Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1874, Page 2

. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune + THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1874--TWELAT PAGES," " BALTIMORE. Ohicago's New Railrond-Conneotion with the Soaboard, How the B. & 0. R« R. Compares with Other Trunk-Lines,) Baltimore’s Facifities for Exportation and Importation, Its Prospective 'I'rnde-Relations with Chicago and the West, TiavTIvOnF, Deo, & 1674, In Aprll, 1827, the Baltimoro ¢ hio Railrond Compauy was orgauized, and tho construction ot the road commonced July 4, 1828, —the first stono being fnid by the venorable Charlea Carroll of Carroliton, then over B0 yenra of ago, who de- elnrod it to bo tho most impostant nct of his lifo, surpassing ovon hts signiug of the Declnr- ation of Indepondouco, In less than two sonrg, the track wns completed to lllcott's Nills, a distnce of 13 milos, and its enrs, eimi~ lur to our lorsc-ears, wore drawn by JICITCN ‘About tiiy timo, steam mado its uppesrauce on the Livorpool & Manchestor Rallroad, and ex- cited great attention fu this country, Dut tho Linglish rond was noarly straight, whilo the Buiti- moro & Ohlo Road was very crooked, and, though steam locomotives succocded thers, it was not thought posaible to uso them lere. Mrango s it way now seem, wp’lo this timo tteam bad nover beon ueed on au American tailway, and had not even been dreamel of. PETER COOPTT, now the Now York octogenatian millionaire, wos the first to demonstrato that a steani-locomo- tive was pructicablo on w crooked track. He sonstructod a railway-locomotiva weighing less tban o ton, and, on the 28tn day of August, 1830, Tan it himself ovor tho Baltlmore & Olio Thailrond, from Baltimova to Llticott's Mills and back again, drawiog after him tho Directors of tho road, in an open car on four whouls, looking much liko & common -farm-wagon, &t tho tre- mendous epectd of 16 miles an hour. When, Bt ono point, bo went sufely round n curve at tho fearful rate of 18 miles =n lour, the sstonishmout and enthusiasm of the Dirae~ tors know no bounds, This wastho frst rail- wway-locomotivo ever countrueted in Ameoriea, snd this wag the first transporintion of porgons by sleam that evor took placo this side of tho At Jantio. Petor Caoper still lives, a genial, honor- od old man; but, in the last forty-four yonrs, tho chauges In him havo boou slight comparod to thoso that baye oceurrodInrailway-locomotion and appliaueed, If tho Baltimors & Ohio Railrond has been slow in reaching Chicugo, tho greal granury of tlie Northwest, IT 1AM AT LEAST NEEN UL It resches us not only uncontaminstoed by the corzuption that, in otlier railroud corporations, bronks out in’ Credit Mobilier and dropsical stock, but with & long-headed atray qf facilities Tor at unco bandling the produce thus reached, thet wmuet ustonish Tom Scott, Jay Gould, aud Cornclius Vanderbilt, almost oy much an tho Lonesty and ceanomy of ity management. No wander that the latter comes here porsonally 1o conx tho Boltimore giaut to lay ita hoad on tho woft lap of combined freight-rates proparod at thio Saratogs Convention, as & prelude to shorn locks =nd_the ery, *Thoe Philistines boupon thee!” 1t is to bo hopod that tho wmodern Samson will not thus park with bis sirongth and his eyceight. Thgro are threo reepecty in which tho Bal more & Olio surpasses all competing rallroady in its facilities for tranupusting the products of ortluvest to tife-wate rot—1ts routo i8 TI113 SHORTEST, Tho diatances from Chirago to Baltimoro and Now York aro a8 follows : To Daltimore vis Baltimors & Ohlo Hailroad. Ta Now York via New York Central Bailromd. T Now York via Erlo Rullroad Tu New York via Pennteylvania 890 Less 1o Baitimoro than tho average istanes to New York... . ‘Second—As compured with the averaga of the abovo railtoads, 1t Lus ouly ono-iifth of the stock upon which to pay dividends; and it cun, therefors, make money on froight- ratés too low to be rcmunerative to it compotitors, By raro good foriune, tho Dal- timore & Olio Iiailroad Compuny Las boen, from its_incoption, munoged by mon of such good judgmont, tinaneiul sngacity, and sterling lonesty, that it has beon built at tho Jowest pos- sible prico for cash, and its stock has never boen watered. Whether it ba tho high tono of Laiti- more publio soutiment (which cortainly is not fuvorable to intlations, or humbug spoculntions of ruy kind), or to the inuate, old-fushioned con- gorvatism of the Company's managing officials, tho fact romains that they vover sgemed to ba fofected by thoso modern modes of raflrond- mavagemont whioh result in nenriy all tho abuece of which tho public complnin, A8 a consequence, tho Baltimore & Ohio Ruilrond Company presents tho anomalyof haviug o sur- plus fund vearly twico a8 largo ns its'antiro cap- itul stock. While its compatitora have declared stacl-dividonds, and Indulged 1n other eccentrio oxaggoratious, Gl thoir Toads apparently cost from $70,000 to $80,000 n milo, the Chicago Bx- tension of tho Baltimors & Ohio Railroad Las Just buon built for loss than $23,000 & milo. Tho Tollgwiug tablo of figures, compilod from tho xoports of 1873, exprossod in o nutshell tho dif- foronce tn results botwoen tho TWO BTYLES OF BAILROAD MANAGESENT : OAYITAL sTOCK, 89,428,300 86,516,010 68,144 475 16,711,300 FEarnings, * Fxi N. ¥, Con'l.,$20,120,851,17 $17,641, 07, ¥rie. 20,012,006.51 34,04 240,65 4,100,104 © 16,093,103.40 10,141,022, Out of these net earnlugs must tirst bo deduct ‘rental of leuked lines, ay follows: Mukiog tho follow debtedness for 157 As o sequol to theso figures, it ¥ only neces- oty to montion that the Bultimors & Ohio Rail rond, during 1873, declared two divideuds, of b por cont onoh, and addod to ity surplus fund £3,880,661.82, Tho I'onnsylvaniz Ruroad de- clared tho same rate of dividond, but was co; {Jallad Lo pay its Octobor installment in scrip s ho Now York Contral puid two dividenda, ord por cent aach ; and tho Urie a dividond of 1 por cont for Lho ‘rut balf of tho year. [t will bo acan, thaerefore, that the Baltimoro & Ohio enters thq 18t of contostants for Western Lusiness in tho best possible tighting condition, whilo jts cow- petitors ure tlatulent, dropsical, aud groguy. Phird—1'ho Baltimore & Olie Juilrord sur- ‘passos oll others in - TEUMINAL FACILITIES, Its .elatlons command tho whule longth of the city, and reach every businose-quartor, but are ospeclully suptrior in theiv advantages for mae rine councotions. Pasmng by Mount Clare, Camden, Centrul, Chissw's, und Fell stroot nine tions, sitnated nbout & raila spart, wo conis to Liocust Polut, where tho Company own 80 ncros, nupon which are eirendy built two grain-elovators, ~—tho larger onc Loldinz ovor 1,500,000 busbols, and with faclitics for unlonding & tra of sistoen card, oot bolding 300 bushes, in three winufes ; o largo number of docks, vith o dopth of not losn thun 24 foeot of water; snd trackngo snd sarshonsey euough Lo meut the prosont demnud, Jeuving room for ihmost indefinite expausion m all thess porticulars, An tho grain-elovatora Davo water an thren sides, thoy oat Jowd oight or atitia vewsols ab tho samo moment. In rbort, tho Balthnoro & Ohio Ballroad hat the facilitios for handlivg 1,000 car-loads of grain und 1,000 enr- nadd of coal evory twonty-four hours; nnd “thesa cau ho inerorsed {n tho future o any ru- quirad oxtont. STEAMBHTIY, When I vikited Locust Poiut, I found the Ohio, eua of the North Cermsn Lloyda' ateamors which rin haotwoon Daltimoro and Bromon, at the duck, taking on loat-tabacea in hugo boxos a8 n part of its cargo. The Ohio is a stanch fron stenmor of 2,600 tons buzdan, whilo eomwa of tho nowor ones of this iiuo have a capnolty of 8,500 tonw, 1y tho kindnesn of tho oilicers, { Loth Junched and diued abaard the Oldo, and new no reanon why as #afe anid comfortablo o trip acroos iho Allnutio way not be favuishod by this Iino a8 by auy other, This _line farnieh- ra connoetions with Iiromon, Loudon, liull, Tioith, ITamburg, Antwerp, Rottordam, aud Aw- pordam. he Allan lina conuceta Baltimoro with Fiverpool, London, Hamburg, Ankwerp, Amstor- daw, liotterdam, Huyro, and ordeaux. 