Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1876, Page 10

THE CHICAGO :TRIBUNE: SATURDAY,- FEBRUARY ' 19, « 1876-TWELVE - PAGES:' IS THERE A CONFLICT ? Discussion of the Question of Boience vs, Roligion from the Standpoint of Ono of the Laity. An Edifor Tries His Hand at Reconcils Iation, and Casually Demolishes Panthefsm and Athelsm, Tha following paoer was road before the Phil caophical Assosiation of Evanston Monday avens ing 1ast by Androw Bhuman, of thiscity. It s not often that oditors venture intosuch deep yrators ; but, whon they do, it is creditable that thoy succoed 0 wall in making & swim of it. ‘Tho paper, as read, wad ns followa: 8OIBNCES—NELIOION—THEOLOGY. Tho essay which follows does not lay claim {o the dignity of an argumentative discussion, being meroly an oxposition, in a genoral wag, of cortain imptossions or concepts formed in tho mind of ono who1s an_interested spectator rathor than an sctive delver in tho fielda of uclonea and philosophy. Thoso concopta may be thus clansiied : (1) All truths aro in harmo- ny with esch other; (2) Panthelsm is untonn- ble; (3) the progresa of acionco fs fatal to stheism ; (4) Science is not in conflict wish theology. Firast—There s nogood resson why thero should be any conflict between scicnce, properly 20 called, and voligion or theology. Tho fact tlhat such n conflict fa ocoaslonally obtruded upon the world of controveray {s duo to tha oversensitivenera or the misanprohensions of “religioniats or to the unwarrsutod uss that the - ® heresy," #peculativo philosophers make of acientific de- volopments, rather than totho disposition or the purposes of the sclentista thomsolves, who deal in facts, nod not in oplnions or croads, Champlons of formulated roligions and fofloxible church tensts have over, througbout the prog- resa of humnn research and philogophy, a8 in tho cago of Galiloo, attomptod to cmbarrass tho devotaes of scionce in thoir oforta to discover aud bring to light the hidden truthe and prioci- ples of Naturo, by ralsing againat thom, at almoat svory step, the alarm-cry of * lufidelity,” or *ntheism.” As if roliglon wero nob itmelf essontially the o1~ ponent of all truth, as an sggrogation of the cognitivo vomties of the divino cconomy, theso jealous **defonders of tho faith " seom to deprecate the discovory or promulgation of any now truth which the progroes of timo and invostigation may briog to tho surface, appar- ently fearful that it may accomplish tho ruin of the very tomplo of humab aauctity. Tho! uot otop to coosidor that all truths, having s comnion origin- in infallibility, must be in bar- mony with each other; that tlic Goa whom thiey yorahip is as inuch tho author of the truth do- veloped by scienco a8 of that daveloped by Beriptural revalation or that evolyed from man's innor conscionaness by his moral consclence op intollect ; aad that, therofore, inasmuch ta nd falss thoory or assumption ean withatand tho testa of time or roacon, religion, which cannot congistently roject a truth, has nothing to fear, but everything to hopo for, from whatevor light honest and intelligent eclentific research may throw upon tho mysteriea or the imperfactly-un- derstood laws of tho phyalcal uaiverse. 1t may bo aaserted, an o proposition eapabls of demonstration, that never yot bas an enrnost and porsistent stadent of tho acionces, who was ammated by a sincero love of scleuco for ita own sake, beon rendored either trretigious or atheistic by tho facta he haa loarncd or ths dis- caveries be has made of laws and principlea operatiog in this vast atomio cosmos Which the croativo Wonl called ioto being and ondowed with its wondrous_cspabilitics and its iofivito forms of life and phonomona; and, furthor« more, it is enay Lo conceive how tho discovery sud etudy of theso sublimo capalulities and forms, and tho marvelous forcos with which thoy wro iontinct, conld dispel from tho skeptical mind all doubt in roforenco to fundamental thoological truth, and inspiro and etrengthen in tue besitating soul tho spizit of raligions adora- ian, ‘Lhe mission of science is to undoratand tho works of God, whilo the mission of theology is to understand Iiis character, and that of roligton to updarstand aad do Ilis wiil. Thore should bo no conflict botween the throe, thoy being es- mentially cognato in spirit, and thoy sliould bo harmonious sud co-uporative in their pursuit of & common ond, whicli is kuowledge and truth; neither wonld thioy ever coma into conflict, prob- ®bly, but for thoso who, mistaking mero dogms- tism forreligion, rush to the cauclusion, whonever 1tie revelations of scioncoe clash with their precon- veived_notions or prejudices, which probably wers oducated nto them at & time when neither scionce 1107 roligion way =8 woll understood as they are now, that tho wew fact or priociple muit neconssrily bo falsa or horetical. In this nge of activity of thought, investigation, and development, ‘it 15 advisablo for even tho wiscst and best of mem to bo ‘open to conviction" on almost every subject or question with which the mind of man can cope, or which tho progressive impulsos of maukind or events can affect, If, for example, scionco inconlost- ®bly proves that cortain passages of the Serip- turos, if literally construea, caunot possibly be true,—that the stubborn facts as thoy are found 1o oxigt, or to bave oxisted, in tho geograply, eology, or chemistry of the earth, disprove tho otter of she iblical statomont,—the offect would not bo toshake thoe faith of the roasouablo religlous soul in tho truth of tho Bibly, but to stiscover to ¢ tho facr that tho Heriptaral toxt hna boen either tmpoerfectly reuderad by the teanalator or too literally or too liborally intor- protud, snd to causo it to ondoavor the rocan- viliation of tlie undoubled truth of tho Sacred Hook with tho demonstrated truthof science, which tho conzcientions, tutolligent mind, intent on gotting at the trath without o sacrifico either uf fwith or consistency, Liardly ever fails to do. Second—fu slug counection, it is due to observe, parontietically, thut occasionally thosa discuss- tug the Juws of causation, forcs, or phonomena, sre reminded that thero bs still In the dictionary such » word ms Pautheism, with all its fncon- gruities of meaning and doctrive. Atissowetimes ised by visionary philosophers to expresa thair vague notlons of ths identity of God and Nature ; aud, liko tho torma * infldelity,” **hercay,” aud *atheism,” it in also sometimoa employed by those who aro iodissolubly wedded to cortaws flogiuas or superstitions regardivg Deity, ro- iigion, or natural law, to expresa thoir coutemnps for theorics or propositions advauced by thoms who are endeavoring to burmonize tho revealed truths of tha physicsl sciences with tho manifest traths of religion nnd thoolopy, Whether os a torm of reproach or ad indicating a form of belief, those