Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1873, Page 2

L 2 -_—_———— oo THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, IB73. — e e e e WASHINGTORN. The Life of the Governmentals ---Congress Gnaweth a File. ! Faces which' Come and Go--- === - Caldwell---The Incorrigi- - ble BPComb. New Road from Washington to Chicago. - From Qur Own Correspondent. : WAEITNGTON, Jan. 14, 1873, They are going to put up a plank house for an fnangaration ball, to cost $27,000, and have the West Point Cadots here for the first time. ‘Ton dollars ia the price, and it is a blessed prisilege to pay it. The Postmaster who does not preacnt himselt, let Lim b anatlema. FOR AULD. LANG EYNE. Au interview with Pinchback, tho yellow fol- Jow whohes been raised to some unscrupulous importance by the precipitated turning of things ' upside down in Louisians, reports him a8 ssying that Grant and Warmoth have s purely personal contest. That is true’ itbegan when Warmoth was upon McClernand's staff, before Vicksburg. Warmoth was accused of seying and of printing jpeubdtdinate things about McClernand’s rival, snd, when Warmoth left the amy for & tiumo on extonded leave, bhe was cashiered by Gront’s prompting - for absence. Ho had the pereeverance, however, to bave himself re- instated, which was snother causo of offence, and every step of success ho has made since has been looked upon as porsonal presumption ot Washington. For this, and for nothing elso, hes Daurell boen sustained, and tho. Attorney General, against his milder judgment, Kas beon propelled to telezraph coareo despetches to the citizens of Louisiana, saying that they need not pat themsclvos to the trouble. of viaiting Wash- ington with thoir humblo petition. _Thore is no crime liko disputing the victories of Cresar! EFFECTS OF EXPOSULE ON PUBLIC BUSINESS, The Credit Mobilier scandal has had the effect 1o derango the public business, and relatively strengthen the Executive end of the Capital. ‘We hear tho White House coterie say. . +*We don't care what they find ou} about theso follows up there. We waut themto have their turn {7 Henco, nobody implicated over 80 remotely in bribery or swkward dealing in Congress pos- gessea tho nervo to Tefute sny positions of {he Executive. Whenever the National Legie- lature loses character, thero is & corre- sponding enhancement of Executive powers; but the effect of & wanton and arbitrary use of the Executive patronage upon Congress is to make slips like the Credit Mobilier corruption essy. The Congressman’s high spirit is humble, aod Lo is made & snesk and a conspirator to se- curehis sppointments, Thus deflowered, it is comparatively easy for Mr. Ames to como along with his little stock-certificate and dobauch the Congressman again. . . .1 met a Congresemen. from Peonsylvania last waek, and I said : “ They are raising up this old (!horptelnuing fraud again, as if they meant to Tt 4 Yes," ho replied ;. *“and the Credit Mobilier expoeure will expedito its passage. Mr., Ames stopped the claim as it proceeded toward its pas- ango before, but now_ho is tengled up in the Credit Mobilier, and Judge Black is counsel both for M'Comb and Chorpenning. I am afraid,| there will bo & compromise; that Dawes will not oppose Chorpenning's claim, while Black vill et him up on crogs-examination. in the Mo~ bilier matter. i Idonot believe such statements of either Mr. Dawes or Judge Black; but the present scandal makes it possible to obtain credence for thoss supposititions statements, . H The people of the sevoral districts have it in their power to exerciso a strong control over every Congressman, by addressing him in the lan, e of .advice or remonstrance, -urging con%:i:!nfiouu action upon the culpablemin tho * Credit Mobilier case. ousands of letters were poured in here during the Impeschment trial, from unconscionable ofice-bandits, and such re- spectable persons as they could affect with their clamor, urging President Johnson's conviction, with or_ without cause. such letters were withheld at the ‘wrong time, and forwarded at the praper timo, wo should have more responsi- blo Congresses. . 3 i JORN B. HENDERSOX, : who voted Not Guilty on Andrew Johnson's trial, i8 in the city. e is prosperous and hnnd.aoms, and congratnintes’ %imeelf on his voteat the Impeachment, saying. that, had the Wade party then succeeded, the Government would ‘have run to Tophet “on a down grade without brakes.” HOBOAX, RE 3 ‘The venerable relict of the Impeachmont trial, who bought all thoso store-clothes that his l‘nmflg’ might witnees ~ his installation Bs esident, been in ‘' the city for somo time. Age creeps upon him 28 it does upon tho grizzly bear, makin fim grizzlier and more porcupinal. The childish vacancy which now and then steals upon that hard, denunciatory, cettle-drover's face, is like thie dimples on tho outlaw’s child, staying but minute, and giving place to the hereditary feroc- ity of a predatory freedom. Everything has had it uge in time, and rothing is 80 mournfal 88 to see these old fellows, who lost tho tide at the sitting on' tho flats, and wondering if they can live long enough to bo flosted off again. X0 PRIVATE COMMIESIONS. 4 The Sonato camo very near doing a good thing Dy setting tho precedent of appointing a Com- mission of three citizens to ‘examine into tho Louisiapa muddle. If this'was done moro fro- quentiy the bills would be Lightor and tho truth plainer. But, at tho vame of John M. Palmer as one of the Commiesioners, the Senate withdrow into its hell, and sat down in ihe old-fashioned sy, right in Washington,to summon witnesses aud sustain the Administration. - 3 . OLIVER P. MOBTON, This Senator, since hia re-clection, has won tho good_opinion of very. many -who formerly clessed him with thetoadies of the Patronage- Giver. His management of the Caldwell inves- tigation’bas bean -effective, and his manner of reachiyg the meat of tho cso is in ctrong con- trast to Judge Poland’s dilatory and unincisive oxathination. Yeetorday (Monday) Polend was® elower and mora inefiicicnt than ever, mud, whils young Neiizon; Brooks’ son-in-iaw, waé blunder- -iog away, in 2 fashion to make iscry sympa- thetie, the aspect of tha Committos waspositively Ingubrious. - 3 . THE HO: How a buman Leing can de-iro o keep a eeat .inthe Senate after-thc exhibit ‘made of . Cald- well'n casc, is amatter of wondor.. And, if tho State of Kansas hasa conecence, or, indeed, o Commonealth can possess the senso of shame, with whet humilistion must it peruse thi __and auswer in ita_wounded scnsibi negio of ** Blcading Kansas,” again | - . Nothing i rer than' that the politician of Kansas, relying upon tho political bigatryof * < the people there, have cut the honors of the Btato into vesture, and” with its raiment havé taken lote,” The Stato-where Freedom won tho first bottlo over Slevery is thus-politically in tho ehambles as-traly 03 amy carpet-begged Stata of tho Son(l. _Pomaroy will bo elocted agsin. Tho sirapping - horse-trsdor, Cerney, will keop bis Inclc-s Caldwell. vill *not*_oven farnish bi enough indignation for an article in the Kansas AMagazine, wfi:’:‘h is chiefly takon up with; tho horrors of the Slavery period. C GG it TIE INDIAN'S FEL-STMTLE. bn The Cherokee Chiaf, William P, Bo!a‘.l Boya thist the decision of thé Supremo Court, declar- - ing that the titlo tolauds in the Cherokeo coan- trv is vested in fec-simple with tao Indians, and tliat, thercfore, Joy & Co. bought the Nemiral Lands legally, **is tho. only high-minded de jon {ho Suproms -Courtever. made, o carniny i the Indians.” I asked XMr.. Ross what hie thought of ~the decision of : the