Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1875, Page 7

cote nonmetal THE YOUNGER BOYS. The History of Anothor Family of Mis- suuri Outlaws, Graduntes from Villnge Schools to Quantrell’s Camp. ah a Biflo” on a File of Prisoners = Lashod to a Trae, Bloody Rovengo for a Border Shorlil’s Brench of Faith. “Colo” Routs Stnglo-Handed a Loulslana Mob-Flvo Killed and Five Wounded. Special Corresponilence of The Chicaqn Tribune, Kavaas Crty, Alo, March 25.—The introduc: tlon of concurrent regolutiona in the Missouri Logialatura to oxtend protection and amnauty to tho Jamos boya and tho Youngers has attractod attention again to these famous bordorers, Tie Tainvse recently contalned a sketch of tho hig- tory of tho James boys which was oxtonsivoly copied in Missouri, and univoraally accredited to bo tho only completo and truthful account pub- Halted of tho evoutful livea of theao mon, Othorn had attempted to put on papor somothing sbout tho outlaws, but they gonoraily atapped afar of and allowed themsolves to bo crammod with tho yarna of bar-room chroniclora or tho chaff of tho tavern stoop. Your correspondent haa sparad no paina in tho acquisition of fects, and instond of relying upon the misreprosentations of one- mics or tho unchecked imaginstiona of tha garrulous, has sought ont with some troublo thoso who ara in tho confidonco of theso out- lows, and who would naturally bo fnolinad to smooth over rather than to magnify thoir terri- ; blo curcors. Because tesa has boon written of tho Young- ors itebould not bo inferred that thoir lives havo been less romantic aud tragical. The James boys have nequaintances and frionda through half 8 dozon populous counties slong the Mis- sourl River, coming east from Jackson County, and it is comparatively casy to get reminlacences of thoso dashing fellows, Tho Youngors aro TACITUNN, STEADY, PLODDING MEN, keoping thoir own secrets, not courting danger, ‘but nover avoiding it whon fairly mot. A limite ed clrelo of poopie living in the feolatod part of St. Clair County, around Monegaw Springs, know tho Youngors intimately. With a few of thelrold comrades scattered about in tho adjoining coun- tioa thoy aro on visiting torma, bat bayond thoao thoy aro only known by the murderous spoll which clings to their patronymic. Years ago thoy were orphaned and driven out of Missouri. Thoy havo a cattlo-raucho down ou tho Toxos border which they call home. When tho som{-onnnal “drive comes up, howevor, it bringa the Yonugora back to their old haunts and to the homos of rolstives about Monogaw Springs, whore thoy lingers visiting and working on tho farms fora month ata time, Thoy aro men of fow of tho leggor vices, and while among their frionds in St, Clair County aro regular church-goere and Paritanio in morals. Tho fathor of tha Youngora was Henry N. Yonngor? o stanch Union man whon tho war broke ont, Ho bad a large farm about 10 miles gonth of Independonco, in Jackson County, of thia State, and was well todo. Thoro was a great deal of local hostility betweon the border countics of Missouri and Kansas. Jt was cn- genderad originally by tho attompt to introduco tlavery into Kansas, aud was dovelopod by acc- tionalism intoa regular foud. Whon tho war camo, this hostility, which had previously broken out fitfully, becamo open-and unceasing con- flict, and tho peoplo of these counties carriod ¥INE AND swonD againat each other without s thought of tho principles which should ally thom to one sido or tho othor. To the gucrrillng anything aocrows tho Kanans border was Inwful proy, while Jaybawkora know no distinction among the poo- ple of tho Misdouri border counties. With tho echo of tho first gun on Fort Sumter the doga ‘of war wore lot looso all along the Missouri and Kaneaa border, Quantro!l sacked Lawrenco whilo Jonnison went through Jackson County, Slo,, with the sword in one hand and the torch in tho other. Tho aldor Youngor, floding that oven his Unionlam was no aafeguard from tho marauding bands, removed his family to Harri- sonville ia Cass County and ostablishad » largo livery-etable, This was in 1861. Coloman Younger, tho oldest of the four boys, was then about 10 yeers old, and, having had but meagre educational advantages whilo living on the farm, ‘was placod in school by hia father. anilicting Lovitical justice fur tho wrongs of “ Bleading Kangag,” Jennison and the jaybawk- ers camo down through Jasper aud Jackson Countics, oven vonturing into Cass as far as Harrisonville. ‘ho town was sackod, Youngor's atables woro burned with several thousand dol- Jara’ worth of volicles, aud forty blooded horsea Wore contigeated by tho Jayhawkora, Coloman Younger was selzod by the band, and triod at drum-bead court-martial, They found tho sohool-boy guilty of treason, and sentenced him tobo hung. Jt was night when the trial con- cluded, oud the oxocution was doferrod till tho noxtday, Tho ovening was spout in carousing, aud tho mon detailed to guard Younger got drowsy. ‘I'he prisonor Lad boon placed in tha second story of the hotel, with tha ropa about hia nock, and bound hand and foot. Aftor along atruggio, 8 hand waa loosened, tho noose was traneforrod from tho neck to the bedpost and tho Joogo ond thrown outof the window. Aa tho boy clambored out tho awakenod guards gave tho alarm, Tho ropo was too short, and Co! 9 jamp- cd to the ground and rou for tho brush, followod by the rattling builets, ‘ho poy graduated from tho town school to the doxporato life of a bush Whackor, and atraightuway joinod Quantrell. James Youngor, tho eccond of tho boys, soon follawed hin. ‘They were both WIITE-HAIRED, LIGUT-RYED COUNTRY BOYS, tall, gaunt, and awkward, but they became the nuclous of Quantroll’s band. Killing and burn- ing was a business with thom, and. thoy follawod it from day to day with terrlblo earnestness, Iho boys scon mado tholr names notoriony, and the jayhowkora sought ravenga aftor tho usual custom of bordor warfare, ‘Tho fathor of tho boys was shadowed from placo to placo, aut, finally, just after he had come into Posacssion of sovornl thousand dollars, was mobbed at his hone one night, xllied and robbed, ‘Ihe mothor was forced to fire hor own homo, and, with tho fameg lighting up thoir Path, the avougers rode off, From tifa time tho wholo Youngor family was outlawed, Tho boya with Quantroll rovooged their father’s death, and the jayhawkers hunted down the mothor sud tho children, After the burning of the home in Casa County, the woman got har oliil- dren avout hor in & milserable shauty in Lafay- tte County, and there pasued the wiiter, ‘lho Jayhawkora followed tho trail as hunters would that of a she-wolf and onbs. ‘They surrounded the shanty in the hopo of tnding the guorrillag, but falling in that, chased juto (he brush the ext of the boys, Joho Younger, only 14 yoars of axe, From Lafayotto, the fow romalning holptees members of the family were driven into Clay County, From that time until the ond of the War it was a geries of pervccutions on ona sido and of bloady retaliation on the other, Upou one occasion the guerrillas encountered & baudot jayhawkers, numbering thirty or more, A dozen were killod ‘in the chargo, and, in the tight, uoarly a score of tho Jayhawkers wero captured, Tuey wore fakon {nta camp, and the question of thelr fata goon seitied., After sup per, and while th ouuger got re @ dusk was coming on, Cola ° |) AM RNPIZGD RIFLE, captured in the fight that day, It was the firet Of the pattern the guertillas had seon, and thoy Slssubeas ite merle eagerly, Opinio @ new pleco, One fearatin ae waald tin 4 porte uerriliay had arguod if this was a discharge must be torrifio, "Anctline ofthe ban (ae y sagosted, that, if tho new gun would Mt at ® mile, a ball’at short range would go through ten mon, In we matter-of-fact tone, Younger got up from saddle upon which he had beou sitting, with the romark thet the jung Was eauy of domountration. With » word or two of explanation, he took fifteen of the prisoners out under guard tos white- oak tree, aud, with tle ald of a co! began to arrauge them iu single tile, Then hi ‘paswod the rope slong ths Hue and Lound thom the rear wan with bis back socuroly THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCIE 27, 1875.