Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JA same shonld be paid, and ark thoe Legisisture to mako an appropriation for the pasment thereof. For tho mafety of the ivetitntion and the comfort of tho iamater, 1 recommend the oxteu- wion of steam-heating to the old wing, and the erection of an #nyine nn boiler-housn. "Lhia naw builditig and (he increased number of stadonts add to the ordinary expentcs, aud &o additional appropriation will he required to de- fray oxpenees until July 1, 1875, The appropri- ation for cnrrent oxpenses for the tia yeara fol- Jowing must neceesarily bo correrpundingly in- ercazed. FREDLE MINDED, The Institntion fur the Kdueation of Foebla- Minded Children s growing ju publie favor. It is an established chanty of the State, and claims the kind consderation snd lihcral support of thin General Assembly. 3 Tho misfortuno of ity nmates nppeals strongly to buman sympathy, and the effoit lo elsvato and improve tho condition of this clans of our citizens apeaks wwell for a Chyistian civilization, ‘Tho prezent site af the inetitution {8 unenita- blo, and ita buildings ara incommodious, ins cure, and dangerous to life, in caso of fire. sile aud huildings aro not the property af th Btato. Thia clistity can bo advanced and tho public interesta enberved by giving the institn- tion a permanent location and u proper establish- ment. Tor this purpose I join the Trustees of the inatitution in recommending an appropriation of $25,000 to purchiaso & farni in a convenient and Doalthy Jocality, and £175.000 for erccting and furnishing suifable bnildi and I' recoramomntd that tho 25,000 and 40,000 of *ho last-named amonnt he made pasahie out of tho levy of 1874, and the balance (%155,000) aut of ths lovy of 1378, o o LY AND FAR INCIRMARY. The Trustees of the Illinoja Charitable Evo end Ear lufirmary bsve erected & neat, anbstan- wal, and commodious bnilding, &t a cost of £42.813,569, Leing £2,156.41 Jess than the cost Tinited by tho act of the last Legielature, 'Tho aimount asked for varrent oxpensen is leas than van ilowed two vears ago. Additional furni- ture, enrgical instruments, and somo outsido im- Proveniouls are required. = ‘The Infirmary 18 wiselz and judiciontely man- aged, and. with its new huildipg, cuters upon an sularged ficld of urefuluess, INHAKE ASYLUDS, The Fosital for the (neano at Jacksonvilla ras entabfinhied in 1947, Iy loug occupancy many of its buildiugs havo becorno impsired. Under tho presv.t excellent menagemont, the build- ings have beon undergowg neaded repairs, and nany valnablo improvenents have hoen mado, Apupropriations for current eiponses, improve- Tuenty, and zepairs are roguired. Tuo south wing of the Northetn Insane Asy- 1um, ¢ Llgin, haw been comploted, and can be wccupicd a8 roon as the Logialature makes pro- wision for supporting tho additional inmates. Tlus wing will accommodate 245 pationts, snd I rocommend that the Legislature, at an ourly day, mako av appropriation for the suppoct of this number of patisnts until Joly 1, 1875, and the required appropriations for current es- pouzes, inprovoments, and repairs from ihat date. The north wing of the Sonthern Insane Asy- Tum, 8t Anua, waa oponed Dee, 15, 1873, and is accommodating rhout 140 pationts. Conwider- ing the unfaveiable circumatances atteuding she opening of & naw asglum, this has been mau- aged with commendabla witdom and economy. When the central Luilding is roady for ocen- paney, which will be in eatly snmmor, au addi- tional number of patienty, in all from 200 to 225, ran bo sccommodated. 2 ‘The T'rnstoes in their raport set forth the wautd of the asyluw as to currens expenses, ont- buildings, farm, ground, stock, furniture, etc., zad I ask the (feneral Asssmbly to give them a candid cousideration, 'The appropriation made by the last General Arsembly tocompleso, heat, and furnish the north wing, owing to changes mads in the construction anid to the necessity of buildivg reservoirs to eupply water for the msylum, proved nsui- fictient. To completa this wing and furnish tho ratwmoe, about &16,000 were taken from tho central building fund. The presmug wanta of thio insane eeomed to warrant this use of raid funds, The resorvoirs aro ftill inseours, and demand a further putlay to provide a permaucut eupply of water, 5 ‘To complole and hest the central huilding, and to impyove the reseivoirs, I recommend au sppropriation of $22,500, a8 per estimates of the Comnmissioners, spproved by tho Board-of Chnrition. f ‘I'ho Commissioners estimate the coat of con- structing, heating, asd furnieling the, south wibg at 160,000, In view of the fact thot (hera $n 8 large uumbor of iusanc in the Biate unpro- vided for, aud thau this class of unfortunates is rapidly incressiog, I favor tho building of the souch wing ay soon as pructicabls, and for this purposs 1 recommend aa appropriation of 60,000, paysulo out of the lovy of 1v7t, aud of 100,000, payabio out of tho lovy of 1673, PISCAL YEAK. XEach Genoral Assembly. provides for all the appropniations necessary for (ko ordary and contigent expenses of tho State Goverument until the expiration of tho firet fiscal quarter afier tho adJournment of the next regular ses- sion, and the Jaws making such appropriations azo in forco the 1st day of the July following, Irecommend, therofore, that the fiscal year, now bogivuing Dec. 1 and ending Nov. 30, be changed soas to begin July Land ond Jnue 30, iu order that 1t may correspond with the appropria- 4ions ; and that all reporta roquired by law and the Constitution close at tho end of tha flecal yesr precediug each regnlar scasion of tha Gon- eral Assowbly, aud be wade nnd delivered to the Govoruor on or before Oct. 1 of that year. Thia will give amplo time to proparo and print the xeports, and bave them roady to trausmit to the Goueral Assembly at tho opaniug of the session. « BEVIEED BTATUTES, The Ravised Statuten of 1§45 wore published wnder tho authoney of tbe Fourteenth Geueral Assemnbly. ‘I'his revision challonged the sdmiration of jusiste ; yot, after the lapwe of & quarterof a century, from tho many modifications of the etntutory laws of the Stute, it became appareut that a now revision was dewanded. The Twenty-sixth Cieneral Assembly, in 1869, provided for tho appointment of a commission Lo 1ske such revision. 