Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1879, Page 10

THE “CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1879-TWELVE PAGES. THE BAD LANDS. A Visit to the Wonderland "of Southwestern Dakota, Remarkable Vestizes of a World of tho Far-Back Primal Times---Awiul Pictures of Desolation. 664 Hell with the Bottom Burned Oat? —Orgunic Remains of Pro. digions Monsters of the Infant Earth. fos o Now Bilvor and Gold Rogion Boon Found ?---Discoveries of Prospeotors in tho Vicinity of Eagle's Nest Butte, Good Arable ond’ Grazing Lands inthe ‘* Desert Belt ”---4 Large Herd of Semi-Domos Aftated Baifatees, Bpertal Correspondence of The Trine, Rarin Cars, Df, May 19.—On the 14th of last May our expedition sct out from Raold City, in the Black Hille. Tt was composed of eeven members, viz: Ramucl. Scott, civil en- gineer; Prof. Willlam Hobbs, amateur geologist and botanist; tlires miners, who, from motives of sclf-jnterest as miners, do not now wish their names given to the public; and your corre- sponitent, We had 9 two-harse team to carry our supplies, and each bad a good’ riding horse and was armed cap-a-pie, as we did not know what hour we might be jumped up” hy In- dians after leaving the Rapid-Creek settlements, Each had a epeciai motive in making tho trip. Mr, Scott's ambition was to procure data to mako an accuratainap of the Bad Lands of Dakota; Prof, Hobbs’ hobby was to fill up the gaps left by Darwin fo lits evolution theorles,— the hight of nearly every amateur geologist's ambition; the miners were bent upon discover- {ng rich silver mlucs which Indian tradition and old.trapper gossip had located about the hond of Eagle's Nest Creek; and your humble serve ant was determined to faithfully, so far os be might have the ability todo so, varry ont the fostructions of Tix Ciicaco TrisunE: to “VISIT THE BAD LANDS OF DAKOTA, and report generally upon thecountry explored, Fiving special attention to miners alscoverles or tudications of mincral wealth," _ After fully discussing the matter of securing, or asking for a military escort, we concluded without a dissenting voice that a squad of troops would provgn hindrange rather than on ald in carrying out the objects of the expedition, ‘The prospectors, especially, recalling the restrictions placed upon the gold-hunters who accompanied Gen, Custer to the Black Hills in 1874, were op- posed to haying soldiers along, So my ereden- tials wore not presented to the commander of Fort Meade. Recent conlous showers had made the wheel- ing from Raptd City, inthe Black ITlls, te tha Cheyenne River crossing, heavy and slow,—the more iinpassable from the fact that we moved cyer the low ground margining Rapid Creek to its mouth, a distance of about thirty-ciclit miles, ‘The country all the way from Rapld.City to the Cnayeune, following the course of the creck, is susceptible of varied cultivation, the scttle- ments alrendy extending twelyo miles down, ‘The lund thus far pre-cinpted has been taken up incompact tracts, all jolning; whichrhows that there fs little chotce between the different por- tlons,—that {tis of the same genera! character throughout. The soll of the Rapll Creek Vatley—1 may say of all the perennially-flowing: currents of the Astnel Hills after their debouch- ure from the mountaine—Is A NICH BLACK LOAM, of clluyial origin, from threo to six fect deep, | with a. clay “bard-pan” beneath, the latter resting on a shale formation, I think the sea- sons when it will be necessary to frigate there, for the small grains ot feast, will be exception- ally dry;—the expericnes 60 far having been, that the summer rainfall of the Rapid Valley 1s as heavy a3 {t ts in Sontheastern Dakota, and the growitg season {s a8 long. Table-rege- tables‘camea on as carly there last year as about Yankton; snd, when J left Rapid City, the car- dens scoiried to be os forward as they usually Oront that tine in Northern Ilinole or South- ern Wisconsin, The Rapld ordinarily has on average width, from Rapid City to Cheyenne, of forty-five feet, and an avernge depth of threa feet; and during spring-freshets heavy logs have drifted upon its turbulent current from the mountains many miles down {nto the lower val- Jey, The tlmber-growths nro scant until the Cheyenne {a neared, When box elder, ash, and- elm groves, and plum und willow thickets, be- come quite common. But for fifty miles from {ts source the Rapid flows through magnilicent pine-forests. Tothe mouthof the Rapid we hada plain trail to follow; but at the Cheyenne it term!- nate, and thencefurward the compass. was our only guide, Wowere not long In findinga practicable ford, by which wo moved aver ta, and went inta camp on the cast side of the river. May 17 we broke camp on: the Cheyenne, and Ascended toa’ plateau country, which we passed. over Ing southeasterly direction a few miles, and found ourselves on the border of THE WONDERLAND OF SOUTIWESTENN DAKOTA, We were on the very cdgu of the fainous Bad Lands, but would not have kiown It from s ren- eral view, thd country {mmediately about us Presenting itself to the oyo as a level, unbroken plain, Suddenly six mountain-sheep sprang up Jnto view abojt 20) yards Ahead of us, ns fC they had been called Into bolng from the depths of the earth bya speciot creatiyo fat. Quick as thought three rifles were discharged at them, and they dlenppeared as quickly nnd as miysteri- ousty as theyeame. Hurrylng to the spot where . they had stood, we found {t to mark the brink of a sheer descent of not lesa than 250 feet, tho perpendicular wall of which was ridged with narrow Profections, many fect ayart, that did not loule to be wide enough to aford safo fovting for a Jack-rahbit; but in no direction could wa catch & elimpse of our escaped game. ‘They must, by rollin ur Jumping, or both, have gob down to tho bottom of that precipice and cut of sieht, from above white we were making the distance from the polnt at which we had shat at them, Uy this somewhat Insplriting incident we wero ret made aware that ot ‘THR BAD-LAND FOUSATIONS Wero right at hand,—having supposed we en the fret of them in ike’ Wandertul. configura Hons tht loomed wp to the sodthwand and’ eastward. In places they tower up over the ashy, cluder-atrewn plaiu with all the charactor. fstles of view of x great clty acen in the dis. tance, preeenting pleasing concelts of parks, and Qventes, auc ateepled edilices, {tu ather direc: Muns,—and especially was this the case to the southward of Malrats Creek, —the appearance, Wao that of avant tleld tiled at regular Inter.’ Yala with volosyal hay-cocks,—the suitur-loaf- Shuped elevutious covering an immense areas and ayatn a chauge of Mue ot observation woul decloge to the fascinated Haze, (uadraucles, Durallclograms, diagonals,” octegons, — und every otter concelyahle —geometrienl form, all og clearcut and wellhdedued by the Outhulngs open spaces Yetween os If they wd beet modeled by tho ‘Titans for fower-plate, Whut a world of wonders surrounded ual or, rather, what remurkable yestives of 9 world of the far-hack vrlmal tines! ‘The general forma- Non ts, 1 bulleye, called the Devonian eystoin. Toe system known in Geology as tho period in the Earth's foriantion which corresponds with Mw fourth day of creation, when the freag enai-meustres of the Earth commenced thelr slow formation with the firat appearance of yex- etation-upon the glohe, ‘This “seems to be the, view uf that eminent peotogist, Dr. Hayden: wherofore {t tas been asauined that the basin o| the Bad Lands “is the anclant bed of a great cval-tleld, which became self-ienited, and, Dike sore of the coal-telds of England, hag’ been Slowly burning out by ita own bituminous fuel.” uit ¥ suw no evidence of active fre fy an} pore Wau of the country I explored, though it fs sald smoldering dregs, or the vutward proof of them in the shape of escaping clouds of smoke und Vapor, are often met with in the Bad Land ro- @lous.of the Little Missouri, to the worthwest of tho -Hiack Hills, But hero wo have the silent, dismal, aud mysterious RUINS OF THE GREAT SUBTRRRANDAN CONFLA- < OIA TION— charred ond tumbling towers and cnaties stand. {ng in the intdet of n solitary valley of