The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1869, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. MERCANTILE PALACES, en Now Pearl Street—More Eterant BailGney for Business Parposes—Operations of tar New York Real Estate Assoclation—ig the Dry Goods Trade Permanently Loe cated —Ty en'y New Stores on the Old City Mospital Grounds—An Elegant Down Town Stracture. For upwards of aquarter of & covtury the dry goods trade of New Yock has been, in a very unset Ued condition as regards locality, No other branch of the mercanulo community hag displayed such a nomadic aud wandering charaster, and is migra- tory nature has oltem, ruined even licavy deaters, while the sinall Iry h?.ve always been swallowed in the grand Movem@uts from one quarter w another Which have taken piace. Many, very many years ago, Broad street was tae great centre of this trade. Acombined movement, about thirty years since, sent it like a shot to Dey streot, and subsequent movements, through a plentitude of trials, have ‘ariven t¢ to Cuurch street, where, for a tow years, it has apparently béen permanentiy anchored. Most uncertain has been its tenure on its present Teaschoid; but shortly after the erection of Ciattin’s mammoth store operations of real estate owners In the vicinity gave promis that a coimoination would be entered into to prevent the trade from travelling up the island wita the march of improve: ments. Tus combination has been tacitly formed for the past ten years, but lew houses bave been boid enough to leave the prescribed grounds of the trade, The appreacnsion, perhaps, that wie satis- factory atticude of heavy Geaiers toward the present locality might not continue has excited a degree of Bolicitude among some wealily men, and the result ig (bat ap organized combination now exists. This body, proviaed with ample iuads and moved bya spirit of righteous enterprise, succeeded in con- vincing the City Hospital tat Mf tue grounds of that imstituton were cut up into lets, leased for a term of years, with Pearl street con- tinued through to ‘Thomas, with Thomas Sirect as It is, opening into West Broadway, the tu- ovations would be remuserative to the luslitution, the iols would be a sourde of lucrauive ravenue, Broadway in the vicialty would be relieved of ine ofits crowded travel, aud the project would become an important public beneit. The hospital people Moved with alacricy, and the astontsaing rapidity of Opening a uew section ofa street, of buliding it up With handsome aad imposiag structures, of cutting away and gradiag sleep emoankments, aud of com- Pletely setting the permanent foothold of the 1m- meuse ary goods iuceresis of the city have all left their landmarks upon tat progress which the columns of the HERALD have from time to timo recorded, especially concerning the great improvements which in the past year Lave in cost exceeded $50,000,000, it wil be remembered that the grounds of the City Hospital rose to a considerable clevaiion from the curb, slopiug way i a neauy trimmed jawa woul the groen sward terminated 1m the rear of the buiid- oa Church street. Now ail 18 gone. Nothing rewaiis out the large main structure fronung on Duw rect, the rest of the enclosure being occu. Plea by new butidings or by foundations from which Will rise stately siructures, Tbe body rei accomplishing this change is the New Yor 1 Letate Association, emor Z in tts organ’ ion @ large wealth, a vast deal of enterprise aud an un- da ing suck names as jade, Sauiuel Db. a, J.B. aud W. W. Cornell and Frou these names i¢ will readi.y 2 SLC At the special waterests 1 dry Rood: have nol veer neg and that a weil o au las beed adopted Lo defeat te ais of spe ry oa; Ju la a desperate greed of gain. because it restores equilorium to the position uf the great exchange aud pr yivieut mto Wied the former unsys temau spless Condition of lessees oftea throw tucic Mnaucial ineresia, outside of tu cunsiderations named there are Ottiers, Which ave pureiy local ond geograpuical. The ost important, pertaps, is the oLcuing of A steeds, CUtiNy through Ba. aud uiberry thus reachiug Chat + Ina broad, nous and Unobstructed tuorougufare., Such & slumauie DoLL to Lie ower part of