Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1876, Page 2

lec'gppose it. Oox adm ¢ party, will act more on scntiment than on prin- 2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, MARCILI 20, 187G. e e e —————— e e, e e e ——— , — fnctaats but 1ittls, but its tendency would bs constant toward par n Epeclo. . $400,000,000 BY.ye4z 4 por cont bonds, (—TIrsno y-year 4 por con 3 ari s the privtlogs 10 convert legsiendor moles 8t par. I - ernit converalon of sald bonda Into plain rssaucy noles, gl legak-tonder, but recsirable for all Taven and dce liko bank notes, sach notes Feconvortis . Bleinto bonds, Lawful monoy I8 only needod in sct. flementa at law, For ordinary purposes anotn of the mamn vains wonld meet il requiroments and, if the * abore plan were adopted, the slandard of valus would both bond. Tlenco the legl-tender mots; the bank 0f an 8 Treasmry note wol ] ams et valu fa (he FourXeke{Rat 18 Lhe Talusof tho _Result—Contraction of lsgal-tender money ot ovh Alemcs of debt, now enforced elrculation, conpled with sn sbamdanca of currency of equal value for all ordi- nary purposes, gv&nmo_—mm muet continue to redosm {helr awn notes in lawful money or greenbacka only, but shonld be.empawsred 10 take apecisl deposita and grant disoounis, payable in Tressury noles, Conge: re——Banka will surrendor theie notea and g Bk o, ik e s ear & per eon! [) Sot Rrotiuey notes for circulation, #nd do A Tegular nking buinesa on this bssin,' Thero will bo no fuctustion in the yalne of the currency, except 81 np- wara tendency '$0 par. When DAT 18 reachod tho ricon of all merchiandive will aleo be st par fn specte. on the Treasury noes ay be mado redeemablo {n cotn. Banks may then bo probibited in taking deposits or granting discounts on any basls excopt cotn, 1f {ho peoplo then elected o Xeop and use the Tressury notes an ourrency, well and good; if thoy preferrcd ‘Bank-notes, banks wonld again deposit bonds ns secur- Ity snd takeout bank-notes, paysblo in apecto on do- tangd. Bespoctially submitted, i Dt G cl\h:nwuyhfimm. p g i 1eano ne, - Wasmnoron, D, O,, March 10.—The Payno Biil will ba reported to the Houeo to-morrow, and roforrod to the Banking and Curroncy Com- mittoo, Cox, OChairman of the Committeo, thinks that it can bo reported back to the Ilouse within a wook, Cox is also of tho opinion aftor conforence with mosat of tho Domocrats who op- . poso tho bill that the latter aro ready to aurron- jor tholr {ndg‘munt upon finance for the sako of party unity. Many Weatorn Domocrats, who opposed tho bill in caucus, will voto for it. ™ Eastorn hnd-mnnn{ Demoarats will generally ta that the Domoorats, aa s Advices from Custer City and I havo como to this conolusalon can ba cultivated to advantago. mining prospoots. OUBTER CITY ¥ gipte as regards this bill L iy BRISTOW. A FPEXULR ATTEMPT TO DLACKEN HI8 REPUTATION, * Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, ‘Wasmxaron, D. 0., March 18.—~Tho sensation of the Now York Herald of to-dsy in rogard to Mr. Bristow hoa fallon flat horo. Tho story propared by sevoral disroputable parties hins boen hawked sbout privately for tho lsst thrao srooks, and nlthough it appoars ss if written trom Lonisville, Ky., it is porfootly well known that it was preparod In this city. In subatanco It ia & chargo that Sccrotary Bristow got a clalm of £108,000 sdjudicatod in tho Court of Olaims, rocolving ~ thorefor ¢ ono-half - of the smount, snd 818,000 besides to uwse cor- ruptly to provont tho -Governmoent from sppealing tho case, tnd this was coupled with an intimation that tho claim {teci? was frandu- Tont. Thoro fs nothing secret in this caso, na it was argued openly hera in the Court of Olaima : by Gon. Bristow when ho was in tho practico of his profossion, and all the time he held no Gov- ornment offico, and tho caso la roportod at longth in tho minth volumo of tho Coort of Claims roporte. time, . TOCTRS TO OUSTER CITT. TUE OLADL in briof waa thls: Intho spring of 1865, after tho batilo of Nashville, when Gon. Thomas .was proparing for & sudden gnd oxtonsive vo iato tho Sonth to co-oporato with tho othor loa, ho found it nocessary to procura a thou- sand mules, with the leaat possible dolay 1n order to socure tho prompt doparture of his army. This purchaso was put into tho hands of a largo Eontucky firm, whoso agonts wero sproad over large portion of the country, who had groat focilitios for porforming this husiness. oy Immodiatoly gatlierod up o thousand mules, had delivered n fow, had soroe othors upon tho train, and the rost (o their possosaion, when Richmond surrendored, and tho Confoderacy collapsod, and tuo mulos of the various armios wero ' THBOWN UPOR TILX COUNTRY. The Quartormaster doclined to rocoivo tho mules Dok Llellvnwda‘ snd they dopreoiated grontly upon ho ha of tho owners, and tho sult was to rocovor tho difference in tho prico for which the Govornmont agroed to receivo thom and tho prico at which they wero finally disposed of. Intho Governmont arguments thore wore no Intimations that the caso was frandulont, nor was thero any iutimation of this character in tho dissonting opinion of Judge Drako. Tha Court sustained tho claim in a strong de- civion, Judge Drake dlssenting on the ground that no written contract waa mado at the timo, and tho furthor grounds that no order of the Commanding General had boen lesned which wonld authorize tho purchaso of euppliea in tha spon market withont advertisomont. “The Bocro- tary bad nothing whatover to do with any work In to Dopartment pertaining to this claim, nor did he evor onter any of the Deparimonta in wonnection with it. Hoalmply argned tho case boforo the Court of Olaims, and had nothing to 8o with any othier featuro of it, aud for this ha received A ree or 10 rEn CENT, tho usual foo in this city for sorvicos of this tharactor. o Lad nothing to !do with any of $ho papers connectod with tho finol sottloment of tho case, nor with the papora portaining to this domand, and bls namo does not appear opon any of them. REPLESENTATIVE DLACKDURN, of Kontooky, statoa that ho is thoroughly familiar with tho character of tho gootlomon who mado this claim, aod that thoro is no donbt whatovor that tho claim was & perfoctly Em and rightoous ono. o further- moro vays that this {s tho only cage, &0 far 0a he knows, in which Ar. Bristow ever sppearsd in the Court of Claime, and ho indorsca the atate- mont that Dr. Bristow notified the claimants in tho oase that ho would do nothiog to help the 4lalm through the Departmonts. ——— NOTES AND NEWS. TIUE TARUFF BILL. Bpecial Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tribuna, ‘WasuinatoN, D. 0., March 19,—Tho Ways and Bfeans Commltéoo will hoar delogations ropro- sonting all tho Intereats affocted by the Morrison Tariff bill. Tho bill, tho Democrata now clatm, will effoct & reduction of $20,000,000 in customs rovenuo, Tho Trossury officials ay that It wit bo very hazardous to mako such & reduction at prosent on account of tho falliog off in fm- portations, and tho fact that tho Govoroment bas been running on a very ©lose margin for n Yoar. From Cheyenno to—- lo Croek. . ACCIDENT. held in the Hilla, timos st to the north. A DIBCOUBAQLNG ACCOUNT. DAWES AND FITE. Activo oporationa for tho Oonnecticnt cam- paign bave bogun hero, Dawes and Frye will ,Boon leave fora stumping-tour thoro. oIvE! arve! The Govornment Contennial Commisaion in- tend to ask for 500,000 mors of Congroad. Toruey hiaa beou Invited to doliver his Conten- niat leature hero, OILL, OF WISCONBIN, recontly appolnted Commisaloner of Ponsions, finds tho dutios of the office too arduous for his fecblo health, and it ia reported will soon ro- [Tathe Assoctated Preas.y RED CLOUD. ‘Wasunaroy, D, 0., March 19.