nalics, bones, and petrifactione. On the 18th ‘we turned due north, leavin Malpals Crock to ourrenr on the soutt, ard crossed MK, Sheep, Deer. nnd Rago Creeks, camping on thehigh hanks of the latter. Wo note from Maltnis at Soge Creek, capectally down towards the Chevaunue, some good tracts Of grazing ground, anda fair supply of tiinber in patches,—onk, ash, anil elm, —totwithatand- ing the awful pletures of Gesolation presented fo wore distant. views. And here we found fome linge and highly Interesting animal for. stla—ono repreaenting what had been 0 bone eleven anda half Inches i dinneter, but as it had been broken off short, we could not cou- thide nen Ite length, Prof. Hobbs sald, with on expresefon of. the evo knowing enough to have speculatively -snalpzed the matertal con hosing the Enrth’s very centre, or to have given Me extrack perce of salt In the water coms poste An ocean in the moon, that “Jt probably vad Leen the tibia of a mastodon,” but I havo been used to andaciously colny straight to my own “sclentifle * onclustuns in regard to such matters, regardless of the rites uid down in the houka, that. while Irespected the Pro- Jessor's zeal nea student of Nature, contd by no means agree with him, and nade tp ny own inind, from the character uf seine of the other stupendous fossils around us, that the big bono belouged to AN AMPMIDIAR OF BOMT, KIND, though I coutd'not tmagine any part of a plesto- sauras, febthyosaurus, or pferadoctylus, or any. other of the monsters of that class, where I could stick it without doliuz violence tu the luws of comparative anatomy. But Leould nop bo inade to belfeve that the remains of any of the vegetarians of the infant world could, by any possibility, be scattered around in that tremen- dons sepulchre of molluses and reptilian mon- Btrositics, though T was willing to admit that It seemed nas if pnmples of all the geotux'e periods Tind been fumbled together in the Bad Lands, from the Lower Silurian to the Cenozotc time, We also found on Sare Creek a petrified tor- toiso which measured tive feet nnd three inches across the buck; and petrified fish of enormous dhnensions,—some being nearly whale, and alk sparkling with fridescent hes, We nowhere found a groater profusion of fosalis than on Deer aud Sage Creeks We alao found on the east bank of the Cheyenne, between Sheep and Ball Creeks, some ood pray and farming lands, witha sufilcfency of timber to supply all the probable dumanits of future setiement. general character of the vegetation was indica- tive of frequentsummer-rains. Grape and plum thickets ayound there, ‘THE. GRANDEST VIEW of the Bad-Lund forniations is had from near the mouth of Sage Creek, looking up towards ite three headlye’ branches. It moy be de- seribed os a medley of all the architectural styles, from the massive, blunt Dorle to the lofty-pinnacled Gothic. On the Mth we crossed around the head of Buli Creek and turned in a directly eastern course, passlig around a section of the Bad Lands oo the’ northern side, and made our camp on the ‘Middle Fork of the Bud River. All the way from Bull Creek to the Bad River wo passed over a gooil grazing conutry, the grass being buffalo und bluc-joint, wittii here and there what would undoubtedly prove cued farming tracts, -We noted timber of the Iiindn already designated, nud plum and willow thickets, on the lowlunds of both Bull Creek and the Bud ‘River. Ne Bad-Land evidences Were at hand, but the novel rormations were in plain view to the southward and westward. ‘he ime is not distaut when the country we traveled through this and the succeeding day will be well dilled, I believe, with stock-raisers, aud it may be grain-raisers. Jt compares fnyorably with the Lower Iapla Valley.” We found the sites of oll Indian camps, but con- cludea we were the firs, whites who had passed Vhrough tint section, ‘ On the 20th wo moved Mftecn mites down the Bad River. “The soil was thickly covered with buffalo-crass and blue fuint, und fs appat rich am! stron, with: timber continion: ‘Inge the banks of the riser on both sides; but the water-volume {is small, The water {s only tolerable; {t. has some alkall fn it, but not so much as to make it unlit for dumestic purposes, Good water could probably be obtained by dig ging, . We made camp ina beautiful valley, in the infdst of a sen of new grasses aud sprin; flawers, the background filled in with lovely wroves, clurying in the splendor of first leatage, Wilt irrigation be necessary heret If so, then this section,.so bright and glowing with natural wealth in the early spring, Will be burnt up and seared to desolation.by, thn neats,of advancing suminer, and, until differsvt climatic conditions. succeed the presont, will ---- ae NEVER ANSWER TNE WIGHMN PURPOSES OF CrY- af LIZATION — will only bo avaltuble for nomadic stock-men. But I believe the whole of Southwestern Dakota has been erroncously placed in the “ Desert Belt,?—thnt ‘attificial masture will not be nuc- essary for cultivation iu any of these fertile val- On the 2ist we crossed over in a southcaster- direction from the Middle Fork ta the South Fork of the Bad Riyer,—the intervening coun- try being well grassed, of the rolling pralric cliaracter, and afuniing subsistence for thou- sands of antelope, and some deer. We kiiled mer, und winged a number of We hada fine camp ou the Ml xrass, plenty of timber, und game abundant; .but the water was only tolera- le. On the 22d we-went almost dua south, poss- ing over ‘a‘fufrly-crasscd platen country, and agaln strack the Bad Landson the White River, Ascendlnjs some uf the buttes and tables. we found them covered with o scant growth of buneh or .buffalo grass, tuterspereed With svat- tering cactue-plunts, MOUNTAIN-SHEEP are numerous in this Jovality, ome of which Jooked upon us as amazediy ne Hf they liad never Defore seau a human being,—anid it 3s quite Ite- Iy it was thelr first view of memhors of the Cau- caslan rice, 18 We Wore 1 a traflless wilderness, in which not 2 eign of former explorations wert fo be keen, Bet the wanderfully aimble-foctea antinals would not give us long to take alm and pull triggers they reamed to know instinctively that we. were dangerous Sntruders fn thelr wild recesses. With a downward bound they would disappear below the auminits of the preciniees,— goon sealn shyly reapouaring at a distant polnt where we would be least likely to look for them, But, with all theiragiltyund cunning mancuyres, we had the good fortune to capture oney—a Dia buck, In puseahlé condiifon far the frying-pan, bearing a weight of untters on his head that. it ecemed incredible go small un aniiagl could curry, yehllo running with tie feetncss of the wind and going through musical evolutions up and down the motutute-sides. ‘The horn must have been atl of tive in {ndinmeter at the base, I ‘prefer mionntain-dheep ment to ante- Jope or venison; ft isdetictously sweet and juley, Aun cramliation of the country's topograpy resulting .dn the conclusion that we could ob pags over to the sonth side of thy White River at that polnt, we made camp an the head of Owl Creek, ‘There, by digging a few fect, we pot a suflicieney of pagsnbly good water, and our horaes manuced Lo pick’ upenougn grass. Upon the whole, it Was A WEIRD, WONDERYUL NUGION, reminding one of. the late Cen, Sitly's laconic deecriptiow'of the Bad Lands of the Little Mis- gourit “It looked Hke a belt with the bottom burned out.” Btritations of white clay, and red soll, and voléauls scuris were everywhere, and fantastic monutain wid table-Lind eantieuritions Btretehinys cast and west along the White River as fur as Me ove could reach, Being well supptied with fresh meat, and our Animale well enough sunplicd with ford, and— to my notion, ost Important of all—helng in o seeliided place where no strageHus war-rarty of Boux wold” ba Ikely to ren npon us and where thy whole Sloux Natlon might spend days Jooking for us in yain if they knew we were in the conutry, we ttecided to make the head of Owl Creel: thea basis of our principal explora. tons. T wasithen glyen my cholce to atoy in the vicinity of the camp and put in my the fossil- hunting, or go with the miners allyer- und