Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1879, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. GUDDEN WEALTHL Pat_Finerty and_the’ Dillon brothers. Uneofl the Dillons was sharp enourh to buy out Finerty for b comparatively small sum,—#3,000, I unde! stawd, [aving so much ready cash i hin pos- scaston, Finerty felt rich, and mada a trlp down to Malne, where the old folka lived, There he visited until his purso ran low, when ho returned 1o Leadville in timo to see |II! former pruperty sold for half & milllon. Ile is now around towsi, and often lamenta his hard huck, although 1 un- doratand he has severnl now prospeets which are regardel ns promising, P Ucorze Fryer, proprictor of the Tontine TRestaurant on Chestnut street, prospected about ayearngoon o low hill lying between 8tray- lorse nud Evans Quiches, and finally opened'a shnft near the centre. Ona day, in deapatr. of ¥umm: anything for his pains, ho offercd o ourth interest for £10, but could find nobody to nceept his proposition, Ten fest decper he struck o veln of ore, sl soon aflterwards sold out for $10,000, ‘That minc is now the famous Littls Vlttsbure, worth saveral millions, awd Fryer is discongolate, for al! thu Interest that ho retnina fu his nm:uml diseoyery ia tho fact thnt he hins given his name to Fryer fll(l, whero aro located n dozen of the most valuable miuesin the camp. . the Mountain City of- Leads 2 ville Grew Up in a Day. o h tho District Had Once Beon mong‘hlekly Populated with Gold-Miuers. {he Discorery of the Great Car- m‘u“nra'l:fnzdx» ho Fortunes that Wers Hade' and Missed, SRl . Gosslp of the Mines, Our Oun Correspondent., m";:ol., Feb, 22.—The history'of one LLE, Instances of this kind might ba multiplted i tho Weat 18 very much Iike the | and columus of s ‘Enuusn izt be flled pitloR ‘Thero Is the first discovery | with simliar pstory of another, erals; hen the exaggerated rumors HOMANCES IN REAL LIFE. o pis f the rapld Inllux of fortune- Minlng fs very much like n lottery, oxcapt that 09“"“.“3?3,,’ ‘;'f,';u» the birds of proy, the | the Drlf.gn are ymnru fraquent m{n\ of lorger peekerss 4 the swindlers and thelr femalo as- amounts thau ara to be found {n any of the com- gumblers and th LooadyHlo lias | D lottery schiemes, It hins beon compared to + and lastly, capitalists. ”:::;l(’k::‘l:flh nl{lhun stazes, and witnessed fi: arrival of cach of the classesabove enumer- wd, Hoclotv 1a sbill in n chootic condition, to s but, fanclally soeaklng, af- gambling (1 stacks or produce, but the differ- enco Is that when ono man on the Board of Trado makes u lucky deal there are a dozen who luse, while hiero in the mountains Natura i the only losing party in the speculation, Onc man's sure, oud fortune does not make others poor. And ?,',,, aro metting gettled foto 8 | [moyadd that the dav of great strikes Is not ar business routlne. The opaying | by any means post, Every day one hears of are belng nbsorbed und consolidated- by | new rifnes with valuablo voins of mineral being piots During th tny opaned up, and low-born laborers springing futo h um- salthy corporatlions, During tho coming weultn wnd_notorfety, It is o great country. peethe Leadsillo craze will run its course, and | §jeanwhile Luudvllln’ 1s growlng into a queer, frentare to predict thaty beforo n second sum- | precoclous village-city, with balloon hotels wid perrolls around, the town will have takon ita | barn lodelng-houses. A local paper has cow- pored ¢ it appearance to Chicago alter the re. Certalnly 8o Znr 0s desolution nnd dreariness of Imulecape and livoliness of bualiess aro con- cerued, the comparison may Lo drawn without ooy sacritice of truth. G.E. W. S0.CALLED SPELLING REFORM. A Woman Poromplorily Ohjoots. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cmioado, Feb. 28.—I wng perfectly charmed with Mr. Whindler's letter In last Bunday's TarisuNe about the so-called * spelling reform and I wish {t might bo printed perlodieally for the henofit of theae (at least to me) particularly odlous Innovators. ‘Whien L'seq this anxiety to change the beautl- ful and gracious physlognomy of our mother tongue Into the disgusting carfcaturo of it made familiar to us by Josh Billings, Petroleum V. Nasby, and Iosea Biglow (I always pitied James Russcl) Lowell for stooping to write any- tolng that looked 8o nauseating and so vuigar as the Yankeo dialect!), I feel convinced thut there are people in Amerlea who would danco on their mothers’ graves, Beeausy our noble English, by its force, sfm- plicity of construction, and cxpressivencss, is rapidly fmposing {tself upon the peoples of the earth uud pushing aslde thelr wesker lan- guages, then for Meir accommodation, forsooth, its spetltog has got to be revolutionized so that we who have {uberited It cannot recognizo ft! #No, thanks.,” *What was good enough for Bpencer, 8hakspearc, Milton, Georze Washing- ton, Thomas Jeflerson, Longfelluw, and Haw- thorne §8 zood enough for any wmen und women, be they counted by millions or by bitlions, thut como slter them. And, as for saving three years to Amerlean childreo by teaching them to read in phonctieally-printed books, ehildren can be taught to read in oue year now, if they bhave good teachers, I have scen it done by iy own mother and siater over and over again, both in tho family und fn the primary school. I course_In o language used by such im- mouse populations, und throughout such m- mense areas, some tbbroviations und chpnges will from time to tima appear. But hol few would nnturally do so may bo inferred from Bhakspeare's will, a Hteratim copy of whioh wlill be found to diffor surprisingly little from the language s now spelled., For language, Jiko a tree, 18 o Jving, organie thiug, It grows and sends forth new branches, und asitad- vauces It sometimes drops some of the earlier ones. This phonetic_spulling, on the contrary, would make the whole language drop mil its branches und leaves at once, and sprout out nlrodh all over—docked, sngular, and “ugly ns sixce slong with Virginia City, Georgetown, and other mining centres. Ttisnot gencrally known, but the Leadville Qirict bas been mined over moroe or less duriny fhelast twenty yoars. The Pike’s Peak rush {n 1859-'00, hnd 1t was about that time shensparty of ndventurous miners croased the grest Bonth Park and discovercd gold o Call- forols Guleh, which runs through the preseat tfoxint Leadville. Tho names of these casta- wpln the mountalus were Abraham Lee, Georee Stevens, and Michael and John Rafferty. Theyseem to have wandered over the rango fn ssimless fashion, hardly knowing and prob- 1ty pot caring what dircctlon they wers taking. Ruching the bauks of tho Avkansns River, yiichat this point is tho' size of an orafnary {rout stresm, they pltehed their eamp, and a0 ¥ PROSPRICTING FOR GOLD, Inthls they were unsuccesaful until they came wromallttle stream emptying into the river, Hero they panned, and were refolced to find a goodly amount of yeliow metal sticking to the bottom, They immediately named the ravino (dlfornts Guich, nnd procceded to stake telr claims under the old mining law. Reports concerning thelr discovery soon aossed tho mountaing, and in tho following spriog great numbers of minera flocked to the pew gold reglon. It is sald that as many as 1000 peoplo wero on the ground durlng 1860 wd the two following vears. Nearly §3,000,000 fngold werc taken out the first season, and be- fors 1608 the gulch had ylelded 810,000,000, Bat the excitement hod loug since worn ftsell swag; vew and richer pleces bad been discoy- ued; and the population had been reduced to lee than 100 souls, Little dld any of these plc dreata, during the years when they were iboriously washing the sands of gold out of thy driof Calfforniz Gulch, that, in the hills above temwero untold milllons In sifver ore, 8o tey camo and went, und nothing more was beand of Californta Gulch until A LITTLE MORE THAN A YRAR AGO. In1874 the avtention of Mr. W, 1. Stevens, of Darolt, was called to the beds ot carbonate whichscemed to underlio this wholo district, and he went 80 far as to siuk ashaft on the south sideot the gulch, near the settlement of Oro. The result, though not cntirely satisfactory, was of value In that it demoustrated,the existenco of sver, The ock Mlue—for so