Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1873, Page 2

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: quuh JANUARY 17, 18% WASHINGTON. In the Credit Mobilier Room--- Foints ot" _Ve?is_imili‘cude. Stripped to the Doff. What the Union Pacific Railroad Cost. ¢ The 'Trath From Our Qin Correspondent. WasIINGTOR, Jan. 9, 1873, The Execntivo end of the Government is said tolook with tho coolet indifferenco mpon the privato screpes of Congressinon. To modify this indifferenco, perhaps, Congress has ondesvored 10 ndd £25,000 5 year to the President’s salary,— tho Jeast pecessaty and the most wasteful in- cresse in personal compensation which sub- gerviency ever made, unsolicited, to tho Ovar- weer of tho Patronage. In the time of the War, Abrsham Lincoln could save half his ealary. Bat now, with declining prices, the lirgest sal- ary in America must be doubled. THE QUARTER-SESSIONS. . | The Committce-room where the half-dozen gentlemon who aro appointed to seok ont the why and wherefore of the railroad bribory moet for ono hour or mord avory forenoon, is &t the footof a long flight of dark -stairs which lead from the Rotanda to the floor usually called the crvpt, or cellar. At tho foot of these stairs; n lighter corridor, whoso cheerfal apposranco does not deprive it of a cortain dungeon-like look,—~ probably the effact of the consciousness of the eayy weight supported above, snd of the brosd 2nd solid walls, and piers, and window-gills in viow,~lezds to tho Committes-room. Within the Committee-room the atmosphers and sir immediately chango for tho better. : A good grate-firo burns under & symmetrical, old- fashioned mantel of white merble, abova which 34 8 mirror of the Iargest proportions. Opposite tlio mirror isa book-case filled with law-calt Lindings; and down tho floor, lengthwise ba- tween tho fire and books, runa & baize table sur- rounded with arm-cheirs. Nearest the door,. half-a-dozen newspaper-writers are geated around tho end of this tablo. THE COUBT. At the other end is the Cbairman of the in- vestigation, Judgo Luke Poland, of Vermont. Merrick and Niblack, the two Democrats, sit to the left band of Judge Poland; and on his right is Mr. McCrary, of Iowa. These seom to be the' - only members of the Committee who are puying auy attontion to the proceedings, the others be- ing conspicuous by their absence. MoCrary, Derrick, and Poland do all the questioning. Next to Niblack sits Henry 8. A'Comb, and cometimés Judgo Black occupies a place at his side. Mr. Bmith, tho official reporter, sits on tho opposito side. Next to McCrary, facing M’Comb, are the two inseparsble companions, Ames and Alley, the Massachusetts Dromioa. Around the chamber are half-a-dozen or & dozen reporters and idlers, The Court pro- ceeds in the mast informacl, but in the quietest way, and progress is mado slowly. There is no good reasou as yet to meke complaints. Judge Poland looks likea French Marquis. Ho is & tall, aristocratic-looking old gentleman, ‘with fall white hair, and full whito side-whiskors combed forward. His nose is straight and long, and his profile handsome ; but, when he turns his fall face, he seems to carry a mouth full of tobaceo, and speaks with a senso of apprehension that some of it may spill, His method is vonrte- ous nearly'to & fawlt, and glow to irritation ; re is mothing of the d 0} o ncatiomtiss " abaat im g 2s ho_ s what _he appears to be, a kind and generons old gentleman, all look with confidence to his return of the facts in their spirit. Hitherto, Alloy hss talked down every body, and been interrupted &t no time, except when he was slavering Ames all over with praises, when Niblack said: #Mr. Alley, how many monumentd do you wani to have erected to Mr. Ames 7" THE GOVEBNMENT'S WITNESS. Persons coming into the Committoe-room for the first Lime aro wout o say - *‘Who is that fine-looking man across the teblo?" ) “Henry §. M'Comb " 4 “ That M'Comb! Why, I cx{mclad, from what Brooks aaid, to see a monater.” Yos, 5 menin the o'er ripe.primo of life,— slerd, 'rosy, candial, percaptie; £ad 80 unusually bandsome as to imply a social importanco chiefly, whereas there is an engine at work all the while within the man, and half-a-dozen different fly- vheels. Nof 2 fully educated men, he compen- saies for it by native graces, and the scquaint~ ance since boyhood of gfi_opln of culture at home and men of power throughout the country. In the social, intollectusl, and material scslo, T1'Comb s tho suporior of anybody who has lost time secking to impeach him. With singular certainty, all his propositions have beon proved,’ * When I was of your age, I had twenty thou- sand dollar3. Youn have got nothing.” - Bat howdid ho get it ; and should not such an apostlo of wercly demoralizing Maaimon bo ua- churched in the face of the world ? ‘WILL CONGRESS LXPEL OAKES AMES ? —If tlus Commmitteo performs its daty, it willre-- port a preamble znd resolution to expel Oakes ‘Ames for corrupling his colleagucs on the floor, for the unanthorized uso of men's names to Bervo swindling orzanizations, and for making his needy debtors his dapea. Against the con- duct of John B. Alloy whilo & member of the Houee, tho Committén should also. express it censura to the extent of excluding him from tho privilego of the floor &8 an ox-momber. For tha rent, it wounld be sufiicient to _rcportthat, as tho partics abovo named contrived a trap for their asgociates, the latter bo merely mentioned, with- out recommendation - of _ccnsuro, oxcepting James Brooks, of New York, whose conduct while Government Director of the Union Pacific Ruiiroad, a8 well ag his_gevere aund uufounded use of the floor to slander a witneas teelifying to the truth and in obedicnca to tho order of tho House, loave himno option but to resign his soat in Congress. At the Committee-tablo, last Wednes Alley slleged thet tho Union Pacific Ro: &i: ight or sixty-nine millions of dollers ; “but that,” he said, “-included the profits.’ Brofta o’ whom? Of courso to Ames aud Allo; "Tio rosl cost of this rond, Alley eaid, should have been no more than forky-four millions of dollars. M'Cor™ alleges that it should have o8t 10 moro thtu thirty-soven millions. ““How mueh did it receive from Goverament, from mortgages, lands, ote 7" askod your corres- pondent of Colonel A'Comb. “Tako your pencil,” ho_ said, down what T shall tell you!” He then gave out these amounts as received by the Company : First mhriglfi bonds. Government bubds..... ‘bonds. “and write 5 a8 well 23 property.) tock (considered eatirely as profits). Total endowment.... 115,000,000 “ Now,” said AUComb, © subtract Alley's esti- mate of what tho rond should have cost from this gress total; bocsuse *the profits,’ as ho cails them, wont to the Company, which con- tractod with aisclf. The remainder will bo $71,000,000. Of this, nearly 75 per cent was reslized. Amos says that even his stock must produce par, or ho will hold it. That stock foll onco to 9, at the time Boutwell proposod to stop the mail-monoys and collect ‘iutorest. It sells at present for 30 snd 38. Had the Company, worked with unity and without feuds, as tho Ceutrel Pacific has dono, the stock would bo at par or above per. The gross profits, under any tl:lrcnms' tances, wore.from thirty to fifty mill- ons.” No wonder that such a sam of money ran ovor into Congross, and corrupted the fountains of legislation thero. OX CONTRACTOLS. Onkes Ames supplicd tho United States, dur- ing the war, with 1,800,000 shovels. That was Tis boast. _And yet he pricked up Brooks to de- nounce M'Comb 1s a contractor and railway-job- r. While the Committes wans mocting, last ‘Wednesday, an old, square-headed, whito-haired man strolled into the Committee-room, wearing an soxious face. This was Thomas Rowlzud, .a Ponnsylvauis shovel-makor, whose dopartment of manufacturs brought him into relations with Ames, also a shovel-maker. i :rn yougsummoned?” said one. “No “Bat you aroa Trusteo or Dircctor of the Credit Mobilicr, and 24 such sued by Henry 8. M’Comb!" “Yes; but I never hed a sharo of stock inmy life, and knew nothing about it, 3Ir. Ames put my name down theral” ‘A few minutes afterward, Rowland was soen on the floor, anxiously conforring with Ames. M'Comb's character of a Government con- tractor grew naturally out of his branch of pro- duction. In 1846 ho wasa young and driving merchant leather-dresser at Wilmington, Dela- ‘ware,—a placo always noted for the excellency of ity tanned sking. Tho army required for tho Mexican War koapsacks, belis, font-straps, cart- ridge-boxes, shoes, bats, and other articles of leather, which exceedod the ordinary calls of the market; and A'Cowmb, under this stimalation, began Lis largo g MERCANTILE LIFE. 