Supreme Court in the case of Boadinot, who contended that the rovenuo lavs of tho United States did not-resch Lis retreal inthe Indian couniry. . Ho aid that decision was a’grest neurce of gorrowto the Cherolies Nation, which hired counsel fo sustain-Bonditot: The elfect of the Iattsr decisien is to éstsblish the prece- dent that a law-of Congresy éon ropeal _mExdxm‘ i treaty, or any prévions Jaw. JFames Brooks iakeeping up of the fares of call- ing in the War Dapartment records to show that Henry 8. M'Comb can."bo made anything ‘like * what ke baldordash of Brooks descrihed. - Mr. Brooks must now impeach Mr. Crane also, who £wears point blank that he drew his check and 18 | remonstrance draft for 10,000 for Mobilier stock which netted $25,000. SCENE IN A COMMITTEE-ROOM. To s young man concealod on a sofasenter Oskes Ames and John B. Alley, diligently tordied by two newspaper-roporters. Ames grunts, and fills a whole leather'sofs. Alley takes a chair, grunts, and stows away his coat-tails to savo them from wear and tear. 4 Alley: “Oh, dear! Ames, I knew that great heart of yonra would get you into trouble. I knew that groat heart of yours would be our Tuin. I told you that your gencrosity was too sbundant and your impulses too noble. Didn't I tell youso? I want these gentlemen to_hear +) it said." J Ames: ‘Oh, Alley! I can't remember every- thing you remind me'of. I believe you did say eomething of that description.” ‘Alloy: “Yon hear him admit it, gentlemen. Ah! Mr. Ames bhas afoolieh, noble heart, He ants to be doing good, even when it is danger- ous to do so. at _scoundrel M'Comb now sloats in his distross. Mr. Ames is a perseccuted ero, and, a8 I have often said before, desarves & monument high 23 the shaft on Buaker Hill.” Here enters an old, whining Virginia railroad man, 01d Whinoy: * Aeister Ames, I called to sco Jou wasn't going fo help mo out with vour beeription to tho Catoctin & Occoguan Hail- Ames (ve r): “No. Protty time to ask mo urn;g:;bs)cription‘ Go to ArComb. Ho's got plenty of money. He ruining me. I beliove Le's o friend of yours 2" X Old Whiney : *‘ No, Mr. Ames, I don't think Thighly of Mr. A'Comb. Iio refused to help me with my enterpriso.” ea: ‘ Whot's that? M'Comb's o d—d scoundrel, isho? Alley, remember that!” it sl 0! ‘Alley : * Yes, Mr. Amés, I belioved, by look- ing et Whinoy's intelligent head, that such must be his opinion. Ho szys that M'Comb ig a sconndrel, gentlemen” (to the raporters). Ames: *‘Whiney, come around and sce me to- night. Maybo I can lot you have ten thousand or 80, in your enterprise. But romember to ro- mark to “your friends thal, in your opinion, Ar'Comb i a scoundrel.” CUBRENT DOTS. The cost of tha public printing for 1872 was 21,802,343, Of the Report of Agriculture, 236,- 075 copies wero isaued ; of the Ku-Klux Roport, 40,000; and of no other book moro thau 25,000. The blank books for the uso of tho Government, printed_and bound at this ofiico, cost 2lond $1,036,307. 5 he'new State Department—one of the most costly and extoneive edifices yot designed in this country—makes ulxuld%' a formidnble showing, and the basemont and first-story elevations and walls are up. This edifice will “searcoly bo well under way before the rising clsmors for a new Whito House will require an appropriation, and it is; perhaps, 18 well to yicld gracefully &s to bl and still submit. ~ If another Executive sion is to bo built, let it be a homo on this occasion, and, not like thp present edifice, neith- er a palace nor a dwelling. = FROJ CHICAGO TO THE CAFITAL. Woarein tho midst of competitive railroad movements. The Baltimore & Ohio corporation ia at Georgetown with all its engineer-corps, looking for new routo to tho South, having been cut off from tho Orznge & Alexandria Rail- road by the Washington Board of Public Works; it proposes to bridgo the Potomac at Gaorge- town, and make that growing suburb a statlon between Baltimore and the South. 'T'his great, and conservativaly grent, Lighvey had & revenud of above $m,soo,3'o Iast yoar, wiich was sn in- crease of above one million; and the Parkers- burg Branch took 827,000, or twice as much as tho Washington City Branch. Tho working ex- ponses wero about 58 per cont, and the net oarn- ines amounted to tho handsome fignre of $4,637,- ‘000. The sinking fund obliterated 3170,000 of goldloanin London, und $1,450,000 of Belti- more City loan, ond the Company has the gigantic ~surplus of §26,950,000. Only 9 per cent is divided, and the excess thrown into tho rosd aud its oxtensions, which Iatter stesdily approach Chicago and New York. Within ocighteon months the 260 miles of rail will be laid between Plymonth, Ohio, and Chicago,—thus reducing tho distance from Chi- o to Washington to 784 miles, which will be Still farther reducod by extending the Pitts- burgh Branch to the new point of junction. About 300 miles of this road are Iaid with eteel Tails; snd o socond imiu-olemnr, with 8 copa city of 1,000,000 bushels, is going up at Balti- ‘more. o - To_anticipate the opening of the new Motro- politan Branch in the spring, s series of romark- “able hotels have just boen finished on the line of this road. Awongst them ia & hotel at Cumber- 1and, 140 Teot by 87, four storios high, and with & dining room for 400 porsons ; the edifico has already cost §220,000. At Deer Park, in tho Alloghenies, & new rTailway mounting-house has_been put up, 170 feet by 100. At Piedmont and at the Relasy Houss also new hotels aro founded, not éxcelled by any railway's in the conntry. This Compeny is at last working in earnest to carry the bulk of the Western travel, and its new appointments, meal- stations, etc., will amazo any person who has not recently pessed over the road, The town of Cumberland, Maryland, is assum- ing an importance strange toit; two new rail- ways are approaching her from the East and North, and 1t became the junctien of the Pitts- -| burgh Road and Baltimore & OLio main stem only two years ago. GarH. Eal e gsor 8 THE STEAM-WHISTLE NUISANCE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bir: The annexed extract from thoe aunual re- port of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission- era relates to a matter which concerns the com- fort of every citizen of Chicago whose residence i within hearing distance of a railroad : THE FTESN WEISTLE. The Commissioners diecuss {he neo of thosteam whistlo at como leny “follows = “The uso of the whistle Is now in & very great degreo unnecessary. The law as it stands does notinany Cazo compel it, tho ringing of the locomotive bell belng sufficient {0 Telfeve the corporation {rom liability for accident, . Apart from iisuso n8 & warning when s train s nearing a_grade-crossing, tho' whistle is now chicfly used for thrco purpoges: (1) To warn . trospassers or persona . iliegally walking on the track. (2) To nOtfy gatekeepers, flag- ‘men or depot employes of the approach of & train; and (3) to diroct the application of brakes. In almost all of theso Casos there aro fmproved appliances which should supersede the uso of so crude aud anTeliablon efgual. As regards gatemea, fagmen, and_depof em- ployes, the approach of atrain can ba mack more cer- tainly indlcated o them by tho uso of sn automatio clectrio alarm. This cazi be mado to strike when the locomotive ia within sny given dintance, and tho alarm can be continned as long s is decmed necesary. Such an appliacce is already in uso upon several rail- Toads in the country, and upon fwo ¢ least in Massa- uestion of the , concluding as chusetts, It wholly obviates the nocessity of ot lesst threefourths of tho whistlo signala now hesrd - fo the