Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1874, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUN . CRIME. Horrible Murder Near IMary- ville, Mo. Statement of tho Woman Kate Stod- dard, of Goodrich Murder Notoriety. Miscellaneous Criminal Items. .Murder nenr Maryville, Mo, Spectal Dispaleh to The Chicaga Tribune, 81, fosEpm, Mo, Maroch 12.~Information reachod this city that Nicholas Lehmor was murdered in his houso, botweon Whitmsn and Gralinm, ¢,lovon miles from Maryville, Nodaway County, on Bunday ovoning, This aftornoon, Marshal Nol 'son, of Maryville, arrested Martin Tlogel, of Mutryville, who is supposed to bo tho murdoror. Q" Saturday, Mrs. Lohmer wont to Maryvillo to vi 816 ber sister; nnd, on Bunday, hor eon, nn only child, bade good-bye to his fatbior, and wont alio to Maryvillo.” “On' Monday ' they both' 're-' turned home. As' thoy camo in sight of ‘tho houso, thoy discoviired the cattle in the yard where they were nlw ‘ays kept at night. On on- toring tho house, they i(‘mml Mr. ;fihxsnr on ho bed, cold aund sti.@ in denth, 6 boy ran }nr tho . noareat’ neigh bor, who, with his wifo, Boon aftorwards arrived ot tho honse, In ro- moving tho bed-clothes ; from the dond body. it was discovered that Mr, Tuohmer had been shot in tho broast. Othor persons soon arrived, and oxamined the premises to ascortain whethor the mon wae murderod or had taken his own life, ‘I'wo intelligent gentlomon, who ovo this informntion, stato that tho firat blood found was near tho front door aud on the stove. Thoy then went into the kitchen, and found two drops of blood on the tloor, bay tho dishes_nvd other things wore on tho tablo, whoro Mr, Leh- mor hiad onton supper, just as ho had loft thom. I'he circumstances which gavo rido to the sus- foion that Martin Flegel ad murdored Mr, ohmer aro as follows: Flogel and Lohmer Dad bad o difficulty. Flogol has froquently gono o Lobmer's houso when ho was uut at home, Flegel borrowed a pistol on Saturdny of & man * horo, or tried to borrow or. purchasoe one. Ho has named two places where he went SBunday ovening, or whore ho staid ovor night ; but ho was ot noitbor place. Kato Stoddard’s Novelette==She Hc= comes Mer Own Lawyor and Pub- MshcrasA Sulcido and Not n Murder =vA Copyright on All the Incidentss From the New York Tribune, March 11, Tdzzie Lloyd Kin%, aliag_Kato Btoddard, who is pow in Raymond Stroet Jail, Brooklyn, awast~ ing her triul for the murdor of Charies Good- riob, bns emploded her Jelsure hours 10 writtng: gu extraordinary account of the tragedy, which sho kns copyrighted, with the avowed Intention of publishing it in pamphlet form. Bho says that she took up her pen soon after sho was Imprisoned, and having Sinished hor’ statemont, rosonted it to her couusel, with the expecta- | ion that it would bo used on tho trial. Thoy Iaughod at it, and insisted that the proper ground of dofonsgo was insanity, Sho rotorted that sho would either bo acquitted or hanged, and wrangled with tho lawyors until they asked Judgoe Gilbert to allow them to retire from tho. enso. Thoir requost was rofusod, and their elient, consideriug harself wader no obligations to take their advice, has given tho Brooklyn Union pormission to_publish lor statement, ro- taining all othor priviloges secnred by copyright. It is'n deninl rather than o confession, for, while she describes with morbid miuuteness the Incidents:of the lust hours of her acquaintance with Goodrich, and hier anguish after his death sha denics that she murdered him—donics thal sho over srid a8 much to Cblef Campbell or to any oug eles, Goodrich killed himself,” sho saye, ‘The polico anthoritios put no confidonce inbor statements, aud claim that sho is striving to plead hior owni ¢ause boforo trial, or olso that sho i8'insanc, * My tzunks had boon romoved to 204 East Forty-second- atroot, " New York, but I still ro- mained in tho fifth houso on Degraw stroot, Brooklyn, intending to stay thero until the party sntored.who hlldtmm‘l the lmsm!m" This is :3; way this noveletto opens. Supper was ro wh{;n sho joined Goodrich ot his house on the night ot the ‘murder, March 20, - sud after .it was eaten ho went out in tha rain to seo an old gentloman who had talked of'buying the houscs. He ro- turned at 10 p. m.,appeared melancholy, and said thas ho would try to drive away a headache by smoking a cigar. After hehad tuhen off Lis boots sho left him in tho dining-room and went up-stairs to bed. Her story of the suicide of Goodrich ia thus : ¥ After going up stairs I went to !IUEE. 1 presumo T hadl slept over two hours, I was awakencd by gho ro~ port of a fircarm, I did not know at first whelher it was in tho house or outside, s all tho doors were closed in the hall, I dressed and ran down stairs. Tho dining-room door nt the foot of the stairs wus locked, It wna not locked whea I wontup stalrs, T went through tho kitchen and opened the door into the dining-room, A coal firo was glowing in tho heat- er, Charlle was lying upon tho floor witllils own sil- ver-plated revolver near bis feot. 1is arm was partly outetretched, X knowno one had entered tho hous becouso the baserucut door front wns locked an barred, The police found it just na Charles had fast~ ened it, UP—stulrfl the doors were sccurely locked, No ane could huve entered except with o latch-koy, I recall distiuctly the emell of tho powder 08 I eniered the room, I was amazod but mot- frightencd, I took Lhis bead immediately in my sims, I pressed m‘{ Ups tohis, 1is mouth was quits warm, He had not smoked auy cigar that evoning, Isaw tho thickened bioou that hod matted tho bair at tho sife of Lis head just back of the temple. As I held Lim in my brms his faco grow chilled ood cold as marble, 1 nover eaw ony one dic - and Ldid pot know it whon Le was dead, From thomo= ment | found bim I did not notice the least changs on his featurcs, or the exprossion of them. I then ad- Justed by héad upon tho Hloor, 1iis boos stoad by tho carth whero bio foft thom, Iplaced them under his Licad ; also o plece of carpet tuat waa on tho hearth, T opened bis eyes, which wero partly closed, that I might look into thein, and how kind and luvingly they looked up at me! 0 if he had found perfect peaco, Lt watch ‘was on tho table, nlso his puras, It was 2 o'clock in the morning, Isat down by his side and tatked to him for hours, und sang in a low, contented murmur : “Now may tho grace, mezoy, aud neaco of our Lord aud Savior Jesus Obrise romain ond abide with you forever, Amen,” ¥ Sho then sporks of pouring the blood from his wounds into n cup from which she nsually drank her chocolate and wrapped the oup ina towel. Bhe eays that sho then took tho seal-ring off his inger ‘and put it on- her own. She wiped his face, put_the pistol at his sido_and wont to No, 204 Tast Forty-second street, New York, whoio hior trunks were Btored, sud at 5 p, m. started again for Coodrich's houso, Sho then ropeats tho story which sho is said to have told to Chlef Campboll, reciting her anival ab Fulton Forry, hor nurn[mso of o nowapaper containing an ac- count of tho murder, ‘and_ her roturn to the house in New York, She adds: 1 bought nearly every New York paper that was printed after that, and 1made clippinga of evorything touching the case. The defectives found " these clippings {n my trunk, I was much aurprised tolearn thut thero ware throo bullets iu his bead, I saw only a littlo blood, and knew bo had killed bimself, The dea of any one having entered the house had never occurred to me ns possible, Tho bar of waluut which o had braced tho outer bascment door with before I eut up wtalrs, was in its place, I wondered why o took that extra precaution affer it was locked, Tho quict, the order, together