside, because,” said she, * I can sce to die in the dark.” Several notable anccdotes are toldin “ Law and Lawyers” of Lord_ Northington, tho British Lord Chancellor, who died in 1772, and had the Teputation of being one of the most profane men in England. The reader will judgo whether this character was well deeerved. ~When at the point of death, b excleimed, *I'lbe d—d if I'm not dying!”' His gardener having ventured to ignore Lord Northingion's order to cub down some trces, during his last sickness, the Chancellor gent for him and exclaimed, 'S0, den you, yon'vo not dono ss I ordered 4—a'to you, but you shall go frat; bere, strip this fellow, and kick him out of doors!"” When very near his deatl, seoing bis wife and deugh- ters weeping around, he roared out to his nurse, “Turn out all thoso sniveling fools, excopt DBridget!” In his last illuess he sent for Lord Carmarthen, and asked him to recommend him somo sble parson whose advice he might take concorning tho fature welfare of his soul. £ What do you think of Doctor — ? ” gaid Car- marthen. *Oh, name him not,” retorted the dying Lord Chencellor; I shall actuslly bs d—a for making that fellow a Dean ! ™ The last words of Mrs. Anne Oldfield, the cel- ebrated actress of the last century, were (direct- ing a8 to her laying out), One would not look a fright sfter ono’s death.” Popo has para- phrased this incident in the couplet : ©One would not sure look ugly when one’s dead, Pray, Betty, give these cheeks a Little red | Dr. Macleod, in tho “ Annals of a Highland Parish,” narrates how _tho old minister, Rory, feeling = tear drop on his withered face whi dying, carefally wiped it off, and rebuked his daughter, who had shed it, because it is a Highland superatition thai no {ear ghonld .drop on..the face of a _ good ‘man when he is dying. Then tho old man suddenlystretched forth ishand and exclaimed: 7 baptize thee into the namo of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,” and so in the fervor of the old baptismal service, fell ‘back and expired. Sir Thomas More said to his executioner, re- marking that the scaffold on which he was to perish was too weak, “I pray you see me np safo, and, for my coming down, let me shift for mysels.” In like manner, Anne Boleyn demand- ed of her executioner if he was master of his trade, and burst out laughing when he replied in the aflirmative. P The Earl of Chesterfield’s good_breeding only left him with his last breath. * Give Dayrolles a chair,” said he to his valst, when that gentle- man's name was snnounced 25 having come to see him die, Tho French Euet, Boilean, dying of dropsy at the age of 75, bid a friend who entered his room. At the supreme moment, hail and farewell in the same breath: “ Good day snd adieu,” said he ;t’; it will bo & very long adieu,” and died in- stantly. The dying address of the Emperor Adrien to his goul bas been immortalized by Pope, but 8o widely peraphrased os to be guite translated into another sentiment. The lines, which were written one hour before death, are s simple plensantry, expressive of the utter ignorance of the writer a8 to where his soul was tending, and his complete incredulity as to the affairs of the other world. d 80, as. & French writer ex- presses it, ‘“hofell asleep in the arms of the ‘muses.’ Tt is relatod of Pero Bonhours, the French gram- ‘marian, whose hypercritical attention to tho mi~ nutim of letters was well known, thet he cried out to his friends, when dying—* Ja VAS, ou je VA1 mourir; lun ou Pautre ¢ dit!” A remarka- Blo_nstanch of tho ruling passion strong in death. Tn like manher,. Malherbe, the noted French oot, who died in 1628, reproved hia nurse, when B Was dying, for o solccism in her spesch. Hia confeesor coming in, and dilating to. the dying poet upon the glories of paradise, but usin miserably low and trite expressions, < Hol our tongue,” oried Malherbe; * your abomina- le style only makes me out of conceit with them[" He added that he would defend the pu- fi%l?