using the word sre very liable to do so viuder & misspprelionsion of tho doctrinos ywhich tho Pantlieiats really eutertainod, whother those of romoto satiquity, whon Pantheism way o hyvothetical systom of theology, or those in tie medioval ages, when it was adoptod as au ele- wout in thoe sclence of ontology. o who recog- nized inthe active forces of Nature and n thowa puonomenn which aro tho effucts of thoso forces vperatiog i ur upon matier, the ovidences of the exisience and tho wanifesiations of tho wisdomn uud tho powor of Daity, 1 not & Panthoist. Gun tus coutrary, ho is cloarly » Monotucial, who ac kuowledgos & Great Firal Cuueo, and recognizen iu all Naturo tho inleliigont coutrivance sud po- teut manipulation of Ita suprome suporintouds ence, Tho LPanthelsts, ou the other hand, de- ciared tlat Nature jtaelf, 1 ita {doalized unity of wiud, matter, nnd spint, is God—that, in foct, tho combiuod forces aud Ehcuumuul of tho uai- verse are God, That philosophy which deals ouly with tuuable propositions—that sheology wihich can and st distioguish Lotwoen causd and effcct, without mistzking the one for the other—and that scicuco and souso which view wmatter and force as two distinct entitien, though conuascent, coewptont, and suseparablo, cavnot for & nionient g1ve place to such a uystom of frro- coucilablo vagaries ; weither could the roligious nature of man, seeking for & firm wnd solid foundation of faith to rest upon, content ituolf with making its earshly habitation 1n such a ¢ bussleys fabric of & vislon." Ilence it ia that Pantheism, which started out to construct o systom of religion destitute of & conceivablo God, gradualty sorified itself into a tonucus theory of metaphysics, and fioally jost iteolf in tho clouds of 1ty own philosoplie 1weongruition, Third—Ax to the poesibility of an nonest con- wviction of athielsm, cepecially among 1ntelligont nien of sclouce, wo sy be reasonably incrodu- lous. I1 the ublutored savege “sees CGod fn clouds and bewy Ilim in the wind," which i3 more than werely & pootio concelt, how wmuch awore distinctly must the wan of knowledge, of educated aud cuiightenad resson, eea Him in tho dvevitable logic of tho unlverse, with ita incone trovertible evidences of nfinite wisdom of do- sigu aod infinite power of govoroment | Wo have Bothing to fear frow the eclautiats oo this scoro, ‘The further lhn{hnmly £0, the deoper thoy may peusirate lalo wysteries of the physical woild, and tho clearer thoy may discern tho principles and forces existiog and operating in amuro, sbove, beneath, sud around them, the sugre Lraalatinly. tausd taey becoma Lupressed with a profound conviction that behind all and abova all, unsasn bite indispenaable, thoro must liavo been, at the beginnlu;fi and before the bo- glnmnwot tho warld, an osiginal dssigner, con- rivar, creator, and ordainer, possessing su- premn and infinite powars, and that this suine Delng—the God of the Riblo—puides, con- trols, modlifics, and gpoverns the oxistin univores, probably ot tho mame timo an continually creating new worlde, sud evoly- ing new forcos, organisms, and syatoms. No rational mind can reconclls ths pripablo facts of nature, in whole or in dotall, As it nocs them, with the assumption of an aceldental creatton ar with the hypotheais that all things snd prinel- ples woro ovolved into oxlstonce through an uncauesblo 1aw of causation,—sclf-areated, soll-nrrauged, solf-dsvelopad, sell-porpotuatod, —or that thev are solf-ordored and solf-gavernad by an inhotent, absoluto impulse entirely their oira from tho very bc;zinn‘mfi. ‘The watch Hlustrae tion of Dr. Palov, io hia ** Natural Thuolnsz_v," to prove that thore must have been an intelligent, dosigning Creator,—that thie vast machinory of tho noverse could ot possibly have beon the rosnlt of moro fortuity, no moro than a chro- notnoter found by s travelor in a desart could havo brought itself into being thore, with all its complicated and dolicate machinery, by chauco or of ita own volition,—is 08 unsusworablis by tho nthewstic philosophers to-day es it was whon first spoken or writtot, Fourth—-Bomoof onr groat modern sciontints aro unjustly snapected, and oven openty accused, by certain religionists and theologiaus, of attempt- iug to rob creation of its Creator. This ia not troating thoso great mon fairly; tho naccnaation {a based upon o misapprehousion of their mo- tives and objecta, While sacking to undorstand creation, they havo no quarre! with tuo Croator, “hat principlo of ** poteucy " which Lrot. Lyndall Dbetioves o has discoverad inheringin nll mat- ter, cansing it inevitably to dovelop itzelf into tho forms and functions which it assuines; that prineipio whiel Herbert Hooucer calls * avolu. tion," indlcating the progrossive and necesaary dnvolo;)menl of )lving orpanisms by virtue of tho oporations of their own innato lawn and forcen; thnt theory which the speculativo Buchner termed the * conjoined action of natural forcea and materials to which all orgAnia beings owe their origiz and propagatlon”; that problem- atical assumption called **natural selection,” so plauaibly clucidatod by Prof. Darwin, by which, *in the atrugglo for oxiatonce,” thestroogast aud Doat of living organiams and species provail over and survivo the weakest nud tho lowess, and Ly dogrees develop iuto highor ordors of oxist- ouco; tho supnosed succesa of Prof. Hnxlay in his ufforts £o solvo the mystery of the *origin of hfe™ on the theory that the vital principle is primatily existent in or ovolved from the proto- pinstic subatauco of veaatstion ; indeod, all the discoverios, theoriey, and h_vgothnuu of scionco and philosoply, nono of which havo beon no complotely proved and established that thoy ara not liable ot Jeaat to aomo modification by tho selontisis and philosophers of the fatare, naro mero glimpses of _thoe buman discernment into the cnergios and mysteriea of the divine ms- chinery o tho ubiversal goverument. Thoy sorve only to domonstrato that thero aro won- derfal Iaws and forcos 1 naturo which oporato orderly, uoerringly, myateriously, the offccts of which human wisdom ean discern, without bay- ing tho ability to discover their ultimato cause, or to account for their existenco, oxcopt by nc- knowledgiog the creative Doity of theolozy and roligion, who, from tha very nature and logic of things, muss be an aluolutely suprome intolli- gouco,—omnipotent, omulaciont,—and who, in order to givo a detivito oxpreasion to our con- eoption, we will call ths Elernal, All-porvad- ifog, snd All-potent Intelligonce of the Uni- vorso; whetlier & personality, » diffusive, fuflnito essouce, or au ubiquitous epirit, I8 oot for humou knowledgo,—~nor {s it neacs- gary that wo sbould know this in order to be convincad of Lin oxistenco, or to catablish with. in us that sonse of our dependoncs upon or our moeal obligstion to Him which conatitato tho very basis of any rational eystom of ro- ligion. 