Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1875, Page 2

Mr. Dowen know too much of Mr, Allen's opera- tion tn care about actively assisting him. s On the 0th of Novembor, 1573 Mr. Allen's iunmni contained tha foilowing fresh tribute to iia aenociate and fellow-citizeu: “Towen owea the hank, in sne way and an. other, $175,000. fle elmma to have plenty of unincumberod real ostate, 1o hrs lostail his pinch and everything eles, and han beon & beavy weight upon the ban, tn addition to all the other things 1 have bad to contend with. But {his wae a mero overture, On tho 11th of November Allen's virtnons rags ha= been atill more savagely inflamed, and he thue apostro- phizen somo verr reapactablo gentlemean s ' The Cliicago crord has been a acrious load on me, and I propuse 1o unlosd thom as fast as possible.” ; Sil: sore at soma failure of Mr, Bowen to sat. Infy bis designs, on (he 11th of November Mr, Alien again makes plexsant sllusjon to him : » Ilowen bas lost all bis pluck, and don't seem 1o have avy energy.” On the 11th, lixewiso, he makes an entry of his faith in the officacy of the loan which Murphoy contracted, ostenmibly for the packi from Davld Dows & Co. Then ho reno: eaule upon tho unfortunate Bowen. Ba, + Bowen i claan danu and don't soem to have sny pluck efi. Hoowes the bank s large sum and don't seem to have any maans of paving it. THIS OREAT NESENTMENT AGAINST BOWEK fmmediately avaporates bofors the rising aun of expectation, a8 1o Jooka for Lis wife's relurn with tho luggage hio desires to have smuggled. Hin disry notss an {mportsnt pleco of informs- m““f think I've got a man who knows hwv to get contraband goods ashora without delay. To such benafactors sa this gentleman, ‘whoss pame Allen has embalmed in his memoirs, Allan, with s talont for ** unloading dend stalt," evi- dently had alinost the leamng of kiuabip, —_——— SQUEEZING A CREAT FINANCIER. THE PRESSUSE DECOMES INTENSE. On ths 12t of November Allen notes the as- <ovirhing fact shist Lis deposiis have dwindled down to §635,700, Tue National Bank law provides that no losn ehall be'made in asiogls account to an smount wrer 10 per cent of the paid-up capital. In spite of this vory salutaty provision, Allen had already Lecome tho deblor of the Cook Connty Bavk to an amount many times as large s the limited figore. Most of the eutries In his journal about this timo relata to the searcity of money, and slluda to his schemo of only lendiug the funds of the ‘bank 1o customers who bad & downright elaim upon its consideration, in order that he miaht “ materially Lielp himself." Of courze, s baok that ald not lend money would not be muck of & bank anvhow. A Eaok, however that lends nearly all it money to one of its oficers on such mecarity as he choores to approve, is ecarcely more of a bank, a0 far sa tho public welfars is concerned. Allon’s policy waa to limit, as much as ho dared, all the imding dons by the bank {0 his own necossitits. But let us resume his autoblography, On tha 15t1: of November bis joarnal eontaina such preciout tntries as theso ¢ s Murj hoy thust regulate hls pork-packing to suit the fund™” I daro not ba eagor.” «Webave almost touched « It {s » desperato remedr, O the 16th of Novem bottom.” his dejection is increancd, He troibfully observes of his cir- eu(:lun'Luu:n!: I have no fund: Dplay is ended.” Ha calcalates that by “next week he will be able to control $£250,000 apisce from the city and county, aud £200,000 from David Dows & Co. With these prospects ba endeavors to comfort hirpself. On the 17th of Novembor the journal fairly ECHOES 1S ELATION. Mooey has arnived, but hia joy is tempered with caution and sagacity. He saya: +* Murpliey haa got part of the Dows mogey, and Lias staried » packiug-house. We have got to act cautiously wuh that money, as it would spoil the whole thing if Doirs supposed we were not putting it @il in hogs. But wheo we getit ail, we can ran both the packing-nouse and ihe bank on the 2200,000." 1t wonld be Liard to match this extraordioary memorandum of Mr, B, F. Allan. It wvever seemn to have occuried to him that 30 obtain $200.00) from David. Dows & Ca., nominailv to ipveet in pork-packing, but actually to expend in satisfyivg perempiory creditors, was £0 LIKE FELONY that it might have paraed for its twin brother. Ou the 15th of Novewber Mr., Allen piously memorizesthst **if Tcan get over il the lut of December I will feel safe," On the 20:h of November the journal becomes onco more candid and full of that vexed qual- ity, your *tiue inwardness.,” Ha explaina the stariling dezrease of money in the Cook County Bpnk au follows : > Dos Moines ia what uses up the monsy of the bank, but when a depesitor goes to Hairy or the Captain and asks for what is due Liw, how can bo put him off aud keep the bavk onon?™ Ta this self-procouent question uot oven the satute aud deviceful B. F. Allen can find reply. Ha poes on to goliloqoizo 1 **1 may as well stop tf I can't get money,"—and this on the 20th of Novemoer, 1573, over a ysar before his sctusl cessation. ———— PUBLIC MONEYS. COTNTY AXD CIIY FUNDS LN ALLEN'S HAXDS, Da the 220 of November hie putson record the fact that bo haa biad an fnterview with the Coun- ty Lreasurer, and that be has been promused the county funds. He gieefully repeats bis success in wo far that *Murphey hes got his 8rst §100,0%0 frow David Dows & Co.,” Thas $100,000 secms to have been A POWZRFUL ALTEBATITE, for, on the 11th of December, Allen's journal shines with espressionn of coofidence and ssuguine expectstion. “We hava seen tbe worst,” “We have touched bot- tom,” “1 begip to see dsylight,” “Things are easfer all rdund. All thess, and » dozon suchs exprensi-ns, tell of his rovived contont meat, and, poesibly, of the bonign infuence of David Dows & Co.'s €200,000. On the 11th of December, however, Allen falls once moro iuto ths Blough of Despoud, and shus, npon his records, leaves muddy vestigea of his foslinges 41 hinve biad griet enough to Iast the balanca of my daye. I aw converted all over, through and tbrough. I sm abaid X am going to loas tuo city auponits, Mr. Coolbaugh can beal me driakiy bad wl.hkv{. 1 hinve 1o the city's credit 875,000, Jf I ceuld pay it én Lroken” doses, it woulld make it much eaner, but ad at once, and at hia tine, makea it @ serious matler." 1 Linve Lad griof enutugh to last the balance of wy suourus Mr. Allen I am con- AyE, verted ulrnvu. throughand through.' By what? Y THE PROSTECT OF LOSING TIE CITY DEPODITS, thanks to she supeior capacity of Mr. Coo.baugh far bad wuleky, “It I could paylt In brokon doses,” Lie pro- teaty, it wonld wake it much easor. Pre- cisoly hils demuries 40 the wetilemont of his Re- cetverabip, 1f he could only put ls off ! Every- turog would be * all sight uext woek,” Ou the 1uth ba says, ** 1 do hops I won't have to pay the clty deposit all ut ouce,” On'the 1511 bils Jourual reads, * It {8 so incon- yonicot 10 pay just now,"” On the 17th the sohing tooth s gone, and, aftot soting the paymant of the §75,000, headds: “1am glad it's out of the way," ——— DOBBINS AND PALMER. FIIENDS A-PLENTY, One of the Directors of the Cook County Bapk was u 3r 0. B, Dobblus. 