Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1878, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY. JULY 1 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. MILWAUKE The Pioneer Railroad of Wiscon- sin-=-Some Railway-Rem- iniscences. * flealihof the City--Efforts of Dr. Wight to Abate Disease-Producing . Agencies. Fair Business in Real Estate—The “Union of American-Hebrew Qongregations.” tpaing of fhe Public Library—Movements "of Promigent Persomages-—A Loeal Loard of Fire-Underwfiters. TOE PIONEER RATLROAD. From Qur Own Correspondent. . MnwaUKEE,July 13.—Anold volume of bonnd pailroad reports fell under your correspond- en’s inspection & couple of days aro, and it snagrests the points for aninteresting paragraph, The first few pages of the book were covered by astatute incorporating the Milwaukee & Wankesha Rafirosd Company,—now . the Chi- cago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Company. Fer, two or three years enterprising men had songht toprocure from the Territorial Legislature a durter fora railroad from the lake-shore to the ioterior of the State, or across it. But “the firce Democracie”” were jealous of corporations snd of ageregated capital,—as jealous asths Grangers were a few years aco,—and refused these erants of corporate power. At length, in 1847, after a severe fight, the Leglslature agreed 1o the experiment for a distance of iwenty miles, between Milwaukee and Waukesba. Tais charieris sizued by William: Shew, us Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Mason C. Darling, as President of the Coun- ¢l, and is aspproved by Hemry Dosge s Territorial Governor. The Commissioners named to form the Company were William A. Barstow, Norman Clinton, Alex- ander W. Kandall, and Alexander F. Prait, of ‘Waukesha County, and Paraclete Potter, Daniel Wells, Edward D. Holton, Byron Kilbourn, and Lemuel W. Weeks, of Milwaukee County. See bow craftily the cunning bhand which drafted this act placed the rural Wankesha members of the Board at the front, that thesensitive pioncer statesmen who composed the Territorial Jaw- making body might not be stimulated by an uncomfortable jealousy of the grasping desigms of the city capitalists and ag- gressors, including the vencrable Mr. Potter and the jolly Dr. Weeks. This act was passed TFeb. 10, 1347, but nothiug was done under it till two years afterwards. May 10. 1549, a meeting of this Board was held, and officersof the Rail- road Company were elected,~Byron Kilbourn as President, Benjamin Edgerton as Secretary, and Walter P. Flanders as ‘Treasurer. in 1848 the Territorial Legislature smended this char- ter by suthorizing the Company formed under itto extend the road from Waukesha on to Madison, and thence to the Mississippi River. Of the men who thus founded the St. Paul Road, Deacon Holton, Unde Dauiel Wells, and Dr. Weeks only are living. Barstow, Randall, Kilbourn, Dodge, Darling, and Shew, after filling big blaces in the little world of Wisconsin, ceased to be a part of it; Paraclete Potter and A. F. Pratt filled smaller places, but were active in their lives, and were missed when they died. RATLROAD REMINTSCENCES. Byron Kilbourn's capacious and fertile brain eriginated the system of creating capital for the constraction of a railroad by procuring the farmers along the line to mortgage their farms twihe Company, which mortgazes were then sold or hypothecated for cash, or paid to con- tractors as money. Any capitalist would lend £1,000 to 2 farmer on & mortgage of bis farm, 1f 1 was wortn §4,000 and unincumbered. If the cpitalist would lend his movey to the farmer, Why not in large sums to the Railroad Company on 100 or 50 of the same mortzages? They did £0, and millions ot dollars used in building Wis. consin rallroads were raised on mortezases given by thonsands of farmers for that purpose. The farmers suffered Ladly enough by the system, and many were ruined by it. But it was uot & lad investment for tuem, if it 1ad been rightly managed; for . the roal doubled the value of every acre of farming Jand morteaced for its construction, or within ten miles of the line. Attempta to re- ‘pudiste these mortgages 1ailed after prolonged and bitter litigation, the formation of leagues, aud plaus for violent resistance to foreclosure proceedings. But, in the end, the farms had to pey the last dollar. Byron Kilbourn was President of the Compa- oy uil the road was completed to Waukesha. JLe distance between Milwankee and that place dsgixtcen miles. Mr. Kilbourn was bound to build his road to suit the views of evers farmer on the line who would subscribe to stock, and Le thus made it as crooked as 2 whisky-distil- lers in the days of the King, and twenty-one miles in length. He was showing this picce of road to au Eastern engineer one day, who re- garded it as 2 model of ingenuity in avoiding a straizht line. But one streteh of fifteen or twenty rods of direet track caught his eye. “Tere, Kilbourn,” said ke, a strange over- izht; you might have made a curve here, snd Yove neglected iLP? Tu 1351, the road havinr been completed to faukesha, there was a terrific. fight for the control of the Compauy,and the cleciion of oflicers was hotly contesied. A vast smount of irvesalar stock was issued, and there was a scuflle at the ballot-box. ‘The Company’s office ¥asin Milwaukee, but the etection was at Wau- hesha, Buth sides claimed the victory, and two sets of oflicers were declared chosen, and then the object of buth was to pet possession of the books'and the oflice. The awti-Kilbourn or Catlin party, by superior strategy, had obtained tontrol of the” tramn which carried the stock- Loiders out to Waukesha to vote; but A. F. Pran, of the Kilbourn party, hada white tire— *0ld Whitey™ was her name—of splendid speed 2ud unbouuded bottow; and, while the Catlin Jarty started for Milwaukee behind the locomo- e, Mr. Pratt and Kilbourn started bebind the mare.. The cruoked road thea eerved Kilbourn 2 good turn, tor the engine had twenty-one Iniles to run, wnile the mare bad but sixteen. He weigked 240 pounds and Pratt 160; but they ¥ould ave won the race had tot the mare Wrown 2 shie. As it was, they were but five minutes oo late at the oflice-door in Milwau- kee. Then Kubourn builz the LaCrosse Raad Ills 2 rival to the Miwaukee & Mussissippi “The Milwaukee & Watertown Road was built 2 few vears afterwards. lis passenger-traffic W88 not egremiously remunerative ior a year or o, while Williaw B. Hibbard was at the head 9l the Company. Anybody who wanted 1o ride over that road went 10 Hibbard and got = pass Jor the purpose. Oue day a stranger, traveling L the State, bought a ticket to o 1o Water- luwn, and presented it to the Conductor on the Inin, © Hub » Atkins, now the sedate_Superin- {endent of the LaCrosse & Prairie du Chicn inglon of the St. Paul Roed. ** Strauger,” £aid Atkivs, ** do vou know that you are liable o be put off the car” * How so?” queried tbe peaceatle, quiet, and astonished /tourist, | For violating the neages of the road,” said ‘¢ Couductor, 1o naing without a pass from . Hibbard 12 S 8. steill, not vers well dressed, tall, mus- ;flhn red-headed, with-a_sandy complexion, o %8¢ with character and force b it, and a voice arer very melodous, avpited in 1552 to the fmals building the road for a job. ~He b ust , come from the East,” and he Trobably about him less Lhan $13, including worldly possessions. * What can you do L2 13ilroad?? ne was asked. Experienced ‘Oad-tiien wereabout as muchin demand then S dexiin-War Sergeants, and cven_ prisates, mue 10186, 1o receive the command of regi- ats §41 can use a pick avd shovel” bhe Rid. Te was made boss of & gaug of men oa Tavelpit, a1 850 x month. . In 3063, cleven Jarsaiterward, on the formation of i il 2ukee & St Phul Railway Compauy, he wai Radeits General Manager. h‘“‘l‘ Woeu tue Lunclature bestowed the e keTuut on the LaCrosse Railroza .Company, mHll.mm Ur'two of the class of bonds called Struction ‘bonds were issued, and. paid 1 B "_‘l(num $2,000 to $20,000 tw, members. of m: txislature, ‘fhe bunds were' done_ up in ‘s Packagres, and placed jua depository, under v ¢ Ul du almoner, woo gave them on appli- m’"qum parties to whom they were ad- Yool - Oue’ up-country member was told Tt oo, L for his - construction bonds?’: Custogiag