Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1876, Page 6

‘FOREIGN. fervin Assured of Russian Pro- tection Agninst Austrinn Coercion. A Rtssian Emiseary to Visit Constan- tinople in tho Interest of the Insurgents. Sovernl Disnstrons Shipwreeks Boported ‘on the English Const, Prosident Dominlqus of Hayti Drivon Out by the Bevolutionista TURKEY. ‘BEAVIA ASEURED OF DUSIAN PROTEOTION. ‘Berutr, April 14,—The Journals of the Czech fparty'in Austris aseort that Ruesia baa plainly fntormed tlis Borvians that she wili-protoct thom grom -Austsian cootclon 1o the ovent of Beesin @eclaring war ngainst Turkoy. . Loxnon, Aprll 16— a. m.—Tbe Deutsche | Reitung reports that Weesilitski, tho Russian smiveary, has hrrivad at Vionna from Raguas. Ho tins hiad's conforonco with Count Andrassy, snd will go to Constantinople to propose certaln conditions of the Ferzegovinian insurgonts whiol Austris ‘supporta. THE TATTLE OF MURATOVIZZA. Correapcndence London Tinies, Raarsa, March 22.—A friend who was in the camp of thoipsurgents, s Enroposn officor of soveral years' experionoe, and whoso fmpartial- ity and trustworthincss I oan vouch for inthe fulloat maunor, had boen at Grahiovo somo days beforo the battlo, hud was rofurning to camp on the dsy of the fight. Ho wool at once to the battle-tleld, and saw scattered along nearly 16 kilomotres of rond above 700 dead bodics of Furkish poldisra; ho waw tho two guns enptnred which the insurgents In tho first fury of tho afiair bad failen Toul of, Lreaking their wood. work In places; bo saw and converscd with tho Cuoiefs, and, at my request, mocet mo ab Nisano, whors, also, paw several of tho Ruasinn volunteors who had beon in tho battie, On the roports of tho vari- ous Chiefs and theso volungeers, two of whom sre ofticora fn tho Itussinn army, aud anothor n medical atndent, Vassilussky, whom I men- tiofted in a provions letter, I corroct my provions roport, the inaccuracios of which wero owing to Lhe fact that 10 ane spoctator saw the whole of tho bnttle, Tho troops Lind loft their provisions nt Goransko, nnd wero roturning beforo tlo outposts discovored them, tho Chiofs having Leen, by feigned dinpatches mont to bo takep, led 10 oxpect A movemont on Duga, and tho Goransko rond being loft nowatchod, They wore attacked first by Boclen, with 200 men, on tho flank of thin Tear guard, T'oko with his corps, about equal in strength, followod quickly, and the homo guard uf Piva'catna wpintho fear, boing by chanco near ot band. The rear guard faced about snd fired two ronnds in platoou whon tho g was Lioard in {ront of thom, other bodies of insur- gents huving camne in ou the main body. Thore- upon tha vour guard, fearing to e et off, faced nloat tinl minrehed vapidly forward, harassad by tho iusurgent firo aad specdily Lreakiug iato o fuh. As thio differcnt hodies of the fnsurgent forco heard tho tiring. they took up the march towards tho rosd, falimg continually on tho fiank of tho Jong colimn with fresh mon, and tho troops making mearcoly Any eo 3 but, baving the road opon bafore them, thiey mado for Untschko rapidly. Tho garnison ab that fortress, hesring the fring ond that it n)mmwhod them, sont out anothor Lattalion with two puus, to meat tho fugitives sud cover Lhoir rotreat, Theso mot tho flying columu, and were instantly euveloped by it. One guo wan taken on tho spot, the gunners being all cut down and tho mutes captured ; the other, ou the carriapa ready to five, was dragged by tho troops aloug ‘the rond 3 or 3 miles at Joust, vihen, tho suow being noarly middie doop, sud the wheols boiug up to tho axles, it wag ovortaken Ly - tho fpsurgonts and captared, ‘Tho purenit was continued till 1 A u., whon the fugitivos gainod the sholter of Lipntik. In tho emly morniog the com- wendor at Gntechlo scut out & strong colutan to rocover tho gunw, aud ay in the night the Ine gurgents hiad not beon abla to colloct the rifles trowu or dropped by tho way, the Turkish troups wore obiu 1o carry off minny Hiles nnd tho bodien framn tho pattof tho road nearess Lipnili ;_tho rest of tho bodics lio still along tho rond ou Tar os buerelching, whora the lght’ bee gan, Two dayn later, und whilo_mv corresnondent was still 1o cam, Muklitar I'ashe made o sortie In force towuzds Duga, but, secing tho position of tho insurwouts, returned without attacking, Ho afterwardy asked au armistico of twelve Bays, which was rofusod, and thon, it 18 _forthor repurted, on authority which I bollose gaod, ‘Umt mot, Hke thu demaud for armisiiee, supported by s written document, a6kad to bo allowed to provialon Nikaies, prome sing on theso conditiona not to attack them, i was, of course, equally ‘refused, Kince which, up to the lateat nows, no movement han Licen attompted ; but Niksics in reduced to tha last oxiremity, aud tho gnrrison and psopls are living on herbs and horsa-flesh, flour and gran boing at pricos which the poor cannot pay, and it I8 reporied hy womo who bava escaped into Montenerro that tha day aftor to-morrow is the Jateot date of holding "ot possible. We hoae tunt the lusurgents have ot Krataz about 3,000 picked’ mon. snd that another thousand aro #boat Nikeica, ‘Lo insurgonts are also suffering groatly for wont of food ; but thelr determination seoms to “bo unabatod to let nothing drive thom into pacif- fcation. Thoy got food from_tima to tune, and &ro acouatoined to fanting in tho intorvals. ‘Tho day my correxpondout left the camp, one bis- et dividod amnong thres nien wau tho ration; if suy could get meat thoy had it, Lut nono wag provided. Ontho otlier aide of tho Nareuta, affaley aro mora favoieblo to tha ‘Inriw, ths baud of jubibratics under its now commaud apposring 10 have dirsolved along tho frontier, the rigor of tho Austrisn Govermment making it dlicult for shom to hold thoir own. The portion command- ed by Musics, the Untholic priest of Kayno, haw given ilself up to the Austrian nnthoritics in srdernot to starve. The band scoms to uave kad s ebarp affair near lubusbka somo dayn ‘180, 88 wo hoar from dlostar that tho Hoys wio xout out to it loat & number of their most prom- ment persousges, and a Alostar friond now hero lolls mo that thore were two of his personal ac- gusiutances killad. gy INDIA, TUL BODOET. CALCUTTA, March 81.—Fho fluruclal statemont of Sir William Muir 18 published in the Gazcllo of India to-day. ‘he accouuts for 1874-75 show » total rovenuo of L50,670,177, ‘ILe onlinary »ponditure during the same pariod amountod to €50,251,617, including £2,237,3€0 for the Fumino ltoliet Fund, 'Tho oxtraordinary oxponditures for publio works warn 4,219,666, 'The regular antimatos ‘for 1873-70 piuca the revemis at €£0,001,000, aud the ordinary expenditure at €49,744,000,including L650,000, tho balance of tho suwmn oxpoudod for tho roliof of the fawine. 'The p3traordindry oxpondituro for publio works s pstimated &t £4,145,000. 'Fho Budgat for 1876~ 47 estbmatos the rovenuo at £50,450,000, ana o ordinafy oxpenditure sl £50,130,000, The pxtroordinary ‘expenditurs for pablia works iu fizod at £8;769,000, to moot whick it {a propossd during the flnancial {u" 1876-77 to raise L3~ 100,009 Ly loans, mweluding £360,000 on account ¥ the Buindis aud Holkar Rallways, The ra- maiplng £2.640,000 Is to bo raised in Eugland by the Soorpiary of Htate. No loan fs to be taised in Iudis, and no fresh taxation is iutend- ud for the year 1876-77, ‘The cash by 8 in (ndin‘at tho“end of 1875-76 aro_ocAtimated at f'lz c"lll{d,i’u. aud at the and of 1570-77 at L13,- 'I'ne Budget shows all branches of the rovenne do Lo favorablo. ‘Tho recelnts from cuatoms dutios bave incressed sluce tho now 'I'anif act tane [uto operativn, but the fall in the rate of sxchauge causes an estimated losa of over .£1,000,000 storling. 