Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1877, Page 7

TLORIDA. Poinis of Interest Along the St, John’s River. A Visit to the DBar---An Anclent tfuguenot Sctilement. Pilot Town and Fort Georgo Island—A Fa- i vorite Resort for Tourista— kS Tropical Bconery, 4 Gaanine Fishing VillageThe Tlospitalitles of Rayport, and Its Resources--low the H Hinereans Jive af Amuse Themselves, Bpectal Correspandence af The Tribune, Marront, Fig, Jan. 2L.—A streteh of white sand, Hslng laborlously from tho water's edge, as If yearning to bo freed from the censcless dash and beat of the surfy and with a final effort Juzging, up In o gigantle wave, only to subsile smpatiently bifto the dark morass beyond. Along e beach are sprinkled hero amd there littlo whitewashed huts, without any attempt at regu- Jarlty, ‘There are, perhaps, & tozen of them, ncluding several that are so much the worse for wear and wind that they have loat all character and steadlastness, and topple over so far from fbe perpendicttlar that one expects to seo them coltapea momentarliy. This §s Mayport. The Northern visltor, suon after his arrival at I Jucksonyllic, I8 invarlably asked two gucestlons by cvery chanee uequnlutance whom he may mect ng the Notels. One is, * Jinve you been up theriver?’ and the other, “‘flave you been down to the bLarl” These opposite directions ropresent tho only two points of the compnss to which the tourist In Florida is ever fntroduced. Nooneever goes cast or west, but everybudy Koes cither up or down, the “up® stunding for gouth, and the **down ¥ for northeast; so great 18 the part played by the 8t. Johin's River In the fortuncs of the State. It Is twenty-five mlles from Jackeouvlito to the mouth of the river. Unfortunately for the commercinl fnterests of the town a bar obstructs o entrance to the 8L Jobu's, 5o that vessels cannot come in exeept at high-tide, 1t Is, more- over, atreacherous bur of shiftiug proclivities, snid many are the wrecks that have oecnrred throuch its Instrumentulity, For yenrs the Btate has llved In hopes of a Government apprg- priatlon for u clearing out ol the ehauncel und the erectlon of a breakwater, but enough Influs euco has not yet been brought to bear npon Congresa to sccure the desired fmprovements, 1f the bar 13 lonked upon by vesscl-owners as a bughcar, by auother still Intizer class It fs re- garded s a placo of maniteld attractions. Plcasure-seckers all the year round visit it and rovel in the wonderful s onery of the country ln fts fnmediate meighborliood, Fort Ueurgo Island hus nchieved more thana locsl reputn- tlou. Doltg ws cverybody elso did, I pald a Vialt to the Island, It huppened to be AN UNUSUALLY FOGGY MOBNING wlhen Twent down ta the dock at Jacksonville to take the steamboat frum Green Covo for the bar. The plunks were slippery with molsture, and tho beards and mustaclies of the loungers on the dock were as wet as {f they had been walking down Madlson street on a frosty morn- ing, And yet the fog was ot cold or dizagreens ble. By aud by there came o repecel from the dense mist, and the boat loomed rapidly up, like a grout shape. Btepping aboard(through abedlam of "hus-drivers and hotcl-ruuners shout- iy themeelves hoarse around a single bewllder- el passenger, 1 seenred a camp-stool and took o seat aft on deck. There was certaluly not mnch chance of seolog the seenery, for the hoat had searcely left the wharf before the group of by- seem Standers, tho omulbuses, the fruit stalls, the liouses, ana the wholo town Itsell was swal- lowed up In the fog, as It by an earthqu and only u vold remained on cither hund. Wo stentned swiitly down-stream, If such a term can be used In reference tu a thdul river, ','2 making about twelve kuote. No land was i S sight, Once fnuwhilew dbn ehadow nguinst %, the fog provlaimed the near presence of trees, % und now and thea we shot. past o fishing kuat, i dangeroug_proximity I thought; and ocea slonalty the ghost of an upright buvy wonld look at us kindly to tell us that the steamer was {u the right trask, About Lalf the trlp was thus sceomplished, when by some fnexplainable mashiners of Nu- ture tho curtain of a mlst wus suddenly lifted updthe whole gergeaus spectacle stood re- vealed, .Onono side tho Jow shore was barled . luawealth of verdure, Yhero were thickets of plautain aisd the shrub palinetto, with inter- lacing vines, while the lewves of the magnolls, towdrlmg above, plistened In the run. From the boughs of the grand ol 1i s depended festoons and trails of the brated and ever wonderful gray moss. It was a tropical scene, Theother shore rose ubruptly Into a range of bluTs, covered with pine and ok, This, too, was interesting, althougl more from ITS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS than from Its especlal sconie gruce, L was here that the flrst actual settlement of Florlda was made by the Freneh Hugue- vots wnder Jean Ribault In 141 The colony of St Awustine was not founded il the y ufter, 1565, by the Bpanurde. The lttle Huguenot elty nad scuree. 15 got fatrly started before [t met with suddeh dizasters The Spanlands caimed as thelr own the whole ‘country, oand au cxpedition was eent out under Menendez from Bl Augustine 1o cxtermbnate the Tiench, . Menendez suprised the colony and massacred every man, woman, aud child, Above thefr bodles, which he caused to be g from the trees, ho placed this Inseription: * Not becaunse they are Frenchmen, but becauee thicy are horeties und enemics of (od." Retrl- lution for this hornble act followed quickly, Three years atterwards De Gourgucs,n Huguennt gentleman, salled from France, aod, landing at Bt Augustine, captured the town: and, taking tbe prisoners to the site of the French settle- ment, hung them to the sane tree, and placed over them this fuseription: # Not becausu they are Spanfurds: bhut because they ure traltors, robbere, wind murderess” Thesy events Lop- Yunul wuver flfty pears betore the landing of tne § Dilzritus on Plymouth Rock, From this pomt one can sce the llehthouse ut thedar, Beioro reaching it, however, the riv.r takes o tong circuit to the south, thus fnclesing 08 two gldes TILE 1ALAND OF VORT GROKGE, which 4 really u part of the inamlind, el in- sulated only by - little ereek on s northern &le connceting the river with the ove Swecplug around the preat beud, the steambouy Tings one [ slehit of the two villages, Mavnory sud Pilot Town, situated on apposite sides uf Y the river, near the mouth, & Pilot Town 1 the landing-placo of tourists to sland. [t vonsists of only hult-a-dozen ousen, [nhabfted, us thic name of the placo lu- tcatee, by the men who guide ships over the T A carslage was o waltioe at the wlarl 1o M tonvey visiturs to the hotel, which §s Jocated %0 “liles away on the besck. It should explaied thit the greater part of the blaod Iy “owned by n stock company ¥holave lakd out rfu und crected an clo- 5 le hotel for @ sunnner and winter resort, e road from the lundiogg to the bot:d s ox- ey It 15 constructed entirely 5 of wul-h o