Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1880, Page 12

. yeded through the filter when attached to TH CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCH .2, 1880—TWELVE PAGLS. PURE WATER. Effect of Sunday's Winds on tho Sup- ply at the Crib, The Amount Which tha Caual Cau Safely Carry Of, Varying Opinions of the Doctors as to the ‘Water-Pollution. Opinions of Correspondents—A Vatiety of Suggestions, ‘The water question fs as far from being set fled as It hns been for years, or ng ft promises tu be for some thine to come, ‘Che Fullerton venue condult has not been working sine Petday night, when Mayor Harrison ordered the works shut down for the purpose of de- termining whether the conduit had been gly- ing the caun! so much water to carry olf that a Invge surplus supply was forced Into tho inain riverand thence out Into the Inke, tothe grent detriment of -the water at the Crib in the matter of purity. Probably there has nut aus yet been tlne enough since the engines at Fallerton avenue quit: pumping to smoke o fair test, ality THE CONDITION OF THE WATER: Is pricticilly unchanged, Sunday, when 2 brivk wind was blowing from the westy It was worse than ever at the Crib and hi the water-pipes, and a telephonic Interview with Axulstrom yesterday, when the wind was from the southwest, brought the information that, while tho water wasn't so bad ns it was Sun- day, still §¢ was a litte roiled, and clear water was only to be seen at sume distance out. MAYOR MARRISON had nothing new to advance on the subject yesterday beyonit the statement that he had heard something In regard to a recent re- port submitted by Mr, Jenney, Chief Hu- gineer of the ennal, to the Canal Com- tlssioners, on; the — capacity of the mun to take of — the | duerensed volume of water which would flow into it provided the pumplug-works at Bridzeport swere restored, «As the Mayor understood It, the report: stnted that the canal could take rare of 60,000 enbie feet of water per minute, although, in Mr, Jenney’s oplnion, the result of an Influx nt that, rate would be to impede aavigntlon, In tliis connection the Mayor thought it would be better for the Canal Somulssioners tu alter thelr system of nayi- ration than to cotnpel the elty to forego for any such renyon a3 this whatever advantages alght be rained by restoring, the pumping: works, Of the Efbe,as well us on other rivers In Europe, he sald, endless elintis were used to pull boats against the current, audif sucha. contrivance were used here, even though the pumps threw fn 200,000 cubte Tout a rulnute, It would be a system of vast economy to thosa who used the eanat. It would not require an engine of very great power—In. fret, nothing “more, formidable than a donkey-engine—to pull up vist freightage loaded on the canalbonts, so that the system, instead of being an expensive, would really be an cconoulent one, ut cone What might, he was not willing to mod- ify his previously expressed Yetermination, that the Canal Comnilssloners snust agree to take cnre of tho water, If the pumping-works were restored, and not. reserve the right to stop the pumping any time they chose. CANAL-COMMISSIONER GLOVER, when asked about that report, said it wasone Which had been requested at, the Inst meeting’ of the Commission, and that it was madeonly 0 few days igo. The document Itself wns at Lockport, but the substance of it: was that. Mr, Jenuey thought the ennal could take care of 60,000 cubic feet of water per iminute, but that he had his doubts whethernavigation by mule power wold not be suspended, owing: tu the increase in the enrrent nnd the greater resistance to be overcome In working nenalust it. Going down the canal, with the: gurrent would be casy enough, but there might be troublo in golng the other why. It was oo questlon, then, whether this inerense in the current wouldn't requtred the use of steam instead of mule power, and, If itd{d, there was Mkely ta be no end of opposition from property-holders along the line of the canal who were Inter- ested In canntbonts, and who would oppose any Increase In the expense attending their operation. The Commission would hold its regular monthly meeting in a few days, he satd, and’ the report would be very apt to come up for consideration, : A prominent wieroscopist, who had taken . but little stoek In the Fullerton aventie con- dult, stated yesterday that he examined the water last Fridhy,—tha same day that the Mayor made his’ experlments,—and found hat It was MORE FRER FROM NEALLY DELETERIOGs MATTEI * than tt hnd been slice the condult had been put Jn operation. From daily microscopical axamunations of the water for years, he was positive thatIthad been growing more potlit- ei ever since lust January, when the condult was started, Last week, however, owlng to the winds and enrrents, the water, wile sul roiled, contained less Injurlous organic matter than it dld just previous to that tine, While insisting on the patlutiins effect of tho conduit, he deeluved that the present condi- tion of the water Was no Just eause foralarm, His only anxiety was that the elty would go on forever emptylng Hs filth into the Inke, and the evils which are yet not harnful and only apparent, would become a priine cause of disease. ‘There was NO OCCASION TO KE ALANMED by the oxnminations of pure ehemlsts. ‘Tho tests of the laboratory would show the ¢le ments In the water, bat would not show the forms in which they . The chemist night find identically the same substances or Q greater or legs «ct $ of One than another, but this did not prove that the water was tn- healthy, A plece of meat might be good ent- Ing to-tlay but nota month hence, and yet the chemist would bring ont In his analysis pearly the sane Glements in the same eon suituent pul So the water might show more or less of organic fife to-day than it did amonth or a year ago, but, without Knowing the form of ft, it would be finposst- dle to pronounce It better or worse, It wotlhl not appear whether the or- ganle uintter was alive or decomposed, Microscopte examination of the water last week showed that it contained fewer of the organisms that are tajurious to health and of decomposed inatter than had pre viously appearedt and that the water Is still a exeellent dr inking fluid. On almost any day When water fs drawn and allowed to stand It witl separnte [ite layers Just uy the Mayor found It to do Eris tind the top layer, after Ic hay been allowed to stand, will be decomposed and settled. Drawing clusions trom this, from personal observa- ton on the lake and its ettrrents, and from the testiniony of expert divers, tha gentle- min was of the opinion that the lake was strhuted In a sinilar way, and that there was wheavy, dark body of water near the bot- ton, #xciMny surtice, and the purest near the centre, ‘The elty ts now drawing most of ite water from the lower gates, Ile belleved that by drawing ft through the middle gates seven-elghths of the linpurities could be ayoliled. ‘ CITY-ENGINERT CREGIER has a theory that there is an undercurrent Tronr the river out toward the buttom of the Jake and the Crib. He recently observed at Madison-street bridge thut v long water- sonked Jog, which wag standing vertically In the water, passed the bridge about a dozen thoes in the day, indleating that the surface current, when stronger than the unidereure rent, carried ttone way, and, when the une deretrrent was the stronger, It was care the other, Somme of thesy days he prépo: to test hls theory = 8 y the wey of avery delleate instrument for ascertaining the dircetion and, ve'ocity of currents,—a test whieh wil no doubt be an interesting one to those who dave puld any attention ta: the uneximpled and thparalteled pecullarities of the Chicago. Uivey. FILTENS, ‘Tho real utility of the small filters now so extensively sold ls coming In for n good dead of discussion, “Chat dey arrest a large sunomnt of dirt and seu is unquestioned, but it ls asserted by those elahuing to know what they are talking ubout that but tittle of the matter ta water which $8 considered by fentiots to be inost lnjurlous to health fs fealty, taken out and preverited from passing ato the binant stomach. ‘The polls jualter, it is suid, that hus been absorbed ay water would absorb salt, together with the finely-divided particles, will, on aecount of the great pressure Jn the wh 8, PAss untinr the tap utd thence into the drinking-ve tobe aken Into the stomach, = lug-vessel DR. ON, F. COOKE *sakihe hed beea unable to parcelve any ine ’ crease fn that class of diseases most bkely_ to he produeed by drinking polluted water, He dit not think that the public