'Lho nlthnoro conuections with South Amerien ato fmportant, furnishing an outlut for ‘Weostern flour, monts, cto,,—tho retirn cargoos bolug col- foo, nugar, rosowood, mahagnny, oto. _ Such aro tho tacilitios for shippivg grain nforded by tha Daltimoro & Ohlo Tailroad that tho cost of mtorago and transhipmont I 15 conts & bushol, a8 ngainst from 7 to 10 conts 2 bushiel at Now Yorl, whoro lightorago adds largely to tha other oxponges of transhipmout. COAL AND GRAIN. Ono ot the important featuros of Baltimore in its ohoap conl. Ilure conl doliverod on ship- board costs_but $4.75,~n saviug of 82,50 a ton ovor Now York, Thin la a solid Inducoment, othor things Lelug oqual, for ocean-utonmors to load ab Baithnoro, since, upon tho 00 tons ro- quirod by ono of thess vemvols for a einglo voy- ago, $2,000 trip in saved in this item alouo. oo grafu-oxport trade of Baltimoro is still in its infancy; bub, as )b has risen from 4,004,868 bushels in 1871 to 7,251,717 bushels. in 18713, # do ovidently o honlthy Infant, whose rapid growth very muoh worries Now York, It {8 nirondy the most ime portant point for tho oxport of firnln to bo found on the Atlantic coust, with tho excuption of New Yors. COFERE AND AUGAR, 1ut, oo cars and vessola must bave roturn froights to mako the hustness Erollmhlo, it re- maius to tnquivo what aro tho chauces for Waostward-bound freights, from and through Taltlmore, to ocenpy tho cars aud vessols srhuch ure_ncoded to carry Jnstward tho {fmmonso products of tho West. Bo far uy iho Hontl American trado_is concorned, this is alresdy provided for in tho. maunor bofors men- tioned. 1alt of all tha coffoo-imports to {ho United Statos aro from Brazil (Ilo coileo), and ong-half of oll this comes to Balthnore,— amounting in 1879 to 384,818 h‘n{.;u, of 160 pounds wach,—tnaking thia clty & formidablo rival of New York, As asugar marlket, rival of New York.—the imports of loet year amownting to 128,662 hogshends, 67,700 hoxos, 23,27 bage. ‘I'bo sugar-refinerics of Dajtimorg aro vory lurgo, turniug out dally 2,400 barrels of yefined sugnt. But, 1f thers aro reasons whyjthe West shall moro largely than horatofore export its products through~ Bultimoro, the roatons wre equally m?uu why this section of coundry should, go far as it . IMPORTS EUROPEAN MERCIANDISE FOR ITSELY, do €0 through tho samo chaunels, From all tho nbove-mentioned Xuropean cities with which the steamers eoming to Ualtlmore connect, goods muy bo eont in band directiy through Baltimoro to thoir destination, witkiout dotention, and withiout any chnrges whatover for storage, bro- korage, whintfago, or anything clso, As the al~ timore & Olio Raflrozd is bonded to Chicago, #3t, Louis, Louieville, Cincinati, and Clovelzud, tho gonds aro transforred in Tallimoro diractly ‘fromvidowator to the ears,—thus avoiding tho do- Inys aind oxtortions which bavo made New York 50 inglorionsly famous. Thera i tho snmo roa- son_for eungrants going Weat tocomo by way of Baltimoro, einco they aro at onco transferrod from tho vessel upon which thoy arrive to tho train of cnrs upou tho dock alougside, without Iandsharks hoving the slightost chauco to vietim. izo them, All Lhese causes are likely to ntirach other steamship lines to Baltimore, till, ns at Nayw Yorl, one or rmoro Europesn teamors ar- rivo aud dopart dally. Tovw far the merchants of Daltimore will ald by their capitahand ontorprise in tho work of trausformivg thewr city from a provineinl ton metropolitan port, worthy of its natural ad- vuntuges, remains to Lo scen, ' That somo of fhem Wil risa to tho dignity of tho occasion, 1 am confident ; and, if othors do not, their places will be accupied by thoso who will, ' No wonder, thep, in view of sl thig, that NEW YOI 16 AGITATED § that its lesding Journaly aro soundiug the noto of slarm, and oxhorting ha citizens to bestir themsolves lest tho shelinah of trado depart from it, ‘That tho oponiug of the Baltimore & Obio Raitrond it on ovont of tho. grentest importance to tho great Northiwest, s well s to Baltimore hergslf, caunot be doubled. . D, VIRGINIA BONDS. o the Flitor of The Clifearo Tribunas #in: Xobuorvo that ono 8. assett French, “of Virginia," takes purt of o column of your fasno of Doc, & Lo unewer tho following para- graph from onc of my lottors ¢ # In Old Virgiuta the Stato docs not poy fnterest on s debt, Ikuow that,as o bondholdes, Why uot? Tceatue o people il ot pay thult tascu, Theyieun pay them weil enough ; and, if tho Slato would collect thotoxes and pay off tho bondholdaers, eredlt st expand in Virglnfa, Dutths peopla soluco thenacives with the roflection that theylost thelr wlavew, are poor, and pot ablo to pay tho Commonwealth, ience nege ligence makca panie worso.” ‘atr, Townsend [commonth tho writer) speaks so can- fdenily, o srom &nowlsdor, that his areertions, un- correctcd, might o recelved Ly your roaders as estab fished facts, 116 holds up Virghiia as o dishonent, not an mpoerished debtor, 1 thut Virginka * does nat pay intoress on ber dobt, ¥ sudadds, %L kuow that, a8 & boudholder." 1t tho oponing of tho Chicago branch of tho Baltimoro & Ohio Railroad will havo its influcneo 10 toach cortain Baltimoreans (**of Virginia *) to rend print, it will etop & good denl of foolish re- plying liko thio abovo.’ e puragraple i fromt a convorsation with the Hon. Charles James Faulkuor, und quoted ng euch, and 60 Mr. Fronch unconaciously quotes it. Foulkner, a bondholder in Virgivia, is o citizon of tho State of Weat Virginia, and so apeaks of “old Vivginia bonds.” Half a column of sontiment is therofore wested by Mr. Freuch, who commits the further offenso agniust gnod mannors of speaking- of *Mr, Townsend ” iustord of your correspondond, whom Le has no reason 10 know, and who i ey nndersigned, Ido uot own Virginis bonds, and, if I did, would not havoe tho cancoit to publisk it. 1 may edd that the now Jmportanco of Daltimore, by ity railway-oxtonsion to Chicago, will probably stim- ulstoa good many Laltimoreans, of tho ovor- gensitivo and gusbing sort, to flood themselves, o to spenk, upon thu apprehension of the into- vior omipiro, Thia I8 Lo bo oxpected, A boy with new boots, & men witk unospocted honds, aud a Margland town with o railway o Chicago, will Lavo_their temporary efforyescouce. AATIH, Bellimoro is awso a St THE FRICK TRAIN-BOAT FOR CANALS. YoTTAVILLE, Pa,, Dec, T, 1674, 7o the Bditor of Lhe Chicago Tribunc : Smn: [haveroud with much intorest your arttele on **'The Transporintion Question,” copled into tho Philadelphia Evening Bulletin of yesterday. Much is involved in this quostion; and tho minds of tho produuing cluzses of all purta of tho country, end moro espacially tho peoplo of the Groeat Wont, Jiviags ramoto from the sca- Loard, aro turnod in that direction, IMuch has been oxpocted of tho great wator-outlet of the Wot, viz,: tho Lekey and the Erio Oanal; but thus far littlo hat boon accawmplishiod, It istrue, A you any, & slight improveraoul hus boon mede In the Erio Canal in the way of the improved powar for propulsion in the **Baxtor” hoal but this uffects alono the idoa of moro rapid transportation, und the great want of tho pro- Queing olassos of tho West, viz: cheup transportation, remaing untouched. There Iy not ono single peuny of a reduction in the freight-charges for a bushol of wheat from Buf- falo to New York City, Of what use, then, to tho producing clagncs In tho “Duxter™ boat, othior than slightly more rapid transit ? Now, eontrust this with (he Lrick train-boat, adopted by the Yeunsylvania Cusnal Company which the ofiiciuls ot ihe 1ilinofs & Dichigan “unnl Company hnyo busn Inquiring about), end usetl pimost axelusively by that