Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1874, Page 4

/ 4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1874, T TNDIANAROLIS EXPOSITION. A Floo Show,.bus with a Fatal Dofect at lts Foundations Probably the Tast Ouo that Will Bo At {empted Under {ho Presenb Arrangement, M. Yvon’s Painting Wypifying “The Great RRepublic.” Corvespondencs of Tha Chicapn Tridune. INDANATOLIR, Bopt, 22, 1874 Somo wiro gontleman,—Prosident White, of Cornoll University, I beliove,—seolng the in- torost dovoloped throughout the West by Indus- trial Expositions, and the impotus thoy sro glving to invoutlve skill and mechanical onorgy, bas placed on rocord on apothegm intended sstu Improvement of Nticholiew's cclubrated ano, to tho effect that tho coming weapon of American civilization {8 to bo an induslsial one. TLoenving sl specniation and philosophy to thosewhose bugingss it fa to fudulge 1w tho ono and svolvo tho othor, tho world may likely caro to know, bricfly, sbout the Indianspolis Exposl- tion, now iu fall blast in its sccond year. This Exposition differs in ita fundamental structura from any othor iu the country, and itis a ques- tion whethor that diNoreuco is not A FATAL WEAKNESS. Thronghont tho first exhibition, and up to tho prosont-timo in this, tho maungors kave boen in- tent on watching tho workings of {hio affair, to #olvo tho problom in thelr minds; and it may ns woll bo confessod at tho ntart, that ninoty-nine out of overy hundred believo tho avomaly in its organization fatal to its future, and ihat this, althongh tho socond, will bo the lust Exponition, in any propor senso, that will bo attempted nn- der tho existing arrangomont. Impolled by the succossfal oxamplg of its near poighbor on the Obio River, » nusmber of euter- prising citizons of Indiannpolis coucotved the plan of lisving tho Stato Doard of Agriculiuro—which liolds sn annual Agricultural and Meohsnicul Fair at thig point, on grounda sbout a mile and o halt north of tho business-contro—add to their axibition anothor department, cxpouitional in its moture, and extond tho timo of tho fair to ono month instond of ano wael, tho usual period of duratfon. ‘Cho matter wae presonted to tho Btato Doard at its January meeting in 167 ; and after soma digcussion, it was ngroed to undor- take it, I€ the citizons would pladge o guarantoo- fand of $100,000, out of which tho dellcit, if sny - thore proved fo o, skould bo paid. THIE FUND WAH RAISED, and tho Donrd immediately proceeded with the work. A building 450 by 120 feot, tiro stories in Lolght, was built, aud mndo roady for ge- cupuncy by tho 1st of Sontember, nbout which Qdato tho Exposition oponed it doors, 8 ‘A e thing, strongly sppenling to thelr prido and enterpriro, tho morchants and citizens of 1ndispapatis fiited up the building with a dis- play ot morchaudiso aud machinary, fine arty and curioutios, that, considering the briof timo amployed, mido o yery creditablo afir, 1t remnined open for thirty days; tho Btate Tair proper—livo stock and faim-products—boing hold in conjunction during tho Iast week ; an tho pooplo of tho city, especially the gunrantors, wors in bigh spirits over tho snccess of tho on- terprise, No ono dreawmed that the outlay lind mich, i auy, oxcceded tho recoipts, aud the surprise, not to sny indignation, of the sib- scribors to the gunrantea fund, may bo magined when thoy recaived formal nolico of on pesons- ment of NINETY TER OENT OF THE FUND todefray & defleit! Ninoty thousand dollara was 2 big sum, and the call evoked a_foeliug of hos- 4ility to thio management of the Stata lloard that can nover ba allayed. This Board is composed sxcluelvoly of geutlemen from tho country dis- tricts, sixteen in numbor, cud, whilo thoy ave 2ll oxcollent ond reputabla geatlamen, it was thought they had neithor tho copacity nor tho experience {o manage an enterprise of "the mag- nitudo of the Lxposition. Attor o groat deal of heated discnssion, the mattor wed finally arranged by o paymont af 60 per cont of tho fund in cash, and o union for another offort thus yoar, in the Lope of not ouly defraying expensos, but of earning eomothing to ropay ab least nemall portion of the guar- antors’ advence, ‘Fhe Board pushed shead for this year's display ; but, when tho timo cama for tlic oponing of fhie hall for tho rocoption of foods, there scomed every prospect af faslure, Tho morchants of tho city wora cold; they did ot e8re to ;‘\m. themgelvea to the trouble of ar- 1anging, aud then feel crcssall the timeatn faufty managemont Ulyoy wero powerlos to cor- rect.. A fow geatlemen, Lowevor, wont_alead, and, by dint of personal solicitation, and a gon- cral oneat through thoe nowspapers, to the eifect that oven g partial failuro would rotlect discredit upon tho city, they managed to bring togothor tha comprehonsive, well-arranged, and in EVERY WAY SULEIMOR EXIIDITION that is now well on its third week. Tor, derpite the general fecling to which I have alluded, thoro Iy no question in anybodys mind that the Txposition is mweh botter than the oua last yonr; but far from what it ought to bo, or would bo if wuhampered by the restrictions un- der which it now unfortunntoly labors, - The beliof that the joinder of the Exnposition snd Stafo Falr s s fatal faull, and that ic will not ho attompted nuotbor year, daes not ariss from any ill-fecling toward tho memborn of the _Boord ; and it isuntortuuate that tho irmpresaion has gano out that it is only tho outcropping of that **irropresuiblo conflict " botween tha Stato snd Indlaunpolis, which so many good poople do thelr utmost to fostor, Tho Exposilion is neces- sarily o city affnir; it should be managod by city men’; and, above all, bo situntod in the Leart of tho cily, whero it will Lo of ecasy accous to all citizens. Think of an Ixpo- gition o mile from n husincsg-houso in any di- rection, and fully a half-milo boyond the thlckl{- built mriduucevi:ortion of thao city. It is ab- surd to nttompt to keep an cxbibition opon for thirt; dnfiu in such a sitnation, No matter what may bo tha mauazament, tha foeatiou condemus it, and must bo changed, That is the uniform ~vordict of all who have visited the building this year from other cities, like Chicago, Loniville, and Cinciunati, whera thelr Expositions are sue- eosafil 1 overy foature, finnucially us well ag exlilbitionally, OF THE_EXPOSITION ITSELF, ba caudidly sald thae it is bettor ar- than tho one ot Louisville, and, in ity foatures, decidedly superior & mo ange somo of oyen to Cinciunati's big show. ‘The oxcollency | of ours is* moinly in tho floral depnrtinen aud fn tho rotall morchants' tustofnl displuy thoir waros. In machinory, ospeeislly th aatunl aperation, thero s o #ad lack,—tho prinei- put thing of intorest in this Lrunch bhoing tho branch of thoe Indianapolis Doot aud Bhoo Fac- Lary, wherein from 50 to 100 paits of shoos Aro turned out overy dfl'x' ‘Fho live-stock shovr, which commences an Mouday nost, will bo the Inrcest avor known nb any State Yair, and tho prampect seems to bo that thero will o an un- asually lavgo attendanca of tha deaizeus of (ke rural dlatricta durlng thab weols, CENTESNIAL DAY AND PICTORE, On Thuredsy of this weok, the Lixpomtion i ta be visitod by a Cowmission of gentiomen rop- rugenting the Coutonniul Buurd, who sro to at- tend tho formnl unveiling of Mons, Yvon's painting, #ho Great TRepublie,” — u work that emfnont artist s donirons of gelling to the Cowminsloners ata round price. It 18 n worsted palnting, n marvel of gorgeous coloring, ond the fewalo fignros representing I1z0 varions Btates are ay nour porfect as can bo. o ides it of o Car of Progross, drawn by bivn Hons, denoting the atrength and soveroiguty of the American Rapublio; uronnd this eur buing ouped the Siates of iho Union, A #hndowy (Fiebington fu tho buokground, and a dgive of & Continontal ol n\}\muant tha ora of 1776, ont of which the car has progreesed iuto tho