Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1874, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE TONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1874 89 8 olase, hava not boon oxempt from tho rables of Nnuclal plahs wnd dizcussion, (he - nfluonco of the aomn\ dootrine of icronso hns boen de- clalvo avorywhero, Whila dobnting tho oftionoy of thls orthat projoot fora roturn Lo spocio- poymont, or the relativo valuo of gold and paper-monoy fasios, tho Lord of the plow hing not forgotton {0 add a fow nores to his nrable land, aud to dovolo an hour or two por day of oxtra Iabor to tho cultivation of hig crops, ‘Thon the Urango movement has boon influontial in thiy direotlon. In tho first dnys of tho Patrons of usbandry, social aud matorial improvemonts wora tho ninin objects of tho assooiation. Tho atimulation of thought, the incronsod roading of 1ltoratiro specinlly prepared for the farm, and tho lntumhnufia of tho rosults of oxporiones and study, havo all bad thoir offact in improving tho INDIANA., MRS. EATON. by aimilar asporaions, what did yon do 2" The Gront Scandal of Jackion’s Bglendid Orops of Whent and Administration, Qorn friond of ming him to the parior, The SBtory as Told by the Lady Herself, A Large Amount of 01d Wheat in the Sanianos lrolh Farmers® Gramaries, in tho gardon,’ From the Washinaton Repudlfean, In 1820 ono of tho mast romarkablo womon Amorica avor produced camo prominontly into The Cause of the Increass in viow bofora tho publio, At tho ago of 76 slio fe Grain=Crops. modos and mothods of oultivation. Tor tho stlll linlo, vigorous, and woll-prosorvod iady, | After furthor parloying nnd am Iarge erap, nnd tho cong I b f o y o0ttt Mot Hovomans apihios 5 | S0 o Uoefors o hara ok o ok 3 I thon told lim the linna and lincaments of that quoonly beauty which once led eaptivo mony mon, - M8, OEN. JOUN i EATON 18 now In Washington, on o briof visit from hor Lome {u Now York, Yostordny, it was the priv- floge of & reprasontative of tho Natfonal Repub- Lican to linvo an hour or two's conversation with hior, aud to obtain hor consent to make the 0on=, versation lmhua. Whilo it confins somo of the {toms familiar to tho genoral roador touching her Mo credit largely: and it fs n work Lully ns worthy of thom as tho othor and Inportant ono, politically, of ovorturning county rings snd put- ting rascals out of oftico, LROVISIONS AND FRUITH, As & rosult of the Inrgo corn orop, An easy and full provision markot wonld bonattiral, Bilt tho high pricoof corn and the rato poid for hnfis Inst yoar eaused ovory availabla porkor to be shipped to markot. Shonts woro sout to slaugh- that he should A Good Business-Outlook---Anticipntions Washin of a Heavy, Safe, Cash Trade. Tound piprectly | didn’t know that Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, IxDIANATOLIS, Ind,, Aug, 8, 1874, THE CHOrS navor looked finor. Huch is the uniform report lifo, it oxplodes many a falso idon, and givosn o . fom siost ovory . oction of o Stato, | 1or bin montls boforo fonding o invo boon, | gy xplades many a fales idon and, givos n Suet than ol Tomion, st ¢ and tho statoment las beon _vorified | ;0 orop lms}nllwlllbuvuryulfuxe. Thoro aro | 1i8tory of thio scandalous charges whioh mado | 3,0" 1o witnoss. In a momont In @ largo dogroo Ly conaldorable travol | mofiogs in thia looality gt all, and within thopast | UOF namoe famous, whioh led to-dissolutions of Cabinoty, whioh killed the higlior aepirations of Caluoun for political Prul«nnunh which mado Van Duron Prosident of the Unltdd States, nnd whic illustratod thie devotion of Old Hickory to an n‘){;umd womnn, ++ You woro born in this city, Mra. Enton " “Yos, gir's in 1790, I waa just two wooka old whon my mother eat up in bod to out. father's hair for'hils attendanco at ‘Washiogton's funoral, Washington waa oflon a guest at fathor's Louso."” + Your maidon namo was ** Margarct O'Neal, My fathor, William O'Nonl W88 a wealthy man, and,” during girlhood days, novor had cauge for trouble or sorrow of any and porsonal inspgetion of (he garnered nve boon wheat and tho waving flolds of corn, Good erops appoar to recur with a regularity not dis- similar to that attendiug “ panics.” In the yoar 1804 this Btato knew its largost yiold of wheat and corn ; and it is tho opooh from which all comparisons of Inter crops havo boon mnde, In 1809 the crops wore very flno, bottor than boforo or sinco within the momory of tho prosent race of activo agriculturiats, with tho excoption of thoe bountiful yoor 1864, The country of which fow days, at loast 3,000 or 3,000 1 brouglit hore from Kontuoky to food, Tood will bo ulmng. and tho conaequence is, that tho hoga Wil ba bettor fattencd than lnst yoar, while tho ‘pricos will rulo. Liugh, owing to tho lmited sup- Lovo the d tho Bhark, Hy. altor tho Tho frult orop will not Ayorago moro than one- bl Lot year tho frost killod the majority of the blooming troos in Indiana, savo tho hardior varlotios of apple, and the comparison s mada with tivo yoars a; 0, when thoro was a ronsouably-~ good vield, Buddod poaokes will bo short, whilo socdliugs will give a fair ylold, Tnore are indi- boll, Tselzed oolliston, T faivsad and foll, tions n the poachea now belng rocolved of wn- againgt tho sofa. It was tlio Iudisuapolia - {a tho natural market om. | OB P kind,” mado uso of thro romerlk, ¢ Wor bracos thirty-four countios of Indiana | USU8lly ewrly maturity, and it is belioved tho ! And wore you marriod young #" hed anything to do wlt’l‘l‘thla.' markoet i3 bow atits hoight. Applea promise woll, plthough tho lator variotios are falling off largoly bofore ripening ; but tho orop is abuudant, and tho prico ranges from §1.25 to $1.60 por barrol. Vory littlo is done n ehipping. Indiaun fruit. Consignors aro caroloss in eolec- tlon and packing, and vory littlo Is fit for Eastorn shipmont. In tho coming yoars, pomologists may learn that thore s monoy in tho cultivation of fruit, and thon a trade will doyolop worthy the namo, Small fruita bave boon ploutitul,— blackborrics, particularly, vory oxcossivo, and o drug on the local market, Potatoes promise Iargely; tho eatly variotion aro in tho markot in largo ‘quantitios, and tho fiolds of tho lator rands show overy indication of & plonteous orop, As & rulo, Indinna is an importer of pota- tooa for domostia consumption, but this yoar'wo shall have plonty, and to spare. THE DUBINESS-OUTLOOK, A tour through *tho stroet” rovenls tho hoatthy and confident tono of ‘businces man, prodicated largely npom the abundant erops, and slxtoon countles of Illinols. Tho romaining countios of Indiana find their markots in Ohica~ £0, Lonisville, and Oincinnatf, respectively, This aroa of country produces 118,000,000 bush- ols of corn, 16,000,000 Lushols of whot, 18,- ‘000,000 bushols of oats, aud about 1,000,000 of ryeaud barloy combined. Of this ylold, about G0 per cent s surplus, ropresonting & cash- value, at last yenr's prices, of 840,000,000, But, in catimating tho crops of this yonr, tho reports received hero talio iri tho ecutire State rathior thon this restricted Lorritory, and are divided, by geographical location, iuto north of and south of the National Road. Tho shrowdest obacrvor of tho grain-market we havo—ono whose experionco runs further back than most of his contomporaries in busi- nogs—uow gives it as his opinion that the orop of wheatsouth of the Road is ‘TUE DEST FOR FULLY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, both 18 to quantity and quality, In tho Lower ‘Wabash Valloy,—Gibson, Warriok, Vandorburgh, Posoy, and 8pencor Oounties,—tho wheat i8 ro- markablo; whilo, in tho Middlo and Uppor Wa- bash countios, the proportion of excellonco is woll mintained ; but tho palm of superiority goos to tho south. Col, Dick Thompson, the “*You, and vory happily, too, My husband's name was John Lowlo Limberlake, and ho was a Lurserin tho navy, My firat child was born whon I was 17, and'in just thirteon months aftor my wedding-day.” « * \aa it n boy " * Yes, lio diod whon 6 months old. The 800- ond wag agrl. Sho was named Virgin{a. Sha rosidos in ,Parfs, whoro ale ‘married Monsiour Sampayo, a Frenocuman of distindtion, but now dond. Virginiu had a danghter, Blanche DMarie who also marricd o Fronchman' of position and woalth, My third ono was Margarob Timber- lako. Bho married John Rondolph, & dson ot old Dr, Brockonbrough, of Richmond, & groat friond of John Nandolph, of Roanoke, Through bor I havo four graudchildren, Gootgo Chap- man, namod after tho colobratod Dr. Chapman, of Philadolphis, John I Enton, Mary, and Emi~ Iy Roudolph. - &y domestia: N> was heppy, It Wad a8 happy o miarringo as ever wag., Mr, Tim- borlako diod abrond, at Port Malion, tn 1828," 3 «+ A natural doath ?