Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1875, Page 11

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. ll a ——eeeaeauauouauaunnqee eee TTT—EE boiler furnaces; two houses simply pass the | actof 1963 obliged chomisty after that date to THE STENCH-NUISANCE, Farther Discussion of that Oderous gud Important Sybject. “Tha Tribune” Commissioner Con- ~" glydes His Investigations. foder tho Present System there Ts Little © ope of Relief from Foul Oders. Ghe Ignorance or Incompe- “" tenoy of the Health Authorities. . How ta Oestroy the Stench--Descrip. _ fon of a Successful Process, To conclude the personal investigations of fax Teinune's commissioner into the various packinz-houses in and sround the city, and oth- er egtablishments charged by the public with the action of stench-nuisance, we have this week to report tho result of examinations into thres packing-houses situetedin the Stock-Yards oat ontside the city limits, and at which crip- pled hogs are killed, i. ., those which have enf- fered injury in body or limb from any accident from conflict among themsolves." Thethought- pal reader may ask: ‘If the crippled hogs are kkdlled so near the city, does the resnizant pork ayer ret into our home or is it shipped East along with sound meat, and sold as such?" ‘The writer is not pre- pared at presentto answer the question, but assures the public that, if all the tacts concern- Ing the disposal of most produced by crippled i hogs were suddenly made known to them, there would be an equally endden and .yery large de- crease in the consumption of pork in the City of Chicago. Tnp first of these houses visited was tat of 7. MOUGH, which bas a capacity of 600 hogs per diem, the of late ouly 250 hogs per day have been En There are three tanks in use, one for ised and the other for gut-boiling. The *‘tank- ings” are sant ta tbe Northwestern Fertilizing Company. No, arrangement for either con- dersing or burning the gases evolved gsm the lard-isnks. One locomotive boil- er uf. 24 borse-power isin use; steam pressare employed, 30 pounds per square iach; amount snd ‘kind of fuel used, 1,500 to Z,0c0 pounds of Brier Hill coal. There 1s also anoti-er boiler in the house, but it was not in use atth= imeof the writer's visit, At tho pack- ing-b:1s0 of +. HANLON there is capacity for killing 500 hogs per diem, thongh fifty hogs per diem has been the recent killing. The tanks are two in number—one lard- tank and one for guts. The tankings are all bauled aysy by the fertilizer-manufacturers about three times a week. A condenser is in nse for condensing the gases evolved from the tank, the refuse of which is allowed to escape into the ayen sir. Ona steam boiler about 8 feet long, and worked at a pressure of 40 pounds per squrre inch, i in use, and consumes 1,000 potnds per day of Wilmiagton coal. The pack- dng-bouss of ¥. LATCHAM & CO. hes & cepacity of about 1000 hogs, though cf Jats it bss only been running on 500 to 600 hogs. There are three lard-tavks and one gut-tank. ‘The “‘tankings " are sant to Conlan & Scanlan, soap manufacturers, and the blood to J. Sher- win'’s packing-honse. The gases from the lard- tauks are first passed through a large condenser, on the samo plan as that at Sherwin’s house, and afterward burnt under the boiler furnaces. or rather they are sent there with that intention There are two steam-boilers in use, one of 20- borae power and one of 50-horse-power; press- ure of steam, 40 pounds per square inch; smount and kind of fue! used, 6,000 pounas per aay of Btraightsvilie (O.) coal. No arrangement for prevention of smoke is applied to tue boilers of any one of these three houses. THESE THREE HOUSES sve much in common, and have, therefore, been taken together. They all do the same class of business, ing crippled hogs; they are ali together ia the same locality, and are all wanting in cleanliness. At least two out of the three are great offenders in that respcc?, and the blood and refuse which falls into the sewer is emptied ont into a large, open ditch or gutter running on the east side of Halsted street, cross- ing the same at Egan avenue, and ruoning thence slong the south side thereof. Owing doubtless t2 the recent severe weather and long” cold spel, but little objectionable smell was ap- parent coming from these’ houses at the time of the writer's visit, but he is in- formed that in summer-time the stench- Duisancs therefrom is very bid, owing to the fact that the guts are frequently kept for two or three days until a sufficieut quantity has sccu- tmulsféd to ‘make a good tanifull,” when they ar rendered. Mach may be doue, and at only alight trouble and expense, to render these three bouses more clesnly and much less of a nuisance lunng summer time. No remarss have beeo made daring the course of these articles which ean justly be construed iato invidious compari- sons between one packing-house and another, and, therefore, the wniter refrains in this piace from pointing out what should be done, speciat- Jy to tha three houses just mentioned, to render ‘them leas objectionable a8 nuisances, and less fol in s sanitary point of view, but ict the Owners apply to themselres such of the general Suggestions and recommendations which follow ‘4 may eeom to refer to their works. ae AN EXAMINATION Tasnow been made, so {ar as we are aware, of all the packing-houses end fertilizing mauufac- mand around the City of Chicago, aud it hes been clearly ascortaned which houses are and which are not rightly chargeable with the abominable smells that 60 often pollute the city air. There are other works and factories in this Sad almost overy othe> targa city, such as chem- works of various kinds, etc., which produce Saells; Lut in this case, and for the purpose for ‘hich these articles have been written, the Smell of ‘the city—that from the packing and fer- 1g houses—has alone boon investigated. connection careful examinations have been made of thirty-nine different works, of twenty-five are situated at the Stock- Yards, ail within 1 mile of the sonthern city lim- ita snd fourteen within the ¢ity. Of those at the Btock-Yards, four houses are fertihzer manafactories alone (one of which has, since ite ion, burnt down); five are -packing- *s which render their own and other tank- into fertiiizera (one of which, Tabor & Brenock’s, 13 but partially completed, and sn- bother, Hutchinson's, the apparatus is not yet set andin usu), and the remaining sixteen are king-housrs which do not manufacture fer- bat sell or give away their blood and kings to some one or other of the nine fer- T manufactorics. In these sixteen houses {he gases from tho lard tanks are allowed to es- Cape into the open air; in theotber nine houses, pts are made to condense the gases arising” rom the drying cylinders alone, those from the : tanks being allowed asa rule to escape into © open sir unchecked. The gases from the sing cylinders are in three houses conduct the furnaces to be burot, the result being ‘charming vanety” which we in the city pocieionally notice in the character of the stench misance, A list of twenty-two of these twen- §-fve bousea will bo found in the article on Prevention of Smoke” on another page of this i, the other three houses in the former Fart of this article, in one of which houses the from the lard tanks is condensed (?) and enapoiher they are both condensed and deliv- ‘Under the boiler furnaces to be burat. Withis the Ox, THE FOURTEEN HOUAES ri the city two are packing-houses fitted tins @pparatus for manufacturing fertilizers; tall une. Feching-houses wuich send, give, or Boose kings aod, in some cases, their 1 to the two cther houses; one is ® blood factory! tein, Hirsch & Co., or rather 8 manu- ry of albumen, which is obtained from the ood supplied bythe various packing-housos ; oe ores factory of Mesars. Wabi Bree fs iilizer-making apparatus is also in ij tad one is the lard rennerfof Moasra. Fait- cme Peck & Co, with which no nuisance is a lected. Oftho nine packing-honses which i toes render thar tapkings and blood in ferti- ra vo attempt to render their geses evolved ae tard tauks incdorous by passing them fai Guough a condenser apd then under the one ig market, i gases throu; condenser and