Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1873, Page 2

'THE CHICAGO DAILY . TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, _FEBRUARY i, — OUR IRCN INTERES‘TS._ of __The Menomonee Region ~.-- ~Wisconsin. A Splendid Field for Enterprise and Capital. i fts Mineral Wealth--Tts Future for Chicago, How Chicago - May Become Oue of {he Great Iron Marts of the World. SIXTH ARTICLE. The Menomones River emplies into Lake fichigan at the village of tho eame name. The town is the most sonthérn in the peninsalar por- tion of Michigan. Onthe opposite side of the yiver is . MARINETTE, i & new Wisconsin villzge, ior sevoral months the northiern terminus of the Lake Superior Division of the Clicago & Northwestern Railroad. The river has iis originin Lake Michigammi, twenty- ve miles from the head of Keoweenaw Bay. Its general course is southeastetly. For a consider- sble portion of its length, it is the bonudary bo- tween Wisconsin and Mickigan. The stream is of eome size, but is swift, and often interrupted By rapids end falls, which render it entirely use- 1éss for tho purposes of steam-nayigation. Tho regicn through which it fows is AN UNBROEEN WILDERNESS, nbounding in pine forests, which are being rap- idly sonihilated, and in hills and monntains rich iu minerals. Thero is not a single village, 20d scarcely & permanent hebitation, from its sonrco 1o its mouth. The presence of iron ore in large quantities aloug its banks is & metter of great intercst to Caicago, rendered especially 80 by the completion of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad toa point few milos frum its progpective mines. The natural outlet for {he riches of the region is probubly Eecansba, which has facilities for the extensive shipment of ores, this season tobe largely increased. Tio railroad from Marinette runs northesst on & section-line to 8 point nearly- dus west of Escencba, then'turns sbruptly east- ward toward that village. * TAL IBON RECION, st its goutheastorn comer, is only shont 12 miles from this~ elbow,” or abrupt turn of the rail- roed, which point is about 20 miles from Escunsba. Eecanabais not to excoed 40 miles 1rom the nearost point in tho-iron region, which is # litile to tha south of west of it, commencing in the range of townships mext eouth. Ithas, therefore, cvory advantage in competing for the buziness of transportation. The nesrest point to the mining lands, on the inke, is Deer Creek, 26 milos distant, whore o Lerbor can be easily made, and to which a railroad can bo completed st litflé cxpense, if euch an enterprize should be deemed necessary. - Mononionce can’ Lardly bo talen into consideration as a point of shipment a8 the oré would hisve to be_ transported 60 or 80 ‘miles to reach this port. Forty miles of new railrond would be all that -would be meeded to resch any mino thai might be” opened, even in -ihe most Tomote part of the Menomoncs ifon Tegion. The #ract of country which contains the oves is snid 0 be zbout 20 miles in But little can be dox g? sdvance of railroad its 1 developing tho region cormunication. Abou DiCALCULABLE WEALTH in the richest of iron ores there can bo but Littls doubt.- It has been explored by many of the most reputable geologists in the country, und examined” by ehrewd manufscturers agd capitalists, who have invested largely in tSe Iands. Nothing is wanted but a'railroad to briug capital and Jabor to the place. - Were overy parb of tho region mnde noceseiblo by rail, twonty - mines would be put in operation within 1 year, such in the confidence in its wniversal regonrees, &nd 20 mucl capital in weitiug investment in 50 profitable a branch of business as iron mining and manofacture. The Chicago & Northwestern Reilvond, having almost tapped the mining lands, in expected to inougurste the cnterprise, aud probably not in%vain. Bhould {his grent organ- ization fail to {ulfil ‘public cxpectations in this respect, o road will probably bo built to the nearest’ point on Lake -Alichigan by capital- ists directly. interested in the opening of the mines. il enother possiblo railroud venturs is the extending of the Mlilvan- kee & Northorn Railrosd to Lake Michigammi; which would pass through tho heart of tho Menomoree iron district. It is understood that uegotiations for tho funds necessary to the building of it are making with English, capital- ists. Such a road would be of immediatd advan- tsge to Milwaukee, but quite s strongly beneficial fo Chicago. THE INDUCEXENTS b to uny rosd to tap the region ere_great, if tho basiness dove by tho_rosd from arguette to the iron mines of the Peninsula, and the profits thot have accrued therelo, can’ bo taken nsa criterion. The stock of few railroads in tho couniry have paid better than that of the Mar- quette, Houghton & Ontonogan Railroad, whoso whole business has Jbeen the _transportation .of ores from the various mines of the region lo Marquetto. 1t was built and entircly owned by personn in the mining intorest, but recently, with its Lundred miles of main and } trazk, it Lias grown too cumbersome for iudividual in- terests, and is rapidly Lecoming.a separato urganization, occupied merely with matters_ of transportation. If the Chicago & Northwertom complote the xoad into tha Menomonce Tegion Tor which it has already mado tho prelimins:y surveys, it will never have Teason (0 repent of so_enterprise Lonorable fo iteelf, and highly Lenoficial to tha general public, TACTS FOR CHICAGO. It has been for some timo a settled principle thal Lake Blichigan sud the product of its shores Lelong to Chicago. Itis not merely that this ciey e part of the great Northwesf, as yeb but slightly developed, butit has peculiar advantages for commanding the trade of the region, and for the reshipmens of tho raw and manufsctured sofumodities which it furnishes. Its monopoly of the trado fa iron oro and iron “blooms," or pik-iron, conld never bo so completo aud abso- fate 88 i3 its trade in ;lumber; bnt, yoar by year, it should absorb moré and mord of ‘this branch of commorce, until its prosperity in this direc- tion slioald put it beyond Lie reacli of competi- . For several yoars past iron ore could be icd from any part of tho Peninsula to Chi- 0 for & dollar or 4o less per ton than'to any goit on the other lakes, Detroit excopted, and the advantage oyer Detroit bas always beon do- zided. The rate from Marquette to Chicago was lust senson $2.50 the gross ton, and from Esca- uzbe 10 Chicago $1.25 the gross ton, From the wines to Escanaba, the froight has been £1.75 the gross ton, makivg the freight from the present mines ‘to Chieago €3 the ton. A comparative ' tablo of fraights will bo elsewhere given, showing the snperior sdvantages that Chicago possesses in rolation to the entire iron region of theso latitudos, Ex- perience has proved that Eastern railroads can, carry profitably at the low rate of 1_cent s ton permile. If the railroads in this far Northwest- eru region, with many disadvantages to contand with,—of which the climate is not the least,— caa do likewise, all the region south of this will Le greatly benufited. [ A COMPARISON OF DISTANCES, Not to ba t0o exact, Chicago is, in round num- vers, 875 miles from tho Lake Stiperior fron Te- gion, and 300 miles from the mining Jands of the 3fcaomonea. At tho rate named, and if it were Tound decirable to transfer ore g6 far in winter, Chicago could regaive ore by rail, in winter, st a lower rato tho groks ton than it can now be faken by boat to the nearest point on the Lower Lakes, where it can bo to any extent utilized. Even Lztroit pays more than 84 per ton for the frans- tor of oro from the mines to its furnaces. What is Lere said only refers to Chicago asn place for tha emeltirig or poseible reshipment of ores. WUAT MAY BE REALIZED. The developzent of the iron lands of the Me~ uomec:se region will .bring into existence innu- werablo furnsces throughout the Btate of Visconein, and along both shores of Lake “fichigan, whose. mannfactured iron will mosly eek Chicago, and make it in time one of the grestest iron marts of the world. As & place for the smelting of iron, it can hardly be uual—mq ore and the coal being obtainod equal facility, from points almost equidis- t, the means of transportation belng onaid- THE MENONONEE REGION. For 40 miles ormors above its month, the Menomonee lows through a flat aid unintercai- ing region, thickly grown with pino and hard- wood timber. At this distanco, ‘the geologic character of the conntry changes ; the limestone and later formations disoppear, and_{he primi- tive rocks of the iron-beariug poriod begin, Tho ecencry is described ag being._varied and Toma tic. Tiapids and falls in the riveraro numero: Inkes, with besntifully clear water, are commo; and the conformation of the country is Lighly picturesque. . The hills along tho banks are ab- rupt, and even precipitons ; while, at s distanco from the river, they aro, for the most part, grace- ully rounded, Tike thoso of the iron localitics iu the Upper Peninsula. 