Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1879, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, I870—-TWELVE PAGES, = LEADVILLE' congregnte grouns of roughly-ntilred men, (atohes of Life and Manners # About the Camp. e . ' stines Aro Dought and SBold ovv"fl'll;:"“""g and Rebond- ing. R = ident of Biray Horso Guloh o n:‘.’.wdtlng for the Mail ” e The Growing Motropolls, From Our Oen Corrtaondent. onitaE, Col., Feb. 20—A Lendwood man b Jast night that aif of the population ot M:,p had cither left or mada preparstions ‘fla for these digaings. Lo also sagaclonaly m‘m {hat the numhee of ganbling-houses st Jecrensed from Aifey o six. This In- W o find only just arrlved fa Leadville, and ‘W: to know whereot he spoke. 'Tho snmd’ i mes from all the old mining districts. e mwnpel’! published at those points aro gl thelr volces agalnst the exodus and . :’l‘: they -can to repress the Leadrille yet the peoplo contiuue pourlng into this W"[mm o1l dircetions, and no amall propor- ?W of the fmmigrants oro old mioors, .nn| eek there were 503 arrivals by the rezular W aches, and about 300 by private convey- o departurcs for the samo neriod belng )y i7h Of course all of those who came hers mfl remain fn thevilloge; many are seattered “,,d down the gulches fu the vicinity of the ';:u. many, especinlly at present, aro carrled nnll to Ten Mile, the newest camp fn the mmuln:. About o month ago ore was found ;.;hnlt sunk by n party of prospectors on the 11 over Ten Mile Creck, and now fifty claims sebelngworked, and the wilderness {s alrcady sooming With shanties, tncluding a hotel, o uny,.w!l‘oflltn. and a newspaper offlce. The question fa often asked, Is the MINERAL WEALTIC OF LEADVILLE palip a3 great as had beon clajmed, or gre the jories tald about it wild and exageerated? 'uuurmrulexnmlnuunn of the distriet, I fecl ifed fn saylng that the siiver deposlt 8 so irsordlnary and the ground Is so easlly worked {atthe value of the diggings can hardly bo cx- wyented: Certain mines, oerhaps, ;have been {wdup toa price beyond thelr actual worth, care talzed sbout In a zeueral way ns capable of producing. untold millions. This, of course, fowrong. 1feel sale In paying that there is no gizetn the camp, accupyln only asingle clalmn, 1ikb ought to sell for a mililon dotinrs, Thero gecertsin mines, 1t {8 true, which include too, ree, or more claftns, and oro therefora wiaable [n proportion to the territory they oc- «py. The Listle Pittsburg fs o consolidation ol fout separate clatus, and the Iron covers alx ousecttivo claims of ten acrea each, ‘The ma- Lty of the paylug mines, however, are on sin- e Joatlons. Mines, being merchantable prop- iy, wogencrally in the market, nnd can b bought at reasonablo figures. A first-clnas ono Iz tbls camp can usually bo purchased for 8150,~ 0¥ Many sro bonded as soon ns oro {s struck {athem, . In fact, the common method of dis- ouingof the Leadville mines is by sectt, th $0SDING THEM TO EASTERN O WESTERN CAP- | ITALISTS, Itwould, perhaps, be proper to deflne the word "' bonalng " for the beneflt of those read- e who have never dabbled In mining stocks, fuppose A and I to bo the orleinal praspectora ordiscoverers of o mine, They have sunk thefr alt with their own cfforts and have found miversl, By working with their slmple ma- chinery amd putting {n thelr own time and Jabor they may succeed fu taking out enourh ore to piy thelr cxpenses and to gradually branch ont «and facrease thefr facititics. But it 8 necessarily #low work for them, and, not being ambitious or far4eelnz men, they are willing to scll out the rine 10 capitaliats for,-say, $50,000 cash, They susonthat they fonnd this mine easily and there wre plenty more chances somewhere elsey that 000 1s & good deal of money; and that with Itthey can llve st caso for a few years, or they an go on and find snother mino equally as peod. But now step in A THE CAPITALISTH, whoare cantious and cool-headed. They aro not “oing to throw away thelr $50,000 on = fraud or worthless pleco of property, They have ot to fud out exactly the eapaclty of the mine before fosesting, Hence they say to Aand B, “Wo wltl give you $10,000 cash down 1or the privilego of busing your mine three months from date at the fzed price of §50,0003 that s, $10,000 now id $0,000 at the expiration of that tine, Heanwtile e are to havo full cantrol of the nlng, and o have the right to work it and got o ore to the value of $10,000, the nmout that weadvance, If ot the end of threo months wo conclude that the mino is not worth purchasing, o it we fal to ralse the extra $40,000, the ming feserta o you, nmd you keep the $10,000 which ¥¢ havo guaranteed, ™ Ahoat onc-fourth of the Isluzmines in the Leadville district aro now nder bond for different amounts, Sume of the nds are worded go us to leavo the control and ¥orkings of the miuo in the hands of tlft orlel- ol owners; g0 that fn ease of a falluro to pur- : 850 the amount of the gunrantec fs oally Tost to the would-be {uvestors, Delault on bonds Is an alimost daily vecurrence, and la not regarded s prejudicial to the mines, he reason for such default belng oftencr an in* ity to raige the required amount at the ax- ET}; lon of the ond than any discovered defect bnudgd m!llnes. The lLong & Deny has been i Il reo times, und _each timo the [ruaran- ieey forfeited. It was only lust weel Uata $10,000 cuaruntee was lost, the lnvestors h&lh:flnu takew n dollar’s worth of ore out of m'm !,}efi,v;ulm lutter is regarded as falr prop- htfinnds et §s that many speeulators comp it Iumln‘mhm in expectation of placing st Zitin Chleagro or New York, but are v uliu doso, mul henco loss the nmount limes m:) put up in the owners nhauds, Some- other pac v fave themseivea by rohonding to "Mr(lcn, the geeoud bond overlapping the mu’y teverul months, with the conseut of the Calike other mining districts, i haugoy o THE CHINESE QUESTION r:mny:.-', bothered Leadville. No doubt .m“n urge element of tha puputation which rmmu\-or the Iutroduction of Mongollans, t mm(eiemem 13 not in a position to under- r: Y such precarious euterprise, The Ciu- miucr 18 bud when his lutercats are el wnd it s pretty gencrall “:“;'I:lu{ltl that any Chinaman ho shows his Vrwa e camp fs us good us pleklod nid on deasket to the Flow Kinzdon, E‘;I:J:xléu has the sanetity of thely unm: been of (1 (Ah Sin. Aboutn year ago n gang nhu-,,"f"‘, catue over the rauge [n expectation o :ng. Wurk Ia_tho mines which wer then ,m“mllnt-d. Before the stage bad falely b dllu lond Muin streot was bristitig with "fllem‘d Tevalvers, il the frightened Chineso tla th i every direction, thelr plirtails fly- ity e wind, und the wieked Mulican iu Biggpriit up the mountain sides, In flfteen ol Idnul e o the saflron-hued inwierants ol gleht, Tl second eplsode, though nort £ EXut e, wos cuunll{ pointed I lts dreueq (] day there arrived by stagon woll- htndy, lktlnnumn who had come toopen a by g -llure hy had been fn the camp haif un e um lfum.'lu ulot wud had begun to ne- B‘I"NhrI‘!“ erecilon of o buitding upon it fl??‘"u"‘.'.'\’d E:rln {:cwhm’l nour h\:fiml‘} ;rln.