Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1877, Page 12

I CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1877-TWELVE PAGES. 1L pork (cost 18 centm) In thres 10 a boil, and skim it well: when it has bolled fifteen minutes pul in with it a two or three cont head of cabbage, ent in qnarters and well washed. and boil both steadily for half an newv cabhage bolls tender sooner than old. bt yon must ant cook either after the staikeare tender, or yon wil) waste a preat deal of nourish- when Doth meat and cahbage are dones 1ake np the ment with 8 fork and the cabbage with strainer, and nse them for dinner. Rice and Broth—After dinner carefully strain the pot-Tiquor, and put it in an earthen pot until an hote befors supper; then put it over the fire and throw into it half & ponnd of well-washed rice (cost five cents), and boil fast for twenty min. ntes, or antil the rice ia jnst tender: try the son. pone both broth and rice h & atrainer; met over an earthen pot or soon A the rice dratne, shake it out into e 14 for snpper, roth—Alter supper carclally rteain the broth, and keep L over night fn an earihen pot; in the morning heat it; If it In too rait add a littie more svater, or season it more if necersary: while it i heating toset two ponnds of bread (cost six conta), cnt it in amall Aqnare pieces and throw it broth; a8 soon ae It 1a hot’use it for anria of water; the [ndlan Terrl- neighbors are making more In clvilization, educatlon, and re- finement than their pale-faced nelghbors on thia I have not told alt that we hava nor all that wo need, but perhaps ¢nough for the present. Any one wishing further particulars can corre- spond with me by Inclosing money for postage v, I have no axea to grind, am & teacher with a tittle child of 7 yeara to support, am 53 years old, liave not where to Jay bt as [ pay for it, have lived In ccl a deep syinpathy for otliers na poor as mysell, and hence this Ictter, crienco that & poor person can earn a living ere much easier than in the city. Mns, J, K. Goopwix, WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Schurz at HHome—The Becretary of the In- torfor as n I'lanist—Evnrts’ New Hfomo—The Btory of the Presldent's Regiment=Per- rtands his Lieutenan which the ehadow o clearly visible. othera, fullow. in a ycllow jerk the Captain's flag-bearer, and ure looks capa- ble of walking out of the canvas, so life-like and But 1ts crowning merit to the Inltiated is sald to residain its cafar'uscnro, —acertaln conmbination of light and shade about swhich it Is easfer to talk than to teach. Ouvposite to this palnting, and of equsl or greater size, hangs n work of great merit by DBartholomew von dder Helat, It representsa banquet given by the Arquchusiera of dam on the 15th of Junc, Peace of Westphalia, picture {s vivld, the faces spirited and life-like, the costumen rich and vuried. ing of the weird Interest of the Rembrandt op- site, and, I think, I mnay venture to say toat t has no ehlar'oscuro. From the room which contatns these chel- insses ton number of others, alint he eye with their treasures, untll It fairly achos with the laborious studying them, Things of this merd When thic labet says Holbeln, Rem- brandt, Netteher, Mieria, Hondekoeter, ete., It {8 as il & herald aatd: * Their Majestics are com- ing; here fs the Ioyal famlly of Art. Tnke note; you do not see auch things every dav.'y And this tzaln of ereat people s Tong. few names given by me suggest the many, whom [ have not time to quote, but who richly deserve to he mentioned. OP TII8 DUTCR PEOPLE, {n the bricf sojourn of a few days, one ean learn little, Ope would surel cat deal about a peaple to whom Protestant- Mr. Motley's interesting volumes tell us of thefr paet struggles. the Datchman of to-day Is little known outside of his own conntry and {ts colonies. of him ns n prosale persom, much achnapps and tobaceo, living an orderly life, aud told sums of money. be the: Dutch Bocers, so widely sct- as a barbarous and brutal peasantry, son with whoze oppression the En. mlish rule wiil appear beneflcent, We hear of the high soclety of Holland as very aristocratic and extlusive in Ks charactor, and arc led to supposc that the spirit of caste nmong these people fs ot least as strong and nhsolute ns amone our English brethren, substantial and powerful must yct bein this people, [nherited from its great anceators, and acquired through CIIEAY FOOD The Question How Work- ingmen Shall Live Cheaply. TIE OLD WORLD. nearest raflroad point outal ARKANSAS, Mr. Gibbs Sums Up [ts Advane tages and Disadvantages. 0 Woman's Glaaninga vivid are ita figures. and stationery, What It Haa to Offer Emigrants, and The Picture-Gallery of the Hague, and ! N 4 the Various D-awbacks. “Fifteen Cent Dinners for Working- the Oid Torture-Chambers, men's Families «--A Practical Book ‘by a Practleal Woman for Practical Honsckeepers. 1048, In honor of the he eoforingof this Spretat Correspondence of The Tribune. Lirrie Rock, Ark., Sept. 17.—My letters from this Btate having covered a good deal of ground, and been largely of matters in detall, [ have thought proper in this, my last, to give a gener- al summing up of the advantages and disad- vantages which Northiern men would meet In becoming residents of the State and engaging In farming, for, while it Is claimed that there aro fine openings for parties to ongage inlumbering, mining, manfacturing, etc., my study has been almost wholly confined to tho question of agri- culture, cither gencral or spectal. As first to be mentioned in Its tavor, the State has a mild and reasonably healthy climate, giv- ing & six weeks' longer working and growing acasun at cither end than the latitude of North- It has bottom lands of almost jnexhaustible fertllity, but with the draw. back of unhealthiness, éspecially for Northern men; a prairie country of comparatively limited extent, giving great promise, but with Its capa. bilitlcs not fully devcloped or demonstrated; timbered uplands of modcrate fertility and pro- ductivencss under the bull-tongue system of farming, and promising much better results under a better system; free liomestead (iovern- ment aond Stats lands, as a rule Inferior in quality, and in caso of State tas-forfeited lands an uncortainty of title; beat quality of Pecnliar Tead-Gear of North-Talland Women--The 1 know from ex- Great Gallery of Amsterdam. But it has noth- 8ho Bhows How @ood and Wholesomo Meals Oan Be Provided for a Family of Bix Persons at Fifteen Cents n Meal, The Dutoh People—What They Were, and . What They Are, Special Correspondence of The Tridune, AMSTRRDAM, Aug, 30.—The pleture-galiery of the Hague contains many valuable things. Chief among them, perhaps, is' Paul Potter’s famous * Young Bull.'