'TARA THE CATARACTS. Some of the cataracts are described as among the most atiractive in tho country,—the water falling, in several instances, a distance of from 50 to75 feet, breaking into a cloud of foam, and resounding through the still woods with a noise liko that of a small Niagara. Two of the. most imposing of these cataracts the Indians call Big Smoky and Little- Smoky,—the names being given on account of the mist which rises from them. The riveris of respectable dimen- sions, and would be navigablo excopt for these interruptions. As it is, there are loni,equiu‘t streiches of the streaw, which could be navi- gated without dunger by the largest steam-craft that ply on the Tllinois River. OTHER MINEBAL WEALTI. Tron is not only the only valuable material found near the Menomones. Merblo of fino quality lias been discovered in fargo quantities. tis doscribed by sll persons who have made extensive explorations in tho region, and there is little difference of opinion in rogerd to its value. As will bo soen from various authorities quoted below, it is of the most primitive forma- tion, ‘of verious exquisite tints, and can be used for faany ormamental purposes, if ot a8 & guild- ing material. It is 60 sbundant s to bo really inexhaustible. If it is desired to emelt the ores in'the vicinity of the mines, 3 GHARCOAL ¢ can be abundautly supplied from wood that thess “forests of rd t abound in tho noighborhood, especially along the northern beltof tho iron deposits, wich is supposed to contain the richest ores. - FOSTER AND WIITNET. . Having described the Menomonee iron region in theso genoral torms, it is deemed best by the writer to descend to moro minuto particalars, and togive the anthority on which this knowl- edge is founded. It hes beon known for many yoars that iron cxisted here, but the knowledgo was useloss, as tho locality was practically inac- cossible. - Its full development is now moroly s question of a fow miles of raflroad and s fow months of timo ; thereforo it may bo considered, iu cffect, a thing accomplished. Various authori- tics will be quoted, and, if there is repetition, it will bo underatood 1s_Leing_merely for tho pur- poses of corroboration. Messrs. Foster and Whitney axo nccomplichod geologists, znd for- merly in tho service of the United States, who explored thoroughly the Lako Snperior region over twonty years 'ag6, making their report to the Genmeral XLand Offico in the fall of IS5l What theso gentlemen must have undergone while Fmeemfing their labors among ths woods and mountaina and along the streams of this desolnte count Le faintly imaginod “by one who is familiar 'witl the dificultios of locomotion even after this lapso of time. SLATE, MARDBLE. AND OTIHER MATEWIALS. The rcpart of Foster and Whitney mentions ingxhaustible beds of slate near tho Trin Falls, of tho Menomonee Liiver. Of various otlier use- ful materials thoy spenk in general terms s fol- lows: Of tho limestones ead marbles they goy: “The marbles occurring in the vicinity of the Carp and Menomouco Nivers may bo calcined 1mtolime.” “The limestones occurring near Carp River, aid on the Merchi-gonig (iMichigammi) and Menomonce, afford beantiful marbles. Tho provailing color {s light piuk, travorsed by veins or seams of desp red; others aro bino nd dove- colored, beantifully veined. They aro suscopti- blo of & finFolish, and locks of any sizo may be procured. ~ For {ables, jambs, and vasos they would rival in Leanty the most cclobrated foreign products. Employed for esternal omzments, the carved lines would withstand tho vicisst tudes of our varislle climate, and , remain sharp for conturies. Thoso Tocks, i placo, oxlibit angular surfaces, which, after cll, is tho best test of théir durabilily, Tragments of pure whito saccharoidal macble, suitable for statuars, have been fonnd npon the enrface, bul the beds from which thoy wero derived Layo not been discovered.” *Somo of the jaspers might be emploved by the lapidary for small orus- ments, but they have Lot yet been fonnd as abundantly, nor s perfect, a8 the juspers in the Tral Mountains, Steatite and serpéntine abound near Sturgeon Falls, on tho Menomonce River. Drab slates aro fonud on the Menomonce, which, if ground and knceded, would make an excellent articlo of fire-brick. 'The dark, closc-grained basalts, and tho porphirics with' & dark greon bage of horableade, and bright red crystals of feldspar, if wrought ito vases and boxes, would rival thoee of Yeypt.” Tho report expresses thio opumion that many of thess mpterials will #go0u be employed for the purposes of constraz- tion and omament.” This was £nid over twonty yeurs ngo, and the timo prophesicd acems to b Closo ot hand. To the resder unfamiliar with tho uses of tho minerals just mentioned, it may bo necessary to cxplain that jesper is simply quariz roddened by an infusion of iron, and is sometimes used for ornpmental purposcs. by lapidaries, Sor- pontino ia a mottled iowe, fao pravaling color being gencrally groen, 'and is used for columus, chimney-pieces, and other ornamental purposes. _ Steatite is what the boys call soap- stone. " Slabs of steatite are used for lining farnaces and stoves. When ground, it is em- ploved for diminish:ng tho triction of machiners. tis alsomade, in Germeny, info gae-burnery, which poesess tho ndvaniogd of not corroding nor becoming stoppod up. Tho white varioties, or those which bezomo 0 by calcination, are em” ploged in tho manufacture of porcelains ; others arc used for fulling. Tho Arabs, according to Sharw, an Englieh traveller, uso steatite in thoir butbs, instend of g0ap, to soften the skin; and Humboldt srates that the Otomaques, an Indian iribo iving on tho banka of the Orinaco, are almost entirely supported, during threo months of tho year, by cating & species of steatits, ich thiey first slightly bake, and then moisten h water. Althongh' theso elegant matorials -exist 8o conveniont to_Chicego, 3t is hardly to De oxpected that our citizens will be in any hasto to edopl their more cccentric uses go Jong as fancy s0aps can be obtained at rossouable prices, and cereals grow in tolorsble abundance on our Drairies. JRON ORES, Mesers. Foster and Whitiog wore United States surveyors as well a8 geologists, and their min- cral observations wero incidental to their snr- 8. Thoy Wero nover off tho scction-lines, and, as the Menomonee regions seemed 2t that tiaé & century ol least from dovelopment, thoy paid less atfention to ila ores than to those Xearer tha shore of Lake Superior. They apoak of tho nost_sontkerly deposits a3 in Township 40, Rango 80, which is about forty miles duo west of Escanaba. Iron has since Leen found in the range of fownships next sonth of this. On their southermost line they describo the ores rg by no means rare, but as becoming more fre- gient and getling richer farther north. They were assisted, a portion of the time, by AIr. John Dart, of Detroit (whoso son is now o resi- dent of Marquetto), who described to them beds of ore, of grest purily, on the north - boun- dary of Township 43, Range 31, whicliis about eighteon miles north of Tscanabs on o meridian, and