Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1873, Page 2

TIE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 26, 187 e e e e — MARYLAND. A iadk tn tha ©Head ot Miw » The Fisheries of the Olden Times, and; ‘Ihelr Present Exhanstion, Political Status of Postmaster-Gen= eral Creswell. . P A Sketeh of Ilis Carcor--His Presidential Aspirations. Spectal Correspondenca of Tha. Chleago Tritune, Erxrox, Md, July 19, 1870, Tho town, kuown in carly American history .metho . . S 5 “nEAD OF EIE," L8 & population of sbout 1,800 inlinbitants, and I tho shiva-town or enpital of Cocil County, tho extromo northorn end of tho osatorn shore of . Marylsnd,—n locality familiar to gourmands on sceount of its being tho habitat of tho oyster, tho torrapin, and the canves-back duck. Al- though the town is eaid to hiavo improved vastly during the past twonty yoars, it is sa slow and sloepy n placo as ono could well find to apond a brofling July day in; &und & stranger, taking ns an indox of its avorago ou- torprizo the dozen or more liquor-saloons that oruamont its streots, and thoir numorous pate rons, jumps to the conclusion that ita principal article of traflia is tanglofoot whisky, Doing the connty-soat, it of courso had & jail and & court- houso, 'Tho former Lina boou recontly built, and {s decidedly tho finest bullding in tho town; whilo tho latior, which was orected in 1793, it the juseription on tho veuo that ornaments its ewpola is not apocryphal, is sn un- comfortable, inconvenient, barn-like sort of o structure, whose architect must heve been a wooden-hoaded follow, who entertained .very unique ideas of the temple in which jnatico was to bo administored. This vano, by tho way, which is n huge wooden flsh, was a eymbol of tho groat ataplo.of the country at that time; for tho old inlwbitunts will tell you, with » sigh, that the BITAD AND NERRING that usod to bo canght in immonso quantities in tho Busquolianna, Elk, and Northenst Rivers, wozo tho largost, fattoot, sud Swootest cought in sny of tha rivors of Amorica, Forty yoars ago, the poople horosbouts all say, fish wero eo sbundant at the numerous fishories on theso rivers that shad sold at $3.50°a hundrod, andher- ring ot 26 conta & barrol 5 and, wheu the carta and wagons that thronged —thore durin tho fishing nesson had obfained and pai for the quantity thoy wantod, the fishormen Wero ao anxious (0 gob Tid of their surplus stook that thoy would keep piling on to the ovor-loaded tonms as long s o fish would stick; and thous- ands of fne shnd snd horring were overy spring scatterod_over tho lunds of thoso lmw near the fishories, 58 n cheap and Fq manure, Such wanton wasto is, how- evor, nlways followed by its logitimato punishmont, and flsh aro now so, scarco in all thoso rivers that, unless they aro artificially stooked, and protectod by logilative onnctmont, tho waters of Daryland ‘will be_complotely ex- finusted of fish in & fow yoars. Even now, shad gell rondily on tho. fishing-shioros at 825 & hun- dred, and” horring at $1 o hundred, while tho alewives, or **old wives,” as the natives call & spacios of ehnd that used to bo considered too poor and bony for good manure, sell rapldly at fivo and ten conts each: and such yefuse as mullets, catfish, perch, voilow neds, ‘&0, aro in brisk domand at fino prices. But, as tho object of my visit to Ellton waa to gothof up some facts sbout tho political status of THUE POST-MASTER-GLNERAL, who fa nrasident of Cecll County, and_sponda n good portion of his leisuro timo on his farm noar this town, I muat return to my subjoct, from which I amy wildly rambling, Mr. Creswell wos born in 1828, in I'ort Deposit, o small lumborlny town, nbout twenty miles _west o horo, on tho Busguolanna River. Io dtatod at Dickineon Colloge, camo to Elke mn to study lsw, aud, after ho wus ndmitted to tho Bar, practised ten or n Uozon yesrs o m mombor of the firm of “Enrlo & Creswoll,” whogo dingy tin sign T noticed utill tacked to the shutter of an officé opposite tho Court-Houso, oltbough moither of tho firm bhan boon in practice hora for the past eight or ton yoars, The firm was quite a succassful ono, and had a fine, paying practice; but both mem- bers appesr to have had & weakness for publia fifo, ond loft tho Jnw and tho profits for official position, About tho tima Mr, Croswell enterod nctively into _ political " lito, Mr. . Earlo was appointed Clark of the Court of Appoals of Morylnud ; and, whon Mr, Creswoll boopme Postmastor-Gonoral, ho appointed Mr. Earlo hig TFirat Assintant, In which position hio romained until o short timo befora L conneotion with tho notortous Chorpenning claim. 5 CRESWELL'S FIRST POLITICAL VENTURE was in 1850, shortly aftor his admission to the bar. - At that time'he was a Whig, and was nom- inated and run by the Whig party as a candidate for the Constitutionn) Coorentivs uf Maryland. ‘Ho waa defeated, howovor, and took no intorest in polltics again till 1850, When ho turned up 28 red-hot Pro-Slayory Domoorst, and was BoDL a8, B dulnyi!l\lo {0 the . Convention that nominated Buchanan in Oincinnati. He said to have taken ulto 10 netivg part in the campnign that fall, andl to Luvo mado Bomo ablo kpeochos in_bohalf of Bu- chanan and Democracy. Aftor the olection ho went back to tho practico of his profossion, and 1 do uot learn that ho received, or was ofi'nmd, any political roward for his sorvicos, Whother or not he sought any, I amn unabls to asceripin. Ono thiug is cortain, thoug, e ontirely cschowed politics again till tho Pris- idontial efection of 1840, whon ke appoared 44 & rominent stump-orator for Brockinridge, “Bis Eashlily to Ropublicanism did not nbato, sither, with tho oloction of Lincoln ; and the Democrats hiero exultingly oxhibit & gorios of remlutions introduced by him at o public meoting in Fob- ruary, 135}, in which tho Abolitioniris, Ropub- Jicans, and Wintor Davis nro denounced in very forcible Innguago. And it is ovousnid that, for soveral months ufter. the inauguration of tho Rebellion, ho was undeeided whethor it was hin Quty to join the Soutl, or to give 8id and com- fort to the Union canse, Whothor his devision wwas finally prompted by POLICY OR PATRIOTIEN, i best known to himsolf; and 1t iy not my proy- inco at present to give an opinion on the sub- Jeet, or to sny sught furthor 1n regard to it than thnt it was in favor of tho Union; and that, ever sinco, ho han been considored & firm Ropublican, aud o consistent supportor of the partyin powar. And, ns hio Lins boeu in oflico tho groater parc of ho timo sinco making that decision, the prob- abilities ure, ho dates hiw political carger from that momentons period, und has no dosire to rayurreet Lis provious autocodonts, As ho hnd some - knowlodge of militery affairs, ho was appointed Dy Gov. Iicks, during tho fall of 1861, Ad,[‘utuub(luuumlo{ tfiosmta, oud retained tho position until clected State Honator from Ceell County by the Union party, some six or cight monthy afterward, In 1863 he was nom- inated by tho Unionists, or Union party ns tho oppononts of Secession then styled their organ- jzation, oy (heir Congrescional candidnuts to represont tho district nom}msnd of tho eastern Bhore. Au thig dintrict had always beon hope- dusgly Domocratie, it was ruthor p stunner to the old_politicians, who forced Crouswoll to accopt tho nomination with the cortnmty of defont, whon Lo waa elected.by o honv: mujority, IIow his olection was accomplished, in ‘well' rememborod by the Becossion Dems acrats, who wore kept from the polla by Toderal bayouols, aud_ who: eny it was connived at, if not engtnoared, by thoso in au- thority ul “’nuhiuul(m, who doomed it jmporimit for tho Union cause that tho Adminiutration -| possiblo for him to obtain 'a now Congrons, and, by his doggod porsiatoncy, o has n‘yonhmlly succoodod, As lnrmln aa htu go:, to et 10 wires, aud wag Fiy o hefw' Yi &‘l‘a'x"%!