Couipany, which Tins shown o roduction Tn the cuat of tratsporin. tion of fully one-hiall. Aud how ean {4 ho others wike whon nenrly thu same powoer for propulsion tu requirad for tho truiu-boat, with doulle the tonnigge, and tho eamo number of bundiy 13 s requirod for the sluglo bowt? ~ Naw, suppade wo construet & nayrow-gungo rafl-teack on tho tow- path, as we laug ga contomplated, mud increaso 1 Hpeod Lo, wu, di¢ lad miles por hour, and then comparo the cuul of Lrunsportation by Lhin modo with that of Mr. Daxtor, aud sco how fav- arebly it shows up for the tmin-bont and loco- motive-towing, — Tho roduction of this 50 per cent, bear in mind, lws hoon wmalnly brought about by tho nse of this train-hoat with mulo and horso power, You can fignee for yourself what the suviug would ho by tho uso of” tho locomutive an tho tow-path, 'fho Pounnylvania m woll as tha Nu-:«}ur‘ annn Canal Company huve adjusted ] of ti ki to wuit thig train-boat, aud Lave heon nmply ro- wardod, Just this very thing Is now bolng dia- cuspod by tho Canal Commissionors of tho Hiate of Now York; and it can bo done oastly and with 1ittlo oxpouso by your Ilinols Csusl, by simply continuiug tho ‘Jock-walls down the lovel, and ndding one additional ot of vido for tho lockngo of a slnglo hoat, when it anight not bo necossary to o both chambors, I'min glad to notice your reforonoo to tho Joco- motive plan of towing of Willinm Frick, of Nor- Tolk, Va, aud hopo to Aeo you disciss tho entire plan of trein-boat towing, boing assured you will 1ind 1t omnnontly tinfactory, snd to ba the groat means of chonponing transportation, as las the Donnsylvanins ang tho Susquohauna Caual Com- panfos, aud the Rending Xailrond & Navigation Company. TRespeotfully yowrs, J. G, Fnicg, —_— e CHRISTMAS HINTS FOR GIRLS. As soon as tho Thanksgiviug festival is over, tho all-important question iy, *Wnat shall I mako for Chrlatmas? " It in somotimes hordor to anawor than, ** What shell I writo my noxt compusition about?" That which we do onrsolves sesma often more of o love-token than anything we can buy; tho heart, somo way, goes with the work of the hands, Bonlden, wo have not, all of us, a great deal of mouey to spend. Butwo want to givoe somethiug to cach membor of tho fomily, and wo aro anxlous to havo our prosonts protty and accoptable, What ehall they bo? o bogin with & very little thing: Pen-wipers aro always sujtablo for fathor and brothors, A vory cowleal old lady ‘ean bo mado by taking & hiciory-nut for tho head, and a spool for tho body; tho sharp, penked end of tlie nut makes an oxcallont noso, and tho oyes nnd mouth can be mado -with ink. Sho should have a mualin aps wud & brondeloth akict, on which to wipe tho pos, U&hrul!ufi eu-wipete—valvotiupon tho ontside aud cloth within—are moro dificnlt to make. Shaving-papors of _tissue, cut in the form of a leat, witl'an embroidered cover, aro simplo aud prefty, ‘Tastoful paper-receivors can bo made from tho - pasteboard boxes in which flne Landkor- chiots como. Uhoy shontd bo Iined with bright cambrie or silk, and furnished with a lacing at tho sidoy, anud p cord and tassol, od-tickinfi'-—!hu whito stripes flannel- Commaon b stitohod with gay zephyrs—dacs woll for slipper- onges, 1t aluo makes pretty covera for tho cush- ons of stools nnd chairy, thiat aro worn. Silver eard-hoord can ho fashioned into num- borless daiuty littlo articles for the druaalui;- ! tublo; collar-hoxen and glove-boxes, linod wil nillr, and (Inished with a quilling of satin ribbon Dbairpit-casen, with ends of tufted worstod ; ol enatfos, and cuoning littlo boxes that shall swing from the gas-iixturos, to eatch the burnt wmatches, A caso for toilot-nrticles is quite a necossity Lo o porson who travels, A vory protty ono ean be made of Russin crash. ‘The material should bo donbled, and the pookets lottored, in worsted, +Sonp,” * Drush,” ete; then bound all aronud with raid, and initislod npon {he outside, Tuiy noat, compact, and casily washed. Thero is on ondiess variety of mnts, tidies, pinecusbions, scrap-bags, Durasu-covors, —tha can bo knitted, erochieted, or embroidorad,—all of thom pratty and conyeniont. *Io most uniquo ecrap-holdor that I aver sow was originnlly a mufi-box. It had boon covored with eanvay, wronght in some gay-colored Per- sian pattern, and Tined with quilted wills, T'wo rings sorved na hondlos ; and it stood upon tho floor, o nseful addition to the furndure of tho sowing-room, Coruottish swooping-capa, of cambrio, blue or pinle; domentio aprons, With capacious pockots ¢ or even dish-mops and holders, will be necelx\u- blo to those who pride thomselves upon their Tiousckeoping. Tho little folks must not be forgotten. Wo can mako bright balis for the baby, crochoted of soft worsted; strong reins for tho 3-year-old, Kuit, of xed, white, and blug yarn, nad studded witli toy sloigl-bells ; miltens, scarfa, aud wrist- lots, for thoso who love to frolic with Jack Frost 1iil tho old feitow nips their fingers and eare, Novw is the timo to uso thoe trensures of mosses, sholls, and brightly-tinted loaves thatware gath- ored in long summer rambles, They ean bo gummed upon cord-board in the form of wreathy and mwonograms, or fastoned to oddly-guarled sticks oud curionsly-twisted rools,—forming graceful, rastic tlower-atands. If we were in the vegion of “sprttor-work” Inst year, wo shnll ba protty sure to have nstoro of presvcd forus and dolicato grosues. A littlo taste in their grouping will ensble one to muke tidies, lamp-siiades, aid fire-scrcous, to auit tho most fastidions, Hollday-gifts, having o traco orahadow ofsum- mer lingering about them, ura doubly welenme in this Northorn Intitude. They, with et Chriat- muas trees and Lolly, are tokens to romind ua of tho Jupe life wrapped in enow and slumbering Loneath our feet. Quixort: QUICKEIQUT. A DOUBTING THORAS, ' the Xditor of Tl Chicago Tribune : Sir: Will you allow mo to uge your valuable &pnco for refuting a few statemonts contained in the lotter which was addressed from Diaman- ing, in Brazil, vy Mr, Richard. Scudder, to the Albany Journal, and repriuted In your columuy ot tho 9th inst., respecting tho wealth of o cor- tain Mr. Do Souza Cabral, residing iu Brazil ? 3Ir. Seudder reports this Mr. Do Souza Cabs ral (ki Christian namo is not divulged through- out the longthy opistlo) worth §50,000,000,000, or twonty-five times tho amount of tho whole dobt of tho United States! Itis proposterous that thers should bo a mau in oxlstouce, Dossoay- od of this prodigious woalth, who should be 2l- most unkuown beyond the limits of hiu coun- try. Tho probability ls, that Mr, Scudder ns confounded Drazillan milrois with American dallars, for which tho siguaés) aro alike, Iix- presged in n%um for Urszilian cursency 18,50,000:0003000), this terrilic sam would windle down to. the yet respuctable figure of £250,000,000 of our woney. A4 rogards the o reilways, whick this wonderful man is 8aid to Lo posscssed of, T beg io stnto that there. is only one built, through privato enterprise of Taron Maua, with Brazilisn capital. All other railwayo aro Stato proporty. or owned by Eu- ropean corporations of cepitalists, with rogiater- od offices in London or Paris. Krom the List of shareboldors in these Brazilian ruilivay compa- nivs, which avo in mott casos published overy half-yoar, it wonld uppoar that the interest of the wholo Do Souza Cabral family in thoss rail. wavs is far from boing extracrdinary, comyared with tho cuormous wealth they are eredited. with, hon, agein, tho dinmond-mines of Siberia, which aroalinded 1o, cnn only axfst in tho imaginntion of Mr. Do Souza Cabral or his ad- minng interviewer, All such mines (there aro only thrco) are worked for tho bouolit of the Ituesian Governmant by conviets, snd no privato map, however eutorprisivg ho may be, hos ae- coss to them, Furtbermore, asregarda tho dinmond-mines 1n Honth Atricn, the Governmout of the