light, and strongth, and civilization of the proment dny. Admitting all tha excolloncies olnimed for this pleturo by Dr. Suclton Mackon- zio, the improssion it ninkos in 0 divappoiuting ono up beimg at ull roproseutative of tho history of tho first 100 zcm‘n of Amorien, Tor 8 _good, atrong, characlerful, and characteristla picturs of Amorica, the Contonuinl Board, It it wants ono and must have it, should apply to pomo Americnn artist, futl of the vigor aud ea- thusingm ho jn oxpeoted to wdeallzo; and not go fo Franco, whoro no man can pomsibly entoh the PPinl of onr eivihzation, or properly npproliond tho springs of our national lite, 'Wo havoall Yiwon tow apb and anzions {0 g mu-hnuuur-, in tho matter of the Contonninl colehintion, lut us U AB AMERIAN AH PORSIBLE, and, it an ident work bo desmod sxsontial to tho vowplatoness of the Philadelphis stow, why not Jiave Bamonis Lewin protucs ono? “‘Ihat wesg o commmuiation dovontly to be wished sor” Ao Expovition clovos with the close of next wook, TLant year tho deficlt wa ocensionod by the oxponsos incarrod in_building and porma- nont_improvoments, caunl!nfi curront ox- pnhlll:ul tho balanca, though small, was on the right sldo of tho lodger. ~ Up to thia timo the snlon of tieketn havo boon Iargor than last yoar, and thora can bo no doubt that a little dividond can bo paid over Lo tho guarautors after tho net- tlamonty nro all mudo; butb the little driblet of money will not ropay tho nnnccessary exertlona roquited to build u{) nn Lxposition out In tbo country, ‘'Thoro ia a foeling that the Binte Bonrd haa unod o good deal mota of tho eitizonn' moroy that was tocdful, and notall_ tho wators af_Arabia enn wwocton thom in the oatimation of the mon who have had to foot the bills. Ilsu. THE BALLOT-BOX AND POPULAR SOVER. EIONTY. Tn the Kditor of Tho Chicano Tribune? But: A fow weeks ago, tho Woman-Buffrag- ints rested tholr easo on tho puppozed duty to rogpeot Lo deolsion of tho ballot-box, 'Lo-day, the Slato of Louislana furnishes a etriking Nustration of tho valuo of thab superatition, that wilt causo a portion ot lonat of the “bravo and freo” of ihin land of liberty to think about the valie of the Lallol-box s iho omblem of popular govercignty, If tho individual who enlls himsolf, and whom the Powor of the United States upholds as, Governor of Lou- islana, appolnts his chums lo take care of tho soveral boxos styled ballot-boxes, and to pgather with thoss boxes such slips of paper ns thoy mey eco fit to congfder and acknowledgo s ballots, and to forward thouo'holy boxcs, with thelr snuetified contonts, to him and hia crowd, to bo manipu- Inted at privato and maybe midnight sosslon, for tho production by * counting™ of snch & result ay that gang may desiro; and if tho * frooman ™ Lins olthor the duty to acknowledgo tho individ- uals counted into oflico by that procens as his graclous lords and rulors, or to bo put down by Foderal bnyonots as o rebol, do you call that popular sovarelgnty ? Is thac tho protection tho Dallot-box gives to the principles of liberly? If it {8, then hail to some vigorous despob, who will exerclse pity on tho froo peoplo of thin country, by taking hold of the roins of Govornmont in Oriontal fasbion Hall to him who will doliver us a4 envior, by noising tho box of sbominntton, and dumping it and its m!{ contents into the flory pit of everlusting peraltion ! I'ho duty to submit! Indeodl A pack of robbers got togother aud mutually declaro thom- selvos tho “olected " rulora of n State. cull thomelected? Noy, thoy do not cvon fay that; thoy simply claim that thoy would have beon clectod if thoy had been ablo to man- ngo thinga in tho way thoy wanted! And tho Toderal powor declares tho gang fo bo tho sn- premo rulors of that portion of tho “ Lnnd of tho Froo”! Aud, if tho soveroign citizens there- of, cut off from any other means of rodross swliatioover, aro finally drlvon to protost againat tho Hlossings showorod upon thom by that popn- lsr Govorumout, by appealing to tho Inst refugo of n frcoman: snd i, in doin 50, {hoy nro swooping sway thoir orgauize band of rulers like cbaff bofore the wind,— showing, by tho very eano of that porformants, to tho full vatisfaction of aven tho most brainloss idiot, that not tbo germ of a respactable minor- ity of tho peoplo is enlisted on tho ride of itg +logitimato® Qovornmont, and the Powor of tho nation atops in and forcos thom back into submission,—is that Self-Gororumoent ? Do you eall that liberty? If yon do, will you pleaso {o riso and expluin tho monuiug of tho werd *des- potizm "2 Aund who exercises that despotiem? It intho band_of robbors, who, if lelt to themsolves, would bo swo:t away by tho wrath of ap ont- raged poople in lees timo than it takea to writo this;: oris it tho Power {hat surrounds thoso svorthics with armed loglons, and enforces their diciatoy with its bayouets? Tho lstter Yower, mind you, i supposed to bo your own Tower; and, if *'Curres come lomo to vocst, "—if you havo to teil aud dig to pay the cost and_exponso of the “ Fedaral exccutions,” —1f, in future time, thoso whom yon onslave to- day will bo tho willing tools of Ilim who will coino at th proper timo and try to onslnve you, do not complatn. Whosooyer soweth the win shinll roap tho whitlwind, You will only bo gatl- oring tho fruite of tho sort of liberty you arcon- forciug. But you havo to protect “Nepublican ™ inati- tutiona! Yray, what sort of u **Ropublican” Goveruor is he whom you are protoching juss now in the State-llouse of Louisna? Ty ho tho *telioson ™ of tho people o i to govern; or ja Lio & Romna Proconsul, placed thoro to adwmin- istor and plundor tho pooplo of a conquored province at s plensuro, and for tho boneflt of bLimeolf and thoso that support bLim in Lis place ? Grant, however, all tho clalms of tho Procon- sular purty; thas tho clection wa@ unfair, us tho voters of that party intimidated, (Query: Have they that epirit of ** thie brave and the freo™ in them, who, being- tho minjority 08 they elnim, nro * Intimidated by n minority from appear- ingz ab tho pleces of clection?), dacs that entitlo them to the Goyernment according to “ Repub- lienn” ukago? Would it not rathor = do- mand * the interforenco of iho Tower guaranteeing Republican institutions, townrds Tamodiatoly ordering end wupervising oo oluction which shiould ' giye &n oppor- tunity for the untrammeled exorcino of tha right of sufrago by the voters 7 Would it not be the duty of that Dower to socuro, thon and thero, a correct count_of the voto, and to declare thoso cleeted, and delivor the administration of tho State totheir mnds, who, in that faircount, had amajority ?_Instend of porforming thnt duty, Iiag not the Federal Admiuistration handed over tho Govornment of the Btate to the ono claimnat, utterly dwrogarding tho claima of tho other party. and without inaking even tha_nlightesb attompt towards axcortaining tho opinion of tho majority of votors ? I'ho precodont ia thus established, that if, in any State, any parcol of follows combine tomaka aflidavita thet they might have boen olocted if such and such had or had not been the procod- uro on tha doy of election, the Federal Govern- ment, baing obliged to guaranteo » Nopablican™ Inatitutions, at anco bands over the Govornment of that State tothose followa, protects them with military power, cuts off all rodress on tho part of nnybody not eatisfied with tho procoodings, aud fnally treala overybody asa robol whio, from desperation, onters an armed protest aguinst such an application of tho privciples of Repub~ liean liberly! Not only i tho prosont ndministration of tho Stata left to their dizerotion, hut also the bntlot- boxes which aro to detormine tho future]l And, a5 it 18 only nocossary to throw in one goorl handful or two of the'desired kind of slins of papor, or tolosan bateh of tho othier Xind, to count’ont o nufority for tho party which ninu- agon tho