linitlesy @ an.mmy are found wlong the edge o i e ol bed of the iy The Y Pt theury of the natives s that theee shells Were ull put bieso by the Ludlsns i forsier s g Lo wre supposed to huve bwen ereat oyster- ers, The chief fact upon which they” biace Selr belief T that the shelis, 08 found, are not B1aTs. and must therefore huve been opened T huuzn azency. hT&c isand I» sahl to be the highest point uf o4 o e coust south of Bandy Hook. It ite Ly aud "t iy wooded, Hlere for the thrst Lsaw the puliuetto tree i dts full Juxuris aud grrowth, ‘Tho ro; nds around most Nuautically ghrougts exteasive groves of pal By AL sy The. Tobaes are heve uud ws bigh o8 Loty o ity fu 334,10 oo whi bt unnccustimed Lo thaw, tkey eent g quost povel opweasrunce, with thare sl truaky shootlug strmighih upwards, und Muznuemmu: ragichve exiept ut the sume 2R Besldcs these trees I potleed tue bl Sy, wild duto sud By, powicgruuuto, futer.sting. ofster-sliclls, . THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JANUARY %J, 1877 other tropical apecles. Tho oranga grows here, Aleo, Ecveral Nurthern families aro residing on the talaud, In starting on this trip it waa my first pure o to make a fiying visit Lo the Istand and urn the negt day to Jacksonville. Whilg crog-Ini the river, iowever, from Pllot Tawn to ¥]0rL on the return pussage, AIy curlvaily was cxvited by the ODD LITTLE HUTS IN TILE ROAD at the Intter place, and I determined to remaln there over night, Nor have T cause Lo rapent of that determination, The men ol Mayport arc flsliers, and are mostly of Minorcan and Majarean duscent, Even to this day many of them retain a 8panish aceent, which, imingled with the nezrm dialect awd tho waial Bonthern vlisnsen, gives them a very pecultar styte of talk. It would he u to attempt an imitation of It on ‘ul per. 18 o far an absence of caste in reveral negroes, who follow fixl hood, are recelved on terms of other inhbltants. Toapeak of the caste in con- nection with Mayport. would, indeed, be apt to exclte ridicule i the mind’ of any one who should chance to behold ita forlorn and squalid appearanee. T ohave gafd that it was built on the sound. The houses are shnply wouden shanties, zenerally eontalning two rooms, set up on fuur poats seuck in the sand-bauk. Toere fano rign ot @ etrect ora fence; hoimes strag- £le one atter anuthier In abonut as much order a8 flhwfld of chickens running at lurge in a gar~ den. And yet the whole scena Is plefureeque anid charming, The rand ftscif Is wonderjuls it s white nndd fine, and it s deftted fito all sorts of funtastle shapes. fere it haif hides sume ol apar, east ashiore from a bygone wreek, or it nnties i abandoned boat, and lieaps itself up ugalust the batiered wood nsit apxiousto buryat oiree fts substance and (ts eventful bistory. Bub the gand rlses into real gruoder, as it aweeps upwand, back of the row of huts, to n heliht of forty or ity feet, aud then lapses sorrowfully into'the darl Yine of the marsh, which forms o wild enough buckground for the picture, atreteli- ng ll:fl‘ southward alinost as far us the eye wn reach, Ty ayport that iz tora live qpality by the THRRE ARE NO HOTELS in Mayport; so 1 accepted Wio haapitality of on cliderly Tudy of the letter class whose Feddtieed clreumatatives competled her to make n meagre living by takine hoarders, 1t befng the winter scuson, ¥hew visltors were rare, I had the for- tune to be her ooly hoarder, as, Indeed, T was the only stranger ?u the place. The old fady, Mra, Fatlo, [ tound_ to be very Intelligent and relined, Bhe had lived hero Uhirty years, mnd bl Tost alf her [)mx]n:rl_\'i The ride amnd maingtay of herde Itths grand daught ni Bouthern type, with big black eyea and an oval face. 1 ehould do wrong to oinit mentioning another jmportant member of the funlly, 0 husze cat, which went by the stugular nam of “uewhillicker,” The floure was a better one than the most of them, aml wus situated on tho other sy of the sawd hep and close o it,—to cluse that I could almost touch the eand by reaching out of my window up-stairs Durinig tho afternoon T o cht,\'nroc- cupation In gtrolling down the Jonely beach to the bar, where the white line of breakers called ont thelr monotonous warntug to surluers for- evenmore. Down the beach, wome distancg from the town, was o tow of queer littlo Alip- shoil cottages, which are In suinmer oceis pled Uy Jacksonsille people. They werg Ul courke, tenentlers, There 1 al-o a longz, dlapldated wooden structure which 1y Auid to be ocenpled in the summer as a convent. It I were n Mother Superior, howevery T would acareely Hke to cxpose my novices to the temp- tation< of a low roof, open windows, and adju- cent young gentiemen, 1 notleed peattered along the beach, s i€ cast aghore by the tide, numerous MASSLS OF GELATINOUS MATTER which were entirely unknown to uy natural listory. Meeting uan ol natlve, who came atongn oncof the open, two-wheeled carts peenliur to the country, und orawn by the rug- fred Little beast Known as o *arsh-tacker,” I asked him for fnformation Them hyar,” sald he prise, nut vitmixed with disgust t my fenorance, “Wihoy, | them a-blubber, them §2,' ‘The bea-blubber {s un Inhabitant of the vasty deepy which 8 drifted up the sver, and, of meetine the fresh water,alles and §s whelmed upon the besch, [ went down ua far as the old Tight-hoy bulit uver tifty yeara aro, and aban- dotied hefore the Inte War for the newer struct- nre lovated miether Infand. ‘The old light-house hus a pereeptible inclination to one kide, aml xlu‘u_v yet hecome celebrated us o eccond Tower of i, At the wharf, back fn Mayport, I founda group of tishers buslly enguzed momending tuelr nets. Tiwy weré a stunly set of P‘uunu fellows, with thick muscles and” broad backs, The fishing fs ull done with ncts, and (he Kinds of fish caught are shad, trout, wullet, and shecpshead, Shad-fishtng e, of course, th most remunerative when i season. The season besins and ends eardler than In the North, lastineg from Decem- ber to Mareh. The shad van it shonls, nnd whenever durfog the season tho wind hlows steongly dawn the siver, (they come up stream. Fhea fo the Juwvest time of the Mayporl prople. Each boat frequently takes in, on suclh - ovcasions, a8 many - as A9 Hsh. This i quite profitable, o8 the fsher- men get from ten to fifteen cents each for thein [t dangerous work, thowgh, tor the Bt. Johut's, when roused, has o spirit of itg own, ana unless exceedingly careiul the fishers are upt to et carrled out over the weel Lo wen were hauting for Bargze w haul that they overfowded the boat und Eank dn the plver, ‘the net wis recovered the next day and found to contaln yet 230 stad, Laust eventug there was A BALL IN MAYrONT, a not. uncominon event I was tuk!, T rude people huve thew plewires ofter thelr own Tastiloty und on theee ocenstons know how to joy thewselves ax well us do other people rules of etiquette are more rigid. The ook place Inone of the lite, the vesi- e of Mrs, Dove, The sccommodations werg rather lmited, therd heing ouly two