Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1877, Page 2

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. Some Pleasant Reminiscences of the Charming Poet. A Quiet Day at a Seaside Fishing Resort. Tho Poet's Comments on Tom Hood, Campbell, and Other Writers, . Entortaining the Company with Pleasant Readings. Charles Dickens’ First Visit fo Amerlco, and His Comments, The Banguet Given to Him by fhs Club of which Halleok Was a Member, Special Corretpandence of The Tribune, NEW YoRE, Feb, 14.—A short time since I fell belr to a desk which had long been used by the literary cditor of one of ourcity journals. In one of the drawers there was a ot ot dust-cov- ered manuscripts, which bad been ‘orerlooked Dby the former user of the desk, Theso manu- scripts were such a8 had, for eome reason, been rejected by the editor, but preserved for their authors, who had never enlled for them. In glandng over them I could but commend the judement of my predecessor, which bad canaed him to roject these communleations, and, to get rid of them, I cousigned’ them to tho fames, preserving one only, This wasa lengthy com- munication entitled * A Day with Fitz-Greene Halleck,” which scemed to me to contaln mat- ter too Interesting to bo consignodto the fames. It had probably been lald asido because of its length, and the editor never found time to candense ft. There was no clew to the aathor’s name, ft probably having been - sent with a privato note to the editor.: T proposo to “edit? this communication, prescrving such yortions as I think will be of intcrest to the many fricnds of the genal poet. I mako this explanation In fustice to the writer of the communication and to myself, for I bave no e of belng captured with stolen goods In ny possession. Should the author recognize his ar- ticle, ho may thank me for hiaving prescrved 8o muchof It as follows, Now to the ablrevlated slory: A DAY WITH FITZ-GREENE ITALLEOK, 1t Btony Creck, Conn., wero famous for no other fact, Its name Is worthy of remem- branco as tho whilom piscatorial resort of the wversatile, gental author of Marco Bozzaris, Tho Creek, which is, Indeed, a very small villsge on Long Island Bound, above New Hayen, and not a- creek at nll, had at that timo a single ‘house of entertalnment, cleanly and snug of ns- pect, kept by s grizzly contennarian, originally of Rhode Island, named Douglass. This curious old fellow had scen George Washington, John Han- cock, and Franklin In tho last ccotury, and somewhat bonstfully naed Lo say that, old as hie wras, he bad rather have had this so than to live snother bundred years without having enjoyed that privileges Stephen A, Douglas, he eald, ras, perhaps, the sccond coustn of some of bis great-great-grandchildren. Bomc of his own children he had not secn since his 50th year, and knew not whether they were Uving or dead. At the inn of this sturdy old relic of Revolu- tionary times, Fitz-Greeve Halleck, who ever sought ont and made a study of singular cliar- acters, was wont to stop for a few weks’ recrea- tlon, running down from his homo at Guilford in order to break through tho routine of a thoughtful life by fndulxing 8 wholesome appe- tite for catching Osh, and in the casier pastime of cating them alterward, or vice versa, when donetoaturn by thoaccomplished colared cutloa~ ry artlst of the Stony Creck Hotol, whose name, llke many & more or lcas deserving brotber, ducs not survive, The writer, while wearing out an uvertoug vacation, chanced to arrive nt this creck, and was rewarded for his secming Inolatlon by Liaving A DAY'S 8PORT WITH TOP POLT, = quict fish dinuer, ond an extremely cotertaln- iz cvening 1o his cheerful company, It was duriny the month of August, 1502° Without entering upon a description of the day's fishing, «rof the bountiful and most excellent dinner which fullowed, perhaps a few Jovideots of the evening, aud bricl notes of tho poct’s conver- satlon, mayg not rrnve uniuteresting. But flrst to describe’ Mr. Halleck's tout ensemblo as 1t was In those later days of his life. About five fect seven {nches §n “helght, & well-presirved figure, with frank, jovial, twinkling eves, clean- cul festures, a woll-trlnimed bearil of dro ray, and ‘‘the sweot demeanor of u gun- eman,”’ thers was no mistaking Yis natlve Hght to wesr tho Imperlal purpf ot enius. In dress it was needicas to deny that e poet was no dandy, A shilllog straw Lot sheliered his tmmortul crown; it was a bat far 1rom new,—indecd, seedy; black clothes covered his sightly frame, and a bagey blue cotton um- brella, of the famlly sort, served the double urpose of support In fair weather and ahielter n & storm. But, with it all, the shaliby gentie- man’sairwas that of the grand seiznlor, elegant, superlor, patronizing to strangers, but warm and confiding, trustful to a degres when the lco hud been broken aund the stranger bud become a friend. He looked to bs about three acore, and was a8 sun-burned and brown as bis own Indian bero, Red Jacket. When the poet set out to talk, and *‘untled the strings of his tongue,” he #o0n briskly warmed to hls work, nod his words flowed like the mountain torrent, fluently, yluebnll,y. most musically, W“u‘.l deligh ul spirit aod sparkle. It no e sggeration of speech to say thut his auditor was apeil-hound for the nonce by the aaly oloquence and baylsh en- thusiasm of the goct‘n converse. 8ald_he, fancing out at the darkeoine scene, “Bluo ficy and blug waterare tha best things In tho world to drive away the bluca, NATUBS I8 ALL DBAUTY, and euch surfciting beauty! Field, fell, and rusty heather<coated lillslde mado Lurns siug -ndli{mn write. They couldn't l’lulR it. Poor ‘Tom 1ood eaw quite too lttle of them for his own welfare, poor fellow! and the good ot bis duns. As a consequence, bis bubbling humor was dasbed with drops from Lethe's fountaln. ‘The aln of the clt{‘ disturbed him, and turned his bumor lnto pathos nost pathictie, but these twio goddesses gavo him genlus and made his name immortal. His lizht guitar becamo au Alolian harp, tosfuhln the uight-wind to the song of his jaughter, Iood was tho sweelest of sungsters.’ “Who {a your favorite poet, may I usk, Mr, Hulleck Well, sir, Campbell Is my favorits. He iy 80 crisp and concise, 140 hias tho air inllitalre, He was tho poct of sew unil land,—the Nelson and Wdlington of Britlsh battle puesy. Yes, Campbell Is wy pet, 1 belfeve,”? UALLEOK THE POKT, AND MALLECK TUE GEN- Ly zita At this ttimo of my visit to Btony Creek the War waa ut its Lel<it, aud the patriotc poct watcbed the atrugeie with the greatest {uterest, The conversation turming In that divection, Mr, Hadeck said: 1 wus u vieltor at West Polnt wany years ugo. (ien. B.ott rode slde by sice witl'me along the llne of gray cadets. When ulieast of a youth of 20, sliw anud straight, Uen. Bt pulled up und gafds *ialleck, there 1s o nunesaheuf youre.! Sald1; 4G al, Lo great Iy konu 1 hope Lo will do me credit! Boott replicd: 10 ha pops ot powder as ensily ay od pop ofl poeary, helll bea Ueuvral yet! That youn;s geut.einan, nuw no longer young, is Gen. Henry Wuger Haileck, just gone to Wash- 4o to fuke Cowwosud of the” Army of the Potomac” TOE TOET A5 A READER. One of the munthly magezines tor that month contained @ pleasant ekercd ol u )fterary clab of by-gune days, of which Halleck Lad been a mewber, T artlde, 1 thivk, was from the facile penof the lute Lewls Guylord Clurk, 3ir, Hullecs bad not yet seen tbe articte, so I bad Lo pleasure of panding it to b.un. Suwwe sute mer guests ot the hovee now came intu the roum, und oue or two uf these with whum he was fawilfar drew up around bim aud weked Liw tozead the articde alouds Pleased at the complimest pald Lim, sud fosplred by tle restDuo 0 ladics, bu at ouce’ asscuted, saying, 0 & Lumurous tmauner, thut {I be had been called upou for & suuy bie nhuuld}pve pleadud o bad cold, fv the usual style; or & story, that he didn’t Enuw eoy; bub ws lur seading unotier’s n,«uulnnl be felt quits equal 3o the task, hank Gou! W hcn:u{:ou Mr, talleck read tue skewh quite plrough, with murked emplasis and offedt, puusivg