Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1873, Page 2

2 3 ; | it CHICAGO . DAILY - TRIBUNE . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER' 20, 1873, THE RAILROADS. Convention ol; General Ticket and Passonger Agents, All the Ronds in the' Country. Representod, ; Commereial Travelors' Speeial Ratos to Bo Aunulled Jan, 1, 1874, Return Home of the Chicago Excur~ sionists from Dakota, A Correspondent Gives a Comparison of Passenger Rates. . THE TICKET AGENTS, ‘The rexular Somi-Annual Convention of tho Genersy Tlcket ond Passouger Agents’ Association of tho United taten and the Canadas, commenced ita sossions seaterday forenoon at the club-room of tho Grand Pa« cific Hotol in this city, Tho call for"tho Convention In based upon Articlo 2 of tho Consiitution of tho Ae- sociation. Tho meoting was enllod to orddor by tho Prealdont of tho Association, Mr. E, R. Doraoy, of tho Ohintlotte, Columbla & Augusta Rallroad, at 11:46 o'clock n, m, 3z, Bamuel Powell, of tho Obfcago, Burlington & Quinoy Rallrond, tho Bocretary of thie Amsociation, aalled tho roll of mombers cntitted to soatw, whon the following dolegatos answorod to tholr names: A, An- doreom, Jofforson, Madison & Indiana Ratlroad; Tuomae Baiger, Talolgh & Gaston Raitroad ; Jamos Barker, Dos Molnes Valloy Rallroad ; D, M. Boyd, Jr.t Pennsylvants Ralrond ; Jobn W. Drown, Indisug Bloomington & Western Ratlroad; A, V. H. Carpenter, Milwankeo & Bt. Paul Rallrond; James Obarlion, Ohicago & Alton Rallrond ; P. L, Cleaper, Northonstorn Ballroad; M, C. E. Costelle, Littlo Rock & Fort Smith Tailrond ; Goorgo A, Dadmun, Philadol~ pliia, Wilmington & Baltimoro Raflroad ; W, L. Doo- Loy, Nashville, Chattanoogn & 8. Louls Rallroad ; W. 1. Davenport, St. Louis & Southeastern Raflroad ; Re E. Doracy, Oharlotte, Columbla & Augusts Ratirond ; Gharles E, Follett, St. Louls, Vandalia, Terra Haute & Indlsun Taltroad ; E. A. Ford, Atlantio & Pacifio Rail- road; G, W, Caleh, Mineral Point Rallrond; O, G Huncock; Pliladelpliis & Roading Itajlrond ; W, P- Johnson, Tlinols Contral Rtailrond ; Thomas T, Kim- ball, Union Pacific Railroad ; W, IL King, L. & N. and G. 8, and 8, & N. Alnbamn Rallrond ; T, R, Myers, Pents sylvania Compuny, I C. & St. Louls Railrond, G, I, & L. Rallroad ; E, A, Putker, Haunibal & 8t Joscph Tiatl- Foad; T, Pentle d, ltockford,Rouk Teland & §t, Louls Rail- road'; John 11, 'Perry, Memphin & Littlo Rock Rail. Foad } J. W, Jiflabury, Muriottn & Cincinnati Ruilroad; 3amucl ‘Pousell, Chicigo, Burlington & Quincy Rails foid; G. O, Sanborn, Northern Pacifie Nailroad ; frenry Biurring, Chicago & Towa Iinilroad; W, A Thrall, Obicago’ & Northwestern Rallrond ;' B. W, Wrun, Westorn & Alsntio Itaflroad ; Robert lio, Fort Jackaon & Saginaw Raflyond ; B, St, John, Cbl cago, Rock Islnd & Tacific rosd; G. W, Tnilngton, Woat Wisconain Raflroad ; F, B, Wado, Indians, Teru & Chivago Raflroad ; 0.'B, * Qlileago, Danvillo & Vincennes Ratiroad ; C, V. Mex Einloy, Chicago, Dubuquo & Minuceots Hailrosd ; S, E. Alich, Riclimond, Danyille & Pledmont Rallrond § . 8, DePue, 8t, Lotis, Alton & Terro Hauto Railroad I G, Touston, Toleda, Peorin & Warsow Raflrand | iy Kuight, Selis, Romo & Dalton Rulrosd ; B, Ly~ ‘man, Chicinati, Lufayetto & Chicago Talirond ; Jolin N. Pareous, Toledo, Wubash & Westorn Raflrond ; E. B. Bhuite, New Orleuny, Mobilo & Toxas Rafirond ! F. 8. Buel), Buffalo, New York & Philndciphin Raflrond ; G. H. Danels, Chieago & Pavific Tuflrond ; D, O, Dodye, Deover & Rio. Grando Raflroad ; Edgar Van Vilot, Cuemnpeuka & Objo Rtailroud ; 8, I, Pearsons, Cleydtand, Colwunbiis, Cincinnati & Indiaug Raflroad } R. DeWilt Maun, Syracuso & Northorn Rallrond, ‘The first. busidess in order was tho oleotion of & member of tho Executive Committe, in pluca of W. A, Thrall, whose tne bud explred. : Nr. A, E. Ford and W, E. Davenport wero nomil- anted, 1id tho fivst: ballot Tésulted in o tie, On the secondl ballot Mr. Davenport was clectod, "Thie next burltioss in ordor waato seloct 8 place for tho next Benj-anusual Convontion of o Ase sociation, to bo held_in 1871, Tho fight_was botweon Now York, Olovelind, Nashvillo, aiid Loutsville, Naehvillo coming out of 'the_content victortous, and was thereforo doclared tho chiofeo of thio AnsocLition for o nost Convention, M. C. E. Follotl, of tho Committco to meot tho Gen- oral Sudagorn, rophriod veruly that they lad cos sulted tho General Manogers soveral months ogo, at New York City, nud thut they bod ropresonted the Viows of tho tgonta favoring a penalty for u fufruc- tiou of rules, bt had been unsuccossful in tholr cu deavors, Tho report was reduced to writing and adopted, and the Committee was discliarged. Tite Comumiitico to whom was referred tho matter of tho ndvisability of making spocial ratos for _commor- cial travelere, reported bt favor of grauting no mora Bpecial privildges, nud that all exleting contracta bo annullod by tho 1at of November, . An amendment tomuke tho date Jan, 1, fnstead of Nov. 1, was adapted. On_mation, it was dectded that this action ehould Liave no referéuce to tho sulo of thoussud-milo tickets, o9 tho latter werosold to oversbody, without refer- enco to thelr business, y iso report, amenled, wus then adopted ond tho Oammilteo dinchurged. Tho Convention adjourued until 8 o'clack p, m., and, on reasembling, it waa decided to. oxcludo Toporlers from the essions, Tho_consideration of ccrtain ‘aitorations “of the by- laws occupled tho Convention until 0 o'clock p. m. hen it adjoursid, {0 muct again thla’ moralug ot 10 o'clock, "Thu business to bo considered to-day will bo ‘tho re- vision of pussenger-tarifls, THE DAKOTA EXCURSION. Tho following is a statemont of tho movements and doings of the Dakota excurslon party, continued from our Thuredsy mornlugs dlspateh : Aftor a’sumptu~ ous diuner at Winous, on Tuendoy aftcrrioon, the trip aross Minnesota was commenced, For -6 miles tho roud foliows the wost bank of tho Mississippl through 5 defle walled in by mountainous bLluffs, and, for a furtherdistanco of 20 niles, winds through a coun- try that, for pleturesquo beauty, 18 porhaps unsur- passcd, Along one of the numerous -valloys it fol- Tows the graccful windings of u deep, brond stream, skirting around tho bluffs half-way up their -sloping sldes, and, by its numerous entwinings, uffords a ~warioty of lndscape vlews, the finest of which several «oxcursionista declared was fully equal to tho famous Horscslioo Bend f15'the Alleghonles or the - Ghet Rivor «nrvo on tho Daltimoro & Olfo, Tho proapect .ia cle- ~vating, but not miore juspiriug than in tho open pruiric country beyond, Fora distanco of 180 miles, 110 eye canuot weary of the ontlook, Not one mila of the routo fs monotonous, Tho dead level, common to ‘Weatern prairies, 11 plossingly substituted . by o suce cession of mighty . undulating flelds, in which steam threshiug-mnchines woro plentifully en- giged alfting tho - golden kernels out from the innumerable clofty stacks that continuously dotted tho putiro.way, Nestling cosily amid shade trees, sholtered by grass-covered hills, or Deslda the streams or lnkes 8o abundantly irrigating the roll, uro ns handsome u class of furmers’ dwelljuga anure t6 bo found anywhere, Many of them nre pn- Intial ju style, A poor ar wrotched ono was mot dis- cernible nlong the entire routs between Winona and New Ulm, Evidently theso. farmers’ must ' have omerged from former Lurd pincling times into com- parative afifuence, Tho stations along this routo be- tween the peints nomed nro shipping un averago of £0,000 bushels of wheat dally, and, if tho price hol good, this outflow -will coutinue without diminu~ tion until pext Juno, The nmount’ {8 now wuly iited by the abllity of the Compauy to luwv]( transportution'; and, at the present ratlo of growth, {t 48 eafe to assume that, within fve yeurs, tho dully of- Ferjugs of frelgit will ba fully trebeled. Every fow miics slong fhe routo theiving, smiling’ willoges were located, and, ot intervals, towns were pussed that were already nesuinfug s metropolitan ns-" imul. Among the most noticesblo werg 8t, Charles, Hochester, Owatonun, Waseca, Juncsville, Bunkato, Bt Peter, fid New Utin, Thio Intter ntfracted tha greatent attention, Lecaugo of itw indeliblo_ussociation with the horrible Tndian massacre of 1802, Yo, to view it now, with its wide stroots Uued by: houdsome Lrick wtores, large factories, . fo . publlo bulldiugs, wid protty dwellings, - Mitle ovie denco 1s found to remind one of the barbarous seoues cuacled n dozen years ngo, It i beautifully located ou the plitean abovo he Mivnesotu River, and s de- cidedly tho nost uitractive spol west of Rochester, Between New Ulm