Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1877, Page 11

1 " § k:: B8 38 Tiench, FLORIDA. Points of Interest Along the st. John’s River, A Visit to the Bar---An Anclent 1fuguenct Settlement, Pilot Town and Fort George Island—A Fa- vorite Resort for Touriste— Tropical Scenery, 4 Gannine Fishing Village~The Mospitalitles of ayport, and Its Resourees-Ilow the Hinercans Livea®l Amuse Themselves, Bpecial Correspandence of The Tribune, Marcorr, Fia., Jan, 21.—A streteh of white and, rising Iaborlously from the water’s edge, a il yearnlng to be freed from the ceascless dash and beat of tho surf, and with a final eTort Junglng, up In a glgantic wave, only to subside tmpatiently fifto the dark morass Leyond. Along the beacl are sprinkled hero and there litile whitewashed huts, without any attempt ab regu- larity, There arc, perhnps, a tozen of them, fncluding soveral that are 8o much the worse for wear and wind that they have loat all character snd steadfastness, and topple over so far from tbe perpendicular that one expects to seo them collapse momentarity. 'This is Mayport. The Northern visitor, suon after his arrival at Jackeonvilie, 18 Invarlably asked two questlons by every chance nequafntance whom he may gaect at the hotels, One ia, * fiave you been up the river1” and the other, “lfave you been down fo the bar?" These opposite directlions ropresent the only two points of the compass to which the tourfet In Florida Is ever futroduced. Noone ever froes cast or west, but everybody gocs cither up or down, the * up? stauding for goutl, and the “*down ' for northeast; go great, 1s tho part played by the St, John’s River in the fortuncs of the State. It fs twenty-five miles from Jackeouyille to the mouth of the river. Unfortunately for the commerelal interests of the town a Lar obstructs tho entrance to the St. Joln's, so that vesscls cannot come §n exeept at high-tide, It Js, mores vver, a treacherous bur of shifting procilyitics, and many are the wreeks that huye oceurred through its instrumentality. For years the Btate has lived in bopes of a Government apprg- priation for a clearing out of the ehanncl und the crection of a breakwater, but enough Influ- euco has not yot been brought to bear upon Conyress to sccure the desired improvements, If the har Is looked upon by vessel-owners ns abughear, by atother still larger class it {s re- garded s a place of maniteld attractions. Pleasure-scckers all the year round visit {t and rovel In the wonderful s:enery of the country ln fts Immediato nefghborhiood. Fort WGeorgo Island Liss achicved moro thana local reputa- tlon. Dolng as everybody clso did, I paid a vislt to the Island. It huppened to be AN UNUSUALLY FOGOY MORNING when T went down to the dock at Jacksonville to take the steamboat from reen Cove for the bar, Tho planks were slippory with molsture, and tho beards and mustaches of the loungera on the dock wero ns wet as I they had been walking down Madison strect on a frosty morn- Ing. And yet tho fog was nut cold or dlsagieen- ble. By and by there camne a sereech from the dense mist, und the boat loomed rapldly up, like n great ehape. Stepplug uboardthrough abedlam of 'hus-drlvers sndhiotel-runncrsshout- ing themeelves hoarse around a stngle bewiller- ed passenger, 1 securcd & camp-stool and took & seat aft on deck. 'There was certalnly not much chance of sesing the scenery, for the hoat had searcely left the whart before the group of by- standers, the omulbuses, the frult atalls, the louscs, und the wholo town lsell was swal- lowed up i the fog, as it by an carthquake, and only a voll remained on cither band. Wa steained swiitly dewn-atream, If such o term can bo used In reference to a tidul viver, making about twelve knote, No land wus in sight, Once fnawhilea din shadow ncainst the fog proelatined the near presence of trees, and now and then we shot past u flshing Loat, in dangerous, proximity 1 thought; und occd- slonally tho ghost of an upright buoy wonld louk at us Kindly to telt us that the steamer wos i the right track. About bulf the trip was thus sccomplished, when by some fuexplainable machinery of Nu- ture tho enrtai= of amist was suddenly lited apd the wholo gergeous apectacle stood re- vealed, - Onone side tho Tow shore was buried fua wealth of verdure, There were thickets of plulntuin aud the shrab palmctto, with inter- lacing vines, while the leaves of the magnolly, towerlng above, glistoned in the sun. From the boughs of the grand old liveoaks depended festoons and trails of the celebrated and ever wonderful gray woss, It was u tropical scene. The other shore rose abruptly Into o range of blutty, covered with pine and onk, 'This, toy, was Interestineg, wlthotsh more from 1TS NISTORICAL ASSUCIATIONS than from i1s especial seonle grace. 1t was here that the frst actual scttlement of Florida was made by the Fremeh Hugu, vots wnder Jean Rlbuult in 1AL Tho colony of Bt. Arustine way not founded til the year after, 1565, by the Bpanturds, The llttlo Huguenot city nad senree- 1y got fuirly started hefore it met with suddeh diraster, The Spuulards clafmed s thelr own the whole ‘country, ond an expedition was sent out under Menendez from Augustine to extenninate the Menendez suprised the and massucred every man, woman, and child, Above thelr budles, whivh he cunsed Lo be g frum the trees, Do pluced this Inscription: “ % Xot tiecause they are Frenchmen, but because they ary heretles and enemies of God.™ Retrl. butlon for this hormble act fullowed quickly, Three years ufterwurds De Gourgues,n Tingnenot Beutleman, salled from France, and, landing at Bt Augustine, capturcd tho town: and, taking the prisoners to Lhe sito of the Frenel settle- ment, hung them 1o the sume tree, and placed over thews this inseriptions “ Not bevause they are Kpanfurdss hut becatise they ure trultors, tobbere, wnd murderers,” Thess events kap- im d over ity pears before the landing ot the izl on Plymouth Rock. From ths paint one cyn see the liahthouso at the bar, Betore regehing Ry however, the riv.r takies u tonys elreuit Lo tho south, tis nclosing on two gldes TIE ISLAND OF FORT GEONGE, which {3 peally o part of the mamland, being jn- sulated only by a tittle creck onats northern slde connecting the river with the ocean, Sweeplng around the great bend, the steamboat briugs one (n steht of the two villazes, Movoort aad Pilot Tuwn, situated on opposite sides of the river, near the mouth. Pilot Town 18 the landing-placo of toutists to the fslund. It cunslets of only halt-a-tozen Buusen, inhatited, us the name of the placa lu- catcs, by the men who pukle ships over the rriage wus i walting ot the wharl to wnvey visitors to the hotel, which |8 lucated o “miles mway on the buach. It should be explajued that the ireater part ot the bland” 15 owned by ol comypany who buve laki out drives aud crected an clo- Fut lotel for @ sumer and wluter resorts The road from the landiog to the but:lls ¢ Memely foteroeting, It 18 cutistructed entire uister-shelly, of wilds o ity &“flmy are found along the edge of ¢ old bed [14 the river, The Wt theury of the natives fs that these shells Wereall put liese by the Ludiaus in foter 808 *Lo are luppufm{ to huve been preat oyster- talers, The chlef fact upon