most populons nejgh- ‘borhoods. Another most familiar use of tho whistlo as a means of directing the application or loosening of brakes, As regards paseenger trains, {bds practice omght now o bo, tud 200n will b, eiper” seded, Itmay sefely be said that, where it is not sounded wantonly by engineers, in deflance of all regu- lation, 0s 5 mesna of expressing impaticnce, or, s it ere, of ecolding dilatory emploes—where’ not used in this wholly unwarranted ¥y, which the corpora- tions themselves are most willing to punish when Te- ported to them, it is usod in nino cases out of ten for one or other of tho purposcs just specified. Of conrse, 50 Tong & locomotives move at speed throtigh crowded nighborhoods, sharp end distinct danger-glgnals muct occasionally bo given, It cmnot bo hoped fhiat the ne- cessity for theso will ever be wholly obisted” Thousands of sufferers in Chicago will recog- nizé what is meant by using tho steam whistlo 14 a9 8 moss of oxpressing impatienco, or, us it were, of scolding dilatory employes,” and will rejoice to socuro such testimony us the above of its utter needlessness. It jis only becanse the indignation of the multitude cannot be com- bined, and every ono fecls that his individual {5 ubavailing, that tho in- tolerable nuisanco has 'been so_, long saffered, of wholo = neighborhoods — of blocks in ‘the ‘“best' residenco portions of Chicago being roueed, night after night, from their. sleep, by the infornal, protracted, jerky screams of the steam whiatle with which Bome engineor is endeavoring to rouse o switch- man who is sloeping npon his post, o1 known ihose 1n charge of tha freight-train ;h!dch delays him that he is in a hurry to go to ed. 1t is bad enough that those who are in health sbonld be subjected to such sn infliction, bat the evil in their case is trifling in comparison with tho suffering and danger to those who are sick, and whose recovery may be dependent up- on tho refreshing power of guiet slesp. ‘Tho degreo of civilization which any commu- nity has sttained is indicated by tho refinement of {ts provisions for tho physicalhealth and com- fort of tho inhabitants, and wo are very ready to pronounce them barburous in proportion cs wo find them ineensible to evils to which they have become accastomed, but which are intolerable to s moreYefined taste. The peasant who sleeps under the esme. roof with his piga &ud cattlo | encers at tho fastidiousnoss waich is ofended at the mooure heap beeide his door. Is it mot in- consiatent with " ths character of refinement to which Chicago _aspircs, that such & nuisanco as “tho ‘one under discussion, which Wwo are assured is needless, should bo longor tolerated 2 * If all who euffer from it wonld express tho in- dignation, for whichno other mode of relief is apparent, it might, at loast, serveto show the ox- tent of the ovil, and, porhaps, lead to messures for ite sbatement. 0. Qmasco, Jan, 22, 1978, NEW YORK. Newspaper Property---Sensa- tional Journalism. - James Gordon Bennett to Undertake a Great Daily in London, Henry Ward Beecher Earning Eearly $30,000 Annually. A Polyglot Family-—A New Anti- Lending Society. From Qur Own Correspondent, - New Yo Jan, 18, 1873, Thero bas been much discussion recently in regard to tho value of nowepapers, capecially of {hat part known as the good-will, which really has o prico beyond any mero material portion. It is gonerally supposed that & journal is worth ton tumes tho averago annual income that it yields, and this supposition is, in the main, well foundsd. > NEWSPAPER-PROPERTY. Everybody lmowa that the Herald i3 the most_ profiteble daily in tho caty, clearing about £300,000 per annum; thus fixing its value of $3,000,000,—a prico few persons would be willing to give, and which the owner would not bo tempted to take. A newspaper i3 such o very delicato piece of propertyl While o ceriain kind of management ronders it extremely pros- porous, another kind, that might scem even bet- ter, would ruin it. I have often heard speculnt- ed upon what might be the effoct of printing the Ferald in choice English; and the opinion’ generally ontertained has been that such an un- looked-for depsrture would prove disastrous. To make the Tribune like the Herald, or oven like the IVorld, in tono and style, would be to de- pleta its exchequer; and to convort the Journal of Commerce into o genuine newspaper would, doubtless, consign it to the tomb of the Capu- lets. A journal iz an educator eitber for good or ill,—very often, I am afraid, for ill,—and no alteration from its past can be undertaken with- out great peril. Peoplo get so accustomed to a daily or weekly that they consider any sort of changa » deterioration. If it be bad, they liko its badness 28 much as they would its oxeel- louco,—just as those in tho hebit of smoking wvile cigars are made ill by the best of Havanas. This is tho reason why new papers have 8o hard a struggle. Meritorions as they may be, a long timo is required by the putlic to discaver their merit; end then it must be duly instructed in the principles with which thoy et out, in their mode of thought, and oven in their manner of oxpression. ‘Che name of an_established jomr- is, probubly, worth more than anything elso ; but the namo must be kopt in harmony with its antecodents, or it will b of little a: DOES SENSATIONALISM PAY ? ‘The faehion of the time is to make the daily press what s called scnsational ; and yet sen- sation can scarcely be considered remunsrative in thelong run, There aro two or throo ssn- sational dailies here (I prefer nottonamo thom), which were rqnit« prosperons for a whilo, but which now, I understand, have materially fallen off, both in circulation and in sdvertising. Tho two most profitablo journals in town, ufter the Herald, are the most conservative,— the Journal of Conmerce and the Etening Post. It costs next to nothing to publish the first, and tho expensos of the Iatfer arc comparatively «very small. Still, Dboth of them manage to clesr, on an average, 83 much as £150,000 per annum,—snd this with a slonder circalation, and vory littlo of the fame so much coveted by journalists of tho present day. Whatover tho quality of their editing, their dividends aro so extremely satiefactory that I have never known any of the stockholders to object in theslightest thereto. I8 not this ono of the strongest (becauss finan- cial) arguments against sensational journaliom ? AN AMNERICAN DAILY ABROAD. It is ramorad that ono of the objects of James Gordon Bennett in going abroad was to make the necessary preparations for 1seuing & now daily in London, that shonld have all the onter- rise, facilitios, and varioty of s leading New Forkor Chicagh journal.f | This is aaid Lo hava been a favorite project of tho clder Bennett, who held that a daily conducted in London on Ameri~ can principles must eventually reach an enor- mous success. Tho son seems to share this opinion: and th story is, that bo is willing to invost $500,000, or even 1,000,000, in such sn enterprise. 5 B Tho British are so get in their ways that I should think the oxperiment rather hazardous; but, a5 Bennott has the money, and the faith hemd?, thero can be no harm in fus Iandable at- tempt. 