Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1876, Page 7

‘mined gait that looks as - - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1876'--81(XITEE1‘;r P;&GES. ' NEWPORT. feople Do the Queerest Things —-Originality in Gowns. A Girl " Out of Rhoda Broughton’s Novels. hat the Chivago Youth Had Better Do---Quiet People---How They Live. WWearisome Avenue Driving, and the Girl Who Relieved It. Shécial Correspondence of The Tribune. NewronT, R. I, July 13.—“People do tho queerest tlngs in Newport,” said an observant Jady the other dar. As this remark seferred a good deal to the dress ques- “tion, I want to tell 2 story avent, in fact two or threc storics, to prove my 1ady's observation true. Come and sit dowh on the Ocean House piazza just after the late fash- jonable breakfast, or a littlelater still. Nomat- terif youare not a “guest” within the walls. Eversbody strolls on to the Ocean House piazza 10 sec the sights, and you'll find that you are ot the only one who is a visitor. Well, we are Yere to lcokz at the dress, whick is a study of art, or originality, or reckless caprice, and not at all on the usual fashion-plate order, except jn gen- eral outline of straightness and slintness. Yihether it is becanse =0 many nationalities, so meny fashions, coming together produces a con- fusion which cvolves a constant improvement or diversity, I don't know, but it is a fact that no- where ig dress so varied, and so little arbitrary, ssat Newport. “You can wear anything al Newport,™ is the common remark. . LQOE AT THIS MORNING-DRESS NOW comtng tfff the avenue. It is charming, fen’t ft? A lovely cream shade, the material soft and vielding. Bunting? Oh, no.. It is—comes a fittle closer—nothing in the world but a fine un- whitered cotton cloth. It isa long polonaise, worn over a black silk skirt, and the bows of Black velvet and buttons must be removed when the Jaundrees talcs it in band. Auotherisa polonaise that looks Erwsuly like a mass of Cluny lace, but it is made of tape trimming, the tape very narrow and held together by lace work done by the needle. This is one of the extrav- deances, not a cheap novelty which will go by as £oon as Lk common folk fitid it outy as they will the cotton.cloth costume. Buntirg dresses or lonaices are plentiful enough. The prettiest have gccn are not ornamented by the black velvet bows, but with. navy-bluc velvet and a rich maroon, with buitons of mother-of- pearl. 1 don’t li‘-propmsla to write a frshion article, but the odditics of dress bere carry oue out of mere fashion routine, and_really, as I have said, suggest art and_originality. Three or four ears zgo Annie Thomas wrote about a novel way of treating white wutlin as a dress. There are hundredsof my readers who will re- member that queer recipe of wipping the zown into clear water, and then, starchiless, wringing it round aund round witha large, clean rope; the result being, when dr{ asoft crepe texture, whicks fellin wonderful folds to thie wearer's fect. Whether this_receipt has been carried into ract 1 can’t say, but certain it is that there s a white muslin govn flourishing about here which has precisely this appearnnce. The girl who wears it 1ooks us if she might have stepped out of one of Mrs, Thomas' novels, or RIODA BLOTGHTON'S, for she Lias a tall, * svelte figure, a pretty, de- teninined, up-in-the-uirish :‘ac& andavery ucter- she migut have walked “her 10 miles_overan English couatry rosd. And this is all Iknow about her,—or am goinz to tell. But if any Chicago routh is sigh- 1ng tor o very decided new heart-ache,—if young: geitlemen allow their hearts 10 perform sueh @ld-fashioned anites in ticse éays,—I have only tosay thet Le will donbtlesaget Iifs heart’sdesire if he comes to Newport and looks into ihis charmer’s eyes daily for a litule time. 5 But, to get away wrom tie clothes question, jicks s a pretty bard matter in such a gay, merry go-toan as life is, and canco? Lelp b erc toa great extent, ler us look and sce how gome of the quicter people, who come hicre for, the sea air and other veautitul things of nature) Iive. Prices ave down this scason, ang u cot- fortable house can be hired, furnished simpiy, for $300 and §300 for the season, and in sume fnstances for Icss. Twoor threc parties rented houses togetuer, and Livein themina quict, unpretentious style which is fuli ot cem- fort, but entircly aside Irom coaching and TOLO-UL,UD SEXSATIONS. These are the peopie Who walk more than they drive, and who go boating with a company of iriends vvery pleasant evening when the sun roes down. 'y arc not necessarily what Mrs. Millefieur would call out of society, save Ly tholce. Madame Mayflower aud Mre. Mille- Leur hergeif, who fuiluws the lead of .the May- fowers when she is quick enongh, has becn scen to leave Lier card ap theee q’lliul- places, bui to not much parpose. ¢ I didit come here to spend my days in dressing for avenue and Fort displays,” says one of ticse sensible folk. It wiay, perbieps, scem that where the days are so. long tuere would be ample time for cvening drives, and visiting, and ¥ort dispiays, together witn thic quict occupations of reading, and boat- Iug, and walking, cte. But® try it, or ask some- body who Zas tried it, or tricd to do it. You breakfast ut 8, say, perhaps lalf-past, or, il Iusurious, 8 o'clovk, for the nighis, mosquitg guiltless, in all the finer localitics,. arc Iasden with the poppics of eleep, and, if you are rest- less at hoine, you will drift awsy into balmy siumbers” here which may eateh you napping at 1 jater hour than your aceustomed one, aad for which napping you may be thankful. ALTER DREAKFAST 5 ou prepare for the beach or for calls—yon ean't ;u toth of amorning. High mnocn is upon you and afternvon beiore you are through with tither of these pleasures, or duties, a8 you muy hunee 10 Jook tpon thein. Then 3-o'clack din- ger, that you may have time for the avenue- Ariving, which will consume the rest of the day- lighit; or, if you acept invitations, the yariation toIncs in thé way of 2u easlier return from the drive, 2 riving-up of the bath or - morning. calls Lor th ell 7 party breakfast. It will Le easily ecen that, it you want time for quict,— “tinie 1o yourself,”’—you have got to choose ome thing or the other; you can’t have the flesh- {)uh of Eeypt and the Pzradisc of Bishop Berk- ley’s meditations. . New-comers to Newport— youthful new-comers, usually—are at first cior- mously taken with those glittering displays zalled the avenue drives. - How keaveuly!” 22id a young lady not long since who was new 1o the situation, s ske flached past Mr. meyer's four-in-hand and heard the clarion pe 2 his footman, who sounde his horn in - ing days. And there s sone- about it ab first; but try this ¥ °" It was my fortunc two or three yeurs ago,—1 don’t wish to be too explicit, be- sause everybody reads TS CHICAGO TRIBUNE, md I dow't want to blow a clarion-peal of [2ull-finding from the front cat of honor I sl with may kind hostess,—but two or three joars ago, 1 had o daily experience of this Avenueiriving, Every afternoon about § or aif-past, the suxurious lundau would be at the o' a5 regularly as - clock-work; and as regularly nscock-work, and 2 clock that nover ‘Taridd a bgir's breadth of a2 “minute, we twould | step iuto it and oresently take our position in the line of car- tiages. “Then, up and down, up and dowd, in tach other’s wake at regulation pace, now on one side, then on the other, urtil we kad goiten by heart the colors of cach horse, ‘the wrinkle =1 1 ecach ment, and ss much of a Frikle sy yout’cnuld ece behind -the aacking veil, that almost invariably cov- w3 each woman’s face; for are they not ke ON SIOW, nd mustn’t the fairest aspect be given at such :&!.