Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1878, Page 6

6 TIE COPPER REGION. Portage Lake and the Mines in Its Vicinity. An Anmnual Produot Worth Several Millions of Dollars. The Varions Wines—-Mineral Range Railrond-. The Villages of longhton and Mancock, Bnectal Correspandence of The Tribune. HASCocK, Mich., L. 8., Dee. 18.—1Ve scarcely ever read anvthing, in the leading newspapers of the West, voncerning this portion of the Upner Peninsula of Michigan,—as If this really interesting section of the Northwest had been completely forgotten or {gnored by the curre- spondents of the Western press,—and yet it 1s, beyond all maunner of donbt, a very important slive of the great Wolverine State, from both a physical aud an Industrial point of view. Per- haps, to its distance from Eastern and Western centres, to its 1solated sud alinost Insular po- sitlon, may be nscribed this meeming neglect and apparent oblivion of its existence. Never- theless, the LAND OF LARKS AND ROARING RIVERS possesses 20 many singular and interesting features, both natural and soclal, that we ought uot, n justice, to pasa it unhiceded. ‘The romantic beauty of its scenery ; Its sombre and almost impenetrable forests of aged pines and huary cedarst ita bubbiing streams, spark- ling among the hills, and in whose langhing waters leglons of speckled beautles disport them- sclves; [ts bruclog and aalubrious atmospheres its majostle Jakes, that cover an area larger even than some of the antiquated Kingdoms of the Oid World cat buast of; and last, but not least, its rugged hills, from the pregoant fanks of which one of the most uselul mincrals fs ex- tracted,—all theso uatural gifts, all this scenlc Veauty, all these marvels of land and water, and all this unsurpasaed mineral wealth, cntitle 1his portion of the great Nurthwest to the atten- tin of the reading publiy, and to n mention honorable in the columus of the leadine paper of the West. Some twenty-five years ago, the wooded shores of Portage Lake, whence your corre- spondent {a now writing, were stlll slumbering in that silence and awe-inspiring solltude that ever seem to hana over tho wilderuess like o funeral-pal)l. Among the lonely hilla and decp woods that skirted its tranquml waters, dwelt the Chippeway Indian, who passed his doys 1 .pursuing the swift-footed deer or In trappiog the Industrious bLeaver. The tread of the early ploneer had not as yut left its impress upon the virzin sofl. In those carly days there still logered about the wood-clad bills, and quiet lake, sod murmuring streaws, tnat xirange charm which can be felt, but cans not be uttercd,~—an overwhelmiug scuse of Ee:mc and lonelinesa peculinr to reglons not fa- abited by civillzed man, Soun, however, this lovely spot—the very Paradise of the poct sud the dreamer—~was INVADED NIT THE ANGLO-8AXON, who came with plck and shovel, and soul full of pluck aud greed, and began, with his character- istic perseverance, to delve futo the very ene trails of the hills, and extracted therefromn tho nucral fwhich to-day constitutes the staple article of our Industry, and the golden base, In fact, of all our wenlth, From time fininemorlal this useiwl mineral bad lsin secreted, and ihroogh a succession of ages, perhaps, had been uadergoing s prucess of forma- tlon and development jn tho dark chumbers of the earth's bosom. The genius of man goon discovered its hidden recesses, and, antmate:d as man nlwr?'s Is, and cver shall be, by the luve of riches, he Legan to bwild upon theae smno shores, whers once the spirit of the wildorness alonu refgoed supreme, stamp-intlls, rolling-mills, and smelting-workss and, tchold | to-dny he banks of Portage Lake sro alive with the bustle of traffie, the el screamfue - of A bundred steam-whistles, the continuous thud of the nd rous swanips crushing the copperdaden rock, and the red glare of smelting-works; whilst its walers are beinz steadily plowedt by palatinl steaniers and propellers, aud numerous atlier cralt, which come and go all summer long, transporting tu Fastern marts the product ex- tracted from the bowcls of our opulent hil What u contrast! Al these wonderful changes have been wrought within the laat twentv-five yeurs, ‘The desert has been metamarphosed nto un active bee-hive; the wilderngss Lias been made to blossum s thie ruse, ‘The copper annually taken from the mincs that lie within our minedlate vicinity amounts tu several wniilions’ worth of dollars. TIE CALUMET AND IECLA, the richest and most productive of them all, yieki on un average some 14,000 tons per an- num. To the fortunate stocktiolder they pay a quurterly dividend of 83 per shure, ani have, woreover, o cash surplus of §4,000,000 fu tbewr treasury. Although these mines bave been wurked for years, tho wpply sl seems fiaexhaustible, Tue stamp-milis of these united bonanzas are Jocated on the banks of Lake Linden,—~a beau- tiiul sheet of water, near which has been bt a viilage bearing the saine hame, A distance of tiva miles separates the mines from the mil! bt a raitrond, owned and bulitby the Conipan tronsters the rock from the suafia to the stan: ‘e Quiney, & well-mannged and divid paving mine, right o slght of the Village of Nancock, is another benanza,—on a smaller seale. however, thau the ubove, A monthly vroduct o 100 to 120 tons (s genernlly reported at ts headquartess, On himureds of miners and operaty their support. Near by we bave the Frunklin sl Tewable Consolidated Mines, whose joing product rances from 100 to 180 tons per monty, Another ¥ promising mine, although stili n its teens, Is the Osceols, & uneighbor of the fuperlu) Calumet. ON TIUE SOUTI $IORN OF THE LAKR are reveral other mines, one of which alono—the Atluntie—ts now in active vperation. A chouge of mavsgers has lately tuken place ju tuls mine. The newly-appoluted Agent was formerly a Captain the same wine, and s, | understand, an exverlenced and practical miner, It is to bu hoped that he Atlautic bias reachied the end of ftatroubles, and that the fupediments under which the wanazemont of the mine has labored in the post ure now forever removed. Not unly Is its pros- verity of vital fportance to the stockholders, but upen the uuinterrupted activity and zood wmanagement of ghe mine the femilies of scures of urdy miners depend fur thelr dally bread and comfort, The other mines located on thesvuthern shore of the lage—tha Hurou, the Isle Royal, the Grund Portuge, and the 8hefden sod Colum- blu—huve seen their duy, ‘Thelr glory hos (le- parted. “Ivibutors have leased thicse dead ung are scrapiug out whatever mine cun tind. Slico the last panle, the prosperity of the coppr region of Lake Buperlor AN STRADILY DININISHED, Althourh the shock was ot feit as heavily In the tiret inetance os 1t was {n somo of the Mid- e and Westeru States, yet the blow has played havoc with Lhe cobper futerests of this scction, Copper, which a few years waa quoted at frum 35 to ¥ cenls per pound, nuw ductustes Letwecn 15 aud 10 conts, 8o vust a disparity In market-quotations INust Kecessarity affect the welfare and prosperity ot the population of the conper district sud miveral range, Few aro uwure that copoer-mluing is often at- tended with sprious aceidents, Involving hife aud Imb. No sadder plcture can weet the eye of the cusual observer than that of a strong, able- Lodled miner, whose eye-sight has been literally extinemshed by the premuture explosion of & charge, led by the haud, ke a clild, throuzh the strects. Heuceforth his whote e must be w long, durk wight, bussed in inetlectual grovtg sud sullen sorrow; and, Utleas the sWeet and tender teachings of & pure 1alth have tauebt bim to look from toe preseut darkuces to the unutterable brightness beyoud, o the cousollne sdmonitions of a sweet philos- ©; by have tound au entrauce into bis heart, his days must be sud fudeed, and utter wunibila- Hoi tust be prelerable to the utter and irveuarable night into which be was suddenly plunced. As arule, however, these victims of