Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1874, Page 4

- ARG, . 2 S { I e — i % it THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUN : SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1874, DIXON. Yts Literary Glories of the Past. Reminiscences of Mavgaret Fuller, Bayard Taylor, and Noal Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and Jefforson Daviy in {he Black Hawk War., 2% @t .‘ 5 - A3 Inte’ ! :}fiy\‘w Dixon, the Old G R o Vet ailnols. ¢ LR qrased ‘a'he Awful Calamity. of the Fall~ 4 ~ing Bridge. ' Bpecial Correspondence ar The Chicano Tribune, Dixox, T, July 1, 1874 This town §8 by no meaus a watering-place 3 au contrafro, there 18 & great scarcity of that valuablo commodity, the wolls and cistorns boivg noarly all dry, and oven tho rivor—the fatnl, murderous river—muning so low that it a filled with shoals and snnd-banks, Tho whito send that mixos Inrgelyin tho soil hbre is hot and glaring, and, on tho least provooation, fllls oncs eyes and throat with an irritating cloud of what Robert Collyer would call “closr grit.” Yt thore 18 not in the Btate of Miinois s town more besutifully situnted, or with greator natural ad- wvantages than this, As I madoa wido detour from my rogular route to como bero, I concluded o learn what thore might bo of intarost about the place that mnestles so prottily in tho Lills on tho bauks of Rock River. DIXON 18 & town of 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants, and has many beautiful privato sosidences, and a fow hinndsome public buildings, such as sohools, churclies, ote, It is crossed by two important railronds : the Illinois Central, running north and south, end the Northwestern, runuing eost and wost. Itis thocontraof n latge pratn-producing country, and does an onormous businoss in grain and produes,—butter and egga being shipped to Boston from Dixon by monns of refrigerator- cars. Tha Clicago market ia also largely eup- plied from the same source, Like ngront many other placos, Dixon grow to s cortain size, and thon stopped, or, ratlior, since thero is no ataud- gtillin lifo, began to ratrograde. Tho men who Diad mado thoir monoy in the place were satisfied if thoy took care of Number Ono, but went no further. So tho streats are unpaved, tho side- walks ara unimproved ; there are no publio parks, or gquares, or drives; bub thers are one or two handsomoe churches, and o splendid seminary- building, with ono of the flnost natural sitos in the world. The wholo thing is going to docay becausono one can bo fouud to make it & popu- Iar, paging institution, Tho publio schools ara among tho fuost in the Btate, and hiave attracted pupils hore from other sominaries, The Super- intondent, Mr. E. C. Smith,—brother of Dr. Bmith of the Standard, in Chicago,—is & goutleman whose intellectusl gifts, edueatizm, snd ligh Christian chiaraotor ominently fit Liw for tho po- sition. Thore i3 a boautiful uew Episcopal €hurch Intely finished. The inierior is like o cathedral in ita quaint boauty. The soclal life of Dixon has changad some- what in the last twonty years, sud is now omi- nently proper and conservative. It used to bo bnllhnl: with the wit of TOETS, ARTISTS, LITERATEUDA. It was noted for its fine conyorsatiounllats, ile sparkling womou, its gomal, rollicking men, Bohiemian-like, they wore at liome cverywhoro ; Bnd, whothor thoy mot tu the baro chuinbers of some briefless lawyer or the supoerb home of thoir pot capitalist, it was all tho samo,—thoy were the glory of tho occasion. In thoso days, the hospitable and elegant homoe of Gov. Chnr- tors waas thrown open to biw friends, aud his obarming wuicco Fanny queoned It there, with Marguror Fullor boeido hor. Tho houso ~ stands ou A clif 3 miles from tho city. 1t is & quoor, rambling structuro, furnished with beautiful things gathored from 10 four quarters of tho globe. Thio orlgiual Jog- house is used for the servants’ quartors. Hera Margaret Fullor wrote part of her Bummer on the Lakes.”” Here Baysrd Taylor louuged smokad, ato brsbeosh, aud sipped goldon-topped champagne. Thia was before 1o had a goutle German wife aud moou-faced childien, when ho ‘was making his famo 18 a lecturer. BUCH BTORIEW &8 are told of those days! low they eat down to dinnor that lasted till dayhpbt, or pmtook of Drealcfasts that ouly anded ot sundowu. Tt was ator such a matutipel meal that Bayard Taslor ;nmumburlul lie hed an ongagement to lecturo ofore some litorary society. It had rained for vels, and tho horsey' tails wera all tied up ta E p them out of the mud; It 'clock, sud there wore 8 miloa to geb over afior a dmuer of soven hours' duration, Jeaturer threw himself on his horse and rode for denr lifo. Au ho splashed along throngh tho mud and darkuoss of the sirects, a woman's voice called to him from a balcony, * Joln! is that you?" Roth woman and balcony were un- dlstinguishable, but the fretful fones wors distinet enough, nud the great lecturer stendied imecl o moment on the horn of ki saddle to anawer, in thick tones, ** No! i isw't J-o-bnj it's B-a‘y-a-r-d;" ndding, Rotto voce, * John wos under the table when Ileft,” Here, too, NOAZL DROOKS, Jho journalist, made ® venture of living. He bad hot then developed auy Ntorary ability, but swbarked in & business in the furniture line, feiled, and went to publishing tho county paper. Bome timo attor hie roceived o lotter from a load- ing furniture-house in New York, asking him to teceive & large conusignment of furniture, and »6lt it to the beat advantage for them aud him- self, Ho rospondod courteously in & lotter, atat- Ing that nothing would give him move pleasure, and thankiug thom for their patronage; but, as an aftorthought, ho added a postecript request- Ing them to propay the frelght, 88 he liad jnst ono into bankruptey and wouid be unable to do (t. The firm apprecinted the luunor of the letter, and kopt the fumituro. Brooks edited the papor on s plan of his own, To make it spicy, he dished up all the local gossip. The conne- quonce wag, ho bad to be lowered from tho window when he wanted to o owtside the oftico, and he got tired of barricading the door, and the paper hod another editor. Brooks then went to Washingtou aud entored tho fleld of Jonrnalism, o was much endearod to I'rosi- dont Lincoln, who hnd just givou him tho posi- tion of Private Sceretury but u week previous to bis death, 'The Private Secretary of Presidont Grant i aleo & Dixon mau,—Lovi P, Luckey, Euq. T may bo of intorost to know that OOl LATE MREKIDENT was first sworn into oftico—now nearly forly years ngo—in this town, Lincoln, then 't raw-Boned Koulb, awkward and ungainly, fresh from the ard worl that helped to meke him the man he was, eamo here, fired with martial anthusiasm, 1o serve his country when sho nceded bim, This way during the Black Mawk War. The, gallant Maj, Anderson mustered Lincoln into the servico as & private soldier. At the sawmp timo Jefforson Davis was Lere, under the com- mend of Gen, Taylor, who ufterwards beeame his father-in-law, the horo of ko Moxican War, sud President of tho United Statos, Davis was an ologant young ofiicer. Who could_comparo the two as thoy stood wido by side? Who could evmplwuy that tho homely youth in Lomespun ould b6 Presidont of tho countty, and the haud- some, socomplishod, soldier-brod rival the head of & Rebol Govornment? This town hos ever boon eminently m{ul. nud thore canie 8 day when tho streots were filled with white, torror-stricken faces, and womon cried, and wmen strangely mingod prayers and curdos, aud the flazs Ll draopluF, and tulu{rnms flew lere and thery, when Livcoln's worl wus done, 1 went youtorday to sco TIE ULDEST MAN IN THE STATE, Fathor Dixon, ufter whom the place is named, and who wad the first white mau here. The thormomoter stood ut 102 ; but, as I mado up my mind, 8 hundred years ayo, never to grumblo at work or weathor, I triod to think 1t was gool, We oroseed tho new bridge which spany Rock River, and drave nlowly, h’y a winding road, along'tho banky, clunbod o long, green hill, an avappied at & cuttngo-lome, rose-ombowered and old-fashioned, with a litchen-gurdon on one sido and & flower-gardon on tho other, Lilac- bushea and frult-troes, with lore and thore o ;pnms, row In tho groat pace In front. We ound ' ¥ather Dixon sittivg on she verauds, He was In his shirt-sloaves,—the black vest and Tull whito elegven glving him nomowhnt the niylo of o Dishop. His long, thin white bir was _parted i tho middle, aud fell over his shonlders, white and ileecy, giving his face almost s enintly oxprossion, e came forward tomeat us, and waa cordial and plous- aut fu welcoming us, His great-grauddaughter toolk posscexion of my compauion, and I imme- diately seated mysol? VIG-A-VI MY VENERADLE J0ST, Tathor Dixon—" This 1a uncommonly hot woather, Just look at that gardon, My veg- otables will all ho burned up,* 1—* You hardly think of working any at your advavced ago, I presumo 7" Fathor D1 work ovory day. T planted that gnrden, and take caro of 'it, and I prino tho treos, and look after things gonerally. 