Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1879, Page 12

aoe 12, THE FIDELITY. Sale of the Bank, the Vaults, and . the Theatre. © The Gross Recsipts of the Morning’s Entertainment Only $191,000. Tho Tacky Bidders, and What Thoy Intend Doing with Their Parehasess ‘The Fidelity Savings Bank Bullding, including tha bank proper, the safe depository, and Hooloy's Theatre, was sold yesterday morals in the lobby of the theatre under an order of the Superlor Court of Cook County, the sale betnge subject ta the Court's approval. The sale had beon well advertleed for some time, nnd the Tobby was well filled even before 11 o'clock, the Hour at which the performance was to com- aicnee, by a delegation of real-estate inen, hank people, und speculators: generally, big aud Httley sunie Intending to bid, and others attracted out of mere curiosity, und with no more ability to bid than if thentres ant things were selling, lit- erally, ‘dirt cheap’? As tt turned out, ju the estimation of a number of com- petent judges ‘of ren) estate, — that qwas about the way the thing went any way, the bunk selfing for $59,000, the safe depository for $32,404, and the cozy Uttle temple of the muses for $00,000, ‘There were o number of prom- Incnt people In the crowd, which packed the ea- pacious lobby, and, despite the fact that there was any amount of toc-treadlie amd corn stnashing, everybody was thoroughly good-na- tured, and laughed when there was anything to auch ot, aud, not {ufrequently, when thero was nothing that wns positively funny. ‘The elephantine proportions of Long John towered above everything and everybody, and Dick Hooley looked Uke wu pigs, as his head and ghoulders about reached the waistcoat. of the elongated ofd patriarch, 8. D, Cobb, John A, ‘Tyrrell, dotin B. Drotee, ex-Ald. Rosenberss, Lavurns Silverman, HH. W. Jackson, AL OF Stevenson, W. D. Kerfoor, 8 £1. Kerfoot, Elian Whitehead, Ald. pees “ A Days g dd voroman, L. Z Lelter, Judge Otts, Sinon Quint, “Gnele doun” "Garland, and others of mors or legs prominence circulated gbout in the crane and made guesses a8 to what e sale would bring. = te twenty minutes after It when Dr. V. A. Turpin, the Recetyerof the Fidelity, ascended dhe steps lending to the ofllve vver the theatre and tuok his stand behind the wncient Butters, auctioneer for.the ocension. ‘The latter, as inus- ter of the ceremonies, introduced the Doctor, qwno sa{d ho had authority from te Superior Court to sell , SUE FOLLOWING PROPERTY, which he proceeded to enumerate and describo ng follows? - “ ‘The bank bullding, located at Nos. 145 nnd 447 Randolph street, {s 0 four-story stone-frout, strictly fire-proof structure, 40x70 feet, more or Jeas, nnd contains one of the best bauking of- tives in the city, thoroughly Mnished and fur- nished, Inclndiiyg a 34,000 burelar-prool sale, ‘Also, the Fidelity Safe Depository, No. 143 Ian- Uolph strect, lot 20x180 feut, more or less, a four-story atone-front, fire-proof building. On the first story are vaults containing 8,26 flre and burglar proof safes, about 2,000 of which are now rented at $15,000 per nunum, ‘The number of rentals {8 constantly fncreasinz. Also, the building known o8 Hooley’s ‘Theatre, at No, 149 Randofph street. ‘Ibis fs one of the dInest, best-equipped, and most successful then- tren in the West. It fa now rented for five years nt $10,000 per annum to a relluble aud prompt- ly-paving tenant. Lease expires duly 1, 1883, ‘the property will be sotd for eash; a deposit af 10 per.cent {s required from the suecessint bid der to bind the bargain, ‘The title is good in the Receiver, Abstract of tltle furnished, and reasounble time given for examining the same, and, if found defective, the salo will be can- eeled and deposit returned, Posresrion given May 1) Present occupantsof the bank will rent from puretiaser or inove out. Purchaser of entc-dupository to assume outstanding con- tracts.’ Salo ‘without reserve, except the ap- proval of the Court.? {THN FOLLOWING DIAGRAM will give a clear idea of the premises: , AMLET ; ust 15 tt 3 F Be sl [st i ga ely a 8) g gid £ Edala 2 (8 ‘) S sep elgle ie a £ 98"|. g g Fete a é ge a “2 88 40 zo tt. | RO ft, . RANDOLPH STREET, Mr, Butters Ifted up his voice to observe that the first thing they had to offer wos thu BANK BUILDING AND PURNITURE. “What do T hear?” ‘The first thing ho heard was an offer of 380,000 _ from dJudgu Otls. ‘Yhen_eame bids of $40,000 and $50,000, and then 851,000 up to 867,00, from people who couldn't be distinruishedt tp the crowd. Gentlemen,” continued Butters, hero's an fimtnense speculation, Property enhaneing in ‘vatua cyery day, snd on the completion of this grand structure fn front of us (the Court-House) the value will Increase 25 tor cent, if nob more; entiemen, 18 all am oifered,” } Kusenberg made it $63,000, ‘Lazarus Silverman wont ulm 31,000 better, Datters spurred the crowd on by saying they contd borrow $50,000 or 360,000 on the proper- ty in twenty minntes. Woutd anybody bid 600 more, $250 tore, 3106 more, oven S50 more? “1 want to let in rome of these fellows thut haven't got quite go much money,” he added, and the crowd laughed, Nobody bid any higher, and the bant was sold to Lazarus Silverman for 350,000, Ie was im- mediately assured that ho bud made a ereat bargain, ‘Soon after the sale Mr. Silverman was asked as to what disposition he would make of the prop. erty, undreplied that bls bank would oceupy te buflding Muy 1, until which time the Minos ‘Trust & Savings Company hus a» lease of thie , premtsce, ‘The next thing to sell was TI SAFE DEPOSITORY, an Inatitutlun which, in the language of Butters, was better’s 4 per cents or even 8 per venta, Some of the safes, hie sald, went through the Hire, and the boxes weren't von searched, Dr, ‘Turpin came up und sald there were now 3,700 buxes in the depository, and aver 85,000 rentals, ranging from 8h to ‘They were now paying something Hke $15,000 a year, and in good times would do even better, “since he had hecomo Receiver thy uumber of rentals bad Ancreused 25 per cent, Mr W. D. Kerfoot wauted to know if there was to bo uny return of rontals, pre rata, as in the case of te State Savings sale, Dr, ‘Lurpin eaid they didn’t propose to make Rhy returns, Seuie of thu boxes lad wday. tu Tun, and some BUF days, so iat Ue income kept relling over aad over, Butters invited bids, und the rusponses cama in thick, Somebody back In the crawd, name salnown, bid 310,000. ‘Chen come olfera of = 060, $50,000, 360,000 (from a Mr, Hodyes), 311,000, wal $02,000. lr, A. 1 Stuyeuson su ott $05,500, nnd Mr. Rosenberg went hikin §: Dotter, Inn few moments Gerhard Foreman Lunt ran it up to $64,000, Mr. Rosenberg to g05,- HW, Mr, Silverman to $00,000, Mr, Yoreman to 0, Me. Siiverman to §07,00U, und Mr. Fores yb Lo BUT, 500, “Sixty-elebt thousand dollars! sanz out * Unele Jon ? Garlund, back in the crowd. nen ft became exclulng. Sumobody pi Mr. Rosonberg auother $500, somehouy: more, Mr, Rosenberg got ib up Lu 37U,- and then somebuuy eles put on another EUs “Pull them harder,” sald Butters, looking towards Mr, Rosenberg. “Sv, Tean't pull sny more,” auewered the Tater, Somebody rolled ft-up to 871,000. Uncle AAG that instant Mtr, Rosen- dJonn” added $500, berg, having apparently reconsidered his deter- miuution, algo saity it 871,00, * That's my bid,’ vociferated *Unele Joh’! ian Rosenberg went bia $100 better, (Lauzh- “Qo another hundred,” velled “' Unele olin,” and thers was mote Inuhter, Mr. Rosenberg mare Il 372,000, “(ive me another ‘aundred,? shouted “Unelo John,” determined to keen the ball roliing, anit? Stevenson added 6100. Ib was now $72. 