Oape Colony bua wolo coutrol of them, aud loasus #mall clnims to working miners, M. Do Bonza Cabral bas not figured, up to the 80Uh Tune Inst, a8 u posgessor of an ludepundont dinmond-piing in that part of the world. ¢ Apologizing for heving treupassod npon your valuable spaco to this extont, I am, sir, yours obediond), L L DERT, 113 East’ TwerLrei STrieT, CmioAao, Dee. 10, 1874, et e S ey M'KENDREE COLLEGE. Jaomioxviray, I, Dee, 8, 16874, o the Editor of The Chicayo Tribunes Brn s Iecout occurreucon nt the Northwostern University lead e to ssy that thero Is one col- loge in Illinois, under the suspives of the Mothodint Episcopal Qhurch, whore the young ladies biavo equal advantages sud priviloges with tho young men ; whoro thore 8 no “sex” in educatlon, in the sonyo that Dr. Fowlor and hls advidors seem to think thoro is, What col- Iage I8 Delendroo,—an houorad and hou- orable fustitution of Ilearniug,~one that luy dono much for ecdueation in the Wout, aud promises tn do more. Uor eurrlenlum ty advancsd aud thorough, ns good ng uny of our colloges; and her toschers are ag thorongh as any, Tha Almunl of the College have Just insnguratod o plan whoreby Molen- dreo will soon bo liverally eudowed, ~ Shoe now 1o 200 ptudonts. Among hor Alumnd aro Gon. Moore, of Bpringsiold; Geu. Jobu L Kl ¢ Cavlinvilo; tha Ifon, W. A. J, Sparkn, By 0f Carlyle; the Ifon. Willlsm Hartwold, 3L, Gy of Choator | Judgo Hirsan, of Balow ; Gove Johwson, of Missouri: Vresidont Andrus, of Tudiona ' Aubury Univorsity; L'rof. Kaep, of the wsatavi Prof. Allyn, of ° the Nourth- Wostorn; mnd n hout Of other Vrofess- ors wnd tenchors, legiulatora, ministers, nud Iaymou,—mion who have mudo, and aro mak- i tioir Impress_upon suel Dr, Robork Alou, thy former President, wes ealled by the Btute to the Progidency of tho Normal Behool ut Carbomdilo 3 und the prosent President, Jola Y, Tocko, I, D., 18 u fine acholur and tonahier, uud i dopnigg o goodworls for tha Collego, _Oho of the forwor oditors of Lur TRivoNE, John L. luther. atcs, 80 A6 L0 pro- | Borl) rn. gradunted from MoKendroo in _tho class of 1844, "McKendroa i In the town of Lobnnon, 20 ralles enat of 8t Louls. The bullding aud grounds avo pleasant and boautiful, Janes M. Nomtit, o S THE REV. OLYMPIA BROWN-WILLIS, Dnarront, Conn,, Deo, 1, 1876, To the Editor of The Chicago Tridttn Bt The ilom which 1ately appeared in your papor, relative to my ehutreh, i8 Ao ontirely incor- reot that I writo to ask you to publish tho fol- lowing ntatomont mado by tho Trustoos of my church, X will only add to their statoment, that tho “chargos” roforred to nre not charges of nlander, as alloged, but cortain absurd nccusn- tions brought by peraons now outsido of my so- cloly, in roferonce to tardiness at a clinrch-no- cisblo in 1872, “oclaiming tho right to preach what I thought proper,” and othor niattors, all of which were trifling and ingiguiflcant, i LyMpIA BRowN, Bin: There I8 no tronbla In tho church of the Rev. Olympia I, Willls, Iiotwoen the officors of the otitreh and horsolf thoro exlst vory amicablo faolinga of mutnal rospect and (riondship. 'Two of tho present T'ruatooa have boon officors of the church for tho past five years, and aro atill much in favor of hor minlstry,” lthough an%ln-lly op- posed to n woman-prosokier. Both officors and mnembers unito in & cordial and hoarty intereat in her worl, and focl tho utmost confidouce in hor charaoter as » woman and a8 a ministor. Wa havo nover known her to bo guilty of alan- dora or other umamisterial conduet. Blhio 18 hiold in tho lighost estoom by the Unl- voraallsta of Bridgeport, as woli as by thoso of othior donominations, Tho chargos preferrad agalust hor whilo she was nbyent duriug hor summer-vacation, and on which sho was Intely triod at tho Blorling 1lotel, were so wholly un- sustained by evidenco that thoy wore withdrawn by tho poraon bringing thom, boforo tha invosti- gation could be finmshed, MeNty DIREsAy, . WizrLen Drsns, 8. C. Lavy, Trustoos, Wat. B, 1. Dewnurnsr, Clerk of Chusch. WarLAcr Wirctans, Porish Olork, s iiadi iy VIRELAY. - Littls winged god that dozes On the potals :rlnY and fine, Fly not with tho falling rores't ¥y not, for my heart roposcs Underneath (hoso wings of thine, Littlo winged Jovo that dozes, Though tho thlcket-ring fncloses 5 Pat on rosa-bi, clid divius- Fiy Dot withs tho falicn roses Any rose-red flower that blows s Tiarhor for thy heart and mine, Littla winged lave that dozes; And nt last when Autumn closes, And the shattered flowera decling Fly uot with tho falling rosca ; T will wasvo the Winter posies Of chryaanthiemim and pine; Litto winged god that dozer, Yly not wilk thio falling rosea, ~London Athencunt. o Parisinn Scatistics. Tho Patis correspondont of tho London Sland- ard writes, Nov. 91 "The Profecturo ot tho Seino lins just published tho atatiatics of Paris for 1873, ‘Tho'tables descend to tho minutest particulars, They teil us_how many peoplo woro born, and how wony died, and what they died of; what Taris dranic autl ato; how many houses wero Dbullt, and how many wero pulled down, and what the wenthor wag. It seems that 65,005 Jittle boys awd girls saw tho light in Paris in 1873: and, oddly onough, the greatost number of births oc- ourrod on April Tool's Day, viz, 260. Tho largest number of birthk ocerred in to pooreat arrondisgoment, to wit, Bellovillo and tho sur- rounding districls ; tho smalloat oceurrod in the Foubourg St. Gormain, "ho warriages werg 19,520, Of thiene, lot us hopo happy, Funions,” 2 occurred botween nephows and their aunts, 48 botwoen uncles and tbeir niccos, 103 hotweon brothors and siaters in law, aud 180 botweon sirat cousius; 41,782 porsous died, 7,919 from consumption and 753 from old go, whilo 600 comnutted suicido, During the vear Paris was noither frugal nor sohor. Tho number of chickons dovoured by the capital shows it to bo as fort en guenle ag tho culebrated Mmo. Augot—viz., 06,435,762' ducks fignro in tho list at something ‘loss thau & million, but en reoancho nol less than 2,365,241 tamo rabbits wero dovoured by the manv-headod monster, to- gethier with 1,498,049 larks, Tho valuo of tho gume and poultry consumed is set down at 88,000,000 francs, ~But these woro only dainties, Tiie pieces do resistance wero as follows : Ona hundred gud fourteen millions of Lilo- fgrama of beef, mutton, and venl, yalued at 177,- 000,000 francs 3 28,000,000 of kilograms of pork, 31,000,000 francs ; 14,000,000 kilogrums butter, 43.000,000 francs : 44,000,000 cggu, 22,000,000 francs 5 17,000,000 oyacers, 2,000,000 france. T'o wasli nil this down Puris absorbs 407,808,450 Jitres (rathor loss than an Imperial quart) of wing in the pieco: 1,704,835 bottles and half bot- Hles of ruor win 16,040 Jitros of brandy and spirits ; 3,536,684 litrosof cider, and 22,500,- 600 litres of beors, Paris to warm iteolf burnod 700,000 eubie metros of wood, and 896,000 tans of conl aud coko, ‘Thars are in Paris, or rather thero,wero on tho 81st of Docember last, 70,316 houses, in which thers occurred 437 fires, two of which were duo to incendiacism, Finally, as ro- gnrdl tho weathor, Ligh wind provailed for 30 ays, rain for 70, aoow for 13, bnil for 7, fog for 6¢; on 10 days there was lightuing, and on 13 thunder. P s Cho feart of the Andos”? Lyons the Sorinafield (Mass.) Union, Ona of thosplciost bts of gossp whioh has ro- cently gotton out of tho bag relatas to tho Artint Chureh's great picturs, *Tho Heart of tho Andes.” A fino engraving of it from tho original by Willam Forsest, and on exhibition by Gill & 1fogs, Lrings the slory to mind. Ohureh, like other artists, for obvivus ronsons, doosn't want copies of his best works to go anb to tho world, aud Forrest’s nngn_wnui’ wai the only copy of this pictura anthorized by its author,” Church's studio at Now Yorlk is open to the publio only at corlain hours, aud then to none but thoso who bave ticlots. A person Is in constantattondance 0 Aoo that no harm iu dono to the valuablo col- lection, and ho ls also supposed to proveutcopics from boing made, A brolher arlist was & fro- quant visitor, and 2t last camo to bo so: familiar that he was ane dey left alouo near **The Hourt of tho Andes,” Being probaly o little flushed with wino or something more potont, his ovil gonius promptod him to sketeh tho great picturo, 1fe made two copios, and got out unobserved. The copies ho colored, and by somo means one csmo to this city and one went to Hurtford, Ohurels discovered thoe rape, got on the irail of one of tha copios sud followed it to a slop in this city, whore it was loft to bo framed. Ho wa incog.'and nsked tosoe * that picturo of ‘Tho Loartof tho Andes,'” Ofcourao, it was produced. A widdon swoep of tho artist’s hand aud tho utalen copy was damagod boyond ropair, Bub thore was still tho other copy, nud it yas o thorn in the flosh to Chureh that ho could not diacayer ita whoroabonts, Somo timo afterwavd » gentios man of this city, who wus at bigatudio remarkod to Chureh that be had gocn ** The Heart of tho Audes" olaewhore. Of courso Chureh donied tho vou!