thas several new tne the city. been eprovided dry goods trade, ‘ous gro! Like asmak houestead, e3 LeW Wlags ANd appropriate doors wilh ta maicates ‘that more will ve tha. requ fresu additions to the famuly, luis quar 1m order to Wworoughiy Gomesticate new cowers, must nov only have capacious stores, but untrammelled means of inet and cule, ‘Luis we bave sown is Dear ui seven buildings elther wholi Biructed or in process of erection on Worth and Pearl streets, every altermate store exteuding through irom one taorougilare to tue othe Baca bDuLiding ts oy leet 4 inches y But the stores are not ail Ol equal iengta. Uf the fourteen the seven exieuding irom Worth to Pearl street caca hasa length of 160 feet; Lut the short stores are only feet deep, With yards in between Wem, tuus enabling the rear oi tie BhoTy sores and sides of tue long Oves to secure the utul uaulity of ligne Qud ventilation by menus oi windows, ike rear or tue short Biores on Worth street have illuminated Skylights over Ue first évory, Which are six feet wide, Wiih the long stores the vuiliiogs extend turouga to the ceilar basement, 6 and Be0.ad Blores, ‘Thence the rear Of tuese struc will correspond with the alignment of tae suort stores. Over the Becond story and m the ceur of each of the long stores, Tunutny froin strees to street, a large, hand- gwomely Ornamented ylass dome Wik be placed, 80 as w She auy eXtra light or veutuation tua may be meeded. All of the buildings will be six stories high, and With basewent aad cellar, From this fact, aud with the vast area of nearly €0,000 avaliable squure feet Waich each large elore wil contain, and wito the 80,0v0 Witiun each of tue small stores, it can be seen ‘What fine uccomtuodations will exist for an extended increase in ihe dry goods jane. ‘The general proportions are large and prom!so Weil for coméort and @ fre2 circulation of air, Tue Cellac has a Ciear height of 9 feei, the ement 12 feet, the first story lo ieet, the second story 14 fees, the turd story 13 leet, the fourta story 12 feet, the ith story ll fees and the sixth story 10 leet 6 lnches, ‘The fronts are constructed of massive iron ‘Work, cast by J. B. & W. W. Coruell, ana the styie of archivecture in which they have been wrought ig ‘i italian, The external appearance of phot ei Jous is Imposing ia the extreme, In them @re combined bold and lofty columns, symmetrical bases, livavy cornices, oraamental capituis, tasie- ful Wansoms, and these eects rising story on story Seruuingte in @ graod oveinangag cornice, Which, uM anything, is too handsome for the macerial ‘These builuings are alt but iu the most attostantial Maver; tho fouadations are stuple, deep sunken, econcreted ana ri on beds of quicksand. Tue frames ure kuit together ta the etrougesi way and Wil admit of the heaviest aaperimposed burdens Koown to siorage. Steam wii be places throu hous tue Dulidings aud Will serve a3 @ power fur propel Nox elevators in each building, us well as supplying Ineans of heat. In furnishing the steam work « good i ot has been obs ed. Four larg re von tubular bollers have boen placed tn the cellar Vaults Ou Worth sireet of the Uiree middle stures, ‘hese boilers will be used In connection with punrps, enyines, tanks, tuel, water, &c. One of tue com: Pictest and most unique arrangements tor venula- ou kuown In this country has been introduced in th ding, This systeia consists of ventilation through tue iron columas. A new feature tu New York piauwoing has aiso been introduged—tuat of Sulsituung Lue use Of brass pipes for the lend ones Couuonly employed. No plasiering will b¢ d ou tie interior of the buildings, save where absolutely nd wood will 08 employed lastead, vects the Interior fittings Wi\i be ele- Raul, and of utillsy, chestnut being used wait All of tag window frames and Bus rought in herd native woous, and oct care Wil be taken to make thie part of the coa- buruciion in Keeping wilh the solid Character of the feet of the builds uong the new features wil be bo kK wates, in te cellar and base- meu The aiward fiaiga will disciosa ava of teavy pi giass. There will be how ater. Large irou Lanka wul be placed On the Sixt story, Where & supply of Water, torced through pipes