Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1872, Page 2

W THIE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUAE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1872 DUBUQUE. The Bluffy Little City Shak- ing Up. [ts Successfel Birngglo with fhe Epi aoticlts Bearing Under liigh Refigioas Excitement, Boys Tho Pass Counterfeit Bfoney, and Adults Wioc Lose Their Reason. Tre Smail-Pox Out on Its Travels---A Scheel Board Imbroglio, and the Guestion of Public Schools, otal Correspondence of The Chicago Tridune, Drncaur, Towa, Dec. 26, 187, The heart of this community is thoroughly «d. The lceal pulse is at fover-heat, Pal- on of tho heart setin four or five weeks zre undeslio this state of things; but why tuinzs should bo thus, T am unable to af- £rm. Possibly the advanced position Dabuque en on the line of railways,—of correspondent gave Tme TRIDUNE ion some weeks since,—Las pre- Yor this now deal. It may be ique has come out of her old courso i3 to be aitended with moro mena. Tho present shaking-up this sequence, for, while tho cities : are purening their even tenor, Du- in o ferment of excitement. Why, ; bearing steadily down upon us ;it 2) degrees below zero, has hardly ing effect. Daut to tho review of this s to which I have elluded: in order,—thongh I'm nob suro tho fack + slicady been published,—we received, by of mail, tho PARATLYZING IPIZ00TIC. a7cwas first opened in one of our o5, but soor. was sneezed around into v cvers borse-stzll in fhe city. But we ve got bravely over that now, und with the of only shout & half-dozen patients. Our sence in this live had nothing peculisr in Tho ofice of Dobbin was inagnifid unto 224 50 was the price of fncl. Dut wo wero :5h with the fnquirs, ¢ Mow shall we when the EDWTATD PATSON HAMMOND upon us, and now tho great inquiry | Fow chall we eave oursclves?” Mr. Ham- ~2d comes among us o full-fed, fully-fledged lism. Tho clergymen of tho 2al churches had prepared shors with a maoss-meetivg of Sunday ool ckildren. HMorping and evening meetings, renersily largely attended, have been held daily Yor tro weeks post, end Mr. Hommond is ex- yeeted to stir up cur altar-fires here until Mon- , the 30¢h inst. Mr. Hammond announced ngh the press (hat he weuld preach to gam- plers 2o thieves last Sundsy morning, and the L] Protesient Caureh in the city was packed The full with eager lis Jiany, in fact, fef the ehurch orrawing besause they conld nob £nd room in the building. Imight add, by way of parenthesis, that Dr. Hammond's strongest Joint is his faculty for making direct appeals. I ive this on tho nuthority of the Times here, whicn paper bas given detailed reports of the frogress of the rovival. Tio Herald hes also iven considerable epace to the * great awaken- fag.” The Times, bhowerer, hus given the most copious digests of the discourse. This fact is worthy of remark, from its strangeness; sor, if the munagers of the Herald Lave r dominaiing ¥chburacter. other than that that characteriatic is of the To 1i, I wich to be excused irenching on theological grounds hero. Some peoplo may be auxious to know what ef- feci tho vicitation of Dr. Hammond is having pon Dubuque society. I wishI could eatiefy e on this point, but I mistrust my fitnoss for the tesk. Itfecr ivsa littlo “mixed.” In at- tempting to indicato this, I shall contine mysel! gtrictly to facts. PRAYING IN THE SALOONS. The meetings, as I beforo remarked, have been fally ettended, tnd many bave professed conver- ¥ion in these, ‘Two meotings huve been held in £alcons; or, I ghould ssy, two_sttempts havo T-een made 1o hold them. In the first iustance, all <:ent well until the mceting was ovor and the revivalists hed gone, and then followed a scono “t ‘uproarious mirth, Sougs wuro sung, and itments drank that wero ehocking enough to jan car; but the saloon-Eeeper was aud tho next worning miade open “TLo best advertisement tooik in more than on any r day since I opened” The “econd meeting was held, or attempted to b n & enloon on Ciristmes morning. But me the keep.er of the ealoon objected. Dr. mond, with 2 emall number of tho devoul, giided into Arshur O'Malley's place, and mado Treperations to sing. But the groprietar inter- Fosed, *)Mr. Iammond” said Arthur, “you | ¥ can bo cscused. My place is | Tot text ldiug prayer-meetings in. *f Cen't wo king one hymn bere, sir? o, sir,” firnilr, but respectfully, replied the ~1 RKecp 8 quict place here, and | s busincss. Iwant no noise here.” 4. with this, bo opened the door for the re- 318 to go out. : n will plezse como up to the church this " gaid Mir. Hammond, addressing the | seeper ngain, just as tho door was closing them. “That's buviness,” rejoined Arthur, giving Hammond & suggestive iwinklo of the eye, o shut the door to znd went back to seo tho Eammond's offort ecems to bo tomake all £ ¢an reach profess “love to Jesus,” £ cd pame familiar bo success, Lo slundantly. Do you love o you experienced o change of such like cxpressions, sreheard on sl gides; but they generally pass from boys to and are spolien in such light s to raise &uspicien in the miuds of peoplo whostand Sicof from this Lusiness. Thero is a growing iblo harm is to come of al g eay of theso ealoon and siroct-meetinge, ** Wretched taste.” They wateh 1i¢ pro mado, and strengthen thoir unke- cating stich incidents asthe following, sctusl oceurTonces here : 11 high-star remains here & fow da ing in Platto- <hiie, +, while con- omplating a trip to California. Shoattendstwo or_three of theso rovival-meetings, and then | B wekes up, in Lier Lotel, & religions maniac, and 4hen wakes up tho wholo houso with her frantic ! sppez: A young mav, £on of a prominent citizen here, atteade these meetinge, and is now *unclothed 2nd out of Lis right mind,” roeming the city, end talking most incoherently, but never faili 7o mske tho idea of **theeo rovival-moetings” yrominent in 2l his desullory street-corner . But, in both of thése casea me onetitutional weakness of mind is ce- who thirk well of tho re- % protest ageinst theso cases Leing t the religious revival. ILDREY £ rerhans the most ralutary, and yet some cases con Larlly be relieved of tio ludicrous in them. -¢302," sxid s littte girl, tho other day; “mayn't Izoznd geo * Humply Dumpty’?” Oh!" replied lLer mother, “I'm afraid ‘re Kot & good child " Ob, ma! dolet mo go,” begged the little cracett, 1 will lovo Jesug if you'll let me go xud eee ‘Tumpty Dumpty.’ " tii0 wornt caso which has yet developed is st of tho little boy who, ou'the third night o Lis_cooversion, bougiit one of Dr. Hum- “252d's 25-cent books, paying for it with a coun- it t-cont piece. ' After meeting, he treated clams with sweatmeais with the genuino arter he Liad received in exchange, VISITATIONS OF MALL-20X. Ouce or twicea year, with diegnsting regu- v. tha poople of Dubitue are imposed upon {imerating empll-pox patients. onow have veloped cases on_First strect, near iain, directly tracezble to o St. Louis imports~ 1ion. That this discase gets under such bead- 2y nmong us, it owing to tho want of an ofii- ciple that “ An umbrelln is of no_account only when it raine.” But wehope fer better thinga. _ ONE JOATD T00 MANY. But, while Dubuque is_very much in_want of an efficient Bonrd of Health, ‘onr District Court has Leen ongaged ono straight week in theat- Lempt to arbitrato & cnxo from Teblo Mound township, Letween Boards of Scbool-Direetors. ‘[0 old Lonrd refasos to give pluce to the gen- tlemen who ciaim to bave becn chosen nt the recent election. The townsbip is subdivided into reven districts, and tho sevon Direciors conatitute n Board of Flectors to chooke thei officors, The Tressuzer and Sceretary stick Lo (heir seats, and muintain that the eciection of their successors was informal, aud {hercfore void. The jury wers out on thix cazo over twon- ty-four