Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1872, Page 2

W ST. JOE. A Winter-Review of the Great Fruit-Region. Eistory of the Growth of the Fruii- Cuiture. Present Magnitude of the Fruit= Trade. An Appetizing Ramble Among Orchards and Vines. From Our Own Correspondent. Sz, Joszex, Mich., Dec. 16, 1872, ‘Winter falls upon Western Michigan like & famished lion seeking for food in early morning. ‘Exceptional in the terrible frosts of winter, and ‘the unprecedented drouth of summer, the close _of the year 1872 is exceptional also in. its early - and nnusual storms of wind and snow. From the extreme northern to the most eouthern verge of this favorite fruit garden of the North- svest, the peach orchards, the pear orchards, the apple, plum, cherry, snd quince orchards, the grape terraces and vineyards, the strawberry, Dlackberry, and raspberry fields aro decked in snow, dressed in snow, buried in snow, over which the wind sighs and moans one moment, &nd the next cavorts with the glad energy of a mad steed let loose from the cave of a wintry Folus, Blow on wild winds! manor are beyond your power ; safe housed, woll ciad, well warmed,and bleased withcheerfulhomes ond heavy loaded tables. Their barns are full of hsy and feed, the joy of strong horses end contented large-uddered cows, whilo corn-fed swine grant deep satisfaction from their warm pens, and trim flocks of Lousehold poultry cluck cnd cackls over the joy of Christmas cggs. Their cellar and pantry are stocked with peach, plum, cherry, quince, strawberry, and raspberry preserves, and “ jell.” There are bins of apples, baskots of pears, choice grapes in cotton ; potatoes by the barrel ; beets, turnips, onions, bushel on bushel ; tomatoes canned. and sweet corn, with an unlimited stock of dried fraits. Surely the land flows with milk and honey! Let tho wind blow, it only magnifies | &nd intensifies the comforts of home; the com- forts of the hard toiling fruit grower, who has no more work to do until next season spreads out its beaatiful promiso of new fields of golden ; {ruit to conquer. A BIT OF OISTORY. The Indian who paddled his bark cenoe into the mouth of the Bt. Joseph River fifty years ago, would be no more astonished at the present importance and wwonderful growih of the St. Joseph frait re- ion, than the good fathers, who themselves Jianted the first orchard, or the pioneer who staked out the first claim, or the victim of mis- placed confidence, who settled in BSt. Joe with he expectation that it was to be (he grand ter minus of the Michigan Central Railroad, the Chicago of the West ; and stranded, because he | no money to pay his fare when the great company_defied legislative enactment and left the month of the river upon a distant off-side. Yeer followed vear, bearing throngh St. Jo- geph Cons,ord coaches Icaded with United States rrails, anc passengers conld not perceive the earthly value of the ook apzninis and the sandy pine barrens of this region. The first peach stones became trees loaded with mugnificont soedlings, and bore fruit thirty years before an improved variety was set out. Nobt until I was on early Crawford peach sent to Chica- g0, el ¥ s they were 5o rare and 8o Zne that the boys &eddled them on the eireet for 10 cegxta ea y {‘gflm flm:l small ga— ginuing, tho ehipment of improved varietios coutinually increased, the second or third year thereafter attaining the dimensions ot four or five hundred peck baskets, which were bought on speculation of the producers st St. Joseph for €3 por basket. The peculiarity which scarked St. Joseph peech culture in its infanoy, and stamped it with success, lay in the certainty of the crop. New comers ventured to set out orchards, while old orchardists came from nbroad to purchase land and set ont peach trees where botfi soil and climate combined to svert any failore. The isothermal influence of Lake lichigan was not unfolded; the snow line was zot discovered; but common sense concluded “hat peaches would continue to_grow and bear where trees had borme for ! successive eers, were ten and twelve inches in diameter, £nd spread over 100 square feet of gronnd. The ncreaso in the number of peach bee%’ll:ko the growth of the peach market, was slow. When the irst large orchard of fifteen acres was set out, one of the most sagacious of young Chica~ £o'8 commission merchants declared thet ¢ that Crchard would glut tho market.” Not until 1850 Gid this and otier largo orchards of improved £ruit begin to pour into Chicego, whose capacity éor peach consumption Lept pace with peech pro- uction. Then was added to the former certainty of & crop, the certainty of a market for every peach ©t remunerative prices ; and from this moment the developraent of tue St. Joseph fruit region may bo fairly said to have become s certainty twelve years ago. Like angel visits, the scatter- ed orchards nestledin the tough old forest. The lake ehore south from St. Joseph was 2 mere track in the woods, with only an occasional clear- ing. &'hs gite of the now thriving village of Benton ‘Harbor was a sand barren, covered with thickets of scrub osks; and it wes interrupted by swamp holes, impenetrable save by the wild fox end deer, which less than twelve years ago had runways over the present site of tall brick stores and costly churches, Thenno one wonld ques- tion the title of the St. Joseph fruit region, inesmuch as the whole country round sbout for nearly twenty miles came to St. Joseph for store _§00d3, from & pin to & cart-wheel. THE CHANGE WITEIN TEN YEARS tas equalled enchantment ; the forest has fallen; its rongh stumps been eradicated ; and not only is every vestige consumed, but thriving fraitfal orchards stand in place of their woody, unfruit- . ful progenitors, . Cozy dwellings, adorned in winter with musicel pines and evergreens, em- bowered in flowers in summer, combine with breherds and shady nventes tomaky arden fringe upon the Steep bluff of Lake Efidfigfim The following ESTIMATE OF GROWING TREES, 4C., sas presented at the late znnual meeting of the Blichigan State Pomological Society at- Grand Rapids: 900,000 140,000 50,000 22,000 170,000 10,000 480,000 3 gsg i i ‘estern Michigan. The St. Joseph fruit region con- taived by ectual count, iu 1869, 195,995 apple 1rees, and more bavo been since et out; there- fore, litule dependence can be put upon the ac- curacy of the foregoing estimate. ANOTHER ESTLMATE, A work is being now carefuolly prepared for 3 press which will give nearly parfect statistics of the 8t. Joseph fruit region. Wo have o ac- cess to it, but from data at our control, from the Teports of past years, wo beliove there areat Jenst & TWELVE TEOUSAND ACRES in orchard, vineyard, 2ud small fruit cultivation. Thera are probably not less than Peachtrees 480,000 | £ill it is tinged a blug red from tho end to Terriean Q.00 | tho point where it is ligated, Just where the | i 10000 | giring rests upon the tiesh thero will bo & gmall | Kpple trees »%0 | white ring. If the subject have calloused, bard | Qaince 5,000 | and ekinned fingers or toes, it would be well to | Lerape vines.. 