Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1873, Page 8

. by a clearin, JANUARY 13, 1873. DUE NORTH. Arctic Experiences on Lake Superior. Winter Life in the Great Mining Regions of the “Tpper Peninsula.” The Route from Chicago to Mar- - qnette---How Dog Trains Are Run. The City of Marquettes-What the Hyper- Loreans Desiguate as ¢ Below.” From Our Own Correspondent. AARQUETTE, L. 5., Jan. 6, 1673, ¢ the person who figures in literature 8s the < gentle reader " shouid find it necessary to visit the Leke Superior region, in order to break the monotony of & tropical existenco, let him pray that his flight hither be not in the winter. Not that the cold is absolutely unendurable, although the stranger finds the winds incisive, and the frost corroding. to the temper, but the pleasures incident o Lia trip would only measurably atone for tho dulness of an Arctic residence at the winter golstice. Lifo stagnates in winter in the little hamlets that border this great inland sea; and then locomotion Las its difficul- tiss, not to say perily and & limited number of cojoymonts. Tho railroads now pen- etrate this icy isolation, touching tho lako at two points—at Marquette, and at L'Anse, which iea littlo town with smell shanties and big pros- pacts, at the head of Kewecuaw Bay. Travel- ling is still of a biybrid chiaracter,—that is,staging mived with railroading. There is in it littie comfori, and much uncerisinty. Afier the tonrist has passed Green Bay, the country traversed by the railroad is mew, and its riches undeveloped. EX ROUTE. TLeaving Chicago by the evening train, Fort Howard, an ancient Government post, opposite the old French settlement with the emerald name, is reached botimes in the morning. Tailroad exigencios, not explained to the trovoller, compel the exchange of the varm and cozy sleeping-car for & com® yaoner coach and less aristocratic compan- jonship. Persons suffering from bunger can breakfast at tho public table of the station, where the menu has Arctic suggestions, although pemmican is not included in the list of dainties. ¢ ho ents, he is lisble to be afiicted with poign- “wnt regreta; and, if ho fails to comply with this _matatinel conv tionality, he has the usual cempunctions visiiings. From Fort Howard to Merinette is & matter of 63 miles,—literally long measure, the attractions of theline consid- . ered. This, during the summer, was the north- ern terminus of the Chicago & Northwestern ‘Reilroad. The country is covered will virgin woods, fiat, swampy, and uninteresting, except ko the utilitarian enthusigst. The towns:are Yew, and of striking Indian nomenclature, such as Littlo Swamico, Big Swamico, Peshtigo, Qconto, otc. At Marinstte, there is & farther change to poorer cars and more plebeiancompan- Ronship. The nice people lave been dropping off one by one, at the diminishing towns, and £z Iaboring people of the upper latitudes have ~preportionately increased in number. Thence- Formrd you have the forest primeval,” with its mumuring pines and its hemlooks, and win- ter wildweod scenery of the most fantastic kind, for the enjoyment of which & delay of two or throe hours at the last frontier halting-place has been but & poor preparation. North of Marinette, the srow beginsto deepen, increasing the gloominess of the general aspect. - THE LINE OX THE NORTIWESTERN recently comploted Xa 62 miles long, and con- nects the late termintg with Escanabs. There s not a town to enliven the route, not & station with & Christian name, not a log cabin engirdied clearing, and scarcely » human sbelter of roy kind for the whole dibtencs. Now and then . & brakeman, lately promoted from tho following of woodcraft, appears at tho door of tho coach, end calls ont & ‘number sugpuasd to have some conection with United Bietes surveys. The ‘raveller, waked perhaps from a weary slumber, Books at thedim form as at that of a necroman-~ woer, and hes somo soit of feint idea that the number is cabalistic. In the dull monot- oy of the ecenery, and the abaence [of” all tangible evidence of life end fhuman hebitation, the ideas of time and \#poce vanish. Nothing remains but & dim im- fprossion, conveyed biethe Conduotor, that the Behole distance will be accomplished in six or ‘seven hours, and with this everyone must content. The roed is new and has just ‘been turned over b§ the coptractors to the Company, :nd accepted by the State authorities. Heavier ueiness and a greator rate of ugad are merely matters of time, and will soou be adjusted in & Tanmer fo Euif the convemience of the public. The cnly treiu-of the day reaches Escansba somo time during the evening, if en extra fall of snow as not impeded the a{ready slow rate of ey AT ESCANADA, 2coording to prosent arrangements, it isneces- eary to spend the night, travel being to that ox- Zent tributary to the hotals of the village. There is & choice of several hotelries, » stoppage ab eiihier of which is followed b avalng re- grets that you did not dispose of your patronage elsewhere, _On the following morning the train leaves at 6 o'cleck, making it neccssary $0 rise with tlie lark—or with the woodpecker, rather, that being the only bird that lingers in theso latitudes during the winter—in order to scoure your pasesge. It is a forlunate circumstance that the couches of Northern hotels lack ¢hot degreo of luxurionsness -thal in- duces to continzed repose; therofore the ~vogager is pretty sure of his train. It may bo semarked, in passing, that 6 o'clock in themorn- lngkxs the ecstabliehed hour for the starting of Lsko Buperior traine, and Escanaba is town of the Upper Peninsula, and reckoned in (hat ro- on. A notablo cxception is the daily trainthat eaven L'Anse, going castward, on the Marquette & Ontonagon Kailroad. This leaves at :05 a. m,As its regular time to go thirty-two miles is » little over four hours, thoreason for this ecru- pulons regard for a petty five minates is not ap- parent. _‘The business is, however, managed by an infallible corporation, and we are forced to Teliavo that duo regard to railrond exaciitude Toquires this” minute sifting of the sands of . Leaving Escanabs at tlo unchristian hour mentioned, the enthusiastic winter {ourist be- gins toclimb, 2 Y THE PENINSULAR ROAD, the Darren, uninhabited slope that risos grad- wually from Lako Michigan to the crown of tho ndge which divides it from Lake Superior. The distence to bo accomplished fs 63 miles, and the altitude €75 feet. 'fhe conductor is a genial gentloman, who b a home-made lunch,— Do boarding-house bominations being_toler- ated,—which ho_divides withi hungry travellers. Trains are sometimes delayed aday or two in the pine-barreps, o that s provision of provisions scems actually nocessary. There are no convenient farm-houses for ;«;?;ynd pas- eengers, 2nd no country tuverns at stations to be reached by a walk of five or eix miles through the drifts, ag in lowerdatitudes. THE SNOW Ties about three feet on a level in the unbroken woods around Escanaba. This would satisfy tho moat ardent lover of cold weather, and its frosty concomitants ; but the ardent lover, etc., proposes, and the Ice Ting disposes. In the Ticinity of Negaunce and Marguetto, there is no Jesa than four feot on level in tho woods ; and, fartherup tho lake, thoso who have been on enow-shoes off tho travelled routes, say that there is between five and aix feet. is s more than has ever been on the Frcnnd at this season before, according to the “oldest inhabi~ tant.” It never thaws in this high region during the winter, end, on an average, from the time of the first fall to o last, it snows four deys of every five. That which {alls packs, and evaporates, but only hmht proportion to the accamulation, which, it ill be beerved, is likely to bo grest ero the thaw commences. . THE MEANS OF INTER-COMMUNICATION between the Lake Superior towns are limited. 