200, “ Another flra broke out,” eatd Huttors, en- conragiugly. “Unele Jolin”? added another $100. It was his Inst. throw, “Make It $72,100," sald Mr. Steveuson, quict- Nobody would rofse It, and the safe deposl- tory went tothe former Clerk of the Superior Court at 872,100, “Now, enticmon,? sald Butters, ‘worl sell you TINS SYLENDID DUILDING OF ENTERTAINMENT.” Rented for five years at $10,000 a sear,’ added Dr, Turpin i “Any frea sents for sale?” asked Mr, Rosen- re ais “The purebaser will bay to give me n fires seat,” replied Butters, [Laughter.] Judge Otis asked it the theatre was free of incumbrance, wud the Reeelver replied “Oh, yess of courec? “WH T get $50,008" asked Butters. “Yea sald Mr. HH. Lowy, “Il give you $60,000 myself, and haye a theatre every Sun- day." *Unclo John” wanted to know how big ft was. Batters asked him if he hada’t any pro- gramme of the ente, nnd the oid man repltel with scorn and disdaln that he didu't carry one about with him. ‘ “Well,” snid Butters, “the theatre backs’ up the bank, sir.” E “When f leased the property to Mr. Ato oloy,’ said Dr. ‘Turoin, “for 810,000), L was offered 813,000, but, uwlug ton complicalich in the title, 1 wus obliged to leaso ft to lilm to get the title straight in tiin. "The property fs leased now, wid he pays his reut monthly and prowptly, 03 he js making money. ‘Taxes and hisurance auntne to $2,000 9 year, and the property nets 000. Nobody appeared anxious to ontbid Mr. ae Tt. could be turned futo a chureh very easy,” sold Butters, as an inducement. “Don't want a church here,” chiined in Dre Turpit. “Tes a cood place fora theatre.” Nobedy would gu uver 860,000, Mr. Lowy became ‘the purchaser at. tht figure, the gale Was over, und the crowd dispersud, Mr. Lowy wouldn't say woether he was acting eolely for hiniself or for somebody else, but was evidently pleased at getting the theatre for 260,000, provided the Court approved the sale, Mr. Stevenson sald he wits acting for himself and sone Boston eapitalists, whose namvs he preferred not to divulge. THE LAST AVPRAISEMENT putthe value of the theatre nt $100,000, the bank at $70,000, and the depository at 3185,000, or $305,000 altogether, An incumbranes « $80,000 was to be cleared up by the hanlk be- fore a title was furnished, which made the nes valuation $225,000. ‘The whole property sold yesterday fur $111,100, or, deducting the taxes and expenses of sale, about $6,000, $100,000 net, of Just $110,000 short of the nex appraise: ment. “Whether the Court will approve the sale is a matter of sore [ttle doubl. ‘The estl- inate of valu made in 874 by the bank itself was SUL HH, if CAPT. SCHWENSEN’S STORY, Dotalls af the #1 ug of tho Pommorania— Low It Kola to Bo Drowning, New York Tribune, Avrit 7 Capt. Haus F. Sehwensen, the commander of the Hamburg steamship Pommeranta, which was run down aud sunict by the Mov) Elian last November, sailed into thls port on Saturday mmorning, occupying the bridge’ of the Silesia, which he commands while the West- plialia fs belng overhauled and made ready to be pinced In his hands next June, Vilage were displayed on the City-Hull fu Capt. Schwensen'’a honor, and a committees of Aldermen went on board bis steamship 1 the afternoon to inylte him toa reception in the Governor's room of the City-linll ot 3p. m, to-day, to “ receive the vongratiwations of the residents aud the gav- ernment. of the Clty of New York.'? Cant. Hchweneen accepted the. proffered hunor, and anid In auswer to the complimentary remarks addressed to him: “TI only did my duty as asenimun, But l wonder how tt 13 that 1 am nere. Lamglud.” Conrad Popenhusen, one of the ed passengers of the Pommerauta, caine back with the Captain, it. Schwenaen dined yesterday with Mr. M » the agent-of the Namburg Company, at the latter’s residence tn Hoboken. Here he related’ the partlzulurs of the terrible scene on boxrd the Pommerants during the fifteen minutes between the striling and the sinktng of the ship. . “1 have sarees over scon a blacker night ot sea, he raid. “It was between the 25th and 26th of November, not foggy, but black: clouds hung over the eky, and there wasn steady driz- zie. "The flrat officer and i wore having .our watch together on the bridge, ‘fhis painting on the wall shows you the yery spot where wo were. Woe both lust sight of the Dungeness Light, be- ind that elit, and were looking out for the Enst Goodwin Light, by Dover, intending fo change our course #0 us to Kall through’ the Straits into the German Ocean, As soon ag this Heht came in view tiiteen minutes before midntzht, 1 went into my cabln to work out our position on the chart, Barely had Etukon my compusses ip my Piiand, when the crash came, shaking the ship from stem to stern, I ran on deck, meetlug the irst oficer, who wos running to me, saying that agailing ship had run tuto us, nnd he thoucht we would: alni, I ordered the stewards and sume of the erew to wake up the passengers and get them on deel, while tu: doetor and the baker gave out the MHfenreservers, First-Bn- eineer Hehns hurcled up the batchway, and said the engine-room was flooded, Ee hurried back, und that was the dast: wo saw of him. [ean describe to vou the darkness and confusion that, reigned on that deck. “Two of the boats were stove In by the collision. ‘The other elgit were manned and shipped fustde of tive min- utes, Every otileer and seaman must haye been in his place to do thls. Men, women, and eliti- dren were crowding about the boats. T saw oa Yioboken fuially, husband, wife, aud. babe, that had beon placed ih my etaree, aud led them to the frat bontswain's boat, the first that was lowered. Here J saw young Clymer, with three life-preservers on his arm, and told hin to put ono about his body. Then 1 hurried to the other boats, which weru being fled with pae- acngers. It was svareely possibly to revognize anybody, aud by this time some of the lanterns dad been ent from the rigger where they dud been lashed. “Shet T waa told tit bout No. 8 had been swaniped, and dnuirry to the scone found that youug Clymer had eut the rope at one davit, alice a Stein the rope had prevent- ed it running through the blot, Ho had helped his two slsters tute this'boat, and when the rope. was cat the boat went down unevenly and was swamped, Sume of thudga in ft were putled into. the other boats now altoat, and weeo serambled, up the ship's ade, The doctor was amome (he jatter, “The firet ollicer'a boat was the last to leave the shipta site. TP thought the paesengers were all off. Imagine my surprise when yoing to the quae, ck TL found thera the Hoboken family thought 1 {u the first boot. “They wer be- aldu themselves with terror, A seized the babe from its mother’s aris, und followed by the husband wad wife ran forward, calling to the llrst ollleer to come baeks that there were other unseengers to bo saved. He started buck, but the hushand, who was unt of hla senger, ran att uaa, waned the mosher, pulling the child from ime, followed after him tito the darkuess, ‘This wus the origin of the story that 1 nad trled to saved child suid to ha my own. Lat ones shouted to the Nrat officer tu’ pull off ag fast ay posible, nd his bust barely. escaped being sucked dawn with the ship. “Third Olcer Zar- now was aft firing rockets and blis hehts, whiten now and then threw a dim light over the ship, ‘Thea | euw two or three pasacn; ranning: hero and there, but bt waa too inte. ‘Phe water Was pouriny over the sides. and [bad already tn amy own infil made up my account. TI found the = Ductor yng on oa bench on the — quarter-deck, — and, ehuking bin found that he was dead,—perhaps from exeltement and apopl jeu Esti bled upon the second officer, ‘¥okkes,? I erled, ‘why ure you herg and not in your bunt t? ‘Captuln,” he auswered, tiny boat’ Is in youd vomumiind; the carpenter's bout was stove in, xo Tputhtindo mine, and — didu't want to leave my old Cuptali.' At that moment the ship lurched: wo were standing tn waters the bow pitched dawn; we safd ‘Good-by? to une am ather, wanda shal blue Heht aft, slowlng that Zarvow was faithful to the death, was the lust, Uitins 1 saw na the water closed over ine, “Do you waut to Know bow windy feels when ho fa Lelug drowned? aoked the Captian 1 atl a focting that somu awful sea or mavistron Was awallowlig ine down. ‘Then caine the sen. sutton of being forced through thy water ga tt £ had bocu discharged aroun cannon, and when T vould bok my breath wo longer fopeved my mouth, and found 1 wee Rt the aurtace with