counting, tho Dballot-boxing mode of clection is a protly enfo process for continuing the rulo of any set of thiovish scamps who onco Bappen to bo in authority. And it will bo difi- cult to find n remedy for tho evil ko long an th superstition remaing, that the * hallot ™ is of itsol? & hioly thing, nd nob moraly s Klip of paper con- tainitg the opinion of soma oo entitied to voto, and tiat tho *bialloting™ ia anly ono way of au- cortaining the will of tho majority of tlio froe- men, If that way becomos corrupt, it mny be woll to rermemibar that another way exists, much less liablo to bo manipulated in tho couuiing, viz.: tnking down tho ophuions of tho * free- mon" themsotves, sascmblod In broad duslizht, counting thoir volos viva voco, and prononuding tho result vight thon and thero, in thelr pres- enco; s wolling tho whilom baliot-lox us old tin or kindling-wood, Jouy 1L Bzoxen. A Ilizgh Amoricin Dinner in I’iris, JFrom Gulignani’s Messencer, Aug, 51, D, Thaaa W. Tvans gavo o gennd dinner on Saturday ovening at hix residence in tho Avonuo do I'lmuporntrice, in honor of two distingmished Americen visitors o Puris, Col. John W, Forney, oditor of tho l’hilldnlrhln ress, nnd tho ITon. Morton MoAiehnel, editor of the oldest daily In tho Unitod Stalos, tho Aorth American, Among the othor guckts woro Gov. {foftman, of Kow York: Gen, Lorbort, Congul-Goneral of the United Stutes at Parin; Mr, Vosey, Unitod Staten Consul at Nice; Mr. Diddlo, Yrofosnor of the Jotferson Medical Collogo, Philadolphin ; Gen, Drevont, Unitod Statos Atmiy : Vioo Counul- onored lobgrt THoupar, of Paris: e, Bunco, of Now York: Mr. Freoman, Vhiladolphing M. Morton Modlichaol, Jr. ; My, Cliarlos Mulichno), Dr, Edw. A, Craue, Col, Evelyn, My, Kromor, oto, All tho lower rooms of (he churming hotol wero thrown open on this occuston, and the eyo wan yecreated wilk an - oxtraordinary artletlo dis- play—picturen, marblo statnes, bronzas, magnifi- cent porcelain vases, suuff Loxes set with Lril- Tinuts, & whola raugo of diamond rings boaring stouu of Immonso valun, and ovory abject bolug a progont from an lnperint or voyul douor, Y "’A pair of jury of .Bovien chine, given by the late Hmperor Nopoloon, woio Jaiga euol to pernult good-sizod ehildrou to play” gt hida ook in; other lofty spochnena of” Borlin porco: Tuin from the Emperar of Gormany may ho eon- piddorod 1 nlmows uniquo for cloganco of form anil benuty of deaavation ; a pelwrs by MMudatt, Jatoly vent by the Khig of ' the Belginni, sbirncts ed, and very dosorvedly, uulyereal adiniration, s thid & puliiting on porcslain by W, O, Colemau, w g‘(u (\'(‘l‘m she Princesw of Walew, cecompunied by o lutter whick coutnplod ity valug, \ WASHINGTCON. Four Relapsers — A, . Curtin—0. J. Faulkner=-. Blair—{. Walkor— Robin Hood's Recruits, Passing Things in Maryland, Virginia, V/eat Virginia, and Ponnsyl- vania Politics. From Our Own Correapondent. » WARITINGTON, Sopt, 20, 1674, Maluo's politics, just nt prosent, consisls of James Q. Blpluo. Iat gentleman keepa his borough well up, helped by his strong Liouten- anta, 1alo, Lynch, ITamliv, Totors, and many 1moro. Mo lool b hils work, ono would sy the Topublican prty obéyed tho hotm ; but, looking olsowhore, tha dofections aro nofsblo, For in- slanes s MARYTAND POLITICR Montgomery Blair, n citizen of Maryland in tho autumn of his duys, Lns boon endly cast down by a failuro to reaseend Into national poli- tics throngh the auflrages of {hat State. Ho appealed, undor strog patronago, to bo nomi- natod by the Domocratio Conventiun for the fivo wagtorn counties of Maryland. ‘Lhis wouldhavo mado him tho representative of. tho Boarbons of Trodorick, the Lushmon of Bontgomery, tho Dutohmon of Waabingtov, the coal-diggors of Allgany, ond iha gladors of Gor- rott Countfes, With such an auimated constituency, ho might have beon ro-olected from yoar to yoar, aud becomo nu fnbtitn- tiou agnin. In his favor woro tho, Stuto_Ting, lendod by Senator-elect Pincknoy Whyte, aud tho Canal Iting, bended by Gorman. Whyta will tako lis soat i tho Sonnto in 1875; and ho rolied wpan Dlair, who livesin stylo opposito tho White 1louse, to onablo kim, undor that mposing roof, to rival tho hospitality of Womi Swann. Bwann 38 tho old Know-Nolhing Mnyor of Daltimore; Jio married rich, grow richor, and bought o ‘Washington manelon in the block built by Sen- ator Morton’sgon's fathor-in-law, Urown. Thoro Swann is poxt door to Blaino, Bickingliam, Fer- nando Waod, and mavy othor nrehers of Joab. Whyto is fndiTerontly woll off; living in Balti- moro, lLie would not keep a Washington catab- lishmont, and It would bo preposterous to have ‘beaten Swann for the Sonnte, and bo boaten by him in display. So the Blair honso might have playod its part in many a revel dovoled to light biscuit and Annapolis torrapin, » Tho Cansl Ring, meantimo, posscssing tho rovennes of & Btato work, wanted Diair, to push tho Chesapeake & Ohio Canal over tho monn~ taing to tho Donongahols, 'This Ring had ‘money, and, once nomineted, thin monoy would probably have olected Dlnir with cass; forT hevo hoard tho Chairman of tho Convention say that, in the two westorn countios, thero wasa good dezl of vouality. Said ho: “T wouder Tom Swann don'trun np in this dlstrict, instead of sponding & mint of monoy in DBaltimore, Ton thougand dollars wonld make a lieap of differenco in gur contest.” But it wasnot in the powor of tho Maryland Democratic leadors to get tho solemn truth out of tho hoads of thcir clectors, that Dlair had Doen in Lineoln's Cabinot and signed tho procla- mationof Emancipation. This was now bagatello to Whyto and tho reat, who, being sonsible mon, must dospiso such soggy ideas, though thoy teach and oncouraga thoni. Tha conatituoncy, in part, did not lnow who Bluir wos, Suchis creatncss betweon tho Dig Patuxont and the Youglioghony! Accordingly tho Convention met at Hagorstown, tho homo of United Btates Sonator Hamilton. After triling awhilo with tho sacrod nama of Blair, thoy nominated un Trlabman nemed Walsh, of tho 'Wown of Cumber- Jaud. Exit tho son of Jacksou's cditor, over- wheimned with n sengo of injury. Maryland politics is & gond donl like TiE MOLLUSGULAR LIVE at the bottomo! tho Choscpeake. Yomr votors Ha liko oystor i _alloys, with mouthy wide open to get tha political nutriment flowing by. Aloug contes tho averago politician, Hko a crab, aud Scoops & vote out of tho oystor-phell. T'his erab shods his uhefl once a yoar, and grows nolt in his prineiples ; but, toward olection-times, hurdena in tho Dourbon faith, aud steals the oystor’s voto again just the same., We cau reeall in such mollusean's political lifo tho proud boast of Honey Winter Duvis: *Tho Logislature of eryland has decorated me with it consure 1™ copt tho Stats of 1thodo Island, n part of syhich lies in tho Atlantio Ocenn, aud tho rest in vertain #wamps and rocks in the swashes of INnrragansott Bay, thero novor was on Amorican Joliticul Stato o disintegrel o8 Maryland. Lo }'h.‘sicrn Shoro must havo nu_alternate United Statos Senator, whether thore bo_ o pigmy thoro o n giant ncross tho bay. Thus, in the cconomy o Providenco; folliday Ilioks, a formor oystor- dredger and pungy-captain, commandod the Stato Govornment in the Civil War,. The two uplits, or **Shores,” of tho Stato, nro halunced by the artdoles of cont and oysters. Tho poli- tieiaue of the Wost want to tax tho oystors ; tlio JSant wants to tax coul 2 cenls a ton, Daltimore Citr, boing Uio colossus of tho wholo, incom- nollad to talko its polico, ot from o Legislative Corcmission, In ordor to dignify tho paironnge of tho Commonwealth, ‘o’ Lastorn Shoro id trib- untary to Philadolphis, and tho Westorn o Balti- mora, Meantimo tho cluef corporation, tho Baltimoro & Ohlo Railrond, has a Stato of its awn, 3est Virginia, nud profossos_ littlo intorest inanything of Maryland escopt Baltimoro Cily. 