2 SR ECCLESIASTICAL OPERA. I have heard many persons wondor what be- comes of all tho young women in this country ‘whahave euch fine voices that they are destinod to occupy a high position on the operaticatage. They aro_coustantly springing up in thiz and other cities, and going abroad to cultivate them- salves in the Conservaloires of the Continent. ‘Weo hear from time to time of the oxcellent pro- gress they are making, and of their certainty of & brilliaut foture. “hen silence and oblivion fall npon them, and they aro succeedod in turn by new goniuses of tho Iyric type. - ‘We claim Adelaide and Carlottn Patti as native artistes; and 8o thoy ate by the accident of birth, though not by lim!nfu or traiping. _ With the exception of Adelaide PLillipps, Clara Lonise Kellogg, Minnic Hsuok, Tsabella dcCulloch, Lau- ra Harrls, and & few othors, we havo no singors who have achioved any lyric distinction. Mrs. Moulton, through the esrnest bias and offort of porsonal friends, was wildly bepraised,—as if sho had been o second Malibran. 8She Lns a eweot and highly cultivated voice, thongh it is adapted to tho drawinz-rcom, and not to tho opera-honse, Sho has filled the nowspapers with her renown ; but there it will Jend. aprived of tho ardent prejudico excitod in her behalf becauso slko is & pretty aud agreesble womap, sho will be nomoro than o ].:\md.rcd other concert-gingers of mediocre abil- ity, After studying abroad, our countrywomen ro- turn homo with a much-sbated opinion of their- capacities, especially if they make a public do- but; and, instead of running to tho top of the bflexllic ladder, ihoy gquictly subside into the chioir of ome fashionablo church. Thore thoir voices stand them in good stesd; for thoy can carn from 81,000 to £3,000 per anoum. Thore cannot be less thon three hundred paid feminine singers in all our churches, and some of them, like Mrs, Imozene Brown, of Chicago, reccive as much og’ £4,000 8 year. 1t is noliceable, by the bg, that many of our best choir-singers are from the West, though they get to_be genuine Now Yorkers, ‘us everybody eclse does after & vory short residenco hero. /A FOBTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR CLERGYSIAN. * The most industrious, as woll 4s tho bost-paid &nd ablest, clergyman in America is Henry Ward Beccher. Tis present alhri, 28 pastor of Ply- mouth Church, is, I think, $25000. Ho has $10,000 a year a5 editor of. tho Christian Union, to which lio gives his name, and oze article a week; and he earns some $10.000 beside by the littlo Jecturing and writing that Lo finds time to do. Ho is, probably, tho most popular lecturer in tho country, and coald earn a great deal of money in that way, if he wero willing to surren- derother duties. - Ho has becn offored &8 high ag £30,000 and over.£40,000, a soason, by lecture- agents, who feol confident that even'this high price would lenve them & large margin for profit. Earning $45,000 s year is remarkablo for any man; and I question if any other preacher on the planct can match Boccher in this respect. Genius or talent in the pulpit is more likely to be appreciated that anywhere else,—perkaps for the reason that it is rarer, SELO GRERALE aro very poorly paid, though, in this city, many S e e e ks many 13 twenty or twenty-five of the leading pastors have ealaries of $10,000 each, snd 95,000 is quite a0 ordinary rate of compensation. .They are constantly called on for charities of.various kinds, and most of them give liberal- Iy, sccordingto their means. clior is Te- | portad to be extraordinarily generous, and thoso who heve maans of knowing eay that more than balf his income is uxpendeg for purposes of be- nevolenco. MANY-TONGUED CHILDREX. One of the moat cosmopolitan familesof which I bave any knowedge has recently roturned from Enrope {0 recide permanently hore. The par- enis are native New Yorkers in middle life, who bave been been abroad for nearly forty years, having 3:‘““ the country soon after their mar- riage. 1In that time, they have had six children, threo boys and three girls, esch of whom was born & different land: the oldest in _ Amsterdsm,” Holland; the _second in Berlin, Gormany; the third in Paris, Franco; the fourth in Florenco, Italy; tho fifth in 8t. Petersburg, Russin; and the sixth in Malage, Spain. In'addition to their own language, they speak the six differont tongues belonging to are excited or their nativily, and, when tha{‘ deeply interested in anything, they fall naturally into the form of speech which they hesrd i their infancy. They aro named DeRuyster, Frederick Wilhelm, LaFayette, Bianca, Capello, Tedorowna, and Dolores, and bave an appear- ance and temperament much in commoa with thorespeetivo countries of their birth, Suchn varied - -nativity - must- have been the ro- eult of design on tho psrt of - their parents, who ‘scem to emjoy greatly their poly- glot offspring, and_Gre mever more entertained than when they are all jabbering away, each in a differont tongue. The' cldest of them is 16, and tho youngest 6 3, 80 it ia impossi- blo to tell what thoy will bo'whén they grow up. Thera is little doubt, however, that they will rather odd characters, ond extremely unlike each other.. AN ANTI-LEXDING SOCTETY. was recontly formed in Wall strect, with the ox- ress purposs of discouraging' miscellancous orrowing. Many of the members have been in tho babit, they say, of lending, for s long timo puat, from 3500 to $5,000 o year'; end they heve vory rately receivod. any returns therafrom. They ~ have ° pound ~ themselves by a solemn _ compuct to restrain ‘from this hobit . in future; and they bave slready discovered that they not only re- tain their money, but many of their frionds, by their new resolution. It is roported that these societies are airln ing up' all over town, and that tho Anti-Lending movement is one of the most popular that bas been set on foot for a long while. EALYAGUNDL There are now, it is assorted, six or soven thousand more residont negroes in tho city than there wero at the close of the War,—most of them being froedmon. Fechter's Lyceum hss not yet been ad- vortised to open during Jesouary. Am an- nouncement of its opsning was msde in October, Novembor, snd December; and the omission this month would indicate that it is not to ba opened at all. The report is gaining crrency that Fechter has already exhaustéd bis funds, aod is waiting for furthor ndvances. Of all the masculine lecturers obtainable, Jon B. Gough is the most . popular; and, of all the fominine, Annz E. Dickinson. He is gen- erally ablo to earn £20,000, and she $16,000 to $17,000, a serson. ‘The projoct of 'mu‘lding & new opora houso on the old Harlem & New Haven Railway site, in Fourth avenue, scoms to haye boen abandoned. Two or three of the prominent Broadway ho- tols are 8oon to be converted into’ businoas blocks,—not bécause they do mot pay, but be- causo they can be rented in their now form to more advantage. L ‘CorstoTy. KANSAS. of the Senatorial Canvass. Progress Phillips and Lowe in the Field. Pomeroy Still Confident.