it was called— opened up 0 thirty-foot vein of silver, but the emde was too low'to pay the ccat of transpor- tatlon, ‘Thls was in 1876, In the following year the Ualloghers sunk o snaft on tho "hill bove Stray-Horse Qulch, about half a milg zorth of the Ruck, and soon dug out mincral of grade, ‘That mine hins Leen worked over #uce without showing slgns of giving out, It wasiold ayear ngo to the St. Louls §melting aud Refiningg Company for $225,000. Tho dls- corery of the wow famous Iron Mine was made 0187, and Mr, W. H. Stevens ls commonly nupposed to have been the lucky finder, But {re 18 n romance attached to this mino which bas never vet been publisned, Ibetleve, In the sommer of 1877 Thomes Rolnes, of Fox Lake, Wis., m wm:mn{ with thres partners, opened o shaft on Bald Mountaiu, or rather a ridge of hat mountaln sepnrating Stray-Horss and Cilllornia Gulches. ‘Fhiey soon struck hard rock, which required constant blasting, nnd, ns n, Fortunately, as Mr. Whindler so forcibly re- marks, a body of 100,000,000 of people s 110t 60 casy Lo move, und every book in evory English family or Engllsh library on thoglobois agajust the leonoclastic agitation, But how fundamentally sbsurd {s this crusade, To get phonetic spelling, you bave got, in the first place, to got uniform pronunciation,—about the wlidest dream of impossibility that could bo formulated, As, for instance, the Fnglish and the New-Yorkers do not pronounce the 24 in which, why, when, and the ke, while Amerl- caus in general do. Which nation, 1 ask, s to get the phonctic standard for thoso wordai Acotn, Bostontans and many New England and English peoplo pronounce the g in varjous words they were all puorer than the truditional turkey { hroad, a8 ‘*‘cobn't, Jahat, pahst," in- of flmnml fame, they despatred of ever work- | ateod’ of slorr (cun't, h'ut,l past), Ing tho min, ithough the indications wero ex- | inost people do. Some say yind, eellent, About this time Mr. Stevens camo tlong and oftered the four miucrs $100 cach for the. rropcna'. which they promptly aceepted, Ratoes fovested bis $100 {n'on_animal fomifiarly termed o ¢ fock,” “and, loading upon it his biauketa und “pick, departea in search of more vrofitable fields beyond the Rouldes. 1Hfa com- fules aleo scattered hore and there. Mean- whilo Mr, Stevens put in other workmen, nnd toon blasted himself fnto o vein of sliver !en;'-mnn fect in thicknees, Mr, Ly Z, Leiter, I:l(, icago, was induced (rolumnllly it s mhlj flo take an'fntercat tn the mine, whi ch has slnee lereloped wondertulty, and for which {t 18 re- nr;en‘lhx:r: n‘m-r 8! 82,000.000;;::]: I'iml rul{nllcd. vas the wayin ch Tom Ralng nlssed his fortunc, ok & cvary, girl,”” others simply * kind, car, girl,”? But ‘the letter » is perhaps the most hopeicss of uny, Ihave talked with Mr. Ellis, of London, ong of the orizlnal enthusiosts {n this matter, and K cannot pronounce the r in mony words ut alll Like so muny modern Luglish, ho says “yeally? und “ve-oy” for ‘‘really’ aund 4 yery,” as wo pronounco them, In Boston they say “pulifect (as nearly as 1 can phoncticiee It, though the firet. n{}lnble 18 moru nearly llke the French penr), in New York they say *punl- fect,” and in Clifeago 1t is * purrfoct.”” Now, I the phonotic-spelier to chango his spelling of the word * perfect ! according to hls local trl And so of o thousand cascs, In shart, the whole scheme 1s idiotic,—slukeuning, The only endurablo thing about it are the dissareemonts of the fouctilcers” themnselves, These I find traly dellghtful, and {f they must dally parade thelr unhappy taste before n vietimzed pub- lie, the more they differ ovar the othod of thelr maduess, the better, But thero is, un- fortunately. a pructical side to that question, and it L were a Schiool-Committee mnn thero i3 one thing I would do pretty quickly, I would hunt up avery - teacher under iy “legal oyer- sight that dared to mind the phouotle recom- mendatlons of the conference of teachers of Inst summer at tho White Mt., Nill., and uso my utmost iufiucnce to have him or ber dis- chorged, Is the publle nwura that this confer- ence made out o very larze llst of words ot which It adyieed teachiers nof to correct thelr schulars’ misspellings when_theso were secord- ing to the phonetle rules? I think thut, untll Lugislatures pass upon this thing, school- teachers hiad better mind the lelters ot the laws of the lund, und I hopo thut citlzens will look out for the men thev elect to the Hehool Boards, and know whother or not thes o authorltics arc fn league with the destroyers of Qov. TADOR, For somo years previous to the dlscovery of carbonata beds ihers hud beon living at the 'G:l?"“ldfi between Callfornla aud” Evans fh"‘ and keeplng o kind of corner-grocery ;’1:1 ymv!alou-uurn. a man named ‘Tavor, Ha nun t liavo much money to sparo from hiis busl- (n, but the tover struck hi m, und he took an d;mt losoveral clalns thut wero bolng worke n ]{:lll}urcnr, miners, Last summer ho wenb Hm“nmr o replenish bis stock of grocerles, edon the firm of ITurd & Son andoffered to o sminceatled the Carbunilerous, for $8,000 b ;n UL suur, voug, il o:uer articles, His Dufu';. declined by that firm, and also by an- ouss whom he visited on the samos er- ot few duys ugo this snuemine, the Car- m‘emus, Wwas banded for over §1,000,000, The of Groads grocer fs now Licutenant-Govornor et :gndo, und lis fncome is estimated at 0o o aminute. ‘fhe tirm of Bordon, Tubor W 5t vrr mining property worth over §5.l)00,- ] the present writing, und constantly fu- of m“l,' {0 value, ‘The first and lnat membcers lé firm oreChlcacoans, ') the written beauty of the English langaagoe, or ¥l koown capitatiess ont e ‘.'-"cfn‘,’,’,‘:'l’,';‘u“{,‘} whothier thiey intand i pood faith 1o have the ol Is 3y, Murshail Fleld., children taught good epctling after the recog- nlzed stundards, A lunguago has a face—the orinted page—as much as a human being, and tochange it lu the arbitrary ways proposed would bo a barbarfsm akin to shaving off the bair and the eyobrows, pulliug out the eye~ Inshes, ond cutilng off the tip of the noscofa beautiful woman, ‘I'he truth Is there ia too much money Icvolved fn tho “spolllug re- form " to belleve that all these reforiners are dlstntercsted. Mitllons of * now text-boolts would be required, and thousands of noodles could earn their broad with croat vaso while of mi g UFS AND DOWnS "‘:1'. :ln% lifo arc wany, ‘There 1s, of course, o m”men‘: of speculntion even fn what {s called Nop rf fuining, Lor instance, o prospector ":i haft on his own sccount, and, as ho goos oy llecpcrnnd deeper, bis Y prospects” Jook of the 'x;\‘ N accordingly 'increases his valuation P“') ne. But appearances are somctimes foug | ¢ lmll notwithatanding the carbionates mhnlha drift " or dirt near the surfuco, But o o0t 8lwaysa sure sllvor bed underneat! %00 spucarances th £ T ipeen s thero 13 always noro or less | compliing them, Let the publle, and partleu- 'le;l‘lm' A case oceurred here lust week lurl_yvumx‘:mmex'x, who universally Jove whut is o “filnm""i‘?,,l]l_')';,x."ffi:"',":fi: lof ;3':[3‘&"{;17 hnn\:‘mul.h and \\:‘no gm(lernlly roverence what Tt Logd) 1 ought to be sacred, staud on guard over our o dvllle men, had boen sunk 180 feet, | maichlons Jongaac, and save W¥irom (is wonld- be mutllators, BAYARD TAYLOR. The lotos+buda of the old dreaming Nile, Drugued, whito, and suusuous, Jeancd to hisJfest; Tho baluie and cedare of doud Paleatine 4 op Fy, P ay afternoun the miners were work- MRs, M, F, P, "Kr:u :;"l"‘"y wud fron, and the indications p {4 about Avarty of capitalists visited the 8 the gy, ' uon, aiid cousidered a propusition They eon ners to i)uynhulf-lnwmsl for $6,000, Buo po 10 deposit ths monoy at the Leadvills Burgajy, U S u'clock that afiernoon or losa the oo Lew minutes uftor b o'clock one of o 4 0 e of tho wilus ealmly antored tha Bauis | AWaYedo'ar i el 1 shylics o aweots Herectyycg e i monoy lnd been devosited, | piashed to him murmurously tn th dusks "gmhu thiraw dig iU L megative, Whero- | Ana all of Spuin breathed i tho rose’s musk i breatidony UGk UP I the siF and execut- | Tnot hloomed for him, And from tho mountains ey oWn belore the astonished gaze of tall by conle. Being asked the reason for | The gods sent cool soft bruezos to enturall; And English oycs and Englist lips did plead Inyain, All ull wua vain. 1o conld not s Hnt seokin; 's wyuiio dream: 4 g ._:":fe BOlies, be paused {n his contortlons lzlln.'n'(]; Hentlemen, I kinder think them alr’ el this yartime, A b we | T'hat Jurcd him ever on with fitful gleaws, oy o alfof the Deer mlw dust b’ this precise minnie 1s worth B00,-. | It stangadiiknown lands h'fi?fl;‘;fl{fico" 11 t "”;‘,‘ that at about 4 o’clock the moudown Bunu“y "““ étruck mineral, Bpeclnens wero Qulttly i ut up the shaft to tho ownerd, who g “:n OWn town und caused thewn to be ton, g, : :‘uuh showing silver worth 84008 ¥ 4,y h:l{ fear then wus that thelr offor of . Reteative Memorles, A number of instances of groat rotentivences and accuracy of mamory ore rocorded by a weiter in Chambers' Journal, Among the nomea mentioned ia that of Dr. Robert Chambers, My, ol the mine would be accepted., whoss power of memory Wwas very extraor- : Tue L1 0, ut 20 mlou 5t 3 o'clock, 1 was pasiing" bialy y1q 18 LITILE caie an, sucl a pumber of such n atreot, and et such iml..,k‘ fl:‘ arwell & Co., Wirt Dexter, N. K. | and such & oge. The author iuda in 8ir Walter W‘h‘. 