‘hmty of such athivg. “Butlownily- solf;’ 'rn{)]lud tho gentloman, who bad sonieliow gotton tho ¥artford copy. Then hureh knew whero the only existing colored copy of his grent picture could bo found, but it was {u vain thatho tried to purchnazo it, Itw ownor would tuko no price, and Chureh is still unhappy. Ho runs tho story, and it is good enough ta be holieved, Ay Becentric Weddings, A London papersays: *Somo few yours ago, & momowhat pioturesque procensionmight inyo beon mot in ono of the 1ost densoly populated parts of tho mutropolis, It connistod of :a dozon conpley, headed by & nowly-married pair, who woro roturning from tho_chureh in which ‘the wedding corsmoxy had hoon performed, Tho membors of tho pruessmon wero profusely adorned with artitieind flowors, the mon wenrings curtundy round thoir hts, whilo i front of the fieio wnd bridegroom 'marched the fathur of the hrido triwmpluntly earrying something 1iko n sminll May poto. Urion inquiry it appoured that hoth Dumband and ‘wife, as woll oy their trionds, wora artitivlul-flowor tmakers, ~ On euather ocession the olergymun way astonishied at finding un old tin coffes-pot forming a pronii- nout objoct in the wedding procosston, whioh slowly merchod dows ono of tho uisles towardy the chancol, St more astonished way tho worthy ministor When, {ho wedding coromony ayor, the wholu of tho party Luoll down, aud, With'the autlqusted eoflao-pab i thelr suldst, Aung & hymn of shunkaghving, At st ho bogan to hisvo grave donbty respecting thelr sanity, buy » fow words of explanation speedity set his mind atrest, 1t nppesrod thit, after the death of tha bridegroom’s futher, o maw of mosl oeventriv Lnbits, no Luees eankd be discoverul of soma monoy which hu was Lnown ro huvae secretiy suved, Unwilling to mnrry his awoctheurt qutil Tio awas onublod to providoa home for hor, the wan dotorusined 10 proceed (o Amerlew Lo ficek his fortune, aud with thuet view hugate cloaving out the fow urtleles of furniture loft him by lus. Auonys thexo wae nu old coleu-pat, which ho kickod contomptuously from blm, In #o doing the Il fell off, nnd s soveroiyn rolled out, This lod to an sxuminntion of tho contonts of tho dorpisod utonsil, which was found to con- miat of bank notos and coin to the amount of noarly £200, Of courno thoro was 1o more tall of going to Amoricd, and ny for tho coffoo-pot, it became regarded a8 a preolous hoirtoow," A TRAPPER TRAPPED, Xio 'Trics to Catch o floar and Is Mim- soll Canghi—A 'Terriblo Experiencos V rrom the Virpinia (Nev) Chronfele, Nov, 35, A party of hunters from this city, who hnve fim rottirnod from sn oxpeditlon 1nko tha Slerra ovada, about 40 juiles from town, rolato the fol- Jowing romartablo incidont : On_jnst Thursday afternoon, atout 0 o'clock, two of tho party wera on tha trait of a door, which led them luto o romote ravino in the fastnessor of tho mountaing, into which thoy had not beforo ventured, Tho snow hoing aboub 2 feot doep, nud the walking vory heavy, they Docame_discouraged, nnd, ‘losing all Liopo of ovortaking tho door, which they had wounded, thoy ubatidoned tho puranit. On tholr return oue of them discharged his gun at a haro, and soon sfter & faint halloa was heard at eome dig- tanco to tho right, ua it from somo ono in dis- tress, Uncertuin whother they woro uot mils- takon, and bad not beon ducelved by tho whistling of the wind, thoy whouted aloud, when the ory was roposted, As mnigh would moon “come, they leld = cun- sultation, snd woro about proceading to thoir camp, 8 or 4 muiles away, conoluding thal tuo nofeo was made by wandering Indians, or camo from a party of wood-choppors. Thoy storted on, but soon o prnluniml and mournful howl was borno down the wind and again reached their ears. Tloy stared ateach other a moment, sud then by a simultancous impulse turned in tho direction from which tho sound proceeded. Thoy wont on for some distance, floundering through the snow down s procipitous doscent which lJod them through n gloomy canon. As they drew wuoarer the voice of =n human being conld be distinctly heard calling for rellof. 'Thuy eunawerod that atd was appronching, Tho man’s yells of mis- ary changed to crios of joy, and thoy could hiear him at intorvals shouting, ' For God's sake, don’t %n awny and loave me!” ‘‘Come and got 1o outl T am canght, aud starviug? St oy conld neo uothing, but guided by tho mau's erlcs, and cheoting him ‘with hopoful_suswers aa thoy advanced, thoy pushed forward, aud at Jast did- cerued what scomed to Do a amull cabin byilt of foge, withont windows or doors. Tho anow had driftod ngeiust ono aldo of the hut noarly as high an the roof, aud, ns they conld #eo no entratico, they went arownd to tho other side, A# goon as tho occupant oaw thom ho utterad exclamations of tho grentest’joy, and oxplained bis sltuntion in & fow words Dy statiug that hio hiad built o bear-trap and had caught himgelf in it fivo days before. 'fho door was made of heavy logd, and was 8o arranged as to slip down into its vlaco from above. Thoy tried to lift it uy but falled. Vinally, by smenns of & stiek of timber which ‘lay’ mear by, they pried it up. sufliciontly for tho prigoner to crawl Louoath, Ho appoared more dond thap alive, but, by the jndicions usoof o flask of brandy, they woro ablo to get lim to their comp about dark, whero thoir companions had o blazing fire awaiting their roturn. The Dnif-fomished man ato ravonously. 1o wnssup- plied with plouty of hot colce, and smoked o pipe, after which bis strangth somowhnt rovived, and ' ho gave dho following necount of how ho got into ha situation in . which ho was found. Ilo said lus nawe was Thomas Way, and that he hind Leen engaged in chopping wood in the mountsing duriug Inst suumer. Sinco tho first enowfall, about o month ngo, lie had frequently noticad tracks of benrs among thoe pine treos, and had oftou tried to get o.shot at thom, but without success, At last tho iden strnck him to build a pen such as bo had often econ grizzly bests cought in Lake County, Califormin, where he used to live. Hu oxplained that the boar-trap is mado Ly building a small, square houso of heavy, hewed log, nnd covaring it with o stroug roof. Tho door i of heavy logs aldo, and slides up eud down 1n grooved. When it is up thero is an open entrance about b feot high and 4 feet wide, A slieep is Lilled and hung up inside of the pon attachod to & rope, which {8 connected with a trigger, 80 that when tho bear enters aud suizes tho muiton the door falls, and ho is caged. Way went to work and comploted his trap to his satiefection, and intended to bait it tho same night. Ioviug a curiosity to oo how it would work, Iie went in and pulled tho ropo slightly, when tho door fell down. o attempted to raiso It, but wan horror-stricken, aud