--Gov- ernor Osborn Rises to Explain, Special Correspondence of” The Chicago Tribune. - Torexy, Kan,, Jan. 21, 1873, Tho members of tho Legislzture are gathering together again, after o Sabbath day's rest among their constitnents, and itis tobo hoped they will resiime their labors with montal as well as physical refreshment, after o day’s respite from the busy toil and vexation of the Senatorial strifo. ‘I noticed to-day a weary and haggard expression in the countenanco of a refurning member, and ascertained’ by inquiries, diligent and condolstory, that he had beon STRUGGLING HARD WITH HIS CONSCIENCE for twenty-four consecutive hours, and had subdued it to a degreo that would pormit him to cast avote for Pomeroy. Other struggles of s ° gimilar paturo ~ doubtless occurred during the briof recess. In the Light of the evi- denco before the Caldwell Committes, this i png of conscience” will appear somewhat remarkable; but thingshave changed in Kansas. This contest is being conducted © ON HIGH MORAL GROUNDS. The places in the Tefft Houge that once knew the demijohn know the hymn-book now, and tho parlor that was filled with the smoke of Cald-. Well's_cigars is now room whero & choir of Christians meet nightly and rehesrse church music. This i8 a new and novel festure of Kansna political campaigning, and, if the music was not s discordant a8 snanti-Pomeroy cancus, it could be'called an agrecable one. Itcan bocaid to the erodit of Celdwell, Lowover, even if he is cast down bya burden of testimony, that his cigars are better than Pomeroy’s music, o opPosition to Pomeroy is manifesting it:nu in various ways, yet the manifestations vo . NOT TAKEN THE RIGHT COTRSE. It is admitted all around that Pomeroy ought to be defeated, and, at different localities throughout the State, mass-meatings have been held to givo expression to this sontiment; but, when one of the opposition aspirants is asked to sacrifice his_chauces ‘of going to the United States Senato, ho invarisbly replies that a candidate ‘from another section of the Stato shoold decline for the sske of har- mony. A withdrawal of a Senatorial candidato often iuvolves o sacrifice of local in- terest, o woll as political ambition, and there- foro if, meets with resistance from the membors and lobby of the' candidate’s immediate neigh- borhood. Iu s young aud growing State, where ml\im county-town expects to bb a future metrop- oli, . : LOCAL DIVALRY is sharp, and concessions to_the public good aro seldom offered at tho cost of local pride. Whea Kansans can bo gducated up to tho' belief that the quality in a United Statos Senator which en- ables him to obtain an_sppropriation for a Cus- tom Houso or.Post Office is not the highest ac- complishment of & statoaman, we will probably have better Congressmen. - 1If the members of thoLegislaturo whobhave an- nounced themselves opposed to Senator Pom- oroy’s re-clection should go into a caucus, and agreo to cast their whole strength for the candi- date who received tho greatost mumber of votes in the caucus, the Pomeroy reign would end on tho 4th .of ‘March. To-night an ecffort will be made to reconctle tha discordant elements of the opposition, and build up o sensible_antagonism to Pomeroy, on the foundation of intalloct anii Thonesty. g BUT T APPREHESD that Colonel Phillips, Ropresontative-olect to Congregs, would e sides with Pomeroy: if General Bahcock or Governor Harvoy should ba the choice of the cancus.* If Judge Lowe should fail to_get the caucus nomination, he would re- ‘main simply as a neutral spectatorof the stri! and, if he did receive the nomination, deleg: tions 1rom differont scctions would opposo Lim and cast thoir votes for Pomoroy. Most paoplo would say, G OUT A NEW 31X, and avoid old animogities ; but Kansas experi- | ence . with new men Lias been more exciting than gratitying. . Caldwell was s now man, and peo- ple horeabonta are beginning to suspect that he will never make & great statesman. Viewing tho situation in all its bearings, 3 X CANNOT SEZ- > LT ‘how Pomeroy is to be defeated. The old Bire of | ‘Subsidies is going head quietly, manipulating ovorything that can bo manipulated, and emiling Sorenaly oh the mistattes of Bis ai i 1 8AW GOVERNOR OSBORS, at hig hotel, last ovening, and he seems to think that the Associated Press despatches, giving a report of the tostimony before tho Caldwell 1n- quiry, do_bim injustice. He says ho sctively supported Mr. Caldwell, but wes not's member of & Committee to buy votes, or ascortain whoro yotes conld be bought. -He claima to-bave no Emowledge of the diract use of money, but, nev- ertheless, docs not hesitato to say that he be- lieves money was used. ° Eaxass. . ————— ., HUBBARD STREET. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Biz: In your issne of the 224, I noticed & com- plaint by a correspondent signing himself “C. F. P.” with n%rfl to the condition of Hubbard strest between Reuben end Panlina strosts. Ho raight have extended his remarks to include as far west a5 Hoyne strest. Now, I sey, let us bave the sewers:8s far west as Hoyne street ; and, if there is not money enough in the City ‘Treasury to pay for them, put. them in any way, and Jevy a special taxon erty 2djoining fo pay for tho same. Ibelieve this to be the feel- iag of a great many property-owners. Please, if gencan gpare soom in your paper, let the City ‘athers know our feelings in matter, and yon will oblige many m~ggem and OrD SUBSCRIBER. 0Om0460, Jan, 23, 1873, ALASKA, i Twelve NMonths’ Residence in the Territory. What ain Attache of the Coast Survey Has to Say of It. A Fair- Showing for Its Future- sources, Residents, Climate, “&e., &e. 7 To the Editor of The Chicaga Tribune : . Brm: Teople generally yot rotain tho ides, taught by our old school-geogrephies, thst’ Alaska is a country only of ice and Poler besrs. ‘They forget thiat it has the latitude and the sjt- uation with reference to the Continent of Great Britain sad tho Scandinavian Poninsuels, and that its eouth coast is bathed by a warm curront, corresponding to the Gulf Btraam. This ides of tho rigor of the Alaskan climate has, indeed, grain of truth in it, for a considorable portion of the territory lies within the Arctic Circle. Be- sides, it was for the interest of tho Russo- American Compsny to exclude immigra- tion, and it thereforo took caro to magnify -the - bad— fostures of the cli- mate, and ropresent the wholo Torritory 28 dreary and inhospitable. We expected, con- sequently, on our*rrival .among tho Aleutian Islands, o year 8go last Bsptember, to find them covered with snow and surrounded with floating ico. Our imaginations had painted the horrora of an Arctic winter beforo us, and onr friends, recalling the fate of Franklin, bad taken affectionato leave of us, assuring us by their manner, thongh not in words, that thoy expected tho parting to be a final ono. Our sur- priso and ploasuré can bo imagined when wo fcund the stecp, rocky hills, and the basea of the mountains, clothed in bright green grass,. and - S _ COVERED WITH FLOWLRS. . , Wo had left Californiz in the middle of the summor-season, dry and brown, dusiy inland and fogsy on the cosst, and hers, in frigid Alss- ka, wero the brightest gress and the prettiest | flowers we had over geon. Tho samo feeling of pleasant surprise followed us during our yoar's stay in tho Torritory. X For a month or more after our arrival-among the Islands, the weather was warm, moderately’ clear, and generally quiet. The fow whito trad- ers on tho Islands vied with each other in ac- commodating us, znd the Alsuts proved them- selves the good-natured and hospitable people they have always bad the reputation of being. Snow remains all the year round on the moun- tains, but did not déscend %o the lowlands & Unalashka until October, and flowers counld be found as late as December. In October, tho natives dug thelr potatoes. THE WINTER WAS MILD, “ not being colder, thongh mach longer, than it s in Virginia or Maryland. It snowed at intervals until May, but the snow Wwas usually accompa- nied or followed byrain,which soon carried it off. The half-dozen = sheep and cattle kept on the Ieland were ablo to find grass for themselves during the most of the winter. The temporature was never very low. The thermometer at Unalashka lias marked zero very rarcly, and has not been known to go below it for the last thirty or forty years. The winters, though not cold, are very stormy, wot, and dissgrecable; Tho sun is gon- crally obscured, Drizzle, slact, rei. and_Scotch mist’ lost nearlyall the time. A good smart shower of rainis a rarity ev any time. High winds are frequent, usually