Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1873, Page 2

THI CHICGAGO DAILY 'l‘RIBUNE; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1873 MARYLAND. The Susquehanna Fresheta--~ Deluge of Port Deposit. 0 Life at the Head of the Chesapeake. —_— Bull Mountain--A Revolutionary Reminiscence. From Onr Own Corresvondent, TIAVRE DE GRACE, Jnti, 34, 1879, During tho past weok, tho most remarkablo of an immomorial sorios of froshots in tho Busquo- hanna Riyer has inundated the Town of Porb Deposit. THE BUSQUEMANNA. To your raadors in the ‘West, the miatortunes of @ small hamlob nonx tho hoad of tho Olesa- poake may Liave no groat Intorest, but these an- nual deluges may ono doy make Port Deposit 88 ‘memorablo as Now Madrid, in Missourl. Thero is probably no river in tho country which repro- ducos the effcots of winter in our climate go atu- pondously as the Susquohanna, Afountains sur- sound this river almost from its source toits tormination in tho Ohesnpeake. It rises in Otaogo and Canadorago Lnkes, amonget the Oats- kill Range, moro than 400 miles from the Chean~ penko, and its longarms scrapo tho ice and #now from $ho Alleghonics on tho west, and the Bluo Mountains on tho enct, for o distanco of abovoe 300 miles on oither sido. On theso rangon happon nll tho extromities of's mountain- winter in thb North; nnod, whon tho gummor procipitately moits the frost from o summits, the infinitudo of atroamd tumblistg down tho mountains awell all tlic fargor cbannols, and, gothering tho ico of the Busquoe~ Tannn, forcoit downward with such basto that, whon it roachos Southern Ponnsylvania and tho Maryland line,—whoro tho river crosses tho last barrier of rocks, and oncouniors many ialands &nd rapids,—tho pont-up floods, smbarrassed on thoir way to tho bay, ora dammod baokward snd climb up tho rides.of this funnel of tho Susque- ‘hanna, almost invariably flooding out Port Do- posit. TORT DEPOSIT. /(g town atands at the beso of s rauge of almost perpondicular bills, which rise bohind it from 200 to 200 foot, and rosemblo tho Palisades nlong the Iadson River. The heights approneh. %0 near to thio water {hat thoro is but a moro alelf noar tho water-leval on which to place Jhousen; and Port Daposit consists of but o sin- ia atroot, above & milo long, tho hiousoa on ono pido 0f which stand directly againat tho hoights, without back-yards, whilo, on the oth- er slde, ,the small yords oxtend to tho wator's edge. In this town tho churchos ato bullt sidowise, ss thore i nob enough spaco to lot them bo at right augles to the streot, . The outlet from tho town is & stoep and laborions road, whiclh paoses through s ravino blasted ont ortificlally, end tho railvays creop along thio river-sido from abova and below, Tho Susquechounn, at this point, I8 nearly o mile #ido, and of o dark-bIne color at ordinary times, Umplbing grent dopth; but its surfaco ls ‘a plnces o arod with probruding rocks of volzaulg origin, which would Indicate that the river had Fors its way across an _original granite-barrier. A Jittlo distance above Port Doposit ato eacn the shattored stono-piers of & former bridgo; and threo miles Lwlo‘lv ;a Q‘l\u 'rnfih‘andga n]{ flau ilndolphin, Wilmington altimore Road, ggi‘ll:hedll’n 1807, nt wBost of about 1,000,000, Tho country is wild, and tho scanu? Btern and Klmost glooiny. Threo milea bolow ort Doposit stands on jslsnd, which rotarda the passago of all freshots ; and just bolow this island is the town ‘of Havro do Graco, ot the mouth of the river, built upon a high and ssle terraco or table-land. Tho chounel_from the Chesaporke veora oub Yeom Hovro do Greco, but ot Port Doposit givea deep water, snd the lattor placo has always been more consoquential then the town at tho river's month, An Englishman named Thomas Shepard had setiled on thesito of Port. Deposit soveral oara befora the Revalution, but the town owes its mportance to Colonel John Creawell, fathor of ¢he prosont Postmaster General, who scquired some proporty thoro, and, commenced improve- menta beforo 1825, whon it waa incorporated. It 1 ono of tho grestest lumbor markets in tho United Btatos, and thore ia an pnnusl transfer hore of abovo 100,000,000 fact of gawed lumber, bosides largor quantitics of timber and aglm. The suporb granite qustries sround the town heva furnished stono for the Rip-Rapa and other forts at Hampton Ronds, for Fort Del- pwaro, and for meny notable -docks, A ranch of the Philadelphis Baltimore %ond was begun in 1855, to yun to Port Doposit, and, sinco that timo, the place has bocome tho terminus of what is_called tho Baltimore Central Road, which extends honee to Philadelphin, while mosntime another railwoy i hoing puahod up the Jofé bankof the Snsque- bans, ‘to_tho ‘Town of Columbin. By the lnst census, tho town contained nesrly 3,600 pongh, #nd in the immodiato vicinity thero woro 4,600. Ttis, {hereforc, tho chiof placo of Northenstorn Marfland ; and, though theso calamition by flold and flood havo affected it for noerly half & con- tury, the dangeronn sifo bas besn rdhored to with tenacity, by resson of the hard and indom- ftable clags of settlors who had pitched up- n it ¥ ‘TOE ARD-NUT DISTRICT, Tho chief of thesa is Jacob Tome, who mar- sied the aunt of Postmaster Gieneral Creswell, o is n Pennsylvenia Dutchman, with somo Sooton-Trish streaks in him, snd the wealthiost man in that part of tho country, Tomo boated down to this placs & good many cars ago, and "ho 18 now tho chicl anker, railvoad-man, and_ Methodiat in that quarter. In_ 1857, Port Deposit sza nearly flenfimyud, and thero was_much loss of both lifo nnd property. In 1816, I distinetly comambor, whilo but & child and stopping st the ince, how everybody in midwinter began to tio B aun faat with ropos, to keop them from flonting off, and how nearly overy hougo in tho town, 56 wail, was_soourod {0 the rooks with cobleg, ns if tho whole wera a floot and not & sot- $lement, Ifon-coops, bridgon, outhouses, cabing, farm-gont, dend horsea aud gheep, and all mea- zor of queer things, werp saillng around or Nostingpast, end in tho night Teould hoar volcea on tha river orying out for help, whicl nobady gave, The population in this rogion, and for fany milon abovo, noar tho Susquoheuns, Is mado up of orndo and hard oloments, genoraily of the moat orthadoxaharactar,—ficoteh, Beoteh- Yiish, old generations of Pounsylvanic Dutol, Qunliora of Ponn's own importation, and ver) saanyzpeuplo of Wolsh, Bwedish, Finmsh, &n Holland = Dutch doscent. Opposito ' Port Deposit i o emall bemlot, on the sido-water-canal, ealled Lurlduw, whoro o addle-forry i ‘montioned with Port Depouit. Almost 20" miles nbove Port Depouit is Mo- Call's Ferry, whero the river is contracted to ox- ceedingly narrow Mmits; and here again & large island atops ite courso, Ton or, 12 milos abova MoCali's Forry, at the mouth of the Conostogs Croolr,—whioh runs_by tho old Burg of Lancad- tor,—faa lttlo archipelazo of islands, which #gain cause s gorge nnnually, For mora than 40 niiles nloug tho courso of tho Busquehanns, thero are but two post roads cropeing tho river, ouoat Lapidum, and anothor at Peach Bottom Ferry. T TITE PREGENT FRESIET. For more than ono month tho Bungnehanna 3ne beon frozon tight belweon tho Dayand the B s abovo. Havro 8 Grace, thoice. belog mopre than & foot thick, Lmst Tuosday, the ico ‘movad out of the mouth of tho rivar, aud thut =ight the people of Port Doposit Loard the solid alieots of ico bofore thelr tawn roll and shatter like tho fiving of volleys of small nrmli mornin| $t was _found '.;l:;ln l""'nmusor 0" and hsppenod,—tlat 8, {he lco %n tho curront, which ki i was unsblo to pass, had hoa ot o frozon wall mcross tho %illod itaolf up, Making o {5 Tiver, and Dt ‘atao forceq itsolf benesth the rom the deep surfuco, o that o matural dm? T Yottom had been bullt up aboye ti.? rogular ur- 0o, almout an truly as {f it were a well Of ma~ koory, That Baturday & cold spoll cama Sg8i0, nnd s dam frozo into ono golid mass. LUS xiver, uf courso, roso slowly and doliberately b Dica thisdam, and tho peoplo at Port Doposit wont to bod with somo apprelionsions, Befors dnf!)g)gt lagt Bunday