Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1879, Page 11

THE BAD LANDS. A Visit to the Wonderland . ' of Southwestern 1 Dakota. Remorkablo Vestizes of » World of tho Far-Back Primal Times---Awiut Piotures of Desolation. 664 Moll with the Bottom Burned Ont” —Organic Remains of Pro- digions Monsters of the Infant Enrth. fas a Now Ailvor ond Gold Region Boon Found ?---Disooverics of Prospootors in tho Vicinity of Engle’ Nest Butte, Good Arnblo ond Grazing Lands in tho **Desert Bell. "---4 Large Herd of Semi-Domcs. “. dleated Doffaloes, Apariat Correspondence of The Trine, Rarip Citx, D..'l., May 19.—On the 14th of last May our expedition set out from Kavld City, In the Black Hilts. “It was composed of teven members, viz.; Samuel Scott, clyil en- gineor; Prof. William Hobbs, amateur geologist and botanist; threo miners, who,.from motives of sclf-Interest as miners, do notnow wish their names given to the public; and your corre- spondent. We had a tiyo-horse tentn to carry our supplies, and ench-had a good’ ridim: horse and was arined enp-a-ple, as we did not know what hour we might be “jumped up" by In- dans after leaving the Rapld-Creck settlements, Each had a speclat motive in maklug the trip. Mr. Scott's ambition was to procure data to makoan accuratetmap of the Bad Lands of Dakota; Prof. Hobbs! hobby was to fill up the fans Ieft by Darwin fn his evolution theorics,— the hight of nearly cvery amatcur peologiat’s ambition; the minors were bent upon discover- ing rich silver mines which Indian tradition and old.trappcr gossip had focated about the hond of Engle’s Nest Creek; and your huinble serve ant was determincd to faithfully, so far os ho might have the ability todo so, varry out the instructions of Tu# Ci1caco TrinunE: to ‘ “yi8IT THE BAD LANDS OF DAKOTA, and report cenerally upon thecountry explored, Fiving special attention to mincril discoveries or indications of mineral wealth,” After fully discussing the matter of sccuring, “or asking for n military escort, we concluded without « dissenting voice that 9 squad of troops would provga hindranpe rather than an afd fn + carrying out the objects of the expedition. ‘The prospectors, especially, recalling the restrictions placed upon the gold-hunters who accompanied Gen, Custer to tha Black Hitls {n 1874, were op- posed to having soldiers along: So my creden- tials wero not presented to the commander of Fort Mende. Recent copious showers had made the wheol- Ing from Rapid City, in the Black Hills, to the Cheyenne Hyer crossing, heavy and slow,—the more tinpassablo from the inct that we moyed cyer the low ground margining Rapid Creek to ite mouth, a distance of about thirty-cicht miles. ‘The country all'the way from Rapld City to the Choyeune, following the course of the creck, ts susceptible of varied cultivation, the scttle- nents already extendinc twelyo miles down, ‘The lund thus far pre-empted has been taken up in compact tracts, all jolning; whichehows that thera is little cholee between the different por- tons,—that it fs of the same general character throughout. The soll of the: Rapid Creele Valley—{ may say of all the perennlally-flowing currents of the slack Hills after their dobouch- ure from the mountalns—is ACHICI BLACK LOAM, Bo te os of elurist origin, from three to six feet deep, * with a. clay “hard-pan’ beneath, tho Intter resting ona shnle formation, I think the sea- sons when it wilt be neccasary to frrigato thero, for the small grains at Jeast, will’ be exception- ally dryy—the experience so far having been, that the eummer rainfall of the Rapid Valley ts as heavy as tt 1sin Sontheastern Dakota, and tha growls season {8 os long. Tuble-yere- tables‘came on os carly there Just year as about ankton; snd, when I left Rapid City, the ear- dens scticd to be os forward as they usuntly Qro.at that time in Northern Minos or South- ern Wisconsin, Tho Rapld ordiuarily hos an average width, from Rapid City to Cheyenne, of forty-five fect, and an average depth of three feet; and during spring-freshets heavy loge have drifted {ipon its turbulent current from the mountains many miles down {nto the lower yal- Jey. The timber-growths are scant until the Cheyenne is neared, when box elder, ash, and- elm groves, and plum and willow thickets, be- come quite common, But for fifty miles from its source the Rapid flows through magnificent pine-furests, “ 3 To the mouthof the Rapld wo hada plain trall to follow; but at the Cheyenne ft term!- nated, and thénceforward the compass, was our only guide, Wowere not long tn finding a vracticable ford, by which we moved over to, and went inta camp on tha cast side of the river, May 17 we broke camp on - the Cheyenne, and Ascended tow plateau country, which we passed over iu aeoutheasterly direction a fow milea, aud found ourselves on thu border of THE WONDERLAND OF SOUTHWESTEUN DAKOTA. We wore ou the very odge of the famous Bad Lands, but would uot have ktiown {t from a gen- eral view, the country immediately about us Presenting itself to the oye asa level, unbroken. plain. Buddenly six mountain-sheep sprang up Anto vlaw abojt 200 yards ahead of us, us ff they: had been called into belyg from the dopths of the earth bya special creative flat, Quiek as thought threo rifles were Gischarged at them, and they disappeared as quickly und as nystert- ously ag they came. HurryIng to the spot where . they had stood, we found it to mark the brink of a ahecr descont of not Ives than 250 feet, the perpendicular wall of whieh was ridged = with — narrow Projections, many feot apart, that did not oul to be wide coough to afford safe footing for a dack-rahbit;, but in no direction could we catch 8 glimpse of our eseaned game, ‘They must, by rolling ur jumping, or both, have got down to the bottom of thal precipice and out of steht from shove while We were making: the dlatance from the polut at whieh wo bsd shot. at then, y this somewhat Insplriting incident we wero Uret made aware that : THY DAD-LAND FORMATIONS wero right ot hand,—baving supposed wa saw the first of them in the wonderful conflgura- tons that loomed up to the southwant nnd’ eostivard. Tn places they tower up over the aany, cluder-strewn plain with all the character- {sles of view of a great city seen In the diss tance, preeenbing pleasing concelta of parks, and avenues, aud ateopled cdilicess iv. other direc Hlons,—und espeetnily was this the caso to the southward of Malwuls Creek, —the appearance, Way tint of a vont Meld tilled at regular inter- Yals with coloseat hay-cocks,—the suiur-loaf- shuped elevations coveriny an inmenee areas and ugaty a chauga of line of observation woul Weclose to the fascinated aru quadrangles, Purallelogramy,. diagonals, octagons, — wnt every ther. concelvanio geometrical’ form, ~all as clearcut and welldedued by tho outlining open spaces between ox if they bad been mudeled by the ‘Titans for Nower-plata. What a world of wonders surrounded us! or, Father, whut remarkublo yestices of a world of the far-back primal thoes! ‘Tho genera) forina- Mon ts, 1 betleve, called the Devonian system, The system kuown in Geology us the Perlod In thy Harth's forwation whieh corresponds with Mie fourth day of ereatiou, when tho great coat-meastres of the Earth’ commenced thelr slow formation with the first Bppearance of yer. statfon-upon the globe, ‘This ‘scems to be the, New of that emiuent geologist, Dr. Haydens! wherofore it has been assumed that the basin of the Bad Landa “ts the anclent bed of a great cval-feld, which becamo sei ignited, and, Hike suine of the coul-Helds of England, bas’ been slowly burning out by its own Disutninaus fuel." But Peaw no evidenco of active tro fy any por- ‘Hon of the country T explored, though If fs sald. saoldering tres, or thy vatwant propg of them inthe shapo of escaping clouds of smoke und. “oror, are often met with in the Bad Land ro- @lons. of the Litle Missourl, to the northweas, THE-CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1879-TWELVE PAGE of the: Hack Hills. But’ hero we havo tho ailont, dismal, and mysterious AUINS OF THE GNEAT sUnTRUNANBAN CONPLA- +) ONATION,— charred and tumbling towers and castles stand. ing in Ue intdet of 9 