ut tle uawe of esch well- kuowa or Mudly-remcmbered dub-wale to m{ & solemn tibute to tle daw, er to speak a peotle, graceful wora of tug uflu& He read with ousidersble teellng, for the sul deet was dear to bis wind aud wemory, aud, at the close, at our roauest, recited his own loes upon thedeath of Joseph Rodman Drake— ! Green f'e the tarf abova thee, Friend of my Letter days: None knew tliea but (o lova thee, None named thea bat to pratee,™ 28 & fittinz termination of this review of old, Tamiliar, fricndly faces, with a tearfol eye and a trembling volce, No'one whowas o forinnate 28 to witness 1t will soon forget that touching scene, And now the ewcet poact, whose words welistened to with such _rapt attention, has ne to join the friends of bis youth whom he laved so welll HALLECK AND DICKENS. The game ciub of Jiteratl mentioned in the magazine article which Mr. Halleck so touch- fogly read to us had evtercained Charles Dick- cas upon Lia first visit to America, Before re- tiring that night nt Stony Creek, Mr. Halleck referved to the Inclident ‘ns follows: I well remember,” he satd, *the night we gavo Dickens a dinner, Our_ narrow _apartments were more than full, crowded to sulfocation. It was at first declded bo invoke the ginceful pres- cuce of the fair sex, but, happily remembering that ¢ Boz! was an Englishman and might find it convenlent to glide under the table ¥ in the wee ama' hours,’ twe vetocd the bill, and or- dered the botties, Therefore, wlien woe per- ceived that bie remained mxpccublr sover, we mourned, alus! too late, the jrretriesable ab- renee of the Jadies, Nobody would go under the table on this intercsting occasion, hut every- hody, * Buz ? Included, wonid Tament the omfs- eion, Flnally soine uvhe eadly proposed the ro- minding toast: ¢ Gentiemen, the Ladles!® which was drunk in bumpers. Then Dickeos oL us off b{ roposing: * Gentlemen, tho ba- bies!'and hilarity reigned thercalter,” Con- tinuing the themo, Mr. Halleck sald; *Wewere rathier chagrined when Dickens published his “Notes’ and his novel to find no mention of our club, and I, for one, was pained beyond ex- preatfon at reading ¢ Martin Chuzzicwit,’ for It did seem ungrateful, but I trust in m heart that Chatles Dickens will apolorize for {t betore he dies, forthesake of hisown faie fame among 8o many warm friends In this mllnlr{. { believe he will yet do so from the depths of his honest_naturel” How well this priphecy was fulfilted tho world knows, and Chatles Dickons ishetter loved because ho had tho conrage to ninke that apology, It was observed that Mr. Hallevk’s manners to lades was that of a Mar- quis of the old regime,’ urbane, ‘Ynllnhed, def- crentlal. To all ho was affable and kindly, and no one who met him in his later days but will cherish a pleasant recollection of hllklmllx Lear- fng aml charltable nature, while the *green tur'l " gladdens the place of this sivcet poet's rest. ‘Thus ends lhnrlrmmt postipof the unknown chronlcler, and alxo the Jetter ot Dot MONTANA., Legal "Luminartes—Mountaln Slang—The Ratlrond Question, Bpecial Correspondence af The Triduna. Hawana, M. T., Feb, 8,~In Montana, ss in all new countrics, ono oceaslonally sees queor speclnens of humanity occupying judicial positione, especlally fu the lower courts. Bome of these gentry rival the far-famed Charles O'Malley or Justice Banyon, withwhoso brililant decislons many of your readers are acqualnted. T heard oneJustice of the Peaco say, with a modesty notlike cither of the above named- gentlomen, that it was unfortunate that such poor timber was usnally ‘selected to make Justices from, but ho should do the best he could. Another Justico, who had a case befors blm wherein & physielan had sued a Jew cloth- fug merchant for the payment of profcsslonal services renderedd, interrupted the counsel in the midst of a rather leupthy speech, and addressed tho jury os folluws: ¢ “(eutlemen of theJury: Yo aro allawarcthat T occipy the rispralblo positivn of Justice of the Pace. Ye aro also awarc that I am o United States official, bein® the Postmssterof this eamp. ‘The wail Las now arrived, and It ls nlclisary that I should commince mo arduous labor of dia- tributing it. This caso Is one between a doctor and a Jew, and It makes little differcoco how ye deddoit.” ? 4 New comers to this country ars often puzzied by what Dret Harts calls * sabre-cuts of S8axon speech.” A German barber, who had opeued & stop In Deer Lodge, was accosted by his first customer with “Do gou shave on checkl'” “Certalnly, I shavo on de cheek. Where clse would 1 ‘shave{” "th no; 1 mean do you shave on jaw-bone?” *'Of course, I shave de Jaw-bone. £ shave do whole face.” An inter- proter had to e called befure the barber coutd by to understand that bhis customer wanted credit. ‘I'ng truusition from * jaw-bona”’ to a Mon- tana Legielature ts » most vatural ous. Our Solons’ strong point is not grummar, as will be seen from the fuct thst they bavo recontly pnas- ed an act, which has received the Governor's signature, and s, mnlequcnuy. VoW o law, clianging the nume ol the * Littie Big Horn o “ Custer's River,”” in commenioration of the Nt **where himself and his brave men fell,” ‘Fiie muat Important matter botore this sesslun la the railroad question. The pcople, alinost without exceptlon, are desirous of rallroad cone uncetion with the reat of the country, but thero sro so many contlicting loterests represented in thio Legialature that it Is doubtful woetner any act can be passed that will accomplish the de- sred reeult, ‘Yhree schemes ure presented. One {8 to bulld a railroad from the head of navigation on the Yelluwstoune River to a polnt 300 mlics weat, following the proposcd lue of the Northern Pacide Rallroad, &ud 'to grang the partios building same a subaidy of $1,500,000, Mesare, Coulson & Co. submit a proposition to bulld and equ.p, within two years, for o subsidy of §50,000, 8 nurrow-gauge road frum Helena to Fort Uenton, tha hicad of vavigatlon on the Mlssouri River, This road would” be_sbout 140 milea long, Mesers. Oliver Ames, E. Atkivs, Bidney illon, Jay Gould, G. Gordon Dextar, B, Richardson, and Royal M. Bussett propuse’ to bulld and cquip a narrow-gauge road from Franklin, L°T,, the present termlous of the Utah Northern Rallroad, to a polnt in Montana 88 ar north 0 tho mouth of the Big lole liver, The length ol this road would be 400 winlvs, ex- tending about eighity miles withio the Toeritorial lmits, “and they usk a subsldy of §3,000 per wmile; fu alt, $1,500,000, “Thie el '& Benton Raliroud fs the pet scliemna of the two places named, and, In o leas degroe, of the wurlu 1 the vurtheru portion of Montana, but ls bitterly o|qulcd by tho other sectious ot the Territury, "It would undoubied- ly benetlt felena aud Fort Benton, and, in a lesn degree, other portfons of Moutana, pro- vidert It ¥bould be built, =1‘|qu sud worked, At beat, Bowaver, it would wilurd puly partial relief, as boats un the Missourt River could not reach Fort Benton durlng morethan tive months In tho yearat the very outslde, and gontlemon well posted 1 rallroad matters say that, under taose circumatances, tho road would not pay TULNIDE eXpunses, ‘Fhe fusd trom the head of navigation un tho Yelluwstano River woald bo rather more bene- fictal, but le open to the same ubjections, Gen, Staris, Vice-Fresident of the Northern Pacllic Hailroad, has telegraphed that §f the LI fa pussed that Company will do all In its power to build the road. Of course, that wrlmmlan is tho ooly une that woulil burld jt, but its finan- clul condition 1a well known, end the above plrumh:u is uot worth the cost of ita transmis- slon. The North & South Raliroad, as ft fs com- monly called, would be the oae most beneficial ta the generul futcrests of Montana, . Although extending only u short distunce within the Ters ritory, 1L wouid give direct »all rall ¥ communis cutlon with ull pares of th tand West, aud Its temporary terminus wanid be within tifty or slxty miles uf the Lest miuing districts,~thoss which would produce the most ore and bullfon for shipment, "1t would uleo he very near