health was be. ing affected by the present condition of the water, and Tnstineed: the fet thats in the country, where the people had to depend ain well-water, there was more diphtheria than. in the city, notwithstanding the use here of Janke Mehigan-water,—not very pleasant to look upou, perhaps,in Hs present condition, hut,.as faras has appeared. quite harmless, In short, hy Heougitt that, whatever there might be, it Iny in the future, elty shout’ go on playing with Ure sewage mtsance,—and was not Inmediate or actual, TIC @ PAOLE sald he find noticed no jnerense Inzymotte dls- eases of late, and didn't betleve there was any good reason for bringing an Indictent Naainst our water, which was certalnly vastly superior to the wellewater which people in the country had to drink, DI, EDMOND ANDREWS had not noiiced aus thine of Jute that would Jend hin to think that the water waa causing an tiered In the extent of zymolie tliseases. ‘To be sure, there was more diph- therla, but It wag not properly attributable tu the water, in his opinion, and as for erysipelas, which was sure to atten the drinking of polluted water, there had certatnly heen no inerease 0! that disease.” Generally, he saw no cause whatever for alarm, though the future welfare of tho elty demunded that the grent, aquteation of pure water, involving as ft did the question of properly dleposlny of the eity sewage, should not. be releated to tho vast Ihnbo of erent issues nbout which there haul bec a vast deal of {atk and yery little done, DH. It, Ke STARKWEATUER had notleed nu appreelable effect upon public health attributable to the condition of our Iuke water, As he put tf the water was not yet genernily consi ered suflclently cone tamlnated, but ff the evil went on tchecked fora year longer the ease nilght be diy 1. Dro F. UL, Davis, when accosted on the stb. fect, shook his head in, the negative, sud tnore than dnthumted that he took nu stoek in the hard things suid wbout our Ike witter Just ut present in its supposed relation to Uisease, DI. D. I. BROWN stated toa Trisese reporter that, whatever the cause, there was evblentlya large mmount ofsickness Just now, and the medieal pro- fession were enjoying 0 boom on thelr own account, Is lineof practles was chiefly in the way of nervous disorders, which of lute had been greatly Ine! dy and Tad taken form which did not yleld readily to remedies, ‘There was 0 great deal of neuralgia, of ayers severe type, and of cerebral trouble. ‘The prevalence of diphtherla, and lately of dlire rhea, was dite, undoubtedly, to geome speech) depressing futluence, whieh should be souzhe outand combated If possible. 1 his ophi- fon the cause of the ill-health of the city was elther the very extrnordinary weather whieh, has prevailed of Inte, or the foul condition of the elty’s drinking-water, He had not exam fned ft microscopleally, but the cloudy ayy pearance It preaents, to the eye showed that It was In anyt bing buta proper condition to be taken inte the human system, ‘There was no doubt that the city sewnge was strongly im- pregnating the water nt the Crib, and ntil something was done to prevent its presenes there tho clty would be fall of stek Secure the purity of the Crib water, haweye and there was no reason, awlng to Chlenga's general hyglenie advantages, why ale should not be the healthiest eity Inthe land. As It was, the doctors were having a boom wileb the undertakers were also beginning to share, only wt few days ago his patronage posing: buen solicited by n gentleman in that line of business who had just started out. If the elty authorltles wanted to stop thts In- creased netlyity In the medical aud under- taklug branches of business they shout spare no tine fn iinproving the city’s water, whose present condition was, in all probabil ity, the sole cause of the sickness which Js so abundant, PUTTING A LOCK IN THE RIVER. | To the Bititor of The Chicago Tribune. Cutcago, March 1.—How would it sto to put a lock or gate In the river, near Sts mouth, to be kept closad all tho thne it would not interfere with navigation, and flush the North and South Braneties through the Fullerton avenie tunnel? Sueh a lock would be anita inexpensive, and might be kept closed as wuch ot the time as the Rush street bridge, Would not this be bet- ter than new punpingaverks at Bridgeport, cost Jess, and be an {nimiediate relief? CLEARWATER, CHEMICAL TESTS NREDED. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, CitcAao, Feb, 20,—If you have a little spave to spare in your columns I would ask permission to give the result of my examina- tlon of our hydrant water these Inst few days, Everybody has noticed the change which our Jake water has undergone lately; itis no longer clear and Nmpld, and It gives readily n yellowish-green sediment; some- times a sample kept 0 few hours in «corked bottle emits n perceptible sinell which be- spenks putrefaction, Using’ a high power (wv one-tenth Immersion by Beck), [ find that sediment to consist almost entirely of thes shellinaking plants called diatoms; two or three ape predominate ‘lurgely. There are nlso spheres, the contents of which are undergoing tho process, of segmentation; In all probability they belong to volvuces’ or other alme of the sme kind. ‘Chose the Nike algw (splrogyra, oxelateria, ete.) so sharactureGot stugnant pools are totally absent, Animal Hfe is represented only by those exceedingly lively but liarmless erustneeans, the cyelops, A most carefitl survey of three adliferent spechuiens failed to bring under my gaze a single infusoria whether stalked vorticella), Magellate, (monns), or elllate pirmneclum), ete, Nor was L more suc cesstatl in finding bacterla, ‘That unusual wbundanee of diatoms ts cer- tainly remarkable; however, It docs not prove necessarily that the river water reaches tho erld and tows into our pipes, unless Ht is shown that the very same speeles are found ten or twenty tlmes ag many tna equal vole uno of fluid taken, say, Near the Lake-street bridge, Aga rule, diatoms He at the bottom, attached to stones or plants; they very sel- doin Hout spontaneously, und the preserice of so miny of them In our hydrants ludlentes 9 continued disturbance of those purts of the Take where they are plentiful, Be It ns tt may, itis very doubtful, bi my mind, whether the mleroseops will give us. the solution of the question. But chemlstry may doit, Ondo the most Immediate re sults of sewage mlugling with fresh water Is thy decrease of the amount of oxygen nor mully dissolved in the Iatter (ten: parts in 1,000 in volutes), Therefore, the proportion of that gas held bya elven waters 0 eriterion of its hygiene “value. ‘The experiments which [would suggest are simply the deter- wilnation of the number of euble centimetres ofosxygen ia litre of river water, of lake water at the erlh, and of the same nt diferent points between that place and the mouth of the river, ‘That can hy done at wsinull cost, Lan, slr, very respectfully yours, . Prov, M. UELAvONTAINE, INTENCEPTING BEWENS, To the Eultor of Ths Chicago ‘Tribune, CuicaAdo, Feb, %.—Upon the. presumption that the peuple living along tho LNuols River will allow the City of Chleago to How Its sewage down tho Iinols Canui, and thence onward down into the Ilinols River, T make the following observations, In short, Lam in favor of constrocting an intercepting sewer, nnd would no longer empty, elther directly or indirectly, any further sewage Into the lake. ‘That the accumulation of this gevrnge atin shore, ies already hud tts effect, rapidly Increasing aquatic vegeta. tion, and that the dentruction of Stil vegetation os. constantly oceurring, and that-its subsequent decomposition lias duduced many people to believe that: the odor oftentines noteeavle when drinkhyg the lydrant water is one that directly emu unites” fr sewaxe coutmuinatton, ty both absolutely certain and irrevoenbly trie, This. nerenshig dlth (for Ath Indeed it ts when, decomposed) wil svon, If it does not now, deniand that the city shall remove the Cri elthey into deeper water or at adlstanes more remote from Chicago, Reeently the writer was officially Informed that nineiy-live euble fevt of tis decomposing substance had Accumulated und was now Inthe siumph of the tunnel which was first completed, In brief, there 1s submitted ta the renders of ‘Tue ‘Tanuss the following phi, a chart of Which, together with a more expllelt explae nation, fs now belng provared for the purpose of presenting the plan before tho Citizens’ Association: Isitggest the feasthllity of constructing an intercepting suwer along on ench side of the Chicago Miver, and tts branches, together