aud Marshal~tho extremo outpost ~~the conntry ia lesh lel('l(l?' populated, but its fuvera- Blo locution und wonderfuily rivl soil i8 certain to in- duce ity speedy getlement, ” The great luck o fuel, Conl huy not ‘)uz Leen diacovered, and trees pro only found plongsido the rivors nud 'laken, Tt wuw vory lain, however, that tmber could bo roudily grown na woon us the plowslinre turus up a proteotion from 1l sweeping pruirie fires, Thy party reached Luko Kampeska, 30 miles into Dukots, about uoon on Wednesday, It wus n glorious auy. Indeod, tho weatlier Wi magnificont throughe out. On tho dry, wandy bordera of tiie luko tho oxetir— slonists divported themsclves for a thne, untll they were assembled under the Chalrmunship of thoe Hou, Fhiletus Bawyer, m ier of CanFrNa trom Wisconsiu, tollsten to rome npeechifying, I'ho orstor of the day ‘waa tho Hon, George 13, Biith, of Mudison, ox-Attorne Genoral of Wikconsin, snd o or of the Winoun & £t, Poter Line in Dakots, Buccoeding specchien wero uisde by the Hon, 3, D, Ward, A. G, Hesiug, and Gon, Ounctluin, of Cuicugo, Uongressmun Dunnell, of Minne- wota, Gen, Jenulson, Uccw(ur{, of Biute, and E, W, koyes, Esq., of Madlson, No ropresentotive of ho Itallrond ' Compuny could be induced o acknowledga the profusd coropliments pold them by tho oratars, In ordUE to glvenors enduring express siow to the gencral senthuenty, a Commitice on Nesoe Rutfons was uppointed, consfsting of {ho Hon, J. Ward, M, O.: Charlew’ E, Culver, Prestdent Chicag Bourd of Trade 3 the How, M, H, Dunnell, M. C,, Ow, tounn; J, O, Uregors, Mayor of Madison; and' O, F. lisie f Milwunkee, ‘Wtlo tlls was botog douc, sovoral anglera hiud wan- 0 dorod_olong tho Inke-slde, and, fhrowlng dozgn lines from tho khoto, in's fow mint out twonty or thirty plekorel and pike; ‘nome of” which werao fully 3 feot long, and nono less than 12 inchen, Homo of our moro experienced travelers found -Lftalo-grasn growinyg near tho ok ind. two bilTulo Akulla wero fousid” nhd "~ broght oo™ @ Lrophics, Theso facta show thnd not may years ngo tha bitflb | ived and ranmed within 631" milon of Chlcago, now clty of 450,000° inbnbitnuta: ‘At Sparin, on- Thuradny, affor an execlluit Aupper, whllo thio mioata wero fécl ing *iruly grateful,’ - tho following preamblo and resolutions wore read and adopted with u unanimity th heartinosa of whieh mada tho afters of tho eating- Tiouso ring ¢ WHERPAR, Wo havo particlpated in_an oxoursion to Yako Kampélo, in tho Torritors of Dakots, by .conr tesy of tho Chicago & Northwestern Rallroad Coin- pany, and have hnd o opportunity of scolug the large oxtent of forrltory oponod to etiloment il dovolbp- ment by the completfon of tho Madison Lxtontion and Winons & 8t, Potor Railrond ; thercforo .t Hesalved, That wo have viowod with plessure and wonder tho beautiful conntry through which wo jinvo pused; have been dmpreasod with tho boundicsa nnural woulth of the lands, dolighted with the scon- ory and climato, anil convinced that it il soon bo- como. tho abodo of a.Liappy and proaperous peoplo, It ia ono of tho finpat whoat counirios ln the world, ponscssod of almost unlimited capacity for grain and slock ralsing, We look upon tho oxleri- aion of this rond from Lok Kamposka to intorscat the Northorn Pacific Iiallroad as a national and_commar- il yocormity, and 8 work which abould bo favorod by tho United States Government, an it will open up st othor rich nnd productivo lands; and, whon comie plotod, it will form part of tho grent nalional lne to the North Paciflc, and matorially roduco the distanco from tho Atlantld to tho Pacifio Ocean_over any other route contomplated, - Resoleed, Tht wo' commond tho Chicago & Northe western Raflroad Company for thie energy 1t hoa dif- playod in pushing ita lncs fnto now Statea and Territorics, Wo romembor fhat 1t gave tho first oxourslon over given st tho opon- fug of n comploled rutlrond in thio Norliwest (over tio old Gslona & Ohicago Union Lino)'and this last oxcur- slon han inaugurated tho longest continuous Huo bo- louging to any ono company in tho West, In its cone struction tho Company hua encounterod oxtraordinary diffieultios, It hoa tunnelod mountalns, spanncdl | migbty rivors, and teavoraod trackiess ploins, and wo sincerely wish 1t unbounded success in the grand work of opening ud doveloping tio cowntry. Wa aro wll awaro that Dakota would bo utterly [nncosssibl and worthless without railroads, snd we hopa tho rosd which {s hier, and tho peoplo who ara fo come, will act Lsrmontously togelher, cach balng, Just to the ohor ia 1o great work of making this what Naturo designod i should be, n prosperous, populous, progecssive, and ‘wealthy region. " Jteaoloed, That to tho ofcars and omployes of tha Company Wwo aro greatly indebted for tholr unvarying courteay and attention” on this oxcursion, They liave cd us with clegant and_comfortablo nccomm: tons ; havo anticipated our overy want, and have af- forded us amplo opportunty to view o of tho grand- eat fioctions of {ho great Northwest, Teesolutions bighly complimeutary to Col, J, I, Howe, Gonoral Manager; M, Iughitt, General 8 upor- intendont; O, Wheolor, ' Genoral Frelght Agent; J. H, Btowart, Buperintendont Madi- son Division and Winona & St Poter Raflrod ; Ion, W. G. Ward, of Minncsota, formerly Chief Ei ginecer Winons & 8t, Petor Railrond, under whoso su- pervision that rond was bullt; also, Col, A, DeGraff, tho votoran contractor, who built the ¢ntire road, wora ‘unnnimously passod. 1t {u seldom that train-men, portors, etc,, aro 8o well romembered ns wero thoso accompanying the excur- #lon, ‘Among the men who ran the train to Lake Rampeska—it boing tho first poseonger traln run into tho Territory from Central Minnesoto—8$100 wero dis- tributed by tho oxcursionists, and sums varying from $30 to $50 wero given to each porter on tho train, Ropoatedly the ssacrijon wns earnestly made, that no oxcursion over wont out from Chicago, ovory stago of which was 8o perfectly satisfactory, and during which cvery concelvablo wish wo 80 complotely nuticls DBted. They avorred th faro was equal 1o tat ervod at the Grand Paclfic, aud with all tho jolity that pro- vasled and tho unstintod supply of good things, not a singlo man became bolsterous, nor was tliero the slightest approach o intoxieation, Happily, safely aud satisfactorily, tho party returned home, duhfmod with tho trip, mmazed st tho rich, cvorchangiug. prose oc! and animated with the . cst feolings to the Corporation whose. energy and ability hos created this magnificent ayenus, 631 miles long, to facilitate aud hasten tho development of tho Nortukost and.advanco tho glory and prosgeity of our clty, PASSENGER TARIFFS, A COMPAIUSON, o the Editor of The Chacayo Tribune: ) Smn: Inmy communication,to you of Sopt. 61 compared tho rotes charged by the Illinois Coutral Rallrond on ail articles of gencral trauspartation with tho rates charged by railroads of other States snd En-* Topean countries, on tho eamo articles, fn which it was found that Tilinols rates were trom 25 to 60 por cent loss, As then promisod, I will now givo yous com- parleon of passougor rates,. Tho raliroad companice of Iilinols which chargo 4 conta and upwands per milo ara very fow, sud oporato but.s email per cont of tho wholo number of miles of milroad in that State, whilo, tho, locsl rate chargod by tho balanco, and iu fact by all the leading roads of tho Stato, ia not mora than 3 cents por milo for firat-clags passcugors, and from 2)¢ 10 3 cents for Bocond-class, Tho rater chrged to passongers golng through tho Stato to and from othor lines of road are very much loss than tho above. It s known that ‘passongor ratea charged on railronds west of tho Mis- slesippt Rivor, oxcopt possibly in Towa, aro not less, ‘and In most casca ate 95 per cont moro, than thoso chargod 04 abovo, Thave been at somo palns fo find out the actual | rates chiarged by the lending ralironds of tho Southern States, and in no ease do I flud tho rata to be lower than 8% conts per milo, but in a majority it s 4and 5 cents, . On tho main lines of. road running out of Ohlengo to the East, tholoeal paseenger rates vary from 8% (o 83 conts per milo, On the Pennsylvania Central, thelow- eat rate is 8}¢ cents, nnd on its branchicsdt is higher, The New York & Erle Railway chnrfiu from 9% to 8¢ cents per milo, while,on account of Leginlative pro- ‘hibition, the Now York Central van charge but 2 cents 1n the summer aud 24 cents in tho winter, Company furnishies for its @ cent frovelers os poor coaches ~ to rido in'‘as nare cmigrants by tho leadjug raflronds ot Tilinals, and, to get Letter accommodations on that road, the travelor must pay on