Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1872, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1872. THE WEATHER. Further Details of the Great Snow-Storm Throughout the Country. The Strects in the Eastern Cities Block- aded and Busitess Suspended. Serious Delay t¢ Railroad Trains and Qccan Steamboatss Sgecial Despatch to The Chicago Tribune, New Yomr, Dec. 27.—The weather centinues tlear and cold, and none of the immenso fall of enow has melted. The eidewalks kave been cleared, and embenkments of snow from five to soven feet high and equally broad conceal tho curbstcnes. The loose snow in the middle of the streets is knes deep to horses, and is 80 ox- hausting to them, that comparatively few ve- hicles have been abroad to-day. The street rail- ways run with dificulty, though teams are doubled and snow-plows in constant use. fr, “Bergh posted himself on Broadway to-day, and ,sent many overtaxed horses back to the stables. If » sudden thaw should set in, the streets “would be badly flooded, for the gutters are com- -plotely blockadod. The usual sleighing carnival commenced to- day, Centrel Pork particularly being thronged Dy Tancy cutters, Tho snow is yet too deep, However, to atferd the best sport. The mails are delayed in all directions, and but one ar two railrosds are runxing on anything resembling the regular schedule. Tho Sound steamers aro laid up on account of tha ice, but the Torries cross regularly. Two drunkeu meu fell in the snow whils going thome in Brooklyn, last night, One of them was drozen to death, and the limbs of the other will iprobably bo smputated. A boy of 15 Lad his eet: frozon, whilo waiting for a car, and will probably lose both, Tne weather $nore enow, but if one timo ay threatened clear to-night. [7o the eseciated Pross.) New Yomx, Dec. Tho enow began falling #n heavy flakes again this_morning, at about § ‘o'clock; with & slight wind from tho northwest. {The streets to-day arc banked with snow. No such etorm has been witnessed in this sec- +don for upward of 20 years. Last night tho ‘streets wore deserted from an early hour in the «evening. Businces was for tho most part sus- gpended, end no persons ventured out except Hrom absolute necessity, Thousands slept down %own, at hotels, or in their ofices, owing to + gheir inebility to reach their homes in the upper erts of tho city. Tho cleeses dependent upon cir day's earnings for the following night's shelter suffcred immensely. Thousands of them wandered about the streets, not knowing ‘where to go. Some of the princign.! lines of siroet-cars are yumning to-dey with double teams, and are heavily overloaded. Pedestrians on Broadway meke their way through tho snow in single-filo, A few stages continue running on tho great thoroughfare, bat it is only at rarc intervals that «caris or other vehicles are to bs secn. The Street-Cleaning Burean, yesterdsy, or- dered o foree of laborers at work to-day, in cleaning the cross-walks and approaches to the ferries, snd in & general shoveiing of the snOw. Special attention 18 to be given to the clearing of Broadway, on which it is cstimated that the snow 3aye & foot deep on a lovel. Tho entire cost of cleaning this streat, for a distance of 70 blocks, will reach $20,000. ' Along the water frontage, enovw is piled np in huge masses. The thermometer to-day stands abouton an wrerage with that of yesterdsy, namely, 10 do- Erees above zero, In many places in the city the ground is cov- ‘ered to the depth of as much as thres feet. The storm told heavily npon business, especially by the delay of mails. No mails left the city yesterday, excopt those which were sent &t an €arly hour. 'The North River is filled with ‘floating ice. The Postraaster this morning roports that no -yl has zrrived hers since yesterdey noon. In Brooklyn and the suburbs nearly all travel “and business are suspended. Toaring the beight of the storm yesterday at- Aermoon, 5 largo Tucteor was seca at Huntors -Point, L. I. Al railway travel on Long Island has ceased. The steamehips Halsatia and City of Limorick, for Europe, and tho Columbia, for Hevana, be- sides several coasting stzzmships, which were to Jeave yestordsy, nre detained by the storm. ‘There wero no arzivals from the sea yesterday. The snow which commenced fallinz this morn- “ang ceased after a elight fall. TER—The weather is clearing. A fewlocal trains from thia immediate vicin- 1ty in New Jersey, arrived eince 10 o'clock, but oily by the aid of seversl extra locomotives. ‘Thera lla %ansider:\hlufa\t]furi%g among the or people, by reason o e absence of the ,ngpmppdas of milk and bread, none being Yeceived of the former by trains, and locomo- tion by baker teams on the strects is almost im- Jposeible. A large force of laborers is clearing Broadway ‘of snow. ¥ The e::ilham ‘which has arrived to-day is that #rom Washington. None from Boston, or from ints north and weet, have reached here. No ins hsve been sent’ out to-day on tho New Hsven and Hudson River Roads. Tho mails, almost without exception, aro still behind time. The Boston Express, due at 5:30 . m. yesterdsy, arrived at 11 to-dsy. The ntral Railroad 'Chicago trains, due yésterday, also reached here this forenoon, A trainon the Erio due yesterday morning arrived to-dny. The Washingfon road has all trains on time. Cmcaao, Dec. 27.—Ths Sigual Service gives “ths following thermometer reports at 6:53 o'clock this moruing : |Cincinnatl. Grand Have 7 abi Snowing this morning at New York and Phila- delphia, goneraliy cloudy in Eastern, Middle, and Southern States; clearand fzir in West. PrwaprLrums, Dec. £7.—Tho snow has block- nded all tho highwas and_temporarily suspond- e the receipt snd delivery of merchandise. Cowp Srrrsc, N. Y., Dec. 27.—The Chicago ‘Expross, whichi left New York at 8 o'clock this morning, is now five hours behind, and nothing £an bo heard from it. Bosroy, Dec. 27.—Tho storm ceased before midnight. Lewes, Del.,, Dec. 27.—The harbor is frozen over, and vezsels are slowly drifiing out to sea in_theice. Porcuszeesir, N. Y., Dec. 27.—The Montreal Express, which Jeft Now York at 4 o'clock yes- terday afternoon, arrived lere at 5:90 this morning with four locomotives, and at 7:43 pro- ceeded northward. Locomotives went south to Bterling to help trains botween hero and New York out. Tho New York special train, which reached here yesterday ovening with Wost- emn passeugers for New York, will leave for the south at 19 o'clock to-day. There ere over 700 passengers snow-bound between hero and Fckekill, but it is thought all vill get through to New York sume tiwe to-day. AvaUsTA, Mo., Doc. 27.—The severs snow storm continues hero. with 1o #igns of abating, Coxcoun. N, 1L, Dec. 27.—Eight_inches of enow heic. oro or less delsyed. Carro, LiL., —~The Columbus packet is making reguiar { No_ other arrivals. De- i arted—Burkeville, XNashvillo; Fannie Lewis, emphis. Weather clear and very cold. g URax, Dec. 27.—River matters aro on- tirely suspended. Yo weather continues clondy and cold. ScraNToN, Pr;, Dec. 27.