The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1869, Page 4

ACROSS THE CONTINENT, On the Route to Hamilton—Condition of the Country~Situation and Appeurance of the Town—Publishing a Newspaper Under Diflle Scheme: culty—W iid Ca Hamivrox, Wianrre srarot, Nev., April 23, 189%, M ELKO TO HA Not stri i!) on the overland route; but who, when not pre yy time, could pass Kiko withoat visit- ing the wiv silver district, the district that is now causing so auch excitement in the mining world, both on tue Pacilic coast and m the Eastern States? J could not, for one, and although the ride from Elko to this pluce is 130 miles, and that in @ stage and over avery rough road, I determined to take the risk and sc ‘or myself the country I had heard 80 <d Uat was said to be of such fabulous io, I was traveliing under the most favora- ces; | was with & party of six, who had a conc to themselves and who were to make good tin read of being packed ike herrings im a box «id compelled to take twenty four hours to make tie distance; and this was an additional in- ble cucu ducement; so tnis morhingat three o'clock we were called to an early breakfast, and at half-past four we were siucly stewed away in a mud wagon, a3 it is called—a cross between a stage and an oxcart— buble sort of vehicle, such a8 Was used on an in¢ the overiand route before the railroad did away with all 1 machines and rendered travelling tolerable. The morning was very cold—indeed, 1t was freez- ing—ani !0 ove wno had long been a stranger to such wealicr it Was rather sharp, but it was clear, and thers Was every prospect of a fine day; so we bore it wi\liout a murmur and wished for sunrise. On reaclunz that formidable river, the Humboldt— some 200 yirds from the station—we found that it had risen (uring the night, and that, as there was no bridge an | as ithad to be forded, it was necessary that we shou’! sect ont, for fear of getting our feet wet by reason of (ue Water coming over the floor of the coach. did so, aud then went over what was termed a toll bridge for foot passengers, a rough structure. made by some of the settlers, who at one cud had built a house, where they re- sided er tea toll from all persons who » stream either on business or pleasure. ; foundered througi it, and the bottom crossed of th <e was spared a wetting by about an inch only, 80% laary place whereon to place our cold f sth Was good fortune. We soon packed away & 1 started. About half a mile further We pa our left that wouderful hot spring or pooi t rred to in my last, and that is used as a bats ; 1s @ great curiosity, and I was in- formed pth in some parts is 160 feet. Our ousisted of three gentlemen from San o were visiting White Pine on busi- ree who were destined for New York, », for a “look see,’? as Chinamen say, of tie number. We were all ac- + and friends, and this fact gave promise Fr ness, quaint that t wld not hang heavily on our hands. It did not * ng to discover that the journey was to be of ughest description, and that we would be weary and sore long before reaching our destina- tion. Th ad can be better imagined than particu- larly de ved. It was rough in the first place; re- cent ra vd rendered it a mass of mud; then the beavy te.ins had cut it mto deep ruts, and the cold tue past two days had frozen it hard, ries of hiis and holiows, pped over im @ way 0 utly to one side or the other or jolted us so that our me violently in contact with the roof of the h ridiag vehicle it was ever my lot to encoun ine first six miles of tie road was over atolerasly Ligh hil, and while going up the grade We notion! a cayole leeaing upon the carcass of a horse thut ‘ay by the roadside. We passed about 200 Yards {rou Lim, but he took no notice of us beyond turning round to look, and then went on with his NEW tess One Wilk 0e constructed that will be free {row any grade of magnitude, except at either eucl, and no cutting or filling of any great moment will be required, I cannot help being mupressed With tho idea that this valiey was at one Lime the bed of Agreat river, Indeed, the shells aud other deposits | to oe found on the mountains fully prove tt. UF course we must remain im ignorance of what has Leon, but it 1s certain, beyond al! doubt, that at one tilge this country has undergone great transforma- tions, It ean easily be seen Luat there 18 no agricul- taral Weaitn here; the productions 0; this section are uneral only, aad in these te country 13 rich beyond ail power of description. Suca is the opinion of iuose Competent to judge—Who are capable of mak- ing tuis assertion from positive Knowledge—and it is beveved tiat, even with all that has-been discovered, other st pd will from time to time be found that vile even the best that White Pine can pro- uce. As you get to the southward and ay the White Pine district the hills begin to wooded with Umber simular to pine and a mountain me- hogany; it 1s not of dense growta, but still tt is in good supply, and on all the mountains around Treasure Hui there 1s plenty of it for fuel and other purposes, It is delivered for use at about five or six dollars per cord, which 18 @ low and most fortunate for those compelled to live in this region of ice and — where fires are required nine months in the year, HAMILTON. Located at the foot of Treasure Hill—the hit where- in the most valuable deposits of been found—is, of course, a town of the most primi- tive condition. It has aprung up but it must eventually prove a portance, It has now, IL houses, of all shapes, sizes an however, prin Work, covered with Canvas, and afford shelter irom the inclement weather that pre: ut eight months in the year. There isa large floating Populatton, composed of every class, trom capli- talist to the less loater wi lounges ut wi for the first to turn up out of whom Trequently being preferred, enormous, and accommodations and of the poorest character. extravagant prices and rents bigh, You may be when lumber is worth $350 a thousand vast. ching the summit of this hill we had an view of the immense plain before us, Stretching as lar as the eye could reach to the south- Ward aud janked on either side wita ranges of moun- tains snow capped and as dreary looking as those We passed wile Oa the raijroad. ‘The plain con- tamed nociing but the everfasting sage brush; not @ tree was to be seen of any kind. But with ali this picture 0. barrenness the scene was very fine, espe- Cially as we saw it with the first rays of the rising sun, Which gilded the mountain tops and made them lovuk exceedingly beautuul. Although I was disgusic:! With the prospect before me, still I could not help ing into ap exclamation of delight and admiration, tor 10 Was @ picture that one does not see every even where | saw it. We passed rap- idly gow ¢ Di side, aud soon aiter came to the urst station tiles from niko. on this road. It aud some of the e evidentiy Leen changing hors eh fi uly baaly c ubjected to much exposui dest description, scarcely « iaiever in Wie ter- rible we Imes occurs 1D this valley. v being remedied, however, be a3 weil stocked as any tue second stage was the les), and the road portion, aud fin oniy fit for a jaterior horses. He Was, how- ever, bet. { wis description of his tri ing on the over land rov g have by the Inds ore than once dead bodies tit hi ed halfan hour.” 1 thought tien ll hardly care to take , 108 of om such an insignideant t the entire disiance from Elko to Hamilio. we met emigrants, bound to the new siiver district. oie were evidently