rovins fu froms the newthbors, and werg racged around the howse, but ceveral ehiatrs kad heen borrowed th patlor tar the te, A By eanale stuek o the mantle: ltumined the bitre floor und eafters with adublous Hght, The ruests came Inat the very unfushlonable hour of & o'clock, the orcheetra” airiving soimu e lutery owlug to the fuct that one”of the pleces had to be conveyed acros from Pilot Town, ‘There were tyva performers, one befvga niegro boy with o trlanele, sud the other an old man with a weak-chested flddle. “The dancling wan somctidnz really wonderful, The youug weu rtampad aroumd this lictle ronn fu the rgreat hooty, und shool the floor right mernly. ‘The glei came dressed fn calleo, and o Werd ot all the time getting thelr tralls in everybutly's was. ‘Phe dunces were old-fushe foneil recls, und waltzen, and quadritles, and the fun was kept up until 2 o'clock fu the wmornlng, 1went down to the beach this morning, and found the fsherinen stirelng about, nutwith- standing their disstpation of the night previous. A bUIT brecze wus blowing down the viver, and all were expecting n goud run of shad, The sun was shinlng on the sparkhing crests, and tho fishers' wives were shiging st their bouschold Bhe'in nuting at covered th an accent of aur- ar goes they Hells of they heach. akiter, low," sald u fond tather, a G-year-old toddler, almost entrel by & huge sun-bonuet, who was up aud duwa the sand betwecy two furzer children, ull three ol them scereambng with laughiter, But I wust bring to a close this already Tenzthy deseription of Mayport, In this ons duy’s sujourn 1 huve conceived quite an affee- tion fur the vlase, everything Is so quict and shnple. Lut ] supposé [ must take the stemne buat back to clvillzation thls utternoon, Dz a fond farewell to the shad-fishers, to the moun- taty of sand, und the lrregular village of Lats, o Mrs, Fatlo, and Jittle blsk-cyed T-vear-old Eva, und to the wajestle family cat, Gerwhill [0 G EW —— ANOTHER 0! PENITENTIARY, Spectal Dispateh 1o The Tribun TorEDO, V., Jun. 23.—It nas Leen determined to erect unother Penitentiary fn this State at some polut not less than clehty miles from Columbus, uud the people of Tuludo are making eifurts to secure dts luoution lere. A mecting of promiuent citizens was held at the Mayor's otffce fust night to couskler 4 plan of uctlon to attaln thiv consummetion, The princip et s taat there ls no State iustiution here, Nothing definte was done Fast ulght be- youd an interchauyge of view R — Arrested for Marrylng & Negross, Rechmond (Fa.) State. Georgo Btuart and Robena McPherson were murried o few weeks ago under pecullar elreum- stances. Stuart s an futelligent white man, of respectable charaeter, and bas lived in Manches- ter two or threo years. Hels s blacksmith, A manth or soazo ha wPuua tothe clork of tho Hustings Court for liicuso to muny Robens MePhierson; but the lcense, fu necordancy with a statute of Virgluls, was depled, becauso it was alleged that the intended brlto wasu nezross. Bubeequenily the two wero married in Washlng- ton, ail eaine back to Manchester to live, Xtuart resttning his trade. h:-lurd.l{ the Grand Jury fovud o trae bill uzainst duart aud bis wito for ulawiul cobinbltation, inasinach as sho laws of Virginis forbl] them to marry. Chief of Pollve Lipscumb served thocuplas o the couple. Bouks were baileds e BRITISIE COMMERCE, Imports Excced Exporis in lB’ib by $600,000,000 ! And There Was a Large Falling Off' in Exports. Buying More From, and Selling Loss To, Amexien, A Loud Growl Thereat. Tanitan Tymes, Jan. 8, Taking tha Imports first, we Aind toat thele value for the twelvemonth runs to alinost ex- actly the sane flinires ts for 1575, being in the one case L374,000,00), and fn the other G373~ P1,000 ($1,570,000.000), a difference in favor of 15itiof meraly some LG5060, The exports, on the other hantdy, have declined very heavily ns ngaiuat 1575, reaching only £200,570,000 (31,603, 290,000}, or to about L25,000,00 (#114,5K.500) lesa. Compared with 1574 the falllug oft fs no less than LEOMNOX (B105,000,00). When we have addud tho esthoated valus of the exports of forelzn and coloulal produce 35,500,000 ~t0 this side of the account thero remaius a balance ngalnst this countey on the mere trading account of about £118,000,000 (850,000,000) for the past year. Whatever et~ off there thay be against this In our cnormous colonful, Indian, ond general forelgn inveyt- ments, in commisslons, profits of cirrying trade, nnd general control of the commerclal dealives ot natlons, [t nuat etil) reinain @ serfour Jiurs to contemplate. But we must sllow, perli for some glut of «xports In former years which have not yet Leen all worked off, and the welglhit of which has both sufllced 1o projong the stagnuntion at home, und to make these figures reen more unsatisfactory than the actunl rerults of Lhe year's teading prove them tohe, A atudy of the numerons trade cireulars tssned at the hegluning of the New Yvar'in part confirme this vlew, They gruimble with much uniformity, it the casvnce of them we find to he tuat husiness has nat lieen: so rafnons a3 ut fest sight it looks, Cheap money wonlt turn the eeale i favor of hetter protits’fn many cases, falling prices llmwlbmmn-llug" xumlning the year's tigures somewhat in de- tall, we flnd that, us reards the fnpoit trade, valties have been kept up to o conmderablo ex- f couswinption, — For Instance, ¥ ported comething 1ike L0),000 vurth sore Dvlng anbmals ant bacon than I 157, £1,200.000 (30,000,56b) worth more butter, und £4,600,000 (@LL000,000) worth more {ndian corny Other arti such as s, euzs, puta- taca, pork, apirits, wine, and tobaceo, have also it ported Lo B lurcer valuc—of hbott - TUO00 (£18,500,000% but this cannot he taken as ageneral statement, — We fud wheat, for ju- stanee, less i value by 560,000 (321,500,000) or ko for the twelvemonth, and barley wud oats ure also lower; fo ure cheese, coffee, rice, swgzar, tea, wpices, molasses, hops, sud cther minor urtleles, toa value of about £5,0,000 (423,000,005, It cannot, therefore, be sakd that the value of the import shdc of the acconnt has been kept ||}nhruu~,;huut the year by the lm- port of articles of consumption alone, nlthongh we helleve this was malutainable with_much reason during Its carier amonths, On the other band, we do nut find that hcrease I our wreat manufacturing staples on the twelvemnonth which we shoubl accept us the nost. hopetul sien of a revivilled trade. Lats terly there huve heen slgns In the ausmented import of cotton, waul, jute, bides, flax, sud sl that the toundations “fur u new expanafon wer beingz laid, but, probably owlng to the weather, these are nearly absent In tie Deg her returns, aud they bewan fo late i the v that fur the most part they moke litle ahow the twelvemonth, Raw ‘cotton, for example, although the quantity was almost as larie us in 1575, shows n valie for the year less by about L6.000,0) (¥30,000,00), There are also doecreases muore or luss cone slderable In the values of