Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 4, 1879, Page 12

\ t 12 _—————— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JULY +4. IKANSAS. “9 Beauties of Its Landscapes+-June * as Contrasted with De- at cember. The Wheat-Crop Not So Larga as Lnst : Year's, but Better than Was ’ Anticipated. Extonsions of the Atchison, Topoka & flanta Fo Railrond—Inoreago of tho Rain-Areas, **Cony-Boya”--A Wheat-Field Which Last Year Prodaced Over Sixiy-Seven Bushels to the Acro, . Speetat Correspondenes af The Tribune, Kinaiey, Kas., Jane, 1879.—June Is surely the compensation for December. ‘When I passed over tho Santa Fe Raftrond last winter, the world was dead. The leafless trees, the brown and withered grass, the hedge-rows standing sharp and briery, tho desolate and abandoned fields, and the straw-covercd stacks of bay and grain, all tgld the story of Nature's rost; whilo the cold winds, whistling around the doorways and windows, and sceking entranco at every cranny, mode us atrangers all revert with longing hearts to the distant homes and firclit. hoartha, and the warmercyes and hearts, awalting our return. Few countries are beauti- fal in winter, especially in latitudes where there in little snow to cover the bareneas of the ficlds, and the stubble tells of a past, but not a com- fog, harvest. This is especially true of a level or rolling prairie country lke Kansas, where no craggy peake ond pinnacied rocks help to make even desolation sublime. | ,But now all here $s changed. The wheat- ‘da are glorious with thelr golden waves of Ping grain; the corn is shooting rapidly, and +ioud with promise of the coming harveats the Dijon aro alive with countloss cattle and aheop, oa alone carpeted with {ts wealth of grass, bu! GRANT WITH FLOWERS of every hue. mendertil fer ee prairle-flowers of Kangns are ir brightness of color, their fragrance, and thie gront variety and delicacy of tint, Roscs,—\nito, and yellow, and red,— wild gerantums, hoOgyeuckles, the scarlet-flow- , ering sensittive-planty\nd the crimson blossom ‘of the cactus mingle & equal terms with the wild dairies and violets,\na many other flowers whose beauty I recognizeybut which I cannot name. But these graud phirte-lawns are being (rapidly subjected to cultivathy, and the flowers are torn and buried by the rtthlesa brealcing- Spiow with as little thought as By the eattle who tread them under thelr unsetsinvental fect. , Each time that I pass over tho cotatry I noto ‘the rapidly-advanctug Ince of the yrand army of occupation moving farther and farther “westward; - and yet, with oll this mighty tide of immigration pouringito Kansas withan aver-increasing flow, the lands secm slowly occupled, except immediately adjotniug the lings of railroad. The country Is so vast, it is ike a sea into which a river pours ‘The river seems great, und the current swift; but it is soon Jost in the mighty sea. _ Last year KANSAS STOOD AT THE FRONT as the /greatest producer of wheat and‘corn to the Union. The statistics gathered monthty hy the State Board of Agricultnre, which are eam- piled with rent care and Intelligence by the Sceretary (Alfred Gray), show that the amount. of iiereage put intocrops during the fall aud spring of 1873 and "79 wag far In excess of that vt the preceding year. Owlng to the lony- withheld rains in the early part of the season, the wheat-crops have auffered considorobly, especially in the more westerly part of the State. Still, Tam satisiied, from personal ex- amination and {nquiry, that the harvest will be tnuch better than was anticipated a short time fgo. ‘The straw is much shorter than usual, but the heads seem to be filling out falrly well. Many who calculated on thirty to thirty- five, and even forty, bushels per ncre, a6 last year, may be somewhat disappointed: bit, in- asmuch as the carly drought was almost uni- Yersal throughout the wheat-growing districts of the North, it ls probable that wheat will command ao much better a price than Inst year as to make the cash-retarns about equal. Tcan sec nothing which should discourage or check the inupigration which bas been so great and-so satisfactory in itaresults herctoture. Itis now almost certain that the farmers of Eastern Kansas, and those more westerly whosa Jnnds recelvo the under-irrigation of the Arkan- sas River, will obtain good returns for thelr labor. ‘The farmers of the Arkausos Valley ‘possess o creat advantage in the now well-es- tablished fact, that, for miles on either side, the waters filter through o stratum of land and gravel, and, being supplied froin the melting snows of the Rocky Mountains, where it finds Hts Solita, have a antallokg Gig nara “By tho way, the Atchison, Topeka javta Fo Rallroad acem to have formed” | A WONDROUS ATTACHMENT for this Arkansas River,—for they are not onl: extending the line of thelr Wichita Branc down ite valley to the Indian Territory, ut Ar- Kansas City, but, following its courec through the prairies of Kanens and Eastern Colorado, they have pierced and graded their track through {ts mighty canon, where, with the tire- Jess activity of all the ages, it hus cut its way tbrouch 8,000 fect of solid granite; and they are Sullowlug its course, ever “exvelstor,” to Leadvilte, the magic City of Silver, which les in the Arkansus Valley, I stood a short time age on Sheep Mountain, 9 few miles nortu of Leadville,—oue of the lofty, snow-covered ranves which forms the continental divide, the backbons of the continont,—on which I had climbed with panting breath and tretabling Amba. Across to the westward stood the Mount of the Holy Cross, with {ts ficure of the savred emblem standing out in white snowilines from ita steep and rued aides, Below me, to the left, in a cloft of the mountain, started ‘Ten-Mile Creek, whose waters flow into the Pacific Qvean. On my right, the creat of the mountain bends into the shapo of a horseshoe, with its sides covered with the eternal snoirs, from which trickling down tiny streams united {nto a crystal, brook Jeaplng ayer its rocky bed, ant breaking as it fell into diamond drop here and there a» pool in which the sp trout makes his home, This wus the Arkansas River at {ts fountalo-head, and as coming down the mountain, | mounted my horse again, and descended thu valley, I suw the atukes which ‘the ratlroad surveying party tiad set to reach the rich silver carbonate camps beyond, But to return from these mountalu-peaks to Kansas, . At [s au unquestionable fact that the RAIN-AUEAS ARE MOVING WESTWARD with advancing settlement, and that the requi- sito amount of ralotuil inay be depended on with as much rellance us in the Eastern States, This principles of rainfall acvoinpanying scttle- ment utd cultivation of the soil is much more ‘univerpal than was formerly supposed or under- stood.. Iwas told, the other day, at ‘Trinidud, iu Southern Colorado, close to the mountaln- rapge, a4 next to the border-line of New Mext- so, (hnt,aluce the valleys have Leea more generally. culttyated, even by the crude methods of Mex- ivan husbaudry, several youd crops of wheat have been raised on uplands where irrigation was imposejble, ‘The shrewd Boston capitallsts who awn und built-the Atchison, ‘opera & Banta Fe Railroad seem to havo faith in the agricuttural future of Kansans, as, in uddition to thelr Colorado and Now Mexican extensions, they ure naw pbuilding about 200 mnties of branch-roads, tapping the counties off their main Hoe. Ono of these starte at Emyporla und ‘Wil be built to Eurcka in Greenwood County, Another will run from Florancs, in Marlon County, Dasslog a heuugh Marion Centre, thy counsy-seat, and will be extended by September to'the county-seatof McPherson County. ‘Thla branch will probably be continued west uutil it strikes the twain line somewhere about Bterliny, Bul another 1¢ tho one befure referred to, from Wichita, through the flaw town of Wintlld, to Arkansas City, oo the border of the Indian ‘Territory; with ethane s spur across the river to Wellington, in Sumner Couuty,—thus inaking tributary one of the fuest sections iu the State. 