Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1876, Page 2

2 TIIE CIHLICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1870. : e e e e——— all ted In the hurry | Iargo Nst of proporty In tho anring of 1810. Tle | holted togothor and forcod down into | proudest, and thus far the most onduring, titls | paragraph I had tho following mentencos, The ; THE ROSTBUPA- lnd‘l:u:tlg‘::x’n‘::n‘:::"l‘ \:flfl:o:vory sida, g ol lnmuolr and the ltev. Dr. l'-l\;tauou Adjoine | tha hardpan, tho wator was pumned oul sud | over worn by osrthly moaoarch, Lot our city :lty hiad then not quite oo n?vlatad tho ‘sevon- 5,,:,,:::"2.‘:&’.?,‘: r,{mf:::%{m:., ,rfih,'f:,.d th The steamer 8am Ward, with Capt. Cloment [ ing lota at 81,260 at privats saley bot it wa8 | the brickwork was fairly commoneed, The | honor tho men for making Cmu&o commercially | teenth yoar of its exisionde, and I sak: supposltion accords with fact.—thon ita anfm irst ofticer and Joliy Dick' Homern an stoward, | sgreed that thosa should be eold with tho ross, | alioro slaft was sunk 00 feot, and that st the | in this centennisl yoar whast lmperial Romo | whst will the noxt sevanteen yeara accomplish? | must bave changed litile by Tittle in adaptay aftorwards Aldetman, brought ns ta the city on | 80 an to attraot cuatomore, & Michigan avonuo | crib 85 foot, snd then workmen at oach end | was politically io past ages. While wo give all | Waara now (1854) In dicect ralirosd connection with | {o the changing environmont, Here we hy, ReminiEOBHOEE of Enrly Ohicag wew | the oveningof the 33th of May 1848, and fore | kind bocome Romowhat popular as a prospsctive | cammencnd oxoavating and bricking up the tun« | honor to theso mow, fot not the nama of Jolin 8, | 81} the Atantis citles from Puctlsnd ta Laltimore, n t 0 . ovolutlon working clinoge only, change for y AL 121 Lnko strect with Dr. Beammon's drug | place of rosidenco. Whou my lob was siruck off | nel towaras osch other. Of courso Inced not | Wright bo forgotten, who, addresslug himnolf Lo | Five, st noat elaht, yoars will astond the clesle to New | g1 o lighior nor lowar. 4 t Watap ! i Orieans, Dy . #toro do and Lock's clothing storo on | fo me for somo 81,800, Harry Nowhall canto | give mors partioulars, nor spoak of tho 4-milo | oven thio groator work, in 1849, combined and 13ut whero the oavironmont In for t An Intorostivg Leotaro by | sl oottty e, ol U | et o s, B, 6,y | ool B, L’ "ot Miptarnan gl | i islon il ol o s | b B SSTAREROR S AT | vl vk oy Pl e i v bookneller, o cf hac hat lot to live on re you going toimprovo wenty. ot, whoro o - bl - [! a hisll ) t national 1 A (ov. Bross, ‘,!:m.::l 4’.‘1‘)‘(‘)3‘3 "n:p:[uflu‘:h!n in the year uads [ 127 " Xon, was tho rm{ly. & Well," wnid 1oy | works are in Drocens of erostion—atir warks on | tem of tmorovomonta oyer made i tho hISOTy | Jeieort foom eorcemn o bnesk's Houad, ik w bo | tra cd by & number of clialk dramings; Gertalg Tallvosd from Chicago 1o Puget’s Bound, with a braueli | spiocios of rata ware sbown io hava fallen inty to 8sn Franc'sco, bad habits, and to bave dogansrated in By the time the bnilding of the rosd wan falr- | form and structure. farasites were shown (g ly ‘uadertaken Han Xrancwco Lad grown! 80 | bo lapasd apscies, They commenced el Iagely 1n wealth and population that the main | down-grade by falling~ fnto balnts t: but it had chianged vory | * I'm glad of It; I'm glad some ono is golng Lo | the Iake shore being found only capable of sup- | of the world. ll‘ni:)lfnufll:“:lg:r‘n?c‘:.‘ 1t v‘un still pu-o&inenlly livo beyond mo, hgmm'c bo o louceome If | plying tho 450,000 people now aaid to be fo tfla You will expoct ms to say somathing of the . o slsb foity. Tho Illinois Micliigan Canal | wo can seo ramebody goiug by night and morn- | city. Chicago may well be proud of her Wator- TRESS A Gosslpy Descrlphon of Scenes and | had boen openad (he month bofore, and duting | ing.” -Wa livad, as aboye stated, botwoon Mon- Wm‘h, for thay sre truly splendid, and furniah | of the olty. In 1848 tno Journal bad rooms in i the snmmer packots nere put on, and, ruoniug | ros snd Adama straole. hor with an abuodance of a8 purp walor aacan | what was then the on Bulfldings, on tho | liuo was forced to thateity.” Dt fn Juve, 100, | Iaziness, Tho ancestor of tha louso w o Incidents In the History of the In connoction with- steamors on the Iilinoie WFAL BATATE : Lo found in nuy city n the world. Southosst cornor of Giark snd Lake airasta. Thia | o yoirs bofare the thirty-fouc yoara in tho 1ifo | and tue whola braod of parasite show aa aacilt Garden c“y Rivor, quite an impetun was given to travel ‘While living hsco in thi uter of 1851-'3 niy We bad no Gem of the Pralrie, and ‘Lne Trinusz as lts | of tho city hiad pansed away, I roiefrom Chicago | try far higher on 4he hio-scals than they. b througli the city. To thetn It did not presont a | friend, the lats Charlea Starkwoather, fnalstod BEWERS daily, maintalned & procarioua oxietonce in au | to Bacramento with my good friend George M. But aa.the courss of inorgaulo Nature by vory inviting sspect. ‘Uho Dbatloon buildings | on oliing me 14 aciee of land immediately south | in 1848, Tho firat attompta were made s yearor | old wooden shasty on tho norlbwest corner of Taliman to oo of his splondid palace cars, with | bosn to greater and groater variety and c dlining-oar attached, and no ouo could possibly Y‘lamy. gf‘» in gunonl,s the courso ’nr orgf:: faro better than we did on the entire trip. An. aturo has beou one of progress, Tha speaker other lino was opon from Bacramento to Vallejo | eaid thal tha ove of solenca the world over it nontly right across tho bay from tho City of the | fized on the I'sr \West of Amorica. Thore, it Golden Gato. so that practically the proph- | anywhare, the method of crestion can bo Tond, ecy was litarally fullliod. "Porliaps it | 1io drew a peculisr roptile found slong the was only s fortunato guess, aud, a8 I | glopes of tho mountaine, and then drew 8nothey was educatod in Now Enélnnd. ou will pormit | form of roptile sitogether unliko the firat. Thy above spoken of woere mostly dingy and weatuer | of Twenty-sixth stroet nn‘ll east of Btate fo { two lator with ok plank, I think on Clark strost. | Lako and Clark stroots. Aeasrs, Whooler, Hterw- Prof. W. D. G ing's Third Lece | bosten. Tha only two stono buildings in | Michigan aveoue, Capt. Cloment and mvaolf | I Liave no time or wpace for particulars, but will | wre, and Scripps wore the editots. It waa burned rot, W, D. Gunning's Thir tho oliy built of biua limestono, brouglt | wont cut of town to 1ok at_it, gog soross | only add that & thorotigh and offective avatera | ou, and thon located at. No, 173 Lako atraet, ture on Geology. na baflast _ from the lower lskes | Join south of Twalfth atraot. It was way onbon | line boon extended through all the mors thickly | Ay'frlend tna ion. John Wentworth published nlood on_ Michigan svonuo batwoon Iake | the prairie, and 1 mado up my mird that tho | settled portions of tha city, and the deeponing | tho Zemocrat in very aristooratic quarters—at and South Water atrects, on tho_sito now occu- { prico (£600 por acre) was too ‘much, I could | of the Iilinols & Michigar Causl oarriea the sow- | Jackson Hall, on Lasallo stroot, just south of " Hidd iod by the Illinois Central |xm1uy oflices, | ralso the a:iw‘t’lmomknzm“ fll’b“ bl‘:vmeu't; IlJl\lt :lxl dx::rnfl:ho Xl.l{luoll mlur. du;;l, em'q;t ;Ilm; Lllm.'llo hu!“tha °3' Umapowghprreul hfi““’ 7 e (en | Thoy wero tho atistocratic manslons of tho city, | where was the per cent on 0 balanco for the o vers the canal an ver fo 80y | city, Io tho fall of 1849, tindin; rolorred my Bearching Through Thevo moro s fow brick Temdences and. storos, | nost ten yours tocomo from? Capt. Clomoot | waeks, it doos no dawmago whatever, and does | i ocotipation of nalo Imnhzm Foreracme ino to guesa again, and to bound the ity for you | fitat hind chinnge ud, i Records of the Itocks. but theso wers the sxception. ft was curious | took tio property, paid tho 1,000, and, in seven | 1ot evon maks itwelf known by offensive odora. | geliing thom, I disposed of my intarest in tbae | on the plllnnsn socond Contennial, m{ nn{l_m from \vwmlu: l‘fx g::.l.