'o West Virginia it s about to givo railroad-shops al Now Creoli 3 and tho Scnator from that Stafo, Duvis, in moro trustod by the railrord than any othor politician, Political ncerbity is_stronger Tioro amonggst the leadors than in Nontucky. Croswoll wns novor forgiven for boing Post- mastor-Gonoral, white Kontucky Domacrats congratulatod Bristow, and thalr nowspapors wonorally renpoct the Speods, Cassing Clay, and the small Iopublican ~ phalanx, Alr, Bwamn is now literally besot 'in Enltimore by a wontimont which refuses to forgot that o was n Unioulst Govarnos'; and tho ronctionnry respoo: {abilities nre supporting for his placo & son of Lowis MoLoan, of Doluwaro, Jaclsion's Secrota- Ty of thoTroasnry. A stianger, looking on, would concludo that tho man Who hmi raisod funds to open thix raitrond to Ohio, when povor- ty, worao than mountaias, block tho way, who assiatod to keap the State in commnion-Bonge ro- Iation to ita national intorsts, who bought a park for Daltimore and madoe tho sireot-railways sup- pori it, nud who comes nearor tho miark of com- Vrek:onsibility by Northern men thut any pros- ent Maryland Congressman, would Do’ bnttor continued in his seat than o poripatetio brielsier with his father’s name, Mr, Loundes, nominated for Wostorn Mary- Jand by the Kepublicann, is n rich young man o an old nnd undeeayed Virginia family, "o says that, it he enrries his_district, tho Ropublicany will havo ono member in Congross, and, ho thinks, no more. e volod gquaroly ugaluut tho Civil Rights bill, Baid I'to Loundos, o fow days aftor ho wan nomiuntod ¢ ¥ Daoes tho Baltimors American support you P #No, not muel. 1 turned out oneo of its pub- lshory to glve ait adhorent of mino tho Surveyor~ hip. Tor that they disliko me, o thoy opposad Cromwell becausn ho* wanted hin uiiclo, Jake “omo, to bo tho Ropublican candidato iustond of Lulton,” Thus aro tho littlo issuocs subordinato to tha groat mon in avory Commonwonlth, “If Chat- hnn bad heon {n powor,” siid a Gorman oritie “do you suppose ho would have opposed tho Amoriean War 2" Auothier aspirant for Congross is % GIABLEG JAMYS FAULKNED, our whilom DMinister to Xxance, srrosted on his roturn by ordor of Kimon Gnmoron, and put in Tort Warron, whoro Juwcs M, Mason, hls neigh- bor, noen jolned him, Vaulkner is o good deal of sn energy, but very littlo of u consistonov. Aftor hae re-ontered the fouth, ho becamo Chief of Blal for Stonowalt Juckson, and wrote mearly evary ouo of thut houwdlong Licutenant’s Duttic-reporta,—bstainiog, howover, from bloodshoed, Aftor Jacksou's death, ho rotived to Appomattox, nud lived o roading lifo thoto, with Tiocoalt, bis son-in-law. Aftorthe War lo as. wisted o form the Conutitution of Wost Virelnia, und was & Ropublioan, a disciple a6 tho foot of tho rodoubtablo Ward Lamon, is townsman in Martinsbuyg, Taulkuor has sinco boxad “the compuns, groven rich again, 0yd ho rocelyod tho Domocratls nominution becauso, arithout it, ho would buve run indepondontly, ~ Liko Bwaun, of Mavylnnd, ho is ncenved of tefing to lot Lin luft lund know what his vight haud dooth, It iy predicted thnt ha will Lo defeated, but lat tho old man tey, Wa like lrg, in kv country, il ner set on foot the movements in “diplomacy which led to tho reaogaition of tho nght of ex- patrintion by I'ranco, Uorwany, aud, Iihink, Gy, Il way Loo uublitious nob to pray tuward Montgomory, Aln. Mo did mot know that lio would live t0 Ao tho day whon tho littlo old engino-honno of John Lrown, 20 milos Irom hiy Qoor, would bo moro sncrod than tho gravo of CUnlhoun. And yob this man, as long B0 A% 182), it 1 Qo not forgot tho dnte, mndo n spooch in'the Virgmta Legialnburo In favor of gradual omancipation. . The Nat Turnor insurroction ex- eited him, 88 tho Joln Brown raid didnot, ihs compotitor will bo Alexandor Loteler, ox-Whig, and an old antagonist, 1€ thoro could bo nny sonss or use nsuch o compurlson, L might arrauge MONTGOMSRY BLAL AND FAULRXSR TOGETILER, a8 two. champion backalidors, Blairs desceut in 8cotoh, Daullggor's Irish. Tho Blnirs began hoir gyinmantic® ifn Domoerats, Laulkuer o Whisr, Tho Blalrs bolted Stavery lika, diuclp- linad tnaticinng, rofusing to Lonor Callioun. and Polk after thoi paront got tho printing despito tho ono and lost it “by tho othor, Lhoy ponted ami Van Buronized, ‘Uhoy Nre- monted, Brendih of characlor and yorsistonce mado Frank n Major-Goneral ; Mont- omery, n Republican Cabinot officer; and old athor Franl 2, Blair, Sr,, the delighted witnass of il this_famity rovival, ‘Then, vbsoryed A. Tolucoln o Mr, Blair : You sald you would givo 1o your realgnation If Uie tine ever camo when 1 should wish it. 'Lho Limo has como ! ¥ Dlair awout out i both Blaits turned Domocrats 3 all tho family holpod mako o pappol-show ot tho Liboral bolt; but Gratz Brown butiored lis wator-melon ontirely, and Frank Dlnir loal the Bonato. Now, Monigomary losos a_Maryland Congressman's sont, ~ Both oxpiro Domocrnts, o8 they hegan, Tho Republicanism was an oplsodo, liko iho Profostantism of ilenri Quatro. Homo peoplo might sce a want of priveiplo fn this family, I fail to do 0. A politician, moroly such, hns this one vital princi- Dlo: that the country must not got along with- out him: and hio rotines ihis pnrposo by tho coneelt that {t cannot, To L\m\uul(vrllm is tritg, a8 o soldier to his commission, 'Tha world oftener roos forward than back torough the repulsions of its politiciaus. Charlos 1. told n lio to domi- monarchical Cromwoll, nnd excited s fourn. OIf rolled tho King's hoad, Tho Comuionwoaith wna declared, It becamo the model of the Amarican Puritan Stato, Missonri was 5 Freo Htata through tho rosoutmonts of Tenton and the Blaira. " Two red-honded men should ba on ity psenceheon: Gon, Lyon and Gratz Browa. Taulknor, no doubt thabest informed and most yaltling man in the sesrcaly iutalligiblo Btato of West Virginia, wasa Whig until ‘ho saw tho fata of thnt party nearly souled, when, upon nomo passing iwano, ho doclared for tho Democraey in tho late Whig district of Marlins- birg, 1o was rowarded with tho Fronch Misslon by Buchaman, on tho denth of Tohn Y. lason, and admits meoting in England Yancoy and tho Roboel Commissioners. But ha probably did little moro than consent ton Roholtion which e conld not bolp, and in which lig part was minor and uncomfortablo. Ho was the firat man of splrit in Virginia ntter the peaco, and his zeal to press forward and recover placo and fortune was more marked than strightforward. e flopped Uackward, Jod tho nssanls, crawlod ur the btind mont, ambraced the flag-ntaf, relapaad, and now runs for Congress. 1Iappy for all tho politiclans_of Virginia i thoy could flop as much and keop an choorful. Tarallols being in order, noto tvo Stato Gov- ernore GILDERT \ATRER, 5 of \'ir{!lnln, and Ahdrow Grege Cnrtin, of Pean- sylvania, Thoso two men wiil probably ba in opan allianco with the Domocratic Opnosition in tho pooding campaign. Walkor ia tho Demo- cratic candidate for Congrous from the Ilich- wond District. Brx yoars ago ho waan Naw York Terloral Colonol, in chinrgo of a National Banlk nt Norfolk, steuding under an umbrolla held by Trank Stenrus on the steps of tha Richmond Btate-Honso, o was & slranger in a suspicious 1and, His imposing appoarance, adaptablo men- nior, tho novelty of his advant, and tho hopa of victory, npeedily overrun his littla cohort with the ollinnce of Robeldom 1 genoral, Stearns and ufa supportors withdrow from him, The Robot olemont receivad him as_tho Scoteh Par- lixnent recorved Charles tha Second whon tho Commoniealth had driven him ount. Ho was bodily trausforred to tho traditions of Virglnin. Tho old malignant Seceessionints hato him for bis success 3 tho Republicans for his dofoction 3 botween, the grent body of fighting youth and yoomaury heartily liko bim, Il alection is just probubla. ANDREW (REQQG CORTIN wag ono of the twelve memoreblo State Govorn- ors who tnot n tho nolehborhood of his home, at Altoona, Hopt. 