hours, and, having failed to agree, tho Court discharged them. And o tho caso will como up egain st o future sossion. It 8 o “ Louisiant: imbroglio” on & small cale, but wo Took for no relief 1rom tho Whito ounee. There is, however, no houor, no money, aud, possibly, no principlo at stake “iu this case, though the counsel for tho would-be new Board inform me thai their clients are Frotestant, whilo tho old members are Catholic, and that this was tho in- fiuenco that lost them their causo, Do this as it may, it is pleasnnt to remark that sectarian in- fluence has not asserted iteelf in the conduct of tho public schools of Dubuque County, to their detriment, «s yot, though it is no sccrot that Bishop onnesse, of this Diocese, holds our PUELIC SCHOOL SYSTEM in most cordial disfavor. Itisno mecret, alfo, that quite & nuwmber of our Catholic citizens subject themselves constantly to tho rebukes of their pricst, for oxercising their choice. Ly send- ing their children to the public echools. I will take occasion hera to aid in removing an impres- sion which has someshat obtained in this com- munity, touching A VERY PAINFTL CIRCUMSTANCE of racent ocenrrence,—an _impression which T am assured does great injastice to tho Right Roverend Bizuop. 2Mr. J. J. E. Norman, for trelve years past tho School Superintendeat in this county, eame to a shocking death some two wecks since, by being tirown from a wagon. Tho deceased was o Catholic, and considered by Protestants one of the most devout members of tha Church, though an ardent friend to the public 00l system, The deceased was rofused Chiristian burial by the Dishop and officers of tho Chureh, and the sym- pathics of the catiro community wero thereby excited and Teelings aroused that were not alto- gether Chrietian. I am assured, however, that tho solo causa for this rofusal of Catholic burial rites wye the fact that the deceased had been re- miss, 2ad was not, at tho timo of his deail, o regular communicant. VzstE COSHOCTON, O. A Can for Mayor Medill-Tanufac- tures—¥ron—Coal Ficld Correxpendence of The Chicago Tritune., CusuocTor, 0., Dec 23,1872, Wohold o little claim on Tue Taises for spaco, 83 this torn was onco the stamping- ground and battlo-iield of the presont Jfayor of Chicego,—the Tmnose Medill. The oldest inbabitents refer, with a longing desiro for his return, to the timo when Medill edited the Coshocton dge, mow memrly a half-a-ceutury old. This county is, or has beon regarded as, one of the sure strong-holds of Democracy. ever since Medill left, as it bad beon before Lo camo hero. It was nsver known to waver, except whilo tho present Mayor of Chicago was editing tho Age, which was done with such vim oud tact that the county ¢ flopped over ” ono year, end cleaned out tho Democeracy, Toot and branch. While meny would lite to welcomo the old-timo editor back to his old chair, in tho Age oftice, there is & fecling of fesr and doubt about the success cf any offort to accomplish this result, even if ho should learn that tho Postmastership of the burg is now attached to the Age. Creswell pays, say 91,500, and the Age might possibly pay $300 more. If ho should sco this, and think favorably of o re-engagement hore upon this basis, ho may ‘make a note of it” in Tae Trmcse, and we will sce what can e done. T might os well add that the place has grown some eince tho time he was hero. It claims nearly 2,000 inbabiiauts. Though not as largo 18 Chicago, yet it is still growing, witha good deal of room left for enlargemont. Tho lust year has added a large manufecturing establish- ment,—the “Iron and Stecl Works,” working over 100 mep, and manufacturing all gr wagon end carrizgo axles, and iron bridges, which find a market oven beyond Chicago. Tho place glso has its “ First” National Bank, with & capital of 100,000, paying 12 per cent or more, and two puivate brokcr-shops, besides varions branches of trado that go to build up & place. Cushocton is located nbont 80 miles east of Col- umbus, end 56 miles from New York, on tho ¢ Pan-Handle” Railrord, with a prospect of two or threo intersecting and cross-ronds at no distant day. In the immediato vicinity, and in tho pext county zbove tlig, is & good supply of iron orc, that only waits dovelopment to make it a source of great wealth. Tho colebrated * Dlack-Tand” ore section is near Lere, and is being bought u by forcign capitalists who know its valuo and its scarcity. It is gaid to be fully cqual to the seme kind of ore in Scotland, and sbout the only sec- tion of it in this conatry. | The great and prescnt-available mineral ro- sources are the nsive beds of superior bitu- minous coal found here, which will Lo a_source of larye fature profit to thoso who possess them. | Aa vt thoy Live never been extensively worked, for the fack of eapital, nud otlier causes, and, | therefore, bave not established a public roputa tion, like tho * Hocking Valley,” and other couls kuown from their district of countsy ; but, whet the superiority of our coal hecomes kmowa, it will bs_in demand, and commond au estra | vice according to its quality, Tho market Las Toretafore becn local, within 150 miles of the | mines ; and, where this coal has come into com- | petition with other coals, it is preferred. ‘Careful and scientific tests of tho strength of Coshocton coal wero made two years ago by | John Durand, then General Manager of the Pittsbargh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Road (in- | Cluding tho * Pun-Haudlo ”), and he found it to produce from 25 to 50 per cont moro steam than other coals on the line of road; and carefal tests by engineers at Columbus havo found the samo results, During the past year, somo of tho | banks have sont small shipments to your Clicago dealers, inclnding, as I am told, the fms of ‘Ames & Co., Rand & Co., Blake & Whitchouse, ‘Alcott & Bra., Tobort Lavr, ete. 1 am also in- formed that 'tho coal hind a tost at your Water Works, aud proved its strengtly for steam by Ohio standard coal, gallons, Straitaville, gallots... Iudiana Block, gallons, Coshocton, gallous. . Lackawanna (hard) gallons. 1 think o close and accurate test will ehow our coal to & good déal better advantago than thi yot oven this exbilit prosents (L geat strong of Coshocton coul for steam, grate, aud all do- ‘mestic uses where heat is required. Oue pe- ! culiavity of our coal is, it burns quick and free, lasts o long time, and_leaves only a small trace of ash or cinders, It is hard, and clean {0 hau- dle; nud, if left without n draft over night, o all will be live and red-bot in the morning, 15 tho necessity of rekindling a firo overy Allit requires is a fow ashes thrown over it on retiring. ‘Those who bave nscd many | grodes of coal doclare that our coal is remark- { able for retaining heat over night for tento fourteen Loure. » Thero is talk that some of our riines may open & yard for tho sale of this cosl in Ciricazo, when sour consumers will become better acquainted With its superior qualities. 