\ow? WLi-h Just remark I ofier, be it un- Zerstyod, entircly in the irtercst and on the lide of the, masking beeatificr, and by o means Against it,—my morals not being of the per- Terted order of old Cotton Mather's. Up and down, up and down, 211 thefaces utterly duvold, 7oufind at lest, of every other expression than e sight-seers, the questioning curiosity, the Wwho-are-yout ™ look, the waiting following Faih for ‘the mext thing,” then, in lome cases, *I'm- Patton’s-dog, whose- lozcre-vout Jook, until itsevmed to Ine that if Laidwt get out of that treadmill soon I ebould fertainly Le trensfixed into @ statue of imbecil- 5. Iremember that one day I felt infinitely Stteful to a young pair who 50 far forgot the Proprictios of the avenue and the sca of passing iectutors as to foll into a hearty little quar Tt —a dispute in which “1 never said any such g, Frank, and youw'sé os disagrecable as you mnke” ¥as 1 keynote to the oblivion which Falted this and LKz seatences to_my car, znd Bave me sight of tle two fnces of two persons, M lesst, wiie, for the moment, didn’t care two 2eats for the avenuecrowd, nor how they looked :’ acted. “They were off show, and it proved ‘OW tired everybedy was of the reguiation- look, that this pair were followed by the most Flfdul and, admiring observation to the end of the drive, i WHICI WAS TOE ONLY LIMIT 9fthe sguabble. Where that young woman and razl: {2 now, or whether he proved so dis- agrecable that be received his conge after that drive, T have not the remotest notlons but T shall always helieve in her power of character, and that licrcarcer will yet show some Femark- able features of cournge and independence, to 3{1 n&tmh{xl)l(,; :I a E;S_\ Ly of absorption in cssen- es, whicl iTocti 5‘!& G;mfl"_., can eilectively set aside - The Polo "Club, to trot back into the town again, has hind it first, game, and James Gordon B;:m\ett acd the Euglisa Mandevilleand Freder- ick Fane, of the English Rifle_Brigade, and no ::ndhot swells, took part. And, overlooking it. ‘1;} e hizhseats of honor, were Lady Mandeville, o ':; nlflc[;:fll;:fi:.fl and AM{]. Bennett’s fian(t,‘.\§lfis A nore. 551D, Whic 3 Ml:'ls’ l]}cnuett it nd gossin, which said that entirely wrong, 2s” the long-tongued dame usu- allyis. Jlies Bennett. has 1o medlon of Becom- inganun. Aud so the great world gock on, and hc\vfiort is Newport, a blessing cven in this hot weather to all, N.P. e CASUALTIES. TRAINS DITCIED. BunuiNGTON, In., July 15.—The Evening Ga- ¢tte contains the following rtganting the collls- fon and washouts: The storm of last night pre- vailed generally in this portion of the country, and reports of accidents are coming in. On the Burlington & Missouri, 1 mile east of Chilli- cothe, & washout occurred by which No. 18 freight train was ditchec. The enginoand three cars went with the wash, The engineer, U. Best; and fireman, J. Korfman, were iustantly killed. The deceased were both married men, and resided ih Ottumwa. * The rain bezan falling at about 8:40, and ex- tended about three miles in width. It was the heaviest ever knowa in thet section. The track was cleared and everything placed in running order at noon to-day. Owing to this acgident, No. 2, the cxpress train, did viot errive lerc un- il a quarter past 9, nearly three hours late. A transzer of passengers and baggeze was neces- sarily made at the place of accident. 5 The express train on the Burlington, Cedar | Rapids & Minnesota Road, which left this city last evening under the cliarge of Conductor Guge, met with an accident about a mile this sn!cvof West Branch. The train had sbout 155 suldiers, who passed through the city last even- ing. We have not learned the full particulars of the mishap, but understand that it was owing to the rain. “The bridge at that place was wash- cd away, and the train was thrown from the track. The engincer had his arm broken, and the fireman was clightly lurt. Concuctor Gage sustained scvere injurics. None of the soldicrs or passengerswere hurt. DROWNED. @ Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune. LACRossE, Wis., July 15.—A telegram from Albert Len, Minn., statcs that Mrs. McMinas, of Toledo, on a visit at that place, was drowned in one of the small lakes yesterday while buthing. A man named Peter” Christian was drownced at Hokah, Minn., this morning in Root River. The body tas recovered, and will be sent tq his homie in Galveston, Tex. Special Dispatch to The Tyibine. East Saarxaw, Mich., July 15.—The hody of Robert Stewart, a laborer 59 years old, was found floating in a mill-hoom at Scars & Hol- land’s mill this morning. Stewart was last scen at 2 a. m. Friday on the bridge intoxicated. The Coroner’s jury rendered a_verdict of accl- dental death by drowning while intoxieated. Deceased was o single snan, and hud a brother drowned in the river here a year ago uader similar circumetances. EATING MATCIES. . . Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Prora, IiL, July 15.—A little girl nearly 3 years old, daughter of Albert Coleman, while playing with matches on Thursday ate tiic brimstone off about a dozen. She dicd this afternoon from the effeets. F e C— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, Special Dispateh to The Tvibune. - DECATUR, 111.,"Feb. 15.—The Masons and 0dd Fellows of this city start on their annual excur- ston next Wednesdey morning. They go to. Chieago and Milwaukee. We understend they are to be joined by brethren from other points in Central INlinois. " Nzw Yor —Gen. Custer had a life- insurance poli ,000; Capt. Yates, $5,000; Keegh, $10,000; Licut. Calloun, $5,000; Crii- n, £10.000, snd Perter, $5,000. NEW Yo numbercd 1,208, sirninst 858 the previous week. The increase is attributed to the very hot weather. NEW ORLEANS, La., July 15.—The* Price Cur- rent eays the steamer Martha brought five sacks new crop rice from Burcas’ plantation, the first this season, of fine quality and well déveloped indicating 3 favorable, yield. The frst reooived last year was on July 2! e ———— Gold in North Carelina. Raleigh (N. C.) News. Mr. J. Howard Jones, from London, was in the city yesterday. ~ Ie is managing the mining intercsts in the State for a firm in England, and at present is engeged in exploring for copper and silver ores in_Chatham County. Hearing that Mr. Josies had traveled a good part of the world, and was familiar witn all {ts noted mines, the reporter sought an_interview, and drew out his opinion of North Carolina in’ this style: - )“Is there as much gold in North Carolina as there is in Californix, Mr. Jones e There 15 More, 5iry and the mines are much richer, if opened to the sare depth.” «\What's the trouble Lere with us, then?”