! It fs by far the largest palnting left by.this artfst, and shows an ex- cellence which only Rosa Bonheur can approach. Rembrandt'scolebrated pleture, “The School of Anatomy," had been removed for cleaning, and Jan Steen, Temers, Cotade, Mieris, and many others, lend their enchant. ments to tne walls of this Musce; and, what- cver ons may have scen elsewhcere, one becomes sure that, to understand Dutch mosters, -one Hero only can one see their best works gronped together in such num- bers and varlety as shall give an idea of thelr But I must not exhaust mysclf upon the gallory of the liague, having stiil beforo me thoso of Amsterdam aud of These three (ishes will cost anout 30 centa, Corned beef, fresh beef, and mutton can be cooled in the same way, ustng cabbage with the corned becl, potatoes with the fresh beef, and turnips with the mutton; for the suj eorl barley, with reakfast, Fere you sce you can mnke three good meals for four «diffcrent days for $1.20, leaving & good margin for cxtra breal and milk for the children, or for dainties fur Sunday’s dinner. It looks to an Inexperienced person as If t salt pork mentioned From Our Own Correspondent, ‘Wasnixatox, 8ept. 17.—Secretary Sehurz has finally engaged a Liouss kere for the winter. is the Rathbone Louse on Lafayetts Bquare, within onc or two doors of the house taken by Secrotary Thompson, of the Navy Department. Scerctary Bchurz, during the first few wecks that he was Becretary of the Interlor, boarded with the Rathbone family, with whom his wife and himself were on terms of Intlmacy during the lifetime of the former. eldest daughter, now become a young lady, will presido over the Secretary’s home. Both of the daughtera of Mr. Schurz are noted for their cul- tivation and thelr attractivo soclal qualities, and it {s probable that this new homs wlit be one of the moat genial belonging to the public Carl Schurz and his children hiavo the German love of music, and music {s ono of tho most notable and charming features of thelr home life. Mr, Bchurz himself Is a very flne planist, He carrieshislove of music lnto his dully life. His Instructions to his pri- vatesecretary,swhoreadatho nuwspapers for him, are to mark and cut out all the cditorlsls and general.articles in the leadin, Fifty Thonsand Copies Distribuled Gratuitonsly in New Vork.-3 Splendid Opportmnity for Some Ono o Confer a Similar Blessing on Chieage's we did not see it. Spectal Carrespondence of The Tribue. be glad to know a NEew YORE, Sent. 20.—You have a very finter- teresting department devoted to The Iome, whenee the good lady to whom Ipwe alleglance ‘as drawn much valuable information. this week to become n contributor to that de. partment. That is to say, I wish to call atlen- tlon to a splendid work a lady in this city is do- ingzin Lehalf of the poor, and become tho medium through which she may addrees your readers. MissJuliet Coraon is the Indy to whom [refer, who has been some tima engaged in the very Jaudablo undertaking of teaching vractieal cooking to young women. place she established the New York School of Cooklog, where she has given thorough and practical filustrations of the art of cookery to numerous clagses of yonng women, has attracted much attention, for the rcason that good cooks are few, and what she taught was something adapted Her biils of fare, while neither elaborato Tor expensive, were always good, economical, and adapted to the use of famillcs of moderate Uer ambition Is to teach Amerlean wives how to supply thelr tables bountifully and well without extravagance, to utilize much that is now wasted, aud to prescnt that which fs prepared In an appetizing, wholesome, and Her labors have been crowned ‘with much succese, a8 an abundance of letters 1n her posscssion testily. er, in oue of his sermons, made n remark which, removed from its context, created a howl of in- dignation among a ¢lass of persons who delight This remark was substan- tintly, as misquoted, that worklugmen could live an a dollar a day. evitabie flood of “lettors to thu editor®? from numerous housekeepers, who have labored to workinzmen's famillcs above was being m owes 8o mitch, Becretary Schurz's & 3 it would become nlly dituted at the end, tho broth belug, when finally served for break- | must visit Holland, something like chicken broth in a board- ouse, where the chicken is wade once through the water. sroman at my clbow Informs me that there is no nonsense about it, for the methods and mnerits, ot-liguor or broth— thrown away—contains the cssencof both the meat and cabbage shich were balled in it. Miss Corson gives In this little book n large number of recipes for cooking wholesome but cheap food in an equall and {uily explaios how it can be {filed so cheaply. In France the wifo of the laboring man uses overy scrap that comosin men of Washington. Lhave often felt very impatient with cor- respondents whro undertake to deseribe WORKS OF ART. v And yet, In reviewing all that I seo in Fu. ropey I find these same works of ort arellke the part of Famtet in the play of * Hamlet.” The ficet atep of a traveler cannot stay for thestudy of manners and customa, It would take biinn long time to find out the péints in whichirue nen and women whom he sces fu foreign conn- trics differ from those whom he haa lelt at tome. He may not tmake acqualitance with those he meets, nor understand one word of Hut in the gallerfes, and on tho walls, sits enthironcd the perpetual majesty of the Beautiful, whose authority never fluctu~ ates, and whoso language is universal, Iow- ever ono's cars may puzzle with tho strango dialeet and unwontec {diom, one’s cyes road the gospel of Man's divine faith in mony, and Iabor. And such muto dlaloriies ns ono holds with the dead masters who wrought these miraclesl Buch questions as one asks them! ¢ How didst thou seize the very extasy of this animal’s leap; the palpitating color on this falr cheek; tho gicam of the eye which tho lover himeell only sasy _once, perbapss tuls sheen on the sating this bloom on the frult; this glory of the aun- shine,—how didst tnon oive to these transient features of the flecting world the Immortality of thinc owa soul 1" And the nuswer comes to mo: * By colnlog lifo's gold under the highest pressure of labor, We iave concentrated our years (nto the mo- ment which gives you pleasure. Let, then, this leasure, 80 costly to us, becomo no cheap de- izt to you. Coino to us with tho most carncat mind that you have. Forget not the lessona that wo teach: and, it speak In the lunguage of Joy that in our embers 1n:omemn: that doth live, other lands for salo by railronds and private parties at from $2 to 85 per acre on ensy terms of payinent; & timbered country in which & poor man'ean by hard labor get a start on much less mcans than are neces- sary in n prairic country, with reasonably ghod well-water obtalned by digging from twenty to fifty fcet, nccording fo localities. A CLIMATE AND 80IL pecullarly adapted to the gruwth of - fruit, especially of thu small fruits and all varietics of stono fruits, as the peach, plum, nectarine, and apticot, also of early varictles of apples and pears, but doubtful In regard to late-keep- ing varieties, and gocd scveral varloties are succeasfully grown, giving at present very fine returns for early [ruit shipved to Northern markets, and promising remunerative prices for years econotnical wnnner, At No. 8 8t. Mark's that her bills of fare from morning newapapers of the which relate to the Civil-Service, to the poltey of the Adminfstration, an