1lerctoforo, it has I not been known or quoted a8 o braud, Wo Liope that Mr. Craswell's big jobof at- ! tending to all tho telegraphing. ns well es letter correspondence, of tho peaple, will be defeated. THo has got moro on his_Lauds now than ho can | do well.” For inatance, it tack him two days to | got Tre Trpoxe from Chicaga to Coshocton, foss than 200 miles. Wo don's want to givo Lim auy mora work 1o do, | —_—— | —Tt etvikes the St. Lonis press as “a nolice- able fact” that all the Pacific or trans-coatinea- tal railways will bo_controled or centralized at Philsdelphia, through the instrumentality of tho | Pennsylvania Railroad. Well, there is ©o_sort ! of doubt that the menagement in question is ! laying plans which will probably reeuls in con- trolling n large pert of the trafiic of the Aissis- ! sippi Valloy and tho Pacific. ILis a question of brains, energy, foresight,iand resources. If St. Touis zud tho Southwest had s Colone! Scott of | their own, there would be comparatively little | necessity for the interposition of the Pennsylva- | % Compauy in the railrocd sffairs of that ecc- tion. k¢ howver, g8 its people confess | tLeir noed of cuiaprehensive schemes adapted to | the practical roquiremczts of trade, and admit thoir own inability to furnish ihcm, they must not think it strango i others step in aud carry jent Biard of Healih. The rulings of our City ¥alhers on this health question are on tho prin- off the vrizes from undor their very noses, | Pittshurah Comercial raising gallons of water, as follows, per pound: | MRS, SAHM. JORES. She Writes a TLetter from Home---Why She Writes from Home. Something About Home---A Warm View of a Cold Sub- Jject---The Weather, &e., Ke. Special Correspondeizce of The Chicago Tribune. Howxr, Dec. 26, 1872, I dateray letter from home, for the renson that I writa it there. Peoplo should always wriio {from home, unless they are away on a visit orcn business. Then yon know that I livein tha couatry, while many people reside in town, and some other people stay in tho rural districts. I prefer to live in the country, for with it are as- sociated all my idens of real pieasure, aud ns much of happiness as one may reasonablyexpect to enjoy. Then I like to be at home, for it was thero that Sam and me sot up housckecping. It is where Joln, and Mary, and Sarsh Aun were born; and, now that John is married, and keep- ing house with his own wife and little son Eddie, it hias become more dear to me ; for, when they mokeus a visit, thoy eall it *coming home.” Then, when X look over ihe lawn, where stand the spruces, and pines, and arborvitms, andhem- locks, and balsams, and larches, thowillows, and meples, and nnumerous other trees that Sam (that is my husband) planted when they wero littlo trees, where Jobn, and Mary, and Sarah Ann used to play on the grass, Iknow it is our home, for it has grown up with us, and become, as it were, & part of our own sclves. I do not eavy those people who reside in tho city, for 1 suppose they get used to it, nor to those who stay anywhero; let me live at home, and other people may stzy where tlicy please. It should be the first great object in housekeoping to have o home, for, as the old song has it, *There is no place like home;” and this of iteelf ought to render us content, and inducoe us to make that home as pleasant as possible. Well, let mo tell you something ebout how wo mauaged our home. The fact is, when we came toit, it wasnot a very attractive home, only that Sam aund me thought iat we would make it plessant and then there were but two of us to {i1l the home and whoee comiort was to be con- sulted. We called this THE NEW HOME tor a long time; for, when wo went back to visit tho old home, wo called that *going home.” Dut, after wo had laid out the lawn, and planted tho trees, and when they began to grow and look &5 though they would, in time, become big trees, we begaa to call it home; and thou, when wa talked of making a visit to the old homestead, it ‘was to eo father and mother. DBut times are changed, for then we had to send a long distance for trees, and pay a big prico for them, but we gect to the nurseries direct, and they always came in good order, nud we took good care in planting, and tLese are the reasons why our trees havo grown 50 nicely. Now wo can get plenty of trecs so cheap that mo ome can have an excuso for mot planting, and yet we ses a large percentage of tho farm-houses without trces. Oh! how I did pity all such people shen that storm came last week, 2nd the wind whistled and drove the snow through the cold air. The snow settled in great drifis on the outside, or ratherin the borders of our lawn, and out through the trees wo could see the wraith, as Mr. Hogg calls it in his winter evening tales, which I suppose is the wild spirit or director of all theso fierce storms that come to us from away up toward tho North Pole. Bat Sam had all Lis cows in the stable, the pigs had ‘warm nests, and overything was made comforta- Dblo; end then Sam came in ana sat down to read the'doings of Congress, and thoso interesting letters from the Indisn ccuntry, and about Tranco, and the like. **Polly,” nald he, **this Tominds mo of tho 1st of January, 1864, when wave after wave of cold came down from tho North, froze up the traiue, destroyed car-loads of hogs, crept into tho cellar, destroying the fruit and vegetables, and killed hundrods of people, from the Red River of the North as for South as the Basin of Egypt. You remomber how tho snow came, and how it was driven befere the wind, and how fearfully cold it was for days, snd even weeks. Itlooksio me as though the his- tory of the weather is repeating itself.” Yes, I said ; and in 185, about the middle of January, we biad a like storm, and tho cold continued for two months, Then, oh hew the wind screamed about our new homs, for then the trees were too small to break its force, and thero woro great drifts about the house, and it was that storm that led us to plant £o0 many trees about tho barnyard, and on the west and eoath sides of tho house-grounds. For, after the snow had ccased, tho wind came out of the southwest and out of the northweat, and so it Las been since, during these ccld terms, for we have found that tho most unpleaeant winds come from the south~ west, Now thoso storms do not alarm ms, for the tall trees, now 40 or 50 feet high, break the force of tho wind, and the storm comes to us mildly, though outside it howls and shrieks most fearfully. PEOPLE WHO HAVE OUR GTMPATIY. I do not seo how people who own farms con- tinue th negleet tho planting of trees, ot least about tie Louso; thas they do so, i§ almost everswhera evident. It apposrs tome that they do not caro about making n homo, and £z0 sim- ply staying,—making o weary pilgrimage, as they £ay, in this vale of tears. Now, that 1may be all woll enough tor them, but I prefer to tuke ¢ little solid comfort in this journey cf life, in order to be the better prepared for tho noxt. CHRISTIAS VISITS. Christmas visits are nico to read sbout, and sometimes give us real enjoyablo times; but here, in this changeablo climate, which may bo all smiles to-dzy and all frowns fo-morro good thing to bo at ono's own fircside. A ride of fivo or ten miles to tho cars, and then a long, chilly ride iu them, when you are again traus- ferred to an open wagon, with the mereury below zero, is rather devoid of real pleasure; and yot this is the rule rather than the oxcoption. Christ- ‘masis, no doubt, a good thung in thecity or village, but it is not a good thing in the country north of 89 degrees of latitude,—at least, not on a large scalo; but it shouid rather be a domestic institution. I suspect the Christmas merry- making has much to do in planting the sceds of consumption; and many o family have been brought to gricf in the fading uwwsy of some loved son or daughter, who, from warm rooms, tave been chilled on their way home. Our neighbor Sanders was at Chicago last week, and ! ho paid the cars were crowded with men, women, and children, on their way to hold Christmas with relatives and friends. - The amount of suf- fering that they endured on the delayed trains as, in hig opinion, more than could ba com- pensated by the pleasure of the contemplated vigit. Ono woman had three little, half-clad | children, who had 300 miles of cold, weary travel { beforo them; but then thoy were to sec” grand- father at the end of it, for he had sent them monoy to pay their paseage. She eaid the jonr- ney would cost over 30, and_the monoy would Dhave done her more good to have been’ turned into good warm clotling, to make them comfort- ablo at home. Thea ® littlo moro