‘ the French tongue until desth. P e study of grammar was the great passion of tha Abbe Dangesn. On baing seized with ill- L *that I have in my portfoli Ress, and told that ho must. propare for deat In'that,” replied he, *I am extremely rojoice least thicty-six cojugations perfectly complete 2 " Quinn, the actor, being in great pain onbis eath-bed, said to his friends: © I could wish this tragic scenewas over, but I hope to go through 1t with becoming dignity.” = Alfleri, the great Italian dramatist, when'the~! Pricst,whom 1o had been persuaded to see in his ast hours, had arrived, sent word to him, * Call on me to-morrow.; death will tarry four-and- twenty hours, I trust.” A woman of gallantry, becoming old and dangerously ill, sent for her confessor, who came and sa1d to her : ““It is now time for you to forget your past life, and to think on loving God alone.” ‘ Alas, father,” she replied, “at my time of life how can Ithink of any new amonrs ?” ¥ NMontaigne, in his easays, fells many stories of the fortitude of -persons -about ‘¢ to shoot the ulf,” s he expresses it, and of the raillery and adinage with which some espriis forts encoun-- tered death. Of one condemued to a painfal death, who was assured by his confessor that he ehould sup that night with the Savior, heTe- counts this reply : * Go you and sup with Him, father ; for my part, I would rather fast.” That' wonderful helluo librorum, Bayle, when dying, - pointed affectionately toward the table where his last proof-sheot lay corrected, and geve up the ghost. UNLETTERED SIGNS. Some Curlous Ways of Advertising. From the New ¥ork Evening Post. In tho daya when commerce wes in its infancy, and education was confined within tho monas- tery walla; when theshop was but &'booth in the street, the counting-house an obscure room in the dwelling of the merchant, the art of adver~ fising was yet & thing of the future; end as com- merco grew and extended men began to see the necessity of using some means to attract atten- tion to their wares. At first they employed the crudest emblems, 28 the grecn bush beforo the doorof the taverner, or a bundle of sticks nailed o the arrow-maker's lintel. Then tho Tombardian merchants displayed the oldest of any of- tho existing -gigns of this na: ture, the thres golden balls—thoso glittering insignis of the Houso of Lombardy Bnd of want, under the shedow of which s0 meny broken hearts have &used, eyen in thoso old days of which e spe: . After a while it became customary to display samples of the wares themselves, bat these ba- camo, in a ghort time, bntterod and worn, and had to be frequently renewed; and then they Wars portrayed in wood, and gaily carved and | ilded. In those trades where it waa possible, it was customary in most instances to make the sign show the nature of the business;.but where this conld not b done, lions, dragons and ahundred other forms of eovery hue_in the color-vender's schedule were substitnted. During the reigns of Charles the Second and James, these unlettered signs became very a- mcrous. Commerce had made wonderful strides in the preceding fifty or sixtyyoars ; buj-as yot even the nobility were comparatively unedacat- ed; and men who held oftices of the highest trust, as for itstance Churchill, to whom James entrusted o most delicate mission to the King of France, were totally unsble to read or write. The streets of London were enlivened by i numersble green bears, blue bulls, Saracen hoads and golden dolphins, There were gigan: tio axes, arrows, and hammers, and- parti-col- ored and hinged serpents that vibrated and rat- tled in the wind, their red, gaping moutbs, fiery tongues and blazing eyes defying some rampant or . gilded, ~ scaly © disgon . aoross the way. Some of these digns were gotten uj with & good deal of artistic skill and at consid- erable oxpense,costing in many instances as much as fifty guineas—no -small amount of money in these days of small values. h Of course, he who possessed the most striking sign was in the least danger of having his placo of business forgotten, in that period of sharp eyes and little learning. The custom musthave iven riso to o very peculiar system of directions. he ides of having one's letters seat tothe “Piebald Elephant, opposite .the Green Leop- ard,” or a package to the “ Biue Tiger, two doors above the Galloping “Horse;” and then to buy & bill of dry goods at the * Golden Dolphin,” or your wine at the “Blue Devils,"—wby, one might as well have the ** jimjams™ at once. modern times, unlettered signs, although no longer the emblems of every business, are Jot cling to_tensciously by s few traders, though they até gradually going out of vogue. In fac they have done oo already, .in o grent many instences, the tobacconist