Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1880, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, LEADVILLE. Robert E. Leo, the Richest Silver ms Mine in tho World, ’ An Outpal of $190,000 in Seventeen Hours wilh a Force of Forly Men. ————— fiistory of the Mino—Its Locallon Only a Year and a Half Ago, Three Million Dollars’ Worth of Ore Now in Sight. ‘ Speetal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. LEADVILLE, Colo., Jan, 22.—The remarka- ple output of the Robert FE. Lee Mine, on Fryer Hill,—one day last week amotnting to $118,100 as the result of the Iabor of forty qnen for seventeen hours,—wwas so far beyond the experience of even our grentest nines that It has attracted universal attention, and been telegraphed alt over the land, This ts gald to be the largest amount of silver ever ralsed In one day by any mine in the world, We ave accustomed to hear tn this camp of productions from some of our chief mincs averaging from $10,000 to $15,000 per day; put such a product as this from a comparn- tively new and partlally-developed mine for one day’s work was undrenmed of, and could only be possible with marvelously rich ore. ‘The wonder Is greater when It Is known that {t was all holsted from two shafts, and with facilities, both under and above ground, far {nferlor to those possessed by many of tho tines of this district. 2 THE LER fs one of the youngest of our producing minés; and, ns its history Mustrates the vi- efssitudes and alternations of hope and dis- couragement through which hope climbs to success, and the vexatious legal entangle ments whleh environ so many mining enter prises, 1 think it may be interesting tomany rénders of THe Truuxr. Moreover, as the Lee Is notowned by a stock company, and its property fs not in the market, Lennnot be suspected of any attempt to advertise it In the interest of the owners. Ihave been fa- miliar with it for along time, ‘and relate It sliuply as-n matter of general tnterest, In April, 1878, James M, Sigafus made a contract with George W, Belt, by which ho “ grub-staked ” himas a proprietors that is to say, Belt was to go out Jooking for min- eral claims,—Slgafus supplying foot and the neeessary outiit, and Belt agreeing to divide equally with hha whatever he might fertu- nately discover, A short thie afterwards, Helt took 2 prospecting partyer In the person of William Knight; and they, In searching over the nearer carbonate-felds, found 0 fraction of ground not previously claimed, amounting to a Ittle over five seres, on Fryer JU, and locatetl it In July, 1878, os the Robert E. Lee, and in thelr own names,— leaving ont entirely that of Mr, Sigafus. FRYER HIT— which has sinco become fainous the world over ng containing the wonderful carbonnte- deposits In which the Little Pittsburg, Little Chief, Chrysolite, Afmee, and other grent mines aro located—was then but partially prospected; and {ts marvelous wealth was so He known that an old but not partlewtarly consclentians miner, called cuphoniously “Chicken Bill,” thought it necessary'to selt the now famous Chrysolite Mine, by dump- ing a lond of rich ore to the bottom of Sts shaft, in order to sell It fora few hundred dollars. A short'time nfler tho location of the Lee by Belt and Knight, Mr. Sigafus brought sult against them to recover the half Interest to which he was entitled under thé grub-stake contract, Belt & Knight then deeded one- third of the mine to James V. Dexter,—the consideration belng that he should defend the lawsult of Sigafus, and also pay the ex- penses of procuring x patent of the land from the United States Government, They had by this time struck some low-grade argentif- erous Iron in thelr shaft. dy November, 1878, Messts. Knight, Belt, Pine Hlowert ot Colorado Springs, aid W. LL. Rogers, of Chicago, es For $7,000,— of which $2,000 was paid In ensh, and the Dualnanee to be pald in February, 1870, pro- vided clear, perfect, and unineumbered title was ninde in the property, excepting only that the purchasers wera fo settle the sulé with Signfus. ‘They accomplished this by giving him one-third of the mine, aud took possession of it, ‘This left Messra, Belt & Co, in condition to procure the patent with- out any opposition, At this thue the mine was in the erudest condition. ‘There were two very poorly tlm- beved shafts upon the claim, one of which had been abantoned on account of the water coming dn so fast thatlt could not be con- trolled with thelr simple apparatus of wind- Joss and bucket, | ‘The other, at some distance nay, was about 150 feet devp; the bottom was in tron carrying a few ounces of silver, and the water greatly troubled them, There Was no shaft-house,-no cover for the men; winter was coming on, and the work wis practically abandoned fora tine. The pur- chusors erected a shaft-house, put up i one- e whint for holating: and proceeited to p the miue by both the shaft and drift dust before the tine for the second pay- ment arrived, another cloud arose in the shape of a luwsult against the mine by one Hlinun BF. Lee for ONE-HALF THE MINE,— claiming a contract with Best as .n partner In theoriginal location, and that he, like Sigafus, had been left ont In fling the orlainal loci Uon-certificate, Until, thy new compllention waseleared, Wewbert & Rogers refused to pay the balance, but tendered payment as soon as this new sult was dismlssed, Soon after, Mr. Hewbert sold portions of dls Interest to Mr. J.P, Humphrey and Mr, Deveney Crewell, of Colorado Springs, Mineral of better quatity was discovercd ; and, soon after, cross-sulis wera brouglit,— the one by Bell and his asshens, to recover possession of the ming on account of non payment; and the other by the purchasers, demanding purfect title, and tendering the balance of the'contrnet-price. In the nican- tue, as Belt & Co, had threatened, to take yossession by fores, the purchasers maln- tuned an armed ‘guard of ten men in the shuaft-houso to prevent “ jumping. They pushed tho work energetically, though Under many dlsconragements, and soon after struck nrich body of carbonates, which as- Bayer 1,000 ounces of silver to the lon. n May, 1870, the property was bonded by be pirelmsers to te PB. Hourlelinelt & atiew + aeting for Senators Jones and Chatlee, and other capitalists, . FOR $135,000, of which $10,000 wns paid In eash, and the bilunce was due in sixty days; but, ut the ent of the period, as the reports of the line were not very bright, and thore seemed to be no praspuct. of settling the litigations, the bond was farfelted. i Messrs, Slenfua, Hewbert, & Co, continue . fowork and develop. the: mine, but were en- Jolned by the Court from shipping, any of the ore diving the pendency of the’ sults; and thus matters stood until the latter part of August, when, new drifts having proved the Naluable charneter of the ore and its greut oily, thoy resolved that compromise, even ng asucritice, was preferable to the vexatious lays of an almost interminable lawsuit, {nthe meantine, the Hon, J. ¥.