--TWELVE PAGES, tha treo, ‘Tho faces of tho prinoners paled, and somo of them began to beg, but tho guerrilla patd ho more attontion to them than if the rounds woro rustling leaves, whila tho rest of the band aat quietly about tho camp-fre, smoking their eprn-cob pipes and curiously watching the oper- atlona of Younger, ‘Lho line wag finalty fixed. ty his notion and the bogging coasad, ‘Lhe living. filo buiged out firm without s waver. ‘Thoy jmow tho ond hod come, and waited grimly. Younger took the now Enflold in his bands, Hayedl with tho Jock aud trigger an instant to got “the hang of ft," and then carofully moan- ured off 15 pees from the front of the file, wheoled about, looked calmly and soborly iv tho faces of thodoomed mon, and thon fired. ‘Tho firat, second, ond third men DROPPED LIMP AND LIFELESA without «groan. Muttering a contemptuous condemnation of the now riflo, Younger, without moving from his tracks, continued his oxpori- ments. Soren timen tho ritlo wan discharged. osch tima tho goorrillas commenting carolossly upon tho merits of tho Enticld, and, when tho last shiot was fired, the fifteen jayhawkora lay in a grent inaniinate heap upon the dead grass, ‘Tho nervo of those Youngors undor circum ntances tho moat diwadyantageous Is ono of thoir poculior traits. Thoy scom not to know what It iq to bo overpowered, ‘Tho readers of Tit ‘Ynmunr. will romomber the ancounter of o vear ago, which led to tho death of Capt, Lull, of Vinkerton’a force, while tooling for tho Youns- erain tha vicinity of Apploton City, Two of the Youngors had overtakon Capt. Lull and bis con rades on tho road, had lialted thom, and called npon them to drop their arms. It was supposed they had complted, and ono of tho Younzorsdix- mounted to pick up tho weapons, ‘Tho other— John Younger—sat coolly upon bis saddle, with ono Jog thrown carclesaly over the pommel and his gun in higlap. Lull, watching bis opportu- nity, drow out s Bingle-barroled Derringer, and, quick aa finsh, flredupon Joun Youngor. The ball struck Lim {ull in tho thront, tearlug opon the ugular yoin, With tho life-blood pouring out in agrost gnsling stream, John Younger av- tually straightenod himgolf in his saddle, throw forward lis gun, snd with deliberate nim poured: a heavy lond of buckshot into Capt. Tull’s chost and thon dropped dead on the road. Lull was gayed from immodiate death by his horsa run- ning into tho brush. This is tho story of that fatal oncounter nathe romnining Younger de- scribes it, sud it ia probably tho correct version of tho encounter, : A ‘Chia was not tho firat time that John Younger had abown that atranga characteristic of the gon- nino bordor desperado, the almost superhuman faculty of LOOKING UNFLIICHINGLY INTO TH FAGE OF DEATH, and struggling up from a blow which would havo crushed $99 mon out of ovory 1,000, to inilict a mortal roveugo upon slayer, Join Younger wos not ont — of hia teans whos tho War closed, Tho mother, broken down by the unceasing peraccntiona of tho jaybawkora, had gathorad bor childron about her on tho farm thoy lind boon forced to abandon in Jackson County at tho outhrent of tho War. John Youngar had returned, and Colo and Jim, tho eldost brothors, wero supposed to hayo como back algo, It was asking too much of human nature to think tho momorlos of the border atrocities could bo wipod out by tho aurronder at Appomattox, One night a band of jaybawkers swooped down on tho farmhouse, broke in tho doora aud windows, aud, with roady rovolvors in hand, sprang in to wipo out long score with tho guerrillas. Thoy found only the poor wo- man aging with consumption, her childron about her. Disappointed at uot meeting tho older brothers, thoy took Jolu Younger to tho barn, ‘hoy lsd reason to Leliovo that Colo and Jim = wore. atill iu the vicinity, A rope was thrown over a boam, tho nooyo put around tho boy's neck, and bo was told that ouly by revealing tho hiding- placo of hia brothora could ho save his life, ‘hree times ho syay strung up until almost dend, thon lowered and rogurcitated, but only to refuse to plye tho desired information. Tho fourth timo the furious band Joft him dangling in tho air untit tho rope had out through the wldn and BURIED ITSELF IN THE noy'a NECK. Whon tho ropo waa lowered he Isy limp and lifelesa on tho stable-floor without perceptible respiration. It was half an hour before con- aclousuoss bogan to return, and whon, woak and anting, thoir vicuim was ablo’ to ‘atand, tho igilantes woundod him with thelr sabres, forced him to accompany thom, accolerating bis spoet from timo to timo by ‘striking him upon tho shouldors with tha butts of their muskets, Tho next mornivg ho crawled back homo half-dead, to filid his mothor's end hnstoned by tho agonizing susponse of tho night. Soon after that tho mother of the Youngere died, and tho boys became wandorors without o local habita- tion beyond tho wild cattle ranolo of Woatorn Toxas, Much of tholr timo was spont on tho cattlo trail from the Moxican bordor to Missourl, Upon ona of those tripe John Younger spent soveral days in Marshal, Toxas. Ho clianced to moot thoro auothor visitor in Marshal, an old Missourian, who Lad boon » Colonel in Luo Con- federato army, and bad acttlod in Woatorn ‘Toxas, and bacu olectad Shoritf of his county. John was somothing of a gallant, and he had heard that this Sheriff had traduced bis charac- torinthe presence of a awcetheart. ‘ho mon mot on the streets in Shorman, and Youngor agked for an explanation, ‘ Yes," aaid to Sheriff, “I did donounco you as a murdorar and athicf.” The two men of desperate grit looked into cach othor's eyos, aud Youngeraskod: ‘Aro you armed 2" “Thon arm sonraelf, I VON'r SHOOT A DOG WITHOUT TEETH." Fifteon minutes Iater the mon camo face to face again. Youngor fired ot 40 yards, and the Shorift'a platolearm dropped holpless. That ended tho encounter. Youngor went to tho hotel and to bed. Shoriff Nickola found him noxt morning and told lim he bad s warrant for him, “Allright,” said the deaporado, ‘ givo mo timo to got my breakfast, and I will report at your office in an hour.” Tho Youvgora wero kuown all along the bordor then, and the Sheriff apparontly acquicecod in the arraugoment and wont off. Youugar quiotly finished his meat aud walked ont to tho stablo to look at his horso. A an stood st the door and refused him ontrance. nfuriated at the apparent want of faith on the part of tho Shorif, Younger turnod on his heol and etrodo {nto tho Sheriff's oftice, An armod man stood at tho door, and, as the desparado shed in, suother man with a gun atweon lily knees grudgingly mado room for him, Walling etralght” up to tho Sheriff, Younger — said + “Youn — havo not trostad me rig Colonol.” Tha official re- Files Bult, and drow hig revolver. Younger followed the movemont, and ‘almost simulta- neously came the fire, The Sherif dropped, dying, shot through tho chost. Younger stag- erod back, and, as ho did so, tha man at tho oor ralsod his gun and poured a double chargo of buckwbot into tho desperado’s left arm and shoulder, festine tha flouh into shreds, So close was tho range that tho flash of tho powder cau- terized the wound in a moagsure, Younger wont down under thla fearful sock, but in a momout struggled up to bis fost, and, putting his re- yYolver to tho man’a broaut, shot him dead. ‘Thon, staggering to tho etablo, ha kopt tho. crowd at bay, + UNLOOHUNRD 1g HORSE, AND GALLOPED AWAY, Ho rodo 15 miles, roachod a friondly hiding- place, and thon his etrongth gavo out. After mouthy of slow ocnyaleicsnce lie went into Marshal, surrendorod bimsolf to tho authoritics, aud, througls the peculiar interpretation aud ap- Bllestiane! border statutes, was tried