Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1881, Page 3

11) CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, AUGUST “Ss, 1881—TWELVEE PAGES. TESTRUCTIVE FLAMES, ig of Voliz’s Wlowr-SIL in it ‘Bakery on Milwaukeo Avenue. . —_—— Loss Aggregates About $16,000 ss Fully Insured in Eastern Companies, ayen’s Plining-Will on a Strect Soriously Eviscerated, ——— 4 $200,000 Fire in the Business Part of Evansville, Ind.—List of the Insurance. — one Fireman Killed and Another seriously Wounded. by a Falling Wall. Destrnction of & Flonring-Mill and a Large | Quantity of Flour and Wheat at Terre Haute, CHICAGO. ‘Tho alarm fromm box 4153 at 4:10 yesterday mornin. follower! in seven mintites by a 2-tL alarm, was caused by fire breaking out In thethreestory and basement brick building the four-story and basement brick butid- jag at Nos. (80 and G53 Milwauices avenue, owned and occupied a3 a Hourtnill aud steam bakery by’ Frederick Voltz. Onewstory frame bulidings In the front and rear of No, 634 and atNo 110 Auguste street, owned and occu- pled by the same, were included in tho blaze, "The fire was: dlseovered: by Jonna Dickinan and some other bakers employed in tho pradroom In the “busing fronting on Augusta strect, who find left their work to go kito the mill for ou drink of water. ‘The fire was confined tothe basement, nnd seemed hottest near the engineroom, Where {¢ in all probability orlguated. ‘The alarm was auickly ratsed, butsome minutes elupsed before the key to thofirealarm box could be found, and the fire was slready under considerable headway when the Fire Department reached the - ground’ Everything on the promlses was so dry and. inflammable that it spread with great rapidity, and for a time seemed to bafie nlfefforts of the flromen, ‘Cho walls of the mill stood the heat but poorly, and ions ofthem crumbled und fell. Lt was ly wreeked, and the adjoining bubldings: wers all damaged for more thin three: fourths of their value. “Che residences of Mr, Voltz, fronting on Aucusti atree! alo caught fire, and owas damaged fo the extent ot several litndreds of dollars. It is insured for $1,000 in the Buf- falu German, and there iy $1,000 more on fire niture. The bwo-story bullding nt No. 07, owned aud oveupled by Isang Cohn as 4 see. on-hand store and flawed ais was damaged tothe extent of $200, which is fully covered by 8,000 Insurance, Mr. Voltz estimates fils. loss nt $12,000 on bulldmgs and $10,000 on machinery, Out 1 consiterable portion of the Iattur Is Hkely to be found but slightly damaged, and the actu alloss will uot itkely exceed $15,000, ‘Che insurance Is pineed as folluws: No. 07H, building, machinery, ovens, ete, $2,000 in the Detroit Fire & Marine; and stuck, S500 in the Merchants’ & Mechanics’ and $1,000 In tho Commercial of New York, Nos, 650 and 68, building, engine and boiler, machinery, and stack, losured forn total of $82,000 In the following’ companies: United Mlremew’s, Atlas, La Continnee, Detroit Mlre & Marine, ‘Traders’, Merchants? & Mechanics’, 31,000 fay Firemen’s of | Baltimore, fluo Phenlx of ford, $3,000; and Canad Fito & Marlue, $1,000, which is on stock alone, One of the buildings at No, O34 was use ns a barn, und contained cight horses, Valued ot $1,000, several wagons, i carriage, and .a quantity of grain and feed, all o} which were destroyed. It was Insured for a total of St,0ou, Engine Company No, 13 fared badly at the fre, Capt. James Lefavre hid his right foot badly injuced by a hose-cart wheel running pert and Pipemen Leland and Noreross were ill Injured about the head and shoulders by & portion of the wall falling: Upon them, ‘The alarm from Box 413 nt 10450 Inst avon- dng was ewused byw rekindling of the sino : WEWEN’S PLANING-MILIn Tho alarm froin Box 816 at 7:48 o’elack Inst hight followed n few mfuutes Tater by a ste- en alarm from the same box, was turned in ¥ Uftcer Josoph Potfenholz, of the Chicago Avenue Potties Station, upon tho discovery of ablaze in tho tree-story frame phat ait atthe northwest corner of Plorson aud Wells seets, Considerable headway had been tuads by tha ‘tire before ‘the arrival of the extinguishing apparatus, so before tho blaze tind been completely fubrlued tho entire interlor of the building as badly damaged, und the top Moor with iphtents of stuck and machinery was a i loss, Tho bulking Itself has long been eer tothe Department, and the only ty nier iy that it has nut before this become erty, to the devourine element. It was treet Shortly after the great, fire, and was iid feet in dimenslons and three stortes in ve thee owner, Mr, Jolin Mekwen, ovcit- Lis two lower floors asa planing-nill, : ae used di gutting ot the muterly ne j in his building contracts. Its toss, Un manag ts compuratively slight danmge to a ery, and the damage tu the stock of “a sed lumber, ete, In the bullding ut tho iu will” nob exceed $9,000, and the t at the structure fs estimated At IcEwen bhinself at abowt $3,000. pon iis thors da Insurance ns follows; Soe sot Chicago, + ‘Transatlantic, imbiy wifalo. German, $1,000 Homa of Col- rete S1u00s Candis 1 and ML, $500; Con. a tent, Si00; Mercantile, $700; and other aes ugerogatiiys atoit 81,000, of fee urd tloor was the furniture factory ritalvor ntvorson, Hig ‘loss Is pray ‘hs ately areater than that.of Mewen, toca luery being badly damaged and his poe suid Uxtures almost totally destroyed, bang aero valu of his possisstons in the a ink Was about $3,500, and upon thent pane nie HW insurance, "Two othar ocou- mae sa tiidlnz, A. WV. Doehne and acure Phd tose nine could not bo learned, wise thoy had in tha place. ‘I'ha former in pal weewtacturor of ‘bung, plus, tele oa 2h pts, and burber pules, and chest ot {ootg, thes. ‘The carpenter loses a Ceausy of tho fira a a mystery, ‘Joo Miler, the engineer, says that he lett the te yromptly Mb7 o'clock, ut which thue rica ng was inasate condition, ‘Ihe en- ther ait bean closed and the floar of the en- coum Wetted according to custom, ‘The prealet Who turned on the alarm tat he irst saw the blaze on the main io 8 southwest, corner of the bullling, the en itt eee dine, proceedest Frott 5 i that room is en- oa Uisconmentsa from the main structure! 1, & small brick bullding erected ex- ‘pose, Dressly for thy pur Dur OR the pkteress of the firo the broad rout of Davidson's grooery, Mdewaile tn ro nally opnoslt the fi planing-mll, ve, rade the immense crowd of "peuple ehildreh Woon It nnd men, women, anid trato and tone) precipitated fu one conglom- low, rit Lorri ed mass te the basement experien ad te the great numberof those who wey at the full, and notwithstund! bodies Y a Which human legs, arms, a and with ere Antormingled with each other, Weng t, roken and fuged thuibers, no one Whugy ave been biudl Way yhMe Was not learned, wos earried ot r port broken leg, and halfa score: of Shiloh they syecelved bruises and scratches fend a hi” Will recall when they next at. ER tnerad edema dtm ote lite it location o + Bplie, ho rumor could not be substantiated, The alarm THEE BURNINGE. j atin ett from Box 14 nt ¥319 yesterday Bout ft Was caused by a fire on te secant Lollding ge MEStOry and basement brick Owned and pees Ys Eh, and 13 iver streut, Sobaceo ig CooMBied by Spalding & Merrick, awark Tauutucturers, Nou damage. Cuuse, ‘ ® furnace setting fire to the wt Dtunning to the tire Hook and Lad- injured, One mia: : streets with a Horst attached ton Haht buggy, owned and driven by Charles Meht, of 108 Turon street. ‘The pole of the truck stritck Mr, Mehl's horse tn the. girth, completely disemn: bowellue the beast, which was shots few tulnttes Inter to by Ons Consitine. Tho baggy was wrecked, but Mr, Mehl escaped from the tntasured b {uinptng fore the volilston, ‘Tho alarm from Box 178 at 8:20 last even. ing was eaused bya Chinese lantern falling from tho tall of a kite upon the roof of a two atory frame building at No. 30 Groveland Park