Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1877, Page 3

R - yards of gravel; that there were four par- ’ 7] . PUE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER. 2}, 1S77~SIXTEEN PAGES. - 3 ——— MICUHIGAN AVENUE. Examining Into That Gravel Con- 4 tract---Queer Develop- i % ments. . guperintendent Wilson’s Dealings with Contractor:---Asking for a Horse. festimony as to the Poor Quality of the Gravelgp-Partiality Shown Ray & Whitney. The Committee on Streets and Alleys, South Disision, resumed their investigation last even- inginto the workings of the Department of Public Works. There were present Ald. Gil- bert, Cary, Tully, and McAuley. GEORGE JONNSON, 2 contractor, was the first witness: Iave far- pished Joliet gravel to the city. Have noticed that on Michigan avenue. 1t s Jollet gravel. Snould think it was very poor. It wastaken out of a pit that has a good many sand-drifts in, jt. Saw carJoads of sand put om the street. Some strip and clay was put into the holes af- terwards. There is better gravel in the pit than uat. 1 bad a lease of that pitonce. More sand was uscd on Michizan avenue than clay, It was the poorest job I ever saw for a man of apy practical experience to do. After a block had been down threegor four days there were big holes in the street, snd they were filled up. I have driven over the street. Saw seven or eight car-loads. About ‘halt of it was good for nothing. Vhen I fur- nished gravel, Wilson was particular. He yanted it about the size of a bird's cgg. He would not tiave taken such stoff as that used on Michigan avenue from me. Ray & Whitney god a man named Adams first opened the pit in Jolict about eight vears azo. They gave it up four or five years ago. Eight yards can be gotonacar. Have got nine yards on. In et weather ten yards put on at Joliet would come trough all right; but in dry weather only about seven and & half wonld arrive,— not over cight, anyhow. The rest would shake off. Those c#fs I saw wouldn’t average over cieht vards. I shipped over 1,000 cars year to the city, and never bad them average ten yards. Had a copversation with Moses Thayer. e said, ““A fricnd of mine has ot control of the strects of the South Side,—Grorge Houghton, Zandif any mravel is used on it you shall have achow on it.” That was carly last spring. After the Michigan coptract’ was let 1 saw bim ogain, and he said the city Was goinz to use four or five thousand ties interested, and they cxpected to inake $5 8 car. He said Houghton was one, Cliarley Everts another, ond a man named Reidel. 1 told bim 1 @ida’t sec where auy such money was to be made. I thiLi he used my information®to benefit somebody clse. I told Thaser about the pit; and he said he could get Hougbton in with him. They got bold of the it sbout the time the contrac was lost. couldn’t tell who the partics were. I uever knew Everts to have anyibing to do with erav- ¢l. He used to be a conductor, He told me after he 2ot the contract that he didn’t know anything about gravel. 4&saw Thayer the otlier day, and spoke to him about our conyersation. #i¢ #aid he bad forgotten it mes,] I think Wilson is 3 rood jwige of gravel. Do not Fmow of Reidel or Houghton baving anvthing todo with the gravel. I know about ail the gravel men. VWhat induced me to cxamine the cars was that Thayer bad told me they were foina to get. ten yards o o car, und I thought I would %o down and_see what wasonacur. It would cost to lond good gravel about £3.50 a car. the royalty was 50 cents, and the freighit 13;9‘, that would be about §1.50 3 yard to Inud it ere. . BOOKKEEPER JOUNSON was recalled, and tesutied as to the blocks as follows: 1572 X 2,653 1873, S3.729 7 Ray & Whitnes, SL. 3876, Ray & Whitn w 7, Ray & . Total, Ray & urchase of % & Whit- i Whitney. & Smith, § 69, J. B, Smith, §33 ney, $21,250.803 J. B. Smith, $370.0%. " In 1875 the Department contracted with L. K. Aurhaus Tor 425,000 feet, more or less, of ouk at S13.50, and with C. Rutz & Co. for, 1,115,000 fect of Diuc, more or less, at 9. There wero no con- Lracts in 1976. Not aver $3.000 was spent for it that year, on sccount of the inancial ewbarrass- ments. A _sufiiient amoeunt of Inmber js npever adverrised for in spy ope vear.—geperally in the neichborhood of two-thirds. This year 57 feet of Lemlock were used. It cost $3,64.93. Only Kuow pew about 75,000 fect. of pine was nse were put on West Washington street this vear. Only §50 was paid by the propesiy- owners for pavinz one-half of Randolph street from Clavk to LaSalle. Idou’t know that was for that purpose. [ underetvod it was for a tter in front of the Sherman House. I Shoulda’t call from the curb-wall 1o the railroad track a gutter. I had the $50, and Mr. Wilson told me to deposit it. If the people pay for au smprovement I ought g know of it. [Hough- ton’s pay-rolls for the year, and those for jabor on’ Michizan - avenue, 'were submitted.] “The total amount received from private partics on account of Michizan avenue was $3,625. Al of it was paidout except’ $35. Half a mile of Prairic avenue was repaved by private subscrip- tion. The whole amount was charged to the South Division repair fund. 'Fhe books do not ghow how much each _improvement cost. The amounts were lumped. | wouidn’t swear that the men wro worked on Michizan avenue were ot paid tice—once out of the private fuud and amuin by the city. {_paid them off, and those who came up scemed to me about tne same as the week before. There are mo da on the Michigzn svenue pay-rolls. Hougzhton knew I was to pay off, and when I was coming. has . four = teams. Tie keeps his own time, and swears to it. [Wit- < submitted a lov of papers, which the Com- mittee took cnarze of.] The cost to the city for dmroving Michizan and Praitic avenucs was about §4,000 over and above the sitbecnptions. 1 never Kpew of a street to be gravelpd right through before without a special asscsument. Wiison is the responsi an for the distribu- tion of the street-repair apvropriatin. The Mayor doesn't look into details. I have to take Wilsow’s word on bills. He would huve power ta reject bad gravel, eie. “w ¢ RORERT STEWART, sworn: Am a contra Have been one for twenty-one years in Chicago. I pave strecls, Have nsed gravel, and know the different qual- fties of it. Lake:shore and Joliet are mainly used here. Joliet gravel is a curse; it rots Juni- ber. The vezetable matter in it does it. 1 have seen a fine crop of oats growing in that gravel, and also geranjums. There used tobe zood Em\‘cl ‘at Joliet, but it ran out some time ago. hs ave econ Michizan avenue fately. It is vot 25 zood a dnve 88 it was before. T think the gravel on it is very poor. It is mud, notgravel. Tdo not know that the Jabor conld have been better with such material. I never knew Everts tohave a contract before. He was a railroad” Ricdel & conauctor.. Never kpew amp to furnish gravel. Camp is 2 real-estate man. A car averages irom geven and a Lalf to cight rds, I _don't think ‘much would be shaken off incoming from Joie:. There would be a logs by the pumping in switeh- inz. Ayard of gravel will weigh somcthinz over a ton—about 2,500 pounds—as it comes out of fhepit. Enow Mr. Wilson, Superinteudent of Streets. In 1872, when I was building the North Clark stroet viaduct, he was barassinz me without any reason, and Igave him §25 ur $30tobe s little easy_on me. [ think beha- Tassed me because 1 didn’t dividethe spoilswith Lim. He was not so particular after 1 zave Lim the money.. In the spring of that sumc year he foldme if T zave him borse Iyouldn't reoret it. I didn't give him the borsc. e didn's want 10 buy the animal. e was embittered azainst e on account of that horse, and I exposed him 1othie Board of Public Works hecaufe he re- Tased to accept some of my work. e didwt deny that he wanted me 1o wive im 3 hors Tie didn’t ask me for the mancy, but he w: Jinting all the time. I ot afl my coutracts by competition. I never paid any moucy before or ginee. 