—Tho latost ad- vices to the Indiau Oflice horo, datod Fort Lara- mio tho 18th, ropresented Hed Cloud's band of Bloux quietly on their reservation and taking no ‘(‘x"l‘l, In the warliko demonsirations of Bittng ul et ‘Talleyrand’s Wile, Talleyrand's wife was more remarkablo for hor hnul.{‘llnm ber intolligenco, thaugh it s prob- ule that some of the storios told of her excos- sivo paivete may havo bocninvented for hor beu- ofit, and othory tnay have beon given to hor which vrigiuated in other quartors. Thero aro uxep. Lica, for oxample, sud A, Amodes Piohot fs ono of them, who daoubi whother the Itobinson Urnsoe etory, whioh I8 tho beat ono told of her, ought to bo given to Madame do Tal- loyrand, As a stray reader here and thero may wot kuow this avocdote, it would bo s ity o omit it 1t ia this: _Talloyraud was go- oK to eutortain at divner M. .Denoo, o eavant, who bad beoon to Egypt with the army of the + Fiut Consul. Tulleyrsnd, on the day of the dinner, informed hls wifo that sbo would bave at her right at tablo & loarned ran and s travol- or, and that sho would do well bofore ho ar- rived fo glauco at hiy volumo, which sho would fiud oo his livgary table, Madame de Talloyraud at dinusr, by way of compliment to the author, spoke of the inmepso pleasure which she had found to tho varrative of his adyveutures. Dot you must havo found it very tiresome beluy slone on & desort taland,” sho sald. * Mudgawo, I do not uuderstand,” sald M, Denon, ** 0, but you must,” she gald ; * and you must t‘:::‘e ll‘xflm very bappy wleu your mon Friday ved. Aladame do Talloyrand had by mistake been readiug the ** Advouiuiod of Robinsou Crasou," M, do "lalleyrand, 1t is waid, remarked on one pceanlon when sbo Lad committed somo such glut}:&l&l bxlxlt A Fx};x’.h mlo(cm mmmnm Ler us 3 wifo can cowpr mlio horseld."—~Belgravia, 7 e mvorage of ono color 10 the pan, can got & chancs, for lour aud bacoa. for “minlng," surfaco Think I ehall start homo soon. went made to wo by my neiyl & roall (ates of earruplion, and no affieo neerna oo high o ea- ©capa the shafts of calumny, all ja sliont on the plalnx, {hio remota frontiers, whore ihe real soldier koaps hia watch and guards the ploncor and traveler sgainst the troacherons savage, Pl i AN E ey NORMAN WIARI’S MISSION. Tho tirent ‘Chings ilo is Golng to Do In Fortifylng Ohin 300 Foet MNIgh—$0,000,000 to Mo siva meal ovor placod bofors anybody Eince tho days of Holiogabalns. my dost sir, costa ! THE BLACK HILLS. - grain of that rico, odivo a louis; praiso yonr consamption ot it ab 'hat hock youhave justbeen drinking {s not absolutol Pasba took all_he couls bottlo,—~abons 214: but, In comparison to his rico, he may bo considered to have got it for nothiog. ‘That ricois of n peculiar sork, grown on the Khadive's own eatates ; it in, consequont-. tho most costly articlo that appears upon tho orogal Lablo.' ™ ~Conflicting | The Now Frolght-Tariff Adopted Acoounts 0s to Mineral Wealth. Ports=A Fort Rontes to the Gold Ieglon---Fatal Accis Roports from tho Snow Blockades— dentes=An Indlan Rald. San Franciaco Chroniole, Mareh T, ‘Tho Chinoso Govoramont Lina latoly taken (nto careful considoration tha fack that in caso of A forolgn war thelr Larbors mro slmoat ontirely without profoction agalnst o sos {nvaston, Iast Dritish war lish ~ war-vossels 1 P ooy river thoy twished, with little opposition, the only fortification of any conses quonca ab all bolng that of Poi-ho, and that bo< morely a poorly-armed mud fort. 'To romody ovil and supply all tho necosaitios in case of 0 war, an nppropriation of #6,000,000 has lately boon made, and an ofticlal roquest mado ta tho United Btatos, aaking that somo ons bo sont ont thoro with plana of fortification, and proposals for tho manufacture of hoavy ordoance, 'Thogon- tloman selocted for tho mission was Normsn ‘Wiard, of the Algiora (Sonth Boston) Iron-Works, ono of the principal manufactories of artitlory in Mr, Wiard has boon for tho last fopr yoars eogaged in oxporimonting with heavy ston harbor, over 100,000 bavin, beon nppropristed by Cor undor his dircotionyn the work. The Nat faland experimonts, as thdy woro callod, be; 2, and havo been vory completo, Mr. onent Bojourning in thi kohama on the 10th portor yestorda; svith the yiow of . Goectal Correspondenes of The Chieapo Tribune, Cuszen Ci1¥, Bracx HiLts, March 4.—Think- Iug that petliaps your readers wonld like a word or two from thoe nawest town In tho country, I writo yon ' fow lines. Wo hava considerablo troubls in rocolving and mending communion- tions, aa wo havo no post-offica yet, and have to trust to comers and goera to and from.tho Hilla to got otir mails, Ihave boen in Custor about a month, and during that amo® have had con- sidorablo opportunity to investigate the conntry, yostordsy morning OMeor Kiroh dlscoyored pmoko lssning from the baso- ment of, a throo-story brick building at No, 617 abash avenue, ownod by J. V. Lawrenoo, and ocenpied as o grocory by F. B, Conger & Oo. Tho alarm was sonnded from Box INo. 80, and tho prompt arrival of the Deparimont proventled othorwiso Liavo boen a sorlous con- Domago to stock and building $50, Iusnred in the Lycoming for §3,000. COause of | About 2 o'oloc! First—If thero was not a dollar of gold in this country, 1tia & good country to live in, and that, soonor or later, 1t will contain an irnmenes pop- ulation. Tho roason of thisia tho groat quantity of $imber found horo, Pino tross of enormous aizo aro found all over tho Hills, Thon thoro aro plensant valleys ronning through these groat forests, which nro from half s milo to 8 milea wrido, which afford & good opportunity 1o farmors, 88 theso valleys aro rioh lsnd, and Tho alarm from Dox No. 70, at 7 o'clock last evoniug, waa.caused by fite In barn ju tho rear of No. 1334 Wentworth avenio, ownod by Albort Btablmoyor, and occupted by Honry Voo Glahn. Damago estimatod at 250, “Insurance and canao of firo unknown. 4 NEAR PROVIDENCE, R. I, ProvipeNoz, March 10.—The Elmvyillo Woolen Miils, in Cranstoo, 13¢ miles from tho city lino, wore burnod Batarday night with four tonoments and copsiderable mannfaotured stock, sorting and dye houses wero saved. The prap- erly was ownod by Goorgs Whitchesd. Loss ostimated at 175,000 to #200,000. b proporty was insured in forty-nine companics tor 8172,000, of which $135,920 applics. AT_POTTSVILLE, PA, viLre, Pa, March 10.—Tho Pottsnille (Pa.) Town-Hall waa destroyod by firo this moming. Tho building was owned by G. W. Blater, whoeo loss 18 250,000 ; Insuranco, $6,000. M. R. Nichols' gonoral storo, loes $£40.000¢ in- suranco, 820,000, Other parts of tho buildin; woro ocoupied by Holt’s drug-storo, o rostauran ond goveral lodging-rooms, tha loss on which is 10,000 ; uninsured. AT SCRANTON, PA. March 10,—An old Catholio convont, nsed by the Bistorn of Charity sinco tho romoval fnto tho now academy ss m school- houeo, burned last night. Another fire de- stroyod the siables of tho Bt. Ol with sovoral valuable horacs, and a number of vory fine dwollings., Total loss, $20,000. AT WHITEHALL, N. Y. Warrenaty, N Y., March 10.