gold- bunting about the heads of Eagte’s Nest, Coot, Ponca, and Lass Creeks. IL elovted to take the forms coursg; amt on the morning of the 2d our three miner friends Med their hayersacks: with cooked foad,—they would pot run the risk of making fires to cook by,—toal their miniig toula, mounted thobr horses, nad dleappeared In, the gloomy ceiles: to the gouthward, promising’ to be back’ to camp, whether successful or i succeasfitl, somettinu the next Tuesday. Thus we were allowed flve days each to prosecute our researches in uur fespecttve fields, And now howd wich Iwas “uctentifie,” aol could tell you, with all the force of obacure ponderous ‘words, just what we naw, and glvo you all the. details, commencing back pbout forty fitions of years szo, of how {t came to ba boy but, my education having beon limited to what [ was taught in a Httle country school. house in the noup-pole regions of Northwestern Ohio, LE will have ‘to contine myself to common ‘English, Standing on an caiinence and oyer- ue 3 %, ' TNE STRANGELY AWYUL BCENE,— {fcat-tpspiring In contemplation of the tre- mendgua forces of tlre, and food, and frost Which at differeut epochs it did not require sct- entitle lore to know must have plowed, anpeal- ed, und pulverizdd ull there was or ever had ben of inuterlut Nuture uround me,--it struck mu that Prof, Owen's comparigon, used iu de- scriblig the mauvives terra of the Little dile- sour, would na aptly apply to the country along the White River; for surely to the general view the groteaqite topography seemed lke “mac- nilleent cities of the dend, Where the labor and the genlue of forgotten nations have left behind them a multitude of the monuments of art and sKIN.” At every step objects of the highest In- terest wera discloses’. Jinbedded in the debris were strewn Jo profusion the organic remains of prodigious monsters of the infant workd,—Ilnen of animated Nature, doubtless, which could no more exist now than we and the majority of tie other members of the present-day antinal king- dom could have survived In the dense, noxious atmosphere which they must have breathed, Wo found molluse fossils five fect ncrosa, ns per fect in form as when, perchance, the volcanic firce ginred down upon thelr slimy native beds from the neal of many a Juva-plowed mountain. aida; tortolees, perfectly preserved, Lvcnty foot in efreumference; and tune bones and tusks Unt must lave framed animals in comparison with which the elepbaute of this day aro of Lill- putlan proportions! ‘The broken scetion of ona zzard-turmed akeleton measured nineteen fect, and, from the girth of tho ribs of the part saved from the crumbling effects of time, wo Judged that in its entiroty it must have been FULLY NINETY PERT IN LENOTII. Ono long, alligatur-shaped Jaw measured seven feet. And then wo discovercd—noted would be the tore proper word, a8 we did not bave to travet far or look Jong to find them—fossll shes of all kinds and descriptions, and aplral aul convoluted shell-fosails, somo four feet in diameter, which probably protected their mon- strous denizens from the voracious Jaws of the gigantic crawling reptiles thut were coeval with them in existence. But I will speculate no fur- ther, except to suy thatto mie one fact seems clear: thut the Bad-Land formations are the re- sult of a succession of scdiments or precipitates at the bottom af an ancient ocean, let the ante cedent and aitcceed (nye physieal conyulstons anid Vicissitudes have been what they may; and with this assumed fixed fact as my predicate ot speculation, L plense my own fancy—but do not ask any one else to recelyo it—wwith the notion thas at that time—cons of ages ago, antl so far back that the mind fs fairly appalled in trving: towrasp the tnfinite sweep of cosnileal muta: Mous—there were peopled continents where now the tnighty occans roll, and thy places ow oc- cupied by the continents were then under old Neptune’s undisputed sway. In the bands of the Infinite Over-soul this Earth of ours is Hreat haryest-lleld, the sved-time and har- yest-tline of which cinbrach miltions of years: provably,—mereshort-stops in the great calendar of Eternity; and, when one series of crops is divinely garnered, it rolls back into Cliaos, to bo aguin followed by carthquaxes, volcanoes, and moving mountains of fee, preparatory to the evolution of other and superior proditctlons; and soon “as long ng the years of Eternity rol.” Maybe my speculations have ns much sense In then: as the man's with the lone title before his uune apd the many lettered tull after it; it Is largely quess-work on both aides. On the evebing of the @th the prospectors returned, according to agreement, and in a high state of excitement,—tbough they refused, amd have over since stendily refused, to give definite Information. All we could get out of them in regard to their discoveries was, THE SILVEN 18 THENE, SURE; AND THE INDI- CATIONS FOL GOLD ARE AL80 GOOD.” “But,” said 1, incredulously, “that fs nota mountalo-country up there whero you have been; and you niust go Into the mountatns to find gold, and usually, too, to find silver.” “Well,” they answered, we have been ina country just Hke the Black Hilla,—tmestone along the Jower clevations,-mienceous slate, uartzite, and porphry above. Even the pine- forests are there; and the gold .and allyer ore there, too. It{s the onsteru part of the Black Tiills themselves, cut off by the Bad Lunds be- tween the White River aud the South Fork of the Cheyenne. ‘that’s the kind of country wo have rit over."? “Did von find any gold?" “No; but wo found good indications of it We were not looking tor gold. “Did you find silvert?? “Dow this look like it?” And, with the remark, I was handed what acemed to be o rich sveclmen of argentiferous ealens. ‘They -ad- mitted that they bad not found * rock in place,” or a regular deposits but felt confident they could soon trace up thefr “float” too perma- nent velu. ‘Jhey having poattively refused to give the exact locality of the * find,” and tiny having declined to share the dangers and labor of the trip with them, were suflictent reasons for my not _pressiig them for specific intorma- tlon,—the Inw of discovery among miners be- ing. that whoever “strikes it”? has from that moment asort of vested right in his diacover- fus: so t contented myself with getting all the general {nformation I could concerning the country they traversed; and therefrom sur- mised that their silver belt was probably «91, IN THM VICINITY OF BAGLE’S NEST DUTTE, or between that and’ Poriea”~ Creek. Crossing the White River about the mouth of Poss Creek, they passed up it on the south side to the mouth of Coon Creek, which they ascended to the Engle’s Nest; thence they went, in a northwesterly direction, to the north sidy of the White Kfver, until they had Intereepted the trail we had made along the northern edie of the Bad-Land formations; and then they re+ ing southeasterly direction to. n from whieh .point they crossed over, in_an custerly direction, to the northern vaso of Eagie’s Nest Butte. And thia move- ment, taken ia connection with thelr declara- ton that tht Jocatity: the vastern purt of the Black Hiils, cut off by the Bad Lands,’ 1s what makes ine bellove they found thelr indica- tlons about the head of Engle's Nest Creek. ‘The {uferenee was reasonable, that, having found “toat" somewhere on tha head of Engle’s Nest Creck, they tried to truco it through to conneet with the known mineral trends of the Black Hills; aud, baying failed to trace it in that direction, they returned to where they first found it, und then followed the indi- cations, or looked for them, around the south- ern baso of Eowlo's Nest Butte, und. usenee, in an easterly direction, to the head of Povea Creek; after which—their thne being limited they hurriedly elreled around the country be- twoun Enpglo's Nest and Pass Creeks, and re- turned to camp by the mouth of the latter, os they bad started on their expedition, Our prospector frionds’ excitement oyor their Aievoverics a SEEMS TO NAVE INTENSIFIED as they have speculated over them; but I hope the contagion will uot sprend. Thut there are silver mines about the beads