squally, though sometimes blowing from tho same quarter for a week or two, and with great steadiness and vio- lence. In 3lay, vegetation fairly starts, and, from that time, grows with such rapidity that a singlo day MAKES A MARKED DIFFERENCE in the appearance of the country. By the 1st of June, many flowers aro out, and the 8 in warm places is two or three foot high. By tho last of June, the flowers are so abundant thit - thoy ~give color to tho landscape, and thoir fragrance loads the nir. At fhis time last summer, among tho Shumagin Islands, the air was heavy.with fra- grance, oven where wo lay at anchor, half a mile from shore. July was dry and warm ; August, wet and stormy. Tho grass is now higher than one's head, and travelling through itis very laborious. - Tho aboveis a description of the climate for |. the Aleutian year, aud is Lfianemfly true for the south const of Alaska. Inthe AloxanderArchipol- 2g0,—on ope island of which Bitkais situated, —the winters are more severe. As you advance towards the north, or towards the mountain- ranges of the interior, the climate becomes mora rigorous. THE SATIVES are generally inoffensive. Indesd, tho Alouts are too submissivo for their own interest. . They. allow themselves to bo over-ridden and abused without complaint. Thoy aremodarateiy civilized, and_live in comfortable honses. Two or three clocks,—each keeping its own gate, independent. of the others and of the sun,—and a hand-or; or accordion, are indispeasablo to an Aleut of 00d social position. Like all other people in their state of civilization, thoy aro lazy, shift- less, and far from cloan. Yet they are bright and’ intelligent, and aro -always trustworthy. Several have been educated in St, Peternburg, and have made prominent men in the old Russo- American_Company. Fathor Shayesnikoff, the- ‘pricst at Unalashks, an Alent, born and odudated in the Territory, and never out of it until after the tronsfer, i8 o polite and well-informed g tleman, whom it.is o pleasuro to meet. Ono bo; is now ot Ana Arbor, Michigan, being _ educated, nud is making himself o goneral favorite by his ‘brightness and grent good-nature. - The Alouts belong to the Russian Nationa! or Greek Church, and are very pious. They will mako good citi- zens. : ESQUIMAUX AND INDIANS. Tho Esquimaux ocenpy tho coast from the Peninsula of Alaska northward, and the Indiana the wholo interior. They are not so civilized as the Alouts, and are warlike enough to take care of their own interosts, They are disposed to bo They gonerally are nominal Greek Christinns, having been” baptized for the considora- tion of & shi or s plug of tobaeco. This ceremony was usually performed on each sbont once & d)'cnr, and the number of new converts reported by tho mis- sionaries to St. Petersburg was thereby swelled considerably. Immigrants to Alaska will havo to contend with no such fiorco tribes as those of our AMonntnina. ‘The buainess of Alagka is et present mainly in tho hands of the ALASEA COMMERCIAL COMPANY, or Hutchinson, Kohl & Co.,. of SBan Francisco. Theso Companies, ostensibly separato horeto- fore, avo recently combined tuder the former name, ~They bave leased of tho Government three little islands in Behring’s Sea, kaown as tho Pribyloff or Fur-geal Tslanda. Theseislands aro very valuable, because they are the resort, in spring and summer, of great numbers. of the valuable fur-secl. —The Alaska Commercial Company -has stations at other important points. It practically holds the ssme relation to that the old Russo-American Compan did, and that the Hudson's Bay Company does to g.heu‘ adj;iaxéingbm;glsh Poseassion:in td!l_:u rivals in tho trade, but they are grad isappear- ing under_the trestont bnown in Calitorns as * tho little game of freezo-out.,” The Com- pany is Teported very wealthy, and can afford to undersell and overbuy ita rivals, until they have to give up the loaing game. It isaccommodating, even generous, when its own intercats are not at stake. It discountenances cverything which tends to the development of thecountry, such as .| exploration, immigration, etc., becauaa a sottlod territory produces no furs. 1fs man is bonnd to go thers, and it cannot Lelp it, it i3 then full of accommodation, and helps him all it can dur-. ing his stay there, and hastons his doparture. One echool has been established by. i, be- canse that was & part of its: contract with the Government. But there are no other schools. Educated mendo not make good ser- yants for fur-hunters; besides, they may prove awlkwardly well-poatedon the fur-market. Other branches of industry practicable in Alaska gro discouraged by . the Company, because they in-~ torfere with the production of or trade in fars. Doubtless this Compeny is s favorable speci- men of its kind, and cannot be blamed for usin, all fair means for wringing 1l the money posai~ blo out of the Territory in ths twenty yoars dur- ingnzlmh' ithas the monwpal& But' all other ine 8 practised within the boundaries of the fur-trade are always inimical to it, and the interests of a lsrge Territory cannot be recon- ciled with those of & zreat morcantile monoooly. endly toward the whites, but will resent abuse. |, The Gampl:{ is making money, but the deval- opment of Alnsks ia retardod. The Territory produces some of the finest fors in the world, and in great abundance; but thoy do not form its only resource. 1ts waters_ SWABX WITH FISE . - of many kinds. Cod aro very abindant_smong the Shumagin and Aleutian Islands, and proba- bly in other places. The fish compare favorably wilh thoso of the Atlantio coast. Cod fishing has been carried on among the Shumsagin Islands for several years past, but the fislung fleet is small. Last summor thera wero only eight or _ton vossels, Thero wonld be many.more wers it not~that Pacific-Coast S;opln Bavo a strange projudics sgeinat Pacifio fish. It is Lard to say what js the foundation of this projudice, for we found. tho fish very fine, ond, when they are packed and marked as Atlantio fish, thoy readily sellintheSan Franciscomaryet without detection. Salmon 2re oxceedingly common, and, in the months of June and July, they are 50 packed in the mouths of the fresh-water atreamsthat they can be cotiveniently thrown out on shoré with an oar or & boat-hiook. Salmon forms the chief ar- ticlo of diet of the natives. Tromt, horring, Lalibut, and flounders, with numerons other fina species, many of which are peculiar to the Ter- ritory, aro very plentiful, but are not fished for™ market. _TRE OTZER BESOURCES of the Territory ara but littlo developed yet. Every one has heard of ita magnificent timber, specially- good for ship-building or spars. It possesses the precious metals, the common ores, and coal. Its mineral resonrces are donbt- less not so Erelt 88 those of California, Utah, or Novada, but they aro tharo, and have all the magoiticent possibilitios of tho wuknown. The coal is & sofz one, Empefly lignito, and i8 quite 83 good as any of the Pacific-Coast coals, but, of- course, will not compare with those of Pennsyl- vaaia. Some time, when the fisheriea of the Territory aro devoloped, and. it supparte a hardy raco of fishermen alodg its shores, thore will also bo A CONSIDERABLE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION along the south_ conat. The soilis very often of voleanio origin, and, like all others of its kind, rich ond warm. Tho climate is s favor- ablo 88 North Scotland and tho adjacent islands, The careless, lazy Aleuts and Ruasians succeed in raising radishes, turnips, potstoes, -and apples. Whero they can do that, a carefal, industrious Yankee can raise tho