'He married Miss Buali, of Wilmington, whose father was the founder of the carwheol-casting 8nd railway-furnishing firm, and, at-the decanse of his father-in-law, ho became a partner in tho houso, At the outbreak of the War, the Missis- sippi Contral Railrosd had oved M'Comb sbout $100,000. After the War, in which he sig- nalized himsolf a8 one of tho most tromendous and sleapless furnishers to the War Dopartment, and was the special favorite of Seccrotary Stanton. M'Comb headed tho orgeniza-. tion to recover the Southern railways for their original Gwners, and was parfectly Succass- fol.” He then advanced about $300,000 to the Mississippi Central Road; and it was to sorvo ‘him as their friend that tho Directors proposed 3 leaso of the road to M’Comb, o sccopted it, and .algo the New Orleans & Jackson Road, about the time that Amee, Alley, and party took the New Orleans, Mobilo & Toxas lload. No. logialation was roquired, except to - ex- el the smail State inferest; and, in ouisiana, 3M'Comb did not sppear at all while, in Mississippi, Governor Alcorn an the Legislaturo abdicated the intorest of tho State in considoration of certain exteusions. To the New Orleans & Jackson cnd Mississippi Central Roads unitedly, Colonol 3M'Comb has. added soven and one-half millions of _equip- ‘ment, track, aud shops, and farthor undertook and Lis charaeter has been strongthened bofore the Committco every day. His attorness sp- eared wilh him this morning for the first time, £t mado no remsrk, Thoy ato Jeremiah 8. Biack, and Nathanicl Smithers, of Dover, Dela- waro. - 3 AMES. 2 Oskes Ames is & very large man, of the iype of a Yorkshire mauniacturer,—gnarled, spocta- cled, with great, bent shoulders, & slow walk, and prodigious limbs and feel, Ho will ,prob- ably waigh 230 ponnds, 2nd Lie looks to be 6 feat Zor3. Mo hss strong, cozrse, brownish hair, and. bristly beard around the long, stern- whooled shaft of lis jawe. Tis. forchead is low, aud tho hoss mcoms ' to bo half of the face. The °eyes Dehind tho speciacles are small, and of., a slow, | searching look. Ames came {0 Congrses with Lo soul of a commercial traveller, and, if ex- pelled fromit, would foclno particular incon- venienco or foss of scif-estoem. Tho shovel which his trip-hammer beats into! Bhn{m i8 Ecarce- 1y barder, and, 83 the man'gTows old, he rusts,: but is foo rugged to decay. ‘A nonumen to Oskes Ames ought ' ‘made of serap . iron, sud John B. Alley would bethesolitary momrner over it, and, unless ~watched, ke would peddle away the” monument pioce-meal. ’ | Ames mado amall bones of tolling the most of what he remembered sbout Congressmen, ond, but for Alles, hio wonld probably bave remembered considerably more. | ALLEY. Alley sat by bis side all the whilo, lifting or fowering his brows suggestively, as Ames help- Tesaly looked round at him for counsel. Hois thirteen years tho junior of Ames, who is nearly 70 years of age. - Alley was o thoomaker in boyhood, and ho is now tle propriotor of the best house in Lynn. 1ic is prond of his money, and holds to it with tho desperation of o cannibal Lusbapding Lis lost corpee. He i8 o short, demurs, white- Leaded maz, and has an cndlcss tongue, which testifies all manner of heareay, and covers time nd epace, to tho exclusion of information, and o the prajudice of moro modest and less doubt- ul evidence. Alley has enormously profited by Ames' con- tracts, and he appears in Ames' lotters a8 the incorrigible opponent to every dividend to out- siders. He was tho chief advise: io Ames' course toward A'Comb, and he is rewully on the. epot at present as the principal and counsel of Ames, He may zay, with Sir Giles Overreach: In being out of oifiee, I am out of dauger;. ‘Where, If T were a Justice, besfilss the trouble, I might, or out of 88 or error, Tun myeelf finely into a premunire, 'And £ become 8 prey to tho informer, No, Il have noe of it; 'tia cnough I keep Grietyat my dovotion.” Sobegervs rpos or damn, T care * FE 0 1 but o word.” Fatast Bave afl men Sellers, and I the only purchaser] 2 THE COUBTS TO FOLLOW UP THE MOBILIER, The confederstes aro now bent upon using every energy to beat 3'Comb’s suit befors tha State Courts of Pennsylvania, where, in the lste indiseriminating revolution, they rolled out the solid, ‘steadfast Judges,'and erected a bench of peliticians, on which is TUlyssea Merour, who has n in Congruss during all these scandals of the Credil Mobilier. | Mr. Mercur was generally held in high esteem horo ; but what are we_to think of a State which returns Cessna and Cameron, and Lskes Mercur from the Penitentiary o be iho Mayor's chio? metrapolitan dlerk 2 feantime, it is incs Qeéneraliof {he United States to keep pace wi the action of Congross, and rocovor for the peo- . -plo some of the large quantity of public money i detained " by Oakes Amos & Company. Jus. will be a sham 18 long as Alley is allowed to £ 8t largo, eaying to the young men of Lyna : upon the Attorne; to bulld from Jackson, Toun., to Cairo, 115 miles,—at an additional oxpense of six illi Tho latter mouey has boen Dborrowed alrond on essy torma. 3 'Comb'a_combinstion aro Thomas Scott, H. E. Nowcome, of Loulsville, and tho most reputable and legitimate railroad-man in the country. He is understood to be the chief stockholder in tho Southern Railroad Assucia- tion, of which Lio {8 President, and which now i tho ownor of tho trunk-line. * In tho Texaa &. Pacific Railroad, M'Comb is als0 & largo stocke holder, and Trusteo of tho Union Tacific; whilo ‘meantime his rogular leather business goes on at Wilmingion, o4 in tho daya whon, according to Braoks, he came from its stroeta and alleys, Brooks camo from tho_ Jobn B. Alloys of Now England, which load to dostruction. BLANDER TOO. LATE. Such wero the Tolations which_led Colns] IComb into the Union Pacific Railrosd, and tho tong of tho lotters nddrossed o bLim by Onkes Ames sulliciontly disproves the nssump- tion that_he was formorly regardod with dia- fovor. His typo of faco snd mind is not such as to inspire distrust; but, if anyof the horny- Danded bose-jobbors avound Lynn or Taunton thought fo crow over tho bland and gonial man from Delaware, they made a mistake. They took & great parcel of Crodit Mobilier stock to " distributo amongst the _ peopie of influence, protending that it was for the common defence and to promote tho general welfare. M'Comb suspocted that it was really confiscsted by Ames, Alloy & Co., and hede- manded that James A, Bayard and somo of his friends bo equally considered. Bus it came to puss tha, oven in tho whipping-post State, no publioman would take a bribe, and Mr. Bayand Tofasod tho stock in & lotter which New England might now bo glad to receive from some of the most honored