with such cross-sections of sewer us iiay be necessury in order to drain thy territories Which iow drain directly into the lake, ‘Chess sewers we would converge at polut la the South Fork of the South Brauch near ouglus avenue or Thirty-tfth street. Mere wewould daw up the Suuth Fork, uy we also would do agiiy ata point near Ashtind ay This reservoly, whielt cauld not wt yelr pa siitek worse thi oes this portion of the river now, we would eon nee with the canal by the means af an age net or (unnel, eareylius the sewnge by pnp. lng engines up snd over the sunault, that it inight flow nalnterrnptedly down the ennat below, Such a disposal af the sewage would wrontly interfered with vlther durhig fine of 1 freshet or of low water; for in first Instat Utne emptied in aver mparatively Uttle world tine. a the the divide, iit ¢ Ay its way backs while during low water the flow could’ he augmented, as aceasion micht res quire, by punting the water from the canal above tho lock nto the canal below the lock, ‘The alternate pmmplig, first of sewage and then of elem river water (whteh tb would fhien be all the way this site of the divide, even to thetinouth of the/harbor) would allute the sewage proportidnitely the sane as Hf they were pumped into the enn together ait Bridgeport, Ty our opinion this: plan has several ad- vantages, clef among whieh are the foltow- figs Pirst, of 1 practleal in its eonstria- thon, twill eectually: clean out that abot Inable nuisance, the South Fork of the South BDranct of the Chieno River, Seeond, twill praetleally.do more thine any piunpincwarks situated at Bridgeport (at the foot of the hill), especially If pincedt, as It would be, fn juxtas position with our watershed at tha west. Agnin, if this plants atonge practleable, It Is practieable for all thine, ad solght be used vonjolntly, should ovension reatire, with the futire great steamship canal. And finully, wil this work of constructing the [iter cep! Ate sewers is completed (and we bes Ne the plan isa meriturions one that the work should he iminediately begun) we would siuzgest that the contemplated pump, Mae wor be erected on the extreme hehe of the divide, and not at. Bridgeport, and that they be constrneted Ite reference to thls pro. ect” and operated as it is the intention fo operate seh pumps if erceted at Bridgeport, Tireonneetion with this 1 will remark that it is with commendable pride. that Enotlee the aetic determination of the Mayor. ta ntitivally examine the actual condition of witer-supply, and to learn by acs tual observation ly the degree of not onl! sewage contumination, but also the best pos- sible ineans to Tiel it, It is umloubtedly true that the most satisfactory remedy Is not. to. allow othe lake-water to become polluted with our sewage; In other wo not 5 to longer permit of it belng earrled into the lake, But, If the present system of dritnage is dinmediately stopy then the Mayor's idea of removing the Cri one whieh fs fiperntive, and for the reason already glven,—natnely: on account ot the deeonposition of agitaiie vegetation, whieh growth and subsequent deeouposition ds a, permanent. transition, and whieh may to its development prove to bes promoter of dis- ense,—possibly of an endemic malarial dis- order,—l say, because of (ils, we will be obliged to remove the Crib, and, if so, itis ble to remove It tow point where netual servntton nid not theory shall have settled the questlon as to the Impossibility of any mtumination, ‘The probabilities are, hese sumphs cleaned (to whieh we referred) much of this substance would thereafter bedetulned Instead orp Ing over them Into the mains, ag nov, to be dellyereel through our hydrants as a constituent of our water-supply, Now, while there Is no ocen- sion for any alarm, {t Is nevertheless true that many minute organising, both living and dead, sttch ag diatoms, desmids, infusoria, rotlfers, water-mites, and water-fleas, besides wd “structure from both the aninial egetable kingdoms, such #3 musewar fibre, epithelium, animal membrang, hates, feathers, fungi, alew, contferva, vexctable tissue, stich us zraln-covers, starch Frinttles, ote, are to be Cowl fa tha keke water ag de- livered to us through the hydrant; and be- cause of the presences of these structures, together with others which mre less fre- quently found, and which are of more fore boding huvoytunee, [ would stiggest that a more general uso of Mters he nude, YD. Wititams, MD. THE VOIC. b is OF THE PEOPLE. Gen, Landers Dew + To the Editor uf The Chtcago Tribune, Curcacn. Feb, 4.—When and whore was Gen. ‘Lander kliled? BE&C. (Pawpuw, Vin, Maret 2, 1602. fo wns not killed, but.died of congestion of the brain, due to general debility.) cenbneks Taxable? | itor of The Chtenge Tribune, OsAiA, Nel vel Are legul-tendors—l. ¢4 greenbueks—subject toState and muntespal tax ation? «An answer will much oblige your F. [Certainty not. Thoy never hnvo been; they are specially exempted by Jaw, aud aye been sv from tho begining.) Are To the Starvation at Home. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Curcaao, Feb, 37.—Notletng in un revent niime ber of Tis Trsunn the cnse of extreme destitus tlon of 4 Mrs, Eflen Clarkson, of the West Sido, thig question presents itself; Is it any less pane in Chienyothan In far-nway Ireland? y kuown that thore are many eases 4 in our Very inldst sulfering with hunger aud cold, and that among those who hive but recently been jn guod circumstances, but who are too modest. to tet thelr destitution be known, Would It not be well to seek out mul ree lieve such of our own felluw-citlzens before: gending sueb lirgo amounts toa foreleh eouns try? . aN AMERICAN Lavy, Tho Biggest Tree, To the Ruitor of ‘Ihe Chicago Tribune, Bristow Station, Feb, 28,—In your issu of tho mid I notice an article from the Peorla Trin script inrelution to what 1s elalined tu be tho Jnrgest tree In Hiinels, Handatl County can show nh much larger, o8 well us more valuable, tree, There Is now standingon tho farm of Lewls Steward, four miles below York ville, on Fox River, a healthy black walnut which mens- ures ut five feet Crom the ground nineteen feut tuferance, wid ls very tall as it isin tt heavy timber. One hundred dolls has been res used for tis tree, 1 buye secon und mneasured It, GU, Hunt. ftitur of The Chicuya Tribune, Wrnovnanns, nent Quincy, HL, Feb. 22—Tn your daily of the 2ith fist, nppeara a communl- cation from Cedar ftapldg, In, ‘The closing pure ngraph reads: “'The soft upon which Hulsteln ronda ure bullt tg shatlar to and as devold of gravel a4 urs tho soils of Jows und Wilnwi Aguln enter, for the twentieth ting, In my lot ters to fie Tiunuxe and othor Journals, 1 pro- test againat this notion that the soils of lows ond Ninuls ure devoid of fr suitable for 7. Phers are millions bf cuble yards nk gravel Lit tiny parts of both Everywhere Wong Die Misswelpph iver, und all other xtreains running over and through ruck formittions, thore ts cnuuyb to muke all the Highways in suen locallt “Yhis materint ts nut evenly distributed, veithor ts wnytilng else in Natufe. Lov us go to work and use up atnulety of this ereek gravel before we begin tho * imud- dog" ery of no material will venture to guess tit, unless Codur Naphta hus no “rapids,” ghore Ja plunty of ervek gravel te be found in that vie clnity. “For “rapids” on any stream are not Cound without suing rock formations ta cause auch rapids, KK, Jones, By Tholr Fruits Yo Shall Know Thom, 4 the Bditur of The Chicaga Tribune, Ciicago, March L—Although Mr. Applebee, by his digeourtvous rejoinder in your fesuc of Feb, 29, has forfelted tho rightsjof gonttomunly: controversy, F ehall not attempt to haltate bin in the use of personulities, whieh buye boon bunlehed front wl scholarly clreles, Mr. Apples deo hus furnished no proof that My. Hume did not mnuntiln lo hik private correspondence that “adultery nit be pructicod ff amen would ub- tain all the advantages of Ife" Me, Applobeo, without any reference to the ook In queation, whleh fa Peat: VOry TAT, Would buve is uiiderstand that he did not hold such opinions, The Ke Thomus Hartwell Horne, of St. John's College, Cambridge Unit- Yersity, Rngland, ating that this and wtullar suutiinents ure found tn the Correspondence of Davia Hie with Suveral Dis tlagitshed Pers song.” (London, 180.) Now, whieh xtall we bo- Hoye, the unsupported masertion of Sr, Applos beo, the statement of an English seholar, whieh ff bused upon oa ref. erence -to rare, book’ oat Mr, Applebeo bus tho book in question, it Ia his duty to show that these sentiments ure not to be found theres iC nut, tt muy, bo he, and not