‘)“:g‘ulc:gco e By Mklng g to notice how loug soma of thoold bslloon build- | months, sold {t” for $1,000 an acre, clearing 1 oun MAILY book-storo to my partnors, It was the original | 4th of July, 1076, I thiok the worth lino will Qolag down into the rocka under tha homo ot ivgs would escapo tho firo. Theold atore fn | that time $7,000 ou an juvestment of 81,000. | from the East came by stosmer from Bt. Joseph | of tuo gront house of Janson, McClurg & Co. | probably begin on the Iske shora half way be- | this ealamandor, bo drow a roptile which b | EARLY CHICACO, which Mostey & McCord commoncod businoss, | But_the Captain let » fortune elip through his | or Now Duffalo, or by stage from tho west end | The Joadtng membor of iho firm now~—my | twoen Lvanston aund Winuetks, and run duo | iived there long sgo, and which had feft (i LECTURE DY TUE IION. WILLIAM BROES. botweon Clark and LaSalle strcets, on tho northh | handa, for that 14 ores is now valued by Jamos o of the Alichigan railways, till Pob. 20, 1852, when | hrotbot-ln-law—I loft in tho storo » mero boy, Gov. Droes spoks yestorday aftornoon at Mo- [ sido of Lako, was built when the propriotars | I, Reoso, Esq., at 2560,000, or £40,000 por acre, | tha Michigan Soathorn was opaned to thin oity, | whosa dutlon wete Lo swagp out, enrry fulflgu, Cormick Hall beforo tho Bunday Afternoon Lec~ | ¢onld look sonth to Biue Tsland with not o build- | In that caso, aa In scoresol others, I, too, just | Of couraa during severa ntorms, whilo navigs- | and gonorally to do a Loy's businass, I mention fom, hin subjost bolug * What I Tte. | i0% in front to obstruct tho view. Thoro it | eacapad getling rich: but I hitve an abundanice | tion wse open, audwluring tho winter and spring, | this as an examplo for tho boys who hear mo to turo Aseociation, his sul ]“" olog A stood, with the sign **Mosley & McCord " fust | of good company, for Lundreds of my follow- | whon tho roads were nbout impassable, they | follaw, mombor of Eatly Chicago.” Following ia bie | bolow th roof, til ft mas all surrounded by | aitizens Lave misded opportunitios equally good. | wara very irrogular, Bometimes we would baa | I then formad a partosrship with J. Ambroso discourso in full ¢ brick buildiogs, and tho jneursnco on b bad Take tho following instances: ‘Walter L. | woek or two withiout auy nows from tho outside | Wight, tlien editor of tho Prawle Farmer, Tho chartor of tho City of Chicago bears date | cosk ten timoa what tho buildiug was over worth. | Nowberry bought tho 40 acres that forma hia ad- | world, Our long winter oveninga wore employad | most valusblo Lln]mr. owaol by Jobo B, Wright, March 4, 1837, and the first electlon for city off- | Bubtract tho few scatterniug brick bulldings on | dition to’ Ghicago of Thomas llartzell in 1433 | jn reading,—much moro 8o thao now.—in ote | —and bo bought out tho Herald of the Prairics, gy a4 A yma., South Clark strect, fu Lho vicinity of Twellth | for 1,002, It ia now valued at £1.000,000. | tending lacturca ond debalos at the Mechanics' | a roligious paper, the organ aliks of tho Presby- cora was hiold on the flrst Tuceday in May, 1837, | giroqr, and tho dingy shantics io that vicivlty on | Maj. Klogsbury Lad boen off on an “exploring | Inatitute, In goiog o church, aod (o aocial lifo. | torians aud Congrogatiovalists of tho Korthwout. Not a faw of tho men and women who eaw it | Ciark atroot and Third au:l Foncth avonucs will [ oxpodition abous this timo til his pay as an | Chieago pooplo havo lvays hisd abundant monas | Tha latier half of tho concorn aurvivea in_the when an Indiantrading post, with Fort Dearborn | best ropresent what most of Chicago was in | army ofticor, sbove his Iimumediate necesaitios, | to employ tuolr tima fully aud profitably, Tho | Advance. It was thon published on Walla to dofend tho settlors, aro still smong ue, and | 1818, smountod to some 8000. A brother ofticor ad- | Post.Ofico stood on ~Olark” stroot, on tho | stroet, on tho corner of tho alloy botween Lake Ao Iadies cortainly would not feol complimontod NUILDING BTONE, vised him to ralt this down for Lis two children. | plloy whero tho north wids of | and Randoiph siroots. We soon moved to 171 o " 1¥ ) . And Liero I may as woll montion the sourcea [ Jlo bought for it” 160x180 foot cornar of Clark | the~ Shorman Iouso mow fs, It had | Lako streot, noxt doot to Tue Teibuse, aad in wero thoy callod old. Henco whatover fa said | , A< B8F % Y AR R 4 atorinle ato do- | and Randolph stroets and 27 notea on the North | 4 single delivery window foot squate opening | the rear bufldiog, on an. old Adams pross, tho sbaut *Tho Eatly Timea in Cuicago" mnst bo | riyed, Till aftor that yone it supposed wo | Uranch. It is now worth from £G00,000 to | into nroom with a door ou the alley, sud anoth- | firat power pross ever broughit fo the city, we rogardod s raiativ, for tho city has not yot | had no gnod rock fur building anywliere noar the | #1,000,000, Ono quick in figaros could probably | er on Clark strect, Al the clty could seo the | printed our own papor, ana also Tt TIIDUNE, numbered 33 yoars. Aa I first saw Chicago tn | city. 1bo blue-limestono quarrics from which [ BUOW that ot compound {nterout the cost of tho llnzi flying from the Shorman Ifouss, whoo tho | for Monars. Stowart, Whoelor & Berippa. T'ho Octobor, 1846, and commonced my parmancnt | the stone fot tha two dwelliugs above-mentioned Iand would baye realized much more than {t {a | nll steamor from tho otber mdo of the Jaka | press was driven by Emcry's borse-power, on R S y P ywero taken were thought to bo our best and | Bow worth. In Lima this certaivly will bo ““gi was slgnaled. liach opne kuow Ldw long it | whichtravelod hourbyhouran old black Canadian eeldonco hord on the 12th of May, 1848, I can | ) ognogt mourco of supply. liealdes thoso, thar | butb if the rents of tho land ara taken in place of | would tako her to reach hor dock and tho mails | pouy. So far a8 avy interest In the aplondid ma- acarcely bo callsd an old citizeu, and yet In that | jiad beon brought from tie lowor iakea somo | the intorast, lov him who hau timo to mako tho | to gat distributed. Ior a long time boforo tho | chinory of Tur TrinyNs ls concerned, that old timo it has growa from s city of sbont 18,000 | sandstone tiaggiug, 1t lay in front of tho Latliny | llgures dotermine which would havo beoti tho | delivory window would cpon the peoplo would | blind pony ground out its boginnlugs, trainpiug (later in thesonson tha census gava ns 20,023) to | rosidonce-blvok, corner of Washington atrest and { mora profitadle luvestmont. bLegin to sssomble, tho tirst taking Lis station at | on tho rovelving plstform of Emory's horse- noarly, if not quite, 450,000,—an mm.“'u pover | Michigan avenue, whero it sorved for a sidewalk NO PAVEMENTS. tho window and the others forming in lino | power. ofo: i AUy S0 up tothotimoof tho flrain 1871, Discussionsworo | I said wo had uo pavoments ln 1848, Tho | through the rear door into thoalloy, ofter far | - Dy tho sutumn of 1851 Mr. Wight, s man who, Loforo oyualed by any city o tho history of the [ )4y ror's long titae by tha Trusteos of tho Sec- | stroots woro simply thrown up aa conntry roads, | into tho stroot, like n long lino of vators at eloc- | ao editor of the .Prairie Farmer, did very much world. From a city thon Bscarcoly over mob- | ond Presbytorizn, when it was proposad to build a | Inthe apring for swoeks portions of them would | tion, Ilore L esw one day sa fncidont which I | towards ’“’“”i tho foundations of tho rapid tioned, sho Liss bosomo tho fourth in rank and | new church ediflco in 1819 resulted in thoir do- | bo fmpnssablo, I gn:']u at dlbfle;onl tl!:nf;‘s aoog muhnlm'tn m; » tributo :,o ono of tho hui&l n‘ml pn&xrue nmll t] nlgll"untrpro:n:rliy 0'0‘15“’ v\’:‘mi X termiuing to use Btono found near the western | empty wagons and drays stuck on Lako and | noblest of men, sud a8 sn examplo for | and now pastor of the Irosbyterias Clhurch sl populatlon “pm;.h:hAmu[“n‘m:m;““" 1a | himits olg tho city. ‘Tho location hns bocomo | Wator streots on crary block between Wabaah | all of us to follow, At ono timo when wo lad | Bay City, Mich., and mysclf, found out by sad But granting for the momont that Lam an old | Jop o cha tamond ne tho sita of our flrst arteelan | avenuo aud tho river. Of course thero was Litio | boon without s mall for a week or mora I stood | oxporfonco thas tho I'rairie Herald, a8 wa then sitizon, I rocognize tho duty of placing on [ woi Tho rock is o poroua limestone, with sufli+ | or no businuss dofng, for tuo peoploof the city | in tho line perhaps a dozen from tho window | calted st, could mot ho mado to sup- racord,—ss mysolf and others bave doubtless | ciont ailox mixed with it to make it very hard. | could not got sbout much, aud tho pooplaof tho { and Rovert Stewart two or throo abead of mo, | port two families, for wo bod had- on beou urged to do,—what I know personally | It neems to bave boen formed under a bed of | country could not got 1o to do i, A8 tho clorka | Juat s tho window opeoed and the column be- | Iy pald expouses, ~and moarcely that, ofton uurged X A p y of tha history of Chicago. 