Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1874, Page 2

SATURDAY, DEC SMBER 26, 1874, THE HAUNTED SH Mysterious Manifestations on the Oliver Cromwell. A Noew Setof Demonstrations by the Dead. Their Objcotions to the Practice of Mizing Corn, Impressive Seance on the Deck of the Barge. How the Board of Trade Beat the Ghosts. Tho * Trump of ¥amo" must bo blown oteo moro for Chlcago: * . Iler enterprise, hier fire, licr grand cateor, 1Invo all Leen sounded fur dud uear, But now sho comes with n gennine, woll- suthenticated ghost-story, adding anothor chup- ter to hor wonderfal record, and throwing all the tales of phantom aud hiaunted ships complotely into the shiade, hier hauuted slip actanlly plow. Ing hor waters, aud her ghoully crow exhibiting thoir dissatisfaction and impatienco, and rbandoning thoir cherished sopuletiro, whon thoy witnensed its contnmination, and its counversion into an objeut of puble reorn, by what they cone widerod o barefaced attempt to dol‘m.ud tho com- ronnity. Standing on any of our bridges during the sea- Ron of uavigetion, tho ebrill wingtlo of tho Mary MoL.oan, notifying the bridge-tender of nn ap- proaching tug-boat aud her tow nttracts your at- tontion. You observe & barge following tho tug- boat, and on closer examinhation sho will be found to havo rather nn unnsunl build for ves- ecls of this character. Huo appears to be about 800 tons burden: hor lwll it that of o very neat pgopoller, has two masts ond sails snch as lako bargos usually carry, and Las tho gonotal ap- pearsnco of being a etanch, tidy cinft, and a first-rato, wafo and rolinblo son-bont; oll of which she fe. 1lor numo you have found to bo the Oliver Cromwell, THIS WAS TIFR MAUNTED 811p, and the only ship whose ghosts bave loft a well- authenticated record of thoir supernatural ex- istenco, and interference in worldly affairs, aud of their spiritual manifestations, applied in an Inteliigent and practical manner. HEN WISTORY fe an evontful and stugular one, She was built sxprosuly for a propeller, being one amongat the first that ran upon our lakes, About twenty yours nizo whait ou o voyago from Chicngo to the ower lukes, elio foundered in o storm and sunk i doep water, remainiug thero until three years ago whon shic was raiaed by & wrocking company, aud hier machinery rewoved, after whith she was ronverted into her present ~bargo form, baving B propolter consort whicl tows lier from port to port. Her Iaving for fifteen years on the bottom nf tho I2ke has not reaulted in n"f; material in- fury to her framo, timbers or plauking, and part f her cargo whick was raw wool can bg scon any day m Chicago, sound o8 whon shipped, Iler singulac proservation and thatof her cargo is now admitted to bo owing Lo the fact that tho BPTILIE OF THE CAPTAIN AND CREW, ‘Who perished in her, have stuck to her whon un- der the waters of the luko, and after she got onco moro niloat. Some portions of them havo ulways made part of {ho crew, londing & willing hand in working the barge, aidiug at all times in handling the tow-lines. snile, anchors, aud cargo, at tho sume time disposing of & fair sharo of the harge's provisious and stores, and wero regarded by tho crow as friendly aud useful spirits, npth- ing havingoceurred to disturb the harmony ox- isting botween tho living aud the dead soamen, THE DIMEDIATE CAUSE of tho diseatisfuction which ocensioned tho withdrawal of the phantom crew from tho Olver Cromwell spponra to have been tho fraudulent mixturo or different grades of grain &t tha olovator when sho received n covgo lnst Seplomber. 1t uppenrs that sowo grain speen- lutors living west of tho Mississippi River bad sents in largo amonnts of ‘wheat aud corn during thio corn and wheut corners of July, August, and Boptember, which were regulurly inspected aud weot into the clovators and wero thrown into special bins and held for the spoculators, Those speculators, ju Lho month of Soptember, cou- monged the shipment of this_ grain, mixing the hold of the vessels tho different grades thaf had boen kept soparate in tho olovator. Now the mixing of good and bad . groin, when. ship- ping on vessols, i an old sin of tho Uhicugo grain-sbippers, uud was well known 1o the enirits, but when thoy saw tho honost country shipper nhout to fall'iito tho dark and dirty ways of ' th -Chicago mou, ther indiguntion was bouudless, and thoy forthwith threw every obstn- clo, short of wnking or burniug the burge, in the way of tha ehipment of this wixed eargo, THE CAlO consisted of corn of vavious grades, which shonld hokopt ns distinct ou hoard s vessol ny whon etored in the elovator, sonio of it being dry, und of the best quality, and fit for the Evglish mar- Jot, und such as s used for meal, mush, pud- dings, pancakos, hominy, corn-starch, and corn- flour, aud somo of iv only suitablo for conversion into bud whisky, it being condemned on inspee- tiou for beiug #one and musty, When shipping #raiu into tho hold of a vessel from an eleyator tho grain flows from tho ling throu]i'h Targe spouty connected with the vessel, and has to bo shoveled by men who are known by the title of trimmers. About half tho cargo hud beon shot into the hatches when the trimmers got to work with their shovels, nnd at the sume time “TIE MUKTY CORN commencod flawing in from the sponts, and mix- ing with the saund, sweet grain already in the vessel. Then, to tlie surpriso of tho trimmers, tho grain was trown back in their fuces by ap- narently auother set of trimmers, trying to do whit the reyl trimmers wera working to ac- cowplish, “Suddenly tho musty gruin ceased flowing intp the hatches, tho spouts fell the grain seuttored on tho deck, in tho water, and ou tho olevator-dock; tho cables wero lot go, ind the deuk, sides, and bottown of the *‘Cromwell” were ponnded in the most emphatie and alarme ing mauner, To add to the general confusion, n atick of wood stuck in tho slide of tho ofovator- bin so that it conld not bo closed, preeenting a faiy prospect of losing o large amount of grain in tho river beforo it could bo removed, THE CAVTAIN AND JATE on this trying oceasion forgot their Sunday- #chooldessons, and wingled their ordors With langunge moro empliatio than polito. Their shouts, nud the shouting and orders o the dock- won, brough the superintendout of the oleva- tor, on the dock. Ho immediately commenced vitebing into tho dock-mon, and all hands, in- cluding the superiutendent, dock-men, Captain, mate, aud omo of tho trimmers, hnd s goneral row, in which thoy abused ocach other roundly, enoh suppostug that the dropping of tho spouts was eaugied by the curolossness of tho muate in fustening tho cablos, Matiers now quisted a littlo, Tho eables woro secured; the spouts wure gol into thoir appropriate hatelios, thosticl was romovod that occsioned o muel troubls, and tho damaged gram commenced flowing onca moro juto tho' vessel aud mingling with tho cound grain, whona cry of alamm from tho trimmors in tho hold told unmiutekably that thero was somothing wrong below; either that the Cromyoll had spraug uleak or thpt slia was on firo in tha hold,” But noither ¢yt kosoe supposed * disnators wus TIE CAUSE OF THI UPROAR, ‘The apirits wore throwing the grain back in tho faces of tho trinners In such guantities ag Lo almost bury ond sulocato thon, “and had noy thoy, on thelr road to worls thal day, fortitied thomsolyos with two or threo dosos of a stroug mixture of sour-mash mediowo presoribod for them at & sampleroom, couplod with some 4all wwearing, whicli tho trimmer alw Indulgos in when ho fluds himsel? in & tight placo, und which be somotimes mistukes for pioty, they would not bavo boon sble to Lold their own nguinst tho showers of graln, the thrashing with umluy sncki by Iuvisible hands of the spirits, and the horrible foeling, something liko, the agonien of Iiydrophobia, which shosked them all, wuon s tindippor fillod with wator wan rrc!sn(l to t mouths by tho haud of sonte cold-wator tompor= auca snilor-ghost of tvonty yeard gono by, Hud- douly