Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1873, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: STjNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1873. 58 »}J‘*ka et ! ARKANSAS. Oponing of tho Cairo & Fulton Rail- Points on the Desperado State. Reminiscenoes of Robert W, Johnson, The Duello in the Southwest. un Correspondent, Wastixazow, Oct, 20, 1673, Tust at the brink of the panic, a lino camo by tolograph, saying that tho Cafro & Falton Rall- road, of Arkanses, was open to TFullon, and would be pushed at once over into Texas. is the consummation of an old entorpriso, dovis- €d 33 long ago as 1859, when 3,810 nores per mile wore granted by Congrensto build a rallroad dingonally nordks Arkansns, In 1866 by the in- flucnce of United Btntos Benator B. H. Rice,— whouo rolatives and kinomen were meantime ne- goilating to eoll this franchiso to Allen and Marquand for $750,000,—the land-grant was con- tinued, sud enlarged so‘as to embraco 6,400 aeres per milo, or, in all, about 2,000,000 acros, Allon IS'n drlving St Touls man ; Marquaud s au old stock and gold broker of Now York Olty. Tho comblnation set to work af onco, and but expoditionsly, Iron road morozs tho Arkanans politicians who hoped to rob thom furthes by refusing to acoept n State subaidy of §10,000 n milo. Tho comploted line cannot have cost less than from $15,000,000 to 20,000,000, To raiso this money, & firat mortgage was issued covoring everything in the possession of the Compang, including lands. Tho roported dobt of the rond, cightoon moutha ago, was: Stoclk, 612,000,000 Londs, $3,000,000. Tho courss of tho rond is g follows: milos long within tho, Stato of Arkansas. Tho .inain line stnrts at 8t. Louls aud ruus to Bis. mazek, 75 milos, whore one bianch ruus off to Delmont, tho sent of Gon. Grant's battlo in 1861, whicl: {8 120 miles from Bismarok ; tho main lino continucs on from Bismarck, 90 miles, to Poplar Blufis, Mo., on {ho 8t. Yrancls River, noarly at the Arkaueas lino ; hero a branch was projected to run o Ceiro, distant not moro. than 60 miles, St. Loals is not forward in giving a Fram Paplar Blaft to Little Tock is 180 milca, the road passing botween tho Cacho and White Rivors, touching no eettto- ment of tho niinutest note, unless it bo to graze Jackgonport. The Arkansas Rivor is crossed by o bridge, onco swept away, and the road then “procceda to Arkadelphis, 63 milos soutlyof Little Reck, end 60 on to Falton, the terminys, which iy qistant from Bt. Louis short of 500 milos. Tho timo is ns follows: Chicago to St. Louis, 12 Lowss; 8t Louls to Bismarck, 4 hours; thonce to Topler BInfT, 0; thenca to Littlo Rok, 12; 12, Total, Chicago to Litt) Rock, 87 houra; to Fulton, on Red River, 50 launchod ~an Stato, avolding tho swileh to Chicago. thonco to Fuliox PROOIECT OF THE ROAD, The franchise of this road, s I have seld, cost $730,000, which fum waa divided amonget the Ttico brothers, Aleck McDonald, Hodges, snd other able-bodied political operators, The build- iug of it, slthough cesentially o renl-estato Bpeo~ ulntion, hrs boon pushed wilh great Intropidity, and it is closod up before the railway nnd finan- cial panic Las come. - o me it appenls chiofl tho ground that it will open to missionar; and lauman intercourso & Commonwoalt] “Thio beasts that roam over {he plain 3y form with indifforenco see ; are fo unacquainted with man, eir tawences 13 ehocking to me, People can now gob a sight of Jack McCluve, tho Chiof Justice, public printer, and_ editor of the carpet-baggors’ oficial organ of this Btato, lnys poker with his associato Unfustices, and loitors away his oven- ings in tho sample-room. I ulways talto n friend- interost in any community 1 0 not despair of eaving this Chiof Justico like & brand from tho burning, nor of.rominding Arkaneas that civilization is watch- ing it. I wani my visit thore to bo an era in the history of tho'State, moro notable in benefaction than the visits of Deioto, Notrobo, Nuttall, TFeatheratonbaugh, Sam Bland_Watie, Al 1y and admonitor visit, and_honco ) gton, La Hontain, Fent Noland, or Poweil Clayton, 'Thers is mora joy in Heavon ovor one Comnionwoalth saved 1com tho Bowic-knife than over ninoty-and-nino sovereigutics which were alwava decout. OTIER ARKANSAS ENTERPRISES. Tho Littlo Roclk & Fort Bmith Road is now completed to Clarksville, over 100 milos ; the Momphis & Littlo Rock Itailvay hus now boen vepatred as much as possible for the 134 milos of its course, 60 that n man walking slow will not leep abiend of tho Jocomotive, Forty-oight miles of ‘the Arkaugas Contral aro opon west of Iolena. Tha carpot-bagy tle to do with all this,.an tostimonials from this lo vidualy can now rheumatisms wit! ors Liavo had very lit- must not claim any Aflicted indi~ 0 to tho Hot Bprings for their out inconvenienco, ent currency at Little Rock is motallio cart- 0, twenty to thopound and the dollar. Bowie-knifo rates at ono dollar, or four drinks ; o horso-pistol and a Halford bond count threo chipe. Aud all this suggests to mo to print somo of my lnto valuable lietorical collections upon tho subject of Arkansns ¢ Theo following conversation is given in the spirit, and ns neaily as possible in the words, of the Ilon, Robert Johnaon, ex-Senator of Arkan- been committed to paper within ix hours of the time whon he discoursed it to ¢ Arkenens," eald tho ex-Senator, * has boen both ag o its uniiral and physieal capact oth as to its uatural and sical eapacity, an a4 to the character of it o e of emigration which uiot thoro always struck mo o8 surchargod with genfus. _Virginia, Kontucky, Carolina sont in their stronns, and thore was #0 much individuslit; oud talent in tho Stato that the violonce whic exaggorated may have B the nomes of carly politicians of Arkansas, will seo that thoy ropresent familios of tho high- ot wocial consequonce in thoir respective Statos, sud many of our public men had led strong careers boforo thoy cnme smongst us, Dueling was rifo at that time ull over the Westorn coun- for we hiad fought soveral Indian wars, in h yolunteors hind learned Indian taotics, and the Code of Honor was an ever presont law-book, Arkansas Post was tho first Capital of the Torri- tory, and thero o numbor of ducls happoned, nok coarser in their origin than elsewhoro, but, by somo fatality, in noarly overy one of our early ducls, ono man or the other was killed, tho Blate, by a ehesr ruu of ill-luck, got to_bo abused by peoplo at a distance,who didn's under- stand tho situation ns it was, # My father, Boujamin Johnson, of Kentucky, was a brothor of Col. Richard he was made tha contral Judge of tho Buperior Court ; the othor two Judges wora SCOTT AND BELDEN, both Virginians and quite difforont mon. " Judge Beott wes & rathor small, ctive, tan- talizing man; whilo Judgo Selden was a sonsi- tivo man, more amiablo about but k0 touchy that it delighted ¥ incompatible, and my fathor, sitting botwoon them, to compel them to stop Lt, howover, never would give up; and finall e provoked Belden, so that & challange passed, and they went out of tho Court-Ilouse with their soconds, and Judge Solden was shot dead. *¢"Thig duel mado a good deal of talk through- out tho Btato aud in o4 it was conducted according to tho no groat injury to Judgo Beott until he' killed “* Woll do I romembor going to _school when I was & boy thoro, one morning, and I saw Androw companion of mine, and Lo was weoplng bitlerly, T askod him what the ‘Ol ' gnid e, * my mothoris My father hos Ikillod anothor man, and it hns distressod her to the heart,' ‘UTUE DEATIE OF HOOAN happoned in this way: o wa & largo and who woutd weiglh 250 pounds, and lils couraga was well known throughout our community. Scolt sud ho woro drinking to- Littlo Rool,—In regular drinking-placo, M. Johnson, aud oir quarroling. intant newapa) Beolt's son, who was & wmatter might bo, powerful mau, & grocory at Beott hind & ono of theso light walking-aticks reed, porhiaps,—with a keon stool Tho malovolont apirit of Androw Soott was stir- ring up Hogan while they drank, Hogan wns & Domoorat of tho schiool of Hevier, whilo Boott wan & Fodoraliast. At Inst Hogan was vary much stirrad np and sbarp worda passod, and it was rolntod that 1logan mado s