3arquette marks the eastern boundary of the civilization of the region. There ares few fur- pacos RO% I3 L0 if, OB the shore. Tha Mar- spring gustte & Ontonagon Railoosd connect . with 'Anse, 62 miles distant, on Koweenaw Bay. All the minos of fhe district ate scattered slong this road, likp boads. upon s string,—those two or throo miles off the line being connected withit_by short “spurs” of trick, ,On the otter side of theroad, there is positively noth- ing but wild country, forests of pine, hemlock, birch, and maple, swamps of peat, and hil baving fabulous richos in their bosoms, The deop £nows have made travelling off the great rail-thoronghfare difficult,and, forlongdistances, impossible, to vehicles. On the few highways that connect the villages, sleighs pass, but with inconvenienco. Theroads are beaten just wide enough for & single sleigh. Along this narrow line, successive snows are trodden under foot, until the highivay in several fect above the deep-~ ly-covered ground on either, gide. This oes vory well as lom; a8 a man has - tho whole snowy $horoughfare Yo Limsclf ; but, when ho is obliged fo deflect from his direct course to accommodato others, ho deviates ot bis peril. Shipwreck in thewhite, billowy wasto is imminent. ~Horses and riders gu down like Pharaoh and his hosts in the Red ea, and, if they ever appear again, it is under altered conditions, with whitened garments and embittered hearts, and thoe pleasire of the day is ended. - So the showy turn-outs of theiren and cop){ar magoates are seldom seen outside of the hamlets where thoy reside. DOG-TRATNE. The dog-train is becoming 2 thing of the past. Tho weeldy mail is_still carried by this means between Sault Ste. Marie an Mearquetto,—a dis- tance of noatly 100 iles. The sledge is simply a thin, flexible board, six=or seven feot in length, and'a foot or more in width, tarned up at one cnd to enable it to rise over obst: los in tho path, - Aloug the edge, on either ids, is o low rail, to which ‘the load is securely bound With cords, Tho burden carriod is usually a fow Dlankets, rarcly s tent, provisions for s fow dass, & small o, and a few other things cssential to wildwood 'locomotion. The driver never rides. This ia o tropieal fiction. The frailty of the vehicle, the J;:tblesn woods, snd tho discipline of tho draught animals, forbid such a poetical means of proj 8. The dogs are far from being tho noblest specimens of, {heir Tace. They are mangy curs, which aro called on from before, stimulatod by s famishing process and yarions ingenious kinds of torture, Bnd occasiofinlly propelled from behind. A wicked ertist of Marquette, by & wonderfal Process of stereoscops, hias placed a man on o Slodge to which dogs aro attached. But I regret fo Lo obliged to Bay of the picturo that it is & snaro and & deceit. Tho photographer is an ac- complished artist and & conacientious gontle- man, but_his work has sbout it an air of filthy Tucrs, which hsa coticed many noble mon to their rin. The ¢8oo™ mail, as it is called, ia in charge of -two relics of the Chippews tribe, who bave come down to ms from a former genoration. | They perform their dutios ac- Septably, and have never beon known to plunder the mails, like a city Post Office clerk, or to read the letters, liko & count Postmistress. Their weekly advent in Marquotta is still marvelled at by & group of dirty urchins, who heve a linger- 13 Ioveof the antiquo ; to which is added o stray Pohemian, whom insenity orsuperior orders bave driven to thege high Iatitudoes while the rigors of Winter aro provailing. One of the mail-attend- ants usnally precedes the train, on snow-shoes, either to encourage the dogs to the greater rate of sgr.-ed, ‘or to break the path and Temove ob- stacles. ' And this is all thet there ia charming sbout travelling with s dog-train in the winter. All travelling off tho few main linesis done upon snow-shoes, of which your correspondent hopes the readers of TmE TRIBUNE will soon see ‘many spocimons in the museun to be attached to the Public Library. The tourist who passes west of L'Anso has to return to the primitive methods of locomotion whith bave just been Tmentioned,—gtaging, dog-trains, snd _snow- shoeing ; but the excitemonts of these will have to furnish matter for another letter. THE MELANCHOLY OCEAX. e All tho world 18 familiar with Disraeli's bon mol in regard to the gloom: effect of a stormy ocean upon the Irish people. Some observant traveller has also remarked the extmm;dgnn:{ of the denizens of far northern latit . I have noticed the peculiarity here. _The citizens of Lake Superior towns rately smile in winter, &nd, ss for lsughter, its dissonance is never heard in cold weather in the streets of DMar- quette. You meet a casual ac uaintance and make a sickly attempt at humor, but no respon- pive smile gilds hia face. Except for a sl ight motion of his lips, and a limited amount of sudi- Dble breath, you would suppose that his classio featuras hnX been frozen into eternal stillness and ewtnesque repose. _ Whether tnis is the effect of propricted cold, or the nearness of & large body of water, or. of both combin it is hardly neeess: to inquire. Bul the fact is unquestionable. Within the many happy homes that exist ‘hera, the case is pre- sumed to be different. In them, the glow.of an- thracite sapplies the warmth of the sun insofter latitudes, exotics bloom are mollified, men unben maidens condescend to smile. It takes some- thing more, even, than a polar coldness to chill the domestic virtues. But the rule has few other exceptions. Occasionally & shop-keeper smiles at you over his countor, but this digplay of Pleasurablo emotion is so unusual that the pur- chader is satonished st the unexpacted courtesy. A certuin dogres of artificial politeness is pro- dnced by stimulants, but it soon passes away, leaving the gloom moro pronounced than bafore- The * flowin’ hole "—aa 1t i cafled by some eac- ographic lunsin—is thus made to ministor fo elej maners and good breeding, It an oxcess of Bwupulonsness forbids the ‘use of any of the gumerous boveragos of which sleohol is the basis, 2 pips and tobacco induce & degres of complacency Lizhly agr eable to & stranger, Gravity of manner lg always sugges- tive of dignity of carrisgo; and ofhar graces of porson ; but diguity of catriage cannot well be Proserved when en_ individual is _clothed upon With 28 mnch wearing apparel a8 would zet up & R Siobas in the dhrivin G T e e logs aro 50 badaged that it 15 impossible_ to crook the “ pregnant hinges of tho knee,” even to accommodate tho greatest ex- cess of reverential feeling, The chest is swathed with a still groater number of folds of ' the heaviest woollen fabrics obtainable. The consequence is sn exaggerated stiffness of 'the person, which is not easily overcome. e only hinge between “the head snd the Yool is At the bips. From this point as a_centro, with the chest and legs 28 radii, the head and feet describe arcs of cir- cles and yield to the_varying exigoncios of po- litoness and locomotion. ~ Anindividuel tells you ho ia happy to seo you, but, cxcept for s kindly twinklo in the eves, his face does not bear ont tho nesertion. Ifhe attempts to emphasize his courtesy with & bow, his body moves slowly :nh?t‘ixgh the u_et ontof o cérglxe, l.