22, 1862, and lieaded fho list nddruzuiulf the Presidont in condolence and sup- port, and Indorsing his projost of Bmancipation. There wora Andrew, Yeton, Taraol \WWashburno, Morton, Spraguo, Tod, Austin Blalr, Piorpont, and othiors, to mention’ whom is to strike ail tho chords of liuman carcer. Ilore wosco the numo of a Hobrow; thoro a row of graves; horon ruluod forlung, ono of tho greatest of ita day ; thero n man still desperately tenscious of the Prosidoncy. Curtln is o man of peenlinr Wunllllua, not to bo well nudexstood outside of Founsylvanis, Ho Tina beon, and is, tho best-belovod man in tho Stato, the Diok Yates of his Commonwoalih, with noue of Yates' dilapidetion. His etatura I8 fine, and is mado offcetivo by n ohivalrous bear- ing, roadily rolaxed to~ humor and tho comrtior graces. in_descont i Irish, aud the family was originally Catholic, but his surroundings aro Drovbytorisn, Curtin Los Doen almost all his life n Stato functionnry, with IIncrisburg for hia resort, Llis homoia a villago in tho Bald Eaglo Mountaing. While » man of nffairs and dircetion, his smutoment and sphore ia politics. A a politician simply, 1io ogeupien the lighest ranl, with Honry Wilson, Bluina, Teenton, William Allen, Alosandor Ramsoy, lon~ ry 8. Footo, and William M, Gwlu. Ilospoctnbly councetorl, educated, n good lnwyor, & porsunsivo orator, an actot o fino that it 15 often bord to tell whothor ho brenks out in carnost or in art, and a8 populor ot §t. Potersburg s ot Margle- Durg, io aeoms to Inck only & great motivo to hiavo boen o nn of tho first rank in state-ship, A fow grains of tho grim purpose of ‘Lhad Sto- vens, o fow ells of the cold, long hond of Simon Camoron, Lriflo of tho lion, an occasionsl boly rago, wottld have mado him' the groatost pro- motor of public spiit Dennsylvanin s had sinco Franklin ond Moliean. His potsonal succoss i said to bo such that o _is mow propared to abandon the Ropublican organization, less for offico than to nm!&l out Camoronism. Il townstolks tell mo Lo is rich, inhabiting o Stato ful of coal and cro, aud of o family brod to thio blast-furnace. 1lig wifo is a lady of real character, and of tho best stock in tho Biate, It may bo o possibilic that Pennsylvania will go Dewocratic thls fall, and Curtin'bo In tho ruco for tho Presidoncy. “Tliere is uo man_so capablo to lond thab party in tho Stoto, Mis futuro is hopoleus in tho Ropub- Tican party. 1t beging to bo o study a8 to how Jong tho Ro- publicatis onn staud bl dribblo and wasto of their begt blood, however they may keop their Stato organizations intact, Witk Iidopondonts Tunning In ntmost overy districk I tho country, it would appear that thero is no time so suspi~ ciaus for men of tho slipo of Curtin as iho present. CGarn. —_——— Dontn of o Comnle Mermits Frous the Springfield (ass,) Republican, Tho lifo of Mary lam, of Itys, New Humnp- whire, who recontly dicd ub tho'sgo of B3, wis romuntio aud Intereating in tho higheat deproo. Tor tho 19 yonrs Immodintoly precoding bor death she Jived the lifo of a hermiy iny lonely hut, to which wator aud thq broom werd ptrangors Quring sll Lor residonce in b, and which'was sio fllthy that an ordinary porsou could Jiardly bonr to bo Iu it for a momont, 1lore sha ate wid slept and got drank, aud was novar glat 10 sco company. ‘Lho ouly thinfi that in sny measuro relioved this ovel of 1ty dreariuoss was « packago of woll-worn lova-lottors, and thoxa oxplainad bier cecontrio lifo, Lo way vory much admired when 20 yoars old, aud was vory coqueti- igh, withals but'she finally foll in love with ono Charles Waldvon, and thelr love-lottors woro of tho warmost sort. Ifo tired of Lor ficklouess, howovor, and dimissod hor. Thls broko lor boart, bul to mako i appor that sho ' cerod nothing for it sho engagod bersolf _ to n- brilllant ' young ‘seupoginco vumed John 1w, who had beon ax- p«lluu from Dartmonth College, and bolng him- Ealf disappoluted in lovo, marriod horIn o it of rocklonsuens, 1lo diod ninotoen yoars ngo, and aver aftor she lived hor strango life, Thore have boon miny intoresting storios told about hor, one of which s that sho nd o Inrgo s of monoy concoalod in her hut, but & search oftor lor dontl disproved thin. ~Tho letters, howover, sliowed that ber lovo-affuir hud gono so far that lier wodding outtit kad boon prepared aud the day appointed, whot tha thundorbolt camo, 'he clronsuntancos of hor lnst sicknoss lod to iho suspicion that eho had beon nolsoncd, Bhio wag found with a bottlo by lior side lyiug on a bod in .tho oxtromost agony; bub rum and montal suf- foving probubly necvunt for all, The town au- umrlfinn dotormined to *closu aut™ her don & fow days bofora lier death, buy they woto aliigad to tear hor from it, scronmiug anil strugghing, and tho purificatlon roquited two days® work and abontlre, ‘T'ho ucighbors guvo hor every cowm- fort posstble in hor clostng hours, and & ioco \whors #ho had net boen Tor bventy yoars visltod hor, sud the ofd wowau recognized her. A now LFroueh novel, by v writer of o not over- modest sehool, in thus “eantionsly commendead “ Althouph the story dovelops itielf on sliprory fround, 1t niny bo read by Larrlan Jadieu who fio alréady initlatod in the stiage phicen of lifo Dy the sudagitivs of contomporary Liferatwre." PRAIRIE DU CHIEN. 01d Fort Crawford--Zach Taylor and Jelf Davis, John Lawler's Floating Railroad- Bridge. How It Ts DBuilt~-The Adventages Claimod for It Correapondence of The Chicago Triduine. Inatnte vy Oy, Wis, Sepl 29, 1874, The, forluncs of cities, IHka thozo of in- dividuals, nre subject to all manucrof vleissl- tudies, Young towns, liko young people, nok unfroquontly ontatrip tho old; and ngo and pros- perity, in the cayo of tho ono ag of the othor, ara vory ofton strangors, I'rairie du Chlon is an In- stancd of n town old in yenrs, but greab neither in magulficencs nor In wenlth. Whon Pratrio du Chien wna founded, Thil- adelpbla wan not, sud Chieago was mnot droamt of. Indoed, Drairio du Chion might be tho grandmothor of yonr Motropolis. ‘Iho namo I8 no misnomer. It fu o prairio; and, 8 ono moots with n dog hore nud thero, the pro- prioty of tho appondage “du Chicn" is of courso quite appnront. 8till, the pralro horo iy 10 such pralrio ao that on which Chicago is built, 1t i only & miles in lougth by 2in width. It is ontiroly surroundesd by high blufls, savo on ono portion, aud thera it i boundod by the Father of Waters, 'flio mupla-trce abounds in this viein- ity ‘Among tho sssocintions of tho place ia OLD FONT CRAWFORD, of which now scarcaly a vestigo romafns. A convent marks the site of the fort, and nuns sro tolling thoir boads whore Xnoh ‘laylor and JelTerson Davis bogan their military carcer. The peoplo of Prairio du Chien take a pardonable pride in the fact that one who afterwards bo- came Chiof-Magistrato of his country wns » rosi- dont of their town. Thoy, In soma way inex- plicablo to ordinary mindy, conncot his great- ness with his regidonco liore. Jut, alas for tho consistency of | mau whou you begin to talk of JofT Davis, tho caco s quito altered, ITo, thoy would profor ua to beliove, wonld have boon much worso than an nrch-liobel had honover lived on tho prairie, An object of moro modern intoreat than Fort Crawford is tho NEW TATLROAD-DRIDGE, 1% milen in longth, that crosses tho Missleaippt at this point, and which connocts I'rairio du Chien and McCrepor, In. This bridgo in exat- ing n grent doal of interast at tho present timo, from the faut that it promiscs to mako $100,000 do tho work of $1,000,000 or $1.500,000. A stationary bndge of tho same longth ns that at Prairio du Chion would cost over 21,000,000, Thic has wobt cost much moro than $100.000. Tt js us safo, nt lenst, 08 n stationary bridgo ; andpilotnen tha Mississippi say that they do not bave one-twonticth the spprohension fn approncling it that thoy do in nearing tho enor- 'mous stono piora of ordiuary bridwes, It