Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1874, Page 6

i i i | | THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1874--TWELVE PAGES. . ey BOSTON. The Rebuilding of the] ¢ Burnt Distriot.” Beauty of the New Btroot-Arohitec- ture, Doslness in ¢ the Hub * and Through- out Massachuset(s, Oneo Iundred and Twonty Thous sand ¥Pcople in the Stito Out of Worl. Spoetal Corresponnence of The Chicajo Tribune, ) BosTos, Dee, 4, 1874, Thin city, or at lonst aportion of 1t, suporbly [Huatrates tho Domocratic uses of architecture. That witty purveyor of *braluy" or what tnowors for them, James Itedpath, manager of Iho Lycowm Bureau hero, said to your corre- spondont, voino threo years ago,—upeeking of o fino ploco of business-architectire, known ns the Cathodral Block,"—that, in old days, mon built catheduals to tho honov of God; now, thoy aro designed for the worship of Mammon.” The porcaem 8 no apt ns was (hat of John Ruelkdn whon hoeald: **God ehows what Ho (binks of xiches by the kind of men ho glves thew to." THE NEW BTREET-ARCHITEOTURE of Boston atmost rolloves tho eathotio mind from its usual contotwpt for mero woalth, Itis woith somothing to bo xich whon fb onnbles thoso go ondowed fo rear euch ' monumonts fo tasto and bhnrmony a8 now cover tho o Buent District.” In ono of my occasional visita hero, I witnessed that mighty couflagra- tion, Lcss than twolvo monts lator, I saw tho diatrlet in which it ocenrred * pimplo ™ over with tho beglnnings of coustruction. X think tho ruins of fira woro far moro pletutesque than tho jumbles of recoustruotion. But now, agatn re- tyncing my stops to the * ITub” for a briel +ist, I find mysolf onraptured with tto suporb blocks of buildings which have arizen ou evory hand. g I hove long hold to tho beliof that Domocratic lifo, such as ours, with ita wondrous ekics and Droad out-of-doors,—our vast continental spaces {0 breathe in,—must brood its own art as woll ag literaturo. Much of the formor must bo spee- taculne du cbarneter, Architecturo nad soulp- turoaro its muaes and hendmaldone, As our lito ju that of tho péoplo, our palaces ara to bo dovoted to uses, Industry and commerco, with cducaifon and govervment, will claln the high- ost scrvico, Owr eircot-architacturo is to be, m my Judgraont, the moet attnctivo fn the world. ‘Heca, then, fn Loston's new streets, I flud pplendil illngtrations, I, ug Madame do Staol ey said, chitecture iy FROZEN MUSIC,” ourely thora aro all forms of that Divine Jnuguage “thaving out” in thove buildings. One muet Lo gradzful evon for Yivo, when its punil- catlon tecoutzn cuthetie, aad, in ;rroriu{; thet 110 suld, giny, bmtd granite could not withstand the flams, elsared thoe ground whicl 1t cumbered, 2od temived from tho stmosphero luos thet made ft 1 so.nbre, leaving to tho oye the soft lonc.»: with which overywhero the new bulldings hghtat, = ¢ o droy hyperiole aud como to solid fact, it would Leraly bn poselblo to make ono realize, without visi tlia crcgitecturnl beauty of the tuejar pestion of the now buildings which cover tha ** Bumus Distrigt," and afford n strikiug mon- ot ol both the taste and enterpriss of this oit7. Iu divezrding tho inboupitablo granito, whivh inzrensed, not subducd, tho Atlautic misty Lhint A0 ofton duvhel tho nrebitects hovo elso discarded tho °*f Xenaaeds,” and, {n gront part, all tho PITIALLE ATTRUPIS AT THE " RENATESANCE " wtylo of construction, whieh Mr. Alullett affects 30 mach, Tho Lovatwsuneo helongs fo the Borrbong and {apshurgs,—to the seasuous and fobauched monagehies, —and ban slways apperred o mo a bastara in ko midst of Republiecan sur- ronundings. 1t is the sxebitecture of ths Klugs, when in their dacadence,—of Roynlty on * o bendes " avd recling iu meretzlcicus coverings ?\ its debauck, My thome howovor, not rings {n tho ocdinary sonso. /It is better to Lo a King among then 3 King over forty mill- {uns,"—t0 ot loast 6aid n Demosratio mystia to ma on oua oceasion. Loohing at tho promiso of this city aud of others,—-the fquntein in Cincin- nati, your own Uhwnix-liko structures, thoso toworing in Broadway,—[ can realize, in some dogree, what ho nieant. Tuv <o return : 1 lave been most atruck, in all tho delight which bas attended tho wander- inga of tho past few days, ot tho 8OFT AND BALMONIOUE TOXES wovan iuto tho atmoaphero by the building mn- torinls useld, As I have enid, tho inhospitable grauits has vanished, and iu its nlace aro’ groat blocks of Vermont marble, soft and wluto, aiter- nated or plekod onb with layers of blaclk, liko the Acadomy of Desigu in Now Yark ¢ or, battor still, fongz rows of & werm, cream-liued stone, lilke" tho bloom of n ten-rose's potaly. Thiy matorlel is not as hght as the ino brick which is usad in Milwaukeo, bus its affect i quite ns churming. Whotber used Ly itsolf, " or to soften and enhanco tho brick which bas hoen profusely used, Lhis material is of the bust charscter. ‘Chers is anothor stone in use hers which I have novor soon before, It Is n sand- stone, the prevaillug huo of whioh is that of n goft 1oee-rad, It belongs to tho same group ny the Seucea snadutono of Washington ; but it iy 8o muoh softer in color a8 to please, not offend tho eye as that does, Altogetber, oxcopt in tho mattor of widoning tho stroots, Boston has gloriod in hier oppor- tunitics, and mado tho best use of thom. Bho iy to b excused, and probably approved, for yofus- ing to steaighton thow. I it waa tho prico of Innd that provonted doing all that was wished, ono may be grafofnl, beeauso the form of tho strects ndds greatly to tho unoxpocted vistas down and at which ono gazes in overy turn of tho fmproved mozo thnt will always bo known to Boatoninns ps tho * Burnt Diatrict.” Loaving its prooinets, aud wnudorluf towards tho Cuarles Rivor, ono could almost linvo tho hordibood to sigh for anothor fire, which shonld burn out tho festering mass of old and dilapts datod structures thut aro socn on evory haud. BUSINESS IN TUE UUD is bottor than in Gotham. Ho much seoms cer~ tain, compurative os that mny bo. I speak now from the standpoint of tho employed. Thero bas not bee in Boston itself anything liko the wholesalo discharges of labor which hns beon too froquent in Now Yark of late, ‘Fho fact of which I epcuk io largely duo to tho smount of Dbuilding that ~ has beon, and stll is, going on_ hovo, Though the “ Burnt District ™ hag beon largely reconstruot- «d, thero fg still n good deal doing ond to bo dane, 'The maney spout for aud by buildersand workmon g mado n_conslderablo dogreo of prospority all around the city, Thoro I o lnrgo smount of bullding going on i nll the suburbin villagen and towns within 50 miles, In East Roston, Cholsen, und along tho wharves,—in the coouputions dependent for netivity ou invost- mont and thriving commorco,—thoro is ns groat netaguntion ag in_othor parts of the conntry, BtilL, tho large activity of tho building trades molkos s_considerablo bulwark to tho poor and toilor. Tho machinc-ehops, ship-yards, ropair- shops, ond similar Industrics, ara noasly 1l idle, 1o wholo or part, Boston, just now, is sullering most from EXTENOR 6TAGNATION, In conversation with the ofiicoraof the Burean of Labor Btatlstics, tho State Police, tho Lioard ot Htuta Charities, and other porsous, publiosnd privato, whose Y()m’liunu rendor thoir judgmenty worthy, I find that the manufaotuting intoronts - (testiin) aro ranlly Tovivings thut tho lons to this Jbor b In its losining, and uok its cossation s buc thnt, in the other grout staplo Industyies of the Stoto,—iron, leather, nnd boots and shoes,— thero {8 slmost coruplete atagnution, ‘Cha latter s reduced production to at lenst one-half, and tho othor to as miich and more, Unskilled tubor {8, therefore, very badly off, and tho State s swarming with mon who hnve boon sttwcted hore, in part, by tho robuilding which hins been toing on, nud by othier actisitics, but mora argoly by tho fack that thera way lees diatross horo than olsewhors, Tt 1 tho loss of timo, or tho lensening of pro- duction, from which TABON 1AS AUFFERED MOBT, Tho consuy of T470 gives the numbor of em- ployed persons in Mussnolusetis, in ull clnesos of decupations, at 570,844, of whom 125,801 are fomaion, Thero figures nre ngain subdivided aa follows: Wanufacluring, mechanical, and mivlug in- Qusiribhsnee s o < r.