sle, Mr. Behure, durlug the hot summer months, has worked considerably at '*Edzewood,” the old Chiase mansion, which he rented for the And, after dictating letters fo hils scurethry, and while waiting for the notes to be written out, he frequently oecuples the time in playing studlea from the oid masters upon his Mr, 8churz has beeome tho inno which wns on He has not kept onen Liouse here sinto the death of his wife. . BECHETARY RVARTS, ¢ Becretary Evarts snd his family will acettpy the noted hounse of Hutchinson, of the Fur-Seal Conpany. This house Is elaborately furnisiied, oud has " all the appointments of an elegant, The houss cost Socrotary Evarts 85,000, cxactly the amount of na Beeretary of pertinent people sro advised that they huve no right to {nquire what _Mr. Evarts does with thorest of his salary, *Owing to the death of Evarte, at tho age of 00, the family {s In mouraing, and it is possiblc may not bo as prominent in sacial 1fc as thoy other- think they must De. and economy must have comblucd to render them o rich and so respectable. Ono rejolees at the simplicity of thelr pgreat cathedrals, purged long since of the Romanlst mass an myth, and dedicated to the worship of the thinzs nnscen. And, with the memory of thelr art-treasures fresh in one's mind, one dares to bones, bare though they be, and thas keeps on Industry, _enterpriee, hand & thick, rich basla” for sonps and broths, which constitute so larze a portion of the famfl foud. Thoy are warming and wholesome, and, as one of Dickens’ street wurchins saya of the po- tatoce, “wery flilin’ for the price.’” "Mies Corson also explains the most cconomical methods for COOKING MEATS. Meat needs to be cooked to make it palatable, to render 1t casy of maatlcation, and in order that we may get the greatest amount of gond- neas from 1t with the least waato. baking meat {s the wmost extravagant mode In which it can be cooked, as it wastcs nearly one- third of its substauce fn drippings or steam, Baking s not so wasteful ns roasting, provided tho meat be surrounded with vegetablus or cov- ered with flour paste to preserve the Brolllng Is another extrayagant method of covk- {ng meat, as the fat and julces ruti into the firo oreacapu up chimney (s stcam. Bolling and K n&cvflnz are tho methods by which the goodness ftacif or * In If the vessel In which it is cooked Is kept tightly covered, so that tho steam cannot escape, it condenses on the cover and falls back upon tho meat, so that the loss of nourfshment s mnot percepcble. pounds of bee! wasto fu bolliog or_stowing about one pound of substance, but this is re- surned {n the broth; in baking Lho saine plece, a pound and a quarier 18 lost, unless a smal portion chances to gét caught in sarrounding vegetablesy Iu roasting, nearly o pound and o 1 is wasted. It is not saved, as sumo slaiin, in the drippinge, and, even If it was, it would be pour economy to buy fat ot tho prico of meat leasure of trying it out. matter of drlukn, Miss LCorson resolutely scts hier tace agalnat all spirituous or mult llquors, and will not even allow the hard-worked wash- erwoman her glass of beer. to cvery house- for grapes, of which thelr language. e 6 NONTHEZRY BTANDARD OF MERIT with which to oppose tho absolute clalms of Rome, Florence, and Venice. Then, as Amerl- cans, o we not owe to them tho substantial be- New York! Arc not thelr traits and th inherited by soma of the fotemost ablic? It ts sad that e an arlstocratie and in buildiogs to sccure comfort, comparatively small expense in wintering stock, and allowior outdoor work In clenring, fencing, ond breaking land to be carried on during the entlro winter, excopt as futerrupted by storms. A liabllity tochllls and fover and other bilious disorders {u all portious of the much to ba feared by people living on the up- lands and under proper conditions as . regands houses, clothing, and dict. noyance in tho from Insects, such a3 muaguitoes, buffalo-gnats, the green fly, ete. A lack of soctal, educational, and religious privileges, except in the vicinity o agreeable form. citizens of onr own Re, Holland should to-day monarchical copntry. “What has she done for freedom In this century that conntries which are indifferent to fhe liber- tlca of other countries neglect tho groatest safo- guard of their own, ‘Wo stopped at Haarlem to vislk tho creat orzan, 'The hour of the muslcal was past, and we could only measufe Its power with our eyes. If, ns Mr. **The silent organ loudest chants _Tho master's requlem,’ . we had the instrument at {ts best. fortunately, wo dId not remomber theeo lncs at Recently Mr. Beeehio 1 Lot her remember Statc, but not modern house, in abumsing bim., Considorable an- ‘Thia called out the fn- 1o which {t {8 conkel. tho father of Sccrctary n icl L] ' A sparsely-sctticd country with an unprogrus- cople, who, In all that relates to y of character and kindl feeling, weuld not suller by comparison with opulation of oilier countrivs, but r, methods of fatining, mode of arranzemonts, and cducational and religlous ldgas are so different from those of Northem peaplo as to make {ntimnte associ- atlon uucnjoyabio to either party. not want to adopt their ways, nor they vure thines which eat. T Iuto practieal | old but fuw viows in common. 1 think it yery desirable for Northern pco- to this Btate to engago in farm- e in communities by thomsclves. July and August arocoutinuously hot,audllable tu “drougut, injurious to Lhe growing crops. rature does noe rise higher than frequently at the North, the long-cuntinued heat 1s debilitating, and unless care is cxercised ine duciye of discaac, especially in new-comners. In all the rest of the your tho weather s such as to leave littlo or no chanze to be dosired. hard times, when 8o many ihousands arg ant of employment, and when the wages of warklngmen are so low, unything upon the subject of waees and cheap Mving becotnes of Miss Corson comes futo the arenn practical eoinmon sense, and In lous manner shows how poor fam- 1lies may live well and economlcally, She has Just ssticd a small pampliles entitled, " FIFTEEN-OENT DINNERS fumilice.” This Tittle bro- o, colld, practleal sense, and reatest service Lo tho KEY, Postmaster-General Koy will probably return from 'Tennessce with bis family. yet had his famlly here, and stated last spring that ho_could not, owing tu the expeuse. Koy probably hos not recoived any iereat acces- slons to his fortuno since that period, but bos determined to make some sacrillco or other to 2ive bis tamily the oxperieaco of 1ify in Wasn. ington durlng, at Ieast, ono ** scason.!’ LIEUT.~COL. IATTIE\WS AND MAJ HAYES, cople outshle uf Ohlo probably remem- hoy ever knew, that, at the outsot of tha War, Stanley Matthews and Rutherford B, Iaycs, of Cinciouati, organized & regitnont. They were both yuun rofeasions at the Wé leave Holland with ereat regret, fully de- termined to visit it ngain, and to learn the true answer of tho many questions which our short stay and Imperfect observation wero able only toauggeat, not to solve. JULIAWARD llowe. . THAT “BARGAIN.” A Squars Denial from the Ion. Stanley u will speak to us, is calenlated to be o clans of persons to whom it s addressed, thousand conies of It have been printed by the anthor for free circulation amor, of workingmen carnfog 100 or paze all persons aro spleuously cautfoned not to becquso 14 1s Jutended tous circuletion only. Shu quotcs author- Ities to prove that it is of no value whatever as nourishinent, ouly aerving as o brief stimulant, the reaction from which is worde than the orizzaal state of depression. Barley-water is a refresh- In beveraze, and very nourishing, and s o clally reccommended to nursing mothers. 