Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1879, Page 9

‘== FADVILLE. e This Bustling Camp= e e Town. -— [ fhealres, (he Churehes, tho Holels, and the Lodglng-Hluuses. g & jytion in Town-Lots—Holding for a ka-—‘litlu to Proporty. our Own Correspandent. Feb, 12.—~Who dare undertake o of this pewest and strangest of 41 The attempt has been made 1t is trug, but wot with the most resulte, Bestdes, Leadvitle {g con- n!“"’l::y,;,(“g. It Is n kaslefduscope o the stantly’ 'u' of its trausformations, though its fuddens of the stmplest kind, and of the most “”""mm, ‘Entlre strcets open up, are bullt m""“d settled fn o week. Stores, louses, nv""'fin, and hotcls sotiug up side by side. fll 'un Opera-Housc, coustritcted out of Tae ’(“g boards, looking for all the world e ':mdnuhed tivers-stable, which has been m":, thia week by the Forrester Compauy, e bere there 18 o drese-ciecla and.a gallery. w0 & Theatro Comique, whoro the “'Tm.u dramsa flourishes to the delight of ok fncrs. Tellgion fs not Rurnished to ‘m;“k.mwnmlh populntion In chunks. But o fs a churelt and 8 school-house. Cousider- e ero aro 10,000 adults Tu the camp, it fa g sarprising that the congregation often swells "‘w s many as forty or filty hearers, #105 is rnixcieAr notsr, o the tirand, 18 atwo-story frame bufld- th peat gables aud an imitation Mansard M’x 1tis sctualty cavered with a cont of white 'm. The oftice is about six feet wide by six- (Ygefllfl!l‘ and was evidently not planned for {1 accommodation of lonfers. That largoe jusof the populstion sre given room In the ;‘und bihard hali opening from the oftice, Alitary batber plics his occupation at one end of the game aportment, charging 25 cents Kt ashave and 50 for a hair-cut. The Grand {arosamay from filty to 100 peonle a day who 1;¢ly there for lodgings. Of course there are dberbotels with equally fmposing titles, but epare llttlo else than boarding-houscs, und {urdelow the Grand In their appointments, Al nmmm?y filled, anct new arrivals are com- wied to seek ehciter fn lodging-houses, of kb there are a great. number. The one in shich our party remained on the first nights of Berarrisal fn Leadville may be taken as o fale puzple. It was 8 one-story log-cabin, with a nar addition, constructed of green pine rde. Rude bunks were placed around thetwoback rooms fu tiers ns in a sleeplng-car, Tieburks had cach aset of woolen blanketd, Teefloors were bare, For this accominudation e travelers were charged hatf-n-dollar each, Athemore pretentious lodglug-louses, wlicre ||apenvlunlradnssfinc\l tonroom witha bed fu ;, the price Is donble. rB‘u{ l:n:rtnll these detalls afford tho reader e idea of u " LEADVILLE AS IT 13, Lt the worthy persun who is sufliciently inter- oiedin this subject to perttse these lines fn- wive bimself penned up i the wildest fast- easeof the Rocky Mountains at an altitude of 1050 feet above the sea. Ho fa literally on tke mountafu-tops. Yet far above Leadvillo on wepband riso the bald crowas of the snowy nge,—dezolate, bleak, und absolutely without tezetation of any kind. Ierein the gulches e foreats of pine and evergreen, which extend firup theides of the adjucent peaks, But the tlmber line Is a8 strongly marked and as clearly ston every sido as it human hands hizd been uwork clearing_away every trace of tree or rubalopg the ine of n_sutvey, and as If the wme bands had planed off the mountain sum- it u;l mitm"o]numcss and barrenness ol a coun- ry school-yard. othe stranger, coming from the luxuries andcomfortsol clvilization, Leadville presents 1 wpect of urfutterable desolation, Valley ud mountaln dro allke covered iwith snow, Through the speetral pine-trecs the storm-wind rabesinthe day-tlme and in the nigbi-time, sdoften one hears the hysterieal sbrick ot a vldgust that hes come swsoplug down from L mountain-tops through eorge and chasm in xlllgn‘y ;:!am“ ikl despalr. The camp, or ydtands - I¥ A PINE-CLEARING, wdall about are freshiy-cut stumps and logs, toaeplit fito rude boards, and others chopped olut the enda preparatory to bebne 1fted fnto ewallsof & projected eabin, Through the frees, which still remaln fn Jurge numbers un- diturbed, one catches elimpses of unpulnted frame structures wid eabing bulit hero und thers Iregularly, according to the faney of the urig- bl Csquatter. It fs true that somie ader fs belug evoked from the archl- tectural chaoa, * Strects are being lald out und But there fs not a rod of fenes lots surveyed. lln the toww, aud often the pedestrian Ia ata lofc to tell whetlier he s wulk(ng on the public _iliuux or through o citizen's back yurd. '.rse cets I the construction of the town, oReTe] being rapidly remedled, and that, 100, by the surest futural” agency—speculation, TRICES OF REAL ESTATE ’mlunmblr high. On the main street §250 0 frout foot 1s° considered an averuge valuntion, 1od owners aro uctually afrald to sell ot thab —Jre for fear that they mnf not malks as much s they mny a fe mouthis hitnce by holding on ;q»umg properly, The editors of the Daily vhronice hought” s lot for thelr ofliee two fooths 920~ for 8135, and Inst week ree i 000 for ft. On flarrlson avenue, H:ng 8t right angles with the niain street, 'd!fim lotsarc held at from $500 to £1,000. ml I\ '@ was orielunlly occupled by squatiers, m 9 louge tie these were atlowed to lve lmmoh.qm. But nfter the value of the stiver lmtlinwu demonstrated and neople began ‘ bn,..m'm the village spnce bezun to be mur- m: ¢ Then varlous cfforts were made by Ulators to abraln legal possessfon of the " The unly patent thus far issued by the mmmem lias been to Stevens & Lelter, H”ni 18 one of the orlginal proprletors of I :mdnu'l Iron Ming, which is now owned by H,mlhf: 3. L, Z, Lelter, of Chienzo, Somo etrdeum’ he went ‘to Washineton und suce a fln sccurine patents to o larze portion of rm:'lm the Villags of LeadyHlle. Dut it {8 o i 7 tevorted that this Lud wus not grant- ‘"m!{ the regular Agricuttural Lund lnws y met mining claims of teu acres aro allowed b ovcrouient forsteictly winlg purposes, w..,.‘,‘ %0, the title of Messra, Stovens & s Iua Inh}: to be disputed, us the land has “m;u Way used for minlng purposes, bue, h ntrary, has been purceled off in lots, I Mmm‘%?‘;} “i"fidfi'lm property. Ca ] Heeet s busier uygt shows i S MORE LivE AND ACTIVITY :“,‘wfl;nrfll‘mt of any elty fn the State of Col- i ifs 18 very”uear tha truth, All da umm‘ch’t the brolcen sidewalks resound with ien ooy et Durluge Ui’ duy blockades o m‘d'r 9 the street which wouild do credit ""wlln“i uud, us for the stdewalks, thoy nuhl" Iy crowded, At night the saloons Uronged ‘:!ILrhuu-ca ure britllantly lighted and 'W;Mnu“l tne roughest class of mincrs, oy 1, rom thelr cablns up the gulches to o ml::lelveu uecording to the most ap- ¢ lighiy ods amony mining communitics, :A ;fl’ :‘.:;:g"léfilhlfl;lwrl of “mining life aro 0 v aud form an interesting th_ Yot ulways commenduble plcture, % — - The Amn-?n und Its Tributaries, Neto York 4 tmes, iy e, Umportant, i firoftable us our lmonhe Tespect to commeres tind develup- [ :“"!EU’)’. they are wholly unequal to “.:lu(!h‘ l?murt&-. ‘Thy Amnzo(; 1] Ul watery redources, nnd un;.’»'}","lgfh“‘" Mediterrancan, of tht contl: l:m SF Wil s tributaries, it {s navi- m”:{n. accordlng to olticla) reports, 1 i it s Ii.l!a averaize oreadih (b Brazil is Wloary Juy, ']'“"r When hich, b1 feot above its Dn.g,I:"]“““" volume {s 80 vast that Khlu(m}’k ita water and find it fresh W 4 from und, ta current Lol vistblu % Hropy ot Blore, e \'Inlllllll'.'(fll the prin- coutlnent is, In propor- ‘:i:‘l“'"""v far greatcr han tho : iere, on anecount of Increased o Wiual ruin-full on our Atlantie # ulrum 40 to 45 uches; on Bl U fuches, The inatn It gl o320 I8, for the dirat 1,000 cyong s, HOWhers lesa thau 30 e the Peruviau froutfer, it con- 10 the bgpy t-rl\_m' tore than 1,000 miles of the Audey, the head 'of ateam ity Mavro, Peru, 8,093 milea fole fuady; g yoid 833 miles from’ Lima by u."