anderstood the word, und asked the mfim for his share of ‘*‘the corruption “—tpeaking in candid good faith; and so hewave the name which this lot always afterwards bore. ook pesties TIE CITY HEALTH. How to preserve the heaith of citfeslsa Pproblpm of such gencral interest as to attract attentlon; end it is not too much to say that it 1s now being studied faithfully and usefully, in Mitwaukee. Dr. O. W. Wight, the City Health Commissioner, is stirring up the whole town, and publishiog broadside after broadside of elo- quent truth on the subject; and his efforts are securing him a reputation as one of the best sanitary officials in the country. He is attack- ing the school-houses, the well-water, still used in many parts of the city, the alleys, the defect- ive sewers, and the other'sources of atmos- pheric polson and malaria, with energy, zeal, and, above ail, with intellizcuce. In a recent publication he has told how gfhe school-houses in some of the wealthy and populous wards are heated by stoves and ventilated by windows,— which meavs that half the scholars are swelter- iug and the other half shivering about two- thirds of the time; how the basements are wet, making damp foors and walls, which renders the situation ot the scholars about_ as if they were sitticg fu damg clothes to " study and recite; how’ unsightly outhouscs mar the avpearance of the groguds, while the feculent discharges flaw throu h open pipes without trzps iuwrgv.be city aewefs, from wlich, of course, the poisonous Sewer-gases constantly arise, filling the air, and biown throuzh the open windows, not ouly of the schoolliouses, but of the residences in’ the sey- eral neighborhoods; bow, in one instance, a driuking-fountain in schoolhouse, supplied by water Irom the street, has o wasto-pipe - which ruas without a trap finto a sewer,~wnich, of course, is a sewer-vent dircetly into the school- rooms; how soine of the outbouses were over- flpwme With excreta, which tainted the air for a distance all around. " These disclosures actually waked up the people to consider the character of the siuk-holes to which they send their cnil- dren for an cducation, and it is hoped that some ood results will follow. The Health Comunis- siover has also been investigating the question of water-supply, aud shows how hundreds of wellsare sull in use near which are Stables, privies, ana other depositories of filth, nside Irom surface-drainings " of the mnastiest quality, with which such well-water is impreguated. - Frequent reports from all the ucighborhoods of . the city are also made to him,—and the making of such re- ports is encouraged,~of manure-i aps, neces- saries, slop-pools, hog-pens, cattle-v: rds, and othier nulsances, which he caused 1o be abated. The slaughtering-establishments, rendering- buildings, and soap and giue factories are also ust beeinning to receive faithful artention. lans are being formed for abattoirs away from the city. and’ parties have already offéred to take S200,000 stock in abatto:r property. In connection with this subject, the St. Pauf Road 1as proposed to run 2 10ad to aoy locality which may be selected for that purpose, aud it will re- move its stock-yards to the same vicinity, The collection of Farbage from houses throughout the city onee a day in warm weather, and twice aweek in cold weather, is to e provided for zyrougln the azency of responsible contractors. Next week Dr. Wight will call a meeting of architects, builders, plumbers, contractors, and others interested, when Le will give blackboard demonstrations and instructious fn buildmg sewers aud drains. so as to effectually and thor- ouchly prevent the fescape of the pestilentinl sewer-gas into residences and otber build- Ings. “The river, from tke city-limits to its mouth, he pronounces a nuisance. Be- low the dam it is the outlet for the entire sewer- age of the aty; and the infatuated city authori- ties bave actually begun thie construction of sewers leading into tue river above the dam, where it sbreads out between delightfal shores, like one o1 the Oconumowoc lakes, and is the resort of bathers and boating-parties for the whole _city, because it is safer than the lake. The criminal folly of making & cesspool of this lovely sheet of water and breathing-place for the city, is denounced in emphatic terms by Dr. Wight. Let the good work go on; it is evi- dently in the right hands. . The places where typhoid. fevers, searlatina, diphitheria, matarial disenses, spinal ‘miningitis, and kindred nilments, which il so many homes With mourning, are’ encrated, are the sewer- openings, the teculent outhouses, the manure- heaps, the tilth in alleys, the bot-pens, the fetid cellars, and low lots with- pools of stagnant water, which it is the duty of the city to have abated. There is 3 prospect of this belng done in Milwaukee. BUSINESS IN REAL ESTATE. Recent actual transsetions in real estate ive a somewhat different “impression of the * mar- ket for dirt ” from that which is gencrally en- tertaiued. Business-property is held aud sought by capitalists at maximum prices, and - sales within a few weeks indicate this fact. The Best famils, of brewlng notoriety, bought, for a part of the site of their new building on East Water strect, near Wiscousin, twenty fect of ground, for which they paid §15,000, or 3750 a foot front. E. H. Brodhead has bought the thirty feet on East Water strect, south of Wisconsin street, occapied by Delorata & Quentin, for $24,000, or §800a foot front for the ground alvne. John Plankinton’s purchase of 150 feet on Grand ave- nue, between Fourth and Fifth sireets, for 000; Guido Pfister's burchase of sixty feet on Brondway. below Michigan street. for $16,- 5003 and James Roundy’s purchase of forty leet on East Water- street, near Huron streer, for $25,000,—all of which are at some distance away irom the acknowledged business-contre,—are fully up to ‘the prices of real-estute in flush times. Ourside property—that is, unimproved property—is very slow of sale, and sales are made at a_sacrifice; but men with considerable capital are looking around for paying investments. Some recent sales, however, under the hammer, show stiff prices. The French tract—tour miles from the city, on the White-Fish Bay rond—bought two years ago for $225 un acre, sold at auction for $310 an acre. The Hizh-School lot, with the old worthless building upon it, corner of Di- vision and Van Buren streets, 190 fect square, sold for $9.500. The Adams homestead, corner of Division strcet and Waverly place, at a forced sale, brought $13,500,—this and the las: two sales mentioned being at auction. . Rents are low and dull,—there being fully 15 per cc. reduction from last year, if not more; in come cases the reduction is fully one quar- ter; but there are no more than the usual num- ber of empty houses. Negotiations are still in progress for the sale of the river-property to the millers who were here ten days or « fortnight azo looking for sites for the crection of fouring-mills. The story tbat these operators had abandoned the plai of coming 1o Milwaukee isnonsense. Those looking at property here, and who witl doubt- less Jocate here, are Minnesota parties. Olie of them, well known in business circles through- out the Northwest, offercd $43,000 far the old mill'owned by the J. B. Martin' cstate, oceupy- ing eighty feet on the river, and on West Water street. This mill is a former warchouse, in which the mill-machinery was placed several cars ago, and Is, of course, no way comparable n value to a new mill. This offer was refused, and the gentleman who made it will now pure chase a site, and crect a capacious Hlouring-mill with all the modern improvements. The* rea- sons for this novement, and the jnvestment of capital in mill property at this Eoim., are given at length. They are. that mills bere 'will have the choice of every vanety of wheat from Wis- consin, Illinols, Iowa, aud Minnesota, which ship wheat 1o this market; that the elevators are slways full, and they have never need to stop for 4 supply of gruin; that the travsnipment of heat and flour is saved, and they can have the benefit of lake and raft competition in furward- ing flour; that they can buy coal from vessels here at a good advantaze ut all times; that the market for