—.-qum o ‘#ada and trant Ty rozalndar.oko cuployed” 1w profemio and personal sorvicen, Accordlug to tho enti- nintes givon mo at the Burcsi of Tnbor Btatis- tlos, und by others, Lho [nerossio I tho numbor of cutablishinonts nnd omployos sinco 1470 ospeolally in toxtilomunufacturas, I about cqua to o ntimbor of Loth—fdctorlas, mmnl work- shops, and omployes—that aro now fdle, If his {8 corroct, {t mny b cotstdored, thon, thab flicro aro 72,740 operativos employed fn textily manntaestires at full tiwe, but tiat_thoy ropro- gont nomo 23,500 wholly uncinployed, tho hours Delng redicod an nverago of fifteen pot weok,— tho runniug mili-timo uow avoinging, all ovor the State, tortg-liva hours — por weol, jnstoad of _mixty, ns would usnally bo tho ecaso, Thors are, In fucr, about 00,090 wtll-operativen in this Sinto working on_ two- thirda timo, Ton' thousand will bo a” modorato cstimato for tho mimbor of mecbinnics aud oth- ots immediately nffected in shops, such as thoso of ropnir, boits, oto,, oo, which depond upon tho mills, "Thoy loso tino in tho samo propor- tion, S0 it may Lo s down as Nob overdrawn, that thoro nto 100,000 working on two-thirds thne, or, ageycpating tho reduction, 25,000 WHOLLY UNEMPLOYED, in (he Stato, Of tho 83,000 l)erumm engagod In trado and transportation, the ratio of ouforced 1dlonens will certainly bo ono-fifth, and perhaps one- fourtls, Certninly the reduction in pay Is greater, —ranglng from one-third to one-fourth of tho puy recotved two yonrs ngo. ‘Tho ostimato given of tho reduction of forco will bo 10,600 poruons. “Tho number of persons ususlly smployed in tha manufacturo of lentlior, and of boots aud wloos, 14 sot down ns at lenss 65,000, allowing for Inorense, Of this totnl, not losa than ona~ tourth nro wholly idlo, whilo the romaindor aro omployed but throo-fourtha of their ustal timo, it as mueh. 'Theso flguros will add 16,000 per- wous to Lhose ot of worl ; and; nggreguting tho roduction fols by tho Lalancs by encethivd, it wonld givo in this group s total ENFORCED IDLENESS O 20,000 PERSONS, Thero aro nbout 12,000 usustly cmploved in {ho mnnnfacturo of straw goods, At thin ses- gon that businoes is alwaya sinck, but vow it is nearfy nt & stand-HIL ° 16 may b snfely snid (hroo-fourths oro without employment. Theso Ngures lonvo at lonst 83,000 ]mraoms omployod in othor ocoupations, two-uixthn at least of irhom aro connoctod with iron-worke, machinashops, and rolated induetrion. Of thogo, 26,000 or &o, ovor ono-hinlf, aro out of work, In oibier accu- pations, tho number may bo faivly osimated b one-thitd. 8o tho totul of wuemployod in this State, nt tho prosont timno, muy be recapltulaton a8 follows : “Toxtilo and dependent manufactures, Trade and tranaportation Leather, boots aud shioes. Btraw goods. Miking s totat of.. To this mnst ba added those engaged in per- gonal nud clerieal sorvices; nnd, it the formor, it is stated in Boston that thio'eupply of gaod louse-help equals the demand for tho Hrat timo in years. Pho total ia about 189,000 possons. Of theso, at least §0,000 bolong to the category of wnges- Inborers, Probably ore-sixth arc unemployed, or wbout 13,000 povsons, This would incerease tho total number out of work in this Btato to 120,000, ox ONE IN EVERY 1215 of tho wholo population. I bave not included agriculture in ‘thoso estimates, an that will probably not lesten ity labor suy more than usual, only tho pay theraof. The moat fortunste thing in thin situntion fo the fact that so Inrge a proportion of the tutal lebor of the Htato huy compnratively steady work, oven if_not ns much of it os desired. TTio entimates I havo given will mnko idlo nearly one in evoyy live of the wholo Jnbon ing fores throughout tho Stato. Anothier euosuraging sigu in tho gituntion hero isthe m{:id depietion uf tho textile stocks throughont thio country,—nob moro then eix woeks' full supply bewng on hand,—thus maling a revival of muntifactuwting aclivity quite cortain at nu distoat dote, Apart from ell other considerations, aro not theso estimntos o sulicient oxplanation of tho Into political surpriso ? . J. 1L TIE WURK. Races of the Lousiana Jacley Club at New Orieant, New Orieass, Dee. 7.—Abt the Loulsiann Jockey Club races tha first ovent was forthe Noward Stakes for colls and filiey 2 years old, £25 ontrance, play or poy, with §700 added, second horso to-rocoive 200, third £100; 1 mile, to carry 2-yoar-old weight; ten nomina~ tlons, four started, Won by Pauline Sprague, benting Puss Droadoo, Noumo F, and Lend Yenr, in tho samo ordar. 208, Lusa Brondno had the Joad nutil read) stand, when Paulino Spaguo west to tho front, winning by Lalf & length, In tho pooly Uettetell's entries, Leap Yoor, Paes Broadno, znd Nanvio F, scld for 200 ; stona’s DPuuline Bprague, 0, Boforo tho start the hotling was 100" on Cotterell's to & on Stonv's, The second race wae for ihe consolation Club purso of §40%-for hoisos that bavo run and not won @ raco during tha mootiug ; F300 to fhist, &75 Lo second ; §25 to third; Tmile. Won by Cyrido ¥, beating Crown Prines, Kiug Amadous, Mary L, Capt. Jecl, aud Bob Sritton, inthe sawa ordor. ‘Lime, 1:60. i "lulx 1aco was well contested. Won by balf & ougth, In the pools on Saturday Crown Priuco sold nt $120, My L and Catrio 9118, Bob Britton and Capte Jng 15, Kinz Amadous $45. Dofuro tho raeo Cario P and dory L wero the fuvorites, gelling for £30 in pool of 2100, "Iho third Tuce was fora club purso of 31,200 for alt agow, &1,000 to flrst, £200 to second, 4-ulo heats, tivo started: Col, Welligan Juch Frost, Fab £, 1, Toonaxd Tom Leathers § B0y, In tho pools Jack Frostsold nt £200, Onl. Welli- Enn, 850 3 Falmowh, $30; P. 1% Leonard, 8305 'om Leathers, 25. The track waa vory heavy; woathor clear and cool ; attondanco not Jargo, CASUALTIES. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicugo Tridune. BeniNorieLy, 1lL, Dee. 7.—A melancholy acel- dent oconrrod yeatorday nfternoon, G mlon cast of this city, on tho south fork of tho Baugamon River, by which four chlldren wore drowned, There wero about & dozen children,' xanging in age trom 7 to 14 yonrs, who bad collectod on-the river for tho purposo of slwuting, Dut fivo of thoso, howsver, would venturo on the ice, nnd, whon they wero about 15 feot from tho shoro, tho fco brolie, and all went down. A little boy of 14 trled hord to save his littlo sistor, bub boforo lio ronched tho ehoro ba bad to lot go, nnd the little girl sunk out of sight. ‘Tho buy snved bimself, ‘I'he nwnes of ihe chil- dren _drownod woro William, IHiram, and Ido Hornbeolter, childron of poor widow waman who lived near b{. ‘Tho other was Edward Ward, The bodies of all the childron wero recovered. STRIOKEN WITIL APOPLEXY—RUN OVER, Special Diapateh to T'ha Clicago Fribune, Inpraxaronts, Ind, Dec. 7.~Jon J. 1Mill, o colored barber, was steiekon with apoploxy while ronding the Bible at tho colored chureh, and will not Burviv Martin Bront, a ecction hand on tha Vandalin Tond, wan fatnlly burt yestorday by boing rus ovor. Doth legy wero cut off' at tho hips, TWO LITTLE BOVS DROWNED. Speciut Disputels to Ll Chivago 1'ribund. Laxcowy, Nob., Deo, 7.