1 cut all ho wond ; but then I do thut in winter," J—'* At years of nge, Do you vao an ax ?" Tather D.—* Yoe. wont about five vears ago and bought & buck and eaw. I eawed for tio hours, and novor waa so tired in my life. Fortunnicly, somo one stolo tho saw that night, and I novor eaw it again® (smiling), T—* Yon travo) occaslonally, do you not 7 TFather D.—* Ob, yos! I bavo Loon fn Chiengo sineo the Firo, Lo viait my granddaughter . It ia o grent placo—proat placol I wont to New York, too: and, when thers, I walked out on what used to ho Fair streot, now Fulton, I used to_knowa Mr, Colgate—William Colgate— sixty-odd yenra sro, when T Nrat lived in New Yol City,” Wo wero middling young men then, apd we formed THE PINST AMERICAN TTBLY, S0OTETY for the distribution of Dibles without note or commiont, Menry Johngon was Vico-rosident: William Co'gato” wan Socrotsry and Tronanror, ‘Wo mot on Fob, 16, 1809,--one young man from ench_churel, They had Biblo Socletios {o Fn- gland and Beotland then, and wo had henrd of thom; but thern woranone in Ameries, Woll, whon I was on Fulton streot tho last time I wae in Now York, I1ooked for Dutch stroot and a lttle rhiop, and T anw a Aplandid great establish- ment with William Colgate's name on, but ho was dond two yesrs; lio lived to be sn old man. modo myeelf lmown to his nophiew, who was vory kind, and gave me his fother's papers and reminded me of s faol Thnd forgolton, that T was one of the ofiicors of the Biblo Socioty myrelf.” T.—* What do you think, Mr. Dixon, of the idena and theorics of the prosont timoe? Aro yon mnterssted in tho thrological isstes of the day, and do you believe in Spiritusliam P " ‘ather D.—* No. I do not beliove in Spirit- unlism in any way, Ido noteare o talk sbout religion at ull. I'have bub ono Lollef, and that is tho old-fashioned orthodox one, founded on tha writtun word of God.” I.—" What do you think of the women of to- dnv,—the Sufrngists, and tho Crueadors, and tho women who are doing work that ouly men i in your day 2" Tatbior D.—* I do not think nbaut thom at all. I am not intorested in them. 1 never do any- thing that provents my sleepiog well, Butl can sny this : For sixty yoara I huve nover tastod liquor ; aud, aftor smoking eboutMfifty years, I OAYE UP MY PIPE, Iugod to amoke nll tho time. Boe how black my teetly ara, I firat Joarned to amoko to hiolp mo to digest corn-bread. Thero wore no pipey or tobaceo sold in Illinols then, but I bought n plocs of plug from & Kentuckian, and the doctor told mo how to mako & pipo ont'of cnrnecob. I got to bo such o smokor that, five years ago, T asked mygolf, ‘Am I mastor of habit, or is Table master of mo?' 1smoked sumach-loaves for n while, and then stoppod altogother, and I never want to smoko, or hava tho least dosiro for it.” I.—"Dao you find your memory failing, or inve you uo troubls iu recalling scones of tha pnst 2! Father D.—“I can romombor the children 1 used to go to schaol with eights-five years axo, and can even_rocall tho middle lettora of their names ; but I foriot what hoppened yeatorday. Tun't that singular? " 1.—*'Havo you nny childron living? " Fatbor D,—**No. " I linvo NUNIED TEN BONS AND DAUGHTERS 3 bus T bave eleven grandebildcen and ninoteen great-grandobildren, I remombor hoaring my mothor soy that, whon I waa barn, my mother took mo to my gront-gront-grandmother, who was 105 yoars old. Sho laid mo in tho old lady's Inp, who luoked at mo o momout, and then so0d uho wah sorry T was ot a irl, 8 thon sho could_have ssid: * Ariso, daughter, and go to thy duughter's doughter, for thy daughtor’s deughter bas a daughtor.’” Hero our intorviow ended. The old gontles man i8 full of plensant reminiscenses of the Bluck Hawk War,of tho untradden prairies of Tlliuols, of queor, quaint charactors whoso lile wo shall never sce sgain, and of timos that be- long to history. He i never garrulous n;trur- poual, but is cheory &nd hopeful, avd onjoys life. But ho daes uot alluda to the shadaws donconding shout hitn,—vever speaks of tho wifo_of his youth, doad these mauy years, nor of tho ton childron gone befora him.~ With no fruitless complainings or ssd forobodings, he awauts cheorfully tha higher Iaw,~ Only waiting till tho shadows ‘Araa little lauger grown. PENSONAL NOTES, James A. Hawloy, Grand Mastor of the Masons, bes n flne lome and interesting family bore, Ho Imd tho corner-stone of tho Government Building fu Chiesyo lately, and was prosented with o silver trowael suitably inseribed. 3. B, Stiles, who flourislies on the Board of I'rado i Clifengo, s un elegant Lomo tud handsome wifo here, Judge Eustace, one of tho psomi- nout wen of the State, s brilhent lawyer aud bon-vivant, has a charming, hospitable home here, Col, Utley, of Cunal glory, follows Presi- dent Grant’s eurly occupation here, Jawmes Camp, who will go down to posterity ay holding the longest term of oftics evor known under this or any other government, is Postmaster, “Lhero aromore thuy the usual number of representa- tivemon forn town of thissize. The Dixon Jferald, edited by Ben Bhaw, sich and good look- ing, isthe able Ropublican paper. ~The Sun is the Democratio organ, and s feithful to tho Dest interests of its party, = T cynnot Iny my pen adido without tonching on & sad, snd phase of Dixon history, 1 alinde with indasoribablo suguish of hoort'to the awlul enlumity of 1TR PALLING NRIDGE, that took one membor from sixuy different fam- ilies, and plunged not only the town, but the wholo Stato,~I might almost eny the wholo country,—into moutnieg. It is uscless now to aule whase fault 1t was, Itis too Jate to know that the whale structure hung on o few brokeéu bands of iren standing sway from the shoro, and making the whole structure unsafo for indi- vidual use,” Wo know that, ou that bright Sub- batl—Dluy 4, 1873,—200 pooplo stood upon thut fatal bridgo to witness the coromony of bup- tinm porformed iu the atresm below,” On that moruing, twa litelo children—agod ono & yenrs, oud tho other 7—went out, hand in hund, stopping for a moment to eay, * Kies wy oy, Mamima"; and, for tareo awful days, tho mothor watohod on the bank, waiting for * tho sea to givo up its dead.” We Lnaw that fair young girts put iho last finisbing touches to their firab spring-toilets, and, fresh and lovely, with their jnndcent Learts sttuned to Naturo and God, wenb out to meet tholr death, and wero brought buck, with emileless faces and closed oyes, to the brenking hoarts of those who Joved then. Mothers wha were ko much noeded —husbands—lianes,~one swful lolocaust to denth ! Whoso Jault wagit? It was tho fault of ovory nian who belped to build tho bridge, or who ever crossed it. It way TUE AWFUL, RECKLEHU STOFIDITY thint s for ks 1016, > Whial 18 overybody's busl- noan is nobody's business,” wnd whoke wateh- word 18 denth,” In many & river thera would have oo sone chunco for thoso doomed ones ; bub Ttoek River, liko tho majortty of Western rivors, hus o oruel, crafty underenrront, that will nover let its vietun go slivo, Only ono short weel bo- foro, your respeated Lownsman, tho