-Marslall of Leadville, had purehased-tho Interest of Rogers for $45,000; and, by his advice, Mr, Rondebush, who was friendly to both pare Hes was cunployed to secure neompromise of he sult, ta effected this by ngreelng t) pay within, thirty days to the ad: Verse claininnta’ the sum of $115,000, of Which $105,000 was to go to the Belt party and $10,000 to II. V, Lee, For this friendly airy ico ho recelved one-fifth of the mine, aud : broved to be a princely fee. ‘The great realty of the mine was not as yet compre- ieudded by the owners, and {t was with many jnisgivings that they consented tu pay so large S yyemnluan for Suva, Ieted Sept? 1 arrangement was completed Sept, 1, And then only twenty- emalned fo! ity payment? frenty- two days remained for $0 MARVELOUS WAS TIE RICHNESS OF THE ORE . that most of the amount was ratsed from prepueds of ore sold fromthe mine; and Within blaty days not only was this amount bald from the ore-produc gral. anda dividend made of nearly About the middle of September, a veln of but other debts. D ord was struck at nw depth of wbont 170 feet, of whirl a ton returned 105108 omnes oF silver, worth $1.12 per ounce, oF a fotnl of $11,532.73 per ton of 2,000 pounds, A half-ton produced 6,55 ounces of silvers and there were frequent inill-runs of 600 ta 9,000 ounces per ton, Mr. Hewbert stated ta, ine that, in three months,—from At 1 to Nov, 1,—about $200,000 was taken from the mine, rund this with a single poorly-timbered stunft, none-horse whim, and t bucket for hoisting the rock and water. which ‘flowed fi eon {inous stream Into the shaft and along the drifts, Ike men who have been And now, at Inst ellinbing wit ing breath and weary feet with clouds ull Ty pant upa steep monntiin-side, about them, they have REACHED THE SUMMIT, with an unbroken horizon before them, and rest. ‘The clonds are all lifted, ‘There Is ho more necd of armed men to guardthelr precious property; no more hn tuietions, ke strong men, to feller thelr freedom. ‘The tofls ail discauragements are forgotte: he, debts are palds and beneath thelr feet Hes boundless wealth, walthiyg only to be lifted autand coined into the shining medium of commerce, : For two months longer the mine was closed to the outside world, and no shipments we mades but the thie was hmproved in stiking another shaft sixty fect from the first. one, in cleaning up, and Futliuberng, the okt shaft the fends nnd drifts, In putting up new and first-class holsting engines, setting steam ore dryers, erecting “new bulldings, @ fre offlee and barn, and the various ontfittings of a first+ elass property. ‘About Jan, 1, 1880, they commenced to ship ore nyraln, taking only that which was opened in cleantng up, drifitng, and proper devel ment works and the averageoutput has about ‘$12,000 per day. ‘The ore fs very Jenn In gatena, but rich fh chlorides with a kind of clay or fron base, Durtiig all this perlod, from the time the present owners took pos- session, entrance to the mine hns been righd- ly denied to every outside party; but, on the 10th Inst., Iwas’ fortunate enough to secure perint sion from the owners, most of whom waive long been personal friends, to VISIT THT WORKINGS, Incompany with Prof, 13, C. Wheeler, the welbknown minerdogist and metulurgist, of this Stnte, At the sume time they re- marked that Twas the first newspaper-man who had ever stepped 2 foot down the shaft, L have ulwnvs een freely admitted to al other mines Inthe ennp te which I had ap- piled, and T could not understand why a Cordes should hold his ceaseless guard over the entrance to these silver Hades, after all Utigation had ceased, unless there wns. covered wenkuess,—some lightness of baly fo the ores or, possibly, some predatary wWi- derground work upon fertitory of neighbors toconceal, So we gladly ayalled ourselves ofthe permission, and, with our heaviest ininers’ boots, and borrowing sults of ofl- eloth from the oftice, with Messrs. Sigafus and Hewbert for aur guides, we prepared to descent into the shade: Before starting, they showed us a large box of solid chloride and horn silver ores, taken. from a lower level, and of AnovT $30,000 IN VALUE. “Jlow much do-you think thts welghs 2” suid Mr, Sleatus, Manating ate n dull. lead- colored, Erregalar ehnuik. After lifting, I estimated Hts” weight at over 100 pounils, Well, we cathnate Its 1,200 ta $1,500." Cutting tt with my knife, It showed. the well-known, polished” surface of horn silver. we Us cach @ speelinen, telling us that we could readily draw it-out Into silver bar with a comuon blacksiniti’s forge, wining these rieh. samples, and en- deavoring,. though vainly, to keep our hen from breaklngethe tenth commandment, wo left the HehbOf day behind us.- In visiting. mines with deep shafts, I usually go town by the ladder-way, prefer- ving this bor to. the hazards of wrope and buckets but, by the thae L get through the mine, 1 Benerdlly risk the cable for the re- turn. In these elevated regions I find with Virgil that “Facilis deseensus Avernt,” Init the * revoense gradum” takes all my breath: away. ‘This tine, as 1 wanted to he fresh for the mine, and the machinery was_ all so. new and strong, Mr, Sleafus and I went down with the buckets, but Mr, Hewbert and the Professor preferred the ladders. A few turns of the engine, and we reached the platform, about 10 FRET FNOM THE SURFACE, and the glare of sunlieht was exchanged for Fup, y the dim, ticker of (he candles, while the dripping water on-every. side gathered In lit tle streuins and flowed to the sin “Correspondents, tn deseribing these mines, often plettre dazzling walls of gilttering sil- ver,—enves of Aladdin where countless erys- tals flash back the rays of ‘Heht, ete. These are pure fictions. Nitlve silver ts oxttamels: rare Jn this district, aud the ehemleal combi- nations in which ft ts found are anything but piistening, ZT yenture to say that, it 0 hundred “tons of the richest ore eve produced fram this ¢arbonate-camp were dumped fn an open lot, in Chiengo, not one min ina thousand would stop to luok at It, or carry awayn pound ef It, Around us are, Indeed, walls which would rival he richness and wenlth the magic chves of Oriental ro- mince, Above us, beneath, and at either side, are thousands of tons of the dull red or A, sand-enrbonntes, which need only to be Mfted, tluxed, melted, and separated by the alchemy of fire from its gross alliances, and the bank-account of Its owners: Is Increased bya thousand dollars for every ton; yet here it looks brown, dirty, MITT NETTER THAN MUD, and disagre le in its contact, except for the conselonsness of the value hidden thore, While we tre fairly in the mine, we ean perhaps guess at the reason why this rich- ness was kept from the public. ue 80 long. ‘There was ito weakness to coneen),—no dep- rudations on neighbors? rights to caver,—but only that, in their haste to ralse a_certulia amount of value ye given tine, they had eut and gonged thefienrer workings.Jin every: unseemly shape, with holes a auverng, and uncouth drifts hastlly thadered, and nok ae- cording to the routes of selentifie minin a which require the fevels to be so run as to,| Jeave blocks of mineral to be removed tn reg ular progr Alt this Is now being correct- ed Good work is now done, and thy timber- ing and logging carefully and strongly ad- justed, In traversing the mine, we go upand down, following the dip of the ore,—sometines alinost ona tevel, sometime: Plpping sharply downward or upward, We nb down short. Tadders, or over thubers coverlag deep pits, and to the end of drifts, where the dim lights reveal! the brawny miners picking away at the breast, or drifling for a shot in the hatder round, Vecasionn ly we cone ton droop ng wall of quartzite or porphyry, or to what istechnleatly called a “horse,” and probably buried in the bed of carbonates In those elder duys when the Silveriin seas covered these regions, and the precious minerals were delng deposited. ‘The earbonate-beds in the Leo are of VAUYING THICKNT’S, In some places I think 1 saw from thirty to forty feet, with the foot-wallnat yet exposed, Thoy vary also in argentiferous quality, from fifty to several thousand per ton, Jn the lower drifts 1 was shown 2 seam of extreme- rich chlorides and horn silver, varying mn thickness from a few Snehea to about two fevt, and which assays from $0,000 to $25,000 perton, ‘This bed of chlorides hay been uncavered at various points for a distances of 160 feet, without finding {ts Hint, and {ts marvelous yalue cannat. be ertinated, When it fy stated that about ning cuble feet of this ore make a ton, some ides of its yalno may be formed, In the