—Hail's Hotol burned to-night. Loss, £30,000 ; insured. ———— e GEN, | SHERMAN, Xils Defenso 0f the Army-—What He Snys of Bolknap nnd Bnbcock. * At a 8t. Patriok banquot a$ 8t. Louis, on Fri- dny, Gen. Bhorman mado o upeech'in responso to o tonst, and, among other things, enid: ‘Tho army of 1716 was the rcfuge Hiberty for liborty's sako, snd who were willing Lo toss thietr sincerity by tho firo of Laltlo; and wo olatm that of 1670 13 tho beat {ricnd of liborty, good der, aud Government, and submils to any 'loat that may bo imposed. Ot aucostors nover sald tha soldier wax not worthy of his hire ; that iho army wna a lee on tho body politia: that o standing army of 20,000 Ibertics of 40,000,000 of peo- plo. Thcso are modern_invontions, modorn scayo and confuso the ignorant. Wo uro Dot of Yoo who subscriba B0 casily to ibo modern doctrino of evolution, that teachioa that each sucoonding generation ts nocessarily better than that hilch went bofore, but each troo miist Lo tosted own fruit, and wo'can v, and will eail for A Chronicle te- called upon him at hia room, oblainiog a fow foots concorn- iog hin misslon, and began as follows' loporter—Mr. Wiard, I Lavo called fo ask rather an inquisitivo question, and that is, what oing to China for? ard—Woell, as to that, my misslon ia not of vory groat importance, and, thiorofore, I don’t wish to say much about it. ly to givo an opinion hat ought to be fortifl fortifiog, and what gonoral monsures should bo takon to rosist an invasion of {ron-clad ships. ortor—1 supposa you witl forent kinds of smball arma o ? Mr. Wisrd—No; Bavo faotorios of { + Second—Thero Is an immonsoe quantity of mio- orals, of atmot ovory doscription, found fn il dirootions, though mining Is sull dragging for tho resson that tho frost Is stlll In tho ground, and tho water In Froneh Crook fa atill frozen to tho bottom, Dut thio most skoptical, aftor visit- ting this country, cannot but be satisficd with its I am going out sim« n she Chinoso ports 18 on Froneh Crook, about 4 miles from the old stockndo, nod contalns sbout 600 innabitants. Tho town proper waa 1aid out on tho 18t day of January, 1876 (and {s, thoroforo, only two ‘months old), at which timo tho. citizena held a mooting and adopted rognlar aquatior lawaj though I boliavo tho town was namod soma timo in Soptember lnat, Town-lots can bo looatad by laying n foundation, and recording tho sams w‘,;hln ton days thereaftor with tho City Town- Lot Recordor. Thon n houso must bo bulit within sixty days, or the lot will bo liablo to » rolocation, Wo hiave no lifo-ipsurance or sewing- machine ngonts and no law-offices horo ; and ag overybody is quito peaceable, I do notknow tuat wo need any of tho Iattor. We do neod a practi- cal Burvoyor, with a fall sot of instromonta ; and wo nood an assayer of motals, Every descri tion of msnufacturing wo™'1 pay hero at this a8 to small arms, the Chinoso holr own, but in tho direot{on of fortifications and nriillory manufactoro thoy gnorant. I shall start n foundry for thom, and show how it abonld be conduoted, though it will take two or throo yearsto got to manufscturing largo guns in that country. Roportor—1n tho meantime will they import ? r. Wiard—Yoa ¢ thoy wished to bo propared for any emergonoy as soon as poasiblo, and they, theérefore, will get a groat many gune from this Thoy bave discovored that thoy can ot a8 good a gnn in this count: atjabout ono-tenth in England coats 872,000, whilo wo manafacturo 15-inch cast-iron 25 tons, for 87,000, that will plerco an incl thiokor fron plate than tho English, Toporter—\What clasa of guns shall yon rooc- d? Mr, Wisrd—The 15-inch cast-iron Rodman gup, riflod on o now plan of my own, and throw- ing a new projectile, though any of the old pro~ jectilos can bo used in it a8 wel Benaxrox, Pa., BleGeo and Ketchun, from Koarnoy Junotion, Nob,, arrived horo to-day. Thoy roport a good reuto of only 326 miles, odomoter measuro. The' Indiana attacked them on Whito Enrth Rivor, they wore compolled to throw away their provia- fons, and, after exchaoging several shots, finally camo through with the front wheals of their wagon only, and in » half-starved condition. Thae following ia a table of distancos from Choy- enno, Wyo. Ter., to tho Uills, which seems to bo the most traveled routo at this timo, viz.: a4 in any other o, Reporter—To what extent ehall you mako ar- rapgomonts for fortifications ? Wiard—1I am to oxamine tho varlous ports, snd recommend tho fortification of thoso which ncedit, As it now stands, an iron-clad could anil up any river in China, proviaing It bo navi- o, and burn Lier towns at will. iy fortifications and ordnance capal slating tho attack of any sea-vesgels whatovor, Roportor—Ia 1t by tho B of all who loved mon endangored ystem of forte and t ia by a now plan of my own, propods to placa in the contro of the tho harbor or rivor, as tho case ma, fort 300 foet high, The contro on! brick, and the sides compossd of asand slope from tho top roaching to tho wator line,” Dolow 0 continuod with rubblo- Tho brick contre will bo perhaps 600 foct long by 100 feot wide, sud bo placed only on top. rido to onr Bliorl- cock, Behofald, McDowoll, and a long array encrals, Colonels, Captains, snd anta, who for intelligence, hunor, integrily, and sclf- denial, will compare favorably with those of aty former We polnt with pride to our army, scatiored and laks forts, o i (e reat tha tho slopo will Weat, and clatm mlittea of good soldicrd thoy are see that somo of heada and whisper Bolknap, Why? What was hia ro- Iation to tho army? 1o was o Cabinet Minlster, a cfv- 11 oficer, did not hold a commission in tho srmy st all, Wo conténd that when lio was an officcr ho waa anlion- orsble mman and rendered good sorvics, Wim to charitable conalderation, ot into temptation " ia & prayer somo of us secm to have forgotien, sad wo of tho srmy can truthfally say that thi offense, bo it what it msy, 15 not cliargeablo to the srmy, for he wes not subfect to 1aw or jurisdiction, Thon " " Well, has e not baeen -Arie civil tribonil of the lsndaud soquits man hery pretend to question the purity of motive or Illllllvnuf I::l\ ‘iu:lhzlr“‘l;!dlflnn and !1 roputation 1a an at it noods 0o panegyrio from mo. o that Gen. Babcock ever divertod To in own pocket. (o thing 1 do not bo Davo to onswor for b i aro na concealmonts, nor technicalitios devissd by romid, with o parallologram-shaped baso, 'ho groat hoight of tho guns will out of tho reach of shipa’ top of tho fort = planging firs can bo sont that ship that attompts to p be 6o alterod by dredgiog or flling, ns may bo necessary, that tho vessol ontoring tho harbor must pass within tho rango of the fort. Tho only way that tho fire could bo ro- turned from the veescls would be by thoe un- cortaln mothod of mortars, and 08 bomb-proofs would bo constructed on tno fop of tho fort, thoeo would havo littlo or no offect. plon Iehall recommend. Whother it will be adoptod or not Ican't say, Roportor—Ilow lon, porta g you proposo This {8 by what is known as tho Pollock out~ off. Tho distauce from Bidnoy, Neb., on tho Unlon Pacific Raitrosd, is about 325 miles, and 1a belioved to bo the shortost routo to the Hills. VATAL . John Pleket and Charles Holt, from noar Bloux City, Ia., baving wostbered tho storms snd plercing cold winds, arrived in this city abont throo wooks mgo. Thoy located n Jobin tho northweatorn part of tho city, and bullt thom & dug-out for their littlo homo ; that s, they dug in the ground, placod pine polea over tho opon- ingg, snd throw dirt on the top. They thon mado their bed down on the floor, and woro onjoying lifo ns swootly aa if they wero living in a throe- story stone-front. Dut tho frail pino polos gavo sway Inst night, and tho earth fell in on tbom. John Pickot was taken out jusé allve, bus will probably recover. Charles Holt, howoyvor, waa emothored to death, and a ead day it hos boe: for Custer City. He was only 23 yearsold, J. M, Burrows, City Bfarshal, summoned s jury, and an inquest was Leld bofora I J. Keofor, Polloo Justics, the jury returning s verdiot of doath from suffocation. This is tho firet inquost you say, *Babs, But if time doveloj one cent of tha pul ;; will it tako to fortify tho Ar, Wlerd—I l:hlnk 1t conld bs dono {o & yoar. By tho timo tho fortificationa wore completed thio tort At this moment tho air s full of calum- sickening to observe that men, umally charitablo end just, aro mado to beliove that'all o virtno hivo taken thelr light from earth nsl Capital i reeking with corrupt that fraud and poculstion are tha rulc, and honcaty 13 trust tho cxocoption, ink we should resist tho torrent, Our Proe- ident has surely dono enouals 1o catitle Lim to abaclite havo Do molive 1o aczosn tho At no tima in the history of tho y. ow many would you avorago to . Mr. Wiard—About 200, I think, Roporter—Could the guns bo conelructed In Boston In that time? Mr, Wiard—(t would not ba nocessary to make all of them, by any means, We can contro} about four or five hundred of them, as I proposo, would take n very short 0 into a fort nud convert all the taking them off thoir carriages. ‘Fbo cxponss i about fonr or five bundred lars por gun, and tho powor Is quadrupled. takoa vory littlo timo to do tt, too, Roportor—Ifow many portd quiro fortifieation sach aa you spoak of ? Mr. Wiara—01 that I cannot say. fication itself s, I think, Impre; No ram can sifect caunot injuro it, and by various moans tho scal- ing of a gand-slope by & forco of men can bo xendored Lnposalblo. Roparter—Iavo you any {dea how long you Mr, Wiard—No; I oannot toll anything about It—four or five months, I suppose. —_— M'GARRAHAN, Bax Faaxcisco, March 10.