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-0 YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Frank W. Reilly’s Obser- vations In and About Vicksburg,. Natural Advantages of Thmt City in the Matter of Drainage. How They Are Wasted for Lack of a Few Inmezpemsive Tmprovements, The Labor Problem as It Ap- pears to an Outside Observer. A Retrospective Refiew of ithe Plague Era in Memphis. Scones and Episodes .Witnessed by The Tribune's Cor- respondent. Closing Up of the Books of the Citi. geny’ Relief Committes of Chicago. 3 VICKSBURG, VICKSBURGC ur, e A- ND une, c.m-.uo,?;'.f x:“:;I;! :r?:ent into Viekabarg “VICLNITY: deanrves at Jeast a pansine mention, ‘Ted up before dark of Oct. 10 at Milliken's Bend, tire relief boat o lte there 2t night, for tho purposo of making Vicksburg. some thirty miles below, in daylight. Capt. Yore's judement was again vindicated In this decision, s it had been throughout the entire ex- peditton, To lils coolners, forbearance, aud good cominon sense, indved, may be attributad, in very Jarge share, whatever of success attcoded *tue micslon, put ] was impatient to reach Viekabnre. My 1ast reports were sent through the lelena quaran. tine on the Kth: and there was Greeavile, and Eriar'w Point, and Hcfoze, and Goodrich's, and Tlendesson, cuncerning whicn thoneands of auxions hicarts at the North were aeking, ** What tidinge?” ‘Within thirty miles were telegraph wires, pusial facilitles, nud railroads, —and my note-books were full of wiseages from the living, of incidents of the dying, aud of mourntul lists of the dead. Aiter sarivus inefectual offorte 1 got away from he Chambers, #00n after 8 c'clock at night, ma yawl pulled by two cood oarsmen from the crew, 2nd ateered by Tom Wetzeil, the Mate. “Zyamhers attempled the trip in the darkness xho woitld probably now be lylng inthe mud-bar shown in the Accompanying map. As it was,—thanka to Tom's keen eyssight and onr angel of good luek, — the yuwl waan'tstock in the mud exactly; but we lostu procious hour at midnight coasting aronnd the satd bur, B . Finally, abont 1 o'clock fn tne morning, I stood in o brliliantly-lighted saloon on the principal strect of the Clty of Ilills, Inguiring for the tole- craph-offica, I will pever toll who the gentleman was to whom 1 was iniroduced, nad to whom I con- fiied my wishes, Sufice it that ho was n yellow- fever convaleacent; and if, in celobrating the victos rlous outcomo of his recent ** wruseel” with Yol. 1ow Jack, hie had aucenmbed to tho not less potent arms of Joln Barleycorn, I, certalnly, bave no Ktugo to throw at him, Tho auplex titlo by which ha was desiguated sat- fsficd me that Lhad met my man, Alas! I had— nnd fu a fow moments 1 was his. He liatened to my statcment of who § was, where 1 came 1r‘m. and what 1 wanted, witn an air of ebrious dispust—ne who snonld say, **This man giveth me drainage of the northern aspect of the city, and Gnds s ontlet Into the Miselosippt gta point fm- maiiately Lelow the Merchanta® Wharl-Bost and above the Vicksburg & Delta Ferry-Toat Land- ing. Since the formation of the mnd-bar— within a perlod of four to slx months— and the consequent retardation of the already slug. pish current throngh the old channet of the river, it 1a manifest that the scwage thue gathered innat bo deposited on satd bar: and tention and do- composition cannot but have beem potent agents fn the malignancy and rapld spread of the epi- demlc. To this polntI respectfully Invite, not only the sttention of the Elizabeth Thompson Yeliow-Fever Comminsion, but of tho manicipal authoritics of Vicksourz, [t has for these lnst an finportaot practical bearing on the future heaith of the city, and, consequently, on its growth and urasveriiy, © As will bo seen by the ‘accompanying scctional orofile, the water-shed of the major part of the city proper dipa rapidly toward the river, a total fall of avonut 150 foot belng fonnd in the six blocks west of Churry street, which street forms the western bonadary of a narrow platean, the ‘‘divide™ betwuen tho cast nnd weat slupes of the watere shed. On the cast and sonth the dralnaye in into severalsmall nayous, which wind amone the hills In 4 reneral southorly directiun, traversing tho coun. try below for many miles before Bnding thelr out- };l n;x‘m the Misstssippi through ite confluent, the 12 Hack, "There is but one anderground sewer In he entlre city. This runa slonz the line of Washinzton etreet, north and south. Either as a result of faulty engineering In construction, or wapt of Jropee subsequent care, its practical working s & fajlure. From ita teaps and mun-holes o most wsickenine and peatilentlal odor was at ail times ox- haled daring iy visit: Lot especially otlensive auring the prevalenco of north or south winds, Its thoroigh cleansing and diminfection shou'd he enteced upon st the carlicst practicable moment after aevera frost. s itut one thing 1s needed to ‘make Vicksburg ono of the bust surface-drained towns on the Missis. sippl, and that e the application of a little com- mon sense in the fliling-1a of streeta and the con- & i o straction of gutters. At present the centre of the A e O as" Cves | Atroct i uaually the loweat part. oficn, in faci, e ind a certain alr of candor snd Innocence | Euliiod by raina so that crossiug froni sido to siae fs aiflicalt, if not