solitary vailey of ashes, ties, And petrifactiong, On the 18th ‘we turned dus north, leavin Malpala Crock to. our rear on the solttt, and crossed Milk, Bhéép, Deer, and Bago Creeks, camping on the'hich banks of the fatter, Wo noted from Molpais at Sope Creek, espectally down towarda tha Cheyenne, somo good tracts Of grazing ground, and -n falr supply of ttnber fn patelios,—out, ash, and ehin,—totwithstand. Ing the awful pletures of desotation presented fo more distant ‘views. And here we found some huge and highly Interesting animal fos- aily—ono representing what bad been a bono eleven and o half inches in diameter, butas ib had been broken off short, we vould not con- chide upon its leng: Prof, Hobtbs sald, with an expression of yo knowlng enough to bayve speculatively ‘anafyzed the material com= posing t! arth's very centre, or to have given the extract percentaye of salt in the water com> posine An ocean in the moon, that “It probably. vad Leen the tibfa of a mastodon,” but I have been go ttsed ta audaclousty poly atraight to wy own “acientifle ? concltistons In regard to attch matters, regardless of the rules luid down {n the books, that, while I respected the Pro- teasor’s zeal og o etudent of Nature, I could by no means agree with him, snd inade up my own mind, from the character of some of the other stupendeus fossils around us, that the big bone belonged to _ AN AMPITINIAN OF SOM KIND, though I could 'not imagine any part of a plesto- saurus, Ichthyosaurus, ‘or pterodactylus, or any. other of the. mousters of that class, where L could stick It without doliur violence to the luws of comparative anatomy. Hut Leould not bo imade to beliove that the remains of any of the vegetarians of the infant wortt could, by any possibility, bo scattered around in that tremen- dour aepulchre of molluscs said reptilian mon- strositics, thourh T was willing to admit that {t seemed as if anmples of all the geolog'e periods had been jumbled together in the Bad Lands, from the Lower Siturian tu the Cenozoic tine. We also found on Sage Creek a petritied tor- volse Which measured five fect and three inches Across the buck; nut petrifich fleh uf enormous dinensions,—gome being nearly whole, and all Aparkling with {ridescent hues. We nowhere founda greater profusion of foxails than on Deer amd Sage Creeks We also found on the enst bank of the Cheyenne, between Sheep and Bull Crecks, coma 2 grazing and farming lands, with a auilleiency of timber to sttpply all the probable demands ot future settlement, The general character of the vegetation was {udlea- tive of frequent summer-ratns, Grape and plum thickets abound there. THE. GRANDEST VIEW of the Bad-Lind formations is bad from near the mouth of Bago Creek, looktuy up towards its three headliyz" branches. It may be de- serlbed of o predley of ‘all the orchitectural styles, from the masstye, blunt Dorie to the lofty-pinnacled Gothic, On the 10th we crossed round the head of Bull Creek und turned in a directly eastern course, possing around a‘section of the Bad Lunds on the' northern side, and made our cainp on the ‘Middle Fork of the Bad River, All the way from Bull Creek to the Bad River Wo passed over a good grazing country, the erass being buffalo. aud bluc-jolnt, witt: hero and there what would undoubtedly prove good farming tracts, -We noted timber of the kinds already designated, and plum and willow thickets, on the lowlands of both Bull Creek and the Bad ‘tiver, No Bad-Land evidencca were at hand, but the novel formations were in plain view to the southward aud westward. ‘The time js not distaut when the country we traveled through this and the succeeding day will be well filled, 1 bellove, with stock-ralsers, and ft muy be grain-ralsers. It compares Jayorably with the Lower Rapld Valley. Wo found the sites of old Indiun camps, but con- cludea we were the first whites who hid passed through tht section, ‘ On the 20th we moved fifteen miles down the Bad River, “The soil waa thickly covered with buffato-grass and -blue-foint, and ts apparently rich aud stron, with: timber: continuously bor dering the banks of the river on both sides; but the water-volunie fs small. ‘Ve water is only tolerable; it, has some alknll tn it, but not so much as to make it unfit for domestic purposes, Good water could probably be obtained by dig- ging. . We made camp inn beautiful valley, in the inidst of sea of new grasses und sprini- flowers, the background filled in with lovely groves, glorying in the splendor of first leatace, Wilt irrigation be .necessary here? If go, then this section, go bright and glowing with natural wealth in the early spring, will bo burnt up and scared to desolauion.by. tha nents ot advancing summer, nnd, until different climatic conditions aueceed the presonty will. «+ Zoey 3 NEVER ANSWER INE UIGHEN PURPOSES OF Gry- . sees MAZATION)— will only bo available for nomadic stock-men, But T believe the whole of Southwestern Dakota has been erroncously placed in the * Dosert Belt,"—that artifictal moisture wil! not bo nuc- essary for cultivation {a any of these fertile yal- leys. 2iet We crossed over in a southcaster- ly direction. from the Middle Fork to the South Fork of the Bad River,—the intervening coun- try being well grassed, of the rolling” prafric character; and wifurding subsistence for thou- sands of Hone, au some deer. Wo killed two of thi ner, and Winged a number of pratric-chickens... We had a fine camp on the south Fork.—good grass, plonty of timber, and game abundant;.but the water was only tolcra- ie. On the 29d we-went almost due south, poss- ing over ‘a‘fufrly-rrassed plateau country, and agatn struck thd Bad Lands on the White River, Asconding some vf the buttes’ and tables, we found them covered with a scant growth of buneh or .buffalo grass, foterspersed With ecat- tering cactue-plunts. MOUNTAIN-STIEEP arenumerous in this Jovality, rome of which Jooked upon us as awazedly as Ir they had never before seau a human belng,—anil ft is quite like- Ip ib was their first view of membars of the Cau- casian race, ns Wwe wore In 8 traltless wildernuss, in which not a sign of former explorations were to be ruen. But the wonderfully ntinble-footedt animals would not give us long to take aim and pull trigger; Jhey seemed to know instincelyely (bat we. were dangerous Intruders in thelr will recesses. . With adownward bound they would disappear below the sumtntts of the previpices,— soon neal shyly reappearing at a distant polut where we would be least likely to look for them, But, with all thelragiity and conning mancuyres, wo had the good fortune to capture one,—a nua buck, Jn passable condition for the frying-pan, bearing a welzht of antlers on his head that ie ecemed incredible ao soul un aolinal could carry: vwhile running with tha dleetness of the wind and going through mavical evolutions up and down the monntuin-sides, ‘Tho horns must havo been all of tivo inches in dinmeter at the base. 1 ‘prefer motntain-xheep meat to ante- Jope or venison; {tik dettctonsiy sweet and jniey, An examination of the country's topograpy resulting.in the conciiston that we contd not pags over to the sonth side of the White Miyor at. that point, we made camp an the head of Owl Creek, ‘There, by digging a few fect, wa got a sufficiency of passably good water, and’ our horses manneed to pick upenougn grass. Upon the whole, it was, A WRIMD, WONDERIUL RTGION, remindlug one of: the Jate Gen, Sinise laconic doseriptionof the Bad Landa of the Little Mis- gourl: “It looked like a hell with the bottom burned out.” Stritatlons of white clay, and red roll, nnd yolcanl: scorn were everywhere, aul fontaatic mountain and table-lind contcurations stretching east and west along the White River os far ns the ave cou reach, Being well supplied with fresh meat, and our iT well enough supplied with feed, ond Most important of all—belng in o ‘8 Where no atrageling war-rarty of Sloux world’ be Mkely to rin upon us, and where the whole Slaux Nation might spend days: Jooking for us in yuin ff they knew we were in the’ conntry, Wwe uelded to make the head of Ont Creel: tha basis of our principal explora- -tlons, : T wasi then given my choice to stay