being the only one who yet clings to_them unwaveringly, and: in tho New England States even he has almost forsworn his allegiance. Trades that thirty or even ten years 0g0_ were never met With without their peculiar emblem, now in most instances disdain tbem altogether. How sudden the wumbrella makers’ string of parti-colored parasols are seen! Sol Gills"little midshipman is no longer. duplicated in the carver's hands, although in New Orleans. thera is a bright new Admi: would warm even the heart of Captain Cuttle. In the At~ lantic seaports now and then one i3 met.with in front of the shop of some old-established instru- ‘ment maker. ereis one on State street, in Boston, and there are several in New Yor] i_mt they aro all more or loss mutilated. In Phile- delphis, where signs have decsyed, there is ono, of which nothing remains but the legs, standing up sturdily from their pedestal as if to throw down the gauntlet to time and innovation. The tobacconists, however, have almost mads up, by the multiplicity of the forms with which their shop-fronts, for their absence in other trades. Fifteen Sears ago the traditional In- diga, with now and then a stray Highlander, or # Punch,” comprised all the varieties. But now their name is legion. One can hardly walk down the main street of any city in the country without being stared in_the face by a score of wooden or eheet-iron King Williams, Captain Jinkses, Dom Pedros, Uncle Sams, lndian ‘maidens, girls of the period, and other strange figures. = Bome of these signs are really excellent in their way. Omne of the best of them used to be in the lower part of the Bowry. It was a life-size figure of an Indian, sitting in an old- fashioned ~rush-bottomed _armchair, smoking his calumet, The urtist for ho wus an artist, had copied overy minute detail with the ntmos £delity, and the easy attitude snd calm, digni- fied features would have done honor even to Church, _Thero is, also, on Eighth street in Philadelphia s colossal head of amore modern Whiskey-drinking * Lo” that is capitally done. ‘Among the less artistic but still striking forms are a “Girl of the Period on o Velocipede” and & very good * Champagne. Charley.” 0 large manttactarers also turn out well-proportioned Indian chief, and & little Indian girl with whom one would almost fall in love. These, a8 are’ the bulk of the now statues now placed on the stroets, are made of iron cast in & mold, and are very well coloted. B Thera is one individual in Baltimore who ap- pears to have & statue manis, he having no less than seven in and about his shop ; they are all pinted white, and his place looks like a rendez- vous of ghosts. "As we go farther South and West, we find the unlettered sign more commonly used for all purposes ; thero aro more gigantio- guns, big ‘horseshioes, and enormous gilded scissors. ' One of the best of these miscellsneous signs is on King street, in Chatleston, 8. C., in front of a hardware sfore. A post, some_thirty feet high, and shaped like am gxe helve, is plante near the curb-stone, and ab the top is & gigantic red-jocket axe, on which i3 painted the ‘Datme of the shopkeeper; In Pitteburgh there is a big gilded chisel that would do to put in some Brobdignagian tool-chest with this pleasant lit- Hor wospon, and I bave also teen, somewhera else, a saw that would do to accompany them. 01f course, there are very few remaining in- stances whoro tho unlettered sign is used to des- ignate & mercantile establishment, especially in this country; that is, if we except the big hats, boots, axes, &c. In fact, I-recollect but two, Dboth 'dry goods stores, the Cotton Bale in Mo- bile, and tho Bechivein Philadelphia. They are both runon the large sales and’ small profits principle, and naturally do considerable buai- noss smong the uneducated classes, al< Teough both keop and aell . grest many high- priced goods. In fact, the more thinly settled arts of the country, or whero the population is less educated, it i8 noticeablo that the use af a figure to attract attention becomes more com- mon; one is struck with this more especially in the instance of pawnbrokers. To the’ eastward; in s great number of instances, they discard the traditional balls. Bat in St. Lonis and in Chi- cago, before tho fire, the; , a8 it happened, al collected in ome place, and the bulk of them had two and even three sets