Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1873, Page 2

2 .. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1873. OUR IRON INTERESTS, The Iron Product of the Chief Sourccs™ of Supply~ ’ Future of Supply. : The Reiation of Chicago to the Iron Dines. of Lalke - Superior. 2 Yron is apparently the most prossic of metals, putits great utility bas mede it poctie.” Liko bread, earth, air, aad water, is used for somo of tho strongest and finost, figures of speech. Hardy ‘Gry geologists become ténder over it, and sing & prau to it virtues while ‘they indicate its whereabouts and narrate its uses. It is not, _thercfore, strange that et DR. URE, b in his dictionary, should spéak of it as fol- ows: “Evcry ove lknows the manifold nses of his truly precions. metal It 4s capsble of being cast into monlds of any form ; of being drawninte wires of any desired strength or fineness; of being extended into plates or sheots; of boing sharpened, hardened, and softened, at pleagure. It accom- modstes itself to all our wants, our desires, sud oven our caprices. It is equally servicéable in the arts, the sciences, to agricultura and war; tlioéame ora farnishes the sword, the plow- share, the scytho, the praning-hook, the neodlo; the graner, the spring of a watch or of a cer- riage, the chiscl, the anchor,, the,compass, tho cannon, god the bomb. It is a medicmo of much virtao, end the only metal friendly to the buwmen frame.” RS - The writer visited the Marquette Iron Distric! in tho month of Decomber. It was not the ‘oat propitions season of the year fors tour to 0 Ligh s latitude, but thers were reasoria why it shonld bo made. Hiiherto the Lake Suaperior rogion has . NOT BEEN TINANCIALLY INTERESTING 4o Chicago, becanse trade in its rich producta _has not inurod ospecizlly o her interests. The spare fands of our capitalists conld bo placed at home, in business or in roal estato, s profitably 28 in mining Jands whose product was in a meas- qare uncertain. oney wont bither from older cities, where it was of lesa value, and the" trade in miscellaneons merchandiso followed backward on the track which capital had originally token. Boston had more “loose chango” twenty years 2go than it has to-day, and her men of mesns gaw it to expend & por- tion of it on the shores of Lake Superior. ‘Pitts- ‘burgh has long beon interested in minerals, and Eer capitalists were among the flrst o act on tho dicta of the geologists who made tho early surveys. Buffalo, Clovelsnd, and Detroit camo naturally to tle region as manufacturing cities, and having with it an easy and natural means of communication. As these parties developed the ‘miecellanoous zogion, they engrossed the trode, which, although considorablo :and increasing, has nover . had an over- gh=dowing importance. While. the competition was merely by Inke, for” the various zessons specified, other Iake ports had the ad- ventago of Chicago. Bat the Chicago & North- western Railroad A8 CHANGED ALL THAT. . Two ports on Lake Supevior zre directly ac- cossible to Chicago by reil. The competition of e railroad opens a vista of posaibilities, throngh whick the business men of Chicago will do well tolook. Up totho present timbe,all the supplies -of - the mining districis have been carried by water. The merchants of the Upper Poninsula have been obliged to make all their purchases in tho fall, often to their own loss, and inconvenience of their customers. Now purchasés can be made at iany senson, and every article of consumption et pass through Chicago. But it is rother for the prospective value of this trade, than on ac- connt of its present importanice, that it should now, and alveys to the great be looked after. It is worth h:v'mg will in time become extremely profitable. There is LITTLE TO FLEASE THE EYE sfier the ireveller.pasess Green Bay. . Even is not_the the enn over ehono “upon. - North sy, and niterly commonplace. A few important lamber- ing villages keepup & show of animation, until Siarinetts is_reacved. ., Ajter that point is the Tand helow fairest of that, that poiut, it is sbaolutely asaed, tho railroad nomenclature fails entirely, here bsing notbing between _that village- and Escanaba worthy of & name. Localities :are ins dicated by numbers talen from eection-lines; snd asve 3 marvellons indefiniteness to the unin- ated. ‘The surface is seldom ‘diversified by a llock, end the Loundless forests_that stretch Leor to which en oceasional windfall gives a displeasing vatiety. The snow that Tounds of the xugzgedress of stuwmps, thatcovers: \meight_.\ypnbl:i . that gives to tho brupt’ treecurves gracel: ontlines, that adorne the evergreens with ex- quisite marblo. tufts, sad: fair whito plumes; is in element of beauty, for which, Bowerer, there Is & discgreosblo compensation in -tha delay caused by an accumulation -of ithe besntiful matorial upon {Le treek in front of. the engine. If the Leart ie-for a moment softened by the delicata beauty of the ecene, if is spéedily hard. ened ‘into profee frigidity by tho frequently- rocurring intorruptions. -of - the.... journey. Neither is ~ the “tedinm’* of travel . relieved by charming companionship; A few agreesblo- . #nd intollizont people of tho mining districts” " are crowded (ogmhcr in & car with miners, -fur- nacemen, jumbermen, and waodchoppers, .and- the ntmosphero is recking with fear-lont - odors, from which - there is no relief but in admitting wintry air and braviug death by congelation. C o ESCANATA™ : s ot Jnst reached. - Tt is in the horoscope of this village to be of considerable - imporfance, if ‘not sbsokitely great, s a shipping-point for fron oro and 85 {1io seat of emolting furnaces.:-But its importance is largély prospective; at prosont it © s fow chams for tho ‘traveller. If fortune - should so. smilo npon the gentlo. tourist ss fo gn'mn. him to pass this ontpostof civilization® " Without obliging him:to spend two.or threa” < daye ‘at ‘one of its bostelries, - lot . him ..thauk : Heaven.—aloud, . if . ho .prefers, the | ~ vocal method ~ of "« thanksgiving, — and i 'pass on. : A ride of & fow - hourg, supposing him = still to share the favor of tho fickle goddess, will 2+ tako him up & gradual slopo. of 875 feet, 62 miles in length, over a long, drears, bafren wasto of ~.. ‘uselesg pine lsnds, to . . s B 2 NEGAUNEE,: . - 3 -t the eastern end of tho. groat Merqueita-Iron;’ “.Range. Allof tho troubles of ‘locomotion ne- toTeach this .point .will. koon bo greatly ed, and ontirely disappear in the spring, when, it is probable that the-Chicago & North- western will run its cars directly from the sout] érn_lerminus of the rosd: to the two. portd of Lake Superior~IL'Anse- and_ Marquette. The travelling public will demand the accommodation, and, sa far a8 the great. corpo- Tation mentionsd is doncorned, it will be iilliy Iy accorded. The ‘difficulties in_reaching Ne- ghunco during the winter have been such ns wera incidontal to the eason and inseparable from the initial operations of new railroad lines: |/ Arrived here, the traveller finds himself in the jpresence of one of the most: important indus-’ tries of tho age. A e IRON ASD CIVILIZATION. Bome preparatory romarks in regard to the ,~ iron production of tha world are essential to the " -ggnersl wadorstaoding of that which follows: & he most trivial.labor is dependent npon its use, and yet. fow people evor care to think whenca it comes, or what' wonld bo_ the codse- * quenco to the World wero all tho ifon in exist- .. ence at once annihilated, or its sources of supply stopped. Theiron of commerce comes prin:igafly from England, Sweden, Russia, Belgiom, and the. Uniled States. The older mines of the world '} Ezve bean worked for hundreds of ' years; the oliest injAmerica for a little more than a hun- dred years; thoso of -Lake Superior for lass than quarter of w centnry, . England has thus fer produced the cheapest ‘iron,: and, therefore,. |, ‘been the most suceessful competitor in interna- tional markete.: Rut her supremacy is rapidly pasein; 7. -The demand -for mining laboris |. universel, aud, if English miners are ot well Eixid at homié, they BO where their brawnis mdre ' ghly valued:.” “Tho Ruesian Government'is }.. Jealous of its foresis, andlimits the annnal con- . sumptionof ths charcoal necessary.for smelting ‘.. purposes. -The mines of Bwedsn'.are saluable, and the iron from ' them “among ., the, best in the world, but they &re com- paratively inacceseiblo, Europe csn 1o onger furnizh iron for the world, priucipally becauso it cannot. farnish it most_cheaply. In .. 