Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1873, Page 7

HEATING AND VENTILATION, Questions Suggested by the Approach of Winter. Steam-Heat the Best, and Especially in the Dry Air of Chicago. Why Do Not Landlords Put Heating-Ar- rangomonts in Their Houses ¢ Fnrnaces, Grates, Stoves, Etc.---Necos- sity of an Abuudant Supply of Pure Air, Boptembor {s 4 curious month, abous as flckle and unrolinblo as April. The latter is liko the young coquette, smiling aud pouting from more wautonness ; whilo the formor, with mature judgmont, gooa deliborately to work to decolve. 'Co-dny, she lures you forth bonoath a clondless sky, with an atmosphore (whon not surcharged with local amolls) that is hoavenly, and one only nske to livo aud broatho it. To-morrow, she frowns ; thore is o sharpnoss in her greeting that dimly shadows tho sufforings of ‘the Polaris crow, and, unless you are a victim of the Arctic manis, you 'do- clino ovon to think of the North Pols. You have sovorolgn contempt for the North Star ft- self, 8o long as you livo in n city and can ask any policoman tho way, and are quito content tolet the Northern Boar point to it, if you sro not ne- cossitatod to follow his examplo, Your sym- pathios are with Samana Bay in- stend of Alaska, and, if you nre a woman, and uof supposed to boup in politi- cal economy, you wondor why S8an Domingo was not made - the property of the United ' Btates Governmont, instend of that wrotched Alnska, You don't seo-that seal-skin is vory much choap- or, and you thought that was to be one of the Loppy rosulta of the annoxation of those ico- flolds and snow-farms. Btill, it is Alaska instead of Ban Domingo, and it is wintor coming instead of spring, Boptember has given you a slight warning ; Octobor will prophesy, half repont, and offor youtho Indian summer; snd thon Novombor will act as usher to the dreary train of frigid elstors, whom wo are yoarly doomed to entertaln ; that I, alt who belong to the * Can't- Get-Away-Olub." . Tirst, thon, to tho housckoeper comos that wrotchod question of . HEATING, Happy slio who owns herhouso, and oan chooso how she will have it warmed. If she is a wise worpan, she has coils of plpo snd radi- otors, anda transmutation of wator and stoam that shall fill her house with & moist, soothing atmosphere, which shall exorcise headache and koep the skin soft and cool. When . will steam got to bo the genorally aclmowledged nocessary method of heating, not only publio. but private buildings, 80 that each honse may blossom like the roso, not only with vogetablo, bué with hbuman flowers? Espacially does Chicago need somo such alloviator of her dry withering air with its torrid summor-hoat, its Arctio wintor- cold, and its drying winds ; it will in time make the softest skin no botter than a pioce of parch- mont. Add to this stove or furuace-heat in winter, and onemay safely look, not ounly for loss of benuty, but for all the ills that flosh is heirto. Given stosm heat, bowover, and the climatic influences are, to a great oxtent, OVERCOME, It offors to the lover of flowers, slso, the best oppottunity to cultivate and enjoy them. The radiators may be covered with forns and bego- nias, lycopodiums, and seliginellas, and all the familios of molsturo-loviug-plants that shrink from the sun. With the Frost-King outside, carpoting tho stroots with snow, you~ osn_stil] koop summer a welcome guest within ; and sho Beema twice a8 beautiful whon thora is constant danger of losing her. Bho is like hor buman alstors in that rospoct,—not much thought of until there is prospect of losing them, and with them the bonefits thoy conforrad or tho useful- ness thoy represented, Howover, that is buman nature, “The bird in the hand isall very well, but it ia probably morely o homely: wren or robin ; whilo the bird in the bush is enchanting, and, whon he takes wing and flies boyond reach, . s Iiko was surely nover scen before, So Low- svor true it may be that the bird in the Land ia not only worth two in the bush, but a whola covey that have flown away, it is a lesson no one loarns, and the poor bird fn'the hand su..=s ce- nnxdinfily. ‘Wo human bird-fanciors might possibly study these old maxims to advantnge. Thoy, many of them, bave the truth of nxioms. Meantimo, lot thore that can, keop the bird Summer by warm- ing tho nest for hor with steam-heat, Add to these = A LOW GRATE with brass doge, and fender upon which hiokory and hemlock can be piled, aud you will have kindled an alinr-fire before which your fricnda will gladly come and bow ; & shrine for ths fam- Ly to gather around, and grow genial, and triendly, and loving,—in fact, get acquainted with each othor. In these days of furnaces and regis- ters, very fow people know oach othor, Thereis nothing in the dr{ heat thoy sond forth, and the ated-holo in wall or floar, like a prison win- ow, to attract ono,—much loss to make him sommunicative. It has o depresaing effect, very like the prison-window which it simulates’ ind 8o mother and child, father an ton, husband and wife, brother and sater, live under the samo roof, moot daily, 1nd are cold, wndifterent, uncommuaicative, bo- causo the atmospliera is to blame. They con- tinus to be strangers to oach other, because thero is no altar to gather round, no fire-light to dreamn or grow merry over, no glow to warm them into aminbility,—notbing but tho ohill of heat coming through the prison-bars. Therefore, blessed is shio who owns her house, and can have stesm-heat and a wood-fire ; but uot at all blessed is sho who is AT A LANDLORD'S MERCY. Possibly alio has moved into a house which haa furnace-pipes, but no furnace. Now, furnaco- ipos naturally pruuuprnua an intention upon he landlord's part to attach a cortain arrange- mont to thom that shall make them available &8 o boating mediutm. Don't take the thing upon trust. Hot-water boilers and furnace- pipes are s sort of littlo confldence-game, almost worthy of Mike McDonald; an strangora to the * ways that are dark and trioks that are vain” are vory apt to meoct with Bill Nyo's fate, and find themsolves euchred, Un- fortunately, thoy cannot go for that Heathen Chince of s landlord with tho expedition and Buccass that crowned Mr, William Nyo's efforts a8 on impromptu Nemesis, The hot-water-pro- ducer you must buy atacost of from $80 to 100, with the pleasant anticipation of having it to movae each 16t of May, in graceful commemo- aflcn of tho faot that Chicago laudlords seem to n COLLUSION WITH THE STOVE-MANUPAOTURERS, ‘What ‘fmmnmuge do they got? They ought to bo paid handsomely, Or are they really such nnocent oroatures that thoy hava maroly been following out the penuy-wiso polioy, nm{ have ?u!tu overlooked thislogitimatesourceof revonue, rom which thoy ought annually to reap quite & financial harvest, Cortainly, all proporty-ownora who atill continuo to build honses in a largo city liko Chicago, upon the primitive principles of the early sottlors, ought to rocalvo tholr roward., As for the furnace-pipes that have no furnace ntiached, why, you may have the prlvllego of buying anothor light and graceful appendage, whioh makes movivg such a luxury to that por- tion of mankind who offorvosce in enthusiastio a}u’nanh, and grutefully accept any occasion that affords an opportunily for apecial effort in their peculiar lino. If, however, you are not anxious 0 contributo to the gratification of that apecial- t{ of the modera Darwinlan spocimon, nor par- tloularly deslrous of accumulating rathor ex- nggeratod specimens of tho perfeotion to which modern honting-apparatus has been brought, you will, porbaps, be led gently to in- Binuate "to your lundlord that tho fur- nace-pipes are not ofvery great utility without an nttachment that shall provide hot-air In place of tho cold whioh, under existing oir- oumstances, they diffuse through the houso, o is child-like and'blind ; ho admite the justico of your remmk ; and he magoanimously offors to put & furnace In for you— IF YOU WILL PAY FOR IT. Mo e s gonorous man, He cau buy a sscond- hand one for 860, and he will let you hayo tho - ugo of It for tho remalnder of your stay (seven months) for 875, 1o owns other houses, ' e has euch furnacos in momoe of them, and only charges €5 » month additional rent for the uso of thom. Dut thon, you goe, you wero a viotim TIili CHICAGO 'RIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMEERR 28, 1873 5 to your own illusions, You fanoled furnnco- pipes lod naturally tona furnace. Exporionce must bo pald for, and you must indeed bo vary narrow-minded {f you consider §76 ju advrico more than o euficlont renumorajion for Jius haying your eyo-teeth out for you, ~All" yain illusions, whothor sentimontal or otherwiso,- invariably -bave to yiold to practical *-facts, - and " tho -knowladge thus galnod slways has to be paid for. You trust your young, enthusiastio, gushing, imma- ture affection to rather a mature siren, whom you fanoy that it would be bliss to live with, and doath to bo soparated from, and receivo o cold douche whon Bho i:lvnu hor hand and hor ripencd chiarms to gouty old Millionniro, Enq. You wasto in dispair for a while, but finally, aftor payinga full tribute of sighs, tenrs, and sowi-atarvation, and acorn, recovor, eat gour roant-hoof ag usunl, anddon’t fall in love with o mntura sirons necond time, You have paid for that loat-illusion with a certain amount of the freshnens of your youih. In manhood you pay for such illusions ss fur- nace-pipos produco ' WITH DOLLARS AND CENTS. ‘You 800 it's a Inw of Nature, and you havponly to remembor Bon. Franklin’a advico, and not pay too doar for tho whistlo, 1t in possible, however, that your landlord ‘moans to put in A now furnaco which sholl cost $160. It.ought to last flve yoars with tho liardest usage, and 1; is quite probablo that, being in s city liko Ohicago, his proporty wiil in- croass in value during that time. Onu,mliht slmost imagine that ho could sfford to make hia houso tonantable by putting in it nocessary con- voniences, Cousider, howover, that taxes also will probably increase, and that, no doubt, you onch form a very ‘different ostimate of values. Altogother, it scoms likely that you will have to pay for your exPnriunpo, and he, having the articlo to soll, will set hin own price, ‘You may, fmwuwr, be one of thoss unfor- tunates who are not oven blessed with the hoat suggested by furnaco-pipes, You depond, por- haps, upon BTOVES, with the oceasfonal happy oxception of a grate. ‘Wall, in this Arctic climate, whon winter sots in, = firo in & stove is, perhaps, proferable to no firo st all. But supposo you had the atove, and can- not havo tho firo. What astute architeot was it that built a chimney 80 that tho fire-place in ono roqm sctod as tho flue to tho oppositc one? Bhould ho not bo immortalizod? " Fancy the pleasure of living in a house with the thermom- oter in one of its sinking moods, when it contin- uos to_go down dolorminedly, until it ronches 20 or 30 degrees bolow rero, and having to keep all tho windows opeu in ordor to make the kitchon fire burn, whils the house is flooded with smokel It has besn sald that s smoky chimnoy is worso than a scolding wifo, It certalnly will occasion a8 many tears a5 sn unfaithful husband, and, if not quite mo lasting in ite offects, is equally as hard to ondure_whils it {s in ackive oporation. Do not lot the Lords of Creation, howover, fan- oy that they can suppress a joalous woman's angor by administering a dose of emoky ohim- noy. - It would probably only make & bad matter worso. Fortunately, smoky chimnoya aro the oxcep- tion and not tho rule; and, while many are obliged to use’ stoves, they aro not also con- demned to put thom on tho roof bocause their chimnoy has been bullt wrong end up, Btoves are improved every year, and ARE REALLY PLEASANTER 10 use now than to have only s furnace. Mado, aa they are, with doors filled with mica, that Jota tho firo shifie through, around the wholo eircum- forance of the stove, or pormits of its beiog thrown open so a8 to got at the gonuine glow, thoy have consed to_be the dreary monuments that usod to stand like funeral omblems in our midst. . Oaro should bo eqercised to keep tho vase on top woll filled with water, so na to coun~ toract tho dry heat which radiates from the best of them. This raceptacle shkould never bo al- f"f&m got dry, for moiat heat is necessary to ealth, THE OPEN GRATES ihat aro found in almost all houses here are tho | best feature in thom, and aro only bettored by the low grate in which coal can bo burned, or on which 'wood can_bo piled. It ia the nuclous of lomo-life, and the city that trensures and pro- vides fov such a condition of society will, in the ond, be morally bettor than one which ignores, aud gives up to a fancied clegance, or even util- ity, so grent an inducer of social health and pros- perity. VENTILATION should be caretully studied b{l overy housewife. Nothing human can exist without a cortain pro- rnmcn of puraair, and, to be healthful aud boau- iful, thora should bo an abundant supply of tho very purest. Insummer,withitsneoossityof opsn windows, Nature haa tho mattor, to » certain oxtont, in hor own hands, Man, by localizing Ecuhlenco—'hroeding establishments of various inds, doos all he can to interfore with the well- intontionod Mothor of us all ; but eho doos her work os best sho may, in spito of him. Whon cold weather comes, with its closed windowa and doors, howevor, tho matter is difforont. A hot fire in s stove without a atoam gonerator, in & room with doors-and windows thoroughly se- oured sgained draughis, {s about as good & fover- inducor aa can bo found. Almost everyono knows this, and yot how many take no caro'to avoid it. They shrink_from sn open window or door, as if Dostilence, instoad of Hoalth, would rush in. In this view of tho case, IT 18, PERIAYS, YORTUNATE that many houscs aro 80 carelessly built; or would be, perhaps, it tho draughts were not in the wrong placos, stesling in at tho base of rooms, ghi Hng the foot, whila the head isina fovor. Let tho housowite look to it, and study the subject of ventilation thorougbly, whatever her means mey bo of supplying tho proper smount of oaloric to hor family during the com- Ing season. i —_— IN SEARCH OF A SITUATION. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: B : For tho pnst tbreo months I have been ono pf the large army of soarchers for s situation who just now ovorrun this city. Formerly I was a young man of average abil- ity, fair positlon in eociety, and had a rather good opinion of myself; but, from the time I started ont in search of & situation, all has van- ished,—position, ability, and opinion.. As all my friends have dosertod me, I have no one left to pour out my tale of misery ta but you, who are alwsys tho samo,—tho true friend of the poor and opprossod. But a short ¢imo ago, I was rolling in—what now seems to mo—nflluence, and was as faira epecimen of & * bloated aristocrat " as any of our City Fathers, I bad innumerablo {friends, who wore always willing to smoke a olgar or drink s glass of lager at my expeneo, or to bor- row $5 for a few daya ; or, in fact, to do any of tho delleate thinge that friends alwaya do. I also had a good ‘business, and was in a fair way 1o 1sy up somothing for & ** rainy day." But misfortune overtook mo, and I ruined my reputation by giving up everything I had and paying my debts, I did not feel aa badly as I might, as I had numerous friends, aud my search for a situation would be & short one. In fact, I rather enjoyed it, 8a I never liked my business. Then my wifo took'the bad nows so quietly, and gave up all the luxuries she had boen ac- customed to with such a good will, that I folt 1 had drawn a prize in the ** lottery of marriage,” that was & compensation for all the troubles of life. Whon I spenk of relying on my frionds, I fanoy I hear you sy, * Oh, verdant youth " and I egh? ,and ze-0cho the wordy, “Oh, verdant outh 1" 7 The first friend I determined to call on was an Eastern man, a rosident of a suburban villago. Ho was aman of o finml doal of influ- enco; and, as I remembered how cordially he al- WaYS Eraolod mo, and Low condescendingly he used to alip into thoe back door of a littlo placa and tako a glaes of old Bourbou with me,—al- waya starting off suddenly for the train and leaving me to pay,—as I remembered all theso things, my heart warmod towarda him as the very person I wanted to seo. I met him in front of hin office. He graspod me warmly by the hand, and started towards tho back door. *Ifold on & moment ?" said I, “Iwanta fow words in private with yon."” “What is {t? Anything I can do for you " #Yes, Jou know I have gona out of busiuess," “You,'" sald he, with a knowing wink ; “ prot- 0{ well fixed, ain't you? I gueseyou didn't clone ur for nothing." 