by steatt from tue celiar, Wil be kept coustantly ou hand for tae upper stories. A Well 18 to be sunk in oue yards to obtain irewn ‘Waier and aiso wo bupply poiters in cave of noed. ‘Thus it appears iia water, lighé wud veutila- tion, io grout requates in New York baildiny Will be fully obtained, and espa: cially 43 regards light, which exisi# im an unndaal degree even wi the busements, which are supplied Wiik the element by Niuninated piatiorms sel lito the sidewalks, which Consist of heavy granite blocks. These splendid e.ores, which It is Tuo intention of the company to swake the finest in tho city, will exceed in cost the eum of $500,0 Thoy have been ed up by Mr. Grima Thomas, tie Grchitect of the Grand Upera Louse, Vark Bank’ and otuer potable buildings, BUILDINGS AT BROADWAY AND NEW PRARL STREET. Heaides the fourteen stores above described two Handsome iron structures haye boen put ‘up on the of Broadway, by Geuerai Thomas A. Davies, Xpense Of $160,000. Each occupies the cor- Opposite the oller, and In ali the details both ) Oxaelly the game. They are four stories high, woul basement end sub-cellar, and are each feo im depth on Wear) sireet, wilh a Ww Ww fromtage on Broadway of trenty-five feet. On the exterior these buildings, a'ready completed, are very substantial in appearance, and have been erected to lease for general business purposes. ‘The basements will bo occapled by fire insurance companies, the Orst floors by bankmy houses, the second by iffe insurance companies and the tuitd and fourth floors for o'Nces. The bailways are lolty and weil mghted and ad- ~ably ventilated. Fourteen oilices on the two . veralaverave jourteon by ann er Boor, wo. feel ta Aiea, With Ustad aud eteven ieet ou the fourth floor, uo eecond t!oors bave cellings respectively fourteen and tlirteen ieet in heignt, Entering on Broadway the passer leads into fine Vestibules, whch, wien compteted, willl be ele gantly wutnscoied In marbies, itnished ta black wal- nut and appropriately decerateu. To make we balding’ a) completa a8 poasibie It 1s destened to have the whole mtertors furnished with modera cou- ventences and beaied with steain, Otherwise than mentioned there 18 hardly aay peculiarity ta the -consiruciion aud workmanship, save perhaps 1m tue frou fronts, in whiten are about. 509 toas of iron, resting On deep sunken foundations, se1u-e:ltplical winaow heais, supported by plain coluinas standing on bold pedestals, and these col- ulus lave ornamental capitals, white still ligher are Lae heavy Corujces, and all these evects are pro- quced In imitation of marble, Taree tiers of vaults, irepfoot, with burglar proof doors, are embodied in tue construction, Messrs. Jardine, architects. With the excepuion of a large store bounded by Churca, pew Pearl and Wortigstreets, of tie samo geueral character as those described as tn course of erection by Mr. ‘Thomas, aud some struc- ne . eye RN hetgns of twelve fest on tle The that (ures ,which are emg tumbled togeher from ‘second hand niaterial to the discredit of the fine locality where they are goings up, we have mentioned ever) ting in the Ime of batid- ing under way. ‘The lacts preseated exhivit a marked ress, not only in deiaiis of construction, tu Bta- Tramework and cowpieteness and elegance Of finish, bul algo that the day of cheap and mu calied economical buddiags has passed, AP'S BULDING, NORTHEAST CORNER WILLIAM AND CEDAR STREETS. ‘The splendid buijdinys guing up below the TrraLp office are to have another added to their num- ber. From the corzer of Cedar and William streets, owned by Me. George Kemp, will ascend an edifice fiaty-five feet ea Willtam street by 124 feet four toches on Cedar street, of five stortes In height, with casement cellar, and Laposing mansard roof, The details are as foliows:—ine basement and celiar bave each a ceiling of ten feet in height; the first story, sixteen feet; the second, foarieen feet; tue” third, tmirvwen feet; the fourth, twelve feet and the Mith eighteen feet. The basement Nuor Will be. only three steps down from the curb in Wil- liam street and one step above at the extreme end ou Cedar street, ou account of the grade of tne street. ‘The casement and flist