extra amount for a seat in a Fo~ called_palace—car, which ia but little batter than tho best day coaches on Illinols roads ; o that this extra rate, ndded to tho regular 2 conts per mile, brings np tho rate'to lttle, if any, less ‘than tho rutes charged Dby her connceling Mnes, It must bo recollocted that thiese two rondsuro main truuk lnea and doan ime« mneo pasecuger business, 80 -that they cun afford to t'nll'ry fq:’u less not profit per . milo than any of tho Illi- nols roads, . - T have earefully éxamined tho reports of - largo ma- Jority of the railrond companics of Eugland, Franco, aud Germeny, and find o surprising differonce in our favor na regards Tates chargod for tho sume clasa of travol, * Tho following tabla shows a comparison of avorage ratea chiargod on rullways iu several of tho European Btate Firal-class, |Second-class. Country. " 8,740 From tho abova It -will Do ecen that tho poople of Tilinots are riding chaapor than thoy do in the. Western and Bouthern ftates, and us cheap us they do on tha great ronda of tho' Middlo and Fastern States, nat ‘Withatandiug the great possongor traffic of ronds in thioso Blatcs, nud mucl cheaper thanthoy do in Europs, whora the cost of maintnining snd operating railroads 18 0 much: less than in this.country; and il spems to mo that the charge of. extortion agufust companics of this State is not ouly not suslained a 4, but, under tho circumstuiices, da most nujust, XXX, ey AN ENGLISHMAN IN REPLY TO MRS. JONES. o the Editor uf The Chicago Tribune: B : Having read in your Sunday's issue an article under tho head of * England—TIts Goy- ernment, Inatitutions, Language, Ete.," sub- seribed. “ Jane Grahame Jones," I wish to say that 'n moro . thorough contradiction of facts I’ have novor befora woou . print. - Tho. laws. of | Eng- Jand are for rich mud . poor, eannot by auy :moans bo’ purchased, Home of them, Iknow, nre capable of roform; but o are, thoy . here, - A8 to her” books; periodicals, and nowspapers, why, thoy avo tho ghenpest in the world, some of the dailien hofog sold for half & ponny.(1 cent) ; and’ porsons Feading them noed. not secludo thomselyes from tho family circlo to do 80, as I know from porsonal knowledge to bo tho cnse with respect to somo of the Chiengo duilies, England’s publio parks and gardens ave open to tho world froe, whera you cau hear mu- sic overy ovening that is worth hoaring; and tho porson who cau look with fudignation npon thoe ohargo of acouplo of conts to visit her Zoologi- cal and Dotanicel ~ Gardens had Dot~ Tor “QGo West,” got . on someo Pnuk of tho Rook Mountaius, and sorcam, “Froodom| freedom! I o monaroh of all 1 Aurvey; no onocun charge me a cont for this glorlous sight,” I rathor think it would bo at the risk of his scalp somo timo or other. Eng- land’s national woliools aro facts, and aro so con- ducted that applications for ‘admission, when signad by nuy ol ~—ivhich 'j8 g mero “formality,—aro attonded to at ouco, and applicants aro not compelled to | walt for from thre; to rlx months boforo thoy can pbtain permission to sttond tho nationsl sohools, which I know to bo tho eneo right hore, Tho military justitutos of England, whiero tho Governmeni is diroetly concornod, must kip seon | to be admired, as any attempt to desorjbe them' would take up too wuch spaco. And lor publio hiolla, librpries, aud yeading-rooms nre scatiored far aud wido ovor tho land, A Bupsonunen, . Ouggaaw,.Bept, 16,1873, . o — —-Amonri the mombprs pf the laat Congross wora seveutoon porsons who lsd 'eithor gradu- | atod or studied at Obortin Colloge, Ohio. Not ono of tho wholo number voted for or took fho, baok pay, +good wines should bo. Sut this furnisied ~ to |, the railrond | misgtatoment - aud:| ond | orgyman or rosidont magistrate, | NATIVE WINE. Are. Grape-Culturo aund Wine-Making ;u Failuro in {kis Country ? . A Model Vineyard. —r ¢ From the New York WWine and Fruit Reporter, Tho diroful offects of Lwo shiarp night-frouts at tho'end of last April, in thowino distrlets of Franco and Germany, causing tho loss. of no less than two-thirds of tho presumablo crop for 1873, togothor with the oft-roponted failuros which ngenil the vintner of thoso countrios, through early and Iato frosts, rot, mildow, in- seots,—of whioh the Phyloxerais no moon indi- vidual,—naturally raiso the above question in tho mind of Americans who would profer to roly upon tho productions of their own coun- try for A gontlo and agrooablo stim- ulant, I now proposa to oxamino and answor it to tho 'best ‘of my obsorvations and practical oxporionco, for. the satisfaction of my frionds who desira to con- tinue in this line of busincss, There are & gront many progrossive undoubters who will bo sur- prised by the caption under which I write, To doubt tho ability to grow grapes and to make native wines is somothing beyond thoir compro- honslon, and smacks strongly of—1lot us say it— a.great doal of ignoranco with what has boen ac- complishod within tho last twenty years., I will say ot onco, to roliove tlolr minds, that tho quoation is- not whethor grapes can bo grown and wino mado, but whether it can bo made to pay. Wo know but too well that many have beon sovoro losers,othors utterly ruined,in the Jaudablo offort to nationalizo grape-culturo snd wine- mnking; yot, from exporienco, I sincorely bo- liovo it can bo mado to pay; in fact, I know it. But, beforo I show. how that result, in my osti- mation and experience, is to bo reached, lot us consider, briofly, tho many causes whioh have worked dotrimontally to rotard or'arrest the: henlthy growth of thnt now branch of businoss. Knowing many of tho causcd which ‘havo boon an impedimont, wo may,. in o, measure, guard againe their ropotition. Lot us begin with the vineyardist, and sce tho many errors in tho vineyard, First, the difi- culty to know whathor ho wanted 8 wino-grapo or o tablo-grapo for handy market: The Cataw- ba, having nirondy mot with o cortain succoss in soitie portions of tho country, was choson, and planted everywhero, at random,—in low lands, eido hills, aiid tablo landa. 'The risk of the soil belug unsuitable was freoly takom—in many casos mot even inquired into. To supply tho demand, plants were mado of sound or diseased wood, a8 tho cnse might bo; of ripo and green outtings ; tho samo was done of the many now lants which curried publio favor; and, worso lan all, as soon as thoy bogan to grow, thoy ‘woro made to furnish their own quota of plants, —~woak, fogblo, worthlose plauts. Then they wero subjoctod to » alylo of prunirg, cutting, broakivg, Blashing, pinching, ete., which ouly proved tho immonso recuporativo energies of tho Vine ; the wondor wa, and is, that thoy woro not killed outright. But, to finish them suro; doop plowiug, touring mud mangling tlio raols out of tho soil, wore_ rosorted to, in- snd out of 80880T, 1 times of drought with & dog-dny sun, the soil being bakoed as hard as a brick, whilst a crop, double tho size it should be, was makin the recklees attompt to mature on woll-abuso vines. And people wondored thot their vines becamo _sickly, subject to rather light frosts, rot, mildow, inscots, etc., and, in mnuy mstances within the last fow years; failed to come up nt all,—uttorly ruined, doad, Noxt. with the viuner, tho trouble was his in- experionco i winc-making; grapes not sufli- ciently riem, unsuitablo or musty barrels; then tho pornicious theory of gallizing, which done mors to destroy the roputation of nativo winos than all or any otlier cauwe whalevor ; wine made with sugar and wator, under pretext "o roducing tho acids and pungent or faxy fa- vor,—makiug u beveraga no lougor containing the' honlthful eloment, in due proportion, iutended ~ by o careful and "benoficent Naturo, and, nnloss with an oxcosa of alcohol, o longor in & condition to keop,—ofton turning sour on thohands of the vintner, or soon after ho gold it, ‘especinily 1f the purchosor kopt it on lap, Iike_Usor, without ice,—which ofuou proved to bo tho fuct, instend of having it bottled, ne all Add to thia tho natural, owover absurb, projudice of foreigners—our now-made citizons—ngaiust drinking auythiog in theslapo of wino that is untjve, preforring their own, often-adulterated winos, simply be- | cause thoy aro French, German,’ or [talian winos; and our own peoplo ‘being wufii- ciontly foolish to believe that no wino is good or fashionable unless ¢ bo Earopoan,— preforring tea or coffoe, tbe‘laroducts of foreign Climos, for a table-drink, and common and poi- sonous corn-whisky for n stimulaot, ud you bave some-of.tho many drawbacks which baye caused thousnuds of ‘neres to Lo returned to grusa or corn. T'ho pictura is cortuiuly not