moving there with ali tueir woridly goods. Sonie were on horseback, and many on fe blankets strapped uj their bags, wére slowly plodding thelr way to where they hoped p f afortune, Of course 4 very oft n are destined to stination with and then y reach their ¢ are soon dead broil ) moOne they are giad & get away. We met some few on t back ruck, Who Were disgusied with the prospect and spowe d » and everything about it. 0) for White Pin has to be n it weneraily takes five or si heavy veauis vo get through. The expen tis Chormous, and prices charged must be high ia order’ to cover ex- enses. r Was purchased in San Pr ine News, the cost of which was i the Ireight to Treasure City was $500; © se 1s in proportion. It ap- peared t us i vive road was lined with freight teams, and yet & caunot go forward fast enough for tue deina ay stations average abou vit whereat a jew My, wha’ 5 tion, sixty ten miles apart, o paely places, aracte nen live to care able a ile naist be ven miles from overiand road, and the Wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company; here taere isa telegraph sta KO, We met the oid tion, and When We arrived despatciies were found for severa. of the party. Think of it, so far removed from civiiization and yet within call of all parts of the world. The road inthis vicinity and on to ham- fiton is avast improvement upon the commence- ment, and we Were less subjected to being Knocked about like a bundie of chips; still it was bad enough at the best. ‘Twenty-eight miles from Hamilton we passed the first inc tion of silver mining. There isa large mill erected at this point, nbt yet in operation, for the reason that miners are holding back their ores for a fall in the prices of milling, now considered exor- bitantly lugh, being fifty dollars per ton. This is high, certainly, in comparison to Virginia prices, but when we consider cost of labor, wood and other mill_ma- terial it is not so much after all, At this point, from & little adobe hut, there Was a flag flying which toid Us that Within there was a smallpox patient; so we did not fondly linger in the vicinity, Trea sure iil, the haven where we would be, was in plain sight, covered with snow, of course, and the distance was becoming shorter; for we had come to a good road and had a new driver, who did not let the grass grow under the wheela, The foot of the hill was reached, and soon we were wind- ing our way up the cafion. Tne last change of horses nad been made, and at eight o'clock we reached the door of Wella, Fargo & Co.'s office in Hamilton, the sorest, most t ‘wornout individual that ever alighted from & hundred and thirty mile mud Wagon ride, I was almost a cripple, could scarcely drag one foot after another, and was thoroughly dis- ee in every way, although our trip had only n fifteen and & half hoars—the quickest on re- cord. Ido not wish to keep any one from White Pine who has business there, or who, by going, ex- | ay} to make a fortune; but the man who takes the ip for pleasure should go toa warmer place for pastime. THE COUNTRY through which we passed has but little to recom: mend it, it is avout the same that I have before de- , With some few exceptional spots. In the rst place, there appears to be plenty of water, and | ni a few points where grass Was growing. Ail these have been taken up jor ranches, on some of which I noticed cattle grazi eWwidih of this val I take to be about Mtr The siope of the mountains is gradual, « Mountains, ai- th high in altitude, do nm 3 the broken rough surface | expected to see. Jheir sides are in regular waves almost, and wien looked at {rom an Angle the tops of these waves (if I can use that term) present a series of parallei lines as regular as ii drawn with arule, No vetter country can be found for the construction of a ra‘ivoad, and if bn time it is determined that Wie Pine wii warrant i} doupe there are ity; the faro bani cality 1s af @ premium; but this is always in places like Hamilton, and it is only @ repetition of what San Francisco was in the early 3 Calufornia, after 1t came under American rule. Hamilton must be situated roughest description. Of flourishes a there over the entire surface, remind one of an army in winter quarters. Snow is everywhere, and it sel- dom if ever happens that it cannot be seen during every month in the year. Now the entire surface of ‘Treasure Hill from Hamilton to its summit is clothed in &@ mantle of pure white, and you can hardly real- ize that behind its rugged peak, away up among tne cionds, 1s situated the town of ‘Treasure City, the headquarters of the mining district, and a place of no jess inportance than iiauilton. No one 1s favorably impressed with the appearance of the town when alighting from the stage; there are no sidewalks, and you land in a sea ol mud, which becomes worse «8 you go to the centre oi the street, until at umes it is almost impaasabie. Top boots and overshoes must be worn, and no one need pay attention to per- soval appearance here, for it is the last considera- Uon. ‘Tne sireets are ined with freight of every description; heavy teams are consiantly coming 1n with wore; buildings are going up everywiere; auction sales are taking piace im # dozen localities; men are rushing about m every direction, corner loungers are in crowds, and ail 18 life, bustie and ex- citement. You hear nothing but ciaims, real esiate and rents; these are the ali-absorbing topics of con- Versation, varied only by the saying ‘Come, taxe a drink”’—an invitation not often declined. Lt will not take very iong to put things in shape and have Matters so arranged as to make Hamilton quite a comfortable place; those who see it pow and six months Lence will be surprised at the great change that wll nave taken place. There is enterprise enough here and money enough to build it up rapidly, aud when the season becomes more moder- ate carpenters and masons need not be idie an hour; there will be work euouga for ali of them at higu wages. ‘Chere is aiready an excellent daily paper published here—the Inland Ampire—and | was surprised to see an office of such magnitude; {¢ 18 all in a tent about thirty by flity feet im size. In one corner { found one of the editors hard at work on copy for the next day; the local was not far off. In another corner, of which @ room has been made, the other editor was in bed sick; half a dozen compositors were at work; there was @ power press, Washington hand press, two Gordons and a rotary, and the proprietor told me that be was run down with job work. Really, 1 saw nothing more American m character than this newspaper office; and if energy deserves success truly the proprietor of the estavlishment should make a fortune, New towns are bemg located and building lots are oifered for sale therein at high prices. There 1s one city called Pocotilio that looked beautiful on paper; its lots were extensively advertised aud then sold at auction; some purchasers were lound, and one, when he came to look for his loi, found ic, but discovered that it was on the side of a mountwin top which @ kangaroo might climp, but not a human being. Be on the look oat for everything coming from White Pine, jet it be mining claims or town lots. Don’t buy until you know what you pay your money for. There is an Lmmense amount of humbug and swindle about, better Known as “wild cat,” and the unwary are sure to be taken in if they listen and act upon all ther bear about White Pine aud its vicinity. To-morrow I shali go up the hilito Treasure