1he Y'wenty-seveuth General Assembly con- tinued the work. the necossily for which bocnme niore apparent upon the adoption of the Consti- tution of 1870, which changed in many respecta tho orgame law of the State, The Twenty-eignth Goueral Assombly completed the revision and directed its publication. Tho publication waw deh{nd boyoud thoe period iized Ly law—and al- moat ueccenarily ro—bcuayse of the brief tine given by the Lepislature. The Itevised Statutes of 1874 Lave. boen com. pleted and published, and 1 congratulate tho peoplo of tho Stato, aud especially the Dencl snd Bar, that the geueral lawa of the State now In force can be found in uno volume, and that yeorch, therefore, uoed not be madoe through “lllo sesrfon laws of fourtecn Geueral Assoin- bliow, 1t s hl}pofl that tho revision of 1874 In equal o that of 1815, There may Le defects in the re- vision aud in the publication, 1'orliaps uotae are of uch a grave characier aa 1o reuite an im- mediate remedy, 4 Dovond this I would surgest to give tha revis- jon tha tert of exportonce, wnd l+ave the work of umeudineut to future leginlatus, BANKS, All general Lanking fawn have been repealed, Thers aro Lenkivg osnoclations of deposit and dircount, orranized underspecial chartars, or the goneral Jaws Lefore tho repeal thereof, doing kuuiueea mn tis Siate. ‘Tho Constitution requires that overy banking iation organtzed under the lawa of thiy all make and publish a full and sccarste erly atatemont of its utfairs (wisch shall o sertifled’ to uuder oath by one or more of itsof- ficers), na may Lo provided by law, I recommend such logislation as may be deem- »d necoseary to ihe Constitutio fuilure to repost and for making » false ment ; divecting to what ofticer of the Slate Goy- srument this quarterly etatement shall be made, and aathornizing im, when esscntial to the safo- ty of depositors, to examine persons,—under athif pecessary,—booke, puperd, eccurities, atd lunds of ruy such banking association, No more banking asdociatious can be organiz- d in this State until provided Ly a pensral law, 1o Le apyroved I?' a vote of the peol mThis constit .tlonal restriction gives the faw Histing bauking resocistions exclusiva privi- leges nud & vase field for business, They are out only dolng s geueral bLusiusss of discount and deposit, but they are trostees of fynds, coue stantly Jucreseing, ‘belonging to beirs, wminors, widows, and aged persous, and it iv the duty of Mie Btato to bee that theso funds ure wafely guarded und sucredly admivistored. FISU-CULTUKE, A number of aur citizens ara interestqd in fish- culture, sud in stocking our lukes and sireasns with tuo growih of othor waters, 'f'uis can bo Houe ata vory Little expense, and furnish an abundauce of cheap and healthful food. Tte Uaited Hiaies lias established & Fivh Com- mission to advance teli-culture, and this Com- misulou will supply cgps und fry of yaluable tish, laken from the waters of other Htales, to be de- posited in our rivers and Yakes. Boms of the btates Lave o15anzed Commissions to aid in thiy work, 1 deens this matter of vo much importance as . to suthorics ecuie legisdution for receiving, die. tributing, aud dopositing our quots of eggs sud Uy trom tke Uited Stalea Comatesion, sud for 7 ke culture and protection of fish in our waters. CRNBUS. 1t is important for the Legislaturs to provide for unumrufimz in 1875 the inhabitants of the Btate, and in connention therewith ko gathior sta- tistics of interest and valus, showing tho com- merce, manufactories, farm products, wealth, resources, and advancomont in civilization The law of 1840, if 1n force, is inadeqnate for this purpone, [ recommend appropriate legisin- tion, and n sufliciont appropriation to defray the expenscs of this work, CANTERNIAL EXTOSITION. The Twenty-eigiith General A-mmblyI by ros- olution, authorized the appointment of a State Doard of Managors to repreaent Illinofs in the International Exhibition, to bo held in Philadel- bliia, in 1876, under tho auspices of the Unitod zimes Cantonnial Comminsion, with instruotlons to report to this Legialscitre. . : The Board was appointed, and their roport will be tranemitted to the Geuoral Assombly whon received. 1 wish to impress npon the r.afv-mm. and upcn the peopla of the Htate, the finportance surl magnitnde of this International Exhibition, It will open on the 19th day of April, in com- memoration of tho battle of Texington, the beginuing of the Hovolutionary atruggls ; 1t will close on the 19th day of October, in commemora- tion of the surrender of Lord Cornwails at Yorktown, the trintaph of American arms, It is insugurated in bonor of tha 100th snniversary of our independsncs, nnd of the contounial year of onr national existerce ; and to exhibit to the world our wonderful growth, doselopment, wealth, and resources, our arte aud industries, our civilization and national greatness, and tha glory and magmficence of American justitutions. * Up to the 18th of last December twenty-two foreign Governments had signitied their {utco- tion to participate in the Exhibition, and un- ofticial adsicen Lind been received of extensivo reparatlons being made in four others for n argo display of tligir industrics. (hese Governmeuts reprosont both contlnents. and ars among the oldest, most poworful, at most enlightened oations of the earth. Iilinois ahould share in the honor and advan- tagea of this Exhibition, snd I recommend such action on the part of the General Assomblv as will secure to Lho State & notable ropresen- tatlon of {us history, industry, art, mechanism, miuerals, manufactories, and agriculture, LEVENUE LAW. Tho principle of taxation prescribed by the Constitution is, that every person aliall pay a tax in proportio to tha valua of his pr.\pmrfi 'To perfect this principlo in practice two things aro requisites _First—All tho taxable property in the Stato should bo assesscd at its value, Scrond—All tuxes lovied on this valaation shauld be collected. Thero phould be no poesibla way for any per- #ou to evade tho payment of Lis proportton of the revenue. 1t is apparent that a Iarge portion of the per- sonal proporty, espocially tmoueys and credit® arc mot sssessed ; thab all property. real snd ersonnl, is asacesed bolow ity actusl value ; and [’hn a considerabla percentoge of tho taxes are never collecte 1do not favor a general revision of the Rov- enue law, but I think some legislation should ba devised to remedy theso evlfe and to compol every person_to bear his proportion of the pub- lic burden. In wome respects the law relating to tho asrensment and collection of taxes could be simplitied, making it moro oflicient aud lces ox- pensive. 7-86 TAX. To raige the smonnt of revenue authorized to be levied for State and :chnolrurpam in 1873, ond to meet the requirements of an act entitled + An act to fand sud provide for paying railroad dobta of counlics, townsbips, eitics, aud towns," in force April 16, 1869, it was necessary to in- crease tho rato vor cent 7 cents, or from 29 to 46 conts on each £100 of the aseessed valuation. By the tarms of eaid act all the Btate taxes, excent the acnool {ag, levied on the increased valuation aver the assessmont of 1868, iu coun- tics, townships, cities, and towns having bonded railrond indebtodness, were to be applied i the pavment of sich indebiedncss, ‘Ibis increased valuation in each of the vears precoding 1873 was so small that thore was no sppraciable incrense of the State taxes, 0 1873 an effort was made to assess the tax- ablg property of the, State, asrequired by the Coustitution and the Assessment lawin force July 1, 1872, at o fair cash value. [ho'result wasan assesncd valuation of €1« 041.061,B42, an increaso over tho assessment of 1468 of £509,610,876, and an incroase over that yaluation in countles, townships, cities, and towns baving bonded railroad iudebtednoss of £420,000,000. . The entire State taz, exclusive of the school tax, on this sum, amounting to £950,505.90, wan to be diverted from goneral tovonto purposes to the pavment of such indebtodness. fll'.