? “The trouble is your pecple, when they getto the dépth of 150 feet, stop. They find a rebel- ious vre, a sulphide of iron, called the pyrites, and are not able to gct the gold from’ it and hence stop all work.” \Vell, can gold be gotton from it o “(’}h,d{;:s; no trouble at all. They doitin ngland.” “You have gecn the best gold-mincs in Sonth America, Mr. Jonest” “Yes, sir; and I regard the gold-mines in Nortl Car olina richer tizm themall. Your best rines arc around Charlotto_and Salisbury, and if yon could buy an area of 5 or 6 miles in ont- meiy County, you could pay off tlic national cbt. “The best inine in Brazil is the St._John Del Rey, owned by English capitalists. It av- erages 36 to the ton, and has paid over $70,000,~ 000in dividends in twenty-five years. Your mines in this State can be worked s0 a8 to av- erage §25 to the ton.” W}ow can the mines you speak of in Mont- gomery County be worked to advantage 4]t would cost $300,000 or $400,000 to work them properly. The entire hills must be sluiced and washed down with hydraulics clean to the v What are you doing in Chatham?” “T am testig ab prcsent for stiver and cop- per. 1 have two ghufts 150 feot deep, and as £oon as 1 sink a shaft 25 feet somebudy is go- ing to be astonished.” ¥ —e————— The Girl Who Didn’t Murry Br. Hayes, The nomination of Gen. Rutherford B. Iayes recalls a reminiscence of twenty-three years ago which may bear repeativy. During the summer of 1663, when a fearful scourge seut the hapiess yosidents of New Orleans flying in every direc- tion, the writer Lereof found himsell the jumate of a boarding-house in Allegheny i Among other guests was 4 most accomplished ~ lady, who, although the duughter of a once wealthy merchant, was sufficiently independent to obtain a eituation as teacher in the public scliols. —Advancing rapidly, sbe ot that time was Trincipal in vne ot the largest gramiar sehools in_the town, and very greatly adiired by a_wide circle of ace quaintances. Two young Ohm:msi who scemedd 5 be spending the summer in the Tocality, were speeial admirers, visiting the house scveral times cach week. On of them, riv,\xtcnlmnd- some man, with a -most intelligent kmfl a broad brow znd flaming red hair, caile repeatedly as carly as § o'dock ‘In the morning, the ludy’s scirool duties requir- e her attendunce at 9. It was evicently 2 Sace of severe infatuationin both these youths, but the abscucc of aurimony and the waria fricodship whica continued throughout tlic fierec rivalry attracted the admiration of ell. ‘At Jength, 2ccording to the gossip of the time, the two drew straws to decido which shouxld propose first. The re Laired man whs the vie- Doyt the lady declined both offers. She subscquently married and dicd during the War, but it may not be aninteresting to know iliat the auburn-baired gallant u;)m} that oceasion rae Rutherford B. Hayes.—Lhiladeiplia Letter o New Orleans Times. " e —A—— Perennial Icc in the Catskills. ohaeepsie Eayle, Juld 11. One of tl{;”x%vstpcxtraurdlmn' spots_visited on Sunday last, when the mereury in the ther- mometer marked 104 in_the shade, wag the wStony Clove,” or “ The Notch,” in the Shan- R ne ‘of the Catskille. Four Pough- ?c:léc?n;:gp:\ssm through the Nowlh PSSO of the day mentivned, aad 1 fect from _the roadway where the merery marked 100, three Poughkeepsians S aTittle group in a rocky chasm where it was so cold thas the breath of all became frosted, and a chunk of fce as big a5 an ordinary cd from the muin bowlder of ice Pxf‘tfiflfi. This in July is cxtraordinary, and ye ice is found in the Notch all the year round. goinyr to enter a convent, was® uly 15.—The deaths this week' FOREIGN. Another. Batch of Turkish Reports * of Servian Disasters. Thirty Deaths Result from the Thun- derer Disaster. * India’s Empress Slighted at a Re- cent Bauq}let. J_ohn Bright and Other Liberals Ignore the Title. THE EAST. TIIE SALONICA OUTRAGES. CoxstanTiNorLE, July 15.—The sentences upon the persons tried in conncction with the reeent outrnge in-Salonica have been increased. The Chief of Police has been degraded from his rank, and has fifteen years’ penal eervitude. The commander of the Turkish frigate is de- graded from his rank, and has ten years’ jm- prisonment. The commander of the cltadel has three years’ confinement in the fortress. EGYPTIAN REINFORCEMENTS. Several detschunents of Egyptiuan troops have arrived. TORKISII ARMY REPORTS, A telegram from the Governor of Bosnia officially reports defeats of Servians at Soutch- aicha. As heretofore reported, the Servians fled, abandoning their arms, ammunition or provisfon trains. It is officially announced that the Turkish Gen. Selim Pagha has gained an important vie- tory over the Montenegrins, between Gatschko and Nevesinje, and effected a junction with the ‘Turkish forces at Nevesinje. ViENKY, July 15.—An unauthenticated tele- gram states that the Bulgarian populace at Rus- tichuck killed several officials. TURKISIL DECLARATIONS, CONSTANTINOPLE, July 15.—Tho newspapers publish the declaration of the Government throwing upon Scrvh the responslbllu;' of the “present struggle, and adding that the Porte will attempt to brumg it toa srumpt close, in order to carty out the projected reforms and Improve- «ments. ANOTHER DEFEAT. An official dispateh from Nissa announces the defeat of the Serviens, near Churkeny, with considerable loss. *_ IN A TIGUT TLACE. Ragus, July 15.—The Tarkish corps sur- rounded at Mctochija proposed to capitulate on Thursday. Moritenegrins occupy the whole district of Gatehko with the exception of the entrench- ments commanding the town, in which 2,000 Turks are surrounded. ALMY MOVEMENT. ,A considerable_body of Monfenegrins is marching towards Nevesinje, where a battle will probybly be fought. DERBY'S SPEECH IN PARIS. Panis, July 15.—Earl Derby’s speech on Thursduy on the Eastern question has created a profound sensetion. TURKISIC ATROCITIES. London_Spectator. July 1. ¢ Mr. Forster asked the Prime ) [iuiswr on Mon- day whether the statements which had re- cently n;’)jm:\rcd in the public papers, aud © especdally fh the Daily News of June cruel- 23, respecting the Turkish ties fn Bulgaria, were in any way supuorted Dy oflifcal information. At the same time, hie stated that he himself had received information {from a pro-Turkish source which_went strongly to confirm’ the geueral tenor of that horrible news. Mr. Disracli’s reply was curt in its tone, and rather that of the unwilling witness. *“We have no information in our posscssion,” he said, ““rhich justifies thestatements towhich theright honorable gentleman refers.”” And he tried “to explain the massacres as the results of quarrcls between the Bulgn:i:ms and Circassians, the Bashi-Bazouks and the settlers, who had no ofiicial commission from the Porte. But, said Mr. Disracli, when in May Sir II. Elliot’s stten- tion was drawn to this state of things, he at once got the Turkish Gov- ernment to send down sume * regular troops into Bulgaria, and “very shortly after the disturbances In Bulgaria seein to have ccas- e Lord Derby, on the contrary, said, on the eaine night, that no doubt Bashi-Bazouks had been employed in the supprossion of tho Bul- garian isurrection, and that they were guilty of atrocitics. But Mr. Disroeli’s ton¢ was unmis- takably that of a man who was bent on confess- Insr;e‘lmlc as possible anything unfavorable to Turkeye BELGIUBM. TIE OPENING OF. TUE BRUSSELS EXHIBITION. The special correspendent of the Lol Mall Gazette gives the following account of the open- ing of the Brusscls Exhibition on the 20th of June: . The opening_of the Exhihition to-day was fa- vored by splendid weather. The Eshibition cov- ers three hectares of the eleven hectares forming the park oppesite the Royal Palace. 1t fs comflonc: of two principal golleries, five smaller galleries, and & number of amnexes, all constructed in wood and_ covered ' with painted canvas. There i3 in it a post and telegroph office, read- ing and writing room, & room for the members of thc press, an. exccllent restaurant where the charges ard very reasonable,—in fact, all that s needful. The buildings cover altogether 16,000 squarc metres. The Exhibition has, owing to its being embowered among the_finc old trecs of the park, a very cheerful look. The two principal en- tries are from tho Pizce des Palais, opening on the Ruggdon section, #md frum the park, open- ingWon the English eection. ~Near the first, which is vers richly and ‘tastefully deco- rated, nre the eplendidly furnished ssloona for the Royal family. The building Is richly decorated with {he flags of oil nations. 