City, and will there examine the situation with care, 80 tuat 1 can furnish the HERALD readers with informauion that taey may depend upon as being in ail respects reiiabie. In the meantime | caution them against the contents of the thousands of private letters sent Hast avout this locality, and particularily against some of the schemes LOW On loot m our Kastern cities hereby afew speculators will be made rich and igunds iose tier money. There is weaith here beyond ali doubt—silver deposits that are uuex- ed in the world; but every piece of rock is uot nor is al you hear the trata, | shali bear and for my and will endeavor to put the infor- jon in suape. Until thea lcan only say ve cau- ous. TERRIBLE SPEAMBOAR CONFLAGRA- ‘iON AT CLLCINNad!, ix Steamers Destroyed—The Landing in a Blaze of FireTerrific Scene. The Cincinnati Commercial gives the following account of the late terribie steamboat conflagration at that place:— The body of flame was fully 500 feet long by 100 fect in width, and it reached ap tuto the air tar avove the level of the Spencer House roof. The burning boats were the Clifton, Mary Erwin, Darling, Cheyenne, Meinotte and tinoreland, thy Charmer had dropped down out of the way, and ta West Wind, just coming up, had towed the St, James out of danger. All statements that our reporters beard agreed on the Clifton as the starting point of the fire, and that it progressed tn the order in which the boats are named above. The flames from the burning boats shot far into the air, illuminating a@tmost the whole city, and sheading ragiant sparks all over the lower squares as far north a8 Third strect. The levee, that gad been deserted for so long a time, was suddeniy peopled by thousands of men, women and children, alarmed by the prolonged ringing of the beils, and vtracted from drowsy beds by the great light at the mere handful of firemen who dared meet the oying Clement at the water's edge seemed 0 puny and insignificant in the light of the grand ter- rifle conflagration, that the corwds upon the wharf coud not hope for the salvation of wny that might be on board the doomed vessels; they could but stand and gaze and shudder. The light wood work could not jong, withstand the hot breath of the tre fiend. e symmetrical outlines of the boats were lost sight of in the sheets of fiime and the dense volumes of amoke that en- veloped them. The white spars and the delicate tracery of the cabins were one moment resplendent, the next they were gone. Deprived of support, the decks quivered and ‘crashed down to the nuil, the tall chimneys in @ second toppled over and fell like forest trees, some upon the wharf, some into the water. Oil burst from confinement and flowed in broad streams far down upon the surface of the river, resembling, when viewed from the Suspen- sion Bridge, a se] rivuiet of moiten gold. It appeared at the first a hopeless task to resist the progress of the fire on the #ix boats over which it had so quickly ee and hopeless it proved, for the stitt breeze lowing from the east bore’ the flames from one boat to another until all were ablaze, and the six river palaces were swept away like chai before the wind. The firemen, seeing that it would be useless to attempt to save the boats that were on fire when they reached the wharf, concen- trated their energies to save the steamers that jay above the Melnovte. Planting thetr hydraulic teries on the steamer Silver pray they stood, with scorching faces and blistering 48, directing their heavy streams of water to points likely to be at- tacked, They were very successful in preventing the flames from communicating to the boats above the Spray, and even that boat was not injured by the fames to any appreciable extent. At three o'clock, When the conflagration had spent its energy = ona six steamers, the firemen were stili holding ir own. It is believed that no lives were lost by fire; buta deck hand, who escaped from the Clifton, states that ‘@ companion, in trying to save himself, jumped into the river and was drowned. When the fire was blazing flercest a number of kegs of powder on the Clifton expioded, but, as far as we could learn, did no particular damage. The Westmoreland was the property of the Orleans and Cincinnati Packet Company, and was sted for Vicksburg, Natchez and New Urieaus, W. | J. Rusk, master, a eyenne was an Arkansas river packet. A. B. Viersel, master, The Clifton, Frank Stein, master, belonged to the Memphis aud Cincinnati Packet Company, aud was posted for Cairo and Memphis, Frederick Co., of Mil Mills, of the firm of Chapin, Mills & kee, Wis. decamped last week, after having forged and altered bilis of lading Whereby be gainet advances on over 4,00) varreis Uf dour more | tama ue actually slipped, Wh VA YO Opinion ef Attocney General Ho Brevet Comminaion WASHINGiON, May 15, 1°69. The following i8 a copy of tue opmlon of the At torney General in reply to a question of the Secrc- tary of War concerning brevet commissions to oili- cers serving in the Indian wars:— ATTORNEY GENERALS met TREASURY DEPART! » April 24, 1860, Hon. Jonn A. RaWLtns, Secretary of War:— Sik—The second section of the act of March 1, 1869, entitied “An act to amend the act of 1806 for lishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States,” declares that nere- after commissions vy brevet shall only be con- ferred im tune of War, and ior di conduct am public service m the presence of the enemy, and that all brevet commissions shall bear date from the particular action or service ior which the officer was brevetted, ‘Iwo days after this law took effect (on the 3d of March, 1869) the Senate confirmed the nomination of a num- ber of oficers to promotion by brevet, which had been pending before that prior to the date of the act. Among these were some that had been sabe Gu SOOOHNt 2k Sa eens Tena ered 2 roost ee Ww whic! fate ot" e prom ney vg wil aay of the service mentioned. The question which you submit 1s whether, under the terms of the law cited, these latter officers are now entitled the com- missions by brevet heretofore intended for them, and whether, by its terms, officers not ot this class are now excluded from brevet promotion. With regard to the latter branch Of this queation, it is very clear that if the officers Toferred to were not nominated for brevet promo. tion by reason of distinguished conduct ublic service in the face of the enemy they cannot now be commissioned by brevet. The circumstance that their nominations were before the Senate From ns Wel appointments, latter required the issue of commissions in ce of the previous nominations after cont thereof by the Senate; but the authority to commission in these cases was, it appears, swept away by the statute even beiore such confirmation was made. It would seem, however, that the other nominations mentioned which were made and confirmed for meritorious service in recent el ments with the Indians are within the act, that consistently with its provisions brevet com- missions may be issued to the officers designated therein. The only point which suggests itselr in connection with this branch of tue subject is whether promotions made durtng Indian hostuiities may be viewed as conferred in time of war in the meaning of the law. That Indian tribes are capabie of maintaining peace and war with the United States is nized in numerous treaties made wita them, and accordingly where hostuittes break out between any of these tribes and the gov- ernment, @ stave of war with propriety