with tho dismul storni outside, all theso sirroundin, ufinenced my mind, I would havo goue to his fricuda and tald (hom, if I Liad not bitferly oxporis cenced the ‘unfriendly manner in which they ignored Ithe facts contaiued in the lettor I had given them, and iwhich was afterward published in tho dally papers, '¥or ths reason 1sbrank from dlsclosing my jdentity to any oug, When I road in the papers that suspiclon !fustened directly upon me a8 tho Enpctntnr of tho dood, I would have shot myself through the hend sooner than have Lexn discovered, for Iknow thoro Waa 110 way of proviug my Innocenco,, Blio then spoake of attending Goodrich's fune-~ ral unsuspected, and afterwards waudering to Fort Groono with Goodrich's rovolver in her pocket, detormined to shoot hersolf if she wero discovered. In the _cvoning she attended church, On Monday, Mareh 24, sho obtained work and soon returned to Brooklyn to board, 1In an appondix sho dotnils the particulars of hor arrcst as already known to the publio, and thoro gtvos hor version of what ocenrrod botweon hor- self and Chiof Campboll, nesorting that she made no confesaion. Hno Bays : 1 biad o blue ribbon on my neck with the Jocket at- tached, The Chlef spied tio locket, which I thought ‘waa concealod by my cravat, and ordored the Captain o see what that was, The locket i divided by u crys. al fu two compartmonts, Inone was tho preserved wignonette, which bad becomo brittte aud crumbled to atoms, 1In the other was Charlie's blood ivcougealed particles, Iompticd these contents into my hund and swallowed them boforo the Captain could take it, When iy trunka arrived at tho stution T nsked to bo ullowed to get tho rest of Charlle's blood that remained i the cup und place it fu the locket, Xor this reason X objected to passing it to the jury ot tho inqueat, After Icumoto prison I luld it dowu to chunge the ribbon, ‘Wheu I tool. jt up ten minutes after there was nuthlug in it, Someone must huve unfuatenod ft, It coul not havo ocame unfaatened itself. Whother tho lnto Charles Goodrich came to his doath by his own band, or by tho baed of suother, I know not, Dut this I know={or the infatuatod dovotion with whick X ahed his memory for thin T was arrested ; for this 1 liavo endured tho iartgrdom of elght montsa” tmpris- onment ; and for this I amn to be scntenced, Wi The Allcllcfl urder in Peorim, Al Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Triduna, ProRIA, 1L, March 12.—Thomas Fitzpatrick, tho allogod wifo-murdoror, now stands rogu- Iarly commitiod undor a writ issued to-day by tho Qoroner. Thoro can bo no further nction takon in hin case until the Grand Jury indicts bim for murder, which cannot be done until the May torm of the Ciromst Court. The funaral of the murdered woman took place to-day, and was Iargoly attonded h{ Irish friends of tho do- consed, Fitzpatriok s stohd and rcticont on tho subjeat, and Is guarded in hia conyoraation, whenover hio can be drawn into a conference. From his many. confused and rombling stato. monta of the affair and of tho clrcumstancos preceding and following, there is but littlo doubt that ho is tho gulity party. A Confidence Oporntor Sentonced. Specrat Dispateh to I'he Chieago Tribune, ' Aryoy, Ill., Mach 10,—An old maun named Wood, w\:o, about two yoars ago, forged tho namo of saveral promincnt men of this couuty to ordors for goods on busiuoss firms in this clty, and obtained the goods and thon left for parts unknown, but was arrosted about alx wooka ago.in Kontucky aud brought bock hora b sfiurm Coopor, was tried botore tho Alton Oity Court, found guilty, and seutencod to-day to ono yoar in tho State Penitontiary. The Hutchins® Libel Casc in St, Louis, Sectat Dispateh to The Chicapn Tribune, 81. Louis, Mo., March 12.—Dopositions in the $100,000 libel sult instituted by Mr. Hutching against tho Tintes nowspapor pmcnedndv:o-day, but again with closed doors. Tho chief witness was Button, local editor of the Times while Hutohins was propriotor, and Clork of tho Mis+ sourt Ilouss of Ropresontatives at tho time Hutchins lobbied through the Wagnor statuto job, [lis testimony, it is sald, will involve two Houators and at least throo Ropresontatives. Incests Special Disvateh to The Chicaso Tribune, Droaror, Ind., March 12.—Tho trinl of Miss Jacobs for incest with her brothoer took place to-day. Tho jury found the defondaut guilty, and sontenced ber to twenty-fonr hours in the County Jail. Tho girl is half-witted, which will oxplain tho lenienoy of tho jury. 'Cho brothor's txial will bo eld to-morrow. Arrest of an Alleged Thiof. Svecral Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, McGRreaor, Ia., March 12.—At Codar Falla, Ja., to-day, Detectivo Sossions arrested G. W. Albortson, of Bassott, In., who recently flod the county with 81,000 belonging to Bassott, Hunt~ ing & Co., of this city. He will be taken to Chailos City for trinl. Two Men Doliberately Murdored at Indinnola, Texan. Gavvestox, Tox., March 12.—The Galveston News' Indisnols apecial. says, about 1 o'clook, this aftornoon, two men, one named Taylor, the other unlmown, walked aboard tho ateamer Olin- ton, lying at tho wharf hero, and deliboratoly shot ‘and Lilled two men, named Button and Blaughter, and thon mado thew oscape, Theso mon wara all connocted with the bauda of deu- Bomdocu that aro makiog things 8o lively io owitt County of late. The murdered men wore supposod to be making an effort to get away on tho steamer, having boen wained that thoy were followed. THE INDIANS, Scnator Tipton’s Views Concerming the ‘Threatoncd Outhreak in Nee Lraska--The Apaches Becoming Un- ruly. Speetal Dispatch to The Chicago Triduna, ‘Wasmivarox, D. C., March 12.—Benator Tip- ton, who hag just returned from a visit to No- braska, ridicules the ides that the sottloments in any part of the Btate are threatened with Indian hostilitics. Ho ovidently haa no high regard for tho courago or good senso of Gov. Furnas, who was here a fow wooks ago frantically appealing for arms with which tho citizena might defend themsolves. Bax Franoisco, Cal., March 12.—The Hualpals Apaches declaro their willingness to roturn to the old grounds and oboy all tho orders of Gen. Crook, but they aay thoy will all_dio bofore the will go to the ‘Colorado Rivor Rescrvation. If the troops want to fight them, they must expect & big batile, Gen. Crook is at Ban (arlos, On tho 10tk of Marob the Apachos stolo stock trom Simou Banchoz and Francisco Romero, ‘near Tucson, ''he men puraned them, a fight eusuad, and Bunchoz was killed by the Indians. The Arizona Indians. BAN Franoisco, March 12.—A dispatch from Prescott, Arizons, says much surpriso aud indig- nation was occasioned in town when tho San Frannisco pnsuru woro receivod containig the Washington dispatch giving Indian Agent Town- or'a lotter to the Commissioner upon the condi~ tion of affairs at Verdo, the Apache Reservation. Tho wholo roport i8 a tissue ot garbled factsand {false statoments, plausibly arrangoed to decoive the outsido world, and bring about the accom= plishment of certain objects; but it faila to blind tho paople of this Territory, who know him. The [ndiana at the Verde Reservation number 1,400, with daily accossions, They are preparing to plant corn and make frrigation ditches, and cxpross themaclves aa well eatisfied with their trostment and contonted with their situntion, Thoy say they want to bave their pormanent home established on that resorvation, whioh has alwaya been their country. CASUALTIES. ‘Wonderful Performance of a Locos motive Engine. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Osukosn, Wis,, March 12.