Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1874, Page 8

i i Loy o = L:‘OL. PHEIFER, A Noted Border-v. of Kit Carson’s . Comrades, 1 Haira His Thrilling Adventures an. breadth Escapes. How e Prospecied for Whisky at Lns Animns City, Speeial Correspondenca of The Chicago Tribune. CaxoN CarY, Col,, Fob, 1, 187, One of tho best-kuown men in this entiro sco- Hon of country is thio famous kcout, ploucor, wnd Indisn-fightor, COL. PHEITER, How ho nequired tho titlo of Colonal is & mys- \ory not casily cxplainod, but titles in this ro- tlon come casily; ovory othor mon you mook ian Zaptaly, Colonl, Judgo, Major, or somathing ) that sort; nd, me Mr. Phoifor ik all tho satural clomonts for o Colonol, lis admirors proceeded to call bim ono. Col, Pheltor rosldes In Now Mosico, and oscillates buck and forth botween Taos and Fort Garland. 1o is too old for netive sorvico now, and hns boon off duty for sears; but tho momory of s formor decds an= irantes tho heart of ovory "400r, and is an opon- sosamo to overy honso in Now Aexico or Arizonn. Whorover Col. Phoifer cnlls, hio Is mado wolcomo, Lo reaources of tho larder are tazed to apponso his by no mesns deli- cato nppotite. Landlords nover troublo him with obnoxlows bontd-bills. Snloon-keopors sob out tho whisky with nlnerity, aud uover look or inquira for tho change. In roality, tho enreor of our horo has boon A CItEORERED ONE. At difforont poriods of Lis life hio has heon Tnnter, trapper, scout, guldo, Indian Agent, Penco Commisstonar, aud Lrigadier Qenoral ovor tho immortal flomo Guard. 1o wan nlko the warm friond and bosom-companion of the notod Kit Carson ; and many of tho deeds axcribod to iho Inttor, and published far and wido by tho imaginativo novollst, woro in roulity porformed Dy Col. Pholfor. 1o falrly worsluped Kit Cor- wou. Thoy hntod, and - trappod, and slopl be- neath tho samo blunkots, whd fought Tndians to- gothior, for thirty yoars; and, whon the nows wa “first received Of Carson's doatly, tho rugged Pliitar bowod his scarsed and vouerablo hoad Tike o child, B wotl ad ight hore, howorer, thnt tho avernge American citizon las ouly a very erndo aud imperfeck icen of i & pood scout : buk oven vo man and o g0 ; T o way Huots of porteetion. ‘Tho firat immigrants to Californin who pursucd the Sata Yo ronte had, of courso, a vory exaltod opinion of Kit, and it wny' tho goneral boliof Ahiong them tint ho conld tako @ buffala-dull by tho horns und aplit him nsunder with .o elight turn of the wrist. A party of theso cred- Wlonn fellows arrived in Taos ovie dav. and en- sonntered an ol pioncer aud neactical jokor in tho porson of Zan Hicklin, Thoy inquired for Kit, and wero informed by Zan that, if cach mnh in the crowd wonld give him G, hie would whow thom the renownad Kit Caraon, hoy jumpod at tho chans an quiotly collected his feos, and then led the vietins toa small adobo erbin in the outskicts of town, and flun open tho oor, exclviming. ns ho did so, * ifore, gontlo- cou boliold the renownod ’ ISCOURAGER AND INDIAX-SIAYE i “rva o pronsed forward, and Loheld 1 rmall, SROHOTDNNLS e aanind +pon tho gronud, droply angazed in _gamo of Araw-poler with thron” ov four dirty Mexteans, Tois was_tho tonowned Kit Careow, and the lion-worshigers voon disnppoared vith o floa in Cnrs, In aftor-venrs, tho only thing ro- quirad to get up a i i thoso follows wis ‘o unk them how thoy erjoyed tho Kit Cerson ¢ nt Taos. vecord all tho thrilling advontures and ain winel Col. hcifor has cood, by abouta thou- Fand cohmui, the ity of & nowspaper-lettor : ani { shall on o him hurrizdly, aud leavo {10 rest for post to oluhorato wid weep aud it ovor. An wutmate friend of_the Colonol, wwho haw beon with him_ often, and listoned (o e recital of hin oxploits, is willing to b qu fied undar oath that: fhorois not n square inch of Col. Phetfer's body but shows A WOUSD OF SOME KIXD. 1fo has toen shol with poisoned arrorwe, riddled ith Lullo's, gashed with tomahawks, split with Kuives, and wonnded in_ divers other griovons vk 3 but tho Colonol_purvived tiom 'all, and #till lives to kmoke hiss pipe, enjoy his toddy, and nto_tho storv of his exploitn, Ho landed in hai baen enzaged, would New Mexico when only 18 yeats of ngo, wid has mado that country his homo svor winco. Mo hns hoon marriod quito a number of times, and Lias n numorons progeny of half-bread children ; but, in tho ma- Jorisy of cuses, these Hlustrions seionk havo been foread to uhift for themselves, for Col. Phoifor, whila lio could miako manoy, nover had the kuncl of keeping it. e would I'o gon for months on ® {rapping oxcuraton, wnd roturn to civilization with hundreds of dollar’ worth of skins, and foso thont all in one night at DUAW-TOKER, Wken flia was accomplishod, ho would take o iy drink, shoke honds with tho boys, atonlder his rille and traps, and _striko out for o monotaius agaiu. THospitublo to . fault, brave, goucrons, wnd forgiving, with {he oya of 10, nerves of steel, and n stomnch that ewpeptic under the nssaults of y. such was Col, Phoifer in tho i o never grow forty-rod whis! palmy days when ho and Kit Carson ronmed togethor aud Dbado defiance to iho warlika Dluckfeet and Comouches. Lut thoso timos hava now passed. To bo B0, tho grand old mountaws and the strenma yemain 5 but Kit has gono, tho buffalo ato pass- ing away, tho Indinus havo rotired to their ras- orvations, and now tho rugged oid hunter, with the weiglit of 70 years upon him, boholds the railrond and fho tolegraph-men’ fnvading his most racred hmunts, But still ho rofusos to leayo, and wwoars that o will hold Lis ground antil the grim_monster collars Lim, In 1870, Mr. Fordiuand Moyor, o_prominent merchant of Contilln, tried’ to inoculato Phoifer with tho idea of taking a trip o Ewope, offering to pay all treveling exponses; buttho old voteron tubbornly refused, nlleging as o roason that ho w03 £00 oid, and did not wisl to go into thoshow- pusiniers al i timo of lfe. all men who have spont their Lives on tho vorder, Col. Phoifor Lins n groat WEAINESS FOR WHISKY, 1nd o gellon of Nelson Couuty Bowbon will sommand his rospect quickor than & gold mine or nll the earthly potentates in oxistonce, When the San Juan Minos wero first discovered, in 1460, quito an oxtensivo town was builk up noar Balier's Park, ond_christoned Law Animus City. Some protontions buildings wero congtructed ; bt tho civil war and Indian tronblon causod the mines Lo bo vacatod in a fow months, and Loy ‘Animas Gity mot tho fato of mauy ather mining towns: It wos obundoned. A it wanin the depth of winter aud exiremoly cold, transporta- tion hooumo a dilieult mattor, nud the citizons woro obliged to cachw tho most of thei vulua- Dlow, and with tho reat, singulr o8 it maz up- ‘pear, wa8 TUIRTY DALNELS OF WIISKY, Thoy could not move it; thoy huad no timo to dink it; they could mnot hear to think of do- wi-oying it; Ho thoy woro obligod to hide it. "Tho utmowt sccrocy was obsorvod, and, when wll tho armangomcnts woro comploted, Ao noatly tmd_tho job_boen porformoed thub svon. & Diggor Tudian ° would _ havo sourchod for the procious fluid in vain, Roturn- Inz to Ehzabothtown and 1'aos, tho coloniats sproad marvelous roports of the richnesy of the fin dnan rogion, buc Kupt wilont rogrding tho