Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1876, Page 7

— TIHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY., FEBRUARY 2I, 1870, THE ROSTRUM. «Abraham Lincoln---The Btory of His Life,” by the Ilom Leonard Swett ¢foneurs D, Conwny's Dosoription of the British MetropolisesIts Beenes and Sights, yrof, Gunning’s Fifth Lecture on Geole oRyes«Rock and Motal Making, °* ABRAHAM LINCOLN. LXCTURE 1Y TAE HON. LEONARD SWETT. Alatgoand cultured sudienco ussemblod at @grom's Opera-flougo yestorday afternoon to [tsten to Leonard Swett's lectnra on ** Abiaham Lincoln." Tho locture was the introductory one to a proposed series of Bunday lectures at (he tamo plsco, and ite succesa gives fsir assuranco tat tho plan will be carried out. “Inthe autumn of 1840, eald Mr, Swott, “ whnlo sitting with Judgo Davis in a small room of acountry tavern fu Mt. Pulaskl, 1ik, & tall man, with a circular blue cloak thrown over bis shoulder, came into one door sud went out of another, passing through tho room without elopping or spoaking. ** Who is that?* eald I to the Judgo. * Why, don't you know him? That's Lincoln.” In n few moments ho returnod, and then, for tho first timo, I bacamo acquainted with the man, who sinco then Las so deeply im- prossed his character and memory upon the hearta of o groat poople. o was then 40 yenrs oid, bis Ngure was alim and hia featurcs angular. Dut his face was cheorful, and did not botray the marke of csro whicl the Jater yoars of his lifo doveloped. Ifs biad shortly boloro comploted 18 FIRBT AND ONLY TERN In Congress, and just then had coma from Bpringlicld to attend the Logan County Circuit, over which Judge Davis presided. Tho eiroult at tho timo was composod of four- Leen countisy—Livingston, Woodford, and Tazo- well Leing the most northern, and Bluolby, Moul- trio, and DoWItt tho most southern, The Court commencod alout the lab of Septomber and lasted from shroe days to a wook at cach dounty- seat, and cloeed about Christmas, Tho spring clzeult bogan about the 1st of Match sud tormi- mated in May. ‘I'io modo of travel waa mosily upon horse. back, but oocaejoually by buggy. Tho roads wera simply tralla across tho prairies. The crecks, slulcos, and generally the etrenms, wero testitate of bridgos, and the prairies, varyiog in width from b or 6to 16 miles, woro in & stato of naturg,—greon and variegated with wild flowers in nprinfi, and yeliow from tuo riponed pratrio- grase, liko a whieat-flold, in nutumu. Dlooming- ton contained 1,600 tuhabitants, and tho other county-gcats, now unmbering from G,000 to 10,000, bad only & fow bousee, JAILS WENE LOG TTUTA, and tho court-houses not much botter. In 1652 tho country becamo wmore seltled, and the eir- cuit wna lossoned in size, and from that time until 1860 I attendod courts at Logan, DoWitt, Champaign, Yormilion, Tazewell, Liviugston, and Macon. The four countlos Ingt named were soon transforred to mew or other circuits, and from 1854 to 1860 tho old cirouit_swas composed of Sangamon, Louan, McLean, DoWiit, Chame paign, and Vermilion, and tho courts lasted three months cach spring and fall. The clrcuit, b4 originally composed, embraced many men of marked ability, whoeo names have becoms conspicaoua sntho history of 1lli- nois and the natlon, At Springflold thore wero Zincoln, Logan, Douglas, Stuwart, 1. B, Ba- kor, aftorwards Benator from Oregon, and wiho fell at tho battlo of Ball's Bluff; snd John J. Jlardin, who befora my doy attended, occasion- ally, somo of thocourte. At Lincoln there wore Bamnel C. Parker; C. 1, 3loare, of Clitton; Oll- wer Davis, of Daovillo; J, B, I'ictiin, of Charles- ton ; Judgo Thornton, of Bhelby., Edward linn. pigan, formerly United Biatus Sountor from Indiaua, snd Danloel W, Voorboos, usually mot us at tho Danville Court. After I begsu to acquire o practice and travel thecircuit, Judge Travis, Mr. Lincoln, Ward If. lLomon, zud mysell spent sbout eix months in the your in some listlo lotol, constituting suosinntialiy ::;:uhmuy. No geatiemen other than ourselves TBAVELED TIE ENTIRE CINCULT, We_jourunyed together aloug the road, slopt in thio samo cabin or wwall Lotel st pight, break- fustod, diuod, audsupped togothor overy dny, and lived aa intimutely and, in A nwoner, ns triendly, as porbaps wen ' over lived. It will bo my object in tha presont lecture to give to you 3. Lincoln oa I saw him in thia life ; also, wiat 1 know of him as the {hought of bis futuro groat- pess began to dawn, togothier wilh some person- al remiuiscoucos of his publiclife, sud expeciaily those not gouorally known," Mr, Bwett thou desctibed the hife upon the cirouit, which was sn assombisgo of lawyors from varioua parts of the country, tryiug such cases as were ready for trial, spooding a Joily lile togother for a fow days, and passing to the next :Lmnn torepeat tho same scenes. 14 was here at E . . LINCOLN'S STORY-TELLING developod itseif and aroso to ita full height, and he lecturor gavo sovoral of thoso in a naoner which showed his boarty appreciation of Lin- oln's love for tho ludlerous sud his keou sonse of wit, Inreforonce to Mr, Lincoln's early lifo Dr., Bwett said that all the histories which bo lind rend biad ropresonted bim in a sad and dole- ful view, ‘o elow that this could not bo the resl cliaractor of tho man, ho gave Mr. Lincolus own version of his early years, which suowed that, while hio was [ndecd poor, yet it wau A IATPY FOVERTT. 1In reforenco to his poreonal economy and his habit of dreso, Alr, Bwolt said that ecoomy way a8 natural to Br. Lincoln as lis simplicity ot charaotor, It was & mistako, sajd Mr, Bwett, to eupposs that Mr. Lincoln was slovouly or untidy in’ bis appearance. Ilis clothes woro mimply plain and coarse, and thrown upon him wishout much regard to noatuess of fit. As fllustrating e study of cconomy, Mr. Bwott suid that ouly » fow daya before his election as Presidout ho hoard him declds, while sitting by agreomont as s Judge o Dewitt County, tlat & suit of clothos boughit for a minor “son of a woli-to-do farmer, costing $28, wns & epocied 0f extrava- ganco unanited to bis condition fu life, and add- ed, from the bonel, ** Ilavo vory rarely iu my lifo Liad & wuit of clothes Witiou cosT £29." In Washington, Mr. Bwelt sald, he shaved Baly sud dressed neatly, not bocauss Lo thought woro of clothing thore than at lhome, but »unply becauso bis servanta stteuded to it. In ihis counection the lectutor narratod the circum- stunce of a servant once by persistency compoll- {ng him to ohiange bis clothies ks Lo Wos guing to the Capitol. This indiiferonce to olothing was, 83 by sald, etmply owlug to tho fact thut Lis wind was upon other things. In roforeuce to his svoial fifs, tho lecturer epoks of