\tu head tnllow'i o arc, with a graceand dignity unsurpasso by tho stateliest waiking-beam of o Lake Supe- rior steamer, of which the movement Bseems to be animitation. Of course it is painful to krue politeness to be hampered by theso disabilities, bt it cannot ba helped. Fo increaso_tho ungsinliness, the head is covored by a beard, the adjunct of & huge, shaggy overcoat, of tho style worn ‘by Canadian trappors and Arctic navigators; and the feet o wrapped until they 'sro elophan- tine in size and proportions. No mummy was ever covered with more folds and integ- uments. If Marquette were suddenly ingulfed by Some natural_catastrophe, while its poople sro clad in their winter toggery, and, several thous- and years_Lenco, brought & ace ain to the ih the shovel and pick-ax, like Herculaneurm, T have no doubt.thet human remains would be found in as excellent & state of preservation as those of the Kings of ancient Egypt. MARQUETTE. Marquette, next to Duluth, is the most preten- tious town on_the Lake. It is said to contain over 5,000 souls, but population always shows & Tomarkable elasticity soon after the completion of the census. Gas and water-works give a faint 2ir of metropolitanism'to the place, _The water is furnishod with commendable regularity, inspite of the oxcessive coldness of the weather ; but the flow of gas has met with sorious interruptions. order to keep pace with the improvements of the age, patent retorts heve ‘been introduced, but to sach little purposo that the gas escapes at the chimney of the works, where it burns likea huge torch instead of il- Juminating the warehouses and . residences of the citizens, Many grave jokee have been fired off at the Compavy, to wirch they have been unable to reply, showing that they are no better skilled in ropartee than in reforts. Business is Suffering from its Winter lethargy, In the sum- mer, the movement of ores and mannfactured fron and the bustls incident to, pleasure-travel, givesn air of lifo and snimation to the litle city that is highly mfl.mfing. At this season, commerce does not lift finger. The principal occupation of the -limited population ia the metaphorical swapping of jack-knives, at ‘which, we are credibly informed, large fortunes have beer made by juvenile operators. New eomgsnieu are continually being formed to mine all the ores known to metallargy, to quarry the stones catalogued by the geologiat, and to ‘mannfacture all the articles of irade that can be made from any of them. In the trausfer of these stocks, or shares, every man aota &a his own broker, and the business is consequently all of the curbstone kind. When a gentleman meets his friend, he firat agks him how man, shares he will take in any given venture, an: this point having been deci ad, the usi com- monpleces in rogard to health, ‘domestic matters, and the weather follow. The number of enter- prises that have had their birth here and died promaturely is great, and larg aro mado theretc. As cortain’ o yearly baditions “Oricntel tribes’ livo in the fombs of their sncestors, 50 the people of Lake Superior live emong the minsral corporations. monuiients of dofunct ugur.'uhfion! aud extinct nt their vitality is' ex- traordinary. Dofeated in one schemo, the bank- rupt only etops to take breath, thdn girds up his lois, and goes forth to prospoct new lands and dévise now plans, and tarely throws up the spongo until death drives him against the ropes in his own corner. Marquetto lies at tho foot of & b Storms from toward the northeast. have a long sweep 8cross oint, ercely by tho winds, contracting shores, Their forco is destroyed ay openin, zhnt ind the laka at its widost 'and tho commotion of the waters, driven and compmssea by the which extends about n&lufier of the bay incloses water, buat the fall tompests begin. the waves was able, during the sutumn, to Scoop out withi which it is ballasted, weig] pounds, the structure itsolf remai ently regarded with much vepera- citizens. The bay does not freeze 1t is occasion- 0, which is broken and is consequ tion by the permanently before TFeb) Rlly covorod with thick, firm ic {from e north a little is sometimes slarming. by & breskwater a mile shore. nook of but it is found ample fo protect a1l the shipping that is loft in the vicinity after ‘Although the power of rusry. the terriblo gale in some of tho atones hing hundreds of ined wninjured, B by tho strong undertow, and floated out of ght in & fow houra. The open water i8 o rolief fo the eyo in the general monotony of an Arctic be drearior, in tho lattor landscape. Nothing can part of an icetlocked itless view of clad hills in its rear. cold to enow on ho winter, than one of these towas, with lake in its front, snd a lim- unbroken forests 2nd snow- It never gets foo Lako Suparior. Snow Bomotimes falls when the thormometer indicates 15 degrees below. tremely fine, seoming mist, treme temperature with ity. 1t rarel Persons long resident To thom the weather it but ero bear 1y comes in'the largo feathery flakes of lower 1atitudes, mercly like & whitened is ox- the ex- ‘extraordinary oquanim- 2 greater orless degreo: of mildnesa. with the mercw belo, heats of the blood. cury at 7 below zero erspiration sxudes; e i Brinka are néeded to at “pELOW." A certain class of the aro always going_to « Below." always returning fromthe place calle 3 P s saldom cold, but of A day iswarm; at § and at 3 below, tempar the fiery peofla of Laks Superior nco wnich they call A cortain other class of citizens are d “ Below.” The zemaining fraciion of tho people, with whom either for impocunious ‘migration is impossible, orother ressons, § time in discussin climato, snd tlio the end most of thoir leisure pleasures, multitndicous the ld\‘mhge of the region thus daily characterized. ¢+ Balorw, aces not imply perpendiculaly. ‘mean 3 deacent through the lodality to_regions u;dclx;_&low its lovel. o the t;;-lgwry 0 to know that their * in the vernacular of Lake Suparior, I doos not the primitive rocks of describod by & great Ttalian poot, which, it is to be feared, maus & Teckless spoculator in _mining lands will in due time find without voluntory effort. Itmeans thao veab tract of country lying south of the lake, % may gratify the peoplo city is included in known as_‘ Below,” but it will sadden many of them to learn that it is classed with the rural Oshkosh, and the-gtill more rural arquetto man is absent from home, ho_is theoretically at one of these Milwaukee. When a throe places. with the boys at Osbkosh, fighting the i, Madison streot jungle, effort to be amused wankeo, ~Through bucolic: kosh looks metropolitan. supposed to be largor than or making & o is_ either having his little fun gor in & Trantic in dreamy Dll- lenses, even Osh- 1t is not popularly Chicago ; buttohave gonoto 'Oshkosh, and to Lave retarned safely, is ought to bo something of a fest. invokes the moral aid of Eastern citios, its “New York Dry Goo + Boston Clothing Houses, towns seek eimilar assis! villages of lower Ilatitudes. The As Chicago and has aa Storos,” and its " the Lalie Superior tance