there was o cessution in the confuslon and uproar, matiors seemed to ho workiug smoothly bulow, tho musty grain still rushing i a tor- rant from tho olovator spouts aud rapidly Ailing up the hatehien, but it was ovident to those on declk that the men wore not working very brjskly in tho hold. But THE OHONTLY CREW. lied 19,idon of lloviug wubtors Lo 2ove along 80 qulotly; thoy had only changed their plan for put atn[) to tho shipmont and mixturo of any moro of this graln, and wero quiotly earry- ing It [uto oxooution, They were walting for tha latelion to 6l up, and bocomo choked by tho fraln ro that tho mon bolow conld not recoive lxmmpt nselstanco from (hoso on doek., When hio Cromiwoll sunk sho hind ag part of hor eargo, some barrols of choico old ryo whisky, which improved woudorfully by Inving at tho hottomof the Iako. ‘Thi old ryo hind' beon carfully bot- tled, and spirit handa woro busily engagad in PARSING HOTTLES of this cboleo Jiquor, fresh from tho **sample rooms of eternity” around mnunf’ub tho too-will- iyg trimmory, who, confoundod by its oxquisita frngranco, and oxoited by it tompling flavor, comipletaly forgot thomsolves and the work thoy werd to bo paid for doing, and as tho botiles pro- sonted thomsolves swallowad drink aftor drink, uutil thoy all eank neek-deep in tho torrent of grain, hopelessly ovorpowored by this delicions and seductivo boverago. After calling from thoe dools to tho spirit-hound trinunota in tho hold, tofind out the caure of tho graln blucking up the hatohos, the hows-trimmor managed Lo crawl down amongst the insousible mon, whon, on seoing how matters stood, he at onco shoutod to the Captain on deck : All doad- drunk; buried up to theic necks in corn, They muet bo dug ont. Ifunt up another gang of trimmoers;* closing up with n atring of thumpe ‘ing, ‘woll-nelootad vaths and impreeations. Instantly ho was assailod by RHOWENS OF CORN, thrown at him by ivisible hands, nnd beaten about tho head with omply sacks by tho saine mystorious aponts, and, after & sovero punishe ment, ho with difiicalty succeeded in seram- bling throngh tho Tntches and ronohing tho deck above, in o condition of tho groatest torror, his faco whito as tho mainssil of tho barge, and his whols framo ehiveriug from Tright and rough bandlug. A consultation was now hold on decl a8 to how tho men wore to ho got out beforo thoy beeamo puffocatod” by Iying e longor covered up in the grain. Al hahds wera agrood as to the vossel's being inunted, or boing in tho possession of ghosts, spirits, or gome othor supernntural agemts, 1Lut what TIE CAUSES of tho displeasure of thoss supernatural ngents was, 0t Lhis partictlar time not one of them could conjocturo. One suggosted, with o know- ing winl, thnt it waw a ratber stylieh-looking fomale who was wishing (o ship ns coole; | another that somothing — was wrong ~ with tho grub, which had undergono n groat chango for the bettor; from the pork and boans ard hard-tack fo tho hnm and oggs, roast beof aund pudding, coffeo and bigcult, good and abundant vegotables, aua tho respectable food which lake vessels, to their crodit, furnish to thelr crows at tho presont timo, h old eailor mado tho ill-natured remark it was no wohder thero was the dovil to pay whon n chap comes on board the eraft and Bhipped aa o first-clnes sonman, rigged out in stove-pipe lhat, o parson’s cont, Frooch calf baots, und kid gloves on his pawa,” ‘L'ho report of o gang of trimmors being sufTo- cated having soread abrond, had by this time attractod _a crowd of curious and intorested peoplo. It was cortain that thoy must bo DUG OUT INMEDIATELY and got on deck, and after considerable wrang- lings, loud and boistorous talking, and much ronglh Ianguago thint sounded like swearing, all mingled in with tho siuful laughing of that part of the crowd who had no faith fn spirits or ghosts, u trimwor from {anothor gang volunteer- ed to mnako tho attompt, and, fastonibg n ropo sround his body, #o that ho could bo dragged out should ko bo attacked, hio backed down through tho grain, trimmer fashion, heols foromoxt, and faco downwards, and soon found ilio objects of his wearch covered nearly to suffoeation in the floods of corn. Fastoning his ropo aronnd them each of thom was lolsied on decle and all Iid sido by eido, their facos presonting o deathly pulenoss, accompained by a swoob aud really boau- tiful expreesion, never scou in the facesof trime mers whon under tho effoets of the common whisky which it is said is furnisbed thom in the samplo-rooms of Chicago. For some time tho crawd stood round thewm, admiring tho sweal oxpression. of holr countonances; but tho Captaln of the Cromwell ordered them 1o bo insfantly put overboard and placed on tho dock, when, as if by the work of u magiciun, thoinstant the last of the slocp- ing trimmers touched the shoro, tho whola of thom spravg at once to their feet, collected in their minds and apparently 08 sober s whon thoy went on board, the “*old rye,” furnished with such liberality by tho spirits’ baving_no effect on shom whon outside of tho vessel, Dut tho man who lind gono down to thelr rotief way in tronble, a8 could be told by his shouting and CRIES FOI HELP, After ho had sent. uz tho last of tho half- trimmers, and hiswork of hunnnity was fluished, Lo refused the seductions of the spirits of old ryo, and imimediatoly on this rofusal he was in- stantly attacked with showors of corn, thrown from shovels, from overy diraction, bis liend aud body being thrashied with empty sacks, and when Lo was dragged on deck his pallid aud distorted Iace, staring oyes, and open mouth, presentod au uppearanco of horror, and oxhibited " the efects of the montal and bodily agony he had endured when on his mission of merey. What was to be done noxt? As is usunl in caucs of pressing nocewsity, and ‘whora thero in no direeting mind ctothed with anthorits to com- mnud, almost all of the crowd were mnking su; gestions mora or loss impracticablo or silly, For~ tunately, ad A GRANGER, who had been sont from the greeshopper country s o comumittes to visit tho clovators, and nscer- tain how grain was iuspected, weighed, and stored, made a woll-timed suggestion, whioll was immediately adopted and put inito pragtico, Thin CGiranger was atso o leading Spiritualist, bis old- eat daughter being a trance-medinm in tho vil- Ingo whoro thoy rosided, Llin suggestion was that tho Dresident, Seorolury, and Exccutive Cowmitteo of the Board of Frade bo sent for, with o request that thoy vislt a celobrated lady cluirvoyaut, and invite hor to accompany themto the Cromwoll, form a magnetic circio on the decl of thio vessol, and, if ponsible, hold, through the agones of tho ahip's hell, communication \vit}h §hg upirits who appeared {o bo so much dis- satistied. Whilat waiting for the arrival of this Commit- tee, the oxpectunt crowd had amplo timo to look arotnd nnd oxsmino the vessol, ask questions of tho Captain nnd crow, and investigato for them- eolves ull tho statoments and stories told about the hannted ship. From relablo informntion gathored from part of the crow who had been ustaclied to her a5 senmon for_some timo, it was, certain Lhat, until this prosont occurrenco, the ghastly purt of tho crow never manifested any dissutisfuction, or in any mauner interfered with tho worling or loading of tho vesscl. Thero would bo an occusional appearauce of dia- like to part of the food furnished the crew, but this would soon blow over, and they always showed murked disappropriation of silver forks when placed on tue table for the use of the men bofore the mast, thelr old style of feeding being o put chunks of beef or porkina kid or little wooden tub and “galn ™ with their jack-knivos, Thoy appesred to fanr that silver forks wore only an excuse for putting food enough on the table. "Tho trimmers had by this time told thoir story, sud what sort of reception thoy met in tho hold, Aftor remaining on the dock for somo timo und nscertaining thnt thoy wero rostored Lo conaciousness