1 believe 16 to be A GENERAL RULE thatthe best of any country fs not aren trom the rotlway-car windows; certainly tle prettiest Isnoy Raliroad-Yace are xenvrally located with reference to caslness of gravesaund cheapuess of Tunds; and they generally ayold public roads. Eo they Jool inte buck-yards or out-delds, nud do not show the neat house-fronts, and the pretty gardens and pleseant groves near which country-houses are aclected. Nor, indeed, to they fdirly reveal the agricultural developments of the country, which more ensrally, Me along the public wagon-roads, I have had occasion several times to make extended trips by toany through many counties of Southern Kansas; and I recelyed a far better and fairer fmpres- sion of the country from these trips than £ conld by any possible excursion by rail. I made one trip, of about six weeks’ duration, benind a palr of Toxas ponies, ina Nght road- wagon, through five or alx counties south of the railroad.—my course extending to the borders of the Indian Territory; and I know whereof I speak when [ call ita garden-district. I tnd for my driver a young man who bad been what they call ont West a cow-boy,—that is, a herder ol the immense herds of cattle which pastur3 on the groat piains; nnd I was greatly entertained by his accounts of the, , PROULIARITIRG OF THAT OCCUPATION, and learned many things now to me. He told me, ninong other things, that the cow-boys, while tending (monnted ‘on thelr wiry mustang ponies) thelr ‘Texas cattle, which are almost as wild as buffalos, and an dangerous too mat on foot, are nceustomed to xing a great deal to while away the lonely hours. At night they hobble thetr ponies, ‘and, wrapped fn a blanket, Hedown to stecp on the prairic, a little way from the cattle. Sometimes, In. the night, a thunder-clap, or some strange sound, will start upthecattloin wild affright, and they will snort and paw the carth, ind in a moment a wild rush and stampede would commence; but tho cow-boys will spring up, and, while they loose and mount thelr ponfes, they commence ainging their old eongs. ‘The cattle, hearing the well-known and accustomed yolces, will soon ulet down, thinkIng allis right, and resumo their rest again, Sa much for ‘the power of muale to “soothe the savage breast.” In “cattle parlance,” n herd of cattle 1s called a bunch’: the riders’ whip, made of Teather thongs, is called “tquirt’’s and the spring ‘gatnering of the enttle from all directions to the eorrata, to sort them out to their several owners, and brand the calves, {8 called a “sound-up,'? oni is a gay and festive time generally. ‘There 1s a rance of bills running through the western part of Greenwood County, and through Howard and Chautauqua Counties, called the “Fint Hills,” which are fo general valuctess except for pasturage: but, east and west of them, the valleys are extremely rich and pro- ductive, Through Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Stunner, ana Harper Counties the éoll is. a deep, rich, loamy BANK OF DEPosIT which will pay olmost any draft which may ba drawn against It, I saw one wheat-feld in But- ter County, on the Whitewater River, which pro- duced an average of over alzty-seren bushels to the acre the provious year. During the past fall the wheat poured Into Wichita, the terminus of the branch railrond, until every cleyator, spare barn and store-room tn the city was filled to overflowing; and teams were often compelled to stand over night loaded until the heavy freight-tralns could make room fot them. It was like the Iand of Egypt during the gooa yenrs of plenty. ‘Lo one who bastrayated through tho rich agricultural valleys of the older States, such 28 the Mohawk Valley of New York, and some of those on the eastern sloves of the Alteghentes, there Js at first an unpleasant contrast between the improvements of the two acctions, There aro the large, rambling farm-howses, with lawns and grant old trees about them; well-fenced fields; mnssive barns, capable ot holding all the produce of the farm; stock-sheds, where the cate tle can be protected from the winter's cold; wagons and farm ttapleinente, all well covered; and everyting telling of prosrerity and ase, Hore, great fields without a fottte of any hyd, and open to the roads: no atock-sheds, but ony an open stock-yard; barns often ouly of strat pile over a net-work of poles; the house, per- haps only a. bole dug out of the side-hill ond covered with sods, or perhiavs a small houee of rough boards, with two or three rooms, where the master and his fanily, with hie few helpers, all live together. That ‘is the way the poor fin- migrant MAKES 1118 DRGINNING in this country, ‘be uno roproaunts the fruits of generations of totlers, each starting with the accumulated accretion of his fathers. The other represents the starting polut of those fathers a century ago. Theso are not the days of romance, when genilot the ring stood ready, at the beels of the fortunute possessor, to build noble palaces and A them with furnishing; but these are the days of the genll called work, aud the palaces they build aco the architecture of a man's own bralo and of the Inborof nis own hanue, Such geuli sre at the command of any one who has tre will to bid them “come; only In suck 2 country oa this, bountiful Nature helps him complete lls creations {fn much\ lesé timo than in the older States. Do not despise these sinall beginnliy ‘The oak once siumbered in the acorn. ‘The bumbid¥'dug-ont" in the side of the pratric-bluff, or the cabin of logs cut from the riyer-side, and piled with mach tabor, and plastered with mud, shall grow under dlli- went hnsbanry, and aceretions of fall barns and 6toch-yards, crowded with lowing herds, shall gather, and finally the well-built roansion shall replace the dug-out or the cabin, und the last days shall be a sereno sunset and elondiess aliy. Yet, perhaps, In the retrospect of time, no anys In Ke, shall Seem happfor than those when, even Wearlness and toil, and an occasional set-back, We atlll saw the fruit of our inbors sccumulat- dng, and hope lay bright beforo us, D. 8. Covent, INDEPENDENCE-DAY. Loud let tha booming cannon roar, ‘Let sounding trumpets bray, Let joy-bolle peal it o'er anit o'er, ‘Tin Independence-Day. From avery hight fling out our Flag, Salute with tinstrelsy, THI every cll and rocky crag Kho our ecstasy. In busy towns and hamlets witd Axseinble young and old, ‘That tn the vare of every child ‘Tho sory way be told— That story of the braye and true Who fought, and bled, and died, Beneath the tear Red, White, and Blue, Our glory, love, and pride, ‘Those who havo stood beneath its folde An battle's flerceat rage Toll how its gleam the taint ombolas, Death's terrora doth aamuize; ‘Tell how, when weary, wonk, and lamo, Of Country, Home, ft spake, Tnfuemg strength ‘mid shot and flame, And woothed the battle's wake, Strike up cach martial, stirring air ‘Chat theills the yol'ran's heart, ‘That all in synipathy may share ‘The joy auch atraina impart. Let arin, and fife, and bngle-call "ith glad hurrah unite— Let bonfizes blazing to the aky ‘Vhoso flames but dhinly show ‘That from cach heart ascend on Ligh, ¢ each glad bose glow, ‘Thank off'rinus rich we froely being, - In featat robes arrayed, While hymns of Liberty we sing, Beneath our Vanner's shado, ‘ed. HW, Toaan, oe deff Davis’ Reply to on Invitation to Do- Uver a Fourth of July Oration. Jefferson Davis bins written tho following letter in reply to an {uyitation to deliver an ad: dregs ou the Fourth of duly, in Stoux City, 1a.: Beavvom Vost-Orricy, Hatnimon Cow Misa,, June 18, INT.