1 was aceused of siving Conimissioner Thompsou a horsc, but he won {t on @ straight bot. 1 was paving Wabash avenue at the lirnci and heberme $200 agajost the horse that wouldn’t_get through in & certain time. I offered Wilson gravel for §1.50 yard_ong time O come] had left over, when he couldn’t zet it for Jgss than $2.50, but he wouldn’t buy it. Lake Shore gravel is sold for about tlic eauie as Jotict. Itisten times better. Never knew of TWilson baving an intercst in a pit. 1 have uo mtipathy o him. Iam stating focts that vou sall for. Know Houghton and "Thayer; Thayer % workiog in tin now; hus o shop. He bas nevér been a street contractor tom. yhnowledge. Houghton i8 a bouse-builder._ I think Ray & Whitney had an iutcrest ina Jolict pit. 1heard Commissioncr Thompscn £ay that witatever they did Wilson would consider all right. . [ tbink be was pretty well remunerated for the interest hie took in them. Inever kuew o of a strect 1o be paved without the conscnt of the Council. The Board of Public Works did nothing with Wilson ‘when I made. the charge against him. I was surprised at it. ‘Thompzon =aid something like *Wilson, l)io“ are too biz 1or your cloties.” That was all that was done. 3. B. SMITH sworn: Am a paving contractor, and manufac- turer of and dealer in materfal; lave adock and a mill for cuttgpz blocks. Ray & Whitney havea mill, and there is another small on at the North avenue bridgze. One dollar and fiity. cents a thousand for all sizes, delivered, has’ been the price for tbe last tiwo years. Have scen aavertisements of the city®for plank, but not for blocks. I have had opportdnities 10 sell to the city. I salicited the docking, cutting, and delivering of some of the city work. Have had talks with Mr. Wilson about it, and insisted upon a division., I have never been able to get ang‘ of the work. Ray & Whitney had it all. asked for what was beinz used on the N s th §ide, and a part of the West Side, 1told hiw T wo 1 have sold d do it for whatever be ls'ml. the city lumber when they could not get it from Ray & Whitney. All the city lumber is sent to Ray & Whitney’s at Twelfth” street bridge, and has been for years. [ have never been asked to compete with them. It has always secmed strange to me. 1 never knew wht was paid for docking, cutting, and_deliverlng until Lsaw ilson’s statement,—$1.50 for six-uch, and $1.75 for five-inch. My price for two years for both has been $1.50 a thousand. I never could get Wilson totalk on the subject. He hasasked mewhat Twould furnish o many blocks for, usior. my own Jumber; but uever for larze uantitics. Mr. Lake. ofthe West Side Raflway ompany, told me that Ray & Whitney offered 1o furnich thewn hemlock lumber at $0.50. At that same time the elty Wwas payving them $8, $8.25, and $8.50. Isaw the youchers. Q.—How do you account for the partiality? A1t is 2 matter that I have thouzhit of con- siderably, and it has been_pretty hard for me to draw but au inference. \"’hut that inference was I do not care to state. There must besome reasou for it. Q—Perhaps the quality of lumber you pro- posed to furnish was inferior? A.—The gen- tleman never looked at it. Ray & Whitney were the only parties who got the same pay for paving interscetions as that paid private con- tractors by the property-owners. Others got less. The orders of the Councll dirccted the Department_to make a contract for the futer- sections at the same price paid by the property- owners, I kuow something abont gravel. That on Michizan avenue is about as good as avy that comes from Joliet. All the gravel around bere fs limestone-gravel, and when it zets wet and is traveled over it turns into mud. It was utterly unfit to put on a street. Never knew Rudel, or Camp, or Everts to bein the gravel business before this vear. Q.—Did you ever give Wilson any bribes? - A. ~I never gave him any bribes. Q.—Dia you ever give bim any money? A.— Tt doesn’t Jook that way. Q.—What do you mean? A.—It doesn’t Jook that way. ; Q.—TI ask you, did you? A.~ilow far bagk do you zo? s «.—Since his connection with the city? A, (uuching)—He has been connected with the city a pood while. Q.—Durinz the time you have furnished lum- ber—money or @ horse or bugey? A.~Not for a great while. ; Q.—Tell us alt about it. A.—I should rather not. 1 should declive to go into that part of a conversation. It is woing back a lonz while. My recollection doesn’t cxtgpd that far back. Q.—Without going futo détails, say yes or bo to the question. A.—I wouldn’tiike io say yes or no with that Iatitude. Q.—Have you ever miven Mr. Wilson any mouey? A.—Ever? > , Q.—Since lic bas been connected with the cit A.—T don’c think 1 shall anawer that. Q.—Iu connection with any dealings you have had with the city? A.—I should not, be williug to answer that question. Q.—Why not? A.—iVell, for the simple rea- son if I ever did-# is <o longazo that the details are pretty much forgotten. Q.—Would you be afrsid of convicting your- selll A—Olno. Q.—You will ngt“give us any particulars? o, sir. Q.—We canzot foree you. - A.—I am aware of that. L OTTO BLUEX sworn: Am in no busineds at present. Isu- perintended the work on Michigan avenue for a while. Mr. Wabl emptoyed me, I understood. Houghion spoke to him, and told me to go to L[‘\\‘iv.ness produced his timo book.] hiad anything to do with putting down gravel before, 1 put down the roadbed, I uever did it before. I don’t think any man needs any practice In such work. The men worked continuously. They were not taken off and_ scpt elsewhere by Houghton. The city Enid me. The men did not sign the pay-roli, ecause they couldn’t write. WILLIAM E. CAMP \was next called, but he refused to be_ sworn, saving be would make his statement. Ile sald: [ live at No. 42¢ Calumet avenue. Am in the yeal-cstate business. Was avent for Everts, Hlad potbing to do with the contract, exvept {hat 1 drew the papers. Reidel was interested with Everts. Haye known Houghton for four orfive 3 Reidel was on_good terms with nim. Reidel is my poartner. I don’t smow of Everts baying had anvtnios to do_with eravel before. 1 received the gravel shipped in by Reide) after the first week. Otber purties ot some besides the city, About 500 cars were delivered. Dyer and McBean got some. Be- tween twenty and fifty cars went to other parties. Everts collected the moner. They paid 814 a car, ‘They were mot measured. Every car for the city was measured. 