in the vicinity of the camp put in my tima fussit- hunting, or go with the minera silver. und cold- hunting about the heads of Eugle’s Nest, Coon, Ponca, and Puss Creeka, Folected ‘ta take tho forme? course; and on the morning of thi Zk our three miner friends Med their’ haversacks with cooked feod,—they wauld pot run the rlak ot making tires to cook. by,—tooly’ their mlaing toula, nounted thote horses, nail the gloomy deflles-to the southward, promfsing to be back to camp, whether successful or une succesafil, sometiine the next Tuesday, Thus we were allowed five days each to Proaccute our seecarches in ‘our respective flelds, And now how 1 wish I was “sctentife,? so 1 could tell yau, with all the force of obscurely ponderous words, just what wo saw, und glyo you all the. details, commencing back about forty millions of years ayo, of how it come to bo 60; but, my education baying been lunited epee I was taught in a little country school- house to the hoop-polu reztons of Northwestern Ohio, L will have to confine myself to common ‘Ena, Stunding on un cuiinence and over- sng “TNE BTRANGELY AWrUL BCENE,— featJoypiring in contemplation of the tre- wendoug forces of fire. aud food, and frost whieh at different. cpoctis It did not require act- entte lore to know must have plowed, anneal. ed, sod pulverized ull there was or syer had been of imdtertul Nature wround me,-wil struck iy that Prof. Owen’s comparison, used in de- scriblog the mauvives terra ot the Little Mla- 4 -gion of leuvy eruas growths, well Isappeared in, sori, would na aptly apply to the country alonz the White Rivers for surely to the gencral view the grotesqua foportaphy, seemed Iike ‘mag nificent citles of the dead, whera the labor and Uie genlue of forgotten nations have left behind them a multitude of tha monumentd of art and akitl! At every stop objects of the highest tn- terest wern disclosed. Jinbedied In the debris Were strewn in profusion the organic remains of Drallglous monaters of the infant world,—lines of nhitnated Nature, donhtlesr, 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 fn the dense, noxious atmosphere which they must havo breathed, We fount molluse fossils five fect ncrosa, ns per- fect in form as when, perchance, the voleante fires glaretl down ton their slimy native beds from tho peak of many a Juva-plowed mountain- aldo; tortolecs, perfectly preserved, tirenty feot {n elrenmferences and huge bones and tusks that must have framed animals tn comparison with which the elephants of this day are of Lili- putin proportions! The broken section of one Hezard-tormed skelcton measured nineteen fect, and, from the girth of tho riba of the part suved from the crumbling effects of time, wo Judged that in its entirety it must have been FULLY NINETY FEET IN LENGTH. One long, alligntor-shapcd Jaw measured seven feet. And then wo discovered—noted would be the more proper word, as we did not have to travel far or louk Jong to find them—fosall shes of all kinds and descriptions, and spiral and convoluted shell-fossils, some four feet in diameter, which probably protected their mon- strous denizens from the voracious jaws of the gigantic crawHug reptiles that were coeval with them in existence, But I will speculate no fur- ther, except to suy thatto meonu fact seems clears that the Bad-Land formations aro the re- sult of a succession of sediments or precipitates at the bottom of an ancient ovcan, let the antes cedent and succeeding physical conyulstuns utd vielssitudes have been what they may; and, with this assumed fixed fact as my predicate of speculation, | please my own fancy~—but do nut ask any one elso to recelyo {t—with the notion that at that time—cons of ages ago, anil so far bsck that the mind fs fairly appalled in treing to urasp the infinite sweep of cosmical muta: Hons—there were peopled continents where now the infchty oceans roll, und the places now ov- eupied: by the continents were then under old Neptune's undisputed sway. In the hands of the Infinite Over-Houl this Earth of ours is a Brent harvest-lield, the seed-tlne und hor- vest-tline of which embrace millions of ycars probably,—mereshort-stops In the great calendar of Eternity; and, when one series of crops is Aivinely garnered, it rolls back into Chaos, to be again followed by carthquakes, voleanves, ani moving mountains of ice, preparatory to the evolution of other snd superior prodiictions; and soon “ag tong aa the years of Eternity roll.” Maybe my speculations have as much sengo in them as the man's with the luug title bofore his name and the mauy lettered tail after Its it fs largely cuess-work on both sides. On the evening of the 27th the prospectors returned, according to agreement, and fun high rtate of excltement,—-thouch they refused, and have erer since stendily refused, to give definite information, All wo could get outof them in regard to their discoveries was, THE SILVER IS THERE, SURE} AND THE INDI- CATIONS FOM GOLD ARE 4L80 GOOD,” “But, sald J, incredulously, “that is nota mountalo-country up there where you lave been; and you must go into the mountaius to find gold, and usually, too, to find aitver.’? “Well,” they answered, “we have been ina country just ike the Black Itils,—limestone along the lower clevations,—nitenccous slate, puarisite, and porpury above, Even tho pine- forests are thers; and the gold .and silver are there, too, Itfs the ofstera partof the Black ills themeelyes, cut off by the Bad Lands be- tween the White River aud the South Fork of the Cheyenne. ‘that's the kind of country wo nye run over," “Did you find any gold? “No; but wo found good indications of ft We were not looking tor gold.’ “Did you find silver}? “Don't this look Mko ft? And, with the remark, I was handed what seemed to be a rich speciinen of argentifcrous calens. ‘They -ad- mitted that they had not found “rock in place," or a regular deposit; but felt confident they could soon trace up thelr “float” ton perina- nent vein. ‘They haying poaltively refused to ive the exact locality of the “fad,” und my having declined to share the dangers and labor Of the trip with them, were suflicient reasons for my not pressing them for specific {ntorma- tlon,—the Jaw of discovery among miners be- {nz, that whoever elrikes it” has from that moment a sort of vested richt in his discover- Jes: go 1 contented myself with getting all the general information I could concerning the country they traversed; and therofrom sur- mised that their stiver belt was probably AN THY VICINITY OF BAGLE'S NEST HUTTE, or“bétween that and” Poriea Creek. Crossing the White River about the mouth of Pass Creck, they passed up {t on the south side to the mouth of Coon Creek, which they ascended to the Evgle’s Nest; thence they went, in a northwesterly direction, to the north side of: the Whito Itiver, until they had intercepted the trail we had mado along the northern edue of the Bad-Land formations; aud thea they re- turned in a southeasterly dirsetion. to Coan Creck; from which point they crossed. over, in_an easterly direction, to the northern baso of Eagle's Nest Hutte. And thlx move- mont, taken in connection with thelr declara- thon that that locality “is the castern purt of the Black Hills, cut off by the Bad Lunds,’ is what makes mo believe they found thelr indica tlona about the head: of Eogle’s Nest Cree! ‘The Inference was reasonable, that, having: found “float'? somewhere on tho head of Eugle’s Nest Creek, they tried to traco {t through to connect with the known mineral trends of the Black Hills; and, haying failed to traco it in that direction, they returned to where they first found it, and ‘then followed the {ndi- cations, or looked for them, around the gout! ern bare of Eagle's Nest Butte, and thence, in on easterly direction, to the head of Ponca Cres after which—their thno balmy Hinited: —they hurriedly clreled nround the country be- tween Eagle's Nest and Pass Creeks, and re- turned tocamp by the mouth of the latter, as they had started on their expedition, «, Our prospector friends’ excitement ovor their discoveries SREMS TO MAVE INTENSIFIED as they have apeculated over them; but I hopo the contagion will not aprend, That there