may be said to exist. Indeed, such hositlities have been so descrived by the Legislature. ‘hus the act of April 20, 1815, third state, bon 459, made a provision tor the pay of militia called into service in prosecuting the war with the Seminole tribe’of Indians; so that brevet promotions made during the existence of Indian hostilities for distinguished service in the presence of the enemy are to be deemed as made in time of war within (he meaning of the stavate. Lhave the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. HOAR, Attorney General. The Artillery School at Fortress Monroe. FORTRESS MONROE, May 10, 1869. The United States Artillery School at this post, the annual examination of which was held afew days ago, has received its complement of officers tor the ensuiug year, and is agaim in successful operation. The graduating class of last year have all left for other fields of duty—some to Alaska, some to Call- fornia, and others along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, Brevet Major General William F. Barry remains in command of the school, and his assistant, Brevet Brigadier General J. B. Roberts, Meutenant colonel of the Fourth artillery, also remains another year. Of the officers on duty last year he has retamed the ollowing:—Brevet Major J. B. Sanger, first lieutenant First artil- lery, adjutant; Brevet Captain Albion Howe, second lieutenant Fourth artillery, ordnance oflicer, and Lieutenant James Curry, post commissary. Of the battery commanders two have been retained— Brevet Major J. B. Shinn, captain Third artillery, and Brevet Major J. B. Campbell, captain Fourth urtillery—who will remain during the coming year as instructors. Of the new officers reported for duty is Brevet Brigadier General Charies H. Morgan. The five batteries are oilicered as follows:—wattery G, First artulery—Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Samuel 5. Elder, captain; Brevet Captain B. S. Humphrey and Brevet Captain Michael Leahy, tirst lieutenants; J. T. Webster and W. F. Reynolds, second lieuten- ants. BatteryA, Third artilicty—Brevet Major J. B. Shinn, Captain Brevet Major J. G. Turnouil and Brevet Major Wiliam MM. Tompkins, _ first Heutenants; Brevet Captain J. B. Eaton, Brevet Captain Charies Humpuries, second lieutenants. Battery K, Second artiliery—wrevet Lieutenant Coionel Samuel N. Benjamin, captain; brevet Major W. B. Graves and Brevet Major U. BE. Kilourne, first lieutenants; William Stanton and E. T. Richmond, second heutenants. Battery C, Filth arallery—Cap- tain James W. Pipers, Brevet Major David H. Kinzie and Brevet Major John R. Brinkle, first heutenaats; Brevet Mayor Oscar H. Howard and G. N, Whistler, second lieutenants. Battery F, Fourth artillery— Brevet Major J. b, Campbell, captain; Brevet Cap- tain Samuel Fields and Brevet Major H. C. Custung, first heutenants; W. F. Stewart aud Sidney W. ‘lay- lor, second lieutenants, Of the the above oiicers all have already reporved for duty except four—Lieu- tenants Kilburne; Cushing, Stanton and Ricamona— who were on duty at Gisiaut posts and have not yet had time to reach here, but are expected to arrive in a jew Gays. ‘There are also on duty at this post, in the engineers’ department, Brevet Brigadier General Heury Brewervon, colonel of engineers, and Captain H. B. Phillips. in the medica: departiuent, Coionel George E. Cooper, post surgeop, and Dr. J. B. Holder. In the ordnance, Brevet Colouel Thomas G. Baylor, commanding the arsenal; Captain Wiliam Adams, ordnance store- keeper, and Brevet Major William 8. Beeve, first lreutenant of ordnance. In the quartermaster’s department, Brevet Licutenant Colonel Henry W. Jones, depot aud post quartermaster; Captain U. A. Alligood, military storekeeper, aud Uhaplata, Rev. Mark L. Cheevers. Dr. Cheevers has been stationed at this post for upwards of forty years, and is stul hale and hearty. ‘The following order, issued for the government of the schooi during the month of May, will give some idea of the course of practical instruction pursaed at tuis school during the summer montins:— The course of practic tion during the month of will be as follows dally, except on Friday afteravous, Sacurdays and Sundays, viz Firet— sats tions to com, manoeuvres with bi and two drill u Both inat, | Fr laying of two the 4ig-inch howitzer. Battery K, Second artillery—16-inch seacoast gun. The service of tly gun from the 1st to the 12th inst., ineiueing two Grills with blank cartridges; target practice with shot and sheil from the lich to the Zist distmounting aud mount. ing the gun by means of gi d'biocks, and by means of hydraulic jacks and vice wing ti6 remainder of the onth. iattory A, Third artillery—Mortar battory—Service of the siege mortar and mechanical mancavres uauil the lth Inst, ; laying one mortar and one rail platform and target practice from the Léth to the with ce of the seacoas! ry, siege battery—The instrue- e OF the gun, the mechanical rollers, and with the siege guna jue from ist to inch mortar, mechanical manceurres of mounting and ‘dis- mounting and target practice from the 20th to the dlat int, Battery F, hn artiilery. battery —Service of 3 inen, xu | nancen- vres ‘and two dritis with biank cartridges of S-lach and dight 12-pounder until the 2th inst. ; from the th to 3lat inst, var- practice with 3-inch light 12-pounder and Gatling gun. Battery C, Fifth artillery —Casemate battery—Service and mechanical mancuvers of 10-incu seacoast gun, and of the Y-pounder flank defence howitzer and two drills with blank cartridges until 17th inst. Frou 17th to 80th inst, transport ing and mounting a 10-inch gun and its chasses and top car- Flage in barvette, | From to Zith inet, service of 10- inch seacoast gun in barbette, From 26th vo Bist:inst., tdrget Practice with Winch sinooth bore and 1Wi-pouader ‘parrot rite gune. Secont—Brevet Brigadier General J. Roberts, lieutenant colonel Fourth arthiory, will superiatend the’ drills at tae field wad stege gun batteries, and srevet Brigadier General ©. H. Morgan, major Fourth artillery, will superintend the drills at fatteries, nd Sundays, there will be daily Fecitaitons for officers in artillery practice,’ These recitations wiil continue for one hour each, and will tak o'clock A. M. ‘The recitations’ wili be so otticer ight 1d-pounder and ‘Gatlin all be in that portion of the tactica in which the ollicers may be engaged for that month. Fone tations In tactics for non-commissioned officers ™ be conducted by a corm ich recitations, signed by the bat- nt every Saturday to the adjutant Friday afternoons the drill will be infantry tac- pany or battalion, as may be designated by leer of the school, and will be superin- pany, of commanded, If by battalion, by ne week. f 1 be ser y « the Held ollicer SAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Lieutenant Commander Simeon P. Gillett is to be detached from the Naval Academy on the sth of June next, and ordered to take passage on the Sabine, on June 30, to the European squadron and report there for duty; Lieutenant Commander Henry L, Johnson is detached from the Naval Academy and or- dered to the Juniata; Lieutenant Commander Jonn Clark ts detached from receiving ship Onio and or- dered to the Macedonian; Assistant surgeon P. Pe Hullby 18 detached from the Naval Hospital at New York and ordered to the Lancaster; Chiet Engineer Charles i. Loriag 18 appointed ap ber of the Board of Visi Academy; Commodore Carter 18 large ot the naval rendezvous at San Franc! Captain Fabius