movemont of some Kind, sithor to strike Boott or producs a oapon, At any rato, Judgo Scott drow the stool from tho sword-cano, and, with all the forco of his right arm, drovo that thing threo times through Ifo- gon'd broast, so thal it wenb in and onmo out ab tho bnolk, IHogan begnn to vomit gront olots of blood, and then Le foll forward dond in tho grooory. I am protty sure that the peoplo believed that lloginn moant to do somo Violones to Baott, or tho Intter would havo beon oxocuted. Ho was acquitted, howover, on’ tho rround of tho dlsparity in their sizes and_tho bittornoss of politlosl” feoling. Androw oot liad to loave tho Bonch, however, for that Inst act, but Lo lived on & groat many years, aud dlod only o short timo boforo the far of tho Ro- bolfton, . ¢ Androw Beott biad a brothor, " GEORGE BCOTT, who ws3 a desperato man and a good doal dls- nllmtcd but bo was vory smart, o had o fight with old Bill Montgorors, wlich pssos i dos- poration anything in Arkansas history, - “ Bill Montgomery lived just above the month of White River, and Fifl"’ iho nemo to Mont- gomery's Point. Ho had a tavein “thoro, nbout Which '» good many hard things woro sid. Bomo snid that it was nnmbl(ng-dun, and othors that countorfeitors sought rofuge therd. 1lo wnsa genoroun old follow, howeyer, and_was bound to Command fn politlos, and in hiapartof the country ho was very usoful. Ho gonerally came to Little Rock whilo the Logislature was sitting, and thoro, a8 at homo, ho would help any poor chap out with a new stoke., Onco, at Little Tiock, Montgomory, Goorgo Beott, and sovaral other porsons, of thom intouso lovers of pu'mr, resolved to play o long gamo, Thoy took & room the floor of whioh was covered with [brlok, I think that it wns nomowhnt romote from other houncs. ‘Thoro they had Dlouty of liquor and un eormons quantity of money, all boing flush, and drinking o4 thoy played, with tho monoy atacked up around thom ; nnd they kept up tho game the ‘whole ovening and far past miduight, often quar- reling up to the vergs of a difioulty. * Along toward morning, overybody foll over, porfoctly wilted out. with the long_ siogo, oxcopt Georgo Beott and Bill Montgomory. Thoy con- tinued Cng)h{, aud the liquor waa working on ic; thom, and they quarrcled more and more, until’ ot Ingt tho lie pnssed. And then, throwing over tho tablo, theso two 'mon, without spectators, nttacked oach othior, Montgomery was unarmed, or atany rate, ho didn't use his woapons, snd, as thoy cloged in tho scufllo, Goorgo Bootl poked again and ngain with bia knifo, and_he stabbod dont- gomory,—I think it was soventoen times, Mont- Romery was blood all ovor, running at the arms and from the side of the brenst, but Lo fought on, and at Inat got Goorgo Beott down on tho bricka with his bolly to tho ground. Then, while tho blood stronmod across his sight ao that hie could Boarcely 800, ho rallicd sl his lnl]lufi onm‘},-inu,‘ and, taking Scott by the cars with bot ‘hands, ho beat his faco upon the bricks until the fontures wore all gone, and then extinustod with lose of blood, Bill Muntgomnr!v’ rolled off senso- less, Thoir Arionds found them boih, just a8 thoy lay, and nobody thought that eithor could live. ' Thoy took Bill Montgomery up to a Eolluw women's houso, whom ho had owned, T oliove, and had set free on condition that sho should board bim whenovor ho camo to Liltle Tock. Ho lay thero esvoral months, but, Btrango a8 it soomed, gob well again, aud was a Somiliar personngo i our politica: Goorge Scott was {akon to tho honse of o relative, on tho north sido of tho Arkansas River ; lie was tem- porarily blind, and for sovoral weeks mothing was dono with him but to poultico his_faco. Ile recoverad, too, and camo nmong us agau, look- ‘gl hardly tho worso for wear thau bofore the ight. “oLD JomX rore, of our State, was a chivalrous man. Ho thonght ha Lind influence and station enough tomake him victoriously United Btates Sonator, but Mr, Sovior boot him. The Soviors, you lkmov, had not boen vory friondly to Gou, Jackson, for Qov. Sevier, unclo of our Sonator, had beon a political competitor of Jackeon in 'Fennecssco. ovier's fathor was a naval ofiicor. Gov. Pope's Doplow, Tontaino Pope, was o high-mottled, chivalric young man, who camo ont to Arkausng to soo Lis uncle. Mr. Noland, oditor of a paper at Batoavillo, and o humorief ot large, gob to uristing the Popes on tho woll-known parsi= mony of tho Governor's wife. In ono of his ° comio offusions, he dosoribed her Iuitting atockings, ' and ho got his lnugh, - but Fontalno challonged im. Noland killed him. Nolaud uever seomed to fool ut enso after that duol, for it wasn't right, Ho waga elim, dyapoptic 'kind of & man, wills plonty of talent, and be and Albort Pile used to write very brilliunt papors to Porler's Spirt of tho Times. ¢ In ono of your papors I see S0LON DORLAND roferrod to as a duclist, Ho wan never reputed to bo vory game amongst us, IIo was a cold, calculating, ambitions man, and the only fight I over kuow him to mako was with Borden, cditor of tho Whig papor at Little Rock: Tho fought at ten pncea, and he shot Borden throug] tho breast so that, the bull camo ont without ponotrating tho diapbragm. It mado Bor- den migaty siok, and ho thought it was all over with him for n while. Dordand’s wife was ono of tho swootest women in our Stato. Gov. Sovior, wishing an editor to kcoP tho party to- othor against tho dofoction with which it was. reatencd by old Mr. Woodruff and otlors, secured Borland, whom ho brought up from Memphis, I gavehim 500, which was all T had, to start his paper, and I had to'go on credit mysolf, Ho was treated in tho kindest maunor Dy Sovior's friouds ; and, olthough it looked to bo all ovor with us in 1848, wo got out Thomas 8. Drow a8 tho rogular candidate iu time to boat tho whole coalition, After his olection against such odds, Drew was sot up to bollove that it waa his vast popularity which bad carried him through, and be turned {n a perfidions way upon Gov. Bevier, and made a new conlition with Woodrufl, oditor of tho Gazlle, and callod on tho Whigs to help him, Borland coneonted to boa party to this conspiracy, and roceivad his wagea in an election to tho Sonata. Ho didn't sorvo out his torm, but, apprehonsive that he would not ba re-clectod, Lio rosigned be- forg its conclusion, and went to Contral America a8 Minister, ‘That defeat of Goy. BEVIER began in porfidy snd onded in tragedy. Sovior was overwhelmed with debt, and the attentions ‘whioch he was enablod to command whilo in tho Sonate worono longer tondered him after his political overthrow. 1o saw that e was ruined, and immediately he fook a stenmboat and went to Now Orlonne. Returning, Lo got off at a Innding on tho Missiseippl River, vory slck; indoed, 1 mny oxpress it as the broaking of his hoart. o was brought to my fother's honso, my father bolng his fathor-ins 1aw, and thero ho just pined away and finished Lis cargor. Ho had boon out to Moxico with Judgo Clifford, of Maino, now on tho Supremo Benceh, to conciude a treaty, and, whilo hio was ono, tho elomonts of this coalltion woro com- iued. TENRY W. CONWAY, from tradition, must hayo Loon ona of the moat graolous, graceful, and handsome mon who ever camo to our Blate. Thoro hangs ou my wall a Elnlm‘u of William Rector, whom Albert Prko 08 colobrated aw tlie Old Arkansss Gontloman, Tteotor's brothor, Wharton Reoctor,. was 1loury Conway's Bocond in tho duel with Robert Crit- tonden. AsI hgvo hoard it, tho Conways and Beviors were related to onch other, and, of course, the duol grow out of political bitterncss. When thoy came on tho fleld there was a lon, contest afto tho interpretation of * Wheol ant flra! ' Wharton Roctor contonded that ¢ wheel snd {ire]' meant that the combatante wero to stand Dack to back, and, at tho word, turn_half-about and shoot; but Desha, who was Crittenden’s second, contended that to wheel shout mount that the combatants must face oach other, and, at the word, doscribo a complote ocirole, Rtactor was about to throw off tho fight, when Conway throatenod to roliove him. Buid he: ‘I came horo to fight, and I will not leave tho ground without exchanging shots, and, unless you agroo to mako up » fight by mccopting their torms, I shall throw myself upon tho {:encm!lly of my antagonist's seconds and lot thom arrange the dotails. ThRflmd, aud, a8 _you luow, Conway fol) dend, That duel killed Crittonden in our State. Ho continued a Whig, and everybody no- Inowledgod his talonts to bo of the first order,— Indood, superior to his brother's, Johu J, But he usod togo on hoavy sprecs, and atono of thono with Prentico, at Iu}mburs, he killed him- solf. 1 romember vory woll old ¥REDERICK NOTREDE, Tlo wa 8 an enormously big man,—tho wealthlest in all our country, 1fo didtho trado of ull tho Arkansas and White River rogion, and lived in & coval way, with monoy, aud laves, and wine, ]IE! daughter married ‘Cummings, and his pos- tority u!