of ber bedraggled public mon. Z\'B_I’Ifls. M'Comb, pushing his inguiries, compelled Ames to account for soma of this stock,—about one-third of the wholo. A suit_devoloped to cumflal the Alley Jx\r{y to redistribute the said stock and dividends, particalurly after Ameshed Totused to givo AT Comb £25,000' worth of Credit Mobilier for which he had paid. As this suit prograssed, and M'Comba attor- nosn becamo advised of tho admissions, by Ietters from Oskes Ames, as to “ placing” the stock, they demanded that the letters be put in g ovidonce. A'Comb endeavorad to save the reputations of these Congressmen, and made this personal propozition to Ames : “Hero are these lettera! - Neither of us wants to expose your frionds. . Give me your promise in writing that, if I win' this_case, you will give ‘me no further trouble, but will settle it without any more litigation, and I will retun you theso originals, and enter into agreement to keep no ‘copies. t was this most honorsble proposition which Ied Brooks, Ames, and Alley to dub M'Comb's 443 blackmaillng guit.” Ames replied : THE HOG. “ I don't care whether you put the lettors in a8 evidoncs or not. Bverybody knows that Con- gresemen axe bribed, and that everybody does it . TIE SOFT IMPEACHAMENT. After thesze letters becama evidoncs, it was in- ‘evitablethat thoy shonld appear in print, -After & long and most awkward silenco, suspicious de- nials appesrod from Ames and other parties. Ames argued that he had neversold or presented ‘s share of stock to any momber of Congrees,— s pieco of unblushing falsehood,. as ho hns himself shown under oath, Tho denials of tho others were made under a mistaken ides that the thing would blow over after the politi- cal campaign, and that meantime it would pass 88 mers vituperation of the canvaes, The namos of Grant snd Wilson, it wWas thought, would prove all-protecting : Tlysses ! name that charms our fears, . That Lids our sorrows ceass; o *Tis music in the sinner's cars, *Tis life, aud hezlth, aud poace ! PUMIGATE = Aftes tho election was dono and Congress met, the word Mobilicr was raised again, and the uickened consciences of somo of the’ mombors ehowed in their troubled falk, and walk, and countenances. - A Democrat was in the case, and the Commilteo met with closad doora. 'The nows leaked thréugh the cracks and keyholes. A savago apocch was made by James Brooks on tho floor_contemporancously with & scroed of evidonce from Oakes Ames under oath in the darliened Cominittoo-room, ouly whetted the: nblic inferost, - A cry eroso for Open doors! 088 whitowash and more fumigation!” Then the sick men. who groped theiz wav about tho Capital City would have boon the iticd of mon and angelsbut for that speach of roolis egainst the Govornment _witness, which ba closed tho gatos of mercy. Tho fatal trath, Lislf told, camo forth at lass from the lips of Oskos Amos. That thovol-iron status spoke Iiko the sire of Fredolia cursing bis posterity. And, us the negro orator romarks, from under the fablo: “ Wheroaro wo now? " GaTa. e v IMMIGRANTS’ HOME AT LINCOLN, NEG. LoreRANTs' Hn)fl,} ZLvcory, Neb, Jun. M, 1873, Tothe Editor of The Chicazo Trivune : Sim: Inonaof yourroceat issuos, Isco an sllusion to thia establishment, and = statoment that “Tne Cricaco TRmusE bas inaugurated s movemont for o reform of the abuses suffered by immigrants ot tho henda. of land-sharke," &e. therefore, that I send you somo account of stitution. It is o building, 100 feot by 24, at the Burling- ton & Missonri River Rallroad Station, and in its yard, and provided by that Company for the gratuitous accommodation of strangers. Besides a spacious day-room for storing immigrants’ baggago, a8 well s sitting and cating, thero aro ten chambers, in which that number of immi- grant familics mag spresd their beds and lodge eachin privacy. There iz a kitcheo, with all conveniences for them to cook and wask. There aro soparate bathing rooms for males and for fomales. The only charge ever made is the cost of fuel used. . During the first ‘gosr of its oporations, which closed on the last day of last June, 636 persons hore found refuge sud rest. Of thia nnmber, thero wore 365 adults, namoly : 25¢ males and 111 females. Tho remainder, 271, wero chil- droun. ¥ Ono hundred and fifty-four took up home- steads on Government land, leaving familics at tho Home whilo thoy hunted up locations, and returned to file their claims in the United Statos Land Ofiice here. * ) Over 150 obtained worl, eitherin Lincoln or west of it. One old man lately came from Scot~ land, with throe dsughters and their now hus- Dbands,—all very poor. Tho wives, as ** hirod irls,” at onco earned. €8 and 84 o weok, with ard, in good Lincoln familics, The Lusbands and tleir father-in-law soon obtained, cach of them, & homostend farther west, and built sod-houses on their §14 farms. By working for neighbors, . they got & fow acres of prairie broken, &nd put in sod-corn, heir uvited | earnings will s0on pay for all the tools, toams, and wag- ous necesssty £0 0pon & fatn. | Then their crops will command better houses than pionecrs at first put up with, . ‘Thus, working no harder, and faring no worse than they always did in the Old Co\mtfiy, thoy will live honceforth lords of a gquare mifo of a3 good land a8 snyinScotland. Emigration opens to them a now earth, if not a new heavon, for at homo they had not one chance in a million of ever owning a singlo acre. But the moat remarkable guest the Immi- rante' House over had was Nils Nysten, & Ewede, 60 years old, who had walked 337 miles, from Yfount Pleasant, in Iows, on his way to find & Nebraska homestead. He took this jour- ney on foot, becauso e had only money enough 0 pey the homestead feein the United States Lend Oftice. Iiis food tho_way, lio either worked for or begged. - Jous Prost, . Lieoper of Tmmigrants' Houso. e WORLD'S FAIR AT VIENNA. on Animpression has gono abroad thet the patent 1aws of the Austrian Empire are unfavorable to foroign inventors, a8 not giving them sufiicient protection. This fmprossion, erroncous as it undoubtedly is, might provent many Western ‘manufacturers and invontors from being repro- sonted at the World's Fair, and therefore the. tollowing letter, received by the Chicago Curtain Fixture Company from tho United States Com- misioner to the World's Fair, will bo of interost to the publi . : Orrrce U. 8. Cox's. TO INTERNATIONAL ooy vn:mn,} . Ngw Yok, Jan, 6, 1873, Chicago Curtain Fizture Company? Your favor of tho 2d inst. is received. The Austrian Patent Law is substantially the samo_ s the French, only it requires the obtainer of a* patent to manufacture the patented articlein tho Austrian domsins within ono year from the dato of the potent. In view .of the Exhibition, the Austrian Parlisment has paesed & granting to exhibitors & certificato of protection, equal to » full patent, for the entire tima of tho Exposi- tion and for two months longer, B Daron Schwarz, tho General Manager of the ZExhibition, writes in regard to this as follows: A law hos been passed by both Houses of the Relch- sruth, granting, without any fees whatever having to be paid for thom, protection certificates to euch exhibi- 1ors us may apply for them, aud which, I think, fully answers the circumstances of the case, As tlie inventor exhibiting o mew_invention has tlierefore, gratis protection during {lio Exhibition, an 28 lio can, after the Exhibition, take a patent, which costa 21 florina (10) per annum, you can seo thiat theso riling oxpennes could mot b an objection for an to- ventor o take part in the Ehibion. Tho inventor, by Lhis fact, also has two years before he must work his patont, and he can_easily get one o £Wo years moro; 60 that in cxhilitor who wishes to protect the gnads be exhibits against imitation, can enjoy this protection threo or four years beforo Works {ng out his patent in Austria. England haa thoroughly investigated this mat~ ter, and bas bacomo convinced that the protec- tion is completo. 