mill-feed is rood among stock-growers in the neighborhood; that the cars run to our door, bringine the wheat to be ground, and the vessels come to another door, taking away the flour to market; and 2lso that taxes arelow, the City Government is cflicicnt, and the population is of such a class that Communistic riots are not to be apprehended. This substantial argument for the locaton of this important industry fo Milwaukee appears to be conclusive. ISRAELITE VISITORS. Two or three daysof the present week were 2 Peotecostal season to the Jewish residents of the city. Leadiug representatives of an as- sociation called 1he ** Union of American He- brew Congregations’ have been fn_the city attending a convention of its members, which was leld on the Oth, 10th, and 11th jost. A banguet at the Plaokigton Housc, addresses, and busihess proceeding's’ occupied the . dele- gates,—all_of which hare been faithfully re- ported to Tue TRIBUNE. -1t has been an in- terestioe sight to see the. 200 Iadies and gentle- men who composed . this extraordinary delega- tioo. A large number stopped at the Plank- iuton House, and others were guests. in private families. At ,the supper Which was'| riven, and at their . various gatherings, they have . been ' dressed, both _men in the richest cloths and silks,— ith the. finest, and whitest linen, diamongs.—and the 'ladics gorgeous jewelry, incompara- ble enmbroidéries, aod the other decorations which denote wealth that placesihzm above the necessity of limiting their persoual expenses, ‘There was a semi-Oricntal splendor about their appearance, which denoted their origin as de- cidedly as their features. Their spirits were constantly elastic; their demeanor to each other wag marked by extreme cordiality, and even affection; and to all they were ostentatiously and scrupulously polite. They mivgled & higl degree of social enjoyment with their business; ladies and gentlemen alike thronged the hotel- rotunda and corridors, instead of beine con- fined to the parlors and private rooms; and they secmed like a most wholesome, cordial, broad-minded, big-hearted, cultured, and re- ‘tined class of people. TOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS. ‘The Public Library was at last opened early this week, in the room it occupled while owned by the Young Men's Association, which I.m.s been neatly and thoroughly refitted. ~Any resi- dent of the city is entitled to enjoy the privi- leges of the library on & written guarantee from some responsible person, or on depositing $3, which will be refunded when use of the lbrary ceases. There are about 8,000 books in the library, accumulated by the Young Men’s Asso- ciation during the last thirty years. The selee- tion is tolerably ood. ‘There area dozen or two of leadini newspapers taken; but the files ought to contain all the newspapers in the State. Itisannounced that German newspa- pers, periodicals, and books are to be added to the library. John W. Cary, General Solicitor of the Chi- fitwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, is takinea trip by steamer to Mackinaw and Lake Superior, aud will remain some time at at Ashland, for the benefit of thé Lealth of bis invalid wife, who accompanies him. Anzus Smith and Williamn Younyr are in Col- orado, and will visit the San Juan mining region, Dr. P. M. Reed, the well-known newapaper- correspondent, is traveling in Colorado. Mrs. Col. Edward Danfels is visiting her brother, R. L. Gove, of Waukesha, and also fricods " at_Port Wasbingtou, her [ormer resi- dence, Col. Daniels was lonz ago a resident of Ripon, in_this State, was State Geologist, and was Colonel of the First Wisconsin - Cavalry, Heis now a resident of Richmond, Va., aud was the Republican candidate for Member of Congress, against Gov. Gilbert A. Walker, in T Col. Haus Crocker has returned from a visit of several weeks® auration to Colorado. Edwara Sanderson and his wife have reached home from a two months’ tour in Europe. The westward lecturing tour of Henry Ward Beecher will lead him to Milwaukee, and several of the promiuent places in this State, the latter part of the presens month. A, P. Swineford, of Marquette, Mich., nomi- nated by the Democrats of “that State for Licu- tenant-Governor, was formerly o resident of Milwaukee, a printer, and connceted editorially with the’ newspapers here. He also published newspapers at Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, and La * Crosse, in tbis State. Parazraphs copicd from Han Francisco news- papers state that the IHon. J. MeM. Shatter, of thag eity, will divlde Into smail tracts, and offer for sale to actual settiers the immense estate of lands which he owus in California. These lands are spoken of as if they might be a mill- ion ucres or 80 in extent. Mr.” Shafter was for- merly a. reaident of Sheboyyan, in this State, was clected & member of the Assembly from that place in 1851, aud was chosen Speaker of that body, with Alexander T. Grav, now of Washiogton, us Chief Clérk, and Elisha Starr, of this city, the well-known old-time printer, a8 Serzeant-at-Arms. Letters from the Rt.-Rev.'E. R. Welles, Epis- copal Bishoo of Wisconsin, written on the eve of his departure for Europe, announce his con- tinued convalescence. He suiled from New York, in the steamer City of Montreal, on the 4th just. Georrre W. Crummey, known thronghout the Northwest in sporting circles, Is spending the summer at his old bome, in Summit, Waukesha County, near Oconomowoc. The Hon. John L. Mitchell, only_son of Alex- ander Mlitcell, was married in New Yorlk, on Thursday, to the sister of Washinzton Becker, of this city. The wedded pair will take a bridal tour to Europe, and will return to Milwaukee in the fall, when they will occupy the el%'.mnt sudurbay residencs of Mr. Mitenell i the Town of Greenfield. Prof. 8. 8. Sherman, of this city, one of the State Board of Normal-School Regents, is mak- ing the tour of Europe. C. W. Norris, of thetirm of G. D. Norris & Co., has returncd from a European tour. There have been séveral snug little fortunes made in wheat, ou *Change, during the week. The Milwaukee insurance men have organ- ized as *‘The Local Board of Fire-Underwrit- ers,” with the following officers: Presideat, J. L. Hathaway; Vice-President, J. McBell; Sec- retary and Treasurer, R. Van Dyke. TPostmaster J. T. Mosk, wife, and daughter, have been the guests of United States District Attorney G. W. Bazleton, duriug the week. Miss Fanny Driscoll, the charming Milwaukee poetess, is visiting at the Dells, Kilbourn City. Banker C. D, Nash bas gone to Louisville on business. p A charming society.event will be a summer- night’s party, to be given by the Milwaukee Club; at the Nationsl Asylum grounds, ou Tuesday evening vexz.. The Wisconsin State, Turn-Fest is being held at Sheboypan, and the erowds to go there on the Sunday excursion-trains to-morrow will be im- mense. B A serics of Sunday-afternoon temperance- mcetings will be commenced to-morrow, st 3 o’clock p. m., at the Union Depot, South Side. Ex-Chici-Justice L. 8. Dixon nas been at Os| kosh during the week, on legal business in the United States District Court, The Rev. H. T. Rose, of Plymouth Church, is about to start on his summer-vacation. ANOTHER MISS ANDERSON. Gen. Fremont's Son not Darried to Miss Mary, Anderson, the Actress, Washington Post. Miss Sallic Anderson lived with her parents ou the corner of Nineteenth and G streets. Her father is a civil engineer, and his business is principally in the West, where he spends most of his time. Ensign Fremont was statioued on the Powhatan, a coast vessel, and was able to be aereat deal in Washington. Last October, in the latter part of the mouth, Miss Sallic Anderson, in compsuy with her sunt, Mrs. Magruder, went to New York City tor a short visit. By a mysterlous dispensation of the Navy Department, the Powsatan was ordered to the Navy Yurd at Brooklyn. Ensign Fremout went ovér to New York, called on Miss Anderson, went out for and came buck marricd. No one was inforined. ‘The Ensign went back to his ship and Miss An- derson rcturned fo Washington. During the past winter they both went outin society a great deal. . Ensizn Fremont endeavored to make himself agrceable to the young ladies, and succeeded 28 a young and bandsoine oflicer