-uln v dud was beings rapidly driven in reclion ul!n{xuinmr. I'Ll‘lm reuson Tor m’. oo ] den exl was never satisfuc- :'f\x."’"m““ but it is supposed thut some ey fe lave hinted at tho desirablility of his h,“!mluuuru, At any rate, he has never rope) slace, withoug, T believe, Lo 8 still 5DL1|(|1¥7N"“ in Leadvllle, Bindeg u‘r‘ ot Chinumen, ono fs naturally re- ' on to laundry buslness, ‘This i now Sy g SHHRClY by bersons of the femals Tited 1y o the Irish race, nud they have cle- Lungee, 'f) & Bonapoly, “Ihere ara a sroro of T !LHJ‘(I tho villagze,” chareiig all_ the way Reutazg 0 §4 b dozen, bestdes the exorbitunt rougly |, YF_Perquisites fn the way of mya- Quenee, ell slirta und collars. As u conse- i b‘;"}:}lclfl-t'nb\uxl uro uvloxdcd [ &nufln oy oo omaunity at largo, und the Ya Sorlele o Liled whiru T u rarity. Tha Buhatteotey ézw\mn fluwlu‘;‘,;’blun silie ll|w“|l Somigy g ¢ young aristocracy, while Sligy g o0 u1ay do yiot asjire beyond o brown Badyjogy 2olct shirt without, ornament. The Ritly gy ‘hh';l“f"“‘ul the old mintug camps 18 Woeury 41, FEADYILLE AT NigurT g o A0ECE than by day, Just now the Ml arg gy bontlres, about which whilo the trregulor rows of hulldings on efther Alde_elennt wwelrdly against tho backeround of the 8lerras, ‘Thesc fires nro kept up by the eon- tractors for the new wator-worke, who, by the way, are * Chicago moen, amdl who ~ are moking n fine reputation throughont Colorado, 'The tinn of Russell & Alexinder, Tiaving fliele matn ofllca in the Major Block, on the enrmer of Ladulla nid Mudisan strects, havo Intely been engaged In Taylug water-maing bn Alfferent Western eltics, neluding Burlington, Ta., mut Colorado Sprines, In this State, Thelr work waos ro satisfactorlly done nt the latter place that at. n taass-meetiiz of cltlzens resohi- tlons of thanks wern publicly ndopted. ‘The Lendvillo contract upon which 1hey uro now en- waged enlls for the Javimg ot two miles of six #urd elght tneh pipes alonge Chestint and Stalo streots umd Ilarrison avenue. Tho entire jub will he completed In three weeks, An Interest- Ingz foct In this connection ts, that the contracts ors havo declded to use low-grade silver bullion for weldiug the loes togather, as they astiiate the cost, to'ha fess (han that of pura lead, which must be transported from a dlstance, As has been remnrked by the Hally Chroniele, Leadville Wit be the ouly elty fn the world which has allver-anounted water-matog, The Water-\Works Company ts n private corporation, ‘The Presls dent {8 °J, B, D, Mundville, the Vice-Prestdent Mr. C. W. Ionaker, amd the Becretary, ‘Trensurer, aud Superfutendent s J. C. Cramer, Messra, Mandvllle, * Cramer, nnd lHenry W. Luoke are owners of the chlorlde flunie, which will convey water to the reservoir frunk the Blz Evang Guich. ‘I'hese gentlemen arg to b commended for their enterorise and vulile- spiritedness in this matter, Next week the cfti- zens of Leadviile will vota upon the question of R0S OF no iag, tinl, a8 1he encral gentiment scemed to be favorable to the scheme, we will goon beetn to loom up in metropalitan propor- tions, no doubt., 1tisa wonder that THR PICTURESQUR TRAITS of this minlng canp are not slezed upon by romeof the nrilats of Chileago nnd Eastern eltfes, ‘There {8 n wealth of materiul hero for sketehing auch as hias rarely, If ever, been uffered before to the artistic world, The revolvinz zanorama of life, everlehanging, never censing, bresents the most strikling_contrast, nnd is full of inter- esting studles, Fvery dav they come with new force. Only yesterddy, for listance, thero ac- curred an feldente which wonld nfford materfal for a HNogartiian pencll. Up in Stray 11drse Gulch there had been Mving, tor several weeks, inarude cabin, o party of miners, They had heen indulging: during all their stay Ina con- tinuous drunken debatich, gnmblingrall nfeht, and sleeping all day, Yesterday morning o cit1- zen went up to thefr shanty to make some - qulrfes about a neleghborind mine. Knocking on the door ho received no responsc, and without more ado ho pushed it open and entered, Thers o strango shizht met his raze. Sprawled ubout on the ground: were the fonr occupauts of the cabin, two fn o druken stupor, one dend with n gosh in his head, and the fonrth drauk uml suorluiz, still erosping fn his hand the Lillet of wood with which thedeed fiad been cummitted, Liood staloed, and covered with halrs amd biis of flest, YOI A MORE CHEERPUL PICTURE, with plenty of opportunitics for the humorous, 1 would recommend one which might be named “Waltine for tho Mail.” Tho Leadville Post- Ottice stiil ranks ns nfourth-vinssofliee, although a strony cffort s belng made to elevate i to the sccond-class, It Is clnimed that s much business {8 done here na nt the Denver office, and, to judie from outward nnrenrnm:vs. nswell ng from the statemcnts of the clllcient Post- master, Dr. Bmith, thera can be no renson to doubt it. . During the week onding Feb. 15, money-orders to the amount of §6,400 wero fesued nnd £1,5638 were patd. But to obtatn an ldea of the vast labor comnccted with the ofllce one nust turn to the greneral delivery. ‘There are about 10,000 people fn nnd avout Lendvlile who receive thelr mall entirely through this channel. Only two elerks ean b detalled under the present arrangement to hunt up and give out lettere at the ceneral-delivery offtce, and. thc?' are kept constantly nt work from carly in the morning to 8 o'clock In the evenlng withont o moment's respite. But the pleturesquo side of the matter is suen only frot tlie outside. All day Jong there are two never- lcssening lines of people, renching from thy general-delivery window to the outer door, and doubling back almost the entira length of the building, As fast os one man 8 supplied thero is anathcer to take his place, nnd, passing along the street a dozen times a day, one will always sco the rame, tircless procession, It takes nhont an hour usually for n man to reach the dellvery- window fn his turn, "hero Is very Httle disorder, althouch the waithnz onea indulge In any amount ' of pgood-natured ehafl, Apparently thie men are roconciled to the inev- itable, though I dare say it would ho.ag much oa n person’s life wero worth to attewmot to broak” into the line nhead of turn, Hereare seon all classes and conditions on a common level,—the sllk hat and oyve-zlasses of the English tourlst, the “ bifed shirt ™ nud choker of the clerzyman, the faney necktle of the gambler, and, predomi- nnting over all others, as far as numbers are con- curned, the top boots and rouwh clothes amd wide sombrero of thie shagzy-bearded miner. Theso make up the motley processlon which is forever moving on, yet never ends, and which 15 to he seen ot any bour inslde of - the Leadvll! Post-Oflice. Let the artist dash {n a fow of these who have fust ot their letters from home, and who cannot walt to get ont of 1he roow before reading tho news, piving expression to the dif- ferent characters, and ho will have as flnos study of human nature us cun remllh( be mn- ugined. . B, THE VOICE OF TIE PECPLE. Sonntor Taines IWritten for The Tribuna by C. Il Carter. Thankis, noblo Senator; thy volce is hearil In ringiniz toues when Jabor stands in necd; His wolfare, brend and butter, 1y the creed ‘Too art o'erlooked when times sro slow nnd hard. Now when the clacquersof tho plethoric Eust Would halvo the loaf of labor at a blow, Tor noblcet won eends ereeting to the Weat, And jolna the mighty volce whichanswera **Nol" Well, wo shall see? In days to come, An avalancho. Imponding, will cruvh down, ‘Am Jotin wifl go, no doubt, and stav at home, Whtle some tn Washington will seck thelr native town, 1f thut tho recard prave, in fact, that he Forsoak hls flcsh and bloot for the Chinese? ¥. A, Howe's Lotter. Ta the Ldilor of The Tribune, Cneaao, Feb, 27.—In to-duy's paper you published o letter written by mo to Mr. F. A, Howe, azent of the Grand Trank Raillwny. Pleuse stato tn to-morrow's paper that the letter fu_auestion was written on tho 21st of this moutb, and obliie yours truly, 1. J. Demaiens, Inspector, Chinero tn the United Btutes. To the Iditor of The Tribune. Circaco, Feb, 27,—Please stato In Tue Trin- unn the estimated number of Chineso in thls country now, and oblige a number of your read- ers. INqQuinen, [The most relinble estimates place the num- ber at 120,000 adult male coolles, and 7,000 pros- titutes, ull exported from southiern China by the Blx Companies,—Bn.] Tha English In Africa, To the Lilltor of The Peitune, LARE TFotest, I, 'eb, 27.~Plcase state fn Tug TrisuNg when tho Eneltsh tivst began op- oratlous fn Afrlea, md obHuy W. W, Dicriysox, [The English captured the Cape of Good Hopo Colony, at the southern extremity of Afrlea, from the Duten, fn 1700, It was then they be- gan thefr operutions in Africa—FEu] ' Mra, Swisshelm and Mr, Pontocost, o the Lilitor of The Tribune, Curcaao, Fub, 27.—Mrs. Bwleshelm's attack on Dr, Pentecost In layt Sunday's Trinune i3 not worth answerlng, It persons like Mra, 8. will whimper aud ery ot everything denfed them, which they think they ougnt to huve, \vh?'