morolog {the alarm was ralsod in tho town, for the water had risen so Digh that it had overflowad the banksabove Port Dapostt, and had poured down the railwsy tracks rnglho single main streot Jike a mill-tail. There ure above 400 houses in the place,—moatly frame, aud, therefore, fostable,—and at daylight wholo 1amiliex wore seon in boats and on ratts, and, in eomo cages, [on moro floata made of door- stops, lon-coops, fonoes, plocos of fur- .niture, eto., drifting down the pubmorged stroot, anday nlg’;t, tho peighia back_of the to wa containod moat of ‘tho population, qnartered in farmehonges aud shiantlos, and i somo of tho Dottor roaidoncos on tho high table-lands, Late that Sunday nftornoon,. the lco botweon Havro do Graca aitd Port Dopoait broke up, and, with ‘» gront roar and commotion, passcd (nto tho bay, -and immodiately tho wator Logan to fall ab Porl Doposit, raising the hopes of all tho burgers. -Somo had already gono back to their housos, oatisflod that the worat was overy but, aftor dark, thoy found tho wator flowing over their doar-allis again, and standing twvo feot high in thoir parlors, sitting-rooms, and kitohons, - Tho next morning (Monday), it wap found that anothor gorga lad_ lapponod at Watson's or Palmer's Island, and & sccond foriiflation ox- tonded straight scross the river, thrao miles far- thor down. Thia backed the water up again on Tort Doposlt, msking Main_stroot resomblo tho Grand Oanalof Vonioo, and covoring the rail- road tracks above nnd bolow; and thoir bugo ‘maasod of ico, aimost na imposing as houscs, flosted down tho Maln street; the lnmbor plies woro litted ‘up and shakon apart, liko tho spilling of boxes of matehes § hrfia liongen woro turnod askew, somo movod from their foundations, and two or throo upsot, Fifly houses at once were ‘monaced with & aoil down tho broad Chesaponke; and, with tho wator anven foot doop whoro peoplo usually walk- od and traded, the norvous and chillad nhabi- tants wera drivon into tholr sccond stories and garrots, whoro they looked pitooualy from tho windows and bosought deliverance, Tho row- boats, pulled by rough sud willing hands, not lmunexP to nuofi deluges, moved from house to houso, and brought ont women and obildron, old folks and babes, and liousehold animals, fiogs lungad into the water and followed their 1;"" fmon; and these, in turn, boheld, with solfct- tudo diminishod by the dangor, their familiar portals, doorataps, porclos, aud * outliousas flont aat, orowd [im-rd b; tho stranger St)brln of distant ~sottlomonts, Plg- pons, dead animals, _traps and hedges, stilos, hown timber, shinglos, siaves, and boata adrift, wont down tho engulfed stroots, and all tho broad rivor near at hand howlod and roared a8 if voico answored _to volco, and nothing thal spoko wag humav. TRomoved “fi tho sidos of tho hills, the housolesa people, still hoyoring nenr tholr tronsuros, gnzod over an oxtended prospock frozen raplds, and islots hom- ffufl‘?»fofl%fl?’m, O e abiftwood of noar and distant parts impolled onward, as_in _somo moving mob of man'a utensils and surroundings. It was a 6cono of aqual forror and Loauty,~—tho syn shining brightly on tho placid Bay and its wooded capos, and all the rocky turrois of the Susquohanuns hale aud calin, whilo the clogged sivor, porploxed with_crunching and unwonted Troights of ruin, oxclaimed aloud, always omi- nousty, and ofton like su artillory o?pn(nnnd pos- sion. Many poor paoplo, slok of a town g0 oxposod to Nt\lal“; in 1‘)‘81‘ ppxn'oxylua of birth and reliof, andly took their depnrtiro for Oxford, Bikion, Tavre do Gnfin, nm‘l Tallimoro, rosolved to abandon Port Daponit, Tho superb l\uwxn granite dwelling and bank of Mir. Tomo wes placed originally above tho reach of froshets, but all around it wag inundated, and {lio molting ico daehiod over tho torraca-walls of the steep vinoyard bolind it, Jike cascades, Tho rolling-ntoclk of tho railwaya was all withdrawn the tracks invisibla, and ubova $100,000 worth of proporty had disappeared, In one liouso, the corpac of & woman who had died on Friday, ro- ‘mained abandoned and unburied until Wednes- dny, whon a proccseion of boats escorted it and {ho deterred priest to Pexryville, THE INCIDENT OF ALL OTNIRY possesstng o human connu(}!lu\lco\\‘m he resone 52 two familios of farmors from Carr'a Tsland, o 1nilo or mora above Port Deposit. Herethorola o Targe, blufly fsland of tur end rock:, sustuining 2 farm-houso, and occupliod by married brothers nemed Roberts, -Nobody liad beon ablo to com- municato with them . betwoon Wm\msfln{ and tho followlng Triondey, aithongh thay had heon hoard to cry for help ' all Monday night, ond it was ‘known'that tholr Islaud-farm was now a cat ico-floo, piled high with lodged eakios snd fi:ldu of fropt, They lad boeo secen’ povaral timos, and sposking-trampots had boen used to wpoald with thom in vain, tho sounds of tho river drowning all frlendly articulation, After five dys of imprisonment, o roward of 8100 produc- od'nbody of adventurous mon willing 0 go to their recuc, 'Theso were duck-shooters and phad-fishers of {lavre do Grace,—n quaor wild race of Maryland wator-men, who subsint pardly, in dospito of the laws, by shaoting iufernal machines jnto flocks of canves-bnek diicks, and pulling selnes in thocovesand beaches of thahend ©f tho Chosnpenke. Two boats, cabled togother, and Jot out by & coil of ropo from tho shoro, ontorod tho driff, disappoared in tho ico: OTRO, a3 into - o casemtao, and Sero pulled across the ico, Bito nlodges, until out of sound of the pooplo of Lupidmn. ‘After ropt labor, one submoerged island was attained, K& fimen, o man foll ovorbontd, and was jammod in the ico, nnd_agpin rosoued. Tho ropo gava out, nd the advanturers ab last coutinuad thoir wag almost s holploss es tho floating lumber and iceberga of the river. - No voico roplied from tho farmhouso to_ their halléo, and, ox- ecting only to find the dead romains of the be- oagucred peoplo, thoy pushed on to the sacond jelond, which was & ‘chaos of delugo and ava- Janche, and thero saw tho two simplo farmora addling botwoen their hiouno and barn. - At tho oor, &n_0ld Jady, Weeping hyatorionily, blessod God, and shoutedt ; “ye've doug ‘nnulx;ng bt pray sll night for help. Glory! Glory!" ho Wntgwns two feet deop In the farmhouso, and n firo in ono of the bedrooms had warme thiese poor souls, who had boon esluted all night Dy tho insensnto salutstion of tho roaring ico, li{sln. frontior family belenguored by whooping Indiaus. SEQUEL, Intho strests of Port Deposit, canal-bonts, and ovon n eloop lind been doposiicd amongah ¢he habitatione, and the piers end wbarves of stone and timber were orushed, like an almond under the hoel, Mummocks of ice, such ag wo soo depicted in Aretio landseapes, strowod tho grost nislo of the Busquelwnna, and made ita ~iatn inconcaivably desofnte ; und tho abandoned town was barren of tho smoke of hearths, the colors of femalo apparel, tho intimation of do- ‘mostio boasts, or snything but digconragad mon puddling around in froozing wator, on appatoutly objeetless errands, i Noarly 14 feot above high-tidohad the Susque- hanns rigen, and thore wore gloomy anticipa- tious of further ealamity whon theico should break up at MeCall's Ferry, whoro the river was only 160 yards wide, and the ice-gorgo wos from 60 £o 80 foob high. A STUDY AT THE T(EAD OF THE DA, The head of the Oherapeako is entered by throo rivors,—the Busquehnunna, Northesst, and Elk,—and, while tho lower couraes of the formor ura littlo known to tho Feupla at Iarge, tho Ll waed fo bo the grent highway batwaon the North and the South. I amused mysclf, while in the nelghborhood, reviving ono of its reminiscencos, From Havra do Graco to Turkey Point, tho oxtromo tlr of Tk Nacl, ia less than 8 miles in o straight line ; from Uurrmtur‘s Point, at the mouth of tho Northeast Rivor, to Spesutio Tul- and, is above 6 miles. Betweon Bpesutio Island and Tarloy Point, the Chesapeako 1 only about 83¢ milos wido, Above this strait, tho Tay s o uoarly squaro flold of chaunel and shoals, and tho Rivors Sllsrluchmmn and Northoost, flowing into the basin, haye mado a dolia