}"{na?. o' e sangbial in i el 2, Laneogatil i g CHORR 5 FHON- Quend 3 oo aE I ighly o Ut that ll the Fadarsl Aty 1o, m'::ut of - whom Croswoll' cordislly aimitend — should ho romoved, and nof anen appoluted, for thio . purposs - of hnrmonizlug ' tho- Ropubfioan party.of the State. And; at tho tinlo of ltiu an~ sossinntion, tho President in said to have had in his deale n Jist of tho mon nolocted by Creswoll, handed bim o fow hours provious, with the ns- miranco that they woro gonorally necoptablo, nnd whom AMr, Lincoln had promlsod to appolnt in a day or two. s untimoly taking-off intorfered matorinlly with the programmo, and, slthough Audy Jolinaon aftorward partinfly conaummated | tho “arrangoment, thoro appoars fo-have boon *| compromiso, under which Croswoll chafed coni- aldorably, -bocauso all the now appointoos woro- -l not his” fayorites or eworn adhoronts..’ But, so or, 1 Waa fm- donl,and ho llod to tvatch and walt, _When Graunt stopped into the White Houso, the Maryland Ro- publicans woro sa: inharmonlous na evor ; bnt, aa tho different factiona struck bands and ox- olaimod, “ Lot us have posco [ tho 8poil woro divided "in oe oqulhb{a & manner a8 possiblo anong thom, Oreswoll was disgruntlod at the division, novertholess, aud resolved inwardly that ho sould rost noithor day nor night tll hia advorsarjos wore rooted out. - TIUE BALTIMORE AMERIOAN {a tho only Ropublican daily, snd consequontly tho leading Ropublican journal in the State. It supportod tho Boll-Everott tickot in 1860, snd | 1ins nlways boon badly afllioted with tho dry~ ot of Consorvatism but, being bigh-toned and highly-rehpoctablo, tho Conservative morchants of Baltimoro and the old-fogy politiiaus roligi- ously read, and sncrilogiously eworo bF, the American ; and, whon it found it politic and fitabla to give its support to Ropublicanism, t carried over to that party with it & _lnrgo ma- jonty of its readors, 1lonao il oxorted consldor- nble influonce, and the Administration deemod it udvisablo to dofor considerably in its sppolnt- monts, to tho wishes of tho proprictora of tho American,—s0 much g0, in fact, that Edington Fulton, & brother of the chief proprictor and cditor, waa appointed Burveyor of tho Port of Baltimore, and hetd tho position till a short timo sinco, Whon Grant entored upon hia second long a8 Johnson romained in pow Waa com| IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Hedvy' floflioa of Timbor Foimnd in . Morthwestern Ne\brupkq. n Lieut. John H. Conle's Narra- tive. : Journal of a Scout from the North Loup Country to the Niobrara. Something About Duffalo, Antolopo, Wild -Crancs, and Bones of Mastodons, ' [£ublished by permiasion.} Touy laves, Neb,, July 19, 1873, In obodionca to ordots from our commanding oMicor, Ma), James 8. Brisbn, wo quittad our camp on the North Loup, in tho Btato of No- bragkn, June 25, 1878, Owr ordors Woro to * pro- cood up tha North Loup Valley to tho second North Fork of Loup Iuver, and march by way of tho hosd of Lone Pino Crook to tho Niobrars Rivor, striking it whoro tho mouth of Rapid River fa to Le found.” For the journcy wo wero provided with twenty days' half-rations of forago and full rations of hard broad, sugar, coffeo, and bacon, Tho command conslsted of Moj. Thomas J, Grogg, Sccond United Blates Cavalry; mysolf, 2 citizoos, 53 horses, 17 mules, and 57 soldiors of Company O, Becond United Btates Cavalry. As wo Lnd but two G-mulo toams and two 2-mulo wagons, thoy wore nco- osaarily hoavily londed, and our progross wos slow. - DIFFICULAIES, As boforo stated, wo marchod from Cump .torm, and an‘minwd s old Cabinot, tho Post~ master-Gonoral folt that ho was firm onough In Dlis sent, ond possossod- infinonco onough with tho Prosidont, to puggest that somo changos smong the oflice-hioldors of Margland would "bo gratifying to hum. Antho rosult of bis suggestion, tho frionds of the Baltimoro American, wont ouk of oftice, tho adheronts of Mr Creawell took their lacos, and tho Postmaster-Gonoral felt that ho End gained * glorious victory,” and that his prospeots wero Improved for bocoming GRANT'S BUCCESSOR § for his frionds hero givo utierance to the opin- {on, which his opponents eny is the ono porvad- ing ides in Oreswoll's mind, that heis the coming man for noxt Prosidant, Thoro is, unfortunataly, alarge body of politiclans who still labor undor tho dolusion that tho Union is divided into sec- tiona whoso intorests aro antagonistio, and that tho political oquilibrium can be preserved only by s.{nmhnflng tho national oflicas equitably among thoso soctions, As all our Prokidonts for tig last thirty yenrs, oxoopting that political ounuch, Andy Johnson have been taken from North of Madon and Dixaw'a line, it s argued that tho honor should bo conceded to tho Bonth- arn seation, out of courteay, if not aa o right, ot furnishing tho noxt. Rg}mhucnn Prosidontinl cau- didste; ond, o8 Oroswoll looms up at lonst 'a hoad nnd ehonldora shova sny of the othor politicians of the formor Slavo Btates, who, uuless Grant should insist on being bis own succassor and romnining for o third torm, ia so llcoly to bo the nominco of tho Ropublican party for President in 1870 aa John'A. 3, Croswoll? 2 kbbb A CARD FROM MR. SHEPPARD HOMANS. 9 the Edttor of The Chicago Tribuns : 8m: The July number of the Spectator, n monthly paper dovoted ¢ insutatico, contains an nocount of sn “intorview” botween its editor snd Mr, Fredorick 8. Winston, President of tho Mutual Life Insuranco Company of Now Yorl, from whicl the following is an extract : Editor—* What woro the causos of Mr. (Actuary) Homans' rotiremont from the Mutual Lifo?” Winston—" In bricf, unfaithfnincss, incam- potonoy, obstinacy, impracticability, aud inaul- ordination, in my opinion, wore tho roasons why the Board rid thomselves of him." T am by profession o lifo insuranco actuary, and depond, in & measuro, for my support upon tho results of my labors 2s such. I am also bound to protect my charactor from dofamation, X caniiot, " thorofore, lov tho ststomont sbove quoted -Temain unnoticed. Hal Mr. Winston given to hin intorviewer the facts instend of his opinions, and allowed tho public to form their conclusions, no notice of the matter ou my part would havo boon nocesssry. The facty nro 080 1 : In November, 1869, I was tho Aunditor of the Mutual Life Company, sud Alr. Winston tho President.” Ho brought to me for audit tho official quarterly srslemont of recoipts and payments, propreed under his direction | 3 Lo, bookkewol, in puch mannor ¢hal npon, isvestigation, I dotected tho fact thal oouenin itoms hnd boen improporly withheld in tho fiual pryments of doath elaims fntho rap- Tosontatives of decoasod policy-hojdors, tho boolss of the Company having Fope sfrnads pro- r , under hio osder,” With o view to doprive such partios of said smounts 8o due thom. To andit tlus statomont by certifying tho same in tho uaual maoner to bo correct, wonld havo been Justifying him, aod iuvolving ‘mysol? us an ao- complios in the porpotration of an notof dia- Lonesty to tho policy-holdars, and a diroct viola- tlon of the charter of tho Company. I, thore- fore, declinod auditing tho statement, boyond | sortifying. thiat thosame * was in accordance with iho entrios upon tho books of tho Company." This. cortificate ho plB!anl‘(fli and violontly erased, with the throat thay, it X did not andit tho statoment in tho usual manner, he would find somebody olso for actuary who would. That in this matter I'was unfaithful to Mr, Winston in his schome for defrauding the beneflciarios undar cortain policies of tho Com- pany Ladmit, but unfaithtul to the Company vover, That to Mr. Winston I was in this mat- tor impracticable, insubordinate, and obstinato is certainly true, - Upon this occurronce, it of courso .becamo necossnry that I should be got vid of ; but Mr, ‘Winston doos little justice to his {msltlnu in tho Compnuy by stating that the Trustacs dotormin- edto got rid of me. If tho Trustecs had como to suoh a dotormination, it would have boen practi- caily of but little momont, unless Mr. Winston so willed it. I was got rid of by Nr, Winston, Ever sincolie ousted Mr, Colling from tho Pronidency Ly