1s extravagant and doos not iive strength. 18 o stinulant, is warm and cueering, and serves to curb the acnsatlon of hunger when tho stoin- ach s nearly empty, by delaying digestion, but it does not satlsfy hunier. costly und no. maore nourishing, aver, Is very nutritions, and makes a satisfying and wholesomo drivk, A quart of weak tea will cost 8 cents, lucluding o modest ollowance of milk and sugars a quart of collec will cost, with *trimmings,” § centd; o condiments, will coat 0 cents, und las theal- vantage of containing much nourlshment, which the others do not. Milk, however, is recom- moudeq us proferable to either, APTER DINNER, TUE DESSERT," Of course it {s contemplated that with these “15-cont dluncrs™ thero shall be at least an oveasional dessert. Ples and pastry aro con demned out of hand as expensive and unwhole- soine, the bane of Ameriean cuokery. other hand, according to Miss Corson, o good uddingz, mado of four, suct, and_frult or mo- nsnes, will often take the place of a plece of cat, satisfy hunger fully as well, givo strongth in a modest degree, and iuost certal the childrsu, She therefore gives " ** mulasses rol; les pudding,” pudding,' cte,, the most costly of which, in uantity suflloent for six persons, is 13 centa. 8 comparatively fow working men—or, rather, men ot work—wonld be restricted to 45 cents o day for thelr moals, they could, by the addition of another dimne, have an excellent deesert for CrycinNaTr, Sept. 18.—In tho course of the Ewing-Matthews dcbato at Dayton, Gen. Ewing assatled his opponent on the gruund of tho al- loged Matthews-Foater compact. thews' auswer was brict and to tho point. is said by Gen. Ewlng,” salid ne, “'that, in a cor- tain critieal stage of the progress of tho Presf- dential count, in spito of & judicial desslon of the Judiclal bedy to which all questlons con- nceted with it had been referred, I appeared on the sccoe and Intcrvened, aud, for the purposo - and yith tho effect of defeating who otberwiss would joined with others of thelr par- declaratlon of the Hayos Is President, that then and there with theee Democrata I made, intho namec and on the behalf of the present Trestdent of the United States, n dishonest and n, by which ho was per- mitted to bo declarcd and Inangurated Presi- dent, upon, the promise, as a consideration, that nrated he would withdraw the troops from Loulsiana and S8onth Carvlind, and so per- mitin the latter tho Btate Governmant repre- Wade Ifampton, and in the former tho Btafo Government represented by Gen. Nicholls, to be cstabiished as the recognized Governments of thoso respective States. The far ‘na to particularize new, fairly started in e, and were energot. ie, patriotic, earneat feltows, They kncw noth- Inz-of military life, but obtalned perinission to rajso a regiment at tho very bocinniug of tho War. Hayes wont to Columbus to arrauge with tho Adjutant-tioneral about the orizamzation of the regiment, and upon being_ asked who were to bo the oflicers, :m sald, But it was not to Art alove that I becamo in- dcebted at tho Huwue, TIE MUSE OF HISTORY sits enthroned here; and her stern to certain dark and gricsome cel patriuts and Protestants have launguished -da; While the tem Benevolent socletios that they can obtain coples of It for free distris bution at the cost of publication, which, as the pumplilet_only contains forty pag rLunity for sume of the eople of Chicago to do o good and charitable work for the poor of your city. The work Is to tea:h the latorer's wifo 'd the husband and children upon auch portious of his carnings 08 may legitimate. 1y be used for that purpose, and to muke even tno sinallest sutn Ko 1ts plishing that abject, 1 shall proceed to copy extracts from the pampblet, condense stato- nients, and othorwiso twist the author's work about us sy suit my purpose, which is to crowid sume of fts most sallent pofuts into this letter, and more particulariy dircet attention to UL cour=¢, in plunning how to moke the wagres of the workingman provide his family with tho uocessaries of 1i '&,"&LL to be considered I8 the datly supply of wrating stood Cornelius Do Witt; and, on the place near by, he and his brother, victims of a cion, swere torn In pleces by the popu- s waos Barneveldt's prison. darki—how cheerlesal But reserve your horror for what awaits you further on. Here arp the Ifere are rows of iron hooks Ilko those of a butcher's stall, unon which men wero strung up like sheop, I wure hung upon their feet, to stretch’and lase crate the agonlzed muscles. Tlero s Andrew’s cross, upon which the victlm was bound, while a serics of small revolying wheels, turncd byacrank,scarified and des alcolumin, Upon thisiron pillarhis head and feet were drawn with forco in op) Here bis limhs were stretehed wpon bars, be- tween which every bone was broken with an ‘Tortures of fire and water wero added, iere tho pavement ls worn with the drops which wore away a huiman skull, ‘There Is the fron pot-bench, and within It the furnace contrived for heating it red-hot, is & hidcons sort of barrel, * Matthews will bo shall be Major." It was tho plan that Kosecrans shuuld pe” Coloue] of tha regimont, as ho was u milltary man, and Huyca rocelved tiie positions ‘The reginient ws 10 organized, crans, however, remaincd with it but o short time, as ba was needed in bigher seryice than at the head of a rexhment, Hayes wero consequent! 80 FAH AS URXERAL PARMING I8 CONCBUNED, about equal advautages can bo found In ol parts But for those who inight Intoud tocuguze cither wholly or fn part in iug, locations on the llite of the Iron Mouutaln Road offer declded advantages in direct and specidy shipments to the Northern marketa, I would agaln caution Lhose who may be cont sidering tho question of emigrution’ to this on trust all the rosc- regurd to the climate, soll, productlons, and goueral ndvantazes of- fered by this State. This cautlon i just us ap- plicable to any otlier Stato that s striving to sccure Immigration, and I do not thinlc the ten- dency to exaggeration auy greater here than is Invarlubly fuund cisowhere, In my investigations In this State, Ihave been met overvwhere with TUE GHEATKST KINDNESS AND COURTESY, and every facllitv posslble furnished to accom- plish suceessiully the ovjoct of my misslon. I am under obligations to so man; thls kind, as woll as for hospi nubstantiul character, that any mentlon of ine dividuals would be Iuvidious. Ay next iotter will be from Texas, travels over that Stale I shall endeavor to so faithfully portruy tho ndvantages aud dlsad- vautages of the samo that ronders of Tux Tuin- .ONE