“‘m#‘\mn‘ UL 1L 18 ouly 831 miles from beagofyport Of Lima~gn the Pucdiicy to Prunsy 3t navigutlon on the Amuzon. P Amaig a8 Will s0on briug steamners ot T, g el 0B0 day’s travel of the DIoY Angaritiall enterpriso will speedily N Wlaqm'ammm““k“ fon, und open the Ngee, 8 America o tvillzation and tributasics of the Amazon are i m": ot oulr sister ‘U of THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, louger than the larzest rivers of Europe. Tha Madeira {x navieablo by steamers to its falls, on the Bollvian frontler, over 1,000 milca. and shova the falls fts tributaries fur- nish 4,300 . miles of continuous steam navigation, thus rendering commercially nceesalbto to the wholc of Holivia and the weat- ern part of the Brazllan Provinee. Malto Gros- 80. Brazll has Intulyfirnulcd o subsldy to a for- clgn company to bulld n roflway sround the Fails of Madeira, ‘The large rivers, Napo, Ma- ronf, and Putumayo, are navigable from the Amazon, through Eenador und” Colombla, for uimaost 1,000 miles beyoud the frontfer of Bra- 21 to the Andes, within 400 mlles of Quito nnd Guyaquil, and ro npen communication with alt e rewdon of Ecundor east of the Cordilleras, ‘The Rio Negro, entering the Amazon at Manaos, aome 1,100 mtles from the Atlantie, tises near Bogota, Columbla’s Caplinl, posscs through eouthern Venezuela very closa to the Orinoco, s {8 4 channel of trido between Venczucln and Brazil, whils the Orinoco i3 navigable for sall nnd sleam vessdls froni the ocean to the Antces in Colombia, Thus, the Amazon and {ts tributaries nre commercial highways for Ven. czuels, Colombla, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, nud Brazil, and ure: naviizable for steamiers n greater ;Hul.nneu than is jucluded in the globe's circum- crence. " AMERIGAN GATTTR IN EXGLAND, Tlenro-Pocumonia Found on Board the Stenimshlp OnturlomExcitemont In En- gland—Necossity of Stricter Veterinary Examination in tho United States, : Correspondence New York Herald, Livenroor, Feb, 1.—~Within the past two or threo years,as {s well known, a large and steadily incrensing trade in live and dead ment has been deycloped between Amerfen amd En- gland, and, although o great deal of opposition was at first encountered from tho usually con- servativo residents of Ureat Britaln, this feelmg has been graditally overcome. Indeed, after flndlog fawit swith the quality of the meat untll auch a courso was found to be uscless, as tho consumer was perfectly eatlsiled, the combat- wnts of the trade have gradually veored round, aud If not now active upholders of the Im- porters, are at least passive wpoonents. The first finportatinns of tive stock were mnde under every disadvantage in the way of accommoda- tion for the beasts auring the voyage, nnd ns a natural consequence they arrived fn poor cotdl- tion, Nothing daunted, however, by this want of success, better prevautlons for the comfort of the livo stock during transit were adooted, and weny steamships have been fitted up almost solcly with the view of being used for the trade, and a still greater number are beinyg altered for this purnose. In auditlon to the live cattle there is also o very larze quantity of dead ment brought over, and the followlng particulars of the oxtent of hoth departments of the meat business will be instructlve, as showlnir that ft 1; I:IIJL merely an experlment, but o profltable rade: LIVE CATTLE CANNIED DUNING 1878, XNo, of imnor- | Cattte.| Sheep.| Pigs. aflons., Hontn. 1 140} L7 478 1 A0] 4 1 3 687 12 2, Tt can be readily underatood that June, July, and August are niore tavorable months for the corrying of llve stock than the more bolsterous winter season, and therefore the carrying trade of the lutter months phows a falling off; but whon we flud that In January ouly 120 head of cattlo were sent across to Livervoul, und in December the tally reached 2,802, Irrespeetive of sheep und plgs, there is amplo proof of in- crease, It must also be borne in mind that these fizures refer solelv to the Liverpool tende, While the summer months are the most suita- ble for the lye trade, It {8 notso for dead meat; hence in the table whicti follows the maxhmum was reachied In the month of May, and it wns not until September that It sho slgns of revival, Insome instances the shipment wns rocorded by welght and in_others by quantity, 50 that it s uecessary to udopt the cousiguecs! method of describing -the several shipments, Iu Jonuary 020 tons and 7,648 quarters of beef were received ot Llwmuu\, and fliteen tonsund 1052 carcuses of mutton, the weight baving no refercnce cither to the number of guarters of beef or carcases of mutton. A few calves were nlso received; but the number was so fnsignifi- cont that it is hardiy worth whlle Includlyyg them with the othiers, nud it 18 not a department of \}m trado that i3 likely to recoive mucelt atten- tion: . BEET. venenenegh g 0200 7,5 1.470] 5,80 3608, ) dedl 1,000[" 3, 1,300 15 1 JO I 1 1003|4024 rol sog December 071 BT Gt 1087 Totals .... ..'15,000{hD, 113]| #4310t Iu view of the importance of the live-cattlo trado the annouueement thut o cares of unimals which had arrived trom Portland, Me., had shown one or two cases of pleuro-puenmoniu was 4 moxst serfous one, as, f fully veritled, the Privy Counctl wouldt be obllged toact s it had done toward Luropean countries where the disraze was known to exist, wnd prohibit fmpor- tation of cattle, The facts of the case 08 pub- liahed fn the prees are as ollows: The steam- ship Ovtarlo arrived at Liverpool from Portland, Me., Jun. 20, with 107 head of cattle. Upun being tnspeeted by Mr. Moore, the loesl Govern- ment Veteriary luspeetor, one snfmal was no- tived to be sutlering from what was apparently plenro-pueutnontu, 1t was at once slanzhtered, und portious of ts entralls sent to Prof. Lsrawn, the Privy Counell Inspuctor in Lomdun, Meauwbile the beasts were quarantined on the quay whera they hud been unloaded, sd on the noxt day, Munday, & sccond anlinal was killed and lmrduuq of this one were nlso sent to Lon- don,. The result of the Investications mado in London was tht slighit symptoins of the discuse wero detected, but from the subscquent actlon of the Privy Council Department it must not have been anything lke so serlous o8 hay been represeuted. Permission wua given to remoyve the remoining anituals 1o the abattoirs tv bo slaughtered within tive daya of thu recetpt of the urder, A thorough Investigation [nto the matter by o correspondent of thu New York Jera'd ellcited much that hus never seen Neht, und the resutts of the Inqulry inatituted shuw that the Zroumt- work for the vutery nizainst inporting Amerlean cattle sested on the sthnmest poesiblo funmla. tion, ‘The flrat sten taken was to eall upon tie steamship agents, Messrs, Flinn, Mafu & Mont- owery, who eviiced every dlsposition tu glve :’ll possible Infortsution, 'fhe manifest of the Outarlo sot forth thut sae ealed frou Portland, Mo, on Jan, 14, und arrived at lecr;u\ul un Jun, 26, having thus Leeu twelve deys In cross- Ing the Attantle,—not by uny medus o elow pasenge, cousldering the time of yenr, A part of her cargo cousisted of 231 head of cattle, vonsirned by Crawford & Co., ot Toranto, to J, Inghmn, Out of thut number clzhty-seven wero killed or died on the voyuge, und the sgents cluhned (hat this excessive percentage of Joss was duu Lo the severity of the weather, u hicuvy beam sen having becn enconntered from the time the Ontario lett Portlund untll sbe ar- rived on this slde, ‘Chey also stated thut of the twelve men in charee “of tho cattiv'only threc were able to do-suything, owing to seusickuess, unti) they bad beon several days at sou,ntd thut the bensts were inuch neglected. As #oon 08 tho facts becamo known a meetin) of the Forelgn Cattle Assomatloa was called, and the members decided to call the best veter- fnary akill fu the country to exumine the cattle, und requests were made to Profs, Walley und