“l oxists, Notrebo's duol was with old Aliok Walkor, aud was very funny.” Ho ran the Hon, Robart Johusow's lively re minisoences of Ilome, Bwoeet Lome, GaTn, e - Moloculots Moloculoa form tho kubjoot of & leoture latoly dolivered before tho Dritlsh Acsociation ab Bradford Ly Prof. Olork-Maxwoll. Iu it ho thus doflnes o moloculo ns distingulshed from an atom: A moloculo of o aubatance Is a small body, such that if, on tho ono hand, A numbor of sint- ilar molooulos wero aasownblod togethor thoy would form n mass of that substanco, whila on tho othor hand, if mlf portion of this molooulo woro removed, it would no lougor bo able, along with an asgomblago of othor molecules similarly troatad, to make up n masa of tho original sub- otauco, Every substange, slinple or compound, bas its own moleculo. If this moleculo bo diylded, its parts are moloonlo of a differont subutanco or substancos from that of which the wholo ia » moleculo, An atom, if thoro is ouch & thing, must bo o molooule of an oclemontary substance.” THE FALL OF THE LEAF. IN TIE GRAVE-YARD AT LOOANSPORT, IND, They fal)) Tho cddying whirls, with wild unroat, = In strange, fontnstic measurc, sweop along, Dark'ning the air, biding the carih's cold breast, Tml(ntz Al natites Lo a dirgo-llko soug, . Liat to tho master-chord, distinct and fall, ¥t ta wikd bustaon b decay nnd avath, Calling tho Spring's Toat hope, the Summot’s prido, 11T awell tho requlom with ficir vanishod breatis, Falntly the echoos of that sullen river Blerid with tho apirit rustiing ovorliead ; Tho thick 5\’!{ miat whick o'er my pathway hovers Blirouds in ita gloom this Oity of tho Dead § Yet, licro and thero, some aoulpturcd colums glanclng Like shootod-ghoet scen dim at evontido, Drings the quick throb of an Impatient fonging T'o plorco tho mists which Life and Doath divide, ‘They fall—tho leaven! They rustlo on this tomb, Bitt ecant awd alow, ns ho who Jies beneath Oared not for tear nor moan, 11in fovered lifo; 1ia LafMed alma; tho sirmd ‘beyond his reach, Thie hopeless strivinga with an ovil fate,— Theso mado him cager o lio down aud aloop— Not o lie sirifo~—worn frame, the broken heart, Whoso sighs aro stilled, may Man or Nature woop. Lo} now in gusta the leafy shower is driven, And wildly clreles round thig turf-raisel mound § Tioro lttle fect aro lald In eolomn atillncss ; Hore pratiling {ongues have Luohod their scarce~ learnod sound. ; Yot 6n thoy drive, nad thickest Al this nook, Sholterod from wintry'blasts which loudly rave; Jers Autuma lingors with a fond, ead smile, As loth 1o leave our Mary's littlo grave. Alittlo grave | yet Iargo onougli to bold A mothor'a hope, o sister's darling ‘lrhln, A Liusband’s all, an infant’s borrowed life, The graco, tho gladnoss of o desr reatde; A wealth of worth untold, yot felt by thore Who narked tho ainloss youth, thio radinnt prime, Of tho swoet flower that blossomed a bricf space, ‘And drooped and withered i1 its summor-tims, 0 mwreot, folr faco, which ssadoned *midat ita glos, To mark tie suthmu-loavea around thico shed | 0 puro, beight life, whono lofty afis wors galnod, When the frood apirit from ita homo biad flod | N need hnst, thon, tho loving and the truo, For tho cold lottérad marbic, dark and gim, "o keep God's glorlous aulight from thy bed, ‘And crush the flowors which o'er thy ushes spring, No need of aught, savo lovollest aights snd sounds, Tiia Spring's firet sound, the Avituinn’s latest glow, “Tho geaud diapason of Naturd's choir, Thio ights aud shadows in their ceascless flovw; Thcao watch hor reat, and fitful come and go, Nor mock our sorrow by a changeloss face, Tlcap on, O loaves, your woalth of varled hio; Our darling loved yo; deck hor sloepiug-placo, Thoy fall—tholosves ! Tho rivor floweth on, et changed the mournful cadonco of the lay 3 Itigh o'oF the mist, whoro gleams ono Fift of sks, Como aun-bright visions of cternal day. Sparklo tho wators of tho glorious river ‘Beam {ho bright facea of tho lost and {ho gone; & Lifo! througl thy tears, thy travail, and thy angulsh, The olearcat light from Lieaven's gato js won, ——— VICTOR EMANUEL. Victor Emanuel, Kiug of Italy, is visiting his Royal friond and neighbor, the Emporor of Aus- trin, and his recoption by thoso whoso “ vivas" aro usually the loudest when royally is con- cerned, is romarkably quict, and for obvious reasons, He comes from Romo, but without tho sanction of that fino and venerable gentlomon who has shut himself up, =od consequontly is etyled a puigouer, in tho grand old Talace of the Vatican, Ile comes from Catholic Rome to vory Catholic Austrls, ‘but not na tho well-boloved son of the Church. No softly-murmured bleasing from tho lips of tho Holy Father sheds & balo around his kingly hiead, but tho ban of excommuuication is threat- eningly resting over him, and. the * Robber- King,” s his Papal enomios dolight to eall bim, rocoives but cool and silent welcome in Vienua, Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, was born March 14, 1820, ond was, ot an oatly sgo, & pupil in tho echools of the Jesuits, Ilis fath- er, Charles Albert, becamo King of Bardinia nt the doath of Charles-Folix, tho last of tho oldor branch of his house., o was quite liboral in his political views whon hoir-apparont, but, up- on_liis accession Lo the throne, the -concossions which he made wers sofew as to causo gront dis- gatisfaction among those who wished for o froor form of govornment. ho power of the clorgy was untouched, and the fow Italian patriots who attempted to forco reforms only drove tho King iuto_grenter dospotisma, He was, howover, & much botter ruler than Sardinia had evor bofore tind,—fitm, enorgotic, snd just; and in 1842, of his own freo will, bogan reforms of a very decid- ed charactor. Iu 1848, a liberal constitution was promulgatad, and the firat Sardinian Parlisment wns then convened. Lurope at this time waa agitatod by numborloss rovolutions. Josoph Mazzini, thon in hia strongtl, m‘god the King to ltlum})t to be tho Tiborator of ltaly; and, throngh his infinonce, roforms were intraduced which finally gave a pro-omineuco to Sardinia which bas since boon rotained. War with Austris was_declared, aud Charles Albort assumed tho lead, but was de-~ featod at tho battle of Novara. Ho_ thon ro- signed his throno to his son, Victor Emanuol, hoping that, through him, bottor torms might bo mado with {he Austriane, Clirlos Albort died at Oporto, Portugnl, in July, 1849, As I hayo enid, Victor Emanuel, ab an oarly age, beeame a pupil of tho Jesuits, who were at that timo in lngh favor in Sardinis, and had uudor their control all of the schools of the Kingdom. Through tho caro and attontion of his fathor, however, his mind was trained on Drond and liboral principles, and tho narrow priostly schooling avoided which ho otherwise would bave recoived. After hus accosaion to tha throne, Lo exhibjted great wisdom in hia oholce of advisors and min- 1sters, Count Cavour, one of the wisest men of tho age, wna soleoted b onco, and the policy from that timo on was retronchment, care of the army, ndvantageous trontics for commerco, aud encouragoment to sgrienlturo,~novor forgeting also to sot forth in plain terms boforo tho poo- lo tho dnui;nm and ovils which Austrian and bapal misrule would surcly bring thom to. Garibaldi alko, by his palriotio enthusinsm, Xopt tho torch of lborty brightly burniug, arousing all to the bolle? that the unification o! Italy rosted simply in their own hands, if ueited uuldur one loador, and that Joader