botwdon thom, which éxtonds out 4 miles from _tho licad of tho TDay, and, although coverod with wator, tho av- orago depth is only 4 feot, This shonl ia 4 milea squsre, ®nd bebind it Principio Cresk digchatgos, by o narrow -and _ unrolisblo channol __undor Carpountor's -Point, to the Northeast, hanns channel is narrow, and crooked, aud tho Northiwost Rivor 1 not good for vessels drawing above G foet to tho little hamlat of Charlestown, At Havrada Graco Polnt the view of tho rug- zed hoights of Klk Nock is vory flno,—Dull's Hountaln (185 feot high) lying long; anl Lluo in the thick pert of tha nedl, and Maulden's Moun- Ein (200 foot Ligh), for'its ontpost, sholving noarly totho Tlay's eldgo, Bayond Turkes Point, the oy roposos upon the frui ? roves of Rich Neck and Haseafras Nook, and tho eails which dimapposy behind Mauldon's Mountaiu ava bound up tfiu Elk, to aail around the noblo picco of country onlled the Bohantla Mauor, and at Chesa- poako City o entar tho canal for Phiindelphis. ‘A DESERTED WATER-HIGTWAY. years, the wholo tido of travel by lend from the North to the Houth crossed tho Delawara Poulnauls, embarking at_I'ronchtown, passengers do- geonded tho¥ Elk, whioh thus becamo the bueiest riveraf. the Chesapeake. Ono ascends it now with melanoholy, but with intorest still thinking ovar tho multitude of gay ud eminent paople who hed patranized the * Carroll of Car- rullFfln." andother notable oteamera of thoirday, The banks of Elk Neck aro less procipitous next tho river, and the low mountaina aro fathor back ; buf thore are no towns anywhoro on tho neck, snd the rod bobjud tho Dull Mountain ine For man, aud, forka off, oue arm to Northoast, tho other to Tjuron. ‘Thero are two or three Lumlats beok in M nd which send roads out to tho Lk at b = o, Port Iermann,—an 8(, Augus- },gg;z,‘yflg,g;;;w Wit Gout Houso Tyin Indjoates an empty opot ..".l'""w.',f.‘:,‘;{l sty Oour} House whon "Aguew's and na,, "oion8 brigados of Josslans marchod pust It, " Bopt. v, 1777, Frenchtown is now noarly a solitudo, and, of :‘lr: railway of 1814 milos fongth, the’ two- thirds heg boen taken up; but the grass-grown grades aud marke of the tlos romain, and, oyon where the farmera hicve built feuces nurosy tho old track, it };ununu tho somblance of itsolf, and hints of yanishod fmportanco, 1ls road ‘fho main_or Busquo- | waa noarly straight and voarly lovel It had 4 viaduots and 20 ovlverts, all 'of stonoj it was comploted in 1833, and cont, inolusivo of land, wharvos, osta, and ongines, §080,824:40, It was finally takon up abont 1850, having boon for fif- toon yoarn in tho hiands of the P. W. & B. Raf rond.” The oanal from tha Dolawaro to the Elk waa openod in 28205 {t took five years' labor and £2,200,000 to build it ; its summit lovel is 12 foot above tido; it ‘is 1808-100 milos long, and _savos 83 miles of navigation around tho Toul.mmln‘ With itg do‘; b of 10 foot, it continuos to pass about 14,000 bargos- atonmors, rafly, otc., porannum, or above 1,000,, 000 tone, and to rocclve neatly 400,000 in tolid. JOBD HOWE AT TIUE IEAD OF ONESAPEAKE, Although Elk Neok poseosacs flu:‘y » fow farm- houses, nnd 1s gonorally accounted poor soll, it s conaploona i history as to tha sight, and its lonosome blue tablet alays affcots me naif it woro haunted ground, givon over to aoma gront maditative apirlt, who rulod tho wholo Glios- aponko with his calm countonauce,, Thore is o silont monnrohy in hia lonely stmosphore, nnd tho world shows fow such sunacts as aro drawn in gold and firo nbout his darkened and brood- ln%fcrm. mdor tho ehadow of these rldgas, s great army disombarked on tho 2th - of August, 1777, The groat floot of Lord Howe romainod off Elk Nock, while 18,000 troops, undor Bir William_Howe, Ianded. Horo, for two dayn snd nighis, the smoko of their camp-fires blei low in tho stormy woathor, and then, lonving Gonersl Grant to hold tho Nock and Polnt, and keop opon com- municetion with tho nh(p ing, Howo marched to Elkton, on tho 28th of August, and Groy, end oftorward Aguow and Knyphanson, crossod tho Elk on the 80th and 81st, and both columns mot on Gray's Hill, aboye Ellton. Tho rosoryo undor Grant did not join the army until Sopt. 8, and this nook yas tholino of communication Dotweon the British fleet and army un- tit tho Battlo of Brapdywino = was gainod, . 8opt, 11, Two . wooks, at lonst, were spont in the noighborhiood by tho invaders. They marched by the loft flanlk, bearing through the concave corner of Dalawaro, and by Nowar] Toolhosson_ Meoting-Houso, | ond Konnoth Hquaro, to Ohadd’s Tord, on’ the Brandywino. Errl Howo anilod down tho Chosapealke ad soon an tho dooisive battlo Lind boon won at Drandy- wiue, and asconded tho Dolawaro. - i BULL'S MOUNTAIN. ‘Tho travoller crossing the bridge at Ilavro do Grace, aud asking without resulf what bold and wooded headland Bull’s Mountain may bo, will bo little awaro of tho mon of mighty mark in Turopean history who bogan thore tho merely lucky compaign ogainst Thiladolphia, Tarl Ilowo was nt that timo Vico Admiral of the Blue, and had fought with distiction all over tho world, Iis elder brother hiad been killed at Ticondoroga, noarly twonty years beforo, and tho youngor was joint Uommissionor with himeoelf to conclude peaco with Amoricn. Ho lived tobo 74 yearn of age, aud to die in John Adame' Administration, baving been ono of tho groatest sallorsa of modern times, Ho was & tall, swarthy, and grim-looking man, ro- sorved, striot, and impartial, and not inclined to %}uloc'lf, and tho satlors called him * Blaok o, His brothor, Bir William, died in_ 1814, tho yonr the American Capitol was burned, and was comparatively aun unonterprising and unro- nowned General, Earl Cornwallis, who commanded ono of tho British _divieions, woa at this time 49 yenrs of ago, and had boon Govornor of the Tower of London, Ho lived to put down tho firat robell- fon of 1798, to bo Governor Gonoral of both Iroland ond Indis, mdho died in JoMforson's Administration, ITin talents wore mediocre, and ho was o politieal favorite, Jnyplinuson’ was pgod 47, and waa an Aleacian wiio had fought undor Frederick the Great, Ho hiad been just ono year in Amorica, and_wao, tho ranking olllcor of the Waldeckors rnd Hossians, Ho was & fino-loziing man, unaffectod, and bot- tor than the achool-booka teach. THE PIRATE OF THE DAY. Thirty-sovon yoars aftor Howe's army landod at Turkoy Point, BIk Neck was again tho sceno of military undortakings, in1814, Captain Ross, with tho Firgb Olt{ Troop of P‘I“ldiph‘!, took post on Mount Bult (13 miles below Elkton), to Satol tho appronch of tho encmy, $nd Liold com- muunieation with the gonoral camp at Kennsit Hquaro,~called tho Advauced Light Guard (n brigade),—and with Philadelphia by & lino of vedottos: At the same timo a comp Wan maine tained at Marcus Hook. All theso organizations wero broken np and tho posts abendonaed befora Christmag, Cockburn, in thia second war, rav- aged tho Northeast, Elk, Bassafras, nnd Busque- liapne Rivors, it Georgo Cookburn, i scousg of tho Chesa~ lmnlm, was 43 yonrs old whon he flonrished in hose waters, aud bo lived untll 1863, agod 81 yoars, Tallvad to know Yuat Lbe corner-stono of the Capitol-oxtonsion had'beon lajd near tho sito whero ho burned tho first edlfice, noarly forty yoara bofore, Gar, ———— FIRE AT GREEN BAY. A Business Block in Buins—XLoss O@ver i 150,000, Frow the Green Bay (Win) Advocate, Jan, 30, Shortly aftor 9 o'clock Monday night, our citl- zons woro startled by the alarm of fire, and a moment after the flames burst from the whole- sale grocery store of Day & Whitney, ou tho corner of Washington and Main strsots. The corner bullding was of wood, two storles in Tioight, snd ocoupiod by Day & Whitney as o wholessla grocery and sllixl-flhuud]nr{. Noxt south was_tho large new threo-story bricle build- ing owned by T. R, Behottler, the north storo botag accupiod by Day & Whitnoy sud con- nected with tho woodon building by o largo arched passago way. 