dangerous. Yellow clay In abond- ance can be obtained from the bordering hillsides; and this, when deponted in proper <hape, with tho necessary elevated crown along the centre, and thoroughly bound by Llorse or sicam rollers, would make & chesp und permancnt rosdway, snd, in the end, prove a wise cconomy 1n this special police of the citv. Soniething was heiug dono in this direction during my visit, under the vigorons supervision of Acting-Mayor Heck, who had eugrested this and kindred workas a means of employing tho able-bodied beggars who swarmed sround the reliof-depots. Reference to the sccompanying outline map will show the great danger Lo whaich Vicksburg has recently been subjected. What Gen. Villlsme ot- tampted and falled tw do tn 1882, nnd Gen, Grant repeated with liko resalt in 18 'm'i" the diversion of tho channel of the Al ipul from in front of the city by o canal across the narrow nuwn as Young's Pointy--this th has lately done for itself: and becomo Vicksburg leland, Stesm- of passing upin frontof the city from below, are compelled 1o inske & detour of "the fstand briay uf the New Cui-Of god ¢oiten of twonty-odd years' residence in -the Gariten City, soon verved 1o dispel this illusion; Bbut only to bave it succoeded by a sentiment of cn. thuwestic udtiration. which found vent in re- veated demands upon the bar-Kewper 4o **vet 'em up. llow often they were set up -how often I Deard the stoey of his work duriug the plagae, hiv lluess and recovery, or how oftan I urged upon R the necessity of finding the telegraph-otiice Letore it clused—] decline to stute, But st lenzth we emerged frum the suloon, which, it 10 neediesy o nay, wus immediately closed behind us, Within u block, however, auother was sull open, and souuds of lsughtor, clinkiog of glasees, etc., told of good feliowship within. — Under s ULiss pretext of cxpectiug to thero Uuu Fiippen, Mansger of tuo Westera Unlon Telegravh Cowpany, my Mentor inuuceu ms toenter, Unceinstde, T was exhibited an a llon, introduced’ to the half-dozen revelers, and a story told of my explolts which wonld have ocen hignly cmosrradslog had 1t been either vo- herent ur intelligible, More demands upon the sttt behind the countor foltowed, —until at length 1 pereaiptonily invisted upun batog led to the tele- ragh-otice forthwith, ur being shown to & botel, ) i Al i thence through Ol Channel {nto tno sl water of S e L o\ o7 friend | Shat fe scauiring tho nats of Vicksburg Lave, I'tl carry you right there Ly didn’t you mention it heforer UL on Lhe strect again, in the fust waning moon~ hzbt: und, tUrning vue of two corpury, waDrought 10ra Lhe heavily-grated dourw of u large divery-stable. 1 puss uver the delails of the owner- hip of sultl stable, 1y companion’s trustecship of Lue uroperty and busnces—(old with much repetis won, while hils vurgy was being produced. Thank- aul that we worw vt lepgth en touls fortha uftice, and Leusting it might silll be opun, | clutched tog weat-rail_wiin voth hands us the big, raw-honed ware, fally wixteen and o half hands Bigh, whirled s wround A r, and, in response (o the defrer's ** il @lang, " started down thy street at less than 8 three-umute guit. As wu spun along wyer the rotgh pavenent, gonerally on two whecls, my tine was pretty ovenly divided between specu- Jatlon ue to whetber i would ve unly n cuse of combound fracture or suddeu death, and & grow- fng sentunent o1 gratitude to tay companiun for hig evident desire 1@ mako amends for previous dclayy oy pelling me thers quickly, now that we lad “started—this last, Winpesed by s feoling that, witor abi, 3t was bardly necvasary (o bein such a dencvof 3 hurry. ‘xtept un oceasional whoop and yell at the mare, winch secmed to hft ber right off ber feel, my chorjoteer uttered mata word, Hut, sa all uther UiouZnte were (ol giving way In wy wind w an Jucrianng wonder and gust st the perversily Which Incated (e telegraph-ufiice so far frum the bustuess ceutre, hie suddenly threw tho mare back o ber bauuches, Ashe tumed ber slowly arouud, und avked e, with a tiumphant chuckle. whal thuaahit of **¢hat, for action sod speed, ™ I resigued «)f (o 1he lucvitable, snd meekly replied that e Wus 8 vory Kood stepner,’ Driving back “to the identical comer ear which tho first saloon waw lucated, hs turned half a Llock 10 tue tlelt and drew up In front of a building, clused aud dark—1ie tolegraph-odical Stil imseting that hecould Sad Phppen and make bin open the oflice, ) slfowed I te dnve to several private houses, whire, abont 2 o'clock ju 1he morming, Le knocked un the snmstes, uquired for Filupew, 10ld the story with increastog gusto, aud drove off frum esch, not ouly without apology, bt with an uir that plaioly showed be was ussared he bt oculowed 3 great boon upon them, Thal We weren's both sbot hefore we yolb through, of that § wasn't nest 1o ed 1o leava ve: tween iwo day 10, llnvunnud{' for the city and her futnre, the main channel of the Cut-off 1s not over Lalf amile Le- Jat the prioeipal business streets ronning east and wost, At 1 jaat session Congress appropriaied the sum of $84, 000 10 bw expended 1n the protecs ton of the Loulslans bani of the cut-oif; and 1t 18 expected, by such nieans, to keop the channel i its present lines, 1f thie can be done, steamboats st sny slage of water s along the western share of Vicksburg 