scein to bear the burden of ther wis- with all the patie aud stolclsm of a ihuod, —the worse feature of their cruel fute being, v the whole, the noble anguish they teel for the luved oues who depend upon their Labor wud strouguru for suppors and protection, thess acadents, waich wre sumetlnes fole lowed by fues ot lile, ure OFTEN TUE BEDULT OF CALELESSNESS, Habit, oud the contivuat prescuce of dunger, ure ubt 1o render the wner less cureful 1o Lhe execulivn ot bls dauirerous task. tlence the number 0f vuduable lives that aie yearly lost, uud the nuber of sighitless miners that ons e with fu the viauy of the copper wines, Viewed from a socil and moral standpoint, the cowver seglon of Lahy Superior prescuts sume poculiar 1:alures worthy of wotlee, The towns wud winisg locatious fu thetr viviuity are node -k I8 the ease In nearly all minfur dis- tri. 8, of an mdmisture of yarfoua ua § nalities, —rAwvcan, Kghish, Neoied, Iesh, German, Feaneh, Itnllan, Scandinavian, Ruesinn, Ans- trian, and Bohemian, | Al these forelgn cle- ments, fused and mofded into ane heterogeneons Jnass, farm the population of 1he miveral renge, ‘The pine-clad_notniatns and mist-rididen fer- heard of Beambinasia, the frultful plains of Sar. d ula, the thrifty Thames, the blue Danabe, and t ¢ landr watered by the historic Riine,—al) h.ve sent their quota of natives to the copper aud fron regions *of Lnke Superlor. Almost every nook _and corner of * old, musty, monsrchical Europe lma a representative 1ip here. Aod yet, incredible as it may secw. aond despite ‘all the nationnl, politienl, soclal, nnd rellglons disparity and diversity ol .an- guaes that exist here, the searcity of erime i oar midst Is, to say the least, reniarkable. [ tais ns It may, the fact remains, that, out of all these Incongruous and avporent ufllcting parts and structures, ‘A harmonions whole, a healthy community, has arlsen, which, for moral hesith, soctal virtue, und respect for law aml order, might be equaled, but cannot be sur- pasacd, by any other community fn the Unlon, 3 TH PRNsS up hera Is represented by twva weeklles, whose columus are slm wt entfeely devoted to the miaing Interesi» of Lite copper nnd fron regiona of Lake Superio. ‘The ortage Lake A ininy Gazelte bas it headauarters 1 Houghew: the south shore, aud the Northwestern Journal In Hancock, ou the north re, of Portage Loke, 'Tho latter ts owned and caitedd by 24 clever a journalist and as scholarlyan Ink- ritnger a8 ever walked In journalistic shoe- lenther. 1 almost forgot to mention the Mineral Range Ratlroad,—a narrow-gauge road rome twelve miles in length, the anly rallway we can_boast of on the Rauge. It commonces at the Village of ‘Muncock, and terminates at:the Calumet and Ilecla,—thus uniting those ouutent nines with the_central point of nuvigation on Portage Lake, This road has n of fncaleufable value * to the vountry and to the people thereof, ana owes Is existence, on the whole, to the fndomitable pluck aud persevering encrry of oue of Jlan- cock's foremost cltizens, the Hon, C. E, Hol- land, Prestdent of the road. HOUGHTON AND IANCOCK, On the suuth sliore of Purtage lLake, about twelve or thirteen imlles from the Entry. stands the Villags of Iluughton, the county-seut of Houghton County; _and, on the northern bauk, the thrifty Village of Ilancock tips it corpurate feet In the waters of the lake. Eachof thesetowns clains a population ot about B000 nouls, They ure the bue-hives of the cos per reglon, and owe theie existenco and prose pority to the copper mines. lourlsts—thon- sanda of whom “annually’ visit the wreat lukes, some In search -of pleasure und recuperation, others n quest ol nealth—evinve o hittle astonlstunent to find thess places well supplied with churcnies, public fibraries, scitool-jouses, fine prvate residenes,—in short, ail the re- uirements of an advanced civilization,—where they ouly expected to meet the rude soclal ex- hibitlons pecallur 1o the mintoy districts of the Far West aud tie aceomodutions incidental to border-life. Not very long stuze, the Towns of Houghton avdtlaucock,divided us tiey ore by the Inke, had no other way to resch one another than by meana of swall boats or by terry. Some coterprising cltizeus, huwever, originsteld the plan o1 spunning the Portoge with a bridies ‘The project had 1o sooner Leeh evolved tuan b was put jute execution, and to-day a flne, sut- subatanttal wooden briuge spans the lake ut its narrowest part, and unites the tuwns,—thus fucllitaslne the sovial fntercourse and the busi- ness of the Lwo cumimunitivs. Mantos. A Savings Dauk st Indianapolls Agrecs Wednesdny tn Suspend, und Takes Do- posita Up to Thurslay Evenlng—Formal 1sust Last Night—Other Tteus. Spectel Dinvatch ta The Tribune. Ixp1AnAroLIs, Ind., Dec, 20.—The suspen- slon of the Indianapolls Savings Bank to-duy was o great surprise. Ths reporis wyere as first discredited, but, Inquirles at tho bank revesled the foct that, af11 o'elock, In accordaice with o decision of the Trustces, business hud boen susyended and an application madejto the Audt- tor of State for a Rueceiver to put the hank in process of lquidation, Col, Johu W, HKay has been Beeretary and Treasurer of the bank, and W. N. Jackson President, from its orzanization In 1831, while the Directors aud Trustees have Leen leading citizens, baukers, awml capitallste, In consequence, the bank hag enjoyed the fullest coolidence of the pub- Me, ‘su that fn July, 187, 1t had secured 3,818 depesitors, nggregating §413,+ (0 of deruslts. Avcording to n statement of Manauer Itay, it has now about 8,600 depositors, and deposits of §200,000. Col. Ray has been appoloted Receiver, and proceeded to pay de- pusitors at ouce 25 per cent, tellinyg them that within ninety days, at the farthest, a full state. ment af the condition of the bank would be published, and avery ano would know just whot it would pay. Talks with officers aud Directors show that, in thelr opinlon, the bank will pay 00 per cent. A Committee of Directors have been looking fnto the offairs of the Bank siuco Monduy, and on Wednesday the Trustees agreed to wiud up buatness us the best thing that could by done, ‘Ihe regular January dividend could not be paid, snd it was feared that tue fallure would nro- Yoke 8 ruton the bank which would be disase trous, Buch 18 thy ofilelal statement of the rea- son, made by the Presttent and Beeretary this mternoon. ‘Onu year ago, when the State Sav- ings Bavk susoe, the Auditor of State ap- voluited Wis rezulor Exumines, J J. Hine- ham, who reported the bank fo rose- colored, Git-edwed condition, and thot Its ‘lrustecs were who conld not alford to alluw depositors to suller from any couse, One of the Exunining Committee 1o~ nlrut stated that the bank was at that Lune ing Tegcally fovolvent coudition, huving thore sus- fiuudml paper than gurolus, and should een wound up then. Althouuh the suspension was ngreed to on Wednesdov, depostta wore taken up to Thursday ovenluz, The devositors are mostly working people, ipon whom the lo-s will 1all Keavily, if it ve comparatively smatl. Among bunkers and business inen 160 betiet 1w that 00 per cent will bu o realized, nod that no unle e effect will resuit to other ol the city, althous suviugs banks elaewhere lu the Stute wil bave towind np. U the law of this Stata, o sltors hiave 5o other seeurlty than the personal hunur of Wie Trus und Dliectors of the bank, Exuminer Bluginm tue-aav tlled s re- wrt of tue comdiion of thy Lanorts Navings snk. Ho nde an apparent excess of 15,00 of asvets, ot the bank is evidentiy jn w souml coudition. Deprec; eslate troubles the Luporte bank, 53 it tus troubled the Indfanavolls bank. The Jeposis of the Luporte bank ngereeats 109,000, NEW OKLRANS, Dec, 20.