Withaws, of Ediuburg, and Mr, McCall, of Glasuow, to come on to Liverpool, & sumuions which wus at once responded to, A most thor- ough awd completo exunination of the beasts was mado by these gentlemen, und, as i3 usually the cusu with doctors, they disugree Bome ot the cattle evidently bad lungz disease, but the doctors disagreed rearding its exuct clussifics- tlan, though of the opinlon that It was not of the infoctious order, Attention was drawn to the great dlstinction wade butweon Irish und Amerlcan cattle, 1 in ucargo of Irish cattle oue beast s condemned for baving plouro-poeumonis the remalnder of the berd are allowed to go, whercas tu- the casy of Awcrican cattlo one beust duwn with lung- disease results fu the quarantining of the whoje ship-load on an cxposed dock {n- the depth of wiicer,—a proceeding only tending to ucceler- ate Jung-dlscase, ‘I'hie Btcamboat Association ot Liverpool bave slresdy taken attion fu this mat- ter; aud witl bring it beforo the autborities with FEBRUARY 20, 1879—-TWELVR PAGES., the view of ohtalning equal privileges in all eanes, W Mr, Togham, the consenes of the cattle, stated o the Zfera'd corraspotnlent that the cat- Ue consisted of threa car-loads of Canadiay beants nud sbout scventeon car-londs Rurnhnrnd in Buffalo. 'They were sent from Bullalo to Portland, and ewlng to & snow-storm en route were six days on the journcy, ‘Phis had n cessitated o great expense, fodder alono costing 8300, Undoubtedly the eattie suffered vonst erably, but when tliey arrived at Portland the: wns no ovidenco of any disense: fudeed, in a letter announcing thelr dispateh, Mr. Ingham's correspoident stated that s healthler lot of eattle hiad never been put on hoard of g vessel." With refercnee to the case on buard the Onta- rio, Mr. Jughnm said he had no complalnt Lo make agatust the men in charge, ‘The care of cuttle was such an unthankful oceupation and the men bad so much Lo contend ozainst in the way of scasickncss, wretched nccommountion and tofl from beglontur to end of the voy- age thal no one could be got to per- forin the same duties a svcond thme, His expe- rience had been gained In the Quebee, the vessel which preceded the Ontarfo from Portland, and bie was fortunato mmm_ih to lose only three beasta on the voyage. Qoly thres of his men were uble to work for severnl days, but if the men were sick so were the cattle, and not one- third of the foud put before then was eaten. The groat difliculty was to keep the cattio on thelr feet, nid eoitetlines three or four beasts would bie down on tov of vue another. Mr. Inrham had been to London und had ecen Prof. Brown respecting his cattie, Hegardiig hig Interviuw with it gentleman he declined to ray nnything further than thut he felt per- Jeetly sutisfled that it was the Intentlon of ‘the menibers of the Privy Councll Veterloary De- partisent, of whicn Prof, Brown s President, 10 do nothing hasty in the matter, but to oet fully un to the Inws 11 it wis not necessary to ston the fmportntion it woukl not be done, Ha Iad told Prof, Brown the experlence through swhiel the cattle had presed, awd wald to the Board thut If 1t were vossible for cattle to b coinu affeeted by pleuro-pneumonia without vo tagrlon then these heasts could hurdly have vs- caped the diseaso after the snowlng itp ou the rallroad and the kuacking about on board ship, Since the arrlval of the Ontarlo additionul shtpments have been recetved at Liverpool,—ihe Yictorls und J)tyria from Buston, the Enmgland from New Yorl, und theState of Alabama hav- Ing arrived with cattle on bourd. ‘The Boston il New York boats urrived carly o the week, but the Portland one only this morning. ~ All of the enttle have been perfectly free from any slgn of discases In the case of 1y Stalo of Alnbainn's cargzo the greatest care was tuken in the {nepection, ne it was from Portlund the On- tario came, and after a very minute examina- tlon by the loeal Inspector e pronotineed them inevery way healthy bensts; butyIn order to make surcof this, he states he wonld muke a second examination ere he finally passed them. Mr. Hutl, “the conslenor of s shipment, snid: “You may best know what think of the,beasts whnen I tetl you I have ordercd o special trafn to take them away to-morrow tnorning, nud i there was auy tear of trouble [ woulld not be nt thut expense,” Respecting the Outarlo ease Mr. ITall sald he had examined the anfmals thoronghly, and iy bls opiolon It was Tung discase, contracted by exposure, und due to that alone, ' Whut 18 required,” sald le, * I8 a strict veterinury enactment fn the Unlted States, by which all symptoms of disease of n contaglous character” mny beat onco Investls pated und stamped out by killing off the nffected beusty, 08 §s done In Englund, 1t {8 not sutli- clent 1o cealt ugrun Cusiom-House olllcers to obtain certllleates from local shipplng port nuthorities, boeause how can a Portlaud In- spectory for Iustauce, certlfy that beasts col- leeted from varfous parts of the country sold to denlers at BufTalo, and then forwarded on to Portland, are from distrlets where vo con- tageous diseuse existal Unless somu step ts taken to restore coufidence In this matter the slightest thinz may put a stop to this important trade, und {t will be s most serious loss to . Americn,” GIGANTIC PATENT SWINDLE, Tho Government and tho Rulirond nnd Htenmboat Lines to B3e Plunderad—Tho Flre-Extingulsher Ring. To the Editor of 'The Trisune, Cmicago, Feb. 18.—About ten years ago, when the Carller and Vigaon patents covering the general prineivle (**carbonie acld fn water fo a portuble machine for extleguishing tires ') upon whieh all chemical fire-extingulshers arc mnde were lssucd, the owners, thinking they Lind & monopoly, zot a bill passed through Con- gress compelling ull ‘American steamers carey- ing passongers Lo purchuse. o number of these minchtues at about three times thelr cost. The above were declared vold for the want of uovelty, the machines being nothing but stmple sodu-~ fountalus or npparatus, for which Willlam A. Grahom, of Virginla, had npplicd for a patent ns carly us 1637, Ils application was rejected on the ground that a new use for an old machine or devico was not patentable. Neverthelees, the law compelled the steamers to purchuse the machines, but they got the chieapest that could be found fn the market re- , rurdless of thelr value, and the schemers whno ot the bill passed did not reapthe harvest they expected, and steamboatinen almost overy- where aro bitter cucmics of all chemical ap- puratus, and greatly rotard its introduction, us at Loufsville, Cineinnatl, und St. Louls, “The belrs of Wil A, Gralam Tiving in Vir- ginla, belnge reminded of this old rojected np- phication which bad laln In the Patent-Otlice for vearly forty years, made spplivation about three years™ ugo to 1he Conpress of the United States Lo pnss an enabling act for the rellel of the helrs of Willinm A, ™ Uiraham, ordering the Commissloner to issite to #aid heirs o patent coverlug everything in the past wnd soventeen years of the fature In the shupe of o soda- tountain used for putting out flres, ‘There was an attenspt to smugele this bitl throwsh, hut after two years ol sharp maoiputations, mul the taking fnto the vool of seven different cons tendlg parties, all ooposition lmvlu;i leen Dougat up, the bili quictly passed both ilovses of Conureds, und received the slgnature ol the Preswdent, tor the vellei (1) of Willlan A, G hww'shews, The patents were aceordingi; seven months ago, il some ni Incturers of fiw best freexthnishers fn uso nave bad (heir bustuess suined. They did not et into the pool or know that such a° LIL wos pending th too lute, 1o T Trinuse of Feb, 17 18 the slinole an- nouneement shat “Uen, Banks 18 devoting his lust duys in Cungress to the support o w mens- ure which e cutitles * A bill to protect o mul property, and to provont nechtents und delnying of mails on rallronds