from tho larger “ Oshkosh Bakery " renders its loaves more appetizing by its name, and the ** Green Bay Saloon " is more intensely bacchanalian that grest city. A cities in one trip makes for being e b called after erson who visits the three grnd tour.” It iaglouant to meet & citizen just returned from & Below.” The fulness of his information is marveljous. An hour c: &pont than listening to heard at Oshkosh, what what he neibher heard nor saw annot be mo: re profitably a recital of what ho o saw at Chicago, snd Milwankee. The genuine trayeller of this eatity 18, valganly Bpeaking, * o slonch” of an observer, and, from long experience in the & Ian might fault. ale of imaginary mineral ‘his tongugseldom trips in description. It be said of him that ho is eloquent toa "As 2n instance of the intimate connection of Marquette with the region called “ Bel whic‘}l distance lends a purple hue of enchant- ment, I -would specity Tailora do not_flouris measures the citizons nuded, in & measure, ments. Pnt ‘material and straight cu onable citizen can wear with co hours o midsummer, if on the birometer. the talloring b hore. low,” to usiness. The citizens aro too much in the habit of purchasinj clothing Below.” But Bnip, of Os p the well-known fraction of » man, with a pair of snow-shoes and a tape-Li E their fine X osh, sends equipped o-line wh);r_h tfor thoy have been do- of their winter The result is s suit of clothes ¢, which tho fash- mfort for & for Er he koeps & watchful eye Tt would hardly be fair to infer from what has ‘been written that your corresp people of Lako " Supe rior responsible Tigors of their climate, or the' railroads sbsence of civilization along their routes. ondent holds the for the for the On tho contrary, ho thinks it redounds to the credit of the first. that they bave braved the one, sud o tho second whore tho enconra blush, so scanty, #nd enterprise, &nd be and the railroad corporations 2 grain of public spint added. ont, and forbearance, thore encoura to abound in that they hava dono so much oment apperrod, at the first e paople. have intelligence money; have all these,with ‘With mutoal aid, will in time Lo developed one of the richost ‘mineral re- gians in the world, and Chicago will bo a fool if &he does not largel and Tenolve liboral whence 1 seems naturally due. participato in its.prospority, tribute from these Bources, Thirty-Eight Apache Warriors Killed. Los Angeles (Jan. 3y Dméa(,c"h to the San Francisco al The following reliatisa ‘news .from the seat of war, in Arizons, i8 froma apocial corres) zecoivod this morning, ondent, and mailed ot Br H ‘rascott : The troops operaling near Camp Verde re- turned on the 17th of December. detatchment of the Fifth and Husl {::i Scouts, hiad two engage- ck country, killing Rice, commandin, Cav ments in the Red X ieutenant tuirtean Warriors, capturing sovoral women sad childzon, and destroying lnriaq lies, with the ranc! riendly detachment consisted Fith Cevalry, Lientensat uantities of winter sup- erias. One of the Hnfl&i Indians was_killed in the fight. 8 of part of K Company, ichler commanding. Captain Price’s command captured seversl camps ‘mostly women, the war- and eleven prisoners, riors being almost all away on marau ditions, The other expeditions destro; ding expe- ed soveral ranch- eriss, with quantitics of supplies, and kept the Indisns moving- Capl General Crook, tain Nickersor 2 th mot the command aide to o Verde, with instroctions for the next econt, to co-opo- rato with, troops now in Tonto Basin, from Camps ‘Apache, Grant, and McDowell. ‘Genoral Crook was ot Camp Grant on the 17th ult,, with his entire stadl, through whom to com- manicate he has the entire ‘mounted force in the Beld. His Adjutent General, Captain Nickereon, ropresents him at Verdo. His Inep ector Gen- eral, Captain Brown, is out with the troope from Grant, both aides being also in the field. oneral Dana is the only officer left at the Department hexdquarters, excopt Surgeon Bailey, and both are atso hard at work with_duties not properly of their respective departments, but ren necessary by the clrcumstances. Al ored the mounted troops left Camp Verde on the 22d, and are now moving in every direction in conjunction with tho movements of the troops £nd friendly Indians from Apoche, Grant, and McDowel. ‘Captain Randall's command from Apacho had gevoral engagements in the Tonto Basin, killed twenty-five warriors and captured several women and’ childron, and came into McDowell on the 16th, and left again sbout the 20th. T e - o A New NMethod of Picture Painting. The printing, known as the Heliotype much attention just n F\ve an idea of how it is done: ine trented with bichromate 0 Pr OW.. of pictures by a new method, ocess, i3 attractin The ' following wil A sheotof gela- of potash, which renders it sensitive to light, is printed under an ondinary photographio negative. ture appears sufciently taken and made to adhere sure to a plate. The plate, with the ‘When the pic- lain the gelatine is y atmospheric pros- gelatine attached, is placed on an ordinary g}usn print~ ing press, snd inked wi ink. Asinlithography, the plate with water 1,500 impreesions injuring the plate, at a cost of a few centa. what hss_long printing. th ordinary itis necess itho hic ‘o demipen after every Impression; have been taken without and if injured, is replaced The process ia in fact been soughi—photographic Tt can be applied to theproduction of Jac similes of every variety of pictures and en- ‘graving, rare printe, . port! and can be used even 1n arie. potierv snd its raits, trade circulars, kindred NEW PUBLISATIOKS. ¢ Getting On in the World,” Mr. Edwin, P. Whipple, the eminent esaayist and critic, thus speaks of Professor Methews and his book, * Getting On in the World,” in a Iate number of the Boston Daily Globe: 8, C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago, have pub- lished an in‘eresting and inetructive volume, entitled, *Gertting On in the World; or, Hints on Buceess -in life,” by William- Mathews, T.L.D., Profossor of Rhetoric and English Lit- eraturo in the Univereity of Chicsgo. Dr. Ma- thows is well known to many Boston {ricnds of twenty yesrs ago aa an able editor and a most assidious student of English literature. He Telished a pregnant eentence of Bacon, Drowne, or Burke, o couplet of Dryden, Pope, or Gold- gmith, & humorous sally of Addison, Gold- smith, or Lamb, o8 othor men relish physical %ood.” It seomed to givo him material as well 28 mental nutriment snd _satisfaction ; and e sometimes thought that, if reduced to_pov- exty, Lo could “ live” on Lis treasured bits of Wit,'wisdom, and pootry, drawn from . his wide Teading of the best English authors, 2s other men live on mutton and boef. It i8 eminently fit, that a man who 8o warmly loves and onjoya English literature should be one of its * Pro- feusors,” Ho “‘expericnced” literature bofore ho taught it ; and as, in matters of theology, the * expericnco” of religion is fundamental, whilst thoological learning is secondary, g0 in teaching rhetoric and literature, the vital thing to be considored is that the teachor is altogether absorbed in Lis themos, and mn(fimfizes a8 well 29 insructs, We congratulato tho students of thio University of Chicago in having suoh a Pro- fossor of English literature, “The present volumo of Profeasor Mathows indicates the nicety and the oxtent of his Eng- Tish studics, in tho richness sud variety of his quotations. ' His subjects are eminently practi- cal, and he treats them ina practical way : but then what wealth of illustration he brings in from English poets, dramatists, divines, law- jor, aud forista] "The anccdofes alone of the ol should make it popular. ““The subject of Professor Mathews’ twenty chapters aro, 88 wo Lave said, eminontly grpczicu. Ho discourses of success aud uilure, of good and bed luck, of 'tho choice’ of & profession, of physical cul- tur, of, mental concentration, of sclf-relinnco, docision, business Labits, reserved powoer, economy of time, money, and a number of other topics. ~ Whatevor ho says ou these mattors is excollont ;.and he props up his principles by showing that they have proved truein tho casa of distingnishod men and women, whose vital utterances—thoss fow sentences which con- donse the wiadom of long lives,—ho liberally quotes. In short, the volumo teaches good senso in tho conduct of life in the most enter- taining as well 28 instructive way." 