—Twelvo inches of 300w fell yestorday. Lousviiie, Ky., Dec. 27.—Clear and cold, put modenhngszfigbflv. The mercury ranged from 5 t0 20. Every precaution is being taken to protect the stcamboats aud canal-boats from danger, in the event of gorges abovo suddenly bnsnng loose. It is reported the gorge at Westport has broken up. Crxervyaty, Dec. 27.—Thermometer 16 above ; Sweather clear, ‘WasmNa~oN, Dec. 27.—The New York train, due here last night, arrived at 8 o'clock this orning. Tho Patomas River is frozen over. e weather hes moderated. Lrrrie Bock, Ark., Dec. 27.—The weather moderated alitfle to-day, but neither the ground norice thawe3 any. The icc is four inches thick on the river, and a light two-hosse wagon paased over on it to-day. Tho ferrvbost cut o road through the ice in'order to runm, Tho ico dealers are engaged in getting ot and putting poice all dav. Theskv iaclonds, wih indica- i tions of snow. Tho city is entirely out of coal. Ne trains on the Memphis Road in three days on account of tho diflicalty of crossing the river at MMemphis. Saur Laxe, Dec. 37.—The storm continues; rain hero snd Siow in the mountsins. Tho Union Dacifio train was five hours lato. Nuw Yorg, Dec. 27.—The Western mails are still ono day behind. It is probablo that trains from all dircetions will be running as usuel to= morrow. The Easicra roads aro clear. PROBABILITIES. WAR DePaArTMENT, OFTIORE of tHE CHIEr S16NAL, OFFICER, DIVISION OF TELLGRAMS AND Reronts rom THE BENesiT OF COMMERCE, WASHINGTON, D. U,. Dec. 27.—Probebilitica— For New England and Middlo States, northwest- erly to routhwesterly winds and gonerally clear weather, with somowhat higher temporsture, For the Scuthern States cast of ths Mississippi River, northerly to westerly winds and clear webther, except from Westorn Florida to Ark- ansas and westward, whero there aro indications of threatening weather and northerly to easterly winds. From the Ohio Valley to Lake Erie and thoupper lakes, winds backing fo. westarly and_southerly with increesing coldness. For tho Northwest, southerly. winds with probably cloudy weather and snow. SPRINGFIELD. State Teachers’ Association—Closing Excrcises, Special Despatch t The Chicago Tribuns, SeriNerrELD, Dec. 27.—The State Teachers’ Association came to closo this afternoon, after & profitablo session of thres days. It is to be rogrotted that the programme of to-day, like thet of the two preceding days, was not carried out, in consequenco of the absence of gentlemen who had been allotted parts in the day’s exer- cises, but with all the drawbacks much good will be accomplished by this meeting. The first business of the morning was the re. port of the Committes proviously appointed to further tho interests of the County Superintend- ency, which consisted of the submitting of two resolutions, as follows : L. That & County Superintendent should be required to holda State certificate, to be granted after proof of good moral character and a competency to teach all of the branches required by law to be taught in the pub- lic schools. 2. That s Committes of threo bo sppointed, who should prepzre and present to educstors and meznbers of the next General Assembly, reasons based on facts, statistics, and experience, why a qualified and officient County Superintendency should be maintained in every county in the Stata, In sccordance with the latter resolution, the Ton. Willard Woodard, J. Blodgett, and E. A. Gastman were appointed by the Ghadk. W. W. Patton, LL. D., of Chicago, then read a pips on “Tho Telation'of Public Séhools to the Religious Elements of Education as its Subject.” Comumencing with o comparison between the attitedes of tho different Governmonts of the 014 World and our own towards the question of relgion, he went on to state that although he believed in religious as well s intellectual cul- ture, yot ho considered the former as the duty of tho parent while the State should claim the latter. ‘Tho State should inculcate morals, but should not attempt to teach doctrines and theories. In his opinion, there was but littlo dificulty in drawing the line between the two in & primary school, but in edvanced stages of education this was all but impossible, and, as & consoquenco, High chools and 5tate Universitios wereno logitimato objects for tho care of tho peoplo at large, sinco many, by their oxistonce, are obuifd to pay for the promulgation of octrines which they disbeliovo. ese should bo otherwisc supported, both for this reason and also Decause they still do not fulfil the mission performed by the academies and colleges of old. Richard Edwards, LL. D., of Normal, follow- ed this spesker with an essey entitled, “Shall thoe Public Schools Tesch More then the Alpha- bet ?" which, although under a different hea covered nearly the same ground as that travelle over by the preceding’ speaker. Mr. Edswards £aw no resson for changing the present state of things. It was & good thing for instructors to be obliged to refrain from teaching sectarian ideas, a8 thoy were forced to do on mecount of the 'diversity of belief cmong the pu- pils. Our system, os it stood, was one eat cause of our prosperity, end the esire for o change arises from tho ‘wish of par- ticular sects to gein entire supremscy. To his mind, the whole system could be dofended on the ground of public policy, a8 he was very cer- tain that the results conld not be_obtained in any other way. Ignoranco would increase to an elarming extent if the High Schools were abol- ished and the work left to be done by private corporations, as the msjority of parents wonld not pay & tuition bill. In conclusion, these schools were not all they should be, but they muet be supported sad improved. The first hour of the afternoon session, owing to the absenca of the lecturers who were to have occupied the time, was devoted to business, the most important parts of which was tho passing of resolutions expressiog commendation of tho action of tho General Assembly in introducing the new branches into the public school; anxiety for the fate of the groat number of idle youths throughout the Stato, and a desire that the present Reform School system might be so changed 8s to reach theso children before they actually become criminals. Besides theze, thanks to the School Board of the city and other parties of Spring- field for kind attention roceived, and s motion electing the officers for the coming year, in ac- cordance with which J, L. Pickard, of Chicago, was appointed Presidont. The Vico Presidents are: Yor the First District, J. A. Brownell; Second, George Howlana: Third, J. Mahony; Fourth, J. H. Blodgoett; Fifth, J. H. Freemsn ; Sixth, J. A. Mercor; Seventh, Will Jenkin: Lighth, Rev, F. W. Beechor, Ninth, F. Chris: tioner ; Tonth, Thomas M. Clenshan; Eloventi, Joseph Dobbins; Twelfth, E. Farmer; Thirteenth, Goorge W. Ma- son; Fourteenth, W. TF. Smith; Fif- eenth, Alfred Harvey; Sixtoenth, Thomas W. Hyno; Soventoontly, A, A. Bsppezer { Eighteonth, David A. Hogo; Ninotecnth, F. AL Youngblood, As Secratary, John W. Cook, of Normal ; Treas- urer, E. A, '‘Gastman, of Decatur; Executive Committee, Jobu Hull, of Bloomington; E. L. Wells, of Oregon; Rov. Robert Allen, of Loba- non. 2. 