1call the quantity ten yards to a car, Inever bad a conversation with louzhiton about gravel. Krow Thayer. Never heard him or Houzhton speak to Reidel about it until after the award was made. ‘The gravel deal ot_the outsed was between Reldel_and Everts. Iknow what the profits were, but will not state them. I ar- rangements had not been made with the Rock Jsland Road to let us_put on al we could we should bhave ' made 1o money. That was dope throush ™ Reidel. The ~yard-master told me some of the veizhed 40,000 pounds. No side-boards were u [Other witnesses bad sworn fhat a car-load weighed from fen to twelre tons,—L that was the limit alowed by tie railroad com- panies.] Good guessing enabled thein 10 Zot 1he contract from the city. I put down 3140, Nothinz was said before that about getting the contract. There were no assurances. None of 115 had cver hai any experience in the business. ¥ put no money in. el Joaded the mravel at Jalict. T dow't know wiat Everts did.” Reidel put & little money in. I will not state what my interest was. The contract was fr 1,500 yards, and we dién't expect it woull o pevond it. wed ten vards each. Idon't or all the wravel defivered. then adjourncd. Drowned By & Dog, Sarannah (Ga.) News. A report was eurrent in the community yes- terday morning of an uprising of some of the convicts belongine to the force under the lease of Col. T. J. 8mith, now at work on Iutchinson fsland, opposite the city, and the cseape of seven. after the guard had been overpowered and murdercd. i In the norihera side of the buildinz occupied Dy the forces as_&lecping quarters there was a hole about two feet square, where the chfinney of the sugar-refinery stood. which had been closed up with bricks, mld beiug used instead of mortar. About o quarter after 1 o'clock Georee Bitlups, & negro, who slept near the opening, manaved to free his feet from his ohackice, and, pushing the bricks out, worked Dimself slowly through ghe hole, which was about three feet from the'sround. In ettive oat, hawever, he struck awainst the mag who was slecoing in the bunk next to him. The Ihovement awakened the fellow, who, raising imeelf, discovered Georue's leg just disappear- ing through the. aperture. He_at onte pave oy ainrm. ervivg to the guard who was.on Guty at the door that 2 man was escaping. The guard started around the building aod caught Sighit of Georze running” toward to bank of the Savannah Kiver. Heimmediately onened fire on the fueitive, firing six stiots at him. The dogs were called outand sent in pursu About” 300 yards from the building one of the dozs caught the fiying negro, who was imoeded in his flizht by the fmmcnse siamp reeds. Aftera short” struszele, dur- inge which the guard fired at him acain, he suc- ceeded in freving himself from the dox, aud continued ranping toward the river., On reach- ine the river bank, the nezro,pluuged boldly in- to the water, and the dog aiter him. When about twenty yards from the shore the dog seized bim uzain, and a figat for i and liberty ensucd in the _waters. ‘The night was clear, but not sufficiently - clear 10 epablethe ruards to discern where the man wae. His erics and strugeles with the dog were heard, aud ina few minutes the dog returncd to the bank. As Dothing was seen of the convict on this side, it is Dbelieved that he was drowned. It is supposed Ihat he was wounded by one of the shots, and it is certain_that” he ‘was badly bitten by the doz when he was first caught and dur- ine the struggle in the water. The morning was very cold, and be would most ‘probably bave been numbed before he could have swam £0 this side, even had e not been injured. Hence there is but little doubt that his dash for liberty resulted in his finding a watery grave. Georze Billups was a young nesro convicted of burglary in Fulton County Superior Court. : e ———— For tone, volume of sound, and absolnte 1asting power the Msthushek pisno stands apnvaled. SLY KOONS. An Old Acquaintance Turns Up in* *a New Part. A Reporter, after Some Trouble, Gets Some References from Him, And Then Finds Out What Those Refer-; ences Have to Say of Him. A Our old friend Koons, Joe P., bas. turned up again, The last time that he was, heard from was about & month ago, when he appeared be- fore Justice Scullyfn bebalf of his wife, who bad been sued by a cruel coal-dealer who wanted pay for some coal. A few weeks prior to that Koons had been Leard from ssa friend and partuor of the Bryants, of Newhall, and of Dal- ton, the free-luncher. Now ho turns up agaln as Koons Brosq—who the Broters are no- body can tell, unless iv be Bryant and the rest of the boys,—and is trying to et 2 living by induciog scents to purchase his Century Chart, his Egyptiah puzzle, or some of the other notions which he says hehas on hand. ‘The following -document was banded to Tue TripuNe a day, or 80 220 by o gentleman of this 5, 1o whom it had been sent " by the proprie tor of the Colorado newspaper to which it was addressed, with a request that be find out who Koous Bros. were: Cnicaao, Dec. 8, 1877, KOONS BKO3., - Manufactarers of and dealers in Hardware Special- ties and_Noveltes, Jvons' patont Measuring- - . Valve Funncl, improved glass button-hole Bouguet-Tloldirs with waler reacrvolr, - Fxce) sior™ Domiestic Water-Filter, need in sities hav- ing water-works; (ho wondggful ~‘*Century Chiart,” 100,000 'in usc: Koons' patent llorse- Tounet or Hesd Protector: provricters of the cight patents and gopyrights under which our oods arc made. Good wholessie and retail ocul and traveling agents wanted everywhere. YLarze profits. _Any article for sule in the United States furulshéd prowptly ot Towest price. Jooms 19 snd 20, 100 Warhington stecet, Cbi- engo. i DEAR Sm: Upon examtnation of lats of papers published thronghout the Umited States, yours fx one of the many we have kelected, ~Believing it to be 2 zood medium for us to zdvertise in and” circulate throuch o scction €f couniry, that we would like to reach, we heresith offer our ‘fad ™ (as per enclosed) ai your Jowest pos- sible rates, for -six mouths. One-half = to be pald 4t the nnd of three months, and the bal- ance at the explration of contract. TneertIn your next issue aud send contract by re- turn maj) to be signed. Also seud copy of paper during life of ceatract.” We are, respeectrnlly yours, Kooxs Lnos. We refer to business honses in hardware trade, Chicago. The advertisement inclosed In the tetter was as follows: . TO AGENTS. rHE CINTURY CHART. A100-Year Almanac, whereby you cap ascertain what gay of the week any day of the month is, or whav day of the month any duy of the week i: Was, o will be, from 179 to 1000, or ou what doy You'were born, on what day any event has taken Dlace, or will take place, from 1709 to 1900, and 1,000 other oconrrence. The wreatest invention e of man. Every person will buy onc; alto creat Euyptian puzzle, Sport for all. ' Either ar- ficio sent on receipt of 23 cents, postpaid, or S1 Awents wunted everywhere, Ladics per dozen.. You can and gents secur® your own at once. muke 320 per week. Send for sample. Foonxs Bnos., Novelty Dealers, 100 and 102 \Washington-st., Chucago, LIl A reporter was sent out for the purpose of LOCATING THE FIRM, and went first to No. 100 Washington street. On the door of Room No. 19 was a curd “To Tent,” near by one or two other cards,—one of +whicls contafned a notification that Koons Bros. & Co, had moved to Ruom 23, No. 126 Dearborn street, and the other that 0. G. Bryant could be found in the Exchange Block. Inguiry of persons in the building resulted in the informa- tion that the parties bad Jeit about thelst of Covember. It would eeem, however, that Koong, still considers Mumself an occupant of Toon 10, since his letter is dated Dec.S. The reason for his quittint was the old one. The landlord wanted mouey for bis premises. ©O. G. Bryant was the one who rented the room, He bad been located there for more thau & yedr, and carried on the business