Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1881, Page 12

j2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY,. DECEMBER: 25, I88I—SLX'PEEN PAGES . eee of- the. 275 yéars in whieh all the nations of Europe. and«America‘ have been searching constantly for the’North: pole; nene of: the, Franklin, Kane, Hayes, Hi ‘ covar tot Ni all this time that. pule has stood in the -same: Who Never Got Nearor than place, ininding itsown business, and waiting 420 Miles. to de introduced to society. Ig true ‘that tions sent out by the it was found—indeed there are myny ‘emi- nent sctentific nen who say. that even If itis in a guod'state of preservation it could not “ Ultimate Dim-Thule,” business, however, is, that during the whole Have Been There ‘and Others - ‘Who Haven't. * i 3 s “| format: calt™ upon the pole iu its own home: all, ef Al.,=| and in its regular reception geasun. - And yet +, | Of the (abaut) 100 expedi Dr. Dallie, Who Dallied Around With-}-ine object of tiseovering either ay northwest 2. me tc i io” or a northeast passage from* the jantic to in 140 -Miles. of It in -}- the Pacitic Ocean, Hut as early as 1607 Parlia~ ment began ty feel bud abo : if id... in: Hans Derrick, “Who Smoked His: reetly to it, but for some reason he never got Q0to any crew who wou! a 5 passaze, and ab additional £5,000 to any crew x s or ship that should reach’ the vole. But it . phot ok hus all resulted: in: nothing, and the pole | Another Datebman Who Went Within $5. Miles af | probably stands there yet. ~ : of When we turn to the cyclopedias, or to any i THE NORTH POLB| cae hates, eamshaek oid be solei at auction for 15 cents 2 foot. ' SHABBY TREATMENT OF THE POLE. iundreds. of: expediuons’ whlch have been various nations slice that of John and Sebus- ut the treatment: _ 1695. of ~the-: pole, . ant that year, sent furtier north than latitude 7. deg. “Again, Pipe Within 280 Miles of’ in 1743, Parliament oifered.o reward of £2u,- “It in 1759. Win 1680, and Came Back. and - ~ WHAT THE- CYCLOPEDIAS ‘SAY, Store. : of the books published witht’ the: last twen- ve years-abour Arctic ‘discovery, we find thing that wauld be of nv particular vatue 1 A Christmas Carol About That z = ~The wost curious thing‘ about: this whole With Some Account of. Persons Who * sent out have ever tried to go up ad make.a ity u tian Cabut in 1497, the majority have been for id‘ find a northwest iv stated that the highest northern latitudes Discovery of the Pole “Itself 600' Years. Ago, and What Saint Nicholas Had to ~ Do. with tt. ever reached by man were as fullows—viz.: an oat gt Latitude. Parry, July 23, 1827......-: Kane's expedition, June 2i, 1854... Hayes, Muy 33, 1861 ‘ Huil, Aug. 2, 187 Sgoseee BS: ‘For sutue years after “Drv Hayes’. return from the Atctic regions he was Jecturing i various parts of te country. On Dee. 5, e724, he lectured ‘in -the “Michigan Avenue Baptist Church in Chicago, ania on that occa sion said thar “he had reached within 420 “miles of the. pole, being nearer than’ any. other human bewy unless Capt. Hall”’—who was then atsent in-the Arctic regions— should exceed it, % . * DH. HAYES’ STATEMENT. 5 This statement so publicly made, by’ Dr. Hayes was u very remarkable one. In the first place, nolie'gf the” present. text-buoks, yelopedias, ete., give him credit for having reached as high a ladtude as ‘either Parry’s or Kane’s previous expediuons, Secondly, his statement shows che general belief among Aretic explorers in the lust “fitty years that about latitude o3. deg, is the highest-point ever reached ‘by .an, which would” be 6 deg. -from the pole, yr. the 420 miles which “Dy. “Hayes ~ claimeL. As for Sir’ John. Franklin, whose> name hus been. su identitied with Arcuc discovery, there hus never. been lie silzhtest evidence that he ever reached-a higher tatitude than 6 deg. $ Red es “ THE NUB OF THIS CHRISTMAS CARGL. But-now we come to the point which was one of the principal odjects-ot this Christ. Written Jor The, Chicago Triune, ‘The North Pole isa safa subject to write about, because ‘nobody . knows anything about it, and jf you happen to\say what is not true, a3 most likely you will, nobody cay prove it. ‘There is/no newspaper pub- lished there, and therefore you can never be contradicted. You'can criticise the pole— say it is’nt straight, or that it is rotten on one side, or wind-skaken, or anything—and yet not tread on any one’s toes, because there is nobody there with toes to be trod on ex- cept the bears, and they can bear it with more fortitude than any other sect we know of in fact, these bears have always been misrepresented iu al] the pictures ever made of the - Arctic regions, and yet bave never paid any attention- to their, malizners. ‘They . are | always depicted as standing still. and: waiting © for’ some “sailor to come: up “and hook:-a . harpoon into thelr hind-quarters preparatory, to feav- ing them. on board by a line to. the shlp’s wwindiass. The truth is, the bear has always too much business on hand to be loitering around in that fashion. To° say. nothing about other occupations.: a -zreat deal of the bear’s time is spent in climbing the pole, just” es {aru abun im pees! orth Bole. ie putes : 7, | Viz: Eiuner- autry, Franklin, Kane, as they do in the Zotlogical Gardens. Thav’s Muyes, and Halt had deliberately ignored all why they are called polar bears. : A But there has been, and is yet, even more misrepresentation and ignorance about the previous voyages ‘to high latitudes, or else: that’ some one of the’ Dutch Captains who suiled to the Polar regions a hundred years before, had got hold of the pole aud moved out Henry Huuson with orders to ster di- | pole itself than about the bears. . | _ A PORTUGUESE CLAM-SHELL, ‘The Portuguese. were uot only the most enlightened but the most daring ‘navigators of the thirteenth and fourteenth .centuries. ‘They wanted same. other route to the East Indies than that through the Mediterranean and Bed Seas, and finally discovered it around the Cape of Good Hope. But for them the North. was full’ of terrors. and spap-judgments, .. Portuguese seamen “ be- lieved that.at: the North Pole’ there was an enyrmous: clam-shell which held its” mouth open. until-some ship sailed. in and then it suddenly clapped shut and gobbled it up like a Louisiana - alligator - catching mosquitoes.. This was only! a short-hand popular understanding. of what is being gradually. developed by all subsequent ob- servations and explanations—viz.: that there it, so’ that these modern fellows couldu’t find it. 3 “Of course, somebody will-say:) “That would be just like a olundering Dutchman! But then i have to reply, that, us a rule, the Duteh “are “a. very “methodical - people —very orderly—and that if one of the Duteh Captains, .whum I snall presently mention, ever used that pole, he probably put it back in its proper place. > The cireuusiauces which ‘I have to relate are as foliows, and can be duly authenticated by te offivial records of the Royal Society of London, anu the printed copies of which of- ficial records can be exhibied at Tue ‘Trp- UNE office in this. city.to any increduluus reader upon due.notice: if HANS DERRICK AND DR. DALLIE, In_ the year 1769, a Dutch Captain, Hans Derrick, sailed to. north Jutinide 38, or wihin abgut 2u iiles of the pole, and 1 Withstanding that there was an opel sri, clear of: ive to the ‘northward, ‘duiiourately is an open Polar Sea, but that from about | turned Lis back on the pole aud sziled south- Jatitudé 80. to 88 there Is a ring or barrier of | Ward again. - BP ei in 1695 Dr. Dallie, a young Englishman. jice which is open in the summer fora few jmonths, but closes suddenly about Septem- ber. ss serying as surgeon in the ship of the Dutch naval commanuer, Koggewein, sulied as far north as .futitude 88 evs, or within Iiu niles of the pole, at’ which point, Dallie suys, “The weather’ was:warm, the sea per- fectly free from ice, and rolling like the Bay of Biscay.” But Roggzewein, tearing that he would be blamed in Holland for neglecting his. naval station further to the