avenue, owned atu oeenpled ny Frank Munsell. ‘The fire was extinguished before tho arrival of the Department, Damage 3 ‘ webt, ‘The alarm from Box 18 at 4:15 yesterday: Inorning was caused by n fire In the basement of a two-story and basement brick bullets ab No. 255 South Water street, owned an ovenpied by A. TL older thy Infact urerg of Chicaee Emnel paint The tire originated in the basoment, and 1a supposed to have been the result of spontaneous com. bustion, Damage to bnilding§600, and to stack $50, é ‘The warm from Box 203 nt_11:1% yestertiny morning was caused by the explosion of 0 eur of oll, which hind been Toft on n sewing. iachine In the residence of Mrs, Dizzle Hen mer, No. 148 West Jackson streut, Damage tu houaa and contents, $2, vehicle be- AT EVANSVILLE, IND, Evansvinnt, Ind, Aug 24-4. fire broke ont ab. 3 o'eluck this morning in Urso & Murah’s wholesale fruit store, and spread to the adjoluing buildings, destroying nine large wholesale houses and their contents,—nalmost a total loss, ‘The names of fring burned out are ag: follows: Urso & Marsh, wholesale trutts; J, D. Preston & Co, wholesale gro- cers; Reis & Schumaker, leather and find. ings; Roach & Miner, O. HL. Brumimelhaus, clots; C.D. Long & Co., saddiers and hare ness; ‘Top & Co,, not burned, but destroyed by tho whole building caving in,—a total wreek, e When tho building caved In there wero three firemen In the building, two of whom were buried in the ruins, One wits oxtri- ented at once, badly Injured, and the othor was taken out deat at 1239 this atternvon, The instirance $s $140,000, $05,000: distrib. uted muons the following coinpantes: Frank- Hv of Philadelpliia, $10,000; Royal, 34,000; Q Hinrtford, S400; Citizens’, hva $7,000; Underwriter’ Agency, S15 of New York, S100; citna, anee Company of North America, $5,009; Phaonts-of Hartford, $4,000; Ningnart, $7,000; Duitfala German, 20,500; Queen S150, "The balunee, $45,000, 1s In sinull amounts among other companies. ‘The stores destroyed wero ama ne the best. of the city, and iF tere hid boon a hhst wind the wholy block and the one adjoining would have been destroyed, The Armstrong Furniture Compiny and Mekey, Nesbit & Co., wholesale ary goods, opposil, were only saved by great exertions, ‘The stables on die alley belonging to Irak Hardy und others were also tlestroyed, ‘The supply of water was not suiliciont and at one thne ft fodked ‘us if the results night even be nore serious than they were. ‘The total loss Is ubout $200,000, $5,000; AT ARKANSAS CITY, ARK. Ankansas Crry, Aug. 24—Fire was dis: eovered at 2 o'clock this morning ina stall building occupled ns a butcher shop. Before the flames could be extinguished they com- muunignted to the dry gonds and grocery house of Lawrence Bros. ‘The flames spread with such rapidity that In less than two hours tho entire block, which comprised the principal portion of the business part of town, was In ashes, It was with tho greatest difticulty that the immenso railroad cle- vator was saved from destruction. ‘The sullerers. are ns follows: ’ Luwrence Bros, dry goods and. grocaries, 8 about $40,000; Dunaway. Co. raps and groceries,” $10,000; residence of Colds W. Dickerson, $8,000; Jolin | Fuller, saloon, $1,000; J. AL Parker, hotel, $2,000; Wallaed & Provise. saloon, $: . We Helm, 1,000; grocery, $1,600; John: Gunner, saluon, $400! ames Dufty, bonrding-louse, $500; Jolin Fuller, dwelling, $1,200; office material of the Journal newspaper, $1500; Joe Zerm, fruits and confectionery, $1,000; W. E. Cole, irae, $3,000, ‘The insurance 1s light Conslderable loss was sustained by plunder- hd after the goods wera removed from the houses. . _AT ABERDEEN, 0« ; Apenpern, O., Aug 2.—Last night th warehouse of Messrs. Helin & Cheesman was discovered on firo, In which was leat tobacco belonging to Drydion & Co. aud True & Son, ‘Loss on warehouse about $3,600; insurance, 3,500, Dryden & Co.'s loss about $0,000: in- sured, Su, True & Son’s loss is about $2,000, vovered by Susurance, ‘There Jan large Joss of umber, shingles, and coal, witch mnkes thé total near 312,000, It is supposed to be the wurk of an Incendiary, AT TERRE WAUTE.: Speeint Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Trrne Waure, Ind, Aug. 2.—Tho ex- tensive tlouring mill of Charles Rapp was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon, Tho mill belng situated outside the water-lhinit, tho Fire Department was of but Htlle avail, An the mill were stored #25 barrels of our and 4,000 bushels ot wheat, all of which was consumed, ‘The loss on building and stock will ngsregate $18,000, Insured for $5,000, divided among tho following companies: Western, Laneishire, and Westchester, ‘Lhe dire origtnated In the pumplng-roony, —— ATT BATTLE CREEK, MICT. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Barris Cneniy Mich, Aug. 24.—An tne cendiary fired the new dwelling house of A. Hutchins, six miles west of this clty, to-day It was totally destroyed with contents. Lous, 34.000; Insured for 81,200 In the Farnore utual, AT HARRISHURG, TEX. | Hannisauna, Tex, Aug. 25.—The shopsot tho Galveston, Harrisburg && San Antonto Ratirond burned Inst evening, together with tools, machinery, throe locomotives, and ono pussenger-cur. ‘Total loss, $200,000; Insurcd, At is supvosuil the fire originated from spon- tancous combustion, Es 4 AT DANGERFIELD, TEX. - DANGENFIELD, Tox, Aug, 24.—Nearly nll the business part of this town burned yester- duy, $25,000; insure 000, r et ALLEGED FORGERY. ‘ * Hdward P, Harper, an attorncy, appeared bo- fore and gave himsolf up to Justicu Arnd yes- torday, be huving learned that tuere was out for bis arresta wircant charging aim with forgery. ‘The easy was, continued under. bonds of $600 to cra The complainant in tho case ie a brotherattornoy nurmed Courles Whllaing, whose oltice {9 tu the. Ubiich Block on North Clark strovt. ttisnileged that Harper attempted to rrow $l from Williams, aud olfored as coltat- erul scourity a mortyage which Calvin d, Hol aug, a wugon-8prinymukor at No, 20) Wo Twelléh struct, was willing to xIvo upon ma- obines used 11 hls busiucss. Hurper renrosont- od, 6o Willlaws ulloyos, that there. mort= thore wore such inortgages to Barden Urothers, grocers at No. d50 Wabash avenues that Harper claimed that the mort: wages bud Loon palu; and exbibited to Williams such niortsages with the tenes torn off, The vomplaiusnt claims to have loaroed that those mortyuges had not boon paid, and that in foarte olf tho siynutures Hurper committed forgery. - A DESPERATE UNKNOWN, . Mra, George ‘Jacnstein and Bira, Theodore Traucrulcht reported at the Chicago Avonuc Btation ut 0 o'clock fast evening that while they worn enjoying the Juko brooze on the plor at the foot of sculearo pvonue, aut UntiGey Soramn nased them on the pie! upon read! paint further out duliven jumped into e wittor and was drownod, re Jobnvon and Charles GQ. Kok obtained a small boat and dragged for a thno fur thobody, They wero ——————— is A Queer Count. A curious porsoa died recently in Paris at tho, Mm upuisun Bertrand, the companion of Nupoleon 1. at Count covery year Ui Torced the wattor to tel) bim the rousun wu tat the olty was besly by thu Prussians, Count Hertvand wos stupetied for a morwent. At hist hu gotup snd waaderod about the hotel fury Sime, saying ta biusell, * Purla bestezody bo- vleyed? what ought a Bortrand to dor” And, after a few minutes’ roflection, ho sald, “i will mo co bei" Aud bo went to bed and slopt out PECULATIO Fortunes Made and Fortunes Lost in Wheat and Corn in "a Woek. Origin of tho Grent Bull Movement Big Operators Interviewed. Opinions of H. O, Armour, Hatch, and Others, New York Neral, Aug, 2, ‘The extentof the regent grain speculation inay bo laferred from “the fact that Mutus Hateh Is known ta have earried at one time 1,800,000 bushels of corn; a prominent daw fown merchant, who prefers to keep his name out of