tho secrot collaction of proxies, Mr. Winatan hus hold ubsolnto control of tho Cnm{:nlly by kuoging in his possesaion proxies of such policy- holders as, baving given them originally upon the golicitation of his agonts, have beon too in- different or too indolent to eancel thom, Tach of hia Trustoen holds his place by tho appoint- mont o foloration of A, Winsten, and. from time to timo tho most respoctable merchants, who hava beon membiers of the Baard' hiaye boon ot rid of forloxhibiting “ obatinacy, impractica- hility, and insubordination,” amonnting to une feithfulness * to My, Winston, in regard to such schiomes und practices of his na ho may not bo ?hlo to conces! from the knowledgo of tho Fruy- oo, His chargze of incompetoney, (n that I was a countable'for tho fearful blunder in the distribu- tion of aurplus In 1870, and that suld blundor was occusioned by o mistako of mine, is simply un- teue, It was accasioned by the direot intorfor- ence of My, Winaton, in opposition Yo the des cigion of distinguishad roforcos, which had boen appraved, adopted, and ordorad enrriod out by tho Board of Prustoos, and ho is rosponsiblo for the blundor, s he woll lmowa. Mr, Winston novor would have mado this chargo against mo except under tho oxcitomont of fooling growlug out of circumstance boyond my control, viz, : that Ilatoly gavo tuuumung undor the compul- Bory process of subpwna) bofora the Assombly Oommittep during an invastigation which result- ed in his convietion of malfoasance In ofiico, of tho unwarrauted use of trust fuuds, and of showd havo the uup{mrt of a loyal Congrossional delegation from Maryland, In 1866 Croswell was ggaln o candidate for re-cleotlon 3 but the War was thon closod, thingd hnd wssumad & moro pacifie aepect, and o Democrat was olectod fu hiw stead. As the Ropublican purty was then iu the aicondant in tho Margland Liegmiature, Cresoll was that wintor taken up by them as & candidato for the United Blutes Honato, to flll a vucancy cnusod by tho deuth of Bonator 1lcks ; and, after an aniniatod contost with Moutgomory Dlalr, swho lind shortly bofore Noppad ovor to the Do mocracy, and boon accoptod by thom ps.s candi- aato, ho wae oleeted to Bl the uuoxyll‘nd torm, and stoppod out of the Houso into the Bensto, aud bins ever ginco Ngured quite consploucusly among our leading politlcians, o CHESWELL'S AMBLTION, ™ over wiuco ho got iyto power, has beon to rulo tho roost, by becoming chlof Qispensor of tho politieul patronage of Maryland. TFor the accomplishmont of this objeot, he come mancad tolllng uselduously thp davhe eutored frundulent attonipts ut conconlment of his_con- duqt by falso and altered ontrios in the bapky of tho Ganpuuy. Huzrrany Lloxaxs, 251 IuoADWAY, New Yonxk, July 15, 1870, — A Fish Story. The Nutland (Vi) Zerald ls vespousible for there nasertlonu s’ ““An old rosident or Cnstloton, who lives in the vicinity of Bomosoon Lake, wag rocontly luhiug inthe lnko, boing anchored but & fow rods from shoro, whon lio had most ox= traorainary *Lite and take’ at tha ond of Lis lino aud ook, _ With an unlimited amount of oxorllon ho pullod up—s ruur-pinllnn Jug, with somothing fuside hu:s,-lng at tho lino. ~ Upon broaking the jug n ihree-pound pickerol wus found, “Tho prababilities aro that the fieh, in his oarly ‘fishliced,’ bolug of n {fllllnnnph cal turn of ‘mind, or helng out onn littlo timo,’ In goarch of somothing to mako his hoart happy, hind entored his Jug, and belng unablo to got out had romained thoro ever ainco, till ho had at- taluod iy prosout woluht sud azp,” Canby on the afternoon of June 25, 1873, and almoat immediately oncountored dificultics. At Davis Crock, six miles out, wo found the crossing bad, and on nttempting to paus over ono of our wagons, it upsot, throwing out eight boxes of hard bread, one box of sugar, snd many olhor necossnry supplies. The wagon Was brokon beyond ropair, and thero was no holp for 1t but to wait and sond- back to Camp Canby for & now wagon. Maj. Grogg himself wout back, with ono or two mon, and in the ovening, at 8 o'clock, roturned with o new wagon and stores to roplaco thoso damaged, which had to bo abandonod in the stream, thoy baing so sosked with wator as to have becomo entiroly worth- loss. It was now too late to attempt to go sny far- thor that day, aud wo oncamped on Davis Crook, tho grass being very fino and tho water excol- Ient, with plonty of fuol at band. Neoxt morning, at 8 o'clock, wo rocommonced our march, our journoy lying up the south’ bank of the North Loup. Tho hills, aftor crossing Davis Croolt, aro very steep, and we had to doublo the toams to pull tho wagons up. With tho oxcop- tion of tho firat four milos, however, tho road is very good to Dano Creck, & distanco of sixtcon miles from our lasy camp, Tha valley over which wo had passsed was ‘vory beautiful sand rich, the goil being n black loam aund freo from stono, Itisin most places from two to four miles wido, tho iver flowing slong the north side, with many groves of fino timber growing on islands and along ita banks. » nosEs. Our camp at Danoe Crook was literally a bed of ‘roso, tho groaud boing covered with thousands of wild prairic-roses. I mnaticed sevoral fing farms along onr march this day, and at one place, #nw lottuce, onions, potatoos, peas, benns, o) cor growing lnxuriantly, ‘Mo farmors in 4" art of tho conntry soemes Much moro {-3{4Y Tien thono, 1 hiad sgon farthor down tho yalos: Tn tho uigsht, n cloud of Moaquitaos oo 4OWH upon us, and o wero u/arly onfon aiive 1 lin £oon much of thoae pestt boforo, it pover know thor #o bad nsat Dsd Croek, 7 fought thom off wtil noar eorning, when, ou- Tty i fuzo, Yol awlosy, and thoy hud (ioir feast. iy ingDioruing wag very beautiful, and e Ty B ook aud 4 isuios. Wo'only marcliod to dytlo Crook, threo milos, when, in crossing, one’f the large wagons stuck fnat in the m‘lfi’“mmunther ono upsot, We consumed about an Jour in putting owr wagon to rights, and contided our journey ut 8 o'clock nlong tho Tioup, wich runs hioro vory uienr tho bluffa. At noon 9 Btock wag turnod out to graze, and I nscon-od tho bIUfE for o view of thovally, Tho sgops WS very flue, the valloy boing yisiblo for fiton_ milog, brosd and lovel, dividod nearly down tho middlo by n bright and winding river, w6 banks fringed with green trces noarly all the way, snd in places quite largo forosta on the islonds, Many farmors nare scttled along tho - rivor, though but fow of thom bave housos' yob, tho sottlomont boing quito now. They live in'dug-outs, mado by dig~ give & tronch into the pide of o hill to tho dop of ono's body, and rooting over the top with brush ar logs, covernd with ourth. APFY JAOK." . In tho afternoon tho, bluffa grow mora nbm&s, and wo crossed a very bad ravine, whore tho ambulance upsot, This day we saw Hng{:y Jacl's " placo, n famous huntor and scont. His Ten] namo la Bwanger, but ha is nover called by it, bolng only known as “ Happy Jack.” Noar Jnck's placo lives Lont Goodlove, who hins a fino ranch, - Just boyond Goodlovo's the valloy opens out very wido,—10 miles in extent, Tshould think, —aud the soil bocomos somovwhat thinnor, but i atill good whoat-land. e Burlington & Missouri Railrond owns onc-lialf of tho land in the Loup. Valley, but its line isLont Goodlove's placo, and, Trom here o, ull the landsbeloug {o the Govern- ment, are surveyed, and open fo homestend or [ro-eimption by scitlors. I sww castus and uifalo-grass,—a protty good sign of thin soil, At 3 g'clock wo reschod tho first fork of the North Loup, and crossed over, encamping be- tween the two streams. Tho South Fork is the largor of tho two wators, but_onr couree lies up tho North Branch. W found tho crossing quite bad, and tho bod of the stream full of quick- sands. Tho wagous woro got over with great dificulty, having to bo dragged throngh by hand, psrt of tho loads being first romoved and carriod over on tho mon's backs, Tho crossing waa offocted just whoro the two strenms join the Tiver, boing thoro about fifty yards wido, swift, and trenchorous, but nob dodp, tho water only coming up to the horsew’ kuoes., This dny wa p\wsm? through tho Danish sottlement, where 1o saw many fine farms opened by now sottlors, Not much land bas beon as yet roducad to culti- vation, but, in what was plonted, tho crops locked well, At the forks lives an old hormit named 3lesgongor, who tills a_small patel: of ground, snd leads » lonely lifo. Ilo is quitoan iutelligent man. JETOND CIVILIZATION, June 28.