'The Uovernment bas re- solved to ‘restrict the expenditure on .publis works as far as possible while exchange con- Sinuea unfavorable, ‘The drawiugs of the Bocretary of Btate on the Indisn Treasury during the eusuing fAosocial year will amount to £183,500,000, aud the loss by “ suebiange te easimated at £2,300,000. —t et THE PLAGUE. 178 BEOKNT OUTEREAK IN ASIA Lorudon Tymes, Hareh 81, Wo aro informed that the plagus, which for * Bbe 188 two yoars has appoared now snd agalo luvillsges on the lower Eouphrates, has now broken out at Hillah, snd that some cases have pocurred at Bagdad. The disesse has been ab. out frow this couutry for mare then 3150 years, from the Continast o Furopo, and from its once Iavorito haunts in Egypt, Byris, and Xlesopota- mis, for about 40 years. The recont nnmnmu:i Lowover, havs shown no diminution of ths ol virulonco, and thoro can bs little doubt, whon the prosont etate of commercisl commubicae tion ‘I coneidbrad, tht tho Tualaay will moon b _conveved from Dagdsd to tha ‘Levant. From the Lovaot it might easily puss ta Europo and aven to our own shiores. Fortos pately, tho unhealthy conditions of living by which plague was once fostered amang ourssives nb longor oxist; and partly from the chutiges in this reapoot, partly by raason of tho powors now vonted in looal sapitary mathoritios, thero is ovary roason to ballevo that any impoetdtion of tha discase into this country would ba spoadily controlled and kept within narrow limits, There can bo no doubt, howarer, that it i tho doty of sanitary authorities, espeolslly in sesport sowna, tobo fully propared for uny emergouncy which may ariso, and to considor boforohand the pre- catitions which would be roquired if any caso of p‘lunua should be brought within their jurisdic- tiom. — FINANCIAL DISBTURBANCE DEPRESSION 1N THE ENGLIIIL AND CONTINENTAL STOCK MADKETS—ADVANCE 1N SILYZR. Loxpo¥, April 12.—Tha Times to-dsy in its financinl articlo says tho foroigm stock markot Liaa becoma almost utterly demoralizod. It looks 28 |f |t tmay presently become impossibly to dosl in Purkish, Egyptian, ‘Peruvian, Mexioan, and such liko stocks. Tho SBtock Exchango was fu s state of collapss to-day. The Continentsl bourses sre nlso umessy. Hoavy sell- ing ordets woro received from [Parie, but {t was almdst !mpossible to mako the sales, Btockn cloesd mlightly tmproved in tone with & recovory from tho Jowost point. Bilver Das risen to 533¢d. Tho riso la chietly attributae blo to tho sunonntoment of the immodiato fasue bore of & now indian Governmont loan. of $20,000,000, from which it Is Inferred tliat the Indisn Council will uot forea tho sale of ‘their drafts, and romittances to Indis must bo made in sllvor. The markot Is also influenced by tho annouacemont from \v.nmnygm that the United Btatos Sonato has pasded the bill substituting silver for fractional curreucy. Parts, April 12—LEvonlng,—The Bourso has been vory flat to-day, sud all prices closed at the veory Inwost. Toroign itocks of all descriptiona bave beon much prossed for salo, aud the do- clino fa sovero all around. BeoerN, April 13.—The Bourss to.day was very unsottied, and salea -of ail intornational Atocka wero ditlioult to mako, oven at a heavy rednction in prices. The National Zeitung an- nonnces the suspensicn of Rollandt & Mullor, nn important cottou firm of Bramouw, with Leavy Hlabihtion, VrevNa, April 12.—The Dourse to.dsy was very flat, Homo funds, bank nud railway shares were panicky and decliued heawsly. All foroign oxchanges cxhibit s marked advanco sitco yes- torday, —_— SAMOA, THE STEINTERGER ATFATR, Bax Fnivcisco, April 14.—Accounts of Stefn- berger'a troubles in Samoa aro vory conflicting. Otbor private lotters, and statements of rassan- gors by tho Ada May, are to the offect thnt the poople and tho Legislature, aftor Biolnborger's nrroat, deposed tho King, banished him to noighboriny feland, nnd demanded Btelnborger's roloase. Thls was rofused, ood tha Darracouta brought tho King baok, but the peoplo declinod to acknowledgo him. An earncat desiro 18 ro- portod on the part of tho peopla for the arrival of the Tuscarora and tho relense of the Promicr.. 18 personal offocts had bLoon nold, tho prineipal imrc ascrs boiug tho ofticers of tho Barraconta. ncluded in the safo was tho steam-launch presoutod to the Samosa Government by tho United Statos Government. Also, it la stated, tho English rosidents dosiro tho annoxa- tion of Bamoa to tho British Colontes, which will bo secamplished If the United States doesn't - torforo; that Mr. Foutor, tho Amorican Consnl, backe them up agatust lin own countrymeon, rud that the whato trouble arises from the iuterfer- enco of Htoinborgor with their dasign ; that tha ualives have great faith m the Awmericany, sud doniro their protection. —_— HAYTI, ANOTHER MEVOLUTION. J New Youk, April 14.—~The purser of the atesmwer Tybo, which arrived this morning from Capo Haytien, reports that & rovolution againet tho Government of (en, Domimque took place in Capo Haytion on tho 4th inat., and proved a comploto anccoss, the whole population rising on masso, without a dissenting voico. Tho en- tire north, so far aa oard from, including Fort Liborty, Zrou; Grando Itiviar, Lowbi, and Plas- aance, liavo doclarad in favor of tho revolution, On tho Gih of Aprd], the troops of the north wore marching on Gonaives, to attack that place, if such a atep should bo found necessary, which is not probable. It {s atmost cortain that tho presont Government must fall. vl i FRANCE. LLECTION, Pants, April 14.—M. Lasorys, epnbliean, has boen oleciod Benator by Ilo do Is Reunion, HNOW-BTONA, A heavy snow-storm has pravailed thronghont France, The unow was unusnally deep at Bor- deaux and Marseilles. Loxnoy, April 155 a. m,—Paris dispatobes ARys #now has serionelvidamagzed the vines iu the Dordeau diatrict, No such wintry wosther has boon knowa in Paris at this season for fifly years, —_— ITALY. IMVROVEMENT OF THE TIDER. Loxnoy, April 16,—5 a. m.—A dispateh from Romo states that Garibaldi Las sont to the Gov- ornwont an entiroly now schomo for tho im- provement of tho Tihor. Tte chisf foatare is tho cstablishment of & sork of weuport near Rome. Lle asks » concession for the works. —_—— GREAT BRITAIN, BHIPWRECK AND LO#S OF LIFE, Loxnoy, April 16,.—5. a. m.—Numorons dis- asters to shipping are roported on tho Last Coaat, 'Threo vessals wore wreckod yosterday in tho Wash, and two parsovs drowned. A fifh- ing boat way lost off Elgin sud niue persous drownod, —_— SPAIN. TIIE BASQUE PROVINCES, Manmp, April 14—It is cousidersd certaln that the question of the Fueros will be solved by placity the liasque Provincos on the ssmo footiug s the rest of Hpain a8 to taxation aud conseription, but pormitting them to rotain their Domocratic municipal organization. ——— AUSTRIA, TUE RUSGARIAN DIFPICOLTY, Lovpos, Apnl 15~5:30 a. m.