may bo ablo to intelllzently devide which State offers the greatest advantages, ur wheth- ey cither offers such A8 to make it worth the while of pour men, or men of small means, at tho North to attempt to sscura homes iu it. Collce I» evon tnoro Matthews and torturce-chambers, certain Democrats und Matthews and Lieutonant-Colonel, s fnct that Matthews slinded in his recent apeech at the reunion of the Twenty- third Regiment at Hayes' home, when he sald that the best soryico did the reglncnt was In resigning it and making Hayes the Colonel. PERSONAL. Bimon Wolfe, tho Hecorder nf Decds here, a prominent German politiclan throughout the country, has gone to Calllornia for tho health of his famlly, Curl Behurg, all the rossips to the contrary, does not intend to be forced tnto retiromont to Ho intenas to stick, Ex-Ropresentative Walling, of Olifo, of fill- bustering tame, has beon here for a few days, reminding everybody that * when fraud s Iaw, tiibustering is patriotisim.” ‘Thio carput of the Houso of Representatives, known a8 “McPhorson's revenge,” has given way to one which much resembles the one used in “the Forty-third Congress. color {8 green, aud It will to the uyes than the glaring color of the carpot which recolved tho title o uart of cocoa, with ull length In accom- in proventing the tion that R. B. Btato against takin; colored statements site dircctions. | sbonorablo ba Matthows, ever the work Itsell, fron implement. GOOD ¥0OD, PROPERLY COOKED, ves us good blood, sound bones, hratns, strong nerves, aml flrm flesh, nothing of goold tempers and kind * These are certalnly worth the trouble ot the Milk 1a the natural food of nearly olt living creatures, aud Lealth and strengthi can be joner sustadned upon o mitk any other. But physlologists and that wo thrive best on & va- We obtaln warmth and stren harley, rice, mill in which women wero stays, and fs to stay, fn Protestant iollaud, In order that History may poiut to tho wicked Ghost of Aosolutism, and sny: * Thus diddest thou.” ‘The tonder senzes of my vompanion could not to tuke note of theso things. them from her slzhf look them steruly fu the face, to fecl and meas- ure thelr deep atroclty. 1 could lmagine the demoniac faces of tho tormentors, the pallor, gentleman went 50 Itica of a more that this bargnin was in ‘\’vrnln;:. Berlln or clsewhore, housewlfo to eecure, “suet roly-pol in every form,—written, incidental,—in every possible furm, tease, or vicw that the tugenuity or t! of men may affirm 1t u particle of plausible foundation for it. There {a not an event, a fact, a documont, or an In- cldent which could justify a reasonable, col selentious man, concerning the possibility of Every scrap that [ ever wrote ar siirued 1n col nection with tho history of that event has been published farand wide. T let him produce it. 0, fellow-citizens, It s X Tight, to undertako to doprive President IHayes of the honor and grace of first concelving and originating the policy which hie himself carried out, It was born of bls own good senso and his ood Leart.” Judge Matthews further de= elared that he never had, from the time ho weut. ta Washington as counsel before tha Electoral ‘Tribunal untll the declaration of tho result, slightest communlcation with the Prestden| ————— CONSCIENCE-MONEY TO THE To the Edilor of The Tribu 5 QGnaxb Rarios, Mich,, Bopt. 20.—Last Satar- day the papers {n this vity had a dispatch telling of $7,351 belnz recelved at the Tremsury De- partinent as couscleuce-monoy. Iu the Chicago papers T saw the same dispatch, but the figures of tho moncy were thus divided, the New York and Washington the discouragement that the verslon threw over ine, for they h Do vlease correct Tis TRINUA 1t sccordingly, _If there Is $7,551 worth of con- science In New York, let people know it sldes, wno knows but it may be 8. J. T. uency thus quietly returnedi fat “meat, wheat, rve frult, peas, heans, lentlls, “macaronl, ruots of vezotables, meat, unbolted our, oatemeal, cggs, cheess, and grecn vegetables; and, if we want an active, healthy bratn, we must use fish, poultry, the differcut grofos, and a good and vegetables, The food most gencrally in use among the masaes is just what mects their requirements, Lot they néed Instruction as to the best and most ceonotnical means of prepar- ing it,—of making a little y these hard times, The hardy and thrifsy work- ine clsses of Fraoce, the 1 ¢ intich more prateful But, far more than thesc, I saw the SILENDOKS OF TUE PAITIL AND CONSCIRNCH which coabled frail humanity to bear those {n- filetions without falntiug, 1saw these dark pris- ons filicd full with shinlng glory. 'The pure, A DOLLAR CHRISTHAS-DINNER— which might be duplicated for thauksziving and other festival occasions—ihat Miss Corson dis- plays ber geunlus, There is to be, of course, o turkey,~for what would a Christmas<linuer bo —but this turkey must be bolora Christmas, as deal- crs are apt to advauce the price as the critkcal moment arrives when everybody that is any- body must hava a turkey. Bo this turkey for the dollar Clirlstinas dinner is to cost not to ex- ceed 12 cents a pound, unless demultion total to overrun the the il of faro Is to bo ** McPherson's ro- Intter was one of the single to Washington, He is still willing to be tnade Minister to Cninm, but the Scerotary of State is ap) these **damned imon Cameron. At all aveuts, Evarts sticks to business men for the diplo- matic posltions whero it la the policy of tho ‘Governuicyt to encourage the comnerelal fn- dustrics of thecountry. Benator Don Cameron has taken the houso which Frelioghuysen, of New Jersay, occuplod duriug the last fow years of his Scuatorial ca. Iu oue of the most fash- Don Cameron's triumphs of homu indusf DENTON COUNTT. Alarte has rotusne To the Edilor of The Tribuns, Hico, Benton Co., Ark., Bept. 18,1 came to Bontonville, 1n this State, tho 1st day of last January. About the middlo of February I wroto a letter to Tnm TRInUNE describing the county) as well as Icould after so ehort a resl- dence, and suggesting the f{dea‘of coloufzing some of the fudustrious poor of Chicago and scnding them to this county to wmake homes for themsclves. And, although I saw varicty of fruits without = turki bought several es which assuro the weak of the world, avonlzing and dying without a trcason or a 1’ these dungeons arc the monuments of Thy great deliverances! bumankind, and especially Man s born at once humane His scltish atrength early leurns to nlze tho cruel part of b ilenclug {ts bumane part, Let and inothers of each geueration, then, bestir themaclves to brecd crucity out of thelr tonder offspring. This on thoe ous hand; an let liberty and purit asuro alike of public and of private lfe. For she danpgérs of deapotlsin cowardice do any generatlon,—with any passing order of things. In our own brave West, the spirit of forcible compulsion and of bass again and agaln threaten that freedom ‘whaosoe price Is eternal vigilance, O stars that koep the watches of the night, may tho eyes of Anmnierican parents bo s steadfast, as watchful, oy, sluc overy midda) cvery miduight has its chost, Away now from the wo had very