. there Is no help tor ity firmness i tho vight {s the only thing that will bring them ton realizing eense’of thelr duty both to (iod und nan, L, MouaT, Howor on Callfornia Avenue, To the Lidltar of The Trihune, 5 Ciicaao, Leb, 27,—\While the Counel) arc wrangling over the appropriations, would it not be woll it the Aldermen of the Bixth, Soventh, ‘Twolth, und Thirteenth Wards should turn their attentfon for o short time to the great need of o main ecwer on Callfornia avenue, running from Lako streot to the Bouth Branch, therely tapplug four wards, besides nut ouly droining a luvge scetlon of country, but at the eamo thoe relleving other gsewers that are olready too heavily tuxed? ‘Chis nain sower tust B0 buflt before long, and $23,000 or so nunn':lprlnlul )'amf untll it was completed would hardly e felt, “The Twelfth and " ‘Thtr- teeuth Wurds, it s true, Would be muost bene- fited for the thmo belu, but, If they were the ouly ones, they need ft, und Lmlly too. fyery shaower wo have, or the breaking-up of winter, we ure completaly floodud, bridees and crossings waslied away, our cellars drowned out, suil we uro surrounded, us It wero, by an vecan, White thoueunds of dollara ars vdted away for tiose viaducts, would It not he wull to npuropriate fhe snma Lo the conductors of henlth, the sewers? TAXPAYEN. ‘Fho Town Temporanes Movoments T the Tiditar of The Tritnne, MecGneaon, la, Feb, 20.—As the {imo ap- proaches for the munielpal eloctions in Northern Towa It bowomes mora ovident that on the flest Monday in March the temperance and anti-tem- peranco people will collule agaln. Temperance Jeeturers have visited during this winter many of the towns in Northern Towa, and have worked | up o conslderable fnterest, so mitch so that, the temperance people will probanly attempt to elect eity ofticers favarabin to thefr way of think- ftgr, nned uttempt to probibit the sale of wine and heer, which our preacnt Prohibitory las permits, Tast there will be any amount of eeling, 1o one will doubt who lias scen 1} veriment tried. W, K 0. Etovated Rallways In Chicago. Ta the Liitor of The Tribune, Cnteaao, Feb, 27.—Several articles have re- cently appeared fn T Tumuxe intlnating that an elevated rollway 13 about to he bullt in Chleago. And thie question unttrnlly arises, If such rallways pay in New York, why will they not pay in Chicazol . 'Fhe first aucstion to bo canstilered Is, 1s there nny obstaclo In the way of thelr constructiont 8ee. 13, Art. 2, Bill of Rights fu the new Con- stitution, is as followa: * Private property shatl hot be taken ur damaged for public use without Just compensation,’ ‘[he sites of New York and Chleaco are very dlifercnt, New York Is built on a long, narrow strip of lunid, with no steam raflroads from the surronnding eountry approaching the centre of the ety nearer than Jersev City or the Grand Central Depot, which ahout fue miles from Wall atreet, and the clty contalus av least n miilfon of people. Chilcago, unlike New Yorlk, Ia susceplible of Indetlnite exvansfon, south, weat, nud north, wind has numerous steam rallways from all thebe polnts of compass, renching the very centre of tho city, nffording facllities for both elty and stibtirban travel It no degree equated by Now York, uud hardly coualed by any other clty, Yo, whila ehicap ind rapid translt “through anid to the suburbs of the ¢lty i3 much to be deslred, thero {8 littio or no probabllity that It witl bo obtalued by elevated rallways, even tf they could be bullt for half the cost'of such rallways o New York, with the sleht of way cotirely free of cost. And It is hardly to bu'expected thet the people on any streot” wouid grant o freo right of way for an clevated rallway to pass on a level with or above thieir parlor Window pardless of the peering curlesity of passengers, the obstruction of light, and ihe grreat nolse 1ndo by the passagzo of cars, which can be easily lieard half-mile wway, ‘I'he whole cost of the Metropolitan Rallway, it the writer Is correctly intormed, was abont 8400,000 per mible. ‘Ihe cust of the other Haes of clevated rallway fn New York the writer does not. kuow, but it {s rafe to say it was mare than half that sum, or §200,000 per mile spectfully, Township Trensurors. Ta the Teltor of The Trivuite. Cnicaco, I'eh. 27.—~Sce. 72 of the Hehool Iaw of Illinofs (Revised Statutes 1874, paze 072) reads ws foliows: * Township Treasurers shall rocetve In full for thelr services o compensn- tlon to e fixed prior to thelr electlon by the Boord of Trustees,” “The statute fixes no limit, to the disceretion of the Trustees, They appolng the Treasurer {hemselves, and of course ore friendly with htin, and not likely to pav him too, small o salary. The grrossest abuses are perpetrated, In this county nt least, in this matter. The cataries of the Treasurers varied In 1873 I the towns out- sfde of Chicago from §30 a year in Barrington, to £2,643.24 in the town composed of Lake and Jyde Parky from §32,55 in Elk Grove, 10§1,500 in Cleero, while fu Chfeago the nmount thus pofd was 38.524,00. In.New Trier the Treasurer reeefved $200 salary, while the total exuendl- tures for senool purposes in the town were but ,163.70. In Provisv the ‘Irensurer recelved the sarme salary, but the disbirsements were more than five tines as great, $XLOTLGL The ‘I'reasurer of New ‘Tricr had to pav flve teachers I three different distriets only, while the Tresurer af Provisn for (e same compensatfon pald twenty-one teachers fo seven diferent dis- tricts. Gleneoo and Winnetka are not fueluded in the nbove statement concernlng New Trler, aithough fn tlmt town, sinco they are under epecinl” chorters ond handlo thehrown sehool funds, In Noreington . the Tressurcr's sulary..xinounted to ubout four-fifths of 1 per ©ocent of the - total expenditures, and he pays seventeen tenchers in_ cleven dis- triets, In the fractionnl Town of Bloom, hiny- ine but two distrlcts, nnd onu teacher In ench, the Treasurer's salary wns about junrleen per cent of the total dishinrsements! ‘The pradent snd honeat Town of Thornton vays its Treasurer but 370, while the expendi- tures to seven districts were $3,609,05, and thir- teen teavtiers to be pald, y ‘Ihe pereentage of the total expenditures for sthiool purposes pald Sehool Tresstrers In 1878 us salarfea was as folluws: Many received nbout 2 per cent, & few from 3 to 4, five of them 6 per cent, one 0, mul one It These figures are all computed from statistics found in the annunl report of Mr, A, G, Lane, County Super- intendent of Schools (see specinlly pogro 43), 1f any statement hereln {3 l\unlul ar fncompleto it 13 the fanlt of the oflivial roport, I ‘The Treasurers are appoluted for one year only, nid will be apnointed soon after the April election thls spritvg, when one of the three School Trustees of eaclt town ia to be clected, The voters, it shonld be remembered, have nathing to da with the electionut the Treasurer., e {5 appolnted by the Trustees, aud il voters cun do to see to it thut a zood Trusteo I ol every spring. 'The totat amount paid these Treasirers fu 1878 o Cook County, in- cluding the city, was SIT43.20, und the fund for thy edueation of the children was ol courso depleted to thut extent. ‘Tlhe Treasurers have, it is true, to discharge other duties hesides paying out money. ‘I'iey are Clerks of the Board of Trustecs, and havi the enfe of township funds which contribute part of tho'eapital, the futerest of which helps sustain the seuools, but an examination of thess burdens fmpozed on the Treasurers sliaws thut, the nunual ealaries are fu some nstances ln no wise proportioned to the abor or the reapongl- bility. Compnring Darpington und New ‘T'rier, we flnd that winly the Prensurer of Barrington for 89 pall the seventeen teseliers of eicven distiiete, wnd bid the responsibiilty nnd lnnor of Jouning und collecthize interest on 295053 of township funde, the Treasurer of Now ‘Urier ro- celved 3200 aalary, nndd pafd but (ive teachers of three districts, and bad but 850 of township Tands to Jouk after, These glaring incaualitivs ol course grow out of the state ot by luw, which fixes no maximum compensation to bu pald the Treasurers, but leaves ft all to the dis. evetlon of the friends uf the T'reasurer who np- pofat hlm. JOuN A, OweN, No draveynrd Quarrel In ydo Fark, T'a the Editor of The Tribune, Cutoado, Feb, 27—In your notice of the clevated-ruitway project this orning you give curreney to o misstatenent which some ono fs Industrionsty