—Twao little boys of David Ilavarsack, of Milford, Sniino County, woro drownod yosterduy by brenking through tho ico on tho Big ‘Blus Itver, Hoveral olhier per- Bona narrowly oseaped sheving thole fato inbrave offorts to savo tho unfortunato boys, SMALL-POX SCARE AT SYRACUSE. Synacusy, N, Y., Dec. 7.—The exaggorated re- porty published in somo of tho papors of thiy Btato congerning smull-pox in thin city, have callod ont statosnont from tho Boprd of Health hat thoro are fone mild enves of emall-pox aud nine of variolold, but nouo of & sorlous noture. Tha disenso 1s fully under tho control ot the Board of Itealth authoritios, - St S BEECHE®'S BILL OF PARTICULARS. Avuaxy, N, Y., Dee. 7.—In the appenl onso of the lov, Heury Ward Boochor agalunt Thuodors Tilton, tho Court takos tho gronnd thaktho Courl bolow hiad & right t » ordor tho bill of par- tienluvn'nukodd for by Mr. Deecher, | . 1t i stutod that in congequonco of hin decls- fon of the Uonrt of Apposls, the Dcocher caso st bo postponed. B , REVENUE SEIZURE. New Yonr, Deo, 7,—Lhirty unses of foreign goady, belongling to skro oy, 1. 1, Nownmay, who {u abrond inspeoting United ttates Consulatos, wore dischurged on_ Suturday from the Kuta Teurnoy, Trom Houg Kong, Ching, and conyoyed to the seunre-roose a tia CusowsHouco, Tiicir conbauln are nek.Luow, BAKOTA AND COLORADO. Rapid Progress of the Oity of Yankton. Daloia Not SBtarving on Account of Grasaopper-Bepredations Tho Devolopment of the San Juan Kining Region in Southern Colorado, Assnys of Ores from Bomo of the Most Produotive Lodes, Correspondence of The Chieana Tribune. Yaxnron, D, 1, Deo,9, 1874, Porhaps n fow itowms from this, THE OALITAL OITY OF DAKOTA, may nob be uninterosting to tho renders of Tnr TmnoNz, fis rapld growth and natural advan- ngen givo promise that, in the nonr fature, it is destined to become ono of tho wealthieab and most populous citios or tho Northwont, and tho motropolls of the State of Dakots that is to Lo, Yaukton Ig far moro prosporons than many citicn of grentor ngo, and for many rontous, It ocou- ples o communding “position on tho Miesonrl Livor, about 66 miles west of Bionx City. What 1ing ofton beon eaid of Washington Is, in o grea moasure, truo of Yauktou, It ls a “city of mngnificent distances.” Thero v an nbundanco of buliding-room, aund thoeo who, at an onrly day, Inid out tho town-site, meemed to ronliro this faot, by Inying ot brond strects ; and their succentors havo thus far shown no de- £1ro to interforo with this wico procedont. Nar yow utreots aud alloys aro an abominatlon to any olty, and tho prospect s, that Yankton will uot suffor, In this rospoot nt Jonst, as long as therois such an sbundanco of Jaud, I'ho town, eapecialiy sinco tho Dakotn Bonth- orn Railroad his had its torminua hero, whieh is now noarly two yonr, hag TROGNYSYED WITI RAPID STRIDLS, Ronl estuto Liaa advanced, and all the depart- ments of trade bave beon stimulated into n mora vigorous and healthy growth. Imgprove- mouta havo been rapidly carried on,~—of a ohar- ncter, tao, whick would do crcdit to more pro- tentious towns ; and tho citizens realize tho fact that a now era of prosperity bins ‘dawned upon tho city of their choleo, The vacant places ore mpidly filing up with gubstantial. aund conveinont busiueys-blocks and warohounes ; and the blufrs overlooking the city axo beooming dotted with remdoncer, meny of them clegent ond costly, 1t is cstinmated that, durivg tho past season, t Jeast 500,000 han been exponded {n various improvemonts,—n very cieditublo show- ing when we consider that Yuukton ia & town of only nbout 4,000 inhabitauty, and thet nmong ber citizons thero nre but fow who can bo designated o8 wenlthy men, Whis is also the point from which most of the Govorsmont aud Tudian sup- plios ara shipped to tho diltoront posts aud ngon- cion nlong tho Uppar Missonrs, and this is o val- uable acquisiticn to our busiuess, Tho North- wostern Tronsportation Company—ihoso hend- quartora aro hera—have expended some 4,000 tho past searon in constructing ways; and licre- after all ropairs upon their boats will bo mude hera, The Company in composed of en ic aud thorough bustuces-met, and i doluy much Lo cuhaneo tho prosperity of our young eity. Nor is Yaulton torgatiul of thoso otherinter- ests which are an fudex to the IEFINENENT AND CULTURE of itgpeople. 4 litllo ovor a yoar ugo the la, dics muado » vow thut Yankton should no longe: be whthowt a publio library, and at ouco Legen tho good work of organizitg a Libiary Avsocin- tion, which has beeu duly incorporited. ho Asavciation now cccupy an clegant sulto of rootus, and tho ltbrary contuing tomo 1,500 vol- umen, with pseversl bundred dellars in tho treasury. Tho underleking bas overy ovidence of pormanent suecors and vigorous growth ; 1, 1f the suzccsn of tho futhto ‘can bd mens- ured by taat of tho paet, in a foew yenwn, ut most, our ciiy will bavo o Nbyery tuab will bo of great valuo. Dut, whilo speakiug of tho Indins, wo must not forget the Young Mow’s Litorary: Aes on, whoso wookly mcotings aro held in tho Academy, "Thesomeotings aro well atteuded, und, in the maln, very interosting. Tho order of cxcrelos coneists of n debuto, musie, cesays, and seloct readigs, Though ouly in 1ts recond year, Associntion 18 in 2 vory vigorous and tlourishing coudition, nud promises to Lo oues of our pormn- nont ingtitutions. Bevernl lcetures hnva beon givon under tho nuspices of tho club, by such eminent spealkers as Mutitds Fioteher aud Col. Sanford, who havo always been grected by largo and nppreciativo audionces, A courso of leo- tures will snoitly commence,—tho openiug ous by, Dnlo Avmstrong, ot your city, Auch has been writton concarning tho amount of damngo douo by tho grasshoppets during tho Bn:t nonson, and ENY erroncons - gtatomowkts avo been made. To s trua that, in pomo sec- tiona of tho Lerritory, tho crops wero badly dam- aged, and, In o fow instances, untirely destroyed, Yot it js noverthieless uitine thnt starvation iy sturing us in the face, Dakotn has BIREAD, AND TO BIARE.” Inasnuch no the ncquiition of wenlth Is n mnt- tor which all ore striving for, nnd the question of finuuco is at present the all-absorbing thowo among privato Judividunls, as woll, ni thoso who huve the nationnl finauces oommitted to thoir loeping, it may not Lo out of pincs to glva tha rendors of 'CuE TRINUNE gomo gtatements in v word to what is boing dono to dovolop tho vast mineral wealth of what is known nu the Ban Junn District, fu Southern Colorado. Over a yourago, Mr.'A. W. Durrowa, of this city, and & busmcsd-mao of dgomo prominonce, left horo on a tour of ivspection through Southern Colo- rndo, and way inducad. to visit tho then but littlo-tatlted-of and lmwli‘-l\lucnvorcd mining region above mentioned, - His rogenrches proved highly satisfactory, and, having discovored sov- cral lodes, which, upon boing aeseyud, PLOVED OF GIIEAT VALUE, ho commenced n corgespondence with eoveral gentlomen Lero; and, last aprivg, Mossys, Georgo W. Kingsbury, J. R, Hanson, and C, H, Melntyre, with soveral Wircousin gontlomen, want thither, and remained during tho summor, prospogting aud * stoking out claima.” T'ho regiou in question oxtonds over an sron of about 10 miles #uare, surronuding tho forks of tho Auimus River, The oros discovorod aro chiofly silver, though thore is ono gold mine—''Iho Littlo Gwne "—of groat richness, Tho partios ubovo mentioned had, while in tho mines, un arsay-furnace, with oll thoe necossary applisnces tor ‘subjecting their oren to & thoreugh test, undor tho supsrvision of o practical assuyer omployed for the purpoge; and, during tho mim- mor, Prof, Endlich, of tho Bmithsoninn Insti- tute,—n thorough and exporicnced