11 did not snve a cont,” sald I. ¥ Whew |_whal & d—d fool] Bul I must cateh my train, Xcan't do Anylhlnfl for you, Lxpoct to bust.up, ovory day, mysoll.” Aud ho was gone, I felt like using some slrong Iangnage, but, instend, walked sorrowfully homeward. ‘This friend was s gonuine Down-Enst phi- lanthropist, At his residonce, he was s groat {omperanca man ; at Chicago, ho helped the causo along by always drluklu’; a¢ somo onaclae's expenso, beoauso, sald he, * Thoy canuot drink without money, and, the mora I drink with them, tho sooner thoy will become impovarished, Ican truly say that not aponuy of my money goos to enrloh Baloon-koopors,” If ovory one would do 88 ho, how soon we would Lisve total abatinence [n tho land. I 500n found that all my frionds had lofé mo, As ®oon ns ono of thom met mo,- and found I was In noarch of a altuntion, ho was off. I now bogan to feel, for tho first thno, Low torriblo— uny, almont criminal—it 8 to be out of o situn- tion, and, consaquontly, out of monoy; and the Toglo of the sailor's roply to tho robbars who it~ tackod him on hia roa to my mind. 'I‘hnr stopped him, and demanded his money or his life, *Take both," sald he, ‘‘na & mon might as woll go to Tondon wifbiout lifo as withiout monoy." Bubatitute Chicago for London, and tho appli~ eatlon is oqually good. lmlgfne & man coming to Chlcago during our Groat Exponition without money! Whow In mi soarch for a situation, I tried mor- chants, bankers, and railronds, At first I way guunrnfiy woll rocolved; but, tho momont I asked, *'Ilave you, or aro you likely to have, any vacancies? " I was flly answored in tho nogativo. As my hopes Wth(s direotion bogan to oozo ont, I turned my attention to tho advortisoments in ‘Tue TRIDUNE, undor tho lioading, ¢ Wanted—Dookkoopors aud Olorks,"” Horo I found abundant matorial to work on, My suswers to “ X, Y. Z,," &e., were in my bost handwriting; my virtuos wore glowingly de- seribed, and my vicos passod over as unworthy of notico, As postage-stamps had booome a luxury, I took my lottera in porson to Tie Trinonk office, and‘could scarcely await the arrival of the nexf day's post, I was o cortain of an answor ; but nothing camo ; and now, aftor repeated failuros, X am forced to tho conclusion that my writing, which is indifferontly gi‘ooll, cannot stand the tost of comparison with that of No. 1 pen- mon. . Bo it hns gone op. I have tried, to tho best of my nbility, to gob & situation; bt as yot my senrch lias boen unrowarded with sticcosa. A Btill, I don't despair, aud Liopo the future has gob unmnthlnq good in storo for mo. 4 Imot a follow-pufforer, the other day, who moralizod asfollowa: A porson in search ofa situation finds it vory hard to bear tho total want of approciation dis- played by thomo around him. He is out of employment and out of monoy. Ho does not suffor thearotically, but practically,. He has _overything at stake to fores him in his efforts to fi;ln & situntion. 1o is usually worso than load,—that is, dead to all tho ploasures of lifo, but painfully alive to all its sorrows. And yet, in #pito of all this, bocausche gocsabout quictly, and don't ¢ 'owl about it,’ pooplo say he does no! mako & gmpt-r offort. Every ono hns some sug- gostion to mako. All, in their inmost hearts, acouse him of w.flunhu-i'llA neglecting to get a situation, so he may onjoy—what? A lifo miserablo dopondonce on othors, That ho may enjoy seeing his wife—who never complains—suffer for the want of tho common neoessitios of lifo, or doing monial work, which ho hatos to have her do, whou she should be receiving kindness and attention. Yos, theso theorists aay, he en- Joys this life. *'I have Lioard & gentle mothor, seated with her childron at & comfortable mesl, and surrounded with a fair shara of tho luxuries of this life, theorizo s0 bonutifully na-to how sho would work to support her family if sho were loft des- tituto, a8 to almost draw tesrs to hor husband's to London was now aloar of sges, ‘Whilo, at tho same time, sho drove a crucl shaft into tho hoarts of somo temporary depend- onts at that board. The old scono batwoen TRobinson Crusoo and his father fa as good an il- lustration of thoso theorists as can be found. Thoy manage to keop a man in ssarch of o sitn- ation in continual misery, without doing a par- ticlo of good.” Having poured out my sorrows, I now feel somowhat rolioved ; and, in conclusion, would rofer thoso who wish Lo see a detachment of tho army in senrch of situations to the reading-room of the Public Library. You may always know them by tho unconceined mauner in which they wait thoir time to look at Tne Tnisune. Whon it comes, they do not immediately turn to the part that inforcsts them, but wait till thoy think no ono is looking, and thon hurriedly turi to the column of wanta. If they catch gmu- oye, thoy will blueh scarlet, as it detected in somo orima. Do not judgo them harsbly, as you do not koow but what you may be in tho same po- sition. If you havo boen, ¥ou will rospact thoir foolings, and tho pride that causes them to suffer quictly rather than oxpose their wants. Lotus all join in the wish, that thoy may be o8 successful in_their scarch for a situation as was Japheb in his soarch for a fathor. Yours truly. - Popre Loco. —_— THE BATTLE GF DORKING. Bright slions tho fires on many & helght, | Aud yeomen haatened wherd The tlsmes had 1it the darkest night And vengoance ewalled tho alr, “Tho plow i8 teft, the ground untilled, Tho nofey wheel and shuttle atflled ; Througlout tho und wits rutnors fled, Foud hearta axpectant wait, For frivnds must fall as woll as foes, And these aro wapt os woll as thoss In homes mado dedolato, Portentous day for England broke, + Ordained or not to come ; And thousands from thelr sleop awoka The buglo-blaet and drum. The Leaming rays of morning shine Along tho bristling, glittring line Of numerous legious from the Rino, And “ Fatheriand 1V thelr cry, ‘There Eugland’s armica ; be who led, Who'd with them fought, and wron, snd bled, Was thore to do or die, s zeal for right no flagging knaw, His hoart was undismuyed 3 o rangod sround his warriors true, And drew his battle-binde, “ritons,” ho eaid, *yon flog shall wave ‘THI nerveless in tho gloomy grave 1a evary stm that now can save Or bear our country’a priae,” Tho words inspiring grow around, And ovory man gave ack tho sounid, Tl rocks and Lflls roplied. Then charged the fos, & tempoat-shock, And Murder Jed tholr van, But failed that valorous mass to rock,— They ne'or bofor met man, The cannon's roar and sforming clash Of arms a5 storms thirough foreats crath, And bay’not-thrust and sabro-slaxh In wild confusion blend, Froin German, Briton, friend or foe, Who wield tho'death, or trodden low, The crioa and groaus ascend, Tamultuous peals of thunder rolled Their clamors through tho sky ; "The weakest hearts from foar grew bold And atruck for victory. Tha fury In their bosoms pent Rouewod thelr strength whien atrangth was spont, And sulph'rous clouds by fiashes ront Inclosed the horrid scene, 1 moltoring blood, the yhaitly corse, With mangled liwbe and plungiog horse, Was heaped tho verdure grean, They yleld1 they yield1 now, Britony, prove ; Thio stock from whenco ye spring | b Charge, soldlers, for the homas you love, ' For England and your King, ©On, on they rusi with thund'ring fost, As wandiring worlds fogether moot; Tho waves of glory far Tolreat, In billowa rolla the ground, Tho conflict dire is direr ragad, Nor florcer war waa aver waged ; ‘Lakes, sces, aud shores resound, 1In vain, nlan ye Britons true, You plled that sanguine fan; ©O'erwhelming numbars 'gainat you threw ‘Your foos from o'er the main, ‘And backward hurlod, with' slaughter driven, The English were, their columna riven, Aud shirioks for mercy rose to Heaven, But found uo mercy there, ‘Then Froedom stood on verge of fate ] Bencath her glowed tho fires of hato, Aud brooded o'er Doapair. "Tia outrs the feld, the viotora orled, And England was undone. 