Victor Eman~ uol, Evory effort was sldo mado to bring Sardinia more into the notico of tho Groat Powers of Bu- ropo. Soventoon thousand well-oquipped meon woro sont to aid tho Fronch and the English in the war of tho Crimen ; and, shortly after, Vio- tor Emanol, with a brilllant ' 6uito, ‘visited the courts of England and France, and was most en- thusiastically recolved. Aided by France, ho provoked a war with Aus- trin, 'Tho Austrians were overywhora defeated, and, but for asudden change in Napoleon's policy,—said to have boen caused by the Em- pross’ solicitations,—Italy would then have be- como ono Kingdom, with Romo as its capital, The Contral Italinng wore oxceodingly disgustod with the F'ronch Emporor, who very graciously offered Prince Napoleon, his cousin, to bo their Bovorsign, 'T'hoy rojected him indignantly, At this thne, Tuscany, Madona, and Parma—which Btates hnd boon dorortod by their rulers during the rovolutions—votod to unite with Bardinia and, after some nffoctod hesitation, Vietor Emanuol accoptod themn as bis subjeots. Iu 1861, Vietor Emanuol was proclaimed King of Italy, but was too wise to attempt to ocoupy Rome, ' Tho Empress Bugenie, strong in hor allogianco to tho Pnpn‘ ond, throngh him, totho Olurel, inducod the Emporor of I'ranco to keep the Fronch troopa still ¢ tho dispossl of Dlua IX. The Franco-Prussian war, tho down(ell of Napoloon, and all tho good or evil which kina fol- Jowed, nottlod the Roman questlon for tha pros- ont. Victor Emaunol in in lome. Pius IX. is no moro a temporal rulor; but his spirituel and infalllblo (¢) dowinion Is untouched, Victor Exnnnuol is tho seion of u house which boants of strong men, both montally and plysi- enlly, for gonerations, and ho Is not ou oxcop- ton. In 1lngli/ graco nnd ologance he I ex- collod by allof his peors; but, In kindnoss, acoese sibility, nud Justics, lio s unequaled, 14" wifo “was the Archduchcss Adolalde,: cousin to the Emporor of Austria, His moat moted childron, asuls from Prince Humbert, tho are hoh-npl)unne, Amadons, whoso groat courago in attompting to ocoupy the Bpanish throne, aud whoss escape with $ila lifo, aro fnots of such recont dato as to necd no obsorvations; and his daughter, the Puincess Clolildo, who iy muwriod to Prince Nupoleon, a flvst cousiu of the Iato Emporor's, Bho will bo tho Eul})l‘flflll of Franco, If ler huse bavd's ambliious views should be suecessful, s, D. I Guoves, DULUTH. Speech of tho Mon. J. Procior Knott, of Kentuckys Delivered in the House of Represonias tives, on the St Crolx & Superior Land Grant, Jon, 27, 1871, Tho TTouse having undor considoration tho | foint resolution (8. R, No, 11) extonding tho timo to conatruct n railrond from to 8t. Croix River or Loko to tho wost end of Liko Superior and Bayfleld, Mr. Knott sald Mg, Sreaxen : 1f Leould bo netuatod by any cancolvable inducoment to belrny the sncred trust repouod in mo by thiose to whose gonorous confidonco I amrindebtod for the Lonor of a sont on this floor; i£1 could bo influencod by nny posaible conidoration to_ hoconio instrumental J in giving away, in violation of their known wishes, any portion of their Intorost in tho pub- lio domnin, for tho more - promotion of any rail- +| road entorprise whatever, I should cortainly feol o stroug inclination to give ihis measuro my most carnost and honrly support; for Iam ag- sured that ita succoss would materially enhanco tho pecuninry prospority of somo of tho most |- tiel valued frionds I hove on oarth; friends for whoso accommodation I would bo willing to make almost any sncrifico not involving my personal honor or my fldelity a8 the truatco of an expross trust. And that faot of iteolf would bo sufficient to countervail almost any objootion I might ontortain to the passsgo of thin ball, not fu- spired by an imporative and inoxorable senso of publio duty. But, tndopendont of tho scductive Influencen of private friondship, to which I admit I am, porhaps, as suscopliblo as any of the gontlomon I soo sround me, tho intringic morits of the measuro itsol? . are of suck an extraordinary obinracter a8 to commond it most strongly to the favorable consideration of overy member of this Iiouse, mysclt nob oxcoptod, notwithstanding my constituonts, in whose bobalf slono I am acting Lero, would not bo ‘boneflted by its pas- srgo one particlo more than thoy would bo by a project to cnltivato an orange grove on the bleakest summit of Greoniand's oy mountains. [Laughtor.] Novw, sir, a8 to thoso gront trank-lines of rail- wsy, spanuing the countinent from ocoan to acean, I confers my mind hns nover boen fully made up, It is truo thoy may nfford somo trifling advantagos to local traflic, and thoy may oven in timo broomo the channels of a moro estendod commorco, Yob, I have novor boon thoronghly matisfled oithor of tho nocessity or expodioncy of projocts promising such meagro rosults to the great’ body of our poople. But with regard to tlie transcendaut morits of the gigantic ontorprise contomplated in this bul, T nevor ontertnined tho shadow of & doubt. (Laughter.] Yenrs ago, whon I first Lioard {bnt thoro was eomowhero in the vast torra incognits, some- whoro in tho bleak rogions of tho gront North- wost, stroam of wator known to the nomadio inhnbitants of the neigborhood as tho river St. Croix, I becamo satisfied that tho construction of » railrond from that raging torrent to somo point in the civilized world was essential to tho happi- nesa and prosperity of tho American people, if not absolutely indisponsable to the perpotuity of Topublican 1mnstitutions on this Continent, [Groat laughior.] 1 felt instinotively that tho boundlesa resources of that prolific region of ennd and pine shrubbery would nover be fully developed without n railrond constructed and oquippod nt the expouso of tho Governmont, and perhaps not then, [Laughtor] I had an abiding 1prmwnllmunt that, soma day or other, tho people of this whole country, irrenpectiva of arty aflilintions, rogardlass of sectional preju- dices, and * witliout distinction of raco, ‘color, or provious condition of servitudo,” would rise in their majesty and demand an outlot for tho enormouy agricultural productions of those vast and fortile pine barens, drawmed in tho rainy season by the surging wators of the turbid St. Crolx. [Groat lnughtor.] Thoso improssions, dorived simply and solely from tho ** cternal fitness of things,” were not oly atrengthoned by tho intorestug nnd alo- quent debato on this bill, to which I listened with 80 much pleasure tho other day, but inton= sifled, if possiblo, as I road over-thia morning the lively colloquy which tcolt place on thnt e cagion, a8 I find it roported in lant Friday's Globe, I will ask the indulgonco of the Houso, whilo Tread a fow short postages, which ara sufliciont, in my judgment, to place tho merity of tho gront onterpriso contomplated in tho moas- ure now under discussion beyond all possible controyorsy., Tho honorable gentloman from Minnosota EMr. Wilson], who, I Leliove, is managing this bill, in speaking of tho character of the country throngh which this railrond ia to pass, says this: Wo want to bava the timbor brought to us a8 choaply an poselble, Now, if you lio up the lands in this way, #0 that 1o titfe cab bs oblained to them—for no sottlur will go on thiose lands, for ho caunot mako & lving— you deprive w: of the boneit of thut timber, Now, sir, I would not have it, by any moans, inforrod from this that tho gontloman from Mipnesota would insinuate that the people out in bis scction desire this timbor moroly for the purposs of fencing up their farms 8o that thoir #tovk mey not wander off and die of starvation among the bloak hills of the 5t. Croix. [Langh- tor.] I read it for no such purpose, sir, and mnko no such comment on it mygelf. In cor~ roboration of this statoment of the gontloman from Miunesota, I find this tostimony, given by tho honorabla gontleman from Wisconsin. _[Mr. Washburn,] Bpeaking of theso same lands, he Bays : “Ondor tho bill, as amended by my friend from Minncsota, nine-tenths of the land is opon to netual eottlers ot $2,00 por acro; tho romnining onc-tonth 18 pluc-timborad Jand, that }a not fit for sattloment, and novor will be settlod upon ; but