print, had $,000,000 bushels, more than the entire supply in store at Chieagos said Mr. Keene, itis satd, held 1,000,000, purelitsedl Ab 45 cents and sold at profit of $200,000, we- cording to rumor, ‘fhe Armours, of Sew York and Cnleago, held even more, and are eredited With having made n handsome fort- une, Among the “shorts”? whe have lost large amounts of money ne prominent Ger- ain banker fs spoken of, who, for himself and his etstomers, has dropped $700,009 within a week, mostly of forelyn aecount. ‘The loss among snail operators. who lind sold the market short have been very large in the aggregate, INTERESTING: OF INIONS. Betow will be found the opinions of somo of the heavy operators in grain. ft will be seen that they agree in the math as to the enuse of the great bull movement,—short erops,—but differ as to the future of the mare kel. Itis to by regretted that the views of Mr. James 1, Keene, who is largely inter: ested In the produce markets, could not be had, owlng to tits absence in Newport. MIL ARMOUR PREMETS HIGHER PRINS, Mr WH, O. Armour, of Armour, Ulankine Rufus ton & Co., Broad street, 2 member of the bull cllqne, seemed to be relietunt to give his views, ansaid: “We ure packers of pork and beef, and don’t think we knuw so very much about grain’? “But your house Is reported to tigare laveely tn the gran speentation 2 * Well, f buy things when 1 consider them cheap, and sell thom when L regard then as high,—thut's trav? “Flow about the corner in wheat!" “'Thore Is none. 1's all nonsense” “Nota corner in. August wheat when its price I3 so much higher than that of Septem ber?” “No, there's no corner, A gre: ple have sold ft short and the ward, so that It eannot be dell ib many peo: st ds ba al very’ rely but you will find that as tho month goes on the price wil soon adjust fisel? to its proper Jevel. Only walt till people ase ehitnes to deliver the wheat they uive sold?” “Hows te the speculative outlook yen iy dia peat 3? Lian nradical bellever in inueh higher prices, Lb thiak-all provisions are bound to bu higher, as they always ary when there is ashortice in the crops.” “And do you think that will tren out to be 80 heay, “Very large, indeed. Why, If tho esti mates of the Departinent of Agriculture go for anything at all they indicate a shortage in wheat alone of from 25 10 30 per cent, whieh, lua production of, 1 beileve, shout 47,000,000 of bushels lust year, would amount to from 145,000,000 to 150,000,000, ar bout equul to our entire export of last year}? TUE SUMINKAGE IN CORN. “How na to tho shrinkage In corn, Mr. Armour?” “Wall, if the Government estimates are at all right, the corn crop fs from 00,000,000 to 400,000,000 bushels short. Now, that’s a eu- Janitty to the country, and no citer sitting Sn his chair and writing an editorial on the wicked spectintion knows anything about it, That means such a change inthe relutions ob demand and supply that there must be tt rise equal {n pronurtion to the new condition of things. 2 3 ion you do not look for a further brent in prices 2 “Oh, tho speculation has leon enormous, and there nay be viuient fluctuations up and down—no doubt there will be. When we buy we move the ayaln from Chicago to this clty for export. We don’t buy on inargin, Dut move the stuff itself!” “What will tho export demand be, in your Judgment? “Prices show that wo have not much to export, oven It the demand should be great, which 1 dan't betieve it will be,” “What effect will this speculation have on the farmers’ interests 2” ) “Well, they have much smaller crops, but they will probubly make it up by the nigher prices they will receive for thelr products,” “Conceding even the shrinkage in crops, Bie Arwgitts are not prices abnorinally high alrendy ¥ “Not at all, For tho past fivo years wo have had enormous crops and ubhormally tow prices. Why, I am not a very old man Wave sold wheat at Sha busticl.” THE PRICES OF GOOD Propucts. “*Tlag not the nvorage price of corn for tho past few years been near 40 cents a bushel!” “That miy be, but wo dinve had a site cession of tho most enormetts crops—n_ per- feet giutof corn, I remember the old fash foned price used to be about 81a bushel, Butthen, as L tot you befure, 1 am very radied! Ur iy views,” a high do you think food products will go? : “L would not dare to tell you. ‘The longer aim Hives the less he fuds he knows, and this is a grent country, and a wan must always be-ready to modify his ylews by any chunge that may occur, 1: think all food products for the next twelve months aro ou to minge mich lighor, Remember that we ore the great suppliers of clicnp foal tor the world, and whor there Is 2 alirinkage in tho supply here tbls a very different athur froma falluro In the crops of any Europuan country. When our erops fall, then the mares of the whole world show tha elfects of It. “his has beon the greatest spoculation in foot products ever known in this country, ing Ib ot? “Notatath Tho volume of speculation ns grown with the increase of the country; but, ns to the fluctuations, thoy lave .beon small compared to those of some ‘years ago. ‘This speculation tg a baby compared to sume Lremember,” MH. WATCH'S PREDICTIONS. “No, als,” Mr, Rufus Ilateh sad: tho re- centudyance in corn was lot fostered by ariiticial means, - ‘The wheat deal may -have been brought about by manipulation to a cortaln extent, but the risa mt corn was tho natura result of a condition of alfalrs which att oxlsts, and which many sake corn still pigher, “To what do you retar ?" was asked, “Well, the whole thing can be explained ver’ brietly. You must know that thare {5 a strip of land slong the west side of the Allegheny Mountaing, aud extending Ihrough the States of Ohio, Ind ane Ulinols, Missour!, Kansas, aud Kentu Itisabouta thousand miles long and frot to 700 miles: wie, ‘That embraces all of what is known as the ‘winter. wheat section’ of this coun- try, and Is whatis known to grain men as tie *Corn Bolt,” ‘This year the winter wheat raised In this sectlon-will be botween 40 and Ww percento£ the usuil crop, .In: fact, tak- jug the whole of. It Fouether, re 18 reason to believe that it will not thrash out more than half aorop, But corn is even worse, and thore Is no question that there will be 8 fod deal luss than half acrop. In brief, the whole cause of the recent ‘sso in grain may besummed up In’ two words,—short crops, The shortage in corn fs more marked than Jn wheat, and the members of the wheat ool would nothave been fo successful In No. S red ifthe fallure of the cors hig not helped them, ‘Chis was some- ike a pluce of luck, for the condition of tie corn yield was not known when the whwat pool Was formed.” “ Whiat were tho canses of the shortagé Jn the first place the wintor grain was In- jured by the extreme severity of lust winter, The heavy shows wet a reas deal of corn that had been eribbed. ‘Then came the long dry spelt of this summer, which has gerlous- ly aifeo! only: yleld this, year—that which is harveated jn dune, . Why, when He was thrashed It turned aut only one-halt what it was, expected to yield, 2 have sean specimens of corn trom alist all seutions, and the vars are hirgely composed of wore “nubbing, and the wheat Is equally pour, with n short and thin ber a e Hew about the bull g faust aka pool was form ast 3p! cons, alsted of syeculators lu Ciena, Chactaunthy : Louls, nnd this. ef At that time boty else was it bear. wits Kin wan that w should not have full crops in. this country, Dut it was not supposed that. thes would fall far short of an average, and the estates for opin Kurape were heavy he pool, os they ated of Mi Aramis fan Keenn, Titteltinson of St. Louis, aed several others,” aan Ataf Hately, 0 tits ehyyt borter suggested, Interrogillvely, “Well, the veteran operator Teplied, with 8 pecullar siule, wis on theantslde, But, ns J watt saying, thoy sent agents to the ‘Sy and they soon