—C, iM. Lob! one ey. Dean Sti Youre of the 2d jowt. hus been evived, and L regret that It will not be In my power to aecupt the Invitation so courtaauely tendered to me by you onthe partot your fetlow-citicens to unite with them In the celebration of the coming Fourth of July, Ut ia gratifying to me to know {hat those who havo peopted a country which knew when ft was onty Intabiied by Indians desire to havea visit from me, and to Haten to such an Address as Linlght make ona day associated with tho declaration which made thirteen Independent Ktutes uf that number of eubject columes uf Great Hritain, [have often desired to nce the-country Whien t left aaa wilderness, transformed by the Jabur and intelligence of civilized man into ite resent fulttul condition, but during the yeara of YOUr progress, many taan Individual, though few ton aoe Mine hus worked with wastetul energy upon invsell, F may, therefore, rather wish than expect to be able to realize the’ dusira Pressed 10 wee agai tho land of 0 vent, Thal remain thankful tw. you and your fellow-cltlzena {or tha kind consideration ex. pressed in your letter of Invitation, and am re- spectfully wnd truly you derraeuson Davis, In any Communion tn w Graveyard, pinta digiincre sun. esterday an “all-day meeting? wae by members of the African M. E, Bethel, Ciuech iA the grove adjacent to thelr misslun chapel, near Mount Wingos, ou the Baltinoure & Ohto Rall- roa. Worshipera and others found thelr way to the grove inal manner of conveyances und on foot. Hundreds of, colored people were in attendance, nud, E od" order wus preserved Uirouzhout the day. Several sermors wero bseacbed, and nutnerous exbortatlons addressed to the congregations, ‘There wera munifesta- tons of yi religious exeltement. ‘The siny- ing Was sich as could only proceed from a largo fathering of colored people, und wad heard at east uo milto and a half from the place of mect- dog. Abouta half uo inile from this. grove is the Sharp Street Cemetery, iu which te sltu- ateda neat little chapel, butt of brie. In bhis chapel the Rev. C.J. Key preached a brief discourse, aud then procucded to adininister the sncravient of the Lord's Supper to those pros: ent, many of whom could not fMnd room in the chapel. Roference was undo to those onca members of the Sharp Street A. M. E. Churvby whose mortals remains slept in the cemetery, but irhotp apirita were with the Church tri- winpbant.\ ‘There, was,. said the speaker, no more fitting Mace to.celobrate the Lonl’s Sup- per, and hiys showy falth in His deat, burial, and resurrection, that in a spot surrounded by graves. Hero one could exclaim with Se. Paul: “eydeath, where is thy ating? O grave, thy victory” Ouly a few white people were at the meetings; both of which were remarkable for lock of thoso Oxtravagances once 60 common with the Afrledn race, Not a person on the grounds or In the vicinity was observed to bo Under the Influence of liquor. SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS. Annual Mesting of tho Northwestern As- noalation, »» Speetal Correrreniience of The Tribune. Farina, Il, July 14-Thegannual meeting of the Seventh-Day Bavtist Northwestern Associa- tion has just clorcd with a basket-plenic in the grove four miles cast of this village. The great. er partof the delegates remained to tako part. in this added feature of the associational mect- {ngs; and the most of fhe day was given to recreations sulted to the thneand place. Old and young alike enjoyed the freedom of the grove, and forget the fatigue of a four daya’ session. The sessions of the Association were hetd morning, afternoon, and evening, and included the transaction of business relating to the various Interosts of the Associatlon, - educa- tlonal, socal, and religious, devotlonat exer- elses, and essays and sermons. The exercises were of’ more than the usual interest through- out, although the attendance was not os’great as might have been expected at a les’ busy sea- son of the yeer. Less time than ugital was apont In the discussiton of resolutions, ‘ Fron the various reports it appears’ that the Association {6 mace up of trenty-sevenclurches in Ohio, Lilincis, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Towa, Missourt, Kansans, Nabraska, and Dakota. About two-thirds ofthe churches were reprogented by delegates or by tctter; and also four sister- Associutions, in Rhodo Island, New Jersey, New York, Pennsslvanis, and West Virginin, wero represented by delegates. Tio Acadamies and, one College are In operation in tie Association, viz.; the former at Walworth and Alblon, Whh, and the iatter at Milton, Wis. ‘The carlleat set- tlements of the Seventh-Day Baptists were made fu Wisconsin. ‘Those {n the more Western lovalitics are most of them of ancient date, and represent offshoots froin the older settlements, nud conyeralous to the peculfar views of this denomination, ‘Tue Saventh-Day Baptists differ from the Bap- thats in America in few reapects, exceptin regard. to the Sabbath, They hold that the Blble-Sab- bath is still Winding on the Church, or that tho Church has no power to change it to Sunday; and they urge tht the effort to preserve to the Church and the world a ancred day cannot suc- ceod while the general senso Is that itts o human institution. They are Congregational in polity, and emphasize the temperance work and Sab- bath-school work. The next annual meeting will be with tho Church at Juckson Centro, O. ‘The farmers of this rezion complain of the depredstions of the chinch-bugs {n the wheat and corn fields; but the drought secms to bo Mittle felt in this region, os compared with o large part of the Oblo Valley, c.R A CASSAGNAC'S ROW. Another Sceno tn the Chanibor. of Deputies Tho Rtormiest Sitting of the Session— Caxsngnnn Kcnt Out of tho House. M, Vaul de Cassagoae managed, during the debate on M. dots Ferry’s Education pfil tn tho Chamber of Deputics on the 10th, to “surpass iu violence and invective all that be hos ever done before uyen in the liventlous columns of Als own newwepaper. Ue turned the French Chamber into a sceno of physical riot, and compelled the suspension of the alt- ting. His main object, as he uvows-in the Pays, 1s to bring parliamentary institutions into contempt, “Some of the worst rowulce of M. Ewlte Zolta’s *Assommoir’? might,” thinks the London Latty Teegraph, “atudy with profit the consequences at Versailles of infu- rated passions let loose among the gentlemen of France.” ‘Tho scono arose iti unl ronotlig mannor: M. do Cassagnac delivered a violent specch against M. Ferry'e bill, in which he ac- cused tho Miuiater of Public Instruction of un- loosing n inoss of systematic enlumutes against the religious orders, and of falsifying aocn- ments, and, in connection with this charge, inentioned the name of M. Tirard. M. Gambot- ta, the President, invited M. de Cassaznac to moderate his language, but the latter nuverthe- lesa mulntalned the expression * falsifying.” itis worda wero received with loud protests, aud the President was called upon to formally cen- aire the speaker. M. Gambetta then put It to the vote that M, de Cassnguac be censured and temporarily exctuded from the House. The Left warmly applauded, but the agitation and tu- mult subsequently reached such o pitch that M. Gambetta put ou his bat and announced that the members would withdraw for an hour to thelr respeetiva bureaux. M. do Cussagnay, howover, still remained for soma .tima tn the tribune, The sitting was tlnally suspended, and the questors cleared the public gallerics, M. Gambctta left the Chamber, but after hig da- parture a numberof Deputies remained on the floor of the 1Louse carry tt on vory exelted dis- cussions, ‘Nhe followlng account ts given by the correspondent of the Times: M, de Cassagnac sald he was obliged to yicld tothe authority of the President jo order to continue his speech, But he would remark that he had confined himself to throwing back at the Minister expressions the Intter iad made use of at Epinal, ‘Tho Minister had aftirmed that Cath- olics had falsified toxta. It would, on the con- trary, bo proved’ that in the Republican party fataincutlon of texts was no new thing, aud that a Government which reckoned among ita mem- bers M. Tirard had no right to speak of falsifi- vation timbetta—After such insults to the Qoy- ernment 1 can only propose to the Chamber ta haye recourse to puragraph 4 of Article 124 of the rules, pronouncing censure with tomporury