—Btarted up tho North Fork this morning at 6 o'clock. Tho valley is quito nare For, 1ot over & mile from bluf¥ to blnft, but tho #oil ip rich lonm. 'Timber s growing scarce; but thore is good grass. Wo are now boyond civili- zation, and will sco no more Louses from thiy on, Tho valloy widous us- wo uscond, and tho bluffs diminish in eizo, Wild flowors grow in profusion everywhore, and we begin to find amo, A lLuntor killed o fina deor and two ucks. ‘The rivor 18 very crooked, and wo huvo o cross it, Isaw tho remains of an old Indian enmp of immonse sizo, and whore there had boen n _gront buffalo-surround. Bkulls, bones and hair wore seattored for milos, showing thaf ‘many hundreds, if not thousnnds, of unimals hud boon killed. Our eamp is on tho river noar this point, and a good ono, oxeopt thore is no wood, timbor baving run ont 12 milos bolow. Hoon aftor emplng, our plokots signnled a {»)nrty approaching, which proved to bo Mr, oughorty with somo surveyors, Ite kuows but littlo about tho country, huving been only somo 10 wiles forther up.” A severs storm, nccom- andod with thundoer and lightning, occurred dur< ug the night, and then tho mosquitoes bogan to o0t us, JUNE 30.—OfF at 7 @, m., ourcourso boing through sand hills. Very hard pulling for wag- ony, and the river oOrooked, ~No wagous huve ever travaled hore hofore, md wo are mnk- Ing o now trail, Tho river grows smallor ; and, about noon, marshes appear, miles in oxtont. Wo travel u’]l_mo along tho bluffs on tho north sido of thoe river. Sovoral antolope are seen ; and, a milo farthor on, we camo upon four doer, but do not succeed in killing suy, ~ A small, vloar creak runs into tho Loup from " tho north, nflor which tho valloy widens out, In crossing tho crock, tho Jargo anny-wagons atuck nufii and wora got over with considerablo difioulty, From information rocetved last night from AMr, Dough- orty, stronms of this kind do not have wator in them after July 16, o avold & big boud in the river, wo attompted to cross avor, aud, in <]ululf #0, biroke our ambulance-tougue, The wugon kop! tho north bauk, aud the swbulance aud cuvalry | kopt up tho south stde. Wo roon m-ernnguled cl‘x’e river, and onenmpod op fARAT 0 M (b edve! Gl idptey TIE RIB-RI=-PAH, " R Juwe 80.—Marchod at 0 a. m., going up the Kls-ki-pnl, whioli hero¢ empticn into tho Loup, Our doursd {3 now northwost, tho other branch of tho Loup turning off pouth, Tt s still quito Inrgo,—20 yards wido, I should think, Tho-Kiss Xi-palt iapldly diminishen in sizo after loaving tho Loup, and the #oil all tho way along it banka is sandy and untimbered, Haw Bomo antolopo; cranas, ourlow, and plover, in abundance.” Foind- Tndan camps, probably ton years old, some of whith must haye contafned bmdrods of, lodgds, The rivor §8 nofy quito small, and marskos bogin to appear, somo.of. thom qullo oxtonsive. Oourro norih and weat igh would fudieuto tist wa st uifo oloso to tha solirco of tho Kis-ki-psh, No ¢! m!mr, not ovou o willow, to bo scon. Graaa ia proity good, and we encemp. A honvy shower commonced at noon, and Issted somo two hours, Borgosut Trwin and hnipw Jack,who are withus, wont-up tho rivor 6 miles above our camp, whero thoy sny ft.forks. Following up tho North Fork theysaw a hord of buffalo, but thoy were too far off to bo attacked boforo morning. Itiaralning to-night. Juy 1.—In the snddlo at0 . m., and our eourto noarly north, along tho Kig-ki-pah, which i still quito atrong snd Bwitt, A courler from Onmp Onnby. informs us that Gon. Ord and Cols Dristin aro coming up, and We aro dirccted to loaves dotachmont of mon at North Fork and on Lono Pine; with forago for tho Gonoral's animils, Mo, Gregg will sond bnck Happy Jaekand two mon. to guide tho Gonoral's pnrty up. Vatloy narrow,soll sandy, but much im- | proved, nnd grass bottor, No wood yot. Passod torks toportod last night by Bureurmt Irwin, and kopt np tho North Branch. Wator only con- tinugs one mile, and thon runs out. 'Saw somo antelope, and Irwin killed ono. Privato Critton- don aightod_tho butalo soon last night, and Kkillod ono, fine young cow. Tho hord is about twonty-tive strong, ond to tho eastward, Our course through tho hills northwost, with no wood or wator, and but littlo p. Toward ovonin, wo nsconded n wide platoau, and found goo graes | 8lso, b 1argo pond of water by which wo campod, and got willows to makocoffoo, Ought to havo boen on hend of Lono Pine, but saw nothing of it. One of the mon picked up an old Romington rovolver, euch aa wore issucd to the army Bomo yoars ago, ‘Troops must have bean: horo before, but we oo no trail mado by thom, ‘Wo had to-night for ml:F“ buifalo-steaks and antolope~chops, with sand-hill oranos’ and plov- ord’ ogge. | DIECOVERY OF TIMIRR. = Jury 3.—A lovely momning. Marchod at 7 o'olock ovor a_ beautiful plain, which strotches out as far as tho eyo can reach, Courso sill ‘north, and over a small, sparsoly-wooded crock, whiolt we supposed at firat was Lono Pino, bu :Iearnod hetorwards was Evergreon Run, Good grass sad wator hero, and it has ovidontly beon onco a famous rosor! overywkers, and tha. ground indentsd by wallows, Six miles from Evergroen we marched tbxon%h sond-hills, end siruck n with stoop bavks. ,on bothsdes by a denso growth of pino timber, Thore {e'a conelderablo body of pino hote, and this is a1 astonishing and valuablo ‘discovory, ng it was n¢t known boforo thvre wore pine-loge iff this purtof tho country, Soil sandy hure, but was excalont on tho largo plateau Loforo crods- ing Everzroon Run, Wo saw from Lone Pine o boit of timber to the north, which wo supposcd o bo on the Niobrara. We could not cross Long Pino whire we struck it, on uue of steop banks, axd so followed it up 0 Hllhflflitc find o crossing, which wo mado_ouly by gp ng down the apprawches, Stroam is c]oula Tapid " aud cold, 20 foot wilo and 4 feot doop. Camped on Louo Pino, wita plenty of wead, wator, and grass. No pino kecs whore we' campod, but. plenty of O 8O af L5 T conTsomorthsost, ovor ~nilos ont crorsod small crack soudclills, TWEA hoavily timborod. | Orossad lovel pfihw ‘with good grass, and found another small cropy Dut o timbor on it, except a fow stuntod . It 1s a branch of tho othor erook, e eoutios not far balow. Tho crossing of tho crpely e Yory bad, and wo campod by it. Maj. Gragr vont ‘out soouts, who roturncdin tho oveidg and roportod that tho creck emptiod . the Niobrars, - fiftcou mifos bolow. Mos- .Aitoos vory bad in camp, 3 ' COL. MILLS AND TROF. MARSH. Jurx 4.—Our national indopendenco’ day, and wo colobrato it by now discovories of vainablo pino forests in tho northwest portion of the Stata of Nobraskn. March at G:16 a.m., following oreck six mitos to its sourco, where we find a littlo valley running north, and follow it, A fow milos out wo striks sand-hills for five miles, and thon o bonutiful piateau of great oxtent. Course oast of nerth five iniles, whoro wo sirike tho Niobrara, Our orders dircot ua to go to the month of Rapid River and wait for Col. Mills, Third Cavalry, who i8 coming from Fort Mo Pherson, with' two companics of Cavalry, and who will'communicato with ua nt Hapid River. Wo woro hardly in eamnp whon J‘irflwm signaled mouunted nion spproaching, and, a fow minutos aftdrwards, Clilford, s guido from Col. Millg’ coliimn, cama into,camp,” o informs us that 1lills is throe milod above, st the mouth of Rapid Rivor, and has with him Prof. Marsh and thir- teen studouts, Wo saw Indian signs this morning,~a_protty fresh trail of a dozen ponics. I found threo poles planted in a line from cast to west on ono of thom, o whits flag o foot square, two small parcols of. tobacco, and on the ground noar tho pole a beavor-skin with oven hore-shoes paint~ od on it, snd an Indlon hoad. Clifford ronds the sign, “Wo are Minnoconjonos going cust, and Dnve stolon soven horscs with whoas” (white mon's borsos). . Jory b.