southward, where his. business was to protect the Dutch whaling: fleet, * would: not proceed any ther tothe north, aud would not permit journal to be made of- this” part of. their Voyage, but. returned as speedily as possible ‘NEWTON'S GREAT DISCOVERY. Then Sir Isaac-Newton—who was always an ingnisitive man—began‘to discover, or rather to surmise, queer things about the pole. The first of these was that the earth whirled’around so rapidly that there was a tendency of all its middle perts to fiy. off, in short, to. burst just . like’. sonie of the big grindstones: do in . some of* the “ great cutlery worgs.. .Then a. Frenchman named Richer discovered that a clock “regulated to mean time” (what else could it mean but time?) at Paris would Jose about: two minutes and thirty seconds daily at the equator—that is, that it would run slower at the equator and-faster at the pole thay at Paris. “fhen somebody else dis- covered thata degree of latitude was longer at the pol than at: the equator. This was a very confusing discovery, because it-was in direct contravention of all, experience, it be- ing well known that, everything contiacts or diminishes in size- from the effects of: cold, as is illustrated by the annual contraction of the currency about November and De- compet. Nevertheless,.:upon these facts Sir” Isaac«™ arrived atthe _ conclusion ‘that the earth was not:round,- but was an oblate” spheroid, _of which the diameter, at. the pole, was as 229; to 230 at the equator. Ike usually knew what he was talking about. Tle knew that In accord- ance with this theory things were not: quite so heavy’at the equator as.at_the poles—that- they did not fall quite so rapidly nor strike, quite so hard when they: did‘ fali‘av the equator as at the poies.:.“ ence he was en- abled to mike ‘an ¢xact calculation of the time it would take an apple to fall from’ a tree in the latitude of England. » His calcu- Jation proved correct, and It saved him: the ny toSpimbergen.”. \ : =) SEWO HONEST DUTCHMEN, About the yeur 1660 Capt, Goulden, an En- glish whaling Captain, “who ‘had made avoye thirty Voyages 10 the Gruenlund seas, did relate to his Majesty (the King of En- gland) that being ‘at Greenland some twenty Years before (about 1640745). he was in cum pany with-Livo Hollanders tu the eastward of Euge's Island (yartof Spitzbergen), and that the-whales not appearing near the shore, the tio. Lullanders were determined: to go-fur- ther northward; and in.a rortnighv’s: time returned and gave it out that uey had sailed into the Jatitude.89 degrees, and ues they did not meet with any ice, but 9 free open sea; and that there rua an hollow grown sea, like that of the Buy of - Biscay... Mr. Goulden not being satistied with: the bare relation, they produced hini four journals out of we two ships which testified: the siime, end -that they did all. agree within’ four‘ minuets.” "These Dutchmen then ‘went on to say that” at the times they’ were in Jatitude 89 degrees “it. was as hot there as_in’ the summer at Auisterdam.”? ‘The account process further iosay that.une of these. Dutchmen, after- wards “coming? over to England. Capt. Goniden carried him to some of the Northern Compuny, who were pertectly satisfied of the truth of his relation. wet A SWEARING, TEARING HOILANDER. 1, 102 1662 Mr, Oldendarg, the Secretary of.the Royal Sociviy, registered a. paper entilled: “Several inquiries’ Concerning Greenland \uswered by Mr. Grey, Who Had. Visited ‘Those Parts’ To the -nineteenth of the fi .| queries proponnded to Mr. Grey b 1 SO- trouble of climbing the tree. after. the apple, '}-ciety he made answer as Fultows— 2.2: %. and also enabled him to get: to schoo! just in | once met on the coast of: Greenland a. Hol- Jander that swore he had been: only -hulf a degree (thirty-five. miles) from the pole, showiig me his journal, which was also at-. tested by his mate, where they had seen no ice or Jand, but only water.”,.. ~° “ENGLISHMEN AND’ OTHERS. “Inthe year, 1754\ the -whale-ship: Sea Nymeh, Capt. James Wilson, sailed tough ssouting ice- from latitude 74 degrees to Inti- tude 81 degrees, but having then proceeded beyond. the. ice ey pursued the whales, to; latitude 82 degrees 15 minutes, which latitudd’| was determined by the imate, Mr. Ware. As. the sea was now clear as far as be could -dis- tungpish with his best glass, both Mr: Ware and Capt. Wilson bad a strong inclination te push further toward the: pole, but the: com- mon ‘sailors bearing of ‘such Intention, re-" mionstra ed. that. it they should" be-able to. proceed so far the ship would ‘fall to pieces,’ ag the pole would draw all theironwork ou of hier. On this, Capt. Wilson and Mr. Ware wesisted? ee ee Andrew Fisher, Master of “the Greenland whaleship Ann and Elizabeth, in the. year. 1746, steered - froin itukiuyis: Headland, in Spitzbergen,'N. N- W. to latitude 82 dezrecs 34 winntes, aud “doubted'not that they might have sailed tu the, pole.” ” : A . Capt. Stephens, of London, who,had sailed many. voyages to the East Indies and also to the Arctic seas, stated that ‘‘in May, 1754, he was. driven: by: gule from. the 8.5. Ev! Spitzbergen,: together: with- a Dutch = ship, nto latitude S43¢ degrees, which Intitude he ifixed by observation according’ to the “lunar method, in which he was very expert. -- * Jonathan Wheatley was;in-the ship Gram- pus” in” 1766. off Hakluyts -Headland, from whence be sailed northwestward unul by ob- servatiun he was in latitude 813g degrees and stated . that: afterwards, being on: the Green- Jand< coast, three” Dutch Captains told him that a Ship of their nation bud. been in. lati-, tude 30 degrees, and -that there the sea was. free from ice: AE ‘ : time to avgid. getting a flogging for being late. ‘This was the origin of the saying that one fellow. “ has got the drop”. on another one when he has secured any advantage of m2. , : 2 ‘ = SYMMES? HOLE. But then John Cleves Symmes..took up this theory of the drop. where. Newton left off, and run it into the ground, or rutherinto the centre of the earth. Symmes liyed at Newport, Ky., where he lectured and wrote" froin 18% to 1826, and finally’ published his‘ book on. “The Theory .of Concentric Spheres,” in which ‘he ‘showed that. In ac-. cordance with. these discoveries of Newton, Richer, and others, there’ must be 2 suction or whirlpvol at each of the poles, that these whirlpools wideued ‘as they: descended, and that the world; was hollow .and- habitable within. Itis’ possible that it was. the .im- - agined “music of these spheres ? which had something to du with the location of the great musical college at Cincinnati—a_ tawn, itn- mediately across .. thy: Ohio River ~ from: the City: ‘of: “Newport... But. it has been since demoustrated that there are no such ‘concentric spheres, und, therefore, no such music; and thevld idea of a pole instead © of a bole has been restored. 0 + Sra Pade HUGQ’S THEORY. - Much doubt; haweyer,: has. been x about the existance of this siecle created place, Victor, Hugo. refers -to a‘ certain iting, Who-was washing windows with a pole” that Was too short, and who expressed a wish: Tor the Nowth Pole, which one of. her lovers volunteered to go and bring for her; where- + Upon a rival lover determined not to be out- done, and started to get. the South Pole. Hu- 0 says that they discovered the. North. and South Poles to be only the two ends: of: the same thing, lugged away (at: it-until:|*-. Capt. John Clarke, in the ship Sea Hi ae broka Ae ao «the middle, and” |’ at’ the‘ Jatter end. of -June, 1773, sailed front seh. rong Nis end: home” to |: Hakiuyts Headland NN. E: to lativude 81 ‘dine, who, in’. the = meantime ~“had’| derevs where the sea was opel to the nort qarried some one else.’ Upon :making this discovery they both: committed’ suicide, and- Fifine is using the poles yet to prop up her’ ese storiés by Symmics and Hugo are. neers unworthy of credence.’ "The pole is | probably in Its accustomed place—unless it.) Was frozen off by Uie severe weather of last pier, in which case there would be nothing: eft but the stump. It is possible that as the- resulta of weather and constant. use te pole “ward, and sucb a heavy swell from the norih-" east that “* the shiv would not stay, being un- der double-reeied. topsails, whilst. the wind blew aoe x ~ an Butfon’s «Natural “History”? « (1794), Voll, page ais it is stated. that’ a:ceriata Capt. Monson had satled within two degrees of: the pole, Where, there was .an open sea, pithont sea nee s, Hon. Daines Bar- ton appl w le \e : the autuend uffon: hiniself :for. : Whom the foregoing | shouldbe protected by pater! ication of ‘this instance, the latter: referred to Dr. Nathan Hickman and Dr. | Ratvjiff, and also stated that at, his interview With. diem: there was present a Dutchman cwho confirmed their account. *- En Moxon, who was: *‘hydrographer 7—what- ever that may be—to Charles 10, published a: painphiet giving a minute.and eireumstantial account: of a_Duteh ship. whieh sailed ‘from Spitzbergen, and went not- only to the pole,’ but tivo degrees heyond tt. \- ~ery Sy 2A nap ofthe Northern lemisphere. pub-: jished at Berlin’ prior to 1774, and under ‘the, direction :of ‘the: Academy of Sclences, and Belles Lettres, places i ship -at the North Vole, with a-note to .the effect that according - ‘to Dutch, accounts’ a ship’ had reached ' that ~ Inthe: Phijosophieal “Transactions ‘of the Rayal Society of London for 1675' oceurs the tollowing pussaze >: : . S : For id ig well known to ali thatsail north- , 4 northern’ coasts are | frozen up for uniny leagues, though in the ward: that most_of ‘the open sea It is not su—no, nor under. the pole “| so) itself, unless by aceldent.! or ee "Phe fuet that tho pole, had been ‘reached , -was thus nssumed by. the Royal Society as an estublished ning, ‘The’ saving clause ity refurency to *aceident” b “becalse at Lhat time there were no accident insurance companies, and the Royal. Suciety ; did uot waut to put itself in’ a position to be- come Hable. Path ae st THE DISCOVERER OF ‘TILE NORTH POLE. |. + Usually, when you want to beat everything else all ‘hollow. in stories about sea voyages, 1 must uf course fall back upon a Vik, ‘oll can select alniast: any “of ,thuse fellows in Luing’s Sea Kings of the North, and gen- erally rely.on hin with the saine confider that you can un the "joker? in the gue aft edru.. But- in. this -case ‘there: isu't any iking. ‘The ‘nearest. thin to one is a friars “one Nichulas of Lynn, a Carmelite friur, and-nimin of great learning,” mentioned by Chaucer, who is said to aye sailed to the inost distant-istands of the North, and even to to the pole itself, about the year 1300, - and have dedicated an account of his digcoveri ‘to Edward LiL, or we Confessor, ° >” ee “HR it fast sye come tothe original Jaeads, iscoverer of the North Pole,-in the person ef a Saxop monk, whose name was Nicholas, - (it-would make just the most ap- propriate kind of anub . to this Christmas carol if we gould prove that this Friar Nich- -olus was the’ veritable’ Suint Nicholas, and there is just one hypothesis upon whieh it can” be dune—viz.: Saint Nicholas, as-is well known, wits wie’ patron saint of saiiors, merchants, ‘and © travelers, 13 well: as, the guardian of schooluvys. and children, and therefore it would have been-a- very appro- priate thing forhiin to go up and inspect the or Lal before he settled duwii-to,the-toy: , “Allof the foregoing accounts, besides dozen ‘more, recording voyizes to pultis Bs high as from latitude. $1 to 83, were read in pipers betore the Royal Society of England by te Hon, Dalnes Barrington, Fe R.S., at vari-, ous dates in the years 1774-75-76, ‘These were aguin collveted, thelr authenticicy investi- yated, and, with “a vast. deal“ of coiluteral proof and @ great pany addiuonal instances, published In JIS by Col. Beatfoy, Fil. S. But this is getting to be niouotongus—uere cannot be ‘any reasonably doubt that tne various Dutchmen and others. reacted the high Jutivudes’ mentioned, and“ that they could have gone to the. pole if Wey hid tried. ‘The iznocing of these earlier and more im- portant discoveries in‘all recent accounts of the Arctic regions can scarcely be accounted for, and there is daser- that by persisicnce in inis course a very interesting fund of in- forination may become discredited and finutly Jost, just as a vast deal-of otler knowledge aus been in the ages past. . Soe FILEINS. * 4 Mention was mado in the first part of this carol ut in the opinion” of: some eminent’ men the North Pole wasn’t worth: goine after, even if it is in 9 fuir state of preserva- tion, and while this may be true of the pole, iiselt it nay ve ut interest to Know the opln- ions of the other eminent men. as to. we practical yalue of knowing the way to cet to it whenever we want to. “With this view all of the foregoing statements were ‘submitted w the’ Wel-cnown' Mir, Filxins, the inventor of Filkins’ Fatwening Fluid... Sir. Filkins ‘1s aman of astute, and comprenensive mind, He might pave made a fortune on the Board of Trade but tor the fact that his views were s0 far-reaching and sustiined by such ‘com- the English; who, were, also_on the wrong 1 side of the Indian and China deal avout tint | time, sent ont Capt. Wood, in 1676,.who at- -tempted to sui] to the northeastward between Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla, but never go. hisher than lutitidd ‘76, and’ enme™ buck di~ claring that.any passage In that direction was, utterly impracticable. 2 ts Now, there are -but: just. tyvo hotes In the. open. polar sea.-.-The gning-In place is where the Gulf Stream ‘goes in along the west coast of/Spitazbergen, and the comng-out place is at Behnug’s Straiig,‘and it wouid seed, afte: fall the? exverigucy ; of, the lust 309 years, that anybody who‘-really. North *-Pole'would- 0 . were by, the: shortes. road, fisted of fuoluyg nround “tus cunst OF ‘Siberia; and'especiaily about Wie River: Lena, ‘where -the «taminyths gob frozev, up a few thousand yeurs ugy. Way even a a THE MAGNETIC POLE - which Is & sort of:half bruther to the North Poie, xut frozen out from: the country boul years ago sand’ had to. puil up its. old sblacksinithsnop ‘and > fellow the advice of Horace 'Grevley about’ Gog West, young “Yo fully understand this emigration of the Bagnede Pole it must be borne in mind thie we North Pole and we Magneiic Pots do tue live together. "The latter aL present located: in 70 degrees north and 87 degrees west from Greenwich, which bruigs it-nearly due north froin Omata, “The fact hug veen fully estab- lished” by ‘sclentific, recorus: Unat in the year , 1530 tbe Muguetic Pole was in BOUT the Satine Jutitude us now, but. was’ due north froin Sweden jin 1620 it was due north froni-lol- jeu in 1660 i, was due north trom - Loudon. = THE “AGONIG:LINEY— "2S ‘ag itis called—is the ‘line drtwn through all the points Where the mugnetic needle puitits due north and south, .