8ho powerlcas to chock the tide, Thie seas of blood awapt on, 1er banner, once 80 proudly borno, Wan dronclied in gore, in tatters tors, Tramplod in dust, & uation’s scorn, Tor linlls in asbies Iatd, Though England's iomes ware fed to firo, 01t nationn light thair funcrsl pyre At fires thomselvos have made, Lr Orams Corurna, Girls Attacked by Rats. A recent latter from Branford, Coun., roporis that a few nights since two nlnufihteu of Mr, Oliver Bishiop, of that town, & and 7 years old, were attackod by rath wdhadl{ bitten. Ono of tho girls callod to her mother in the night, but she, hearing the call but once, thought _nnh.\lng was wantod, Morning came, sud nothing fur- ther was heard from the girls until noarly break- fast timo, when ono of thom called to her mother to come up-stairs, On going up, an; swiul sight presented itsolf. Dofore her wore tho two girl, olosely wrapped within the bod- clothes, aud nearly ‘wnffocated, while their facos woro covored with Dblood. On examination it was found that both bisd received evoral bitos on the face aud forehoad, and, from the appout- ange of the clothing, bad blod profusely, Tho oldost statod tlint whon sho callod to fior mothon: in tho night, three rats were jumping about tholr hoads, and that they woro so frightonod that thu{ covored thelr leads, and dared not move unfil morning, ke work of tha rats inust Lave nently all boon done before tho girls were fairly uwako, I appours that the fawnily bad been troubled wl}h rats which invaded tho Flnh”. and having shnt thom away from thore Loy resortod to the'upper pars of the houso. ' costume was very similar in quantity to DAKOTA. A Humorous Survey of the Country. Witty Observations of an Engineer. In June, 1872, Mr, J. B. Howo, a distinguished onglnoer, was dirocted by the officera of the Obicngo & Northwestorn Railway Company to explore a routo for tho extonsion of the Winona & 8t. Peter Railway Company, now compissed to Lake Xampesks, in Dakots, 081 milos werth- wost of Chicago. Inaddition tos profehsional roport for the Board of Dircotors, Mr. Hotvo submltted tho following moro confldontial and less formal reviow of tho gonoral foaturss of the country, for tho privato roading of tho officera of the Company. While it contnina the genoral information roquired in rogard to the proposed routo, it 18 cortrinly one of tho most curlous’and witty doouments of tho kind that have ever fallen undor our obsorvation. Wo are permitted to presont it entiro to our readers. fomo of its bits, as well oo ita descriptions, aro oxcoed- ingly good : ' TUE REPORT, Early last Juno (1872), tho writor of ihis atti clo—who, by tho way, is & gentloman of profonnd knowledge, vast sud varied exporience, aund in all rospeeta porfoctly rellablo—was direoted by the mansgors of an important railway corporn- tlon to organizo an expodition, and sxamine the country from Now Ulm, Minn., 88 far west g Big Sioux River, in Dakota, and thenco norther- 1y to the Valloy of tho Rod River of the North. This was ostonsibly for rallway-purposes, but ronlly to ascertain the views of the Indiana in re- gard to tho Baltimore Convention. THE PARTY AND OUTFIT. In compliance with thesa instructions, a party sssembled at New Ulm about the middle of Juno, consisting of six experionced Government mulos and two private mulos, aasisted by a half- broed guide and interproter named Jae, a ddzen soldiors, a fow Lorsos, toamaters, and olvil en-’ ginoers. Tho outfit comprised tents, rations, &o., for twonty-one men and fiftcen animaly for thirty days, photographers’ apparatus, baromaters, odometers, thermometers, and various other metera, The soiontifio corps had nine gallons of concontratod oxtract of rye, for the preserva- tion of specimons, aud Aloxandor Stophons’ Lafo of Horace Grecloy. The passongor-carriage, unlike’ tho thoe ordi- nory ambulances and coschos, seemed construct- e expressly for this servico, having no springs to be broken or cushions o get Iost, and it bhad this striking pecullarity : that, when one bocame weary. of jolting over many milos of rough, pathlesa prairio, without 8o much ag a strap or ‘board to support his aching bacl, he ocould got out and walk, * Partios who enjoy long walka cannot do bettor than to gocuro a similar carriago; but, as this articlo is writton in the intoreat of a railway~ corporation, it must be confined to statistics, es- timates, aud figures only ; consoquontly, many useful hints for future explorers must be ex- cluded, At Now Ulm wo mads the soquaintance of sey- eral'influontial people who entertainod us with A FINST-CLAES TOUNADO. Being located in an upper chamber of the hotel, I had a splandid view of the storm; but; whon the darkness incroased, and the torronta of rain changed from a vortical to a horizoutal direction, and the railway nufihwhmlu, church- oof, store, livery-atalle, and the skylight just ovor my bend, one after anothor, changed po- sition in the same way, I did the same,—uot that Iwas frightened, but I wanted to ses aman down in the strect. TOE NOUTE. Our route from New Ulm was along the northeast bank of the Minnesota River, for # distance of sbout 60 miles, to the mouth of tho Yellow Medicine. We orossed tho river at Hunk Creok on & primitive ferry-boat, commanded by two Freuchmon, about 75 years old, who constituted the ofticors, craw, and mo- tive-power of the concern, whioh must have been an old boat when thoy wero boys. They insistod that '‘zo boat vas not stolon from ‘s suilor named’ Nonh,” and that their mothers were perfectly willing to havo them play in tho wator. This Valloy of the Minnesots, although nar- row, contains much good land; and on_the southwostern bank of "tho stream is a bolt of g?gdh timbor, from a balf-mile to a mile in width, Outside of the valley, on ocach side ol the .rwvor, are the broad, _rich praivies © of Minuesots, now being 80 rapidly. * taken up " that an average of from fifty to soveuty-five immhi:ant toams passed through New Ulm during oach day of May and June,—sall intending to locate on the lands fle(ng \oponed up™ by the now railwaya. TUE INDIANS, s < Along the Minnesota, for 60 miles from New Ulm, numerous mementoes of the poor, abused Indiang remain, in the form of deserted farms, ruins of dwoellings, bones, bullet-marks, ofc. Thero is something very sad in the thought that theso mnoblo sous of the forest are fading away 80 rapidly that many of their children are oven now almost white, and that, in & few moro yoars, they, liko tho Aztocs, will be known only by the ruine left behind thom. The undeserved censure heaped upon the Indians by tho peoplo of New Ulm and vicinit; is moxplicable to ons who has hourd tho {ufi A -hiistory of tho Now Ulm *‘ unpleasantness.” | Tho Indians objeoted to the encroschments of the whites, who continually broke into their school-houses, disfigured the signa over their 1ehops, and taunted their wives with not having tthe latest stylos .of Dolly Vardens, until, nc Hength, forboarance ceased fo be a virtus, and {the Indiona served an injunotion to restrain tho {whitos from intorferenco, Thoy then organized o grand, half-fare picnic excursion, and visited tholr white neighbors, and, to show that thoy Lbiad no malioo in their haarts, lovingly took locks of bair from the heads of all white porsons they mot. That Govornmont might not acouee thom of nrtlnl.