0. 8. Weetcott, of Chicago, gave a disqui- eition upon entomology, which occupied somo- thing like an hour, and 'was asource of much in- torest and some information to all, at the con clusion of which the Association adjourned sine e, The mine owners_ attempted to-day to raise tho coal blockade by holding & confersuce with tho minors, but tho lattor refused to attend. Tho Slale Journal having stated that the Lin- coln coal mines wero paying tho advanco, the following letter may prove useful to those in- terosted in the matter : Lixcovy, IIL, Dec, 27.—Woare not paying one cont more than we did, to-wit : four cents per bushel, We said to our miners, when they siruck after they heard your miners were on a strike, that wo would pay them exactly what you paid yours, after the strike was over and not before. The Journal lies about it, (Sigued) Livcory Cosn MINING COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO. Welcome Rains—Sentence Commuted —Sailed for Ilonolulu. Sax Fraxcisco, Dec. 27.—Tho recent heavy rains extended {hroughout the State, reaching the dryest portions, and giving the farmers hopes of heavy crops next year. The westher is still stormy. The stroams aro all swollen, and travel is diffi- cult and dangerous. Governor Booth has commuted the sentence of Willism Donovan to imprisonment for hi matural life. ‘Cho United States war stcamer Californis has sailed for Honolulu. She will be present for any possiblo emergency arising on the question of succession to the throne, in which the protec- tion of American citizens may bo required. Frederick R. Lane, tried for the murder of Harvoy Swift, was found guilty of manslaughter. DETROIT. The Circuit Judges—State Tenchers? Association. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. DErsorT, Mich., Dec. 27.—Tho Cizcuit Judges of this State meet ot Lausing on Jan. 7, to re- vise their rules of practico. The State Teschers’ Association closes its ses- sion to-day, nmong tho leading speakers of the day being Professor C. A. Kent, of tho Univer- sity law faculty, and President Abbott, of the Agricultural College. President Angoll, of tho State Univerxity, was elected President of tho Socicty, aud this ovening the esercisos closed with a banquet, with toasts, responecs, otc. e e Alabama Finances. MoxtgoxERy, Ala., Dec. 27.—E. R. Mitcholl, Acting Financial Agent of the Stato, loft this city a fow days ago to negotistetho bonds issued by the Court-Room Legislaturc. 1t s thought ho will not stop in Now York, but go to Europe. DISCRIMINATION OF FREIGHTS. Some of Its Salient Features Il- lustrated. Tieaves from the Ledgers of Chicago Mercantile Houses. Our leading merchants are giving some atten- tion to the question of discrimination of freights, or in plainer words, tho system of exorbitant local tariffs to make up for the reductions on throngh lines. Some of them have taken the painsto put togother a fow carefally compilod figures, showing how it works In the transmission of morchandise from four leading points chosen and given in these tables. Wo reduce the com- parison to two, a8 equally well illustrating the subject in our columus, It will bo observed that the following presentment is made to ap- ply to what is known ss fourth-class freights, Including heavy bardware, iron, nails, etc, Tho other tables received are too voluminous for our use, but show that the same grievance cxists in all other classes of freight. The tables are in- teresting, and will suggest their own com- mentary : VIA INLINOTS CENTEAL RAILEOAD, = oupupR g 3|+ aboayn srupnbo uop él‘rlm:‘!h 1d, 1, Tefone, Di. a £l o 3 EY Rl il 55 2°3 By o | ou BEE b e SR BEBREER | -ouy @y 28! oSt Counct! Blufls, Ta. Darcaport, Des Moines, Ia, g mlww -40w ybang 40w ofiwa 100 o1 oy Qedar Rapids, Ia. Clinton, fn.. guzoil B on, Dubuduo, Fulton cs'thl Frooport, ous, L. lonmouth, T VIA CHICAGO, ALTY 06D Jeusniin g “DuppRE THE CITY IN BRIEF. The Sundsy-School of the Church of the Epiph- any, will hold their Christmas Tree featival in tho church, at 7 o'clock this evening. The little unpleasentness at tho Chicago Ave- Duo Station has resulted in the transfer of Ser- geant Douglas from that precinct to the Twelfth street Stetion. Sergeant Briscoo takes Douglas’ place at Chicago Avenuo. All the toachers and Bunday-School worlers are invited to meot to-day, atnoon, in the lec- tare-room of the Mcthodist Church, cornor of Washington and Clark streets, for proparing the roview lesson on * Daniel in Babylon.” H. I, Costner, of Milwaukee, was taken before Commissioner Hoyno yesterdsy morning, on the charge of having neglected to take ont & license as s liquor-dealor. Ho was hold in bail of $500 to appear for trial before Judge Blodgett. The heavy snow-storms ot the East, and the severs winds prevailing cverywhere, again de- Isycd the arrival of trains in the city yesterday {from two to six hours. Morning traing became noon trains, and noon trains might trains, and railroad time-tables wero uttorly disregarded by Doreas and the other members of the Storm King's housckiold. The Chicago Christisn Union acknowledges donetions of books for the West Side Reading Room from Hon. John A. Logan, Judge Hen: Booth, W. E. Doggett, L. L. Mills, Rev. Lair Collier, Elias Colbert, Mrs. Pierco, Rev. C. A. Staplos, West Side Library, Mrs. M. C. Brand, Gottwals & McDonough, N. M. Holbrook, John Van Der Pool, besidos three engravings of Wash- ington, Sumner, and Greeley, all handsomely framod, by Gottwals & McDonough. Robert Hervey, Esq., ono of Chicagc’: most famous and successful lawyers, has roiponded to the .Epen ‘made by the Library Committee of the Public Library, by presenting a splendid edition, consisting of twenty-one volumes of the English poets, extending from Chaucer to Cow- er, and odited by old Dr. Jobson. It will now e in _order for other generous and public- spirited citizona to “seo” Mr. Hervey, and “go one better.” Dr. J. Ward Ellis had a_namrow eseapo on Christmas Day at the Twelfth streot railway crossing, just oastof the bridgo. As Lo was 1l mofilod up, and was driving quite fast. ho did not hear tho car-bell, and thers was no flag- man ot the crossing. Just s bo reached tha track s train came rushiag slong at rapid epeed, and it was with_the greafest diffculty that Dr, Ellis succeeded in stopping his horse in timo to propont s frightful accidest. Tho flagman, who ad not even his flag in hand, stood by and looked on with utter unconcern, mere vouch- safing an insolent reply when Teproschod for his careless neglect. Rather than slecp in her beautiful dark-brown ringiets, and_ having some view to escape from the thraldom of curl papors, Dollio Tussoll aged 16, determined to have her hair cut off and made over into an adjustsblo coiffure. Sho went to Frank Olsewsky’s barber shop for that