‘ho {allowlng table sxhibits the opsration of eaid act ; -oupa pasary| iy ut woy v -onqpus wros ‘P 1y 9, 4220 ongoa povvess | T 1. .| E5ifs Jogpz! | SRi2 | hsha | £33%1 ey B Sew 33 ERa] g= EEE 2 8533 bl Virtually the said increasod valuation of $3320,+ 000,000 paid no part of the State tax for genoral Fevenus purposcs, o tax-payer in one locality paid 80 cents, and in wnother 29 centa, on cach’ £100 valuation for Btato and school purposes, This disparity the public burdens produced great dissatisfac~ tion, Buits were instituted enjoining the eolloc- tion of the tax. A case was mubmittad to the Supremes Court, and, on the 19th of June last, that Court filed ita ‘opinion, holding in effect that 7-3G of the tax wau_not collectablo, The decision of the Suprome Court (urnisbed a rule for subsequent lovies, but it complicated the levy of 1873. At thut time the lurger porsion of said tax bad been collocted, |Thu following wtatewent will show itw condi- tion : Total smonnt of 130 tax. .. .$050,668.90 Awount of ubatentents aud con AOIMONA . v v asve eerens o oo o $100,007,08 Amount enjoined from’ calio- 0L, uvevaseasnerans v DH,U59.24 Amount enfuined in Colisctora? [T 207,202,67 Amonnt’ paid ‘Tnio Blate Tren Wi¥aens ‘I'aking no account of abatement: slons, the sum of 34,059,294, enjoined from col- laction, caunot bo cohucled, and need give no fuither trouble, Of tho amountcollected, $267,~ 242,67 tm in thehanda of Collectors enjomed from paymiy thasame over to the Htate, aud §440,- 460,11, lesn 620,308.83 paid to MoLean County before tho flling of said opinion, in the State Treasury, These funds do not belong to the Btate, nor to the countics, but totibe tix-payer; aud some provision should be mads tv return the ssme to the tax-payer, or to euuble Limn to reccive the benefit thereof. T must confees the subjoct is attended with difiionitics, but the wisdom of the Leginlature will devise some wmothod to do eub- stautial justice to all partics coucerned, 1 subjola eatimates for approprist subjoln estimatcs for appropristions for the years 1875, 1876, and 1877, the iount of which for each of the years 1876and 1477 wmay he taken a8 the probable amount of mouey required 1o Lu raised by taxation for al! purposés for said iwoyears, by tho lovies of 1876 aud 1876. The appropriatious for 1575 and 1876 will be made by thia Gieneral Assombly ; those for 1875 will be buid out of tho levy of 1874, and those for 1876 aut of the lovy of 1875. The l&;proprinhun! for 1877 will bo made by thoe nest Genera{ Assembly to be paid ous of the levy of 1876, made during the exintence of thiv General Assembly, 1t is the duty of this Geucral Askembly to fix tho kross smouut of tevenus Lo be raiscd by taxatiou 1 each of the years 1475 and 1876, aud pravide for the levy thereof. It is o diftiouit and dulicato muller t6 make this satimate,scupe- cislly for the levy of 1870, to cover appropris- tions to Lo taade by the next Geucral Assembly, One caunct foreseethis wants of the Ntateln 1677, nor antleipate tho teroper and wishes of the Thirticth Goneral Arsembily, In making thoss estimates, beyond the amonnts fized by law, T have besn guided by the uxrunuu of tho laat Lwo years; the estimatns of other ofticers, by the reporta submitted throngh mo to the General Aseembly, and by tho probble wents of thy future: LEATRLATIVE DEPARTMERT, 1 Thtrtisth Gon'l Ase'b or diom of mombers, 150, Milen: Amount Clerka and Wil Incidontal expan RXECUTINE DEPANTIERT, Falaties or dinm— | i Gorernor, e sramine, s 6.0 1Low 8,10 3,500 3ha 3,600 3,50 150 : ] 1,50 fesn 10,600 um; 4 4@ 00 200 200 Der anmin. | ! e Tiites. Commismionars o] ennytruct Niate 1 4o e Lo Tee o Beven' Judpos Buprome| } Court, por annam. ... $ 2,003 85004 55,00 Tiiriy-one Judges ¢ cult Court,par snnum, | 308,500| 108,600 108,800 Threo Jndses Bupreias et of ook Connty, 0 ool 10, 10,500 0,30 por Annn 250 cintral Gry e ¢ anau X Bauttiorn G Bz sontia 1,500 ‘bres 1Ab an ‘I hirooAaitots |3 8000 2,500 Ciffica oxpense Liro Porter and Uitie o1 Portor and Clark hire Jo0 g 3,500 Otfico expen Tow© Lo Two Walchmen,, PICA I W ) ] OFIICR OF THC BUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIO IN- ATRUCTION, 7 750 1,70 Clarkhive...... 0 Gifco expaa 1,30 SR i) ; 3 1 I Conying feid-nios: s Inanlel Tubis Caariil nil' "k 5tats Board of Equalixa i Eoe Kaponses in Statg suita b Appeebending foicitiv fonn Iustics. 500 Conveying erl Penttentiary. 20,000 Conveying ju feutora® 't 3,000 oo (73 8,000 1,500 2,50 10,000 8,000 8,000 18 Lock and dim af Coppse-| F: as Croek, special abpro-| priatlot - Estimated revenues of| canal 1875, not. Now *Bulld{ag. . Bacretar; 19,000 2, 4 4,80 wj{ 1,000,060 Cnrrent axpenses. 0,00 Tapairs and impr bR TNDUSTRIAL UNIVERATT Prysteal labura Teopairs. o Carreut expenos. . urmllnxd and fencing urrent oxpen Liproveinenta DEA? AND DOMB INHANK A4TLUM, JACKSONVILLE, {lucrant w mprovim'a Huw boitur, Garrent expou Improvin'u Gurren stck, ul 33,00 00000 renes Complets lag. 10,500 o o el Vil __Total 2,79 ‘Lhe eatimates for 1875 aud 1670 are £600,000 less than the appropriations made by the lasi Geueral Assombly, 'I'he Legislaturein fta wi. dow may deow it beet to modify then, Tu 1y opinion, & lovy of §2,000,000 [u 1875, and $1,600,000 1 1870, for” revenue, sud 1,000,000 per anuum for schiools, will answer the purposss of the Stato Goveruvmnent, Hopiug that your stay at the Capitsl may bLe pleasant ; that your health may bs presyrved that your deliborations may be harinouions s warked with wisdom : aud that your legislation muy advatco the interests oftha people and the prosperity of tho State,—I liave the Lhonor to sub. 1uit this wesssge to the ‘I'wenty-ninth evorsl Asgemply. Joun L. BxvEnipos, FLORIDA. The Trip from Chicago Thither---Inci~ dents of tho Journey. A Spitting Congressman and a Talk- ative Virginian, Jacksonville and Palatka as Resorts for Invalids. A Warm December and Luxurinant . Crops. Krectal Correepandence of The Chicaas Tribtma. PavArza, F Dec. 31.