farther workings, and near this rich bed, Immense badies of hard carbonates, rich In chlorides, aud assaying from 500 to 1,800 ounees per ton, have been uncovered, "The workings of the Robert B, Lee have as yet prospected only about a quarter of an fere. ‘The amount of ore now in sight in these workings fs ROUGHLY ESTIMATED AT $3,000,000, without Inchuding tho breasts, which show continuous quantity and quality of ore. As we returned to the upper.alr with volees dinnb from, the wonders wo had seen, Mr, HMowhert sald tome, “We intend one day next week to show the eamp what we can da in Beenty four. hours.” Ils promise was randy fulfilled. On ‘Tuesday, the 1! fist, at noon, with the orebing all cleared and everything in readiness, with: forty men the work of taking down and Ifting ores was commenced, and continued until Wednesday noon without Interruption, except that, by an accident from the over-zeal of some of the workmen, seven hours was lost. In the sev- enteen hours reninining, niuety-five tons of rich carbonates and chlorides were mined, ralsed, and shipped, producing s net return Of $118,500; ond, besides, & quantity af ore. was mined, but not ralsed, the catimated valuo of whieh was $12,500,—maklng A TOTAL PRODUCT OF $130,000 for tho seventeen liours’ work, | When great- er developments have bgen made In this mine, the drifts extended, whizes cut, more shufts sunk, and tnonways lald throughout the mine, go that a larger nuuber of men can be employed to advantage, I see no reason phy thts {iapvelous record may not be Jarge- multiplied, i * ye owners of the Lee are all plain, quiet, on {he strect woulL ni angie Boe wana) Ha Prosperity has not partied then: ty, nnd all who know them are well plensed that the mantle of so great. gead-fortune has fallen upon sucks worthy shoule Covenr, SHERMAN AGAINST GRANT. Presidency—How Bt the Seeretary Tho Wight for tt En Bolg Comdtuete of the ‘Trensury= nt President Mayes Is Dotng—-Efforte to Secure Pledged Delegutions from the South Offices Promised and Given for Pare tiaan Service. New Vork Tinea (Third-Term Orgin), Wastusatos, Jian 2h—Those persons who Assume that Us 8. Grant will without opposi- tion receive the nomination for the Preside ey at the Chicage Couvention—as the shrewd- est politiclins belleve—will, when the {ine comes, find themselves very much mistaken, It fs generally known—tn faet, it has been for some months past an open seeret—that Sceretary Sherman was using all the power of his high position to secure for hhnself ilelegntes to that Convention. The extent of his operations In this dlrection, however, has never been fully revealul. It is now stuted here, upon whit seems to be trust- worthy authority, that Seeretary Sher- man commenced his eunpaign for the Presideney fninediately after the tnaugura- tion of President Hayes,—in fact, that he had adisfinct understanding with the Presitent that, In return for his aid In the memorable conlest of four yenrs ago, he (Mr. Hayes) alould glya to htin (Sherman) in the present, canvass every pusslbte assistance and oppor- tunity to become his suceessor. Whether or not President Unyes Is carrying out his part of this bargain, assuming that sucha bargaln was ever nade, Is questioned by those Ina posltion to be best Informed. In favor of the theory that the President Js indeed giving Mr. Sherman the support indicated, It is shown that within. the past two or three months no Federal oflice in New York, or any other Important State, tits been given to any nian who was not known to be an out- spoken advovite of the Seeretary’s candida, ture, In opposition w the theory, iCls shown that throtel President Mayes there have been appointed In the South numerous Democrats | tu the position of Supervisors of the Census, In North Carolina, for instanes, where there are four such oftices, three of the gentlemen Appointed are known to be Deimoerat: not friendly to Seeretary Sherman, appointments, howe and oth sittne character fn thi attributed as much to the v trleity of the Chief Magistrate as to Ineliiation on his partste ald th canvass, But no iatter whit mi be the feeling of Mr. Hayes on the subject, and without any reference to his position, It Is an retary Sherman, oi hy the most bare ry power of his De himself undoubted faet that his own responstbility, freed fashion used, ev partment to secure for delegates to the Chicage meeting, his statement can- not be denied. In all the Southern Sintes there ure traveling to-day se-niled Speelal Agents of the ‘Treasury Department,—inen who receive $6 a day ond their trny- eling expenses.—whose "sole tity seems: to be to drum up reerults for the: Sherman army, and secure for Mr. Sherman votes Jn the National Convention, Onv of these Spe- elal Agents tins gone so faras to have printed aletter-head, upon whieh he and tits frends: have written nun 8 commuunlentions nds voeating what are led “the elahins "of the Secrotary to the nomination, This letter- head, one of which ling fallen into my 1 session, bears a pleture of the Seeretary, with his autograph underneath, Aboye the portrait are the words, Our text President, John Sherman,” and on elther “Grand Army of Republierns—Clud o} After this follow blank spaces, in ward, township, and county da whiek the elubs are formed are to be filled in. To enteh the well-known military instinets of the eolored people, ainong whom these docu: ments ave to be principally elrenutated, the “Hst of naunes belonging to the club are tobe certified to by a so-called“ Captain? who Is. expected to sign his name to every Vist made Upon Virgin, North Carolina, and Louist- ana Seeretary Sherman seems te lcleve that he has_ speefal claims, and, making lend. quarters jn those States, he Hopes to extend his operntions throne all the South. tn Virginia his canvass ig belng pressed with pectin: vigor, and within a recent pertod he has appointed to offices at Jeast two gentle. men with the express understanding that they were In return to support the nlovenent in his favor. Vor Instunce, some time ago Sampson KE, Balley, veltizen of the Elghth Distriet of Virgivia, which Is now represent- ed by Gen, Eppa Tlinton, came to the Secre- tary‘and assnred hin that by a unton of the Rendfusters and Repudlleans he could seeure the nomination mul be elee the sume time elving the Vir or at least a partot it, ta Sherman. retary, nfte ald of Mr, Bailey, nnd to [igedualty: for coneluetinis q jin and) oa colored oman whom recommended to positions In the Dep; ment, at_a salary of St a day. and penses pal. ‘These men are now travelli through Virginia, and working [nthe Int of the Secretary, tut a cost to the taxpaye not less than $i6 each day, Mr, Bailey, who, ns Spectil Agent, hins fallen into this: agree able little position, was the right-hand mat of Ce by in his recent pall deal career, and hays three sons in the Civil Service, ‘They are PB, Bulley, Internal: Reveune and To- bacco Inspector nt Petersburg, Vas: If. C, Bailey, Deputy Collector of Internal Reve- nue for the Sixth District of Virginia; and S.', Bailey, who is In the Consular service, ie New Orleans Custom-Ilouse Is ex yecled to secure for Sherman the delega- Jons, or at Jenst a gurt of them, from Loutsiana, Alabauin, M Hsaisslpply and Arkan- sas, ‘The widely-known P. B.S, Pinehback, who 3 now Jn Washington In consulta- tion with the Seeretary, $3, unless all signs fall, to reeeive an xppolntment In his Interest. "Cho Commissioner of the Land Ofice at Florida, Mr, Richardson, who has just been appointed, is also dlreetly anagent of fr, Shermans and Jt is an une disputed fact that to prominent Republicans fn both the Carolinas and Georgia tho Secres tury has made direct offers of poaltions if they would pledge themselves to bring thelr delegntions to Chicago for him, While en- gaged in this effort to