1858, the "aunnal production of iron from all kuown sources was 7,000,000 tons, of ‘which Great Britain furnished’ 3,500,000 tons, and the United Slates 1,000,000 tona. 'Tho cobsumption -of -Great-Brilain was 144 pounds,.of- the . Ul States 81 pounds, whilo the consumption of tho world was _only 17 pounds per head of popula~ tion. Af thatfimotho consumption per lhead 'wes_ rapidly increasing, 2nd- the gross-annunl duction of the world so rapidly enlarging ihat ‘It was doublod every fourtecn years. In 1872, just -passed, moro than . 13,000,000 tony .of iron woro sold . in mar- cts. -The cousumption oi iron, per hend, tin Gren! Britain lias reached 200 pounds, in the ' United States 160 pounds, and in the world at lerge 80 pounds. Nothing can illusirate better theprogress of the world in this decado and s Dalf, . for the consumption of iron measures the . progress of civilization. It is, therofore, NOT UNREASONABLE TO PROFUESY that the sonual production of the world will, in- tho next soventeen yoars, reach 28,000,000 tous, nd, era the centiiry clokes, the immende smount of 40,000,000, ‘The iron indusiry of England 'has kept ‘pece with the aggrogate supply, and continues {o furnish Lelf of tho entire amount consumed. We are the only iuo— ple in"' the world that hag ept pace with England in its rate of increase. Dut, a3 tho iron production of Englaud caunot iu- cresso in tho fmmo ratio, it 13 probable that America will, before the closo of tho century, supply 15,000,000 of the 40,000,000 tons which the world will require. This will mean that ovor 80,000,000 tons of ore will bo taken from Ameri- can mines, for tho manufacture of whicl not less than 109,000,000 tons of coal will boneeded. The cstimaton aro certainly not large, and_are based upon extensive information aud good ecientific authority. Of .this vest iron aggregate, tho Lako Superior aud Menomones mines should Erodnca at least 10,000,000 tons. Much of it will o manufactured in the vicinity of the mines, bunt the oro :will principally goin bulk to countloss furnaces situated along the shore of the lakes, and al places ‘rensonsbly distant from their ports by rall. The orcs of Lako Superior already compoto with the ores of Lanke Champlain at Rocheater, N. Y., and ihis is nol -probably their Eastern limit. The iron- carrying trade, and tho businoss necessary to it, will bo tho mest important brauch of Iske com- merco. 1f it hes taken 200 vesaels per season to carry 1,000 tons of ore, to carry 20,000,000+ fons will roquire 8o many more ihat tho writer hositates to make the computation. It is, how- evor, excoedingly moderate to say that over 9,500 vossels will bo engagod in the trado bo- fore the next quarter of & century hes passed. The R CHEAPEST RAILROAD FREIORTS K in the United States ere .on the Philadelphia & Reading Rsilroad, whuch carries far less thau s cont n ton per mile. Westorn railroads. cannot do this' ab_ prosent, but will come to it in time. To reach Pittsburgh, the ovo from Lake Superior is' camiod iice by'rail. and onco by water, and vet is profitably utilized at that point. It is' said L:at 3 new Wisconsin reilroad bas already offered carry ore from the new Bayfield mines to Mil- waukes, & distsaco of 393 miles, for €3.50 por ton. 'This is bat a little over 8 cont & ton per mile. such things czabe dono Ly anew road with limited _possibilities of tramsportation, what cannot bo done, bofore much {ime bas efspsed, by older ‘and stronger corpostions? Water- transportation will aliaya be the chief means of tronsporting tho ove ; but vations considergiions, elsewhera_alluded to, will Lsve a tondency io diminish the smount thus carriod. OF THE INON AGE, which will in reality bo tho Saiurnian Golden Age, AIr. Abram S, Hewitt, on iron cathusizst, Bpeaks £s follows, 'The extractis from an ad’' -droes delivered before the American Institute of Mining Enginecrs in 1870. The orator views the question frcm an Eastern standpoint, but ho ia sulliciently patriotic end cosmopolitan to have the good of tho wholo country 2t heark: *On tho ehores of tho Hudson River, the ores of ZLake Champlain, of tho valleys of the Connecti- cut, snd of the highland ranges of New York aud Now Jersey, will meet the anthra- cite coals of Peunsylvaniz upon conditions 80 favorable thak New York and ifs vieimty must become_n greal motellurgical centre. Thence the chain of firo, extending ncrogs New Jersey, and following the Lanks of the Lehigl and Schuylkill ta the Susquebannz, will lozd us by the margin of the coal fields, along tho out- crop of the magnotic, hemstite,and fossiliferons orea which extend thiougl Peunsylvanis, Mary- 1and, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Ten- nestee, Georgia, and Alsbama, nearly to tho Gult, 6o that tho light of fumaco suswering to | inthe run, ard the-streot had all tho sppear-: - 01 -are furnace will never be loat sight of in the long line of c¥er 1,000 milos. Hence, tuming fo tho West, Missour], Kertucky, Western Ten- neseo, Olio, Indiana, and Ilinoia, will be_ il aglow with furpaces, forges, and mills, fed by ihe admirable fuel of the inexhaustible coal- fiolds of tho West, and the superb orcs of Mie- gouri nnd Lake Superior. The waters of the Groat Lakes will reflect the flames which will light up their murgin ; while, to the west, slong the lines of the varions Pscific milways, the newly-found coel andiron of that hitherto track- less region will form an enduring basis for tho growth of industrions communities, busy citics, 8nd teeming farms. Tho West Coastwill not nited ... Do behind n tho race, but an iron industry, more valusblo than its mines of gold and silver, vill yeb ampply ts growing millins vith the finda- mental basia upon which modem civilization Tests. - Tho growth of this vast industry will bo accompanied by the schoolmaster, the preacher, &nd tho phyeician. Homes of which human na- turo may bo proud will bo established in its wake. Labor: and - Christianity will march hand in hand, binding all interests. snd all classes g0~ -harmonionsly .snd 60 indissolubly to- gothior that peaco and good-will otween Capi- tal and Labor ghall prevail throughout the land forever.” 4 Admirable foel” snd *suporb ores” is glowiug rhetoric, tlat is worthy of an adolescent Teporter ; but the passago containg much sober truth. - In_this brilliant futuro tho Nortliwest ehould bo the principal sharer, and into tho lap of ita groatest city should fall the largest and most-directly-to-bo-renlized shae, THE GERMAH SAVINGS BANI. Tt was & curvent topic of city news in banlking andbusiness circlos, on Tuesdsy, that o run bed commenced on tho Germzp Sevings Bank, on North Canal streot, but it belonged to a class of topics whero outside discussion, and especially sensation news-mongering, would do more harm than good, and Tae 'TamoNE made po reférence’ to the matier in its last issue. ~The pressure of dopositors was not largo, and ecavcely disturbed; the ordinary business of the bank on Tuesday. | But the startling headlines and sonorous para-: graphing of some of our neighbors in the morn- ing papera of- yésterdsy, hal the precise effeot £hiat might hovo been fcrecast; for o multitudo- of wholly disinterested parties went blocks out of {heir ' way, , yestorday, ‘“to ses whothr. there - was & run- on = Greensbsum's bank to-day,” and--thus ' swellod tho . ontaide attendance, further considerably incresscd by thie large numberof