some of the best stock-raising alstricts, Ouve bullt 1o this pout, it Is more than proba. ble that ouly o short timo would elapas Cum the man road aud branenes would extend to Helenn, Decr Ludgee, awd Vieginia City, the threa {wmfipnl towns in tue Territory, A leral gues- jon 18 fnvolved 25 Lo the right of the ‘Verr! tary to grunt o subsidy for the portn of the romt outside ol {ts lmits, but'itis prosablo that this could be arrunged by . reasing the subsiuy per mile within its bounidaries, or iu e otier way, It is probable the lil) to aid the North & Bunlh Rullroad will pass the L gislature, ‘Thla is a result to be devouttyy hoped for, MosTana. ——————— The Jews' Exemptiou from Epldewics, Wasianglon Stur, In tho casa of tie Loudon s:wall-pox cpidemis the rewariable fa.t Lts been noticed that ouly one case of this frighiful dicase has suguzéd the attenfon uf the uiedical utlicer of tue Jewlsn Buard o1 Guardiaus, Tho same ex.eptlon {rom epidemie diseases bas been notleed autong the Jews in ufl couutries, and [s attrivuted Lothe.r tnuds wi living, It Is an futercsting questiou In sunitury puint ot view to what extent mortalily {rom such dlscases may bolimited to pork-caters, Bilious discase 14 largely attridutable, it {s well kuown, t the use ol pork. But the Jows not only Tyt pork frow thoir dletary, but they ala0, under thelr religlous Jaw, exeridse extraof- dinary ware to seure tho weat of anlnals thay wre i nfier(eclly sound and hesltby condition when Killed, 10 our Washiugion miarkets, for iustance, they deal only with certaln butchers, who provide theus with weat frum anunaly eee lected nnd killed wuder the conditions of Jewish Tulea. 'lnlumbonl, ‘Rock." THE CHICAGU 'THIBUNE: MONDAY, CONSTANTINOPLE. The Trip Thither from Ports= mouth, England. 8yra and Chanak-«-Big Gnns and Lost Souls---Leander and Byron. Galata, and PerasesThe Celebrated Church of Sto Sophia. Dogs-~The Bazars-Allar of Roses--Narghalis and Chibonks. Spectal Correspondence af The Tritune, CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan, 10,—The old year bas dlcd out in this worn-out city, and the settle. ment of Turkey’s fate scoms as far off as when the armistice was first declared. - But ¢ is not about the political situation here that I proposo to write to-lay, Interesting and finportant though it be. The Golden Horn Issorarely visite cd by Americans that I have thought, in the far West of your new land, It may be & matter of interest and novelly to your readers to know something about the appearance and character Isties of this Eastern conntry, In the first pluce, MY EXPRRIENCH IN COMING NIERR was n pleasaut onc. Leaving tho vast dock- sards and naval arsenals of Portsmoutl, Enc., wa steamed vast Brighton, og the Isleof Wight, and saw the rools and walls of Oshorne Castle dlm and gray {n the background. Thenout Into the Eoglish Channel, down the const of France, Spafn, and Portugal, to tho varrow Stralts of Gloraltar, where, on the south, the bright light of bold Cape Spartel. flashes its rays ncross to the Jess powerful lcuson Tarifa Polut, as wo glided futo the unvexed waters of, the blue Mediterrancan, and saw the rugged out- lines of Gloraltar Rock fn the carly dawn., TVar off to tho mnorthwest was. tho mountain called Teabella's Chaln, where ono of Spaln's vindictive Queens {s sald to have taken her seat with a vow never to leavo 1t until the hated fag of Britain should be haul- ed down from tho Impreguable walls of “ The Alas, poor woman! sho faded futo her Rravo without evon the probability that the dis- taut future would seo her hopes roalized. PHOM GIDRALTAR TO BYRA, i In the Greclan Archipelago, we steamed without 8 stop; but, coal belng neccssary, our anchor was dropped luug cnough to_ Loatily 81l our bunkera with a vile mixture of dust and screeue inga. A quaint littlo epot ia this Syra, bullt on a small Island cunsisting of one bare, precipitous cak of rock. Yot It grows deliclous grapes - as Iz as plums, and the people are appurently moro contented in their fiith and beggury than many of uur well-to-do farmers, Tlie next polot of stuppage was an Inslznifl- caut village ucar the entrance to the Darda- nelles, called Chanak. Hers we Iay a week, ‘pending certaln diplomatic negotlations at Con- stantinoplo; and the liavee we created amon, the chilckons and cattle of that secluded spoi was fearful to witness. Even the gouta ald not escape tho ravages of our hunger, and we flnally became sccustomed to the “flavor. ‘But' this Chanak was not such an interesting spot after all. It was the former site of one of those a- mious forts of the foudal oges, mounting the LARGEST GUNS EVER KNOWN., . On.the Aslatlc slle some of these guns were still mounted, while othiers Lud been overthrown snd broken nP. I found a fragment In good preservation Iylog -pear the beach, and I was able tu crawl through -t without diffleulty, the hore being sbout twouty- five inches, This fragmont wes a sec. tion of the gun just abalt the ‘trunnions; and, s tho walls of mctal wera not over cight Inches thick, it was patural to belleve that the Em must bave bean qulto as dangerous to those hind as Lo those In front of it. Flitting up und down the Dardanelles aro in- numerable Hocks of birds, somewhat resombling ducks to tholr flight. Thoy slways form a lottor V. with one lcg ‘of the angle shorter thanthe other, and they -aro callod’ Lost SBouls by'the Turke, who say_that the souls of the damned az0 transformed into these birds, and that the; uro obliged to fiy back and foith In those stralth until tho Judgmont-Day; at any rate, they are never scon to Hght, : - Not far from Cbanak Is Bestos, whers| LEANDER AWAM THR HELLESPONT, and where Lord Byron afterward did the same. ‘The diroit distance betweon Sestos and Abydos in about threu miles: but, owling to tho current, the distance which they awam muat have boon elght or nine miles, rom Chanak to the Golden Horn thorun was made withoitt incident ; but, a3 we roitnded tho Old Serazlio, the scene wus onwof striking beauty. On the left lay Istunboul,—Constant|- nople proper,—hememed {n with quaint old sen- walls, browned with tho wear of centurfea; boe hind which surly aud ecowling Tarkish sontries paced, lazy aud'slovenly, Back of these low walls, rounding the whole of the bay (the Gold en Horn) betwaon Seraglio Polnt and Pera, lay tha city [n all its erotesque-comblnation of bazar, palace, harem, hovel, sml mosque; whila everywhere rose the tall minarei liko slendor spires, from which, ss the ® dipped the western horizon, rose the voive of the mnuezzlo, calllug the taltbful 1o evenlng raycr; and at once, all over this vast hive of uman belogs, es the shnll ery of the rl:;t o went out upon the alr, the atatesman anil Iaborer, the highest dizuitary and the lowest serf, faced toward the Eust, touched thelr fores beads to the ground, and repeated o *HALLAT IL ALLALL,Y and such other forma of prayer ns they deaired, ‘Then the hum of busy life, thecked for an fu- stant, yose wgain, sid the great city bogan prepare {or the rupidiy-advanciog night, On tho fartner aide ‘of the Golden Hom lay' tho modern City of Galata, chiely Inhablted by & betcrogeuoous population of Grecks, Jews, Albanians, Europeans of various natioualitics, and a amall percentugo of Turks, v Is the cummzrclnll.hmlnen rtton of Constantinopte, and, though called b{ distinct name locally, it forms & ¢omponen 8m ol tho Turklsh me- tropolls,—Istambovl, Galuta, avd Fers belug tha threo vitlcs waich {n tu make up the whole, which we call Cunatantinuple, The third city, Pera, crowns & hill back of Oalata, but cxtends also to the bauka of the Busphorus; and in this quarter ure the palaces and residences of the forelzn Ambussudors and Consuls. It was hero that the late Buitan, after the destruction of the old Yllll.'fl by tire, do- clded ta bulld his new seraglio anil palace, As our vessel slowly foreed ahuad against the curront, we passed between two coluuns of MASSIVE TURKISH IRON-CLADS, and finally moored ship oppusite the very por- tala of the Sultau's palace, which oceuples About B0 yardg of the