and ao- quitted, ‘thera ig one moro explolt involving ono of the Youngors which will bear tho tolling, because it iMnatratos wttlt further thelr perfect disrogard of overwholming odds and complete nelf-poaveasion, aud algo bocanuo it possesses freshness, having been apparoutly uverlooked in the crimos at. tributed to these men by tho preas. In 1869 Colo Younger, tn the course of ono of bis roving froaks, found himself in one of tho interior par- ishos of Louleiana, and attondsd a horue-race, ‘Tho groat, gaunt, awkward Missourian bad money with him, the rexult of @ aucoassful asttle apoou- lation, ‘Lho crowd intuitively recognised tho prevonce of tho monoy, and fixed upon Younger for their proy. ‘hoy badgored him, pronsed around bitu with eharp words, and Soally forced tho borderor into # horio-race, Younger hi ono of the = fsmous long-limbed, blae-grasa breed of racors, an animal not fair to look upon but of great apoud and bot- tom, Ho put ovory dollar he had on bis horae— 9700. The money was placed in the hands of a store-koepor close by tho track. All the timo that Youpgor wi 8 Preparing for tho run the crowd prosaed round, flinging insulting eplthoty and sbusive suggestions at thoir victim, Tho Missourian muttored a roqueat that they should WAIT UNTIL AVTEN THE RACK YOU THM SHOOTING TO BEGIN, but the crowd paid uo attention. Finally Younger anvounced hin readiness, and at tho word the horves were off, Au they camid in on the last quarter Youngor's bhorea wax four lengthy akead, when ont from tho crowd sprang oue of the bullios with a wild yell Haunted in the faco of the winning steod a cloth, ‘The borve eworved, his ‘utride, and como in aec- oud, gers Nght bluo esyos glitterad ® little, but be sald not w word, He qd Touuned hig horue, and then, ro- mounting, rode to- the stakeholder and wald ‘You saw what happened, and don't mean to give thas follow my wouay 7’ 3 fe cation, tho man in k Sits hee wieoy oul c leagu c that he did. "Phos bs inant whovtivy bay commoucad Tie crawd had atherod sbaut him, laughing at bly dofoat, end oollng in dorision, Uut from their holstere camo two dragoon-rovolvers, and, with ono in | each band, Younger emptied them with iueon- celvable rapldity tito tha mob, and thon, without waiting tosce offecta, davhed away, Throo of tho crowd woro killod outright, two died of thor wound d five carry to this day tho rcara of that terrible rovonze. « Such factd aa E have beon givon above go to makeup tho nnwritton history of tho hordor, and upon thean exploits and others like them reat the terrible raputation of the Youngera, LADY HAMILILON. Wretched Em- “@ Misernblo and ware 199 St, Louts Hepudltean, Among the splendid collection of autographs which ensiches tho Britis Stuseam, fs ovo which fow parsons, familiar with the listory involved thorein, can louk at without a mingled stile and wigh. Iie an unfinished totter from Lord Nolson to Lady Hamilton, Victory wud death prevented its completion, for tt Loara date “Oct, 21, 1duG"—the day of Trafalgar. At the bottom of tho sheet, ina hand so excited and tromutous that it is scarcely legible, aro thoso wordat Found on his deskand brought to Lady Mamilton by Sir Thontas Mar ‘Omberable and wretched Emma! © happy and glurioun Nelavn t Tho rcautale portaining to the ora of George IV., recontly resurrected fn tho posthumous Memorics of Mr. Clroville, and likely to reccivo a frewl impetus from tha republication of tho now well advortiaod 5,00 Look,” have o curious aldo-dlight thrown on them by tho associations connectad with tho letter and memoranda jure mentlonad. Emma Jarto Hamilton was by no moans o strictly virtuons woman, but elo was decidedly moro virtuous than ay of tho numerous moti bers of tho harem of “tho firat gentloman in Europe.” No matter what he bad baen or what sho was, Nelson loved her with a frantic pasulon which smounted to idolatry; nor ia there anv doubt that this love stimulated the ambition and courags of England's greatest enflor, and thereby aided in the accomplishment of ‘thona doeds to which England owes the soverciguty of thagoas. Moreover, it is an historical fact that when Lady damilton was residing with her Jutaband at the Court of Naples—whon Sir Willian was then Dritiah Blinlatsr—sho usod her tuiluonco with tho Queen to procure tho necessary permits for the English fleet to taud atSicily and tnioon board certain necessary storos; and also that sha advanced a large aum of monoy—wo belicyo £16,000 or £20,000—out of hor own purse to purchase thore storca. Without this intinenco and as-istance Nelson could have done nothing; with them ho was ouabled topo to Egypt auddestroy tho ronch floct nt the battio of tho Nile. In his Inet will, writton the day before Trafatgar, ho states what wo havo just narrated and commonda Lady Unmilton to the wratitude aud protection of his country. Now wo do not say that tho Parliament of England was in duty bound to trent Lady Hamil. ton agit sho had nover violated tho savonth commandmont; but we do most ompbatically say that the Parliament of England was tn honor bound to pay hor back, with interout the monoy sho had advanced for England's plory, But notasingls penny did she ovor ro- calve, althor of principal or intorost. Tho sub. limatod virtuo of the Lords and Commons would not permit them to liquidate an honest dobt bequoathed to tho Government by the ding Noluon, bocause, forsooth, the porson to whom the debt was owing could not claim tobe an honeat woman! And nt that vory time, letit bo boraa in mind, ‘Gentleman Goorge,"{then Princa Hogent, was keoping « whole boyy of concubines aud drawing the nocessarv funda fromthe public tronsurv! At that very time, too, moro than ona Peer who turned up s righteous nono at poor Lady Hamilton was winking at, and deriving emoluments from, the shamo of goms femnlo of his family who lind caught tho fancy of tho Sul- tan who relgnod at Windsor! At that vory time, too, the Dule of Wellington was tho “ friond’” of Harriet Wilson, as ho was afterwards of ‘Mrs. Arbuthnot, and hardly n single momber of tho Govornmont wns not openly and notoriously o yiolatur of marriago vows! At that very timo, too, the Duke of Clarenco—nfterwards William TV.—was living with Mra. Jordan and raising tho brood of children who, when their father camo totho throno, wore neatly ingrafted into tho Britieh aristocracy ond fod and clothed out of tho British pocket! But not a farthing could bo had for the wretched woman who, with nil hor sing and shortcomings, was immeasurably tho superior inmind aud morals of the men who drovo her to starvation, 3 Starvation ia not a more figure of apecch hero, it is Uitoral and damuing truth, As our roaders aro aware, tho brothor of Nelyon—the Rev. Will- iam Nolson, an impecunious clergyman of tho Established Church—was mado an Earl by tho Dritlsh Government, and ondowed with a fortune proportionato to his rank. This graco- toss fellow, who, whilo Nelaon was alive, was proud to sit at Lady Hamilton's tadlo, and oven wont bis daughtors undor her roof to learn aocial accomplishmenta from hor example—coolly turt- ed his sacred back upon bis benefactress tho moment Nolson’s doath was announced. Not a» shilling could sho gat from tho right noblo Karl; Parliamont repudiated ita obligations as already noticed, and sho had no pecuniary resources to fall back upon, What could she do? What did who do? Sho lived on tho charity of a fow frionds until that was exhausted by ropeatad demands, aud thon sho pawned ono aftor anothor the arti- log which had bean givon her by hor illuatrious lover, Tho Trafalgar cont, with tho holo of tho fatul bullet atill visible on tho shoutdor ; tho ‘Trafalgar vost, still steinod with Nelson's hoart’s blood—both those procious relics, now jonlously resorved at Greenwich ‘Hospital, wout to buy read for tho luckless woman whose charma and whoso genius hod once made their influence felt iu tho politics of Europe, But her dobts in- reasad in spite