'Though this may re- | bitumen, or coal, for the pores in tha rock aro | bad nothlog to do, thoy would oxercise tleir }:nn to movo, & woman, poorlv clad aud evident- | I thoroforo sald out to Mr. Wight, takiugin pay- Y 80, 5 1’ flled with it, and bence some of the less poroua | wita by putting boards from dry goods boxes in | iy o foreigner, rushod in at the front door, and, | ment Lis bomostoad lots on Harrison stroot. quironioo froquentuso of tho porgonal pro- stones in tho church were of a palo croamy | tho holes whore tho last dray was dug out with | caating bier eyo down that long line of men, the | 'That winter rathor than hnvonuthlnfi todo Ire~ noun, your Directors are respousiblaif X boso | coiar, whilo othors wore so filled withs pitch or | significant signa, s * No Battom Hore," #'Tho | muscles of hor faco twitched nnd sbo tromblod | mained in his ofiico with him, worklug for the gou with {t. If each citizon would do It, the | bitnmen that it oozed out in liot weather, andthey | Bhoriest Road to China.” SBomotimos onoboard | with anxioty. Bho ovidently oxpected s lotter | Jarge sum of $1 porday. Aftor a yacation of a fature historian could’ soloct! what best | wero aablack as tar. lleuco it wascalled tho | would bo nailed across anothor, an old bat and | from doar ones far away ovor the broad Atisv- | fow moutur tho late John L. Sorlpps and my- wited his purposo, aund Ohicago would | 8pocklod or epotted church, a namo which, | cost flxad on it with tiie uotico ' On His Way to | tic. Not & word was uttored by tho erowd, and | self formed s partnorship aod fesuod tho firat i b history from its | FEferTing to aun unfortupato oceurrenco tho Lowor Regtons.” In fact thero was no end to | there she stood, waiting 1n agony for tho crowd | cumber of tho Democratie Press ou the 1Gth of have what no otlior city has—a bhistory from ita | % s ftor history, my friend Sam Bowlos sald | the fun; and Jokea of thoboss of that day—eomo | to pass by, till it esmo Mr, Btewarl's turn. | Boptember, 1852, Wa startod on a borrawod cepie earlicst timen, written by its liviog folinbitsnts. | way derived from its speckied morality, Tho | weto of larzer growth—were without uumbor. | when, wiith o kindly wava of tho band, | talof 0,000, which all disappearod from sight in Io 1864, 1 prepared and published gomo notes | anmo rock was used in rebuilding the church at Qur first effort at paving, or ouo of tne flrat, | Lo said, “ Come hers, my good | about aizx woeks. oputinall ourservicesand v T I in f¢ tha corner of Twenticth stroet and Michigan | was to dig down Lako street to nearly or quito | woman," and, placing her directly in front of | profits, and sboat all tho moucy weo could ou tho bintory uf the Town of Chicago—in fact h d | cing back to the discovery of thosite by the | 8voune. Thouse of this rock was really tho [ on alovel with tho iake, and thon plank {t, It | lim, shie graspod her letler, and with s sup- | Lorrow, mnover drawing a cent from tho L] oy y firet importaut avent of tho kiud in tho building | was suppoacd that the sowerago would sottio in | proased *thank the Lord and you, sir,” sho loft | firm tifl after tho Grst of Janaary, 1854 French Jesuit missiouatles, Marquotts and | yisiory of tho city. tho guttera and be catried oif, but the expori- | tho most happy porson in tho crowd, Auy man | This required norve and the uslog up of fands Joliet, and I ¢hall devoto tho hour to giving you | — Yyhilo this material was regarded as a most | wont was a disastrous failuce, for tho stench at | might do such an act for n lady in nilks; but | to a very considerable amount, which wo had ob- supplemont to what uscd to bo eslled * Our | oxcellons one for church purposes, giving them | once becaws Intolorablo. Tho strcot waa thon | ooly a noble, Chriatian gontloman Hke Robort | tainod from tho eale of resl ostate ; bus wo woat o & plot at losst a mle wost of Aux | bones in the rocks. It bors sach relatlon: Plaines Rivor ; thouoe duc south to au eact and | tho liying eslamander that eotence bas chosen y west lino that will inclade Blua lsland, sad | name for it whiol fmplies that the salamands thouce routhiosst from Ulue Island to the in- | of to-dsylis its lineal descendant. We go domg diann Btato line, and thenco on thatlina to Lake | atil' despec and find the romeins of an eatly Michigan, Yith my eyo upon the vast couutry | mamual, which {ha sposker drew and doscribeg tributary to the citv. I estimate that Chicago | am horse-liko, tapir-liko, aod rhinoccros-liks, will theu contaln at loast Dovwan in tlie atrata stili deeper we find tha rulay THREZ MILLIONS OF PEOPLY, of & grost beast, which wanacarofully delineated, and I would sooner say 4,000,000 than any leea | It Liad characiors of tho mammal, the bird, 83 than 3,000,000. I base mv opinions ou tho fact | the reptite, that the gastronomlo argument controls man- In rocks still older we find a fomsil ses. kind. Men will gosnd live where they can get | monator, which was drawn. It [ tho mont and the beat food for the laast labor, | charactors of tho wammal, tho biry In this raa%em what oity in the wold can com- | the roptlle, and the flsh. Boyond i pota with Chicago 7 Aud I also ssstma that the | horao wo hiad found fragmonts of the hore, nation for the uoxt bundred yors will romain | Ioyond the vanishing polut of the mamma) w ono unitad, froe, and banpy people, have found the mammal appoaring in fragmonts, But, gentlamon, in ° onlor to, realizo | Boyond tho flrst bird so hod found tho birf the ~magniflcont destiny which' Provi- [ comiug In fragmonts, Bolance {s making op by donce acoms {o haye ~marked out for | mpawer Lo the sphinx, Thbrough tho atruggle foy our city, pormit me to ssy, in conclusion, | lifonnd change of onvironmant spacies had bley that the moral and raliglons welfaro of thocity [ ovolyod. Wo cannot anawer the sphinx ina] muat ba carofully guarded and promoted, Philo | hier dopth of meaning. The finlte can uaver [ Carpontor, still_among us, and Capt. Johnson | prebond the fullness of tho infinite, Wo Lay establinhed the first Bunday-school hero July 30, | seen as through s glass, darkly. But ws hay 1832, and tho Rev. Jersminh Porter, alno still | acen enongh to tift us in the concoption of ay llvlnfi, organized aud bocamo pastor of tho I'irst | Infinite Povor whoso method s one through thy Presbyterian Couroh, now Dr, Mitcholt's, ou the | world of life and the universo of stara; why 2Gth of June, 1813, Drava old Jesao Walkor, tho | slumbers nover; who creates forever; why Plonunr Motnodist, also proached sound doctrine | atrikes the chords to makona jar In creation's n tho earlioat yoars of tho Town of Chicago, | anthom, buy harmony through sil the zouesof All other denaminations wers alao on the ground | spacs and throngh all the oceana of timo, early, and through all her formar Listory our Thoe noxt lecture in this courso will be delir, poople scamod as active and enrnest in roligfoun | ered tho firat Sunday ovening in Fobruary, aud offorta ss they wors cuterprising and | will be on “ The Orl'gtn of Man," nuccnln{:fl‘ I'In mafinnnllllln ‘fisd o:lficr b]usl~ —_—— ness, ,0f all our churches ross tLomselven 3 N lenrn{smy' hlhhmlly. to tho \vholk ol]mntll\z- FRUIT-GROWING IN EGYLT, ng, i you ploaso, convorting the pooplo, work- ing'as %ol r Divina Mastor wonld havo them | Comdition of florticultnro, nnd Pron work ; lot respectabls moo, honest men, and es- pects for the Future, rechlly roligions men, go to the polla and ban- Bpectal Correavondence of The Chicado Tridune, oh liom“pluns‘- ‘:l t{ust and powor thflu who Coppry, 1il., Jan, 10.