whinky-transaction, “Craitors huve always flour- ishiod In all ages of the world, however, and ono of theso chaps prosonted himscl¢ boforo Col. Pheifer, and, siter exacling from tho Inttor u foarful onth that bo would novor botray i, in- formad the Colonel of tha socret, drow a map of tho_deworted eity, and desciibod as nearus ho could tho exact mpob whoro tho whisky waw buried, Thirty barrels of Kontucky Liourbon stored way up umoi: s mouniaiug of the Junu country was s itom nok to bo lost sight of by tho gallant Colonol; and, us soon ak the ovwn- are had depurted ond’ tho ‘coust wa clonr, My, Pliaifer ONOANIZED AN EXVEDITION, Io divalgod tho real soeret to 1o ono, but seve the advonturors who ralliod_around his fimor to undorntund thut_ tho San Juau Moun- thins woro fairly honcy-combod with silver and cold, and thut nothing was roquirad Lut to stop “Sewrd with him und socuro o fortuno, - After i Jony, dangorous, andtoilsomo mareh In " tho depth of winter, Col, Plioifor nnd his band ar- Tived ot tho tokortod mining villugo of Las Ani- “haracter, and Gne THE CIHICAGO DAIL TRIBUNI: MONDAY, drlfta 16 fool doop, and prospected wad locazed | slain g bt this work had o oharms for Col, Tlo hd ntarted out, a8 ho oxprossed Puoifer, ity Lo corral that whisky, and ift oo I} vigorous senrcl s h Lo discover s hiding-pl Tl delved down collary and min o min oral-shafl, aud gvorturior eabiis, nud explored 1'gels and houl- ders, nud ransnokod tho wholo of 14 Antmas FEBRUA R‘X; 2 , 1874 " AMIERICAN CHAMPAGNES. Steuben County, N, Y, Gty from tap ta bottom ; but tho wl Jky-barrols remaliod invisible, tho Colunol finully enmo ot wnd minle A CLEAN DUEAST OF IT, by confeasing that his oni r ly objoot in org. Wizing the oxpodition w,{u "c’ ungarth thoyo thier, v bor- A storm of Invoetivos, oir, "0t nnd rapronclios followod, ull. lovelod 46 tho j, ek tels of whisky, * the gatlant Phoitor ; and thon th nd 1% oo g that thay hud heon fod x;nnd‘:;::'nt»"\;?x. foon, “aro, )malmd np tholr mulow anl siartec goosol. —irat conigning haitar and - s for homs, ‘ho dovil, "Grioved nt henrt and whinky 16+ it the Inttor goutloman grabbod wounded In e 2 struck ‘aut for n hant, - A up his tonaty ¥illo s Cley, and fn thombdst Tow milos from LA g0, i was ovor aiken b atp ruggod mountuire Y, bocomig ukandod, « torrifie snowastorty Bne v witorw, s Tont hin waye 1nt dofivardpbs, - "eoriasd, Gol Phoifor admlutad thtt thix a1y TIE TOUGHET J0 ‘ad A o ind ovor ancountorad, o aubnes. " SO on grasg-roota and_juniper-borsiow AN lor o About. in this conditlon fur cight diva. T veaw finally pickod up by » couplo of huintérs 5 A1 tho honcd-wators of tho Dlatto, nomtfy 2 wiles from whero ho startod; raged, Dbruisod, and - noarly famished, | When found, ‘ho could falntly articulute * Whisky “Fhay poured somo of the liquld down Ly thront, and, recognizing tho manuov of mun thoy found, startod with him for Denver, and landod him wfo nnd sound n a Blnke-strock restaucant. o tho fuquiry of tho polit wniter, Col. Pholter, osponded, “ Hash " ¥ Whiat did you kny, ir S Hash " ¢ Bt don'b you want wisthing olvo?” # You," rotortal tho iraso and neatly famishod Colonicl, ** I want all yow've gol; but mix tho hneh in'with dt 17 Boforo tho menl was fiuishod, the propriotor of that restanraut wau soon wond= fug his way to markot for frosh supplics. “TIE COLONEL NEQUPEIATED NIMSELY in Denvor, Ix-Gov, 1d. MoCook furnishod lum with o now suit of olothes; Judzos and othi- or oficials roplonislicd his purso; his old bonr- slin cap wan procurod by cua of ' the litorary so- cioticn 9 o precious rallo ; and, rooruitod “aud strongthonod in_body and parso, the_Colonol stnctod for Now Mexico, 1To is uow at Fort Qne- land, and spondu his timo rooling off yarns nud drinking whisky-punchos. Tho old” fellow is still firm fn tho fmth, howovor, that thoso thirty barrols of Bonrhon afo at Tins Anttuas City ; and it in hinted ou kood authority that lio will orgun- izo nnotlier cxpedition for their rucovary, in tho spring. . THE FARMELS, Establivhiment of County Granges, Special Dimatch to Th Chicago Trivune, Strnixa, Fob, 32, 1874.—1The recant Convon- tion of the National Grango at 8t Louis mado arrangomonts to provido for Connty Granges. "o carry out that idon the Exocutivo Committco of thin Stato, in session hero Friday, framed the following by-laws, tha will be submitted fov rat- ifioution nt the Delogato State Convention at Bloom1ugton on tho 14th of April. Sto, 1. There mny Lo cstgbiishied County Grane gua in the fifth degree, not to exceed ono in each county, sud nay Lo composed of two or mors coun- ties, and aball bo kiown by the namo of tho Conaty Grange, for the purpose of facilitatiug tho transaction of business in buying, solling, or shipping, aud sich other itucss us nuy Lo for tho gooil of 'the order, “Thoy ehall wiso have charge of tho educational ntor- exty of thu order in thelr respective countios, und aid tho suboedinate Granges represented therain, 8to, 2, Tho County Grange shall b composod of Masters of subordinate Grauges, sl tholr wives, and wuch othier. fourthedogres memborr, not Lorduzate Grange, o6 may 0 vhall Lo clected iu g on tho 1 ar, wud ub such otho o the trancaction of bl o meeling teable, und quliry Jamuary dn vach, Yo, the All ol v vhe £ lleca hele o b5 ballot, ' Tho et ol County Grango' 18 organtzed e it Gk muceting S ciection, a5 £ adopt aitch by-faw, for tho ez tho Urange ua they” iy CATAL 4y confliet with tho Natlona: Coustitutlon suid 1 4 e Moun for_Qispensationn for a Conuty Grugo shall bo mado o o Seeraviey of tho Stato Gravgie, and_cignod by - the persons alpisivg foc Hho wimey accompauied by's fou €SI, When sucl apylica- tlon Ja nuade, tho Becrotary shiall dasuoa dispenvation under tho kel of tho State Grangs, nfgned by th Master and comntersigned by tho Secretur Mo Connty Grange provided for in thoso pro- posed by-lnws, is & now branch of the Ordoz, uud it necensity an beon felt for o Tong timo, Tho Grango of the Stato will bo czlled upon to vote at Bloomington, on tho 14th of April noxt, on the following Stato Constitution : Anr, 10, Subordinate Granges sholl bo held to o strict coustruction ii regard to memborship: sud whiall admit nto tio Order guly wich Vemous ioso prin= elples, ocenpatlon, uni wourco of lucomo or revenus 1 derlved from agricultural puesuits, Any violation Sl subjest {ho Grauge so violatlug it (0 1 revotation of s charter, Your reportor is informed by the Stato of- flcors that tho prossuro to wecuro memborlip in tho Grange, by persons who liavo ndopted a littlo frmiug only nsn protot to get into the Order, 1 fearful, nud that, wnless v more rigid adlicson to the rules i onforced, theso moiis- ing, monoy-nuoking, olice-huuting dend-doats wwill caso them great Lrouble, I am informod that the Stato Agent, Mr. Trow, in doing a gaod worlk, and the Drospects aro vbry favorabls for tha ctire succoss of- tho effort in this dircetion, Wo aro_wundor great obligations to tho Stata Grango officors for their uniform conrtesy and kinduess Lo the correspondont of Tur I'nisuxe, and for o general inuight into the workings of thie Order and thowr manner of trausucting busi- vows, oy ara o of lurgo exporncuco, - quostiouablo integrity, and if the farmors of linoin could bo_ presont nt the incotings of tho State Ixceulive Committoe, and sco the fidelity they oxhibit in all thelr actions and discussions, thef’ would bo justified in fecling gratoful that thelr interests wera in the hands of good, true, honest, and nblo mon, Their expericnco and good Judgment will insiro succoss, Granges m Michig cial Livputeh tn The Chicag ivune, Mich,, Feb, 22.