‘This ling is also on Ute: hove, aud took its departure from the west coast of ireland in 170U (being the:tirst in- es of Fenian emigration on record), and rived on the’econiinent of Ainerica abou. V78u,.. Lin 180u it was in- Pennsylvania; in 1873 ig was in Oniv; and at the present tine runs nearly. through Chigago,: From. the move “ment of this ‘azonie line E the Mashetic Pole got diszusted with all chat country tothe nurth of Siveria sw yens axe. In “fact. the: whole of the territory of the ar of. -Kussia has’. been an exceed- iigly unhealthy “country: fur ~ Poles eyer since the: times of” Poniatowski' and Koseluuszko—and the Masnetic Pole propably tovk warning by ite fue of the manumoth, whose. frozen eareass was found at. tbe mouth of the River Lena in 1794, and whose bones are now tuck up it che uiusettm ac St. Petersburg. subject to the indiguities.ot hav- sing the caues of carious tors and the ins brellis of Englishiuen poked between its ribs or into its eye-holes, tte see how big they jr ances, Br. Fis- stand what the Jeannette expeaicion expected to-wuccomplish ju that:part of tee worlu—Wrangell tsland— whieh «had: first-been mistaken for a conti~ nent, had turned out to: be only asinall isl- und, und theréfore tuo smal! an_ affair to wran- gle nbout—besides, pobody wanted it, - . s WHO'S A CRANK? ¢ In conclusion, J may say chut if the forego- ing ylews of Mr. Filkins should be regarded ng the ideas of a “crunk,” he feels quite, as i .those* who’ deny thelr general eorrectn re themselves * erands,”” and he susiuins this by reference to the well-known fact that cranks.us a rule insist that they are sine, and tit those whe disigree with them ara insane. Argument on this point, there- = sition: “ You’r another?! a eae WILHELM DER WauRLicn, “INSURANCE. ‘Tho Fire Department Shorply Criticised- for’ Ailow ng Mr. Byrons House to Burn . Down—Chanzes Pres.nt and Prospecive. ‘ # ‘Tho clusuig days of the yenr Are dull ones in- deed in insurance circles, and, yesterday, but for one singularly unfortunate occurrence, would bave been no excepuon to the rule. The Byram tire, ihe details of whieb ure fully given else- where, supplied a fruitful theme fur comment on tne sureet., That comment wis of two surts— congratulatory on the’ part of agtnts wouse couspanies were oot “stuck,” aud critical in its prehensive statistics that we 2,0W0 ower fel- Jows there never could keep up with him: nor understand him,’ and finding -hiinself con- tinuatly- lett. alone he~ finally obliged to give them up as ineorrigibly dull. “Mr. Filkins ‘then conceived the idea of the universal fattening fluid, and he esti- mates that of the 40,000,00 of population in the United States there are wt lvust 3u,000, 000. who : .are }.uncomfortaply: 15,000,000'of these’ buy one bottle each of the factener at 50 cents a voutle it would leave chin 2 profit of sowe five millions of dollars. But besides this he expects to adapt the Tals ant tener to une feeding of hogs and catile, so reduce the value of corn, and “pro generally... Such is Mr. Fukins, the man to facts: nuout the North Pole were subuited’ tor bis opinion as to theirrellubility and value, and the following are some brief vullines of , 5 ‘HIS VIEWS! ‘i First—That, in accordance with Newton’s theury, the world is flatiened: at the poles as compared Witli the equator; though not quile so much as the difference between B tut and B natural, and that. consequently: the: su shining on so-large a flat: surface and beings continually reflected trom the water must-4 afford a greater degree of heat to theair than ten degrees furiher south, and that the Duteh- inur’s Statement of as geeat a degree of heat atthe pole as at. Amsterdam in tue-sumimer isentirely reasonavle. Another proof of the general flatness of thittes up in that country is that the Duteh erew who wincered in Nova, Zemvla in 1596.-“ saw the sun ‘rise a fort night earlier an he: should: have appeared avcordimz to astronomical ‘calculations °—a fact which- may be adduced as a retutation of the slander that a Dutchman can’tseeany- thing atter £ o'clock: p. in. Second—That there is an: open sea at the pole, aud in-all probability: free from much. ice, because all icebergs are formed “ot frozen fresi water: and thrown out by the rivers flowing irom the south into the.Arc- tie Sea, and therefore the vicinity of the shores fs the -place where much ice is found. That this sea is not only open, but very rough; that just at the pole the rutary imo- tion of ue earth gives it. a peculiar twist which is sure tom: Dutetuuan sw thug corroborating tne statement of Mr. to-the Royal Society in 1002 about’a HHul- lander that swore about his: having. been within haf€n degree of the pole, and show- ing. the probavility that. every, one of-the Ditechmen who actually got ‘to. the pole “ sivore like—our yin Fianders.”” Third—That there is astream of warm water —partot the Gult stream—which continually” flows to the northward past the western coust of Spitzbergen; and is wound up on the pole on ong side and inwound on the other, so as” to run outthrough Belring’s Siraits—the one turn around the pols.keeps. the thing contin- unlly going, and isthe particulur thing that so as lo pre- ventany meddling with or’ diversion ofthe current, ‘The “accidents ” to which the be- forementioned report of the: Royal Society in:1676-referred may. have some, comieckon with-this turn of the ‘current around: the Fourth—That.al) the great-rivers that flow inw the. Arctic Ocean froin both ~Asta_and America do so between latitude 70 and 75 de- grees, and that‘as icebergs are formed from fresh water aléne this makes. the frozen district of the North between those dexrees, McUlure and Meacham found that on Banks’ > Ashand and St, Patrick’s. Island, where now. nothing grows'at all, there were larxe forests of trees which had been frozen out, fallen down, ahd..become covered with. ice and snow, “At the mouth of the Kiver Lena in Siberia, about: latitude 70 degrees, the body of @ mammoth was fonnd—fiesh, skin, hair, and all—as well preserved as could buve been done in the best ‘meat-preserving establish ment in Chicago, 0 tee : | ‘These'things. goto show that if all theex- plorers from: Frankdin down to the present time hadu’t beens a set of julots they would have taken warning: by. these facts that there was a:very’ hard winter, in progress in- tat streak’ of. country, aid instead of. staying - around in it, would -have hitched on to the OA ae DE wealth aut ete ound up to: the pole and “let down again through’ Behring’s Stratis, pakeae ee THE JEANNETTE. 5 As for. this Jeannette business it is'a little difficultto unmersiand whit she was sent ow’: ‘for. Ostensibly, it was the: discovery: of an" eastern pi ze- from, Behring’s: Straits to Spitzbergen. .A passage, by this way: (only. ‘from the opposic’ direction) © had: been - tried: by the Dutch nearly 300 “years: ago and: pro- nounced utterly wortlless for. any. practical: purpose, even if by chance it could be made. > Avout that tiie Spain-was' runnmeg a “cortier, on the India and China tradeand the Amster" dauers were yiort, “so they “first. sent: out William Barentz ‘in 1594 to find a: passage to Chiva and India by going to: the ~northward* of Asia, but he came back without finde it, - and in 1596 they sent him out aguin,* but the: poor’ fellow” found» ita: regular, game “of, freeze-out, for. ter‘ wintermg” in* great™ wert; misery,” and “grief; "ab. : Te! en,.,in -Nova :Zemula, he : died... The: thin, ~1~onlys}- handling of the Fire Department by about all woo said anytoinsg at all. Tho risk was 0 tirst- class ono in every respect, und.-wus pluced in. tive of the largest and most reputuble comph- nies in the pusiness—the 2utua und Pawa:x of Hartford, the Insurance, Compuny of North America, the Liverpuol -& London.& ulobe, und '.the / Phownix: of -, Loadon—euen--of= whicn: cume in for $5,000 on. the -luss, or $25,0W ‘in all. “WHAT IS THE USE,’?. sald a representauve vf one of the losing com- punies, whose Christmas’ joyousness receiyed | aumething of 2 dumpener at this unluoked-for and disgustingly: unpleasuut sort of a pres- ent,’ “what is the -use | of. Insuring first-class dwellings, if they're to burn down in tnia way, and gomg back on picture-frume fuct- ores und the tise? Lf it bad been # tumple- downroukery’ the dgpurtinent would. have managed, in Some way Or other to suve somwe- thing. Buc it wus an incomplete: dweilng, orst- ¢lusa'in_every respect, dnd ceveryibung: went. Weil, itisn't just we Kind of 2 Curistmas pres- ent io muke ove feel good, though - wo wive the congeiousness of Knowing -Uat we risked our mou on the best Kind of. property, ff that ainounts to anyth.ag. Bat forall that L can’t sce why it should bave been aliowed -to burn down. ‘There ure at least four engine- nouses within tua minutes’ ridv of the plice. wid, us far us 1 can see, there Is no excuse in'the world for tho delay of the department in getting there, aud their tulure. to Keep the build.ug trom beimyg guited wher they did. . But it m ght have beeu Vorse bad the house been completed and the furniture alla. -A good muny tore than ‘Hive coupaties “would > probably | buve caugbt it then.” i aioe A PERTINENT INQUIRY. “Y{ strikes the as avery pertinent inquiry,’ sald