they attempted to come on bosrd or Llte purpose ot GOING TO WORK AGAILN, but (hey would instantly, on touching tho nides of the vessel, rolupso fnto thoir formor huppy condition of oblivion, and tho Captain, still beliey~ iug thent to bo glorionsly drunk, persiated in keoping thom off the vessel, driving thom on to tho docls, whero thoy stood tho very pietures of dissppointment and resignution, making no se- erat of their entire willinguess to o down ugain and teim, and stand another visitation of the ghonts, urmed with bottles of * old rya, About this timotho ¢ HOAUD OF TRADE MAUNATES, accompanicd by the Spivitual mediwm, arrived, Tuo lndy was cortuinly substantind, weighing not loss than 160 pounds,” Ier eyes wers blue, hier cheoks rod with pink, her age well up in the fartios, and her wholo nppourance suggested a dilunidntod blondo. With much difticulty, be twaon palling hor aboard by her fat handy aud twa of tho Committen boosting lier, slio roached tho decl of the vossel, und forthwith oxhibited her prompiness and businogn tuct by suggesting that, ay |‘ was necessary to form magnous citelo on hoard (he Vovsol, and as ounly ubout 100 persons could join 1t, it wonld Lo well, in ordor to excludo those who could not find room, to muke a churgo of 26 vants for all rummm coming on bonrd und taking purt i the nvestigations which wire was about to undortako, Atter considernblo deluy, examination of pocket- ‘boolks, aud frantie efforts Lo borrow ail round, it was dincovered that, with the excoption of the Board of W'rado poople, thore wus ot o quarter ta bo found iu the wholo erowd, when tho Uranger, wha went in’ for economy, suggostad that u 10-cont adwmimmion foo wonld be ample, provided the spirit of old rye wau not cirouluted nfter tho upirits wore nppearod or satistledl, Iia remavked, also, by way of o |oko, that {f such w thing wonid tatio placo It would ho oxcocdingly difiienlt o way how smuch each person of Lffnz highly rospectablo assombly and wagnetic elrelo woutd bo willing to pay for'the privelego of hut Just one taste of that sweot baverage, whieh hnd protucetd sueh happy effegts ou the nien who lnd Lcon roncued from tho, jaws of death, This brought out & genural kgl nround tho cirslo, bub the spirity did vot approve of euch loyity, ovon whon produced by a Grangor, aud shoswoed their dissatisfaction by RINGING THY DELL VIOLETLY, At 10 conta for normission to join handa in tho circle, the Inttor wnu soon formod, com- moncing by the Granger Inying his left hand on tho north side of the bell, oxtending Lis right to the noxt porson, the Iino following down tho north sido of the decls, crossing in frout of tho cabin, and continuing on the south side of the vossol, tho clreuit closing by the Captain of the Cromwoll Inying his right hand on the boll on tho south side, aud facing thu Oranger. A ohair wag bronght from tho ofileo of tho olovator, kot down In front of the Bonrd of 'Lrado, on which was seated, with hor back to the Board of I'rado, and hor oyes fixed on the boll, the spiritusl ‘medium. Al being now ar- rdngodl to guit tho medium, she looked ny solemn o8 & mnde-up blondo conld bo expected to lovk on such & tryfng and publia ocension, and, atter sitting with ruoful fieo aud oyod cloned light); for n fow mihutos, sho demanded fu o confinand- ing voleo : ** If thoro wero any of the upirits of the erow of tho Cromwall Pmmnt. and, if 69, to :‘anlni' glmir prosence by tapping the boll threo moes 2" TURER, VIOLENT TATY followed this question, the oleetrio shock phesing thrdugh the eireult making sotno of thom euirm and turn pale, but the niedium swas oguinl to the oceasion, aud ordored thont fn a loud amd throate oning voice Lo keop the eirouit cloacd. iTow many 7" Tonur taps, showlug thut ab lenst thore wero four spirits, - Iy tho Captain's spirit presont ¥ Threo tups showed that lio wan prosont, *¢ I ho willing to communicato througlt this medinm the cause of his_and his comreados’ din- antisfaction ?" Threo taps, 1s it tho present Captain 2 Ta it the erow or any part of 1t 7 Is tho Groniwell unseaworthy 2" i%u rculmnw was made to Llioso questions of tho medinm, but on usking : ‘18 17 TIE cAnGO 2" three violent tups on the loll, accompanied by pounding on the sides, bottom, ahd tinder tho dock whera tha cirouibwas formed, told in intolli- gont langungo what causod all the rampus, The medium then el ¥ Wo wieh tobein- forned as to tho Imruuulnr cause of dluantis- Inction, a8 fo whethor tho woight, quality of graln, or whatovor may bo the cause, mxl wo premiso to havo iv correeted if within our power, Vould vou Do willing to communivato to the Coptain, through mo “ag o tranco medinm, all that you complain of and all that you desiro #" Threo taps followed theso questions, "Lho mediunt thon wout {uto a trance condition, and during tho period sho was under tho tranco iutluence, informed the circult that the only cango of Lthe dissatisfaction of the spirits way the mixing in the hold of tho vessel of TWO GRADES OF CORY, one boing of n good and excellent quality, then known in markot and b{. the ivspectors and do- livored to the vossel by tho clovators as No, 2 corn; tho other was damaged, being sour and musty, aud well-known to the trade as m{oc!ml cotn, tha object of tho shipper being manlfestly to soll tho wliolo cargo in New York on tho samples mado from the No. 2 or good corn, and practico a fraud on the buyers, thus bringing the Chicago olovators and the inspection syatow into contompt, aund laying tho foundation for tho ruin of the Chiengo groin-trade. They don’t.clain the privilego or seo tho necossity or utiity of proaching morality to Chlcn%u frain-dealers, but on board of tho Cromwol they will uot allow any such fraudy, and will abandon hor forover uniess tho Committeo of the Board of Wrado PABY MESOLUTIONS donouncing smch barefaced and impudent rogue- . 'They also sugwested that the ramo ruis of ingpection which governs mixed graing inspected in cars or cannl bonats, that tho inferior graiu shall bo thio srads, should bo also applied tomixod cargoces, and with much moro justice, whon ship- ped_on vesols. L'ass thoso resolntions, to bo confirned by tho whole Board of “Trado, and they. will withdvaw their opposition, Tho spirits nre thaukful for the course pursued nt tho uu%:gm— tion of tho Granger, aud as a tolven of their ro- gavd will fmmedintely present the circlo with somo of tho old rye already presouted to the trimmeys. With t!:0 exception of a momber of n_Good Tomplar Bociety and o merhbor of & Tather Mathew Soctety this announcement appeared to givo UNTOUNDED HATISPACTION to tho sholo, lo, which was increased, whon from the middle hatch of the Cromwell n rogular flack of Dbiack bottles, ull labeled *Old Ryo, 1856, enmo floating up fiko clond, distribating thomsclves nlong tho circuit, and presenting oach member in tury with n chance to unbibo tho precious bovernge, One person appeared not to l»lom tho spixity, for, on a bottlo appronching him, the boll rang sugrily, when the medium said that it was becauso tho moember wus tho 'Tomplar who, aa, floor manager at n tomperance dancing-purty, had em- ployed a drunken fiddler ~nnd ealler, ond got things so mixed up that tho wholo~party woro charged with being on a spree. L'ho Templer made an attempe at oxplan- ation, but was silonced by the beil und the jokes nud fanghter of the cirele, ANl being harmoni- ous, tho Board of Trade retired to the cabin, and, aftor u fow minutes' abaonce, presontod THUH FOLLOWING NESOLUTIONS, which wero promptly accepted by the spirits ¢ Lexoired, That tho Executive Committes of tho Chi- cago Board of Trade condemn the mixturo of ditforeut grades of graiu when shippod on board of luke vessely, und that it will use its fntluencn nnd authority to wut antop to such shipments in futuro, Rerofved, That wo rocomtaend that, iu future, all such cargoes Do Inspected and graded ouly us called for on the lowest grade delivered by olovators, Lewnlred, That we, for ourselves and the Toard of