miuoralo- gigt,—vipitod thoir winos, and made oxtensiva assnys of the diforent oros, and oxpressod the upiuton that the mines of thut distriot were the richest on the Continont. DTrof, Eundlich had oharge of ono of tho threo divisionn of Prof. Hayden's Exploving Lxpedision, which hus beon anguged during the prst summor in examiuing tho minorul rogious ot tho country,—one dlvis- ion Loy in Nerthern Colorado ; another, under Prof, Huydon, in tho Contral 3 and tho third, in oharge of Prof, Endlioh, in the Somthern yayt. 1t hus bean proven boyond all eavil that South- oru Colorado s o rien, 1F NOT RIONER, in silvor oro, than tho far-femod minos of Mexi- to und Porn, ‘Iheso minen aro alrendy nttencting the atton- tion of prominent cupitniisty,—umong vhom uro F. 1. Grocnleaf, President of th Litnt Nationnd Buuk of Mitwaukes, and also of the banking firm of Groontosf, Norris & Co., Now Yok City, und 3, 3. Crools, n leading manufacturer, of Now York,' Loth of theso gentlomon huve visltod tho mines,—tho former Loing largely Intorcated in them, nnd confidont that thoro Iy more monoy to be muda thoro thun i tho bunlng busineys. Propurations are now boing muslo to oreet smoit- itg-worls, ond o thorough uystem of mining will b envried on during thocomingtonson, Mousrs, ungubury, Hankon, and Molntyro rotnrned ro- coutly, and brought with them nbout 2,000 pounds of oro from tholr differout -lodes, which have boen assayvd, und aro now on oxhibltion hora, T ABSAY of somo of the mout producitve lodes show tho followlng result ¢ Yunkton Lode~\Vidth at nnrlnc? G0 feot ; nrge tiferoun galvnu, miliing oro ; usvay frou surfucc-epce finen, 03 orinees of silver por on, md o traca of gold, o Yankton Exteusion /s of tho osmo genersl chur neters Vermittion Lodr—T5 feob wido on surfaco ; urgens Liforous gy copper, Buselting OF0; wisny frow aur. B oea o, 3 Lods—WIaih on anrfaco, 8 foct ; char= aoter of sulviul, gray copper; ylold fron thiroo dsuuye, from nverao apectmens at n dopth of 13 feot, $160,70, #2234, and £308,40,—nvorngn, §217,50, Ditkola Lode—Snfnco-whith, 10’ furty minern, fine galona ; surfare-nsany, B3)¢ ottico of miver mid 1) ouncen’ of gold ¢ four nwenya of epechivens 1) fco! Jrlow mufaco ylolded $137.00, 14543, $160.01, ond Derwait Lode—Snrfaco-widily 10 foob ¢ minoral, fino lonn il gray eoppe ; Uireg s frotn succthions nong_ptirfaco yloldod tsdmw. $168,30, and $040.49 § ono 51,00, assay for gold Jovo & tiral, conrao galenag width at Jeea Ciond Lode=M aurface, 8 feot s thon usenys from APCCIMOUA CAT BUL- foco gnve, per ton, $00,04, $77,63, and $105,25, , 8. MeCook Lode—With nt ‘murface, B (6ot s min= ernl, argentiforots coper ; four nesayn of peclmonn 6clottod from surfoce, aud from n dopth of 12 fect, yiclded, in siiver, £120,00, £134,20, $161,05, nnd $229.00; s mihoral envrien front 43 to 60 ver cont coppor, Lifon Lode—\Width b surface, 90 Ceel} miticral, ac- goiiforous ukey coppar;. 3iod of aivery ouo asiny, 452,80, 1. J. DoiFitt Lode—Burface-wldth, 13 feots coarn golchn, earrying geay copper § four asenys from spect- ‘l‘l‘““‘d: ‘l‘: liln 6 foot of sutfaco gavo $09.00, $82,70, 2 nd § v Linde—WIdIN ot gtirface, 6 fesk; mincral, argentifcrons fray coppor 3 thred ashaya from selected Dfscinets & feutroun musfaco uvo §167, 349025, wnd (084, Tho nbove ia only a portion of tho mineral- honring proporty ownoud by theso parties,—tho anoral charactor of tho remaindor boing nuch lio Bamo o8 that alroady described. ‘ho_dovolopment of Dalwotn, McCook, and Burrown No. 3, haa beon moro cxtonsive than thnt of the other lodes, Ores from tho L. 8. MoCool DUEW A DIPLOMA at tha Colorndo Tetritorlnl Falr for the beab ar- goutiforous copper oro, At prosant, tho nearost rallrond point is Canyon, about 40 miles wost of Denvery and about 200 milos from thoe San Juan mines, Proparations ore belog mado to oxtond tho road to Trinidad, & point about G0 miles south of tho mines ; nnd tho Prosident of the Rio Giande & Colorado Itnllroad Company, with othor railroad-magnntes, hins rocontly bacn ona Laur through that rogion, for tho purposy of perfeeting tho nocoauary urrangoments, nnd it {8 uite probablo that the rond will bo completed to Prinidad gomo timo during 1876, Qoatsrook, FIRES. AT FRANKLIN, IND, Faasrry, Ind., Dee, T.—About 8:90 to-night tho Court-Hougoe libro was discovored to bo on fire in the cupalo, and in n fow minutes tho en- tiro building was fo flamen and wad totally de- siroyod. It was uncoubtedly tho work of an in- cendinry, This the third jucendary fire hero in two wools. AT FREDERIOKTOWN, O, Otxorynaty, O, Dee, 7.—A firo ab Fredorick- town, 0., on Saturday night, destroyed tho flouring-mill of Kugkin, Unll_& Bellors. Tho leza is 15,0005 juspred for £7,600 in Wontern companies, e e DE. DOZLLINGER. An Interviowr twith tho ¢ Revolting Preinto—ifiy Views Abons filr. Glade stonc’s Lamphiot. Junieh (¥ov. 16) Cerrespondence of the New Yorl: Heraid, It wea my mivilego yeaterdny afternoon to havon Jong ond jutorasting couvorsation with Dr. Doellinger at s houae, No.11 You dor Tann strasse. I found tho aged Profossor in guod health, and, having Junk comypleted the porusal of Mr. Gladetone's pemphler, and having becomn somowhat mxed uo with tho Dlamerck-Arnim affair, more communicativo than usual. TUE PAMPHLET IN GERMANY, Bponking of Lo recoption of Mr: Gladstono's pampblet bere, Prof, Docllinger said: * Tho patnphlet nn gonorally been misjudged in Gor- mauy, and cspoeindly {n Bovariv, oud it in very curious that there is n cortuin hostily nenivst Mr, dladstone peroeptiblo in the Augsburg Allge- meing Zeltung, which rivcs tho touo to the South Germen pregs, Tho Gormans do not une derstand the question of Ritunlism which ocen- pios tho attention of the English so nuch ; and, éinco Gladutono hag wikton in favor of Tituatiom, their projudico ngainst him I vory Vimble in whutever they eny mbout his uew pamphlot, which has nothing to do at nll with Ritualism, The faot is tbut Al Gladstone Hoes clcm‘lf iho grent dnfll(m‘ which the decrees of tho Vatican Councll will produco in lrelana aud whereyer the:o is s lerge liish population, a8 in the United Staten. DOELLINGEW'S CRITICIES OF THE ENGLISI CONSED- VATIVE PRESS. # 'Tho Coneorvativo papers of England,” con- tunod Prof. Yon Dacllinger, * have gonoraily entieeed tho pamphlet vory soverely ; but, thet, it in porfectly underatood that when s ox-Lrime Alinister writes auylhing iz is looked upon g a lmmicnl wosk—ns o step taken in order to bring himuel! into publio favor ngain, and with a vi obtaining again & mnjority in Parl 3 i the way in which tho Conservatives interprat whatover Mr. Qludstone writeg, and this, in my opinion, is quite unjust. Gludntono is a nion of deop religions convictions, at tho tume f1mo n good patriot, aud he juldycs tho sitnation of Englund and Irelund with theoyo of & stutes- man who sees tho daugors vosulting from these vamo Vatican decrces uppronching. Now, if the jorvativo papors bud rofleated on tho way in which Archbishop Manning bas suoken publicly of Mr. Gladstone's pamphiot and on tho Vatican ducrecs, they would, as ovorybody docy, 1 sup- poue, ece cloarly thut thero 18 o real politienl in- torost in tho mattor and tho great dangor ab tho satug timo, THJ ULTRAMONTANS INILURNCE IN¥ ENGLAND. ©* You aro nwaro that tho ontive rc"n sontation of Troland iy Ultramontano and guidod by tho Dishops, tho Ihnhn,p_s receiving thew directions from Itome, Of this Mr, Gladstous is perfectly woil nwaro, and [ know_ic from comwunicn- tlong mindo to mo by an Irich memboer. Whon lagt your the Iriwh University bill was brought into Parlinment by tha Ministry, the whole Ul- tramontano party—tho Irish party — voted fgainst it as ono man, And it was porfect- Jy well