—As most of the reader aro stealing thoir substance and corrupting, ayo oven polsouln? the very lifo blood of Lhe city; EL:}Z;{;‘,‘: Y";,ff nl‘:.lr % th:] 14839 AR 0rg o lot ue alt, my frionds, do our wholo duty as citi- 0 Iilinols s populary aupposed to zous sud' asmon, over acting npon_ the Divine | b6 somewlora in Bousbern Iilinols, among thy maxima that * Righteonuness exalteth o nation,'’ | hills of Ibwer Egypt. The most favorsd soction tuat ** Godliness is profitable for all thinga.” and | by naturs is doubtloss tho ridgo of hills extond. with God's blessiug Ohicago, 8s in tho past go ln " the Iusura, shall faf outetiio 1n woslth, popaln: | [08‘8crass thoStato from oast to wost, and i tloo, and power all tho auticipations of hor most | 1ok touched by tuo Illinols Contes! Kallway ¢ enthiualastlo aad vangutue citizens. fow milca south of Carbondale, fu Jackson Coune " 54, 'Thil au actiquo aud venorable appoearauce, it was not | filled up, aud tho Comnion Couancil establishied & | Btowart would do it for a poor, forlorn woman | thought we could sce future profit in tho busl- —_— ty, and oxtondiog a dozen milos or more g S,‘ Tn’)}h}fi';nd?;;|‘i§;;cq)fl’,': f:,li'a%lfil,yb::l:.l:fi';%‘g nonulue'xlod the thing for the Cook County Court- | grade from 3to § or 8 foet sbovo ths natural | incalico, Thoro was nota Y uess and wo worked on, nover heeding discouz- GEOLOGCY, Axvma, in Unfon County. A few plonoors iy of tham pratends to give much of how Chioago | Houso tn 1853 or '3,—Idid uot have ‘timo in | lovel of thosoil, Thls required tho streols’ to RAILWAY sgomouts for & momont. Tho hiard timen of 1357- LECTUNE DY TUOF, W. D, GUNSING, trult-growing fonod their way to Cobden abonl Appeared to the visitor in tha * earlior times" [ this, ne m somo othor casos, to look up tho | bo filled up, and for & year or two Chicago ivad | entorlng theclty from any direction fo 1848, | 8) brought the Democratio Press and Tus Trtn- Prof, Witllam D, Gunning yesterday evening | tho year 1850, and bogan iu a emall way a busl dolivercd at the Third Usitarian Church, corner | ness whioh has alroady bocome enormous, and of Monroo and Laflin strcets, the third lecture | in timo bida fair to assumo proportipns not oven of his gerlos on geology. Followlng is an ab. | dreamed of by tho piosioors, i stract ‘The days when fortunos could bs made ia ¢ Bomo ono hea sald that in thae ventibule of the | fow years by engaging in fruit-growiog fu Il = Temple of Knowledge thero site a velled sphinx | nois is past, aod the business now offara Jittlalt putting a question tb every ono who would enter. | 8ny batter inducements for investment than or. And they ssy that this quostion no man can sn. | dinary agriculturo, Competition has aa roduced ! exact date, Our wise men of that ancient | mostly on jack-screws, for the buildings had to ‘ 3 - | unz togocher and Dr, Ray, J. Modill, Joun L. L R pariod, " afior no dohboration, dotorimiuod £ | bo ralsed 28 well #a tho sirocts. - Uuti all tho | ho ke et oo et eleant o s | Boripps and myself. bocame ‘oqual parimers, Your spoaker, s ubove statod, firat arrived in | use a rock found at Lockport, N, Y.—n | sidowalks wero rafnod to grado people had to go cago, now iho Northwostern, and in 1850, | with Ir. Cowlus as busiucas manager, Dr, Ray Chicago early in tho moruiug of the secoud Hab- blutsb-colored limestono. Fortuaate it waa that [ up and down steirs from four Lo balf a dozen | throngh the porsonal indorssmont of ex-Mayor | od Mr scrlfpu have coased from thelr Iabors, bath in October, 1846, now of courae nearly | ofticial plundering Lad not thon, as now, beon | staps two or threo timos in passing a singlo | B, W, Haymond and Capt. John B. Taruor, mon | bnt not ¢ill thoy bad dono most effectiva’ and thirty yoara nxo.' Wo landed from tho steamer Xeducelfloluclenm. or thoontiro connty would | blovk, A DBuflalo paper got o & mote | o whom Chicago i grestly indobted, | valuablo work iu tho devalopmont and progross Orogon, Capt. Cotton, near tho foot of Wabash | bave been furever swamped in tho debt con- | on us to the offcct that one | it reachiod Elgin, 40 milos wesiward, Ho cboaply of Chicago, Mr, Scripps was Postmastar avenue, and, with othors, vallse in hand, trudg- | tracted for tho money to build 4. This was re- [ of hor citizens roing along tho | and honestly waa It built, aud from the time it | durlng Mr, Lincoln’s first Admislstration, Butn »d throogh tho sand to'the Ameriean Tompor- | garded as tho chenpest and best rock thay could | stroet was soen torun up and down cvery pair | was finished to Elgin, 0} wiles, 8o largs and | hoand Dr. Nay wore ablo and very cultivated anco House, then situated on the northwess car- | Lo bad for buildiug,—for such structures,—sud ( of collar stairs e could flod, A friond, asking | Incrative waa its business that it pald large divi- | gantlomon, nad the memory of them sbould have nor of Wabash avenuo and Lake stroot, Soon | Was tho aecond really progressivo stop in tho | aftor his eanity, was told that tho walkist wad | dends, and domonstrnted that Iliinols rallways | & hikh place in the ostoom and gratitude of aitor broakfset & tall young man, mmade appa- | bulldiug of the city. all right, but ‘that bo had beon {n Chicsgoa § gould bo mado profitable inveatmonts, It bLp- | thoir follow oltizons, Mr. Medill, Alr, Cowlos, reutly taller by o cloth cloak in which his_gauut Durlug all this time it is remarkable that no | woek, and, in traveliug our utroets, bad got 80 | came {n fuct the parent of tho vast raltwny sys- | and myself atill staud by tho old Taipuse, with ona had thought of the limcstons quarries | accustomod to going up and dowa stairs that ho | tem of tho West, It iwas marvelons how rapldly | Wbat eflicioncy aud success the roading public swor althongh overy man must attompt it. To- | the pricoof fruit and vegetablea that nothing bat 5 the moat oaroful managoment on the part of thy day tho sphinx fs sittiog at tho throshold of | yoRiciivuriee randoro hia Iabors mon':umunar- Dguro secmed in danger of losing itaclf, and ovory aclence aud presaing horquoation as uever | ative than any other branch of farming. The whioan Toserved, mnue%', maoners wero the very | shrough which the canal had been cut for sev- | got tho upringhals and could aot holp it. railways woro projectod in all diecotions, and | can best judge., I ehould like to bavo an hour | befors. Hor question {s this, * Huns, eartbs, | supply of mfu and early vogotabloa Ktor the tevorso of what wo had oxpocted to | oral milas this side of Lockport. 'The reazon TUE COUIT-IIOUSE BQUARK how rapldly thoy wers built. Q to pay a pasaing tributo to tho men who gave plants, animals, man—howdid theycoms tobs? * | Chicago market was formerly nearly all derivel Bod st tho West, called on the | probably was that somo of the strata | should not be furgoticn, On tho northwest cor- |~ Tha Michigan Southern Rallway waa the firat CHARACTEB 7O CUICAGO In early times, maa attemptad Lo answer only | from thia region, but now more southern point slorgy of our party nnd favited ono of thom to | Wore not well eryntallized and rolted read- | nce of It stood il long aftor 1843 tho Jail, built | preat Lastern line to roach this city, ahichit | in 1848, and tho yoars that followed. To roach and tho rest of us to attond seivicoin | ily: but tons of thonsands of corda | *of Togs flrmiy bolted togother,™ as tho acconnt | did on tho 20th of Februsry, 1852, The Michi- | Thomas Richmond—atil with us—to Joun B. fio"Bacona Prosbytorinn Churcb, That clonk | of itthat showad no signs of decay isy scat- |Ting 12, It waa not halt Iargo ouough ta Lold the | can Cobtral was opened May 20 of tho ssmo yoar., | Chapin, Cusrlos Walker and Capt. Dristol, would now bo well filied by Its owner, tho Itey. | tored aloog thie oanal, 1u 1852 or 1853 some one, | Aldermon that, it stauding now, ought to bo in | ‘Fhess gavo a vory grest impulso to tho growth | hoavy doalors on Water streot, to Judgo Giles Dr. Patlorson, who Las grown physically as well | if I mistaka not ex-Mayor Shorman, built & store | it, not to speak of tho Whisky-Rivg, and certain- | and prosperity of tho city, - Thess wero timoa | Hpriog, Judgs George _Msnolores, B, Lisle [ntollectually and morally with " tho growth of | on Randolph mtroot,—lt was altorwards romovad | 1y 1t was uot strong enough to Leep them thore, | whon the coming of groat enterprisea scomod to | Swits, Willam I, Brown, George W. tho city to whoso mozal welfate ho lins o largoly | to Claik streot opposita the Court House.