which they La-o thelr bellef &5 that the shells, s found, are nok N ia'rs, gl must therefore bave been opened ) BLinan aveney. Tle inand s said tobe the highest point of band ou the coast south of Sandy’Huok: It its iy and bt kiy wooded. flepe for the first ¢ { guw the palmetto tree fu it futl Juxurl- e and yromth, Fle ruad winds arouad most Nmantically through estensive groves of pale foltes and goznolws, The former sre here Oud uy bigh as Loty or Lity fot, 83, 10 yrie who bs unuectitoimed to thay they PDictenta wost novel apuessunce, witin ' thelr wood trunks shootlug stiglit upwards, aud Bully devold uf bratchios except st the sumie BA “Besldcs these trees I noticed the valim, "“'lmvn, wild date and B, powcgruuute, su colany | other tropleal apecies. The orange growa here, also. Eeveral Nurthern famnilics arc residing on the istand. Tn starting on this telp it was my flret pur- [m»c to makt a flying visit to the (aland and re- urn the nest. day to Jacksongille, Whila crog-inee {he river, liowever, from Pilot Town fo Mayport on the return passage, my curlosity Wwas excited by the ODD LITTLE HUTS IN THE NOAD at the latter place, and [ determined to remaln thero over night. Nor have I cause to repent of that determination. The men of Mayport are flshers, and aro mostly of Minorcan aml Majorcan descent. Even to thia day many of them retaln a Spantsh aceent, which, mingled with the negro dialect aud tho usnal Bouthern phrases, gises thema very peculiar atyle of talk. It would e iwles to attempt an imitation of it o paper. There 18 20 far an abaence of caste fn Mayport that several negroes, who follow flshinie Tor a livell- hood, nre recelved on terms of equality by the othier inlhabifants, To speak of the caste i con- neetton with Mayport would, indeed, be apt to excite ridlcule it the mind of any one who shuuld chance to belold it forlorn and squalil appesrance. I have euld that it was b the rounds houses are slinply wi shantics, gencrally containing two roon up on four posts souck in the swind-hank, I3 10 sign of o etrectorn fenve; hotses stra: gle one arter another in about as much order as broud of chickens runnlng ut lurge in a gar- en. And yet the whole scene Inplmxr:-r‘nnnml charming, The rund ftsclf Is wonderful it is white and flue, and it has dritted into all ports of funtasile shapes. Mercit half hides some old spar, cast ashore from a hygone wreck, or it mantles'an nbandoned bout, ind heaps ftaelf up against the battered wood st anxlous to buryat otice [ts substance and {ts cventful history. But the samd rises Into real grandeur, as it sweeps upward, hark of the row of hute, to n heleht of forty or ml&' feet, and then Iapses eorrowfuliy into the dark line'of the marsh, whiclr forms a wild enough huckground for the pleture, stretch- ne A‘),fl southward alinost us far us the eye can reach, THERE ARE NO HOTELS In Mayport; an 1 wecepted the huspitelity of an elderly Tody of the better class whose Feduced clreumataies compelled her to make o meagre living by takivi boarders. 1t helnig the winter scason, wheu visitors were rare, I hnd the for- tune to be her only boarder, as, ndeed. T was the unly stranger [u the place. ‘The old fady, Mrs. Fatlo, I jound_to be very ntellirent und retined. She Jad lived heyo Lhirty years, gid bl Tost all her property in the” War, The rrnle and matnetay of lier deelining years was n ftilu grand dagliter, Eva, who was of the ideal Southeru type, with bhir black eyes and an nval foce. Ishould do wrong to omlt mentionfig another fmportant member of the family, a huge cat, which went by the slugular name of “ewhlilicker,” The fioee was o better one than the most of then, and was situated on the other rida of the sand henp and eluss to Ity—so cloge that T could nlmost touch the sand by reaching out of my window up-stairs, During the aliernoon I fourd plenty of oc- cupation in gtrolling down the lonely beach to the bar, whets the white line of breakers ealled out their monotoneus warntug to marloers for- evermore, Down the beach, somg distance from the town, was a row of queer litile slip- shord cottages, whizh are In summcer ocei pled Ly Jacksonville people. They were ol course, tencutless, There 13 olo n long, dilapidated wooden * structure which s sl to be ocenpied in the summer us & convent, 1t 1 were n Mother Superior, how would searcely lke to exposs suy noviees to the temp- tations of a low rooly vpen windows, and adju- cent. _vuml:{ gentlemen, 1 notleed seattereit along the beach, as it cast asbore by the tide, numerous 3/ ASS13 OF GLLATINOUS MATTER which were entlrely unknown tu iy natural history. Meetng un old native, who came alomgn one ol the open, two-wheeled corts Deeniur to the country, and drawn by the rug- ped little beast known as o * marsh-tacker,” I asked him for fnformation, #Chem hyar,” sald e with an accent of sur- prise, nut uimixed with disgust ut iy lenoranee, S Whoy, boss, them's gea-hlubber, them 14,9 ‘Pl bea-blubber is an Inhubitant ot the vasty deep, whivh Is drifted up the yiver, and, on miceting the fresh water, @lica nnd i8 whelmed upou the beach, Iwent down us far os the old Hight-Louse, butit over tifty vears ago, and aban- doued before the late War for the Dewer struct- ure Iocated surther inland, ‘The old lzhit-houss hus a pereeptible fnclinntion to one shle, and |l|‘x v yet become celebrated aa n eccond Tower of I8, At the wharf, back In Mayport, I founda group of tishers buslly engaged I mending tuelr uets, ‘They were a stunly set of P‘nuuu feltows, with thick muscles and” brond backs. The fishiug s afl done with ncts, und the o, o kinds of _fish caught are shad, trout, mullet, ond- sheepshiead. Shud-tslimg s, of course, the most remuncrative “when in season, ‘The_ senson hegins and ends earller than In the North, lustlng from Decems ber to Murch. The shud run fn shoals, and whenever duting th caeon the wind hlows steongly down the i ey OIS NP stresnn, Ihen”fs the harvest thme of the Magport prople. ch boat frequently takes in, on such oceasiony, s nany s 500 hish. This 18 guite profitable,” as the fisher- men get from ten to fifteen conts each for e, It 13 dungerous work, theugh, tor the St. John's, when roused, bas it spirit of Itg own, ana unlesy exceedingly carcul the fishers urg apt to get carrled out over the bar. Only last weel Lwo men were hauting for stud an{ got ko larze a haul t they overls sank in th . ‘1he net next day and found to contain yet Luat evenlug there wus A BALL IN MAYPORT, a ot uncominon event tolil. These rude cople hnve ther plessures after thelr own ushilon, and on these vecaslons know how to enjoy themselves as well as do other people whose rules of etlquette are wmore risid, Tho danee took place in one of the Wute, the resl- denee of Mys, Dove, “Fhe accommoduttous wero ruther Dmited, there beigg only two rooms in from the ncighbors, aud were raiged around the Touse, but revernl chiadra had hreenborrowed the parlor tor the use of the gacsts, A slizle anle stuek on the mantle-plece Mumined the bare floor wind rafters with o dublous light, ‘The guests came: in at the very unfushionable hour or 5 o'clavk, tho orchestra” avriving some thae luter, owlng to the fuct that one of tih ad to be conveyed acros from Pilot Tuwn, ‘There were 8o performers, oue hefrga negro oy with a trianele, wnd the other an oid man with a w chiested sididle, ‘The danclg was sotctdue really wonderful, ‘The young wen stamped around thv hittle room fu thie rgreat. bootr, unil sliouk the floor right merrily. ‘the iy came dressed i cativo, wid o werd not ald the thne getting thelr tralls in everybudy's way, Fhe dinces were old-fush- foued vl und - waltzes, ond quadsilles, and the un was kept up until 2 o'clock fo the morntog. 