ox- aggoratod. Lot us quiotly inquiro how it could be improved and mado to pay. T hnve now in my mind an oxperiment which has boon carried on for the past six years -by ‘an intimato friond, with intelligenco to” direct ‘and ‘means to establish, and I wili rofor to him and ‘his vinoyards to demonstrate the truths 1 wishto inuprosy on my roaders. Lo frst thiu that at- -tracts thenttoution of the strangor is the ndmir- ‘nble seleotion of aoil and situntion of these vine- yards, known.as the White Elk Viuoyards, and situntod some 8 milos north of Ieokuk, on the blufls which skirt tho wostern shore of the Mis- sissippi ss far ag Montroso,-and facing the river, which they almost reach by _stoop do- rcent. Tho aconory of the .couutry is very pio- turosque, and prosonts s surfaco strongly roll- ing_ and naturally drained, This i8 no praitio, with * o " lovel surfaco, nnd & strong, bluck, rich vegetablo humus,’ caus- ing n_ rank vegotation, On the contrary, ‘tho soil 15 of: ' light-colored clay-loam, with an edmixtuore of -ssud:from tho sandy marls of tho loess which- forms that: dry, calcareous soil which a loug experlence has proven to bo well adapted to the growth of grapes, ‘as it also_ contaiug. a sufliciont’ quantity of thé oxides of* .irou, which ought nevor to bo sbsent from those winos which hiave thopratension to bo medicinal, Thoto nio 78 acros in grapes,—chiefly Coucord, Catawba, ‘Clinton, Ives, Norton, and Dolawaro.: The work is done under differont squads of men,- “ovorything' systemotically-and st the . propor timo ; there is_no slashing, brosking, or ovou, pinching douo duriug time of growth ; the prun- ing is dono soon aftor the crop is gathered ; tho plowing snd -cultivation are _thorough, bub of . n %ight churactor ; the soil is ‘always loose, and mno woeds are suffored ; and, in suticipation of mildow, the yines are regulorly - gulphured by moans of Do Lavorgne's bollows, Nowondor that, with this systematic earo and troatment, the vinos are fullof vigor and of fruit,' notwithstauding tho trying wonther and other miispries which vines have Lad to eucouutor for tho past-fow yons, Asa vinoyard, it is u suce cess ; o vory limited loss of vines, and a gyoat production of fruit,—the Concord for a rod-wino, and tho Catswba for & whito wino, prodominat- ing,~—they being, without a doubt, our preferred national wines, Tho press-houso and collars are & model of conyeniendo and noatness ; the spmo orderly spirit which commands over thovinoyards is to Lo soon thoere; thoe collary havo a capacity’ of 100,000 gallons, 1t s the objoeot snd pride of tho owner of those vinoyards to turn out noth- ing but pure native wines. Dr, Gall has no foot- jng thoro; tho wines nro real wines, and not, ike *p good deal of - stuft in the market, .6 more 1nix- turo of eugar and water. Those I tasted I os- ‘teom a puro, well-mado artiolo, much to be pro- ferred to many imporiod wines; thoy appear to coutan sufiiciont hnd‘y ad tho necessary quanti- ties of noid, 8o rofres! x(x:i;,to tho inpoy man. theso warm, sultry duys, ad such wines beon mado from tho slart 'in this country, instend'of that slioddy article kuown as *galllzed.” native wines would'stand far highor In gonoral estimation than thoy pow do, and only in this wny will thoy have » chancs to bpcomo appreciated, and resnmo their position ag gomo of the fair aud remarkablo ‘wines of the earth, Most of tha wino ig nontly boltled, aud {s sold by the caso,—thun obviating the risk of bpying & good wine spoil through tho ignorance or curgs lessnass of tho “buyors ouly to wholesale buyers who are known to undorstund the troatment of winos, Isit over sold by the cask, ‘L'rontod in this way ‘aloiie will ‘vineyards and native wines pay, Tho emall vintner' has led hig day; it roquires moans—eithor singlo, | a8 in ~this “Instanco, or by mssocintiou: to do the subject full justico, to command labor, #kill, sclenve, and all ‘tho necossury mnchinory “to dullver the wines to the trado or to consumors, ready for dona\imiption: Our vast couniry cer- tainly contaitis many au éxcollout_position, and soil §ujtablp for grapo-culturo; tha olimata of | this portiop of !llg Minwissippt, Valloy ' bofuy tomporato und hoalthy, sufliciently “warm and | goniul, tho timo iy Hu)rohub}y not” fur distant | whan onr lmnf( lino of bluffs, ‘on” Jotht sidos of | tha rivor, will ba montly occupiod by vihoyards ! for tho production of “pure native winosy of grape-brandy, o -preforable, in its moral Las and phynlnlngk;inl' offects upon man, to comimon whisky; wine-vinogar, Ho palatablo and preforablo to othar forins of vine| -gnnl of grapes for tho tablo, and ‘raieiny, which ‘will'ho largaly bhipped t6 loss favorablo parts of tho country,—thus oronting n safo, utondy, and important, Unsiness, which will naito of . lnudy "nitherto consldvred tho poorest:iho must pro- | ductive and valuablo in this scetlon of luwa and {lmois, commanding as much per acro as the bout praftie lunda, ’(.lm futuro lios beforous; succond in certnln to'follow the skillful and on- torprining. It is cortninly within our ronch. . e 3 7 E. Baxten, d, Nnuvoo, 1M, Géten Tills Vinoyas * A DRITISH PILGRIMAGE. P1ous Journoys by Iknil nnd Stenmeras E Dovotces an tho Way to Xarny=ic=Moninl itled PHgrimses Ploty nnd Gossjp-=Mass on Shipboard s=Arrival at Parine * 3 Paris (Sept, 3—Midhight). Corrsspandence of the New York Tridune, « - g Tho Victorta RailwayBtation at London, belng ono 6f tho principal outlots from the- city, occa- sionally urlm somo notablo spectacles, but novar boforo in ita Litory any it anything lko ho Inst timo X was ot tho stution on o public ocea-~ plon was whon tho Shah took his doparture. ‘Then I sayw the Friuce of Wales, thz:‘ Duke of ‘Edinburgh —in o word, tho flowor of tho lRoyal Family"—in humblo nt- tendanco. on- n darfiskibnod barbarian who had just outraged tho propriotics of civil- ization within.tho eacred Iprucluets of Bucking- ham Palaco. But what 1 saw then sinks into insignificanco ns comparad with tho spoctaclo tho four walls of tho station inclosed this morn- ing, g{onfly 980 1adies and gontlomon, drosscd in costumos of tho period, starting on a pilgrimago to tho shrino of » foroign saiut Wno lived 200 oo ago,—thinwas but o fractionof the Pilgrim and | At tho outsot it was oxpocted that per- haps 300 might go, and thoré was a timo when fours woro ontortainod that 50 would bo nearor tho actual ‘number. . Bist, ‘aftor hanging firo for somo weeks, tho vil{:rlmngo fover gained s sudden acoess, nud. for tho paat wook it has boon clear that ‘tho troublo of tho promotors of the enterprisc would bo not to got company, but to secure room. Tho list for the nfiaclnlvunin_.m originally contemplated wns closed & fortnight ago, and Intor -arrivals: worg fain o go 1o Paris by the ordinary routos and tako their chances of ranching Faray thonce, A bont-lond wont over last night, and this morn- ing the londors and pastofs, and thoso whoso namos wore first onrolled, loft Victoria Btazion at half-past 6 o'olock, - The Duke of Norfolk was thero oarly, with Lord Arundel of Wardonr, Ludy Horbert of- Les, Lord Walter Kerr, and othior mombors of tho aristocracy. All wore on tho left broast the badge of the Bacred Honrt,— o Jittlo red flannel cross stitohed on a largor pioco of white flannel, It was caro- fully arranged 8o~ thero would bo n priest in oach .compartmont of the govoral carringes, that tho congrc‘;nlioua might be complete in themsolvos, and this park of " tho undortaking was rigorously carried out, tho only departures from it boing in casoa whoro thoro wero two priests in a carriago, owing to an grims rogularly enrolled was 640, of whom 120 were grlcutu, 180 Indlos, aud 840 lnymon. Poe- sibly bocauso their looso robos mado them tho moro conspicuous in the Qhrunfi, tho ladies and tho priests sppesred to be in o decided majority. As soon a_ the train moved out of tho station wo got to work nt our dovdtions, There wero Bevon Porsunu in our eompartment,—the priest, o jolly-looking man, wloso .disposition, I discovered upon further acquaintance, did mnot. bolie hia.face;.. a pretty littlo pilgrim dressod in deop mourning, who' did 1oL soom 80 npb at fluding her places {n tho man- ual as sho ought to have boon ; two decently- dressad womon who looked liko upper sorvants of saving habijts, who wi managing to under- take n. little excursion fashionable young deacon who, beforo wo had passed Victorin Whart, had discovored thnt.tha prouty littlo pil- n, who kst directly opposite to him, had bo- telingly soft -grey-oyes; an olderly woman with corkserow curls and & large tin box, which Iatter sho held on to all thewuy to Newhnven ; and an