Tradv, vettirn our ieartfolt thauks to the apiritod crew of the Cromwell for the introduction of a aew brand of old rye, sud, in order to commemorato thix evont, wa Doy leave to huggest to the mombers of the Board of Trade that hereafter llll‘?' call for “ 0l ltye of the Oliver Cromywell * liran The boll now ramg with an approving jingle, the medium was restored to consciousuoss, the cords broke up, the grain commoneed flowing in- ta tho vossel, tho trimmers went to worlk, and th Cromwoll was loaded, trimmed, batches nll socured, aud i tow of the Mary McLean ia loss than an hour, and on her way to the Inkes, By tho timo she reached tho Madisou streot bridgo it was ovident thero was SOMETIING WRONG WITH TIUE GIIOSTS. They found they lind beon beaten, cheatod, ont- manouvered sud cornored by tho Bonrd of T'rade, ‘Tho Secretary of the Board and Committeo hay- ing appeared in the gullery of tho hall, kuocked with bis gnvel to call atiention, mado o short statement of tho case, and presented tho rosolu- tions passed on board the Cromwell, and moved their adoption. T'hoy wore immedlately burned by nearly all the mombiers, and & substituto was promply carried, not one voling in tho negative. Tecsnlved, That wo do not in any manner indorso tho two sirat resnintions, & Htesolved, That wo fudorso tho old ryo resolutfon, and congratulate our uble Committea on thoir kkill in recniring’ so voluable an wildition to onr futire cote forts by their ablo and business-like ability, The spirits were g0 lmmbled whon thoy found thamselyes boat that they coneluded to abandon their old ship, and, whon on lor voyago, on nenr- ing the place where sho formerly sunk, o boat n}?lronchcd hier, four shadows passed down her eides, and, when some distanco from her, n blug phosphorescent light aurronnded the hoat nnd orew, whon ull sunk into the dopths of tho luke, having found it an impossibility to roforn man- k(ilud_\txi}mn intorest or passion are to be contend- ed with, ———— ISilled by o Bear. Erom the Downicvitle (Cul,) Mevaenacr., We are indobtad to Mr. G, Itnines, of Surprise Vailoy, for the following particulars of tho kill- Iug of ‘& man by the vamo of Sumuol Berry, by 5 iguz' y bear, about 4 miles west of Slorravifle, 1 the mountums nt the hoad of Siorra Valloy, Berry was Jiving on a ranch bolonging to ono of tha Chureh Brothers, On Sunday lust ho ho loft lwme in his sbirt-sleoves to "exumino somo traps swhich o hed sot in the timber, taking no arms oxcept o hatehot and & bowie-knifo, As ho did not return Sunday night, soveral frionds stnrted out on Monduv to look for him, bit with wo success. On Tnosdey u party of ten mon scottred tho hill, but to no purposs. On Wednogday the oxcitomont becama general, and about forty mon joined in tha Lunt, and the body wag found as above stated. As' noav ns could bo dotormingd, Borry was walking along on his snow-shoes, when. tho bear sprang out of a lollow 1 the roots of n large tree, and in front of the man, who, ;1t appenrs, Jjumped from his whoos and run. 1lo succoedod 1 gotting abont ton rods, when tho benr pulled him dows und killed bim, 1t did not apposr that ho bud mndo muok it any fight, ‘Fho hiead and broust Liad Leen enton away, I'rom the traoks it wa avidont thut the hear was w vory largo ona. ‘Lho deconsod wos o nativo of Ivoland, nged over yeu, e In one of our Walnut atrest dry.goods houses in omployed & youug ‘man of diminutive stature sid somewhat feminine appoaranco, althougn o tip-top enlcoman wnd clerk, One day, not fonyg vinee, n littlo givl waw went to tha ntore to muke some purchuses, and it foll to tho lok of this n toaltend lior, Blio was o tmoro bunch iity, not ablo to tatkc plnhl. 1t ho lind any ** totton thinnel.”” Ifa ropliod that ho hud, and “aeked how much sho wantod, ¢ don't know,” was tho ronly. * Woll, what do you wantit for#" suaid the elork. * Want to wuka papi b sliir” 4 Woll, how biis s your papn s i }lu ae b as o 7" 4 B as you ! gaid tho dtte muiden, * I doss ho s ; ho wouldu's bo much of & papa 3f Lo wasn't."—Des Moines Negister, Bio anked - other : COLORADO. A Trip Over Hoosier Pass. The Muagnificent View from the Summit, Minoral Riches---0ld Tom Allen and 1tis Lode. The Abandoned Town of Mont- gomery. - Spectal Correspondence af The Chieaaa Tribune, OAxoN Oi1y, Cul,, Dee, 21,—Colorado clfnato ia always beautiful: thoro i a dolicious warmth, and charm, aud plensantness, about it, caleulat- ed to oxpand tha langa nnd intoxicats tho senses; but 1t was nover displayod to btter ad- vontago than in October last, when wo crossed that noted spur of the main rango Iying midway Letweon tho mining towns of Alma and Brockine ridgo, and known by prospoctors and hunlots as THE HODSIER PASK. The distauto is about 20 miles; but, owing tothe brolien nattirs of the growud, and the many ul ost perpendielar pitches, & good horse and skillful rider require fromi twelve to thirteen hows to make tho trip, The pasy was fieat dis- coverdd, croased, aud named, by Fromont, lu ono of hiuaclontific axpeditions to thoso rogions ; but, of lato Joirs, tho rond or trall leading ovor it Lins beeu aliowed to fall to docay,—a botter and moro expedlitious route baving beon opened to Broclunridge aid tho gold placer minos of Sumn- mit County, by way of Ilamilton, situated noar the mnorthern boundary of tho South Dark. Dreckinridge boing located on the wostorn slopo of tha mam range, tho principal bulk of tho tkavel and stipplies from Donvor, Contral, Cal- orado Hprings, Pucblo, and” Canon City, comes by way of the Iattor route. Thoe road is hard and smooth, ond an ordinary span of mules can hanl o ton of flour, bacon, pota~ tops, canned fruit, miners’ eupplies, aud Rross matorial, up above the clouds, and scttlo down filto tho valloy ngain, with the groatest easo, toll belag rellglously ex- ncted, howevor, ot tho rate of 10 conts o milo, irrespoctive of lioof or convoyauce, Owing to the violent snow-storms \hich sot in_sbout tha 13Lh of October, and continuo till the 1st of May, tho rond is only kept open during the winter montha with much difiicalty; and, at timos, it Is blocked up from one cnd of tho paes tu tha othor. Whon this occurs, tho Breckinidge meil and rupplics are forwarded on snow-shoes, aud inatances nre roported of men who, singly land afone, took over from 76 to 100 pounds n this muuner. It i rathor tircsomo business, howaver, snd but fow arc incliucd Lo adopt it as o profes- 10n. . The American Continent may be scoured i vaiu for seenery that partakes more of TILE SUBLIME AND STUPENDOUS, than 8 to ba found inthe vicinity of Brectinridgo aud tho 1loosler Pass. 1loro is n reglon of lofty mountaing, huge spars, dizzy canons, fearful procipices, fautastic rocks, sparkling strenms, charming porks, and Ligh, sharp poaks, which +givo riso to the sources of somo of tho moat fm- yortant strenms, such as the Blne, Eagle, Piatte, and Arkanaas, togetlier with thoir tributarios, of which the Swan and Snake Rivers are tho most important. Tho Platte and Arknusas aione .miugle their wators with the Mieslssippi; tho rest flow lo tho Pacifie, This groat grotip of peaks and monntafo-mesves js principally composed of n part of tho front or main rango of tho Itocky Mountains, embracing its culminating polnts,—Gray's and Torroy's. Wiltiams’ Rango, Glncier or Montezuma Runge, Bluo River and Lark Rangos, all form.an intorscction, and then unite in ouo groud chain to tho Uncompagu Mountains, which skirt tho Sau Juan Valloy on thie gouth, ) Hoosior Pugs has an altitudo of 10,000 feet, and i coverad with serugey ploes to' tho very summil. To tho right, v you appronct the mit- ing towns of Tairplayaud Alma, 6 wiles distant, stands JIT. LINCOLY, tho grim old sonvinel of Naturo's troasures strown around,—cool, rolomn, majestic,— reaching ity 'crest’ np to' tho vory zonith,—its wides flocked with mnow. Bve OFy KOTgo, every ravine, atands ont in bold re- lef; the minors’ cabing ure plainly visible, and cna can almost behold tho flagstall on the penls. T'o tho left of thopnas is