1 went down to the beach this morning, and foumd the thshiermen etirring about, notwith- standing their dissipation of the night previvus, A sl brecze wus Llowlng down the river, and all were expecting good run of thad. The sun wus shinlng on the eparkling erests, and the Mahiers' wives were singing at thewr Louschold Wi, «’I'har goes they Belle of they beach, She'm a kiter, I'low," sald o foud tather, pointing at o S-year-old toddler, abmost entirely covered by & huge si-buniet, Who was runnfizg up and duwn the sand between two lurger ehildren, wll three of them acreaming with Laugliter, But I omust bring to o close ihls already Tunsthy descriptlon of Mayport, In this one day's sojourn L have conceived guite un afee. tion fur the place, everytling {8 so quict and elnple. But Isupposé I must take the steam« boat back to dvilization this atternoon, bidding a fomd farcwell to thie shad-fisticrs, to the mouns taln of sand, und the irregular village of Lute, 1o Mrs, Fatfo, snd Btale” blackeeyal Tvear-ohd Eva, and to the wojestle fumily cat, Gerwbillic- ke G. E. W, e — ANOTHER 0'HiN PENITENTIARY, Speelal Dispateh to Ths Tyivune, TOLEDO, U., Jau. ¥3.~It tias Leen deternined to erect another Penltentiary fn this Stuteat some polnt not less than cedty mllea fromn Columbus, and the people of Tuledu are making cifusts to seeure Its locution here, A mecting of promiuent citizens was held at the Mayor's otlice last nlght to consider o plan of action to attaln this consummation. The principal angu- nent bs tudt there by no State institution locat.d here. Nothing defimte was dons last nlght be- youd an futerchauge of vigws. R e e Arrested for Marrylng n Reckmand (Va.) Mate, George Btuart and Robena McPherson were marricda [u\v weeks ago under pecullar efrcum- stanced, Stuart Is an intelligent white man, of respectable character, and bas lived in Manches- ter two or thrae years. Hois g blacksmith, A mouth or &1 uzu lio appiied to the dork of tho Hustlugs Court for licenso to marry Robena McPherson; bug the licenee, iu necordancy with a ntatute of Virginfa, was denled, becausa ftwas allezed that the intended brite was u negross, Subseue: the two wero warried iu Washing- Lo, atel eaine bagck to Mancheater to Yve, Stuart resuming bis trade. Yestenlay the Grand Jury fovnd a trae bill ugafust Ntuart and by wite for uniawful cohabltation, fuasmuch ss $ho Juwa of Virginia forbi] them to marry. Chief of Poltve Lipacomb eerved thocaplas ot tho couple. Both wers balleds T egress. BRITISH COMMERCE. ' Imports Excced Exports in 1876 by 600,000,000 1 And There Was a Largoe Falling Off in Exports. Buying More From, and Selling Less To, Americn, A Loud Growl Thereat. Landon Times, Jan. 8 Talking the {mporta first, we find tnat thele vahic for the twelvemonth runs Lo alinost €x- actly the sume flizures as for 1575, betne in the one ease £374,004,00), and In the other L373,- B11,000 (81,770,000.000), n iffercnce In favor of 15iti of meruly some LG5000. The exparts, on the othier hamt, have declined very heavily ns against 1575, reaching only £200,571,000 (£1,00%,- 350,000), or to ahout L22,000,60 (E1H,500.000) Tese, Compated with 1874 the Ialling off s no less than L50,000,000 (3193,000,08), When we have ndded tho estimated value of the exports of forelzn and colonfal produce 455,500,000—to this sideof the account there remaiug a balanee oruinst this country on the mere trading account of sbout £118,00,000 (3600,000,000) for the past year, Whatever set- off there may be agalnst this In our enormous colunial, Indinn, und general forelgn invegt- nents, in commisslons, vrofits of carrying trade, and general control of the commerchal dealinga of nations, It must etill remaln a serioun figure fo contemplate. But we must allow, perhiaps, for some ghut of cxports In forter yeura which have not yet Leen ol worked off, and the welght of which bas buth sufliced to projong the stagnatlon at home, und to make theso flgurea teem more unsatisfactory than the actual resulta of the year's trading prove them tobe, A study of the numerous trade cireulars fisned nt the beginning of the New Yeur‘in part confirms this view, They grumble with much uniformits, but the essence of thetn we find to be tuat husiiess has not been so rulnous aa nt frst sight it fooks, Cheap money wonld turn the seule in favor of hetter profits o many cases, falling prives notwit.standing. Exumining the year's tigures somewhat In de- tail, we find that, as regards the tmport trade, values have been kept up to u considerable ex- tent by astl fex of consumption, For Instance, we tast year inported something like £500,000 wurch miore Iiving andmaly and bacon than i 75, £1,200,0 OO, 004 worth more butter, 000, 000) worth more Indian es, stichas hng, 8. pota- toea, pork, aplrits, witie, and tovacco, have also Leen fported Lo u lurger value—of about £3,- T00,000 ($18,500,000), but this cannot be taken as o genersd statement, We thud wheat, for n- stance, less i vaiue by £4,300,000 (321,500,000) or B0 for the twelvemonth, and barley und oats ure also lower; o are cheese, coffee, rice, nu‘;:nr. tea, spiees, molasses, hops, and other minor artleles, to a value of about £ ) K (425,000,000;, It cannot, therefore, be sald that tire value of the fmport slde of the account has Geen kept up throughout the year by the fm- port of articles of consumption alone, although we helleve this was malntalnabic with nuth reason during its ecarlier months. On the other hand, we do not flmd that fncresse I our great manufacturing staples on the twelvemonth which we should aceept us the most hopeful slzn of o revivilied trade. Lat- terly there have been efgns in the auzmented Import of cotton, wool, Jute, hides, tlax, and silig, that the Toumlations for unew expausion were bemg laid, but, probably owing to the weather, these are nearly absent In the Deceni- ber returns, and they began so late fn the vear that for the most pirt they make Little show fn the twelvemontl, Itaw cotton, for exnnple, although the quantity was almost. as large os jn 1875, shows o vitue for the year less by “about LO,000,000 (230,000,000), There ore mlso decreuses more or less con- siderable in the values of the fm- ports of hemp, flax, lead, hitre, pyrites, qul silver, and tin, and amoanting in the ageres to several millluns more, WE liave cannequicnt- Iy to look tu wool, timher, jute, ik, und_mis- celancous smatl artleles, us offerivg nearly ex- clusively the means of filline up the Zaps. Amonz'these thnber offers decidedly (he bust s12n of sustamed finport, ever) cept mahogany, exbibting a d value, walch azgreggates about £4,000,00. Were 1t not for the cuorinous number of publie build- Ingza 1n courge of coustruetion for munleipalities, Senool Boards, und otier budles, we should