wd atentnbonts operated by steam puwer within the jurisdietion of the United Stutes of Ametien,” " "l bl appoiuta five Comisstoners, three appomted by thy President (imen slrendy seleeiid to rurrf thy robbery dnto ton and properly divide the swag), and two by the compauies. These Com- lssioners ure to receive from the Govermnent 10,000 enlnry eachi, (The walary must be lavgo cnoueh t pas Uen, Banks and Tour others,—nt other words, [t must be o hile enongh hait 1o ene 108t mnre thitn Butf the: Congresmnen wnd Benae tors in support of the measure, voil keat) But few wonld vote for the bUEI ey saw the cat i the meal, but fn the harey of other prersing matters that part may not bo diseovered, The salartes, clevi-hlre, truveling expenses, lnnunlm, und other expenses wonld cost the tovernment not less than 15,0 per sumin, and for five years would amount to 750,000, ‘I'nis Commlgsion bus ubsoluto power to fix the number and kind of fire-extimgmshers, and tx the prive which cvery rallvosd and steamboat fny the Uniced Btatea shull pay for each estin- gulsher, aud-there 1s no appeal, 1t 48 absuluty vonflseation, the bill being drawn in ¢ legal forms "' by some of the slurpest lawyers in the United States, These Commissloners, hesides their $10,000 enlarles, vould divide smong them- selves one, Lwro, or several wilton duollurs taken from the many raleoads and steanboats of thy vountry, A rallroed moanager says they can't pasg mich a bhil, but he wis answered that such i bill was passed, but with not quite the abso- lute power of the Commlssioners, But, sald be, Ssuel a Tuw could pot be enforeed, It § knew the Babeock Campany was trying to pass such wlaw, I would weli up every Babeock extin- witlsher on my road, and “never purchuse another, 1 would suffer the voud to be con- fleeated flrat, 1 oauight put extinguishors on my traing without such a. law, but never with it." - Ilu wns answered that the Babeock Company boa nothing to do with this muiter; thut no citizen of - Chilenro has unvthing to do with it;. thut the Consolidated Extinguisher Company of Pernsylvania (which has bought out the Babeock Wworks here), i connection with the Gralnma ot Virglula, are working thls thing through, Mr. E, W, Neff, well kuown to safc-manufac- turers by this country, I8 the Superintendont of the fuctory, and Mr, Chorles M, Martin, (ho Hlmerlumu‘ml. of Ageucies; 18 now at 008 Fourteontn strect, N, W., Washington, D, C., superintending the uassaze of this measure, Mr. Murtin expects to wake a'quurter of u imill- jonout of it. Lle is rezurded s u very able lobbyist, and slways gocs fur large amounts, In the days of Tweed, fu New Yorg, ho got a weasure through the Albuny Legislature au- thorizing New York City Vo issue ons million in bonds for laying pipes through thut city to con- duct carbonle acld ¢as to burning bulldinzs, e ot the order passed by the New York Sy Councll, ths bonds ssutd und completed with the oxception of the name of Comptroller Con- nolly, und they were on his desk ready for aig- naturo the day Connolly resigned aud left the country, Benntor Qordon {s mentioned ns one among the many Bouthern members who ate assisting to consimmate this measurs. The steanboat Interests of this country bave heen materially d by the systematic fegalized robhery o ptees of nearly every i inary deviee for the pretended safety of passenters, fiovernment freluht, o It 13 rafo to sy that srcamnout, owners have heen contnelled o pay asliltons of dotlars for so-called tricd nwd valuable safo. guards, which have proved utterly worthlean and been thrown away, ‘I'he rafleoads lave for- merly eecaped, but it is now some shrewd men's Interesta to bleed them, winl bleed they must, In the bl nothing fe said aboul cxtinguishers or any speclal device,—that would defeat it at once. X et — TENORS. A Rtecord of the Forelgn Tonora Who linve Vislted This Country Klnes 1855, Neww York lierald, The reappearance of Brigmoll, the silver- voleed tenor, snd Max Maretzek, the veteran conductar, revives memories of the musfeal past and sugeests the reflection thut It {s now Just tweniy-four years sluce Maretzek, then n vigor- ouy, public servant, first presented Brignoh, then w youth of 25, to the opera-going people of this eity. The memory of the great Salvl was yet green fn New York, and ns Brig. noli came up the Bay on the 221 of February, 1855, the glees of the Choral Unlon were echoed from the shores of Staten Islawd, while Marlo wilved an'revoir mud passed through the Nar- rows ¢t route to London mud the Continent. Maretzek announced Brignoll, with Steffanont and Badlall, on Easter Monday, and they ncnleved an fnstant success in ** Lucre- tla Borehe! Brignolts remained here ten vears, making many frienda fu social and musleal elreles. In 1863 he returned to Europe to sl with Pattl, In 1807 ho enme hack with Batemun und Parepn, remalnlng two years, His next appearance here was with the Chrlstiue Nils- #on troupe, fn 1873, aud the last with Titiens, fn 1875, Durine his last quarter of a century Brinoll made between $400,000. wned $500,090, but little of which remalns. Hels now under engazenmens with Meo Mapleson, nnd Jeaves for LEurope on the 1510 inst., twenty-four years since e firat appeared. Stnee 1855 more than thirly tenor singers of European note have macde their bows to our Academy audlences. ‘Ilie firat after Brignoll Mirate, o very fine tenor, whose terms were 40,0001, for two mon Arditl wos _conductor st that tme, and the manueer made mouey, Muretzek then brought ont Lurml'. an adml ble singer, who married Miss Vieginia Whit- ing, o sister of Mr. Whithuz, who recently mnde ch of n in_ “Qld Love-Letters” o the T Theatre, ‘Tiberlm camne here with a preat Europenn repu- tation, and considerable sbort wa< inade of Stra. Tosel's announcement thiat he was o descendant of Tiberius. Down to this thme Maretzek nnd Arditi had averything their own way; but with 11 new tenor, earde, came Auschutz us con- Huctor, Benn was one of Mario’s chlef sue- sorg, sid in ¢ Lucretls Borgia™ pebieved n wonderful triumph, Squlre was known as the SXnghsh tenor” though, i fuct, he waa au Al- Lany boy, 8 very sweety, light tenor and very pupnlar, One of the best informed tenors New York ever had was Sbriglia, a very fine singer, who was “up” in uearly all the operas, clossic s well as modern. e was o ereal favorite with Maretzek. Muzio brought out Biruarde, the sume who Is here uow as second tenor, and Muretzek followed Iim with Stefanl, who will be remembered with pleasurs by all lovers of the brighter und more spark- ling operas. Then came Stigelll, a Ge i tenor, who created a furore m * La Tutve,n nnd Inall “robust roles was equal to uny singer woever hud heard. From Stefani's time on Maretzek waved the baton betore Stigelll, Erravie Mazzolenl, Massimiliznl, and Stecehl- bottardl. OF these Ereanl possessed o sweet, flextble volee, but Mazzolend, who sueceed- was ol all the robust singers faclle . e wus 2 reat gofal favorite, nnd made many acqualntances n ereles ot gen- cerally sought by people fir s voeatlon, * Il¢ was $2,000 1 month, and carned it, fn @ lone ! o usea theatrical plrase, *lmmcnse.” uklyn Mazzolenl was o wonderful fuvori und favavinbly packed the Academy when BNz, and in some resu Lardi, avery singer, fotlowed of Ubluiu sl th part Park s he Murspmillnnn was anothier robnst sinzer, ¥t4 8 greaw suceess. Stecchl I not a partlcularly ple: uncer the ut nanugement nditet of Ausehutz, Labo- ta, the beat bt tefor i many cssentials, was bronzhit out, bt he'Talled to make muci {mpression. ‘Lhe lute Jacob Grau, with Maretzek as con- ductor, ereated o great sensation with Mislunt, dramutie and fubust tenor, who struck *the high C 7 with ease and became at once the rage. That feat bas been essayed here with entlre success by eeveral singers sinee, but in Mistani's time it was a novelty, uud ns sueh a marked feature m the entertaintent. Mr. Payne Imported