attempting (o cireudnte, viz.: “There fs n flght In the village now a3 to the opening of Woodlawn yvenus throuch the cem- ‘This 13 untrue, Tu tho year 1859, 1800, ur 1801 (I forget whizh) the restdenta wad property-owners futerested petitloned the Board of Comlssloners ot tHzhways of tha Tawn of Lake (then fneluding the present Villuge of llyde Park) for the Iny- Inzout of a public highway from the centre of Bee. 2, P, 83, N. R 14, E. 3d 1% M., south through the centro of Sces, 11, 14, 23, und the north helf of 25 to the crossing of the llinols Central und Miehigan Southern & Northern In- dlana Roilronds (now known s Grand Cross- ne), und thence southenst on e south side of the Fort \\'u(ynu Raftroud to Alusworth Statlon (now Bouth Chicazo), antt the prayer of the pe. titioners (which Included ‘the thien owners of the N. W, of Bee. 20, T, 88, N. R 14, B, 318 M, ond nearly overy oo elso i the vicinity) was granted und the highway lald out, the qitestion of dumages or rlelit of woy detinftely settled, nud the road, ufter bebng sir- veyed, mopped, utd staked out, wus recorded according to law, which fact will show on the bouk of records of the Board of Comiiasluners of Highways of the ola Town of Lake If the samo §8 preserved, and, It not, can bu proven beyond eavil by numerous witteases, wha kudw the proceedings wero hnd st the survey flied, and thut it wua duly recurded, and furthermoro, {1 evldence wera needed of the dedication of (he 1ight away along the east lino of the eald N, W, 1§ of See, 2 (now constituting the eptire cen tery) it van b proven that the men who then owhed sald quarierssection emoloyed laborers und graded eaid Mghway on sald land imme- diately otter it was lnid " out Dy the Bourd of Cunmissioners of ilighways, und. thus ssuc- tloned und approved of their action, Several yoars later the project of mnvmtln:]' this land into u cemetery was thought of, nnd an old charter which had beed procured by the Jate Dr, W, B Evan wus hunted up, and under this au attempt was mude h{ thesu samo ownora whie d petitioned for this highway, sunctioned 1ts establishient, und graded Wt over their land, to combiue eald lund with some thisty or forty acrea cast of it (owoed then Ly Judgo Dickey and Isnae Couk) into a cemetery, and these same personk, with others, procecded to close thly publie hlehway., Tn 1877, the Hoard of Trusteas of e Villnze of Hydo Tark: parsed an onlindnes for opening thia lilehway, now known as Wondiawn avenue, atl instituted proceedings in the equrte for 1hat urpose; and the attempt of the Cenetery company to induce the Board of Trustees of the Village 0f Hyde Park to repeal this ordivance ia called by Yonr repopter * Adlght in the village over the opening of Woodlown: avenue through the cemetery,' Now, let ft e diatinetly understood thnt Oak- wod Cemetery 1w the No W 357 of Hee, 245, winl that the veeupled portion of 1L s ¢ v of the N W, 1 ot sald scetlon, and that the oe- eupled portion. as fs.well known, is now gootl nl for cemetery purposes, and thut the N, I3 35 of safd N. W, 24 18 low, wet round, unfit Tor hurlals, n2 13 the Tand east of the ling of Woodlawn avenue, which has uever been added tothe cometery, An attempt s now heing made o wdd It by proateing the repeal of this ordlnnee enacted fn 1877, Let it be distinetty understood that no person desies the openitis of — Wowll avee throngh the cemetery; that Wowtlnwn avenne was o) out, platied, surveved, and recorded nearly twventy vears ago along the east line of the cemeterys and that (he ordinance of the village requires that I be opened Lo travel, Truly yours, JAMES WabswoRnTit, Meno, Mene, Tekel, Uphnrsin, o the Lditor of The Tribune, Jouser, 1L, Fab, 20~The great. Canal Con- ventlon has met and Iis work bas been finished, Its plory was numhered. ¥ts inembers were weighed fn the balances nnd found wanting, And the great emoluments of the canal nre to be divided between the Canal Comnifestoners and the railroad stockholders, Our visins of the great river pulaces of the sllssissippi und of he Missourl, nnd of the great white-winged messengersof commercoof the (ireat Lakes of Amegrica passing nlong over the great prafrics of Nimols; of the great shoals of lake trout and whitefish swarming down throwgh the brigut, pure waters of our Desplatnes und Iiuots Riv. eray of the great river-barpes filled with the prodiets of the fron mines of Missourf and of Lake Superior laying down thely loads at our now ldle blast furnaces; of the ereat cotton factories,tilicd with buay spinners and weavers, running Ly the stupendous water pow- er ceven b our very doors; of the ponderous ron swing-hridees panning 1he preay canal of the great Joads of Michigan Jumber fAnding - {te way (without transhipment) 10 the great Western river towns, and the great Jouda of Jollet und Lemout marble nud Hme- stone golnz away to bulld gveat montumants of Iuture’ preatness on the Awericen plains of Kansas nud Nebraska, wnd returning ‘Joads of breadstufls to feed the hungry millions of New Eogland and ol ropey—all have vaulshed 03 n midsumuer night's dream; nnd we lave ptill Jeft the stern realty of ille furnaces, of undeveloped stone quni- ries, of a flithy and polluted river filed with sewerage, of a decaving Ishnd commercial marine, of an {dle and bunery population, of Dildewelts filed with tramny, of henltentiarics crowded with eriminals, of mortgnged homes uid furms, of high tuxes, amd cmpty pocket- hooks, We have uil these things lelt, but they don't consote us much. The leading oflclata and husiness-men of our county were sciected as members of the great State Cansl Conventlon, hut very few of them were patriotie cnonzh to attend, while the Canal Commissloners, raflroad mercennrles, nnd will-owners packed the Conventlon with their friends, wid the trne friends of improved water trausportaton were outnumbered, ind the re- port of its true friends in the Commlttee tald ou the table. Meanwhlle the Lewmslature is askied to donate §200,000 to furnish sularles for such sinecures aud incompetent manatrers ns have alrendy squandered thonsands of dollars of the canal funds, and filled 1he coffers of rallroad stockholders to the detrlment of the tax: ridden fariners and enterprising ctlzens of the State o Tlinofs. We mav look forward now (if they get the money appropriated) to ree next month adozen or iwo men with wheelbarrows dirzing out a few of the woral bars in the canal ot about three or four days, costing uhout §100 or $20, umd then things Wwill goon i the old routtne of .draswhe hizh sularies by the ofiicinls, und drawing bills for traveling fare and ex- penses, until the woney s all cone ngain, nnd the eitizens along the banks having to bear with the nulsance, and cannl-boatmen steuggting for exlstence without hope fur the future, 1 fear that onr preaent Ruprescntatives aml Congressmen will fall to combline thelr nflu- oncy to accomplisli any wreat results In 1he near fnture, The common peonle wid voters of the Stutes mostly interested wilt have to make the transportation question one of politics in the future, and carev It by storm, wl place men in olliea that will push the work on amnjnst aH op- positlon, ‘Fhiero ure o preat obstacles in the wayi we have 1he terlaly the muscle, nnd the he necessary fmplements chinery, 'flie eagineering sklli now In oul tntry, that made n highway throtsh the toeky Muuiiaing the fron horso pud the e aflroad - Companl awd Central Tacllic 8, Can make nlso n hizhway for the ships mul steamers of the great Ameriean natfon from the Hudson tver to the Misstasipol, amd from the Gulf of Mexivo o the Stealts of Mackluaw. 8o, then, Iet Congress appronriate a few milltons of dol- Tara, mud set the fdls thousamds of Awmerles to wosk, and i a fow years wo shall find 1he coun try fnercused in population, busy and prosper- ous, uur resources developed, our people happy amd patriotie, und the abidity to pay the noces- sary taxes ureatly fucllitated, Iinste the happy day when pence ind plenty, good will and foie fernity, wlll onco more relen nmong the truo eitizens und Joversof the wreat Amerlean Re- publle. Quapian Hieks, Exclude Germun from the Publlo Kohools, T the Bditor of The Tribune, Ciicaco, Feln 87.