e disposed to sttribute this excoss to speeulstion. It can ocly be 60, however, to o snall estent, Wool alsy gtves an facreast, but only to the Insignifieant’ amount of some L3HLGK." Taere Iy o greater Merease fn the value of woolen manutacture. The value of ruw silk imported is grenter by about L33500,000, due Ingely to the enovimona tiso in price’ silk manniictures are, on the other hand, reduced, In the eaie of the other urticles named the nuzmentation i nlso amall, ond sy o gencral resuit we therefore flnd thut the hnport values nuve been eurtained Inothe wmain by the smaller ar ieles, such as meat, puper, fudi- £oy petroleuns, tained hldes, ete. This would indicate that business has heen better distribut- wdy wd that there has umore of o quict teading thun of rampant specolation fn o tow leading staples. As a whole, thereture, tite [n- port aceount, exeept for Its_excess over the vort, cannot be pronounced unsatistictory, I wo conld by sure taat the loweat level of values Nl Been reachied, we shoubd say that it was, on Lhie contrary, m hopetul-lovking now taan it Wits 1% onths ago. What most futerests us [ turntng to the ex port shie of the wecount I8 uot so much the fatls g nway of purticutar srtleies us the decline of trade with partieular countries, Every one In- tevented fit busluess has beew now oaly tao long tamlllar with thy probanged droppiny audy of at neay 48 ot of bulk, i coul and *iron, eotton and wonlen goods, meelfuery and hardware, aien, wigar, and copper, These tables help us 10 bCe WAL TOFCIsn Huyees are iwost prominent- Iy curtaltiez operations. Going down tie pages ¢ return, wo find, s wus to ho ex- that ~the Uuited States b4 @t Le atlowed to say so, the worat dejadter, trom us less of al- fy clothies, beer, and o at country In b most everything, from ai arthenwire to pieiron, ralroad fron, vatlery, machiuery, cottun pleee goods, and woolen and und worsied sueoufactures, Wien its prohib. ftory tantl, aparl even froul tho present stagnas tion of trade, I3 taken Into uccount, this is bot to be wondered at, Indecd, the wonder 18 the other wav—that it should he able to go on_ buylng. from us ouythine at all, and the " present trade policy of the Uniton, undoubtediy bldd fufr “almost to extbiyubshits trade feom Eng.and; in thne also our e from the Univn, - Next tothe Uniied Btates we may dure Egypt, Turl Arzentine Repuvlic, snd periups Russta, 1 th fiest nawed there s always adigienlty fo determining exactly what 18 for the country itself und wiat y in transit, bat In any e puwer has ubwlously dimlshed. ures well for cotton Tabrics, but otherwlse shows A great fulling olf, but tue wonder here s that it 1w not much greater. Russia tahes much less woorlen goods, und the Argentine Republic shows a general dimfnution of husi- ness, a patural reaction from the uvertrading of lute years, O course the worst syuiptous arg shuwn by the lron and steel trades. The cessus tun of foreucn Joans with thole uccompanying bullding of tresh rallways could not but alimost puL a stup to thy export of railroad Ir b, wid 1 18 BOL surprisng, L fure, to tind the readicst borruwers frul us Bow Lhe st consplellous abeeutees from our murket. Fhis branch of trade must, we fear, bo conducted on o much Juwer scale for any years to come, and 1t i provably a good thibg tuat It should by so. Aniong customors who taay be classel as zood, If not progressive, must bo placed our Australlan Colontes, Gicrnuny, France, Italy, tolland, und lodla and Chlva. " Germany, ftls true, takes dess fron munufactures froul ue, France considerably less cotton tabrics, while Holland presents rather a cocckered st of fu- Creases wind decreasess but, on the whole, our i Wit ticse nations appears £ us soll § und goud—Hkely, fndecd, to progress when the tde acuin turny to the Kow. The Empire of Bruzll and tha South Amerlean Stutes generally are ot 80 goud custoliers ag tiey have Leen for the wwo precedlug Yearsy but, considerinze the posi- tion of nioct of the Kepublics; business canmot be pronounced bud; und, hu short, 10 we except the Unfted States and soine South Auerlan Itepublioe, Canads, Russis, and Turkey und Egypl, there are fow countrics which inlivate a deciied and permunent lowering of thar deal- ings with us, Turnlug to the principal staples of our fur efgn trudv, we tlud - that the demand fur cot. ton yarns bas becn wool during the from” dermany, Hollnd, France, Turkey, Italy, - snd Indls, with o tendency to Increase, Exeept to France, Italy, Portu- E.al. ‘Purkey, the Sorth Amerfean States, unl ‘hina, thers ks, bowever, a fullung avay o tue demgud fur voitut Jabrics Irou Lost of our im- pustant customers. [u somie Instances this de- cline is aerfous, In othery ouly slight, dud we may reasonably Dope tunporwry, The year's buslicas lu woolen yaru has bulked nearly as Targely as that of Ifi{»&}lmu 1 it is constderably smallcr than that of 1874, Woolen cloths liave nlsu kept well up, although considerable fluctuations are visible 17 the purheses of partfcular natlons, France, (lermany, Italy, and China have all fmported miore heavily, but there 'fs @ h\rigu decrease In_the pur- chases of the Uniled Stater and Dritish North Amerlca. Australla anid gome of the Bouth American Repullics have taken leas. Our worsteld goods huriness doca not waintain Itaelf nearly 8o’ well—Germany, Holland, France, the Vinited States, China, anid the various unenum- erated vountries having bought decidedly less Tust year thau the yeur before. Here, however, we find ltnl{ & solid, etewly cuatomer, and our peneral husthess with that”country fs evidently progrescive. e might carey this analysis out further, but enough has heen sald to Indlcate the general - position and course of our forclzn trade o far as regands our leading manufactures, and the depression of the fron trade 1 unhappily, no demonstration. Dectlediy smaller than it wae, &0 far as Bume of our customers ure concerned, tending, ns 1t does, to grow leas, our export Dusiness 1= still large and eound, Jts vast ex- tent and the uprising of new cuatomers capable of hecoming larger buyers afford many chanees of compensation also, Witkeh it woald fie foolish to overlook In any generad estimate. There are at present no visible sfizns that the trade of 1577 will expand—it mav, Indced, shrink further; Tt there nru(yh:m.v of indications that husiness f2 now rounder thon it woe, nnd I8 the nost fmportant conslderation atter all. CARL varloss Viewn of Numcrous Correspondents, To the Editor of The Trivune. Ci1caao, Jan. 28.—~Amid the ravages of an epldemiy, when deliberate action In most needed, fear takes puseessfon of many over which proph- ylacties can have nopower whatever. It muty be wise to have heraldud meetings of physicians and exciting editorials fn the papers, but does it not in some instances parslyze some with some- thing akin to terrort Wil not the quarrets and quibblings of * pathies™ make many suxtous parcnts shudder and a chllluess o crawl over themt be (belladonnaed) or not to he chetladonnacd), ‘o be («uipho-carbulated) or not (0 be (suiphos eurbolated), “That s the Tmslhm !