'The Placc des Palgjs was to-dav ocenpied by the Civie Guarda. At half-past 1 o'clock the Countof Flanders, who is'thie_honorary Prosident of the Exibition, and the Countess of Flandera srrived. The Min- istere, the members of the Diplomatic Body, the Burgomaster of Brusscls, the delegates of the cctive committtecs, and n_great number of distinguished fiereons who had been invited were already asscmhled at the entrance near the Place des Palnis. A fow minutes after 2 o'clock tho King and Queen, who hiad been escorted by the monnted Civic Gnards, arrived. — The Count of Flanders expressed in the name of the exhibitors ihelr thanks to the King for the protection which he had granted to the Exhibition, and for the Kkindness which ho has shown to the work. _After this the King declared the Exhibition opened. GREAT BRITAIN. THE THUNDERER DISASTER. Loipon, July 18.—Thirtydcaths have atready resulted from the explosion of the boiler of the Thunderer, and half of tiic wounded are not expected’to fecover. COLLIERIES SUSPENDED. Two important South Wales collierics have stopped. FIRE. Alexander McKenzie's two cnrriage factorles, and William Charles Ware's timber-yard, have been burned, and a number of adjoining build- ings damaged. TURF ITEMS. Sanford, American, has_two cntries for the Derby of 1878, and Oaks Mate Is fourth in'the i for the Good-Wood stakes. Rose- bury i5 expeeted to retire from the turf. Iiis ‘ stud in tralning is advertised for sale. FAILURES. Thomas Wingate & Co., ship-builders, Glas- gow, call a meéting_of their ereditors. ' They claim their assets will considerably exceed the liabilitics, which are placed at §600,000. George and Richard Laxton, printers, have fafled, with labilitics of £56,000. DON'T LIKE Ti% TITLE. LoxDox, July 15.—The Court Circular says at banquet given by Sir Salar Jung, a few days o, e proposed the health of the Empress of Inéin. One distinguishcd memberof the House 'of, Commons, said to be John Bright, abstaincd from responding, while other guests Smply drank to the Qaten. 1t is said that the Prince of Wales, who was_present, has since asked for an explanation of the occurrence. ELECTION. DupLm, July 15.—Francis 0'Beirne, Home- Ruler, bas been clected to Parliament from Leitrim. . FRANCE. ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES. Parts, July 15.—The Government has re- golved tp make fortlier administrative changes affecting many of the Sub-Prefeets and Prefect- oral Councillors. ., DIBD. Pans, July 14.—Hermann Oppenheim, the banker, is dead. The ublishes the conditions gvm‘az Journal of the Paris loan of 2,500,000 francs. Bunds are tobe issucd 0t 4.65 and to bear 4 per cent. in- tcrest, redeemable by quarterly drawings; sub- seribers are to pay in five installments, exten: | ing from the date of the subscription to April, 1S7S. The loan is unlikely, therefore, to have any effect upon the moncy market. The loan was quoted at 16@IT francs premium per bond, even before the conditions were known, while of_the 100,000,000 marks German-loan recently offered, oniy one-quarter has been taken. — ITALY. THE CUSTOMS BILL. RoME, July 15.—Discussion of the bl con- cerning customs reguiations for establishing free ports was renewed to-day in the Senate. Signor Depretis, President of the Council of Ministers, declared that the occurrence at yester- day's sitting affected the national institutions and Government. e considered the vote null and void. He said the Ministry would take no furthershare in the discussion, but leave the Scnate to excreise its independence, "and to do what fts diznity and the prestive of the country reguired. The Senate tinally decided, after an anfmated dcbate, by a vote 0f63 againkt 62, that yesterday’s vote was noll, and resolved to meet on the 26th inst. for a fresh vote on the bill, RAILROADS. . jU'i\'l'[-‘()l'()ll'l‘Y IN RAILROAD AC- COUNTS. 70 the Editor of The Tridune. Crticaco, July 15.—In his admirable address at Oshkosh, last fall, Mr. C. F. Adams, Jr., de- clared that the one all-important measure of railroad reform, in itsclf inclnding all others, was uniformity, cxactness, and publicity in railrond accounts. This belief is shared by sev- eral railroad en. Mr. Albert Fink, while Vice- President of the Louisville & Nashville Rail- road, after many years of careful study, worked out a formula of accounts without which lie contends it is impossible to correctly estimate the cost of transportation. And now Mr. Willilam P. Shinn, Vice-President of the " Afleghany Valley Railroad, through the me- dium of the Amerlenn Seclety of Civil Engin- neers, at their recent mceting in Philadelphina, submits a namber of requirements which he pronounces cssential to the proper keep- ing of raflroad tccounds; and, fu further- ance thereof, he suggested the dppointment of a committee of the Society with authority to correspond with the Railroad Com- missfoners of the several “States, and arrange for u mieeting with them to consider the steps necessary to sceure the adoption of this desira- ble improvement. The matter was referred to. the Exccutive Committee of the Society with authority to appoint such committees if deemed adyisable. ¥ . These, however, are but suggestions. One Sfate only hes given them the authority of law. Very properly, and fortunately, too, that State is Massachusctts, because by its Board of Com- missioners the measuro was first agitated, and by it it will at least be given on intelligent trial. Theact was approved in Aprillast. Itempowers the Board of Railrond Commissioners before Sept. 1, 1576, to prescribe 2 system upon which the books and accounts of corporations oper- ating rallroads or street-railways shall be Kept in a uniforin manner. It i5 also made the duty jof -the Commissioners to sec that the ac- counts are kept on the plan prescribed, and to publish statements of the doings and financial condition of the several corporations at such times as the Board may decm expedient. To supervise these mat- ters the Commissioners are authorized to em- ploy “a person skilled in_the methods of rail- road accounting,” at o salary of 32,500 a year. ‘fhe_nct contams other provisions to insure publicity, and for a neglect to comply with any requirement ample penalties are provided. ast year Mr. Adams espressed to me his fears lost the railroad agitation in the West should cntirely subside without accomplishing this same result. He be- licves it fmportant to the people and the raflronds alike that the business sliould be conducted in an cren-hm\dcd, intelligible man- ner. Doubtless the expericnce of all those who have studied the transportation question has often led them to wish there could be devised n lmgrnvcd and uniform system of keeping railroad accounts. For it must be apparent that this whole controversy will eventuate in estab- lishing the unquestioned right to eharge reason- able rates, but accompanicd by the obligation to be able to prove them so. This cannot be done without a clearer knowledge of the nctual cost of transportation. At present nefther the returus of ditferent companics nor the published reports of the several State Commissioners are re{;ablc bascs of comparison, simply because there is no uniformity in them ; and yet, only by a fuir comparigon of returns carefully, accurate- Iy, and completely kept, can the quéstion of the reasonablencss of a given rate be determined. With a wiscly-matured plen that will sccure this intended reform, the best radlway mana- gers aro In hearty nccord. They appreciate the policy of = dealing candidly with the people. The Ehglish companies formerly acted otherwise. 