of all thoao desporate offorts, id abe was finally obliged to loave tho country and take refuge at Calais. In that town, a fow yeard later, on Engliuh gontloman wag ono day buying food for his favorite spaniol. The butcher who old tt sald: “Aht sir, thore is a voor woman living nesr by who would bo glad to havo the meat you are purchasing for your dog!” Tho Rontloman made inqnirios and ford that tho starving creature was none other than Lady Ham- iton. At js to bo proaumoed that he oxtonded at Joost a8 much afd to hor 28 he would huva dono to an ordinary beggar; but bo that ng it may, 0 diod not long aftorwards—in 1816—In mot Abject poverty, and waa buriod in a pauper's grave, no ono knows whore, Wo may alvo ro- mark, by way.of fltting climax to this aad story, that Earl Neluon hastened ovor to Calais og soon as ho hoard of Lady Mamiltan’s doath, and claim. ed and carrjod away all tho trinkets, papers, &o.. she had kept to tho last. ‘Thon thid priest and J-vor wont homo, wo auppase, and, kueoling down, “thanked God ho was not as other mon. aro, even this publican,” How torribly prophotic wore the worda scrawiol by hor trembling pen Qu Nelson's laut lottor: **O misorablo and Wretched Emma |" Ste Mow William Allon 6 Rose Up.) Cutumbua (0.) Correspondence Cincinnatt Times. Tho point of the following “true story” iy in ita truth and ita illustration of tho mannor and oonvergation of tho modorn Cincinnatus as ho @ppeara among his monlals aud boudemon on nia native hoath: Onco upon a timo, Wiillam loft his, domicile for » short gojourn in neighboring bailiwiox, and before gomg ho gave inatrdctions to a hire man to etraighten tho lino of a cortalu fence about the grounds noar the house. Whon ho ro- turned ho found tho faithful omploye had indeed Straightoned tho fence, and to do it had out down ono of the largest and most boautiful and valuable slado-trees on tho promises. + Willlam waw, wide o'or tho tlold, a waste of ruiu tald, just she was plogeautly remarking how d—d glad ho was to get home, and, wildly catching hold of himsolf, shonted: “Bring forth tho tan!" ‘Tho man was brought, Tho futuro Governor of Ohio rose up (frat time on record), and queried: it Why in h--It did you do that 7” "Your ordery were to atraighten®the fence, ‘and I liad to cut down the treo to de it,” replied the trembling henchman. William pullod hiwsolf together, hold on to Dimuolf s minute, and anid s “Slr, Joshoa je tha wun etand atill; Titus conquered Jerun: 3 ‘Larmorlano was tho terror of bis foe Alexander conquered the world; Zacchaus climbed a trea; Galilao pierced tho stellar spacea with prophotio vision ; Attila was the scourge of God; Cwsar, and Obarlemagna, snd Napoleon woro at different timoy fulore of =the ostinlos cf tho earth; Graut licked =~ Loe; and yot, alr, all of them, singly or toyether,” could Not replace that trea that you, you d—d long- leggod, knock-knoed, lantern-fawed, horring- gutted, alab-sidod, shoutder-buinpod, il-begot- fou, God-forsskou, urkey-troddou, cock-oved, hoof-bound, abamtling, d—d_cloahoppiug idiot, have cut down, Get out, oF I'll knock your two d—d blear, blinking eyos into one, and make you uwollow overy tooth iu your hosd {" ‘Tho taen Was last hoard from in Alasks, and ‘was wtill on bis way north, ———— Commodore Murray, who has charge of tho Uighthouses on the ‘autora waters, ia now ony Faget mith the Lighthouse Board in examining all the plang and suggestions that bavo been of- fered, with aviow to huve the rivers Sliuminatod foutporarily by the opauing of nsvigation in the spring, and permanontly by noxt ‘all. GARIBALDI'S NEW TASK, The Redemption of the Came pagnn, An Italian Engincer's De:cription of the Country About-Rome, Ditleulty and Expense of Dratning the LandeeeIsierease of Malaria, Recent Plans for Improving Its Sani- tary Conditions, To the Editor of the Now York Prioune: Iniaca, N. Yo. Mare 3.—Tho following rkotch of tho present condition of the Roman Cane pagna, and the recont plans for its improvement, will bo of Interest to your readers in connection with Garibaldl’s achemo for improving the Tiber, Inid before tho public fn his letter to the editor of tho 7ribune and in your correapondent's late tor from Romo. Jt {s condonsed from an article m tho last num- ber of tho Jalia, » poriodical printed at Leipzig and intonded to fmprove in Gormany the knowl- edge of Italian aifaira, from the pen of Raifuelo Pareto, o distinguishod engineer, and member of sovoral Committees appointed by the Govern- ment toinvertlgate the subjoct. What ho vaya rofers to that part of tho Campagna which ex- tonds from the coast betweon Civits Vecchia and Torracins back to tho Tiber and down to Ontia, embracing over a million acres. Of this tract, the author notices especially that portion which is collod tho Agra Nomano,—i. e.. the territory belonging to the City of Rowe, Ie remarks, however, wilt apply to all tue rest of the Cam- pagna, except the Pontine Marshes, YF. Crag, THE ITALIAN ENGINEER'S ESSAY, Tho Agro Roinauo ie a triavyle, of which the anox is in tho Valley of the Tiber, far above Rome, which city ia nearly tho contro of tho tri- ongle, ite base extonding ntong theses. Of tho 423,000 neres which it contains, about 10,500 in thoimmodiate neighborhood of Rome xre cov- orad with vineyards, villas, and ploasuro-gar- dons; all tho rest is pasture and wheat fields, Tho whole territory is oxtromely unhealthy, and entirely depopulated. In the vineyards atovo montionod, aro dwellings for the pensants who spend tho winter thero, but from June until Oc- tober they sleep in tho city to excano norvous or intermittent fovers. ‘Tho teat of the Agro Romano doos not oven pore Boas uwellinga for the pensants, and is cul- tivated by Isborors from tho neighboring pro’ inceg, cxpecially from tho Marshes and A¢ruzzi. Thoy arrive about tha middle of October and return toward tho ond of Juno, to cecapo tha ravages of tho faver. Tho workmen inhabit uatural or artifidial caves in the volcanic tufa, or build themselvos straw hute, where their bods sro arranged like bertha ina ship, and where. it is neodloss to ay, tuo dirt and insects aro frightful. Tho population in summer ghriuke to 1,800, two-tifths of whom are attacked by the fover. Without a settled population, and scourzod by fever, tho Agro Komane is culti- vated in a way unknown to tho rest of Italy, ex- cept, perhaps, in the Tuscan Maremme, whor howovor, tha modo of oultivation is far batter, ‘Tho Avco Romano is dovotod oxclusively to the pasturing of slieop, and tho raising of wheat. Tho land hios fallow threo or four yoara, serves for pasturaue an equal fongth of thne, is then plowed vix timos in ono yoar, and finally tho noxt yoar is planted with grain. APPEARANCE OF THE CAUIPAGNA. A fow words as to tho Campagna ituclf, It ia @ broad atrotch of country without himnan hubi- tations, except tha romnius of como old dwellings and a few palaces once occupicd occasionally by their owners an country rovidoncos. Every farm hag, itis {rue, one or moro houses, according to its sizo; buttheso aro mostly in a wretch- ed condition, or in sctual ruin, and goncrally widoly soparated from one another. ‘Tho Cam- pagus may be divided, in rospect to the soil, into throa vory distinot parts: First, the Valloy of tho Tibor, oxtonding aa far as Iwola-sucra, wlisra tho river not far from ite mouth divides into two army. This portion is exposnd to inundations, and consists entiroly of pastnra-lands aud whoat- flolde, Socondly, a broad strip of laud along the const, outiroly fiat, excopt for the occasional sand-hilla. Thoro, as in the Valley of the Tibor, tho vieltor finda grain-felds and pnatoros, and also woods filled with pools of _ standing wator. ‘Thirdly, tho so-vallod " Dightand,” which consiats of o number of hills and uplanda, with stoop declivitios, divided from ono another by ravines and brooks, and forming valleys of varying width. In those tho soil ia deep and rich; claewhero tho uppor