can. During all this'time he kepit up hisvisits to the Anderson family, and was then regarded as a very agreeable young man, and a convenient escort. His attentions to Miss Sallie did novat- tract any notice cither in the family or among the fricnds. How loug this statc of affairs would have conuinucd it is_impossible to say; but in May last Mr. Anderson sent for his fazaily to join him in the West. The crisis in the affairsof the youne people Was reached. Tue wiiole story came out. Miss Sallic Ander- son did not go West, but she again went. to New York, and this time with her acknowledged husband, Ensfgn Fremont. Miss Mary Ander- son has had no part in the drama, nor bas she been cast for one, ARaltimore Sun. A story, which originated with the Lousville (Ky.) Argus, is going the rounds. of the press, .and has been reprinted in Baitimore, to the effect that Miss Mary Anderson, the sctress, was married in May last to a son of Gen. Jobn C. Fremont. This is a mistak e Youny man mn question did marry a Miss Anderson, but the bride is a youny lady of Washington, who won consideravle reputation iu that city Iast winter as an amsteur singer. _ Young Fro- mont, who is an oflicer in the United States Navy, at last accounts was in Paris with his bride, while Miss Anderson, the actress, is so- Journing in London. ‘ ——— Give tho Spitz More Ice. New York Tines. Blood will tell, even tn a doz. A large Spitz was coming down Chatham street yesterday, bot, panting, and miserable, lookinZ as if he wisied his too, too solid flesh would melt, so Dbe might trot round in his bones a while, as Siduey Smith ouce _remarked—or was it Patrick Heurs?, Suddenly he. paused be- side = ponderous block .of ice that had just been lowered from a cart.” There was 2 puzzied yet eazer look in his eye. He seemed. trying to Temember sometbing. Slowly it broke over him that he was a £oiar dog. Thea came a rush or tender - recollections, how. his, remote ,an- cestor, the Arcticfox, wooed a contemporancous Esquimau female of 'an allied specics on Green- Iand’s fey mountains, or therezoouts, sud how the. ice-fields gleamed and the .white bears dauced. Heredity asserted itself at once, and the Spitz Iesped upon that block of ice and . rolled over it, rubbed bis nose ana cheeks i, against it lapped it, and fairly. hugged it with, his- paws. 1t was bevond all question the happiest noment. of bis Jife, and he seemed. ready o 7o mad with Joy instead of witb hydropbobia. . The - loye.. of ice is evidently one of the decpest.; Instincts . of the Spitz’s nature, and 1t does not fade out un- der the infiuence of 2 warmer climate. . Perhaps this animal has been calumviated. . If be had more ice he would be less likely'to muuch the hand that fed him, g THE BERLIN - CONGRESS Adfia}ess of Prince Gortschakoff on the Sacrifices Made by * -Russia. The Morganatic Marriage of Bosnia and Count Andrassy. Dispatch so London News. BERLIN, Junc 27.—At the beginniug of yes- terday’s sitting there was a really interesting scene, which deserves to be noticed. Prince Gortschiakofl, detained in his bed by gout, has not been able to attend-the last sittings. At yesterday's meeting he came in his carriage, which stooped at the entrance, whence the Prince was carried to the door of the council- room, when every oue hastened round him to congratulate him on ‘the restoration of his health. Soon afterward Prince Bismarck de- clared the sitting opened., Prince Gortschakoff then begmed permission to open, and, though the Président extiorted him to be scated, he rose with apparent effort, and, amid profound and respectful silence, said: Mr. President, your Excellencles: After having been Keptaway for several days from your delbera- tions, I do matlive to reppear among you with- out making the following remarks, which ure rompted by the love of truta and of my country. Diing yout late doliberations my ‘colloannes {the Priuce licre bowed toward M. d'Ouoril and Count Schouvaloff] have granted you, in the nawe of Russin, concessions far surpassing those she thouzht of makimg. Oun heariug this all the members of the Con- gress evineed signs of aoprebension. The aged Prince spoke with effort in a trembling voice, holding firmly to the table, and looking before him with a resolute expression, aud his audit- ors begzan to wonder whether his words were not the preiude to a déclaration withdrawing the concessions Russia had mude, and whether was not to make this. declaration that the Prince bad braved the ¢xtreme tatizue imposed on him by his preseuce in ,Congress, Happily, bowever, the Plenipotentlaries were soon reas- sured by the Prince continuing: But Tam too well aware-of the feelings which influenced my colleagues to raise any objection to the concesaions they doemed it their duty 10 make. 1 merely wish to state o sou what is very well known, that Russia ine made these gacrifces from ber dexire of peace, and ihat she spoke tzuth when declaring, before a3 well as at {he end of the wa that she merely stood up on behalf of - the Chri: tians of the East, that she kad no narrow or selfish sim., and that, biving made enormous sacrifi 2 war in which the cause of Christiunity and civil zatjon was alone at stake, she has just proved her- scif capable of ulso mukiny sacrfices for the greut work of pacification to which you are devoting your efforts. I suppose'no one will gninsay the Flory of her ariny, wiich lias achioved the miost briliiant victoriea; Lut.Russia wishea it to be _known that she is desirous of exchanging the lau- rels of victory, buught .with tne most precions blood, for the palm of peace. These words were followed by a profound silence, due, probably, to . the cuiotion of his auditors: for the spectacle of the illustrious old man thas exerting his fasg encreies to vindicate the moral greatness of his country was really calculated to touch the.heart. Afteér a few mo- ments Lord Beaconsfield rose and begged to be heard. In languoge which L have beard greatly extolled, but of which I have not_been able to obtain the exact text, ibe English Promier, witt that varied action peculiar to him, thus began: 1fcel sure X shall interpret your sentiments 1n expressing the profound.,admirution I have felt for the Iangunee of my novle una_illustrious friena, and the way in which he has given utterauce to the true sentiments of his coyntry. 1am bappy to think tnat it is u dexire for pehcy Which has guided the decieions of Ituesia in tbe' Jate deliberations. 1 therefore hnsten to acknotwledge it in the name of this {llustrious Congress, llistening to me, and 1 firmly hove that I shsll meet with the same’ senti- ment from all its delierations, Lord Beaconsticld spbke for several minutes Tonger and then sat down; and the real business of the meeting began after this somewhat sen- timental incident, by whith, however, the noble Lord produced the best rpossible effect on all his auditors. It is saidJthat Prince Gortscha- koil will appear at mo Umore_sittings of the Congress, aud that theisords of his I have just quoted are the last the Plenipotentiaries il Tear from him. s TUE MORGANATIC MALRIAGE OF DOSNIA AND COUNT ANDRASSY, B Dispateh to Loniton 1 s, BERLTY, June 2. —~Tp-day’s sitting might be entitled the morzanatic marriaze of Bosmia and Count Audrassy. Itmight be said that the Congress, after having .oqeupied itself with the Buigarlau drama, lagj uow proceeded to the high Bosnian and Ivery one knows thyt, siuce the commenc ment of the fusurrection. fn Turkey, Austria has cast louring eyes towards this provitice. the cradle of the insurrection which resulted in the meeting of the Congress. Count Andrassy’s Dersistent “coquetry bas finished by triumphing over time and difliculties; and, as he does not wish now 10 lead the objtet he coveted publicly to the altar, the Congress has becn kind enough to fucilitate o morzavatic marriage between them. Count Audrassyhas now married Bos- nin and Herzegovion with his left hand, but people may rest assured that it will not be lonz before the hand changed. The Congress has now decided usanimousiy—the Turks excepted —~1that Austria shall proceed to the wilitary oc- cupation of Bosnix and have charge of ~ the adwinistration of that country. Meanwhile, till the publicationii--of the protocols reveals the salient