folst himself upon the party, the Secretary is exceedingly careful not to engage dircetly fu a warkire pon Gen, Grant. He knows that such taetles, at least In tho Southern States, could only re- sult disastrously to hin. In the North, low- aver, hoand his friends wre not so. serupu- Tong, Jt ts known that during hls regent yisit to New York he had a long cons@ta- tion in the Custom-louse: with Collector Merritt. and other of the promijent officers there as to the possibility of hls nontnation, and itis believed that the direet resnit of that consultation was the establishment of the Ka- enlled anthCrant Club in Albany, and the proposed establishment of stalin elubs in New York Clty. Ex-Stato ‘Senator Mitchell, of IUinols, who ts to be Collector of Tnternad Reventio for the Springtield Distriet, in that State, 13 understood: to be quite ag anuell opposed to Grant's nomMnation as he fs Jn favor of his oficial head. In facet, while the Seerelary professes to be in nowlss hostile to Gen, Grant, It fs an undoubted fact that he fy In every way possible trying to undermine the ex-Presklent with his huurty. In this connection ft will not be anilss lo | statu that there 13 but [little love lost between the two distinguished genthanen, While tn tho Capital, Gen. Grant, with bis {Intimate friends, conversed guite freely upon pollth and In regard to Presidential candidate invariably fgnored hhuself iu this connection, and continually refused to regard hhinself as aeandidate, or to discuss the probability of his nomfnation, Ile made no secret; hows ever, of his opposition to the Shernma nave. ment, and seems to have frequently expressed the orlnton thit, Shermun was the weakest candidate whom the Republicans could put In nomination. -In addition to the efforts to defeat the Grant movement, which are being made by agents of the ‘Treasury Department In the way of Secretary Sherman, and to a less exe ent by the supporters of Mr. Bhiine, thers fs avery determined effort ou tho partof a large numiber of respectable though Inde pendent Republicans to provent the ex-Presl- dent from securing a third term, ‘These gene tlemen argue that his re@lection at this this would be 4 blow to the most cherished Instl- futons of tho country aud niisgrace to the Repudilean party. Vrouinent Germans like r. Hassaurek, of Ciichinatl, who for some days past has been in Washington, joln In” expressing these ophilons, and state Inquiry, neeepted the protfered ve hint better ap is work, DOG ne further, that with Grant as the nom: Inee of e@ party the German yote In Ohio will certalnly bo thrown against him so effectually that he will lose the State, Despite all this opposition, how- ever, itis very apparent, from conversation vith representative mien in Washington, that (en, Grant fs still, and Ig likely to continue, alt South y lin a portion of the sl —that Is to any, [te asi jediced: fron them—Dut there Is a ve hrewel sisplelon that when the tine comes they will tH ery bay to Gi ndoubtedly the reat cholee of rest Repabltean ti the Cotton Inore enthatstn: friends of the General celal that be will talnly he nominate on the first ballot, Those of his supporters whe are inore eats Hous sry that ie he is not nominated on the first hatfot he will not be ueminated at all The latter view of the ease fs probably worthy of most eredit, On a ORTON, THE CLAIMANT. Tho Wapping Butcher Impostor Before Jourta Swulite London Times, dan, a TLappears to be the unhappy domn of the country to hear onee more about Arthur Orton, ‘Tho Attorney-Genernt’s tint for a writof error has been granted, and the pro- pricty of the sentence of t! ‘ourloft Queen's Bench must be discussed sooner or later, Most of us will endure with complete com- posure any delay In diseussing the validity of the sentence pronounced on Orton, No niatlgn goblin was ever jnore odlous than isthe clatin of this unabashed personage. Iteasts 2 shadew over the opentng year to know that this huge, swollen Imposture by to step Into the world agaln, to fostte interests inore finportant out of the way, and, 80 to gpenk, to come’ between men md the sun Vis jong series of falsehoods, enti: nating In tho attempt to blast the good name of Lady Radellife, constituted “erimes as blnck and foul as justlee ever talsed her sword to. btrike,’” Tn the opinion of all persons except a colerte of enthuslasts, dupes, and their decelvers, the punishment of fourteen years’ penal servitude was, 0s Mr, Justice Mellor, who pronounced the sentence, sald, wholly adequate ta the of Tense, rould ft be declared that the Court of Queen's Beneh had no jurisdiction to tne pose a cumulative sentence for varions nets of ry eomanitted with all possible wy erayating elrewustances, It would be elear that the Legislature had underestimated the possible misehievonsness of the erline. ‘fo some intnds, unfortunately, the eluhmant’s career ts attructlye. He has been the discov. vrer of whole unsuspected world of vulgar folly and dznorance which an industrious Impostor my work for his own ends. The shigwlar. success of the butcher's son dn deluding people hitherto sup- to be sensible, the munber and ene mh mof his adherents, the durabtlity of the low-typed.enltof whieh he was the ob- fect, and Tils startling demonstration of new possibilities Inhuman folly and credulity, inleht hereafter tewpt hinitators If the pune ishinent meted out to dh had been sinnll, Many persons 6 Wapping and elsewhere would not object to belng Baronets, and tl onelt to be no doubt in the mniils of any one disposed to play over again the florins era q in which he failed that the stakes are heay ‘The verdict of the jury in the ease of the “Queen vs. Castro?” cannot be dis- turbed or questioned. It was found: that the Cluinant was, not Roger Telborne; that he was, in fact, “Arthur Orton, the son of a butcher nt Wapping, "There are no inenns of questioning the fudings of a Jury Sn nerininal trindy and assurediy this would not ense for inking any exception to there, Atthe trlalin the Queen's Bench no polnt of lew was reserved for considern- tion, and the ouly course now open to the rlends of Orton was to apply fora writ of This remedy ‘Is granted when some antial defect, Is npparent In ‘the pro- lings. Lhe valldity of the sentence wis questioned atinost as soon as it wos pros nouneed, anda host of techitenl objecttons: tolt were brought to the notive of the full Court, aud were one and wl declared to be baseless. Legal decisions seem alinost to re- auive as large drafts upon time as do geo- Jogieal formations. ‘It is a striking testi- mony to the Fabien polley of our law that nearly six years have eh before the duty in dispute has approached a final SIUC, . Arthur Orton was found eullty on twa counts, fu one of whieh it was alleged that he had committed perjury inthe netion of vfectnent in tho Conimoun Pleas, while in the other he wang charged with having per- jured himself in anatiidavtt, made in eollat- minissioner hy years? pn Lyforg nt Chancery. 