found ample reason to know that the crops.were going to ta: hardly more than talf what they onght to be, OF eatirse ft didn’t tale nen ike Are lunur & Co, lone lo know that the thing todo waste operate for arise, vere shrewd enough to do it and tte tnoney, When 2. commenced baying corn fie May It was down to 44 aint 45 cents a bushel, Tels now 72 andl over.” A FERTHET ADVAD “WIE there bea further advance, bull movement reached its hlght 2? “Well, the nilvanee has been so sudden sittee the Ist of Auiust that fe fs natural te expeet tint there wil be some reaction, Bit the highest prlees tive not yet been renched, fn my opinion, beeause, as To have said, the: peas crop WHE be intel shorter Un bins t s b Phere will be another rise wheat Js harvested ne is uodispuiting the facts whi [the rise,” In the first place, Sear was nut 80 Harge us yout before,—uo that during last winter, Tee was a very long and severe one, the Ys were obliged to tise miilions of bush- ls rel U dock. ‘Phis wis i serious dtrafcon the supplyon hand. But it was not, tut the dranghtof the midis of June tint We bean to hear muelt talk of a short supply of corn, ‘Fhe duly statement of the Agri eulturi Department pat its probable yleld Ab 00 pereent. Siiee then they lave put ita great deal lower? THREATENED * But there is one fact, tt Which ts rorreet, AT the cori In 1sij— ILS. y young frlent, Wry portant one to remember, iting seetlons of this: country have not had a drop of rain for elzbt we ‘There never. was seh tleotit, aid AF it contiiies tour weeks toner to the winter-wheat section i with be too Jute for then: to plow for their fat wheat, Nothing can save them bul Wwo weeks or t and He intuxt egme soon-—whthin two “rhe drend of thls conthited drowe2ht aly hl something to de with wd vaneligs the in ce In uta West. If tt contin es four weeks longer wheat will gg up 25 or 60 cunts a bushel? “Tow about the spriig-wheat crop “We ennnot tell you fist what) it will thrashout. Bat it will buat great deat less st year,” “Phen you think tint, as the crops ave we Uy very short, prices will be still Yess. whoat is gol to sell here about as wns ittlues in europe, ‘To give you a Tilen of the shorty: nay sity that Samuels, of the largest dealers tn the ine that he ts shipping wheat to In the heareot the wheat country of Corn and wheat are both higher Louls than da Chtengo, which "lias rheen known herore. The quality of the corn ia so poor that only about 0 per cent is tagpected and 7 ttaeed Inerehant Kentucky. fn St, G3 nble (ue No.2), atid the abninyg 4¥ pervent Is either marked No. 8 or rejected. ‘The eron {ne Brrope hes been ave lal vs, butt falls far short of whit was expected, except lin Rassias ‘The speculators th euroy Ve Tost a arent deal ot money. ‘They undertook to sell wheat aud it tovk thom shout six W to | fii out tat aur erops liad been badly damaged. 1 have not a bushel of corn, but Lt will venture to say that In slx months lt will sell at St per Dashed. * We shall have the shortest crap that Tas been raised In twenty-iive years in pro- portion te the bind muder cultivation, 1 have wl correspondents traveling ail through the wheat country, and iave received as many ag fifteen or twenty dispatches a diy, so that 1 shave full ady . CONALRV ATIVE VIEWS, Mr. W. TL Trafton, dt, & conservative, trlputed the ‘rise to 51 eropa, und expre: tho opliion that priees might be atl flghe besore the end of the yer, ‘Phe beghining ofthe present bill movement, le suld, was: about Atscust last, and since that thine more than 13,000,000 bushels of corn have been sold at the Produce Exchange for spect, hiallye purposes,—dolin Lyon, it heavy Sspe ~ulutor of Chicago, being one of the first buy-. ers. Armour & Co. were the largest spocit- Intors fn whent, holdiig 2,000,000" bushels of the 3,000,000 now. in stipply dn Chivage, Tn Germany,” Mi 'Trafton: continued, © the crops of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and hag prove to be very disappointing, tha yleid of Tye, onts, and wheat not more. than three-quarters of « crop, and some of one correspondents plies rye nt nob above two-thirds of anuverage. In Rowmnn- ninand a pirtot Austrit much Injury hos been done to. thele: crops, Brom France the ndvices are also unfavorable, As thrashing progresses the yield Is disaypolating for both wheat and oats, the Inter espectally bad; and Instead of that country exporting, 4g has been stated, thoy will ntve to fuport frown 30,000,000 to 15,000.00) bushels of wheat, and also very freely of oats. "The Injury to the root hns been serious, and all tly Intell gence combined his contributed to the bioy- aney and excitenont that have chutacterized ourmarket the past week, T'rices of both spot and opts haye been rapidly adyanced, and have heen fereed above the [nits of most shippory, so tliat Ue export trad hing beun restricted greatly. Lt Is very evident that tho real situation of this country has not been properly convdyed ty the ininds of Kuropean renders; Indeed, the majority of them have buon misled, and therefore will bo slow lo appreciate the situation as it really Js, For the first five months of the cereal year Western Europe will have to depend iipon country to supply much of thelr slefieles ‘The faet of thelr reves Tig Hghter than at any: thie for many years will compel them to buifres buyers of new whent. early in the autumn, so that the competition here will be greater than many suppose; and ty the qunutity to be contunded for is very mul less in this country than Inst year there are many good reasons why farmers should count on good prices, Prudent und conservative business men regard the than elal situation with much apprehension; the weak position of our bunks and the constint dratts upon them by large operators here and the West, to carry on thelr Figantic spec- lations, way, {tis feared, lead to disastrous results, It Wilt be soun thut tho resarves of our bunks have beon reduced from $000,000 tu about $9,000,000, ‘This xreat chansxe cor- tainly places them, in no very enviable posi- thon, and when they decline to extend tur- ther nid to speouintors to enable thom to oarry out thelr ‘corners? then we may look out for 9 sudden collapse, that might tem porarily uusettle values,” U ———————— THE PANAMA CANAL. Tho Weadly. Climate—Torrible Condi« ton of the Work Pouplo Employed ‘Thoros ‘Deutecho Zeitung of New Orleana. The whol of the locatiod of the canal which stretches through an endless morass, and forthe most partis inimbited only by allixators and polsonous serpents, demon- strates the extraordinary wnhenlthiness of the country, ‘Phere proyalla a certaln inala- rious fever, which Isqven more dangerous than yellow-fover, Tlie nicknames of soy. cral places, auch as ‘Europeans’ Grave,” “Fever Grotto,”..and “Death's Zephyr,” would alone’ sufice to prevyont 9 thinking mon from: volng there as a laborer,’ Only journals that are falsely informed could think of persuading Jaborers to set out for Pana . " ‘There are about 200 colored men and sixty Europeans at work: on the canal, and these ave cecupled with measurements and with cutting away the trees and ellinbing plants in the futura-bed of the canal. . These jobs, « however, advance very slowly. ‘Tho inure derous cllmate.demands so many yicthns that about one-half of ue workinen are cons tinually lying sick: Already 9 auass of Thuman skeletons. ave bleaching there; ant ns Ly Its thine the railway between Colon ant Panuny, Sortraven. and one-half jiles loug, roqulved a human yietin for avery inch, there will be xo foot ot this new entorprise ur agea a ae re ens that labo wire ford cine: . 