Staniey is ordered to open @ naval rendezvous at Haitimore, Md; Sut: geon Wm. Green is ordered to report’ to him for duty; Lieutenant Commanders Smith W. Nichol a B, Ghiaden and George Wadicigh are ordered to the Naval Academy on the 20th of Septembor next: Surgeon Philip Sansworth is ordered to the Lancaster, a4 fleet surgeon of the Soull A‘iantic MAY » on the 15th of June next; Surgeons Ben- uumia S. Mackie ig ordered to the Naval Hospital at New York, aud Andrew M. Moore to the Naval Asy- ium at Fhiladetpnia; First Assistant Engineer A, V. #razer 18 ordered to the Navy Yard at New York, ‘The United Siates steamer Seminole, Commander E. K. Owens, arrived at Fortress Mouroe a day or two since from the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard, where she had been fitted out for the West India squadron, On arriving there it was found she re- quired some adaitional repairs. She left on the oth Inst. for the Norfolk Navy Yard, where she will re- ceive them and be ready to fo to sea in afew days, Lieutenant Commander Allen D. Brown has been ordered to the Naval Academy on the 20th of Sep- tember next. Lieutenant James M. Forsyth bas been ordered to the receiving ship Macedonian. Lieutenant Commander Freder:ck Pearson is de- tached from the New York Navy Yard and ordered to the Macedonian. Lieutenant Samuel H. Baker is detached from the Potomac and ordered to the Sa- vannah. Lieutenant W, W. Mead is detached from the arias City station and ordered to the Sa- vannah. MEXICO. ; Adjournment of Congress—Application of Genus eral Rosecrans for Colonel Mayer=The Revolationary Movements. # Havana, May 8, 1869. The English steamer Tyne, from Vera Cruz on the 2d, arrived at this port on the 6th inst. with dates from the Mexican capital to the 30th ult. Congress was to adjourn on the 3ist inst. The election of @ new Congress will then follow. By tele- graph we learn that Sefior Gomez Palacio has been elected President of Oongress, and Sefor Lozano Vice President. The report on the estimates passed with few amendments. General Rosecrans has represented to the Secreta- ry of War that the services of Colonel mayer in the United States army during the civil war were of such a nature that it would be specially agreeable if the least possible anxiety and a fair trial could be meted out to him without unnecessary delay. The tel ic line between Guadalajara and Manzanillo, on the Pacific, is completea, thus open- interoceanic uni ing com! lirect from Vera Cruz with the Pacific coasts. There has been no Mexican Minister nominated yet to Washington. ‘The report 13 confirmed that the works of material improvements are sacrificed for the subsistence of the army. : General Porfirio Diaz has accepted the nomination for Governor of the new State of Morelos. The revolution of Palacio in Sinaloa does not seem to be making great headway. As yet no con- ict had occurred between him and the government forces, but by telegraph we learn of the defeat of the rebels in Rosario and the Fuerte, Tamaulipas ts sull disturbed, and matters look threatening in Guerrero, near Yamasula, State of Durango. The rebel Joaquin Contreras and companions were gathering iorces in large numbers with great rapid- ily. Itis evident opposition to the Jaurez govern- ment 13 on the tacrease, and a Fevoiution of large proportions may be looked for at any moment. LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. PRIMEVAL MAN—AN EXAMINATION OF SOME R3CENT SpecuLations. By the Duke of Argyll. New York: George Routledge & Sons, His Grace, the Duke of Argyll, is one of the few British noblemen whose writings are @ source of pleasure and 1 ‘uction to the reader. That de- lightful old toady'to royalty and nobility, Dr. John- Son, once said that when a nobleman condescended to appear before the public as an author his merit should be handsomely acknowledged. Although royal and nobie authors are quite common now-a- days and most frequently very fatiguing, we are disposed to accord to the author of this book all the praise which his great abilities undoubtedly deserve. ‘Primeval Man” reviews the speculations of the late Archbisnop Whately, of Dublin, and of Sir J. Labbock. Three of the four papers it contains are weil written and ably argued. The fourth seems faulty in its argu- ments, The Duke attacks Sir J. Lubbock’s opinion that there is “no evidence of degra- dation” in pre-historic man. He insists that, reason- img from the known for the purpose of reaching the unknown, “we have the indisputable fact that man is capable of degradation.’’ On another page he says, “this is true of man both collect- ively and individually—of men and of societies of men.” To illustrate this position he refers to the fact that “rude and barbarous tribes stare with wonder on the remains of temples, of which they cannot conceive the purpose, and of cities which are the dens of beasts.” This sentence is rather ob- scure, but we presume it to mean that these “rude and barbarous tribes” are descended from those that balit the tempies and cities. This is a most doubtful assertion. If there is one fact which the science of geology teaches more convincingly than avy others, it is that the peoples of pre-historic days, with few exceptions, have utterly passed away, at the same time or soon after their civiliza- Uon ceased. Man, a8 @ community, is capable of degrading his fellow man, but cannot degrade him- sell. By this it 18 meant that a civilized community cannot Voluntarily descend to the devased conaition of savages. We lave daily and numerous instances of the voluntary degradation of individuais or frac- tions of society, but nowhere 1s there to be found recorded tie voluntary degradation of societies. Wherever we have found an ancient civilization destroyed and its people degraded (not brutalized, as the Duke implies), there also have we found the conqueror and the oppressor. The inhabitants of Rowili and selaaik (ancient Macedonia and Thes- saly) may be and have been accounted degraded, but the degradation of the pure Grecian stock has not been voluntary. The peoples that com- posed the celebraved” phalanx of Philp and of Alexander and that organized the tamous ‘Thessaitan cavalry were, trom the very nature of things, meapable of falling as low as the Macedoaians aud hessalians of the present day haye failen. So again with the Egyptians, Per- sians and other Eastern peoples. Wherever we turn we find this deterioration caused by the persecutions and brutalities of conquerors. Restore the liverties of these people and their civilization will reassert itself, We see this fact strikingly exemplified in Egypt_ to-day and to some extent in Persia and the East Ind Some nations have been uuerly destro, ‘The nomadic trikes of Arabia that “stare with wonder on the remains of tempies’ and the wild, wretched beings that hover about the ruins of Carthage lave nothing tn common, not even by descent, with the nations that possesied @ great civilization, Providence, in his inscrutable wisdom, seems to have decreed that certain members of the human family shall ever remain savage, barbarous, degraded. We say ever remain, because the Known and traditional history of ive thousand years ever places the negro im precisely the saine condition that he is now in, By bringing him to our midst and coatroiing his brutal propensities we may give him a certain clvill- zation, but When thas association and control ceases he reiapses into barbarism. ‘This we see in Hayti and St. Domingo to-day. The same thing may be said of our nomadic tribes of Indians, ‘They evi- deutly are not of the same branch of the human family as the cs Of Mexico, the Aymares, Chinchas and Huancas of Peru, and the other ancient civilizers of America, who, it now seems almost certain, orlgimally came in colonies from Asia. On the whole, We are inclined to Sir J. Lubbock’s view that there is “no evidence of degradation” in pre-historic man, and we also agree with the Duke of Argyil in rejecting the argu- ment that man Was bora ta a state of utter varbar- ism. The cycies of destruction have swept away many once powerful, civilized nations, Their com- merce has dwindled to nothingness, their arts and sciences have been lost, aud fecundity itself has hed, But to compare them in their state of de- cay with the savages of Africa, the natives of Aus- tralia and the cannibals of the Pacific 1s unjust, not oniy to them, but to our present civilization, Retro- gression can scarcely be termed degradation, TALES FROM ALSACE. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, ‘This is a volnme of delightful reading, Itisa se- ries of scenes and portraits from life in ghe day of the Reformation, as drawn from the old Chronicles, ‘The stories, one and all, are admirable, We mention especially ‘Master Nicholas,” “Little Mat” and the “Tower of St. Stephens.” Wecan imagine such a mind as thet of Henry Wordsworth Lougieilow read- ing this book With passionate delight, GENeRAL History, CycLorenta aNp Dierionany OF FREEMASONRY. By Kober Macoy. New York: Masonic Pablishing Company. Altogether this book is probably the most com- plete history “of the rise and progress of Wree- masonry and its kindred associations, ancient and modern,” that has been published for some time, Whether the Masonic Order is as old as is claimed may be open to doubt; but it is certain that its history is of great general interest, Mr. Macoy appears to have performed his work admirably. Without pre- tending to anything like literary excellence (although he writes very well) he has given a clear account of all that ts of importance to the Order, #0 that those who read this book can readily ander- stand ite science. Included in the work is “a dic- tionary of syimbolical masonry,” Which will be found quite tateresting. > S Miscellaneous, The last number of the North British Review we have received from the Leonard Scott Publishing Company. It is full of ably written, entertaining articles, among Which we would name as deserving of special not se of Lunacy,” ‘The Hudson's Bay Reconstruction of Germany,” atv Works mm India.’ All the Review contains ar at papera, but those named are more tian ordinarily good. “What is Man's Chief Had? is « prewatious paper, but scarcely as Well argued ag t+ unvortance of the subject demands 14, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. QUARANTINE. The Risk We Run from Foreign Epidemice— ‘The Vaccination Imposition—Reform Need- ed—Who Owns the Quarantine Grounds ¢ Quarantine may or may not be a useless institu- tlon, according to the hands into which it falls, An honest, intelligent, efMfictent health officer could, as the chief oMicer of our Quarantine station, in- spire that aegree of confidence and secure that composure of mind among our citizens #0 essential in the season when foreign fevers are Hable to be imtroduced among us. Fear, a8 all medical expertence testifies, is an ever ready helpmate of plague itself ; but the fear which springs from @ consciousness of being left to the mercy of every vagrant epidemic that emigrants from abroad may bring to our harbor, is even more potent than that which the actual presence of contagious disease inspires. It is in no spirit of personal hostility to Dr. Swinburne that the HERALD addresses itself to the subject of retorm in the management of quarantine. That department of our sanitary system is more impor- tant to the citizens of New York than any other. No ort in the world ig the entrepot of such a host of emigrants as this. They come as comes an invading army, in fleets, ana are landed by regiments ata time, They hatl from all parts of Europe, from many parts where tropical diseases sweep like the simoom of the Sahara and too often leave the seeds of misery and death behind. They come toa city already overcrowded with reeking tenement houses, overcrowded with poor people, and as full of every inducement in those sweltering days of July for a Plague to come and take up a permanent residence as Constantinople, with all its filthy Mus- sulmans. This is why quarantine becomes of eo much moment. Emigration this year will be larger than ever before. The summer may be unusually warm, and no princes, can be considered too great that will p that dread enemy, the plague, from our doors. If Castle Garden has to be closed up or removed to Sandy Hook, better let it be done than that emi- | he breathing ship fever should be allowed to ke up their residence in the midst of the swarm. ing population of Madison or Greenwich streets, ‘The rich ple of New York, of course, feel litue apprehension, They can easily leave for the wal places at @ moment's notice; but it is possible they May return to find the grass gowns in the streets they left behind them. If, however, the manage- ment of quarantine 1s in the hands of a man who gives more of his time and attention to business in- tended to enrich himself and his confederates, to levying blackmail off every vessel that enters the pars and has to through quarantine, to arrang- ing plans for defrauding the revenue and to en- gineering bills through the Legislature at Albany to render quarantine and erper ening ‘peraining to it ‘@ rich placer for himself and his nds, then it better the institution were abolished and we can then make sure that the plague, when it comes, wul not catch us napping. ‘fhe steamer Queen, from Liverpool, arrived in the harbor on Mon Hy evening with over 1,200 passen- gers on board, The pare doctor went aboard, and to his intense delight discovered, as he supposed, two cases of smallpox. Here was an hour or so of vaccination that should yield i the regular quaran- tine way over $1,200. The ship, however, happened to have on board two sui ns who believed them- selves as competent to determine what was small- pox as the Quarantine doctor. They asserted that the two cases Were measles, and vaccination was, consequently, out of order; but still the Health OMicer persisted that smallpox and nothing else than small- pox was visible on board that vessel, and all the pas rs, crew and captain included, should | submit to vaccination or live and die in quar- antine. The surgeons of the ship would not yiela their belief, and as things began to assume a threat- ening aspect the Quarantine official deemed prudence the better part of valor, and, as tne tirst instance for along time, retired without his vaccination fees. By calculating the number of passengers who arrive here during one-half the year, and multiplying that number by one dollar, We may arrive at a rough estimate of the profits derived from quarantine vaccination. AS @ rule of the institution every vessel is supposed to have at least one case of smallpox on board—that is qaite enough for the purpose, whether it be trivial or serious in character, It was weil for Christopher Columbus there was no such official as Swinourne at Hispa- niola when hé first came in sight of that historic island. Poor Christopher, it is to be presumed, had few dollars left after