* over which many will be thiy day perplexed. Now. experience as well as seence teaches us that the uation of any dopletive 15 extremely ha Paticuts have been sent o their fong home by the continuons use of hydrate of chloral, whic hed been given wice phyaici pin und produ. City do not ice Lweakenieg, but they do need pure ulr, suntheht, il simulating faod to give strength to reswt discase. Insfee of the walls ol mauy # urble front are chuldren who are by fourl and dress * sturcliy © within and withont, and tizey will totter In the breath of discase like # half-deeayed tree fna tempest! The thinner clarly who eagerly devour thelr plaln meat, pot toue, ond bread,” und draw strencth wod 1< Trom the chilly Wingls and struzel 3 are less likely to be attacied then pampered, and more llkely to etard the ftorin when {t does come. The'ehludven of the tlthy alley will live i spite of the presenice ot zarb- age, while the removal of detunct rats und de- enying dogs will not save those purrounded by wilt azl lace. The bust prophylactie Is o uctive body, irough which courses pure blood, snd this can by furnished—except fn inaried serof- ulous disthesis—by ndhenng to the luws of nu- ture in exercise, food, utd ralment, Widle the et of the pri with some reason, suggests that thery are many Invompetent M. ., it I8 well to remembe that physicians cannot make Junes or pew organs of suy kind, and there shiould be no oditim uttached when suferer lacking all the esseutlul clements of 1ife bnlls to recuver under hiis treatment, As well might the gardener be reprimanded for the fall of tree which hu beenonly thesiekly, decaying semblanee of atre for months or years, Yiyslcaus may be i tuken as well“us other ‘wen, A very learied and very eminent Pro.csor of one of our best medleal collexzes fn this ety cavefully examine] atlent woom I nad requested to et his oplo n, and gove it as s wise judement that he did not have phthisia Imluum:\m, but merely bronebfal irritatlon, with fuaction of the liver. After o few months the patfent died. An autopsy ghowed a normal state of all the orzuny exeept” the Jungs. He died of phtulsis pultno- na { there are mistikes as to what 14 the tnatter, muy there not be errors in treatment From several yenrs of experfence fn the treat- ment of diphtherla and_seirelet tever, attemded with Invariable sueee-#, T wish to ¢ 1 hints a8 to the sumtary surroundings, Give 1% und drinks, without regard to fever, saturated sotutlon of ehiirate of polush frecly gargle a3 well ns tuken Internally, Anoint terlly the throat and necls witli camphior- atea olly ory what is better, bind on tofn elices of lmrk of bucon upon which las been spri black pepper. Weskened tiucture of Iron s used with advantase, louching the crnal sore_patches with [t on a probane, not Do Thls must he oftener than not let the powerful stiny of these dist: with eure -amd onee fn four hours, pathent slnk, but adminl ants sud tonles, Toe depression 5 s fearfuly and the patient shound be kept above it if possible, Al warm baths or depre. i influences or medwlnes should bediseardul. Above atl, do not let alarm op Irgrht be seen by o ehild old cuough to notlee H, as there can be i meatal stroepliere thrown around bt or her that Is ns fatal as the rankest iolson. No clsld or adult who contriets either iease while in n normsl healthy vonditlon will adie, if propeely treated amd vared for. Many die, Sume are Tl dead hefure exposed Lo ca tugfon; some starve, und not # 1ew are dosed to death! 1t physichans will instriet thelr patrons In sanltary” meaaures aml the laws of life. ad- mun<l them to use common sense and wet des done “liberately, they will be ble to ullay fears and stay the progress of these twln destroyers more iy than” by assembling o qul about ylacth s and speeliics. Let us allay ine of ex aliarsy, and Use evey means pos- cluldren. Yours respectfully, IL B Urros, M. D SCARLET PEVER. To the Eillior af The Tribun Cmicato, Jan. 20.—Your diiferent corre- Apondents upon this subject eredited different men as the authors or discoverera of the appll- eatlon of sulpho-carbolle acds und (ts com- pounds to contagious discaser, Pernlt me to state that long Lefore Dr. Boyer, of Philadet- phin, or Mr. Crookes, in England, published anything upon this theme, the undersfened pre- purcd all the different cowponnd aclds of the earbolle and cresylie serlvs, nnd thelir different salts, for the sole purpose of having them up- plied fa scarler fever, suiall pox, enolera, aud other contuglons elseases. Thin was done s fow months “after Prof. Pettenkofer published Dlg infeetion theory, whleh confined iteclt to dismtection with metallic salts. The up- dlcation. wus made by Dr. Bl Hosen- hergg, of New rky W whoso 3 v upon the sbectrosope and its application to practicad mediIne wad awarded the Stevens ‘tri- cunial price for 186 by the College of Physt- clans ul Eurgeons I New Yok, Dre Resens Lergs, an orthudox allovath, us also several of lis volleagzus, tirst sindled at the idea of alsin- (ecting the inner mani but after u fow months of had and svatematic work, where the contagious disensvs were not only treal Nospuaals with earbolates and componinl carhos Iates, but alxo upon snimals, oealated with gers ol different dlseasey, these remudles wete retalted, and from their discussion at the Jueal medical socletles they ufterwards hed the vesa. ‘Two years bater the Gliennfeal 5 London, England, disctissed the ation of tar- bolle suid upon the system, and evedited mo with not only the applivatlon, but with gwving the first aind” the true rationale of its mwode of actlon, Au extract of these proceedings way piblished o the Chemiod News, Londun, the paper published by Mr. Crookes, wloin one of your correspondents eredited with the Jatro- duction at sulphuecarbolate. ~Years azo 1 cuve this wame matcrial to the Board vt lcalti of this city, under Dr. Rauch, to he used 43 u dis- infectail, where It was pronounced a gicctrs, ‘Lhe main fsue, however, heie 18 pot who ised tairst, but la it o speciils for searlet lever und 1 And here allow o to eay thut the ality o1 the vat.ent, the stize of the al-eare ab which the physiclan is edled, are ann Important 1a.tors o this constleyation, that earh fucividual case requires the indiwhlual and espuctal attention and jndzimert of the physi- elan, which cannot be gmikled oz Hmited by put- 1 diseu-sion of gencral rules; atd §f ooy one, from your ariicles, is to Lelleve that all he needy to do to save lls children is to luad thelr stomachs with cuoush sulpho-carbolate of soda, o tay ho sadly dis- appointed. o fact, chiklren, as a rn 80 uverse to takimg lrl i, that especinlly 8oz throat, It 18 always cavy tu administer th remedy, however ex-ellent it may be, But i3 fa tho'spliers ot the puysic "Av a cheme set, | deem ftmy duty 1o the publie to state thut thodulurency btween sulpbo-carvolate of sudu —praised up vow—and carbolic acid fu thelr eftevt upon contaglous Clseases 11 only une of dezree and not of livd, awl people von ald tic nhya}v‘;un gecutly by not only relyinz uzon his spovuiul dosey which the child sy take orre- Jeet lu&.’lrl or cutlrely, when the phydclun s nut ty Llame for its lack of eMect, but by chaig- Ing the stmosphery of the slck-ruvm o tull vt vapors of carbolic wcid that st cach Lreath the patlent Inhales a small amount of it with the | a.r, whith by thix sery a®[d