(a", thoy destroyed their own houses, hu'-h t for them by Government, as well aa all othors. There is renson . to hops that the montimonts of tho whites lave changed; for it is etated _that, a Swoux were to visit New Ulm, even the ladies would insist upon his remaining thore; and a . publio exhibition and tij hb—mfia porformance, lmn b{ thirty or forty muao mv:;fl‘1 at Man- ), & {0V years ago, was nizat a L) and enthusiastic Augt‘l’i’nncc.w 78 L ; Tho Indlans we ssw in Dakots were largs, “woll-built mon, conrteons, neighborly, and wil- Mi.n{ to reliove us of any superfluous artioles of clothing or provisions. “Their ladies scemed in- clined to copy tho fashions of thelr white sisters, by wearing Aflnflu ornaments in thoir ears, an -4 improving thoir complexion with paint; snd, when divested ot their shawls or hlfinketzl‘ &lulr' o our {ashionable ball-room 3 I DAKOTA. [X) a Tho Torrltu? _of Dakota contains "818,128 i nquare miles ; being nearly three times as largo ad both Illinols and Towa, and nosrly five timos ;aa large a8 all of Now England, The popula- ion in 1870 amounted to 14,181, including 1,200 WIndinus and 04 negroes. The land, If equally sdivided among the inhabitauts, would give a “littlo garden-patoh of over 14,000 acres to esoh man, woman, child, Indian, and nigger in the Territory; and the inhabitauts sroe not yet curned wifl: singlo milo of railwsy, to kil thelr blooded stock, or exact exorbitant transpor- tation-ratos from the honest yeomanry, The soll in many parta "is excellont, and the variations of the surface of tho country are so great that a person can solect * to suit his own tastos, from the low, lovel * bottom-lands” along the streams, the high, xolllnE’ prairio, or the broken, rooky. coteaus similar to the mouutain pasturc-flolds of Now Englaud, ‘We saw no rock in natural position, andno in- dications of valuable bullding-stone, except for rough, ordinary work. T'ho granite rooks cover- ing the ridges in many p?wnu aro, without doubt, ‘‘drift-bouldors," 'I'ho water of tho stroams Is gonerally good, algo thet of many of the lakea; but some of thiem aro strongly imprognated with alkall ; oth- ers aro full of suimalonlm, and oue wo passed was s0 full of small white worms that the water cannot be used for any domestls purposes, ex- copt boarding-Louso soup, any of the Inkes have no viaible inlet, except from Heavon; and we judged, from their sul- hurous odors, that thelr outlots were in exaotly ho opposite diroction, Somae of thesa lakes have u wild, strange bosuty, that would vender them famota in a oivillzod land, One, in par- tloular, few milos;south of tho forty-fth par- allel, and nenr tho Valley of tho Big Bloux River, callod by tho Indinns Iynskeskn, or Lnke of the Gathered Whito Rooks, 18 bordored with mnsses of light-colored rocks,—naome of thom soamingly placed in position by buman agoncy, with the most rofined and artistio tasto ns rogards goneral effoct. Tho fringe of troes around the lako, and tho wild background of rocky cotoany bo- yond, oll comblued to form a pleturo that would bave dolighted a - landsonpo palntor, 1t was 8 fit loenlity for somo wild romanco or INDIAN LEGEND} and whils dinner was boing prepared in can I sat down upon n pilo of *tho gathored white rocks,' and fancted that, in tho yonrs that have gono,~long bofore tho image of n pale-face wha over refloctod from tho clear, cool wators below me,—an Indian_malden—* Bquaukillio," tho dnughter of an old brave of the bloody Sioux— had eat thoro and grioved over tho cruol ordoer of hor fathor, that she should not again moet tho young chlofton she loved, until Lo hiad dia- tingnishod himeolf by bringing to hor father's to_n\Pcu tho acalpa of somoe of the encinios of their ribo, Resolutely tho young chlef departed, and confidently the maldon mwaited his roturn, Ho came’ nt last, and porsonally placed at hor father's toot the gathored ™ trophies,— not_ worthless, bhommi) scalps, but tho hind-quarter of ono of Do Soto's dogs, and four fine, fat skunks ! With joy and rido the father ombraced him and cried, *'Hoap ent! Dottor nor scalp! Takosquaw! Gitl" May not something liko thisbo true, and some of thoso pilos of *‘gnthered white rocks havo been placed thera by loving, dusky hands to lTiTlrlk ‘t‘l%c Inst, long rnutlng-pinco of * Bquau- o * ‘T'he Big Sioux river is navigablo for ducks of modium size, and, with suflicient dredgivg and an amplo supply of watar, could be made navi- gablo for stenmers and rafts of tho henvicat clasg. Were this dono, 8o that rafts could drift up the stream, tho domand for lumbor, aftor tho country became densely populatad, would oxcoed the supply from below. ‘Thero are soveral bonutifal SITEB FOR TOWNS in Dakots, and hore secins to be o rich field for na}umrfin}ng capitalists, like Jay Cooko snd othiora. Elevated lots, with good drainage, and suj rior in many othor respecta to those soid in Chi- cago st 8500 per front foot, can now be pur- chasod here for loss thon baif that sum; and, whon the busitioss of any ono of these towns oquais that of Chicago, it is ovident that tho en- hanced value of roanl-gstato must be enormous. Turchaso tho lots immediately, and orect the hufldlnfis. and pooplo will flock there to do busis noss, Tho bueiness will domand raflways ; and thus, in_tho most simple manner conceivable, oach, will work for the benofit of nll, and jim- monso fortunes can soon be realizod, The writer is now proparod to dispose of fow choice lots, to confidentinl, personal friends, st low figuros, All of Dakota onst of the Jamos River labors under the disadvantage of BOAROITY OF TIMDER, Tho little along the streams and oround the lalkes would not furnish fuel for a single year, if the country was all settled, It ie pousible that coal’ will be discoverod; peat oxists in’ soveral places; and, with n littlo attontion to the culti- vation of trees, enough could soon bo raised to supply tho wants of tho people. Tho rank fimwt .of vegotation, and the froquont evi- oncos of foartul prairio-fires, aro suflicient to account for the scarcity of treos. BUNSET IN DAXOTA,, Thero has been a vast rkunuuw of flno wrulnfi sbout “gunset at son,” “‘Italian Bunsots, “gunsot on the Alps,” oto; but I think that oue sunsot we witnossod on tho. Plains was oquual to auy of the imported. As the sun mank beyond the broad, green prairios, tho gorgaous huos of the clouds “wore reflocted so perfectly in the lako (Kampeska) at our &%, that it almost soemed that the henvens wore below as woll as above ua, ‘I'hore was a soft, droamy hazo in the atmos- phoro, like that of Now England's Indian sum- mer ; and the wild roses aud othor prairie-flow- ers filled the air with porfume as swoet ag tho orango-groves of lorida. Exclamntions of admiration ‘were bheard from evory ono, and then all wero silent. Onflnnry conversation would have scomed as improper there as in some grand old cathedral at tho hour of , vespers, I strolled nlong the marginof the luke, and thought of the unnumbored centurics during which those silaut woters muy have roflected, ns then, the crimson and golden clouds of evoning, all unonjoyed by mortal man ; for the roar an clang of civilization, tho shriek of the engino, tho mnsic of church-boll, or the laugh of scliool- child, had never yot found echo there. 