—Two Grangos lavo boen orgunized [ Inghom County, respectivoly ut Alandon awl tha Villago of Leslio: two in Shiawassoo County, Laugwbury uud Woodiull corners, ‘I'ho towns of Delhi aud Winsor havo called maetings to oranizo Granges. Grangoers v £lowaMalors, Sremasa, Johnson Co., Nob,, Fob, 18,—At o rogular meoting of Storilug Grangs, No, 215, held Fob, 14, 1874, tho followlny resahizions woro pawsed wnnnimously : Wireneas, Certaln mnanufacturera of farming inie ploments, Ihown as tho @ Blaok List,™ did, Ju conyen- ton ut Glicogo, “remuive that thoy would well 1o plows to Faeniers' Clubs or Granges =t rotall prleen” ; therefore, Nexoll ‘Thut we, tho members of Blerling Gran will purchizse no plows or other agrienliral impies wments of suid munufucturers,until they will voll to naut wholusals prices, itesolved, Thnt 0 copy of thess rosolutions bo fur- niched tho'Teenmsol Zerudd, o Nebraska ud I’k Cueaoo Tirisusy, for publieation, Joux ', BwaLLow, Scorotary, IR At Avomn, Ne Yo5 Loss 840,000, Roouesten, N. Y., Feb. 82,—A firo to-day de- stroyed tho United Statos ool und othor build- fogw in tho businorw portion of Avon, Lingntan County, Tho loss s #40,000; inwuranco, 220,000, ; WEATIER, Wanuisaros, D, O,, Fob, 23, —Frosuarzs —Tor Monday, In Now Ingland and tho Lowor i roglon, northoastorly winds with roln or wnow. 1or tho Uppor Lake ragion, falling bar- omoter, highor tomporaturo, and olouidy woatlior, ‘GEXERAL OUNEIYATIONS, Cricauo, Peb, 23—1 8, m, “Station, lllur. Py Wanid,_ [Tt Weither, Tveckrldyo 81,38 —4|N. W, fresli,i,,, ,\Falr, Cheyeuns,. 90,05 1IN, 0 o[ Kalr, Chicago, & \36|E, witn, Glovelaud, iL, Futn, Detrolt,., . Denver', Duluth... froal It fresl| ; awing, i, o Milwaul 3L, enaw, 7t 3 Plonsant Valloy Wine Gompny; Dinguated with his luck, A Yearly Product of 250,000 Boltles of Champagne-=-Tho P'rocess of Manufacture, Carrespondence of The Chicapn Tribune, Jautstonnsront, N, Y., Fob, 11, 1874, Inmmondsport I8 tho eontro of the Now York “ Wiun Country.” Up Ploasnot Valloy, (tho doli- cloug bonuty of whosn sconery is snid by Buropes an travolors to resomblo that of fho famous ¢ Wiamouni Vallov) to tho weat, aro tho collars of mud five mil * down (ho sloop shoros of Iouks, or Croc ked Laky, to tho cast, are tho callars of tho b '8 Wino Company,—tho two prineipal and ropros. "Wtntivo mamuinctories of American winos, and cep. ciully of Amaerican champngues. I have Just vigig °d tho TRUANA COMPANY'S CELLARS and now, n 2110 tho vintago is in, the gory pross- 8 woll sott. 'ed to thelr wintor'a rost, nnd tho Jost vatsof frosh, czudo jnicon aro boing do- canted tothei T plac s for tho flrst yoar's quiot worlk, 1t i porli WD a 3 good timo an any to toll o Jictio of what th €50 1 100plo aro- dolng for Amori- care * fino artu.” Aad, firat, tho @e ting from Iammondsport fo ther Urbann colliaa invalves no overy-day ox- perlonce. It ono i +o lnsto for porilous ox- Citomont,» or bollovew:t & will onbanco tho cham of tho ¢l 'npagun gerx ronsly awalting ovory now cemior, tils 9rivo to U rbunn will furnish abun- dont mutorial, Thoro ad, for tho most part, in only \ipg EXOUGE LFOR ONE TEAX, with now and 1 1on 8 *olaco to turn ont, which placo s of no ca th1Y 1380 to you, howevr, un- avo fortm b0 € nough to sco tho ndvanc- }f‘,i’ Yoty Cinben, 'on *to_ Wit whero tho tond T o thorwing . Wi 1ust dismonnt, nud holp Ytk tho wagon over (110 precipice ; for on ono Moy o bl dvops 0 or 100 feot fondicu, Wy o tho Inko: slnrly as T eared for, and miowlioro i tho olguds. Thio road is but o narrow, * {tregular sholf, cut in Ui monutnin's faco. The ‘.U!fiflzmqnmxmny, own abont 170 ncres of bear DS Vinoyards. Thoy ¥aio two-thirds of tho gin 08 thoy uwo, filling out thio quoia from tls noig, 0oriug vinoyards. “Iieno wines wero firat plae, W on the markot in 1807. Itwusan oxporimont,- —wewk, timid, im- pecanious ; and ospecially 8o * when thoy at- tempted to push a tow bottles o f Kenuing Ameri- e chmpaimo agningt tho vou, ablo Enropean brands and the chicap, Jeroy w26 Dt norve did it. _And uow thoy uso 2,000 L ons of grapes, and mako ¢ oven 250,000 TOTTLES TYERY * YEAT of champague alone, and they ol 30 du s largo Dusinoss i still whios and bra, los. Their yanlts havo o storage cazncity of 500, 000 bottlon, "Tho hiyth prico of cliampagno Lins a1 Ways beon jts gront Tentnro in this country, sua'it is gon- crally belioved, that thero in au immeiigo profit somowhere, ‘This_iden would becomo con- siderably modiicd, howover, if tho pecu liur pro- cers and exponso Of its manufactize Wro gen- erally known. Tho process hero ie slmort ox- netly idoutical willi that of tho bust Fronch wanufactorice. The juice stands a_y3eriin tho vats, nfter it comes from the pross, Lufore it iy bottled. Then it in bottled, takou'to LUZ vuulty, and the boltley vigch, a8 near parpondic apparently terminntes s AET TN RACKS, § ‘ITineo tnck aro woodon frauce, sboped like n fable-roof, runmung from near tho ground up to s bigh ah 0 man can comfortably reach, and filled on cach witlg with rows of Liolos fo reliavo tho nelis of e bottles, Theso holes aro b shapied tint thoy roliove and hold fast the batfls 1 Ny dogroo of inclination, When tho bottlos aro first Lrought to the vaults, thoy are ret in thono halos a7 n vory lizhit anglo from tho lioro- zoulal, cork down. ~'Thoy remuin hero anather year, gud arosheken and slightly tipped townrd e perpendionlar overy day, B0 thut, at tho ond of tho year, thoy stand dircetly upou their corke. This shaking aud pping is A VECULIAR OTION, Tho Urbana Company havo imported thole men for {his work from Luvopean catablish- monts. Mr. Sehweotzor, tho gentlemanly Super- intoudont, dospniring of giving mo any iden of tho aperation otherwivo, directed ono of thero mon to eliakio o nck of boltlos forme. 1o did it a8 a picnist wonld run tho octaveson a pisno. 