—It 18 now staled on the suthority of Thomaa Dall, Presidont of the New Idria Mioe, that the Board of Trusteos bavo ratified a bond fora dood to be oxooutsd tho 16t of noxt Boptembor, conveylng the mino to Montgomory Blatr. Constderation, $1,000,000 ; £400,000 down, balsnoo in five years, sscured by & mortgsgo on the mino at 7 por cont, The Com- ny protest that this i8 no compromise with — EDUCATION IN MICHIGAN. Speciat Dispateh lo The Chicago Tribune. Laxsixo, Mich., March 19.—Tho Buperintend- ent of Public Inetruction, the Hou, D, . Briggs, 1a proparing a norios of five ntatistical charls of this Btate, showing ibo edacational faotlltios and tho progress of oducational work, for oxhibition ‘Ie charta are being drawn in a wuperb manoer by Mr. Bherman, the draughtsman of tho Blate Land-Offlco, —_— BLATHERSKITES, Prrranono, Pa, Maroh 19,—A large mesting of Intornationalists waa hold on the Bouth Bide to-night to review tho condition of the Order In $biy mection, nod dotermiio the advieability of crealing & now Hoction on that side of the river, Tha proceodings consiuted maloly of speachos aud Intorchaugo of viows. Tho moot- ing flually sdjourncd until to-morrow, whon farthor aation will bo taken in tho i e bl HE SINDBAD STORY. TowsviLue, Diarch 10.—A correspondent of the Now York Herald ssrived fu Loulaville yes- terdny from Olom P'an 8priugs, and confirmed everything that has boen tolegraphed concorn- ng tho rocent showor of flosh. 14 was sont ex- pressly to interviow a butcher who ate the tesh, and talk to other oye-wituossos, whom ho savs laugt mauch at $ho lucredulity of somo writers on tho flosh-fall. LAKE-VIEW WATER-WORKS. To the Fditor of The Chiaqn Tridune : Laxs Vizw, I, March §0.—Tho statement in to-day's Trmuxy, from your Lake View corre. spondent, that the water-works of this town will ba tosted Weduoaday e incorrect. Tho trial will not take place at presont. Ofiiclal notice will be given whon tho day is fized. 1 do not beliova INDIAN UOSTILITIES, Thia afternoon, about 3 velock, tho Indians ne, aud b xitiog an oft N&;m hoad of horecs, and shot esveral amea Taylor, who was working upoa bis claim, abcut 124 milen wost of town. Hero- tofore the Indians have been poaceablo, and little tronblo is oxpocted from thotm, oxoept it bo tho stoallug of atock. Thero sooms to bo no excitemont in tho city, though everybody fa woll armed, and roady for an attack at any tims. Bovoral partios, from Iron and Band Croeks, roport vory rich discoverics, both in lods and galch diggings, Thosa oroeks are abouk0 milos wicked or guilty, conntry isve our oo jurta of law, from tho Aupreme Court at Washington 0 down to the District Courta, besn entitied to maro reapoct for thelr learning and parit Congress 5 now, aa it has over boou and must peltion, u;pmflmm body, aharing srith the mass of tho o n, 2 T virtues and. vioes, |1¢ corruption o io Chins will ro- tho peoplo at large, and they can correct tho evil their mwn volition. and yoade monoy thelr yod 1f thelr representatives and servanta shiare tholr win, What are tho actual facta? “We havo receutly through & long ©on ono moloty of the country all s fearful dobt, —btates, countles, and cities followod the fashion, until the whalo land becamo dobt, The debta are uow due, and boar heavily 2bapo of taxos o our hom 0 Lavo grown avaricious thoy must not bo sur. war, - entalling W. H. Wood leavos this clty to-dny for Omalia, degolation sad ruin,—on to havo somo spocimens of quartz found near this city masayod, snd In » suort time wa will know moro about our mineral resources, roperty, and busi- Jonn W, Lrree, 3 liona {5 arms, . who rofceslons and businoss, and Tound ut cmploymont when (4o War s over, ‘Theoa uaturally turnod ta the National Govorn- mout for Lelp; and the pressars for oflice, ut all timea groat, Lecamo aimply Irresistibie, Tho power 10 s) point'to theso ofticea 14 callod ** common to all Governments, vast numbor of elaims for damages for eelzures and loms of property by scts of war. Thess oil involvod and mousy uow iz, as it alwaya lo—af corrnption, iy, and hear what Cusrry 01Ty, Fob. 23.—To the Lditor of the Colorado Miner: Aftor & long, todious, and cold trip, we arrived st this placo, “right side up with care.” I visited the surrounding clahins of Cnster and Il Citics, situated on Fronch and Spring Gulehes. Found numorous claims oponed to bod rock, sod havo takon the palns ta rospect eovoral of tho beat known of them, so- octing **pay-dirt™ carefully from bed-rock, and havo found an avorago of about ono *color” to tho pan, and 60 fino that it would not exceod from 50 conts o ©1 & day to tho man, if faith- fully worked. I have met sosoral Colorado minera who havo beon boro for the past threo months, Ono of them, Mack Jamos, who 18 well known {n your county, tolls mo that ho has yot to sco anythiag that will pay day's wages. To Cheyouno T heard that James Allon had brougiit in #4,000{n dust from his clalm In Bpring Gulch, wituated sbout 8 milea Lolow towu, on what ts known as Montana Liar. thls claim I hastoned, ana found two mon work- In(i for Alien, who had an 80-foot bed.rock tun- nol run, I propsclod shis claim carofully, take log an avorago of the pay-dict, and found an Thon, ogain, arose & Iargo aums of monoy, been, Shaksposre ia always o saye, theongh lomuo, 18 ho bandod his purse of 40 dueats to tho poor chiomist in exchangs for the doso ot jotsons “Thera is thy gold, worse polson to men's souls, Dolug more raurder ia this loatlsame worl ‘thoso pour compounds that thou ins, T aell thea polaon; thou bt ald me nonv.” Yes, money 18 th cause of corruption to<lsy as al. &lon will toll for i1, murder for 1, sloal for i, diefor it, Though oMcers and salilors are atwply men subject to all temytations and vices of men, wo of thie army foal, or rathor tuink wo feel, miore ia tho spizit of Lurus § Yor gold tho morchant plows tho matn, “Tho farmer plowa tho ranor; 1s the soldicr's prize, ior's wealth 18 honor, *Tin on tho frontler the res] army i to¥ort Leavenworth, to Ford 8illl, to 0, 'snywhers romolo Claim-ownoers aro trading claims, whon they Iy A il owas, aud thero ¥oria Larumio, Bridgor, Conch from the tamptations of citles any you will cbiervo ordur, systun, ccouowy, solf-denal, and hospdtallty, It {8 uob at' the Uspltdl or in the Largor citied 1hat you should ook for thio srms, ‘To bo aure the soldiery must bo provided with the casentials great market towns, and wul of tho Natfous] Treanury, 'Thia Decessitates Quar- fertnastery, Comminsarios, laspeotors, and Adjntants wort of chialn botwoert the frontfor and seat of Got rament, Tliese aro mere sgouts, soldiers by Ll sud courtesy, and from long expericgce thu Govern- et has found that tho Leat ogents for thoso pur- 1424 #r6 arwmy ullicors thameolvos, who ore familiar With 156 wants und necessitios of tho troops, s who, for Uieir houeaty and Adulity, bave to wccount ta the mlitsry