expulsion, t theau words the Lott broke Into applause. ‘The Bonapartist Deputica flew down tna fury to the foot of the tribune, aud collecting In front of the Ministerial benches becan suakhig their fists of the inembers of the Cabinet present, and calling them by every offensive term, ‘Tho Deputica of the Extreme Left in tur rushed down to the defense of the menaced Mlutsters. M. Tirard, atunding up, repled by a threat to the fnsults of one of his aggressors. All the Spectators were on thelr fect; women wero gesticulatiug, screaming, und brandishing their Parasols and fans; men in the upper galleries udded to the uproar by stamping their fee and eatin M. Gambetta yiotently rang the bell, but in yaln, while at the foot of the tribune several Deputies of the Extremo Left ad actually come to slows with Bounypartist Deputies, and had to be separated by the ushers. M. Gambetta rose and put o1 bis hat. The sitting was at an end, ‘The Ds uties were requested to retire to thelr reanect- iyo burcaux, ‘The questors had the galleries cleared, aud calm was restored in fhe House; but the agitation fn the lobbics was extrema, ‘Tho bureaux deilocrated on the resotution to be tuken with regard to M, P, de Cuxsagnac, and, decided tn fayar of hits exclusion for throe days. do Cassagnuc declared bu would only yield to expulsiun by force, At M, Gambetta’s request. Col. Tlaux, commandant of the mifltary force of Chumbers, equipped himself, ordered out twenty gondarmes, atu (niormed the President that he was at ls service, ‘Phe sitting was re- sumed; everybody was in his seat. 3M. Gam- bettw allowed M. de Cavsagnac to address the House in explanation of hs words, M, de Cas- sagnac tried to tone them down, he President: then took the opinion of the House, und exclu- alon for three duys wus yoted. Hereupon Mt. de Cussagnac exelutined, “Nuw 1 can aay that Frauve ts governed by ‘un gouvernement ine fome.'” M. Gambetta—I warn M, de Cascagnac that, as he hus coused to enjoy parliamentary immu- nity, this Insult constitutes on offense at com- ton law, which will at once be referred to the Public Prosecutor, ‘The sitting is suspended, | feduest M. do Cassagnae gt once to ledyo thu lause, ; ‘There was again a great tumult in the lop bles, Bonupartist Depnties wont upto M. Gam- betta and represented to bim thut at the mo- mont when M. de Cassaguac delivered this last fusult bo wns stitl in the enjoyment of {mmu- nity, Al. Gambetta consented to tha offensive words aud iy own remarks on them bei truck out of the offlelal repor a It Was the Kat, Willimantic (Cuna,) Jaurnat. Two of our doveuth-day flsnermen bad fno Tuck recently, und caught eiglty handsome trout, Arriving home in the evening they hid then iu a box back of » bulldiny, but upon kolny for thelr treasures the next morning found ouly ten trout in the box. ‘Three or four sdays afterward @ horrible stench about the pretgles Jed Ww an investigation, und it was Tound thut rats had carried the outire Lot wader the foors of the building. “bloods are so puor that they havo been known tailor. By now and then taking in a rich new JE W YORK GOSSIP. How Jim Keene Succeeded in Golting into the Conching Club. The Ocean-Piers al Long Branch and Coney {sland sm A (reat Discovery. Protty Girls in the Surf..The Livo Stroot.Car. Spectal Correspondence of The Tribune New York, June 8.—Jim Keene cama to New York’ from California with $0,000,000 in cash, He put $2,500,000 in the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolla Ratiroad (nsecret which 1 have from Mr. Devereux, the President of that road), ted up $8,000,000 in wheat in Chicago, and then had $500,000 Ieft to wallop the boys with on the street. The half- million hag beon badly used up in Wall street; and, if Mr. Keene's Chicago wheat-purehasa turny out badly, he will have to sell out sbme of his G., C., C, & I. bouds to lye on, Mr. Keono is not fn a condition tu squeeze the wheat-brok- ersin Chicago, Ho will have to soll his wheat for what he can get, and take hiB money. RRENR'S SOCIAL AMBITION. With all his monoy, Mr. Keeno doos not ap- pear to be yery happy. Yesterday I saw him upat the Joromo Park club-honsc. Before me was a man about 45 years old, with sandy bair, blonde features cast In a Scotch mold, and burly, straggling eyebrows, Mr. Keene's eycbrows arc made up of coarse halt, and are Inrre enourh for mustaches. Any one would take dim Keeno forn keen man. Ho alo looks like a man of character, as tic is, Ho fa not only keen, but be ts also ambitious, ILis first dive in New York was to become a inember of the Coaching Club, which is rently the ‘swellcst’? club In the elty. ‘The controlling members of this club, Nke Wille Jay, ore not rich, but they are awfully arfetocratic. ‘They are the very blue-bloods of Manhattan Istnod, Occaslonally they let inarich fellow like dim Bennett, bus only to use his money. Some of these blud- to have their conts turned by o Thhd syenuc member, like Keene or Bennett, they are abla to borrow money, horses, and coachmen, and keepaflont. ‘The members of the Polo and Coaching Clubs of Now York are teacribed in verse thus: Young NM. 3 Giving quite fast, Boamting of pedigree, Rank in the pastt Narsing with fondness A fow allken hairs, Leaning on relatives, Putting on alrat . Well, Jim Keene bought the *swollcat? four- in-hand in the country, and then applied for admission to the Coaching Club. Leonard Jorame, who lias to live cheap fn New York to keep up lls 310,000 “duwry to Lord Churchill in England for marrying’ bis daughter, objected to Keene, * “Keene must spend moro money,” Jerome anid, “tio must buy a stable of race-horses, and he must bulld a big stable at Jerome Park, aud then wo will let him into our act.? This made Keene mad, oud hy immediatuly sold his four-in-hand tuasch, soyed into a big brown-stone house on Fifth avdsye, and gaye Sam ward $50,000 to take care of*si5 sociul status in New York, Sam managed .pene splendidly in all_ the chibs except the Knvxdr- bocker nnd the Coaching Club, Koenc just su ed the Union Club and the Manhattan; but thi Knickerbocker, which even turned a cold shoul-\ der on Jim Bennett, was beyond the fufluonce of Sam Ward, ‘he Knickerbocker Chub is made up from the sons of old New-Yorkers who are not‘ '{n business,—whoso {nthera are a set of olf sit-down-nnd-walt real-estate burnacles, Ndt's,.momber can speak the English Inncusze cotrevtly, Thoy all affect the ‘*h,” aud overs- thing fs “right Jolly? or ‘heasthy Mayite them, Tomake along story short, dim Keene, to cat g spel feepanttion amongst the Knickerbocker crowd, had to spend $100,000 in. fast horses, Leonard Jerome picked them out. Torti; and, when Keeno’s stable bent Lortiurd’é, the other dayy'at Jerome Park, Delaney Kane, Witho day, young Belmont, and young Lorillara all took the Californian by tho hand and made him a member of the Coaching Club. “Aw, ‘ow do you like im?” asked a Knicker- boeker of Delaucy Kane, pointing to Jin Keene, “Aw, he’s nicc, yeu kneu,—but I wish ho was nobbier; bas such boastly american ways about “im, you knew.” And now, alter spending §100,000, Jim. Keeno, who used to shovel in the mines, has jolaed the Polo crowd, Hehas really become a biue-blood. Ile has been adopted by the swell Coaching Club of New York, é TWO NEW OCRAN-VIFRS, Two new ocoan-plers, at Loug Branch and Manbattan Beach,—the tret vuite In Amorieay— were in successful operation yesterday. These Dlera may maken rorolution [o ovcan-commerce. hundred niles (ohumt to flnda a harbor? Already Ifan artificial break-water or harbor can be mado on on exposed coast, wny should vessels sall n there is talk of building ocean-plers at Capo May sud Atlantic -Clty, so that coasters cau carry passengers from New York and leave them at all the watering-places along the const. ‘These plers, which may mako a revolution in ocean-navigatlan, ore ensily nnd cheaply made. ‘They sre simply the elevated railroad extended out into the ocean. ‘They are merely a lace- work of fron, whichdoca not resist the waves or swolls, ‘Lhey comb