'If tha theory af *‘ovolution™ bs trae, it aimply oxplalne to us the procoss of nature, loaving_ tho problem of causation still unsolved, -~that is, It shoss us the avolving, but not tho ovolver; nnd so with all other theorics, whethor domonstrative or speculative, rufunlmg the principles or rolations of force and mattor, tha Lagmmng or development of material axzist- ounces, lile, or apecioa, or the Inwa snd powers operative in tho world or in the universa: the scientiata oud the philozophers, aftor sll their attempta to fathom thede profound mystories, finally roach an inevitablo wall. as high as tho heaven, ax deop as tha very loweat depths to which the imagination can descond, and ns im-. ponstrable aa foturity, boyond which the human vielon cannot pos-lh{f oxtend, nor human in- gonuity proceed. ‘Thers, ag all candid men of scienco lumbly conceds, all research or eoarch after truth must stop, for beyond it lics an unoxplored and inoxplorable region. Thoro is whero Deity abides—the God of the hesven and the earth, posscasing and oxorcising perfect power; He whom no mortal oye hath over behold or can look upon, oxcept au it rocoguizea Him ovory- where in His works, and to sce whom to the ““prso in hoart ' only is glvon tho promise, "Tuat which wesoe or discovor in the physieal univorss {8 very wonderful, from tho simplont and commonest to tho most complex and stupon- dous obfects viaiblo or tangiblo; but tho most woundorful of all is that inviaibla but suroly ex- iating Power, which waa firat of gll, is abova all, and e fo ll. We must ‘accopt the Word which hag desconded to us from generation to genera- tion, through thousands of years, and csll it Jehovali,God, tho Eternaland Almighty Ooe. Wo cannot do less than thia witbout involviog our- selves in a chnos of peculative confueion, rolig- {ously, morally, ,und iotellectuslly, from which not oven modern pcloncs, with all its helpful agoncios and possibilitica of achisvement, could over oxtricato us. Wo can koow and do know that matter exlats, that cortain forcon vitalize, shaps, and oporate i, and that certain cofinito plhenomona ars infallibly thoresnitants: thess facts and tho modns oper- andl we are cognizant of—scisnce has disclosod tuem to our vision and elucidatod them to onr understanding; but tho myumr{ that enshrouda tho Power which czentes worlds nad endows thom with the laws which govern them wo can novor solve until *thla mortal shisll have put on Immnrnm{," and tho veul of flesh which now obecures tho inner vislon of $ho soul sball ultimatoly bave been drawn ssido forevar, —_— s ANDARTE, L Bing me some song andants Of the evening sbadowy and gray, Loat tho bappy wun-songs hsunt o, Lest I nurmur for tho day. Bing of tho moon, n frogment red Msuging dixk-like o'er the nes; Or of tho glittering, .urc‘{‘:ed Above, let your soog andants be; Blow as the palost moonlight alips Out of the Liuy, tar-jowoled skiss,~ Blower thau t16 rod moon di Inty the ses, and dipping dies. Bileut witi T ait sud laten o your weet, slow, Lushed atory; , 'The siurge rolin on, tho moonbeams glisten Aud glsam like s nimbus of glory, ¢ I Olove, my lovs, let my soug andants be Of pou-fornn strauge, s wild, weled nystery; O goldeu witige sud hands unlirted white Tu all the beaven-wrought #pleador of tho night, O love, sy love, who rises thus from out Lhoscad Hupported by Lis wave, ha Lrckuna silently, 1l Lody gleamu with gera all pale and rare, Lambent suubosmy lizht the atlver of his halr, And a saddened longiag dwelleth in Lis eyes, Like ona tust iz the doopedt suu-Lod les, Lo mmiteth not I O love, who can ba be “Thus rising from tho wave and Luck'uing me? u1, Ouly a song, little cong auduate, Tlllod with & witcliery tuat buunts mog A Littlo song whose ouly char for my 1a 4z the vocd that slugeth such a mulody, Grouus 1L Proaxm, —_—e Dr. 'Tyndall on Spontancous Genorae tion, * Iendon Athenenm, On Thuredoy Jast Dr, 'Uyndall read & papor Loforo tho Hoyal Hociety *Ou tho Optical Dej.ortnent of tho Atmosphere with Rolereuce to the Phenomena of Yulrefaction sud Infee- tion,"” and surprised and gratitied hus hearors by communicating iauch more than was convoyed by Lis ticlo, For ho whowad, by brnillisut experi- wonté, that epoutnueous geoeration 8 an abuoluto imposubiisty, and that 1t solutions open to tho sir woon ewarm with lifo, it 18 Lecause they buve boen impreguated by living particles floating 1w tho air. It has loug beou known that wir which bas boun thorgughly froed from flonte ing particlos by tlie, tho sotion of acids, or other- wiwse, will not produce life; mud turther proot waa given by Dr., ‘I'yodali’s rossarchos fu 1868 sud 1869, with tho sduitioual faots that filtsnng tbrough coltan-wool clenry tho uir a3 effeciually a4 fire, aod that air thus putitiod will uob truns- mit light. A glass chamber fllod with the puritied uir romsios durk, even when placed in sho track of @ concentrated Leam of light. ‘fhiere is notbiug to refect or scatiar the light [ and it may now be sccepted as au axiom thai alr wuich Las lont fte power of scattering hght bhoa dsfi m;l‘tfil power of mdufilang ||'u. ce, surgeous hiave boen for gome time awaro of the faos thad air which bes passed fhraugh the lunge will Uos sauss Ruirefsotion, Tt liss boon filtered, and may bo allowed to enter tue veins without liurifal coosoquences. ‘The boaring of all this on tha quostlon of Apontancous generatlon Is obvious. Pastour has pronouncod the spontanoity to bo a chimera, nnd that, this being the caso, it shonld be posai- blo to banlsh parasitic or contagious dinessos from the faco of tho earth ; and, from this point of viow, it is onLto neo that tho subject has o wide bearing on tho plienomena of putrefaction and infaction, Dr., Tyudall now finds that air can bo renderad optleally pure by merely leaving it undisturbed tlres or four days in a oloso chamber, All the floating matter subsides, and the conflned alr wlli noc tranemit light. Bolotiona placed thars- in romain unaltored, though lett for months, while similar solatlons opan to the ordinary air swarm with bacteria in twenty-four houra or two days. 2 The numbar and variety of Dr. Tyndail's ox- poriments loaveno room’ to doubt hin conclu- #ions, 'Thas they ara of a high importance is mantlesty but tho Deliovers in spontancous fren- aration will not socept thom without & struggle. Tho publieation of the papor itsolf #ili be looked for with intorest. ———— I0WA RAILROADSTARIFF LAW, YWhne 1t Ilas Cost tho Farmers. Suectal Correrpondence af Tha Chiags Tribune, Des Motxes, Is, Fob, 10.