1n tho deepening twilight X roturned to camp, noticing that our party had gothered in lit- tlo groups around the camp-fives; but thoro was not the usual sound of laughter, no rude jokes, no gymnastio éxorcives or target-practico, It was ovidont that onch and sil of thess storn-visagod mon had, for the timo bcinfi, yiolded to tho Influences of iho sublime sha beautiful display of Nature, and woro oithor drinking in the Inspiration of tho scene, or olko yielding to tho power that beanty, liko poetry or mnusie, exorts on tho heart, The) wero thinking of tho long ago, na Memory, wit] silont wings, waftod thom bacls to childhood- homes, whore, breathiug the perfumeof lilac and apple-blossoms,they ured to fancy that the gold- on sunset-clouds ware tho nbode of angols. A nearer approach rovealod tho fact thas thoy wero playing poker! 'DOMESTIO LIFE, Tho colority and easo with which oldcampaign- ovs prapare a mea! iy surprising to o novice. Oncor two of the party rido forward in ad- vanco, and, if practicable, seloct a plensant camp- ing-ground, noar wood and water, nud then dox- ignato the position for cach tenm as it arrives. No sooner do the wagons stop than one man starts for pall of water; anothor kindles the flro ; the music of the coffee-mill is heard in the Jand'; the sportsmen commence dressing their gamo ; and, almost by the time that the team- stera hove unharnessed and picketod their ani- mals, the tents aro up, the supper well under way, and the camp hos a very permanent and homie-like appearanco. And such & suppor |—fried ham, which must also be the substituto for butter; fried po- tatoos, ducks, plover or curlow broiled on slicks around the open fire ; corn-cako baked in n covored kettlo buried in tho livo coals and ashes, cold bread, crackors, cannod fruits, and coffee. Tho tablo is covorod with the groen- volvet cloth of Nature, sud adorned with wild flowers ; and tho table-waro is none of your chenp, fragile china and cut-gluss, but is good, honest iron sud Hn, manufaotured for sorvice as woll as display. And now, in Oriental style, you can recline sround tho ‘'board"™ and foas t oaso ; or, if you object to tho table-d'hote,” just soat yoursolf in” a wagon or on a gack of mule-feed, and be sorved in regal stylo by that bost of servants,—yourself, 4 You mever had suoh a game-suppor at Kinsley’'s or Delmonico's, 'lhis game was soloctod boforo it was shot, from hundrods of Tojooted birds that camo around snd scemed to bog the pleasure of being broilod for us. k Tt _you profer fish, throw you line, or take your Tevolver and _shool ono of thoso Y‘(kc 80 lazily catching shod-lies in tho lake at tho end of the table, It this food is too coarso for your sonpitlve stomach, we will give “you some beans baked in the = ground, go that they efther retain, or eleo racoive, a do- liolous flavor, not found in sny other baked ‘beans this sido of an eploure's heaven, 1f you are dflafioplio, and unablo to partako of any {mt tho lightest and most simple food, try snother plate of these beans, and that larga picklo, aud take ,f'm" fourth quarter-section of Lomcnko. covered with broiled salt pork, *Hurt you?” No! Youcan now digest s slico of grindstone, soasoned with sulphuric acid. Another ou of colloe,~its dalicionn sroms uniujured by milk.; and then sprend your water-proof on the grass, tfimw our foet out {owards the fire, loan bacl againal tho oracker-barrel, light your cigar, aud make ‘yeursolr erfootly at homo in the vory best hotel in all Dakota. 1t you wish to glanco at the evening paper, it in oniy 160 miles mcross tho country to a nows- room. Bus you feel no espeocialinterost in tho duily nows of the outsido world. You tind much rathior know how those boans were cooked thau got. tha lntest roport from the Ganoya Confor- ence, Woll, parboil tho boans untid thoy aro so soft that you can easily crush onobetweoon your fingors, boufi: tho water twice:during this rocesy, and, whilo it Is being done,dig a hale n the ground, and build a fire in it, “When the “Doan-bole” gots fillod with & masa of*live coals, ut tho alt pork in with the beans, cover the {:ema with an iron-1id, and bury it in the fire, caveriug all with earth, Lot it romein all night, or oven longor If conveniont, If the beans are gonuine, the kettle will not explode! Ploase pasn the beans this way, againl MARING A NIGHT OF IT. Many persons cannot sloop woll on a hard bod; some ure so delicate thut thoy must sproad (wo Dlankets on the ground to makea couch lnxurions enough for {heir fastidious tastes ; but we found, on one acoasion at loast, that the ground alone was t00 soft forour comfart ; 80 we arase and amusod ourselvos by standing:in the water and trying to keep our tent from baing blown awayin the storm, While engaged ‘In‘this rooreation, s flash of lightning revealed” a _bare, fright- ened, disconsolato-looking head = thrust through an ox\unln(sln tho teut; and, toiho Onp- tain'a quostion, *Whnt {n II—amlot aro you try- ing to got in horo for?” omme tho mnswer: ““Want to got eometohere! Our tont and all of tho othera aro Llown ovor, and I guoss that ovon some of tho d—d mules are blowsy away.” "The Dgkotn thunder has n vory vindictivo orash aud growl, and the winds have & froo- and-cnsy, dovil-may-caro whistlo, that eliows tho laok of education and good-breeding, It boing truo that all of tho other touts were blown down, wo soon had twonty mon around ours to hold it in positlon. Whoy were very nolghborly, and, being completely dronched, did not care whethor thoy woto outride or inside of tho tent ; but they did not want our tent in- jured, beenuso tog wors in it, and—uwe liad all of the enake-bito autldoto, The lightning, 2although foartully vivid and almost continual; did not afford a good light for » drossing-room; consoquently, Eomo (,:r the party, who disrobed when they “*‘rotired.” werg obliged to clotho_thomsolvos with ocurses and wot blankots, and await daylight. Yortunately, overy pair of pantaloons was found in tho morning and mud, and & fow hours of sunsline rostored tho camp to good ordor. YES| THE MOBQUITOES did troubls us some 3 but I was all right, for n frioud had furnishod mo with soma sort of com- pound of ofl of tar, ponnyroyal, eamphor, &c., to xub ovor my faco and 'hands, and the por- fume (?) drove all of tho mosquitoes—and my room-mates—out of the tont, ‘The right thing to do is tomako a * smudge,” or emotherod fire, atthe ontranco of tho tont, and fan the smoke intothe tont untilthe atmos- phbere is suffocating, The mosquitoes, armed with Babcock-extinguishers, rush in toascortam tho cause of the emoke, and you quiotly dodge out and scratch yoursolf by tho camp-fire. Dakots mosquitoes are yellow, and will make you the samo. I think thoy aro a cross botweon the common mosquito and ~the wasp. Although very billious, they soom to enjoy good health, arons full of enorgy and business ns & Chl- cago grain-speculator. GANE, Dueks, géoso, plover, sitrlaw,&o., wora plenty, and for a time thoir nests and "yotlug were ol jects of intercst, Band-hill cranes, looking liko Cocknoy eportsmon, gazod atus ag wo passed ond occasionally a great whito polican, with his amo-bag always in rendiness, would be seon shing on his own hook ; but we naw no prairio- chickena or quails, and, acon after loaving civile ization, we missed our little fricnds, tho wrena and robins: _Thoro was no cat for the wron to scold and call bad vames, and no apple-tree or woll-sweop for the robbin; and go thoy, like our Jowa Colonel, desorted the oxpodition, Tob-o-link was on_hand wherever wa went, and a8 boisterous and full of fun aud jokes as though a dozen school-children were presont, filling thelr little dinner-baskets with swoot- flag-root or strawberrioa. Buffalo-bones wero plonty: but wo saw no liva buffalo, elk, or deer, and it was useless to search for them, na we had forgotten to take along our game-bags, Autolope wore plenty ; but, as our anty made quitoa formidablesppearance,and keptout scouts by day and pickets by nuihb, the antelope and jaok-rabbits mndo no attack onus; fn faot, wo venturad to take tho ‘offensive in soveral in- stances; snd, as our battle with . THE JACK-BADDITE was the most mmgiuhmry and decisive of any, & ‘briof report of it may bo of intorest, Our seouts reported tho enomy in