1 sentenced to seven penal servitude on cach of the counts, te argument whieh fs now urged fs that there was no power to fipose more thin sever years’ penal servitude for whatwas, in truth, one-amt the same perjury, “Che question Inust turn partly on a statute which says that “besides the punishment already to be inflicted? for perjury, it shall be lawfal to imprison nny one found guilty of It for “a time not exceediug seven. years.” The statute proceeds to state that “judgment still be given that the person convicted shall he committed accordligly, over and besides stich punishment ag shall be adjudged to be inflicted on stich person greene to tho laws now In being.” Asubsequentstatute, passed for no very clear reason, stutes that perjury may ba punished with tmprisonment and hard labor “ efther in addition to orn Hew of any other punishment ? slowed forsuch an offense. At common law a perjurer cauld be fued and lmprisoned at the diseretion of the court, and It wil be contended that the stata- tery words are not sutisiied unless a term of penal servitude is— tacked to a sen tence of hinprisomment. We ‘need not speculate as to the fate of the. new proreed- Ings. .1f they fall again, thers bo no Brent regret, Anottier term of seven year’ confinement will not be too long for contri tion. It is probable that when Orton Is. re- Jensed his engagements asa Parlinuentary enndlitat v tavern-keeper, or ag an itlner ant grievanee-monger, will Tim little thne for retlection on his misteeds, tells us that he found ine street of Ve n Chevalier of St. Laude selling ples, Si plea was, in his reduced elrenmatane inndel of modesty and good sense, He pes- tered no one; he never sollelted any one to heed his story; antl most of us would be glad to find that Orton had: learned tho same vir- pus. even at the expense of n prolonged pro- nition. Phillips and‘ts > ImWhat Col. Bob Nnid to a Young 3 of Boktou, Interview with Jame Hedpath in San Francisco Chron- clr Rep.—Now, then, what have you to say about Phillips as an orntor? How does he compare with Tngersoll? J. 1Q— They don't compare, thoy contrast. When L owas In divston lust year with Col. Tngersoll we took a walk da the Common, A young: hiwyer, a friend of mlue, cane np, ad Introduced hin to the Colonel, He was quite onthusinstle over Ingersotl's lecture, dellyered the night before, and he salds “Col Ingersoll, Linust say TD never heard an orator equal to yon, except Wendell Phit- DS. . “That was considered, of course, the very highest enlogy thut a Boston mancould make on in orator, “Well,” sald Ingersoit taking the cigar ont of his mouth, ‘1 dob consider that any: compliment at all Wendell: Phillips Is no more an orntor than amathematiclin Is a poet? ‘Nhat young man was like the rieh man in the parable In one respeet—ho went nity sorrowing. L would not mention this inel- dent, but it was too good to-keep, and: it spread over Buston, although It never got Into tha papers for afterwards, when Inger: soll, I Boston, ridiculed: the belief that MIL ton and Dante were poets, nothing seemed to tho “ternary fellows ” too absurd for ihn to any, Ingersoll, as C understand him, regurds all true oratory and trie poetry ag an exalted expression of the passions and emotions of Lunan nature; outside of that range you nay have able arguers, or ably narratars dn speech, or able historliax, and ablo painters {a verse, but, because they are outside of that sacred ¢! any true sense of the word, Ilo spoke cou- temptuonsly of Alton as 0 word-carpenter, After all, sou see, Ingersoll’s npparent. abe surdity issfinply a questionofdediniion, Now, Mr, PAM ips neverappeats to thoemotions, ‘To hihn the pubtic ina democracy fs the supreme court of opinion, aud he addresses: Tt dntels lect only, He is never moved, and ho never moves, but he Js canvineed and he converts, He tatks as quietly on, the platform agit he were Speakln etna parlor, He rarely moves, mmore than a foot from the spot where he first stood, and hls gestures are as quiet as lils elo- ran his yolee loudly, Uy heard in the largest hail. Horace Grecley once sald that he suppose young man ever heard Phillips speak wit Hinking that he could tuk Just aa well with- outany trouble, Other young eritles, who have not yet foul out that itis Hglituing and not the thunder (hat kills, somethnes haye expressed the wish That Puillips would “just let hhoself out ance”? and show whut ho coultdo, [have even heard intelligent, grower, men, chiefly Abulitiontsts, compare. aa with Garrison aid Parker Pillsbury’ as onutors, Ji—What was the difference between Gare tison and Phillips as orntons ? > Ea ‘unassuming men, whom a stranger meeting : the foremost candidate of the Repuplican! J, it—The difference between a strong;- they wre not oratars er poets it | fo; —and oratory fe the hy ipeaker—tint Garrison aneloquent, and masterty, and gif! the difference between a stout cndzel andsof an honest eltizen and ada. and carne: ‘| aseos-blade In tha hands of a master of fenee, ein CANADIAN FEUDALISM. The Ancient Customna, Abolished Twene tyeilve Wears Ago, Made the Peasunt's Lot rn Mard Correaputence nf Nei Quenrc, Jit. 8L—The agitation for reform. In the Land laws now fn progress in Britain reentls the long struggle for the abolition of the feudal tenure whileh this proyinee waxed for over fifty years, and whieh was finally brought to a sttecessful Issue tn 184, It 1s not generally known tothe outside world, but It Is none the less trie, tat ‘up to five- and-twenty yenrs ago the: feudal custom whieh prevailed In France prior to the Revo- Jutton existed, and was in full force, in Lower Canada, In 108 the King of Franco wave letters patent to Paroche, the Governor of New France, as Canada was then called, conferring upon him the sight to ocenpy and enjoy the lands of the colony, and to estub- Ish flefs, seigneurtes, and baronies, after the anclent custom In 16% these concessions were confirmed, but the .year following they were — trans- ferred from the Viceroys to the Company of the Hundred Associates, merehants, many of them Huguenots, who were Intristed with the task of colonizing the country, and fn whom the sole right of forelgu trade aud of tramie with the savages tn the interior was vested, ‘The King, of course, maintained his soverelgnty Intaet, and the charter ordained that In token of thelr fealty to tim, the mer- chants should send to Pacts on the coronation of ene new monurel ag crown of gold claht twarks or four pounds in weictt. The Asso- hates ¥ mnpowered to divide np the hinds fis they sw fit and to create titles, honors, and prerogatives as seemed te thent good, stthject throughout to the King's saverelanty: oul they bounl themselves to transport en- xrants from the motherland to the colony, to provide clergy, nud. fo establish. and maintaln courts of Justlee. This contract. Introduced the selgnenrial ire Inte dower Canada. In 1063, Wh the Associates, ont his | Majesty request, surrendered th overel a Couffell of wnposed of Hi appolnted by Mlig aid in was unde overte the West Which thas beeame pose ¢ French eolontes in the two pheres, ‘The new Company's tenure ry sitnilar to that enjoyed be the Com- the Associates, belug feudal in ehar- throughout, In 1674 the West Inthe Company was abolished, and New France once more passed under the direct: sway of the Crown, nul there It remuined wnt! the cession of the country to England In 1763, "Through all this period of 149 years the selg- neurs held thelr estates subject to the cus: tom or code of Baris, and, with some mordif- cations, enjoyed all the privileges nnd rights that custom conferred upon the seigneur of the mother-country, and by the articles of the gaueilatian of Montreal they were ‘con- served [entire and peaceable passesston of thelr estates and enjoyments.? In 1854 their tennre was abolished, the Parliament of the Vntted Provinees of Upper and Lower Cann the appointing 1 eomn mn to apprise the: Tosses entailed by the aet of abolition, and abut $10,000,000 was applicd In recouping them, . ‘The burdens which the Freneh Canadian settler thus bore for over 200 years were wany and grievous, Compared with then the yoke of the Irish. tenant isan easy one, ‘The selgneur was absolute lord and inaster over his estate, He administered: Justiee In three forms, hatte, mayenne, ct bese, and there was virtially no tuppeal husuinst his de cisions. He atone could build snd work gristinills, and his tenantry, the censitaires, as they were called, hind to bring their grist. to his inllt and pay him toll, for tho grinding, Under the English feudal tenure this was known as “doing sult to the mill,” and the tall