of a dealer in'stencils. Failing to pay rent; the landlord attempted to zet bis' mone: outrof the stufl in the place, but Koons sud- Qenly turned up as the owuer of the property, and, woine into baukruptey, lelt the landlord out in the cold. i Hhe reporter next went to Room 26, No. 126 Dearborn street. There were people inside, but 1o one responded to a knock. Peoplein the adjoiping oflices couldn’s see through the occu~ Dants of No. 26, They weramysterious in their movements,—there were four or five of them,— always kept thedoor locked, aud woulds’t even Jer the letter-carricr in. He brought a duzen ctters nearly cvery day. Though somebods in the room when be knocked, no notice was taken of it, and he shoved the letters under thedoor, The awent of the building s Koons Bros. were the teuants. What thei business was le didwt know., They paid their rent and were well recommended. Oue wnan, who had gotten a glimpse of the inside, £aid tkere was a lot of stull iu there, but whas, it Wwas hie Was unable 10 say. . KOQONS AT HOME. . All the rapping at the door of No. 126 Dear- born street, Room 26, which an able-bodied man coulddoina day or two having proved but weariness of -the flesh, @ reporier sougiit out the dweliipg of Koous, or ou¢ of him, ond _ found it at No. 06 Centre avenue. Having called at this place at the supper hour, Koous was sent out, and ap- prared in the form of aninnocent-looking young Than, say 80 years of uge, with a remarkably low Torchead aud short brown whiskers about his fave.” It was a short eanversation: «Mr. Koons. a friend of mine on the Colorado Farmer and Live-Stock. Journal has' reccived a proposal to do some ndvertising for you, and e has asked e to look into your financial ability 3 o1 thought it best to come straight to you and ask you for some references; who can Yoi name in this_city forme to ask about your re- sponsibility : s “ivell, yoft might ask Mark M. Pomeroy, of No. §3 Matlison sireet; e knows us and knows that, we are responsible.” “{Vho clsc; some man or firm in the mercan- tile husinesst™ . “ Frazer & _Smalley, the printers, know us; you could ask thew, o Bassetb be is another printer.”? “'[lose are all you remember, are they?” «Qb, we do not have any business in ibe clty, and haveno councctions here.” ¢ ¢ Wyell, never mind; I will callon these men,” and the visttor took out Messrs. Koons’ circular £ inscribe the umes om ity when Mr. Koons Jindly assisted him and wrote the numes in 2 clerkly hana across it. : POMEROY. the reporter called on Mr. terrupted the sealing of a letter Enhsequcnflf' Pomeroy, and iu b) omeroy, do you kuow the firm of ¥ 23 M. P Koons Brothers?” “No, sir, I do not.” «Don't know wio they ared” «Don’t know them, never knew them, and never heard of them. Where do they bave an office? “That's hard to say; but they give you as one of their references.” “WWhen I was o boy L used to zo coon-hunt- inz. Maybe these gentlewen are relations of the other coons. They are pretiy hard to cateh, you say; that would go to prove jt.” “i¥hat I want to find outis whether you accent their roferenct?? " tabit of it; I dow’t know them, nor anything about then, and never beurd of them.” - . Aud then My: Pomeroy went on pasting the wrapper round the paper. Desirous to know just how far Mk SMALLEY s willing to back up the wane, a reporter for {uis paper happenud in upon him yesterday torniug, at No. 191 LaSalle street, and made the natnral inguiry. 8 . Do they refer to me,” was the Yankee way of answeriog the question, & To you among otbers,” was the respouse. w\Well,” ejaculated Mr. Smulley, with a pe- culiar whistle. 7o what extent can vou recommend them 3"’ 4 ell, now, my fricnd, I'H tell you just thi: don’t you_trust ’em any farther thau you can see 'enl, _ You're gone sure, if you do?" ~ Why " asked tie reporter, droppine the in- nocent zuise of one to whom_the firm had writ- ten and who was bent on looking up their refer- ences, and opeuly declaring who he was and whence he came. ' * Have they stuck you for anything¥ & Oh, no. You see I was up to snuff. Ikmew who they were, and what _they’ve been ‘doing. It's the same O. G. Bryant crowd right turough.” *Bar how have you protected yourself and escaped being bitten . “This way: When they bring us a job, we tell 7em to put up the stock, which, you see, is svorth’ more than the price of the job. Welly' they furnish the- stock, we do the job, aud we dow't’ deliser until the money is paid right down. So far, they haven't one back on any work they've ondered of us, but I expect they’it try to conie it on s yet, and perhaps stick us for something. 1don't care anything for their trude. * It “dovs not amount o verv much, aud hardly pays. In. fact, Iwouldn’t careif they took it away anyday. Soif you wrise ’em up. é;x‘a jean give me as authority for what P've « They will probably take you off their list of references after thist” “\Well, if they do refer anybodv to us, I shall tell ’em just what I've tolu you,—that you f:m’t;t;rnsc ‘em goy further than you can sce ‘em.” s ‘At No. 183 Monroe street is a man by the nawe of C. H.Jones, Western agent for the 2 STAI PRINTING PRESS, ] Tearning from Mr. Smalley that the aforesaid Jones had a tale he could urfold in reference to the doings of -the rang, the reporter soueht him out and ot Lis story. - It was to the effect that T. H. Bryant, representing himself as 0. G. Bryant, had bilked him out of $300 on a pres: When Bryant expressed a desire to buy the vress, Mr. Joues proposed to sell for part cash, and to take a chattel mortgage for security. At this Mr. Bryant was virtuously indignant. Nobody need take a chaitel mortzage from him. Did Mr. Jones kuow to whom e was speaking? Whereupon Mr. Bryant put his name down on a card, with the initials O. G. before it, referred Mr. Jones to the Commercinl Aseney and stood back on his diznity. At this time—it was before Tsie TRIBUNE gaveth: gung such wide notice—O. G. Bryant was quoted \worth $30,000. Mr. Jones iso ot a speciul, re por._thiat he was worth 320,000 cash, Wwitle his credit good. On these representations he con- -cluded’ to make the sale. The bill for the resses and cases was $320, and Bryant made © munificent ndvance of $30. A Sunday came, and with it Tz TRIBUSE’S free ad. of the gang. Mr. Jones opened his eyes. Moro than that, he sct about making inquiries and ascertained that he_ had rcull% been dealing with T. H.and not O. G. Bryant. The next thing he did was to replevin the stuff on account of fraud. Then be found that they had becn moved to a_certain mill on the Nortn Side, whitber Mr. Jones went to look them up. The miller represented that Bryaot owed him money, and that the stuff was there as sceurity, and he'd sce him farther before he'd give it up. Mr. Joues eventually triumphed, however, by recourse to that valuable aid known as the Search warrant, which was the means of bring- ing the woods to light and his securing pos- session thereof. This is but_one instance out of many of the way the zang do business. Among the mourn- crs not presiously mneotioned in these columns are the Chicazo Newspaver Union and Cuiver, TPage & Hoyne, both suiferers to the amount of about $100. 1In view of these facts, it might be as well for “the country papers to require cash in advance, 1ike"Smaliey. ———— THE NEW BUSINESS EXCHANGE ROOM. Practical education makesanother forward move- ment, 8s can be 6cen by visiting the beautiful ex- chiange-room n the Halo Building, corner State and Washingion strects. The Business Exchange is to ruif in connection with H. B. Bryant's Chi- cago Business College. 