3lr. Allen in lis earlfer Jottings commomorates Mr, Dob. bins as a wealthy yotson who wag to bo of groat use to him. By and by Allen's high opinlon of Dobbins detoiforates into a sort of contemptue ous duslike. and he froquontly protests against Dobbine' offeris fn the bavk, Qne of his grievs suces alao sueius to cousis in ** LODUIN' PAPER" Havlag had some difiiculty with Dobbins, ho pops luto bls Jousnal ou the 16tu of Decombor the following complimeniary -reference to that gentleman ¢ » Dobbiue s the biggest fool In the world when he gots mad,—sudt Lis gots mad caay,” On the 1Tih of Decemnber, still raucorous against Dobhine, be Froclulmy was Justily ; *Dolting wnd wil that class must ges up snd dust, 1 can't carry them wuch lopger,” On Cluistmag Day, 1873, ba wtlil forther, and by the puff oblique, relioves his mind sbout Dobbius, 'The journyl has it *Qeorge Bousne i3 uct se thickheaded uan Dobibius,” Jusi about the sirae his dlslike for poor Dob- bius begsn to germinato, ML ¥o W, PALMER, o2 the IndereOcears, got Allen to tly s little kitafor Lim. On Afen's records of hinueif aud his opernfluu-lfui’i‘nn. 9, 1874, he thus financially hotograpln Palmer s ¢ "F.gw.n L'alner nu‘n mn,ml {:u?mi‘r«:"?!‘gggé-a Ocean nawapaper, for which he pa 3 canh, aud hag F;nu estate both at Chicago aud Den Mowes," ‘ITiat hus friends did not hesitate to use tha Cook County Bank when it suited them, there is other eyidencn bestdes that of Mr. F. W, Palmer. Scoator Allison, of Towa, goes down to posterity a3 owing tho Northweatorn fiuauncior $4,460 on a pereonal aund unsecured note, On the 10th of January Allen relurns to the sttack on Dobi ins, but, alter & moment’a dalib- eration, for n:acnuuumu ends, makos up hls donist 1 m"l"dll:mcn‘vt situaled 30 ax to hare a muss twith bhing.” Dolbina. st atthe timodMr. Allen dlscrastly preferro peaco to war with Dob. bins, thars were in tha money markot certaln securition offered su collatora for a loan soucht in behslf of D. F. Allen, which securities had previously been hypotho vated by Dobbins to the Cook County Bank, sud which wers supposed to be conscioutiously held intrust by the Jatter for the formor. Agaln Allon makes reforence to Dobbins nest a + Dobbins out of debt In a vlsver fallow—Dob- Dbinsiu debt, cross na the devil.” Whoich s & mighty sharp charscterization of other men than Dobbius, S e A CHOST THAT WILL NOT DOWN. THE NECEIVENSHIP AOAIN, On the 28th of January, 1874, that never-to-be 1aid spoctrs of Allen's pristine Receivorallp once more revisits the glimpses of tho moon, Tho Journal contains this memorandum : 41 Nest May the balancaot the Recoiver funa must be paid, and 1 am making proparations to meet it.” 8o ho goos on protestiop agalnst the inevit- able until the 164k of April. Thep ho cries: #1t will oxbanat all my resources to meet the May paymont of the Recelvorship." On the 0th of May, he romarks, with undis- guised rellef, that half of the Recelrer matter has boen put off thirty or sizty dsys. He hias to pay It eventuslly, and all summer lovg bis journal tooma with evidences of dejec- tion—almost of despair, His New York sgents complain all the timo that be is overdrawing bis account. not only with themselves Lut with bis corresposdent banks, aud thete Iatter ara constantly objecting to bis recklcss methods of businoss, Bome of his drafts go to protost, and Dowen and the rest find it disheartoning work * pushiag” Cook County paper. Alreaay the staid magnates of Eastern banks view him with suspiclon. Hin diaty amply reflects his dia- tresss 4'DEA MOINES 13 THZ MARDEST IN CHECKING, I think every day tha tide will turn—Bowen don't peem to have Lad any aucce:q in getting new discounts—1 had no other resourcs thav tho usualons of drawing on New York—There ia no reason why a few days more sbould not bring reliof "—and #o on, and so on. and 80 oo, MORE ADOUT COWEXN, On the 81st of October he once more ventshis eplesn upon Chauncey T. Bowen » If this trouble (lm overdraft) has again oo~ currad by the negligence of Bowen, I uava ao language to do tha supject justice,” On the 2d of November, 1874, he painfully slleges in his journal that * Bowen never writes or sends ma aay statemonts of what he does.” Outha 4th of November he sgain Bowen: »The tronble is with Bowen, he never reports to us stall.” On the Bt of November, 1874, Allan utters an unosual hosanoah : “We had $4,000 credit at the Clearing-House ~—thae tirst erodit in three weoks." Just after thia gleam of sunshive, %0 avil grom tha days and #o dark wazes the prospect that, iu spite of baviog westhered the panic, Alisa bo- cotes almost dosporate, BOWRN AOATN comes in for » brimming veasst of wrath: Bowon baa not given us a single statoment elnce he went to Naw York" This s the 7th of November. He goes on with bis sslomn indict- ment of Bowen: *Tha tronbls is, Bowan don't do anything un- til tho very laat moment, EHa goes round to the baax after cleariogs aroin and soes how muck our account ia short, then be sbins arotnd tomake it up. Our cradit is belngz damaged every day. It is bad enough the best we can do, sud we ought not to make it worze by onr own acts,” On tho 12th of Novembar, 1874, Allen briefly notes that hus Des Aoinea bank baa OVERDIAWN IT8 ACCOUNT with the Cook County Dank $151,000. Now, as I bave stated ptoviously, the law atrictly prohiblta the lending to & nms:lu acconnt of more than 10 per cent of the paid-up capital of a bank, Aud when Mr, B. F. Alle1 icnt his Des Yoines Bank $1561,000 out of the Cook Coun. t{ Bauk, bo committed & misdomoauor for which, if bo bind been proved gutity in Court, he would anvn beon sont to an United Htates Foniten- L0 Thiogs got o dublons about this date that Allen, much_sgainst his wiil. paid & persooal vinit 1o Now York fo revive the flesttog contls deuce of the banks whioli Lad rccominodsted On ths 14th of Novewmber, tha Cook auk coulda‘t pay its clearings, and the \ationsl came forward and adrauced the caeh, Tho hapless Cashier of thio Cook Couatly Bank could pot scll exchsugs. Nouo of tho other tanks would touch it, and alieady TIE TAINT OF 80 bad attached itaclf to Allen’s enter terialiv Lielping himself * oat of tious of *- the Liecetver buslnenn,” Matters grew 80 dusky that Atlen had to hurry home. Returned to Clicago, his founll it ueces- sary, and yoo almost impoufble. to obisin car- roucy, aa, in doflanca of law, bie kept no reservey, After mesling several revuffa bo managed to soll exchange Lo Mr. Gage of the Fust Natiooal, but, as Allen himself wuotes, “1 bad to give blm collateral from our bills recaivable.” 