river-front. Across the Bos- vhorus, looking through the rizglne nud spars of flobart Pasha's formidable flect, we could scc the white bulidings of Svutati, celehrsted as the formee aite of tho'allled armica’ hospltals in the Crimean war; and, dotting the slopes of the ad- Jucent hills, the gravestuncs of thoussuds of soldicrs marked the spot where, Aftor || Atfal fever, they sleep well, Itls but threo days sines [ landed herain Constantinople, and yet 1 havo sequ so mutch that [ am dazed when'T thiuk ot it. Of course [ wade a visit at ance to the celebrited CICRCI OF 8T, BOI'UIA, now used as a wmosuc. §was greatly digap- pointed fu lts exterunl appearance; fur) fu” the trat place, it s ditlealt to” outatn uny weneral view of It except from a distance,~resemblin 5t. Poter's at Howe in this reapact’ then, Loo, fi louks Tike such low, squatty nullJlnx that even its pecuifar {igit and wry but low dome docs not give it an atlructive appearance. The play of the church 43 10 the nhh‘ru ol adUreck cross, withvery tall and slender mbwrcts. ul cuch nn;‘:e; and thess add, ba-‘..ummc, to the dumpy luoks of the maly buildug, althodgh the doue Is nearly %00 ubove 1o pavemout, ‘The juteriur, howe has quité a starthuye effoct,—cven greater at first than that prody sed by tie view fu Bt. Peter's, or St Paul's, or the wreat Hussian Cathedral of Bt. Laacw's, in 8, Petersburg, Oa cntering the vestivule, tho commaud to * Put thy shots from off thy feeg 1 ly cutorced, aud onv fa lurulibud with (t cloth silppers, if one wlabes them, although tho laituful rurcly require such & lusury, but, klckiug ol tholr suots or saudals, wiil walk in ou the cold rarble dour in a way which sends shivers of ** goose-ficah? il over mo es ¥ thiuk of It % TiE VIEW on first entenng gives un lpression of gorgcous decoration ss tie principsl fealure of tuy church; yet closer snd longer cbservation will briog to Jight many Moo archites turgl Leautles aleo, The alter, or chancel, Is ralted to & considerablo helghi above the ficor, und i3 carpeted with the richest ruge aud carpets, forming s 1aarked culitrast Lo e plain scverty of tho tisselated inarble pavemcnt of the malo foor, On the leit, near thic foot of the chaucel-step, s o sort ol exazgerated bird-uge, whb lattlio-work wround i, ralscd severad feet ubove the Hoor. ‘This la the “private box™ of the Sultan sud bia favorite wile; whilc tho other ladiea of his bousehold are accommodated i w Juug gallory adfolning the bird-care, aleo protected by lat- tico screens, Around the sides of the chrch are & number of magnificent columns, snpport- fuz & richly-ornamented arcade, like a gallery, yet with ‘no mallery open. All around the Chutrely, above these columns, are hung & nume ber of linmense round diske, covered with gold inscriptions on A bright green background, "l;llcac,lwfl! Informed, were the fac-similes of o AUTOGRAFHS OF TUE DIPYENENT SULTANS| but n more Intricate combination of acratches it would be very difli-uit to imazine. It has been wiltily remarked by ono of the English Lega- tlon that o dldn’t blame the Sultan for deciln- ing to sign the terma of the Confercnce, for It would be Impossible for him to complete mora than one-lalC hls signature before the explra- ion of the armistice, - The roof and sides of the arcade around the church, the columns of which arg marble, por- xhyrv. and granite, are a wonderful mass of foorlsh mosale,—the particles of stone and Rlass used being not so large as water-mefon seeds, and in mnll{ cases even as small as ordinary vercusslon-caps. It is this work which gives the general toue to the Interior of the ciurch; while against it are the Lright con- trasts afltorded by the warmth of coloriug nbout the chancel, the fretted gold-work of the Sul tan’s private lox, tho massive pillars in rlch narphyry, plain white pnd flulzt gray, and the elaring green-and-gold shiclds bearing the Sul- tanfc autographs. * I{aving obtalned some of the mosale fragments at o spol where repalrs were in rro;m.‘u. I relurned to - the vestibule, with o sudiden sensation of doubt aa to the probabllity of Uuding my shoes where [ had leit them; but I did a grave injustice to the bellevora in Isfam and Mohameed, Although several hundred pales of shoes were arranged In mrle file azainat the wall, and_slthough prob- ably as mauy hundred persons had passed ottt since my entrance, no covetous hand had ap- propriated them to another’s use, aud I mar- veled at the exceeding lonesty of these muche maligned people. : TUE LOUS OF CONSTANTINOFLE 3 havo had a world-wide notorlety fur years, yet few poople realizethe degree of good aud evil o witlell theao beasta can attaln, "It is supposed muny that the dog tsa sacred anitnal with the ‘Turks; but this, I think, cannot bo the fact, for the Turk uses the expression, “Dog of o Glaour,” axone of intensa reproach, and he would not employ the name of the dug In that conncctlon {f it were & aacred animal, ~ Neither docs ho take any care ol the innunierable beasts which roam Lo strects; ho llmpl‘{ lets them one, Bt:al as they may and do, the good Mussuleman contents himself with ahaking bis Ust at the thief, Tho reason for this limmunity from punishinent s, that they furm the only corps of scavenzers tlut Constantinople pos- sessess, aud in this lles thelr only guod quality; i‘al it 1s one of such consequenve that o one, having scen the intense Hituof the people, wonld recrot the presence of this useful ruco of nutsances. The beast les beyond my powers of descriptions fudeed, n book” might” be written about him without cxposing more than & small «portion of his villafoous character, As Artowus Ward would have sald, he i3 a comwpound ol “*pure cussodness *? nnd wily duplicity. Call to tnind the ugliest, meancst, most treacherous, dirty, and famished *‘yaller dog” you ever knew, multiply every ong of his wort qualitics by ten, and you will have some tamnt fucaof a nilld typs of the Constantinople dog. The; bhave thoir own districts and routes of travel, a3 rcgularly established as onc of your Chieago Nurd-8lte Junch-tiends; and wo bé to_tho dog Who strays nto a strunge district] It is not llmply tiat he fa powiced upon, bitten, tow- ‘zled, *licked,” aud ‘allowed to go home—oh) no. THAT DOG NEVER (OES 103B. e is quictiy eaten up by those into whose dlstrict hie bas venturcd; and, when they have polislied Lis last Lono,they look longiugly across the ling, and wish that o iew more juicy youog friends wonid drop in to dinner, in order that the meal might be thus provided for, Nolgh- borlv fellows, these dugsl ‘There are nat msny carriazes for bire ln Con- stantinople, sithough they cun ho obtatned, The culnmon uicans ol getting abont aro on foot or on hurseback. There are plenty of gouvd saddlo-' horaes around the boat-landings 1of bire at the rate of one trauc an Luur, and most forclymers take tuem for the day when going about tho bazors and while sigtacciug. TUE NAZARS are an unfuiling source of intercat and enter- tulnment, Not only does one Huil things waich oxuite the strongeat desira for their pussession, but une can obtain a vust deal of amusement out of the shup-dealers and tliclr ways ol trad- ing. The bazars are siiaply covercd strects; they aro not large inclosed bulldings, with coun- terd and stands around the sldes, os [s tho case with so-called bazars in Englaud and Amerles. The strects urs very uarrow, tho shops vers swall, the houses never mors than two storlos high,” and the roofs over the streets sluiply boards Incllmng aligitly trom one slde to thu other. Eacii shupkueper exposea his-wares fn Uuskets, trays, or buxes, ou a low counter or i front of his lttle doutique, O course, suine of the shops are large und com- fortably ¢, even atylish und handsoms oceuslonul- ly; but these are nou commou, Ishould suy tuot the uverage frontago of tho shops wus not over ten ot ATTAR OF HOSES 18 tho universal object for sule. 8o far as my expericnco guus, there Is uo aliopkeeper In Cone stuntmople whe does not keep hiuden sway, somowhere 1o the dirty recesscs of bls dirty shop, a botlls of this . precious extract; aud