money for books, and s newspaper, and pene, and paper, gud a little ink, so that she could write home once a woek, and have social chat with grand- father. But he wanted to rce the little ones, and did not feel safo in leaving his warm room to incur such a journey; and yot the littls half- clads were making tho attempt. From tho care they would have twelvemiles of staging. They | misucd one counection, and hid to lsy over for four long hoursin o half-warmed station-house. The littlo ones sobbed themselves to sicep on tho cold floor, wrapped in their mother's shawl, while she had to walk up aud down_the room to Leep warm. Neighbor Savders said this was but one case out of meny, but the saddest, for the hugband could not be with them. They bad moved West six yearsago, and were struggling i tomake a new home; but, for the want of means, they made but slow progress. As much | ag sho desired to eeo her father aud show him the littlo oncs, she would havo remained at home if she bad had any idea of the trials of the journoy at this scason of the year. The taking of childron from home at this fcason, under such circumstances, is simply cruel. I must return from this digression, for I sat down to write you about SOME LITTLE DOMESTIO MATTERS that at this time interest us women. I want to put in my protest in rogard to the beds and bed- Tooms that are now in general use in the coun- try. Gentlomen who visit us complain that there are fow good beds in the country; that, on winter nights especially, they are compelled to eleep on summer beds, snd that they eaffer, {in conseque: can remember whon 1 was & pul, and befors wo camo West, | the farmard beds wora smolo. and 1o one slept cold f& the want of warm woollen sheets, foather-bels, and plenty of good warm comforts. If theriis any one thing that con- duces to good henth, it is having a good bed, and & well-nired, gy, warm room, to sleep in. In thecity, in thi better class of dwellings, the hoating by stoam or Liot-nir flues i3 vory ploas- ant; but. in the cantry, we csunot expect any suoh luxuries, andyet thero is no reason why wo may not make ousclves comfortable. 1 will, therefore, first spak of TFMYERS' BEDS. Inthe first Elm, the bodstead should have springe, ond thos) need not be expensive, sim- ply wooden slats mspended at the cods by the sid of India-rubbe!straps. Then we must hayo what wo swomen cll & straw-tick. That should ga filled with dry;am—lmsks stripped into rib- ons, Hngks tha have been in the corn-house fora fow monthi, andthenrun throngh tho cvlinder of a thrshing-machine, are th best. This strips them into shreds, bresks off tho nobe, and clears tlem of dust. A bed of husls, thus made, will last almost an age, for they may bo renovatedby putting them info boiling Dot water, and dying themin the sun, when they curl up, andaro renlly better than whon first used. Thistickful of hueks makes o foundation for 'n bed suited to sny erson and ary condition, snd is st cast equal, if not jperior, to any mattress that the upholsforer wil give you. This tick is use- ul i summer as woll a8 winter, and is cheap ; that is, the cash cst is only for the ticking, which ill requiretwo yards of common ticking, or of ten-ounce birlaps; and, in case you can- not pags your husis through the thresher, have the children or huband strip them in shrads, in the long evenings How much of comfort thera i8 in theso husk-bids, can only be realized on tral, Preparing iusks for mattresses ia quite & large business, md tho demand in tho cities is steadily on the iniroase; but the beds that I havo described am_superior to the mattross, as they are in & condtion to be stirred up when the ‘beds are made upfor the day. The noxt thingis s good feather bed. I must modify this a litth, for ol farmers cannot have feather beds. and hen some pebplo prefer a mat- tress. T wiil noi dispute their taste, but with many thero is m_choice, snd these latter may add ‘0 home-mads husk-mattress. This is mado of common tickin, end tied the same a8 & com- fort. We now hare the foundations for our bed, aud now that is gielding, and thoroughly frost- proof from below; for We must remember that 2 large proportbn of beds are too thin on the under eide, and @ano bo kopt warm, even when thero is an abuwdapco of bedding sbove. Tho next requisito is pair of woollen blankets, and for theso I wauld profer good, soft Heavy flannel. Ten yads will make a pair of blaokets, tho cost of whicL will bo about 35, againat S1.50 for cotton ehoets, The other covering may be madoin the usuzt manner, with cheap prints and cotton batting. The kecping of geese is not es universal as formerly,—in part owing to tho want of living streams on owr prairie-farms; and_yet, if we sevo the small Bathers from the wild game and the chickens, ard strip them off without ecald- ing. we may in timo provide an_smplo supply of beds for the fanily. * For one, I have a love for the good old festher-beds, This may arise from tho fact that on> line of my ancestors dates back to Holland,—~tle country of feather-bods, and scrubbing and scolding wives, who delighted to havo their families well clothed, well fed, aud with warm beds, I ehall never _forget how my grandmothor simost smothered me undor & | mountain _of feathers, after sinking into one of the most downy of fenther-beds ; but that is a little over-doinz the thing, as tho feathers for such a bed would cost_to-day from $40 to $100. Holland_is the paradiso of geese, whilo tho Pprairio is tho very roverse, and I always feel gorry for the poor things when I geo thém wan- dering around in search for water. Respectfally yours, Mgs. Sar. JoNES. P — SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Letter From an 01d Chicago Resident Now Living at San Diego. Corresponcence of The Chicago Tribune. - $ax D1zgo, Cal., Dec, 18, 1872 The futare of San Diego s very bright. Tho railrond engineers, having surveyed threo dif- feront routes, will return from the mountaina east of usinless than two weeks. The resulf of their Iabors w1l then be sent to headquarters at Philadelphia, forfkhe Company of tho Texas Trans-Continental Bailroad to decide which ono of theso lines they will adopt. Colonel Seott Ppromised us here that, a3 soon 8s the ongincers wero through with their surveys, he would then Dsgin work in enrnest on this ond of the Toute. There is now value in real estnto, prices hay- ing advenced more than double since ths ndvent of Colonel Scott. Most of the land near the Court House is surveyed in lots and blocks. Farther back, within & distance of threo miles, land can bo bought at from 525 to $100 per acre. Lots on tho prineipal streots aro being sold at from 51,000 to §2,000. Land lying near tho har- bor is worth more than that back from the water, Kational City, sbout four miles south of New San Diego, has one of the best wharves on tho Pacific coast, It was built by the Kimball brothers, who own six miles squaro of a3 beauti- ful land 28 you wonld wish to sce. It Tises grudually from the water back, giving s fine Siew of tho bay, poninsula, and ocean, with the isiands in tho distance, from & front viow; and 04 Mexico, with Table Moustsin, directly soath. *National Ranch.” Throngh this flows the Swoot-water River to tho bay. Ita sourco is east, ia the mountains, nearly 30 miles distant. Its banks aro covered with a fino growth of willow, cottonwood, sycamore, and live oak. 1 am located on the bank of this stresm, sbout nine miles from San Diego, and four miles from tho Lay. We call our home * Bonnie Braes.” The beautiful bills that overlook the valley, with tho mountains_in the distance, form a fine land- scapo view. Tho beauty of the sconery is great- 1y onhanced by tho setting eun, the lights snd shndos being reflected back with soft and deli- catoly-tinted hues, varying