'uo waoing financler adds, franuly enouzh, ' West wava that Mr. Gage told him that the rexson we cannos soll exchauge ls, thst tos banks are afraid to buy 1t," —e— = THE NEW YORK FIRM. TUEIR PANT IN TUK PLA But this time, before Allen lefs New York for the Weat, he mortgaod all Lis real estate 1o the firin of Now York bankers in which he was a partner, and which bad furnished bim the funds in this emergency out of which to telegraph re- miteances to uis Casbier in Chicago, whoreby the danger resulting from bls dificulty fu seling sx- chauge wad abviated. During il the period of gloom and dejection through whick this wketeh of his operations han followed Lim, Allon nxkes frequent entry that lie wan [argely kopt abova waler by tho msnaga- moat of Lis New Yoik firm, from which, ftia #atd, he dorived & cousidorable iucome for the mero use of Lfs nawme, It is to thews New Yorx partners that his jour- uch conatant sud grateful tributo s thia: “The boys have stvod by mo nobly, mors than I could expect.” ‘*The way they bave managed I8 wondorful.” “They have made great sacrifices for mo,” and & hundred such “gushes"” of sentiment, | This tirm had carried his pspor, attended to Lis discounts, and, above all, protectod hiy Lanke' drafts, until the Cook County Dank owod thom a vory lnrgo sum of money, which Allen was wuxioud to pay, 4o as to obvlate the record- ing of the mortgage. £ Here his lauguage risos to the pathotle when hoalludes te TUELA BEFUSAL TO IMITATA W8 POLICY, and make their deposits, at any ultimats cost to themeelves, usofal to him, I shonld infer that they bad expreased to im their intention o {reat thelr deponitors with religious fidality, but wera nilllog toobtain toans on thelrown account in bebalf of the Cook County Bank aod 3r. Allen, When that ssnguins speculstor's olligations to thom sssumed such tiomendous proportious, they found it imyracticable to continue their as. B.sinuce without more weourity. It was to provide that security that Mr, Allen ezecuted ko follawing deed ALz, Krsruzas § Co., Bankers, 33 Piue streot, New Yok, Nov, I, 1474, 1 lereby scknowledgy the recei.t of four hindeed sisty-tive thowsaud sour hundrod weventy-siz 84100 dollure uf advauces to the Cook County Natloual Bauk of Culcago, fuf my sccount, samo bung made by Ailou, Htephiena &-Co. in money, paper, and {ndorse- wieuts, 1 bave arraugud with theds fop sdditional ad- Yauced. lu counideration (ereof, I hersby graut and convey to Allen, Sisjieas & Co, by way of taurtyage, annd 83 securily fur such advances, all Wy rval outute of every kind sud deacription, and whersoever situsted, .Iiflhnm\) B, ¥, Aniey, 'han follow the soknowledgment of the Nour{ and the cerlification of the bmi of Naw Yor tlat the ackuowledgment and the iovirumons sre of N for * ma. complics- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. gentino, and exeouted according to the lawa of thie Btateof Now York. WHAT THE MONTAAGR MEANT, Now, in order to theroughly understand this deod of mortgage by which Allon hrputhecated what he represcuted to ba soveral millions’ worth of roal estata for the recurity of tim otpitaliste who, through his Now York partoers,had already advanced bim $465,000, snd did furdhior loud him $500,000, the following facts must La caretully borns in mind : 1. Allen baing ealled upon to yisld his Mle- sori & Miesissippt Raflroad trust fund, had nothing but *dend stuft " aud * unarailatlo nanota ¥ whorewith to discharge his respousibil. ty. ,2. Allen hiad, ina manner which he humor. ously doscriles sa ** onny Lavment, " obtained ac. c“‘; tukllu deposits of the Cook County Natione al Bauk, 3, Allon hiad almost sxtiausted the deposits of tha Cook County National Bank 1 ¢ ml]oadlnfi’ himself, and §o maintaining the credit of s Des Moiuen ontablishment. 4, Allen lind oblaiaed an interest In the firm of Allen, Stepiend & Co., in order to have triste worthy. finnneil agents for bimself in Now York, and in order likawise to prowoto an Eaatorn traffic in the papor aud securitias of bis thros banks {n the West. 5, Whan Allen had In tnrn _exhansted tho re- aources of tha Cook Coutnty Bank, the dubiona papet which ho was coostantly trylng to *vork off," tha patience of the New York Stato Loan and Trust Company, and the {naulgencs of sl his other correspoudents, ho leaned his wholo wesplit upon Allen, Steplions & Co., and, by dint of u.coulm‘;ummmu of improving business, as weil ag by fluont sories of excuscs and misstato ments, induced them to raise monsy on their own personal oredit to ** covor ™ bis “datly ovar- drafts, 8, rvery day from the 1st of Octobor, 1874, Allon, Stepeus & Co. adyanced from 10,000 to #30,000, aud somotlmes oven 850,000, to “cover” Allen's rockiesa ovendirafts for the Cook County Dank, principally «n the Firet National aud’ Amarican” Exclange Dauka of New ork, 7. When tha debt thas increased mounted up to $47i0,000, Alien, Stophens & Co. requested Allen to provide sccurity of a satisfactory char- acter, IM. Allen, in his gratitudo an ! desirs for fatnre help, gladly made tho morigage of his real os- THE SXELEAON I¥ ALLEN'S CLOAZT which I have veutured to articalate, and, In ity naked simplicity, it demonstrates two very im- poriant facts: (1) That Allen was, as ovents havo since con- cluuvely proved, a bopsless and desperato bankrupt when ho made the mortgage; and (3) That it waa a bona-fido mortgage, not *‘ts himaelt.” but to the firm which sdvanced hia bank 500,000 before the inevitable arssh mlich overwhelmad bim iu ruin. —_— FLOUNDERING INA SEA OF TROUBLES, A DES MOINES OPERATION. On or about the 21at of November, Allen had roturned to Chicago, and thero discounted somo notos of one Shissler, & Des Moines pork-packer, Shissler gave bim $75,000 worth of abeotutely valueless paper to soll. Upon that paper Allen advanced Shiesler $10,000, and then, in accord- ance with hia usual simple policy, put all the uotes in the market in bis own bohalf, SUDSILIZED NEWSPAYERS, On the 21at of Noramber Allen makes & note of \holding a chattel mortgage on the Chicago Infer-Ocean. 2 At this point it i worth while calling attention to a provious memorandum mads by Allen in whick hio speaks of controlling ths Iowa State Register through o personsl note, whils the Jorea Leader was mortgaged to the Ifank-Eye Iusuranco Company, of which he was Troasucer, AN ASTONISHING OTERATION, ‘We now como to Allen’s own record of one of the moat astonishine of hia fluaucial operations. On the 28th of October, 1874, a Natioual Bank sbout to be establishod in _Constantine, Mich,, pus la Allen's hands over #3300), with whioh sum ke was desired to purchase the usual Gove srimneut bonda 1o bo depodited aa secucity in Washivgton. Inatead, lowever, of carrying out the in. structions of the luckless Michiganders, Allen, a3 & matrer of course, promptly used the money in lus own behalf, aud was, aqually as 8 matter of coarse, quite unable to meot tho demaud for it whuck a8 Inat was addrossed o Lumn, On Nov. 26 Allen’s Journal containa sn inter- esting allusion to the pertinacity of the men of Conatantine. Ho further says apout lis over. drafta; *“These dralts make mo almoot sick every tice I sce one of them." On tho satme date lus diary is enriched with another iributa to TUE STOLID INDIFFERENCE OF DOWEN: ** The fact {s, Bowen hias no resomices; if he rets any money it 1s ouly fura day by checking 8¢ mowe place whiers ho has gut vo fricuds, and whers wo have to pay very soon.” Some time before, In hopes of getting at tha depoaits of tho New York Siate Loan aud Trust Comcavy, of which Houry A, Smyihe was Presl- dent and Chauncoy T. Bowon Vice Prosi- dont, Allen bad bought $200,000 worth of stoclk, DBar, juat precisely asio the cwro of the State Savivgs Baok of Chicago, which ue hopsd to cou- tiol, ko was it with tho New York Scate Losn and Tiust Company. ‘The Diroctory viswed Lim askauce, and dechined very m-{r‘uctruny to ac- commodate bim to the extent which ho desi:ed. His journal thus bitterly makes reforence to the institution which was proof azainst his jo- tention 2 ** materiaily belp bimsolf"': **1am vary much disappolnied by the courss taken Ly tho Trust Compnny. Bmythe oavs his Commttea haw put it out of his power 1o keop Liiw agrosment with me, . Babicook scams to bo the wain trouble, 1f I could cantrol Hamilton’s atock, [ could use $200,000 cash more of the Trust Company.” ‘'o thia refreshinz outcoms of Allen's * trua inwardness,” only two notes need to bo ap- peoded, * Liabeock, the