1t rounded_Jike (he rumble of a wagon over o distant bridge. I hind searcely timo to_got a hreath, or to et a doflnito tack of bis_olbowe, and yot ha had_given overy bottla on ono sido the rack {hosamo twist, and the samo_imper- ceptiblo tip towud tho perpoudienlar, This man shakes 10,000 hottles inau Lour, put to his speed, and avorages from 6,000 to 8,000 an honr through the day, Tho object of this immonso Tabor I8 nimply o GLEAT It BETTLINGS from tho wine, Anything short of this tedious procees, and & connoissent would dotact & hitlo winto cloud soming townrd {ho cork when tho Tottlo was shalion, and tho brand would bo eon- downed aff hand. As 800 18 tho bottles got 8o they can *stand alouo,” thoy nro takon up ktnirs, and tho_corka, upon’ wlich overy particle of jnsoluble matter s concontratad, nro romovod, and now-onos substituted. This s also 4 poouliar procoss, nnd 8 dono Dby exports, who mako the chaugo with tho bottlo iuvorted, aud without wasthig auy of tho wine. Hera also THE SINUP 15 ADDED, ground_vack-candy,—tho quantity dopending Wpon whotler tio' braud i Lo bo moro or lesn “'dry," dry champngno boing simply thit in which thero is bnt littlo swcotoning or flavor. Aftor tho recorking, comes the wiring, tin-foil- in Inbeliug, stauuping, avapping, snd ‘packing. ‘I'ho bottlcs ure imported,—no common Amor- ican botilo hns yot. been mado strong onough for champazgno,—nid cost 16 conts ench. T'ho corks e wleo importod diroctly by tho Company, uro of {bho flest quality, and cost 37 yor gross. ‘tho broakage i estimated 4 10 por cent of tho wholo cost. Tho incessant expiosion of bottles in the vailts suggosts tho mnskt-firing of #kirmithera. When ono con- sitdors, therofore, tho cost of theso itoms,—and I givo thom ouly s samplos,—togethor with tho Jabor and the thno and capital employed, it is cany to #eo how chmpagno should bo mor ox- pousivo than othor winos, and yot tho manufac- turers not spoedily realize colossal fortuncs, “Tho Urbana Company muko TIO JNANDH OF CHAMPAGNE, + Jmperiul,” and * Gold Beal" “'ho 'Gold Sonl i made from fivo vavietics of grapes, viz.: Ci- tuvibn, Tenbell, Concord, Delawaro, and Toniu. “'ho Jiuperial is mado from threo varictics: Coe tawbn, Coneord, and_Deluwaro, o pris virtuo cinimed for Turopoun champugno is tho absonca of woil flavor n tho grapes, aud comsoynontly in o winos aud io proat objoction nrged by connoistours to Amoricau champagno, and cupocinlly the California snd Xolly Islaud chnmpngne, hins beon their grapy and woil tlavor. It iy claimod, Liowover, that tho poeubar shady formution of thin wine-couutry in Hiouben County,—tho samo s that of tho bost Turopenn grape-lands,—producos A PENFICT GHAPE Jor a dry champagno, Derhaps tho grealest Wiftionlty thoto wineis liave 10 contend with iy the onormous manufacture and snle of the cheap * carbonnted " champagno, ‘Thesoaro fonarally wretehadly mystorions mixtures, whoso Hparklo i entiroly dua to_an injection 'of car- Tonfe-neid gas into tho boitles, Iut thoy aro b up fu pickagos, Just as apparontly innocont and soductive us (o renl, uid thoy cost only half an much, Toth brauds of {ho Urbinng, Company TAOR DIFLOMAL ’ at tho Inta Viewns Fxporition, Think of it, Mndome Cliquos and Mojusionr 1 k,—i diplomn to o Amorican ehampagno in w world's contest of Enropenn judges in o Turopean Cap- ital] Alvondy ticso witiew nro cousplenaus on tho bills af favo of all our largo botols, Whon will they bo exelusivoly thero? Axya M, Wisran, Washinglon's birlhduy will bo_colobratod i Han gmuulm to-dny by a military rounion and parado, —-afior Muy tho Astor Ionso in Now Yorl City consos'to bo kopt an o hotol, —All tho pawonyor codusioiu on the Oblea- o, Danville & Vinconnen Railroad wora dis- Initwod from thelr posltions Haturlsy, The enuko fs nnknown, — 1o Hon, Austin Blaie will addross tho_Plo- neer Hocloty of laton Couuty, Mich., nt Eaton 2apils, Fob, 16, ‘o Governor's rel roudonco boggan 1 Chatlotto in o vory carly day, and bo will probably veleto £ome parsonf exporionco, —(ho doath of Webh Shopard from injurion City., 'Thoss who had started ont with tho Do Of sitvor and gold plodded through suow- Ol oI, “lke, mnow, Keoluk, 87| 20°W,, Drink, 13l Toludo 01 53 By frosh, 07|11, viin, Yunkton 2, TN, Wy fresis] 03|Ly suow, recoived whilo working for tho Milwnulioo & St Paul Rond bias rosulted in . wnit_against ' thai Company, by his wifo, for §95,000 damuges, —Abwmosting of tho taxpayerd of Lis Sallo, The Urbann Wine Company, of 111, Baturday evoning, acommitteo waa appolnt- ad o roport upont tho ki of Lridgo Lo bo con- structod over tho Iilino!s Rivor nt Hipplngaport, Houtli of tho elty, and al30 npon tho nocosuity of conntincting it Sth n deaw for. ties pramng of stenmiors, i order to_comply with 1he law which mnken Ottawn tho hond of rivor navigation, Tue roport will bo rondorod to-day, whon n voto of tho tax-pnyors on tho queavion of bullding will ulso bo cat, g CRIMI. A Mystorlous Murder Near Trentom, tnd. Duxxim, Ind,, Fob, 22--It will ho romom- bored that dnring tho yonr 1863 somo of tho robol sympnthizers of 'Lirauton, Blackfod Cotnty, Ind., md vicluity woro suspoctod of h!\\'hlf murdored & Union” man Ly tho nama of Albert Whitlako, who wna missing, but whoso body could novor be fotnd. Bovoral partios woro nivostod nt tha Lime, bt the ovidonco ngwmst thom wns insulliclent to convict, aud they vsure dincharged. Bomo timo wbsequently, & mnn supposed (o Inow something of tho aifair, ‘while on his dontli-bod, attempted Lo snuke a full minto- mout concernitg i, but failed from wonlnews, Prior to hor denth, tho widow of this man gavon fuil wlatomont ny to whero the body of Whitwkor w.as soorotod. Searclh was mad, and tho body wag Sound, o logs and hend wore cut off, ind tho trunk xoad dis- mombored limbs.crowded into a_store-h ox and buried in n bog near the Town of Lrontcm, In- tonso oxcitomant pravails in the o pmimur by, and a dotorminntion oxists among the Meltor olnia of citizens to bring tho murderor, if hiving, to Justico, . Murder in McLean County, Ky.—Al leged Poisoning of o Womr m by Ier Zlusband and flly Poramo are LousvitLt, Ky., Fob. 22.—In Me Lonn Coun- ty, on tho 17th fukt., Honry Bolinn 1on stabbed Jmes Wright olovo timea_and the n shot him through tho bronst, Lilling him fnut, sutly. Bo- banmon gave bimaoif up. A mouth orsoago tho wifo of N. P. Eghort died noar Princoton, Ky, undor rathor mpicions circumstancos, Shortly afterward Ligl ort loft in compuy with 6 young womaii ‘mnamod Alico Carty, ond~n lile gid for whom “he wos gunrdion. Lo was followed, nud ho and Miss Cartor arres ted near Blaudvillo, under a wartant that charg ea thom ‘with polsoning Mre. Egbort, End of a Feud in Callfornkia—Tho Parties (o It Xill Ench 6th er. 8an Francisco, Fob. 22.—A torriblo tragody ocournad Inst night at Watsonvillo, San ta Gruz County, rosulting i tho instant doath ¢ D, J, Gilkey and Dr. O, E. Cloveland. Thoro Lid beon an old and deadly foud botwaen tho men. Last night Dr. Cloveland startod out, avowing a pur- poso to Lill Gilkoy, A man unmed Dovoo tried to mako bim dosist, but t 0 1o avail. 150 men oty drow pistols, pronclid to wikin o foot of anch other, and fired simultnoowsly. Dr. Glovoland fired firat, and fell deod on his faco, Gilloy rotrontod n few stops, leanod against n tiece, thon nlso foll to tho gronnd dond. Both had beon drinking bard durlng tho day. Jzradley, the IZankrupt New York Merchnnt. IiEw Yonx, Fob, 22.