not far from the bank of the Menomonee River. In Tovwmship 40, Rango 30, duo west of Escanaba, and 3 or 3 miles from the river at the soutbwest cornr of the township, s bed was found 200 feet in broadth, and extending 40 rods alone the weat sido of the summit of = hill 100 feet in height. In Sections 25and 29, Township 40, Rango 38, » doposit was discovered 100 foct in’ width, and visible for at least three-fourtls of & mile in linear extent. An analveis of orn from this bed yiclded from 63 to 63 por cent of metallic iron.” In 'rownuhig 42, Rango 50, and Townehips 42 and 43, Range 32, which are 12 and 18 miles’ north of Escanaba on a meridian, and 4 few miles west of tho river, various ares wero dfacovered, both detached and in place. SN g e VIISCONSIN STATE MANUAL. The Legiclative Manual of the Btste of Wis- consin, for 1873, which has como to hand, is marked by sll the fulness of information, the ac- curacy and careful arrangement, that are usnally to be found in the compilations of Mr. A. J, Turner, ihe Secretary of State. Besides Joffor- son's Manunl, the State and United States Con stitutions, and the other State papers that are generally given in such mannals, it contains his- tories of all the Btale institutions, reformatory and charitable, with the status of their organiza- tion; election returns by {ownships and districts (oow of whicl aro grven in the Ulinois Manual); nancial statistics; tigures of population, past aud resent ; facts of the Btate adminietrative his- - fory from the beginning ; and, to edd the enu- meration of its cxcallent contents, littlo per- sonal gketches of the members of the Legis- Iature. Mr. Tarner must be awarded the credit of giviog Wisconsin by far the neatest and ‘most complete manual published by any Wost- ern Btate. " It is unquestionsbly superior to the defective compilation of our State, which could ot do better than £0 tuko the Wisconsin Magul 888 model, ‘The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad VIRGINIA. Opened to thé Ohio River. The Eanawha Canal--Revival of |2 ‘Trans-Allegheny Canal Projects. California Helps Kentncky Out---Biralvu- lous Movement to the West. From Our Own Correspondent, WasnrsoTox, Jan. 31, 1873, 'THE CHESAPEAKE & OXIO RATLROAD, Nothing has bappenod in the Border States for Soars, of a material character, compared to {ho ‘satisfaction with which Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia bail the opening of the Chosa- poake & Ohio Road. This is the fifth trunk line between tidewater and the Great West, and no railwny south of it crosses tho Alloghenies, except the Virginia & Tennessee Road, which is 150 miles distant, and aims for the' Southwest. North of the Chesapeake & Ohio 100 miles is the Baltimoro & Ohio Railroad; mext zbove, tle Pennsylvania; and then the Erie and the New York Central. THE NEW TRUSK ROAD. The New York Contral Road was opened from Boston to Duffalo in 1842,—thirty years sgo. Nine years later (1851), the Erie Railroad was completed; and, in 1852, Chicago was united to the tide. In 1853, the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, after twenty-six years of heroic lubor, reached the Ohio River; and in, 1654, the Ponn- sylvania Railroad reaclied Pittsburzh. Nineteen more years were supposed to elapso before the Commonwealth of Virginia—an early mover in railyway onterprises—was toconnect the grentest barbor on the coast with the head of relisble navigation on the River Ohio,—Hampton Ronda and Huntington; or, more properly, at present, Richmond City and Huntington,—a distance of 427 miles. ' The last epike was driven last Wedneeday, Jan. 19, 1873. The road has cost £35,000,000, and it extends further west than any corporate lino with which it will compete,— west of tho meridian, of Cloveland, Ohio. FROM CHICAGO TO RICHMOND. West of Huntington, this r0ad has made much progress toward Mount Sterling, in Kentncky, whore, by the lease of the Cincinnati, Louisville, & Lexington State Line Road;’ it becomes an outlet, open all winter, of the eystems of rail- ‘ways belween Chicago and Memphis, in all no less than eight. Chicago ywill be just 870 miles from Richmond, Va., next fall, and only 670 miles from the Whito Sulphur Springs, which will lereafter be a Western watering-place, and no moro than & night's nde in o sleoping-car from Cincinnati. In this prospoct alone, tho quaintnoss of the new rovelation made by this railway will be com- | mended to you of the Great West. A duy and a night will place your bridal conples from Cliica- go on tho Pegks of Otter, and at tho Notural | Eridge, Woyer's Cavo, the graves of Lee and Stonowall Jackson, and the dozen healing springs of tho softest mountain-ridgos in the Union. Near s this country will bo to tons of thousands of tourists weary of the old Northern rounds, it is still the oldest country west of the Allegheny,—tho countr y of Buone, Kenton, and that band of more commercial spirits who founded the City of Lexington- in 1779, where, in the vear 1784, James. Wilkingon opencd the first dry-goods stora in all the West. The Chesapoake & Ohio Railway is in some sort a developuent of the Central Pacific Rail- road; the credit of its complotion is duc to the City of Sacramento, -which ™ contributed to the nearly bazkrapt enterprise of the City of Rich- mond and the Stete of Virginis, o President and 1 force in. ¢ C. P. HUSTINGTON. # The War had broken down utterly the credit of -the businoss names of Virginia's railwey men, and had also surrounded with confidenco the names of the fow merchants of Smeramento who had pushed the Tacific Railway across tho Siorra_Novadus, Hence, while not o dollar could ba brought responsive to the name of Robert E. Leo or any other of the revered names of the Lost Cause, the North raised £15,000,000 at the pronouncement of Huntington’s name,— & name set up over a ehop for many years in & miuing town of the Pacitic Slope. 70 this man and bis aesociates of Now York City, the State of Yirginia gave away, In 1368, the work of thirty- two years, namely: 205 miles of completed rail- way, roaching from Richmond City to Coving- ton, Va., the millions of labor and study put upon the task, and the right-of-way freo to_the River Ohio. Such are the extremities to which Commonvwenlths may be reduced, and such the ogpo_nunities good credit and experience musy obtain. In throe years, tho Sacramento man had found a market for his bonds, and had ,pessed his laden frains from the Ohio River to tidewn- tor at Richmond. to 89 no pe to to of th to th Tz woRK involved nearly as mnch tnnnelling as the Menut Cenis Road between France and Italy, or sevon and_onc-third miles. The Chesapeake & Ohio sttained the highest summit, 2,073 fect abovo the tide, in sight of & monntatn-knob 4,118 feet high; and for 330 miles the road is crossed by the thy virgin rogion, full of precious and useful min- oraly aud productions, connecting the great grain-yalley of Virginia with the grazing piains of the Kentucky blue-grass, and opening up, be- tween the two, richos of cannel coal, salt, merl, slato, comont-clay, porceluin-clay, fire-clay, and pipe-clay; hematito iron ore in veins S0 feet wide, ruuning 214 tons to o ton of pig iron; limestone, granite, lumber, and coppor. 