'Thus, on page 484, Godefrol aud Shortt’s Luw of Railroad Companics, we read that for some time after railways were formed the companies kept their accounts pur- poscly shrouded in mystery, eo that it was fmn- possible to discover the figures required for the parochinl system of valuation. In time this mode of keeping accounts was changed, and then the t“xustion which of the two modes was right was brought out_in_the Queen’s Bench, and was definitely settled by the judgment given in three cascs, which were all argued and one judgment given on the whole (15 Q. B., 313) in Tavor of the * parochial system.” Could a right system of accounts be here in- augurated, there would be no need of invoking the judicial authority to_secure its adoption. In that dircetion thoughtful men in the profess- jon bave long been looking. Thercfore, the Massachusetts experiment will be regarded with interest, it being the outgrowth of an evident disposition to obtain accurate information upon a question as yet but little understood. J. W. MIDCLET. GILMAN, CLINTON & SPRINGFIELD. - SrRINGFIELD, IIL, July 15.—The report of Ezra M. Prince, the Special Master of the United States Circuit Court to examine into the accounts of E. F. Hinckley as Receiver of the Gilthan, Clinton & Springficld Railroud, has been filed. Mr. Hinekley claimed $23,916.25 for his services, bus the Masterallowed only 310,000, and charged him with interest on_monthly bal- anees,of the Company’s money which he trans- ferred to his private account. There is 4 bal- ance of $12,000 of the Company’s moncy in his hands, which, with the amount of interest charged to him, and the amount disallowed, lcaves him in debt to the Company $30,776.25. e —a——— How the Fourth Was Colebrated on Novada Mountains. Virginta City (Nev.) Entervrise, July 5. Early last eveniug a Drilliant bontire unex- pectedly made its appearance on the peak of the Sugar Loaf, on Six Mile cauon, some 3 miles cast of the city. It was built last Monday by J. 0. Powers, Superintendent of the Empire State Mill, who with much labor packed a large amount of wood up the steep sides of the peak. Soon after this was started a second bonfire was sten on the top of the lonc rock on the eastern foce of'Cedar Hill. This fire was made by the “poys” working at the Peytona Mine. It con- tained Letween two and three cords of wood, saturated with conl oil, and made a very clear and brilliant light. It lasted {rom about 8 o'clock in the evening till after midnight. The great bonfire of the night, however, was that built by Andrew Peasley on the peak of Mount Davidson. It contained five cords of pitch pine wood, completely saturated with coal oil, and made an iininense fire, being built up in the form of a cone to the height of 16 feet. The fire was grazed upon and admired for hours by thousands of persons in thecity, and was plainly seen from all parts of Washoe Valley aud other places within a radius of many miles. A large Quantity of tireworks were taken to the sumiit uf the mountain and the show opened with these. The rockets were as plainly scen as though they had been sent up in the city, as also were the stars from the Roman candles. The red and blue lights which were ron up to the top of the flagstafl presented n most dazaling and brilliant appearance, many persons mistak- ing them for a calcium ligist. Even after the bonfire was under full headway rockets continued to be sent up and red aml blue lights were still burned. At times, with rockets darting to all points of the compass, red and blue lights burning, and the flame of the bonlire leaping upwanl, old Mount Davidson presented the appearance of a very active vol- cano. B — A Den of Wolves. Detroit (Mich.) Erenitly News. A fétv days ago & den of wolves was discov- ercd by James_F. Chestnut about 1 mile from Montgomery Village, Hillsdale County. He ‘heard them barking, and went to the piace the sound came from and whistled, and five or six young wolvescame yelping towardhim. Heshot znd Killed one wolf and wounded another. The place where Chestnut found these wolves iscoin- monly called “Dobbs’ Island.” It is a picce of solid zround in the midst of 4 large marsh. Af- ter killing the wolt Chestnut made an examina- tion of the island and discovered their den in the ground. The next day he visited the den in company with some of his nefghbors, and they dugout three more_young black wolves, which ‘they caught alive. They are from 6 to § months old. One old wolf had been killed within a few .SECRET SOCIETIES. Installation of Officers of Odd-Fel« low Lodges. Masonic Excursion to Philadelphiaes- Celebration of Coronation-Day. ODD-FELLOWSHIP. EXCELSIOR LODGE. Tuesday evening last the oflicers of Exceldlor Lodge, No. 22, of this city were duly installed. The Lodge fs one of the strongest in the North- west, and besides being out of debt has an in- come of which it is proud. The followingisa list of its newly-installed offcers: James F. Jillson, N. G. W. Chambers, P. G. Charles L. Seymonr, R. 8. Lewis Dadge, Treasurer. E. I._Easley, Warden. 3. J. Siddal, Condustor. 0. G. J. Bushwaw, R, 8. N. G. Ed Kean, L. S. X. F. Mueller, R. M. Pickett, L. S. 8. S. B. Whitmarsh, R. 5. V. G. A. Griffan, L. 8. V. G Brother Jillson was the first man inftinted into :lflxc Lodgetwenty-six ycarsago,and sabsequent- as cleeted to the same office hehas just been e to Ml PERSEVERANCE LODGE. The _new .ofticers of Perscverance Lodge, No. £87, were installed Monday evening, as tul- Tows: - D. §. Earll, 3 S, M. Putner F. M. Black, R. S. 1. A, Phillips, Treasarer. N. G. r, V. Q. L. Iionghton, J0IL Eela, 1 E.,l Shaw, 0. O. THE ILLINOIS ENCAMPMENT, No. 8, had their installation Friday evenlog as follows: . . L. H. Freiberger, C. P. 8. L. lurst,"IL P. Frank Rosengreen, 'S. W. W. Thoupson, J. W. John Lavin, Treasurer. Joseph AL, Lyon, Secrctary. DUANE LODGE. No. 11, has had its annual installation, and the Iolluwlng are its ofticers for the year: A. J. Meyers, L P G, Morrig Suolomons, G. Jobn Miller, V. G. H. R. Hopkios, F. and P. & M. 3. Gerstle, Treasurer. Josepli Saolonion, Warden, Samuel Flick, Conductor, A. Abrahams, 0. G. N. Silver, 1. G, NORTIERN LIGIT. At a mecting of the Northern Light Lodge, No. - 544, the following were installed as offi- cora: Jobn F. Dougall, . G. . A. Spencer, V. G. W, Coates, R. 8. William Stray, Secretary. Follok Tollokson, Warden. % Zachariah Thomas, Conductor. 1IN 30UTH PARK LODGE, -No. 488, the following have been installed: A. Kallan, N. G. B Weinbicg, Ve G: L. Hilb, R.S, _* L. 3L Michael, P. L. 3. R Gardner, Trensurcr. 