unemployed, who wers a8 willi to'put in & _few hours of licavy standing-roun in that vicinity as-auy other. “And with these | cpme an increased numbar of ' dopositora to join ance of a crowd thronghont business hours yes-- terdsy. There was o distorhance nor excite-" ment, and the prezence of .police ofticars was only made’ neceasary to -kecp the passzge-way for the pablic and those - secking to cuter the b e depositors of - tho bank are lazgoly Germans, amoug, whom there is.no man more Eopuhr than Henry Greenebgum, in the very. est senso of” n much:abused g{husa, “ince, in thia- caes, the popularity of Mr. Greenebanm means strong and not easily shaken confidenco in bis rigid - homesty -and broad -sagaaity. No ‘man, has - done more than .lis : fo strengthen- ‘the ' : material banda’" between bis’ conntrymen and the home-born olament, in ‘striking contrast -to pitifal thimblo-riggern who have sought to gain and -employ like reletions for mean political ende; - . - . Tn another column, our financial article gives the principal and”essential facta in‘ ralation to tho Germsan Savings Dauk, andits streogth in an émergency to' which:i is‘'exposed.. The gen- ‘eral and univeraal feeling among the ofticers of tho bank, their fricnds and “associates, and throughout banking circles, yesterday, was one of implicit confiderce in tho ability of the insfi-- {ation to pass unecathed in the trial, a result that will bo Lelped by tho sliiiplo 2nd easy com- ‘mon sensa of dispensing " with _ injurions gossip. Fow of the resders of Tre TRIBTNE sro to-day aware that a short-:time .ago =su Archer avonue. savings bank came trinmphsnfly and aafely through o short sharp run, simply becauso gossip did not set her thousand tongues st work to increase the dificulty. There was at the time no publication of the run, and it is .referred to hera. to slow that the better poliey was.unwisely. departed from iu this in~ stacco, with effects as noted. Not one in an hurdred of fr, Greenebsam's ‘dspaositors would be rendered otherwiee than unhappy by the pos- sesuion in hand of their money now in his e., Like the Frenchmsn in’ the etory, “If sou 'ave the money, Ino want ‘im, but if you, 1o 'g:‘li?fl; musf d'lve 'i:fi;' be'l'ha ‘indications 4 4 qenfdence snoodily re-¢a- fablished. - i . & THE NEW COMINION. The Forthcoming Session of the Canadian Solons. A Discussion _of Public Men and Measurgs. b The Iaterial Developnient and Resources of Canada---The Ship Canals, Lite. Xrom Our Own Correspendent. OTrAws, Oat,, Jeu, 9, 1873, TIE FORTICONING LEGISLATORES. The ers of legislation is upon us. Through- ont the wido extent of the torritories joined, for wesl or woo, iuto tho Cauadisn Confederstion, Local Legislatures are, have been, or shortly will be, in soesion. The gathering of the Solons having seats in the Dominion Parliament will also take place within a weok or two, although, unlike the Congress of tho United States, they have uo time fised for assombling. The mem- Dora of all the several bodies aro known, andthe position they will take in tho forthooming do- bates can bo estimated, with moro or less accn- racy. Tho public men in Canada worthy tho ap- pellation of statesmen are very few, and the in- troduction of parish politics” into not only the Local Legislatures, but oven the debates in the Dominion Parlisment itself, bas mado tho av- erago member fes! himsel! to be littlo etter than a civic Alderman, and the basiness with which- he hss had to concorn himsef barely of greater importanco then the location of o county-geat, or the appointment of a Dis- trict Coroner. Thero aro “ins” and *‘outs;” but, at tho close of tho last session of tho Dominion Legislature, thé former so far. out- numbered the latter that their position seemed almost impregaable. But o five years' record of Iogislation, especially undor an anomalons system of Government, with several Provinces disaffect- ed, snd one in open rebellion during that period, was not likely to bo devold of points which, in the hands of a skilful Opposition, were cilen- lated to causo a chango, to some extent, in pub- lic opinion. That change found expression at tho late election ; and it is boyond a doubt thet when the Parliament meets, thero will bo such s mustering of tho clans of tho Opposition as will seriously threaten the tonure-of-oflice of tho present Administration, The truth is, there is NO STHONOLY-MARKED LINE OF DEMARKAZION on tho quoationof principles between tho two perties. It is o fact that one favors an income suffrage,—tho other dooa nat; that one would submit the actual lozation of public buildiuga to tho Legislature,—while tho olher contends that such a course would open tho door to genoral bribery and corruption, and claims the only way of deciding such questions is by the Govern- ment, it being responsiblo to the poople; the one would haye stricter regulationsto secure the independence of Parlinment,—the other— needless to eay the Administration party—are well content to have them remain o8 thoy aro. But while, in principle, thero is no marked an- sgonism between the two partios, in practico the leadera claim a difference of action as wide asunderasthepoles. The Opposition takeexcep- tion to every act of the Government, and the’ Government spends no inconsiderable part of' its timo in writing down the Opposition in gon- eralasan ass. Itis cortein that Messrs. Mac- kenzie, Blake, ¢t al., the leaders of the Opposi- tion, have -very excellont grounds of objection to some of tho actsof the Administration. They tabnlato their objections to the Governmental ! policy in tho following way : ; THE SPLESDID MINERAL LANDS OF THE COUNTEY : Nothing Las been done during the five years, ‘which have elapsed since the formal inaungura~ tion of Confoderation, to explors and develop the vast mineral weal'h lying between Sault Ste. Merio 2nd thio Pacific. Y The Administration says: Itisnot so. THE BSUARGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL CANALS: That five yoars Laye passod, and nothing has been done to placo the great ‘inland watcr-com- muonications of thoe country on a footizs of thomuih officiency. - “The Administration replies: We have employ- ed an able Canal Commitsion, and intend to fol- low-out their recommendations. The necessity of the enlargement of all thecanals hotween tho Lakes, along the St. Lawrence, to the Gulf, we Tecognize; tho work shall be done &t as early o period as possible, | - . THE’GREAT NOBTHWEST LIES, UNDEVELOPED: . No means of reaching the promised land (where the thermomoter stands at40 degroes for six weols), either by Iend or water, Lave been developed, and .the immigrant must etill, per~ force, travel through s great portion of tho fertile Btates of the Northwest. bofore he casts eyes on tho British territory north of 49 degrees. -Instead of communication, wo have had rebell- jon, and, afterits suppression, corruption rising to Heaven with its noxiousness, . The Admiuistration replics: It's of no good, gentlemen, to cry over spilt milk. Tho Northe west iz progressing ; thero is o large fide of, im- migration into it; snd, when tho work on the Paciiic Road shail have reached that point, there ‘will bo scen as flouriehing citios along the bunks of the Assiniboiue as noy line the Miesissippi or the St. Lawrence. .We have epent £100,000 in tho construction of & road to Mznitobs, and it is nfllgmat completed. “Not guilty, mo lud,” in 0. - THE GRAND NATIONAL POLICK IS A MITH: ‘Tho grest Canadian infand and oceanic mari has ot been created ; no now foreign markels have been opencd to curtrade; the St Lewrence carrying trado, in- Ceundian vessels, still exicts .ouly on peper; and we still suffer from thio re peal of the Reciprocity Troaty, surrondering the Gulf-fisheries, tho sovareignty of the St. Law- senco, tho Island of Sen Juap, tho xefusal of Fehinn raid cleame, and, laatly, {ho degradation of submittingto a price boing put upon tho tronchery of the Firut Miniater of the Dominion, by the English- Government