the [m- ports of hemp, flax, load, nltre, pyrites, quick- slver, and tin, and amoanting fn L resate to several milllons more, We have 2 1y to louk to woul, thnber, jute, s} nls cellaticous snall artieles, us” offering nearly ex- clusively the means of hling un the Sups. Amonz these thnber offers decidedly thebest s10n of sustatned import, every description, ex- pt anahiozany, exlinting a deelded 1ncrease in value, walch aguregates about £4,000,00, Were 1t not for the cnvrimous mumber of pubtic bufld- Inga im coutree of constrtetion formunfcipalitl Senvol Buards, and otier bodies, we saould be disposed to attribute this exeess to speeulation, itean only be o, however, ta a small estent, Wool also gives an fneredse, but ouly to the Insignitlcant’ umonnt of_somne L3HLON." There Is o groater Werease I the value of woole manutaeture. The value of vaw silk fmpurted fx greater by ubout £2500,00, due lagely to tho cnurinous Fise in prices silk man are, o the other band, reduced. In t the other artfeles wamed the suzmentation fa also small, and as a gencral resnlt we theretore find that the lmperi values huve been anttalned fn the” nmain by the smaller areles, such a3 meat, paper, #o, petroleuny, teaned hides, ete. Tins would tidlate that usiuess bus been better distrinut- edyund that there lne been more of 4 guict trading thun of rampant specnlation In o tow leading staples. s a whole, theretore, the fine PURL wecotnty CXeEpL for s eXcess port, cannot t aliniictory. wo could 1 level of v LAt it Wikiy on the contrary, more hopetul-louking now taun it Wats 91X tonths ago, Whnt inost futerests us Ju terning to the ex: port shle of the uecoant by not so nueh the fai niz uway of particular artlees as the declin trade with partiendar eountries. Evers oue n- tereated In business has beea now oaly too long. inwdllar with the probuged dropp iy wady of ra weay AL not of balk, (ncoal and 1eon, cotton and woolen goods, mehinery and burdware, inen, sugar, and cogper. These tables bieip us 1o pee wuat Joreisn bugers are most promineut- Iy curtalling operations. Guing gown tne puges oi the return, wo dind, us wus 1o ho ex- pected, that the Umtod States 1a, 1t we tnay be allowed to say ao, the worat defaulter, That gieat country is buying trom s less of nl- mast cverything, from aigali, clothes, by and carshenwire Lo pig-iron, rulioad frot, cutler: nachinery, cotton plece guo.ls, and woulen o und worsted manfactures, Wien its prohib. ftory tandl, apart even from the present staguae tion ot trade, ls taken (nto wecount, this s uot 10 be womlered at. — Indecd, the wonder s the other wuv—that {t should he able to go on buylng trom ws anything st all, und the - present trade polley of the Union, undoubtedly blds falr “almiust 1o extiuyulsh its trade feom Eng.and; tn thne also our urndefrom the Union., Next tothie United States we inay dass Egypt, Turkey, the Arzenting Republic, and periups Hussia,” With the first nawmed there §s alwuys aduticulty bn determintng cxactly whut s (or the country Itself und want metely in transit, but {n any cise its purchiasi power has obviously tinnnilslied. ‘Turd ures well for cotton Tabrivs, but otherwise ch a great Tullng off, but tue wonder her Is thst it 13 not much greater, Russ.a tabes tmuch Jess wuollen goods, sinl the Argentine te shows u general dimiuution of busls uturul reaction from the overtradiog of Ot cutirse thy worst symptous are stown by the fron and steel tradess Lhe cessa tion of forcum luans with thr accompanying building of fresh ralbways could not but almost PAt 4 stop Lo the export of rallroad ir 1, and it 18 not surprsang, therefore, to Hud the readiest barruwers from us now the wmost conspicuous abseuties trow our market. This Lranch of trwde must, we fear, b conducted on o much Lower seale for nemy yeard to cotne, and it 1y probably & goud thidg tiat it shoutd be s, Auoug custonors who sy be classeld as 2o, If not prozie.sive, nust laced wur Austrutian Colonies, Germany, Ttaly, Holland, und ludiz and China. Gerinany, it 1s true, tahes less fron sunufactures (iom us, France consderably lesscotton fabricy, while Holland presents iather a eavckered §ist of (- eruases sud decreasess but, on the whole, our tisaly witi: these iations appears to us soll { and wovd—=likely, fndecd, to progiess when tho thie azain turns £y Lho “The Empire of Brazil and the South Amerkan States generally ane ot 30 goud custonilers as they bave Leen” for the two precealin yearss but, considenng the pusks thon 0€ et of tha Republica business cahvor be prouounce.d bad; and, in short, if we exvept tho Unite tes and sume South Amerloan Liepubli oy, Cunads, Russtu, and Turkey and Ezypt, there are fow countrics which inlicat o declied atd porimanent Jowering of their deal- ings with us, ‘Turniug to the principal aples of our fur- elen trady, wo Hud that the demand for cot- ton {rom yarns bas been woud dusiby the year Germany, llolnd, Fraoce, Turkey, and tndis, with o teudency fo . Except to France, ftaly, Portu- E'“' ‘Turkey, tho South Auwcrican States, and “Lina, there b howeyer, o falluig uvay o tie deuaud {ut colion JbECs 1o ol oF our - &unuut customers. fu somo instonces this de- ine 18 serious, {u otbers only slight, sud we may reasvnably nupe tu v. The year's bushicss tu woulen yarn bulked uaarly as 2 h it Is considerably Voolen cloths have although considerable fluctuntions arc visible 1n thy purchases of particulur nations, Fran.e, Gormany, Italy, aud China have all imported more heavily, hut there dn & large decrease in the guir chares of the Uniled States and Dritirh North Ameriea, Australia and rome of the Bouth American Republics have taken Jess, Our worsted goods husitiess does not waintaln [taclf nearly so well—Germang, Holland, France, the United States, China, anif the varions unenum- erated conptrles having bought decidedly less st year than the year before. Here, Luwever, we find Italy & solid, steady customer, and our peneral businesa with that” country Is evidently progresive, We might carry tins. analysls out further, but enouth bas been sald to ndicate the geeneral - position end course of our forclzn trele 8o far as regands o leding manufactures, and the depression of the fron trude needs, unhappily, no demenstratim, Decllediy sialler than it wae, a0 far as sume of our customers are concerned, tending, ns 1t docs, b crow less, our export busiucss Ie still Jargre aml sonud. FLe vast ex- tentund tho uprising of new eustomers capable of hecoming larger buyers afford many «hances of compensation aleo, which it woald e foolish tooverlook In any general estimate. There are at present no vislble stgne that the trade of 157 will expand—It mav, [ndeed, shrink frther: Lt thete are plenty of indications that business 5 now rounder than it war, nid thad is the most lmportant eonkWeration sfter all, 1argely as that of 1875, thou, amailcr than that of 1574, nlso lu:‘m. well up, Varlons Views of Numerous Correspondents, To the Editor of The Tribuns, Ciieano, dau. H—Amid the ravages of an epldemle, when