floating things nbout me. J femal a bourd six fect long, and counted thy ive boats tn tha listanee, wel 2 could see the be- ticy Were opaintud white, | For an hour the thde carried me rapidly toward’ ria German Ocean. Tt aw Ue Mich of at nteatner combiy dlrectiy toward me, but alinost at the wuts dined wae taken with cramp the leges und thous for a second time that Tinust surely dic, Yet the eteatuer cate nearer I e THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 11, ISVV—TWELVE PAGE Nase re) Loar von vf ft shouted, say tne steamer rtop, snw a fight go down the alde, and heara fhe dip of onre nud the hoatawatn saying, *Dou't strike that man on the .) Then & hand grasped mo nnd 7 fuinted. ‘The next thing £ remeniber was seo- line a ballot Iteht before me, surrounded by a dark rainbow, which kept crowhy beliebter and brighter. ‘Then n prickly feeling beings ab my feeb went to my whole body, my cyes opened, and L found niysell looking at alan Duralyg on the deck‘of ‘the City of Anisterdan, which carrled me into Rotterdam, where L lay efek for three dave," “Tivant to any a+ word,’ concluded Capt, Bchwensen, “for the crew of me Pomerania, A great deal lias been sntd uainet them on thie side. ‘The facts that tho ship sank inside of twenty minutes and Hatt Hyg boats were snie- cessfully latnehed tn darkneé@und confuston, nd 192 Hyves saved out of 227-—thirty-seven pas- sengers and eighteen of the erew belue loxt— ure proof, tt seca to me, that the crew acted necording to diselpline, It was sv dark that Mr. Porpenliveess gaya when they wera taken on board the Glengarry the reecucd passengers could tell who ad been tt the same boat only by repeating nnd comparing about what was Ri ie the boat. Faces could not be recog- rout, Capt. Schwensen is a short, thick-sct man, with a gental, rintdy face. His halr and side. whiskers haye grown gray perceptibly since the alsaster, He went out as Mate in the Deubsch: land in 1818, the ileat aati veese! sent to New York bythe Hamburg Packet Company, and shuve 1957 has commanded the steamabips tam- munlu, Borussia, Germania, Westpnialla, Sey- thia, Pommeranta, Cliobria, nud Silesia. CURRENT OPINION. They Climb, Raltimore Gusette (Dem). When a dudge or Justlee of the Peace out in Kentucky (s invited now to go snipe hunting or fishing be imuediately climbs a tree. i Hise Up, Winn Alton t Attanta (G0.) Constitution (Dea. There isa holain Oblo polities that can be sucessfully tiled onty by our Unelu Wiltiain jules Ale shoutd rise up and shake the echoes }OO3L. Not an Ohio Mans Mempnia (Tenn.) Aratanche (ind.). It won't de to clinree the ernzy editorials tn the Okoloua (Miss.) Stafea on the Olio carpet bageer, Col, Harper ts the wild-eyeil child of deatiny who runs the machine, and If he isu’t a Southerner the race must be extinct. It Cannot Succes. Piterburg Canmerciat (Ren,), Tf we fail the Rebellion is atflast triumphant. Beaten fn battle, it succeeds by fraud. Bat we are convinced that ft cannot succeed. The President fa true and the party-leaders aro true, Let the rauk and. file of te party arouse to the situation. ‘The peonle will not allow the Gov- ernment to be thus destroyed. If Congress ro- tuses to support it the people will, In Tt Wine? New York Krening Mat (ind, Dem). Ts it tlnely or decent, so long after the burial of the Confederacy, for Southern “Hro-cuters to dfscuss offensively in the councils of the Nation the question whether ornot the Nation onght to have asserted its authority and have defended its fe? If these thinga are necessary, then, politically speaking, we have been lying in yain, ‘fhe people do vot belleve thut this revival of old passions is necessary or tolera- ble. ‘They have punished the Republicans be- fore now for revi¥ying them, and they will cer taluly punish the Democrats for fiuituting the bad exumple. ¥ Thurman's Programmo, Boston Heratd Und. D:m.), Thurman's Presidential aspirationg are said to be baged on the probability of carrying Olio, Indiana, and the Solf@ South. With these se- eure, he will let New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut go ax they will Ohio ts a doubt- ful State. and there are rumors that he ant other soft-moncy Democrats will Insist upon a dcelaration by Congross in favor of the aboll- .tlon of the National banks, in the belief that tt will Influence the Ohio election fayorably. If this favor fa dented, Thurtuan and his assoct- ates will retuiiate by allowing the Appropria- tlon bills to pags without political riders. Tho Whole Difference, Columbus (0.) Journal (Rev.). A fellow from Ohlo—a native Iuckoye—who never saw the South until whe War closed, 14 the “crazy galnot" who edits ‘the Okulona (Alls, ) States. Vowitbly he waa sent down: there by Ne- publican conspirators to sny footlah things just to Mre the Northorn heart.—dadianapotie Sertinet (Den, You give the Republicans too much eredit for stnartness, There 1s no proof—no assertion, eyen—that the prineipal editor (Harper) of the States is an Ohio inau ora “crazy galoot.” His renders down in Miselssippl demanu strong diet and ho gives it to them, Mu fs in the habit 9! aaylng fn pinin English the same things whtch the Confederate and Copperhend editors any In “elpher? That is the whole diiTerouce, Tho Coming Campaign. Washington Letter to Boston Journal (Ren). ‘Tho two great polities! parties are laying tho Keels of the vessels upon which they propose to enter for the Presidentint raco in 1880. Ono fa of Northern oak, und above { will float the Stara. and Stripes, white the other, of Southern pine, will be offleered by those who wpheld the Stara und Bars inthe Into Rebellion, It is evi Aha, ts struggle will be earnest and bitter, acerbity he ite further thanat has ever pro- cocded defore, and goma of those who brought ruin upon their own section of the Republfe desire that their defeat of hope to sea the © Yanks” New Enuland. bowed down by free trade, a worthless curren- ey. a paralyzed Judustry, and a stagnated cont merce, Moro Nebol You. Ohotone (Mise,) Southern States (Nemo, Sof Davia ought to have been hung. —Allegan (Mich,) Journal (ep), taf but you didn't dare bring him to trial, even, You kuew better, You knew that the law and the fucts Would risa up mountain high tocontront and condemn you for your red- hhunded crusade upon the Confederacy, You knew that seeession would be adjudyed legal, You knew that cocrelon would be adjudged un- constitution). You knew thit Davis was a watrlot, who had simply performed his duty in Sollowing the fortunes of lus sovereign State. You knew these things, and, therefore, you knew hotter than bring our tlustrious ex. President to (rial, ‘Treason was rampant fi this Republic from 1861 te Ist5. Yes, sir, And your Wirey compat dull we tealtora, and the necks of your purty-leadera ought to have been eravked on the gullows-tree. An Oath of the Future, Warktnytan Republican (Rev.), Who can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth! Loynity to thy “Lost Catise’ fa now one of the necessary guallileations for any office within the gate of thu Democratic Congress, The Scnaty vies with the Hayse in inaking treason honorable, Shade of the tate Benedict Arnold, how thownrt gloritlud! Now Ict thy epltaph be written, since loyaltv bag been made odious ‘The Confederate Brigadters have captured the Capltal, amd ave engnged th the work of recon. strnctiie the Union according to the Sthte rights, view, for which they “U1,” bled, and died, Laws obuoxluns Co the heroes uf secession must aid shall bo repeated, by -—, waht? ft may come. to thie, that apbrd Hrlation bills with be saddled with unt oath of ofits approprlaty ta the poly of Congreas, Hke the following: 1, A, BL, solemnly swear, by —, waht that T haya never voluntarily borne urins against the Cons federate States of America while 1 was a ettieen thurwuf; that £ have voluntarily ad eountunancs, coundel. oF cHeouravement to. vers soins onuaged fn armed howiiny’ theratay that T have nuver sought. Hor uecepted, nor attempted 10 oxvreiga the functions uf uny uilice whntever, ine der