giving its indorsa- tion on a rmall portion of tho bonds of tho Caba- dinn Pa Bailroad, which wero just as safo . and c}erh\in withont such indorsal as. British congols. . . _ To 2ll of which the Administration replics: It is-allin orror, - A marine cannot be established in a day; look at our American neighbors; forcign ‘markets cannot be opened by any ukase, ©n our parts; .and our Lusiness with the States’ is now greater, and evon, mom’sntinhdt%!:;;hthm ith re- it wes under (ho Reciprocity Treaty.. gard to the Washington Treaty, let's bo sanzuine 1mstead of gangrene, which bave called forth the civilized world. ; % ¥ The opponition talk of the inconaistoncy, even :mlm;'_'n.i ees, of tho Govornment, iu the mat-- er 0! ok ‘sdmiration of all th - - AN _ELECTION LAW. e Tho last election Was in progréss for six woeks; ond, beyond doubt, tho opportunities thus af- forded for - corruption wore diligently used. -To American minds,. accustomed to alect . s whole Tangoe of - officors, from President to Alderman,- in one day, aud on one ballot, this will appear to bo, ‘es itin fact really is, oucof the strongest points sgainst the policy of the present Admin- istration. And there is no reply to the charge. - ¥ ON FINANCIAL QUESTIONS, , ; the differences aro on mere matters’ of détail. Keitlier party at present favors o restrictive far- iff; but tho Opposition aro more generally Free- Traders than their succeesful adversarics. The difference betwhon the two is well illustrated by what took place when thero was a chango in the Administration of the Province of Ontario. Hitherto, the funds of the Province had been deposited in the Bank of Montreal; on the change in Government, the funds were, to'a grun‘. oxtent, removed and deposited in other anks, whose Presidents were active supporters :of ihe new regime. This wasreform witha ven- &mu ; and yet the Opposifion leader declared at, by this set, the prices for farm co had been sustained throughout the Province, and o season of finuncial pressure obviated. i But cuough of policy or 50 policy, * On-tho fight which been made on the above ques- tions, and meny others of aporsonal nature, not* of » character to interest any one outsids the boundariee of this country, will be decided the guestion of & change in {kie Government. arlisment to meet shortly will settle the point.. Mesanwhile, the figuring of both parties will give each the victory.. ~ For 1 think it liea with the Administration. The nine points of the 1aw, at any rate, are its ovn, and it the com-. mand of e illimitable quantity of that FIRST BESORT OF A CANADIAX FROMGE cash. or promises to vay when - the other. is |- Domir thiat lio hiad maintaiied, sbeolutely demanded. The loading Minister 6f the Government, well knosn to American nows- | paper readers ns the Canadian rapresentative on the Washington High Joint Commission;~ is_an adept at the use of this aid to conviction. - SIB JOHN A."MACDONALD, E. C. B. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the njon of Caneds, 20 far_excel thia art 7 > ¥ifh fow Toverees, preseat position as First Commoner-of the Can- adas for twenty yeara ‘past, and will" probnbly be-- First Commoner- until- ho - shuflles off this . mortal ‘coil. In t poini ' does ke’ - shine to greater advantage - than in dmrig‘ht Dribery, and that 'is, in that - resort of _clover Tognon promises to pay. Thers are, I doubt not, ;,qu individuals in “the Dominion that have been promised offices, and have never received them; and yat, 8o gresf is the magnotic attraction of Sir John, that they can no moro escape from hia toils than the frightened hare from the gaze of the cobra di capeilo. ¢ Joln A.,"as heis in- varizbly known and roferred to in the Dominion, is about 53 youra of age, and 18 thomost success~ fal d‘lolifidl.n that bas ever mado his sppearanca in this country. For s quarter of acentury hio has reprosented one constitnency,—our in- stitulions in this respect bLeing fashioned on the Euglish representative system, which given to Ministers a seat in Parliamerit, and en- ables thom to bo tho expounders ‘of their own officie]l acts. Ho belonge’ to the snomalous school of Liberal Conservatives, is an admirer of Walpole, and a copyist of Disraell.' A slight Tsraclitish ‘cast of features, Byronio:-locks, s iant, sud alover of tho juices of the grape, ar; witty, and unscrupulous. A re- ilor of bon-mots, with the tasto of & member of the dilelianti, he lives in luxurions quarters, and rurely pays bis tradesmen. His landlord collects no rent, for the Terrace would lose its fon if the Milord went away, and Jobn A. does nothing with base lucre, except under compulsion. IE IS A GOOD POKET-PLAYE, and eats his dioner in five courses. And, above ail, ho is & devout attendant on the services of the Episcopal Church. The longest nail ever driven into the coffin' of John A.'s popularity, was his own shufiling explanation of his ncts on the Washington Treaty. For mouths he claim- ed that he sat on the Commistion solely s a ropresontative of England, and-that his creden- Fixlo 80 read, Tho Hinisterial papors took up the'cue, and, while - DAMNING TEE TREATY, " exclupated Sir John from all blamo, on the ground that, in giving his sasent, he was merely acting under instructions from the authorities wrho celled him into being. It transpire hovwaover, in the dobates in the English House of Conunons, that Sir John was sclected to repro- eont tho interests of Canada on that Commis- sion. By the mouth of his own organs, tho fact had been declared that the interosts of Canada hed been eacrificod, and this declaration pointed totho gallant Knight as the Cassius who had ¢ bartered his Ligh oflices for ” & considoration. So great was the popular indignation over tho matter, that, in o fit of norvous excitement, John A, sat doym and penned an extraordinary letter to tho Euglish authorities, in which ‘Lo said, in effect, that omothing *real hand- some " must bo done, or the wholo Troaty, so far s Cenada is concerned, would go to tho devil. The rosult is matter of bistory. English Government indorsed £2,500,900 of the bonds of tho railway. The Opposition Lave at- tempted, with little Buccess, to raise s storm of indignation over this, as they term, disgraceful bargain and eale, at 16ss_than cost-prica, of tho intereats of Canada. We aro s pationt people, and don't enthuee twice on tho same subject, except it be the singleexception of Fenisn raids. And theso, to us, are a sourea of chronic disgus For years; thiers hag been associsted witls Alr. MacDonald, in the managcment of Canadian af- fairs, » shrewd, vivecious, educated, polished Frenchman, namt . - SIB GEORGE LTIEVNE OARTIER, aced with the honars of a Baronctcy,—in fact, cing the on.li].ive Baronet in_the Dominion,— and holding the Portfolio of Minister of Militia, Sir George haa hed at his back the votes of all the French-speaking members, except about a dozen belonging tothe Rouge party, and thereby has virtually controlled legislation. His -tion as representative of Montreal Centre,—the wealtlnest constituency in Cenada,—gave him additional prostige, which, with ready wit, he ‘was not slow to avail himself of when necessity demanded. As yesrs, however, have gone by, the gallant Frenchman has perpetrated the mor- tal offence of becoming too Anglicised to euit the tastes of his compatriots, and he has fallen rom grace in consequence. Tho prieats havo ost confidence in him, and to-day he stands o ruined man. At the lato election, ho ran in hia old constituency, and suffered the mortification of being beaton by s young man whoso name ‘previously had been —unfamiliar to all but dovout attendants at the Church of Jesu and the habities of the minor French Courts. Tho priesthood, however, warmly supported him, and evory French-speaking Canadian in tho District voted for him. It was of no use to say that the wealth, enterprise, end intalligenco olled their * votes for Bir' Georgo; is opponents ran up % . gool ‘majority, and Sir Georgo had to look elsawhere for a constituency. "It is now almost boyond o doubt that the defeat in Afontroal will ba fol- lowed by his retirement from the Cabinet. As o dispenser of elegant ontertainments,—the only member of tho Government who, at_his private residence, was quite comme il jaul in su ters,—all the elegant young men about town will regret mfly such a rosult. Sir George is an ble classical scholar, and took part in THE PAMOUS POLYGLOT SCENE of s session or two since. -The scene itself is calling: A bill for,a railway charter wwas before the Parliament, and .its opponeuts wero talling against timo fo throw it out. - One Tom Ferguson, & biaiant blatherskito, was gpoalang, but duddonly camo to & stand-still. _Hopaused, sad .stood fors momont or two thinking" what to say next.! Sir Georgo, who wns supporting the bill, called. attention to the fach that the *~homorable,membor” hed cossed to sddress tho _Chair. The Spesker rose and informed Mr. Farguson fhst ho must proceed or quif, But,’ botug hard, of hesring Ferguson simply Eaid, #Eh what's thut ?” - \hereupon Sir George rose ar | understand & word of that, -language. -| Ferguson,~who, during and it Las jta bright sides,:| flo-or ornas?” repested in 8 lond voice what the Bpesker had said, -only giving it in French. A loudlaugh followed, a8 Ferguson was well. known not to His -leader, Mr. Sandfield Macdonald, since dead, could not sit idly by and sea'his supparter thui ~played ugon,- and so_ho nrose, and, in s fow words of siery Gaclic, demolished tho Minister of Militis. Bir John A. 2Iacdonald, entering in- to the jolie,—which, by this timo, had set the House in o roar,—appealed to the Spesker in Lotin, and had scarce had time tostumble, when impatient Sir Georgo, whose face was one vast collection of smiles, .again_arose, and in tho aweetost of- Homeric, similes, appealod to the Speaker in support of his point. A fine-looking Boutherner, who represented a Nova Bcotia con~ stitnency af the time, hiorc rose to his foet, and, st once continuing the folly, - while deprecating it, urged upon the Chair,.in fluont Spanish, the fact that tho scens had gono far enough. " Tho | . House, at this point, was in a perfect fit of con- yulsions, while the gallories, crowded . with vis- itors, 80 far forgot the rules on which admission was granted a8 to fnurl{l at the'scene. . The spoll was broken when Tom its_procedure, -had ‘stood looking stupidly on,—ejaculated, may I ask, lister Speakor, whether I'vo tho The auccossor of Sir Georgo Cartior as foader -4 ‘of the French battalion in the Dominion Parlia- | . ment is one. S N S S HECTOR LOUIS LANGEVIN, C. B, - Minister of Pablic Worke. Mr. Langovin -is 8 fina acholariy gentleman, of -the hotter type of les Francais, but i8 a tool of . the Rowan Catho- by the Protestant portion of the membera.” That he is o man of - ome oxecutive . nbility has al- ready boen proven-during his -mansgement of. the Public Works Department. Iis oflico i3’} one in which Western menmay have the liveli- est ntoreat, for in’ the due performance of its duties lies the carly completion of many of the public works nndertaken by tho Government, which ave-of vital importance to_their business. Mr. Langeviu's interests are with Lower. Cans- da,.and the French; but ho is sulicicotly acute to see that the day has passed when it was pos- siblo for one class of the nationslity to mulo tho xoost. Ho, . therofors. ~ has -conscientiously devoted muach fime and atten- tion to the requirements of tho Western Penin- suls, of the Dominicn, aud, in Lis management of the Wellsad Ceual, and the removal of the old-time barnacles tbat hed for years fattened on its decay, has given promise of o new era. It is truo. that the work of canal enlargement has not made very rapid ntrides, but the public works which this young copntry has undertaken are_enormous in_ proportion £o its wealib, and #Festina lenle” may well be the best way of enlarging thoe canals. Tho feeling Lore, how- ever, is strongly in favor of maling the im- provemant of our inland wafer communication -the first thing to be attendedto. It will be of interaest to the readers of Tng TRIBUNE to know, although the information may not be very wel- _came, that Mr. Langevin looks with little favor on the project of constructing .~ " .. - - - A GHIR CANAL FROM LAKR HUROK, St the ronte, andl is underatood to_favar anothar catos.” But for either;it is sale to say, there will beno expenditures of Dominjon funds, for years ;to come at'least. Tho metter-of tho Georgian Bay Canal is held to be more properly &Proyincial ~ffair, and the rich Province of On- tario is. thought to bo better sble to bear.tho cost of ifs construction, or, rather, to donatoto it | cither some of its pelf _or public domain, than the Dominion” Treasury.” Tae pronictérs of the Georgian Bay Canal, thaunks tothe favor with which the project in_reccived in tho West, are confident. ~They believe the manifest dostiny of the cznal is, that itis to be built; thahowand | when thoy will leave ta the future.” ., There ‘aro likely ‘1o be‘other changes in the personnel of the Administration. SIR FRANCIS WINCKES, looks out from under the brim of his slauched hat, quiotly, but yat most clearly. Every varying change that passes on the opposite eido of tha chamber. moota his eye, and, when most careless apparently, he is.the sharpest on guard. TIE HON. EDWARD BLAKE, Q. C., + the eloct of two counties, -tho Iate Premier of Ontario, the refuser of a Chief Justiceship, and tho head of the largest Iaw firm in the Domin- ion, slthough he will t2ke his reat next scssion asin the second Parliament of which he has ever beer a-member,'is all- but .admitted to bo_the Teader of tho Opposition. A moble orstor, clear dialectici close” reasoner, and the master of terribly acathing sarcaem, his wonderfal ‘memo- ry and’ sheoletely fenltless knowledge of form make him tho.equal of all. and. the superior of most of, the members of the House. Mr. Blako has the advantage of & short record (&avry is tho politician who has no history!). While his fellow-members _have, during a long life, com- mitted mony foolish mistakes, during his own short career he has been marvelloualy fortunate, and ‘on’the books of - the . Honse . appeara’ mat- | ubriek with merriment, % And' 1io Hicrarcly, and is, in consequonca, distrustod never to havo perpetrated that essentinlly politi- cal trick of voting orie way ono dsy and _fnother thonext. Ho has youth on his_eide, being but about 40 years of ‘ago, and also health. His yocht is the finost in Canadidn waters, and ho Tecently sold a country cetate which wes as Iarge a8 & European priucipslity. 3Ir. Blake is tiie champion of Constitutionalism, and expresses an ardent lova for tho Mother-Land, but is not such a slave to prejodice in this respect as to hesitato to exprees his bolief in - A CASADIAN NATZONALITY. Hea holds himeelf secomi to none 23 a patriotic subject of Great Britain, but professes to lovo theland of Lis birth more {han the smoly, fogey land three thousand milea away. Bat his state- ments on this subject ara, under the necessitics incident to a great political leader, toned down to meet popuifir sentiment, and, on this ques- tion, it must be confessed thet the majority of the inhabitants of Canads aro almost supersti- tiously loval. 3ir. Blake, theraia no’doubt, if his bealth continaes, is TIHE COMING MAY OF THE DOMISION. The man is hero; it remains to be seon whether the hour has aleo come. At bis side gits & grayish-haired man, twenty years his een- ior; whoso sharp-cut featiraa and sandy-tinted hafr, no lees than the'tono of his voice, prociaim bim' a defondant of anld_Scotia. Wero there any doubt remaining after a glance at his fea- tures, it would be dizpelled on hiearing his name. ¢ ALEXANDER MACKENZIE" is Scottish to the very final vowel, end it is the Hon. Alsxander Mackenzie, for twouty years tho leader of the forlorn hope of the Grits, for six months Creasurerof the Province of Ontario, and now sgain out of offics, eecking higher game, to whom I rofer. 