—Mn). Grogg wont out yestorday, with o smoll party of mon, and s not roturnod. I foar bo_has boon attacked IJI‘SBIudlnnn, who ara evidently not far off, Col. Mills is in camp noar, mo. - It ia now midnight, and no word of Grogg yot. Bomethiog hns certainly happened to him; a8 lio hag boon out twonty-four Louta without food, At dsylight I will atart to look for him, Col. Mills having sont over Clifford to go with nio, * AT, OREGG. Jorg 8.—We staried in pursult of Gregg, nnd fortunately, when G milea out, met him coming in. Ihad confidently belleved I would find ouly tho doad bodios of the party, and was overjoyod £0.find them well and honrty, having gona farther thin they expeeted, but mot with no Indians. We dined to-dey with Col Mills and Licut. Bohwatks, and hnd o very nico timo. To-mor- row wo sturt for homo, and will travel over our own trail back. Bpent most of theday in hunt- ing foasily, ~with DProf. Marsh and the studente, - Thoy aro loading wagons with tho bones of jmmonso mustodons that, Prot, Marsh snye, flourished on carth Eoma 10,000,000 yenrs ngo, Tho Niobrars hero is about 100 yards wido, tho current rapid, and the wator kneo-doop. ho stroam 18 howrily time bered with Jargo trocs of pino, codar, and neb. Largo forosts extond up tho Rapld aud Niobrars Riivors as for ay Wo can seo. Many litéln valloys run juto the Niobrara, and thoy afe full of #prings, tho wators of which aro strongly im- proguated with iron. . DACK AGATN. : Loft the Niobrara on tho 6th of July, and ar- rived at our cump In North Loup Valléy, near Graud Tsland, July 14, 1875, Vil —_—— The Chicogo & Suvaunah Railvoad. From the Levington (1) Press, July 23, Tho magnificent ontorprise soomé likoly to ob- inin ns spoody s realization ns uny yet brought to the public mnotico, Western “people do not movo_ ko us., '.\'hnrv aro rapld-in everything thoy do. A littlo whilo ago the. Chicngo & Bovare nah Railrond was o more rumor ; now it is & wall suthontieatod mnlit{. A rond from Chicago to Bavannah iy the onslost thing in the world, Tho Company is formod. In Octobor thoy oxpoot to Luve all thelr plans comploted. Appiication will bo mado to Cmuil'mm for pawor to contrnet for the purchaso or loaniug of otherlines of railrond, and tho Company will go to work nt once. Lex- ington iu tho objootiva point in Kontucky on o atralght o to tho Bouthern weaport, Thoy can avail themeelvos of railroad facilitios alroady in oxistonco, to o polnt in Indiana, & fow -miles from the Ohio Biver. Trom thut they build to Vavay, whoro they croes the Obio, and make con- nection with the great Olucinuati Bouthorn Nail- rond to Loxington, thonco by the samo rond. to Chaltauooga, thenco by umfiouumm systom of rouds Lo Buvannab, Bolab, S N Enst St Louls & Golng Up,» From the Alton (11L) Telegruph, Tho City Council of Rast 8t. Louis have do- clded to raiso tho grade of their stroots oight feot shovo the B, Louis city direetrix, or about six inolies above high water mark of ‘1844, To mn-e'_‘uuz this nct, Col, Houry Flad and Thonias J. Whitnun, of 8L Louis, “wero appointed to cm-r;iuut tho grade. With thom ia ausociatod Mr, T\ M, I.nnfi, Uity Enginoor of tho plico, Buryoyn liavo Boon mado, aud tho cleyations of tho grudo ostablished, The grade flxed upon rangos from alx to fourteon foal aliove tho pres- out gurface of ground on which tho ity is built, Ina fow places the *“fIll" will bo as much s cl;fhluon feat. If theold bod of the rivor is Alllod to this new grado, it will requirs nently firty foot of earth to bo placod over “the prouont surfaco to bring 6 to the roquired elevation. ‘thia i4 cortalnly an immanso undortaking, Aun intorosting question 1s, whoro will thoy got the onrth fortho filling, us tho whole country for milos around is as flat ana pancake, Alton night, however, furnlsh a fow dozen hills for o rousonsble consldaration, of buffalo; Bones ara’ It is covered | nI:DITIDN.: CAPT INNEQ! EX Xt Loaves -'(fn’nip Bi‘ow’n for tho in Mountnins. 3 Progress of the Expedition Across ‘Wyoming, - Lettor from Liout, Robert H. Young: Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Oaaita, July 22, 1878 Liout, Robert II. Young, Fourth United Btatos Infaniry, writing from Camp Brown, Wy- oming Torritory, undor datoof July 11, givos | ©f nows from Capt. Jones' Exploring Expedition up to the morning of that dato, Hoeays: ‘* OUR MAROM ACROSS WYOMING TERRITORY, * from Fort Bridgor to Camp Brown, in tho Wind River Vallay, waa without mattors of special in-, torost. Wo found tho stronms much ewolien and difficult to cross, Our progross was vory alow, and many of tho pack-mules behaved bad- 1y,—bucking, kicking, and giving troublo as on- 1y mules can. In fording tho Bandios, wo lost two mules by drowning. Tho water was ouly about 4 foot deop on tho crossing, but the mules got down and drowned before wo could got thom ont. Wo arrived at Onmp Brown on tho 1st of July, and have boon delayod over sinco fixing ap, Atlast WE ARE IN READINFEES TO MARCIH, and will leave to-morrow morning for tho moun- taing. Our courss will bo by Buifalo Bull Lako, Big Wind River, and M\Ida,y. Wo crossed our Ppuoke-train over the Littlo Wind Rivor yontorduy, and aro now encamped on tho north bank of tho stresm. You know Camp Brown stands on . tho south banlk of the river, We brought out with us 41 ‘apparcjoos,’ very much out of ordor, but havo lmf om ropalrod 8o thoy will carry about 360 pounds to each pack-mulo. ¢ Capt, Jonos has in his sciontiflo corps 13por- gons, including himself aud Liout, Blunt, ‘Lhir- toonth Unitod Statos Infantry, Tho party bave with thom 3 colorod caoks, 3 guides, and 16 Sho- shonbo Indians. Tho oxpodition ie escorted by Capt. Honry Noyes, (Torupany I, Bocond United fi;n:tfln [ 1l od mon, Aseiotant Surgoon Helzman. I am Assistant Quartormaster and Acting Assistant Commissary of Bubuistence to the command, and bove 1 chief packor, 8 packers, aud 1 cook. i " and an automatle ear-couplor (v in tho lmvf}lu i ;Ie?lmgrudta}aslst%ot 53 on& i out, Hall, Liout. Kin sud : %o Kofing atartod In Digtu butwiu o Bnow flios. AImm\y» FT00.5b of (0 atock I, tnkons mnd, -oibhor-4 Nnr(’ln Tigin or Wost Elgin, the now company caii liavo n froo donotion of thirty noron o nds, ‘otiro tho location In tho vielnity, " -1 | 71 . Wo bour nleo of ah.entorpriio bn: o pimilar ‘eplo, for the purposs of mannfacturing abd solllng cortaln patonted nrticles, Including a vory. simple bng-tie; n steam.washor which cleanses “without rubblng or ponnding;- an abrasivo powder which is intended to superacdo_the finor grades of emery ; a summor fuel and kindlin of the Patont Ofleo), which ean bo uncoupled ok will from the crr or'angine or from tho ground, aud suited to any.car. it.may meot with,- This institution promisos oventunlly to bogome quite a Inrgo concorn. SIS e 2 Othor _ontorprisos also.wo henr of doily i nnéi - sineo (g Olongo & Pacile Railrond oo obllg 4 to run through Wost Llgin, in close simxmm. o tho mill-race, manymanufactories will doubtlosy avail mumsu{vnnp tho spesinl ndvantages thus orod. . . i Nor is Ilgin to bo snoozod nt oA a rosldenco-, suburb of Chicago, as s evinced by tho number of city-mon who aro to bo scon dally on tha g~ commodatlon iraing, . & As rogards building operations for tho presont gonson, flginltes have alrosdy contracted for forty-flvo residoncon, ranging -from ‘tho 316,000 manalon to tho 8700 cotiage, and nggrogating about $100,000. e Ty | Ono lhlngrmaro and I hiavo dono,—tho schoola, Horotoforo Elgin could not bosst of them : Poor schools, poor school-houses, paorly paid school- tonchors, for yonrs, But, with n now Bonrd, under n now Jaw, wo shall havo a clesn Bwoop. Already an addition to tho High-Scool building, and ral, betweon Naslville and Cinetnnatl, snd +Mobilo