* *“I'm 80 glud you ask mo that question, Yoo, bo diod & natural doath, A yoar or more Fmv ous to lils doath, and during'groat physical s foring, ho mado o elight and most inoffeotual at- tompt at suicide, and that is all the foundation thora is for tha atory that ho did not dio a natur- death. Iis disoaso waa tho nsthma. Just rovious to his doath ho wroto moa aixteon-page ettor, nddressed - moving hoaven and earth for Ttov, Obadiah Brown. ally affooted me," What did tho ladids do 7 'ho yoar of the panic has baen ono of sott) o- meuts and preparations, Wholesala doators Laye pruncd ¢heir trade olosaly, cutting off Lad ous- tomors, colleoting ovuri dollar of indobtednoss, aud nul\lng only to cagh-customors and to cau- tfona and conscrvativo hu{m’e, Tho samo rule hasappliod itself o the retail doaler and to the gountry-merchant, an d thoneo to overy honso- hold, 'Economy hins boan tho watchword sinco Beptombor Inat} oashi-payments have beon moro absonco in Philndolphia, roturned tho call, ‘We were ly, received, Aftor a fow oallod on ma. kaen recollootions of how &ils own wite suffered “'Whon you found ont what Ely had dono, ** I wotit with my fathor and mother to Phila~ delphin, and loaving them at a hotol, I sought o 0 by tho name of Bradford and wont with him to "Mr, Lly's house, and oalling domandod of him tho sourco of his Information. Mo “sald ko ! Vory woll,’ sald I ; T shall not loavo your hougo £i1l 1 got it.' Tle turnod to Mr. Dradford and enid, *Come lot ns walk ‘No, sir; yon do not leavo my ‘rrnunnco until I have your author. tond to bo & Ohristian ministor. wronged an fnnocont woman, and bave got to toll mo from whom you obtained your information.' You havo bago); told mo thnt ho got it from tho Rov. Campbell. wad all o wickad ls, and vowod suffor for it. Washington, and without taking off my thi dirgot r, Oampbell’s Lonso, and arlor with my hnaband, who Philndolphin on had lonrnod in it object ho had notumluF to ngs, hnd beon to this businoss. I told bim what I Philadelphin, snd nsked Lim whaf in Olohing from mo my good namo, proposoed to liave a witioss to the convorsation i eald it was lm'[}unnut, and I thought so too. ‘owson, an old gray-hoaded ofMi- agroed ho should ho waa as doop in tho mire g8 tho othor was in the mlulhnml that it would be noooysary to alos; 80 wo sent to tho Navy Doparte mont for a rocord of the timoe of tho salling of Towson's aud Campboll's datos did not agreo, nnd then Towsen mado an attompt to dston in tho ook to' mako thate story Whon I saw Towson dolng that, I oxolaime ed, *Groat Godl I am undono, I supposed was a friond was pro Thon Mu), Baton sald s *Bir, for this,’ and mado an attempt him by the arm Tho man whom ving an enomy. you must answor togot ot Cam: aud provontod a | tion, striking my head 0 _that Campboll uld to God I uever and that he got tho story from Dr. Oraven- I found out from frionds and nelghbors that Campboll bad boon roofs against mo, Now Dr. Oraven wag dond, and I coul to him in his f,finvo; 80 I wont to his postor, the Br, and Mrs, Brown both avorrad that Dr. Cravon had nover said an; thing of tho kind to thom; on the contrary, that ho hiad spolion vory kindly of me just provious to his denth, and roferred to a pot of bottlo of old port wine that I sont waa gick, Bat, eir, the poison had gone into the yoius of my otomics, and it was hard to curo thom of thoir madnoss; but little did I droamof the political sifiniflcanco of these things, I wag only thinking of tho wanton lios as thoy person- +*Now, madnmo, lot us roturn to tho Oabinat, I waa quito as indopendont as they, and had more powoerful frionds, Mrs. eallod on mo, nor Mre, Branch ot houn, with her husband, called onco during my Mr. Eaton and mysolf olitely, not warm= ays Duff Groon’s , asying, ‘‘Portulsian! thereis atrensure lora; Onllioun bad not il Martin Van Baren was a widower and a grent friond of mino, and guvo many hand- | was thre somo entertamnmonts in my honor, and 6o wore the Barryy and all Gon. Jackson's real friends, and at stato dinnora I always rocotved most dof Ingham nevor her, paper, tho Telegraph, said Mrs. doad, hor body boing bralscd and ont in & most siokoning mannor. Ior body wasso complotoly entangled in tho machinory that it roquirod tho strougih of two men to oxiricato hor, The fato of hor danghter was not instant death, but hor Injurios wore such that sho dled on Bundsy motning, ———— GHOSTLY WITNESSES: A Tnle of tho Ghost which onoro Mirabel Saw—The Ruricd Treasuro in the Gardon—Miraboel's Desire to Mecome Waenlthy, and How Ko Ate tompted At-¥he Ghost fn B Law Coure, From the New ¥ork Ttmes, Witnossea from anothor world rarely make their appearance in a court-room, oithor in propria personwm (apiritu, porhaps, would be the bottor word), or at socond-hand ag forming part of tho subjoot mattor of tho caso, An instance baa been quite recontly roported from Maryland, whore a gpectro appoarad in court as deus ex maching, though ho was visiblo only to o half- witted wltnoss and tho gullty paty. Among tho luminous Judiclal minda who haye sat upon the Bonch in this Blate, thoro was b lonat "one who cortninly balioved in tho nossl- bility of such appoarances, and any well-inton- tioued ghost would, no doubt, have boon cor- gially rocoivod had he prosonted himeelf whon I discovored | His l}unur was bolding court. In a oaso like the one we aro about to rolate, howevor, his koon legul acumon would certainly, dosglte hin 8pirit- nu’i predilootions, havo sent his ghoatship outof court at onco, Ionoro Mirabel, sged 19, & possant and n natlvo of the Oity of Portu ¥, was em- ployod ne pasistant gardnor at tho aonntry 8oat of 8 3. Gay, not far from Marncilles, Wonr: of the painful and laborous life which forgo bim to onduro the burden and hoat of ‘the dny, Lo sought in his mind for somo oxpediont by which to froe himsolt from his unhappy condf~ o rosolved to declare himsolf rioh by reason of havmg found a trensure, and ar- rauged tho following ingenious little story to support Lis statomont : One_night at about 11 o'clock, during the month of Ml:{, he was asloop undor an almond treo in the gardon of the Gay country-houso, Considering the place ha bud choson for his bed, it ia nob wonderfal that he slept lightly, Deiug rowsod by a slighit noiso, bo saw by tho light of tho maon & man at the window of n neighboring honse, which: was only B or 6 paces from lim, As thls houso was at the timo uninhabitad, the sight of this man sur- Fflml bim, and he thought ho onght to chal ongo him. Mo therefore called to bim, but tho figuro mado no rospono, This obstinata si- lonce piqued Mirabol, and he rosolved to solvo tho mystory. Tho gardon-door boing opon, ho ontered and mounted the siairs, but whon he roached tho room whore he had soen tho figuro ho found no one. Thercupon it dawned upon his mind thnt thore was & ghost at the bot- tom of the mystm;f. Boared Lalf to doath at this thought, ho ilow down s four staps at a time, aud hurried into tho garden, Ar- rived thore, his throat folt parohed from his You pro- disoussion he Oamploll not speak roservos and im whon ho Mrs, Cal bo hoard s voicoin the sopalouiral tone whi hantoms aro sald to dolight in, whioh oalled to dig forit ; it is yours ; have massos sid for the reposo of my soul.” With thess