waiu trouble," was Sawusl D, Babceock, lately elected [resident of the New ‘\]'.,lx‘k Cuamber of Commerce sgaiunt Geoige Op- ske. ** Hamilton " was a goutlomsn of Sviacuse, whoge interest Allon thought wdoatical witn bis ong, Qu the 20th of November, our Allen, COASTING ALONG TUK ARORES OF INSOLYENCY, discovers that Lo is making prodipious leansy to tba reefs, Casting Lls eye a.0ft for a wind-clond, L notes with ecatacy that "uezc wesk I auail got wy Governwent deposlt in the Btate Lanx (188 . éz‘uluu). T'h L'ension gheck will help me hu00, EOWEN. On the 27th Bowen has agalo Incurred hiw sugust displeasure, and, in conwequence the Jourua thus sigumficantly alludes to the duplez Vice-President s 4§ haye no friondship for Dowan," On the 4ita of Novembor, Allen waxes almost lachryuiose, snd bitterly complaius of tue failure of Ls ** yodorstandivg with Smythe,” The con- clusiun at which oo airives touchiug tbe Lrust Cowpauy is & momoentons ons; * Un.esu L can got linbeock vut, 1 eaunot de- pond upou suvthing,” ‘Llien his goea o, 1o hie frank and rimple way, to explain liow ho intended to derive mid mud comfoit from the Trust Comonuy “\(ith tbe Company uuder iy enntro), I could rely on enough lo “make me cary, 'Thers are 200,000 Governmonts aud $100,60 Chicngo certilcates and other things that J could use to adcantage.” 1f 3lr. Bl Bikes had only deigued thus famil. farly to express bis purpcsees on the evs of ono of tin ** oracis,” what & 1ot of hother ‘and npinge undersianding his candor would Lave saved. Oun tha eame dato TUK DELUDKD CITIZENS OF CONATANTINE profoes an indecont oagoruers to hewr sotethlng detinite about the Uoverninont bonds they had iuutry AMr, B, F, Allou to_purchaso for them noarly & month proviously, ‘The veracious suta. biogrsphy i which L am Urawing kas this to say abous the Conntautinopolitans 3 The Coustaniive Bauk folks hore abous thelr bonds, I have given tuem » matiy factory excusa for dotay, but they could not Le put off agan. 1 must 1 80mo way hava thona ;musn sout to Wasuiygton withous further de. y, s thlyy ATOTURR ZARNTL BEFLIOMON 8 this 1 y **\Ve nsed a now placs for discounts—onr old ones kacm to bo getting tirod of us." Nest day the uccesmity for appoasink the anxiety of ibo * Coustautiue Bunk folks " soomed 1o smart still more roraly 1n the pious conaclenca of I, ¥, Allen. Alluding to the suquiriug rus- tica, hin journsl hay thiss "l xcnao for further delay ; and @ to sond the bonda by 'i‘ueu- day, J shall haco trouble on my hawds, I had to yrom\m that the bonds would go certaln b enday. 1 laid the biame (o tha Kurat Nafohal ANew York, jor nol obeying my insiructions. '&f’d:;r": sutlafled, but this wou't last over cuday, Ou tho 30th of November the 3 comes irresistible, aud Allon ways 3 Broisiebe “ L muas pay for the Coputanting bonds at onco uud soud thom (0 Washington, Bhould there bo another delay, overybody iu Chicago e sheen batote tiak, wh have shown bofore that, whenever Allen w. a4 bis taal Gaep, S0me LOW shuulant waa suze fo revive him, Thus, when lia (s hopeleas about the prospect of pammnmflz Ins metitement with tho ' Constantina Dank folks," THE QuYRINMINT DEPONIT on ite pension account arrives in tho State Dank at Den Motnes, Allen atiudes to it rapturously, as follows ¢ Ihave justreceivod a tolegram from Dos Molnes saying that the €60,000 ponsion ohook Lad como, I feel liko shoutlng *Glory,' Con: stantine muat bo pakd, or thero will ba tronble.” Aud of course Conatantine wcas paid—ihanks to tho ponsion chock, which he gels noxt day, MIRERY. On tho 24 of Decembor the New York State Loan and ‘Trust Company again inflictaa dire disappolntmant of some sort upon Allen, and he c<;n‘l|\\ les Lis distrosnto i faithful dinry thus- wiso * 1t i a porfect outrago of the Trust Company that they don’t oarry out their sgreonient, It iy no usa irving to force Smytha i the oulv way 1o flatter bim. Jf }ean onirol the. Trust Co pany it can carry 8300,000 for me all the time, O1d Smytho would get out vf'tho way a8 soon as I want him." About this time Prosldent Babeock, of this same Now York Btats Loan and Trust Company, whom Allen ind ternely deseribed as his ** main trou- Dble," very grlevox\nly digarpoluted that slmost ahipweecked wavigator. Dabeook, & nervous, grotity (ollow, courageously obatrucied overyiat- tenipt on the partof Allen toobtalu unduo favors from the justitution whicli Lo controlled. ————— THE END APPROACHING, RREARERE ATEAD, Tha gentls roader Las probably notlced fro- quent reforences of Allen to the grest want of confidunce with which his operations were be. ginoing to bo rogarded by other banks, Doss not his bland woliloquy of Dee, 3, 1874, afford, unintoutionally perhaps, a key to bat vexed problem 7 * I notleo from tho lst of papergivon by Dowen to tho Irust Company an collateral for a note for $25.000, asted Nov. 10, and signod by Bowen, thoro Is but little of it will ba paid st maturity, It is aboul as bad a lot as could be selected.” On tho 4th of Decomber ne mournfully makes ;mamonudum that in Novembar and Decembor L] FREQUENTLY DID NOT CADRY OVER NIGIT $5,000 1 CURNENCY. For such an offenso as this tho National Bank law provides a ponalty not to exceod (en years, and not to be leas than fivye years, of imprison- ment with hard labor, 7 SEERINO GOVENNMENT YUNDS, On tho 7th of Decomber, auother igais fatnus attracts Allen’s wandering gaze, The new Col- lector of Interaal Rovouus in Chicago had promised him the Government deposits, It waa necomsary to move Secretary Dilstow 1n tha samo belialf, Gon. Dodge, of Union Pacitle reputa- tion, and a warm friend of Allen, assured him tliat whonover it became necessary ho would proceed to Washivgton ana fofluenca tho Treasury Dopartment, Making momorands to this effect tn hin procjous journal, Allen adde, quite plaintively: T was badly deceived by she Trnat Com pany. Bowen is powerlers to do mneh good. e maken positivo promises, but don't fulfill thom. Lcan't think ho will sell mo out. , . . Bmytho 18 of no account to faco tromole, and Babceoek Is dotormined to rute the concorn,' THE BHISBLER CASE. Closs npon thia fresh pictnro of his distress, Allen impriots another. It will bo remeombered by every careful reader of (hls trutbful hiatory: that Allen bad tsken $756,00 worth of notes from ono Shissler, a Dos Molos pork-packer, Upon this doubtful papar Allen Lad advanced #40,000, and immodiately tried to negotiato tho wholo in ordor to usa the balancs of $35,000, Bhtealer, Lhowover, grew nervous, and determined to calt iu thons of Lis notes which had not been casbed, to-wit, 935,000 worth. Allen, a3 usual, could not contro] them st the Instant, because he bad sent thom East and raised oo advanco for himself. Therefore, in the Shissler caso, aa in every other jnstance, hio was obliged to stave off the settlemont a8 plausibly nud 23 ingenious- ly as Lo could. One of the defendanta in Allen’s remarkable *eroas-bill " is THE AMERICAN EXCUANGE BANK, of New York City, avinstituticu whiteh put up with bis over-drafts and doubful paper until pa- trence coased to be a virtwo. In his comulaint, A len swoears that his f(ailute wes in Iarge mons. ure due to the nou-~fultiiiment uf cortain prom- ives mado by thy American Exchanga Baak, Ua the Dth of Dacombor, 1374, thsia is Low Al- len's journal alindes to Ar, Coo, tho Premdont of the bank ho aftervarda recklessly aud venge- fully sued *Coe has Leon my salvation, sud I lopo I will livo to roward bim.” o As, indeed, Le dids Tho same dato [s remyrkable for the follawing memoradum apropos of thoe Lrust Company “Tha Trust-Compauv trouble is enough to mako oue swoar, Thay have got mo in, and leavo mo to hold the bag, Jf they hold mean pa- per, T could do something, . . . It loaksad if Bowen had an eye to favorng them. , . . 