of the head soutn- ern tributaries of the Whites River, I do not doubt, and there muy also be gold mines there; but why cet excited over them mnt run great risks In possessing them, when there are bun- dreda and thousands of undeveloped mines of ihe precios inetals here fn the Black Hills, and the ndjucent countries, which can bu had nt less than {f would cost to fid now ones? ‘There is 1, stranye pation about new discoveries of gokk and which sets at defiance all the promptines of cominon sense and ordinary pru- dence, ‘The further away they are, or the more formidable the obstacles, from other causes, in reaching them, the greater the attruction. It would not bo ot all surprising {{ thousands of “old miners " would yet tara their backs on the intnes of Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Arizona, and Nevada,—which centuries of work= ing will not oxbatig—for n poll-inell rush to for-away, Ihospltabls Alaska, ‘The winers reported the coantry about the heads of Eaute’s Neat, Coon, aud Ponva Creeks different trom, that slong the White on either side, Kew of the forbidding suf the latter were to be found in tha Raxie’s Nest is described as a vast cir cular depression on the ‘top.of o inountalnous mass of shite, lime, und granitic rocks. its une is derived from Its form,—it beluga lofty park, unltormly wealionel on all sides, the wholo hulngin the, éliape of acollossal vird's nest. Some pine and cedar, and other woods, flourish onan around tie Kagie’s Nest Butes there gite numerous runnhig springs,—the water he- ing clear, pure, cool, und west; and ttle a re- gion of heavy erass growths, well stocked with vame,—inecluding from. TURES TO VIVE THOUBAND SEMI-DOMISTICATED BUYYALOES. . Tho buffaloes are all in one drove, and are corraled between the Upper Niobrava River ant Kaulo's Nest Butte, by the traveled roads wut wilvanclig lines of settlement all around them, ‘They hava been in the trap fur soma years,— pny Way since the first tfmufgration to the Black: iills; and the Pine Ridge Agency Indians, this by accldent realizing the advantages of stock- yalsing, euard them as carefully as the white herder dovs hia droves on the Laramie Plains, “Shey aunty kill from. the drove when really tn need of meat, and baruss them by runainy them as Httle as possible, tt is gatd “the drove {s rapidly enlarging by natural inercaso. On the morning of tie 28th we agutn broke camp, and continued cast slong the northern rim of the Bad Lande, camping at night on the bead of Duck Cros Wo tricd to cet down to the White Itiver, but could not dos on account of the ight and steepness of the banks, Duck Creek—which Wo so nawed from the vast puin- ber ol ducks we found there—ts, at least ot {ts bead, sinply # chain of water-holes; but wo fouud the water deep, clear, und cold fn these vatural reservoirs, and some of them wera large onough to be called Bittle Inkes, ‘Thera {6 con- siderable timber on Duck -Croek, and grapa, plum, and willow thickets abound, ‘hero aro some prormiging-loukiug farming lands, ugd ox- tensive atock-rangcs, 1 think the natural con~ ditions, yenurallty, favoruble to settlement. ° On the Sut we went Into camp on the White River, bayfug passed to the ‘east of the Bad Lands en the north side of the river. Found tuimocr on the White River, of etunted growth, and suiail woodthickets ty profusion, | ‘The Jand gradually juclines to the water's edge in heavily-rassed benches, nnd the soll appeared to be rich and deep. 1718 AN EXCBLLENT STOCR-COURTRY. Various kinds of gamo sbound there, Wo killed 8 binck-tall Imck weighing nearly 200 pounds, and {onumerablo ducks and prairle: chickens. ‘The water of the White River was intiky, being discolored by the white-claycy Baod-Iand formations above, and unfit for se ‘The horses would not drink it; but, by atcutny holes in the sul near the current, we succeeded in getting an abundance of gail water by secp- age. ‘She principal features of the flora ara ash, elm, cottonwood, buckberries, granes, ane plums. ‘The weather was showery all night, wetting us to the akin and thoroughly saturat- ing aur bedding. On the 30th wo moved camp down streatn four miles, to the mouth of Pass Creek, cit tho south sido of the river. An wo had to cross the river eight times in making the distance, our progress was slow; the quickrand wos bad, even dangerous, nnd we made our crossings with great uifliculty, § On tho Bist wa explored Ponca ant Pass Creeks, and found good grazing und farming Tands on the streams, but the water-vulumen swall, One of the party killed fourteen ducks atone ahot on Ponca Creck, ‘The desolate Bad Lands closed in the ylew in the distatce. June 1, Bunday, was passed in esnrp at the mouth of Pass Creek,—the devotions consisting: of learned disquisitions of Prof, Hopbs un the impoasibitity of the: Mosaic record of the erea- ton pelng frue, and n successful rald by Mr. Scott on the wild ducke, if On the 2d wo crossed the White River on the north side, ascended the divide botiween the White and the Bad River, and made camp on Chicken Creek, Itis SPLENDID GMAZING COUNTRY. We killed several antelope’, On tho 3a we crossed the White River at the mouth of Ponca Cretk, ascended that creek on the west side, and descended it tn the cast side, going into camp at ita mouth. On the 4th we moved down a broad, rich bottom on the -south ride side of the White River—having Jarge groves of timber on {ts banks—to the month of Bad Land Crevk, where wecamped, We never explored a better stock cottutry, though, outside te murky current of the White River, thera ts no flowing water, On the Gth we explored Bad Land Creck, ‘There Is no water in it at all the greater part of the year, but nutritious grasses grow rankly in {ts valley. On the bth we moved down the White River to the South ork, carefully exploring both sides, os “ flying reports ”? said there was allver {u this section; put we found no mineral of any kind, and no indications of any. ‘The bottom lands are broad und wel! grassed, with pleoty of thnber. (3n the 7th we explored the South Fork thor- oughly, litt found nu mineral indications. It is aswift current, the volume as great as that of the White, ain! the water {s clear, sirect, and wholesome. It dratosa rich, beautiful basin— the valley-lands, boavily mantled with nutri- tious crasses, awecping aay in gracoful wudu- Iations, Fine yroves border it allalong. It will uidoubtedly develop Into A SPLENDID F4nsNo COUNTRT; and, asa stock region, it caguot be surpassed. Tere we found the old wagon-road from Pine Ridge Indian Ageney to the Brule Agency, but no ind{cations that ft had been revently tray- cled. ‘On the 8th we wentdown to and camped at the mouth of Oak Creek, It fs rolling-prairio country, very promising. Gane was scarce, though we winged some canvas-backs on the White River, Here we found some of the charred remains of aa Indian who lind been sepulchered “up a tree,” according to the Sioux custom, ‘The props had been burned from under thom, precioltatim: them tothe ground, together with the personal effects of the lamented defunct, which bad been reliclously deposited with the body, These effects, 0 faras we wero able to collect them, consisted of two axes, four camp: Kettles, tivo stes-pans, two frring-pans, a quart of pings buttons, und an infinite colteetion of beads. The deceased vos undoubtedly a fe- ag the bucks have no use for wood-chop- ping instrutnenta. 