are ailver mines about the heads of the head south- ern tributurtea of the White River, I do not doubt, und there may also bo gold imnes there; but why got excited over them and run ercat risks in posscsaing then, when there ure bun- dreds and thousands of undeveloped mines of the precious metats here in the Block JiHs, and the adjacent countries, which can be had at legs than {t would cost to find now ones? ‘There len strange fascination about. new discoveries of gold and ailyer, which rote nt defiance all the promptjnys of common sense and ordtuary pra- dence. ‘Tho further away they are, or the more. formidable the obstacles, fron other causes, in reaching thei, thu wreater. the attraction. It would not be nt all surprising if thousands of “ald ulners ? would. yet turn their bavkas on the mines of Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Arizona, and Nevada,—which centuries of work- Ing will not oxhauat,—fors. pell-inell rush to far-away, uhospltablo Alaska, . The miners reported the country about the heads of Eaule's Neat, Coon, aud Pouca Creeks fo be very different from that along the White Uver, on either side. Few of tho “forbidding aspects of the Jutter wers to ba found in the formor. Kayle's Nest fs described jan a vast cir- culur ¢ pretion on tle top.of a mountainous nnd shite, Hine, and granitic rocks, Its numa fs derived from Its form,—It bolt a lofty ark, uuitormty scalloped on all sacs, the whola froin in the. shape of acollossal dird’s nest, Some pine and cedar, aud other woods, tlourteh on and around the Ragle’s N Butte; thera are numerous runolig springs,—the water be- ing clear, pure, cool, und sweets und it is aro stocked with Hamo,—including from : TURE TO FIVE THOUSAND SBMI-DOMESTICATED BUYPALOES, * The buffaloes aru all in ono rove, and are corraled between the Upper Niobraba River and Kugle's Neat Butte, by the traveled roads aut advauclng lincs of setticment all around them, ‘They baye been in the trap for sone years,— any way since the first tmferation to the Black Hilla; and the Ping Ridge Agency Indisns, thus ly accident realizing the astvantages of stock. raising, cuant them es carefully as tho white herder does his droves on the ‘Laramio Platus, They only Kil from. the drove when really fn necd of meaty and harass them by running them as little aa posutble, - tt ts said “the drove ia rapidly enlarging by natural increase, On the morning of the 2th we again’ broke camp, nid continued east along the northern rim of the Bad Lands, camping at night on the head of Duck Crock, We tried to. est down to the White River, but could not dose on account of the bight and ateepness of the banks. Luck Creek—which Wo 40 natned from the vast nuin- ber of ducks we found thero—ts, at least at {ts head, simply 8 chain of water-holes; but wa found the water deep, clear, aml cold {n these vatural reecrvolrs, aud some of thent were large enough to bu culled Metlo Inkes. .‘There ts con- siderable timber on Duck ok, aud grape, plum, and willow thickets abound, « ‘There aru some promising-looklug farining junds, ung ox- tensive stock-ranges. “1 think the natural con- ditions, yenurally, favorable to settlenwat. On the 2uth we weut Jato camp on the White River, having passed to the ‘east of the Bad Lauds on the north side of ‘the river. Found tmvtr on the White River, of etunted growth, and ‘stnall wood-thickets Iu profusion. ‘The Jaud gradually aucliues to the water's edge in. heavily-grassed benches, and tho soll appeared to be rich and deep, VP 18 AN RXCBLLENT STOCK-COURTRY, Various kinda of game abound there, We Killed 8 black-taill Iuck welghing nearly 00 pounds, and fanumerable ducks and prairle- chickens. The water ‘of the White River was milky, being discolored by the white-clarcy Batt-Land formations above, and unfit for tre. ‘The horses would not drink it; but, by ating hotes in the sand near the current, we succecded $n getting an abundance of coud water by secp- age, ‘The princinal features of the flora aro ash, elm, cottonwood, buckberries, granes, and plums. ‘The weather wos ahowery all night, wetting us to the akin and thoroughly saturat- ing our bedding, On the 30th sro moved camp down stream four miles, to the mouth of Yass Creek, on the south sido of the river. As we had to cross the river cight times {n_ making Uistance, our progress was alow; the qiickeand was bad, even dangerotts, nol we made our crossings with great difficulty, ‘ Onthe Bist wo explored Ponca and Pass Creeks, and found good grazing and farming Jands on the streams, but the water-vulumes sinall, One of the party killed fourteen dicks atone ahot on Ponce Creck. The desolate Bad Lands closed in the ylow in the distance. June 1, Sunday, was passed in camp at the mouth uf Pass Creek,—the devotions consisting of learned disquisitions of Prof, Hobbs un the Imporsibitity of the-Mosale record of the eren- ion pelng fre, and n nuccessful rald by Mr. Scott on the wild ducks. On the 2d we crossed the White River on the north. side, ascended the divide between the White and the Bad River, and made camp on Chicken Creck. It is SPLENDID GRAZING COUNTRY, Wo illled several antclopes. On the Md we vroseed tho White River at tho mouth of Vonca Creek, asceniled that creel: on the west side, and descended it in the east side, golng Into camp at ita mouth. On the 4th we moved down a broad, rich bottom on the south sito side of the White River—having large groves of timber on its banks—to the mouth of Bad Land Crook, where wacamped, Wu never explored a better stock country, though, outside te murky current of the White River, there is no flowing water, On tho Sth we explored Bad Land Creok. ‘There {s no water in it at all the grenter part of ie qeare but nutritious grasses grow rankly in ta valley. On the Uth we moved down the White River to the South fork, carefully exploring both sides, as “ flying reports ” said there was allver {n this section; nut we fouod uo mineral of any Kind, and no indications of any. ‘Iie bottoti lands ore broad nnd well grassed, with plenty of timber. Qn the 7th we explored the South Fork thor- ouchty, but found no tnincral tudications, It is aawift current, the volume os great as that of the White, ail the water is clear, airect, and wholesome, It dratnsa rich, beautiful basin — the yalley-lands, hoavily mantled with nutri- tious grasses, sweeping away fo graceful undi- Intions. Tino groves border it allalong. It witl undoubtedty develop Into 4 SPLENDID FARMING COUNTRY; aud, asa stock region, St cannot be surpassed. Hero we found the old wagon-road from Pine Ridge Indian Agency to the Brule Agency, but no indications that i had been recently tray- cled. On the 8th wo went down to and camped at the mouth of Oak Creek. It is rolling-pratrio country, very promising, Game was scarce, though we winged somo canvas-backs on the White River, Here -we found some of the charred remains of an ‘Indian who had been sepulcheren “up a tree,” according to tha Sioux custom. The props had been burned from under them, prectoitating them tothe ground, together with the personal offects of tha lamented defunct, which bad been religiously deposited with the body. These effects, so.faras we wero able to collect thei, consisted of two axes, four camp- kettles, tivo atew-pans, tivo freinz-pans, a quart. of glass buttons, und an tnfloite collection of beads, The deceased was undonbtedly o fe- male, as the bucke have no use for wood-chop- ping instruments. i On the Mth and 10th Se explorca to the ecast- ea camping at the mo juth of Two-Tall Creek. ere A NUCK INDIAN AND TORRE SQUAWS— unexpectedly on both: sidcs—rode up within plain view of our camp, . They came within 100 yards befora eccing us, Bnd tien retreated at the highest speed of their} ponies, ‘They bad six ponies and a travolx. | After o brief consuita- tion, wo concluded thatit would be prudent: to. overhaul them and let Qiem know that.onr in- tentions were pacific, Qijgof the miners inounted the fleetest of our horegs, goon oyertook them, and succeeded in inducthy them to come into caMpeydAt Js worthy of hote that they surmised from the beetnning thatiwe were inv. search. of silver’ taines,—an immpression