36 ealine springs of West Virginia, which lie bo- sido-this road, are of extraordinary consoquence, 2nd, at the Sriow Hill Works alons, tho_product is 400,000 bushels per annum, runniog 45 gallons of brine to the bushel, yielding besides 100 ponnds of bromine per diem, and ths whola effected with coal found on the spot in & soam & feet thick. HUNTINGTON. - The new town of Huntington Tiss on n elight- Iy-shelving ridge of ground, backed by woody Liills; aud the placid Ohio, Witk rafts, steamers, aud floating whiarflouses and srks, in spread out of the & 10 Vil Cliicago. Here o gity may arieo; but Charleston, or Goalsmouth, 18 quite as likely to be tho ity ; for s railroad has not Lelped Parkersburg any, and Wheeling very little, The Ohio River is filled with places orce riotons with promise, where,— 28 some one hus enid, civilization got its nightly lodging, and pushed on next day. By the cen- sus of 1870, all the population of this region along ‘the Ohio, in four whole connties, was only about 45,000. Huntington now contains s few hundred poople, and Charleston, which wes settled 50 long ago, contains but 3,500, THE TOWN OF BREAK-LULK. < The town of Covington, Va., county-seat of 2 whole county of but 3,600 people, wes many years 2go snointcd for a mighty destiny. In the annim intellect of the old Virginian, Coving- fon was set down for o great mart of exchanges, where everything nho\'fig break bulk and swap ganges. ‘The rosd from the West must,hore meet both a canal and a railrosd ; but, to protect the canal, the competing railroad was réquired tohave’ a new gaugo, .80 that, when the boats had fo tiewp and wait to be loaded, the cars cast- ward must do_thosame. ©Diwide fair, Betsy, wotever you do!" said the old Virginiar tohis railway-focder. In those dayw, probably, it was deemed necessary that *the nigger” should show his necessity somewhere 83 s link betweon mod- ern institations, so 2a to provide porterage and presorve his identity. *“Do_you tote between the gauges?” said Randolph Pendlaton to his “nigger ;" “for, if wedon't putyou in some- w}le.re. thoso Yankeo railroads will run over both of us." It would bothor eny man nowadays to know why the railroad most wait for the canal, and why neither was dispensable if -either could b accomplished. But to do both things, and sustain a theory, and get tho all-hallowed “nig- er " in between somewhers, the State threw the Baltimore & Obio Road mearly over the Penn- sylvania line, and made Richmond a provineial town, closod from the West, for twenty years. I¥, YES, AND REREATS. Would Virginia hava plunged into the gulf of Secession had the Chnanpu{e & Obkio Road been el he to an( & completed 28 early as the Baltimore and Ohio ? Hed Ri beon in daily rapport with the ichme West, would not a saving national sensibility fair " with the railroad, and get ** tho nigg complete canal was the last b bellion, for right there, at Appomattor, on tho Léo.gave up his sword. It has taken just three ward freedom to accomplis @ a century of blundering slavery failed at. Teach this afine Les Universit branch of rhotoric called “‘ The Lost Cause !" A superstition has alwaya prevailed in favor _ of a great temperate caual route between the Valleys of the o nawha, 8088 to avoid tho cold climate and frozen eoursos of tho Northorn Lakes, znd tho heat and formentation to which Western grain is submitted passing down the 1835, the Legislature of Virgi £8,000,000, and 81,000,000 had slresdy becn ex- pendod, 000. Althongh nearly forty vened, we find tho Logislaturo of Kansas, in the yoar 1873, atill Jocks and dams on t| 1ho canal proper across tho mountaina to Rich- mond, sud thienco ship-navigation to Hampion Ttonds. At present. this moasure is re-presented, but with apparently poor argamonts in its favor. The bistory of all tho threo mountein canals is a bistory of baBllement or abaudonment. 85,000 wzs succeeded Canal. Thero is no longer any proposition offered finish the Potomac Canal as originally project- .ed,—nona to rovive the Ponnsylvania Canal gys- tem; bnt thero 38 o stoady prossnro from tho Wost to nationalize the Erio Canel, or to widen cither that canal or tho Niagara canals. taneous with this ffort from the Northwest is an endeavor on the part of the Midland West to resume the Kanawha Canal, or to connect the “Tonnessed and Coosa Rivers, Who City of Baltimore, meantime, jealous of agitating the subject of & ship-canal across Del- aware and d, cost £10,000,000, and to_put Baltimore within 50 miles of the Atlantic, at & saving of 350 miles o Toundabont eailing. produced 1,200,000 bushels annually. from Lewisburg to the Ohio River, near which the new railroad passes for 200 mifes, was built for a milit: 1 x ington bought Iand on tho Kanawbs Riverfat the clogo of ‘the Revolutionary War; snd, bad he Richmond- City aad Ch laces of manufacturing sotivity. vvorks, at Richmond, eatablished years ago, cover 15 acres, and employ & million capital and about 1,700 workmen, Apelachian _ Valley, of 80,000 square miles of noble land, through which some day, aur Continent i Aexico City to the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence, mak- ing every transverse trunk line of the present mere rounds upon its mighty ladder. Alinkin this vall construction for 113 miles, between Harrison- burg and Salem. ' This will tap the Chesspeako, Tha new road Wi Westward in the important article of oysters. No American of the interior can s inatitutions under which he lives withont eeeing the fresh f 5 and then, From Baltimore, a mighty oyster express departs, laden with ‘the barrelled froit of the Chesapeske. sort of orchard-fike flavor about it, 80 that tho fishhawks soar overheard and follow it like little wenton boys who haunt bakery-windows to smoll the pastry, The wild ducks secking the pustures of Pailico end Chesapesks pass over is ward, a8 if wonderiny has not lost itaelf. and larger worldliness have kept the Rebel Capi- [ & Ohio oyster-exprees, filled up botwixt the jows tal away from the hot_dist States, whore it bolony from the slong its axis the conveying armics of the Union, en ‘ment to the Bonthward, using- this Lne for the- Lase of movemeata an uug[:fins. ery of the Gulf ed? That mu!,spunninfi 0 Ohio to the James, Might have receivor , at an early date, driven the Davis Govern- t 2 canal must needs bo built-to “divide betwoen to “tote™ and carry; and the 'in- ditch of the Ro- of the railroad, 'gem of straightfor- what a guarter of -bank, 50 miles sout 23 a part of the hio and the James,” via the Ka- issippl. In o subscribed Richmond City had given, also, $650,- years have inter- j patitioning Governmont o come aid of this Canal Company., CANAL REVIVAL. the This memorial sots forth that the existing James Rivor and Kanawhs Canal alroady extends 200 miles; that it is 5 foet deep, 80 feot wide, and has cost £10,000,000; and t sary to the gr Towa, Missouri, and the Ohio Valley, who Lave been taxed 250,000,000 by the-Frio canal in question, it evor_complotad, would be t it i noces- in-growing -people of Kaness, Canal. The miles of the navigable Kanawha, 119 miles of o eamo steoam, 212 milos of CAYAL RETROSPECT. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was designed to bo 341 miles long, and to connect both Baltimoro and Washingeon with the Ohio River.. It ruined tho prospects of Washington Cit: connection of its own with the ing cheated Baltimore with impossible Hopes, finally grappled.with Baltimore's railway at the first crossing of the monntains, and delayed it for yoars with & lawsnit. Cumberland, sud is used olmost wh transportation of -coal, and quarry-stonc, aud to obtain & tho West, and, hav- now at for the ‘Tho canal sto] ighborhood prodnce. It cost 810,000,000, or ’, por_mile,—nearly three times as much r'milo 28 the 'Erie Canal, and one-third moro than tho wholo of that long work. - The Pennsyiraia aystem of interlinking roads and canols was bogun in 1826, ang rail- com- ised 830 miles of canals and elackwater, and 120 miles of rail, costing in all S32,000,000, sach of which was afterward broken up, and finally tho whola sold, s a costly corrupter of the State politics, 2 monnteins at an ultimate altitude of 3,491 feet, contings1,526,000, and earrying laden barges o saturated with water. On this line a portage-road crossed the .