con- nigts of two parts, Itis partly fixod and partly movable, Tho stationnry patt docs wot differ from tho contrivances used to carry raflway- traing_ovor wwvampy grounds or mall stronms, and which ero familinr to alf raflway-travelors. It is nothing moro tban s pito-bridge. Lut, whore the river is doopest, A FLOATING DRAWDDIDGE, constractod on an original_principls_and plan, aud ppecinlly adnpted torailway-motion, is cattod into service, and in nuch n way asnot to intor- fero with tho navigation of the river, sinco it can bo Awung open by stoam-power in '3 minuto orless. Ovor tho floating portion & track in taid, just s op solid ground, only tho rond-bed i stsell movabla vertically, boing adjustablo, by monus of cuormots serows and othor machinery, 10 any stago of water, ‘Eho stationnry sud mov- ablo portions are conncctod by means of iron aprons. Your corrospoadont snw two tenins pass over this bridge,—ono of thom o train of twen- ty-fivo cars, They rolled over as canily nnd safely na it on wold ground. Who exporimont bap proved that it is possible to span o largo river with a floating railvoad-bridgo. ~ At Prairie du Chion, patt of Ltho slationary portion of tho bridge vuns over o swall inland in the middlo of tho river, which in thus divided Into two chonnely, Belovging to onch channol is & soparato drawbrideo 400 fest in luugi'l.ll. Tho rou\annn, or flonting portions, sro fashioned 1ko ordinary flatboats or scows, but nre of great longth, etrongth, and buoyancy. Tho- bildga nnd aprons aro suitably bracod to boav heavy woights, A1) 1t,is claimod that, bealdes its much grontor chonpness, this forn of bridgo has mauy nd- vautages ovor any horctoforo in ngo over nnvi- gablo atreame. It does not interfers with tho courso of tho rivor. It permits doposits to bo made naturelly,—thus proveating & chango of chaunol. 1t is abeolulely safo. Auy usual weight upon 1t would continue on it, although it should brosk nway frdm its fastenings. It pornuts a swidor ehaunel to boats than wauld ha practicablo in tho cnso of o sintiouary bridge. Capiains navigating tho Mississippl all Lestify to ita rala- tivoly very great enfety viowed frow their stuud- point, T8 JSTORY is not ontiraly devold of intorest. Yoars ago, ita originator, consirnctor, sule propristor, and pot- ontes,—Ar. Joln Lawlor, of this placa,—enterad into & contract with tho Milwaukeo & 8t. Paul Ttailway Company Lo srausCer theic fmigl\b actosy tho Msaissippi to tho lowa sido, /Flus o ne- conplished by menns of boats. Whon tho Bt. Panl & Nobragls lino wns comploted all the way to 8t. Paul, it becamo necegenry to transfor the cnrs of the rond, na woil an the freight, from one sido fo tho oflior of the river. 'llis alsa was dono by means of steamboats or flatboats, When ihio winter camo, Mr. Lawlor consteucted ovory yonr n ompouary piie-lridga aver tho river, aud tho cara, with their freight, woro passcd avor if. Tnspring the pilos wero_forn down, sud tha froight again carriod over'in boats, Lhin wont on for & goriew of years, At last the hanpy thonght enmo to . Tawlor that, sinco ho had pusscd ono car ovor on a flatbont, ho might pos- Tibly construct n floatig bridie kud rus a {rain of cars aver it, Do triod tho exporiment, nud evon thoso who for a long thno inslsted it " was chimerical, now acknowlodge T4 COMULETE BUGCLSS, nnd eny that it iy destined to work o littte rovos iution 1 in (he constinction of ruilway-hridges ovor stronms, whorover clrenmetancos witl por- it $ho consttuction of ong like shat at Praivis du Clion, Among tho placos of intorest hero are tho fino mansion of Louls Dousuian, the youus million- wire, and of Mr, John Lawler; St. John's Col- foge, and 8t. Mary's Institute,—hoth fourishing Catholie . eduentional fnstitutions, Jv [ ——— ‘Tho Fincorville Spale Fram_the Virania City (Nev & o It appozes that tho bii knako huy agnin broken aul up nonr Placoryillo.” From timo ‘o thno wa Jinyo #een accounls of this monstor snako pub- Jished in papers of thot rogion, bub o wore of (Lo opinion thut it way all awing Lo tho poor uality of tho liguor kol up that way. Yostor- 3»xy a woll-known oftieinl of this country return- od from_Culifornis by way of iho Placerville Fouto, bringing tho Intoat utoligonco in rogard to tho doings of his suokeabip, Lho gentloman —who rofusoes {o inve hiy nume mixed up with snako storica—naya ho s of tho opinion it thero really is a bigz suake of somo kind up thoro in the wountaius, “Tho region principally fn- fostad in abont 4 milon this vide of Placerville. Tour duyy ago the by susko camo into & man's Qooryard, whora there woro s lob of fowl, ond gobbled up abont tivonty ymmf ucks bofore tho very oyes of tho inwates, Thero woro in the liouse at the timo a maw, threo womon, and sov- eral children. Thore was no gun or othor woupon in 1ho houso with which to atinck tho spak, and the man was obliged to lot him have hig own way smong tho ducks, Tho women and ohildron wors so frightencd that thoy woull not romam in the houso after the suake lofe, and all Lipudy wonb ovor Lo a houde on the muln road, and romatnod thero fora day or two, until thoir norves had quioiod down, Thoy all declaro that il snoko way at leaut 40 foot lonz, The stago- delver with whom our ofilcinl rodo statod tht ho sinw tho snako tho d:wi' before o wout aftor tho Queks, and bad u good square Jook ab him as he Iay by tho sida of tho rond. 1lo says that ho could havo shiot tho monator 1P ho hid had nny ono to hold 1ns teem, 118 only passongers wora Chinnmoy, and they woro o budly frightoned that Jio Qld not dure trust thom with 1hio lines, T'ho driver nssoried that tha suake nppeared to him to be betweon U0 aud 40 foot In louglh, snd of Iarga size In tho middle, Whel or 1ot thoro i such o snako ay i descrlbod In tho lacality namod, a1l tho soltiors bolioyo thore i, which in sbout’ oo bad ws tho ronlity, 'The peoplo up there—partienluly the womon and chillren—live In woiwtant fear of iho blg snnke, Our infonmant Is of tho opluion that thero may bo syunping b lago o boa-constriclor whigh sowo timy or othor ouenped IrOm LU0 Liu- nagorio; that tha snako may now bo of large alzag but bo thinks the fosrd of thore who paw bum added n good many foot to Ly longtlt. - o ILISTORIC ArOLY IN MICHIGAN. Mow an Ennocent Ol Couplo from Vermont Wero Hulightoned by 2 Grocoless Young dian, % Fron the Datrotr F'ree Press, On tho train, the othor day, wa’r';:'n o fiding old van and n vory Mnocont ol Indy, Loy kad passed nway fivo-mxihs of thoit livey lifddon awny bebind tho hills of Vermout, aud wora golng to Western Michigan on o vislb to Lold genfloman _pltched into mo nlout Ui “orops,” ‘“silo,” aud_whon I kaw how innacont he way, [gava him all the {ufermation [ eould, Allat onco, s Jio rodo nlung, tho wifo caught his arm and oxelaimod ¢ “ Look out, Samuol, or yow'll bo forgotilng that plnco whora thay It Tho old man oxplained, He sald that o young man who cume down from Ganada with thiom, told him te look out for the battlo-flold of- Draddoek’s defout at soon as ho loft Detroit, I was gnln‘; to reply that tho young man wan £n Infornnd Jiar, but the oldlndy Hoomed to have sot hot boart on soelng tho spot, and tho old manwas ®o snxtous thal Teouldn't boar ta dis- appolit thom. When wo got down into tho woods I pointed out tho * battio-flold,” and- thoy put thoir heada onb of tho woods and took jn tho Beene. “Phiuk of, it, Hanner!” oxcluimed tuo all man, as e drow in bis head; * thinl of thom Injuns erooping throueh thom woolls aud shoot- lug Mr, Draddock down doad 1" ** My soul1” rn‘)licd the old lady, scomingly ovorcomo &t tho iea, nnd sho Jopt hor syos on the woods until L thought sho would twist her neele off, ‘Wa grot nlong all right for nbont five miles more, und thon the old man wanted to know it we worow't down pretty moar the spob whora Tecumsoh foll, **Whoro ?” I yalled, and ho gaid that tho.samo young man had informed him that the raiiroad Tan closo Lo tho identical spot whoro tho great Iudian foll and slopt. * 16"l bo a powerlul favor to me an' Snnel it yo'll point out tha spot,” urged tho old lady, pincing hor hand on my arny, How could I go back on what thab brazon young man had snul? W'ho old foll hud mado up their minds to reo tho epot, snd it 1 didn'c ahow It to them thoy might worry for weoln, and thoy'might think tho young man hnd lied, or that I wasn't posted In’tho historio spots of my own Stato. Lor' forgiyo mio, but o mita furthor on 1 pointod out a Lill and sald: “Tohold tho Jast roating-placo of the great Tecumsol:.” *Think of it, Tanoer—Juss think of it ?" ex- olnimed tho old man; *right thero fs whero they gob him.” *"Motey | ‘but it don’t scom possiblo!