1Mr. Mackenzie 18 aman of slight build, but as einewy. oy & tough.old monarch of tho forost. He wasa stong-cuttor by trade, but forsook tho malleb and went to olitics. In that ke succzeded £o well that, hav- ing mesntimo’ cultivated his nstural talents, ho soon took & foremost . Ho has beld for years, &nd, if tho incisive , character of his younger co- worker, coupled with ominent Iegnl attainments, bas thrown him somewhat ints thoe shade for the past twelva menths, bo still bolds the hearts and 8fTections of more Scotchmen in the paim of his hand than any otter man in'tho Dominion. In this ho ia materially aided by the warm Eufipon. of the Hon. George Brown, who, for the sake of suld Iang syne, has elways cherished n warm re- gard for his brother-Scof. Mr. Mnckenzie hag ‘made the largest missionsry tours of any gohh- cian, and all parts of the Dominion have heard, and are familiar_with, the pecaliar tones of his sharp yoice, and bis wealth of epithet. Ho slaughters a men with adjectives, , and entombs Dim with an_ejaculation. Haviog . achieved n conquest in Ontario, where his perty are now in power, Bir. Mackenzio is looking_snsionsly for- ward to tho approaching acsembly of tho Domin- -ion Dons, to try his lance against the ehiclds of SirJobnetal . Thoro are Gther eminent men, leaders of the French party in opposition, snd of tho companies Trom the differont Provinces ; bub this laitor is allmldy too long to permit of any reforence to em. It may sufely bo eaid that the Parliament ‘which will shortly assemble will bo g A PAIR BEPRESENTATION OF TI(E INTELLIGENCE OF THE COUNIRY. - T A WORTHY CHARITY. ~ .. Tiie ‘Chicago Nuisery and “HALE Orphan Asylum.™ Information Derived at the Annual --Meating of. the Tlanngers. Tho Nursery and Haif Orphan Asylum is one of the most worthy charifics of the city. During th6'apring ot 1660 a fow: Iadfos, fmpressed with the importance of having & Lome for the chil- dren whoso mothers had to ‘depend _on'their daily lsbor for their support, established & nursery whero young- children could be cared for'whilo the parents wero employed in their. daily nvocations. . Here infants were brought in tho morning, cared for during the day, and claimed in the evening, on the payment of the smell feo of 5 cents- for tendanco. The use of a houso formerly used for a-ragged school, on Tifinois street;near the lake, wasoffered-to the 1adies, and was . occupied ‘through thesummer, whey the number of - chilaron having increased from six to-twenty-Gve,-a largerbuilding was ronted on Market street.- In the spring of. 1861 another removal was had to Otis street. About tho timo of the remoyal tho need of supplying lodgings toa certain’ extent became apparent, and the plan of the institation was modified to accommodate this need.” In 1863, o large house on Ohio sftect was rented and occupied until 1863, when the asylum was moved to the corner of Franklin aad Obio strcets, where it remainsd until the fire, Tho new, handsome, and commo- | dious building, st No. 855 North Halsted street, ‘was not quite finished, but the children wera at once moved into it, and such. provitions made for them 8 circumstances rendered possible. The children of the German Orphan Asylum were also furnished with quarters in the instita- tion, which they occupy at present, and which” they will continue to occupy until their now building, which adjoins that of the Half Orphan As'ilum, i complated. 2 ‘he Helf Orphian Asylam takes children of all ages below 10 years, o emall amonnt boing paid for their board whenever the surviving parcat is not too poor, sud when this is.the caso supports aud educatos them entiroly. There ia o nureery, s Sundsy school, and & day school, the lafter fornishing employmaut to & singlo teacher. The building is perfectly appoinied, sufliciently capacions {, accommodate 150 children, and kept 1 excellent condition. It is unincumbered by debts, tho allowance of £25,000 having helped them to completo it, furnish it neatly, end pay off 2 balanca duo in the form of & mortgage on the lot.-. The meana to pay the current ex- ponscs are derived from the intercst on £18,000 from the Burr estate, the ‘income from board Yills, and eleomosynary contnbutions, _The manegers mot in_sunual session at the tnilding’ yesterdsy. The various formal ro- ports were rend, showing the institution to be in & prosperoud condition. The current expenses of the past year have not quite rcached 87,000, .not conuting various donations in kind, ‘which have boen gratefully reseived, and found very useful. The ladies in charge deeire to express thomszelyes as very jrateful for many gifts, es‘pcclll!f gifts in “money and sup- plies from Cincinuati and. St. Louis. Tho ox- penses of the yoar havobeen met by tho interest of the Burr fund, the donations, and the board- bills. Thera is but little monoy in the treasury, and it_will soon b found necessary to solicit “pecuniary aid, which, it is to_be hoped, will be mosat readily granted. It 1s the intention of the ‘managers soon {0 open & room in some central rnrfi\m of the city where mothers can lcave heir children *daring.the day for some trifling compensation. > 2 Tho report of the physician, Dr. S. P. Hedges, is as follows: . . The present sanitary conditfon of the Institation is ‘sbout perfect, the appointments of the new buflding’ renderiug it possible to keep: every department and the arrangements in esch in a healthy condition. To' this end the phyxician. mbat warmly comrends to the ‘managers tho Matron and her subordinates. There has been an averaga attendance of about ono hun~ dred ckildren, under 13 yeara of age, Of this num- ber, from twelso to fourtcen have been in the nur- ecry, and under 2 years of ege. Soma of these wers infants of only & few weeks old, and all of chil. dren havo boen fed by hand. And just hero all of the denthin ave occurred—~namely; thiee; two of these {rom meningitie, which prevailed in the neightorkood at the timo—July, _Angust, &nd . September, 187%,—~and one from murasmus during leelhing, Tho' f{hreo children thus dying were aged 8 weeks, § months, nnd 2 years. By the introduction of child juss recovered from typhold fever during the exrly ‘Winter of 1872, many of the children wers It will have serions duties to perform, and, in light of tho startling moves and transactions that may come upon the board, old parliamen- tarians, a8 well a8 new members, are looking for- ward anxiously to the fray. It will, doubtless, e somebody's Philippi ; witose, doth not yet aps pear. 2 CANADIENSIS. THE FATE OF THE BROWN. Account of the Loss of the Schooner “William 0. Brown,” of Chicago-Scveral of the Crevw Perish with the IIl-Fated Vesscl. _Bince tho lake gale of the 27th of November, 8 rumor has provailed in marine‘circles that the definite information was reccived of lier, hotv- ever, until yestordsy, when the following leiter | was deliverod to Mr. Dogle by the postman. It was dated “Ponte sux Puis, Ontario, Dec. 26, 8727: 5 echooner William O. Brown, of Chicago, owned | by Willism-Doyle, of thia city, ad been lost. Ko | infected with this discase, more especially in the nur- sery. Though none of the children bave ea yet died, there biave been roany seriously, fll. ' I would recom- ‘mend in the fnture that greater care be exercised in admitting children who have been, or are at the time, sick. The prevention of sicknesa, either by introduc- tion or atherwise, among the children of the Institu. “tion should be most carefully guarded. - I would ahio rocommend that no-child be-permitted to remaly in tho Institurfon who h=snot boen vacciusted; and that Do child should be receired under the care of the Asy- Ium untlt vaceinsted. Sond them to somie physieian or to tho Houso Physician rod Lasé them vaccizated, For the information of the Board f Managare, “would state that during this year I have mado 89 “isits, 131 preseriptions, sad 