3. X Gardner, delesate to Grand Lodge. TILE CHICAGO ENCAMPMENT, ‘No. 10, installed the following officers on the 7th inst.: ‘William Sharp, F. L. Phillips, C.P. HOME LODGB. The newly-clected ofticers of Home Lodge No. 416 were installed Mondsy evening, as fol- lows: G. P. Hoftman, N. G. T. II. Mahon, V. G. W. Lounshurry, Secretary. H. A. Andurson, Treasurer. BLUE ISLAKD. Saturday ovening, the Sth inst,, the officers of 31 were publicly nstalled by G. M., assisied by P. G. Islnd Lodge No. E. B. Sherman, P. Boldey, Shedd, Rexford, Spink, Hopkins, anc Dilge” acting as zations of the so-valled sccret kind. to with great interest and sttention. The sudicnce was then invited to partake of an excellent collation, which had been prepared dge. The exercises , which was filled Dy the members of the Lot were held in_the M. E. Chur with a very intelligent audicnce. CHICAGO LODGE. On Monday evening Iyt the following officers of Chicago Lodge, No. 55, were installed by John R. Owens, Deputy of the Grand Master, assisted by John P. Foss, P. G. Rep., and others: N. G., Leon Schlossman. V. G., Jobn B. Clark. Sécretary, Samuol Witkowsky. Treasurer, Walter Treleaven. ‘At the close of the ceremonies John P.- Foss, in behalf of himself and a few brothers of the Lodge, presented P. G. Owens with a massive and elegunt gold ring, beautifully chasod aud ornamented with the emblems of the Order. This testimonial of respect is eminently do- served by the recipient. PERSONAL. S. B. Walker, P. C. P., was the reciplent of a gouvenir from 1llinois Encampment No. 8, a few days since, in recognition of the long and cmi- nent services rendered by him to the Order. It took the form of a gold-headed cane, which, con- F Patriarch Walker, was high- sidering the age o Iy appropriate and duly appreciated. Tfic Hon. Thomas F- Mitchell, P. G. M., of Bloomington, spent two or three days in this city lust week. MASONIC. » NOTES. Orlental Consistory, Thirty-Sccond Degree, S. P. R. 8., have perfected arrangements for the third exeursion to New York and Philadelphis, leaving Chicago on the 12th of August. The officers of the Freeport Consistory and the act- jve members of the Supreme Council will ac- company the excursion. The Consistories of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, are mak- ing the necessary arrangements to handsomely cutertain their visitors. In Ashlar Lodge, No. 808, the installation of officers and & musicz] entertainment wilt occur Tuesday evening. The programme I8 very at- tractive. _The address of welcome will be by M. W. Bro. D. C. Cregier. TERSONAL. R. W. Broz W.- A. Stevens paid an official visit to Lalkeside Lodge, U. D., Monday evening, and reports ti:c lodge in a flourishing condition. fenry Turner, G. S. B. G. C. of Illinols, and Tnspector for this district, paid an oflicial visit to Apollo Commandery Tuesday eyening. The attendance was large aud the exerciscs pleasing. CORONATION-DAY. The following, cxtracted from the London [ Times of June 3V, is of intcreat to the craft: On Wednesday, **Coronation Day”* was celebr- ted by the Free and Accepted Magons of the Tnited Grand Lodge of England, at the Aloxandra Palace, under the Presidency of Lord Leigh, the Provin- cial Grand Master of Warwickshire, in the festival for the Royal Masonic Institution for Boye. 'This ‘second time only that a festival for one of the three Mnsonic Institutions has been held apait from Great Queen street, and 2t which the brethern and Indies have ect together at table; hut the fact that nearly 800 Indics and members uf‘g‘.‘e t Craft _attended | the dinner proves the innovation’ is gaining in favor The coler —an ornamentation in the clothing and jewels of the Order wete wanting, ‘Deing sirictly forvidden; but the Grand fallof the Pulzce notwithstanding presented @ very bright epectacle, and the result of the festival was most Fatifying. The noble Chairman, in proposing the foyal tonste, reminded the company of the double aniversary, and asked them to drink fo the health of the Queen, us the best sovereign who ever reigned over any country, und as the patroness of the institution, = The Grand Master's health was given also wiih ol honors; anda new anthem— The Prince and the Craft”—wss sung by Drother Frank Elmore. To the tosst of the Pro Grand Master (the Earl Carnar- von), the Deputy- Grand Master (the Earl of Skelmerednle), and the rest of the rand officers, Col. Francis Burdett responded, and §& proposed " the heaith of the Chairman. **The toast of the evening " brouzht ont the history of the institution—a history which xhortly is that seventy- gix years ago the craft undertook the carc and edu- cation of six boys, and that now it had nearly 200, maostly orplan boys,"who are brought up and edu- cated in every way to fit them for work in life. The charge entails a cost of £7,000 a year, and the work is being Increased. ~As the Institution is dependent upon annual subecriptions, it is hoped that .such. a surplus might be obtained each year as may help to place the institution ‘above living from '*hand to mouth.” Drother Binckes, the Secrotary, read the lists of !uhscrlg- tions, and, amid loud cheers, announced that the whole, with twenty-theee Jists to come in, amounted to £17,178. Othcr speakers followed, and Brother miles of the place wx;m these were discovered. | JomesTerry, the Sccratary of the Royal Masonic "t grand officers. After the con- clusion of the ceremonies the installing officer delivered an addrees to tho sudience, in which he explained the philosophy and uses of ’i"lrmn‘::ii. he ad- dress occupied nearly an hour, and was listencd Institation for Decayed Freemnsons and for the - Widows of Freemasons, in responding to the toast of tke other charities, said that the Englieh craft had snbscribed to their charities this year the sum of £32,000. There were also ?rucm the Hon. ‘Warren Vernon. Junior (3rand Warden of England: the Rev. C. J. Martyn, it Grand Chaplain; Dr. Jdabez Hop he W. K. R. Bedford, Geonto Plunckett, Dr. W. P. Hood, 8. Rosenthal, &c. ENIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. . WASIHINGTON LODGE. " In Washington Lodge, No. 82, Tucsday even- ing, the following offivers were installed: . Zachasies, P. C. 8. Armour, ¢. C. Dave Mayer, V. 4 Pollock. P . € Tarke 3. of e - 20 S ;‘L ':]u(ubé.“)(. of F. ansan, M. 3 Mosenyalt L. Klein, 0. @. MARINE NEWS. PONT ITURON. Special Dispate to The Tribuna Port HoroN, Mich., July 15.—DowN~Propr|: -Mayflower and consort; schrs Eagle Wing, C. H. Watker. - Ur—Props China, Badger State, Vanderbilt, Chauncey Iurlbut and consort, Alpena and Larges; schrs Siberla, Reed, Case, Sam Flint, Josepl Paige, Lone Star. m%ngld,j\l. . Cuny el . 0. Thayer, Mocking i essic Hoy' HbbleL. Audriws, W, Doage, * 25 Wixp—Northeast, §cnt]v; weather flne. Dispaich to The Tribune. . N, July 15—10 p. m.—Dowx Props Montrose, Oswegatchie, India and con- sort, Yumite and barges. . }]P——Props Lady “Franklin and consort, Wetmore and consort, Tuttle and cousort; schrs Negmunee, Arabia, C. K. Nims. Wikp—North, gentlo; eather fino. 2 TIIE CANAL. Bnmogeroar, Ill., July 15.—ARRIvED—L. Booth, Utica, 6,000 bu corn; proo Peerless, ttawa, 4,600 bu corn; Thomas Scott, Marseilles, 6,200 bu corn; T.