—Ilow can the Germans in this clty elnlm as citizens the right to have thefr mother tongue taught {n our public schools, nnd to geense overy one who wants thefr lan- cunge excluded frum our schools of hatred to thelr nationality? * "That fs something wo Sean- dinavians are wnable to understamd, And thougl thoy ara 6o gencrous as to accord to other nationalities samo right o8 they now cluin for themselyes, 1 can ussury them that the Seandinaviung never would nttempt to use ~this right, even il they really wers possessed of It,—and I do not think they would bo allowed to use it elther. Not beeause ovur Seandinavian lunzzuaze {8 not worth learning or remembering; vot at all. It fs o beputiful language; nay Furopean authorlties on such matters havo de- elded that the Swedlsh language Is superior to moat other civilizod lungusees, nnd nearly equal to the very Itullan. Neltherdo wo love the Tawd awd the langnage of our fathiers less than the Gestnans love thelrs, Wo lave n valuably literatur ¢, too, which wo do not want to forget, —=1i {8 the - vory works ol our Scandinavian poets, npon which the stage ol vur German Trivids 0 davs grasse Vaterind has been Teeding aid fattened during the lust years, Butfn splite of all this, we Beandhnvians nre loolsh cuongl, and unpatriotie enougly, to deem it of the highe cat fmuortanee to our cotldren 1hat they should learn kometh’ny [ the publle s:Tools, and of the next highest fmoortanes that the soncthing which they shonld feurn should bo those thiyes that woull be of most practical value ¢o them us citlzens of this country. Now, wo Lknow from nbundant experience (o the old country, as well a4 {0 thle, that elihdten cannot lenrn suaicthing in e public sehools when you try to teacl them many aid Jeerd things, 1 you crowd thelr fu- Icetuol strength und capacities too much, eannot retatn unything, - There {a no com- 1 8chool thut hny suceecded in teaching enil- f all elasses wore than one langunwe, writ- (g, and apsthmetle, nud a littlo reography and history, and perliaps n i tlestuging,—more than this childron generally have not been able to learn tolerably well i the public schools, And uny experlenced pedazogue will el yout that jt cannot possibly be ollwr- wise, Now, therefore, — wu Beandloavians do most emsflmlmlly protest asiinst this crowdiiyg ofthe bublic schouls, becuuse we cer- tunly iust have o right to gdemand that our children wnd other people’s ehildren shall leara something, Auld we protest agamst thy teaching of German or auy other forelzn lan- guage in tho pubile sehools, because we deem b of paramount fmportanes to our chlldren, us well us to those of other nationalities, that they shonld learn—aud learn well—the English lgn- pguaze, awd the geeu IF““ wind history, and fi- atitutions of this countrys wid we boliove this to be atout all they can” possibly learn fu the few years of attendanco at the " public sehoots, elally when wo conslder how muen thue thero ts spent on Enclish spelling, 12 our Tuard of Education crowd tivrign or any other furelen languagzo Into our publie schaols, 1t will doagrave injustice to the children, For the result would bu thut the ehilliven would come out of the publie schools without kuowlug any lauguage at all, nay, without knowitg nnything sulllelently woll to'be of any usc to thent whon cmcrln;i into the strugeio of o mwl the exer- ciso of the vighta and duties of cltizeuslip; they would be thoroughly impractical and helple thelr minds behyg staffed with confused smat- teringa-of many things thut they bad not at sl digested or mastered. When Mr. Vockoe, at the Turner-Hall meeting, sald, wccording tu your report. that more brauchies ** should o added continually ! to the g currlculum of our public schools, he only show- ed himeelf utterly frnorant nnd fncapable an 2 peldagogue, and entirely unworthy of his oflice a8 a memher of onr Board of Bducation. The German Innizunge 18 a fine lanzuage, and of constderatide practical value to business peo- ple of this country, but, of course, not 5o neces- sary A o thoraush knowledge of the Enelish. W nre, however, by no means compelied to for- gut our mother Jonunges Leeause thes are not tatzht In the public seliools, If we care to pre- acrve tliem, we haye ample opportunity to do so ontside of the publie selinols, wid weoughtnotto tax other peonte In order Lo preserve oir own particular langiage for onr children, Most of our Scandinnvian ebiliren can read and talk the Scandlnavion language, though it los never Deen taught fn the publie schouls; but they tan read, aml talky and even weite Lujlish, too. ‘The Ienrnm‘: of 0 langungzes is entlrely o private aflaly, ewndinavian, or Ameri- can, or Irish children who want to learn them augeht Lo tlo so outside of 1he public schools, utd ot n more mnture ngze, when they shall have sufliciently mastercd the things that are of more finportance to themselves, A8 to the rleht of the Germans or any other natfonality to have thefe languaze taught in the publie sehvols, we do not belfeve In ity and we do not helieve thut the mignt-ls-right principle ought to b hinported nud allowed to be brougbt into practice a3 n ruling principle of action fn this free country, Hecause the Germans in this clty are tivice or thrice ns numerous as the Sean- dluaviane, [t does not ressonably follow that they shatl be a privilezed peeple to the detrl- ment of other nattonalities. I’ Board of Ed- ucation ought toact fu this matter eolely necord- iz to true pedagaeieal aml economizal prinet- ples nud without reaard to patlonal or politieal parties, 1f, however, the (iermans Insisz on muking this tiucsllnn 1 political fssue, the Scou- dinavtans al the other natlonalities will bu compeiled to protest in a more cifectual manner, SCANDINAVIAN. Chicago Bowers —Shnll They s Pumped into Its Water-Suppty 2 Ta the Editar of The Tribune, CiricAon, Feb, 2r.—Mistakes have oceurred among all people nnd at all thnes, but to the wlse It Is a preclous duty to amend. A fuw dags ago a Comumission was sent to this eity by the citizens along the canal and Hilnols River in or- der to ascertain taeans by which the smell and pollution of the-water caused by sewaee conld be reduced or avoliled. Ikenes the umportance of the question to a Jarze population ontside of this elty. The Committee appointed to examine the matter eay In thelr report: ‘Thie nearcst ronree of reliof (s tound fn the near appronch of kprong, when the sewage will be dilut- el to enchadegree na to render it mnch jees offanelve it next wonrce of reller, 1t Ix howed, will be tho Fullerion Avenue Conault, IF It {4 found thal the North Hranch can be discharsed inta tho take thronzh this condiit without contame lnamlf thu water-rupnly of tho city it will very materfally relieve the cand), and may possibly 1n- duce the cily to copmtruct o similar one from a lmgm near (no head of the Houth Iranch to the luke, ‘What horror! Aronot some of these reme- dics worse than the discase? Two years ago there was a freshot In the river towards {he lake, caused by n sudden thaw, which earrled the rownge far beyond the erib, makine the water a deadly paison, And {8 there not -now dlgeharized more filth in the Inke water than the well-beie of Ies cousumers can stand 1 Arenot lundreds of Infauts avnually killed just from this very cause T I refer the questions to the medfeal profession, who will not only answer them afirmatively, but, perhaps, make a com- vleto stutement of the evils oceurring from this aceursed source, And this the city proposes to inerease, expending milllons tn the experiment, Lo fs wrongr In theory and an outrage in pra tee to turn the sewageof u clty into its water- supply. Nature has provided ‘this place with the most abundunt and hest water of perhaps any clty fn the civilized world; but by the ne- farious txperiments the conunittee 4o {rs report propuses, of pumplug the sewage futo the lake, it {8 but o question of time fn conjunction with the growth of the eity when puro water cannot be Jind fn Loke Michigan clther two ur ten wiles from our shores, ~And has any cotmmuni- ty arlght to pollute with sewuge or other nuls- ances the water in streama or _rivers for thoso that dwell below themt Vhe sdvocates