'This dopartment contuined principally tho counting-room, ship-chandlory Koods, and auch olothing, dryooda, &and notious g tho firm rold in dealing with the fishermen on the bay, Noxt sonth of this was tho wholesulo dry goods and notion house of George Sommers. ‘mmedistely on the flames reaching tho air, thoy nlao burst from the north stora of tho brick building, and in an incrodibly short space of time woro geon issuing from tho windows of Bommers® store. It was ovident that the destruction of tho whola building, with tho magniticent stocka of goods, waa a cortainty, The north gido of tho frame bullding was pulled down ; then the north and roar walls of the brick buildidg came down with o orash, and lastly the front and roar walls came down, tho concussion of the air throwing eeveral persons ta tho ground. Tho south wall in falling struck tho emall wooden building oceupied by M. Hall 28 & gunamith's shop, and crushedit to tho earth, leaving xml.hinf,' but tho front standing, 'The stock was mostly romoved, and what romaincd wwaa boing carried out at tho time. evoral por- eons narrowly egcaped losing thoir lives hero, Inan hourand a half from the first alarm the Wholo was . mass of smoking ruins. John Day was in New York at the Limo, and hia partner, Josbus A, Whitnoy, in uttompting to onter to stora to 8ave tho books, was fear- :lul];:l burned on oue sido of the fnce and one rud. As an ovidonce of businoes pluok and onergy, wo will stato that Goorge Sommors, notwith- standing his groat loss, started for Now York on Tuosdny ovening to bring on n Loavier stock than over, and will open in tho south store of Beliottler's building, i 1t in impossiblo to gat tho precise amount of loss, ‘That of Day & Whitney was from 50,000 to 860,000, Thoy {Ind insurarico on their goods in tlie warchouse and in tho stora. The ware- Tiousio was saved and the proportion of tho in- surance that will fall on tho gaods in the storo iy ‘probably about $20,000, Masars, Day & Whitnoy, in epite of thoir hoavy lossos, will contiuue thoir buginess unintorrupfed, aud have oponed au oftico in their warehouso, Goo, Sommors' loss {u ostimated at about §75,- 000, on which thoro wau an insurance of S62,- 500, 1fo had just purohasod and gof 1 the dry-goods stock of Day, Lyons & Dacon, which of courso was nfso dostroyed. On tho other hand was n fortunnto ciroum- stouco. ITe hind just rocoived from tho Iast about 80,000 worth of goods, that liad not yot boon romoved from tho depot, His insuranco was $62,5600, Mr. I . Soliettlor valued his building at about $12,000, on which ho had an insurance of 5,000, P'robably with what Lo can save of the foundation and brick, Lis loss will not excoed $6,000, He has agreed to immodiately rebuild the store, mnkmgu double store, which is sl- roady ronted by Goorge Sommera for wholosnle dry-goods. It in bis intontion to Leve the new storo roady by May 1, which shows commondable ontorprise, Ag 102 8 O oA s follows: toll, tholossos foot upabout Toss, Insuranes, Hchetiler’s block., $ laym $ 5, 0000, 20,0 8,00 52,600 8,000 700 1,000 500 106,000 38,100 = BRSNS e torme Blredsddlo, diod on Batur- —Tho f;sfnon,. San day, Lo 1t it or ace, v 11218710 Qoub, i ty, sentuoky, ¥o was forinerly tuw \6. L, Plttman, of Boylo County, from whom e was kidnapped by a band of scouting Confador- aton.. Thia was the horge on whose back Gon- eral John H, Morgan made hia escapo from the prigson &t Columbus, Ohio, and thoe Jast horso he rodo during tho war, MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Its History, Resources, Farm, Stock, Products. !ts)(}ollu;;lntn Department, Facutl- ty, Btudents, Ete., Ete. Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Lanaixa, Mich,, Jan. 37, 1873, The Agrioultural Gollaga of Mishigan, with ite oxtonsive farm, ia located nbout throo milea onst of Lansing, tho Btate Capital. Tho farm con- sluts of 070 mores of Jand, 800 of which aro cloared and fonced, UIBTORIOAL BRETOM. Thia Iand was purchased as tho sito and for tho uso of tho. Collogo, in 1855, when it was o wildorness, and the whole country for milos around was in a primitivo condition, No farma woro oponed fin its immedlate viclnity, nod no ronds built. Ite founders lacated the Colloge for tho future, and that future will justify their cholco, The Stato, in thoso yonrs, made small snnual ‘approprintions for this infant projeot, and hos continued ite fostering ‘care. In 18632, tho Gonoral Govornment endowed the institu-~ tlon with a grant of Iand, which, in round num- bors, has boen found to be 235,000 acres. None of thonvaila of thisland woro roalized until 1871, and then ouly about £8,000. At tho close of tho Iast flacal yoar, tho availeblo “intorost on tho money renlized from tho Janda sold amount- od to sbout $11,000. It is estimated that the fund will bo incronsed by sales of lund in 1873, 80 that tho intorest duo tho Colloge will amount to 819,000, aud, in 1874, to $20,000 or moro, N TIE BUILDINGE now in use are mostly subatantial brick struc~ turos, and cstimnted to be worth $120,000. Thoso sro prinoipally the largo and woll-appoint- od and furnished boarding hall, threo storios abovo the basement, costing nearly 42,000, and which ean woll nccoommodato s family of 160 studonts. This building has all tho mogern im- Pruvnmmx!a of stean-boilors, heating and coolk- ng. nfipnrntus; whilo the parlors, dining-hall, and all tho intorior arrangoments domonsirato thiat the homo-comfort of "the entire family haa b“'i‘l\‘.\ amcl ht ?n({ ii?ugrud. i o Chemloal Laboratory is a new building cosling B15,000. In this Ja o looturs hall, e ?rlnhy offico, also & work-room for the Professor n chargo ; but tho main attrnctive fonturo is tho Inrge worldu§ ]nbomlafiy for the usoe of studonts, Everything ia arranged on a model plan. Tho room is full 60 by 25, and twolve or’ moro work- tnblon and caos 8re ro arrangoed o tho sidos of tho hall as to give to cach tablo of four students the full bhenofit of well-lighted windowa, whilo botween ocach two tablos and win~ dows s a vontilating lood for tho cacapo of all offenalvo gnsos,~their ocscapo to bo facllitated by the neo of steam within ench flue, if nocessary. Fifty students can ‘work here at & time with plonty of room, having the froe ugo of all the sbundant facllities so goner- ouely furnishod, y The Colloge Hall, a throo-story, substantial brick building, could not have beoi built for lass thon 24,000 whon ereoted w1 1856, It furnishes :}m l}lkn\ml offices, rocitation rooms, chapel, and ho likko, Othor bulldings will be constructed from tims to timo, 89 means are obtained and the nceds of tho Collogo mny require. The horso-barns and the like are of moro ro- cont build; somo have boen erested almost wholly by studont. Inbor. The atables and cattla- stalls sbow dacided improvemonts over many of the luhoanlmbla quarters wo usually assign to farm-stock, THE PARM, Three hundrod acros avo under improvement, thougli moat of this ia used as pasture-land. The farmis well watered by tho Codar River. The laud i8 rolling, and tho soil- varies from light sand to loayy olay, sandy loaw predominat- ing. Thoro i8 plonty of both up- land end river bottom, adapted to all varioties of crops. The timber s p incipally booch, maplo, ash, and walnut. Much, if uot most, of tho cfeated Innd has boon clearod of stumps, aud iu this work, also tho ntudonts have done tho largest shayo, Tho fiolds, mostly, aro now in as workablo a condis tion as thoso of tho prairie, Tho estimated valio of farm-tools and impla- monts is $6,000. Thae value of the FARM-STOCK may be classified as follows : HHOTBO8. 