—Nogotintitns aro maling for tho roturh of Bradloy, tho bankrapt Irond: way merchant, who ran awsy te Caunda from his czeditors, in Decerabor, with 1370,000 in gold, Ttis expeoted that arraugemorrss to this ond ‘will b made this weok, Amongt his craditory aro 1L B. Claflin and A, T\ Stowart, 1t 18 uid his difuso will bo forgivon on iw rostoring the piioporty hio tools with him. Fatal Affray in Ogle County, X1, From the Creston, Oplo c““"’lf’ (rit)) Tomes Feb, 21, On Saturday last our usually gaiot villago wns thrown inte a state of great oxcitomout by Lho ropoit that Mr. A. Colo s beon norionsly injud by eing thrown upan f post by Mr. Koortor, A.Dittor foud has e: ed betweon tho artices for o long tino past, which Lus - tinally culmin atod iv. th denthy of M. Colo. BSomw thros or four years ngo, Alr. Colo Liredn lot of AMr. Koorfor at i nominud rent, and crccted 2 whed] wright shop upon it, and warked pencea- Dly n it for Lwo or throo Years, During tho tiimo, and subsoquontly, bo ‘worked for Koor and flnutly, to obtain’a soltlement, sued him, Koorfor brought in omo offuots 'to thobill, “which woro not allowod, aud Colo obtaived i small judgmont mgainst him. Sinco that timo thwr'e has been criminaticm and reerimination bo- t een the parties; nbusivo languago, and on tho puvt of kon 10 of Koorfor's boys o porsistent an- noyinco, mich ns throwing suow-balla nt or thro.sgh his windows, pornding nnd scratchin tho ehiop, cai'ling opprobri ous opithets, and simic Tt ucte. Tinully Mr. Colodecided to buld & fonco be- tweon bimsch’ and_Koor fer, to provent, as ho said, 1ho boys Lrom ruuning; atound his biilding. Getting his matorial rondy 10 commenced work, and was intcrrup ted by tho boy Witliam, und his boatds takon owa,y. Menntimo Koorfer docidod 0 build a fouco npon tho .strcot, that should completely fonce i1 Mr, Colo s loasod lot, leaving 20 outlot{o tho straot, and ug recd with % Whalon 10 do tho work for SI. I pirocoeded fo do it, but Mr, Colo interfered, read the leasa to him, and ordored Lim off Lt promixc, und throntonad arroot, which Whalen dofied. Moantime tho boy Tiad commonced {atking to M, Colo anin, calling him o lior aud otbor vZo namos. Mr. Colo ad- vanced upon him ns if to striko im, and tho boy also nwsomed o fighting attitude. ' Just ot this timo Koorfor appeared upon- tho cono, un- obscrved by Mr. Cols, soized him aud lifted him up and threw him forcibly upon the ground. An ho foll ho strack on tho end 0F o post Lhat ing on tho ground, and was bl to Tine Ip. 1o was ausisted bomo, suffering igzauno paiu all tho way, und on Mouday morn- ing lust died nt 2 o'dlock, o would have Doow: 62 yoars of ngo on Mareh 4, Thio physical oxnmination, conductod Dy Drs. Aurner, of this village, and Licity, of Bochello, showed o frac- turo of throo riby, wnd goneral congostion of tho lungs, cauted by tho prossurc of o harp point of o broken rib ngon thom, aud which, i teir judguient, cousod zin doath. Tho jury foundn vordict in accovdnnoo with the above faots, and Mr. Eoerfer, Lis son William, aud Whafen havo ull beou comaitted to jail to mait au cxaminution before tho Cireuit Court ab tho April torm. Two Men Xillod by & VillngesMare what, West Station (Miss) Corvespendence of the Grenada Sennel. horo wero two mon kilied ers Jast Saburday ovouing, Fob. 7, by tho uame of Coyle. Thoy Jived in tho coutry noar hore. Thoy woro killed by Fon Kelly, Marshul of (b placo. About o wack ago Juelk Coylo, ono of bhemen killed, was in town and_got drunk, was Sy noisy, nud erontod o groat deal of disturbansd, when Fon Tolly wont to him_and told hitw thot it ho did not behnvo Lo would put bim_in tho calabooso, Coylo snid thut liound all of West Station could not do that. Yon Kolly thon summoncd throo men to take him, whon some of Coyle's friends camo aud asled pormission to take him homo, Kolly told them to take hun howme, ho did ot want to havo Coyla put in tho calnbooso. “Coylo camo back to town fn a couplo of dys, and was cursing and modo soveral throats, wweariug thut 1o was not sntisted, and would 3ot bo until bo killed Fon Kolly, ~Coyle cumo baok to-duy, and bad his brothor with him, Thoy wont in Kolly's storo sud commonced on Fon Kally, both cureing, snd gaying, with many thronts, whiat thoy conld do. Fon Kolly Lited to got themm ont of the houso, and thora wora two or Hhirce othor partios that tried to got tlo Coylos to leavo, but flioy said thoy had coino_for satisfac- tion und wanted it. Thoy kopt at Ketly, nnd finally wont ut him with o knife. Ielly stopped baek, nnd whon tho first ono eams to him ho pusliod him bnck. Whou Lio camo_again Kolly told liim if lio eamo again ho would shoot him. Coylo ntartadl tho third thmo, whon Kelly shob Lith. Tho other Coylo then etatted ab him with an open knifo, whon ho was shot, Thoy woro Loth hit trvico fud nolthor livod morg_ than two iminutos; tho first ono stuggorad and foll out of the door dead, tho other drow u fow bLrenths only, Thoy Lath loavo famillos; tho oldost loaves a wifo and two or throo childvon ; tho othor was marrioll abous two woels ago, and leayos n young; wifo to mourn his loss, 'Thoy wore botl young mon ; tho oldeit was about 20 years, tho othor about 22 years old, Wi THE LU SIURSKA OPERA TROUIE, avaxa, Fob, 22.—Tmeen, Mursha, and Vig- zand sailed for Now York yostorday nftor deposit- {h¥ 1n court thio aimount domundod by tho chorua and orchoatrs of tho opora compnuy, Tho Ittor, ‘moantimo, ara compolicd to ronnin on tho Islan until logal procoedings ot torminated. Thoy aro I wint, and novoral ao il durrott lins bouiy sucd by the prinvipals of the compauy, who do- wmand & rondoring of sooounts, e BAGINAW VALLEY (MICIL) PIONEERS, Spectal Dispatel ta Phe Chioaqo T'rivune, Taur BAGINAV, Micll, Feb, 23.—Tho firut an~ nial mooting of tho Saginww Valloy Plonoor Sa- cloty was hiold ut the Convt-llouso, Soginaw Clty, yustorday, and was lurgoly ationdod by vionioor from tho sl cotntios embracad within o valloy. Cho mooting was proaidod avor by xetrimming it "Louis farm, at tho soa-shoro at Long Branch, .such matters, that Gon. Grant's investments «corn i looking up of luto. {horo, at Long Dianelr, nud ospecially nonr 8. -y that his farm in that vicinity will alono mako “him a largo fortune, so rapid s tho increase in +ite value, . «statemont in oue singlo district 16,000 sturgeon sing is_interrupted for twonty-four hours, tho *watars becomo almost cholied Ly tho nbundnuco +producty hna beon ostimatodat 13,000,000 ponnds .about §12,000,000. A peenline phonomonon ob- .o kind of winter sloop, At the approach of cold ‘nppear to oak nothing, thoiv stomache nlways bo- ‘Ile Author of the ¢Saxc-Hoim Jidence, ‘it ot VI, 1L, Ix not o man, fs not two or thieo peoplo. Baxo-Ioln i au nnmarried and siiil nottlors botwoen Flint Rivor and tha Straits of Mackinaw, Thero aro now 160,000, including four cltios “nggregating 60,000, Interosting pioncor wlotehion woro~ prosonted. by W. It MoCormiok, of Tiay Gity 1 o Hon, 0. b, Littlo, of Foginaw City, aud M. G, L. Riclman, of Snginaw. A number of ralics’ woto presontod. At the banquot in o nflornaon, soms cighty norsons sat down to the tablo, Dho affair wnd ~Yory much onjoyed. THE FLOODS. o Buffnlo River, Snectal Diapateh to The Chicago_ribune, Borraro, N, Y,, Fob, 22,—Tho Bufalo Rivor v flooded out ngain Suday morning about 3 o'clock, Tho propollos Rusnia, Scolln, day Gould, nd schoonor Amnto Vought woro bioion from (holr moorings by tho proiuro of io, and enrrioo quit n dislaico down ptroam. Thoy woro neoiirod, howovor, and it fu thought the damago will niot exceed §1,000. The Ohio River. OiNetswaty, 0., Fob, 22.—Rain has hoon fall- ing nlendily hiora binco Tridng novn. The rivor in thirty-sovon feot, and rising zapialy, Dnin commenend at Plitaburgh vestorday, and lias beon for thirty houns—up to "0 o'olook—fulling steadily nll over tho tarritory deainod by the Upper_ Oliio ud it tributarios, Tho rati-fuil hero to-nficht iu incroasing, ‘Tho prosneet i, wo shall liavo o vory groat flood, I tho rain con: thnnes twelvo hours longor, Nasuvirse, Tonn,, Fob, 22.