1slsnd thers Uod a landlog vppouite tha middlu frunt of tho city, In thatevent Uie construction uf & causeway belween the tsland and tha city will be a neceevily; und somo sost of & business comwmunity will probably locato on the fatand Staell, Fur the purposs of restoriog the cbanncl 1o la olil bed 1t uns boes proposed 1o bLring the waters of the Yazoo and its trihutarics, by way of Chickasaw ppl just abuve the Natioual f doubttul ulullly. owing Cenutery, [ 1o the siuggish current aad limited v Yazao. Another pian, whica prowmu wiiichi wouid be costly, }a totarn theM its course, At the foot of awpaw I 'az00, aud thence acroes the * Itiver " 1nto ita old chiunnel again a8 the bignt of bend near the Natwnal Cemetery. Ixpcosive ms auch @ plece of enginounuy work would be, it g very evident somethiog of the kind muvt be nnder- \aken; or, uotwithetanding ber unilions of invest ed capital, ber annual export ot 200,000 balen of cotton, her ralroad aud river standing all theee, over the porkico of ber magmd. cent Court-llonss Vicksburg may yei wrie, I'a victls—vonguervd this time. not by the logious of Mars, but by the caprice of Juplter Fluvias, x v. If she can, bowever, preerve her river front for steamboats, Vickseorg has o flattertog fuliro be- fote ber, woth commercially ana todastrially. At the fool of ihe great Yazoo Lasin, cowpruing nearly fonr sud & balf miltion acres of the cichest 20d most fertile lanus In the Houth, she ta the uataral wart for the great bulk of the cotton there produced, —over 25 par canl of Lhe entire crop of the most productivo of the cotlon-growing States. And yet bardly ooe-tenth the Gliable lands of this basln are under calivstion, Competent judges sstimate, from accessible duta, that, were butune- third of this great cotiun-belt of the Southwust put o that saple, is production would approx. ttuaty the entire coltun-crop of tha Untted Niatos. With the completion of the frel ffty wiles of the new norrow-gauge milroad—alresdy located snd in process of construction—throngh the Deer Creck countzy, o large seade will seek bor doors from the rich plantations which lle along the ¥au- fower, ‘I'allshatchle, Culdwaier, and Yasoo Kivers, Puslia, [odisu Bayou. Deer Crre! A this “uupromlelng Fecoptio bhuwever. 1 spent ten busy, eveniful, sod most l:. twresting days amony tue ple who had chosen s peitlemas, —1 waid 1 would not beszay his ddentity, and 1 wou't, bomethiug, surely. may bo parduned one who so recently sud so cloacly ’ ¥ had lovked va Death,— uud sulvsquent acquainisuce showed him to be & ot eatnsble. wember of a lestued profession, wod £lues. snd s eticiont punlic oMcer. )i Vieks- Lut bad bOL a0 many such withiu ber borders us 10 prove thelr yuslijes entizely tndependant of wny cthylicimspiration. ft wunfd be fu order to suiall M~ Lincolw's ‘remark sbout Qe Grasts Whisky. 4 Muriug my brief stay—broken by trips Into the suirouuding couutsy, botl in Allsswsippi aad Lou- Jsaua—| uccessarily became sowowbal famihar with the cownsercial and indusirial features of the cily dod her surroundiogs. 1 couccive Lo uuie acceptable or proliable work cun Low be doue for bl Whfs reglon thaw tbsl which bucw Lo I8 tebabilitation. Aud it Je propueed, with iy cunment of the cditos of ‘Y'us Taisuxs. —which i i Wb sverage cust of $6,000 per mile, fully equipved. ) Striking duo east runs the Vicksbure & Meridian Railrund, an old-eatablishivd sud well-paying line. En parenthese, 1 may rewark that i eatize ro- sources, dariug the epideumic, Were pleced Bt the dwposal of the Howard Amociation, —traluy sun st option: all olbier business of the road aud 4 charge suado vuly for the actual capenres of cogincs spd truinx whegeyer Uzed. The sume v alsv truo of the Vicksbure g Lelta Forry Cosibauy, whose Presidcutdlartn Keary—died during (ue epidvmice Zlhowmas Ricby, tha Pavmdent of the VAcuuur.YF.lehn Hal of The coantry, irrespective udy, —1o conting Lhe semaiuder W the postivns of wy Dote- at of such subjecta, 1uad, b veteran ol G0-odd, copiususlly be fous 1n the roowms of (Le Uuwards, with & preseoce oue of toe lebrotiers, and ready at all times o give his udvice und secbuical kuowledze to the furtherance of Uielr great evaribics. hizby aud the Frelgbt Avent, Mr. E. ¥, Jous. ware 1ho ol ers_od toe road lefs at tue f 1wy ¢ A ‘Tovographically conaldcrad, Vicksbarg 18 bighly fesored us reparde natursl druluage,. The ‘main | yigft. the rest hnfln¥ ther migruted ~ peid water-sbieds hig 10 the direcilon of the cardinal | out * in tho vetuaculur—or dicd ut thcir poats. cowpess poiute, North, Souts, East, aud West.and | _, EFom Dells weal, aud counccied by ferey with Vicksbury, runs the North Louwiana & Tezas, its present terungus et Mooroe, La.. sbout haif way to Shreveport. T01e v voe of B¢ hupostaut liuke in the geoat Southern Pacife outv. sud when a1 0f o precipilovs character, cousiog & rapid oft- Tow, whicu eductually scours and cleauses the Bilaides, Glaas’ Buyos (sey wap) socelves tho ittt ol et i ol S s Wil L i S W o S i il Sl P e M S iy i o e S S SR R R i St oD THE CHICAGO “TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1858—TWELVE PAGES.S A completed will opon opa vast Texan trade with Detta and Viekahorg, Among the projected lines, carlous stages of progress, is the Vickebire & shritle, which will “give Vicksburg a direct Northern connection