the water, but do not res{st it, The pleraat Brighton, England, are made {nthe same manner. ‘Phe whole striict~ ure, 600 fect loug at Long Branch, and 1,000 feet long at Concy Island, reste on long, spind- Ung fron pilers, ten iuches {n diameter, “Wo have made one great discovery, which every ratlrond- or beidge-buitder in the Weat ougiit to know about,” said the engineer, “Whut In iti”? Lasicud, “Well, we used totry to drive the piles; but. We discovered that wa could siok them better by hydraulics. Thatis, we now place a steel hose on the lower end of tho pile, then sturt the engine, and the stretin of water tears up the sand und gravel, andthe pile drops of its own weight tittwen feet into the ground. Once there, nothing can move It. Now, this is the way to place pites {n the lakes and rivors out West. Why, with this diecoyory I can bridze a river as cheaply as 1 can make the same dis- tance of elevated railroat, No moro suspenston bridges, excopt over high streams, after thls; no more Howe-trus bridges either, Why, 1 can bridge the Stlasisaippl for 8100,000 with a bridge that wiit look -tlke a plece of iron lace banging fo the alr. PREITY GINA ON THE BEA, Fifty thousand peopte went down to Brighton and Machattan Beaches yesterday, ‘The saudy beach was covered with Hebi, laughing bathers, und chitdren dlzging for claine, The young ladies that you sev at Coney Istand. ara not the rich nnd ugly kind that you sce at Saratoga. ‘They aro dashing avtresees, (irting shop-girls, and) the handsumest women in the country. When a fellow mvitea a young Indy to Coney Istand, to co in bathtins with tin, and to tive her a tlan-linner, you may be aure that she 3 pretty girl, A. raviehingly-benutitut young jady, with golden balr und a form for w sculptor, was yes- terday runniig around on the beach with her wp to her knees, She wasa graceful swimmer, ond had nv lonigh as sweet us Levy's silver bugle. Jn that domocratic cle- ment, the wayes, sha was te most beautiful young Jady to jbe seew. Anil tis youn lady was a almolo shon-girl ab Stewart's on 85h week. With a Worth toilet she would outshine Mrs, Langtry. ‘This beautiful girl was escorted to Conoy Teland by @ Chivago merchant who 1s bere only for a fow days—wspectally to replentats hia stock of dry-goods. No flirtation for himt O no STHAM ON THY STUEET-CAIS, And now comes the steam-motor on the strest- care! 10 less than six months, the bese judges bay, every street-car iu New York will beran by steam. “The fourth motur will be on Third ayauuy this week. ‘The motor consists of a load, of compressed stoain, which propels the wheels without any water or fire. One stationary boiler supplies cavh motor with compressed stesm enough to take ft ten miles, or to the end of the Nae und back. ‘The motor, which runs shead of the car, takes up about thy sume room asa pal of horses, ‘They are pasily stopped; uever balk; tlon't need watgring, fecding, or groumin; never get sick; and ary sold to by cheaper than horses, An ngent from oneof the Chicago street-car Hues is here exutminine the new inven: tion, Wheo the tirst motor went down (he Bow- ery, I heard auurchin shout; “Hi, dohuuy? ’ere comes a Iyo hoss-cor— Gruwin’ ituold 1” Hat?” Ext Penains, —$—$—— <= « Tho Recont Drowning at Ni Magara Pulls Gazette, Mons. Rolland left suddenly veaterday after- noow for New York City, ‘The body ot hls wife has not been recovered, aud his sudden dls- appearance has inven reo to considerable coin- mcat, We arg told thut » wan arrived i town 1879-TWEI PAGES. during yesterday afternoon, nnd stated that. ho was looking for Mons, Rolland, that Mine. Rol- Tnnut’s Ife wan Insured some three weeks ago in a Now York fusuranee company for $25,000, anid (hat the manner of her death was a aubject of considerable interest to the insurers, We havo been ttnable to ace this sclf-tnnounced detect- ive, and are rather nelined at this writing to place but very Ilttte reliance upon tha state- ments attributed to hin, 2 THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, Ctenn Them. «To the Bittor of The Tribune. , Cnt0ago, July %—Will you not forcibly and caitorially direct the attention of the Health Department of the.clty to the atinking cond!- tlon of the gutters along the west side of Clark atrect, from Washington to Madison strects? Here the beer drippings from the numerous sa- loons appear to be dally emoticd until pools of some decayed and disgustligly offensiya mat for hayo qceumulated, throwing olf eftluyih as nauseating as the fumes from acarrion. It isa. diserace'to the city authorities that onc of our princinal thoroughfares should, for even one day, bo perniltted, to present o nuisance -not equaled by any stink establishment at Bridge- Durt. % OrrizeN. The Indians. ‘TM the Fallor of The Tribune. Chevstanp, O., July 2—L{ havo reac with preat Interest in your paper the proceedings of the meeting for tho rellef of the Ponca Indiane, and sincerely hope thot this fa but the beginning of an effort to bring to Nght the erucl wrougs aud Injustice constantly meted out tu our In- dans in general. Iam certain that there is o deep feeling among the best people throughout, the country agalost those who are responsible, but up_to thts tlie there lins been no concen- trated clfort mada to remedy the oxlsting evils, and tho red man hos been left to the mercer ot any persons wishing to take advantago’of htm. Now I would sucaest the formation of a society at once to agitate the eubject, and 1 lave my reasons for believing that Chicago should havo the honorof making the initial move, and Ihave no doubt that other cities would soon follow her example, and such an orray of facta could soon be collected ns would arouse the indigna- tion of the intelligent peanle in this country nnd compel our Congross to pay the proner at- tention to the subject. d, Hart, Tho Engiteh in Zulu-TLand, To the Fditor of Tne Tribune, Ciao, July 8.—The letter from “American Soldier” in yesterday's ‘Intnuny was very amus- ing,—such a happy mixture of self-complaconce and simpto Ignorance! It would bo safa to bet. hoavy odds that he Las no correct conception of Zululand, or of the dificulttes, almost tnauper- able, attending the subsistence and moyement. ofarcgular army and its impedinienta in such o country. Perhaps ho thinks that the British forces there wera transported by rallroad to the frontier, from whence'they could march upon an Insignificant enems-over leval, open prairicg or iafis ns in thie country, - British soldiers. tiavo fought in more parts of the world, civilized aud. savage, than any other. Agia, Africa, America, Australfa, New Zealuud haveall been fields where thelr prowess has been conspicuously dis- played, ‘Tosnecr at thelr abilitytodo their duty (a sheer nonsense. I feel that nny atlompt to make your * military? correspondent under- stand the nature nnd diMculttes of the Zulu war would be futile. ' Suflice tt to say that noother country except Great Britain could by this tine have even pluced an army of 25,000 witn all its accompaniments In the feld of operations. Recent news would scom to indicate a speedy end of the war by the completo submission of Cetywayo to the British demands. Your senge of justice und falr-play will, I trust, lead to the publication of this letter, which has een called forth only by the letter before referred to. Otherwise I would not have troubled you und your impartial readers on the subject. L, Forp, Bpace. To the Huttor of The Tribune, *Cmicaao, July 3.