partiall steady-growlng Am the rallway-carriage 1 ar more summers, whose costume {s lly to fix our sttention. Dlack slik—might bave beon made anywhere in much oppused But the lcsson country ~ where to womaukind. cconomy In regard to or cofleo for Lreukfuat, and seldommilk, Thelr foud and drink s broth. fresh meat, for the roast turkey, baked plum-pudding with cream sauce, and there is g dinner that no man can couscientiously turn his nossupat. In one of the bills of fare quoted there is men- tion mado of lentils. Not the broth from that which i3 mado from vegctables, with au oceuslonal Lt of bacon or salt pork, 4 Fifteen-Cent Dinvers,” hiowever, Miss Corson allows o meat dinner every day, bat In order to ubtain this, the meat ksclt must be used onn dny with vegetables or bread, and the broth, tables or bread, must serve for the breokfast, In all ber rovipes for the price of cach article not tho wholcsalo prives, to_confuso mat- ut the pricea at which such articles can urchased at the ardinary grocery-store fu smsll quantitics. After 8o wuch by way of preface, 1 prescat a BILL OF PAHE YOR ONK WERK, spreparcd for a man and w! assorted sizesd NONDAT, Tirenkiaat—Bolled rice with scal Dinuer—Corned beef and cabba, Bupper—Peas bolled §n stock.. It {s on L streot, fonable situations of t! duughter will prosideat his homo as she did fast winter, Caneron is a widower. Attorney-teneral Devens will keop bachelor's liall 1o a houso near the palace of Hoss 8heplicrd, on Connecticut avenue, . 1t 1a not known who wiil preside over bis home Fred Soward, Assistant Becro In the same locality, the house re- led by the Austelan Minlster, and has enlarged it by sddlog to it house, “What Mr. Sewurd's g 80 expeusiys an establishment has not gard to the matter for sowe tina afterward, I received numerous private letters of inquiry, which sugzested somhe new {dens of what peo- plo want to know nbout a country beforu emi- grating. I will thereforo endeavor (as 1 sec tho subject of colonlzation fs belng agitated fn carnest) to toll your readers somo of the things we have In Benton .County, and some of the things wo needbut do not bave. In tho firat place, wo have a mild and very healthy climate, e have pine lands, and oak lands, and prairie lauds as good ns those of Tiltuols. Unimproved landsand thoso with small {mproyements cost $3 to $10 per ucre. Thi best fruit couutries in the world, and ‘while I writu thore are thousunds of bushels of les and peachies rotting in tho orchards fu Last year this county ralsed $200, 000 worth of tobucco, and this year will proba- bly raise double that amount; one Land can cul- Corn, wheat, oats, most and all kinds of vegeta abundance, Thousands of cattls and sheep grazo on the hills: some of them take care of theniselves all winter, but it {8 better cconomy to feed stock from the last of December to the 1st of March, elther cattle or Logs, need to be kept in tua timber untll scclimuted, as the noonday Lentils are not much In_this country, but in Germeuy, nd Spain they form’a staple articlo of [hey secin to L a vross between a pea and a bean, and are exceedingly nutritioua aud uart of “them properly Devens Is & widvwer, cooked will make food,—tho kiud that sticks Lo a man’s ribs au makos him fecl strong and heart 10 cents a pourd, and may be purel rocery stores. Miss Corson glves several rec- them, in soups, bolled, fried, here aro recipes for making bresd of - flour, rice, potutoes, Indiau mesl, for cooking Indian "and " ost meal, of other srtlcles pea for cookin brings its miduight, urposes are in ue, whose treasuros explured, to prosperous, Our companion in Dutch lady of some G0 ife with four children, macaront, and a 00 numerous {0 hero are also recipes for preparing sweet hiarbs, esaences, and spices for Uavoring at alinost no cost at all, te up, this lttle hook s just what should be In the man who complaing of bard times, whether e be classcd among the very poor, or among thoss who ars simply required to retreuch thelr expenses. It Is tull of guod .0od, sound, sensible, practical usand coples at lcast shoula be gratuftously distributed in Chlcago as is YE VINEYARDS AT EDGEWOOD. t Edgowood, how well I romember ¢ geeen that run down ta the share, Whera tha asturs are gay In the carly Sopiember, Tobins thelf me elleged delin That was abou! Her dress—a rich I0WA BUTTER. Bpecial Correrpondencs of The Triduns, Dzs Moinxs, Is, Bept. 19.—Tho butter makers ¢f the East were surprised at the Cen- tenoia), wheu Delawars County, Iows, walked away with the big medal. Sluco then, the prize- taker, Mr, Stewart, kas been sending dally to Philadelpnia tho crems de la of his dalry, to gladden tho tables of thoe upper- 1e '8 ag0, he recelved t for supplylog the over samplcs o recelves six family of gvor 1ER NEAD-GEAR could never have been scen out of Tlolland, She wore the skullcovering gt gold of which I bave already spokeu, and over this & cap of Her forchead was adorned with afroutlot of tbe finest dinwonds, while on cliber temaple rested a gold plate, bearinga cluster of the samgostones. A "bunch of fnfin- itestmal falso curls on elther side carrled out the kdea of & chevelure which was_nowhere visi- ble, ‘I'lic whole was surmounted by a zza ern honnet, which the wearer bad probat purchased at the Hugue, from which place ‘she was returnfug to her own residence in one_of tho smalier towns. Between (erman and En- glish, § made herunderstand that I admired her ornginents very much, She sald that they had been fn her tamity for & long thme, and had cust much money, 8he now showed me a broocl, weck-ornament, and large ear-rings, all heavy with diamonds, aud all concealed She alsio alowed me, within ber gold bracelet, the photograph of a young odel ud ™ (1 ehild); 4 Sia will will not wear the cap '), Bl tuls dimnond ornawcnts were charucteristicof North Holland; and 1 afterwards saw & oumber of similarly arroyed, sitting o the waiting- the statlon at Amsterdam, TUE: nwn\:lnb—l!mll::nfl bread tivate five or six acres. of the teme crasses, bles are ralsed hure Bupper~Alscaroni with leasant that day, when the Automn was And ibe x'gim hung 80 purple and thick on the vine, When the' quall *mid the corn-lands were plalnt- ‘zaro the aweet, ripened clusters to 8 WEDNESDAY, Dreakfast—Tossted bread andscalded Diuner—Stewed trlp Bupper— Palenta,. creme, 80 o speak, ten of thatcity, army of tha West with butte from seversl other States. cents above the highest bid made, und 15 cents Price was made second- ary to quality, Delaware-County butter will rst 10 tho markets of the world, ————— LEGAL TENDER IN FRANCE. + une, 10.—Dgan dint Tsthe nce & leysl tender for any Ploass answer in tho coluin of your tri-weckly edition, and oblige & subscriber, Awswar.