thence through the sewer into tae riyor, and tho other two houses have no arrangement for deodorizing these gases. . It will thus be seen from this concise summary that’ pine out of the eleven packing-housea qithin the city have made attempts te deodorize their jard-tank gases, but in only one of theso houses is the at- tempt successful. It speska’ well for the vigi- lauce of the Board of Health that insach a large Proportion of the total number of ‘packing- houses such attempts bave bean made, out, and Marx this, it speaks ill for. them, or rather for the competency of the advice uoder which they act, that eo large « proportion of these attempts, oight-niuths, ‘should bo total failyies, as las been bofore and emphatiasily raaarked in the course of these articles, The packera, as a body; ahould ba . FREED FBOM BLAME in the matter of the stenoh-nusance; they hava done what they could, acting under incompetent advice; nor docs the Board of Health seem to have been remies in its duties in the matter of indicting. the various offend- iug packing-houses for stench-nuisance; but it has in every caso - made the unfortunate blunder of recommending to the oft-indicted and bewildered packers an inefficient system of deodorizing their Jard-tank gaacs, and itis for the public, the citizens of Chicago, to decide whether most blame attaches to the Board for this blunder or to the incompetent men under whose advice they have actad, in rec- ommnending, if uot forcing, upon the packers an inetiicient system of deodorization of the ob- noxious gases. As it is not the purpose of these articles mere- ly to stir up again the muddy depths of this much-vexed question, thereby exciting the pub- lic and spurring on the Board of Health tos re- newed series Of vexatious indictments azainst tho peckers, and then leaving the “muss” thus created, with a Mephistaphclian soeer, or a quantity of scurmlous: abuso against ail and eversbody, as is the manoer of some vubiic journals, we now proceed to the conaideration of aos THE PRACTICAL REMEDIES which, when applied to the wickoning subject, will prove the specific for the disease, With this endin view, Tuz Tripoxe’s com- talsstoner, with the assistance of a public- spirited gentleman who defrayed such expense as was necessary, made some wpecial experiments during the past week on the ouly plang which appeared to him feasible aud weil calculated to | attain the resuit sougat, viz.: the perfect de- odorization of the gases evolved from the Jard tanta, ‘I'wo experiments were made upon’ de- odarization by axtiseptica (earth and charcoal), sad two upon deadorization by combustion, ant 1 the result showed strongly 1n favor of the latter. But before describing ths detaila of tho experi- ments, the reasuus will be given for adopting the two materials mentioned, earth and charcoal, for the purpose of deodorization. Earth bes beeo long and favorably known as a deodorizer, thcugh it has not ag yet baen satia- factorily proved what is the best Lind of earth for the purpose, wheiher aaandy, clayey, loamy, gravelly, or peXty soil is the most eflicient, Di- geation is merely one form of chemical decom- position, and tho portions of food unassimilated by the body, or fecal matters, are very effectual- ly deodorized by earth; so well indeed is this Known that in many portions of Europe earth- | closets are used instead of the ordiuary water- closets in houaes. The advocates of sewerage irri- { gation have always laid stroes upon the harmless- ness (frovi a sanitary point of view)of this method } Of wrigation on account of the deodorizing and antiseptic properties of earth and their state- ments havein most cases been supported by facts in the case in which sewage irrigation bas not been accompanied by any noxious or unhealthy vapors,—though at the same time the writer feels bound to state that a la-ge minority do state persistently that sewuge irrigation is harm- ful and prejudicial to the public health when performed in the vicinity of large towns or cities. However, tha evidence as to the efficiency of common KARTH AS A DEODORIZER | seomed to jusufr the writer in making experi: ments upon its efficiency in deodorizing tai tauk gases, especially as it is without donbt the cheapest substance that can be used for the purpose. At the same time the claims of other substances which proved more or less successful. as deodorizers and ponfiersin the case of sewer gases were duly weighed, such as lime, charcoal, sulphar- ous acid gas, chlorine gas, and carbide of jron; but of these only the first two were deemed practicabie in relation to lard-tank gases, as the other threa were considered either too e: pensive in production or too analogona in chemical composition to bo of use in deodoriz- ipg, notably in the case of euiphurous acid gas, a considerable quantity of the lard-tank gases being sulpharous in character. Of these first two substances lime was proved and found wantiug, ag will be noticed in the de- ecription of the only successfal system of effect- ually buroing the gases, but the other, charcoal, was practicable, and was, thereforo, adopted in the experiments. CHARCOAL may be termed the most efficient deodorizer and purifier of eewer gases, the reason being the large amount of condensed oxygen contained wituin ite pores, the oxygen being condensed therein to the extent of eight times the bulk of the char- coal. The extent of the pores in charcoal ia also very great. Liobig says that one cubio inch of beechwood charcoal contaius pores equal in area to 100 superficial feet. It absorbs the miagsmata of organic decomposition, and not only dieinfecta, but absolutely destroys or burns up by means of the oxygen in its pores almost all forms of noxious gases. Wnon treated sith water after being in use from nine to twenty months. charcoal yiolded abundance of alkaline nitrate, showing complete oxidation of some of the organic gases; other alkaline salts were also present, iodicating the fixation of the ammouia, and other volatile nitrogen- ous bodies peculiar to organic decompouition, but of which nothing could detinitely be deter- mined but that they had a very bad odor, com- pounded of urine, sewage, bad meat, ammonia, and stale tobacco, Charcoal is very easily re- vived again,—i. e., cleared of the gases which it has decomposed, and fitted again for use; rais- ing tt to a red heat ina closed retort for half an hour is all that ia neceseary for the purpose. ‘These statements being facts, and it seeming to the writer that much similarity must exist be- tween the chemical composition of many of the noxious sewer gasés decomposed by charcoal and those evolved from the Jard-tauks, he therefore covcluded to try the deodorizing powers of char- coal in the experiments about to bo described. It will be of interest bere to give A COMPARISON between the gases formed in sewers and those evolved from the lard-tauks, as far as they have boen determined. Sewer-gases are composed of carbouic acid, nitrogen, carbureted and sulphu- reted hydrogen, ammoniacal compounds, and fwetid organic vapor, An analysis of air from a sewer in London, Eng., gave 79.96 per cent ni- trogen, 19,51 per cent oxygen, 53 por cent car- bonic acid, with mere traces of ammonia, marsh- gas, and sulphureted hydrogen. Another analy- tis gave 78.81 per cent nitrogen, 20.79 per cent oxygen, 4 per cont carbonic acid, and no trace of sulpbureted hydrogen. Of this last gas (which is the procipal ingredient in the odor arising from rotten eggs), which 1s very poisonous, one art in 250 of air Will kill a horse (and presuma- by. therefore, human beings), one part in 500 of air will kill a dog, and one in 1,500 of air will kil small birds. ‘The only analysis of the lard-tank gases which the writer was able to obtain is an unsatisfacto: ons by Dr. Bruno Terne, late chemist at Wau: Brothers’ glne-factory, in which he merely stated that the gases were eopipaunds of carbon, hydro- gen, nitrogen, and sulphur, and were, by them- selves, incombustible. This would seem to in- dicate that the composition of lard-tank gseos were very similar to, if not identical with, sawer- gasef; ammonis in the latter is meroly a com- ponnd of three parts hydrogen and ono of ni- trogen. 