—There appears to be some ople who doubt the existence of ether, which iayfluid or gascous substance occupying all spme not containing something moro dense, It{s not an easy matter to clearly defino thie ether. It is, however, believed by nearly all aclonty{s to have {ts place in space, and to sup- port th belicf and to convinco others of the fact they give avvoral good and, to me, sur- jicient reasons. * One reasons in thw manner: Let the skeotic take a rocket and touch tt off so that ff will send, out its flery pall high int tho atmosphere, he will notica tt Joave behind: itself a fery trail. ‘Then Jet him suppose thats could shoot the rocket out into s vacuum and the earth had no attraction on it, It such an experiment could be performed, he would notico that tho ball of fire sent att into spaco in such a state of nnture would have no trail or tail. It is the resistance iu the atmosphere nud attraction of the earth thut causes a rocket toJeaye airail. If {twas not acted upon by these force it would advance unmolested In one mass, on, ou, God only knows where to, Nearly the samo laws govern the metoor’s trail, If the reader saw the clorlous sight that lt the heavens # Hittle. more than a year azo comlug from the southwest and golug towards the northeast above us a little to the southeast, aud perhups more than. a hundred miles high, bo would havo belfeved that the atmosphere waw the principal cause of ita trail, It shot through the alr makin; much the sane polse the rocket doca, but if we had beon nearer to it the sound would have been much louder, * ‘The laws that causo a trail too firebrand or ball when they aro thrown into the atinosphere, and the Jaws that give the meteor a trail when ‘by aome unseen power. it fs hurled through the heavens, are about the same. ‘The comet as tt sweeps {n its majestic course through the heavens has much the game no- pearands of o tery inass that passes through the carth’s atmosphere, haying a nucleus, oud coma, aud atrall, und tt appears to and docs derivo {ts trall from the same cause, which is a reslsting something, % gaseous substance, a relard- fng mediwn which produces the saino effect on a fire-ball that the atmosplierodocs. ‘The planet's gravitating attraction haa uo hold on the comet, nud, therefore, there is but one law loft to pro- ducn ite trail, which ts the metlum it passes through, while following behind it comes {te trall tnillions of miles long, following the coma which gocs millions of tiles aday, awecping away of around the sun into other worlds than ours, between worlds and through worlds, leay- ing the obscure inan to meditate on the cause of Va trailund belleye the wovders’ that extst in ethergal spaco ary real and for his comprehen- alon. PICHERBAU, Cot, Ingersoll, Ta the Editor of The Tribune, Roorreron, Il., July 2—A letter appeared in Tue Tuwune of Saturday, Juno 28, that ts worthy of notice: {t is entitied, ‘tina Col. Ingersoll Recanted?" ‘The writer, Mr. d. A, Suilth, {s undoubtedly right In saying that ho ling not recanted, and be fs also right in statins that Col, Ingersoll’s views have been misunder- stood nd inisquoted, Col, Ingersoll’s wordy by his brother's graye wera eloquent; they glowed with tenderness aud love; they undoubt- edly contain all the hooe and comfort that intl dellty can bring to the mourning, ‘For whether in midocean or among the breakers of tho farther shore, a wreck must mark at Inst the end of cench, nud all, and every Mfe, no mattor If ite every hour is rich with love, and every moment’ Jeweled with a Joy, must at itsclose become n tragedy as nad, aad deep, and dark a» can be woven of the warp aul woot of mystery ond death.’ Compare those wards of Col, Ingersoll above his brother's Mfteless forin with the words of inspiration: “For we kyow that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissalyed, wo have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Buch fs the Christians hope, and how intich more glorious it Is thaw the cold, chilling words of Col, Ingersoll. “Again he (In- rersally saves “Life faa narrow yale becween the cold and barren peaks of two ctcrnities, Wo strive fn vutn to look beyond the hightas We cry aloud, and the only suswer Is the echo ‘of our wailing cry.” Those words came from the Colonet'a great, tender beart when {t was overtlowing with grlet at bis brother's untimely death, Yet how drear aud bopolcas they seem when compared to the promiso that is nude to the trusting Chriatian: a “Tho last enemy that shall bo destroyed is death, “And they thut be wise shall shino ss the brightness of the Armament; and they that ce many to righteousness a8 tue stars forever und wyer, “Aud God shall wipe away all tears from thelr eyes; and there shall be no more death, nolther sorrow, Nor cryfuy, neither aba} thers be avy mory paty, forthe former things have passed away,” Who doca not belevo thut if Col, Ingersoll could belove those preclous promiscs of Cod, und Tay hold of them with all the powers of his great intud wud tender heart, he would be wo happier und uagbler inant ‘the Melty Bible, which Col. Ingersoll attacks so flercely, is tho ouly revelation from God to man, aud who Would vot rather trust its promises, Walk in its | teachlage, with brow serene, and the mind at rest, thon fotlow tho teachings of renton, cxyling aloud, with no suswer save a mocking acho Let us hope that Col. {Ingersoll may yet bo led into the Kingdom of God, and become, as Mr, Smith suggosta, a second St. Paul, Geran, Roctatiam. To the Rititor of The Trthune, Crrcano, July 8,—Soctalism was transplanted into this country from Germany, and has not only spread in this country, but in most of the European countrics, ‘The doctrine the Soclal- fsts uphold is: ‘No worl for us, but give us bread.” Now this is the most abominable doc- trine ever upheld by any society of mon. Bo- elalism Is composed of the lowest grade of men, What:the Socialists want !s to compel the man who has spent all hls life at hard work, and saved up na Itttle for his old age, to share a part of his hard carnings with them, who never did work, and thus leave him unprotected’in his old age. The Soclalistic party in the United States fs composed mostly of foreigners. Thoy soy they wis to bo un an equality with what they call aristocrats. Arc they not on the same equality? Do thoy not have the: privilege of voting, of the comnion schools, und of the free Institutions of the United States? Do they not have the same means of increasing thelr wealth or of accumulating fortunes, and aro they not protected by the sama Inws! Is it not against tho law of the State of Hlinols to allow citizens to carry arms nnd parado the streets with the "Bloody Rag” flying? ‘They are also for defy- ing the Jaw of God: ‘By the sweat of thy brow thou shalt carn thy bread’? Think of the rapid growth of tha party in Chicago atone; they wers enabled to carry several wards where a year or tivo ago they were never hoard of. This party f¢ the maln-apring of mobs, rata, and dis- turbances. ‘They want you und me to stinco otr hard earnings with them nnd support them in {dlencss. Scclalism is similar to stavery, ouly much worse, which In Washington's Adiniulstra- tion was not larger than a man’s haud, and soon grew tobe ndark and threatening cloud, which plunged the country inclyil war. If Soclalism be nipped in the bud tt will produce tio evil effects, but if allowed to grow It will produce anarchy and revolution. If they were willing to work Oncle Sam woulu gladly giyo them a fow acres to till, But no; they don’t wont to do this, they want to lyo off sumebody’s labor. There fs Barlilig 80 opposed to Socint- ism os the Romon Catholle | Church, and nothing {s drying to do more to stppress it than the Church. They claim they ary deprived of tho liberty in this country which the orlstocrats have. Liberty of whntt— of speech, of the prear, or are they deprived of their natural Mberty? No; theyare deprived of the privileze of carrying arma through the streots and carrying their ensign, the ** ilooly Flag,” 1n proference to tho Stara and Stripes. Is there noromedy for auch conduct? They ara under the protection of the United State: nnd if they persist in violating the Iowa, an Inciting niobs, not belng naturalized, they should be treated asa foreign cuemy. ‘The sooner thelr power is broken the botter, and the country and States will not go te such an expense In queliiug riots, dispersing mobs, and prosecutlug criminals. + Wonking Fanusn, A Tarp ‘Wardon of tho Peat-!fouse, To the Eultor af The Tribune.” Cimcaco, Jaly 2.