1 am_ eviden'ly Bold out to the Tiusi Company, and am hodling the bag.” Tho phrav.ology of thle memorandum s char- acteristically wiriking, SALLEN, BALD OUT AND NOLDING THE RAo," In not without a prototype. Somebody olse went inta the eamne gort of businesy, with the differ- eoco thiat bis speculation in Christianity ended in & uoowe and 8 gallowa-tree, On tho J0th of Docembor, Allen stil) choriahea his dealgns on the Trust Compsuy. I hopes to * control it by proxies.” DIRTIUST OF FRIENTS, New Year's Doy comes round, but bringa nn comfort with it, "Ue ls av sora as ever about Lowon ¢ “*I know what Dowen la, ponded on,” Qu the 0th of January, ** Pa'mer, of the fnfer Ocean,'’ who neetns 10 havo datie & good deal of Jackal bnsiness fo1 Allen, roturne fiom Bprng. tlold, and *snvs that tho State Trenanrer prom- isen un the Brate uopomits, Tha ‘T'reasurer gots m;:o otllua on the 1ith, aud we suall have tna deposits a8 noou as pousible,” The 7th of Javuary rriminde him that he owes tho Truat Company # clivractoristio complimout. Ho he pava lun debt 1 “The Trust Company has dono as mean aa ft was pousible.” Ou the 0th of Janvary, the joarnsl thus good- Liumoredly squasos s030nunta with Bowon s He cannot bs do- 1 take It fur granted Lowon law dome vothing." —— RUIN. TR 10WA DANKLL KEACHES IT AT LAST, The lnevitable failure was giowing buger and nearer with tho flight of every hour. Vreciasly how clore it was nobody but Allen, baunted by luw {nsolvenoy lika ons flend-ridden, was in a condition to know, It in trus that, even to the lows bauker, tho orash wau a sisitling one. But Allen wust have beon cortain thut it was alinest upon Lita whon, on the 14th of January, ho wrate thia in bis diary : * Thiugs are now i1 good shape,” Tolteriny, a4 be was, on the vergo of bank- ruptoy, & very sligut lnpotus ouly was ueces- wary to precipitale bim ioto the chasm, ‘That hnpetus Allou'a uwn desparation applied, Hia crodit received from his own bunds its deathwouud ou the 11th of January—just about a week beforo hia '+ suspouded,” ON TUAT YATAL LAY, racklcsn as ever, ko bad sold to the Contral Na- tious! Llank of Chieago sud a Milwaukes cou- corn §160,000 worth of exchange drafts. pavalle at the Amuiican Eschsnge Bauk fn New York Civy, 1le had no mouey thera, 1lis agouts wero exbsusted, ‘Thoy kad borrowod mousy up to the extremo lwlt of all the mecurities in thoir hands. Hoving ¢ covered" Lis provious drafls to the smount of £300,000, they wore unable to Letp bim further, Tho American Kxchango Mauk itself had accommadated him as faras i; dared, When be sold tho drafts he must Lave knowu that hey would, as they did, go to pro- test, ‘The drafts were returned, and, to redeem them ju Chicago, he drained tho Cook Couuty Bank of 1ts Jast dollar; and oven then, to com- plote the redotnption of his dishonored paper, Allon hiad to surreudor alt tho coliatorals he was “earrying " 1 the Cook County Bauk tu the Merchauts’ Bank of Ohlcago sa securny, UTTRULY DANKLUPT, withh nothiog o his trossury and nothiug bo- taoen hlmsalf and as immediato cxposnra of his affairs axoaps a Yagua bopoe of ** sesiug day. Dhight next weok,” with the Htate 'Ireasurer's de- comty which never reached hiw, the owa bauker kumped 'l‘mfi tho reefs till Saturdsy, wheu bis log was enrichied by this oonfidoncos da"'r' shall recoive the Biato deposit om Mon- K]gug‘l, came, bue no Btate depoait bore it company, and at last yvostiaing that tho end bad arrived and * the play was over.” your Nor wentsrn filanoler ran his black flag royal maat.boad, and straightway SCUTTLED HIS Suir, It it wore not for tho confonsions of Alle made 10 his own handwriting and duly recordsd in na daily cironicles, such a bistory of aud clons and conscienceless cunning would be i cradible, But Alton has been his own der strator, and for such moral an o may d: from tbe romantia tala of his Nnancial opera- tiona we linve nons othior to thauk than tho licre of his own biography, 8inca hia failuie & peraon who had many op- nortunitien for lnummmq Allen's procise con. dition lins romarked, ‘116 swas bankrupt for soven voara.,” Iut thia Iaconio deecription of Uil status In renderod aliogothor untiocossary by Biia owu caudid memoranda, e THE END, CONCLUSIONS TO K DRAWN, From those imitabls momoirs wa may infer tha folloning propositions swithout doing ex- tromo violonce to the thoory of probabilitios ¢ (1) Allen was at tho zenith of his prosperity whon ho accepted Lis appolntmont of Receivor of tha Missourl & Misalsaippl Railroad atthe cloao of the War. (2) Alien bad alowed the property of the lucklesa bandholdors af the Misaouri & Missi aippl Railroad, whoss truat he maladministered, tu #lip ont of his control, and when the day of settlomoot camo wos uttorly unsblo to moet it eatietactorily, (3) Allon bought his way into tho Cook County Bavk, dubjous as the manner of purchase waa, solely and simply to exchange for his **unavail. sble asmets' the crisp and belpful funds of bis dopomtora, (4) Allen, with bin own personal nacossitios and thosa of his Stats Dank in Dos Moinen, rapidly ozhauatod the resources of the Cook County Bauk, of which he hiad taken possession by a de- vico a8 mimple a8 ft wan ingonlous (6) Tho Cook County Bauk's deposita belng omployad in his behalf to thoir utmost limit, Al- len endoavored to abmorb thoss of the Chicago Btate Savings Bank, (6) Foiled in this purposs by Mr. Bpencer, Al- len made a vigorous attompt to capture the New Yourk Btate Loan and Trast Company, (7) Much of Allon's distross was causod, and the rest aggravated, by hias desporate operations in worthless, or nearly worthices, commercial paper, which he rondily ronowod in order to use 1t aa collateral for tho loaus of which La stood in mottal need. (8) Allen 10peatedly violated tha provisions of tho law relating to the power of a Nacional Bank to lend money. The act of Congress prescribes 10 per cent of the paid-up capital as the maxi- mun amonnt to be lont to any one cuatomer. Allen, in bis reeduls, adinits, uuder oath, that he owed tho Cook Connty Bauk, on his personal account, £614,003. It 1an fact, howover, that although this confession undor oath brings him witliu the scope of tho law's cruniual peu- alties, the smounut he actuaily owed was much groator, being noarly $900,000, sccording to sho attidastts of the Govorument ofiicials, (9) Allen's Eastern ocorrespondents wero alarmed by his desporats methods of doing bust. ness, and, at jas;, allowed him the very smallest Tavors to which o was tochoically entitiod, (10) Allen's scruplew never interferad with his emplovment of moaos and resources whiol, by not even tha wideat liberality of iferonce, could Lie hiave mistalicn for his oiwn, Tne Brown Judgmeut azainet the City of tomphis, Dubbias collateral, David Dows & Ci Ypork-money,™ State, city, and county dsposits, Shissler's noten, tho 83,000 beloneing to the ** Constantine Bank folks"—there, with many oihers, he converted at ouce into the discharge of obligatious which wore 80 privato aud personnl that