4 SUGGESTION RECENTLY MADE to the writer by a very prominent manufacturer of this city forthe abatement of the “stench nuisance” may be here mentioned. It was that of building very tall chimneys to carry off the noxious gases into the reverse currents of sir which prevail in all parts of the earth at certain heights sbove the surface. Prof. Donaldson founded his hope of success, it will be remembered, in attempting a voyage to Europe in the Graphic balloon,* on the theory that at 290 feet above the ocean surface there was a constant western cur- rent of air, end Migher. up aconstant eastern current, andsoon. Even if thia is so in this locality, the expense attendant on building such talfcnimneys would render them out of the question as a necessity to be adopted by all the pecking and fertilizmg houses, especially as they would have to be built particularly stron; to withstand the frequent very high ‘winds o} this locality. As an example of such chimneys, thet of the St. Rolicx Chemical Works near Glaegow, Scotland, which stands 4951¢ feet above the ground, is 59 feet diameter at the base and 13 foot G inches at the top, msy be cited. Further particulars of this” re- markable structure, which is 1463¢ feet higher than the top of tho pital at Washington, and than Trinity steeple in New York City, may be found in a paper re- cently read before the Civil Engiueers’ Club of the Northwest in this ci-y, bv Mr. C. J, Af C. &. This isone of tho ;many such chimneys puilt to carry off the noxious fames of bydro- chloric ac:d gas from chemical works. They wore fl inefiicient; however, and the Atkali coadense all such fumes. We may now tury ta the consideration of the experiments ¢armed on last week up THE DEQDORIZATION OF LABD-TANK GASES. ‘Two ordinary Jard-tierces ware filled with shelves inside, on waich, in one case, tha comman earth of the locality, and in the other charcoal, was filed in, Each tiorce measyred 2 feet 8 inches high, 2 fect diameter at each end, and 2 fcat 1 inch jo djamoter in the contro, and weighed, amp- ty, but utted with the shelves, 66 pouads. In the earth tierce tha top layar was 6 inches thick and its surface was 4 inches below the top edge of tho tierce, the head being left entirely open. In the lower partion of this trerce was a shelf covared with abont4 incnes thickess of garth, the sur- {ace of which was 8 iuchies below ihe utder sur- faco of the upper shelf. Tha bottom of the bar- rel was closed by abead in the usual way, leaving a space of 5 inches between tais head and tae lower surface of the lawer shelf, into which the pipe was ingerted which conveyed the gases from the lard-tanks. The charcoal tierce was fitted with oue shelf only, covered with 20 inches depth of charcoal, the sutface of which was 4 inches below the upper edge of the tierce. Tus bovtom was cloaod by a head, and the gas intro- duced in the same manger 9 in the ofhor tierce. A coke fire was also made in acylinder of sheet stove-pipe iron with open ends, 1 foot 2 inches diameter and 1 foot 3 inches high, placed ou top of some ordinary ‘fire-grate bars, which rested at the ends on wood bearing-blocks about 7 inches square, thus allowing ample room for a good current of air to circulate under them and up through the coke fire. To one side of the cslinder a socket tora branch pipe 5 inches in dismoter was fixed, the lower edge of this socket being 9 inches below the upper edge of the cvl- inder; the upper surface of the coke waa about 4 inches below the upper edge of the ovlinder. The weight of earth used was 149 pounds, of charcoal 84}¢ pounds, aud of coke about 25 pounds, i . THE GASES WERE SUPPLIED throngh 3{-inch gas-pipe by twa ordinary lard or tallow tanks, each measuring 12 feet high by 6 feet diameter. : I: was mentioned last week that .s visit had been made to the packing-house of James Tur- ner, where an apparatus of his invention was employed for puraing the lard-tank gases, but that, asit was not in ase at-the time, anorher visit would be paid to the same house, in order to see itin action and the character of the re- sults, This was done during the past weell, and the resulia wero eminently satisfactory. Tao gases were burnt perfectly, and no cther smell waa perceptible from them than we may smell from the combustion of ordioary carbureted by- drogen in our dwelling-houses, and this was ouly distinguishabie by placing oue’s nose 88 near tae flame as possible without getting burat. It may be pronounced a decided success, and the only successful mode, so faras known to the writor (avd by this time he bas investigated the matter pretty thoroughly), of completely buraing the noxious gasas evolved from the 1ard-taoke, ‘TUS PROCESS may be desoribed as follows: The gases and watery vapor are led off in the usual way from the lard-tank into a large vat, where they circu- Jate through a coil of pipe, surrounded by cold water. The steam contained in tue pipes aud mixed with the gases is thus condensed, and the Doxious gases are thus set free in a dry state. It it ia intended to use the gases eventually (and here is one important feature of the pro- coss) for illummsting purposes, they are then Jed over a lime purifier, or into a tank containing lime, or. rather, Lammin’s mixture, whica is a mixture of equal parts of sluked and powdered lime and sawdust, wetted by a amall quantity of a solu- tion of lime and copperas. This serves to elimi- nate from the gases most of the sulphurous and other deleterious compounds, suoa as aul- phureted hydrogen and carbonic acid gas, which aro huctfal to the illuminating quality of the gases, which elimination causes the gases, when ultimately burnt after being carbonize i, to give aclesr, white, steady tight, equal in all respects to the ordinary gas burut in our dwellings, and decidedly superior to that with which the gas- companies have of Iate supplied us. Fram the purifying tank the ‘gases ‘are led jnto the ‘carbonizer,. which consists of a tank containing gasoline, or other light hydro-carpon oils, of about 4 inches is depth. A CHEMICAL COMBINATION then smmediately takes placa between tho lard- tauk gases and the gasoline vapors, whereby, ac- cording to the well-known chemical law of atomic weights, the former take up exactly eo much of the hydrocarbon vapora as is required by their combining proportion, and are thus en- tirely converted into combustible gases. ‘I'his is equally trne even if the lard-tank gases have not first been passed through the parifier, and con- sequently contain much sulphur in their compo- aition; forthe sulphur combines with the hy- drogen of the gasolino, forming thereby hydro- sulphuric acid, or sulphureted hydrogev,—a gas which, though uniguited does not support con- bastion, yat when lt burns readily with a blue lame. ‘The carburized gases (whether previously pu- rified or not makes uo difference in their com- bustibility) are then led off either to be burned in the boiler furnaces, or, if required for illu- minating purposes, to a gas-boider where the pressure is equahzed, and they are supplied from thence through service-pipes to the yarious burners in use. In burniog them in the furnace it is pot necessary tolead them with care into the middle of the burning mass of coals; it is merely sufficient to lead them within reach of a flame therefrom, which then immedistely ignites them, and they burn with a constant s:eady flame until the sap- ply ceases. If previously ourified, the color of the flame produced by “ne pases 18 the usual white sopearance of the *ss-iights in our build- ings; if unpurified, it is uf a bine color, with oc- cagional red'tlashes, and of a character, thero- fore, showing tho presence of carbonic oxide, sulphuretted hydrogen, aud a small amount of other inde:erminate ingredients, whether puri- fied or unpurified, the resultaut of the combus- tion of the carburized gases isthe same, viz., that it is PRACTICALLY ODORLESS. The feasibility of this plan of effectually burn- ing and daodorizing the gases is apparent on tho face of it, and practical triala by the writor aad other pergons fully bear out the results which common senso would anticipate ; the aystem is simple, eflicacions, and economical This