—That facts aro stubborn thinga, and figures woa't lio, are axioms truo aud accopted. For noarly two years this Stato lizs beon trying the exporiment of o *cost- fron” Tallroad-Tariff law, What was designed to bonafit tho masaes of the people, tho pro- ducers, hasimposed ono of the most burden- some taxes over lovied upon them. An the mat- ter @ now beforo the Leglalatnre, to doviso soma measurs of relief, Ihave gathored a fow statistics from ofliclal sources, which will sorve to show tho offcct of the prosent tariff upon the producors. The figures may be rolied upon, a9 they sro taken from the recorde, CHICAGO, NOCK ISLAND & PACIFIO ROAD. Tho following atatomaont will show the numbor of cara of grain and livo stock carried dariog the year 18765, from atationa namod on the Chi- cago, Rock Island & Pacifie Railroad, and the amount charged moro than would have been under the tanf in offact prior to July 1, 1874, 1 hiavo selested this road bocauso i¢ is moro ao- cenasible from this point to gather tho facts, Thoso stations nlso ropresent fairly the entiro longth of the road in this Stazo: of | o Blatlons, 5 EE | B i (Cirain., 638,060 Py Newton,.. {|Grald },j‘,nl}sxn..m.m stuart, .. §i St o080 Quturls., {[OF ""} 5,933.60 Attantio.. { G } 2a0enc0 Avocs, o 5} 12,3575 Grionall,. i 6,846.20 20, DBrooksn, o i "',“é“fll 6,0%0.00 Grain, 3 3,585, Marangos Stock:| 1u0| o0 (’w‘ml 4,00.00 Grain,| ©12] 10.60} 6,RCS,20] Todunals 1G] R 8] Sddsmly 10Mas0 STITMENTN TO CHICAGO AND MILWAUREE, ‘Tho following stat ement will show tho nomber of cara of gratu nud livo stock carricd from sta- tions in Iowa to Chicago and Milwaukas, by the Chicago & Northwsstorn Lailway, and tho Chi- capo, Rock Teland & Paciflo Railroad, from July 1, 1874, to Dez, 31, 1875, and the incroased rates abovo what tlrey would have been undsr the raten in forco bofore tho Tariff law was passod : Rind of|No,Car.| ATSRES | mory Tord, Product| Loada, | JOCTEME | 1ncrease, 1 L0,00) $3.00 | $469,000.00 ™ Grain..! ot Nw, {gen- 16,000 400 | 65,000.60 1 £316,000.00 $ I 427,202.00 Increasaon O & N, W, $310,00:.00 Increaso ou G,y R, 1. 41m,202,00 915,22,00 ‘Theso are but two of four trunk-linos running through the Stato, all of which do about an eqnal amount of thia olang of traflle; wo that wo have, ou tho sbova basis, tha enormaus sum of $1,846,404 pald bv tho farmora na incronsed froight, uodor this law, in the pericd of oighteon montha, Add to this the increaso on ronds not named, and the tncresso on morchandise which comos from the Last, which the farmcr con- Bumes, and tho total would excced £2,030.000. 1t is truse tho law reduces ratos on froight taken up aod pat down within the Stats, but that is not a drop in tho bucket compnzed with slipmenty without the State, and the galn In thet diroction s poor componsation for tha loss on through sxafiio. I will cita o sioglo instanco to lllustrate the ruls which holds good through tho Btate: Drlor to July 1, 1574, tho rate por car trom Nowton to Davenport was $13. Binca that dato, it has been $20.20,—s rodaction of £13.80. During the year 1875 wera sbipped from that station 1,400 car-loads of grain, 193 of which wons to Davenport. ‘Tho remainder went to Chicago aod Milwaukes, oxcopt 73 car-loads :nnt to Bt. Louis. Tho account would stand ua ; 179 cars fo Davenport, at §13.8), gain......$2,180.40 1,150 a4 to Chicugo, e1c., at $8.00 loss ) Net losa under the IaW.useene creenrees 37,170,60 Does nny onn Bupposo tho farmora of Iowa de- siro much 'a law as that? Not at all. Thoy never asked or expected it. The bistory of the legislation upou that latyy bas not been’ written, The lfifteonth Genersl Arsembly peined the name of being & Congrosalonal caucas, and witn good causo, It wny composcd of smbitious poli- ticians, sidewalk-farmers, Anti-Monopos, snd a sprinkling of genuina Hepublicana, Every- body wil romember tho famous deadlock in the Ifouso on chowa of Bpanker. The Anti-Monops had pledged their conatitu- ents that n Ilaiiroad-Tarisr law should be passad, A fow ambitious politiciany and lawyers had dono tho same thing, It did not matter so much what that law was, 0o it rogulated rmiroads; sod tho politiclans ' captured the Anti-Monaps, redoomed their pledgos, and got to Cougress, ‘Tho Btate Orango of Patrons sont up & long roe port of their viaws nnd wishes In tho matter, and slso & bill propared with much care, which was acceptablo to them, and indoraed by the Rail. road Compauled; but, with consummate obati- naey of purpoas, tho prosent law was forced through the Logislaturo, in opposition to the de- wandd of tha grest body of producers, with the eminontly-gratifying declaration that, it it was nos what the "peoplo wanted, tho Hix- toonth General Asaembly could make a new ono. ‘The chicf mansgers of that bill, as lawyers, Eoew thon, as well as they Lnow to-day, that not oue-hmndrodis part of the trafiic In this Stato would b conirolled by that tariff, ‘They alio koew that, under the law of inter-State com- marce, they coutd not prevent procluely the con- dition of uffairy which exista to-day. Hut tho ms urilr of the Legislatura knew liltle of law, ud atill Joes about tho bill which was before thown ; sud, taking thoe spocions word of the po- Jitieal aspirants and lnwflnn in churgo of lhe hull, tboy voted 1t upon tho people. fhnmnult 4 o law undor which JTows farmprs eannot live, ‘Thoy muat Lavo somo yeliaf, or stop rasiog cate tlo aod grain. It I preposterous, absurd, and ridiculoua to talk about Davenport, Dubuque, Earllugton, and Keokuk, handling the products of Iows. Hawgiye, S MEMORIES, When I hava looked upon thy faco, Aud watchad thy glances clcar, Bomo subtlo futlucoce lifts ma up 'To purer stmosphere, Andall My tears have washied {n vaio, Beein to my Lappy visiou thon 00 fade and leave 10 wiain, Only 14 know that somewhera still, Een ltough iu apuces far, Thy spirit vhines, stll pura and bright A Plelads' distang star,— ‘Ttts Wovght fnepires my pationt s, T L S ™7 Will sk otornally, y Furewsll ! and on thy 5o Sl Easlu unaxi.fl N": it ay getitly fall, and bring ihe Jo; Ty e Las ot to niuec™ 197 —_— A Mystery Expluined, Lorneald (Cdn,) Geselde, A year ago lsst snunmet sonie little exoltomant ‘way causoed iu thiv neighbortiood by s ropust, oft repoated, that u sirango wator mouater Lud beon s0un swonyg the islauds at tho Load of Luko 8t, Francig, by Indiswi and others. Capt. Bmall- wman, of Dundee, reparted that he had ssen it uevess) times near the vntrance of Balmou River, bug that ou nearing it is 1nvariably dissppearad, causiug & tumult {n the water. Bowo thought it was & huge serpent witha busby crest, and othacs baliaven e 1b was nathing wore ox loss Hsizx ¥, than a scal that had found {ts way up from the Lower 6t, Lawrence, Within the Inat wook, howovar, the mystary han been solved. Iiap- pening to call at Mrs. Night's, on tho Kast Front, on Wodnesday last, Mr, Diokinson, of Cornwall, was_hurriedly cailed to tho river side by young Mr, Night to ses some strange animals that were disporting on tho tce noar (ko foat of Cornwall Istand. Dr. Dickinson procured ® flotd-z1ass, and immedintely cama to the concln- slon that this animals wero iennlne renls, onjoy- ing tho liberty which au air hole in the ico had afforded them. ITow theso ammats got up the rapids {s puzzling, excapt on tho hypothosis that thoy mada that part of tho journoy by land. Tholr presence evou in very limited numbors amang tho Islanda below Cornwall may bo hotd to acconnt in n largo degros for tho sbacnoe of good fishing of lato yoars, and the wearcity of the larger doscriptiona of flah lliko tho muskin- nm‘:gn. which {8 now seldom ecaught in our nators, , FINANCE. HOW TO SCLVE THE CUARENCY PROBLEM. To the Kiditor of The Chicaan Imbune Lansatig, Wyo, Tor, Fab, 14.