100,000 | ligate the lower pendant of the ear, sincoe the | 3aawberries (acres). LO0 | test cannot be so eatisfactorily made upon 2 | Jckersies (eoes) % | largor member of the hody; the numerous large Bspbacrios fictes). "0 and deep-lying veins conld mot be 80 readily THE FRUIT TRADE. The total of peaches sent to market for eleven years, including 1872, foots up 8,298,004 pack- Bges. During the same period, 166,498 bushels Of berries were sent to market, representing a proes value of not less than $3,500,000. ‘The senson of 1872 gave fruit-growers a new experi- cuce. Never did trees promise better, every carly danger passed Lermless ; but, when the £ime of security arrived, the drouth proved as pernicious as wiuter's frost. Not §150,000 would make good the loss in tho quality and quantit of peaches, apples, and pears, from simple lac of moisture, Gimple want of rain. One ringle Leavy shoewer in iho last ten days | of " the season increased the bulk of £ha crop 100,000 basketz, and tho total roceints The lords of tho | half a dozen extras overy day, whose e s landscape- | of tho fruit-growers by tens of thousands of dol- lars. Had no drouth occurred, finer peaches than the best thet went to market wonld have dropped from very richnesa and rotted on the ground, worthloss, becanso too many to be prof- 1tably shipped had been produced. We are sure that the grand total of peaches alono would have exceeded 1,000,000 baskets. As many as 30,500 baskets o{l}:uches have been shipped to Chica- g0 from this fruit rogion in s singlo day, with the ordinary production. With this extraordinary crop, which will always be ropeated under favor- able circumstances, that is, with a fine crop, not | less than 40,000 packages per day will go for- ward, or 500,000 packages, more or less, in the short space of ten or fitteen daya, The price per packsge realized under such cir- cumstances is less than 50 centa; the cost of merketing alons is more than 25 cents; leaving onlya smeall margin fo pay the fruit-grower !orfihia labors, and & still smaller margin for profit. THE OUTLOOK. The days when ten acres of fruit-land would annually net the fruit-grower from 82,000 to 5,000 have passed, and unless some newy mode of econo; y marketing fruit can be davisad& and unless the market of the Northwest beyon: Chicaro can_be economically reached and on- larged, the limit to prcitable fruit-culture has ‘been stiained. . < THE INVESTMENTS R in fruit-culture—12,000 acres . $2.50 per scre, a low figure,—makes a valuation of $3,000,000. | ‘This eum at interest at 10 per cent demands $300,000. When the fact is known that a por- tion of the costly improvements, which create the value $2.50 per acre, have been made upon bosrowed capital, it wil be resdily nnderstood that, large &s aro the receipts of tho fruit region, they are by no means too large, and those alone 1 are happy whose land is their own, with gl their improvements paid for, and a comfortable de- pokit in the bank for a rainy day. Of such fo! tunate individuals it may be truly eai “They lye in & d flowi with milk *~ and honey.” The 8t Joseph {fruit region may safely challenge the world to roduce 28 much comfort, luxurious living, and Bome eathetle caltaro within of square miles. The peculiar influences of Lake Michigan combined with tho soil make a clirate mild as Southern Illinois, and enable us o raise even figs, while ordinary care and skill will keep alive and healthy much of the tender flowering shrubbery of more southern latitudes. ‘At prescnt, the only question asked in Tegerd to j our land i, 2 WILL IT PAY 2" ‘We anawer : Jt will cerlainly pay ct a reasona- dle price even if the peach crop be entirely de- | stroyed. ‘The timo is coming, noris it far di tant, when the merchant priaces of Chicago will seek tho bluffs of the lako ehore for their ! elogant mansions, ss Now York million- sires _hava nnu%hfi tho Lighlands of {tho Fudson and tho _ rocky pesks ‘ of the Catskill Mountains. By the Chicago & ; Michigan Lake Bhore Railroad St. Josephis { only four hours distant, and, by Captain Good- i rich's steamer Corons, no daylight necd be lost in making tho trip to Chicago. Capital slone is demanded to make the west shores of Michigan | magnificent beyond description. That time will come, and it is strange it Lias not already come. It is strango that men of wealth have not their private mansions, private parks, privato graper- 1es and hot-houze’s, their privats stesm snd egil- ing yachts, ns is the case on Lake Ontario and Lake Erio, and as on_the ocean they are had by wealthy men of New York and Boston. Money- getting is to-day’s business in Chicago, but here- after your opulent citizens will look for a home, end thon it willbo found that the St. Joseph fruit Tegion is near enough the city, possesses tho desired capacily and attractions, and will cost lees than any other to meke . A WESTERN PARADISE. | Poaches, pears, plums, cherries, apples, hard- ! shelled almonds, chestnuts, walnats, butter- | nuts, grapes, figs, strawberries, blackcaps, red raspherries, carrants, blackberries, watermelcns, | cm{clopesl—every product of the Temperate ' Zong flourish out of doors, What msy not the sppliances of wealth add thersto ? THE PROSPECTS FOR 1873. | | . A fine crop of apples, peams, cherries, plums, ! in'1878 is promised ; 80, also, of peaches, Their i buds are in good order, and promize well. The " good of the tree, tho good of the producer, is i enhanced by & partial crop, As yet, all are £afe, | B0 far a8 known, and the Chicagoan may rejoice ¢ in the prospect of an sbuadance for all, f THE MARTIN GREEN ORCHALD, girlded five times, saved five times, is full of : promise for next year, though its days are num- bered ; for_the demands of. the thri llage i of Benton Harbor call loudly for it sul Ithas already been partly divided iuto ! lots. We havo written of THE T, JOSE@H FRUIT REGION, i Let no ono mistako the intention of the name. ! It comprices tho territory north and south of | i the 5t, Joseph River that finds the ontlot thercby | to Chicago. Hereafter many points on the C. & | . L. B. Railroad will have a scparate identity, | finding reilrosd transportation to Chicago, that | in the old time reached market by boat through St. Joseph. No intentional act of discourtesy is i i intended by clagsing this whole scction, now or hereafter, 85 the bt. Joseph frnit region. In closing, we may say_that _slready many of Chi- cago's wealthy men have found a° summer home in this region ; others aro known to desire and propose to come. To 21l such the Bt.Joseph fruit region extends s cordizl invitation to the same number i i circular to exhibit af tho * Centenuial Exposi- ! fruits next fi | stitute, and in Doston, at the American Pomo- { logical Society's twenty-fifth anniversary ; also ¥ s el THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: KANSAS. Transactions of the Stato IForti- cultural Society. An Tmrortant Classification of Fruiz Auteresting Discussions, &c. Bpecial Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Torexs, Ean,, Dec. 14, 1872, APPLES. From the many and valusble district reports I will single ont the one received from Johnson County, and made by Mesars. Maxwell, of Edgarton, and Lovejoy, of Douglas County. These reports show by whom the first frait-trees were planted, and genorally the section or State from which they were brought, and the relative merits of apples as to their bearing qualities : The first trees in tho localities indicated, were planted by Samuel Hollidsy and A.W. ‘Wasson; they wero planted in' 1855, An orch- ard was ot out by A.D. White in 1858; also, one each by David Bzldwin and Darton Need- ham; the latter also planted cherries and pesrs. Most of the trees wero brought from Wisconsin and Hlinois, while somo iwere ordered from Rochester, N. Y. Thoso trees nearly all died, so that frequently tho secord and third plantings were often necessitated. Every system of pruning was practised, from low heads of one foot to high heads of six feet; some wero planted on low lands, aud somoon high ground; some are protected by shelter-belts; some by hedges only, and some not at all. Tho -following list, very carefully propared, gives the early-bearing qualities of troes, and the relativo quantitativo bearing on a mcale of i ten points,—1 to bo considered thoe highest,— taking the trees at two yoars old from tho graft. + Most of the fine fruits exhibited East, which have mado such an enviable reputation for Kan- ; €as, came from tho orchards of Leavenworth, Dougles, and Franklin Counties, and from trecs planted in 