—Ono of tho most singular accidents on record accurred' on tho track of the Northwestern Ilailrond, noar this city this aftornoon. Ae tho 8 o'clock freight train from tho north neared tho round-houee, tho locomctive jumped from the main track, striking right side up on a side-track, at the dis- tanco of six feot, The tonder was drawn one- half way across, but the rest of the long train remainad on the track. The concussiou was g0 great that in tho pnssenger cars the stovo and #oats and passongers wore all badly mixed np. Sovoral porsons wero alightly bruised, but no ‘bones were broken., Wheu tho accident occurred tho ongine Liad passed soventy-fivo feet from tho Junction of the switch, aud after the nccidont it Btood entirely uninjured with all its wheols on the othor track, six feot distant. The Fate of Six Noble Mcn, &pecial Drspaleh to The Chicago Tribune, East Banwvaw, Mioh,, March 12,—The bodv of Willinin Mitcholl, one ot the ill-fated crow of six who loft Alabastor in a fishing-bont last winter to roscue McEwan aud Smith, was found to-day noar Alnbaster, whore it was washed nshoro. Thia effoctuaily sottles tho fate of the crew, if in fact any doubt oxisted. The body was fouud by Jobn Kenny, divested of all clothing, excopt. pauts, shir{s, and socks, and bad the appesrance of boing o long timo in the water, Aocloso watch is being ket for tho remnaining bodies, which it 1 expocted will bo washed ashore. POLITICAL. New, Hampshire Eloctions Coxcony, N, H,, March 13.—Weston fails of an eleotion by the peoplo from 800 to 600 votes, Tour ftepublican and four Democratic Sonatora aro electod, with no choice in four districts, From roturns amiready in tho Iouse stands: Demoocrats, 172; Ropublicans, 167, Eight towns to Liet' from, which Iast yoar oloctod Demoorats, aud probably have dono so this your. paatdet sttt o MICHIGAN PIONEERS, Special Disvateh to The Cnicago Tribune, TLANsING, Dlich., March 12,—A meeting of the pioneora of Ltho Stato of Miclugan for the organ- izntion of o Biate Assoclation was hold lust evoning &t tho old Capitol builiing, Albort Milter, of Bay 0]&{, acted a8 Uhnlnnunl and J. a. Hn'mun, of Detroit, ns Senmtnri. Twenty- gix counties wero represanted. Ir. Cody, of Macomb, said ho had beon a residentof this Btato for ixty-threo yoars, He moved into- the ‘Lor- ritory whou it contained but 8,000 sottlors, A resolution was offored and adopted, that a Committeo of nine be appointed to draft articles of association in accordanco with an act approved April 26, 1873, rolating to tho orgaoization of Btate and municipal' bistorical, biographical, and geological soociotios, This Committee was composed as follows: Mr, Baxter, Chairman; Levi Bishop, Henry A, 8haw, Ephraim Loug- }onr, J. W, dhildu, 0. C, Comstock, A. Brown, ohn M, Ingersoll, and Ralph Ely, Laasing waa chiosen as tho placo of the next moeling ; the Bocloty could not agreo as to time. The meet- lu;i then adjonrned #ino die, 'ho Committoe met this morning and decided tomoet in Reprosentative Ohamber April 22, admittlog all porsons, but restricting tho rlgh‘ of votiug to threo delogaton from osoh xepre- ] chior- | sentatiye disirlot. FRIDAY, FOREIGN., Grand Entrance of the Duke of Ecinburgh and Bride into London, The Austrian Government Turning Its Attention to the Ultramontanes. | . GREAT BRITAIN. Loxnoy, March 12.—Tho entire route of tho pracorsion’ of tho Duko aud Duchess of Edin- burgh, from P addington Btation to Buokinglism Dalace, Ia vin Oxford, and Rogont etreot s gaily docorated with flags, stronmers, otc, Tho proces- sion will bogin to movo at 11:40 this morning. TATER, TowpoN, March 12.—Tho wenther this morn- ing'is very unfavorablo for the formal entry into London of tha Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, A blinding snow prevails, and the ground s coy~ ored to & depth of threo inches, Notwithstand- ing great crowds havo asgembled along the routo from Paddington Btatlon to Buokingham Palacs, whose population, indeod, sopms to have gath- ored in tho Wost End, Rt way trains arriving from tho country aro crammed.” Vehicles of ol doscriptions nro oxoluted from the routo and the immodiato vicluity. 3 TLonpon, March 13,.—The Duke and Duchioss of Edinburgh have made their ontry into the Motropolis, Tho {Aragmmmq wns siriotly car- riod out, although tho sndw foll from tho lymgm- ning to tho ond of. tho coromonios, Tho procos- ston moved shortly aftor noon from Paddington Btation lhmn;}h Oxford and Rogent stroots to Buckingham Paleco, Notwithatanding tho un- propitions weather, thoir Royal Highnesscs rode ‘1n an opon carringe, and the stroots along tho route were crowed with spoctators. o houses on both sidea were liberally decoratsd; nnd the roadway lined with soldiera and mariners from tho station to tho palace. As the Duko and his brido pnssed by Warrentpn cheor following choor eamo from ono ond of the route to tho othor, On - thoir arrival ot Buckingham Palace, in front of which immense massos of spoctators had gathored, tho royal party appeared uncoverod upon the baleony, and _wore greotod with overy manifestation of loyalty and offection by the peoplo, whose num- ber bt that pomtis ostimated at 50,000, To- night tho entire Woat End was brilliantly illami- uated, and denso crowds blook tho streots. A torohlight procession of medical studonts march- od to Buckingham Palace, and serconded the royal pair, J "To-day, in tha Houso of Commons, the admin- 1atration of tho oath to mombers was completed, aftor which a ‘motion to adjourn until the 18th iuet, was adoptod. The: roport of the early retirement of the Archbishop of Canterbury is contradicted. The Caledonian Raflway fs blocked by snow, Bovoral trains are buried in drifta. The fall of suow has been unprocodentod along the line of the rond. In some places Lho station-housos are covored, the chimneys only appearing. Orton’s married sistor, one of tho witnesses in the Tichborne. case, and member of tho Orton Tamily,'donies that the Tichborne olaimant is hor brother. ~ Mra. Pittendreigh, another withess, doclares that the sister has been a party to the conspiracy from tho bnglnmnF. § - [Herald Special.) N LonpoN, March 12.—Rouser; Pietrle, and sevoral hundred prominent Frenchmen have al- roady arrived to attond tho foativitics at Chiscl- hurst, on the occasion of the majority of the Princo Imporil. Lonpox, March 18—b5 a. m,—Tho crowds which witnessed the procession yosterday wore at some pointa donge, and tho prossuro was 8o groat that soveral accidonts ocourred. A staging at Char- ing Oross broke down, throwing thirty perrons to the ground. Tho police report the total cas- asltles during the day at four killed, and twenty- four Injured. Tho City of Portsmouth will give public ban- quets to the troops roturning from Lhe Ashanteo oxpedition, —_— AUSTRIA. ViENNA, March 12.—The Emperor Francis Joseph has suthorized his Government to as- sumo n strong attitude againat tho Ultamontano opposition to tho ecclosinstionl laws. - g GERMANY, ? New Yonx, March 12,—A dispatch from Bor- lin_says . that the-illness of Bismarck is sorious, and causes apprehonaion to his phyuxcim,m. ‘ 3 % TURKEY. . CoxnsraNTINOPLE, March 12.—Thero i great distress among the poor poople hera in conse: quenco of the heavy snow-storm. Private ch itable organizations, in addition to the Govern- mont, aro activoly at work to reliove sufforing. ———— SPAIN. Bavonwe, March 12.—The Carlists roport that their forco hiave entored Inun, and have begun oporations againat Olot. Maonip, March 12.—The Governor of Bilbon has informed Marehal Sorrano that he has pro- visions sufliciont to Inat until April, and that ho will continue a vigorous defonse of thoe city. —_—— FIRES. At Chenoa, Xil. - Speetal Disvatch to The Chicano Tridune, Broounarox, 11, March 12,—DBotwoen 8 and 9 o'clock last evoning the roof of Crosby's mill at Clhonon was discovered to bo on fire, and, fle!