| On the Potomac and tho James River Canals, this day, pesscogor-stcamors run, and tho 1mails are transported, As early us 1754, twenty years before his great- - | hess. Washington rode in persun up the live of tho Potomac snd down the Youghiogheny River, delineats the line of a 1'ranscontinental Can: ‘The Potomac Cnmsmny followed in time, of which he was Presiy i existence of thirty-six years, and an exponditure ent, and, ofter o, protracted 730,000, it abandoned its plans in 1822, and by .the Chesspeaka & Ohlo BLUICES FOR XEW CSES. - to Simul- & prospects of tho Chesapealie & Ohio Road roach tidowaterat the mouth of the bay, is to the Eastern Shore of Mary, The Clesapcake & Chio Railway helps to set- 10 the problem of VIBGINIA'S SOLVENCY and future imporlunco. It will xpecdily make West Virginia what Western Pennsylvauia is,—a resounding sud labyrinthine maze of industries and furnnce-flamcs ; and the same modern spir- ita who have completed the raitway will provide immigration. The Kanawha River, uulike the Monongahela and Allegheny, ia nol the line of a through rail-ronte batween tho East and the West, and its towns will therefore bo in & posi- tion to share the advantages of fall communica- cion twice per diem with the outer world; they ‘may be expected to develop with rapidity, another gencration, the mountainesr-el of West Virginis will havo. lost their crade manners, &n & ographics to the country. Thetown of Hunting- ton 18 00 mi and, in lements contributed strong personal bi- ‘miles farther down the Olio, by water, an Pittaburgh, above 100 miles below Parkers- burg, sud abont 160 miles, by river, from Cin- ciunali. The Chesapeake & Ohio s tapped oastward ot Charlottesyille, by tho Balti- more & Obio's connection, and at_Richmond the Pennsylvanins comnoction. It is thus most without a competitor, and, in all Wast Yirginis, there ia but one other railway corpora- tion. To this young State and Kentucky, the new road is their natural and centrel highway to Road is first ¥ o East. Great regrot is felt at Washington at the Orange, Alexandria & Manassas Railway did not fall into tho hands of tho Chesapeako & Ohio Company ; but tho Iatter has alro: no other railway whatever, but passes throagh a ging lpaints l.vi‘l’ywt ¥ichltnond City and on tuo ‘ork River at West Point. ly ship- THE SEAPORT OF THE NEW ROAD. . It is probable that the growth of Richmond will be specdily enhaucod by this railway, and probably & new port city will develop at the foot the Chosapeske, where expectacion has wait- od 50 long for help. Newport News is said to bs 0 spot dcsigned for tho mart of the Chesapeake Ofiiu Road, —s rovival of the settlement of Jamestown after s Iapse of more than {wo cen- turice. In tho twenty odd sears of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore City has grovn from 170,000 to S 1mond, or Hatpton, or Yorktown ? .000. Why not Rich- OLD TIMES ON KANAVTIA. Still botter are the prospects of tho New West opened up £ tidowster at Iast. Mstthew Carey's atlan of 1301 shows but “ono ad _crossing. tho townloss broadth of West rginia, and that pasced over the Kanawhn bo- low the’ Greenbrier, the main ronfe still being by Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Charles- beforo i, very exquisitely. Alittle way abovois | ton, the Capital of* Test Virginia, eoen tho old” pole-boatmen's ‘town of Guysu- | was s blockhouso fort in 1793, The salt- dotte. If the Ohio River were {o keep the same | wells, extending above Charleaton, on northwostward course in which it Sows from | the [anawha, for 15 miles, wero opened Euatington to Cincinnati, it would nesrly touch | as early 88 1809 ; and, twenty years ago, they ‘he road expeditionin 1774. George Wash- 1d it, paying interest for above eighty years, oull provably havo beon mo. battor off than hove bought in onr dey, when the coal and ‘mineral lands of the region are just coming into ‘market. THE TI0ROSCOPE. eston_are already Tho Tredegar nearly Sifly o great Valley of the Shensndosh, erossed nearly in the middle by flo Chesapeake Ohio Rosd, 18 330 miles in breedth, @ s & perk of the greeter 1,600 miles long, =nd Herlups, the great railroad of advance a8 & mein stem from road, to cost 85,650,000, is now under Ohio at Staunton. ‘Tho best railway to crosa the mountains will probably be at Knoxrille, TRAFPIC ON THE NEW ROAD, haye en immodiste trade reciato the oyster of the sea-coast ‘mow This trsin leaves a and grow confused, and wheel bask- whether the Chesnpeake at, when the Chesapeake of Cherryptone and LynnLeven, with, balloat thrown in of York Rivers and_Elizabeth Bivers, takes up its merch for the mounteins, there will be more_joy in tixe West over one oyster which migrated than over ninety-and-ninn which went not astray. - ¥ = - Tho trado in f: ablo Ly ibis ro > it and fivh ehoald Yo eo m the time of Norfolk P shad and pezs to tho apothectis of the great Heath peach, which ripenis 1 tho fia&\\-mr ports like o rempant from Adam’s gorden. s Coal, of, conrse, for the West Indics and steamers coastwige, will be the grest product bothi Eastward and Westward; but coffeo has always beon a great matter of movement from tho Chesapenke inland, and Richmond uged to be the third coffoe-port of the Unioh, 13 Balti- more _is now the -first, Stock from Kentuckr, and packed meats for exportation, manufaciur, iron Festward and Westward, tobecco betwixt Richmond ‘aud the West, sud hemp from Ken tucky to tho East,—such ate somo of the sug- gostions us to the future of fnis rond, which cun be operated with cheaper fuel than any trunk- highway in America. The coal begins at Rich- mond, and nover coates slong the Kanawha, whero the steamboats run up to the coal-pits, and tho dock-hands mine tho coal for tho fire- men. " THE RENTUCKY END OF THE ROAD. Tho Chesapenke & Obio Road, after crossing the Big Sandy River, will pass through s very raro, obscure, and ' rich part of Kentncly. Greenup County, the first oncountered, coa- tained ten iron’ furnaces in 1871, and many tannerics and amall shoo-factorics, .In Centre, the west county, salt bas boen man- ufactured for hell-s~century, and the coal is of a superb quality. Passing from the Little Sandy to tho Licking River country, the coal continnes, and many medicinsl springs are en- countered., Copperas, elate, and salt are found in Lewis County; end Mason County, 50 prolific in hemp, contains Maysville, the larsest herp- market in America, .with 5,000 people, and large factories of bagging material, cotton, wool, ropes, otc. 'This town is the plagfellow of Lex- ington and Cincinnati. T'he Bluo Lick Springs, well kmown throughout the land, lie in the midst of a region of hogs, hemp, corn, and stock, with a good deal of old family fhrown in ; and, a6 the road reaches tho Kontucky River, the traveller merely romarks to himself, ** Bltio grasu,” and black-eyod beauties with flaxen bLair, riding horses compoundod botwizt the pasturing wam- bols of Lexiugton and Leamington, and of fleets of Bourbon whigkey gliding down tho limestone sisles of the Keutucky River, amongst the haunts and graves of the Marshalls, Clays, Crit- tendens, and Johnaons, and the other gentry who drenk not well, but {00 wisely. THE TIREAD OF THE SKEIN. At Louisville, the Chesapeako & Olio Rail- way bias an oppartunity to make connection with —perhaps to conirol—tho new railroad to Fliza- bethtown and Padueah, which will bo completed during tho coming yesr. By this cannection, tho ontlets of the Cumberland and Tennesses Rivers, whoro_they empty into the Ohio, close fogother, will bg tapped by tho new stem live totho East, and thoso long river-arteries of Tennessce ‘and Alabama will swell the freights of the first great rond opened from tlo eea throngh Dixie® sinc tho war. A little distance below Paducah, at Cairo, tho Chesapeake & Obio conncetion may uuits ot 0ngo with tho Ili- nois_Central, the Now Orleans, Memphie & Cai- 70, the Cars & Fulton, and tho St. Lonis & Iron Mountain Railways. Tt thus becomesan East- ern conduit of roads from the ludian Tarritory, from Tesns, and from Rausas. And it is not probable thai a railvas built at sach cael, and v a class of capitalists of such Leea porcep- tions, will fail to lsy & shortor hand_upon Chi- cago, where tho great bridgo at Louisville offors such facilitios. and with o choice of threa roads already cstablished toward Lako Michigan. As the Bultimore & Olio Railrand must -extend to Chicago, 8o will tho Chesapeske & Ohio find that course tho cheapest. And thus Chicago will Isy hand npon the capes of tho Chesapeake bofore many daya. Garm. " A BRIDE MURDERED. A Party of Ruffinus, Pretending to Sercnade n.New!y=Wedded