Salviunl - expressly to sing the “ Praphete,” wid he made n ble tu thatumd sub- sequentdy fu * Ernant.’' Maretzek also jutro- duced Paneant, o dramatic tenor of muarked pe- culluritive. He was socially tncllned uml wos well known in general clevedreles, Brogll, who stieeceded him, hud a light, pleasaut voiee, and n ¢ Martha,” * Luch,” “CSonnumbula, and »0 o, seored o very creditable suceess, Another of Muretzek's ventures was Le France, o vig- oroltk, rabustions tenor who soured to deamatic hights in & Walllam "Tell,” * Massanfello,’ wnl © Purftank” Personaliy he was not so ponular a8 gulne of s predecessors, but ho was relluble und correet when on the stare. Villand, who followed him, was not unlike him. . L'rom thix time on the two Muxes alternated for w long time, und to them York wus m- debted for many on artistic 8 . Maretzek fu- trodueed Vizzani, a lgit unid pleusing tenor, whu supnorted Luees, und Strakosch followeil with Capoul, Cupoul was . lzht, dushing, Trenchy sivieer, who drew $2,000 a nonth, wnd carned it. For two wseasons he was quito the vhody admired his seclig, sind yourng dles voted his love-masking divine, e wus engagine In manner, eid bore hilnsell on the wlage with an alry grace that quite won t) pupular heart. T volve was not remarkobl bat he mnde the most of i, wnd went away re- gretted oy hundreds of wdmirers, who will be usind to Tnow that he 6 coming back nguln, though not In grond opera. MaretzeR then brought ont Abruraedo, who wis not o siceces, and Strakoseh followed with Carpl in the Atlan- the nenson. Ho was i lieht, sweet slnver, though not y commundable In any role, F ing the necessity of making n itlon, Maret- Zeit thew annomiced the ereat "Tamberllk, At th petod of bis Hie the tnmous ut de ur was fu lifs decline, but even the rulns o tmonument are of interest, Thut his r had faith fn him wus shown Ly the terms he mode, 1T wis 1o bave 25 per cént ol 1he eross reecipts, and aiter u while e sceapted S1,000 4 menth, Althourh in o sense Taniber- HNik was *payed ont,” fn anoiber he was o verftable attenctlon. © People throwged the Acadeniy to seo if not 1o hear e great tenor, und often ho sung so superdly as to more thon tepay them, When Mr. Neuendorf bronsht out Wachtel, the great tenor, from Geeminy, our German fellowseitizens went wild over him. He was, althongh sude, a ereat eard, s drew fmmensely, After protracted suecesses he foried o purtner- ship wath Varepa and Standey, and eleetritled ine town In *Trovatore,’ when in the third act hy took the high C sl hend ity with brandishel sword wd” dramutie nlen. 1n one seuson Wiachtol cleared 506,000, and in avo:her #40,000. e and Paropa wers great Irfends und onjoyed sach oudr's successes, In- stead of allowiniz petty Jealousles to mur their efforts, cuch alded the oilicr, and in consequence Loth teuped the reward uf populer fuvor ung vast pecutlury retien, Strakosch then brought out Bentruteily, a lizht tenor, of to speeinl ,mo- ment, followluz him with Debessind, who' was casy i ubuut the srmo okl - After them Strakosch browght out Campani- vl to whom he then past $4,000 o month, In *Labengrin * Canpanini ongde an enormous suceess, Plie cast inciuded Nilsson, Cary, und Morelli, snd the Academy o1 susle never wig- nesacd o seono of greater eutitisiusm than thut which sccompanied the opera, frony the first tone of the orchestra’s welrdess to the fiual smashbane ninl Lohayrin's sccut to pasteboard clouds. Strakosch wos vory proud of that sca- son’s work, wiid the triumphs achicved by his tenor did much to estubllsh bis reputation as o pubtic caterer of the first rank, Muretzek then took hold agaln, amd introdu 4 pleasant- voleed tenor, Cllada, whuse suceess in * Don Carloa? will bo pleasurably remembered, ‘This bringa the tenor record down to the tine of the debut of Frapollr, Mapleson’s sioger, uud £lyes u llst of more than thisty forefan gentlo- men who canie und saw und retired, better off In pocket than when they caes Al these sue- ceeded Brignoll, who, thoush not un old man, I venerablo for a tel Ile hos bad his Uufl, %0 fur a8 the youny und festive arv concerned, and hag mada several very respeetuble fortunos, After nearly a quarter of u eentury’s service by 18 about to zo buck to Ureat Britain und resume the octupation thut has monvpolized the best years nud best pare of his )ifo, e fs the unl{ oue of all tho lst who chose Lo muke Now Yorl his home, Hercis bis Propflru, hero his frlends, hero bis flual resting place. Probably uo Hgure, ot eveu that of the Rev. Dr. Jonn Hall, is better known on the Fifth avenuo psve thau his./ His rolling galt wus known of all women Buitated by wany men a quarter of acea- tury slnce, nnd hasts of voung ladies, who then considered his autograph a trensure, now trot thefr grandbabica on thelr knees. TEMPERANCE. Cinchonn-Cure va. Prayer-Cure for Dipso- manta, Ta the Editar of The Tribune. Cuicado, Feb 10.—A floating jingle caught in the brushwoud of my clilldhwod's memory often recurs fo me as 1 watch the current of events, and T find myaclf saying to myself, with A persistency almost cqual to Mark Twaln's “Literary Nleltmare,” Or manias we've had many, And song have ralsed tho wind; But the tallext far of any Was that of denny Lind. Asanation we are a people of manjas; as o city, T am sure there Is nothing In the world's history which would equal the magnitude and nmititude of our manias. Unqualed by any precedent, the temperance mania has awept the country, Hke the cold wave from Manftoba, from scu Lo mea, aml from trople to trople. We have had radical tensperance, which being inter- preted means wreat big capital I and very little tod Almighty, We have had Gospel temper- ance, Just as i any kiwnd of temperance was not shel tetperance,—Peace on enrth and good will toward men! Wetve hind all kinds of cures for dipsomn- nlaca. ‘The will-power cure, and the faith and prayer cure, while a few Imunmunml minds have contended that a phvsfological couse must produce a plystolugieal etfeet, nnd that remedinl remedies must be applied to reniove this effect. ‘The first and second of these cures have heen thorouuhly tried, und with what result! When Moody, with the Bible In one hand and o lteral Interpretation fa the other, has had vast multi- tudes of people on their Koces praying for the miracaluus ntervention of Divine Yuwer for the rescue of the dipsomanines, cannot help thivking, frreverent us It sceins, that the Good Belng is amused at our childish lgnorunce, wnd, much a3 Ha loves us and pittes our disappointments, Iic withholds the coveted plum Lo teach us common sen Homething over two yeurs ago, when return- I from o lecture teip, 1 became aware that Mrs, Black, of tils ¢ was [n the next seat he- hind e, She was { anbnated conversation withu {7 Wl from them 1 heard of mar- velous miracles happentug I our mildst, sl this prediction: Chapin &'Gore were goibg to cluse their wonderful dispensarles of gleoholic polsons, She kuew thls, for she and several othier plous women of Jike reputy had nel by appointment at stated pluces, and made thely (Ctiapin & Gore) discomliture a speclal subject ol prayer, mud they Knew that they belleved. Burelythis is a tesf, T thouzht; 1 wil watchand eee I Divinly will wunracutousiy interfere for the destriction of this ternble liquid, or whether Ho wiil compel us to wait Ul Chiapin & Gore elther polson temselves to death with their own llr“u.nnr are oblized to cluse for lack of o bankrupt law, or uatil public kenti- ment has beconie 5o enlizhitened s to cease to uemand poison us a beverage,—n partial milen- nium not Hlikely to be soon realized while the making of public sentiment depends upon such fnstructors ns Mrs. Bluck and othier like evangel- 1s1s of the day, The prayer and faith cure bos been fully tested fn tie “ Washingtonlan Home ” fn suen a munner 18 ought to determine the ciliclen vaiue ot tnis tethod of treating the viet of ateobolie pofson. The moral departaient of the Home ts nearer perfeet than unf'umm else | ever ktiew, ‘This moral power wnich Is broughu to besr 1upoo tl fnmates 180 palpable presence; it walks the balls; it sits ot the tubles: mines the parlors; 1t Ol the chapel; it sits like o brooding wneel i the hoapital. And yet, whot Is the result] Are one-tents of those wno, In thelr terrilde despalr, bave flown to Its ehelter for protection saved] A few sucn mea as Mr. Pitavay nad the late tamented Julin Colller have made’the reputation of the Home, but, in the glare of the elary of their rescue, waiole squadrons of men have vanisied from Hght and gone down strugling, praying, aul sutlering.