wordsa etono 0wn o a particular spot in the garden, 88 if t0 mark tho placo where tho troasure wad concoaled. Unablo to keeK 80 Wolghty o secrot long con- i H i NNIR MAGGIR LAUDE erential notico. Tho atories about m; being cut | eoaled, Mirabol hurriod off and told his story to Toat, o poltclon and agriculturialy Informa mo ( i, POREl, thet for " iiteen Tyomrsy widla f was omo of Lis pot mncaes far o, Hlo was | Lo ey potos rosnly cxaggaratod. Eir Cltilon | tne of bis Foleode i oupurk,2ad told s, Cailloty that, n the countios contiguons to Vigo,—his inting lmfi:%mdnnn hos beon porsistont, and in Emny Zespocted by Lis brothor officers, and ( Vaughan, the British Miniater, waa 8.warm friond, | who had chargo of the farm attached to & noight placo of residence,—tho wheat will avarage fully | gencral succossful. The country nover wag uo | they omms; 8 handsome monument over his | and ntnhh ball and receptions I had muny | boring coun! x—unt, and ) her gardener, of — VO, o Wi my miniature o il nOre, 20 acres to tho bushel, whilo the quantity will bo | nesr ont of debt ns to-day,—at least, not for . _Ho diod with my miniat taspod in | honors, .. | Tho ‘threo friends detormi ned tho next Y yoars. Businoss lina soldom been upon a aurer | his Laods, That was returnod to me by Commo- ++ Wolinyo road that at one of Baron Krudenor's evening to verify tho ghost's story, so be 30 per cont above that of last yoar, and the footing, with » losa per oent of iucumbrance | doro Lavalotio. In bis will ho loft mo all his | balls, tho wifo of tho Ministor from Holland, | thoy repaired in company fo_the spoi in- quality 16 per cont bottor. In tlo 80 per-cent from tho past, and o moro ohooring outlook for roporty. His watch and ring ho loft to Gon. | Mra. Huygens, deliberately cut you. Parton dlcntodi and commouced dlgfilng. In o inoronse in quantity is reckoned § or G por | tho future. The domestie eoonomy enforcod by | Laton. " They wero warm porsonal frionds, 1t | tolls tho story. short timo thay came to & bundlo wrapped osni incronsod acroago, Fiftoon bushels to tho | the Ppanio atagnated trado ; all tho babits of in- | was tho Gonoral who brought mo tho nows of ** I do not recollect tho ball at oll, and, o4 for | in solled Hn:n,hgluuh, (znlfio!n A a’:makT\l}lth the ocro may be assumed an avorago orop; tho re- | dulgence and luxury wora checked, and whatovor | his death, and for two woeks I never loft my | Madame Huygons, she nover gavo mo an allront | epade, gave forth n metallic chink , 0 party was iu possersion wasjused until absolutoly worn out, Never were wardrobes go barron ag now ; uover wero tho absolute necossities of ro. T00m t0 B00 ANy one. Gon. Eaton bad knowa | in public or anywhere elso, us for a long time.” &zfla trom all sections of the Stata indieate thnt + And whon wero you marriod to him is avorago will bo reachod, and it iy [noflslhle the yiold will measure 17 bushels whon tho har- A lonishment roator. Ever arment, *'In Decomber, 1828, he mado tho offor of ma ;f“"hmét' Lg {fiw'}dfi',s {,’;‘tgg f“"‘m c,““{‘a%‘;f Eont and ahoxo, hat and m'y' ovgry farm | riago in tho prosonce of both fathor and mothor, But s of battor quality, Gmideise 2 150 | implomens, “hovsohnd utonell, and” ardl- | At that timo tho marriago did not nttract mal. L flfmn&‘y ?,z‘;ln mn\):l.:otad T, O :m:' some | €10 of farnituro—has boon used 1o | cious romark. It was only atier Gon. Eaton's BSto 64 pounds to tho bushol'is tho gonoral | 120 imit; whila habts of lifo havo boot mdaoeg S?Wflfmm the following Maroh, aa Secrotary to a stato of sovers sim licity. Necousity, and, to somo oxtont, an easior feoling, baed upon tho goneral -pJ)ranlnt(on of bettor timos, will stimulato the demand in ovory branch of trade and industry, and our morchants a10_alroady putting their houses in ordor for the fall-busi. uu;as, Without exception, our Jobbers antiof- pate that I bogan to feol tho offects of the onvy of women, and to guffer from wholoealo slauder. T had boon and was then flattorod as a handsomo woman. ~ Was fond of sooloty, goy 08 6 laxk, full of fun and nongoneo ; somotimes, may bo, & littlo original and lawless in my ro- marke, but, sir, bofore honven sud my God as innocent of actual wrong to 8Dy ono &4 8n un- born babe." “ Now, Mrs, Enton, we como to tho vital part of this conversation, and that aclear understand- weight. 1In tho northorn tior of countics, after cawo up o me, an orossing tho Wabash River in its_northoastern srm, tho wheat ia' very fine. Portor, Whito, Bonton, Jaspor, Nowton, and, in fact, 'all the prairio-countios, including tho Wea Vlnioe, west and southwest of Lufayotte, ‘ ALL YIELD NIEAVILY, Thero aro no lack of instancos whore 25 and 80 bushols have rewarded the farmor's care, and one Howard County enthusinst throshied 56 Dush- going to Franco?’ HEAYY, SAFE, CASI TRADE, and thoir ordors Inst and to importers aro more of the lics they hnd told, 6nerous as to scopo and amount than they have eis from a small flold to which hobad Paid spacial on for twelve monthw, T atay d Jeckson snld it suggestod a i 'l . 3 ple dry | ing may bo Lind, tell'us of your and Jackson g :x‘:?"flZ’?:anqgsmflsfllvfiflf ’rflf'gfl;? o{}"fi‘ ; | Boods, ~domostics, woolon poods,” boots PRRSONAL RELATIONS TO GEN. JACHSON," bad not occurred to him befor aud shoos, and other artioles of ' woarin apparel, tho domand will be steady an. coustant, affording omployment for the mru.a and factorlos of tho East whose looms and machinery have boen eithor partinlly or ontirely stillod sinco tho days of the panic. Already the now whoat s flowiug rapidly into market, and the supply of currency increasing in the bands of the poople, 1t is truo that this amount iy still small, but tho banks have plenty, and as businosa roats upon suro foundations, and within consorvative lines catablished during the dynsi year, morchants and traders will find roadonnblo gccom. modation, aud soon the wheels of trado must, of necessity, be running with greator eage than for months, Tho confident tous of the market is everywhoro felt, In all departments of businoss, ‘mon wear cheorful faces ; monufacturers aro putting thoir ongines ¢It is simplo onough. _Gon, Jaokon and my father worc friends boforo I wasborn, Yon rocollect ho first came to tho Senato soon aftor Tounceseo wne admittod asa Stato, ond wag thoro until 1798. Ho came again o tho Sonate in 1823, and was thoro two yoars, He was a boarder at my father's honso, My mothor and Alre, Jackaon were aleo groatly attached to ench other, and of conrso I was a groat favorite with them, and whon I becamo, tho wifo of Gon, Eaton, Jackso's dosrest friend, why, of courso, hio took greater futoreat in mo, and for rossons and motives of the highest charactor he bocamo, in tho hour of trial, such a ataunch dofender na only Jackson could bo.” * Woll, now, what conatituted those reasons and motives ? ** You must rocolleot that Qen. Jackson's wifo o8 & Mrs, Roberts, and that his onomies did not whilo Pike, Cnus, and n few others known prr- tioularly a8 whont countios, will Tun up fally to 28 or 30 bushels. In somie counties tho yield is poor. Boowo, in the Whito River country, re- Ports only 12 bushels ; and there are instances whero the crop will not beover 8. But theso are isolated coses, the offect of local causcs entiroly, and ara not to bo taken as indicative of BUY ex- tended soctions of tho Stato, Tho chiuch-bug has put in 1ta appoarance in spots, but tho devas- tation hns not boen cither gonaral or rovero, | 1n & fow of tho central countios the whent ig light in woight and poor in quality by reason of the shinch; but, as gencral rule, the kernel is lisavy, 6olid, and henithy. In’ addition to the mew wheat orop of the Btate, tho large amount of OLD WHEAT NELD OVER must b taken into the account in simty, pointmonts 1atrat! at solicitation of frienda. body for gomo Indisoretion. was appointed Pursor in tho one of my worst traducors,” Mrs, Eaton, at a Emily Randolph. i 3 Inthes in ordor; builders are oxtending thoir