stratum, although thin, ls rich, and may bo cul- thratod. It rests, hawover, on a substratum of voleanic tufa. and is linblo to bo washed by tho rdlug ofther into the ‘fiber or into tha valloys, As thoreisno attempt madoto carry off tho wator io regular chaunols, it wears gullics in tho ground, and gonaibly diminishes the amount of tillable laud. In the spring the country presents 8 pleasaut appokrance, when the graas nnd ticlds Bre green, and tho laudscapo dotted bero and thoro by hords of cattle, but in the middle of Juno everything ia dried up, tho rain iy bar yosted, and not a blado of gragu is to bo soon er~ copt whero eprings causo little marshes covered with swamp vegetation, ‘THE MALARIA AND ITA EFFECTS, Tt ia now timo to couvider the cuune of tho above molanoholy state of things, and eo whethor any remedy is possivlo, ‘Tho main cauno of tho above state of things is the malaria, which for tho presont rondora any permanont ‘population: Impossible. An important question ore arises whothor tho malaria has always boon andoadly; whother it haa grown more destruc- tive from coutury to contury, Tho Cam- agoo, as woll as the City of Romo wolf, sooms alwayy to havo bean tnhoalthy to a cortain oxtont, although not so muoli o9 at tho prosont day. For instance, the villa of tho younger Pity, uear Ostia, aud tho villa of Had- Flau, at Tivolf, would be unlnhabltable to-day, Tho once flourishing Otis lias vow about GO in- habitants fu tho summer, and theao ara balf-con- auniod by tho foyer; Flumigino, at tho mouth of tho right arm of tho Tibor, ia at that season dosorted, and tho colobrated harbor of Olaudins iy now nothing buta mephitic awamp. During tho Middlo Agos tho malaria increasod oven tu Rome, which murt have boon, if wo can trust tho authorities of that Unio, moro unhealthy than now, while the Agro Romano wow not nearly ag bad as at present, Thiv fact is proved algo by tho existence then of numorous small villagos and towne, and fortified and inhabited cautlay, which have gradually digappoared, Sor- monet, which ig exposod to tho oxbnlations of tha Pontina Marshos. waa at the end of tho Inst contury drained by Pius Vi. and tifty years aco had atill 6,000 fulabltants ; now'lt bay only 1,509, In a word, the climata of the Campagna has never beon healthy, and has grown steadily worse. Vormerly, howovor, in spite of tho fevor, it wau Inhabited by agricultural laborers, 9 thing impossible at the present day, ‘The unhealthy character of the alr la by somo attributed wot ‘to tho direct influcnus uf tho marslex, but to the grout differouco betwoon tho atmosphorlo moisture and temperaturo af tho daya gud nights, I¢ Las, however, been ehown that there are othar citivg in Italy whero this dif- feronco {8 grestor thau iu Tome, but where tho climate ta perfectly healthy, It 1a undoubtedly true that the olimate oxercises au important in- flucuao on the health of tho Campagna; the une hoalthy air needa for its davolopment heat wand molaturo, and the warmer and moister tho land fy the more unhealthy it will bo. This is shown in tho north of italy, whero tho marshes of tho valley of tho Po produce favers, which, however, do not mako the country uninhabitable, while tho fovors of Tuscany aid Home aro much more to bo feared, ‘Tho native of Italy may then accept the opinion of tho majority of writers on this aubjeot, that tho malaria is duo to tho cxhalations of tho marshos, Tho main cause of tho malaria is to bo found in the two great marshy lukea of Outia and Macaareso, which wore probably origizelly gulfs which, by tha doporit of tho Tibor, becamo inclosod and transformed into swamps, Other mnalicr maraow. not less pas tlential, Sormorty Lad toaus of draiuago, which wero carefully kept open, For instauco, near ‘Vivoll, at the mineral uprings of Albuls, there was & splendid bathing establiahment, which proves that tuore wea formerly some way of draining thee sprin; During tha Middlo Ayos thoy wora abandoned and have produced » swamp, all the doadtier from being tiled with miluesal aud sulphur wator, ‘Tho farmors of autiquity dovoled much care and attention to drainaga, aud many of tho small murslion at the foot of the hilly which have buon moutioned above, wero probably removed by careful culti- vation, The numerons small swamps, which have alroady boen desoribod, do pot individually pabniocs Biuh effoct, but taken togethur sro an portant factor in the hoalth uf the Cam- Payne ; a factor that could be removed for the mont part simply by an improvemen novia of enltivation. E egothe PLANS FOR REDERMING Ty CATIPAINA. Ibis evident that any improvemont of tho Campagna must begin with the reduction ar to. tal removal of the malarin; that is, the various airalups and poudstanat be drained and dried un. There swainpa are if two kinde,—thise Inving & great extent, a3 tho swamps of Ona and Maccarero, an‘ the sinallor marahes which dot the Campagna, It would) be une hoceasary to nano these Jatter, all of which could bo sendored fiarmless by {ine proving and anlarging tho draina with which they ore already provided. either natural or artificial, Ino morasa of Stracclacaype, far {natanee, can be dramed at nceost of 69.000 fraue: yy draining ity sablerrancan —out- jt. This la tho extiinata mado in 1872 by a Toard of Roman envineers, fn addition ta this, the sum of 130,40) france fy noeded to fill tip soma old quarties near ‘fivall, whieh Lecomo filed with water in tho winter, aud in tho sun mer aro rtaguat ponds, ‘She largest and mout importunt, huwever, of all tho swamps in tho Campagna are tho often-mentioued ones of Ustia and Maccarcuo, In 1973. the means of their romoval wera In- vostigatail by a Comimittes of three members of the Board of Patiic Works, of which the writer of the present orsiclo was one. ‘Two plana were propel = First, to) turn tuto them the muddy water of tho ‘ie bor and fii them up by tho deposit which would collect. lt way estunated that it would roqutire nixty years to fill up each pond, it baling, neceasary to deposit 14,600,090 enbic metres of earth tn tho Ostia pond, and wore than $0,000,609 in that of Macear To fill them by band would cost over 70,000,009 tranca. It wontd be also tov oxponsive to deepon them nnd unite thorn with the sea #0 as 20 turn them into hara- lesa palt-water nds. ‘The dirt which reantte4 from deepening them. and additional earth brought from a distatico for the purpose, could bo used to raise tho levolof tho banks of thu ponduonsto insure en easy draluaze of the whole Camvagia into the ronds, Tho cost of tha plan would be ver 4,000,000 francs. Theso projects wero al givon up in favor of tho Dutch method extensively employed in Italy in tho valley of tha Po. ‘Inis mathod conuiits in removing tho water by means of steam pumps. It haw been estimated that this ean bo done at a cost of 13.45 franes per hoctare of roclaimed land forthe pond of Uxtia, aud 11.67 franes per bectare for Maccarese, Other sma:) pools cau be dried up by portable etcam pumps. it may bo vaid, then, that the eutire Agro Io- mano can be drained at an exponso of 4.010.109 francs. Thindves notinciudethe Pont ue Marla, tho iniluonce of which, it is geuorally concede, does not extond go far us Tome. After all thin work ehall have been dono a radical chango in tho mode of cultivation will etill vo nevessary to continua tho finprovement. ‘This chango can- not tako placo immediately ; It requircs new buildings, improved itmplemante, and tv procure theso all at oneo will require au enormous out- lay, with, ip many casee, a9 for instnnco In raiy- Ing toresta, no returns for many years. The change iu the Governmout hax greatly simpli- Ned the tonuro by which tha Isnd in the Cam- parna is held, the eutail has been romoved, and the lands belonging to the relisious corporations Offored for ralo.. ‘Lhose chaustes will. of coursn, rosult in onlarging the number of small propric- tons directly interested in the cultivation of tho soil. PLUCK, A Duel nt Four