tribunals, which, though not s luartod 10 th iutelcacis s of tha law'as yoar iy courts, penur- ally et ab o real truth, aud fimposa n pendly pot arty, 1t s unolorlo This ponFun of tho country has a soll of great richneas, with o scarcity of water, how over, tho fmlng rather tiat. What monntainy thera aro sot alono in poaks, and are rather hills then mountaing, The timber s vory fino fudoed; groat portion of tho pine mill cat threa Jougths ot 15-teot logse without trimming 8 limb, “the grass Ling already come up, thero baing no soaw. Wixenep Henuick, PO i oy A Breakfast with tho fihodive. The correspoudent of tho London Duily Tele- raph at Cairo gives tho following account of n zlunklul with tho Khodive of Lgypt: **Ureat tasto was displayed in tho decoration of tho tablo—I have raroly seon such frais and exotica even in Euglish housvs—and the orna- mental structures in sugar and sweot pasies, whivh served as coutre pioces, \wore aa romarkable tar their size o4 for the elaboratoness of their design aud the richuvss of their colors, scrvantd wero nob arrsyed in the picturoequa sud froquontly very costly costume worn by the retaloers of jnost woslthy Egyplian seignowts, but wore European livories of greou sud gold. Ot tha breakfsst iteaelf, which lssted till 8 o'clack, sud was compesed of no less Lhan twen- xflmva courgoy, tho modqt futeresting foature to thie foreiguorn who partook of it was, L jmagine, that it opoued with fresh oyeters snd roa! Lartie woup, Rospecting oneof the plats, ‘ris o la Khbedive,' cowposed of peculiarly small and dolicate_rioo stowod {u a consownmo of calves’ brajus, I canvot forbesr reflwducnnn o stato- Lor eé table, ono of the great digultaries of the Khodive's court: * § cardially revonunond that rice to you,' sals nhis Excellonoy ; *in the first placs, becausa it is {u sble dish, in tho preparation uf whialy his Highvess' chof cxcols all others; and, wecoudly, bocauso it 18 probably the wosk oxpen~ ulten repeated Lo the fact that tha lowes o t 2 aud pect abicora form & Fatia aF below tusd of thieir guards, and checks, and bon | 1hows statf officers are LiXa jasscnyors ou o shiv, ) A Lo oy respoustblo for the soitiglon, New York, 6t Louf olber great city, than & faw 2 for tha conduct of the crew of tho Thereforo, I rapeat that it {8 ot in cities or tow: the real arusy {4 fouud, but on thy frontiers sod s coast forts of our couniry, aud thure I contend iNaL sud the mwovsure of Louesty o daye of Wasbington, §(a teuaut fails 10 sceouut fur o lowt 8 Julr of Wioes, or 4 bation o 2 faw anioug wan tho tone of the interit are au high to-day as in Poor Captain or "L cartridge-bos, or 108 a coat, it valuo is deducted from biy Dust ey sccount, {he uneapactad arrival of an Inapoctor.Genoral, ba Iy found one caut short of bis reported talancs of cesh, and therv is & sbadow of suspicion {hsd Lo hua speui kpows that 10 courtmartial by uver overloaked ‘mich & thing, sud Lls comnir Joun N, Hiws, Of Water Commitice, ————— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. ™ New Youi, March 10.—Arrived, the steamer Lowsiug, from Jiamburg. Ruw Youu, March 19.—Arnved, the steamer Au&;me‘, fromn Lx:um:]olfl. = BEXNTOWN, flarch 19.—Arrived, the stesmers Clive, ) S trom Philadelplils, and Nevads, from 14 for his own uso, bo fraud can over geb a footilold in our army. Ifcore rugtion creops 1 fb musl cunnectious of tho servi rechly undur the control of $Le comuany though thoy may b subject to the sanu law of y- spousibility, Bo, whilst tho nowspelcrs are fi through’ tho civil aud thess sro Dot 80 di- slons, On_ tha presont oconslan thia dooumend (in which, ba it obsoryod, the hmn{ namo of the nrtlos, Blion, in owitted) ran as follown 1 **Doik mown that tho anfiilal Yao-olien, who, on ao- count of his manifold and grievous crimed, was worthy of suddon doath, haa not died, and that, {ontend, tho calamity has fallon upon his worthy fathor, upon whom tha mgmlng Emperor of the ‘faching (lit. great, pnro) asty Lias conforred the fst ordor of ravk in tho elvil servico, and that in the imporial body-gusrd and the Gov- ornotahip of tho Province of Kinngso, Inthe twolfth year of the rolgn styled Tac-Knaog, ot thio compotition 'of tha litora! ho-EuIn tho rank ot _Chil jea (that {s, BT, A.). ' The writor's fathor, Tan-lu, foll sick ot thoninth day of this 0 lingored in groat pain until tho when ho passed away., Ao was born about 2. or 8 .fn tho morning of tho niuth moon of tho fifty-sacond year of tho rolgn miylod Oblon-Lung, -snd was, *there- foro, Bomowhnt over 84 yoara old, " Immedi- atoly his oxpired tho family went Intomnumln{(. nnd now, alns | have sorrowfully to comunicato with you. Wo havo choson the 18th, 10th, and 20th for tho roturn prosontstion of thia eard “bnt is, will then recoive visits of condolonce]. o funcrsl presents can bo rocolved. Tho writer and his brother are kneeling with fore- head in tho duat, \vonfiinitumn blood, Tho nans of tho writer and hia brother, nios jo num- ber, aro knoeling with downoast facos, weeping tears of blood. Tho rolatives and descondants, to tho number of nlue, ore on thelr knoos (bo- fore tho coflin), besting' thelr hosda upon tha ground. [From] tho rosidenca of tho writer, nomed the Anciont Grotto of tho Falrica,” U ———————— OBITUARY. STATE:SENATOR HITCHCOCK, OF IOWA. " Avectal Correspondencs of The Chfeago Tribune. - Des Mornzs, March 17.—Sonator Arad Hitol- cock, from Mitclioll County, diod at the Bavery Houso yeslerday. Ilo bad beon ill with pnou- monia for threo weoks. T'wo wooks ngo bo ro- covorud 80 88 to lonve his room, attonded nn ime portant mootingof a Committos of which ho ‘was & membor, and took cold, whisch producod a rolapeo of his diseass, from whioh ho did not ro- covor. Boong that hig 1linoss was alarmling, his wifo was summoned; and, yosterday, Lis two dnughters arrivod, only to receivo Lis final bloseing, Mr. Hitcheock was born in Vormont, ond was 64 yoars of ago, 1o was ono of -tho oldest eottlers in the coutnty ho roprosontod, as also ono of its most highly ocsteomod citizens, noticesbls for This practical sonso, *judgmont, and integrity of charactor, He loaves & famlily in comfortablo ciroumstancos, tho result of Liw honest Industry., .Tho Logislaturo having ad- Journed, tho membors mot at tLo Savery Ilouse, when Liout.-Gov. Newbold wns called to tho Chsir, and resolutions testifying to tha moral worth of the docoasod tors adopted. Blneo 1804, oach Gonoral Assembly Lins lost by doath somo of {ta members. D. A, Btockman, of Kookuk, of tho Eloventh Goneral Assombly, died bofore its moeting; Benator Hartshaw, of ‘Wayne, and Répresoutative Dewoy, diod boforo tho Twelfth convenod; Benator R. L. Clark, of Butlor, and . Abljaly Connor, of Washington County, of tho Houso, died during tho Thir- teonth; Martin Kablor, of Dubuquo, diod be- fore tho Fourtoonth convened; and the Hon, | Edward Layton, of Keokl, of tho Houso, diod boforo tho Fifteonth convened. - & RAILROAD NEWS, - by tho Pooled Lincs. Other Mattors of Intercst. © THE NEW FREIQHT TARIFF. Tho now tarlif adopfod Ly tho managors of tho oot linoes loading from this olty to tho East last Woduoeday will go futo effect to-day, As horo~ toforo stated, no change takes placo in the rate on graln, whioh romaina at 40 conta por 100 pounds from Chicago to New York, Fourth- claga froights have boen .roduced from G0 conts por 100 pounds to 45 cents from Clhicago to Now York, Tho following articles, horetoforo in fourth-olass, woro placed jo n epeoial cliss and $ho rate mado 40 coats por 100 pounds, tho samo na chargod on graln, This makos the reduction on thesa artlolos 10 canta por 100 pounds : Bran, mill foed, and shorta ; boof and pork product in barrols or tioroea § Lones, coment, oarth, paints, fortilizors, hoofs and borna ; flouy, in barrols, a8 200 1bs each 3 groon hides, frun and mneile, iron aud othior ores, pig iron, pig load, spolter, in slaba or caskn ; Rower pipe § zino, in alaba or pigs; oil cako, stoves, and lnmbor, ‘Tho tanff to tho various Esatorn ports will bo s follown : Fourth Class—Chicago to Boston, 50 conta por 100 pounds 5 to New Yorl, 46 cents to Philadolphia, 4034 oconts ; to DBaltimors, 80 oents. On grain Iu bulk or in sacks, to Doaton, 45 conts; to New Nork, 40 cents ; to Philadol- Pm-. 