hogitata to vility hor charactor provions to and Southriative estimato of ‘tho whont Indiana | A1 Iathes in erdor; by PRl g e o 4 g i g uttorly beyond | atter hor marriago to bima. Itin trae, she was Soul € uo would, markoe s Far 1 a"ary | buman kon ocolins, this fall will S00a, saaggn ot | o highly nccotaplishiod, foe Aol w o oren Boction of the Stato, the farmors’ grannries aro full of old wheat,—lunot & few instances tho "*hold-over " inclnding the orop of 1871 as woll a8 that of 1872 and 1873, Polk- County s woll Blocked, and so is Marion, and the White Rivor Valloy Gountics genorally. In Fobruary last, 8170 was offerod for this whont by dealors hero, but farmers concluded it would go to $2,aud, de- business_activity in Indinunpolis, and in all the citiou and towns of the Btdto, unequaled for 1ts amount aud unexcolled for its character. Tho effects of the panic aro passing away as the memorios of an ugly drosm, and the dawn of a substantial prosperity comes with the brighiness and healthfulness of tho day, 1. ment to a drawing-room, but sho was pure, virtuous, generous, high-souled woman, and uone Luow it o woll as hor great husband. Gon. Enton was presont at her marriago, and we wore both at the Hormitage when hor faneral took place. Gon, Jackson was wholly unnorved and incongolable, for ho loved his wifo with all i i —_—— the strength and doyotion of Lis soul. He be- ron, o ocksainge o tio auntzary, roon fo. thle MISCELLANEOUS, lioved that tho storios—rnthor lios—told. bt JACKEON, VAN TUREN, AND CALHOUX vory largoly, bosides boing kept out of bor during the Presidential contest Idlled hor, The reader now Lns n cloar idea of the naturo and from that moment ho becamo tho sworn and uuylelding foo of all slandorers of women ; and whon thoy began to drag tho pame of Eaton through the miro—a namo spocially desr to him— Lo was naturally indignant. But this was by no menns all. Ho saw in the atlompt to ruin mo an adverse influence against hia Administration, led and secrotly worke by John 0. Calhioun. ‘* What was tho nature of ‘ THE SLANDER AOAINBT YoU " the'curroncy for monthe, Nover since that time hos the market advanced boyond 81.30 or 81.40, and now tho rulivg ratois from $1,00 to 81.10, at which it is likely to remain, It is tho opinion of those most ablo to judge corractly, thata Iarge proportion of the now and old wheat WILL DE MARKETED TII8 FALL. Farmora desiro the monoy; they havo been in delit loug cuough, and for & yoar past havo beou Alruggling to frao themeolvos from tho Jnst rom- . 0. McCormick, of Arlzonn, hag declined o ronomination as Dolegato to Congroga, —Our exchangos aro still runn ing tho item of a cadet vacanoy in thisdistriot. Wo stated somo weok ago that tho vacancy waa #illod by the ap- poiutment of Mr. Congrossman Ray's son to tho place, and we havo the authority of that gentlo- man for saying thero ia no vacancy.—2Aonmouth () Atlas, —A hornd story is told of two boys of Dir- Prosidenoy, to Vau Burom, nants of indebtedness fastened upon thom b mingham, England, who pushed o youn, er b “ To ba plain—that I was enceinfe aftor Tim- 5 the flood-tide of pmspurur and speculation | ntols oanal Fireo Hmeul:uccosaivo’l;y T trlon Lorlake had beon cum-uym]nt 808, and by Gou, }md lhfinzpc];;nl {riendship Frece«laut to tho panio of Inst fall, 1t is bo- | escaping doath by awlmming away and crawling | aton. A moro monutrous lio was nover told. | Iuane g i oved that, if the farmers can obtain an avorago of 81, thoy will lot tho wheat 8o, and apply the procoads ta tho work of debt-oxtination to which all classes of veople hnve applied themsolves 80 assiduously during tho past wintor and spring, Indisna ¢ not alono i hor splondid wheat- cn:}v. ‘Tho whole country seemn to hnve budded and blostomed with plenty, and should Lhere bo a brisk foreign markot our pooplo will share in o era of eolid prosperity, 2 Thoro is neithor variablencss nor shadow of turning to tho coru-roports, It is ONE CEASLLESS MONOTONE OF PLENTY, similar to tho seven yeara of plenty with which Egypt wus blossed provious to the grent famine, and when Joseph ontered upon his first and auce sesaful M corner.” Pho Agricultural Dopart- meunt eatimates tho incroased acroago in corn at 200,000 acres, ahd tha yiold at 109,” Thoso esti Inated aro rather below than above the reality, Nover have onr bottom-lands seen such superd- bundant fields of corn, and it ig imposgible to do otherwieo than to sposk in the samo torms of ovory soction of tho Brate, No yoor crop is hoard of nuywhore ; aud if your O icago upoc- ulators propose to do Mf cornoring with new corn, thoy will havo to enlarge the anglos wider than evor, and hold a purse that Fortunatua would envy, Iu otlor grajns tho ProBpoot may bo briefly summed up: Oots are poor. North of the National foad they may bo called foir, but south of that ' line no attompt has beon mado to bLarvost thom, Fields hiave been cut with mowers, and the crop troated =8 Ly, Hu{ will be roasonably plenty, but will rulo high, Ryo and barley miy bo sof doywn as failuros; but'so littlo of either of thoso raing I8 raisod in the Btate that thelr condition Ea of no significance. Tho_ hot, dry woather in ourly snmmer, and tho lack of piontiful ralng Quring the lator months, in tho southorn Lialf of tho Stato, account for tho utter failure of the oat orop thero, Tho samo atate of affars oxiat. od north up to within a fow wooks ago, but later raing improved tho prospoct, . Those goneral statoments apply only to the Slate of Indiana propor. That soction of pUTH nole finding its markot hore has suffored from a prolonged and etill continuing drought, and the crops thera, of all kinds, have sufferad soverely, THERE ARE TWO PLAIN LEASONS for tho largely-Increased orops of this yoar, and thoy carry with thom & losson that should not be lost in the future. The incronso has not boon for causon outeids of and indopendent of tho farmor, No epeclally fortuitous woatber Laa at- tended tho growing graine, but tho additional screago aud mare eareful cultivation acoount for tho fucroase. Inall the patent romodion invont- od by “statosmon” for tho panio, there wore not a fow, luckily, who stoadily and poruistontly preachied 2 stimilng {o prodiction as the most wotwisl onag . Lo At whils garmors, ++ Was thoro auything to baso it on 2" ‘* Nothing, absolutel nothing, My mother and wysolf wero invited to g0 out riding Ly Gen. Laton. Icwasa night provions'to one ‘of hig dopartures for homo, and beforo wo wero mar. ried. Whon near Kalorama, the horsos took fright, ran nwn‘}r, upsot tho carriago and throw us all ont. WhenI got homo I found myself badly bruisod ; was ‘pué to bed, and Dr, Graven Yad govt for, When o camo fathor and motlher weoro_presont in my chambor, It was alleged that I gaid, * Doctor, if you had come soonor you might hnvo scon o little Jobn H. Eaton i bus I uover mado any suoh romark,” ! Who started that slandor 7" ‘*It catmo about in this way, For the presont I omit roferonce to tho ladies of tho Cabingt. I shall toll you of them by and by, Thore Wa8 ono Rov. J, N. Campbell Lers who was pastor of o Prosbytorion church, who intermeddied with tho affair, Joined tho gossip against mo, and did all Lie could to Llnst my roputation. He aupposed that Gon. Juckson would attond hia chureh, aud that o could havo influenca ovor bim, o told tho Rov. L. 8, Ely, of Philadolphia, a budgot of lios about me, and’ inducoed him to commnunicate the samo to ‘Gon, Juckson in o lottor. Tunt ig the gamo Rtov. By whoto daughitor s now con- nocted with the seaudal of tho robbery of tho dig- monds by the Grand Duke of Russia,” | ‘“Pn!ton, I his life of Jackson, rofora to that ottor, " Indeod! What doos ho say " *Why, ho suyy thot Ely wrote Jackeon that ou Instructed your sorvants to call yourobildren iaton, not Timberlako," ““Great Lioayons! I nevor heard of that bofore, Bo holpme dod, I wnevor did anything of the kind, It is a baso, unmitigated lie. What olso did tho wretch sny?" ‘‘Ilo said that you and