1860 and after that time: Yeliow Ballflower bears at 7 years, rel:tivo bearing quality, 6 ; Michel Henry, 4~2; W. W, Pearmain, 6— 2; Rod 8. Pippin, 6—4'; Harmu, 5—4 ; Bell Pippin, 6— 33 Golden Pippin, 4—3 Rhode Island Greeniug, 3—; Fall Pippin, 6—1; Winosap, 4—1; Fall Winesap, 4+— Yellow Junt, é—1'; Milam, 5—2; Danicl, 6—9; Sume mer Queen, 6—1; 8, Bellflower, 65 ; Atitumn Swaar, Jerséy Bweet, 6—4; Gilpin, 6—2 ; Rome Beauty, 6—5; Wagoner, 5—4 ; King of Tompkins County, 6— Willow Twig, 6-3; Btrined Gillyflower, 6—4 ; Swaar, 6—3; Father'Abrabam, 6—13 Rembo, 683 Baldwin, 6—8 ; Gr. Nowtown Pippin, 9—10; Prosideat, 6—4 ; Belmont, 5 Trior's Red, 5. G 5—4 ; Ladies’ Bw. 24 e 9—10; Marylond Tted Streak, -4—1} rve, 7—3; Early Pennock, 4—2; Bwest June, 5—1 ; Early Harvest, 6—5 ; Golden Swaet, 6—2 ; Black, 6—2'; Millfgan Sweet, 5—2 ; Cansanito, 7—10} ! Bmitl's Clder, 5—5 ; Missouri Pippln, 5—1; W. 8. | Paradise, 5—3; Porter, G—4; Weetfield Seeke no-Furlber, 6—5; _Jomathan, 6=—1; Non- pareil, 5—1; Lowcll, T35 Pen'a R, Streak, 5—1; Roman Stem,5—6; North Spy, 10— 10; Rawies’ Janet, 5—2 ; Long's Pippin, i A, 8. Peurmain, 6—6; Common Pearmain, §—3 ; 'Esopus Bpitzenberg, 6—2 ; Chronicle, 10—10 ; Fallwater, 6—3; Golden Russet, 6—10 ; Red June, é—1; Nted Astrachan, | 6—8; Maiden Blugh, 5—2 ; Summer Fose, 59 ; Oat’s Bweot, 5—4 ; Talman Sweet, 5—4: Dlonstious Eippin, ' 75 | | Bweet Swaar, 6—3 ; Colvert, 6—4 ; Limbor Twig, 5—2} AfcAiTee’s Nonesuch, 6—i, Nono of tke abovo varicties have failed in treo. Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening drop their fruit. No fzilure from blight. There aro eight or ten orchards cmbraced in the report, which i3 made by carcful and well-qualified pomologists. One-tenth of the trees wero destroy- ed by rabbits. Tho smcaring of trces with blood and grease, and other nostrums, is no protecticz. A covoring of woll-tarred paper, zom thio bottom up for two fect, is a sufo pro- tection against rabbits, and borers also, EXHIBITIONS AT VARIOUS POINTS. ‘The Bociety hes received the Commissioners’ tion” in Philedelphia, and they will no doubt make 2 Zne ehow Tho Bocicty has also concluded to exhibit in New York, at the American In- atvarious faire. Committees were appointed to mako the collctions of fruits a~d accompany them, and also to induce the General Assembly to mako provision for tho ¢ needful” to carry out these plans. C. W. Murtfeldt notified the President ard the members that thero would bo a Universelle Ex~ position at Vieana, Austria, from the 1st of April next to the last of October, and advised that & collection of the cerealy of Kansas, and also of fruits, bo sent across the water; and that, by all means, the men bo sent along. 'This | crente!f some merriment, and there were no fur- | ! ther propositions to mako exhibitions abroad. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that this Society ‘nas done & great work in calling attention to the { come, Come, and bring your appliances of wealth and comfort. Come, with guur good judgment and business, tact. ~Come determined %o erect the fabric of your home with alarge stock of contentment and love, and St. Joseph will furmsh, you with tho Jand, and * the climato, and the frnit. It will be your own fsult if any- thing is wanting to a happy home. —_—— Robbed, Murdered, and Thrown Overs Dboard. * Fyom ths Commerce (¥o.) Dispatch. ‘When the Mary McDonald landed here on Monday, a French woman who could scarcely speak » word of English came ashore. She seemed frantic with grief, and but little she eaid could be understood. This much ghe conld band had been robbed of 8900 and thrown over- board by the roustabouts on the boat.” ) The officers of the boat expressed a belief that he bad fallen overboard on the trip down, but seemed to give very little notice fo the affair, To an interpreter she says that her husband had gold s little farm they owned at Jerseyville, TiL, and with the cash proceeds of the salo—$300 —they were going back to New Orleans, whoro they hed formerly resided. That they had taken deck passage on the Mary McDonald, and while on the nver somewhers between this place and St. Louis, ber husband took s chill, ! and had gone forward to tho boilers to warm { himeelf, ~ After being absent from her for 8 half i an hour she went to bim. Her search was ! in vain, _Finally some one pointed to the body ! of her dead husband lying behind a pile of } freight. She then went to find some of the offi- cers of the boat, and when she returned she ; found the body of her husband missing, and has not seen it from that day to this. She states, ! too, that she saw some of the roustsbouts divid= | ing the money which she recognized as that be- | Tonging to her husband, and thut upon charging them of robbing and mu-dering her husband, | they threatened to shoot her and throw her i overboard if she didn't keep har mouth shut. i and lived within seven miles of Jerseyville. | The firat impression concerning her among our citizens, generally, was that she was insane, but | we are now_convinced that her statements are i correct, and are convinced that a foul crime has been committed on one of our steamboats, and ona bow., to0, whose_ officers have shown no concern and no disposition to investigate. ————e Sure Test of Death, To the Editor of the Boston Transcript: 5 Probably u{n surest method tpo test if one is living or dead i8 that of Dr. Magnus, of Breslau, Germany, whose experimeuts, extending over many years, havo been cgre(ul.{y_ and studiousty made.” The experiment is 60 simply made as to be equally suro and practical trie 5 as by those belonging to the medical profession. He ties & string‘( ! y B finger or toe. If thesubject bea living one, the member thus tied about becomes red, ant grows constantly deeper and darker colored, comprested as in muscles with a close proximity to the bone, His oxperiments have, in every instance, d H | proven satisfactory; the nppearance describef upon the living body never baving been pr i duced on the cadavar, |~ The explanation of the phenomenon is simple. i The bandaging of any member of the bodycauses i amechanical obstruction to the return of the { venous blood; it stagnates in tho capillaries and ! veins, and honce the dark blue color. : " The white ring under tho string is the resalt | of & partial arteriul anamie, which exists in the ! entire member, Lut is not seen clsewhera because of the venous hyperamie. Yours truly, Many J. BaFrorD, AL Ds Boszox, Dec, 21812, &ay in tolerably good English—* that her hus- | She says her husband was named Louis Paul: | by the laity | snugly and securely around & { products of kansas, andin inducing immigration. HOME-ADORNMENTS. Liko many other eutortainmonts, this Bociety | reserved “ the best of the wine to the last of i the feast.” Mr, Kingsbury read a well-prepared ! paper on Home-Adornments,” which was full | of salient points snd sound bixts, drawing sharp lines betweon the puroly ornamental and the | ‘useful, and dividing betweon the shrubs, flow- ers, and vegetables, which were 5o often mized and in bad taste, and tho former of which re- ceived go little attention in this practical and utilitarian age, especially in Kansas. Ho also advocated the adorning of the echoolhouse plots with something more ornamental and less fragrant than stramonium =znd ccckle-burrs. Thia paper would do great good if published in | amphlet form, and ecattered broadcast over the tate. i THE NATURAL ECTENCES. ) i Trofessor C. V. Riley, Stato Lntomologist of | Miszoui, lectured in the afternoon on the intro- Quction of the Nutural Sciences into tho public ! schools. By invitation, Professor McCarty, Superintendent of Public Instruction, was present, and expressed himself pleased with the | views presented by the speaker. Professor Riley took the ground that children cught to bo meds | familiar with their sarroundings; and asserted that the fact that England had produced 80 many and such eminent naturalists was due to out- of-door education. He also claimed for the student greater liberty of choice in congenial , studies, and the ignoring of such studies as ex- cited no interest in the student, and which would be abandoned a3 soon as the schools were loft and the active duties of life ontered upon ; and made favorabls mention of thoe laws of Tilinois on this point. INSECTS. Professor Riley also occupied the whole of the vening session in speaking of the insects g0 damaging fo the horticalturist : the cureulio, codling-moth, eppla-tree-borer, whito tussock~ moth, canker-worm; and frequently referred to Lesutiful and carefally-prepared illustrations, to | the very apparcnt delight and instraction of all present. THANES, Resolutions embracing a vote of thanks to tho citizens of Topeka for the hopitality extended to members, and also to the different Railroad Companies who had issued oxcarsion tiokets, were unanimously adopted. 