nnutner agent, woo lovked ut the utter from ¢h¢ tmpurtiat stuud puint of one who oada's written on tue risk, why such x loss wae ule. towed tu oceur. Just look at itz No beavy: wind, no cold wetner, to prevent te workme of the depurtineut; the tre occurrug in the middie uf the day. and when’ tie dopurtinent was net euguged elsewuere, . in a. private residence. where. there was nothing uuusuil to burn—notbing but ttoors Init, in fact, not turniture—and yet that house ts dam- OU or YUL,” Phere ure three or four Huuses Hut so very tur-wway, und a good stream from one Of the ongines directed to Woe proper pluce could ‘bave" put’ out the bluze in ‘almost uo Thne, and with very litle damage. It was 2 goud bouse, and it bad ue busses te bura up. Mind, indeed, this seemed tobe the verdict everywhere—a loss for which nobody could give any reasonable ucccunt:aud for whieh the Fire Deparunent came in for a degree of. blame which, in ‘contrast: with {ts generally priise- worthy perform snces, was something remurkre ble. AX similar loss in another uly nut blessed: with-a fire depurtivent whicd bas made go tne & record us tat in: Chicago Would pernaps bave exclied little sf-eny comment; oecurrmg iu Col- cugu, wero the excelience of the department's work bus been so uniturm for muny yeurs, 1. was: e _ SIMPLY UNACCOUNTABLE. Nobody supposes, thou at the Insurance peuple are iu uny danger.of reverse the -prac- hee referred to. by tue’ degusted underwriter tirst interviewed, and of lusurnyg every pieture- frame fuctory, etc. thut.comes alums, and gone buck on frat-class private residences. Surprises and excepuvns are apt to huppen, but your goud underwriter * Knows enoug to know" tha wine ties out of ten the privite dwelioy is the best kind of 1 risk ever invented, and the picture- frame factury—or, In these lutter days, the dour- inill, the purk-house, etc, about che most dun- gerous. : . CHANGES. d ‘The actual: agency strut wre us! yet’ Neliner. muny-nor strikivg. ‘There are-no ‘turther developments reyarding the expected udyent of. City: Fire. of Lundow, wause- intention-to establish 2, United States branch, with headquarters: in Boston and sud- auyencles throughout the. country, was refereed to at some length the ocher-day. : ‘Tue prelimni- inunes are sull in process of setuiement, and the -indivations .are tnt: the, new British applicant for -Americun businéss will step on the carpet carly in January. 0: Leen ‘The. last of. the four companies forming. the ‘recently-disrupied Rhode: Istund sgsocmuun to complete arrangements with ig new local agents qs the Atlantic. Fire & Murtue- of | Providence, which gous to. Fisher Bros., who will. represent it froin.aud after tore date.. No weneral aureney: has. been established, nor, ‘ag far 48 can. ve learned, is there Jikely to be any, for the pres- entat least. - ‘The goneral agency of. tbe’ Provi- Gence- Washington, another of tad. old quartet bua gone sto. KE. Ryan: &.-Co., the; local agency remainiug. atthe ‘Traders’. office. “The remmulng two companies in the old ussuciation— the Merchunts’ and the Equitable; both of Prov~ idence—bs ve: entered : into ‘a new, cuinbination, ‘Jenowa us the Roude Island .Cuderwriters’-Asso- Giation, the general agency of waicu hus goucto Buck & Tillugnust.. A : The pllice of = the Ningara.Fire-losurunce Company was yesterdsy the scene of avery dae pre event—the presentas. don by the employés of the depurtinent of u very fine gold-beuded cune to ;the blanuger, Mr. LS. Bluckwelder,> which was".fullowed by-a similar ‘tresentution tu Mr... Morris Frunktin, Superine« tendent: -of.:Agencies: —.Buto. gentlemen were taken by surprise. The . presentation. speeches und ‘responses thereto were - huppily’ manifested the good. feeling existing between the;-mansgement. and the employés of ..Lhe,de- "Of all cough remedies wo have ever Bnh's Coura:Syruo is the best. Prica a used,:D: pe antic. iO” Ko Lo, ther it will be seen that: Tore, suun reduces itself to the simple propu-, anil other changes on the. ‘Western’ Depaitment of. the: made, and, + > AMUSEMENTS. ” .The Past Week a Very Unprofita- st ble One: for Theatrical 535. ' ‘Managers. Sentiment-and Song end‘ Dance “sin: Equal. Parts for the Next Seven Days. ? Limited (Musioal Attractions for This . 7 -Week—Notes and Announce-. © ments. Dramatic: Notes and Announcements, Locat-and 0, herwise. , When -Christinug comes on Sunduy. the. pre- ceding week is never & xu0d ono for the thea- tres, siice that portion of the public frum which they dorive their supportis entirely too busily enguged in preparing for the upproaching holi- days to spend either tima or, monvy “in. uinuse- ments. + This, fuct was: demonstrated iy - the. wost: mournfully’ convincimg .manuor-at tho Grand Opera-House,’ where te - Hoey-Hardio combinudon—an organizadon that merits and would ordinarily recet¥e’ a generous; support— nwa been playing to audiences of. discouragingzly small proportiong.;,The | compuny : was . well known here, bud played 2 protitubie engagement wag large. Bat: it .is noturivusly the cise. that Snodity-night audiences’. are, ..no - test of ithe bueluess. tu.:-bo: dong during thé ful- lowing ‘six days. -‘Phey ‘are composed,’ in tho, ,wigin, of : people. whose occupation . will ‘not permit them'to indulge in theatre-gotug on week-days, and now. that tne manugoment of Haverly’s Theatre permits no performunces on the ‘first day ‘of tlic week. the Grand Opera- House and Hooley’s are uimost certain .to bay idrge,uudiences on that day. oy 02. ge _Jolin Ruymond, who. finished his engagement at McVicker’s last nigat, also suffered from the general depressivit.” is” first week's business was u,remardzbly large one, but the wet weather during the first hulf of last week, and the Christ- mus rusb during the-tust half, kept. away the money ina most efeutiial munner,und the coma- dlan’s usgets are several hundred dollars less than, they- would’ have been bad be ‘appeared bere later In ‘the seasun. But at all events the on~ gugement proved ‘that in ‘Fresh. -hé hus wu play /that~ will bold. the: public favor. for some Lime; not because of, any. literary tnerit fu the piece—for of this. there. {snot the slightest trnee—but because ‘some of the xro- tusquu situntions aro exuctly fitted to. the, bu- morous cxpubilities of Mr, Raymond, and be mukes the most of them. ‘lhe. charucter of the Russian nobleman, whose only ambition -in life 13 to kill. the ‘Turk wuo. murdered ‘his brother, was intended by the. author. of * Fresh" to be very serious indeed, but un the first presenta- don of the'pfece tho iudionce accepted bls emo-" tonal and sanguisury remarks us someting very, funny, und proceeded to luugh heartily at them. : Thereafter the purt was piuyed as a bur-" lesque, and udds materially to tie strength ol the perfurmance. + a Hugue’s Minstrels, which bava done only a fair vusiness ut. Houloy's. duiig® the week, wre not such un overwhelminely talented onaniza- tlon as weir proprictor would have people be- Neve. The test partof the entertaininent, which fs composed wholly of sons, is eajoyable, and the duncing in the second partis also to be oom- mended, but. some ‘of ;tne other teatures are weuk—notably the-sketeh—tho’ old . familiar sketch, hallowed .by years upon. yaars of. bard service, in whieh two pecullarly-dressed eal- ored citizens, with marked proclivities towards dancing sume and fallmg dowu'a great deul, call upon vt fascinating but fickle creature ot the op- posit sex, who, Invariably-lives in u cottage with vines around the door, has a much-to-be-feared futher, and receives ber compuny in the front yurd. ‘fhe. persons in Sir. Hugo's em- ploy who. were. directed. to “do "this sketch simply . blacked thelr faces and treated the audience tou short extract from a London | pantomime. The lover who was, aot in fuvor with the girlwas' continually beng bits by nls more fortumite rival, wasn ae could never Bee, beeause be was Uchind che g.tl and after re- ceiving an unusually “severo. whack ‘over the shend-be would advance tothe footlights and. \murk is a very solema manngr, “ Well, this'is curiou: but,.