—Thers aro so mauy thoories on tho plain, mattor-of-fact ques- tion of financo, that tho country Lias besn really Lrought to fecl that therois, atlor all, somothing motaphysfcal 1n the relation of debtor and cred- ftor. **L’ay that thou owost,” for many gonera- llonn was tho mandata to indebladnesa; for the nearost road to tho dizcharge of an obiigation w04 to bave to pay tho dobt. But *OI things have passed away, and all things havo becomo new." 'Tho language of nowadays covers up the idon of debtor aud creditor with inflation, con- traction, ond resumption,~ignoring ovon tho slightest raforonco to anythiag like a debt, Plain, matter-of-fact buslness-man, who donot write for newspapera or perlodicals, or mrke spoeches in Congress, understand tho whola Affair to bo the same with tho Gov- cromont a9 it is with thomualves. If & manowos suother, tho bill is presontod for payment, ‘The account fa thon olther] sottlod, or a nots, with a fixed data for poymont of tbhe amount with in. torest, 18 givon. This note, whon go fixed, be- comos avallable asaeta in the hands of the cred- itor, which ho can koop or soll for its valuo in gold, Now, it 1 just the eamo thiog s to this gresnback indebtedness of tho Governwment. All that is necded ia for tho Government to give ita bond or note to its creditor or croditors, besr- ing interent payablo in gold, and the whole thing 1o sottled in a nut-shell. The bond, once belng racoived, will at onco be converted into gold; ntd tho parly who holds tho greanback for cor- tan purposes will bold the gold in tho same placo for the identically same purpose, ‘[ho groat fallacy in the curroucy discussion in tha prevalont idos that, if a man porta with his Eruanbukn for bonds, ko theroby parts with all is ready casb ; but tho fact {s, he is only con- \'erunf: & non-interost-beanng picco of papor ins to an interest-bearivg pioce of paper or obliga- tion, and shich theroby Lecomes galable or ex- changeablo in the mariteta of the world, and, whou sold, s paid for in the world's eurrency. Evory dollar of tha legal-tendor nates of tho Umited Statos could be converted into gold insido of ono yoar without rufiling a singloe hair of the commoarcs of the conutry, Bupposo that nndy‘one of tho Natfonal banks of Chicago that holdsa fund of, eay, 350,000 in greenbacks for the purposs of rodesm- fng its circulatlon, bad the quvllego or rigbt to forward that 850,000 to Washiugton, and receive 1n lisu thereof a like snm of 850,000 in United Btates bonds, payuble, say, o twouty or sixty years, and beariug intorest payable in gold, scini-nnoually, at from 8 to 5 per cont per awnum; huw long would it tako that bank to wsll those bonds, aud pleco tho gold in juat exactly the eamo spot whero tho grasobacks Inid, aod hold it thore for precissly the name porpose that it held the groenbacks? And, further, tho very firat timo one of ita notes sbould come to hand for redemption. tho gold would come out instead of tho rage, Tho bonds would naturally gravi- tato into tho bandsof thoss who would ssek thom, and the gold would bo placed *‘where it wonlddotho mont good,"—aoalteration or change in the National-Banking system boing necessary, but morely a convareion of raga inte gold. But objectors say that our bonds wonld go Into tho hands of foreigoners, That may bs; bat, if that should bo tho cauo, it is just whare thoy ouglt to go. Tho more of our bomds Earops has the more of Europa's cnahiwoe will have. Aud thero i3 vothing that wo want 80 much aa real cash, Wo aro ominently . commorcial, tradiog peopla. If :}uro&n would carry for ue every Uovernmoot bond. every dollar's worth of rail- road stook, and every railroad bond, together with all mortgages upon Jands, both private ana publio, it would not any more thon give ustho necessary moans upon which to trade. Lot tho borruwer borrow whore ha can borrow tho cheap- est, Teko tho-instauce of the $50,000 above statsd. Huppose thoso bonds should fall into tho hands of tho Rothschilds, how would the matter stand then? Tho Roth. nchilda would bave the bouds, and the Chicago banlk the gold. What thon? Tho Rothachilds would got 4 per cont per annum on thoir iavest- ment, while tho Ubicago bank would exrn 12 por cent por aunum, and posaibly more. Tho laws | of trads, of supply and dowand, witl regulats tho whole matter, it tho Governmont will only adopt the simplest busibess-principle, of taking up its pass duo papar, and giving therofor time paper with interest from date, -... Ts L. Dawsox. A FEW REMARKS ABOUT TAXATION, o the Ldvtor of the Cliacao Tridune : Curcaao, Fob. 16.~Some of your late sensibla articles ou tho tariff have suggosted to my mind the foltowing genoral principlea of taxation; -- Firs!—That all tho beneflt arieing from a tax shoutd go into the coffers of tho Government, Becond—T'hat taxes sliould be lsvied so an to fall only on that portion of any artlcle which Is conaumed {u tho conntry taxing, The firat . proposition is self-evident. Tho #econd, I thiok, is oqually 8o in viow of the fact that our manufacturos and products, in their ntruggle for tho markets of the world, should not bo weighted down any mote thau f4 abgoluso- 1y domanded by the coet of production. With roapect to she classilication of snbjocts for taxalion, it soomA to me that they muy bs arrangoed under two hoadn ¢ First—Those which aro not prodacsd in the country and are not necossariss of life i tho striclost wouso of tho term, e —Thosa of largo consumption, which aro produced in tho couatry, and aro uot negos. saries of lifo ; proforring shem fu ordor as they cout lcas to collect, and are essior and surer of collection. Tho chlef reasons for placing those which are not produced in tho conntryin the flrat olass Rro: tho cauo of collecting them, and tho cer- tsinty that tho Governmout receives the whale of the tax imposed, and doos not dtvide with the manufsciuror hsrs, g8 s tho caso now with near- ly all our taxea, in which divisiou the manufac- turor takes tho lion's share. .4; A Bunsoniarn, A HIGHT WITH MULLIGAN'S BRIGADE. . Writlten for TAe Chicago Tyidune, Muliigen's rogiment fought liko ligers at the battle of Lexiugton, Mo, ; but they could not withatand tho demon of thirst whioh caused Sholr surrender, Tho ** Heba" cut off all accoss to