Dr, Goodwin, who ts stunding uit wonk ground. At wl ovents, the passage Will bo yveritied, and In Tour or tlvy weeks the result will be put bofare the readers of fim ‘Tuipuse, whether it will yyere to bea caluinny on tho memory of Mey Huine or not. BAMUEL [Ves Cunribs, Jit, Tile Draing, To the Eilitor of The Chicago Tribune, Outany, Macoupin Co, Nh, Fob. 2—fam a Subseribor to TUE WEEKLY ‘TatpuNe, and huve been very much interested in reading the many artleles published on tilo-dralaing. In your last week's tssuo T noticed u lutter from Mr, Witlam Humphrey, of Sungumon County, giving his ox- Perlence in tiu-dratuluy,.the vamount be put in, and the effects af the sume, 'Tle-drulning hus it boon Introduced fn this section of country, fot ony furmer th ten has trod It yet, but thode who have tried It ure blghly plowsed, and ugree that it fv tho best investinent thoy ever muue. ir. Huwphrey tells ui bow hoe reclulied tho sloughs and swates on his fara by titsig thom, and Tells ua that he tid different kinds of erops on those aloughs, and hy evers: case the Rloughs produced hotter crops thai his: highest and tiryest anda, ‘Tho seasan of IX was a very poor one to test: tho benetits of fle. LP bave been tt resident of this county for twenly-flvo yours, and the past seuson wis by far tho dryest that we havo had ditring that thine. T know of land in. Montomory County that: never tilaed a. crap before (intess It was craw fish and frogs that wae ike Esquire Thm: phirey's—rataed tk crop mich tn exeess of tho Mirhest and deyest land we tid and this Iand dtdn’t have a foot of tle witha several miles of {te Tt wasn't unusual to hear of some of tha swampy laud turnlig off forty to fifty bush. elgof wheat peraere or xevetty-flye to eighty busbela gr corn per acre, Cin satisfied that if our law, Hat land was properly Ule-dralned atel, A thing nsan entire failure of vrop on account of tho wet ry mtd he amongst past, Tbroke up a-ploee uf grass S70 that hada awale through ft from south to northenst, T planted that field te corn four years In rite. cession, and neh year Elost about four teres of ro by nat having the swale te-denined. ty Hye THY, Ppt ia about half a mile of tour fneh tle in tho swale with an outlet. at both ends. ‘Tho tile wits too lite to save tho crop that sungon, but in 187 my heavicat crop geew On the swale, Although itis been rennirknbly dry since Tputmy tile in, to my erent surprise it has rim sod atrennt of water three-fourths of tho tine, although there was no water on tho surface, nt my tile in from twoand a hilt to four feet deep, onige of threo fect Aix inehes, Tdlffer with Esquire Humphrey in re- ey to the best meade of lnying tile. Ue says he stands on the tile while laying It. 1 would not do that, for the rengon that tt would cause somo of the tle to settle lower than the reat, especlally Ef tho ground was wet, thereby losliye n portion of tao enpnelty of your tile, ad would Teave room for silt to fallin, Tam a strong ide vocate of tlle-draining. und thint if §t {3 prope erly used it will be the salvation of our wet Tands. | Tconsider tile-draining as far ahead of ape tches ay an open diteb fa nil ND, ditelts . . B. The English Consul Bonds va, the Pros poxed American Consoln, (Tb the Editor of The Chteayo Tribune. Cwicauo, Feb. 28.—-In your editorial on the “new National consol bond you compure them with tha English consol, and renson that, both being 3 per cent, one would Not be worth more than tho other, But there ts a reason why tho Aineriean bond (supposing It to be fasted In tha same form as the present bond) shutild be worth at least the one-latl per ceyt more than the En- glish. ‘That ts, that the American fs easily and Instantly negotitble, while the English congo) ts not. If you want to buy. or sell, Bngtish consols you must go ton” stuck-broker, pay him one-elghth of 1 per cent, and he negotl- ates 0 trouster on the Government books at the Hank of England, and, if you ure selling. he wit In a few days hand you the money your congols or stock sokd fur, There are certuln transfer days. If you tre buying, he hands you a certificate that’ you holt so mueh consols, ‘That certitleato entities you to yo to the bank and drew your dividends on pay-days, and you must tlyn “a power of attorney before your banker, or any one else, can collect for you, Yon hold no bond, yor bave no coupon, ‘and your luterest in the nationnl debt is gut a mat- ter that you can put up with a banker or other party asa collateral scenrity for currency with- ‘out i troublesome law process. Whereas, in the Amerenn boil, the title to tho investinent pauses with the possesslon of the bond, and If you lay down a bond on a bank connter thoy “will lend) you 5 per cent of” {ts face in currency without the Intervention of either lawyer or broker, Agu the Amerivan bond 1s avaliable us a basis Natlonel banking. ‘Thery ure no euch. banks In Englund, Tho reason why the 4 per conts, wero populur was because the cuplintist who had them never bad tiny fdlu money. He was certain of 4 Per vent anyhow, and directly any speculation turned up that luoked like more, he could put up his colluterat for aluiost their face, uso tho money to nuke his deal, and take up bis bonds when ft was done, ‘This system aults this country, where we movo | crops sometimes, or get up booms fu cont, oll, or iron occasionally, tu gay nothing of wheut or ork, ‘Thus It looks to me a8 if a 3 per cont bond wanld float readily enough if they ure only innde readily negotiable, Why dues i mo Hie at per cont bond better than 8 6 per cent mortgage, except that the ono is readily negotiated aud the other is nut? 7 G, IL, Epwanps. The Interoceanle Cannt, ‘Ty the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cicaago, Ib, Starch 1.—Ty ins mind the only fensible sehemoe to conucet tho Atlantic with tho Paeifie Ocenn is that proposed by M. De Lesseps, His project will, in ite entirety, cost Jess money é4han any othor, and will bo & route open atull thnesand under any clreumstunces< tethe combined commerce of tho whole world and suliictent for its business. It will also ne- commodute the progressive splrit of unval’ urchitecture; let it build its ablps of whatever || eapnelty it will, tho Durlon open cut from gcenn to ocean will always accommodate them, noyer causing delnya or obstructions, This the Nicaragua route cannot offer, That route, in the Interest of the small States lying Iminedlate- ly contiguows to It, Ahold bo improved by tho Governments interested, for the benefit and nd~ vantage of thelr own peoples, aud to them ft would beof inesthnable benefit, opening up a vust region of richest lands to cultlyn- tion and settlement, But it can only bo a local improvement for local benoflt. 1t would develop thelr own — resources and bring to thom 9 tide of immigration and prosperity such as thelr country needs and 18 in every way worthy of; lot thom do this and bo happy. But the sooner thoy and the projectors of tho echemo to make tho Nivaniguu route 1 grent. highway for the conunerce of the world whundon that fden, the better ft will be for thom and for the vast juterestof commorce, The iden that a ronte on whieh twenty-one locks tre necessity will be used by the yrent alps now. in use, and the hirger ones ‘that proit will make ¢ {ndispunsablo in the near future, is simply p c= posterons, Locks large enough, strong enough, ind stuble enough, tocks thit Under any con- Ungeney will never be_out of order, eatinot bo built. i Niearngua. Thero are too many un- nvuldable convulsions of nature to make iE pe alble. Its projectors muy ng well understand at une that merebants from tha utmost ends of the world will not send their ships, Joaded with valuable cargoes and upon whose prompt delly= ery tholr fortune depends, to 1 point so remote for any poasibillty of speedy tranship. mont ‘and reshipment is this would be, should any unforeseen but not turproueble gulvulsion of tha eurth or sweeping Hood, or damaged gate, render it ‘impossible to puss his ship onward, ‘The only sure safety for com mereo by this route would bo for its owners to bulld at tho sume time with thole cant a rail rond atongalde, by which they could transpart the goods brought by the delayed atlp without ruinous delay, ‘Tho Darien Canal {s tho ono for the world, Tt fs eapeclully tho one by whieh this country: would bo nitost benelited, becnuse It would be ermuinent for all time, and lta boneilts would ‘ar nll tine be greater to this country than any other, And, In view of the yust yood'the United Stutes would reup from H without the possibility Of HN results, it 4 elinply amimzing that any one of our eltizens