ungodly. journalist. ‘' fu the way of peace and prosperity may the Lord, almighty tad morcifal; diroct our stéps; Aud may tho angel Ro; hnol sccompuny us on the way, thot we may return to our home in peaco, snfety, aud oy.” I'lis and. all tho rest that is written in'the Itinerarium did the cheerful-looking priest recito, following..it..nip by tho Litany of tho Sucrod Heart, oven Pators, and soven Aves for the Popo and the perscented Bishops of the Chyreh, ‘Then there way an interval, broken agaiu wheu we had traversed n dozon miles by tho rocitation of “tho five joyful mystories of the Rousry. . ‘Thero being at tho oud of onch myatory I ton **ITail Marys" “to be raid, this part of {ho ! performrnae’ grew somowhat tedious; but tho rully riost_did uot lat his tongue stop; but rat- tlod throngh. under tunnal nud over bridgo nt o pace which seemod dosigued -for rivalry” with tho railway svstom under which tho pilgrims of tho ninetcenth: -gentury: find themuolves. Whon the- dovotional part of the journoy wus .ovor, thopriost woko up with {ucroasing vi- vacity, and bogan to rolato anccdotes, one at least of which made the handsomo young deacon, who bhad sttontively listenad “to it unnug[mnt, cross himeolr and mutter o brief additional prayer. When his stock of aneedotos was oxhausted, the Father turned to tho oldorly Indy with tho cork-serew curts .id the lurge tin box, and chaflod her most unimeroifally upon the }lsllml)lu appearance and powsible contonta of ior Inggago. Under . prossuro,.sho confossod that there was, inter alia, a coffee-pot in the box, and thero might bave boon a feathor-bed as far 4 cubio monsuromont was concarned, Whattho old Iady will do with lior tin box ‘when sho gots to Parny I don't know, TPorhaps, as wo plens- antly suggested to her, 850 will find causo for thankfulness at baving brought it, supposing pho has to: sit on p doorstop all night, It ‘wng gonorally agreed that, as. tho priest hiad talion neh o peofound aug friendly injeroat in tho box, it would only be fair that ho shonld carry it down to tho boat from the station. But thougl tho good Fathor had been quick toseo the numorous jokes fitting about, this was be- iuud Liis comprehousion, and the ouly evidonco o showed of having hesrd “the yomark was found in"hia gotting qut of tho carriago with suspicious plucrity as soon ag the train drew up at tho gtation. A quarter of an hour later I saw .the tin box struggling through the crowd in tha arms of an ingenuous male ‘pilgiim, behind wwhom tho Iady and the corkscrow curls walked, tho former protesting that-the young pllg;rlm a8 'too kind,” and must bo * vory tired,” but " never offering to reliove him of his burden. + Tho spacisl boat was lyiug moored at the pier whea the passongors camo down, aid it was soon filled from stom to stern, aud o second steamer, which had boen kept in _readinosy, was brought into roquisition. A small crowd had assombled at Yictoria Station to_soo tho pilgrim train start, sud & faint, half-mocking cheor was raisod 8 it steamod out of ‘ the station, - Thero:was another crowd linftig tho pior overlooking tho boats, which hnd como out with evidently strong euri- ovity to seo what modern - pilgrims wore like, and'must have been - disappointed to find themn looking so much like priests and womeu.. A cheor, moro faint :than the ong,raised in tho railway atatiou, grooted the casting off of tho stcamor. . A much moro_ docided - domonatration was wmado by a gontloman who ‘shook ‘hig umbrolia attheprilgrims, oxclaiming, “ You aré 4 dlsgraco to your countryl. Youaro’a dispraco‘to Eng- land " Thosd wero tho Jast “words the pilgrima heard from the English “shoro. As the littlo stoamor moved ‘off, tho white flag of the Popo, with miter aud cross-koys, was_ run up ot the foromast, the' {lag of the Bacred Hoart on the malumast, and the Unjon Jack at the pesk, The fout:of aniliug ont of an Tuglish port nudor Pa- {ml colora pecmod to givo suprope satisfaction 0 the passengers, sud waa oftan roforved Lo with congrutulations throughout the voyage, While yot 1 tho harbor proparationa wero mnde for o performauce of low mass. A Bmgll altar wus erocted under the mizzonmast, covered with » whito cloth aud decorated with tho paraphornalin of tho - mass, Thero was n good deal of trouble with the candics, which, oxgopt Dy another miraclo, could not reasonably have heen expeated to keop in flamo, with .tho lively broozo that was blowing, Tho difliculty was flnally overcome by the adoptjon of o com- promiso, and the Rousignor Uapol, in the full dross of the ritua), procoaded to say muss, Tho peeno was ot tho womont u very striking ono,— the crowded poon, the richly clad priest, his white robod doacons, and the other crowd kneol« {ng bavohosded on the lower dock the while tho boll tinkled ‘and tho host was lifted up, 'I'wo hymus were fl\lflfi aftor tho mass,—sung ontright manfully to thoi .end, though tho broczo was freshoning nnd facos wore whitoning, and hora sud thoro gaps were mado in.the congrogs- tlan, and silont rotronts made to thosides of tho slip, over which the seceders remained stoad- fastly gazing and oqulu(nuull{ bowing their Loads for mauy long minutes, . 3gr, Oapol is an old unilor, and read mass as oloarly aid offoat- ively us if ho ware bofero tho altar In th Catlio- . dral at Kensington. But nearly overy ong olso | it tho congraiution, especially Including the of- fleiating iloncons, was uncomiionly glad - when the “* Amon" was sung, aud overybody was at | liborty, moro or less docorously, Lo yiold to tho prossuro of ciroumstances, . Porhaps it will b lmflt to draw s voil over tho incidoutn of the ma- rino stylo of $ho Pilgnim's Progross, Sulloo it to I\lmnumenn prosonted this morning. Tho embnrrassment of “riches, The numbor of pil-- eny thint n frosh brooze was blowing and tho son was rongh, “At Dieppo thoro was o conniderable crowd as- gomblod, aml they wero gratified by honrlng the )llngniflcnt chauled by the pilgrima all standing up baroiendad ns the vossol slowly stonmed up thie narrow harbor to her moorings,” Thoro werc more prayers ol ilie way to Intls, whieh war renched at_10 o'clack, nrter a journey which huw comsidorubly triod U wuiylug basors of tho pil- grims, Thero in not nuuch rest for us, an wo arc off ngaln at 6 in the marnings aud no I will cluse this, which has been hurriedly writton in th in- torvals of tho hlowing of Lalf & gulo on the panango acrous the chunnel, and in the lapsos of tha full galo of prayor and devotion which iy oceupied the journoy hither by rail. DUEL- WITH SIX-SHOOTERS. A Denperate Fight in Truckee Oity, Nav.=eIfoth NMon Empty their Pistols ==Onc IKilled and the Othor Mortally VWoundeds g Truckes City, Nev, (S"i"‘ T, orrespondence of the Netw n orké Sun, Andy TFugot, acarponter, and Jnolk White, o minor, fought a ducl night boforo Inst with six- shootors. A foud had oxistod botwoon the mon for somo tine ;.aud a fow days ago whon thoy mot on the depot grounds Fugot anlfi: ““Wo might as woll sottle our trouble hore, Draw and dofend yoursolf.” Whitoeaid e was not armed,nnd Fuget roplied that ho bolioved him n linr, Tho mon then soparatod with the understanding that they would fight tho first timo they met, Night bo- foro last tho mon n{(nln mot on the corver of Man streot and a littlo alloy running up into tho Ohinoso quartor. 'Thoy no ©oonor rocog- nizoed oach othor than the battlo bLegan. - There wore sovotal porsons in tho noighborhood, but no one who saw tho shooting could toll who fired tho first shot. Tugot is #nid to havo boen ap- prosohing Mnin streot from tho alloy, and was mot by White, who was passing along tho sido- walk,” Whon the firing bogan, Fugot placed himaelf bohind an awning-post at the cornor of the atreot aud alloy, while Whita stood on tho sidowallt. . . ~ The firing waa vory mfild; g0 rapld, indeod, that many who heard it thought that moro than two mon wore cngsged in the shooting. Tho majority of thoso who wero in tho neighiborhood when the shooting begsn ran away 8y fast ne their loga would earry them ; but two or threo mon, who sought sholtor in tho iron doorways of Burkhaltor's store, atood their ground and wite nossod the wholo_ battle, White foll first, and, satriking on the edgo of the mdewallk, rolled Into o guttor about cighteon inchos in dopti, Tugot foll about tho same time, soemingly from tho @ffoot of Whito's Inst shot, rolling into tho samo guttor in which White was lying, and at no groat .distanco from him, Dotweon tho two mon Iny o bundlo of gunny sacks, owing to which they wero unable Lo soe onch other, Fugot bogan to orawl toward White, who loy in tho guttor unablo torigo. 