Feet. New Orkana Butltin, In 1837 Co}. Duvall, o caudidato for tho Senate in ono of tho Upper Sonatonal Districts of Mi- wiasippl, became iuvolyed in a porsonal affair with young Cunningham, of tho famous fight- ing Cunnlughams, of South Caroliua. Cunning- ham wasnor#l, Ho was o small, handsomo youth, with long flaxen bar, bright blue eyes, aud very amiable, gontio manners, bit. of most dauutloss detormination and cool cour- age. Cunningbam had challenged Duvall, who bad fought before, and was rogarded aa au adept in thedacllo, Duvall, ina spirit which was con- sidered us bordering on Lragendacio, accepted the challenge, but prescribed the terms that thoy should pai with Pistol Afeet of. He ovidentiy mistook his man. if ho imagined thet such terms would be rejected by Cutmingham. The parties mot enhorite Vicksburg. An tamengo concourse avdombled tu witness the affair, ‘The boyish Cunningham exeited universal synvathy, min- glod with pity and admiration, when he appeared in tho flatd. Ho looked younger aud more boyinh than ho roally was, ‘Thoro wax a serious dosign on the part of the spectactors to tuterfore sau prevent the ight bo- tween a full growa man and oa mere bor, But Cunningham and his frionds, by their detarmin- edeonduct, proventad all such interferonce. ‘Tho Ppartios were soon etationed at thelr places, Afcot apart, by oxazt messuromout, Cunning- ham fixed his eve upon his autegonist with that peciharly gentlo sinile characteristle of him. aval!, though doubtless a bravo man, eauld not but feel and mnauifost. voine noryousneds on tho ovcasion, a8 he bad preacribed the perilous aud desperate terms on which the combat was to be detarminad. “Attoution” was called, and tho parties do- elaring they wero “roady,” the word was given, and both fired attho word * ono." Duvall fell, shot through tho heart, Cunningham alood coolly in kis placo unaeathod, An involuntary “hurrah " aroaa from tho spoctators at the issue ofan affair which had enhsted their foalings so warmly in bobalf of this youny David of this combat, Cunningham was an amiable, pleasaut gentlo- man, and rarely became involved lis quurrels, But on one aveasion he displayed Lis cluracter- istic determination ins manuor that gave groat satisfaction to the lookers-on. Ifo was tho sec- ond of a young lawyor of Now Orleans, who wout out ta give eutisfaction to another youn; lasyer, who had been insulted by his" learno brother.” In order to obtain the use of tho dueling pls- tols of n certaln notorious so-called fighting inan in the city, who bad a Rreat tasto for nich nifairs, it was neceseary to take tho Bobadit with his matols os a sort of supernumorary second. Accordingly Cunningham, with bis principal, sud Bobadil and his ‘daw-handlos," proceeded to tho Metaine Course, whore the mosting was arranged, ‘Tho parties woro stationed, the word was gly- en, and thoy fired without effect. A parley way held, and, tho. challongiag, party declaring them- kolves estivficd, Cunnitigham of course for his friond acquiosced in tho tormiuation of tho af- fuir, Uheraupon, Bobadil, who had boon much disappointed at the bloodless result, dectarod that bia pistols novor bofora missed ; that this ‘was mere child's play, and that when parties did take trouble to como out to tight, he liked to sua somnsthing done, “Well,” reaponad Cunuingham, “if you aro Ro ansions tosea a little bluod shed I will take groat ploasuro in accommodating you ; aud in ors dor to justly you for shedding’ alittle of my blood, I take the liborty tosuy that I consider you a coward and blackguard," Mabadil romarked that ho didn’t como there to fight himselt, but to soo others fight, aud alunk from tho Held. Io uevorazaln ‘went out,” either as principal or second. Poor Cunning: basi diod ju New Orleana in 1954, of consump- ion. a California Views of Porditlons San Tranciaco Alta, A Mr. Lovely addressed ony of Bfr, Mam- mond’s moetings, a fow days ayo, narrating aco Incidonty of the life and recent doath of a young girl, n rolative of hix, Although tho girl's lito waa pure and blamoless, she had noyor been “convorted;" sud poor Mr. Lovely, who iv an carnont Christian, could wea no ground for bus Moving that sho coald pasnibly be saved from pordition, Thia ciroumstance fy rocaltod by the barrative of an occurrence at Sutter Crack, & short timo winco. Aman died thera who had novoradhered to any particular volivf inanywpevi- lod syxtorn of ratigiun, but who bore the reputa- tion of boing aliboral, kind-hoarted man and youd citizen, A wiluleter way requested to coaduct the funeral service ¢ and tho good man, durin his diacourva, wald, in effect, that the deccaye had not tho foast chance of salvation, but had mado a bee-lino for the hot place, ‘Those who heard thin wore vory indignant ; and that oven- jug & party of mou went to tho minister's hou, draggod Lim out of bed, and put a ropa around ils nock, doctaring they would hang him, He begged hard for lifo, and finally rotructed tho Saporaions he had cast upon the deceased, aud Prenitenat tu loave thu place at ouco. Ilo was hon reteasod, and next day he packed up his effcots and tort for parca tnknown, a ennenain The Washoc Zephyrs A olugular jucidont is thus rolated by a Vir- ginia (Nev.) journal: "A fow days incu the Vir- xinis Clty aud Gold Hill Wator Compauy had on thoir big roservoir, near tha Oplur grade, o crop of ice Oinchox in thickness aud porfoctly firm and solid, They were about to bogin har- veatlng it, whon'a beavy galo occurred, au a fow fours ail o€ tho lca ou tho pane was do- stroyed, As soon as the presauraof the blaathad broken a hole, the wind got under it, aud in a sort time It was broken iuto Cragments, diivon. ageivst tho whore, und thore ground te ature, Le no other countsy Lave wo ever hourd of such o THE SOUTH, Tnduccments Offered to Northern Peop!o Looking for Southorn Homes, Life in Ceutral Florida and South- ern Misstssippl. A Pleasant aud Healthful Climate, and a Vortile Soll. FLonipa To the Ilion af The trea tatbune t Citcago, March 21.~Au at tho present timo Miorida 4 attracting moro attention than any other portion of our grant country, and, from nt fndicationx, thia iutorent will increayo rather than decrease, and knowing that your paper is ever ready to furtish information to ity many teadcrs about that or any other section of our land, T ineloss youn lettor Thave just received from an old resident of Cook County. who speaks from what he dees kuow and teatifles of things that ho has seen: eA 2. Lann View, Fla, Moreh 5, 1575.—Your lotter of the 23th ult is fuct recoived. ‘the inquiries vou mukoin reyard to this part of Florida aro pattly answered th a cizenlar which we have sent ont in ecnmertion with amap showing tho site and mbtivinions of 400 acres which wo think a9 Loautitully locatud upon some of tho clear water lakes detevited therein, hoy ara well located on regards beauty, healthfuluess (of which thera is uo doubt), and well enleulated for fruit culture of cl] tha somi-tropical varictles, iucludiug all of the citron family. We aro naat- ly down to the port line, being nearor latitude 24 degrees than 2 degrees, At no tine this winter have wo been nearer frost than 12 dexreos, 44 degrees bring the lowest the mercury hae fallen, and that on Feb, 6. (Ploaxo compare that with your temperature of wane date.) Ton weat here is never wo warn a4 at the North, surpris- ing as it inay weom to you. And no day in with outa breczo either from the Gulf, 69 miles dis- tant, or from tha Ationtic, 29 miles dtetant ino lraight line, A breezo generally springs up about 9 a, m. and continucs through the day. ‘Tuo nights nro seldom so warm, even iu tho Lot- test weather, but that covering is needed to alaepunder. Anothor pooullarity of thia country is the rainy seneon in tho summer, which helps todo away with tho dikcomforts of tho other- wise heated ucason. The rains generally com- wence jo the last half of Juno with light showers and continuo until the laet part of September. After the firet few days the showors begin about lo'clock in the afternoon, somotines heavy showers, pouring raing, at otbor times lighter, and then clear sky, In this clovated wection of the Siate, whore the wator of tho lakes ia clear pe cryutal,—good to diink the year round.