0rge C. Walker, and other Chicago | Scott snd in Charles DicRons a ltke accuracy of 43 origlnally opencd by three miners,— memory, aud to this attributes no smail sliare of thelr success as story-writers. Then o case 18 elted trom one of Dr. Carponter's writings ot a clergyman who, on visiting P’evensoy Castle, felt convinced ho must hnve seen it before, and that when he did there were donkeys under the gateway, and somu_peoplo on top of It. On fn- quiry bio ascertained that lic had been thero with a plente party, who made the exenrslon on don- keys, whien ho was only about 18 months old, Bometimea the whole history of n Hfetline will bo flashed befora the mind as in an fnstan- tancous pleture. That this occurs rometimes when death, or perll of death, Is Imminent, s quito certaln, It may he that this accurs very Irequently before actiial deaths hut this we can- not know, ns all the instances of which we haye ueeounts nre those in which n man has described his sensations after having been anved from dying,—especially feom drowning. ¢ Wihen alf hopo of belng saved I8 gone,! saya the author, “and the very steitgglo with the water Is now made without conscions effort, 1t would seem that, without boin prompted by the will, th memary suddenly erasps st once the decds of the lita thit now appears about to cluse, am! ot the samo time—ul this 18"the most aingular fact of the phevomenon—recopnizes the usunl rectitudo or wrome of eachinct ({]. Thero fs,” ho continties, “n case ol (his kind recorded of an English naval olticer, wlio thus remembered the events of his itfo at the moment when hig was struzeling Lopelessly in the wake of the ship from which he had fajlen; und ho confessed thit ho bad beon espeelally struek l)g'tlm aud- den coming fnto hia thoughts of & schoolby lie that ho had Jong forgotten.” ¥ . ———— 00 RICIL Vanderhilt's Power and Danger, Gath in Phlludelphia Press, Herctofore the dunger of wreat fortunes has been obviated by the loss of them. ‘The Glrards and Rushes grow weary of the weight of dross, and foundea uscful things with its resldue. The A, T. Stewarts extended thelr bustness, and in maoy cases the [nvestmetits shrunk. ‘The Astors, howerver, keep their estate compactly, and man- age It with the Hberallty and wethod of o Lon- don Duke of Bedford or Marquls of Wests minster; being {u houses and lots, it {5 not apt to oppress anybody, DBut Mr. Vanderbilt owns a revolving ostate, which {ssald tobo paying h:n: $1,000 an hour for the round of the day and nlight, tle controls nlmost every large city ln the State of Nuw Yorkj tho bridires over the Ning- ara and the Jiudson, at _‘Croy, Buffalo, and Al- banv the road to Canada, the outlet to Boston, as well a8 New York, and nearly the Hudson River ftsolf, on which ho suppresses the lacnl steambonts, The public work of nearly ifty years, engaged In by Dalf the State and city, ;nus\:cl in o periud of speeulution into his sther’s hands, who watered it inore than 200 per cent, and still it stood up under the water, having really appreciated to the figure he set ugpon ft. ‘Ilio most vupulous portlon of this country f$ on Mr. Vanderbilt’s llne, and the largest belt of citles in the countrys it [s nearly equal Lo ong man ow the only rallroad from. London to Liverpool und Glasgow, ‘I'his c¢nor- mous property, which bears interest, with its conucctions, on a capltal of $160,000,000, was n realization of threo years on the Stock Ex- change, operating upon, at most, a few mlilions of doliars. 8ince Cosnelius Vanderbilt’s death Willlam has annexed the Michigan Central Rafl- road: the Lake Shore, Michigan Souttiers, and Cauada Central were previously his, toall ine tonts, As hie has the means to pay regular divie dends, theso stocks ecarry themsetves, He de- crees 1hat dichigan Central shall be an8 per cent stock, nnd the banks and tiseal powers ol the country bow their huads. He ls nore extended than hls tather, buton more growth nud incuine. ‘The growth of business in the United Stutcs probavly doubles on such a line as this every auven years, adding 100 per cent to the m\ulmfi 'I'he whole country’1s open alon the Huo of the Central Road,jno mouutains barring the way and cramping population, You are ael lnfi clothing vow {n Philadelphis manufactured by the ton at 8yracuso; rifles Irom Troy; shirts and collars from Cotioes: butter from St. Lawrence, and hops from Utfea. New York State las only one other rallrond of respeetable fmportance, the Erie; the others are uil interlinked with the Central’s fortuncs, und it dovs vot appear that nny more opposition is mooted, except by .the canal. 'The rallroad-fare {8 limited by charter to 4wo cents a milo, but this is_partly surmounted by asking two or three dollars more in the Wagner cars, n private accessory of the family, The Albany bridge is also sald to be private property, tot' owned by the ratlroud's stock- Lnlxlern. In both t“e Boston & Albuny and the Nesr Haven Rallroads there §s a Vanderbllt fn- fluencey the ouly sellef the Boston peonto ex- ect 18 o Western conneetlon, inlependent of anderblit, over the Saratora and Susquohanna Roaus. A brideo hos Leen projected to cross the tludson ot Poughkecpsie, aud connect the New Encland Rallroad with the Erle, but work hns ceased upon it Ilere, then, are 4,000,000 of people in New York dependent upon one man for ail their con- nections with® the rest of the world; neurlfi 4,000,000 more in New England and the Britls] provinees pay tributo to this private gentleman, who casts the majority of the stock, owns the bulk of the bonils, wnd divides authority with no one, Ho travels over his road, with a'stably of horses, on a a private express traln; owns o hotel fu every city on the fue; has his botels, too, In Chicago, Narutoga, Washinizton, und Albany, where influenco s to bo exerted. On this mighty inass of stocks and vonds, certainly 60,000,000, ho pays 1o personal tux, s cond- Jutors are the ablest wed out of both partics, Tilden, Behiell, Depew, Marvin, Chaptui the Governor ot the Btate 18 his oblized triend; ho nearly elected his Vice-President Muyor of New Yorl City, Politically he Is a Domoerat, with o moderate doubt of that party's reliabitity; but such nn estate 1s too colossal for olities. o lives olmost under the cayes of his vallrond depot, (n o Fifth avenuo mansion, and bis amuse- ments are horses, theatros and the famlly, Ho ocs 1o court on stated days to contost with his groumr on the property, aud is ubout 66 years of nge, tho product of 4 smull farm op the Buy of New York, \Whrt is to pravent such n man crowing richer amnd richer with these enrping fnstrumentalitios, who cannot. slxend Lifs fucome except by buying railronds, und who has o lorgre fumily, and puts them into othier forms of lis business, ns in’ the telesrapiye where he owns §2.000,000 stock 1 e 14 the Western Union Cowmpany in cssentinls; he cannot bo robbed, and his whole line of rond 13 fencod nud closed with gates. 