1t was resolved as inexpodient to locslize the annual meeting at Topeks or elsewhora. Amidst expressions of fraternal feeling, in- cluding the Missouri State Horlicultural S5ciety, the Society adjourned sine d j33 —_— Mzatilda Fleron and Her Bottle. A reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle lately “interviewed” Matiltds Heron, wheu the Tollowing scene oceurred : Matilda—So I bave those who are enongh in- ! terested in me io wish to know what I bave | Leen Igiveu from desd Harry Byrae's plenty? ; ¢ Well I— 3 Hoeroe her quick oye fell upon a large bottls of some kind of liquid standing on a table, Seiz- ingit, she Bbook it in the astonished reportar's faco, and almost shrieked, Do you se it ? | Do you seeit? Don't say it's whickey! iv's | not whiskey | It is not rum! It does not mako | drunk! See! geo! sea!” Hosaw. The bottle was labelled, “ Citrate of magnesi Reporter—I see what it is. I will notsayi i8 epirits. Metilda—No; you cannot eay s0,—you cannot ey £0; but you shall taste, and then you cacnot say I only told you it was not rum. Baying this, she placed her left 2rm around the teporter’s neck, and wiih her right hand placed the neck of the Lottlo to his lips. Theroporter was a emall man,—Matilda was a strong womsn. lie did not want to teste that mixtare, whateverit was. e told Matilds so. Hesaid: “Ikuowit’s not whiskey. It smells sour, and I know it’s not Epixits of any Lind.” Matilda—Yes ; you shan't say, Sho told me it was not whiskey ; it did not look like whiskey; it was not latelled *whiskey;’ it did_not sm like whiskey."” You Lave got to eay all this, and besides you Eave got to say, It does nat faste iilte whiskey.” = Rosortur—Ib i3 mob xecessary, X am willicg | { i ; crafts passed i T—10} Honey Sweot, 4—2 ; Ben Davis, 6—1; Hocking, |, 1 6—4;' Bops of Wine, 5—2; Grimes' Golde | tic. The party from that i about thirty,—rs. Henry, the colored steward- | | but charged $50 for the use of { Paul, over one hundred other hem;lg to declare that what is in that bottle fs not whiskey. _ - Matilda—But you could not doso truthfully. Come, taste ; that is a good dear. Reporter—Oh! my dear madame, don’t Insist upon my tasting this.”- I-assure you it isnot nec- eseary. Matildn—Yes, but you must, Matilda Heron Dyrne says tasto. THE REPORTER TARES A NTP. The grip of her left arm tightened about the reporter's neck, the neck of the bottle was pressed firmly againat his teeth and lips, and he saw that he must either taste cr have a straggle hfi“ loose, 80 he decided to run the risk, and yelled ont: “Stopl I'll taste it!” This csused s cessation of the bottlo attack. The reporter took the stuff from Miss Heron’s hend and sipped & fow drops from the bottla. It hod a pleasant aaid taste, It was citrato of esia and not prussio acid, sfter all. He k 2 big swallow and emilingly handed back bottle to the .triumphant woman, who laughed in & manner 80 peculiar that it made the reporter feel very queer. M%t;lrd&—xow go and say that was whiskey, if you dare, Reporter—I assurs you I'llsay it was citrato of magnesia. = Matilda—Yes, you must. Now git down, e e THE STORM AND THE SAILORS. The Propeller Atlantic Frozen Up in St. Mary’s Biver—An Account of tho Homeward Journcy of the Crew— Exciting and Perilous Adventures, From the Buffalo Express, Dec. 17. Our readers ara probably aware that the storm on Loke Superior last month, in addition to wrecking a-nomber of vessels, was the cezuse of the ivoluntary retirement of several oth- ers to- very inconvenient and uncomforta- ble winter ~quarters, - tho crews of which ugh o terrible ordeal of suffer- rivation before reaching their homos. On Friday morning last John Maltbie, clerk ; Je Rodgers, engineer; L. B. Allen, stewa of the propolier Atlantic, and & number of the crow arrived in this city. ma, too the ing ani The Atlantic left Dulnth with a mixed cargo | on tho 23d of November, and reached Sault Ste. | Marie on the evening of- the 25th, being obliged to-lay at Marquetto some timo on account of & gevoro storm, which, thomgh it sbated slightly before the steamer left Marquette, camo on with redoubled fary immediately after the arrival at the Sault, and the Atlsntic was compelled to lay at the foot of the canal for ‘two days. During this time tho thermometer ! foll to 20 degrees below zero, and ice formed to the gicknesa of four inches in o single night. On | the morning of the 2Bth, the weather bein; somewhat milder, the steamer, in_company wiLE the propellor Bt. Paul, started down the river. All went well until tho boats reached Mud Lako, which wes found to be completely frozen up. All sttempta to force a pas- gage proved fruitless, and the steamors re- turned in the evening to Bailors’ Encampment, forty miles below Luke Buperior, hoping tha some of the iron propollers which were abovo would succeed in getting through the canslin time to reliove them from their unpleasant pro- dicament. After waiting until tho 80th, all hope of releasd was abandoned, and tha work of pro- aring (ho boats for winter was commenced, ’I"l.\ia was finished on the 3d of Decomber, and on tho morning of the 4th the officers and crews of tho steamers Atlantic and St. Paul and the echooners Fairwell, Kimkall, and Metropolis started for_ Do _Tour, & little settle- ment on Lako Ifuron, at the mouth of the river. Bhipkeepers wero left . on sll thoboats, Captain Fred. Miller, the mate, and one deck-hand remaining -with the Atlan- ropeller numbered ess, being in the company. They sll donned thoir heaviest clothing, procured thoe-packs and mocoasins for their feet, and gallied out with o goodly supg:ry of rations and an Indian guide, for a walk of thi t{ miles, the routo lying over tho {frozen chaznel of the river and through almost unbroken forests. About two feet of snow had fallen, which concealed the weak spots in tho ico, and, before the party had procecded many miles ono of them fell into an air holo, uiokly rescued, however, but in the course of tho day several ehared tho same fate, though fortunately no lives were lost. After proceed- ing twenty-two miles a clearing occupied Ly the cabin of a squatter was reached, and here a num- ber of the party, who felt uaable to proceed farther, remained for the night. About five miles farther on, twonty more of the men, be- coming completely exhausted, gave up, ‘and cntering ti:o woods, camped out until tho next, dny. The remainder of the party kept on to Do Tour, which was reached about7p. m, The night was spent in the dwelling of Ar. Newell, tho only white rettler in the placa, It was hoped by the leaders of the party that a propeller would be found at De Tour, on which they could em- bark for home. This reaource failiug them, and the stragglers all coming in on the bth, two Mackinac tishboats were hired, and on the morn- ing