{:ite all tue efforts tosavoit, !hatfinfibui}d(ng, with tho elovator aud warghouse attached, was spacdily burned to the grofind, and it was with difliculty that the Inmbor-yards and mills close by wore saved. Tho flames wors seon at Bloom- ington, twonty-five miles distant, The loss is $23,000; insured for about half. * Xn Boston. - Bosrox, March 12.—rhore were ten firos here Iast pight, but uul( two.woro of conscquonce,—. ono on Commoroial atroot, where the loss was about $65,000, and anotlor on Plympton stroet, involving a loss of $25,000 ; mostly insured, At Clyde, 0. Sperial Dapatch ta The Chicago Tribune, TOLEDO, O.fp(llfinrch 12, — Kandall's photo- raphio gallery at Clydo was burned at miduight fiur. night, it is supposed, hg on {ncondiary, ‘The losa is $1,600; ivsuied fn the Frankln for 000, RELIGIOUS, Dishop Cummins? Reoctorship. New Yonk, ‘March 12.—Bishop Cummins has sceeptod tho Reotorship of tho Firat Reformed Episcopal Church, — THE WEATHER. ‘Wasmnarox, D, C., March 12,—Forthe Uppor Lake rogion and south over the Obio Valley, olear or \,lml_v cloudy wenther, low tomparature, and northwost winds. : GENENAL ODSERVATIONS. *~ Ourcaao, March 12—1 a, m, Lain Weather, W, frei 8. E., gentlo, Choyenuo, Clevelaud,,, 10|N,, freshi.... N\, fresh. 8,, freab. loar, |Olear, Light snow, ot Light snow, Cloar, Leavenw'th, | Omaba, 3 Pombini Tolodo, Yuukton ., .| TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Tho DMonmouth Park raco meeting at Long Branch will be held this scason under the mau- agoment of the American Jockoy Club, —Coliector Bimmons, of Boston, hns relicved from tho Custom House Col, L, 0, Kim, brother- in-law of Hon. A, I, Ttico, —T'ho Kansas Stato Board of Agriculture s in sogsion in Lenvenworth. That city will probably be solocted as the placo for holding tho nox Btato Fuir, : —The Lrie RNailway strike ended tho maleontents having effocted compromige with the Company. —The Prapnatnru of nowspapera in Memphis hinvo potltionod the printers to reduco composi- tlon from 05 to 60 conts, Tho Typographical Unlon lns YDBH)ODII(‘ aotion il the first Wednes- day in April, —The jury in tho caso of Kin the murder of O'Nelll, in New York City, has rendored a vordict of guilty .in the second de- groo. —A partial examination of the Brookiyn ac- esterda; [3 n’ilufmtm!y' charged with counts shows that tho amount alloged to have boon atolon will roach $100,000. * —An_old German resldont of Dloomington namoid Louzo was killod yosterday by drinkiug s poisonous rolution instend of wine, ~Tho Rov. D. L, Loonard, pastor of tho Oongrogational Church at Normal, Ill,, has ro- ocoived n’ call to Hannlbal, Mo,, sud will preach thore next Sunday. —Iho Rov, Fathor Edward Torry, of Chicago, sdddressod a Iarge audionoo in Ottsiva, 1il, in tho Oporn-Houso last ovening. His subject, * Tho langusgo of the Soriptures,” was well handled, and tho attontlon of tho audionco was held from tho oponiug to the closo, for noarly two lioura, —All Information recelved in regard to the orap of wintar wlent in Missourl ropresents its condition as oxcollent. Tho orop s not at all Injured bv stross of woathor, and that earliost sown locks very promisiug, — LINCOLN’S RELIAIOUS BELIEF, Dotter from Ward I3, Lamon to Henry Ward Bocchers Mantinenuna, W, Vi Rev, Ienry Ward leecher : My Deant 8n; At tho timo of its publication my ntlontion was dirocted to a *‘Reviow of the Lifo of Lincoln,” which appesred In the Ohs- tlan Tufon, in July, 1872, This papor was by many attributod to your pon; it cortainly must have mcoived your editorial sanction, I do not conceal tho faot that somo of its critl- clem touchod mo shnrplv; but I determined, aftor no little doliboration, that it was Lottor to submit in sflonce to whatever might bo said or written of that blography. - To this dotormina~ tion I have herctofore ndhered vory strictly, and Imay nck very unwisoly in acparting from it now. It happens, however, that coriain lecturcs dolivored by Mr., Herndon, of Illinols, have ro- nowed tho disousslons of Mr. Lincoln's roligions ballof ; incident to that disoussion somao of the bittorest onomies of my own have taken ocoas- iou torenow their assaults upon me for what my honost duty ae a biographor mnde it necos- sary for mo to record m rogard to so important an oloment in Mr, Lincola's character. o . . They could hiave no connection with this Iottor woro it not that in this assauit upon my charao-~ tor thoy havo claimoed the authority of tfiu Union to sustain ono of their most unjust chargos, I rofer to that portion of the roview whivh touches upon my own roligions bellef, . . . In your commont u[;&u thint part of tho hlogra- phy which treats of Mr, Lincoln's religion, you #ry: ‘“A coriain doubt is cast upon his argu- mont by the heartiness of it. Wa caunot avoid an improssion that an anti-Christian animus in- spires him,” And you further say, * How far was Lincoln a religious man, he doos not know, in that ho doos not know .what Lincoln was, nor what roligion is,” ThatI did not know what Mr. Lincoln was I must take loave to contradict with some emphasis; that I do know what roligion is, in the prosenco of so’ many filustrious failures to comprehond its truo charsoter, I may bo pormitted to doubt. Buunklnlz of Mr, Lincoln in reforence to this foature of his chiaracter, I oxpross the de- cided opinion that he was an_emineutly moral man, the symmotry of his conduct being marred by tho singlo blomish which gave to bis convor- sotion at times soma taint of indeconcy, if not unchastencss, Rogarding him na a moral mon, with my viows upon the rolations oxisting be- twveen the two charasteristics, I have no diffloul- ty m belioving him to bave boon a moral man. Yot ho was not & Ulratisn, He possessed, it is truo, n eytom of faith and worship, but it was one which orthodox Christianity nl‘gmntlzoa a8 an, 81, 1674, o falso roligion. -Tho langusge omployed in the original on_ this pubjoct was somowhat of this characl iz, ¢ It surely cannot be s difficult mattor to determine ‘whother & man who lived so recently and so famously was a Christian or not, If he wos a Christion he must havo been sincero, for slucerity {5 one of the first of Cliristian virtues, and if sincero o must havo availed himeolf of tho promises of the Lord by a public pro- fesslon of his fxith, baptism in his name, and mom- berahip of his Ohurch, Did Mr. Lincoln do this? No one protenda that he did, and thosg that maintnin that ho was novortheless a Christian must hold that a man mn{nbu o Christian and not keep ono of the lalnost commandments; that ho may fol- ow Jesus yob dony Hum; that he may bo sahamed to ‘own. his Redeomer nnd yotclaim his intorcossion ; that he may sorve him accopiably forssking unothing, ac- lmowlodim nothing, rupontlngnnthinfi. Whon 1t is eatablished by the tostimony of the Chrise tian ministry that sinnors may -entor heavon b & broad Dback pato like this, fow will thivk i worth whilg to contiuua in tho strait and narrow path Jm:ucrlbod by the word of God. They who would canonize Mr. Lincoln as a aain £10uld cnuso and reflect o brief moment upon the incale culable injury thoy do the cause which most of them profoss tolove, The deification of profe. lignte Cmsars was shocking enough to the moral ronso of = decent heathon, but whatis to be- come of the Christinn Church when more politicians, - who nover so much as protended to nccopt a singlo one of tho lenst important precopts, aro thrust into the highest placea in tho calendar of saints? This 18 sncriloge. I bave naver assorted thiat Mr. Linooln was a ako tic. Ho entortained the belief that the Holy Seriptures were not of divino inspiration. On