another giant mountain which stretches up ovor 13,000 feet, undt yet has never been honored with u nams. A long, grad- ual declino slopes toward the Platte to timbor lino; and, on the oceasion of our trip, tis was covered with snow, Tooking us blouk and inhiospi- table as an Aretic landscapo. Luarrived ot tho sunmmit about noou, and, dis~ mounting from my faithful horse, turned him looso to' graze upon the stunted but nutritions cross, and, solocting o large, flat bowlder, snt Su\vn to enjoy the prospect. I'he warm snn was molting the snow rapidly, and had conxed out n laryze uumbor of poroujies, of all sizes and all degrees of impndence. One old patrisrch, more aggrossive than tho rest, sosmed disposed to ro- gord ma in the light of an_intruder, and yelpad iind showed hia teoth in n vory sugeslive. mar- ner, A rovolver-shot sottled tho ulfairs of carth Ko far aa ho- was concerned, and ho settled down to beeome food for the buzzards. ¥ TIIE PANORAMA UNIOLDED was_onoIecon never forget. To tho eust and south, stretehod ont like & mop, with its ravines, und gorges, aud mauntaius, was tho South Park, in the contre of which tho Ilatto gleamed like a thrond of silvor, James', Gray', and Lincoln Peaks stood crowding over us, and wo _ocould ses the very source of the Platto, whore it emorges from an alwnys frozon Inke. Now und then, o cloud with moistare in its bosom would como bubbiug along ‘jusl overhead, creating n damp, unpleasant fooling ; to be followed, tho noxt momont, by @ burst of sunshine. At my foet, aud 8o visiblo that the windows of tho louses conld Lo counfed, wore tho muiing-towns of Quartzville, DBuckski Montgomory, Dud- loy, Almar, aud Fairplay,—all .aglow with tho lght of furmnces, whilo tho smolko went upward in fleecy columns. Bohind could bo traced tho valleys of tho Blue, Bwan, and Snakae Rivors, to tha very borders of the Middle Darlk, 80 miles away ; undto the west, in all thoir glory, staod rovealed somo of tiie mora promi nont oitadels of the Gunnison River Niango, When Fremont fivst crossed this pass, he built & rude monument of slono: but it has boon torn down by Vaudals aud the action of the oloments, and now only the foundation is visible. Nomon- nment, however, i8 required; the pass itscll bold and pieturesque enouglvto comninnd attens tion on the score of ecenory alone, but wdded to thiy are ¥, SUSERAT NIOHES, which grow more favcivating us they ure devel- oped, Right npon tho sunini, and not more than 200 yards from the tuuil, two entororising minors havo struck s gold lode, and are taking oat oro that assnys &1,600 to the ton, On tho wostorn slopo we sirika the gold placor mines, which oxtend dowu the Bluo and up the Swan awl Snake Rivors; and the injority of tho claims, though discovered years ago, aro still worked on the hydrauliv system, .~ LPuswing along tho rond, tho attention of tha travoler 18 divocted to o small log cabin which stands in the odgo of & clump of soraggy pines. I'ho roof 18 covered with Dark, ond a majostio pair of autlers hungs ovor tho doorway, It iy unprotentious and humble in its surroundings, and au air of blank desolation weems to pour from tho oraoked window; und yot, only st apring, 326,000 in gold way offered and refusud for this cabin and the ground upon which it stands, to the oxtent of 100 feot w avery i~ roction, The oxplunation it simple, ‘e cabin stands ovor tho shuft of one of the richest gold lodes in the district, the ore ranging i value from $800 to #8,000 to the ton. [t known ng tha Montezwma Aline, und i owned by an indi- yidual who respouds to the namo of TOM_ALLUN, o is now past the meridian of hfe, Lowed snd wrinkledd by yours amul exposura; but his norye iy shill wteady, hig oyo undim- wmed, his wuseles Clike Inotted sk, Aho eabin ia built over the mouth of tho shaft, aud Do lives hero with nothing but hio rifo and ralthful dog to hoar bim company. Sununor sud winter, it i ail tho sama to O1d Tom, . Whunover the flonr runs law, or fresh firncorlon ure ro- quired, ‘T'om goes to bis bank, brlngs up & fow ocen of oru, puiverizes thow with his hatehot, wud wuphos ot what gold mny b nncuumrr to rmuko thy. purchans,—u customy which ho Dbas punsned from thmo hmmomoriul. Bomo l‘hllmlnil)hhl purtivs examived the lode quite thovouhly last spring, aud they woro #u- tonished ot its viclmors, They ofered old Tam 225,00 in gold coins und an intoront in tho miny, provided o would ovacuate wnd_sllow soma madorn meehinory to he placed in ity but ho re- Tuned to badge Lo was not for salo, “Lhiove was eriongh to keop Lim In good siylo whilo he lived; the dividends wore wlivays sure ; anade in thus selling bis birthright for u mesy of 1t was novor affectod by tho mnrkot or fluotustion of stock; thora woro no ausponsions or dofalon- tlous; thioven conld not bronic In and oarry it off3 in ehort, tho lods suited hjm, ‘and ho intonded to keep it Lixpostulation’ aud on- troaty worn of no uso, and the Instorn gontle- man ware forced to ruluo the sioge nnd leavo Old om fu quiot possossion of hia mino, Ilo fs still thore, aud, wlion lio dies, I hiavo no doubt that his body will Lo fonnd reclining at the hot- tont of tho shaft, nud surronnded by wspecimens of ily chulcest ore, At tho baws of tho pass, on tho enst, nnd lo- catod noar_tho liendwators of tho Platta, which is horo » dnshing, Drawling strenm, scarcely ‘10 foet wido, i tho anciont miinlug town of MONTAOMERY, to which briof roforouco was mado in . forner lottor to ‘'uz TuisuNE. Onco it wha an activo burg, with hotols, stores, saloons, faro-banks, dancing-halls, aud olber concomitnnts of n mine ing camp in full blast ; but now, with the ex- coplion of n fow eabing In tho outukirts, It is entiroly desorted, and thotravolorpassos through with o graveynrd faoling, Thorom no wign of hnnn, antmal, or vegetablo lifo, © Tho streots’ and plank sldownlks are still thoro, nud the old pgus pinced in Tront’ of tho maloohs and’ dance-hally still swing upon thoir rusty hingos ; but tho houses aro dismantled, tho réofs caved -in, the doors and windows battered out, aud tho bars, which once clatlored with the musiv of glanses, and formeod a support for the olbown of sturdy miners, aro worm-caton and dacsyed. T Imllml by curiosity, I outorod ono of 'tho largest buildings. " It hiad formerly boen usod g8 o hotol, and the floors and walls wore not obly iun good stato of preservation, but con- sidornblo fmnituro was still romniniug in some of thio rooind, On tho nocond floor was u nice, cosy bed-room, with two beds, and the clothes thrown ek in o heap, ua though tho occupante had {,umped-nut in & hurry, and forgotton to como ack and placo tho thitigs o rights, The chairs and tables wero covered with dust, awl in one coener was & pair of common gold-seales, con- taining N A NOTE, on which was inseribod, without date : “Tuat wolghed out my last ounco of gold Lo Poker Jim, who stocked em on nie, d—n hilm | M, I'narr, Whut Leeame of poor Pratt 1s only a matter of conjecturo; but, as & strapped indi- vidusl ‘wes rogarded with supreme con- tompt in tho minos, tho iuforonco iy plain thnt hodrowned himself in tho Platte, Old boots, oystor-cans, dinmantled army-blaukets, and othati articles, woro seattared about in profusion, 1lere stands expousive mhchinory for tho roduc- tion of ores, whic conld only havo boen import. od at tho cost of thousands of doMara; but it proved worthloss for the purposa de- sigued, and has boon abandouwed. In short, Mohtgoimery is onl ihg comotery of former mining speculations ; nnd the ghostsof Toaton speculators, who wera inducod (o' Inyost their money licro, are roported t0 walk tha slreots. Thoro s Somothiig oppressivo in tho silenco and dosolation of tho plave, and n focling of rolict atolo over mo when I again resumed tho rond, and gtrnck out for the inore modern town of Alma, 4 miles boyond. . —_—— POLITICAL ITEMS. A call 18 mado for I, G. Ityan to become & can- dldato for tho oftlce of Chiol-Justice of Wiscon~ aln, of the olection noxt April. Gon. Jolin T. Bprague, tho