of tho 6th a start was mnde for Sheboygan, The crew of the eailing vessels embarked on the first boat, and were soon out of sight. The crew of .the Atlantio hired a boat from Mr. Newell, which he represented to be sea- worthy in every respoct, but, upon getting outside of the harbor, the ice melted from the bottom and the water poured in through every seem. The wind was most difliculty that the unfortunatg mariners succecded {n “returning to the harbor. Newoll, it ecemed, was not content with placing the lives of thirty human beings in joopardy, his boat | The first boat with the seilors on board made sbout fiftcen miles, and was then obliged to put ashore on uccount of the storm. The men .spent the night in the woods, and suffered terribly from the intense cold. scmmg v.xgain on the morming of the 7th, they reached Mackinac before dark, and made the run to Sheboygan the next dsy, where they found the propeller Benton, snd, informing tho commander, Captain McGregor, that about sixty men were waiting at De Tour, he started to their relief on Monday morning, tho 9th. In the meantime the party at De Tour had not been idle, and, securing two smeller boats, sailed on Sunday morning, being determined to reach Bheboygan if possible. ‘The weathor hadnot mod- erated in the lenst, and the storm, which had only subsided a little, camo on with remewed fury, About noon, the &m came in sight of Bunker's Bay, at which point located & saw-mill and lumber camp, owned by the man whose namo it bears. Tho wind at the timo was directly off shore, and, for four long hours the bosats were tacked again and again, in & vain effort to reach | the shore. At times the blinding snow would shut out all view of the land, and_every drop of water that fell on or into the boats was converted into solid ice. The _clothin of the eailors was frozen stiff, lng sevoral instances the men fairly broke their coat-sleeves off at the elbow in handlin the ropes. At last, when hope had almost te the wind shifted a little, and the boats sucoeeds in resching the Janding, Every man on bosrd had some portion of his body frozen, and most of them were lifted from the boats and carried to Mr. Bunker's honse b&fhe lumbermen, who had been anxiously watching the boats for hours. ‘The party were made s comfortable as possible by Mr. Bunker, and, a8 the storm did not abate at all on Monday, an Indian guide was hired, and srrangements were made to walk the remainder of the distance to Mackinac, On Tuesdny morning, the wind having again subsided, it was deemed best to take to the boats again. During {he stay of the party at | Bunker's, the ico had formed over a foot in thickness npon_the bay, and the bonts were hauled over iand nearly & mile and launched. After sailing for about three hours, s cloud of smolto in the horizon snnounced the proximity of n steamer, the boats were headed in the di- rection of'the smoke, and in a ghort time the party wero safely aboard the Benton, which had been searching for them for the precediug twenty-four hours, and whose Cap- tain and crew had about given thom up for lost. In eddition to the crews of the Atlantic and St. hted marin- ers were aboard the Benton. Tho propeller reacked Port Huron Wednesday noon, and from that point her passengers departed far home by Tail. This article would bo incomplete withont somo reference to Captain McGregor of the Benton, who, although ontirely unscquainted with the danger~us coast of the north shore of Lake Huron beyond Mackinaw, left a safe harbor in the midst of @ severo storm ta render aseistance to brother mariners in distress, of roward other than the consciousness which always follows the performance of a deed of , mercy, will be remombered long after the gal- lent Captain has mado his last earthly cruise, and is called from this sea of troubles to that | calm baven above. — e —Stanley has had two babes, one black andthe other wkite, named after him, and now comes word that his name in gold loiters occapies & roud position on thoe stern of an Erie Cacal Boat, Could ambitious mar, desire more? —A new Board to retire disabled army officers is composed as follows : Major General W. S. Haocock; Colonel Rufus Ingalls, Aseistant Quartormaster Genercl; Colonel George W. Getty, Third Artillery; Rargeons, Jobn M. Cuyler snd John Moose, He was | lowing s gule, & heary : snow-etorm was falling, and xg: wes with the ut- ! Mr. . His * noble, unselfish conduet, prompted by no hope . NEBRASKA. Nebraska Land and Immigration Ilatters. The Glocs to 2ove Ont---Torty Thomsand Lussizns Locked Yor, State Societies---The Legislature---Gen- eral Topics, &ec., &c. Bpectcl Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Oxums, Neb,, Dec, 15, 1872, OMAHA RESERVATION LANDS. The Commissioners appointed 0 appraise the 50,000 acres of Reservation lands, who, during the past two days, have been in ‘session in this city, have abount completed their report, which will be forwsrded to the United States Land Commigsioner in a dsy or two. Tho minimum price fixed npon these lands is $2.47 per acre. If their report is approved, the land wid be ad- vertised for salo, sixty days’ notice being given for this purposo through 'the press. This will afford & magnificent opportunity for colonies secking to purchase a large tract of the most feriile land west of the Missouri. REMNOVAL OF THE OTOES. Great interest is felt kere in the measure now before Congrees, for tho removal of the Otce Indians by purchase of their Reserve, the In- dians being willing to sell the whole tract., This development. RAILROADS, And Nebraska shows_ that sho is worthy of such addition to her domain and cen fill it. There are over 1,200 miles of railroad completed and in running order in the State of Nebiasks, and, before the end of the coming yesr, doubls that amount will be finished. Is tiers auy other ‘prise in this direction ? DCGORATION MATTETS. Colonel J. H, Notewaze, the State Superinten- dent of Immigration, in a recent report states that the increase to our population during a period of ‘fourteen months was 46,000. From indications recognized by his oftica, Le predicts that the next aunual increzse will be et lesst 75,000. From a lottor on filoat tho Emigration Office United Btates has been informed that the Hebrews of Europe have arranged mong them- selves to gend to America a colony from Rou- mania. Negotintions are goingon at present with tho Land Ofice for the purchase of 250,000 acres of land. It is kaid that the firat expedi- tion will comprixo 40,000 persons. After theso are well established, others will follow.” ‘Theso new comers, whom special offorts are to ‘e made to invito to Nebraska, are familiar with farming and_stock-raising, a3d profer to exjoy the blessings of freedom in our midst to the | alternative of forced military servica in their own country. From a prominent, European 8teamship Com- any Colonel Notewaro has lotters asking for tho | Liost method of obtaining 100,000 acres of land, which lhcfxpm 080 to divide and uamo after their voese] ‘heir plan, €0 far as stated, is to sell to mockanicsand small farmers 40 acres, and ; then furnieh transportation to their future : - homes without sdditionzl expense. Maturials for building will be included. English capitalists soeLing protitable investments in our Stato are interested in this plan. . . Incrensed oftention is being paid by our Rail- road Com At Lincoln an Immigrants'- Home has existed for somoe time ; and now the Union Paciflc has erected a largo Luilding near tle Omahs dapot, for tho Bamo purpose, where comfortablo board and lodging can be hsd at fixcd rates, sad the inexperienced be eaved from the impositions so enerally practised by a certain class of hotel- ogpers, ) The movement, so powerfully undertaken by csgo TRISUNE, for & reform of the nbuses suffered by immigrants at the