Mr, Lincoln as emiuently social, fu- «quisitive, and_commuuicativo; mingling frosly with all men, baving NO RESFECY YOB RANK AS BUCH, and gaining intormation from ali men iu his con- tact with thom. Iu this connection, Mr, Bwett epoke of an ocoavion at tho White Honse in which the Proaldent koot invited Ministors, Hen- ators, aud mombers of tho Cabinet waiting whils ke gave an audionce to some privute soldiers from the battle-tioid of Bail's Bluff, the day atter that battle waa fought. In eating sud drtuking, sald Alr. Bwott, Lio- toln was oxtremsly temperate, having littio re- gard for delfcacics or Y:xurlul 1o eatlog, and nover complainiog in Lus clircult Iifo of bad faud, bad bedy, or Lad accommodations, Ilo nevor usod_tobacco {n auy form, aud never was aoc- zused of a social vice or an‘immora} aot. MI8 RELIGIOUS VIEWE, 31r, Bwett sald that this was & enbjoct upon which wnck hind besn publishod,and moat of it was erroneous, When Mr, Lincoln was sassssinated, coutinnod M. Bwett, the tender rogard tn whiol hie was held and the noble sontimenits ho had ut- tersa induced the Church to clalm too much in reforence to him. It wasolalmed that he had “ exporienced roliglon,” as the expression was anderstood iu the past geaeratiou, and he was cauosized by the religious slemant of the coun- try. Thiv was olalmiug more than the truth woula justify, if * experiencing religion " and bejng » Christisn ' were underatood aa tech- i Auother element had attempted to nical torwe. domonpstrate that e was an infidel, belisviny In tittle or uwothitg, snd Lolulug ssored thiuge cheap. This was wtill farthor from the truth. + T don's mean,” said BIr. Hwett, * {o net wy- celt up as an atalible judge Id reforence b oooveralon or sounducsa on the five polnts of Calviuiem, but 8o far as I msy judge, 8ir, Lin. ooln was & mau full of rellgions sentis t, and » beuever in ail the cardinal docirines of the Christisu religlon, Ife certamly belisved in the existoncoof a God esthe Author aud Rulerof the uoiverss, aod fn Jesus Christ as the grest Toachor and Exsmple,of mankind, and fo the im- wortality of the soul, Ho belioved in the growth and desolopment of mankiad by the practice of virtus, and the dwarfing and the DETENIURATING EFFECTS OF VICE, Carrylng such convictions into hia daily life, he Imcxlned tho goldow_rule, and lived himaelf & lfo of self-denial and permonal purity. Ila placed upon his follow-man for hus awn Lenoflt no yoke, and g0 faraa lay in_bis powor wonld permit no ons olsa to do ao, He lont to avery man ho met & holping bhand, and watked throueh lifo with malicotowards nono and charity for ail, If much a man i8 not a Clristlan, certainly moat Cltiutinne wonld bo grostly fmproved by bo- coming like him," In raferouce to his oducation, Mr. Hwett rald that,duiing the porivd of his voutl, Mr. Lincoln was an cducated wan in the true sonuw of tho wordy not that he nuderstaod clasiical litera- turo or mythology, but 18 MIND WAI 8TORED with the knowledge of the times in which ho lved. Although Lis nover wout to sciool but &1z ‘wooks, yot by subsoquont atudy anid caro be loarned to spoll acourately. Although he nover studiod En‘;mh grammar, his sontonces were grammatleal, bocaugo, llke himnolf, they twero sunploandstraight, Honoverread oxtoneively the classic, pootio, and proso writers of the lauguago. 1iis stylo, thorefore, was mado up from tho lsugusgo uscd {n conversation rathor that the language found fu the books, Mr, Bwett algo atatod that during tho eironit lifa, fron 1850 to 160U, Lincolu was in tho habit of earrving about with him commou-schuol Looks, suchi ns worka on reometry and astronoiny, aud studylog them whon the Courts were ot fn geasion. A A LAWYER, An o trial lawyer, Mr. Hwott said Lincoln wan the peor of any man. His strengibh and skill consisted 10 always knowing tho watorial polut upon which (he ¢aso turned, \ith greas adroit~ nesslio gained n standing before the Court and tho Jury by giving away all immaterial issucs in order that ho night bo ensbled more sue- cerstully to catry tho one peint upon which the caso Lingod. AR A TOLITICIAX. 1n roforence to Mr. Lincoluas a politiclan, Mr, Hwoit stated some facts not heretoforo geverally koown. For inatance, ho said that, iu tho fall of 1864, when Lincoln attendod Douglas’ moct- ingu and answered him, aiid aftor they liad had the joint debate at Pooria, the aubsequont ap- pointmonts ut Lincoln and othor places woro given up by Liucolu at the spocial ersonsl roquost of Douglas hlmsolf, n referenco to tho jolot ~dobatos held betweon Lincoin and Douglas in 1858, Mr. Bwott said that Lincoln's habic waa to spoud ten or fitteon dnya borween tho debates in caroful study nud preparation for the jolnt deobato iteolf, giv- ing little hoed to tho personal mpooches tnat b was daily making, Beforo tho folnt debato at Chatleston, said tho locturer, Mr. Liucolm, as bo came to Sloomington, summoned at Judge Davis' bouso his fnmnnnl frionds, and (hero put bofore them in the main all the propositious which ho afterwsrds put to Douglas ln the joint dobmto. Tihis was dono for the purpose of hoarlog overybody's anewor to tho propositions 8o that no “proposition untonablo might be put forth, and no aoswer that could ba mado wonid take him by surprise. Mr. Bwett raid that whon Lincoln's uamo began to bo dis- cussed for the Prodidoncy i 186Y, hio was In tho habit simply - OF LATGIILNG AT IT, and a8 late a8 the Decatur Convention, beld in May, 1800, ono week before the Obicago Convens tion, Mr. Lincoln soriously disoussod cowiug to Cliteago to atlond tho Convention, but nally fave up, sayinyg that the truth wea ho was too much of a candidato to go, aud not euough of a candidato to stay at bowme, Aftor sponking of tho Prosidential ofoctlon, Ay, Swott gavo a brlof review of 3iR, LINCOLN'S ADMINIBTRATION, 1n which ho nesertod sovorat focts not generally kuown, For fnstance, Mr, Swott eaid that Lin- coln never belloved thore waa to bo & war nutll about the timo Le wont to Washington. Tho lecturor also assoricd that, after tho War begnn, for two yoara Lincolu tiad prosecuted it without hopo; and Mr, Swelt made tho addi- tional amswertion that bo did npot be- licyo tho man, could be fouad who over hicard Mr. Lincoly, during those nrat two Eenr! of the War, distinctly and clenrly ut- tor thio opinion that we worn going to bo success- fulin it After tho I".f“" had passod L be- finn to have hopo, aud from tha time hopo uwoed until the War termivated, e nover saemod to ontertsin a doubt, Mr. Swett's lecture ozcupted over an hour in its delivory, but the mattor was of duch unususl {utorest that Lo hold tho unflaggiug attention ot bis audiouco unhl its ocloso, when ho was re- wrarded with gonuloe and pm‘lougud applause, —_— ' LONDON. LEGTURE DY MONCULE D. CONWAY. McCormick was filled yesterday sfternoon to bhoar tho Rev, Moncure D, Conway lecture on # London," in tho regular Dime Lecluro Course, The Rov, Robert (ollyer intra.lneed the locturer, and. aleo mnnounced that Ar. Iorace White would speak noxt Sunday, tho thome of Lis lec- ture botug “Tho Fioanclal Crisis,” in which overshody was interestod, Mr. Conway thon came forward, and oxplaiaod that ho felt rathor dinldent in comlug bofors a Chicago audionce to speak on Loudou, 88 ho knew that he was ap- pearing beforo an audience of a groat metrapo- lis, whose inbabitauts, Jike those of London, were in a groat degreo cosmopolitau. 