story are arranged for insura.ce and banking Birla aud the second, third, fourth and fifth sfories for offices aud jamiors rooms, The entrance of the building is ‘Approacved by massive marvie steps toward a hall tweive feet in width with @ fine tesselated marble floor and grand Wainut stairs eignteen feet in wiith, whica wind tothe upper stories with boid sweeps and preserving their elegance throughout. All the stories attained by this staircase are fur- nighed With washbasins, urinals and everything per- tuning to persoual comfort. Another stairway, Drivaie one, is situated in the rear on Cedar street. ‘Pois is furnished with a@ lift seven feet square raised by steam power. ‘fhe interior of the butiding isto be made extra strong with veavy iron beams, girders and the neces- sary supports, among which will be enormous col- umas surmounted by uniquely Wrought capitals. ‘ihe floors will be jaia ih bard planks, with each strip only two and a half inches wide. Throughout the ilrst story a richness will be observed in tlaish that can be surmised from plate glass doors and wal- mut framework, A Ife degree of uostinted liber. auity will prevall in furnishing the upper stories; and When the steam to heut lt shail have been introduced and all the improvemeuts for good lignt and ventila- lonand the tolies conveniences couvemplated, this Wiil be one of the most eie, the city. Jts excerior will be a wea ybeauty. In style, its architecture will be 1m (he renaissance, latterly the most florid of all scuools, It wili form a panel centre on William and Cedar streets and lend to those jo- Calities a freshness of style, aa artis beauty of design and & mouumMenial Picaaess beiore unknown 1 inis locality. Ciusvered columns, with ornamen- tal caps, Will prevail on ail the svories. Tue acate augic of the building is soguient formed and pre. seals ine views of Walt street aud Broadway. Mr. ‘Thomas, WHO, alaiost alone of all ar: hitects, has dealt Wich (he ornamental, especially with sculptured ana cast feures Ou marbvie ironts, proposes tu place on Une ibird story two maguilicent works of art repre- senting “ludustry” and “Commerce.” They will rest on ¢leganu pedestals supported by rie consoles. ‘Tuey will be twelve feet in heigut and cast from bronze, Necessary in a structure of ths kitld is, of coarse, the L ard roof, Aad this will be supplied tn all of its elaborations, Cousisting of dormer windows, slated fronts, balustrades, vases and gill trellis work over. topplug the sammit, The frouts wil be entirely of ou, All of tie Windows are to be tilled with heavy plate gias+ panes, and ail the sashes Sad frames ere to be made of native hard woods, Mr. Griditn ‘Tnomas ts the architect, With $200,000 to expeud im construction. ‘Tbe Arcuivectaral [ron Works supply the front, John Mullins the mason work and dir, Michael Carpenter the carpenter work. Mr. Kemp, Who resides in Europe, has coinmitted the trust oi erecting the buiding Lo bis brotuer-in-law, Mr. John Foster, a wealiy aud retired bailder, who, in con- Juection with Mr. Toons, bas tae coustracuon in charge. SUT POR WIFE ADDECTION, os Wile’s Family Sued for $15,000 Damages for Stealing Her Away. the Dubuque Herald, Dec, 1.) that mothers-lu-law breed in a family , and in fact relatives upon either side [Fron The trou are prove! are Lut aiways tne best provocations to peace and happiness between man and wile, Where peace and happiness, love and charity, aud ali the other domes- tic virtues should abound. “Biz brothers’ are very oltea terrors and evil geniuses to young men before they get along to the married state, but after that iuteresting event they are not so much to be feared. We have a case, however, where they, with tucir fatuer, have made a big amount of trouble, so much 60 taal! they now flad themselves defendants ina sult where the aggrieved and injured hushand claims from them damages to tne amount of not less than 215,000, for tlie abduction or bis wife and their sloter, for the alienation of her loyalty, and for mak- log trouvie geaeraliy in ols bousenoid, ‘The Case has been on trial during the week last pass in the Fioyd County District Court, and has excited @ large amount of interest throughout