~Neither the Fund- Ing Bourds uor the Committees of commerchat orvanizatlons have accomp ished anyihing thu way of ralshig woney o pay the January coupons on the Stata canyls, Nuw Onteans, e —The Vicksburg Mora- diq Hera d reports tho tallure of J, Horutbal & Co., of Vicksbure, — Torne's Ameciean Causins, 2 bork Liermid, 8. —The Lresbylevian the Ruv, Quorge Morrbon, ublish the folluwlas editorial to-morrow ¥ The Presbveerizn Chureh hus o wari plaee in ita heare for b distinguished and noble Tamily so complenously reprosented un thh continent by thy Marquls of Jorue, Goy- ernor-Genernl of Cumdda, It° bws bhecu the lot ol but fow men i htory tobe weilide | 10 & Frincess su noble, 5o plice, ah the dangator of the renowned Queel Englnnl, the Chnse Uan woman and mother, hut ureater still s iy lot that hls intrlusic werits_ votitlehim to his Tue falher, George Johu Duuglavs Canipbel), years of age, and is the autlhor of e oo law, Mo te an elder of e Presbyteri; Cuurch, and bus wiltteu two works on church yueations which ure uuthorflies, oue styvicd * Presbytery Exumined,” and one the “8on of a Peer to His Peer.” “Che Murauis of Lorne has prepared a translation of ho Psufms, ‘T faily unme 18 Campbadt It 4 sabd that Gop, Willlain Campbell, who fell when comuandiug bur troups i the Revolutionary Wur, ot Futaw not lon of real wili Bprini C, aud oxclulined s he e, fuformed of the defeat of thu e L die contented,” and wus burn_tn Virginia 1745, was the ucphew of the theo Duke. Gen. Willlam Compbell Jeft one daughter, who afterward married Gen. Froucls tow, of Virvinla. Bhie was the motber uf 3 Tov. Jatnes McDowell, s, Guy. John B, Flovd, Mes. Gen. E. Corrlugton, Mre. Rev, Dr, Robert J. Breckiuridize, Mrs, Gov, Wade iamp- tun, the Hon. Beustor W, C. Preston, the How, dJobu 8. Preston, aud Thowas-Freston, A cane dicstick cut from the West Teuncasee warule, used by Gea. Campoel Ju his tent hile, i8 1 pos- sestion of one ol the provrictors ut this puper.” ————— Settle Kan brancisco Nows: Letive, ‘The casual avqualutances of * Mr. Buckskiy Bill " will be pleased to learu that that sccoin- pllsbied shoulder-bitter sud adinlrable Listuis suot was killed ut Hollister on Taesday, Thi bl ougtn to buye beva suitled suise thue ago. TiE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY: DECEMDER 21, 1878—SIXT N PAGES. OUR NORTILERN EMPIRE A Trip Along the Line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Various Settlements on the Route ---Feriility of the Country. The High Quality of Wheat Produced— Advico to Intending Immigranta, Bpecial Correspondencs of The Tridune, Brsvancg, D. T, Dec. 13.—Having finished my examinations in and about Fargo, aml gained cunaiderable fulormation regarding that rapédly- crowlng young city,~which, although only 5 years old, contains a population of nearly X000 inhabitants,~1 decided to carey out my orlginal programme, and “go West.” And, in order to see g inuch of the country nas possible, and have an opportnnity of stopping when and where I pleascd, and cxamining the country at lejrure, 1 discarded the passenger- truln, which only runs through from there to Bismarck at night, and availed myself of such rough, Lut not uncomfortable, accommodations as are afforded by frelght-trains, The first station of auy consequence west of Fargols CASSELTON, named in honor ol Geurge W. Cars, former President of the Northern Pacific. This place, although little over a year old, contaius a sta- tlon-houge and gralu-elevator; has several weil- (led stores; snd, from what could be seen dur- ing 8 vrief stay, I should say {1 bas a largo and rapldiy-growing trade, ‘Fhe surrounding coun- try is unsurpassed for productiveness, and the settlers far superior to thuse usually found In mnew countrics. Thoso who have‘been here suflictently long to raise w ¢rop arc unbounded In their pralse of the rich- ness of the soll. Many of them assure mo that their profits durfog the post two scasons have rangedl frem 87 to 10 per acro per annum, alter deducting all expenses, fncludlog first breaking, interest on purchase of land, and every other Itent {ucidental to the cost of growing a crop aud sending it to market. ; PROJECTED RAILROAD. 1n my Iaat letter refesonce was made to the necessity of a rallrond down the west side of Red River to Lake Winoepeg, in the Canadian Provinee of Manitohas nnd, with this object {n view, the Northern Pacilic Company has siready caused a prelimivary survey to bo made frotn Cussefton 1o the "Canadian border,—a dls- tanca of 153 miles. The route 18 down the west slde ol the Red River Valley, and the country i3 unequaled i poins of fertility, The report of tho engineer who miade thic survey estunates thy tutul cost of track, sidIngs, and switches xt 86.000 per mile; and, from what I fuve seen of the country, [ am contident that the estimate s ample, o8 searcely sny grading will te uevessary, and but few bridges, or tres- tlee, or culverts will be required, Frow Cussclion west on the Northern Paclfic Tailroad, the next point of note s JAMEATOWN, on the Jawnes River. This place was formerly Fort Seward; but the march of civilization drove the Indians befors 1t, and rendered the fort auneceasury; hencs It was abundonod a littie over o year slice. The vilinge shows unmistakable sig3s of buslncss netivitys and s wentleman whom I mot ossured mo that le counted 100 wazons here a few days since, a majority of wiitch were Joaded with wieat, Some of thesa teama came tiity to slxty mifes; In fact, farmers Lere secny to regard that distance from the rail- roul ns of little consequence, as the level and compict character of tho roads epables them to haul 50 per cent inora here than it would by #aic to expect from the eamo team In any of the States, ‘TheJnmes River fs of little commercial importance as u means of transportation, but the valley covers an area of country of UNSURPASSRD FERTILITY, and the rapidity witis which It 15 being settled Justifies the prediction that {t will soon be trav- erred by a raliroad connecting with the North- ern Pacife ot Jamestown. Indecd. the subject of such a line I8 airesdy recetving the attention of caplialists from abroad, From_Jamestown to Bismarck,—a distance of nineiy-five miles,—the couutry is sporsely sct- ted, und villages fowand untinportant; butthe coantry is {ertile, ond, as the lunds are being rupidly taken up for settlement, it will not be Tong ¢re the now almost trackless prairies will wuve with golden gratn, and flourishing villazes w1il s as common as thoy are at present along the liue of any of thu roads in'Liinofs, DISHMANCK, o8 your readera sre doubtiess awaro, 18 on the Missourl Iver, und Is the present wostern terminus of the Nurtheen Pacltie Ratlrond. Its location s unsurpassed for beaut; it over- loolkis the surrounding country sbaeut as far aa the eve can veach, It present fixed popula. tion 1s estimated nt 1,5, It is olso the rendezvous of a large number of Government teanisters, scotty, and others who, from neeesaity or chofee, constantly hover on tho extreme boraers of elvilization.” But, notwithe stauding the rough Nl thoy fead, they are, as arule, exceedingly orderlv during their sta; here, and thoss swuggering buliles, load down with fire-orms, s0_ frequently met in tho burder towns {n other Teeritories, “are neldom scen here. 