ho nover oares to allude to thom, oven in that [rankest of auto- biographies, the journal frow which I baye bor- rowed his aortes of Ingenuous confessions, (11) Allen'a Now York firm was his lzat re- eourcs, sad upon them, for the last fesr montha of hia performauco of the role of s millionaire, bo dapended encirely for support, (12) Allen exccuted tho mortgage of lis real estats, which Lo now repudiates, iu good faith, becaune Lis could raiso no mora monsy oxcept on security, (13) Inatead of witbholdlng assistance from hiw, Allen, Btephens & Co,, both bofora aud at- tes tha siguing of the mortgage, sdvanced over £900,000, for which, according to my informant, Bauk-Examtver Spiuk says that thoy hold the * proper vuuchers, 5 (11) Allen finally failed bocause ev- ery poesiblo flcutious aud temporary re- sourco wan utterly exhausted, aud there was notbing left him but to postpons, a3 usual, the rago of his dupss and the completo exposura of the systern of comincrcial piracy uuder wheee sware eusign ho enrolled himuelf sowe timoe Lofore bo fouudered in Chicago, 1sond you but a tithe of the crop which I bavs garncred in the Northwest, and belore mony davs [ irunst to forward 4o you olber and equally inatructive infurmation touching one of the most succeasful oxponents of the ait of tonlve preteuses. What Tur Tnioune hes, in this rogard, to say of Allon, Ailon has, swutene tiously aud vigorouvly, sad of bimself, Dn. SyaTaz. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. Dy the flow of ths Sutand river, Whence the flecis of iruu Lnve fled, Whore the biades of tho new grass qhiver, Aslee are tha rauls of the drads Under this »od and the dew, Wating the Jadgment-Diy,— Under the one, tha Biue; Under the othar, the Gray. Thass fn the robing of glory, “Those I the gico. of defaat, AL with tas tatile-blood gory, In thio dusk of etorulty mest: Under tue aod aud the dew, Walitng the Judgmeut-Diy,— Unider the laurel, s Diiag Uuder the willow, tho Gray, Fiom the silence of sorrowful hours Te deaniate mnurners go, Lovingly lsden with Howers, for tue friend sud tie foes Under the sod and the dew, Waithug tho Judgiment-Diy,— Vuilet tlo roses, tue IS e s Uuder thn lilies, the Oray, B0 with an equsl splendor Luy murnlng sui-rays fall, With & tunch smpurtially tewler, Ou the blusmotus Llovining for g Under tho snd sud e dew, Walling the Judgment-Day,— Drofderod with ol the 18 ua'; Meduwed witli gold, the Gray, 80, when the Bummer calleth, 0. lureu Bud Held of grain, Withs an Ljum) muenie, tulleth Tuw con ling drip of {be ruin 7 Unndur the sod and 'y Waitiog the JudginenieDiy,— Wt wiih tie pain, the Dive Wet with the ralu, tou Geay, Badly, tut not pbraiding, "Fuis gensruus dovd was done; T S wlorin Of Uio yeare that uts fading, Nu braver battlo was wonu t Under tha sod snd 1o dew, Waltin g tho Julgment-Dig,— Undor the Liossaine, tan T Under the garlands, tis Oray, No more shall {Lie war-cry sover, Ur tho wiuding river bo red § ey unlah oUF utger forever When mr‘r laurel tue grayew off our desds uder the sod sud the duw, Wasling the Judgiments D'syy— * Lave and tears for thu kil us; ‘Tears aud love for the Gray, i s Liquld Sulphure A mine of llquid sulphur {4 now nem:s workod near Palonino, Sicily—that ls, the sulphur s buing removod a8 ot rans frow the sauros in sho Tuek, tha rato of suiwo forky or Uiy tunea uay, ‘f'is gulphur proveods from a mine in the terior of tbo wountain, which intorior juiu s molten stato, ‘Llio Iaborars, 1t appears, ara often obliged to wtop up the fissures from whioh the molten sulphur runs, 80 a8 (o givo it time to cool sutticiently to bo semoved, alter which tha flus sures s10 agaiu uustopped. It sesms that, on & rocout occasion, on openlpg ‘oo of those tlasuras, no sulpbur was fonud, and tle idoa en- tored tuo hoadw of the wotkmen t¢ roopon the holo by bLiaating. ‘Thoysuccoaded in re-ustublish- jog o communication with tho (nterior, butthe pressure had bocome s0 strong during the ob- siraction that tho expausion of the gas produced - x'.m-nl:lo ezplosion, involviug's wurivus fous of hte, Euddhn, Uudor the tit!n of **'The Romant's History of Saliys Luddus," Samuel Losl ban travslsted from a copy teund in the ludia Oflica hurary the Chinese-Hannarit ¥ history of Imidahe's lifo, ‘The logeud 18 In sizty chuptory, asiloovorss 400 olosaly-printed 19mo, pages. Much of 1t s fan- tavtic, while wome opisodon aro in ulose parallel with the Lible, ncidoncs of whaih the oditor ABYH, **in our prose ato of kiviwlodge thera is 10 complaie oxplal A to offer. Wu woust wait until dates are flually and ceriuinly fixel." I'he bouk uoems to ba the wost comnluio pupular presoutation of tbe Buddla legoud yet made. g ap to his ! THE FARM AND GARDEN, About Transferring and Dividing Swarmy of Bees, How a Farmer's Wifo Accomplishod a Good Day's Work, Something Abont Corn and Potatoos-s=In the Kitehen pnd Flower Gardons, Prepared for Ths Chicago Tribune, TRANSPERNING DERS. It your hive or hives of boes have an accumu- Iation of durt, or it the combs are old snd durty, there {a no difliculty iv tranaferring the beos from ono hive to anathar, if the hives bo the modorn wovable-framo ones, Quiet tho bees by blowing & nttle smoke mmong thom, and, aftur glviug thom vimo to fhl thamaslvos with honoy, —whioh they will usually do in fiva to six miu- utos,—tbe framea may ba lifted from the bive and tranaforred to another, without danger of vour boiug stung by the beoa. In doivg this, it must be kept in mind tbat the brood-comb, or that containiug young bees, muat bs kept lu tho centrs of tho hive; and thiat tha diatance botwoon tho combs should be only suflioient to allow tho baes to pass freely botweoa thom, Many persona loave too much apace petween the movabls framos, whon put mto an emoty hive, They should be placed 1} luches apar: from contro to ceniro ; at least, tho breeding-combs in the contre should oot bo more thau this distance apare, which allows the bees to build their colla of proper dopth to ace commadato the young brood, As you oxamiuae the comb, place all that Is in good coudition in the new hive, belog careful to thua sayo sll the brood-comb, If the outside framos aro dizcolored and durty, put in now ones, Woou you havo them all atranged propeily, shinko iho beos Into the now hive, and sst it in tue place whore Lhe via one siood, aud take the old oue ontircly away, DIVIDING KIARAS,, It yon have movaple-framo hives, it is easy to wake mitilicial awarms, Lo do tius, sbade the beos into & new bive contalmung frawen; and, if you can giva them one trame of como, 4o much tho butter. Docareful that the queen is with thent, When you have thom safely Into tha live, ear- ry it to sume distunca fron Lhe uld swarw, leay- 10g the ouiginal luve hy its Datural pluce, 1f the swari s keparatod when tho boss ara tu fald flight, enouzh will ba ia the Aelds and return (o keep the swanmn jatact, and, suding thewsolves without a queon, they will procesd nmmediately to raise ouno from’ the worker-brovd. Llhe s\varm 10 tho now Iuve will be precisely like auy now gwarn:; that1a, hoving A queen but no storss or byead, uuleas you bave givouit to thom, DIIVING TULLL AUREAST, A subscribor at Wheoling, Mo, says that he cannot yuderstand tho plau for ¢nving throo abroast, given sowo time wce 1n Tug ‘LhtvoNe, aud saks for furthor detcription, Mo also watess “About mus-tenthu of the wintor- wheat I8 kilicd, and tho ground plowad up and planted to coru. ‘Lhasprivg s cold aud backs ward, Outs aro making » slow gronth,” Tho thres pieces uvon which the Lorses pail ate, of course, funger io the aggregate than the draw-bar, It these preces ars [ald ulongside the draw-bar, 80 the cootro of the middie whillletiesa 18 opposito the contrs hole of tho draw-bar, and tuo two ousids whillletrecs ara fastened to the ends of the draw-uvar by cloviacs, or, botter, strapy, the inuer ocuds of the outaido whifiletroes will ba suortor than the outor. Thus the m.ddie horso mill punl partly un eaca outside whudetres, although fasiened to tlio coutro one, for the senson’thar the thres ao auited togoilier. 