—A dispatel from Vionna vnyn a final meoting of tha Austrian and Hungarian Ministors to cousider the quoss tion of compromise is lixed for ‘Puesday next. The Eipoeror Francis Joseph will preside, A rosolution will ba propossd provistonaliy pro- longing tho existing arrangoment for & yuar. THE TURF. New Onveans, L., April 14,—~The following pools were sold to-night on the races to be run to-morrow: Ilurdle race—Vandal, Jr., §120; Cal. Nelligan, $45; Port Loouard, $26 ; Astra- pee, 210, Hocond racs, Dickwick Btakes — blediator, 8150 3 Harey i), 140 ; Yiatry Edwarda, $75. Third race, 3 miles—Sam Harper, $140; Verdigrin, $28 ; Palmouth, §20; Kilbourn, £17; Pompoy’s Pillar, 6. . verial Dusatch to The Chicago Triduna, Brovx Ory, 1a., April 14,—A trottiag-race for 8 purys of £500 came off at tha Sioux c“]’ race- courge this afternoon hoetweon Llack Hangor '.lfl:fl': Billy B. Wou by the former iu 2:38 aud N —— i The Castle of Indolence New York World, Tho man who, when hie waa about to be burled alive by biw justiy-indiguant nelghbors bocauso of higshiftlessness, and » bevevolent siranger of- fared to contributo aload of corntowards his sup- Fort, directed them to ** g0 on with the funeral” £ tle corn waun's ahelled, baa been_ontdona in fudolencs by the members of family tn Elgin Uounty, Ontario. "Thore are eight o{ thom, the parents now old people, two woos aud four daughters, all grown persons, They own & faris of some 300 acres, on whick there l4 o incumb~ rance, Not alona iv the soil feriile, but i ono part of it thore ia & growtl of vajuable timber, which, If disposed of, would furniah & sum of mooey amply suilicient for the support of all the members of the family duning tho remainder of thelr lives. Kor all thig tue sight people Jn question are perishing for Iack of the oommon Decksiarios of life, snd tho elder s0n, & Rrown wan, lios, & uaked gkole- top, iu & heap of straw, without even » horse- blanket to cover hum, dyiug of detitution, Leat THENCHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1876—~TWELVE PAGES. yesr, In wn tnmaoally fndustriome mood, thesa peopla plowed and sanded their fislds, but tho tinpulae did not Iass long, and thus bay was loft unmown, the potatoos undu, end the wheat unreaped, toperish in the wintor's frost.” The father of the family is an oxport in cattle-doal- Ing, and Isat yoar purchased n herd of valuablo animals, the “profit on which, in the natural courae of events, would have been considerablo, Lint the poot besata ware nllorad to atarve to desth. 8mall wonder, therofors, that the sauthoritios have resolvad to appiy to {ho courta for permission—though how it cAn Le accorded 1t'ls t10} oany to.aes, sinco the people aro not paupers and w no ovidence of tomanity furthor than thin upsecountsble and almost in- crediblo apathy € thoir own intercate—to tako poasossion of the progarty, and, through proper gunrdians, admi@lstor it for tho benetit of tho owners. CRIME, A HIDEQUS CRIME. OLEvELAND, O, April 14—A Heraid speoial from Norwalk, O., this morning, says: *The Chronicle to-day publishos an account of the do- bauchery of no loss than twolve girls from 9 to 12 years of ags by Q. B. Kuontz, a teschor of the Gorman Noman Cathalia school. It is stated that Kuontz was dotsctfil In similar crimos twolvo vears ago, tvhon hing at tho school of tho Woat End Roman Catholio Chureh, and tho matter was husbed up. The indigustion la so great that if Kuentz should fall into the Lands of the German citizens hia lifo wonld pay forfeit. Kueatz has lefl, and his where-, obouta ars unknown,"” MINERS® FIGHT, CLesErAND, O., April 14.—A riot occurred vear Massillon this morning betweon greon hands who were about to commenes work fa tho cosl minos and tho striking miners. Georgo Warmington, of this ecity, propristor of the ming, waa strnck on the head and severoly but not dangerously injured, Haveral othora'woro moro or less hurt. Tho Sheriff of the county haa gone to tho winoes with & atrong posao, PARDONED, Speetat Dupateh to The Chicago Tribune, Srawvarrecn, L, April 14.—A pardon by Presidont Grant was receivod hore to-dnf for Benjsmin F. McGes, convicted st tho Iato term of tho Faderal Court of robbing tho mall pass- fog through the Carbondalo Iost-Oflico, of which ho was clork, and montenced to the Poni- tentiary for ono year. Tis youth and previous ®ood character eppoalsd for Exocativo clomoncy. MURDER TRIAL AT MILWAUKEFE. &pecial Diavateh to The Chicago Trnune. myuwavkeg, Wie,, April 14.—~In the caso of David Spollan, on trisl for the murder of an old womAn named Maris Parker, the jury roturned » verdict of mansinughter fn the third degroo at 11 o'clock to-night. STARTING THE BIG ENGIXNE. ‘The Grent Corliss Engine Built for the Centenuial—is First ‘Trial. Phtadeiphsa Times, April 11, The contract botween the Centennisl anthori- tios and Georgo I1. Corliss, of Providonce, R. L, obhgzed the Tatter to havo Lis groat engine 1o Machinery Hall comploted and ready for act- fon by yesterdsy, the 10thof April, Tho ane nouncomont circulating through tho grounds tbat in the oveulvg thia gikantio sourco of the motive power tuat will opernte upwardaof a dozen screa of machinery would bo bo set iu mo- tion for the first time, a great crowd of employos aud othora congrogated abont thie iron giant bo- foro 5 o'clock. Steam had been created in four of tho twonty boilors required to feod the en- gine, and waa turned uven tho lattor balf an hour later. Thoro wero o many aootv-lnoking men paratiod away up at the various points ont~ aide, inside, and on top of the monstoer, oiling, polishing, nnd finishing jnfertor dotalls of tho canptructlon, that como of tho spectators hogan to fear that the proposed starting of the engino that evoning waa & hoax. Quostion after ques- tion was nakod as tn ita sfzo, weight, ete. ‘Iho curious interrozatord were told, not for tho first time, that it weighs 800 toms; will drive eight miles of shafiing; has a fly-wheel 30 feot in dinmeter nnd welghing 70 tonu: i of 1,400 horsc-power, with a capaciiy of being forced tv 2, horso-power ; bas two walking-beams, weighing 22 tons each ; two 40~ inch cylinders, a 10-foot atroko, a oraulk shaft 10 inchea 1o dinmoter and 13 feet in longth ; connecting-rods 24 feet in longth, and piston- rods 41¢ foches m dinmoter. The platform upou which it rests Ia 65 feot in diametor and compossd of {mllnhud iron plstes, resting upen brick foundations that oxtond far down intotho oarth, Tho holght from tho floor to tho top of the walking-beam is 89 foct. Mr, Oortop is tho Iuventor, patenteo, Lnilder, and owner, having bad it erected for tho donblo purposo of exhibi- tion and furnishing motive power, which will be supplied gratuitonsly, but only for the purpose of exhibiting macbinory in oporation, no ma- chinory bang alowed to run longer than 18 necessary for that purpose, oxcopt by permin- sion from thoe Chiof of tho Buroau, Of tho eight lines of shafting (fonr on oach side of tho tranaopt) seven will have n spood af 120 revolu- tiona per minuto nod ons of 210, At twonty minutos past 6 o'cloek a mesnanger was gout for Director-Genoral Goshorn, who ar- rived five minnten afterwards, Tho tall, spry figuro of Mr, Corliss kept fitting from point to poiut, whorovor his cagle gray eyo detocted Borue microscopio, disordor. ‘The olly, sooty workmen climbed down tho two iron Indders reaching from the top of tho walking-benmy, and n fow muacvlar fellows, with a heavy lover acting on the cogs of the fiy-wheel, caused sov- eral taroa of the Iatter to prove that oll was clear before turning stcam ou, 'The inventor, without the slighioss nuxiety deplctod in his couu- teuance, placec his sill: hat fauntingly on the iron- gray histr, and made ono Inst tapid survey of the situation, By tuis timo the Director-Gonoral aud othor prominent ofticials had tnotntad tho plat- form and saken thoir atand betweon tho cylin- dors, Tho oxpoctant throng below comprised peeriy all ofiicially connoctod with the exLibitivn who happensd to be in town. At preciscly Lalf-past G o'clock the Director- Gonoral raised his arm o8 & signal, r, Corliss patted his huge iron pot n i€ 16 wero & frisky nag (hat e was conxivg to move, whon a shaht puliug was heard, not hionr Ao loud ap that of a railway locomotivo when about to start, ona of the Loawy bogan to doscend and Lho fly-wwhoel ta nirn, and tho engino was in motion. Without walting for oro, avery spectator took his hut in his laod and swung (L in tho air, the action boing accompavied hy & cheor 80 deafoning that nothing conld exceed in enthnsinem ozaept the choora that followed it. Everybady appesred to understand tho signifi- cunce of the moment, and tho practical appro- cintion of it shown woull be worthy of the open- ing day. The motion of the enginn was ms- tonighingly noiseleas, nothing being heard above ® uniform murmar, ressmbling the well-known wound of a well-not wheol in rapld revolution, Thero sre but fonrtesn pounds of stoam gouos rated by the four boilers, and the rovolutious of the fly-whonl at plarting numbored fifteen por minute, The shalting cog-wheols, portions of srhich rise abovo the tloor ia distant parts of the building, though rovolving with great rapidity, were ovon moro rolsoloss than their gigantio motor. It was long baforo the epectatora could turn away from tho grand sight. 