- Ryburn, Marseilles, 5,500 bu corn; prop Montauk, Lockport, 1,025 brls flour. Crrarep-~Prop King' Bros., Kanknkee Feeder, 24 m brick,3 m lumber, 6 m_lath; Mornin: Lr;fllt; Ottawa, 1,240 {t Iumber, 202, lath; First Natlonal, Juliet, 19,864 {t Jumber, 25 m lath; prop Mohawk Bell¢, Willmington, 40 m lumber; J. Menard, Wilmington, 75 m lumbeér. MARQUETTE. Special Dispatch to The Triduna, MARQUETTE, Mich., July 15—CrLearED—Props E.P B. Hall, Cormoraut; schr Bohemia. ’AsseDp Up—Stmr Clty of Fremont, Garde City, Joseph L. Hurd, > mG.Garen £ e — A EENTUCEY SLAVE'S CAREER. His Old Master Listoning to His Foarth-of- July Oration. Rock fsland ([il,) Caten. ‘When we gaw_our colored fellow-citizen, the Rev._Jackson Blackburn, speaking from the _stand in the Court-House square on_the 4th of' July, with his former owner, P. L. Mitchell, Esd., intently listening to him and evidently pleased with' his remarks, Mr. Lincoln’s lan- gmgée, seemed to repeat jtself:- We cannot ail to note that the world moves.” , A bricf review of Mr. Blackburn's earlier his- tory may not he uninterestiog to many readers of the Union who heard him on the Fourth, Mr. Mitchell informs us that Mr. Blackburn ¥as o plantation hand near Georgetown, Ky. About 1840 his owner died, and in order to set- tle the ¢state all the slaves had to be sold. Bo- twecn the death and the sale, some of them scat~ tered about the country and into town hunting odd jobs for themseives. Mr. Mitchell was then kcchlnz store in Georgewwn. One day “a likely looking er” of some 27 came in un asked him for ‘work. He gave him a load of wood to saw, and the man worked so much to his satisfaction that he gave him other little jobs about his premises. ~ As the dreaded day of sale approached the man one day begged Mr. Mitchell to buy him, and savehim from being sent down the river and being separated forever from his wife and children, who were owned by a neighboring planter. Mr. Mitchell is n New Englander, and had scruples. against holding slaves, but the man pleaded so piteously that Mr. Mitchell finally agreed to keep him from going down the river. On the day of the rale Mr. M. was a8 ood as his word, and when Jack was mounted on the suction box he was on hand. “ A likely nigger ” was worth about $700 at that time, but there was sl competition be- tween several slave traders who wanted a ing of ‘“down-river” hands, and Jack was Snally knocked off to Mr. M. ot $010. Heaf- terwards buu%}zt his wife and children, built them a little house on his own_premises, and kept them in his service. In the mean- time Jack somehow managed to learn to read and write, without wid of school-house or school-teacher. Then he picked up the paint- brush, and soon handled it so well that he could make $2 or $3 o day working for others, half of ‘which Mr. M. allowed bim to retain for his own use. Jack also ‘“jined the Methodists” and began to exhort a little. Then he changed his views on baptism and joined the Christian Church, and it wasn’t loug before he developed from an exhorter into a full-fledged preacher. Then Mr. M. concluded to leave Georgetown and removed to Rock Island. It being against the laws of Kentucky to manumit a slave, Mr. M. told Jack to choose his new master, and whatever he was williniz to pay for him he would take. The selection was sooh made, the entire Blackburn family passed over to a new owner, and at a very much lower figure than they had cost Mr. M. The war brought emancipation; the shackles were broken, and Jack was free to go where he leased. . Mr. Mitchell sent him money to bring is family to Rock Island, all of which' has been honestly repaid. Jack has worked industriously at his trade, and has donc well. He has reared and educated his children, has been the means of sccuring 2 little churth for his people, and todday thére is no man in this city who stands higher in_the cstimation of all who know him than Jackson Blackburn. As Mr. Mitehell ressed it: I would take his word for_any- thing us soon as that of any other man I ever saw; the only thing thatisn’t ‘white’ about him is his skin.” And there stood the master listening to his old sleve making a Fourth of July ress fn Court-House Square. Can fiction iuvent a more wonderful transformation! Can history pay a grander tribate to_ Abraham Lincoln_than the sim];le story of Jackson Blackburn and his old mas'r? ——— Educational Travels A company entitled the * Societe de Voyages @'Etudes sutour du Monde” isin process of formation in Parfs. A journey in foreign lands as long been recognized us perhaps the best completion of 8 liberal education. The central idea uponwhich the FrenchSociety hasbeen form- ed is that of affording n more ready means of ac- complishingthe objects of educational travel by establishing what will be in fact a traveling college of natural ecience. It is intended that a spe- clally-built vessel shail leave Havre every year, In the month of May, to make the circuit of the lobe in ten months. Each passenger student 5 to be installed in o separate cabin. He will find on board & choice lil rmg of books of travel and work on natural history, with maps and meteorological und physical instru- ments of all " kinds. staff of Pro- fessors will ulso lecture on the phe- nomena which come under notice. The schemt has received the warm approyal of many of the learned societies of France and of some of those of England, and from the position of its founders—among whom are the Duc d’Abran- tes, Drouyn_ de "Lhuys, Dufny de Lome, Alexandre Lavalley, and IFerdinand de LAKE-REMIRISCENS Away Back in the “Forties” The Buffalo * Runners. Fred Emmons-—Some’ Characteristics of a Remarkable Man, - For The Trtinme. ohd During the palmy days of side-wheel stearmers -on the great Western Lakes,—say in the fortles, —there weresome grand specimons of naval -rch: ;tcccm’e and some grand specimens of the geries 0mo. 5 ¥ s R Let me go back to the forties, when, serving “{'on bozrd the old'steamer Madison, we left fho port of Buffalo with 1,000 passengers!—mostly 0!d-Courtry "emigrants, with thelr familles, bound to the then Eldorado of the West,~the *fertile fields of Wisconstn and ITlinofs. -~ - THE BUFFALO. “ RONNERS.” Several large stesiners, ably commanded by -such men as . Old Blake,” the Allens, Arch, and Levi,—with that chef. d’ cavre of Western shipbuilding, the Great Western, commanded by the rarest man I ever know; Capt..Gus Walker,—were then plylog between Buffalo and g the Upper-Lake ports. + 3 . Of cqurss, there was a good deal of compett tion in those times; and the' owners, Captaias, and agents of the several boats, or rather. $hips, sought by every means to induce the .immigre- ting crowds to patronize- their vesdels. -Tosine sure success, a clads of men were, drawn: fiito the business of *running ™ for, the. differént boats. They visited the canal-packetd esfor railroads were then in their .in 7 fgreatest contention arcse még? ‘fi l:l l:-: “for the different lines. Tes T B This business and this competition evoked a set of men of rure encrgy and executive abitity, —of rare moral and physical cous , too3 for those were times of “excitement 'whbco:'-‘n?u ¢ suavites in modo” was foreed ‘to succumbd to the “ fortiter in re,” and a knowledge of the best way Lo usc 2 man’s *“daddles™ was almost necessary to constitute him a dealrable “run- ner. . At the head of this “runner® }ysmn‘ Wero some men who deeerve a prominent place In the early history of the Lukes. Let me rescue from oblivion, before they are quite forgotten, a few names that will be gladly remembered by thése who knew them best. 'Z'l\cyv had thelr merits and their virtucs, which it gives me real pleas- ure to recall. i At the hend of the list of these men, I shall place PRED EMMONS, perhaps beeause I was more famillarly acquaint- cd with him, from the fact that he always hap- pened to be h&teculliu'lly interested fn the steamers to which I was attached.. “Fred” was a glorious boy, ard my heart warmed to- wards him from the very first time I made his acquaintance. I was taken'sick in Buifalo in “the winter of 1842, having just returned from a European voysge; and Fred invited me to take }R Iy quarters ut his bome, where, he said, “ ¢ Strawberry ' [bis term of endearment for his whole-souled” wife] will make you some elderberry wine, aud that will soon cure.yon up.” The recipe was cilectual, the cure specdy, and I never forgut the kindrtss of the husband nor the real hospitality of the wife. . Fred Emmons was the most pronounced & charactdr 7 I ever knew. Tall,—over 6 fect in height,—broad-shouldered, with a counte- nauee indfeative of genuin wit, he was the cén- tre of attraction wherever he delgned to get-off some of his rich and racy saylngd. B IS MAGNETIC POWER. 