Which wo thought it important to remove. And this wo partinily succeeded in ‘doing by exhib- iting a gigantic nautilus fossil we had in the wagon, and giving them to understand wo only came to look at the big bones wo had been told were scattered over their country; and that we were now golus home, vever to return ngalu, ‘This, nnd a feast all sround, seemed to fully antiaty them, and they parted from us with every outward sign of friendship. Before going the “buels poluted to the westward, saying, in broken Engltsh,-"* White man’s money there,’* whieh led us to believe he doubted the truth of our statement about the object of our visit. Ho was shown the specimen of argentiferous ga- Jena “float,” and sald, “near mong.!! On the 11th we oxplored ‘Iwo-Tail and Doc's Ears Croeks,:-valleys of the samo gencral char- acter as that of Unk Creck. On the 12th, having concluded that we were now below the mincral belts of the White River,—if euch there sre,—we turned -home- ward, camolng on the Jower waters of Bult Creek. Here we found good water, in holes, an abundance of grasa, but ascarcity of woudl, We wont into camp early, and hunted the re- matnder ofthe day, but only captured one gaunt jack-rabbit. On the lth we traveled over a well-grassed but timberleas country, und camped on a branch of Bull Creek. Wo saw no game, and, owing to the goncrous feast we gave our Indian yisit- ors, were out of freali meat. Gn the 1th we enmped on the bead of Bull Creck, traveling over the sane general charac- ter of country as the day before; and on the 15th camped on the east fork of Chicken Creek, havlur passed uloug the southern base of White Cl utte. ‘This butte fa an interesting land- ark; aud {t presents itsclf to the eye us—anid {t pro ably ia—the highest eleration fn that part of thecouutry. ‘The base is a brown or slaty formation, und {t 1s capped with Ime, On the 15th we camped on the main Chicken Crvels,—a beautiful country and a HUNTER'S PARADISE,~ just_to our hund, for fried bacon was gettin; decidedly wonotoogug. All hunted, and each ‘one kisled something. We lad autelope, black- tall deer, chickens, und ducks. "Ulum-troes were: loaded down with green fruit. On the With we crossed Duck Creck and camped on Ow! Creels, It ts. a eood country on. both streame, but inferlor to Chicken Creek. On the 17th, passing over a woud grazing country, we spread our blankets on the ground at our old camping-placo on the Middle Fork of the Bad Myer; aud there we met a party of hunters from the Rapld-Creelk settiemants, who. communicated to ws the unirelcome news that Jugubrigus reports had got on wing that we had oll been mnspacred by the Sioux. E Our autnals belug really in better condition than when we started, we bad no difficulty in reaching Rapld City two duys tater, aud fers we arrived last night, Aud so onds Pitz Titmene's exploring expo- dition through the Bad Land# of Dakota,—a region which has of late become fovested with renewed Interest by various raftroad-cxteusion: rojects haying the Black Hills for thelr ob! vo potut,—a region which will be an uttraction for the autiquarian, t ecologist; ‘aud the cen eral student of Naturo, so long o8 the human mud shall try tu read the stupendous facts of, the unannuled past fn the wonderful resultant Mysteries of the living prescut, bs HN, Maguins, TEMPERANCE ‘JUBILEE, Laronta, (nd., June 24.—Arrangements havo been completed fora great tentperancy jubilee to be hekl near this city, on thu inareiu of ono Of ite most beautiful lakes, commenctny July 15, und Jasting forty-tlve days. Koh branch of the great temperance army Will be represented by its ablest orators. Over fifty of America’s best spenkors hayo been engaged, a full aud oficial tist of which wit be published July 5, and no names witl be published exeeot those who will be in attendance, Everything is being perfected for the enter- talamvat of the tarcest crowd of people over. convened in the. West. Excursion-rutes have been arranged for with alt tie railroads leading thia way. No inore pleayant place can be found for a summer-resdrt thun Laporte, and- every- body 1a invited to,unjoy the great occasion, a, le Ne Davis, G, W. C, 'T. of Sndiana, Director, a Russia and the Pope, For soreral years past tho, Russian Govern- ment bus beeu on bad terms with the Pope, ver- mitting no bull or. tnemclcal tobe published tn the Polls provinces; but the relations between St. Poteraburg and'the Vatican soem to have jin- proved of lote. An oucyclival, dated the 23th of Decuinber, 1878, has been permitted to up- pear, in which Leo XIII. denounces Socialisin as the most dangerous enemy of the Slate aud the Catholle religion. ‘Inow what they were about when they drew up PARIS. A Round of Festivitiess««The Race for the Grand Prix do Paris,. Golng Down to Longehamps---Tho Conrse -—-The Winner of the Prize A Lucky Gambler. Tho Saegedin Oharity-Fete at tho Opera— Marvelous Aspeot of the Theatre The Iluminations, Tosldo the House-—The Coacert-»-Tho Grand Fancy Farr, ond the Patr Stall-Keepers--A Profit of 250,000 Francs, Special Correspondence of The Tribune, Pants, dune 11,—The week’ which witnesses the rca fur the Gran Prix {s by consention supposed to end the Paris seaeon. Asn matter of fact, tends nothing but the dramatic aca- son. The boulevards continue na gatas wsual, the Champs Elysecs aud the Bois atill os crowd- ed on fine afternoons, till the heat from which we suffer so much here In sutnmer drives vrery one who can afford it from his beloved avenucs and cafes to rustic retreat at ‘Trouville or Etretat. It poured In torrents soon after I cot on the Suresnes boat that was to take me tu Lone- champs Inet Sunday, und again when the yer- dant foliage of the Bols came in sight. ‘The crowd round the approaches to the Longchamps course was, however, nearly as dense as ever, though there was a notable falling off both in the appearance and the number of the yelicles thut passed the’ ticket-ofllees. I suppose the rain isto blame for the exceeding rority of pretty dresses in the atands and in front of the winning-post. Those delicate shades of bluse and pink, those creamy whites and tender grays, those poetic violots and gorgeous crim- sons, which usually make the beautiful course,| Jook like a bea of flowers, ‘ WRENE CONSPICUOUSLY ADSENT. i Mile. Greys, sitting with her worthy father, the President, and with Mme. Grevy, in the centyal ‘‘tribane,”? was one of the few exceptions. She looked almost pretty in her violet costume, and attracted inuch attention. Behind ber, M. Gambetta, the Ministers, and several Ambnssa- dors fitted backwards and forwards, evidently enjoying themselves exceedingly. Boing shel- tered from the inclemency of the weather, and safe from the oncroachment of the allnpery mud thut turned the ground tn front of them into o quagmire, they could afford to bs merry. We, who were Jess fortunate, did Act enjoy our- selves quite so much, To givocven that unre- Mable rascal, Phatbus, hie due, there Was an im- provement at about 3 in the afternoon. The sun shone down flercely ag t' horacs came out of thelr atables for the yfolimloary canter and inspection, and the Grand, Prix was wou ia on atinosphero that would not have disgraced the Trovics, Truth’ to tell, the race was not pecullarlyy = Sntercsting, Sir Bevyg, the champlon,on whom oll English hopes had Jen fixed,;was withdrawn a few days before tho grent-event came off, In conse- quenco of the death of Baron Lioncl Roths- child; and (he only foroftn horse that appeared todo battlo with the ‘native stables, Scapegraco (“Skeh-pi-grage? os the Gallic bookmakers pro- noupeed ft), never bad moro than sn outside chéace, It was generally expected that tne prize would fall to one of the three representa- fives of COUNT LAGRANGE, — Zut.