former Milltary Qovernor of Florida, now rosiding nt St. Augus- lélnn, aspires to the oflico of United States Sena- or. fobils (Aln.) city election, Doe, 23, Tlurtel, Domoerat, was elected Mayor, with tho entire Domocratic Hetiet, by about 1,800 majority, Tho reglatration was, whites, 4,083; colored, 2,246, C, T. Ryland, of 8an Jose, has Leon ndded to the Tist of Domacratic akpirants for Gavernor of Culifornia, Still they come, Rorch, Irwin, Far- ley, O"Conner, Findley, and many othors to nu- merous to montion. "Che Northfield Standard recommends tho Op- position, 1 tho Minnesota Lepishuturs, to it John 8, Tillsbury (Liepublican), of Minncnpolis, in nomination for Senator, insfoad of tryivg to elect some Democratic huck, Gov. Peck, of Verniont, has at lust decided to” eall an oxtro gexsion of the Legisluture to pro- vido'for robuildimge tho Stato lteform Kchool- Touse, recently burnod at Watorbury, and it will asgemblo on Wednesdny, Jan, 1. _‘I'his sossion will cost tho State from $10,000 to 20,000, Sonator Sarnighausen (Democrat), of Forb Wayno, repents his former doclaration that Lo will under no condition of nffairs voto for Dan Yoorhoes for United States Senator, Beveral other Democratio members of the Legislature aro uuderstood to ocoupy u similnr position,— Ligonier (Ind.) Banncr. ** Col." Lo Scott dvesn’t want a % wubsidy for his Toxas Prcific Railroad. 1lo is well awara thut the Lacifle Mail Company tins mado subsi- dies unfasblonuble. Al lie wants is & ** guaran~ teo." Congress eliould ba vory earoful about Tom Scott's “guarantes,” or “that inuocuous word muy becoman very poison, like uuto the fumous * C. N."—Durlinglon latwk-Eye. Tho Leavonworth Ztimes thinks tho strongth of tho various Dewocratic candidatos for Hona- tor, from Miasouri, is about ns follows: (ion. Frank M. Cockrell, 31; tho Hon. Jahn 8, Pholps, 16; Gov. Silas Woodson, 63 Judgo 1T M. Vories, udgo W. P, [ull, 8;' Judge 2. H. Norton, of Plutto, 2; ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown, 8; Mayor Jeseph Brown, £; Lhomus €. Roynolds, 9 Stil- :ou lléltvhme, 7; Thowus Allen, 6; Georgo G. Vost, 8, If wo wote to mako a %msu as to affalrs in tho immedinto folure of Tepubhean matters in Wisconsin, it would bo momething like this: That Horaco Itubleo, who bas been chafiug some limo iu his Bwitzerlaud Ninlutumhi¥. will resign and como home ; and that James . Howo, who huy juut rosignod tlie United States Judgeship, will bo appoiited o and accopt. Ehnt position ; that Mr. Rubleo will not unlikely become an impor- tunt oloment in tho contest for Carponter's placo —and that the d— will be to pay generally, with o pitet hot. ow will that do for n prediction ? —Q@reen Bay ( Wis)) Advocale, ho Souatorinl contest in Indlann betwoen Mosurs. McDonald and Voorlices is embittered, on one sido ot leust, by the fact that some timo prior to tho elestion Voorheos pledgoed himself 1ot {0 bo » cendidate for the Senato in cago tho Democraty wero_ suceessful, At that time tho prospoct of a Democratic vielofy wo# 80 nue certain that this arrangement wus effected with- out mnch difiiculty, it boing urged on tho par of McDouald thut a reversionsry claim on tho Bonntorship was no more than_his dua for cous ducting tho campaign, aud leading so forlorn hopo. Dut whon tha Domoerals cnrried tho Btato with a whirl, and eamo riding ito ‘pawer on tho largest wave of the swason, the Vigo Conuty statosman maw what n mistake hio hud s cold boans (iudofinltely deforred at thut), nod, with that manly Imln};mulnum which has churagtorized his whole political career, he do- tormined to reacind his pledge and become n candidato for tho Honate. 1lo was enconraged to this by tho sousoless applause nccorded to him a8 tho author of the inflation-ropudiation planks in tho Demoacratic platform, and by the supposed unpopularity of Mr, MoDonald's position on tho linanclal question, Brushing aslde his promise, therorore, and oquippiug himself with n com~ !flnL outfit of argumonts in-defonso of repudin- ion, of doprecinting tho curroncy, and of the ealary-grab, ho bounded into tho arenn with n ‘whoop that mada the wolkin ring, aud began to prauco around in a manuer that fillod fim ale with dust and Jow-cnsto Domocrats with dblight, Tintering tho fighv under such cirenmstuncos, it might bo suppored that he would do ny ho has dono : burn his bridpzes behind him and go In to win—ZIndianapolis Journal, GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Gon. Tench Tlighman, a well-known and influ- ential citizon of Talbot County, Mnryland, died vory suddenly in Daltlmore Tussday morning, uged G5, William _Cushing (brothor of Cnlnh?, olootod Mayor of Nowburyport, Muss,, when nbsout, do- clmios 1o aceept, aud » now olection luy been or- dored for Muvsdny noxt, o, Tames Longstroot, the notorlous ox-Con. feddorate Rndical, of Now Ortoans, was in Gnines- ville, Ciu, tho othor duy, 1o will probably mako thut city hls homo,—Allanta News, 1%, T, Ames hos purchased, at anction, all tha roal estate helonging to the holrs of the late Oalios Amas ju North Enston, West Bridgowator, eaintreo, aud Canton, for 000,000, Honry D, Smith, the Prolibition vandidato for Govarnor of Conneotiont, wis run awav with at Putuuy, on Monday, aud buroly osoaped with his lifo, Ho wus thyown from hib onnvingo, nud ro- colved soveral #ovote bridses on the hoad and body, A rocont patent for nmup consinta in having thouo portions intended to ropresent tho rivegs, Intes, and oveany fillod with actunl water, Thiy is dona by uttnching the map to n back of woord of suflcient thicknobs, « Tho tivers, oto., aro dug aut, tillod with water, wid plized. Steht mops may bo hung upon the wall in the usuzl mauner, Bamuel J, Andoraon, who blow out hiu owny . lubors of vur brniug lnst Sunduy in Mlanta, [cfb th following among hiv buauesty ;%o Robert Loombr—uy Distol, with my rocommondation that ho rid the world of his prosenco by imitating my oxamplo.” And yot komo pooplo nro silly ohiough to jnsing that 10 man over commita suivido unlons nsung ot the thne. Could the deceasod Anderson linve nossibly given stronger proof of liy montat sounducss ?— Nashville ( Tenn.) Union, The Froomnn contested wiil casg, on anponl from tho Probata Court, will comaup for (rial fn tho Wayue Circult Court on Tucsday nost, nnd ialikoly toacoupy sovoral days. 'Tiis 4 tho caso in which Mra, Yrooman mado o will bo- quoathing lior proporty to Mis. Martin, & spltit- unl mediuny, and Mra, Frooman's sptritual a viser. 'Ilis will fa contentod by Mrs, Froomnan's rolatlves on the grotnd that tnduo infinenco was bmn{zh: to hioat to induco hor to will lier prope orly to Mrs, Martin, Thoro aro ahout ixty \vft- nossos in the caso, which bids fair to bo ono of grent public intercat.— Delroil Tribune. THE REY, B, D, HAMSOS, A Ntatoment By the Reve M tom, of Gnlesbury, o the Eilitor of T'he Chicago Tribune: Gavessunoq 1ll, Dec, 20.—On Doc. 10, nnd sgain Doc. 17, your editorial columns mado cor~ tain stalmmonts respecting tho Rov. 15, 1, TTume moud, the woll-knoivn Uvaugelist, which stato- ments Linve causod no littls rogrot hore, amony aclngs of poople to whom tho best support of your papor iy duo, If tho typos really tell your mind, you have boen lod {o givo the powarful In- fluenco of your paper to a number of very choap ond transparent slanders. 