auy authority o¢ protonded authority m loutll: ity tw tho Confaduru States; thit £ have not. yloided & voluntary support ta iny. pretended Gove erament, authurity, puwer, of Constitution bostile or Mitinicable to the Confederate Stat will, by —--)ah! And] ao surthe: wah! that D wth support and defend Hon of Ui Litited States whace 1f doce not ¢ with the priuciples tor which Lot, bled. and died; Vist, after Ute superior stlegiapes which | ewe tu Lowill baar true faith und alleghiiee to Statew while my party ain paso; that obligation freely, without apy mental resurvation or purnody of evasion; nnd that) will well aud truly hold the ofiee which Lau about to enter, and draw thy sulury thereot sg frequently ow posaidle, vo help me —, abt no ald, srow for the South, Vickeburg (Mia) Heratd (id, Den). When the Topeystlftn Conugess met wa were told that attentlondyould be pald to our inate. rial interests, unt thut the South would avoid, 4 Much o¥ possible, heated, hitter political con- Yeats. Somoul our Congressmen wid all they could to direct leytelution dn these channels; but how utterly thay furled te vow a watter of ¥ feeling hus invaded tne recess" Senator Lamar aud others scoured the passaze of a ood Nutlonal Yellow-Feyer law, but the blunderers in tho House refused to ac- vept {t, and Haunehed aut into n foolish politteal Statotlghts debate. ‘They had just as much ground last year to advise the people that the avcaptance uf nid from the North would tafrluge tha apple of their eve, Stute-rights} but ther strangled the Senate bill all the same, aid the South now stands trembling, fearing the tecri- Die -scourge: wil come ogal Our friends tried to gecure oa Taw that srould giva | reusonabls ald to on South ern ‘Trans-Continental Raflwayy but, by me votes of sensitive Democratic guardians of the ‘Treasury, {t was decided that the measure should “not even be coneldered. After the | North tins been vastly fisproved tn ways too numerous tu tention hy Nattunatald, and while the South fg faithfully paving year alter yenr her share of the debt thus erented, or Lemo- cratic friends (4) fecl tio bo their duty to say the South shall have nothing, and take upon uscives the responsibility of this injustice, ait they may he considered the watch-dogs of ‘Tresury. Wo understand all this perfect ve They dowt watel-or worth a cent when the North wants anything. It ig only the erip- pled South that they feel valted pon to advise thsiith, When they refised to even conakler pienstire thot it ts jtiat to prant the South, the papers dowa this way that ein't ece to the end of their nose danced with joy at the very hope- ful prospect. “1 sald the yote (the yal (iat reearded the Senate's refusal to consider the Texas Paefiic bill} was execodingly en- eouraging, In thls way the great —mnss of Southern. Democrats. are kept constantly deceived ands held loyal to the party, A big effort. was made to secure a Leveo bill that would do same good. “Tt dwindled down to a jevee Commission and nn insiuuifleant anpro- printion; but aven that did not become a nw, ‘To sum up—the South got gush. And, if there fa anything encouraging in the present situation at Wushington. we are unable to sve it. Shera isn hot party tight about tho repeal of some laws that ought to he repeated, but whieh reatly: affect the South yery Nittle, and the South, as usual, fs required to stam) upto the rack, firm und aoitd, fodder or no fodder. We aro told there {8 a creatiprinciple at stuke fn the matter, and that we must stand up, even If it comes to arraylng the Rolki South against the Sotld North, In the meantine, If woask for justice from those who require this of us, they straight- way come the watchdoy dodge ony, It dors seem to us that, no matter what dircetion events atake, ft is always crow for the South, Weare growing weary. “GRETCH Mr, Gilbort’s Now Pay. , Loniton Times, March 20 i That Mr. Gitberv's “Ciretehen” would be, if not dircetly compared with Goethe's * Faust,” at least considered with reference to that ex- traordinary work, was inevitable; yet it {s not casy to avttic “the precisa terma in which to gpeak ef the cornectlon between the two, ‘The English play eanuot be described asa veralon of the German, nor cau Mr. Gilbert be atrictty suid tohave recast the old legend ins now form Save that he employs the agency of Mephisto- pheles, Mr. Gilbert haz not. attempted, and has, no doubt, .wisely not attempted, the introduc. tlon of any supernatural or cyen-philosopbient matters nnd thus witl at once be seen how wide u difference must exist between the two works, In other respects, however, tho difference fa much siighter, and In the groundwork or out- lino of bis design Mr. Giibert has followed Gouthe with tolerable fidellty, just 3 Gocthe followed pretty closely in the samo doyree vthe old legends whielr Marlowe usea before him. To those, hos- ever, Who ore aware how old this story fs In its primary concaption—for {t can bo truced back nimost to the eorliest age of Chrlstiinity—to say this fs not to say very much, nor In saying It should we wish any morc to refuse to Mr, Gil- bert the credit that belongs to hls enterprise than we should think of denying all originality to Goethe becnusd Marlowe and 0 score or more ofather writers, fneluding Calderon,.hed used the saine fdea before him. Mr. Gilbert's play might purhaps bo described as on attempt to oring Goathe within the compass of scencral goinbralunston, with particular reference to avenic representation, something after, that fast. fon, now ao popular, whieh cssuys to bring the erent writers of our own sind earlier times with- 4 the reach and Intelligence of the general pub- Ne. A short sketen of the plan of tila worl: will porsivly, howoyer, be of more service than any definition or explayfion we can presume to offer, “Mr, Gilbert's Jaustes ia neither a omeclehay nor a piillozopher. . Hoe has been in his. younger days a foviul, roystering suldier, til, deceived byauirl whom ho had loved und velteved, ho hus sickened of the vauitica and yexations of the world, und, throwing aside ble sword, hax buried his surrows hencath the cowl of the Domintean. But the old Adam {8 not dead yet. fils friend. Gulifrted, pasaiug with his troop of horeo tirough: the town whore Janstus'*nionastery — stunda; finds him ont, and, tallying hing on ifs folly in holding all the world falsu because be has been tricked by one woman, deseribes to bin a maiden of bis acquaintance, the incarnation of truth and purity. “This 1s Grefches, his cousin, and an orphan, dwelling some twenty leseues away, under the core ofheraunt Martha. Maustus grows dutercated, ‘and contesscs that, had he known such an one, he would not then have heen wearlng out his life iu solitude, Furthermore, bo cuunsela Gollfried to declare his love to Uus maiden, leet some more tarliy auitor step iy and take her from him. ‘Tho tram pet suttnds “To horse,” and ft 16 time for Gott Jriel to go. Left to himself, Fauatus prows mare restless und mnsatisfied, til, in a fitot raze. at hia folly, he cally aloud on Barth, Heaven, Hell—whichever heara mo now,” to take hin havt to the world aud life, aWephistophe'es an- swers to the call, aud, after parley between the two, Aaustus uske for an introduction to Greteh- en, expressly stinubatiny, however, that hemeans the mak no harm, and erdéves only to learn of her the way to Heaven. Ita declines all com pact, however, with his gutde; the fut is to be faly between them, and if ho mid bis matden nonitress can overcome the Devil, the latter 1s to own himself heaton. . To these tern Vephise tupheles consents, and conjures up the vision of Grevhea, As the inwee, holduyg @ breyiary, illdes across the stage, it turns und bolds Its hand out to Jaustus, who falls on his knees be- fore It, und addreseea tt in cothusinstle terms as the divine embodlincat, the splrit.of peuce, whinge pure gout is tenectorth to by is beacon slits whe second act opens with a seese hatw the girls of Lhe viluge whers Greteken lly Muy, peraops, recutl thatin Goethe's « between Seay nit