1le dragged himeolf along the guttor™ until he réach the gunny- sacks, o climbed up on thospuntil he could’ seo lus.mortal onemy, and.then fired at him his two remaining shoto, White arouscd himgalf, and by great offort raisod hig pistol aud’ fired his last sbot, which rolled Fugot from his position an the sucks, and ondod the desporate aud blooay fight: >/ When tho firing consod, aud only tha groana wero to bo heard, tho citizons rapidly collected, and soon o great crowd was ou the bloody bittle- field. Tho bloeding and groaning mon woro carriod to whore thoy could be eared for. Fuget, howover, noeded but littlo care, as lio was dying wiion takon up, and lived loss than tou minutes. Lhip ghot which proved fatal struck him in tho ioft groin, severing n latgo ortery. Ho bled frightfully, White's wounds were thros in num- Ter, and of.such a nature that thoy must neces- saily prove fatal, Onoshnt paased through his body, from sido to wido, just above the hips; auother antered his right breust, and, ranging bnck, lodgod against the spino; tho third strue him in tho lowor part of tho abdonjon, passing through the bladder, Aftor the sooting, and while his wounds werg being oxamined, Wiite suid that Jio was fired at by ‘another man horides Pugot, This muou, ho snid, was o larizo man with beavy biack whiskors, who'stood trthe alley loading up into Ohinae towd, and fired three shots at him; after which he ran nway un tha alley, Afterward, on boing more clasaly quostionod about this man, Whito rofused to say anything more in rogard to him, or to givo his name, oyen if ho knew it. Mauy porsons who woro i the neighborhood at the tinio of the shooting, ere quite cortain that mora han two men woro cugaged m it They say that it meoms almost fmpossiblo that two mon, armed with common six-shooters, could have douo such ramd firing, and whou tho men woro taken up and the pistols exnminod thero way o general exprossion of uLPriso on scoing thoy wore not eclf-cockers. Several bullots stiuck the iron shutters of tho store, and the mon who screened themaelves in the doorways saom to hnve occupied a tolorably hot position. By sowmo it is supposed that tho men wero huut- ing ench othor at the time, ag bus a minute be- forg tho shootiug bogan Whito camo to the duor of & billisrd:saloon near by andpcered in as though looking for some one. . Both mon wore formaorly rosidents of San Francisco, % -~ PATCHWORK SCALPS. Attempt to Furnish fliss Grumall Wwith a4 New Scaips From the Osikush (Win) Northweslern, Sept, 18, - Tie physicisns havo determined upon sn offort, similar to the one quoted in our last is- Buo, a8 boing tried in Now Haven, Conn,, in ro- gard to furnishing 3iss Grumail with & now . icalp. 1t willbe done by ongraftiug skin from other persons upon the hoad of the unfortunnte girl. Ilero is a cail for charity in tho form of tlogh aud blood, and all thoso wlio would like to contribute to this humano object will leava in- -formation at Guenthor's drug storo. A pmail bit of skin will bo taken from tho arm of ench person, and will bo transplanted upon the hend of (he youug lady. It will. be done in o ekillful moonnor, and -with- out puin to the'donor. By this’ moans, and by small additions at a timoe, 1t is hoped that & neir coyering for tho cranium may thus be mado. It is moreover urged that all those baving old cot- toncloth and linon to spare will leave it at Guenthor's drug sloro to make lint of, - a8 quan- titios nro necessary iu xlrnnsmf; tho sealp. Ttis necessary to use up a wholo slicot every time the ,wound is drexsod, It is hoped that ail who can passibly do so will contribute to either or both of these worthy objocts, and have the “satiafuc- tion of knowing thit a living aud moving monu- ment shall boar evidonces of their singular churity, Mr. Finlny’s Now Ifond of Einir, Lrom the Dundury News. 2> Hero ls somothiug remarkable. A woman fn Now ITaven was rocontly bereft of hor scalp by tho idiosynerasios of a shaft and bolt. The dou- tors saw that to remedy the ovil they would havo. to resart to transplunting, and 80 they actually succeedod 1 gottlug & sufllciont number of piccas from othier poople’s houds to give this un- fortunale woman a new acalp. We hopo- those Now Haven doctors used more discrotion than did ho who attended o mun nemod Finlsy, who mot with a similar acoidont in Ors- kony, N. Y., somo thirtoou - yoors ngo. Dits of sealp” from soventeen difforont persons vero sconrd by this Doctor, and adroitly stitched to tho hoad of Mr. Finluy. When it was done, pooplo cuo miles to see Iin- 1ag’s hend, and Finlay himsolf, with his checkor- board eranium, was the happiest man in Origlinny, But when tho capillary glands got ‘in working order, and the hair commencod to grow, tho top of that mun's hoad presontod tho most oxtraordinary spoctacle ou rocord. Tho Dactor, who was about half the time in liquor, hud con- sulted oxpodiency rathor that judgment, pud wo- cured thut now sbalp without uny referonce to future dovolopments. Wo novor saw anything like it. Iloro wus o tuft of yollow huir, and next to it a bit of Ulack, and thon a flamo of red, and n littlo like silk, nnd more hikko'tow, with brown hair, and gray bair, and pandy’ hair, and cream-colored hnir souttored over” his entjre skull, And whata wad man that Finlay way, and nobody conld blame him, Ho would stand up sgainst tho barn for an hour at a time wud sab and swear. It was - vory fortunato thut the Doctor was dond. Mo wont off two weoks boforo with blue aguo, whioh is amild sort of disoaso, Iiulay lkopt his hair out hiort, but that didu't make any difforonco, Phon ho tried dyes, but they only made mat- tora worne. Then ho got & wig, and this cover- ed up tho doformily ; but somotimes at churoh ho wauld got nsteap, and the wig would fall off and make the children cr{. {’Jnm. ut the oonnty fuir o foll aslesp and the wig dropped off, und the Cowmittoe on Tomestio Goods, when thoy camo atound, stood In front of I'in- lay's hoad for somo five minutos in rapt delight. Thoy thon immedintely docldod that 1t was the most ingonious pieco of patoh-work in tho list, and nevor dicovorod the mistako until thoy at- tomptod to pin the promium enrd toit. A% that Tiulay awoko, and knocked down tha Chulvman of tho Committoe, and chased the othoys out of tho huilding, We hope thoso Now IIaven Doc- tors hovo boen move particular, as it i not n subjoct to tritle with, ¥ Which Is Most Protitable, o Polltical Club orn Farmors! Club) From the Centradts (1LY Demosrat, Tho Furmor' Contral Associntion of Con- tralie, an wll lnow, connoclod n purchasing sgonoy with tho Ausvointion, slowing tho pur- tiug an the .* Rocks. upon_which tho Peoplo [ Forees,” . und I'mma. Webb:oloses tho liet with . chasing ngont & por cout commiaalon for anlos on maunfacturors’ pricos for agricultural fm- leoumuts.. 1n. nccordango with a rosolution of Ito Asgocintion, n committoo hns, with our ng. slutance, beon gathoring factn and statomonty in roferonca to the dircet and indirect oporations of tho Centralin Purchasing Agoney, with the-fol-- Towliig profitablo rewlts s Tu ks our opinton that, in a flanenl point of view, farmors’ clubs can mnko Jettor showings than any othor political v uillitarinn organization known to tho ‘inop!u. ru nud for their matorial prowpority. If thore {s any Liberal, Ropublican, or Domoeretio Club thnt cnn sbow ag hoalthy aud satisfactory o'bal- ance-sheot for ono season’s campaign, wo would like to soo it. I'ho torritory comprised in tho investigation covora a dlstance of 16 milos’ north, east, wost, nud gouth of Centralin, 80 miles squaro, includ- ing twolvo businoss pofots, The sales from ail thoso havo Leen almost entiroly rogilatod: by tho contract of tho Contralin agenoy, - The salo valuo of Implements sold within this aron dur- fug tho prosont soason, a8 shown by tho investi- gations of tho Committeo, amounta to 203,580, and this, wo bollovo, is loss, by.