vapor Ioseaall eapac. fty'for increaslng tiic disease. The gerias of dfeease floating in the air arc killed more cer- tainly by tofs vapor than fn the syrlem of the patient by the emall dose of medicine, svhich it Is safé to aaminister, and where dlrcased part of the system o new, power’n crap of disease zermns i produced and hislden In the system, where the semedy may not reach, undianged, Many object to_the ador_of bulltacid. It s, fiowever unpleasant, not enly preferablo to o coffin with all the heartachea leaves behinl, but ft can readily be roixed ith colozne to suit every taste, 80as to com- dctely hlde its odor, to which any one soon be- comed nsed. Tuls actd should not be used »anhmly. elnee, woll dilutad, there i no possi- Vle harm dn it 1t 1< Lest to dissol ound of the cryetalized acld in a pailful o Atter rtirring It #lionld be ieft to oniy th wa ttle er. and ters folition off the top ehould be usell, chould be sprin on - cars pets, bedelothes, or paper or cloth sat- urated with it should e fuspemiad i the room, A dlh Jull ehonld (on-tantly stand Upon the sEve, 50 23 1o Vapokize i the rovin, go that the air (< gmpreaaod with It Apint of thia watery sol; vaporized [n arontn of erdinary Rlz fours, when the phebetan will fimt his casler, The undis.vived strong a bl at the bot- { the pail shoald Le mi han ali- ity of water, witen the first solutlon 18 exhausted, “As a projhylactl: this rarely fails 1 the ale Is keptwell el ith It wherever there 13 the Jeast ¢ from it Without clnt, a3 o Larm can - o Hiect. Lespectfully yours, p ) SIMPLE SUAGEITIONS, Ty the Lditor of The Tribune. FAGLEVOOD, Sympathy for afiticted motbers fnduces me to offer w fow simple inex- pewrive suggestions, which, from experience, I have gleancd, sl by suceesstul treatment can aflism, without watting to be {ndorsed by the doctors' *diacnosis' az almust a certaln cure forthe complants apecitied.. The method Iy simple, practical, common rense,~the best of care amt Intellineat mursing proviug more ef- fective than u seore of stlent phyelclans, My family of six, who have sttalued maturity snd passiad throuziy varieid flls Lo which Child- howd ficels in heir attest the fact, In wearlet fe: us woon as the symptoms develup | slionld vee a tout-hath of wari ius- tardewuter, ‘Lacn place tiw patieut by Tuke a luree hannel doth of some sort,—~If uo fannel is at hand use half an ol sbect,—fold thireq or fonr thines, dip In very wanm_or liot suleratus-water, and opply oll over the chest amd abdonsen, as warn as van be borue, ‘Theu eoye witis o thicklyscotderd dry coth, or woolcu, which fv hutter; repeat tis d eyery hor or tvo uutil t Waap well with the he e el bandagge, thi-kly folded sous to retalutuc muisture, in tepid or ool L and water, and appiv Lo the throat, where lies the greatest dan- er, repeating as often uy ne TY, Il Covers i with a dry cloth, Taen tase some satfeon (how the * zEnmutie " % antisenstle ™ ML DS will turit up their noscs) aud maké a teaof ity all- juig i dittle sizar to ke 1t azeecaole, Admin- sster L warm, 10 moderate quantity, every hall- hour or 8o unt.d the rash sppears. all over from bead to foot, ICwill gurely send it out, i per- severcd in Continue ziviog the salfron alter rash bs out in oveasional doses unull the dlith a I " Bhould the coustant wse of the wet bandage upon the throat pro- dice tehing, temove swhile sl Crub hie part with ot or erfoe, 1t 13 of the ut- most importance Lo kezp up the fomentation of that part, us the disen~c inchines to concentrate there, waen it 13 reaugnized by the naue of seankerrasn'? Give water to dank if desire L Wet u ciuth fn conl wate ¢ upun the head and L d 14 ¢ dippnis more or leas us 0 no means al- minister a ¢ atizle, or sk L which time the little pa- ts greatly relieved by i v wipe T with a soft cluth wit i warm sateratu: cater, which not only purites the 3L pro- vents tpe partieles Tbeing disizofoated asout the bed and rouin ¢ o hitle ehlorate of potash in i glassor cup, to which add sufli- clent cold watcr for a zarglé. Put o few drops I a teaspocn, place in the mouth, and let it ron down the throat, vecsionally, I the uip- i of cloths trequently, as it allays the fover, and onerates us sbeats Woald upon an cinieut fire, But water auy way and any Bow {3 Validue ble, Very Mtele toud 1s needed for fise days, wihideh shoudd consist of toa. atery thin erdel, anid the ke, . small quantitics. A chauge of glicets every day shoubi be made, aua in chumg- ing undergarments the wtmost cautfon wnst e used fn eaposing the budy to the atr wiile the rash s ont. - Aiwavs keep o portian of the body covered while making the chianze, which should he raplaly performed. Fhe roow shoshd not be kept too warm, but fresh aie admitted through sine erevice 1n @ part where the pa- tieut will not bo exposed, “Fae utnust caution muat be used to prevent talking cold, walel will ash i and geoerally prove ol hoon the surisee atd the Liro 5 Lo prevent suppurativi, snd I imost cas s will reea Alter tie fiith s 15 not all, the nl da sowe cathastic whll be needed, of which de- odorlzed castor-oll i doses of one or two tesspoorutls, suited ta the wires wirined In a little milk, 1 consider Lest anid fuust ellicacions. Onfons used freety by atl in any form aid o preventing contaziot, and raw omons (don't faugh), slleed and distributed about the rounl, Lo peraui, will prove ble. L would not fear suall-pok with their Hane thent fn the rom, carry thews 1 you can during the preva: lenee of o conta /] In winter ybhinly shiould make feee use of that vegetable, as i is o great bleastug. Theabove simpie trestment— 1o mutter how many *patholzhal” wisessres yuu may employ—wil cffeet more favorublo results than atl thelr pellets anddruigs, tGood wursing, with best of care, remember, only fu- FUSLS BUC3S. Taken in its fivst stazes, that fearful dlacase, hitherl,' §s very cosily subilued, and the 2 xe of 5o great mortality rom that dise. 1 that people wait tow long betore dul thi; The use of wer b about the throat, §3 the safest rewedy 1 ever tried, il alwuys with success, for 1 have lent o belping hund to friends with that dire d nease. Lo sult and water, tepld or cool; Keep the wet ciuth covered with dry. Bepeat olten as the bandage goets very warnii, say every bali-oar, 10 the paticnt be awake. Garzle with ehlorate of potash and fron to sustain streng.l the potash destroys the false membrane which suddenly forms over the wind- plie. I the patient Le tow youne to cirale, put u hittle, 83y o teaspoonful in the moutl, sl let run down the throat. The discase taken tine and thus treated will be readily cured. Wet the head often, and bathe ofl the surface a3 i *searlntine” One word ahout the croun. Uss ‘Hive "' and, where there are Hitle ones, 1 b of never 1o be without Ity as it acts promptly, st eaves life fn most e Give ten or thiteen drops every flfteen or twenty min- utes until the ch aml as it weakn torms repeat as requlred, The ole e nanisea, whish counteraces the er th chest with (listen 12 and roar of the **Angius pe.toris "' fraternity ) goose-ull—horeud, old-fasnivied pousesatb—if it van bo fonnd; 4 not, use laxd, Place ehices of rowsted onion upon the feet, and a little juiee of the rame, made dalatable by a Jittle sirap, I doses of 3 few draps, to keep the colleetion of mucns froe These slmple remedies ure always at hand, sad way save e fore s Srosul titloner " can b obtadued. Thtough 2 val y awl trbulatin e only 10 mothiers . fesson Was learne.. Lt those Jauzh 27 and, B e med fa-ulty would cha thiul nur.d, and slnpler remedles, the aed heart wmany a parent would bo bl CREDIT 13 D To the iitor of The Tribune. Foxn nu Lac, W .