1t i6 a community of busl- ness houses—models of theirkind. Each elegantly fitted aod furnisbed, and all actively engaged in the transactiou of business during the “ours of the daily sessions. Call and see it. It is bound to be’s grent success. ——— THE CLOSING-OUT SALE of goods eaved from the Field, Lelter &Co. fire will be continacd till Jan. 1, &t 220 State street. cor- ner of Quincy. Al goods must be closed out. Five thousand yards of curtain and upholstery goods, very little damaged at 25 cents a yard. Zephyrs in all colors 10 cents per ounce. Cassi- meres, all wool, 45 cents. Finc worsted dress 20008 1214 cents per yard. Ladies' und gents’ fancy atriped hose at 10 cents. 220 State street, corner Quiney. —— ~ CHICAGO AHEAD. ‘We are pleased to inform the citizens of Chieago and the Northwest that after a epirited comnetition between New York, Philudelphia, Bultimore, and Chicago, the contract for furnishing the clegant house just finished in Washington. . C., for the Hon. Senator Windom, has been awarded to the ug firm of Messrs, ' Spiegel & Cahn, 251 ‘abash avenue, again scoring ome for Chicago. — YOU ARE ALL INVITED {obe present to-morrow (Monday, Dec.24) at 9:30 4. m.. tomake rour awn selections and prices of valnable articles usually found in first-class jewel- ry honses, William A. Butters & Co. have been instracted to dispose of this valuable stock at auction without reserve. We advise our readers to ‘e present at 174 East TRandolph street and not lose this golden opportunil e FURNITURE-~-CLOSING-OUT SALE. In addition to the various inaucements we are offering at the cloding-out sale of our retail stock of finc and medium furmture, we will, until Jao. 1. have on hand n large variety of parlor suits and Casy chafre, covered with the best raw silk ma- terials, cvery shade, ot oue-half their regular value, 1I. & M. Neuberger & Co., 267 and 269 Wabush avenue. e e———— AL SPALDING. Al Spalding fa not. at afl likely to résume active conncction with basc-ball; his business is too prosperons. He has at 118 Randolph street a very large stock of, the best makés of skates, and is ‘handing them out for Christmas gitts rapidly cnough to insute prosperity. hat with ball goods in summer and skates in winter, Spalding won't be very hikely 1o plsy any more ball. ———— J.FUCHS & CO,, UNDER THE PALMER HOUSE, Tave just received the works*of Rubinstein, Men- delesoln, and Schuman, the best numed In the cdition prepared and fingered by Rublnstein for tho &t. Petersburg Conservatory of Musi ————— A vieit to Pelton & Pomeroy’s, No. 152 State street, willconvince the most skeptical of the su- perior excellenco In tone, volume, and depih of the Mathushek piano, \\’h)th outrivals all com- petitora. ———————— TO ALL WHD USE SEWING HACHINES, You should remember that the new No. & Family Wheeler & Wilson las g straight needle which is self-setting, has no sbuttic, and that the work runs back, See them at 155 State streot. SR BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITY, Tare chance. 1 will sell my eiczant and eclected stock of Iudies’ and gents' fine furs at cost of ma- terfal. TSy KiewTen, the practical farrior, No. 100 Stage street, up-stairs. No true Jover of mueic shonld purchase a piano . without visiting the store of Pelton & Pomeroy, No. 152 State street, and iffspecting the eplendid stock of Mathushel pianes displayed there. —_—————— CALIFORNIA. Asa light table wine, our California hock and claret will be found superior to any in the market. For sale in quantities to euit. PERRINS, STERN & €o., No. 111 Randolph street. —————— Tlie Bird of Paradise. The Jardin d’Acclimatntion, Paris, has_ just received some living specimens of the bird of paradise, which it has hitherto been found rarely possible to bring alive to Europe, This bird Is a native of New Guinea, the iuhabitants of which country endeavor to keep up the inble relative 1o these soceimens of the feathered tribe, by ~persuading tne Indian merchants to whom they sell them that they have no feet, and that, as they live on air and ¢ neither stomach nor intestines. 4 el by the form siven by the Papmun naturalists or dealers to pre- pare them for sale, by drying the bird its _plumes after taking out the inside aod tearing off the Tegs. It is ly found excepting in the couutrics swhicl produce_spices, and _particularly in Aus- tralasia, New Guinca, which iscomprised in that part of the world, and the_Aroo Islands near, contain many specimens. The piny nd nutmeg-tree grow there in the mid mense torests, and supply their priucipal food. Thz Papuans, barbarriaus as they are, derive considerable protits from the. sale 'of the bird, aud_take it with nets ‘or sticks smeared with birdlime. In the Jatter case they takeit alive, but as it is very dillicult to prescrve, they refer to use the bow and arrow. Tne manuer i which this chasc is carried on is very curions. The men climb silently in toe darklike cats into the trees fn which the birds sleep, pass the night in the forks of the brancnes, and at daybreak shoot at the birds while they arestill asleep, very lizht atrows made from tlie ribs of leaves of the palm-tree. Theiraddress is so marvelous that the bird geuerally falls to the ground in- tact. stunoed rather than wounded. Tae men continue as long as_they can, and then descend to the ground and proceed to the preparation and embalming of their victims. The Malays of Malacea are the chief purchasers of the birds, which they carry to tae Molucea Isles, whence they are sent to India, China, and Europe. e ————— Sax Fravcisco, Dec. 22.—The Stock Beards have adjourned till Wednesday next. -~ \ caunot BRITISH AMERICA. The Red River, Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan Prairie 3 Country. Lord Dufferin’s Glowing Description of the Dominion’s Northwest. Correspondence London Times. ToRONTO, Utt. 20.—~On the 20th ult. the citi- zeds of Winnipeg, Manitoba, gave a farewcll luncheon to Lord Dufferin and his party, pre- vious to his departure for Ottawa. In‘reply to the toast of his hualth, his Excellency, after a few preliminary remarks, sald : “ Manitoba may be regarded as the keystone of that wighty arch of sister Provinces which spans the continent from the Atlantic to’ the Pacific. [Great applause.] It was here that Canada, emerging {rom her woods and forests, frst gazed upon her rolling prairies and unex- plored Northwest, and learnt as by an unex- pected revelation that her historical territories of the Canadas, her eastern seaboards of New Brunswick, Labrador, and Nova Scoti, her Laurentian lakes and valleys, corn-lands and pastures, though themseives more extensive than lalf-a-dozen European-Kibgdoms [ap- plause], were but the veatibules and antecham- oers to that till then undseamt-of Dominion, the illimitable dimensions-of which alike con- _found the arithmetic of the surveyor and the verification of the explorer. (Tremendous ap- umgusc.] It was heace that, counting her past achicvements as but the preface and prelude to ber future exertions and expanding destinles, sho took a fresh departure, received the afllatus of & more Imperial {nspiration, and felt herself Do longer a mere settier along the banks of single river, but the owner of half a continent, and in the magnitude of her possession, in the