delilierate action I8 most aceded, fear takes pusresslon of many over which prooh- ylaetles ean bave 5o power whatever, It may b wlst: to have: heraldud meettugs of phyalclans and exclting cditoriuls in the papers, but does 1L not I sowe [nstances paralyze some with sutite- thing akin to terrort Wil not the quurrels and cuibblings of *pathles™ make many anxious plflu-n'lu shudder and wclilluess to crawl over themn “a be (belladonnaed) or not to be thelladonnacd), Ko be (suipho-carbolated) or not 1o be (sulphio- carbolated), That fs thie guostion ! over which many will be this day perplexed, Now. experienee un well as seence teaches us that the persistent contine uation of any depletlve 15 extremely buzardois, Paticnts luve been sent Lo their o home vy coutlnions wre of hydrate of chloral, whicn been piven by n wiee phyvaiein t el i und produce sleep! Tue chibdren of the it v do not uee Lweakenog, but they o nead pure adey eunticht, s stimutating to give strengeh to resiet diseane, Tusice of he walls of wany w marsle Sront are ciuldren who are by fuutl and dress * rtarehy ™ within and without, tutter In the breath of diy iy na tempest! The thinner clivl, who €agerly devour thetr plain meat, pota- tocey and breud,” and draw strenzth and ife trow the cilly witils and strugel Nz suuneatne, ure Jesn likely 3 azged L th luss pampered, nud more Jikely 1o stand the storn when it does come. The'eltnlven of the tlihy alley will live I spite of the presenes of garl- ugey while the removal of delunct rats s de- gz doizs will not save those surrounded by A The Lest prophylact [ s active boily, which courrcs pure biood, wnd this can by Turnished—exeept B i oo ulous dinthesls—by nihermiz to the laws of na- ture [n exercise, food, und ralment, Wolle the 3 with Bouwle reasun, suggests thut are many Inzowpetent M. It Is well to remember J that physeians canmot make new hnes or uew organs of uny kind, and tbere stioukl he no odiun attached wien o suterer lucking all the casentiyl elements of lfe fulls to recover under his treatiment. As well mig! wunlener be reprimanded for the full of u tree whivh bad bectnonly the siekly, decayiug semblance of for months or yeirs, Physiclans tuken wn well “us other men, A aud vers emlnent Pro.cssor of o mnedical collexes in this ety carefully examine u patient woom I i requested to ret hie opin ion, und gave it as his wise judznent that' be did not Tave phthisis pulmondis, but nercly bronehlal arritation, with fnaction ol the After o few months the patlent ied. wntopsy showod a normal state of all the ors exeept” the Junge, e died of phtulsis paduos nalix, If there are mistakes as to what s the wmatter, may there not be errors i treatment ! From several years ol ment of diphthérie and s with invarlable su o 1 wish to o eral hints ux to the treatmen U-¢ care fn the sunitary surroundings, Give sthunlting food aml drinks, without tegard to fever, © Usen saturated solution of ehlorate of potush freely gargle as well ay tuken (oteroally. Anolut ternally the throat end neekk watll camplior- ateid ofl, or, What 18 better, bind on tidu slees of porg or bacon upon which Lot been sprinfited black Wealicned tneture of fron is often advantase, Loucklng the internal sore patehes with {t un . pribang. ¥ iver, This must be done with eare and nat oftener than once in four hours, Da not lut the i, but adminl-ter powerful stlmulants The depression of these dlsvases is fearful, and the patent shoutd be kept above it i possiofe, All warm haths or depressing infiuences or medicines shoubd bedi-carded.” Abuve all, do not let alann or frht be seen by & child old enoush to notice ity as there can be w mental atuwsphere thrown around hlin or her that is us fatal as the rankest polson. Noclalib or adalt who eontructs either dizease while in a thy vomditton will die, 1€ properly tr cared for. Many do die. Suine are balf dead befure exposed to 5 tuglon; some starve, and not u tew are do todeath! o8 Wil Instruct thele patrons jo sures aml the laws of life, ad. on.=h them Lo e common sense aod act de- Hiberately, they will be able to allay fears and atay the progress of these twin de:troyers more ropldly than” by aesembling to quibble ‘atoat prophylacti.s and specities, Let us altay Ine steal of exoatn ',y GBI U@ eVery means e slble to save the duldren, Yours respe, tally, 1. B, Urron, M. D. SCARLET FEVER. To the Edisor of Ths Tribune, Cricaco, Jan. 20.—Your different corre- spondents upon thls subject credited different men us the authors or dscoverers of the appil- cation of sulpho-carbolle acfls und its com- puunds to contagious dlscuses, Perinlt me to state that Jlong Lefore Dr. Buyer, of Philadet- phia, or Mr. Ciookes, fn Englind, published anything upon this theme, the undersdened pre- parcd all the different compound acids of the carnalic and eresylic serles, and their different sults, for the sole burpose ol haviug the phled I scarlet fever, emall pox, cholera, ail otlier contugious This wao duneu few months after Prof, Pettenkofer published his Infection theory, wolch contined itaelf to dismicetion with saetaltfe salts. Tue ap- dicatlon wax wade by De Emll Ro herz, of New York, W whuse esqay upon the stoctrossops and its upplication o practieal medi. e was awarded the Stevens Tri- cuniad prize for 186 by tue College of Phvst clans and Surgzeons in New Yok, Dr. b > Letg, an orthodox allopatl, as also soveral of iy rulh-]u::ucs, 1 edd it the ides of ai llu- iy 1l dvatenmatic work, whel sous dliscases were not only reated i lospitals with carholates aod compound carbo- Iatee, but alsn upon anitals, oculated with grers of ditferent diseases, thees remedivs wete readned, un ! frow thewr dlscurson ut the focal ntedical socleties they alterwands reachied the resd Twa years later Lhe Caemival Sosiuty of udon, Encland, discussid the a thon of (ar- bolte acid upon the syaem, and (redited my with nut ouly the applvution, but with gving the first and” the true ratonale of its mode ut avtlon, An extrict of Liese procecuings was published . the Neas, Londo the paper publisied Whon o your « W dultion ot sulplo-carbolate, Years pio @ this same terisl to the Board ot Haalta of this city, uider D, Raach, o be used as a d. fitectait, where U was propousced ‘Lt main fssue, however, bere i uot who dsed itdest, butis (ta spealls for saarlet tever and diphitierin And here allow we to #ay that the fudivbluahity ot the patweat, the tue of the atbeease ag Which the {lysickai i ¢ dled, ave suan Bnportant fa.tors i this consbleration, thay b o ividual case requires the ks espectal attention and jndzmert ot the clits, which canuot be gt o0 Hudte by pus lic diseu-sion of weneral rules; aud i utiy vne, from your arideles, is lad to betieve that i all be ueods o o to save Liy clildren I8 ta luad thelr stodiacis vuolzl sulpho-carbolate of sods. b be sadly - appainted. lu fact, chddien, as 8 e, ure S0 L¥eiss to takime physic, that espesially with s0sC Lhiroat, It 15 not alwavs ca<y tv adminlster tho renedy, however excellens it may