156 (about) vaccinations. The following persons were elected us officera . for,the ensuing year: _ . _ ¢ President—Mra. W. C. Goudy. Vice President—Mro, H, Roynolds, Mrs, T, A, Ey Matron—>rs. E. L. Hobson. Teacher—rs. M. Porter. The following ia 4 statarhent of the occupan's of the Asylum during tho yesr: Present at the boginaing of the sear, 95, sdmitted 108; et Iotter this morning from ono es at Batchwing Bay, giving L3 loes of the schooner W, O, Dean Sm: I received of my fishermen, who me an account’ of Brown, owned by you. I immedistcly went to tho Bault, nd M. Ontfoton gave mo your address nnd ad- ized s to write you. - On tho morning of the 27th.of November the schodner was coming down the lake, and, when near tho Camads_ide, opposito White Fieh. Pointand near Mamainse, sho sprung aloak, after the fale siruck Ler, aud became usmanageable end they t her go boforo tho wind, Sberin sehoro at i mainee Point, The water was high, and she bumped on tbe reef, which 18 usually ont of wuter, and ‘went .ashore on tho rocks 5 swall barbor. The mainmast broke off, ond went through the deck, ono end falling’ on .the shore, The Coptain,” Tobert L. Mauning, of Amherstburg, Onta- ric, and the Pirst Mate, John Hanson, of Baffald, wera dréwned, and tho Becond Mate, Georgs Manning, Brother of the Captain, who lives samewhere n Mickic gan, died in his bunk, Tho remainder of tho crew -auctcoded in getting ashoro, and took possession of -wome anoccupied susntics, They staid there s few daygy and ealiziog it sisrvation wss approsching rapldly, got into the smell bost, which had mot heea demolished, and started down the shore, ~They tmade a safo passago to the ishermsd’s hut. On the way two 'of the men died. and -wore leftin the buth. One of them was -Heury . Edmunds, who. lived mear _Cincinnat, - and other the Steward, whoso first name was Albert, His placa of residence i not. known, Thesc deaths rediced the number of thecrew to_three,who sailed eighteen ‘miles, bt the vessel is forty-five tiles in s directling from here, As goonsa the. ico makes, I ehall en- deavor to find out her condition, Time is fmpartant a8 & vousel went ashore thexo & fow years 3go, an ‘whon we went to her in_thq spring, there was nothing of her left, the Indians having carriod off alf her out- -t and what had flosted away. > 5 3ADE G, FoorT. As tated, the schooner waa owned by William |. Doyle. She was worth 318,000, and is insured Tor £10,000 1n the Ztus, of Hartford, sud £5,000 in thie Enstern, of Bangor, Mo, Her cargo con- iated of 18,000 bushels of wheat, which. was ‘shipoed- by G, Newcomb, of Duluth, and.con- signed to Preston & Wright of Balfalo. - It is in- Btred: i S The crew of the vessel was composed of nins ‘men. Ouly eight are alluded to in tho letter, leaving one unaccounted for. Tho Brown was ten’yenrs old. Bhe sunk once.befors, but was raised and rebuilt. It is thought' that this timo -ahe will prove to be a total loss. € 2 DRINKING FOUNTAINS. Totks Editor of The Chicago Tridbune : 2 £ S Will you not mow say ‘s good word for drinking fountaing, while tlié temperance gnes~ tion is agitating tho public mind?_ When shall the hesated, thirsty laborer : quench -his thirat while rebuilding our city? Tho gilded and bur- _nished saloon doors are ever open. . Shounld there mnot be o cooling = dranght . at- hand? Would not drinking ~ fountains at - atreet-corners bo the “ounce of proven- tiop?” Think you not there “is some un- scorched citizen who would gladly send his name down to posterity by erecting something of this kind,—perhaps uptgznling to the mathetic ' taste,—something more than tha iron post with in-cup attachmont ? Could such s thing ba in- - augurated In Chicago, other great eitios would follow the example, or 80 thinks an anxions @ 5 Lar StsTER. ) - Cricaqo, Jan. 12, 1873. 3 This Rev. Csrus W.. Wallace, of Manchester, N.H, has his pastorate, held tinco firat alergyman sottled in rgings was disablod it the | pliton engines of ours—one dissbled-and his - theup throw, though it “oourse. - 80'; doaths, 4 ( under 6 montks), and 2 uoder. { Year; averaga presence, 130 ; prezent occupants, ue. Tho meating sdjourned. o "7 ABOUT- THAT TRIAL. Bir. Sexton’s. Statements Concerning & Ccr- , A!‘:llésuflrp:linzlne’ Trinl Refated by Mayoer A dsy or two ago thero was published in Tz Tnmoxz, under the caption “IsitTrue?” s statoment made by one Sexton, of the Cincinnati Fire Depariment, whoclaimed that, at sn exhi- bition intended to tost the qualities of the rotary -and piston engines, great injustico was done him. .. The Mayor- contradicts tlie’ statemohts, aa” follows: tion to the fact -that all our cngines bad forty pounds. of steam ‘already raised Defore he tonched . fire to his. engine. , Ho did call my attention to the fact fliat ho'started with cold water from the river, and our engines with i warm water, hoated to the boiling. point” when they loft their engine housee. - When ‘the- fire was touched, all the steam thoy had was from water at 180° or 1400 ;~making 8 difference. of ‘balf & minato in raising stesm. ,He did ‘call my attention to that,.and I made allowance for if. ence, and "we gave'credit for“it. Hea''8ay8 "they threw a stream 49 feet furthér than our engine. It was farther, but not 49 feet," ngp- half .that amourt. Hia engine was anew one. It wasanox~ callent engine; and got steam up high, and made 120 ponnds of steam. By virtuo'of tho factthat it carricd steam higher it throw further. The Mayor donjes.fhat on the perpendicular throw the Cincinnati engino was proved to be tho best. Bextor’s engine and our- engines- threw thre¢ stroams, side by side, One of 1onr- piston en- trisl.-- The other.did Tot throw nearly as bigh o8 our rotary did.” Bex- ton claims that tho est was agninst three of our Totaries; when thero was only.one of our rotarics on the, ground. Therc were two sccond-hand on own. Qur rotary wag of ‘the beat of tho threo ‘had ~only. 80 steam: . R 3 -Sextan claims that- after beating us, we bought thred rotary engines; instead of buying Ahrens’ Cincinnati, engine.. The reasom we bought threo rotarics waa that wo got them. for s little less "tha!i tho samo “price that Ahrena askad for two of his. They .have tho ssmeim- provemeénts in the fite-box and boiler that. Bex- ton élafma to make tho Ahrens machines por- “fec, and can carry 28 high. 23 tho othcrs, fin Board thought that if they got thres machinca for. the prico demanded .for two of (ke -other pattern, . they would~ come. -.pearar their . duty. than -by .the, opposits . - The. sppropriation - only . allowed money enongh to my two Cicclnnati engines. o to Wo acted wisely in buying threa engines for tho prics of two. ' The gn'u Depart- ment cost one-third as much -for repairs as- the gwton engines, -and iho item of repeirs isa eavy one. .Wo all'sdmittod that the Ahrers engine’ wag s Very fine machine, snd if they were to be obtained ats !:ig‘};flce .we should purchess them. Butif Mr. fon-is carrectly Teporied, it {5 & gross perversion, and a slandec- rotaries in “the He did riot call my nttén- |. dus_statement, showing fhat Le: eiemant, shoving Db Lo s vy g et B AN EARL'S DEBT. The Lord of Aylcsford—i Wild ca. reer Ending in u Celebrat, - Case, - 4> 2 52 i ea. 