Gen, Enton travoled to. othor, and rogistored at hotols as man aud wifo fin{m‘n you wore married to him,” ““This Is too much, alr, Put tuat down s p most infornal lio, ItIs tho firat timo I evor honrd .ot it. I nover travolod auywloro, provious to my marriage to Gon, Eaton, tnt once, and thay wan to Now York, and Mr. Timberlakie and my fathor wero with us," TUR LETTLR, - It is propor to suy horo, as o mattor of hlstory, that tuls leltor of Lly's wau writton to Goj dackeon, March 18, 1629, vory soon aftor the formatidn of the Cabinot, ' Taokeon rapliod to it, stating that from porsonal knowlodgs bo kney mosk of tho chisrgos to be ontiroly fulse, undl I his henrt of hourts o bolloyed thom all to bo, ife did not rest, howorvor, without seoking in overy way to disprove them, and sccording to My, Par. ton Lo sont a confidontial porson to Now York to inapoot tho hoto rogistors, This, though, neods strong confirmation, but Mr, Parton adds that his zoal iu bohaW of'Mrs, Exfon was frod by the out of thowater. The last time the yonthfr murdorers wout in thomsolyes and hold their viotim undor water till ho died. —L, J, Burlingamo, County Buperintendont of Bohools of Columbia Oounty, Wis.,, was on Weducsday, by tho judgment of Judgo Btowart, romoved from oflioc. 1o was charged with hay. (uf acted as agent, and sold fourtoon maps, for Silas Chapman, to the school district, at & proflt of about 21 por map, while he was Buperintond- ent. DBurlingamo is a Republican. * Had the profits amounted to a sum equal to tho back-pry of an ordinar; Congressman, wo_wonder if ho would liavo been romoved.—AMadison (W) Democrat. . ~Mits Bosslo Budlow, the nctross, was robbod of a camel's-hair shawl, valued at £600, and other valuable artioles of wearing apparol, ' just assho was loaving for Europe on the L’lty of Richmond on Baturday. “Other Knuaongnm an- nounced losses, and complained itterly of tho negligence of iho Company whurohfi auel out- rages could b successfully committed, ~—A London telegram from Vienna announces that tho Prince of Asturisa has possed bis final oxamiuation at tho Thoresa Gymuasium in that cikg, Aftor visiting his mother, Quoen Tuabelln, at Paris, ho will ontor tho Univorsity at Vienua, and follow a throe years’ courso of atud: thoro, Ho will thon_enter a mlitary-achool ofthor at Munioh or in England. —J. I, 0. Wilson, part propriotor and oditor of the Iows City Republican, publishes & longy lottor in the Press, of that oity, dau\mclntor{ of Lis partuor, N, H. Brainord, ~ Hls cas is, that Lio procured Braluerd's appolntmont s Postmastor upon Drainerd's promise of ving him half the ealary, which, singo gotting tho ofiloo, ho has ro- fused todo, — g A Strango Story. From the Burlington (fa.) Gazstte, ydu Byros' fathor, of Oskalooga, ta,, Iately wrote a lottor to onp of his daughtor's Jady” trlends in Dlooml;i.vton. I, etating that Lyda was doad, Bho had been selzod with jll- Do8s 800D afior roturning homa from the Nor- mal sohiool at Bloomiugton and died suddenly, 1t made much “finol smong tho companjony of tho young lady's Normal tehaol coursp, Bov- oral days aftor o’ lotier camo addressed to the same youug lady of Bloomington, apparontly by the hands of hor doad friend, Q ponivg the lot- for phoe found that Ler supposed doad friond had both written the lettor and slgned it. Tho lottor atatod that sho had boen struck down 1y illneus, was pronounced dead, put in a cofiin, fior grave dug, and tho hour for hor funoral apppointed but she was luckily not buried for tho vory u;nmi reason that she woko up in timo to rendor tho Inst coremony quite unuocossary, Suo way Yory glad of it, and was quite woll Again, Bho aup. Posoa il waa a tranoo that Jooked liko death, in Calhoun, enco against Van Buren, wholly conged. thmmy wonderfully Blair, Ben., ns its editor, tion, combor, 1840, tion to himsolf. mado Van Buren Prosidont, Jaokson Townsbip, Borgoman aud hor with sonted thomsolvos direct), which was loft standing nost, bo ohocked. to my knowledgo; but the Inghams, Branchos, Calliouns, Berrions, and tholr friends could invent anything, I recol- loct anothor_incident, Jackson “had appointed Gon. Eaton Ministor to France. Tho rumor was {mmediately startod that It was for tho purposo of cuabling mo to go out of tho country, At ono of Bir Oharlos Vaughn's balla o 3rs. Ploasanton in most obsequions manner congratulated me, and_asked to lLave Lior son takon abrond with us. I knew thnt Mrs, Ploag~ anton had beon an active enomy, Soon ns I could Isnid to Gen. Katon: *Darling, are you *You say you nover loavo the 8 wero passed in Ho ropliod: will not go.’ T told him I would goil of Amerioa until nine monthi the prosenco of my enemios, sud opor praof, given Jackson and my for thodectsion, . thought which “You were accused of making most of his ap- Gon. husband both complimented mo ‘*Yos, thoy said that. But I nover made but two appoiniments during Gon. Jackeon’s Admin- Rm. Ouo waa for humanity and the other Tho first was ason of tho widow Coolidge, whio kopt a boarding-houso In the First Ward, and was hunted down by avory- Tho appointment wag made by Maj. Barry, Tho othor, Mr, Cooper, navy, and beoame o ANTONIO HUGHIGNANI, with ovidont pain, rehearsed the story of her Inst marrisge, and With an Ttalian adventurer by the name of Antonio Buchignani, who managed to doprive hor of all her ‘Fmpuny. and then 1o run away with her 8he waa a ric Timborlako loft her all his proporty. Gon, Eaton Toft bor & largo fortuno, and her mother loft hor all hor proporty, but Buchignani stripped hor of ¢ho last cont by onedovico and then another, and bias left her fn” hor ago desolate, and depondent for support mpon her male Buohignant afterwards married E; but whero they aro now she doos has heard that Buchignani is den soon of Emlily sho was traveling V d, ond tho last Woet with two of tho ucandals nffocting Alrs, also mado aywaro of tho facs that tho in ospausiug hor caude, was nocessarily involyo in opposition to lier enomica, 0 hor most activo and inflnentlal friond in tho Cabinet, and at that carly day aspired to the Galhoun was her most influential onemy, aud had tho samo aspirations attributed In further convorsation with Mra, Faton tho following facts woro elicited : Bosides tho porsons named above, Mrs. Eaton of Amos Kendell, Eaton, and is tho Prosidon Van Buron wae Raudolph, and othors, Groon, tho editor of the Uniited States Telegraph, was the champion of Calhoun, posed to hor. So interestod was Gon, Jackson in Van Buren for tho succossion that as of th early na the_ lattor part of 1820 Lo wroto a lottor to Judge Ovorton, carofully commond- ing Van Buren, and speslung of lost confldonce Jackson openly ‘a8 molding inflg- “kOlhcaumo the [Clnbinot was wanting In anything like harmony, andsome- timos for ";.-nomlm tognthor Gon. "Enton hold nothing but siriotly oflicial intorcourse with Mosars, Ingham, Branch, and Barrion, Tho Prosident, iron-nerved a8 ho was, could not stand this sort of thing, and ho rosolved on its barmony or dissolution, Aftor n dotermined effort on his part matters became and for somotbing moro than a #omo show of decont foeling, but'aftor ull Juok- £OD BB VOry umz of ctlm ll.\:ou. In%‘hnm‘ Brauch, nd Borrion, no ‘abinot mootings I 8 But in the meantime Van incrensed onco, Circumstances trauspired which mado tho broach betwoen Jackson and Calhoun a *“liloody chasm " which nothing Tt was thon that Duff Green's opo waa proclaimod in tho Teleqraph, 'This led to thio outablishment of the Qlobe, with Francls B, o Itrtuoln ‘:‘\ml n[lncfl! of the Telegraph na tho organ of tho Administra- 'l‘fl'; "rostdont got rid of I and Borvion, through tho agrod fions of Yan Buron und Eston, and honce op- , oud in 1830 told his frionds that Calhoun wi & lttlo boitor, yoar thoro was caitld Lridge, 0 disaflection ngham, Branch, oud-upon resignn- Thus was in Do- Van Buren was nominated ag Ministor to England, but rojooted by tho casting voto of culhn;‘:u, l(;nl' hlot}.