details of the drama played today in the defiberation hall, I have succeeded in obtatuiug some points which euable one to realize how well the scenery of the piece was devised. At the bezinning of the sitting Count Andrassy rose and read & memo.re, which might be called au indireet demand of marriaze. e showed that Tor a whole year® Austria Was alarmed at the insurgent conditiun prevailing on her froutters and at the agtation which crossed them and spread into the interior of the. Aus- trian Empire. He pointed out that Austria had 150,000 Bosnian refugees on ler hauds who re- fused to return to Boseia while it remained under Tarkish-dominatiod, which could alford them neither existence-nor security, and that they weuld prefer to..support the misery and humiliation of exile and Austrian cuarlty to returnings to their homes, cither alrezdy devastated or threatencd with being so later. Count Andrassy showed tnat Turkey was not in a-position to maintain vranquillity in this provinve; that it will remain iu a state of wmisery and pevolutionary agitation awainst the domination-of Turky that this revolutionary agitation-arould infallibly reach the adjoining Siav popolations: and that this Congress, i lowed such a state of things to cxist, would have serious responsibilities as re- £ards the future traoguillity of Europe., Count Aundrassy added that he did not public mar- ringe with Bosni: hat{is to say, he did not ast that the pro should be nnnexed to Austria,—he only beered tae Congress to come to some solution, and, if ,tins solution appeared to bum practical and accentable, Austria would be the first to adhere to it. F The Marquis of Salisbury then rose, and, fol- lowing the example of Prince Bismarek, consti- tuted himseli the honest broker of the indirect union of Bosnia with the Austrian 15m Marquis of Salisbury also read 4 menioj it he declared that England was penetrated by the justness of the observations of the First Austrian Plenivotentiary; and as his noole Iriend rejected public appropriatiou and con- tented himself with left-band annexation, he proposed to the Congress to decide that Austria. be charged to oceupy Bosnia and Herzegovina aud admivister them; thit it vas of public n- terest for Europe to plave these provinces un- der the direcs, protection of a powerful State; that this State could only be the Empire of Austria, which was the 1mmediate neighbor of Bosma and Herzegovina; aud that it was on this Empire that the task.devolved of bringing the insurrection to an end. ” M. Waddington. acting as first witness of the proposeq union, then begged to be heard, and declared that, after huving listend to the two apers which had just been read, he thought ord Salisbury's proposal,should be adopted by the Congress in the interest of Tirkey berself, seeing that the continued . possession of Bosnia and Herzegovina would constitute for the Power a weak pojut, immposing on it sacrilices out of proportion either o its Own resources or those of Bosnia, and would expose it on_that sfac to fresh troubles and fresh claims. . He concluded Dy sayluy tbat, in the nameof France, be ad- hered to'the proposal justsubmitted to the Con- gress by the Marquis of Salisbury. Couut Corti, without formuliting precise re- strictions, puts several indirect questicns, to ¢h, however, he calls, for no answer. 'He agrees, but without any great hesrtiness, with thie proposal submitted to Congress. 7 . Prince, Gortschekofl adheres purely and simp- 1y to Loid Salisburs’s motian. Gefinany, who presides ,over the Congress, keeps stient, and 2 momentof suspense follows. 11 is paturally expected that. the motber of the offspring whose fate is in question shall express her opinion, and some think,, perbaps, that in recaliing ail the .troubie; caused .her by the Province Turke ed ..at-the idea - of cetting . rid -of it in.- a0 y: whatever., -But .- the mater- al o Beaet)s ccontain usearchuble 1 nys- teries. At lasg: the . Turkish . Plempotentiary rises, and b, too, reads a-memoire. Turkey, be says, in -substaneé, -cannot possibly consent to the separaiion demanded,of her. She is only bound.. ke gays, by the Treaty of 8an Stefano, aod toe present demand exceeds the limits of f s will -show. herself delight- | ‘is devoid of I's excent wheré they ae no “Wellosk wiil actompang that document. Turkey herself is in a ‘position to protect and adwministef Bosnia, and what the Towers propose to do for her she can take upon herself to accompligh. Apart from this, how- ever, the Turkish Plenipotentiaries have formal instructions which forbid them to consent to this coucession, and, without wishing to hamper the work of the Conaress or shirk the.obliza- tlons imposed on them by the decisions of the assembly, tney declare they caunot agree to the Droposal of the Marquis of Salisbury.. Then Lord Beaconstield riscs and declares that England cannot_but adbere to the motion, she has made; that Bosnia and Herzegovina, if left in the kev:glng of the Porte, would unncces- sarily tend to break up the cohesive state of the Emvire decmed essential to her bv the friends of Turkey themsclves and by those who wish to procure for Europe a lasting peace. He calls to mind in & trenchant manver how Tarkey, even before the war. and when still in the plenitude of her power, was not able to get the beter of 4o insurrection which had broken out in Herze- #oving, and states that, consequeatly, it s im- vossible for Europe, in the present state of affairs, to confide to Turkey the security of these provinces which must call forth the solic- itude of Europe, He concludes by calling for the adoption of the motion before the Gon- gress. Prince Bismarck rises and expresses astonish- ment thav the Turkish Plenipotentiaries hesitate to yield to the unanimous opinion-ot the Con- gress, He reminds them that the Congress, by eflorts which nave been uninterrupted, and by incessant ‘mutual concessions, have determined to restore to Turkey provinces far more con- siderable than those in question, and which she bad renounced by the Treaty of San Stefano. With regard to the restrictive instructions re- fefred by ths Turkish Plenipotentiaries, he urges them to ask for new directions which would permit them to give their adhesion to the views of the Coneress. * The proposal of the' Marquis of Salisbury is submitted to and adopted unamimously by the members of the Congress, except Turkey and Austria, who abstain from voting. Count Andrassy riscs ana declares that he accepts the proposal voted by the Congress. CALIFORNIA KEARNEY. A Description of That Individual, and of His Rizht-Hand Man, Wellock. San Francisco Correspondence New York Tribune, Althourh Kearney has modestly declined the proposal of befug a candidate for Presidential honors at the next election, and professes that be will be satisfied with' the rank of General, I do nov think that the army under his command _ will constitute any very seri- ous damger. It i, ' of course, im- possible to. say what., “litent poten- ciea” may not be contained in the very insig- uiffcant and unprepossessing material shell- which is the abode of Mr. Kearuey’s soating spirit, bat to the eye of the ordinary observer bLe does not seem :he stuff of which great mili- tary commauders are made. Short of stature, und of a frume rather feeble than otherwise, Kearuey posecsses a countenance of a decidedly répulsive type. It is murkediy Hibernian, but destitute of the shrewdness abd humor which frequently characterize even. the com- monest ‘features of the Irish peasant. He bears ‘the unmistakable stamp of the low rowdy—without n redeeming trajt— sullen, haug-dog, aud ubiutellectunl. * A per- manent scow! is the prevailing expression when in repose, in_ which cunning and titwidity sesm blended in about equel proportion. As he sap a_prisoner iu court during his trial for incon- diary lanruave, it was fmpossible not to be struck with the forbidding character of his countenance—to be a criminal in a dock seemed to be precisely the position for which he nad been Iitted "by unature—and yet on the platform, addressine a sympathetic audience, the whole man undergoes & marvelous change. The eyes lizht up, the face becomes animated, and loses the stolid scowl; a grim, sardonic ex- pression, not altogether devoid or