should Offer any obstruction or throw even the shadow of n doubt to [ts build. ing. Nodoubt many food. but wafully mistake cltizons have got the bugbour of the "Mow wtrine on thelr brains; no doubt, too, but Vhat many 0 bad citizen, for selfish or sintstor ena, Is throwing the anine * Monroe doctrine" at tho hends of thotimid and unthinking amongst Md But what ling the “Monrug doetelie® to do with the buliding of this cunnl? [tis a private, individual undertaking that will be wes vempllanell by tha wld of the united enpital of Knghand, Peace, Germuny, the United States, — of nayhddy having money'to Invest, from any countiy, Who tay seo a chance of profit In ity and ifourCongress, sotemnly In the fuco of all the workl, gets upon its feet and ayunwks ot Wo. abject,” why Congress will buve tade dn cag af fwelt, and fn tho near future those Congress. jnen who do this great wrong to the country will be Hust ad trultond to its juterests, or as lu wells, ‘The Monroo doctrine” tn its day, and down, unui inte period, was right and proper; but how We wre strong enough and uble enough to protect and take care of our own Tights ti the fuce of combined Europe, and for ve now tw declire that wo are ufrald to have u French Compuny build a eanal ucross Darien, is to dos clare oursolyes cowards aud unable to prot ourselyes,, i WTomperance and Sunduy Observanco To the Luditor of The Chleugo Tribun Cicada, March 1—--Tt la but very recently that some of our moat respected citizens conceived the idea of Bringing about « better underdtund- Ing between the contending faatlons on the queation of temporanee and of u better obsery- aneo of tho Sabbuth-day, Mr. Murry Nelson, and others equally well known to the public, suggested that beth sides should have uw fuir heurivg, and hence invitations were extended to “liberal” Germungs to mect the “othor sido” for tho purposy of n freo diecussion, aud with a view of an ultlmate sotticment that would Siriko tho cuse frum tho docket. Br. Hl Htuster, of tho Ntaala-Zeltung, and another well-known citizen, Mr. Willlam Floto, put in an TANCE, and matters seemed for 4 while pretty well under fits a wolution of the problem, nelle the antagonistic opinions on those vital questions agitating the publio mind: but 1 was sour wpparent that thero ¥ frigid reserve on thy part of the "liberal" Ger= hung to dicuds go tlekliah u subject, deeply tn rooted and inwoven into the political and soetal Iltvof tho Germans. It is tbe regrotted that Mr, Flote postponed an elaboration of the vexed. question to somo future day, and that Mr, Rus. ter contented himself with stating that a alight conccesion in thy closing of tho siluons on Bune day, betweon the hours of a.m. and 2 p.m, hight posalbly bo qulned, We eanhot but come to tho conclusion that Mr. Master must have felt remorie ut bis own excessive Mberuilty, and got the “abukea" when tho Fre(e Presse ‘ourtly rue murked that Moasre. Kuster and Floto had at- tended a temperance inveting; for the leuder in laut Monday's Stuats-Zeitung hus-the old ring uguiu; it wuros, aud thruatens, and hc up the spectre of the Peopte's party of 17 to the hor- rhjed vision of 1 moras pablie, to the const int exhibition of the old rattles 8, the Peopte's party of ied, fet me inform tho gontiomon imagers of the oxa2oua concert (hat “that cock won't Axht,” and that it 44 e: tromety bard, bordering Gn tinpossibility, “catch an old bird with chat." Tho accursed ent Isdead, and gone, and Itried out of alght, Deyond the ‘hopo of resttrreetions It has buen 'pl-pa-po-peppercd out of oxistoneo, to- gether with the pick of demagogs, thieves, and scoundrels it hid brought. ta the surface and let. loose upon soctety, At the present. writing It 1s nu igstirred fet tht yor eould not coux nor whip the Germans, or for that matter any other “berals,” info the support of a movement res sembling in the least the deftnet, putrid excres: cong, no mittter what the “temperance fannt- fen iy iro to indertnke, What tnust nstontsh any fatreminded observer of persons and this is that Germans, who have. shown so ittle netivity In the cnvse of Uberty in tho old Fatherland, should persist in reading: AD recon personal Wberty, fa It ition of a speeial and aro nilowed nore gue Heenses than would fall to tholr lot ie “the: sume" be pro rata divided inpong the different Hedoniy ties comprising thls grand Nation with a bie Ni? Let Me. Murry Nelson and hig well-meaning associates never fing In the noble work unider- fnken to promote the best Interests of sovicty, and of this noble city in particular, Lot. them coutinue to extend “Invitations to liberals,” with «view to answer tho pertinont question, “Why is this thus: whut Is the cause of this thustiess?” Let them tind comfort and cheer for tho trouble voluntarily taken upon their shoulders it the consclouaiess that a fulreralnded Atmerlenn ey will readily give the Devil his due, but will firmly dectine the proposition to sve, law and order subverted and the City Govern ment run in the interest of the saloon! copurs. BX. PorsonaleProporty Taxes. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cricaco, Feb, $8.—Noticing your reply toyour postal-curd correspondent, I wish to nsk for in- formation, if there was not an act passed at the Inst session of the Legislature governing the ussessment of personnl property, whereby every persun is obliged to Mst bis personal property under onth; and, on refusal to swear, the party may be nnd must be visited with heavy penal tes; und In case the Assessor fulls to subject the party to so swearing to hig schedule, he will be subjectto n fine alvo? Is thore such a law now In force? UC tigre: be, will not, the. holders h of our State, cuouity, and cit! onds be obliged to add them to thelr schedule? Under tho decision = rendered in 1870) by the highest court.In the United States, mort- wipes and trust decds ure Iluble for taxation, na well as the property they cover; will not the holders of mortgages, therefore, be compelled toadd them also to tholr schedule? If my cons jevtures are right, the voming assessment will wlikely to diselose a very Jurga amount of bonds and mortgages whieh’ cin no longer es expe taxation, but must now be Hated, VERY. (Our correspondent Is Informed that tho pres- ent requirements of tho Revenue nw have been substantially on the statute books of this State for many yenrs, but that does not change tho fuot that practically the credits he refers to ure never tuxed. It fs tho same in all the States of tho Union where the fulso policy of taxing credits Is attempted. Human nature, {eluding oflicera of the liw, is nbout tho game everywhere, Though the lnw asserts the principle that credits shunld bo taxed, tho gross Injustice of the theory must nlways defeat tho excention of tho Inw, or make the Injustice wore gluring by executing It Ina few cases and not {utho others. One of the pecullar elroum- stunces of this law taxing credits fs, that tho Very class of porsuns most strenuous In demund- ing itnre tho victims of merctless plunder un- der the law. Undor tho plea that mortgages ara taxuble, money-lenders compel borrowers to add. lor2 percent to tho rute of interest i order to cover taxes which ure never pitid, Tho hu of Illinois taxing mortgages costa the borrowers of this Stato’ $4,000,000 or $10,000,000 annuaily, for Soe interest, to cover taxes thut are never paid.) Mume ay 2 Mornlist. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cittcago, Murch 1.—Now that tho moral tendency of Mr. Humo's teachings 1s wnder dis~ guasion, the following quotations from the Quur- teny Review, London, 1823, may be of interest to your readers, especially us they conthin an anecdote glyon by Mr. Hume's nephew with ref+ erenee to aremark made by Mr, David Humo after ho had lost his mother. On page Sis the author says “Three writera of tho most distingulshed talonts, though inall other things utterly unlike one tnather, codperuted in the baneful work of sipping the foundations of clyil order and tn dividinl bappiness, Voltalre was netuated by butred of Curistinnity; Rovascau by tho fervor of adisardered tnd; Hume by tho mere lave of speculation, “Hine and other skepticul writ. ere,’ giid Dr. Johnson, ‘ure vain meu, and will wrullfy themselves” at any expense. ‘Truth will not aiford suiliclent food to their vanity; wo. they - betuke thounelyes. to error, Truth, «air, cow which wilt 8 yleld such people no more mls and so they uro gous to milk the bull.’ That this was the enzo with Hume, and that white he shook tho betel of thousands, ote, retalued for himself... fo) hutent falth, appears from this uncedote: A. ctend, in condollng with bin upon the death of his moth ‘unicommol took ocension to observe that tho violence of his grief was owing to his having throws of the prinetples of religion, otherwise he would hive: been consoled by be- Hoving that she who bud buen one of the most plous of Christluns had entered into n state of eternal happiness, ‘To which David ruplicd: “Though 1 throw out my speculnitions to enters taint wud employ the tearned and inciaphysicat world, yet in othor things du not think go dif ferently trom tho reat of mankind a8 you Imig: ine. : * Tho author who bra given the above quota- tons oes on to say, page B20, “Sone of the most sloprived minds in the present generation . . . [havo proctulmed) thoir hatred for. Christianity, and thelr predilec- tlon for what thevare pleased to call the rellyion of thy loves and luxuries,—that 1s, tho religion of Jupiter, Mars, Bacchus, Venus, tho Ourden Gal, ete, With how favorable n disposition Gibbon regarded the polytheism of the nnolents fd apparent throughout his history; and Hume thought it so natural and so probable, oven in its worst and most, fovalriag features, that he supe posed ft netitatly to exist In some uf tho othor planets, Those tive his words: “Ie wo examine without prejudice the nuclont heathon mythol- ogy, We shall not discover in it any such mone strous absurdity a4 wo muy at first be apt toup- prehend, Where fs tho dittioulty in concelying thnt tho same powers or principles, whatover thoy were, which formed this visible world, mei and mnimuats, producod ilo 0 species of intelll- gontoreatires of moro -rofined substance and grenter guthority thin the rest? ‘bat these creatures may be capricious, rovengeful, pasisons ate, voluptugus, Is ensily-concetveds nor Ia any olreumstinee mure npt among ourgelyes to ne gender such Vieos thin tho vende of absolute uutharity, Ard, tn ahart, the whale mythological system fe ao natural, that inthe yast varlety of peels und worlds contiined in this universe, it souing more than probable that somewhere or other ft fs really curried fto execution.” | ‘This tg whut Dr, Johnson culls milling the bull!" Vinvex, Sulphur in Diphtherla. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, * Cnicago, March 1—Several years ago n state- ment was unde in the nowspipeps that some Hnglish physician bad been very successful in hls treatment of diphthorla by the ald of powe dered sulphur, applied topically tothe exudation In tho throat, ‘The statemont alleged that this said physictan was led to uve It from tho favt that when sulphur was applied to the roota of the grape lufeated with a parasite of aniinal origin it destroyed tho purusite. Italso alleged that out of hun- dreds of cases of diphtheria treated by sulphur not i ense wus lost, Owlng to the fuct that this statomont has ap- peared regulirly in the newspapers every wine tor, and that people are continually wanting sul- phur os n specific, and urging upon parents whose children are supposed to have disease, thoreby cuutshur yreut annoyance to paronta aud physicians, f fellitimy duty to expose the wes truth and absurdity of this pretended method of re, In tho frst placo, tho namo of the physician who Ig alleged to have used sulphur go sicueay. Tully ig unknown to the annals of British modi~ cing. No statement of the kid bus wver up: peared {n any British medieval Journal, Seenid—Tho idea of nut losing a single caso outof hundreds ig nut only absurd but utterly impossible, ‘Lhe mortality in true dipti- thorlu bus never, under uny method of truut- mont, beon below 40 per cent. Truvo diphtheria Twn more u local disense thin searlet-feyer, ly fuet, both aye constitutional diseases, dito to some polaon Introduged Into the blood. ‘Thon. sands of persons, old and young, div of diphthe- riu who ‘never have i inembraue form in the throut or nose, or any lountion whore It cun be seon, They Wie of blowl-polwonivg tnducing Pumiysis of some fmportant onan oF hasues, Third—[t la not true that sulphur Isa spoelile for tho grupe-parasite, It was tried on a large gealu in France and fatlod putirely. Even itt wad a epeeltte, tt would be vo proof that it could bs usetul in diphtheria, for if it did destroy the exudation In, the throat, or the bavtoria which: sxome claim to be the polsonousd element in the exudation, it would buye no intluence on the prison inthe blool. ltwasat one time sup- posed that tho sup hites, By entail te or aul- pavrousuctd, would: prove remedies for diphs sherkt, When taken Into the system and applied logally; but extenalyy trials huve proved them uaavailing, fourti—Aalde from tho inutility of suipbur, Jocally upplled, ity application In the manner rscommended fy fraught with positive danger; go much go, that the profession generully con gidur its use in that manuer to be uctually erin. nal, for the following reasons: Powdered sul- pur ig as dusclubleas sand. Itdoca not dissolve ou the nin ritant, S Now, any frritant substance applied to the throat (inside) of a person aufertng Cron trite Wipbtherlu tends ta increase the apread of the exudation, ‘This tact has led tothe nbnandon- ment of auch remedics us nitrate of alver, ehlorkls of zine, ete, and tho choles of rlmply disinfectants and nstringents,--19 weak carbotie acid, chlorate of potasstt, tHnetire of iron, ete. But tho Recatnst danger from sulphur is this: Wennnot be blown Into the theoat, as Mrat ad vised, without passing inte the triehwa nnd larynx, where ite presence en pitonse irrita- tion, spain, sufocative attaeks, and such an abrasion of the mucous strfies 48 te malo it alt ground for tho development of the diphthoritie membrane. Once this membrane fs located In the phirryne or larynx, and wo bave the mostdreadii) and formidable kind of diphtheria, mime; i 1 meinbranous or diphthoritic croup, a disease from which few, If any, recever, and, If over, only after na drenidfil surglenl operation, Thave known of several cases of true tiph- thorln where, awing to the Importunitics of parents and friends, sulphur wie used ugainet tha protests of tho attending physielan. Not one recovered, On the contrary, ft tnereased the sufferings toa terrible degree, and preelpl- tated tho death of tho patient, Tet. ithe borne in mind that many othor throat disenses are constantly called diphtherit by physicians who are cithor (gnorant or desing, Among those disenses may Lo mention tapenets tonsilits, uleerated sore thront, snd tho so- called * cankered throat." ‘These are all cura- Die by the simplest treatment. If sulphur Is used In sen diseases, If wrongs fully gets: tho credit of curing diphtherin. defy any one, phyaleian or Jngtnin, toudddice Alnglo ense of truc, authenticated diphtharin which his over beon benefited or cured by the npplication of sulphur, iE. M. HALE, M.D. * membrane, but. vets as an ire Improving tho Misstesippl ‘To the Hdltor of The Uhteago Tribune. JANESVILLE, Wis., Feb, 28-—While tho plan of improving the Migsiasippl River by means of large. reservoirs upon the hend-watera of all ite tributaries {8 an enterpriso of erent mugnl- tude, yet It scems tu be the only eomprcben- alye and radical method of trentne It fs proposed tu control the water in detall, rathor than {nu muss,—to store water when tho supply id extravagant and gradually discharge it during seusons of penury, The erosion of the banks fs almost wholly caused by the high water, under n correspondlugly high velocity, and tho result fs the deposit of sediment, cren- tion of bars, rolsiug the bed of the river, shitt- fugthe channel, and the deposits nt the mouth. The shoal places nro only troublesome during Jow water, If all tho tributaries can be made to Rpproanl to nearly a unlform volume: th M ssippl will of necessity conform to the ety ply, and tho evils of bigh and low water will bu ently and permiunes mT by this plan not on! prov t the navigal Uturles tre greatly cnbanced, while their value for munufacturing purposes fs largely imultl- piled, Every reservoir buile [sa pernuinent td: vanee in the development and execution of comprehensive and radical pion, A. reservoir sheds a double bicssing frum its site to the mouth of the Mlasiwaipph. withholding whe thore is waste, and giving whon thore 4s pavert, A levee Js a temporiry expedient, © mere lei defense. It {s doubtful if in tho aggregate the reservoir plan will entalla gronter expense thin the tems Horr, plan of building levees, scunring uttt the mouth, and deepening shoul places, or canting around them, A lovee pays buck nothingto the Government, while reservoirs will, by encourage ing commierce and minucactures, Manu tieturings interests siways seck 1 permanent and uniform