4 SUICIDE. Svectal Dispatek to Ths Chicngn Tradune, Dernor, Mich.,, April 34,—Mrs, diargaret TRice, wifo of Joha Rice, Bnginocor of tho Great Western Rtailway, residing at Windsor, to whom #ho had beon mareled but t«o days, committed suicido by drowning yesterday, and her body was racovered this noon, #o far a8 known, hor re- Iations with hor husband and relatives wera of the wost pleasant character, and temporary in- sanity probably incited the ack, ——— Ry COTTON, £W Onueaxs, April 14.—Cotton very dull; salos, 214 Lales ; quotations unchangod ; recelpts, not, 8,339; grozs, 3,082; exporta conutwise, 273 slook, 222, B741 wesk's exlen, 20.000; receipt pob 06173 Erosm, 108, exporis to the Cont inent, 6,314 coastwise, i W alo, 16,736, i Grost Bint- ———— Khe Wrong Kind of o Wary, Mr, Dalley, of the Daobury News, presents the following oourteous spology: G. W, B. writes ua from Luzerne, N, Y., that Le has been decofved in a recips given in the houseliold de- partmont of the News. ‘I'his recipa was for the cure of warts, and prescribed *‘ mursto of am- mouia” G, W. B. tried it on a ward, sud tho result was both unnoxpscted aud uudesirable, His hand beganto swell and to grow sore, and Lo fasra it will be & month before he cau use 1t with freedoms. The wart slill romains. G, W. 1. {4 generous enough to conjectnro that posni- bly Lis wart was not the right kind of a wart for tho romody, We are morry for bim. A house- hold department Lins got to be keps up in every aper, of courss’; but we have for s lobg timo oon usnren by tho dark foreboding that somebody will yet bo hilled through fts agency. INTER-OCEANIC SHIP-CANAL. The Nicaraguan and lsthmus-of- Panama Routes, An Argumont to 8how the Bupsriority of the Lattor, S——— Comments upon {ltn Keport Made by the Unlted States Govornmental Commnisston. To the Editar of Tha Chfcage Triduna ‘Tonin, Iialy, Sarch 16.—Haviog recontly soen an abridgod raport of the Commisaion appointed by the Prosident on tho morita of tho various Inter-Oceanio 8hip-Cansl routes, which containg some opinions relative to tho salubrity of tho climata of the Isthmus of Panama routs in com- parison with that of the Nicaraguan one, and in which the fossibility of the Nicarsguan routo only I8 detnonstratod, T beg loave to mako somocom- menta on tho various reasona submitted by sald Commission in support of thoir fayorite routo. Having boen a residont of the Isthmua of Pana- ma for the space of sovonteon years, from tho spring of 1860 to tho epribg of 1807 at Chagres and at Calon, otharwias called Aspinwall, I bo- flovo that I may, snd ought to, know bottor about tho olimate and many othor thinga rola- tivo to thoso tropical regions, than those indi- viduals who may havo not resided 8o many ysars, cither on the Istumue of Panama or (o Nica- ragua. Porhaps thoy may bave lived only a few weska In tho dry season, in one or tho other; which would not enable & person to judgo cor- rectly regardiog the snpply of water, the healthiness of tho clime¢, the fensibility bf the routes, and many other things relative to tho snbjoct nuder conelderation, sxoept in o very fmperfoct and dofective manner. 3 TOE COMMISBlON aro of tho opinion that the Nioaraguan route is tho best. Thoy cstimato that the proposed canal from DBrito, on tho Pacific, to Ban Juan del Norto, nometimes caliod Groytown, on the At- lantic, can bo construoted at a total cost of not excooding £06,000,000. Thoy ssy that objeo- tions of almost an insurmountablo naturo were fonnd in aft but tho Isthwus of Panama and Nicaraguan rontes ; and, notwithstanding the graater luufith of the latter, of noarly 181 miles, they give tho preferencs to it, for ths following Teneons ; . It is the only routo wheroe tho climats 15 not dangorous to Liealth, In the lower routes, reforring to the Isthimus of Panama fouto among others, the walaria would d""ofl tho greater portion of the work- mou befors tho canal conld bo comploted. The Nicaraguan routs is, too, tho only route whoro nn unfailing and proper supply of wator conld be found,—Lake Nicaragus, upon thia routo, being ablo to supply o constant and um- form amouut of water. JALARIA. This opinion about malaria only exlating on tho lotver toutes, comprising the Isthmus of Pana- my, origivated at Chagrea,—s small villego at tho mouth of Chagroa River,—whers, it was ropotted once, in somo publication, that & vosssl touchied at that opon roudatoad, and that all the crow died in o few days. Iu ths commencemont of tho construction of the Panama Hailway, the inexperionced Diroctora of it employed mostly whito Jaborers for tho thros first yoars. from the United Blates and Europe. At one timo thero wero Ianded ot the port of Colon 830 Irish labor- ers, direct from Ireland. I recolloot thém well. Thoy wero in ;ood hesith, with rosy cheoks, as I woll rombor tho lstlor peculiarity, 8e rosy choeks Wete o raro articlo on' the Inthmue. Woll, in tho conrso of symo eight months, all but fifty of thoro viorry, joy- ful sona of the Emerald 1slo ad gone into that slosp frans which thoy will only be waked on the Judgment-Day. ‘Thero woro aido 500 Chiness laborera landed at Psuama: but they did not survive long. Balt provisions ; frosh ment, when to bad, bad; whisky; shantios that did ot properly proteet thom from the tropical raina snd Ju- midity, and from the ravs of o tropical ann ; lit- tlo caro in sickness ; thus their days wero soou endod. To the foregoiug cousca roay be added, Tor tlio Chinose, suicide, disguat, homesickness. Dut, when a bitter and a costly exporiénce had tanght the Dircctors of the railway a hinrd lesson, thoy then tumed their attention to procuring la- borors from Carthagenn, Banta Martha, and other towna in tha United Btates of Colombia, and from tho lslands of Haytl and Jamales, in the West Inalow. from thab time tho death-rato grobubly was not greator thao it would bave oen fn the Unitod States in similar work, Tho ovorsoers of such & work would of course be white men; bot they shonld be changed, or ellowed to o to a cold climats to reormt their strengtin, If araiiway or caunal had boen econ- structod from the Atlanlic to the Pneillo Ocean, across thoss Lealthy regions of Nicaragua, inatesd of from Colon to Panams, by means of whito laborers, tho Bamo sad rewulty would hayo boen experionced; for the same dronded malarls, tropical diseasos, tropical rains aud bumidity, tropical rays of tho sun, troplical hoats, and tropical dobilitating influences, pro- vail in one aa the ather, whethor on the baoks of tho Chagres and Colorado Rvars, on tho Isthmus of Panmns, or along tae shores of Nivaraguan lakos and rivers, Tho Commlssion did not know, or thoy might not havo romemberod, that hundreds of Oalifornion omigrants, in tho early days of Cabifornis emigration, porished “whilst making tho transit from San Juan del Norto, on the Atiantio, to San Juan del 8ud, on the I'aciflo, from yellow fover, cholera, aud tho pests and fovera of Nicaragua, aud all this whils pasaing tirongh the healthy regions of famed Nicaragua. IR NIUABAGUAN PARADISE. ‘The Commisaton havoe fallon juto the error of people from & vold clitae, whoon first temporanly visiting tropical rogionn, sud there soeiny fertilo Iaads aud s porpetusily luxurisut vogetation, (uucy that they havo discovered an Jden au oarthly Daradiso, whero uo morpont tempts Adasm to eat forbidden fruit. At this iden iv faliactous, The question anght bo nuked, Wby havo not Nioatagus, Hayti, Han Dominge, aud otber tropical conutries, whioh are mituated noar tho Unitea Biates, boen settlod boforo this by white emigranta trom the United