Margaret at the well. ‘the uirls are revilluys og Jisa, who, haying left hor humo with a rich nierehunt a year age, hos now returned, rnined, deserted, “und repentant, Gretchen ts Uy only one Who takes her party ke Margaret, who confesses tht betore her own fail sho could revite any poor gird who. lid mide a slip stoutly suough,—-and her kindness and charity lead the others to. stay their acold- jug and minke peace with their ald. playfellow. Mavthe next comes in, and, crumbling over her hard Jot, which ahu attributes to having warricd, @ poor nay, counKELY Grefehen ta come to her wacheyer Griuhen ee heart dain danger. Hereapon answers that sho hus alrandy seen one who she could joye, for it wppenrs thot at othe very inetaut when her apparition appeared te J anstis, the imnge of Fiustus appeared to her,--a coined ence whitch Mr. Gilbert aay possibly have taken from a curlous old Germun fon of the ferond, to be foutd, wa belleve, fo ‘Thom's “Early Proae Rommnces.” Martie acoile at the dream, oa never Mkely to bo more than a dream, 1 hopes only it may never prove a reallty. talus wind ephiatophe'cs When appear, aud to them comes Goltfead, who, delighted to Ond bls friend untracked, und quit’ of ils mankte fol- Hes, vonmends Gretehen to hia care, Mephistonh- cs, lo get rh of Marija und perforin fis share of the campact, comes forward wie N eseuge for the old dame fvon her dead thsband, bor. rowed fraw the aeeng between Liew in “Bust? the only scene tu which Mr Uihert bas pree ferred Goatie's lanyzunize to hits owe—aind thy vine people belug thus loft tugether somewhat quickly diseover thetr Jove for each uther, to Which the suddep enbotiment of Gretchen's visto lias, of course, predisposed ber. ‘The tuird and lust acts we jiny pase more quickly over. Scandal iy busy iu the village with Grechea's oud nae, but, happy in. her love, the vir] herself hweds nothluy, "Maustua, how: over, conaclotia haw sadly be has fallen from his Ingh professtons.co .Uephistopheles, ww Hl ut eile, rosching himself to her, bo tells her the story of his former love, its distiluston, and ls consequent abjuration of the world. Hore tilled to learn tht be ts plreany wedded to Jteaven, mid that thus she cau be no bride of his, the virl breaks trom hint, and exharthig hun to return and gak forgivonces of the Chureli jor hla desertion, eyen ag she will forglvg hin who must desert ber, leaves bint ina fot at tents, #uustus accopts bis dou, and, custing Menhistophetes trom bia, who would ebeer bin up to take no heed of @ mere lovers’ quarrel renultnees life engagement with the flead, and rushys inte the celghboring chureh. At this moment GolYried vutere, covered with Blury from the wars, but wuch perturbed with ‘iw manner an which his inquiries ufter Gretchen avo heen recelyed tn the village, Reasured, however, by .Mephlstophe'es' declura- lon that Justus bas been trae to bis trust, aud that Gretchen herself las beew ever chinking of his welfare, be plucka up couraye to contess hi ‘Jove o bie cousin when she upucars, Thea ke learns the fntal truth, that the friend to whom ho Mntrusted tis tava nas stolen that love fram him. Vowing: vengeanee on the botrayer, le finds him kneeling fu the chamber of the dyite airl, elnd in the monte's garb to whieh he lias returned, Eager for death Juste offera his bosom to Gotffried's sword, but at the tnterpost- dow ot Gretchen, who calls upon pit, by lis loye for her, not to embitter ler Inet hetire by the death of the man she loves, he forbeara lit vengeance, nul leaves bin to. his own con- scle Talked of his dealre, Macstes would suck death at his own hands, but Gretchen stays him, and, bidding hin Ive to repent, she dies as the ‘ay Drenke, while WMephistophe'es cowers: batiied betura the crucifix which {s ralsed at her bedside, ‘Thy play is written fn blani verse, and §s ovl- dently the work of much thought and polish- tng. “The Iungaaze f¢, happily, free from all ex- travaganes or obscurity; ft has the particular and not foo common merit of expressing what the writer wishes 10 expreas Inan casy and dl- rect inanner, 11 $s a question, perhaps, whether prose might not occaslonally have been tore properly cinpleyed, to whileli, Indeed, the senti- ments of thechoracters nnd the clreumstances of the seone scent sometimes more nearly akin; we may Instance partleliiatly the scene between the village girls, and the seero between Mophistophelea wd Martha, both ju the secoud net. Wor the most part, however, the dialogue ia eminently sensible nnd to. the polut, lacking neither grace wor vigor, each in {ts proper pla. ‘The play is long, certalnly, but we do not sup- pose Unit any one expeeted tu hear the story of Faust told within the Haute of a modorit corns edy, ‘The first two acts are the best, for duriug those the attention ts fixed by an ogreenbie uneertainty as to the ullimate futentions uf the author. -At the closo of the second act these intentions are tolcrably clear, and the au- dence, tay, ina fashion, be sald to arrive at the end of the play before the actors. ‘This, however, {s almost a natural consequence of the fantltarlty of the story, and, iniess Mr, Gilbert. bad eseayed an even bolder silght than he has essayed, It Is ditfentt to ave how it could have been avoided. ‘fhe neting is in nearly all re- speets fntelligent and earefuls qerears, Sudecd, {t may be satd, to. an unusual deuree, cousider- ing how foreign the nature of the’plece fs to tho funeral tone of our stage. ‘The play wns very well recelyed, und the nuthor bowed hfs ackuowl- edements to an andionce who seemed highly satisticd with the result of u bold adventure, ABRONAUTICS. Prof, King to Mako an Attempt In 1889 to Cross thy Atlantte in a Balloon. Pinnapenrisa, April 6.—Zo te Bdltor of the New York Herald: I trust that you will allow me, through your widely-cireulated columns, space iv which to make a statement to the pub- Ue of iny plans and purposes during the coming season, Fora perlod of nearly thirty years I have made a study and practice of aurial naylga- Hon, During the whole of this time, in the courac of which L have inade somewhat over 200 nascenstons, without {njury to life or tmb, L bays ateadily endeavored to ayail myself of whatever experience ar suggestion might afford to muko traveling in the alr practical, deft- nite, and useful. Numerous and often costly experiments lave = shown = ine that, with wo mechanieal appliance or power yet discovered, it {s Impossible to journey definitely and with certitude through the air to any proviously designated polut, in oppualtion to the direction of a prevailing wind. The bal- loon, therefore, romning to-day what it was in the days of the Montolflers,—a machine that all the skill and dngenulty of man cannot pre- veut from floating with the wind, which controls and directs it absulutely from the moment it ts launehed. ‘Tho application of any known mo- chanical power, to be of sny use as against a wind dirceted upon the vast surface of a bal- loon, is entirely Impractleable on account of the weight Involved. We must, itis evident, awatt the reault of the discoveries. of au Edison, or until somo onc else shail huve succecded tu do- vising a harness with which to control the elec trie current. ie” ae Butit seems to mo that a great deal can bo Accomplisied with tho balloon, slave of the wind though it be. Thus for balloon-voyazes have beon limited to the duration of a few hours ut most. ‘The longest vovage on record was thatmade by Mesars. Gager, Lie Muuntatt, Alyde, und Wise, from St, Louis, Mo, to en- dereon, N. ¥., fn 1850, "The bulloon’ left Bt, Louis at 6 o'clock on the ovenlug of duly 4, and ut 85 minutes past 9 ou the following alternoon i tunde tts landing. IT have myself made an alr voyage of over 600 miles; but, cenerally speak- {ny, Ualloon-journeys baye, beon very briet, ex- tending over. comparatively limited atroteh of country... ‘The reasous for tliis areas pluin and true ns when thus expressed by thu English acronaut, Green, in 18403 ' “Apart irom the leakage of the balloon itsolf (which, however, wlien