was known as ¢ molumenty, the ineome from the mill, whence the word “emolu- ment.” ‘The seignenr bad pawwer to punish thecensitaire by inprisomment fur aimost any length of time, but as settlers were seurce i those days the sentenees were short. The standard) punishment was the applic te cheval. ‘The cheval was a luge wooden affair like a clothes-horses the refrac ory peasant was stripped and. placet asirite of It; welghts were attached fo his feet, and he was left In this agony until itpleaged his master to order bine down, Many ded amder this punishment and more were mahned for life, Besides paying, rent the tenant had to pay lode ct rentes, or tithes, ot the sale of his crops, on the string of fish he esught iu the ereek running thraigh the estufe, and on the proceeds of is hunting expeditions. It is easy to understand that, after appeasing the seigneur and satisfying the Church, whieh also exacted tithes, he had not a Brant deal left, ‘The censitaire was also subfect to military duty, for whieh he got. nothing bat his vietuals, and he had to work. certain number of days in the yerron the highway; this was known as the droit des Journees decorvee, In case of Invasion the seleneur could ship him aff to any of the qilitary posts from Niagara to Beauséjour, and he tind no chilm for his serviees.’ There was another right which the aeigneur might have exercised, but although it was Ins in some of the Canadian patents, the evidence to show that It was ¢ enforeed,— viz: le droit de Jambaye, which conferred on ® -the lord of the manor the privilege certain Kings of France used to elalm da their mare rhage coutracts,—ou le Rol a algne. It is neither necessary nor prudent to be more ex- plicit here. MM. Guyot and Despelsses both say that the elergy in France cliimed Indem- nity in the shape of two fat capons for vom- mintlng this eastom, whieh still Nngers, hap. pily Livan very mild form, in the custom tint furbearers the best man at the come to ss the bride before the bridegroom enjoys his right ta do so. The deeds of those days vontalned mais singular provisions, partict« Inrly the dundtlons entre vlfe or deeds of ane nulty between the selgnenr and the censl- tures. In conskteration of heing allowed to cultivate sn arpent or two of land in addition to the famlly holding, the censitaire would agreato pay his anaster annual toll of so many minots of “royal and merchantable wheat; so many ponds of herbs; wn coche ralxonnable, a iulddle-sized ple, whielr the English-speaking. notaries used to term on “reasonable” pla; and fish and mame in stated qantities. He also hound hiaself to walt upon the selgneur in the latter's illness; to ge ant feteh the priest and the doctor when the master was Ge ertromls, lo pray for him when he was fe artent, and to pray after his death: his soul's eternal Jn certain selgneduries thy selgnenr ene epuonal rights. ‘The Freneh tenure eluded le cdroit. de grenoutllage wider whieh the villains (the meaning attached to vord has elunged for the worse) or yas- ‘¢ compelled to turn out on the nlght of the selenenr’s weddhiyg atid beat the frou 3 50 that he and his bride ndght sleepin ‘This right was entoreed by at least one Canndlan selgneur, the Lordof Beatport. At sundown the censitulres: mustered at the muanor-house armed with thelr muskets, ‘The umster ordered a Hbutton of raty: to bo set up in honor of the ocension, and, finve Ing toasted his health, tho vassals sallled forth to the frog-ponds tirlng thelr gre, Arrived at the poud they fred several volleys futo it by way af inthuidating the tennuts. Sileneo having been proclaimed, the patriarch of the parish, who always neted as. erler on public aceustons, prochilmed: the name and rink of the selaneur, and then the com. miny. Bhouted in chorus, “Be quiet, O regs! O frogs, keep tho pence! Volel Mou- sleur le Sefgneur que Dien guy, for near by Is ourtord and mister whom God [ianel Accuston: prevails in, England: to Wis day of hunting the wren)? the children earrylig sits w sticks in their hands and repeating 1 dogeere! about the wren, or ran, from one end of tho parish to the athpr, and this may. possibly bo conneeted with the silenced of the nunca or frogs, In Franes the vassals were expeoted notonty to beat the ponds but to let the rier know they were attend ling to busi- ness hy crouklng like frogs. ‘Tht, however, remained In, abe eat Beanport. In tha curly days of Now France, the Seigneur often tedawife for tho habltant. ‘Phe care rom France always included an aassort- tof Breton and Norman girls, carefully health, soundness, and morals, these on thelr arrival were paired alt ththe bachelura of the litle colony, thu ignenr picking out the maidena whom le wusht would suit the taste of his young censilaires, and taking them home to the munor, A premdunt was paid by the Vlcerays to the prrents of large fumilies, and PAbbd Fertund, the Quebeo histarlan, hi hls “Notes on the Hegisters of Notre Dame de Quebec,” quotes Instances of bubltants having ites MUL as twentyssix children by one wife, ‘Tho combined ages of the bride and bridegroom often fell short of thirty years. If tho vitallty of thé frish raca under re- pressive laws fas been wonderful, not less xo ds the vitality of the French Canadians, ‘The ewigrés from the mother country nun- f can rs of tavo wars with Kugland, and of two centurtes of feudalism, they hum bered at tho enpltulation in 1763 over 40,000 tt ple. Jn ikst the population of Lower Gana was 511,000; 110 1861, 1,111,000; In 1871, 1,191,000; and fo-tay it Is catimated ‘at 1,800,- in nt 000 souls, Add the French Canadians and fhelr descendants in tho other provinces of the Dominion and the United States, and It will be found that the orlginal band ts now represerited by 2,000,000 prnnte who fu the teeth of the dominant Anglo-Saxon retain their anelent Innguage ond their ancient faith, ‘There has been hatliing in the world's history to compare with {tis since Israel multiplied before the Lord in Egyptinn bond: age. F —————__- DIRECT IMPORTATION. What Customa-Rroker Baler Sayr— Detroit Merchants Should Lake an Interest In Ite Detrott Post, San, 26. Representative Aldrich, of Chicago, Il, has recently, as renders of the Post and Tritune know, introduced 9 bill into the House of Roprésentatives of the United States for the direct shipment of all Linported goods from the seaboard to the port of desti- nation without unpacking and examining at New York or seme other polnt distant from the interior, Under the present law tobacco and many other artleles can be shipped thus direct lo the futeriar, and the duties paid at Detroit, Chicago, St. Louls, or the nearest interfor polut where customs collcetions are made, But “wine, distilled spirits, and prrlsiahl or explosive articles, or articles in bulk,” are excluded from the Isat and detaived nt the first port of entry, the iinporter has to rive bonds there, fs subjected to expense for loading and antoading, and wnoyed In many ways, Mr. F.G. Baker, customs broker at this port. dias 6 en the matter a good deal of attention, and Saturday a representative of The Poxt and Tribune hat an extended cone eisntion with hin in recard toit, Mr. Baker heartily advocates the bill and hopes it well piss, He mentioned as among the firms who would be benefited by It, the names of Fare wee CoD. M. Ferry & Co. Me tuhl, Newland & Co. Parke, WIftG Dorlds, Theadore I, ons, Gc. MeMillian, aud All the importers of this city, and of Chicago, St. Louls, Pittshnurg, uifafo, Clachinath, and all the ot Hn cite Jatut would he saved the tr alex} of intrusting ythelr busines Eastern cites, getting ott bor of the absurd workin; anny oth ¥ finn here which hnports large quant. ties of Maquors by way of the Grand Trunk from Montreal,” Listead of the Jiquors being shipped dire trolt, belng put in the bonded ware! gauged bere, ant the duty paled In this city, they are “stopped at DPort Huron,. unpacked, “ganged, and marked, bonds being given there, and a large minountof trouble ensuing, Mr. Baker salt that his views on the subject were expresse esactly by a letter from 1. 