Biates, inutoad of their sooking the cold regions ot Towa aud Wiscousin, aud tho prairiea of tho Yar-West, :man$ tribes of snvage fndisns ? During tho Walker invasion of Nicaragus, many misguided individuals went thither, with n viow af puraulng agricultural pursuits ; bot tha climate, people, Iaws, tropical disoases, soon ruined * them financially avd physically. Luve Luown the wams inisfortubes happen to whito people who oudeavor to raise coiton. sugar, aud tropical produce, in tlso United Statos of Colombia. % FTUDNORY FACTH, It In onty peopte horn and ramed [n tropleal climes that can labor thore, and exwt for a reasonabie time; and they Iabor but littlo, for the nocesyasry wants of man aro easily supplisd, ~that is, food, raimont, fuel; dwellings, are of the simplest uature. Yams, plantains, rice, maize, frmt, grow the year round, and aro har- vosted daily; hogs, cattlo, fowls, nood no teading; litlle clothing wnflicey, =8 thern is mo cold weather; and A simplo yoof, to protect tho inhabitants from tho sun and ralv, i¥ onough for the country peo- o, v Man and the honoy-hes, in a tropleal clime, Iay up uo supply of ‘food for the wintor, for thers fs no minter. Flawers bloom every day; congoquently thero {8 » harvest overy day. Eveory day, to be brief, provides for 1taslf, 1f the proposod canal should be constrated In Nicaragna, the Iande on the borders of the canal would not be cultivated, s {s the case along- s of the Panamn Railway ; for the natives would, and do, prefer to labor on tho rallway rather than on their rich and productive lands, Hjenco no way-trailic worth moutioning could bo solied upon, WATER-SUI'TLY, The Commisalon also say that "Tho Nicara- guan route is, too, the only routs where an un- fathog aupply of water could ba fooud.” In suawer to the declaration, [ may eay that, in 1851, stoamboata nsed to run from the mouth of Chsgres Hiver to Cruces, on eaid river, s dis- t: of sixty miles, during tho wot which is fully eight months, ~ Crucos is some fifteon Iniles or moroabove the point whero thoe proposed cansl would leave tho Olagrea ; but, duriug thoe dry sesson, of threa snd & balf or four manths, the Chagres, the Obispo, and tho Colorado Rivers, Jliko Lake Nicaraguz, never i1 to supplv au uofailing and consiant amount of water. ‘Yhey would supply sufilcisnt wator Tor tbe.canal biyond question, Yor confirmas- tion o¥thein opintons L refor to Capt. Lull's sud otbor surveys of ths Isthimus of Pansma; to old Touideuty, among whom I may name Col. {eorge M, T'otten, now a residont of the Uity of Naw Yoik, who wan for many years Chiot Eugi- vaer aud Buperinlondent of the V'suaws Rl way at Colon ; Waltor Field and Johu Wilson, of Colou s Heury Behuber and Dr. George A. Rieox- er, of Panuina, Thows gontlomen Lave roaided on the Isthmuy of ~Pauama twenty-four or iwonty-fiva years, and they still nurvive the malhrin ) anth thoy may add othor important facta rolative to tho un'lflnct under discusaion. 16 soktiro fasaibility of the Nicaragnan and Iathinus-of-N'anams routes is conceded ; and at tho cost of the Nicaragnan ronts would be $06,000,000; thiat of the Isthmuas of Pansma fs not eatimatod, nor s tho timo on either ronte ocomputed, which {8 an_important and valuablo conaidaration in thess days of steam and eloo- tricity, COMPARATIVE FIGURES, Tho Commisston estimase tho cost of con- etructing & harbor at HBan Juan del Norte at $5,822,630; for that.st Brito, $2,937,705; total, £8,160,60; grand total, ' ©10,300,461. ‘Tho cost per milo, Includ(gf iheae two hisrbors, i», in round numbers, 364,640, At the samo rate ‘;or mile, the route from Colon to Panania, By 47%¢ miles, would cosc $17,821,000 only. Al low #570,000 for & bronkfvater’ &t Colon would mako n grand total of £17,600,000 tnerely, ar 48,600,000 Jess than the Nicaragina routo | Oolon aud Pannma harbore would sholter the morcantilo shippiog of tho United Biates nnd Europe, that might reaort to thoas Larbors. Thero 18 another harbor at Colon, on tha oppo- sito edo of tho Teland of Manzauilla, on which Colon is situated, which has not been used, as tho prosent ono, where thia wharves are located, sorves the prescut mnecessitios of tho shipping which rosork to the port of Colon on neconnt of tho railway and local tralfic, nnd trhich campriad five or Bix lines of samt-monthiy stoamors and many ssiling vesssls, TIMFE: 18 MONEY, The proposed Nicaraguan route {s 181 miles in langthj that of tho Isthmus of Panama 47)f ilos, following the Jine of tha railway. Bupposs that, in twolve yorrs, the B8hip-Oanal conld bo constructad, extonding from Colon, on tho Atlantic, to Panama, on the Pacifie,—by the BAmIO fimty of mumlhu}; that of Nicaragus, from tho Atlantio to the Pacifie, would tako tho long time of forty-four yéara. Ono geticration, of thitly-two yoars, in favor of tho short routd, isa groat aud valuabla consideration; for the prossnt goneration noed not oxpect mny bonefit from the Nicaraguan work, but only tho revorso. The Buez Cannl, undor its present ablo and oficient diroction, conld be enlarged, and thus & sorious injury to a work occupying forty- four years for its completion could bo effected ; whoross o work of only twelvo years' durstion wonld not give tho necessary Umo to opon othier routes or onlargo presout ones. , COMMERCIAL IMFONTANOE, The commorolal importance to tho United Statos of such an achievemernt cannot bo over- estimated. Tho products of the Pacifie Statos and Torritories could bo shippod, without broak- ing cargo, diract, in & briof tiwe, to good markots in the Eastern Btates and Europe, and vico versn. The grabd contrs of tho world’s com- morce would be romoved from Luropo to Amerlca, from London_to New York, Chino, Japan, tho English RTast Indies, Australin, and the numoroua Ialands of tho Pacifio, would bo supplied from the Unitoa Btates, and thoir wurious productions won!d find a good market in Amorféa. The United Btntes being thus ina central position, Northern and Middlo Eurdpeans would find 1t to be their intorest to set their tropical snpplios from tho United States. Now Orioans and othor of our Wostern cities would become the grand: depots of that great and fertilo Valley of the Mississippi for troplesl products, inatesd of obtalning thom ab sccond hand fn thw Eastern Btates and Europo; nud the products of the Grost Weat wouid bo “oxobanged for thom. The construction of tho canal would maka the Unlted Btatea tuo principal carrior of tho world's productions ¢ for ahe haa the timber and iron to build, and tho hardy ssilora to man, her vossols. TOLITICAL VIEWS. Tho caval wonld bo an {ndestructible link, of whieh the United States would be tho great koy to tho Atwanticand DPacific, that would unite nora nnm{ tho States on the Atlantic and Pa- ciflc than Pacific railwaye; but they togethor conld set in unison. Porhaps the day may arrive sconer than many dream of, whon the possexsons of thie United Btatos may bo oxtended to the banks of the pro- posed canal. It Is well to bearin mind that, whoro commerce goes, political power goos band in Liand with it. Hrxny NobL. Norz.~Suiez Canal itemn (tranalated from an Mal- 1an paper) : * From the Tlat to tho flm of December, 1870, thers d through the Suoz Canal forty vessols,” 'hioreceipts of tolla from the dist to tho Slat of December, 1675, amounted to 785,600 fraucs, THE FORREST CONTROVERSY, Charles 0’Conor’'s Theory of Fdwin Forrest’s Ditficulty with Edis Wigc. The covtroversy botween Mr, and AMrs, For- rest, 58 I now viow it, was a_very oxtraordinar: one. AMr. Forrest possossed groat talonts, and, uuless his acts o that controversy bo made a sub- Ject of consure, ho hira loft oo blemish upon his namo. XYib Jabored diligently ns au act- or, aud was eminently successful. Thongh capa- blo, as we have seon, of great gohorasity, Lo was always oxtromoly economical. Tha spirit which guided bim ju this waa proved In his dying hour. It scoma he had dovotod himuelf thirough lifo to an object which many will dosm imost Iaudable, Ha aimed at eatablishing, .on the most judiclous seals, an inutitution which stould afford to - fortunato and dacayed members of his profes- n ap asylum fo thelr need, and which shoutd 0 perpotuate tho momory of his own namo and virtuos. o married Catbatino Sinclair when sho was bnt 10 years of age. Bpeaking of her * graca and boauty,” tho only witness examined to tho polnt 8aid : #She was to mo perfection, She waa tbe most bonutlful vision I ovor saw.” Un- il thelt uufortunata separation, she was uni- formly dutlfal as ono who doemed a wife bound to “ol og.