—fac. | The Court-Ilouse rlood on the northoast cornar | All tho sir, snd tho men wero found who wora | Mooker, ~ Davolel Moflroy, = James _ IL zontributod. Of course wo all wont to what by | ug it with thia stone. Livorybody waa delightod | of tho Squaro,—a two-story bullding of brick, I | ready to grasp and execute thom. The nocossity | Coliins, and otbora of tha’ Dench snd Dar; rourteay, &8 wo thought, was called n churck. | With its boautiful color. It was found to become | think, with offices in_ tlo lowor story, Thoy | of bnding the Homth and the North togetler by | to Dra. Naxwoll, Egan and Brainard ; to Editora [t was & ona-story bailoon shanty-like struc- | Yory bard when sossoued, and propounced a | stood there til 1853, when thov were tora down | jron bands had been broached and talked of in | Dick Wilson, T. A. 8towait, Jobn E. Wheeler, furo that Lad beon patched out atonpend to | marbls by Prosident Mitencock, of Amberat Col- | o givo place to tho now Lulldiog cowpleted in | Congrens and elsowhera in 1648, and & fow sa- | and Jsmos Ir. Dallantyuo, aa wall a8 to Hay & moot tbe wanta of tho iucrensing congrogation. | loge. It'vory soon cano {nto general use. In | that year, I saidwo had no gaclons men had snpgestod tho granting of al- | Seripps; to the Rov. Dr, Tuckor, Parsoy Dare 1t etood on Randolph strcet, south side, a little | Decomber, 1853,tho Illinois Stono nnd Limo Com- aAy tornato scctionn of the publio Iauda to aid in the | low, and portaps soveral others of the clorgr. I tast of Clark, It cortainly gavo no promiso of | fany, was formad, with A.d, Bhermau, now of | when I firat came to tho city, Tt was fizat turnod | coustructlon of tho road as tho only moans by | should like to uponk of Msvors T, O. Sherman, tho antiquo but splendid” church that before | Waukogan, s its oficiont managor, ‘The next [ on and tho Sown lighted in Sopteuber, 1830, | which 1t could bo built. It had worked sdmira~ | James Curtis, J. L. Woodivorth, and ‘Thomas ine firo stood on tho corner of Washington | summer llarry Newhall bullt two vory | ‘Till then we Liad to grope on {n tho dark, or uso | bly fu the case of tho Iliinois & Michigan Canal, | Dyer, all of whom bave boon rellaved of all wud Wabash avenue, or that still moro elaborate | Ano dwolliogs™ of it on Michigan ave- | jantorus. Not till 1853 or '64 did tho pipos roach | and 1t was agroed that the importance of tho { oarthly cares, Many of our oldest citizons atill and costly building, tho Hov. Dr. Gibson’s | Duo bolwoen _ Adams aud ~Jackson | my honso, No. 203 Michigan avonus. Lut the | work would' justify s similar graut in sid of a | livger smong us, ~Of thess, Col Gurdon 8. thureh, at the comuer of Michigan avonno and | strocts, and M. D, Gilman follow- | ;more important oloment areat through line from tho Lakes to tha | ubbard tirat cawmo to Chicago o 1818,—tho I'wentieth streot, od with snothor pext to Nowhall, and after that WATER, Gult of Moxico, With the choractoristio | yonr Lllinols bocamo a Btato, 8till balo and That aftornoon aod Yonday morning afforded | its uso boecame general, Itis concadod tobe | and its mupply to thocitv, have a enrlous history, | forecast and enorgy of hor cltizens’ Chicago fur- | bappy, may ho loug bloss Chicago with his amplo timo to seo the city. Tho residence por- | ouo of tho bost and most beautiful building ma- | In 1348 Luke, and Wator, ond porhaps Randolph | nished the man who comblucd all interests aud | proscuce. Of our ox-Mayora provious to 1800, tion of it was mainly betweon Itandolph and | terials 1 the world, Choaply quarried and | utroots, snd tho cross stroots botwoon tbem omst | furnished the friends of the mossura 1o Con- | Willinw B. Ogdeu, tho firat, Bucknor 8, Morris, Madison strects, and thoro wero some soattored | oasily accossible by wator, Chicago owes muchof | of th river, woro supplied from loxs. Jamos | gross the meaus to oarry it. That man was | O. W. Raymond, Walter 8. Gurace, Charlos M. houeos as far south ag Van Buxon, ou the South | hor prestigo and prospority to thece Athens mar- | H, Woodworth ran & grist-will on thu north sido | John 8, Wright, who, a3 aboye statod, was one | Gray, leaso L. Milliken, Lovi D. Boone, Eide, four or fivo blocks north of tho river on | ble quarrivs. From It also Cicago constructs | of Lake streat noar tho lake, tha ouginafor | of the most far-seping sud valuable citizens | John'Wentworth snd John O. Uaines ato stilt tho North Side, with scattering rosidoucos about | the beat sidewsika in tho world, for, reating ou | which also pumped tho water iuto # woodan cis- | Chicago ever liad, Tho whirl and oxcitement in hvinf. Of tho clorgy we have sull the Rev. Dr, a4 far on tbe Wast Bide. ‘Thero wore perhapa | 80 inner and outer wall, thoy ato unaffeatod by | tern that suppliod tho logs. \Whouover tho Iake | which he lived clouaed his mind towards tho | R. V. Patiorson, * whoso praiso,” liko oua of hiatf-a-dozen or moto wooden warehouses aloug | frost, and aro alwayn smaoth and plossant to tho | was rough tho water was oxcessivoly muddy; | closo of Lia lifo; butif any ono among our earllor | ald, “1ainall tho churchoa,” Of our leading the rivor on Water straot. ‘Tho fow atores that | pedestrian, Beforo, aud aspccially sinco tho fire, | Lut o this wyself sud family bnd no porsonsi | citizons deseryes s monument to his memory | citlzous we bave atill a host, almost too pumer- pretended to bo wholoaalo woro on Wator stract, | Clhicago has drawn upon tho beautiful sandstono | jniorost, for we * Hved outsido of the | chatwman fa John 8. Wright, 1had the same | ous to moution. The names of Joroms Baochor, aud tho rotail trado was oxciusivoly done on ( quatrics of Obio; tho rad Bsudstone of Counce- | wator mupply. Waila wore 1 most essos | oftice with him o 1849, and borca know porson- | Gon. Webater, Timothy and Waltor Wright, 8. Lk streot. Stores and dwelliogs wore, with | ticut aud of ‘Lake Buporior; she Lat chosp oc- | tabooed, ~ for tho waler wau bad, |olly of what I 'speak. At his own | B.Cobb, Omidgton Lunt. Philo Carpenter, Frod- fow oxcoptions, built fu the cosn to the maxblln doposits and llllu Tanite | aud wo, In common with porhsps & | exponse he printed {housands of cir- | oriok and Noldon Tuttle, Peter L. Yoo, C. N. DBALLOON FASHION. of Vermont, Mnssachusetts, and {uno- | majority of our follow-citizons were forced to { cufars stating briefly, but with aufticient fullness, | Holdon, Charles L. aud Jobwn Wilaon, I, If. To meme of my bhearers this_stylo of building | sots, 150 milod west of t‘h?lhwl ot Llfl]m Buperi- | buy our water by thio ticket or tho barrel from | the argamonts fn favor of building the road, its | Haddock, E.D. Taylor, Judgo J. D, Caton, J, may alicady bo mystorions, DPosta woro placed | or, sud it 18 now conceda ‘"“u{‘gl city 1o the | water-carts, ‘Thia wo did for six yoars, aud It | effect upan the commorea and tha social and po- | Y. Scammon, Grant Goodrich, E. B, and Mancel in tbo ground nt'tuo cornors, sud at propor | world Lias a bettor vanoty of buildlug material | was not till tho early part of 1854 thiat water was | litical welfara of the Union; that in granting | Taloots, Manlon D, Ogdon, ¥. I, Sheldon, Matt distancea between thom blocks wero laid down | Of 18 makiog & moro judicious and liboral uso | supplied to the housos from thio now works upon | the lands the Goveroment would loso nothing, | Laflin, Jsmes L Repso, 0. H, McCormick and aingly or in cob-Liouse fashion. On theso foun- [ Of it " tho North Side. _But our troublos wore by no | as the alternats soctions wouldat once commaad | brothers, P, W. Gates, A, Piorce, T. B. Cartor, datiobs timbers wero laxl, aud to those viere OUT OF TOWN, COILNEDR MADISON AND STATE, means endod, Tho wator waa pumpod from tha | double the price of both, To this a petition tv | Gen. L.'L. Brown, Poter Page, William Locko, spiked, standing ou ond, 8xt scamfing. Un UO‘"KX‘I’*‘C“‘ to 48, "“_“ '““’3“1#9"““ ¢ | lako sliorstlio same ns In tho old works sud hence, | Congress to make the grant wes attached. At | Bucknor 8, Maruis, Oapt. Bates, aud many othors, theso sheaih-boards woro' nuiled, and weather- | tho City Hotal, corner of Stato sud Lako stroots, | iy torws, it wan stili oxcossivoly muady, Iu the | that timo such mall matter wegk froe to Post- | will at once recur to our alder citizena, toards ou the outkido of thom aud lath and | 1wss admittad Lo » most excollont hotmo, that | wpring aud early summor it was imposeible to | moators, and with a small circulsr asking them | Bome of theme Raentlemon wero not quite so plastor innido, with tho roof, comploted the | of the late Rav. Lra Af, Wood, coroer of Madison | koop the young fish aut of the rosorvolr, and it | to interest thomsolves fn gettiug sigooru to tho | full of purs when thoy cams lers as now. dwelliog or storo, This cheap, but for a new | aud State, whore Duck & Rayuor'adrug-sture | way no uncommon thing to flud the