Hon, I N. Ao, Lad come hore witn bis 1dolized boy, who was drowned while trying o plorsurc-lost, alinost within veach of his father's band, Woll 1t 18 all ovor,—tholr briof anguish,—our tarrible, fruitless griof, "Thelr graves Ao green,— Thiey may bo seey, But how much of all that makes lifo worth hav- ing i gone with them? Useat God! thoro must bo somewhero a compensation for them, ulso What shull they give theo for u life, Bwoct lfe, thut 1s overpast? The Dixon peopla can nover forgot or outlive thia disnster, A new woodon StruCtIEo ropincos the beautiful, fatal Truosacll Lridgo; but there uro strong mou who closo their eyes and shudder when they cross it, and sorrowful women who drop plteous tears in the calm, deeeltful rivor— ‘Homowhero tho tears of brolen-hearted (rust, Of patient sacrifice and solt-subminsion, Slall forin the relubow promnlsy of iha Just With fult finition, Sont the Kiread Glrl, The Taylor's Fails \\'lu.;) Qeeporter narrates the following : ** Tho Hou, 31, D, Barren bad an nggly visitor &t is rexidenco lakt week, . On Mone day night, ebont 1 o'olook, theifamily, heuring wome noiye out at tho Fouco, rout the hirod givl 10 necortain itw cougo. Bho wont out to tho fonco, aud returned In grout haste, so closoly followed by & boar thet she had juat thno to get the door closed to keap the bruin out, The aui- mal thon took leave, bub Jett lio mark by toaring out a portion of & fenco-board, The next vven~ ing about tho xatne hour be roturned, whon tho Judgo tried s vovolver on him, but the thivg wouldw't go off, aud It sgain secaped.” - ““WELLINGTON RESCUERS.” Lives of the Two Principal Actors, Prof, Ev I, Peck and Ju M. Fiteh, In Jail at Cleveland, O. Trial, Triumphant Release, and Return Home. JDeath of. the * Rescuers.” Osrana, Neb,, July 0, 1874, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: J. M. Fitch was born Iu tho Stato of Now York, and was the son of a harnoed-maker ‘Whilo ho wasg stilla boy his Iather - movod to Oborlin, 0., and settlod in that placo, becoming ono of tho covennntors snd supportors of tho Oborlin Colloge, thon fast rising iuto notico. Jamos was o plous, good boy, and, whils yet s Ind, was put to_achool, his father intonding to oducato him for tho ministry. Ilis hoalth was not good, aud, after he loft achiool, he wont at hard work, hoping to improve Ina physical con- dition. Boon afterwara ho boeamo a book-agent, and commonced the publication ot tho Evangel- ial, tho first nowspaper over published at Obor- lin. Ho continued tho book-businoss And news~ papor-publishing for s numboer of yoars, and Sunily gave up all idea of tho minfatry. Mr. Fitch was ono of tho famous HWELLINGTON RESOUERS," but his connootion with tho affair does not soom to have beon vory dofinite. The facts of the cnse, as nonr 18 I can pow reenll thom, wero as follown: John, a valunble slave bolonging to Mr. Dacon, o citizon of Kentuoky, xan nway, and esmo to Oberliu'to live. Two yoers lator, & Mr. Jounings, of Kentuoly, whilo on a trip North, saw Jonn, sna rocognized him ns tho sinve of bin frienq Dacon. Mr. Jounings at onco wrote to Bacon to aend bLim a power of at- tornoy, and he would srrest John and refurn him to Kentucky, Br. Bacon sent tho dosired paper, and with it Mr. Richard Miteholl, who Jnow Johu well, and who was to make the noces- Bary oath of ideutifleatipn. [t nppears thnt Ba- con wans to sell the boy, and give tho parsons meking the arreat and return of him one-hulf of what ho would bring in tho slave-mnarket. Jennings, feasing tho wrath of tha Oberliners, who liad declared that no moro slaves should ba carriod back from their town futo elavory, wout into {he countrya few milos, to the farm of Louis Boynton, nn iron-hendod Domocrat, and, hiring Mr, Boynton's son for $20, sont him into town to decoy Jolin ont under protonso that he wanted him to dig potatoos on his father's farm. Jobn came, not Buspeoting anything wrong; and, when 2 miles out, was POUNGED UPON BY THE BLAVE-OATOKERS, und carriod off to the Town of Woellington, some 10 miles distant. Tho nows of John's abduction 800n reschied Oborlin, and & violent scono of ex- citemont ensucd, A nreoting was at ouco oalied at Mr. Titeh's stors, whate it wis fully dotormined that Jobn mhould bo rescued at ol hozads, The negroes psecmbled - under Charles Langston, the students under Prof, Pecl,'and tho aitizens under tho Hon., Ralph Plumb aud Simeon Bush- nell. Bome on horsaback, eome in wagons, and somo on faat, the little army st out, led on by their mh}mcllvu cllefs, gt armed only with Buwlen. Thoy came up with tho elavo-catehors at Wollingon, and, forcibly dolivoring Jobn from hib enemles, carriod bim back i trivmph to Qerlin, M, Fitch counseled tho deliveranco, but did not himsolf go to tho *! Reseue,” For abotting, as it waa called, the violation of tho Fugitive-Slave law, he was arrested and thrown ioto prieon at Cloveland, whero I shall lenve him until T iuform the reader concoruiug Prof. Pock, . E. PEOR waa & poor boy, and camo carly to Oberlin,whera ho wos eduented, and, piter o long snd Hevero strugglo with thoe hmdships of life, ho became o Profossor in the Oberlin Collego, sud sottlod pnr_m?mmy in that placo, Iis health was quite delicato, and his friends wore froquontl alarmed by Lit severe \,m\xmim tho lungs, His pbysiclans told him he must chmate, but he was to poor to go abrozd ar his own oxpensp, President Lincoln was cunsulted, aud ho at onca tendered the Professor tho Con- sulkbip at 1iayti, which was nccopted gladly, and Peck lert his own couutry, never to return, It was Yrof. P'cck who led tho studonta ab tho “ Wellington Hesouo,” and for tins be was ar- reeted, and, with twonty-nino othors, st o ol Before bo wan token to !munu. tho citizens of Oberlin gave him & public dinver, at which somo of tho most distivgnished mon in tho State wore presout and sustmmed his action. , This dinuer, Whith was coled by tho Pro-Slavery pupor of tho tifio ** The Folon's Feast,” was attonded by tho boat eftizons of the countiy, aud tonsts were given and speechos made nmf:zciug anything ?I‘u than that Prof. Peck was regarded na u alon. In bie speech to his friends, Peclt was bold and doflant, und among_ other things amd: I caunot, aud will uof, oboy tho Fugitive-Slave luw ; not beesuso I do not Iove law and ordor,— not becunso £ do not lova wy country,—but bo- cuuse, if L woro 40 oboy that law, it would ro- flvot tho deapest dishonor tpon niy vature snd disgrace upon mysolf. L will oppoxs 8o iufa- mous o law, peacerbly it Teon, . YOUCIULY IF 1 MUST. I will die, if necossary, opposiug 1it, and, dy- ing, lequénth y hoatred of it tomy childron,” Aftoy the dinuer, hundreds of citizens formed in procossion aud cscortod Prof, Pock to the station, where ho took the ears for the Clovelnui {ml_, Tittlo cbildren tbrew flowers in his woy, udiea waved thetr bandkerehioty, nnd bearde men shouted, until, as ono_who witnessed tho aceno #aid, Iy march 1o joil was more tiko the triumph of a couquering Lero then tho march of o culprie.” Tu pifeon, Prof, Peck found'J, M, Fiteh, and they were contined togother. They amused them- selves by oditing and publishing a little paper callod the Rescuer, aud in which tisoy gave a full necouut of their prison-lifo, Tho editorof the Oleveland Leader Lindly turnivhed thom with thie type and menns of publishing their papor, snd it wos vold on the streets for § couts a copy. Groat excitomont prevailed in Cleyolund dur- ing tho confinement of the polliical prisoners, and, from early morning vnti| fato at nhght, bun- drads of lndios and gentlomen,. with kind Words and crosture comforts, turonged tho jail, until it seamed mote liko o placo where some distin- Jnished porsouage was holding o lovee, than u prinon-pen. Ou Sunday following tholr imprisonment, PROF, PECK FREACKED, AT IUE JAIL, to n vaus multitude of puople, und u morning paper givos the followlug nccount of the moot- ing: © Yosterday a mobt oxtraordinary seeno oocurred fu our eity, According to previous announcemont, Lrof. Peek preacted to i tellows in bonds eud tbo peopla outnide. Lovg Dbefore tho time, & crowd of wevoral thousaud had guthated, and at hulf-past 2 o'clock the jail-yard, the wircet, tho housow, house-tops, vhods, nad every wvail- able spot where a glimpeo of the jail conld be ad, was Titerally jammod Ly & vuabmass of Luman bolug, Prof, Teck, not beug nllowad to como outide, stood just within the door of the juil, aud conducted tio oxorcinos. iy toxt waa the th chaptor of Matthow, Uth vorao,” The Profossor, who wan an cloquent man, preached a poworful sormon, and closed by slugiug the hymu commsucing with the liness Ay T 5 soldiur of the Cross, A follower of the Lemb, Aud shull T fesr to own 1(s cnuse, Or Llush tu apeak 338 name? When-the gront multitnds ralsed their valeea aud joined 1b tho singing, tho sound rulled ke u paul of thunder over tho bosom of Luke Liriv, Tather Gillett, ona of the privoners, u venotuble, white-baired man, prouounced tho Lonedlction, aud prayed od to forgive hi encnie. * What L gaw that duy,” snid auold Abolitioniet, ** con- viucod ma tho Blave-Fower conld never conquor inAmerien.” 