—and the land fsdry pine laud, hit very little sickness tax place. Indeed, f hardly know what there fa hery is cause wichtens tuatis of a malarious nuture, —* HEALTH. To show what effect the climate ling had unon myeelf and sou: Wo spent the wmter of Isis and 1674 here, rv thutv-six yours 1 havo gif. fered acverely every winter, begining with ta tirst fall winds with o revere cough of a br chint uaturo -at times honsed up. ‘This wi coming early, 1 have had no cough wuatever, apd have worked every day in iny shirt-sleeves, with the excertion of ou lowering and aniny duya, frequently with shirt-collar unbuatton- ed. My health was uover Letter, ‘Tho rouscn is, that tho sir tw soft, in no cage producing irritation, The cold air in from tha north, You will bear in miud that this ia peninsula, and the winds ore alteut always from the gulfor ocean. When from tie north the wind is of short duration, and the nerth wind is wonderfuils eofteacd before it roachen tus, Wo have some oxtreme changes, but all 0 far above the freezing point that they #16 not so noverely felt as at the noith, at least in my case. My son tas beon trovbled frown childhoud with catarrh. Uo improved last wititerin our Kojourn here, and js still farther improvod, and wo have np doubt of w permauent cure. You spgak of THE BULL. If I wanted to farm it, to raise rain, make but- ter and cheese, Lahould never come to Florida. but whonld romain in Ullnois, ‘Lhe soil is pen- erally sandy. ‘fhe pino landa—tho best of then —are deop snd rich, producing good, fair crops of corn, cance, and vegetables. Whoat is nover crown here, This iv the home of swert pots- toca; from 100 to 400 bushels are raised to tho acre. Garden vegotablea do well, ond, with caro and some fertilizing, they ean be grown tho yonr around, * Wo camo hero last fall, in October, and, though gbliged tu walt fer reed, and baying no Kround prepaied, wo nevertheloss bave beans au pod, peas in biorsum, aud tucuipa and beets large onongh to covk. ‘Of lettuce and radishes wo have the second crop. Fatly roxa potatoes, planted the 16th of Dovomber, wera last Sun- day, tha 28th of }'cbraury, large aa turkey ogge,—largo enough to make a tino meal. Of tomatoes, tho recond sowing (tho frst failed) aro nowin blossom. Fur the past ton daya wo Lavo had swoot-voru in tidsol and satting ears, Melons and vines ate runuing oud in biossom, And all of the above argon land for tho most part nover broken until after the 20th of No- venbor last. T speak of thia to show what tho climate Is. and what can bo done with preparation and thorough culture, Socioty fv in emuryo, and ly, or will be, just what you and thousands of oth- ers who are to como hero will mato it, Tho people who aro comung here now aro an indus. triouy, moral, aud quiet people, and are gulug aboad aceording to their meon#, The advan- tages ore a fino climato the year through, where alr-tight houses and oxponsive ones are oot needed, whore orange and other FRUIT GROWING ean be mado profitable, grove ns soon as it comes inta bearing producing an income that will bo pormanont aud lasting, bottor than a lit insurance — pol It, however, requires pas tlouce, muscle, Lraina, and some greenbacks, PROSPECTIVELY whon improved, thia Suuthoru Central Florida will bo oue of tho most Leautiful sections of the State, It how bealthy, tine, puro lakes for bout- ing and flshing, and for communications between neighborhoods, 1 cawnot givo you an Idea of the natural heanty of this section of tho country on pupor, It must bo neon to be appreciated, Yo make auciety porfeet, churehos, schools, and alltho different branches of Industry sattat be addod, and thoy will bo ofnecosulty, Alroady the roprosuntativos of the classics who nool and will have thowo sre maling their way here, and aro on tho grount looking for locations, ‘Che disadvantages just now are ouly what aroincidontal to all naw cuotntries, with this ditfereuc: that, whilo wo ore far thing Sesurton. on & small poud wuch aa fe this rovervoir, ows Konathing of tha force: of what ly here popularly tormed the ‘Washoo zephyr,’" enough from the St. John's to bo ot of ity ma. Jorious influence, we are near enough t have all tha advuntayes of transportation, Prom our enbin we could roach Liverpool in sixteen days, Now York in mix days, Cuicago iu tivadarg, and other pisces in Uke proportion. Soon to this will be added railroads tapping all scotions of the country au thoy are needed, ‘Thero is NO POLITICAL. WARFARE : golug on here tu distract pavplo; espocially is this true in Orange County, ‘Tho poputation is moutly white, na of voureo, thodiuturbing cause is wanting. ‘Tho school law oi auld to be a libor- aloue, and well calculatod to encourago and fonter schoolu. We should be highly gratitiod if our location had attractiuus sunicicnt to form a colony of Northern mou,and Southorn ay wollif of the right stainp, and would bo glad to include yourself and friends among tho uumbor, Since coming boro we bave hud our 80 acres cleared, and bave wot ont 1,000 orange trees from four to sevon youre old far @ grove, including 800 for an Kvanaton man, aud peurly 1,000 from one to thrue years for a nureory, and lave plantud seed for 40,000 moro; aud have a great varicty of other fruitand ornamental trees and ehrubs in addition. ONANGY GuOvES. To show tho inducement tu engago in orange ctlturo, wo make ono quotation from the many accounts uow before us, from 6 roport of the Depurtinont of Agriculture for 1872, ‘ho quo- tation i from the How. F. 1. Dancy, of Orauyo Mills, 8t, Jolin'y County, Ifo says: My bearing grove consists of forty (rece 20 years old andloriy treed posre.cld, Frou those tees, covers jug but iittle over ope-balf au acre of ground, 'f ahip- y4d for piarket 6420 oranges, which nettud me 24 cents each, or $1,cWvafler peylug for nally and lumber for boxes,” My 2u-yosr-vld trues bard not what 1 call a Tult crop for (reve or thelr aye; some lad as high aw ¥,50) to the ine, otlers not more than 8 to 100, Sy young trecw, th years oll, had from 200 to 400 add duu per tho, ‘Che yboye wre facta which those who dea.re tu euyago dn the orange culture tu this part of Florida ely ou, If there ts profit enough in it to iuduce auy on to come sud outer into {t, 1 say come ono, cuine all; for have no fosr of ovarstock- ing tho market, Wa want competition In amin other ranches Of thstneres (7 12 tht ae well ‘Tho above fa only what one man ont of many can asy in roferenco to that ono departmont, e TEMPERATURE. {Tho writer subjoins ns rocord of temperature at Laka View, from Nov. 22, 1874, to March 7, 187%, taken at 12m. of oach day; from which it ppears that tho meraury ranged, during tho last ‘nine dayu of Noyembor, at from bf to 82 degroon; during Decomber, at from 63 to 82; during Jan. Mary, at trom G0 to 83; during February, at from 4$to 84: and, during tho frat seven dasa of March, from 70 to 88 MISSISSIPPI, To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribunet Sonat, Pilko Co. Misa, March 20.