hands of railroad and hotel sherks, iias been widely circu- lated, aud hes dono much good on tLis impor- tant subject, * STATE SOCIETIES. The January mceting of the Nebraska Stato Triday, Jau, 3, 1873, at 2 o'clock p. m., to be designated by the Douglas Couaty Agzicul- tural Bociety. At this meeting, the place of holding the next Stato Fair will be' desiznazed, at a placs ed, ‘awards on Arbor Day plantin, other important business transactes The winter meeting of the Nebraska State Hoticultural Society will be held at Omahs, Fri- duifi, Jan. 8, 1873. Business of grest importance will be considered and transacted. THE LEGISLATORE. The Nebrasks Legislature convenes at Lincoln on the Sthof January, and the good people of the town are discussing a grand | make the new members at once st home. Our % Bhtfi Capital is well connected with the outside world, Trains run through without change of cars from Lincoln to Omahaby way of the Platte River bridge. Lincoln has three telegraph lines, the Western Union, Grest Western, aud Burling. ton & Missouri, —_— " WIND AND WAVE IN DENMARK. ‘Thrilling Incidents of the Recent Inundations. COPENHAGEX, Nov, 20, For two centuries no such torrible atorm and inundation have been known along the Baltic na those the lamentable offects of which we arenow witnessing, and even dm‘ing the tumult of the clements in January, 1651, tl erty and destruction of life were not at all com- parable with these. The hurricanebegan to blow over the Baltic on Wednesdey, the 13th of No- its culmmnating point ; then it veered from the northeast through east o socthesst, and on the next day the barometer generally indicated only fore the setting in of the gale. On Thuraday, news of tho disaster began ,to come to tho city, and instantly measurcs were taken to relisve the sufferers. e had oxperienced some offocts of o gale alresdy, the wind had blown in fitful gusts through the streets, sending tho tiles fying through the air, rattling shutters, and make ing it tolerably dangorous to be abroud, but we had not dreamed thatin other places it i had driven the sea over farms and farm-houses and done such_dread work, the very recital of i which seems an incredible tale. Hugo trees on the town walls and in the parks had been broken and torn np by the roots aud sent fiying through the air almost like chips and straw, but in ether places tho very land itselt had been destroyed, and in gomo, &s in Hummingen, it had | been made to contribute to the sea in such a | way and so extensivoly that it is im- | probable thst it will ever agsin appear above the gurfaco. This Hummingen wasa low-lying peninsula jutting out betiveen tho senand the iuner fiord. It was covered with numerous houses and farm lands, and during that terrible gale every inhabitant was drowned and overy farm destroyed. ‘I'he newspapers arg filled with { the most harrowing acconnts of the distressing adventures of the people on that wild day. ‘They describe the first appenraace of the wayes as looking like that of & ** white thing " seen far off nbove tho cresta of the sea; it came onward with dreadfal swiftness, fosming, Lissing, tumbling and roaring, and then the ‘grriflsds people saw | ibat it was & series of waves, the first of which | ! i was three or four feet high, 'which came onward to tho shore, behind it still others more tower- ing than itself, The people essayed to fly, aud almost instaully were fifted from their feot and swept inward with the waves, which rushed over the meadows and fertile fields, converting them into barren sea. The waters in many places penetrated for milos inland, and moeting from opposite sides formed ialands whers reviously the lands were contiguons. TThe ielands were covered with gravel and sund, end it will be long beforo they will again be fit ior cultivation. In the parish of Gjedesby, on : Faleter, mora than s acore of houses were thrown down and washed off, sixty-five were 80 injured as to bo rendered uninhabitable, and but nine etand secure. Hore twelve corpses have been found, but it is known that many more paople perished miserably in the waves, In the Balts there were many little islands which were swept over by the water, and all their inhabitants were drovred, Upon the flat islands of + Lolland and Foster thio water mourted .a3 high j aa seven feet above its msual level, leaped over dikes and embankments, whicl: afforded searcely i a0y, and that but momentery, protection, and | carried everything before it. In the Sound near i (hiscity, and in the bharbor, the wator rose lllrdlgrgnrceplibly, but in the Bay of Kjoege the gele drove it up five feet; and, further down, vetween Beeland and. Bornbolm, the prodigious wind smote foll upon hundreds of sailing {and stcam vessels, and eent them driving hesdlong, torned many of them keel up- wards, and made them utter wrecks along the coests of Faxe and Yracsto Bigs, Tho Larbor i m will open & magniticent ares to settlement znd { Btate in the Union that can show more enter- | I fake the following : “ ‘Tho Goverament of tho | anies to the wants of the immigrant. * Board of Agricplture will be held at Omshae, on ! tho premium list pmanged, cnmmitteea&ppninb— ! im e, and | Teception party to | e damage to prop- | vember, and by noon of that day had reached ' such atmospheric pressiro asit had shown be. | in Faxe wes almost destroyed, the light-honse overthrown, -and roads-and railways washed away. Indéed, thronghout the coast and on the Seas there was but the same dismal story told of lives lost, houses destroyed, aad lands ren- dered nterly unfit for cultivation iy tho deluge of ralt water, which_also, by filling wells and Tesc.voirs, ha¢ caused an enormous emount of suflering of thomost horritle description. The iown of Holding. on the coasiof Juiland, hus keen almors obliterated, and Lere snd.in tlio near neighborLood the water rose in somo rlmuu iigh a8 11 feot above its castomnry evel, and it has been estimated that from Tlsi- nore to Lubeck, & distance of 150 miles, the averago differenco in the level was not less than 12 feet, and {firhnps more, In the harbor of Gothenberg the gale caused the water to-sink 4 leot, leaying vessels fast in the mud. Local newspapers, of course, abonnd with ac- counts of incidents of the hurricane and flood. On the cosst of Funen stood a honge in which lived an old man and his wife. The incoming water sliced & g:eca out of theland and took the house with it, drowning the old man and bearing the woman inland, yet Jeaving her alive at last. Tho Captain of tho brig Mercuse, from Copen- hagen, was washed overboard from his ship by ' the wave and immediately replaced braised, but elive, upon his deck by another wave. comin, from an o{pomu direction. -At Baxfjed, where tho water Tose nino or ten feet, cleven hu- man beings wore watchod for hours driven about in tho waves on the roof of shonse. At- tempts wero made to rescus them, nnd one at last was succeesful, but not” before one of tho people had been washed from the roof and drowned. But the imagination may farnish pictures of its own; it can hardly formn auy tkat ghall be more terrible than the realities. Efforts for the relief of the bufferers aro making throughout Europe, and so far as is possible :hen poor people will be recompensed for their oggos. HOW MR. GREELEY DIED. Ife was Never Insane, but Exhousted —Intercsting Narrative of his Condi= tion After Bull Run—Dr, Bayard’s Observations of Hiu: Previous to Elis Last Ellnecss. = From the New York Sun, Dec. 17, T0m- Dr, Edward Bayard was tle family physician of Horace Greoley for some eleven years before his death, Just after the battle of Bull Run, | ‘wlxen Mr. Greeley was_ attacked by a simi- lar. diseaso to_thet which recently ended in his death, Dr, Blzgard thoroughly ecared him. Believing that the history of this case wonldBm\'n intercsting, & Sun