humor, its place; and words flow with a volubility charueteristic, no doubt, of his race, but ocea- sioually with o vizor aud pomt which prove him 10 bes man with an intelicet considerably above the aversge of his fellows.. Thougn 8 man of the very bumblest origm, he bas evidently worKed hard since he tms assumed his present role. to ‘improve his mind, and makes classical allusiong which, if they are not Very appropriate, at any. rite show an am- bition which docs not despise learning. Only 81 years old, he led the life of a sailor i his youth, and ip- that capacity arrived in Califor- nia about ten vearS ago, when lhe abandoned the sea and “worked as a dray- mau, an_occupation whieh he lias only recently exchanged for the nore - profitable oue of pubficagitator. According to his own ac. count he was roaded into liis\ present vocation by *‘chieap Chinee labor,V” aud the borribie svectacle of ' land-grabbers, ‘banlk-smash zud heilhound politiciwus ™. filliug their pocket while he wus conflucd to " the -limited earnings ailorded by the bux-seat “of his* dray; and not seemg the justice of Chinainen working for a luwer rate ol wages' thau. he could, or of millinaires buildmg ™ uuses which he saw Do chance of ever being able to rival, he sturted a movement based upon the re- markavly siple cxpedient 'of shoonng all the Chinese and burning down all the hanGsomest houses in San Francisco. This idea swarmly commending itself to, his brother workingmen, they elected Kearney its permauent exponent, and he possesses_qualifications for the office in & vocabulary of blasphemy,” which strikes even a cluss mind highly accofnplished in the com- minatory art with admiration. Kearney may boast of having used more obseure and profane lauzuaze than any public spcaker of modern times. The threc Persons of the Trinity, in every couceivable combination with the nether regions and their inhabitants, mar- mish his periods. In fact, he treats the capi ists of California exactly as he would his team in 2 mudhole, aud the novelty of some of his curses provokes loud upplause from the con- noisseurs of the art who compose his sudie: But it is when Kearney breaks off from a strine of naths to a-string of clas: allusiovs that he is most grand. When he suddenly announces to his hearers that he isabont to * scale Olympian heizhts,” then they become husbed and awe-struck and feel him to be “*bully ''; “the steeds of Pezasus also pro- duce 1 fine effect.—it seems mysteriously con- nected with the avocation of drayinan, and yet sbows a knowledze of an unimown tongue which malkes the workingman feel proi It leader. No capitalist is allu string of at least four curses tacked to hisname. Kearney * thoronghly understands his audience. He knows the kind of oaths they Ilike, the Kind of filth they the kind of hifalutin they like, the kind of humor they like, and the kind of by-play they like. His manawe- meut of a public meeting is original, and shows cousiderable tact, though in the long run his violence, vulgarity, and_concelt have aicnated nearty haif the workingmen of the West. fAe has acquired 4 remarkable position for an uned- ucated younys Irishman of 80, who is still 2 com- parative strauger toihe country. Itisuot prob- able, however. that he will take among the workingmen of the East as he did among his own countrymen in California, where the foreizn clement is” s0 large in proportion to the vative American population. . Kearnes's fidus achates, Wellock, will suit the Esstern tone better, though in some ry speets hie is. more offensive than Kearney. [ bigh shiny bluck hat, immense gold watch- chain, spotless black Irock-coat and trowsers, indicate the vast ambition of which the man is capable, and ove would think would: operate to alienate tbe public mind from him. So far from this, the rowdies who cheer him seem rather flattered by his appearance. 1t throws a ‘general air of respecta- bility over the performance. Mr. Wellock, who began lfe 2s a drummer-boy in an English regiment in the Crimea, and then de- serted the army to go into the shoemaking busi- ness, found that he had a gift for movig souls to better things, and beesme 2 political agitator and stunp-preacher in Enciand. His form® blaspbemy is to sclectatext from the Old ment, which probably denounces the Amalek- ites or the Iittites in strons lanzuaze, and to propos that the whoiesale process of slaying the entire population which preceded the occupation of Canaan should be applied to the land-geabbers, bunk-smashers, hell- hound politicians, and so forth, and this not in any figure of speech, but he lavors to stow irom Hiblical quotations that such a couise would be pleasing to the Almighty. As this is dong with great unction, and in -the _peculiar sonorous cadence of a revivalist minister, it produces @ fine contrast to Kcarmey's sbort, jerky maledictions, anu the audience like the transition. . It creates the same kind of cifect as 4 praver-mecting in a drinking-saloon, and seems in some. way to sancuify what has gonme : before. At all - cvenis the audience . cheer Wellock and. his Bible quite as voeiferously as they do Kearney and bis profanity, and ieel geuerally that any polit- ical doctrines which can ewmbrace such widely opposiniz extremes must be right. 1t is amusing to watch the plous Wellock smiling ia an aflec- tionutely deprecative way -at Kearuey . waile L is carsiny, and Knnu:{ - respectfuily «any earnestly lisiening to the :Biblieal: questions of his sauctimonious colieaue. Of the two, Wel- intinitely the, scoundrel. He, tou, iuto magnilicent bursts of floridoratory, but He has not yet been loug. enougls in t: try-to be waturalized.. Ic is probabl Kearney, as they seem 10 br a8 necessary, to each, otlwr’s success as Moody and Sankey, though the comparison is IV fair to the iatter gentlemen. — Mr. Wellock has a little dsughter who toaches sho workiogman’s heart with forcible recitations. Whether these men will succeed {n creating the political and military organizations by meaus of which they threaten to overturn the institu- tions of the conptry, it is-difficult to say. That liniog their they will succeed fn abundantly own pockets, it is safe to predict. ————— .. MERCEDES. \ The Deathbed of the Spanish Queen. Aadrid Correspondence London Standard. About 2:30 & terrible return of the symptoms occurred. The Queen was sgain seized with hemorrhage, and thg doctors declared that there was imminent danger for her life. The Prime Minister was sent for dircctly, and at 3:30 he arrived at the Palace after sending.special mes- sengers to his colleagues, who all followed him in quick succession. The Cardinal Patriarch of the Indies was'ordered to come, and he ap- peared before 4 o'clock with all the priests of the Chapel Rosal in attendance. Cardinal Moreno, Primate of Spain and confessor of the Queen, also arrived, and all the members of the Lo short time.. After 4 the weakness of the Royal sufferer and the alarming symptoms increased 60 sWiftly that the medical men imformed Senor Canonas del Castillo that their worst apprehen- sions mlght svon become a deplorable reallty. Every member of the Koyal fawily was in the first “antechamber. I hear on good authority that the Premier himself and the Cardinals did all in their power to kecp up the couraze of tne Iufaotas and of the Montpensiers. iround the Queen were her mother and father, King Al- tonso, the Princess of Asturias, and the medical It was a sad and solemn scene o the. splendid palace advisers of the household. of the Bourbon Kings as. the morn- ing of ‘the 2uth of Jume broke upon the afflicted Royal family. Down below the great city was reposing peacefully, ienorant of the horrible suspense fn the Royal chamber. When the sun was rising and casting its love- Jiest rays on the beautiful scenery which is seen from the palace windows across dreary plain and bold mountains in the distance, the’ Quuen of Spain was receiving tne last sacraments of her Church. In the dimly-lighted galleries the ters, Ministers, and heavily-aflifcted relatives to carry extreme unction to her. The Nuacio, who bad also been informed, gave the poor sufferer the last biessiog of her faith in the name of Leo XIIL. She received the solemn rites of bher relizion with composure and Christian resianation, glancing severat times at her mcarest and dearest rela- tives around. ‘'As scon as this melan- choly and impressive ceremony was over the Ministers all retired to the lower part of the palace, and here they remained sssembled. 