ail that section. The facts, as alleged tn the peiition of the husvand, certainly bave a bard look against tue muischiei-makers, and they will be forcunate if they get of without @ heavy judgment entered up against tem on the records of tue court, Some seven or embt years ego James F, Hall, of Riverton wwn- Siip, bioya county, married Augusta Parish, the daughter of Joel Parish, a well-to-do farmer of the saue township. She had the forcune or misfortune to have no iees than four brothera, John Lytwan and Warcen, a3 well a3 a brother-in-law, B. &. Deruy, Who married a sister, and it 1s against these parties—the brothers, brother-in-law aod father—that the present sult has beeu tastituted. ‘cne whole tribe of Parish, of Kiverion township, have the reputation of belag quarreisome and have had troubie one time and another witn all their neighbors, aud when they cannot quarrel with ovuers theyjfall to and quarrel among themselves, Hall bed not been married @ great while vefore wroubie began. ‘The old gentleman one time bor- rowed his hay rack, and not returning it Hall went for it, Whereupon the old man got angry, called hard names and beiore he got_ through fell upon him and beat him in @ most undlial manner. Hail’s wile was -ofven Induced vo stay at her father’s house for two or turee days at a time, leaving her husband without food, and he was left to suilt for himself as best no could, Wen he coniplatued of this treatment hia complaints were maguified into tne worst kind of abuse, aud she was iuaty led to believe lerself a tuuch abused woman, Matters went from bad to worse; the wife was set Ogaiust (ue hasband; he was annoyed in ul) conceiv- avio Ways, and Hnaliy about two years ago she, with & child tuat had meantime been born to them, was iaduced to leave him altogether and took up ber abode with her father, Hail tried to point out to her The lujustice Ale Was doing him a9 well as herseif in tollowlng tle evil counsels of his enemies, but 1t was au to lo purpose, Alter Matiers had run on in this way for several months he took steps towarda pro- carta the child on a wrtt of Habeas corpus, but the Parisies evling wind of it stole ber out of the coua- ty and sent ber mto Wisconsin. Hall thereupon jasuiiuted proceedings against tha old man, the brothers and brotuer id-law for the abduction of his wile aud chiid, aad claims of them damages to tue amount of $10,000, ‘This brought them to welr senses and the wi d child were speedily brought bac: vnoy ced indirectly to aiiect a recon- Clumtion, at purpose, like Soiomon, used tue hi von the aflections of the parent, y tv secure # reilaquishment of tae Bull ugalust tiem, But the game did hot succeed. Tne pait aid noe take; tue wile 13 stil atthe old Mav's Bud the suit was not dropped, A Jadgment Of 15,009 Will Leach them that husvands have sume rigots Wiveu cross-yraiged f4uuers and big brothers are bouud to respec AUSTRALASIA, Politics; Finance and Gold Mining. Mail telegrams froma Australasia, dated Adelaide the oth, Sydaey the Sth aud Melbourne the 12tu of October, report: At Adelaide trade is depressed. The Secretary of the Treasury bas presented bia budget, which shows a deficiency of £98,000, lo Sydney Paritament was opened on the 28th of Sepiwunver. The Governor, in his opening apeech, deciared that tae system of retrenciment was pro- greesivg. The government propose to borrow £1,600,000 to ex tend the railway sysiem. The puplic jue 18 increasing. Intelligence from New Zowand pres inces that ee ion 18 diminishing. Thegold fieids are prosperor = Molbourn the have resigned and a new Ministry las been formed, 81x of the new Min- lsiers have been re-elected after ci ose contests. They propose to pursue the same sy As their predacea- sors. Great oxposures of maladnunistration are threatened in the present session, ‘The revenue lacreased by £000,000 during tho past tweive monwus, ‘Lhe drought has disappeared and aplendid rains have fable the harvest is, consequently, secuie, Wool Uris Lisvount uaaliered, ‘they have THE COURSE OF EMPIRE. ‘Tho Gold and Stiver Mines of Colorado Terrl- tory—Character of the Ores-— Different Methods of Mining—The Drive from Donver to Georgetown—Seda Springs of