\nlinfi'ed lt},n“u {mmn hx}ll conspirod with and lod the Presidoent in opposl- * “Chat voto wottied Ualliodn and — Two Women Cnught in o Mower nud Both IKilled. From the Nellafontatne (0,) Examiner, On Inst Fridoy morning o torrible acoldent acourred on tho farm of Franz Dorgoman, in near Alihutor, ‘O, ~Mry, nughtor, Mra, Vandonbrook, of Napoleon, wont to the harvesi-flold, cnrrlylu(; ‘.lmm o lunch for tho harvestors, ' in front of cho toan; iroutly over a hornot’s "Tho horses becoming restive, commonced Pawing tho ground, disturbing tho hornets, whioh Gommonced & vigorous nsgault wpon the team, T'he horsos becawo frantlo and plunged forward with the mower toward tho group, of tho two ladlos was coupht and they wero thua dragged fo: y Jength of timo buforo tho horses could possibly Fiuolly, when the oaught, it was found that Mrs. Dorgoman way n the mnohino, r a considernblo ‘wero pleased onough at this discovery, but seom to havo boen protty badl; acared, Loo, for none of thom dared touoch tho bundie. Mirabel, how- ovor, baving procured a oraoked stick (it must Lave boen a pretty stout one), hooked it rough the bundle, which ho bore Lomo in trie umph. Thore, in dofault of vinegar, he soked it in wino, though for what reason ho did not atato, and on opening it discovered 1,000 gold plocos, mostly old Portuguosecoins. Ilere was 8 groat and glorious chags for the bardyeriey peasant, now becomo a man of property. His lirat procecding sooms to bave boen to pour out s libation of Bncohus, for he wont off to Mar- goilles on o apree which Insted'two or throe days, Hia frionds hind lost eight of tho tronsuro from tho timo ho had carriod the bundlo home with bhim, and when they asked after it, ho puc them off withi an evasivo answor, . Ho soon realizod the carca which richos briag to thoir possessors, for, like tho cobblor fn La Fontaing's fablo, he lived in sonstant droad for his lifo from robbers, and lost aleop, appotito, and volco. Ho had some masses sai , for fear hia spootral friond shonld pay him a second visit and wring his nock for him, and had himself bled four timos to got rid of tho physical oifeota of bLis groat fright. 1In this stage of affalrs he bothought himself of o follow-townsman, one Ang wior, a wealthy morakent of Mareoflles, and to him he confided his secrot. Anquior congratulated him on his ood luck, but Enve him & frosh cause of alarm y oxplaining the laws governing the disposal of tronsura-trove, which, under severs Pains and ponaltics, made a far differont disposition of it from that which tho ghost aud Mirabol had mado. Anquier therofora advisod him not to oxporo any of the old plecos, and for his daily noods lont him forty livees. He also bacama yory attontivo to his rocently-enrichod follow- townsman, escorted -him around the city to soo tho sights, treated him at sovoral taverns, took him 0 his house and fo dinner, and finally showod him bhis‘strong box filled with a goodly anddaughtor, woman, Mr, . | Btore of monoy, all indicating that he was 1n S Mmook, | 38y curonmsatameon. i iiuE lat, ho was 1n Tot Kuiow. g | offoct, and Mirabol was satistied o ecs rod uo eafer place for his troasuro than in the hands of his friond tho wealthy morchant, It was nccordingly agroed botween thom that 8t 10 o'clock in tho ovening of Bept G ihey should mect at ono of the aity gates, and that Anquier should recoive tho” ghost's logacy, iving & recoipt forit, On his Way to tho ron. guzvonu Mirabel mot Gnu{:nr Delouil, whom ho asked to wait for him in ¢l Joiniug grove till Lo hind transacted some busi- noss, 1o then handed over to Anquier two little bags, ono tied with a yellow ribbon, the other with ‘s atring, aud recorved from him this roceipt : o 1 uxg indebted to Honore Mirabol 20,000 livres, which 1 promisa to pay on demand, less 40 Lvres which ho owes me, (Stgued) Axquien, Aarseriies, 27 Sopt., 1720, Boing now possessed of wealth, thus safely disposcd of, our hero took lonve of hig mastor, bogan to ‘enjoy himself as a goutloman of ologantloisure, and bocame a constaut frequentor o taverus of Marscitles. But his vontures were not over yet. Ono night, after paesing a Jolly evening with his friond Auquier, while he was wonding his way Liome, ho was suddonly nttacked in u'dark part of the'road by #omo one who stabbed Lim with a knifo, whic poustrated coat, vost, and shirt, but inflicted ouly aslight wound. Who could thinbe? Lo asked hlmself, Surely not his old friond tho ghost. The ocewrrenco excited his suspicions of Auquier, whom he inunediately visitod, demanding his wonoy. Auquier was astounded, and askoed him what ho moant with his cook-uud-bull story of o ghost aud trensuro; had ho taken lenvo of his sonses ? Thoroupou our young ghoat-soer bo- took himself to law, and lode un information with tho Lioutooant Criminol. 'This ofticial im- mediatoly Srocumlud to soaroh Auquior's houso, but uo gold was thore discoverad, nothing but u bit of yollow ribbon and two little bags, which Airabol swore bad contuined tho treasuro, Anquior was brought forward and Iutorrogatod, 4Lin story was simplo und straightorward: 1o had gomo casual acquuintance with Mirabol thoy Lid lived togothior oiico at Anquiar's Liouso! and alko at o tavorn. Mirabol Lud told him # rumbliug story about a ghost and some 1monoy, but had novor givon bim auy. Ho doniod mil tho rost of his ncausor’s atatomonts, ‘ThoJudgo determined, upon hoaring thoso conflicting statomoents, to sottlo tho question by nxogulnr‘irml, and tho witnossos for both pur- tios woro saummoned, Tho fitht was Magdalono Calllot, She snid Mirabol bad auot her ouo day, looking palo aud troubled, aud declnrod thut ho iad beon holding couvorse withi an ulpplu'mon, which hod rovenlo to him tho situation of sowmo buried treasure; sho wis presont whon the bundle wrs foaud, bug did uot dara to tonok it, 8o had heard Mirabol uy e bad given it to Anquier, Guspnr olouil repeated Mirabel's story, and also statod that ho Lind mot bim ong ovoning in Hoptowbor, near a gato of the city, with a pock. ago {n his hand, whioh witnoss na¥ him hinnd to unother party, receiving in roturn snothor piece of_papor, b oy ¥ rul:wulun Tormioro rotterated the stary of tho #peolre, and wald that, having asked Mirabol one day to show hor his treusure, ho took Lor to hiy room, romoved somo bricks from tho chimuoy, und alsplayed o large bug filled with gold voln, Othior witneasos deposed (o a suddon futimne botwoen Auguior and Mirabol, uud somo- bostle mony Was put ti Lo show that the signaturo to tho rocoipt was gouniuo, Auquier brought witnosses to contradiot Bsome of tho plaintilr’s statomonts, and offored to prove an alibi, T'hiy was tho wholo caso i it rostod antirely on Duir almost his intlu- Tho clothing horsos wore 0 outskirta of an ad- |+ tho vision of Mirabel, for if thore was no ghast 0ra was probably mo ireasuroj ho made tho #pactro an Intogral park of bis caso, Fortunato- 1y for him, tho criminal Judge was one of thoso individusls who dolight to vislt the night sido of nature, and drop an oconsional footfall on tho boundary of anotner world, Lla decidod that Anquior should bo placed in oloso cons Linemont and subjcated to the torturo wuntil ho ;}i‘::‘::g oonfess what Lo had dous wilh tho Aunpposl was promptly taken to tho Darlio- mont of Alx, and tohioaring applied for, Anquler’s * counsol brosontod s strong: caso against tho glost, Assumiu, ovon that such n thing as tho roturn of the 8plrits of tho doparted wera posalblo, cortainly thoy would not Appear nuloss for good causo, ‘Why should the #pactro bother bimsolf to hand his {ronsuro over to an i;{‘uumnb poasant, who would lot bimsol? bo choated out of it 80 soon aftor ho had recelvod 1t? Cortaiuly tho spirits of tho doad hays na knowlodge of tho future, and are but or udges of mon, or suol &' oustodian would noy 870 baon chioson. Ho also made tho most of the othor strong pointa in his vliont's ©a80, such 88 Mirabol's oxchanging the gold for & rocoipt whon it was too datk for him to read it, the fact that Lo was tho ouly witness oa to the contonts of the