unwelcome | petitions, or ta put them iu_the handa of thoso | Btandimng 1m the patlor of the Morchanta® Bavings, towu_oxcellent, modo of buildin, it I claimed, | now is. Thia was cousidered far soull, avd as | fry gporting in ouo's wash-bowl, or doad and | who would, Mr. ‘Wright (giving employment to | Loan and Trust (lompany, fivo or six years ago, was first introducad, or, if you ploass, invonted, | the sidowalks woro not all goad, tho best that | whuck in the faucets, And bosidos they would | his olerk for weoks) seut two or thros of thom [.tatking withs the Premdant, Bol A, Smith, E. H, .in Chicago, and I boliovo tho clalm tobo true | could bo found was south on Doarbora to | find their way in the bot-watar resorvoir, whors | to every Poatmaater_botween tho lskesand tup | Haddock, Dr. Foster, and porhaps two of Qf coureo the firo mado sad havoo with thom at Madison, whero & very Iargo sign oun B | thoy would got stewod up Into s very nausoous | Gulf of Mexico, In tha early part of tho | thres others, in camo Mr, Cobb, smillng titmow ; but Lho Juss was comparatively small, and | paint-shop, — whore xlulllu Baok of Com- | jish chowdor. ‘Tho wator atauch times wasnot | scesion of 181950 thesy patitions began to | snd robbing bis haads in the groatest gleo. they wero quickly and cheaply rebuilt. True, | merco nmow is an A iroctly opposjte Tz | only tho horror of aft good Lousewives, but it | pour into Congress by the thousands, and | *Woell, what makes you 8o hsppy #* ssid ono. Clicago was ridiculed aa o slab city ; Lut, if not | TRivuNg office, yomindod mo G0 turn asstward. | was fustly thought to bo very unbealthy, | utill all through the 49 stmmer they kept com- | O," enid Cobb, * this is the 1at day of Juno, pleasant, to bearridiculo breaks 10 bones. Whon [ Tho sldowalia, whero auch lusarics wero ine | And ° worse than all this~ whils at | ing. Members from all sactionnstood aghast at | the anoiversary of my arrival in Chicago In our merchants and capitalivta liad grown rich | dulged lo, lay in most cases unou the tichprairle | ordinary timen thore Is a alight onrrent on tha | this doluge of public opinion that seemod about | 183 “Yos," sald Haddock, “and the frst cnough to baild permancot Luildinge, of conrso | soll, for the atniug ploces of scantling to which | Juko aboro south, and the water, thouzh often | to overwhelm them, unicss hey at once passed | time I saw yoit, Cabb, you wera bossing & lot of they did st. 'Lhen thera wora not as many bricks | the plauks wero origloslly spiked, would savn | muday and somotimen fishy, was comparatively | a law making a grant of landa to the Statea to | Hoosiors westherboarding » shauty-tavern for 1nid in walis in the wholo city aa thoro are now { sluk down into tho mad after rain, nud then as | good, whon tho wind blaw alrongly from the | open arailway from Chleago to the” Guif of | Jim Kinzl 4 Wall," Cobb rotorted lu the beat in einglo blocks auywlors nosc tho businoss- M\Bh"llkfid the Freon and Wlfik slimo would | youwn, ofton for several days tho curront was Woxico. Our Henators, Douglas aud Bhields, | of bumor, *you nesda’t pus on sny alrs, for the contra of tho city. Chicago need not sbrink fi}fl “flm fll"ofif ‘klb Emsh'md‘i o great benetlt | changod, and tho water from the rivor, made | and Represontatives, Wentworthand others, saw | firat timo I saw you, you wera shingling an oug- {from comparing thom with thoso in any other fl rotaildra of 1;1 0g. "“h?n Bizust €a0 Lo Ut~ | from the sewago mized with it into an abotnln- their opportunity, and tho bill was passed on the | bouse,” Jokes and oearly reminlsconces =ity upou the coutinont. :“l"'fl‘l aifn it 1 ““.““' thi ‘;‘““'- 800 in- | ably filthy soup, was pampod up sud distributed { 20th day of Hoptomber, 1830, On the 10th of | wers thon in order. It travs- Aly_tirst objectivo point in Northorn llinols ‘r“’"u"l L5 "“ P‘";"“ ““‘fi”w n {bo moruiug, | through the pipea alike to the poorest stroet | Fobroary, 1861, tho Illinols Logislature chiartor | pired that our molid President of the was Baiavis, on Lox River, 40 wiles diataut, h‘l" i “l‘: oug Lefore Joa F"’“i‘:‘m"l' boot- | gamiu'and to tho naboba of the city, Aind you, | od tho Company, and its construction was placod | Houth Bido Horto Railway foft Alontnelior, Vs., wloro somo Orange County (N, Y,) frionds ro- ‘d" l"ll!(‘fl“-—cfllllflybomfl o wade b | tho Bummit lovol of the canal had not then Deon | in the hands of Col. R. 1t Msson, I neod not | with 840 fn his pooket, but by some mishap nded. As Funk & Walker's stages did not I"“SI nh’l‘{l“fu'l hink 8 dug down and tho Iake wator beon turnod south. | ndd that a botter selection could not poveibly | when Lo roachiod Buffalo he had but €0 lafs. ruu through the towa oxcopt on the road along 1 tl"l‘ b 'X_ t ““j arch waa the montl, | 1'he Chicago Hiver was the source of alltho | have boen made, ‘This was oxactly the fare on the schooner to bo river, (Lo problewm was how to kot thier. E'“x '""LY “!"K srtived per atoamer Niagara | most detostably flthy emelis that the Permit tme to say hore, by way of parentheais, | Chicago, but the Captain told him ho mighy buy Lbo utrects woro full of farmory' tonms, and in { tho "&“!“hl”l‘" ous, Wf commouced hfl‘lfl"k"“L" broezes of hoeaven * can possibly float | that omnibuses and horse-cars wero introduced | somo provisions sod it Lo would make no alf au bour's tour anong them wo found » man | vk ou : ke ':wa"“nu'i“nf"n Adams and Juck- | 4o disgneted olfactorics, Davis' flltara had | uearly ton yoars aftor this time, Tho City Rail- | trouble and ulasp on deck tus boy could cowe to who, for a small sum, agrecd to land us thera “"“‘” ';’“ ;'m“ gt \l“ et ot tho modest | oy activosalo, and tiioso of us who had cisterna | way Company was chartored Feb, 14, 1850. Tar | Coicago for what was left. Cobh gob somo Monday neniu'f. 1t was neatly uoon before wa {f" l"‘ of ) -1‘ b Jou;lull'! l“h May followlog I | hatook ouraclves to raly-wator—when flterad, | don the remark, that whatever Lonor atiachesto | shoetiug which soma lad fellow-passengers got atarted, aud sa two of wy travolmg compau- “"1“ i ! ‘que el 40 foet on | about the best wator ane can posuibly got. As | driving tho firet spika boiongs to your spoakor. | sawgd up for Lim, sud ho fifled It with slisvings, .ous lived Sor 4 miles west of Fox Rivor, and chigan o .o 00 “"“‘"C‘"fi B0 feot | Chicago, witl all het onterpiise, did not attampt | It was uone on Hiate, coruor of Mandolpki. ‘The | and'this made bis bod on dock. Ha got a nam, were bound (o got bowo to their wives tat | touth of tho coruer of Nau Duren etroot, | o wtap' tho south wind from blowing. aud ber | rosd reachod Twollth strost on the25th of April, | had 1t borlod, bought some bread. and, thuy aight, thoey soon bogan to use nll their arts to | for #1,200, The Judgo Lad bought it at tho 1H59,—ouly seventean yoarn ago. Now the wt?alu mLqupml and pmvm?onad. uuunlunlliurcl;lnly;a. . ilthy water had Locoind unsalablo, it was yre & W cansl eales In tho spring of 1518 for £800, on A ' AXe ot i :l.p;: m::d":m:flw:'l:;d Afi;m;flt::w;x;&u :fi: canltitud, VIEs-an Dr l'.l;uun aftorwards ditost. ’;uud to run a tunnel under the lake to & potut | city is gridironad mith thom, and they are ossen- | ‘Chore was then no ecntrauce to the Chicago . miloa from tho shoro, whero tho water wne | tial to its business Iife, luvor, and tus vessel anol bridgo, they treated (o old farmer ?x;l ‘“u':h,::}?, l::’!drt‘llll'llé;’fl::'l:“‘“f d::vl""hh*}hum always pure—one of tha boldest and most valu- Lanould lixe to give gnn tho history of tuo | & long . way 'unl,l “::dhun:«!l“ amnlnll‘;l‘:; freely, nu agnin at Cotiage Hul, bls ‘:m‘-“ il whiat Lo ad. v, J‘ou ‘“l “'ihw able thouglta ever broached by s civil ouglucer, | Tosk Island, the Alton & Et. Louls, the Burling- | passcogers went ashore with the Captainina DBabcuck’s QGrove, and other places; ) zlnaut A ern e thi hta ug 1:['“ but our ablo fellow-citizon, Ii. 8. Cheslraugh, not | wn & Quincy, tho Pitisburg & Fort Wayne, aud aokluaw boat. A storm sprioging up, tho mate Lut kooth to eay, tho whisky, though it had a ?:u!ul Ieactoda, sud took thoded. (o '“l" dm only plauoed, but carried out tho great onter- | other roads, but time and space fosbid, For sev- | Iay off for throe dsys batween Michigan City marked effoct upan the um"mlu. must then, as attly Tromi et Tb wesin & 810 Blece lr.l‘\‘.