be. But this {8 the .rmm ul the puysicidn. A¢x cheme 1, b dects dL oy duty 1o the pulic tostate that the diferenca Lotween sulpbivvarvolate of swls —vraised up suw~and curbuolic wud tu thelr eilevt upon cuntaglous Claeases 15 only vbe of degrve and ot of hind, ple wun abd tie physichan geeatly by uot unly relying uston bis spoontul dose, Whith the child misy tuko or re- Jeet fu part of cutirely, whea the phvaldun is 1oy ty Llane for its lack of efect, but by chaige ing thic stmosphery of the sdek-roow eo tull ot vapors of curbolic wchd that st cach breath the © s patient Inhiales a emall amount of It with the ar, whith by this very adl1 vapor loacs all eapae- lle for Increasing thc discase. The gering of Afzease floating Inthe air are killed more cer- tainly by tuls vapor than In the system of the patient by the smatl dose of medicine, which It Is safc to aiminister, and where (n the dircased part of the system e~ new, powerful rop of diserse germas is proluced and hidden in the ayatem, where the temedy may not reach, nnchanped. Many objet to the ador of cart bl - ncid. ft 15, however nnrh::mnt, not only preferableton coflin with all the heartuclcs thia Tcaves bebdnil, but it can reardily be mixed with eoloute to RUIL every taste, 80 as fo com- pletely e Its exlor, to which aty one suon he- eones used, T arld should’ not be used r‘larlnuly. shneey woll diluted, there s no posst- Ple harmi dn it T ts heet todiszalve n}iull 1 of e cryetallzed acid inoa pailful of water, Atter stiering (L sbould be left to eettle and onlg the watery folitio the ton should b Mse tis rhould Ve osprinkled on o car- pris, bedclothies, or pay or el sat- urated with it should e euspendel In the room, A dish full shontd con-tantly stand upon the sLove, £0 83 10 vagorize gud lHi the romn, ea that the air §s Imoreza el with It Apint of thixwatery solution shonld he yvaportzed foa room of ordffiary Wity fnp houire, when the phe o Wil thod Bis tadimn b cusler, The undis.oived etrong a 1 ite hute tow of the pudl shoabl be mixe] with an alate tonal quaniity of water, wiwn the ficst solutin in extiausted. “As a prophyket his rarcdy fails alr 15 keptwell clarzed with 5 and er there (3 the least chanee of danger th Tamigation should Le tosorted toat once fulr whithout stut, as no bt can come {rom b Heobuctfully yours, Huecrr, SIMPLE RUGGEITIONS, Ty *he Ifitor of The Tritune. ENaLesoou, Jan, 3, —Sywpathy for afilicted muthers Induses e to offer u fow slmple Inex- venrive sugistions, which, from. experience, 1 have wleancd, and by sucesstal treatraent An afliem, without waiting to be Tudorsed by the doctors’ “diaznocds," a2 almust n certaln cure forthe complunts specitied.. The method Iy wmple, practie: eomwmon fense,—the best of mirsing proving inore of silent physiclans. My tiuined maturity and varicd flla to which Child- et the fact, uy soun s the symptomns develop §ahould use s tont-bath of wart nus- terd-water, Tuen plave the patient w Ded, Tukes a large tanuel ol of some rort,—if uo el s ut hand use half an old slect,—~fold threa or four Hies, cip In- very warn_or ot saleratus-water, aud apply all over the chest aml adnlomn, as s cati Le borne, Theu cover with i thickly-iolided dey cloth,or woolin, whi i I bettury repeat the dipolig in wartn water fatnlly of nls, who passed thruulsin L Boud floet in bk Tu weariet fe: every hottr or two untif the rah I3 eotleely out. Wrap well with the belclotalaz, - Next. ddip a anielhaudaie, i Kly foldelsuhs moisture, I tepld or (ol appiv to the throat, where ety Pepeathie as often ns ne e Inzwitla dry clotin Tae thow tne Y zantie ry, Wil covers rome satfron ML DS will a teaof i, wll- Admin- ISLEF ILWATI, 1) oderale quatlity, every halis Lour or su unt.d the rash aopears all over” from el 1o fo ot ICwill sarely senld it out, it per- severcd fn, Continug 2 the sailrou alter raso 15 out in occasional doses untl the tlith Bhoutd th wistant use of v Lundage upon the throat dive Atebiong, e wwhil snd rub ihie part with ofl or giy. e It i3 of the ut- most importance Lo ke 5 up tie fomentation that part, as tho dises e to concentrat 1 voien it s by the old nawe ui Ive water to dnn il desire L Weta vloth by cool water, and pis.e upun the head and temples. and repeat the 1z 1oTe {0t B 12 CaniLY iR no neats ade istor @ cathartic unil the le, o KKil, s to seale o!f, at whih t little pa- L 13 greatly rebeved by being gently wipad T Witlt 4 soft cloth wet [ wartis saleraiuse water, Which not only partiles the <5, bt pre- Veuts tne particl ifnated anout the bed aud roui Puace a Inttie chlosate of putashiin u glass or cup, to which add sutfi- cient cold water for a gat Put o few drops In o teasion, athy and let e run duwn the thr Voo et the i piig of cluths ireques a4 it uliays the fv aned operates s steatn Waald Upon an iivicnt fire. But water ang way and any Bow §3 Vatidue ble, Very ditde biod is ueeded for tive daye, which sliiald consist of toass aned the Jtke, I sl quan sueets every day shonhi be made, aud el g umlerdar hoat catition it b used [ eaposing the body to the airwhile the rash 8 out, AdWava keep 8 portion of the oy covercd while maging the o y Which houlil be raplaly performed, romn not be kept too wari, but fr thron e Crevice @ p tiet Wili ot be expused. thust be used to prevent taknz e fead the rashoanand geneeally pro Keep the ra hoon the sura cand the throat wet #0 a3 £ prevent suppurativn. and b most wases, If tiot all, the sloic wall recover. Alter tae ith day some cathartic will be neededy ol which de- odurlzed eas il I doses o one two toaspounuis, suited to 1 warmed in a lttle milk, T consuber most ellicicions. Ouions uscd frecly b any furm ail ln preventing coata. ions (don't Taugh), slled and distribul about the rounl, bouse, oF Jeraun, will prove valuable, I would not fear smali-pox with their presence, [lang them o the pooin, carry them any way, und vat all you can daring the preva letice 01 o contasion. In winter everybody shoutd make free usc of that vesetable, as i3 ageeat blesstog, Fheabove sim no matter how many * pathol i ul " yuu iay employ—wiil effect snore fav results than wll their peliets anlidrugs. nur-ing, with beat ol care, remicuber, only SUrEs sl Taken | hat fearful dtecase, 1i; bt y easily sublucd, and th it Gl <o great oty irom tit dise Is tuat people wuit too Jonz betore dufnzs an thimz The nse of wet bandages, quite thick, about the throut, 8 the safest ren eser rivid, und alw, with yucveds, for [ have ot o clptug hand (0 frivinds wit that dire d aease, Use salt and water, tepld of cool; keep the wet auth covered with dry. Receat orten as the bandagre ety very wari, say cvery hali-bour, i the patlent be awake, 2le with ehlorate of poash and fron to sustaly streng.h. Tue potash destruys the faise membrane wiich suddenly forms over the wind- plie. I the putient Le too young towargle, put i ltitle, say @ teaspoonful, m the mouth, amd let run down the throat. The disvase tal in tine amd thus treated wil be readily enred, Wet the head often, and bathe off the surface a4 I r*scarlatin!” One wonl about the croup. Use *Hive Syrup,” and, where there are lietle ones, [ be of mutuers never to be without It, as It aects prumptis, atd gaves Hfedn most caws! Give ten or ditecu drops every titeen or twenty mla- utes until the child throws off the mu, in { as it avaln Lorms repeat as required, The ob- Produce nauses, whb b counteracts the Cover the entire chest with (lhsten 2y hoand roar of the *Angina petoris™ 8 woose-oll=hored, oldfasuonad [t can be found; if not, use laad. uf rasted onion upon the fect, and of the ~ame, made vilatavle’ by a fittle sirap, (o doses of a few drps, to keen the collee ot uens foe, e reinetes are forea Fvctthmer 2l srreat antely and te only to aothers my slagle les Lot thse lausl whu wha," and, If the nieds fautey woald foe o #1, EVUREAT wred ant fos, e saddeacd heart or Sing them Lo, Exrziiasce. B Th the Kt of The Tridune. Foxp ot Lic 2M.