8 this morning her Majesty was quiet, and still passessing all her faculties. The pulse was fall- ing fust, and her weakness increasing, according o the last morning hullel[u which I telegraph- ed to you. We heard this morninz at the Palace that Quecn Mercedes had asked the Ducnessof Mont- peusier about 9 o’clock whether she had really taken any repose. The Duchess madea great effort to reply in the affimative, as she had not leit her daughter’s side since yesterday. hing Alfouso has also not left the side of Queen Mercedes, and both his Majestv and the old Duke endeavor to conceal from her the deep and sincere griel that afllicts them, "Chis 24th of June, St. John's fete day, is a festival in Catholic Spain, and it is, besides, the teenth birthday of the poor Queen hersolf: Eighteen years ago she was born in fair Seville, and only five mouths ago the-capital of Spain witnessed her marriage festivities. These rec ollections, and the natural kindness of tne na- tioual character, bave silenced all party feeling to such an cxtent that, even in the populous quarters of Madrid, you hear workmen and ‘women say, ** Nuestra povrecita Reina.” Those simple words of humbfe sympathy are as touch- ing a homage as the telezrams from every Court and the aristoeratic crowd that passes through the Lord Chamberlain’s office. The fete day of San Juan will ‘bardly be a festivity this year in Madrid, and not cven the most callous enemy of the Montpensiers can remain_unmoved at the dreadful calamity which threatens the youthful Sovereign of the country. ————— RESURRECTIONISTS. An Amateur Squad ab Aillersburg, O.—A Plaster-of-Paris Skull, ! Filled with Bal- lack-Brains, Exhumed. Millersburg (0.) Specialto Cincinnati Comanerctal. Great excitement took place here a few days. ago over the fact that. the grase.of Jobn M. Robinson, an attorney of this place, had been robbed, the particulars of- which were tele- A day or two ago the Trustees of . tne Cemetery Asso- ciation and the Mayor of the- city were told by oie of our citizens, atinmer by trade, remains of Mr. Robinson were sccreted, and that, if raphed to the Commercial at the time. that lhe kuew where “the they would vromise not to.tell, he would dis- closeit. Uf course, all agreed to save the tin- ner barmless; then came' the secret, and it was that the remains’ were ~buried in the back yard of a certain prominent physician of this place, and - the spot was pointed ont; thereupon the aforesud Trustees, consisting of bankers, real-estate brokers, stock and wool dealers, accompavied by the Mavor and the reg- ufar cemetery grave-dioger, alf clad in_miners' clothing, and bearing implements calculated for removing dirt, apon their shouiders, marched to the spot about 10 a. m., wi 90 deg. iu the sliade, and rapidly asceoding. arriving at the spot work was immediately conm- menced and contioued dunng ‘the hottest of the day, without any developments, but a well- spaded’yard to the depth of two feet or more. The tiutier was called ou, When they were in- formed by him that they had been digging in the wrong place, aud ko thea dirceted thew aright. The spade and pick were again brought into requisition, and honest sweat poured from those brows that bad, until then, been strangers to that evidence of labor; thus on they worked uutil darkucss cast hershadows o'er that toiling eroup. When about exhsusted, their lavors were rewarded by the tinding of remains, but certainly not those of Mr. Robwoson; they con- sisted of a plaster of P cayed beef and chunks of Litnberger cheese, and other such matter. The Trustees went eatly behind the stable ana wept, wept bitter- Iy for the departed steer who furnished the brains of this skull, aud also lor the retined German who furnished. the cheese, and they also prayed for the Italian who chanced to come this wa with that skull perehed upon his head. but they very sinzularly omitted to pray for this tinner who fmparted such valuable kiuowl- edge, but he was kmdly remembered by the sweariuz portion of the dizzeérs; and now they say let the dead bury thewr dead, and let resur- rection morn develop the fact as to whether Mitlersbure Cewetery bas anv empty graves or not; and in the languaze of P, Henry they say: We carc not what others mzy say, but as for us‘l five us no more plaster skulls with meat an cheese braivs; we are uudone. —————— The Cretans and Greeks. Athens Correspondence PAtladelphta Press. The Cretans enerally- are u brave peoole. Courage secms to be a quality commou to both sexes. Some of the women have performed deeds of which the bravest men might be proua. “The Cretan women arc not cast in as delicate a They are strong- limbed and somewhat masculive in_their phy- sique, but they are well proportioned. erect, and mold as your countrywomea. graceful in their carriage, with cyes aud beautiful features. ¢, eXpressive is buz little reimoved above a state of usture. Several insurrections have been occasioned by Turkish outrazes on the women. ‘The wrongs of one woman have often rencwed io Cretan history the scenes of the Trojan war. The lsland of Crete, or Candi; uatural paradise. extent, of exceeding. fertility, where the wine, the ofive, and the grain-crops flourish luxuriant- iy 1y. The mountain-peaks, covered with peren- nial snow, send down coplous streams of water into the plains at their feet during the spring and autumn. The mountain slopes are clad with forests, thickets of brushwood, and arowatic herbs. Among tbem wander innumer- ubie tlucks of ¢oats, and sweet is the milk they afford. During the Greek war of independence the Cretaus fought side by side with the Conti~ nental Greeks agaiust the Turks, avd in‘1360 over 60,000 of them tound refuge in Greece. The fortunes of the to people”are identitied, their sympatbics are the same, and they spring from a common stogk. [t was'a areat mistake uot to hizve facorporated Crete ' with -Greece fn 1830, aud 1t wilt b2 a much areater one if the Corgress at Berlin does uot now unite them. ow ‘The Salt Mine in Wyomiag, County, : g: York. - * "The’ Rochester Union gives the subjoined ad- ditional particulars of tile salt” mine which hds beeu found fo Wyomine County, New York: - Ou Weilbesday jnorning the workmen st tha ‘Welt were surprised at_finding they had bored futo a subtirrauéan stream of strang sufphur Fater—so strongy that the fumes'aconce discol~ ored ropes ‘and toots. . 1his uew elementwas discovered about, 200 - fect: below the eait de- ‘pusit. Mr. Everest: the proprictor of -theyell, ‘was sent for immediately, and. he concluded to pliws up the stredm of sulphur® witer, 20d did 50 Thursday, stopping the fow effectually. “The ming of salt, 50 for ag can be ascertain- Roval household were collected in a very Cardinal Primate “passed 2mid_knecling cour- At -and I the mercury at is skull, filled with de-~ Tiey are friendly and hospitable, and rewarkably chaste in their conduct. ‘The simplicity of life in the mountains as it is wenerally called, isa t abouns in plains of «reat ed now, is full seventy feet in depth, and fs filne;l;.n}tmlls mk—s:}t. apparently hdee from purity exceot for au aggregate depth of about ten fect deep at the top and bottom, Irhere shale Is mixed in. Without doubt this 15 a valuable discovery, and will be utilized_at once.. It is not g:t determined whether the best way will to-force in water and then pump- out the brine, or sink a large shaft and mine the sait, - Sait is found in many partsof the United States,and is pro- 3:‘25“15 x‘-i :wen;y—tt:m :1 the States and Territo- . even others have valuable springs or deposits, but rock-salt heretofore has apnly been found in Southwest Virginizand in Louisiana. At Goderich, on e Huron, in Canada, in boring for oil fn 156, a deposit of rock-salt was discovercd at depth of about 065 fect, and the brine is of great strength and purity, & bushe) of salt being produced from nbout rwen- ty-two gallons of brine. The oil discovered was not profitable, but the manufacture of salt was immediately commenced, and the produetion amounts to millions of