-althoush tois.side-splitting per- formance was cone through with every evening of the week, the audiences, to their creditabe it said, nover encouraged it by 2 smile. é At Haverly's ‘he Professor,” albeit a thin specimen of weak comedy, bas dove a good .| business, i ‘ + mot ‘This week the attractions. will be varicd. That .lnchrymose but - interesting jouur femule, Hazel Kirke, will appear at MeVicker’s, and will doubtless draw -large audiences. The time of the yearis ‘peculiarly appropriato for the re+ _turn of Hazel and ber woes, réal and imaginary, because everybody is expected. just now to forgive everybody “else “all. the mean- nesses. uf which they have been guilty, and the phty has areturn-to-your-home-me-cuild scene _that'goes very-well with cold wenther, Cbrist- inas stuckings. yule logs, wud mince: ples... Sone people think that * Hazel Kirke" is a great play and teuvhes 2 great moral lesson ; others, that it is chietly compused. of junbealthy seatimen- tality. ee R “at Baverly’s the original Mastodon Minstrels,’ the unmortat forty who went to Europe and, as one of ther number subsequently - remurked. “paralyzed the Prince of Wutes,” will appear Monday afternoon in a Christmas matinée. As an-udded holiday, attraction’ Mr. Haverly bas secured the: Zunfretti family of pantomimists, -who will delight the children and do nota little’ towiyds muk ne the older heads bappy: ‘The Grand Opera-House will present to its patrons as a Christmus-gift d xentleman named Nobies. who bus for several years traversed the country with cramus‘of ‘the type over which” young females who. wheel babies uround the purks In the sunny days of sammer and young men whoso-researches into” English literature ave been mostly In the ‘direction of ‘dime novels “tall into”, ecstasies. --[t Is ~ not exactly clear why Mr..° Nobles ” should have succeeded in, inducing ‘the management ofthe Grand to think ‘thut he can do w@ good business at that bouge, because he caniot—the people’ that: ordinarily go there care nothing . ubout Mr. Nobles or his ‘latest play, which: is called Lnterviews.” Be % : A Hurricane of Talent” is .the combination’ of words chosen by Mr.’ Leavitt with which to describe brietly tho! variety troupe under. bis management “which appears ut the Olympic to- morrow night, and : the very commonplace and not at ull- exciting-fact that Mr. Leavitt. bus pliced this company on the road is, alluded to as “the crowning triumph" of bis career. “Ax “a matter of fact, the orgunization is a very good’ one of its kind, but {tis not a hurricane, or gimoon, or any other description of meteorulog- feat disturbance... 5 ‘ : “Fun on Lhe. Bristol," a sketch with which the public is fatniliar, will be at, Hooley’s during the awéok. John F, Sheridan,’ us the Irish widow, is exceedingly aimusing,.and the company. sup- porting bim. includes people: with specialties, who introduce tnem during the progress.of the. placer? : Geshen ORTEOE et it is now announced that, Mr; J: H. MeVicker will retire from theatricul management: ac the -| ‘close of the present. seuson, and that nis theatre is for sule. SW a ee Petes + ‘nis evening the German theatre company will, produce ut MeVioker’s tne pretty comicipera of * The Littie Duke,” with Miss. Aunu Scbonberr in the title rdle,and Miss Wildbach as the Du- chesse.. ie ba 5 There are some good things about a despotic governiient after all. “While Surap Bernbardt_| was on her way to 8t. Peterabury the Court Min-* ister announced ‘that ull the tickers ‘secured for ber perfurmuaces were invulid, because the ma- jority bad been bought by speculators. . +. The: Criterion’: will’ furnish its patrons.with a variety show during the cumiag week, and throw in ‘The Two Orphans,” pluyed by the regular: company.) 0.05%" : sapere. a7 _"Kute Claxton: will soon have’ another tawsutt | oa bang.. She .bad, coutracted to appear at the Windsor Thestre, Boston, next week, but broke’ the “engagenient’ in. favor~of* one at Booth’s “Theatre, New York. Site ge Ew 5 . yExit.Phe:Bondman.” .» . Spectal.Correspondence af, ‘The Chicago Tribune. - New Yor«. Dec. 22.—When Jobn “McCullough “went to London last spring to, wake the echuesat old Drury Lane he was mude a great deal of in His frank ana; manly bearing, bis “unaffectéd cordiality, and the’ rare magnetism, ‘with.woich ho fairly 07 rith.wo lows, won bim a great ingny substantial friei Ono of these was the Hon, Lewis Wingtield, » gentleman of refined in tho pust, wud the Sunduy-night: attendance” | tastes.and excellent literary ability, who becamo. imbued with the notion that. he could write a play that.would tit'the gonial tragogian like the paper on the wall.” He selected Jack Cade us the central figure for a romantic drama. which Mr. MeCullaugh consented to produce. “These estiz mable people who believe that the acting merit of a drama can be determined iu any way stort of actual representauon are groping In darkness. If it were possible to decide the’ matter'of suc- cess by rending a play, or even rencursing ‘it, wo should -be sfficted with: less fallures..* The. the fact that the actors (ir. MeCullough’-ex- cepted) were nearly. unaglmous in the’ belief. that it would be u failure: ‘Wren actors predict: the fallure of a play Its success is generully sure” to follow, but in this case the tictors + called the tura,”..a phrase which is sIngukirly expressive, although it will doubtiess be understood by very fewof Tae Tutsune’s -olty- renders. It is al- ready wmutter of “record how -the drama wag produced ut. Haverly’s “Fifth Avenue. with con- siderable flourish of “trumpets -last” week, and how the critics with one accord felt ‘upon it and Splititup the back. ‘That: the ‘play :was not, strong enough to endure, and that, us the ideal- ized Cade, McCullough was bound band and foot, - ‘und prevented fron giving mare than asbaduwy: suggestion of his, power, muy be “frankly con- ceded; but, with all respect: to. the critics, [do “not think they treated -Mr.Wingtield with: that: frirness and courtesy due to a man of bis ability: an author: secking ‘recognition “in # strange land.: They might have mude their condemnution just ag emphatic und unequivocal without treat jog “The.sondinun in Jrivolous and flippaat style. : Mr. McCullough fortunutely possesses un ‘ample’ stock “of hurd, common sense. : He de- plores the failure of the piece—more on the un- thor’s account than’ bis: own—but he realizes. that it would. add..nothing to the strength: of bis already large and varied répertoire, aud he -bas quietly ‘dropped it...‘ The Bondman" re- ‘ceived its lust representation at the Sututday mutinée, and there was.a touch ‘of: sardonic bumor in MeCullough’s utterance of, the foal Speech. .*t Bondman :no| more". was - the. tag, but tho actor suid: instend, * Bondmun for the lust time; we bave passed from, the shadow into. light—a little plensantry. which .Wing- field seemed to enjoy as heartily as anybody. The outhor is disappointed ‘of’ course, but be. xeécepts the result. philosophically. He at least hus the sutistaction of Knowing. thut Mr.-Mc- Culiough labored with ull earoestness and éis- cerity in bebalf of bis play. “Being-2 very de- lightful ‘gentleman ‘personally, , be bas made many: - friends - here,’ and . bas..bad -a right ” pleasunt. visit-. He will go - back: to England with some yery.intellizent and. en- -Lgbtened views ubout America. It isa popular delusion over rbere that we ure all more or less copper-vulored, that we dwell in tents, and that we nre hupltuaily decorated with war-paint and feathers. -It is to be hoped that Mr. Wingtield will;do what be can to correct tuis somewhut Grronevus impression. oe B.D. PL Patience and Perseverance. pects! Correspondence of The Chicuyo Tribune. New York. Dec. 22.—The. {imitative fucuiry is aa strong in munagers us it fs. in monkeys, and just now almost every fellow who can Iny out a roite and get trusted for a supply of stuck cuts ig organizing a “Patience” company. Actors who. can't sing, singers wno can't act, and novices who can neither sing noract are belig hastily banded together ana bustied out on the road,” scufliny und elbowing for precedence, and eager to obtulo te - first grab ati the rural shekels.. The intlictton” promises to be as bad as.