Conple in Yest Virginia, Shoot the Erid Riemhond, Va., (Feb. 9 Despateh to the Seew York e s ral Tamin reccipt of o despatch from Fayette County, West Virginia, which states that 2 most shocking outrage end terrible tragedy occurred in tho neighborhood of Mountain Cave, in that county, © fow nights since. Nearly eighteen ‘months ago the pcoplo of the same county wera shocked by o fatal allray, which took place near the samo locality, betw two citizens, nuned Jobn O'Coleman and Madison Neal, in which tho Inttor was killed. It is unfortunafely my duty now to racord thio murder of a eister of Madison E whero her brotker ws sent, without warning, to an untimely gravo. It appears that the lady, who wes a busxom and charming mountein mAid, was wooed and won by a Mr. Potter, & very respeetablo, indus- trious, and worthy' man. Thursday, the 23d ult., was the day sab apart for the wedding, and the wain were united in the holy bonds of wed- lock. But, then, tho courseof trus love does not always run smootk, and 30 it was with tho newly-married couplo. Tho marriage was colebrated with all the nsual coromony and festivity. Tho neighbors ate and drank and danced to their heart’s con- tent until midaight, when the wedded two wera left to retire, Theybad scarcoly rétired, when thoy were disturbed by tho Lideous scands of & charitari that were waftod towards thom by o breezo g0 still thot it scarcoly distarbed the floating white mountain mists. _As tho serenading parly neared the residence of the married pair the discordsnt sounds of blowing horns and tho beating of tin-pan tsmbourines wero occasfonally interrnpted by tho moro shrill, sharp, and ominous crack of muskets, ehotguns and rifies. Soon the perty arrived at the house, and then tho noise of their horrible instraments, coupled with tho inter- mittent discharges of the fircarma, produced & ‘mcst alarming effect upon the bride and bride- groom. It was found that tha serenaders num- Dered oight persons, no disguised, however, that they could not be recognized from any point of obsorvation in the house. Just st this Junciura it occurred to the bride, who, fearing that their fntention might be mord hostile than complimentary, to ask the party into taks somo yofreshments, tnd thus uppease any animosit thoy might entertain. She accordingly nd- vanced to tho door, accompanied by her stapdanghter, snd opening it, sho stood on the throshold with n lighted candle in_her hend. Almost simultaneously with her appeerance hore was & volloy fired from four gune st her, the contenis of one striking the door-post, ‘glancing znd ontering the bride's 3rs. Potter's) esr, and lodging in tho centra of the brain. With o shrick and & cry of agany the unfortunate brids of » fow hoars fell to the ground, from which_sho was shortly afterward romoved by her_busband and dsughter to the wodding bed, ‘The villains who perpetrated this cowardly and barbarous outrago disappearcd in the darkncss, but in o more sudden mauner than that in whicl they came. _Mrs. Potter, alter suf- fering the most excruciating agony, expired two days after the_outrago ocourred, A physician who was called probed thio wound, and gavo it as his opinion that Mrs. Potlcr's dcath was caused by & hard tow wad dischargod from & gim in tho hands of the sérenading parly, It is gratifying to announce that fhe partios have boen arrested, and three of them were committed to the jail of Fagetto Counsy for trial it i 2 Xeported 5ale of the Southern Pacific Eailrond. . - From the San Franciaco Chronicle, Jan, 9, A rumor prevaila in well-informed circles that Govorner Btanford has sold the Bouthern Pa- cific Reilroad {o Thomas Scatt. Our informa- tion is not of such o character 83 to cnable us to give any assurance of the fact, but the proba- bilities very strongly Bainh to this consumma-~ tion. 'The Southern_ Pacific embraces the road from San Frencisco, by way of San Joso and Gil- roy, through the valloy of the Salinas, and con- nects with the roads that are to accommodste Los Angeles and San Diego, and fically to conncet with tho roads now in process of construc- tion from Maraball, Tesae, by (ho_thirty-second parallel, to_tho crossing of tho Colorado, The sale of the Northorn Pacific to Poter Donahua, the sale of cortein Market strect property, the rumors that s large smount of money bad to be used by the Central Pacific Uompany in New Yok to meet edvances made to tho Company upon the - gecurity of their bonds, and tho ne- cessity of purchasing in the bonds of the Com- punyin order to eustain the market, are ll utraws indicating that the grest Central Pacific Comapany aro either ombarrassed in their finan- cas or are insugurating a chango of policy that will divide tlieir propertyand give control of- somo of their ronds'to other parties. What the effect will bo upon our city and State we will not now undertako to speculate. —The Boston papers disagres in their guesses 23 to Senatorial probabilities. Tho Commion- wealth, Collector Russell's paper, saya Doutwell has 107 mombers; Daves, 84; Hoar, 15; Lorinz, 11; Whiting, 9; 'undecided, 14. Ths Herald baa it thus : Boutwell, 55 ; Dawes, 75; Whiting, 46; Hoar, 13; doubtful. 20. shuts his eyes to bask in the contemplation of .| Neal, not more than one-half mile from tae spot. RATHER PERPLEXING, Queer Advice Required by a Young A Raral Maiden Who Desires to Be “ Lotteried Away. How a Young Man May Obtain a Wife for a.Dollar. Also, Morr e May Only Realizo Firc Hundred Dollars. % A custom of g0 long. standing as to_have be- come & law, has made editors tho general and unpaid advisers of all thosa who are in doubt, and who want connsel as to what thoy shall do in any emergency. To them resort all men and womon who zro woary and heavy Iaden—men who want tets decided, Listorical disputea sottled, 1aw pointa cleared up, or situations ob- tained; and women who wish to know how to get rid of upspprecistive busbands, _whether they have really literary, musical, or dramatic ability, or how they can get a living from this cruél world. To ell these, the editor stands as » father confessor, who, after having listened to_ the verbal or written statement, is expected to- ‘give advico or money, and, if it be the former, that sort of advico which the inquirer aska. This custom is not in_all respocts eatisfactory- to those who do the listening, aud they have re- sorted to many expedients to atop it * In order to get rid of personal inquiries, editorial rooms are located at the very top of the building, in the faint hope that the climbing of many stairs will discourage these seekers for advico, or that they will be 8o out of breath at the end of their pilgrimago that the editor will have time to run awey bofore they recover their voices. As for inquiries made_ by letter, they can either boe put into . the waste-basket. or. handed over to somebody with a mglaumy dieposition, who turns them- into ridiculo, and harrows up the souls of_the writers, who damn the malig- nant who made fun of them. 8till, cases do occur, especially when lovely. woman \writes, and throws herself entirely upon the pity of the editor, and seys sho has but him in the wide world to look to for aid, that she is young, hundsome friendloss, aad thai #ho nas heard 5o much- of his Lind and-noble heart, thot it is impossible to refrain from com- pizing with hor wishes, if_ possible. Even it be nows that the letter hasbcen sent to a bundred othars beforo him, still he-allows himself to be ' buttered and swallowed, and refrains from men- tioning the affair to his wife. No matter how Iudicrous the young—they are always young— women's proposition may seem, he uever makes fun of it, but carries her letter around’ in his coad pocket till it gets dingy and creased. Thers are somo applications for advice, how- ever. which the editor cannot, unaided, replr to, =nd he is compelled. to take the world into his counsel,—meaning, by world, his subscribers,— and get their opinioa upon the facts he submits, It may happen that some one of the readers will givethe answer which the editor