sys- tem, we understand, is in successtul use in the immense packing-bouse of J, P. Squire & Co., at Boston, Mass., whore n0 leas than 400,000 hogs are killed and packed per annu.n, The stench nuisauce arising from this house had becomo so intense that, in spite of the.serious loss such an action would bring on tho community at large, the Mayor and corporation of tae city bad de- cided tu cloeo the house, when at this juvcture Mr. Squire, as a last resource, having tried all other plans of deodorizing his gases, applied the system which has just baen described, and from that day to this no single complaint has beon ut tered.sgainet bis house. As the experiments with this system of burn- ing the lard-tank gases proved 80 successful, the writer concluded to try systems of deodorizing the gases by means of earth or charcoal, and also the effects of en- deavoring to buro them in a hot coke fire. The gases direot from tha lard-tank (i. e,, uncarbur- zed) were consequently led first into tho bollow space under the bottom of the tierce, filled with earth, and the time noted that they took to pene- trate upwards through the earth on the shelves, and emerge in their foul strength from the top. To the writer's surprise, the complete passage through the tierce was effected in one minute and one- balf; 8 similar experiment being tried with the charcoal tierce, they penetrated in oue minute and one-quarter. This proves the failure of schemes which, reasoning from the premises re- garding their'chemical action ‘detailed above, seomed to the writer to bo the most feasible of all which had been proposed for the deodoriza- tion of the gases. The gases were then turned into the coke fire, when it was proved that if the end of the gas- pipe were forced well under the surface of the coke into the hottest part of the fire no objec- tionable smells resulted therefrom, the chemical nature of the gases being apparently changed by the intense heat, o portion of them, perhaps, being consumed, though no flame was apparent there- from. If the gases were directed downwards on the surface of the fire, they rose up again, strong and fou! as ever, into tho nostrils of the experi- menters; thé same was the result when they were directed into any part of the fire which was not bot enough toconsums them. ‘This would seem to prove that, UNDER FAVORABLE CONDITIONS, - the gases from the tara-tanks could be deodi ized by passing through a very hot fire; but thie experiment, though at first sight it might seem 80, does not in the slightest degree lessen the force of the dictum which has been given against the system of burning tho gases adopted by many of our packers through the recommenda- tion of tho Board of Health, for in these cases the gases have either been Jed into the ash-pit under the fire-grates to the boilers, or into the furnace space between the fire-grate and the bottom of the boiler. In either case, it will be seen that the gazes escape perfectly un- consumed or undecomposed into the open air, where they meancer round ‘tat their own wild, wicked will,” for, as regards those cases ia which the gases are led into the ash-pit, they always escape.through openiogs between the fire-bars, wach, are mnoorered oy coal. Jusion, therefore, ‘6 are forced 18 conc! ion, ert that the only feasible system of deodarizing t in competition with the . either the lard-tank gases or those arising from tho manufacture of fertilizers iy by FIRST CARBURIZING THEM before leading them into tha farnacés, gnd this, therofure, ia the system which warecommend for uso, 9g the result of our recent inveutigations aud thorough examunstion into “The Stench Nuisance.” Now, therefore, jt rests with von, citizens of Chicago, to decide whetaer the handsumest city ia tag Union shall remsio any longer disgraced by such a nuisance as bs been investigated in these articles, and how much longer the stranger passing through our city shail be heard to ex- presa the opinion that: ‘ Chicago is a splendid city, and I would sooner live there than in any other city 10 the Union that I know of, if itweze not for that sbaminavle stench.” Jt im tras, doyb:less, that in epforoing tho ABATEMENT OF THE STENCU NUISANCE gction must be taken against the pergonal in- teresis of ona af our largest home jndustrias, and, when ong reflects that it is annyaily in- éreassing by a very large percentage, the neceg- sity of acting with caution and good judgment in regulating its affairs immediately appears.” A few figures, taken from the sixteonth annual re- port of the Secretary of the Board of Trade of Chicago for the year 1873, will show the impor- tance of this industry still.more clearly, Tho amaunt of direot shipments of varions ar ticles to Kurope during the year 1873, aud the percentage of iuorease of each over the amount of ubipmoats in 1872, were as follows : Bacon (boxes), 193,343, sm incroase of 44 per cent over 1872. Lard (terces), 96,571, an increase of 22 per cent over 1972, Beef, pork, and tallow (packages), 20,392, an increase of 24 per cent over 1872, Number of live hogs shipped from the city during 1873 was 2,197,657, whicb, at an sverage price of $4.65 represents a cupital of $10,219,632; number of dressed hogs ahipped wus 200,936, which, at $5.15, represents a capital of $1,030,643. Number of cattle shipped during 1873 was 574,181, which, at $4.75, represents a capitul of $2,727,360, Or, if we look at it from another point of view, the num- ber of cattle packed during the season 1872-3 was 15,- 755, which, at $4.73, represents s capital of $74,836; and of hoga there were 1,656,650 packed, which, at $5.13, Tepresonts a capital of §7.472,014, the united amount, $7,547,750, representing the tolal amount of capital in- vedted by the packers 2s manufacturers in their raw ef pork packed in the varions Statee of the Missiesippi Valley during the season 1873-44 wera: Iilinois, 1,834,218 ; Oblo, 36,264; Mis Wilscontin, Sahni Mchighn, 40997 iscon: 05 5 9 9 24, 99,850; "Minnesota, 95.320; Nebraska, 20,833 ; West Virginia, 4,009 ; Pennsylvania, 29,000. Total, 5,451,254, : From this it will be eeen that in Chicago is packed rather more than one-fourth the whole amount packed in the fourteen park-packing States of tae Mississippi Valley. The pubhe spir:t and enterprise of Tux Tars- UNE bave provided, in the foregorng articles, in- farmation of all ‘the facts relative to “The Stench-Nuisance,” and the only practical acd feasible scheme for its abatement; vow let the enterpriss of our citizens bo seen in the imme- diate utilization of these facts, and the total sup- pression of the stench-nuisance before next spring. C.J. MY UNCLES STORY, Sow a Murderer Wis Discovered by Dreams. Written for The Chicage Tribune, He wasan old man—I should say full three score and ten—when I beard him tell this story. Although he bas been dead many yoars, it is ized so vividly in my mind that I can now call up from memory everything, every circumstance connected with it: the time, the place, the Christ- mas Eve, the olazing fire, the old man in his easy chair, tho old cat Reuben playing at his feot ; and even tho vory words in which he told it. I fancy I could imitate the very tones of his voice, * Thave said he was an old man. He was more than that. He was the loveliest, tha most ami- ablo, the most enchanting man I ever kuew. Let me describe his venerable person. I caunot, with poor, weak, human words, paint the beau- ties of his mind. He way tall and strsizht, of graceful and Kingly presonce. His bair wea white, very white, and flossy, and hung in thio curls to his splendidly-moldod suoalders, His eye—Ab!thow eballI paint it? Pigment ne'er went on palette thst could be mada to imitate it —wasthe tender, loving bine that could look more affection than most mortals are capablo of expressing through all the sonses. Hig face was besrdless, round, and rosy,—o face that a man srotid not be ashamed to kies. His mouth was mora than splendid, in- tellectual, clean-out—such a mouth as a painter would delight to put upon canvas if he could, How shall I give an iden of his mental qualities ? His coiloqmal powers were marvelous—amazing. Ido not remembor that I have ever io my life met such an enchanting conversstionalist. I