2%. Lelter, of the firm of Field, Lelter & Co., of Chicago, to the Hon, Willan 1. Morrison, of the House of Representatives of the United States, from vhlet th y extracts are taken. ins alrendy printed Mr, 's letter, . Baker his addressed n letter to Con- wnan Newberry on the subject, urging the bli on his favorable attention, - ‘The reporter also conversed with a of wholesale merehants as ta the merits the Hit, and all xgreed that it was greatly needed. One.gentleman sald: We should be saved at least $100 a month If that bill could pass.” The leading merchants of Chicago have taken a great Interest In the matter, and those of Detroit could well afford fo do the same, MAINE'S SERIO-COMEDY. Scone in the Dintngeltoom of the Aus gusta House—Paker-Playing and Sly Sipping of Nervines in the Side Slips. Auguata Special ta Noston Herald (Dem), The playrights wre missing an opportunity, There is the material for a popular comedy in this City of Augusth, Act one, scene sce- ond, should open in the dining-room of the Augusta House, at the supper hour, when hungry Republicans and Fusionists sit down for their ten, tonst, and gossip. A traveler from New Zealand would never Imagine that the Capital of Mualne was the scene of 2 Mexican muss, The tables are filled with Fustonist officials and legislators, who elbow their Repnditean antagor and get them to “pass the sum.’ ‘The much-arrested Maj. Folsom ents his steak with the appetite of a man‘ who never heard of drumhead courts-nartial and the ringing volley of adenth fustinde. Fusionist Gov. Sinith sits at the head of one of tho tables, with his cheerful spouse and daughter, two persons who fully reeognize his title to the Gove ship. Near at hand Gov. Davis sips and chats with Fustonlst friends, who call im “ Frank,” but refuge to call hint“ Gov= ernor.? . President Locke, of the Stite-Touse Senate, and the gold-speetacted, benevolent gentleman who presides over tho Fuslonist Tlouse both ent cuts from the same sirloin, ‘There are soe few radical fellows whose partisanship colors thelr every actlon, but in the inain (no pun) there is nbout tho same stute of feeling as is displayed between riyal factions gathered to attend a polttteal conven tlon. It is perfectly snfeto address ey as “Colonel,” “Major,” or “Captaln? Malne, Jn this respect, resembles Mississippi. Fuston- ist Gov, Sinith is as denocratic in ht ‘SS Old Hickory himself, He smokes aT. D0? pine, mud has no sort‘of anxiety about color. ne the hice eurtiins., Tie is as full of ol Penobscot grit. us Gow. Davis, and, with a sult of armor, would pass for one of King Joluv’s Barons.s Throughout the early part of the night the rival partisans play euchre, and a few wayward, wieked men Indulge in Ss eents’ worth of poker, ‘The Mathe law prevents anybody getting a glass of nerves quieting Inger or honest ale, hut there bs 0 sttperabundince of refreshing id dovte brandy, aud forty-rod whisky the Sunday-sehuol men take somethi thelr stomielaches. A selentiiic ¢ this Malne muss aserthes it all toa too ex- clusive diet of feewater and-ple. A. come mumity so fed fs certainly fit: for treason, stritazems, and spollz, ‘The Maine law, if repealed so far ns malt Hquors are concerned and applled to pe and leowater, would yestore the stability of the Government. A sojourn nmang a mob who talk constitutional Taw aud carry revolvers Is dull enough, “Bt In one of the mee ers’ Assoelation Inst week, it was a there nud money fn eane-krowing ? Bs questions there was no direct answer, and there Is, throughout the discussions had, hue teresthig and useful as they were on other poluts, wsinguhar lack of reflable encourage: nent to farmers tocmbark extenslyely bn the new Industry, [tappenrs, aceording to essays, fetters, and verbal statenunis inetuded | proceedings of the <Assoelation, that the cane yw ROW ATA cost Of S$1.A0'to $3 a ton; that there 14 but one place In the State where cane fy purchased, and thatayalluble only to the growers liaand near Faribault; that: owners af mills and boiling apparatus charge 15 to cents per gallon of sirup, leavin, no profit whatever to thecane-growers ant that, though the grower may make his own sirup ata cost of perhaps not more than 10 cents 0 millon, he has no sutilelent market for lbs product, dia small way, it Is true, he may trade and dicker his product, whether sirup or sugar, for eookhig jntrposes, among peo- plu with whom the cheapness of erudy slrap and row stig may overhalauce thelr lack of snecharine purity, But it will not require much Of An tnerense In eanexrowlig to overstock that Hilted market, And though the Faribault Mellnery iy now offering 20 to 24 cents for crude sirips, and would probe bly pay equivateht prices far melds and raw. silat, yet tls eapaedty [y abso limited, and it hins, without competition, a yery large told to draw Its aupplles from. While {¢ is to bo regretted: that, the future profits. of cane-growlug was not mare cone sidered by the Association, tho omission Is explainable without supposing that ft was tn tentional, Allowance must be made for the absorbing Interest felt, by most of the men bers in the accumulating evidences of thelr suecess in producing sugar goods. And ule luwinice should, also be made. for the para: mount Interest felt by others In tho sites of seed, machinery, andapparatis. With these aJowances nde, although there was nich talk of Increasing the cang crop this yegr and of soon being able to suply the wholo eountty with slrup and sugar, tho fullure to surloualy consider the fnportant matter of market for cane products may be requrded ag an tinocent omisslon, Itinanoyldent fuct that ambercane pro- duets must fave a commercial yolue, by trade’ recognition, before the growing of cans on 4 ‘ye Beale ean | he mate to pay, ‘They cannot have that yalue or recoguition without refineries to ‘k the crude goods Into chemlcally nnd ninerctal pure sirap and sugar, with grades which will have a fixed, dofinit traday meaning, With refineries established and caune-growers working for them on equltab business. nrrangemetits, the new Indust not only be made profitable and safe, but may be Inerensed to prinortions which the ploncers fn it have ouly tagined, ut The Globe has tnformation leading to the belief thatone or more Insge refineries wil stablished In thiy State, ready for worl. ing tho crop of next fall, and that they will be announced within a few weeks under * fuspices such as will Justify farmers enmage ing Jargely in cane-planting, But, we farmers hive sume guarantee of a tial for the product, they liad better walt, or raise only enough cane to furnish, with cheap’ apparatus, what sirup they want for home use. We believe this new industry Is worthy of allenconragement, and that it will be a great one in good tne, but we wish to save farmers from the disappointment and loss we fear for them If they follow the example and ndyiee of ptlusinsts and empliries, ILLEGITIMATE PRICES OF IRON. An Tron-Denicr Alarmed at tho Preve out Aspects of the Trade~IN-Founded Hopes tor Increased Nemand—Greed OverreachIng Itself New York: Herald, Tho following letter to the Herald wilt slow that hopeful views and high spirits do not uniyersally characterize the eogitatlons of those Interested In the fron trade. ‘The writer argues that the average demand for the material is much tess than the present rate of production, and he sees no reason to hope for vw largely-ncreased demand in tho near future, Ie therefore antlelpates a glut in the market and consequent disaster os tho results o£ 0 present