with Chicago, via the New Orleans & Cairn und 1liinots Central, the junction Leinr at Grenads, Under construction, “also, is the Mtesissippt Vailey & Ship [siand Road, tapping the New Orleans & Mobile nt Mississipn! City on the Guir, =~ Also, the Baton Rouge & Vicksburg, with hranches already in opertion between Wood- ville St. Francisville, and between Clinton and Port fludson, From this hasty sammary & general idea may be formea of the railroad eystem, prescnt nnd prose peetive, of the Hill Cliv. Much of this is, of Conrse, 103 great estent indevendent of any chanyes in her ripsrian conditions, Lut that which has nircady given Vicksburg her promi. nence as a commercial city s that which 18 now threatened with destruction, Her stea; hoat himes plyinez up the Missla<ipni as faras St Louls, and sunth to New Otle p the Ohio to Lonixville, Cincinnatl, Plttaburg, 10 say nothe inzzof her minor trade on_the Yazao, Snnilawer, ‘Tallanatchle, ate., must all acek other ports if she do not succeed In kesplor the channel before her own levee. Gen. Chalmers owed it to the conatitnency which haw just returncd him to Congrass with such flage tering nnanimity to see to it that eome portlon of the usually wastefnl Appropriation bill contain mentlon of the Lower Mississippl at Vickaturg os wellas, if not instesd of, the brook-trouts and mountaln-courses of Pennsylsania, the very names of which even the advucales of thelr *'improves ment " canuot recall on the floor of the House. v Among the flourishing industries of Vickeburg is its cotton-sced o1l works, owned by J. J. Pawors, ond managed by Joseph I1. Stack as Mr, Powe: confidential agent. (Jos hns already beon me: toned In these *' Leavea™ tn connection with his work as Master of Traosportation for the Howard Association.) Tho wérks bave a capacity of 500 buehels of seed wer day, but were cloted at tho outbresk of tho epldemic, and all the horses and mules turned ovor.tothe Howaeds. For some time het animals thos furnlshed were the sole reliance of the Howards for thelr voluntesr physiciane. Many wers used up in the exacting demands made unon them, bnt without s mormur from their owner. Mz, Powers, with hie family, was, at the beginning of the epidemic, in 8t. Louts, where algo ho tas large Inturests, Stack telegraphed bim the aitnation, which telegrum was ot onco responded lo by m carte blanche of suthority, a Hhoral subicription to the general relief fond. snd anstructions to - his private bankers to honor Stack's checks to any smount, ‘This action was supplemented by repoated ship. ment, at s own uxpense, of - supplles, disinfect- ants, medicines, whatever, in short, was snxyest. ed. lils two seteamers, the Alert and the Knte Dickson, ware placed at toe disposal of the llow- arde, For werks they wers the only means of conveying supplies, doctors, and nursee to the in. fected pointa slong the river, The Kate Dickson mtr'olt}“l:e first succor to Greenville, making two trips thither, duy or two before my departure the worke wore again sot In operation, for the purpose of giving cuiployment to the hordes of jdie darkies congregated on the street corners to discass the delay 1n alstriboting the Government rationa they supoosed the retief baat to have been laden with. The unrivaled Iron of Alabama inda ane of its chief pointa of cansumption anid distribution at Vickubarg; her machine-shops, ruilroa | car-works, boller-snup. carriage, wagon, and ageicnltural im- plemeat factories, and the rolilnz-milland foundiry g hvide of ‘ater-sbed? about 1% (=cL thove low water & MONROE STREETY 5 ALNUY - REET &% I 3 5 9 5 \WASHING T k Reero " SBCTION OF CITY OF YICKSBURQ (ALUNU LINE OF CLAY OR CEAWFORD STNEHTS), BUOWING DE- BCENT YROM CHEENY STREET EACH WAY TO KIVER AND BAYOUS, TO ILLUSTRATE THE DHAINAGE PACILITLES.OF THE 81T ton & Co., ik Iarye qusntities an- Alsbamu coal mcasures crop out’ i ind the city, but o edort bax yut been wade towarid inibing I Al the cual consunued 18 broughit down frow Pitsbanzaud vicinily ; and over amile in leogth of cosl-barges woored weveral dewp dloug the levea, fivs miles above Lhe :u{. ary the evideuce uf the vaat _wonooly of Mattingly, Fiowerce & Co. D, W, Flowerco iadead, and when [left C. W. Floweres was iviug seriously ill with Lastric Kovl, having succesefaily withalood ottacke of theumativm, erysipeias, aod ygllue- fever, durinz the Drevioss two uonthe. llig brother-iu-law, Capt, Ed Carroll, Superintendent of ke Apc.or Lwe E of all steawbuat-men frou St. 10 coustunt atteudauce st his aed, ral saw-willy do 8 protitable businces lu the city aod suburbe; but the cutting sud raftiue of Juiber 1o puiibs bolow, wltbough one of the most Tucrative occupations, 1s very lwperfectly desai- oped, sud by 100 rudeet teldvds, Cavk Jumes il ) TR S S e ~ATJIWA 83IF8DH3IAT Senrlen, an old West Point graduate, r:mlndlr‘lr me strongly, o his manner, of the late Gen, d. I. Webster, pointed out to me, on his m. thou- sands uf acres of cypress brakes, whers the trees will averazo thirty to the acro, every one of tuem Ruud for a $10 sight-draft 00n as they aro float- ed 1080 the Misslssipplr the avorago total cost of putting such trees In rafis on the Yazoo or Sun- flower s ut S cach, Cupt. Learles wos for many years in the United Staws Envincer Corps, but resigned his commission whep bis Stato **went out.” Since