'The winters bere are cold and bougy et thuss who have been here any leneth of thine say they woald not exchangs the elimute for thut of Chicago, The atmuspliere la pure and Bracing; the people look robitst, aud move with a quick, elastic stey, quite in cons trast with the slugaish, halting gult so common with eity people; u Jadv who has been here but ashort tae says slie tinds 1t easler to walk two ar throe tiles here thuu half-a-dozen blocks ia St Louls, TH S0IL OF THE PRAILIES. may be divided Into three claases: Firat, a bluck, hesyy joam, varving from twelve to Thaets-aix fuches deep, With w compact, clay subsoil wecond, o dark, sandy Joam, uncerlaid by au atgilisdous warsi, almost fleatical with that found fu the 1smwous marl-beds of New Jersey, und s lusely used In that and other Neabuard States for fertliizing purposes; thind, u t, sandy idam, with a comdact gravelly sund-baso. (ne not well uorguadnie wath e Jast-nanied would regard It W unprsiuctive, und fil-adanted 1o agricultural purposes, But those who have cultivated it tsecrt thot it produces tine crops; and thelr atitetiouts wre sustalued by the rank coats of stabible tu be neen on the wheat-flelds and the lusurinnt erasaes that cover 1he untilled prairies, The poorest land we have yet seen in the Ter Htoury proices =ood pasturage, snd will be vale uable on thut neeount, A WORD T IMMIGRANTS, Althoush my examiuations have heen far less thoroneh thun I could wisn, 1 am satfstied that the country cxtending westward from where the Norulern Pucitle Ratiruad crosses the Otter ‘Fal Biver, In Minncsots, to Blsmarek,—a dis- tanes of aliour 60 tnlea,~oifers more substane tisl lnducements to those who wish to se- cure hoiwes whers industry wnd sconomy wiil neure them o comfortable hving, if not wn udependent compotency, than any othicr section of u-uuu{ u the Unlted states, Hut, ke all new countrles, It has its drawbacks und nadvantagesiand those who are not will- e ta tuise the bitrer with the swect, aud faco o fMeuitics wind disappointients with a herolc el ut come bere. It 18 true that many of the who camne tothe ‘Tersory 1woor three re since have more tin steared tho cost of thelr lands, lmprove- Whenty, macniuery, ana teanis, from the cropss but uli whu como In the future must not expect wu equal degres of suceens. Nor should the fuct that the crops here have never vet fatled be reparded ms positive prool that tney wover will, Un the reverse, all the chauces, both favorable and unfavorable to suce cuwn, should be well considered before a move fs maae, The latencsa of the season, and the lm- poasibibity of procaring cofortable aceomoda- tuus for the winter, reader immigration before spriug iwgovisuble. 'To those fu search of laud, 1suy, vither buy direct from the Rudlroad Come piny, or locate under tho Homestead sud Timber uita, und avold speculators, who are swarniug bere tn large nutibers, the Company'’s Jands cau bu had on seven sunusl paymcots, at s luw rate ol fnterest, una are exempt fron taxstion until the last pavient (s made. tions under the Hotmesteud and Timber ucts aro also excmpt from taxes wntll all the requirements ot the luws regulatiug such locations are complied with aud & perfect tltle secund. BUILDING MATERIAL AND FUNL. There aro numerous saw-milis along the line of the ‘Northesu Pacific Rattroad tn Miunesota, where lutber for bulldivgs aud wiscellaoeous faru lwprovenients way be bod at resson- uble prices. may also be bad st Duluth us cheaply s fn Chicago; the Altuncsots forests” furulsh an abundaut supply 0t chean fuel; sod the Rallroad Com- pany gusrsutee Lo transport both wood und luniber tu auy polut on dts Lue at a churge Lhat werely covers tle vost ol bandlioz. There wre leu eXtensive conl-beds atupz the projeeted dins of the roud, & short aivtauce west ol tou Miv- sourl, uud thess beds will be resched uclt year As regards tho dislauce from warkel, wheat can be buuled irom Humank tv Duluth as chaanty an from DesMotnes, Ta., to Chicago: ard the frelght from the flrat-named port to Bulfaiu s nbout the rame as from your city. A gentleman who has investigated the matter statea that the inspection of wheat at Dulnth sinee Aug. 1 shows 50 per cent of No. 1, while at_ Chicaro onty 10 of Ipereent vasent on that grae. As Dakota No. 1 sells for 15 to 18 per cent inore than Chi- eniro’s wixe uraur, the whent grown along the Hne of the Northern Paciile Raitrond lias a de- gln!rql advantage over that of the Northwestern tates In my next T whi pive some facts regarding the cxtension of the ralroad west, the country it will traverac, and the commerce of the cx- treme Upper Missourd River. No-Comus. MARINE NEWS. iy I'ORT NOTE Merses, Blanchard & Borland, lumoer merchants, of Ihis clty, have contracted with Merars, Wolfe & Davidson. of Milwankee. ta bulld for them a three- mnsled echooner of 1148 fect keol and twenty-nine feet beam, and designed cspecially for their ears ryirg-trsde between this port and Ford River. The contract price, exclnaive of tho onift, in 11,000, and all complele the vessel will cost 815.000, The new craft s to ba ready by kpring, ‘The Sontn Biranch was quite solidly frozen over yesteriay. "Tive sehe Morning Star was ready yesterday for snother trip over the Iake. THE DEAD PRINCESS. Sketeh of Princess Allce Maud Mary, Grand Duchesn of lesse-Darmstadt. Neto York Herald, . ‘The deceased Princess, Alice Maud Mary, was the recond daughter and third child of the late Prince Consort Albert (Albrecht), of Baxe Co- burg Gotha, and of Alexandrina Victoria, Quern of Gireat Britain and Ireland and Empress of Indiz. Bhe was born at Windsor Castle, April 23, 1347, and a few days later the happy mother wrote ns follows to her uncle, King Leopold: Our Httle baby is 1o be callel Alico (an 0ld En. ®lish nmne} and the ather names are to he Maud (another old Enallsh ""ML and Mary, as ehc was botn on Aunt Glaucester's birthday, ‘The enonsors are to ve the King of Hanover, Ernestus Primne, poor Princess Sophia Matilda, and Feodore, and Tha chrtetening s Lo be o 1ho 24 of June, ‘The King of {{anover, it ls chrontcled, arrlved too lato to bo present at the ceremony, whlch, nevortneless, as the Queen duly reported to her uncle, * went off very brilllantly. Nothing could be more anstandig, and little Alice be- haved extremely well.” The Princess Allee secmis to have been devoted from ker cradle to the cspeelal alection of the veopls of En- gland, as her elder brother was to the Principality of Wales, the Duke of Ed- ingburz to Bcotland, and the Duke of Connaucht to Treland. At alt events, she soon became especially dear to the English subjects of licr Majesty, and her fair, sweet face was fa- mitlar in nearly every village fn Eugland, The late Princess was perhaps the best known and loved of all the daughters of the Empress-Queen from the tender caro which she lavished upon her fathor durlug his last tliness, *her pams becoming synonymous with & father's farcwell and & mother's consolation.” Blie was aleoy of all tho Royal children, the one who most resembled fior mother both In person and character. Ifer elder slster, now the Crown Princess of Ger. mlu{. having been carly destined and trained for her brilllant marriage, and the Prince of Wales belng unotably tho mnation's ward, Princess Allcc wos the first of the chlidren of the Epress-Queen In whomn the Royal mother could fullv realize & senso of personal maternal ownership, and it was, perhops, for this reason, alded by an espe- clally affecttunate dispoaition, that she became the favorite of both her parents and ultimatoly of tha wholu British public, in so far as personal qualities were ever aolluwed to outweigh the claims of primozeniture, The “Memolrs of the Prince Consort." 80 large a portlon of which {s made up of the private correapundenco and journals or the Royal parents, bear ample teatimony to the affectionate fondness with which Princess Alico was regarded by them {rom her fnfan, Of the particulars of “her cducation we bave Yt no accurate inforination, but it 1s known that she wos an ape xebolar fu all the usual branches of vrincely study, and was particufurly l«wmfimhed in Instrumental musie, At the time of the death of her father, the Prince Cousort Albert, which occurred on Sat- urdn{. Dec. 14, 1801, just sevoutcen vesrs ho- tore hier own death, and on the snne day of the wrek, Princess Alice was the member of the lloyn‘ fatmnily who, next to the Queen herscit, exctted universul li'mpnlhy. wixed with respeet and admiration. During “the lohe, wearv duyn of watching at her father's bedside she wos Hils chosea attendant, comuvanion, and contidant, anid seemed to be endowed with o preternaturat calmness and fortitude, Her father nsed to speak with her openly of his dying conditlon and of his desires for the future, even when he did not deem it cxpedient to speak with the same certitude _of impending death to the Queen herself, Day by day she sat at hls