most of tho fardon-vegelablos sud many graing and truite. he Aleutian-Talands are particularly adapted to grazing. Thoir grasses are luxuriant. The winters aro g0 mild that the only care cattlo would require would be protection from the wet gtorms. The natives and residents genorally IAVE NOT GAINED by the transfer from Russian jnto American hands. -The Aleuts look back to the time of the Russian occupstion s their palmy days. The Russo-American Government held its leaso of the Territory at the plessure of the Emperor, and exercised pater care over its warda. There were schools_ at tha principsl etations, and an sacedemy at Now Archangel. Many natives wera wall educated without Jeaving the Territory, and promisin children wero gent to St. Petersburg or an_education. New Archangel was & flonr- ishing little city, and, for a Russinn town, moral. Now, the American Commercial Company holds ita lease for a limited number of years, and of courso will make a8 much money a8 possible in that time. It naturally cares little for the con- dition of the natives after itsloase has expired, provided \‘.slgf are good fur-hunters up to that time. Middle-aged Aleuts, born and bred in TRussian times, can ususlly read and write. Now, Sory few of the rising generation can writo their nomes. Sitka is now & small, decasiog villago, | of vearcely o thousand inhabitants, and probal 1{ tho wickedest little place on the footstool Drunkonness and debauchery run riot there. gd:er sottlements have also dwindled in popula- on. % + There is much that can be said FOR AND AGAINST - Alsska 08 an investment. We Jmow the character of ita rosources, but the extent of many of them is not yet determined. Further explora- tion is necded, and is, in fact, now_in progress, under direction of our excollent Coast Survey. The exploring party is in the charge of Captain William H. Dail, than whom no one is botter posted with regard to our mew Territory. If many excellent harbors, fine fisheries, timber, and furs, with & probable grest minoral weallls, and 2 limited capacity for agriculture, can mako .| sgais & great State Alaska must in time become one. - AL W. H. ¥ PR I . MEETING OF THE POLES. A meeting of the Polish rosidents of Chleago, to colebrate the tenth snniversary of the lnsk Polish insurrection for independence (the 22d of January, 1863), was held at, the Bohemian Hall, “ Lipa Slovensks,” corner of Canal and Taylor streets, on Wednesday evening. Mr. Edwerd Wilkosheski was in the Chair, and Mr. Alexander Bednawski acted as Socre- tary. : The hall wes beautifully decorated,—hung with gay banners, inscriptions, and transparen- cies. - Notwithstanding the bad weather aud diffioult walking, the meeting was tolerably woll attend- ¢d, comprising the prominent Poles pf Chicago, several of the fair sex, ‘and a dotachment of & regiment of militia called the * Polish Guard,” in their beantifal uniforms, The Chairman, aftor stating the object of the meating, paid, in & briof speech, a highly-fatter- ing ond well-deserved tribute to the.Polish Benevolent Matual Aid Association, the * Gmina Poleka,” tinde¥ Whoso suspices_the meeting was organized, and who' never fail to avail them- selves of m{‘oppomnitym do_good and pro- ‘moto the welfara of their countrymen. Several Polish gentlemen present, and especi- ally thoge who participated in the last struggie, ‘monnted successively tho plaiform, and fofiiv— erod nppropriate specches. The mames of tho speakers were as follows: Gryglaseski, Dank- owald, Zlelinski, Rybicki, Smulaki, "Mafeski. _ The sudience listenod ‘with marked attention, and emotion was seen onall faces, amidst o mournful end profound Eilence, interrupted by occasional cheers when sllusion was made to soma remarkable incidents in the Listory of the last struggle for independence ; which struggle, according to tho general opinion givan -by the speakers, must soonor or later result in sue- cosp, inagmach as the canse of Polsndis un- doubtedly tho cause of all causes; viz.: that of all oppressed nations, which ia that of Universal | Froodom, Right, and Justice. Tho meoting adfournod amidat cheers, mutuel congratulations, snd in igh epirita. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHleCH. The annual moeting of Grace Presbyterian Chureh and Socicty, Rev. Ben. £.' 8. Ely, pas- tor,—vas held on Alonday evening st the Tesi- dence of Edward Silvey, Eeq., No. 172 Ellis ave- nue, for the alection of officers for the ensming yoer, and other business. Messrs. I. P. Rum- sey, J. 8. Gilman, G. H. Miller, 8. Bpencer, and C. J. Merritt were re-elected Ttustees, and 0. J. Merritt Treasurer and Secrotary. 4 The Building Committes reported thatthe contracts for tho chapel and study Lad been lat 3 the foundations were in, and -the work would be puslied as rapidly s _the weather wonld admit. The'building is to be of brick, to coatabout $12,~ 000, and to be completed May 1. . - Tho Treasurer's roport revealed amost grati-. fying financinl condition ;' current- expenses paid in full; and money enough alrendy paid in .or plodged to pay one-half tho cost of the building. In eignt months from the dato of organization the chnzeh ‘membership has been increased 70 T cent o by < ,pjo The Sabbath School isutder the very able men~ sgement of Wm. B. Jacobs, and in &ix months its membership inal number being 16 echolars. ———— FARMERS’ MASS MEETING, ~At a recent” Convention of Farmers held at. Bloomington, s State Bociety-of “Farmers was | formed, having for ita object the general welfare ?l the Farmars as & class, and to take measures in concert for removing the causes, if any exist, of its costing three bushals of comn to get ono to market. ~ At tho meeting, 8~ Vice President was appointed for each Congressional District in this Btate, with power to call s Congresional’ Mzss Meeting of Farmers for the purpose of aiding tho Stats organization in ite objects. Inpursn- ance of this object, the farmers of this Congres- sional District aro invited to meet in Mass gon« vention, at tho City of Froeport, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1373, to adopt and carry out such mess- nres 88 to them may seem important at_this time. Good speakers from home and abroad are exPecmd to be present. t is only by concerted action that ltiything can be done to relieve our necessities. Let us. therefore, resolve to meet and act like men in this, to us, direful cmergency. Nobody will pro- tect s if we do not protoct ourselyes. D. W. Daaz Vice Prestdent of the Tiinois State Farmers' Assocls. tion for the Fifth Conaressional District, has increaded te fold, tho ori- | " United States troops. NEW ORLEANS, A Flight from the Land of Ice end Snow. Negroes and ‘Laborers ds Politi- 3 Bl -~ cians, The Double Government in Loui. siana. Corvespondenceof The Clieago Trivune, FEW OnLEAss, Jan. 13, 1873, “This ia the most damnable climate on the top of God’s green earth.” The. foregoing was the favorite exclamation of a friend of. mine, on his arrival at our office, in Chicago, overy mor- ing for o woeok previous tolast Friday. T said nothing, but thought much, and Thursdsy sur- prised him by announcing wy determination to get out of that climate that night. ** Now thers is nothing so njce,” exclaims tho author of “ Cakes and Ale " to overy new proposal, snd, though it may seem contradictory when, in ono chaptar, ho 2dda “as pudding with plums in it,” and, in the next, * as a visit from your mother- in-law,” yet, puttirg the emphasia on now, all difficultios aro removed, and you &ee that he only means that whatever pleasure is. at hand should rule supreme. 