—Wo have lind ono of tho hardest rain-storme, commoncinis a3 p, m. yesterdayand ondingat 6 this moraing, known for years n this community, It - uoomes to Tnve boon govoral Soutbof the Ohio Ttivor. Ttin foared proat damago to railroads will bo tho esult. Tho trostlo on Lo Norths western Rond, noar Kingaton Spriugs, 175 foot in longth, in Toported washiod away. This is tho only damifgo yol Loard of. Near Columbus, 0. Cotumus, 0., Fob, 22—Recont rains havo rainod all tho stfoama in this county, aud dame ago from lugh wator i foarod. CASUALTIES, ine Off the ‘FrackesFour NMen Kitleds - Ponr Jenvis, N. Y., Foh. 22.—At 2 p, m, to- day an ongino tan off tho track nt Uniondnlo, on Jellorson “Dranch, hotween Snaquobmnun and Carbondnlo, aud foll down an embanlumont 75 feo, instantly killing Conductor Jolm X, Harde ang, Bugincor Cramor, Firomau David Cramar, and Brakoman Themas Rapley. Conl-0i1 for Kindling. Wixnesng, Ind, Fob, 22.—A hoy 10 or 12 yourn old, tho ron of T\, Jones, of this placo, on Iiday vight, whilo Lis paronts wore at churah, attempted to kindlo flro_with coal-oil, with tho usual result, Tho boy died this morning. SUICID CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 22.—Robort E. Killip, a well-mown citizon, was found dead in bis bed i tho City Hotel on’ Saturdny morning. Ifo bad faken an overdoso of lnudunum, and it is be- Tioved with tho intention of ending his life. The deconsed was formorly Aesistaut Suporintendont of tho Chicago, Columbus & Indiana Contral Tnilrond, and for the past fow yoars was Supor- intendont of ntreat pving, and hind beon in tho cwploy of the “Thilmany' Company." NAVAL EVOLUTIONS AT KEY WEST. Nrw Yonk, Fob. 22.—A Koy West dispatch snyn tho tloot ovolutions contino, tho guanery practico oing oxcollont Loyond' oxpectation. T'ho Wyoming requiring ropairs to her ma- chinory, tho Dispatel takos hor place in the Jine. ‘fho Qottysburg lad arrived, and loavos to-miorrow for Iensacoln, JGHEST BRIDGE IN AMERICA, Cixcinyaty, Tob. 22.—Tho ‘Trustecs of tha Cincinnati Sonthorn Tinilrond last night ovencd bids for the great roilroad bridgo over the Kous tueky River, 275 feot abovo luw wator—tho high ast ridgo on tho Amorican Continent. John A, Roobling & Sons bid for a suspension Lridge § oight others bid fcr irou-tiuss bridges. Tho award is nok yot mado. : Starvation vs. the “Ituling Passion.” Au obsorver among the English (actory girls describos their dintor hour amusingly: Tho crowdu had asrombled outside of o cortuin clicap cook shop in tho half-hour allowed for diner. Among thio girls was ono ragged, seantily-clothed child of abont 14, Sho atood for a long timo wistfully boforo tho cook-shop windor. Al the others had gone, and this forlorn vbjcet still #to0d thero rattling a fow hnlfpenco in hor Land. Finally, with o looging look at the luucious dis- play, slie pauscd for n last snil® ab tho open door, and thon dashed off down tho stroct. The obscrver followed, thinking that sho was coking a cheapor cook-shop, and pitying hor. But sho stopped at o storo whera eccond-hond finery way for alo, entored, and _in a fow momonts return- od with'n nomewhat faded but still gorgeous Duneh of artificial {lowers, conisting of a roso full-blown, & poppy or two, and u fair eprinkling whent, | With & glow' of idumph on bot cned faco, slio cast an eazor glauco to tho wi right and left, and spying close at hand the secluded gate-wey of o timber-yaxd, darted acroes {bo road, and crouching in n " corner, was soon busy with hor bateered old bint on ler knes Tho IEichest of All Gur Presidents, IWanhington Correpandence of the Troy Times, ‘Tho President hns just hought o largoe lot in the northweetern pars of tho city for lus future town reeidence, IIe pays 822,000 for 15,000 feot, and tho houso is to cost with the lot nenr 3100, 000, It is wuderstood that tho Prosidont, whon o is rolensed. from official duties, will divido his timo botwoen his threo residonces—on the St. and m Washington, o will rotire from publio 1ife m very comfortablo circumstances, 1fo has beon, sinee ho ontored tho army in 1861, ono of tho Jnkdast of mon, I am £old by tkoss who know tho facts and aro compotent to judgo in avo all boon zando with great wisdom, with tho lo oxcoption of the small venture in the Soncen Stono Company,” and_ovon tht con- His iuvostments Loulk, havo tirned out woll. St. Louis poopls e M i Fish in the Caspiny Tho Caspinn Sea i snid to bo oxtremely rich in varions species of fish, the number of somo kinds belug prodigions. According to o recont aro somotimes tukon in o dny, und whon tho fish~ of fluh, which aro 8o numerous ns to pross eavh othor out upon the shoro. The totnl yiold of tho Caspian o for ono your in fish and fish {nbout 469,340,000 pounds avoirdupois), worth soryed especinlly amonys tho sturgoon s that of wenthior thoy seok tho deap portions of iho riv- ars, and_romain thora in & miato of torpor, during whioh they socrato a viecid matter which forms’n conting ovor the_ontira hody, ealled by tho tishormnn & pelisse, During this poriad they ing found ourply. Ntorieys Now risca Colls Burlelgh ond toatifloss “T Lnow tho namo of the authuz of the Haxe-olm storlos butam notat borty o divulgo it s much, howaves, Liuny eny without breach of cone Tho tuthor of tho Saxo-lolm atorios oung woman, fiving in_an fuland town In the Stuto of Now York, No horoine whom sho do- soribos fu her atorios I moro horolo tha s shown Tiorsalf in meotiug thio Lials and hard- slips of ronl lifo, Sho shtiuks from publicity, and hins Diddon hor identlty under a vavioty of nommos do plunie, {he most frequontly wsed bo- fng Suxe-1olm. ‘I prosumo i€ who stood horo bemdo mo sho would Iy hor haud on my pon (0 stny this correotion, but I counot bosr to soo hor woll-oncnod J+tolu Inid ut the foot of an- otlior, oxpoclally .. ong who lu rich I or own Tight, aud who, of il women, would bo lonst willinge to approprinte honors uot Lor own.” ‘e South Curolina Governors Gov, Motias; of South Garaling, {4 most unfor= tunnts nan, ' Owing to some defoet, fn his mon- tal vonstryotion, whanovor ha situ down o writo N in full nu fikely to uso tho oxuct languago of Hamo ono. olso ns ho s to invout any of his own, T0o sont o meusago Lo tho Logiulutiro zecontly, and o sliiking pasengo from Macaulny slipnod into it m tho mont unaceountable way, The othor day ho put tho wnrokanorate among his constibuonts 10 shamo by dollvoring w cloiuont leoturo on * Rolgion,” but ity boiofioial olfcol 1ins boon n good doal weukonod by ¢ho discovory Judgo Miller, of Iiny City, Prosidont of tho Ho- Clety, who delivored an incorcnting addross, Viewing the_inoldonts of tho pnst forty-fou yenss - In 180 thoro waxo but thirty-olght whito thut it was an almost literal transeript from sermon by tho Rov. Hoboyt HUall, of Loudon, en SUNDAY’S NIEWS, Tocnle Mayor Colvin s Ismucd a proclamation delnr- g doath and dostruction to_all dogn found un- muzzled In tho ptrostr, and hns dircotod tho pollco-foreo to onforco-tho ordor. —Iiie Bovorelgns of Tndustry linvo deoldod not to unlto with tho Advorates of Justicn, for tho roason that thoy have nd no pact or reprosont - atfon In the Inttor Heoloty's olootion of ofticors aud ndoption of & conntitution. —A numbor of quaok: dootors, or “poclalists," woro brought bofora thio