in perfect condition {a not excessively material) a vurloty of circumstances attend ite progress through tho air py which, in ordinary cases, ita power of sustiining iteulf bes comes gridually imputred and ultimately, of courev, completoly overcome. Of these, one of the most formidable in tho diflculty of making the balloon retain the sane elovation in the atinos- phere, and of avoiding those fluctuations In tho level of ite courda by which it becomes xubjected to the ulternute exhaustion of yas by expansion: and consequent low of ballaat In order to furnish au equivalent diminution of weight, ‘The extent to which thia condition of tho art, exerctyed In tho usual form, is capaole of operatinu, will bo more readily appraciated when we observe that, at an elevation of 3,000 fost, the density of the atinosphero fy nearly one-tonth “fem than at tie imincdinte ‘surface of tho earth, ‘The gus, therefore, expanding ns it ascenils ot that altiude, occupies onu-tonth moro space than un+ der its orginal pressure; a balloon, consequently, tully futlated wt ite quitting the ground, must, era it uttain thatelevation, part with such propur- Hon af tty contenty; and this, too, withont taking into account any unfavarable chinge inthe ten erature by whieh tt might, aud probably wanli pe accompanied. ‘ou batioon hike that of Vaux hal) Gardung, containing about 80,000 cuble feet, {is lows waitld amount to nbout 8, GON fevt, “Now, the average snstalning power of’ carburutted hy= drozen, or cual gas. is about thirty-six pounda wolght for evi O00 cuble feet; consequently tire Togs of pr periencod in this slizht scant would bo equal to £48 pounds, —much more than would bo lost py leakage from'n good batloon kept inflated nt thu carth’s wurfaco in a week, Again, ot the approach of myght, upon the passage throuth clouds charged with vapor, or under the lutucnce of ushower of rain, a lure quantity of moisture becomes absorbed by the balloon-nettlngand other appuratuy, frequently to the extent of U0 or 300 weight, require ni immediate dlcharge of bal- Jant'to that umvunt te prevent her being borne to the ground. As the morning approacues, or the neu of jucreasing heat bevinw to bu felt, this lure becomes Ulsaipuied, und there bemg no nad of coilecting or recovering tho discharged tallust, the balivon, Hzhtened of her tempornry incumbranco, rapidly Flees 1h the air, hor contents OF gay expanding on hier cour, und rendering ite Mberatlon necessary to prevent’ the consequences wo have aefore deweribed, Taese alterations con- tlhuing to uperate mory or less frequently,—at ieaat once In every twonty-four haurs,—tl nead oly be avaervud, must Very soon put an end to power, however orlvinally great, and forcibly pinate her progress through tho air, These reasons are plain, a3 f pave atated, be- eattae of the manner in which neronsute have munaged and operated thelr - balloon Tw it posuible to uperate then sos to pralony Uielr currylug ability’ Thisis aquestion whieh has long vexed those versed In air-voyagiiys, and it fe one Which Cun prepared ulter u gerics of very. carelul experiments to woswer in the allen. tlye, and Linay spe voutldently of my abllily to make a bailoun-voyage of a month's duration, aullictent, with a thirty-tlve mile breeze, to. cir cummayigate the globe. ‘The oxperlnents in whieh J have been engaged almost exclusively for the lust two years have demonstrated to ny satisfaction that It fa nutonly feasible to coi struct a balloon that will maintain the bulk of its lifting power, but that it ta also easily practl- cable tu keep it alloat und de transit ‘for this Jenth of thine. "Lhe results of my experiments have been Iatd before a number of pentiemen of amply means in your eity, and they hays taken sulllelent fie terest in ule subject tu place at my diipusal the Sunda necessary tocnoble me to continue my experlinents nutit | shail have attalned uo result that will abundantly justily mein undertaking o ‘Trangatinntic voyage it balloon. [have secur- edun ehglbte and convenient location at Manbut- tan Beach, whero 1 shall cetablish ou acronautic observatory durlug the coming seayon. [shall construct here a wooden fuclosure, 45 fect high and 200 leet ti diameter, fur the purpose of ut- furding my balloons and apparatus proper pra- tection irom the winds. J shall have two _sphe- roldal balloons,—cach of in ilameter of 05 fuaty and of a capacity of 150,000 cuble tect of gua. 1 shail, of course, Work but one balloon at u time, hut wbalt provide the uxtra balloon tn caau of dumage to the other, TP alilt construct my own gusworks snd fallate with hydrogen, which fs dur superior tu common gas wud hus nearly doubly the Uf bingy power, ‘Thaw euuipped I alall be ouble to conduct cuptive aseensions trom the seacoast: during tne suniner season, and make observa tlong on the stale of the atmosphero und the provffllng direction of the winda fram various ultilutes. I shail uso a cule t,000 feot th length to elevate und lower the balloow, and this cable will be worked by a etesar hotsting upparatus, Ji ts my purpose to make these asconsions dur- lug both day and uigat, except when the weather prevents, wnt J ehall thus be able tu record a great vurlety of observations and experiences which will be of incalculable use to mie in the future. ‘Thus equipved, with experivaca durlved from actuul experiments duriug a large number of nsconsious sade under every posable condl- tion, £ propose to Ht out a balloon, tu which tis iny Intention to make te ranaationtlentt WoL eho tvag always ready to marcy him, wn ivenrnest, ‘Tita effort inny not hie nen wntlt Srivertnd another worans aud now claus net the spring ur fall of 1880, na it will requipa sev: |! autor bilehted affections, injury to character, tral months tn whieh to constrict the proper oensit marriage and soclal standing, The apparatus, which will ental on alr-siip of double Mecoma up ut the September term: Tene the siza. of those T shall tsa tn bis captive ox- | YtieyMise Tinwiov has ‘returned to Detrat, periments. My obacryatory at Manhattan'Boach | Sho isa pretty blonde, of the Cottle race, 9 ie aw < where in thorough working order by | years old, accomplished, and decidedly attrac, the 16th of Juno next. ive, Sho hos heen in America six yeara, lieing Sastuns A. Kant, Acronauts | with ber brothers, who aro merchants ‘in De pte trolt, and will belp the young lady to. play the A RELIGIOUS WAR. : Dovtor.n lively tune, i ae Contravery Botwoon Profeqtant and cath: "EADVIBLE'S GOLD, olls Clergy of St. Louls Over tlio Marringo *. Tieenso IH Fending Moforo’ the stuto | Uxtent of tho Incont Discoverios on thy , Legiaiature, emt § te Uppor Arkansas, Duapateh to Cineinnatt Enquirer (Dein). ‘ Denver (Colo,) Tribune, 8. fours, April 8—For somo tine past thefo | ;No little has recently been sald to the pay hos been a very bitter feeling between thie | about tho discovery of wold near Leadyiite, 1, Protestant aud Catholic eloreymen of thie city.') loculity ef “ thu find * was not at first given, tat arising from the opposition of the latter to a | it has'ndw come to labt that Granite, elutes Martlage Licenac bj which the Protestant min- miles trofn Leadville, in Chaffee Connty, Js iy faters aro attempting to have passed tn the | locatloni, This is an ofd gold-mining camp, and Missourl Legislature. Each stdo has ventilated | (t woadngne of tho old shafts that the gold ra {us case In the wawspapers, and, without paving | found. According ta the Leadville papers, ite thot regard to the amonitles which usually | motnenin, over whieh tle excitement is Now rag. characterize a newapaper controversy, charges | Inc was worked for gold as far back ns 1807, and of stupidity, and even mewndaelty, being futer- | $750,000 vf the prectous natal was taken frum changed in a very reckless manner, varions shatts and tunnels, having slice Leen ‘The affalr culminated yesterday in un open | abadoned us worked out. Atout two weeky dcetaration of war by the Protestant ufulaters, | gluco a party of-old gold-miners went to Gran. who, Ina mecting of the Protestant’ churches | tte, anl2foud thera ai abandoued tune, to hear g report of a Special Committee of | 100 fect-Idng, the timbers aud track of which thelr body appointed to visit Jefferson | whro in nfexcellent stato of preservation, 7 City a3 to the provress and status of | ideastrudlethem of malsing an examination, the Marriago = Liconaa =~, * indorsed | and'they worked buta short time whien the unanimously the suggeation of one of their members that they should, to use hls words, “form aleaguo of the Protestant inlulstry of tha State of Missouri, for the protection of thelr clvil rights, against the ministers of a power. which docs not hesitate to threaten and dely the Legislature of thu Stute.’