Idaho Blam of the Grlch ~eidituntion of the rey Ritvor Ventre Mines ava susan the Fieinity of Georgetown—Deseription of the Brown, Equator, Porvibie and Griftith Blines-'une nels Being Bored into the Mountaluse Denver, Colorado Territory, Nov. 15, 1802. The gold and silver nines Sf Colorado are ex- tensively rich in the precious metals. As I havo heretofore remarked, they won the prize at the Paris Exposition, They are, however, exceeding!y refrac- tory. In(@nittesimal pariicies of gold and siiver cling to the Iron aud copper pyrites with @ tenacity watch the machinery employed is inadequate to overcowe. No process yet tu use has been able to extricate all the shintug particles, and a large percentage of tie real value of tho hardest ores is never realized. Accurate assays of certain specimens show that they represent an intrinsic vaiue of from under $100 to over $10,000 to the ton, lying locked in the recesses of the ming. But practical experiences of many miners prove that after the ores have been mined and hauled, erushed and smelted, insored and shipped, remanipulated and reassayed, they repres sent an infinitely smaller market value, ag shown by the final stampiug in the mint. Different systems are employed in mining and in manipulating ores, Gulches are searched for the native nugget, aud the streams diverted into artificial sluices to wash tho precious particies from the sand and soil, This pro- cess of digging and washing ia 60 simpie compared with deep mountain mining and the subsequent reducing that where the native articie is plenty poor men have a tangible profit every Gay and a chance of getting rich within a reasonable period, On the other haud, stiafts are suvk aud tunnels run, stamp mills are used to crush the quartz and smelting works to soparate the gold and astiver trom the rock and the baser metais that assimilate with them. More or less success has attended the mining and miliing operations, and yet the mining business, in the aggregate, bas not been a profitable one, It is said that for every million dollars taken out a Talilion and @ half have been put in, Not that it actuaily costs a million and @ half in cash to pro- dace a million dollars’ worth of bullion, but that an immense amount of money has been spent in “‘pros- pecting” and wasted in erecting needlessly elabo- rate or improperly situated works. While soe men have made money through care- fal Mnanciering and skilful operations, many more have lost through lavishly expensive preparations aud the unskilful management of uneducated agents, Altogether some 20,009 lodes have becn discovered and recorded; many have been opened, fewer have been worked and fewer still have yielded satisfactory dividends, Generally speaking, practi- cal miners have made a “raise,” while stock con- panies have sunk capital. A visit tothe gold and silver mines and an examination of the ores is suf ficient to show any one that enormous wealth lies buried in the mountains, Wiil any one show how to getit out? That i9@ question which Colorado mining men are deoply interested in. If some skul- fal metallurgist will aMrmatively answer it he Will not only distinguisn and enrich himself, but render valuable service to tis luture State, Shouid acasual visitor to the silver centre of Clear Creek county and the gold of Gilpin Jook.at ali the shaits that are being sunk and levelled, with the buckets continually gliding up and down, ail the tunnels being bored and stoped, the drijiing ana blasting dally aud nightly going on, ail the wagons conveying ores to diferent reduction works, all the mills ia operation near the mines and in the towns, and 1ook ito all the baaks and business houses he might imagine Laat we were on the eve Of @ liquida- tion of our national debt and a return to specie pay- ments. And he might be equaily astoniated by the Blutement that aitogether more money has beea put into the mines than has deen taken out, But some of them are now being worked as a highly remunera- uve protit. In others Operations are only tempo- rarty suspended, Some lave been abandoned, their owners being “busted,” and others, which have outy Deen “prospected,” have never yet been opened. Miners must