—Noaw is the winter of our discontont, and discomfort, and disabilily, and dyspepais, sud all theso disagreeabls things, made b ULORIOUS BUMMER by this sun of Florida. If tho render is dieposed to claim, a8 a oitizen of the grenat Northiweat, that * glorious summer " requires s temporature represcated by 100 de- green or more in the shade, why, then it is not sglorioun™ here in the pines back of Palatks; but it is sufficiontly glocious for mo and my folks when the thermomoter on the north ver- anda stands sleady and eroct all day at 78 In the shado, and when, sitting in my room under the orange-treen, I can only keep some- whare near cool by stripping down to—nwall, Madam, decornm absolutely forbids my mon- tioning bow far; but I right lend my entire extorior wardrobe this afternoon without tncon- venfencing myself in tho leaat, But I have transported the reader too sudden- 1y to this Tropical clime. We will maka tho Jjournoy, it yout pleass, more gradually. Tobe in Flotlds, and enjoy the dolce far niente which ils soft airs suggest, the Chicagoan must first UXT TO FLORIDA,— & process which impliea something not at ald of the dolee-far-nlonte style ; which implies from rix to tea days' lime, considerablo eash, and no little wear and tear of patience,—unless, lndoed, tho migrator be s person with & natursl gonius for travsling,—a quality possossed by fow, We must m{pw\ first, thas he hiaa made up his mind to make Florida and other Gulf resorts his winter mvlring{mundé that the great dis- tance and exponso of tho journey to Honthern California bas determined himagainst that justly favorite resort of Wesiern “awella’ and lnvalids; and that he has discarded all half-way rosorts, concluding rightly that, if onesots ont to eacape tho piercing winds, sud molting snowe, and sud- den changes, of the North, and find & warm spot on the Uroaat of Mother Earth, whare he can neatlo in absolute contentment, ne had better koop goiug until he finds a place whero it really 19 warm,—wartm * for keeps," not fora spas- modio **apell,” follosred by snother “‘spell™ so cold that tho contrast causos him to swear by old Zero himeelf that the weathor is no worse in the country he came from. Ie wanta toges bo- youd the snow-line, and, if posaible, BEYOND THE FROBT-LINE, Ile wanta to get where ho can take a half-day's cxcursion without an almoat certain prospect of experiencing such a change from Tropical to Arctic westhet as will givo lim & desporata in- fluenza for the next threo weeka. The pronosing tourist, therofors, thakes in- quiry, and finds the genseral reputation of Florida 1n theso respects rather better than that of any other saction. Ho further investigatea themeana and cost of transportation to the promised land, and finda that the competition of routes bas mada the trip comparatively & very cheap one for him,—that is, s0 far as railroad-fare is concerned, 1 paid @66.40 for a ticket to Jacksonville and return, good until the eud of Juuo; and I **reckon,” #f I had walted a few days, they would bave fetched me_for nothing, a8 1 bought on a falling market. But the mer- cury waa falling, too,—had already approched zero,—and it wouldn't pay to wait. 'The routo selected by your correspondont was via Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington, ic mond, Woldon, N, C., Wilmingtion, N. Charleaton, and Bavannah, 1t is A MIGHTY LONG ONE,— 1,800 miles, as I figuro it from my memorands,— yet I doubt if auy other routa insurea you any quicker time than this, which has tho advantage of first-class accommodationa to Washington, and what in the Boutn they call first-claes beyond the It also jucludes many cities and points of intarest, at which the tourist is st liborty to call - according to his inclination’; and it gives you, from Chsrlos- ‘ ton and Savanaah, the option of taking the large steambosts which ply betweon those citios and Palatks. (I think the other routes slso give this riviloge,) Aiken, 8. O, —a most excellont win- or-resort for that class of Invalids who come Bouth most,—lies off this routs, and is best reached from Cliarleston, on the return trip, the sosnon being later thoro than here, 1t was at 5:15 on one of the first days of De- cember (aud s nasty d:rv it was, too) that vour correnpondent, an invalid, made helplesa by & railroad lunch-basket and the usual impadiments of the trayeler, glidod out—I believe giided out is the right phrase ; at least the train gilded out of the Pittsburg depot, and its passengors, of course, glided with 1. ' We wero A DISTINGUIBHED COMPANY,— we were; for I had insdvertently struck a squad of Congressmen, * going down to Washingion™ to eave the couniry once mors. Of courneit was = great honor (for which thero was no extra charge) to aesist & squad of Congressmen in fill- ing up a Pullman car; and it is a special honor when one of theom comes and patronizes you for an hour or two by spitting in your spit- toon; bus I proteat that there ara ways in which even a Congrossman can #pit so that a common citizon with delicato norves, compelied to wi- eas the operation st short range, will becomo at longth more than sated witk she honor that is being beatowed upon him. Patronize the sating-housas along the raute as far as Altoons ; for beyond that cometh a day ‘wlhien no man can eat the wayside meals that #et bafore him st 21 apieco, At Pislaburg, go into the lunch-department and get some broiled oysters and » cup of coffes. It is infinitely more satisfactory, both to purss and atomaoch, than wading through the 1mmeose menu of ill- cooked victuals which the hotel out. AT WABHINGTON, where you will probably want to stop a bit, either for rest or sight-sesing, you are turned out of your sleepar {u the gray of the morning,— croms, of course. You do not, thersfore, admire as you ought to sdmire Washingtou's new rail- road depot. 1t is buils to bo admiraed, I judgs, raclier tana w0l , for vhe passonger is Janded about half » mile below its sntrauce, and uas to ‘walk throwgh a ehed that diatance 5o find a hack- 1man, and then back sgain ta point out his haud- b ;,;lgn to that gentleman,—tharsby gatting & XB d ur's morning-walk and & good view of the o, ‘tom Washlogton (whers I stoppad long enough to make the necovsary arraugements for nvlu‘; the country, and also to gel disgustod with the weathior), I preferred to take the STEAMLOAT WHIUK DUKS TO QUANTICU,— threo-houra' run down the Potomac, ou the Richmond route. This gives you & ulco view of Mt Yeruon and other” poluts which many of us saw during the War, aud, of ‘course, like to wmee again. It also Kives you longor uighte on the sleoplug- car (they are only attached to night-traius) than the ratlway-train which puta out of Washington at 11 p, . It detaink you over night at Charles- ton ; but you dou’t mind that, ae you Lave an opportunity for a good loog night's reat and breukfast ‘a4 the Charloston llouse,—ono of those olegant old Bouthern caravenserals, with 1o end of Grecisa colonuades, snd things ine wide to varrespond. The railway from Bavannah to Charleston goes but part way to the lattercity. ''he rest of the distance ja perfermoed by omnibuees aud bag- Kage-wagons and a ferry-Loat, which give variety to the journey ; and doubtleus the extra cost to the rallway-poople 18 made up in the uatisfac. tion their employes tako in bangiug your trunks about an extra numbor of timos. Did you avor get uo bored by A DI4AGREKADLY YELLOW-FASSENORE, ona long jouruey, as to be conutralued to stop over for o day foy the miero purpose of getiin, rid of bim 7 " Ths, st least, was ona cherishe hope of our party in stayiug for & night st Charleston, Qur bete noir ‘was » huge Virgine who, though le camo {resh from Lh tar-kilus of his wative Lackwouds, ad all the eusy confidence of your modt traveled cosnopolite, Tall ns his uative pines, mnuscular as a mulo, restlos the wind, and