—The Dank of France isthe onl; suthorized fssuer of paper money In Frauce, and the Government of that country has given its notes tho legal-teader quality, {n order to ena~ Llethe Bank to asslst the Government lu the fnancisl operutions connected with various wars Itke that of 1570, and with the payment of the e SPEAK NO ILL, Nay, speak no Hl! A kindl; Lan nerer leave a wiing be And O 10 breathe each tale v::‘vu hesrd Breakfast—Rtico panada. Bupper—Lentils stewed i stock. %o linger auear ber, tees tenderly sighe light The b n?mrunxh tho tre] The lake sccincd more blue, sud the aky it scemed 1 AT -fo':i' :fi the slope, and she stued by my side. Dear vhu{-nh at Edgewoed, your Snmmer-charms siealing, aling, osts shall soon leave ye to winf H e fhattan o that e, white tais bpsos bath Bhall linger, snd only with life pass away. . Grasce, ——— MICHIGAN: MATTERS, Bpectal Corruspondence of The Triduns, 81x0, Mick., Sept. 19.—~The snoual ro- port of the Board of Agriculture of Michigan for 1870, Is now issucd. 1t malnly relates (o the Agriculturs! College, and shows the total num- ber of students to be 168,—an fucrease of ten over the previous year; 138 are from this Btate, and ten frow other States. Very full aud later- cstiuy, reports of experitncnts with roots, gralns, grasses, cte., are given, The procecdings of the Farmer's Institutes held Jast winter by the e, at Qreenviile, Lansing, sllantl, and Tawas City, are given in rull, There arc some Guvernwent lands, but most of them are unflt for cultivation, upless for the raising of grapes. (rapes grow wild here that are almost equal to the cultivated grapes of the But these broken lands furnish One range for stock. Thersare also timber for the ralries, limestone sufficlent to e that will ever be needed bero, a species of saudstone that is easily pulverizes and fige for bulldg purposes, never-failllng water, Jhu Dreakfast—TRroth and brea: Innoec—Mutton and turn! Bupper—Larley botled iu bi above the lowcst bid, 4 1By chuaelng thus 18 ki For, 17 bt 116 voa bo kiwad Btill let ue speak (he best § Qiva ma the heart that fain woald b! Wuould fuin another's (aalt sface; ieasurs buman pride BATURDAY, reak{ast—Malton broth snd bread.., . inner—~Beef and putatues. Bupper—1ticaus bolled In brol large springs of at gocs leaping fuly along, lustead of runuing the ut We 80 much need, Now for sowe of the things we nged but bave not, The fret great need & transportation for our surplus produce, clally Iruit, for which therejisan cves-rea ket in Texas, as that Is a yery try. After a railroad, our next greatest need is men with mouney, brains, aud euterprise to sut tbis tdle water-power to work turning splodles, millstones, saws, und other stablish tanoerics aud make our tustead of eend. No: let us reach a hi A nobler estimiate of mant ‘earnest 1a the seurch for yood, Aud apeak of all thu beet wa can, ak 00 {11, but.lenlent be Lliigs as yoor ownj 1 you're tne trat & faull to eea, o 0ot the firel to wake it known; For hifu 1a out & passing da; 8V Breakfset—Cocos and bread Fried I Dlnuer—Bufi broth ¢l ch Bu| ypex—ch:eu{:! quictk and chesp Total {07 tho Weekues verieres or_fruit coun- As the suthor ouly claimed to provide esch meal for 16 ceuts, we bave here a sqving on the week’s bl of fure of 63 cents, which way bé exe pended for extra bread or ik, HOW 1T I8 DUNE. By usiog the weat sud vegetables for dinner, tho rice or pearl burley Lhat the broth of the meat, or the TUR GREAT UALLEKY OF TUIS CITY 1s catted the Trippeahuts Museun, because the buflding containing it formerly betonged to 0 ;lb\e !lluuum llIucfi \:l; e Napoleon, who collecte: tho works of art formnerly belo: sing b i e e ne bears leas of ug than of the other brothers of the Urcat N o 80 . substantial knowsn plcture in the celcbrated-Nigbt Watch, b) Lis largest plcture, and gives an idea of the variety of hlg artistic resources which the wuny slurie beads paluted by bim do uot. ¥ ‘raus Banolug Cock’s company of cowfuz from ther gubld-house. ‘The Cuptaln s the prominent igure. Nozt him driviug loows, machluery; to e: owa leathier and shoes at hoiae, ing off the hide nud then buylug them back at w foreign manufacturer, t's 80eak of all the best wo can. Joux Wanexn Rrcxxax, THE MAID | LOVE, founded by King e A Bull lu iarness, Clevaland lerald, Buuday afterouon three youug children, who were out driving on 8t, Clair strect, near Will- attracted cousiderablo umnused 6 oddity of their turnout. thece were crowded upon one scat of s hig! 'y, whily 'the relus, o the hauds of 1, were connéetedab Lhe otber cuds by the bits fu a bull's mouth. were driving a simall black aod white bull in clug bridled and bitched up exactly io the equine fashion, though still retaining the bovlue pecullasity of galt aud speod Prince f Oran as becn cooked It in thia piace.. O t-liquor for sup- uor {tscl, wade 1oL a uice roth, for breakfast uext morulug, the cost of the day’s meals 18 brought withiy the utlotted ‘Tuke for justance tho weals which e dependent upon the * pot-au-feu® (Uteeally weantug * povou-the-tife* us used by the work- lug clusses tu France), a8 mweutione day’s Lill of fare. Miss Cor, Faculty of the Coll Hiilladile, Owoeso, together with the essays rea “Fhio report olso elubraves & uieas of forest-productivns seat to ti niul Exhibition, aud concludes with meteorolog- fzal ohservations by Prof. Kedzle, which shuw’ L temperature fur 16576 was W°; The AMichigun Milltary Academ ned at Orchard Lake, Oakland Couuty, with ut forty cadets,—awmong thew are tho sons large profit to the our mouutains for winerals, which, we belicye, We want somc leadiug splrits with Yenkee goabvadativeuess to buy furus and show the slow-golug Arkaussus Low to build comtfortable houscs at the least cxpense, anid bow tomake tarmiug pay. and plow factory; we have the material. Wo are io tho vortnwest county of Arkansas, one and a balf miles from the litie of the Iudian Ter- ritorv, sod fixty wiles fruw Neosho, Mo, our 1ainson avenue, attention by tl preity, my Madel May? *No'one ever yot called ber su.’ Ara oot ker llavaments fault] 111 wuat tell you plaidty, Tn short, they \Wa. tived & waitun No one but wysclf na shu Jov that she ateals from ber Hicaven above, Aud is rovealed on thly Earth but w0 Cacacy, Bopl. 2, 1677, ol gives m‘xunw Aulf Pot-gusfeu—Put ono and 8 balf pounds of of the fotlosing resldenta of Delrof Bacles, T Falay, D. Bethane Duflle Croul, J. F, Nesherry, A, I T, Serong, 3. lack gw M. Terry) Sire, ¥ agley, A Cepeland, Dr. Mender, V. Hougn' angl Chiveles oot, " o5 Wo Housr, Tenac Stevens, nn early ploncer of 1, A\ e Eat fiuga:\:i‘;lll&l Monday moraing at his rcllden'::: —— ——— CUSTOMS-ABUSES, Six Milllon Dollara Lost by Smuggiing 8ing ~Tha New York Welghers' b Gigntle Sham, R Phtladelohla Hecord, | The report of the Customs . Commissfong for the cities of Philadelphin and New York shows that the Customs scrvicoover the Whole country 18 fn a conditlon to need very decided reforms, and that a very Iaree pereentage of the revenug that ought so be collected fails from tho Incom. petency of customs officers, Lorin Dlodget, Esq., whose long connection with the Treasury Department at Washington ennbles bim to speak authoritatively, fn refer. ring to this subject, saya: *“The importations of the higher grades ‘of goods are mais on a large undervalustion, The foss g revents on silks ls estimated {0 bo not fegy than $5,000,000 or $0,000,000 year, cquivalent to the smuggling of from 88,000,000 to 810,000, 000 In value, and this i a fair index to the gep. eral condition of the