tho timber will bo cnt off, I admit that it 1a the most valuablo portion of {he grant, for most of {hu graut fs uot vawusblo, 1t 3 qulte valueloss ; and if you put in this amendment of tho gontlomau from Indlana, you may ns well just kill fhe bill, for no man and no company will ake tho grant and bufld the road,” I simply pauso horo to ask some gent oman botter versod in the scionco of mathomatics than Iam, to toll me, if the timbored lands nro in fact tho most valuablo {mmon of that section of country, and they would be entirely valueloss without tho timbor that is on thom, what tho re-~ maindor of the land is worth which hLas no tim- Deron it at all? [Laughtor.] But further on I find a most ontortalning and Instructive interchange of views botwoon the gontloman from Arkaneas [Mr. Rogers], tho gontleman from Wisconsin [Mr, Washburn], and the gontloman from Maino [Mr, Potors], upon tho Bubjoot of pine landa gencrally, which I will tax tho patience of tho Houso to road : Mr, Rogers—Will tho gentloman allow mo to ask hiin A quostio BIr, Washiburn, of Wisconsin-~Certalnly, Mr. Rogera —Aro thess pine landy ontfrely worthless excopt for timber ¢ 4 Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin—Thoy are gonerally wortliless for any otlier purposs, I am porfectly fn- milfar with thst Bubjoct, Thcas Jandu aro not valuable for purposos of sotilement. Mr, Furnsworth—Thoy will be after (ke timbor is taken off 2 Mr, Washburn, of Wisconsin—No, sir. Mr, togora—I want to know the chara ctor of thess s lauds, Mr, Washburn, of Wisconsin—They are generally sandy, barron Iauds, My friond from tho Greon lia Distyict [Mr, Sawyor] i himaclf perfectly familiar wit {hig question, and Lo will hoar mo out n what I say, that thoso plio timbor lauds are uot adnplad o woltio= Bir. Rogors—Tho pine Iands to_which Tam acous- tomed nro genorally very good, Vhat I waut to know 18, what fa tho difforenco belwoen our pino lands and your pine lands 7 Br, Washburn, of Wisconsin—Tho pine timber of Wisconein genorally grows upon barren, sandy land, "I gentlowan from Maine (Mr, Poters), who ia {a- millar with pino lauds, will, T havo uo doubt, say that e ko growe genorally upon tho modt barsen utde, Mr, Patora—An n goneral thing, pine lande aro not worth wuch for onltivation,” : Aud furthor on 1 find this prognant quostion, tha joint production of the two gentlomen from Wieoousiu ¢ Mr, Pafuo—Docs my friend from Indiana supposs thnt, in any event, uotklors will ocoupy nud cuitivate theso pluo Tands?’ U desary Mr, Washbura, of Wisconsln—Particularly without a Taflrosd 7 - You Bir ; “partioularly withont a rallroad.” It will bo oshod aftor & whilo, T am afraid, if sot- tors go nu‘y\\'hm‘u unles the dovernmont_builds o railrond for them to go on, [Laughter.] T deslro to call atientlon to only one moro atatomont, whiol I think suficlent to scttlo the quostion, "It is one made by the gentloman from ‘Wisconsin [Mr, Paine], who says ¢ . Thoso lands will bo absudoued for tho prosent, It | himsol(—will donbt ith all oronted things, mny bo that, At Aomn remoto perfod, thore will spring up in tlat rdfglon n naw kind nn?rlmmm, which wil cauno a domand for those partioular lands ; ond the tuny then como fnfo uso md ho_valunblo for agricul- {nral purposea, Iut I knot, and I cannot hielp think- ing that my fricnd from Indlana wndoraiands that, for {io prent, and for many yoars to, como, Uora pino- Iands cav hawo no possthio valita othor than that nria- ing fromtho pino (Imbor which stands on thown, Now, sir, who, nfter listoning fo this omphatio and unequivoen! tastimony o thoso illigont, compolont, and nble-bodiod witnessos [lml[; htor] —wlo that I8 not as Increaulous as 8t Thomna for a momont that iho CGoshon- ot Amerien i to bo found in the sandy valloya sul upon tho Jvlm\-ulud lils of tho 8f. Oroix? [Laughter.] Who will have the hardi- hood to rigo in his seat on thin floor and assort tunt, oxcopting tho pine bushes, tho ontiro re- glon would not produce vogotation ouough in ton yoars to fotton a grasshoppor, [Giront Tangliter.] Whore is tho patriot who s willing that his couniry shall incur tho poril of romain- ing auother dity without tho amplont railroad conneotion with such an inoxtinustible mine of agtloultural wenlth? [Loughtor.] Who ‘will suswor for tho consoquoucos.of abandoning a great and warlike poople, in posacesion of n country liko that, to brood ovor tho indifforanco and uoglect of ilicir Govornmont? [Laughter.] How long would it bio beforo thoy would take to uhulf'mg tho Doclaration of Indopondence and lintching out tho damnablo horesy of socession ? Tlow long hofore tho grim demon of otvil discord wonld rcar again hia horrid hiend in oue midst! 't gnash Joud his iron faugs, and shako his orest of bristling bnyonets? " ~ [Laughter.] Thon, sir, thiuk ol tho long and paintul pro- cees of roconstruction that must follow with its concomitant amendments to the Constitution : tho savoutoouth, eighteenth, aud ninoteenth ar- cles. The sixteentl, it is of course undor- stood, ia to bo approprinted to thoso blushing damsols who are, dey after day, boscoching us to lot them vote, hold offico, ~drink cock-tails, rido nstraddlo, and do ovarything olso tho mon do. [Honrs of laughtor.] Dut aboyo ll, ir, lot mo implors you to reflect for asiuglo momon! on the doplorablo condition of our country In cano of a foreign war, with all ports blookaded, all our citie in a stato of slege, the gaunt spoc- tro of famino brooding like n hungry vulture over our starviug Iand, our commisuary atoros all oxhausted, and our famisbing armion wither- ing nway in the flold, a Lielpless proy to the in- eatinto domon of Lulngor ; our novy robting in tho docka for want of provisions for onr gllant soamon, and wo \rithout any railroad communi- cation whntovor' with the prolific pino thickets of tho 8t. Crolx. [Groat laughtor.] Ab, sir, I could vory woll undorstand why my amiablo rionds from Pennsylvania [Mr. Myors, Mr, Kelloy, and Mr. 0'Noill] should bo so oarnest in tho support of this bill the other day, and if their honorable collengue, my friend Mr. Ran- dall, will pafdon the remark; I will say I con- sidored bis oviticisn of their action on ihat oc cagion 04 nob only unjust but ungonorous, I know they woro looking forward with the far- reaching ken of onlightonod statesmanship to the pitiable condition in which Philadolphia will boloft unloss speodily auppliod with railrond connection in Bomo way or other with this gar- don spot of thouniverse, [Laughtor] And Desiden, sir, this discnssionhas relioved mymind of o mystory that has weighed upon it like an incubus for yoars. I could nover understand boforo why Lliore waa‘so much oxcitoment during the last Congross ovor the acquisition of Alta Vela. I could novor undorstond why it waa that somo of our ablost statesmon and most disintor- osted patriots should ontortain such dark fore- Lodings of tho uutold calamitios that woro to bo- fall our beloved country unlogs wo. should tako immediate posscasion of that doeirable island. But I seo now that thoy wore Jaboring undor tho mistaken improssion that the Government would nood the guano to mauure tho public lands on tho 8t. Croix. [Groat laughtor. * Now, eir, I repeat, I Lavo boen matisfied for onrs that if thero wna any portion of tho in- inbited globe absolutely in'a sufloring condition for wantof o railrond i€ was theso taoming pino barrona of tho St. Croix. [Laughter.] Atwhat particular point on that nobls stream guch o road_sbonld be commonced I know was imma- torial, and o it scoms to liave been considored by tho draughteman of this bill. It might bo up at the spring or down ot the foot-log, or the water-gato, or tho fish-dnm, or_anywhero along tho bank, no mattor whero, [Laughter.] Bug in what direction should it run, or whore ik should terminato, woro always to my mind quos- tions of tho most painful porploxity. I could concoive of no place on “ God's grocn earth in such straitoned circumstancos for railrond fa- cilitios a3 Lo bo likely to dosiro or willing to nc- cept such n_conngation, [Liu hmr.