‘ Bhe wan rospectful and affoction- ate [o her domoanor to Mr. Iorreat; she was Imxdcnl and oconomical 1 her oxponaes, koop- ing and rondoring, as rogulred by him, exact ac- counts of thom, Sho Lia thoatrl- cal wacdrobes; sho mado luuf; jnumefu for and with bim, aud she conatantly aud diii- gontly laborod to serve bim, Bho waa the light of bis houno, Dy Lier accomplishmants and her ladyliko carrisga in the pronsncé of Lia frionds aud visitors sho gratified his prido immeasura- bly. Whon Lhe separation took place (1819), lier boanty, though parhapa changed to s moro sedato mold, was undiminishad; and that Lo thon loved her and had Lhe most absoluta confi. dence In hor purity, I havo alwaya firmly boliov- ed. W h{ ho put hor away from him can oaly bo nsubject of coojectore. Liver mioco the trial in 1853 mino bas Locn what I will now atuto. Bome year or two before tho separation, tho mado projact of tho asylum for detayed actors was | entered upon, Tho conpla apreed to crcct a suitable bullding on the bauka of the Hudson, to use it a8 a dwalling-houso during thelr lives and then loavo it for tho Actora’ Iomo, with tho resldue of 3r. Forrest’s fortuua asan ou- dogment. This nvolved tho uction of a pala- tial residence, coating o large agun for the houes aod furnituro ab tho outset, It would ncceasi- tats & considerablo yearly outlay in maintaining a atylo commensuralo to appearancos ; Aly, For- reut probably hsd not at the time sullciont means to dofray the first exponditure. ‘I'hie de- votion of his whole timo to lsbor as an ftinerant theatrieal star would scarcely have produced n sufliciont incomo properly to innintain ** Fonte bill Castls,” with its queonly mlatreas. Mrs. Forrost thonght not of expenso, e thought of little but oxecuting tho wishes of her hus- band. Probably she wis quito incapable of con- aldoring tho peounlary queation, and, unfor- tuuately, her huaband did ‘not give It duo rofleo- tion. The separation occurred just at the mo- mont whou this Fonthill euterpriso had reachea o Btago which caused Mr, Torrest to percajvo tta probabla offect wpon his fortano, and the drodry future in which ita completion would necessarily involve him. His castlo was in the highway of travel ; it bad attracted groat attontion ; and how to recoda was a diflioult problom. Accustomed to live upon that ap- plauso of the untbinking which chauges to scorn on its horo's falluro in soything, he shrapk from tho idea that, in popular parlance, **Fonthill Castlo” should chango its namo o Fore tost’'s Tolly; wnd, for want of & better contrivanco, ho determined to have a quar- rol with his wifo, for some private causo not to Imexshlnm]. Tho breakiog up of Lis fswily would, of caurio, afford a roason for re- linquishing bis rural residence; and, deemin, his wifo subserviont to his plessure in al things, Lo supposed that she would submit to tbiy vagary, and that, after he had potton rid of tho castle snd a fow montha had elapsed, thero could bo & make-up aud ail would bo walt, Bus, as might have beon expectod, this siugular cons trivance failed j one mistako led to another, and the judicial controversy in question resulted. If, in this judgment oo the evidence, I have dono any wrong to Mr. Forrest, such {s not my objeot. Iimagine it to bo just ; nor will is Lo eagy (o reach any rosult mora in hia favor. ——e The Duclhicss of Marlborongh, New York Sun, The wife of England’s great soldler and small politioisu of last century, Duke of Marl. “orough, plaved ker pard in siimulating the vorruption that brought infamy upon his namo. In the tac-ntu-mbhuhed autoblogeaphy ot Lord Sholburne, hiy rdabip, who speaka with great freedom of the men and woinsn of last century, rafers $0 tha corruption of the Duke of Marl- boroogh's caroor, tracing it dircctly to the ave- riclousnpss of tue- Duchess, who, says he, sen wild fu the habits of power, without Toar of tho devl}, bot ber rollug passion was avarico, In llnstrating hor wn_l-n of gratitying her grondat tho exponao of hor husbaud'a honor, Lord Hiiolburne tells o wtory, which roads flko story of to-day, about hor deallngs with s eertaln old friond of the Duke. This gen- toman went to Fianders snd proscuted Bimnelf to Marlborough, who recolved him eot- dially, and neked what hs contd do to herve him. When ho raplied that his ambition wanld be kat- taflad with A Llumuuml-l'ulunelo{ of Horeo, tho uko At onco favorsd him with & lotter that onghl to bava secured it. Dut when hoe got back to England Lie found hituself unablo to avoréomo the obataclos that turned up in tho way of his gromullnn. and in time began to suspeck that lio Duchiess of Mariborough, stthe Qourtin London, was at the Lollota of thom. Ho thors- upon retiurned to Flandors to tho Duke, who, on sueing his old friend, preventod his spoaking by eaying hé knew hin errand, aud then told bim the atiorteat wray was to givo A sum of monsy, tivo or thres thonsand pounds, telilng him dlso how it might find {ts way to the Duchees, which would Pm an_end to nll difculties ; * and,” adia Lord Bhelburne, *‘po It Buch oporations tho Duchess carrled on tll tho * stroams of dotage flowed from Marlborough's ayes,” FATE'S CHOIOE. Thero woro Just 103 of na as we marched ont of tho littls inlana villago that motning, druma boating, flags flying, and men shoutlng and wonten weoping a faretvell. It was May, 1801, and we were going to tho ** front.” A month later, when tho roll waa éalled on tho heights of Georgetown, there wero only an even bundred In Company G. Death had élaimed tho three sven betora thoy had annffed war's powder- breatly, A month Jater atill tho roll was cslled on tho morniog of Mauassss. Foot-sots, hungry, ex- cited, and anxious, tho men auawored *aye"™ and *“ayo,” and thore Woro nimety-sovon ro- sponaos, making just a hundred witl' the throo company oflicors. Would wo fight ? Isaw onr Captain looking down tho line, There wero onintors, lawyers, mochanics, students, farmors, ond day laboress in Company G, and not a man knew what grim war was, Down across tho meadow, up along the edge of tho wood, nand thero wo rosted and waited antil the fight oponed—walted halt an hour lougor than tuat, and thon camo the order to movo. It was liko a dress parado as wa moved by tho loft flank, down across the old pasture, sud into the edge of the biup cloud of powdor smoko floating on tho morning air. Ouly the mon's faces woro whito and tholr eyes auzious 28 thoy caught tho roar of amail arms nud folt tho grouud tremblo undor the discharge of tho hoavy cannon which woro throwing shot and sbellinto tho hillside abovo us. Down wout a company ‘to tho edgo of tho forent, sproad out liko s fah, and tho skinuishera were hidden by smoke, Tho rattle of muskelry increased ; they had found tavgots for their bullots. Btanding tn lino, welooked dosn into tho smokoe cloud, trombled s little, and thou came tho order to go forward. March! march! and then tho emoke Iiid us, and we ntruok the Confedorato line of battle thrown ontin front of sn earth- ! & & o5 Crash! crack! roar! 