have been as busy as bees all wrouud “tnese diggins’,’”? for the his are honey- combed wita “prospecv’” holes. Some men have Dundreds of claims, und a few have even thousands, 1 met many men who are milliionnatres ia theory, but none who are millicanaires in fact; some who had struck @ “paying streak," sold part of thelrindl- Vidinal interest toa company for $50,000 or $100,000 cash, and getting @ poruion of the stock, and others who had only struck “ved rock,” who had spent their capital In “prospecting” or in opening a “diva. som,” and are now “dead broke,” Tuere are many valuabic lodes witch have hitherto oniy been “prospectea” and the claims to them re- corded. Capital is required to open and develop tem with profit. Few, if any, of the original owners have the necessary capital themseives, Hence claims are often sold to capliaitsts by whom companies are Organized. In some instances tae former owners retain an interest, and if they are ex- perieaced miners are appointed to conduct the mining and milling operations. in other cases mines have veen purchased tm the East on tho atrengun of verbal representations or of “specimens,” expen- sive mackinery has been sent out, costly works have been consiructed and men assigned to superintend the operations who, comparatively speaking, never saw a shalt, could not distinguish @ cretaceous for- mation Irom agiacial deposit, a pleco of iron pyrites from a piece of sandstone, or $10,000 ore from solid granite. Thoeo are the organizations that have suf- Jered. Some of the finest lodes, close togetuer on je top, gradually separate as they sink into tho mountain; but others, digiant from each other on the surface, eventually concentrate «nto a singlo vein, Some of these have given rise to litiga- tion, An immense amount of undermining, blasting aud crush! and reducing and manipulating Las been done in those mining regions since the precious metals were discovered. But undermining nas not been limited to lodes, blasting to rocks, crushing to quartz, reductton to ores, nor maaipulation to metas, There have been some undermining of rights, blasting of bee! crushing of achemes, reduction of mcomes an Manipulation of stocks, Tuere is now consiera- ble activity among tue mines and milla in Clear Creek aud in Gilpin. Some of the works are run by Water power, but most of them py steam. Some of those propelled oy water cau not be run in winter. In the steam mills wood is used for fuel. Tho moun- tain slopes in tie vicinity have hitherto furnished Pine Wood at the cost of cutting. Juere la abund- auce left for the immediate future; but eventually coal can be obtained from the foot of the flanks of the Bierras, @ dozen miles from Denver. Or, after the contemplated railroad shall have been con- structed, Ores may be brought down from the moun- lain regions and reduced where coal ia convenient and water power perpetual. More extensive opera- tiuna are to be carried on next spring and summer. ic ts evident that, wit cheaper labor and more economic means of reducing the rich ores of Colo- rado, gold and stiver bullion can be produced in quantities proportionate to the skill tat way ve em- ployed aad the capital invested, Georgetown is the silver centre, It hag the royal soubriquet of Siiver Queen. It ts situate near the ad of the south branch of Clear creek, at the base of the snowy soar about fifty miles from Deover, Stages run to and fro daily except Sunday. Leay- ing Denver in the morning they arrive at George. town 1a the evening, and vice versa, The road ilies through @ region repleto with wild and splendid scenery. Immediately on entering the foot hilis you are introduced to the intertor beauties of the im- mortal mountain system. Nor do they ever ceago duaying ali the jouruey, When well within the can- yon a little village by its name reoalia toe sacred associations of Mount Vernon. ‘The road turns through it to the west, but the glance you get of an opening tothe south through to Bear creek canyon 1s soul-luspiring, Around the base of many moun- tains, up dad down Dill and vale, but still ascending, the graud aod beautiful in nature, now wild aud rugged, now soit and sloping, aljure you twenty jnules