1t is 8aid upon good authority that all the clamor sbout this originates with a ring of patout brokers, who are opposod to hav~ ing inventors come in direct _contact with pur- chiasers, or get their patents withont paying fees ta them. Hoping that you will not allow any such res- son to discoursge you, I remain, respectfully, your obediont eervant, War. Marss, United States Commissioner, otc. —_—— WATAGA COAL. WATAGA, TIL, Jan. 14, 1673, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: . B Bim: Thero is nothing essentially different in this village from others of its size on the line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, excopting its being the most importsnt—and, in fact, the only—shipping point for cosl in Knox County, which is ono of the most popu- lous counties in tho State. The Lathrop Miniug Company have rocently sunk o shaft 85 feot deep, at the bottom.of which they find the gamo vein' of coal ‘that has for tho last fif- teen years boen worked by drifting into the hills adjoining town. Thia vein is four feet thick, and is reckoned by the State Geologist to be the best in tho Stato,—extonding north through Henry and -Rock Ieland, and east into Stark and Bureau Counties. The sbaft of fhe Lathrop Company is abont half a mile from town, close by tho railroad track, on S.@. Dean’s land. It is soven by fourteen feot in the clear, and the Company aro going to put in an ongine to hoist the cosl with. The dumps will be made high enough £o s to unioad on board the cars, as ¢ railroad _company are 'going to put iz. side-track. The Lathrop Campany have a Joase on the coal fiom Mr. Dean athalf s cent .| per bushel, and the Company are at all the ex- pense. J. M. Holyoke, Peter Dolan, R. AL Campbell, Ralph Thompaon, 8. G. Harkness, John Russell, John Parkinson, and John Taylor are all minmng coal for the trade. James Frame, of Burlington, Iows, hasa leasaon V. Nation'a bank; most of his cosl he ships, also buying largely from other banks to ship, be- sides what 1s sold in tha country and wagoned to Galeaburg, whichis nine miles from here. Eighty t0 100 car-loads aro shipped every month. For biscksmithing, the Wataga coslis the best 10 bo had in this part of the country, and is used more extensively, perhaps, than any other throughout the grester portion of Iowa. Brown's Corn-Planter Works, at Galesburg, And the ‘Galecburg Gas Company mostly use the coal. ‘Thers is moro corn cribbed hero at the present time than there has been at any previous time in the Inst ton years. Twenty-two cents is the ‘price paid, . ‘RAILROAD NEWS. . Snow on the Union Pacific -~ ---Ralroad. - - The New System of Snow Pro- tection, and What Has Led to Xt O3Ama, Jan, 11, 1873, To the Editor of The Chizago Tribune : Sm: fn the summar of 1871 the writer spent several weeks on the Union Pacific Rosd, atopping o day or two, and, in & fow instances, several days, at the more interesting localities. On the mountain division, the most striking among the improvements then in progress ro- lated to o syatom by which it was cxpected that tho numerous snow-sheds erected during the construction of the road would bo almost wholly disponsed with. The management al- ready approciatod the snow problem, and wero dealing with it vigoroualy, andin such manner a8 the observutions of the pioneers for many years, and their own experience sinco the open- ing of tho road, suggosted as the most adoquate., In March, 1869, during the conatruction of this portion of.the road, and before its equipment was ndequate evon fo known emorgencies, tho line was blockaded for twenty-eight daya; and tho sheds and fonces orected during the geason following were fully oxpected to preclude the ‘possibility of any sorious blocksde in the futare. THE BYSTEXM FIDST ADOPTED. g The result, during the winter of 1869-'70, was ontirely satisfactory, the only delay occasioned by the snow being one of twelve hours. Mean- while, tho general courso of the enow-storms and wind-currents continued to be noted, and all tended to verify the rule that “winter in earnest " was not to be looked for bofore Februa- Ty or March; also, that winter winds and storms camoinvariably from one generaldirection. These conclusions wero, however, rodely disproved by the groat storm—or, rathor; series of storms —of tho winter of 1871-'72. It exceeded in severity all storms previously known; it came two or threo months earlier, and its direction was ex-, actly opposito to that which had already ob- tained, and egainat storms from which adequate protection had, it was supposed, been provided. The conclnsion had been arrived at that snow- fences were superior to sheds, and during the working sesson of 1871 forty miles of fence Lad been put up. Arrangements had also beon 'made, aud work was in progress, looking to the substitution of fences for shods along the entire division, oxcopt at the two summit stations, In place of tho sheds, cuts wore to be excavated,. and those already existing were to be enlarged to o width of about sixty feot; and these were to bo planked, on tho storm-side, with o systom of parallel lines of fenco that should form 6 perfect barrier against the snow. On several of thess cuts, excavation was in progress at tho dato of our visit; and a singlo specimen will serve to illustrate tho difficulty and cost of the work. On June 16, 1871, work bogan ona cut 300 feet in longth, and on Sept. 11 it was enlarged from its original width of 20 feet to a uniform width of 55 feet, and to an sverago dopth of 12 feot. During the month of August, 9,000 car loads had been taken out; and of this more than one-half had been blasted from the rocky sido of the cnt, There woro employed on this work twenty men, and the oxpense amount- od to 33,000 per month. It wasby work such ss this—clow, diffcalt, and coatly—that it was hopod to dispense with snow-sheds at all tho cuta except thosest the two great summits of range over which the road passed. B © * LAST WINTER'S BLOCEADE. The Aesistant Superintondent of the road, s man thoroughly qualified by energy, endur- auce, and knowledge of the = physical characteristics of the road, for the emergency which Iay bofore him, had started, Dec. 18, 1871, on a stated tour of inspection. Hs en- countered the great storm at Hillsdalo, but sue- deeded in pushing through to Laramie, opening the road to that place. Bafors a single train, however, could run over this portion of the road, the storm was renewed with unexampled fiercencss, and finally became contiruous from Choyenne to Rawlins, 200 miles. It thus kept on without intermission until Jan, 2, 1872, Dur- ing this whole period, night and doy, a3 woll a8 in o still later severs storm, there was an inces- sant ‘battle of tho giants” all along the line. Hero wore drifts, thirty feet deep, packing fall the heaviest cuts, as fast as the largest force that conld work dug and plowed it out; thero, tho snow covered the low- bod for miles, in s solid mass, which had to be cut transversoly with tronches eight feet apart, so that tho snow- plows could remove it block by block. The packing of the snow was its most extraordinary festure. It had neither been frozen into an icy mass, nor becomo ‘mixed with 8and, as stories in vogue reprosented. It had fallen, not in ¢ flakes,” but in crystals, minute-. liko atoms ; and these, cold and dry, sunkinto & mass like that of the finest white sand on tho beach. Blocks of it wero taken to Laramic and weighed by Dr. Lotham, and it was found that this dry enow was two-thirds the woight of golid ice. The denaity of the mass is strikingly goon in the fact that freguently in pushing through the snow the locomotive left the rails 2and ran up upon the bed covering the track.’ It was this fino snow filling tho air like s frosty fog, but falling in no great volumo, which,— carried frooly by the wind to any distance,—on enco untering some object at length sccumu- latod in sufficient quaotities. to engulf it. Again and sgain the snow-plow wes forced through; the snow still drifted over the track to the lflf\mr level of the second bank; and this third and deeper drift was plowed throagh—the result being & snow-cat 16 feet in depth, and 450 foot in length, Let me illustrate a etill moro striling occurrence. On the side: from which the storm came were threo lines of snow-fence sovon feet high—the first, 125 feet from the road, and the other with tho eame interval be tween. The car ropresented as on the main track was a portion of the train standing ona side track. The sweeping snow, arres by tho outside fenco, drifted up fo its top, and was then swept over, filling the space between tho fenco and eloping down to the rosd-bod. ~There, on the hard sur- faco of this -bank, & second fenco was arected over the outside one. Against this the wind piled the suow to the ' top, and then swept it over, as before, forming a sloping bed from tho higher lovel, and_extending across the’ track. A third fonce was then erected above the other two, and over tho top of this, twenty-one feet above lhgegrannd, the snow again swept, and formed s bed of tho ssme slopo extonding far beyond the road on the other side, and com- pletely covering the cars standing on the side- track. The prastical resulta of thoss experiences aresoen in the system which the management bave entered upon the past. summer, on a large 2and exponsive sale, and with confidence in ita sdequacy that the winter's record, so far, has fully justified. THE NEW SYSTEX ADOPTED. Observation along the exteuded portions on which the bed lay, from & few inches to three feot abovo the natural surface, showed the Iat- ter height to be the minimum roquisita to_ give sufficient freedom and space for the wind to keep Lhe bed clear of tho snow. As respecta the cuts, the slope which the snow took in the above in- stancos—7 in 125—wes nutarally euggested as the proper one for the sides of tho excavation. The trao protection, then, lsy : First, in raising tho track, both on the open surface and in the cuts, to o height of at least three feot ; secondly, in widening tho cats at the bottom sufiiciently to ive freodom and space to the snow, on either end sloping the sides 7.in 125. ~ For cuts of modorate depth, this plan has been found to answer . withont the: use of sheds: in the case of deep cuts, however, the widening and sloping * of . which ‘would be very expensive, snow-sheds have bean reiained or supplied. Both Superintendent Bickels and’ Assistant Superintendent Clark ac- wrdm;,ly becama convinced, whils “at_the front " last winter, that at least two-thirds of 2 blockaded district conld bo effactually pro- tactod by eimply raising the track ; but, as or- dinarily done, this was a work of far..too great magnitude to in s gingle season; still the necessity was urgent that the entira line be suade secureagainay the uncertain emer- [ built on & ericies of tho present winter, A eyslom was ed which should be far moro expeditions than that of texms and manasl Inbor. Tho loco- motive was utilized, to draw both - plows and scrapors, constructed on tho following simplo lan: A mossive beam, extending scross the ed from ditch to ditch, waa fitted with two igavy plows on each end and thin “gaog-plow.” d to o locomotive, was drawn at & maxi- mum rate of two miles por hour;_thelocomotive. scraper fallowed, excavating tho furrows thua made on both sides, and throwing the dirt up sgainat tho bod. Each sot of thego mavl metts Sasoqual to o forca of 200 mens ana. by this means ah nggregate of abont 100’ miles of tho bed of tho smow-rogion across and bayond Lara- 'mie Plains was raised from threo to seven foet, Cats were aleo widenod—largely by tho use of tho steam-shovel, opersted by the locomotive— ‘where their great duff.h did not ‘prectude widen- lv’:ifi The outlines of tho old nnd culn'r‘icd cuts bo essily soon. To_ protoct tho deep cats, whore foncing was deemed inadequate, miles of new and substantial sheds Lave been ian fully obviating the defocts of the old fences; and the - latter have beon thoroughly repaired, lengthenod, or robuilt of botter material. On this work” ex- clusively, s forco of 300 men waa. employed daring tho entiro season. To the snow-fences, additions amounting to sixty-five miles of tho road have boen mado ; and in many placos, and for considerublo distances, the fences avg boen placed in parallols several linos doep. o hoary ‘work of t winter matoriall maged the track ot many points; and in all such casos new iron has been Iaid, and tho track of tho entire mountaiu division has been put into better con- dition than ever bofore. At the shops of the rosd, the slroady large oquipment of enow- lows hag been increased and grestly improved. oventean plows havo beon romodelled, nnd four mammoth ones conetructed, weighing from 95 £0 60 tons, aad costivg aa averogo of 33,000 each. E PUEL AND WATER. One of the most gerious difficalties oncounter- ed last winter lay in obtaining an sdequate sup- plyof conl for exira consumption in clearing track over 8o great an extent of blockaded road. To meot any similsz_emergenicy in_fatare, the ‘storago capacity in that district bas boen in- croasad 50 per cont, by the eroction of clevan large coal-honses, whick sre kept -constantly filled, ready for siege. In this connection, men- tion mey bo mado of the arrangoments for good- ‘water supply. During the construction of the road, and in ite oporation to o recent date, we~ ter hzd to be hazled from Greon River, for all tho uscs of the road as far west as Rowling, 142 miles. A system of artesian wells is in progress, with the most satisfactory results 8o far as completed. In tho Bitter Creek Basin, four arein cperation, from 500 to 1,200 Teckin dopth,—throo carrying the water thirty fect and tho other fifteon feet sbove tho surfaco. The water obtained is pure and unfailing. The system is being oxtended east and weat of this Iocality, to all points whero the surfaco water is in anydegreo alkaline. - Evidently this water' supply is 8 sine qua non to tho efficient operation of the road in the winter. THE RESULTS. Bo far this winter, not a train has beon delay- ed on the Union Pacific Road bysnow, and there caunot possibly bo greater liability to delay on thia line, with the apparatus, offensive and de- fensive above dercribed, than thero is on roads in the aame latitude East. Indood, as the event has #o far proved, not nearly so great liability; for, on our ronds, subject to greater occasion: snow-fall, the providing of such extensive and costly worka would be well-nigh impracticable. every direction wo have had delsyed traing; and, on_ many O m tho Northeast and Northwost, _trains have been blockaded, and operations in not & few in- stances wholly susgen lod. Yet this is regarded merely as one of the probablo_incidents of win- ter oporation in the North. This fact suggests the injustice of the outery againet not only the management of the Union Pacific-Roed, but sgainst tho road itself; which was raised last winter, and has boen kept up over sinco, and the echoes of which have evon been heard in ouor city. It is well for Chicago to oxercise all rea~ sonable justico, not to say charity and forbear~ ance, toward an anterprise