1t was sixteen yoars ainca hie biad beon to Chi- cago, and, in roturning to it, ho felt hike the Abbot of a Fronch monastery, who wont into the woods to commune with Nature, and there ho beard tho song of the nightingale. 1l camo back to the monaatory when tho song was over, but found votling by which he could bo romom- bored, and tho peoplo living around called him ¢razy whon he told thony ho was Abbot of the monastery, Thoy scarched back tho records, and found that 100 yonra beforo Le lad been the Abbot, snd that ho loft at that timo, and had listenod 300 years to the song of iho nightingalo; and that waa the way ho folt fn regard to Chicago, (hat 1‘;;“1 risen 10 hor might, and though destruyed by rq LAD MISEN AGAIN, Thera was a groat hiatorical feeling fn Amorica about England, and bie would not entlroly limit big remarks to Loudon, 'Lhero was s quickor impnlsp iu our own blood and veins, whon ws romombered our forefathons, England, in & measure, coutrolled tho destinies of one third of the buman race. Americans, however they might like liogland, ho thouglt they liked it at & roopecttul distanco, Thoy labor nuder the idoa that tho people of Loudon live uuder n kidden aunospliers of molsture and amoke, and that the English become heavy-mind- ed, and prosy, and {ust he was a songloss kind of & bir o bhad no desire to anything da- rogstory or scornful of London’ st this timo, though ho would not sy that hs could o, or ued nover dous so horetofors. Ils Lind spoken agaiwst London smolte, but London dudu'c mind itand moved on just tho same. Tho fact way, London snd the ‘cocknoy did not make thowm- solves, but like *“‘Topsy, doy growed.” Mo thought that these mon had risen from others as bottor mon, and that there would be still bot- tor In tho future. 'The 300 or 400 bresthing squares of London wera once country, and now Loudon covered 142 square milos, aud had a popuiation of 4,000,000 souls, to which 50,000 woro boing added abnually without being felt. London was inhabited by a people of man bloods. 8ix or seven races gave the blood whicl tlows in our own volus, - TIE EASTERN REYUOTES founded in Eugland thoir Plymouth Rock, afmi- 1ar to that in Americs. To “some extent archi- tectural London and ite euvirons wero not beaus titul. Bmoke might bo sald to have boen chiof decorator, sud zuin the chief arclitect. ‘I'ho hyslognomical appesranco of London Indicatod Pn hu true inwarducss s inuch ss man's [[lhylllng. nomical appuarance indicated him. Ile would not go into history, Jondon showed the grawths of a groat poaple,” Old Loudon, with its uarrow, ronnd-paved atreats, gradually folded ous into broad thoroughfaros and buildings, buils upon the fawh and bonor of s poo- nlo. la then weut over the docorative period, when it wos thought of only for the greatness of the Kiug, and only his palaces, sud tho altars of tle churclios woro decorated and benutitiod, In thiy coutury art had descended to the poople, aud it was made manifost that man's mind slould also beadorned. Duriog this century London Lad becume tho howo of decorated mansious. ‘Lhe Bohool of Doeign had placed seven musoums in X\ummfi- tou lfime; and Enogland, in her wealth, Lad fall- en from tho pedostal of decorativg a Kink's alaca to docorating the mind of tasu and wan's ample—bis Lome, He uvext alluded to the ebarn of London sntiquity, which told of it relinion aud genius, o could not take & step in Loudoo but ke felt that ho trod upon HOLY GLOUND— ground whera batiles Lad boou lost and won— where he trod among (he tombs of uen who bad faught for mou. llu then alluded to the tomb of Joha Wesley in City-Road Chapel, Hebhad goue over iha grave of Jobn Dunyan, sud ad seen tho quaint Jusoription upon the munumout of Qeorge Fox. All these bad biought peculisr thoughtis to the tuciurer’s mind, whioh were eloqusutly described. Towards all these was a wort of charmed an- tquity. Thongh living ‘in the prossut, thers seomed gomething which conmected with the pant and lJod ono back. [fs then describod an ofd club-room at 8t. John's Archway, in which tho ppeakor had mot aoma fricude Ias¢ At Darna- bas' Day. Hore he wont one coid night, snd, under the windowa of Nowpate I'rinon, whore Jack Bhopard nad mado his encapio from ono window sud was hung at another, whera *Olivor Twist™ and the ‘Artfu Dodgor " met, &nd, gofng up A winding stair, found thera an anciont Gotlic room, whero, in thoulays of the Crusades, the Kolghts Tetnplar met the citizons of T.ondon, and fiom whore lipy tho citizons dorived the nowsof battles ; and, vico-versa, the citizens exohanged withthem, and told thom what bhad bappesed in Lundon, Thero wore NO NEWATAPENS IN THOAK. DAYS, In that toom aftorwards Oliver Goldsmith and Haw Johnson mat, and thero thoy published the Geatleman's Monthdy, 'Thers, alro, Johnson in- troduoed David CUarriok, and appisuded and coiticized Tum, Hach men, who lived lu the past, might if they Lived, also be lutorosted In tho presont, The old cluba were the neeta for liberal fn- quiry fn Buropo: and, for tlai mattor, political lLiborality, too, 1lo then dwelt upon the En- glishmatr's love for ofd cnstoms, espocially 3t thuno o!d customs wers #o old a4 to be of 1y ue, But thoy nover altovad poiitical capital to Lo connocted with it. It was so with all classos, Mo paid tributes to Colotiage, Darwin, Tenny- son, sud Catlyle, & consorvative mcn. London, be ‘satd, had in & measure sclilod the dream ot Boclalisn. Suciatism lnd aprang up and beon perfected in Lhio Clubs, o then dwalt on the Lord Mayor's banquet aud ity suciont ussges, and recounted the ceramoulen attondant with it, He suld that ot .£4,000,000 income suuusliy for tho poor of London, £3,000.000 were epent in rod tape, thongh there woro no rings, It waa all done be- causo 1L woa a old eustoin, NG MAN COULD HOLD the amallest oftics in London who had ever had a note pmlcnled.' 