starting on his jous voyage, but though he went on a mission for the benefit of mankind, had our Swinburne boarded his weather beaten ship the Genoese marine would have had to submit to a dose of vaccination, hand over all his loose change and never cut the figure he does in history of planting with his muscular right arm the Iberian stanaard on the soil of the New World. The nchman who said that the vaccine of Quarantine was worse than the smallpox itgelt has =~ pee extensively endorsed. ‘accination, ormed. confers on mankind a blessed immunity ‘om the ravages of smallpox that cannot be too highly prized; but when carried on in the rapid and careless fashion that prevails at Quarantine, where the fee is everything and the health of the passenger a secondary consideration, then, jodeed, it becomes an evil of innoculation that very soon manifests itself in very many cases, Those loathsome skin diseases that we are so often accustomed to see among the children of the poor may be traced in a great measure to the reckless use of impure vaccine by indiiferent doctors in public dispensaries. But what has vaccination to do with ship fever or cholera? What has Quarantine to pro- le i ineey either of these epidemics? in the lower bay, where operations will very shortly commence, there is @ man in charge who was tormerly a boat- man, afterwards a Saaee aud now a doctor. He still holds on to the three vocations and makes each m turn yield a revenue. He ts supposed to board a vessel and tell whether ship fever, yellow tever or cholera lurks amid the crew or passengers. ‘This, of course, his lunited medical experience hardl: warrants him tn assuming; but he can always fail back on the Fg process of fumigation, and as doctor of that branch in hygienic science make quite an imposing show. Doctor of fumigation is his literai title. Symptoms of fever or cholera he cares little about. Fumigation is his panacea for everything. Apart from this it may be well to direct attention once more to the sale of the Quarantine grounds. Whoever engaged in the purchase of that pro- perty on Staten Island will one day have to re- veal themselves. The H&RALD hag already asked for the names of the real purchasers, the record of the money paid and the record of the deed of saie. None has been torthcoming. These twenty acres of the most valuable land on the isiand are now being cut up into blocks, streets laid through them and over 200 valuable lots are being carved out for the real estate market. The lowest price, it is stated, for which any of these lots will be sold is $1,500. The average of the higher ones will be over $5,000. Half a mil- lion dollars at least will be realized from the sale ot these lots. But why is not the original deed of sale recorded on the books of the County Clerk at Staten Island? ‘The assessor would ver much like to know. He = med for six weeks making his returns last fall, hoping he should see some record of the sale made that he might levy assessments on the pro- perty as be levies them on all others. Perhaps it is the intention of the owners, whoever they are, to evade paying their taxes until they have laid out the grounds on every side and sold them all at once. Then there will be few assessments to pay, and the money for the lots will come in altogether and the job consummated as adrotcdy as it was begun. How many of the twenty acres does Dr. Swinburne own, and which pays best, vaccination or Quarantine lots? OBITUARY. James Henry McUolicy, Consul of the United States at Callao, Peru. On the 17th of April last the Consul of the United States at Callao, Peru, died in Lima, of yellow fever, after a short tliness. Mr. McColley was a native of Milford, Dei, and born in the year 1820. Ap- pointed by Mr. Lincoin as Consul in the important port of Callao, he assumed the duties of the Con- sulate at a time when disorder and even worse, pro- ceeding from the action of his predecessors, made hus task a mostdiMcult one. Stil his strict integ- rity, alded by his well known executive ability, soon reduced order out of chaos, and the Consulate, in- stead of being a burden to the home government, soon became @ source of profit and revenue. In = thirty months Mr, McColley saved more than $30,000 in gold to the national finances, and one of the proudest moments of his life was when he recetved from Mr. Seward a letter eloquently expressing the ‘atitude felt by the gov- ernment for such signal services and the firm faith and confidence of the administration in their oMicer. Mr. MeColley leaves a wife and an only daughter, the wite of Mr. A. O. Hyer, Jr., con- sular clerk at Callao. The evidences and re- spect for his memory shown both im oy and Callao were truly touching. All the fi “—— and national, were at half-mast, and in lao the authorities were among the first to manifest their sorrow for the deceas It being the intention of the farolly to remove the remains at an early day to the United States, they were peonporsety, ee ited in the British cemetery at Bella Vista, atten: by all of the Americans present or resident in the two cities and by a del jon from the municipal gov- ernment of Callao and the United States steamer Dacotah, In Mr, See Set in Pera have lost @ dear ane valuable id, and it will be dim. cult for the government of the United States to re- place him by a successor who will possess the same high qualifications for the post. SvIction OF A Gint Tweive Years OLp.—The Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle save that & young girl, tweive years of age, named Betty Wolfe, resi with her uncle at Silveyville, committed suicide on the evening of April 2by taking strychnine. She had been actused some days previous of tak some buttons from one of her schoolmates and tt 1s supposed that distress of mind drove her to the rash deed. Medical assistance was called im, but too late to accomplish any good. She died in qbout two ours after taking the poison. a i ee THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Breaking Down of the Nicolson Pavement, A citizen writes that no little excitement was caused the other day by the caving tn of a portion of the Nicolson pavement in Nassau street, below Fulton. Pedesirians gaze upon it as ifit were crater of Vesuvius. Horses a startled by its a4 pearance, and nobody has yet been sent by the Street Comuussloner to commence repairs, Who Is Responsible ¢ “‘A Traveller,” not exaltiy satisfied with the re- sult of the Long Island Railroad investigation, asks if the timbers supporting the floors of the car ran longitudinally or crosswise, If the former, he be- lieves the body of the car would have been rolled along over the loosened truck itaverbeen Killed. Me also ‘thins: trae if she truce was properiy secured to the car and provided wits to guide chains the wheels would have been kept im line and would have rolied over the ties for nalf a mile, unless the coupling broke, and few or no in- juries would have been reported, Ludlow Street Mansion. “C, C.") calls attention to what he terms a branch of the sink of iniquity at the City Hall—the Ludlow street “mansion.” Sherif O’Brien comes in for & shower of hard knocks and 1s called the great boa constrictor that has breathed into the nostrils of the Legislature at All and charmed and soothed that verdant body until they complied with his extrava- gant request for more emoluments in his office. The Ian in charge of the Ludiow street institution is Pronounced a particular friend of tne Sheriff. Water for