wealth of her resources, fn the sinews of ner material might, the peer of any Power on the carth, [Loud applause.] Ina recont remarka- bly witty specch the Marquis of Salisbury al- luded to the geographical misconception often engendered by the smallness of the maps upon which the flzure of the world i3 depfcted. “To tuis cause is probably to be attributed the inad- equate idea eutertained by the best-educated persons of the extent of her Majesty’'s North American possessfons. Perhaps the best way of corrccting 6uch & univer- sal misapprehension would be by a sum- mary of the rivers which flow through them; for we know that as a poor man cannot afford to live in a big house, 8o & small country cannot support 2 bir river. Now, to an En- glishman or a Frenchman the Severn or the Thames, the Seiric or the Rhone, would appear consideruble streams; but in the Ottawa, a mere afiluent of the St. Lawrence, an aflluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream -miles from its mouth, we have a river pearly 550 miles long and three or four times as bi a8 any of them. &Apnlnuse.] But, cven after having _ascended the St.” Lawrence itself to Lake Ontario, and pursued it across Lake Huron, the Niagara, tbe St. Clair, and Lake Supenor to Thunder Bay, & distance of 1,500 miles, where gre we? In the -estimation of the person who hias made the journey at the end of all things [ereat laughter],but,to s who know better, scarcely at the commencement of the great fluvial systems of the Dominion, for from That spot, that is to say from Thuuder Bay, we are cnabled at once to ship our asmnisncdylnv- cler on to the Kaministiquia, a- river of some hundred miles long. Thence almost in astraizht line we launch him on to Lake Shebandowan and Rainy Lake and River,—the proper name of which, by-the-by, is ‘ Rene,’ after the man who discovered it,~n magniticent stream 300 yards broad and a couple of hundred miles Jlong, down whose tranquil bosom he floats into the Lake of the Woods, where he finds bimself on a sheet of water which, though diminutive as compared with the inland scas he has left be- hind him, will probably be found sufficiently extensive to render him fearfully sea-sick [loud Taughter] during bis passage acrossit. For the last eizhty miles of his vogage, bowever, he will be consoled by sailing throngh a succession of land-locked chaunels, the beauty -of whose scenery, while it resembles, certainiy excels the far-famed Thousand Islands of the St. Law- rence. [Loud cheering.) From this lacustrian paradise of sylvan beauty we are able at onre to transfer our friend to the Winnipeg, a river the existence of whith in tne very heart and centre of the continent is in itself one of Nature's most_delightiul mirazles, so beautiful and varied are its rocky banks, its tufted 1slands, so hroad, g0 deep, 0 fervid is_the volume of its waiers, the extent of their lake-like expansions, and the tremendous power 5f their r.\fl {.\mflnusc.] At last, let us supposc we b unded our traveler at the Town of Winnipez— the half-way house of the continent, the Capital ot the Prairie Province, and, I trust, the futuce +umbilicus* of the Dominion. [Great cheering.] Having bad 50 much of water, having now reached the home of the buffalo, like the exten- -ated Falstaff he naturally ‘babbles of grecn fields? . [laughter and applause], and careers in imagination over the primeval grasses of the prairic. Not at all. Escorted by Mr. Mayor and the Town Council, we take him down to your quay, and gsk bim -which he will ascend first, the Red River or the Assineboine, two streams—the one 500 miies long, the other 430 Zwhich so happily mingle their waters withia Jour city limits. _(Applause.] After having given him 2 preliminary canter upon these re: €pective rivers, we take him off to Lake Winni- peg, an inland sea 300 miles lovg and upwards B 60 broad, during the navigation of which for bour he will find himself out of sight of land, and proba- by o gogd deal more indisposed than ever he was on the Lake of the Woods, or even the Atlantic. aughter.] At the north- Swest angle of Lake Winnipeg he hits upon the mouth of the Saskatchewan, the gateway sud highroad to the Northivest, and ‘the starting polnt to another 1,500 miles of navigable water, Howing nearly duc cast and west between its alluyial banks. Having now reached the foot o the Rocky Mountains, our ‘ Ancient Mariner* Tanghter]—for by this time he will be quite en- titled o such an appellation—kuowing that water cannot run up bill, feels certain his quatic experiences are concluded. —[Luughter and applause.] He was nover more mistaken. Laugnter.] \We immediately lauuch him upou 'l.h(! Arthabaska and Mackenzie Rivers, and start him on a longer trip thun he has ot undertaken [lavihter], the ~navigation of the Mackenzie River alone exceeding 2,500 tniles. If he survives this last cxperience, we wiad up his_peregrinations by a concluding voyage of 1,400 miles duwn the Fraser River, o, it he prefers it, the Thompson River to Vic- ‘havingpreviously many & wear! toria, in Vancouver, whenc: provided him with a first-ciass return ticket, for that purpose, he will probably nrcfcr{: ting home via the Canadian Pacific. [Roars of laugh- ter.] Novw, in this coumeration, those whio are aequainted With the country sre aware that, for thesake of brevity, I have omitted thousauds ofmilesof other lakes and rivers which water Outious rezions . of the _Nortiwest,—the Qu’x\ynclle River, Belly River, Lake Manitoba, the Winnepegosis, Shoal Lake, ete., along which I might have dragged and tinally exterminated our way-worn guest [luxu.zuterl;_ but the sketch §'have miven is more than suflicient for my pur- pose; and whenit is further remembered that the most of these streams flow for their ‘entire longth through alluyial plains of the Siahest deseription [abplausc], where year sfter Tear wheat can be raised without masure orauy ~ensible diminution in its yield [hear, Lear), aud ywhero the soil everywherc presents the appear- Jnce of o highl¥-cultivated suburban Kitchen- rden in England, enough has beensaid to display the agricultural riches of the territories {hve referied to [great applauee], aud the capabilities they possess uf affording happy and prosperous homes .to milliong of the human race. [Long-continued apphus&} But 1n con- femplating the vistus thus opened to our im- agination, we must not forget that there ensues o orrceponding expansion of our obligations. For instance, upless ereat cate is takemwe shall findas we move westwarid that the exigencies of civilization may clash injuriously with the prejudices ond traditional bubits of our Judian fellow-subjects. So Jong as Canada was in the woods the Indian probiem was tompara- tively casy; the prozressof settlencut was slow enotigh to give ample time and opportunity for Vi at an amicabic and mutdally-convenlent arransement with cach tribe with whomn we sues Cessively came in_conzact: but ouce out upon the plains_colonization will advance with far more rapid and ungovernable strides, aod it fail eventually to fnterfere with the by- ‘ho-means ineshaustible supply of buflalo, upon swhich so many of the Indian tribes arg now de- ndent. Against this contingency it will be our most urgent sod Imperative duty to take Simely precautions, by easbliog the_red man, not by any undue pressure or basty or {ll-con- sidered interfereuce, bat by precept, ex- ample, and _suasion, by