? ‘fhe organization to be ohy which would throw the tulluence of ministry of the State, not in ihe support of esinsticat laws, but in support of those civil Jaws in whien thoy are interestud, fn common with the peopta of the State, outside of that evelesiastlenl body, that gous before n conunities of the State Legislature and saya, "If you piss that Inw we wou't obey tt’? ‘The speaker pave the ult of his researches nt the Kecorder's | OV ollico, Which showed that hardly any of the Roman Catholle ministers make returns of thelr marrioges, as demanded by Jaw, and stated that the Catholle Bishops said they could not take tie trouble to do so, ‘This uction of the Protestant ministers has eoused a good deal of stir in ecclesiastical clr. clea, and the Rey. Father Walsh, un authority of the Catholte Church here, whose word may be tuken ag representing the spirit of hla fellow- priests, to-day published a atutement, in which hy sald that any thing Ike a luague with a’dere- Het auimus against tue Catholic Chiureh woult be apt to Le met in the snmespirit. He thouge thu action of the Protestant clergy simply ridl- {eulous, and retled upon the Deaveratic varty to sustain the Cnurch in its struggle with thu Protestant ministers, adding: “Nie idea of treing to fisugurate a persceution lure mm came Into the vein, dipping down the fi] from where work had been stopped by the forerg owners, the eroviee which they had been work. ing'merely pineliing ont at this pomt. Of coung Ahey were elated over this discovery, and at once set’ ott for Tearlville to haya nasays male wmuldetermine whether or not the tunnel tal an owner... Diligent ecarch was made, both st Granite nnd Fairplay, but no record was fovog of the property, and even if there had been the lapse of tine glace any worl hind been dong on the property wold teave It subject to relog. tion, This was dono at once, and the tunse) christened the Mazi! ‘Nhe déevettie saya ttle vein matter consistact third clay, ono-third yellowish quuriz, ang one-third quartz jargely stained with Iron. The oveusional frvo gold is contalned, in the cise next to the wally Mr, Morse, ofthe Bank of Leadville, tuokjn person a sack of samples of the ayerage veih matter, gave it Lo Mrof, Bineg. ger of the St. Louls Company, who crushed ay} assayed ft, after whiclt Messrs. Patrick & Bride Prof, Tlayes, and ‘Tiercke & Co. ade nssasy from the enmo sack. All these nosays rau ina 145 to 168 ounces in gold. ‘These are fu, ‘Thera Is nodoubt at present that there is ¢ very extensive and paying gotd region betes Granite and Leadville. ‘the matn reason wip, these: Ugeings were abandoned. fs, that they were exclisisely worked for free gold whic only occurs In occastonal pockets, ‘The samo paper inakes the following com ments: *! Men of eapltal, or a fow strong com: paules wlio will tae hokl of these valor Missouri, and’ in the broad Ment ; of | claiins can malio thein highly remunerative by our civilization, {3 altogether foolishness | providing all the appliances necessary to wey and stupidity. ‘The Democratic party | to the best advantage, and trent thelr own ores owes us too much to allow itself to ba, m- veiled into a posliion of hostility toward us, ‘The Catholles haya at all tines huld the trac ductrine of Stale rights and the relations to the Genera) Government. At the same time the Church has nothing to do with tois; it ly only the individual who has so oeted. When the War was over, snd the Conservative party had no existence, when the old-time Democrats were overywhero fienored, who first: restorcd Huet ‘The Catholics tu New York and Mls- sourl. 7 It is belfeved that the trouble which the _at- tempted passage of the Marriage License Bilt will cause fa only Just beglaning, and Unt the Jutroduction of the religious question Into the Paeialayarg may lead to yery disagrecablo re- sults. by the most improved machinery for saying gold, Sut for the poor man, excepttig thet venturous prospector, the district, 1 Not entls Ing, fer the very sufliciont reason that mlulnsig. hard quartz {3 slow and Grbenelve work, calca. fated to touch: the bottdm of his purge befors she can open a mine to pay. ‘This impression may be erroncous,‘but ft is nevertheless offered for the solo purpose of warning men of small means not to rush off to what, appears to prow Jao a cortaln disappointinent, founded upon the reagons just given. As there aro no custoa snills near the mines, ores must be hauied ether to Leadville or Denvyor, or erected upon the ground, nnd henee poor men cannot work to the same adyantare as the rich. Still there Is 19 urea of two miles equare fu which are strocz leads outcropping, which may prove rich to the prospector yaling to el} o promising dlecorery, On tne othd hand, so tar as our observation er. tended, no Fécent. tich sirikes have bccn male the old’ claitus,, furnishing all -the free gol quartz that has beon furwarded to this clty tu ussay.”? : ISS CUMMINS’ TESTIMONY, ‘Tho Shooting of Ti, ©, Portor ns Seon bys Woman Who Narrowly Escapod, New dork sun. The following letter has just been received ie this city {roi Misa Nellio Cummins, In resents Ing'an insult to whom the late B. C. Pore was shot down by Jim Currle, tle desperat, and Mr. Maurice Barrymore was serlowly woundgds 0. 0). ce 7 Manenszt, Tex.—This ia tho flrat moment I bare lad'to myself slyco that frlehtfal might, 1 deat know if Lczn:auflle(ently collect mveeif towels youn rational lotter, You will remumberinoy lust letter how T rejoiced at tha thonsnt of leaving Toxas, and what a day's work I hud before he THE NEGRO HEGIRA. Work Dono by a Boston Emigration Asso- elation fn the Buuth—A Schome for Glying the Blacks Homes in Northern Toxas, ‘The Boston Advertiser publishes some tnforma- tlon regarding the worle of Northern asgocin- tons In the South among the negrocs to induce them toemigrate from the South to the freer and more promising Western States and Torrl- tories, the result of which 1s, to some oxtent, scen in the presenf pxedys. This movouilt, {te $8 snid, began acon after the Presidential struggle. ‘fhe popularity of the Liberian moye- tment among the South Carolina blacks led the “exodus magnates” to open correspondence with Western Iand ond rallyay sigencies, and just as they wero about rendy to talk up the ad- vantages of tho chosen Western. paradise tho rallway land negotiators themsclyes rushed in their glowing prospectuses, and precipitated a stampede, ‘Ihe long oppreseed nud dlssot- fstled colored people, rushing into the cur- reut, landed at Ste Lous, the official ren- dozvous: took breath and began to realize thelr | improvident haste; but, having started, pushed tings fromthe papers hore, but no pen can do jut fice to'thy erat! ty of the affair, I dure not think it over to ‘writen full account of it, but verbsos ‘ou cin imagine somowhat what my feelings mart 0 to have seen two nicn shot douwn,—one ktied, the other badly woundea (und only within the on, trusting thatthe haven of political freedou, | last forty-vight hours prononnced cut of social rights, nud security in real estate acqui: flanger), and two platols pointed a! tong would be found. Letters have beett re- | me. 1 don't know what enved me, only that ld celyed iu Boston within.a weuk from leuditys | NOt scream, The fact of my belny.n woman did not, Suntlern colured men, stating taut the