1o hiad visttod poor women who mado dolls' dressen for wealthy poapla in Lelgravia for 8 centa a dozon 3 who mada collara. for & cents dozen, aud & gross of match-boxes for 6 conta; yet those poople were mot holped out of the poor-funds, becauss it~ would be .divertin tho money from the Iotter of willa made 500 years ago. Eyon (George Peabody's preat gifta “soomed to b drifting towards the city corporattons, rather l.lmr,l helping the poor. *“Whittivgton and bis cat" ho regarded on & Iiindoo myth, All tho Lord Mayors want to make it nppear tuat thoy Wore puor ouco, l‘nufllu might thiuk as they pleased ahout English monarchy, and talk us thoy liked, but tus Gourt waa ouly o handsome vielure-head, as the Quoen had “withdrawn all protense at show. Tho people wers no longer uade auobblsh by aping and imitating the Court, and by this reform of servility and nnobbery the pooplo bisi come 4o find out what tho Court weant, The English peopis wers NOT AH IMAGINATIVE a8 other peoplo were, Tho imaginative Western man oamo over to Lol of untold richoes in mines, such a8 the Emma and other minen; and the Lpglirhman was mado to boliove that thoy ex- touded from Alaska to New Moxico, and all that it needed to dovelop them was a fow paltry bundred thousand pounds. And o this way, tho Englishman was quictly takon in, Ho thon gavo the lustory of Georgs Bidwell, who forged a nolo for 100,000 ou the Davk of England, by duplicating a geunine one, whioh Lo bLad purctiased” fn Jtostordam. Didwell got tho wonay upon tho forged bill, and was sent to tha Deonitontiary, but hio Las tho real ono laid awa as 8 llc!l-(‘g(iy whon he comen out, and the Danl of England i8 trylug to devise somo means by whicly it can proveot its payment. It was this imaginatiou which was dovelopod in this cona- try, and took advautspe of tho Lnglishman. London was the roalatio contre of tho Brtish Empire. Tho lecturer noxt gave a skotch of Tacliament, and hatred of sproad-oagloism, and followed with a briof doxcription or tho famous Joseph Whitworth, the guuwaker, with which Lo closed. —— GEOLOGY. LEGTURE DY I'MOF. W, M. GUNNING, Following is & full abatract of; Prof. Guo- oing's locturs, dellvered yestorday evenlog at the Third Unitarian Cburch, corner of Afouros and Laflin strects : The speaker eaid In bogtanfog that the orig- inal crust of the earth 18 everywhero buried un- der it own ruivs. Ho shiowed that the oldest rocks we can find are claders, snd that tha firat atep in rock-making was oxidation or burniug. In ocesu-making, the first and only etop was & Dbwmning. Tho ocean is only » groat cindor. Xt is burned hydrogon. In motal-making the creative process bas been more {ntricate. Evory metal, if cousidered his- torically, I8 a poom, kindling the imagination as tha loftlest siralusof Milton or Shakespoare do not, Tho speaker askod tha audiones to fix their miuds on iron, to the unilluminated go dull and commonplaco. As with rock and ocean, so with iron,—its slarting-point atoms in a nebula, And, as with rocks aud water, the fitat step in its history was oxidation, Two atoms of iron combine with three atoms of oxygen, and tho result in a mole- cule,~n kind of cinder which wator cannot dis~ golvo or hold in solution. Buch molecules, rain- lug into tho carth, are diffused throngh the rocks; and as sofl {8 meraly tho rot or tho grist ground from tho rocks, iron in this form would bo diffused through mand and clay and gravel. The molosulea muat ba pickod ous and brought together into massce before the hond of maen can smelt_thewm or forge thom, How can tlus be done? If you walk through a marah or meadow where. vogetation is rauk and rotting, youwill seo a thin shiving fiim mantling each stagnant pool, Wo will fir our attontion ou this filn, ‘Thowator that sinks into the earth has no powaer to pick out and oarry away a mole- cule of iron, Dut if & water drop holda & parti- clo of catbon frow dead vogotation, such a droj comingin coutaot with an irou molecalo, it pick it up and_carry it away. Ior the irou will glclu onp portion of its oxygon to the carbion to urn it, and, being now one atom of iron wedded o ous atoby of oxygen,the wator picks it out and carries it to a bog, or spring, ot poud, Thoro each iron maleoulo on the surface of tho walor 2borhd anotbor portion of oxygon from the air, and, becoming sgain fvsoluble, separatos from the water and forms the fllm wo fixed our mind on but & momont ago, As this tim growa thick, oarticles fall down from it, and, accumulating beluw, appear as red oohre, If tho wator nies iu a bog, the iron is procipi- tated as Loy ore. ‘The tirut atago of il iron ore is nchite or bog oro. ‘Lune, with heat, and pros- uure, ond crumpling of tha coutainiug rocks, will change 1t froni this primitive form nto the form in which we mno it to-dsy. Aud uow, as Nuturo works in inaeelng hor iron ln aor own time, to shs bas always wrought, Ifold- ing & clump of bog ore in your hand you can say, '*Bo much vegetation bad to grow, and dio, snd rot 1o enabla water Lo pick from the suil 80 many irou particles, aud briug them together wto tlils clump."” Btaudivg beforo tue Iron Monntsin of Mis- souri, you cau say, *‘So much vogstatian "—tlie same in proportion to that wlhich formed the clump ulp ore iu_your hand as the bulk uf that olump is to the bulk of the mountalu—* had to and dio, nd rot ln tho soif of & primeval world.” 'That fridescont film ou tho staguant ool has given wing to your [magination, and akon you back through tho geolvgic wous to the mornitg of Jile, whou wesds, worthless for ali olso, were dyiug and mmn,i. and helplug water to pick from a soil atowms of irou, and briug them togother {nto nuyes, to form & mountsly like this, ‘That {snot all, The film yon Lave sesn so often you naver saw it at sl will wing the imagl- oation awsy tbrough spaco as It has through time, aud give you o vistion of Naturo in other worlds, ‘Tho human mind is 50 wade that hav- ing soon the method of Nasure fiore, and hiav- ing soon the samo results brought hers from intor-planetal I 1t muat sssort tho ssme mothod to outwork the same rosults, Un the 16th of February, the year of grace 1875, 10 o'clook at nighit, 140 miles sbove lowa, appesred & pear-shupod stono 4,000 foet long, brilliant a8 & sun, and terrivlo to man and beast 28 su_army with baunora, It shot athwart tho eky “with & wspoed of 20 milea a mecoud. I¢ broke with & great nolse, and the fragmonta were acattoied over s oounty, \In that motoorite we fiud lron, We ¥ay, theu, that moteorites are waifs from s dis- mautlod world—s world in which vegetation per- formed tho ssme oflice 1o iron-making as Lere nnTll:xl.thntld. @ history of ailver is & poom no lass aublima thau that of iron, lmuglnmuu seos the mlver atom tirst in & nebula. Hulouce fnds ita tirst stage of earth-history in tha sos. The aea holds it 1u aolution, Now