™ she ojnculatad, and sho bad to get out her snuff-box Leforo she could recovor from the shock. Thio old fontleman said ko had a particalar in- torest in feoing tho apot, hecause ho knew tho man who killed Tecumsoh—usod to,live right ¥ hiim, * He must havo boon an awful Injunl® broke in tho old Indr, **for tho young mman said ho didn's dio 'till they had cut oft "his head. and feot, and hands, and blowed tho body up with a Darral of powdér® T wantod to got away aftor that, fearing that something worso was coming, hut sho insisted upon my tnking a pinch of snuff, and so L kepb my sont. Wo wero just hoyoud Brighton, when tho old man came ot me 1iko » Bieambont, with: “ Now, tuon, hiow fur 1 it to tho apot’ whoro they found tho Babes in tho Woods 2" I wanted "to got out_of it, bub how conld I? That young man had deliberately lied to thodo nico old folks, and I hadu't tho moral cournge to toll *om o, anid thus hxd to make & linr,of my- self. Ibsawful to docolve anyonc, espocially n good old man, and o fat and mothorly old lady, on thoir wey to tha tomb. 4 hat's-~yes—thot’s the apotl” I gald, o8 wo camo to n davk pieco of wonds, “'Phink o' that, Hanner! ho eaid, his lead ont of the window, * think of them babies bo- ing found in therol” % Yen, it was fonrfnl1® gho roplied—" sooms o if Ecould almost seo them stubbing about in thoro now!” ‘Thioro wad.anothor historic spot of which the young man had told thom, but thoy had for~ otten it, and I was nover moro thankful, Thoy opt quiok tintil tho brakeman rolled oug * Lan- eing,” aud thon tho old man bobbed up and ox~ claimed : * Lausing—Tanging—whv, bero's whero thoy hung Tom Collink, aur't 122 1l oxplained that Tow Collius, o Ohieago des- perado, had murdered cloven old womon and drank thoir blood for his liver complaint, and, after being huntod for miles nnd miles, had at Jongth beon captured ot Launing, cut iy piccos by nn infuriatod populace, and thon loft havg- 1og 1o o treo. 1hnd to point ont the treo, It wns a troo near the depot, and tho tail of a kito bad lodged 1 its branches, " Thoro’s whar thoy hung bim, Hanner 1" said the old man, stretehing b nock. * And thera's somo o' his uhirt loft yet,” ex- claimoad tho old lady, and as1 backed out of the enr Lho good old man was remarking that o was going to aslk tho (rain-boy if Lo didu’t have tho pamphlot lifo of Tom Colling, g0 that tuoy could got further particulurs, M. Quip. —_——— A POET BY THE SEASIDE. £1nve tho moonlit watars to hehold To wo 't stravgely pleasing | Tlacin 7 Als] that reménds me I have caught a cold Jor pleastug rhyues with enceziug, Ilovetop il my bradugrows stupll. Stupid ? Al that reminds 1o T am deop tn fove, Tor stuphl rlaymes with Cuplu, wupon tho stars ahove, Tlavo upon tha boneh ta etreteh at caso, And read tho works of Tupper, “Tupper? An! that rominds me of my bread and cheeso, Yor Tupper rhymes with supyer. Tiovo {o stand, when doy s long since flad, And watel ofich rizing billow, Billow ¢ Al ihat reminds mo I must fo to bod, Yor billow rliymes with plilow,—8igero, A Terrier Kiilon by Tate. £ From the Phitadelplic Rulletin, Tinelo Sy Lunt is too woll kuavn €o naed advortisomont, In his possorsion he hed, until within 8 rocont duto, o hoantitul apacimen of tha caniuo raco, of Lho hlack-nnd-tan broed, At tho nga of G monthy it woished but 1t ounces, and was w0 small in siza thht one conld anilf' carry ibin hls hab, wrap itup ina handkorcehief, or evon stow it away in his drosu- cont pocket, The littlo pat attracted much atton- fioy, wnd tho owner waw offored ou high as 876 for it Ime refused. lo aceopt, Jo fed it nolhing but crackers and dry faod, giving it no_mont, and 1t was ns gound s dog could Lo, Dog-fanciors who os- amined it wers unanimons in the opivion thut it wes tha smatlest specimen of the nge thatover exiated, Not tnany days ago Unclo Sammy, on reach- fue his store Gno momning, noticed {hn tho littlo pet's salute- wos rathor woulk, and com- mouced upheaiding himself for keoping him tled, bo l‘u:\rmi{ thet the eord hnd choked hitn, This wos nob thu caso, Entoring further into the establishiout ko found thag, during the pmw‘dlng. night the lilipuitan canine had been atinckod by n nnmbor of rats, throo of which be Lud killed, How wany moro he compelled to retrent is not known, ‘“haro wero soma twolvo or fiftoon sears on his 1ittis hend, and bho soomed_complotoly oxhausted, The rath which hie had Killed worg Inrgor and hoavier than bim- solf. Tlo nover rallisd from his eshnustion, bub died fn two wooks' time, Ilis Lody was thon handod ovor {o » tnxidermist, whou it was found thot one of the wouuds had ponetrated tho slkull, and thnt thobraln had boen poivoncd by tho rat’s tooth, Llso polson working: ite way sloni 4o il nal columu to its ond, and ultimately causlng dentl. 'holittle follow had killod mico innu- morable, and also rats, but, boing fastened by a cord, it is supposed ‘that i munbor of rats sur- rounded and thus sucecoded i injutlng hint —————— ‘That Buyr Snalce, From the Montella (IVis) Eepresa. Tho Ton, Wm, otors, of this town, Informs us that whilo ho was hunting on Grand Tiver marh, twouty-fonr yoars sgo last sununer, lis #aw tho sumo suuko, or & mata ta tho ona won- t1onad in tho Kxpress two wooks ago_ns hinving ‘boen goon by Mr, O'Bleniss, ‘Fho Sndge was ut shooting diicks, and, whilo walking oyer the mnmh.%u hoard & higning noind iy the graws fow foot distunt, TLeoking in tho dircotion wlionco tho nolso came, ho was noatly paratyzod by the elizlib of a Liugo sorpont uncoitiusy within o neo of whore ho stond, nud mul ot through o grags. Whon ho fivst diseovered the soako it Nad rou ont about 8 feot of (ho cofl, and ‘thoro was, ko should judge, full as much oro snako ju tha vorl, 1o wan #o complotely sur- winod and dumbfounded by tho borriblo uight lhn“m Torgot w)l about havingn pun in bin Tiand, bug Jiad precotico of mind oiongh to put D Iy into nio, which ho did st onco, Nilling ot antll ho ling placod & mile or wora betwea tho sorpont nidd himsolf, © Br. Potors says the snako would mensura full 17 foot in tength, ond about B ox 10 Inghes In ciremnloronce. oon- | thorgon, “After a litilo skitiishing round tho |- EGYPT. Genoral Improvemont--~Edux cation---Railroads. The: Farmors” Movamanie«=Poljti cal==~Crops, Correapondence of The Clifeano Tribune, MpLiaanono, Til, Sept@a1, 1874, Tigypl, it ocomB to me, does not got inlo the . paporg enougly, and'T'am forced to beliovo the . fault in wholly chargeablo to. Egypt's own sont and daughters, innsmich ns thoy do not write, 1 whall, thoroforo, for onca overslop tlio walia of ! Epyptipn roticonco, and Intrudo myuelf for ¢ littlo balk with tho outsido woild, OENLBAL IMPROVIMENT. Whatever may liavo boon’ trio of this part of tha Htate in the pnst, andi whatever may linve =lvon I tho neme of ** Iigypt,” cortain it la thal | thoro In now 1o mora prosperons and progresslive vegion In our groat Stato, if, Indood, thore s in | thonation. 