'Jlnry ZLondon (Dec, 17) Correspondenca of the L o K oauso ovicire Wiy strikingly eshamP extent to which usury is proctsed i Ll and tho extravagance which still proveily oot tho young nobility, has™ just been eanclmi:‘d‘m'g hamcery. Thia was tho caso of tho hckiion oy tho Farl of Aslesford to bo ralioved fho ,,.,;:; ing . exhorbitent interest on loans contracted gy his minority and the lifetimic of his father: Into Earl. T must first toll you who and whap, sk Eerl of Aylesford is. -Ho comes from wor thie begt English blood, end Lis pecraga is ong o the oldest rocorded in' Burke. Tha o of tho' Earldom was tiai e Tonosgo Finch, who plased to smnied part in .polities undoer the gmi‘;’“&»t und who was ‘mado Lord' Ch = Charles IT., with tha_titlo of tho E‘;fil}"){ tinghiam. Tt was of this Chancellor fhat the 1 Duto of Wharton enthusiastically said fhat s b dasorvad to bo placod on » s tiroge ot ave rays of glory perpotually plajin, b hie head.” ~Lord C’hmcfiml‘ind}) uia’:?g‘l"ufi.;'f Daniel, wio duly succeoded him a3 Fard of Not. tingham, and nftorwards became o prominet. Jitical charactor himself; and Heneage, who by created Lord Guatnsoy 'soon after “his faurs fathor's death, and was subsequently elevataq iy tho pecrage to tha Earidom of Aslestord. Thgy thio present Lord Avlestord s lusally detcendeq in ‘the youngor branch from the X Chancallor Nottingham. About s century agy the elder branch - succaoded also o the Bapisy] of Winchelaca, and tho present eccentrio Earl gf VWinchelson and Nottingham is tho re tivo of the clder Lme of tho hou g Finch. It is ® - eingular fact . fhe while this elder lino has conatantly réappesred iy Englfliah politics, and thero" bias eoldom been 0 undi nfifims'nad Earl of Nottingham, the roung: or branch hes romained in tho' aimest obasmy eversince it ocenpied o peernge. No Earl d Aslesford, sinco Heneage Finch, the youngm has over been distinguished in srms, diplozay’ or politica; the worid Lss forgotten thorgwat such :titl; it is almost the oniy ono which bas existod for 'mearly two cenuurics ' withont ovip once emerging into tho light uf famo. . Kow, for tho first time, an Eurl of Ayiesford i3 talkag sbout in Pall Mall end Belgravis, and smong the p,\dp{ma‘ca of tho West End, &nd for whu? 10 lor havin: e 0 most 7 aualy, gwindled o tatt” of " fhe Cmity generation. The houszo is' to bo corgratuizig on haviug & member who liag at leass 1k to protest egaiust being swindled; i most historic act ita asnals aord. . Tha yomg man, 83 Lord Guernsey, Was actually bhair, brained ‘emough to agree to py sizty “per “cent for s losa; “es }Efl of “Aylesford, ho lhms the common “Hisg torefuso to redcem 80’ oulregeous acontach It.is rarcly that tho young Uritish aristoerst deems it proper to decling 1o pay *a debtof honor,” aud this, beizg & gambling "debt mars ¥¢ dobt of honor.” Even vers worthy mid g Tight old noblemen, who only: mildts dis o neglect of tailony”azd jo ] it young bloods, make bLaste.to dre e b Lot oo honor ;fl.h: houor of the eacient hogso must not_be s died: “'tis no dishoner to owe - your -kl forever; it is o disgraco ‘Lard fo b wiped out to fail to cash thie ndverso halanceset % my lard's betting book.. Lord Aylostoni—tis '» prescnt lord—ran for 8ome yoers & conrsaofln © moet, racklosa dissipation. ho sllomancegive Tim by tho old enrl wax . very large one—sazen] thousand pounds s year—but it did nof bogin each yoar’s firf e could gét no more-Iog to tho money-chanzera, ? s "By fho very casy mothod of signing- K ES. toric namo_across that semi-trausparent mi ornamonteily wianped instrament called-a ©bill," Lord Guarmsoy (which was Hicuhis tile) obtained a Joan of £8,000. Tobe suselhaarly -actually ‘recoived £6,500, for. €0 oot~ £1,200— was caefully dcv.iucudpuby tha ‘sly snd wusuridus - dlorris, whose mams must bave bem originally MNoss, if nct Moseq. -, When.-ilio- amount - becamo dan, uny lord was'deepef ia debt than ever before; Ascat and Epdom:hed. pleyed—sohe wauld say—ti dence with his litlared morroced bottingbock; =nd how to med tue bill duo to Morriswas s quandary. 1247 yost - wbit, which: is - simply dis- counting the d:athof ono's father, raised & him cnongh maney fo got rid of Mowis for the {ime, but as Marris himuelf k23 slyly tazen in the post orbit, Lard Guemsey fonnd’-iti -financis! old min of tho sea hanging sbouthi peck when Le camo into tho ancesiral pror _erty and tho dignities of the carldom. s bad had, in all, about £7,050; the obiequic Morris now came down- upen Lim for a el £12,200! Tio rew Earl of Ajlesford, thimg o need not have been, wawtinndarstruckl e offered . an accommodation. For the d £7,000 for nbout s year, b was asked typarus interest £5,000. BIr. Morvis politely declined 3 per cont cash in-addition to the principstzd 59 pohicy intimaied Lis intention torecdws ! the whols amount of-his claim at commanlsy. The blood of Lord Aylesford wea Yot o blufas it quietly b0 €0 extortionate a “debted - and on’ consultation with his Iswyem detarmined to_go into chancery far s gcmetimes T — e, -injunction. TInjanctiona-- are - boneficent” and. equitable things; I & .this because' thoy are sgmetimes, Y&T serviceblo - to - pooplo . who want @ do unjust things. The repeal of the trul Iaws rendered the Eerl fally lisble for thechtim at common law, for ho had agreed ta tha {orms; but the Chancery Court declared it “unci Acioriabld,” and decided - that if tho BT poy the 15 per cent which bLe had'pmposéd, tb monoy-changer shonld have no fartherholda him. ~The Aylesford estats yiclds sboul-£H060 2 year income, so that tho Fazl conld have essll _enm:_ixx paid” the _*extortionate” ;. b3 he chose to rdn’ the fisk of beisi ed 03 & man of indierent hopor, RIS tban becomo the dupo of an outrsyecdd joce of msury. Probably this. - trisi. ¥ ve s good effeet, for’ moncy-londars GUE & ‘longer hopo to recover 60 per cent afiér Vice Chencellors decizion; but it esn hardlr hoped that it will have much daterrent & - fluence upon the extravagances of youp bloods of * tuftdom."--. Tho Duke of Hamili _the Duke of. Noweastlo, tho Marquis. of B~ ings and Lard Conrtenay proferred going &2 bankruptcy to refusing and xmisllng‘ngz{u’! ¢ debta of. honor;” and 88 they did_pralsff othor young nobles will do to thie, end of 54 ~The stories of the regency,” wers all: ket might be matched by the orgies and vicea £ prevail sub 103a among_ the younger aristeas? m these mild days of Victoria. - - . Waro Workse: .. .3 . ."A TLoudon suctioncer ho Juat dispersed® smel) prices, 3 collection of raro_ and oxtrensl valuable' books and MSS. relaticg Lo thacsl history of~tho American Continesf. AEH them “wero“the original private records of o Fronch_Commanders-in-Chief durisig tha-01 Bevan Years,Wer, from 1755 to 1760 sold for £320.° There was alsos o 3 Ietter, signed by Don Diego Columbus, d & dreseed o Cliatles V., not dated, Lut ovidesl “written in 1519; another lotter to'Chaes®s j from Hernando Corice, .with -cignst@® and " yery . interosting; -m et 4§ Bir *"* Francls - Drake = tg'° the> of Essex ; n lettor of Diego o Almsgnf ‘Chasles V., dated in Porn, Jennsyy, 13507 B original_autograph MS. of Dums's Ode oz Americant War ; and o long and b finpb letter of Presidert Washingtod, v.3,- Bouchen, of Annapolis, resptotia- education of Lis step-son. “This $195; tho Corted lotter. £71, the $22. "Las'Casas's. “ Chronicle of the ] | in the West- Indics”” waa eold for- 80355, “Vieges do_ Francisco Dracen 1589 ¥ B0 Fonton en 1583" :for $31. There Weie books and MSS. of_equal interest ini &7 tion, and it seemed a sad pity that if C0 havo been brought intact icto the-co which it naturally Lolongs. . s . A Creach Saicides . Among the_extraoidinary pamber of: 85 Lniely comumitted in Taris, the folloving 3 ; the opinion of tho London Zcho, F%70., - a.ulde:n :mx_mied %o&:lo, w(h:'t‘-‘épn-flzflfi;,_ . raper’s shop, reposed tho greaiest cot e ek hice, Aatace girl of 17, who kept5 books and ‘¢ask-box. * The yeang gifl Wi - crphan; and wad broughs 79 by her wice S aunbas their own child. , Apns, howerdh o become acquainted with a commercial {27 :who courted her f>r’moro- than uy!_!a::vb. st Longth persuaiod, ber (o gy W e _to give him savi hes b Shittom, Shich consiaten in Credit Tonser &L gufim, and & aqm of 700 fravice: 08 Lo w5 5 e £ f f { ixed for their flighz% Anpa wept | named by her.lover, bat waited 2il ds!di-‘. ¥ Tength, muspecting somo trosckiers, 150 85 Bl Tebponer toa iy Tofos, akss isappeared two days Lefor it Bt of 8,300 framcs” whi “had-bees 2 truated to him by the house he reft " -Anms; thua forsaken end. friendless, 80095 cover of thenight into her aunt's T 7 i having vritten & lotter in pencll, ?"°fl¢u' N her brains with her uncle's revolver. “Wichj _protectors haatened to har assistance oeased to live.; 5 i e