understood, and publicly kuown, fhat this wns by ordor of the Bishops. Tho bill in itsolt was so cvidontly o great boon conforred upou tho Irish Catholics—upon tho lay body of the Irnh Cutholics—tunt it was quite 1neom- rmlmmiblu at tirst how tho Irioh lnymion in Par- jamont could voto agninst it, until o wag under- ptood that the Bishops had roceived ordors from Rtome to_opposo it by ail tho mouns in their powor, Bo that now THR BTATE OF THINGS 18 ACTUALLY TINR: Whenovor in futnre the Government of Ln, (] will havo something to arange fu Ireland 1 will, in tho Inst inutance, entiroly dopend upon the Topo whotlior the measurd succced or not: what will bo tho bohavior of the bulk of the Ineh populations, Thia Lad povor como out so glargly beforo, Bo that Mr. Cladstono bad alveady fclt tho cansequonces of tha Vatican decteesund of tho now positiou which tho Pope now takoes in tho Ttoman Ghureh ; ho felt it by his own oxpo- riengo, for in truth the downfallof the Gludstono Miniutry wos soated by tho rejestion of tho Uni- vorsity bill, as you know at that timo he had laxd down his portfolio, “and if Disracli had found it convenicnt to coma in at thay timo, then tho changoe of Minlstry wonld Linvo takon pluce thon 3 but as Disrnell ‘and tho Cousiervativo 1pn\rty did not wivh to como in with- out naw clections, Gladstono romained, and the Minlstry kopt its place till the now elections wero entled, ~ Tien the Dieraclt Minwbey enme inj; so thut the fruo cuuso of the clngo of Ministry and of the downfall of thu Liboral party in Ene land 8 to bo foundin tho rejection of that $iiohy Univorsity Lill. Thougly Mo, Gludstong does not say thig m s pamphilet, you may road it botweon ‘tho lines; and ho suys o inn very clear way, and at tho samo time biy conviction in that in future nt overy new opportunity the saine thing will bo_repeatod. 'Chio momboerg fn Purlia- mout are ontizely dopendont on tho Bishops, and tho Dishops rocotve their instructions from Ttome, conserquontly from the Jesuits in tho last iustance. THE CONSERVATIVE AND ULTRAMONTANE ALLI- AN “Phoro in o groat danger for anothier renson,” continned Von Doollinger. *‘In tho procont situntion of parties, whonuver tho Consorvative parly ahd llm ultramontano’ Iilsh mombors throw tho weight of thelr united voto into the seales thoy enn decido any important quostions and can mnko n majority s and, since tho ultyn montana pacty la entirely rulod by Romo, thy Topo hus got & vonitive influonce fit the intornal intorostn aud queations of English politics, which i# a very threstoning aud dangerous thing, An ordor from Komo miny declde tho most important voto in Parlinmout, simply beeauso tuo ultramontane Irlsh mombors aro rrled by tho Dishops aud tho Popo, Audthe witramontanes nrounitnd : thoy voto on all acea- slons as one man, ‘Lhoroisno party lu thollouo which in so united a8 tho ultramontane Lrish membors, aud all the Catholic lay mombory aro witramontane, ‘Lhorein lioy the truo deugor aud diftieulty of tho situntion, Cho putmphiot ot BMr, Clndstono i intonded to direct tho nttontion of tho English nation toward tho truo rtato of thitigs, - Untit now it wan not undorstood of tho Engilch thomsolves, Most of thow did net seo 1t, did not oven know the dango DI, MANKING REFUTED, Thon Dr, Ductlinger spoka of the natura of the Vatican docrocs, which, he eald * have pausorl by und nre almost forgotton, Teopla do not Luow what was decroed av tho Vatican Council, Poaplo do net know that the Popo han been made prramount and fmmediato superlor of overy Cotholls clorgymon and loyman; that it Tins “boen declared "the duty of” conyglonva of ovoty Cathiollo, not only of tho clorgyna is gon= erally supposod by Drotestants, and many Cothiolics uven, to obay the Popo’s ordora with- out judgmont, hlindly, unrescrvedly, By tho now doereo 1t 18 tho dntyof ovory layman, whons- over it Iy Intimated to Lim that this or that :wuutlnn s boen doetded by Lho Popo, to oboy. \Ylhion the Popo ordera n mni to voto fn 0 spocl~ tlod meunor hio I8 objiged, oven In his _capacity aomember of Parllamont, to oboy. Thiit wan novor sofd before, It Ja quito n now situation oinco 1870, My, Glndstono Lringa this tiuth out in his pamphlot. He snya that the civil olections In every Catholio countiy ate now a thing quite uncertaln, beeause thoy depend _entiroly upon tho will of n foroign potontato, Thia {s tho side of tho quontion which ought to ho studicd tn the Uunltod Btates, too.” CRIMINAL I'TEMS, OUT BY A TRAMP, Speetal Disputeh o Th Chicagn Tribine, Maysrizy, 0., Doo, 7,—Shortly after noon yostorday o tramp callod at tho liousa of Con Somuny, night firoman at the walor-works, aud agked for “something to eat, bit was rofured. Aftorwards, moctiug Hoaman on hin way to tho ongine-houto, tho tramp bogan to nbitan him, whent Seamnn knocked him dowa. Tho tramp woul awny muttering vengeanco, and about. 6 o'clack soturned to tho _onghie-houso with tvo compunious aud attaclted Soaman with o knife, muking throo Jong, but not toep, gnahes on his #ido and avny, Beaman pelzed n etab and knocked hits prinolpal nesuilant down, but the lattor got up and eway, At this stago, Chailen Porob, ono of tho engincors in an adjoining room, heating tho nieles, caue to Sonman's as- wistatico, but og ho oponod tho door tho deapora~ does rotrented throngh another door to the ont- sldo, ono of them firing threo shots nt Porch, none of them luckdiy taking oftect. Sosmnn wag taken homo oud his wounds drersed, which, thotigh severo, are not thought to bo dangorouu. T'wo poreons bave been oyrested on muspicion, aud the polics nro on the alort. Thero s strong tallk of rcorganizing tho Vigilanco Com- mitteo which did suok offectivo servico oight or ten yems ago to rid tho city of the trampn and thioves that aro ovorrunning us, The oitizens bogin to fool that they can oxpoct no soeurity from Mo preaent City Govornmont, \lrhlch iy shametully incomputent, to say tho east. STOLE TWO 1IORSES AND A GIRL. Speeuct Disvatzh to L'he Clacaso Lribine, TavcoLy, Nob., Doc. T.—A rogular dime-novel clopement toole placo from Dowitt, Salino County, last I-‘ndnf. Davld Wood, o youth of about 21, who hnd beon Dblacksmithing in the town, sud Migs Lizale Castlo, & utep- duughter of John Claybough, docamped on tho abovo nlght on borsoback for unknown parte, tnking with them ono of Mr. Claybough's horses nud ono of Willinm Wild's. Thoy have not becn caught, althouglh officors hinve boen oftor them for sovere! days, Wood lott a number of dobta behiud Lt nad a hox of goods ready to ship to Ilhlm&m, which, howover, wus opcued aud re- tamed, DARING ROBBERY, i CrxervyaTt, Dec. 7.—An Enquirer specinl gives an zeconut of n daring robbery at Spader Sta- tion, Iud., on Saturdny night. Four ion evtored the store of I, & J. 8. Cotter, ond with drawn revolvers demonded monsy, After obtaining about £30 {n casb, two stood guard over tho n- mates, whilo tho rewaindor loaded o wagon with gootls, T voof tho thicvos wero arroated on Sunday, The others havo yet beon captured. AEFRAY AMONG COLORED MEN. Jerpensosvieer, Ind,, Dec. 7.—T'wo negrace, nanted Chapmnn nnd Crayeroft, got iuto o dis- puto at Gutliie, Martins & Co.'s pork-house this ovening, Chapman Luocked Crayevoft down, when Craycroft’s brother drow his revotver and shiot as Chnpmay, wigsing bim and histing - other negro named Dan Gurtor, in tie loft shoulder, producing an ugly tlesl woungd, BURGLAR AND IS IARY ARRESTRD, Spectal Dimateh to Phe Clhicao Tribune. ‘Warney, 0., Doe. 7.—John Iufiots, ona of tho burglarn who plundered and_bisned & stora in Genova, O., was arroatod in Driatol's woods to-duy aud lodged in jail hore. Ilo confesscuall. HANGED DY A MOD. 8. Lous, Dec. 7.