pur- pose. Mra. Olsewsky undertook the job, but wilfully, rpitefully, and maliciously, a3 Dollioas- serts, ~she clipped her tresses close to the ecalp, thus giving her the appearance of an emaciatod prize fighter. She eued Mrs. Olsewsky before ot Justice Haines, and obtained jydgment for dam- ages to the amount of $25, bésides costs. Comptroller Burley hes been making himsalt disagreeable to tho interested parties by investi- gating the purchases mado for the Fire Depart- ment. He finds that cortain retail dealers have been enjoying a good thing at the expense of the City Treasury. Instance, the matter of whips, which haye Poon bought at tho rato of 836 mer { i briefiy ns follows: dozen, though the same articlo ocan be procured of wholesalo doslors for 23 por dozen. Although very sorry to broak up tho pleasant and no doubt mutuully profitable relations oxis ing betwson the purchasing powers of tho Firo Dopsrtment and tho party who hes had tho pleasure of selling the whips, Mr. Burley has come to the conclusion thathe muat spesk about it. Mrs. A. Putnam, residing at 665 West Madison stroet, calls attention o a caeo of destituiion that has come to her notice. A man went to her house, secking work s weelk ago_ yestorday, and as hisaspect was that of excessive misery, she inquired as to his circumstences. Ho stated that he lived in a shar'~ on_the prairie, between Aghland avenue anu .'zulina street, near North avenuo; that his wife had been confined aweok before, and, with her baby and two other children, was in bed sinco the Erm-iauu mornin, without food or fuel in the house. They had applied to tho Relief and Aid Society for assist- ance, but could get none, thero being & man in the family, though the man could not got work. Mrs. Putnam sought tho sufferers, on' Saturday, and gavo them what littlo sho could spare, an they are now badly in need of furthor aid. Mrs. Putnam rosd an accoun’, of the doings of the Re- Lief and Aid Society; which was very grati’ying to the Society ; but'sho thinks such _destitution as sho witnessed deserves to be relieved. The man referred to is an American, and was, at ono time, & Lioutenant in the army. —_— INDIANA. Eistory of the Beaver Laké Lands— How the School Children of Indiana ZWereSwindled Out of $200,000. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. Inpavarorss, Deo. 27.—Your readers doubt- Ioss have noticed that Congress passed an act a fow days since granting to tho State of In- diana a quit claim to the re-claimed lands of the bed of Boaver Lake, in Newton County, Indians, comprising some gixteen thousand acres of the most fertilo soil in the north part of the State. As these lands have been the eubject of much fraud, litigation, and excitement in Northwest- ern Indians, and entered largely into the poli- tics of that section of the Btate, their history msy mnot be uninteresting, and is Congress donated to this Btate in 1850 all the swamp lands within her borders, the procecds of which were to bo applied to tho Senool Fund of the State. Theso lends were estimated at one time to bo worth $2,000,000, but they wereall fritteredaway by the Democratic State officials, between 1850 &nd 1836, in tho most monstrous swindle ever perpetrated upon any Btato or people. They i were deeded to various Democratic officials in all ‘parts of the State in repayment for ditching that was never either commenced or finished, and finally the State had neither lands nor any- thing to show for them, d the echool chil- dren were robbed of $2,007,000. Two of these ““lend-grabbers,” John P. Dunn, at that time Auditor of State, and his surety, M. G. Bright, have obtsined & largo portion of th: lands on the border of Beaver Lake, 17 the * patent ” Democratic_process de- scribed “above, and by virtde of this %‘mxerty, claiwsd’ the adjacent bed of Beaver Lake, as “riparian. proprietors.”” It was a monstrous claim with no shadow of right. They laid off the lard, which was ten_ feet under water, into forty acro lots, each taking alternate lots'; and in this plot lag all tho title they or their assign- ccs ever had. Dunn turned out to boa de- faulter as Auditor of the State, and to indemnify Bright, his surety, be deeded to Bright all his interest in the Beaver Lake lands to indemnify thet gentleman against loss, wheroupon Bright decded the same land obtained from Dunn to the State in sottlement of Dunn's defalcations—a sharp practice certainly. Bubsequently, the Stnte's interest and that of the original ‘gppropristor® were _ sold, ang came, more . or less directly, to the hands of Mesars. Milk and Dean, of Illi- nois, the present claimants and benefioiaries of the original outrage. A few years ago, aftera large part of the lake (which'lay within & short distance of the Kankakeo River,and being fif- teen feet higher than that stream, was drained into it), a collision occurred between the “squat- ters,” ‘who claimed that it belonged to tho Gen- ercl Governmeuty and was subject to_occupancy and purchase like other public lands, and the assigneos of the old robbery. The matter was then referred to the Commiasioner of the Gen- eral Land Office, at Washington, who decided that **the lake éid not pres to the Btate with had not been and could not havo been surveyed.” Then came an sppeal to Congress to coufirm tho title drived from the original claimants. Boveral bills wero introduced in both the Senato and Houso in the interests of tho various claimants, all of which ended in Congress giving itto tho State on the ground that “ it was drained by tho Btate and her assiguees.” The question that now occurs is how far doos the act of Congress moko good the title derived through tho original plunderers. The * ripa- rian * titlo of Dunn and Bright, which was all tho titlo they ever had, was no titl at all, and tho parties who purchased the interest of Bright weré bound to know that they bought it at their peril. Now, for the first time, Congress bas iven o perfect titlo to the land, and all sales eretofore mado aro void ; bat should the Stato make good her titlo o the present owners, should she also make good a title to the Bright land in which shelnever had any interest? Does not the State own at least o balf interest in those lands, and should tho School Fund be deprived of 2100,000 that is justly her ovn? _Certainly, £100,000 out of 52,000,000 worth of lands is lit- tlo enough for tho State to claim. Tho sttcn- tion of tho next session of the Legislature will b called to the fscts and the matter will be tested in tho Courts, Tho following nowls-elected State officers have already beon inducted into their respective offices : Attorney Goneral, James Denny ; Clerk of tho Supremo Court, Chatlea Scloll ; Superin- tondent of Public Inatruction, J. S. Hopkins, The following will assume their positions on the dates named: Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, Jen. 13 ; Secretary_of Stato M. M. Curry, Jan. 17; Trepsurer J. B. Glover, Feb. 9; Auditor J. A. Wildman, Jan, o el SRS =S MADISON. State Tenchers’ Convention==Proceeds ings Yesterday.