have eat night after night until miduight listen- ing to him withont ut.ering s word myself. I ubought it would be mean and contemptible to aay anything. No lover of tragedy ever hung upon tho words of Booth, Kemble, or Mur- doch wih greater delight than I have ex- perienced iu listening to this grand old man. Hia memory was prodigious. He recollected everything he had ever heard or read. Ie was fond of romiance, and his mind was stored mith a rich fand of legendary tales, It wasin the year 18—; the time was Christ- mas Eve. Thoold man and I were sittiog bya blazing fire in the comfortable library of my fatuer’s house. A fierce snow-storm was in progress without, and the moist flakes spattered against the windows at times as if they wanted to get in out of the cold; the wind blew hoaracly in the chimney as if it were afllicted with a bad cold. “Unclo,” sad I, “this is s good night for a_ story.” ‘Yes, nephew,"—bho always called me nephew,—''1 have been thinking so as I sat here by this cosy fire, Ittsn’t likely chat I will spend Christmas Eve with you many more times; indeed, I am persuaded that this is my Iast Christmas in this world; mysands are about run out; the old man with tho gcythe will soon smite me. The story I am going to tell you is one have never told before. No human being has ever heard it, Itis my own. I have clung to it for more than thirty years. Ithas been part of myself, I have regarded it as part of my being; 80 firmly has it become imbedded in my soul that I have not forgotten it fora single moment in thirty years. Itisatruestory. These white locks of mine are my witnesses, for in one short night they changed from midnight black to saowy white.” Here my veneravle utcle drew hia haodkerchief, and, as I thought, wiped the gathoring tears trom his eyes. He then com: menced in a rich voice, aomewhat thickened mith emotion, and related a story which to mo waa ineffably thrilling. “In the year 18—,” said be, “I was manager of the estata of Sir ‘I'heodosius B—, who owned 8 splevaid country seat near the City of M—, in England, He was » man of great wealth. Although much of my time was occu- ied in the cara of his immense property, was not deprived of his delightful com- panionship. Ho wes s splendid. tellow, proud of his wife, fond of good ciothes; not sristo- cratic, but occupying a middle-ground betweea high pride and low meekness, and very fond of old port. We were associated together I may say almost constantly; io my travela over - hig estate upon business matters bo was nearly al- ways withme. Wo huated together, fished to- gether, played at piquet and cassino, and often ran a game of chess ail night. Ido not remem- ber any amusement or diversion ho was so sel- fish a3 to enjoy withontmy compsuy. The fam- ily at Hickory Hall, which was the name of his seat, was not large, consisting of Sir Theodosius and wife, myself the manager, acd a few under servats, “Sir Theodosius was nots man of the world, Ho loved home. He loved his dogs, bis booka, and his pictures,—he was diletiant, and hada large collection of articles of virtu,—and the quietness of home life better than the bollow social life of the great city. He was an amateur astronomer, and had fitted up a small observa- tory, which was a source of great pleasure to us. To London he never went moré than ounces year. Visitors rarely came to the Hall, so you gee wehad a quiet household. Bir The’ was sometimes seized with fits: of sadness and mel- ancholy, and would look himaelf in his library for two or throedays, Aside from this he was very jolly and companionable. Theas spells of sadness, as’ I learned, were oo- casioned =by a tregic circumstance con- nected with his marriage. - He had been # Colonel in the English army, sud was stationed in India, One day, he and iMsj. Banks fell into | his estate, and, learning tho whereabouts of the ‘widow of Banks, who was hing in poverty, sought her, confessed his crime, sued for her band, and they wore finally married. Notwith- standing he waa the murderer of ner husband, I do nat chink a couple ever lived mare haopily. Ho lavigied upon her all the affections of his goul, aud ine only object in life ecamed to bs to render her happy. “or boen at Hickory Hall I suppose ten years, when a tragedy, surpassing anything ia horror I have ever known, oceurred. Sip The’ bad one of bis spells Gf melancholy, and had been secluded for a day or two; one evening he nent fer me to come to the library and engage him game of chogs. I went and found him in a fine bomor. He had boea rescinz Don Quixote, and was laughing heartily about that gentiewan's adventure with the wind-milla. Wo commoaced the game. he having the white men and I the bigck, Warily and slowly we both moved, but wa were not prevented by interest in the same from being quite jolly, aud I ramember distinctly that we drank four bottles of old part, When lock in the great Hall struck 1, f was checkmated. -{ ought to have had the game, for Thad roboed him of his queeo and two raoks, but he checkmated me with hig king's knight. He alopt alone in a room adjojuing the library. “\T awoke late the fallowing morning and was astonisned to hear cries, and sobs, and loud lamentations in the servants’ hall. I qnickly aroua and wont to ascertain tho cause. On en- toring the hall I found the wife of Sw The’ lying in a swoon; the servants ware si! pala as the ghost of Death, and epeschlesa with horror, and half-dead with fear. After awhile they com- meuced moaning and wringing their hands, and looking toward heaven, ‘What means this, in Heaven's name ?' I inquired. ‘Oh! Oh! Oh! Murder! Marder! Murder!" they answered in eboras, and all pointed toward Sir The's sleep- ing-apartment. I rushed into his room in the wildest excitement, aud there a scene met my gaze the moat horrible, the most dreadful, tha mnost frightful, the most fearful, the most awful and blood-curdling tnat ever human eye looked upon. Upon the bed lay the severed head of Sir The’, the mouth open, tha eyes staring glassily and ghastly: Staring full ghastly like » strangled man, and the bsir bristling with horror: « pool of clotted gore was in thecentreof the bed. Where was the rest of the body? It was not in the room; it was notin the bouae; it could not be found anywaere; all that could be found of poor 8. The’ was that ghastly, horrible head. We buried it away tenderly out of mgt, and then sought for tne remainder of the body and the murderer. In the night following this blood- freezing tragedy these hairs of mine became white a3 you now see them. It wag certain he Was murdered; at least I thought ao. We found neither body nor murderer; no trace or clew could we find to the rerpotrator of the fout deed; tnere waa not a volitary circumstance pointing to anyone as the guiltv party. No expense was spared ; the best detective talent was exhausted, and not s shadow of evidence against any person was discovered, For five yeara the mur- dorer waa hunted for ceaselzesly,’ and was not found. Sir The’s wife, at last deapairiug of ever bringing the guilty wretch to justice, went into x couvent ond ieft main charge of the estate. You may suppose that I breaded over this crime and sought to reveal itumystery. It was my study. Ithougnt of it night snd day, I rea- soned upon it. I invented theories; I pried into motives, I examined into the character of every person within 10 miles of the Hall, and their relations with Sir The’, but I could tind no one likely tobe the murderer, £ tel every jailin Evgland. I bad read that criminals whea about to be execated would. often confess to committing otber crimes taan those for which they had been cunvicted. Whenever I heard of an execation I weut to the doomed man. I ex- borted him, extreated him to confess that he murdered Sir The’. I would tell him of the aw- fulness of his situation, of the mystery that bung over the fate of Sir Tne’, and beg him, ax he was abont to go before bis God, totell the truth. None kaew anything aboutit. [remember one miserable wretch who had chopped his grandmother to pieces for 20 shillings. I as- certained he was steeped in crime, aud T euppused he might be the gailty maa. I talked with bim for two days, and begged hum