United Btakoy Cirenit Court, Saturdny allornoon, on tho ,chinrgn of wondite_obricono publications throush tho mail, and wero Liold in ball to” nwal tho notion of the Qrand Jury. —ALn meoting of the Tumbormeu's Associn- tlou, Baturdny afiernaon, the followlng commit- Lo’ wota oltoteds On'Appmnia—d. Budior, . W, Brooks, T M. Avory, 1t. P, Dor rlcknon, hnd . Cropin,' On Atbltration—A. . Kelly, . A. Waldo, 3."2. Noblo, £, A Tord, und W. Biel: noll, —Victorin 0, Woodhull, of Now York, wan an- nouncod to dolivor & locturo, Satewrday evoning, in Kingabury Mive Hall, whiclt lad hean routad for that pnrposo I Lor agont ; but tho manager subsoquently coneludod thiat tho chinracter of the plnco wonld bo 1awored in enmo’ sho woro ni. lowad o promutlga \o bor doctrines thoroln, and 1o thorforo cancoled tho_contrast, and rofused to pormic tho lootnto £o ho givan in tho Lall, A platoon of palico wo.ro atationed dn the vostibule to provont a foreiblo ontrv. Latorin the ovon. iug, Mrs, Woodbull proted to o Tiunuse roportor that sho intonded to commence n suit yniust the propriclors of the hnll, laying dutojes at 25,000, ‘The Nativmal Caprital. Tho Houso adjournod ovor unl il Tucsdny out of oshet to i cololwation of Washington's bittl-day to-duy. . —Llio total amount of* monay cnrricd into tho Troasury a tho prococcls of ralos of eaptired nad abandoned proporty, conststing lmost on- tirely of cotton, was 920,110,061}, —Itho Commlesionor of the Tntornal Rovento hos beon informod of tho dotection of largo frauda apon tho rovonto a & Sact Francisco. 'Tho property soizod is ostimatid to bo worth about $800,000. — o Sub-Committos of the Houso Gommitteo on Ttailronds and Canals I s decided fo roport advorsoly upon tho bill for tho construction of tho 8¢, Philip Canal aronud 1!hie mouth of tho Mis- sissippi Rivor, bocnuso of .her {nmufliclont timo for tho engincors to malko n_de-tailed roport. —1ho rasolutions adopted 1y the Morchnnts' Exchango of Chicago on I.ri: tny night, dopro- cating tho inflation of tho curxs oy, reachod tho Cupital, in tho tolograph ropw tts 'to tho Now York papors, Baturday ovemin g, and_osoitod much commant. Tho roputatien of tho Sonatorn from Tllinols for sagncity s die vinlshiod consid- orably sinco thoy havo boon pren od iguorant of tho opinion which provails smor3_ thoir consiitu- onts. —All tho Congressmon from Pt nnaylvania aro regarded in Washington a8 adve catos of an monsure bofore Congress the tond anoy of \vhlcf; is to promoto tho intoroats of tl 10 Contonuial sohemo . and concert of action bol weon the en- tizo delogation is mupposod to bo « iminently do- s But Judgo Kelloy haa take n tho rospon: sibility, without consulting lis o olleagucs, of introduciog o rosolution providing ; for holding o sossion of Congross in Piladolphi in 1875, For this bit of buicombo ho hua beon : Boveraly con- downed, and ospecially sincoit wax | Jaced bofors tho Houso at an inopportune time. Foreign. Nows hins boou recoived in London of the sur- onder of tho Capital of Asbantoo, m 1d tho cap- turo of tho King and his family. —Uho Asintio cholera in raging in Buuos Avres. ‘Tho total number of doathia & tho time the Inst steumor sniled was 807 Tl avorago number of dontlis por day ws thirty o r forly. —A disturbance of o norions maturs _ocourrad in Havann on tho ovouiug of Thuradsy, Feb, 12, A band of unarmod voluntoors asw hablod in Tront of the Captain-Goneral's palnco snd do- & draft, thoy wishing o go into tho camymign by battalions, and not by being draftod into tho sorvice, ‘Cho mob was disporsied by artaed vol- unteers, Tive porsons woro killod and somo wounded, Tho Farmors., The Kansas Btate Grango actjourned sine dio at s lunto hour Saturduy ovening- Louis, Saturday, adoptod s rotolution roquest-. ing tho Missouri Sonators and Roprosentatives: 1n Congrees to uso thoir influenco o _sccuro tho improvoment of the Mimsissipyl Rivor and ita tributurics, Tho State Capitad. Tho Governmont has obtaiuod & judgment in onc of the misking-bond suits sgaiust H. P. Westorman, the chiof of the Pokin distillers, for- £98,000, tho full amount of damager claimed. —The averags mumbor of jumates and they mimbor of oflicers fn tho Stato Inatitutions ara : Deaf and Dumb Aslum, 201 inmates, 3¢ off cora; Blind Asylum, 67 inmatos, 17 officors Teoblo-Minded Instituto, 85 mmates, 23 oflicore Soldiors' Orplians’ Homio, 302 inmudes, 30 of cors; Elgin ‘Insone Asylim, 120 iminates, 55 officara; Jackeonvillo Asylum, 480 fumates, 79 ofticors; Normal Univorsity, 445 inmndes, mo oficers; Industrial Univorsity, 380 inmatos, ny» officors. ~ Tho avorago number of dayst tho institutions aro opened s 257; thes total bumbor of days, 1,640, Tho ' total numbor of officors_omployod js 331, Tha total amount drawn in 1878 by all tho institutions bs $710,278; and tho amount of undrawn appro= ‘priations is 1,178,781 Tho cost of oporatiusz tho varions institutions s as follows: Dout aud Dumb, £28,503: Blind Asylum, 98,642 Toeblo-Minded, $8,750: Soidiors’ ’Orphaes Tomo, 811,424 ; Elgin Insnuo Asvlum, 821,083 : Fucksonvillo Tnkano Asylum, 339,410’ Norm University, 823,900 ; Industrial Univorsity, §34,- 605, 1o cost por amum of cack inmato of the differout institutions, including_ealacios of ofti- cors, otc.. iv: Juclsonvillo” Ineano Auylun, 8169.01; 1lind Asylum, 8212.52; Teablo-Minded, B189.40" Deaf und Dumb, $30111; Soidions' Orphans’ Home, S153.72 ; g7T42, - Eigin Tnsaho Asylum, Nliscollaneous, Washington's Birthday was colobrated at Rictr - mond, Va., on Saturday. —Tho Women's Tomperanco movement s spreading in Towaand Ilinois, In Oswego, Lez- ington, Jacksouvillo, aud Gajosburg, Ill, And & Davenport, Dubuque, and Council' Bluffe, Ir., organizations havo boon formed and propara. tions mado for a dotermined nssault upon tha wnlopn-oopers and their patronu. Heury Wara Beechor hus doclarod Liis sympatly with the cru~ kado, which bo bombnstically atylos " moral oyclone, a porfect tompost of {uflucnce. —Tho Committeo of the Knnens Legislaturoe appointed to ascortain tho condition of tho Stato Tronsury roportod, Saturdny, & resolution. recommendui tho imposchmont of thio Stato. Treasurer, Josiah E. Hayes. Tho grounds upon which this action s taken soom to be sufliciently substantial. A Stato Iaw makos it folony for tho Troasurer to doposit tho funds of tho Stato with any bank or individual or to recoive intorost thereon. Thoro scems Lo Lo no doubt that Mr. Inycs has repoat- edly aud doliborately violated tho provisions of: thostatute, 1o bLad nlso mndo lonns of Inrgo amounts to privato iustitutions on insulliciont necurity, whilo ho Is forbiddon by law to loan on any conditious whatover, ALBANY LIVESTOCK MAR Speciul_Dispuich fo Tie Chicunu Tridune, ALDANY, N, Y,, Feb, 22,—Berves—Tho market dur~ dng tho latter part of the week was unsatisfactory, and dlsastrous {o many, At tho opening T T tho attendanco was rather meagre, und business during the wholo weok was slow and druggiog, On the fo. lowing day, tho attendunco, principally of Eastorn country dealers, was I(nm!, but they purchased quito upnr»l{ ‘at reduced prices, which wer o ilar I, live ‘weighif, below tha ruling of last week, 'ho market yeatorday showod litllo dmprovemmt. fn tono or at- toudauce, Tho ralu-storms duclug