88 cents ; to Daltimore, 85 conts. Flour n lots of 100 barrola and over, Obicago to Bos- ton, 00 centa por.barrol § to New York, 80 centa ; to Philadolphis, 72 couts; to DBalimoro, 70 conts, Dulk and boxed meats, Chicago to Bos- ton, 65 conta por 100 poundsy to New York, 60 oonis j to Philadolphia, 4614 contay to_ Ialti- more, 44 cents. Bulk nud boxed meats 5 conta ¥nr 100 pounds ovar fourth-olasa ; grasa moeds, 0 conts por 100 pounds over fourth-class; sansago, bologna, 5 conts -por 100 pounds over fourth-class ; sausage, pork the samo as frash ment, Froighta from Milwaukoo to all points west of Buffalo, oxcopt Dotroit, must pay foll tari® tates from Chioago. SNOW, Spectas Diapateh to The Chicann T'ribuna, MoGnegon, In., Maroh 10,—Through trains on tho Obicago, ' Milwaunkee & 8t Panl Railrond, which havo boon suspended for two days, sro sgain running. The transfor horo . ia made with conelderablo difficulty by forry boata. Omana, Nob,, March 19.—~Pssnengor trains duo from tho Wost yostorday and to-day ‘will arrivo to-night, Passengers from tho Wost stato that tho snowfall botweon hero and Califorain is far greator than known for many yoors past, and that {t covors nlmost tho ontiro country. In many places the rond-bed is 10 to 20 feot bolow the top of the snow. It hms required nlmost suporhuman offorts to koop tho roads open at all. RMostof this saow: has fallon within tho' past month. Soven wnohes of snow fell horo Inst night and to-dny, and it is etiil falling, with oold, northwest wind. - z MAGCKINAW & MARQUETTE. 8pecial Duatch to The Chicago Tribune, Lansmo, Mich., March 19.—An itom 'appeared in Tucedny's TatnuNs relating to tho construo- tion of tho Mackinaw & Marquotte Railroad. A moeting of tha Board of Control was hold hero on the 7th met, Mr. Holdon, Clinslrman, stated that thero was mo contract awarded, and, whon | osked sho prospocts of tho road, said tho Board did not wish anything publiehed till the contraot waa awarded. I'rom other Informatiop, it ap- posrs that tho proapoct is not favorable for an oarly completion of tho road. BMr. Whitmore, of Marquetto, ropresented to tho Board that a Now. Yorl capitalist would tako an intorest in it ; bat, whon his namo was montionad to tho Governor, ' 1ic sald tho capitalist had too many irons in the firo now, The Bonrd wish moro than one cow- potitor before making tho award. * THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL. Tho Dirootors of tho "Chicago, Milwankeo & Bt, Paul Raflrond Company hold & mooting ot Now York Thursday, at which a dividond of 14 por cont on the proferrod stock of tho Company waa doclared, 7 por cont on tho net earnin ga of 1874, and 7 per cont on tho not” carnings of tho road in 1876, Tuis dividend {a.payablo April 10 in the consolldated sinking foud bonds of tho Company.’ 1t {s rumored that procoodings havo been commonced in tho Uoarts by David M. Huges, tho Trusteo, to onjoin the Campany from paylng the dividend. Tho ground for tho, asotlion jsstated to bo that tho Compauy {s in- dobtoed to tho sinking fund nearly $1,000,000, and that no dividond ‘should bo doolarod until that olaim is satisfiod. Superstitions Kogarding Spitiing ana Sncozing. - ! 4 Cornhll Manazine, The belief in evil 'spirits affords the best ox- planation for a sof of oustoms no less curions than disagrecablo and ridiculous. Wa allndo to * tho world-yide suporstitions connectod with .spitting ond eneezing. Many Lnglishmon #pit if thoy moot a whito Liorso, a squinting - man, or a giogle magpie, or if, adver- wndy. thoy stop under ‘s ladder, ‘or wash thoir hands in tho samo bosin with o friond. In Laucashiro, boya epit over thoir flngora be- . foro bogimuing o fight; travelers ob leaving homo spit on & stone and throw it nway ; market pooplo spit on the fireb money thoy recarve ln tho dny. Bwedish poasanta spit thrice if they cross water aftor dark, and oven tho esthotio Athonian used ta epls if ho mot a madinan.” So tho savage *Now Zonland priost epits on tha twosticka which, according ne one of thom falla uppermost, aro to forozliow tho roault of a coming battlo. In- deed, this unplonssnt hiabic sooms a univeraal charm for brln‘glng good luok of nvorting bad: but for what concofvabla reason than that the mouth waa onco rogardéd as the portal by which-ovil apirita got into a man, and by which' slona thoy cautld be forcod (0 mako their oxit ? Tho Mossn~ 1iaus usad to mako spitting and nose-blowing a part of thair roligion, for tloy hoped thoroby to ‘froo thomeolves from tho domous’ with which thoy fancied the air to bo full. - This singlo caso : contains, probably, tho koy o all tho othors. But why should sneozing Lo so gouerally re- rdod a8 o Lad omen, aud ons to bo averted £ possible by folicitations and blossiugs ? Ono oxplonation ls, that, ns it was tho sigu of ro- turoing convalescenco daring the plagne at Athony, congratulations woro offorad when the crisla was past; owothor, that during .o groat piaguo that raged io Gormany in tho ixth con- tury, and bogan ita fatal courso with a fit. of snoozing, it wus usual to oxclaim, ** Map God belp you now,” ag Boon as tho sad doath-signal wus beard. Dut tho custom la of far wider oxtont and oldor’ lineage than such oxplana- tions imflly. and {he only possible hypothesis 1o ono tuat adapls iteolf to all races and all times. In Now Zealand n mothor ropeats o charm whon lier child aoeezos, lost avy ovil ro- ault In consequenco, and English nursoa do just. tho samo, In the Notherlonds mnnooze givesn witoh powor over. a porson, unless 6omo oue' Invoke & blosalng from heaven, aud in thoso fucts probably lics tho real explanation. For, - GUTTING, Ratea to Missonrl River points are entirely ont of ehapo, and freights nro takon from this clty to 8t. Joseph, Kansas City, Loavonworth, and At- chieon, and points boyond, at fram 40 to 60 per cont less than rogular tariff rates. Tha causo of tho roduction ia owing to o fight betwoon tha Bt Lows roads, which forced down tho raies from that point. Tho Chicago roads leading to . tho wame puint wore compelled to tako froights at tho same ratos na thoso mado from 8t Louls ar olse Joso their businoss. -1t is, howaver, not be- | liovod that this state of affairs will last yer:' long, and a settlemont of tho oxisting difiiouttios 1a looked for daily. LEAVENWORTH. Bpecial Dispateh to The Chicags Tribune, Leaveswontw, Kon,, Maroh 19.—It is en- nounced that tho Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail- road wili run their traine Into this city ovor the track of tho Koavonworth & Atchison Road, aftor tho first of noxt month, This will give Leavonworth morohants auotlor valuablo gon- nootion with Chioago. —_— WOMAN'S RIGHTS -IN IOWA. 8pectal Diapatch to The Ohicaao T'ribune, Dea Mornes, Ia., March 19,—For sovoral years it ina buen tho custom in this Btato, under the goneral averago progrossivo Iowa idea of ad- vaucement, to oleot women to achool-offices. : Thoy aro to bo found on Boards of Bchool Di- rectors in many countlos ; and ten aro acting na Uonnty Buperintendeuts of Schools, by vote of the pooplo; and they givo eminent upila- faction, ~ The fltst ~opposition to thia innovation wea In this county, in Polk City, whero a Iady was electod Booretary of the School Board, the old Becrotary taking it in high dudgoon- that he should ‘have tu surronder to otticoats. Tho woman :}:pnnlod to tho District sourt ; and tho Court decidod that, na theto was no law against {5, the will of tho pooplo was ontitlod to. consideration, and hold that tho woman = wss ontitled to tho oflice. At the . olection lost - fall, o Xisd Cook, o highly ostinablo and compotont woman, was_elected County Buperintendent, filvlng o Mr. Hutf n regulor” Waterloo dofeat. 