1 ‘On the (ith and 10th wo explorea to the enst- wate camping at the raputh of Two-Tail Creek. ere A DUCK INDIAN AND TONER SQUAWS— tiexpoctedly on both sides—rode up within plain view of ourcamp, They came within 100 yards before ecclig us, and then retrented at tha Viehest speed of ats | ponies. They bad six ponies and a travoix. }After m brief consuttu- tlon, wo concluded thintit would be prudevt to | overhaul them and Ict tiem know that..onr. {n- tentions were pacifle. Oleof tbeminers mounted the flectest of our horeds, goon overtook trem, and succeeded in inducthg them to come fnto\ caotpegdt is worthy of pote that they surmised from the beainning tiatwe were inssearch. of sliver’ mincs,—au iinmpression = which wo thought it important to remove. And this wo parttally sticeeeded in ‘doling by exhib- itine 0 gigantic nautilus fossil we had in tho wagon, and giving them to understand we only caine to ook at the big bones we had been told were scattered over thetr country; and that wo wore now cole home, vever to return again, "This, and a feat ull around, seemed to faily satisfy them, and they parted from us with every outward sign of irlondsbip. Before gong the buek poluted to the westward, saying, In broken Evgiteh, “While man’s money there,” which Ied us to believe he doubted the truth of our statement about the object of our visit. He was shown the specimen of argentifcrous gu- lena ' float,’? nud sald, “nmap sonz.” On the 11th we explored ‘Iwo-Talt and Dog's Fara Crosks,-~valleys of the same gencral char- acter as that of Uak Creck. On the 12th, having concluded that we wera now below the inineral belts of the White River,—i€ such, there are,—we turned homme. ward, camping on the Jower waters of Bull Greek, Hero we fount good water, in nolcs, an abundance of grass, but a scarcity of woud. We wont into camp carly, and hunted the re- malnderof-the day, but only captured one gaunt jack-rabbil. On the 13th we traveled over n well-grossed but timberless conntry, and camped op a branch of Bull Creck. Wo saw no game, and, owlng to the generous feast we gave our Indian visit- ors, Were out of {reali meat, ‘On the 1th wo camped on the bead of Bull Creuk, traveling over the samo gcucral charuc- ter of country aa the day befare; and on the sth camped on the east fork of Chicken Creek, havitus passed along the southern base of White Clay Butte, ‘This butte fs an futeresting Jaud- ark; aud it presents itsclf to the eyo us—anid Te probably ie—the highest elevation fn that part of the country, ‘The bate js a brown or slaty formation, and {t is capped with lime, On the 15th we camped on tha main Chicken Creek)—a beautiful country and a TUNTEWB PARADISE,— just to our hand, for fried bacon was getting decidedly monotonaus, All hunted, and cach one kitled something. Wo bad antelope, black- tall deer, chickens, and ducks, Vlum-troes were loaded down with green fralt, On the Wth we crostet Duck Creck and camped on Owl Creek. It {sa cuod country on both streaina, but infertor to Chicken Creek On the Ith, passing over a good vrazing couutrs, we spread our blankets on the ground at our old camping-place on the Alfddle Fork of the Hud Miver; and there we met a party of hhuntera trom the Rapid-Creek settlements, who: communicated to us the unwelcome news Ust Juytibrious reports bad gat on wlig that we had all been massacred by the Sioux. Our nulinuls being really in better condition than when we started, we had ue diffleulty in reaching Rapid City two duys later, und hers we arrived Just nicht, Aud go ends THe Trinenn's exploring expt dition through te Bad Landy of Dakoty region whiels hins of bute becune fuyeated with renewed Interest by yarlous railroad-extension projects huving the Black I1ls for their objec To point,—a region which will be an uttravtion, for the autiquarian, the geulowlst; aud the gen- cral student of Nature, so Jong as the hunan miud shall try tu read the stupendous facts of the unannaled vast fy the tronderjul roeultant myateries of the living present. ALN, Maguine. a ER ee TEMPERANCE JUBILEE, Laronts, Ind, June 24.—Arrangemonts havo. becn completed for a great temperance Jubiles to be hold near this city, on thy marcin of ono of its most beautiful lakes, commencing July 15, und lasting furty-tlve days, Hach bratich vf the great temperance ariny Wil be represented, by its ablest orators, Over fifty of Arnerica’s best, speakers have been engaged, a ful) wid officlat at of which with be published July 5, and no nannies will be published except those who will be iu attendance. Everything ts being perfected for the enter- talnment of the Jarzest crowd of peaople over conreued tn the West. . Excurslon-rates have been arranged for with all the rallronds leading thia way. No snore pleasant place can be found for asummer-resort than Laporte, and every: body is jovited tg wdjoy the real oncasiod, ; aN. Davis, | G, W. C. T. of Indiana, Director, en Russia aud tho lope, For several ycars past the Russian Govern: meut bas been on bad turois with the Pope, ocr- mittlng no bull or cucrclical tobe published in the Polish provinces; but the relations betwecu St. Petersburg andthe Vatican soon to buve lin- proved of late. Aneucrelical, dated the 23th of December, 1878, bus been permitted to up- pear, in which Leo XUNL denouuces Socialisin 03 the most dancerous enemy of the State und the Cotholl¢ retucion, PARIS. A Round of Festivities*-=The Race for the Grand Prix do Paris,. Golog Down to Longchamps---The Course --The Winner of the Prize— A Lucky Gambler. The Szegedin Oharity-Fete at tho Opera— Marvelous Aspeot of the Theatre Tho Illuminations, Tnsido the House--The Concert-»-The Grand Fancy Fair, and the Fair Stall-KeepersA Fretit of 250,000 Francs, Special Correspontence of The Tribune, Pants, June 11.—The week which witnesses the race fur the Grand Prix {s by convention supposed to end the Paris seaeon. Asn snatter of fact, tends nothing but the dramatic sea- son. The boulevards continue ns gat as usual, the Champs Elysees and the Bols still as crowd- ed on fing afternoons, till the leat from which we siiffer no much here In suinmer drives every one who can afford {t from his beloved avenuca and cafes to rustic retreat st ‘Trourille or Etretat. It poured in torrents soon after I got on the Suresnes boat that was to take me tu Lone: champs last Sunday, and again when the yer- dant follaze of the Bofs came in sight. ‘The crowd round the approaches to the Longchamps course was, howerer, nearly as dense as ever, though there was a notable falling off both In the appenrance and the number of the vebicles that passed tho’ ticket-offices, TI auppose the rain isto blame for the exceeding rarity of pretty dresses in the stands and in front of the winning-post. Those delicate shades of blue and pink, those creamy whites and tender grays, those poctic violets and gorgeous crim- song, Which usualls make the beautiful course} look Hike a bed of flowers, WERE CONSPICUOUSLT ADSENT, Mlle. Grevs, sitting with her worthy father, the President, and with Mme, Grevyy in the central *‘tribtine,” was one of the few exceptions. She looked almost pretty in her violet costume, aud attructed much sttention. Behind ber, M. Gambetta, the Ministers, and several Ambassa- dors fitted backwards and forwards, evidently enjoylng themselves excecdingly. Boing shel- tered from the fnclemency of the weather, and safe from the cucroachment of the slinpery mud that turned the ground in front of them into o quaginire, they could afford to be merry. We, who were less fortunate, did aot enjoy our- selves quite so much. To give even that unre- Mable rascal, Phoebus, his duc, there was an im- provement at about 3 In tho afternoon, The sun stone down fiercely a8 tho horses came out of thelr stables for the pfylimiuary canter and inspection, and the Grand, Prix was won in on attnosphere that would not have disgraced the Tropics, Truth’ to tell, the race was not = peeniarlyy Interesting. Bir Bevys, the champion,on whom all English hopes had been fixed,,was withdrawn a fow days before the great,event came off, in consc- quence of the death’ of Baron Lionel Roths- ehild; und the only foreign horse that appeared to do battlo with the native stables, Scapegrace (“Skgh-pl-grage "as the Gallle bookmakers pro- noupced it), never had moro than an outside chdoce. It was generally expected that tne prize would J'all to one of the three representa- fives of COUNT LAGRANGE, — 'Znt-(the winner of the Chantilly Derby), Is- macl, and Flavio If.,—and the ouly question appeared to be which it would be. Zut was first. favorite (though at Epsom the Enclis}: horses had beaten him into a cocked nat, to speak vulgarly); but Ismacl was mounted by Atehor,and it fs next to Impossible nt all, times te get ot the secrets of the Lagrange stables. The noble Count is perhaps the most unpopular man on the turf at present; and he descryes to, be, for ho rans his horses in a