-State Hlistorical So= ciety. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune, Mavpiso¥, Wis,, Dee. 27.—On call of Stato Buperintendent Fallows, scmo fifty County School Superintondents, Principals, and Normal Behool teachers, including a fow ladies, are holding & meeting hero. Soveral who would have attended were detained by the storms and sovere weather. First on the programmo was a discussion of the propriety of making tho sys- tem of township school government obligatary, it having been permissory in the State for somo time. The chief speakers wore Assistant Super- intendont Prads, County Buperintendents Worth, of Wankesha; Holford, of Grant; Chandler, of Dano, and Major A.J. Cheney, Iate of Walworth. The drift of the discussion was against the proposition, but the matler was referred to a Committes, who made a report which was adopted in favor of . amending tho law of 1869, 0 83 not to excludo villagos having schools of not lessthan threo departments from its operation. _County Super- intendents and educators generally should urge tho adoption of the township system by towns, that it may haye & fair and thorough trial; also, that a change in the systom of reporting from joint school districts, 80 as to_have but one ro- port, that from the Clork of -the Town in which the school-house of the district is located, was advocated by several Superintend- ente. There was a ‘protracted discussion on the propriety of requiring a knowledge of natural Beiences for a second-grado certificate, in the course of which it appeared that there wére only 413 such cortificates held in Wisconsin, and some 6,000 third-grade. The discussion was mainly conducted by Messrs. A. Satisbary, of Brodhesd, Smith, of Sparta, Chandler, of Dane, Marsh, of Waterloo, and Superintendent Fallows. It was generally conceded that more knowledge of nat- ural acionces was highly desirable smong teachers and pupils in our common schools, but_doubted whether the public wers yet educated up to the point of &0 generally Zeaching them as to requiro their knowledge by - second grade teachers. It was questioned, also, whetner too much sttention to some higher branches did not'lead to the neglect of the more common and uvaeful studies, like grammer, gnogmphy and history, andreading and spelling. The neceesity of some change in the method of appointment_to Normal School scholarships was urged by Mesars. Parker, of Janesville; Purdy, of Fort Atkihson, and others, and the matter was discuseed by them and Preeident Albee, of the Oshkosh Normal School, and Me- Gregor, of the Platteville Normal Bchool, it being urged that the benefits of the Normal Behools should be restricted to those who in- tended to toach in the State. There wasa very intoresting vresentation of the ¢ swamp land * donstion of 1850, because_it. deaf and dumb oducational work, by Buperin- tondent Neéd, of the State Institute, and some of his pupils fhis afternoon. Thero was o very interesting preseutdtion sud discussion of * in- stitute worl,” by Professor Robert Graham, and others. A business meeting of County Superinten- denta this evenin, The rolation of the Btate Univeusity to graded schools will bo discussed by President Twombly, Suporintcndent Failows, and others. Reports aro expected from the Nor- mal Schools, and the sossion will close with mis- cellanaous business, and o discussion. to-mor- oW, At & meetin, Executive of the State Historical Socioty Jommittce, the librarian an- nounced 5,692 sdditions to _ the library, mne oil portraits’ and many cabinet’ additions, Thutsday evening, Jau. 2 ensuing, was dosignatod for the annual meeting of the Society; and Thursday svening, Jan. 80 for the annusl address by tho Hon. C. B, Robin- son on the birth place of Amoricanism, The pro- priety of celcbrating tho bicoriennial, of Mar- quottes discovery of tho 3ississippi, in June next, was suggested, and & Committoo appointed to consider it. - FOREIGN. RUSSIA. St. PETERSBURG, Doc. 27.—The Czarowitch !uulh Lfour hours of uninterrupted eleep last night. . oNpoy, Dec. 27.—A special from Berlin sdys that tho British Ambassador at 8t. Petersburg has delivered a note to Prince Gortschakof in- forming him that England will abstain from in- terfering with Russian progress in Central Asia, if it does not threaten Ajgfmnistnn. Nine thousand Khivese troops are now besieg- iniflm Rusgian forts on the Eureba River. 0NDON, Dec. 27.—Another force of 10,000 Khiveso is depredating on the Russian fishcrics at the mouth-of the Eureba. Reinforcements beve been sent to the Russian troops in that lo- cality. * ——s GREECE, Loxpox, Dec. 27.—The Ministers of Austria, Gemmany, and Russia ot Athens, acting on in- structions from their respeciive Governments, jointly advised the Greek Government to end | about tho Laurium silver mines by 0 demands of France and Italy. e iy GREAT BRITAIN. Loxpoy, Déc. 27.—Williem Bentley, & stock broker of Ehis city, suspended purmont, to-day, the difficult; conceding tg }z'fr}! reported that he is short 44,000 shares of 0. SWITZERLAND. BERSE, Dac. 27.—The diplomstic relations be- -tween tho Bwiss Government and the Vatican are broken off, The Papal legation at Lucerne will probably bo abolished, the Oharge & Affaires and attaches having been recalled. —_——— ANOTHER WONDERLAND. Gorges, Forests, Torrents, and Watcrs - inlls of the Tuolumne Canon. __ From the San Francisco Dulletfn, The diadem for scenic grandeur has heretofore been worn by Yosemite, bat the explorations in the Sierra Nevadahave revealed some half-dozen contestants for that honor. Among theso may be mentioned Mount Shasta, the canon of the South Fork of King's River (on_the shadow of Mount Wljtney), and the great Tuolumne River canon. John Muir, the lonely, adventurous ex- plorer and geologist of tho Yosemite Valley, and alen Clark, State Guardisn of that valley, last month penetrated and explored the last ‘men- tioned canon, which Professor Whitney and Clar- ence King did not enter, the former expressing a doubt, In his Stato_geological report, whethor it was possiblo to got intoit at all. Rlr. Muir Teports that this canon lies shout eighteen miles in on aimost dna northerly direction from Yose- mite Valley. Its beginuing or mouthis below Hetch-Heichy Valley, and the main Tuolumne Tuns through'it. It curyesin an unbroken line for over forty miles, and runs up to and ends in the very heart of the summils of the upper Sier- ra Novada. Tho uneuphoniously named Hetch- Hetchy Valley constitutes an‘ expanded por- tion of the great Tuolumne canon, which properly begins st the castorn and of etch-Hotchy, and has, from thence to its head, a longth of twenty miles of continu- ous, unbroken vertical walls of granite, similar 10, but more clear cut, and with much’ greater depth, than those of the Yosemito Valley. Yo- semito Valley has an average width of half & milo, and isin one placoamile wide; but the Tuolumne canon_has nowhere awidth exceeding & quarter