~—~Tha Repubiican hes anpo- cial saying thit Dr. Ruuh, charged with commit- ting noveral burglaries and ardon the past fow months fu Concordia, was hangod by o mob Inat night 6 miles form that villago. MURDER OF A NIW YORK EDITOR. New Yo Dee. 7.—George Hunter, ono of ho editors of tha Scofsman, wes nardered on Snturday night in Thicteouth strcot, neur Four- teenth uvenuo. No arrosts, A TATAL FIGHT, Lostox, Mans., Dec. 7.—LEdward Noonan was Kitled on Bu v morning {n » tight with some wiknown porsons. . THE WEATHE! Wasuxatoy, D, 0., Dee, 7.—Tor tho Upper Lako region aud the Northwest, clear or fuir weather, southerly or westerly winds, incremsing lx: forco, rising temperaturo, aud falling barow- ster. LOCAL ODSERVATIONS. 1040, Dee. 7, |G Wehor, 04 M., betalk, IN.. el 540y bk, oy rlle, 50 N, gentio, 19 | gentlo.. ‘Masdimim ticromoter, 33 miniiim & AL OBSLRVATIONS, Critosao, Dev, T—I Wind, R o7 kel 0 70 |F 01 Cloudy, ! Gloudy, Gloar, MinTy Clear, |otoudy. Clowy. Otear, Cloar, ‘ort Gibson 0. Keoknk,, Liavel o, i +|Clouds, *|otear. NEW NAILROAD ROUVE OPENE] Speciar Dingateh to The Clacago Lribuze, Prons, B, Dov, 7.—About ffty oxoursionists, priucipally from the Town of Maroa, Ill., arrived in tbis city about 7 o'cloak this moruing, on a vislt of buniness aud pleasure. 'Floy eolobrato Dy their coming, in 1 meusure, tho opening of & new route betweon this city and Indianapolls, by which Maroa is brought in direct communication with Peorin, 'The visitors appeared on *Chango iu n body, sad wero formally wolcomed by Mr. Tliot Callendor, Yico-President of tho Loard, Enoch Emery, of tho Zransoript, mado n shork nddreas, con[;rntumhn;: Maros and Poorla on the groat advantagow that would uccriio to Loth places by this counoction. M. Jobm i1, Croelor responded on behulf of tho gucsty, thanking the citizons of Peorin for thelr hnsyvltnlni' and good will, and assuelug thom that 1t was Iully folt and appreclatod, Peorin expectod Inrgo ndditions to ber grain and moteonuilo iuterests by this now railroad commumention, e INDIANAPOLIS CITY FINANCES, Special Dispatels to The Chicaco Tyibune, Ixpraxavols, Ind, Doc. 7.—~Tho Finnuco Uommitioo of tho Uity Counell pubmitted astate- 1nent lust night showing the total fundod dobg of tho city to bo 1,604,600, and tho anuual in- torest nccount to be 85,028,650, Iwo hmndrod thonennd dollarsof city paymonts ave duo April1, and o tike amount in Soptembor and Novomber of noxt year, Who_ totul tnxablo proporty of tho city mgrogates 574,020,690, on Incrosso on Jast year ot §6,600,000. ‘I ok o bo colleoted only amounts to $469,847.95, aud it will bo neccssnry to botrow mora monoy ind fesuo woro. warsanty £o meat current oxponecy. his 18 nnothor ploco of Demovnintio domigogory of low tuxes, STATE NORMAL UMIVERSITY, Special Dispatel to The Ohiewao Tribune, Broomiuroey, I, Dee. T.—DPresidont Ed- wards, of the Htate Novmal Unlverslty, {s busy ot worl on his snnual statomont of the condition of that institution, nud will produce s document far moro-comprabunnive ond claborato than ny provious roport from tho Normul, I it ho will anuwer mauy of the objostions horotoforo urgod by legisintors and othors, nud will produco tho fullest stalistlcal compendie to show tho work done and buing dono. —_— GHI0 LEGISLATY! Covuxnus, 0., Doo, 7.—In {ho Bonate a bill wae introducod for tho appointmoent of throo Com. misylonors to rovive and codify the Ohlo lnwa j to compol .forolgn Ingurance companies to do- oult $100,0100 ju bonds hoforo commonclug usiness in Ohfo, Iniho Brrmto n bill was futroduced '-0‘ admit to tho privile wos of the Soldiors’ Orphinns' Lomo only Lhious ahildran burn sinco tha closo of the raboliion, Sl gt Rl HOWLS I¥ THE HIPPODROME. ‘Terrific Odmbat fFetweon n Male and o iPemate khinoceros. L'rows the New York Sun, bee, b Among tho- aulwals in tho Hippodromo nro o malo and fenele rhinoceros, Tho fomalo iy nbout tivo-fhi s tho izo of tho male, nud was nt in tho Hipypodromo about o month ngo, whon Mr, Barnum's big show roturned from the South. Ihomalo, n mumster of strongth and ugilness, in Itopt in & pen, surrounded by Iron boars, in the onnk ond of the monngorio, nud noxtio the four olophants, ‘Il o fomalo wan contlned until_yea- tordny fn the ci:go in which gho lins travolod” for o pumbor of yours. About o woti't ngo Mr, Hurd inatiicted tho cnrlwnmu to nulavge tho pen of tho malo ani- mal to doubto i ts ariginnl #izo, 6o that the fomale might bo admitted.” Yosterday morning av 9 o'vlook tho woislt of transforing the animals was bogun, 'Who elophants were driven nto oao of tho largo drees lug-rooms, and {hou tho muale shinocoros was drivon info tho elephaut pon. Tho.cagta contabafng tho fomnlo way drawn up, and who wag 83faly Innded in the Inrgo pa Thon Lho malo was driven back to his old Loy o waddlod in, possed the door, nud thon pud- douly stopped, Mo hiad just caught alght of the fomalo 0o shio cedinly oyed him trom the other Bidlo of tho pon. ‘tlo monstor pauaed only n momont. Then with n roar of rego ho strited for the intrudor, Bho was in no mood to play the coward, Bho firmly braced b orself againse the solid planks of the pon, sud mwaited tho collision, The bard, hiorny.nosos of the two snimals claghed, Tho malo drow bacit -n[;nh\ and eyed hig unwelcomo vigitor, Thon, his mouth fonmiug, with s loud roar, hoe rushed forward sgoin. 1lo struck the fowala with nis ‘trorn on tuo loft sido, culting n deop gaeh, lifteil hor aboul six feet from tho nl:uuud, ond peatly threw ber ovor tho wall of the pen. The fight was gotting desperato, and Mr, Oos- tallo and hte pldei hostened to roseua the fomala, Pitchtorks, wogom-bare, and every weapon that was attainable v usod npoun the infurinced monster. Ho w3 held at bay for b time, and Inrgo planka were: shoved through tho bars to form u fonco hotyscen tho beasty, 5 I'ho mato mado ono furious dach, carrled tho barrieado away In_an justant, and azain tho poor fomnls wos reiesd upon Lie hony nose aud thrown Into the mix, 'The ballowlugs of the com- ‘batants were echocd by tho roar of tho lions and tho fenrful Juugh of iho hyoune. Tho wild veaats sconted blocd, and ovary cage in the great monagoric wae a 13006 of wild oxeitement. Tho liong and tho tigory), tho leopards and the bonra, jumped, and howleidl, and ronred, nnd aboye all aroso tho diemal wail of tho frightened olo- phants, For avar an hour ;tho combat Insted, and tho malo rhinocoros, boin g tho larger of tho two,was rapidly using up tho woaker fomale. At ono tima tho two hugo badlos camo together with o crash against the iron bara of iho pon, bending thom lifin £0 many winag, and tho heavy planking of tho framowork craclied nnd broke Iiko recds. The boasts wero {vothing ot the mouth. and tho cow wan Lieeding, At length, just ou thomal wag propariug for nuother sttnok, ono of the emplojes thrust n pltchfork into his mouth, the « aly vulucrable point that conld bo recchied frors tho outsido, and, with roar of minglod prin tnd rago, the bruto drow back, and for & fow monaenta stood in his corner, oyelng lis antagonist. Advantege was takon of this lull in tho tight, entl the two woro separnted by a fonco of planks nud wagon-bars, which wore thrugt across tho pun from tho vuleido, nnd soeuroly loshed to tho bare. Over this waa tohed o piees of eanvag, snd tho beasts wero s shnt from oach othor's view. It roquired two hours mare of coexing to gob tho cow back to hov old eago. Notwithstanding tha thickners of ler Inde, whick is liko iron, tho Torn of hor antagonist ad gowd her frightful- Iy, On tho loft side ware two deep gashos, from which tho blood was flowing fzooly, Tho malo was uninjured, hoving ovly a slight wonnd baclk of tho loft car. Ho ranag nimbly as a thinoe- oros can riun around hia pon, and scomed to glory in lis victory, As soon a4 tho cow was romovod lio beeamne a8 gontlo to his keope,s o8 ever, | Ono of the most touching incidonts of this ro- markablo battlo was furnished by tha large ele- phant, *DBetsy.” A large dog i alwayain tho corner of tho clophant'n pen, nowr Dobsy. 