1 ve e Bhort-Liorn cattlo, . Dovon eattlo, Ayrshiro catl Galloway cattlo, Joracy cattlo Grada eattle, of thom superior of their kind. The thorough- brod cattlo ospecially are very fino. The sheey aro of the cholcest broeds of Nouthdowns, Meri- nos, Cotgwolds, and other favorito stock. The swine, also, nro of tho most approved breeds. Wero I to estimate tho total yalue of this farm- stock, I should cortainly doublo the figures givon mo. Bomo of tho incrorso of thess ani- mals heave taken first promiums ab our Btato Fairs, a8 would cortainly many of the choice spoclmons of this farm, wero it deomed rood policy to exhibit thom in competition with ho stock-growors of tho State. "Theso animals are all o o hoalthy and thritty condition. Thoy are woll cared for by a respon- sible and woll-qualifiod hordsman and those in Dis omploy, The cattlo aro fed principally on out-foed,~lny, straw, and corn-stalke, mixed with turnips whioh havo boon reducod to ulp by & mpehino adapted for. that pbrposo. Tho dry fodder absorbs the juices of the grated roots when thrown into heaps, and the cattlo eat of this feed most readily, and with the happieat ro- sults, I think our host stock-growers would bo well satiafled with the appearance of thosocattle, and tho manner in which they are fed aud other- wiso troated. FARM-PRODUCTS, Tho %nuornl products of the farm lust yonr wore wheat, corn, oats, hay, wool, and root crops, which in tho sggregate, amounted -to nearly $7,000 an value. his amount, $1,600 wos cagh-sales, mostly of stock ; and #1000 of produce nunrlfl, was sont to tho Boarding Hall. Tho com crop was valued at over $1,000, and 4,710 bushels of roots at §471. Many acres are dovoted to gar- dong, lawng, and oxporimental culture, ¢ FLORIOULTURE, TFor tho limited convenionoos . afforded by an antiquated groonhouse, ,tho remults aro ovel way satinfactory. But, to propagato tree an shiub, plant and flowoer, in order that the whole Stato inay roap tho bonofit of succoss and of ex- perimont, 87x) conservatory,with detective ilucs, will not bo satisfactory in roeults, A Buitable building, with tho neoded apperatus and facili- tion, would bo cheap to tho Stato ab an outlay of $10,000, But, with tho ogonclos at command, {his overcrowded groon-house ia full'of bloom and boauty, PRUITS AND VEGETADLES, Of tho garden-produots, tho data aro not, at boud, Granted that all is right in respoot to tho testing and raising of all denirablo varietlos of gardon vogotsbles, cortainly in fruit-culture there is a niost marked deficionoy. It may bo that tho means hovo not boon furnished ; possibly tho Board of Agricnlture bina not intor- oated i;usll in pomological matters ; it may bo the fault bas boon in not having » Professor of Pomology a8 ono of the Faculty of tho Collego ; but, whatover the eause of thia failure to mao! the just oxpoctations of the fruit-culturlsts of this ‘Fruit Stato, tho dofects of tho past shonld Do romodied at once as far a¢ posaible, Students should be taught in all the sclonce of bud- ding and gratting, of small fralt propa- ation and orohard culture; and the fruit- flolds of this farm should contain all tho varietfes of fruit adaptod to the Btate at largo, with toat-gardens for well-managed ex- porimonts,—koaping & caroful rocord of all Tosults, for the bonoft of tho people, THE COLLEGE. The Faculty of Instruotion consists, in part, o follows: T, 0. Abbot, LL.D., Prosident, and Profossor of Montal Philosophy'aud Logie, Manly Miles, Professor of Agrioulture, and Suporiatondont of Farm. | por wook bolug put b - Dhdin fuol, lgbx:xl.i!f‘:arlnns. or wook; washiug, meana of a. gonoral oduortion to tho ‘farming clasa, Thus far, tho muccoss “hna boon oncourngaing In tho main; the future prominen ‘muoh mora fatisfactory resultn, Tho studonts aro all” arrauged into the ordi- nary no]lufic clnssoa for a four-yonr's courao, and ovory faol l{ 18 afforded that ‘ean bo found in tho books, studies, lecturos, &e,, of other ooul- ogrea. 2 “ 'Plio terma placo tho ndvantagos of this inatl- tution within tho ranch of ovory young man and womau,—forboth soxes aro admitted,—tho board Inw at cost prico, which, ln- 40 conts por dozon ; room-rent, but 81 per tormy and tuitfon is fiea fo all rosidonts of tho State, Btudenta aro paid for their labor according to 1ts yaluo,—fho prico ranging from 2 and 8 o 12 conts por hour, for threo or moro houra dafly. Thé sum’ poid studouls lnat yoar was nearly 81,200, Tho Collogo yoar opons the lit weok in Tob- ruary of oach yenr, and closes the Inst weok in Novomber,—~giving niudonts the advantages of toaching achiool iu wintor. ‘Tho courso of instruction nooms to bo thor- ough, tho Facully cminently well qualified, .aud {010 graduaton wol trnined for pracliet 1ito. WIFAT TIECOMES OF TIE GRADUATES? From 1861 to 1871 inclusivo, thoro wera 03 graduatos from this collogo, of which numbor 30 aro farmors and Lortianlturlotn ; five aro tosclior in Collogoa and having charge of farms or horti- cultural dopartinonts, and five others nro teach- ors in othor Colleges ; and yot four moroe tonch- ors not in Colloges. Threo aro engincers and survoyors; ono {s & manufacturer; eight aro Inaryers; one n u\nrgrmnm Graduntos of this Qollogo form part of the Faoulty of Cornoll Uni- vorsity, Wisconsin Btato University, Iowa Agriouliural Collsge, aud Mimosot Unlversity. One was goleoted by Colonel Capron to nccom- Pnuy him to Japau';-ono was Asnis.ant Director n #n oxploring oxpodition to tho Valloy of the Amazon ; another was made Dotanist of on ox- pedition sent to Wostorn Kensas and Oolorado'; anothoris Entomologlst, and yot another is Motoorologiat, of tho Stefa Historleal Bocioty ; othora have had positions on the oditorial staff of ngriculturs! papers. ‘The rocord of Yalo Uol- logo shows thatbut sbout 14 per centof its graduates bocome farmory, and the same mny besnid of Amherst, Dartmouth, Harvard, and other institutions. FUTUNE PROSTEQTS, Tho record of tho past has heon a most axcal- lont ono for this &rinm'cr Agrioultal Collogo, Miohigun may bo said to have inauguratod this movemont. Liko all ploncer movemonts, it has had difloulties to ovorcome, which nono can ovor fully renlizo but thoso brave, enduring sonls who have overcomo or boon erushed, Mis~ takos also have beon made, as in all advanco movemonts, DBut a bottor day is dawning, Tho roward is sure to thoso who -hevo worked enrly and lato to mako this onterpriso a succoss. Now thnt the salos of land have incroased the . ondowmont fand to oyer $160,000, tho intereat on which i8 appliod to the sapport of this Col- loggo, with the suro progpoct that additional aalos will soon donblo oven this nmount ; with al the advantagon of land improved, buildings onlarg- od, tenchers moro experienced, managers moro wiso, Logislators more liberal, and all partios moro oharitablo; with the Increase of books in s ovorincronsing lbrary, additions - to tho- alrondy Inyaluable = ontomological cobinot, oud othor dopsrtments of tireasurod ppocimens,—all - should bo oncouragod to hopo for o glorious future. Tho advantages for o practicnl, s woll ra n sciontifie, oduoation, are incronsing from year to year ; and, whon flold and orehiard sball_liave boon placo on o parwith other better perfocted dopartmonts, no institution of the State will bo more popular with farmors and pomologiats, or be able to ren- dor botter sorvico to tho pooplo in all tho varied sphores of practical lifo. L. THE MODOC WAR. Particulars of the Becent Fight. Yreka (Jan, 23) l)rspalclll ‘{'a the San Francicco Bul . etin. - David Ream arrived liere lato Inat night from tho seat of war. ITowas all through the fight, and brings tho following additional particulara: On the bluff at the edgo of tho lava bed wero found nino head of caitlo recontly slaughtored by the Indiena, Procecding a milo farthor tho forces formed & line of battlo, both right and Ioft, oxtending in'n somi-circlo threo miles long from tho Inke, Colonel Perry was on tLo right, and Captain TFairchild on tho loft, Fairchild’s company rushod shead of tho line and got fnto- a torrible racky place, whore goveral had-to romnin until n,fiht for a chanco to got out. . When they did, thoir boots and_clothes wero torn in pioces in gotting ovor tho rough lava :and eharp rocks. The troops on the right mode o connection .with -Dernerd’s com- mand oporating on tho oppsito o, and whila doing #o the. Indipng brolke through the lwes and procooded down toward the Inke, whero thoy pounced an Fairchild's mon. Near this point tho Indians also cemo out for a flold fight with Coptain Buwrtow's Infantry, who charged cn them, running thom into tlio rocke. The wounded of Fairchild’s company woro takon o Fort Klnmath, It is thought Jorry Crools is fatslly wounded, hovinghis tEigh bono smashed to piecos. Ho had to rido 25 miles on baro back_ befora reaching Darnard's camp. Goorgo