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PROPORTIONAL RERESENTATION: om, REPREAENTATION OF Brccessive MAjonrTizs IX FeognaL, Statz, MONIOIPAL, CORPORATE, AND Pantny’ ELEcTIONS, Dy CHARLES It BUCKALEW. Edited . by Joux G, Farezr. Philadelpbia: Jobu Camplell & Son. Chicagos Callaghan & Co. THE ROME CENTRE MYSTERY. Pictures of Ilunian Faces Scen on the Yindows of Private Flouscs—Cats? and Dogs’ Nicads Also—Diiferent Theories in Regard to the Mystery. From the Adrian (Mich.) Journal, Jan, 10 n our issue of Dec. 13, we mentionedthe fact {hat & ramor was current at that time that sev- eral facos had been seen by different partios ab TRome Centro, on the windows of & houso owned by Dr. Rows, of that placo. Since then we have learmod by roliablo persons living there that the rumor wo published was an sctual fact, and that new faces wero being seen every day, and on sevaral difforent housca. Tn view of these facts wo -detormined to have the matter investigated, aund accordingly, on onday last, we seut a roporter to Rome Centro, wWith instruclions to_find out the facts of tho case for publication in tho Journat, and the fol- Jowing is what ho says in regard to the matter: On roaching Romo Centre, Monday afternoon, we bogan making inquiries of soma of our ac- quaintances in_rolation to_ the myatery which was then agi:ating the minds of the inhabitants. Phil, Mosher, a gentloman employed in the storo of George W. Bond, kiudly voluntecred to show us around the town and impart what infor- New mation ho could. Wa first visited thehouseof | Dr, Ross, where the F)ctures wero firat noticed, 2nd being introduced to that gentloman, he im- etiatels proceeded to ‘“show up” the faces. On the lower saah of a chember window in the west gide of the house, can be secn, quite dis- tinctly, the %;cturea of threo Luman faces and {ho face of a black cat. At first we could not sco_nnything rosembling Luman features, but the Doctor taking o long polo and pninkintg out the oyas, nose, mouth, and outlines of the faces, e could then soo them very plain. Wo next visited the house of Samuel Luce, where faces had been seen by a number of citi- Jona, Herowe could plainly sco iwo faces on one pano of glass, apparently those of alad 2nd gontleman who scemed to by facing esc other, and on another window could be seon tho Yaco of » yonng lady, and on still snother win- dow wo could ece ‘s head resombling’thatof some large animal, looking a8 much like alion as anything. The faces on theso windows are considerable smaller thax are thoae on Dr. Rosa' windows, but fully £8 plain fo be scen. From here wo went to the houso of Jake Bullion, and on one of his chamber windows we could seo what appeared to bo tho face of au old colored man, haying white hair and whiskers, tho fea- tures being very distinct. These three houses wo have mentiored are the only onea where faces bavo been soon a3 yet, al- though there are some very “flattering in ica~ tiona ™ on several other houses. While making our tour of observation and investigation we wero acompanied by several citizens of tho place, and all of them could ses the fzces as wo Paw them, althongh oma of the party had never ‘been able to see them before. There are many different theories, opinions, and_sappositions regarding this &hflomsnm- Dr. Poss is of tho opinion that these pictures are cansed by somo defectin the glnss =t the time it was blown. Others there are who firmly believe theso faces or pictures =re csused by spiritual induences, and_ imagine they can traco familiar resemblance in some of them to those of departed friends. But the whole affzir secms tous a profound royeters, and w think affords a fine opportusit for seientific Investigation. Tho elass on Whil theso faces ara to be seen has the sppearanco of heving been smoked, 2nd has soveral different colors. The faces can ouiy be scen from the outside. 'To look. at them from the inside.| Dot o single thing can be séch, the glass looking ;unt a8 clear g8 crystal. The houses of Dr. Rnss and 2Ir. Bullion Liave beeu ‘built & number of yoars, but that of 2r. Luce was built sbout tiree yoara ago. Had the glass in these houscs 21l bean prooured at tho esmo _timo and placo, it Fould, perhaps, be reasonable to suppozs thiat theao pictures were cansed by some defect in the glaas at the timo it was made, Lut as this was Tot the case, of course this theory is not a good one, ‘Another rather singular thing in regard 1o this matter, is the fact that up to within' six or eight weoks ago, tho glass in theso windows whero faces are now being seci:, was just as Uear as tho others are now. Theso pictures all come on gradually, poco @ poco, and bhave been forming for soveral weeks. s "Bat wonders will never cease, for now pictures are forming on_lamp chimneys. On Tuesday evening we visited the house of Mr. Ballion, in eompmg with several others, and nearly all of s could sea vory distinetly, on the chimney of & common keroser:e lamp, the ficmm of a_little girl'a faco, apparently xbout £ years old. M. B. informed us that, for the previous thres mghts only, had anything ever been discovered on this chimuey, and that the faces were different each evening. ‘At o meeting of Spiritualists last Baturday evening, Leld at{he omo of Mr. Androw Taylor, who reaides about two or {hree miles northwest of Rome Centre, the spirit of & # Big Injun” Sboke through a lady as & medium, and saidhe Poew all aboat tueso faces, and that he holped put them on the windows, and_told one gentle- man preseut (who had endeavored to wash off tho pictures on one of Lis windows) that the twhite brave” could not wash thom off with dirisf water. 1o first thing s citizen of Rome Centre docs now every morning, i8 to go ont sud oxamino his windows to seo if any faces have been de- veloped during tho night. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. A Mission from the United States to Secure Annexation— Proclamation by Prince Lunalilo. From the Sun Francisco Chronicle, Jan. & The Chronicle has received, from the highest official circles at Washington, reliable informa- tion of the fact that Hawaiian matters ‘have for como time past_occupicd the attention of the Government. The affairs of that Kingdox have been from time to timo considered in secret Cabinet council, and it was finally resolved, a3 prelininary to & botter nnderstanding botween ihe two Governments and to tho end that a more intimato social and commercial inter- course be established between the pe le of the Hawaiian group and tho United States, f0 send the American war-ship Benicia to the jslands, with an invitation forKin Kamehameha ¥. to visit America a5 & guest of the nation. In accordance with this nnderstanding, His Excel- loncy the President of the United States wrote an lutogmgh Jotter to His Majesty, sud de- Epntehed it by the war-ship Denicia, which sailed from this port before information of the King's death had reached Washington. "The death of His Majesty, which occurred upon the 11th of December, of course interrupted this exchange of friendly international courtesics, Tmmediztely after information of thodecease of His Majesty, by special instructions from Wash- ington, the war-ship California was despatched to the Hawaiian Islands, bearing Gonerals Schofield and Aloxander. From our knowledge of the in- tentions of our Government towerd the Hawaii- an Islands, we are authorized in declaring that it ia fally fmpressed with the importance of se- curing, cither by snnoxation or protectorate and tresty of intercouree, tho union of the Sand- ich Tslands to the United States, and that tho death of the King snd cunsc:{;enc abrogation of ali formal goyernment will taken advan- tage of by our Government to Lasten tho con- summution of this result. Genersl Schofield is credited witl tho possession of distinguished exocutive ailily, and _General Alexander ia re- garded as the ablest of tho engineer officers of our Government. Ta the meantime we receivo from our special correspondent at Honolulu information that the political eituation is one of great interest. The Population of tho islands numbers some 65,000 Soals, native and foreign. Of this number, 5,500 'aro foreigners, and of the foreigners 1,500 4re American. Neatly all the important com- mercial and planting interests of the islands be- long to Americans. Tho proceedings in the Togislature and in the Courts are conducted in the English languago. Foroigners are in favor of 8 Republic, oxcept the English, who favor tho elovation of Queon Emma to tho throne. ‘The natives recognize the claims of Willism C. Lunalilo, who is anative chief- fain of the highest rank, and by virtue of Ius birth entitled to the crown. This distin- guished native, who is ropresented as a maa of eomo ability, but of unfortunate halits, imme- Qiately aftor the death of the King issued his proclamation to the peoplo calling for an oxprec- D¢ ‘their opinioa tbrough a plebiscitum, 3 follows : TO THE NAWAIIAN NATION. ° Willinm C. Lunalilo, son of Kekauluohi, the daughter of Kamehameha I, to the Havatian pe:{:le, grecting: (itzrras, The throne of the Kingdom hasbe- como vacant by tho demise of His Majesty Komehameha V., on the 1ith of December, 182, W;t].\o;xt a sticcessor appointed or proclaim- ed; en Wreness, It is desirable that the wishes of the Hawaiian people bo consulted as to a suc- cessor to the throne ; thereforo, I\'ntwlthdhndin%lflmt according to the law of inheritanco I am the rightful heir to tho throne, 1h order to preserve peace, harmony, and good order, I desire to submit the decision of my elnim to the voico of the peopls, to be froely and faicly expressed by a plebiscitum. Iho only Pledgo that Ideem it necossary to offer to the eople is that ¥ will restoro the Conatitution bf Kamahamehs 1T of happy memory, With only such chapges o8 may be roquired to adapt it to ‘prosent lews, and that I will govern tho nation Pecording to the principles of that Covstiution, 2nd » liberal Copstitutional Monarchy, which, while it preservos the proper prerogatives of the Crown, shall folly maintzin the rights and liber- ties of the people. To the end propozed, I recommend the Judges of the different eloction districtathronghout fhe islands (thereby upqeafing to their ancient al- Jogianca to the femily of the Kamehameliaa), to 1> notice that a poll will be opencd on Wednes- oy, tho 1st day of January, A. D, 1673, at which Sl male aubjects of tho Kingdom msy, by their Sote, peaceably and orderly express their {ree choice for a Ring of the Hawalian Islands, a8 fuccessor of Kamebamehs V. And that tho said omcers of the several election districts do, on account of the vote, make immediate certi- fied return of the sameto the Legislstive Azsem- bly summoned to meet at Honolnluon the 5th day of Janusry, 1873. That if any officer or officers of any election_ district shall rofuse to act in accordance herewith, or if there ehall be & Sacancy in said office in any district, the people may choose others in their places, who may pro- t':ged {n conformity to law in conducting the eloc- ion, Given under my hand at Honolulu this 16th day of December, 1872 . The Connecticut Borgiae New HAveN, Copn., Jan. 12.—Mrma. L dis Shorman, the rcputed poisoner of three hus- bands and two or three children, but who was only convicted of manslanghter in the poison- ing of her lust husband, was sentenced to State Prison for life yestorday. She receivaed the sen- tenco with the utmost indifference, and at the conclusion. gracefully courtesicd her acknowl- edgement to tho Court. Itis reported she has mado thrilling confession of her crimes. The confession of 3rs. Sherman will be pub- lished to-morrow. It edmits the poisoning of eight persons. @ e The Gubernatorial Innnguration. Spectal Desptch to The Chicago Tribune. Spnrserrzrp, 11, Jan. 12.—The citizens have mado exteneiva preparations for tho insugura- tion ceremonics to-morrow. A compsny ol ored militiz, the only ono in town, a0 & commit tee of citizens will escort the now Btate officers from ihe Leland to the State House, and the Judges of the Supreme and United States Courts, and other dignitaries, hava Leen invited to be present at the inaugaral _———— The Missouri Senatorship. 1. Louts, Jan. 12.—The Democratic Senator- ial Caucus met at Jefferson City lsst night with Closed doors, acd the result was not known until » lato hour. The rules which wers cdopted to govern the caucus requircd a majority of all the Bemocrats aad Liberal Republicans in the Leg- islature to nominate. Tho number necessary, {herefore, was €0; also that no name in nomina~ fion could be dropped untilafter the tenth ballot, and all nominations must be msds previous to that ballot. The first ballot stood, Blair, 28 5 Phelps, 29; Bogy, 21; Anderson, 15 ; Napton, 9; TReyuolds, 4; Burch, 2. No material change oc- curred until the eighth bellot, whon Coleman, of §t. Louis, and Edwards, of Jefferzon City, were nomirated, and the Blzir vote was reduced to 2. Previous to the niath ballot, Major Roliins and” Colonel Vest were nomineted, and the ballot stood: Biair, 2¢; Phelps, 27; Dogy, %6 Ander- apton, 6; Veat, 7; Rollins, 4, 2ad Res- son, nolds. Edwards and Colemag 1 each. Intensaex- and several motions pitement followed thisballof to adjourn wero lost by a small majoity F0v- o 3ot Woodson's name wa3 proposed. but with- drawn on its being annonnced he would not be a candidate under any circumatances. ‘The names of Geueral Cockerell, Colonel Broadhesd, and two or three othors were then proposed, when, after o good deal of discussion and much excite- Tont, the caucua adjourned to 8 p. m. on Mon- day. WINTER HORRORS. Several People Frozen to Death in Yowa and Minresotz — Railway Trains Buricd in Snow Drifty. Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune. Dusvque, Iows, Jan. 12.