this pont his mind had reached a fixed and un- alterable decision. Ho was an infidol, and rosted in his conclusions, It wonld certainly have been glnunn: to mo to have closod the chaptors of his iography without touching upon'his religious opinions; but puch an omitsion would have vio- Inted the fundanmertal principle noon which ev- ory lino of the book was traced. Had it been possible to have truthfully asserted that he was # member of the Church’of Ohrist, or that ho believed in tho teachings of the Now Testament, tho facts would bhave been proclaimed with & glow of ocarnest aud unfeigned satisfaction, I como now to complam of the injustico which you biavo dono me porsonally when you say that, *Tho heartiness of his argumenis npon Mr. Lincoln's religion casts a certain doubt upon it, and leaves tho impression that ho was inspired by an anti-Chiistian aoimus.” Pardon me, my doar sir; although nota professing Chris- tian mysalf, I may say that fow mon possoss a daepoer vonerntion for the Christiau religion and oll that the orthodox Church regards as sacred than the humblo individual whom you make tho subject of your somewhat sovers criticism. I may not always employ the langusge which would bost deolare my meaning, but when so many very good people in pious and loyal zeal sought to mako their idol (and I might enymine) a devout and rigid Christian, I doonied it unjust tolim and injurious to Christianity iteelf to permit such an orror to pass without corrcction and refutation, . . . ‘Wanp H, LAxON, — An Editor Who is Deaf. _From the Santa Clara (Cal.z Eeho, . Wo thought everybody in the State” knew that wa aro deaf, but once in a whilo we find one who i not awaie of tha faot, A female book-peddler come to tho offico the other day. She wished to disposo of o boak. Bhe was*nlono iu this world, ond had no one to whom sho could tury for sym- Rnhy or assistance; honce wo should buy Ler ook, She was uvmaried and had no maniy heort into which sho could pour her auflormgfi, thorefora we ough to invest in her book. Bhe bad received a liberal education, and could talk Fronoch like o nativo; wo could not, in consoqguenc pay her lees than 82 for s book. Wo had listened at- tentively, and horo brole in with: * What did vousay? Wo're doal.” Bho staried fn a lond voice, and went_through her rigmarole. When aho had finlshod, we wont and got a roll. of pa- por, and made it into & apoaking-trumpet, ‘Flnuenl ono end to our oar, and told her to prooeed, Bhe nearly broke o blood vessel in her effort to make horsolt hoard, 8he commenced: “I nm alona in this world—," ‘It docsn't make tho slightest differonce to us., Wo ave a husband aud father, Bigamy is not nliowed in this State, We ate mot ohgilblo to - propo- sala," ¢ Qh, what o fool the man is” ho Baid in a low tono; then at the top of hor voice, **I don't-want.to marry you, I waut to soll-a-b-o-0-k.” ‘'his Iast Hontouco was bowled. - * Wa don't ivant a coolk,"” we romarked blandly ; * our wifa doos tha cookiug, and she wouldn't allow as good-looking & woman 88 you to stay in the houso five minutes, Bhe is very Jjoalous,” Sho Jooked at u in despair., Gathor- g her robes about her, giving us & glance of contempt, she excinimed : ** I do boliove that if & 300-paunder wore lot off alongside that doaf fool's hioad he'd think somebody was knoozing at tho door,” You should bave heard hor. slam the door when ebe wont ont. Wo heard that, —_———— Stoel Ponv. Tho American Manufacturer, of rocont dato, glves some intoresting facts about pona, It ap- peara that in Birmingham, England, the numbor of steel pons mado weekly is abour 98,000 gross, or 14,120,000 separato pons. ‘Thirty yesrs ago, pens wore wold wholesnlo at $1.25 u gross; now, pons as good, or botter, may ho bhad ot § conta por gross, When it is romombered thub aach gross roquires 141 plecos of stacl.to go through at loast twolve processcs in the courso of maunufaoturo, tho fact that 144 complete pens oan bo sold for 3 oents, after paving for ma- torlal, puying wagos to work poople, and loaving & profit to mnker, I8 & convinclug proof of the ro- sults attainablo L,v tho exeroise of mechanical ingerinity and dwislon of labor, Those prices, bowever, appear to bo wholessle quotations, —_— ~The Bloux Oity Journal is in the fleld ale rendy with'storios of epring wheat sowlng in that reglon. . SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, High Prices of Real Estato at and i Around Los Angeles. Peouliarities of the Gountry—The CQost of Living, Tho Expense of Getting a Frult-Farm into Working Order, Ertracts from a aeries of privats letters, Los Anaxrrzs, Cal,, Jan, 5, 1674, Ilanded hore on Now-Yoar's day, after a rough and rainy voyage, of noarly throo davs' duration, along tho cosst from Bau Francisco to Ban Podro, and am rapidly recuperatlog from the fatiguo of the long journcy from Chloago to thia point. Inspite of the ‘‘palace” cars, novel aconory, oto,, I am'bound in all. candor to say that I found it oxcensively wearisoma, I will roport progross from timo to timo, and you may dopond upon it both for my own sake and yours, that X will spare no pains to get at such fuots—or what soem to mo (o bo faots—as Lavo n boaring on tho question at issue. You will bear in miud that all quotations and eati- matos I may sond you will bo . IN aoLD, T.os Angolos ia full of Esstern people who havo como loro in soarch of boalth, and not a fow are prospacting with & view to pormanent sottlomont. On thia account I think that roal- catate denlors have got pricos up to a spoonli- tive rathor than & liviug atandard. Unimproved laund, with a certain supply of waler, is worth in this vieinity 100 and upwards per acre ; within the city limits, $200 and upwards; with im- provemonts both insido and outside tho limits, all tho way from $350 to $1,000 por acre. The climato scema to bo all that any ono could rea- sonably dosire ; thermometer 65 to 60 during tho day ; one rainy day so far, tho rost bright and sunny ; mornings and ovenings cool. Have soon many linon coats in uso on tho street to- dny, and found in my strolls the shude of the trocs—conspicuous among which is the poppor- treo, with its red, wax-like berrles—quito re- froshing. ¥ Jan.11,—Another rainy day,—the second sinco my arrival. Grass of a delicato greon, snd a profusion of flowers in full bloom, meet the eye everywhore, and orango troes old enough tobear aro loaded with fruic, I bovo boen to the S8an Gabriel Mission, but found no land offered thicro that wonld accommo- dato itself to my pile. Prices are unmistakably and (8 & would-be purchaser, I think) 'UNREASONABLY HIGI. I mean, of courss, land well supplicd with water. That (tho water not the Innd) haa all boen *cor- raled,” a8 they esy here, and is tho largest itom in the purchase-money. Oh, how unlike Calu- mot ! About one milo from the Mission there are somo good lands that can bo bought for $20 to $26 por aoro; but there is no surface-wator in sufflcient supply for fruit-cultmo, Iowevor, wells can bo du;i (86 to 100 foot), which, with wind-power, will 6ach furnish water for & acres of treos. Tho cost, including mill and tank, will be almost $300. 'This, you sve, marks up* the land 60 per acre st ono pop, . Ten miles from Ban Gabricl {8 & now.