'The darkuoss and rufilanly aspact of : dthor days aro all: rono; nohools arerapidly Im« i proving; the standard of oducation s shooting upward with o truly mushroom growth in polnt of rapldily, but not in polnt of durability; new, Tnrge, and commodions echool-bulldings nra | ovarywhoro baing orcctod; croditablo churohos | nro springing upj tho littlo specka of pralria that soom to. bave scattored wouthward, and vestled In our forests whon the brondor onea woro planted {u tho nortl, aro all boing roduced toahigh stato of cultivation; nnd the forosts thomsolves aro boing Lown down, sad riok forme aro taking thoir places. Thoeabing of othes. daya aro passing nway, and tastoful cottages or substantial farm-honnes riso in tholr stend | commodions onthulldings are boing oroctod; and trailing vinos.nnd mwenlsoantod slowar, plautod and cultivated by tho hand of tasto and boauty, tlaucish whoro tho Driors and woods- onco grow aronnd the Tgyptinn farmer's home. Rofiuo- ment and progress aro written ovorywhoro, and Tpypt feclo proud of Lh e P o! o rapid séridoa sho is LIDERAL EDUOSTION. A fow yeara ngo, wlion. any of our. childran nopired to anstling boyend tho timitod cduoa- tion nfforded' by our rathor imporfect common sehools, thoy had to sook it in tho northora ‘;;Art lu:f the Bln(u,‘ qfflt nlm;wlmm. Now 0 bave evor acil or acquiriv 2 tborsl_odnoation al onr. owa . door: At Carbondalo wo have she Soutborn Normal, ono of tho fincst aud bost arrangod school-adls flcos in.tho Unlon; and it in boginning its groat . svork undor tho moat oncourngiog susplces, with o Faculty that must mako: it n sucooss, In tho northors patt of Franklin County, in o, dolighte fal rural” localily, we havo Tiwiug Collego, an inatitution that' has alroady dono’ s noble work, At Eafleld, in the: ‘weatarn: patt. of Whita County, wo have Infteld High School, nn institution working uudor tho auspices ang rntruxlngfl of Camberland Prosbytorians, and ia n successful oporation. Noxt spring, Hamilton College, controflod by a joint-stock company nnder the goneral Iaws of tho Btate,. will open-as McLeansboro, withs vory flattering surroundings, Mluch of thio rapid advancoment wo owo to TUE OREAT RAILROADS that hnro rqcen!li( oxtondad tholr iron armg through thorichostportionsot Egvpt: the Spring. field & Illinois Bouthioastorn, connoating : Shaw- nootowa, on thio Ohiio, with tho Stato Capital; tha St Louis & Southoastorn, oxtonding catirely across Faypt, connoating SY, Lows with Evang villo, Tud., and, by o branch at McLosusboro, with Bhaiwrnootown; the Cairo & Vingonnes,. augling through Egspt's vory hentt, and cons nacting the £wo places which givo it a nome ; the Shawneotown & Carbondale, now comploted from Grand Tower, on tho Missiasippi, to Marion, conneoting the groat coal-regions of tho Big Muddy with Contral Egypt; tho Nar. raw-Gaugo, connocting thoso conl-flalds - with St. Touis, Thoro railroads havo all. been buill within tho Inst fow yoars, and they form a com« ploto natworlk, glving - ovory part of Egypt roady shipping facilities, ~ And, whilo wo complain somotimes at tholr mavagomont, e recognize in thom the mean of bringing us {nto contaot with. tho world of businosa outaids, and thoy aro thur poworful auxiliarios in the development of our, 23 yet, uoknown minoral and ngricultural ra. soriross. 5 But what has dono as much for ns as anything elso iy 2 TIE PARMERS MOVENERT. Our principal interost is Agriculture, and thit movoment hax arousod the Jatent enorgics of tha farmer; placod him upon a. higher social-plane ; awakonod 1 bim foolings, desires, ond &- senso of his own pomwer, heratofora unknown; and has lod i to rond, think, and act for himsalf. It han broken down tho projudicos that' Liave liarotofora eatranged the farmor, isolating thoir Iabors, cramping their eforts, and holding them eubject to tho. schoming: of o fow men of whom they know little, and who cared losn for them, Thoso are somo' of tha happy results of tho Iarmers’ movemont -1 Egypt, and overy dny malkes il strongor, and mnkos thoso, results moro and moro apparcnt. The movemont hore, howovar, docs not tako any parrow or soctional grounds, doos not make war upon rny clnss or calling, but wonma to ho for tho solo purposa of assorting anQ maintnining tho righty of common Jabor,— glving to tho common neopla an cquel chenco, in lifo's groat battls, with all otbor classes of profossions—snd tho improvemont and eleva: llf!;l of ngricuttare in all its departmonts nud do- tails, TOLITIONT. Dut, whilo tho ahovo is truo, the farmers eoox to boliovo strongly in political action, and ook to thelr ballots asono of thelr most offoctive in. struments for romodying tho evils of ywhich they complain. Intho imponding contost thoy will vote almost 03 & unit for the Indopendont Ite- form candidatos, and in this Congresalonal dia- trict (tho Niustocnth) the contest is protty livaly. Gon. W. B. Andorson, a farmer of mora than ordivary ability, heads tho Indepond. ont Reform . tickes for Congress, and Loth of tho old arties havo pul ont oandidatos against him—tho. Domocrats boing boadod, na nsual, by S, 8. Marahatl, and the Topublicans by tho twico-dofontcd Goi. Ranm. In many placea the lattor gentloraen sro with- ot Lho shadow of n foothold,—tho ontire rank and filo of both of tho old partics boing valinntly Nighting sido by sido for tho Indopendont Reform tiokot. On the 1Uth, nt MeLoausboro, tho homa of Judgo Marshall, Gon, Andoraon addrossed ono of the largeat and: most onthusinstia meotings hot over assomblod - horo, TWho Judgo himeolf was: prosont, and Gen. Andersou kindly gava him timo to oxplnin blg positions ak Intarvals throughout tho entiro dise Lotran,—onchi timo mooting tho Judio with onicial rocords, and complataly ainihilating him amid tho vooiforons aud onthusiastic chooring of tho multitudo. cnors. Notsvithatanding tho ehinch-bug has hoon quite annoyine, aui in Komo places xonlly dostructive, particalarly to tho corn-crop, in many portions, T Tact, T moy ray gonoraliy—tho carn-cron 38 Gxcaadmgly promising,—heavior than ik has boon for voar. Whoat aleo, as gonoral thing, way nuusunlly good, but oata were jodifferont, Of brenath of whont bolug sown this fall 15 grontor thau evor bofore, and tho land is bbiu;i Lottor Droparad forits rocoption; but tho O nrmy Worm_ has made ita appentanco, and ls dolng a very destrictive worl in tho flolds_that -wore pown carly, aud much will hava to bo resown. Yot tho farmers nreiu hLigh apirits, politieally and otherniso, and took forward to botter timed Ju tho near futuro, Aucus. Statiutics of Draw FPolkers Thatovor may bo the rowult of thosborrations *ot tho trankic 0f Vonus, thoy cannot comparo in Draotical utility with tha honoflt that can bo de~ rived from o tablo of “ polor probabilities.” An ublo stutistician liaa, with_influito Jubor, com- pllod a tablo whoroby the changos and oliencon which muy acene in & gamo of pokor may bo told ataglanco. For instanco, 2,698,060 differont hands aan bo dealt with a prok of cardy; 1,802,~ 610 will contain losa than a pair,and 1,200,430 ono pair or more, ‘I'ho latter hands divide Into 1,194,210 of ono Snlr‘ $1.914 of throes, 125,502 of tio pairs, 10,200 straights, 6,107 flashios, 8,774 fulls, 624 fours, nnd 40 utraight flushes, With this tablo in oue hnnd and your cards in tue othor, it will tako o vory smart mau to get tho Dost of you in a little game of draw. If in tha cowsa of GLO74 deals your adversary oldu two straight flushos, alook at tho table will convinea you that vomothing in wrong, nud ir foum aro {flnrnd an yon moro thay onco In tho courso of 4,102, fnatond of drawing your ewdy, ©deaw " your ravolvor andgteall ® for tho polics, and When they tako him you take tho ypol, 5 i Henvy T, 8henard & Co, announco nonew hools anthe Adirondeckis, by tha Rov, My, Munas, which1o o give in_ Yorpeotive partn the humor und legondu of that roglon ; and a troadse on “Catito, Phoir Management sud Breedivg,” by Dr. Gowrge B, Lozxing. fenlts thoro scems to bo plonly. Potr~ toos nvo senrco ond indifferont; of turs nips thoro i8 n wuporabundanoe. Tha . BTt ke e e T S R S A s ii ji | |