the War he has vursued the nrofes- slon of clyil eogincer and surveyor, and thore Js littlo of Slisalssippl, Loulsiana, or Texas with which he ia not fsimlliar, Among the things which Viekslnrg urzently needs, and which wonld prov rompt-payingin- Yestmont, is n zood hotel on the modern vian,—a honsg of from 100 to 150 roome. During nine months in the year auch a hotel would be filled to 1ts utmiost caoacity by aclass of people who coma to the city to apenil money and pay liherally for what sulis them. And s managee of sucn sn hostelrle no more popular nor_capable gentlieman conld be found tban W. K. Davol, of Vicksburg nnd New Orleans, ‘*Dave,” as ho is familiarly called, is an uld Chicago boy, —one of the **early- timora, "' ~and I spent a pleavant honr with him, recalling the res gesta {emporis actl, circa 1854- 1860, ‘The firm of ltcod & Davol, of which he was memner, succeeded Orrin J. ftoss in th t ond sboe trade, in tho days when Murahall leld, and L. 7Z, Loiter, and Johnnie and Lilly ltoss wers clesking for Pottor Patmer, Stevens & Davol were then prominent jowelers: Davol is now of the firmn & G C. kor, Ainong B of Cusries 11, ieorge **the vo who used to keep Chicago from going tosleep too carly then was 1id Heil (naw of C, I Kelloug'® Co.); ‘Gius Barios (then with Uassett & Hammond):_Nornan Hahn, son of old Dr, Hahn, and clerkingifor tha oid houwo of Jewott, (jatea & Johnsoni Dub [ainey, Leller in Georze Smith's bank; tke Laflin hoys, Dwight and Jim; E, P, Thayer, afterwarde of the Thayer & 'l'obe Furniture Company; and Filking, unnion, Fos- ter (ltoas & Foster), Kirk Johnson, Hi Alford, and 8 acoro of others, Lacked up on occamion by Pat Lalliugaltl and his professional brethren, 'l'mcg and Bisckswell, old Dr.. Kgan, Sob Wilson, thilly Davis, Charley Wilson, Toln Durfee, ot Mostof thoue will be bat names and remluluconces to many of tho present readers of Tue Trint bat they had nastrango charm for my ear as we sat in the sultry mmnls t air, smoking euch rizars and drinking sucli claret as our harsher Northern alr forbids ju ripen for us here. . Y In profacing what it secms worth while to say upon the Labor Problem at the South, I wish to exprean my hearty councurrence with the senti- ments of tho Mewnphis currespondont of TaeTnis. uxs, Mr, M. I, Thden, in bis temperate, judie cluue, aad voryyyaluable letter of Oct.25, Compen- sution Is indeod 1o be found for the terrible visits- tion the Bouth has just endnred In the era of nonce and pood will to all men, as botweon North and South, which the epldewic and its charities have inpugurated. When I made BiH Freuch, in my Iaet Saturdoy's acreed, swear ‘‘by the wheetsd shade of Stonewall Jackson " to **lick** any man who ventured **alter this" to exnress any but tho most kindly feeling toward the North in his presence, [ simply wateriailzed the univerinl sen- timent wet with wherever I went fu the Mlissle- aippt Valley, Abrabaw” Lincoln's prophetia utterances upon the muiwrable 8eld of Gettysburg have been fully realized in the suflering South under *‘carpote bag” rule. \Whatever wrongs whe may have in. flicied upon & bouded sace throngh her inherited system of llnvlhol-llut Lavo Leeu at Inst and ame biy atonud for, And by wiat right do we, who, by accident of burth or chuice, reside fu 8 given section of the countey, sssuue L sit in judamont upon our own llesh and ULlond living elsewhore? lad slavery been as profitable in the New Enyland colunica as in the Virginia plantations, how loug and how _much would 1t have taken to abelish {§ tuerat Tumility and gzatitude, ratior than arro- gance aud pharisabsm, should characterize tue attitude of the North on this subject. ‘Thare is to-day morq of proscriptlon fn the City of Chicao on account of color thau in the City of Vicksburg. 1n the latter placo colored men arg holdiug cilco, Are nstociated in charitotle work on equal 1ooting with the blusst blood of the Seuth, and nre evarywhero regnrdod and Lreated with the meed rexpect und consiileration which thew todivids | characters entitle thom to, without revard to tue amount of pumentary matter deposited in thelr cuticles, st Saturday ( accombanied s 4pecta colored man, Willlam Werles, of reenville, 31, one uf the registers uf election und Clerk in tha Claucery Court al that place, luta half a dozen oflices in tho viciniiy of the mber of Comnierce, and, slmost without exception, hu was eyed sukance with an expresslou which plainly said **nigger. " Stepping nto a basement rovm i tue court on the east wide of the building forw El2ra of Kouinlus, no Ateupt was made to concesl this cxpresuion, eiihet by the seevant Lelind tho culinter o by the two or three lounvers i front, A certain revion—-whase rusuways ougil to be in good condition, 1f, 5813 said. they ure **paved with good Intentions " —is full of Juat such people & liuve bewn reprasenting tae North and thy Nes bublicun party [n the South since the clows of the War. Men with whom no decent person st the North would associate; wen without une wh; of & shade of principle, of charncter, or of aelf- ceapect; e, of simulscra of wen, who sknikod in Shio rear during the Wur, but who. when puace was declared, came bolaly to e frout tw rob sad plonder under the protection of s ververied and prostitated aathority. —euch Northern nen ua theec hve been Giling