reporter called upon Dr. Bayard, at his residence, yesterday. The Dootor_received the reporter- courteously, and detailed to him the particulars of Mr. Gree- ley's illness after tho battle of Bull Run, ita causes, and tho treatmcnt, 80 farsshe could remember them. The following is tho conver- sation : Reporter—I have called, Doctor, to gat & his- tory of Mr. Greeley’s illness afier the retreat irom Buall Ran. Have you any objection to make the facts public ? Dr. Bayard—No objection in the least. I have thought ever since I read tho opimions of tho doctors who treated Mr. Greeley in-his last sick- ness, that it was my duty to tell what I know of tho man, and my judgment as to his disease and ; its treatment. You see, I knew Mr. Greeley for | many years. Iwas his physician, and studied i him closely, a8 ovory physician should study a + constant patient. Eu.n:c thig lust illness | < I olways attended in his eickness, ‘and I am conyinced . that bhad Lo Leen i freo from tko influenco of men who iere unquestionably Lis friends, but not wiee ed- | visers in medicino, I should have been called in to administer to him then. Now you : residents al] his tife; deserted by tho Trish, whose best friend he_had proved; an h;, sent from g friend's bouse to a private madhouse, wasn't that enoughr to make & man crazy? Ile wanted gentlo treatment, kindness, quict ; in the place of that, 0 far a8 I can underatand, many wer continually irritating him. A man 1n his condi. tion may fly in'o 8 passion gnd bresk o welch, without necessarily Leing pronouncei inrape. One of ihe docrors Limeolf says that 3Ir. Grocioy was in constant antagenism to ther, Docs it follow from that tact that Lo was erazy 7 I think vot. - However, I cannot talk much myyn the subjoct of Lis doath, for I had nothing to 4o with him at that time. I can illustrate the trait of character of which 1 spokse in the bogiuning. that Mr. Greeley when 8¢ work lived in tho apirit of his work 1nd for ot elf, while a reaction inevitably ensued. went with him to Baltimore just before the election, and even then I could Beo the weari- ness of frame creeping over him. He would lie down whenever he an opportunity, and seemed in mo wise interested in the ple around him. He was becoming exhausted, and Zfelt irritable. I took him to see & remarkably fine garden. It was only a short distance, and 1 knew ho was interested in such things. He¢ started with me, but s0on sat down, eayi could go no_farther. Vhen ho stesped upon tho State Agricultural Society's plattorm, how, ever, all the exbaustion Beemed to leave him- and he'delivered ono of the finest speschesl ever heard. Assoon 28 he had finished, how- over, the rezction came, and ho was down again —awsy down. Idon’ know thatIcan tellyog anytiing more. PERSONAL. Colonel J. P. Baker, of Springfield, {s spokex- of as Governor Oglesby’a private secretary. —Jomes M. Swank, Chief Clerk of the De- partment of Agriculture, bas resigned, totaka effect Jan. 1. —Qolonel Dorsey, formerly of Ssndusky, is & candidate for Un.ityéd Stntesy Senator from Az~ kansaa, : —Alexander Forbes has resigned as Princi; of the Cleveland Normal Bnhoofn “ R 9‘! —Judge William'T7 Mitchell, of Port Huron, Mich., has resigned. Salazy too small, ' —Ban Wade has a daughter who is g tc ;.nu-ry % poor carpenter just becauso ghe wants 0. : —R. B. Carpenter, formerly of Covingtan, Ky., 13 boar electea n Tadge of 1he Supzefifs‘ Cot of South Carolina. —Arly Plummer,:of Londonderry, N, E., claima to be the oldest Postmaster in ths_ State. He was appoiuted in 1834, 7 —General Hood, formerly of the Confederate said to have Leen led by his thirat for @ to go into the drug businessic —T'he oo, Elihu B. Washburne waa at Cam- bridge, Washington County, X. Y., last woek, oz a vistt to the Rev, H. G. Blinn. 25 —Ex-Governor Stephen Miller will not bosa candidate for Spesker of .the Minnesota House of Represontatives, _ . —The Rev. Zachariah Eddy, of Chelses, Mass., declines s call to Detroit, his people having paid - the Hoating dabt of e chusch and given him —Alrs, McKean Buchanan and her sister, Misa Roberdean, who- for several years resided in Cbl.rlsstnwn‘ Muss., have become permanert of Washingten, —DMMrs, Governor Hoffmsn and daughter par- pose leaving Albany on the 30:h inst:, and Gov- ernor Hoffman. an Jan. 1, and on the- 8th prox. army, is] human Georgia. ¢ they seil from New.York on zn extended Eu- ropean toar. . i —J. Milton Turner, ourMinister to Liboria, is making & tour of observation thronghout tho South, and when Inst heard from was airing Lis ¥ . want o bistory of hin sickness after the battls of Bull Run. I'think the best preface to that -will be o few words fu relation to my knowledgo of the man. X Roporter—I think wo could not proceed on 2 better system. . . Dr. Bayard—What I kmow about Mr. Greeloy ' is founded upon a closeacquaintance and friond- ! £lip of many years' standing. I know him, not simply as a patient, but s & comjln!:.ion. Ho was, first of ell, of & very nervous ahd excitablo ! temperament. He was very impressible, i too, to the opinious of those around him, " During the empniga the notion became very widely spreed that Mr. Greeley was thick-skin- * ned, and did not feel the asseults mado upon | him by those whom politics made his enemies. | Tliza was & very orroneous impression, and if Lis countrymen had known the man better he would + havo been spared meny a cruel blow, which fell { upon him with stunuing force. ¥l wam extreme- - ! 1y mensitive to criticism, and when Lis powerfal m'?mizt.tu:n broke down, his depression invari~ ably took tho form of mourning and worrying o:‘t:x evils which he imagined he had done to others, . Now, 2dd to & mind of this eensativo naturea capncify for doing and an_amhition {o du Lard work, and you can nnderatand something of _the character 6f Mr. Greeley, 60 far as it bears apon ; tho question of his disense. He was earnest and single-eyed in pursning the work which Lo laid out for himself, Inthatwork he sank, as it were, his physical individuality. By a force eculiar to his spirié, by very largenees of soul, e carried himself beyond his physical powers. i wes ho in the labor that he mnever to think of tho physical effect which must %Jecgsuily follow such extrsordinary exeriio”; + and lived in the spirit of his work. \Wi%en tha work was done, it waa_natural that preat-mise- chief ehould fallow. Prostraticn of losg ’ power for a time, were inavitahl6. It tyas like j man running for his life, B logg 53 the excite~ i muent lsats, power remaing, VWhen the -mo- Horace Groeley has been just rnnning for his life for ml.ux years. Ihavo ftudied him well, Do you understand the Point 1 amh—yini{tro Greeley's organization that attacks of the kind which ended in Ly death weroalmost inevitable, Reporter—I think that point is sufciently Dr. Raysrd—Very well. Now I will tell you all i Ican remember of his illness sfter :haygisu- trous retreat of the Union army from Bull Run. must depend on memory alone, and it octurred | twelvoyearaago, Imadesome notesof my treat- ment and the symptoms of the disesse attho i cannot even give you the date, but perhapas the battle] of Bull Run will fix it near ezongh, It was justafter that. Iwas called in to see Mr. in body and mind. He was stretched at fall length “on the sofs when I ontered; his faco, which was naturally very white, 28 you know, i looked to me 25 though ho was fast bresk- ing up into & fotal wreck. Ho took very little notice of anybody around Lim, and did He bad lost his appetite, ‘was unable to sleep. His thoughts seemed to be contini dwelling on _one subject, and he _ropeated theso em ruingd | The country ia yuinéd, and I sm in- strumental in its ruin, I wish I counld die. I never cau survive it,” his mind was fast a‘lipping away, There was no evidence of insenity, howaver, either then