'The sceno ut tho jail wus notsoon to bo forgotton Ly thoso who suw it,und one that, if Jumos Buchanan aud Roger Tuncy could huvo witnosscd, st huvo couvineod thom that the Fugitive-Blave luw conld novar bo carsled out in this country, TATAZR OILLETT was 4o old ¢ was dovined w A:m“ shams to keep Dim In jail, and the District Attarney delermined to roleako bim on Liu pledgo of houor. ~ Approach- ing tho vouorablo culpitt; he waid, *If 1 lot you 50 Will you glve me Jour word of houor to roturn whon clnllnrl for?"* iNover," roplied Futber Gil- latt; Hyou havo trontod mo liko a coward, und X 88k of you no fayol 11 you are tirued out will you go LomeP" avo a chango of . “ Not unloss my follow-prisoncrs go with me," ;‘nm'.'yon aro old, and too feoblo to romain in prinan. “You eny I am a culprit. Ago makes no dif- forenoo with culprits,” #Ilave you seliod tho rdvico of your counsol 2" T have nsked my counrol to’have me tried, and noquitted or found guilty." X T'ho frinnda of Fathor Gillatt finally provailed on bim to go homo nud leavo tho rost of tho priconors in jail, but Lo did so with the grontost roluctance, Mr. Fiteh, boforo hia fnearceration, had been for s long 'time Buporintoudunt of tho Sundny- wschools in Oborlin. Tne childien wero “vory much attnolied to him, and, mimirg hin, Sab- Lath after Sablbath, Irom hin accurtomed place, beeame anxious to poo thelr beloved friond, Ta the numbur of 100, thoy embarked on tho train Tor Clovoland, whors thoy wora mot at the dopot by nJargo delogation from the Clevelnud schools. FONNING AN IMMENSE PROOKSHION, thoy marchod through the strosts, carrying at thte hoad of their colunm a beautiful banuer, on whick wau fusoribed ¢ 1833, 1869, Oliarlin Sabhath-Sehools, 3.0, Fiteh, Superintendont, Biamt up for the Wiht, Welove our Buperinlendent mote to-day than over, Quthering in & donee masg nbont the prison, thoy wero addrensed by dr. Fiteh and Prof. Tack, and thoy sang a boautitul soug, commeuc- ing with tho words s Gud mado all Hia creatures froe Lifo itnolf in Liborty, Gud ordafned o oftior handa Than wnited hearts and bands, Aftor thoy bnd sung this pleco, they adjourned to the park, where an excollont luuch had buon spread for thom_ by tho citizens. 'lhonsands of people !{;nhnmd to sco the littlo Auti-Slavery- ilas, and’ they wore addrossod by sovorsl dis- tinguiubed cltizens, Ol Fathor Keop, who hud prenched for fifty-fiva vears, told tho chitdren, “ Treadom for afl was hotiness unto the Lord, and to stand up boldly for Jesus and tho Right," Whon tho trial camo off, maty of the most distinguisbed lawyors in tho coniitry tendored their sorvices to tho prisouers, und, among others, the Hon, A. @, Riddlo, F. T\ Back- 1, 8. 0. Griswold, and K. P. Spaulding. . Those wero all retained oy counsel, Aftor a tedious trinl, two ot tho - prisonord— Shnon Bushuell and Cherles Langston— WERE FOUND QUILTY, and sontenced: tho flist to pay a fino of $600, and bo Imprisoned sixty duys; and tho -second cdo pay a fine of $100, and bo mprisonod twenty inys, Now the caso assumod n mow sspect, The Kontuckiaus who had wsoized the black boy John had ncted on the authority of & writ tasued in Columbus, und, that I)lnm not boiug iu tho Judicial District of Cloveland, the Southorners woro deenmied guilty of kiduapplng. Immediate- 1y on ascortaining this faot, the counnel for tho Y'nluluul prisoners took out irits, arrested tho outuckians, and throw thom into tho Loraino County Jail, to await trial for the crime of kid- napping, Mr, R, H. Btanton, attornoy for tho Kentuckiaus, finding tho tablos turned, at onco began to nogatiate for the relanse of hia clionts. All the proceediugy agniust tho ** Rosouers” wore quastiod, and THEY WERE LET ODT OF JAIL. Then the Kentuckians wero bailed, and thelr Arial nover camo off A phort timoe boforo Lhe relenso of the prison- ers, a grent mass-meating was beld ab Clovoland, and n{meuhufi woro made by Joshua . Gidiings, Bon Wade, and others. Mr, Giddings declared he would not slesp until the prisonets woro ro- lensed. At one timo ibousands of excited mon gathorod nbout tho jail, and it was tlought they would tear it downj but Fraf, Pock, Mr. Fiteh, and ono or Lwo othors, mudo tomperate spseches, counseled modoration, und no violence was dono. Whon notico of thoir reloase camo to tho prisoners, thoy gathered sbout Prof. Peck, who gont for thoir counscl. and thew wivos and daughters. 4'ho counsel refused to roceive any feen for thoir serviees, and tho ** Roscuors™ pre- scnted each of thom with & massive silver uaplin- ring, fork, ond 'upoon, on which woro en- graved the words, "' From tho Rescuors, God Dlouwa you!" Aftor tho preseuntation Prof. Peck Baid, “As our first bour in prison way epont in ‘:mynr 80 lot our last bo pavsed ;" and they all nelt down, and tho Professor prayed forvently for half av hour. ‘I'hoy then thanked the juilor and hin wifo, shook hands with their fellow-prig- onors, aud doparted for thoir homes. ‘Whou thoy stepped out of tho prison, n hun- dred gnns woro fired in honor of their deliver- auce, and & groat concourse of paople oscorted them to tho dapot, whore thouguuds or others weroe waiting to groot them. As tho train moved oft tho choors that wont up frcm ton thousand theonts shook tho wators of the lnke, and LOLLED DACE UNDYING TO FREEDOM'S FARTHEST MOUNTAIN. At all the stations along tho way, hundrods of pootie gatherod to welcomo them; and, whon lioy reached thoir own city, the eutire population bud agsombled at the depot to meet thom. Wom- on cried with joy; canton wore flred; men hul- lood themsclved boarse; and thero was hand- shaking, kissiug, hugging, fowsting and rojoiciug atich as was never beforo or sinco in Oberlin, Thus onded the * Wellivgion Roscuo,” one of tho most_remarkablo nets in the Anti-Slavery drama. The ovent excited tho whole nation nt tha time of its occurrenco, aud porhaps did moro than apything e'se to flx a deep hostility to Slavery in tho brensis of Northern wen, Tho principal actors 1u tho sconcs of thowo daya have been laid to reat, but their memories aro sbil green in tho hoarts of the lovors of Froedom. Both Mr. Fitch and 2'rof. Peck wero ostoomed Christion_gentiemen, kind fathers, good Lus- brnds, and honorablo and useful citizens, They died within o few.waeks of ozch ather,—Prof. Teck at Port-nu-Princo, of fover, and Mr. Fitch ot his home in Oberhn. Littlo is known of the Inst moments of P’ock, but tho ond of Fiteh | WAS DEAUTIFUL. He had bosen ill with cousmmption for some timo, and, one Babbath morning, folt his oud was nigh, He nddressed st affectionnts lottor of farewell to bis Bunday-school scholars, piving them good advioe, and oxborting them to grow up to bo good men and women., Ho sent with the letter a baeket of flowers; and, after tho lotter had Leon read to the hundreds of wooping childron, & bright flowor was prosented to eacli of them, as o lust gift from their boloved Superintendont, While tho fowers woro being distributed, the good muu lay