—The Iowa Diviston of the Lilinois Central Railroad ' was opened last night through to Sioux City, and s train on the Dubuque & Southyestern Railrond to-dsy effected an opening to Cedar Rapids. Tho Cedar Falls and Minnesota branch of the Tllinois Cen- tral is still badly blocked, with no prospect of being open for a long timo, Detween Waterloo and Waverly, a distance of 13 miles, s gang of men have been working day sud night for tho last three days, =nd have mot yeb reached Waverly, eoncountering drifts 500 to 2,000, feet in length by from five to fifteon feot in depgh. Itis expected it will tako two days to open the line this distanca. A gang of forty men began work shovelling from Mous, sonth, threo days ago, and have mot yet reached Bt. Ansgar, seven miles distant. The DesMoines Valley _train from the south arrived this evening at Fort Dodge, the first gince Monday. The rozd is now aunounced to be open through to DesMoines. Two small boya were found frozen to death near Spring Valley, Towa. Tho' Central Rsilroad of Tows is blocked with snow botween Ackley and Northwood, and will not be open for several days. It ilumi)fen part of tho- way from Ackley to Mars A tran startod south this evening, to try to reach Mar- shaltown. South of this point ths road is all blocknded, and there is no saying when it will be open. In Minnsaota the snow is from five to six fost in the cats from Mankato to 8t. Paul. The Sionx City & 8t. Paul Railroad Com) any think they will have the road open in ten days. One asmenger train is now st Sibley, another at St. ames, and two freight trains at Sheldon. Itis expected to have the road from Sibley to Le- mars D £0-MOITOW. Near Washington, Minn., two_ teams were found frozen, with one of the drivers 50 badly frozen that he cannotlive. The other cannot be found. "The body of en nnknown man was also found frozen to death at Nicolet. A. O. Jenkins, Foreman of the Ohio Bridge Company's yard, was frozen to death while rid- ingina from Sibley to Rock Rapids. The other inmates escaped with elight injuries. Fael supplies aro running short on tho line of the Illinois Central west of Dubuque. stated there is not a week's auppH of wood in Manchester, and there is no co: to epeak of. The Public School has been obliged to suspend for want of fuel. As theroads are drifted badly, it is feared thers will be mucn sugering before wood can be brought in. MrrwaUKEE, Jan. 12.—A Bt. Paul despaich says the great storm of the past week resulted in's good many fatal casualties in_ that State. Tt-was entirely unprecedented in its severity, and was so blinding that persons perished within » few rods of succor, if they had known in what direction to go. Three brothers, Chasles, John snd Stophen O'Niel, and Thomas and ichael Holden, each with two-horse teams, atarted for illmah with wheat, on Tuesdsy. They were found on Friday about ten miles ont, two of the O'Neils and one of the Holdens frozen to-death in the sleighs. The others were alive, but will scarcely survive. Tive ox teams in the same vicinity were fonnd frozen to death, and the drivers are sup- posed to have abandoned them and perished. A ‘man was frozen to death by losx:fi his way while going from the deput to the tank house =t ‘Herman Station, on the St. Paul & Pacific Rail- road. A school boy nesr New Ulm undertook to go home, but lost his way, snd his body was found eight miles distant. 5 mon was found yesterday, near St. Peters, {frozen stiff. A good many other cases will undoubtedly be heard of. The wind blew the snow 8o it was impossible to seo a foot in advance, and the storm came so sudden that it caught persons out, and they perished because they were una- ble to find their way home. * DETROIT. List of Seamen Lost by the Wreck oX the ¥7. O. Brown in Lake Superior-- A ' Body-Snatching Cascw-KZesigua- tion of Superintendent Broclkwuy of the IMounse of Corrcction. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. Derrorr, Jan. 12.—A letter from Sault Bte. Marie gives, at laat, the list of the namos of tho men who were lost onthe schooner W. 0. Brown, in Mica Bay, Lake Superior, in the lest great storm of the season. They are as follows: Captain Manning, Malden, Ontario; First Mate Jno. Hanson, Buffalo; Second Mate George Manning, Michigan ; seamen, Henry Edwards, g‘hio, and & man named Albert, zesidence un- own, Yestordsy, while an anatomical lecture was in projest at the Homeopathic Medical College, in Flis city, detectives entered and took possossion of the bady of & young girl, which was dissected for the purposes of illustration. It had been stolen from tho cometery at Owosso by some men, who sold it to tho collogo, and this fact was discovered when an attempt was. made to disinter it for the purposes of investigating the truth of & chargo preferred at Owosso, that the girl had died from the effocts of an abortion. Considerable_feeling provails here over the resignation of Superintendont Brockway,of the House of Correction, which is the re- sult of a disagreement between himself and Mayor Moffat, who is called upon to nominate a_Superintendent this wintar. 1t has been regarded as certain that the latter would not ulp&)aint Mr. Brockway, for personal rea- sous, and therefore the latter has reaigned, and mado other business srrangements here. The prees of the city hss united in expressing re. et at losing the services of such anoxperienced ainess manager. Tho selection of & Superin- tendent has not yet been snnonnced by the’ Mayor, and it is ‘understood that he Las thus far failed to find any one. The matter may lead to gerions complications, as Mr. Brockwsy holds that his term expires this week. % FORT WAYNE. Conclusion of the Hibler Tlurder TrialeTho Defendant Found Guilty, and Sentenced to Prison for Life. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, * Font WaYNE, Ind., Jan. 12.—The jury in' the Hibler murder case retired at 4:30 o'clock yes- terdsy afternoon, but was ghortly afterward recalled, and an additional charge given them. They again rotired at 4:45. After the retirement of the jury, the prisoner manifested mach anxiety with regard to Lis fate, and, after con- enltation with his counsel, commenced to cry. At 10:45 p. m., the jury returned into conrt. The prisomer was scon after brought in, and tho verdict read, which waa listened to with breath- leas and awc-inspiring silence. The verdict is as follows: We, the jury, find thedefendant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment, and we further find that he be imprisoned in the State’s Prison during his natural life, The prisoner, at the conclusion of the read- ing, was scen to tremble and turn ashy pale, and, completely breaking down, ho_sobbed_like Bchild, Bomo time elspsed before ho could re- cover his compoaure. o counsel for the de- fence have intimated their intention to _move for a new trial, and, if it be not granted, will appeal to the Bupreme Court, relylng on & re- ~versal for the reason that the jury's gnding was not warranted by the evidence in the case. —_—————— Fatal Steambont Explosion. ExraLs, Als,, Jan. 12.—One of the flues of the boiler of the upward-bonnd steamer Julia Bt. Clair collapsed near here last night, scaldin thirteen persons, mostly colored deck handa sn firemen, One man died instantly. One was drowned, two were mortally injurcd, and one unaccounited for. Among the scalded is en- gineer Berry, who is also injured in the face. An Important Decision. New Yorr, Jan. 12.