momentarily, until tho last ray gently fades away. Our charming sunsots are not surpassed evon by those of Italy, 2s has been repeatedly asserted by those who haya resided in both countrics. T havo been here ono year and five months, and have now growing on my grounds, in good coudition, 870 orango trecs, 8 yeara old; 100 applo'treon; 100 pesch trecs ; 160 soft-shell almond trees, with a good variety of fig, pomo- granite, apricot, pear, plum, and cherry trees ; also, nearly 30,000 orange and lemon trees grown from sced,—sown last April and 3fay,—which vary iu helght from six inches to two feot. Tho abovo have grown by irrigation ; no rains havo fallen for eight months. Tho valloy is sometimes covered with frost ; Dbut, on the Mesa, or high ground, we nover havo rost suflicicnt to'affect tomato-vines or flowers. T have Inbored under every kind of discourage- ment on arcount of tho dronth, and of not hay- ing a correct knowledgeof theclimato, aoil, ctc.; but I feel that I shall have a home in fow yoars, rain or o rain, which will fully compenseto mo for my labors. .M. H. oo — = Mr. Greeley as o Lover of Poctry and the Drama. The Lendon Era—thestrical journal—publishes tho subjoined letter, sddrossed to the oditor of that paper : Sik : A great and good man,—nay, T may eay in virtues a second ** Cato "—has left us for an- other cnd » better world; died of o broken heort. I am suro that it will be of some intor- est to tho profesnion, especially to thogo who sirive after higher aime, to hoar that Lo was ono of tho stainchest supportors of tho legiti- mato drams, His political duties and srduous Iabors as editor of tho Tribune left him littlo fimo_to visit the thontres ns often as Lio wished, but he guve thom s allest support. His critics were always oxperienced snd highly educated literary men, and the New York Trib- wne was looked tipon as the orsclo in_theatrical matters. Juslico was_ thoro for every one, and none drended its opinion except tho impostor and tho charlatan. Mr. Greeley's sound and poctic views upon Shakspeare's heroes often as- tonished me. = You conld learn more in a short conyereation with him than days of study and ‘meditation conld reveal. I never spoat an hour in his preeence without gaining somo- profound and beneficial information. Mr. Greeley was s great reader and lover of poetry ; his special dolight was “Byron ;" he revelled mora in the besnty of his languaga and rhythm than in his philosophy. In fact, it was * rhythm and beauty of language” thet he first Jooked to in overy poct, Swinburne's vorses he greatly ndmired ; 80 did he Heinrich Heing's. Ono ovening, at one of the receptions of his be- loved sistor, Mra. Cloveland, he resd from sn old folio a translation of Schiller's Semele,” & poem scldom resd even in Germany. & I was_delighted and much sstonished &t it. for I Goabt, with the excoption of Basard Tay- lor, that eny one elso in the room knew of its existenco ; and yet it gave ploasurs ta all, for hohad s Sweet voice, and, with his child-like, innocent face, crowned with his silyer bair, he looked a truly God-liko man. Peace to his ashes. Not only has America suffered s great logs in Dim, but the entire world. I adinired and loved him'dearly, and cannot refrain from paying this simplo tributo to his memory, for ho was *e'en &5 justaman a9 e'ermy converaation copoed with- L7 Yours trulv, Daxizs E, BANDMANN, Their land is called | THE NEW YORK FIRES. Burning of Barnun’s Museum---Destruc- tloa of a Large Number of Animais. The Conflagration in Centre Street--- Narrow Escape of Bixty Girls. The Museum Fire. From the New York Herald, Dec. 25. Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning firo was discoverod on the ground floor of the Hip- potheatron building on Fourteenth street, knovn of Iate a8 Barnum’s Museum. There are several accounts of the maunerin which the fire was at first soen, but_there.is no doubt that tho first who discovered it was George Nelson, tho night watchman, whose duty it was to patrol the build- ing 8t night. He was walking past the immense cage in which tho four giraffes were confinod and noticed smoke. Ha soon fonnd that it was com- ing up through tho chinks of a trap-door direc:ly Doside the cage. The elarm was speedily given, and, in s few moments, Soveral engincs came ruslung to the spot. Below the spot at which the smoke had been noticed asconding was & large farnace of & new patent, snd an inch or two from the flues which Procecded from this were woodwork attach- ments, The fire, as ususl, had boen kept alive in the large farnace, and, being allowed to burn 8t will, had hested tho fites to_such an extent that they had gradually carbonized the adjacent woodwork until it caught firo. It was, no doubt, when this had happencd that the watchman first noticedtho smoke. But beneath the flooring tho enlffe theatro was nothing but o mass of board and wood, which whon ~once set on fire thero was hardly any means of stopping ; for when the engines got in_readiucss to play upon the building tho fiames had slready consumed the floor of the theatre and wero shooting up on all sides of tho building. Then o curiots phe- nomenon took place. 'The walls of the building are of thin corrugated iron,which from the fierca fire at their base heated rapidly, and instead of opposing A RESISTANCE TO THE FLAMES, 2%, only helped them to spread with greater rapidi- £y, and, acting like the sides of o_stove, engen- dored on insupportable heat, which made el of- forts by tho liromen to enter the building per- foctly futile. . In the meantimo some ninety or a hundred snimals were caged in the building, and thoy al- Teady snuffed the smoke and showed signs of ap- prebonsion. As tho noiso of the fire and the heat grew gradually, their oxcitement increased. Tho bears and the tigers showed most fear ; but it was & fear in wnich rage was strongly develop- od, Evidently understonding the position of things, they lashed their flanks with fury and eprung with terrific forco agaiust tho sides of their cages, as_if in an_endcavor to break them open. Unfortunately, the cages had Dbeen constructed for tho express purpose of avoiding such 2 possibility, and the offorts of the wild brutes wero impotent. Tho elephants wers peculiar in their manner of takiog thiugs. There were two full-grown fomale elepheuts and one baby clephnnt. Themother and the cub drew up closely togother, while the old one put her trunk around the yonng ono'sbody and every now and then suufted tho air. THE THIRD ELEPHANT grew more excited, and turned sbout as if scok- Ing & way out of the building. T'inallyitlaydown onits kuees. 'This was whon the building had not succumbed to the flamos. Severalmen rush- ed in to see what might bo saved, and made au opening In tho cagos whero tho olephants were confined. The mother and little onowereled out togetlor, and obioyed tho koopera with docility, though tho old elephant still' wound its truuk closely around the body of thebaby. It wa3not 80 with the third elophant, however, This ono, which had beoa imported from Europe only & few days since, continued to lay obstinately on the ground, ond though every means wero em- ployed, even to burniog, it would not stir a3 inch from tho place, and, after futile attempts to make it move, it was abandoned. It was al- ready too late to save tho girailes, the most val- usble animal property in the Musoum. The firo had already interposed betwaon tho keepers and those beasts, and thoy could not be reached in £ny manner. THOE CAMELS * Wure ton in number. Thoy alsu showed sigus of the greatost uneasiness es the firo increased, and gave vent to low moans, as if suffering ‘moraily moro than physically. There was yet a chiance to save these and the keopers rushed for them. Bat they, liko tho clephant, wero lying down on their knoos, as