beack aud shallow bottom are carpeted with soaweeds. This woead is en- tirely sea-built, Whataver it is, or whataver it han, it was taken from the sea. We find (n it gold and milver and copper, and we musat infer that theso motals are 1o the sea. In the soa- weod silyer I8 & dainty dish. It takes it trom sho sea in patticlea oxcoedingly miuute, and when the woed dies sud sioka iufo the seaweed, theso silver particles sre broughtto rest. The silver stom is taken from the nnrcating ses, and brought to rost (n its bottom through the agency of the Bosw 'hoosands, perchauce mili. fons of years mn{npul. and tho sediments of all those yoars, rich in the ruinu of so wmany goners stions of seaweeds, beconie 100k, sod appesr ab Lat a8 tho rock sirats of a - contwont. And throngh it thene apes tha silver atoma rematn, diffused (hrough the rocks, till Nature ramem« hora them sgeln, How does she te. momber them Water ainks through the moil Iuto ths rocks, bui unices it ninks doop, becomos hiot, and (s under pies- suro, it has no power to dissolvo and carry a from the rocks an atom of wilver, When d and hot and under pressurs [t doew bave pow. to pick out and carry away the silver atom that lien {n its path. The wator that flowa through tho oarth doep below in \arm rills, aa rills of blood through your veins, bears along its freight of smiver till [t comes to o fissura open- ing upward, Itriees in the flcaure, the pressurs In removed. part of the heat i fost, and, losing ita power to hold the ailver, 1t throws it down atom by atom along the wala of the fissare, ready at Iass for the oye and the hand o man. Look now at A silver do'lar and think by what crookod waya and at what cost of time Nature propsred *ur specie payment, and thon think bow touch more crookad the wava Ana how much longer will ba the timo through which our politiciaun will be proparing for it. Llunk fnally how much bettor a nesweod un. deratands the currency fuesiion thau a United Blatoen Heanator, ‘Tho hintory of 16ad, toa, {s a poem—s {ragie em. One of the moat important forsila found n recent timen 18 fossil sen-water. Enough of tho old Laurentian Bea has been found hnprise oned in the crystals of Lautentian rocks to toll us what minerals snd what metals the primeval msea lold, and in what porcent, Wa find that {t held more lead thau the soas biold to dav. llutthe a-ns of to- dav are aitaply romnants of the primoval soa, and whatover that aea hold in excoss of what the noas hold to-day Lias beon procipitated, snd sliould bo found fn rocks formed unidor oceans, We can make Naturo repeat for us her methods, o apeakar drow a Iargo tank and imagined it filled with sen-water barren of lifo, but saturst- ol with lead. Wo cover it over ro that tho water tannot ovaporate. We walt now and watch, but no lead spposrs. Tho lead cannot hetp ftmelt out of tho water. It will not ho procipitated noless thore s help from without, We il wuov put life into our tank, £nd, to give Nature a chance tore- poat heraolf, wo will put into tho tank animals ot tho same type ay thoss which peopled the son when lead was put {uto tho limostoues of Iiliuois and Wicconeln, The speaker drew a number of atrange sea sitimals of that remote period, snd then their noarent living represcutatives. Wo now wait and watch sgam, but_the walla of the tank show no load graius, Lifo was not the sgent to abstract the lead, Wo wait for death. Au anlmal dies, and svon particlea of lead ap- gulr vrecipitatod along tho walls or on tho ottom of the tank, Death has beon tiie agent in shatracting lead from thio sea and storing it in rocks, The spoaker showed what chomical actiona oocur botweon the lead—a sulphlde an Lold in solution—and the decaying bodr, to canse precipitation of lead na galona. From irou and silvor and lead the speakaer genoralized, and said that something must bavo lived and died beforo any metsl was brought to rest ond massed into ores. The great storo- houso of motals the worla over i rocks rich in tho ruins of organio lifo, and it isa fact of sig- nificanco that hero in tho Northwest metats wero ntrodaced into tho rocks on o great scalo at tho very time when life was introduced iuto the oconns on A great scale, From metal-makiog the mpenkor turned to mountaln-making, and showed how, by the phi- Josophy of a caollog globe, such & globe woutd he wrinkled {oto mountains and tortured by vol- csnoos and oarthquakes. No ecience, Lo wald, roaches ita highest stago until it becomes comparative, Anatomy is ho ectoncoat all nutit it becomes comparative anate omy, nod geology does not becomo the sublimest of “ecionues until it is comparative geology. All worlds, he went on_to slow, are ensentially of tho same mattor, and are nuder the sams laws, ilin methods had been aoalytical. Tho great expeniment of DPlateau gave to our sclence another mothod,—tho synthetic. Tnis experiment was dellueated, and 1t was shown how, frotn a eort of ol nebuls, an ofl globo {¢ born, and how plansts ave detachiod from this globe, and moons from plancts. ‘The expeii- mont was yoado to show o universo in its doath a8 well a8 in it birth, The ucivorze ia fiutto {n time, it not in space. Things seon ars tom- poral, Things unscen are eternal. Nature. with all her pomp of stars, in oul{; garment woven by the Uneoen. Iu those cyeles of death in thero that which does not dio? Heiouco has tho ear of the sgo, and a question burns on the lip of overy eariicat man and woman, oven the #ame which burued on tho lip of e Iduwesn ob., You eny to sclence * Mon In your namoe have &nid, * We hove sounded tho doeps of space and the doepn of tiino, and we tiud 1o nlaco for tho doad, Tho dead aro doad for their abodes are not.'” The manof sclenco may answer, **We work on muotter and forco. Wa bave demon- strated a form of mattor whiclk lles as far be- soud your sensen as that which vou call apiris, We liave shown that this ether iwust be a milliun timas as solid a4 lead, and a million times na clostio oy steel. Wo have shown that it _fills all soacs, aud bathos all suns. Is it barron of life? From fhis speck of the universe we look ont on the globes of the night-leaven, and wonder whether, amld the infinitude ot worlda, thia alono i the abodo of lifo? From thin body of floah wo look out aloug the thrills of light bs- yond Orion, beyond tho headod formsof tho milky ways, into a boundless, tremulous realm of mattor, whioh no fleshiy eye has secn, and no band of flesh has touchod, and no body of flest ean (nherit, and wonder whetber this dleslily raalm alono in the abodo of lifo? Other abodos there aro,—other realms of lifo thors may be.” You say then, *“Woli, can it bo that man at doath may paes into the uunasen and_stll live ¥* The mau of sciouco can anawor, * Wa work on foron and matter, We have demonstratod that po forco in over lost. Wo have showu that that in mnan which wills and thiuks and is the man is. a force, and that itis not traunsformed thrilly of light and Leat. e Lave shown that this forco—will aud cousclousness—daos not exint in any degrea as & property in & portion of matter, It inaesociated with tho body, but it 1s not of the body, It may live on then when the body, hike a worn garmend, drops, . Loy the young eagle In what neet you will, “E1in ery wut uwoop of eagles overnead Vibeate prophotio througa its quivering winge, And muko it polee itsell for the eagle's Might." Of tho groat cosmos, man {a zun epitoms, Waves of light from sun and star have knit the tismaen of Ins tlesl; Jifo that pulsed through fish, and lird, snd besat, mlong the seons of cology, beats in his voins: and while yostod in this budy of flesh ochoes from boyond iuvita- tious, a8 the sweep of wings thrill his inner be- ing, and the sonl polscs ftavlf for the sonl’s flight. ‘I'ho cagle mounta. Man passes, but ke doea not dle. Tho lectura last night cloaed the course, but a strong deslre hsa boen oxprossed to Loar Prof. QAuiming on the Bouth Hide, snd arrangements hiava bnop made with him for & coursa in the Fourth Uniturian Church, corner Prairie avento and Thirtieth stroot. 1t will commence Sunday ovening next. ———— Nnpoleon nt Gothae Correxvonilence goston Guzelte, Do you remembor that in Mr, Bayard Tay- for's last volumo there fa a poom entitlod ** Na- polean at Gotha #* In graphio and graceful vorso tho poot teils how tho conqueror marched into Germany and touk pouscssion, smong others, of the cautle of Friedsustem. Among the rotatners of this castle waa the ducal hunts. man's ko, A pm:“n'fid bright-cyod stripling: scarce 13 years o ind, This lad eaw with rlslug indignation that *al wora slaves and cowsids' beforo the ono great man, Napolean. 11l4 young blood was tired, and ho aworo to free the land ot fwsconqueror, Upon one life hung ail this shamo and degradasion, “ Ll take it with my own hand,” he thougbt, “and earn my couutry's gratituds.,”" 5o Lo took an old mueket down ftom tha wall, and clesned aud loaded it, and startod out as though fora day's sport. But ho had not gone far whon ho returned to tho castle aud loy fn wait for tho Lwporor. Hoon his watch was rowarded, lo discerned tho woll-known figure, with the arma crossed bebind the back, walking lolsurely aod nlano toward him. ‘The boy ralsed the gun aud pointed it diroctly st the Lmperor; bis Hoger waa on tho triggor, Just s ho was about ta fire Napoteon saw lim, and tizod his cold and ptorc- Ing gaze upon the trowblivg 1ad, and walked calinly past him without even looking back, 'he gun full from the boy's terrified bauds, aud Bo stood rooted to the spiot, [ had nover come worow thie incident in auy life of Napoleon, sod I ralied Mr, Taglorifit was truo, He assures me that it oceurred word for word ae ho relates it, and that it was told him by tho lad, who grew to be s statesmau and a savant, This little cireumetauco mada tho miost profound Impres. sion upon tho boy sud man, nho naed to sy, “ Uod's purposes were grander ; He thrust me from bis way!" Thiaiucident was told by BMr. Taylor for the firat time, His poet's instinct saw ita dramatio quality at & glance, and he has mado a stirrlng poem oat of his facts. I don't koow when auything hzs impressed me more with (he greatucss of Napoloon than this aaoc- dote. 118 hisd avery rossou ta bolieve that his dentls was but the matter of & sccond, yet be ver Mlinolied, but with oue glauce of his eagle eyo disarmed tho misguided boy. et JorodSiad AR5, ‘The passenger who refused & counterfeit five- cent picce from aatspet-car conduotor sald his objection was purely a take-uickle one. COUNTY CONTRACTS. How the Man Who Furnishes the Conl Makes tho Most of It The Way He Gives Short Measure to the Poor Who Ars Bupplied by the County. Something for the Commlssioners to Thoroughly Investigate, Beveral weeks ago A communication was given place in thess columns calling attention to the quality and quantity of provisions belng desls out to the paupers at the County Agont's office. The article was written Ly a gentleman doing businers near the Agont's oftice, and who was dally brought in cantact with $he unfortunates, aod who, heing charitabty disposed, bad taken 8 groat interest in makiog inquines of those he mot to asceriain liow well they were being merved, Tho articla callod particular sttontion to the care of an agnd widow Iady, who had rtated her grievances to him with tears o ber oyos, and who was endeavoring to live and maintain a decrepit daughter on what shis wan recelving, which was nnid to ho of INPERIOR QUALITY ANXD AIIORT WEiOmT. Kincs that publication a 'IninuNe roporter bas searched out the writer, nnd through him the widow in question, Bho was found liviug on Nortlr Halsted atrect, in snsthing elsa thsu pleasant quarsers, her spariments boing virtu- ally nuder the eidewsaik. Hor situation was found oqually as pitlablo as sho had pictared It. From hor mauuers it waa vory evident that she had scen better days, and her condition ap- peared to bs telling upon hor mind, Not ratiae fled with a single viait, & second visit was made lier a fow davs later, to find that sho had besn driven from ber abode BY A MEARTLESS LANDLORD, becausn she was In arroars for reut. Rhs wan found, however, in the same locality, And in far bettor {rama of toind. Bhe talked 'fresty, lmt not complainingly, but whnt shie said may prove of interest to tho publio, as showing how tho contractor to supply the sxmr with cosl is nlling bis contract, snd bow ha is tnaking money, If her story be true, by desliog out short weight to the paupera. Bheeaid that she firat noted s dis- cropancy in the coal delivered by comparing the sizo of tho pile of a neighvor with her own from tho same wagon., Iler pile was by far the largeat, and if eho bad roceived s half-ton Ler peighbor could not have had more than & quar- torof & ton, This was the first time she had hiad occasion TO QUESTION 'THE ACCUBACY of the coal delivery, but she dld not complaln, in fact bad no room to, from the fact that she know alie was favored beyond bLer neighbor. But her suspicious were aroused, and from that time on she watched the coal very closoly, and noticed s falling off in tho amount given Lee, which drove her to buy coal from a nelghboring yard to halp out hor supply. Sho had no money, ut was fortunata enough lo get credit for's quarter of & ton, When this wan delivered ehe bad it put Io barrels, and tho quarter of & fon moas two and threc-quarter barrels, When this bad been used up, sho