prosperity more nrtificint than healthfal, and more apparent than real, + Tle considers that those interested are alread: disturbed by signs of the coming storm, and. hopes that mensures may be taken to avert its effects, Yonk, Jan. 24, 1880,—To the Editor ratd: The tucties whieh tive here- riled in Wall street, Judadng from Indlentions, have been adopted in preset enalne rig a eigantle corner in pig-lron. The f ii sate cling of confidence produced by the ‘ul resumption of speckle payments fn non bore frult fin the impetus given to department of inechaufenl Industry, peclally was this new netivity noticeable in the Various manufactures of iron In April, 187), Nod Ameriean pig-tron was soll for S17 and S18 per gross tony No, 2, S16 and $i 73 uray forge, St4 und St A fir of New England capitalists, Jargely interested in some of the Lehigh Valley furnaces, per- eulving that there was no possibility of thin golng any lower, concelved the fleas. mir chaslig farge blocks 0 Nain brands aud holding them for future delivery at an en hanced priee, Accordingly about 10,000 tons of plz-iron of a well-known production were purehased aud conveyed to tidewater, th toawalt the course of events. Shortly after this transnetion the sre firm made eons fract with the owners of one of the Hudson River furnaces for 2,500 tons ata low price, detlvery to awalt thé purchaser's option. The withdrawal of so Jarge an amount of fron froin sale during the busy season of the year naturally produecd some stringency In the Toeal market, Much more might haye been bought up under ke condittons. To ane notre sales of future deliveries to be made in, say. February and March, 1880, was an casy matter, ‘Thus was the train Iald, ‘The large intlux of Seoteh and English ple-lron into this market during Iast summer and fill, with its comparatively Jow price, Induced many inanitfacturers to purchase thereod largely; Int for foundry purposes, In the casting of stoves and machinery, onlys small proportion cun be used. ‘The balance of the nixture must consist of iron composed native ores, Most of the pureliases of ple iron made at the present Ume are made for sinall lots inorder to obtain’ the necessary admixtures, Thitt the demand for pie-iroc is large and inerensing fs trae, but that the source of sup. Is unequal to the demang we do not helfeve. Several of the largest stoye wnamtfaeturers fi the country made their purchases for this years consumption ent), sprig, and the Iron then bought Is piled tn thelr yards, . pundries in the county y in stocks of conl and in the. fall for whater’s ou AS tee furnaces in the Lehigh Valley aro aut of blast, and these will soon be ready for netive openitions, it fs but reasonable to pres stine that the fifty-one now fn full blast will bank 200,000 tons of ple iron during the win- ter montis, ‘Phe furnaces at Manhattan, TMoughkeepste, Hudson, Albany, Port Henry, and Crown Polutare in full operation, ‘The one at Peekskill has passed Into new hands, and steps are belng taken to have if put in operation at an carly day, and so from ull the sinelting regtons comes the saine story. Tha gentlemen who represent the corner are boastful as to tho success of their scheme, They produce figures and data that so many miles of new railroads are’ to be built during the coming year, thausands of ear wheels to be replueed, rolling stock renovated, oltl rails replaved. by new}; In fact, n general recone struction of the enttro railroad Plant of the country. Then a fittle book containing the horoscope of the fron inarket for: years to come, written by an alleged Ohlo farmer, is produced to elfneh the argument, Bat these gentlenien seem to forget that sie grand tndustrial gehemes cannot be accom pilshed fa tay. Before those new rall- rene be build valleys must be filled up, hills Jeveled, mountains tunneled, tes eu and tnd, rivers spanned, and the rondbed graded. These preliminaries require months of tabor, In the meantime tho mw material and the manufactured product are dally ave eumutating to meet the prospective demand. L note -in your isstte of the 21st tho report of an interview between one of your stat and Mr. Abrin 8, Hevyitt on the condition ot the fron market. ‘The Jutter gentleman SLENIS Tully permeated with the speculative fever. Mr, Hewitt, {nan Jnterview published last year in one of tha metropolitan daliies, stuted that the price of Iron could not go ubove $20 per ton for gray foray, owlnig to the competition of forelgnirons. Subsequent events proved. Mr, Howitt to have been inls- tuken, notwithstanding the very cogent 1 sons offered, ‘Che searelty of iron, aceor to the above eminent authority, is so erent that he recently purchased 2 coupleot Revo- Tutionary cannon that had been buried for many years, and that he was In quest of ns other whieh ho hoped to secure, By suels weighty arguments the market is kept ino btate of disquiet and apprehensive distrist. ‘There Is no or apparent reason why the price of No. 1 foundry piz-fron should range nhove S84 por tan. ‘Phe eapabllities of pro- tuction are ample, labor Is cheap and abun dunt, coal, transportation, and ores In tke conditions to. meet any possible demand, That a desperate effort will be made to hold and, It possible, advances the price is evident, Lirnst the Merald, with its characteristle ciyerprise and saguelty, will probe this in- {yuitous.seheme to tha bottom, so that sole of our most important industries may be re- Noved of thy doubt and npprahesalon whieh at present exist, and that the attempt to levy so heavy a burden apo mauntitucturers, whe are but slowly recovering from the elfeets at the famous panic, may come to naught, and thut the vast Interests affected may not again be placed In Jeopardy, = MANuU¥ACTULLER, a A Story of Clay. ™ the Eilitor of the Phitadelphta Times. Here is an aneadote told ine by iny tuther, wha wise great adilrer of Clay's, and who wus an oyvewltngss of thaseenc. Tehna never mincired in print, it least to ny Knawtedye, and for tet truth T"ean vouch, When Hunry Clay ran for tho trst time for Congress he was bitlod to nd~ rosa ne nasombly in the open alr. A vist crowd had convened to hear the young orator, and conspleious above all arose the tall formeot Jim Vurnim, a poh, withan unenvinble rep. Ulation and a erent, personal enemy uf Chiy's, . owing to uted defents sustumed by Bim from Cliy political aaplrutions. WhenClay had connnencesd bly yddrogs Burtiim pliced himself directly oppdslt him, tn the crowd aud annoyed the speuker continually by Interruptions and persona) remarks, but ebieny Dy hast overs’ wood paint Chay produced, No miatterhow smooths and lueld his wtreamn of ora tory night bo or how forcible hisayainent, Burns day was) ready at the tinis with his Insulting hies, ‘This continued unit Clay could stand “it ne Jongee, and when, after a particularly pungent thrust at tho morality of ‘tho anti-ledurallsts, he was greotet with the tndomitable silent howlof Burniin’s, hu turned savagely to Mot and ith flashing oyea dellvored thig cutting speech; “Mr. Durnim,” sald ho, “ whon your last hour has come, and your evil sloful soul bas sought the dark shades of hell; when standing there bofore its sulphurous gat ‘our apirit chavred with sin,’ awalls admittince, Satu, glowlig by hig crimson majesty, shail asi his yassats path: ered around bim who ft ly that suunds outaldle his portals, and, when he's told that you are thoro, he'll rive and, with a look of durk diszust, ory. to bie walting meninh ‘do, take the shive god burn bin til ho bles?! a It Is a great pity to seo how muny people allow cough or cold ta gu unnoticed, and this pave tho way toan untimely grave from -the oifects . of consumption, A iTedaunty suf, relinble, and, icup camicdy da Dr. Bull's Cough byrup. 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