tide wi | 83,2¢ line killed women before. hore wasn por swell until thero will bo a suilleient decreasu in | no jimite ‘Tho people have all’ beon vory kind ih the pounlation ip the Southern States to reduce | gvery way, ‘They have dono overvthing they could, the representation in Congruss, Ju tho next ap- | snd all I hopo for now fg that Mexus will do her portionment, by at least fiftecn. ‘ «| aalf jnatico, and I-think sha will, [took entire Tho tocality in'which these new settlers wora | cary of Mr. Barrymore untlt biy wife came, on Sate to have been collected was Texas, {n that unoc- | urday, bat she is delleate, and can't do much, | cupied northerly part lying between New Mexico nnd the Indhin Territory, Mere, starting: with about 200,000 nov, one-thfrd of them witht faul- Tes, Ib was anticipated that in tine the ‘Territory might be got off by itself us 0 Stace, to be called Lincotu, du the’ furtheranes of thik acheme there was formed, some months ago, in this elty, the National Farmers’ Association, ‘This Asxo- ciation cnzaged fromthe Dallas & Wichita have not slept tor eaten anything to apeak of, aod enull not while 1 am hero,—sued a state of terrat! T Legged thet to let mo va hume yeaterday, but Mr. Barrymore, poor fellow! thinica he will Beatie to play a sinall partin a fow weeks, and wants the compiny to keep together until we Jol ‘They hava received tolograms from Momphie, and those places whe wot known, expressing the atest sympathy; 6o 1 prosumo ‘I shall have (a go. sey ext xty= Jiity Emerson has been hero, and tho company Malina oa “Leama. -ccorpaeaton, AIS | nave teen wo kind. T must say T have neve 6d td fe 1 to! fo mitch kindness In my ftey—telezrunia fram ev was to be, pal for at the rate of $1.50 | ory one, We hmv to como hora in uno fortae an aero, ‘Ihe Assoclution tssued’ lots of 20) | tial “A great muny lawyers hava vent letters a abares of stock, cach sharo at $100, ‘Kheso are | fering their eeevices. Inn only rorry that thoy dl sold to the colored people, nud are accepted by | notlynch him, Jt was feared they would. the roflroad corporation us cash in thelr pur- ehaso of lunds, When each Jot of stucls is iseucd $19,000 [6 puld to the ratlroad, the $1,000 retnin- ed (200 shares nt $100 mates $20,0W0) belng used in the work of canvassing among the negroes, and of removing then, ‘This lund comes to the railway company as a subsidy from the State of ‘Texas. ‘the sections between the rallway lands befone to the State, and these ara to be pro- ontpted at $1.50 an acre, the State belng pald in tenths, yearly, nnd without Interest, Tt is un- dvuratood that there aro now about 2,600 famiiles ready to start, who haye stood out agalnst the tempting offers of competing Western axonta. {tis supposed that these people will start ubout April 19—Emanelpation Day, ‘The Association, howaver, does not dictate to the colored men thelr choice of sectlon, but recammends ‘Texas, argulng that the soll produces whut thoy best know how to cultivate, and the climate ty bettor adapted to thelr needs, Iu fg understood that the Association has ts- auei and gold stock covering twenty suetfous in ‘Texas, in all 0 ered, More than four thnes as much State lind will, be pro-empted. under the same patronage, This organization hus been in existence about five months, sal fe toa : A FEARFUL PLUNGE, 1 speetat Correapontence of The Trihtnt. Dxs Moms, In, April 8—On Sunday lath Bello. Mason, 33 years of ge, was nursing a sick friend at the resldenico of Willlam McCune, Rel Ouk. About 5 o'efpck fn the morning she went to the well tu ecto glass of water for tho slit girl, Whilo she was ratsing the bucket with 4 pulloy-rope, a dog ‘ran against her, aud, th curbing belug slippery, threw her feot from ua der ber, and she plunged heud-firsb into the well, wlilch was twenty-one feet deep to the 6° ter, and the latter siz feet deep, Below the bottom of the well proper was no hole dilltel through natrattim of rock forty fuet, and lars enough t) admit thy body of a man, which for tunute]y the ‘girl escaped, Rising to the su Tove, slte uttercd’ a geream, After goveral ior merstons' in the’ water eho gob bull of the Inuchot, and walted for help. Avory MeCune 2 young man, without a thought of peril descet ed tho woll, pieking hia way along the sto78 one of suvoral fn the North, their formation bes |. wall, reaching the girt ns whe had nearly becom’ ing preceded by the cireulation of poltticat doce | oxbaustad, ping her under one arn the uments among the negroes during the past two | herote follow aced Nis way ns hy went dows, years, Probably the most influential of thesa documents havecmannted from Boston. ‘The Bos- ton tracts were four by sixinch twenty-iye-paze- pamphlota, printed in zoad, cluartyps, and very handy to carry about in a blouse pocket. ‘Thesv | housted ua, to,be .purfectly helpless, te veri wero known ag the frst privelple, or © Principla | und pluck Of the young man ure apparcnt, Club Papers,” and the Intest, No. 9, tsaued in sah vec aaa August last, fe entitled “A ‘Pian’ to ‘Teansfor y the Freeamen of the South to the Government Lands of the West.? ‘This details the plan for tie Foruation of oe Natiunit Siri ey Assocl- atlon, nnd presents reports of abuges of negroca aie oy ys aw , 8s in the Bouth occurring wines We fasue of No.8 | fe tutks" This dog le twenty months olf {n the proylous spring. Ranorted. {role Birizerlany Ha feat ate ny ei ver h end fd o card beartiys thy lect “This dog saved the life of Sir Robert Walpolt BREACH-OF-PROMISE, fn tho~Als!* --Bome Indies looked at te Sveetat Corresponitence of The Tribune. legend ‘andathen at ‘Turk, and said, "Ol! mY Dea Moines, In, Aprilti—dJonea County is | fen't ho beautifull” whlle the men read it as all sgoz over “grent expectations’ of a passed ce with grnnty of. satlaluction, mt or lege: euch a p is au » EW. | gerous, not bulig uccustomed to eee Gawloy, of Moutlcello, $20,000 to cover tho {u- | But-mauy of wie ratty deare und sone ft juries done her heart by his marrying, Misa | Wee {enored this advice, © Who ta afr ad ls Nello K. Fowler, after huving promised wo dort ieagng ie HA watied Ato nos of marry thy sold dshmena. The fair Neiguht came | Tork und coddicd him untitiws zot up and cares: to Jones County several months ago, fled her | ed ber with his head. A fow minutes Jater 1 petition, and, taking rooms with her lawyer's, fully, proposed to stick untll sue got tho:! money, Lut $20,000 ts worth vonsiderlug; und wife of tho President of one of tts, Bout American’ Rupublics stepped up to the kennes the Doctor, therefore, makea auswer tu her peti- ton, Uint—whlle bo did. cours Ishusena und ox- ‘und, linving read of hig uchteyements in Is pected to mako her hls wife—In Maren, 1878, the, be Avs, uadertook to pralau aud pat hina Aine time! Tnstantly tae. brute eelzed het OF contract was abandoned by mytuul consent; and goon, alter _ the said Ishwena, tho arin, dha fastened his white tevth deed into peonilaud, to marry Dr. 8 G, IMigeins, of, aud placed hoe'th the surface, when ele sivaoned complotely, "When it is considered that a weighs 180 pounds, ndded to whet were he water-soaked garments, und that she was 9 ot +s Gave Canom, New Yout,Anril 8.—Much interest as usaf tested to-day dt the dow-show over the keune oceuaied by an imported Bt Bernard, 1 thor ilesh, ‘She screamed aloud, aud Miss 3 Wl \iguuk und. Sora Jewett, the uctresa) bull) © Whom sayy the act, fell fulating ta the lows Oy ustunvank ran up und whipped off tho doz Waraaw, Wis.; und that, when ho marfled Net eid bleeds He Ke Fowler, July 10, 187% the wald Iuhimena, je Freeh und Dr. Iigginas were engaged Fe to be marricds and therefore she was wot damaged in the sum of $20,000, nur uny pther sui, Ishiena makes, reply to this by denylug the sturement; by, ayerring that the Doctor dt Z Ja | Po Parents, —Tlow often doe: cold lead 40 the moat surious coi ences? ng Ur. Suil's Cough Syrup at homie, Puysiciaus P ecolyed her, wud thus pracrive tt. Thuusnudeteke lt, Pelee. no cel ant conn Of course, you, have reud how it ended, I sent cat -