dying, and hardly Liad thoy roached tholr homes whon tho tolling 0f tho boll annuaced to them. that thelr kind friend was dead and gone to bin rest, Thus ondod the lives of the two principe! sctoys in the fawoua ** Rescuo.” Koldlera rest 1 Your warfate o'er, ‘All your tofl and trouble done, Dwell' with Jesun evermoro, Brighsly shining ss tho sun, Jauzs 8, Drispiv, —_—_— The Paris Cabmen and the onaparts iuts, Tho Judro who sentonced M. Gambetta's as- snilant, tbo Count Do Sainte Crolx, tosix months’ Imprisoumont, liua received tho following latter, from o cabmsn;: Moy Juar: In tho coursoof the tria) of 3. Do Huinte-Croix you remarked thut ho hud con- ducted himself ‘like n conchman,” My confrores, who are on the same atand as myself, and I beg respootfully to protost ngoinnt thut romark. We Tumbly submit that our profossion dous ot viec- exsarily mply tho ill-vred and brutal labitd go propotly censured by you, and thay fael theme solves doeply humilisfod at being compared to Bonapareist mercenurios. It our opinion, nothe ing could buwst our feelings more than boing pliced on the same footiag as tho bravi of Iin- veriullsm, Wo aro convinced thnb it was very far from your intention to lower & numorous sud intoresting cluss of eltizony to such o degrnding lavel. Wu thiuk, ratber, tbat you moraly eni- ployad a figuro of spacel without attaching any importanco to It, and 1wkoomn to us beyond doubt whnt yon did not for & momont intend to abave the corporation of eabmon to snch a dogroe 8y swould put them on & lovol with the gladiators of Bonapartivm and the Oursaguucs, 1 am, Monsiour 10 Jugo, your very humble servaut, JuLzs De Ohupe." —_— A Bosten Marringos From the Joston Jonwrnals An Otogonian oveupying o seat wador the Old Tlw on the Common lawt night, wau dlsturbed by the surival of o small Ir)m-v.y of Iadien aud tlomen, hoaded Lo Dr. Dio Lowis. “The halted under the gas-light, and forming in au ir- repulor . holf cirole, 8 "gonttemon walked ous, holdwg o paper in bis hand, Tmmadiatoly au- othar gentionan leading & lady stood in the oir- olo fronting the firit named, who, Iu a low musteal voico, kareuely andiblo, mudo s short e dras 1o tho partios, who joinod bands and then salutad with o kiss, Dr. Dio Luwls stops for- ward, and imitatjng tho esample, enlutes tho Indy and congratulatos the [munumnn. Others tollaw, dofng likuwise, and then tle party ro- turned to tho Mollovue parlors, ‘Lhe strangor {uquirad af & gentleman who stood gaziug at tha robruting. party, whit ¢his romantio opisoda weant, and was tawarded with tho nnswer that tho Tov, William It, Aluer had ‘uut lmllu(l‘togellmr in the bonds of holy wedlovk My, Fishor A Qlack and Ay, 8, Holen Tripp, Tho strangor dropped his ohin on bis broust & uoment, and auid, "11g' that. tho wey you do auh things b Dosfou s 4 I appoary 0. THIE FARM AND GARDEN. . s 3 Wil Earming Pay1-Fhe Faimting Question, Jinth Sides—Ventiintion of QoltarA-Small Fruify—. Parly Green for Potnto-lug Cherry nnid Apple Crop. + From.Our Aaricultural Correspondent. Cuanraton, Tl,, July 9, 1674, WILL FARMING TAY? Crttoau, June 20, 1874, Mn, # RURAT, "~81n 2 Onoof my boys deaires to ho- camu'n farmor, fnxtend of going “hto husiness in tho elty, What T would llko to knaw fs, can ha take $10,00 caati, and Joy 1t out In lands nnd other needs, und with hls lbor mako 1t pay a8 wull as. the some sum in ordi- nary bukinenn? T, W.B I suppose tho question to bo sottled, Is farm Ing n8 profitablo, all things considored, with tha enmo eapital, the smo fndustry, Intogrity, and skill, as othor departmonta of trado or business? The young man who goes into eithor without exporience will ba very linblo to make failure; Dut, if ho kina bad a good businaes-training, is induatrious, and has ordinary tact, he may von- turo on n farm, aa ho will roon learn to do tho work, &nd, for tha tno, can follow the advico of gome noighbor who makos forming a succors, aud, after a vear or two, will bo ablo to do his own thinking and managing. In order to como to s lLetter understanding of the subject, wo might take a Jook 84 farming ae it i, Tiret, T will begin with AY 800-ACRE: FARA, about 8 milen from the village. It Ia owned by a farmor who lna owned It for some eighteen yeonrs, and improved it maluly fora grain-farm, All tho lnbor has been @ono by hired mon, For a Inrgo farm it Is vory dosirablo ; Lut Mr. P., the ownior, enys thnt it 18 too ‘largo to bo profitable, or rathery aa'a grain and fruit farm, roquires too much Jabor and too much looking after, If s man of moderato mentia has s love for rural affairs, thore {s no reason why ho cannot make Just a8 good & living with the same Inbor a8 enn bo dono in trade or in mechanical businesa; but, when we como to talkc of largo fortunos that the few ncenumulate, we must turn our attention to speenlation ; & field in which thousands loso small fortunes, and tho fow gather them in, ‘This 800-ncro farm of Mr, I’ is estimnted at £100 por acro, and would soll for about £70 per acre, or, say, 810,000 Now, tho intorest on this would be, nt 10 per cent, 85,000 ; (axca on land and stock, say 8600 : repair of fencow, buildings, and pruning, say 8600,—making o total of 56,000 income to he madoin orderto pay 10 per cent on the value, THE 1¥CONE 1n, firat, 55D ncres of corn, thntia lenaed fora ront of 15 bushels of corn per koro,~the cor iy to bia put In cribs ou the farm.—thin amounts to 8,250 bushels of corn, which, at30 cents por buehol in the erib, would ho 2,475 ; 120 neras of moadow, that will turn, eay, a ton to the nere, na the bayis Jight thie sonson, ata value. as it standa ju the field, of &4 por ton,—making 3480 ; 280 ncves of charries from & younz cherry- orchard of 10 scres, of 2,000 raer, 2320 nez on tho treos, Thin gives us I, Tho ro- mainder must o mnde out of 30 Liead _of cattlo, 16 hond of horees, and somo 0 hiead of hogs, and 1,000 to 1,600 buehels of aoples, It would riot bo poseiLlo to bring tho wholo un to the 26,000, to sey nothing in regard to tho capital inyested in ferms, stock, implo- meuts, and superintendence. So wo can reo that a large, high-priced form will hardlv reach an 1n- come of 10 per cant, and give tho ownor his liouse-ront and gardou-sruce fros. Thoro aro also onts, and whent, and potatoes; but all of thewo will 1o more than pay the hired Jabor, Mon who hnve largo sums to invest will do botter to put them in other bueinesn thau to _purchasa bigh-priced farms and to ran them for Drofit ; for the farm appenrs dasigned as A TOMESTEAD OF NO LARGE AREA~ at least not much boyond the Inbor of the fami- ly. After mauy years of axperience, Alr. I, pro- poses to soll off all but 200 acres of this farm, usking 260 per acro, making threo good-sized farms onch, with honsa and emall orchard to each farm, One of these piccet or farms con- tuing 100 acres, nod hag & yonng orchard and o good farm-louso, Thoront of this in 1,600 bushi- ols of corn, which, at 3 cents, in 450, Calltho Jand 260 por acre ! interest gt por cont would bo, for $06,000, #360; taxes, £40; repairs, sy 8505 total, $450; givivg an incoma of G por cont, Wo will supposo thut the farmer puts on stock and tools to worlk it himuelf; bo onght to make, above tho interest, taxes, and rapairs, £1,000 per annum, which Ia s fairremuneration for tha labor of himeslf and fumily, aud would leava him nbout 500 to apply on the pavment of the land per anhum. or twolvo years in which to pay for tho land, pro- vided that ba had all tho outfit, such as tenm, cows, aud tools. The farmer who worked it on 1is own acconnt would not put it all in corn, as now, but bavo a mora mixed avstom of crops, yet such as would be equal to (hmt of corn. Wity ordinary farming, no mancan, for & sorien of vears, make 10 per cout por Avnum on land conting 200 per ncro. Fortunes that Lave been mado on these Inrge fatms have come mainly from tho rise of the valne. and not from tho cropping of tho land. Most peoplo who buy farms look forward to fha riso in value ; but, when ordinary farms cost 260 per acro, thara is not much rino {o be anticipated, and