if be knew anything to tell it, but Leticited nothing concerning poor Sir The's death. I went to Australis among the tranaported ¢riminals, ana remained 3 year, using all my ingenuity to dis- cover something, bat I failed there., I came home in despair. I concluded tho mystery would never be solved, Then I was saized with a new ides—you know how pervons will grasp at any thing ‘to clear upamysiery. I thought of sui- cide. Could it be possible that Sir Tho’ had killed himself; no, that cond not be; 8 man could not cut eff his own bead, aud conceal bis body: the body, you rememoer, way not fouud—ne tracs of it had beon discovered. That theory was absurd. Had his wile killed him? No, vo, that was im- possibia; no woman ever loved amano better, aod there was no motive. Had any of the ecr- vants killed him? I pot myself in the war ‘of watching them. I observed every movement, every look, every action. I would talk to thom aoout Sir The’. I would tell them how noblo, how kind, bow affectionate and luving « master he had teen; and how cruel, inbuman, barbar- ous, savage, ferocious, brutal, and bloody- munded must hayo been the pergon who cpuld take the life of so amiabid aman. I thought to make the guilty one betray humself, but it waa notso. Whenever I talked to them as if their hearts would break. “The murderer bas a heavy consciences, and though he may hide his secret im his waking hours, I bave beard of czimioals who made known the burden of their guilty souls in sleep, Mauy a night at midnight I have gone tothe bedsile of esch servant and listened to the mum- bling hps of sleop that might solve the mystery. Once I heard old Margaret, the housekeeper, czy out in a mounful tone, ‘Poor The’! poor The’! Ob, the bloody head! Ob, the bloody head!" It sounded hke » requiem through the silent manaton, and sent a violent shiver. all over me. I know she was innocent, for abe had nursed her master when he was a baby and layed him ten- deily. I wassatisfied tue servants were guilt- loss. Imust startanew theory. DidI murder him myself? No, | certainly did not. I bad read of somuambulists who had committed etrange freaks and frightful deeds. Could it bs that I, in a somoambulistic’ state, “had gone to Sir The’s room, cut off his head and concealed the body? No, no, the thought was too horrible. It could not be; there would be some evideuce ofit. - “Twas now at the end of theories. I could not make avything out of the case ; “twas a hor- rible secret,—that was all. Just now I was filled with adesire to tind the body. How was it possible for the murderer to conceal it mth- out leaving a trace? I searched the entire es- tate in every nook and cranny. I dug up acres aud acres of ground. I argged all the streams, examined every well and hollow tree and log ; no spot withia s circuit of 15 miles where it might bo concealed waa left unsearched. Ali search was vain, nothing was found, What more could Ido? “I was worn out, tired, ex- hausted ; the strain-upon my mind bad adected the body. I fell sick and Isy for many weoke, 1 know not how tong now, at death’a door. I thought I was dying once’: the room was dark, my sight was failing ; shadowy forms fitted to aud fro before me ; strange whispers were ring- ingin myeara. Far away I thought I could bear the bolls of the city of the New Jerussiem ringing, heraldiog my coming ; then I thought the bells ceased, and Sir Tho’ came and dragged me by the hair across great sea of ice to the country of death. I did not dio, but rallied, was convaloscent many wecks, and finally recor- ered. a “During my convalescence I had seven re- markable dreams. 1 know nothing about the theory of dreams, or what they may- import. I leave that to augurs, soothsayers, and ascrolo- gers. Some say thet they are bat a reproduction of our waking thoughts, but I know-I have often had dreams that had not the slightest connection with my ideas of the daytime. It is a singular fact that dreams have very often foretold or foreshadowed death, calamities, and future events, and revealed the secrets of the past. I was still thinking and brooding over the terrible takiog off of poor Sir The’, and wondering whether the mystery ever would be revealed. ‘This was my first dream, os “Firat Dream: I thought I had been convictad of murder, and was to be bung, and strange, too, I was to be executed at midnight. All prepara- tiona had been made. As the clock tolied 12, two priests dreswed in black velvet robes came to my cell; the last rites of the Church were ad- ministered; I made my confession, and was led forth to die. A crowd hungry for my blood awaited me. Their faces looked unvaturaily pale and ghastly by the light of the flicxering lamps. I was led to the drop, the warrant was read, the rope adjusted, s last ‘prayer uttered ; the crowd sent up a'tiendish cheer, and I was about to be launched into eternity,—when, horror of horrors! the headless body of # man strode through the murderous company; walked up tho steps to the drop, cut she rope about my neck, and bid mo fly. {seemed possessed of wings, and swiftly rose above the devilish throng, and Hew away into a country gravasard, snd ht upon atomb, AsIsat there, fluttering with joy over my deliverance, my deliverer camo walking an unfortunate qnarre! in a dronken caroase, and a duel was the uence. Banks was killed, and Sir The’, filled with remorse, threw up his commission and came home. He remained in seclusion for some years. 1 believe he thonght at one time of taking holy orders. Upon the death of bis isther he aucceeded to through the graverard among the monuments, and a my blood ran cold when I recogaized him. ItwasSir The’. He-wasdressed 10 the samo clothes he wore the night of the murder. On came the headless man over the craves, and ‘at last sat beside me on the tomb, iat for ® moment and sighed, and then he threw his arms about the uofortunate Sir The’, they would cry |- ground me affectionately, murmuring, ‘Oh, Gerald! Ob, Gerald!’ Isat for a while speach- leas, and tien he said. ‘Gerald. I hava this vight saved you from death. Do for me.what I com- mand you. Go to the Linden tree near the grave of old Reginald, and you will find a ctons; dig down there sx feat, and you will tad my ‘banes, anda ring with the pame of my muysdor- er engraved upon it. Hant down the mardorer, and seo that my death isavenzod.’ He then vanished. In attempung to fly away, I awoke in a clammy swest. “Second Dream: I was on a wild, barren denart, I was gtarving to death; for days I had had orbing to eatordrink. 1 was rapidly Bast- ing away. J was a mers skeleton. tottered slong upon tbe hot sauds baneath 3 blazing sun. 1 felt my wasted cheaxs and aunken oves; i Tooked upon my withered limbs and skinny bands, aad the boues protruding through my shriveled integument, and cused God. shrieked. Iyelied madly for water. I pulled out my hair. I tora tho tattered rags from my body, and, waving them in the sir, laughed = de- moniacal langa. 2 peered forward into the end- lees hell of sand. Joy! joy! there is water ahead. Ah! thedeceptive mirzga drow me ou. I thought I saw a beautiful lake tilled with shio- ing water. I rushed forward nith renewed bope. On, on I went, tay parched lips ciacking, but tho Jake receded and finally waa gone. I fell down to die——when again I saw the ‘headless Bir The' coming over tha plain towards me. He came and gaye mea goldea cup filled with cbld water, of which I drank eagerly, and I thought it restored me to perfect healts. ‘Ob, Gorald, Gerald,’ ssid Sir The’, ‘I have saved you again. Dozalcommand you. Goto the Linden tree near old Reginald’s grava, and there you will find a stone; dig down 6 fept and you will find my bones, and a riag with the name of my murderer engraved on it, Hunt down the murderer, and nee that my death is avenged.’ Again he vaa- ished, and I awoke weak aud terrified. “Third Dream ; Iwas in Paris. Fifty thon- sand faces looxed nopitingly upon me, 38 I was burned through the streets upon a tumbrel to tho guillotine.” I was to be beheaded ; for what crime I did not knaw. In every street I ssw hege banners banging out of buildings, all bear- ind the legeud, ‘Blood, Blood. The Repuolic Wants Blood!’