his bair stood on end when ho found that ho was unable_to budgoe it on inch, Ho worked and struggled. but the hoavy woight rofused to wove. The pon worked oily too successfully, and Lo was couglt in his own frap. Ho yelled, shouted, called for' help, but lknowlng® thut' ko wag miles from a humnn habitatfon and in o suvugo lueality where fow petsong ever veutured, bo sat down in lank dospair. Ho spent that night in agony, aud got Tt little sleep. It commonced to suow, but fottunately he iad a hoavy blanket~ overcont, which kept lim comparatively com- fortable. I'he next morning ho commenced shouting agaln until his throat wag sore, but was “only nuswored by tha howl- ivgs of the tompost, 1o ‘bad got his gun againat o stump outsido, and longed to get ot it that ko might firo it off and attract somebody's attention. Ile soon beganto get hungry, 1lis thirst he drenched by thruating his hund through the ohinka belween the logs aud raking up gnow and enting it. Thus duy after day elopsod, during which bis moutal suf-- forings wore terrible. ** Itell you men,"” suidho, T thonght of overythmyg I'lad done in nil my lifo from the time I was a boy 6 yearaold.” At lasy o brilliaut idea etruck him. He hnd matches, aud would burn his way out, With | tho heel of his boot he would kick and grind o log until be had accumulsted o quantily of dust and splinters, which ho would light with a matel, and blow tho firo with his hiat uotil ho had burned s hole Inrgo enough to erawl out. All the day provious to that on which ho was found he wne thus employed, but on trin) tho sehomo would not work., Tho wood rofusod to burn, and ho sgain lay down to die. 1'hnt day peased, and tho noxt day ho had abnndoned all hopo and was calculating how long it would take o strong, healthy maun'to dlo of starvation. Ho was in a siato of abject siu- por, when ho hoard the report of & gun, Ilp wag in doubt whothior it wna not the effect of his own maddensd imagination, but ho halloood with all hismightand kept on shouting, Whonhis orics woro ausiered he was almost dolirious with joy. As the voives approached, his vistons of “ap- pronching denth fled sway and tho realition of life camo back like o flood. 1o wag_profuse in his gretitudo to his deliverors, but deelared his intention of getting ont of the Bierra Nevadna 18 800n ng passiblo avd_abandoning bear-Lunt- iug, Ho said ho bad bind most oo closo & enll, and didu’t want any morae of it in his. Che noxt morning ho left for tho comp of somo wood- cho, )‘)em, who wore no doubt at » loss to account for L n long absouce, N Kongfellow and his Visitors. Aletter to the Now York World says: + “We lust saw Longfellow at the funoral* of Agassiz. The old eollege chapel wan filled with the perfumo of flowers, and through tho nroma tho delicicus muele of Cherubini's roquiom was Holemnly fulling. Ho looked wrinkled aud old, his hair was thin sud silvery, sud bo seomed .t fool that around the generation of mon Lie rop- rauented tho shudows of tho oventide wera fall- jug, 1o huy threo daughters, who ususlly ro- main with hiw In Cambridge, though somewhat fond of society und trayel, * Hia rosidonco in mich visited, so much so, In fact, that horso cars uswally stop bofora thohouts, sud the conductors nhont, ‘ Longfellow'n ! *¢ Curlonlty-seckers somotimon veutura within the iuviting procints of the pootsustate, A party soma timo ngo mado such n veuinro, und were Liospitubly recoived by the pout, who nasloniskicd them wilh the historio susoclntions of tho house, As thoy woro about leaviug, one of them naked “Cun you tell us who J{ves horo now ' + Certainty, nir; [ live hora.' s 0f, you., \Whut s your nmme “ 4 ongfellow,’ g w4 Auy relation to the Wiscassot Tiongfollors ¥ + *“Phepoot bowed out the purty refiectively.” Cra nye "Tho Bartiu correspondont of tho London Daily elegraph writes, Nov. 1L: - YA gentloman who way prosont at tho iucremntion of w young Indy's worpee (latw the wifo of a Corman medical mun) nt Siomons® colobrated fuclory in Dresden un Saturdny last, gives an fulorosting account of tha procondinga, 1o vuyh thab u sort of chapells ardenle, protusoly decorated with flowers, wan oroetod in vno of tho workshops, wm tho centro of which the coflin- contaiuing (he body—that of w very hinduwmo young woman—wis plnced, A, Biomons himsolf, ua the elergy had rofused to usaist at tha coremony, pranmuicsd u soloin wand tonehing disoonre over tho body, whish in It coftin, wes then fuserted n the fuvnucs, tho fron duor of which was _oloned wpon it, and a wtremu of invencelvably hot ni) wted upon it, marroundimg G eould b perevived Eirough o window let iuto tha side of tha fvnaco) [Ewith pa o red, quiveringy, distinetly vibmtlog famos, Ther was 1o swlden burniug wp or aver seoreli- gz of tha eotiro, no phononjenon ghostly Lo tho ovo ov zevoibing Lo auy other seute, bak whit naumad to Lo ai xtrsovdivarily ranid progoss ot davsication, during which, nftér tho luid uub- atancos had hoon evolved, the solid parta first hocaure red hot, thon swhite lot, and Iustly ro- solved tiemkelven intn ashos, 'Thoro wan, this geotleman pontively assorls, nothing from fitwh 10 1nat offousive fu this pronoss to the phyeieal Honkon, or ovon sontitnontally disteessing, 'Tho furnaco i wurrounded by drapary, whish cou- cealnit from tho wight of the mournors, and what onn bo son throngh the inlet (which iu urerd for purs\naou couneeled with the regulation of tho fira) Iniuno way hotriblo, although it offora tho nlnm;;s apeetaolo of n human hody gradually vaniahi e away through the intluenco of intouso heat, The procosu—to which tho soft substances in particular the lungs and lvor. offerad the longest resintanco—Insted axactly ono hour.and elgliteon minutes; and on Bunday tho asbos wore gathored up with all dua gol- omlty, oud traunforrod Lo o mitabls yem, A RACE FOR LKL, A Pnir of Senips Laroly Saved, From the Leavenuorth Commercial, It apponrs that on the 16th ull., Liout, What- moro, accompunicd by a soraant, left Gon, Milen headquartors ou tho Washita, to carry diupatelioy to Camp Bupply, Renching the Gaunaiau River, L eoncluded to Joavo tho train and crcort with which ho bad beon traveling and atrike for Bup. ply, accompanied only by bis vervant, This was & yory risky undertaking, as the balanco of tha wtory will ghow. Searcoly had Whetmoro and 1umilton, his sorvant, Toft the train Lofure thoy saw eigus'of tho redaking, « 5 T3ut thoy were both full of pluck nand anxious to ronch their destination ; and so, unmindful ot tho dangur thoy wero in, delantly gatloped on toward ~ tho morth. Toward mnight, on the 17th, tho two reached a thoy dotermined to camp, but o round- ing o ‘polut _como suddenly om o band of throe reduking who, on secing the blup coats, scntterod through the brush like loaves bofora a wintor wind, ~1Here was a nice position for tho two mon, for they well know that tho In. dlnus thoy had met woro hut siragglors of a still lnrgiur party in- the immedinto nolghborhood, * And o it proved. Relracing their stops thoy DUt spars to their liotses, only to rido into the midst of u party of nino mounted savuges, who wore so complotely takun by surpriso at tho ap- pearanco of tho soldior hoys that thoy morely tarnoil ou their horses and gave ono stundy, pro- Tonged stare ot the binc-conted intruders. ’]!ut Whetmoro and his compauion did not take the introduction ro coolly. Quickly whoolfng their liorscs, thoy gtartod down the glope, nad ont, on tho sleoty and frozen prairio with tho speod of the wind. ‘Thoy wore in for ik now. them “revealed tho savages in full pur- suit, Bub thoy had a good start. 