(the winaer of the Chantilly Derby), Is- mael, snd #Javio I.,—and the only question appeared to bo which {t would be. Zut was first. favorite (though at Epsom the Enclieh horses had beaten him Into a cocked nat, to speak yulgarly); but Ismacl was mounted by Arhor,-und_it_is next to imposelbte nt’ all times te get at the secrets of the Lagrange stables. The nable Count fs perhaps the most. unpopular man on the turf at present; and ho fleseryes to} be, for ho rans his horses in a way more becoming to 1 common sharper than to a French gentleman of rank and fortune. The rain chaugea tho Jook of affairs, however, though it mundo little difference, oddly enough, {n the betting, Eleven horses answered to the call when the afgnal to start was given, When the final rush towards the wianing post came, we saw Flavio am! Zut well to the front, with s1. Fould’s Salteador and 3f. Ed Blave's Nubienne,—and {t looked as if Zut eguld have won easily; but the Count was not tobe solucky. A few strides from the post Zut was passed with arush by his stable-companion Flavio II, Saltcador, and Nubienne. - A mag- nificernt. atruggle ensued, and fora sccond we stood by in breathlass suspense, ‘Then a creat shout rent the air, sial o moment after the reg- iater announced that) af BLANG'S NUMIENNE waa tha winner—by'a necl. Balteador came second; anda head only behind him, Flavio II, Zut was fourth, Vignemale iitth, and Scapegrace sixth, The rest nowhere, M. Blanc, the owner of Nublenne, js the sou of the late wealthy aud notorious director pf the Monaco gambling- hell, He 4s almost o nyvice so far as the turf is concerned; but- he hg, nevertheless, been for- tunate cnough to winguveral of the most {m- portant races of the year, [Its tuck, indlecd, in every speculation he launches into—and he is. always speculating-—is go marvelous that it bas became quite proverbial ‘They say he nets over 400,000 fraues in‘ bets alpne by his Jest victory. Tf the 142,575 franes which the Grand Prix iteclt {s worth (with the stakes) be added, you have a most respectable sum,—not far short of $111,000, Besides the bad weather, there was another excellent reason tor the meagre attendance at Longenamps. Every ono who vonld afford it had been to the grand charlty-festival the nicht. before, at the Opera; and.as the night, in their, case, had been lengthened out tocloso on & in the morning. numbers must haye felt it abso- lutely necesenry to spend Sunday in bed. Tquea- ‘ton whothersuch a fete hasever vefora been econ, and Lyery much doubt whother such another could ba scen again.» Words appear wholly {n- adequate to describe the besuty and brillluncy, the gaycty, { THE SUMPTUOUS §PLENDOR, and the originallty of the Opera on Satuntay evening; but I must do my best witn them, You know already, from my last lotter, that the featival was given in ald of the euiferers by tho Szegedin Inundatlous, and ‘organized by the Figaro. 1n afew days the management of that usually unreliable qpuraal worked marvels, By Saturday morning ft was {mposslble to get a sin- gle tickes for the concert which was to open the fete, and stending room was belmy sold at the rate of about $10 the squaro fuot. ‘There may scem somothing exagxcrated in auch fantastic prices, but {t must be remembered that the con vert wus to be given for acharitable purpose,and then the programine, like, the occasjon, was extraordinary. Evidently the #igaro people their tariff for ibe evening. A hondred franes a seat, after all, was not too much for thousamls of woll-to-do folk in Paris, It inatters Iftle to lord Sa-nnd-so o¢ the Prince of Wales whether he disburse two dollars or twenty; and, by raise inj the prices, you made many anxious to go to ‘he Opura from a mero o¢tentations wish to show thoy could ufford it. Such a spectuclo as wo saw on Saturday would Indeed be cheap at 200 tranea. At ball-past 8 ar 0 the facade of the Opera was briltantly Muminated with beaded lines of gas, arranged go as to show the, outing of the miubty building to perfection, ‘The windows of the luggia, or avant-foyer, svlendidly hung with erlinson yelvet and gold, set off the admirabta decoration of stone and marbie; while tprough the huge open windows yeu perceived theymayg- nificent colored musace of the chandeliers in the foyer. Electric Hatt was kilifully concentrated, upon thesummit of the theatrre, throwing Aime Miflet’s tne statue of Apollo into high relict; und the Place de POpera was positively bathed tu radiance. AtY tre had : THE CONCENT, at which Gounod, Salnt-Saens, Maszenct, Gui. rand, Rever, and Leo Delibes directed the exe- eution of works Somposed by Dhemsclves, ere Noz's “Marche Hongrolse”-- sppropriately headed the progrumms, which Included several other works of a Huugarian character,—espe- clally a new march composed by Massenet alter a voyare latety matly to Pestu; nud Burlioz’s ad- snfrably orchestral arrangement of “LMnvitis tion a la Valse” ended It, Faure sang Ad. Adam's effective “Noel” as he alone can sling it, und Gounod's * Vallon.” Kraus Rosine Block treated us to aulections from Les Veores Stelicaues "and!" Lucretia Borgia Me e e. Warot, the youos Belgian tenor, gavo us fine rendering of an sir from “Potyeucta”; ant the Orebeatra executed, amongst other worke Gounod's “Foneral-March of 2 Marionette, Royer's overture to “Sigurd " (which M. Vau- corbell fe, Wey say, to produce at the Opern next year}, and Saint-Saens’ popular“ Dause Macatro,’? Bit, astontehing as the concert was, people Aid not go to the Opera for tint. ‘Tle'real ale traction was THE PETA DB NUIT which followed. At few minutes after 11 the Orchestra stopped plas wy nnd there wasn Hause of half an hour, during which the neces- Sary arrangents were ninde in the internal ap- Pearance of the auditorium, ‘lhe seats In tho stalln were cleared away, a platform rose ne {f y Manic in the centre of the roum, bourds wero: Jald down to form a temporary floor, and addt onal Hebts Ne stl aver the house. The Rapect of the grand etalrease at midnight was aiinply, marvelous, Imonslujt at any Unie, Ib becaine doubly magnificent when tho gloves of dull glass ranning round the eellinz were asiditont: Milled with the ltcht of the electric candles; an the mythological feures in Bandry’s remarkante Picttires started into tte seinblance of life we der the unwonted iMumination, ‘fhe band of the Republican Guard toni up tts stand at the foot of ihe stairs; the Tzizaues sta:loned them- selves above; and a company ef Hungarian singers, at the side, burst out into some of the charming songs of their land; while, a little way removed, Waldteuffel's dance-hand strick up in the gorgeous ‘over, A inleute tater the curtain in the thestre Itscif raso majestically, and reveated the crowning nud’ * + BRWILCRRING WONDERS OF THE STAGE. Ithad been tratsformed beyond recogaition, Where the great’ veaset in’ “L'Africaine "ts Wont to maneuvré on Meyerbeer nights, there how stood—a rousdabout with wooden horace, a Urvasy pole, und other features of-n villago- featival. All rouad the stage ran a tino ‘of ex- qulette booths, hunc wit slitcand satin drapery afevery hue, at whick the prettlest actresses and the most amusing actors invited Fou to purchase. Further back wers the two tiny theatres reservad for the Palais Hoyal troupe and the Hanlon-Lees; while at the extreme back of all you pot a gilujpee of the charming Sorer deta danse’ (ususiiy sacrad to the ladies ofthe ade Latlet ant afew privileged au- mirere), changed for the nonce into the iresheat ond lovelicat of gardong, with Splaatilins foun- rains, real crass pidtas, «ferns -and pals of the -rarert kind, illuminated with electric light. An immense and handgotne: bluc-and-yellow yela- rium deporded ‘gracefully from ‘the rouf of the stage,’ Gtming 2 tasteful covering to the fair, ta” more ‘electric Jight flashed or glowed ‘tn imps placed hizh above the Noor all round fhe’relarium,.. Nothing so falry-like or atriking.aas ever. before. bean attempted in Parijs; even ot the National fete in duno Inat years'aidl at Versailles, yof tha first persons 1 noticed, on ventur- Ing athongst the fatr stall-keepers, was HORTENSE SCHNEIDER, {n geuperb dress of dark-ruby sili, and .dia- monds. ‘Near her stouu dudic, attired in’ the Auvergnat costume she wears in “ Les Charbon- niera," selling marrons glaces'at about 10 francs splece, She sold over 4,000 francs’ worth dur- ing the night. by the was. Then came Zulma Bouffar aud Christian, dressed as the Charlatans In the “Voyore a ta Lune,” and inimitably funny. ‘Chyjstian from tine to tima would bang upon ‘the big arant beside him, or play vonsumoptive solos upon a tin trumpet: while bis sprightly partner prociaiuicd the merits and virtues of the patent hair-dyes, cordiala, and fancy articles which formed her stock in trade. Next I saw protty Helene Potit and Lina Manto —s blonas beauty and a branette—standing amicably togetter uchind a bright zine counter, over which you read the inscription. “1AS30MMOIR AU CHAMPAGNE —"A LA nIGO- LADE,"! . Holene Petit luoked fascinating, T thought, in her white satio, aud Lina hordly eas soin black; 60 1 gave thelr champarne and themselves a wide bert, resistingall Wie insidious proffers of Dailly, the walter, wlio—attired in bls Wer Bottes costumes—stands before the bar selling pipes und raking in countless pourboircs,—all, I need scarcely say, deatined to awell the re- celpts of the evening, Every one who drank nt. the “Assommoalr ” was presented. by Dallly with a piece of soap asa delicate souvenir of the oc casion. An amusing story is golnge the rounds, by-the-by, A forelenerof distinguished annear- ance caliedt forshampaahe: atthe “ Assommotr.’