bed- side, nerving herself “to look cheerful, nnd whencyer the amitation of the moment proved too strong for her emotlonn she wunld repress her tears untll ahe could wafa the anletude of her own apartments, All this tune 1t was ber trylug task to display her usual cheerfulness to her Ra“{nl mother, to brothers and sisters, and when all was over {t fell to her 1ot to ho the chief stay and consolatlon of the widowed Queen. ‘Lhicse clrcumstances becawe well knowu und were not readily forcotten by theloyal peopleof (reat Britain, who kuew,more- over, that the dark winter of mourning was the veriwil uf all others which ought naturally to havy breen tlled with joy se the crowning season of Lerlife. It was, o fact, no secret’ that for satng months betore the death of Prince Albert she biad become cogaced 10 her second cousin, Prines Fricdrich Withelin Ludwic Karl, geer- ally known in England as Prince Louis of Uesse, wow the Grand Duke of Hesso-Darm- atadt under thetitie of Ludwig 1V, 'The mar- riuge was one hlnlyupproved byboth her parents, and, thouwh not uninuenced by the usual po- litical considerations, was chielly one of the alfections. iler intended husband was six vears her senfor, baviog been born Nept. 13, 1837, wnd wus tho eidest son snd_helr apparent of Grund Duko Karl Ludwig Wilholm, who dled last year (June 13, 1877), Wis mwtber belng a Cattiolie Urincess, Mathilde, daughter of King Ludwig I. o1 Bavaru. Tus marrisge, first posie poned {n consequence of the death of Priuce Albert, was a second time postponed on s cauut of the death of Prince Louls® motber, whien occurred fn April, 1563, and still further delayed by the dangerous ilness of the Kln;i ol tho Belgl But four years proviousty her sistor, Victoria Aaelalde, Princoss Hoyal, * the 2 d," ns she was called, was sl state, her father giving her away, and” the holiday chers of wnerr crowds ~ bidding hor Godspeed. How dif- ferout was the 'rincesy Alfce's bridal day! 'I'he ceremony was privately performed ot hier Maje esty’s marlne residence, Osborne Iule of Wight, by the Arcublsbbon of York, on & day snatched from moruiuy, with not o color and searco o shude of brighter hus to mark wxeeption to the uniform gloam. ‘Flicre was no crowd or privileged spectators, no long tralu of brides- malds, but such woderate uud needful attend- suce as would be though Nt for the most retir- mfi_cuuplu {n sotno privite walk of life. hiers wus, huweyer, one bright side, There was nut that utter scuarution which struck sl 30 patnlully when the Princess Royal left ber uome fur Lhe soclety of strungers and forvign. eri, ‘The position of the Prinve was not such 83 to compel bis residence Ln Lis oatcroal domin- tous, uud It was with general sutiafaction tuut it wus found the huvpfi couple would take up thelr abods fn Enowland, They had a villa residence on the fale of \Wignt, not fur frow Lhe layorite dwelling-place of the Prncess fu_carlivr Hiv, and thers tbey passed wuch of their tliua for several years in” the so- cluty of the Queen. “Thu ¢rincess thus remain- ed fully identificd with the Jand of her birth, led 2 bappy warrled lifeand was blessed with scven cullaren, five girly and two boys. The eldest wou, Pilnce Ernest Ludwie Karl Albrecht, was boro Nov, '.‘-’x} 1885, uud is consequently now 10 yeurs of ave. Tus yvoungor 1y Prinze Frederich Wiluelin August Victor Leo- pold Ludwig, born Uct. 7, 1870, was accidentally kitled Ly talling from a window Mav 97, 1374, ‘T surviving Priucesses are Victorta Etizabeth Mathilde Alverte Marig, burn ot Windsor Cus- tle, April B, 195; Etfzabeth Alexandra Luutss Alwe, boru st Bessuugen, Nov. 1, 1874; Irens Marie Loutse Anng, born st Darmstadt, July 11, 1860; and Victoria Aliee Heleno Luutse, boru Juue 5, 1572 the youngest of all, Murie Vietons Feodore Leopoldiue, born May 24, 1874, haviug died ot diphthieria a fow daye before bermother, us betors entioned. ‘Tte Princess Alics made hersell popular in Gerinany oy her acelvity in promoting hos- bigal arrsngeents during the Frauco-iennun war, when who was « coustant visitor ot the Alice Hospital ™ st Daru ldl‘, and Pr dent of the * Allee Fraueouvercin,”” or wowsn's clatlon for charitable purposes, atilfuted to the Berlly *Vuterluudiscben Vercin,” Her busband, uow the (irund Duke, was a titular Lieutenant-tieseral iu the Uerman armv and Colouet of a reviment of Urussiau Hussars, aud served tu the lats Frsuco-Gerwan War with tne actual rank of Cuptain lu the First Reglogut of the Prussisu Guand. He'received the titlo of Roval Hiziwess and the Kolghtbood of the Gar- ter from Queen Victorla va Lis warriage b 1%, alung with a dowry of £70,000, and o Parlia. mentary grant of L5000 per auuum was settled upon the Princess CUI BONO t Plans Being Latd In the Charter-Onic Trinl to String the Ageny Out Into a Good Many Fits=The Evidence for tho Prose- cutton Closed, and labelest Testimony in Chief,* to Indiente m Long Talt 8till Coming, Specinl Disoateh to The Tridune Iirrronp, Conn., Dec. 20.—The first stoge fn the Charter Oak Company's trial passed to- day by the énding of the testimony in chiel for the prosecution. This was quite unexpected, as it had been anticipated that the State had in reserye much important evidence to be offered nest week, and the close to-day was a real sur- prise. The State lost valuable testimony through the absence to-day of witnesses who hnd acted as appraisers of so-called Now York ‘down-town property," which they valued at $1,085,000, azalnst a saluation of $3.030,000 by the Company In Its sunual statement. This differ- ence was one of the principal grounds on which the Speclal Commission based its report in 1877, which led to the displacing of Furber and bis associates from the control of the fostitu- tion, and, therefore, was highly valuable. ‘The State Atlorney, Laving called other withesses by 2 o'clock to-day, asked an adjournment ta Mon- dny to cnable him to sccure the attendance of these appraisers; but, after a general discussion between counsel, and the admistion by the Btate that there was no certainty that the witnesses would come within the jurisdiction of the court, and could ot bs compelled to, Judee Hovey decided to procecd with the testimonv for the defense, The prosccution may yet get in the evidenco of the appralsers In . rebuttal, it opportunity ehsll be nafforded. The testinouy to-dny was comparatively unimpor- tant, The prosectition put in evidence the ap- vraisal of West Virginia mining property by the local surveyors at figures about one-fifth of those at which the property was held by the Coimn- pany, but the catimates appeared to hava been made without refercoce to the valuo of the oroperty as ore lands, °I'he prosecution nlzo ro- called President Batterson, of the Traveler's Life-Insurance Company, who presented a mom- orandum of an agreement under which Furber obtained ofrom Edward Matthoms the down- town New York proporty, substentially as heres tofore eiven in the testimony of Bpecial Insur- ance-Commissioner Btedman. The defenso in- troduced a alnglo witness to-day, Samuel Colt, of Hartford, President of the New River om nn&, who testified to the cost irainia property and improve- ments, and that tho property was worth the full amount clalmed. 1t 18 oxpected the defense wlil b ennbled to furnish its testimony in chief next week, and the court will gt daily, excopt Christinas, with the object of pushing the trial to an early concluston. —————— A BOSTON STEAMSHIP LINE, Spetal Dispater fo The Tridunie. Bosrox, Dec. 20.—Boston {s to hava another steamship line dircct to Liverpool, under tho management of Baring Brothers & Cu., with J. Heury Bcars& Co..of this clty,as thelr agents In Americe. The line will open New Year's with clight new lron steamers, cach of 8,000 tons capacity, The ftiret will sall hence Jan, 10, and the sallings will bo weckly there- after. Duriug the year, though, irom the oresent outlook of frelghts from Doston, the pessibllities aro that a sailing every five days will be necessary. Tho steamers will load at the Graud Junction wharf, The new lno will make & feature of the cattte trafile, and on the first four steamera to sall enzagemcents have been made, Another line of steamers will soon be started in the Bouth-African trade, with uyery prospect of success, ——ettm—— HYMENEAL. Speclal Diwpatch (o Tha Tridune, Dxcator, Iil., Dee. 20.