'Tho wind was blowing » gale from the norihwest and the plerciug noadlos of sleob drova wtrnight into thoir facas with Llinding fury, but thoy could noither stop nor _clungo their courso. On went tho fugitivos, nud on cama the blood-thirsiy pur- muers, It wus n voritablo race for life, Nono of your dime-novel fietions, but a_liv- iug, broathing, palpitating, excitivg fuck. Nino boll-hounds of thio frontier after two blne-conts ondd their sealps. This was tho exaet situation, and Whetmore snd his companion Lnow- it. Thoy nlso knew thut thoir horses would not bold out long against tho terriblo storm, and be- gau to devise ways nnd meams to soll their Jives an dearty as poseible, L'hey thought of making stand in the buffalo wallows, when the ronien) brance of tho torriblo fate of Chapman and his companions mado them dig in thalr spura a He- tlo deepor and gcok a mora fuvorablo lacation, At last it was ovidont that thoy could go no further, and something must bo dono. ‘Tho trail thoy were Inaking on tho sleoty snr- Taco told them thero was no escapo by tlight, vo, unslinging their carbines, thoy dropped bebind o wmall thicket and preparod to *passin thowr checly" ay livoly es possible. By this timo darknoss had =ot in, nnd the atorm of sleet and ALOW Wag raging with unabatod furr. Long and anxiously Itm«n two booumbed and benightod men knolt on the frozen crust. and waitod for tho appearance of their savage focs, but thoy came not. Eithor tho reaskins had bocn pelied ot of their purpoao by tito terriblo_slorm, or else they bad come to tho conclusion that tho market prico of two scalps would nat justify moro than ono or two 20-milo heats on u atifl and unpns%mnx- rie. At all ovents they gave up tho chnse, Liout. Whotmoro and lamilton stayed behind tho thickes all night, uarrowly eseaping frooziug to doath, and expoctlng evory_moment that the whoops of the savages would be heard sud tho ortgh of o tomahawk put thom out of thoir mis- ory and end tho terribic, torrililo susponso. When morning dawned the savages hud disnp- peared, but tho beleagnrod men were in another pickle. They were lost on the prairio,—lost a8 olTectually and complotoly o8 though thoy woro in mid-ocean, The storm howled ad flerco ns it did during the night.” By nothing inthe tenvens above or the earth benenth could the points of the compnss bo determiued. §Weary, frozen, hungsy, und disconfaged, tho wandrors bojsa to fool that their miraculous osuapo of tho night boforo wos only n_putting-off of the inovitable. Fiuully, socing that thoy wero completoly be- wildered, they struck for iho nearest stronm and followod it to tho mouth. It emptied into o larger opo, and thus theseman kepton unti after innamorable hardshipa thoy suecoeded in striking thoold trail 60 milos south of Camp Supply. Forty miles from tho post they met tho - cavelry out in search for thom, nud wero encortod to. qiinrcers, beving beon nearly three days without food, and with thoir clotbiug frozon tight to their bodiea, 16 was & most thrilling and exciting ndvonturo and we regrot excoodingly that lack of space for- bids montioniug more thau tho moat meegra de- tatls of this intoresting auir, Told as it was by the brouzed Lioutenant, stili cind in his roug waolon shirt, cuvalry hoots, and pants tho stripes of which proclaimed the wear and tear of the Tace through tbo undorbrush, it only wantod tho charm of & camp-lire to finlsh the ‘ord-picture of ono of tho most exciting _ndventures of tho Indinn nun}pn{gn. Liout, Whotmore eaya hia hinsuds and foet aro badly frost-bitten, but other- wigo ho is in gnod health nnd spivits, amilton, Ius companion in the adventuro, has not_ yot ar- rived from tho froutier, oving to hiy oxhausted condition, LANIA. T mat & woman In thu glsde Tier hialr wan soff sud brown, Al loug hent aillion lashes weighed e vory eyo-lids down. I kirsed hier hand, T called her blest § 1 Jietd her leal i fuity— Sho turued to shadow on'my breast, Aud ineited into sir | And, 1o} about me, fuld on fold, A tsrlthfing sorpent bung, At eyo of Jot, o akin of gold, A garnel fot & tongue | ~Aldrioh, stronm whoro Ono look behind PR e —— Fwo Whale Storios Tuo Doston Merald relatoa tho following “7'he Brig Trople, which arrived ab Bolfust, Me., on Sunday, from Turk’s lsland, had & re- markablo experionce on the poseuge, Capt. Tiakor roports that one morning, winle on the dgo of tho Gulf Strowm, the brig goimg nbout & mites un hour, uhe stopped with n shock ne though sho had struck a vock., It wos dikcov- ored thet there was a whalo under tho how thet mudo off furiously, lashing tho water and spouting, ho brig's cntwater end chnin bob- stoy wore cwrriod awey, snd o poco of tho {:h]l:lp‘s akin wre loft bubging on u: projecting oL The following must bo credited to the Mulifax Chronicle, 'The Captain of tho American tishing schoonor Sulten, which arrived on Monduy night, statos that on the Grand Bauks, on the’ 234 of Novembor, L vossol was riding at anchor with 150 fathoms .of cable out, Two of hia dories, with two woenin ouch, wore away tonding their trawls. Tho remainder of tho crow, who woro bulow, observed that the vossel v moving. Ou golng on deek thoy fonud tho seliaonot gaiug thraugh the water ot the yuta of 10 or 13" knots un hour. Shoytly aftor an immonse whuts rose just whond of (ho vesuol withs thio wuchor either canght in his jaw or hlow- holo. Aftor tho veesel had heen towed for an hour by tho ish, and fluding that tho dories wern airoady out of sight, tho Coptain ent tho wublo, Whie Kultan thew rotnrned, pickod up hor dozen, and gilud for thin port Lo procuro » new anchor wnd eablo, An {ncidont of an almost cimilar ynturo heppenadto the American sehaon= or ¢}, Il Prico, of Glouccster, on tho lanks, ubont eightoen months ago, Ko wus Ltowed by whuls for u day und e-bulf, when the fluke of thoanchor broko und thy vessolwas relessed from her novel prodicantont. " ed Ntyootse uin e (Yee)) Euternrist, Our princijul nirets, belig waondambzsd with TOtuRG OF6 talien frow tho fmes in oarly (eyH, nud being costad szith tho rich oro that hay yonr after yenr heen shifted down upon them irom th OF0 Wagons, are now everywhoromoro or lesy arguntiterous, ndoed, thera is not tho slightsst strofeh of (o imaginution in saying that wa nover tultn stop in town Lt wo uro walking on atlvor,—thint our sireetn aro Nravadly vuved with silver, Whilo nponking of thix et n day orbwo sineo, w young wan bet hiv feiend o prico of ho ussaying wnd ¥ the oigurs ™ thit he would take hnp of mud off the wheel of i ' thon ninndlng beforo thom, snd wonld ot out of it prrecious metals Lo the value of ove perton, Awoniieo or gwa of mud wen takion yrum {ho wheet of the vohlelo and placed in tho hands of a1 parayer, who wivs Dot Lol where tho wmplo ws obtained, and who no doubt supnosed that ho was dealing with decompnsed oro or vein matior from one of the miney, Tho assay was mado, nnd tha assayar's cortifleato pliowed that tho enmpla con- salned ¢ * Bilvor, Sh.64; gold, §2533 $0.80.” Aftor thin wo may put on nirs,ove our ntreots wo villatnoualy muddy occasionally, for tho vory nnid on our hoots contning both ans ver and gold—is not tho vulgarmnd of tho “cow county " towna. ——— BRIGANDAGE N ITALY. Atrocttios Eerpetrated by $6 oapt,?? Als tuno, Nuaplea Correapondence af the London Times, Tho monsier* trial at Potonzn, the oapital of tho largost provinde of tho Bouth, continues, und tho encrmitios whioh, the evidoncoe rovoald aro wost inered{ble. Yol “ono your only has slupoed sinco tho chiof criminal was arrested. As inntance of thosrvago acts committod u this boautiful Jand, lako tho work of u singlo day ¢ + Gapt.” Allano aud Lo only of hils hand start- od on tha 2d of July, 1870, to nogicstrate o rich proprictor called” Larseen,” and, baving takon him, wont off toward $he miountaina of Vinggiuno—ono of thodo places, by the 1y, whoro tho musicians sho hovo delighted tho world nre trained from eatly youth. On tho rond thoy met tyva waman, whowm they orderad ta Io}lnw. Ouo of thom, resiating their bratalitica *'Doath rathor! " worn ber words); was mure dored on thy spot; the other, an oldor woran, ayercomo by throats of tho dagger and pistol, naved hee lito g oho ouly could #avo