the rivor ; and the dashlng, courageots Mul. ligan ‘'was fain to capitulate In fayvor of the “boys," who had noitber * poteon™ nor water to wash dowa tleir rashiers of bacon, * under the rays of a hot July sun.:\The parote of the com- mand ledthom luto Camp Donglas for a while, to guard the .Rabel prisonors who wers sent up fram Fort Douelson. ; Thls return to Chicago - juat wwited the ‘young Irishmonj for they coald do *‘sojering,” aud at tho same timo vielt tholr* mwoothearts in Chicago, of whom there were pleuty,—at least ono fate girl to evory soldier, - Lut this ploneant stata of things, as all elio must, cams to au ond, aud Mulligau—just attor tho raid of Htonewall Jackson into the Bhenan- doab Valley, ohasing Banky across the beighta of Grafton—was ordored to LI '8 P Tbo tr1p from Chicazo was 1made nioatly card, aud o morry tine was eujoyed by the rol- lickiug boys, who could and would wing their glooy, astonishing the stald people in country towus through which we passed, Indeed, s0 morzy wero theso follows at ‘timcs thet the Gen- eral had to sond word ahead to close all usloons which wers nuar tha rallrosd-depots in the towus fu Ohlo sud Pennsylvania, Afuer loaving Wheoling, on a bright snd clear morntug, we began to kes tho flrst effociy of war's devastation in sho destruction “of buildings and ; railroad-property: and, as nightioil drew on, sod we wors ascend. fug the heavy grado on tho Dalthuore & Ubkig ~Hallroad, uvar Graflon, wo began to feel thol wo were getting Into the enemy's vouutry. At loast, we were in * My Marylaud ;" and that means & kfud of * loyalty ™ which Mr, Liucoin was puzzied to deal with so often in Keuntucky, o which 8tate an incident like this wau sure {o ocour every day, and probably every hour whea Morgan's men wore about : Euter a tall young l'{entnnklul to hin father's mavalon 3 ;¢ Father, U've made up my mind te join Morgan, The niggers ara all runnin away, and I ain't goin' to clenn horaes and food piga and chickons, nohow." *'Well, my son, 1 don't know shout your dalyin such timos as thero. I rechon vou'll gat yoursolf and me into teonble by thia thing. Hut you know beat what ta do. AllIean do is to forbid your taking sucty » dangeroua stop. Bat, if you must go, you had belter pick out the beat horse in the siable, while yon're about it." To raturns I noticed Lhe boya wero more qulet this evening than ususl, and scotned dis- vosod ta on_the lookout for “dan« gor. At Deor Park Htatlon, juat De- fora dark, an addition wes made to our tran of sovoral cars ladon with cattla, ‘I'ne man in chargo of them looked suaplel ous, worn butternut clothing, and way very rotioons 2a to tho dostination of his cattle, Wo pasred on to Piodmont, and the monster lacomotive rosmed to groan aud heave to drag tho long train up the ateep, heavy grade, whon, about U o'clock, n loud noise broke upon our ears, like the report of a cannon, aud the train stoppod at onoa, Tho traln which containod Gen, Mulligan, his wife, and littlo Alarion, the ataff, and ssveral Indios with thom, bad no stove: and e0 wo had fi“" oursolves covorsd up and strotchod ont as ost we could, when tho panlo bogan. Muili- gan's voics was soon hoard gotting tho soldiera into llino on tho track, and the women woro a8 hoshied as mice. Thero was no eannon, but the locomotivo had sxplodod, blowing tho stack-pipo some rods futo the bushics. The engiucor could not be found ; and it was soon whispered about that he had purposely ondangered tho train, and, most likely, iu a plan gotten up by himeelf d the butterant man with the cattlo, to hindor the succor noedod &t Harpor's Ferry, which Mul- ligan was hastoning to afford, As noon as wo got avor the Aurprise, and began to colloct our thoughts, it was found neconsary to build bonfires balow and above, to prevent our being run into bysomo trala due in tho night, a8 we woro on a singlo tenck, and could neithor go forward nor backward, but must wait the marulng light for succar, if wa wora not gob~ bled up by Mosby's guerrillas in the menntima, Bomo preachiora tell us_what tho thoughts aro of all poigons whon doath stares thom in tho faco, Itls sald that ovary svent lu their lives, aud especially of wicked deods, suddenly fiashos before tho mind, and, hiks a panorams, it i nll #proad out before the mind's aye. ‘This, bowover, was not oy oxporience in this hour of danger. True, it {a now about twolvo or thirtoon yoars since the ovent I epenk of. Bat a good scare, and & pospect of falllug into tho hands of tho onemy during s flerco war, {8 no child's play. F'alo facos and trembling voices, 1 know, wore acen and heard among us for that liveloag night, But it seems to mo that tho Indies managed to eat quita o quantity of Bologon sattaage and hard-tack, washod ‘down with various liquids (cold tos or coTes, maybo) ; aud vorne actually enored before morning. Daylight appoared, howover ; aod, as the sun came up, 88 ugual in that region, a recounois. ance showoed how wrong and uncharitablo wo liad beem, aud, in a mensure, how groundloss wero our foars, - ‘Tho enginoor was found lodged in a trao, about 20 foot hizh, in the top branches, whera 110 biad been blown by the explosion| ‘Tho want of sufhicient wator in the locomotive was tho causo of the mischiof; and evory oo of us lived to take a view of tho rulny of Harper's Forry, aud leavo Malligen and liis bravo boys to com- mand Bolivar's Heights, aod win immortal hon- ora ot the battles of Martinsburg and Winches- tor, whero the galiant General foll {n defonss of his flag and tho hborties of his couutg. e R THE GRASSHOPPLR. Prof. Rilcy’s Viows en a Prospective Xnvasion—lie Allnys All Fonrs. St. Lowia Globe-Democrat, Feb. 17. Thare haviag boon numorous reports lately, to the effoct that grasshoppers had appoared &t In- dependonce and in other parta of the State, and tbat somo alarm provailed among farmorsss to s probable repettion of tuo ravages of Inst spring, inqury lias beon made of Prof. Riloy, State En- tomalogist, sa to tho facts. The Globe-Democrat reprosontasive found him just_opening a pack- Bgo of “hoppera™ from Ur. B. F. Dunkley, of Dunksburg, Pettie County, that had sccom- panied tho following lettor, which is givon as & samplo of mony which the Professor Lies recent- 1y recaivod ; Inclossd pleass find somoe young locuste, just hatehod out,” s belsevs them Lo be the Hocky Moun- tatn locusta, but send them to you to docide.” Pleass angwer, In'my report, in auawer to_your clrcal naid that some of th loousta that batcbed out It ouly grew to ulf tho aizo of tho othery that migrated sud laft unlaat July, did lay ihelr eaga, for mynolt and others saw them atii, Now 1thtuk theso are from the oggs Iatd Ly thera,” If so, will the cold, when {t comes, kill them, Prof, Riley saya that !all opinions like those exprossod Dy Mr. Dunkloy avo bagod on "inis- takon ldontity." The species noticed hopping