the Sparrows. “A Brooklynite’ asks that water be provided in all the public parks for the English sparrows, a large number of which have been imported for the pur- of destroying worms that infest the trees. Mr. th should see to it, for sparrows no more than we Can get along without water. What is Thought of the Hansom Onb. “Peters” thinks the Hansom cab not likely to be- come popular here; that it is betver adapted to Lon. don, where the artstocratic notion of gentility that brooks not the jostling of the common herd pre- vails. He suggests Washington as the best place in this country for the Hansom, aud that lobbyists and oilice-seekers Would find it very useful. Botanical Improvements. “A Citizen’’ furnishes information that a florist is now laying out walks, planting flowers and shrubs and improving the grounds enclosed at St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s churches, Broadway. Bird houses have been placed in the trees and a smail fountain started to ish @ supply of water to the birds. The worms have apaymeared from Stuyvesant and University squares, but at the Battery, Bowling Green and City Hall Park they continue to tajure & great many trees. Imprudent Vaccination. J. H. K.” protests against the present carcless and indiscriminate process of vaccination. He re- lates the case of his child, who was vaccinated with impure matter by a well known physician of this city and afterwards died of a loathsome discase to consequence. Bergh to the Rescue. A gentleman who has been strolling recently through the museum of natural history in the Park gives a doleful account of the dogs. “Before leaving the Park,” he says, “we stopped to ascertam what sort of ma- terial there might be in store for dog fights. In the basement of the arsenal we found a Mount St. Ber- nard dog, cross, very cross, indeed, but with one eye running out with disease and a frequent cough, which showed his wind was poor. His Esquimaux brethren were but a few degrees better off tuan him- self in these res] and our famished and once beautiful friend, the greyhound, we found coiled up in a dark, gloomy corner, with runaing sores on his back and hips. We, of course, concluded that there was no sport to come for tne public in this line. The dogs need training and a chauce to develop muscle in the open air On the extensive lawns of tas Park, for we are told that they are aever taken out. Trouble Among the Printers. “A Constant Reader” complains of the tyranny of the Typographical Union, and relates this incident:— Yesterday, the owner of an old established and re- spectable office, employed a printer to perform some extra work and set the man to work; but his fore- man asked the man whether he belonged to the Union; on being answered in the negative the fore- man informed him that he could not work in thas office, and forthwith called a chapel or meeting of the hands, one of whom :@ Canadian and no citizen) seriously proposed to decide the question by throw- ingthe non-unionist over the banister. the latter, seeing the alternative but not relishing the idea, put on his coat and ieft that ranche. This ail occurred in @ few minutes and in presence of the proprietor, who apologized to his hands for his wrong act, by saying that he thought the offending member was @ Unionist, The Problem of City Travel. To correct the present deficient means of comma- nication between the upper and lower parts of this city “J. R. B.” proposes:—A pneumatic road, ele- vated on columns, would be one of the cheapest methods of transportation that could be constructed and would be faultless as to its security and capa- veity for almost unlimited speed. Plans for such roads, both for passengers and for freight, nave been matured by some of our ingenious citizens, and will probably be brought forward hereafier. The pneu- matic road cannot be surpassed for 5) and abso- lute safety. The passenger or the box of freight moves to the destined goal with the certainty and almost the speed of the builet ina rife, Tie elevat- ed raliway in Greenwich street is one of the most meritorious enterprises for the relief of city travel, and without making any objections to it, I would suggest that the plan of a single rail with double cars suspended from the rail on each side, gives pro- mise of greater saiety in combination with high speed than any other plan except the pneumatic, over which it has the advantage of giving the pas- sengers @ pleasant outlook. With the elevated single rail, the elevated pneumatic and the underground meumatic it will not be impossible to give New vork in a few years, and at a reasonable cost, perfect system of travel, which will enable the rest dents above the Park and far beyond Har- Jem river to reach the heart of the business portion of the city more promptly than it is now reached from Madison square. ‘The contest about strect rail- roads in Broadway and eisewhere will soon pass away, for the reason that horse railroads will in @ few years cease to be of much importance to the city or its inhabitants, POLITICAL CONVENTIONS, Calls for political State Conventions, &c., have been issued as follows:— May 17—Maryland Colored Men's Republican State Convention tn Baltmore (called by Isaac Myers, Sec- retary of the state Executive Committee, to organize a State Central Committee). May 20—Kepublican Convention for Third Con- ome eee Hen to nominate a succes- sor to Hon, ashburne, May 27—Kentucky Republican State Convention in Lexington. May me are Colored Men’s State Convention phmon myane 1--Maryland Colored Men’s State Convention, in Baltimore, called by the colored citizens of Bai more to further their political organizatign in the State and to appoint a State Central Committee. June 1—New York State Temperance Convention, ne new York Colored Men's Convention, in june 10—lowa Republican State Convention, In Peupe: 23—Pennsylvania Republican State Conven- Philadelphia. Hon ts onio itepublican State Convention, in Co- ojune 2 %4—Maine Republican State Convention, ta auy, 14—Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven- ie in Harrisburg. ; Jul a caliiornta Republican State Convention, in Sacramento. Nove SWINDLING Trick.—The St. Albans (Ver- mont) Transortpt Says that about a year ago a young wat an eth ns Nga ts wf da and n 4% Was heard of him w ago, When a bi @ letter to his father, post- markt ‘lus! in I Tuissing son had-eome to his house atx weeks before, ina feeble condition, and had just died, 4 as @ last request, that his remains mighi oe mmatances sees” end “asted the Tuner to bend sixty. dollars through the post ‘omice to pay fora Seasante ge pape Kang vc of the body homewai Pyne Bayes the letter to be genuine, but in order to make sure that it was all right sent it back to the princtpal man tn uae in Flush- ing village, ith a bas ad to investigate the matter. ‘phe latter discovered that the son reported as dead alive but one of many in his employ. The attem| swindler probably learned from whe sen of his prolonged absence from home, and resorted to the above scheme for raising the wind, * A Buryp Composrror.—tn a printing office at Gos ai Ind., 8 @ biind compositor, His average day's work is 6,000 ems, and on several occasions he hast get from 1,000 to 9,000. His letter 18 distributed for hum and his copy ts read by his partner, his memory being so perfect that he can retain from four to sx lines; when this Is finished he ories the last word set, When another sentence 1s read, and 40 OD. ] eee eee eee aS...