of such ngyatem may argue that It works no evit; that, water 18 s own purltier, ete.; but 1 will only refer those to the plague of st summer in the South, Mississippl, toe great. reciplent of aew- age during 1t passaee tarough the Jand, every eity and village on its banks ponring its filth anit dirt {herein, 13 its maln cause. . And are not the evil-doera punlshed unto third sl fourth generations? ” But for the present let us It discusslon to locad matters, where it {8 our duty os builders of n uew city not, only to make it habitable for the present, but the best possible for cutning generations. With this noble objeet fn view, it 18 necossory to prevent poslution of hoth water and alr, not only for ourselves, but for our nelehbors lso. The widenine utd deepenims of the canul is, for navigatory purposes, a most laudable enter- prise; bui, as for lesseniug the unhanpy condl- tion of the w: chareed with drainnze, it will only suflice for a short time, because the growil of this city witl so inere: the quantity of kewage that te same diflienltles soon will oceur azab, and hecume worse a3 e river usl canal will bo covered on_ bottom and banks with putrefsing unlmat und vegetable matter, aceu- mutared fn lurgee mnsses during Joneer perforls, u soures of alarinl and epldemic USCS along L8 way. Instead, then, of thrnjne (he rewagza Into the viver or (he lake ft shonld be transferred to the coantry, deodurized, s nsed ns u fertilizer. In agricaliars thevs {3 un axiot viz.: Return to the Innd an equivalent for wh hins been talien from It dn erops, 1f this daw s nut heeded, 1t 15 only 1 guestion of time when the richost foll will be' ¢xliaus! This _nsse tlon $s verllied in eeveral of the tern States, crops haviug for n number of yenrd heen tuken from the fapms withoul adequale returns of the elements necessary for coreal utntion, ad now, when the land refuses to yield any more, thie_formers abandon the homes of ticle Inthers, o West, anid practice on the ol prinelple, Public nulsances when rightly treated nre turned into pabtie benetlcenses, ™ I will elte ong exnmul Tweuty years ngo the offal from ens works was one of the worst nuisances, pol- Iuting wir and water for miles around them, ued the Buehsh Parllament passed striet vrohibitory taws to nbate the evil,* This toreed chiemists to experhments, and, instesd of the evil 0 much eomplatned of, thero (s now ex- tracted g number of useful substances, from aniline ntu benzine to cream of tartar, Sewnge, ilko the offal drom gas works, has olso to be treated for wtilitarian purposes, und, instead of helng one of the worst nulsances, destructive to 1ifo, polluting both alr aud water, it may be turtied into n soureo of wealth. By tunnels or conduits and pumping worts, as proposed by the Fullerton-avenue conduit, the sewers can Lo transterred to the pratries, 1he odors neutraltzed by chemical processer or absorbed by lime, and thus chaneea to one of the most valuablo fertillzers, which W some mensure will retarn to the land the elements that hava been takon from it in sgriculiural products, “I'he cost of stich n avstem would he much less than the enlnreing of the canal, without tha probobia expenso of another condult with pumplog-work for the South Hrunel, s the Comunittes *hopea™ for, It would then ho nrcessnry to pump ont the water in the river also, whf;h seeny Lo mo n the present system makes o heavy but unavoldable expense, be- sitles heing a questionable way 1o eleanso it But why waste millons of dollurs fo natehing up u aystem of dralnage that always will bo prowleg evitd When it 18 necessary to juunp away tha dirt, Jet us not pour it lnto'our waters snuply, for nature ftself witl punish the tra jeressors in thia cuse with death; but, fnstead, it it on the bawd, whero it §2 needed; whero (b 0 helongs; where it is nol unly harmless but weetnls wnd where the veretstion will thrive in absorbing it und inore than repay the operations of the works. da 4, HaLLuERA, e ee— Dr. Batt, the Iriah Homo-Ruto Leader, New Yous, I'eh, 25.—A disnateh from Dub- I sayaz *The discase which a sliort time since was contracted by Dr, Tawae Hutt, Member of Parllument for Limuorici, hus nssumed o duns gerous character, und s destn muy probably oceur inn fow duys, Notwlihstimling the an- taconisms exeltqd against Dr, Butt by o fuction In his own party, he has Jong been one of the most popular men n tratawd, He was a staunch Proteswng, but wad respected and honored by the Chtholie hk-rnrrlli' privats, and peopio throughout Ireland, 1o was born bn 1613, uod was u descenduut of the O'Dotnells, ancleut chiefs of Tyreonnetl, 1o obtatned a scholarship at ‘I'rinfty Coltero In 18482, aid three years atter craduated with high classical wind mathemuticsl honors. In 1834 ho was apooluted Prolessor of Political Economy at Trinfty, nwd o 1633 was called to the Bar, Ilo wus msdo o harrstor in 1844, nul was oue of the vounsel for the defense of Swith O'Brien and oiher Irlsh vutriots who were tried for hieh treasen in 1818, awl for the Fenlan prisoners in 1805, Curlously cnoneh this cmbnent Irlshinan made his first appearancs In Parifument us a ropresontntive of the Engllsh borough of Horwich, in Essex, in 1832, winl slnco then ho has been admost contlou- ously In Parliament, sliting a8 a meniber Jor Youghal and for Lunerick, o and the late John Francls Maguirs wers the founders of the Home Rulo party, und the real leadership ot that party aftor the death of Moeufre remained fn the haids of Mr, Butt, AL the last clection he was returned without opuosition, s popular- ity belng so great thut no rivel cared to oppear egalnat him, LATER.—Dr, lsanc Butt is {mproving, and his physicioua bavo hopes of hia ultimato Tecovery, VIRCENAEY' CEXTENNIARL. The Centenary of tho Conquest of [ the Nortnest---George Rog- ers Clarke, Ifis Drilllant Capture of Kaskaskln and Vincennes...Ameriea’s Forgot. ten Meroes. Spretal Carrexpondence of The Tritine. Vincexyes, Ind., Feb, 26.—To-dny woa the centennfal anniversary of the caoture of Vin- cennes from the Britlsh, and was thie ocension of alarge display of bunting. ‘Fhe fornal cele- bratton of the event witl, however, be held July 4. when an Imposing demonsiration witl take place. GEORGE ROGENI CLARRE, Neto York Herald, A singular fatality hus ovscured the memory of one of the most gallant uwd deserving of the hieroes of the American atrugele for fudepend- ence, Walle fuslgniticant skirmishes fn the Eastern Htates have been celebratert In prose aned beetry, sl have beeonis the stanles of our school histories, o campaien swhich, In {ts far. reachifi results, was one of the acclaive cevents of American annsls {s almost unknown to the men of the present generation, and its heroes depyived of that need of fame which Is justly thelr due. There are few more romantie ex- plolts recorded in thie story of any country than the expedition of Ma), George Rogers Clarke, in 1778-'0, with o handful of Virgiman volun- teers, through' the pathiless wilds of the great Northwest. ‘Ferritory, resulting In {le conquest and permanent annexation to the revolted volo- nles of the strongholds of British power fn a re- gion now peopled by 10,000,000 of the most pros- perous of Ameriean citizens, Few Amerieans huve any knowledge of the pre-Revolutlonary annals of tho great West, For them the history of Ohio, tudiaua, Ilinols, Michizan, and Wiscon- £ln beging with thelr settlement by emigrauts from the Ensterh States Jong subsequent to the war of the Hevotutlon, and it is only in recent times that Franceis Parkman’s charming volumes have recalled to memory thut there {8 a history of French oceupancy of the Northwest, covering a full century beforo that territory passed fnto English hands, FURENCH EXPLOUATION IN TIHE NORTIWRST. The herofe achievementa of the early French cxplorers Lagalle, Jdollet, Vincenoes, and others udded to Canada the whole rexion of the grreat Jukes and the whole upper valleys of the Mississtppl wmd the Onlo. During the silent decades of the-first half of the cighteenth century, whilo Washington was surveylng the fastnesses of the Valley of Virzinta, nnd Frankli experlmenting on electrie phenomena at Philudelphia, there were slumbering fa uore- corded obscurity