Roberts was ablo to walk around noxt morning, but is mortally wounded. The how- itzers wero packed on abimals in soctions, and put togothor whero neoded, but it was too foggy to uso thom to advantage, only a fow sbolla hay- in‘x boen firad. Towarda evening, after tho fight, an Indian ni(i‘nu-nm was soon botween tho troops and Whoaton's camp, which eamp had been loft with only ton men a4 & guard to tgu supplles and am- munition thore. Colonol Keluoy's Orogon Vol- unteors belng the renr guard hors, mado & gal- Innt fight, saving tho artillery and wounded from bofug capturcd, and alto preventing tho Indinns from seizing tho camp at hondquartors. Gonoys! Wheaton, and all his oflicers and mon, aro apolon of in tho highest praiso for thoir gal- lantry, Colonel Porry, who was Reriously wounded, hns been takon to Camp Warner, whore hig family roside. Although tho fog was unfayorable for an open fight, it is bolleved it saved many morofrom being Lilled nnd wounded, a8 the Indians could not seo to shoob at long range from bolilud rocks or from tho high bluffs, On Bunday, Ream, with an escort of 26 Ore- gon volunteors, loft Van Bromor's to go to Dar- nard's camp viibh the Liorses bolonging to Fair- child's company, aud, when within gix miles of TLost River, saw four of Jnck's baud on a scout, Tt is foarod that Captain Jack will mako a raid on tho Butto Crook sottloments, within forty miles of Yroka., The Indinus captured seven guna nnd considorable ammunition. Thors are at lonst 200 Indinns in tho flald, and thoy nro constantly drilled by loaders woll mcquainted withi milifary taotics, and capecially smbushing, Captain Fairchild writea to R. 0. Dowitt as follows : _** Tho day was unfsvorablo, The fog was 80 denso we could nob sco fifty yards, As wo charged the Indfans they could hoar tho comwauds of our oflicers, nnd always toll where we wore, and woe could not ‘moo them. 'Tho fixst wo_would know we would receive o deadly volley, I havo beon fu & fosd many closo places, but that beet suythivg aver saw. Our boys wers in tho hottest of tho fight. I am in hopes Govornor Booth will chango hig mind, and lot ua raise some troops. I think tho ofiicars beliove Dorris aud myself told thom tho facts about tho Indirns and thelr location. Tha rogulars fought woll, and charged stronghold after stronghold. The In- dinng would firo and fall back, Colonol Groon took mora chances than any man Iever amw, He welkod tho lines and gave bis orders during tho hottest of tho fight, and novor took sholter or dmh‘ud. It looked like a miraclo that ho es- capod.” —_— A Stabbing Affraye Spacial Despateh to_The Chicago L'ribune, Nomyar, I, Jan, 30.—Yestorday morning, twa miles north of ihis place, o farmer named Colin (Jnmiwbull, was fatally atabbed by & boy, named David Waterman, who is about’19 yoars of ngo. Tho cauap of the aifloulty was some trouble, occasioned gomo tima since, by the cat- tle of a brother of Waterman broaking iuto the corufleld of Cumploll. Four plusiciana pro- nounco the wound, which is a stab in tho abdo- mon, punohlrlnq o lntestino, certainly fatal, = Campball's deposition, taken to-doy, tostifios that no blows were struck by him, and that Waterman bed tho luife with whioh he stabbed Lim opon in his pocket, Bome timo since,'in consaquonce of tho ill-feoling al- rondy montioned, Campbell had forbiddon §Vnt- orman to trospass upon his ground, and when tho aiftray ocourrod, yestordsy morning, Wator- man was crossing lils door and yard, The ac~ cused waived oxamiuation to-day, and was ad- mittod to boiliu the sum of €2,000, in dofault of . O, Kodaio, Professor of Chemistry. Georgo T, Fairchild, Profossor of English Literaturo, Albert J. Cook, Profesdor of Zaology and Entomulofl{. Willlam X, Beal, Professor of Botany and Horticulture, with other Professors snd nusist~ ants, Tlie Oollogo proposes tq impart a knnwlu;}u of acionco, and ita gpezlluném; totho arts of lifo; to afford to {ts afudents the beneflt of daily ~wugx} Jabor ; to prosecute experimonts for tho ¥ “=¢‘Agrizyltyre gnd - Horpoultuld; o promotion u. .., = wouyugy of study ea fford inetruction, in eu.. . Srmedaten, in tho orgauio Iaw of tho Goliogo contu.w., the application of solenco to the ~various arta of life; and to afford the l which he was takon into oustody by the Bhoriff of tho county, —_— In tho Commission now sltting at Albany, N Y., to suggent amondmentn {0 the Btuto Conati- tution, Mr. Sohatl, Dircotor of the Now York Contral Railroad, furnishod an intorosting uta- tintical tablo showing that in 1872 thore wore 204,851 onts panacd ovor the New York Central, of which 108,244 frelght: and 21,388 atock cara woro transferred to ifiu Boston & Albany Road, snd 03,140 froight and 16,670 stook cars to tho Hudson River ltozd, * An officor of tho Central furthor statop,that of il caghwerd - through 4<aivbit, 81 pgr squb ‘qul ‘?o‘ Now-¥ork wnd 69 S whne ot N ol s DOF Gl 40 NOW seumenm RAILROAD NEWS. J. Q. Hoyt’s Northern Trunk Line. Organization of a New Ilinois Route. ’ Letter on the Subject of Transpor- -« tatiom. The New York Tribune vocontly published an oxtended articlo, ncoompanylng it with & mop, on & new northoern trunk lino, the roalization of which bas Leon for many yonrs tho pot idea of Alr. Jghn Q. Hoyt, . its Vico President, . who was formerly*of Chicago. Tho connolidated line, ns now complated, undor the namo of tho * Now Yorl, Boston & Montreal Rilway," is 850 mllos in longlh, oxtonding from Now York to Rutland, 'Vt Tho roads entering into this -consolidation aro the Now Yorkk & Doston, the Putnsm ‘& Dutchess, the Datchoss & Columbin, the Pine Plains & Albeny, and the Harlem Extension, The combination waa mado undor tho laws of Now York, and tho line to Rutland is now con- trolled by o corporato organization, At Rutland connection i3 mado with the Rutland & Burlington Railroad to 8t. Albans, and at the Intter point with the Ogdonsburgh & Lake Clamplain Railvoad, -and also with Montreal, where it will meet the proposed Northorn Pacifio & Montreal Rallroad, to Duluth, Brauchos itave oo projected to many commanding pointa on tho roads of Commodore Vendorbilt's systom, and through conneotions to poiuts hundrods of milea boyond that systom East and West. It s oxpacted that within two or threo years all the Tines will bo built and in running order, and the trunk lino from Now York to Tarrytown will bo tho pagsage-way ovor which a Isrgo part of the trafic of Now Eugland, tha Groat West, and tho Canadas will entor Now York, Thia systom iwas devised o little moro than thres {oom 8go by Mesars, J. Q. oyt g\vlm was, weo boliove, rosiding in Chicago ot that timo) nnd A, MoKinny, who have sinco boon working silently but offectively for ita con- summation. Tha prosont consolidation and the Gilbert Elovated Railway will bo tho results of thoir completod Isbors, . An important foaturo of the consolidation is its connectlon- with tho Frio Railroad by the fl?mposud high bridgo at Boolalil, 18 alay tho Baltimoro & Ohlo, and the Tonnsylvania Central \:{ the nequisition of the Hudaon Buspension Bridgoand New England Rail- Company, Tho Erie isin fact an active partnor in tho matter, and thus tho rival Tactions, Vandorbilt and tho menagors of tho Erie, will Liave a common intorost. The consoli- dation will bring about the early completion of- the Mudson River Susponsion Bridge. Whon this bridge and oll tho ronds montioned in tho proporod’ consolidation shall have been com- ploted, with the systom of elevated raflyays around the City of Now York, psssengors from nestly ovory part of tho United States and tho Oanadas may be landed without change of cars in any part of tho metropolis. Tho froight trafilo otwoen Now ILngland asnd the Wost will also be rovolutionized. ~The atockboldors of tho mew consolidated Compnny have olected the following Diractors und ofticors : Prosidont, Georgo H. Brown ; Vice Presidont, John Q. Hoyt; Diroctors, G. H. Brown, -J. Q. Hoyt, A. McKinney, H. H, Van Dyelr. Fonoph Salin Thvioy, Williom Seligzhaon, G, P. Lowrey, B Ogdon, M. W. Tilden, C.Myor, 'W. J. 8. Bhultzo, aud A. A. Soloner. A NEW ILLINOIS ROAD. A mooting was beld in Woodstock, Iil., on ‘Tuesdny last for.the purpoge of taking action in rolation to a prospective railroad from Varng, in Marshall County, running through Peru aud Mondots, in LaSrlle County ; Bycamore, DeKalb County ; Woodstock, Greenwood, and m’chmond, in NoHenry County, to the Stato Line. Quite o number of ropresontatives were present from differont points on the lino, and consider~ ablo futeront was manifested by citizons of Woodstock, and otber townsin the county. Lho mooting e orgenized by tho appointmont of Ohne, Koftum, of Bycamoro, as Ghnirman, nn a Johnson, of Woodstock, Bocretary. Aftor an intorchange of viewston {he subject. rticlos of associntionn wore sdopted, ns follows: Anzione 1. Namo of Corporation: Varua, Pa Mendota & Siato Lino mnw:f Oumplmy.v e A 2, o commenica at Varug, In Marshall County, 1il,, running through Pert and Mendota, LaSalle Cotinty, Sycamore, Deltalh Couuty,. Woodstock, Greenwood, Richmond, to State Line, fa McHenry County, 111, 3. Tho principal ofilco of said Compsny to be estab- lishod at \Vuod!rl‘ock iy 4, The corporation to commence business og t 1atday of Moy mext, sie, capital stock of suld corporalion establishod 8. Eno, G, Tho ot £3,000,000, 6. Tho names of corporation, 7. The nomes of tho first Board of Direciors which aro as followe, to-wit : G, G, Blerrick, Chicago ; J, 0. Crocker, % A, Brown, vine, Bycamore ; 3, stock i3 Mendota ; 0, Keilum, 1. L. De- 1. Joslyn, 3, H, Jolpson, Wood +°T, D, Browater, Peru ; Job _Toles, ‘Iryon, Hebron ;' W, H.' Purdy, Richuiond ; M. rs, Burlington ; J, Hagorman, Milwaukee, Tho capital atock sball bo dlvided luto 300,000 ahiirea of $100 cach, ‘This looks as though tho partics who have In- torosted thomsolves m this mattor are in enr- nest, and will push things forward at s rapid rate. *“ Wo think,"” says tho Woodstocle Sentfnel, ““ no ono will disputo that the advantages of this route would bo groat, passing, as it will, through one of the ficest fasming countries in the Wost, bosides openiug up a diract route to Bt. Lonis, aud to the cosl flolds of Central INlinois. Timo Grechivood ; and spaco will not permit us to spoak at length ugon this subject at the prosent time, but wo shall rofer to "it again noxt weolk, fvipg our rondors o sketch of the proposed routo, ite ad- vantages to all classes, and tho ronson why our capitalists and business men should put their shoulder to the wheol and help push it ton spoedy completion.” THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune: Sin: Homo yours siuco you published in TrE Tnin. uxE an articlo which, I belleys, you at that tmo statod wan from {he pen of & gontleman then or Iately con- nected witn o prominent rallrond entering this” clty, In ithat articls 4t waa claimed that a triple track road, with sufficicut rolling stock, could move s bushel o gralu from Chiosgo o tho seaboard for, I boliove, 8 conts, aud that 138 enrrylug capsclly would bo—woll, untold millons s but X doot recollect as to that fea~ turo of thearticle. The republication of that articla would bo an interesting snd timoly contribution to the literaturo upon tho subject of the transportation of grain from tho Wost, In this connectiou, permit mo to suggeat that moans ought to be taken at onco to obtuis somo definlte Lnowledgoou this matter of transportation of graip to th East, through o commission catablished for thut purpose, ~And althonghit is by no means likely that avid A, Wells ia tho only msn compotent for such o position, still thero can'bono_question that his pamo would siTord a surer_guaranty to tho come plotencsannd accuracy of & Teport upou that subjoct thgn thatof any man in tho country, East or Wost, What Tliavo to suggest is, that tho Leglslature poss s regolution authorizing the Governor to appointa Com= migsloner fo inveatigato thab subject, and provida wnitoble componentfon ; and that, in order fo cut off {ho napirations of any ono from thia Stato to tho posi- {20, 8 proviso bo inserted that tho appointeo slall nat boa'cltlzen of the State of Tlinols, And, as this s o matter iu which ull tho Westorn States are interoated, s resolution should bo adoptod inviting tho co-opora- ton of ail tho Btatas intorested in tho matter, and tho uppolntmont of Commissioners to act with the Com- missloner (0 b appoluted LY the’ Govoraor of thls ate, In my judgment, the only way (ho West will ever Tiavo rellef i thio ownorahip of o road samething liko that deeribed in tho arilcle abovo referred to, It seoms tome entirely practical for tho Bates inforestod in this matter to contribute funds 1o the eatabiishinent of kuch a thoroughfare, Tho only trouble {8, that job- Dery gots into such publio enterprison ; but, even at tho exponse of curiching a fow cormorants, ‘I think it onght o b dono, My mpreation ix, that'wo can nover obtain any sufilcient rellot-by a waldr raute, but that Would b a proper matter for {ho” Comulailon o fu- vestigate, Withaut attempting ta discuss the proposition ad- vaucod by Govornor Palmor in Lia last messago as to tho condemnation of oxlating raiiroada to publjo usea in the mannor suggustad by Lim, it 1s safo euough to 80y that tho logal propoation involved fa far from be- fug unguostionnbloy aud tiat 8 & qisttar of publle polfey tho faking from individuals or corporntions valusblo franchises and {mprovemonts, aftor (hey huyo eou mado profitable through the entorprise of their ownors, simly bocaus it would bo conventent for tho public fo own such & place of property, would bo dia- ustrous in tho extreme, VVith tho sausb proprioty tho confiscation of a proaporoua cotton-mill or a proiitabl Dotel might bo advocated, The oxtont o which cor- would Do doveloped in the Btato of 2yt woi tuau Sorated, Tfmsgluo limited, would bio very “This matter of {ransportation hua also been brought Lofory Congress ; but if tho Constifutiun means now whiat {t didut tho e of {ts adoption, thion Congreas 1m0 no wnthotity fo loglalate concerning tho mattor, Tt must bo obvious to thie most casual veador that the 560! of tho Qonstitution which declares that Qou- gresn shiall havo the power(To royulate commorco with forelgn natfous, snd among tho soveral Btates, and with the Indian tribas,” isd no roferenca to a atage concl: o volileles for g trunsportation of merchun- aise-whiel happened'to cross o Biato Liny, but Lad ref- oronca sololy o intercourae betweon the sovoral States, via the lakes und rivers of the country, aud, with! out acopyof thy Foderallat a}lund, sm dlsposed o beliovo that [ ft bad roference ta the sights: “ol- offizeny iof the difurent, Blatos 1o 4 u’fifi and without tho impoaition of ct import into {ho difforent Statoq burdon of that wort, If thls Ia & corroct oxposl thatartclo of the Gonstitution, thon clearly any cae sumption of powar Ly Congrosd i that dlrsction n i violatlon of the Constitution, sud ono moro dvanca towardn tho centrallzation of power in the Fedoral Qovornment, which augnra s unfsvorably for the futuro of the Government. My conclusion is, that, 5t tho publio nocesaitien aro such as to roquire that the public own a raflrond, lot thom bulld or buy, s may bo and on the wholoTattor fot's 10 thelr bost advaniago, vasliftlo morslight, OCOIDENTAL, POMEROY. Senntor Yorls Speach Exposing ¢ 01 Subsidy.” Topeka, Jan, (Jan, 2), Deapateh to the St, Touis Dema Tho following s & copy of Senator Yorl's spocch this attornosn: * Bofors I placo in nom« ination the namo of any man, I havo a short ox- planation to malo, a8 {t concorns all horo pros~ ont, and is of great import to_ tho Btato of Kana 8ay, prosont and futuro, I dosiro the closo at-, tontion of the momborn of the Convantion to what Ihavo to eny. 'Two wooks ngo yostorday,: X camo to Topokn, n sonnd and carnest nuti Pomoroy man. 1 thought that in bin dofont Inid tho rogonoration of the Stato and party, and I cheorfully and ounthusinstically nll‘:m] mysol? with tho anti-Pomoroy olomont in tho Logisla- ture. Gross chargos had beon made againat Son~ ator anemy[ in connection With a costnin woll- known lettor to W, W, Ross, These charges had sesumed a gorfous form in a meoting of tho ant{-Pomeroy caucus, a fow ovenings ago, whon o man, by tho ngmo of Olark, exhibited §2,000in twonty oue-hutidrod-dollar bills, declaring that ho had roceived tho samo from Mr. Pomeroy for aigning o confossion to_the offect that ho had forgod tho letter and the signaturo theroto. 