—Deputy United States Internal-Revenue Collector of New Mex- ico, Chris B. 8mith, und Migs Ella E. Coitrin were marricd In this city last night. ‘They will leavo for Santa Fe In a foew wecks. The bride 15 the doughter of Prof. I. N. Coltrln, an at- tache of the Decatur Kepublican, and the lJucky man s the son of Gen. (3, A. Smith, Internal- Levenus Collector of New Mexico, Suectal Diznatel (o The Tribune, Erary, Il Dec,’ 20.—Mr. Darwin Owen, an employe n the Mlinols Condensing Works, was last uight married to Miss Lillic Gates, alster of the Widow Beoner, ‘The Rev, W, H, Burns of- Aeluted, aud the frionds and relatives of the contractiner purtics attended, Mr. and Alrs. Owea will reside in thls city, ——— SECRET SOCIETIES, Bpeclal Dispatch to The Tribune, Evaiy, IIL. Dec. 20.—~The annual election of Monitor Lodge, No, 523, A. F. & A. Masons, re- sulted sa follows: N.J, Hloomfleld, W, M Charles L. Young, 8, W.; IL L, Willls, J. W.; (4, 1. Bherman, Tregaurer; D. . Jencks, Secro- tary; A. L. Bmith, 8. D.; Wil Briggs, J. D, ; A J, Bharp, Tyler. ——— HEBRAIC. Apectal Dispaleh to The Tridune, BrrixerizLp, 1i., Dec. 20.—A certificate of organization has been fled by the Society for the Maintenance of the Hebrew Reliwion, of Culcago, its ubject being beucvolenve, cliurity, aud buryieg the dead of the Soclety, — Where Edward 8§, Btokes Is, New York World, Many cooflicting parngraplis have recently up- peared concersing the whereabouts of Edward N, Btokes, Bomo of them slleged thul Lo wos in San Francisco as the swell of Callfornin or Kuarney street; others placed him fn Virglola Civy, Nev,, with the nvowedé'urwle on his part of waking dMessrs. Flood, O'Brien, Falr, und Senator Sharou, and all the ¢ rest of *em on the Comatock,” turn {ule; while yet other para- graphs sald that De was n 8t. Lonls superin- tending the laying of & patent pavement, But Stokes {s in this clty, looking fresh und hearty, and a World revorter in passing the Hoff Houso Inst ovenine heard his neme called, avd, turning, saw Btokes, who sald to biw that he hod sold out his interest In the ofl business in this city, 1 having his patent pavement lald fn 8t. Luonls, but s chieily interested tn a wmine fu Columbis, Nev,, whither in'Junusry ho intends to go to wake that place his home. ——— Destitution, A slngular case of deatitulfon has come to Nght at Westfleld, Mas: fow davs ago o medizine-peddler und his wile, giving evideuves ot respectability, weut to the town and eaguged 4 joon with s good family, ‘Tho mun went out every day peddling his wediclue from bhouse to Louse without success, aud atnight would res turn bringing o few apples lubis bag, aud would rewark to his landlady incidentally that iis wifo was very fond of baked apples, and wonld ask the landlady to bake thew In her oven, Finally the woman was taken dangerously ill, and on fuvestigution it wus found that the mow snd his wils wers wholly without wesns of sapport, and that & fow buked apoles had been theironly dally diet slncg thelr udyent to 1hu olace, Al- though sctually s s starving condition, they were too proud to dllow 1t to be kuown. They were sultably cared for, Cholera in Morocco. Dispatches recelved st the Department of Btate from the Amerivan Conaul at Tangler wive deploravle accounts of the conditioti of af- fairs fu Moroceo, The cholera still ruyuzes the country, uud, unless the outsile world cowes to the yelief ol the peovle, @ fearful decunstion of the papulation by starvation threatens the land. At Cusablanca, 1,380 deaths by cholers, small- d typhold fever occurred tu thirtv-seven days. 'The misery at Tangier caused by the ces~ sation of business us well a3 by the epldemie i3 tucreasing, tba only cammunlcation with the vutslde world belug with Gloraltur seml-month- Iy for flour sad otber food supoiles. Cuolers sud famine arg carrylug off bundreds ju the City ot Morocco, At Bafll and Mogador the vphdemic still prevalls. At a small villure neur Alcusar the cholora und fever swept olf thirty. six out of thirty-seven ot its fuhabitants, e e . Queen Vie. nud the Glusgow Daok. Queen Victoria may be held personally lable for & shiare of the losses by the Glasguw Bauk fullure. A woman died ‘recentty i Englaod who held & zood deal of the stock. Having uo Lcirs, ber property weot tu the Crown, and now tbe oauk's lawyers hold that'the Queen is per- susally liable 80 fur as that stock Is concerned. Tried tu Cover It by Gush. Senator Ransom ouzht to Lave kuown that bis frieud Gorgou bud tried the experlment of suveriug thy thssue-buver aud red-shirt orgics with a mautlo of gush, aud had fallca utterly. Senthinent and buldusivg do ot go well to- goiber. “a hotly<ontgsied election next soring, YOTING=-PRECINCTS. Advantages of Decreasing Their Size==Registration Frauds. Disoriminations Practicsd Against the Ropublican Party. In a letter recently published In Tna Tnisoyr the aescrtlon was made that thers were too many votine-places in this city and county; that, at tho recent electlon, there were numer- vus precincts where the number of votes cast \os 80 small that it actually cost $2 ver head to take themn In; that there were twenty-five such precinets which could safely be consolidated with others, making n saving to the taxpayers of about $4,000 an election. This statement seemed worthy of investigation, but an exam- fnation made by a TRIDUNE reporter shows that the facts do not sustain the nilcgutions. THB COST OF NOLDING AN ELECTION atany one precinct {s 839, This Includes tha vay of United States Marshals nud Supervisars, which fenots legitimsio charze agafnst the county. It also covers the expensd of holding the registration, whick occurs only at a gencral election,~—that ls, cvery two yoars. This $50 covers the pay of judges, clerks, tho rent of volling-place, cost of poli-books, ete. There are very fow places in elther city or county where the number of votes folls below 100. With one exception thoy are all country precincts, and have been made on acconnt of thelr geographical positiun, which was such ns to make it exceedingly difil- et for thelr residents to voto elsewhere. For instance, when the strip of territory between Western and Crawford avenues was taken from Cicvro and added to Chicaxw, the gors between the Canal, Egan avenuc, and Western avenue waa expressly excepted. That little bit of tarri- tory, known as Brighton, atill remains a part of Cleero, nithough attached to it by the skin merely,—just attached to it at an’tmoginary point, It would be exceedinply inconvenient for the residents of tnat sectfon—nenrly all of then lve up against Western avenne— to go westward and northward ahout threo milea to vote, so they are glven a voting-plnce of their own.” This is proper. Bo the enormous Town of Hyds Park Is glven soveral voting- places. Bome of them east a very small number of yatea, but they are ko aftuatéd asto make it only proper that voting facilities should be af- forded. There {8 one little scttlemnent on the enat shore of Calumet Lake and another on the west, November doys ate apt to be stormy and the traveling Lad, and it is ooly proper that the voters should not be compelled to o to Jouth Chicago on tha one hand, or up vorth towards ilyde Park on the other. The only swmall pre- cluct in the city is what is kuown as the Lawn- dnlo one. This'is at the remote end of the Rixth ‘Ward, out at Lawndale 8tation. There is alittlo settlemncat up there, whose {nhabltants should be griven n voting place of their vwn, and not be compelled to travel a mile or so eastward for the purpose of castiug their votes, In order to sliow just exactly TOW TIA CITY PRECINOTS ARE DISTRIDUTED, the following tabls has been compiled, It shows the sltuation at a glance: Yor. '77, Spring ‘78, Nov. 78, Tesa than 100 votes, ... 