18 be found af tha right thue and in Sha tight place. hogultaty. for tha poor victlins here are as yet one that pro satisfuctury, Wretched = barracks have been Ktuck up, which do nat oven keep out the rain, + ‘The food that is glyen to the laborers ts entiyely inadequate, ‘They gut rico three thues a day, vulfeu mornung and evening, aut at noon Wvery small plece of salt ment. Bread 3 never givens With all this, the mei, Who huve to work juan heat of nearly 100 degrees for nearly ten hoursa day, re celve the uilserablo sum of $17 a month, here tn thy art ‘The devices employed to make It diMeult for laborers to pet away from Panama can readily bo tuderstood. It ts exceedingly wasy to get there, wud frome shine UE parts of the workd ships brine inen gratis but when they wish to leave the prices are fabu- hostaty Nigh. The Panama: Rallrond des inands for its forty-seven tuiles the extraur- dlinary. fa All th peers Cotte ple, and every one whe fas gel money to getaway hastens as quickly us possible, so ag not to feave his bones there fore Many xo to Panauaor Colon to ty thelr horses and ride off for Mexleo or Costa Tea, where the climate Is more. healthy, but the Witzes are yet worse the enna, That Hewweomers tid themselves fn tt nost sad sit tration [4 easy to nderstand, Beer man who. Hennes his home to subject hitself to alt pes uid to that mnurce: cliante is Ks the speentators are bite itis poll in thelr expectations, Sinee the Inbore Pits goad aa nothing, it Is plaln that the at only bay the most ine dispensable thts ‘The trat duty of the company should have heen to provide for the ereethon af huswitals, In which the laborers shoald bo treated xratls; and the secant daly shomd Tava been to provide sufieiuntly good food; and, finally, wares should be and the (ine of work shortened. As tong ns. this ty not done the feoinpany Wil [lave to get its work- men fron Chinn. | Brew and beats are wbanel- int in the country, and the sous. of the Mid- dle Kingdon reqittee nothing more, eo GEN. SHERMAN, Min Aversion. to Polltles=The Beason Why Bla Was Never o Presidential Candidate Mo Wonld Ratner Be General, Sir.” Ta the Laitor of The Chteagy Tritune, CALDWELL, QO, Atte, 2h—En the Bngnirer of the 22d Inst. f find in the correspondence of George Alfred Townsend wn interview with “n politien! frlend in the Democratic party,” In which the following reference to Gen, Sherman deers: Tow 161 wild 1, that Gen, Sherman docs r not attract eithur political party miure its a bie Prosidentint vandidueet win prota in this count nitvet ites work for hin. re Orleans together, and ‘Fou Ewing said te Shere tans "Sherman, there 4 gomg to be a war ni without nny donbt. iad def were you L would yo right home to Oi, and my tatior will have Yeo made a Majors ’ Gou 8 Bins! hie hend and to ys fi ts at Mase etsadler-Generat, There minted [te tho frst part a turn aut ail the}: then tha Brigad fora Heigadior-Generatey ta dessin with vonetndss my informant, “that M4 an instance or Shermans individuality of thought and sigucity. Men 18 smact ug that political parties are nfeatd to handle On some one remarklig to Gen, Sherman Sumy presenee that he would be President yel, bu replied, “No, siey L world rather be General, sir?" ‘Phis is ut the first time that Gen, Sher- man's nine lags been connected journal: Istleatly with the Presktentlal candidacy. Every once tia wile bi his name come to the surface In that connection,—for Gen. Sherman ts always in the vtbild eye, con- stuntly on the wing, rendy of speeeh, ant Jast as ready with the punt. Hardly a day gusses that he does not write a letter or make aspecelt for publication, J doubt If any nian in this country, exeept, perhaps, Gen. Grant, Appenrs as often in the dally newspaper press as Gen, Shernmm, Yet he dow’t reek tt a bit more than Gen. Grant does. He is an Mistrious : soldler,—onw of the innnortal tre. of successful Generals,—Sheridan and Girant being , the other two, of course: aint the. peapla are eaustantty calling nim ant. fle ts rlways rendy to respon Dy stivech or pen, and graces all uunnier of oc cusions with nia kuen and pecuilar eloquence, the'soul of guyo:l suase, goud hemor, and chivil- rie courtesy, Hut ho iv averso to ‘polities. Ile looks down on tho political grona, enjoys the Spoetacie much ns be does n play,’ for, by the Way, no one je oftener seen In tho theatre thi Geb, Sherman, fe enjoys the drum of uyer tt kood comedy with all tha zest of nt brbght boy, ‘nud hisippreciation of tho opera {9 very tne In- deed, 1 suppose he is out nt sume sort of dine ver, meeting, revuion. opera, rico, regatta, or ounur public wfalr,—furhe attends all that eomes in tis wayethree hundrod day omits in the year. Yous, 1 torrot the dahees,~-the ualts, L betlove your chy folks call them; ‘these he cn- Joys hugely, nnd will pot turn hits buck on a round duce if Mes. Sherman is not theru! Mes. Shorinun frowns on such things. Mrs. Sherman fs vers pluid.c title tndy of oxilted religious fervor, a Homan Catholit of the purest type, choice it ber society, and with firm views that tho Generalrespects if ho don't i 1 want to be 1 ¢ Will he mistakes cone if the War, and thoy wilt copy. dun. Sharman {fs the most thorough-golor Democrat In bly tustes, habit of thoueht, and tognner OF speech uat Lover suw. He knows ny diference between men but the ditferenco thie talontand aduention murk. Ho would treat 4 private suliior Just the sami ho would treat Gen. Grant or Gen. Sheridan, provided that tha private merited such courtesy, He would cor respond with the most obscure private soldier or citizen on the sume ters that be would corres apond with tho President or Gen. Grant, always provided that tho abilities and chnracter of the, private man deserved such contidence and re- spect. I bolleve that if ever Gen. Shurman should mect ono of his soldlurs who knew more than he does, bid more Urains than he bas, bo would tako his hat off to bin and treat bi with te Sleforcuge observed In the ariny to superior ollivers, = 5 Nut 1 am getting away from my text, I set out to write nbout Gen. Sherinau's Views nbout pollties, und tha rensuo that he dues pot sevic the Presidency, Tn 1876, [ wus a membor of tha Ohl Lextsta- ture, und an varavat advocate of the noma. Uon of Gov. Huyes fur tho, Presidenvy. Mat guch Was iny feeling toward Gen, Shermnn that L deturinined that {Che would staud for tho num. {nution that Ll would give tim the preference in 80 far asiny humblo powers would ydmit, Aud ao T sat down and wruto him a letter stating frankly chat f would rather vote for blin forthe Prealdency than for wuy other tan, and re- tninding bing that if be would refuse thou 1 should feel free to use all the Iittle it of Intlue ence £ hat for Gov. Hinges. My inatuntly re- plled 18 follows: Hr, Lots, Bt “DEAR St: Your kind Jettor Ie Just rovaly: thous f thougut every. budy knew tay xoneen' inquiry, {eaunot heal nich way ng (oninit of no misconstrncdon. I never have buen, aul net now, and never shall by i candidate for the high uttlue oF vention at ‘the tw now that olfice dilud by one of the millions who inthe Civil War xtood by thy Unton troily utd une~ guivacally, ubduf those 1 mutica tany anuies ile and capable, Hrominent anong Wien teGen. Hiyen, Row Governor uf Oliv, whoin L knuw as a tind onloue Und p yonticnian In every sunao, Tt nut, howeve wink ty bo inimanddrswd as prosuniing to advh Bnybody I thy chulce ut us man, sly wite tnuntly are strung Catholles, but | am not thut, how: ever, 1s niHbody'e as, L belleve in the euinman over the Uitte mutters whitch by the prove. Inauuio quar wehoals,und don't woot to bo oxugzoral ur, these choles UeD ors, hhuwarr, extraviuianul, und udwice in costly valtdings und uxpansive Leachers, se net be envy B bundy to tho ixpayors, hea: hia Cuhdeney ought to be chucked, witlch may easly bodony without making tx political question. Belt Interest, WIM ruqulate thle und maxy thuiy tryy schools to all und capably of laparting the rudimenta OfB woud Engilss educuuon, Yours truly, We Ty BHRIMAD There has boon a great deal said about G Sherman's attitude In the last Presidential eau paign. Therv is no mystery at all about it once the