—1 have read the artlele on the searlet-fever controversy fn your paper of the b Dr. Beele may uot be ths ortzinal diseoverer of the remedy, but great crodit b4 due ta him, if only for bringing the mutter to the notlee of the publie ut the preseat tme. Thousamds of pavents will bless the name ot Dr Bivebe, and with just cause, There wany ewierers of diphtieria und scard r 0ty s Let ws hear fram br, Beehe 1, 1t us ittle ones, and he shall re o [Fe pragersand Uiihs oi LY anat prescat ohl. Foe wlad shout of tie 3 cruahers whis g 10 the discover ; they elaim ta ars uzo, they do not appear Lo have mute great use of, Let the the doctors explain why thits is so if they can, A Paugsr. DR. DEEUE. To the Editor of The Tridune. Cnicaco, Jun. 25, —All wtellizent Americans have been surprized und chagrined because by hook or hy ¢ook " our country has drifted fnto suh o cumplication, fiabroglio, or **political muddle” wany way cell it. It hos continued so long, snd the subject Las become so stale, that coplo only* taersily ask now whols tulng to b by next Presidout] * and ure Wa ting for so uo now muddle to turs up, sl bere 1tis i the sbaps of & modical muddle, uud De’ i D, Beebs wnd Tuz CHiosvs TRibyNd wro respopstble for it. But there i3 no eat cause for alarm, as it §s 1at only & very smoll ant{ can_possibly he- come acrionety'eected by it, and that Is the “rogmlar professinn | Beeause Dr, Beebe hae not permitted himself or his books to grow rusty, but has brought forth an * old remedy,” and out of the kinduess of his Leart has given to a suffering community the heneflt of his valuable cxperience, what haven’t they sald? One envious caustle ™ Doc- tor 7 In jast Tuesday’s TRINGNE sad they all * Jaughed and roarcil,” They can continue, il thev think it appropriate, when so many hiouse- lolds are turned into tmourning. The good Book Bays, “RBy thelr ~ works — yo ehall know them.” They “efand In awe," do they? Who would nut stand In awe of a“ profussion’ that clatms to have knows the remedy for years, and yet did not use It wihien th incesencer of death was at the doori The *+ %' are o convene again Satur- day. chould combine, and use all tneir tnliteyee Lo appaint that. uncomfortable ** Doce tor " s 4 Medieal ditor” of Tue Tuinuse for life, so that herealter, n its zeal to mak Ao © AN b1 eedy remely Lo K rruishing ehlidren, ft can poseinly make no mistake, and will not “give to the public old things ns [ they were uew!™ Fhen all the *“recular professfon” will feel tetter, and Jaugh cud roar, and then Or. Bee- ho—what about himl Tueir Jocrs aml epl- raotnt to nothing. Bucl avpeliations as sstor, fznoramie, and lar" can do hlin el v, 11e has done what he vonld, =his wile and Bounden duty, Let hin go on even or of his way, and he shall con- ive encotnlums and thanks (rom a eople, and at Inet the weleome plau- *Well done, good and falthful secyant.” AUKT SALLT. ARNOLATE, 73 the Editor af The Tribune. CnicaGo, Jun, 25.—The prevalence of scarlet erin our midst, attended as it has been by agreat mortality during the last three montha, hias naturally asakened the most earnest anx- fety ot its contiusnce and jrogress, ond is beginning to create o lively discussion as to the possibtlity of {ts prevention, curtailment, and suucessful treatment. In so far ns this discusslon may lead to a wizer understanding ol adiscose that has so frequently proved to be a terrible scourze, and lu so lar as it may awnken in the minds of Loth physiclan and peuple more correet ldens concerning the sate, 1t shonld be entered fnto with the most zealous wel hes, aid I the most non-partiran spirit, Alf efforts honestly put forward {n this diree- l](n must claim at least the recognitivn they deserve, It is possible, however, for the most weil- meant advice to fall of its accomplishment; and especially 50 when coming as 8 specliie from a medicil source throtugh u public bewspa- per to the people. Far he it from tue splrit of the writer to cust any sllscredit. upoir uny hene- fita that. mizht 50 obtain at this tme, but, In Jjustice to tuat profession of which [ am proud tobe an unble member, fean but feel that misconceptions concernlug its effurts and dill- ence have recently been created (i this way, I efore trust you will permlt, throuzh a‘ilke inel, un equal freedom in rectifying them. The people have been Ied to belfeve that a new discovery has been recently tmade,and that, personal tefalind cxperinent, agent has been found of sods' which known the dear st the an “wilpho- arbolate Is nut only u perfect preventive of scarlel fever, but is also a sale and u-ruxludcnire for thls An tlon with thia the medieal profession is chided for lack of difizence fu discovering this sgent, dread digease in all its forms. in conoee- or, having discovired I, in not using it ‘The aulpho-carbolate of soda ls, however, by no mneans a now or unfamillar azent. It {3 spolicu of in the United States dispensatory of oid date, and iv composed, as Las been stated thronzh yourcolumus, of the sulphite of sodannd carbolie aeid,—two arents long In use both sena- ratelvand in combinution. Duringtbe winterfol- lowlng the great fire, whenour city was infeated with almost il the contazious dlscases that Mflesh is heir to, I know of this remedy, 49 com- Doed, being used quite extensively tu the treat- wient of farlet fever as well as small-pox, “The results at that time did not establish it as in any serseu epecliic. In some cases it appeared to be u useful remedy, while o others it ex- erted no apparent fuvorable influenc Asa preventive, it us well as belladonna has heen tried for years, und the statistics have forced the unwilling convictlon tiat thess agents cannot ha relied upun, particnlarly when the morhlle azent has piready entered the sya- tem. When we eome to conslder that a certaln proportien of persons do not contract sarlet tever, howover grent the exposure, we are left with no data for correctly aReertaindng the nium- berof persons cxposed “ub uny particalar tine or paave who are patarally insuscentible. Satls- factory prout of the preventive powers of these wgents therefore requtes that the number of failures shigll not be larice, as they base mory than ouce heen proved 1o Le, under falr trial, But as the popular mind has been directed 1o this question, the wishies of irends nre often hetter satdstled If the remedy be used, and, given in proper Qo<es under the ¢are of a medlea) at- tendant, there ovght to be no evil consequences isine therefr, it I8 nlwnys cmbarrasslug ut time dike this, of putlle dancer sod anxiety, to i in Any unceriabn tones regurding the oy of awneent which has been «o promis inely offered fn the treatent of searlet fever; butit 4« the truth we aro after, and It we sliall ook 1 a little uver the history of this disease v 1 tined that it {5 pot the tirst time a