could not, and mey coma forward and say that he is the man for whom the young woman longs. Now, just such a state of affairs is preeented in the foliow- ing lettor. Ttis truo that her spelling is not quite what speiling should be, but in_this day of female emancipation, when woman is breaking the bonds which hee 50 Jong conficed her, it i3 nos wonderful thiat eho should also Seek to bnrst tio chains of orthography : e 5 Craspares, Feb, 8rd, 1872, ResPrCTED Sik: It is the wish of the dictator of this epistle 10 atate to you her desire tobe lotterled off ; _and requests your advice in regard to the subject, She is scknowledgod by al, In the'cities where sha has re- sided ; gs the belle of eocicty : Being youug, handsome, taledted, and atractive. * She 15 dark-com; lected, cailed & brunctte. Age on-and twenty,, She bus many, many admirers ; bus none 88 yet, whom ke can sppreciste, The young iady desires {0 drawto a close, her studdics in art : Thercfore withdraw from society, for the space of &ix montha ; t0 accomplish {he aforesaid desire, Sho requests that should eho be won by either sex, it must bo atrictly understood ; that ske i3 to be released from hier bargain, if she disijkes the one who win Ler; or, should that pereon be dirpleseed with his prize, Stould guch be the case, tke young lady will at the — —— expiration of tho lotiers ; place in the lucky hands of the winner, the amount of $560, in liew of heraelf, She withds your advice,in regard to_how she mmst proceed. Bhe wishes me to sk, if you would taki ibe affalr in to your hands aliogether; that is, of getting tho publishing done by all the other cditors, Desides your owa ;—the tickets, &c Ske wants to ell 60-thousand or a Lundred thonsand—at $1.00, o ticket ; | but will not decide until she hears your opimion} whetlier'yon thing she czn diapose of {hia¢ number, or no: Anilif vou think ehe conld sell them for more than 6ne $1.00., a piece, She will await your decision, Pleaseto lof her kuow ihe price you will charge for this work, The young lady” desires her Dame to Te- main nnknown until after the lottery is closed; when™ she will make herself known in person, to tho winner. She can give you satisfactory rocommendstion in- ref- erence o horelf, and character ; by people of the bighest standing from the city, Whero she resided & few years rrior ; and the — —city where ehe now re- sides, Buchaa the editors, city council, city clerk, judges, doctors, the most prominent lawyers &c. Also Antioch college, Yellow-aprings—Ohio; where sise has becn a student, € Direct—P0—Box -, K 1 Please to gain the opinion of other editors on the subject, * 3 Now, anyone who wiskes. to give uu'jsnnng lady any advice, cau write to.thoe addrees whicl sho gives. As for the editor, he- declines doing 50 until somo points are made clear to him. 18 the young ledy working for herself, or somebody clso? Is: it noney sho wants, Or is it a hus- band? "If -she sells 40,000 tickets, she will gat $40,009. Deducting the nocessary expenses of printing, ‘advertising, etc., she Wil have left about £30,000. . Now, if sho does nat like the man-who draws her, she- has- only -to pas £500 tobe off with hor bargain; but & woman witl £30,000 i3 & very high and mighty cresture, with a great opinion of her own consequence, aud would not taxe the winnér unless he was wealthy, good-looking, and willing to let her do what she pleased with her own. Besides, since it is mn- Teasonable to cxpect that all tho tickets will be sold, the winning one .might be among those which were unsold, 2nd thus she would draw her-- self, which would be looked on as a fraud by those who investod, and would give rise to a lively commotion, and the calling of many hard names. It is also gmni!fle that Miss K.—is already engoged to be married, and that this Iottory is o put-up job,—ta usa tho language of the world's people,—for the bencit of some etudent ot tho c’iumpui Agricnltural College. Then, supposing o Club should drew 3fiss K. 7 Aro they to pluy auction’ pitch -to decide who Eball have her, or s the Club to call wpon' hér in & body, and throw, itself at her fest, each one of the members having a paper with the amouxt of his incoms on it pinned to his elcove, and let her salect the Incky msn? - The Club might object to this, and then the matter would be carried to- L the'law courts, where it may be decided that the ~members of the Club are tenants -in_common, and, 8 division being prayed for, that their joint intereat in Miss K—— must ba ‘sold at: public venture to the highest bidder, which is Dot 5 pleaeant ituation for-Miss K—— to look forward to,—to b auctioried off at. the Court Hogse door., Or some Judge, being kard-heart~ :l?, mfifi? propose to divide her as Solomon did 0 c] 3 i =l Again, supposing A, B. being anmarried, buys 2 tioket which proves to be the winning one; but ho diea Lefore it is ascertained that that is! the fact, then Miss K— becomes the property of his "heirs, among whom his aged moLEu, or his sisters, may _figare. he _has no heirs,~ fthon ~ his propert; oes to tho State which, 11 it plesses. and. Aies Koo does not object, can marry her., That is, the State of Illinois,. through . its dsentative, Governor Beveridge, will' take Miss K~ to wife. Solemn. and ‘improving spectacle, when s State seta the.example to its citizens, and entors the aweat splhiers of domestic ’ life. Bat eince the Btaté cannot be - made 3 defendant, and -will. Live . for- ever, Missa K—— conld never sme for a divorce, and wouid have to_fook forward fo an - eternal wedlock. It would be worse than wed- ding & corporation. After all, the State had bet- ferrefrain from any such entangling alliances and possible millinery bills, from Police Court wrangles and charges of beating ita wifa. . The contingency of being drawn by a woman is.0ne which has occurred to Miss K——, for she talks of being *won by either sex,” end geems to contemplate ~ with equal com- Placency the idex of marrying a man or & womao. But the law, for reasons of public. policy, 1oks with disfavor upon the latter class of uions, which donot give sons or daughters to the Republic, which are mere * Kiases with- ouA'. fmit o!h lz]vde." At gain, should mot Miss K— recognize the fast that she may die before the resuit of the . $500—a biunette—s woslthy wife—s girl" and all of s enddon he finds that, S ] wants his brunette, he must ask her of the grave. If ho want his 9500, ho must ask thos, of her heirs, and the oné is no fonder 0t ts' posses«ions than the otpay he | omght - to- - immeees hae blas the valus of £ - decido to marry 1,0 1 ) A\ case eho should dio beforo matriage. . T few of the donbtfal points connected with (- proposition of Miss K—Stll, thcre, may 13 :ho'sg to ;\;I:logx :ha)' may not ls;:m Berious, and if 80 they haq better write to th youn Pt e mind abrest? - ATRE R iad ne question can be answered without diey). ¢y Not only woald it be fmpropar to e than s dollar for a ticket, but even that gow pusciLilizy tiat vhe winger, o the benefit of_that . pervon, tcems {00 high. To pay 81 for & sixty-thodasn chanco of gotting S500, for that is il .m:tg really mure of, is to make & poor investment, 13 e wero to buy all the tickets, and thus maky suro of the prizo, e wauld be ont 939,500, whics, is too great a discrepancy. Tho mathematica] calculator of this establishment has mistaid his tzble of logarithma, and is consequently noably o tell the procise possibility of gain, on tho pary of any ona tickot buyer, but, to the best of his belief, it is ebout oqual to tk:c possibility of got. ting anything out of J. Y. Scammon. The cred;. tors of the Mutual can explain to their country friends how much that is. - Any farthor communications from Miss K— will meet with that reepectful consideration which 1a tho due of any woman who can get tho indorse. ment of the Common Courcil of tha city where sho lives. Yet thero ro those who would prefer that she should have that of the ministors, THE WILL OF MR, GREELEY. From the New York Tribune, Fed., 4, ‘The Greeley will cade Lua eatered upon s way of