which has placed her in the very pathway of the world's commaerce. Of tho managers of such an entorprise ghe can—in, its Interest as well a3 her own—ask every facility and every safeguard roquisite to regalar and ready operation; but it is only fair, as it is prudent, that she go -not out of tho wsy to encoursgo competing _enterprises projected for tho benefit of rival cities, on- any ground less serions than thatof the dem- onstrated im(pmticlbility of tho effective winter. operation of her great Pacific thoronghfare, ad the storm of '71-2 occurred during the first wintor of the operation, violenco_and daration wonld have simply been accepted_ s 50 many known contingencies to be provided for. Butzs it was not kn nor oven concoived that such difficultics wers ever to be_encountered, tho railway mansgement could bo cted fo' do 10 better than those who 8o _harshiy judged it ; b “ wiso aftor the fact.” Wise after tho fact they have assuredly proved thomselves,—as tho results, 80 far, of their liberal. energetic, sud ‘well-directed efforts satisfactorily attest. - £ D. C, Broors. RELIEF OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.Y To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : 1 Bm: I sea by your columns that it is proposed 0 pass an act giving any Circuit Judge in-this State tho power, npon roquest, to hold ono of tho Branch Courts of the Bupreme Court. Affairs in that Court need relief, but tho provisions of the Constitution, and its restraints upon legisla- tive action, must not be overlooked, or wo msy make o bad mattor worse. The Constitution, Ar- ticle VI., Scction 82, says that * All officors pro- vided for in this article shall reside in tho Circait for which thoy may ba elected ;" and, reforring to tho Stato, except Cook County, section 13 provides that * One Judge ehall Lo elected for.| each of eaid Circuits by the clectors thereof.’ Now, it sacms to me that tha L:gishmro might Just as woll send & Sherif elocted for the Coun- tyof Will to do the duties of Sheriff in Coolk County, as to send, or authorize a Court to send or call, n Judge elocted for the Circuit of which Will County is part, o perform the dutios of Judgein Coois County. When tho Judgeleavesthe Circuit for which ho was clected, the judicial or- mune falls from his shoulders, and he becomes a mere private citizen, just 28 effcctnally asa Bhoriff coases to bo Sheriff when ho leaves tho county for which he was elected. _ - The practico lias been, and the law is_in the statuto boak (Revised Stalutes of 1845, Chapter 29, Rection 41, psge 162, Gross’ Btatutes) au- thorizing this interchange by Judges. And, if it were now constitutional, no further change is Tec . But, reforring to the Constitutionof 1818, under which that law was passed, Articlo 1V., Bection 4 (Groes’ Statutes, page 25), it will bo seen that there could be no doubt about the right to do g0, ‘That article provides for the ap- pointment by the Governor of Judges in goneral ‘terms, without limitation upon their residence, or saying that they are for o particular Ciroait, But possibl where, It will bo seen that Bection 1 of Article VI. provides for ‘“such Courts 23 may be created by law in end for cities and incorporated towns,” and does not limit the jurisdiction nor the num- ber of theJudges of such Courts. If this is so,” then it would be competent to croate & City Court for Chicago, or for cities having moro than 100,000 inhabitants, with ample powers and aufficient Judges to aid us in the present crowd- ed state of litigation, without re Ioflu? to the doubtful legislation proposed. T. B. Cucaao, Jan. 16, 1673, HINTS FOR EVANSTONIANS. To the Edilor of The Chicaga Tribune : Sm: Itis often remarked that people, who 8t homa are polite and courteous, when thrown among strangers on 1ailzoad trains, and at ho- tels, suddenly manifest » selfishnoss and lack of culture that is most disgusting. Why the inhabitants of the suburban fowns on tho Mil- waukee Division of the Chicago & Northwest- ern shiould thus throw off the mask in making their short daily trips it is hard to underatand; but it is none the loss true. Ladies aro some- times eo Indifferent 88 to oceupy two seats with’ thoresults of thieir day's shopping, and gentlemon may cough and throwout hints, but, als, in vain. But the most ungentlemanly thing of sll can be seen any night a8 the cars are filling at the Chicago depot. Every gentleman who enters takes n vacant seat and almost invariably the end, until yon cannot find & seat but with one maninif, A partyof ladies may enter and the rulo is that theyhave to seat themselves with the men-strangers or emigrate towards the smok- ing-car. f: in natural that men should love the society of women, but we cannot approve of this man- ner of securing it. A littlo more thoughtfulneas on the part of these regular travellers of both sexcs, and the remembranceof the fact thatit is not necessary aiwaya to ride in the last car, wonld go far to caltivate the amenities of lite and &mooth the ssperities of railroad travel. = Evaxszox. Governor Dix's health excites tome apprehen- elon among his frisads. a remedy may bo found olse-. TURNER HALL. . The New Building Inspected by Members of the Press, Description . of “the ‘Finst Tarner Hall “ in {he Country. H The Concert Rooms, Gymuasium, Club_Room,, Ete., Ete. . Yosterday morning tho representativea of the Press wero invited to_ inspect and .oport upon the progress of the workin rebuilding Turner “Hall, on North Clark street.. The feporters wero invited to lanch with tho Press Commiittes; and woro entortained in s/ manner guitablo to the oc- casion.” In fact, the lunch served to them was on a par with any similar enterteinment ever of- fered to tho representatives of the preas by the Germans ix this city, and that is, perhaps, say- ing tho vory lenat that conld bo eaid of it. That they atinted nothing in entortaining their guests uay be supposed by every one familiar with tho customs of the hospitabla gentleman to whom was entrusted the care o? the reporters. Afler refreshing themsolves in a most sumo- *nons manner, tho reporters visitod and ingpect- ed tho various details of the now Turner Hall, and the result of their observations is most flat- tering testimony in behalf of the intelligence and tirclesa zeal of the Buoilding Committee of the Chicago Turngemeinde. It'will bo remembered that Tarner Hall was burned to the ground in the great fire, and the majority of the members of the Chicago Tarn- gemeindo ecattorod to the four winds of heaven. This was & circumstance, however, which tho mombers rogarded =3 merely. secondsry, the primary consideration being the immediato resurrection of their building npon & acalo of magnificonce com- ‘mensurato with the futuro of the city. Stock was issued and purchased by soms of the most distinguished and substantial citizens ‘of Chi-~ cago, and plans woro drawn for tho erection, upon tho old site, of o building which should contain all tho varions depertmonts of the Turner Society, and a fow rooms which shonld yield s proper rental. On July 16, the corner-stone of the new bunild- ing was Inid, in the presence of the architects, Aessrs. Bauer & Locbnitz, and a large con- course of citizons. Tius was the first step.” Bince then the Building Committes havo pressed forward the work, until to-day the building is nearly completed, and the Socisty has s place for ita Bunday concerts as well as for tho varions purposes for which the building is needed. . To describe the structure minutely would be rathora difficult task, insemuch o8 tho plans aro rather complicated. It conaists, actually, of two distinct buildings, connected by meana of & third, and a description ia thorefore & work of ‘moro than ordinary intricacy. e The main building fronts on Clark street, upon. tho old site, 101x60 feet, is four stories and base- ‘ment in height, the front of plain stone work- manship. The rear building is of brick, 2753126 fect, and the third or intermediate section of the building is 25x80 feect. The Iast-named section serves the purposes of a stairway and ante-rooms, connecting the two main portions of tho hall, and is wall lighted and finished. To describe the building, s before stated, ia & vork of great difficulty, but an ides of tho arrangement may . be gathered from tho follow- ing: o " Tho basement of the building is divided into three sections. The most northerly contains a.