\ h - Ema to & succorsful conclusion, Ureund wi oral yosrs succosding 1854, the leading mon of Wankogan. When the vessel returnsd, » wow, have been * crooked," for the more he got :’h‘- f{ru Sudof CourTss 16 HoW & l"," Sy I "5: roken Mareh 17, 18G4: it was completed Dev. | Chicago had to endure a great doal of sating and in passengor, who had roturaod for baggage, of 1t fusido of bis vost the slower ho stubborul, do’éumeh: ¥ shicient | g, 186y, Lug 1t wasnot till March 25, 1407, that tho | drinkiog, sa our railwsys were openod to cities in | was surprised ta tind Cobb etill aboard. ~ Uabd letormined “3. drive llxlu team ; but be sssurel Ta ke fall of 1819 T boughbt a small srood water was let {n and bogan to be pumped [nto | all directions: and for thiu sorvice, as forall | told him tho Captdin had gouo back on him, and ;‘lfultmo:eun“l‘;;‘g ‘mmh: :’:E' o'u&fi:& n:, llc:lnn‘:ll‘n‘ Totiga thny I fobni moVing mfim ob Wabasl oy :}m plpes Lo supply tho city. A few words as to | others, they showod & capacity sod willinguess, | would not let him go ashore without tha other st juum&y %o Br. Louts and v the Ohig | shue, sud. moved 1t ou 1y lut, - Ia. Ui mudodt 10 Way 1t was conatrucie In digging under [ 85 woll aa @ modesty, which has made | 83, sud what to do he did not kuow, The gens in thelanguage of imagioation. The Hindooau- | supply the market and talko the cream of prices, swer waa givon it, and Lhie Hobrow, but the sphinx | Artiflclal vegatablu-growing is_practiced even u' still roturns the challengs of hor questivming | far norib as Champaigo, and tho market gardso. gozo. What would alio say to a provisional an- | 018 aro at this dato boginnlog ¢o ship letsuce to swor like this 7 The Powor manifested thraugh | Chicago. Nature fs one, and its method in tho samo on | Tho old poach and apple orchards lo and eithor sido, organio and inorgavic. A eyclono | around Cobien aro in a dilapidatod conditlon, aweeps tho oconn, sonding twonty ships to tho | snd many of thom aro not worth having at oy bottom, Timo was when cyelones were laid to | Prico. ‘The number of well kept orchards ars tho chargo of tho Delty, who interposed to mur- | foiw; a failura to producs frait for aoverat years der babes. We have outgrown that mode of | fromone causo or anothor has had a discoursg: thought whon doallug with the roalm of inor- | ing offect, Youvg peach-orchards which hawi . gaofo Nature. But wefind tho analoguo of the | beon taken caro of aro lookiog well, aud » fex oyclono on tho organicside. The speaker do- | ol orchards which have not beon too soveroly - neribed the Tasmanian dovil, and asked whence Ermml algo pive promiso of s crop. With tht it oame, and how Lo would say to tha eplinx, | best of seasons the supply of peaches from thit * 1t cama a4 tho oyclona cumes, it ame au fncl- | rogion will not ba vary Inrgs. dont to the outworking of certain forces ?” Ny | The apple bas not recoived tho attention it do- moswor compocts with the roligions sontimont, | serves, but tho numbor of treow plantad are o Bat sentiment will pran for nothing, and it wo | croaslng, ‘Thore are but fow Into keoping varie grapple with this [l‘rflhlnm we musat look through | ties of apples, whilo the orchards conslat of tho cold white light which in in tho oye of | nearly evarstning. Tho Tod Astracan a» sclonce, noara to lead tho list for early summer, and Wint f Wo look out Into Nature and find a tendency | Bsp, Bon Davia, May of Mvers, aules Jane to run on forover in tho samo groove, to repoat | and Willow, Joud tha wintor list, T'he crop last forever tho parent 1o tho offepring. Whatover | Year was not large, and was of an inforfor quslis £ Nature has 8bo wlll keep {6 ss long as sho can, | t7: 2 Bho will put it at usury. Bhe coosorvos vico | ~The pear for meveral yoara has atiractedi with tho aamo fostering sa virtuc, Eighty years | large share of attention in this rogion, sud = ago thero nppearcd in o town on the Uppar Hud- | bundrods of thonsaods of troes hava bees son & woman-wail whoso name was Margarct, | planted, but in n majorily of cases thoy have re _ Other namo sho hud none. Paronta sho | pald only in disapointinont. Loaf-blight and Lad pover | known. _Horsolf the child |-Toot-rot have taken m great number, to which of. slo, 7 ber oftspring were tho | add the worthless varistios. and bat faw profi E < chlldren ~ of aln, Children, grand- | able troos are loft, Most prominent among the obildren, great-grandchildren, the frult of thay | pear orchards is Pearmont, ownod by Fuller & woman's womb bes numbered threa buudred! | Esrle. Thero wero originally about fs,oflo tross K ‘Turee hunired what? One hundred have beon | planted, which number has boen raduced o stiangled ou tho gallows or Loused ju peniten. | nbout 15,000 by the causes above montioned. | tiaries. Othors hiavo awelled the tido of misery | Aviong tho beat paying standard traes au k id asylums for the insano and {diotle, Others | Dartlott, Howell, Lamrence. Bourro d'Anjon, bhiave lived and sickeuod_and porished in housoa | aod Sockol, The Ilomlsh Doauty, ono of the of shamo. Heo how Naturs put Margarot st | favorito pears in Northorn Illoois, loscs itf § Intorest. Boo Low sla broeds sin, leaves, and {u of littlo valus, Bo, whatevar Nature gata eho putsit at interost, Dwarf poara aro rogaided aan falluro, althous) f It she gota a sharper claw sho says, “*Goto: I | thore are a fow varietion which sre piol put you- at iotorest, Get ma othor claws liko | itablo, among which ars Duchess d'Angoloume, - unto yoursolt.” How does she got hior capltal | sud Ball Lucrotive, although tuo Iater ia very for now gaina? aubjoct to leaf-blight, As s dwarf,Jthe Lawront - Tho speaker describod another tendency to | is aleo a failure, owing to its slow growth © get out of tho rut, and to make the | Liouise Boono do Jersoy doss not stand sultirs offapring difer from the parent. Iia | tion, Tho Viear of Winxfleld, which bas peen sliowed how man takes advantage of | largoly disseminatod througbout tho West o this tendency,” and becomes n co-croator. | Winter paar, blights badly, but In no loes, as the F; Whatever is bestid man-mado, There wasno | fruit when producod is “worthloss. 1t hss beea gardon till man mada it. Thare will bo no Eden | found thatorchards sown to clover ara less sub- till man crentes {6, Trom a wild apple ho bas [ Jeot to blight than tbose which are cultivated. croatod tho Gravenstein; froma wfly geasa tue | Pruning is alao tabood among the bost fruit wes. wheat, Ile projects his mind into Nature, and Amoug thocherrian tha early Msy or Richmond bocomes a creator. Now, tno decpest question | tales precedenco; a fow swaot varieties, such sl man aver pus 1o the thiuga and the lives about | Gov. Ward, Elton, and Riene Hortooss wt blm ta this: * 15 there evidenco that s power | planted, but amouut to but little, p aoalagous to tho miud. a power which man pro- | I wasiuformod that thors are moro sores of *feots into Naturs, In sotlng or has scted on the | Btrawborries for aoxt year's fruitlog than evet globo?" It Is ourboou to grapple with the | before, and that tho planta are 10 Ano condition. . problom which evor engayed thobraing | Lhe Wilaon yet hests the list, slthongh tht of men, Wo have put the question. | Charles Downing s woll spokon of by thoso whi We .ure to hoed the snswor. Tho | have triod it, world " Is ‘not blg enough for all Among the rocontly introduced raspberrien lives born {nto it. Mouths are many, morsels | the Turuor iy taking & front rank, aud bids (ar fow. The speaker deucribed the nrm{lg[oul fo- | to be asuccess, Itianrod borry, larwe, swee | cuadity of Naturs, and tle battle for Life which | aud doliclous, and wili carry well from Goblts fallows, ~*The whola oreatlon groanoth and | to Chicago, y travatleth In pain.” What will come of such Thero aro large quantitios of blackborritt | travail 7 Pawn is placod overmore at the porials | grown in tho v:cmuly of Cobden, the principsl of birth, What If wo flud in this war of oach | varioly bolug tha Kitlatinny, nothing as yet bar ¢ againat all the birth-throos of new speclea? iug beon found to superseds it, i ‘I'ho speakor abowed that in the North of Fu- A diligent inquiry smoug tha fruit men sho¥t | .I-udJrnuno. hares, mnd rabbits had boon { thom lo Le possessed of s apirit of Lopefuluest changed within recent yonra through tho strug. | Yor the future. I attended a weetiog, gaticn 07 n‘l,a for life, Aarcoy had shiown that, In parts of | for tha purpose of potitioning the fll&mh Cenr uth Amerios, triboa of mun Lave become al- | tral fora faster fruitetrain, aud it that corporw | most paobiydermatous