—I noticed an article fn this day's {ssuc of your paper in reference to the appointment of Dr. Washington under Ioalth Commissioner Do Wolf. ‘Tho matter’ was brought tomy notice, by ex-Judgo Forrester, who desired mo to appear in behatl of Dr. Wash- ington, and, if possible, secure his confirmation by Dr. Do Wolf, and pledging at the same tins his suppart and his influence with Moyor Lfgrri- son to secure What seomed at the timo to be an unsnylable position, and which was generally supposed the Doctor was {lic only applicant for, viz., Warden of the Pest-House, Yet it seemed on fayestigation that the medical faculty of the Bonrd of Hoaith of this elty immediately com- menced to give the matter the most profound constderation. Retraction from personal lettcrs given,to Dr. Washington previously to sccure bitin the appointment cama to Dr. DeWoll’s desk, for which no good reason seems to be advanced, except the very siinplo fact tint the friends of the present Matron. a Swede woman, wero not nuxtous that thelr “pot? should bo vompolipd to recognize a gentleman of Dr. Washington’s coloras her superior. ‘This, [ suppose, - was tho cause that compelled Judzo Forrester to re- fuse the support ho offered to the Doctor and lis influence with his Honor. So your humole servant had to go italone in the Doctor's Inter- esta. 1 visited Dr. Do Wolf, but that goptioman statod that he had fully made up hia mind not toappolnt him. I visited nls Honor the Mayor, and hoe very cautiously stated that he was frlendly to Dr. Washington, and would Ike to sea him appointed, put os he had no power to compel Dr. De Wolf to accept him, he could do’ nothlig more in behalf, as he considered the power Ialt ‘with Dr. Do Wolf, By appointment, this morning. wa met at the ofllce of Dr. Do Wolf, with Dr, Hutchinson, Dr. Dunn, and tho applicant pree- ant, and after considerable lotter-reading, in which there was not one proper objection raised, Dr, Vo Wolf concluded that he would dismiss the proceedings; whon in fact Dr. Do Wolf had totally failed to make out a defense, or show any want of qualification for the position in Dr. Washington. The position js not oue that de- munda medical ability, nor was the question spoken of, und as to Dr. Washington's ‘Tonesty it Is generally claimed by hie colored frionds to be unexcoptionnblo. -I was surprised at the de- termination of Dr.Ne Wolf in the matter, oven after Dr. Wickersham, a well-known phyalcian of the cliy, had indorsed Dr. Washington for the position, Dr. McCarthy, also well known, -{n- Jormed me that Dr. Dunn had told him that the whole trouble Iny in the fact thatthe present Warden was a relative of Dr, De Wolf, It was then £ discovered that the colored gentleman jn the wood-pilo was very much Jarger than I bad firat, supposed, and thut gcems to be the real cause why Dr. Washineton {a not inatatled In bis position. in conclusion J will atate that I think the wholo matter deserves slowing up in its proper light, and that the public should know tho real facts in the case of a matter that has heretofore been looked on by many asa joke, but which turns owt to bea pleco of business in the jatercet in a pocunlary. way of friends, if not relatives, Hoping you Will wivo this apuco in your valuable columns, L beg to remain, very respectfully yours, -_ 8. R. Kroon, ‘No. 78 Deachorn atrect, ————— Stowart Casto, Washington Letter to St, Paul Pianeer-Press. Te la rumored hero that the wife and daughter of ex-Senator Stewart are to return to Wash- Jogton and rethhabit the great pile of sandstone thatis known as Stewart Castte. ft fs. the largest and most expensive house fa Washing- ton, but, as the Yankeo Indica would think, the $300,000 expended upon it was a sinful waste. Tt bas been closed since the expiration of: the Senator's term of office in 1875, aud has been adyertised for rent at the modest sum of ut firat, $20,000 per annuum, and Jater at $15,000 and $10,000. But no one has bad the money to pay such a rental and hold up the housw besides, for ft wilt require several thousand a yeur to hut it alone, ‘The moths haye destroyed the greater part of the furniture,eylich was very handsome and costly, harlng been made to order fu Parla; the fabrles of upbolstering having been pure chased nt the Exposition of 1873. The bouse was occupled only ouc year, Misa Stewart was marricd there, and her baby was born in the house, but after the Bevator's term expired and the Einina Mine pulled dawn his fortune, the family moyed to the Pacliie Coast, whore they huyesluce been. se << Grant's Horses Given Min by tho Sultan, Washington Corrarondence st, Raut, Pioneer: dese, Grant's horses, presented by the Bultan, of Turkey, hays come, Ahate read elaborate deseriptions of them, and I have dreamed of the marveluus beauty of the Arabian steed, ‘Thess horses are deacribed to have been the two finest stallions In the stables of the Sultue of ‘Lurkey, Tt fe sald that they were chosen from 900 marce nud 700 stallions, 1t is announced that their Dloud ts the pureat, their pedizres the longest, ‘and thelr style the handsotnest of atl the breeds iu Arabia, “People who haye read this sort of stuf bad better not see the horses, Ihave read it, and a8 soon as the horses arrived hurried towes them, never sawacircus in my tlle that did not show botter horses. In Coup’s Hippodrome ta New Yorx you can seo twent that ta tho eye are superior in every respect. When Gen. Graut was President be drove horses thatin style und beauty far surpassed these prides of the Sultan's stuble that have been shipped sofar to him, Senator Conkilny drives a better borse than either. My disappointment. was sbured by cyerybody who saw them, The Western Miner, From an Interctein r0lth Senator Junes, of Neoada, , Mining isa maglo operation; it tovolyes all the subiinity wud tragedy of life. You are o Monte Cristo to-day and perhaps sitting out on the bure rocks to-niorrow, with o pick io your hand aad a grub stake of 850 from some kind Irieud, looking hopefully into Ue riddle of the mountain's face, 1 bolieve, however, that most wen ore wore manly at imfiuing than at anv other pursult. You sec a poor chap without echangs of clothes elceplug in a buw no woman near him aml cooking bls own foot, yet with the dream of tmmortal reves In bls hilud and the courage to co on week after week driving lis pick, aud shovel, and cartridga into the hilt. Thera ts nothing mean about hims he haa hope, whieh Is the essence of religion. TL romember reading in Bulwer's «Lost Tales of” Miletus’? the story of Sisyphus. ‘There ho sat on a granite niliside, the sun flaming dows upon the hot rocks, almost bilnding hls sieht, and with his poworful Harbs extended, lls back bont, ho was pusbliye a atone up the mountain, on whose sumuiit, Inconcelyably higl, wae the only tgreen or cool’ spot of Mut falling as if upoo crass there. fe had been working tor years aud yoare to drive that stone to the top of the Monntaln, and It ever sipped back upon him. Tf he can drive it up to the top ho is to he ono of the immortals, but if by wives It up bie doom is oblivion. His good angel says to him, “0 Sisyphus! why continue at this impos alble task?” “Why,” ho replies, don’t you seo the light on the green aummit yonder? -Boyond that 8 the Elysian Flelds, and If Lonly get the stone up there I ehall have reat and dive! with, Rhadamanthus and the happy people.” “But, bays the angel, “my poor soul, yuu never cam Toll the stone up. After all, tho only ponalt: uf abandoning the task Is extinction. Why toll so hard when you can kayo street obliviont? “Begone,” oxelalmed Siayphius, hester to work through all eternity than accopt oblivion,” and he turned to his task again. “Now.” sald Senator Jouca, that is the life of the miner, ° He ts ‘rich’ to-day nad buying yachts, country houses, manazing railroads, otc. Next sear-g fa broke, und he gues. back to the mines aud Stores into the burning face of the mountains. Hono keeps him up.” HUNDREDS OF SNAKES. Marvotous Tales that tlie Pople of the Vale * Ivy of Virginia Tell, Winchester (Va.) Letter in Palladelphta Tes, Snake storics of wonderful proportions ore told here in the Valley, They are vouched for, too, which makes them all the moro interestings The hills for miles around aro just full of rep- tiles, ‘To the east of this historic old town strotch the Bluc Ridge Mountains. : ‘Io the wost the big North Mountaln, o apur of the jagged Allephenies, towers abovo {ts neichbors. Rat- tlesuakes, moccasins,’ and copperheads abound. ‘They crawl out from under overy rock. ‘They No in the pathway,—where there happons to boa pathway. They live slugly, in. pairs, iu. droves, and, in foct, in every way that o sunke ought to Myc, They are a yenomous uot, alwoys ‘rendy for business, it Js troe that they very seldom come down from the mountain, but ifany one {sot all destrous of starting upon o snake hunt all that fs necea- enry is to step off from one of the numerous pikes that centre hero and climb up among the bile. ‘The hunt will be a singularly one-sided. one. In fact, he won't have to hunt at all, for the snakes will hunt for him and take ‘matters {nto their own hands, They are pretty Ilkely to have it all thelr own way, too, and there isn’t much question a8 to which side will retreat « tirst. It is over toward Leesburg where the snakes are the thickest. ‘here fs where the big fellows grow. Occastonally o Jady will wake up and find o rattlesnake hidden away under her bed, but then people get used to that sort of thing after awhite, and such storics cease to bo interesting. Its the atorics told by ths distillers up the mountains that people talk about. “ ‘There aro lote of whisky, distillers around tho mountalns. #¢Moonshiners,” the mon who distil ino eamoll way and evade taxation, are very scarce in this dlatrict. The Doputy, Collector keeps a sharp lookout, is thoroughly familiar with all the signs nnd quick to fotlow them up, and {t takes a moonshincr of the sharpest stamp toelude his careful acarch, Tho distillers toll somo marvelous tales, and are ready to back them up with aflidavits at any time, "Talkin? about svakes,” sald one of them, who tnhablts the Blue Ridge, near Lecaburg, tho other day; talkin’ about snakes, why, look vere,” and ho opencd his cabin door and pointed to the walls. They wero falrly covered with tho skins of monsters of tho roptils Kind, There wore atuffed rattlesnakes looking down at you from over the door. Rattlesnakes hung by their talle- from the corners, andone big fellow coiled up! ‘on a box scemed all ready tospring. Touch ono of them and the peculiar sound of the dry rat-+ tles would send a chill all over a person, “Aren't you afrald of them?” “ Afraid of what? Snakes?”? ond the diatiiicr laughed contemptuously. “I fo'ght with Gen, Karly ju_the Valley, faced tho Yankee cannon, and didn't rin, Do yo! e'posa I'd get scared ab a snake? Wo don’t kearo for cm. I kill w, dozen or two every mornin’, just to keep m: hand in. How? Why knock 'em ovet wit! sticks ond shoot ‘om. Nothin‘ easier, Some- timos I fish for’om. That's fun, but yo’ have to work harder todo it. Perhaps you would lke to sea it donot” and, recelying a nod in the aflirmative, the distiller led tho way in front of tana inst the d 1 r nding up against the door was a long pola with a noose Hy if end. The distiller took {t down, shook it for s moment in his hands, and Jooked around. ‘I've keaught lots of suakes with this thing,’? he said. ‘ff you look around right sharp you'll find one somewhere,” | ° About forty feet away the sharp eyes of tha Aistiller caucht sieht of oshining skin. The snake was o big ono aud was sunning himsolf by the side of alog. Motloning silence, the distii- Jer cropt up to within polo's length and dangled the nooso under the snake's nose. His analco- bhip stirred nnenstly, rafsed his head and, sceing” the cord, began ptrixing avit. Pretty soon his head wont through the noose. The fisherman had a blto and he pulled, Ina moment the huge snako was dangling in the air apa o blow or two agalnst a tree finished bim. i ‘Tho distiller amiled a3 he replaced the pole agalnst the cabin, “Thar’s no use in gettin’ scared,” ho sald, “I don't mind 'om, £ keaught a big fellow Inst summer in just that way. <A medical atudent from Peninayivany ‘was up yere and wanted one to take home wit! him. £ tufted him and keolled caught one, him up ina vheese-box, and ho was the most ‘benutitul snake yo' ever saw. ‘They ‘don’t bother me much. Sometimes one or two of ’em go to bed with me and roll themselyes up in the blankets, but that's nothing. : ‘There's only ong’suake In those yere mountuios, that Pye got ao solte against,” ond ‘tfo distiller looked solemn, “That snake has got to dic or ‘Tbaye. Vyo sworn it,” and the man rubbed a tear from his eye with the sleove of lils coarse flannel shirt and shook bis bead thoughtfully, “That suake killed my dog? po ‘There was a pause of a moment or two, and then. the old distiller. brightening up, went ou with his story. ‘This yere spate fs o mon- ster, He's twenty feot ii ho iB an inch. £ slzbted him about a moofh ayo, or gather ho sighted me, Iwas climbin’ uo yonder among the rocks, when I heard :a rattle and looked around. Tho snake wos just springin’, I {amped back just in time, and he went by ikea flash. Scared? 1 reckon 1 was, -alight- ly. I never saw such a mouster. lis looked as thick as that log over yonder. He was likeg, «blz black cloud, and covered up the ‘stn almost aa vompletely, dldn'tsce that snake again until two weeks ago, Do you belicve it? £ heard an unconimon noisés up the mountulo. looked tip thar and saw a whole army of them, Thor must have been a hundred snakes, and they were comin! down with the monster at the head. I reckon ho’s the king of the enoke triba on theses, ycre mountains. [got inside ond crawled up to that Ittle window ofer the da'r. Down they cane, and such a rustiio? ond rat- thn’ ye’ never heard, I fired Into ’em and killed nine of ’em at one shot, and the others glided off ina dig hurry. . That same wight I neard my little dog yelpin’ outside, Iopaned the do'r, aud thar he wos shiverin’ and slukio’, and that big snake all ino heat right slongaide of him and ookin’ down at him with bis big mouth wide opened. Lrusbed for my gun, but befo' I got back enake and dog wore both goue.” Tho distiller stopped again ond shook Ns head sadly, “He was a good do, ana 1 iniss him. What became of imi Why, 1 dou't veckon thar's much doubt about tut, Ie went down that snake’s throat, aud that’s the reason that snako’s goat to dis.’” . ‘This story may sound big, but {t ts nothing bg the side of some of the stories which ure told about here as the truth. Peoolo who have ellmbed about the mountalna to any uxtent will tell you that the snakes will stare out ut you frow under every rock, Sometimes the béuds are ag thick a8 the dugers on a man’s hand, and the wicked-looking little eyes are enough to strike terror into any one who sees them for the Grat time, A story ds told in Lecaburg of @ woman's adventure up the mountain. She went ous one day to pick huckle- berrics, ‘and, beforc - sho was awara of t, was surrounded = =by —rattle~ snakes, Sho had wandered near o den of them, aud there was no backing out. Tt was to kill or bo kitted, and sho preferred tha former. Qrasping a thick stick in ber hand, sho awalted actlow, Had thesnakes attacked her aoy- cral ata tina Rathing could have gayed her; but, fortunately for her, they, begun the on slought slugly, A suake would burdly coll hime self up for a spring when she would Kuock him, over, One after another they fell dedd, until they Jatd (n swaths all around her. As fast os posalbio she bucked out from her unpleasant sttuation, but not until the lust snake of the qua wan killcd was she safo. She counted the deud, und they numbered 480, ‘That Jady docen’t pick hucklebercies on the mountains avy more. Wheu the snakes are ina half torpid condition ft does not require much courage to cloau out a deo, but an ithmense amount of nerve Is neces sary to beard real Hye, buugry rattlesuakes in thelr deus,