speciie 1 put forsani with equal asurance, A apeelife which, i the linguage of fts distingulsh- ed _aulhor, %15 4 remedy whish would control d neutsallze the pasons that might be ad- tnlstered eafely ut any stage of the fevery thut at the ™ carlicet dawn of the complalng might be considered u preventive, and weertaln cure in more sdvanced stages, o word, that would rewder ~earlating one of the rlightest of human atilictions, fustead of b asut present, one of the greatest of maldl ivesa ure the glowing words of Prof. Eras mus Wilson concernime the earbonnte of am- moaks as @ spevitle, and he is supportd in this theary by olliers of his time cojoying a like reputation. And yet time, at whose altar all theorfes must stand or fall, has sbundantly demonsteated fts Incorrectness. Such promis- img statements having proved deluslvo in the past, does It not behoove ws to look on both shles of the subject, leat by undue haste we be led into committnz & greater error thun that we woulkl avold! ‘The fue would appear to be that let fever s an epldemie wnd cuntaglous dlseasy varylng so e fn character ut ditferent thues wnd plisces as to. render the detgree of 3t mor- tulity, even in the same pluce wnl amler s sume plan of treatment, exceedinly van Mild i rezular cases are rarely tatal, w trrave wnd madlinant 1ypes are exceedingly din- gerons, It s adisenss that presents isell in so wany moditications aud torms that [t would up- he fully ta expect to weet them all with e spectlle. SachiCase i likely to present a study by it- selfy und dt bs 4 wise adaptatlon of means to ende, # skillfal wttendance upon the synmiptons fs they appear, that elevates the physician atoye the level of emplricisni, As to the prop- agatfon of the diacuee, 1t hus been thoroughly ponstrawed to be from contaglons and eple e intlueace, czanls the cssentla) nature of the pobion, soars probable that ft 18 contatued, primie rily, du the fons of the skin and mouth, Teasmuch as the vieus may be fmbibed or car- ried by fomntes from one person to snother, our chief pellan e i checking the progress of the diseitse woudd appear to be in reparation, yent Latton, and cleantiness, comblned: with o brojer use ol Chettleal disinfectants. O3caw . Puice. ANOTHER REMEDY. To the Editor of 7he Tribune, CHICAGO, i 27, Whiie others aro contgib- utlng the results of thelr experlance, nnd maks g sugrgestions as to the care snd preventlon of scurlet fover, 1 ooffer my hittle mice, Loping that it may be the means of doing some good in Lehalf of the Hitle ones of our city who are ul- most, it not atrewly, within the vortex of o ter- rible epllembe. About the drst day of Dece- berlast two of my children were taken down with the fever, one of the vases belne reml uly severes Hoth are nov in pertect headth, troatitent Walch | resorted 1o, and persistently tolluwed, Was us tullow: Tcture hetladunng, tincture aeonite, dlternating cyery hour i doscy tor u child hom 1 1o 5 vears, half-drops fu teasguoontul of water, and - drom 5t 10 years, one drop, asoldhyg ol warm driuks, but gving ali the cold water withiln tre Foumnls of reason deadred by the patient, For lici alwiys accompanles. tho h 1¢ futlan- diseuse) b used ¢ i o begn 10 suimde, iunt, each o Araching wconLe, capai- cuin, cach vie-halt drachi; varbolic seld, ten drous; vinezar, ill-pint§ simplesyrup or white suar sutiicient to mzke pa.atable, Tpemt'e | the toir-ils witi tineture iodine every hour until thy diphtiersal symptoms had ©lisappeared, givlng also two or three thes @ duy o “teaspoon doses dilute carbulie 8d, euy two drous in o glads vl water, The vailent should be kept fua wurm, w cutls Lateel romn, 1L vash muakes its appearauce from ti.e eifect of cold drink s, rub the entire hudy at lont twae @ witis gweet i, or fresl La-d, and s smsl) quantity of carbolie acid and thctury of comite, Al wethiag wust be avohle ede oy Ltdle bepedt §s 1Rely 1o result, aod Felapeu i3 o be greatly dreadid, Ad u preven tve | know of nothing more rell- abte than carbolle weid, usdaluwiida, wud cawmplior obvions ' mcd!!raely,d Alitia 2 wder an Thotdd b saturated y containing some fnar! ast-named medleines, saturated with. carbolle.. actd “(nof enouglt to make a fluid or sof¢ solid), and worn around the neck constan 1y, belug resaturnted whenaver: necedsary, Numerons nersons have resorted: to this menns of preventlon, and I know of no Instance n which It hios falled. Durinz the {liness of my two children, there wera thres otber . children ! living in _my house on another floor, whose pas rents were perfectly confident that they wonld contract the dlscase. Precantionary messures were promptip resorted to, howover,~~catbolis acid beinz uscd fgeely as a disinfectant, fn tone’ nectlon with the Uttle boys ebove mentioned. ‘This family fs stiil at my hauee, and, sithough fm‘r'\‘n‘:\w featfon hugwcen the tvo “’Iortlonu af 101 as never absolutely cut off, the c have not had the fevers . +$e Chlla I belore that whererer the preventive and curative measures which I have suggested ma be cmplorel only good results wm%m attaing Exos Turyzn, 1100 Iudiana avenua. SCARLET PEVER AND DIPHTHERIA, To the Kdltor of The Tridune. Cnicauo, Jon. 27.—The statement of your sesterday’s paper, eaying that I tried to craw! out of my prior statement that belladonos killed all my qnlcnu. is untrue. Inroply I will state that I was misunderstood. Baing & foreigner, It is diffieals tor e to expross my- self in Enclish. T have treatad over 150 casas of scarlet fever and diphther(a from Sept. 10, 1858, upto date, and Lonly lostof that nimber scven cases, under my treatment, In that time, a3 the record of the Boanl of Health will showe Yours, WiLtiay 3, WiLke, M. D, ‘. DELLADONXA. 7o the Kdltor of The Tridune. CrricAco, Jan. 27.—1 write to correct a state- ment In regard to Dr. Condu's valus of bella- donna a8 & prophylactlcin ecarlet fever. He does not believe in it, sud exoresses himsell as fole lows: lle “never found It to exert the slighte est Influence fn mithrating the character or pre= ventlng the ocarreuce of scarlet fever,” " te was quoted In the meeting of homecpathlc phye sicians as advlsing Its use, C. W, E. e ee— A Young Girl Uses a Plstol, % Iayton (0.) Democrat, Thursday el'('an appears to havs been pros | liic of plsiol practice by ladies who sought to protect themselves from thoassaults and (nsulie of Joafers, An hour or two alter Frankie Mor- ris' shooting affafy oo Fifth street, two youn Indles, while passing the corner of Thind an; Sears strects, were accosted by a number of loafere with, as they claim, indecent Isuguage, The ladies screamed for assistance, when one of them, named Mary White, was struck by one of - the party of roughs. 8he fs a plu y little Iady, and promptiy pulled her Iittle pisiol and fired fnto the mob, ‘but, we are informed, did not hit any of them. The young women then were permitted to proceed. without further mo~ lestation, < TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY. ma. Oecupante. 1. CITARTER OAK LIFE (Inaursace Dep't.), 2. T0O RENT. 3, GUSTIN & WALLACE, J. T. DALE, 4. DUEBER WATCH.CASE MAN'F G COMPANT, % ROBRINS & APPLETON, Zioo) 0. NEW YORK WATCH COMPANY. 7.TO RENT. . A. 3. 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