'This is *Curlo,” o prime frvorile of sverybody con- nactod with tho llippodromo. Catlo and Bolsy ere much nttached, and when Botsy wag taken to tho dressing-rcom Carlo followed. Tho door wa# left open, aud Cerlo, heating tibo noige, ran to tho door, poeped out, aud then wtopped our, Botsy followed him to tho door, strotehod out hor trunk, seized bim, nnd drew Lim in out of the roach of danger, This was dona four timos, and then Carlo yiclded to the force of circum- sinneos, and Jay down beside his preyoctor, Pheuneh badly burt, it is thougZht that the feto 1hinoceros will livo. ——— BUBIHESS FALURES. Speeial Dispatch to Tie Cl CosxeusvitLg, Ind., Dee. & Eon, extenvive millers_ and made &n assigamont to-day. Senrsorieep, Mass, Dec. 7.—Josish Cum- mings, trunk manufacturor, hag feiled, with lia- bilitica estimated a¢ ©120,000 asecia - unknown, it s bl i OCEAH STEAMSHIP NEWS. Astweny, Deo. 7.—Tho Red Star steamor Bwitzorlund eirived horo yestorday nuen. Nuw Yons, Dee, 7.—Arnved, stoumer Clty of Brooalyw, from Liverpool. Dee, 7.—Steammshipn Arragon, from Now York, and Oaspian, frum Tortlead, have ar- vived out. holesalo grocers, ¢ indopor; €477 2naed S QrIansd? i the Lronton (¥ ) Tho voputt thas tho Vhiladclpiin Presta had beon gold out to Col. Muxunder MoUlare, and wat, uuder his manegemont, to join the 12.akn of the New York Lribune slyls of *iudopiudont nowspapors,” turns out to bo untrue. Lho Lrcss yestorduy morving positively dentod L thudi there s any truth iu theso runors, Wa aro very glad of it, 11 thera is one rambn which rigasiu eublime pro-cmiincroo nbcvo all other humbugs of tho present time it i3 1110 so- ealled *indopendent press,” Theso indoperident papeis aro simply sorchorda, ‘Cuelr ot ection from tho support of the party whoso I)rhl eiples thoy had protended to evpouso fnvaviably Lins its incoption 1 disappointod aime of thcik owr. Wo are no samirers of tho sluvieli aud’ sub- erviens atylo of party “organ,” which 1zever o4 to utter n thouabt or opinion of ita o'wn at anco with tha polioy or conducs of tho Darby manazement, On tha contrary, wo belioyo ™ that tho wost useful, ivtluontial, and valuablo rawey ]]uuluuhs aro thoso whicn most fraukly and - o2ty cuiticiso ita faults and ehorteominas, 'Pity; Onsoaao Lunuxe §s our’ model of & 1Ro- rnbllcnn paper. 1t supports tho pariy ont of ove for ita prneiplos, aid out of w convies on that, hewover it muy Lo with tho fow p 8 who happ.t for tho timoe being to conirol o parey machinary, tho parly ag n great wholo is wspred” by patriotie, upright, and righteons priuciples. 16 bolioves that n3 muech public virtue residoa in tho rank and fllo of ine puty aa whon animated by tho publima hmpalses of Eis cnrlior days, It bollevos theb tlios pavty &8 o worp trustwortly gasrdinn of the iavaluatde acliovomonts of tho Wur than tho varty whini existod ugon its autagonism to thoso achiove- ments, It asks no favors of tho parly savo tht it will bo truo to itsolf, aud thus it jusists uvon. ovon though it moy draw upon itself the frownst of tho wire-pullers and cabals, busily onguged. in_constructing their own oyries oub of the ruins of tho paity, Tho Ihiledelphin 2ress han been conduociod on muoh the sama plan, sud 1he Mow Vork Zimes is wnother exnmplo’ of gl principled. indopondent. Ropublicon jomnatism.. II the counsols and admomtions of thoso wise and {aitnful fricuds shall bo hoeded by tho Ite- publicsn party, or rather, by tho men who for tho tuno control its destinies, tho dienster of the luto olcetion may bo ratrioved in 1876, 1f thoy shall be disrogarded, wo shall kavo to waii :}nula lator poviod to rotriove that disustrous oy ¢ Mian and Wites Tho Arizona Muner s this romanco of ronl Ufo, Bomo yenra ago, m Norway, two lovors woro united in watrimony, and ¢amo o the Unitod Stutas, whers tho better half iucontinont- 1y vkedaddled and loft the husband iuconsolnblo. Tortuno smiled on himm, however, aud n busl- noel pursuits ho wandored to Bouth Amorica, and rocontly bronght up in Han Franclsoo, tho hnplvy pousersor of 40,000, but atill wournlug the lous of hiu wifo, whon ho accidostatly met an aoguulntanco recontly from Y'reseolt, who told i s wifo wau hero, living n lowd Jito, Tho infutunted manat cneo started vor Arlzoun, reachlng Uresvott on Inststage, o songht out tho oiTing wifo, aud, with ali bis cloquenco and 480,000 to Look him, failed to induve hor to'go with him. o had loy plotograph, which ho had prenorved through sll thosoyonasin ovidenso of his lovo, but nolthcr hix_constanoy ner cash Ind uuy oot om fiin obdurute mpotss, and he loft on lnet Wednordny's bucl rid, with tho CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, BENATE WAMIINGTON, D, 0, Dec, 7,—Tho Senata was exlled to orer promyily nt"t00is Dy Vico-Prosidont Wilson, hio Jtev, Dr. Buiderland, thy OhnpTain, I i opeufug proyor, roturned thanks_{o Divine Providence for (b muiy Dlonatugs bestowed upon o nation, and raid 3 o nckunwledio. our chasticoments, ind pny dht wonny bio catreoted througlh them, Wo bescerl Theo Lo vl Thy fuvor upoi thin neopls, and help the Gove crmment b la great Jonponnibiiiy, * Hp o Oonyrons of h United Siater, May (ho tandig of (e Lord ight them through ovory diMcutly.” Vice-Iresident Wilson thon ool tho chatr, TUE HOUSE KOTIFILD, Mr, Anthons, from Ithodo Island, offerod s reolna ton Shntructing tho Becrotiry of tho Sonuto o Mform {ho Hotis of Ropresontatiso that o (uorunt of tho San. ato il nerombled, ond YheL tho Senato us roady to proceed fo businoss, Agrond to, Ne, Anthony a0 Ok SR Tz, Antliony ntno submitted an vrilor providing that 1ho Do of eoting of tho ficiato sioud bo dly st 12 ofelocic unt otherwiso ordured, ‘Aureed to, . . COMMIITEE TG WAIT UrON TIIE PRESIDRNT, 3r, Jonkifnj; onered » resolution providiug for the nppointment of wa momberu of the Sonato to jolu tho oa tho part of ilio Houso of Reproventa~ tiven to wuit npon tho Prestdent of ho Vulled Stutea and dnform iin thal & qioruin of each Tiouso of Cone frosn liuel agsomblod, oud wero ready 1o receivo wuy communication Lo may desiro_to_ ke, Agreed to, s tho Uhais nppofnted Merars, Contliug niid Thuge man Committen on the part of tho Senal Y TP DISTIIOT COVRRANMENT, Nie, Morrill (Maine), feom tio Jout Seiect Commit~ teo nppointed ot tho layt fesslon 2o frana o Govorne wnent for (ko District of Columbis, mibmittod o written repott, necompunied by sundry slntutes, It provides for pineing tho Diatrict under o Board of threo Ito- enty, 10 bo sppotnted by tho Prerddont aud confinued by 1410 ennte, mnd who shiall thoniselves appoud mib= ordinato Doarda of lonléh, Police, otc,, thio powrs nf all being minutely detlued, Tuo’ peoplo aro to elect threg nmiembers of the Boned of Sducution ; all axe pendlitros ara to o controtled by Congress, Lald on tho table, sud ordered printed, NEW eEsATOLS, Tho Chinlr ald hefora Hio Bonuto tho cortifieates of ihe clection of Georyo ¥, Edmunds, United States Honator trom Vermont, and of William W, Eaton, for Gonuelicut, for tho term commoncing March 4, 1876, DILLY INTHODUCED, Tho followlny biila wero fntroduced and ordered printed, and Jioon tha tablo il fho nppolutmont of o staniding comuitices of tho Sonatos. Jiy 3Mr, Bliormaie bill for tho reviston oftho law for the collection of customs dutios, 1t provides for & comtuleston of reven peraone, to b constiiuted a8 fole lows: Ouo momber of tho Bonata to o desiguated by tho Tresulent of the Senate; two membernolect of 1ho