1lis growlh is o necessity of ours and of the continent, una s purclinses since his father's death havo Iven bl contro! of Michizan as well as Now ‘ork, As o specular hoencountered his father with success, It he should desire to hoa podl- ticlan or Uresident he would be welcame to at Jeast ono party, with such on excheguer, Such ey, however, are restrned by consclous rea- sons from nsplrlug beyond thefr wealth, Even Goulil, with his vaolty and watlonal ralroad property, went but once juto a grand politieal enmpatgn, with the end to save his investinents But Gould cannot unload bis stocls; Vaude blit's stund thus: Now York Ceutral, 11 Hurlem, 1453 Michigou Central, 87; Western Uunlon, 07, WINTER IN THE LAP OF SPRING. What! aro you hore *‘mong the flowers, Nauehty, eancy fakea of snaw? Dot you know the time for showors TFlew away right loug ago? Where'va you been, fnu tardy snow-flakea? Playing truant in the clouds-- Bleepiny sound with neadow forn hrakes— l’mzf.m up in Winter's ehirouas? Been out sproclug, havo you, anow-storm— Dancing visth the sprites of nir—~ Littio thougbt the Hakes had all gone? Little more you soewm to care, Did not hear the engine's whiatle When old Winter started home; Kept on dancing, down of thistle, Jileded the fatrics, went to roam? Thought to scaro us here in Spring.time, Without warning, slily snow? Thouuht to [reeze up, Just in no time, Flowers openiug i the vlowy Mus, J. M, WixroN, EKixastoN-oN-TuE-Flupsoy, Aarch, 1870, ————— Silver Mino Romnuces, Virginia Citu (Neo.) Enterprise, . About 10 Betoclc Jeaterday nornlig a erowbar waus dropped down the main'vertical shaft of the Savare from tho surface, and went directly through a cage nu tha bottom, plercing the bon- uet und floor. No oue was on tho eage at the time, and ne ono was hurt, yet it {s unpleasant to vue maktug a trip into s mine to retlect thut such thiugs sometimes occur. As the bar full somethiug aver 500 yurds, it was travellug with tho rapldity und vimn of a cannon ball when it struck the cage. A bit of zravel no larger than afilbert sings liko o bullet toward thoe Jatter part of such doumuy. A dog oncw fell into a shaft at Uold 1ill, and, though the shaft was but 800 feet n depth, two men upon whom the animal landed wero killed, as was also thu clumsy cur that falled to hop across the top of the shatt. A rat ouce fell down tha Consolidaf ed Virginia ahatt fn attempting to spring ucros n compartment, from wull plato to wall plate, and 1,100 feot below landed on the bald heud of nminer and exploded lka a bowmnb, cauatug the miuer to think & rock had cut ooen the top ot 18 skull and let out his braing. A grain of bird. shoy dropped futo the top of o shaft 1,500 fect 10 dopth would probably oury itscll iu 8 plank orany pieca of wood {i might happen to strike at the bottom, This befug” tho case, we ropeat that it la not plessaut to think of such thinwa us crowbars golng down ebalts. MARCIT X; 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES. 11 e e MACAULAY’S HOME-LIT His Deep Affaction for His Sisters and Their Children. Taking the Children to Sce the Bights ~-Writing Valontines---** The Judicious Poot.” ¢ Games and Sports of {he Iistorian Among the Littlo Folk—-His Fresh and Child-Eike Nature. Rtarper's Magastne for Mareh, It fwas one of the good things about Tom Macaulay that he was just as fond of his sisters’ soclety when he wasa great nnd busy man as he was belore, nnd that, when his little nephews and nfeces began to zrow up about him, they never knew that ho was snybody in particular, except dear unclu Tom, who was always giving them great treats, and taking them to sce the shows, Margaret records in hier diory ono day fu 1832, when ho was both o Parliament and in oftice, that ho camuto dlne with them, and talked almost uninterruptedly for six hours, Othier days she records having spent very ogree- ablo alternoons with 'Fom, Of late they hava walked o good deat. 8ho remembers pacing up and down Brunswick Square il Launsdowne Place for two lioura “ane day, deep {n the mazes of the most subtie metaphysfes; up and down Corle strect, encazed i Dryden's poetry, and the great inen of thut thne, making fokes ultthe way slong Bond street, niul talking polities cvery- where, Talking about ‘the hard work the hendas of his party had cot now, she said, S llow Idla they snust think you when they meet you here 1 the: busy part of the day 1" 4 Yes, beew Lam," ald hied P wallting with two untlea'd girls, 1lowever, If onu of the Minlstry Aays to ey ¢ Why walk ye here nit the day idled? 1 ghall sny, *Because 1o man hus hired me,? % Some mouths bufore this thelr mother died, Marezaret savs: “*‘Totn was frotn London ot the time my mother’s death oceurred, aind things fell out In such o munucr that the fiest Informu- tion be reeefved of 1t was from the newspapers, Je wasin an_agony of distress, nnd gave wny at firat to violent vursts of feeling. During tho whole weel lie was with us all day, sid was the ereatest comfort to us imagloable. 1o talked o great denl of our sorrow, und led the conversa- tion by degrees to other subjects, bearing the whole burden of it limaelt, and interesting us without }urrlng with the predoanating feel- fug ol the time. I nuver saw lim appesr to greater ndvantage—never Joved bim more dear- 1y, This blow came just ot the time Macoulay was enfoyitg, o his fresh und earncst and unafTected way, the firat-fruits of his sudden Purlfamentary fame, This trivmphant young man never attempted anything—exeept shuving himeel! or vidiug on hordcback—thnt was tiot n preat suceess, and twvo speeches had sutliced to make him, at 80, ono of the Lest-knuwn men fu London. His mother lived long cnough to shiars her son's honest pleasure lu his success. But even the triendships of brothera and als- ters caunot always romain undistuehed. Mar- garet married, nid the blow feil all the heavier beeause Macauluy seems never to have bad, so faras bis brogruphy shows, a thought of mar- ringe himaclf. Ile bid bis grief, however, In his brave, loyal way, though it is recorded that he never recovered his foriuer tone of thorough boyiehness, This [s the sad refiection which ho muakes in secret upon his chunge fo life: I have sulll one more stuke to lose. ‘There re- malns oue evont for which, when it arrives, shall, L hope, be prepared. From that moment, with a heart forimed, if gver auy man's hiart was formed, for aomestic happiness, I shall have nothing left {n this twrorld but ambition.”” In Jthe very hour of vietory over thic rival vandidate for Parliument at Lecds he wrltes to Hunnal that Nie ds wittine i the nidse of 200 friends, mad with exultation and party spirit, all glorying over the ‘Tories, und thinklng bim the happiest man {n tho world, And it s all that ho can do to hido his tears nud to command his volce when it s necessary for hitn to reply to thelr coneratulations. * Dearest, dearest HMannali,” he eries, ** you alone are now left to me! Whom lave 1 oncorth but thee! lut for you, dn the mfidst of all theso successes, 1shouldjwish that I were lylng by Liyde Villlers,” His slaters wero the first to be told that bo would b offered the appolntment as a member of the new Supremwe Council for Indls, which meant £10,000 a year and {vdependence tor fife, and which gove “to the world the ** History of Enelund,” “They wero told even belore™his futher, beeause ho wanted Ilannah to secom- pany bim. 8he insurcd the lmgplntusol his whola life, ns tho event oroved, by conscuting, and Mueaulay set about making the most thorough preparations for Lar journer. Ina few months atter their arrival his slater was marrisd to a husbund worthy of her,—Mr. Trevelyun, of the Indinn service. (Mavaulay's blogruplier was thefr son.) Macaulay wus gpared, however, the paln of scparation, for they made one household. St another trial was in store for him, happi- I lagt of this quick serfes. Margaret, now young mother, dled. A month after ho re- célved the news he declares thut ho caunot write about it without belng altogether unmunned, and adda: *Fant 1 bave not utterly sunk under this blow I owe chiefly to literature, What n blessing it is to Joye booka ns 1 love them,—to ba able to converse with the dead, wid to live amidst the unreal!? Nearly n year later ho eays: “The rremendous blow Lus left marks betind it which 1 shall corry to my grave. Lit- ernture hue saved my Mfe and my reason, Lven now [ dare not, In the intervpls of busl- nesz, temain along for o minute