publlowet the fnots, flo wasslinply noutral,— ne be always bas been over elnoe 1en,—standing (Pand taking ne purtatallin politics, Lrather “suspect the grim old soldier, who is much of 4 pa josopher, with enough of tha eynic ta spice Is practical philusopuies und eluinute all yous sons and bosh, slush and gummon, clear out of thom, louks with xerone unit finmensurable and fimoyable contempt on paw Jus und potiticins, Thappen to have exact Informagon npon this subject, in a letter fn Gun, Sherman's awn hand- seneing whioh hus nevor before Loen published, aud whlob roads as foliows: . ikapatanrens AIBLY Uy TIE U Waninatos, 1. C. Coe ALR. 2, tan ldwelhy Oc DRAN DAIZKLEE SE AGe G8 ia tegaived. und ouroe Ghat muy porsuu ocelved, nid Lr relations 2 two uminent catididates for Meondent are auch that {am unwililng to say oF write any tiing fe dntlusnee s wiuglo wuts. Luni suco thes whichovar js nucouesTUL Will CuidIl thd requlruments at tho Cons stitution, presorvy, protuch and defend te Constitu Hon of thu Unies states, und takow corn that (he awe Bro faittifully oxvcuted. Ninow the Laxtt ng or ‘ime there hover wusy Woe UU earth fur which men anual for a0 holy-and patriviio & eques, we at iu Usiie'ws, ‘veniy your friund, W. ‘ty SHRMMAN, It nocd hardly bo udded that this letter was in response to one that Chad writton two days bas fore soliciting from Gon, Sherman an ecarncat Indoraument ut Gen. Guehuld for the Urpaldunay, Tor public uso among aurcomrades in tho North, wid, not having been ubleta seoure just tho ieind of a lottur that 1 thought avaliable for the Purpaseana med, J taid tt by vory caretully ott bis mowont, wien itis produced to shaw that Gon. Sherman was neutral iu the campiign, aud not for Eanvouk, as clatuied tu Deimaurntiv jours nals. Eu wy travels throug Sndiaua, Oblo, West Virginia, and Pounsylyanla, during tho cate paleo, L found tha regular army olticors yune erally inalatuining tho suuso neutrality In that Gusheld “carne. aknoat tou mans ‘Notably varoostly,. al - Nota Maj, Gould, Paymustur United States ary, ope inted by Lincoin, wham 1 inter invenned easly iu Septwmber, who i ‘ seas Ie as: ee atts ot seguir ileses A iy oun aud such auul 1 have boen their opinien aud practice throughs out. Gon. Sherman's aversion to partisan politics ell knuwn, invomuch thus hu do- Cfarod Eh weltinur tO ties ‘Rebs 10, while, Ox- olarod in writing to Grossing o'hrafaranne foe Cav, Hayedy they be P iniles, the gruut civer Huda Ite way: himeetf wag not now nor ever would ho a cand date for tho Pr And it ta atsa known that, referring to tho matter af voting, tho Genenth aud be had, ike Grant, vated for a Demoerat indidate forthe Presidoney, Mike Hlot never voted Cor any ane sineny bes yori whe wat ——1 fool enous erat fie ISO had by that vet fron aver voting nygnin bee tho Ci nitrality: ninay be wsoliined very ithe ly by able correspontents, but L hone that a etatement of hie posivien as given in his own words and letter above tmiy he admitted to 8! additonal [beht on this perplexing subject. ote 19 the soul af eanda too shrewd wt mian of the world to bu duped or leccived by fattery or intrigie, fora steel trop 14 notaing to Shere hinit'n sitgacity and pone ration, i Heist One orator, speuks upon tho spur of Hon, nnd carries the crowd with blin In WAT OF ENthuataeid, Heh te he eneriedt the boys with hint tothe Rear and perhaps there is the seeret of tho chtrin after all, ‘Natk of your candhiates for tho Irestlenev$ Ir he consents to rut, the veey atiera will Meht in thot courses for hint 1 shonid rathor vote for tal for that office than for any man Uving. 1 betinve thece are 4.00000 men wits feel the sine was. Gen, (rtat sald atone of reunions of the Army of the Tennesses that HH. Aherman f4 Me most drililant and tho ilies’ weiter and apenker Inthe ara; sid f Wd add, or ot of itutthor. He haan pervect ready for any oceasion.—is a mttural orator of the Orat order, though 7 know he with smile when be sees that, for ho only tilka, talks, and never mies tho it or eplits the vars of the ground) ings, would aa liel he caught ateal- WK sheep ua making tho atul stock oration! (Heaven save tho murkl) He seems to spenk wneon aly, yet ulways with wnazing gout aense, and with surpriaing oluquence; set when the boy4 cheer he opens biseyes with wane der, na If ho would ay ‘hore, now; that's nothing to cheer about.” PRIVATE DALZBIe + CANYONS. ‘Their Charactor aul Origin—Paper Itead Before the American Ansucine tion for the Advan ent of Scloneey 5 ue ane Aun. Wiliam Bronsy of Chie ‘rhe following paper was read at Cinein- nati last weel before the Amerlean Assoeln- Hon for the Advancement of Selence, on ‘Thursday, 1sth, by the Hon, WHian Bross, of this eity > ‘Yo the professional keologist it may scom an Impertinence for a layman te olfer aby oplitons 4a (0 The eouraeter and the origin of eafions. Ho mnity. however, It is hoped, ude his eyes without y odense and form such conciislons nas the facts which he bas observed may nppene to warrant, If thoy sould not azree with the recoguiaed prineiples of tho selence 14 how Understood, bi Will b2 na wordy aif thin xuores of learned fexsors in tha past, for ju thls 09 HL lost Uther selence nearly every ratble wha ity was oxtansted befor were made tree Wily And here at tuo comital Jon tu whtel, thu Goservittons to ba preaenten somewhat, ft detalh have fed, may ne well be stated—vi4.2 that eafions were formed by eeme great eons Sulion of ate war surface, or ly the contraction af mountain chains fron thelr igneous didon ia the 1y histury of the pliner, ‘luke for Instance the Nye Vast fissure fr the MUNI Chin duit Huson the north side of wed nearly parailet with the St. Lawrence. The Nasure or canon fy some itty or sixty aniles lowe wad Ties nurrly at right angles to the river. Something ike a inlle apart, tho perpendicular rocks on the north side are at some polots about 1,60) fect iich, the water ut tbetr base bulng sev- eral hundred feet deep, No nin in tis senses, It seoina tome, could passitly conevive that chit yonre through the granit monty cold nave been forined bs tha aetion of the fnsiznideant river that enipties iuto H-Ha Buy at the north ern end of the cnion, ‘The surtiee of the water for the whole distance of sixty miles Is Jevel with tho St. fauwrence, in soln phice several hundred feet deep and the eafion tsabout uw iniie wite tarouua tho solid granit rocks, And here another general principle may ns well be stated, that, with a single. exception, tho width of this und the wifions hereafter to noticed 19 seareely ever more thu a fraction antes eoldom ut single mlle,—a [uot that str. ly indloates uniformity tn thole origin, And sides the mountains on both sides ure geaerally nearly uf tho #amne hight. TAKE THE CANYON OF THE IGD30N whore {t passes throug the Blue idee above and below West Point. The channel [4 deep, tho Udo ebbing and Mowing far upwards towards Aluuny? the mountains en bot aides, though rounded oi towards thofr siuminits douvtless duruas tho gincier peclod, ure about of the sume Light. aud inere is a general correspondence tt the dip and thickness of the vast strity of roeks: on both Riles of tho river, With the exception that the eaian ts fur str Hide Water, the sane general fats are witnessed fh that of cho Dula- Witte ot Che water-gup through the sume spur oF the Atlogheny Mountalis. tn this case thare are two Well-defined ledjes corresponding with eneb other oa buth stius of the rivers tho water is deep and slugzish whi nessun tnrowh te gorge, rind ull the facts seem to polit with une erring vertalnty ta some wrest convulsion in Nature vs tho ‘origin of the cufian. With the exception Uiat tho currentarthoe Potomac ts Bwiftat Harpec's Fores, tho break In the invunt+ alu thora. no g@captileaily ate cay vadon of thy Sau escrived by Joffursan, ‘ory Aloiar to that of tho Deliware, This Borge may hot Lave been relatively as