numerous Frenel villoges on the linois aud Wabash Ilivers, Founded be- fore the dlose of the eeventeenth century, they were o remote, both from the French Capital at Quebee awd from the western nutposts of the 13h colonfes, that they might as well have been in the heart of Afrieun fur afl that wns known of them at Downing street, at Willlans- vury, or ot Philadelphla. ‘Fhe fssue of the sgEeven Years War," which, in 1763, deflnltively extimrulshed French Dominton (i Amerdes, hnd but slight effect In directing uttention to these remote settlemnents, T wera ndded 1o the “'rovinee of Quebee,” with which the people of the thirteen Eaglish Colonles felt that they had but Mttle concern, winl the ereed for new ternitory bad sthil vast reidons to appropriate before the valuo of the great Northwest could bo uppreclated. SITUATION OF TIE BRITISI YOSTH. At the outbrealk of the levolntion the North- west Territory, considered va a part of the Proy- ince of Quebee, wus admiblstered from Detroft by Col. Henry Hamnditon, with the title of Livu- tenant-Governor, Hamilton a brave but unserupuious ofileer, who enjoyed great. fuflu- ence with the Indians, smd did not hesitate to pay them high bounties for the gealps of the in- surgent frontlersmen. e three prinetpal ont- nasianf the rezion under his command were tie old Freach settlementa of Kasknstiia, Cahokla, and Vineenues, Raekaskin, founded hy Las Solfe fu 1603, I8 situaied near the mouth of the nuyigahle Kaskaxloa River, th the present Rtan- duipl County, Southern IHtuoks, nearly oppo- slte 8t, Geneviove, Mo, Thouch now an Insiz- nudeant villuge, it was for more than a century e largest secticment of the Northwest, uud for several vears prior to 1818 was thie Capltal of Iilwols ‘Ferritory. Cabiokla is now almost a suburb of bt. Lont: nz situated on the tll- nois shore of the 3 pply four or five miles south of that elty. Vincennes, thie county-seat of Kunox Cannty, Iud, [ sitnated on the'y ern banf ol the Wabash River, oppusite Law- rence County, [i. 1t {s a thriving city of some 7,000 juhiabliauts, wearly midvay between Ciu- cinnati neud St. Lons, by the Ohio & Misstssippl Ratlrond; 18 surrounded by handreas of Indian moutls, bonsts - University, and prowdly re- calls the fuct that juwas the Capital of { Narthwest ‘Uerritory durling fts whole existen awd of lndiana Tereftory umil 18 founded ns u trading-post nhout 1712 by 1 Haptiste Bissot, Blenr de Vinvennes, o native of Queber, and near kinsman of the explorer Jotlet, who from his chlidhood had taken uu aet- ive purt in Western explorations, was lons resl- dent among the Minmi Lodinns, nnd in 1503 Jomed the oxpeditton of Chievaller @’ Artaguetto ngatnst the Chicknsaw Indians, by whom, after severad victorles, he was talken prisoner and burned alive, along with many eoingunons, fn- cluding Pere Senatnud D*Artuzuette himselt, BARLY CAREER OF CLARKE. At the commeneement of the War of ] olution Kentucky had not attalned ey dizuity of o county, but wus kuown s **the western precinet of Flneastle County,” in the Btnte of Vigginia, A few hundred settiers had followed the lead of Daniel Boons wnd Cal, Jumes Harrou, und two towns, catled Toanes borough nind Hlarradsburir hud' been gutiered avound the blovkhouses near the Kentueky River o vear of two before. Ilither came [it 1775 the hero of the conquest of the Nurthwest, George Howers Clarke, then o youth of 23 years, but hinving already ealned n distinenished fecord o8 8 buckwoodemnn and Tudian flehier, e was of a good funily fn AMbunarle County, Va., and was born near Charlattesville, Nov, 1), 1 Like Washlnzton, who wos tweniv years hiu senlor, ho commenced s active career as o Tk aurveyor, He had visited Kentucky hetore the st permunent settiement was mado thero by Boone, having paditled down the Oho Haver fu 1572 ns a companion Lo the celebrated Itev., David Jones (iterward Chaplaln tost, Clule and Wayne), when on his enterprising but fraltiess *tiospel Misgion Lo ‘the Shawnee awd Defaware Endiana” At this time he was de Iy impressed with the fmportanee of Valloy of the Obio, und the ne: 1t fursettlement by his countrymen Lassin arrates (* Field-Bool," Vol. IL, p 253) the tnenediate seauel s W8 mind wos clear and comprehensivs personal courage of the truest stumn; hi teles, physieal and mental, always vizorous, ho soen heeane an oracle umony thie biackwoods- men, e commanded o company fn Gov, D more's avmy w1774, During “the yeurs 17 and 1770 o tsaversed vast reizlons of the witder- ness south of the Ohio, studicd the churacter of the Intans, chielly from the observations of others, und sought to discover o nlan by which # tide of cmigrutdon mizbt low unchecked wnd seenre into that paradise of the continent, 1o svon hecama convinved that the Dritlsk grare risung at Detroit, Kuskaskis, and Vincennes wero the liests uf those vutires who proyed up- an the feeblo sectlements of thy West und des- uged the viegin soll with the blovd of the ploneers,'* BURILLIANCY OF THE EXTLOLT. Mr. Bancroft, who cannot bo acensed of un- due enthnslaem respecting this portion of the annals of the Kovolutlon, remurks at this junc wre: *Aucaterprise §snow to bLu recorded swhich, for the valor of the actors, thelr Hdelity to onv spother, the sceming fechicness of thelr menns, and the great result of thele hardibood, remnlns forever mewmorable fn the history of the worll On the 6th of dune, 1778, the emi- srrants I the “western precinet of Fincastls County " met In conveution ut Hurrodshurg ubdd ¢leeted Capt, George Rogers Clurke, along with another of ther number, to provesd to thy Capltal of Virginis und solleit the formatfon of their settlementa into u conuty, lefore the two deleratos could reach Willfamsbure the Declaras tlon of Independence had bicen promulgute and the Legistature of Virginin had adjourne At thewinter scsslon, however (Dee. 6, 1770), the County of Kentucky was orzanized, with the mita of tie Stute of the same name, uid Clarke returned down the Oblo the followlny spring, During tha summer of Clarke seut tvo _young hunters to _ recounollre the Frenet villoges in - Iiljuols —wud on the Wabush, It was learnud thut the British curshion of Keskuskln hud beon withdrawn o saror two before, und the custudy of the forg comuiitted 1o Pullp Rucbeoluve, & Frenchman, whio bad nehibier troops vor woney, Lieut.-Gov. Humiltun, of Detrait, nad withdruwn his atten- tion from the distaut Weat, was scudius vatties of savages to the frontlee with the Intentfon of reducing the '“revel forts on the Ohlo," and even dreamed of the reconquest of Pittsburg for the British Crown. M FLAN OF THB EXPEDITION. - " Toward the close of 1777 Clarka sct out for Willinmsbueg to propess n secret cxpedition againet Kaskaskia aml Vincennes. il opened his project to hut few nersons, chief among whon were Gov, Patrick Henry, (leorze Mason, and Thowas Jefferso, On. Jau. 2, 1778, Clnrke wagcominissloned na o Major, and received from the Governor and Couvctl o supply of money (£1,200), with hherty to levy troops In aoy vounty of Virglnia, and two sots of instruce tlons.