“ Pinafore.” _ There are. Lady “Angelas’ who but yesterday were twirling: a fan and warbilng serio-comic ditties; ex-sonz and dance men burlesquing Buuthorne, and Groxvenors whose’ proper stadon in-life Is be~ sind a-bar ur ut the brake of u street-cur. Not one in tifty bas the slightest apprecintion of the delicate sutire of this little esthM@e trifle. We are. threatened with, a terrible “Patience” epidemic that wil! sweep over the entire country from ‘Murine to Texua, uncontrolled by lucat in-, thrences, and numbering umong its victims all classes from the blasé wetropulitun theatre-gocr to the conservative rustic whose wildest In-, dulzence in the pleasures of the play-bouse bas veen hitherto contined to weeping ‘over the precucious piety of Litt'e’ Eva, or” to ‘hilarious ‘enjoy-uent of the jubilee singers, ‘That sturdy old Koman warrior Virginius was right when he ‘exelaimed in thunder ton “Putience!l Nuy, prudence but no patience!" Viryinius bad a thorouguly level head. _E.D. P. i a tN om “Wasteal Notes and Announcement: ‘The concerts of the Mozart Society and of the Apollu Club bave. been su fully nuticed as they ‘pave occurred that any further comments ure unnecessary. They huve been well attended ana show a growing interest io musicul matters of locul origin which promises well for the fut- ure..-There is plenty of good material here {f properly developed und trained. ‘This the Say Festival wilt prove even more clearly than any- thing that bus yet taken place. The. Mozart ‘Suctety, hus the ticld practicully to itsclf aga” miinnerohor. hee Brae oi The only ‘musicai entertainment of this week will be given by the Emelie Meiville opera coui- puny at Central Music-Hall, which is to be. pro- vided with scenery, etc., for the occusion., Some new spirit bas-come over the manugement of this music-buil, for the lute George B. Curpen- ter was knewn-to be oppused to renting the bull to theatrical or operatio- orgenizations during huliduy ‘week. . Being largely owned by members of Prof: Swing s church ‘and’ bult to furnish thut corporstion an abiding ‘place, it was not udapted tor dramutic representations. During this week svenery ‘and properties will be brought over from Haverly’s Theutre, and the orchestra will ul3o assist ‘at each periormance. Beginning at the “ mutinée tomorrow “afternoon “Pinafore” willbe given until Wednesduy, to. bo followed by * Patience” uutil Thursday, and: Bucoaceio’? the bala of the week. Begin- ning Jun. 2, “ Pinatore” will be given for a week by another organizaaan: "|. fe) ‘The tirstreunion vf the: pupils of. Mr. S. G. Pratt will tuke pluce next.‘Lhuraduy evening at Lyon & Healy’s music rooms, | ~ The twelfth anfunl Christmas concert given _by the Froju Singing Society will take ‘phice ut North Side Turner Hull tomorrow evening. : T. Elberg 1a the musicul conductor, and Mr, Levin- sen and Mr. Yitrup tho sotuists. * oe Miss Jennie Herrick hus been engaged by. the Slaytou Star, Concert Troupe in place of Miss Emma Hovey. ‘ oo ‘Last Thursday evening Mr. F. W. Root gave a musicul at bis rooms. Among those -who took part-were Mrs. Frank Hall, Blisses Herrick, Stivers, and SeCord, and Messrs. Cuapmun, Mc- Wade, Clark, and Willoughby. = z ‘Gounyd’s quartet opera “the. Dove ". will be given Jun. 10ut Brand’s Hull by, Misses Jennie Dutton und Mury Phuewix and Dr. C. Te Burnes und Mr. HT. Hart. Mr. Schoenfeld leads the orchestra." .- i i ramen The.uext pupils’ soirée of the- Mueller Con- servatory, of Btusic, assisted’ by! the Eutcrpe *Miinnerchor and Miss. Emma M. Shaw, will be given Wednesday evening next at the First M.. &. Church, corner of Washington and Clark atrects, Getmun and American ‘lud.es are 'in- -vited to jula the “ ladies’ chorus.”’ ‘fhe: novel- ties of. the evening will bo selections , from Ar- nold Krug, Jensen, Schumann, and Bargicl, The Roya! Hand Bell-Ringers ‘and Gice' Men from'London will appear at Céatfal Musto-Hull ‘about the middie of February.” are ao Mr. Rusenbecker's orchestra will faterpret the following. selections ‘at the North Sidé.Turner: Hull this afterovon:** King’s Polonaise;" Over-" ture, * Astray to Happiness"; Waltz, Swallows, Villuge""; Finale from the opera of * Ari~ ™: Joy Hymn" Overture of. War”; :Vuria-, tions, theme by Mozurt, ‘solu for violin. by Mir, Herm = Braun,° scholur’. A. Rosenbeckor; “Toreblight Dance, No. 3" ‘(by request); : Put-, pourri, “A Trip Torough Europe’’; ; Convent Bells.” nacturnus; Guilop, * Beno.” --> ue At MeVicker’s Theutre tonigh (Miss Schonberr mekes her’ reappedrunce in Lecug’s: opera of “The Little Duke.” Gane ene Ba? 3 ——— ee -PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S STATE CARRIAGE. The ‘bewspapers are: givinz..elaborate de- scriptions of the President's ‘xrand; Brewster lanuau: ..OF course,: it is: beautiful ..ia- the extreme, and we. take <great’ pleasure ‘in telling our readers’ it! they::will: call -at- the great Carriage house of C. P. Kimball &: Co. they can see an exact’ duplicate of the Presi< denvs State carriage, -as. well as -the- best carriage estublishinent in the Guited States, filled'with the most. beautiful'carriages: and sleighs fo this ‘country. 4t-is’ well: worth seeings Ty nea : <THE GERMICIDE . is warranted to prevent ‘all contagious dis- eases entering your house ‘froin the sewer. Office Germicide ‘Cumpany of Llnois, 305 Wabash avenue. * most favorable omen for “The Bondman" was'|- THE REBEL TREASURE, ‘Recollections ‘of. an Ex-Confeder: ‘ate-Now.-Resident.in ‘Chicago. ‘ A Portion Went to the Troops, Jor eat é “None, and the Rest Was i -Abandoned.* Considerable has been. published of ‘late as ‘the guld and silver in the Confederate Treas s at the tine of the eviucuation of: Alchaiud ack us to.whut becuime of it duriog the dignt of. Jets ferson Duvis from Danvilie southward: ace porter.of Tue TitrbUNe revollectéd “chat Mp. Io: seph M. Bowniar, of. the Merchants" Nutional ef °° tnis city, wus an _oilicer-ia’ Gen. Basil “Dunes brigade, und was theréfore one of the corm, ks z that escorted Mr. Duvis during tis march throay 4 North und Souitu Carolinu. “He exiled upos be ‘therefore, yesterduy fur the: purpose. of -seeing « whut fight: if ang, he cuuld tar upda theaee.- appeunince of the Cunfederate trensire.’ Jn pes, ply to bis inquiry, Mr. Bowimar gal Rea as “If you wilt pardon a Lttle personal remin’ feence, L-will urst teil how 1 tapoaied teen ithere. After an fnprisonment of twenty montas” at -the Nurth, { reached {ichindad: the ten of = Mareb, 1865, 2 “paroled prisoner. ::3ty cumin ind, Sorgun’s divisiou, theu under command uf Gen! Bast Duke, was ut Abingdon, Va, but, by Mo ders frum the War Deparvuient, putuled prises erg. were not. peruntted -to rejuin. their co Lee mands, und were therefore compelled to reusia in ene ean of pare j prtauners near the city or find quarters In the city, a8 th 5 surocndles Louse eee et BOARD IN THE CITY AT.$60 Py: Day. for u week, and then found a privute boarding. Sbouse at bult that: price, and -remuined: mere until the Ist duy of April.” {was inturmed thay the’city was liable w ve ovicurted at almust any hone, und started tor Lynchuurg witha few com ichunuud fen cue following duy, ang, as ere unable to reach utr command, we tee * maided in the vicinity of Lynchourg until metas In company. with Cabelt "Bullucg.Juseph tuat (votn uepnews of Gen... Joun ,C. Brevaiuridze), aud Louis Puyue, 1 started of foot fur:Danville, Vit, expectung to Nall in there with sume portion of the urmy ef Gea Jusepl. E. Jobnstun, then. vontrunting Gen. Sbermun- in’ hu -a varulian. itis needless to say we, were disappointed, and - bur mureh continued until we reached Caariotie, N.C. on tue 2th—uvoul 0 inles—wuere, to our surprise and joy, - we: folind our command und what_rumuiined of the Confederate Govern-’ ment. Negotiations for the surrender of Gen, Jonaston's army” were then pends between’ Umit commander and Gen. Sherman. = The oews Of (he surrender wus received--ou-the 25th; tuink, aud on the morning of the 20th President” Davis und his ‘Cabinet, with a very large waa train, moved ont of Charlotte, escorted by avuut. uw‘ cavulry, -chietly.