apout during the mild woather of January sad Fobruary are nativa apecica that aro with ua all the timo, and habitunlly byboroate In tho half- grown, unflodged condition.” ‘I'ho most common of them, and that sont by Mr, Dunkley and othor_ corrospondouts, is tho grecn- striped . Locust (Zragocephala © viridie JSasciata,'l. a vory. comnon + gpecios, Tanging from Maine to Plorids, and from tho At- lantio to Nebraska, It pusacs the wiaterin a Lialf-grown condition, aboltering in mezdows and {n turts of grass, and bocoming active when tho weathor s mild, it differs generally from tho Rooky Mountain locust, which hyboruates in the ogg state., This greoo-striped ocust, as ita namo smplies, has, whon matured, » broad groen stripo on the front winga, and in the narrower, bumped, and keelod thorax or fora-body, muy at once bo distingunishod from tho droaded Rocky Mountain pest. Prof. Litloy wilt show, by jllustrations in hts forthcom. iog roport, how to distinguish soveral of these native and harmioss loouata which osuse unnec- essary snxioty in our Western counties. In the Now York Z'ribune wo find_an article on the subject from tho pen of Prof. Riley, which la cortainly vory assuriog in 1ta tano. We mako the followiog extract : ‘The number of eggs laid in thy States of Missouri, Kansas, snd Nebreaka by tho few straggling usects thnt ,)Mlud over that country last fail will uot equal shat laid in ordinary seasous by indigenous npuae.v. 1n Coloradlo, alao, there havo been in most parts such abundant rains efnce locust ogis wera laid, wud tlio ground has beeu 80 unasually moist, that thero bs sume hope that tho bulk of the cggu are, or will bo, dostroyed, The avents of the past elghteen months have #0 fully bortie out such predictions as I foit war- ranted tin making that my opinlon on this subject may Lays soma weight, 3 give it aa my belief that, first, in the thres Btatos msntioned, thoro will not hiatel aa many locusts noxt suring s would naturally hatch in ordloary weanons from the epgs of tudigonuua specles; wocond, that, compared with other parts of the counlry, thuse Btates ravaged by locints 1aat apring aud early summer will enjoy the greatest immunlty during tho same seasony of 1470, not only from locust injuries, but from tho wark of moat oilicr noxons Inscots, oxcept the wood. borers, Inshort, tha peopls of tho ravaged section hava reston to be hopeful rather thau giomy, They will certaluly not suifer in any gonercl way from $o- cuat 1tjuries in the oarly sexson; and the only way in which they can suffor from tho migrating peats 1a by fresh swarms later fu tha year from the far Nurthweat, tue odds balng, however, from s nuinber of reasous which it ia nm&ly’to enumerato bore, very great against any such contingency, A MESSAGE. 4\ are parted, and yot wo are not partsd;” ¥or well you must know ¥ canuot forget the swoet kindness 0! lon, loug ago, And {ho blood iu my velns may ceaso fowing, * _‘Thiia form be at rost, .. While the yrossos and wild flowors aro blowing Hofs over my Lraast; Dat the rfilflt you lovod, and that lovad you, Will thiuk of you iill, And tlie calm air abiove and around you Aly presence will 8ll, Bat should yl:'m go first, O boloved, You suroly will find, Whon tho veil lm,ndl your eyes s removed, Thy splsTy i lean doms aad o eans down an 7 ME DA maa b wholo, o 4% Aud thla {2 my swsot consolstion ; I sk s d ceatritlen, m) pain and caal A your uges by paat: B0 thien T can walt, and, posseasing Gan Wk i the Abget of D wor o Angel o 4G o b elane, . alng Ang, in that pure lsnd where no shadows Ouz souls e botwoen, ‘o mlsta will uplife, snd forever Tho truth will b seon, And 1 lung for the woment of mesting, Tue blisa of that life ‘Whiore the weary foraver aro restod m sorrow sud atrife, Auezoy, Cook County, 1L, L.M. B, % —_— The IMiuols Feach Crop. Jmsadoro (MUY Gazette, It no furthor calamity bofall, thers will be s Emnl crop of peachos, Your currespondent 0 visited several orchandy, and examined the buds on hundrds of troos, with the followlng Tesults : On the trees that were kopt growinyg by ouitivation all summer aud late in tho fall tho buds sre about one-fourth alive. On the treos which wade their growih oarly aud wero not oultivated, about one-tweutisth are alive. Somo varietion, Lowover, stood the test better than otliers, as was the case with orchards. Bat it 14 6 that 0o one will get rick on peachies THE DEVIL'S NEST, Fritten for The Chicago Tridune by Col, J, I, Mrosts, Iu tho winter of 1874 I waa in tho service of the Govornment, on the Plute Rescrvation, in Houtheastern Navads, My bumness was to look after tho wants of tho Indiaus, visit the differ- ontsubdivisions of the tribo, and uso my iufluence to bring them to tho resorvatiom, whore thoy might bo carod for nnd taught the principles of civilization, On oneexcursion, I was lookingaf- tor tho acattorod bands of Seblits § and, on return- ing to the Agoncy, was attampting to orosa from the lower erossiug of tho Little Colorado, on tha onst sldo of tho main Colorado Iilver, to tho mouth of tho RNed Viegln, over a dry, barren platonu of 70 miles. 1t was o woarisome march, and both man aud boast ind roached a stats of actual suffering for want of water. Berious thoughts snd caleulations oceupicd overy mo- mount; tho foar of dosteuction soomad to ba in- dolibly atampod upon allj yot I, who bad the guardiansbtp of tho party, had many times, In my twonty-six years fo tho Far Wesl, oxpori- onced very similar tests of men's zouls, and bade them onward; and, with my assorance that thoy would teach wator, thoy trudged on, While travoling along s vory old Indian trail, T dlucoverad an object in tho distaucs whioh I supposed to ba a doer or an nntelope, which was rogardod %8 o oign that water was near at hand. Spurs wore applicd to the faithful mulos, and thoy woro not loug i aps proaching near tho supposcd amimal; but, to the astonishment of tho party, it proved to be an Indian laden with Zoons blankots, on route to what ho callodd tho Diablo,—thie Devil's Neat. Io was moat foarfully fiightcned, Ifo nftor- ward statod that ho oxpestsd to ke murderod by th but, upon’ being assured of friend- ship good-witl, he gaved luformation ot aud miso of his busnosy, He proved to bo a Moqua Indian trader, withs vory large pach of blanketa upon his baclk, anJ, a4 stated hofore, wns en routo to tho Dovil's Nest, Ueinvilod us to fotlow him. We had travelod but a short distancs when wo camo upon s great descent In tho level plain or mesa. 1t was evidently too wtecp to ba do- scondod with animals, ro wo dismonutoed, pick- eted our animals, and on faot followed our gulde. A few rode’ travel brought us to n perpendlcalar oliff of golid malpace, ov cooled iavn, from whicli wo obtainod » plan'view of a most woudorful chambor lyinz ata groat dis- tance bolow ne, At this point our guide thiow over or down _his pack, and it