% 1 knew that neither Dayfiold nor Suporior City ‘would Davo it, for thoy both indignantly spurtied the munificonce of tho CGovernmont when coupled with such ignominious conditions, and let this vory samo land-graut dic on their hauds yoars and years ago rathier tha submit to the degra- dation of & diroct communicution by railroad with the piny woods of tho 8t Croix;: aud I know that whint the enterprising inhabitants of thoso giaut young cities would rofuso to tako would have fow charms for othors, whatover thcir necessitios or cupidity might be. [Laugh- or. lIInnce. a8 T have snid, sir, T was utterly ata loss to determine where tho torminus of this great and indisponsabla rond should be, until I accidentally ovorheard somo gentloman tho othor day mention tho name of *‘Duluth,” [Great Inughter.] Duluth! The word fell upon wy ear with poculiar and indoscribablo obarm, like the ontle murmur of o low fountain’ stesling forth £y thio midst of rosos, Or the BOt, weot accants of an nngol's whisper in tho bright, ?n)'unu dream of sleoping innocenco. Duluthi “'T'was the namo for which my soul bad pontod for years, a8 the hart pantoth for the water-brooks. [Renow- od lnughter.] But whoro was Duluthi? Novor, inall my limited reading, had my vislon beon laddened by zeciug tho colostial word in print. anugum.] And I folt o profounder humilia- tion in my ignoranco that its dulcot syllables had unovor bofore ravished my dolighted ear. [Iloars of laughtor,] I was cortain the draughteman of this bfil lied never beard of it, or it wonld have boon designated as ono of tho termini of this rond. T m&cd mf' frionds about it, but thoy know nothing of it. 1 rushed to the Jibrary and oxam- ined all the maps I could find, [Lnughtor.] I discovered in ono of thom a delicato, inir-liko Tino, divorging from tho Mississippi nonr a placo markod Preecott, which I supposod wai intondod to represent the River St. Croix, but I could no- whore find Duluth, Novertheless, 1 was confidont it oxiated aome- wharo, and that its discovery would conslitnto tho crowning glory of thaEroaunl contury, if not of all modern times. [Loughter.] I know it was bound to exist in the very naturo of things; that the symmotry and perfeotion of our plan- otary systom would bo incomplote without it [ronowed laughtor]; that tho olomonts of mato- rinl nature would fong sico have resolved them- golyes back into original chaos if thoro hud beon such g hiatus in creation as wonld havo rosulted from leaying out Dulutl, [Roars of laughtor.] In fact, sir, I was overwholimod with the convic- tion that Dulnth not only cxisted somewhere, Dbut that, wherover it was, 1t was a groat and glo rious Plnco, 1 wns conviuced that tho grontost calamity that ever bofell the benighled nations of the anciont world was in their having passed away without a knowledge of the actusl oxist- onca of Duluth; that thoir fabled Atlantis, nover soon %ut by the laliowed vision of inspirod Josey, mas, in " foct, but anothor name_for uluth; that the goldon orchard of tho e~ poriden’ was bub & pootical synonym for the beor-gardons in the viclity of ‘Duluth, [Qreat lnudgh(or. I was cerlain that Iorodotus had died a misorablo doath becanse, in all his travels and with all iis geographical researchy, Tio hind nover hoard of Duluth, {Lsughtor,] 1 kuaw that if the immortal epirit of Xomor could look down from enothor hieavon than that croa- tod by his owncelostinl gonius, upon tho lon; finog of pllgrina from overy nation of the o to the gushing fountain of poosy openad by the touch of his magio waud ; it he could bo permit- tad to bohold the vast ssfomblago of grand aud lorious productions of the lyrio art called into oing b‘y i own ingpired utfaine, he would woop toars of bitter auguish, that, nstoad of lavish (nfi il tho stores of his mighty gonius upon the fall of llon, it bad not beou kia move blessed lot to orystalize in deathloss song tho rising glorioa of Duluth. [Grant aud continued Inngltor.} Yet, sir, had it not boon for this. map, kindl furnishod mo by tho Legislature of Minnosota, might havo gosio down to my ohscuro and_hum- ble (zvrlvo in un nrnny of despair, bocanno I conld nowhoro find Duluth. [Renowad laughter.] flad such been my molancholy fato, I have no doubt that with the Iast focble’ pulul‘,inu of my broak- ing hoart, with (hio last faint exhalation of my fleoting Dbroath, I shonld have whispored, “Whora fs Dululh 7" [Ronrs of Inughtor.] Thut, thauks to tho benoficonco of that bund of minstoring angols who havo thelr bright sbodan in tho far-off capital of Minnosots, just ns the agony of my anxiety was about to oulminate in tho frenzy of dospair, this blessod map was placed fn Ty hands ; and as 1 unfoldod it & ro- Eplendont seene of ineflablo glory oponod bofora mT\such I imagine burst ||Ynu tho curaptured vislon of tho wandering peri through the opons ing gates of Porndise. (Ronowod Iaughtor} Tlioro, thore for tho first timo, my oncbuntod oyos rosted upon the ravishing word * Duluth," This map, sir, is intended, as ng)nunrn from it title, to illunirate the position of Dulnth in tho Unitod Btatess but, it gontlomon will oxamine it, I think thoy will concur with me in tho opin- ion that it is far too modont in ity protensions, 1t not only {llustrates the position of Duluth jn the United Biates, but oxhibils its rolations It ovon goos furthoy ‘thon this, It lifts tho shadowy voll of futurity, and affords us n viow of the goldon prospccts of Duluth far along the dim vists of agos yot to oomo. If gontlomon will examino it, ‘thoy will find Duluth not ouly in the contro of the map, but ropresontod in tho contro'of s sorlos, of concon- Lrll(: elrelon 100 miles apart, and some of thom as muoh by 4,000 miloa in diameter, ombraciug altke in their tromendous swwoop tha fragrant savannag of the sunlit Bouth and the otornal solitudes of | gnow thnt mantlo the ico-bound North. [Laugh- tor,] Tlow those circlos woro produced in por- Tinpt ono of those primordial myatories that tho most skillful paloologist will noyer bo able fo ox- plaln, [Ttenowod Iaughter.] But tho fack i, #ir, Duluth ju pro-ominontly a contral plnce, for I am-tald by gontlomen who bave boon 80 rock- less of thoir own pornonnl safoty na to venturs nway Into thoso awful rogions whoro Duluth is supponcd to ho, that 1t i3 ko oxactly in tho contro of tho visiblo univorse that the oky comes down at procinely the snme distanco all around it. [Rtoars of laughtor.] I find by roforenco to this map that Duluth is slluated somowhoro noer the westorn ond of Lako Bu{mr]or, but as thoro is no dot or other mark ind lcnllu‘i its oxact location I am unablo to any whothor it {a_actunlly confined to any par- tioular spot, ot whothor * 1t Is jusl lylng around thoro looss,” [Ronowad lnughlor.] I ronlly cannob toll whother it is ono of thowo ethoreal orontions of Intolleotual frogt-work, moro in- tangiblo than the roso-tinted clouds of a stmmor sunsot; ono of thoso airy oxlalations of tho speculator's brain, which I'nm told arg evor flit- ting In tho form of towna and oities along those lines of railrand built with Govornment subsi- dlos, uring to unwaxy wettlor as o mirago of tho dosort fures tho fatwishing travolor on, aud over on, until it fades away in tho darkening horizon, or whother it ie a real, bona fido, sub- stantial'olty, all *staked off,” with tho lots murked with thoir owner's names, ko that proud commorcinl niotropolis recontly discoverod on tho desivablo shoros of Bau Domingo. [Laugh- for.] But, howover that may be, Duluth s thero, or thoreabout, for T oo it sintod horo on this map that it iu oxnotly 8,990 niiles from Livorpool [lnughtor]; though I havono doubt, for tho sako of conveniouco, it will bo moved back 10 wmiles, 80 a8 to mako the distanco au ovon 4,000. [Ronowed laughtor,] « Tlen, sir,'thero {8 tho climato of Duluth, un- quostiohably the mont salubrious and dolighttul- to Lo fonud anywhore on the Lord’s earth, Now, 1 havo always beon under the dmprossion, ag 1 presumo other gontlomen bavo, thatin the region® around Lako Suporior it was cold enough for at lonst nino mouths in tho yoar to frozo tho swolce-otack off o locomotivo,” (Gront Jaughtor.] But Isoo it roprosontod on thismap,that Duluth is siluatod exnctly Lalf-woy bobween tho Intitudos of Paris and Venico, 8o that gontlemon who havo fn= Tudod the oxhilarating nirs of tho ono or Uasked in tho