without a book v my hand This affection- nte wpature was g0 deeply wonnd- ed that it s ‘a pleasurs to think that from this tima on hia life was un- brokan by any great sorrow save the long-fore- suen death of bls tathier, and, in spite of fore- badings to the mulmr{‘“‘“s passcd In the midst of a rare happiness, When he returned to Ene ghindl his sister nnd hier husband went with him, and a Government spnointment kept them there, go that he wis suldom without hee chor- 1shed society, Iappy with ler wnd her ehil- dren, ho lived twenty years of o laborious, fumons, amd avdent lfe, ind died ot last peaces fully end suddenly, us hs hod slways hoped to dw. And when the time eamg thut his sister should die also, she hadl hersclf taken, knowing 1t wus lier Inst drive, to the houwe In Great Or- moud street, where Mife had been so full of {n- nocent pleasure with him, und, after gazing at {t for n loug tine, left it babind forever. Macunlay’s tove for children stuod next to his love for Lis slsters, nud [u sorue easure took its plice. He phvays wanted eomebody to pluy with, and it fa within the bounds of moderation to an{ that the enfidren were always clud to play with hlin, When ho was a youniz man his slster's weltlng-master, having seen Muacaulay tor the first time, sald, **Ladies, your brotlier Jooks liku o Tump of ood humor.*' 'Flhab descrlption Aells the whole story of his populurity with chil- dren, Inlndla, ot atiine when he was deep in the preparation of bis code, and for mere divor- slon read enough In tho classles to bave ex- huusted the mentul strength of atmost any other man, hu tellsa frieud in Bogland how ho spends an hour or mors every day in play- ing ‘with his little nlcce, of whom “ho 1a ns fond as_her father, and fo teaching her to talk, and records the fuet that sho lns oL ns far os Ha, I's, and Mua. After his retirn trom [ndia, \1fnllo heuring masa in the Chureh of Banta Croee In Florence, ho notlees an luscrips tion on a buby's tomb=—4The most beautiful 1ittle boy thut ever Hved"”—that brings tears to his eyes us lic thinks of another Jttle nicce who Ales fu the gravevard ut Caleutta, ‘The writer of Macaulay's blography was him- eclfone of tha childreu whe wera ‘Mucaulny's. playfollows, and he saye thut [t 1s impossible to exageerate the, pleasure which Mucoulay took in chikdron, or the deliztit whicn he gave them, lio vould ulways invent wnew game or play an old oue, und wus alwuys yeady with a drsma of “feontemporaiieous fnteresty” in which ho layed anv numoer of parts, Half of the entry n liis diarv for one day i8 his brief account of one of these lttie performances for the amuses mentof his nieco Aliee, Newas Dando sta pastry-cook’s, uand then ut an ayster-snop, Afterward he was a dog-stealer who had car- rled away her little spaniel Dismond while shu was playing fn Kensington Gardens, sud who came toget the rewnrd advertised in the Limes, The sumo day ho 3 content to record fn two lines of tho diary the fact that his history haa resched the unparallcled sale In something oyer three imonths of 2 coples, Another of thess performances 13 thus described in o letter from a family friend to ouo of the nieces: 1 well remewmber that there was one never- fullug finmu of bullding up & den with news- pupers behind the sofa, and of euacting robbers und tigers; you shricking with terror, but al- ways fascliatod, aud always begging him to be- gin again; aud there was . datly recursing ob- servation trom him after that, that, after all, children were the only trug poots.” 1t 13 ous thing to be foud of children, and another noyer to get tired of tiem; and Macau- lay, Hannali says, was one of those who never cat tived, flo oftun spent the whole mora- i at her homy playln with the chils _dren, und then after Junchicon carried aneof them off for a Jong walk, But the great treat for him, as well as for them, were the excursions {uto the city toscs the shows. Theso did not conge otten saough to sult vithur bl or thg chils Aren,—twico awecl s sald to have been the aver- nfin lie would have liked,—and they used to last thL the little ones, to use his own expressiun **conld not draz one leg after the other.” The afteinoon's diversion began with a bountiful Iuncheon in London, fo which Macaulny aiways added some knickknack for which thechlldren had an espeelal contempt, for the pleasurc of scelmr them reject It withecarn, ‘Fhicafternoon'ssizhts werg the ltons ‘and hears, the panoramas and the wax-works, or even the British Museum, One day hn tells their mother in a letter how, it the other exhibitions bel hausted, ho took the chilaren to the al Gallery, and how, while Charley and Marza- ret playedt the connolsecur, (Georey sald, honust- 15, ** Let us gos there §s nothing licre that I care for at all; " and agaly, ** T don't call this seeing sizhts; [ have sccn noalght to-dav.” Al of whilch sceins to have amused Macaulay greatly, The elaborate process of sending a valentine to his little nlece Alice fs recorded ot length In bis diary, Feb, 12 he buys a superb shect of paper awd writes the valentine. Feb. 13 hesends it oft 10 his sister Fanuy at Brighton to be forwarded, Feb. 14 the wholu entry ot the day (s about the valentine: how Fanny camo at 8 “with the chil- tren, Alice tn ;mrlucl raptures, nud begging quite pathettenlly to be told the truth about it hen they were alone together ahe sald—the litt)e witch—she was going to be very rerlous, and down she goes on her knees, lliting up her Tiandts §n suppiieation: * Dear uncle, do tell the truth to your little girl. Did you send the yalen- tine?® “Aud then he had’ fo own it. Ma- cmnnf- would do alinost anything to plense his favorltes; he even tried to ke thelr dug, and does nhe was not fond of. In nne place in hns ory he denounves the animal o8 a beast that I8 alwnys spoiling conversation.’ But when the doz was o petof the children, that was another inatter, and he bought things for it ut the shops, wud made poetry nbout it to an ex- tent which made the children happy, I 3t hud 1o partlenlyr effeet upon the dug.” \When he was Lusy upon the second installinent of his litstory, lie would snend some preclous titoe in- serthne o gold plece In the seal of aletter to his nephew Georze, so that it mizht alip paat the post-uflice authoritles, and would transmit 1t with the conual remork that, while the best part of o lady’s letter was in the pustscript, the best part of An uncle's was in the seal. One day, coming out from a collee- tion of “pictures, he saw o more de- lighttul pletute, Le enys, than any there, It was four pretyy httle sisters, from about 1Lt 6 years old, “riding in a donkey cart ina decp, shiady June, und quite besido themeelves at the treat, ‘They were Jaughing aml singiug In o way thut slmost made Wm ery with o gense of the beautiful, und when ho asked them to get on, they N“lf hike little lacks, Whereupon all the sllver ho had tn his pockets went to buy dolls. Keculy sensitive as Iifs tature was to all ap- pearances of sorrow or sullering, it Wus espe- ciaily 80 where children were conceroed, e writes to ask a fricnd If he has read the fieat number of ** Dombiey.” There s one passage fu ity he says, which made bim ery s if nis heart would break. 