Bunthern oftices, levyiug Bouthern taxce, degruding and destroying soutn- ern labor, e represcated 1 the ulack vater, aud waking au tniexral section of ulr common couutsy & dewolnto and a waste place, 1um xiatiug now the ge Wherever, fu the Soutl, one hag beard, dunug the last duzon yrard, of 3 Northern mau holding oilce, —Federul, Biste, parlah, of nunlcival, —it bas veen genuradly sale to sct bin dawn as u wortblves, unprincipled, sud nnscripulous blackguard, who loft bia & wrp bowe (ur bls uwn eafety und bur beactit, there hsve bewn excentions, it b Dot wecassary o any. And such exceptions sre growing more hu- fucrous, w4 reapectable Nurtberuced, good cinlzens, wen of characler, And It vovsibie W relleve them. #alves OF the siigima (hese rascals huve atized Lo the Nortoern game. Ouo would ot risk -wach, judeed. If he wors 1o prophesy that within the nost geueralon the aflaire of the Souww will be lazgely adininistercd, ae 4 matler of Soutbern choice or cutisent. by Nortlierners and their descrudauts, No very profouna etunological kuowledge s roe quirud 1o shuw that Ll wust be 4o, The Southron 10 ceseutially un azeiculturist, — thal i, winler tha condipons uf Southern ulte ure, ile hav no Laste arjavtitude for commerce, oF uavizutiun, or wiuies, or insoulactunay. i horac 14 W 130re eneraening adject than the lucet locomotive of Baldwia or cogine by Corliss; Iis dug af wore concery than a Juccard liom e & tcles phune, He fuatiuctively bates o crowd, sud detusts e ball-follow-well-wes style of Lisinees from those to whor Le not. besa furwally tntza- duced. Fignros have uo Intercet for hioi except n the kroes. An hour of the wethudical couauce of GUe Of QUF great vusiness coucesna would drive il Lo the Wiacal wxcosnes. lu short: cetarl, au- Gy nlce wdjustivent of weaus 1o ends —the funs duwental prncipies of commerciol success: and BHALCY, peraInleacy, greariau, G LURGHLION OF Wouse, — ke a succeseful politict utial quliti - alicu ton ture and viwposition, 4l 1l be unly o glad to leave lbese roles to others, wud contine hiwwel! tu his vlenistion. o if he wuet, rwluru. parsicivate 1u public hife, hiy Buiiuoavd Wil Lu wud fu Uis ealusabing rataer than in the arts or trade; In the fornm rather than in the market-placo or counting-hones, ** What 10 do with the negro” witl cnaross much of his timo and attention dnring this and the next generatlon, That he i3 the agent best suited in £vety wav 1o solve the problem, seen Indmpntuble, (Small politicians anid faunteraor the bloody-ahier, Avwellanthe ‘‘end men' of the press, are wel- coma to the faclle Jjost and comment theen nbraees wii) give them™ upportunity for. Thin 14 not wrltten for the pnrposs of provoking political aiscussion, but with an esrnert desirs to do some- thing taward the unification of onr com- mon _country; to aid in destraying the ac- carsed spirit” of sectionalism which colors the views of North and bonth alike, —preventing each from recognizing the gond there assurcdly ia In tho other, and from ansinting, in the proper apint, to cotrect the defeets and vices which undonotedly extat in both. ) (not. him of Gramercy Park, tut M. Mr. Tilden 1L, of Mewphis, above refcrred to) has given & graphic pictitre of & very largs class of the negro vepulation of the Eonth, lmprovident, shiftless, with the most Iax of notions regarding ihe laws of mewm el tuum. of the sanctity of ths marringe re. lation, and the fnndamental valne of trath as un element of the social structnre, the averace South- ern colored man s, 1t must e confeaned, a very unpromising eudbject for & New Utopla. With such aterlal Mr.” Mallock would mors than cver lv;llnl upon beginnivg hisegperimont with an *'ex- clur'on, " Hut while all this s true to an extent that words alone can wive no Ides of, a simplo statement of the nnderiying canses, while it temners preeent Judgment, juvex mush of promise far the future, 1f_the negro 16 now improvident and snifiless, is it not bhucaure generationa of white owners did his thinking and providing for in tho past? 11 he now diwregardu the property rightaof others, were not his own, even to his vory fienh and blood, the bone and ainew, which itself created property, for centurtes set at nanaht? 1f the Seventn Commaniment now has no bind- Ing force upon hi, is that fact anythingmore than an iluatration of Atavisu, —a reversion to a habit implanted upon his anceator by the overscer who bred **prime buck' 10 **likely wench® with as littie reuard to the monogamous principle as ever governeid & dog-fancior or cattlesbreeder? And If 4t 18 now eaaier for him to lie Lhan to teil the truth, is fio to blame foe not being an excepe Liun to the univeraal eitle that alavory is the fruit ful hiot-bed of all the vices? Nelther Spartan belat. nor Irlsh kern, nor fichrew **dog of the Gilietto, " han ever yot been neld up as A competitor for the iittie hatchet of (L. W, or the monument of Knud Iversun, hy, then, dospair of the American neurs Teased, within less than hall a ceneration, from influences fully e degradiug and debaring as any these races were ever suojected to? Wuether the ** imfluences ™ that have since veen brought to heat upon him have been the best calcu- Iated to cradicate his vices and to develop his virs tuer will, 1 fancy, e pwmnll{ answered in the rho are familiar with tnoso ine den has