—Judge Pratt_gave judg- ment, yesterdsy, for Joseph H. Havens, who sued the Receiverof the Contral Bank, of Brook- 1yn, for §3,125, the smoant of a clieck deposited for collection in ike bank the day Lafore its fail- ure. The ground taken was, thst ic recelving the checl: without disclosing the condition of the bank. the officers obtained no title to the chack It is, THE COLUMBUS CANNON. Calro’s Joke on a Kentucl Carl srent in the St Lowia Dn.\,"szuw" At the beginning of the “lsto unpleasai. nees,” an extensive. practical joke was Erated by some citizens of Cairo upon dhe 1o habitants of Columbus, Ky., Wwhich created cop, siderable excitement at tho time, and sncceage) beyond thia intention of its projectore. Dus the days of doubt, and anxiety, and excitemin and preparation, a Cairoite happened come neross a emall toy Lrazs camonangl 3 was caid of the man in Maine, “ho bxl:l 2 en idee, and went io work onto jtn Soon thereafter some merchants of Cairo send. ing business lotters to Columbus, incidentalty romarked that s subscription had been starteg among the people of Cairo, for the s ‘making their Columbus nelghbots & present of brass cannon. Mysterious Lints, pointin, ‘A e e diestion, appecred in the Cenocl | pors, and thence crept into the telegraphiccar. . respondence of the Associated Press. = were seized upon with am'(m'iby some Norther journals, and were mado the basis of scrers strictures upon the secession proclivities of Southern Illinois in general and Cairo in 3 ticular. These comments natarally msde . way South, .and increased . the “excitement, Tt way as woll be stated, in this connection, that Cairo and the region for many miles north of it did sympathize with the secessiun movement, at least to tha oxtent of believing that it ought ot to be interfered with. The ientnckium Were well aware of this sympathy, and were cone. quently prepared to believe anyihing thy promised materizl aid from that quarter, Thy people of Columbus bad _already mads a begin. Ring in the artillery business by uneartbisg 4 rusty old caronade, which wa3 loaded toths muzzle and pointed toward the North, and which Would doubtless have extorminated acres of “Northirn hordes”if thoy had coms, aad i oy one could havo been found bold enough o touch amatch toit. * 2 The brass cannon presentation was worked quietly, and in an underground manner, befors ything like an suthomtative statement wiy made. Only s few were In the seccret, and thy affair was 80 ‘managed that all others wers mys. tified. No one knew with certainity who wers the projoctors of ‘the plzn; but it was genenlly believed that thero was nosbzmlbumit,gj that a cannon was rcally to be presented ta(gs e points all on B 0 points were carefully improssed ) o £ e Colummbus people—tist sectcy necess ¥ t secrecy B Cooii the vigilance of the Fatm] authorities, and the presentation was intendsd b as & surprise. On their part, they intended ta surpriso- the ‘fivm, 50 2how Laaira tion of tha gift by & grand reception and di It was finally intimated to them that the cannon would ba sent on a certain day, on tha steamey Aleck Scott, then loading at Cairo. It h:g)pened that the Aleck Scott was tempo. rarily detained, for some canse, by Governmani Orders. This® detention aseisted the sell, and rovoked a telegram from the Meyor of Colum- us to 8_Cairo ofiicial, inguiring when the Aleck Scott, with the cannon, would be down. The official, not understanding the matter, and be- lioving that a sell was being sttempted upm him, replied that the boat hed been relessed and'would leave on a day named, in charge of an armed P”Zfl of citizens. It was- ths intention o o projectors of the pre gentation to go down on the’ Scott with their friends, to the pumber of fifty o more, accompanied by a brass band. Arivedat Columbus, they were all to be * tailed on” toa Jength of ‘twine, headed by the band, and gl riously to drag the almost invisible cannonup into town. 'Then festivitics were to follow, & the exponse of the Cairoites, by which tho jois was to be washed down and settled. "Affairs werein this posture when news wa brought to Caiso of the extensivo preparatios that were being made in_Columbns for the re- ception of the cannon. These preparations had Poon carried on quietly, their result being iz tended ms & surprise; but.tomo of the details necesearily leaked ont. A dinner on a luss Seale had boen arcanged for, snd consi: ernble sums bad alrendy been expended. Gresh had been the slaughter among the poultry sad porcing opulation, and Columbus cooks hsi expende their ingenuity in the invention of es and pastries. Among the lnxuries pre- pared- wore huge pound-cakes, ‘ornamented” Hith small American flags, draped in black. In fact, it was to be a ‘“big dinner,” and it was &x- ectod that Columbus wonld be crowded with ths enizens of the rural districts. Bixof tho fnest Torses in the country had been engaged tokad the cannon up into fown, and ambilions orstors were consuming the midnight kerosens inths preparation of ** extempore’ addresses. en this intelligenco reached the jectors of the presentation, they were considerably i fonished and not & Jittle larmed. Tley calleds caucus for consaltation. Tho joke :n:cflfl- ed beyond their utmost expectations. Bing et to *‘run itself,” it had run over tio Limits 2~ lowed to any sort of o joke. It had become & serions mattor. Tho expensive preparations & Columbus must be stopped before they shond go any farther. Some one must go down sai £ bust up” the affair by explaining the joke Who would “bell the cat?” One of then ;- finally consented to go to Columbus, and seé otk loaded with the canron snd with serious misgit inga. gis troubles began as goon 2s ho landed st Columbus, He was beset by anxious inguirerh who sought informativn concerning cannon. He put & bold face on the matier, asanred 67 erybody that it was “all right,” and walksd@ up town, accompanied by & rapidly incressic crowd. When he reached Roane street, the throng of excited citizens was so grest that i position of the_embassador was anythiog but apleasant one. He did not really. d the acget of the populace, but he trembled in his bootd 4 ho thought of the wrath of those orators. st Inct, in résponse to repeated demands,t drew the cannon from his vest Ilocka! and ex- hibited it to the eager gaze Ol maltitude. Ho was unable to givea clear accountctibs scenes that ensued. It satisfied him to knct that e got away from that_town alive, a=d bt had no desire to go mear it again. Thencam tho war, which many had fondly hoped might b sverted, and the cannon joke was lost in roar of real cannon. —_———— DIED. If KLLIOT—At Fagal, Ax Thursday, Rev & ! (SELLIOT At FATM dungnter of James 5. and 12013 { Harriet R. Elllot, of Kceae, N. H. ‘Hiat remaias arb buriod at Fayall 4 JACOB—On Saturday, Jan. 1, of consumption, B ard Jacab, B arbeal from Dislate residenco, 203 North Halstedes 3h tnst., by cars to Calvary Comateny £ Jao. Herbert, saly cufi % 3 > 8 months, 19 g years, I'g:n & pust : Fhiends s | Cav 7] Y DEYO-In this ciy, Joha and Melrina Deye sorviceaatthe Westarn Aveaus Mond: the 13n inst., at 11 o'clock. epectfally invited to sutehd. CARAHFR—Jan. 13, of diphtheriy, ary A, ner, youngest daughter of Patrick Uiraber and Caraber. 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