nlwayn oujoys nenrly tho snmo immunie ty. Cinciunatd fu ot an élean as Loutsvillo, nor 8 foul nn Nashvillo, nud obolorn hins pu suod au julormodiale caurse, It wag first fme ‘portod a8 far back s May 92 by a stonmbont from Now Orlennn, and ho flrst /canost ocentrred on & contaglous’ bont, At lonat 170 Pnuunngnm and crow woro Ianded from thid bont, I vielted anothier infeeled vomsel from Momphis, with about sixty pnesongers nud crow, whiel. had provieusly landed |Iun\ and dying at Louisville, and still had infoctod clothos on Dbonrd. Tho dlsgase haspmraiied a sloy but roe Tontlors courso in Cincinnnti, nrnnll)lnlg from por gon to poreon, “sud from house ta liouao, with unmistakablo -marks .of communication Among, rolations, frionds, &o., of.tho sick. . As tha drinking.wator {3 good, -Do.. gooral gnte broak of tho disonso hau occurred, and it has alwnys’ boon perfoctly spfo -fo. vislt. I lva intho bost part of tho husiness aud rosldonca -quarter, 'The Cincinnati snthoritiod proforrea to'givo mo o list of denths from Juno 10 only, snd, -of course, it was impossiblo to traco the h(nw?' of tho cnges which ocourred. from. May 33 to Jiino 16, but, from tho lattor dato, I liovo that the majority of cnses were rocorded af tlfo honlth office, with name, nizo, dato, rosldenco, oud duration of nttack, Of "thoso, 1 diod In ond hour, 1in two, 1 n four, 1 fn fivo,- 10 i eix, 1 in’ soven, 7 in olqht,d In nino,” 6 in ton i oleven, 26 in twelve, 2 in thirtoon, §in foure toon, 3 In fiftoon, 8 in'sixteon, 11 in olghtesn, § in' twonty, 2 in twenty-two, 20 in twonty-si 12 In twonty-oight, 1 tn thirty, 0 in thiriy-elx, 10 10 forty-olght, viz's 110 casos in less than twons ty-four hours, and 25 casos in betwoan twanty« four hours and forty-cight hours. Tho discasa improvomenta in othor houses, and €5 a monih moro to tho toachors, sBliow that tho now loaven| is working, And wo aro asgurod that, if tho peoplo will nre the power tho now Iaw gives thom, and ask for them, a_good ward school- Liouso on the West Bide and a first-class High- Behool ean bo eractod within o yoar. IsCA. —_—_—— CHOLERA. An Important IZcport from Dr. Yohn C» Poters to the Now York Ionxl of IRenlth, From the New York Times, July 23, At tho mooting of tho Board of Health yostor- day, the following preliminary report on the oholora of tho Wost and South was presontod by Dr. John O. Potora : In advance of tho more full reert, 1 can atato that to my porsonal knowledgo cholora was conveyod from Now Orloaus and Meme phis *by steam boats to Loulsvillo and Cineinnati, 'Tho Hoalth Olllcor of Evansvillo also roporis that tho firat three ‘or moro cancs wero Ianded there from stosmboats from bolow. Tho enmo hns hnpponod at Bt, Louis. I Mooro, 55 bodiors, 5. oobts, 3 guid wo aro 7 officers, 53 soldiers, 3 cooks, 2 guides, 9 packors, 11 citizons, and 10 Tudlnns’; total, 101, . We will take out with us six wooks' supplice, snd Ieball_probably roturn inside of that timo to Camp Brown with the pack-train for moro ra- tions, We kave hiad some spocimens of what a mule’ oan do at kicking and bucking, and tho conduct of tho green miles has boen & gource of ut mmmIAmONt o1 L0 ey to iho young ou- lomen Who accompany tho expodition, Thuy aro not now quito 80 funny, howevor, sinco thoy bavo had to mount broncho horscs and mules that hove given them somo oxporierice in the bucling businees. My position is by no moans ornamontal, and I bave beon kopt vory busy, fo that T havo vory little timo or opportunity for writing. Tho streoms which have horatoforo baen doop aro now falling rapidly, and wo expoct Hittla troubloe in fording those to bo crossod on our way out. F ¢ THE Onors in tho Popongio Valloy Jook fino, and thogo on Little Wind Livor aro growing luxnriantly this Bosson. Whoat, barloy, oats, and corn look ro- markably wall, sudall kinds of gardou stuffs and vogetables aro abundant. Tho grass is very rauk, and grazing most oxcollont, There {8 no gamo hLoro, but wo expact to find plenty of it forthor out. Tho trout aro boginning to bito nicoly, and & good. many fine speckied follows Tave Baou takon. ‘‘oAMT BROWN, tho baso of onr suyplios is located on the south bank of Little Wind ilivur, at the hoad of tho Wind Rtivor Valloy, It isn ono-company post, built by Capt. It."A, Torrey, Thirteonth Unito Bintes Infantry, sud is still undor his command and gorrisoned by his company, A, Thirteenth Infantry, It i & ploasaut litile post, with o Btroam of water running throngh it, sud is ur- rounded by o rich and fortile valloy. I am told Gon. Ord hus ordorod another sot of quarters to be uroctad ut Brown, and that_horearter ho will Leop two companios, instead of one, at thiy pout. * %" Ono milo from tho postis tho Agency for 4L SHOYHONEE INDIANS, Dr, Juuios Irwin is tho Agont. Tho Shoshonos Tudisns iu this band ore about 900 strong, and 7oty poagonblo. Thay doslto to go to furining, eud the Governmont 18 making arrangements to havo thom taught agrieulture At the Agoncy, tou or twelve buildings have bean orectod, and & blnokemith, school-teacher, farfor, millor, wlmelrifht. and doctor rosido in thom. A largo Indiou farm bas been inclozed; the lands havo beon broken up, and sra being cultivaled with apparent groat succoss, A saw-mill and _griste mill have also beon built at the Agenoy for Ltho ugo of the Indiaus. Wasehakio, tho Chiof of tho Shoshonaos, is n man of groat ability, aud gives Bis pooplo tho best of advice, wishing thom to quit their nomadic habits, sottlo down, aud live liko tho white moun do.” 5 Liout. Youug states that, on his roturn to Brown for fresh wupplios, ho will writo again, oud givo nows of tho further m&rus! of the oxpedition, ON ADOUT. ELGIN. Its Recent Growih nnd Future Pross Pectse-Nanufacturing Enterpriycses Building Operations==Schools. Evor, 1N, July 21, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sim: In all probubility, no small town on the great northwestern lines of railway has suflerod moro from digerimination in froight ratos than has Elgin, With great -natural facilitios for trade and manufeoturos, sho has lnin just & lit~ tle out of the path of competing " railroads, sud 80 lins boen obliged to pay exorbitunt rates, in order to mako up tho loss acerung from low rates Lo and from compoting points, . ZElgin mon, however, sco & bright futuro loom- ing up. With diserimination aguivst thom ro- moved, thoy feol thoy can invilo capital with much greater confidonco than heretofore. Tho wator-powor at Elgin is oxcollont, partionlarly on tho West Bide, though bithertoit has beon used but vory little. Good as the power is, it is not, howover, boyond improvemout, eithor by a rais- ing of tho dam, or, as some confidontly nnticl- pate, by tho tapping and storing of somo of tho Wisconsin lakos, o that as it may, tho growtn of Elgin must depond upon the steady increnso of hor manu- facturing establishmonts. During tho past eight yoars, hor devolopment in thia direction bhas Leon immense. Ouly so short o timo sincs, she wos o moro countsy-villago, dependivg prinoi- pally upon tho ugrioulture of the surrounding townahips for her support, Now sho possosses tho works of tho National Watch Compnny, with over 1,000,000 invosted, snd with 600 employes; & lurgo woolon-mill; Gail Bordon's Milk-Con- donsing Company, which puts up somo 7,600 cans of tha articlo daily ; two largo foundrios; & factory for choeso-making applisncos ; u reapor- factory; a good machine-and-engine-works ; fiyo large grist-inills ; & wasbing-mschine faotory ; a coltton<batting factory ; sevoral carringo-shops : and many minor institutions, omploying rogu- +larly skillod labor. ‘Uhin Inorenso in the number of manufacturing ostablishmonts has brought sn incronse to the town of 6,000 inhabitants,—hns raised it from 8,000 to nonrly 9,000, The citizens uro now, howovor, nuuolmllngi & mora rapid progross aven than thoy havo hithorto Lind, and aro pros pared to givo o substantinl aud cordial welcomé Lo bmployors of labor who seck to sottie hore. Alrun&’y this year, wo note somo sdditions