—1 have read the artlele vmtbe s arie v oduvoar raperof the 3. D, orizinal discoverer of the e cre-bit i3 due to blu, 48 only for bringm miatter to the notive of the public at the p thne. Thousands ot parents wilibiess the nate ot Dy Becte, and with st aiise. Fhare nra; rers of dipsivena o tlils secine Lot s tear e azuiu, et us rave vue waeiie wnat prescut fout ot tae mulituae space for the fow Ciodars wh to the di>out they clai to hay Dot apiear to bive mule reat use of. the ductons expluis whby thius is 0 I thev can, A Paussr. DU LEEUE. To the Eitor of The Tridune. Caieaco, Jun. 2—AL mtelligent Americans have becn surprised aud chugnoed bevause * by hook er by ¢vooi ' our vountry has dritted futo such a complication, fwbroglio, or *pelitieal wuddle " wany way el it Iuhas voctiuued 20 lon, and the subjiet Las becutng so stale, that pevble ouly’aveztly acin i whois ; uinz to * by next Preseleut ! uud sre wa ting for so uo pow wuddle to tura up, and berw wis shave of & medical nwddle, wnd D, Beebs aud Tus Cicaco wv respobsible for it TRIBC N Lol basis o Nt uver the bistory of this @ ;{rcn. eause for alarm, as it {s ohvions nt only a very rmnll ‘rtly can_possitly be- come seilansls efcted by T and that 18 tho “ regrular profession ! Hecause Dr. leehe hay not permitted himself or hia booka to grow rusty, hut has brought forth an ol remedy,' and out of the kindiess of his hieart has given to a anflering_ community the benefit of his vatuable cxperience, what haven't they said! One envious caustie '+ Dooe tor ** in larf Tuesda Trintxe eald they all © Jaughed and roaret.” They can continie, If they think it appropriate, when so many honse- holds are turued into mourning. ‘The goo Baok ga “« thefr ~ works “ ve shall ] in awe," y in awe of a ¥ professlon® that claims to have known the retedy for years, and yet did not use it f death was at the door are to convene again Satue- hey ehould comblne, aml u 1l 2 1o aupolnt that uncomfortabl tor ' us 4 Modical Editor " of Tie Trisuss for Ife, ko that herealter, fn its zeal to make known afe wud 81 eedy remedy o save the dear Tanscuishing chllren, it can possivly make no tiistake, ond will not Ygive to the public old things as I1 they were aew !t Then all the “rezular profesdon ™ will fe I neh cod roar, and they e, Bee- what about bimi Tuer joors aml epi ts athount to nothing, Bueh avpellations ng “ipostor, fgnoranns, and Mart" can do him 10 e sstble fnj as daone what Lie eonuld, —hits whih duty, Let hlm goon i tonor of his way, and he shall con- Ty re cive encomluins and thanks from a 1 preie, ond nt last the weleome plau- Well doue, good and fuithful servant,” AUNT SALLY, ARBOLATE. r of The Tritune. Cueaco, fan, 2. wevalence of searlet cr in our midst, attended as it has been by agreat mortality during the last three months, hia= naturally awakened the most earncst anx- fety at fts’ contiuance aud progress, and ls bednning to create o lively discusdon a3 to the possibility of its preventlon, curtailment, and ewful treatment. In a0 far as this discusrion mnay Jead to a sizer understanding of wdk that has so frequently proved to be aterrible seourse, and i so tar as I may awaken In the minds of both physicien anid prople more correct. ilens concerniniz the sate, it #hould be entered into with the most zealous well-wlahes, and b the most on-partican All effurts honestly put forward in this dices lllun must clain At Jeast the recognition they deserye, It is poasible, however, for the most well- meant wivice to fall of Ita arcomplishment s and especially s when coming na s specitic from u tedical fource throngh u public pewspa. per to the peaple. Far be it from the apirit of the writer to cust any dbscredit upare uny bene- fits that. mizhit %o abtatu at this tUme, but, In justice to tuat profession of which I'am praud tobe an himble member, fean but feel that misconiuptions concerning it efforts and dill- gence have recently been ereated fn this way, 1 fore trust you wilt permlt, throuzh a-like el an equal freedom In restifvine them, wople have been lad to bélleve that a new discovery has heen recently made,and that, througa muzh personal telal dnd experiment, at last an agent has been found in the “silpho- arbolate of soda® which i« not only a perfect preventive of scarlet fever, but ia also a sale and cortuin cure for this dread disease fn all ts forms. And in conpec- tion with this the medical profession i3 ehided for lack of dilizence tu discovening this sgent, ar, having dircorcred i, fn ot using [t. ‘The awpho-carbolate of soda la, however, by nn means a new or unfamiliar agent. It i3 spaken of in the United States dispensatory of oid date, and is composed, 8 has been stated fironzh yourcolumns, of the sulphite of sodaund carbolie ackl.~—two azents long In us: both sena- ratelvand {o combiustion. Juringthe winterfol- lowlngs tue great fire, wienour city was infested with almost ail the coutazious direascs that flesn I8 Deir to, I know of this remedy, a8 com- Blned, bein used quite extensively du the treat- taeut of £.arlet fever as woll us suall-fhox, T resd at that time did net establish it as anpecdlic, In mome rases it appeared < u ueeful reaedy, while In others it ex- erted no spparent favorable Influence, A it s well as belladonna has nd the statistics have villing - econviction tost these sigents cunnot e relltd upon, particularly swhen The il azont s aire 15 enterad (e kyae tem. When wo eome to vousliler that eertatn praportion of versons do not coutract garbet lesur, howover great the expasure, we are left with no duts fur correct]ly ecertaning the nume ter of p rsed at any purticalar tine VF L3 W arally fususceptible, Satis- La-tory pro e preventive powers of theso rents ter fore requetea that the nmber of ires whall not e Jaree, as they have more than vate been proved 1o Le, under fafr . But as the popular mind has been directed 1o this que-tinn, the wi-hes of irnends are often buttier patisied I the rentedy be used, and, given in pr ~timter the care of & tedleal at- fendant, thety uizht 1o be 1o evil Cutisequences arsine therefrm. 