thoy are o familiarly reproeonted in pictutcs of the desert, with the excoption of ono, which scemed tobe all excite- ment and unable to mainlain the quict philo- sophical attitudo of the rest. This oue a kecper seized by the bridle aud led out of the building, whilo ho others could not bo made to stir an inch, aud nlso wore loft 83 they wero found. Tho two polar bears were meanwhile in an agony of terror. Thoy had succeedod in getting their arms through the bars, and with their inmonso forco were endenvoring to dislodge them, Ao a8 to rake an vpening to get out. DBut the bars Tesisted, and though the hugo paws worked con- vulaivey to put them asunder, it secmed to be tono purpose. As tho fire ‘grow nearor aad nearer, sud TOE FLAYES GREW HOTIER and hottor, even thoss animals which had shown the least concern began to manifest the strong- est symptoms of fear. Tho monkeys, partica- Intly, which had quietly sat on their haunchos looking on, in ovident surpriso at the sceno eround them, began to Lop about, chattering and jabbeving and pulling ab the bars of their cages every moment. Tho great ostriches stretched their small wings and half ran, half flow round their largo dens. Tho llamd, yak and elan trambled convulsively in all their mam- bers and looked piteously at <he efforts tho Leap- ers wero still making to rescuo them. Singular- Iy, and very unfortunatoly, none of the men had any keys of the cages, else thero is no_doust that & large number of the animals woald havo been saved. As it was the keopers seized ham- mers and weights and endeayored to smash open tho strong gates which held tho animals in. Bat it w8 to no purpose, and tho animals were Lept still closely confined, and were evidently doomed to roast alive in thoir cages. Dutat longth it grew too hot for the keepers, and when the fizmes roso up from the floor and darted out spitefully from littlo crennics in the side of the building and curled around posts and pillars, and all saw THERE Wis N0 HoPE for Barnum's Museum, then, 3 if the caged ani- mals had become conscious of this at the same moment, whore there had Leen nothing but the roering 'of tho flames s moment Lofore, thero was suddonly ect up a vast, thrilling, Lremen- dous seream of terror, ns if from lei thousand humpn throats. The grest roaring of tho lions, the deep growling of the tigers, the sharp, spitc: ful suarlng of tho leopards, the bellowing of tho clephant, tho chattering of tho menkoys, the screaming of the doer and giraffes, tho grunting of the hogs, ard tho thousand othor sounds which snimala possess to give vont to their rage of despair, all united in ono great chorus, in which no oné_sound, how- ever loud, could be distinguished. It washot 80 terrible, Dowever, 13 it was sad to know that, Dolpless as they were, this was tho last cry of the dying brutes. Ono could still hear, now and then, tho mighty offorts of the caged beasts as | they'still, in_an agony of terror, turew them- | relves against their cages in o last offort to broak | them open and escaps intothe frosh air. ; 1t wasa long time beforo the flamos which wore raging within made their appearance out- | side the building. ‘Lhero was & glaro abovo and around, but it proceeded from tho roof and tho windowaon eash sido of tho building. As the flames grew higher and higher, tho noise and THE SCREAMS WITHIN grow faintor and fainter, until choy ceasod al- fogether. It ia said that' the rosr of the lioa, bravo to tho last, vas still heard when all others had ceased, and it became afact that all tho ani- mals, with tho oxception of three, had been rossted alive. Tt wasa fortunate circumstance that all the valuable horses bolonging to tho circus proper, wore saved. They werenot stabled in tho circus and museum, but three blocks away, in Eleventh stroot. Each night, when they Lad dono their servica for. tho day, they are taken sway and stabled. In this mannor not one of tho horses was lost, though the nimala which did sulfer wero far more valuable than the horses. Ono moment later ond tho flames hitherto kept, within, burst forth from tha top of tho building, and shortly aftor the 1oof, or what thore was loft ofit, fell in with o crash. At this ‘moment the report was etarted in tho crowd that ono of THE LIONS NAD ESCAPED, and on the moment there was a gencrsl rush of the people looking on to tho two ends of the straet. It was a general skodaddlo with but one object—to get as far from the burning building as possible. It was said thet tho police hai started tho report, with tho intention of gotting the masses of the crowd away, 80 03 to draw o cordon more widely arouud the burning struc- ture. Alany seemed to be of this opinion a fow moments Iater, and came back to obisin the samo favorablo positions ns Uefors. Dat thir lished a line abont two bundred feet from the Duilding and prevented any but thoso priviloged from mni through. Yei in spite of all and the cold aleo tho crowd wonld ot move away, and fi;e;{té':‘? finn!l’enl; tl.l\‘aru was anoiher rash and 0 break the cor ice ; bu’{‘(hc_v' eld firm, Firlon o dlia"golics 501t a0 hour and a-Lalf after the first alarm, tho firo was everywiioio around the Luilding, td was burning florcely in spite of the numes: ous hugo utreams of water which were being poured upon it. Indeed the water scomed not to have the slightest cffect upon the flames, and only seomod to'fecd them more fiercely. This was due o no small extentto the manner in which the corrugated iron which composed tho building had been hoated. In some places I7 Was RED RoT, and the water which dropped wpon it in huge maseos only sputtered and foll without the slightost effect. This cotinued for somo time, but at length it was perceptiblo that some effect wos being mado. But it was too late. Already the flames had caught on each side of the thin structure, But it had not done Dburning yet. It was as combus- tible as & tinder-box, yet had so much of in- tiammable . material in _its enclosuro that the flames, unsubdued, still went lapping around avery now piece of woodwork or material, and left only burned ashes bohind it. Two hours aftor the fire had first broken out not a vestige of what had been tho Now York Circus or Dar- ‘num’s Museum remained, except a pile of smok- ing and smouldering embers. Not oven & vestige of the walla remained. All was a8 FLAT AS A PANCAKE, and all that noted the former cxistence of the place wasan occasional littlo mound wherson the flames were playing about like will-o'the- isps in city cemetaries, and d.sappearing every moment as some jet of water was throwz- upon thom. But the fire did not atiate itself with the cir- cus. _ It had too good heedway op, and was de- termined upon & rioting time for its Christmas ove. THE GROTE DUILDING. Next to the Hippotheatron, on the west side, stabd the four-story brick-front manufactory of Grote & Co., workers in ivory. It was stored with valuable material snd masicel instrumenta, the property of C. Rierwarth. The flames pene- trated into this catablishment early in their ca- reor. Tho material was so inflammablo that they leaped along tho floors and walls, fromstory to story, almost without impedimont from the floodgates that the ficemen ut once opened upon them. The security of the rest of the block to- : ward Fourth avenue, whoreon is the now stone building,—tho German_Savings Bank,—was threatcred, and the sparks from the tinder-like substance fell far_an distont by several blocks from the immediate scene. In less than an hour the Grote building was gone, only & wreck of the iron walls remain- ing, with s Lalf-burned sign snd a thick mass of icices dungling over the blackened doorwa. GRACE CHAPEL. Adjoining the circus, on the east, stood Grace Chapel, or the Protestant Episcops! Freo Churels, a_besatiful edifice, in tho Gothic style, o