to Elgin entorprivo, ‘Cho National Watch Company are making also inve vory positivo information that casos were braught by railroad to Nashvillo and died there. In Gallatin, Woodburn, snd Bowling Groon, tho first cascs, tomatimes thres In num- bor, were importod oncs, But tho momontous foct ntands out vory Ekronglf tnat, howover the Qinonao may havo boon brotight to, or havo orig- inated in, Murfroosboro, Nashville, and Bowling Groen, and many other places, tho pestilonco quickly and almost oxclusively localized itself in tho filthtost poris of theso towns, whilo tho clonnest portions almost ontirely oscapad, 1In Murfreosboro no direot importation of the iseaso is yot acknowledged, but it iu woll known that among tho. onrlicst cases in the nelghbor- hood was that of & negro who arrived from Nashvillo and diod in & honse noar tho town ; tho,woman who nursed him, washed his olothos, died, and (wo othors in tho samo house, In Murfrecsboro tho physicians gonerally admitted that tho disonse wna trua Asiatio cholora, lika that of 1866, Lut wore alvo fully improased with tho Southorn theory, viz: That a long Bovers wintar, changing suddonly to s vory warm sum- mor, had produced such a rapid growth of llflll that vegotal all tho grosses and vogotablos wero very walory and unwholosomo ; the fllth accumulated during tho wintor was _suddenly oxposed to o very Lot pun, and brod & poculiar _Indigenous malarin; that the drinking-wator became af- focted, cepocially in the lower ‘I)ur_tlnns of the town, which rocolved sewage snd drainago from abovo; thiat tho disense cropt along tho creok and wator courses, whorever drainage mists ‘and malaris most provailed, and s(ootor princlpally, or almout oxclugively, tho black aud low-class white, who lived in such places, [Theso localiz- ing {nfluonces wore #o groat nud manifost {hat importation was not ahoufiht of or looked for, ospecially as almost all tho botter nnd higher ports of Murfreosboro and thio moro oloauly and coml]arlnblu iuhabitants almost onterely os- “eaped. Btill, the Murfreesboro physicians regarded tho disense a truo Asiatio cholera, morely precipi- tated and modificd by malarious and bad dietotic influoncen. 'They usoed cloanliness and disinfac- tion of porsons aud clothes vigorously, forbada tho nighitly assemblages of negroce, sud stumped tho disoano out quickly. At Nasbville the loci ing causos of cholora woro so oxtended and ap- Fm’uuh thot no importation of the discase wag looked for or gonorally bolioved in. Nor sro tho Nashville physicians mnch to blame for fast~ oning their attontion slmost oxnhuivel{ upon those sccondary and localizing causos of tho dis- easo. Thoy aro so patent in Nashville that thoy forco thomsolves upou ovory one's attention. -Comparatively fow deaths ~ occurred in the highost, clenuest, bost-ventilated, best-drained, and best-paved portions of tho city. Tho bost residenco and business portion of Nashvillo during thoe wholo of tho torrible epidemic which rn[.iad on its outskirts was nlmost porfectly safo toliva in. The cholarn was almost exclusively confled to the outer limits and low portions of the clty, and earriod off hundrods of thoso living noar the small strcams or so-called branches, licks, and runs of water, uu[{nulnlly the Lick ranch ou ono side and Wilson's Bpring Branch upon the othor, ‘““along which,” says Dr, Jones, ‘“thoro Ima Dboen s rapid and Emgxesaivn crowding of houses, or rather utd and shanties, cithor clustored togethor in narrow strests and alleys, or more fraqnently huddled mfiuuwr without systom, and crowded with o coroless and filthy population, wholly deficiont in vontilation, without any facilitios for tho enforcoment of hyfiiuu(a rogulations, forming n nost favorablo field for the fodgment nnM)mn of disenso liko cholora, and rendering it diffeult, if not wholly impossiblo, to doviso any ofiiclont mossures for tho arrest'of commu~ nicablo disonses in them,” In theso {rlncefl tho cholora Ilvruvu'nu\l ‘both in 1860 and this year, in 1866 tho disoaso came from tho Xast and North, and, in faob, was brought down from Cincinnatl, ' This_yosr it camo up from the Bouthwest, aud Naehville has doubtless sont cL‘mns up to Cincinnati, a8 gho has to many other places, Dr. Jongs feared in 1866 that cholora might appoar and provail nmong tho_blaoky and ill-fed and poorly-carod-for whites in the suburbs of tho city for days befora its presence could even bo suspected.” But it didnot. On tho Oth of August, 1806, ho noticed the arrival of a negro wouan from Cinciunati, whore cholara was rag- ing, who wes sufforing from tho discase, n 1873 cholora really appeared, and prevailed some timo bofore its prosenca was discovered. On Juno 2 tho City Physician published a card, ap thoro was “‘quito” an excited condition of the public mind upon tho subject of cholera, Dboceuse within the past fow days gomo . deaths had ocourred 80° suddenly that somo physicinug, and mauy good citizons, feared tho existouco of epidetnic or Asiatic chiolers.” That thoy wero roduced by cholora morbus, or sporadio cholera, ho nusorts, thoro s not o doubt, The list of deaths was not })uhllahml till Juno 9, on_which dny they amounted to twenty-ona, Tho disonso had beon progrossing smong this vast aud caro- less population, unheedod and uncontrolled, for ton or fourtoou doys, when on June 7 tho denths amounted to twonty-one per day, and, notwith- standing thio assurancos of tho city suthoritios that it was only mild American or African cholo- 0, an enormous panie and stampede of the citi- zoha took pluce, somo of thom carrying the dis- easo to various parts of tho country, At Edgoflold, just ncross the Cumberland Rivor, and searcely half o milo distant from Nnahvillo, thero wore only fiftcon or twonty denths, It lies on & low, nmn]g plaln, i suppliod with _good clstorn water, and has broad, well- vontilated stroots, Its immunity was 8o ro- markable that a publio thanksgiving was held “for boing only partially visited by tho epidom- o™ Bhwilar cascs aro vory common ; in 1819 it did not sproad from 8. Louis to Altoons, for mora than a month, At Gallntly, Woodburn, and Bowling Groon largo additions to thoir works, with & view of mooting tho roquirements of thoir rapldly-m- oronsing trado. This seagon thoy have built u two-story wing, 20 by 80, with u furnnce-room, 10 by 80. Tho Towor story will bo_used hy the dint*makors, and the uppor story will bo ocene pled by the consulting engincor “and his assist- aut draughtamen and modolory. “I'hin wools, tho grouud will be brokon for ad- ditions to tha buildings which will wuke the wholo one of the haudsomest factorfos in the Uunited Htatow, Thoy will conalst of a main biock, 50 feot square aud throo stories high, with winga enst aud wast, each 100 foat long aud Alroo stories Ligh, and & connecting wing of 80 foot, and two storios, 'Ihe stylo will bo bold and strikiug, and the cost somowhore in the nelghborhood of $76,000, Whon comploted, the Company will bave fino oftlco-room, and &lso benvh-room in all for 1,600 employes, On dit, that another watoh factorv will bo the firat cnaos wore all imported ; somo of tho Nushvillo fugitives died in tho hotols, followed by mora denths autong tho inmates and snother fi:mnrfll seattering to more distaut places with 0 sumo gouoral rosult. At Dowling Groon al- most the samo condition of thinga provailed as iy Murfroesboro and Nashyille, viz.: Tho higher, cleaner, und bottor parta of tho town romained froo from disonso, whilo tho courso of o filih; stream, and the low, marshy land below, which woro doflled with sowerago from ubove, woro rovaged by 6. Toulsville, & vory olosn city, bullt on sandy, gravelly sall, with broad, well-paved strests, widely-separ- atod housos, closn courts, alloys, yards, and atablos, has agaln for tho fifth tiwme oneaped cholora, Tt has hiad littio or none i 1803 and 18Y3, 1848 and 1849, 1854, 1866, or 1873, Tho digoasg has boan repeatedly landed (horo from steambonts and railroads, to my own knowlodge, but bis noyor taken foot, although it liow fu thio diract liuo of travel, both by river bas boon seattered over tho whela city, but Cins cinnati is o standing monace and dangor to tha rout of tho conntry, moro dnugumus, porhaps, to other citles and'towns than it is to itsolf an its own rosidonts and visitors. Tho typo of cholora which X have soon n¢ tho Woat is of tha most virulont snd malignant of Asintic cholors, marked by suddennoea of attaak,; rapidity of fatal rosult, by rico-wator disthargosy| cramps, blucncss, coldnoss of the surfaco, noso, i and broath, pulsclossnops, sbeonco of clasticity of the skin, sunkon oyes, pinched fontures, Bup- gmulun of urine, oto. In short, scarcely any iroase moro virulont and malignant can bo‘cons cotvod’ of. It hng, porhaps, advanced north moro slowly because the omigration from Now Orleans upward is far loss than it nsod to bo, Tespectfully submittod, a . 