1t 18 always cmearrasslog at atime like this, of pulie daneer and anxiety, to sk In any uncertain totcs regurding the foacy of an azent which has been ro promie intely Offvred 10 the treatment of scarlet fevers butie 1« the trutn we are after, and (f we shall we alidl find that it i not the tiest tune a =pe. B L forward with cqual usucance, A spectil: which, in e laagnage of 114 distingulshe ed author, 18 a remedy whish woubl control and neatralize tue that nizhit be ad- nminfstered safely ot #tage of the fever: that at the carlicst dawn of the camplaint mizht be euneadered 1 preventive. an't acertaln cure in more advanced stazes, Inoa word, that would acwder ~arlating une of the Altzitest of human anlictions, fustead of belng, as it presenis. wat of the grestest of maladive’ Ineso are the glowmg words of Prof. Erase 1mits Wilsun emeeraing the earbunate of am- (uild as @ apeitle, and he fs aupporicd I this theory by others of is time enjoring a like utation. Aml vet thne. at whose altar all corfes must stand or fal, has abundantly onstrated fte Inorrectiess. Such promise ing statements ba proved delusive in the pasty does ft not behoove us to Jook on both ahles of the subject, lest by undue haste we be Il dnto comuntting T a grester error than that we would avold! The fact woubl appear to be that scariet fe is an epldeml and cuntaglous varsing so much I chasacter at ditfercut 1 and places a3 1o render the degrie of ita nur- tality, vven in the zame place and utder the uplan of treatient, exoeadinzly varvings, and rezular vises are rarely rave und Gialiguant t§pes are ox eedtngly werolia, It §s 4 diseads that preseats itsed? ju =0 many modifiations and forme that it would ap- pear Lo ne fully th expect 10 weet them all with any single speal tase iy lkely th presont a study by it selfyand it is a Wise aldadtation of means 1o ends, o sKiful attendan e unon the symptoms 4s they apiear, thit elevates the physician atnve the level Of empirihim. As to the prop- agation of the discase, it has been thoteughly demonstraced 1o be from contagions and epl- entlad nature of the pulsou, picars prolable that it fs contadn o, priaie- tions of the shiu and mouth. e viras way be finbibed or var- fon.tes frmm One pur=on Lo au ther, oir chief relian ¢ ki vhe King the progress of the e ar T be i Tati afectauts. Uscan J. Prics. ANOTHZN HEVEDY. To the &Eduor of The Inodune. CHeA6o, Jan. G~ Whiic vthers are contrib- erizneey and wake adto the edre and preventin er g little wmite, Loping cans of doinz § god 1 s of vur vty who are als n the vorzex of 4 ter- oldentle, Alout thedrst day of Deveme Lurlast two of wy children were taken down th the fever, vie uf the cases e retarsas are now in derfect healtt, Tae flres srted Lo, aid persistently fatlows: L ture betladosng, B L conite, Jiterualag overy Bour i duses for 4 chid Lonn 1to 3 vears, halturops B tedsooeelul of water, aud o [rua 3t 10 svws, onc drope svoidieg all warm Urinke, bat Zwinz ull the cold water” withis ti e Lodinds of Bson desirad by the pationi. For ore LUTat (Wicn aiwidss decompanies the & 'y B li-lour, until tie dame to sutmide, 4 1y s uf sarict tever, 1o hat It iy be th Lelialf of the Ht buras, i « ety vl v ¢ ahl, ten F white el the u Ay Wita tieture badae crery boar fierai sywptums b isap EWing aiso the o ur three times s seaspoon doses dttute acdd, »sy tau drovs 14 gidss ol water. vasent whould be kept b wari, well-veat- Latid rouin. 18 rash taes it apnearauce from e e of wld ks, rub the entire Ludy at Jeast twoe @ day wita sweee o, o fresh La-du 2ixl w omuall quanticy vole nid and Vitre of acouite. A 1aust b avoids wd, to resuit, and rel as little buoeut 15 1 Rely i3 G be groatds dreatid As & Dreven ave 1 know of nothing wore rell- But there I3 no | able than varbudy s, wssaluiudy, dud cawmpbor unn;leruly.d %' little der mmhl be satorated enough aud y containing soma {nert ast-named” medicines, .. saturated with carbolic ‘actd (nof to make a fid or soft solid worn around the neck constants - 5y belng resatorated whenayer neceds > Numerois nersons have resarted 1o thls mea of prevention, and I_know of no_fnstanco in which it hos falted. During the fiiness of m: two cluldren, thers were thres otber chldren {3 Iising In_my house on anothor floor, whose pas :, rents were perfectly confident that they wonld contract the discase. Precantlonary mensares were promptly resorted to, howuver,—catbolis acid belng used frecly as a disinfectant, (n eome * nection with the little boya abova mentioned. - ‘This family fs still at my houce, and, aithongh \ eommunicatlon hetween the Lwo portions of lgc o house was never absolutely cut off, the children have nat had the fever, ¥ I betiore that wherever the preventivo and vurative meantres which T have suggested may be emplove ! only guod results will be agtatned ! XU NER. 1100 fudlana avenuc. SCARLLZ FRYER AND DIPHTHERIA, o the Kdltor of The Tridune, CHicano, Jan, 27.~The statement of your yesterday’s paper, raying that I tried to craw! 2 out of my prior statement that belladonos 3 killed all my gnllcnta, Is untrue. Inreply [ will state that I was misunderstood, Beinz a furele it is diflicult vor ing tu CXPress mys #ell in English. 1 have treatad over 150 casas bl ’ scarlet fever aud diphtherla from Bepts 19, 157, + ° upto- date, and Tonly lost ol that. niimber scven cases, under my treatinent, in that time, 23 the record of she Buard of Jfealth wiil shows Yours, Wiseiaw M. Wike, M. D, DRLLADONXA, 2 £ To the Editor of The Trisune. CH1cAGo, Jau. 27—1 writa to correct a states % ment lu rezard to Dr. Condu's value of bellas donua as a prophylacticin scarlet fever. Ha daes not belleve in it, and expresres himself gs fole ' lows: He “never found It to exert the alights 28 st Influcnce In mitheating the character or pre- = venting LcLl‘l"; o?nmw&n of 'wl;um lcve;l." s ¢ was quoled In the meeting of homeopathic ph; ! slcians as advising jts un:? lé. W, E" 1 s horsdocd O A Young Girl Uses » Plstal, Inayton (0.) Democrat, Thursday evening appears to liave been pros Tifle of plsiol practlce by ladies who sought to protect themeclyes from the assaults xnd insults of lnafers. An bour or two after Frankie More ris! shooting aflfalr on Fifth séreet, two youns ladles, while possing the cormer of Third any Hears strects, were sccosted by a number of Joafere with, as they claim, indecent Ianguage, The ladies sereamed for assistance, when one of them, namerd Mary White, was siruck by one of . the party of roughs. Bhe s & plucky little Iady, and promutly pulled her littlo pistol and fired Into the mob, Lut, we are informed, did not hit any of them. The young women then lwc‘r; 5’rermltled to proceed. without further mo- eatation. < e — TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY, Lfiooma. Occupanta, CIARTER OAK LIFF (Intursnce Dep't.), ) RENT. IN & WALLACE. J. T. DALR. . R WATUIL-CASE MAN'FG COMPARTY, 5 ROBIINS & APPLETON, 0. SEW YORE WATCH COMPANY, 7. T RENT, K WAL C, DOV, A.J, BROWN. W.RODBIXE . WRIGHT & TYIRELL, 10. 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