water-supply. ‘Tho profits of a yeur are often prevented oF squandered by a lack of pow only a comparatively short time. At tho fect of tho reservoirs and ning tho streams below thei will be Dorn and nurtured large manufacturiag interests, which direetly and Indireetly will re- Pay tho Government for ihe ontiny, The reservoir pln {8 tho true method of im: proving the Missixsipp! Itiver. It Is idle to ply to su grout a task any more temporary pedient, Only a permanent and radical ¢ should command respect. Tn this method ot finproving tho -Mixsiysippi River, Roelc ver ought te be Included,—espect Hy onght Like Harieon to be utilized ns at reservolr, = Gen, Wilson, in his report to tho Chief of En- Finvora of the urmy, on the survey of the Rock diver, as get forth in Col, Worrt!'s sub-report, estimates tho storage capacity of Luke Horicon asalx feet deepon 47,000 neres, Or 12.28),20, euble feot of water, He estimates hie eupne for Ie the water= shed area to supply this reservoir ut 430 eqttare miles, and states that according to-the observa- tlong of Mr. Lapham, of Mitwaukee, the average rulnfall for twenty-four years was i a Jowest being 20.1 iuches ‘and tho highest 44.8) inches, In view of these figures, tho value of Lnke Horicon as ureseryoiris apparent, and it ought not to be tnored, It will be observed that the navigable Interests of the Mississippf and the navigable and m1 facturing interests of {te tributiries are in hire mony. eich would dietato tha tilling of the res- ervolrs where the supply of water Is hirge, and tho drawiug from thea when the supply, is geant. E, Ruaei Hivor Stricturen—Jettlon. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. New York, Feb, 8.—According to tho press your elty seoms to be in great trouble about her seweraxe, in consequence of the sluggish flow ot your river. Pormit mo to say it does not requiro “nny algebrale deductions or cnlcnlations by log- arithins to show what the matter {s or whut the remody ahould bo, Your river has gota strict- ‘ure utits mouth, caused by contracting Its en- pasity by: jetties, This contraction: causes a sluggleh How and retention of the sowerage by precipitation on tho river's bottom, with results well known, The remedy 4s to remove tho strict- ure,otherwise, expand tho month, ‘Todo this Property It 1s nevessury to remove the jettles, us the inouth cun't well bo expanded while the Jet- tles remain. Now, there is butone way to get a Pernunent expansion without resorting to Jet- tlea to maltitaln it. Buch exprilon means et doeper channel to tho entrance of your port thin ithuseverhnad. It fg all to be got by buildingan Qrtiicint stone bur, submerged, nerosy tho mouth of your river fur out tuto tho lke, to take tho plico of murure’s sand-bir, and gu arranged thit tho shore currents have Tull play to carry away all sediment broisghe down by tho river. Projecting fetttes stop thaso, short currents, aid consequently cause the sand aud sediment to deposit directly at the mouth, Tulning nuvigntion, ote. ‘Then the dredge [6 re- quired, 1f your port wants such fmprovements will contract ut my own risk to give thom. Whilu on this subject 2 may add that it seems very funuy that so many of our Amerivan ports arg determined to have the General Government: oréate theso strlutures at vast expouse, Churles- ton, 8... ts putting tham dowe wt an oxpense of about 83.b00,000; su ulsu i Wilmington, N.C, Savanna, Gu, wants o stricture, itso, ind tho St, John's River, Florida, has been urgently de- manding ono for three years, don't spouk of tha South Puss, Misslasippl River, us after tat moath has been raived tor nuyigution that elyer will qulekly open another mouth, and then the general ndvinnce of Juu Feet per annuin of the ene tire delta will soon cover np ull trace of the wh surdenylneeripg required to produce a stricture, Not so on tho Athintle coast; thore tho great drift of tho shore currents will cause tho jettles: wwxoruln the chaunuls by banking up sand In and around thom, that it will bo ytlte impossible to mulntaia thom even with the dredge-bout, ThereCore, after the Government hus spent mll- dons upou miiiions of dollars tu construet these jetties, or atrictures, it will have to spend wllt= uns upon millions to (uke thom up again te order tut the only proper method of getting deep navigable channel through the mouth and length of tho river—viz.; expansion uf Its mouth, can be ndupted, -Please ning me, if you-cutty tt Jetty that has over malntained its ehinnel with: out dredytog. Twill mention tho most cunsple- uous of these works: Thu Rhone jotties were abandoned befers completion, The past two years it bas beon conddered by the Russian and Austrign Governments whothor lt will not de advisable to ubandun the Danubo jettivs and bul B canal instend, ut at the Hhone, »For tha past forty-eluht hours there hus been a) Now York steamer, the Rotterdam, bound for that port, aground ha the Mang, drawing bit roventoon feet of witor, + aud this after twenty dredgu-boata have been dredging out tha entire length of that river, thirteen tnilva, for the past, two, years on «cone truct that mounted to $1,500,000 for dredging alone, Under those facta ta tt nut useless 10 write any more on tha subject of “river striate ures"? tksny F. Kua, C, i, No, 17 William street, loom 27, Chicago's Water-supply nnd Sewerage, ‘To the Editor of Ths Chicugo Tribune. Cutcago, Murch 1,—Thore are no more serious questions, and none that require more speody uetion for the welfare of citizens and the ude vaneement of tho hvalth-record of Chicago, thin those of water-aupply and proper disposition of our vast and rapidly-increasing sewage, tn auch manner that it will not, ad now, contum- Inate our water-supply and pottute the atmos. phere, Tho bealth of our citizens, tho reputa- tion of the elty usa health resort as well ws a renowned commerciil centre, demands phat oven the foul breath of suspicion shalt not de~ truct from ita repute, Belentifie reseurch and. analysts of tho primitive cuuses of most die oases, especlully of fovera and mualarlous epl- demica, demonstrate that they yerminute in ceaspooly of fith saturating the solt ndjucent to the victims, or from guseous polaons porme- ating tho atmosphere they breathe or the food they cut. The most Imperative need of to-day fa In- creased facilities fur disposing of our sewage, which {snow goneratlog and diffusing typhoid malaria, dipbthuria, Boarlatina, and othor forms: of alurmniug extent, besides Megal, und — intol- for tk residents 4 Tingle Btfohyat jacent to tho ic} ON anal ‘and IMnois River, where a portion of it ly of after paylog Mberal tribute to the croatlug erable aud ory of ity exisicice, Mustrative of the Mise torical orlgiu of the name of ourrlyer, Its present | would depasttory, which flows | xcept we Mneonahteran Toe ike frome ny Eettlog et At ett eating Waterss Tho west Fea! Tor temp nurs tei. Without Interfering WI tho Intereae ape transportation, f4 ty creat pumping. e works at an weatern torpilitts of (he Ozer eng the Desplaines vee, ‘anct erento nein the chanpel asad auxtiiory to the canal ‘stilt foulford untramoreted relief untit: the iets Hiver tind ennal ttprovement ts cans it nit National Work, ao Mat the Upper staat and Miasourl Mver nteamers dete woven etl Of water can tuivigate Re Con. Wik et it that depths as the ordinney draft ot moet river howts. This moto will pratandy whet neveptuble fo thoxe persnos Interested” (eye celebrated water-pawer nt thas Ue Iavgely Inerensed in vulu Chiengo Will bear the expens A fix fect more hend “and permit oes regulate thoir head-gates to euit tod? Interesta, fn that manner thay enn canny! currents’ In the vandal ao thnt thetr veto 22 hot interfere witht eamtl transportation Hil tuxpiyers of Chlengo Ive alveaiy: pall ge? SHON.OW tribute to that atapeataus Uae and thelr representatives should not invest othor dollar it. that watur- Tate aval themselyes of nehan they clovate ut the expen em How free and nites torests or tho moro logltin transportation, Inthe ner nuxihory ald must be eel ty maky ainple provisions for utilizing a portion of ng Bowie us fortHlizers. TRO priteticn of pole? esplontge over tho consumption at water t eltizens, save that tied for mechanical pe poses, 1a, nuldy apentcing, A gross blunder, tit an old inaxint that elenuliness Is akin to godt Mie most effielont. and only oft : he most efficient and only effective my of cleansing soll plpos und dealas the priate aouree of winege portion Of the sexes ang mortally of this olty) Is with water, And th eltizenstontd bo fined who does not use suttiene? to keep thentelean, ‘The supply t ample, ant