socisble as & wowan who runs a benevalent socioty, his most romarksble endowment, after all, was & voice of wouderful clesrnesy nud peue- trating quahity. What tho ball projected from the Krupp gun s to that of an old amooth-bore six-pounder, hiu voico 14 to sl ordiuaty volces, Ju would cut up into at least balf-n-dozeun good suctioneers’ 'voices, sud furnish a dozen bronchitis-proof clergywen, leaving the NUARY [ gsitanb _owner mill endowad with vreal ! power sullicient to toll & groat deal more than ho kuows. When the VYirginian spoke, thore need bo 1o other talkini,—thers could Lo no reading, or alrepine, or quirs meditation, in LhAL The noivo of the rusliing train was to him as tha whispering of & dove. In fact, our Virginian was all-pervading. “His lip was in arorybody's conversation, and hin noso in every- body's mens,—excopt as meal-times, when, after vaciferoun uquity after *mny carpot-bay organ would bo thrust botween tho javs of an oxtremely thin bag of oil-cloth, out of which wonld be producod sund#y “'turnovers ™ of home- mmmncmmx of which the supply saemed liko that of the lquors In tho wizard's bottle. Ilis victuals did not stop his month, the clapper of which kept running, **turnover" or no *“{urn- over.” i At Tast. an T have aaid, it ran na into the hotel of Cherleaton for abatter, Thither-- HORROR OF MORNOAA !— follawed the invincible Virginlan, though ha did not tako lodgings. 1lo had a young protegn with him, and I reckon ho set up and haranguod that poor fellow all night wpon” tho curbatones of unhny\qy Charleston. The Loy was nearly doad with homenicknesa, and I judge bo could not surviva the journey. Discovering that onr persectitor was of a very economical turn, we argued to him that the route by wator to Jackaonville would mave him conaldorable monoy, as he wonld get two days' feed freo on the bont ; aud e prevaricated with him by repressnting that we had about detor- mwined upon that route. . Judge, then, of our dlsmay, on mouating the omuibus next moruing, to find onr Joquacious groonborn already ensconced therein, carpet-bag fo baud, and talk and turnovers as plenty as ueual. e was uot only going to accompauy us all the way to our journov's end, but was going away beyond Jackeonvillo to Mellon- villo. ‘Tlhioro was only one thing to do, and that was to put the heat posslble fuce on onr fato, and thank our stars that our osn jonrney ended ot Lhe firat ville, mo thnt e hadu't tosit o1 the rag- kclnil odge of that volco all the way totho other tille, Dnt I musn't magnify episodes,—thongh, in- @oed, the epleodes of a Journay thirongh thie low- lauds of Virginia, the Carolings, and Gearuin, are 80 fow and amall that they will bear magui- {ying & good deal, More JONOTONOUS SCENERY thav one encountera along this route, I never anw, unlens it I8 on the Humboldt Desort, or the endlens plains of the Union Taciic. Dut thess Carolinian swamps, ropulsive ss they are, aro leus depreaning in their effoct upon the travelor thanthossbare rocks, and barren sands, and sage- wilderuosses, of the Pacific route, Ono finus eomething of the boautiful, and even somothing cheerfully suggestive of the nseful, in these ap- paront wastes of inaccessiblo pine, hung with wweaping festoons of mors, and interspersod, sometimen with tangled thickets of undergrowth. At one place,—I think it was somemwbers be- fwoen Yomassossea and Ballygatchee, or perhaps furtber towsrd Lollipolligolagsteboe,—it had been noccesary to build the road for overa milo on trestles, and to clear away, for a considerable width on each nldo, the denso growth of caue- brakes and slim yotng saplings, of a vaciety un- known to me ; and I could not but wonder at the vast number of ELIGIDLE FISH-POLEY titl romaining. I comptitod rougbly, from the rear platform of the car, that, if all Xerzes army, and all the applicants at tho ofiice of a new Chicago Sheritf, shounld march into tho forest, and each man cut & }m(e. there would still ba enough fish-polen loft {o mend to the gragshonpor-sufferers, and loave & few poles for geed. Iwill add that fish-poles were tho only crop of which I raw any evidanco., growiug, grown, or about to grow, botween Wasbington nod Jackeonville. . Arrived ut Jacksonville, wa bade & hgarty adleu to our Mellonville friend, dropped a tesr of nymgflby for his young protege, who sttil aur- vived, but was drooping n‘)ltdly‘ and wore taken in hand by the portera of the hotel to which wo bad been recommended. This is located near the depot, and constitntes the most showy atruc- turo in town. Onc's bill, too, at this hotol, {aa very imposing structure; and doubtiess, whon the keeper learns Loty to keep a hote), and gota hus houss refinished, so that the doors may bo Iatched and tho bell-pulls operated, and somo clerks and servants who will become cogaizant of a cail for fce-water within three hours from the data of its izsue, and a steward who knows ‘what people want to eat, snd a cook who kuows how to cook it, one will pay one's bill aforesaid with more moral satisfaction than at present. There {8 suother firat-class (f. e., 8£4) hotel in tosn, mostly patronized by Lastern people ; aud I havo heard that oune or two of the cheapor Liounen are entirely respactable in their styte and quality, JACEYONVILLE [ is, by all odds, tho biggest and livellest town in Florids. 1t is also, more than any other town (unless it be the modern slement of” St. Auguat- ine), tho oreature of the Northern touring pat- ronage now being showered go hiborally upoo the sterilo soil and society of Florida. Ithas, how- ever, commercial advantages, by reason of its crosa-Hiats railway and ite magniticent river,.— the Kt. John, ~navigable to Jackeonville snd 60 miles sbove by ocoan ateamers and sailing cralt, — which will; insure jts Imrmlnenb prosperity 8o _long s thers is & i‘lorids, evon though all the wuppertendom of New York and Chicago, and all the invalid corpa of tho North, ahould datermine npon Naw (uines or the Philippine Isles as & winter-ro- norl. ‘The sll-the-yesr population of Jacksonville is abbut 12,000 ; and the winter season awells this aggregato by 1,000 or 2,000, who come to spend their money, and other hundreds who rally to help them spend it, in which sorvice they are ably soconded by the 12,000 pormanent ~rosi- donts. A great many of . THE NORTHERN VISITORS to Florids mako Jacksonville their home or head- quartors, and probably a majority of those from the Northwest. Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, aud Mrs, Abraham Liocoln, of Chi- cago, ara examples. The laiter has quarters at a villa-like hotel at Riverslde, just outside tho city. I was disappointed in not finding more Nogthwestern Faopla arrived already; though they do not consider the season fairly oponed in Florida yet, and the early Jannary arrivals will doubtleas swell the represontation from the hub of the ustion, and I shall have, in ty next (af- ter visting Jacksonvilie and 8t Anglstine), to record, tho, names of something ol a colony of visitorh from Chicago and vicinity. FALATKA, whence I date my epistlo, is 60 mlles above Jucksonville (if “there is anv * above or ‘“balow” “in this romarkably. horizon- tal country), at the head of ocesn- vavigation, he river hers marrowing from its lak @ oxpaneion of 3 Lo b miles wide. Dalatka has ateo received & amart impotna from Northeru immigration ; and, though thero is not & bank, nor & money-order post-ofiice, nor a jew- olat’s shop, uor a hookstore, vor & merchant- tailor, in the place, the hotels are nunicrons, and a5 least two of them vory 'pratanlimu in stylo and prices, The biggest of them was being stiil further magnitisd by the carponters as 1 arrived. Iodeed, half the town seem- ed to bo wunder the bammer, as it were,—improvemsnts making at _ this eloventh hour, with referenco to catching North- orn patronnge. 1 canld not help thinkiug of the Arkauias fiddler and bis leaky roof. When the touriets are Lero thera i8 no time to fluish off new rooms, and when they are gons there's no neod of the rooms, 8o our hospitable Loune~ holders and hotel-men wait till thoy see the tranke tumbling out on the dock from the steam- or's deck, and the welcomo carpal-bagger ap- Emlchinu with money in his pocket, and then (nux:, to knock together soms accommodations or bita, A% A HEALTH-RESORT, Palatka [a andoubtedly superior to Jackeonville, the climate bLeiug both warmer and dryer. will not, however, say ‘dryer,” for dry air does not oxist in Florida ; let us nay it iu lesn humid here than thers, \Where I ain now sojourning, &t & plantation 6 miles back from Palatks, we are exempt from muah of the fog that visits the town; aud it is by no means an srid climate Liere among thoe ploes. ‘I'he extromely warm weather to which I in- troduced the reador st the outsct has provalied during most of the month of December, It i pronotuced by old residenta tho warmest Do- vember which the Htato Las known In forty years. The effcot haa been mout favorsble up~ on the crops. Tho oranges bave ripened beautis fuily, and the yleld is abundant ; even bansnas ripen, Lundreds of pounds of them to the stalk o1 t1eo ; and the plavters have been ablata “*make” thoir sugar wnd sirup orop without inter. forence by the frost. Cotion, slso, hss been w good yield; tourists 'are coming down more plontifulty tuan ever befors ; and, in tine, if is A GUOD YEAR JOU YLORIDA, Many an otsugo-plantation, or lands for making one, will bo taken North next spring, 1 fanoy, ln the pockets of wealthy visitors, But of this subject, and some of the sharactors istics of this peculiar country, in my next. [ Hinish this at night by a blazing pine-fire, which would Lo insupportable it its heat didu't sll go up chimney, leavitg merely the light to make things cliserful, waft to. ward the resder the inconso of its sugary piteh, aud hopo his bydrant will not freeze up, nor s streot-car ot suowed-in, nor hiscanary-bird perish over night, through sny sccidental extivguishment of Lis anthiacito tur. nace. Avay, that |- REV. E. PAYSON HAMMOND. Lotter from the Editor of the Gales- burg Plain-Dealer, In Reply to the Letter of the Rov. M, L. Williston, To the Editor of The Chicage Triline: Garrssusa, 11, Jan. G.—A communicntion sppeared iu your columns on the 26th wit., sign~ ed by the Rev. M. L, Williston, In which lo at- tempted a labored vindication of the Rev. E. I’ Nammoud, the sell-styled ** Great Iivangelist," 1u this communication the Roverend gontleman has mado statoments and induiged in flings at fhe editor of the Gsleaburg Plain-Nealer, which placen me jn & faluo position before tho reading public, and calls furn VRIEF STATEMENT 1§ TEPLY, which I propose to attempt, although well aware of the fact that to do so will bring down upon my head the concontratod weath of ihe entlro bigoted and intolerant olement of Galosburg, whicly, a8 yon ara aware, wifl not concodo to any ono the right to hounestly differ with them in opinion, M In tho firat place, tho Roverend gentleman gives you to nnderstand that tho great bulk of your subscribers in Calesburg are in sympathy with Iammond and Hammond- iat, aud gives ultorance to an im- plied threat that your subscription-list will suffor unless you take back what you said about Hammoud, aud give him, in the future, your un- quaiified indorsermcnt, Tho Roverond gentle- man, fu this instonce, to draw it mildly, has made a wistake. Throo-fou ern and subscribers in thls v minded twen, and utterly repudiate Hammond and all hia works. Tho fanatical, intolerant peo- plo iu this commuunity mostly take religious wooklies, and, when they do take & socular pa- per, subscribo for eithor the Journal or Inter- Ocean. 'This fact in susceptible of proof, Mr. Williston regrets oxceediugly that you should have been lsd by an * obscure couniry paper” to, repeat ita * mecoud-hand flinga” against tho ¢ (roat Evsngelist.” I presume, Mr. Editor, that you ara ns fully posted upon the character, ability, sincerity, and performances of Hammoud, s the Rev, Mr. Williston or the edl- tor of tho Plain- Dealer oan possibly be ; and that you simply wrote of your pravious knowledge o theo man hefors Le came to Galesburg,—that gontleman being conspicuous bofore the courts for tho past fifteen yomis ; and intelligent mon, outside the Orthodox clergymen of Galenburg, have for years been posted in regard to bim, Mr. Williston also speaks of the ‘* ANGRY AND RECKLESS CUARGES" of the P’lain-Dealer, Mr. Editor, I hevo made no charge sgainst Mr. Rammond, excopt that ho was a strolling mountebauk, an ogotist, and fraud; all of which I firmly beliove, aud havo believed for years; and, fur- thermore, my _helief is .shared by a majority of tho citizens of (ialesburg and Mon- mouth to-dsy. During the time ho was here, o hundred storios came to my ears of the perform- ances of Mr, Hammond in other places, Those that came from responeible sources I published in the form of interrogatorien; and thoso that roated 1pon uo substantial foundstioa I refused to publish. With your permission, Mr, Editor, I will brief- ly mentiou the most prominont of the ** angry and recldess charges” slluded to, commencing with tho Providence matter: That statemont was made to me by a gentloman of Ligh mstanding, and an old resident of this clty, who obtained it from a YProvidenco lady of respoctability, who waa yisiting in Kuoxvillo, and who stated that she was proment and waw and hoard the wholo transaction ; aud, notwithstanding the denial of Hammond's toel in Providence, the story, sub- stantially as rolated, is bolieved to bo truo by a majority of the woll-informed people of thiacity, Anothor foterrogatory was in rogard to Lis Kirkaville, Mo., experionce. A private letter to tho editor of the Plain-Dealer, from thav clty, states that IHammond, the last night he was there, **dreamed the Devil was after him, kicked the foot-board out of the bed, out his log, and bad to send for a physician to dress tha cut.” Auother story was, that, tho Inat night Lo was in Macomb, about a year ngo, “ He got up in the nigut, tore down the window-curtains, tore them into strips, and ripped