forcibly portrayed soma **The unscrupulous political mendi- canta who overran the South i the years immedi- stely nacceeding the War™ bavs as much to an. awer for in’ tneir debauchery of the negro, in the destruction of hia seif-respect, in thelr fostering and encouragemont of Uts jowest traits, bave In keeping open the bloody chasm itaelf, But the picture 14 not alt gloom and shade. Snch {influences must, fu the eterial onder, be ephomer. al, Uuly the right can enduze. ‘Truth is not forover on the scaffold, Wrong forever oa the throne, The ncgro is alrendy beginning to peneteato through the surfaco of thinus: to strip the m from the Iying faces of his pretended friends; to tanlize tbat hia interests and the intereats of those who once nwned hinare the same; that whatsoover ‘makes 10 the conitnon good—In lighter taxation, in. tmproved production, in secuelty of person snd ruporty—works also'tor ks individual good. Ho- 4 beginning to realize, and tu act unon tho knowl- edge, that—with whatever ol halunrnnd stumbling, of frequent injustice and hardship, in short, of human error and fnlllhlh:( such work {s done—it muat, If done at all, be done by those who own the country: those who have a stake in fts prosper. ity those who ars bunud to it by the potent Zurces of blrtarizht and association; und who ventured the great prize of Death In battle for 1t—no matter how mistakenly, Kthnologistsmay * quarrel over faclal angles, und brain measure- ments, and caudal vertehen, in thelr attempts to nettle the question of racinl superiority; and Mr. Tilden's Memphian *‘moralists and laws qivers "-—hnvlnfidccldcd that, like John Chinaman, he **must go "—iay soccuiate on **absorption or extinction " asthe altornative fatoof the Ameri- ek, and gin, and bal ' and gather, and cure and cut, und *‘tole,” and suuar to make; while thero aralevees to butld, and brakes to clear, and steumboata to freizbt, and a thousand other thinge todo for whica he 13 espectally fitted, wuch ques- tlons will .horily boséess an Interest absorbing enanch to keep either darky or whits man awaka ' uights, - 1hs uvcllity, zood:nature, falthfulness, Imi- tativeness, cndurance, L these qualities surcly count for Aumothing in hia future. Aud whon, under happier conditions and h& education and ex- aniple, to these whall be added thrift, industry, enterpring, und the social virtues, 1t will hardly worth while to lnnlnuh nny given black person with tha charze that he or sho'ls not o ‘Toneaaint L'uuverture, a Frod Dourisws, or an Fimonia Lewis, —not, ot lcost, until all white-akinned people can clalm peership with the Wollingtous, Vobsters, anu Michacl Angelos of their own race, Vicksourg, rate! © i Fraxg W, Rewur, M, D, B MEMPHIS, SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF TIIE PLAGUR. Ta the Karor of The Tribuns, Cuicano, Nov, G.—The smamer of *78 dawned . vpon Memphls glorious in the promuse of & drophetic spring. “* Tlo provious wintee had been o weason of simost unezampled prospenty, sl ness hind been **hooming,** 1o nso & Westerntem, The cropn had been ahiundant, and ot the close of the year, when planter and factor balanced ac- counts, there waa gonorally a credit left standing to the formor. With this Incentive to prompt them, and the seeming assuranco that hard times werc past, the huspandman increased hisaren of cnitivation, employed a larger force to pat in the crop than aince tha War, and labored dtligently in the hopo that bils retaras wonld ensblo him to st- tain a proaperity slmoat out of date. Nor wus he disappornted, When the crop was **lald by ™ 1t more (han realized his mrost sanguine expects- fous, and wothing remained bat its barvestiog and whipment. In the ecity the banker and merchant rejoiced at the success of their operations, and contemplated the future with pleasure st (Mpmlr.fil which that future held oat, The small doalers hud siso been guneronsly rewarded, anil tlhe mechanic bad lald up troasnres unon exrth, 'Tho hoalth of tha city and surround. ing country had uever been bettor. There was an rxceptinnnl freedom from the matadies peculiar to thiv climate s yratifying os it wes singular. Naturo aud art amlled npon the landucape, ana al} things combinod to beget a new hope fn too hreasts of a peonle wno had for 8 decade of years toiled,nn the childran of larsel, in bopelesa bondags to debt and remediiess adversity, AS TUB BUMSIER ADVANCED the usnal complement of tourists to tho North, to the Virginia Springs, aud vther favored resorts ‘bade farewell to the city of thelr nativity and pue- sued their journeyinge. anticipating o retura to the winter festivities of which they wers prime factors In the *‘flul City.” Early in July ruwmors roached Momnphis that the ycllow fever iad broken out in New Orleans. No stlention was pald tothis, **The disease could not resch Mem- phis,* 1t was said, aud if It did, tha city was pre- parod to cope with what, in the light of sabsequent events, has proven itsclf to be a miore funnidabla advorsary than war or Iamine, It madeno inures: slou on the people, Business wae umintorrupted. The pleurnre uardens were open, and nightly filled with the throng who took no thought of the 1not- (Contiuued on the Sevonth Pago,) This complete Fauilly and $hipoing Ol Cag | mad of tha heat i fa'..r'umw T Piaten, douue: sewied aud suliered. e Wood