bundlo ; the” little likelihood thoro wng thnt bis follow-sookers would have deolined to open it, eapocially as n woman was of the party ; and finally, the non-production of Bornard, the gardenor, who had susisted to unearll: the trens- uro, ‘T'ho couneol for the ghost then took his fn- nings, aud produced & formidablo 8ITay of au. thoiitionted * spoctral appontancos, fiom. fiy timo whon tho Gmch of Euuorhrougfxt up Bamuol $o prophosy Baul's deatruction dows Lo tho soven- toonth gontury, The Parlinment, howavor, thought it had bot. tor hear something further, and ordored a r hoaring, to which tho nissing Bernard was sum-, z;u,x;cd. An important witnoss he turned out 0. Ho tostified that he fknow Mirabol wall, ind lout hitn 20 livres, liad lipard bLi ghost story, and gone out alone with him to searoh for tho trensurc, They dug for some timo and found nothing, wheroupon he accused Mirabel of hoax~ ing Lim, aud wont off. Bubsoquently he was Pprosont again, at the samo timo as AMagdalone Cnillot; but' at that time, too, nothing was found. * Mirabel hd lold Litn of his findiug aove oral small sums of monoy, bus he never showed im any, except a fow franes, which ho gave to 8 priost to iavo mnsson said, but witnewy wos inclinod to think these woro port of the 20 tvros Lie bad Jent him. Plorro Caillot tostiftod that Ftionno Bartholmy, th whom Mirabel lived, aud who wasbis guard. inn, bad callod upon withoss one day to solicit him to say that Anquior bad" told him he lind glvon Mirabol's monsy to u sen coj tain, Wit noss, indignant at tho question, kicked him out of tho Louso, A Jawyer of Marwoillos gworo that bel hiad consultod bim with rogard toa papor Yhich ho eaid had boon sorvod on him. 1t was in tho form of a writ, rociting that as ho had found a troasuro and not accounted for it with the ownor of the land on which it was found, he must do 8o within fifteen days or furthor pro~ coodings would Lo taken, As no such form of writ was in use, it was manifestly a forgery. The evidonce of these witnewses Ravo quito a difforont aspoot to tho caso. Mirabol was him- golf arrostod, sud the trinls 0f both accused aud Bccusor went on togother, Magdaleno Caillot, on ro-oxamination, said sho had nover seon any of tho money nor belioved any of Mirabel's yarns ; that she had given the evidonce sho did on tho first trial at his earnost solicitation, Tho conclusivo ovideuco, howevor, ngainst our hoat-goor was given by his own fam- ly. On a doy subsoquent to tho timo at which ho ‘mworc ho had put his troasuro in Anquier's hands he had invited hia twe brothers-iu-law from Portuls to como and goo it, Laving, a8 he 8rid, concealed it {n the gardon, Ho stationed thom in ono of the avonuos, and, withdrawing a short distance, mado a protenso of digglui‘ Boon, however, Lo Jjumpod up, holding before him o shirt suspended from two crossed sticks, and shouting out, ““Tho ghost| the ghost | " Fright at this unox. DPected apparition throw one of them futo con- vulalons aud caused his doath, Evidonce was also produced showing the roooipt to boe a palpa- ble forgery. Anquier was acquittod and dirabel sent to tho galloya for life. ~On boing put to the torture ho confeasod that tho whols plot had boen cconcogt- ed by Etienne Bartholuy (s bitter enomy of An- quior), who bad given Lim the forged receipt and tho false writ, and supplied him with a foy Pleces of gold to exhiblt a8 part of tho treasure, Thie {8 the last recorded case of a ghostly ap- poarauce in a Xrouch court of justico, Tho ago of Voltaire was not favorablo for this 8pocios of ontry, and not even Joseph DBalgamo, the ormes Trismegiatus of the now ery, could gal- vaaize thom into life. —_—— Dealing.in Tigers, ‘Two dealors, Mr. Jamrach, in London, and Horr Hagenbock, in Hnmlmr;_i Lave almost a wmouopoly of tho trado in wild animaly, The former recently gave some of his experiences with tigors. Hosays :*When the young tigers are accustomed to intorcourss with men thoy aro always tame, but you must not §0 near them at” feeding timo, My assistant took n large tiger, 3 years old, to London in a snil. ing vesuol from” Caloutta: he played with overy ono on board, and was only shut up in Lis cagy at night. Iis gront friond wae o dog, o rat- catchor, and they wore takon togothor in_tho samo cago to America, I have ofton tried to bring up tigors with other animals, and havo Buccoeded best with tho common [udian Jackal; I boliovo tho scont of this animal proventy the tigor fron attacking it. The tiger's greateat eucmies, ‘next to ‘man, are monkoys. It is tuteresting to soo the courage and dexterity of a monkoy when ho caunot escapo an encounter, Toucoput o great baboon with g nearly full grown tigor, The baboon leaped upon the figur‘s baok and took irm Lold with his tooth, Tho tiger conld notahake him off, and it was with great difienity that wo took tlio baboon out of the cago . Ho feized tho tigor by tho nock through the bars, and vonted Lis rage by biting thom. I never made tho exporiment agnin, 1 hiad groat diftieulty in goiting ngm botseon tho yoars 1865 aud 1867, a8 tho Iu ian jowolers would give five or six rupees apis for claws, which woro used for ornamonts, The shikaroos, thoroforo, found it bottor to shoot tigora than te capture thom. A good skin I8 worth two or thres times a8 much in Indin ns it 18 in Europo. You mny get from 120 to 150 ‘rupoes for & bandsomoly marked sking Thora iy now but litto domaud for llvinE tigors, Bo that tho shikarces dovoto thomaolyos chiofly _to kfl]lngr- $hom, And, ginlthough huudreds aro killed evary year, thore is 6till an immonse number of them, It is al- most inoredible how mauy human beings are dovoured by them. A tigor gonorally only bo- comes o man-cater whon other food” fails} but when ho has onco taken to Lilling mon hokeeps at it. Iboliove that all tho tigora in Singapore oo man-onters, for thore iy no other food for them, It hins beou proved that one Chinoso wood-cuttor disappems on an avorage overy day., I lave seon many tigors from Bingaporo, old and young, but thoy were none of them tamo, At NMadras, o board a stoamor, my nssistant was frightoned out of his borth ono night by a tigor laving gunwod through the roof of his cabin,” This WAy ono from Singapore. Boforo tho oponiug of the Buoz Conal there was a great ditliculty nbout tho transport of tigors. I onco had soven tigors on board » ship, and twonty-two oxan for faod, of which govonteon died in one wook of g postilonce, Tho tigors liad to contout them- dolvos with 2 pounds of moat per day until moro could bo prooured ut_ Capo Town. hnve beon mavy crousbroods batwoon lions and tigors in Eu“zliuh monagerios, but the cubs aro nover reared.” - — g A Dog Among Porpolses, Tho Cape May Daily Wewves tolls o atory ofa Nowfoundland dufi: * Whilo with his mastor during a stroll on tho onch, tho master noticed & largo school of {lsh runuing in close to the breakers, followod by u. groat drovo of porpalses, that wero rolling and pounecing througlh the wator in apparent excltoment with tho grand chase after tho frightoned finnlos, The dog Carlo, noticing the rumpus, and boing encourngod by Lis mastor to veuturo oul awong tho soa-pigy, &avo a shrill bark, and started out ag gracofully s 8 dog of cork floating ovor the billows, Onward ho plunged, and upon reaching tho porpolsos, ho sent uE a torrible yolping, to tho vonstoruation of tho 80a-pigy, for dog-barking among tho soa rosidonts iy an unusual thing,” Carlo now plungod, first for ono borpolso and then for auother, and so oxolted tho wholo comlmuy that o grand oharge was mado, and Carlo was obliged to beat & retroat, which ho did iu great haste, followed by scores of tho onomy, jumping, anorting, and tumbling about, ovidontly much delihtod st hutting tho Nowfoundlana “stranger to flight, Tho dog was ohased oloso in shore, hig pursuors only rotiring altor gotting nmong the breskers, Upon an ox amination of Carlo after his uovel veuture, A, Carson found that ho had baen soveroly lnslied iu thoe side, and hud one our