goldon suulight of the othor, may oo at & lance that Duluth must be a place of untold do- fiiits’ [langhtor], o torrosteiah paradiso, faned by tho balmy zophyrs of au otornal apring, cloth- - ad in tho gorgeous slieon of ever-blooming flow- ern, and vocaf with the silvery melody of naturc’s choicost songstors. [Loughtor.] In fact, sir, sinco I have scou this map, I huvono doubt thaf Byron waa vaiuly ondenvoring to convey somo faint conception of tho dolicious charms of Du- luth, when his pootio soul gushod forth in tho rippling straina of that boautiful rhapsody— “ Know yo tho land of the cedar and ving, Whero' hi,hu flowera over blossom, and besms over slines Whore tho light wings of Zophyr, oppreasod with perfumo, ‘Wax faint o'er the gardons of Gul in her bloom ; Where tho cltron sud olfvo ate fairest of frult, And the volca of the nightingalo nover s mute ; Whora tho tints of tho earth and the huc of the sky, In color though variod, in beauty wsy vio 2" [Laughtor.] % As to the commoreial resources of Duluth, sir, thoy are gimply illimitablo snd inoxhaustiblo, a4 is shown in this map. Isco it stated horo that thoro is o vast scopa of torritory, embraciug an area of ovor two million square miles, rich in evory clemont of materinl woalth and commer- cinl prosperity, all tributary to Duluth. Look at it, sir_[pointing to tho map). Horo oro inex- haustiblo mines of gold, immonsurable veins of silvor, imponetrablo dopths of boundloss forest, vast coal mensures, wide oxtendoed plaing of richost pasturage, all, sl ombraced in this vaat torritory, which must, in tho very naturo of things, cmpty tho untold troasros of its come morce into tho lap of Duluth. {Laughter.] Look at i, ir [pointing to ho mapl, Do not you g0 from theso broad, brown lifes drawn round this immonso torritory, that the entor- prising inhabitants of-Duluth jutend somo day to incloge it in ono vast corral, g0 that its com- mareo will bo bound to go there whother it would_or not? [Groat lmghtor,] Aud horo, sir [stil] pointing to tho map], I find noblo art of war [Iaughtor]: cspecially for any valinnt Lioutenant-Genoral whose “ 'Tronchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting Lins grown rusty, AR eals into Staolf for Inck Of somabody to Liow snd haok,” [Grest laughtor.] Bir, the groat conflict now raging in the Ol Worldl as prosentod a phenomenou in military seionco hitherto unpracedentod in tho annals of 1asnkind, o phonomenon that basoversed all the traditiond of _iho past, an it has disappointed all tho expectations of the prosons. A greatand warliko poople, renownod aliko for thoir ekill and valor, have been swepk away before the tri- umphant advanceof an inferior foe, like au- tumn stubble bofora s hurricane of firo, I'or aught I know, the next flash of electric firo that shimmors along the ocean cablo mey toll us that Taris, with ovory fibro quivering with Lha agony of impotent despair, writhes boneath tho con- quering heel of hor Joathed invador, Ero an- other meon shall wax and wane, tho brightest star in the galaxy of nations may fall from tho zonith of her glory never to riso again. Lre tho maodost violets of early spring shall opo thoir bonutcona oyes, tho genius of civilization may chant_the wnl]&ngi roquiom of the proudest na- tiounlity tho world has ever scen, as plio acatters hor withered and tesr-moistoned lilics o'er the bloody tomb of butcherod Franco. But, ir, I wish toask if you honestly and candidly boliove the Dutch would have ever ovorrun tho Frouch in that kind of stylo if Gon. Shoridan had not one ovor thore and told King William and Von oltke how he hind managed to whip the Plogan Indians? ]Groatlaughtor.] ‘And horo, sir, roourring to thio map, I find in tho immediate vicinily of tho Ticpans '/ vast Liords of buffalo" and *¢ immeonsa ficlda of rich whoat Jands,” [Horo the hammer fnl'l.'l ;Mnny crios: **Go onl” * Goonl" 'ho Speaker—Is thore objection to tho gon- tloman from Kentucky continuing his romarks ? T'ho Chair hears none. The gentleman will pro- ceod. Mr, Knott—I was remnarking, sir, upon those vast ¢ wheat-flelds ” roprosontod on this map in the immedinto neighborhood of thoe buffaloes and the iegans, and was nbout to say that tho idenof there boing these immense whoat-flelds in tho vory beart of n_wildernoss, hundreds snd hundroda of miles boyond tho utmost vorge of -civilization may appoar to somo gontlomen as rather iucougruous, as rather too groat o strain on the ‘‘blankots” of verncity, But to my mind thero is no difficulty whatevor in the mat- tor, The phenomonon 1is very easily accountod for, Itis ovidont, sir, that tho Piogans sowed that wheat there, snd plowed it in with buffalo bulls, [Great lasughtor,] ~Now, eir, thia fortu- nate combination of buffalocs and Piogans, con- widering thoir rolntivo positions to each othor and to Duluth, ps they are arrangod on this map, satistios me that Duluth is dostined to be the boot marlot of the world. Tloro, yon will obsorvo [pointing to the map] are tho buffaloos, ‘dircotly botwoon the Piogang and Duluth ; aud here, right on the road to Du- Tuth, are the Crocke. Novw, air, whon the buffa- Jocs'are suficlontly fat from grazing on thosa jmmenso whoat flolds, you soo it Wil bo the ensiest thing in the world for the Piogans to drivo thom on down, atay all night with their frionds, the Orecks, aud go into Duluth in the moming. [Uroat’ lnughtor.] I think I sce them now, gir; o yast bord of buftaloes, with fholr honds down, their eyos glaring, their nos- trita ailatod, thoir tongnos out, sud thelr taila curled ovor their bnacks, tearing along toward Duluth, with about o thousand Plegans on their rasg-bollied ponles, yolling st their hools| fflreae Iaughter,| On thoy come, and as they awoop pasttho Uroks, thoy join in the clinsc, and away thoy all go, yoliing, bollowing, tipping and_ tonting long, umid_olouds of dust, nntll the Jnst buffalo is #nfoly ponned in the stooks yurds of Duluth, I}Bhon(u of laughiter.] Bir, I might stand hero for hours aud hours, and exputiato with raptura upon the gorgoous prospects of Duluth, as dopictod upon this map, Jut Lo Jifo is Loo short and the timoe of lllks Houso far too ynluablo to allow mo to linger longor upon the delighttul thome. [Laughter.] T think ovory gontlomayn on this floor is as woll satifiod ws Tam that Duluth ls destined to bo- coma the commorcial motropolis of tho univorso, and that this rosd should bo bullt st once. 1nm {ullf porsuadod that nd' patriotio ropresontative of tho American people, who haa a proper appro- clation of tho glories of-Duluth and tho 8t. Oralx, will hositate & moniout to sny that ovory able- Dodied fomalo in tho land, . bofwoon fho ngos of_ am entisfled - within a conveniont distance tho Picgan Indians, which, of all the many accosrorios to the glory of Dut luth, I considor by far the most incstimable, Tor, gir, I have been told tuet, when tho small- pox broake out among the women and childron of that famous tribo, as it sometinmes doos, thoy afford tho finest subjects in tho world for tho ntrategical oxporiments of any entorprising mili- tary iero who dosires to improve himsolf in tho 18 and 45, who {8 in favor of * womon's rights,” should be dratted and msot to work upon thia roat work without dolay, [Roara of Inughtor.] ovortholess, sir, it grioves my very soul to ba compolled to say that I cannot voto for the grant of Jands provided for in this bill. Ahl sir, you can have no concoption of the olgnancy of my anguish that I am doprived of rlmt Dlosged privilego! [Laughtor.] Thero arg - two insuporable bstacles In tho way. In the first placo my constituents, for whom I am act- ing lioro, hiavo no moro {ntorost In this road than thoy hiave in tho gront ?Imsuon of culinary tasto now porhaps agitating the public mind of Do- miniea,ns to whothor tho illustrious Commission. ors who rocontly loft this capital for that free aud oulightoned ropublio would be better frions- sood, bolled, or ronstod [groat Inughtor]; and in tho gacond placo, thoso Jands, which I am nskod to give away, ala, aro not mine to bostow! By rolation to thom'i8 simply thnt of Trustes (o an oxpross trust, And shall I over botrsy that truat? ~ Novor, sir! Rather Yorlnh Duluth ! [Bhouts of Inughtor.] ~Perish tho paragon of citios! Tathor lot tho fraozing oyclones of tho Dblonle Northwast buty it forever bonenth the od- dying nands of tho raging 8t Orolx. [Great laugitor.] THE PUNISHED EYES--A WARNING. On aliores not distant, but no mattor whero, 1n n proud city, dwoll n maiden fair, With varlous clisrms by lavish Naturo blessed, In ono she glorie! abovo all tho rost, Wil novor fuled (il otiors trisd {n vain) Down on Lln kuces {0 bring n wavering swain. That charm s potent wan hier besutoous orbs, Darle, melllug, changoful,—but ‘twore vain id words o paint the witchery of (helr fringod light, Whloh Toft no anfety bt in Jnstan Jigit, Thelr naglo powor full many a youth Under their spoll many u victim groaned ; e To tho great oda aroso despairing crios, And lamontatlons plerced tho vory skies, * Help, Father Jova 1" the stricken wretches prayed, “ And Ulm tho glancos of thls pitilons mald. Doom lior ta qulu: or to Spunlel vells, Glvo hioed, 0 Jove ! {o our collcotive walis Thio Fathier of Godls, awakonod from his nap, Gaya n dcep yawn, Which noomed a clap O Toudost thunder, and dlsmayod “ OId Prob.,” Who scantied his cliarls, and grosned aloud, " Good omoaned 3 Lord } T'vo marlied # Clear;! my roputation's gons, Which, in all weathers, I've so dearly won,” Jove solzed a flocoy cloud for morning-wrapper, ‘And called on Hobe for tho dally paper, "Twas instant brought ; ho road with darkened brow ; Then, with & groan fmpationt, muttered, ¢ How Tn hoavou can ¥, withont offendirg Venus, Grant thom rellof 7—for well I know, on son a8 Tho Queen of Hesuty lioara licr favarite’a doom," Thora'll bo 10 peaco it hoaven,—very soon,”, 8o apako fmmortalJove; then sat awhile In thouyhit profound ; fioon o'er is faco & smile 9 plaanura, keon and grim, was reen to flitir; Than to fair Hebo: * Gfrl, My morning-nippar i Tito thiraty god bis welcome ectar quyifed, Bliook by ambrosial curls, aud. softly lauglied, e plan, by Jove," 'lwaa thuis ho murmured low, Ia worthy of a god; it sholl bo zo; it shall be so, 'Tho winged Moroury this very night I'll send ‘T'o touch her silvery eyelids with his silvery wand, ‘Which done, tholr fairness to o fory red 3 hed 0" o] Bliall chaugd instanter ; and many o tonr sh Whon, in o 1oorn, 8ho eos tho Lintoful sight Of boauly vanishod In o single night. ‘Tho mald aoke, anil soon oforo hor lasa In blauk nmazctont stood, for there, alaa! Sho aw Lior doom, and kndw her ompiro o'er s For who would gazo aud warship s of yoro? Th afllicted damsol kopt hor darkoned foom, And to oll calors sho waa “ Not at homo,” Nino days flow by ; the dactors camo and went, Aud many nn hovs in consultation spont § Iarmonioun viows (?) thoir losrnod eraniums filed, And child-iko contidouco (1) In each olliors idil. Strangoly gnough, ench hod to novol viaw “Tlat, oro tho lids'rosumed their natural hue, Tho ganguine color must first disappear ; That seomed to them, indeed, extwmely cloar ! Moanwhilo, relonting Jove, moved by tho sighs Of tearful Venus, proposed o comprooiao : # Let this proud maid subduo her dangerous glanes, And cease to trlumph whers thero 's 10 defense, I thus aho promise, aud offend no moro, Her pristine beauty 171 st onoo roatore,” The humbled fafr ono gladly gave her word, Though somewhat muriuring of conditions havd, The baloful color fading quick away, T finprisoned malden eonght tho light of day, Her chnatoned guze, bysad exporicnce taught, No moro such wido-aprond devastation wrought ; Yot many owned ior dark eyo's glances more Alluring oven thn thiey wors bofore, Gn1ck00, Oct, 24, 1879, WY — BEYOND JORDAN. And they came to him, mothers of Judah, Darir-oged and o aplendor of hadr, Bearing down over shoulders of beanty, And bosome half hidden, half bate ; And thoy brought him thelr babes and besought hun T0alf kneoling, with supnlfant air, Lo bloss the brown chernbs thoy brought him, ‘With holy banda laid in thiolr hair, Then reaching bis hands Lo said, lowly, “ Of wuch {4 My Kingdom ;" ond thea Tgok tho brown {ittle babes fn tha holy White hiands of tha Savior of men ; Hold tisem closo to his heart and carcesd them, Put bis faco down to theirs o8 in prayer, Put tholr handa to his nock and 6o bloss'd them, With Laby honds bid in Lis hair. —From Joaquin ltller's last sghime, —_— UB! PRUDENTIA. “Nay, nsy, dearcat Alfrod," said Olora, 8o aweet, 1 cannot adopt your suggestion, *T#s charmiug to sco such duck at ono's feat, - ‘But marriago 15 out of tho queation, #Tyo promised Sir Potor ; he's threo times my sge, Rather el\mnr and awfully yellow ; But his book at fs bankor's—ie #howed mo & page— ‘Waro it yours, you dear penuiless follow | #“Now pleaso not to scowl, but behave aa you should; Thio chancen of 1ifo ato afl reckoned ¢ When anything happens to him, if' you’re good, Com and ask 1me to mako you iy second, ™ AR S e Ohloroforming the Chiclken. From the Columbia (Mo,) Herald, Capt. Vandiver, of this county, who, by the way, is quitoa stirring farmer, recontly hired throo yotiug mon to work on his farm. Ho told each man that ho must bo up in tho mornings Dby the first erowlug of the cock. Ho had a lnhfi- ful old rooster who never failed to crow at the onrliogt dawn, and it was agreed all round that his firat notos should be tho signal for the boya to bo up and about the dutios of the dny. Mon. day morning eamo, and the Captain awoko, as usnual, bofore day, and listened long and pnllnnn; for chinuticleor to_“‘sing his earliest gresting,” but ho sang not, Day bogan to dawn, and the old lona woro singing in tho' barnyard, but no crow. ing was hoard on tho farm, Dy and by the eun srodo and sont his first ond brightest rays through tho Captaims window. Tho Captain again awoke from his second 8nooze, and, see- ing tho sunshine on the floor, sprang from ki bod with tho exclamation, *What in the d—I is the mattor with that chicken ?” From tho bods raom of tho boys came throo sunores, loud and long-drawn-out. " Tho d—1," says the Captain, thom Inzy rascals aro asloop'yot!” What in the mischiof can bo tho mattor with my old raostor? Putting on hia clothes, he hnstenod to the hene houso—a!l tho chickons had flown the roost, Buve tho ohanticleor, who sat with drooped wings nnd hend botwoon his foot—fast asloep. The boys had chloroformod him, Explosion of n Fallacys The popular fallacy that house-plunta poison tho air Efpn room b{ the exhalation of cn[:hanlc acid during the night lns beou demonstrated by rocont exporimonts of Prof. Kodzle, of the Miohigan Agricnltural College. ‘To make as conclusive a tost as possible, instoad of taking the air from a room containing s few plauts only, tho Profossor gathorad it from tho colloge greon-houae, whero more than 6,000 plauts wers rowing, Tho room had beon closod for more aum twolve hiours; and, {f tho plants oxhaled carbonio acld to an injurlous cxtont, tho analysis of tho air from suoh a room would cortainly dis- oloso this fact. Throo mpocimens of this im- prisoned alr woro gathored shortly Lofore sun- Tigo, from diftorent parts of the room, the sn- olysia of srhiok gave 4.11, 4.00, 4.00 parts of oar- bonie acid in 10,000 of air, or an averago of 4.03 in 10,000, whilo tho outdoor alr contafued £ paris in 10,000, thus proving that the air in the fraon- Tiouso was bottor than * pure conntry air,” il M Ly et i A Nico Young Xindy, » Tho Italian journals rolato that the environs of Untanzaro,” Calabria, are infostod by a band of brigands, under tha comand of & youn womau, Sholsouly 20 yonrs of ago, aud of rront beauty, with~ remarkably black and bril- fitnt oyon. Lot nemo iu harla, nnd shols the widow of Plotro Monico, n bandit chiof, who way killed In an oucounter wilh the gone darmos. Bho was arrestod Intoly, tried, and con- domued to 80 yoars' imprisonmont. Whilo un- dorgoing hor punishmont, a warder, becoming enamorod of hor, favored hor escape, and aoc compauiad hor, but wag stabbod to death by hor ordors fmmediately after sho had rejoined hor band, Singo that period, hor audacity and ac- tivity havo rodoubled, and sho hay made horsolf tho terror of tho surrounding country, Bhe burns farm-liousos, onrrios off cattlo, aud levies contributions, and tho slightest disobedionce t0° her ordors ls puniahiod by wurdor aud fire, ¢ 4 H