| billinrd hall, well lighted, lofty, and spacious. The apartment adjoining is a beer hall, also blessed with plenty of light and air. The third division is divided np into various apartments, A doorway Ieads trom this portion of the building into the rear, and opens”upon the gymnasiam., Here aro fitted up tho various apparatus for tho dovelopment of the muscle of:the rifling gengra-- tion, - Parallel bars, rings, horizontal bary, 1ad- ders, poles, swinging polos, stationary ladders, swinging ladders, horses, and the other mechan. ical contrivances'of o first-class gymnasium, are srrangod. here with consummata skill, Every. new method has been iutroduced into this gym- nasium, and if there is any one in the comatry suporior to that in Taroor Hall; it must indeed e s maguificent affaif. In details it i3 perfect. The stirrups, for instance, swing upon & puiloy, and can bo raised or lowered to sait the stature® of the athloto. The horizontal' bars &re raised and lowered by a now patent, and need ot be Qisplaced. 'the ropes aud ~othor - apparatus .{:fi “m"fib fized - in the a iron l:un:s that span the -gymnasium, and are as stoutly artangod a8 tho pacamida. | In fack, 6040001y ROY thing is wanting to make thia the most perfect gymoasium in the country. . o, Making one's way upstaire- thro:’}h the junec- tion or middlo eection of the building, one is coufronted by the main entranco to tho hall, a rich and commodious staircase, under which aro two ticket-oflices. Horo aro arranged various rooms necessary to the Socioty. - Leading to the gallery of the gymnasium is & modest doorway, ‘whick is quite adequate for its uses, - Going up- staira to thp second floor, one i confronted with two Iarge doors, leading 1mto the concert-. room, and one private door, on s line with tho othiers, opening into tho ladies’ dressing-room. On either side of the stairway is o suite. of rooms which the Society have determined. to Tout for club prposss, such us singiog societics. Fronting on Clark street is a magnitficent circu- iar window, which lichts up the whole of this floor and ornaments the building. This window fronts upon a porch, from whirh, .in_time of noed, speeches, political and otherwisé, aro to be delivered. Ou tho third floor of the main . building nre the rooms devoted to_ the Socicty. There aro tho library and roading-room, tho card-room, and the room devoted to the ladies and gentlemen of the Socicty, a sort af general, parlor, “for talking and flirting,"” na one of the gentlemen suggested. On {ho ssme floor are the wash-rooms, closets, and similar apartmente for the use of tho Society. . On tho fourth floor, from which & beautifal view of the lake may bo obtained, aro the rooms devoted to the uses of the various Masonic So- cictios, lodges, and meeting rooms. Thoy nre lnm%u\l similarly to thoso of the Society, hav- ing a library room in common, fronting fo the east, a8 woll aa Iadies’ retiring rooms, fitted up with all modern contrivances. for the happinoss and comfort of tho gex. Going dovwn stairs, once more, and_entering by one of the two doors mentioned above, wo find oneeelf in the concert hall, a room which haa no parallelin tho city for the purposes for swhich it is designed. Ita ontiro longth is 126 fect, it width 75 feet. The stage is 23 feet in depth. Tho main flcor is capable of seating botween two and threo thonsand peoplo, and the gallery 1,000 at the lowest, estimate. There aro threo tlors of seats in tho gallery on eithor ide, and eight tiers in the rear, 80 that betweon threo &nd four thousand %ersana can, on a stretch, bo accommodated in the concort hall. There'aro to bo 350'lights in this magnificent room, 200 {from the central chandelier, which is eimilar to that in Aiken's Theatre, and 150 arranged through the hall. Lesding from the main hall are retiring-rooms for private parties, arrang- ed in the best posaiblo siyle. There are two doors = leading from the auditorium to the stage for the bensfit of the or- chestra, though these arenot mneeded. A door connects tho staga with the main etrance, for the accommodation of the performers on the stago. Beneath the stageare dressing rooms for jadies and gentlemen, divided by a rcom de~ signed to contain the chaira and tables, in case it shonld be thonght necessary to empty tlie main otk i the gl of tho gymnasiam f the Flush with the galleryof the nm ja t dining room of the Society, s spacious apartment richly fitted up for the convenience of the mem- bers.. Beneath it is the kitchen, and apart from it the carving room, eonveniwd)y] attached to it. This is & more outline of the building, which isarranged in & manner reflecting the greatest creditupon the architects, Messrs, Bauer & Loebnitz, a8 well s upon ' the gentlemen who have acted a8 the Bnflm Committee of the Bociety. They deserve especial mention for their untiring efforts. Theirnames are 53 follows : Jacch Hoser, President of the Bociety ; Frank dewomfu:th, Tressurer of the Bociat{; Law- rence Mather, Financial Secretary ; Carl -Meger, Corresponding Secretary ; Peter Han Al Georgo, Francis Lachnor, and John C. Miller. - Thess gentlemen are deserving of the higheat commy ion for the way in_which they have pushed forward their work. The total cost:of the building ia 9125000, of which $86,000 bas alrcady been paid, and §15,000 is due from stockholders. The affeirs of the institation havo beon conducted upon the most liberal gealo, and tho Society is o & most promising sis. The design of the Society is to make their not nnlyssnnnnm institution, hn:.;pnbu»g:s They have subscribed their,mcnoy, sud have given their time apd attention: 1r aim is to educate sll who come among them. They donot desire to'be oxclusive, but wiak to do all fligy can for the benefit of socisty at largo. “Iho opaning oxercizes of the hall will bo upon s scale similar to that -upon which the Germans of Chicago o overy- .thing. On Saturdsy oveuing the gymna. sinm . will bo. openod to tho Bocioty with a brifliant performance. On Sunday afternoon - the keya of tho hall will be formally surrenderad to tho Tungemeinds by the Socrotary of the Bailding Committeo, Ar. Moyer, and will bo takon by the President of the Sociaty, Mr. Boser, atter which a epeech will be delivered fo German, and an oration in English by Alr. Washington Hosing, ' In tho evoning thora will be a concert by the Mmnnerchorof the Socicty. On Monday evening thers will ba a grand ball, given by tha membersof the Socioty: ~The particulars will ba found in tho programmo .to be given in Tz Trmuxs to-morrow and Sunday. it e, 5T THE STORM IN MINNESOTA. Appanling . Rumors — Settlers Swept Away in Batalions—-Eundreds of Cattle and Ylorses Lost, - t _Frou the St. Paul Press, Jan.14. As intimated in tho Press immediately after £ho sutsidonce of the terrible storm of last weex, the record of tho disastrs to life and property resulting therefrom ia thoroughly ‘sickening to contsmplate. o every soction of the Stale contribates a portion of the harrowing deta: tha entira westorn frontier of