he will take speclal peins to polson you with the odur of s hurrible breath Wiile hie whispers coufidentially in yourear that “Pnfs is the ‘wuly pure attar ‘of foses in Con- stantinople.” Thave scen so many Uottles of "oul{ pire ' alnee bave been here that 1 hegin to think tlicre I8 a current of monomania aniong tue whole people on this subject, It sells ot oud pound sterllng an outice, which e wouders fully cieap us compared with - the prics In New Yurk, or cven London. Among the. other lovoly things are the cx- quisite burnous, on opera-cloaks, which ean bo obtuned ut ])rtccs vurying from thres to six pounds - sterling; table “aud plano covers, cmbruidered to tho extent of manths of Jabur, lor three to four pounds; pilluw-covers aud fovt-rests, 10 to 20 shillngs; ah”mru. the same; Brousra carpeting, 4 to 10 shillings per yard; narghalls and chioouks for Juxurious Bwokers, 8 to 20 slilinga. TUE NANGHALY is the perfection of Lomfort for a lazy smoker, It consists uf a small sliver or pold bowl, somo- thincs richly engruved and chased, with a double stein leading down (uto a glass vase, This vase I8 sumetiies made of connon cut film. but. the expensive kinds ure of the tnest Boliemlan ware, delicate aud tasteful indesign aud color, Thls vaso (s partly flltod with sosc-water, 8u a8 1o cover tho end of the stem lead- ing into the tohacco-bowl; the otlier stem does not touch the water, and is connected ut its outer eml with o long rubber tube covered with cibronlered silky ut the farther end of which is & pure amber mouthplace, ‘Che smoke Ithus druwn down through the water before ruuching the mouth of the smoker, coollug aud favoriog it dellclously, The cblvouk is u come mcu clay plpe; but Ite value depends upon the stew, which 18 cither cheiry or jasmine, and whichh fs sometines as much as twelve feet lone, ‘Thia kind of a pips has its only disal- vantage in the fact that the smuker caunot (il and light st himsclf, siuce, n{ tha time he gots back to the suctiou-end, the Hight iy usually out. Navy-BLus, ———— Wemecdles for Nearlet Fever, Dr, {tonry Plgeon writea to ths Loudos Lancet aa fallows:™ “‘The narvelous success which s atteuded my troatinent of wcarlot fever by sul | phur induccs me to lot my medical brethren uow of 1y plau, 8o that lm{ may be abls to apply the sume rcmcd{' withuul delay, Al the cases In which L used 1t were very well marked, and the epidermis on thearms In'ea.h casecams away Jike the n of asuake. The following was the exact treatment followed fn each cuses Lhoroughly anoing the paticnt twice dally with sulphur viitiient ; give tive to ten gralus of sul- phurin a littls Jam three tinicsaday, Butll- vicot sulphur was burned, twivs dully (on coals ou a shovel), to ] the room with the fuuses, aud, of course, was thorouglly inbaled by tug palient, Under this mole ot treatment cach case improved fmimediately, aud none wese over olzlit days in making complele recuvery, and [ frly believe in cach it was proyented from lpreu\lu]f by the treatment adopted, Ous case wus tu a bure school. — Baviug bad a larve ex- ‘mlem'u in scarlct fever last year and this, 1 col sume contideuce ln my own judgiment, sud Luw of opiuion that the very wildest cuses | ever saw do uut do half so weil as bad cases do by the sulphor treatment, snd, 2s tarss § can udie, sulphur 1y a8 pear aapecfic for scurlet ever an poasille,” b e, Witt, meber of the' Royal College of Burzeons, bus publishod & pamplilet fn whih he slates tual olvarbouate of wiugouia 1s a specitle lor the cure of searict fever and measles. He citea Dr. Peast, of leer}ml. ‘and other prac- titioners, wio lisvo ncver luet & case out of huu- dicds slnce adopting tLis rawedy. ‘Two drachms of the Licarbonale of nwwonis aro dissolved 1o ivo vuncus uf water, sad Jwy tablespooufuls of the solution given every two, three, or four hours, according 1o the urfincy of tfia lymy- toms. No acid drink wmust be Laken, but only water, or tosdt and water, Tho systowm 1s to be woved by a duse uf calomel {f vecessary. ‘The roum wust be well veotdated, but Ll patieut protected from the slightest cold or draft. Gur- £les should alto be ewpl fo~ clearing the tbrost. “Thusmmonls sceins $o counteract: the polaon which cuuves scarluting, aod also acts on by systew I‘Jfindlmluubtn" tie frequency and at 1.!;\5 s v lucreasing the strenzih of the pulse. FEBRUARY .19, 1877, PUBLIC LANDS. All the Agricultural Land Absorbed by Speculators. " Leaving Ouly “Desert” Land, Not Worth a Cent an Acre. Rapld Disappearance of ForesisessDepe redations upon Govornment Timber, Special Corvespondence af The Tridune. Wasumixaton, D, C., Feb. 10,—~The House bill reported at the last sesslon by Mr. Lane, from the Committco on the Public Lands, to provide for the sals of DESENT LANDS In certatn States and Territorics, nas been rofor- red recently to the Commisatoner of the General Land Office for his views upon its subject matter. ‘The bill makes It Jawful for any citizen of the United States to file n declaration with the Reclster nnd Recelverof the Land District in which any desert land fs situated, that he in. tends to reclafm a tract of desert land not ex- ceeding one sectlon, by conducting water upon the esame, within the perlod of thres years thereafter. This declaration must de- seribe particularly the scctlon of land, it -surveyed; and, f ubsurveyed, must describe the same as nearly as possible without asurvey, Any Uime wilhin three years after filing said declaration, upon making satisfactory proof of the reclamation of such tract of land In the manner described, and upon payment to the Recelver of the sum,of $1.25 per acre for a tract of land not exceeding 040 acres to any one person, & patent for such tract shall be Lssned o him. ‘The bill declares all lande, exclusive of timber lands and mincral lands, which will not without frrigation produce soms agricultural crop, to bie desert lands within the meanlng of theact, It nlso restricts lts actlon to tho States of Call fornls, Orerron, and Nevada, and to the Terrl- torles of Washlugton, Idabo, Montana, Utal, Wyoming, Arizons, New Mexico, and Dakota. TR FACTS about these desert lands are these: Under tho prescnt laws governing the public lands, no man can purchase them except for purposcs of homestead. No man can purchase more than a quarter-sectlon; and he who purchases must crect ® house and live on the land he proposes to buy, three ycars before he can obtaln a patent therefor, These desert lauus that ara Incapable of producing a crop of anythiog are not worth a cent an acre, and of course no per- son could live upon them, for the reason thato. hundred thousand acres would mot produce & pock of corn annu- olly. -~ The consoquence s, thaty they are likely to remaln desert lands forever, nnless Congress tulkes tho matter up and ;zmvidua in someway for their utiization, Nohody who de- sires to pre-empt & _farm could " afford the ex- pense of dizging a ditch from four to twelve or more miles long, to irrigate a qnarter-section of land, It is unly by combloation of a good many to take up a lare reglon, and unite in bringing thy water to it, that it would he mado to pay to touch it; and {tis only by some such arrange- ment that the Goverument van ever expeet to realize s pmm{) {rom the milllons of acres of degert owned by the United States upon the great Westeru aud Southwestern plains, 1t may be stated, In this conncctlon, that the cream of the public domain has long been APPIOPRIATED DY LAND-8PECULATONS; nnd (L 1s a fact that, in all the public lauds now loit open to pre-emptlon, amnounting to millions of a:rus, there Is not as much real, bona-fide ag- rieulturdl land 28 may be found in a sinzle county in lowa or Ilinots, Tt Is also true that nearly all the timber country lelt on the public domain s nnfit for agrleuliural purposes, and the same laws operate to provent {ts pro-eump- tion: aud, as tlio public luna can only bo pre- empled upon dedlared inteution to niake the land which It Is proposed to take up a home- fscad, houcst inen who want to possess land ree fraln from meddhing with it, aud thicves poach upon 1t with their hatchets, aud steal away the oltly yuluable quality It possesses, namely? tho timber, Meantime, the Governineut realizes notbiog but & npldly-lncre-uln‘z arca of worth- lcss acreage. DISAFFEARANCE OF YORLSTS, Few Eenunu are aware of the rapidity with which the ervat primeval foreatsof Amerlea are dlun[:eurln: from the earth. Those wlo nf lute huve taken un iuterest In the preservation ol tho forest-trees in every soction of the coun- try have, it s true, wrltten and published Inter- catl uts of tho wastefulness which has alwa racterized the slauchter of timber hy uneeulnlarh in lumber, and warned the people that, unless the raplily-decreasing timber fs ro- pluced by the cuitlvatlon of groves of valuable wouds, the day fs guot far distant when Jumber will bo 68 searce In this country as In many conntries of the Old World, where Its use s u‘}'ululed by law. The Commissinner of the Land-Ollice, who in his last report had much to gay on this subject, called attentlon to the dep- redations uponthe thuber on our public lands, which have been commitied tims ont of mind, unchecked and uncontrolled, until there fs gruni duger that tho lumber-lands will socn oago tu have auy value, and thon rich preserves will have been entirely absorbed by the rapacity of the lunber-speculators, It ts usinzular fact that every Commtasioner of the Land-Oflice for the lu-t thirty years hus urged upon Congress somaleglslation by moans of witich depredativns of lumbermen eipion tho valuable timber of the United States could be diminlshed, it not entlrcly suppressod. The Commissloner statcs that tho ontire amount received by the (averninent in trenty vears for the acvount of timber-trespasses is the pitiful sum of $154,000, or less than the stumpago of 5,000 acres would briug at the minimum brice_of [umber In any of tho great lumber-markets of tho great West and Boutbwest, And yet that officer ttates that NUNDREDS OF TIHOUSANDA OF ACRTS are stripped cvery ?'nr. and millors of dollars’ worth of lumber plrated from the Governmeut, to supply the markets of the West Iudlos and Central Amerlea, The tinber-lauils are not oy- rienltural lands, and, under the laws now vx. isting, the public lands can only be ontered for ugricultural purposcs, and upon a threo years' residence. Of course, to attempt to cunatruct farms oo tuo bigh mountuin s and fn tho deep ~ruvines of the ligh lands whore tho Lest timber grows, would bo & starving busincas; and the conse uence s, that such lands, in the absence of any aw whereby thoy may he sold sor the valus of the timber Upon them, beécome tho apoll of the lumbermen. The Governiment gets nothing; tho thnber inelts away; aud the lumberman, with his sawmills located at sdvantageous polnts, growa rich without any investment of capital, and upon the carelesaand thoughtless Indifference of the law-makers, who for lm{z years kave done uothing tointerfere with prafitable depredations Last year Congress appropriatd the linmense sum of $3,000 to cnable the Commiastoner of the Land-Otlice to_detect and proaccute depre- dators on the public lauds. If the sum hal been 000, it “would have beeu worth tho whils of the Cummissioner to put In operation plans for preventing tho piracy of timber in varlous scctions of country where the valuable wouded lands of the Governmeut lie, As it is, the amount given s eo tutally Inadequate us to render any attoinpt to accowplish any practlea) pnrguu entirely sutlle, The Comnussioner has recently rocelved o long communleation from TWO SUKVEYORS IN LOUISIANA, whocall Lls attcution to the extent of the depredations commitied on the publl: lands in the southwesternpart of the Btate during the past year, ‘They atate that nearly the whole reglon froin tho Bablne to the Nea ique, and frowm the base-liuc to the Gulf, which abounded in valuable forests of pinu timber, such as had no enhunl for Srmuess of quality aud value, aud for deusity of growth aud s lengih and syinmetry " of the trees, whith had been flosted down to the mllls near Laks Charles and on the coast, What is truo of tus section referred to, which cimbraces twelve townships, 52 true of ull the streams drainiug tue pine n of the Stats and dls- chargiug into the Sabioe or the Gull, Taers are & larue number of mills on the luwer watcrs ol slt tuvee streams, which manuisture the trees floated down to thew lor the Jumber mar- kets of Texas, Mexico, Cuba, Central Asneric ete. Moat of this robbery Was been upon lands upon which fletitlous humestesd-entrios have heen made, usually in the nauies ot the cutters and raltemen. Tue causos of those rubbrics wre num‘ but amosg them was the War; and, from 1681 to 1869, the consequent DISARRANGEMENT OF TUR LAND-8TSTEN, and closiog of Land-Otticus tn that scction, rene dered it impracticable fur persons honestly fn- clned toucquire title to lauds taey deslred to cut thuber iroas. Thew, frow 160 “tu the pres- eut time, tho lands valuable for ne thnberhave been r.ul]rcl_y' beyond the reach ot ordfuary pur- chasers or 1ocaters forcash on warrants. Under theact of Juue 31, 1856, applylug the Howe- stcad Law to the Soutlern Biates, all the old methods of dlpaaing uf the public domata weto abolished, and thatonly for homestesd snd actual rettlements substituted. Another canse has heen the outrageous way in_which the original township and sectional aurveys In moat of thiat part of the State were exccuted In the ficld, The notes bear Intrin<lc roof that most of the work fa livtitlous, and in he fleld o trace remains of the work. Few men of the oldest scttiers know what township they are in until the resurvey s made. Thus thousands of gowd men have actually heen un- able to know whut subdivislons or ‘sections to buy, even when they sought to secure thele hoines and Improvements. The depredations [g(crfl!d to have been golog on for half a con- Ty ¥ GALENA RAILWAY POOL. Further Testimony from Mr, Boody in Hia Huit, Netw Tork Tvidune, Fed, 15, The trial of the sult of Henry H. Boody sgalnst William B. Ogden, Samucl J. Tilden, and George M. Bartholomew, begun on Tites- day, was continued yesterday before Judge Bedgwick In Buperior Court, Special Term, tho plaintifs examination and cross-cxamination belng protracted through the whole day. Fol- lowing Is an outline of Mr. Boody's testimony: Ilis division of the supposed profits of the pool was on the basls of 1,000 shares for Mr, Bartholomerw, 2,000 shares for Mr, Tilden, 6,000 Alinres for Mr, Ogden, and 0,460 shares for him- .sell. On cross-examination, he sald he awore o the complalnt in 1800, and In it and another affidayit spokeof Mr. Tilden as a Director. mem- ber of the Executiye Commiitee, and Trustee of the Chlcago & Northwestern 'llnllruml Com- pany, must be a Director, and by the word Trustes he meant Mr. Tildcn was Trusteee of the mortgages, All that had mothing to do with this ‘pool, Ha had undorstood that the Becretary of the Company had recently sworn that Mr. Tilden was nut a Director or member of the Executlve Commltiea that year, [le had not since looked up the minutes, for o had not ‘now free access to tho bosks of the Company, and coulil not say more positively than on Tues- day whether or fiot Mr. Tilden “waa fn 1863 and 154 a Dircctor aud on Lhe Executive Committee of the Northwestern Railrond. In the conversation with Mr. Ogden and with Mr, Tilden nothing was said as to Lhio number of sharcs to Lo bunght, aml he sald nothinz to 1 Mr. Tilden about. Mr. Bartholomen's becoming Interested. He had then 8,400 shares of the Galena Raflroad Company stock, and did not tell them till Iater of his ownership of that stock. He mentloned 1t belfore Mr. Sands, Mr. Ogden, and Mr. Tilden six days after the first purchases for the pool. He putinto tho pool 3,000 shares of his own prvate stack, bought at from 110 to 1243, He dl not charge for them at 120 when e threw thea in. InJune, Galena stock was worth 152, Ho was not bound by agreement to put in these shares. Mr, Boody thea testificd that hlsnephew kept the accounts, He offened new bouks in in 1664, In March, 1806, he falled. IIo owed the Chieazo & Northwestern Rallroad a balance of £1334,100, which he pait with money borrowed from Mr. Ogden. Ie pald Mr. Oxden fn full. All this was two years after Mr. Of Tilden got their” preferred stock In of the pool, The witncss had paid his creditors, ‘but had had no final settlement with themn, Al -tho time of the pool he was carrying etock on Ius own account, but could not carry through both his own and the pool atock. In reply to +Mr, Hawkins bie sald he lost $71,000 in the panle of April, 1504, to carry the pool stock, o had $700,000, but that was {nsuilicient to carry both; he got no help from his assoclates, and the al- ternative was to sacritico bls own stock or the pool etock. Iie gave up Lis own to ralse 100l loans, Tle thought hitnself rich then, ll)ly is sacriflee to save the pool holost 871,500, He did not stato this on his first suttlement. Durlng the panic of 1864 ho_recelved from tho American Exchange Bank $30.00) borrowed b Mr. Ogden, and repakl 1t In June. Hue uscd ft to cauiur;ool stock, This was to take up a loan of 830,000 from Henry Clews. Bome of the loans lind Lo ho pald during the panie, some ro- mnl‘ned until after the consolidation of the com- anics. B Much of the afternoon was spent in dlacus- slons between counsel as to the form of ques- tions, which Judge Bedcwick tried to suppress with little succes, and anco or twlco tho Judge spoke with some asperity as to the q‘ucutlunn atd discussfons of counsel proleneiog the examlnu- tlon. Mr. Boody gave thefacts asto s u;xlluulnb- unco with Mr. Ozden and Mr. Hiden, and his roasons for believing that Mr. Ogden was a resident of Chleago. lle found on his books in one day Mr. Ogden credited with $100,000, Mr. Tilden with $23,000, and Mr, Bartholomew with $10,000 for supposed prolits of the pool, Ho was not [n tho hablt of reading bls account baokli’u be had bookkeep- era, aud It was only after o went out of busle uess that he discoverod the mistake In tho ue- counts., Mr. Niles stated that he proposed to show the mistake wus on tho other slde, but it belng 4 o'cluck the cmlrl.llléuurnld. New York Trivune, Fsb, 18, Tho trial of the muit of Henry H. Boody agalust Willlwn B, Ogden, Sammnel J. Tilden, and Qeorze M.. Hartholomew, was continued yeaterday before Judge Bedgwick, The whole day was consumed with tho cross-oxawninatlion of'the plaintil 05 to the detalls of his Looks and the resources In thio Galeus pool suppllcd hiin by other persons, 1lle statod that hc had nbout 3550,000 of the Chicago & Northwestern | Rallroud's ' fuuds, acalnst which was oo ndebtedness of Mr. Ogden for aboul $100,000, reclucing the resources from that quurs ter to about $3U0,000, If no account was made of Ogden's delit, but ho was -upfims«l to havo the whole $550,000, then tho wholo outside re. aourves reached $851,000, less some 30,000 or $10,000 paid out meanwhile for the Company. Mr,Ogden had anthorlzed him to use this moncy in the pool, Mr, Ogiden was President of tho Chicago & Northwestern Rallroad Company, and he would liave done any proper thing direct- ed by Mr. Ogden, Mr. Niles stated that fn Chlcago Mr. Ogden had advanced to the Company more than all the funds in the hands of Mr. Boody. On tho redi- rect examination at a Iater stage, testinony by M. Baody thut no vote of the Directors had empowered Mr, Ogden to flve such a vote, waa rejected, on the ground that it was for Mr. Og- den to show he had such authority lawlully. Otherwlse Mr, Boody lield the money us bunker ot the Company, subject to the duties which that position lmplled, - Ir. Boody saiil that in fact ho had only 310,000 of the Campar monoy In his hands, reckoning that 2s a personsl advance by lim since hc was personally tiable for it to the Comn- runy, hils own contrlbutivns t the pool during he pauic of 1584 were nearly $700,000, At no Lime was there any lack of ample collateral, The ditileulty was “that no ene would lend on uny colluterul during the panic, On the trst $610.800, o i i a7 Sbont 8005 0 i ,000, on the last day sbou this belogall bis, countlng” the sm‘% 83 bLls money, Thu’rml 'was & venture by which those fn it wauted to make money us well us to offuct the consolidation of the Chivago and Galeua Unlon Companies with the Northwestern Cutupany, Perey H, 8mith, Vice-Presldent of the hurl{~ western Company at that time, had charge of it in the West. George Dunlap was the Superin. tendent, The witness had stttled with Uvorge M. Bartholomew, ouc of the members of tho pool, for 83,000, snd Lo had given a recelpt jn full to Bartholomew. He miade this clalm agoinst tho partics to the pool in the fall of 1875, 1l¢ had made nu clsim ou them from August, 1504, until 1675, for he did not know duriug the futerval of the fact that they had re- ceived overpayments. Mr. Tilden was present at aiost of the interviews In refurence to'n cons solidatlon, Qu a redirect examination, Mr, Boody testl- tied that the cause of the error {n his” scitles went in 1804 wus that when hie made the adjust ment of the pool sccounts with Mr, Young, as Mr. Ogden's clerk, they negle.ted to cxamine his (Mr. Boody's) private sccount. On the in- terest necount thero was $11,873.83 cuarged to Lis private accouut which stbuld have' been ¢ d to the paol, A bookkveper's error had laved n sale of 1,000 shares of comnmon stock longing to him privately to the credit of tho pool, au errur ewlly . biappening when they were recelviug - thousands of shares a gu{ Tue amount so credited was §02. On the other haud, 500 shares of referred stock were eredited to W worth 5,000, the differcuce being $17.000 in 2 4! avor of the pool. ~ From another mistake the pool profited about 30,000 at bis expense, Blnee recelved 750 lhus.hu?u wis made that ho shures of prelerred stock, be hait gone over his Ilst of purchases and sales and fouud that the tallled, except hifteen shares, so that Llerocoul Le no such 750 shares transaction as alleged by defendanta. Ho bad lost §71,000 by sacriticiug his own stock to sava the pool stock, When tuis became nceessary, Mr. Ozden sald ®the poul must be carried dt all hazards, If we fail we shall be disgruced ¢otively, and it will Lo utter rubw’ - e — A Diamond Urlll ot Work, Jartfurd (tonn.) Courani, The attetion of many pereons has been at- tracted toa corc vt sandstone fn front of the new Cheney bulldlng, The core s abuut thres feet loug and ten Inches In dlumoter, sud s brought out of & eiiaft where & dlamond deill §s ut work {u the bulidipz. A shaft {3to bo sunk forty-six fect beluw tiic hotiom of a pit fu the centrs of the Lullding, where a hydraullc els- vator {8 ta bo put Lu. Tho black diawonds or carbons used in the drille are brought wulnly frowm Bruzfl, They A member of tho Executive Committes: resemblo In shapa small irregular pleces of gravel, and In color small pleces of dingy-look- ing conl. The diamomds 1y use in the Urill at work in this city cost probably $70J or £00, The drlil Is worked by o small steam cneine ns follows: To the lower end of a tubular barlng- rod the LIt fs screwed, and to the upper end a water-awlvel, to which connection 18 inade with asteam-pipe. By means of this pump n cone stant stream of water s fofeed down throngh the hollow drill-rod, thereby I(cnylng the fi:t cool and the hole bored clear of sediment, which 18 forced hy the water-pressura up the outside of the rods to the surface, ‘'The hollow Lit is o stecl thimble, haviug threo rows of dlamonds port or _carbon) {mbedded therein, go at the edqe of ‘thosa in one row project from ita face, while the edge of 'those {n 1hie other rows project from the onter and inper periphiery respectively, The diamonds of the first-mentfined row cut the path of the drlli in 1ts forward progress, while those upon the onter and Inner [‘erlmer_v of the 100} enlura the cas- ity around the same and admit the free Ingreas and egross of tho water ns above described, The serew sliaft, being rotated and fed forwapd, rotates the drill-rod” and Uit, and as tha bit passes foto the rock, cutting au annular chan- e, that portlon of the stone encircled by the channel {8 of course undisturbed; the ¢ore bar- rel, ‘vmlnz down over it, preserves it:intact until the rods are withdrawn, when the solid c‘ylludur, thus formed, ia brought np with them, the core-lilter Lreaking it ut the boitom of the hole, and accurely wedging and holding it in the core-barrel, The drill s much used In pmafinectlng in min. Ing and coal districts, and fn boring ofl and artesian wells. NOT PRACTICABLE, . A Qeorgin Planter's Esperiment, New Orjemns Timon, . 8t. Lovs, Teb. G —Wil) you obilge an ex- dent of New Orleuns hy nnéwering the folloy question: The,o 18 a gentleman In this eity who riates that directly after the War there was a gon. teman In the Kouth who tried to have his colton Picked hr monkeva, 1id you ever hear of the at. emnt? If a0, when was i, and on what plants. tlon, and what suceess il thoy have! T have made & pmall bet Lhut euch 8 trial was nover made, Pleass anuwer in your next, and oblize @, il It s particularly fortunate that this corre. spondent addressed himself {o Roundabout for the required Information. 'Tiio experiment was ‘made Ly a ptanter of Roundabout’s acquaint- otce in Thomas County, Go. Ilo bad long studied’ the characteristics of the dliferent branches of the monkey family, and discovered ithat they were, perhaps, the most limitative of +all God's creatures, It at last uecurred to him that this tdlosyncrasy might be uthilzed in har. vesting the preat staple of his native state—cot- ton. Every one knows, of conrse, that whils pieking the votton from the flelds entalls n vast amount of labor, It requires no other skill than .that given by qulck movements of the arm and hand. Mr, — conceived the fdea that If he would put a number of monkeys lito a cotton field, in company with a lot of negroes whn wonld Legin pleking cotton Industriously,{t would uot be leng before the monkess would follow suit. Therefore he sent to South’ America—wiiere hohad learned that the guickest of all themonkhey tribe wero to bo found; and, purchasiog 20, 150 of whom arrived on his place fn good, licalthy condition, he wade the experiment. Ho found that his theory was absolutely corro:t, No sooner did the monkeys percelvo thie nrflmu seize the cotton bush and strip 1t of its licecy fruit, at the samo time putting it into Laskets, than they did the same with greater quickuesy oad much more certain hand—carrying slong no trash, It was magnificent. Mr, 84wy for- tuna smiling urun him' at once, for ho casily perceived that # the monkey would linltate the movements of the negro {n one thing, he wonld in auother, and that the cheapeat ]flhor evor known for ridding flelds of pross was at his ' command, and there was no pos-ible chance of fnterference. 16 stood In the ticld and watched them all cay; they * pleked twlee ns much as the most experienced cot- ton plcker among the . megroes, Il rotired to his homo aud dreamod of” it nli Bighy and enrlg next morning went off to call. fu all hin nelzhbors to sce tho triumpl of bis {deas. When he returned he found his fleld abandoned. ‘The ucgroes had betaken themselves to the shade of tne neightoring forest, and were lrlll!lng their sides Iaughing at the antles of the monkeys. And all his persuasion was use- 1esa In getting them to go back to work, so lang o3 the queer movemnents of the monkeys were to bo watched and cnju{ed. The experiment ended by cach nezro on’ lis placs adopting a mubkey, ani maching off with kim (o tho night to r.uls uvknown, ubundoning for it saie, wife, childeen, and dogs; and ho was feit lamentiing with bis cotton In the fleld, Rouud- atont therofore docs not. think that moukeys will rny o8 cultivator or harvesterof cotton, and srould hot advisc lils 8t. Louls carrespondent to fuvest lis moncy in such a speculation, e —— 'HOPPERS, To the Edltor af The Triduve. Oviven, 8ac Co., Ia., Feb, 12.—We have had two weeks of mild weather. Some suy tho grasshoppers hava hatched out some; but [ bave falled to sec any. Corn is 30 cente. Although wo ralse fine crops, we have not ralsed enough yet to supply the home-demand. Ewlgration’ has been so largo each eprinz: But, na It 13 all settled up now, we expeet to have enough after thisj sthat 18, 1f,the *hoppers do wot run us out. - cin v the Editor of The Triduse, PeoRriA, Frauslin Co., sy Fob. 1 I see reports trom Sloux City and other that the 'hopper-vigs arc hatching out already, Toong who has :seen two,’hopper-seourgtes in this State, the llorflth,unuunonnblc. There may nnull:l{ have been some few ‘hoppers hatched on banks facing tho sunj but that the main crop wiil hateh until vegotation starts enough for them to subalst upon, is coutrary Nature. * ''ns tent-caterptliar never hathes until the sap sterta and tio lcaves appears The warmth required to hateh the mnain crop of hoppers will alwaya start tho grass, The 'hop- 'rs cano here about the 10th of Septomber, 3t the followluys spring they hateited—tus main vrop tho Just ten duysof Aprll, They came about the 220 of August In 18715 the ejrs deposited commenved hsteting sbout the mide dls of April following. Winter-wheat—what _there Is—ls now looking grecu and promising. But few 'hopper-cygs in this locahity. Cousldcrable old corn in the county; also a good crop ol new corn. H, 1nes. To the Editor af. The Tridune, Ciicaa0, Feb, 1L—~Farmers of Minnesols and luwa, read this, the best methiod to destroy hopperst 8 souts as you discover the young ‘hoppers are hatchiug,” take your team and plow, and I\luwnlurmwumuml every field, and, {f the icld {s large;, do tho samg through once or muro tiues, according to tho size. Then shovel thie fooee dirt from the turrow from six to ted inches deep (the tlvc\wr the better). The hop- crs, when sinail, will hop fnto these ditelics by e milllou, and die. T onable them to do 50 more rudlfy take u plocs uf common cotton cloth, from ‘sixtecn to twenty feet Iu leoetty Iasten one edge to 8 light pole or rope, ant welght the otlier with pieces of Jead. Thon et twu men or boys take each endof this, and drive the "hubpers into the ditch by wulking, with the cluth botween theus, slowly towards the dlt:h and shaking the vloth Hghily, so as to keev the shoppers hopping into the diten, This should be done when the "hoppers are very small; th canuot gt out of the ditd die, If they grow tov °lamg before they wre all destroyed, to stay io the diteh, * hitch your team tu n suort log, some ton fuclies pr inord In dlamater, 3 cordng (o the wilth of the ditch, aud druw 4 through buvck und forth, und kil thew. Llmve kmown u targs giald of graln saved {u this way in Minnesots, without the help of tho cloth, and I thick it would be much more effectun! with iis ll:lr. 1t will bo a little discouraging for a farmer to deatroy tho *noppers on bis furm, and all his neighbors leave thelrs to grow; but uvery one “ln: llLlfllunlgu‘d rith t) u"hahlll 1111( l:l‘;!!; cals Kuows that, as soou as they van fly, Loc, muigrate to sonla mew Held of plounr. and whtvot do much dumage syhere they have TUWD, & @ ‘num farmers of the, grasshopper aections will geucrally adopt this plan, they will co~ taluly save themaclves frous very huu})’ m’il 4, ———— A Curlous Jlnnenhlo of the War. : 1 Ivlerabury (Va.) Ins A gentleman of lm?rjw .. -i‘:;' or two 3g0 while walkiug over the battle-ground of tLe Ciae ter, plcked up a curlous and fotereating relic of thut famous énd hotly-contested fleld. It wae two minle balls tattencd and {inbedded fu cach other. One of thew was a Federal and the oth- or a Conferute ball, and oa being dred from u&r-. positg directions they had struck _squarcly aguinst each other and becoine hinbeddod oue In the obuve, formisy as It wero a ring of leah with the balls projectiug on either side, and 5o inguish 'the side uing yuliclent traces Lo. alst] 1o which they belonged. ** The blttor past, more welcoma is the swec sings the Lard of Avon. This accouuts fur Fusl luJ tho new tollct articls, B, T. Baubl : Toilet The world haa begun to realize lu‘ ordinary scuntod soayw aro dagerous, sud ths! this new totlet suap, with ita """.;'E‘ awcetnesh and emollient soltneus, 1s ot 10 be disputod s4 10 perfection of 1ts kind, .