4 A GOOD DAY'S WORK, A Farmer's Wife,” of Dwiglt, Til., sands an accouns vl a dar’s work good onvugh for two dayn; Itose atd: nkinwed the ik ; fad tho coickons, —hos 33 fiouug ones, and 150 epgs uearly ready to liateh ; got bieakfast, whicl waa eatstn At G ller sletor was ta drop coru from the plauter; asod it was ‘srranged that the wile should go to the fluld ot 10, whue tho sistsr returned 1o the bouss to miud the baby., So the vaby was diessed, tho disbies wasliod, tae Leds wade, the tloor mopbed, the settiug houu fed, chickons lulled sud pro- pared for diuner, cooxics baiad, tuo baby put to bleop, and tlis dibuor ariauged, by 10 O'ciuck ; when tho wifa took the luucn and wout to the fisld to roliove ler wister, < Atter diouer thota was the uausl routine-work to do; after which watering ptanws, and other garden-work, oceupied wer until 3 o’clock. Then sho weut to tus ileld and dropped cotn uuti wmght, After supper, eho wilked, fed the cuickons, baked ~ bLroad, ironed, sowed butions on {he busband's shitts, ‘Watered tho bousc-plants, cuaped tho rufffea ou baby's Suuvusy frook sud sha lace on bher owi beat dreoy, besides o,hier things uot euumor. ated horo,~forgetting notuing thut shonld have beea dotie, except patebing Wio Lule m o mitton. 1t the busbaad bas suytug hke tue cnoigy of the wife, chore s wealtll u siura for that couple, anud wizich 16 18 to be Livped the baby will Juberis, HARROWLSG CORN, There aro yet mwuy farmors who do pot Dlar. row thoir cord, \ily noe? It is tho best culise vation 1t over gatd. L tha weads atars bafure the corn gots through tho suil, Larrow tho ground ull over, widiout foar, uuless It ve xusay ; in this case, care must ba taken thut the teo 1t do pob get cloggod; in lact, tuid care must ve takun in woy event, that the cors be uut ucuoped out 1f the tusth do not clog with trawb, harcow foarloualy. 1f tho corty 18 up, we profer a doublo drag, with the forward touth rawsed so tuat iv wili noy suter tho suil to tha tull dopth. If the rowd mra equi-distant, and accuratily marked, this may ba mudo to cover two rows ; anu theu, by guing once to each row, you work the suli twice, und thus preparo it admiranly fur the cultivator, which shomd fotlow alimost jin- madiately. ‘he last two weoks bave been oxcollont woatner fur plautlog, lu tha uortueru puriun of Iniuow, aud fovmers soow gonerully tu lave takew sdvautage of it Dotu corn a potatues planted early are now uindsomely upj sud, 1l ynno shonfd not be so wet that thov canuot bo workod, thess srops bid fair to made good utios, Wo Liave sot yot seen auy bovtlon, and it is Lopod thay bave ** goue whore the woudbine twlneth." 4 LSTE POTATOED, 1f, from any reasun, tho farmer has not plant. od » sutlidiont quantity of potatoes, Esrly Lioso iy be piauted from June 20 to 25, Tuoy will thus planted, avall themsclves of tha co. waathier iu tho full for ri.oning, and gonorslly give good crops, and Do fit lor Lable use up to the Ist of tue succeedluz March; while the ea v crap, that ripous oll in Auguat, aro usually not it fur tabie-ure after tho Ist'of Junurry, 11, bhowever, tho earligr varletis” aro plauted from tha 1st to the th of Juune, they came torward 8o as to olossom and sl tho tubuis ausing the Leat aud drought of suttwer, wind seltom pay for the troubie and szpunse of cultivation, ‘Theso facts should alwsya ba Lorng in wilnd, thus saving lons, With \ho Peschiblows the cane ¢ dilferont, ‘They ruquiro the whole uuusuh to KEOW In, aud aro uover ripe unttl kille by tiost. ‘Lhojofore, siwuys plaut Peacholow potatoey oacly, ; 1N TUE GARDEN, thers will ba plonty tu do_ during June. Rweol patatons, tomatoes, and peppeis, should Lu tiannplanted at once, Ligg-piaut ls better not traun, lantwd satil tho weattior haa beoume thur- oughly wo!thel and warm. 1y |rnulpm.un‘|¥. donot wait for saing bnt, Jues st mveungy, du vour planting, piessing the il firmly aboat the roots, leaving u deptersion tuat wid hod s mnt of water. Water namiadie ately, aud, whon 1t hos suttled away, doww sho dry earih over all, ana thoy whl do woll enough, Egg-plants are tho only escepton 1o this rule, Plione require to Lo whaded u.til ihoy becowe catablisid, if tha weatior is hot, In uansplanting towatoes, 1f the plants are Iargo and apindling, v thov Reuerally ary Unlens thoy havo been given wpecial culturo fu the beds, do wot try to get thum to wstand etraight. Piaut tho roots at the projer dopth, snd then lay tho stem in & shullos mark, covonuy sll with ekrth oxcopt tho top. Thus f¢ will take roct atung the stom, and make moro stocky aud botter plants (hsnaf planted in tho ordluary mauer, Koeop the gardon mollow and free of weods, it you expeot Lo gok returos. It 1 espccially necoss bary that tha earth) be mellow and Misble, if the weathor coutinues dry, siuce wellow earth- not ouly 1e:aing [y moluturs mote § erfectly than a more wampRe wiifuoo, but it alsy takey up hys Kroacopic BiXiure, ur ¥apor of Lke wic; Bud thw sbility {s Iporeased In proportion to ita porosity snd coninesy, 1t is limponuible to have sucenlent vogotablos without pleuty of momsture; aud, wiltlvut suce culonce, yegotablaw are of but Litils scconut. » LEKTS AND CALKUTS for wjuter use mav L iy auywhers up to the 10th of Juue, and o fair crops. ‘Tuoy will not, perthaps, bo large; buj they will be tonder, and that §s whas is wantod, Luta-bagss are usuatly owa about the 20th of Juns; but we have alwaya had t with them Aown eatly i Jutine o aoe o Spone The Gorman awoot kiruip is tio bestof thysol; for table-une, Tha summer climats of tho West (s nanll; but axceljory too hot and dr\g‘ for ;m tuin pa; crops may Lo often ralecd mu] "A )u,eclu «;r sod lur-buly by break. and then giving ft ropoated harrowing, abont Lo iat of Auguat thon 8o ing sty ool thinty bioadeast, and covering by going nver ”” fand“onca with tho harrow lnvarted, B, .,N parson avor made monoy in the Weat by raiwng eitlier flar or Itueais turnine, oxeont for ubx; une, \}h: I.u'wo nota I“'"lm:l cl;m:zu. o ‘Turnips have beon ealiod the founda: Eogiish asriculture. anil 80 thoy are, d‘l“l!:"n““ mats 18 cool anl molet, and with thom furnyn mosn fat stock, just as great and amajl cur'n' nln_rdu nlfiould mun'f?t'?mng with us, Coin pygp ways be our preat fallow-érop in th 8 ruote are in England, L o West, ut p o 0% FrowERe, Flawer-culturs s the poetiy of hortf All poots are fond of llm\‘::rn, l’ml hm 'fl:lrm:: X taka to thom an nnturally as to sentinens, 2 Dus, Lowever toud ono may bo of beautigy blossomm, tho admirsion of thom and thejp [ tual cultivation, ara two diTerent thingn, ‘Thosy who have educated themeelves 1o the cultare of flowers know the difliculty thav bave often ox. porienced in gotting them to germinata ; ang yot, florista hiave no