—one publie, orderlng him to **proceed to the defense of Kentucky™: the other private, alrecting an atteck upon the British fort o Kaskuskia, ‘The communder of Fort Pitt, ne Littaburie, was ordered to fitralsh Clarke with nmn:unltlun, boats, and other nccessary equip- ; ments, Hastening neroas the Alleghanics Clarke quick- Iy cstablished rarrullln§ stations atinany points i Western Vireinta and fixed his_headquartera at Redstone Old Fort, on the Ymmluughcnf River (now {u Fayetto Counts, Pa.), where, with {he cordlal ald of Col. Hund, he coilected noata, mim artiilery, und ammunition, Tiere he was Jolned by Capt. Leonard Iiclm, of Fauquler County, and Capt. Joseph Bowimau, of Fred- criek, ench with loss than half a company, In a few weeks nearly 1,000 bnrdy backwoodsmen Joined his standard, Including some from the remole wilds of the Holston River, In ‘Tennes- X (}lelln’: down the Olio they stopoed at it Kanawha and were thererelnforeed, in May, 8, by Cnr:. Witllam Harrod, withn Kentucky company, lenext halt wasat Corn Taland, nt the Falls of the Ohlo, now Loulaville, where Clarke took up his resldznce In later years, Thoro ho | was foined by one of bis scouts, Simon Kenton, o youth of 232 years, nfterward celehrated as ono of the boldest piuncers of the West, nnd by iC.mt. Jolim Montgomery, with a few Kentucke ans. CAPTURE OP TitE ILLINOIS T'OSTS, On June 20 Clarko set out from the Falls af fhe Obfo und proceeded down the river on his, memorablo errand, with oars double-manned, Doubling northward fnto the Mississippi o few days Inter they arrived unheralded at n creelc u mile ahoye Fort Massac on July 8, und, striliing neross the treeless plaln the next day to Kas- kaskin, n distavee of seven miles, captured the bust by aurprisc on the evenluy of duly 4, 177, ‘The uwitacking party numbered about 150 men. A detaclument under Capt, Bowman was sent to Cohokin, and wns recelved without opposition. The French Inhabitants of both places willlngly L»Ic(lucd their nllegtance (o the newcomers, nowing that Franee had concluded an oillonce with Amertca. . GOV, IIAMILTON'S PROJECTS. ‘The nctual ocenpntion of the 1linols countrs was thus consnmmated without bloodslied, Thuy reduztion of Vincennes remained to be uchioved, nid was an enterpriae of creat difficulty, In the first {nstunce, muecd, the people of Vine cennes gave in their allegianee to Clarke withe « out resistancs through the persuasions of FPere (abault, a Catholte }mm dfapatched thither with a small party n Kusknskfn. But_as £00N 0y tho news reached oy, Hamilton at De-+ trolt he set out for the Wabash with a conslder- able body of troups, accompanied by 850 Indiun warriors of thirteen different tribes, Ilo tovk possassion of Iort Vincennes Dec. 17 without opposition, the. people returning to thelr alle~ wlance, Hamilton settled himaclf down for the winter without fear of molestation, and an- nounced by Jetter to the Spanish Governor of Loulslana his Intention of recovering the I~ nols country in the spring, and threatened to nvado Louisiana If hospitality should be given to the fugitive Insurgents (Clarke's pariy), Moreover, he summoned 4 vast mumber of In- dians to his=stundard and projected the redues tion of the whole Ohfo and Alieghany country. ‘TIE MANCH TO VINCENNES, Clorke nud his resolnte band wero not to be daunted Ly these dire threatenings, Learnbys from Fratceols Vige, o trader at St. Louls, that Hamllton had wealened himselt by sending out hordes of Indlong, Lo resolved . to attuck Vineennes before their return, By his Capt, Bowman evacuated Cahokis, and, aasmll warrison in Kuskaskls, Clarko sel ont Feb, 7 with 130 men on his adventurous muich across Sonthern lilinofs, e had pre- vioualy dispatchied (Feb, 4) Capt. John Rogers on a smalt'galley sounting two four-ponnders sl four awivels, with orders to enter the Wa- bash Itiver nud take up o position a few miles below Vincennes, BURRENDER OF VINCENNES. Eleven days were cousumed In_reaching the margin of ie “drowned Tands " of the Wabnsh, near Vineent wid live duys' mors wero re- quired to traverse them, vlten wading up to the brenst in water, €0 that they coula” make but four ur five miles u dday, Had the wenthier sud- dealy beeame cald they mustall have penshed, Fortunately the winter wus unusustly open, wink the encmy was nmum,l*r obllivious of - \hfr preseuce, “Even on the Brittsh trooos left. Vincennes on a distant foray, uncousctous of the vicwity of an invader. The town wns left indefenstble, and on Fev, 24, 1779, Maj. Clarko utid s nerole companions et Viticennes at the lower end of the villaze, witis drums beating and o white flag fl{luc. I'he townsmen ladly renewed thelr allegrinnce to the Continental Comrress, and alded fn the slezo of the fortrese, whicn waus immealately invested, Tt kurrendered before nishtfall, and ‘was oceit- pied on the moraing of Feb. 25, 1750, 100 years a0 to-dny, ‘Tbhus the lust Britfsh stronghold in the Obio”Valley was forever Insured to our fnumtul Republie. Col, Hamfilton und Capt. Rocheblave were sent prisoners to Willlama- burgz, A rellef-expedition from Dotroit was surpriged and enptured n few days later, CLARKE'S LATER CAREER. ‘The Legislature of Virglnia testitied its apore- clutlon of Ularke's services hf‘ 1he moat compll- wentury resolutions. The IHilnois rezion was made i county of Virglnia, Clarke, in the spring of 1780, bulli Vort Jefferson on the Mississipp! River, five miles holow the mouth of the Ohlo, e was ninde o Hrizadler-General, conducted a successinl camparzn agafust the Miami Todluns, and subsequently Joined Steuben in the Enstern States, In 1730 he commanded an expedition of 100 men ngzeinst the Indins on the Wabash, put It proved a fallure, “Mhe memory of his ereat services was quickly forrotten, und ho pussed the Jast years of his'life near Loulsvillo, . Ky., m poverty and obscurity, paralyvzed bya rhisumatie alfection, Four of "his broihers wore actively enguzed in tho War of the Rovolution, onw of them belme killed 1n battie und another murdered by Indisns on the Wabash, A still younger brother was the Gen, William Clarke brated 08 the companion of Mcrelwoiher 13 fu the explorution of Oregzon, and after- ward for many years stationed ut St. Louls as Buperintendent of the Western Indjuna, A compendious skotch of the campalen of Georgo Rouers Clurke wus published at Cinclouat fn 1839 by Mr. Pietle, but the subject remains o fuscinating one for the elucidation of future historions of {he Great West, ot — Specltic Agninst Hydrophobins. d Ilrlm!r-d_mrrlran Jdournat, A Dr, Girzyvaln, ol Krivoe Ozeroe, Podolin, Rus. 8la, for whoss trustworthiness Prof, Gubler, of Parls, vouches, declares that, after u serfes of eruelal trlals, which ho describes ut length, he hus found that, after baving had opportunitios of treating at least ono hundred cases of men Ditten by rubid dogs, with tho Nanthiuvm Spinoe aum, be how uever fn uny one or theso cases fulled Lo ward oft bydrophobla, He gives soma startiing examples, l)urlmi. o _family ot twelve persuns had beon bitten b 4 livdrophabie wolf, Six of thein entered his wards in the Hospital of Olschania, Governe ment of Padolln, District of Balta, They were treated with futuston of the leaves of the xanthium, and oll recovered. The aix others, wiho were treated by the actual cautery and the | dnily use of genesta tiuctorin und otlier drugs, diod with hydrophobin in the course of twelve to sixty days. Ile recounts many other fucts not less siriking, For anadult, the dose §s sixty centigransmes of the dry powder, repeated theee thnes o duy, sl cantfhued during six wovks, Children uider 13 tako half thut quuullt.{. Tha dose for anfmals i much larger. A herd of thirty oxen had been bitten by u wmad wolf; elzht had suceumbed with l{m]’ll(\llll of - hydro- hobla, ‘Lhe Commnissary of Polieo came to Dr. irzyvala for bis *“antirabic powder.” Ho guve three ounces of the powder, with bran, datly to cach of tho remalulng anlwald; none of them sutlored from the discase, These ars examples u(l which Dr. Grzyvela suys ho hasa huudred * othierd. ———————— A Rtevotution (n Stene-Cutting, A revolution in stono-cutting seoms likely to be nccom?llslled by a maching Invented by M. R R, Atchison, o' Now York, It fs operated by steamn power, equivalout 1o that of o sforle horse; but {e docs the work of o dosen or niore men, withiu o glven tim, (o this laborious sud . unbealthy ovcupatfon, with the greatest accus rucy and perfection, Vieretoturo ft us secmod au fmposelbllity to substitute wachinery for hund Jabor (n the preparation ot stonw for costly buildlngs; but, after four years of unremitting thougnt und Jabor, Blr. Atchlson oppears t have uccomplished “that result, 1ow perdons, vxcopt thuso enzuyed in buildivg - oporatious, cun realize the nuount of Iabor reduired to pro- paro a singlo stons duslzned for thio walls of o substantial bulhllln'.'. or nmucout of th‘: T!nmu. Days, weeks, and even months, uve sowetimes CXponded tn'tho cuttiis of 1 higlo block to e requisite dimensions; ” und, of course, . fa Duitdlugs, such us the Post-Offlce, require th tubur af yeurs for their completion, By the uss of Mr. Atchison's wmachine, ureat blocks of granlte or other stone are smoothed with about 1he sutie rapidity thut fron ls planed by thowells kuowa wachineryfusod for Lhat purpose, o il a detachmentol = © the Crimeon wor, g