Customs service as it wyy when the Commission began thelr Invest tlons. Of course, during these Investigations, y good many of the worst abuses have becn for the time suppressed, and better attention hey been given to tho actual work of the severs) offices, but the whole avatem fa inconcel: bad as It has horetofuro exlsted, il “Ong of the worst abuscs,!” continues 3y, Blodget, *was and ls_the Welghers' Doy art ment, the publlc generally belicving that the dutles ara bettor collected on goods that g we‘%hcd and paylog specific duty than on Fn s paying duty on value. Tha fay s, howcver, that tho Welghers' e partment of tho Customs of New York wyy aud is o gigantic sham, Though costing pg cnormous sum_of money distributed 10 somg twenty or thirty weighars, the most of thesy posltions were absolule sinecures, aud there way scarcely any welzhing done by any of them, They got from private welghers whatever po. turns they chose to put in as officlal retomg, ‘The wholo cost of the scrvice wasubout $600,000 a year, of which not one-tenth was paid for work nctuu!ly performed. ) “Whifle the reeent fnvestigation, hoth hers and at New York, has boen undertaken 1n good faith aod expused o large proportion of the abuses existing in the actunl scrvico, it still has Ly no mcans covered the whola ficld, and, unlesy the Department carries out with cotlro fafthful. ness the practical reforms thoy sueecst, every abuse which hns cxisted and now exists will re. cover {ts atreugth aftera few months hars cln:scd to allow tha recent events to be for- otten, B There are at this moment very hicavy losses of revenue. from Imnportations oither falsely classified or greatly undervatued, nnd all the larze staples .of fmportation, as sugar, ailks, cte, are at this imomcent not paying more than three-fourths of the flul{ they should pay. Tney rernlnt in passing now nt_ Now York sugars at 3{ conts per pound which should ‘nny from 25¢ 10 834 conts, and Immense_ quantitios of siks are constantly thrown an the markot at auction at Now York'that have elther been smuugled outright or at an ltudnrvdmlon of from 34 to 0 per cent. “In Philadelphia duriag the last week 500 feces of sllk wera thrown on the marked, Joples of tho advertisemonts of the clieap silks have beensont tothe Presldent of the Amerivan 8ilk Association. One result of this evaslon of the custum Is tho depression to which {b has sunk tho Amerlcan Associse tion, It wasonly the other day that atirm Newark falled, and they all fn:l thomselves un able to comuete with smuteled goods, The grent fault is that, ns the law now exista, even those ofliclals who would faithfully atrive to periorm thelr duty tothe Governmant could only follue tho person and not the zoods, *“There are two modes in which this frauds. lent importation of ellks {s made,’ says Mr. Biodget In cxplanatfon; ‘“ono by smuzgling outright, tho goods beinz brougzht in barrely and boxes to port, and loaded under *general orders,’ which Is a dclivery from the vesel without ‘entry by the impocter, They theare. main in tho warchouss until n favorable oppor- tunity offers for their entry under sotnd other name, or until the finclr.\mu ars eniptied of thelr ellks and filled with some worthlcss article. 4 After the lapse of a ycar packages have to bo examined, and they are found to contaln nothinz of value, and tliero{s no owner totrace, But the greater number of these goods aro now scdt hero from manufacturers fn Lyons ou vone signment ut a price representini what 18 claimed to bo thelr cost, but whicl: is loss by 25 or 40 oer cont than thelr market valua fn the coualry from srhich they come. Buch consigned allks ara sent to auction, and sold much’ less than such allles imported and paving full duty, The amount fost on ailks afone is equlvalent to the net siuggling of $10,000,000 por annum, or onse third of the entizo productlon. * There must be irunf. abuses fo the Customs servies whan swch things are possible, aud It s not surprisivg that tho actuat disclosures ap- pearing in tho roports of tho Cominiselons bath for New York aud Philadelphin are found toet- Ist, Of courso the Socretary of the Treasuryis not aware o this, and, [ belleve, he carnestly de sircaan houest administration of the Cusioms service.' P BABY'S FINGERS. Daby's fingera! Daby's fingora! Ahl their touch, lg soft and light— Smootler than the richest velvel, Purer than the Miles white, Dainty, little, taper fingersl Ab{ bow winniugly tlioy ceee Over cheek, and neck. and forehead! In thelr grazp my heart they kuop. Bee them reaching for the sunbeam, ‘or tho shadow, on the wall: Bhall tae sunbeam, or the ol In their grasp, 1o futare, 'l‘léhtly do they grasp my fnger, Iinging clo: "on As the vine Doth around the stronger oak-trae ‘Trustingly ita tondrils twine, {ldish Bngers, restless fluge) Ot o ahactta all the e How I have to watch thelr movements ‘While they'ro busy at their piay, Lest thoy break some tender keopsako, beot ul ' mlul{.’:”:‘:n‘“::wnundcfl 4t they may bo boi For those fogors all shloge darat Quirt only when the night comes, After they've been clasped In prayer To tieir Father 1‘1? in Heaven, n Thanking for lls tender care. Girllsh fingers, fitting blithely 'Mong the flow: ers to and fro, ‘Working briekly 'bout the housshold, Playiog songs so sweet and low, Ant thoso fngors, blessed Angers! ‘They from mo to-day will stray: Did ye Liear the church-bells ringing® Did ye hoar the neighbors say That my Desslo was to mu:r Willie, in the church, to-day? And those trembling, nn{.lngm In his manly clasp will lay, And I'll leave them in his kupln!‘ Knu'ln{lhll be'll hold thota dears May they bring bim many & blesaing! 1y they bear him hope and cheord = And I hope thoss falry Sngers W1l come back to me each day, I el Gid g b ef 1he Wars o thelr me i3 Maxcussrsi, Mich. Criss e e—— REDUCING COUNTY SALARIES. Ta the Editor of The Tribuns. Cu104do, Bept, 81.~Much husbeen sald about reducing the salaries of county ofictuls. \Vnyl don’t tuey do It, snd comumence the rizht way' Rountree can live just as well on $3,500 for he wark he does, sud let him do bis own work, be does mot waot s Becretary. In the County Court one or two clerks cau be spared. In the County Clerk's office half of tho employes €32 do the wosk well. Let the Joafers and bummen be turued out, sud let the County Cammiuhwl ers look after such things, 1f tho County Cler is unable to doit. Lieb was bragging tbe od“; day fu the Germau evening newspaper that b oflice touk §100,0001n 1876, and that the expense ero only $53,000, and that Le saved for :U‘ t‘ounty lf&uoo. He ought to be ashawed of bl 'r:; solf tu speak about It; $50,000 is what he U 10 biave saved If he was the man be ought L0 . and then the peovls would re-elect hlw-( L offics can be run with £50,000, w({l i would employ men who cau gud wi e 4 a day; but, keeping as be dues & lot ot = wers, Lio'canot du it.” 1t whll last only $0 1 168 of Deceinber, then bis thue ls over. | Le clect 8 better wan, who understands the b“ ness and who is sble to Judge bow smuch wu" IA8Y LD d?l 15 » dn‘y. nnél be :ufluuv:hzozx“ woney prede witnout reduchus Belp's aatarg, Taxprarasie