0 got mad ; hia mannhood and hin dignity woro Inauited § ths world was going to otornal amash; oud tho inalionable rights of tho jords of crea- 100 wore joopardized by tho onward march of 0, shooa. Ilo appealed to tho Circult Court of this Cirouit, and the case was ably arguod, aud on Wednoaday tho Judgo gave hls depision, thet, inasmuch oa thero was 1o Iaw providivg that yWomau might bold cloctlyo officos 1n this Stato, and that, 88 womon were not citizous, tharofore women could not ho olected to oflica. Dut, at the eame time, ho Leld that, g Mr, Hul bad not received majorily of the votas oaat, hie was nob entitled; wo'that, lu Lisutilted swbition, ho overstoppod bis Intont and {oll to tha ground. ‘Ihedecision was roportedto Hiate Huperintondent Aboructhy, who at once drafted the following bill, which was prosouted to tho Bonato by Sonator Woolson, sud passod unauimously : 5 8za, 1, That no porson ahall bo desmod fneligible, b retach of eux, 10 auy achiool aifice 10 o of 20,2, No porson who may have heen or shall ba steciod o appointed to the ullice of County Huperin. teudeut of Vonunon Hehoots or School Director in tha Slata of Towa shall La deprived of otico by season of I, . 1t wasbrought to the Houseamid the babel and ¢ontusion of tho clostag hour, when Afr, Brooks, of ¥Fromout, mounted n chair, i elentorian voico outroared tho din, snd proscnted tho bill, whick was passed without opposition In five minutes, and viotory perclies ou tho plumes of the fomi- uine hat, This seitles tho question of offics- boldivg. 'Chere {s no nb{‘eeuon tq woman having all the offices to which aho cau get slected ; but sho Lttle ballot whicl elects hor she cannot have, nay the august Benato, went is rogarded by savagos na posossion by ' ovil epirits, and that ‘sncozing is always tho procursor of thoso temporary bodily deraoge- monts, often very sevoro, which wo kuoow ag “ colds,” may It not bo that {u thouo carly timos, when to procede in the eamo as Lo cause, o BN00Z- ing it was sot down a3 the sigu or oause of such o possossion, and charms woro employed to coun- toraot ita offoats, 1f a cold was ovor heid to bo' & bewltchmeont, we can understand the uso of charms and bloseings at the earlioat stage of. the promonltary symptoms. Aa an involuntary act, 2 sneozo would, liko all other natural phonome- os, .be. & portent sigoificant of, aud ‘on-! tailing, a sorles of cetmoquoncos; and n, course of time, 8 mon Atprovoed .in obseryy tion mud distinctlons, I8 would grow to &', ovon augplelons undor certain gircumitances. ‘Thus In our own counlry, it is & good sign on somo days of tho week, butobad ono on oth- ,nnl aud In Scotland au infant is under fairy spolls until it encezcs, n belief apparontly con-' nectod with tha sbsurd idoa of tho aucapacity of ldiots to suooze. In Greace, also, tho distince tions drawn about it ralsed encozlog to an art; for while it wns uvlucky in tho aftorncon, or when food was bolng “oloared away, or If ft« ocourred _throo times, or mora thaw four, or on tho loft-band sido; If it accurred among persons In deliboration, or twa or four timos, or. in the morning, oron tho rightbaod sdo, it was acoounted A Jucky omon, Wo read that: ‘Themistooles, by a fm!lclmm 8ncozo on hia right- haod sido, porsuaded his oldiers to fight, and Xonophon' by s simsilar sct in the middle of s speoch was elected Genoral. And on anothor oo- caslon, & 6nooze from a linesman just boforo o battlo waa considorsd 20 ominons that publio prayors were docmed necessary, in consoquenco. et il iy sorvian Indopondence. Tho Servians coutiuved subject to the Turks for moro than four conturics.” Throughont this riod thelr conditlon yna tn many - respeota o appy ano. Tho rulo of tho Turkish Pashas was Joss oppresaive upon tho peasantry than thaf of thoir owa fondal fords had beon; thoir tuxes were Lot hoavy ; thoy wore permisied frecdom of worshup, At lost, howover, the old proud spirlt of the Borvian raoe rovived. Tho plundoring corrup-. $ioun of tho Pashas, and the inabitity ol tho well- disposod Bultana to protect thom from tho exac- tions and ospriclous tyranny of their ‘own of- ficials, rouma fta long dormant, bub, as It appeared, mot extlnet enorgics. In 1804 tho Borvians ross In goneral jnsos-: rection. Thoy found a rude but hierolo leader fu Kara Coorge, s sort of marauder of gigantio stature and impeluoud ‘courage, and after a struggle of oight yoars they schioved thelr independenco, ~Kara Georgo sssumad- tho, power, and ruled dewspotloslly ; but he pre-! served order, snd for m while sustained hLim- solf agatnst the attompis of the Turks at recons, quost, ‘A sudden aitack, however, ' was mado by thie Hultan {n 1818, and so uppropared was Kara Goorge that the Tarkish troopa ocou-: plod Horvia without s battle, and the upatart sovereign was forced to iy for his life,’ Dut tha Bervian spirit of indepeudencs was not crushed by this disaster, Ouce more the people rose in arme, this time undec’ Milosch Oberono- viteh, the won of a swine-hord, The Hullan, finding himself ' pomerloss o koep the coun in sobjeotion, mado terms with Milosch, and in 1830 he was recoguized as Prinooof Bervis, and the virtus! independence of tho principslity was ackuowledged by an Im- orial firmpn. The present: P'rinco of Bervia, Km.u 1V,, is the fourth soveroign iv succossion from Mijosch, oud Is In tho 31ut yesr of his age, With tBa exception of sn anousl (¢rib. ute o tho Turkish Treasury, and the mominal right of the . Hultan to call upon Borvia for & contivgont of 12050 mon in oa2o of war, and to reprosent Bervia at forelgn e Chinvse Funcril Aunouncouonis. Chambers® Journal, On Ao death of & parcut {4, is customary in Ohius, ot any rato with porsaus sbove certaln rank fu the soolal géalo, to forward to all fripuds and scquatntances, hosayor shight, a formsl no- tification of she fact, writlen ip mouraning ink and on mourding paper of porfentous dimon- 5 appolnted by the Prino or Houss of Dapaties, shoson by universal ouf. lnkln[i into nccount that ovory bodily derange-: courta by bis Eovoys, the prinely i ontteoly indepondont of tho Toria," 1) looal affairs ita govornmont is an rems, By the Bervian Oonstitutlon tho Pring ssistod by five Mininters, wioldn tho o ccutive. "Tho turo comprinos. f:‘ ng ssventesn mombery y and the Ekmmmn‘ i, ) Houses,~-thes Bonato frago, at tho rato of ono Doputy for ove Slagtom. The politioal forta 15, that nf".’;% slitutional monarchy, The Miniaters nre e, sponsibla - to the ° Bkoopachins, snd h‘;fir has the exclusive rx‘izhl of nrl.lmmu monoy _ billa. . Indeod, the independss] Qovernmont of Borvin appears_to hava hog cloasly moddaled wpon that of England, 'n,: Borvian army omprises aboub 4,000 men; any’ the revonuo of tha principality, denved cliefly fron & genoral capitation tax, which does noy benr heaviiy upon tha pooplo, amounts to nbogp 81,700,000 —Gearge M, Towle, in “IHarper, 2Magasine for March. A PRETTY TIGUT PLACE, Xow John Guun Escaped from o Pacy of Wolvos. ' & . Ottarca (Can.) Free Preas, Bolug a cullor in $ho cmploy of Aosars, Mg, Larau & Go., on the Gatinesu’ River, 1 sot oy on the morning of tho 29th of Fobruaty, in com. pany with tho Indians, to ascertain if” any tres. 2s808 bad boon committed on o limit owned by hot firm, Tho distriof I8 romarkablo oniy fop its mountalnous character, tho n:fi: bolng call. od Mont Diablo, or Dovil'a Mountain. I took my horo along with me so Tong na a beaton tru| onabled mo to do o, when I tied him up ang coutinued the journsy on snow shoes, Wa b Koue only about 4 miles when ono of - the [y, dlans, s yory cunning aad expericnced hunter, solomnly warned tma to turn back, a8 thoro worg unmistakoble indications of wolves being in cloge proximity, but Imade up my mind to ki on my \way, and my contompt for” the proph:m «‘l’nfl{! of tho- Indiap. came noar costing mg oarly. : A‘ypmuhlng the foot of tho mountain, I e hald in full viow, and only & short distancy away on s amall ominengo, o papk of wolves, twonly-sovon in numbor, devouting the.romaing of a doer. Tho only resource for safoty, was re, tréat or to ollmb a tros, bat on torsing “abont f found that thio two Indinna had gone..