gifts of eaitle and other | éncourazements, to —exchange toe recarlous life of 8 hunter for that of a pastoral and eventually that of an agrical- tural people. Hmlnusc.) Havpily, in no part of her Majesty’s dominions are the relations ex- isting betwecn the white settler and the original Datives and masters of the lead so well under- gtood or so_generously aud humanely intér- reted as in Canada, and, as a consequence, in- stead of belng acause of anxiety and disturb- ance, the India tribes of the Dominion are re- garded 23 a valpsble ndjunct to our strength and industry. B Hear, ‘hear,’ and aj plagse] Wherevor [ hase gone o the Provines —and since I have been here I bave traveled nearly 1,000 miles githin your borders—I have found the Indians upon their several reserves, pretermitting a few petty grievances of & local character, tney thouzht themsclves justified in preferring, ~ contented and satisfied, upon the most fricndly terms with thelr white neichbors, and implicitly confiding in the good faith and paternal solivitude of the Gov- croment. [Apptause.] In some districts I have learnt, with pleasure, that the-Stond, who some years since cntered our territory under such sinister circumstances,—I do not, of course, reler to the recent visit of Sitting. Bull and his people, who, however, I believe, are re- maining pern:cnlg ci,nlct,—nrc not only peaceable and well benaved, but have turned into useful and hard-working_laborers aud harvest men; while fu the more distant settlements the less domesticated bands of natives, whether as hunters, voyagers, guides, or purveyors of our furs and game, prove an appreciably advan- tageous element in the economical -structure of the colony. -{Applause.] There is no doubt that a great deal of the good feeling thus subsisting bLetween the red men and our- selves is du to the intluence and _interposition of that invaluable. class of men, the hulf-breed settlers and piouneers 4:; Manitoba guml ap- Rlnuse]. who, combinipg® as they do the hardi- ood, the cndurance, and love of enterprise gencrated by the strain of Indian blood within their veins with the aivilization, the instruction, and the inteilectual power derived from their fathers, have preached the Gospel of peace, aud goodwill, und mutual respeet with equally be- neficent results to the Indian chieftain in his Toduze and to the British settler in his shanty. (Great upplause.] They have been the embas- sudors between the East and the West; the in terpreters ol civilization and its cxigencies to the dwellers on the prairic, as well as the ex- ponents to the white men of the consideration justly due to the susceptibilitics, the sensitive sclt-respect, the — prejudices, the fomate craving for justice, of the Indian racc. Loud applanse.] = In fact, they have onc for the colony - what otherwise would have been left uniccomplished, and have introduced between the white population and the red man a traditional feelfug of amity and friendship which but for them it mizht have been impossible to establish. &Clu:ers. Nor can I pass by the humane, kindlv, and con- siderate attention which has evergdistinzuished the Hudson's Buy Company in its dealings with the mative population. [Applause.] But, thoneh giving due credit to these fortunate in- fluences among the causes which are conduting to produce and preserve this fortunate result, the place of honor must be adjudged to that honorable and wenerous policy which has been pursued by successive . Governwents towards the -Indians ~of Canada, and which at this moment is befng superintended and carred out with so much tact, discre- tion, and ability by.your presest Lisutenant~ Governor [applanse], under which the extinction of the Indian titie upon liberal terms hos invariably been recognized as a necessary preliminary to the occupation of a single square ard of natie territory. {Cheermg.] In a world apart, ecluded from all extrancous influences, nestling at the fect of Ler majestic mother, ‘Canada dreams her dremn and forbodes her destiny—a dream of ever-broadening harvests, multiplying towns and villazes, and espanding pastures; of constitutional seli-wovernment and a confederated cipire; of %a.."u after page of honorable history, auded as her contribution to the aupals of the mother countrv aud to the grlories of the British race; of a perpetuation for all time upon this continent of that temperate und well-balanced system of government which combines in one mizhity whole, as the eternal posscssion of all Englishmen. the brilliant bis- tory and traditious of the past with the freshest and most_untrammeled libesty of action in the future. [Tremendous cheerinz.)’ A NEVADA CAVE. Millions Upon Billiors of Pure Gold and Sitver. » Correspondence Virginia Enterprise. CarsoN, Nev., Nov. 27.—For many years there bas been living in the Walker River range ol mountains & mannamed Algernon B. Grant, who very rarely sought the hsunts or habita- tipos of white men. IIis ostensible occupation was prospecting for precious metals, but the fact of his long and uninterrupred residence in these wilds pointed to,the fact of his non-success in that direction. MP. Grant was in this cliy afew dayssinee, and the followlngis anex- tract from his wonderful and intercsting his- tory. Heisn native of Bourbon County, Ken- tucky, having been born there in1625. He was sent to Harvard College, where be graduated in 1846, second in his class. In 1851 he was ad- mitted to practicein the Supreme Court of Keatucky. He enjoged a lucrative practice in that city until the breaking out of the Rebeltion, when he entered the Cofnlederate service, re- ceiving 5 commission- as Major fuoneof the Kentucky regiments. In the meantime Grant hud married and gathered 2 little family around him. These he at that time had taken to the southern portion of Kentucky, and placed them under the protection of relatives. , When the war ended he pletured to himsell in rapturous delizht the happiness that would fall to his lot when he could once again gaze upon the faces of his loving wife snd dear chil- dren. Hetook passaze for Southern Kentucky. Upon arriving at the spot where bis hopes and happiness were centered, there awaited himn nothing but a mass of charred ruins. The strong man dismounted from bis borse and sat down upou the ground, weeping like a child. Ie learned that about a year before the .close of the war a small band of strugeling troops bad infested that portion of Kentucky, and that the family of Grant bad been’murdered, and the incendiary torch was brought into play. In the carly spring of 1866 he cnwiged passaze in a mule train which was then about crossing the plains, and afterward arrived in this State, and emigrated to the most extreme southern ena of the Walker River mountains, where he has been existing ever siuce, only at rare in- tervals secing the detested face” of a white mao. A number of the Walker River tribe looked up to him with great reverence, supposine bim to be endowed with supernatural powers. About two mouths agoone of these Indians, Who Lad been u recipicnt of special favors at the hands of Grant, desirous of exhibiting his -aticude, requested our hero to accompany im on a two duys’ ramble through the mong- qains, snd he would show him a cave wonder- fulty rich with gold and silver. What dircction ot the compass the party followed, Graut is re- Tuctant about revealing. At all events, after traveling about two days