'Tho lina wavered, foll " back, upnn[{ fortard ugnlu with & cheer, and w8 wero all thoro,—all but thoso dend or wound- ed. It was like o wild dream. Yorward—ro- treat—forward—now at tho carthwork, now hurled back by the ahcot of flame, ond finally drivon back to stay. A thousand men had been tighting threo thousand, and there could bo bus ove result, The roll wns eallod at Arlingion Hoighty, and goventy-four men reaponded,--govonty-lour from ninety-soven,—twouts-three of the rank and flle of Company & loft doad along tho little crcek which mcanders pist banks of willows, ovor beds of gravol, and around may old troes which have folt tho blaats of hislf a century. We hiad no wonnd- ed—all dead—all Iying under tho emoke-atalned leaves of tho dark forast., It was sad, and yot glorious. Thero would bo thitteen widowa in tho littlo bamlet, and ten sous and brothers would bo wopt for, but wo had been tiied in the baladce, and Company G bad made the wholo rogiment fanious. Winter came, and war was chainod for a whilo, Whon tho south wind blew tho frost awsy and war shook off ita lashings, thore woro but sov- enty mon to snewer roll-call. With muffled drums nud arme reversed wo had foliowad tho others to their last sleop, snd thoy cared not whethor it was war or peace, The Poninsuls caropaign was not for us, but thp thunder of Jackeon's canuvon as ho swopt down on to Manassas a socond time called us out. To wan the flail, wo the grain,—it was no longer a battlo, but o slaugbter. In tho gray of morning his columns came foeling _through the woods aud over the ficlds to ind us, Wo heard him coming. 'Thore wasa weank brigads to opposo 10,000 Coufoderate muskets, but, if we could bold bim ono lLour more, help wonld come. Company G went groping through tha woodd that morning to meet donth. Thero wero but sixty-oight of us then, and it was a poor, thin gkirmish-live which crent undor tho trees nnd frightonod away tho birds just sing- {og their moruing songs. Wo crouched down beaide » fonco, and saw o hieavy line of gray cotuo over the hill and helf way scross the opon field, and then Death took command, Wo stag- gered their line, sud ay it bont back and twisted sbout liko » huge serpeat in his death-struggles, wo cheorod nintil the forest loaves dancod aud quivered. The line stralghtonod, and with an- wworing choor {t came forward,—500 muskots to sixty-eight. And yot wohold our own, and lot thom como, snd” men fought hand-to-hand over the fenco, with clubbed —miuskets snd blood-stained bayonmets, [Each rail bad it stain of blood; each corner Lad ita burdon of doad and ‘woundod, They burlod us back, and thon tho great battle opéned all aronnd us, & 1 was I'irat Borgeaot then, and whon we fell back I was in command. Along the fonco, where death had struck them down, lay Captain, both Lioutonants, and thirtoen of {ho rank and fifo,— sixteon out of mxty-oight, The nfty-two re- troatod bohind tho lino of battle, iolned oar rogimont, and again and agnin beforé nightfalt wo gave Jackson's veteraus ahot forshot, It wan to be, and whon night fell the bravo fifty- o waro living and unhanned, After Manasias thoy filled us np to elzhty-fiv, but somehow tve weant on connting firty-two, aud folt ns if tho straugers wero Intruders, My com- mission as Uaptaia camo ous day, und the two Lieutonanta wero wmon who bad bravely won thoic shonldor-strapa, At Sharpsburg wo numbored forty- nino—forty-nine ~old votorans, [ mean. fho otlior threo had been killed on plckot. Aa we deployed to tha left of tho pike, and filed ncrosd tho flelde, I wondered if the now men would do ua credit. We woro »A';hty atrong as n company, -and over thirty of tho mon had nover boen under fire. Leo's artillory was poundivg at our columns half an hour boforo our brigade got the order to movo, Meadows fickla, groves, koollu, foncos, and & crook—nnd wo koew that Loeo was standing on the defonsive and had a strong position. \Wlon the work came 1 coutd oo that soms of tho new men tronibled, but tho old forty-nino took up their knapsacks and fell loto lino as_if wo were brenking camp. Down across the fleld wo went, following the doublo line of skirmishere, and at lass we atrnok o enomy. 1e biad a fenco, a lung diteh, and & lino of willows, aud ho_did nat ylold until wo crushed bim by woight of numbors, As ho re- tired wo_followed, men falliug doed every mo- ment, Unkoown tous & weak threo thousand were plorcing Y.ee's lino, 1o saw his danger, and a battory wheoled into the gap, openod on us, and the left and eontre of our brigade swung back undor the fosrful rain of grapeshot and shell, The right cangbt tho order to re- treat, and to go forwa Bome fell back charged the batlery, y 3 ‘way to the guns wo left the recraits behind, onky the forty-nine kept on. Aon coufd pauso and retreat from that charge, and no one wouald calt them cowarde, Tho smoko and flame hLid us for a moment, and then ws, reached the guus, leaped over them, crawled nader them, shot, atabbed, shouted, and horrahed. The wholo battery wasours! We aeizad the f““. todrag them off, when a heavy line of battle came down through the gap, clossd it up, and men fought band-to-band avor the ceannon, over the calssons, over the groat heaps of doad on the gr Lees than B0l Foderaln _wers fightiug 5000 Confederatos K could wpot Jast long, After = mo- mont wa were driton back, over tne ditch, be~ youd tho feuce, ioto the Federal ineof bLattie. *Drotty hot In thers, Capiain|” shouted a Drigadier, ns the torn and maugied rewnant hatted to reform. “ Protty hot " My (od! it was tho work of flonds and devils! Forty-nine of the brouzed old fighters in Company G had dashed at the cannory only twenty-four came back! Twenty~ five were lying dead under the guus, hoaped up 80 that they blocked the heavy wheels! T'he rocruits wero there toanawer ‘'aye™ at the pext roll-call. No one thought ill of them; men cannot turn to devils st once. Wo still Lad & strong oowpany,—8tronger then some, but we ou countiug twenty-four,—oounting only stand until touched by tho dsme of doath. Both Lisutouauts were gono, and i u&n mo men frowm the rauks. We ked down upon the placid —_— rirer from the hérth babk in front of Fredenckslurg, #nd when {ho Lina column crossed wo were noar tha front, Wo wora still twonty-four. Death bad taken somaat the now mon, but tho old onos had beon spared, On through the enrioua old town, up through the yailoy beliind It, and thou the Hne of batlls fol. lowed tho line of skirmishiors on to the low stono walls bohind which T.46's YetntAns wera panting for the word to fire, Their sheots nt tlnmo olmost ntarched bhr Mmeos. Tho batilo. line meltad, doubjod, twisted, and then we foil back, the lving leaplug ovor hespaof dead, Forwsrd again, back again, and thou the walls were lidden from #ight by the pilow of dend droesod in biue, sud wo did not charge again, Six of tho twebty-Tour wora left close to the walls, and oloven of tho néw nien nover answered rotl-call again, It was not war, it was not mur. dor—it was butechery. Dut no ono murmured, Tho order had coms to chnraohlnd wo had oharged, though eévery. eoldibr know that hn was charging into the vpon jats of dewtiue- tion, Not & moldlor h Company 'G hag beon wounded; nobono of thoso who foll back to the rivor's bank could show a soratch from bullat or bayonet, It bad hoen thus ever slnca our figat battlo, Thoro was nothing to reporg undor the hoad of ** wolindod ** And ! thieming,” but ail tho namos of thoss who had hoard thelr iast roll-cali went down undor the hesding ot *killed in nction,” \Vhen they fonght it was to tho death, Aftor Froderickaburg more racruits camo down tous. Wo recoived them Idmll{. but we kout on countiog oigtoen, just aa it Company G wotla bo wipod out wheh the last old valerin went, . And they Eaid that tho compsny was fated, Other camsmnlns had bson desimatod, and otker companiea conld show long listy of Yeaptured” nnd '* wounded,” but no_ather company in the brigade had sufforod like @. Then came Gottysburg, Tho oightoon old vot. orhns wero thers, and