1t (s the description of a Uttle wirl who has lost an affectionnte mother, unud 18 unkindly treated by everybudy, Images of thut sort olwways overpowered him, even when the artist was less skillful than Dickeus. *The Judiclous Poet ! was o misterious per- son who played n larige part in Macaulay's llie with ls ststers nnd his elsters’ enfldren, Macaulay's letters to them and” his conversas tions were filled with quotations trom this pro- litle authur, who scems to_have written tons of verses, wany of which had n striking und unex- pected noplicabilily to the fucldent justin hand. The Judiclous Poct scems to have written n good many versces frum Parllament about cle- cutnatances which had como under the Imume- diate _ personal observation of Macau- lny. He composed also n guod muny rhymes to the enildren and the dog, and the chililzen oiten wondered how It was that the Judicious Poet should ave written lines which really would have luoked, Jt any- bml{ but Unelo Tom bed repeated them, and’ir ho had not solemnly assured them that they were the work of he bard abovementioned, yery much like lnes that Uncle Tom mizhe have mude up himself on the spur of the mo- ment. FPerhaps this susplelon deepened when the children hind hunted the Hbrury f ywo for a volumo of the collected works of this nuthor. At ail events, it was not lkely to be dispelled when, they found Uncle Tom attempting to patm off on them poutry curfouslv like that of the Judictous Pocet for thie composition of soma morte distinguishicd persot,=is, fur instance, when ke surcested to ongof his older nleces thint Lhis stanza, trom what he sald wus the fu- vorite Puseyite bymn to uccumpug{llm Michael- mas goose, might be by Bishon Wilberfor Then ply the fork and araw the cork, Anid Keep tho bottle handy; For each sllce of yoote will'introduce A tihmoleful of brandy, And the suspicion that it was Uncle Tow, nfter all, must beconfirmed {n the minds of the impar- tial reader wiien he flnds that the Judicious Puct was just ns fond of chlldren ns Macaulay was, nnd wrote poems for them five und ten slanzus Jontr,—reut elitidren’s poems, too, with vy deep polltieal or literary allusions in them,— whieh Unele Totn would print out fn big, hund- soine caplials, Nodoubt tho_secret of his popularity with children, und of hisjutcuso enjuyment of their soviety, was thut lfs own nature wus ns fresh and ehitd-liko in the midst of great stuccesses 03 In the cartier and quloter years of his llfe. —— ECONOMIC STATISTICS. Merchant-Marino, vl Postal Service. Fupntar Science Monthty. A gencral review of the economic statisties of the world in 1677 {s published by Prof. Neu- maun Spallart, of Vienua; from it wo take the followlng stutensents: dtailicays,~1u the lnst three decades the net- work of Europenu rallways lias risen from 9,000 Lilometers (5,580 miles) in 31847 to 154,200 kilo- reters® (05,001 miles) in 1877, Of theso 154,~ 200 kitoweters 27,600 aro in Great Britafn and Irclund, 24,800 in Austro-Hungary, 24,400 in France, 15,000 in Russla, 83,000 in Germany. The remainder I3 distributed nmoug tho smaller Btates. According to these Ogurcs Europe hos 150 kllometers of railway for each thousand sqnaro kilometers, and 4.8 kitometros per 10,000 Inhabitants, ‘Ihesc rotios are exceeded In Belgiutn, Great Britala and Irelund, Switzer- Tand, the Netherlauds, etc. Amierica—In 1830 tho United States had 43 kilumeters of rallways now they have 125,000 Kilometers (70,300 miles), or 133 " kilomelers for every 1,000 square kllometers of surfoce, and 28 kllometers per 10,000 inhabitants, Iu the re- mainder of this continent herw are 17,000 kilo- meters of rallway, of which Canada has 7,000, InIndla nnd “Ceylon thero are 11,000 kilo- meters, or 40 kilowuters per 1,000 squara kilo- meters of aren wid 4 kilometor per 10,000 fu- hatitants. 1n Afrlea there are 2,800 kllomotars, yhereof 1,600 bolang tg Beyot. Austrulin and New Zealaid possess 4,000 kilometers of ralway. On ull theso rallways are employed 82,000 lucomative-cuzines, 114,000 passcuger-carringes, and 1,500,000 frelzht-cars; they unoually earry 1,150,000,000 * passvniers, sud 16,000,000,000 quarters of freight, Marine~The morchant marine of Europe embraces In all 7400 occan steamships with n tonuage of 8,000,000 tons, of which “totals the United Kingdom contributes 5, steamahips und over,000,000,000 tons of freleht. Telegraphs—At the Leghnlng of 1877 Edrope Tiad 851,000 kilometers of telegraoh lines,where. of 65,000 betonged to Russia, 54,000 to France, 48,000 to Germany, 40,000 to the United King- dom, Amerlea had then 183,000 kilowoters. "I'hia dispatenies sent over European ilues nume- bored 82,000,000 [n 1876; thoso sent over tho Amerlcan lnes amounted to 23,000,000, Asla ond Australin bave sach 88,000 to 80,000 kilo- meters, transmitting 2,500, dispat:hes. In Afrfca thero are onfy 15,000 Litometors, almost exclualvely fo Egyopt, Alglers, aund Tudis, and the nmnber of dispatches sent fs 1,200,000, ‘There arw 500 submarine cahles, representing a total length of 65,000 nautical wiles, 5 Losta’” Service~The postal service now ex- tends to tho uttermost bounds of clvilization, embracing the whole globe, from Hammerfest to N caland, I Europu uver 8,000,000,000 Iettors and postale eards aro carrled yeurly, In thistotal the Umted Kingdom 18 represented by ovor 1,000,000,000, (ermany by 500,000,000, France by 300,000,000, Austro-lungary by 100,000,000, 1taly by 120,0%) 00, This would wive Eugland 33 lettens liead of the population; for Bwiizerlund, 33 Germany, 153 France, 10, ‘Lurkey flgures for ouly 0.3t n letier per cupita, Iu Awmvrica the number of lotters und postal-cards carrled was 700,000,0005 s Asfs, 150,000,0003 o Australla, 50,000,000 Ju Africa, 25,000,000, * Ono kilometer 1s about 3 of a mile, Ttatlways, Telographs, Balo and Fomale Lovo of Adornment, London Saturday Reviaw, Mr. Darwlo und others buve proved that, soong the less highly developed avimaly, the mule f-um more concelted, und has the gaudler coat. Even amony thoso inbabitauts of sunuy islands who linve’ not yet secu thu unecd of clothing, the men are wuch more consclontious- Iy and claborately tattoord thon thu women, who have unly u fow decorative cuts about the coraers of thefr mouths. Tho clvilization of the mueteenth contury has changed this, snd thodress of map, espuciully the dress which bo wears iu the eveniug, 8 hin ,vulxnlur. but secres sorrow. What men would like fs manl- feat cuough; they would liketo vio with women fncolors ond stufls, in velvet, and silk, and cloth of gold. Wa tlatier qureclves, yo could know what ara the best sorts of lace It we gave our minds to ft, und that the taste of men in this inatter §s not dead, but dormant, Oliver Goldsmith and La Funtalne, the most carcless nml not tho cleas cst of mortals, rulned themselves for peach- enlored coata and for Venlee point. The love- 1test diety ruffios fell over those Inks flngzers of L.n Foutaine, nnd his dubious shirt had thie nost exquisite collar, which Duchessea envied, Men are not degenerate; they arc as vain as ever; as anxious to diaplay their charmstn what they think a proper sctilng. It Is the wayof the world and ‘o commercial civilization ~ that Is against them, Laco ruflles would Interfere with buelnesss the mud and dust and sniokennd soot of London would ruln the velvets anid gatins and the embroldertes of silyer, Men are com- pelied to wear the cloth of friszo fnstead of the vlotli ol gold, but they do not - rellsh the neces- sity. Ilence come faney balls, which nro mere luxurfes to women, whi, fn & harlcauln age of imftations, tan wear nlinostanydress they please, I n dady ltkes she may buy three stout pleces of terino, whirl herself tnto them, and appenr i the costiune of one of those aidens ot Tunaern whose terra-cotta efligles are so beautirul and go expensive, The experiment perhapa has its riake, nud nothing can exceed the anxiety of the spectators, who cannot linag: Ine how the Tanagra dress 18 bield together, ‘Ihe Dictlonary of Classical Antiguitics eives the vyaguest directions; but feminlne ingenuty can triumph over learned vazucness, A lady may dreas in what ehe “belfeves to bethe manuer of Watteaw's models, or like a Princess hua falry tale, ur atter the pre-Waffaelite mauner of Mr, Rossettl's many Beatricas) fu tact, It she {s the rpoited child of clever eceentrieity, she can do juat as she pleascs. lord, unlucklly, ean- not well wo to an ordinary dinner partv in the becomine attire of the sge of Fdward 1V, or in the kilL of a member of “the Albanlun League, but m:dly dons his black broadcloth und white crayat. SOUTHERN VIEWS. Tatl with Ex-Senator Willard Warner—Iron and Iron-Makers In the South=Opposition to Titden In tho South—Thurman, Randnil, and Hancock-Gen, Sherman's Itido to the Noneltepubtican Chances of Yictory In 1880, New York Tribune, Few men are {n n better position to study’ Southern politics than the Ioo, Willard War- ner, Mle was on Gen. Shermau’s stafl from Ohio during alt the campalens, snd at the close of the War scttled in Alabatnn, and was electeit the first Senator under reconstruction. 