deep at its formution ae thuse of the Hudson and the Delaware, TUE CA N OF THE NIAGARA was confessudly formed by the action of the rivers Ont, Hf the structure of the rocks forming tho eitfion between tho falls and Lewlston be coualderod, the oxception in this case, Itt be Huved, will prave the rule enunciated at the be ginning of this paper, The rocks undertyliy: the country between Lewistown and Builalo are: money horizontal, and are. In round wumbers, ng Indicated by tha gurge below the falls, Rome at teot thick. The upper atrata, for any bale the distance, sre sold tinestone underlie for perbapsan unknown depth soft Randstunc scouped uut with comparitive ease by the great cutantet. Henve the support of tho upper stratuin of Hinu-roek t3 gradually worn away, and it falls Intu the gutf below. On tie American side of Gont Island, whore only a fracion of the river: fulls over tho precipice, the Ime-reck Iter below {nwast blocks, and a rapid da wriduully forming, senile on the Canada sid’ the itnmense river Revups out the saud-rock tun Kreat depth, and tho falling scctions of tho limerrock are burled ont of ‘sieht forever, Below tho ratl- way bridge for on lowe distance’ thero is a terribic rapid showing that some othor rock wt tho bottom of tha rivur was harder than (he sundatonaor that the stream Is partinily dammed up by the lime rovks thrown dawn botwoon the bridge and the present fall, forced to thu post tian they now oceups: by the water, débris, and iva pressing dewy Trom nbove as the river gradually receded towards Lake Brie. Thix Teeexsiun wilt doubtless continde even baok to Lake Erte, unless the sautstono dips deeper down inte the curth, and the dlinestone strata hecome shienee ny ‘or some other bard rock tits of tho caturact, Then tho fall would gradually wear away: ot the top, and ho~ como a raph) of gizuntle proportions, Now, tho Ninmirn iver, with ie vast volume of water At trst tailing over a lime rook fedse, ut Lowis- ton, unierinid by a friable sandstoug bise,—o condition of things found, it {4 belteved, inne other eanon upon the contineat,—bas required untold ites to work Its way Up to Its present lici> ton, how ia it possibile for the comparativel sural rivers horetofore nained, and those to fal- Jow, to wear away a pathway: (0 tho son through rent mountal fodges of tha hnrdeat rock? Such & conclusion would be ausurd, THY CANYON OF TILK SUBSISSIPET extending, suy from Dubugie to the head of Luke Pepin, some 200 iilles or moro, {3 un exes ception to the rule above proposed mainly in its width, which is sume ive to Keven milled 10 sandstone bluits an either aide are generally perpendioular fram the top downwards from SW 10 NY fowt, when the débris Blu; down to the bottom lunds or lo the mafestle river ns it sweeps throngh the alluvium fran one sliuot this broad onion to thaother. ore are doubt= Jess good reasons for thoupiiion thut the waters whieh now tind thotr way from Like innit to Hudson's Buy once towed south and fille Cull the broad spaca ween the beautiful bluffs of the Uppor Mississippl, THE GORGE OF TH UPPEL s380UNT, situate about 109 miles below Fort Henton, Is ono of the must marked as it certalaly ta onvut, the niost DountiCal vations an the continent, ‘The walls ure perpandioulur, of white sandstones, seurcely a wutly upart und dome elyhty feut big, On the topof these walla thore ia a layer ot clay, Merle of the sume thicknoss, round rt weaceruliy by the winds and storia, while In some places It bua been all worouwny. and the topa of tha white sand> auton fledged appear us casteliaiad furins, ree minding one of the Silay Cathodral ov some of tho old ruins scattered all over Europe. Hos eon these sandstono walls the river Hows amoothly without giving tho vast aueplofon that the vatlan wis formed by it Oaly some great convuldion gould huve torn apart thia tunmense fandstino deposit for samme twenty or twontys five mites, 1t will well ropay u visit to the Up- por Missouri to sue it, ‘TUE GRAND CANYONS OF THE ANKANSAS, the South Platte, Clour Creek, and the Howlder strongly resemble cuch utbor, wud wny, thors fore, be dispased of fu tho sane paragraph, qerough the thro iret, ln aplta of the tremens dons obstavles thoy presented, railways bave been ‘nile, and the saucy Ite locomotive sings ont tho ochova from thelr porpondicntar, grant ‘walla on elther side, aoie 2,00d to d,0ud Fout bith. Small rivers, for thoy ure siall bore, ravi, through. thom with aaxry rours but tt would be worse ‘than tdiutle” to) supposa that They "wore | down vast granit walle through which = they) run te the bed they now avaupy, Ouly Nature's rosorved forces, such a4 tho world svcd in earthquakes, could rund those granit mouotalis naundor, and 8 pathway for Draw! between thom, “+ A TUR CANYON OF .THE COLUMBIA is {4 BOG Fespouts On Of the Zrandest upon the nthient.. Krom Capo Horo tu porbapa some twonty guile or tore wboye Culilo, at tho houd of tho Dulles, 6 distance of wixt or woventy 8 Ocuel through 4 gorge, tha walls of whiuh are frotw 500 ,UU) feet high, Kyou 4 vursory inspection will convince » pructioed eyo that for the ontiro hight, and most of tanod, it is compused of neatly perpendicular basultly rocks, No one the entire lea of columns whero présent reaches from t ato the top of the mountain: bit At tho Toot of tho cascatles, on the south silo of tho river. tholr dovelopment is truly wonderful. Suppose before you there ts n row of them #1) feet high und twlen na tong on the taco uf the mountain, At elthor end of that thousand feet another row, with thelr bases on a ling with the tops of tho first, shoots up waother 19) footy and nm from the base to the top, one row of Nd Above anothor, wilt convince tha Lo- that the ontire mountatn la composed of From tha tine of the Ciesars to the proarut all the world ina been wondering ator. kazing with wioilration wt tho Gfant's Causoway. on the coust of (relund, Tt, too, is composed of basaltle colimun, and thoy aro actually 30 fect high, ‘Thus America furdishus to Grent Britain ratio In basalt of 3.00) to igucos which I was wicked cnotgh to write in 18i) would prob ably represent the Influence vf the two anon s ont the uifairs af tho world 10 years hanco, The Cuseacte tarne in Oregon and Washington Territory eorcespunds with und is yirtualiy au extensiin of the Slerra Nevada tn California, Near the westera end of tho eniten ot the Co- Jumble the Casendos form a splendid rapid, nnd the river falls thiety-fve feet in two inilos. Fron the head of tha Cascades steamors run on the mMhly-lowing river for forty-fvo miles b tne aplends! eafion to the fout of tho Hiern, 14 the tourlst alge alo, Hood, lad in on tle of snow old as eruntion, peers CMa uals him through the luturil eafons, whole tho dark, frowning walls of basalt ou aithor side almost make hin shader and forget tor the moment how he van encape front tnis gloomy: prison ta the cheerful abodes of mankind, Those stipendas busaltlo waits, with tho river flowite anivothiy and beautifully between ther, would hever for inument suggest the thought that thls grand gorge was formed by tho river. Only Nature berself, sinking. 