tho faellities cnn? be made nedequate at come Juratlvely telling expenso, Were tlis anes uli understood by all water-consumers, thee ft form a combination that would te perutively demand that thelr hume necesita uid comforts recelve due consideration bet more milliong are expended: for palatial render vous for ollletal mayiites and fut takes top blnvlrmnliing eontructors, or boarded tn te public tronsury—ar now—for tun tinreagnable Ume. Ample peuviaior Ue made for rexervolrs. ut tho teruins of all iudia sewers, aud connvetion made with the water-pipesat the termluus of all Interat sewers, and etch may Bower und {ts lateral- connections shoitld te simultaneously ttshed at such intervals ng will iwep thom free from noxious vapors, ‘Tho citizens of Cateuzo should forthwith form, an alllanen with the producers of the Northwest and unitedly being an tullucnee to bear ips thelr Representatives in Conivess that will cause them to give prompt and vigorous attentions private tae Interests af pti, pertnnnent mi Q that nose importing wublect, the fnmutedtat Jmpro nols mentor the Minols Iiver and the Me Michigan Canal, na it National work that utlvely required, wot only ns st sanitary ity for WW citizens of Chicnuge, bat aly Ag 0 Most effective Inerler wwAinst tho corporate extortion of railway combinations, woien ma terlally affects the Interests of both the pro diteers inthe Northwest and consumers It the Atluntle States, [tis required ti the Interens of clyilization and huinunity to give pure water nnd Heaitbrul nontes 10 eltizensut Chleago, and abate an uniust, iMogal, and tntolerable nu Bunes now Inilicted on all residents wbjeent te the Utlnals & Michigan Canal and [lnols River, and to mitignto the extortions of corpurute aye thority upon allininkind, 2B. F.snorwenn —<—<—— PRINCE ALFRED. Tho WWabits of Life of the Duke of Hdinburgs Loniun Wert, ‘The scene $s purely sytvan and English, andin tho autumn season especlatly «Is. detlelousiy peneeful, While tho sunlight brings a bundne hues out of the planes and beeches, there comes a merry procession from tha labyrinth of closely cropped evergreens. Lradvanee runs a great, plump, handsome 6-yenr-old boy, laughing mer rily, aud earing not an atom for the cold, whlet hus Drought the color into his cheeks ns he runs by ih sido of hfs pet dog, n fle black retrlover, the giftof a faithful retuiuer, whose loyalty ts only exceeded by his want of fmaginution to naming the aniinal “Prine,” Little Prince Alfred Js greatly in love with his curly pet, and the dog canters along with bewnding step, and head turned in fnvitation to a gume of romps Next comesa blue velvet perambulator, tn whteh reelines the baby Princess, ut whowo alilu toddles an elder sister, bighly amused ns “baby” crow ton white Multese, who rolls along like the snowball he is named after. Little Princess Marie tg shaking her sunny curls at her fale young mother, the Duchess of Edinburg, who, dressed in a sult of Dlue serge of the eume hue us that worn by her children, {8 watking by the aide of baby’s perambulator. Jn another mo ment tho watchtul oye of the head nurse has de tected Prince Alfred ina wild attempt to climb i piane tree, and recalls the high-spirited boy with bstngle word, AN the Duchess’ childrea have beignt blue eyes, and ure ux free fret shy> ness or nny symplom of “coddling” aa the sternost of infantile disel piinarians could desire, Thoy turn thelr beautiful eyes with a frau fenrless toole upon thele new nequtalntanee, and ure on cordlal terms at once, The morning promennde with their mother [4 na happy due Jor the children, who vl ed ta yo with hor to Mussiu, to Germany, ever her temporary plies of sojourn inay be. At this carly hour the Duke of Edintarg mostly to be found rounding or writing In his ovo morning-reom,—a sig upartinent, which, lke al the others in the house, 1s comfortably, wot Juxuriously, furnished, Deformed as it ts by terior bideotsness, Eastwell supplies 00 ¢3 Practical peopla made not tw The roons are Jonker at, but. to be TI well disposed for the purpose Of eireulation, wd 1 in. those fn use uve ali the ground Toor miisie-roon, —— drawhag-rootsy ge Toonns, ane Di eure wil on it ievel, wnd are therefore deliciously convenient unl comfortabiy, tell of aly und ight. Two other Apartments on the fist floor ary of! espeelul In terest to the selcet cirelo visiting at Eustwell ‘These are the day and ulght nurseries, absolute mudels of what sheh apartments should be. 1% Degin with, they are of fmaeitie size, perfectly Aghted and ventilated, styntsbed with lew nuuplo nnd cane Luraltitre, snd completely fe front the stuniness of dee! rpets nud rigs. Te teorner uf the day-nursery: is military tents t birthday present from hls futher to Prine Alfred, und treusred accordingly. Its 0 Spar tan kid oF edillce, of gruy-striped muternh with i plain dent table and a stvol,—the kid of tent that der alte Fritz, who: Tike. dandy alticors, loved to sce his own Jensconcedt In. Bee fore a Helgutly write tlre sone of th old-fushloned brass flro-gnards seve high, and to the lett of this thy cots of the Tour Uttle children ure arranged, ‘The two youngest, fred with the morntyg promenade, are Tat asteep; but the Hite “erince iy obvionsly ul ready Outgrowing the Idea of gol to bel at ildday, for he is luughhye merrily at the joke et belug theked up agala utter hls glorious mi with bhick © Pri Little Princess Murisy with her shower of fair hily spread over te pillows, and hor great blue ever malt open, 13 delightful subject for a palater—a thy sleeo ing beauty tn the prettiest of woodhudls. Tus mmdduy rest Is part of the regular progeaus at Muatwell, and appears to be successfal. 1 ois pany Juda, by present results, for fuer te hetvler children of thelr age than Mitte Prince Alfred and bls slatene could hardly be foand At nildday the Duke of Edinburg bas wot through hig serious road and aps nny practiclig for the faully miisieal party of he evening, und fs ready Cory drive round the park which ts Atifal nd spactuts cnongh to ute aunple scopy foray species of outdoor cuter tuimont, dn the. duo} frlendd arrive (roll thy conntry alde, from Londen, from Paris, 78 Bideteruburg, Like the ity uF those why prefer a small elrele of frends to the eral Wild holse of hivge assembites, England's Sallor PHN’ Is thoroughly approvlated by att Tenow hi = Thy is einphitlently whist Is eitlled a quict Whe : cheerful rather thin juyots, pleasant Har than sparkling. Thoroughly Geran 1 be taste for music and serious studies, hy £3 ¢¢ a pletely Rngtish in bis domestic life. No man 2 Inorg plowed with the perfeet working of hig oe tublishinent—from tbe metropulitan inspector: who, with a brave of constables, keeps wsltt and ward it Eastivell, to the clerk who atten a i eet nea a ollica, Old hablis af t elpilue pleked typ onthe Galttea, wud gant by recent og period atlaat, cannot bu thy! i shuken off, although the sportive humor of any days nay have dled out. Like his brother, oy Prince of Wales, the Duke of Ediubury, ant good things In Tensonuble quunitiy, und lie ry opponent of the German custom of iro tng dinner inty a” wearlsomy ceremony, Vr trueted byond atl reasonable Halt by’ a cunt woud ment. At the Ietta dlauer at Fat ry there fy no bowlldering ntinber of dishes, ‘ fr good straightforward bHL of fare, whielt HY are cuten through with perfect enJuyment, tare thurs, however; uppenr at these modest Bet quiets —ulahes, the tere imention of whle Sey the gourmand agog,—witd boar from the frst fn walch Acmluiid brought tho Honan peat to maught, and sterlet from the more dela, Vota. the sterlet, whieh Jd to the sturgeelt 2 A amelt is tou whitlnyg, urrives on su days ut Enatwell packed on fev. ‘Thy eat ne hin tu apect wot celebration, und ve! Pai {ndeed he fa when “wecommodited "utter onuine Russiun fasbloa, As u rule, mus fe lowe dinner at Kustwelly but wt tes oo vy nor days, for Instance, when the Leeuc de Minitea uivivestho Duchess of Falinbutis Ye yonuds a grent denl tn several lang y cine {Ire to hey boudoir, to learn tho lust word of ty French wilthard, whom ehu knows us thuroty ws tho Huggiuy poets and novellats, Whose des ure to bo found wherayer sho iy. there he iy Jato bours at Eustwells the life in whieh i pfail? that of the youn paronts of an inturesting ie who lind fale quit und sweet rest 4 the Kentish wooWund a An Absconder, ohild The agent of Prinve Torianta, tho Lothser of tly, hus disappeared with abuutp ak franed Belonging to bls emplover. ‘The, th curtous feuttre of the utfulr Is that the ree had been forewarned of the man's cu ay Lue bis unsuspecting nature shrank fro ing anonymous adv. ‘ rage WUE