tho company numbbreq aixty-eight with tho new men. . Other dsvlnlmu wero Leld in resorve, or escaped ths hottess of tho flght, but oura was to beat back the flercost chargo of tho bloody War—the chargy agatust Round ‘L'op. Bomelow Company G way at tho front again, snd as the flerca yolla of the coming Confedorales wero lhoard .above the mighty ronr of the cannon, I looked down the lino. Some of ths now mon wors looking thie way and that, as if seeking covar, but the old yoterans peorod coolly througt the smoke, and wnited with levelod mnsketa to catols the firs glimpeo of gray uniforms, On acroas tho folde camo tho chargiog, cheoring Lost, up tho dteep hillelde, nnd thon s _sheet of flams loaped ouf and withored them. Tho gray line wan absorbed in that flame of death justaa wator dissolves #alt. But s sccond lino sprang up at us, and a third and fourth, and thon thug wors at tho guns which wo woré supporting. ' Somo ono gavo an ordor. No ono exmcily nndoratood it, but all rusbed for tho guws, Burioks, groais, Bhots, shouty, nnd then tho lino of gray push. ed back tho line of blue. They were all around us—front, right, loft—add men neither asked nor gave gm(lér. Back, back, wont Lhe line of blug, and Round Top, tho ney of Gattyaburg, was won for tho Gonfoderatos, But only for & moment. A double line of Liuo pushod its way up ‘throigh the smoko, hurléd itgelf forward, and Ronnd Top was wou again, And how won! 3Men !Ilapned and follon the bloody graes, hoaps of doad wore piled up llko logs, and the shricln and groans of the Jrounded were awful to hear, ‘And when Leo facod southward, fightlng as Lo morchod, I conlled the roll sgain, ong wounded, none missing, but upon tho crest of Tound Top woe loft ten old votorans aud foir- teon now men, Ten out of eightesn, twenty. four out of slaty-olght! Tho bloodthirsty flend who wiclda tho ‘sword shounld Lave boon mntis- fled with that. Bixicen more widows Lack iu tho littlo couniry villago. mora orphans, moro Bobs and toars, Nobt one of the living conld show a wound, but each ono of ua would kave rojoicod at the loss of an arm—at somo.griovous wound which would bave made tho surgeons shako their haads and look serions. Ouly eight left! Only eight mon of the ono huodred and three who inarchiod out of the Lam- Tot thut Maymorning! ‘henow men had fought woll, aud wo respected them, but wo went on counting oight, Threo held commissious—tho othor five were Borgeants—not onough to officor the compauy | 5 Iu tho dusk of evening Btonowall Jackson camo down through tho forasts aud thickets bo- yond tho Rappahannolk, nud struck the Fodorsl campa and opened the battlo of tho Wilderness. Tho eight old vetorsus of Company G were there, aud tho now mon mado & band of forty stroug. As we hoard the crash of musketry over on tho lett, our poorskolatou brigade, numboring 2,300 instend of 4,000, foll into line and pushed on through tho stnnted pines after a lny of skirmiahora, Company G was on thoe loft of tho ekirmiah ling, and wo found tho enemy firat, —= hoavy lino of groy coming through the wil- dornoss At s Lalf run. DLown we kuolt nmm;fi the vinos and bLushes, aud our fire chocls thom, Thoy fired » few wild shots, retreated a litile, and then wo loaped up and drova thom,— & band of forty drovoe a doublo lino of skirmiah- ers, supnorted by a lino of baltle! Mistory hias not Lol 1t ta the world, bus blood was left ou tha viuos and corpeos on tho grouud to prove it. Thoy woro fooling over sirango ground, afler a foo whoso strength was fiot known, and that was the reston of our succees. We pushed thom back to tho llne of battlo, uttacked tuat, mnd then wo wero tosed back, torn and bleeding, almoat blotted out of exiatonce a8 a company. Of tho cight old vetoraus eix were lying doad under the trovs; of the new man twenty-five answered roll-call aftor tho Wilderness! ~ Was that war or slanghtor? A Captain and a Bocond Lieutonant only wero left to ropresont tho ont bundrod and tbreod I'ho end was not yot, but tho ond waa coming, Thore wero 110 new recruits for my company, bui wo marchod toward Richmond numbsring tvoue ty-savon. Ilas tho coantry forgotten the fierce confliot at Potoraburg? Aswe foll into linotc make twonty-sevon moro in the brigado, I saw the Licutonant looking at mo. Yoor follow! thoro was no nood for him to apeak, Wonld this fight wipe out the old company entiroly, ot would ano bo epsred? Aud which one?’ Ha had a wife—I had none. 1 hoped ho might liva 10 call tho ¥oll aflor the baitlo was over, and that doath wonld have takon mo, “I'no ino quivored as thoy folt tho order com- ing, and then [t dashed ag an earthwork, went forward with tho samo old cheer which had becn its own over sinca {ts bronzed ver-. erans heard tho whistla of bullets, Dut it wns too much for nus. They bad forgotton how weak wo were, aud _sonle one hiad binndered. The loea witherod bofora tho storm of Bhot; wo foll back; wore charged in tarn, aud Iwont dotvn Atnong the hoaps of dend and wounded. 'fhe roar of battle died away in_a momont, daylight changed to dark- ness, and whon I oponed my n‘yeu sgain tho sur- geonn stood over me, and niy foft Arin was gone. "Tnora was 0o ouo to call the roll, The stark, stiff form of tho Lisutousnthad been givan to oarth, and the koven men who roprosentod Com- pany G lookod t0 themselves. Fate had & choios who sbiould be taken aud who left, and doath passed me by. Ialono of the one hun- dred and {hreo vateruns roturnod to the country yillago to toll thom how this one &ud that of diod ; to hear tho #oba of widow and orphav, untll my beart ached. Hometimes in my day revorios’ or night dreams I ealltho roll again, and shadowy forms atand {n lno, snd ghostly voices auawer ‘*ayo’ aud * Ayo ' uhtil 1 start up vrith asob [nmy throat at tho romembrance of thoso who sleop lu the treuchea boaide tho Potomac, 'noath tho shudow of Iound Top. along tho lhpynhlnunck. and down among the dark thicketa of tbe Wildorneas, aleoping thoro nover to know war agala.—C. L. Lewis i (he Galaxy for Aprit, An Aboriginal Art.Booke Omaha (Neb) Republican, Among the intoresting relics brought baok by gontlomen conneoted with Gon, Crook’s recout oxpedition agsivat bostuo Indiaos, and found in the Villsge cf Crazy liorss after it waa aban- donod by 1he band, and provious to lts destruo- tion by Uen, Crook's soldiers, was a book full of ourious drawlugs, which appear to bo ths {ary record, oxpressed in pioture-form, of some ouoe of tho young warrlors belonging to_thoe In dian band, Wo liavo seen the book, which con- talos many skotchos remarkable for bold do- lineation and truthfulne naturo, boaring in mind, of courso, that the same 14 tho work of an untutored Indian artist. The pictures ropresout attacke on American wagon-iraina mod parties traveliog aloug tlie highway, 1nafew justances fomalo figuros ocour, The victimy are piotured a8 being scalped, shot with ritlos aud arraws, and alabbed with lancos, In some of the picturos tho parties attacked arc Indiaus of other tribes, Orows and Pawneos boing especial- 1y noticoable, Nearly sll the pcones are paute in bright dolors ; the biue uriforme of tho mur- dered woldiers aud the red trepplioge of tho Sioux braves aro eapeclally vivid, 1t is quile cortain that avery ecene so picturod was an actual ocourrence.” Tho warrlor (o whom this bouk belonged has & very sangulnary record, if that is true, I'he book {tself appears to have beon an scovunt-book that was stolen from souie pout-trader, It bears date 1669, g Bethction il agiiont bl A little boy, whou plekiogthe dramstick of & ohicken, awsliowud onoof the tendous which are #0 numerous in the legs of u fowl, aud was very nearly choked. The tendou waa, howaver, 6x* fracted with grest dificulty from the litile fei- low'a throat, whon he exclaimed, * Ob, mpm! i\ waan't the ohickaviddy's fault ; jb was because 000k forgot to take oh hia gartera,”