—God vnly knows how mueh,~while others have lefe the Home with the undizeov- cred seeds of death germmating i thetr sy eu and, ufter years ol suffering, have died vietlms fo {he ek of phystolzieal knowledge and medical skitl in the meatenl department of the Home, As I have sald before, the moral depnrtinent of the Home s subllme, but. the medical de- partment I3 a farce,—one of the most inflated numbugs of (his [ htunbugs, Noue thor- onghly sequainted with the medieal devartment of the Home can have been ostonished at the posltion asswmeid by the preacnt Incumbent jn reterence to Dy, D'Unwer und his remeily, ciu- clhiona rubra, Dr. Davis, the Mediead Direetor of the Home, Is a man whose ereat medfcal sxill 18 only cquated by hls veotism, and. e hos euid that the patlents m the Home shall o cured with pravers, chioral, bromde, sid red pepper, nnd n results, no diseoverics of seience could Induce bim to recall his ediet or permit an In- novaton. Charles Warrlngton Esvle, M, Iy, the mediesl attendant at the Howme, is outy equal to his eu- perior in bl egotism, wind a8 his tenure i oflce and the necessity for his services depend upon Dr. Duvie' favoritiem and methods of tr ment, be will not allow an_ onen, “fuir trnal of D'Unzer’s crchoni white he con avold it THs Dosition is desirable for ute who cannot distin- gutsh, or at lesst has not distinguished, himself n any other wuy, und as the ene of the cin- chona remedy wonld prevent the secustomed re- turn of the prodizals to lus asms w) With the o sity for bis attendag cireumtocution of preserintfons of ehloral, bro- mide, mul red pepper, he will not *go baek? upon hls own interests, aml the dipsomanines in the Home, who, accorditgg to his theory, are only morally dleeased, st not hove for the betiefits of cinchonu frentment with his consent. But ttme will avrange this matter with re: ence to the personal fnterests of coither Dr, D'Unger or ~ Charles Warrlngzton Earle, M. 1 be merits of ciuchuna Wil ussert thep- s, und upon them fts fate will rest, the aletum of Chorles Warrington Earle, M. 1 belleve hea for three months 4 CHAL i venrs, a dendly rrible aleohulic 1., to the contrary notwithstanding in cinchona, 1 tinve wal huind-to-h tlemon, 0 bl been left nutried, en upplivl, sovlatlons b heen bio up owd entirel The Washingtonfin Homo and angelteal ‘Temperance meetings had all fafled Ty vuen, aned, although eincitons has ot yot entiiely removed the nervous dixorders, which © were partly the result of inherited predispositions andl partly of stim=latton, Lam perfeetly satisfied that th disen - u condition which degzewaded ateoliol s et -y removed, ar, 10 othier words, that fudes N gsiv thing ealled an “lllnx{:‘lflo for lyquor™ Iy paony aid very nuexpectedly the appetite tor totaceo went with it,Fhe gentleuian hnd mady repeated unsuceesshil attempts to get rid of the wso of tovyeeo, thinkitgs it fed the delre for sthoulunts. Nicoting sl uleobol, foul twin- brother potsons, bolty dall low ut the feet of cinchonn. e medicine man found in the fur-off forests of Peru the bark of 4 tree which antidotes the polson of the sorpent.! The bark of the treo shall o for the heallng of the natjons,* ‘Thank Goud for cluchona! He has answored our praycrs; No as we asked, but ns Jie would, Not by miraculously futerfering with natural Jaw, bit by compelling us to *work out our own salvation,"—by compelling us to use the weans e hus placed within our reacl, L Kueasten, A Nuval Cattot In Dixgrace, At tho semi-annnal examivation of the cadoet migshipmen ot the Naval Academy, recently closed, vns of the cadels of the second elors asked permlssion to u Ao room, wind, while out, 1t {s sulil, o secreted a book, with whien ho was wsslsted In the exumination. Somw of hifs clusamates, in view of the oath administered to ull un such vecasfons, ** pot to seek, recelve, ar glve assistance drom Dy guarler whatever,” an learnivg of the action of the cadet, were very indignant at bis conduct, and it I8 undersivod the class will request the )'uum:l man Lo resien utonee and thereby save the dishonor atlend- fnge by dismissal should the authorities bear of the matter, "The vadet 13 from Now York State, —— Hugo's Pet Granddaughter, M, Victor Ilugo’s pet granddaughter, Jeanne, thie lttle girl 8 years old hmmeortnlized (o his “Annes Torelble™ und *L'Art d*Etro Grand- pore,” has narrowly escaped burning to death. Gotting on suine steps to wind up o clock on the mantelplece her plnafore caughit ire, With apresence of mind worthy of bec nume, sho remembered & atory told her years ago of a Indy on lre, who Instead of running rotled on o car- et Bho did lkewise, and saved hor Jife. Sho in bed with patutul burus, but in no dunger, — ——————— ‘The Lrince of Walos u Bostan Milithamun, New York Krentug Pht. It should much sstontsh the shades of those who wat up the Boston tea-party to kuow tha Prince of Wales is enrolled among 1l cltlze suldiery of the three-hlited city, Edwurd Al- bert has beon elected o inumberol the Anclent and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston} and a letter from London suys that the belr to tho British throue bas avecpted the compllment, The acceptauce of milltury houors in other countries by Royal personages {8 not without precedent, but we recall nons where such un houor has beew accypted from a Republic. It 18 clear thut the [nterchange of socinl amenitics Ly not been without effect ou the Prince of Wales. He shared in the usual preference of his countrymen for Boston ninong Amcrienn clities, nnd the rrr-sem. cougtly act {s among the frulta of his cholee, A talic on this subject he- tween Woshington and Georee 111, after the manner of Landor's “Imaginary Conversa- Yons,"" might b made very diserting, As the French may, 1t ts the Impossthic that always happens. el CURRENT OPINION. . Ttoslgnation, Toutrrlite Courter-dnurnal (Dem.). Christianey Ima resigned. Michizan (s re- slzned, ‘The United States are resigned. But low s 1t with Perul Equal to the Occaston. Washtnpton st (Dene). Mra, dohn Loganfs sabl to be hard at work vreparing an Impromptu apeech for Jahn, to be uzed at unexpected aerenndes by the old Grant. crowd, Washingtan Renustican (Rep.). ‘Texas has a §300,000 detivit this year, which s natural, becuuse the Siate “enjoys™ o Demno- eratle Admisistration, It Is proposed to make It up by sclitng off the echool YTands, which ts also very natural, hecause the Democracy hato the publle-school system. The Diference, netnnutt Commerciat (Ind, Rep. ), The Indlsnapolis Journa! sculps the connty officers of Indiana, und hangs their recking top- knots in {ts wigwums but, when Tue Ciucaco TrinuNe does the same thing for the Federal- Court Cterke, the Journal takes aown its njubas- ter hox of precivus ofntment und anoints their wounds. War. 1nims, AMlanta (Gie.) Comatitution (Dem.). A few Democratic Reoresentatlves may be in favor of puytne war-claltng, but meauwhite the Democracy-of the South will put its foot firly down ucon uny such extravorance. When the party wets (uto power a slzn wiit be hung before the ~ Treasury-door: * No War-Claims Hatd Here.” Nothing leas will appease the Stal- warts, und nothiug less will please the Dem- ouracy better. PensPletures, St Paut Pineer-Press (1op.). Mr., Watterson