wont to the Couuty Agent's office for an- othor lisif ton, to shich stie was by this tiwe en- titled. \hen this was delivered, she took the procaution to measure it, also, in the same barrels, aud fonnd that it moasured fonr barrels and & fraction loss than an eighth, On tho basia of the quarter of s ton purchased, which {# fair to estimate on undor the ciroum- stances, tho half-ton delivered her by thocounty contractor was SHORT JUGT A DARREL AND & HALF, or a fraction loes than ono-fourthl Takiog thia a8 & apecimen of the deliverios by the contractor, au ldoa can be gained of the profitableness of this branch of the coal contract. Turning from the contractor's deallng with the paupers, the reporter next gave some at- tontion to tho supplying of tho county building, in which, to eay ibo lenst. thoreis & repro- bongible Joosensas that ehiould not bo tolersted, To deliver conl to the Juil and Criminal Court Building it 13 slmost necersary to drive over » pair of ecales, which have baei BUBTING OUT IN THE JAIL YARD for yoars, yet thoy are nover used, sud no one exceit the contractor himseif can form the ro- motest ides of what proportion of the cosl pad for is ever doliverad. Thue scales were doubtiess put in the yard for some such purposa as weighing coal, and to eerve as a chaok on contractors, Lut thoy Liave loog sincs besome useless, aud if they are not come domnod a2 & _npuisance at an early day the County Board will not prove true to its_well-csrned reputation. The coal da- tivered, if waighed at sll, 1a weighed at ths con- tractor’s yard, on his scales, hauled to the build- ing, dumped in the basemeut. avd tbat (s sll that in kuown of it, except that its receipt is cextitlod to by eome ane WHO PHETESDS TO RECEIVR IT, ‘Whother {lic same looseness provmls in other deliveries to tho connty ls nat known, but 1bis fmir to presumo that thoy do, from the fact that tue other institntions ara more obscurs in thelr Jocation, Will the County Board coudescend to look juto thess mattora at onco, sad sss that tha county {a vot inposed on in itedealings with the aontiaotors, and thst tho poor, at losss, Are pro- tocted from the gresd of the uoscrupulous 7 —————— A Losing Gamo, Pall Maill Qazette. The Budget of the Italian Mintstry of Fioance contaius some interosting particulars with refer- ence to the lottery (il lolfo), which ia & fruitful sourco of rovenuo throughout thoe Kingdom. In 1874 the Treasury recoived a sum of three mill- ions sterlng from differont speculators, of which noariy ave-tird was vontributed by the Neapolitans, Tho I'icamoutero snd the Lom- baras furnished foeacly & Laif mitlion each; tho Sicilians, £400,000; “the Tuscans, £360,0003 the Vouotiaus, £320,000; tha Nomana, £250,000 and the inbabitants of tho Proviuces of Bari, £200,000. The smount won in prizesa was £1,000,000, na that the ‘Tronsury derived a profit of more tuan & million sterliug, less the cowmis- sion pald to the persons who receive the juvest. ments of tho public, Some Provinces were more_fortnuate in thelr specalations than ofh. era; for, winle the Sicilians won £300,000 out of the £400,00 inveated, the Piadmontess and the Lombards, who had staked hal? s mitlion each, rocoived back but £260,000 each, 'I'he Neapoli- tans won back £600,000 ont of the £850,000, and the Homans more than 50 per cont of tha quar- ter of a willion which they Lad iuveatod. Ship-Bullding During the Past Year, According to she New York Shl{mx‘ny List, the totsl numbor of vossels built in the United States in 1470 Is 1,318, against 3,147 built in the grqvm\u year. ‘I'be number of shipa aud butks uilt last “year, lowever, excecds thas of 1874 and the two previoua years. The whole number af shipa s 114. The bumber of stoamera buitt in thosame yearis 040, which iucludes many sioall eraft. ‘Threc-fourtha of she sailiug-vea- sl were constructed in tho shipyards of Maine slthough Maseachusetts, next in order, burne out the greator number of heavy cratt. fififi%figazfi c.l]uinn. WOODWORKERS Generally 1 Your atlention is called to TAYLORS PATENT ADJUSTABLE PLANE GUIDE, au catire) tiow tavention; caa bo altached Lo sny plane; wich fs une may can do the work of four; you can squars or Devel a4 any angle with perfect accuracy without tha usoof try-squara o bevel Tt nells ftielf wherover abown. Agenta ruske from $10¢0 §20 8 day selllug it. 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CARRIAGES. We_are selling at greatly re- .duced prices, LANDAUS, LANDAULETS, OLARENOES, 00ACHES, COUPES, and OOUPELETS, Our Patent Counterbalanced Front FIVE-LIGHT LANDAUB & FALL- ING FRONT BERLIN COACHES arothe loading Carriagos of tho day, and, for beauty of design, simplic- ity, and thoroughness of construc- tion, are unsurpassed. The Falling Fronts to both aro nicely counter- bolanced by » Bpring (which ar- rongoment is Patented®), and can with ench bLe lowered and raised with the finger. - ‘Wo guaranteo our work to be FIRST-CLASS, and to please in every particular. *No fofringenient of our rights, under the above Patenty will be allowed, H. KILLAM & (0, 29 Chestnut-st., New Haven, Conn, C. 0. THN BROKKE Is nnr Agant Io Chicago. . UCEAN NAVIGATION. ___ ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE The Uenoral ransaclaniio Luinpray's Mail Bteamors between New York and [ did ves ate for the Contloout oo o Yo soutnecly than aay other), e Rk Nurta Hto Py WAL AL i\MHKIQ 1, Pouzal AFAYRTTE, Hol LABICAD: 1" anet s 13 PRIOK OF PAS: i wine): First cabin, 8110 80d 8120, sccurdiok to secouodatioat d 873t toird, giv. Return tiokels st reduond rage 826, with snpérior acoommugatians, ecoasarics without extra cuaree. Ny do not un&-(nun passenge! U8 DRHKBIAN, Agent, 86 Brosdway, N.¥. National Line of Steamships, NEW YORK TO QUEKNSTUWX AND LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND, 4,198 Eatarday, Feb, 96, BIPALN, 4,871 {uns, rday, March 4, turd 10N BLNECT, Trured+y, March 9.4t 13 noan cnrreney. Hatorn tek- ckers 45 curcoats, e . Otos o Hanaolls Il LA RSON, corner. 5 +“topponte new & Tioaveh, Coieago, - oIpaa, (00D AMUSEMENTS. ADELPH]1 THEATRE, Every night ihie wenk, Wednesd turday Matiees, T a4 B Tho Monster Show of the World. The greatont of Uibrists, settin, P i Sdar Eing Sarpro. The Blg FFOoOUR. In new and otiginal » Aymnant, LAMAR, . 'The favincible senistionat e NASTI S OTON CRONSI G S a s ~—~WASIINGTON GROSSIN DEI- AWARE. NULLY DIERIB in oferatio sni otriotie vocal efioris, The greal BELMONTS, LITTLE DAL~ Y, JUE GULIOK, TILLIE ANTONIO, RATE HAK- VEY, FLORA DAKEN, snd MAY TREAT, in a new o Qaise. DOIUCAND WORLAND o the trinla G, First appacance of Mis MOLLIE WI Citen, By Mauingl, i (vt Fattiing fece, - An Ohject of Intercst, supporied by the Adelph!