-sottlo- ment olose to the mountains, which hns some flno lands for ssle. Their location insures the oultivator againat all donger from frost. Price, | 840 per scro,—ono-third eash, balance in one and two_yoars, with intorest at 12 per cont. The Jund has now & luxuriant growth of sage, cactus, elo., which cannot be clesred off for loss than $4.60 per nore, With a cortain Bupply of wator, this would bo an excellent looation ; "but I con~ foss 1 was uuablo to share in the sanguine calcu- lations of tho owners in regard to that most im- portant problom. JAN. 18,—Hove mado - no investment yot. Thero are so many contingenciea! What with aguo, fogs, frosts, aand-storms, flons, drought, oxican Lelfi, etcetors, one has nood of sharp eyes, o long head, and liltle faith, who aspire« to ‘become a gettlor in Southern Californin, To bo suro—so 'tis said—thers aro nono of these in- convenionces here, But how well I romember, out on the Mississippl River, whea visitors mado the inevitable inquiry about * fovernager,” that it novor was there, alihongh *thoy had it bad " in the nelghiboring (pud siyal) tora JAN, 25.—8ince wroto you last, I have visited ANAHEI, y e, S the place abont which you raved so mnch. Well, Aunheim proper is—sandy and windy ; &t lenst I found it disagreenbly so; but, in othor ra:fimcta, quite a ploasant littlo town, 0 80l well-watered, produces freely, When the settlo~ ment (German) was startod, they had wine on tho braiu, and 8o have gonerally taken to_grapo- cultura; scarcely any oraugo or othor fruit-traes bave boen set out. Thoy do not irrigato gruro— Yinos ot all if there has been s wot wintor (like tho present), and only once if & ono. The company that owus the Stearns Ranchos has 150,000 acres in market (thocheapost sort $20 per nere) ; aud, with tho water-question beyond all doubt, somo of thoir lands would be very desira- blo, Hir, Olden, the sccommodatiog and come ] municative agent of this Company, confident of tho passsge by tho Logisiature, now in sesson, of somo kind of A bill that will make their ditoh “all right.” But I caunot precieely seo how logisla- tion con supploment the deficiencios of Nuwure in regord to the fluid-supply, and do not af pres- ent fecl disposed to take any chances in thiy direotion. ' 1 may add tuat fleas, centipodes, and {frosts are as sure as denth or tnxes on the sandy lands here, although up in the foot-hills thoro is no probability of aunoyauco from either (of tho threo firat named!). . ’ A cogpany organized in the northern part of thus Stato, with a capital stock of 50,000, hos bought 160 acres 4 milos from Anahoim, and has bad a residont agent attending o ita intorosts lor tho past two yoars, He hae put up a houss; dug a well 76 feot deep from which Lo rajses the waler by horse-power ; hos set out a number of trees, which Lo has had to irrigate by hand; will sot out more traca if ' tho ditch " 18 complated ; 1f not, the enterprise will probably be abandoned. Last summor, he, with threo others, worked soveral days putting sacks on the young trees to koop the grasshoppers from lulling thom, (Put down grasshoppers in your list of California productions!). Five miles from Ananeim, across the Santa Anua Biver, los the young sottlement of RICOLAND (name about to bo chaugzed to Orange), It was started in 1871, is supposod to be dirgctly on tho lie of the Toxas Pacific Railroad (Wwhoso pro- posed terminus is Sandy-. 'WI)' and cun boast of tho best class of sotilers” X bLavo scen in this country so far. Thoyall scem to be men of sonse, and are most of them men of means, who pull togothor for the common woal ; while their agent is o bright jowol among real-cstate men Qoing o groat dosl, but saying vory littlo ; and that fitt1 - tho truth, the wholo truth, and noth- ing but the truth, In Chicago, of couree, men in that business always koop within the limits of city ; but I rogrot to say that out hero somo of thom will lto. 'Lhis, however, is a di- grossion, * The lnnds this gontloman has in charga are of throo kinds : First, & fluo, rich sandy loal socond, anothor; atmost similar, called ** land " ;. third, a conrso grave! with some soil in~ tormixod, and clay lonm underneath at s dopth ot about 4 feot. Thero is quite a difforonce of opinion in the sottlemont rogarding tho value of the latter for orange and grape-oulture,—tome afliming that it 18 the vory best for these pur- poses ; othor some that it is not worth a conti- nontal for frull of any kind, Actunal experimont alone can sottlo the A}ueuuou 3 and, with this end in viow, one practioal philosopher has set out 800 treos, and is about to sob out as many moro in “ the gravel,” Pricos are as follows 1 Gravol, or No, 8, in ample supply st $80 per aoro ; red land, or No. 2, $40 por acre, aud "? Titklo in markot ; sandy loam, or No, 1, all in private bauds, and_held at $80 to $100 per acro. The ‘waler-supply is abundant, Lach purchaser of land pays $2 per acre, and becomes theroupon a stookholder in the Wator Company. QVhou used, tho procious liquid s ‘mld for by the_bour, so muck for ‘“ahoad” (of 100 hmhou?. The Land Company owns a larfzo ranoh adjoining the one I inva been dokoribing, which Is now oifered at £20 por ncre, aud to which thoy purpose constructing another *‘ditch™ au soon " as enough land has boen sold to Y.ny for tho (in- dispensablo) improvement, On the whole, Rich- lsud impreskos me_vory favoravly ;. notlnng, ex- copt in this immodiato vicinity (1, e., of Lot Ane goles), 1more Ko, I'zn, 2.—ITave made no purchase yet. 'Oauso why? The pania is just beginning (o make itself Jelt here, Mounoy 1y indubliably tight (es also 2z many of tho Indinus and Moxicans, male and fomals, T have obanced to meot), I guess thero is no need boing'in a hurry to buy, Tho wosthior ln‘:l’;'l:!:‘:l‘l m:llxlln folgumt beautitully groen; tho ingly dusty, Fend0. 1t g . TIAINED FOR THTEE DAYS in aucoonsion, and tho stroots arc . consequontly vory dirty. Bud in rainy weathor and dust in dry weathor, {a tho rulo liors ns olsewlioro, A ;innd many of the visitors who have boon con- tined to their nglrlmunh during tho wet spoell. aro frotting ang mminfi, ond .pronouncing Oaly fornin in gonoral, and Los Angoles in partioular, alla cathed fraud, Btrango as It may scom, rain is no diorhore than it is in Chioago! ' Ono would nagino, howaver, from the grumbling thas 18 audiblo tn the hotol-parlors, that ono ought to have tho. priviloge of waiking out une mlmn'd in a raiu-atorm hero without becoming * & dom'd, moist, unploasant body.” But thero is ono,and that by no meanainadoquato, componsa- tlon for the temporary disaoinfort, in' tho frosh, bright, and gay look™ of Naturo whon the sun Dbreaka out onco more; and I oan onnily imagine liow a strangor, scoing Californin only st this soaton, may. receive very ertoncous fmprossions rogarding its climato. "Bome of tho knowin; ongs hiore, who ara disponod to bo alike candi and communicative (thoso two qualities, as a rulo, aro combinod 10 thoso who have no real eatate to sell ), have sald tome 1 * Walt two or throo mouths, snd soe it all whon the wholo. dashed thing I8 driod up, gone to aced, nud blown awayl"” Woll, in all probability, I ahall, Lot mo sum up thoronults to dato of my soven wooks' investigations : . LOB ANGELES OITY is n vory plonsaut: placo, of about 10,000 in- Liabitauts (ustlonalitios very much mixed), with an abundant water-supply (how naturalfy this ontars Into overy discussion hora! ), gos, & well- soloctad hbrary, sevoral daily and woel ly nows- papors, all sorts of churches, good achools, and unmorous atores (kept, for the moat pnr@, by Hobrows whoso ~trade-maxim scoms to be, '* Largo profita and alow roturna” I) The city is situaicd about 12 miles from the Vacllio const, toward which thoro is, in fact, o geutlo inclina- tion of tho laud, although it looks as flat as South or Wost Ohicago, Dack of the ocity, the pleturosque blufl, Lrokon up hero aud thoro by ravines,—on which Fromont thiow up s oarthworks when ho nttaoked tho Mexicans,—nffords, with ita elovation of noarly 800 fost, o flus viow of tho whola conn- try, Tho Los Angeles River, within tho limits, is some 800 foet wide, and below tho city nbout half & milo wido, Noatly 