- Kentuckians. and :Teo-. nessevans, with u tew Virgtoie aud: South Care utinu truops. As yet nv decliration of exchange: Youd been inde, aud, .cunsequeutly, +L: wis: nut. ugsigned to duty, und, witn a umber of othere situilurly . situated, accowpumed our respecuve Commands a8 nun-couatuts, "Thad aut ten beard of auy treasure, und Une genenu supposi- WOD Was, Watt the p.operty beau : transported. - by the Wagon tun, cuusisted of. provisiet munitions, urchives Of ‘the Government,’ persoual effects und camp equip.ge of-prom|- We - reaened. tna” S on the eveumg of May 2 Several ‘long. halts,’ \duruxy whico Cubinet meetings und counctis of iwar were hed, nad occurred. Bemg 2 a0n-come, batant, I was not required to remain<in camp, und spent that ofzht uta plantatiun-nuuse with twu comrades, and vext mornipg.we Croased the river in udvunce of the.columa. ‘I was nor,there- fore, persouully cognizant ut whut uceurred thas aighc in emp, but wus iufermed qe uext day ly very: muny who were. preseut of wout tov place. [thud been determsned in councit tooifer_ tu the troops the privilege of returning to their homes. remaining were - to > surrender” to the tirse force that<)mignt come. slong, or vcontinue on tne murch, the — object, ive - being the Trans-Mississippi © Depart- ment. . ‘The South Carolina: troops nad ulrosdy ugandoned the cause aud sturted for ineir pomes. ‘The Tennesseeuns. ana Virgotans, aud a few Kentuckinns e:ected to disband there and start for home. . ‘The truops remaming in arma, a3 un escort, were all Kentuckmas, and all ot Gen. Duke's coinmund (save Lieut-Col, Diamond aud. a very few men who belunged to unother Ken- tucky commund), and numbered about 400, in~ cluaing paruted men, whom “it was determined -, snould be declared excbunged und assigned to duty. It wus further determined to A DISTIMBUTE TO ALL-'THE TROUPS, OFFICERS : AND MEN ALIKE, 75 >. a porton of the treasure. ~ Owing to errors ia. reports uf Adjutants, tie amounts distributed inthe several. regiments or brigades was 006 equal.‘The: amount assigned to the drigude of Geo. Vuugbun, 1 think, was. to eaco:man und oliver, and -that was-che -amullese-autg te ceived by ‘uoy.Vhe distribution vo the.cow “munud of Gen. Duke atnounted to $2 for each. individual, private -und officer, and: wag: tae lurgest amount. received by any of. the,.tronps.. My money was recetved by'a friend and headed to me the. following day, und consisted of é in. gold and $ in silver. . Now, this diatribution was tnude to about 2,000.men, and uvervied,: I sup. use, uboUut $2) to euch. individual, waied would. NbUUE $58,0W, and ceriioly not over $6." ' “A reported toterview with Gen. Wins, now u Senator from: Kentucky, dues very cross injuguice to the troops, und i can scarcely be- lieve that Gen..Williams made ‘the statement: The stutement attributed to him was tothe elfect that the trovps bud determined to plunder the train und divide che treasure, und were on- the eve,of mutiay when ne made a speech which restored order. and prevented .. the rubbery. Gen. , Williams . way: bave .boen: there, aud he may nuve- made a_speeco,a3 he is equully“ready to talk or fight, a5 eircumstances require; but the occasion ‘did not -call for a. speech to quell tho meeting or disperse the mub, Tuever before beard of It, and ain sure that, io the alinust mjnute account of the events of that. night detailed to me che tullowing morning. 20 episude so important and exciting would svarce> sy have been omitted, .. Gen. .Wilhams, a3 well ag Mr: Rengan, ure both. mistuken a3 to the amuunt distributed to the. troops, one stating the uniuunt at 916 und toe other nt Siu cach... ‘The column moved ucross the Savagnub River “on the morning of Muy 3, and maruhea to Wash- i that day. 'The. train. bad been, Wagons couprining the treasure and one oF two: wagons containmg provisions, «etc, a re mained under the guurd of Gen. Duke's cu) mund.. Mr. Davis. woom [saw but once vatns- entire. mureb, did not stay inthe camp, and 00 the morning of the ito of Sluy, : accompanied by: :Col. Willintn. Preston Johuston,< bis..personal:. : friend aad aid, started upon his journey toward.» ‘the Floriia coust. He was Jouned by his famil; ‘within a day or two,and was-cuptured. eurly-oa* the wih. He did aot have an escort, aud traveled: on. horsebuck., --Any, one may, readily draw we. conciugiun that be and bis companton ... 3 2? 3 COULD NoT HAVE CARUIED ‘AWAY : WITH. _ THEM ANY (CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT: of coin or builion. If avy one.will put a $3,000 bag of zold coin in his cunt-pocker be will tnd 8, a Serious iinpediment.to his wali; and, though. ‘Mr. Davis's a mun of very spare build, Would bave been a serious uddinon to the load, for bis horse: ‘It is ultugether improbable thas, he recerved any of. the money, aud. 20 account . ‘of bis capture relutes tne finding of apy moneys< either upon bis persun or amung bis family and + (attendants. whine Re eee Bet “| bad beard ‘that’ the treasure amounted 10, * $2.50) or $3,000.00), ‘chietly in, bulllon. but do uot now remember my authority.. tr. Keagua says It did nut exceed $1u0,u0v.. 1 always believed the amount’ to be us ubove atated until I sa Mr. Rengun’s statemeut. . [t-wus louded In threo. wagons, un7.on the tth of: May L ‘relieved Co! Theof. ‘Steele an bour or two, or longer per, Laaps, in guurding it. at bis request, ashe bad) een on: constant, duty fur several days and. 2: ‘wanted a ilttle rest. ok samaagt On the 5th of Say Geu. Breckinridge issu 4 an order for the disvandment of che TrHups, we. was ‘informed, upon. autnority 1 bad no 0otts, sion toduubt at the ime, that the treasure ie : been phiced in a vauit in Washiuton, Gan ane “um contident of naving read. 2 snort ime aes: that-it was found there by a Federal cavi ry command, and was turned over to-un wgent Ge the United States Treasury Department: Bh)! - might .be: eusily ,veritied. by nvestigudon , 85 Washington City.” I donot state it es a matter of. positive Knowledge, but us an lon te bus so long been uvon my mind that there, a rhe ave been suine fact or statement at the tims a crete it.’-On the 6th of Muay our command #1 disbanded and dispersed, and 1. with state nee that Gen. Breckinridwe’s order was issued 4! tae ; be received news of the surrender of Geo. Die ‘ ‘Vaylur, and that Duke's command was chen To. last ‘armed orgunized: force cust of, the Ml sippl River. oo 00 He hee SIt was always a subject of wonderment bred z the treasure, hire or siunull, was not divided among thosé who remuined at the last, by. it should bave been abandoned us it was. Jess . only exphtin it by tne fact that thore was 00 ne, who bud authority to order "it. And fo view all the circunstances.it:.was -cortainly: ihe oe credituble to the men present that they did 0 seize it and. divide it: among themselves. ; wore neatly’ a2 thousand miles from thelr Domes... and, with the ‘suall ‘wmount eaco one Te: celyed, f oes Petes * eaten So HAD" SCARCELY, ENOUGH: TO ;DEFRAT EE: . Sof “BENBES 500.55" ae of: their long journey. do not. believe Cred ’ ‘Gen. Johnswon ever made the statement: altri. uted to uim.> Whatgnever may be bis opinion oe Sir. Davis agu.loader, or nis feeling x8 10 personat, ditferences. I'd would uccuse Mr. :Davis- of two! one: acquainted with :the character of the men credit either the charge or the etatet 3 ‘that jt emaduted from Gen. Jobnston. <-- sos | wilt-stute in conciusion that Lwas, of Company : A, Fifth Kentucky" Cavalry, t ns after the d abandment at the Savanoud Need, was senior officer of iny regiment, theo juced. -- to about fifty men.) Ea > Prot. Hor-fori?< Batkin= Powder. Prof. Kedney Welch, Habnemuon M College, Chicago. said: “The greatest impruves ment ever made in Faising bread without the of yeust 13 the process of Pr jorstord.’