through the etruggle far | tion desiros to foster fruit-growing in Southers life against mosqultoos. - 1liaals, the prayer of tho petitionors will cer Horo in s real oreative force. Darwin has | tainly bo granted. callod It ** Natural Bslection.” It s annlogous Bo'far tha ucason lins boon most favorable for 10 that power which man eniploys in ¥ Belectfon.” | & larga crop of fruit this year. Somo hittle fess E tho city a Lard bluo clay Is roached ot tha depth | thom distinguishind a1l over the eountry. | tleman lout bim the €3, and Gobb glad) R e e T o R T L o s ” g 61 0! m 8 A0 o metlod, 4 - Homioward sk o bl 1y s lbew, St iouieb st Seuives avace, Sovor | DL ey ook, Laporimouis proved” hat thie | On'ho 0ty of ey, 1563, tumGontral and Usios | ot “Thougls b Law nolbing of i sare | st of farel Al whioh: Natura Shoous o | ins bean daso. o o+ Yot MY ki T ..iuIIHlH, A ilioi||'oF Jeckiuin . alraat, whire s Clatdnce Liouse iard, compact clay extoudsd under the | Pacitio Bmilways joluod rsils st Promontory | penter's trads, hia sccepted a situation to bo riows. Tho vital forces riso in arms against —_————— r i reot, Iake. At the foot of Chicag: ue, wl 3 8 that it took us nesrly a weols t0 coma from New | now fa. Harry Newball livod on tho block north. | wus proposed to uink tho nhl:::o .::5, Bfl “b‘:x'l-u u‘rt l‘)fc 'fif; 235'?132.'{’.‘.’"71'55 l.’\‘-org Yl‘?nex;.k.:?g: od ;‘:l:n'ngwf;:r "li.‘f,fl'i." .:t"c‘g %‘ lllsd-unf!'; 2"2‘1 cu Cbicago. Our ’:rl{) :‘1’:: ‘l:u;lg.la fi‘ol;mler flnh:?l L::;‘;E:‘Ul:“y‘b:‘:::r o ‘ll‘l‘:]’mlfla"r}:fi‘“‘“ «“ucknu‘d_ lind lul‘lm pansed through. To do | tho incidental romark that we who live with | and soon psid his friend. From that & H sl alog -] i i b‘; xhe‘fs{fl»‘-r‘é{nfln (.lmnca e Bn!wl( o b; Where Hived an Alsican Il sid Lrotios nome, !lmr':(,‘cn'}hggincv indorg wore procured, O feot | them, and enjoy the first fruits of their anter- | to thue bio has seldom borrowed any mousy, M the bombardment, aud the sctious wit! A Lady Ilugged Ly a IBears eponaive o tha actions withont, must oby Tho Liverpool Posf says thst compennation fof . B e s Loty duebiody, beiug hugged by a Lolar bear in Limo Stree : s o, which |8 common | Station was claited st the U T 2 : ) 1 | ge8 by which they wero to Lo | prie, do not sufticieutly honor the men who | Haddock aldo came to Chicago, 1 thiuk, al r Iako beachos, 1t Rt the uar ol Sl lo .‘,l:," ",,'f,"_‘fi'“,fi{“'{;‘d'fi‘,‘fi;{;,?fi‘ "br.,‘:.;. ‘:;Z Wik lhue:: :;;;v‘,]: ;. '.m|‘)?;l:1:“"::hl,:;°‘|'fi'°".": “‘“fi"':}lm #0 that thoy | bridge our great rivera and bind overy saction of | swall grocer, and now theao g:ufi‘:‘xuunhll:o'nrmf n::l‘: m;mpllub—k( or boetle, l}fl:l;('!cl‘fl':l; uxg ':,I.l; 3;,.',,',‘,'.‘3, l}xoull.:;umn‘z n'}"{fi';'fi:ff’.ffl,g]:':‘ O Ly ML Ao | Ml i .3 cou! y $hrough the wand. Thoso | tha Unlontogethor in bsndaat iron” sud ntee!, | bered among our milllonsires, Youog men, the | Leetls Is & mouside epocies. How oamo it by | brace y..,..flm Montgomery, whio was Whiticg o'clock in | for s conaiderablo distance north, and heace wo | were lowered succesulully, an the materi rokeu, suc tho oveuing, after a good gupper, we started | wero not troutled with promenaders oo tho sve- | the luaido was taken ml{, till the lnrd-pfl.'?fl ’L’)?:’f:n.wlé’l:x ul:k'l\itngr.hlltnl’l?l::-:nv,‘l"tl'm‘mll’fi 2‘1‘2‘:’1&;’.‘.’.:',"1'.‘3.:‘1'5." '}ll:;; fifl“!&f&"’"?"i‘.m about 10 iuasurt of @ orous botwsen 8 cokch | nus, ‘4ho lakeslore was perbapas hundred foot | reachiod, Drick wasthen used. The water 2 | O. Duraut, Loland Btanford, and scores of | ali mere spsaniation ; thoy bave sttended olosoe sud a lumber Lox-wagon for Bt. Josoph, The | eust of the mtreet. Thore my brother Jobu and | miles (rom shore was 35 feet deop, Iy order o | ottiers that wmight be named. IHlistory shows | ly to logitimate busineay and invested any soou- road was uxceedingly sough, snd, with bangs | myself, 4 oatly lo the morujug, bathod in | start that eud of tho tunnel &n oolagonal crib | that it was uot only the men who boro muluting surplus in resl catate. Go yeo avd do aud bruisos all over our bodies, towards morn- | summer for two of three yoarv, \Wo had an ox- | was built of squaro thnber, framed and bolted | the victorious eagles of old Komo | hikewiso, and your success will bo o ura, ing several of uy left the coach and walked on, | cellent cow,—forwavirtually lived in tho countr) firmly togetber, with soveral water-tight come | throngh distaut matious, but who built roads lhvlu'g seon Chicago In 1848 w?m no rall vu‘r‘i eavily keeping alead. In this tramp I |'—that, contrary to all domeutla Pmpmty. wou! vartments sod a space in the coutro loft oven | to cannect them wilh the Kternal City, that re- | ways, no pavemanty, no sowers, scarcely an made Lbe acquaintagee of John 8, Wright, umnl somctimes wander away, and I ususlly found | sufficlently large to receivo the same kind of:| coived the highest honors. 'Thus 1 was thas apulogy for wnnr-wox'ks.—-n mera city of -‘-u- Lake Michigau? <Was the iaka ouoo ses. for & trafo with bor husbaod and brother. B¢ pvo bk l\ln-‘&lms wn tirough 800 faet aud | boar was confined in & barrel, which waa. plazed bring up a little orustacean akiu to the sbrimp. | on & hand-truck{ and is was nlloged that M The speaker madsm olialk dellueation of his | Montgomery, unconscions of tho proximity of Jointe lnlmlil{ which is known to scionoo undor | tho Lear, found horself in tha grasp of ity Pavh Sho nawo of kysis and should bs knowu tosll | aud squeozed #o sevorely | hor bresth wis lt?;:’:hru‘ l‘l‘;: l:fllutluh ll Illl nlmir:-“'.lllflj l’aodi quito taken away, As soon »a she could fl"d‘.“‘ & ses aolmal Pt S COE ontlcal | (he uncomforiable plight she waa in wasdif —— A and for many years afterward, ono of thae mos! bt out on the prain in tho viciulty of ‘Iwolfil. | cast-iron cylindsra an wero used av tho ehoro | great nationa! thoroughfaras wero built thou | tles, bullt on tho black praiis sok—tho lombiae | 1ob only thak. It tee mateors whan | Sovoral, sudatis wan rdiouod wilhout avtirig enterprising. and valuablo citizons Chicago over | I saw & wolf run by my Louns oa late s 1850, An | end, The erib wad nearly 100 foot i dianieter. | oasis ot ol 8 o e e black prairio doll o e | ey “ocye okt hio Inta these waters whon | from broken bones, but mob withont palal hind, o lucidgut 1 e purchaso o tho ot mill uslais | Sl ie Tunstako wos. 50 0F GO foot igh, 1t Was | How, and su. i that easa. sl Toale. polatsd | aimoss isesimibier T bog mbvn “wih chavac | bompasion, of Homss T ot wore ool A | phyulcal aud nervous scunations, waich bive ok cowpanion of Mysis in the deop waters of our | yof loft her, Bho woro at the f{ime & seslskil Iako is Triglopais, & species of codtish, This ,jnkel, snd the learned uuun:-:‘uumed thab - flah wua dollusated, and the Jooturer sbowed how | (ke conduct of the boar might ba reforable t033 1t had boen modified from the warine pattern. asaociation of idsss bsiween thie artiole of Na'l:“ this body of water chauged from ealt | dregs and the animal's former seal-hanting o3* fo frosh suddenly, overytbing in it must h ploita fa the Arctio regious. . The jury reb o, and tho pressnt population of the lake | & yerdics for tho plalntZ~damages £00 deal of valual tuo lonelluess of our sltuation. Tue rule of | bulltin the harbor, and during tm it was | towards Roms, so at least nine-tent] called and took me to church, ombraced many | spoculators at she causl eales was to buy all | towed ot 2 miles and anchored due east of Chi- | roads in sil this hr:ni mulnpofi& h;'o“c?.'::.s: 1rase hotgo "‘°;'Zfa'1u‘£'u§“v° ke opportunities to jutroduce s to Mayor Wood- | te property on_ whioh she mpeculator | cago avenne; then ecutiled, tho compartments | Do yoa know that tho title even now worn by | which I ventursd to makein 1854 T bad just worth aud otber leading citizons, {uvtngum- could inske the firat ypaymout, and then | were filled with stones, aud’ it was | the Popo of Roms bas come down to him from | written and poblished the flrat oxhaustlve sc- ceson fo courtesy to sirangors which I have | soll enough esch yoar tomako the othors. Judgo | imbodded firmly into the mud at tho | those old road-bwilders? Pontifer Meximus | count of our railway svatem, followed by a his- naver forgotien, L beg to impress it vpon you | Thowmea hed fullowed tluis pia, aad aavertised n, | bollom _of tho . lake. .. Ao cylinders wore | wimply moans the grostesh bridge-builder, hg | sory~iha Arst alsomrof tio ¢ty Ln the closis,