way more becoming to a common sharper than to a French gentleman of rank and fortune, The raln changed the Jook of affairs, howover, though it mnde little difference, oddly enough, in the betting. Eleven horses answered to the call when the signal to start was given. When the final rush towards the winning post came, wo saw Flaylo and Zut well to the front, with Ml. Fould’s Saltcador and M. Ed Binne's Nubienne,—and it looked as if Zut could have won easily; but the Count was not to be so lucky. A few strides fromm the post Zut was pnssed with a rush by his stable-companton Flavio II,, Salteador, and Nubfenne. «A insg- nificent struggle ecasued, and foro second wo stood by in breathlass suspense. Then a creat shont rent the air, sial a moment after the reg- {ster announced unt} ML. BLANG'S NUBIENNE was the winner—by'a neck, Sallendor came secon; and a head only behind him, Flavio II. Zat was fourth, Vinemale fifth, and Scapecrace sixth. The rest nowhere. M, Ed Blanc, the owner of Nublenne, is the sou of the late wealthy and notorious director yf the Monaco gambling hell, He is almost a nyvice 0 far as the turf fs concerned; but he ha, nevertheless, been for- tunate enough to win soyeral of the most fmn- portant races of the year. [fs tuck, fndeed, in eyery spectiintion he launches into—aud he is always speculating—ls 40 marvelous that it has becanie quite proverbial. ‘They say he nets over 400,000 francs in’ bets alpne by his last. Esters, If the 142,575 frances which the Grand Prix itself {ia worth (with the stakeq) be added, you have x most respectable sum,—not tar short of $111,000. Bestdes the bad weather, there was another excellent reason for the meagre attendance at Lonechamps. Every one who vould afford it had been to the grand chority-festival the night before, at the Opera; and.as the night, in thelr case, had been jengthened out to close on 5 jn the morning. numbers must hare felt it, abso- Tutely necessary to spend Sunday in bed, Iques- tion whothersuch a fete hasever before becn scan, and {very much doubt, whother such auother could de scen again.» Words appear wholly in- ndequate to describe the beauty and brillianey, the gayety, THY BUMPTUOUS SPLENDOR, and the originality of the Opera ‘on Satuntsy evening; but Imustdo my best with them. You know already, from my last lotter, that the festival was given In ald of tie sufferers by the Szegedin {niindations, nud organized by the Figaro. Inna tew days the management of thit ustially unreliable furans worked waryels, By Saturday morning {t ‘ras impossible to get o sin- le ticket for the concert Which was to open the fete, amd standing room was being sold at the rate of abort $10 the squars fo ‘there may avem something exsgcerated in auch fantastic prices, but it must be remembered that the con- vert was to be given for a charitable nurpose,ani then the programme, Hke. the occasion, wos extraordinary. Evidently the ‘igaro people know what they were shout when they drew up thelr rartif for the evening. A hundred francs 8 svat, after all, was not too much for thousands of woll-to-do folk in Paris. It inutters tlttle to Lord So-and-so o¢ the Prince of Wales whether he dlsburae two dollars or tienty; and, by rais- ing the prices, you made many anxious to go to the Opera from u more ostentatious wish to show tiey could afford it, Such a spectacle os we eaw on Saturday would indeed be cheap ot 200 france. At hulf-past 8 or 9 the facade of the Opora w: brilllantly Muminated with beaded Hines of gas, arranged 40 as to show the ontliny of the wighty building to perfection, ‘The windows of the loggia, or avant-foser, splendidly hung with critnaon velvet and gold, ect off the adorable, decoration of stone and marble; while {hrouch the hage open windows you percelyod the may- nificent colored masses of tho chandallers In the foyer. Elvctric Hebt was skillfully concentrated upon the summit of the theatrre, throwing Aline Millet's tine statue of Apollo into bigh relief; and the Placo de "Opera was positively bathe: tu radiance, AtQwe bad 4 THE CONCENT, at which Gounod, 8alnt-3auns, Maseenct, Gui, rand, Keyer, ond Leo Delibvs directed the exe- cntion of worka aa ees by themselves, Bes- lur’s = Marcha Hongroise” — appropriately headed the programme, Which included scyorat other works of a Tlungarian character,—espe- clally u new merch composed by Massenct after a voyage tately uiaile tu Pesth; and Berlioz’s ad- anfrably orchestral arrangement of “1 Invite tion a la Valse’ ended ft, Foure sang Ad. Adam's effective “Noel” as he alone can ating ft, and Gounod’s # Vallon.” Kraus avd Kosine Block treated us to svlections | from Veores Sicliicancs” andl Luerctia Borgla" Warot, the young Belgian tenoy, gavo tendering of an afr from “Pol Bieta aud te orchestra executed. amongst thet warke, Gounod’s “ Funerai-March of a Marionette, Keyer’s overture to “Sigurd (which M. Vau- Bee teat wey gay, ley Droduce at the Opera a; ear), sal jae ae Bitcatre : na’ popular “ Dause tit, astonishing as the concert was, people did not go to the Opera for tht. ‘Tie’ traction was ° ‘4 eae TUE FETA DE NUIT which followed, Ata few minutes after 11 the Orchestra stopped plaving, and there was a nause of half an hour, during which the neces- sary arrancents were nde jo the internal ap- pearance of the auditorium, ‘The teats Ia the stalla were cleared awny, a platform rose ne If by manic in the centre of the roum, boards werd: fald down to form a temporary. {loo > tional Tights lit oll over te heures the eee of the grand staircase at midnight was simply marvelous, Jinoosing at any time, it becane doubly maguliivent when the gloves uf dull ginss running round the celling were suddenly Med with the light of the electric candles: and the mythological figures in Bandry'a remarkanle pictures started into the semblance of life un- der the unwonted Muminntion. The baud of the Republican Guard took up its stand at the foot of the stairs; the Tzlgaues sta:ioned them- selves above; atl a company cf Hungarian singers, at the aide, burst out into some of the charming songs of their tani; while, a little way removed, Waldteuffel's dance-hand struck ‘pin the gorgeous ‘over. A inisute later the curtain in the theatre Siself ross majestically, and reveated the cratrning nil * + BUMILERRING WONDERS OF TI STANT. Ithad been trarsformed beynad renoguitun. Where the great vessel fn “L‘Africaine" Is Wont to manenvre on Meyerbeer tights, there ‘now atood—a rousdabout with wooden horace, a Greasy pole, und other features of-n village festival. All rouad the stage ran a line ‘ol ¢: qulsite bouths, hung wlth silk und satin drapery oferery hue, at which the prettiest actresecs andthe most amusiig actors invited you to purchase... Further back were the two tiny theatres reservad for the Patafs Royal troupe and the Hanlon-Lees; while at the extreme Yack of all you got o clinpec of the charming Soyer dela danse: (usnaily sacred to the Indies ‘atthe corpede Uatlet anil a,few privileged nd- mirere), changed for the nonce into the freshest end tovellest of gardons, with splashiiu: fuun- rains, real crass pidts, -ferus and palinsof the varest kind, {lunsinated with cluctric light, An {intense and handsome blue-ant-yellow velu- rium depopded'‘gracétuliy from ‘the roof of the staze,- Grming a tasteful covering to the fais, ied more electric light flasbed or glowed tn imps placed bizh aboye the Moor all round fhe‘selarium.. Nothing so fairy-like or striking, das over before. bean attemoted in Paris, even at the National fete in dune last year; aidl at Versailles. Dnoel the first persons 1 noticed, on ventur- {nj ahouget the fair stall-Keeers, Was NORTENSE SCHNEIDER. Inaruperd dress of dark-runy sill, and din monds, “Near her stood Judie, attired in’ the Auyergnat costume she wears in “ Les Charbon- niers,” getline marrons places at about 10 francs apiece, She sold over 4,000 franca’ worth dur- ny the night. by the way. ‘Then came Zuma Bonffar and Christian, dressed as the Chariatans inthe “Voyore a Ja Lune,” and mimitably funny. Christian from tline to time would bang poste vig arum besfde him. or play consumptive solos upon o tin trumpet: while bis sprightly partner