of a mile, aud is in some places much narrower than thet. TheTuolumne River, which runs through it, hes twico the width of the Merced. The falls of the Merced-Yosemite sur- puss those of the Tuolumne canon in unbroken volumes of deeconding watar; but, in_endless variety of cascades and water-shoots, the Tao- lumne canon i8 far superior. The great walls of itho csnon are. ecamed by Water-worn fissures, down which rivers leap, churn, thun- der, brawl, andsing with all possible varietiss and expression of sound. There is one water- lenp 1,800 fect high in the Tnolumne canon, but it i 00t unbroken liks the Upper Yosemito, and is in that respect iuferior to the lattor, The Upper Yosemito falls are 1,600 fect high. In the spring, whon tho river is full, that fall tumblos into its greet wator-worn, rocky bowl with s sound_resembling the fall from tho iy of gigantic_caunon-balls on massive and tightly- strotched drums. This sound clogely resem- bles, yet hawdly rises to the noisy dignity of tho loudest peals of thunder; but the noiso produced by the Tuolumno waterfalls is 23 deafening as the loudest thunder,—a thunder which 18 brought directly home to the ears by the narrowncss ond vast depth of the et ice-covered fissuro and tho unsurpassed Facilitica it affords for ponderons cchocs.. . Ono of thio waterfalls spreads out et firat lika a great filmy fan of eilvery-threaded water, but, after o descent in this shapo of about 200 fect, it is whirled over, closed up with lightning-like ra- pacity, changed in_color, shot down & narrow groove of rocke, like an 'arrow of steam. Tho great sculpturé marks of glacial action arc much newer and more easily read in the Taol- mmno than in the canon, for, though called a valley, it ia reelly a canon Of tho Yosemito. The glacial alphabet by which tho history of the gla- cial action can bo read is vory much blurred in Yosemito by the subsequent action of rain, snow, sun, winds, and earthquakos; but in the Tuolimne canon the page is frosh from the gla- cial workshop on tho summits of mounts Lyell, Dana, Gibbs, end Ritter. The glacier on the Intter g o length and width of about half o milo, and » depth of about 800 foet. The gla- ciers from these mountains, Mr. Muir thinks, at ono time not only filled the grest Tuolumno canon, but lavishly overflowed it 83 & river 4, 5—* When the fulness of the time God sent forth His Bon, made of woman, mada under the law, to redoerh them that worh mager the lx,x‘w, thet wo might receive tho adoption of BOns, g/ At the terminztion the spenker said services and the colohx.:ti;s of the hol;h:fmm‘z rigt wonld take place at midnight. A number of those present rotired after o procession hed buen formed by the Rector, his aesistent, Rov, Mr. Boaubion, acolytes, and choristers. " " At midnight, Rev, Mr. Morrill, attired in tho amico, white laco alb, maniple, and - chasuble, formed tho procession in the Vesiry and. pro: ceoded into the church, singing an” anthem, in the following. order :. Thurifur, . crucifer, boy | choristers, banner of the annuneiation,’ men choriaters, banner of the nativity, taper-Learers, | ergy. ‘The procession passed up and | the aisled, and’ thon proceoeded in front of Was come, d tho altar, and bowing low to the crucifix, took their seats.on either side. Rev. Father Aorrill scted 28 celebrant in the celobration of the solemn holy eucharisf, which was doue with the customary incénsing, - after” which about cighty communicants partock of the communion, and i the eervices closed with other portions of the | Lpiscopal service laid down in the Book of Com- mon Prayer for tho occasion. Althorgh the church was crowded, & third of thoso present attended merely through curiosity. The services | wero extremely solemn and imposing. From the | walls of the church wore suspended paintings of the different trials Jesus Christ is believed to have gone through before offeriny himself up 2a asacrifice on Mount Calvary. : The singing by the choir was very good, and was conducted under the direction of Albertis. The gervices did not conclude until 2 o’clock this ‘morning, and will be again commenced by cele- bration of tho holy eucharist at 7 &. m. and 10 pom ¢ i —_— ® PERSONAL. - Hammond, the revivalist, now in Dubuque, « will next try Denver. ! —Theoph. C. Callicott returns to the Albany : Times with partnership interest. - —Major Charles J. Btolbrand, - formerly of Chicago, has been reappointed Superintendert of the South Carolina Penitentiary. 2 —Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, hag been reported dangerously ill with brain fever. He was simply indisposed, and has 8t no time been in = dangerous or serious condition. ono aspirant for a position in_President Grant's | new Cabinet,—Colonel T. B. Swan, of Kanawha. —Governor-elect Hartranft, of Pennsylvanis, | hag expressed an iniention of introducing fe- male clerical labor in the various departmsuts of the State Government. - —General M. 8. Quay, editor of the Beaver ‘Radical, isto be the new. Secu\‘.mzl;f Btate of | Pennsylvania, and William H. strong, of TLycoming, will be appointed Attorney General. | Lawrence Young, a prominent agriculturist, died suddenly, the 33, at_his residence near Louisville, Ky.,.aged 79. He was for years the agricultural editor of the Louisville Journal, and afterward edited tho Western Ruralist, —)ike McCoole, the pugilist, who in 1868 was marriedin s magnificent manner to Miss Mary Ann Naughton, 18 now sceking a divorce in a St. Louis Court. He alleges that Mary Ann has been unfaithfal. —The Rev. James M. Stone, formerly a Prot- ! estant Episcopal clergyman and President of | Hobart snd Kenyon Colleges, was ordained. a Roman Catholic priest, on Sunday, by Archbishop MecCloskey, in Now York. i —Willjam J. McAlpine will return to Austria | in June, to finish the improvements of the river | Danube, which have been put in his chargo. He i8 now having prepared certain machinery foruse in his work. —Mrs. Livermore informs us that the feet of the coming woman are on the mountsain top, and that her spirit is of the mountain air. This is very nice; but if the coming woman is to be of any practical value, she had better come down from there. 