3ir. Warner has mow lived ffteen years In Alabaa and Geormia. For the past six years he Dhis reslded on the lHne between, Georgla and Alabamn at Tecum- sch, below Rome, Ga., where be has §225,000 of Northern awd other capital invested fnan lron- furnace. s social position Is excellent, und his monners arc conciiatoryi tn 1872 he sup- ported Greeley. Mr. Warner was In New York recently, and a representative of the Tribune had the following conversation with himn: “tan you make fron more cheaply fn the South thun [n the Nortt?” *Usually, I bave nearly 5,000 acres of land which is a mass of bemutite ore. We make piz fron exclusively, und ship ft 01} over the country. In the sum- mer we get low rates on frelghits by rail when cotton toes not clogr the roads; al this time of the year they are alttle hlgher, It costs us nhrkn‘t’ &7 per ton to ship to New York via Nor- tolk, *‘llave the fronmakers (n tho South heen gencerully successiul (7 “No, the stopnage of ol constructions o the country slnee 1873 broughit down the price of fron {v_ihe North to euch o hruro that we lost our advantuge tem- norarll Out of thirtcen furnaces I our re- gion ol country only four are fo blast. Weare now at work, und just ou the Une we think, of butter times, We feel more cheertul cer- tainly, *Uid Gen. Sherman come to sce you on bis recent visit to Georgla i “ Yes, he came amd brougii his famlly, und stayed at my house, Bhernan was very” well recefved on all sides, Hu was eurprised at the timmense amonnt of ore wo hoave. Ie asked e sernously 1f there was cnough ore tonake [ta permauent thing, nud I took him aut riding and showed him o mountaln with ts foce lald bare, looking hke mramte. Sald I: * General. that s ol ore.’ *Why don’t you get at it, then?! sald the General,’ “CWell, come™a Mitle further! | then showed Iim a plnee where we were work- ing at two benches, the lower about fifteen feet hieh, and the upper twlce e bigh, Hola 1: *General, that 13 all ore, nght through the muountaln; there is ooy of your soldiers up there at the apper benehy! and 1 eslied to the mun, *Brown, bere [s your old ehieftain. * How you, Uceneralt' " cried Brown, *Hello, Brown,’ sald Sherinan; ‘this Is better thau fizhting, pin’t 112 *Yes,’ said Drown., *Bue {f wu hodu't fought, you wouldw't have beeo bere, Brown. “Ie exclalmed, tiuadly: ¢ War- ner, 1 have seen cnoueh ore for to-day.’ I tald the Genernl thul from the top of the furnaee, nearly as fur us could bu secu, there was rieh ore everywhero in the prospect, enouwh tor 209 years,”? “Ilow aoes living down thera compare with Mving in Obfed “Wel),” roplicd Mr, Warner, ‘“wo ure, of course, isolated. "I toke the North- ern newspavers only, aud attend strictly to business. We have some compensation in the climate, I think it is the heat climate on this continent. My house i3 upun the sideof o mountaln 1,000 fect abave the leve! of tha sea, and behind it ore 500 fect moro of mountain, The house faces norih, as we have Lo look out for air and guanl agalnst the submer rather than the winter. Iulsn lovely winter clinmte, In the six years I have been at Tecumseh, there hias Leen o death from any ordinory disease smong the adulte, We had one man die of palsy, and some women in ¢hildbirth, and the smallpox took off n few people, bub by the ordinary discases, consumnption, f 8, CLC,y W& bave lost none. 1 ealled the furnace *Teeumseh,’ after Bherman, because not far alstunt wus an older furnnce named *Stonewall Jucksow’ We ret our labor right around us, from waltes anid bincks. Most of our leadivg men are Northern- ersund soldices, 'The Northern people control the fron reglomn,” “Do you suller from lonfers or oullies'in your settlement!” “XNot much. Bomotimes rumn breaka out; occaslonslly some common fellows come nround; but it {s°rot gafe to bother our settlement inuch. We have ubout 50Y peovle.” “Are there not some large investments ju that_regfon{? *Yes, there s ons Compuuy, the Rowe Iron Company at Chattanoopa, with Now York und Clovelund capltal of §1,000,00, 'Fhere are aaid to be three-quurters of o milljon embarked at South ‘Vittsburg, I Tennessce, which 18 altorether English capltul, controlled Ly the fuventor of thu blast stove, Whitwell, “1s thers not a goud deal of insolvency throughout the Bouth fu rallrouds, public debts, ete 7 4 Most of the rallroads aro sald to be fusolvents 1dou't suppuss tiey mean to pay guy public debts down there, In Alnbamn they have scaled thefr debt down eo that b is very small, ‘Fho Soutl suifers u wood deal from it own whltulness, I llud, In private conversotion with most of the respeetable men, that they are dissatisiled, und Imnent the way things gre going, 1L tukea the greatest moral courage to voms out mid dectars private sentiment there. o pressure of projudice Is admitted to have retarded the South, und in o wmcasure fsolated it 5 and I olten talk to line vld natlve men who bemoan ft, but see bo way to chunire the vulear view, ‘They sutler trom thelr habits of thought wml want of edueation, ‘Throughout our acction most of the well-to<to men were Whigs und Dougtas Unfon men, ‘They douut aiffer In their home cirele from men of thi sume class fu the North, but futluence does not oprate in the sumo wuy in the Souta, “Do you supposs that umder any clreum- stances the Ropublleans can curry Georgla, ora Southern Btatof? * Not {n 1630, 'There aro many districts fn the South overwheiminglys Republicau; thero fs the Selma District fu Ala- bama with 10,000 mulority, but it {s couuted out, ltke mony other districts.” “1s this due to the negrocs Democrats?” — “No, 1 uever saw a negro who was a Democrat In mr lfe. " I have heard of them, but with fifteen years’_experience in that section I never saw one, In 1868 0 negro was shiown to me onn steamboat, who waa owking stuinp speechies for Heymour and Biatr. 16 drew me nsido s ex- plained himselt, 4 Mr. Warner,! ho said, $Tun muking speeches for pay, but I mean to voto for Grunt} the bluck people all kuow privately that Lam ‘;emu;: money for my talk, but that my vote don't go with it ** Iaw docs it seom as to the next Democratle woininatfon from your communications{” in Ccorgla they aro ull ugainst Tildou, 1 was talk- lugs to Caldwell, of Alubama, who wus candldate for Clerk agalnit Adums Lwo yeurs ggo, andsays he was cleeted, but counted out In their caucusy bo sald to e reeently that Tiden hud no chanes; Uendricks, who was once pupular, was alio vegarded as past revival, Ile scemed to think thut the uext Democratio struggle would bo between ‘Thurman, Randall, snd Hancock. 1 have just been euruged ou thu Mt Commission at Phlludelpbia, and Luther Doualdson, a rich and active Phitaaeloblay, told meo that the understanding was that ‘Tilden was to control the New York und Iundall the Penn- sylvania delegutions sud I¢ Tilden can't gev it, be will iive his atrength to Rundall, Donaldson aaid, however, thut it was doubtial if Rundall could 1 teimsylvania away from Wallace, his hink sbout {¢, Mr. Warncr)* r sbrowdest cholge wawid ha turning 0 G i ot Haucock, - He {s asnear & neaative on all dlspute el queations as unlbody could he, Kyen on the fNuancial question he fs not committed. Conse- yuently, hie s without strong oppononts, and i rant shonld be the Republican nominee, as' lnrcrtena. Hancock would most patutally be thotehbt of as a military candidate. fis wife ja A 8outhern woman from Missourt; ie 1s n na- tive Pennsylvaniao, with a larjre soldier follotw~ fugz In the North. Caldwell thouzht Hnneoclk would bo the heat eandtdate, and suggested Bill Morztson, ot 1llinols, ns unhnhle mau for Vices Fresident,” * Do the Southern peopte not complain that too little lins been done for them by the General (iovernmnent since the Warl? «‘I'hey don’t seem able to bring their forces to bear on anye thinge harmonlously except politics. 1 was talk- it to a prominent Georela Judge some time ago, and asked him why the South had not in- sisted on its own ratlroad lue to the Pacific, In~ deoendent of the Northern connection. lte told tne that, of his own knowlcdge, one of the lendIng newspapera in the South got a sum of money ($200) cvery month merely to disporsa paragraphs through fis columns dashing at rall- road aubsidies, Thelr press, I havo “motleed, stlcks up for Tilden, but all their politiclans are agalust him," “* May not that he becausc It Is safer to drop & little motiey In the press, which is gencrally iu need In the South, than to foo) with membersof Conpress, who 1night exposs the dalliance?” “0One trouble they hase, L sappose,’ gald Mr. Warner, **Is the want of a press Jike that of the North, which “is tinancially independent, and not ohen to nealstance,”, ** Do you rezard Gen, Skerman as a man of originalability 1" A vcr{nblu man," sala Mr, Warner, “und an oriinal thinker. You may have scen same discuesion an to who conceived the March to the Ses. Now, you know I was ', srith Shermun, aud close to hfs person all the thne. As ewrly as Mav, 1864, when wo were about Chattancoga, I sald to hiin ono day: ! General, what do you want to get to Atlanta for!