up things in tho room generally,” A lady, writing from Missourd to her fatlier in this city fa; ** o dressod himeolf in long red stockiugs and low buckled shoes, put on & bigh white psper hat with red tassols,—n regular dunce-hiat,—and rode through the sirects, shout- ing to tho people to come to the mesetinga and lind Christ.” Also, that ‘‘Ho bhad s lotof women following him, helping to revivethe folks." HAMMOND'S OWN TEBTIMONY to the reportor of the Cincibnatt Times and Chronicle, who mot him at Des Moines, Ia., was, that two uf the Cincinnati papors bad publishe * mbominsablo )ies * about him, and that the oditors of those papsrs were liars. Also, that tho editor of a Dabuque Eupu ublished a_lis about Lim, to the effect that ho dressed up like a0 Indian, and rodo through the stresta of that city, shouting to the people ta come to Josus!” l comwmunication to the Plain-Dealer, from » former editor of the Burlington ZHawk-Lye, stated that he lied, while in tuat city, about a stareotype-plate aud biograplical sketeh of im- golf, which ho sent to that paper for publica- tion ; aleo that tho bettor portion of the peoplo of that city were disgusted with hiw, sud wanted 0o more of hiw, I might o on, piling evidence upon evidence ; but 1 thiuk I have stated sullicient to yindicats the Plain-Dealer from tho asscrtion of *‘angry and rockless chiarges ;" but, in this connection, \| 1 would like to ask the quostion, Is thera not a little fire whore tliaro s sa tuch smoke 2 THE 8T, LOUIS PRIZE-FIOHTEN the reverend gentleman speaks of was a young stripling with a yery red uose, and counteuance indicative of large “quantitios of bad whisky. His muscular devolopment wonld preciudd tho ides that he was over a prize-lighter ; and, as bis noeo had mever been broken, and bhia faco shiowed no scars, lo was get down by our citizens a8 & pious fraud. 1o came Lers from Plymouth, in tuis Btats, at the inrlonce of Hammond, and went back to Plymouth after he had portormed Lia rolo to the satisfaction of hin patron. The charga was made by a public speaker, before a crowd on oyr streets, that he boasted of roceiving £3 per day from somebody. Asthe club-room system i in vogua Liers, ho couldn’t got auything to drink; consoquently ho applied to our restaurant-keepers for gome of their hardest oider, Mr, Williston says, speaking of the editor of the Ilain Lealer, **Wo had heard mn speak straugely before, and were not surprised at bis liborties,” ¥ plead gulilty to the above chargoe, No doubt Mr. Williston is astonishod thal a (alozourg nawspaper dare censure & clergyman for anything Le may say or do contrary to its {deaa of right and justice. Upon twu occasions Ihave BPOXEN BTRANGELY AND TAXKY LIBERTIEA with tho utterances of tho Heyorend gontloman. Tho tirat occasion was when ho was roquosted to 10ad » Masonio prayer at the funeral of a rail- road donduotor, who, was buried with Masonio honors by the Drotherhood, and pointedly ree Sused,—Mr, Wiiliaton haviog boen called {n ‘by the fumily of the doceased, who attended hiy churol, t0 conduct services at tha hiouse,—after which the body was taken to Monmouth for in- terment, s remarks and prayer at the hounse wore remarkablo for notbiug oxeopt & studied negloct to allude to the fact that the dead man, before bim was a BMason, and that about 100 mombors of the fraternity wera 1;‘u’alflml. to re- ceive the remaina and give them Masouio burial, 1 cenaured him for this insult to the Brother- hood, and have no cause Lo reyrot it Upon unother occaslon 1 {o0k Jibertles with the gentlomau's name sud views, Lasy spring, wheu the women's prohibitiou crusade, for tho purposs of carrying the city in the interest of the Puritan ok, wan in procees of organization, Mer. Williston. in bis public specchos, exprevasd Limaslt very violoutly in favor of the crueade, aud denounced all who differed with “him in un- measured terms, qunng tho kuock-down-and« drag-out srgumont to tho **whiskyites,” a8 he way pleassd 10 torm the opponeuts of that mis- erablo, short-lived {nvasion of the rights of the peaple, ‘Lpoeditor of the Plain-Dealer dared to differ with him sad his fanatical supporters, aud deyounced tho orusade aa wrong in princi- ple, sud inexpedient au » tomperanuce measure and, for this honeast exprossion of opinion, hio hias ever ainoe been cordially hated by Mr, Wile Histon and his intolerant supporters. Hut to roturn to Hammond : Btatemeuts bave been mede $o me, and other promivent men in this community, to tho effect that Mr. Williston, Lefore lfatnmond hal baou horo & weck, jntis mated strongly that HB WAS DISGUSTED WITU MIW, but that Le had got iuto (he sorapo and musk RO throngh with it; and, furthermore, it is the vantid opmion of nearly all the woll-Intormed }ugopln of this city—outside of tho priesteridden ting—that tho elergymon of tho cily, with ona oxcoption, wera sorry they had sont tor lim. lint why does not Me. Williston sesail Mr. Garduer—tha Unisorsalist clergyman—as bit- turly a4 ho does the editors of tho Plain-Dealer? Mr.” Unrdner douounced Hiammond, iu his ser. 1 mon roviewing him, fully as strongly did; and that mermon, by the way, was woitton bofora the first “number of the Llain-Dealrr assailing Haommond was prioted. was Mr. Williston afraid he would coma off sec- and besk in a newspaper-controversy with Mr. Gardner? or did lie ronily think Mr. Gardnor wna incanable of judging Hammond, and allowed *1ooss and maliciona romora " to inflienco him? 18 BEOARD TO TAE “c00D" ACCOMPLIRMED hy Hammond while hero, o earricd away from Gnlesburg, aa tho renult of throe wesks' Iabors, somewhars In the ueighborhood of #1,500,—t cannot aacortain the sxact figures, 1fe fright- ened, by his feaiful stories, eome 600 or 700 chil- dren into mgning his * covanant,” as ho calls it ; and so warked npon tha foelinga of a tew women and youths of cwational natures that, in tho excitement of the moment, and under the uiermorio influences to which they wore subjectod, they arode and aslfed. for prayers. On tha othier ‘ido, it has greatly strengthensd the Universaliet Haciely, and added latgely to the free-thinking and rationalistio portion of tha cotamunity. ‘Lhe **grent revival” had this ex- tent—no moro! The editorial quoted from the Daily Register loaes its force whou it Is understood that the editor of that paper eril Hammond was “a d— fraud,” but who editorially indorsed him, fearfnl of losing tho support of the orthodox portion of the community if ho did otlierwise, In regard to the Free Press, it is entirely nat- ural that it should indorse Hammond. Ita edi- tor is a local Methodist ‘Hrolchur. In couclusion, Mr. Edltor, what can any hon- est, {ntellivent, rational man thivk of a religion that needs Lo be bolstorod up, and can only sucs ceed, through the offorts of such charlatans pnd moitntebanka an Joha Nowlaud Maflt and Edwin Tayeon Hammond ¢ JupsoN (Inaves, Editor Galesburg Plain-Dealer. 5 ST, JOSHPIH, MICKL ¥iusiness-Ohnnges During the Yoenr— Kinprovements—Dentlis of Old Sete tlern, Corresponidence of The Chicago Tribune, Br. Joserm, Mich,, Jav, G.