eottlement which roficcls severs discrody upon everyone concerned in it, excopt upon the orphan dzughters of Mr. Greeley, his solo heirg by his Jnst will. Thoee young Indies, who havs been distressed beyond mensire by the malig. nant and ecandalous wrangling over thagrave ot their fathor, yesterday gave perempiory in structions to thcir counsel to mako a full sur. render of all their rights and interests in by matter, and to allow the exccutors of a formes will full discretion in_the mauagement-of thy affair. The formal decision: of tke Surrogate “t week, and what Temaing of Ve property will thon be sub- ject totho disposition of Mr, lorrs and i, Manning. o v Y "The only excuse for this persistent’dnd ap. parontiy inozplicablo oppositon fo tho final i position which Mr. Greeley mado of his eatats, was that ho s insane at, tho time of writing the will, and for weels proviously.. ToBrova this, a mimber of easy-talking witncsses havo been placed wpon tho stand, oll holdisg decided opinions ngainst the perfectly - simpla s0d natural progx?sllons'or the will, ywhu hglvu con- sumed several days in what may- have appeared to them agrecnble gossip chout the last days of their old friend, in~ which everv eccantricity of phrase, evory uiterancs of mlancBoly which fell from his lips, waa carefully remembered or in- geniously. distorted, in o manaor whieh fur. nished highly intcresting matter for listless readers, and inflicted the keonest caguish upoa to whom ho wes dear, We Imow not what impression. oll these trivisl reminis cences prodaced upon the mind of the Sur- rogate or of the public. Thoy have cortain) [altered na jot of the convictions antertain in regard to Mr. Greeloy's fatal illness by his ‘neatest friends and sssociates, His desth wu the remlt of a lifo of coutinual overwork Tho prodigious. mentsl labor of yeaty pre pared that_critical steze of nervons oxheustion which rendered him incepablo of supparting the Llow intlicted by the doath of his wife During the last summer especially, tho strain upon his powers was. too greit for es. durance, Obeying tho Eummous of bLis litical frionds, he made’ thcsa remerksble tours through New England and tha West, delivering a series of speaches, which for varis ty, scope, and effectiveness havo o parallel ia all'our history; and, wkea wearied aud exhatss. cd by theso Izbors, ‘and depressed by the con. dgomed to defeat, ho_wes called to the bedside of his dsing wifo, e waiched for weeks by er pillow with unselfish and even imprudent de- yation; and, when the end came, thainjary dono to bis high-wronght znd sensitive organi+ zation wes too great to be repaired. Acuie inflammation of tho membrane of the brain eet in. which ran its course and ended in death, But before. it was developed, while his resson atill heldits sway, ho recogiized the fact that iy fortuna lind becn impaired by various uafor- tunate investments in Southemn railroads, sad the like, and especially by loans to percons who had possessed an undae degree of his confidenca. Sineo bis latest will vies made, his wifo was also gone, and the circumstsoces' being thus sadly and completely changed, he concluded to cancel cli former wille, mado in mora prosperous tims, and leavo his entire proverty to hin dznghters, to whose propar support—unizss more bad debts could be collected then soemod then (or seems now) possible—it was barely adequate. . Unfortunately, he did not destroy former will fmade in 1371, in which two_old friends Messra. Storrs and Manning, end a business asgociate, Alr. Sinclair (who is now a bankrupt debtor to the estato), were named as cxecutors. For reasons eatisfactory:o these gentlemen they cancluded to contest the will. Sinclair sub- sequently withdrow. We wish it to be under- stood as making no charges sgeinst the perfect integrity of Meusra. Storrs and Manning. They wwere doubtless infiuenced by no worso fecling than that of wounded solf-estcem, though they finally persuaded themselves that their cou eciences roquired them to stand botween Mr, Grecley's dsughters and his property, and thei attitude to tho orphans of their friend has been that of frank and sincere hoatility, They hava seemad convinced that the very fact of Mr. Grecley’s making & will in which their named were not mentioucd was prima facie ovidence of insanity. A neighbor of Mr. Groeloy, at Chspr paqus, Mr. Isaiah T, Williams, who seems from tito papers 1n the Landsof fhe tomporary ad- ministrator to bo a_debtor to the estate, threw himself with especially energetic, malice into the caso, and has boen throughout the moving spring .of all tho opposition to the last will, Even on yostorday, after the surrender was complete, this man made = speech full of charges sud insinus- tions 80 brotally malignant and recklessly un- true, that it.seems impossible that-a person in his senses should have uttered it. The facts in favor of this will were plein and obvious. It was in itself a better, more eimple, more intelligible will than tho other. 1t made & perfectly reasonable and logical disposition of the property. It was written throughout in the eacefal retirement, of cmmtzfl::, in his own andvriting, and signed with his own ame, while Mr, Grecley was still tho active editor of {ho Tribune, writing daily rticles irreproachable in thought and in manner. It waa executed in Lis last_hours, when the delirinm of fever was over sud the peace of ‘approaching dissolution was upon him. To ofiset these facis, the executors of the will of 1671 bad no re- source but tho accumulation of gossip 10 prove the decp melancholy which clonded the last days of the groat journalist. Nothing waa from thesa mousing invostigators. The witnosses thoy called positively rovelled in the gad details of those hours of fever and sor- row. Asthe scandslons and distreusing 8cens went on, the family aod friends of Mr. Greeles exhausted every expedient of compromiso and Peraussion. Miss Grealoy had sioody fore -stalled eny tngencrous insinuations by convey- ing to her sister half of the estate, and by offer- ing to satisfy the claims of all legatoes, by the former will. “Nothing conld soften the infiexible hoatility of the executors. A last effort wa made by.the editor of this paper, sactisg in behalf of the Misses Greeley, to_ arrive st ome point of sgreement which might obviste the ehameful spectacle of the long and useless quarrel: It waa made in vain. The executors refused with a decision and promptness which ehowed how deeply their feclings of self-lora ‘were unconsciously interested. 'They sad their attornoy prepared & new batch of evidence; desl- ing with the most intimate details of the lon; course of domestic life, with the sick-room death-bed. At this pomt the fortitude of the orphane gave way. * They preferred to sacrifice their own intarests and to satfer tho last will of their father to go by the ‘board, rather than fo expose the sacred mysterics of his agony to the gaze of the world. They withdrew from tko contest, and the executors, who are honestsad honorable men, are to be congratuiated upon t29 completenees of their triumpb. If the Sumo- gate decides in theiz favor next Mondsy, & i3 fo e hoped that they will use their victary Hsg” nanimously, New Jeraey Justice. Beveral girls in New Jersoy have -had the pomes of the Supreme Courc of that!Siale rought to bear upon them to compelamis- bility and obedience under any and &l circas* stances. That Court has affirmed the followisg doctrine : 2 “‘Where a_servent whose wages. are due sod payable periodically, a8 quarterly, monthly of weekly, Tefusesto ferve in tho manner coB® tracted'for, o is rightfully discharged st a0y intervening period between the days when bis orher wages are dne, he or she can recover lottery is announced, leaving her heirs much money, but | to winner tho brief happiness™ of B drenm? For dass his fanoy hed rung the changos on nothing for that portion of time during ~which which o or 8o his secved since the !ugpulod‘ ical paymont of wages.” scionsness that the causo he represented wes ’ e e s e i e R A " e — o { e ot