1 1 i Hetweon 4 ‘4 Hetween 20 Retween i Betwee 2 lietwecn 500 ang 600, i Tetween (00 and 700 [ 0 Betweon 700 and BOU, 3 1t will bo secn that the total number of pro- cluicts casting less thun 200 varles from five to scyen. A full vote would probsbly diminish the humber to sbout three. This table shows what everybody knows Lo be the case, that a very Jght vote wus cast at the olection lest month. A year ago, for Instance, there wero twenty-clht rrunlucu casting Letween HOO aud 600 votes, Thia year the number dropped down tosixteen. “The'precinets have to bo Jald out on the basls of b tolerably full vote, and the light one, likethat of this year, is by no means acriterton, Moreover, it {8 getting to be the general fm- pression that NO PRECINCT S1OULD OAST OVER 300 voTS, ‘The reasons for that are ohvious, 1t is dififeult in a city to got Judges whio are of the highest orderof competeney, The men who are best fitted for the work haven's the timg tq idve, to it The umltlu\il'ol’{lldufl add- elérk “aro’ wen- crally iiven as a politlcal lavor,—given ta per- 2018 Who have nothing clse to o, and who are lud of tho cliance to earn 815, Thia s, of course, not universally the case, but it {s so in the majority of Instunces. Whenover men of o low calibre are compelled to work oll day recelving votes, and then compelled to sit up all night for- the purpose of canvassioy them, they are very apt to make mlistakes, ca) 1y when the ticket (8 a long one and when ¢ npii- cated, @8 hus ween the cose so wmuch fo later yuars, with split tickets. Thegrecounting which han tuker place thus far ot the recent vloction, oud espuctally of the Senntorfal vote in the Firat District, showa u succession of small but vexatious errors. By tho time tho judges pot down Lo canvassing the votu for Senator aud Rep- resentative they weratired out; thetroyes werain bad shane; sud heuce, probably, occurred the number ot errars which the recount showed, Where the number of votes daes not exceed 300, they ot througn fn cood thne, the aro less apt 1o inuke errors, and thero fs none of that oppor- tuuity for noldinig Lack returns for the purposs of fximg up things which, it bas been churged uver aud over wanim, has been practiced in thls clty and elscwhere, 1u the secoud place, as the nomboer of votos decrensen THH OFFORTUNITY FOR FRAUD DECRRASEY, It is comig to be percefved that the regiatry system, while a good thing fn its way, and while un jwprovement on the lack of system which preceded i, i3 yet ca- ruhln of belugz made one of the worst nstruments of fraud, The registration books in tbose yours when o resclscry {8 hud gro louded down with fletitlous nuines,—with nanics of per- sons.who have no existence, living st houses which were uever baflt, A few years ago, at the time of the Sullivau trial, the flrat voulre wus tuken from the Jw" books of the election of 1875, When Lhe lfls went out to hunt up the persons on that venire, they found thut the uajurity of them had no extstence,~—that they were plit down as_livine on vacant lots, or in houses ot people who funisted that no such In- dividuals bad ever dwelt there. There are no thires persuns, sitting as judges of regtration, who “cau possibly kiow all fllu fodl- vid Uvivg “In 8 precinet which casts 000 or TO0 vyotes, Whero the vreeinet isnarrowed down, hawever, to a voting atrencth of a little over 200, there are numer- ous Individuals who can be sclected s judizes who uw‘r:riunnlly acqualnted with the faces ot every Individuu! who Is really dombelled within fua limits, gWith an houest reglstration thers Is un lmr’t election, and a really honest regiatrutiofcan only be secured by a thorough actuaintance on the'part of the Judiges with the voters, 4n the next place, there {a such a thing as BAVING AT TIN SPIGOT and losing at the buugbole, 11 man fe taxed fivecents for an extru election precinet, aug thereby wvoida doslug hall a day's wages by bangng around thepolis for o chunce to voley e huw zulued by the opetatiog, even though ms taxes are a hittls Jurgzer, It {s the duty of the County Bourd ur Lhe Cuunil, s Uie cuss wmay be, to glve each fodividusl 2 chance to vote prouptly, and without wusting nnicees- sary thue. Al ths election ln 1576 the polls were clusud upon hundreds of voters, At on hulf of the voilug places workinemen und busi- uess men, who could uot afford the time o stund |u 8 string for hall un bour or more, were un hand waitiug for an opportunity to cast thely votes when the time camo tor closiog. ‘Thut s not cconomical, and 18 not right. TUB FRESCNT DISTRIBUTION OF PRECINCTS Is wrong fn many 1espects, and should be car- rected, The recent auditions to the votlng- pluces for vounty 10ne were made by & which was sntagonistic to Reyublisu party, and where new vottng-plac wery added they wers ruther for the accommodution ol Demo- crutstianof Kepublicuns, ‘Thosn precincts which cast the heaviest voles are Rovublicun ones, The vig Republican wurds, ke the Fourth and ‘Twelith, ure the ones which cast an enormous vole, and ure the vues whoee voters-are not Riven proper faulities, “Uhe smullest precines lu the Eloveoth Ward, for nstance,—the oue in the southwestery snzie,—was lald out for the sule wecommodation of a few Democrats resid- lug dowu there. At the last election there were twenty preciucts in which the Republican vole was over 300, “There were onty ntue pre- cinets fu which the Dewocratic vole was over Y. There were forty-two brecincts in which she Roeoubllcan vole "was over 20, sud only twenty-live 1o which the Democratic vole was over 200 In fifty-two preciucts the Democratic vote was between 100 and 200; in thirty-eleht preciuets aloue was tho Kepublican vote between 100 aud 200, Before the vext eleciion g beld thia inequality suould be removed, sud the He- vublicas be isiven a falr chance. Thers will be cially heavy vote will be cust, becuus men are Lo be elected. Before that comes the Counctl should take the wiatter iu band. It shodld @ive to thews luruer wurds thy number ol voulng-places w which they sre cntitled, and split up those preciucts wi at the last elee tlou cast over G0 votes, and which, at 11 vonitng election, {f the weather {s any wis wleasant, wiil cast aver 800 apici e, SUERIDAN'S SUIT, End of One of the Long Trinls of (ne Lrencnt Itigorous Winter~Tho Jury Findg for the Lientenant.General, Siecial Dispateh to The Tridure. Naw Yokk, Dec, 20.—~The lonz trial of Whalen's suit agatnas Gen, Sheridan, which has occupled the sesslons of the United Hintes Cirvult Court nearly thres weeks, closed thiy afternoon, and James A, Whalen is o dsnp- vofnted man, . Tne jury remained out only nn hour, returned with a verdict fur the detesdant, and were discharged. Whnlen, It Is understood, will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, {n ease motion for n new trial la denled, for he doca not propose to glvs up his hizlt for $416,273.57 while & ghost of a chance Is left to galn. Mr. Deckwith, In iy last speech. ou behalt of the defendant, designated the plainti® and his companions as a set of men without eklll or coursge to attack a man and rob him of his property like highway. men, bit with cunning enough to seek to LTS titute the courts to nid them in turning perjury futo cash, Gen, Butler paid a glowing tnbnty to Gen, Sherldan, whose ouly fauit was in al lowiuzz himrell to be overcome by the lawvers who Induced him ta teaue orders.” Referring to Morgan Morgnns, (Gen, Hutler sald he was fren to conteas that,if lhic was ever to cauonize o salot, It would mot be N, Morgans, ~ Morgans was pood cnough for all purposes for Hayt until ho astonished the Iatter by coming bero to tell the truth, The burden of the remalnder of Gen, Butler's two hours’ speech was the amroltrary power of o military commarder. Judze Wallace, in charg. ing, refuted Uen. Butler's artfully-concealed claim_thut tha