5 i - Jomx Q. PerEns, M., D. g S L NEWS PARAGRAPHS. The now Catholle ohurch at Nauvoo, Til., will bo dodicated_to-morrow, Tho odifica cos §25,000, and is a handsomo structuro, T nogro who was hangad at Snffolls, Va., tho othor day, romarked 28 ho was goiny to the gallows : “1 wisk doy had put it off tiil aftay ‘whatermelon time.” . i, e . —Prof, Winohell, Biate Goologist, calls for co-operation in locating tho poat-beds of Minno« sota, {n ncoordance with-the laws, of the last Lug(u)nhure. 3 ot AL —Tho svnual firos in the wooda on Puget Bound have broken out, and the atmosphere there is filled with smoke. s —Obicago hus fssuod a now.dircotory in which o population of 450,000 is out” for that city. This rouscs tho iro of tho Bt. Louis Dem-~ ocrat, and ho pronouncod the dircotory man *'tha champion liar of Americs.” Tho Lemocrat is too fast, It should have waitod until tho next Bt. Bonis diroctory I Issuod bofore awarding the mmmpimmmyl in lying to tho Garden City.—Ale ton Telegra % —Tho millers of 8t. Louls, nccording to tha Democral, ure in n droadfal stow about tho i~ famious " 11linols Railroad Inw, . Tt just now oo ours toue that wo nover know a timo when tho 8¢, Louis millors and grain-dealors genarally had not-some grievanco or other, Thoy are aiwaya whining about. somothing, They complain moro and do logs than any other oqual number " of men of oqual protensions in the conntry, Wa - wish thoy would stop_tholr complaints, go ta work, and prove that 8t, Louis is in- reality of soma ncccount 08 & grain markot.—Burlington Hawk-Lye, g .. —A Galena _girl at the Pavillion cirons, soma {imo ago, who was looking at & olown whirling n . Iiat with 8 stick, remarkod. to Ler young -man that sho **used to do thot,": The young mat _waa looking.at a coutortionist in another part of tho arena who hind his logs tiod around his neck, gmél an explauntion waa nocessary.—Galena Ga~ —Twenty-plx boys of' Red Wing, Minn., had tho hardihood to batho iu the waters of tho Mis sinsippi, opposita that ploce, tho other ovening, -contrary tothe ordinnnces in ‘such casos ) snd provided ; apd tho next dn;)thp twonty-pix urching wore walked up_to the Police Court and .muloted in tho sumof 91.26 a hend. .Now batha ing in wash-tubs is fintuug to bo very fashionn~ Dlo in.that neighborhood. . . ’ —They dou't mind much sbout men lying in tho stroots of Denvor, A fow days sgo, howover, ouva philanthropio individual oxamined s man who had beon lying iu tho road for two days, and found that, instead of boing drunk, ho was in- soneible from injurios intlicted by robbers. Hig faco was burnod and blistored by oxposure to the 8un, and he died the noxt dng; . —Of tho fourteon citios in Maine, olght, nob including Portland, are on tho Maino Central Railrond, - Eloven of the fourtocon are on tha Eaatorn and Maine Central lino, Tho population of tho eight citioa reforred ta Is 66,443, or over ono-tenth of the total population of the State. —*'Fourteon yeara for stealinga horso and {fivo yonrs for killing: a mnu is the schodulo of pensltios in Poxas,” This looks & little curious ot the first blush, but you must remoembor that, whilo s horso will cost_you 8100 in Toxas, you can buy & man—a membor of the Logislaturo, for instanco—for one-third of tho amount.— ZLouisville Couricr-Journal. . -—A Coronor's inquoest ou s murdered man in Miami Connti«'. Ind,, cost $£82.20, while an in« qflnent on #_sulcide cost but $£36.15, whereupon thie Paola Spirit, which is a thoughtfal kind of paper, romarks: ‘It is prayorfully hoped by our tax-payors that tho violent doaths heronften will bo all Buicides,” . —Tho Wisconsin Valley Railroad having recant« 1y beon col;lllolnd a distanco of 47 miles from Tomab, in Monroo.County, Wis., to Contralia, on Eho Wisconsin River, opposite Graud Rapids, in Wood County, Wia,, where it crosses the railrond built and running botweon Groon Bay, Wis., and Morrillon, in Jackson County, Wis., 4 direct und almost air-line railway hay been oponed betwoeen L Crosse and Groon Bay, about 75 milos shorter siderably shorter than the route vin Morrillon will bo, when complatod. —The Manchestor (N. 1.) Tnion tells of a Newfoundlaud dog that fell into tho canal thera recontly and was unable to got ont. Do anccooded in gotiing his pawa upon tho bk, and Goy. Bmyth's dog, Apbvmcintln[]-’ the mitua~ ,tion, seized tho dro\mlng log by tho neck and, {making a vigorous eally backward, drow Lim ont on the bauk. “'he two dogs lpokod at oagh othor E-ith the groatost complacency aud then wont omo. 3 —4A frrmor living about 8 milos onst of Jer- soyville, 111, hnd five horses Iu the stalls in the barn, and whilo currying the fonrth horse ihe lighthing struck a middls post in_tho barn, and ran along tho manger by the borfos’ heads, kille dnig four out of five. 1t -killad tho ono ho'waa ourrylng, and knookod down another which was onting off the barn floor, Tho horsoho wns cur rying foll on him bruising him sevoroly, tha lightning aléo producing o sovora shock on hinr. umé" Loy in tho barn alove tho horues was firod, uf much damago. than tho railroad routo via Watortown ; and con- At Jongth ; ‘—The Trustees of the Louisville (Ky.) Medi- ; cal Collego have created a number of Touofi= cinry Behoolships, for the beneflt of poor and de- serving young mon secking n medical cducation. Ono Bonoficiary student is roceivod from ocach Congrossionnl Diatrict of the differont States. ‘Thoso rocoiving such aid aro kuown only to the Doan of tho Faculty, Dr, E. 8. Guillard, Louis- vlllg, Ky., to whom early gpplication- should ba mado. < : —All tho diffienltion connectod with the build- ing of. tha Wisconsin Central Ruilrond botwaon Btevens Point and Portage bave, it iu to bo pro~ sumod, becn overcomo; for every town along thelino Los voted tho aid nsked 'of it by the Compun{, oarly building of that brauch of tho Central Wis- cousin line, 2 —Ou Saturday, th inst,, Tonry Tuacon waved tho live of Harry Jamos whilo they woroe bathing %’g“h“ in o pond ut Wndosboro, N. Q. day f3llowing Harry went into ari oflico whoro ™ Riuscoo fs employed to borrow a gun, and ‘was accidentally shof and killed by the Iattor, who $dld not know it was losded,” The gun had been in tho oftico soveral months -unlondod, and was thought Lo bo still in tho samo condition by ! thoso thoro, but it scoms it had boon loadoed a fow days boforo, and was roturned loadod: —The commoncoment of work on the Cauca Tailroaq, in the Ropublio of Colombia, is an ovont of much Iutorost, The rond bLogins at about 400 miles south of the Isthnus of Darien, and witl eross tho Anden there, about 10,000 foot high, to thoe Canea River, which is navigas blo, ruus northward, and ompties into tha Ate lantio, It will probably furnish stoam commus nication acroga the Continont of Bouth America, - soonor thinn any othor line, Tho ohief contracs toris an Amoritan, and our nation will be one titlod to the orodit, not only of having buile tha Ysciflo and Panuma vailronis, but alko of having ocantributed much toward those of Ohili, Peru, Conta Tiow, Moxico, and Colombia, The wosld koaps movig, tho firo was extingulshod without doing oud tho prospact ls bright for th