1t surprises many Amouy us that a groat motropolitan journal, like Tus Tinuse, shoutd consent to stako ropnéa- tion for faimess on tho second-hand 1lings of an obsearo country paper (Lho Gulosburg Plain- dealer), whose angry and rockless churges wo flna you quoting with full editorial sauction, Some ono has made o mistako, autd I am suro nono will be mors cordlally witling than yourself to biavo any misunderstauding corréoted, You mention o “8t. Louls prize-fightor” as ono employed by Mr, Ilammond to labor here in bis meetings at ** 83 por dien,” Mr, Bmuth, of 8t. Louls, » convert In Me. Himmond's noctihpy A year ago, was neroa fow days. 1lo came un- oxpectodly Lo Mr. IL 3 ko bobied Jiko o docent man; bLo was not paid & dimo by Mr. IL., or any one elso in the eity; and his bebavior did con- vinco a good many thit tho attempc he wag wmaking tolive a Christian lifo was somothing a goad doal better thai the ral-balting, prize-ight- ing, and drunkouness, of bis unconvertod past, Again, you speak of & eupposed scandalons passago during Mr, Hammond's stay in Provi- dence, I 1., somo yoars siuce,—of & chargo in opon meeting of personal lowdnoss, which somo suppose to havo resulted in un undignitied scam- por out of townr by the disgracod prenchor. . The cditor of the Galosburg Plaindealer told thig rathor strong story bofore your poper did; but we bad heatd him tall slrangely before, ud wvora not surprised at his libertios ; vo did hopo better of Tur Tnimoye, Lowover, Lliis snnder was very quickly explod- od by a lgtter recelved from the presont Principal of the Stato Normal School at Providenco, giv- Ing 2 most emphatic denfal in every partieuier, stating thit A, 1. won wido respect and affece tion whilo in Trovidonco ; that & crowd of his Irionds bade him farewell astho railcoad-station; sud that it was universally ncknowledged that thoresults of his stay in Lho ety had beon overy way axcollont, us wall ns pormanent, You state, furthor, that a ¥ brother-clorgy- man ” in Galesburg threateued to oxposo Mr. Iammond's character. This “brother-clorgy- man " is pastor of tho Universalist Chureh ; ho 18 n ruan of ubility, and is undoubtedly as honest 18 suy of us in 18 motives any opinions. From the boginning, however, he has scomed doter— mined to boliove Mr. Lmmmond n first- claxg h‘\'smcritn and fraud, and it is at loast doubtful whother he would bo williug to nccu,:t tholitlo you give him s Mr. IL.'s * clorieal broth- er.” Of courso, the pastor in question haa aclear right to whatever opiuion ho chooses to nccopt rogarding Alr, Hammond ; but it {8 not quito im- osstblo, in viow of tho circumstauces, {hnt his evtimuto may not be altogother judicial oue, or that looso and malicions runiors” rogarding tho muu ho is willing to abhior may not assumic an importanco which strict impartiality would not uccord them. You further describo tho roligious situation here na o * protty ight,” Why, sir, Gulesbury bas nover hofore scon tho day when such cordinl and intimato harmony has provailed throughout her various churches, Difforonces are forgate ton, allenations are turned to friondship, and the Hpirit of Christiun kinduess igallubroad. Thero Liss beon no fight, because, while somo, misjudg- ing as wo thinik, bave angrily attacked My, Ham~ mond and bis work, nono have beon willing to rotaliato,—feeling that, when mon nro soundly ut work fora good objeet, they are most likoly to suceeed by * patient continuanco fu well-doing.” A word, with your pormission, diroctly with reference to Mr. Hammond’s labors in this com- munity, 1Ilo was hero threo weoks, closing his work lnst Butlu‘dnfl. Ho has been zenlous and indofatigable. 'Phoso who have watehed him most constuntly testify with one voico to their confidenco_in iim a8 o man deeply in earnest to do good. o is uniquo in manner and methads ; but, asido from all thutig occentric and peculiar, there is an undovinting fidelity to what the man holds to bo his mission under God, viz. : the persuading men to rightoousnoss. The grent majority of religious people hera feol that incaleufnblo good has beon dono ihirougl Hir. llamwoud's instrumentnlity, ullicd to tho Christinn co-oporation of tho churches ; nor iy tho end yet. Wo believe that the rovival of righlcousness now m progress among us will continue ; new prools of an ex- tonsion of its good ulfects nro appurant overy day. Wo nro porsunded thnt hundreds have quietly taken sidos with God, and will live noblor lives for it. I am sure thut my words ropresent the overwhelmiug preponderance of tho religious sentiment in this community, nor cun I doubt that T spoak for tho groat mijority of tho readers of Tne Tumuxe herenbout, What I have written has boon nt the expressed desiro of a largo number of your subseribers, ag well as at the request of miinistetiul brothren, coliborors with mo in My. Hammond's mectiugy, Wo would like inserted, also, tho following Dbriof testimoninl to our united confidence in Ar. Ilzmmond j it was presented at the last evou- ing-gorvico held - by Alr, 1, in owr Opera- House, Dee, 18, Wo might well have made it moro unqualifed ‘in its comniendations, but wo wished 1o avoid auy suspicion of special pleading in his behalf ¢ For tha past threo weeks, the Rev, E, P, Mammond Lios lubored us an Evaugolist in Galesbury, Lolding two or three meotiugs daily, W, the underalyned, min- isters in this city, having noted Lis methiods of’ work, wund having joined in hiw kervices, do_cheorfully coms miend him t0 the brotliorhood of, ministers and earnost Clirlstiun workers, wherover by inuy ‘o many minds hi mode of conduéting mieetings apuears novel aud open to eriticlin, but we cordially ackuowledge tho very oxcollent results of {he religious muvement haw progressing i our community, refor ablo ko fargely, under God's blessing, to the faithful dear Brotior Hummond. AL L, Witustoy, Pustor Cougregutional Clinreh § M, B, Lawnie, Tastor Presbylerian Olureh 3 8, W, Brows, Pastor Hulhudlgt :piscopal Chnrel § Winise tlon ; 3, 0. Giravass, Pastor Secoud Bapiist Oburch, @Garranuna, Dec, 18, 1874, Allow me, léo, to insert a sontonco from an cditorfal in our dally pupor, tho Republican- Leegister ; tho articlo was wrilten by tho editor- in-chiof, » man who has never eared to call him- #olf u distinetivaly roliglous porson, but who does eave Lo bo Just in lus opinions, Ifo says, in nfivnxy candid roview of the rovival moves mont : “Ihut tho good produced Dy these meetings will ho permunent, wo havo uot {he Teast doubt; thut many dumudred of peesons il Iook back o the Galeabury revival with thankfut lioartans long aa they live, wo havo us littlo doubt, ., Personally, wo"shuil al ways rotain o pleaning recoltuction of Mr, Hummond, a6 w0 ednented, fulinted, ologuent, cacentrio, dra matle, earnest, wnd zoalous gentlemon, Our. best Wwishes go with i on his journey to the Oceidont, Tho Weekly Free Press of thin city s no less vordint in ity wpproval of tho spirit and resalty of Ay, Hammoud's Inbors with us, Pardon the longth of this communieation; it 18 oxonnable on the ground of common justive to % good man, andto a greut onueo, Viz.: tho Christlan voliglon, Whatover somo may think of tho specinl oxpreasion givon, it {s trye, novortho- long, thut a world of doop and siucers roligions fealing has boen onlisted in- tho rovival mova- ment hore, and, uy suely, it lns a right to o fair reprosontation, if any, in your columns, which arg ||rumunmllf'_ dovatod to worthy uses alone, Moroover, inthis matter, T am spokesman for a grout host of your subreribing constitaoncy, not only in this seetion, but thronghout (5o widy Northwest, uud L know that son hoid thoiv con- victions ju 1ospect, Yours for tho toutly, M, L Wivniston, Pastor First Congrogational Chtucl, Uslesbitrg, CONSOLIDATION. Shall the Supreme Court Soitle nt Springfield ? Reply to Some of the Points Made by Judge MeAllister, Otentlon of Appellato Courts, Sipeeial Curreapondence of The Chicago Tribune, Lriserroy, 11, Dee, 23,—1Tho subject of con. wolidation of (Lo Supremo Court, and kindred Yuostions, have been ko fully discusned in Tug Tuinuse, both editorinlly and througl cotro. spondence, that any further discuesion filght bo deotned stipetudus ; but it 14 possiblo to fill up somo littlo gaps in tho cage w0 far ns ab present befora tho publle. ‘Lo firut nrticle that appearod on tho subject was ong in Ty Tninums: of Oct. 26, Subsor quontly a letter from Jurge SeAtlistor appeared, aud then on the fth of November tho * Dar As. #nclation " hold w mecting, ot which tho report of wcominltlco embodying rosolutions in favor of tho chango wns discussed. 