branch institution of Grace Church, end builé in tho modest imitation of that magnificent temple. Within it was decorated for Christmas. The holly and the mistletoo hung from its arches and clustered about its railing, whilo the gifts of merry Clristmas for the children at- fached to i.8 Sunday School were lavishly be- etowed in the sccrot places, waiting for the sur- | prise that was to como to-day. On this fair object the greedy flames fixed their fangs, while the circus should have yet Leon enough to sat- isfy their hunger. They leaped through the high windows just abowe the roof of tho Hippo- thestron, ond thence riotod on nave, column, ' arch, gallery, and organ loft, In an' hour the roof fell in, leaving only a portion of the front walls standing, present- ing a very_picturosquo_ruin with its delicate erches and slender columns, ornamented ad draped asit soon was with long icicles. From the church the lames spread to THE OLD LAWRENCE MANSION, o landmark of the city that for forty yeers has Leen the residence of the old family of Lawron- ccs, of who:a Abrahem R. Lawrence is one, and which when first built was considered ono of the finest country mansions in New York State. It &tood 50 far out of tho city limitsthat its owner felt. secure against tho encroachments of city busivess, and cortainly could never have fore- seen that its proximity to s circus and a church in a croxded part of tho town would be the final causo of its destruction. The flames gutted this fing old relic and left only the wal's stonding. Thence they threatencd the carrisge factory of Rleoaro. Minor & Stovons and tho valuable build- ings on Thirteenth street, but at this point were stayed by tho desperate cfforts of the firemen. THE LOSSES OF THE MUSEUM—THE ANIMALS. On entoring, on the right of tho building, the animals were presented to viow. First cage contained two lions, valued st 10,000, Second cago contained two Bengal tigers, of tho value of $15,000. 3 ‘fhird cage contained n leopard, valued at $2,000. Tourth cago containad Rocky Mountain shoep, valucd at S200. i b Tifth cage contained an Albino deer, valued at 500 Sixth cage contsined an African wart hog, | valued at $230. i Seveuth cago confained & llams, velued st | 250, ‘Eighth cage contalned a lak, valued at $400. Nintii cago contained an alen, valued ab S200. | Tenth cage coniained an ostrich, valaed at £1.500. Lilaventh cage contained five enakos, valued aé E 5100, Trwolith cage contained four giraes, valuedat £20,000 each, or 880,000 in all. Thirccentl cago contained 4 happy family, of which it is impossiblo to state the value. Tourteenth cage contained largo Asiaticrion- key, valued 2t $100. 70 small cages wore under these, containing, one o porcupine and the other a badger. Tiftcenth cage contained a fine specimen of tho “lion slayer” monkey, valuea at $300. On tho leit of the entrance as one wentin tho 1 Firat cago contained two sen lions, valuod at | 1,000, $econd cago containod two Polar bears, valued at 32,000, at wide, threatening places | | shouted_overy one. They wers not losb, L Third cage eontained s horned Loree, valued i | timo yesterday when tho fire broke out, The girls, as it was Christmas, were eagerly longinz for the half hour to strike, when suddenly soms of the printers frum the rooms below rushed up Lo tho girls’ apartmont with tho intelligenc tht the building was on fire. A sceno of wild coa- | fusion immediatoly ensuied. Tie onls modo uf, i ogrees from the upper tloors wasdy means of o narrow stairway and A DEFECTIVE FIRE FSCATE, ! and ‘o theso two points an indiscriminate rush was mode when tho alarm was first given. In che direction of tho stairwsy, with such terriblo rapidity had the fire spread, & denso smoke was { Leginning to rise, and the panic was furthar in® curred by the supposition that the conncction by way of tho stairs was cut off. The pirls, in the wild terror of the moment, Iost all control of themselves, and their screams could be heard for blocks away. Some ran to the windows of the Tooms in which they worked and some to tha dcors, and in the hurry they knocked and trame pled each othor down,” The few men who work- @d on the same floor and the two upper ones i were almost a3 much frightened as tho girls, and | completcly loat their presence of mind. Tue ex- | citemont on the street wes intense. Sizty hu- | 1 man lives were imperilled and th salvation was dopending almost enti 3 theil . 3 & entir their owa Theve were i DRAVE JEN AND TRUE in the crowd. firemen and policemen, who were willing to to rivk every denger if they could Le of service ; but until those who were within had mado some effort thoso itk little or no assistenco, O cPuld reder Home of the girls, more othery, determined to try the stairway, and as the communication wiih the lower part of the building was fortuns*ely'not cutoff, theysucceed. ed, efter penotrating through thie emoke, in rezching the street. In the meantimo higher bigher leaped the flames. Stone and iron of: ed but a feeble resistance to the droad elem and in a fow minutes after the pirls were alarmed by the cry of ** Fire!” aed reac! almost to their rooms. As statec irza ercape was defective, and 1t wz8 1.; withou: ex. tremo difficulty that the apparatus was got in working order, Atlongth it was attached to tka window and o number of girls ruhed on i to it. Wiliam Desn, & policemen o2 the Sixth Precinct, mounted to the + and rendered valuable assistance to the 2nd by this agency o number of girls were ris. cued. George Middleton, wbo occapies a salusa on tho corner of Centre and Worth streets, azl Detective Dolan also cxerted themselves, exd did good sud valuable vork. What seadered tio task of courageous than the 2ESCUING THE OIRIS | 8o difficult was the fach that tho escapes wra provided with no ladders, and bad ic not Lesz | for tho exertions of Captain Kenneds and | men, who hurried themselves in providing lad- ders, the task would have been s more cifiiczls one.’ As the girls one by one were taken out tlo multitude cheered, and when they reached tho pavement they were tcnderly cared for, and those ~who were injured wero i taken to tho Station House. In thei burry the gis girla ] meglected to'socure their ! effects, and most of them lost their gloves, | muffs, 'and their botter wearing apparel, “which ! they were in the custom of cissuging for Fougier suits each morning before thes commenced work. Severe as this loss was to them they Gil not ble, and were extfemely thunkfal that ! they had escaped with their Lives. Ox Emma Francis, of Jersey City, a pretty, haired, brown-eyed girl, who worked in a0 room, 'hiad got on td the fira-escape and w1z nesrly dovwn to the ground when, f escape was about to give way, SHE DROPPED .To_ TLE GEOUSD and sprained her ‘enkle, but uot seve: Sto | was taken to_the station-house, acd in 3 sbor: | time was well cnough to go home wirh her father v, to Jersey City, Mary Hopkins, a young girl 19, living on First avenue, alzo fell from tie 4 escape, and was wounded in the cheel. She ! taken hiomo, Tt is greatly feared that somo of the girls are missing, as_there were two or three who iad i i been heard from up to 8 olclock. Ore girl, | numed Mery Donovan, was for o time reporsed killed, but she turned up afterward all right, tc the great joy of her relatives, who wers iously searching for her. Jennio Stuart is yet missing, and at & lalo hour last eveuing hes brother ond sister, who could succacd iz finding no trace of ber, run about frantic in the station housc. An old ‘man, who worked on tic same floor with the girls, told the raporter tlat he had graye fears that at least three of them had perished, as he considered it impossible that all could Liavo cacsped in the panic and terror that succecd)d the alarm. Had the fire escapes boen good adl would have beea well, but THEM WANT OF LADDETS and loose coastruc'i might, and probably has, caused serious loss of life. The spectators breathed more frecly when the imminent daug in which the poor girls.woro in was averted. at.d sincero admiration was expressed for the hero- jsm and daring with which the policemen aa3 firemen acted. Scarcely had the employes of the establishe | ment been rescued, when another striking inci- . dent toolk place. Standiog on the top of the rick_building occupied Ly Georgo Middleton : and Howe & Hummel, wero five iromen, who | had s strenm of water in operation upon tlie wa on the Worth strect site of the buruing bnilding. Tt soon became apparent that thoy cord not ba of much service, but they bravely held until, suddenly, the wall foll with a iecrific crash, send~ ing up a million of blazing spatks, znd envol iug everything around in & dense émoke. A cry of terror went up from the spectators. *‘The firemen are lost!” *They are lost!