{ You witl bo 500 miles from your gencral base of supplics at Loulsville; inr Nnshvillo und Chattunooga sre only secondary bases, and Loulsville Is your resl base. Won't you get away out thers tu the middle of Georgfa, with n Joug lino snd nothing to eat! What ars you golug to do when you get to Atlantai Sher- man, in hia rapid way, brushed the ashes from the end of his clgar aiid sald: *Salt water! satt water!* 1 thoughit nbout thut a little while, uiid finally salls *Do you mean the sea? *That Is ity? ralil Sherman."! Mr. Warner continued fn a moment: " When he got Inte Altanta the (eneral went foto o room und apread vut a map before his Chlef of Stafl, und, retting down ou his hands upd knees, pointed out the 1ine of bis advance, *Gen eral,! asked the other, ¢ how aru you golng to live on thut march!! *There aarc one miifion ™ people in Georely,! said the General. * Whiere they can live we can't starve. Wo shall have from twenty to Iort{dnyn‘ ratlons, and cotleo uud bard tack, ond tlud the rest when we reach the coast.) Inbever bad asny doubt that Sher- man saw that march to the sea fu his eyo away back in 1863.% ' Do you consider the Republicans as lkely to lose the clection fn 18801 » No, Ithiok we liave o pretty clear road. As you have satd, the next election fs uot to be a moral contest, but a fiscal nnd physical contest for order, property. sobric- ty, und developinens. ‘There Is no prospect that the Democrats, with both Houses of Congreas in their favor, will win the confidenco of the country. Thelr own men of property and re- spectabllity are afrafid of them. We have aa much ot stake nsever in keening the country Republicun, and every man who s at work trys ingg to establish Llmself, und maks his family fn- dependent, feels it We bave gono through the slougl, and have come out on dry ground, ang if weate togo up hiil {t depends on Imidln things just as they are, perfectly level, A Dem ocratie victory in 1850 would he going back fnte tlie swamp, and probably staying there for( geveration,”? BYRON’S MONUMENT. The Worlk Iu Marble Completed. Zandon Times, Fro, 11, It witl be remembered that in July, 1875, a meeting was held at WIllls' Rooms, at which the Earl of Beaconslleld, then Mr. Distaell, pre- slded, when it was determined to orect a monu- ment to Byron by public suvseription. Théra had been come movement respeeting o tablet, to wileh Lord Beaconefield alluded in his speech as Lelng **sanctioned by thie presence nnd the aetive futerposition of one who had the nearcst ond proudest claitn to interposs in such a Lusi- ness—I mean the son-fulaw of Lord Byron, rho moto thun forty years ago was wny compan- {on In that Albanla which Byron cclobrated. L felt that It, was under kindly and able counsels. For myself, I will cxpress my individual desire tosee Insomos public place a semblance of this preat spirit, 5o that the Engiish people when they pass shall recogulze cue of the ureatest mastera of the Eoglish lsnzuage.” ‘The Influcatini Cominlttee then formed under the Vresidency of Lord Beaconefleld was soon en- ooled to invite the aculptors of Europe to come pete for the mwonument, whicn was decided should be & statue fn brouze, In the spring of the followtng year the various models were sent in, nwl these were exhibited in one of the male lerles of Bouth Keusington, coming from scul tors of forelgn schools us well as trom Englands but, unfurtunatety, the resuit did not prove at ail satlsfactory to the Commltteo ol sulcction anpointed to judze, as there were none that cn- tirely met the requircinants of the Committee, It was aecordingly decided to luvite another competition of desigus, glving the sculptors-u year to produce othermodelo. ~ At the appointed time this competition began, when thirty-oine deafigus were sent in, out of which that of Mr. Belt was chosen. ‘Thesa models wera sliown te the public fn one of the large rooms at the Albert Hall. At the samo time there was exe hipited for the henetit of the fund oo exceeding- ly interesting collectlon of Byron redea and all the important portralts of the pact, including the well-known bust which Thorwnldsen mads {rom the lifu for Sl J. C. Hobliouse, alterwards Lord Brouphten, when Byron was at Romu in 1817, ‘I'lie statue by Thorivaldsen fn tho library ot Treinity Colleme, Cambridige, which was tho result of a public subscription protmoted by Sir J, C. Hoblouss about tive years after the death of the pout, I8 a seated figare in marblo, ‘Chis Is the nttitude choacu by Mr, Belt fu the monu- ment which he bas now ‘completed of the full size, snd which is nbout to be cust In bronze. The ldea was sugirested by the lins of a cauto o s'Childe Hurold”: ‘T'a #it on rocks, to muso o'er flood and fell. And the poet, wearing his satlor-lko looso shirt, with opeu catlar, und sash round the walst, sits on a ruck with bis favorite Newfoundiand dog at his slide, whose opitaph he wrote at New- stead: "To marka friend’s romalns thean siones aclse; 1 never knew but one—and here,be les, The attitude s eoutcmrlnuv:, the hoad reat- ing on the right hund, with the elbow on thy linee, o penell being held in the other hund upon a note-book open on the koee. A clonkk falllug over the upper part of the rock glves varlety to tha formsof the composition, and, with tho linea of tho dog, ussists the plctureaguo character of the group. “I'he statue is niue feot hitgh, und will be placed on o murblo pedestal ten feet high, the block fur whicli haa been presonted a8 o tributo to the- memory of Byrou by the Greok natlon, uud of the finest Pentelic warble. 1t 18 expected that the castitg of the otatue will bo accomplished Iun few months, when It will bs necessary to decids upon u sty for tho movuucut, It bag been suwgested thut u suitablo spot would bo ut the top ol 8t, James’ street, oppusite to White's Club, und within sight of Mr. Murray, whoss nowe {8 80 nssoclated with the publication of Byron's works. As Mr. Delt, being a very young sculptor, is compuratively listle” known, it may be stated that he first bowan his study as an nsaistant fn the studio of the late Mr, Foley, RLA. s has, howaver, already executed soma monumental works ul fusportunce in tho stutuo of Izuak Wale ton, fn St. Mary’s Churcly, dtallord; of Canon Couway, In 8t Margaret's, Westminster; und of Clintles Kinusley, I Chester Cathedral, which the Quecn has cominissioned Mr, Belt to ropeat for hor Majeaty’s private cotlection. . —— Porfumes, Baaton Transcript, Liquid perfunes are not usually the products of distillation, although Havender wud ous or two other flowers yleld moru of thelr perfumo v that process that auy other., ‘Fhe muthod alled by the French culleurage, a word, for whiet abtorption ls the Inadequate sysonym, 8 used with wosy blossows, wml gives thiosy pomades which are so highly eateemcd und 80 valuable, ‘Fho great Freneh perfuumiers at Urusse, Canucs, and Nice omploy hundruus ot wonien, whosu buslness Is to tond the groat frowes thinly epread with Jayers of clarltled greaso atrewn with flower potals, rencived evory day, \When the season s over, thu greade trouted with alcohol, which takea up tho es- sentfal ofl coutaning the perfume, but leaves the flxed ol of the greasy free, Hellotrope, cuseln, or acacts blossoms, jusmine, and mauy otur llowers ure ull treated inthia woy. Auyet this muthod of extractivg the odor of towers s not used to any extent (i America, butit proba« bly will bo as soon a8 Florida tukos the placa wiich it should occupy ns & vast fower farm. Flhiere Is o reason why this coral penfusuly with its perfect ellmate’'should not rival SBouths eru France, and produco ucrolt by the hundred. 'wcl(xhth:u say unthing of tho 0tt0 of Tos¢ uud waguolis powmade,