and a hall, our hero and his companion arrived at dusk one evening: in 2 natrow cauon or wountain georee, enclos- ed on cither side by rugged, steep mountains. To this viciity, the Indfan said, the cave was Jocuted. A camp fire was lighted. and while Grant was cooking supper his companion went in scarch of the exact location of the cave, 5o that no time would be lost in finding it in the morning. The Indian returned with joy im- printed uporf his copper-colored features, and imparted to Grant the satistactory tidines that he had found the cave without difftnlty, and that notwithstanding the darkness which then prevailed the interior of this wonderful vault +was light s noonday. At aaearly hour next morning, after traveling in this canon, which is ‘many miles in length, for an hour, or maybe a little less, the Indian pofnted to a pile of gran- ite of immense welght, stacked up against the craveed side of o monster mouotain, and told Grant that by removing the boulders an en- trance to the cave could be effected. The two men immediately set 10 work at thelr herculean task, which occupied them nearly two hours. When the obstruction was removed, il that could be scen was an_ovenlug leading Into the mountain, of dimensions only ereat enouch to admit the bodics of two Jargely developed men3 but the interior was as dark as Ercbus. Graot i#ventured into this opening to the distance of about ten fvet, but the intevsity of the dark- ness preciuded bim from seeiug bis hands he- fore his face. He cricd out to bis companion for somo burain« sazebrush, which was inmed- jutely thrust_iuto the vave, but, strange to re- |ateg this artificial lizht would not iluminate theFarkness. Lere was a nice pass. Grant emeryred from his subterrancan visit and con- sulteq with bis semi-sayagecompanion 2s to the Tmost expedient means to be employed In_the Eergency; it was useiess to seek tor gold or anything else in o6 dark a plice where artiflcial Jiwnt proved of moavail. 'The Indiau then re- peated bis_story of the ilfumination which he P in the cave the preceeding nizht. Althongh this yarn souuded rather improbable in the cars of an intelligent white man, yet the Indian was S0 earnest and sincere, to all outward appearan- ces, that our hero decided to remain until the stars came out, and determine whether there was apy truth in his compabion’s fabulous parration. ‘The men returned to the camping ground of the previous night and brousht taeir traps to the mouth of the mysterious cave. 1t scemed osif that day never would draw toa Close, 80 great was Grant’s impatience; but as twvilight was approaching o sligbt glimmer was discernible at the mouth of the vault, yet the blackest darkness mortal ever pehld was still holding sway therein. But gradually, as night was falling, an unnatural light was making it- sclf apoarent, and at 9 o’clock that eveninza rav of briiltant noonday light shot out {rom the opening, of toat wonderiul subterranean pas- sage. For thetirst timein many years Grant gave vent to & shout of delight. The Indian’s faloof seeming fiction and improbability was true. The sicht was so grand, s wonderful® and so magnificent, that for ufew moments Grant, was rooted to the rround by a combina- tion of terror and. admiration. Aftera while heand companion entered the cave, but the Jizht s so plercing an_brilliant that for fow secouds the poir could see nothing; their vision seemed to be lost; buc graduaily their eves became avcustomed to the unnatural Drillianey of light, and the sight which met their raze no person can depict. The walls and ceiling of this passaze were covered with bur- nished ol and_silver, tife bulk of which com- prised thousands of tons. Grant relates that the first slzbt of these treasures terrificd him, but, after rezaitine his self-posession, he and the Tndian made " a tour of exploration. ‘This caveis about onc milein length, 150 feet in width, and seventy feet hizh. The interrior of this immense grotto is arched similar to_an old gothic church, supported by larre alabas@r-liko pillars, entwined by heavy goldenand silver wire of the dimensions of @ man's finger, like the growth of ivy, andin astyle of grandeur and magnificence that could never be produced by human hands. These plilars_seem to have been plared‘in position by a provident uature to sugncrr. the heavy ceilingsof thezrotto, Incrust- ed by thousandsof tonsof old and silver wire and- ingzots wrought into the most fantastic shapes. Besides tbe incalenlable treasures, shis vast cave contains chambers and domes of the most. sotesque architectural desiyns, marvelous avenues, and little lakes, the latter alive with fsh of every color of the rinbow, a gorzcous and indeseribable sight indeed. This ali reads like an improbable tale, but Grant vows that his statement is one of absolute veracity, from Alpha to Omegn. Oune of the most ubaccount- able features about this cave is the unnatural light st night, which, Grant says, is not phosphorescent * (he belng~ somewhat of a scientist), and the unbeard-of and impene- trable darkness during the day, Grant as- serts that there are millions upon millions of pure gold and silver in that vault, and he mcans to share them with those who have been. kind to him in bygone days. He is now en’ route for Louisville, Ky., and has with him sev-* eral hundred pounds of gold taken from the cave, to seck out some of his old friends, whom he will bring out here as ear]y as possible. e ——————— Earth from Borneo. Land ana Water. In thelast century a merchantivesscl came into London Docks with yellow fever, and the Captain was suffering severely from It, and no one would o near the sullerers. Dr. Fother- gill, however, ent on board, partlyout of com- fassion and ‘partly from his desire to study a disease which was new to him, and he removed the Captain to his own house, and finalty_succeeded in getting bim through the fever. When the Captain re- covered, ho inquired from the Doctor what he was in his debt, but Fotherzill refused to re- ceive any pavment. The Captain then wished %o know how he could compensate bim for such Kindness, upon which the Doctor reptied that there was one thing he could do for him, if he were making a voynge to the East, ond wauld pass _torough the Straits of Macassar by Borneo, he should be glad f he would bringz him back two barrcls full of the earth of Bornco, which the Captain promised to do. However, when he reached the spot on his voyage out, he thought of ‘the ridicule he ~must experience from his crew in so stranse an undertaking, and his heart failell tim, and he eniled through the straits withoat tulfilling bis inteotion. ~ On his return Dy the same route the same thing happened again through his fear of the scoffs of his crew. However, aiter he had left the straits 200 or possibly 500 miles ochind him, his conscience smote him with his inzratitude and the non- 1ulfiliment of his promise, and be put the snip’s head about, returned to the spot, and filed tha barrels with the carth. On his return be fent it to Dr. Fothersill, who had the surlace of o piece of zround thoronzhly burned, and he then sprinkled the Borneo earth on it, when it is o known fact that here came up all kinds of new and curious plants, said to be 100 different sorts, some geranlums, and new flowers, which have subsequensly gpread throughout the gar- dens of England. B ——————— . 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