3 —A rumor comes across the sea that Louis Napoleon, the ox-Empress Eugenie, and tlie for- mer Prince Imperial of France intend coming to our hospitable shores early next spring, an travolling through the length and breadth of the continent during the entire summer. i —Tho Lord Chief Justice Kenyon once said to a rich friend, asking hia usg;mion a8 to the proba- ble success of a son: ‘Sir; let your son forth- with spend his fortune; matry, and _spend his wife's; and then he may be expected to apply with ehergy to his profession.” ; —John J. Poarson, George Bergner, Henry Gilbert, Daniel Eppley, and A. B. Hamilfon have received their credentials from Secretary Bout- well a8 Commissioners to locate a site for a Post Office st Harrisburg, Pa., under &n appropris- tion of $200,000 made by Congress. —John M. Barclay, Journal Clerk of the Houso of Representatives, at Washington, has celebrated his twenty-Gif:h oficial anmiversary, having first beon afipuinled clerk on the 20tL of December, 1847, when Robert 0. Winthrop was Spealer, and T. C. Campbell, of Tennessee, Clerk of the House. —* Dick” Yates_is understood to have the promise that the Presidont will give him the Governorship of ons of the Territories, upon & tenure conditioned upon his strict adherence to temperance principles and practices. —Referring to the will of the late Edwin For- rest, the Pliladelphin Age remarks *that no mention is made in it of . Forrest, who, we boliove, was never divorced from her husband, and may assert her rights-as s widow. These, in Pannsylvania, will 0ot materially deminish the bequest of real estate, for in it the widow has only a life estate in one-third, and that is buta trausiont interruption of s bequest to a perma- nent charity, In the perconal estate, Mrs. For- Test, unless there has been some obstacle inter- oséd by voinatary stipulation, will, we supposs, EAVE an absolute interest in ope-third.” —A historic character in Cincinnati, called “Matches Mary,”-died in that city a fow days g0, and the Coroner’s. inquest revesled lifo's story worthy of taking its place among the mem- ories of famous misers and eccentrica. DBriere was some fifty years old, and had been knovn as & match-peddlor of very rogular habits—of in- tomporance. She must cither have mede money rapidly or gotten drunk cheaply, for she left real estate valued at 6,000 and money and Dnotes amonnting to noarly as much. Of coures, she had a son in the House of Refuge, and alto- gether was quite such a character as Mr. Boffin would have delighted to have edded to the library ho collectod to illustrate the meanness of riches. —_— Sothiern’s Joke Not Original. From the Louistille Courfer~Journal. That was & good joko of Mr. Sothern's—very good indeed—but it was not original. A warier and more distinguished Englishman than the unsuspecting husband of Mius Adelaide Neilson was similarly put upon st the Galt House, in this city, thirty-five or forty years ago. A cer- tain Captain Marryatt, famed "in romentic novel Iore, was travelling in America. He had heard overfiows ite banks in spring time. 5 Messrs. Muir and Clark had s rough task in exploring this great canon and its swrroundings. They were forcod to wade rushing, icy torrents, the sidos of which brushed tho fo0t of perpen- dicular rocks of granite. ‘They campod ononight in their ahirt sleeves, and went supperloss to bed. ~Ouo of the walls mentioned is 4,000 feet fihoso who have como out of Yosemite by the Coultervillo trail will remember what &_magnifi- cent viow of tho Bridal Veil Falls ia had from it. Those falls are by no means the largeat, but they aro themost bosutifully snd sppropriately named of all the falls of tho great valley. The wind swings them and dissrranges their falling folds and silver threads, just as it ‘would a vail of the most gauzy texture. There are many of these bridal veil falls in Hetch-Hetchy Valloy and the Tuolumno camon. Thero is & greater display and variely of water-ghapes, bues, . tints, motions, and . cxpress- ions in the latter canon than in Yosemite. = One imagines that he Las seen and heard all the pos- sible combinations into which water can enter to awe and delight the eye and charm tho ear, af- ter a vieit to Yosemito, but Mr. Muir states that the exploration of the Tuolumno canon hes revealed innumerablo discoveries in this respect, even to his eye, which has for years been fa- miliar with all the waterfalls of the Yosemite region. 1t is evidont from these and othor recent dis- coveries in the Sierra Nevada that there is a ‘wealth of wonders there, outside of and in many respects far surpassing those regions on which the eyes of tourists have herctofore rested. Christmas Evo with the Kitnalists. From the New York World, Dec. 25. Cast night, at 9 o'clock, services in connaction with the High Church or Rituslistic party com- ‘menced in St. Albsn's Church, in Forty-saventh street. The decorations in the chancol were very profuse, and heavy fostoons of cedar and other evergroens wero suspended from the roof to tho pillats. The altar was strewn with bou- quets of delicate flowers and crosses of evar- groens. - At each side the altar was adomed with Whito and colored flowere, and stars, and wreaths of tho richest productions’ of tho lLoi-house, which sent a perfume throngh the whole edifice, The services at 9 p. m. commonced with a pro- cession of acolytes, clengy, and choir, attired in purple, rod, and bluo robes, who ontered the church from the vestry, singing ¢ Adestes Fideles,” end procecded through the aisles, the congregation, which was_very large, falling on their knees. 'At the conclusion, the rector, Rev. Facher Morrill, preached s scrmon on tho per- son and mission of Jesus Christ—Galatiaas, of the dark and bloody ground, snd he cime ¢ Sams time last yea 8o far as hoard from, West Virginia has but | A% forcement of a Jaw passed by the Legislat; forcem r requiring that all oysters brought fo 'g;itimnree; In cargoos shonld bo measured in an iron vessel of certain capacity and sold by such measura- ment, bas lod i‘:’mma indictment of fourteen , who are 5 i selling - tors By th barrel, o " *elli2g shell oys — Sand-Spouts, From the Virginia (Nee.) Chroniele, Holf 8.d0z0n ¢ sand-upouts - cobaers of sand drawn up by whirlwinds—were to boseen on the Twenty-two-Yilo Descrt, vestorday aftornoon, from % 4ill nearly 3 o'clock.” Yhoy waltzod ahoat keaping ulwass apart, and’ moving. inShe seme direction, each, apparently, a sfid column ten feet in diameto aud one Lhowsand faot high o top of these columns scemed <o bo cut ot by a Lrisk breeza from the west, which carsied tho dust in clouds ove: the rangs' of mountains Iying to the* east of the Sink of the Carson, Sometimes two of these “sand-spouts,” o Whirlwinds—eail them what you may—come to- gether, when they explode with a loud Teport, and both instantly disappear, y ! Nature's Ereals, The thres grown perzoas knoy iliga- tor Clildren are to bo orhibiied vy fie Bran Sy Fuir. Tho first child has = scaly skin, and, wher lying down, her actions aro very similar £0 thosy of o alligetor. Tho other two are not 80 die tinotly marked, yet aro similar in appearance and actions to thoir sister. They wall with dit. fleulty; their naual stylo of locomotion I8 eral. ing, but when erect they waik upon the tips of their toes. Their natural position is 3 remum. parents of these singular childrex are ve; tute, but refused an offer of =10, showman to take them North for c: 5 Comparative Cotton Statement, New Yozx, Dec, Net recaipta at all ports during the week. Total for the year.. t yeur. .. American afioat for Great B Gl i . Telegraphic Drevities. Foster, the forger, hasbeen brought from Mon- treal to Boston, and committed for trial. There has been but a single case of small-pox m Jacksonville, I, this winter, and tha: resulted fatally yesterday. The Cincinnati Board of Trade yesterday re- solved to employ an sgent to remain at L ville and look after the interests of iis mez. bers, in speedy shipping of freight from tuzs point south. e TS D Obituary. ScravToN, Pa., Dec. 27.