8 milos above town tho wator i8 **captured™ for the city “ ditoh (ono bocomes roconciled to difch-waler in Culi~ fornia ), nnd, in consoquence, coases to put in on appoarance in its chaunel ]mmudlnboly above - town, except [n unusually iainy sossons. Tho olty is avidently growing, Chicago fashion, ina southwosterly direction. Ad rogards tho COST OF LIVING. Board at tho hotols varics from $12 to 820 per wook; but good board can bohad in private housos at 89 por week, and a ** squaro meal ” at tho restaurants for 25 conts, ‘Thors is littlo diffoulty in Kroourlng furnishod rooms; but ronts ave high forn place of this sizo,—quito motropolitan, in fact. ~ Firowood is hauled $0 to 40 milos, and costs from S10 to $20 per cord, and **droftul small” cords at that; but fortus nately it doos not entor largely iuto the necos- sary expondituros of s household. No coal, 8o faras I have scen; potroleum and gahiphaltum in abundauce; lumber, chiefly redwooa, 835 to 800" per thousand; beof (excollont), 10 conts per pound; bucter, 50 conta per pound; eggs, 80 conts por dozou ; flour, $2.60 per hundrod \\‘&ghn vegotables in profusion, and ot Chicago pricos,— bit no man with any ** get up and get” neod buy vogotables for familv mso, if ho bas evorso small a patch of ground. Tomatoes and sich can be raised all the your round; sweot potatoes very good; “Irigh™" potatocs, on the contrary, quite tho roverso, _but probably this hos not - been n good year for. murphics hero any more than it has boen inItlinols. Tools, agricullural implements, vehiclos, furniture, clothing, andsoforth, are almost doubla the prices current in Chicago, The dwelling-houses (I refor ospacially to thoso'out of town) are gon- erally poor aflairs, evidently intonded o stay in, not livein; but it hay to bo borne in mind that shelter is not, any moro .than fuol, a sine qua non in this region, A frame-cottage one-aud-n- half storios, and (sav) 20 by 30 foet, finished Eostarn-fashion, wonld_cost_$1,800 to §2,000, Mochinnics emn from $8 to 84 per diom, whon thoy bave anything 'to do, which ia not always the case, Agricultural lnbor is dono for the maost part by Mexicans Qvlm richly deserve tho nicknams of * Greasers!™) and the ! Heathen Chinoo:" avorsge wngea 1 por diom nad “ found.” T'he smount of work got out of them depeuda on wuother ** the boss ™ is around or off vioiting., On the whole, the result is apt to be more satisfaotory whea lio i in sight. Ag rogarda the cost of gotting o . PRUIT-FARM . into working order, the following .figures are, I beliove, trustworthy: The first broaking will cost from 83 to $5 por acre, according tothe con- dition of tae ground; thercafter $1.50 to 82 per acro for cultivating, Orango-trees (the favorito spocuiativo fruit liore) are sot out 60 to tho nera ; 8-yenr-old troes cost 40 to 50 conts each; 4 tob {olrn old (by all odds the most_desirable) $1.60 0 3 each. In four yoara the Jatioc will be- Rin to boar (if the graeshoppors have not gob- bled them). 'Tho coat of sottivg out varies with circumstances,—ns the nature of the ground, the distauce from the nursory, eto., otc, ; but it is Bafe to say that 8-vonr-old troes sot out will cost per mcre in tho neighborhood of 875, and 4-yoar-olds as much more, Limes and lemons ‘cost about tho eamo as orauges, but mature soonor, and are, in the main, o more profitable crop. Walnuts tako a long timo to mature, but will pay tho plauter (or Lis hoeirs) woll for the investmont. Soft-sholl almonds are an uncertain crop ; tho *‘hard-sholls™ gat along finely. Applos, poars,” peaches, etc., boar tho third year from the graft, = * Mission " grape-cuttings cost nothing, and are worth it ; **foreign ' cuttings cost $10 por 1,000. It will cost anothior $10 to preparo tho land, and still another $10 for setulng out aud cultivating the firat year, Fow, howovor, crowd as many ns 1,000 vines on t0 an ncre. Roturns are tolerably cortain in throo yoars ; in five years tho vincyard will pay haudsomely. Last, but nat fenst (if T may judgo from the ersistont reforonces to it in all ciroles hove), 1 Enve tonotico TITE OLTMATE. That is, boyoud all controversy, delightful, but 1 do not considor it per se a suflicient compousa- tion for tho lzci of other requisites of existence. Whon one criticisea the obvious drawbacks at~ tendaat on life in Southorn California, be {s shut upat onca Ly the cory, **Tho olimalo! tho climatol" Well; tho climate is delicious; but man duth not livo by olimato alone! I find that ‘bread and butter, and beof and potatoes, are no loss cssontinl 10 tho strugglo for existence,~nay, aro ot times more essoutial, Novertbeless, oue in robust hoalth can undoubtedly extract un im- mense amonnt of enjoyment from the simple process of merely living hero. Hot and ry a8 the summer-davs are, I am assurod, by those In whose statoments 1 placo’ implicit confidence, that the nights are invarinbly cool, not goldom cold, Hence, nono of tho lsuguwid dopression Is folt that attouds lifo in tho Enst during July and August. And, ot this season, a8 I can tostify from personal ox- porience, one who 1is able fo_move round en- ergelically catmot, fail to bo alike charmed and benofited, Invalids find & trip here somotimes vory beneflcisl, sometimos far otherwiso ; all doponds on tho nature and progross of the dis- oage from. which they nro seeking rolief. In- ciplent dpulmounry trouble is often roachoed and chooked,—confirmed consumplion never. Let no wastod invalids tako this long journey in the hope of oxchanging their hectio flush for the rosy tints of health, T'hey can die far more comyori- ably at home. On tho other haud, for thouo who are in good health, and for those who ara not very sick, this is uil, and in somge respects much more than, it has baen advortised to bo. Iudewd, it would bo ns difficult for mo to describe the oli- mata 80 a8 to make you comprobend its deliclous properties, a8 it would bo, by any description, to mako ono who had never scca an orauge-grove, studded with its riponing fruit, realize how splendid n spetacle that prosents to the eyo. And tius lends mo naturally to TUAT ORANGE STORY aa et forth in the newspaper-chipping you sont. mo, Tho place reforred to in the reporied salo at $30 Yar ,000 on the troo ia the finest orange- rove in the county (some 0 miles from Y08 ngeles), Thoy wote actually sold at that high figure, but wore to bo boxed and doliverod at San Pedro, 21 miles from this point by rail, Moanwhilo, Tahitian oranges bogan to arrive gn-un of duty) in great quantities in the San 'rancisco markot ; thoro waa a tumbla in values, and tho buyor forfeited tho §500 he had * put up” at tho time of purchase, rather than carry out his part of the contrnot. Even deducting tho oxpenses of piok- ing, boxiug, and delivering ~ (by lomusx, tenm and rail), the crop 80 miles from his grovo, the owner would have made a good thing out of it ab the contract-price,—but not nearly so good a4 the ne\vupnpnr-hlmvfiurdu hero made it out to bo, Their ktory ran, that e had 600 treos, aver- |*al nginf 1,000 oranges onch. In faoct, the averago waa loss than 600 osch. The casual roador of the paragraph in question would infor that 30 or thousand was an average prico for oranges hore. In faot, B16 would be a very good prica for oxcoptionally-good . oranges, At $10 por thousand, the businoss will prove remunerative, aftor the troos have roached thoir full boariog power, Up to date, I have scen no contradiotion of this logend in tho papers that govo it birth, Thoy make the mluul«!1 of anpe poslng that a lia woll stuok to Ia o gaod as the truth; and, by 60 doing, biing discrodit on those statoments {n whioch thoy have noithorsuppressod the true nor suggoested the falus, A & rule, you will find {t mafo to deduct 60 porcont from ail book and nowspaper atorios about, Bouthorn Call« foruin that como undor your uotice. Lot me add, a {n all candor I ought, that, aftor doing 80, b[n::u l:‘c.