Minnesots sendy up a return of dead, missing, and maimed, which eecms moro like the carnage of battle than the rosult of any crratic and wonderful comrmotion of the elements. The accounts agroa in zapre. scnting the storm as travolling with remarkable velocity, and enveloping thosa catght in its desdly meshes, almost bofora they conld tum their steps homeward. Ty Dlustrate the power of the wind in cxposed localities tho stztement is mzdo that sloigha wero overturned and mon prostrated as though thoy were nothing moroe then straws in the path of the gale. The dostrnction of life ig grestly attribatable to the sud.enness of its ap- penrance and ita tremendous motion—the degres of cold not being a8 great os in many precedin 1t, but which Lave not mads a titho of the awf: “havoe. Thore is little room to doubt that the major portion of the list of casualties and deaths was completed in all its saddening chaptery, bo- tween 4 o'clock on that fatal Tuesdny afternoon and chnelgxll morning, and as but fow could be sa fool-hardy 25 to vonture on journeys whila it was raging, it is reasonable to supposo that the death aud suffering ara confined to those surprised by it while at a distance from homo. A few well-authenticated casos of freezing oc- curred near 8t. Pater, and mention has alroady been mado of them.- Gentlemen who returned bero yesterdsy stato that it is yet impossiblo to -make anything. like & correct- gstimato of _those ‘who have perished-or becomo digabled. Narrow eacapes from death and permanent infury are too numerous for more than a general rofercnce, anditis fearod thak hundreds of cattlo a horses have been deatroyed thronghont tho line of frontier scttlorents extending from the Red River of the Nortl to the Missouri. 5 Mr. Drako, in charge of the tlogragh, offca at Mankato, stated, on Bunday, that the ss tounding total of thirty-four persons had been returned as frozen to desth in the settlements along the line of the*8t. Paul and Sioux City alone, during the prevalenco of - the storm, whilo's number of additional are reported miss: ing whose fates are unkuown. New Ulm roporta prosent a scene whick can- not be adequately Eictuxed. A men-who leit Nicollet for New Ulm at 2 o'clock on Tues- day afternoon was found frozeu dead in hia sleigh. Anothor man was_found frozen, standing by his barn door, near Ulm. 3 Two.moro are reported to have been found dead.” Another in supposed to- be lost: His team came Liowme withont him. It is feared that mang moro faal cases will be reportad, as thero were over o hundred teams in Now Ulm thst started out.in -various directions for howms, as the storm came on. = 7 $ . A school boy at Now Ulm left school abott 8 ‘o'clock Tuesday, and. ou Friday afteraoon the body of the poor lad was found on tho wind- beaton prairics, eight miles from his sorrowing home. Another man was found dead on-the railroad track between St. Poter and New Ulm. A numbor of cases of freezing have been-ro- undsd on tho ;naxln ling' D'f :.he Bt.mP.llé.l & I:fi 0ad—some of them in tele; ic despat &nd others by private m“ffl’m._ Z:gugy: of “these are undoubtediy exaggerated,” but-bare facta aro enough to:borrify and appsl. The storm in the vicipity of Litchficld"is thus de- ecribed in the last issue of the Lodger: - ““About moon the rain changed to snow, but the air was still warm and damp, with the wind in tho south. About 3 o'clock the wind changed to-tho north. In loss than twenty minutes it changed from warm spring weather to tho worst wintry storm we over witnessed. - - _ - %1l wind blew a perfect hurricsne, and the smow filled tho air 8o that & person could nobses moro thau twenty feet. A “The morning being &0 pleasant many far- ‘mers wers in town,” dnd many of them started for Lhome befora the storm came up, and doubt- \less suffered, many porhaps beitig frozon, for it seemed as thongh it were impossible for & man to be ont in the storm for half an lour withon$ freezing to death. Thoso who were in town -whon the storm had €ot In romained, thero boing o dozen or fifteen Scandinavisns, who elept in “Heard's store, besides many who stopped-at tha hotels and other places in the villago." Arrangements havo been made for special des- atches from all portions of the State, and it'is n?nd that such information will bo received as to justify the prosent -expectation that the loss of life has not becn 08 groat o4 current rumors indicato i¢ £o bo. Enough ia known, however, to establish the charactor of the lato hnrricano of snow, a8 tho most torriblo and _ disastrous which has over swopt over the Northwest sinco its first Ecttio- meat. - 3 * Among the casoa reported Iast avoning by gen- tlomon arriving from the interior of tho Siate, aro tho following ; 2Ir. W. G. Clarke, travelling salosman for P. F. McQuillan, weathored tho storm at & -station near Aloxandris, and pro- nounees it a9 farions beyond description. Be- tweon Alexzndria and Forgus Falis, eight per- Bons are roported frozon. Cattle have been found dead or buried in -drifis, whose. owners aro still missing. One woman living near Alex- andria remained two nights ond one day ins sloigh and was found alive, but so terrt 1frozcn that death i3 certain. Her husband an father, who started with ‘her on Tuesday, wers found dead noar the spot where sho was discov- A achool teacher at Judson, Blue Earth Com- ty, Hugh Jones—and ho descrves the zofa: to permit Lia scholars to leave the fchiool houss, aud Lopt them there forty-sight houts, in eatoty and comtort—procuring 1 and bod clothing from a neighbor named JohnJ. Griffiths. Thisis a cheering example of finod Judgment, interest in the safety of tho Liltle ones under his chargo, and_courago to provids for thoir wants oven ak the risk of suffering 8ad danger. Thero wore from thirty to forty th dron in tho school—and tho number affords aa indication of how much Mr. Jones had to do, to clothe, feed and warm them. A N Ono man living near Judeou laft bis horses In a piece of woods, and eaved himaclf by remain- iogin a straw stack twonty-four hours. 0z horse was frozen. 2 A man driving a yoko of oxen from Lake Crye tal to Batternut Valley, found partial safety i3 stack, bat tho cattle waro frozez. R G A Strange Phenomenon. = From the Bates County (Mo.) Democrat, Dee.9. Daring the holidaya -rjo(pm)dn visit; to Crescent Hill, 2nd, while there, sa something which, but for the undeniablo testimony produced, W8 should bo obliged to pronounco o deception. As it is, there ia not the least possible doubt of there being any deception 2bout it. The carios ity is nothing less than a ball of hair, somewhst Iargor than man's doublo fist, whicl was lekes, ¢ 3 post mortem oxaminztion, from the body Mra. Montgomery, who died some mouths siacs. 1t was located enticely outeide of the stomsc3 and intestines, so that it had po comues tion with the food eaten, and_ hence must bave been produced by soma sction. of tho syziem itaelf. Bomie of the heirs aro three or four fec! long, and wero rolled up into a kind of tuit- is tho strangest.sight wo havo aver beheld, £ we beliave, is tho eighth orninth well-estsb casa of the {'M t hztgm grer o‘.;::"B .mzr‘;_ Dunn, together with tho othor physicisns W wero present at the post-mortem examinstion, taking stops to have this casc put on record, 80 2310 bg of benefit to the profession hereaftsr Tho disesse was of long standing—the had been aflicted for over twenty-five yeA, pithout haviog any suspicion of the natars o ent her ailm i i : —~The editor of a Wyandotte (Ksnsas) pspet . asks his subscribers £0 overlook the fact that b3 will ““not be able to get ont any paper week,” awing to the fact that he + momentsdly expects ammfliiygqng Iady, who is goicg % @ him out sleigh-riding.” W B — £ 3 !