54 I have often seen him going down Main street, Buflalo, whea he would meet some of the prom- ineut merchants, and they wonld stand on_the corner litening eagerly to Fred’s lutest jokess for he had an ample fund of them * cut and *dried” each morning, ready for delivery. I call to mind one occasion, when I was pass- ing down to the docks, in company with Messrs. Joy and Webster,—that old and respected firm .of Buffalo’s earlicst and best merchants,— when Fred met us at the corner of Sencea and Main streets. I never kuew him so fuli of ancedote and wit; and the staid old Deadon ‘Webster laughed so heartily that I am sure he {’nu:;t have periled the h‘a‘u:;:rltrol his walstbund. uttons. & ) remarkable t that fll!.l,m\’i‘:loclk‘xnbmm Iyl was, at that time Mate of a steamer plylng-to Maumee, which was then noted for | nggsl.u: choicest fevesand-ague spot on tbe -lakes. Fred bad made = trip up and: back, - with Bo- or Beau-grand,—for, as ho was of French - extraction, 1'think the latter s&)clling rhost Cor- Tect,—and he was giving me a desciiption 6fthe desolate region he had visited. P AN ] . “Why, Sam,” gald he, * before ‘%§ had got within 10 miles of Maumce, I went on deck;, tnd the sawlogs were floating around’.loose,—she sawmill-nien all boing 80 sick - with-ague tha they could not hold the logs at -the flum every log there was perched one of - tho biggust bullirogs you ever saw,—such a ‘eritter as would Lave made a Frenchman beside himself yith jo¥; and, o3 soon as they saw Jolin’s'boab en- tering the harbor, they began—abaijt 3 thqusaud of them—heralding his approuch: fJohn Ba-o- nd! John Bo-o-grand! John Bog-o-grand§ The manner of his description, and-tue inton- ation he gave the final sylladle,ed mucldtke the croal4%f 2 genuine bulltrog, was 2musing {a the extreme. S 5 R . But it was when junning for passengers,.in competition with GUS TIFFANY AND BILL IOCKWOOD,— - two rare characters, like himself,—that his Wit and. shrewdn were alike disolayed. - Fred ‘was working for the crack St. Lonis, once when I wasattacked to that magnificent steamer, and there was a good deai of opposition “in qarrying passengers to the Upper Lakes. The” “runps 3" of the different beats were yery much o cited, and I saw Fred marching down Main street at the head of at least a hun- dred old farmers with their families; and he was spreading Limself in his most iy way, He led the crowd on board of .the sition boat, lying just astern of us, and, 43 an old granddame by the arm, he pointed 6 * her open hatchies “and hollgw iold, ard. sald: = “There's a nice. “cotin _to cn-. tice trusting funilics aboard of. You just - come mnow and, ‘look my shi Leading the terror-stricken crowd on of the St. Louis, Fred proudly jumped on the top of our fron-bound main hatches, which were fortu:. | ‘nately on, and cried, most exultingly: “No¥, ’ mother, and all you good people, just sec. the 7 differcnce in these ships: That one you just saw : was all Aoller, and this ong is as solid a8 waXx,— iron-bound and strapped at that!” The good old lady at the front turnéd towards her husband, and said: “‘It’s a fact, John! ‘That other boat was just as Aoller as a tin horn; and 1 think, as this kind gentleman says, this is the safest craft for you and me, and the gals and boys!” So Fred led them up to the “gen- tlemanly clerk,” and they paid thelr passage and ¢ame “on board like men.” o " LEND ME THAT, MISTER]" ) Some "curfous incidents' transpired in those early days of immigration. Frequently we bad - many Yankee familics who were movingto the Far West, induced by the accounts of the fer- tility of ‘the grest treelcss merlee; and the * Madison’s- upper deck was often covered with the young-folks,—for, the steerage belng crowded, & field-bed on the spacious upper-de in summor-time, was far prefcrable tothe heal and smell of bilge-water down below. One morning, when I was performing my ablutione in the wash-room, I noticed a very protty farth- er-girl, about 18 ycars of age, who had risen from her field-bed, -under tho wash-room wine dorw, and who, with a look of profound amazo- . ment, Wias W me brushing my tecth; and, comng up to my side as I stepped out to . empty my tumbler over the side, she sald, most Raively, and earnestly too: 4 Mister, will_you lend me that scrubber when you've done with “w - % Lesseps—seems likely to be carried out practically. Already 2 contract bas been .entercd_into by the Committee of the Com- pany with the “Socicte des Forges et Chau- tiers de In Mediterrance » for the delivery of a suitable vessel in April, 1877. The voyage round the world planned for the ten months of 1877 takes the route from Havre to Lisbon, New York, Havana, Par, Montevideo, the Straits of Magellan, Valparaiso and Callao; thence across the" Pacific, touching ot Tabiti, to Auckland, Melbourne, Sydnes, New Caledonia, and Japan, to_Hong koug, ingapore, Batavia, Bombay, Aden, Stiez, Naples, and Marscilles. ————— Refreshingly Cool. From a Carfboo (B"’ng Columbia) Letter to a Canada fournal. Although we are in the month of June, we are still hemmed fn by suow. Between this creek and Lightning tke road is_impassable for horacs. Indefatigable Harry Wilmont, mail- carrier and cxpressman, had to succumb. The like has never beea before seen; he only made two trips since )Iuyk ISTd, up to date, and each trip took iwo days. The mail and express bad to be made in smalt lots and packed in by Indians. A fev? weeks ago Mr. Van Valkenburz undertook to drive in a few head of beef cattle; he got some within 8 or 4 miles of the creek, hut could not et them any further, nor could B drive_ them Eack' they were too weak to go, and he had to kill them on the road. He made plenty of food for bears and wolves, and the market out of meat. Not even the express freight can get fn, 1 have several packages on the toad, some of- which wero forwarded from Yictoria sluce last April / i1 Isald “Yes,” of course; but I had the , decency to let it slip from my fingers, and, as I ' turned to her honest, glowing countenance, ex- claimed:_ * There, by Jove! I've dropped (s ' O Pl sald she, Pim might; - “ Well, she, 'm mj sorry. Haln't you got another in theret” TRy B Of course [ hadn’t; and this is a fact, whether @ you believe it or not. Carr.8a0. ° —————e CORRECTION. DETROIT, July 15.~The mg:rt that R J. Hackett, 8 prominent steamboat owner mnd ° coal dealer, had made an assiznment yesterday proves untrue. He has made no sssignment, | and does not intend to make onc. ~ PROCESSIONAL. ‘ DR. TRITZ, - 8. E. corner Clark and Madison-sta . THE DYING GIRL'S LAST WORDS, “'¥other, I am dyinz. Now Carrie Albright had cone * sumption, * r. Fritz cured her, and 1 am left to dis be= « caitee father would not, take me to bim when I conid . fiave been cured.” Such are the last words and dying regros of thousands who mist have boen cured. o not go thus down to the grave, but try ogain. We poalgiyely know that we tan Sure chironto dscased: \ a h, Cu ption, Spermatorrhea, and diseasos o oo lTeer and Kidners, Temale COMPIIRLe 61c.., etc. 2nd will for the next thirty days treat all patferite and waitfor our pay untll three moniths after they are Curcd, thud niaking 3 poslive guarantee of & care, every core. Ottice bo@rs—910 123 W.,1 t0 5 and 7:30 10 8:30 p. B