™ over. The niiddle part of the wall slowly com- menced to give woy firat, and the firemen, per ceiving this, bad timo to get down from tho Tuof in time to eave themselves. 'TEA-GROWING IN IOWA. e Experiment Tried With Success in Crawford County. From the Denison Revicx. We have loarned of o most importaat diszov ery, one that effecis every citizen of our land. and one that will sdd immnse woelth to our na- tion, and revolutionize une of our most impor- i tant commercial trades. It is almost too impor- tant o one to be easily belicved, being po leas than tha: tea has been grown in Crawford Couz- ty, and can be grown Lere in profusion, and fully Tourth cago contained four-horned deer, val- ued at €690 Fifth cago contained two seals, valued at £100. Alittio further on was a_large ostrich ins cage, velued at $2,000, three clephants in snother cazo, valued at 250,000, and ten camels, valued at $2,000, only one of \which was saved. Besides tho living Polar bear snd ano black leopard stufled, s large quautity of ststuary, wax figurcs, mechanical singing birds, flute players, organ’ players, me- chanical monkeys and other musical sutomatqns, moking, in all, some thirty groups, valued at from $2,000 to £8,000 each. In addition tothese thore were the apparatus of tho Bohemian glass blowers, n large number of oil puintings, ten large exeggerafing mirors, and many othor ar- ticles of curiosities, &e. All the performors lost their wardrobes, with- out oxcaption—the Albino family losing articles valued ot 1,000, and Admiral Jot_ and family losing all their parapherualia. Charley White's trained dogs were also burned to death. They wero very valuable animals. The Giant lost his wardrobe, and all tho dreeses which had been mndo for ** Bluo Baard” were also lost: and sl the performers (somo 130 in number) Lave lost all their wardrobes. " SEETCH OF BARNTXS BUILDING. _ The building lately occupied by P. . Barnum &5 o meuagerie was built during the war by James E. Cooke, an _English cquestrian, and | was first named the New Pork Hippotheatron, It failed to pay, howover, and after a coupls of scasons was soid to some billiard men, who made it an cxhibition hall for mateh gomes. It then passed through varions hands and suffered various misfortunes until taken by M. L. B. Lent, who named it the New York Circus, and gave's rogular equestrion performanco there during the winter months. In these hands it continued for soveral years, and finally, during the past summer, was bought by Ar. P. Barnum, who transformed it into & monageri and circts, also exhibiting numerous curiositics. It had only been open some four weeks under its present management when the fire occured. On Monday evening, a few hours before the fire, the fairy spectacle of Blue Beard” Lad baen produccd for the first time. Narrow Escape of Sixty Girls. At twenty-fivo minutes past 5 o'clock last evening, & fire broke outon_the third floor of | tho six-story brick building Nos. 81, 83 and 8 | Centre streot, that caused & damage of sbout $875,000. The build.iug stood_in the centre of | o ths block bounded by Gentre, Leonard, Worth, snd Elin streets, ond was lmown ss the Claxion Building. It had formerly been & colored church, 2nd was one of the most dangerous structares in the localil WHEN THE FIRE FIST BROEE OUT one of"the most exciting and thrilling incidents ever witnesged nt & similar scene in New York | Tas presented to the sumrounding crowd. On the fourth floor of the building occupicd by Anderson & Archer, book-binders, there wers about sixty girls employed ss folders and sovers, ‘1ho time st which they were way imoousible, ~ Lho volice kad alrcady esiab- aceustomed to 5. and it wantod but & fow moments to thet enimals there were one | ! purposa Lie has visited many of our States, p i | i Batin i i quit work was half-past | ! &8'good, if not better, than we now import. About eighteen months 230 an elderly gentle- | man came to this place, looked around with tio ! intention of buying property. and did parcl: | near Deloit, in the north part of our county, i quietly settled down to 2 country life. Siaca { that time he has rarely been seen around unles : called by busivess. He hasalways had sui | money tomake all Lis necessary purclioscs, variably paying the resdy cash therefor. one knew thet ha WaS pursting apy uow avocation, until his neighbors, secing unusual * actions, wondered ~what it alt mesnt, and Malamo Gossip soon invent- ed many strange stories sbous him; evem poing so for as to claim that ke wes tho Liead-contre of & gang of thieves and was re- ceiving stolen property, and £o on, until we caa~ not beging to enumerate even & tithe of the varma. It is owin to this fact, almost alone, that ho revenled his tre business, as be said he could not stand it to be 50 maligued. - The person to whom we allude is Rev. Mr. Hoplans, who is Trustes of tho U. S. Maxuchett the culturo of tes iuto this country, For years he has spent all his time_sad o lirge sum of money in investigating this eubject. For (i chased property and carried on his investigacions. rawford County hashe met with the best success. . The company held that it waspossible to grom tea in the United States, provided a natu.al ase could bo found in which'the tea scion couid te grafted, thus scclimating it. This has at last been accomplished. A natural base has been found liere, in which toa scion is grafted in the fall, remaining in ti:o ground during the wiater, and tha noxt May or June it commences to bear tea. Mr. Hopkins claims that it will siand our coldest weather, and thrive exccedingly well By actual trial the Company has raize soven hundred pounds to the acre! We are not a: liberty to state what the object i of the Company is, or in what manner they Pro- pose to condnct this business. - From the statement made to ms by Mr. Hop- Lins, we ses mo renson for doubting thet this Company has made a valaable acquisiton to the resources of our country, and oao the: w trust may prove to be cminentiy successiul. Tke coming season will serve to prove the truth or falsencss of the theory, and set at rest alldou in the premises. A e G —Tt appears that tho quarrel Henry Zeigler, uged 33, Germo: Ridge street, New York, was staube: Crook street, Brookiyn, on Monday night, origi- nated as follows: Zeigler was visitinig his sis- ter Caroline, who claims to bo the wifo of Frederick Weir, and Mary Kelley, who was pres- ent, made damaging assertions concerning tha relations of Weir and Zeigler's sister. Zeigler defended his sister, and Ligh woids ended in 8 flourish of knives, dusing which Weir statbed Zeigler, oponing an arters, from which ho blod to death. Weir was arrested, and denies bav- ing auy weapons in his hands at the timo of (ha utabbing, Hisson Johnis dotained asan & CeBEOLY. = Tea Company, whoso object it is to introduife - ' e ~