—Judge C. A. Lane. of Wilkesbarre, Pa., died suddenly in this city yestorday. BostoN, Dec. 27.—Edward C. Bates, a well- known Boston merchant, died in the railw: station at Swampscott, last night, of heart dis- ease. —_——— Burned to Death, JacesoxviLLe, Ill, Dec:. 27i.—Two or three days ago Mre. W. E. Smith, of Nebo, Pike Coun- ty, Ill., attempted to kindle a fire with coal ol resulting in & terriblo explosion and the burn: of t(:L'\e ‘woman so horribly that sho died shortir aftar. MARRIED. _OSDORNE-Oa the 18th int., I3 1a o his reeidenco of the bride's ralbit, by | Keni, assisted by Rev, M. Keadall, F. H. Kea Augusta, second daughtor of Hon. A. L. Osborne. GOODRIDGE_PORTER—Tu this citr, at the donce of the bride's father, by the Fer. Henry G. Rootor of All Salnta' Chireh, on Christmas day, Hoory W, Goodridgs and Miss Hattio K., daugh ‘Thomas Porter, Esq.. all of Chicago. Y~ WOODS—At the residenco of the bri BULKLE by the Kov. G, H. W. Stockiar, Charies. 3. Balkley Hisy Eila 3. Wood: DIED. ALLEN—At Riserside, Doc, 27, Willtam C: eon of William T and Sarah O, Allen, aged 17 52 Funeral at house, Monday, H a. m. Frieads of the family aro invited to attond. TOBIN—On last eveaing, Dec, 25, Tlomas T. Tebia, years. Funcral from No. § Osborn-at., cornr of West Indlana- unday, Dec. st., oo , atlp.m. By cars to Calvarr Cainotery. AUCTION SALES, By WM. A. BUTTERS & CO. 55 and 57 South Canai-st. BUTTERS & COS REGULAR SATURDAY'S SAL_E OF Househkold Furniture, New Brussels and Tngrala All-Wool Carpeta, Floor Oil Cloths, Table Catlery, White Granito 2ad Yellow Ware, Show Cases, Desks, Chairs, Tables, . Topsther with & largo variety of Merchandiss, On SATURDAY, Dec. 23, at 93 o'clock, at 5 and 57 South Canalst. At 11 o'clock—Two fine new Piano Fortes. ‘WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctfoncers. BOOTS AND SHOES AT AUCTION, on TUESDAY MORKING, Dee. 31 2t 9:30 o'olock, at 55 and 57 South Canal-st. WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctioreers. Horses, Buowies, Cutters aud Haragss On WEDNESDAY, Jan. 1, at 10 o'clock, at 25, %, and 31 Wost Washington-st. WAL A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctisasoss. DRY GOODS, Custom-Made Clothing, Shirts, Drawers, Etc., S . 3, at 8% o'olock. 02 THRE D PO B 238 ationcots. By GEO. P. GORE & CO. 2, 24, and 25 East Randolph-st. - AT ATUCTION, Barogins in Honsehold . Fromifere, &, To closo out soveral consignments. Parlor, Chamber, Library, Ofice, and Kitcken Furnitore, Low Casce, Wardrobes, Mirrors, cwing Mac in pesfect running order, 12 cratés of W. G. C hero to seo it. Thoso wore the day of the Wards and Throckmortons, and livelier times or s livelier sot_ were kmnown nowhere betwixt Lizzard’s Point and Simms' Hole. The suthor of Peter Simple was cordially received snd hospitably treated. He was takien to the race-course everyday. He was invited into the mysteries of * Old Crow.” Of course he could not be allowed to auit Kentucky without a taste of draw poker, and a beautiful lit- tlo seance was organized for bis especinl benofit, ‘What followed is told by Captain Marryatt him- |. self in the book which he published after his re- turn to England: * Tho game proceeded with good naturo for holf an hour. Then there arose a dispute between a gentleman they called ¢ Judgo’ and snother gentleman who went by the titlo of ¢Governor’ I think the Governor accused tho Judge of con- cealing a card in his sleeve. At all events, tho debato grew very hot, when the Judge suddenly drew lus revolver ; immediately the Governor drew his bowie-knife ; the table was tipped over in a trico, extingnishing the lights, when at least tiventy aliots woro fired, Throe gentlemen were wounded—one fatally.” The suthor does mot add thot Captain Marryatt was found under the bed, Nor does he toll Lis readers that the whole affair was n farco, for how could he know that, having fled by the 6 o'clock coach next morning for Nashville?, The samo hoax was “* set up” for Dickens, but Boz was to fall of his greatnoss at that time to accept thoe familiar attentions of the natives. Oyster Packing. From the Baltimore dm:erican. Just at this time there is quite a dulness in that branch of the oyster-packing business which consists in putting up oystors in hermetically- sealed cans for use in warm climates and distant laces. The reason is that the price of oysters 28 gone up, 8 it often doos G el til the peckers do not think there is sufiicient margin for thoir operations. Tho shipment of frosh oysters in square cans is about the some 88 wusual. There is usually some dulness in all branches of tho oyster business for a fow wecis after Thanks- giving. OnThanksgiviog Day everybody wants to have at least a can of oysters, but everybody West does not waat & can on each subsequent day. This osplains why recently, when there were one day ovor & hundred an fifty thousand bushels of oysters ot ouz wharvos, they went off slowly. PorLaps thoe tightness of money in the West has just at this time & rather unfavorable effect on the oyster business, but our packers are cheerful, and anticipate active sales duripg and afier the holidays, The en-) A'large and fine lot of caslis of 1 rolis Voo Carpelly Saluew) - SrRe amd fiue ot of Plated Ware of everv escription (8 0z. plate)s "On Saturday, Dec. 28, at 9 1-2 o'clock. G.P. GORE & CO., Anctioneers. By W.0. HOFFMAN, Auctioneer. TR A S AT ATCTION. IMPORTANT SALES OF TEAS. L.M. ROFTAAN'S i SON & CO. will sellon” - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 1873, at 11 ololock 10 G and 1tockingbam Ware, 52 At-Roberts’ Salesroom, Nos. 87 and 99 Water-st.,, New York, By order of tho Importer, 13,000 pack Soason Teas, comprisiag iavoices of Gs Souchongs, 2nd Japans. Gataloguns and samples will bo ready at tho offica of 15 auctioneer on and aftor tho 2d cf Jiguary, and &t tho salesroom two days previous to sale. By HARRISON & CO. Mortgagee’'s Sale. At No. 280 West Medisonzst., undor foraclosare, =8 illelly‘on Saturdy, “Doc S 44 8l Celodk. tho o tock ure, &o., 8tOT0, CO3= sisting of ELEGANT NEW FURNITURE, suoa 3 Par- i FURNT Tor 854 Obamber. Sote, Cairs Tables, "Als acassn fo. Elegant stock, and sale peremptory. " HARRISON & CO., Auctioneers, 3 South Cunai-st. REGULAR SBATURDAY'S SALE OF Household Goods, THIS MORNING, at 9% o'clock. Large and sttractive stoc . HARRISON & CO., Auctionecrs, - o) 5" South Canal-st. 200 Canary Birds AT AUCTIOR, this morning at 93¢ o'clock. Unreserved sgleafvory Sholea brde. oo BARRISON & €0, {0t Camat ot PAWNBROKER® SALE 1 will solt at Publio Auction, withoat reservo, for cash, tho Galance of furfelted pledzsa for the eurrent yaar 03 ening and overy ovewing at 7 o’clock, matil New A. GOLDSIID, 4 Buatosty oar. bent one, and in that only ther are at ease. Thy *