$10,000, than tho notual nmount sold, as it has beon difficult to got full and final figures. Tho averngo por cont rocelved by agonts in formor soasons for tho sale of industrinl imploments fully oqualod 80 por cont. The sgonts' profit on” §03,600, nf 80 per cont, in o provious: {m\r, nmountmi to £28,00. Tho ngont's profits on this amount of sales for the ecason. of 1873, at tho contract prico of tho Contralia. Pur- l‘hluiln§ Agoncy, & or cont, amounts to £4,670.60. Thus the farmers, within tho 80 miles squaro, havo saved through this purchasing ngoncy $23,232.50, belug tho diffor- enco botwoen £28,000 and .84,076.50; aud It may Lo proper to atato that none of tho above fig- uros cover the pales of wagons manufactured outsido tho torritory embraced in this statoment. Our farmer friends snd bnulnuu},.mon may soratch their hoads o littlo as thoyrefloct wpon tho fnot that tho little gatherings ‘of farmors once n month during the past season at the City- Hall in Contralia has saved {o tho tillera of tho soll tho suug little sum of $23,383.50, Now, what has it cont to run tho Assogiation from its organization up to date?. The total expenses, of every description, amount to "$101.30, ' Tho statements contained in this articlo we rogard as B4, 600 1-oout, and a full, comploto, and decisive fl:{ny to the politi- cal jackanapos who aro 8o fond of using tho cant phrasgs: Why, farmers_havon't. got brains onough to fill our offices! What does o farmor kuow about political economy ?" —_——— LECTURES AND LECTURERS. The following is of {nterest to Committees making up programmes for tho sopson: Migs Susan B. Anthony tells shout '3y Trinl"” for €60 to $100. Miss Lillio Devereux Blake combines * The Wifo, Mother, and_ Citi- Zon" for from $25 to $50, 0 sho can find por- sons that want this romarkablo combination, T'he Rov. Honry Ward Beochor combines ** Man- hood and Money” on lberal “terms, while tho ministorial Rov, R, Laird Collier tells what ho knows * On the Joiningof Hands ; Rings, Fools, otc.,” for 375. The Rev. E, 1I. Chapin spends an hour on * Columbua ” for $160, while Col. R. H. Convwoll oharges_only 850 for making *f A Ploa for Lawyers,” For $30 the Rov. R. I, Cudworth oralos on the impressive theme of ¢ What's What," while R. J, Do Cordova folls all Lo keov about *Our Firet.Baby " for 125, * ‘I'io Morning Dawn,” on Mrs, Jane O. Do Torest, at-the low pric of §50 to $100, depond- ing on the place whoro tho nccidont occurs;_and that brillinut Paul B. DuOhaillu_will, for- 8160, give, with & matineo, hiis ** Gorilla Chimpanzea, Gibbon, and Otang-Outang.” . Mary F. Eastman wiil * Tond Hand " st auything who can got and Mra. Lillinn Bdgarton, for 8150, will ot you know that * Woman is ‘Coming,"” at which prico sl ought not to coma tao ofton. Edward Egglos- ton will “Talk * for 3100—what it would cost to keop him still is not stated—while Kate Fiold aos up ** Among the Adirondacks” for 160, fi'llu “Fat_Contributor” asks you ‘‘Whut will You Take” for €75; and tho Rov. H. M. Qallaghor will “Put Monoy in Thy Pursu ™ for 8100, V. Gladdin will allow you 'to “Holp Yoursolvos™ for anythiug ho can got ; while our own Gruce Greonwood goos *‘In- doors" for 2100, R, J. Griflifths, LL. D., of Tngland, goos * Botween Two Loves ™ for $85 ; vory chenp. Matilda Gngo Joslyn will docide “'I'ne United Sintes'on ‘Lrial, not Buean B. An- thouy,” for npy sum obtninablo; whilo Brot Harto tells about ** S8ome Bad Paoplo” for $260 ; thoy must bo frightful cm\m')los. Col, John Hay lota ** Day Brook in Spain ” for $100 ; and tho Rey. Goorgo IL. {fopworth ¢ Humbugs™ Lis | audionee for 100, Mary Hamilton would be: lad to lat o congregation enjoy ** Soclul Lifo in Washington " vory cheap ; while.the irroprossi- bloJudsou Kilpatriok goty 0 American Stump” for lictle or wothing, haviug his timo ontively at his command. Ho will porform the fent any- whoro aud at ruinously low figures, Dr, Paul Homon_ goes * Drifting Abont,” if anybody wants him, on any tevms. Eli. Perkins begs i MB‘ Unclo Consider " for 250 to $100, accord- ing Lo wbat article the old gentleman is.asked to wdvauce on.’ Prof. 8, K, Mardoek will, for $76, discuss that intumsllnf question to n&m pular audience, " Rise nnd Progress of tho Order of Knights Templar;” snd Prof. W. H., Niles “ Rambles Among ths High Alpa" at $100 an hour; and all about: “Tho Coming *Mau " will bo told by Dr, Samuol Osgood for 8100. Mrs. T, A. Pollard combines s gcion< tiflo discussion of ‘Bubbles and Bhow Win~ dowa; or, Fashionablo Lifo in \Vnshing- tou;” while Prof. J. H. Pappor, of England, will for 2300 an Lour * Iandle Ied-1Iot Metals,” or ¥ Introduco a. Ghost;" and for, £200 Wendell Phillips will draw *Somo Inferences from Froude, aud for 2100 Mrs, . Zona Fay Pierco un- dortakes * Tho Regonoration of ‘tha Democratic | Party.” Matthow Hale Smith, for 875, discourscs’ ou tliat now, thrilling, aud intercating history of “ Qur Now Ministor at Huyrdscrabblo,” John G.-| Saxo gots a *“Love” for 3126, snd Elizaboth Cndy Btanton hugs **Tho Coming.Girl" for from €85 to ' 3100, =ccording - te ' sizo; For 8100 Col. Homer B, Sprague gives b benutifal philosophical disquisition on #Whon I Was in Juil,” and the ' Hon, Carl Sehurz for '$200 is roady to talk on auyihing. Mra, Harriet Beocher Stowe rends her own books for 8125 an bour, which {8 not vory high, if it Lins got to bo cumpulsory, - Mrs. Mitulo Biayzo Lins an attack of * Froo 1ato™ for $50, and tho Rov. 'L\ DoWitt Talmago chargos. $200 for got- Bplit "—high, but they must bo dangerons. Bon T, ‘faylor has the presumption to insist on get~ ting 8100 for aslang the conundrum, *What Mude Him Do It?" and Thoadoro Tillnn lane dles tho ¢ Amorican Woman" for 8100, E, D. Taylor snys-that *f Just for Fun ”.he will charge %50, and Miss Virgima Vaughn ronds * Tho Vo~ otry of the Futuro” for tho snme amount (how 8ho_ obtained it is not statod),. For $125 Prof, 1. L. Youmang will have *“The Corrolation of §50 worth of * Potrarch and Laura,” i . ADISGRACEFUL SUNDAY SCENE. A DMob. Assanlt u Street-Preacher == Trinl and Convictlon of the Riotw orsy A * " From the Joliet (Il1,) Republican, Sept, 13, Last Baturdny, bills oo - distributed in_ the clty, annonnuing that the Rev, J. G.Wiite would defivor two froo loctures on' Buuday, ono on tho subject, “ Romavism as it was aud 24 it is,” aud the other upoun **I'ka signs of tho times relative to Romanism in Amerles,” ‘Tho circulation: of the bills- caused no - littlo. oxcitemont among tho_Catliolics ‘of the ocity, .and tho aftornoon lootpre callod _togothor a lurge crowd st tho. corner of Jeffcrson and - Chi- cago stroots. ‘Tho rough olemont prodominatod, and it was soon apparont thnt mischicf wns brewing., As to the chiaractor of tho proacher's romarks, thero aro couflictivg Teporls, but bo bad spoken only o fow minutos whon the rougli, who bad frequently interrupted’ bim, upset the of stamps used annually is about G50,000,0 and Hholr nvorsgo value s &18,000,000. Lo pret vont orror and fraud, the slicots of stampy aro counted and recounted ton or twalve timo, rog- istored, rocoipted for, and counted aguin, until, what with handling’ and ?nmmlng, thoy lown their original freslinoss, and havo Lo ho pollsiiod up in a hydraulic prosn, 'Lhey ave distriimtod by mail to about 36,000 post-otilecen fu the United Staton, nud orders aro receivad daily for abont 133,000,000 wtamps, A Covornment agont gives hiis recoipt for the stamps, and obining corre- avond(ug receipta .from thoso to whom thoy aro distributod, They aro mamufacturod by the Gone tinontal ‘BDank Note Compuny, and durlug the month of July the Company had a stock on band of 75,000,000 stamps, valuod at $2,203,000. Of thoso, 54,770,300 wero J-cent stamps, 11,167, 061,700 2-cent stamps, PROF. WISE'S CAREER. An Acronant’s Lifo nnd Adventuresss Mis Doyish INVostigntions=-Experis ments in Balloon Exploding--Tho Atlantic Trip o Thirty Years’ Old Scheme. From the New York Tribune. The freight accommodations of the Daily @raphic balloon woro nocossarily limited, but thero doubtless would have boon room found fornunpinl Through tho Alr," Prof. Wiso's now ULook, which his publishers hastoned in the hopa that he might carry with him to Europe, or toward it, his own record of bia ‘labors in improving mir navigation. A thick volumo of more than half a thousand pagos, it contains, ono would thinl, almost ovorything that could bo said upon tho subjoct of air eailing, besidos telling tho atory of nearly forty yoara' oxporioncos in this hazardous pir- -puit. "Boforo Prof. Wise's nsconsions, which liave numbored 443, naturally camo lis boyish experimonts, whicki bogan with attaching kittona to tho tail of his kito, advauced to tissuc-paper rnnuclmtos, and, aftor sotting firo toa dwolling his natiyo town of Laucastor, Ponn,, withs -tissuc-papor fire-balloon, culninated in tho auce cossful ascont of a paper Montgolfior, whioh do-~ terminod him in the choice of his occupation, Althongh this purposo was interrupted by sovers &l years' gorvico in the cabinat-mnking and pi- ano-forto trades, ho ndos\tcd, 'in 1835, the nvocas tion which hio has steadily pursued over sinco, It would bo hard to conceive & moro daring venturo than that of oxploding a balloon st a groat hoight, dopending upon_the forming of arachuto for asafa descent, Tho following way rof, Wise's oxporiment : * Having always mot with so much opposition to evory now proposition in aeronnutics that I