-rmmulm- can bo depended on,—nalwava o0xco] I, torlous Munchausang, in which it would b |- coult to find oven 10 por cont of veracity, oLe, Tno most essontial pro-roqulaltes to the omi- grant who aims at & substantial succoss in this count;y aro hoplth, & small copitsl (not loss than £2,000 in gold), pationco, and ndustry, With the first and Inst of theso alono, one can do well liero; and ao, for that mattor, ona van most anywhero ; whils~vith all four unitod, ha oan do vory well. Whon these' trooless plaing bocoma studded with groves, whoso foliago will siford a much-needod rhiado to tho thuraty earthy and when, as o natural conse uenco, tha unp{;\y 0e of water for agricultura} purposca comos loss & mattor of anxioty and oxponse than L mow is—I ey concoivo of no mors Eden-like scone than {hig fcotlon of Califoruin will then prosent, Thag day will suroly dawn, but ‘many will bocome dige couraged beforo its advont ; many will oat the bitter ‘broad of ** hope deforred ;" many wiil go back to tho comfortablo homes'in_tho'far East tbat thov should naver have abandonod ; not a fow will closo tholr eves far away from frionda aud ondoaring associntions, and slocp the sloop that knows no waklng in tho comotory on tho hlll-m{n baok of this city : but many moro, by pationt onduranco, will roap thoir roward in the sliapo of ploasant Lomestonds, ample Incomos, and a frauquil life 1 » heautiful land,—and they will bo those, and thono only, who have * loarns od to labor—aud to wad," —_— THE RAILROAD-TICKET-SELLING GILL. To the Bditor of The Chicao Tyibuna: of courso, tho narrations of somo now - 8in: It is o deplorable commontary “upon our | politionl status as an intelligent constitusnoy that the pross is called upon almost dally to cas« Hgato that ignoranco which obtrudes npon us from the vory source to which .wo should look for that intolligont action which wo havo a right to expect. Your oditorial of this morning in pungent, and forcibly announces tho facts and Iaw relative to tho ownor's right to eoll any rail road-ticket, or fraction thoreof, which is logally issuod, and ho logally possesses, at whatover leco bo con obtain, if tho sale is divested of rand or falso L pretonso, As you sllege, such & {;:rchnnn cannot bo mado a orimo, Would it not well for this Rapresontativo from Cook fo conmider the facl that the ju. rors of .the July aud Jaouary terma havo beon swindlod out of their timo and pay by just such logialativo wisdom colleoted at kgpring- flold na proposcs this ** Railroad-Tioket-Solling bill " and that the mombera from Cook will bs bold responsible therofor, on or about tho next day wo eloct our Represcntatives, if this Jury« bill blundor ia not roctilled. The writer nover bought a second-hand rafl~ rond-tioket ; but, as a busincss-man, earnestand truthful in nssisting a united offort of business« mon to roliove our city and 8tate from the inous bus of reokless logislation, ho urmes that that of« fort be commonced atonce. If not, my capital and that of othera will acck investment elsoe whore. JusTITIA. Oui0Ado, March 12, 1674, ——— The Proprictorship of Works of Rue bens. Galignani's Messenger says: ' A curlous dise ocusslon took place,’in & lato sitting of the Bel gian Chamber of Representatives, concerning tho propriotorship of two chof-d'@uvres of Ru- bens, ‘ Tho Elovation of the Cross,’ and ¢ The Do- scont from thio Bamo, which aro in the Cathodral of Aotworp. The question aroso incidentally as to whether they bolong to tho Htato or to the authorities of tho sacred building, Whon Na« oleon I. overran Holland, he @olzed on thoss wo ploturos and sont them to Paris, whore thoy were placed in the Louvro. In 1815, when tha Allies ontored tho Fronch Capital, King William claimed those works aad they woro restored to him, ho took-them back to Lis own country and hended thom over to tho Oathodral. A dood way drawn up recording the transaction, snd tho point now at issus seoms to bo the exact moan- ing of the Flemish word feruggebrachi, usod in that document. Tho advocstes for the owner~ ship of the ohurch contond that it moans ‘‘re stored,” while their adversatios aficm that fo RO0B to no greater oxtent than * brought back.” The wholo discussion appears to bo rathor mora otymological than anything olse, a8 no ono has tho slightest wish to remove these master-picces from tho pusition which they now ocoupy in the Cathodral.” . —— e ~An Englishman who hes been all over the world writva in ono of tho London woeklics thal Now York women have tho pretticst mouths he has over seon. . MARRIAGES. HEWGTLT-BAKIH I Ghleaso, by tho Ror, Henry . Porry, fletor af All-Saiats Cau-ch, March 11, Hzrry P! Howglll, iisq., of Londnn. ta Miss . M. Bakors of Dyeanshiiro. ' No cards. "Baglish panors plzato copy, DEATHS. PARKIR—Th romalusof tha Iats Dr. Mil on Park yill ba 1akon from the vault at Gracoland Cematery an b\g{[;{l Saturdayat3p. m., ENN—On Wodncadsy, M ) . m., plnuro-panamonts, Hawie Totor Wrara, oot 2 yossd. O Funoral sorvico willbe hold at 991 Prairlo-av., at3 p. m. Iny, AUCTION SALES. By ELISON, POMEROY & CO. Friday Morning, March 13, at 9 1-2 o'oloak, REGULAR SALE OF “NEW AND SECONDIAND FURNITURE, LARGE AND ATTRACTIVE SALE-—PnIn\;vma( a) Chambor Futnituro in great varisty, Bureaus, fobos, ary Marhble-top Tables, Dhlnf ltoom Furnltnrs took of Crockery and Gonoral Merchandiso, Platod. ul] llag of Carpots, cto,, otc. Also, undor chattol morigsge, & largo Hotol Range, et N FOMEROY & 00., Aust P ., Auctinnsors, 44 aud 3 Raudoloh-st. BAY PONY AT ATCTION. Wowlll roll, un FRIDAY, March 13, at 1 a'elock, sploudid Hu‘ Pony, byears old, fino saddlo horse; wi morkwallintninat ELISON, POMEROY & CO, * g4 aod 85 Randolph-st, BANERUPT SALE. BRICK MACHINERY, &o, At Yard, cor, Thirty-ninth-st, and Ashland-av, MONDAY AFTERNOON, March 18, at8 oclock, The ontiro Machinory of Briok Yard—Brivk Machines, Shaft~ ng, £0,; 6 Carts, 8 \Whoolbarzawe, 1 Pump, Trucks, § Mo by ondor o GO W GANBINECE, en., Austguon. ordor of 150, W, PEICLL, oy Anal 7 OrOr SLISON: POMKROY & Gl Auctirse By WM. A. BU UTTERS & CO., AUCTIONEERS, WO. &JO[B llfit.é‘i..Dldss?fi'sT., BPEUIAL ATFENTION GIVEN TO REAL ESTATE SALES. REGULAR SATURDAY SALE, Household Furniture, Oarpots, Table Cutlory, Orookory, and Genaral Merghans dlvo, SATUUDAY, Whroh 1; a1 0% o'clowks at 168 ATa . Also, at lolg o'clock, in toar of Hiaro, a blacl Bnd HTutnost, so1 50, Moryan Horag, Buggy, T o ot S S & 00 Auottonoers. | G00D FURNITURE, ook Onses, Rosewood Parlor Salt nnd Marn ble-top Tubles, Mautel Clack, Music Box, linggy ltobea, &c BATURDAY, March 4, at 10 o'oluck, at WM, A. BUTTERS & By GEO. P. GORE & CO., 068 & 70 Wabash-av. T ATOTIOIN, s ILAY, Maron 14, at 9 o'olock, our Ity BT R Bk ot et T owuis? First-Class Furniture, FROM SEVERAL DWELLINGS, Patlor and Ohawbior Sults, Sldobosrds, Sofas, Loun Muttrassos, Huroaus, Ituokers, Ohairs, Whatnas, Tabies Wardiabos, Bbring iatituser, Cumtortors, S i socs, Cnromus, s W.'G. Orookary, o, B 'Tuokor's Spriug Buds, At 1§ o'olook—0) Top Tugwies, Tix, Wagons, Doubla avd Siagie Harmers Chattel Mortgage Sale. Tho entira Housshold G > altoy o Lbraty at Hoous: & fsts e iae Dwolliags GRO. P 'dORE & 0., Aviotionaers, By OSGOOD & WILLIAMS. Auotion and Comilssion Huuso, 63 South Canal-st. ‘Will have Auction Balos thls weok, RDNESDA’ BATUN o st B B s it cluding fine Marblo-ton Ubawmbor H Y Bula, *Alkh Galk tud Haathu Slavor, A Goriial Sl cinadlas. *Tuls Iaro stook taust be ‘51080d ot 40 mA YOOI (ur ApriDg cOn{ERIeRLE: BWLKETLAND RS, Asedonsers, ARSI 1