8o I thought to_ myseit 28, Iast Thursday night, with the wind biting my faco, I walked, satchel in hand, to the Hlinois Central depot on Twenty-second street, “Now there is nothing #0 nico” as to start of without preparation on a trip, without kmowing where you aro going. Thoreau, I believe, wrote that the true way to onjoy a walk is, to not make ap your mind to go 80 far and return, but go with the world before 3o and, when you havp enjoyed this unbounded freedom until your sonl is Alled, rotarn, I hailed tho ticket uzent with, #T want a tickét.” ** Where to, sir?” “Idon’t know.” ¢ Whero aro you gomg?” “Idon't lmow. Iwantto . GET AWAY - - 2 from this enow, ico, and wind.” We finally de. cided on the city in which this letter is dated. On awaking the next morning, I looked anx. fonsly out of the_car-window 10 500 if We wers beyond the snow; but no! there it was, as cold and white as ever. Stepping out of thé car for a moment, I met tho sume remorseless wind which froze my oar the dsy before. Resched Cairo that evening abont 5, and thero found the ssme snov, ico, and_ wind. T began to inquire the prico of o ticket to Havans, Coba. The Mississippi was full of ice, and the negro on board the river steamer Illinois informed mo that it was a little worse at Humboldt, where wa were again to tako tho cars, than at any other oint. 1 began to think I had taken tho wrong direction, ol;fierlup! tho geographies and story- books wore all wrong, and there \were no regions “but those of ETERSAL E50W— inwinter time, at any rate. Howsvor, * Returg- ing wero a8 todious a8 go o'er.” The river in- cidents wero all new to me, and * There is nothing 80 nice” as upper on o river-bost, ‘After supper, I enjoyed watching the glories of arod sunset: then wenit down among tho boilars (five of them), tl:e horees,—a hundred, I should think; and the engine-room. The bost passed the gorge of ice just above Humboldt and Bel- mont easily this trip;. & few Cays before she.was wedged in it throe days and more. Then ¥e wero in clesr water. Ifelt oncouraged. Snow at Humboldt ! . 5 On the cars I dreamed of mountaing of snow; frozen ears, noses, hands, feok, &c., foated on riversof ice. I woke, and, looking out of the window, saw_tho beautifol’earth white with moonlight. Not o speck of snow anywhere. With & sonse of great comfort, I went to sleep jo. In the morniny, found myeelf sur- rounded with not only & Warner air, but- - ANEW PEOPLE; and, since that day to this, Ihavo been ina daze, meeting 8o much life and charscter which isnew to mo, and, I think, to the peoplo of the North generally, that 1 hardly kmow whother Iam asleep or mo. I wish it were in my powerta _write in such & way that your readers could see, ‘a8 I have scon and, sce tha Sontharn character. Upon tho train were two men, who represant- ed vory well two classcs of fooling here. Ths one was, before the war, & large planter ia Texas. At tho closs of the war, his negroes left him. Hiring_others, they also left whenever “‘3 pleased, without reference to their-given wo or contract. Fiading himsalf thus lisblo at asy moment to have bis cropa completaly st thelr merey, he disposed of roperty, moving 2elf and t;ifl‘v £ St Lous, . N0 626 coutd exbly *recognize the situation ™ more fully he. Not ono word did ho utter of complaint or anger. Ho thonght the entire conntry better off without slavery ; tha o crupa conld bo raised 28 cheaply by freq labor as by slave labor; but the work o the “plantations mast bo_doue. Negroes havo achieved fresdom, and, i thelr benighted minds, this s¢enis to Tean that they shall all go to - Congresss or a State Legislat orhold a Government office. The problem food and raiment being a new one ia their calea- lation, they have not yotTeachod its aolution: LA 1 on. At Jenst they havo not reached it in theory, and have only practised it where their immedic ato necessitica have forced it upon them. They - are doing bettor ' sach year, be. canse ‘ they oro gradually finding omt ihat they can't all go to Congress or becoms “ Acting Governor;” and_gradually, but surely, a8 this gentleman belioved, tho negro was work- ing into that'place in the social system which he ehould occupy. Now tho carpet-bsggers and political bunimors were forcing kim into all sorts of positions which, inhis present stato, whatever oducation might do for him in the fature, hewss totally unfitted for in every way, shape, sad manper. ' - The other gentleman is a resident of Now Or: leans, and, w‘ixiln 8 perfect gentleman, he was of that coustitution which boils over npon-whsterer subject you present. Asking, ‘* What sro the taxes of Naw Orleans ?” he started off at light~ ning-speed in an of i . THE COREUPTIONS ° which exist in the City Government hers, m%wl courss, by the Adminis:ration power;and it would seein from his romarks; which are corrob- ornted by what Ihava seen and heard sincs, that, in addition to the direct and inevitable sufferiog which tho war brought upon people, there is & mmost ontrageous system of oppression, unnecessary, unjust, and aa relentiess as any despot ever brought upon an enslaved or conquers ‘If”"” And in it all, sssisting and copniving, 18 the present Administration at Washington! .. TWO_GURERNATORIAL INAUGURATIONE. To-dey I_have attended_the inauguration of two Goverpors- before two. Legialatares of the same Btate !—both Governors and the emmbers of- both Legislaturcs claiming to have been clected at the same election. At the Pinchback- Kellogg mooting, I had an_opportunity of ob- serviug the appearance of & largo portion of e element representing the nogroes. 2 PINCHBACE, ¢ in full-drees suit, was as fine-a specimen of y\lifl-‘ sical manhood 23 you could wish to.8es, -valodictory address was romarksbls . for nothing except its egotiam, and the bad taste of the closing septence. The colored members of this };e islature wero generally very fine-sppesring ows. is .kmown , to many of your resdars, he beiog from Canion, DL, formerly Colonel of_ ths Seventh 1llinois Cavalry, and ~egistered at Will+ ard's Hotel, in Washington, when firs; sent from here as 3. C., in 1868, * William Pitt Kel Canton, TIL™” I beliove his_trunk bas still address apon it : “ William Pitt Kellogg, Cantony TIL" 1 ‘was introduced to him by * Hon John Lypch,” M. C. from here, and fousd him to be eocially very pleasant, quist, sod sgreeable. TLis inanguration, though mank festly opposed to the will of the peadfla,'hu the advantage of_being upheld by the Government .at Washington ; and the Legislaturo- held i session. in & Government_ building filled with There were nok 500 pec~ ple present at this moeting, outside of the ofic Tho other meeting,— ‘WARMOTH-M'ENERY,— - held in LaFayeite Square, was attanded by 8 largo and enthusiastic crowd of pecple,—ob % large, however, as I anticipatcd. The pooplt lm{,a iz dutex::inad not to mmfl‘é:lny orert act, that they stay awsy from 288 bleges as o matter of pn{lcipls. an‘flxo evenisg there was some attempt st illuminstion ; numbers of people were gub promensding ifl; quiet, socisl way. No_noisa or disturbancé 01 any kind occurred during the dlg or. night- wish tho Northern people conld but come bsr® and see what their representatives at Waabing: ton are doing; it seems to mnu:.b—tm would rasult in & voice of warning which W be heoded, and lead to_a peacesble solutien o tho question of State Government. 2 PO S —— T P RAVMIIATTSS | e e e S S e et ARTITER TN . UL i T T ATt i et e e AR e S T RIS Pre s 1% mrHOP APUP O FRRddRAmRgREH SO MBRP RRET e, FEM WEE PacPmm pwEEN BYpRRBEERRE®m ‘m ggaed dEARpESWREmye AFe quespmem gm pHe gege 12 FRETEEE BE gA00 g2g de qgr 5] NEAERRT JFISEWT INLEF 3. FEW VR