tranbln, ovan with the wegy daifeate. Thoy kuow, from oducation at) ey, | verionce, Just tha conditions necesrary to yormfe natan aud growth, lowover well road thy AMALOUT sy bo, 1t {8 ouly practies and 0xpo. rieuce that can nerfect ono in this work, A rulo espocially anplicable to scods is, that thay should not ho sown dooper thau four finey thoir dlametrr. Thus it will bo soon that wyeh minuts sceds as calcealarin, cloneraria, poppy, eto., rhould bo only fust covared, But'thon, {f 80, tho aun is 0 Liot at sich timo as it will dg 1o sow the saeds of t:udsr plants, that it is difieylg to got the requimte moisture, To inaure this, sow, and sitt tha lonst poesiblo soil ovor thowm, water from a tine rosa water-pot, and then corep with moss, or avon A boatd, nnt) thev garmi. nate. Afterwards shade them untit thoy goy somo atranuth, It {s uow ligh timo to transplant all tonder floners ; and, in 8o _doiog, n we eay, da not walt for rain, Lollow the ‘samo rule as wag givon for lrmspl:mnnr other planta. excapt that flonern, boig ganerally muail when tranaplany ed, are always botter for boing abaded, TEMEPERANCE, The Womni’s Christinn Unien, Tho regular mouthly meeting of the Woman'y Christian Temporanco Unlon was held seaterday morning at their Lieadquarters, No. 148 Madison street, Mrs, O, B, Wilson in tho chalr, After prayor by tno Prosident, tho Treasurer read ber report, whioh showed that all dobts nad been paid and & balanco of cash on baud left ot 2171, ‘The resignation of Mra, Willls A. Baroes, who Las left the city, was accapted, sud Mra, G, T, Poworoy was elected to i1l the vacauey, nl g Yote way lm“ed cxproveing the Uulon's approe ciation of Mrs, Barnon' sorvices, Alin. O. 11, Case, Chairman of the Committes on Public Fountains, mads a ravort subnuting that tho Committas had subniitted a foraal re- quest to the Board of Public Works that that tody ask the Council for the erection of foun. talos tn tho most orowded parts of tho city, aud in those 1whatited by the pooier classos, In aubmitting thoir roquost the Committes plodged tho offoris of tho Untwa to secura tho ereciion of fouutains at private oxpensg in tho business quartorof thacity, Tho report'wns mocoptad and thia Comnnttea instructed (0 coutinle tho proso. cutlon of their work. ‘Ihe Cowmittee on Pay-Day roported thst their woik was belng succgssfully carried on among tha lron, coal, aud lumber merchants, munvof whom had changed their pay-day fiom Saturday to Monday, ‘Ine Comimitios was ra- questod to keep a detatled accouns of its work, and Lo report tu tho Union and to tho press, Uu motion, Ms. Jonow and Sirs, \Wilson wore appoiuted a cowinittoo Lo procure au aati-troat pledio boak, **to be piessnted o the Doard of Tiado with the compliments of tha Uuion aud thie orruost roquost that this 1oilnential body in. augurate the auti-treat movement, ju eppoaition to the unAmorican, coatly, injurious, aud seune- less custom of troating.” ‘Iho folloming ts & copy of the autl-trest pledgo: Wa, the underaigued, severally pledgs oursclves, upon our honor, nul 16 luvite olisers to drink, nor ta driuk upon thelt invistion, or tu puy for sucl driuks st any pubile placo vr club, Tho Committee ou Entertainment of Dele gaton reportod that, from presout prospecis, ttioy would be able to sstortain tho lady delogates to tho Natioual Conventlun to begin at Farwoll Hall &t 11t u'clock Tuesday mormag, Alys, Catao, who bias had cinrge of the Dothol Ilome work, roported that sho must soon leave the ciey, aud Miss Willard acreed to tuko upon heruolt the responsibility of tha work, My, Carso moved tliat Miss Willard be ro- questod to toke o vacation, which should mean un uctusl rest from uor duties bero orolss where. Carried. Mra. Witson thonght that 1tho Unlon noeded sl of Miss Willard's s.are Liae, aud, witle she wanalv favored tho vacation, sho did ot ap. prove of ber “binuching ous® wto Humaue. Hovioty work, etc, Miss Witiard explatned that &s had no thought of any work but hat of the Tomperanca Umion of this city and thoe National Union, Lub whio iud wishod to show Ler sympatny with tho Initiation of » noble new philauthropy. tn o hich wowea not apecially luteiested In the Leapore icy question woroe willing to worls, The fullna\'m& wore appawn.cid a d:logation to reprosent the Unlon &% the Conventivu: i Willard, Mrn. O, 15, Wilson, Mrs, C. H. Casg Misn Isabotla Jowes, and Mies Mary Evorta. ‘Chie mecting thew adjourued. — & THE AILBITIOUS VINE. A Yine that stood beside s thriving Osk weary of the labor Of solf-suppart, and thus she plainly spoxe Unto her stronger seighl 41 prithes bend your hanisame trunk fo ms, Ay noble fotest-brother, That, mwutually embracing, we may be Hupporters of eack vthar” 14 Nay," aaid the tree, 1 wan not made bo bend I'm strong and soif-rellant, As Uaks are wout ; hut you;'my protéy friend, Are twouty tinca as plisat § * 8o elasp your slender arnis around me, dear; Anid we will grow togaitiar, il a5 you azure clod, nof byer fear Tus roughest wind or weatuer | 4 Nagy nag.” popled the toclth Viae, T bate ‘f'v 2com 80 tuch your debtor Fore s the wining: iows su £ po alealghbs T 1iko 1t vaatly botter {® 44 Natura wills otherwisn,” the Oak replied, # Howevar you niny grunibia The moment suoh s sllly plan Were triod, “Poggetler wo should tunible | 4 Come yon to me; and, taking Nature's courss, Werll kecp otir proyer placo 1 to (e twain will give 10y wanty force, ‘And you your muaiden graces, @Bt it perverss, you try lo tive alons, WIib nano to Lot snd chiorlah Your slender tormn, befote you're falrly grown, You cestatoly wifl perishs, 4 Qr if, Instead of fondly clinging fast To one wio wauld protect you, Yot et with others, all the trocs at Ina Will scornfully rejoct you, T uee,—~L.noo," exciaimed the musing Vine, “ The werker must be nourlabud ;! thio Oak with many o graceful twind; und flouristied ! n n Stroct=Onts (San Franciaco Luidetin.] A rad incident occurred thus sftornooon in Pouwith azroct ear, Ou Kearney atjcet wurms dis: tance Loyoud the City Hail, s Jaldy stoppe nboari tho car, bavlug in bor wrnta a Labe sume five ormix waeks oid, o chid way cvadently in paiu, aud moanod and writbed In its mother's arms. Slio soomed to wnfor acutoly for the litlo ono, whoso fave was turniug rapidly to s livid, deatbly color, ‘Tlie possengers ware futurestos in the puintul anxioty of the womnn, ‘sud when sho burat {ugo tenrs and prossed tho infant to Lot arus and kissod tho cold Jips, thare was not adryeye in the car. It lLad died lppuwur ‘withoul nronx(.-pnnnnr agony, Lor afow minutes befors 1t Lreathod its “tant it was per~ foctly quiot, The car ttopped ut Musslon and Fourth utrests, sud the weepiug motlier lols with thie tufunt's body ln her arws, ——— Lo Grand Loclkiwood’s Flouso, The faaioua buildiog snd grounda of the banl er, Mr, LoUrand Lockwood, at Norwalk, Coni fuvo pasaed ito 1110 possession of tho Ll bliore & Michigau Bouthern ltailway Cumpauy by tureclonure of a ortgage, ‘Lho bm]um'(, which 1 rrabably the fluest piivate dw.livg in Auworicy, is construcsed of solid blocks of gisu- ite, and m finshod fneide with ¢ sowood, muhoge any, snd codar of Lobanon, Moro thun iy Kinds of warblo are wsed in the foors, sud ono dor, compased of wnny bundred Livds of MMJ' cout #3,000, Yhera furly acos of grounds sl thnoe acres of hothousea, The ovit uf building was £1,260,000, aud 1t Lias reooutly been ¢ a oltsred Tor wato for $110,600