of balls, making the street look like some sham Garden of Hesperus, filled with counterfeit olden apples. In Chicago, the Ingor-beer sa- fuans used to favorgreat, johyKlng ambrinus, with his fosming mug of lager, and be is grad- nafl{ creeking into vogue to the oastward. One of the regular makers has got out & capital half figure, which I am afraid will supplant him, how- over. It ia & jolly chuckle-headed Germsn yokle, with a shock of yellow hair escaping from under & tight skull-cap. -He is intended fo be placed half leaning out of & doorway or window, and is represented as beckoning the passers-by in, with an inimitable leer on his countenanoe that would prove almost uresistible to the sober man, and quite.so to the jolly roysterer. Itis an gmusing thipg to stroll throuch the warerooms of the large tobacconists’ findings’” merchants. Suppose we enter one of the most extensive houses in this line, which is situated on Broadway. Dassing by & fow * Asiatic girls,* @ Jardydardydo swells ” and tho like in the upp- erstore we descend to the basement. Here rang- edalong the walls are *'1ndians ” of every shape, style, material and cost, from the flat board “# Dod Carlos,” costingfitteen or twenty dollars, esecuted and dura- up to the artistically ble iron *Indian: Chief on the War- path," . gt 175, .These iron figres are .sa much better executed snd paint- ©d than the wooden ones, that they are gradu- ‘ally supplanting thom, snd, except in the case of some special stylo, as “Chawlos of the Hox- ford's, Yer Knov,” for which there is Dot de- mand enough to warrant tho getting out = special mold, they will in timo supplant them together. ~ Tho big guns, boots, hats, and other signs of this description, are manufac- ~ tured to order, and, of courss, cost all sorts of prices, some of the largest and heaviest gilded commanding five or six hundred dollars and more. There is one fancy iron firm that dces an extensive business in this cags of asticles. They al8o turn out some very good lions and tigers, which ero used to some extent by the furriers Dboth east and wast, being more durable than tha stuffed skin which, if it is tho least exposed, loses its hair in a very short time and presents a very disgusting spectacle. Among our modern innkeepers, tho unlettered sign that was so common fifty or Sixty years ago has becom entirely obsolete. We no loages n;&uegr. the * Three Tuns,” or tho * Holly Troe Caffeo House,” for men have discoveral-that . printed names make them and their house one, and therefore we mnow ia to Delmonico’s, Parker’s,* Berry’s Rudolph’s, and Taft’s, Tu fact, I rocolléct but one place in the conntry that still retains its old sign, and that is tho ““Bell in Hand,” an old-fashioned English beer house on Williams coart, in the rear of the Her- ald oftice, in Boston, which had been in exist- ance for a hundred years or mors on the same spot. " It is not likeug that the “march of im- ‘provement will reach this sequestered nook for many years. THE COPPER MINES. Statistics of the Operations of 1872-A, F Satisfactory Exhibit. The Mining Gazette publishes some very inter- resting statistics with reference to the copper productions of Lake Superior in 1872, and_com- pares the yield of the year just closing with that ©f 1871, The following . table exhibits the pro- ductions of the mices in the copper districts fo the year ending Dec. 1: Tons. Lbe.. .. 0,800 D117 1,90 630 ‘Houghton (11 months). 300 (10 months) 237 s Schooleraft Iale Roj Decressein 1872 .ceeeeeenanae OX10NAGON DISTRICT, Ridge, Minnesota, National, and others. Progum; in 1871“' .‘.ml' " Decréase iz 1671 *Houghton County. ‘Eeweenaw County..... Oatonsgon County... Decrease in 1872. ... . The tables show a decrease in the products of’ the mines, 80 far as quantity is concerned, bus, the profitd asling from mising operations have Dbeen greater than during 1871. The latter gir— cumstarice i8 due to the great demand for copper which has prevailed throughout the Ebuonnkdmd: to the fact that but.a moderate amount could ba obtained all sources.. The alight decrcase inquantity was caused by the strike last spring among the miners, and S0me _Circumstances o Ioes consequence, which diminished the produs- tion. ‘The total yield of Calumet and Hecla for the 1ast twelve months was nearly 10,000 tons of ‘mineral, representing s money vulue of about 