1 hind no evidence as to tho truth of thesa charges, but Mr. Pomoroy’a namo haying beon associnto with a0 moany rumors of o similor naturo made me givo thin roport crodenco, though I liad na doesiro to condomn Mr. Pomoroy without & hear. ing. Whon I camo here I had been waited upon at varlous timos by frionds of Ar. Pomoroy, wha:: ifllod 1mo with arguments in favor of his pre-om- nent fltness for the position, and attestations of Lis innocouco of tho charges bronght- agalnat him. I was asked sovoral timea to have aninter- viow with Mr. Pomoroy, 'and finally consonted, it this interviow could tsko placo in the presonce of s third party. Mr. Pomeroy assonts «ad to tho presenca of ouo or any number of my frionds. Accordingly, on Friday Inst, I waited: upon Mr, Pomoroy, &nd there, in the prosencaot: Captain Peck and two others, wo had a briet conversation, Aftorn gouoral talk about hig proepacta and other mattora rolating to the cam- paign, IFI.M to him tho quostion direct : * DIid you or did you not write tho_lattor signed with our namo and dirccted to W. W. Rosa, and hay- ng reforence to oortain profits in Indisngoods 2" In roply he handed to mo the afidevits of J, B. Btowart, and one signed by sovoral citizons of Linwrence, and askad me {0 read thom and say whethor I thought ho was the author of the let tor. I roplied, *Mr. Pomeroy, you are the most infamous scowndrel ' that ever wolked tho oarth, or tho worst dofamed man, that over stopped on Kpusas s0IL" Hera the intor view ended, and, as I mx:pwud, all relations bo- twoen Mr, Pomoroy and myacif; but & day or two afterwards I was importuned to accord to Mr, Pomoroy & privato intorviow, At this tima it becnme apparout to sovoral -suti-Pomeroy mombery that illicit and criminal means wore ba- ing omployed to securo Mr. Pomoroy's ro-clea- tion, and it becnme us, as far as layin our power, to clrcumvent the omployment of them. - [ cone sulted with tha tried and” trusted frionds of thia ‘movemont, Messra, Simpson, Wilson, Johnson, and othors, ag to tho course I should pursuo, and upon their advico I acted. I visited Mr. ‘Pomoroy's rooma in tho darlk and focrot, reconon - of;tho Taftt House on Monday night, and at that intorviow my voto was bargainod fora considere~ tion of ©8,000—19,000 of- which woro paid to mo & promise of the additional $1,000 whon my voto liad beon cast in his favor. I now, in tho prescnce of this honorable body, hand over the that it be counted by tho Secrotary.” Tho sponler advanced and Yluced upon the Chiet Clork’s dosk two parcels of money, ons open and_snounting to $2,000, and o browa pa~ por parcol tied with bwine, which, upon cxaminee tion, was found to contain £5,000 in greonbacka of Jarge denominafion. I nsk, Mr. Prosidont, that {hatmonoy be uscd to dofray the oxpenses of prosocuting -tho investigation” of omeroy for britery aud corruption. My % Tofvauos, xtends th deed ns well a8 in thought. I havo an aged pe= rent whoso life hag been spared to bless ne with hor lovo and hor approval of the conduct of my lite. Ihayoawifoand little oncs to whom I lope to boquoath a mame which, howover ob- seure, thoy may Lave no reason to blush to hear pronounced. Yot this corrupt old man comea to mo and makes & bargain for my soul, and makes mo a proposition which, if accepted in the faith and spirit in which it is offored, will meke m; children go through 1ifo with hung hoads su burning chiosks et ovon mention of the name ui him who begot thom. Earth has no infomy more damnablo than corruption; no oriminal more to bo exocrated than ho who corrupts tho Ropresontatives of Hmf:eople in furthierance of his private intorests. I domand, Mr, Prosident aud gontlemen, that the astion of S. 0. Pomo- roy it this contost bo thoroughly oxamined, snd that tho corruption money that lica upon that table bo tho instrument of retribution in_proses cuting thnt investigetion. I furthor demand that this body give to-doy auch an expression of their sontiments in this matter that the regenor~ acy of owr glorious young Commonwealth may bo proolajmed throughout tho land, and thabd Kansas mny stand erect and freo among tho Btates of tho Union—purs smons tho purest, and honored throughout the world, The statements I have made are but partiol and incomplefe. The hour or two that I passed in tho don of infamy, in the Tafft Houso, lot in up- on my mnd guch & flood of enlightonment as to tho dotestablo practices of the Kansas politician, that T have no words in_which _to_express_tho knowlodgo I galucd of tho dopth of dogradstion 4 pure ropublican governmont Des roachod Tho disclosures then made to me implicate somo’of the most promiuont and respactablo mon in Kanaps, 1 learned from Mr. Pomeroy'a lips that bis spios nud emissaries wero working in our caucuses to sell us out. Thoso disclosures X will not now make; thoy are sufficiont to satisfy mo that the most conscienceless, infamous be-~ trayer of tha solemn truat reposed in him by the wu} of the pooplo is S. O.Pomeroy. I ‘have beon Mtuntug by no motive, personal or vindic- tive, in my action Lioro to- lfi. I have not made the fight on Mr. Pomery in Mr. Ingalle’ intorest, in Mr. Lawa's or Mr, Harvoy’s intoreat, but in behulf of tho botrayed and lou,g-snuerlng pun{)ln of this Commonwaonlth, and in furtheranco of the solomn onth I took whon I entored these halla an o Roprasontative of tho fl(‘m le. As to tha truth of 'what I havo stated in the presence of this august end honorablo body of Reprosenta- tives of tho sovorcign poople, and beforo tho Almighty Rulor of tho Universe, I solemnly de~ clare and afllrm that evory word I have s‘pokun in God's truth, and nothing but thoe truth,” AWFUL AFFAIR. A Dwelling ¥ouse Sinks Into a Coal Mine —"%wo Ohildren Burned to Denth. From the Davenport Gazetle, Jan, 28, A gontleman from Cleveland, 1l., yestordsy, brought news of o terrible castialty which og- curred noar that placo on Friday last. The local- ity of the accidout was Bakor's conl mino. The house of a miner, named Robert Bpargo, stood directly over an old chambor of tho mine. On Fridey afternoon tho earth under the house sud- denly eunk, mmEin%lnm ‘dwolling to drop into tho cavity to a dopth of four or five foot, Mrs. Bpargo and four children woro gathered about a atove in omo of tho rooms, The floor gave way and tho stove wont into tha cavity below, and the mother and ler childven wero pnml{flmgd upon it and tho firo which had fallen out of it. Bovoral men work- ing not far distant eaw the Louso sink, and ran toward the place; but bofore they reachod the liouso the hoart-randing screams of Mra. Spargo ond the children, and the smoke whioh was pouring out of the honse, told them of the hor- ¥ible ' sityation the family was in. The men rushed into the yard, took water from some barrols, ontered tho bouso, and succoaded in ox- tinguishing tho firo about the woman and hor littlo ones. DBut whon tho) and the children out, the spectacla _thoy rosentod was 80 porfoctly awful os 0 bo " siokening, Ono ohild, a girl in her 4th year, . was burnod .to." doath, Another, youufinr than tho decoased, was burned 80 that eho died tho next day. Mrs, Spargo and tha othor two children were burned iu a fright- ful manvor, though at last accounta all throg woro living, Tho clothes of all wore burned took Mrs, Bpargo oway, mostly, their hoads wero singed, aud the flosh’ on thelr faces and limbs and bodlos bligs terad, hanging in somo places in bloody shrods, All woro taken to the house of. n noiglibor, and the dootors In‘Qleveland wera soon with the poor viotims, with remedios, and everything vosglblo was done to alloviate thelr sufterings. But the eaving of any of thom was doubtfnl, Mr, Bpargo wes abuont at the timo of the acoi- dont, 1llo was not nware of tho oondition of things benoath tho gito whon he purchased tha progerty. .. £ L el SE S on that ovnumiea,ouo tho next afternoon, and: smount of 87,000, just as I. recoived it, and sk ,