. I noticed a great building where- on was a sign reading, *Blood For Salo, 3 Sous the Pint!” I perceived a great throng of men, women, and little children going in at one dour of this atructure and coming out at another; s3 they came out I saw thom ail licking blood from their lips. The assembled thousands hooted and jeored at ma; the driver of the tumbrelever and ‘anon struck me with stick; the gamins came about and spit upon me. Presently we camo to the guillotine ; the fatelax waa alacp aad glit- tering. A priestin holy robes came, and I was shriven, and received absolution. I confessed my guilt, but of what crime I did not know ;. tivo. mon placed my. neck in the block ; the rope was pulled, and the ax with lightning speed fell and severed my head from my body. The blood gpurted prodigiously, What a strange conceit it was, but I thought I stood by a spectator, and saw al! this, ssw myself beheaded. When my head flew off, { thought I exclaimed with the reat, ‘God pity bim:’. Presently an of- ficial took up my head. and was about to put it into a little red bag, when again my guardian an- gel, Sir The’came upon the scene; he jerked the head from the otticial, and clapped it on my poor body lying by the black, and ! was instantiy reanimated. Tha scene saddenly changed, and I was far away trom Parisout in the green fisids. I sat down to rest beneath a beautiful tree, and suddenly Sir The’ came and astbyme. He af- fectionately embraced me and said, ‘Again 1 bave saved you: why havo you not done aal commanded you?’ and he looked sudly and re- proachfally upon me. He had bis head this time, but it seemed in the baste of putting it on he bad pat the wrong aide in front. I put out my hana to tix his head, and he was gore. Just then a fierce hou came roaring towards me, and I jomped from my bed in terror. * Fourth Dream: I was upon the ocesn,—the yast deep; theship was in a etorm, « fearful storm. I thought the winds bad destroyed all the cities of the world, and were now xbonut to. blow the ocean dry; the waves were miles high; I went upon deck ; the winds seized me and hurl- ed me into the air, and as they caught me I gent outa wild wail upon tne fierce blast. bu: no one heard ic, ‘the demoniac blast whirled me alouz for buodreds of miles, unt [ thought I sho.id be blown round the gicbe. At last I fell witha doll thud into the ses, Down, down, down I suok fer miles into the briny waters. At last I struck the bottom. Herel came upons scone of enchanting beauty: the buttom of the gea was carpéted in loveliness; beautiful plants, gragses, Howers, snd rozes of the rarest colozs ever seen, sprang up on every Bide. Blillioug of shells were at my feet, of evary size, and shape, and every hao; green shells, biue ahells, orange shells, red and white, and shells of the most wonderfal prismatic colors. The treasures of the deepI saw. Piles of shining gold and miver Tsaw, as I walked along, on every nand; far in fiout of, mo I could, see them in the dim perspective. £ came upon the skeleton of s young gil; a ring was upon her finger insenbed, ‘From my mothe; ;’ all tho tlesn bad left her bones except the scalp, from ‘which hung her golden baur, thas waved back and forth from the motion of the waters. Where ber lovely eyes had once been, two gold- en sovereigns lay glittering in moczery. I saw many thousands of skeletons. All at once, it Seemed .the maor 1] on the face of the deep, and lighteaed the bottam of the ai and I sawinthe distaur » hundred ruined cities, heaps of bones, and-many wrecked ships filled with ghsotly marioers. ‘Tue sceae changed, and I. was strack by a heavy current of water, and borne along with furious spesd towards a mighty dragon, with immense fiery eyes, and pro- digioug mouth, filled with horrible teeth. It was about to swallow me, when a haud grasped my hair and I was pulied up, up, up for many miles through the water. Again the scene changed, and f was sitting on the edge of a great preci- pico. Sir Ihe’ came and rebuked me for gong upon the water, and said, ‘On, Geiald, Gerald, four times I pave esved you, and you have not been at the Liuden tree.’ I fell from the preci- pice and awoke in agony. “Filth Dream: 1 was taken captive by say- ages. They had their war-dauce sud grand coun- cil, and it was decided I shuuid die at the siaico. ‘The tires were kindled about me, and the glare lub up the eombre woods. They cut off my ears and nose, and shot rowder into my poor body. Soon the flesh was xi) buried off my bones, and after a little whee 9 miserable skeleton fell down among tho ci.:i¢ »ud I was soon nothing “pus alittle heap or ssucs. Thad the singular idea that I stood by aud saw'this done, and cried like « child. The: savages went away, and I saw Sir The’ come and pour some water on my ashes, and I was instantly slivoagain, Again be told mo of the Linden tree, and seemed sad, melancholy, and wretched because had yot cone as he commanded. ‘lhe scene chanzed, aod Sir The’ and I were in a great castle, aod he was try- ing vo show me the room in which he was mur- dered. “Sixth Dream: I was in a great river of blood, and many swimmers were in my compan; We were swimming towards s great city of whi houses. Whea wo started, the blood was thin and warm like water; it was very red, and looked like a sea of fire. As we neared the city the blood became thicker and more ditfioult to ewimin, Many I often saw sink to rise no more, and as I often looted back I saw men stragpliax slong with faces smeared with blood and looking very horrible; some drank pf thecrimscn tide to alake their thirst. There was great cursing and fighting, and. many wero drowned in attempting to get to the front. Com- ing near the city, [saw seated in a temple o lovely virgin, dreseed in a flaming red robe; in- oue hand she beld a shining shield, which boro upon it the ineeription, ‘Tha Lemple of Fame.’ Ever and anon she smiled bewitcbingly upon us, aud pointed toward a pile of crowns aud wreaths ather side, Wo were now very gear the city, and all at once the blood in the vast rivor con- esled. I heard many shrieks, and saw huo- rede go down znd choke and suffocate in the mushy deep. .A few of us were plunging, writh- ing, and clawing in the miry gore to gain the shore. Atlastall were gone but two,—myseif and another; he gained the city, but fell dead as he entered the streeta. Isauk down exhausted into the fetid slush, and gave up todie. WhileI was sinking down, dawn, down into the crimson deep, my preserver came again and dragged me to the shore. The scene changed, and I was sitting upou the bank by a lovely lily; the great river was dry, and I ob- served that the bottom was filled with inuamer- abla skeletons. I had not looked upon this vast grave-yard long, when millions of widows and ttle orphan children came and stood by the river-side, Sorrowfally they looked upon the heapa of bones, and then began to weep end mourn and shriek appallingly. In a little white, I beheld with astonishment that the river w7s filled with tears, The widows and orpbans wore gone, and in thé distance I perceived a white ship with the word ‘Peace’ written upon it, sall- ing down siowly. I looked toward the city of ‘Fame,’ and was surpriged to sea that the nver of tears bad overflown and washed it away. The scene changed. and I thought that I was Sir Tne’, that I cut off my hesd and con- cealed my body in @ votcano in the moon. I flew to that orb to get it, and there met Sir The’. He reproached me for not obeying his command, and said, *Ob, Gerald, Gerald! siz times have I axved you and you have not’ yes been at tho Linden tree.’ “Seventh Dream: I wasin s church yard; the clock tolled 12, and the graves were instant- ly opened, and grinning skeletons stalked forth, ed with them the ceremente of the tomb. A venerable. gantlamaa seated himself upon a tomb, and began to fiddle a lively dirro Upon at unearthly tiddte; forming in gronps tha company of bones bezau to dauce; they skipped and bopped, acd stood op” hea, and gytated, aad rattied about in a tearfal manner foran hour. The dance ceqsing, two old mea commenced a boxing match, and one broke the other's jaw. Then the whole erowd began drink- ing wive out of skulls, and soon ware ail druay, and steggeriog an their thin lega. Discoyeri me, they rushed a:out me, and leered, an laughed, and sbrieked, and struck me with their bony fingers, and put ‘their eveless socuets near my faco, and made their teeth chatter anu I thought I should die of fear, All at once the: ail cried ont, “Kill him, Iu him,tand au ad woman seizod ber shin baneand beat me to” death. I was coifined, the ghoasly congrezation asng a requiem, an old preacher made some re- Bes upon His sites Of the deceased, and they were abont lower me into ,be grav when my coftin'was . violently téro opan, and ¢ was carried off by seven robbers; they skinned me alive, and put’ my skinless body intoa great cannon and tired me towards the sun. I flew and flew and tlew through the arrless void towards the glowing orb, for years and scars, until ! thought I was an old mao with white hair. Ac last I entered the san, and in that instant my body was consumed to ashes, which fell through it and were caught by the winds and blawn ta tha, four corners of the universe, I thought! wag forever lest. The scenechatged. By spirit was near a beautiful city, ata goiden gate, weeping and saving, ‘My poor body, my poor body !” Lsicad in tears, I saw Sie Tho’ coming towards the gate, and his hand was full of ashes; he blew his breath upon it, and the little heap in » twinkling was changed inta my body. I was overjoyed to get my body back ‘aod em braced Sir The’ fervently. He said, ‘Oh, Gerald, Gerald, the seventh and Isat time have I saved Fou, ‘ARG you have not yet been to the Linden e. ‘You cag well suppose that these eaven sine gees dreams had & powerful effect upon ma id they mean anrthing? Were they the ideas of a diseased and disordered brain? Conid it be that Providence was about to reveal tha mystary? Tanked myself all tuese questions. I resolved to dig as directed at the Linden tree; it was 2 mile from the mansion. Qno night at 9u'clock I went with mattock and evade, The stone was easily found, aud I commenced digging. At imidaight Iwas down foar feet. very time I turew out the dirt, my shovel would ring ont with 3 doleful sound ha 1 have often heard when filling graves. The moou came ont, and an owl commenced hooting oa a distant troe, [ dug on, flied with an unknown dread, the sweat oozing from my pallid brow. When 2 o'clock came my task was done. I was down six feet, and there bofore me in the pale maoni:cht I sav——" here tho old man coverad hia eyes with his bands, as if to shut out some horrid vision, and his uides shook. : “*You saw.’said I, springing to my feat in the intensity of my excitement,’ you raw the erinuing skull, the whitened bonos of Sir Tho,’ and tound tha ring?” __ “*No, no,’ said the old man, ‘I found noth- ing; it was the great. disappointment of my life: Sir ‘The’ was not murdered.’ * « How do you know 2” “+ Ho never lived,’ said the old man. “Te chat 802” “Te ig” A aad you sere not the manager of his estate?” “Nol” 5 “ “And be didn’t marry the widow Banks?” “Xo! “ And his head wasa’t cut off “Rol? i ‘and you never dreamed these dreams?” wena you have been telling me isa myth? * “Yes!” “Well, if you were not my uncle,’ eaid I, *] would say you were a d—d old har!’ “*My son," replied the veteran, laughin; heartily, ‘let as compromise on « bottle of ol port.’ And wo did, and drank it sud wentto bed.” Henny Viscust Se SOMBRE HOURS. All things mock ms: the morning, ites ‘When the sngels gather away “ ‘The stars from the purple heavens Ontof the aint of dy; °° The nooutide, with brazen glory ; 4 ‘Tue evening, whose bust: will He . Over a milliou of weury slaves ‘Who are bappier far than I, All things mock me: the midnight, ‘Whuse wonders no tongue cau tell; ‘Tre wild Sowers that paint the meadows; ‘The giant pines in the'de, °°” ‘That whisper of untold mysteries, With beads upresred to the sky: ‘Yea, the reptile coiled on the bare ola roa. Ya happier far than I, AN] things mock me: the sunshing ‘Tht Hes on the osken floor j ‘The bird that boilds in the branches Of the gnarled elm over the duor; ‘The wind that swocpa through the graescs ; ‘The stream-bed, dusty and dry: ‘Yea, the wounded stag in the covert hig, 3s happier fur than 1, All things mock me; the wrter, ‘Dashing with surge and roar, Beating, fixe passionate heurts thst break, On tite pitiless granite shore: ‘The gems tossed up from the coral caves: ‘Mock with a flashing eyo; : For the sailor dying w:th home in sight Is happier far than I, “ All things mock mo: the lsaghter Of children in uhaded lanes; The crimson bloom of the tangled vine ‘That darkens the lattice-panea: The fragrance from of tho thyme-beds = ‘Yea, the rook that, with featful ory, ~ Complains on the nosy galls, Is bappler far than 1 Allthings mock me: ambition, ‘That tempts while it laughs and Miles 3° Love, that, ifke snnset's splendor, Flushes, then fades and dics : ‘The non, with her pain unspoken ‘And hidden from human ese, Or the serf, with his trophy of broken chains, is happier far than I, - All things mock me, and, ahtvering, Tturn from the dead did Year,— ‘Tarn from the rigid face and form Shrouded on mowy bier,— ‘Turn to tue year before me With s prayer that ts only asigh; For there's not upon earth « living thing ‘But is happler far than I, Ganszr B, Faxxuax, . Official Portrarts. The Common Conucil of New York pays a com siderabie eum of money for portraits of the chict magistrates of the State and city, The rale bea bean to have a full-lengib portrait of the Governor of the State and a half-iength of every Mayor painted forthe City-Hall, Thexo pic- tures were placed in what is called the ‘ Govy- ernor's Room ;" but they are now too numerous tobe hung advantagcoasly in that apartment, and they have to be distributed in othor parts of the building. An attempt was made by the Tam- many Hall Democrata to punish Gov, Clark for his radicalism on the aubject of temperanca, as well as for his supposed aifiliation mith the Ruow- Nothing pot, by excluding bis portrait from the: City-Hail. The. Common Coancilefused fora good many years to make 20 appropriation for the purpose, acd at last, wich « design of giving a job to one of their friends, they made the appropriation, but refused to allow the ox-. Governor the privilege of selecting his artist. He did s0, however, aud F. B. Carpenter painted the fora but it was with a good deal of trouble hat he got oid forit, The prices usualy pai for the City-Hall portraits were $1.000 for s Gov- ernorand $500 fora Mayor; butof late years - the sums paid have been rnore liberal, and Mr. Pago got $5,000 for his portrait of Gov. Feuten, though be was paid but $1,000 for hin portrais of Gov. Marcy. Tho late Board of Aldermen re-. duced the prices to the ance-war atandard, and appropriated only $1,000 each for portraits of. Govs. Hoffman and Dix and $590 for s portrait. of Mayor Hall; while they made a departare from established precedents by appropriating $1,000 for a marble bust of the late Mayor Have- mozer. 2 The Detroit Hoy. From the Detrott Frea Press, -Thi erage Detroit youta aits up late, and when 6 orcloca in the morning comes ho is in hig - soundest slesp. The father depends on him to mase a fire, aud he turoa over in bed and callg 2: “Solomon, it's 6 o'clock!” Boy dreams of chasing a rabit into a ho!low log, acd, while he @ bunting around for aa ax, tha old man calla out: Come, Solomon!” Boy'sdream changes, _ and he thinks he is busking com to get money’ to go to Dan Rice's Circus. , tle is making the cara By when the old man rips oat: ‘Sol-o-mon. Spring-brook!” Boy moves uneasily, and dreams that he is playing bass ball, end he sees a crowd of admiring spectators seated on the top rails of the fences. ‘If thas bov don’t ‘rouse, Plt make. hum think he’a sent for!” mutters the old man, as he looks at the clocg, and shen, sisti bed, he shonts: “Ob, Sol! Oh, Sol!” The boy dreams ho is loafing sround the Onera-House dour and boriog people for “checks,” and he ia about to get one woen the old man alips up, pulls the quilta of, bammers sway at him with | the hair-brush, andeaackles: ‘'There! I gases you won't want me to wake younp more than fourteen times more!” As the pulls on susipante and gets intp- his vest he mentall; de clares that ho'll run away that very day and be come as pire= .