* Hedrank tt off, and ealinly departed without paying. Dailly ran after him, and, catching hold of his hand iu the presence of the astonished spectators, shook it heartily, exclaiming, “Thank you, my dear UW. Lantier 2" Lantier, it should be remembered, Is the unpleasant in-. dividual who, fo Zola’s novel, makes his ying by sponging npon foolish wemen,—so the nllu- sion wos significant enough; but the foreirucr elther did not orwould not understand ft, and, appearing to receive Dalily’s grevtiug in the ut- most good falth, he yavistied in the crowd. THEO, Aressed os La Jollc Parfumcuse,” smiled wel- come to ber friends aud admirers a little far- ther on, a8 she called on tem to buy her aireet- smelling wares,—bottics of ascent from Violet's, on the Boulerant des Capuciues. Her riniles charmed 6,000 francs into the cash-box before day dawoed. At o fragrant stall close by, Miles. Moissct ond Ilumberta sold flowers to every one who ventured into their nelghborieod, sand a great many who didn’t,—looking Hike flowers themsclyes. ‘The dfainonis that covereil thelr lovely necks might have been dew-dropa. Rita Sangalll, in her “Yedda” costume, kept wateh and ward over her Japanese voods next door. In another part of the building, Milly Meyer, the dainty Hittle actress who plays in “Ls Petite Mauemoiclle” at the Reneissance, helped her comrades, Mls. Desclauzns and Vauthicr, to distribute portions of sausage and meat-pattica tocharitabloand hungry thousands: while Alice Reguault, the beauty (as some call her) of the Gymnase, distributed jlowers and favors to her acquaintance in the foyer. When Tlast saw Alice Reganoult, she was (escinating IL. R. Hs of Wales, who occupied a box on the lowest tler all night. At 1 in the momtng a sound of ffes ana tambourines ushered in A s0Y0US " PARANDOLE.” A hundred mombers of the Opera ballet, dressed on peasants atid paysannes, danced Inn Jong windIng chain across the stage, through the thestre, and up the stairs, into the foyer, then down again und {nto the stave, twistlig and turning about amongut the denes masses of human belngs hike o gorgeous-tinted serpent. Hardly bad the farundole vanished when an- other great attraction—the auction on the ex- temporized platform already mentioued—culled our attention toa alfferent part of the house. Mile, Lerault, of the Palais Royal, was the atc Honecr, Borthellor of the Renalssunce the “ex- pert,” and two or three humorous gentlemen frown the Vaudeville did duty os commisstou- alres and criers, As you may itnagine, with such on staff os this the sule was na peculiar one. How wa ‘Inughed! O how we laughed! The bidding for the most insig- niticant objects was Idud and furious, A pate desoie gras wos knocked down, after much excitement, to a gentleman tn the boxes for 40 francs. A amall pletare of Vibert’s (a slctch entitled “Judith") fetched 2,000 francs. Alice Reguault’s portrait, in ofl, by Boldin, was bought in at 1,700 francs; and subsequently, I understand, sold to H. Ke, ALBERT EDWARD fora good deal more. 1 sav Alice showlng this work of art tothe Princo at about a.m. He appeared more interested in the original then that tn the painting, howaver. At half-past 8 T left, ‘The sceno was as bright ns ever, and they were Just beginning to draw the winning num- Vers of the lottery. ‘Tho Szegedin sufferers may rejoice and bo exceedingly grateful for this fete, It has brought them in closo: upon a quarter of a million france, according to the estiato of the #igaro—and very Ikely this Is short of the reat sum, Such an amount as this has, I believe, never becn taken at 6 festival tu Parls nefore. Hauny Marzen. <<< === Gen, Ewing's Famous Ordor No. 11, Huanquantens Disraicr or Bonven, Kan- sas City, Mo., Aug. 25, 180h—<-1. AL persons Mying in Jackson, Cass, nnd: Bates Counties, Missouri, and that part of Vernon (ueluded in this district, except ‘those Ilving within one mile of Independence, Hickman’s Mills, Pleasant IM, and Tarrisonyille, and except those in that. part of Kaw Township, Jackson County, Worth of Brush Creek and west of the Diy Hine, are hereby ordervil to remove fron thelr prescut places of residence within itteen days from the date hereof, * Those who within that tine sstablish their loyalty to the satisfactlou of the commanding officer of the intlltary stution nearest their preaont places of residonce will receive from Linn cortificates stating the fact of thelr loyaity, and the pames of the witnesses by whom It can be shown, All who revelye auch certiticates will be permitted toremovo to any suilltury station in this district, or to avy partof the State of Kansaa, except the counties on the eastern bor- der of the State. All otters shall remove out of this district. Ollicers, companies, and de- tuchinents serving in the counties named will see that this paragraph fs promptly obeyed. 1. Allgrala and” hay iu the field or under sholter in the district fram which the Intatitauts are required to remove, withla reach of mpitary stations, after the Uto day of Beptomber next, will be taken to such station aud turned over to the proper officers there, and report of thy amount so tured over made to Districo Heud- quarters, specifylng the names of all Joyal own ers, und the amount yf euch produce taken from them. All grain and hay found ti such dis- trict after the Oth day of Suptember next, not convenlent to auch stations, will be destroyed. ITT, ‘The provisions of General Ordors No. 10 - froin these ehiquartees Will bo at once viror- ously executed by officers commanding in tha parts of the district, and at the stations not. subject to' the oneratton of Paragraph I. of this onter, ani capecially inthe Towns of Inde pendence; Westvort, nud Kansas City, IV. Pamerph 9, General Order No. 10, fs re- voked as,to all who have b inst th Government in this district malnce. the. 20th of Atigust, 1963, any Dy order of Brig.-Gon, Ewtne: HT armans, A, A. A, Ou ‘SNELTING WITHOUT FUEL Obtaining Meat from Pytites, . dandon Timer, Juneta, . Ashort timo since wa briefly notleed a ste cesaful experinent tn copper smelting by.a new process, tla - discovery of Mr. John Hollway, of London, The object here fa to. utiilzathe hent obtained by the rapid oxidation of certain min- eral substances, auch as nyrites, which havo’ never before heen utilized as adirces of, beat tn stneltlug opcrations, Tho hent thus obtained is used in the place, of that of ord{uary carbona- ceous fuel in the reduction of the furnace charge, which may bo composed partly of sul. phides and partly of siliceous ores. Mr. {o!l- way has been ‘successfully experimenting with this process oun practical scale for some mionths past, ab one time at Mesare. Cammoll’s works at Teniatone, ‘and rocently : at, .Mossrs, dobn Brown & Co.'s works at Shofleld, The ‘ayention consists In forcing. 