the Income must come from the managemont of tho soil. In ordor to mnke & good invostmont of the $1,000 an proposed, GIREAT GARE MUST BT TAKEN IN THE SELECTION, And the land, with its buildiugs, orchard, fonces, and well-planted lawn and garden, should not cost over S60 per agro, say five miles from & gond ready markot, and reaching 3100 close up to tho town-plat. Tnam awaro that theso aro small fig- uren s compnred to the srking prices; but, an an investment by which the farmor is to make 6 er cent on hia capital, it is bigh enaugh, While our estimate of tua profit of farming many not bo fiaiterng to the prent mass of tho people, yot it_is high anough to place it on & par with ofher departmonts of buriness, I have known a farm-superintendent receive ,4000 per anpum, with & good houke, and & garden extra ; but thewe places do not turn up very often, Linnt weel tho University of Cnicago voted its Prosi- dont and Chancollor.a salary of £5,000 each ; but no othors need apnly, for the places are filled, TBelow thoso positionst aro vrofossors, tutors, and Inborers, ruuning down in thoento as low a6 $1.50 per day; and, it we will tako the nverngo income of the farmer, wo will flod it fully up to the stendard of all othors, Few of the men who go into buslness-putsuits, or tho law, the pulpit, or the schools, becomo eminont, though all of them at tho timo are sangning of snccows. Tho fact 18, wo aro t0o impatient and caunot bide our time, nor can wo onuily divost ournelvos of the iden that THERE 18 A ROYAL ROAD TQ FORTUNE that o'l can travel. Yot the thing is out of tho question, If wa have £10,000 fnvested in gaad safo mortgnges at 10 per cant, the intorest comes rirht aloni, Heeping or waking, xain or shine, withaut further aflart on our patt. It we hava the samo sum fuvestod ina faym, we may have to ndd onr Jnbor and our care in order to obtain the samo income. and then taxos may reduce inls to Bomo extent, It can be weon that, ininvesting £10,000 in farming i propor munnor. therisk i no groater than 1 other depattments of husinesa, THE PAISTING QUISTION. It 8 protey well known that thors ave two sidos to mont quastions, and, to get at the real truth, both sidos should have a hearing : DALy, T, July 2, 1674, Mn, % Ronar, "—8im: You kpeak of puttiug on paiut with ‘boiled_ail, without turpantine or Lunzine to spresd it, nnd of tho Averill chemleal paint as rondy for wse, "It 18 diftlcuit to spread elfher of those In cold weuther, and tie Jattor 14 tho worat of tho two : but, M you ey, you would not wh tho turpentiue in Glthier, aud you are right, ‘Threo yoars ago X pur- choved tha howdeal paint, e "1t hed beon highly rocommouded, A purt of ity vas lofd on ¢ but iy pajuter concluded thub it was not & §mvd Tt s Lo safd fhit 1t must havo uryentine adied f: ke 1t epresd good, This wai dono, aud that part thus trentod wae neatly njocd, while that put on Sithont the turpontine 18 fivsterato'toutuy, Wo muat do qur awn paintiug, or W must repaint ovory secoud or third year, au they o in the towo aud citles, (i adulteration of pamin and ofls shanid hayo au enily As it 46, kooping tho outia of your lionse respectablo ls ruthior cxpeusive, 3Iy chemlcal puint wos all right b tho i vt t o s o ought o, bavo done, 1 shall repalnt f1, dohfy the work myself, 1t conts $100 or wore ta ok twa Coats of vaintou tiio outsldoof n common farni-liouse; but, If the material {4 good, it wiil Inat_ st Joust ten 'years, while, if the turpentina is added, T know 14 wilt Dot Liet thwee yeara, O, L, Horo {8 anothor rathor bilioua lettor on {ho asmo wubject, It is ovident that eithor tho painter or tho danler tampered with this pant. L Kknow that tho twe of korosone will ruin white Toad, and I uuppone It will do the #nno with the clomical paint. I undoratund that tho chemical point s ninde of boiled (luseed oll with ziuo for 4 bago, and that other ingredionts ara used to glva it o glogs, so commion to thin pamt, That this pniut may bo adultorated by unsoritpulouy doulers, 8 not lmprobnble ; but,” whon of good quulity, it s ready for the farmer fouspply it Rinusolf, und thus sove the expouse of u painter, Qlue-wator s used in paint to ndultorate it, and this will flake off, " Some years oflo. an old building osmo into my bands, and “tho painter put on siziug cont of glue, fol- owed with two couts of painbi Lut it all washed oft in losu than two yonrs, With oli thena facts bofore ug, we may bo uble to wet at somo truth, Wo all kuov that the commnon paints of $he shops are badly aduliorated, rud ¢hat pnintora sro not honeat who uae korosono or turpentine to thin the pant to mnake it sprond, as thoy know, or ought to know, that thoy ruin tho paint in doing #o. Now that tho chiemnical paint has_becoma popular, and many parties are ongaged Iu ita proparation, woshould seo that wa_got it of rerponsiblo vnn(nn, n ore dor to gunrd ngainet adultoration. Tha Granger, in his gonl to buy cheap, may encourago tho malking of n chieap articlo, TGO CUEAP TO NE PROFITATILE, Mr, 1Imd bas beon vory unfortunate, efther fn his pamt or in tho Dainter, Whon bo comes td ropaint, he would do well to ivo tho sllb?on cntoful attontion. Ioro iy the jattor 1 full, sud it will ba to the intorcet of both dealors and paintois to have the whale thing exphnined, for, 08 it now stands, wo do not kuouw who is in the wrong or who in tho right, aud [t ls the duty of tho pross to uoar butt aldes of tho guestion : Garrsnuna, Tl,, June 20, 1874, Mn, “Tonan*~8m: As you' nve fu (inica past, and it twa of your letters qulto reaently, apoken i Biairo of Avcriis chemical paint, whl Yot pleuss. for tho informution and benefit of 'those who in couse. quenco nro tkely to muffor s8 lisve gvo pubicily to thls, the othier alde, 1 huilt a dwelling-house two years ago this summor, of well-soatoned pine, uud, baving somo confidenco in tho almost_exiravaguut fecommendations of many prominout meu, and ospeciully tho ono of Prof, Tur- tuor, of Sackyonville T paiuted & wtly Averill chior leal puint, Three duod coats were put on Iu favorablo weatlor, hud by cxpertonced pafuters not in suy wey prefudiced aguinst it, One year uiter, {L hegan to show unmistakabla of dofuig just whit it wus warrinted not to do ; that #erack or pec] off.” This season will fally complet tho ruln, 80 thut noxt year I abintl bo obliged to satide ppor off what littio romans, and repuint 1t with somo- thing decont, “Tlio #liles of tho hiouns expored to both tho sun and rain lool much the worso, Every sbowor leaves 18 murk, and covers porch-roofs sid balcony-floors with additionnl flakos of pulut washed down from thio clapiboards ahovo, Tho barn wen built firat, and primed with white tead, und then (wo conts of chomical paint upon that, Thfa has whalied off In great potw, leaving tho prim- g 08 frosls und whita ws when vt put oo, ‘'hio north kides of the butldings Jovk badly, but not us Lndly as the others, Early fn tho spring I wroto (o the agent in Chicago, and recolved the oxcoedingly asilafuctory anawer, “4hat b wan beeauso my houuo was mado of plnie, 1o Tind & hotno In Mickigan, bulle of whliawood, Niat Lsd been painted roveral yeuts, and it lsted woll,” Of courao, If I bind known of (ko pecultirities of thin excallent paint, I might havo imported from Aichigun tha proper lmbor for it; but the agent is greatly infutaken, o8 the whitewood' Uelusters on my Dalconte look s Yadly aa tho reat of tho hotiwo, X goutly houlod Prof, Turner ovor tho cogls whon bo an here o fow dayango, 1o looked at tho house, and wagmuch gurpriaed to fiud, o be said, the must alicl- tored patts of iy houso lookiug worse than tho most cxposed parts of his own, pulntod five years ngo, He thought thoy muat bo loaving out sonie expeunivojn- gredient fu order to mako it pay better, snd an- nounced his intention of publiebing the facts, I found thia cbiemieal stuil much more oxponsivo thun lond and offy oud, 1 my opiniou, it is not ay du- Fabio a8 good witltewahts, If eny ono wishes uny further particulars, T shall bo nappy to anawer afl communieationw, s 1 think 1t timo tho trulh woro kuown, Youra very truly, Cianvzs 0. Ttonp, The other day I was converaing with an old farmer ou this subject of -painting, and he re- matked that, when o hiay bis father had o new Liouss paluted withs uile Tinsecd il ana Yormil. 