—Returning to Bt, Jo aftor o year's absence, I observs mome changes of genoral intercst. Thers hias becn'm good fruit-crop, which 1a not sll gona yet. And, 18 tisaal, they all {alk of hard times, Nesrly a million of dollars must have come iuto this s~ tion tho Iast scason ; taxes wero nover known Lo como 80 essy ; and yoi, as usual, ** This is going to bo o hard winter,” they say os thoy pass srouud the apples and cider. They say they bad a touch of the crusade hore Inst spring. 1 am told that for somo time there waa uot an open ealoon on the streéts. This may all ba go, but the job noeds to be done over ngain ; for thirsty men have no excuse for ro- maiulngiao, unleas their poclets aro empty, No aho complaina of the drought, and a drunkon wman I occasionally seen on tho strosts, Homo naw slzna bave appoared, and some old ones have dieappeared. The Palmers have sope aratod; the elder runs tho old placo, while the younger, E. C,, bas a store in tho old Perking House: ho monopolizes tho drug and stationery business. UGeorge B, Smith has & grocery noxt door, sonth of B. A. King. Near by, at the cor~ ner of Stato and Ship stroots, the Hcotts have opened a drug-store, ThoSwects havo built just back of tholr dry-gooda store, and have added the hardware to their othor businesa. Oviatt'a Regulator no longer rogulates 4t. Jo; Oviatt has moved to Now Bulfalo, and Mr. White gives peo- ple fits in tho old place. Ifasko was Botham & Hasgo early in tho soason; now it is Botham & Lynch, and Hando is himmself agnin. Fred Potter haa gone into the dry-goods business, noar the old oyt Bank. X. C. 1107t is dead, and the old store closed, as woll as tha bank. ‘That last word awakons many memorics in §t. Jo minds, pleasant or unpleasant, sccurding an thioy think of their lost monsy or of Mr, Hoyt. The former is, ** thougli lont to sight, to memory dear;” the latter isn't. Few mon ever fesvo sg many momentaes in any one place ay did Mr. Hoyt, They arn certiflcates of deposit, and the goneral fecling is, that they tro about as valua- blo as Confedorate scrip. ~ Bomo of the 1oyt property was sold, a fow days ago, by the as signee in bankiuptey. Among the lois was the ovs on tha Bluff, formarly tha Hayt residonce, aud tho lota of fruit-land vear the Kingsloy Hill, Hoveral othors were soid, and the salo will con- tinue on the 12tu inst, ‘The title is not of the Dbeat, and the J:mperly goos lower than the creditors would prefer, and will probably fall into tho hands of. a few meu, h&unyw 1l be made, but not by the creditora. To rosumo : 0Kl Mr. Haskins has gons oul of businees, and Bievons & Brooks have gono m his place. In Cushman’s place in the fur niture busivoss, we find McElwes & Thompson ; Cushiman sold out to Hosbein, and sold bLis cred. itors at tho same time ; & “*scttlement” is im. pendiug, J. Jacobson & Co, is a firm that @ good many would like to Wetile with: tho old -placa is in the hauds snd undor tho sign of 8. Gunzburg, T'hero 18 & new paper hers. One died and snother was born at about the same tune ; or, rathet, the Traveler was married to the Jerald, and merged in tho exiatonce of Lhe Iatter. The Itepublican succeeded, run by Botham & Ricaby, Mr. Botlinm is now outside ; so is Mr. Licaby, of Bt. Josoph, while Robert Ricaby, of the Har- bor, is supposed to conduct the papor, and J, C, Geutzlor ia ita editor. Bt. Jo oughit to have but one fond paper, However, tho two got along very well by giving cach otber a friendly * booat occasionally, in tho usual kind-hearted and fra- ternal newspapor way. The railroad has passed from Mr, Morrison's management to that of Mr. Kimball, The old Maoager has been at doath's door this fall ; but, I am now glad to see, is on tho stroets and “looking up.” ‘There is stili some grumbling sbout the road, though the people Lave not yet made up tholr minds that they will have to pay thio bonda. L notice some new ofticors bosides Mr. Kimball. Mr. Fitch, the old Master-Mo- chanic, in running a machine-shop not far from Lis old quarters, on an independent basis, The ollice of Paymaster, aa I learn from tho Jlerald, i sbolished. The old incumhent takos leave ot the {»lnca with =ll of Wolsey's pathos, though loss than tliat gentloman’s maguamnuty, when he bids * farowoll, a long farowoll, to all my grestnens,” ‘“All my itlanal 1o that one place havo I Jost forever.” In spite of the change in wanagewopt, the Obicago & Michigan Lake- Blore continues to run ita trains with the rogme larity of the sun, and oue can get to New Buffalo on pasmont of the regular farg, and stoppago at the uanal unmber of clearinga in the woods. In spito of bureted banks and failing trades- meu, Bt. Ju has made substantial {mprovement durini tho last yoay, A large number of new liouses have gono up, Jobn Wilkinson has put up two, just north of the Congregational Church; Capt. Church bas built two; Btiles, two; and Pouter, two; Frank Taylor has builk one; aud thore ara one or {wo more new onos on the Bluf, overlaoking the Lake, Calvin Potter lins bought and fltted up a house on the East Dluft, overlnoking tho harbor, John O. Geutzlor has also built: also, Capt. Joln Langley, just north of the Hamual G. Langley place: Ogdon Bwect has enlarged his house on the Dluff. "Dr. Strattou hian improved his residence, corner of Main and Ploanant atreots, and made extensive additions, Mr. Hhafer haa improved hia flup lot. Murtin Loschor hLas put up a carriage-shop. These are all the new buildings I have noticed. Rants have Loen vory high, During the fall, honses could bardly Le had at any price. Bome of the old settlors are gone. On the Niles Ruad aloue, between thoe River and Hick- ory Creel, there lave boen fourteon deatbs within the year, all or nearly all from causes outside of the peculiar diseases of i, Jo,—~ from old age and other causes. Among them is Capt. 1lorace Lnuclo\{‘, whose brother, Capt Samuel G, both_well known on the lakes, died two yeara aga, . Warron Cbapman, Esq,, has lost hia wife ; the Chapman family is broken up, sud the old housa 1 occupied by James H, Cantlold, Mesars, Butler and Simeon Wilson Lave alio passod awey, 1 forgot to notice ¢hat a large baskot-facto wus put up unaer the North Blu@, at the cloge o tho last year. The vompauy failed, and the mill bes pasyod into the hands'of Wells, Ward & Co., who ara now putting iu the machinery from their old fuctory, snd driving piles and filling is for & wharf around tha building. T is one of the oldeat and miost successful frult-packsge firms in town, In closing, I wish to remark that the At Jo ladios, on New Year's Day, were as sgrcoable 83 § thoy used to be, and their refreshmouts 83 temptg, The good old custom of miaking avd receiving calls on that day has uot yet passed in- todisuse. Whila 1 am in the habit of visitio tho old town duriug the holidays, [ Lope it wi not, Farowoll, then, Bt. Jo, wWith your fine fruit, your good skating, desp sxnd, aud ever- lastiug broczes, ¢l another rest shall leavo ud tinue for ploasures that are bost anjoyed with you JouN Dans.