thg early purt of th day bad iho oifeot of dopressiug (ho feoliug, and cause ing o heavy olelnkgo iu prices, — Drighton deale ord wero hiob disposed o purchase leavy, an oy experlonced n dlswitrous markel at Tiome, Now Yorkors wero disposed to purcliuao, Thoy Auceoedod b doliy 8o nearly ot their own prico, No improvement taok placo, thovghi some competition was shown, Duyors from Now York, fhongh oxperlencing & uo=paying market, 800l rather’ Wborally n autleipas How of better teads noxt week, Tho recolpts for {ho woel wumber 340 cardoads, o BUN hieud, againat 0,409 hioadt o Week ago, ‘T'ho average’ quality of lio ro. coipts avo Inferfor to Tast weolr, being mafnly of com- mon and {uferior stock, with fow if any extra, The rives this woek wora ad follows romfum, +20,25@0,88 BIERD AND LAstns—! bor 18,200 head, agabnst 14,400 hoad a week sga, lLasl- oFt el hnvo ‘budi thio principal buyers 1 ationd e i woll as tho iyl purchasors, it iy iavo uken moderately of otferiugs, $@0)5e; nominally, T3e, 0 Reme Ao i oalin B — e JAARRIAGES, BUTLER-STEWART Ly this alty, on Vo, 50, 1871 by thio iov. 0. D, Hcimer, Mr. Frank 1{, Hutlor snd Alivs enito W Stowsets of Otorgor © B, B it DEATHSI, GRROSBY—0n ol ) o Marion, dunzita of Vel R AT R soars and 11 dog, * Alodoru Infidolity,’ mandod o chango of tho docreo regnrding the | —Tho Missouri Stato Grange,. in sossion at St. | doney, 9% Tndianaati, Alfred Smith, formorly of PLik i, T Filindelnhia papors plenso copy. MERRILI—At his rosidonce, No. 294 Want Van Buror atroot, Suiay ovoning, Lob. 45, Giiovan 11 Stereri: ol this elty, agod td yoars. Notico of funoral horoa(tor, PANACEA from Rboumatism, Nou. AND PAMILY Limbs or Ktumach, Bil. lous Colle, Patn In the Lnck, Bowols, or Sido, wa would sy, Titz House. HOLD PANACEA and Ty~ LY LINIMENT fo of all othors tho romedy you swant for {ntorna] and ox- tornaluso, It has ourod tho above complaints la thonsania of aascs. Thora u |1t Sold oy Druciiate LINIMENT e miatkoabout 1. Try THE NEW YORK SUN. ‘ SN The Ta== Faw, AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION OVER 120,000, Or Nonrly Bqual to that of All the Other Morning Newspapors Printed in tho Jinglish Languago in This OCity. Somoldon of tho extont of this fmmenea fssuo may ba formod from tha faot that It fs sullicint to placo. Lo c\vg\,”\"“rflnnc\‘éd‘:fi""l m\':lu in |’ho City T“fllllm"fi’ af S0 Yok svors' ‘o coby I ovory dwelling-Lanes inNew Yark, Tieaoklyn. Wilimmrbitan, snd Joreay Oy With samo thourands 10 sparo. ~Although THE SUN is moat widoly distributod in tho city and_suburl 1o longee & maro loeal Journal, bt ianow sol, for, and clroulatad {n ovory elty and Stat of 'tio a1 tho Dominionof anan: Ualor Tn. the yonr 161 e Darwy Kok printod s aold (186,023,885 thlre X Tionn, - 1 x x wontyatiires”'thousnndy ol T el y T coplen. i sdvacining b 11 DA B nnoctal. 1y watiablo i ol who wank el oromiloyingnes o nva roouin or wallings to Jovs linuras or ANA to. 8oNT Watpa armorchnadiso o diposs of, at rotall o by auotiin Ty hort o huvorsnd e i, ot i sorvico ot ast and penctically HileiabIS. Kxehango, Tninimin of coat. S ADVERTISING RATES, A Fivo-Lino Advertisoment, Reaching 600,000 Rende ors) Cost Ouly Two Dollars, Ordinary Adrortisoments, por Agato lino..... .. Lnnin typourcuth ‘AKN(! measuremont) por lino,. Tusinoss Notice eloro marringos and Kpactal Notices, Tonting Noheasonsta Reading Notices, with THE WEEKLY SUN. Oironlation Nearly 70,000, Extending Ovor Ewc Stato sad Toreiory . tao Ualon sad the " Dominion of Canada, THE, WEEKLY SN In now atondlly growing tn clronl tlon at & rato that bidn (a1 o lint St 160,000 Uoforo ot pummer. s & ol o vaaching o buping pubile tho couitey Gvor, 1 las o suporlar. rlce and ssevics ent- sidorod, smong 11 thn sconlar woekly pross. o manu- fasturatv i dontor bt lEultoen) (mpmonta, Tortl- izoms, and nll staplo artloloe, It v capacially valaablo edlhary Advorthomonta, por lino. Tustnons Noticos. b pain, s on s Nt 0, Dot 1o Ronding Notlcer: Ath pae: it N ORK, Fabaniyr AUCTION SALES, By ELISON, POMEROY & CO. Bankrupt Sale At Auction, LARGE RETAIL STOCK. Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, and Caps, At Storo, 171 Bluo Teland-av., on MON| o, 2 10 o'oloole Uoing the outiro siack ol waunion’ Al ieniont ablo Guody, and will bo sold in lota to_ suit. tho'tradas Also tho Storo Fixtures, Iran Safe, Show.Casos, otor Sold by ordor of GEO. W. CAMPBELL, Lsq., Ase eignoo. ELISON, POMEROY & CO., Austioncers. Important Art Sale Of Yaluable Modern Original OIL. PATNTINGS From the Brooklyn (N, Y.) Art Gallery, ELISON, POMEROY & CO. tak ; for th astdovers of Oniags et o0y Wil ™ t0 104 AT ATCELON, On TUFSDAY and WEDNESDAY, FED. 2 and 35, ‘marning at 10 o'elook, aftornaon at 3 Molock, tho Targosk colloction of highi-clues, niodorn O1f Patutings ovor oges edinthisclty, - Charlca Tiodo Exn., proptiotor of the raoklsn Arc Galiory, will parsouaily suporiatond tho ssla ‘of this otlostion, Amang tha artlsts roprosontod aro thaso wha b thio highest ropatation In Buropo aud Arorica, aniong ol nay bo tound tho naios of Oita Erdman, Drosdont Peof. Carl Hulinor, Duscoldorf; F. JIncobs, Dnssoldort: Traak D. Bricen, Bhiladolphia? Ac Van Willis, Tironkirn} Theo, Vitilor, Lons siund EamindD. Lowiy, Phadol Dhiad aud et Gnual ciiluoticy. o entine ON EXEIBITION MONDAY, FEB. 23, FROM 9 A. M, TO 10 P. M. Tho art-I of i i Tyiertor oonla of Chiengo aro favitod to attond o salo I3 Withor a oubip alo 2 ithout ity resorsation, and wo must elose Tho Indinx ara respoctiully insited. ELISON, POMEROY £ €0, anotion eers, Dl-st. By GEO, P. GORE & GO, 068 & 70 Wabash-av, EXTRAORDINARY SALE oF DRY GOODS, AT ATUCTION, On Tuesilny, Feb. 2. commencing at 9 1.2 g, m, ‘The finost and most ot Ivo lino of LINEN G aud Tadioat“T1lkfe., Tablo Datisk Napking, Dot fowels o.” “Also, Lacos, Embroldetion iy "Digas Shirts, Neokt Undotwonr, and Genaral Furiisiios Gooder’ ot 200 Plecos Bilack Alpaca Bplondid stack of ‘Ha Spring atylos. t, 00 oholca Scgars. * WIIL alao closa a Bsnkrupt Stock of Dry Goods, Noe ot 1 f Silvor-pintad Ware, o Blests, Inl snlo of 20 Rolls Ty Al Gomimonea ot 11 alosg, ¥ onetiens sad Ras GEO. P, GORE: & €O, s ST Wbl ar, EIGHT BUNDRED CASES BOOTS AND SHOES AT AUCTION, BY OATALOGUE, ON FEB. 25, AT 9 1-2 A. M. ‘This sale will bo found completon nll grades of goods, and'aro frm manuiestcsen o Pita G P GORIE £, '133 At By | WL A T gg]'gfis & CO., INO. 108 MADIs‘éN-S'r., Botwaon Diarkirn And Ulark.) REGULAR SALES: 20 Buggies, Phastons, Haruess, &, WEDNIESDAY, at 10 o'slook, at 108 Madison-st. DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, &o., THURSDAY, at_ {0 o'clack, at 108 Maglsouat, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, On SATURDAY, at 0 . at N8 Madisonst, IWO-STORY AND BASEMENT FRAME DWELLING, Barn, and Lot, No. 101 Walnut-st., MONDAY ALTERNOON, FEB. 23, AT 3 O'CLK, ON THIE PREMISES, WA A, BUTTERS & Co. ‘Augtiono: By W, F. HODGES & CO., Monday, Feb. 23, at 10 a, m., Wo will sell tho ENTIRE CONTENTS of 50 SOUTH WOOD-ST., AT AUOTION, Lotwoon aud Caps, good quallty and Tarms aasy, i Waahington- BAITI~Buddonly, Suudoy, Fob. 23, 1874, at hia sost. vonsisting of Fine 1 Parl o B, oo o, Criekiry, Glatstace ol wlmmln(l‘?illh' Croniin. |00 Guok Hlove, - MODGES & €0,, Au Y