-1 saw tg my rovalyer immadiately, and determineéd to livs a8 long 0a I conld, and to sell my life a8 dourly 08_posaiblo. n ‘1 began the rotroat, however, with all the hoste that my physical powors wera capaples of, but was soon alarmed by hoaring the hawling of tho ‘wolves in pursuit, I'have alwayns .-prided mysolf on my flootnoss of foof, o8 I havo sel. dom mot my mlum. “bub 'fo this race with tho wolves lost ‘gronnd very' faaf, I quickly roalized that tho attompt fo oacapo wes vain, for at the rato nlcgning conld not hold out long, and concluded”to elimb 3 troo, - and. thongh . it~ took . me bnt 4 very fow momeats to reach a conveniont bongh, I wag none too quick, for tho pack waa nighog hiand. The drowy up in-liuo nbout 10+yardy from tho troo, and, considoring the opportunlty 8 good ono, I commoncad to' blaze away at thom with doadly offect, no’ Jess than four falliug in .nugwer to soven ahiots, This dostchctive tire diq not abate their fury in tho loast, and I prososded to draw my socond révolver, wheo, unforsunate. 1y, it caught in & twig and was jorkod out of mp Dand to tho ground. -+ i My bufralo cont I had Joft in the cuttor, mad, boing very thinly clad, I began yvery soon o ox. E:rluncn tho offacts of tho cold, 'THo wolves, [ .beliovo, roalized - my helplesances, and became bold accordingly, ‘Ihey, watked up to the foot of tho treo, which was & vory small ‘ono, and s thoy could not reach me by leapivg, thoy began to goaw it down. Tnkluiont my fnuo 1 cut the longost limb I could roach, aud loaviog o hook on tho.end of it I canght hold of & lary: coduy iroe about 10 foot off, and as tho wolvea con. tinued goawing and m{ porch got moro and miore uoatondy, I puiled in tho polo'and drewths treo ovortoward tho codar. With o dosperats exortion, and after soveral minutés ol dwop anxioty, I ancseoded in gaining the cedar, aud toolt up & salo position aAmoog the branches, The wolves utterad o flerca bowl and too) their doparturo, but I did not venture to doscond from my perch untit the laat .pound from then was faintly hoard from the distant hills, O ronching thie place whero I had loft my horsal found thnt ho had got frightonod and had goos, I won nbout atnking ont in pursult whou Iospisd tho two Indians,; who were ondoavoring to se oure tro ‘ymmg mooso, which they had got ol s kind of crovasso at tho baso of o high rock I turned in with them, and wo sr~-aeded fy taking thom alivo nud unbiort, o corrid them fo Mr. Valont's shanty, whero thoy will 1o majn until wo can got thom down to Ottaws, ‘Tho Indiang had couragoe onough to go back ani skin tho wolves ———— “ Weighing ¥ o oy of Light. ¥ . Tundon 1imes, Feb. 14, ** On Friday oveuing lus Alr. W. Orookos, F. & 8., gavo abtho Royal Iostitution tho ** Pridsy oveiing discourso,” his subjoect being * Tiio Yo ohapical Action of Light.” A vory importaut ex- porimont, shown for ‘the firat vimo, was thatof the motlhiod of ** woightng ™ a ray of light, Ak though light I8 generally rogarded a8 impondes ablo, blr. Craokea not puty chowed his Auparatug, -but aotdally + wolghed* tho light of a candla. ‘Tho principlo ou which it is constructed 1 bnaod on the fact that a fino throad of gisas s .pended at one ond may b turnud round sod round somo twonty or thizty times withook broaking, and it hag'a tandency to untiiat itsell agaln, A very fino thrond i suspendod by boiy onds {u a tubo, and at ono part of it i3 a soell crugssthroad, to which is attaghod a diso of pith with one ride blackened., At-the junction of thiy croos-picco Is. o wmmall cireular mirror 80 umn;ed that 8 ray-of = light throwa onto it from o limo-lighe aball Lo reflocled on to n graduated gcalo, and any twinting of the glosy thread wshall bo thus recorded, Asth ropulslon by rudistion only oceurs iu vacuo, & Bprengel pump .is omployed to produce iu the toby oy {wrlml & yacuuin ns 44 poseible, To ono ond of tho glass throad s . tarning dis sod g Iardlog's counter, and this is outsido the tube. Mr, Crookes Lo contrived a mosns Ly which tho disc can bo. ured without intere fering with the vaouum, Huch, briotly, s te conntruction of tho upparats It ‘fs " uszed o this way: Tho light to Lo’ ‘*weighoed” Is ab lowod to fall on tha pith, 'This, b4 fu’ tho sine plor radiometors, is repollod, and. its’ motion oaunses a dorsion of tho plags thread and s mo tion of tho imirror spot aloug the scale. Tha turnlog disa Is emploved to unwind tho threal agaiuag Lhis aotlon, tho wirror Apot going buk to zero on tho scale. The Harding's countet tolls tho dogroo of torsion tho gl thread has undergone by counting the amount; of unwinding roquirod. 'I'hea o httlo irea welght, the oue-hundroth. of & grain, which B within tho tubo, iu Jitted by a maguot on to the littio oross-bar, 1ts welght caueeda torajon, the mirror spot travols along tho scale, and tho un winding {8 porformod as bofore. A coudld placed 8 inghos awny from tho pith was fouud o Plvo 1,628 degrece of rovolution, and the little ron welghv 10,021 degrecs, Then It 18 moroly s matter of calculation to compsle tho two, and the mochanical force of the candlo-light s oxprossed in graiog, * A * atamd- ard" candlo 6 Inchenoft was found to bo oruire lont t0 0.00173 graius. © Mr, Orookes hag toade oxperiments ou tho sup's light, and has worked out gomo calealations on it. It {s equal lo 31 grains on the aquare foot, 57 tous on tho squan mile, or 8,000,000,000 tons on the whols ourth,—4 force thas, but for gravitation, would drive it into epaco, ‘strauge Rovelation by the Microe . #copes The[}? I8 a atory that au eminent mlncrosoopie! Lad o bit of subatauce submitiod w him tode clde what it was., To an unasided eye it mxfihb be n moraol of ekin which a baggage-smasher lLiad knocked off tho cornor of o wmuotbly-mon haoir truok, The snvant spponlod to bia uls croscopo. Emtirely ignorant of thia tiny bis of majtor oxcapt a4 ho kind taken connsel with Inatrumont, the wiso wman declared that (¢ w8 tho 8kiv of o -human bofng, and that, judging by tha fino bair ou it, {twas from the so-call nekod portion of , the body, eud, furthet that it onca belonged to o nir—cmmuwnol porson, - Tho ntrango facts now aada knowd to tho gmian of scicnoe were {hc#dl ‘Chat,. @& thousand years bofcrs, » Dan- Ish marnudor lad robbod an English oburol I tho epirit of the ‘old-fashloned %m tho 1ot ber was ‘ta) eq'.(ll(o(' s hopo that ho was killed firat), and o wag nalod (o tho ol door, Excopt as tradition or arcicclogiesl lore had it, tho affalr had beon forgotion for huve dredi of yours, Time, the great erodut, bad long ago removed the offousive thing. Bl however, the choreh door held Lo its marks of tha grea ehame, for thq broad-hoatded nalls ro mainod, Bomgl oxtractod opo, and undors ueath ita flat head” was this atomto remunnt o sttt snciout Bosudinavisn -malsfootor's pelt— that fair-skinned robber from tho North.—Frof Bamnuel Lockwood in :Harper's - Bagazing O Aprik . . 2 ’ # —_—— A LKentucky Droame - Frankitn (Ry.) Patriot, Alittlo boy eaid to Liw mosher the other morn ing: “Ms, I lind tho besunfulest drean:lact night you evor uaw, ' 1 dreamt tbat L wouldu'ie? 10 sokool and that you wout out.into the yard sud out a greal long awitch, bus Jus as you wst golug to give me aa swiul dresaln’ the workd cams lnl_ncudl Dldn‘&'l gob oub of it easss