9 current of alrthrouzh the molten sulphides, by which means they aro oxidized very rapldly. ‘Great heat fe thus developed, and serves to tender tho process of smeiting s self-aunporting. Operation, no extraneous fucl being required after onco the furnnee bas been started. All the carbon- accous fuel necessary ts a little coko to start the furnace, and which stands in the same tvlative - position to the ores as wood does to the cdal in an ordlaaty fire, Boaldes the necessary heat for ne smeiting the ores being developed, a largapron portion of the sulohur is expelled in-a free state, und is afterwards collected. fn order to demonstrate these poiuts on a working scale, o portion of the Bessemer apparatus at Medsra. Brown's works has been adapted by alteration tosult Mr. Hollway's purpose. The plant con- stats of four cupolas, the first one. being closed.” ab the top and fitted witha Bessemer hearth, the blast being supplied through it to the cupola. Tho cupota has a forchearth or ree centacle for the slag and reaulus, which fluw into {t ns they aro formed. ‘The slug rans con- tinuously off at the top, while the regulis set- tea at le bottom, whence it fs tapped off at In- tervals. The ore fs fed to the cupola by meats of a cup ond cone arrangement place near the ° top. nnd which prevents the escape of the gases. ‘These are led off {nto the second cupola, which is closed at the top. Uere they encounter a jet of water, which cools the gases und condenses the erade sulphur and other sublimates. ‘The uncondensed portion of the yapor passes on to. the third und fourth cupolas successively, which are open at the top, and lo cach of which is a shower-bath of water, by means of which floal condensation Js effected. ‘Thecontlensing water” is led away ton tank, where any aublimetes that inay be carried with it are afterward collected. In the tlrst experiment, the cupola No. i was first heated with a coke fire und the blast started. Some Rio Tinto cupreous pyrites (con- tuinlug only one-scyenth of copyer by wet assay) and a Iittle charcoal wera then charged into the Buncia, und when o fluid bath of ‘the molten aufphide had becn obtained, pyrites and sand- stone alone were fed fn at the rate of five tons perhour. When twelve tone bas thus been dis- posed of, the deposit of sulptur in cupola No, 3 had become so great that it choked the passage between it snd No, 3, and the experiment was. brought to a premature close. It was, however, satisfactorily proved that the heat developed. froin the pyrites wns amply sufficient for melt- dng the charge, while the successful condensa- tion of the sulphur was but too evident. The copper and {rou produced were, moreover; cone centrated into a reenlus of excellent quality. : * ‘The object of some further experiments was to show that a good reculus could be obtained without great loss of copper in the slag. Upon Uiese na upon the previotts occasions there was a large attendance of the representatives of the copper trade and of Atnerican and other mines> Asthe-collection of the stipbur had. ulready been satisfactorily demonstrated, the emolting. cupola was disconnected from the condensers and was worked by itsclf. | In tho course-of the experiments, howoyer, defects developed them- selves in the apparatus which, st will be borno in wind, bad been oxtemporized ont of that used for another process. altogether. and had. not. been specially jconstructod. ‘These dre fects led to ihe experiments being. ouly partially carried ont, but they established beyond question the value of pyrites os 2 sourco of beat. On one occasion, what the heat of thy, furnace had been accidentally lowered by under- feeding, it was speedily raised toa high intensity simply by feeding in moro pyrites. Aved remarkable to sce how the tomperature was ranidly raised and then maintained . by a fuel which can only be compared to stones. On avalyzing the slag, {twas found that it only containod .04 per cent of copper, thus conclu- alvely proving another point. Upon assay, the regulus was found to contain within a traction of the whole of the metal known to exist in tho ore used, Tho! incompleteness of the mora recent experlments in no way detracts from tha merits of the system, us was fully shown by previous oxperience, Mr. Hollway'’s tne gentous discovery is of great fmpor- tance in connection with couutrics whera these heai-bearing minerals abound and where carbonaccous fuel is correspondingly scarce, and the process promisca to exert a con- } siderable Influence upon the practice of copper smelting gonerally, -‘Tho chief expense as re- vords fuel te that incurred in raislng steam for the blowing engiues, Whore, however, water power fs available, tt can be utilized for the pur- pose nnd ateam bollers dispensed with. ‘This subject wis brought before the Bociety of Arts a short time sinco by Mr. Hollway, and o further dlacussfon ‘of his paper wos held rocent- ly at the Society's meeting, when Prof. Ruscoo, +R 8., presided, by the speakers to tho value of Mr. Hollway’s invention and the succoss of his experiments, although they were carried out with crude and inadequate appliances, Prof. Kosvoe expressed a decided opinion upon the process, which he Soueldorsd a valuable and meritorious inyen- tlon, ? > A Now York Girl Taker the Wink Vell in Parks. Paristan, May 29, An Impressive ceremony took place Inst Sat- urday gt the now Dominican Convent in the Rue Langier. ‘The canvent was undowed and catab- Ushed just year by the Comtesse do 1 Ale’ who lives the retired life of a nun with the lve cloistered ofaters, aud elves much In ald'of the poor of the auurter. ‘Nhe nuns who haye oceus nied the convent up to the present tiie hava come from other Domtnican clotsteras. . It had beeu decided that the first novice who shoutd taka the vell within {ts walls should bear the. dame of “Suur Marlo Rosfere”; nl last: Saturday this title waa given to Mise Feroling L. Perkios, daughter of Mr, Braucls Perkins, of New York. Miss Perkins, who ja a vory beautiful young Indy, about 24 years old, has expressed a desire sinco childhvod to enter a ‘convent, and for the last year has been a novico’ at the Sainte Rostere, aud, being fully determined. to take the yell, the Comtesse de ltAigle be- came her marraiue, and asad group of frienils and relations assisted at the ceremony, * Miss Purking, accompanied by her mother: and the Comtesse de lAlgte, dressed og 0 bride to white, with orange-blossame on her head. and. bosom, entered the chapel from the convent and kuclt before the altar, Communion was administers vd tothe pevico aud her immediate’ frlends; then Father Chocarne, the Urior, preached au elo+ quent sermon, which greatly pffectud the cons Kregutlon, moving many to teura ag le spoke of The hardships the novies would fu future endure in giving np the world. © But the novice sas and Hetencd, in her bridal robes, as if shu were tuk- part i ao happy marringe ceremany, while bing could be heard from all parts of the anel. After the sermou, in the arden the Infends and relationa, father, mother, and five staters bude good-by, and the novico entered the convent door, which was bolted after her, nud through whieh she is never expect- to pass suoin, The others entered aualn into the chupel, and the novice appeared atagratingueur the altar. Her white-veil was Temovod, und her beautiful blonde hofr fell over snd covered her shoulders, ‘I'he Prior cut olf a Jock, and the mistress novice cut the rest. “15 was a@ ‘strangely impressive sight. ‘Then the black vell was placed upon, her head aul the Vrior presented to her twocrowns, 4! Which, my child, will you have, tho crown of roses or the crown of thorns!” “She accepted the crown of thorns, which waa placed upon her head, ‘the geromony wus over, the novice had becoine Sccur Maric Roslere, and Pere Chovarne gave‘tho benediction, ‘The ceremony tintehed, the friends not in the parlor of the convent, :-W apoke with Sister -Marls Roufere axaln, bug through two fron gratings, and asked fur ber. prayers. She devlared berdel€ happy, nnd was Beautitir und radient in her Dowinicad costume, * Among those prescut at the ceremony. were the. Duchess d’Alencun, daughter of the Duc de Nemours, with ber littludaughter the Princesse, , who took up the quete; Baron de Rubel, Baronus Nardeu-Hickey, Conitesso do Svauvaia, Mie. Dreyfus, Miss Frans, Mra, Pormeraud daughter and ditss Mason.” pea it was ine. Ample testiniony ivas borne | 38 Was performed. After the mass” thoy - ;