forco, strongly intrenchod bolind o bunch of buffalo-grass, The lino of battle was formed with the six-mulo toam in the centro, tho supply- \wagona on tho right, the ambulance on the left, nn& the cools and’ commandor in resorvo a% the roar. The mounted infantry were then ordered to make a detour around the hill, and attack tho loft flauk just bohind the second rib, while tho mule-team-led the oharge In front. Firmly snd steadily the columns advanced on » 30 curve up a 52,80 grado,~—the bright sunlight of the bosutiful June morning gleaming on the bomn-pots and coffae-kottlos gracefully swinging from _the wagon-bows 88 wWe 8wept onward over tho broad green praitio. Thon came the sharp roport of tho muskets, mivgled with the fearful braying of the mulos, and, in loss timo than it took Schurz or Sumnor to **make up their minds,” the enemy was in full rotroat, and the fleld was in the hands of the United States Governmont. Tho pursult, as witnessed through our field-glassos and tin-cups, was var{ exoiting,—the rabbit beiug aliead at least hulf the timo. Shot alter shot was fired without offect ; but at lnn[gth Joo got in posi- tion, and, with one fearful dischargo of his No. 9 boot-heol, ended the conflict. Antelopes and nck-rabbits are by no means as forocious and loodthiraty as 18 gonerally supposed. THE COTEAUS--SBCLENTIFIO, Tho cotoans, or ridges, of Drkots, are & po- culinr institution,—~rising in places to an eleva- tion ot 2,000 foet above the lovel of tho sos,— rough, ‘"cfxuh“‘ broken hills,—somo of thom coverod with verdure; others barron piles of sand aud gravei, destituto of vegotation, except whore the Indian’s fayorite cactus grows ; and othors, strangest of all, almoat litarally covered for milos with bouldors'from tho sizo of & man's head to rocks weighing soveral tons. The sharp angles,of the rocks have boen worn away by water or time, and, as there is no solid ledfin of similar formation in that rogion, it is evident that these rocks sre farsigners; but ghom? did they come from, and how did-they got oro : 3 Nonh never usod sud discharged any snch amount of ballast; and tho Titan Brothers & Co. nover foolod around with stones like theao, to injure Saturn or his ring, or holp ihs misera-" ble fathor. Goologists may toll us that theso rock-covered ridgos mark as plainly ns *blazed " trocs the course of glaciors or icobergs ; and, to subatantiato tho truth of their theory of **periods," ** climatic changes,” oto., thoy will refor us to tho Dakota and Nebraska ** Bad Lands,"—those wonderful graveyards of now oxtiuct species of tropical animals and plants. Theso wise mon olaim that & complete fauna, comprising some forty specles of animals, once existed ond becamo ox- tinct; and that on entirely new outfit of animals succeeded them, and, after a fow hundred thousand yoars, more orless, they also petered out, leaving nothing but a fow old foesils stuck in the mud and rooks, to tellus what and what thoy wore. Aud now wo have tho third course of fauna on tho tablo gince the creation, CGoology aleo demonstratos that what must onco have beon the bed of a vast ocean, is now bigh land; but it doos not foll us whore thoss boulders of the coteaus came from, and we_must await tho rosult of the No- vombor elections before tho quostion can be answered. Much of the western portion of Dakota has never yet beon oxplored by any white man who hos lived to return; but ‘cnough has beon ex- amined to show thn{, when the vast Territor becomos developed and bronght into communi- cation with the markets of the world, by means of railways, it can support an immenso popula- tion, and oventually becomo ono of tho most im- portant States of the Union. As has been inti- mated in this article, it contains someof the most wonderful and interesting curiokities and atudics for the scientific that can be found in the coun- try ; and, when the construotion of railways and the destruction of the Indians render these fiolda for resoarch easily acceasiblo, we may be enabled to rend, as from an open book, much of the history of this globo which i at present mera conjecture or unsupported. theory. F. V. Haydon, the United States Geologiat, in his report to Government for 1870, mentions the discovery, near the sonthwestorn baso of the Black Hilts, of the well-presorved romains of now extinct spocies of the elephant, rhinoce- ros, hippopotamus, camel, and numerous othor animals roquiring ~for their exist- enca & couutry and climate entirely different from this at tho presont time. But it Ia ovidont that these strange animals of the unknown past lived and died here, for many of thoir skoletons ara found in their natoral anmun, unworn by water, and almost uninjured by time, Leaving the coteaus northeast of Fort Wads- worth, wo descended 536 feet, ns monsured with ‘baromoter, in going loss than a mile and » balf, aad camo down on to a vast plain in tho valloy of tho Red River of tho North. The range of "co- teaus, as Been from this plaiu, resembled an enormous railway-ombankment; and wa journoyed sway from It hour after hour without Besming to incrensgo the distance, oxcopt that the timbor-fringod cross-ravines on the sido of the range At length looked like dmi shadows of clouds on the emooth, regular side of an om- bankment 500 foot high, On tho plainy botwoon Forts Wadsworth and Aborcrombie we met . THE MAIL~OARRIER, ‘who, summer and winter, passos over that deso- lato, uninhabitod ronte of 70 miles betweon the two posta, Guidod across the seomingly-ondloss plain by poles sot within sight of each other in mouuds of sods, his only resting-place on the youto, in wintor, 16 o rudo shanty in a wild ravino botweon two lakes in the cotoaus, nosr: the ruins of an old stockade, This carrior was not a *‘common carrier,” but a full-blooded India, in goldior's dress, armod with tho latost: improved breoch-londing cnrbine, Lwo rovolvors, aud a knife in his bolt, and mounted on a splon~ did Indian_pouy, Ho haltod for a moment to answer . ¢ho questions of Joo, and thon, like tho Flyiug Dutchmon, rushed forward on his lonely journoy. Ife was & moro intercsting -1 sight tor us than stage-coach or railway-train, heoanse we had nover goen & poat-rider beforo, oxcopt on postage-stamps, Joo way acquainte with him whon both wore employed by Gov- ornmont as sconts in the army, and gave o good account of his skill and daring, Jo1 may havo hoon nlli;hll projudicod in his favor on “account of natlonality ; but hluo?lnlon of In- dinns 1n gonoral was ns follown: * Now, I tolo you somo tings nbont Iudinu. My fador woa somo Frenchman, and my moder wan fuli-blooded Sioux, so I helf Indian, I live with the Indian oronnd Lnke Traverse_all the timo I was o boy, and 1 know ali aboat Indinn, Now, whon soma Indlan come and tolo you somo tings, and say hio in n fact and all just ‘ns truo, by Gar! don'f you trus' him!" B Joo's accounts of somo of kis adyentures and exploits wore very lnturosunf and would muko bottor rondiug (han tho mifitary lifo of Gen. Banks 3 ond, a8 wo pnssod over many of the old bntllmholus fu Minnesots, and snw the bullot- minrks on the troos and fortifieations, wo decided that {t was plonsantor to take Joo's nccount than to_have boon oyo-witnossos of tho confliots, Ho showed us the ravine up which tho Indiang swarmod to fight tho battle of * Birch Cooly ;" the troo an Indian of m:]nls!livo mind went \3, and dotwn head first ; and tho place whero ono darin; officer lcept flat on his baclibotwoon tio barrelsof pork, océaslonally discharging hia rovolvor inta tho air, and shouting to his soldiors, *Courage, Loya! Give it to tho red dovils!" ote., oto. Aftor wandorlog for mnnfi dnys without sooln, s whito porson, or dwol lnf oxcopt at Fori Wadaworth, whero wo found botl of tho bes! uality, wo ono fternoon sighted, through our auld-g 808, A shingle roof ! 