5,000,000, over threa fifths of which is profit. The Gazetle £628 no_reason to doubt that this mine will continme for several years to produca generously and to pay large dividends. The af- fairs of the Quincy seem to be in very good con- Qition, and it has recently been suggestod that with deeper. mining the Minnesots, Nationcl and Cliff mines msy sgain be made to yield largely. The other mines have generally paid Tairly; and the stockholders have money in their pockets as the reenlt of the season’s operations. GENERATL NEWS ITENS. Real estate transactions in November: St, Louis, $1,058,791 ; Indianapolis, £1,671,165. —Droves of turkies from Carolina, are tha last sensation on the streets of Augusts. Some of tho droves number over 200. ‘ —The newsboys of Philadelphis told the guardians of their *Home” either to * set up nobbier grub or close thecaboose.” The caboosa i closed. —In a cage of seduction, tried in Atlanis, Ga., last week, the jury gave 32,100 dsmages {0 tha laintifr, 'the mother of the woman aileged ta Eavo beanruined. “ —The residence of the Bev. John Pryse, ab Montpelier, Monros County, Ga., was burned on: Fridsy night last. Loss, $10,000. —1f is estimated that during the run of the epizootic in the pineries, on the St. Croix and its tributaries, the lumbering interestwill be cut short over one million feet per dsy. —Those who bave misgivings a8 to tho futura of journalism msy quiet their apprehensions, as thirieon young ladics havo spplied for admistion to tho Yale achool for that profession. —2fr. Windolpk, of Dover, Delaware, fecls de- cidedly comfortable in possession of his elin, notwithstanding it feels a little creepy when ho Tecollects Professor West's earnest_golicitations. for him to come t0 his lzboratory and inhals his new gas. " 5a Tursdsy evening last, the wifo and babe of Nicholas Larbach, of Trempealesn, Wis., roprietor of the Trempealeau House, weres gumed to death by the explosion of a keroseney lamp. - —The Memphis pspers complain of the city debt. Thoy asy thero ia 830,000 fniorest socu ‘mulsted within a year, and no provision mado to sy it. The bonded dobt is 93,803,000, and the Boating, dobt §595,981.67—the 'total being sk tho Quebeo Ministry d_ th ZAlthough the Quebeo openod the Iast session of the Legislature of that Province wWith an overwhelming msjority, they havo con= tinued to grow weaker and weaker day after day, §u they have evidently lost control of the [ouse. —The currency return, dated 13th instani, shows in ciroulstion in Dominion notes, Pro Yincial notes, and fractional currency, 811,070,~ 658.87, compared with §11,207,07487 the pre~ vious week. The percentage of specie b iz $2,350,627.89, sgainst $2,829,585.70 the previous w eek. —One of the Captains of the old Fifty-second Magsachuseits Regiment, living a¢ Shelbuino Falls, recently got a stray cariridge into his pipo while filling it for emoking. After smok- ing & short time the cartridge exploded, leaving the Captain with & short piece of pipe-stem be= tween his_teeth, and his *facial -ornament™ minus s portion of epidermis. Ho said tha ¢ gmell ” made him think of olden times. —The Gorham Manufacturing Company, among the foremost -of American manufactur= ing_silversmiths, have successfully defended their * Cottage Pattern” in the Courts, and done substantial service to *American inventors of designs, 83 well a8 entablished a sound rule for the guidance of tho trade. Inventors of de- signs, by this decision, stand on a level with in- ventors of machines. —A meteor was seen in Eentucky on the evening of Dec. 13, which in brillidncy seems to have compared with the one seen intha Northwestern Btates on Sept.5; but, unlike that, it did npb pass through the atmosphero, and Tesume its _fonmuym 0 regions of space. From a comparison of the published reports wa infer that it exploded at an altitude of about thirty miles, sbove & point & few miles noarly south from Lounisville, —A toucking illustration of the deep-and ton- dor feolings of our people toward Mr. Grecley was afforded on Sunday, when a gentlcman and ‘’his wife visited Greenwood in the drizzling rain, and placed » magnificent wreath of natural flowers upon_the grave of the great journalist and sage. There was nothing to place tha besutiful emblem upon, and the unimown mourner drove his cauo into the ground and hung his offering uoon that.—Golden Agc,