soon was out of sight, tmumedistoly bofore us was n narrow, deop crater in the malpace, tirough whoi we weut down at an avgle of 80 dogreas, till an- othor perpendicular cliff was roached, which we desconded by the nid of @ Moxican Iadder.” It wan mado of rawhide, and was securoly fastoned In o large pils of stono on thetop. It had mmall sticks twiatod [n tho rawhida at right sngles with the Ioriat which gervod ns steps in the ladder. On them, one after auother, a lower polut waa gain- od, oxcapt in a faw cases'where a loug pole was used na A gubatitute, At last the bottom was palned, and, altor a journoy of hall & mile over & boautiful, smooth surfsco, we camo taoto of the most beautiful Lubbling springs e had ever soen, of puro, cold, andsweet water. At this point, to my astonishment and dismay, I fouud an abundance of Indiansigns (track of Indinny). I coutd look aronud me and restizo tho stubbosn fact that I wae in one of Nature's most securo prisons. Tue walls wore porpsudicular to the lwirzhl of 3,600 to 4,000 feot, with snumim&y no possiblo mosus of escape, BAYO )y the way wo enterod. 'Cho firat thought was horrifying in the oxtreme. ‘The idea of having foilowed an Indian inton stone-bound cave or obsmbor, and into the midst of & band of wild Apaches, waa terablo in- deed, I suspleiously and tremblingly followod the Moqun a quartes of a milo further, when the stroam of the spring had grown to quite a little creek, having been fucransed by many oth- er springs, and tho £igns of Indinns had changed to that of & real Indian village ; yet not an Iu- dian was to be soen, snd this was but confirnnog my suspicions of danger, and adding more horror to my trombling norvos. Our guids wounted & large rock and yellod, at the top of Lis voieo, n most borrifying howl. After o soemingly long suspsnse, avery old, dooropit Indisn, almort blind, crept out from tho mass of detached cliff that had fallen from sbove, and, with trembling foor, oxclaimed * Amigo-smigo!" ‘I'he salute was returned, and two cowards,—no, brave men,—oach fearing the other, rejoicea and, o8 avidence of frioudship, thero was an ox- chango of tobacco, and the plpo of peace was smoked, It was followed by calling togethier tho wholo tribe,~a poor relic of gome aucteut tribe,—numbering {n all but sixtoen. They had prabably fled to thia moat secret and romarlable apot of earth for refugo in time of trouble, pos. 8ibly previous to tho invasion of Cortez. 'Fhay wero moat mavelously atruck by my appearanco, Tho Dovil's Nest ia situated in tho north- west part of Anzona 'Parmitory, on tho eant sido of the Colorado River, and opposlto the lower ond of the great Canon of the Colorado, - That caoon 18 ju gsomse places 6,000 feet deop. The Dovil's Nest 14 & sunken hole in n malpace, or lava forma- tion, to tho dopth of 8,600 to 4,000 foet, with purpendicular walls, excepting the hazardous catrance throngh or over which we passed, It is an oblong square, some 2% by 10 mllos. E found theso Indiaus in possossion of & small flock of goats, which Led boen kept within bounds by mesna of lariats, [Lhoy had also plooty of boaus and corn ; and, moroe astonishing #till, they had the okt thrifty peach-treos that X hiavo ovor soon, and quite s quantity of dried poaches, which I bero connoct with onr gulde, tho Moqua trader, for Lo exchanged his blankota for dried fruit. [4 i8 supposable that tho moat uniform climato In Amcrica {s to bo found in thus sink,—tha Devil'a Nout. I have boou for many yoars travoling as s ploneer in tho Far West, and, upon reaching this bidden valley, I concludoed that hore was s 8pot upon which no white man had over trod be- foro mfim"' but, to my astonishment, just be- foro talilug my loavo of tho humble Chlef and hua tribe, 1 got to know, through the medium of » papor handed me by tho Chiaf, that the noto- rious oséassin and leader of the Mouniain- Meadow Massacro had boon horo. The paper— apieco or loaf of a blank book—had written upon it, in poucll, the followiog: AnizoNa Teanrrony, July J, 1873,—Capt. Slupe-Salle and tribo,~ignorant, ingocent, aud harmicss, Joux D, Lez, — AN OLD BILL, To the Editor of The Chicaga Tribuna Buvenry, Macon Co,, Mo. Feb, 18.~—Looking ovor somo old papers to-day, I camo across the Inclosed, which I bave coplod, snd vonturs to forward to you, a8 youmsy doom it worthy an 0dd cornorin your oxcellent sheot, With ve- epoct, I am, slr, yoors faithfully, 5 Eowix Laon. The followlné; is & copy of & bill found among :ho fl)lhll of Weutworth Abboy (Earl Fitzwill- rm's) ¢ Rev, J. Haquire to J, Joncs. '1:5.0" Nov, 1,=~For ropalrs to Roman Cattiollo Chapel, and, Faor solidty repsiring 8t. Joseph....... 4 Cleantug und ornamenting thie Holy Gliat, 50 For repairing the Virgin dary baliind sud 0 and makiog hor a new ehild, . W88 For making a new nose to tue d putting ® horn on bis head, and glueing a plece 40 his P R TP cernes . L 12 10 Satlied, J. Jonxs, —_— ‘The ‘Tout for Ioroveno Ol Manufucturer and_Luilder for February, Al the accidents and loua of lifo that have 0o~ carrod in this city from Keroseno explosions aluce last May Lave Leen from ofls nold &4 safo, asserted to range from 110, 190, 160, snd over 100 dagrees. Not ono of those was s &afn oll to uss, and the testa go to show that they wero not properiy made. ‘The teats in ovory case show that thoy commencod to flash at & very low tem porature, and flashed at overy 8 aud 10 degrocs until tho naphtha was sufliciently evaporated, A vary litle naphtha io a good oil will render it dangorous. Au oll that flashes at 112 or 130 de- Reees the addition of ono per centum of naphths will cause to flash at 103 degroes, and two par centum of naphths at 92 dogrees, and so on down to0 40, for the simple reason that auy dil which baile at & Jow tomporature will give off an Inflsmuable vapor st o till lower temperature, which vapor will be driven out whon hlln mized with any other oll, Ono sorious trouble ia that thaetest rocognlzed by law is not safe, and it {s becauso the luw roo- oguizan a low test, say 110 dogrees, as eafe that manufacturore will mako {t. Dealers who osro nothing for tho lives of others will adulterate it with clieap benaine or uaphtha bacause they can mako o few conts extra, and cousumers buy it becauso it is clieap, The remedy of this whole mattor Hea with the consamere; lot thom da- mand & high test. aud buy only of respousible makers and dealers. ‘T'hio fusurance compsnies and Bosrd of Under- ‘writere can rouder. 5ront and jmportant servico, and josuro no buslding, stock, or fives whers = low grade of oil is used, sold, or kept. ‘They havo alroady loarned s great dosl by experienoe, sud to their own sotious loss, when thay jusurod various gredes of petrolaum without making s distincilon between tlhe boavy ond light, ar liho more 8afe and sspecially dangerous nsg. 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