proclaimed the merits aud virtues of the patent hulr-dyes, cordials, snd fancy articles which formed her stock in trade, Next I saw pretty Helene Petit and Ling Munte —a blonde beauty nnd a bronette—standing amicably together behind a bright zine counter, over which you reat? the {nseription. “y/ASSOMMOIN AU CHAMPAGNE "—"A LA TIGO- us Helene Petit luoked fascinating, I thouchit, in her white eatin, and Lina hordly less soin black; so 1 gave their chanparue ant themsclyes a wide berth, resisting all Wie Insidious proffers of Dailly, the walter, who—attired in his Wes- fottes costumics—stands before the bar aelilne pipes nud raking in countless pourboires,—all, T need scarcely say, destined to awell the re- ceipts of the uvening. Every one who drank at the *Assommoir ” was presented by Dailly with apiece of sonp asa delicate souvenir of the ov ension, Ap amusing storr is coin the rounds, by-the-by. A foretrner of distingulshed appear- ance called. Forchatiparnoat ihe “* Assommotr.”” He drank it off, 3 tally departed without paying, Dailly ran after him, and, catching hold of his band in the presence of the astonished spectators, shook it heartily, exclaiming, “Thank you, my dear I Lantier /" Lautler, ft should be remembered, is the unpleasant in-. dividual who, in Zola’s novel, makes lis Hving by sponglug upon foolish wemen,—so the ollu- sion was signiticant cuough; but the foreigner either did-not orwoutt not tnderstand ft, and, appearing to receive Dallly’s greeting in the ut- most good faith, he vanisticd in the crowd. TiEO, dressed as “La Jollc Parfumeuse,’* smiled wel- come to ber friends aud ndimirers a little far- ther on, as she called on them to buy her aircet~ smelling wares,—bottles of scent from Violet's, on the Boulerard des Capuciues. Her siniles charmed 5,000 francs into the cash-box before day dawned. At a fragrant stall close by, Miles. Motsact and Humberts sok! flowers to. every one who ventured inte their neighborhood, —and a great ymany who didn't,—looking Uke flowers themselves. The diamonds that covered. their loycly necks wight have been dew-drops, Rita Sangallf, in her Yedda" costume, k watch and ward over her Japanese roots ne: door. In another part of the building, Milly Meyer, the dainty little actress who plays ia &La Petite Mademoiselle” at the Renefexance, helped her comrades, Mla. Desclauzas and Vauthior, to distribute portions of sausage and meat-patiies to charitableamd hungry thousands: while Alice Regoault, the beauty (a8 some call her) of the Gymnase, distributed Nowers and favors to her acquaintance in the foyer. When T last saw Alice Rognault, she was fuseinatioe H.R. H: of Wales, who occupied a box on the Jowest tler all night. At 1 dn the morning a sound of Mifes ana~ tambourlues ushered in A JoYous " FANANDOLE." A hundred members of the Opera ballet, rcased 08 peasants und paysannes, danced Ina Jong winding chain across the stage, through the thestre, and up the stairs, into the foyer, then down again and into the stage, twistlie and turning about amongst tho denvo masses of human beings hko a gorgeous-tinted serpent. Hardty bad the furandole yanished when an- other great attraction—the auction on the ex- temporized platform already mentioned—called our attention ton alfferent partof the house, Mile, Lerault, of the Palais Royal, was the auc- Uoneer, Borthelicr of the Renaissance the “ex. pert,” und two or three humerous gentlemen from the Vaudeville did duty as commission. airea and criers, As you may imagine, with such on staff ns this the swe was o pecnifar one. How we ‘Inuehed! O how we laughed! The bidding for the moat insig- niteant objects was luid ond furious, A nate de sole gras was knocked down, after much excitement, to a gentleman in the boxes for 40 frances, A emall pleture of Vibert's (a sketch entitled Judith”) fotched 9,000 francs. Alicea Regnault’s portrait, in oil, by Boldin, was bought fn at 1,700 francs; and subsequently, I understand, sold to I, HM. ALBERT RDWAHD fora good deal more. 1 sai Atice showing this work of arttotha Princo at about Sa.m. He appeared nore interestod in the original then than fn the painting, however, At half-past 81 left. ‘Tho scene was as bright a8 ever, and they were Just beginning to draw the winnlus num- ‘Vers of Ihe lottery. a The Szegedin sufferera may rejoice and bo exceedingly grateful for this fete. It has brought them in close upon a quarter of a mitlion francs, ageording to the estimate of the Higaro—and very Ikely this Is short of the real sum, Such an amount as this haa, I bel never been taken at a festival in: Party before, Hany Marre. ——— Gon, Ewing's Famous Ordor No. 1, Meanquanrens Distarct or Bonven, Kax- sas City, Mo., Aug. 25, 180h—1. All nerons living in Jackaon, Cass, and Bates Counties, Missouri, and that part ef Vernon tucluded in this district, except those living within ane mile of Independence, Hickinun’s Mills, Pleasant 1101, and Horrlsonyille, and except’ those in wat part of Kaw Township, Jackson County, qmorth of Brush Creeks and west of the Big Blue, are hereby ordered to remove from thetr preseut: places of residence within fifteen days frou Uie date nercof, : Those who within that time eatablish thelr loyalty to the satisfaction of the commanding ofllcer of the rilftary stution nearest thelr yresant places of realdence will receive from Line certificates stating the fact of their loyalty, and the names of the witnesses by whom it van be shown. All who recelvo euch certiticates will be permitted to remove to any military station in this district, or to uby part of the Btate af Kansas, except the counties on the eastern bor- der at the State, Al others shall remove out of this district, Olllvers, companies, and du- tochinents serving in the counties named will see that this porazeapis Is promptly obeyed. VW. Attgraln and” hoy io the field or under shelter {un the district from which the inbabitants are required to remove, withia reach of miitary stations, after the Pin day of September next, will be tuken to such station and turnci over to thy proper officers there, und report of the amount so tured over made to Districb Heud- quarters, specifylng the naines of alt loyal own. ers, und thu aipount of such produce tal from them, alee and huy found iu such dis- trict after the 9sh doy of September uext, nut convenlent to auch statlons, will be destroyed... AIL The provisions of General Orders: No, 10 froin these headquarters will bo at once viror- ously exocuted by officers commanding in the parts of the district, and at the stations not +. subject to’ the operation of Paragraph I.of this order, and especially In thé Towne of Inde- pendence, Westnort, and Kansas City, SPP Sea ee JN. Paragraph 3, General Order No. 10, fa re-: 0" /? voked as,to all who have borne arms agalnst tho oh Government in this district alnco tho 20thof ~ 7 August, 1263, hh By order of Brig.-Gen, Ewtxe, a HH. Harnans, A, A. A. Ge ‘SMELTING WITHOUT FUEL Obtaining Hont from Pyrites, | any Jandan Timer, Pune 10., } Ashort time since wo briofly noticed a ge cessful oxperimnent In copper amalting by a now procesa, tha «discovery of Mr. Jolin Hollway, of London, The object here fa to utiiizothe heat obtsined by the rapid oxidation of certain min- eral substances, auch os pyrites, which. linve hever before been utilized as sourcen nt. bent ft — sineltiug operations, ‘The heat tis obialned fs used in the place ‘of ¢iat of ordinary carbona- ceous fuel in the: redaction of the. furnace charge, which nay ba composed partly of aul- ' phides and partly of silfceoua ores, Mr. Holl- 4 way has heen successfully exnerlmenttyy with thts process ona practical scala for some months past. at ove time at Mesers. Cammoll’s works at Pentstone, and rerently: at, Messra, John Brown & Coe works at ShefMfeld. The invention consists in foreiwge @ current of alr through the molten sulphides: by which means they aro oxidized very rapidly. ~ rent heat ts thus developed, and serves to render tho process of smotting s self-supporting operation, no extraneous {vel being required after onco the furnnee has been started, Alt the carbon- accous fuel necessary 1s a Sittle coke to start the ‘ furnace, and