10n rod, aud that it kept bright & dozou or more years, when auothercoat was added. The paintor Dorted tho ofl bimself, and addod uothing to it fo mulke it sproad ; and Lo claims that this thinnmg 18 tho rosult of paluting by the yard, as tho maoterial costs less thus thinued, and & greator surfaco can bo covered In tho numo timo. In_tho adulterations of Paod we havo the atartliug ovideuce, in Tne TRIDUNE of last woolk, that, whilo whols peppor costs 24 cents a pound, grotud poppor cau be bad for 10 cants,—thus showing that some cheap substauco bas beon ndded. The former bewg a large consumer, it i8 his duty to sce that TUESE AUUSES ARE QORRECTED, and to do this must appel to the pross for ald, Tho painter who hes a coutract for so much per squaro yard is tempted to use kerosone ot 15 cents, in placo of bolled ol at 8115 per gallon, when bo cando so witheut dotection. If o aints by tho yard, and tho pumnts aro found im, ho yot prefers the easy-lowing kerosena or turpentine to thick bolled oil that requiica more lnbor to apply. No doubt that both paints nmlupmulm are av fault, and both voed cor- recting, 1 have a floor painted with & mixture of balf white load and half Frouch yellow, with bLalf Japau aud hulf boiled ol ; aud suotbor floor puintod with chomueal paint ; and shall thus have an opportunity to teat both. I have used only a fow gallous of tho chomical paint, but have scon many buildings painted with it that bavo stood the test, and, it uot tampered with, it is a good puint. The mixed paintx sold at the shops and drug-stores ara governlly puor trash, snd tho farmer hud bettor avoid thom. VENTILATION, SuLtivax, TIL., June 26, 1674, Mz, 4 Ronas, "—Sm : Huviug roud” your lelturs for tio past clihiteen yoars, 1 take tho liberty of wiklng o question : Whst Xind of ventilation i thio boat fora Colar,—suy & yoos 18 by 18 foot o8, 1 bave one room in my cellar, that is used for 2 store-room, that i8 18 by 24 feot. The chim- noy-fluo tenches to the Lottom of the cellar, and, to ventilata it, I tako out thoe stopper for the stovepipe-holo, Thers are two bioles,—ono for the stove, that is used on oxtra oconsions, and ons for tha purpose of ventilation. The air {s slwsys puro in this_room. The oppoeite eido af tho flue in srranged iv the snme maunor, and tho cellar under the kitchon bias its tno also, The air coming in from tho outside, and passing up the flup, keops wp ® good clreulation, and the cellar makes o good milk-reom, In very warm wenthor the shutters aro closed in the daytime and kept open at night. Tho sash are hung on hinges, sud frames with wiro.cloth are fittedin the windows, This is a chieap, and yeb a first-cluis, mode of voutilatiog tho collar, whether large or small, Tu vory cold woather the flues mzy be olosed, and & fira put_in tho_stova, in _case of danger from frost, Cider and yine cellars may he ven- tilated by wood fincs of large size, but, in ordi- nary farmliouses, the ohimneys should Le mado Inrgo and reach down to tho bottom of the cel- lar, for the purpose of ventiiation, You cannot ventilate tho cellar by tho side-windows, as the hot air must go out at the top of the houase. ‘There have been two or three patent ventilators hnwked sbout the countey, to vontilato at tho bottom of the room, but theso bave proved fail- ures, and some_public buildings have been at- tomptod to bo hosted on this plan. A move ing railvay ese may be ventllated in that mouner, a8 the cold air s forced in from abovo; or & mino mny_ havo sir forced into it by machinery; o celiar, howaver, will not ventilate itsolf in that manner without other aid ; but tho chimuey-fue ia suticiont for minsing part of the log was driven thoro by the wolght above, no that whou it waa rolloved, (ho Tog would strotch out again like a turtle's hod. In tact, oll hils logs wore short, and tho orookad- est convention of loga that wo avor sew. In- crediblo sy It may soom, the wiry littlo animal paxsod us on & trot, Wnon ho camo down on that abort log, and tho family korplumpad” with ft, it would bavo mada the oldost man living Inugh, Both the childron wote slooplng soundly, for tho motion of tho horso sorved all the pur- poses of a oradlo, WONDERFUL SNAKE STORY. A Young Woman Carries n ieptile in Her Stomach Four Yonrs. L s Thingy’? N y Two Foct Long, Is Final Drawn from fter Mouthh After n Severe Straggle, Fram the Nashville (Tenn,) lanner, July 5, . The Banner bas borotoforo publishod atate ments roforriug to tho sngular caso givon be: fow, aud to st the whole matter completoly af reat wo take from the Murfreoshoro Neiws extra the account of ‘tho capturc of tho enakoe ou the 20th uit. Tho aftirmation of tho nttending phye sician will probably romove sll doubts from the mtuds of tho incradulous: “For meuy months pnst, it has boon re. yorted that & yonug Indy, fiving near Qleis- tiana, in this county, was aflicted in o very pingulor mouner, and, & grost many eald, was possessed oithor of & dovil, or a’reptilo of somo claractor, which was located in her stomech, Muuy Dbud been the remarks theronbout, somo sMirmiug ite posaibility, whilo othors hootod at the baro montion of such a thing. The intorost had continued to {ncrease in regard to it, untll, at different times, most ob the Dhysicians at that ondof the county had visitad tho afilicted youug lady, and we might &ny without oxaggoration, two-thirds of the poo- Elu of tho asmo scction. Thoguml culmination, owover, wis reached on Friday night last, af Juuo, by thoe extraction from tho stomach of the girl' by Dr, J. M. Burger, of tho horotofors moated * thivg,” which was nathing moro or legt than a livo sunke 28 wohos long aud two-thirds of an inch o diameter, ~ Knowiug tho ]grnnl ine tarest it wanld nm.mmllY excite, not only in thit but othoer countrics, and bolug desiraus of fus- nishing our roaders with s tiue and authentie nccount of the whole uffnir, we dlspatched our Inquisitivo reporter on Tucaday to tho_Acono of action, with (orders not to roturn until ho had fathomed the whol: thing, and sscortained it8 truth and veracity, whic i8 hore givon, *[for namo {s Thankful Taylor, hor fatheris dead, and her mother lng binco married hor resent lusband, Willistn Carroll. With both ranches there are twolvo children. Hor ago is 2 yoars, sud since ber infaucy alto hos been moro or loss dolicato nt tinles, rathor of an apileptical oharacter, and now boars ulmn hor countonnnce unmistalkublo evidoucs of idiocy ; thougl iy ber manneis and convarsation appoar- ing about balf witted, She flist waa troublod witl the snake about four years sgo, aud sinco that time it Line continued fo grow wore, until for the past two yeary lier hfo Los beon Almost continuully ouo of pain sud trouble. Whon shio folt the motions of the enake in her stomnach, thoy wore freqnoutly {:arcoptihlu neross tho room, with an ordinary bed-quilt over hor, and wero genernlly upon one or tho otlior sidoof her stomach. ~ Sho would suffer great pain, aad froquently 80 severo it would produce ‘cou= vuleions ; she would loso bor mind, snd remain sometimes {n & death-liko state for twenty-four or thirty-six hours, At times her suffering way 50 groat bor skin would eplit open. and tho flosh upon her hond split so much it becamo necos- sory to cut bor halr off very short, in which condition 16 i8 now, and the scars a0 porcopti- ble to all, 7 # Sho frequently remarkod on tho 20th it was coming up ‘soon, sud just after dark on thot evemug ad the family “wore seated about tho doar and gomo of thom on tho outside, sho aroRa from ber paliot o the floor, rushed out tho wost door of the cabin, ud ina strapgling manner run some Hftooy or twenty stops and foll upon ber knocs, Tho family supposin hor in a spasm ran atter hor, and ber hittle brother reaching her tirut, called back to his mothor thab ** that thing was in sis' mouth,’ "' + Her stop-brother caught and beld her from bohind, sho all tho whilo making_desporato of- forts to got looss, and appeniéd straugling to doath. Hor mother fiuding * the thiog ' in her mouth as though it had come up hoad foromost, and 1n going bnek the same way bad doubled it~ gelf, mukiug & loop, in which she put hor fugor aud he!d it until the doctor came, who 'had buon wont for inatantly, and arrived_in s fow minutes from Lis home, some 400 yards off tho way be bad to come.. . “Tho mother, rememboring the dootor's in- junctions, held fast, and as it tried to worm itaolf back into the stomnch, sho callod ubon hor daughter to close her teeth upon it, which hor duughter anffl she did, and thero ia cortaivly upon the anako just wherosho would havo taken hold, unmistakablo signs of marks that might hove beon mado by teoth, Bo koon ns tho doctor arrived ho took hold and drow it out, it making efforts to gob down, but coming up with the use of but Httlo strongth, Tho suske was covercd with a slimy mucious substance, and lived sev- oml minuten oftor it wan talien out, it boing probable two causes produced it doath: fivat, the oxposing of it to tho air, and, socond, the erip upon it by tho toeth of the girl, and the hnuern of thomothor, Its lifo was noticed by most atl of thoso in attendance, togother with tho sons of Mr. T, P, Ford, who arrivod just aftor it was taken out, “'¥inco its cxtraction, the girl seems better than for yeara past, walks about, goos to churcl, and bas & fine apnotite, aud, we skiould have said bofore, she has onton nothiug sosrcely for a long while, althougli she scemed but little emnciatod. She nays sho is very thankful to her dootor for Botting it out, “'\Va have above given the facts, a8 wa gath- ored them, of ona of the most remarkablo cases upon record, and will laave our readers to form their own_opinions uy to ita possibility or impos~ sibility. Weo would, however, say thae the a'~ tending physioian 1s & man of cbaracter and and siunding m his community, sud Mive Jobu- nie Datton, whoso atatemeut is published o= low, togethor with his (aud both made and mgn= od by themselves), is & young Jady of culture and rofinomont. and one who stands high in the comwunity in which sho lives, STATEMENT OF DR, TUNOER. “Dr, J. M. Burgor, a praciicing physician in unid county and State, makes the following state- ment upon hie professional honor: That just aftor davk oo the night of the 26tk of Juue, 1874, 1 was sent for in a gront hurry to attend Thaul= ful Taylor, and, in company with Miss Johnnio Batton, I at onco procoeded to her homo, o short tho purpoge. SMALT, FRUITA, At the lnst meetinz of the Champaign County Hortienltursl Socioty, the anove subject was tho order of thoday. There woro samples of the ‘Turner raspberry aud the Miami, The former is o coodling rad raspberry. that lins attracted cousidornble attention tha pnst threo or four voars. It hae & bad Lhabit of profuss suokering, ut Lhoso cut off onco do_ not renpvear. On the whole, tho evidoneo is in its favor. But, for dis- tant matkats, tho Dlackeap family will hold the first placo, and of these tho Aiamu js the bost, ‘The Davidson's Thornless is o fow days earlier, but the frint is smallor. Tuo Wilkon it tha only strawhorry that tho Socioty hins found of valua for murket, Among tho blackberiies, tho Wilson has some friends, but many enemies for its want of bearing. This Jour the crop of all kinds i# gond, and the Lnw- on is_the Lost of ull, The Snrdoer has been ‘planted, but 4 is too carly to form an opinion of 1ts vulua in this loeatiow; though, from the small sizo of its truit, not much oan be expected of it, Tho mombers will_go slow on this or_any other new b\nulthnrr{, The Kittsting is beiug rather largely planted, frof, Burrill had made furthor investigation in regard to tho COLORADO POTATO-BEETLE. e statod thut I'wrls groen in water s much botter than aydovlo, us the Inttor docs not dis- solve in water sud sink to the bottom, and thus loses jts sulne: buu the former in water, at the rate of a tablospoonful to threo gallous of water, sprinkled on tho plants, is effectusl against this bootle, and no doubt would have the same effact on most other inseots. Tha churry crop hns been good, considorimg £l bad condition of the trees ; but the price hay ruled very low,—much lowor than ususl, Num- bers reported tho hlnukbnrr‘; orop s ono of the most promising for years; but this may bo cut short by long-coutimied dry woather, Ihe cod. diing-nioth was roported ut dojug little drmago. Oue membor, 3lr. Phinuey, roported his apples o full crop ; but all othors reported o hight crop, though the promiso is good sy rogards quality, I'ho wentlier continues very hob whhmfl rai, Tlio wintor whent {s in tho Bhook; the borry is plonty, but the atand waa thin, This dry weather iy Emsmug the corn, Lut pinching the oats and potatoos, - 'The Liay turns out noarly an averago yivld, and is fino in qualtiy. RupaL, ——— An Astonishing Pouys Fyom the Denver (Col.) News, Yesterdny, suys o Houthern Colorado ex- change, Wo HaW 4 mat, & woman, o good-slzed Dboy, two bablow, five or aix blankets, a buffulo robo, and two strings of ohill on w single pony, Evory uvailablo inol, from bis enrs to tho root ot hid tuil, wad “takon.” Tho poor suimal was vory emall, tirinas & towol-rack, of & slokly, pale color, and' one fore log was about & lnchnn aliorter (Lan the other—the kueo-lalut of that log wau yory large, 80 we suppouod that the dintanco off, end found her upoun tho ground, with hor atep-father balding bor, and her moiker Dolding tosomething in her mouth. 1 at onco took hold of it, aud extractod it, which proved to be o hiviug euake, 24 inchos loug aud 34 of an inch {n diameter. The girl, when I reachod her, Wwas in o strangling condition, but was mllnl)l? rolieved upot, its oxtraction, It appeared, from the position I found the eunke,it had come up hoad toremoat, and fu attempting to ga back, was caught wich us head down thio wso- phague, I shonid think 6 or 8 inces. The raptile lived 4 or 5 minutos, and was covored with A light mucous substance, I am satlsfied that the wnako cams from tho atomuch of the girl, and was sntiefied, from the boginning of “my trentinont 0f bur in Junmary last, that Bho was afllictad with o roptile of somo character in hor stomach. Sho now seeins porfoctly recovored, and s ablo to watk about, go to chureh or sy~ ‘where, which he has not beon able to do beforo since I bogan to treat her, J. M. Burces, ALD. . _BTATEMENT OF MIBS TATTON, “Misa Johwnie Battou mekes the follnwlnfi statomont: Bho wont with Dr, Burger, ant found matters as stated by him and other afllnats, Bhe pad secw tho girl frequently sinos ler nflictions, aud is uatisfied from hor provious symptoms the rosult was a natural ouo to ba oxpectod. Jounxix BaTTON," i THE TILTON-BEECHER *WHAT IS IT7" IY WRALTER TUTMAN, Incomprohenaiblo thiuguimbob | Gigantio mysiory! Cyelopean suggestion of might, could, would, or whould, BaNiing tho Whorefores, and by darknes illimitable sure rounding tho everlutiug * Why Not 7 Blarless, suniesy, and evou by gasligit uniluminatod —ureludus of questions, Qimmerian triumph of intolleciual maze ! Trizo pumpkin of modor ridd) Potuge of suarlod twino aud tatterod spides-webs o0 cleslastical, imolaya of bamboozlement | @reut craw-Osl of the sucial woan and sscerdotal koY wiso, Odtlum theologioum, and go and come ag Which If to be, oF not, fs why, or ay Hero seclng 1t by what Wa' thiuk we 460y ‘Aud notung 800 st ull, Bquirm, wrigglo, twist, Qit fu, git out, git nuder and on topy Liolow, lla high, llo ovorywlors. fl“'&“’x}"”’fl."'fi“‘ pluch, nd utter thy Lukbarlo yaw ABovs tho root F mdiod Ohristengom —A Vonotian fonnder, named Giordanl, hra dlscaverad & now process of custivg, by the opers ation of which, and at o singlo low of tha liquid wotal, not only largo Btatuos, but gronps of most ‘alaborate complexity can at once ba pro« duced, aud with so e a finish that no nuplxla- mental ciuolin s xauirad. o hus o1 et 3" ald, wintue of Leds, mith porfoct auvouss,