—" The South" soema to bo tho great question agitating tho minds of tho people of tho North. What will be dono with the Sunth? What muet, shat can, Congress do to put the South iu a situation agreeable to the people of the North? Corre- spondonta aro sent flying ozor our Southern Sountry, ropreaonting Nozthern journala, somo with good intontion’, no doul:, who from this vory limitod moaus of obvorvation—at tho rate of 30 or 40 milos an Lour—can give but very im Perfect ncconnts to the Nortborn reader of thacou- dition of the South, its poople, tts politics, or ita finances, Lhave blushed with indignation snd mortifivation at tho nntruthful representations written by representatives of, and published by some of, your teighbora in regard to the condi- tion of the Houth. ‘Tho Southern people have, timo and again, eon repreannted a4 desperatocs, bandittt, robe bore, eud murderers, This ia UNJUST, ASD UNFOUNDED IN PACT. With all tuo vilo sIaaders and misrepresontationa, tho people of Missiesippi to-day aro ay law= abiding aud peaceable as aro to be found tn aoy Stato in tue Union, With all thole o:prossions, with all their inisrule, thelr burdens, their dead- lated homes, their poverty, and their sufferings, there are none peraps more forbeating, ‘Uhe fow disordora and viviations of law that wo have. had are iso‘ated, focal, and watural results, growing out of political rascalty aud oficial dishonesty, I am iufarmed that there aro thousands of Northor people wha nould hko to come South to srttle, but. being constantly shocked with reports of luwlessuoss and murder, they ara kept away, and the milljons of acres of uncultivated aud forest Jands, in 8 climate which scarcely ina a paralicl, are gcoaning for tha want of industrious hits handy. ‘To those of sour roadora who wial to coine to Mitnis<ippl to settle, we wat Come, and you cau bs nusnred of the samo prataction a3 in any other State inthe Guion. Wehaveactimata aud on suil eustatlo to a very large numbor of producta. In Southern Miesissippl wo hava a. QNEAT VAMIETY oF FRUITS, viz. apples, peaches, pears, plums, apricote, figs, grapes (wild and domestic), muscadinas, errics. aud binckborries grow spontancouse y rent abundance. Our crops are corit, cautton, po:ntoca (aweet and Irish), angar-cano, peas, beans, pumpkins, rice, onte, parley, other yaricticw of emall grain for fowls, and the garden products are too numerous to muntion, Sweot rotatoes and Irish potatoas yield from 200 to 30 bushels to tho nero (worth from 976 conts to é3 per bushel), and ground peas, or plnders, as thoy are called ove, give a very proiitnble crop and do wollon poor land. With propor industry wo can hava good vegotablo gardens all through tho winter. More we caw work twelve months in the yoar. We soldam havo aa lnnny ng four weeks of freezing woather in tho winter, Wo havo tnore sain in winter, which is about the only Liinderaneo wo Lave to outdoor work. Mauy of onr people lava pood veyotable. gardens wow, Tish potstocs ure planted, and many up aud groving, Lands ara very cheap, euher for rent or gale, and there i no difculty in procuring them, bus now is the time for farmore to be at work to make 2 crop the present 5 Twould advise persons who wish to move to Mississippi to como {a the autumn or winter seacon, in order to praparo for the coming year ey woll as to becamo moio acclimated for the snmimor season, Dolegatos have bean here from portiona of tha North pros: preting for the jmrjo-e of establishing volonien, ‘Thto, 1 think, ts an unwise conclusion. ‘The ies id nolf-protection, 1 learn, asif our people wore barbariaus! Let as many came aa vill prosurs homes and settla amen our people wherever thoy can get a suitable place, and my word for it they will Lave litter pretevtiou thin iu culo nics.” To know our people, and to get thelr Giendship and their protection, the sotilors from the North mut go nimong then, essccxate BBE thers and thon all will prosper und hve appily. Again, people coming hore fram the Northern States cannut got along mdepeudoutly of our old citizens in thelr farming interests, Boimo might be able todo ro, but tho majority couid not. They will need advice about overything to borplauted and cultivated. Wo have a grant many Northern pooply among us here, good citizens too, nud WE ANE PROUD OF THEM. They are vot treated contemptuously because thoy aro Northern mon! hoy eceupy the samo position in soviety they wottld mm ‘any other country. Nearly avery farmer In this country 19 a Grauger. and farmers woving hero from the Northern States should ulentify themsvlyos as carly as pozriblo with them, Our country docsn't uced much more legtalas tion except to repeal many obnoxious and op- precsiva laws olroady cuncted, ‘The truth fy, the Sonth has been legislated for too much, and Congress is to blamo for Bonthorn dianrdors, nob our pogple. We are now what wo term poverty- alricken, In other worda, wo are without monoy and without credit, and our country in just such as condition that if you wore to withdraw and cut olf from us the supplica wo receive from tho = West in) tho = way oof flour, meat, ete, and Jeava us now oxelusiyoly upon our own products, we would starve, ‘Chat is the tix wo aro in; but our peo plo feo) that tho worut is over, and they aro vow making preparutions ta raise somothing to eat another ele Tho credit system liay ceased almost nltogethor,—so much #0, at least, that pooplo do not protend to ask it, ‘This will be the redemption of our try, I have not Awolt as fully as T would wish at thls time, but aay haye occasion to do wo before auother forte, night, JenKg, SS Obaracteristically fronchye strkene Howssuye's darta Letter to the New York Trib mies Noxt Friday I shat! havo the honor of reoely- ing at my house must of the Varivisn and Amor- eau bellow. 1 whall suy nothing about the foto afterward, but I shall toll you a little about It betorchand. I only wanted 600 poraons, the croam of tho croatm, the flower of the oarly poas, tho nv pits ultra, Hut I aa litorally bosloyou. Tho Opera Ball did not succeed Locausa thors was puch a mixed socivty; thoy say that my Yon- otian fete will eucceed becanso everybody sill know or guess at the others; political suclety, diplomatic aud high life. ‘The women, ure going BO Tocklesily into costumes that Worth and the threo or four great drozumakors of Paris havo gone crazy avor thoirucedied. Bav- eral women are to chango their coutumos several times, and I shall havo to got nside a soot for thesa motamorphovor, ‘Tho mysterious saloou will be like 9 star" drogalug-room; in fat, for this night all the women will bo actrousey, bo- cause all play soma part or other under their loods. So the won may voware of tho brigauda a la Wood, as In Shorsood Forout, ‘Thora aeems to ba no fear of these dangers, as tha most seriona pergonages aro willing to igi thom; Vor three days L haya boon invyiulblo, as if Lhad the Hetiotrupe of Dauto, to escape tho necossity of refusing Invitations, You gaunot imagine tho farcea which are playou by men in pursuit of w pink carl. Ono mau vont mo bis Heconds yertorday under Pretongo that I had crayely insulted him iu whutting my door on him, Sy seconds answered that wo would soe tho sun- rise, if ho wished it, in the Bola do Vinconne: but aftor tho fute. 2 havo also suels on baud with tho women, —1t is rumored that fam about to Jay away my bacholor Ufo, for whivb it is cortainly timo; but the origin of this story ja that Loi about to marry my oldest son, M. Heury Houguaye, tho historian, It iy o loves atch, aftor the American and not tho Froncl style. We often dived at Count Potocki's, who sinco ho was 20 yoars of ago lay jad the faucy of numboring his ago by bis millions. Ho ie now a2 rons old, and has 72,000,000, Do nat bo rived; my Kou ly not marrying the millions of unt Votockl, They would ber yreat embar~ rasuimont to him with his sovero taste for the hly~ tory of antiquity, Ho marrioea young aud loyoly Ltaliau Princess, « Pignatelli, Princood Corchiara, whose father was Auibasuador of tho King of Naples in Russia. Iu tho course of dining and sitting together tho bistorlun sud the Princess parcoived that thoy were in love. Ia nota lovo inatch a true marisgo de convenauce? ‘Tho Princesy, who ta the oldeat child, sud,who has uo brother, brings aa adower to her busband. the tithe of Prince of Corchiara, But, what is far bottor, sho briugs him her boauty and her heart, without meutiouing a palace at Naplos, whore thay will go to ilixt during their honvy- wie geo that sea eqraealf lp an Holeeretion ving you & ploce of newe w ave fuasd t0 gly to any journal In P; Ms