which stands in the same relative at position bo the ores ag wood does to the eval in 2 anordinary fire. Bealdes the necessary heat for sineiting the ores belng developed, a large pro- portion of the sulphur is expelled in a free state, und js afterwards collected, In order to demonstrate these points on a working scale. a portion of the Bessemer apparatus at Measra, Brown's works bas been adapted by alteration to suit Mr. Hollway's purpose. ‘The plant con- siete of four cupolas, the lirst one being closed ab the top and fitted witha Bessemer hearth, the blagt being supplied through it to the cupola, The cupola has a forchearth or re- ceptacle for the slag und reenius, which flow into it ae they are formed. The slug runs con- tinuously off at the top, while the regulus set- tles at the bottom, trhence ft fs tapped olf at in- tervals. ‘The ore fs fed to the cupola by meats ofa cupand cone arrangement placed pear the ton, and which prevents the escape of the gases. ‘These are led olf Into the second cupola, which is closed at the top. Lere they encounter a jet of water, which cools the gascs und condenses: the crude sulphur and other sublimates. ‘The uncondensed portion of the vapor passes on to. the thied and fourth cupolas auccessively, which are open at the top, und In cach of which is a. shower-bath of water, by means of which flnal condensation Is effected. ‘The condensing water- fs led away toa tank, where any aublimates that - nay be carried with it are afterward collected. ~ In the tirst experiinent, tho cupola No. 1 wae fret heated with w coke firo und the blast started. Some Rio Tinto cupreous pyrites (con- tulning onlv one-seventh of copoer by wet assay) and a little charcoal wera then charged futo the cupoln, and when a fluid bath of the molten i sulphide bad been obtained, pyrites and sand- stone alone were fed in at the rate of five tons i per hour, When twelve tons hag thus been dis- posed of, the deposit of sulphur tn cupola No. 3 had become so great that it choked the passare between it and No, 3, and the experiment was. brought to a premature close. It was, Yowever, sntisfactorily proved that the heat developed. : from the pyrites was amply sufficient for melt- ‘ ing the charge, while the successful coudensn- tion of the sulphur was but too evident. ‘Tho copper and iron produced were, moreover, con- centrated into a reeulus of excelicnt quality, ‘The object of somu further experiments was to show that o good reculus could be obtatocd without great loss of copper in the slag. Upon . these as upon the previous occasions there wos ns alarze attendance of the representatives of tho copper trade and of American and other mines» ‘As the-coltection of the sulpbur had stready been satisfactorily domonstrated, the smofting cupola tas disconnected from the condunsers 4 aud was worked by iteclf, In the course of the experiments, however, defects developed them- gi aelves in the apparatus which, ft will bo borna in wind, had been oxtemporized ont of that uscd for another process. altogether anil had. --. not. been specially coustructed. ‘These di fects Ied to tho experiments be! partlatly carried out, but they beyond question the ralue of pyrites as a source of leat. On ons occasion, when the leat of tha; furnace bad becn necidentally lowered by under- feeding, it was speedily ralscd tua high lotensity simply by feeding in more pyrites, It was iit. ileed remarkable to sce how the temperature was rapidly ratsed and then maintained . by a fuel which can only be compared to stones. On : analyzing the slag, {twas found that it only ¢ contained .Of per cent of copper, thus conchu- alvely proving another point. Upoa assay, the Ke reculus was found to contain within a traction of the whole of the metal known to exist in tho i ore used. ‘The incompleteness of the more recent experiments in no Way dotracts from tha £ merits of the system, us was fully shown Pe by previous experience. Mr. tMollway’s in- - genlous discovery 1s of great ‘impor- os tance fn connection with countrics whero these hest-bearing minerals abound nnd where carbonaceous fucl is correspondingly seurce, aud the process promises to exert a con- siderable influence upon the practics of copper smelting generally. ‘Tho chief exponse as re- “8 gards fuel is thut incurred In ralsing steam for the hlowlhig enxines. Whore, however, water power is ayallable, it can be utilized for tha pur. poso nnd steam bollers dispensed with. ‘This * subject was brought before the Socicty of Arts * a short time since hy Mr. Hollway, and a : further discussion of hls paper was held recent- + Ty at the Soclety’s meeting, when Prof. Roscoc, F.R.S, presided, Ample testimony Was borne | by the apeakers to the valuo of Mr, Holliay’s invention nud the succces of his oxperiments, although they were carried out with ceudo and. Inadequate appliances, Prof, Kosvoo expressed a decided opinion upon the process, which tio conn AES a valuable und meritortuus ‘inyen- tion, Eo A Now York Girl Eales the ack Vell tn Parlie 4 Porlstan, May 29, has An impressive ceremony took place Inst Sate + urday at the vow Dominican Convent in the Rue Langier, ‘Vhe convent was endowed and cata Mahed lust year by the Comtesse do l'Aizio, s who les the retired life of a nun with the five cloistered afsters, and gives much In ald-of the +” poor of the auurt ‘The nuns who haye occa- pled the convent up to the present tine baye . come from other Dowinican cluistera. ft bad dded that the tlrst novice who should taka ie withtn ita walls should bear the. sania . of “Sour Marlo Rosiery’; snd Inst Saturday this tiie was given to Mies Feroling L. Perkins, a daughter of Mr. Praucis Perkins, of New York, 2 Miss Perking, who is a yory beautiful young a Indy, about 24 years old, bas expressed ao ‘ desire since childhood to enter a convent, *s and for thy last year hus been a novice at the Sainte Rosiere, uud, being fully determined. to take the veil, the Comtesse de l'Atule be~ came her marralue, and usad group of frients ond. relations assisted ot the ceremony, ~ Miss Porking, accompanied by her mother: ind the Cuintesso del Aigie, dreased ag a bride fo white, with orange-blovsaie on her head and bosom, entered the ebapel from the convent and kuelt before the altar. Communion was admintster- ed tothe novice aud her ltnmedtata’ friends; then mass was performed, Alter the mags Father Chocarne, the Prior, preached an elo- 4quent sermon, which greatly gifectod the cone * Kregutlon, moving muny tu teara as hv spoke of the hardships the novice would iu future endure in giving up the world, - But the novice sat und Iistuned, in hee bridal robes, as if shu were tak~ ing part in a happy marriage ceremony, while sobbing could be heard from all parts of the chavel, After tho sermon, in the garden the Irfends and relations, father, mother, aid five steters bade goot-by, and the novice enterea the conyent door, which wos bolted atter * her, and through which she is nevor excect- od to puss auatn, Ths others entered axyaln iuto the chapel, and the novivo appeared atu grating ueur tie altar, Her white vell. was removed, and ber beautiful blonde hate fell over aud covered her shoulders. ‘I'he Prior cut off a lock, and the inivtrevs novice cut the reat. 16 was u ‘strangely linpresstve sieht. Then tho black yell was placed upon her head, bud the Frior presented to ber twocrowas, ' Which, my eblld, will you have, the crown of roses ur the erown of thorns! She accopted the crows, of thorns, which was placed upon ber head. dle ceremony wus over, the wovica had bevomne Sur Marto Rosilere, and Pers Chocurny gavgtho benediction, ‘The ceremony finlubed, the friends nict in the partior of the couvent, where they apoke with Sister ‘Marly Roaiers avaln, but hy two fron gratings, aud asked for her 6. She declared heréelf happy, and was tiut and radiant in ber Dominican costume, | Among those present at the cergmony werg the. © Duchess d’Aleocon, daughter of the - Duc do Nemours, withherlittheduughter the Princesse, who took up the queto; Baron de Rubel, Baronne Narden-Hickey, Comtesse de Beauvais, Mlle. Dreyfus, Miss Byaus, re. Parmer aud daughter, aud Bliss Masou. * ‘4 5 : eg