I, and lived to givo har avidenes, A duy or two aftor tho eapturo of Taracca, 20 dueats: and womo artieles of food Woro uout by hiis wifo 03 his vanwom; but tho chilef, boing ir- ritatail by the snattuess of the sum, ordored his onr to bo et oif, unid, wupplying him’ with pen, ul, aud paper, told bim o write from his dictas ton. Tho loitor, whicli {4 sald to have boon otained with blood, may bo translated thu : ¥ Dian Wirk: You ece that I sm fu the bands of brigauds, Keud mouoy an agon as you ean, that 1 1y 10t bo imurdered, 1€ thay would_ kit e ot right It would bo wall, for Tam dying lttlo by Mttle. fiond 3,500 diicatu. A3 6 firesent 1 nond yail Ty ear 5 by tho liext fourney Lwill nend you my nose, * “Lhe lottor mwakeued all tho ferrs and zoal of tho family, aud 6,000 kiro wero colloctad and dis~ putehed, bitt aa the pim was far bolow that do- munded, thoy niurdored the unfortupate wman nug llslfl, ay téo‘lruupn \v«!':'u upon them, n tho noxt day Lo otlier porson; . tured, and tuo {athor of ono. cume Ang triod o roducs tho ransom. Hin wifo also presented hetaolf and begged permission to uccompuny her huabuud, when thio savage Aliano cut off his eer and throw it futo her bosom, Not, howaver, to multiply such focty, it is assorted on ovidonca that iu one wyeek Aliung nnd his companions cotnmitted two burbarous murders and ono vio- lont rapo, am‘nuulm{ud five porsons, oxtorted 15,000 Jire, aud cut off threo oars snd ono head, ‘T'wo mon wore almost alono in this neighbor- hood in endeavoring to_check the oxcosses of brigandago—Luigi di Noin and Vito Tardugno, of Paterno—and wo aball hoar how they suffered for thair conrago and honesty, First, o visit was paid to the houso of Nols, whoro only tho wifa - was found, tho sons haviag escaped. . Tho poor woman was thrown on tho ground ond bayonet- ad—pioreed through and through ropcatodiy 3 tho sister, loo, rushing to fiar asBistauco, wus® murderod with o liatchot, This was nok vengonnco ouough,'so, in October, 1870, Alano roumrned to DPatorno, hroko opon the doors of Tardugno, und found hin seatod with all of hig family, With o yell of joy the savages rushed in, dngger in haud, and murdered, first Tardug no, thien Lis wife, who was enoiente, and lad 8 child of 3 yoars of ngoin hor arms, who waq also murdered, Tour other childron, who had been witnesties of thoso scenes, were thon ats tocked and loft for dead. fFrom tho honeo of Tardugno tho brigands passod to the Louso of Noia, whero they found and assagsinated two of his sons, searcoly 10 yoors old, and o girl, the Inst of the family., “Ihus wns completed tho savago vongeanco of these brutes on tho faml- Ties of two of tho vory few who Lud made_an 'of- fort to thwnrt thelr sxcosses. On the body of Tardugno was found tho following paper: ‘*My unclo lins diod for huving botraged his brothers, zl;g\ 1 wn the Biguor Copitano Frederico isno.’ S — ONE DEED OF GOOD, If Tmight do ono deed of Huml' Oune little deed Leforo I die, . Or think one noblo thought, {bat shontd Tlereufler not forgotten lle, T would not murmur, though I muet Ho logt in death’s wunumbered dust, Tho Slmy wing ot wofts the secd Upon tho catcloss wind to-earth, OF its short Iifa bsa vnly meed Tofind tho gem fit placa for birth s Tor ono mwift moment of delight Tt whirls, (hen withers oul of signt, —Lendon Spectato —_— RUSCELLANEQUS. An Tows Justico tho othor day accopted $wa ‘bushels of oniony a8 & marringe-foe. There i8 & gold mine near Deor Lodge City, Montauna Territory, called tho Beocher-Tilton Lodo. 1t is o now digaiugs, and, if_it proves s rx'lqz-ln 18 the original, the stock will be sought after, John Bryant and wifo, and ourself and wifo, arovo o earringe recontly alovg tho railvoad lind for § miles acroes tho marsh to tho Kankakeo that fiftoen yours o rad bardly from Tivor—s 60,000-a0re mareh, ngo conld not bo penctrated thio shore, with a horse, unless frozen in mid- winter. Buch is the Koeukalkeo Massh to-day,— searcoly & rod of it bubt what can be traveled over with o loaded teow.—ZLowell (Ind.) Star. Thio aperations of tho Mint in this oity, durlng tho month of November just past, were as fole lows: Gold bulhion receivod, 4,003.00 ouncos valued ot $B4,610.40: silver bullion, 7,013.0% ounces, valued at $10,791.41 ; number of dopos. its rocelved, 128, gros valuo, £95,847.87 ; gold Dars nsonyed, 121, and silver bars 8, This 18 ¥ considerable incranso ovor (ha business for No« vomber of any provions lsmr.-—hu.lipmlng tha the mineral rerourees of the Territory aro being successfully daveloped.—Denver (Col.) Tribune "The Burlington (Ia.) Gazells rocently prid the Burlington Hawkeye the round sum of £5,000 for the right to uss ovenlng tolograph raports of tho Northiweatorn Associated Progs, The Gazelld was formerly & membuor of thut orgauization, Dbut dropped out, lesying (Lo Zaikeys to puy tha entiro mouathly assossment of the Ansociction agninat Burtiigto, and the above swun woe what it cost to Bettle tho Lill aud got back ngain. Thin shows what 1t costs to go ol on a I'rous Atigoe ciation. I'he Gazels was fortunato o gotting buek vo easily. Wiltiam B, Astor haa leased tho Asfor Ilouso, for a torm of fivo yeard, to W. U. Schouck, ' Mr. Sehonck, who will take possession about Jan. 1, or ax soon a8 Lho Meurs, Stetson cun close thel allnirs, intonds o mako estenivo Alterations, In lensing the hotel tho stores are not includs ed. Iho routnl for theso valablo. places of businoss goes direatly to thu Astor ostate. Tt was at first intendod to chango tho ontiro build- ing iuto olices, but Mr, Autor, belng avorso to auy radieal changos in his proporty for tho pros ont, decided to relos tho building for hotol pure posca. Tust Thureday night, durivg the Jargo fire in TPilsonburg, Ont,, ¢ man nawed Murphy took a Targo chaiv from one of _tho burning houges and atarted for the Cavada Sonthorn Railvoad et tion, uud, whon arrived thoro, sat down in hiy chair ou tho track to resk and road from the re- flection of tho firo, Lut foll fust anlecp. Boon a train came along and lifted him and chalr inta the oir, Ifo oocaped with a few bruisos abonb thio head, but svon rocovered his elook, and gok up and abused the train-men for throwing him 5o roughly out of his chuir. Itis esid o was under the intluence of liquor, "I'ho Inbor-market it tho Luzorno con! districta {a reposted gluttod, Heronton, wills n populus tiow af 85,000, cannob_now give stondy employe mont to 3,000 men, Curbondalo, 16 inilos dise fant, witlin populution of 12,000 wea, cannat employ 1,000, and koat is all along tha Luckawane ne Vultoy, 1o Wyoming Valloy ~tho sitnation is littlo hatter, it wa muy oxcopt Pittston, whera {ho worka of the Ponusylvania Cosl Cotnpany are kept rnoning in full’ blast. Bolow Pittaton, wharo the onl-works ure oporated for difforent campanies, tho siato of ufinirs is not any more encouvaging, Tu the Wilkesbarro rogion, thous ennda of mon are out of employment, Flold finrshal Moltke, The Parls correspondent of tho Tondon Times suyR: A German paper comments on Fleld Murahinl Joltke's seyuipnlons performance of his duties w8 n conutry Beuiro at his soat wm Bilosia, Undor recent loglslalation ausieuing cortain functions to luaded proprictory, tho sume hund which has skotehed the Loldest vwmpaigus rogiv- tors tha birth of a child, and the tongua which anp ho ilent in sovon )nul‘;uugflu unites couplos in tho blissful couditton of’ wedloek, It {a only when he ig absent that o doputy performs theso Autics, ‘Lhe writer suggenls that the Marshinl's calebration of marrisuzens hnd botter b kept n vy- erel from tho Bunlinh, for ho fewrs thug mony o coupla wight yopair to Urelnsu 1 how of Qrot- n-Greow, uf tho abolltion of which ho doos not neom ty hio awiro, and thut nrny a lady would profer w cortifiento of tho birth of hor fitat-born n Lho hund-writing of the old warrior to tho sig- nature of auy Lnglish clorgymu, the Dean of, Wealminstor not escoptod,”