says that *The negro of the South fs placable and kindly,—the fortunute possessor ol u gweet, loving, and generuus na- ture.” This belng the fact, will not Mr, Wat- terson furnish o companion pen-pjcture of the white roce of the South, who torture and kil these sweet, loving, und, pencrous peoplo be- cuuae they clivuse to vote a diffecent ticket { The Hed-Shirts, Ureenstor. Whenever a Red- is convicted fn the United Stutes courts of stull- ing the batlot-box or anaking fraudulent elee- ton returng, the whole Democratle pack raises # try ol “encroachment on the rizhts of the peaple by the Federal judlefury.” [t fs a new exemplificatiun of the truth of” the old prove No Led-Shirt fecls the halter draw With zood epiaion of the law, Shere Al and Jim Andocson. Clecetand Heralt (Rep,)., Lord, how tlint Atmeer Is ziven to lying! No- body believed him, of course, when te sald he was dead the other day, 2id vow we Know posi- tively that it was only auother of his miserable falsehoods, 1t was the Ameer of Bokharn who hus been gathered to his fathers and not Unele vho §8 at his old teizks of arsiving on frontler ueain, 1 Uncle Shere ever in need of o Grand Vizier,—and it y he ever will,—he should address James Anderson, Nevada, United S:ates of Ameriea. * Tally-Hot* Balttnors Gazette, Col. DeLaneey Kane is zolnge off to Europé this summer,—plague take i l—but |t i3 inti- mated that the talls-ho trade will not Inuguish ou this account. ‘Some other member of the Couching Clut, whoee name fs not given, will keep the Colonel's memory green by “tooling ™ atally-ho along the Pelbam rond when the ulotes blooni, It 18 to be hoped that tuls new candilate fur public favoraind stable-hotors will wear & wilite bat, u Japonica boutountere, and u dtab overcoat, 10 “hecould sport some sich aristoerade name as Montmorenel Cholmondeley, the conntry would feel oty secure, g Amenities of Frontler douranlism. Canby (Ainn,) Neirs. That pusillanlmous ink-slinzer of the Hard- scrabible Whangdoodie, Just over the lue, west ot us, influenced by the raglug trenzy of a jealous, selllsh, grasping nature, ecen it on divers oce slous, in commnentfng o our locals, to unjustly and mallciously aceuse us of Iying, This not fully satlslying his Insatiable desire for tlinzing nbuse uponi a neighbor, ho contluues his dow wand course, aml i3 pleased in his tast fssue to sheak of us a8 “the Lum of the Canby Newen,” Better for ta bean **Idiow?’ and live n peae than a depraved, chronle ofliee-sceker and put-bagger, us the Whaany' man s known to be, Poor Quality of Southern I'romises, Augunta (Me.) dournat (Rew.). AlLNNs flue promises are no protection omatnst the delugé thut will come if the Demoe- racy gain supreme power, und Hi himeell would bo amon thoee who would vote to pay the clafimy, just us Wade Hanipton after all bis pledees beening the leader of the red-shirt brigades b South Corollng, and will gmafn 2 sear I tne United States Senate through als perfidy, 1t would b the nght o folly to trust the words of men who have aealn and agaln perjured themselses, Our sufety 4s n peaple depends unon keaping the heb'in the hands of men wha havesver been true to the Natiomal Govern- neuk Tauslly Taie Geab, Cincinnti Commerctal (Ind, Rep.), Gen, Fremout recommended the Leglslature ot Avizona to memoerialize Congress fop an propriation of $K0N0 for post-roads in the T'e rivory, nud several wiltions for o system of irri- gution,” That {s reasouavle, 1t millions arv to e spent to reclabin the wasto Innds of the Mis- slsstppi Valley from too wuch water, milons van as profitably be expended upon waste lninds where there 13 foo little water, “The argument that Justities o Government appropriation to re- clatm landa woult justify it fu groing tnte the ditellng und - dra overy State and county {n 1 PFremont has el Feasun Lo expect Coogress 1o proyid for the wants of the faraiers iy Arizona as G Nictioila has to anticipate ltke reliel for the planters of Louwtsiona, Thden's * Bar'), Iutvensart Quzetta (Kev,) The Dubugue Hera'd bs quite sure that all the Republicau jibes concerning * tilden's bar'j” huve been proven pulutless, because the Na- tional Democratle Committee submitted to the 'otter Committen o statement to the atfect thut thelr totol expendltures for the campaign of 157 were only 15,8100 But. the Herad ure- sues ton much on the igrorance ol its renders, Who that hus w irsin of mtetlizent fnforuation as to the work doua by that Demoveatic Cume mittee con bolleve such n yarn. Even the single e uf Demueratie editorlals furntshied Lo part y orizans tw every State by Tilden’s Literary Bu- rean must have cost. the Connmittes mach more than the umount stated. Then, who wrnlshed the tmonwy 1or the oraturical canvasnes fn Indi- ann, Gnio, Connecticut, wid New Yorkt Who the sums disteibuted to certoln Congressfonal dlstrlets 1o atd weak candidates) Who the cash o gy for all the Tildenlts campalgn-doetiments with which the country was fluodedd Really, there s no use fnattempting to fatten Jdowu that * bar'l " so very th The Bpeakernhip, Viekabury (Miaa,) Herald (Dem,). It 18 high thioe our Congressmen werv looking around fur some gooll man for the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Huudall {s noty in our aplulon, to bo- thought of. We tikke u goud, shrewd pollticlan, but Samuel suits too well, Ile {4 too politie, He mokes promises very freely, und bresks them more easily than any eentleway wo can now call to mind fn House, We must have n change, Mv, Blac bury, of Kentueky, hus beon yery Tavorably mentloned, und wo have no doubt he would make o stronge contest for the place, but for the 1act hie lives south of (e Obto, ALl the Statos are equals, und ull eitizens have u perfecl righe to aspire to any oftico m Uncle Bamuel's gift,~ that iy, of couse, {fu Southern Stutwdoesn’t want anythliyz, and the citizens wha want high and nonorable places live on the right side of the Onlo. Mr. Bum Cox, ot New York, nlso has his fricnds, but we huraly think be will suit the South, Mo ls entungicd v one of “tho fuctlons in New York, und his vote s nearly nlways found azalust Southern intorests. Sam fs ood follow, though. It occurs to us that Mr. @tlllnm . Morriaon, of 1liuols, s the wau. He {a & high-toned, nble, bold statesman,.—ono . Who enjora the confidencenf good men evary- Where,” He hins always acted falrly toward otie seetlon, and, if the Bonth secures his olection, it will cement the gond feellng batween the South and Weat, Of courso_wo arenot informed ns - « to the movements at. Wnamr'nfitom thia question from onr standpolnt, we do not think our Representatives can commit a blundor IF they eleet Mr, Morrlson. e fs univeraally eateeined and respected hereabouts. The Issue Condenscds Athany donrnat (Rep,). . Mr. Atken suns up the Democratic attituds nnd tssuc In asingle sentence. believed,” says the report of hfa speech In the House, “that. the Treasury was safer in ‘ihe Lutdds of men who defended the Coofederncy than fn the hands of those who held 1t, to-day. This I8 frank, dircct, and undlsgufeed, It fs a blunt way of pulting the mntter, but it has the nerlt ot being ontspoken, nnd of presenting the tasue just as it [s. ‘The real question befors the country ls, whether the Treasury and all other fnterésts of Government shnll pla fo the hands of those who * defended the Lo feideracy, or ot those who defended the Unlon, Tits question comprebends and delines - alt others, Mr. Alken fa for thoss who “defended {he Confederacy.” position amounts to, party nxka the couniey to say, Mr. Afken has rimply pat In pialn terms what his assoctates hresent (n Jess direct and suggestive forat.’ But are th ople of the North ready to say thul the Uoverument would ve safer [n the b unls us thuse who *defended the Confederacy 1 VILLAINOUS PERSECUTION. Oavo of $am Lod, of South Caroltun. Detrort It and Tridune, Not long ago, President Iayes apoointed Santuet Lee, » mutlatto, ex-Probats Judge and bue, fudging - ‘Thnt s what thie Demosracfe . It (s whut the Domoceaths | United Stutes Commissioner of Sumter Connty, ~ South Carolina, Postmaster at Sumter, - This vartly because Lee, who s a leadlng colored Re- vubltean of his connty, und s certitied -to ‘ba well quatifled by {utolligence and otherwise fur the oflleg, Is allezed to have been persceuted th a cowardly sl mean woy - by the Demoerats for doing his duty as a citizen, an official, and n Ro- publican durine und since the Inte election, Hefore the electlon the Democratlc hnildozers made severnl attempts to involve hlin in o quarrel and kil bim on nccount of his Inter. . fering with their bulldozing pastimes aud his * activity and fnfluence as o Republicnn Jeader. After the electlon Lee was summoned before the Unfted Btates Grand Jury ut Charles- ton, nid also before the Teller” Congressional Committed, 08 a withess against the bull- dozers. In order to prevent his going, tie was arrested and fnfled, under a cliarge ol boving left his oflice of Judge of Probate closed soma days. The Unfted Btates Marshal took him out ot "jail, and he went to Charleston and testified. On his return, the bulidozers hired o bull-witted nerrro to go tito his oflice und ratse a disturb- ance, hoplng that Lee would attempt to put tho felluw out, when he Wwas.to bo shot (o the me- fee. Bur Lee eseaped; and the negro told of e plot; ik had the consplrators arrested and taken to Chinrleston to nuswer for {nterfer- ing with nhim Ia bis duties ns United Stetes Comimassioner. In order to make his complaint it was necesaary tor hiin to be nrain abeent from his office several days. Me had olso been . ab=ent seve days “when sunmoned as “a witness to the clection ontrages. The State ot Sunth Caroling hos a Iaw pronibiting Judges ot Probate, or other Stute ofllcials, from leaving their ofllces closed, exceept for Hiness, and also n law providing Ut o mun may be tried, found glty, amd sentenced when liels absent, Under these atatutes He was sried, declared gullly, and senteneed to imprisomnent during his abicuee, for the * crimu ' of feaving his oflice of Judgo ot Probate oceaslonally to attend to his dutles us n citizen, and to ADSWer a sunmons 08 o wit- © ness betore a Congressional Committee, and fn dischargime e duty as Umted States Commis- sloner! Stuee the irial and sentence . Lee has aisappesred, and 18 supposed to bave olther gone to Washington or to be in hiding until the United States Courts or the nuthoritiesat Wash. * inzzton ean et him rellef and protection, Just “He honestly - herore his triut ho gent the followlug letter to - Washington: ’ X | reached home Friday morning, findine 3 most Dbitter feeline existing among _'my “Democratie friends hero against all the witnésses who tostitled Lefore your Conunittee for the - Republic- onx. JF,° If. Stuart, 08 soon 88 . he re- - turned home, was dismissed from the position of Principal of the colored achuols of our town, n lors 10 lim of $60 permonth, . ., 1.was handed & paper to vign ' yesterday by, the 'Sollcitor and aunther” Democrat “of promisence -here, the miibstunee of which was this: Severul charges will be handed vut 1o the Grand Jury noxt weok azainst e, anless Tazece to drop all charges azoinst per- #ous 1 Sumter County " for_vialntion ‘of - slection luwe, uud refuse to vive any further ‘westimony for the 'nited States Government before, tho courts, 1 refused most positively ta sign the paper, and risk tnu couirequencea of the refneal. 1am cioud of the fact that L have committed no crime nor of office, and ‘T am ‘determined to Mf-reapect aind honor,’ and il not 10r one woment. thtnk of a compronise for thy Lenedt of our tvsuesticket friends,. . ‘The question now Is, what will the United , Stutes authoritles dod The Postmuster-Genernl cany {f he chooses, shut up the Post-Oflce at Sumter, undt keep' It shut until the sontencs agratnst Lee by the State Court (8 oxpunged. - Or, it hie plenses, he can close all the Post-Oflleos in Sumter County. This nccusation was trumped up, self-evhiently, from spite. ‘The law under which [t was drawn wus jotended to apply only to ofllcials who willfully md persistently neg- lected thelr oflives, or nbs.ouded; swheress . the | office of Judzu of Probate, under Lee, was, it is, claimed, never closed when {here was any busi- uced. Every white offfelnl fn South Carolius oc.: casfonully leuves nls oflics fu election times, aud nobody ever thinks nnything about ¢t The Admnitsteation wiil prububly examiue Lec's. case_closely, und aet upon o full understunding ot all the lacts. b BASELESS SLANDERS. Emphatle Kofutation of Sinmofnt Scandaly , Concernlug Senator Conlding, Ievatch o Cineinnaty Enquirer, Uriea, N, Y, Feb, 17.~The statement re» cently made by the Washington correspondent of the Chicngro Times, chavging that Senator Conkilyz has been alienated from his wife for the past four years, ereates o geoeral feeling of tndignntion in tods seetion. The Sunday Mevcury revrints the substancs of the Times' article, nil embelllahes it iu sensatlounl style, charzing that Senator Coukling, four years ugo, fell a willtng letiin to the wiles of “Mrs, Johh {layden, v Port Byron, N. Y.3 that Mra. Huyden has left ner husbaud, and 13 now ncthys as private secro- tapy to the senior Senator from New York, ‘The article further declares that Mra, Conkilig hns vefused to necompany ber husband to Washing- tum, but hns spent the wintera in Florjda or at Lier home In Utlea, The story {3 ono of Doliemian Imagination from bexinning to end. Seuntor Conkling sold his Washineton residence three years azo be- cause ho could not support two establishmenta, His \Washingtun resldence eost him 325,000, and, Inasmuch 8’ he owns o §22,000 resienco In Ctlea, o vreferred to disbose of the Washing. ton house. Mra. Conlkllng's delfvate health, und Miss Conkllup’s averslon to the dwplay of Wustiugton soclety, were considerations tn tha sale of the Washington house, But tho moving cause was the Benator's want of funds to sus- Luln two establishments. Conkllnz has never emploved o femuls secrotary, Mrs, Gonkllng has never visited Flortdn, und every atsertion mude by the Chicaga Zimes uud New York Mercury roflecting on the personal bonor und domestie happiness of Scuator Conkling is without the slightess foundation, ’ —————— Ktorles of Jupnnueso Students, Two stories ure told of two Japaneso atue dents ut lartford, One of them was invited 10 call on a young Indy, und ho dld o one af- teenoon, When ho le(t he was urged to “call aruin,” to % be sure und come,” aud to Hcome very soun” ‘The lad did not exuctly under- staiid whut * very soon " meant, and surprised the youne lady by ullluxi ajzatn In o few hours. Ancthier Japanese was Invited out to disner, wl when the servant passed himi a Jar of cur- runit Jeily hu gave the mold a doxterous shake winl emptied the whole form on to his plate, ehijnking thut there was a mold of jelly for sach person ut Lhe tabl. e ———— Womun's Infiuence In the Orient, ‘Fhe Influenco'of women i the East, in the remoty past, inust bave been greater than le generally supposed, E. ‘Thomas, ln o paper lutely reud betore the Asfatie Buclety, Loodon, has Bhown that it was commmon fn the ancicog world to numo children after the molher rather than thy futher, and that this custom prevalle i certuin portions of the East at the presen day, He gave examples of this usage [roms Lycin, Carla, Etruria, Porsis, auclent and mode ern ladia, Coylon, vl Women Iu the Universily of Loadon, Londan Acudemi, 5 We hear with plessure that in the Foglish aper i the matricatation oxomiuation of the l‘]ulwrmy ot London~the nrst thut lins been thrown opusl to Wotnen—a woman s tirst, uud every wonmwn candhdate welt up o tho lst, Buch answyers us that » Potatoes were intro- duced fnto England by Julius Cteaar at the Cons quest in Lo arg due to tho wmuly portiouget s vXaiuloces. o