04 ¢ coed this vast, inonntain-chaln, could have rene ft asunder and. given us the sublime cafion of the Columbia, Only one athor, THE YOSEMITE VALLEY, enn be conypnred with it, and to that, asin some respects the grandest of them all, let us now turn our attenuon, A description of It will bo most eually remambored hy waxing it isa gorge in one of the spurs of tho Sierra Nevada Mount- ating, ohout twetve iniles long, a milo wile, and a mills deep. As muny, perbaps most of tno. thembers, have | visited this grand: est wonder of the world, only oa briet ription of it will be utteinpted, At ‘Kustos la, tho granit wall the suing rmuterial fs Jamo feet bik and very nearly perpendicu- far. At the grund urehea, the hight ts about the samo nud the soutt dome is 6,00 feot—a considerable friction Wore thant ® mile, halt of whled is perpendicular, Fron ether alle cho waterfalls re spiend ‘the Bridut Vail inte tevt; the Yosomite, 26H, more than Liver, at the head of the & Novae Full 14 Gat ‘U1 Vash gorge mado te uranit? Prof, Whitney, If correctly reported, ascribes It to the dropping down towards tha contre of tha earth of nection of tha muunt- tin ow mile wide. From this ontnion, of this dnaster of geoloy twlence, with all posstbie Teape {beg brave to r. ‘The fucts of its stricture, in my Judgment. warrant the beliet that, Hike wll tue oshor enions uboye referred tu—that of the Niwytura atone excepted, —" owas formed by an upheaval of tho inountain at that partiemler point suiticient to break ft apart to tho extent of a mile,—tho more probable causes or She mountly, while contructan snough todo it. A 3 for thi uyiiion are us ful- theoti Dalton, Mount the Yerml Full of tha Meret Het, 143k) Teuts and n . ‘these. solld granit ‘imountaihs werm once torn Apart on a suuttivs seate, It OY true,—tur thero are lninense seams, perhaps two feot thick, of ereamevolured feldspar runny tbrougn the walls of this valley; and dt ls Deleved that a vorreapomlenee cin he observed {n those auans on bath sides of the gorge. If rent agumlor to adinit the fijection ot these AY Uf Telilspar, why not on at intzer sealed This Vugt tse sre Was first snide untediy very deep. perhaps balf a duzen miles\ or more. 2 the brenk wus ln the lug uf tho cleays nite (here the wall stinds up perpendicularly, us at 1 Cupttan, and the arches, and a fw other polnts. Where it was not in tuo clenvkge line, Huniense inneses Of rock were thrown Suto the wbyss, aud from this source and tho \uclris Drousht down by the Merced River th xeadiitty titled up to its present lo Hi Capitan and the areties the granit wal Unbroken to the top, and you can cide iw band trom your: saddle pet your buad vo that Wall rising sheer abuye you for more thin three-fifths of a mite, Your horde stands on, the tine disintegrated granit, the lase contribu- Uon of the sno! se to the eastward. Tut atter the vitley: was tilled wp ts jt reatt~ eral level, at. points where tho cleavitge wits not Jn the the of the. upbgeval, as ty tho rear of Mr, Ttutebins botet aud ebine other plices, the trost and perhaps earthytukes continued ty taraw down finmense blocks, aud hence there dul thes polot a gradual slope to. .ue tupon the south able ‘of the valloy, with trees grainy woerever they ean fina ledge or no lee Gres rout In, Auoti+ er Instauce, showing haw wit! eases have broken te agua imny be seen att tho Yosemt bignt and the froutet the excurpment west of tho Fill are iy te same thie, 971 fee and the stream have wars the wall bs tho Falt perbaps a quarter 6f a mile from uo frontline, And set the first perpeimbiealie tut $5 1003) fut, or ten thins tho hight oF santas Streb facts mlybt be multiphed suns made, nitely. but onough for this paper. Cats got remurk, bowever, should bo caretuily wets int The cafon of the Columbid, the Yosnorte Vite Joy, the Churquinez Strate connecting tae Sue and San Pablo Bays, uni the Golden Gate testis throtgh which the witers Of tho Sneramenta and the San Joaquin, dratiing tho grout Valt of Callfornia, find tholr wiv to tho ocenn. ate aL about a iniie wide, With the exception uf tho cvijon of the Misalasippi, the sani: is true. {tt here repeated, of ail tho enions above res fereed-to in the Itecky Mounting and enst ot them, notlved in told paper. ft 18 suomitted, therofore, that the math Cucts tn regard to them hoint almost uninistukably to a sliailar origin for thain all, All those caflons TL huve myselt visited, many of thom sevoril thnus.° Several of them are splendid, even subitine, beyond tho power of the most accomplished pen todesoribe, Tdured not to atiempt it, and have, therofore, xiinply stated wont C bave myself sven and drawn such conclusions us the tacts scomod t¢ warrant. Let ne add a yery fow words in concluslor upon a paper on tio zeological history of the Colorady Kiver nnd tho plates of it, read at toe St, Louls meeting by Col. E. C. Dutton, of Wash: ington, ‘bis ennon, wg described by Maj. Powell who hus tho bonor of braving wlmost incredibie dangers to exploro It und to iyo the world thol drat Knowledge of tts wondurs, Is some 1006 tnfies long; the perpendicular wails aro a mila ora fraction of ivapatt, and kre from 1,00 ta 5.00 fovt high. They are composed of nearty all tho series inthe geological catniog, from tha xeanit nll tho way tp to the highest Igacous stratified rovks, Now this, by far tho tonqvst nud in some respects the must wonderful cafion fn tho world, Col. Dutton deseribed as baviog been worn down by the Colorado Hiver, le view uf the fuets herein presented that’ con= clusion seems supremely fanciful and absurd, Like all the others, tt could only. have been formed by some great convulsion of tho earth's vrust, and through it the draluago of nearly a thousund miles along the westorn slopss of tho Hocky Mountains fluds ita way to tho Guit of Californian, . —— SERIOUS ACCIDENT. A Stock-Train Locomotive Doralled and Onc Man Killed. A stock-train ou the Burlington & Quincy Rallroad drawu by, unuine No, 20, George Cooley, engineer, and John Kolly, froman, while ou ruute to the Stook-Yards met with o serious acciduut vin tho Twonty-soventh street crossing near Western ‘avenuo, Tho only fatality reported, however, ts the killing of Hiraty Wiser, a switchmun, who ‘leaves a wife and throe children, living ut No, 00) West Twoltth atreet, Tho locomotive was proceeding tender first, aud, just after crossing tho bridge ut Western uvenus the engincer slzhtod. o hore on the Twenty-seveuth streot. crosa- ing. It wna too late ta reverse tho engine, however, and the collision was unavold~ able. iy it the engine was thrown cloar off tho trick and ditched, and five of the loaded’ stock care wore thrown one ufter another on top The wnfortuonte Wiser was svated ou Wut-bourd at the head of the «oxine, and, not scefoy tho daugur aluad, war caught and turrlbly mungied beneath tho cars. ‘the engineor and freman escaped with few brulscs and scratenes, Thy curd, aa they wore talosco; by the ouygine, pan clear ‘over the cab ti of it, tho th ost itn jaus manner, and when things nally, toa stand ‘thoy crawled out comparatively nulniurcd from beneath tho wreek, ‘Tho tires frou beneath the bollers were drawn, and in this way - fire was provented, Chris fuser, 4 brakeman on the trate, waa also slightly iujuired, but ho recovered shortly and wont Gis way. Eavh of the five wrecked card contained eighteen hand of wild Colorado cuttle, and, on nn average, tive huad out of exob olght= ven wore killed outright. A very Cow wacupeds and the remainder wero pulufully injured ant entungied Inthe heap of wrockuge., ‘The cure and the lucomotive are q totwt lows, At un early hour ale morning the work of cleariug away we débria was in Cull progroas, and the Injured cattle wore belug slaughtered us fost as thoy wore oxtricatod, n A WEAK SIDEWALK. - During tho Ore at tho corner of Poarson and ‘Woils atrects lust nigot, 48 menuoncd elsowhere, the sldowatk iu front of Fraukiin’s yeucory store, on tho eoutheust -coruce at tho above-named thoroughfares, broke under var milan a , sees vast voncuurte Oo! 10, ‘standing: theroupou, and tho people wore Ibt down inte the bavonicat: Niok Ni kooper of @ grocery at No. Ww Chicago pyenus, bus “bis right lex broker bulow tha. knuoo, Ho was autteuded by De l. Varges, and afterwards. taken 10 bls bom, Lene Willams, a ieyear old xirs living with; ber parcats at No. Superior atreut, was considerably Injurod in the back und sustulicd bad: brulsua upon'the Limbs. Nelle Col, a child U years of ue living wt No.2 North Frankila stroet, uccidentally full frou @ truck and striking agaist the cdyu of tho side: walk spilt ber right cap aud received & vores soul wourl