1n the coutse of that diseussion, Indge Lawrenco, speaking from his personsl oxperiones when on tho Bench of tho Supreme Court, stated eubatantinlly * that it was thio custom of the Court to divide itsolf inla tiwos and threes, and cousider tho cases brought befora thom at each term of court, and conclude, nmong thomselves, what should ho tha goneral character of tho decitlon of tho Court, leaving it to indlvidual membors to writo o opintoits at_thoir leisura,” Thongh .x.l‘;".i‘,‘: largety truo whon Judgo Lawrenco mat a8 Chide Justice, . 1T 18 TRUE N0 L.oNGER, Tho immonsity of tho buniess of the Conrt, the large Mumber of. motions mnde ench dny, —ond wiich have to bo decided us fast ay they drise,—preclude the possibility of this; and, ub tho Inst torm of Court ot Ottawa, instend of 'the Court remniving thoro throo or four waaks, ag nsual, fon tho very prirpiose [ndicnted by Judgo Lawronee, tho Judges all loft for homo on tfiu second doy aftor adjournment to * Court in coursc,* which rnders it ovidont that tho mody of procceding skotched in 'I'nk Trinusg (and for which Walker, Cb. J., Is authority) Ia tho ona actually practiced to-ddy, whatevor mdy have beon the caso in tho past, . ON THE QUESTION OF NESIDENCE, £ no doubt Sce. 3, Art, VL, of thio Constitutlon of 1870 roquires that tho Judges shall bo residants in tho districts in which they are olected ; but if tho proposed onyolidation shonld bo offected, thoy would probubly bada fucto residents of Spriagfield during their term of oflice, though not forsaling thoir *local babitation,” It lLiss booh contended by somo portios that the chingo would irivolve GREATER EXPENSE TO LITIGANTS, In a caso fram Chicago, tho only additiont ox. Yenso would bo nbout #2 extra railroad fare, and this would be in part compensated for by the fact that thero aro holels in Springliold chirgihg £2 por day, quito ag_goodl as tho Olifton nt O tawa, while n¢ Monnt Vornon thero is literally ng accommedidtion ta bo Liad which any fair-minded man ironld adjudge to bo worth more thun 60 covts a day, i Another objection that has been slrongly urgod ds, that the Supreme-Court practico wonly becoma vosted in u fow individunls, It is difil~ cult to conceive that thore coh bo any cinsority in_ihis objection, Tho counsol who attend tq cases in the Supromo Court are almost invarin- bly tho same who avtended to thom in the courts below. Truoit18 that somotimes an inforior lawyer finds bo has a case of vast importance on bis linnds, snd then, if he bo an houcat lnwyor and & man of good souse, o advises his cliont to retain additional avd ‘moro ominent connssl i but thia is 10 moro frequont_in the Bupreme Court than on the trinl in tho inferior coura Having thus cleared away somo of the smallor questions which havo accumulated in tho courss of tho discussion, . . _ TUE LETTEIS OF TUDGE M'ALLISTER suggeat fome poluta worthy of noticing, L'hot tho business of the . Supreme Court is quormous no ono will doubt; do not. un}n{uuy sinecure no onocan gawmsay. But it in probably truo that the mereass of liti- gation docs not vary much in proportion to tha 1ncrease of wealth, trados and industry in our Btate. If this bo so, thoro ia nothing to be alurined at in_the rapid growth of our law busi. noss, Thoro is one point upon which Judgo Mo- Allister does not scom o havo reflected, nnd that is, that smong the most prolific causes of Iitigation aro tho frequent and radical changes n our statutes, nnd the carolesness or want of kuowledge on the part of the anthors of them, which makes their meaning doubtful and re- quires a construction to bo put upon them by tuo Supremo Court, Isitnot truo that fully one-half of tho casosbeforo that Court are car- riod thoro for this purposs? ‘Lo ix an amount bolow which appeals cannot bo talen would bo to denrive the poor man of hisrighta. Suroly, i any ono nocds the pro- toction of this high and impartial tribunal it ia the man of “low degrce,” snd not the million airo or tho ‘*goulloss corporation.” That o groat muny ** TRABITY OASES," in which no principle of law is involved, come bofore this august body, is probably trie, and whother tho fault bo with the lawvers or with tho Judgos, or i aitributable ouiirely to tho presont modo of instructing jurics is not neces- #ary tossttlo hero; tho groat nct remain that o majority of tho casos are “roversed snd ro- manded,” thus domonstrating tho nocessity for tho appoal. b "I'hut tho Buprome Court eannot be incressed in numbors under the proyisions of the prosent Conatitution is o fact; and it may be donbtfnl whethor, i _the power oxiuled, it would_bo pro- ductivo of nny good resulls to excreigs it. But tho Constitution does provide A REMEDY for mauy of the ovils complained of by Judge MeAdlistor, in tho establishing of **intermedi- ate” or “ul)pollnla" courts, The uuthority to eatablish such courts commences nfter 1574, It is conferred in Art, VL., Scc, 11, of tha Consti- tution of 1870, which is as follows: After the yoar of our Lord 1874, inferlor appellate courts, of uniform organization and jurlsdiction, may bo orerted in districts formed for that purpase, (o which such appeals and writs of error 19 the General Ameubly nas provido may bo proveeuted from Cir- cuit aml other courts, aud fromn which appeaty and writa of orror shull 1o to the Suprema Court, in all erlminal caees, and casen in which 3 franchlso of free- hold or the validity of & statuto is fnvolved, aud in wich other cases wi may be provided by law. Buch appollato courts shall bo held by stch mumber of Jitdges of tho Oircuit_ Courts, aud at such times and }ilnw!. and fu snch manuer, 08 shall bo provided by aw ; but no Judgo shull it n_roview upon cases de. citled by him, nor shall aid Judues recalvo any addi- glonal compousation for such xervicus, It mny possibly kappon that some of our Cir- enit Judgos biuve 80 much work to do, in the dig- charge of their ordinary dutios, that thoy would objoct to this arrangenient; but whon wo see sa many of thom coming to Chicago to aesist our own Judges, it 14 Tnzu evident that a largo num- bLer of thom Im%u Lio requisito loisure ta onubla thom to dischargo the duties of appellnte Judges. Lt would not tho establishing of such appe! Iato conrts bo an additioual reason why the Si- premo Conrt should bo cousoliduted at the Slata Caplatl? We thivk it would. The numbor of cakes to ho considered by it would bo greatly diminished, aud, boing nlmost elwaya of genoral, insteall of meroly local, importanco, thoy mighl Just ag woll bo “decidod by the Suprows Conrt, sitting at tho soat of (rovernment, n by LI samo Court eitting at any other placo or places, “Uhion again ESTHETIOALLY GONSIDERED, when our magnificont Capitol building shall hava boun completed, it is fitting that it stiould be mude tho pormanunt howe of our Buprema Court, just for tho #ame ressons that tna Supronto Court of the United States haa its homa in the Capitol building at Washington. It has alroady buen pointed out in Tuk Tarp. unt that the pooplo of LaSalle County would be vory glad to uno the Suprome Court uilding st Ottawa for tho purposcs of a Circalt Couct. 11 this woro objected to, and the Gonrt-Fouses al Ottawy and Mlonnt Vornon should go woopingly boggiug for tenunta to occupy thom, then by all monns It thom be appropriated to tho uses ot ho Appolate Courls, i Sty Watzzing Anothor fione, A Now lHampshire school-teachor lutoly wny quedtioning ous of his olass upon the anatomy of the human body, sud, standing upou ono fool and swinging tho other foob aud limb, ho in- quired how many bones ho wasmovinr. Boyoral incorreet poswerd were glven at first, but attoy it had boon auawored correotly the quostion war asked If sty of the scholara thought diforautly, Alltclo follow, nob you in his teans, raisod hie hand Immediutely, signifying thu? ho Qisngreed with his sehaolmintes, aud the toacher, ropealing tho quaetion, * How wnny bones wus I moving #* wan nstonshed (o hear the liwlo chap inorened {ha proper number by one, in tho watno brouth giving ns his reason: “You wero woving yom aw-bony, too," at the Judges “a,/‘: