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OUT ON A STRIKE. Condition of Affairs at the Foun- tain County Mines. Petty Cause of a Strike Which Prom- ises to Last All Summer. What the Men] are Paid and How They Spend Their Earnings. TFather Mark Looks upon Them as the Hardest Caces He Ever Oame Across, Profits of the Operators—They Insist on a Bedne. tion of Rates-The Brazil Mines, 3 The Miners Decline to Make Any Btatements.--Watching Thelr Prosidont. From Qur Oien Reporter. Coit Cnzrr, Fonntaln Co., Ind., April 20— Down {n this remote corner of Fonntain Cangty, accessitle only by a litile branch of the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Rallroad, on which a passen- ger train conslating of an engine and caboore tear- els back and forth to Covington onco a day, are the Fountaln County coal mines. From this source Chlcago darives much af her supply of #oft coal, the shipmenta during the scason belng very heavy, Thete aro four operators owning ahalts on the creok: The Fountaln Conl Company, Indlana DBlock Coal Company, W. P. Rend & Co., and Messrs. McClelland & Pardee. In ordinary times the district presents o scene of activity and bustle; 10-day it is as though a Llight had fallen upon it. 8ix weeks or so arzo the miners struck, and sinco that time no work haa been done. In order to nrrive af the causes which have led to this atate of things, §1 is necessary to GO NACK NCANLY THRER YEARS o what in known as the **Buena Vista War" fn Allegheny Counnty, Pennsylvanis, In Eeptember, 1874, W. P. Itend & Co, owna mine_ known na Laurc) 1), a few milea from Plttaburg, and at tho time mentioned thelr miners were on strike, The men held out firmly, the operators wero no less atubborn, and it became thoroughly evident that tho prospects for o long and wearying contest were good. In this conditton of affalra Rend & Co. resolved to take the bull by the horns and go ont- elde the melzhborhood for the help which they cuuld not ootain in It. The Minera® Unifon being In full operatfon nt the time, It was uscless to ate tempt to get regular minery, who would have syme phathlzed with thelr striking comrades and left the operators ot the mercy of tho Unlon, Accordingly, 2r. Itend visited New York, then flooded with laborers hangering for food, and engaged 2300 or 400 1tatinns, with a sprinkling of Urcek and Mal- tere £allorn, and o fow Frenchimen. Threats ind heen mado by tho etrikers that any men coming into the district would be marked ani made to suffer, and accordingly the eargo of for- oigners were sent along under guard, and each man s armed with o Spencer eifie. It 1s only neces. sary here to atate that thelr arrival roured the min- era to n pitch of frenzy, thata IIFM. followed, and that during the two ‘or three days® ekirmishing which ensticd half a dozen of the Itallans werd killed. ‘The Sherlff was powerless to preserve the m\my. and for a weck tho country aronnd urel MU was full of armed plcknts, Fianll! many of the Itallans nence was rostored Teft, the remuinder worked ulon in the ‘mines, sholsing themselves industrious and teachabic, nn after conalderable time had clapsed the miners ‘were forced to como in at the terma offered by the operators, ‘The affule created much 1lifeeling at the time, but one af Its resulta was to bresk up tho Minera’ Unlon in tho Pittsburg disirict, and that ‘Uniun has never alnce heen re-organtzed., by W ¥ lend & co. Among the men cmployed 111 ouibresk was n at the timo of the Laurel young fellow named W. T. DAINES, e took command of 1560 Italians, taught them low to work and where to work, and_fnstructed them generally, Abuut Dec, 1, 1870, Balncs ape earcd In Coal ek, hoving been engaged by terd & Co. as *‘waigh-boss," Tils duiles wera fu weigh tho coal as it cume out from tho miners, and to credit the miners with the quantity dnz. Worklug at Rend's shaft wero - several men who had been formerly cmlflnyrd at « frout, and, aft, Laare] 1141, and to whom Baines wan wel ‘Theyat once pointed him ont as a bingk sheep; n man wha had led 150 **black-leg™ Itdllans coold not welgh coal for them. [lawever, lie continued at work, and atterward sucreeded in placating the miners, whu acknuwledgod that he had seed them fairly §n the mntters of wotehits, It {8 proper to #ay here that the **welgh-bosa™ fs nn wopject of wuspiclon to tho miners, who fear that will defraud them, Most of n belog tymorant and une- lettered, thelr method of Keeping accounts 1s naturally & primitive one, and mistakes uccasionals Jy artse. Huincs, however, made few of these, and, **blacklcz™ as ho wis held to be, no active opnosition was shown to him. About the inicdle of February the **bank-boss, " or ad he might bo called the foreman of the pit, re- slgned his” position, and on the last day of the month quit ‘work, Baines was appointed to the Yacunt pince. and this precipltated the fight. Tho former cmploye was popular with thae miners, Uaines objectionnble to them, and on the morning of March’ 1 lllurv struck, 5o farall the accounts agree, the Superintendents of the mines and the niners themsolves concurring. In fact thero Aeeim to_bo little of no dieagreemont s to tho Htatus. Tn most strikey yau will usually find ono party accuning tho other of bad fajth and quivocal deating, Lut in this cuxe It Je not xo. THE MINCHS STHUCK HIECAUSE BAINES WAS SET IN AUTHORITY OVER THES, and Rend & Co. resolyed to stick by thelr man. 8o farit was slmply a quarrel between Jtend & Co, and thelr omployes, and only Ingfrectly, if at al), offecting tho other “miues, but thelr tum was to came, 1t rule of the Miners' Unlon that Its mome bers alinll divide work with men on_ atrike, if the wtriko ts approved by the Unlon, A dny ortwo ofter Kend's men came out, o mass-meéting win Lelid ot which It wan resolved adopt the usual course and share work with tho etrikers, *Accords lnx!‘ rouie of the latter presented (hetnsclves at the Qiffercnt pits aud nnoounced that they wery 1 known, golnr to work, This the uperators - had decided to refuse, ey clalming that they hod not wa vnough for their own men, and the ¢ o " wero ore ac dored to udmit none of Rtend's wen Into the pita, On the 11th or 12tk of March the minurs notided 1he vperators that they would guit work on the 15th unless Rend's men wore ullowed 1o sbaro, and onthe ot they quit, The operators retaliated by posting the fullowing notice: furch 13, 1677, —To tha Minees af Coal 1 nleeciiod heratonat Coal Creek horeby ) ¢ atie'r Aprd S wiliyiay 0 cents PUr ton for alx months rom date, wnd 7 cout fur sl uanths from Oct, 1, oF 1ake un ugreement Y i Wil Trom Apell i, 1877, rumbal 1f 10 oy cac ndard i s patd in Clay Codaly) oo lay nty, ‘This document was signed by W, P, Itend & Ca,, the Indiana Block Coul Combany, the Fountain Coal Comuauy, und McClettand & Purdee, Aw tha watter wands, therefore, the miners struck bo- caunw of the presence of un abjectionablo **boss, " the owners prum-d thelr nomslnee, and agrecd, when the wen ull struck, 10 weet them with 6 _re- duction of wazes, the price pokd fors year post having been KU cents a ton, Fo much ls hoceanary for the undertanding of tho situation, and in of- der toverify the statements wade and ascortain the sctusl condltion of sifales fn the district, o numberof persons interested were questioned by tha correxpondunt. Thoe fuformation o to wazos 18 aerived from tho pay-rolla; that ax to the hours of wurk, cte., fram tho miners; and the fucts con- cernfng the strike are matter of bistory, dispated by no one. COAL CREEK, L s ** outeide ™ workmen, and u in ordinary times a population counting Uhice, with fts mine #aloon-keepors, of about 1,000 pe chilldren, ' 1t hun & Pog 31il), two or thrco stored, twelve dozen miners' boarding-houses snd framo Laildings occupled by mlncrs weattered aver s squaro wmile of territory, —that v, If it were 010 findn nquare wilo fu that acctlon of country, The land i broken up by litle hilly, ravines, = and crecks, aud ftdepends greatly un how you measure whether tho tizures ome out righl or mot, In come mon with all tho laud” un or uear the Wabash it s heavily timbered, and, though peos plo wuay bomlbiy wiurvo there, they cannot frecx, unlcss 1t Is tou snuch trouble to thent to and seta lehtto lt, Cosl Creck, au ailucut of the Wabash River, flows through the seitlement, which (s divided Into KRendtown and Siringtown (80 called probably from ite beinyg extenisively Struny out), und 1hoe remainiog houscs don't coun't 10 ooy great extent, Thy correspundrnt hfl\‘ln;fi driven through the Woods, over the worst road Jnuginable,—in fact, Wurio ‘than momo of tho West Sldo streets Wituln the corporate limits of Chicago,—found Eluself fu . HENDTOWN, & callection of about twenty hous ‘The eastern- 1aost of thess Wis & double framo bulldiug, sudthe lower loors wore formerly occupled s an utlice by Rend & Co,, belng situated close tu thelr Slopie Buuk mine, Oureaching tuls vuilding, it becawy appsreul that somebody had brokon the alads in tho windowa fn two or thres places. ‘Ilio reporter #eked su explanation of the small, round hole in vach winduw, **Oh," sald Iuformant, very coolly, that ls where w mince named Pat Creban 840t at Mend about April 7. Keud sod bo came down cther on the traln, and Pat Yrasextecincly alectiouate, uaylng it Rteud wus Bis Lest friend. and that be could lick any —— — that aaid Mr. N. was auvtbing outside uf & gentle- wan, When they got off tho tratu Pat changed 3 whispered coufercuce with sov- oral uther min fred twice st Mr, Kend, utslde thie bullding., Kend came Into tho otice where w0 of us (Edsall sod Baluea) were, aud got o plstol, by own baving proved uyel o Who wis freucled With driuk, Lattered ot tha . door, - and" gaally itend siot twice at him through the other window. Crenan‘s triends taok him awa; awarrant was procured from Coslngton he had ' akipped out," * Four holes throngh the windows andone thronzh the door corrohorated in their munte way this evidence, and farnished alditional data =g to the profite of mining, Teasinz thin acenc n vialt was pald to Rendtown, In the Arst honse was fornd an Irish lady named Dongherty, _**\Wlere i Patrick?’ was the qucry, *+Snre ho'adown in Tesns, working on a far-ram, " was the renly, Tougherty — was one of the etrikors, and Jind enflcient money lald by to cnnrar him lo_the Southwest, Teaving bis wifo and and fone children dependent on the Unfon and un charity, In the nost place visited wan fonnd o young man apparently somes what auperlorto tho” average ran of mincrs, 1o lay swathed In blankets In front of a stove, And s wife, with the inevitable fve yonnz children (four at her heels and one at the breast), apolozized for hia non-rising by raying that he was ** jnst anaking,' having & scvere attack of the agne. After n'visit to tho elope-bank and No. 1 shaft, botl operated hy Itend & C.y HNGTOWN came next In order, an'l is certalnly worthy of o paragraph an fts own nccount, Stringtown I8 the bislicse centre of the Casl Creek district, It differs little from conntry vil- Tages renerally, excent asto the predoininant nime her of saloons, and there were very few people to be seen anywhere around. Twenfy or thirty big, hnlking miners ornamented the hencehes in front of the different saloons, and wera burlly enzaged in carryinz on the characteristic industry of that sec- tion, namely, ** whittling. " Seversl of theae peculiar prodncts of an imperfect civilization were interviewed, but 1o " little effect. 'They on't ke to say anything — without” —consoitation with thelr **mates.” Perhaps, if the pentienton woald ree Mr, Hargrenves, he might tell him something, Mr, Hargreaves was Presldent of the Miners' Unlon, and could, If ha would, apeak for them all. Accordingly, and by the time HNARGREAVES tras hunted up and asked if he hiad any objection tu furnish facts and flgures, e hait an objection. 1o trould niot ray & word to any repreacntativo of o newspaver, especially of ono which was, as he phrased it, favorable to the intcrests’ of the operators anid opposed to the workingnan, tues- tianed as 1o tho grannd of his belle! that Tz Trin uNE hnd disceiminated against the minces on any nccaalon, lie could furaishnone. o acknowledied that the facts na {o the cause of thostrike were ns stated above, Lut he didn't want to xtay nnd talk. 11e was busy! (1o has not dono a stroke uf work for nearly two months, and don't know how to get throngh the day, ) *+ Well, them, U1 tell you,* this In a burst of confidences **1am waiched, and dare not atay here.™ Instigated by 8 gesticular motive on 1lare greave's part, the reporter luoked out to thestreet,, and there behield two shambilng, slonching specl- monn, deputed Dy tho - Unlon fo ' eeo that their Presldent did not hold any converastion with that much-dreaded repreacniative of the press. ‘I'he man himeelf, n strong, sturdy norta-conntry Engllshman, scamed to be ashaned of the dog's part e was forced o rl:y. and shrauk away, apolodizing ne he went, lo'was civil throughont, but ho dared not talk. 1ls own pasition, his power with the men, dwalt upon the tuin of a halr, and the very nien who look upto him to*day are Hable to turn and rend him toemotraw Al furthor attempts (o pet o ainele word of [nformation from the mincrs were futile after this. The reporter was n **markodt n na little ikely to get a clvitanswer as §t b Parinh in o canureyation of Brahmina, Sposking gonerally a3 to thu appearance of the place, there s no nir of squatld p»vanr about it. Tho houses are neat frame steucturcs, solldly bullt, and the property of tho different companics, In tach ono the furniture ts superior In quality and quuntity to that possesscd by agricultarists 1n that reglon, thaschildren Juoked fut and well-favored, and the women showed nosymptoms of starvation, It Is understood that In this, as In other shinliar casca, the weaker vessolsara in r\snln(meulmngen nx Is shuwa by the fact that the aingle men ore run(l( to comu to terms, whilo the mareled mincrs obstinately hold onit. 1t was next in urder to Ingnire as to WAOES AND 110UItS OF WORK. On this subject the statisulcs were enslly obtainn- ble, and are as follows: 11y rule of the Unlon, no man, belic overso industrivusly disposed, may come mence work before 7 u, m. Liy 11330 he must firo his **shot," and the simuitancoua firinz off of the Dbinets causes wo much smoke 1n the pit that work 14 not resnmed until 1 p. m. At 5 o'clock in the cveningall quit, us per Unlon rale, and thus it will Lo ween that the miners' work at tha outaide efeht and one-half hours per day. Muny of them full even {o keep up to this wtandard, for belng pald by tho ton, thoy have no overlooker, and can work much, little, or natat_all, as they please, Few make more than five days a week, many only three, and the woek: fpliowing pry- day, m;‘w:lnllj in flush times, fs saturnalia, whilel it would require tho pencil of Hogarth to prnnflly depict. ‘The number of men em[nloynd on the creek s a8 follows: McClolland & Pardoc, abont 15305 Ine diana Block Cual Campany, 85 to 00; Tountaln Coal L‘umgnny. 0010100; W, . Rend & Co., sbout 130. As to wages. the mato seltled in Aprll, 1876, and paid up o, the timo of thostriko waa 80 cents perton. Contracts aro mado by the year, and tho miners went out be- fure thelr contract was completed, They are ea- pecinlly favored in that they work in a five-foot roam of coal, while in the (] n{ Connty minea the #cam ia from twenty-four to thirly Inches thick, and \ho wages oro 10 to 15 conta per busbel lower than In Fountain County, If tho miner is taken from his work and put at nnything elso, urage and the luws of the Unfon dictate that he must bo patil the equivalent of threo tons of coal, being the inincrs’ estimate of a s ‘get,™ It s only falr, . therefore, fo aseume, Ly thelr own tzures, that they can avernge $2.40 per day, whilo the pay-rolls show that steady workers can do considerably hetter, Day handd work from7 a, m, to noun and_from 1to s p. ni, e wages an fullows: Drivers, §2: road- 403 Inborers and fall-cleanery, S1.00to trflplmn (Lo U0 to 75 cents. Tho e lay the tracus, even into the ** roonis®* or excavations, find all the posts and other necessary lumber, and pay for driving **entrees™ at the rate of 81,42 per Muneal foot, "paying the rogulation tates for the coal excavated In'the operation, Thae dhzging In through coal entirely, except whero an necusional ** horsoback, " or lminp of cizy, or stone, 14 met with, and for this allowanca Is made on the basiy of 82,40, Un the other hand, the minera have to find pow- der, and ol for thelr Jamps, and, an is the caso the world uver, huvo w&xmvhlo thelr own tools. Tha nvem}o owder uscd 14 one keg, costing 83.73, to cacl forty tuns of coal, 11alf a gallon of oll, coat inge 60 centd, will st a morth, and a 10-tent lamp will do duly for a year, Aunotner volnt much In fuvor af thi miners ou Conl Creek Is the MANNER IN WILICIL TIE COAL IS WEIGHED, It must be_undermtood that paynient ls made for lumr coalulone, This question 14 not at present lndlspute, but it Is necessnry here to wtate it, Tho wilucrs load-up the "trucks with coal, and whea they reach tho tipple they arb dumpoi over a scroen into s car, Only. the fumps caul fulls into the car, the nut conl mifting through thio bars of the sereen, and tho siack aguln slftin: through these bare, and il falling futo differen receptacled, Creck 14 come Tho (irst screch at Coal }muu of Inch bar, sct ulnmond-wise, uml thre ourtlse of an Inch apart. Iu the Pennvylvania df teict the dintance between the Lars ranises frons an fuch toan fnch and n holf, thus ch’ Incronsing tho quantity of nut coal, for which the mmer gotd nopay, und reducing the quantity of lump, for wlieh ' o - recelvos conts yor ton, The miner luas to sort out atl **black-Jack ™ or other objectionablo material, and f ho trles to ring thin In will bo detacted by tho " weigh-boss™ and fined for *thid coal, " Un none of taees palnts, howover, havo thero been any quarrels. and they aro only mentloned Incldentilly, oy showing the practice i Fountain County, Waites huve been puld regularly on the 15th of each montly aud hers Je notu man on the ereek to whom a dullar s due, unlvss £ be tho watch. men und _othors wtlll emplovod goout the mines, 10 \wham tho curront month's wages is still comlng, Bu far from any aitompt ot pereccution, Jtmay be hers wiated thut the men living iy the Cowpany’s housod have had no denands nada on thew for rent since tho fucoptiun of tho strike, and thut overy oug of Lhem 1# in ueht on thiv account, Eo fur as to the status und suclal condition of the menj 10w o fow wonds may be said on . THE CONDITION 0P THE OPEIATONS, tho price they reccive for the coal, and fho marzin, ir nuyl‘ left to pay for futerest on capital ciaploy. ed. The shaits” vary iudepth from eisty-lve to sitnety feet, an engiuo und holsting apparatus 18 raqulred at eacl one, and, bevide tho winers, wany handsare employod. In the year 1872 pl 8 toi was pald for mining and coal sold ut tho wiuca for § 70 (0 8150 pee tow, thu drat figurvs on lurge coutracts und the iatter on local orders, “Y'o.iay tho uporators wauld be glad to sell at 1. 50 10 $1. U5 por ton at tho winos. ~ Last year Rend & Ca. lled contructs nt $2.03 per “ton delivercd in Chicago, thiv year they bid at 82,50 and falled to Rettho coutruct, the Wlinington Cual Company taking it at $ The frolyght from Coal Creek 10 Chlcago le n0w 215 per carof twelva tons, and it whl readily Lo ween that at such Aguecs profits are an linpossibility, It is further apparent et whils tho price of coal has fallon i than a dollar, the wilners have uvnty bacn upon tu bear a reduction of 20 cents per ton. 1 order to urrivo at un entlrely unbiased defint. :jlll::‘ln ol the situstion, your correspondvay calied PATHER MAUK, a Catholic priest statloned In Covington, but who alsg gubraces in bis uastorute the adjucent Village of Mlurshileld and the Coal Creek disteict, Last {ur this gentleuan, wha partakes much moro of De mivatoudry thau the parlsh priest, succeed- ed in crectinga charch at Stringlown, 'snd thura ho has hetd rviccs as often ag Knullah. Fathor Mark has labored much fu mining dlatricts, bLas bullt up no less than twelve cliurches In out- of-the-way sud berotofore anesplored sud 4 3 won of great experience and conslderab! sagucity, 1lo waw questivned av to the soctal cone ditton of the miocrsand thele habite of life, und answered as follows: **Tue wining population, 88 you know, are rmverhhnr whiftless aud fm- rmvlduul. ‘They will work threo of four days In be week and loaf tho rest of tho time. Of codrsu there are womy exthlanl. epuclally auouy the unwareled men, but thess ary cumparattvely few, " **llow do the Coaf Ureek men compare with otlicrs you bave uet}* "'l'lwx ure the rouvhest und hardestsct 1 have ever bad anytbing tu do with. 1have been sta. tioned wuch” auiong wiuers, and bave seen sl classes, minlng for coal aud for all kinds of min- erals, Jucludiug guld, but never aaw such a rough 1ot o4 those on the creek, ‘Ehicy aroof all untional. iMes—German, Prench, English, Welal any Irla, tho uttér formiugn walority'of the whole. m"l: thers auy destitution of want smonyst e **Yes, (hero are s numoverof ihem ju want. About three-fourt) 1w wen bave ¢learod out, und have guno o work fu uther plac b cuttiug rallrogd tew ut 81,45 per day, Buwe are sonlo wotke {ng on faru, aud scattered aroun § foerully, Viio wWomen aud chltdren rewzio, and bave ergenlzcd THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1877.—TWELVE PAGES, bLazeing parties which go ont through the country, and aolichs ala foam the farmer. There have Bech some applications in Covington, and some families havo appled to (he township for reliel, When the Mrike Lmkhe ans eyt nmuney nid by, how who kept boardinz-houacs noncy owlng to Them. Bat thelr debtors went. Away, and they are vithont money." Do they aitend upon your ministrations rega. o Tarl “Eince the striko thers have been moro attend. ants than formerly. It wais useless for me topo down there the Sanday after pay-day, for they wonld all be drank In the saloons.” Lately I told them that unleeatho 2aloons weroclosed on Ennday | would give them np: that wans aincs the strike, "1 usedl to hold rervices every third !Imdn{' gving them two Sundaya to get drmak on, buat 1 hoped to hold a fortnightly ecrvico. Dut there doesn't seom tntich hopo of that now, ™ **What do you think of the prospects for a re~' sumption of irork?™ ** 1 don’t think there will te anything dono this sammer. If they went to work now there would he no onlers (o fill, the contracts having il been made clsewhere, ™ ** What du you know abont the wages, and what do you think abont the proposed rednction?" ** At 8O cents per lon, as pald Iast year, the miners could live very well and save monoy. If they hau been ro minded,” T think that at 00 centathe rood workmen might be able toget along, but those not weil qualified would get a poor vin. ** 1low do tho prices paid on the creek compare with those at other minc: ¢+ Duting 1ast year the mines on Coal Creek got 10 to 14 cent ton more than those at Brazll {Clny County, Ind,). Atliraz(] the work is much harder. and the miners on the Crook coald et out o lon per day more than the Brazil men, " The abave were the chicf polnts touched npon hy Father Mark, 8 man probably knowing more of tho miners, (belr habits, customs, and characterlstics than any one elso, Comlinz up on the train, the correspondent got Into converention with the conductor, Mr, Strong, who liay been statloned on the road and at the mines for scveral years, Althougheympathizing, 88 a Inborinz man himself, with the working had tho excnsen wnatever to furnish for of Conl Creek. Ho took A MORE GLOOMY VIEW of thele resources than did even the priest, and fald that within a week of the rtrike many of them were sollciting earity, They would borrow o team and drive off ten or fflcen miles into the conntiy, mlxrcmnun: themselves as starving, and seldoni faillng to rclum without some fangible proof of the farmers' suft-heartedncss, ** By the way," sald he, **Iheard you wers down thero, bt dldn's kpow that you were the man they mesnt, Several of them sald 1o me that u representative iyr‘ a _ Chicago paper had been around, hul get anything ont of them. 1. nsk then why “not, and lhe{‘ fald that oil the papers were down on them, showed thent last Saturday's Tainuxe, whore the «tatements of tho Braldiwood miners were given {n full, and asked them ir that did not look itke a de- airetodo tho fair thing by all parties, 1 guess that by this time they wien thoy had told you what they had to sayt but then, they had no case, that wad the tronble," Other weli-posted persons ot tha mine d at Covington corroborated this view of the sitoation, All eld that the miners wore wrong In en,mul(ng ns 8 body the personsl quarrel of Itend’s men. When this was taken up by them tha operators wera comnelled to nssume the offenstve, The mon Tinrareaves appears to rula the mincrs absolntely, althouvh o comparatively newcotner in the alstrict, Tosscusing all tho qunlities of & demagogue, and baving rather o better education than hiw follow- ers, to carry o strike to a successful termination would bo to him glory enougl for sevan years, llo made an excireion {nto Clay County in_scarch of nasntstunce, but found nonv, and during Wis absence nv meetings could bo called. The miners thom- relves allege that the meeting at which it was de- cided to stare work with Rend's men was in no Acnse A representative one, belng composed al- tiust entirely of tho strikers themaclves, 1t Is certaln that but for tho bulidozing which lias been prac- ticed, nmajority of the men would gladly resume work if they could et it, Inu,I althouglh’ they are in the majority, thoy are afeald to speak ont. A moral terrurlsm refgne, and that it has noteo far developed Inte Incendiarlsm and murder {s simply bocaust none havo yet been found bold enongh to stand up and opposo the ruling pawers, With rufinru to the probable duration of the strike nothing can be sald, The operstors claim that they bave made no money, bave no contracts to fill, "and may oa well romain ldlo ae not. They can stand it, so thoy say, aslong as the * miners can, and ‘want tho iesus 8s to whether they nare to manage thelr own works ur not settled at once and foreve er. Ong {mmt has been omitted In speaking of the action of lsrgreaves which may possibly to some extent explain it. ‘That ls, that an impression had got abroad among the miners that tho operators od to meet them on the day on which your correspondent visiled the mines, *The rumor, be. Ing traced dawn, was found to be entirely bascless, but it may have had tho eMect of lnduclnfl the men to bellevo that the less they sald the bettor for them, He thetas it may, the operators hold that they have mubmitted thelr ultimstum, ond thoy wlll owait dovelopments and anfagswer from the winers, gl e —, THE LOUISIANA COMMISSIONERS CRIT- ICISED b the Editor of The Tribuna, » Cateano, Apdl 27,—The Commlssioners ape pointed by the President to pacify Loulslana say o’ thelr report: **Indced, ns to Presidential Electors, the mode of taelr appointment fu by the Conutltutlon of tho United Statea left to the dls- crotlon of the Legislature of tho State; thercfore tho Goneral Assembly of Loalslana might creato nnr tribuual whatover, and cenflde to it the ap- l‘u" n{mym of Electors of President and Vico.Pros- ent, " ‘The prlnul‘xlu that a Legislature can transfo from the State to a spocinl tribunal of its own creatiun, the powor to appoint P'resldential Ele ors, 1s Important in Its conscquences, and If it can- not ba found in our volitical syatem, tho duclara- tlon by so great an authority that it is there should not be allowed to paes unquestionod. . The Constliution **Each State ahall ap- polnt, in such manncras tho Leglvlatura thereof maydiruet, a namber of Blectors cqual to the whole number of Senators and Itepresentatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congrovs, ‘The proviston {s the Sfafe ahall appolnt three Electors, and tho modo of such appointment shall ba dirccted by thu Legislature, A Btato Is an in- dependent political socsety, In thissense it {s aynonymoue with natlon, A State in th Federal nion'1s a political society independent except in ®0 far as it s reatralned Dby tho Constitu- tion that oreaniced the Unlon. It ls com- posed of thoso persons who within & prescribed nolitleal power, an thought of without viewins It nea palitical orvantamm, yet the persons wha administor its governmont da nat. conutituts tho State, They aro llmpl{ muembors of 1lio politieal soclety wha have been nalected to per- form certatn public dutles. The ci.amcter of such kovornment must {u our system be republican, — that 19, 1t must be establishud by the people or neberd of (his polltical loc’olr. and it must wecnre to them the right of sol n‘llnr me- dlately of immediately tie pursons who admfnister it. Thy Legislature may Invest (teclf with the nower to appuint these Electors. In such ¢ase the nppointimont Ly tho peoplu fu inediate; that fs, vy pursons thoy themselves bave wolected to maka the awpolntment, and such appointment 1a mude by tho State fn the samoc sonss that Its rep- fuscntatives In the Unitod Blates Renate are apuointed by the Hiate. Thu prlncl\ln annaunced In this report fanot that the Leulelas tare may appuint Klectors of President and Vico. President, liut that It may create a speclal tribunal composed of £wo oF ore Persons, and give o It the power to mako such -Ppolnlmenl. It o, it can endow this trivunal with corporate facultion,— and amonz them that of perpotuul succession, and Eive to It complote excmption from judlclal or loglslative control. 1t fu manifust that such an organ can.lave no entertalnment in a republican form of governmont, and that 184 ap- Llulnlccle:m in no rflwurlnnu bo sald to have een appointed by tho titate, 1 dlwsent from anything sald by thls Commission with ditidence, 1 view of the great weight which Justly attachies tu any sentinients which tho omie hont gentlemen composing it may uxprf'-l. ——— MORRIS ITEMS, Bpectal Correspondencens Ths Tribune. Monnte, TL, Aprll 20,—Tho day has boen observed by the Odd-VFellows in o parade snd sd- dress, Thero are a numbor of vistting brothren from other plai ‘Tt Court-louse waa lled to hear an addry famlily furnis cxcellont music, ‘The Congrezational Bociety has to-dav removed all of tho} fncumbrances apun thom, amonnting to $U,700, (o Aulutut uecessary liaving beon sub: l¢l’|l)fl.||lliJlnlln!{ tu o pald Lefors the 1st of lll: 3 ::-.dd evory dollar of the subscription bae been colleeted, ——————— WHICH SHALL LEAD ? ‘What anclent poels sang as Love, And soma still blindly sing, Is not that meck-cyed, gentle dove, Hu\ a strange, monstrous thiny, liad Passion tortures whilo he rel, Y T Y Then leaves Lis victin bound fn chaing To aud blighted age. cet angol, strewa her fowers ' h's barren FO! 1e 3 Aud llgute and cl suul's dsrk Lgvre d ch ha Down to lifu'y sunsos day, Uer alabaster temple stands Gdumlnzllllluv by light; Y theoltar, with poro hands, ttands Vesta, robed ja wi Nor does the goddess o'er dlsdaln To teud the sacred re; Nor ever frow Lot sacred fane Neod angcl-guards retiro. Lovewill unbar the pearly gate ‘Yo leaveu's enchanted bowers, And souls who on bor fuatetepe walt Crowa with immiortal fowers. But l’flulvn binds his viclim's will, Andlurcea Liu far satray Thraugh templing vigtss opening still, “Til, loat tho haveuly way, e treads o burned and hlackened waste, Whence a1l swel things bave ded, Whero alt of beauty (s vllaced, And fiowve and song-bird dead, BxLYA WiLomig. THE GAINES CASE. The Romance of Now Orleans at Last Concluded. Myra Clark Gaines’ Struggles for an Inheritance. The Question of Her Logitimacy and of Hor Father's Will, Special Correspondence of The Tribune. NEw Onuraxs, La,, April 24, —Mre. Myra Clark Galnes has boen prorecuting her elaims to an enor- mous property in andabout New Orleans, the valne of whichis placed by persons of enthusiastic dis positions st somothing ke 230,000,000, J sup. pose Mrs. Galnes would be glsd to conipromise for one-quarter of this sum. She has been befors the courts now for thirty-fve years, Correspondents who know thalr businoss always feol in daty bound fo apeak of her as the Miss Flite of America, and 1f there were any fallure to compare Yhe Jitigation in which she has boen engaged to the celebrated case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, the pudlic woald have abundant reason to feel aggrieved and out- 1aged. Whether Mrs, Gainea ls TIHE IS8 PLITE OF AMERICA or not, remains t¥bo scon. The parallel may hold more strictly true than many persona now suppose. The judzment rendered In hee favor is not, as has been reported, final. The declslon s by Judge Dillings, of the United States Court In the State, and there fano reason, In the nature of things, why an appeal may not be {aken, and Mrs. Gaines dio bofore the end Is reachtd, She realizes well enough that the $30,000,000 spoxen of by her trusting ndmircrs fa rather an Ideal figure, and the many efforta she has made to secure compromises shows that even her courageons spirit, has ot last grown weary of tho fight. She offers to give thoe city a clear titleto tuo property sold by It under tho first will in 1840, Ier torma aro §1,000,000. Tlie city sold the property for £000,000, which it would now coat in the neighborhood of $3,000,000 to refund. Mrs. Gnines' STRUGGLR WITI TNR COunrs has been a continuons record of pertinacity, fntol- llf:ent effort, and lavish expenditare of moncy. Bhio has spent several large furtunes in the courts, nd remitted nothing from the dil), which she bosmn the original prosccution, Much of the properly obtained by “her under difforent suits has beon devoted to the purpose of car- ryln, on others, and fnanclal stralte At fimes © havo been of the most distressing nature. As late na 1874, slie finally obtained posscselon of property estimated to be wvorth $0, 000,000, and hns ever wince been a weal« thy woman. Now, at the age of three-score-and. ten, which tho Scriptures have sct us the limit of ordlnary human cxlstence, she filnds horscll ling with her uld enemy, which has new heads di valuped fo take tho place of avery old one destro; cd. The immonse 1mnen{ knoivrn as the Winter, or Tlopawalk claln, situated -In tho very lieart of New Urleans, was not, it should be understood, affecied by the recent declalon of dndgo Dillings. That clolm was adversoly passad tipon by the Lund Oice at Washington, ‘nud has a procoss of final adjudication in the is ownern of that claim," wsays the New Orleans Democral, ** hava 1o reason for ape IIun or disturbanco [a regard to thelr titloor sslons. 313, GAINES bright, active old woman, of Indomitablo courage, 5ho and her ltttle biack boy are familiar #ights in the streets of Nuw Orleans,” The peopla here have learned to reapect her, and even those who fear tho results.of her lawsuits have a kind feelingsomewhero for the indefatigable plalatitf. 'rhugnmnwmberhow by sho argued her own case in 18061, when tha Judge was ngalnst her and her attorneys had been whut out from the Court, or had retlred therefrom, in consequence of & quarral with the Judge, Tho littla lady pleaded with signal ability, snnbbed the Judge, fascinated the jury, and telomplied in tho end, mmni by hor nsa mural power aud protactor was her husband, Qen. Edmund Pendleton Ualnes, the senlor General of our anay. lie foucht at Fors Erle, thwarted B conspiracy in Loutsiann, and in later 1vas the bosom friond of Andrew Jackson. Ciatlin fall _uniform, ho ent avery day in the conrt-room and lstened ntlentively td the progress of the cass | and it was underatood that ho was prepared to try in the court of honor any appeals which his wifo might take there from tho clvil tribunal in which she was engaged. In this capacity ho was obliged 10 rebuko tho epgonlnl counsel, touching his hand rignificently to "his wword, and it was ohsorved thereafter ‘that tho strictest decorum pravailod in the court-room. Mrs. Gaines' caso s a complicated ons, dividing naturally into two branches, Thefirat question concerned, THR LRGITINACT OF RER DIRTIL Her father wasan Irlshman who lunigrated to New Orleana at the beginning of this century, and Inherited the esiates, aven then cansidorable, ol uncly, 1le married ot Thiladelphia in 1803 of Zuline Carriore, 1t Is acknowledzed on all sldes that slie pmnau-lr lmd contracted a_matrimonial gngagement, but v way assurted and proved that hor trast husband had committed bignmy In miartying her. Ho was never convlcted, but was sent to prisonand escaped. Ils wife, assuming the blb’flm{ o4 a fact, entered Into this sccond al- Hance witl ‘Tho reslt of this marrlage was two children, Myra, {athe o yuvmger of whom, herolne of our story, Shortly after her birth, her paronts dllu¥uod, each suspecting—with too much reason, it is fearcd—the ‘delity of the other. Clark, with & want of chivalry Ifitle conalstont with Lis character in other rcspects, thencelorward ale lowed his wife to rest ander the Imputation of be- ing hin mistross, and his children to bo accused of Sltegitimacy., T yInSt wiLL, * Acting under the feelings aroused by this dls. agreement, he in 1811 mude a will, sppolnting hin mother, Mary Clark, universal legateo, and nam-. ing us’ his executors Chew and Iteif. hla partners, ‘Thesos pariners, armod with power ofattarnsy, pro« caeded to dlapose of the proporiy, acliing fv by {xurccl- and Ly lots, The titics given by them are hoso under which all the defondants to the sults originally instituted Ly Mra, Gaines hold. Hor clalm rests upon the alleged making of A BECOND WILL, b’ which the property was devised to the children of Clark, instead of fo hie nother, This will hos unever been discovared, but Its existonce has boen extablishod on the testimony of frlends of the de« ceased, and by abundant corroborative evidence, TIIB TAAK OF MIL3, GAINES, then, was to prove first that sho was legitimate, aud In tho second placo that her fathor had mods a will ‘uhl!(‘llflll to tho onu of 1811, Hhe wuccecded in both particnlars. The bigamy of her mothor's ~ first husband ~ was cleatly eatablishied, and It wos proved that Mr, Clark had repcatedly, In the prescuce of many wit. nesses, aflirmed tho legality of his marrlage, 1t ls waid that witnesscs to the vprior marrisye of the first husband wore ymduml. and satiflod the Court asto the fact o hlxnmi. As to tho second , It was shown that & Mrs. Bmythe, who suckled Myra, saw the document and read'it, It o 3 sooma to theory of Judgo Hillings that the peraons who presented tho first will for " probute knew . of the ox. latenca of snother which would supersodo 90, that a Mr. Bolsfontalne, alverting tho property one way or the other, and who had been In fntimate ‘business relations with tho deceased, was Informed only two davs befors the death of tho Iatior that another will had been executod, and what the pur- rnn of it was, Anotlior witiess, Do la Croix, tes- ided to the same effect. and sald hu had been whowntha will by Clark, who Intimated tu him the nature of {ta contents. Soveral other porsons cor- roborated these statemonts. The Court In render- iy tho fnal deelslon touched upon TUIS VELY INTERESTING POINT: ‘The will not being found after his death, he ru-umpllun al law overcome by the ovidence In ho caza? Is It proved that thy will existod up to and aftor the death of Clark? Tt docs not seein to ine t0 bo necessary to cunclude that ltelf destroyed it. Clark may have deposlted {8 with some persan who never produced It, © What docs the evldence show us to tho continuance of fts cxistence up to tho time of hls deathi The mind of auy one familar with the evidence In this case, It being establishod by trreiragabls tostimony that ha had made the will of 1811, 'would be reluctant to batieve thats father who had by o lasi will given ail his [xmp-ny to an ouly daughter, “who from o ruason probably " that the ackuowledges ment of the marrlago with hor mother would luye fulerfered with his personal ambition, had during his lifetimo withheld such snacknowl- edgment frum tha public; bad, tu fact, Jived a “twolold life,—ono Enrl of which wus nececaarlly {ncunsistent with the otnor,—but who had con« tered upon this daughter oll the afection which o father was nrblw of feeling. 1say ths mind of any one would reluctantly reeel he conviction that be had, without auy chsnge in k! atances, sad without sny reason seslgocd or asal; able, upon his deathbed Liave chanzed bis pl; left his daughte, rpennlisas, uscaplisig tho pruvivion shbich he had made fur bher through Dellechasse, 1 do not say tust the wresuuiption srising from theso central fucts lu Clark's life would In 1aw be sufiiclent to show that the will of 1811 sur- vived him, but I do say they prepare the mind to find fn the rucord she testimouy which will eatabe liah that fact, “TUR DECISION ia favor of Mz, Galucs is noi 8 new one.. S has been alwost invartabl n 1 courte, but lus been subjected to endless oul ances through appeals and couutor-suits, resl ance to writs of e{t:clmem, ete. The fall jmpos tance of Judye Dilllugs’ decrua will not -‘rnnar ul tit sumo of these latter writs mro busucd, Moun- while the whole caso furnishes an justructive commentary on vur mutbods of Judicial procedury, Which some abler_pen ihan ting must uscds tass up aad expand. Mrs. Myra Clark Galues, 1fshe ia ever established in ber rh‘hu, wlll have obtalocd them st llnhuponn of heults und happlaess, und o an age when she s simoat withoat the power to enjoy them. G, W —— DECATUR NEWS AND GOSSIP, Bpecial Cortespandence of The Tribune. Dxcatun, 1L, April 20.—The Rev, Mr. Talmaze arrived fn town 10-day, and ls stopping ot the bt Micholas Hotel, ‘Tha temperauco inasd-mesting hold last night at nterest the Irst M, B, Church waa Iargely attended. and the enthusinem dispiayed showed that’ the people heroare deeply fnterested in tho temperance ques. tlon. Mr, Crampton, of Chicago, nddressc 4 meeting In an able and interesting tnanner. For the lant few daya it has rained almo: . tinually, making the'ronds very bad, and deferng the farmers from plowing and planting, and connes guulnly(hn merchants growl and the Grangers owl, Tiut bad weather and hard times don't eeem to Affect the matrimonial market, for weddings and rnmors of weddings fli] the alr, and repart sa; thata swell-known wenlthy young widow lady captive in the trawn of Love.” The happy benediet that 18 10 be fs & Captaln in **lhe army of the Lord.™ oz in other wards, he iaan Eplscopsl min- feter, and is shephord of o flock [n the sontharn part of the State, ' And it is furthermore stated tkat the afarementioned couple will board the whip of wedlack and anchor in the port of matri- mony nbout the first of next month. Sherarhsetony b i THE SERPENT-CHARM, [A SEQUEL TO THR ‘‘DEATH-CLOCRK IN THE THIDUNE OF APRIL2L] Written for ThAa Tribune. So you thonght me *‘quite dead.™ my dear Doe- tor, and done forever with the care ard fret, the work and worry of, this mortal world, —the great ante-room (o the epiritual Jife? Well, well. Thers's many a soul slips out of humen view for & apace that would como back to its old fenement ngain {f you were not in auch hate to at- ter over It the solemn-sonnding ceromonlals of the grave: to pronounce. with awful Impressiveness, betwaen the hollow echolng of falling cioda upon tho cofln-lid, the slow, shnddering sentence of doom—**Earth to earth, ashes toashes, dust to dust!" How long 1 lay in the deep trance which you called death, you aro Letter able tatell than I, who had therein no perception of time or space, 88 humanly comprehended, Nieing out of the desd, stagnant walors of for- getfulness,—tha fabled River of Death In which I Aeemed to have been ntterly submerged,—~I was consclons first of adull throb of paln, succeeded by anlow, crecplng, deliclons sense of peace and content, tho sonrca of which Tdid not even have thoughit to wonder about, much 1evs cara to know., Gradaally there grew upon mo an jmpression of Nving presenco to which my senso of eight was sealed. I heard, as in & droam, eoft, thrilling, wordiess straina of song, I drank, with languld bliss, the sweet insplration of.a subtly-perfumed breath; I felt, with stierlng 1ife, the fan- ning of cold electelc currents of air, as of hanils flonting In mesmerio waves over my head. ‘Though conscloualy in the body, sl power of mo- tlon seemed suspended, or rather under the control of a will ‘outsido my own, which was wholly dor- mant. Buddenly, without warning or effort, my eyesopenedona vislon of womanly grace and beauty bending over me with a smlic of fascination thatdrew my soul llko lightning from the cloud ‘which had imprisoned it. Involuntarily.I roso up, gazing with the entiro absorption of every facnity of my being Into the decp lustrous eyes which held me by some subtlo charm I had no care tb analyze tor wish to resist, Witched by the glow and scin- tillation of thoso wondrous orbs, I dld not mark at onco tho uncertain, dream- like transformation of tho beautifal woman Into & serpent form, nmor did I feel any fleshly shrinking when the lovely, shining head, slowly Josiog its distinctive human contour, flat- tened to snako:like mold, with soft, vibratory, fascinating movement hefllnr time tu the murmusr of the worldless song which had first stolen on my slomboring sense, ‘I'ruc, thero was with me some vague improssion of horror that scemed to have be- longed to a former stato of existonce, but I recard- cd it only with dull, uncomprehending wonder, {leldlnn myself nbaolntely to the enchantment of ho jowel eyes whose suft, iridescent flames way- ercd bewllderingly with the undulatin g}l;uo of tho slow, swaying, magnetic motion of the hoad. & love, safd I not that you would come when [ callod Wan It serpent or womsn that spoke? The form recnied to anift from one to the other before my vislon. Dot tho old fegond of the snaxe ulkmE " with our first mother in the Garden of Eden stucl like n burrin the tissues of my lhonr)hl. If that exrurienco wero urged upon my bellef, might not this etrange phenomena of human spoech on the tonguo of my sorpent-charmor be accredited as a zenl 1y? s l{ylovnl my lord!"* murmured seductively my beautiful enchianter, showing me now the regal hoad and glorfous face of 'Virginis, which was neyor absent from my dreams. 1 tooched with my languld hand the radiant crown of halr, tracad, with lingering eyes, the ox- quisite outline of cheek and chin, tho tender curva of the lovnrl{ lips that pouted again to say, with & thrillof triumpa in- tho woll-remembared volce, **You have comel At Inat you Lave como!". . Then I bogan vaguely to wonder about myself, **AmIdead” ) questioned, curtously regard. ihn' tho hand [had liftod to stroko my darling's ond., **Nay! alire,—more absolntely and truly alive than over befors, though notln the earth,” an. awerad the aweot Inatructre: ‘*And Is this Heaven, the: T asked again, with danbtful survey of my surroundings, which scemad 1n no wiee to difer from thiose long familisr. ‘The beantiful one, lllnglnl back into the sorpene tino gruce of form and subiticty of exprossion once more, flashed on me o smlle wise aud pltiful, ** You bring with you the gross limoranco -nrunullnn pertainfng to mortal life," she sald with a superior aiz, **Know you that Ieavon fe no place, but a spiritusl condition, which you have 110 nocd to cross the river of doath to find, which, indeed, If ylun attain not In tho body, you will be slow in arriving at ont of it. Tasted you never the Lilss of lleaven, my idol?" . **What was that in the old days ‘amongthe feles of the Antllles,’ when you sst with mo beside the sca, and sang 1o me sougs of fn-lnmln tonder. ness—waa not that ileaven?" I murmured witha falnt thriil of tho remembared ecstacy. T| rpent-woman scemod to glow and expand with {nexprossible delight, *'Then, so, you shall find Hoaven agaln, my love," shosald with exult- ant joy, 1 m’mnl tall It wo moved from onr place, bat the scene, with extension of thought, appeared to change, Nothing was fixed and pormanent, bnt as we talked with v of feollny sand fancy, the u lhlllvg its syinbols In harmony with oar mtate. Wondrous, aubtls wisdom of spocch flowed from the tongue of my consort, who, when she loaned towards me In the glorions likeness of my lost Virginia, acintillatsd with the jaweicd eyes of ser- ponts glittering tn acaly gold on neck and wrists, and darting In wicked sploudor from the lustrous folds of herhialr, - Yet this wonderful philosoph of lifs unfulded to my understsnding, thnnu?l t appeslied powur{ull,ln my Intellectual facultl acemcd not to satisfy the divine part of my folt inyxelf at woments withdrawn fram m nating friend, and partially dend to thespoli of her enchuntinent. In one of thesa abstractions I was_consclous first of sn flisenco or a force combating with allont power the attraction that had held” and drawn ne for so long u time, The tender memaries of yonth svrang up like spring fowers fn my v a white dove clrcled softly over my head, and the faint, sweet bresth of violets stirlliod delleatoly tho alr, Lringing to my thought tho pure maldun face that had whone like » star in the hr beaven of my boyhood dreams, and which, falling suddouly into tho vlack cloud of the grave, had loff dosolate and lost for years, & tha mln!al theso symbals the conntensnca of Virginin darkenod with gnm sud pamion, the norpanis abont ber darted thielr tonguos at me'In a wort of flory rage, and with a cryof .E", ahe twliod hersolf nround me, and, with hesd pressed to uy bosom, appealed o the lova 1 kid vowed to ber In. the Intoxication of those moon-)it hours when she sany 1o ma by tho sea, ‘4 Ah, look at ino with the old worshlp In your eycal" alo prayed, ** Al, speak to me wit the thrlitng anou of tendernces that shook your volco In the old days! Tauch o with the romom- bered maguetivm of lips that drew my woul fnto & heaven of bliss I nover sluco have found! llave I* callod you hither, O iny love} my god, only to lose you utterly and forever!” A spasm of pliy and l{mgllbx atrugzled with the shuddor of repulston wiica had been vlowly creep- Ing over me, and slmost 1 was perviiaded to yln" tothe despairing plea and give m&‘mu sgain” into the power of tho chariner, Dut suddenly thero was a soft rush of dove-wings, lixe -bvhlu cloud sall- log in the nir, & stronger breath of violet swept across my cheek, and the star of my youth' 040 trembling with #ilver, radlance {u the cast. Blmultsneously with those tokens the evil beauty of the woman “on my Sosom With awlul contortions was tranaformea fn- to the glittering horror of an_angry scake, that, writhing in pain aod rege, fell holpless to the round and cront hlvlng away intosuwe outer rkness of subtloty and cunning, No sconer had this terror veulshed than beawed In Its place & vision of sweetness and Muht,—~the fair, pure, maldeia love of wy boyush ears. ¥ **What do you here, my brother?" sald tho radl« aut presence, beforc whom I bowed with & rever- unce that would not suffer nie to touch wo much as the tips of tho lovely, transparent bands oute stretchied toward mo. '* Your work on tho carth 1a not yet done, —the world from whence you cams, bath grlevous need of you. s hath wounds for you 1o heal, paina for auu o mmfinln, burdens for you to L weonge for you 8, evils for you to rout out, ond wasto places for you to make, Lud and bjossom s the rosv. Not yei ts your labo; and roward In this world where aro clearly truce: the lawa ol cause and effcct, It wus u falve call which brought yuu hither, yct none the served 8 use. 5ho who fled away at my approach bath long beld you i eachantinent, and it may Le you had need of Just this experienca ta break the fatal spell, For, though you knew It not wheo you gased vnraptured un bor dazeling Leauty, tuls be- wildering creature whom you thought you #0 louately loved In the lower lifo bad there Lo elemicuts of the serpent which you hore ses veloped, and which rondered bei peculiarly suse ceplivle to the charm of the deadly wnake that you found ber carcssing oue day with (Lo tendernss of oywpatby oxbiting between cungvnlal natures, Your altraction to ber, founded wholly on the law of upposited, had i it from the beginulng the priu- elple uf repulsion, and o the unleu uf 1l you had planned you would have reachcd lome ago tha crlsis you have just triumphantiy passe piuce b4 " mot now, ‘work ot the realm ' of pure .l.lm. tio ck to the dutles snd purpuscs that you left unfulBlicd bu the otber llte. Go back o your Bzht with the evils thad proy on tho souly aad the bodles tho, +were leading: begged and pleaded with them to ro- of men, Qo back ta yonr labor of love for tho re- generation and ralvation of sich drifting wrecks of hamanity o= come within the sphiere of yonr helping hand, There I8 inflnite good for you to accamplish In the directlon of your work and eall. ingin the world, " And with these words the vision of light faded, faded, nntll, mingling with the star that hun,z n the eant, It drew nio like 8 magnet throngh 1(mit- less apiace, vanishing at Jast in an atmosphere 100 densg and heavy to sufler ita ‘clear shinlng. A period of darkness, siffocation, and PAin enaned, in which Tacemed battling for & lost possession that yielded hut slowly to my claim. ben my eyes apened to & dim sepnlchral 1ight striking ‘faintly through whatappeared & white, semi-transparent clond over my face. Inatinet- ively, I strove to lift my head and bruah tho film away, but my power was resteicted by rome thrall bonnd tightly on my \rists, (asping for breath with the pefapiration starting from overy pore, wrenclied my handa from their Imprisonment, and, #natching the wnite obatruction from my face, 100k ed abont me with vazue wonder, At tho first m aueroundings seemedd stranye and nnreal, hutgrad- uaily tho Impression of familinr abjects gres npon mo, and I recomized the well-known napccts of my room through the funeral order and ghoatly conditiona Imposed by the acceptauceof my sleath. Smiling ot thiw novel experionce, Irat wp, clad In the fine vestmenta of the grave, which I discovered 1o have the Inconvenlence af a **front view* only, Iaying nrrm ma the nocesaity of ringing at onco for the substantial wurklds{ garb §n which, *‘clothed and in my right mind, " I might go farth again, as ou wonl 'y, With beartlcss reflection on my pro- ession, ** alaying and to slay, " Of course m; sudden alaem and ghostly appears ance cansed great consternation in the honse, and I have vastly enjoyed the terror nnd wonder inspir- ed by my resurrcction, as also tho very extraordls nary sccount of my demiso given tn Tus Tamnuxe, towhich I hex Jeavo o ndd this'perhaps equally ineredible soquel. Whether tne experlence herein related ha a ream or An actuality Ihavono means todeter. mine, but it seems to have utterly cared me, at all events, of m{ infatoation for “tho 1 fascinating beauty of the Isle of tho Antllles, As for the mysteryof the clock, my excellont Homer, T am cértain It may be cxplained on me- chanlcal principles, and I summon you withoat delay to careful investigation, the rosults of which shall be given to the publlc. Dn. Vananavs, JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE, 1 the Editor of The Tribune, Cnrcago, April 27—1t may be possible that a few of the readers of your valuablo paper who are at,| present attending the Thomas concerts may not have heard of the Iata declsion of & Massachusctts Jury in the cnso of **The People va. M, U. Sicus." The facts, simply stalcd, aro as follows: Ata symphony concert In Worcester, Masa,, tho sald Mr. 8icus was greatly annoyed by a fiend in human shapo who persiated In carrying ona fortlssimo conversation with his lady companlon, rogardicss of the hisscaand frowns of his musical nelghbors. after remonstratinga few times with 1 t, desperately drew his revolver and silenced his tormontor forever, the ball plercing }g& l&li“a whore his brains—presumedly—were At the closcof the porformanca Mr. Slens quletly dellyerod himeclf up to the officers of jnstice, but was reloased that very evening ona merely nominal bail, ‘Tho trinl oceurred about three woeks ago, when the jury, probably composed of musical peo- Rlu. declared that M, U, Sicus' action was ** justl- able homlclde. ** In view of thisdeciaton, 1t might be advisable for the munic-loving public to arm {tsolf with revoivers and bowie-knivea when preparing for a concert, for it s a foregono conclusion that there will bo at least two slily fovls in the Immediate vicially who ¢an do nothing but chatter nonsenco all the wven- ng. %hln 12 8 3ad but trno commentary on the boasted ‘s enltivation™ of the average Chicago audlence. Nor s this the ocl n‘y In which the bourgeols Chicagoan tranngroasss Lho rules of good brecding and procialms his los origin before some hundreds of his follow-men, 110, or genernlly she, is ot eatl anless tho hall i reached daring the per- formance of tho first number, thud scenring an op- ortunity to display the fimsculate waxed mus- chie or the lovoly (1) spring suit, ‘Thia {a the same person whose happiness {n lifo secms to depend npon sialking out of the hall duts lnfi the latior pact of the programme with the moat t;nd%n! palr of croaking "boots that can be ob- tained. Last evenlng, for instance, the musical people wora soveral times obliged to hisa duwn' theso nulsunces, 1 wonld suggest that the above doclsfon, cut ont and pasted on o card, might have a quleting offoct 11 thirast In the faco of the porson who will bo sure to annoy us during the Saturday concerts, 1f w0, I will feclassured that I have not lived In valn. Respectfaily, i, P, B, = 4 AFTER NASEBY, Let the bell of the old tawer tol) For the reat of a sorrowful soul, Of & soul in poin: Lay mo down In the cool, still ground, ‘Whero never a alghit nor a sound * Canwake mo agaln. 1 oam weary of grict and of mirth; Iam pick of the flowers, of the earth, Of the light of the sunj Bat the sun and the moon may shine, Or rain fail, on that bed of mine: Lshsll slumber on, O the sun shone bright on his hatr, And flashed from his sword s0 falr, When he rode away} lAlu:’lfiullnncnllluonkled tlu:n l{:ll;mxht. nd ho lay, all pale, In her Andcoll'ns o clay, T And the rain beat dawn on his bead, With the long, damp curls outspread On thoe blood-drowned soll§ broken sword b¥| hia side, And the banner, that waved in pride Q'er the long day's toll, P The Roundheads thoy won the day; Our soversign has fled away— It was all in vain— Rus!‘l: l'all h: a4 his (nulh!rll 'l?n'h}:t, nd thelr yletory was dearly bou; Though he u:-' there :xm‘:’. o **1le has fall'n os his fathers fell," Tho old knight sald; ** it 1s woll— Lat the church-bells ring; Dring the me-sengers fn, ' lia & ** Lot them drink to tho loyal dead And to Charles, our King." Batalast and wo {s me Tiow shail Ilive and not see His eyes, hissmile? O loving and leal aweatheart! In a whilo we sl never part— Ina little whil MURPHY MEETINGS, To the Editor or Ths Tribune. Covvunus, 0., April 23.—Every city, at one timo ot another, has its oxcitemont, be it palitical, religlous, or fluctuation of stock, This city has had & peculisr oxcitoment for the past two weeks, namely, **Murphy meetings,” Francls Murphy, the leader, Is a natlve of **Old Ireland." 1lo camo to Pittsburg years ogo, & smart, fntelligent, but very dissipated young man. Deoper and deep- er he sank Into the mire of intemperance, At lant he realized his degradod condition, and strove to 1 ot only “reformed limaelf, but gathored his follow-workers around him, pointed ‘:l'l“ to0 them t‘hu evil rean!ts of the life E, M. 8, form. In & short tIme ho had 3 large number of follawers. They began their work in_ Fittsburg. After lllmlnq thers for & while, they extended flelds of labor to Philadelphin and othicr East- orn cltles nd now they have commenced a tour weatward, scnding their followers i all directions 1o advocate tholr cause, They have been vory successful in Columbus. ‘Thelz band now numbers over ¥, 000 membars, old lnd‘(oung. rich und poor. All lend & helping band. Largo and exciting mectings aro lield in tho Oty [1all nightly, while auxillary mectings are held in the churchea in different parts of tho cityat the same iime, lcd by somoe of the roformod inobri- ates, liondreds slim the pledge every night. When tley have so done, lhugoulu presented with acertificato, and s suiall blue bow, which 1s worn 1o show tbelr feilow.wen that thoy have Jolned the army to oid the glorious cause, snd fight agalnet the fory domon, whisky. It 18 "? tronding to those who are strangers to fhe s of the use of liquorto hear tha tales told by theonce fallen but now roformed men, One man, only two weeks pravious, had chased his famly “out of the house with & batchet and then followed them to the pelghbory' to take tholr lives, Ilo sald ho shud- dered he thought how he had made those lul\{;by hhtnuliy. :filvx’mw.‘hifl% .;: woul ver agaln allow on xg; u!wuumud to think he W, m"r‘h‘:nl tond keeping the meotings up &3 long as ntond kee aoy ||¥od can bo dan:‘ They may dllrll:‘( the 'l‘i.lm ng a b mar reach your clty, e ———— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Nadison (Wis.) Deinacrat, Tux Cuicaco Taiwuxns of Sunday morning is a monster sheet, containiug tweaty i one bune gew dred forty columns, snd three muwuddlnlluct menL “Tue reading matter fo this vne "paper would mal volume. The old 1w fl" mn-tb\; mal m‘nnly; and 1t should, for it 0 Gonor to jou 1, B om0 b ey Northwestern, ‘Tus Citcaco TuiBUNE vf Sundsy worning fe s monster sheet, contalning’ twenty me: unu bun- dred and forty columnns, and three thousand distinct advertiscmeuts, Tux TAisuxE issecond to 0o pa- £ in tho coontry, and Ls su honor to journalidm, l':u the New Yerk /erald of the West without its uncertainty In politica. New 192k Timee, From its advertlaing. :%Iumu Tus Cuicago Tain. uNE draws the Informution that In that city real estale has begun to move} that plenty of wonoy iv offured for fuvestuiont at “low rates: that -cuvlli rruulll in the dopustments of Mtorature, art, b I theatro, and that overy varloty of merchandise laput up for sale with the conddeut cxpectation that it wall £nd a roady aud prodtable market, Detrals Dty {ribune. ‘Tut Cuicaco TRIDUNS of dunday 1ast Was o pa- per of twenty pages of seven columns each (two sud & nalf “times 1ts winglalzes, waklg, as it clatme, the larveat duily uewspaper ever’ pubilshed 1u tlls couutry, Of thoae 110 columng u Mll $uve city were gllcd with advertiscments, bl {tecn coluwus wore thag on the corcespoudi last yoar. WurTBInvuK cowpares fts advortisiog busle -expect to doubls that nminbor, ness day by day with that'of the'corresponding ta. suee Inat -{mu{ and finde a steady and fm";""‘ incrense, which it regards as & algn of bnslness prosperity, Terra Haute (Ind.) Erprees, Last Sunday's Cnitcaao Trinuxe consisted of twent, rn , of seven colrmns cach. making ato. tal af lamns, 1f printed In long primer type, auch as is usually chosen for book-work, the mat. ter in thia lsane woald have made nine volumey of 174 nlg'u each, For the printing of the edition, 108, 351 ts of whito paper, the slze of Ty TRIRUNR'S week-day Iasne, wers required. 1f ex. tended at the width of an ordinary lssue of Tyg ‘Trunune, this quantity of paper would have reach. ed 413,500 feat, or about elg| ity-two and one -half miles, ~almost the distanca between Chicago and Milwankee, 1t contained abont &, 000 diffe yerlirements, 3 erent ad. It was tho Ilr:iul NEWIDADEr ever ferned in this country to aupply tha lezitiinato (e. mands of business. ‘Chicago hins grown to ho ag |memnt A newapanor centrs a9 New York, and jy fsdestined (o outstrip the Iatter city, ——— OMAHA. A Good Chance for n Danking Institaotlon and General Manufacturing Establlsl. ments-=-A Husy, Prosperous Place. b (Ae¢ Edltor of The Tridune, OxattA, April 20,—Believing you to ba Interest. ed in the development of the West as a factor 1n the Increasing prosperity of your eity, will yon pardon ma for calling your attention to the Impar. tance of Omaha as a prominent financlal centre of the future, So great s the demand for money, antside of banking circles, that | think the establishment of & largs and extensive banking institutions hore, on tne princlple of liberal rates of discount, would be a handsomely-paying investment from the start, Our banka (four) are all doing a fine business; the ruling rota {e 12 per cent per annum in advance, and plonty of money can be loancd on good secnr. ity at 10 por cent for busineas purposes, Onthe streot T have heard of Agures ruling aa highas1s and 25 per Cent on good security. Fortunalely, mostof onr merchants nre **well heeled," and do not have to pay tnese figures. The putrons of the Omsha banks extend all over the West as faray 1daho and Montana; e0 you may see the extent of tho banking operations of this city. The agercgato sales of oxchango and the deposils here, Iast year, amounted to about $90,000,000, Dy this 1 mean tho total transactions at the banks, In 1875 they wero about 880, 0000, 000, OUR MANUFACTURRS are stendily on tho Increase, Our smelting works —now tho largest on tho conlinent—turned out Iy 1870, in lead and silver, about $5, 000, 000, —belng an Incrensc of $4,000,000 over tho year 1871, fn which they commenced operations. _Out aof last year's product thero wers upward of 13,000 tons of lead,—being nearly. one-fifth of the cntire consumption of that metal in the Unlted States, (this, n8 you will sce, ta a fine opening for white. lend and silver-plating worka), which was shipped principally to the East and South. 'Tha opening of the 8an Jusa (Colorado), Big ilorn, Yellowstons, and Diack 11il1s disteicts wili run up the annaal mmluct of the smelting works to from 8,000,000 sw,ooo.ooorpur aunum {n tho next two years, Our tolal manufuctures for 1870 wers $0,672, 452, -baln:menrly $7,000,000 more than thogo of Kan. sas City. 5 £ Qur, v{hnlemn trade and manufactares combined were $21,140,000.—being $2,600,000 more than thoss of Kanssa City. 'This maysound strange, bat I giva tha figures as thoy appear. Our comblned trade, wholesale and retall, and manafactores, for 1876, amonnted to $25, 478, 050, —showing the gratifylng incrense over 1876 of ne-r; $3,000,000, dluw 15 that for grasshop. pers! TR WIOLESALR TRADE of Omahn is_bounding forward into splendld pro. portlons, and Is conquering new torritory ev Already It extonds through Western Jo Wyoming, Colorado, Dakots, Utah, Ydalio, Motitana, and' Callfarnia Nevadaand Montana merchants belnglman}lhu heavloat patrona); and, by tho complution of the Umahs Repablican Valloy Railroad Inta Eaun- ders County and boyond, we have galncd anew range of territory that wo have been shut out of heretofore. One wholesale merchant, now selling $1,000,000 por annum, recently told ma that, since hia locatlonIn Omaha four years ago, hia business ad increased 300 per cent, " Evary year he reporis a heavy Increase over the previous fcnr. that of 1876 Kelnflfl.‘l per cent mora than 1876, 1o oz- E:cu to roport tho same ratlo of increase for 1877, lorado waa recontly (Inst fall) thrown o{wn to the teado of Omaha, and our dealings with that Stata havealready assumed IA{fD proportions. As ‘wo have theshortest ronto to Denver, it Is but a question of time (and & very short timo) until Omaha will havo the almost exclusive control of that * trade. The Dlack-Hills trade s a new featare. of _ which Omaha s recelves & large proportion, Partics ave out now exploring the best routes for a railroad from soms polnt on the Union Pacifia to the Hills, giving thia city tha moet diroct routs over all othors, ‘The Omaha & Republican Valley Railroad 18 pushing steadlly to the southwest, —contracts having recently been let for forty miles,—and, by Oct. 1, 1877, the llne wiil reach & point 100 miles southwost of Omaha. ‘This lino will strikc tho sonthwestorn boundary of the State somewhere in the Valley of the Tepublican Rlver, bringing us Into closo connection with Bouthwestern Nebrasks, North. western Kan and Bastern Colorado, and, what {a Dettor than all it will poniotrata the heart'of the *¢ great cattlo ranges, 'ivlnx-nnlherunuu tothe stuck-men of the through this city. Bpeaking of THE BTOCK-TRADE, there fe nothing Omaha needs so badly as stock. yards as oxtensive ns those of Kan iy, W this city can Dbecome the largest market for * buying and selllng stock wast of Chicago. Conversing with an officlal of oor Board of Trade, he informtod me that already Westorn stock-men aro locating in Omahs, whora they will meot the Eastern buyers; and that some of the stock firms of BL. Lonls have been here laok. -ing for quarters to locate, where they will be pre- pared to moot the Wesiern men on their chosen eround. TLis wiil necessltate the bullding of the stock-yards, wlich yet an unoccu- pled “eld, ""PE( {a the man who builds thom, ' lle will donble his Investment the first year, and can rotliro in 1887 with a princely r ortune, 1In 1670 there wore 21,820,008 head of catle in the Statesand Terrltorics, In 1476 thero were in Colorado and Neuraska alone npwaras of 1,000,000 head. ‘o Texas drive to Nebraska laet year num- Lered 125,000, sccording to the estimatos of the catile-mien, The year previous it was not #0 large, and tho movements of stock pasving throngh Omaha show upward of 50,000 head. Btrargeas (his may mppear, this was nnmbfl than hh:ugz nandied thlrl‘{ 3o twenty years, ago. ‘The wplendid sl 1,300,000 head recoived In your market last year demonstrates what Omahas “can do {n the sawe length of time with sultablo facilitics, and posse: ing o favorite routa to and from ~the stock-ranges, as sho does mow, snd will for all future time. This year the expectations are that 100,000 head of cattle will pass through Omas ha anyhow, whethor the yards are bullt or not. If tho yards aro built in tlino for the fall trade, wo The establiehment of a great lve-stock market will double our trale and population in & fow years, and. at tho wanit tlwe, will run up our sggregato banking transace tions to 000 per aunum, TRECIOUS METALS, A a matter of intcrest to Iir, Linderman, and to Bt. Louls, whicn boosts of belnga great money+ cautre becauso 33,000,000 In coln passad through her borders lu ong year, pormit uie to say that, ln 1876, the value of preclous metals passing through Omaba amounted to $U2, 000,000, It fs suggested that the worthy Doctorstick apln in this, snd make a noto of Jt when he recommends the loca- tlon for s Branch United States Mint. For two yoars tho press of Oinaba iept hai fug it nto tho hieads of the citizeus thut h the best polnt of any In Nebraska to bulld up A GHAIN-MARKET west of Chicago; but Ihu{ would not, orcould not, see it,—dldn't want to, { presume,’ Flually, two cotarbrisiug gentlemet, posscalng capital and *}tho oneryy that makes mun great, " wont to work right in the midst of the ipanleky fecling " - vaillng over tha country, and put up & swmall elova- tor, From thid the graln-tradoof Umaha sprangiute flonrishing exlstonce, doubling snd trobling in yoar, Thesd gentlomen have slnce doubled th Eufly of the elevator, and the ) of 11d several more to accommodaie the grain-trade the Stato. Sevorsl Chicago graln-bousss have nd there {s strong demand for an o of holding 1,000,000 bushels, 10 producers can store thelr In when they do not wiah to scll. One of double the capacliyof ?I“!Irk;ln‘ olevator will be bullt jn time forthe . il trado, 1 have given you some of the prominent feato of our commercial life, and tha conclusiun one lé forced 1o is, that Ojaalia is A PHOSFEROUS CITT, ‘The panic touched her llfinlly. and, morclal dopresslon prevalling cvorywhers, she has woved lludlll onward In the race for material {::a- ty. 8he his broken down fmpenetrable Flores rallegods base plorced new districts, Which sre bringing in their weslth tu ler borders, and, before many months, hear the whistle of tho distant Moutana will s e w locowotive echwing rou) Diountalus. s {oetora Ja Ber history lruve the bullding contracts of Omaha been 80 nuwerous In any given o car a8 now, agd, As ona af on_vur Cupit !lm m}‘lihvluw- h‘g;-:‘“" l»l ihe lun'onnd'lng c.nl::- ry, wi new i 12 up on evel o 204 o prosporous city gt hdes fest, Ro_ 14 Toread (0 tho couclusiou that right here I Omaha is to bu tbe 3otropolis of tho New Nnnhwux‘ aecond only L@ Culcagosnd New York in ber splondid achieve- wouts In the Intercats of commorcial prn:rlfl‘! and puace. Beds FAITH, ‘Thore are few souls, however fast To criuie and dark lrllllfuulun von, That havunot, hidden in thelr deptha. A faith that breathes of God and Hcavens And be whao, when bright fortune amiles, Beems to belleto nau.ht after deather ‘When all bealde has fled Lis urll‘r. Frays to lus God with hopo sud fatth ‘Tho wystories of Lifo and Deatl, L curth oud sky, Lo we ure gisen® W canuot read tha mystic scrull, Quteide bhe golden gated of Hvaven. Ciucauo, Apnl, 1077, BLLLIS €. POMEROT.