bushels annuaily, atford- ing the principal suoply for Canaga, and export- ing 2 Jarge quantity to the United States. Mich- igun and Cznada have been able to compete successfully with this State in the production Bna manufacture of salt, owing to the abund- suce and chicapness of fuel near the salt dis- tricts; but at Wyoming there are mas soriugs, aod if they can be utilized in the process of manufacturing the Wyoming salt can‘be intro- ducéd at a price which will defy competition and yield a bandsome revenue to the producers, and if it skoula in_quality equal Tark’s Island salt there will be a great demand forit, The location of the mines referred to is very favoreble for the mauufac- ture of salt, there being an abundance of pure spring water, level ground, and good facilitics * for shipment. Parties from Syracuse and other places have visited the well, and much interest is manifested at the discovery. Mr. Everest is yet confident he will find oil, and Le {otends to prosecute his investigations thoroughly and at once. He will probably sink another sbaft. MEN WITH QUEER NERVES. The Jumpers of Mainc—A Region in Which Some Startling Things Are Seen. ¢ New York Sun. Ini February last 1 was riding in a sleigh from Shirley to Greenvitle, in Maine. Iwasncom- mercialtraveler, and my companion in the cut- ter, Mr. Long, was an old schoolmate from New York, now a sawmill owner of. Green- ville. Riding just behind us in a rude punz were two Canadian Frenchmen, whom he had hired to work in his will. At the foot of a long hill I sprang from the slelgh to warm my fect by walking, and, as I leaped out, the board seat, on the extremeend of which my friend sat, tipped up and he felt out into the deep snow. He jumped up and laughed. Just then 1sawthe Frenchmen: tomble backward out of their sleigh exactly as Long had done. Itwasa ludl- crous mimickry, und I conld ot understand it. We stopped their lazy horse and laushed at them as they came up, but they only pointed at Long, and mautterea somethinz in mongrel French, and shool their:heads serfously. One of them had struck on his head and sprained bi is neck. * Well,” said Long, “I'd no idea those fel- Tows were Jumpers.” + Jumpers?” Tasked; *what's jumpers?”"_ ‘ Wy, didn’t you ever hear of jumplig Frenchmen?” % s Never in my life.”? “These are jumping Frenchmen. They tumbled out of tucir seat just because the] saw me tumble, and they coald’t have: helped it to save their lives. This country is full of umpers. *Can't they control their conduct fn any way?? “Ob, ves; in most ways, when they are not Jumped; but you jumip ouc of them ‘and over be goes.” “Jump one of them! Come, cxplain. Yowll have to make your jokc plainer.” %No joke, 'oon honor. By *jumping’ one of them Imean surprisivy bim.” Startle him in any way, and vou set bim going-at oove. U1 show you a lot of them when we get to Green- ville.” o5 We were in'the upper half of Maine. Ur ville is at the lower end of Mooschead Lake, whiclr is the source of the Kennebee River, and the centre of a vast lumber rezion. It contaius some fifty houses, among waich are twa large hotels, which arc filled with pleasure-stckers in summer, More than kaif of the lumbermen empioyed in the woods in winter, I lcarned from L., are Canadian French, or hal{-breeds,— unkempt, half clad, and 50 irnorant that uot more than one in 200 cau read print or write hixname. Most of these, Lie said, are jump- ers. . “*Now follow me into the dining-room,” he added. as he hitched the two horses in front of- a small hotel, through the window of which we could sce a dozen red-shirted” men at supper. I followed him in. As he entered the room he raised bis baods suddeuly above his bead, pointed his forefinzers at the ceiliug, said, ““Sh-h!” 50 a5 to be heard by all. The men around the table instantly spraug up, pointed tbeir forefinzers at the ceiling, and every ouc said * Sh-b!™" One knociked over his chair, and some crockery was broken by the jog that the table received.” The two French- men, who had tfoliowed their employer, aso repeated the same gesture and said **Sh-h 1 The men around the table flushed, and then turned pale, es they resumed thewr seats. They recognized Long as he saluted thew In their oeculiar French-Indian patois; but they were surly and indisposed to tulk. ~ We soon” with- dre i “ Well,” said Long, * they're jumpers.” * What did they do that for?” Tasked. - “ They couldn’t have helped: it if their lives Dad been at stake.” 2 . 1 wauted to investigate this strange phenom- enon, if, indeed, it was geouine, but I was to start next morning for Bangor. b “+ [ have never seen any of these queer crea- tures down along the coust,” I said. Vo, said Loug, “ they are confined to Can- ada and the froutier, mainly in the lumber re- gion., There are thousands of jumpers in Maine. By the way, you are coming back iu April. Just make a stay of a fortnight and LIl show you more jumpers than you can count, and more odd aid exciting tricks than_you ever dreamedd of. Jumpers come in out of the woods in the spring, aud they will be loafing arounl here in April, drinking whisky aud spendisg their win- ter’s carnings,” : 1 promised I would do it, and 1did. I staid there nearly a month. What ke told meis » -fact. Jumping Frencliucn are as thick as doys, aud they are not mueh more intellicentl Jumping or shouting, or moving suddenly when startled, is peculiar to inost of thewm. 1 have seen as many as twenty-llve jumpers all together. Touch dne of them when hic was not expecting it, ou the neck, or even on the hand, and he would ery out, tremble, turn pale, and catch his breath,” and his crying out would be Lretty certain to start the others. . There are many different kinds of jumpers. Some, when startled, fereely strike out in frous of them, bitting whatever is in the way. As L made it ray business to watch these men, I saw 2 good deal of this hitting, most of them harm- less, as they generally” struck ouly the air. They like to tease one another, or jump vne another, as it is called there. ~This is their principal source of fuw, aad when- ever therc is a gatheriug of them they warily watch to avold & jum Occasionaliy & man when laughing is juped either by 3 snds den noise or a chip mittiug bim on the buck. Then he tlings whatever be bas in his bands, { saw one pouriug some milk tuto his cofee. [ shonted to him **ding it!” and he lung the pitcher across the room, smashing it against the wall. A gong bung beliind the door, but it had not been used for years ou account of its start- ling effect un juinpers. Uve day a stranger tapped it. A mau whoin I was tryinz to talk with struck aimlessly iuto the air, und anotier kuocked a friend duwn into the ereat tire-place. Any of these jumpers can be made to strike anybody that stands near enough, by shouting to him, " Hit him®" Long tells me that seven were knocked down in a second, the general i~ sault being induced by a clumsy waiter dropping atrdy. 1 eaw one fellow who sneezes when- ever ansbody clse sncezes, or even when any~ body indulges in 2 simulated snecze. His nerv- ous system seems to be cusily imposed vn. [ saw another wno, though bedoes not know a word of English, will repeat any sentence spo~ ken to bim suddenly. ¥ . “Guod mornmngs how &’ do 17 I said.to him. *Goud morninz; how d’ do 2" he repeated after me, with excellent articulation. Lord erby. Lord Derby, =ince bis retirement from office, has been residing iu Knowsley, his splendid homne near Liverpool, and- devoting bimself to Lancashire interests. “The establishuaens in Knowsley is onc'ot_the larzest in Enzland, and admirably uraéréd.” The fate Eurl, loding that, bigh life befow stafrs was =oingz. on, at a frreat rate, | bezsed ‘his first cousin, | a. iev tired * Admiral,’, ‘to " ocrupy .3 residence in the grounds” nod ' to "superintend the establishment at a salary of $5,000 a year. . The Admiral soon bud il in quarter<leck order; though not without 8 shuw of ‘rebeltion op-tue part of Lthe wagnates of the Kitcaen' acd stew- Ard’s room, and prooubly saved kis coustn wany thousands of pounds.” Lord Dérby fs.chilalesd, bzt ns wife has children by, her tirst husbaad, the fate Marqufs 6f Snfishurg. Lady Derty § remarkably uble womun, avd hef present rizge was always predicted when Sallabury, - < S “