puttly bitton ofr, This, wo bollove, is tho fivst instance on rocord ul{ a dug,golng out to buttle with the hosts of the soa," —_—— —Qon. Mancock roproves a Ponnsylvania ad- dtor for nominating him for the noxt Prosidoncy at this oarly dato, and ho requests him to BAY that he [ riot sooking tho Domooratio nomina. tion in 1870, as reported, las nover yob sought ?uy pol.mvai oflico whatover, and noyer intends 0, BUNDAY’S NEWS. k Loeal, The Mutunls, of Now York, dofoated the White Elnolllngu Hnlmdnp’ hy 8 sooro of 8 tu 2, Tho Common Counoll spoclal gommittoo, ap- poluted to propare a new firo ordinauco, and to vonsldor othor mattery portaining to botfor pro- tootion agaluat fire, bogan its Inbora Saturday, racelving and discussing varions propositions, but arriving at no dolinito rosults, Bishop Whitohouso {a lylng dangoronsly ill at bis rosidence in thig olty, Au organization m)l-llod tho Indepondon Buwodish-Amorioan Ropublican Olub wns perfoot” od Baturday night by tho eleotion of oflicors. "The report of the County Committoo on Equale Izntion of taxes shows tho following totals : Tha total assossmont valuntion of loty lands, and ronl astato in tho County of Cook i §118,010,003 ; equalizod valuation, $118,010,017; total of por. sonnl proporty, 838,201,172 ; oqualized vatunt] on, #£38,201,173; total vallrond property, 81,876,0841 equalizod valuation, €1,367,084; iotal nusessod ;fi;lfi\an{l%ninmb&,l%l,fibu; equalized valuation, 171 5 Mr. A, fosing nrrivod in tho city yontorday morning, and in an intorview with a Tumung roportor donied nny conncctlon whatever witly tho County Ilospital lot busimoss, Me. Millor, the County Transuror, mada a similnr’ statomont, and Mr. Poriolat says that tho County Commnig- slonars woro nevor promised auything, but that Lo urged tho purchose of the lot. Ata moaoting of tho Board, Saturday aftornoon. an Invouti~ gating Committon was appointed, consistivg ot Mossru, Clough, Lonergan, and Burdiels. —— T Terrible Powder-nill Explosion, Tho following particulurs of o torrible powder oxplosion botwoon Tamoqua and Mahony Junc- tlon, Pa., aro furnishod by the Tamaque flem of Wednosilay ovoning, fhn magnzine in whicl tho causo of tho oxploaion, whatover it was, 0o- eurred, was & gtono building, aud so completoly waa it domolishod that not g voitago romains to mark tha spot where §t stood, In fact, every buildivg about the works, fiyo in number, woro domolished, while trocs wore torn up, immenso stoues hurled to {ncrodible distancos ; o housoa standing perbaps o quartor ot a mile from the 8pot, and ocoupled by AMr, Charles Coyly, tho Buperintondont, aud” Mr. “Charies Daliop, the boss millwright, had overy panoof gluss broken, whilo tho covored bridge fioar by wan badly shat- tored by flying rocks, Aun immenno rook, woigh- ing not logs than a ton, was hurled into the road, 8 dintauco of 60 yards, But by far the mosk dreadful part of this awful catastrophe is tho loss of lifo, Two mon, namad Isano Mummy and John Krause wero Htorally blown to atoms. Owen Garbor, o carponter, working nt his bone; in the shop, about {00 yards distant, was strucle y a ilying stono on ‘tho tomplo and died hr about ten minutes, and IFrank Cayle, a son of tho Superintendent of tho mill, who was play- Ing near the_carpentor ehoj ), Was struck on the back of ‘tho Load, noar tho loft ear, and had his skull go badly fracwured that bis death 18 almost certain, Charles Polton, thio boss millwright, wns outsido tha carpanter shop at tho timo of the ox- losion, and his oscapo was almost miraculous. 16 olothes wero torn from Lis body, aud ho was knocked down, but escaped with some brulses. He dogoribga tho econo a8 perfectl appalling, and ays tho nir was falrly thiolk witl flying mis- sils, Charles Coylo, the Superintondent, escapod in]lu'}v‘, lnving “beon down at the slockhouso, on_tho railrond, atthe timeof tho oxplosion ; and these compriso all the mon about tho placo, ‘The womon and ohildren in the Louses, although torribly shocked, also fortunately escaped injury. Beioml moro conjeoturo, the cause of this sici oning catastropho will nevor bo know, as Isaae Mummy avd John Krause wero tho only men working in the magazine at tho timo, - —The ring Natianal Banke will b interosted in knowing (nssuming that they oro not alrondy Rstnd) that the balance in the Michigan Stato oasury, according to tho publishod siatemont July 81,° 1874, s 31,148,482,03, That in n roodly sum to carry for ‘‘emergeucien.” Tho profits accruing ta tio Ropublican fayorites—tho iffor. ence botwoon thoe 4 por cont thoy pay tho State aud the 10 por cont tho pooplo’ pay thom-—ia oaaily ciphored out.—Jackson (JMich.) Patriot, DEATHS, it A e WALLAGE T Now York Glty, g Mondny maorsing: Aug. 3, 3ftor lfllznr"fifl Mlaces, Wil Wallase, fons orly"uf this Oity, 1 tho SItL your ot i mip. THOMPSON—Aug. 9, Thomas C. Thompson, aged 6 yoars and 5 months, Eaneral at St. aul's M, i, Charoh, Mazwellat,, Tucs- . FONES—On Bunday afternoon, Aug.9, fn the 831 year g€ or ago, Mrs, Mary IZ. Johon, wife of J, towara anes. ¥ 1 i it th 3 t Jack. sonah A efock thixa g a3 ot Fack: SPECIAL NOTICE: Centaur Liniments allay pale, subdao swollings, heal burns, and will cure rhoumatism, 2 spavia, and any flesh, bone or musclo allment. Tho Whita Wrappor is for BNADE iy uso, tho Tellow Weappor s for animals, Prico 50 conts; largo boltles B1. Children Cry for Custorin.—Pleasant to tako-a Porfoct aubsituto for Oastor O, but moro officactous In zegulating tha stomach and bowals, AUCTION SALES. P A A A A AR P AR AP By GEO. P, GORE & CO., 68 & 70 Wabash-av. DRY GOODS Rogular Salo of Dry Goods, &o., TUESDAY, Auguat 11, al9g'a. ;. Dress Goods, Notions, Hosiery, Undorwear, White Goods, Linons, Towels, Napkina, Shirt Fronts, &o, Hats, Cups, Furnishing Goods, &o. Also, 25,000 Choice Segars, GEO. P. GORE & €O, 63and 70 Wabasl WE SHALL OFFER AT AUCTION, BY OATALOGUE, On Wednesdny, Aug. 13, ot 027 o, m, prompt, Alargo and vory fing assorimont of BOOTS, SHOES, & SLIPPERS 'OR FALL TRADE, Tho carly busar hias a cbuico from 2 full stook, and at loss pricos than whon the city s ful] yors. of buy, EO. P, GORE & CO, bl B0 70 Waba: v, By ELISON, POMELOY & CO. CLOSING-OUT SALE. WARBLE MANTELS AT ATCTION, Tuesdsy Morning, Aug. 11, st 10/0’clock, t atoros 8 and 52 Clark-at. (undor Shorman Houss, Tho kbtote s Clarkeat, (umdor Shorman Houso. e 310 Rositisy. " Evary niantal o b ol ELison, FONEROL ¢ U8 Aot & By BRUSIT, SON 41and 43 South Can N, on tho pramisos, DAY, Aug. 10, 8110 . 1. Ptk s, Jaungen, Mirhlotay ‘Hidehossds: o, Hedalonte, Thivkaiv, Dnitranscss ol bioert, Piatoll Ware, Crutiory, Staves: i, Uhiromor ., 4o, I RS 863 4°60., Avotioncors. LIQUORS And Saloon Fixtures, At our Salesroows, 41 and 43 Bouth Caual-st., Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 10 a. m,, Wo ahall soll 18 bls of Brandics, Malt Whisklos, Winos, and Gfns,—8 ons] and Winew, 10 Legs lot of Cordlals, Ci- ud Flxtures, larga qars, and Tobaveg, Ba Gralnod loo Box, 5, Btool Engravings, Mattiugr, 4o, Inaluding contonts of o first-olaes saloon, Alko & chats of T BIUSIL, SON & C0,, Austivonoors (ESTABLISUED 18600, WM, A, BUITERS & CO., AUOTIONEERS, 108 HAST MADISON-ST., HOLD REGULAL SALES OF 3 BOOTS, fl"fl'fls‘ HATS, OAPS, oto,, overy Tuesday moruthg at 93 niolock, FURNIT I”‘i‘ ] lUiJlk"“Yb‘HU'fl“fll‘lfim"ul{“ulflms. cailny Teeslo o ;! B R T i R ST HO1ES, overy Phurvilay mirning at 9; u'olack, HOUSKITOLD FURNIEULLE AND ULNERAL MER. UHANDISK ovory Ssturday mornlng at Uy u'olock, balos of 1teal Katate aad Porsoual Proporty of Livery Doseription Bolicited. SALES PAID PRONMPTLY, By BEDWARDS & G0, AL133 WEST MADISON.ST, A, 10, 047 1 1., o skl Otor Tor sile ot o tonch iromos, Biool Engravings, Lithogrs hy, Looking oter, 1u tho market 1o tho highost bldder, “No ro- o whatever, Our inatruciions aro fo sullat any saos 1l Hemembor that this stovk fa eutirely now, and uo tlllllull\ll dl"“rmil' l::: “lu;""ll\'m AI!« Tlunllml. Call oare 00 AGL A Dargnins Beate for Lib 3 EDWARDH & 00, Auctiousars s Monday oventn