or at eny time duringthe sickness. Isaw what the quence, overworked his Lody ; and so e Whilo the oxcitement lasted ha was 1fto?, ‘ap.. of appetite and elacp, and éven a ¥oas of mental. tive for action cesses, ha fltopl_exhanxlet:l. make? I want toshox fom the natureof plain, Doctor. . I can only give you a general notion of it, for L time, but I have been unsble to find them, 1 Greeley, and I found him utterly prostrated was exceedingly pale even for him, and he not oven salute me when I gsmu:hed Lim, words_ alt the time, seldom v: gthem: “I It seemed to me, 23 Ilooked upon him, that matter was in an instent. Mr. Greoley had overtaxed his brain and body, aod the | sudden " reverses of the nion ermy at Run bad fallen upon him like a crushing shock. Heeaw brother ar- rayed against brothor in deadly strife, and Lis name was mentioned by his enemies 28 one of the main causes of the bloody war. It was too much for his sensitive organization, weakened a3 it was by hard, unremitting toil, and Le sank undor the blow and became as powerless as o babe, ““The grasshopper had become o burden to him.” He bad been pouring_his very lifo out 23 from an open-mouthed pitcher. It was my Dbueiness to reverse the pitcher and save what little of vitality was left. My treatment was entirely homeeopathic, Its object was to arouse the vital spark g0 nearly exhausted, and to resist the tendeucy to siu!’s under his burdens, not by stimulation, which abstracts but never adds to force, but by reme- dies 80 adjusted under the homeophatic laws zs to excite the resisting powers of his nature. I cannat now rememter preciscly what I pre. #oribad, but I was carefal not to give him large doges, which overwhelm the system. In ten daya ho was well again, and at his work asusnal. He had fully rocovered his Bpirits, ate with zest, and elopt peacefully, ; _Reporter—Yon saythat henever exhibited any sigos of insanity? Dr. Barard—XNever, He was perfectly sane, Lut Iaboring nnder deprossion of spirits, caused by & grea shook to his sensitive organization, which had been weskened by constant overwork of mind and body. Reperter—And in all respects except the phase of insanity Ar. Grecloy s Siseese was. simaar 0 | that which recently ended in Lis death ? . i _Dr. Bayard—So far as 1 can learn, precisely | similar. I was not called ia to see Alr. Greele in bis fast illaess, and, of conrse, can only speak <f that from whit I havo heard. I can essily nuderstand, howerver, that Mr. Greeley might have been irritsble without being insane, orted by {ho Llicks, for whom ho had fought i He overworked his brain, and, of & cunsa—l yard. i . Onretuning, she found o~ | h diplomacy st Vicksvurg.™ © —A rural paper in Pendsylvanis, in an obitu- ary motice of Farrest,.asys: ** She was never cquallod in_ her_time by any Terpsichorean ar- tisto, though Bonfantf end Beity Digl werc formidable rivals in-her later yeers.” ~This is the seme editor srho.wrate Irom Washingion to his paper that ‘ Focahontas was 2 noble-look- ing man.” s R —Charley Barzon, fop many years agent for the Chicags & Northwestern %.uway C«g:mp.\ny: at Oghkoub, being offered the positior of Assist- ont General Freight :Agent, declired, for ths rea- son that acceptance . W nmecesgitate his re~ moval to Chicago.” . . : ~—The estimazed wealth of the most eminent writors of France, all of whom started in Iife without anything is ‘a8 Jollows: _Victor Hag 690,000f ; George Band, mearly bwice as muss? Imile de Girardin, 3,500,000f; Adolph %57, 1,000,000¢; Alexandre Durmas, fils, 00,0007 , 1 mond About, 250,000¢ ; Alphotiso Karr, 7y b0z Julas Janin, 750,00 ; Edoua:d Labor' zvo" 109,” 000f ; Victorien Sardod, 50,0308, "Tjeophile Gaautier died a millionaire,” 800 {1g widows of Beribe and Ponsard. live ia. 8%, yancs,” But the widow of the celebrated P~ oidhon has to eko oul & precarious lividg as7, yyasherwoman. — Fable=sn b T8 M nch Credits 1r, Keeno, & 9, qwd and thrifty farmer of Al- lenborough, ¢¥.1ed 4 Jarge flock of sheep, and one autuiiy "yyhay it came Lousing time, 10 was greatly #57,056d ‘npon missing & number of his Lnest 7 uttons’ among them ee or four Weths”g which ho had raised snd fattened for Riaen table. . He:was sure it was not the work % dogs, and tho most he conld do was toiwait ‘further developments. On the following spring, when his sheep werg turned out to. paature, he instituted-a arefu; watch, and ere long Le detected Tom St:diney, ! & neighboring “farmior, in the act of pilfaing & i sheep ; but he made no noise about it a: tne time. Stickney whs s man weli-te-do, and Xeena did not care to expose him. _Auntumn came' again, and n_counting up his flock, Mr. Keene found eight sheap miusi He made ont a bill i» due form to Thoras Sti ‘ney for the eight ateep, and presentedit. Stick ney choked-and stammered, but did_not back down. Liks a.predent man he paid tho bill aad pocketed ths receint. B |~ Another springtime came, and Mr, Keene’s sheep wera agamturned ont. Anotlier autumn came, and the farmer again took an sécount of * Hid sfock, and thistime fifteen aheep were tiss- :ing. As before, b3 made out the bill to Tom Btickney for-the whole number missing; Lug this time Tom objzcted. 1t in too-much of & good thing,” said he. “ Fiftcen sheap ! \Vhyl bless your soul, I hadn’s hadx fivth part d ‘om.” a5 Mir. Koene was inoxorsblo, “There 13 thr bill,” smd he, “and Ihave made it ot in gyod faith. I have made no fuss when my -sheey have been missing, because I d.ae‘n{;fllqw'nrmdlzg%ud and mfilcm ient.” s S Well,” growed Tom, with 2 bj . sappose T ass oboy ; buk,” he sadeq: f;lxgphfi— : ically, ““we’ll doso that acconut from this time. You have giver me too much credit altogether— soma other mscal has been stealing onm the: strongth of it"—Pillsburgh Chronicle. e Hoasting Elis Sistcr. “Fron the St. Louis Globe, Dec. 17.. A pecnliarly horrible case of juvenile Zbpr: oy occurred yeserdsy, in a house an Souzh Twe¥ ik street, oppofito ti jail Ars. Wrigit, occupying one of fhe ehay fes, yesterdsy afternoon left in her xoom her ¥ afint dsnghter Mury, aged one monih, and I .r son Pierre, sged three years, for-the pury ose of obtaining abucket of water from s i toing ber infant ef yveloped in tlames, jud "tho boy dancing and. i Eoneh i ras Sooets Sand low’ ghingad ‘The mokwer extinguished the flames® ing the coitents of the bucket in her] tis burnizg clild. The litfe surferer wes immediate’ |y taken to the+ Health Office, where all was dor 13, th yras possibleto alleviate the pain, Itws 5 found that the chill's whole body was crisped,’ the faco only Liaving iscaped inj In questioning theboy about t s cause of the aceideat, he seained to not undersd and that any=- thingsyvere hizd happened, but ay peared pleasod in'tetling Jow he took 3 piece of paper and lit it at tho fira in the stove, and tlf » touched the ighted papar to yhe bottam of ! aiy sister’s dresc a2y sho lsy on the fioor, **just tg see the fun.” There 18 10 hopaa of. the iu fant’s recoverizg, 28 the injurics aro supposed to be fotal, N ———— A Snake-Suory, ' From the Norfolk (Va) 8 wrnnt, Dec. 1 Yosterday morning, abaut. 11 o't’:'luck; s man attracted consideratle 1ittention’ by walking through thejstracts with a¥uge anake srapped around hisbody and owar ' his shouljer o said he had puiled his snaweship from bene 1 pile of luzber on Bell's Wharf.” The ane --.was measured sod £ound to be eight feet two » acies inlongth and nius inchbes in eircumra;l:nce- It wasalive, but in & torpid stute, Or. being pleced on” the floor pemr a hot «stovo, ;: 8300 dnilxg_\;ed signa of ing its Lead and thristing ont its tongue. el e s el el ng . e color i Light brown, with numerous spots smtx‘efi-eg\fro: the body. Tho negro said it was & ‘b soun’ 8008 of those who saw jt £aid it was &; water mJeassin, but the genotal opinion was - that it had escaped frcm by throw- aand upon It wos