next Houso of Noprescitatives, to bo dosignatod by tito Spealter of tho preacut Uoude, und two officors in tho customs korvice, and two cltizens familiar with tha customs! Inw, to bo appointed by tho Trealdont, "ty Commitaion 1o to terninato on tho first Monduy in Docember, 1675, and in tho meantimo sbiall fopors to Congress, thratiglh tho Secretary of ho Treasury, o rovielon of all the customa laws, togethior with such Tactn on thoy enn slielt Dy oxambinton ang. sl pertaining to tho trade, {ndustry, commerce, and tax— ution of tiie country, With o view'to moking thanges of Tutes sud claralileaiton ond modes of collecting duties inorder to prowolo the public inturests, Tio Corna missfonors are nlsoto report on to the rolations of forlyn trado fo domestic fuduntry, ond the mutual ndjustment of tho entutoms aud exciso systems of taze ation, with o viow fo sccuring tho requielio rovenua wath {120 least fnconvanienco Lo tho dovelopriont of the resources of tho country, and alio 86 to tlie mannor in . which customs oliicers porform their dutles, Tn ordor 1o condict this inveatigalion, the Comwmisilonors are empowured {o oxanifuo tho bouks, pupors, and noe Counta of any custom oflicer, thd 1 admiaisior oatlis, Tho membors of tho Commission 010 to bo uls Towed thuir necessary travoliug expeuscs, but aro not 10 recalvo nny conspensation, M, Ingalla introdticod a Lill to provide that homee stead and pro-otoption scttlers in Kuneas shall Lo w1 lowed o year's abscnco from their lands ravaged by grerehoprers withiout losa of thele Hglts, 3r, Hiteheock fnfroduced a bill epproprinting $100, 000 for the purclisso of food to bo fsmiod t0 tho’ Starve i1ys suffercrs trom tho Tayges of grasshoppera ou the Weatern srontlors, Tho bill also dizectn tho fssuo of dtaused atmy clalitfug to reliove tho extremo wants of lhi);fi) Aél.‘fllllu(n fllu‘(r“;m 2 8 bl E v, Sarganut futraduced & bill to yrotect persons of foruign bifth gt forciblo restralut or uvonary seryitude, BILL TO ATOLIRI THE WESTERX JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF ARIEANAAS, Tho Henato took n recess, snd, on reassembling, at 1 o'elock, Mr, Wright gave noties that Wodnesday noxt bie would nsk tho Sennta to_ proceed with tho considor ation of tho bilito abolish the Western Judicial Dis trictof Atkaneas, which ho reported last soasion from tho Judiclary Quiamittce, 1EDIAN DISTURDANCES, r, Ingalla aubmilted o resolution inatructiog tho Cowmiltco on Indlan Affaira ta inquire iuto tho seount dsiurbances {n tho Indisn Torritory, sud To. DOTE 0 tlio Sente what mcastires azo nocossary for th protection of lifo, lberty, and proporty, and the precervation of law aud order i that region ; sud ‘whetbor tho Lest interests_of civilization do not dg~ nund tho fmmodizto oateblishmont of courts of the United Statew inmuid Territory, 08 provided by the {reatlcs of 1603, Laid on tho tablo untl tho appotnte ment of commiftecs, THE PREAIDENT'S MESSAGE, Thio Senato toolt unothier racoss, nud, ipon renssome Dlihg, v, Conlding, from tho Commitieo ppoluted to wait upon 4o Prcaideat, reportod thist that duty ind boen_dlicharged, nud that tho President would suon communieate with tho two Touses i writing, ALL:33 Gen, Babeoclt delivered tho messago, and it 1. it radivig of tho niessago was conciudod Do, Curyoater moved that it ho a1 on tho tablo and prinded, togethior with tio secompanying documents, Agreod to, DEPATTMENT REPORTS, Tho Chzfr Inid befora tho Benate the roports of the Soerotary of (Lo Treatury, Department of Justice, sud Comptrcllos of ko Currahey, which wero ordored laid on thotablo aud printed. Adjouracd, e ! raceut eloctious, The gullerics wero crowded, sud the corrldors wero utmos: innesable, orExNING rRA: At noon tho proceedings were formally openod with prayoe by the Chaplain, Mr. Butler, who prayed, “mong other thing, tor the purification aud facrexsd powes of 140 greas éagine, tuo press. E 1L, ‘Tho TFivet Clerk. thun celled the roll, which showed tho preecuco of 233 of tho §01 members coustituting thw House, Four iy membars—3easrs, Sehell sud Clittenden, of Nuw Yori; Carponlor, of Boutls Cavciiua; and TFiucls, of Oltfo~had tira oath administered, TI PRESIDEST NOTIY Regclutiona werd offercd by Hesuas, Gurfield and Diswen 10 Botiry tho Sennto that Lo Holka Was ju kvde tiot, and Tox tim nppolntiicnt of 1 joint contmiiteo tg L upon the Precident oud notify bimn that Congress 0 cuy comr:tuication Lt ho . Mesarn, Dawen, Hale (of Now York) il 1 ¢z appofuted such Conmitico o tho parl of tho Jivusy, 3 TIE PRESS-0AG LAV, e, Phelps nsleed . unulinous conaent fos introduo. fug, and tay famediate conrideratio Lilito ro~ poad tio Law linown u6 tho ¢ YrosesG: Georgo T\, Howr (Mwis,) veked custon to traneack Lued beforo tus Drestdents' messugo, 1, Butlor (Mst,)—Oh, yes, "o Bpeukai—Tho wwigo 10 not to transact husinesy after u commltgso 33 appofntea to vl on thu Picel qent upil Ui Irosident ban beea hewnl from, 2, Cox—Lot tho Lill Lo read, aud jorbags thoro will b5 10 vbiuetion, . Tho bill wasroad, Iturnends thosocond soction of theuet of ths 21 June, 1974, by providhng that the provistous of tio thirty=tiled voction of tiw Judlctsry nct of 178 siizll upply in 6l c2604 oxvept i Getions of 1ibel and alaudes, i tio cousiy creased by o uat of Congrrons i v Dietyiet of Cotunbfa, unlesa (g il L2 ron £ was the ptol the of balf an bour, LD MEISAGE RECEIVED, Tlio recesy was furtber extended for hotf an hour, end of thet time the Vrasidents mertage i, il Yo 40 (o Kouse byt Clerl:, Lo readiu of tho weskago Won ccticluded ub 245, It wug ordvred printed, A¥PROFIIATION NILT Mr, Qarfleld, from tho Comanltco on Approprin. tous, reported tho Leafsiative, Execnttve, aud didw ial Avpzopration b1, whieh was 1o the speciul undoy fer Tuendy of nost week, 2irHaly” (e, G tho o Comiteo, roported the Noval Appropriation billy which was muds the speciul vrder for Wednerday of Boxt w 3ar, Whoeler, from tho ramo Comeiiies, roporled tho Avmy Approprintion biil, whith was ‘made tho Epeciat ordor for Lhzuduy of next week, < My, Laughirldzo, trom (he nme Gopsittoe, roportod tho Indian Appronciztion ), whiek was tuade tho apeeial order for Friday of next woek, Tir, Starkweatber, ivom tho sumd Cammitico, ro- paried tho Fortifieation Lll, which wan made’ tha epocial order for Tucaduy, Dot, 45, ; “Ihio pmount spprovritéd by tho soveral bills is oy Tortitleatious, ... HEWAPAPER TOSTAGE, Mr. Tyner, from the wnio Gomuitice, reported a hall appropriating S0 for tho purchass of ewal for tuowio of tha Post-Olllce Depariment fn oxeentlug; iho Taw requiving (Lo Propeyiient of postuge ou Huws agierd, V3t Gox wantod to_affor an_amondaent oxcepting from tho opuration of tha law ceses whoro mla:rip- tions wera taken prior to {lie 1et of Jaunary, 1475, azd ullowlty postugo 1 thoso casey to o paid ub tho piaca of drstiintion, aor declined (o allow {ho smendment to bo omered or spokes 10 by Si¥, Coxe s il thon parzed, 3, Cox thercupon fizoduced n bill ta carry out the objact tndicated by him, Roferrad, ANI-VREA-0AG VILL, I, Pholpa gayo noties that Lo wautd, next Monday, 1 1o gat tho flaor, mova 1o Auspond tho Tulcs nnd 1asa thip hill whiol ho sought to infroducy zud yasa tu- dug, to Topeal tho 4 Presa-ug 1aws Adjourned, —————— A Zominisconen of tho Frankiug P IE Pyons the Xeww Sur: i, Tha only ouu of Col, Judd’s okl nevoclates who & living Is Mg, Ghatles Forrentor, tho pueson’ Fawporiutondout of tho Kowupapar Doparbiuont it L Post-Ofica. 1o remembora “whon tol, 1%esido, tho preat medi-contzator of forme W54, hadudo brtig: 1 hin A bout wishes of all who wero cognizant of tho cli- ownstances, Trvomt Weahinkston to Now Jorgoy wi Baulbmner, i s Forwaeded by wsewbuy of (uns tho drealkivg privilage.