{ Comjnny, & REMEMBER, EXEIA LADIES NIGRT' TUE WASHINGTON'S DIRTUDAX, Becurs ’w,‘&:fi; THE OOLISEUM. Erary ov (hls weok. Woiffonbaoh, ruramer of itie Wotld, who performu * wadeefol feat of piylog vpon 16 Arume st e inoat astonisulde 1auniont ack over wiBessed. o, BPROL. i~ TWELLTINE'Y, e world-renowand Ventrilogulst, wit his Telking THE FAKIR OF OULA, 'f'te great Formpean Iilasionlst, Mr. Jacob Riley, Acknowindeed the Soperlsr of ail Juggters. Miss NELLIE ATHERTON, ‘The eharming Yorio-Comic Vocalist, FRED. ROBKRTS, th popul The WAITR BISTIRN Wil duats, Admissism, 35 " HOOLEY'S THEATRE. THE PAMOUS CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS!! WERE, FIB, 2. AL IRateR Comedinin Woe e Toris. of tha Ren s GEORGK Prof. The Champlon D b w tim orist. of Urestang Oaly GGG lg‘s}am:m e ongs. Liaos oeitations, and Fano, ", HOONKY, aghier-pr vnuuw-na'm;’l'” mfiu: entitied. *Rince Ay Bon James Went On the Siake: ERSON 16 ne hfl“‘l‘ll)hl poriitares, in 0a) and ‘slnca. Distine jea} and R 17 “ogothor witth A1) J-A:'l‘i Dance Artlste. Tueaday (Wi o' 2 Seots tandered 16 BLISS WALFS THE TOLEDO, 141 Kast Madison-t, Drief Engagement of the well-known Baritontst, MR. CUHARLES WIRTSCIIORACK, snd the Bouthern Operatic Voraliat, MISS RRDBA ROBESON, Every Exening and Bundsy Aficraoon, Continued success of the Rurepenn Ladles’ Orcliestra Comblnation xna the Miglty Organ. MoVIOKER'S THEATRE, JOHEN T. RARYMOND, 1n his masterly personation of COL. MULBERRY SELLERS, in the satirical American Drams of that title by Mark Twaln, “ THERE'S MILLIONS IN [T, Beata can be ractired ten davs in sdvance, 00L. WOOL'S MUSEUM, MR. JULIAN KENT, For one wesk only, in TAILD BITTa! OR, THE BORDER KING AND WILD BEAR. Great- et rensation of the dsy. Everyevening, Remember, Matines every day. GROW'S OPERA-HALL, THE RENOWNED HUTCHINSONS Will gira a Grand Conrert fn Grow's Opers-Matt, 511 W:fl Madison-at,, this evenlug, Feb, 1, ci % . "EXPOSITION SKATING PARK. The Aix Daya’ Race for the long-distance Champion- ahipof America is now goiug uu at the Exposition Skating Park. A full bind in atiendance day and aight, ” Admisston, 25 centa, EXTRAORDINARY AND MIRACULOUB EPECIMER OF HUMANITY—~WELL WORTH BEEING, For Phymcinns, Midwives, Bcleutists, and others. A most curious personage (Hermaphrodite, Man and. n;u‘m;nn I‘Izi’h;':nn.?e‘n_«;lfi.“c‘n,mbxmhnu dslly, from 3 M, 243 -t Room 2, _Admission, $1. Dt e ooy T MEDICAL OAR: 9 STAR BALL LINE. UNITED BTATES & BRAZIL MAIL STEAMSITIPS, Salling montniy from Watson's Whart, Tronkisn, N. Y. For l'ura, Pernambnrn, Hahis, and 1o Jauerlo, calling at Bt, Johs, Porto Nico, JOUN BIANALL, 2,50 tona, March 8 3. B, WALKEIR, 2,700 tons. .Haturdsy, Aprii b Panrenger socommodstions firat-class. For freight and passage, at reduced fates 3. 5. TUCKEN & €O, b opply to t Great Western Stenmship Line, From New York to Uilatol (Lo BOMERAEL, Weswrn, OURNWALL, Atam, ) direct, Woaucsday, Fob, 23 Cabin Pass rmed 845; Bteersze, : : s. b HAD GEO. INALD. Axent. o INMAN STEAMSHIP LINE, Carryiog the Malls letwsen EUROPE AND AMERICA. For paseags, lvly_n Company’s Ofice 32 8, Olark-st., Clfcago, FRANCIS O, BROWY, tirn, Weat, Ag't, 12~ Drafta on Great Dritai land, s AP OSBES o PROPOSALS FOR BEEF FOR INDIANS, DrEsnTMENT OF OFVICE INDIAN AFTALRS, 6, Seated propasals will ba received at thia’ office until 12 o'efuck tha el day of February, 1676, for (urnivhing the fulluwlug-oamed quanitics of buof caitls on the boot for s Indiags fu thie Tudian Toreilarys fuws and Cumenche Agency, 1,400,000 pounds, hita Ageney, F0,00 pounds, gross welcht, tho Chioyeuns aud Atspation Ageucy, 15,00 pnl ndhgm“ ullh{.h‘(. i® A\ ‘Yo bids niust state tke price per pos which tho Leef cattie will ‘be dalive: ageacies. The net weight will ba lug 8 nt from the gross woighe, ¥ . ki condltfon aa to fumls \:U‘.. lmfl" - imal will by botads, and o animal will be re- caited that ducs Bt welgh 60 paunds gres. 7The taust ba without food il ediately before bl Ixtznton,} by n, tormiced by the re olos. after the ac- o 1o incroase or decres nuanta apec; Ay or ail of (hiate Agancles 10 a0 satent o 4311 8 the feht 1 alio res s from persons : id 1 e b L e Bl S uther party withivus the written cousent of the Becrotary ol the laterior. Krery bid st ba sccompauted by & eortified chack or able ta the Commlsstoner of lan Atlsice, Howing-named Nathuia] \Vuhl'n :nu i Ch which aad socops l?rl sl ot Vnited Sia faiete Be' ol the Treasury bis it suuh ‘b duly, wisouted sa aforevsid, pich dra posited shiall La returned to th o B e, for s (2Ithfub porforsuaaoe hersal, ot ey whions o aifEtiad Reat v dudge or Di or uld Le |nclotad fa an snvelug trawd et Tosorse o ace fnrited to be present at the opening of the a PR Uommisslonse Tauian Afaifs . UNDERTAKEKS' GOODS, ___ UNDERTAKERY G00DS, Pateat Metallic Burial Cases and Caskets, COTFIN TRIMMINGSH, HEARSHS, Glass ¥rout Landaus, Yamily Carrlages to order, Ginea enalug, ¥ s CRANEH, BREED & CO., G371 Wost Elghthest., Clucluuail, O DR. JAMES, Lock Hospital, cor, Washington & Franklin-sts. ered by the Blate of Nlinals for the expres pur of giring immediate relief tn ail cavos of private aic, wit wrinary dseaies ln ol (eireo blicated i wel) known tuat DI, JAMES haf ewod at pas e Aremnd ricace t tosees £xpC; pot oin reatis, Dol B e e e o bed” La te stteativa. call or write, D N & for the million, M alt abomt those disoseye—wn post it 107 p.m. Sundsyu, 10 i Dr. Clark PRIVATE. MATTERS,—The unforiunate of both Aexes cansuit the celebrited Dr. CLARKE, 180 Bouth All Putvare Din cured at onoe WITH- oUT akRCTRY, llo curvs when all others fail. Go or wrile to bim. Ladies may conault on all freeqularities aud disearen with tho atuuranice of apecdy relief, S¥-Beud two atampa for * Hafexiurd of Haalth," 5 PEasante PReveNTir,” $10 each, Celebrated Festarx P1u1, $L80; (extrs elrong), $§ per box. ctima of AELP-ADUAK oF BTMINAL ¥EAUNE2S wnd tw atampa Tor work on Nervous atd Private Discases. Connulia- tion trea aud sacred, Addres lettors, Dr, P, D CLARKE, 186 Houth Clark-st., Chicago, DrLITTLE Itorpital practico, cure 3 o vy a v 0oL AN el it ulke’ w0 NoCcURE! NO PaY!! 175 Seath Clark-st, comer of Moaroe, Chicage, Moy becousulted, persomally or by matl, fren ot ch o0 41l ehrouic or Anrvous disosses, Dit, ') KIEAN I ©aiy plasician i the city who Warrauts cures of zopay.. ‘Untlca'iours, 08, . 1 8V, . : Bundazs [rum ® Lo DR, Fiis only Bpacialis DR, STONIE, Jo73 Gttt Rall e Lon, Saralis] th sakusss. Diisotoacy, Keraele Difs o Medicioes turaiahed tor ‘ghw: o = 3 s touter*h OGK fat btk d elrgulas 1, soal: lfor 3stamp. i ties, rantead or moacy refunded, aud free, persanl ilinstrated, $5.00 Packages oF FRACTIONAL CURRENCY TN EXOINANGE FOR Bils of Natiosal Carvency, TRIBUNE OFFICE