1t was many miles away, and tho trall acroes thio low, lovol plain was covored with mud snd water ; but thore was 8 shinglaroof in sl{:ht 1 Thomules took adrinkfrom the Wild Rico River, and we took a drink from-—— noarthere ; and then all pushed enrgorly forward. The shinglo-roof was only o shanty, but to ua 1t wna b8 bopatiful a8 tho domo of the Capitol; and soon othor shinglo-roofs wera in elght I ant away on our right, across the Red River of the North, was BRECKINRIDOE. In the boginning of our trip, we had sgen the motal roofs Aucceded by shlngfos, thon bonrds, then thatch, then sods, sand at last a holo in tho hill-side, whera the fastidious ploncor crawlod in° like 8 woodehuck or gophor ; and now, near the end of our journoy, it was on‘{)n step from the unin. Labited plain to all of tho comforts of civilizo- tlon under shingle-roofs, - Wa croenad the Iied Rivor of the North on the Governmont forry ; waded up through tho mud to tho botol ; found a nowspaper, and entisflod ourselves that tho country had not entirely gong toruln during our absonce ; oxaminod a train of thoso cnrious Red River one-ox carts ; and jusl hero, fairly within the limitsof civilization, we discovercd o oroaturo FAB MORE WONDERFUL AND INTERESTING than snything wo had scon in all of our wild ‘wanderings. It was about tho sizo of a full-grown ante- lopo ; but our ornithologist pronounced it o igantio specimen of the wingloss bird-of-Para ise. ¢ stood like s Numidian crane (Anfllrn?idul virgo), sustaining its entiro weight on Its_front .ué‘ ronr toes, or claws, and gracefully leaned forward liko o bittern (Arden” stollaris) fishing for suckers. A protuberance on its back ro- wombled that of & Guinea-hen (Numida molen- gris) ; its plumago was varied and Lrilliaut ac tho rainbow, and its besutiful crosted hond was surmounted with & tuft of foathera like that of the blue-jay. 3 Wuh. fusytrouu, languishing eyes, like tho gozollo's, it gazed "at us 88 wo passed, and then disappesred in & thickeb of pure white prairio-roses. i 200 {neisted, and yot insists, that it was ‘* just noting bnlt a young fomalo woman,” Porhaps ha was right Tho Tndians of Dakots will not voto for Grant. All of which ia respoofully submitted. pebeloh b o THE PANIC. *Twas enaclass £right when a house wont down That our country’s sorrow had brought renown ; For who bad leard of the houso of Gook ¥l {t gat ita name in our country's book T Yot wo munt admlt 'twas sudden shock, Though it csme of tha wavo and nol o Fock, ut, had ita timbers been sound ant "Twauld have laughod st thoshock and driven through, When a towering osk, with its branches wido, CGomes crashing down on tho mountain’a side, When no storm raves, and the alr {8 still, And {ho pulso of Natura without a thrill, "Tig piain that tho treo that aloft 11d soaT ‘Was dead nt the Lieart with a rotten core, And that ito atrength had beon frittored awsy, ‘Aud it fell from ofTeot of slow decay ¢ ‘And nouo would think from tho wooda to fiee, Bocause of tho fall of this rotton ireo. Yot autch was tho fall of tho houso of Cooko. Witen all was atill, and & poaceful look G'erspread tho whiolo Anancial world, In o dosp abyss this houso was hurled. With a crodit great, and foata at reat, " gafo to neauma that it did ita best To keop nflaat, and, to gain that eud, Spared not itself nor yot ite friend, Iut usod all funds it could get in Linnd o bring {ta rotten craft to Jand. Aud ita doaporate stato must bo leatly shown Wicn, with all it could borrow, and all ita own, Tt parted in two st so slight a strain, ‘And sunk from sight on & peaccful main. And juat sa a slip, 04 sho sinks below, From her vanishing deck will a circlo throw Of littlo waves o'or the waters wide, That scon are loat In tho ocean's tide, 8o did tl!a housc, as it went from sighf Bpread oer tho Blroet, on that Fridey night, A cireliug ripplo, that spread aroun Unil the country markod its bound. Dut, as it came, by o strange mischance, Not ahteady look, but o Lty glaued, ‘Was givon ihe ripple, and then the ery ¢ #oTixa tidal-wazel Up, quick, or die i Like an army startlod at'doad of night By s call to arms, when the want of light Pormita not the telling of frieud from foe, ‘And the Aight goes on til tho life-blond flow, ‘And the morning sliows, by the cotning Hght, That tis frlend with friend engaged In fight. And thoy drop their arms, but tho deed 1§ dono,— O'or the graves of frionds shines tha sotiing suz. And thus with us al] "Twas a 8ad mistake And a ensoless thing such o course o take; 1n s mad, wild Tush, there ato Somo must fal), ‘And the strong witl tho weak will go to the wall. "Twas aWonsolcen (hing anda needless acare ; But dire distrust was afloat on. tho air J. F. Cranx, e S Coffoe-Leaf Ten. The people of the Eastorn Archipolago have no belief in water. They eay 1t will not quench a man's thirst, nor give renowed vigor to tired pinews, Tes is not bittor onough for their pal ato, and for coffoo—tho benightod European is welcome to every berry. Tho only non-ntoxi- cating” drink the Sumatran does bolieve in ir tho coffeo-leat tes, and his faith is founded oo exporionce. Givo him a little boilod rice and plenty of coffec-lonf tea, andho can work for woeka together in the rica-felds up to his knees in mud, scorched by & burning sun, or drenched with tropioal _ down-pours. ~Hoeat, cold, and wot are alike to him, for thoy work him no barm, @#l ho ascribes his immu- pity entirely tp the virtuos of his favorite boverago. When grown for its berries, tho coffeo-plant oan only bo cultivated successfully in particular soils and particular eituations; but, whon it 18 only required to y1eld & good crop of Jonves, it oan be profitably grown wherever the goil ia tolorably fertile, Afr. Motley, traveling up the Chanaku River, saw coffea-traes growiug evorywhoro noar the "houscs, and in overy case noticed that the berries lay decsying on the ground as thongh not worth consideration, He was impelled to tasto the coffec-leaf tea, which emolt excoedingly like srmm ton, and found if 80 ploasant to grmk, and 8o rofreshing aftor s hard day in the sun, that he no longer wondered ot the excessive fondness the Bumatrans die- Iny for what is truly their national boverage. glr. Ward, who pnssed twenty years in Pa dang, is loud in its praiscs. Ho drank it morn- ing and evoning, and found it invaluable, giving jmmodiate relief to hungor and fntigne, an clearing tho brain of its cobwebs, The Su- matrans hold that the best liquor is obtained from loaves shod l&{ the plants ; but their usuul mothod of proceeding s to take off the onds of tho branches and suckers, and break thom up into twelvo and fifteen-inch lougths, Thoso ara fixed gide by atde in a split bamboo, 8o that tho leaves all appear on one side, and the stalks on the othor, by which moans cqnnlu{ of roasting is lnnurud, tho loaves boing roastod togothor, and the atalks together. After tying up tho bamboo, tho truss of loaves and stalks is held over a smokeless firo, and knyt moving about, s0 28 to roast without s{ngoing it. Tho stalks aro considerod quito as valuable ns the loaves, and whou tho operation is completed, leaves and stalks aro rubbed betweon tho hands into a oconrsa powder, and thon thoy are ready for uee, Bomo samples of coffeo-leaf ton wore shown at tho first Great Exhibition, and were favorably roported upon by tos-tasters and analytical chemists, the latter pronouncivg it to contain all the chiarnotoristics of the coffee-hean, while sich fu theine, Tho infusion ig of a doop-brown colar, and uxtrnmnl{ fragraut, its odor—liko ity {aste—resembling that of u mixture of toa and coftce, Dr. Stonhouse says: * The infusion of tho coffeo-leaf hasa much gronter rexoim- Dlance to that of ten than to a docoction of the coffec-buan, #o that, should tho coffoo-loaf over oome into goneral uye in Buropesn countries, it will bo xn&mr a8 o substituto for tea than for coffee, 1f the lonves woro only driod at & somo- what lower and bettor-rogulated temporaturo, 1 lave litilo doubt that thoy would ylold an sgrooable boversge."—Chamber's Journal,