Government would have to pay the clafm uoon Gen. Steridun, by instrueting the jury that this was n contraversy entirely tetween private citizens, Gen. Butler, without waitiug for the verdict, started for New Jorscy, e —————— THE POMMERANIA. The Terrible Dissster Described in & Lote ter from Miss Mary Clymer, New York Merald, fec. 10. Tho rclatives of the Clymer family now re- alding In this city have just recelved o letter from Miss Mary Clymor, who was on boanl of the lost Pommoranla, ziviog o bnef but visi aeeount of the commotlon that ensucd during the dienster. This letter Is dated Dover, Ene gland, and ronds os follows: The Pominorania left Cherbonrg on/ Monday Aafternoon, Nov. 23, Mother, Richard, Ana 1 sat ter than usnal that night, thinking with Dieastira of nooner or luter arriving at Hambucz, We wore sitting in the cavln. by tne alninz table, Blrdie and Rose had _Jnat Ieft us to 0o to tuelr berthx for the nicht, Ifichard and the two young Bottiscua went wp om deck, when, suddenly, thern was s grinding sonnd and alock, as i€ the vesc] hod atenek B hanl bottom, Thia was nhost aquarier pefore midnlght, Suddenly thero came crics of +*All men on deck1” "+* All nen un deck ™ ** ALl Iadlen sty below ™ A few momenta etapred, and then cama the mwrul cry of **kvery one on dock?” I gt Hose and Iikrdie (the Iatteralmost un- dressed) and wo went up an deck to the port alie, mother folloswing. _Birdie was very eold, and lusd on anly a wenpper. Roso eave her o waterprouf clouk and T gave ftose & coat, When we reached tho deck therowastho geentestconfurionand excitenent, I'ie Capiain was ut his poat giving orders, and stuck to s dduty to the very Iast. T went ngain down into tha cabin to get a Iittle box containing rome valua- Vlew, anu when 1 came back with 1¢ 1 found Richard Dbravely at work frecing a lfe-host, and mother, Birdfe, and Nosa trembling and _vory much aui- tuted. 3 du not think mothor had very much hope of bLelng saved, for she put her armis nronnd onr necks and blensed and thon got up on the rafl of tlia vousel, Feariny she wonld falt into the va- tor below, I pulled her down on the deck, Next Tochurd put a ropo Juto me hands and told et & voics of command, **Thore, sistor, hoid on to this, Searcely knowing wnat it meant § sofxed the rope; fficnird swuny 1me off; 1 then maw the rightiul dietance below ma in the water, and the next instant I was fn the bottom of the iifc-hoat, When [laokedl up I suw a dark somothing fyinz (Ilwufih the alr, which I thought wan motier; it fell mto tha water by tne side of the bont; 1 pulled ft up by the bair: ft was Rose, Rowe was stouned for the moment, but toon recovered, There wus room for elght or ten }u‘rlun! more In the boat, but it was suddenly cot rom its fastenings; then the saflora pulled off for fear of being wwamped by thy vessel, und 1n a few moments we lieard a voico {n our boat cry: ** (Jovd Qod, thuy've gone! Pray for their sonls” (mean- Ing these on the alnking Pommeranla), The men u) £ lyg.and did not reach the steamer BAUSEAEALIAILEN i mo teneh e stoamer #ho was very ncur the Pommorania's sigual, Wo were landed at Dover, England, At Dovor Marv and Rose Clymer atopped for over twelve days, waiting for tidines from the wreek and news of the recovervof the bodies of thelr mother, brotuer, aud sister, ‘The body of Richard was recovered and sent on to this ity by the Cimbria. Qo Its arrlval ot Hoboken it was immedlately taken sharge of and sent to Reading, Pa,, "to be placed in the fumily vault for the present, Mnr,vfinnd Roac, by u vablo dispateh recelved yestertny, it is stated are stoppite with their ‘cousing at Varis, the Count aud Countess Do Blondell. They will uot return to New York before next spriug. WAITS PROM TR WRECK, Neto Yurk World Dec. 1 The steamship Cimbrla, which reactied her lock in Hoboken yesterday mornineg, bronght back to Now York the two children of the 1 meranin whose expocted return was annonnced In yesterduv's Wortd, and who never reuche:l their craudparents in tho little village of Zonnern, Kurhcsse, South Uoermany, 'They ure nuncd Dora and Mina Stlehl, aged respectively 83 and 11 months, and ara all thiat remain of a family of six. The tather, who was o workntan fn Elchler's brow- ery lu Morrlsanta, dica fn July last from sun- stroke, and left a wife aud four chlldren, Mra. Stlehl, after seetiing her hushanil’s affairs, de- termined to ¢o to ber widowed mother fn Zen- neru, where her hushaud's father a'so lves, and sulled ou the Pummerania with her four chitdren,—all ¢irls, Lizgle, 9 years qld, nod Mary, 4, wera lust with her, * When early on the morning of the 37th a boat, containine some sailurs and the ust two childeen, fanded on En- uliah coust, near Dover, it was not known whoss chidren they were, aud the sallors could nut tell how thev ot into the boat, It s supposed that the curcful mother herself st put her most helpless Nitle oues futo the Luat aad then ran back for the others, and that befure she could return the last chauce of lifo it gone, The Rev. Edward 8. Woods, Vicar of 8t, Trinity Church, Dover, carrled tho ittle orphans juto his house snd cared for them un- il thuy were tuken by the UGerman Cousul ut that vlaco to be sent to Awmerica. ‘Laon the kind-nearted Vicar sent with them o letter nd- dressed to their guardiaus i this counti offering to sdopt them if there were no relati to clahn thens, Relatives to claim them, how uver, they did have, nnd yesterduy their grand- uucle and aunt, Alr snd Mrs, Courad Baecht, of Nu. 74 Ersex sirect, aud thelr mother's brother, My Andrew Luckhart, sud his wite, of No. Lt Forsyth street, wero foumd by o Word reporter waltle on the Hoboken doek to re- ceiva them, There was 8 pitiful scens I the main saloon ol the Cimoria when theso gosl peoble recelved ghe Hitle waifs from the arm4 of the stewardess, Mrs, Beverlin, who had cared for them un the voyage, ‘The chlldren are bluc-oyed, faxen-halred, del= leate-Joukis ‘i wirls with” reczalar und pleasant features, ‘L'lioy oro tov youn to upprecksle ur clearly recollect thelr luss ur the disaster that left them orphans. Mr, Gustuy Wollrum, the Sceretary of the tierman Consul-Generul in this ity deiivered the chilldren to thelr raanliung, who have snnouuced their Intentlon Lo vro lor them folntly, unless the grandparents o Ger mauy shalt aee Ht to take th - ———— Bmoking Al e Bavyiuone, Dec. 19.—~A spectal from Annapo- 1is enys: *“T'his afternoon at the Naval Avademy the AdJutant read an order of Commodors Par- ker giving the cadets the privileee, under ver- tafu conditionsy of - smoking 1u the Academy, which produced & sensution In the runks. At this moment Commodere Parker, Superintend- ont, whose prescice is uuususl st the din- ner formation, walked In front of the Adju- tuut of the battalion, and sald to thy vadets that the Becretary of the Navy had fett srith him the drelsion whether or not that smok- lug should be atluwed at the Academy. fle hal voncluded, sgalust the opisioo of many, lor , whom he eutcrtaloed the highest renpoct, to grant the privilege, 1t was an expensive habir, and ho ured thase who did not us tobasvu not to coutract the habit, Ho boped that tho cudets would uol wbuse the prvilese, and woull act s peutlewen, tor §f, they bl uud he bad to issue un order agalust smoking in the Acadeny, he would stop it If he had o put every cudet on bosrd the Baotee (the jull of the Academy). It wis uot tha custom of peutles nen in Aunapolis to smuke on the streeis, snd i1 auv cadet wished to sinuke tn Annapolis hu hoped be would do su loside of 8 bouse, Disi- pline of the ranks prevented checring of this unexpected wraut of the Commodors's, biut wheo the liberty-of the 1nesi-hall was attal the peut-up burrsh weat lorth, snd disuer W discussed with 8 kecn relish, knowiug that afs diuver a sraoke could be eujuyed.” SR L S When your liver is out of arder u ya Sanative P'ills aud you will ratioually ussist thi vrkau 1o Tvpatn & bealtaler conditiua aod get rid of many distivesing oy mploie