Veucer Case ls nicely Gatsticd snd var- oished. T ¥ranio s uisde frour one picee of No. WIEe. Bont 1) eUct Miduo &350 (OFa) & ha iosue hupport. gud fs nicely pain Truvious of Japanved how. wrosg 10k proviaed wity: W ile v (s ith adjust 7ont) e et nvented. belug pISLE DURAS .8, 1T I PRRFECT. belag Bafe, Ligtt, goavqnieal wnd Chean ¥ IVE GALLON CAS AND FRAME, $1.30. WILSOY & EVENDEN'S CANS & TANKS, OFFICE AND FACTORY 41, 49, and 51 West LakesL, Chicaso, — —— BILKSE, IRESS GOODS, CARPE' P 'S, FURSY, Ete, Wholesale Store, Retail Store, Market-st, cor, Madison, ___‘El@-av. hol. Madison and Monro, 0 2 * Held, Leiter & Co. CEIICAGO, Avre datly replenishing their aiveady well-assorted stocks with NOVELTIES! of thelr own importa- tion, in Silks! Satins! Velvets! Dress Goods! Laces! Costumes! Cloaks! Shawls! Cloths!. Cassimeres! Children’s and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods! Linens! Housekeeping Goods! Upholstery and Carpets! TO THEIR STOCK OF | FPURST They call particular notice, as it 910w comprises EVERYTHING in its line, and 18 withowt doubt the best-selected and most c!czmnl ever shown West! Speclalties in REAL LLACES! FANCY NIECK- WEAR! HANDKERCHILEFS! in_ colored and L embroidered horders, HTOSIERY! KID and FAB- RIC GLOVES! GENTLEMEN’S FURNISITING GOODS! comprising EVERYTHING new and desivable in UNDERWEAR! HOSIERY! and NECKWIEAR! to all of which SPECIAL INSPE(C- TION 48 invited, Prices throughout will be found | STMMER A0 ER (4 i . Wo take the following extracts from letten “recoived durlng the past summer from Superin- *tendents and Frelght Agents who have used thess cars; “1 am pleased to inform you that, 80 farasl know, every shipment of butter, etc., has reach- -ed destination fu good conditlon, not one word of complalut baving beon received from either shippers or consignee. Tue cxperiment ba proved a satisfactory ono to us."” “We bave been ruoning your refrigerator cars since the 1st of Junu between Cinclonat] and Fort Wayno with perfect success.” * TifTany car from Sloux City arrived in New York to-day In tip-top order and conditlon, and equal to, if not ahead, of any we have seen, Use waa clean, alry, and {n every way all that could e Uesteed. “Ttifs Tiffany car suits us, and we recommot {t to our shinpers.! % The past record of thiscar gives satisfactory evidence that ft fdrnishos cqual protection against extreme cold.” A trip mwle during the latter part of Au 5|ut. the averago vanation of temperasture juring the entire distance—Chivago to New Xork—wus hut 19 frum tha temporature taken at the time of starting. SOUTIIERN BHIFMENTS. During the past summer many of these cars have been used for shipments of leo between Chicago and Little Rock, Waco, Ilouston, aud other polnts Bonth, saviog the shippers from the severe Jussea inct with In otor cars, losicy bu:ll.ow pounds to the twelve tons of lee carr ried. The Canads Southern Fast Frelxht Line are now using a number of Yhese cars fur the shiv- ment of dairy products, dressed beel, cte., be- tween the West and Hast, Lo tho eviduent sstis: faction of thu shippers, Extensive butter, nhcuur and meat shipments have been mude from Chicugo to tac South during the sumimer Lo the cutire satbafuction of all partics, Pelner Hinse, The new additlon now being completad, which increases the ca- pacity of the Houss 35 rooms, will. be ready tor ocouvancy on the 15th of this month, making the capscity of the House more than any other in the.Unised Statos, SEpRR A THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS. Prices no higher than other good Houses, but with accommodations far superior, ROOIES WITH BOARD, From $3 (o $3.50, ‘Without Board, from $1.00 por day upwards, NEXT BPRING. This Company expect u very large ftrade with Texas and tho Bouth next spring by the Introduction of their cars in the shipient of early vegetables and fruits to the Nurtt., The success with whicl thoy carrled thicse iouds last spring shiould lesd whippers fu thu Bouth make arruprements [ season Lo get their carly vegetabies to Northery murkety, IN EUKOPR. Seven of these vars are now running from Vieuna to Paris, und the business is ucing ex- tended Into Russla, MESICIIANT Tal LINDSAY BROS,, TAILORS, i : 141 & 143 Dearborn-st., (Tribune Bullding, Ohicigo) Havo always in stook ono of the largest and choicest seleotions of IMPORTED sand the FINEST makes of DOMESTIO WOOLENS GENTLEMEN'S WEAR. Quality finest, and roasonable prices insur e s REDUCED PRICES TO PER- MANENT BOARDERS FOR THE WINTER, AFTER NOV, 15, POTTER PALMER! OWNER AND PROPRILTOR, Loy THE TOBEY FURNITURE Y. State & Adams-1s., Chicage. Factory, West Randolph & Jellersousts PRI maomNE NEW AUTOMATIC WEED SEWING MACHINES SELEL THEMSELYES. PIICES O APPLICATION. WEED SEWING MACUIE (0. (hic? ¥I8EK, OYATENS, Bic,. A _BOOTE, DEALER AND PACKHEHR OF FISH, OYSTERS, CANNED SALMOF, Cor, State and _I.nlv(e-fls.u;_.v, Chicago, IIl, 3 3 171 R. Madhon R, TIENDERSON i & i Devorea bla whule tus tv (o treatwens of Clrdale auid hicla) Discascs, Nervous' Deullity, Discases of ficatiemct, Piics. &e. Guaruutecs i b s duisnca {uca seub evurywlsse, Lhainss luw. aud coutdential. - Cull of it Nlustratcd bouk and vircuars scut seaicd 107 LWO \Lrow cuubaamips. ” free stoce. A, B br L, 48 recular Spadusty [ wediclos, wod Las Lad over 0 ysass’ prace W01 tin, wlwcul. Isilouts st