suggested, Idotorminod to keop the now iden to mysolt until it should Lavo passed tho ordeal of notual oxperiment. This idea was tho explosion of balloony at great hoights, dependiug upon thoir friction through, and resistanco of, the at- mosphere for n safe descont, Thoidea of such an oxperimont—bursting one's Lalleon a mile or two abovo tho carth, aud pormitting, inovitably, the gas to rush out of it ine stantly—may startlo. tho reador, oven the studont of tho mcionce; novortholess it was made, repoated; and can bo mado again, with a cortainty a8 groat and principlos as comprohen- Bive 88 that n{‘mckut handkorchiof will not fall g rapfdly to the ground, whon thrown out of n third-story window, ns will a brick, . . . . : “Tobsorved tho sparkling coruscations of lightning spriaging from_clond to cloud a mila bonoath mo s thq thundor-storm was passing [it# last romnants below. T'he storm was moving from southwost to uortheast, and tho balloon was _sniling from northwest £o sonthoast, pags- ing Now-Villago nnd Asbury, and I now coukl 700 the chrth in that dircction. I took out my watch, noted on my log-book the tino—2:20~—~and o8 I was about roturning it to my pockot, thinking at the timo whother it were not best to rolievo tho explosive rope, dischargo tho ballast, and abandon for the presont the iden of thia oxporimont, tio balloon exploded ! Although wy confldonco in the succoss of tho contrivenco naver for o momeont forsovlk me, I must admit that it was o moment of awful suspense. ‘ho gus rushed from tho rapture in the top of tho alloon with o tomptostuous noise, an At ok than ten seconds not a particlo of hydrogen ro- mained in it. The descont at flvst’ was rapi sud acgonpaniod with a fenrfully moaning nois eaused by tho nir rushing through the nctworl and tho gna_escaping aboyo. In amothor mo- ment I felt o slight shock. Looking up to seo what caused it, I discovered that the bale Joon was eanting over,beiug nicely doubled in, tha Tower hnlf futo tho tppor ; it hiad failon, tone donsing the column of airupon which it was fall- Iug, unbilit had _errived at a point whore it waa 80 donso that tho .force of the whale weight Pwuslug down on it was arrested, which coased Do paruchuto to tilk over. Tho weight of tho car, however, conntervailed the tilting tondency, giving it au osoitlating motion, whicl it rotaine: until it reached tho carth. The velocities of thoso zigzay dosconts were mnrkoa by corra- spouding notes of the wina ag it whistled through tho rigging of tho bulloon, On reach- ‘Ing tho puint where the lower eurront of air travorsed the upper, another and more violont shock than the first took pluce. From this “point tho oscillations becamo moro ravoro, each one causing in mo a wonsation mmilar to that })ol!iuouu, expericnco when dronming that - thoy all.” S . Prof, Wiso's schemo is well known to have iboon no now crotchet, but it will scom curions, novértholoss, to read tho following proclatnar tion, issued just thirty yeavsagoin J. W. For- noy's Lancaster Intelligencer, and note tho ten~ acity with _shich the purpoge thon nnnounced has boon adlered Lo 1 To all Publivhers of Newspapera on the (ilole : ““As it is my intention to take s trip ucross tha Atlantic Ocean with o batloon in the summer of 1844, and as tho descont, or landing of balioons in my exporiencoe, Las almost universally areatod unnecossary alorm and constornution to tho_people mear by, I thereforo give thiy goneral notico to tho seafaring communicy of all climos that should thoy, durmg any timo hence- fort, chanca to bo i the viciuity of a balloon, pithér on'the oconu or in the atmosphore, thoy neéd not bo undor any approhonsions, but should endeavor to give aid to its passengers. “It must not bo inferrad from thls that its succes Is cousidored improbable, but morely to bo propared for all emorgencies, “ Having, from a long experionce in acronaut- ics, beon convinced that a constaut and regular curront of air is blowing at all times from wost En eagt with & velocity of from 20 to 40, and evon 0 miles por Lour, according to it height from tho earth, and having discoverod n composition which rondors gilk or muslin imporvious to bydrogen gas, €0 that a balloon may bo kept affout for many weoks, I feel confident, with theeo ndvan- tages, that & trip agroes tho Atlantio will not bo sttended with as much real danger us by tho common modoa of fransition, “Thoballoon fs to bo 100 foot in dinmotor, which will give it & net asconding power of 25,000 pounds, which is sufliciont to make everything safo and comfortable, A seaworthy boat is to Lo used for the car, which is to bo" depended on iu cuse tho balloon should fail to nccomplish tho voyago: The boat is also caleulated on in cuse tho rognlar current of wind shauld bo divertod from ite vourso'by tho influonco of tho ocean, or through other cansos. Tho crow to consist of three parsuns, viz: Al aoronunt, o sa-navigator, ‘and,n soientitic Inndsman, | - “Thorefore, tho peoplo of Europe, Africa, -Asia, and all other purts, on the ovean or eluc- where, who havo never scon o ballaon, will bear in mind that 1t is o lavga globe mada of cloth, Inolosed in o notwork, Wwith a sloop hangivg un- dernenth 1t, coutniniug tho latest nows from tha United Btatos, and for crow the world's obediont sorvant, Joux Wise, # LANCANTER, June, 1643." ‘Thero aro niauy etories of hairbreadth eacapea which are too long to admit of quotation. One of thom n foarful ride on the orest of . tornado, which landed tho tiavelors from St Louis in Jofforson County, N. Y., I'rol. Wise doscribes as “tho grentost balloon voyage that' was ovor made,” Probably fow would caro Lo attempt to surpags it, box upon wlich ho wasstanding, On ondeavor- fug to rogain his place, lio wad again upst, and finally.drivon fram the place altogethor. Others attomptod to spenl, and were similarly troated. The rougls then held full sway for a fow min- uten, ‘They, in turn, mounted the box snd {udulged in filthy songs aud braggadoain spoech- o8, Oun of them mountad tho hox and took a Iong_ pull from s bottlo of whisky, Myrahal Solioldt arrived at this juncturo, arrosted ona of the roughs, and, with gront diflieulty, assisted otliors, dragged him to tho Bridewoll,' Bovoral nlfinr arrosts wore mado during’ the. aftornoon. * Monday morning, four of the igno- rant riotora, Thomas Coultling, Mattin Murpby, Thomas MoMarra, and . Patrlck Gafluey, wora tried bofora Dolico-Magistrato Ifen- dricks, and aonch wore flued 225 and costs, The row enused gront oxcito- ment, Tho hottor class of Ullflm& ca indignautly deuonueod tho affair, whilo non-Ostholles main- talned that the right of froo. spoock should not be interfered witli, _ After the convlusion of the trigl of the roughn, Policeman Cunninghoawp pro- Tortsd chargos m{n(uut Mz, White, tho proschior, for ohstructing tho sidewalk, Theo caso was con- tinued by City Attornoy Flandors uutil (his maorning, when at the requout of tho attornoys for tljo prosoontion, tho sult waa dismissed, no causo u} aotion belng fonud, i e Amorican Postage Stanmpss Thoro aro now in use 103 differont clnsses of postage stumps, sud 26,000 shoots of 100 stamps euoh aro printed each working day, Tho number " A Human Sicull in - From the Virainia (Nev,) Hullet Agnasiz and all {he great physicistes of the mfivarm and tho Now would have been thrown into a state of fovorish oxcitomont had thoy hoard the rumor that was onrvent on our streety this momning, Ihe_roport was that a human skul} had beon found imbedded in a Lody of righ silvor-bonring quarly in one of tho Comntook minos, Buch a phenomonon would have upsot all the accopted thoorios and overturned all tha woll-catablishod facts domonstratod by the re- soarches of modern scionce, and, hearing that tho skull was in_tho fino eabinet of Linker & Blm[:nnl‘ at tho Palace Haloon, we repuived thuthor to ascortain the facts in tho rreuuhmn. Thero we found n large human skull, thickly ooated op ano side with ricl sulpburots of eilver, aod, upoy juquiry, ascertatriad that tha curiosity way found in on old drift of the Ophir mine, BOMO yoars ago, by tho late Judge Baldwin, The slull was found at e pomt whoro the drife had out through & rich vein of sulphurets, and honee ta_conting. ow it got thoro is still n mystery, sud will perhaps remain 8o forever, ot sy sabrdioi i —Amang; ‘tho rocont ongyayed (ablots discov- ered in Asayria, {8 onp donouncing those wha digoboy Lho statules, and presoriling severs pon- altios for thnan who make hribos in tho seuts of Judgmont, Nothing is montioned about haoks [ grabbing, es that s o modorn {uvoution, but n tho othor respects such u tablot would bo ins valuablo iu this country,