westward from Mount Vernoh to the mouth of Virginia canyon, There, in a lovely iittie valley, ts & hospitable town with Indian reminiscences aud & name of Indian origin, There, in health, pros perity and peace, dweil the favored Inhabitants of idauo. It is one of the summer resorts of Volorado. Alnbitloas people call 1 tie ‘Verritorial Saratoga, Springs of thermal water, baving boallag qualities, issue Irom the earth. Tne water bubbles out of tha ground with & temperature of ninety-four degrees Fahrenheit, Bathing houses have been constructed, througa whlch it flows at @ comfortavie tempera- ture, Insummor tue town t% full of visttore, io- creased accommodations are to ba provided by next season, aching in those waters las @ most invig- orating induence. Kieumatic people find @ sort of fountain of youth in the soda springs of Idaho, Roads divorge thence to Georgotowa, to Umpire and to Central. Guich mining lias been extensively pursued fil aiong the course of tao South Ciear creek to this point and beyond to Georgetown. On both borders of the stream the gorge has bsea torn by treasure seekers, You see the holes, suices and Water whcela where miners worked, and the cabing Where Wey slept, a4 Well ag reduction works of some lunportance; but nearly all are deserted now, for nich MIDs has becn suspended til next summer, ndeed, @ good deal of the surface gold hag been #o- cured already, and gulch inining has been more or lees abandoned for quarts mining in the mountains, Sull winding westward, passing through small, but beautiful and fertiie, valleys, crossing ond recrossiag Clear creek on woo bridges, the ‘mtermediate mountains appear. ing more imposing, sll ascending, though the Journey's end 1s but at the base of tie principal Rocky Mountaig range; the sun soon disappeared betind it, the evening shadows fell, the darkness hides our leaders’ heads; but still th@ coach, drawn by #1x splendid horses aud driven by a famous driver, surrounded by Egyptian darkness, whirls along the narrow roadway cut in the mountain aide, beiow ia the precipice Where the stream courses turough the Canyon, above is We eky almost abut out by tig mountatas, before is tue foot of the great Civide; & thousand bgaw suddeuly appear, pad you- der, 1n @ narrow valley, 8,600 feet above the sea, sits tie Stiver Queen, under ti maternal guardiansinp the Sierra Madre—the Mother Mountatu, A New England host tas built a fine uotel, surpass. ing any On Cue line of the Pacific Railroad. A good supper and a reireshing sleep are quite essential after aday’s drive among tie mountains, And you Und tacit both In Georgelowu. “ary vo bed and early to rise” Is the rule thronghout tig mining region. ‘Vhe day's Work has beuit 4€Z4n long befpps The sun “weve the mouatains, ‘The town sts, ADPeMe wm tg gracnany gromiam Wid for o ire: lato, c aioe town is woRuerful. It lias an appeatanios, Of stability eminently Colovadan.§ "Tho DeoLe, Nols Weil aud live weil, and they dress wall, comp speaking. Hven tae MINE YW" Oo pac rOusweot work down 1D We OWES Ti tue mountalud are nod satis- fled wild Hx coarse fare thas would suit many labor. ingmen, The choicest cats of bee, ihe finest dour, the best butter, the best tea and coilee and the whit- eat sugar are purchused by them, Some of the mines are very Near tue town—on the hill slopes wiich enclose 1t—aud others aro from oue mile to several Mies Oway. Some of tho reduction works aro slidale at the mines aad oluers iu the town, while in other instances the orcs are mereiy wand dressed, put into bags or boxed wud senblo the East or shipped to Lurope to be reduced, ¢ [visited most of the priucipal iuines and mills in tae Georgetown regiou. The chiei mountains in which shuits are being sunk and tunueis bored are named poapociivaly the Leavenworta, Sherimal MeClellan, Gritiita, Browu, Columbia, Democrat aus Kepublican. ‘Te characteristic mineral of the io- cauty i8 Zinc-biende, assouated wil gauleaa aad irou pyrite. Mauy of the cryswls are very veautir ful. Isaw several specimens of (ho nest ores, glut tering as they were brought out of the mine, ia whicu.vative silver was quite abundant. Among the most promiagat loues may be mentioned the Argenta, Angio-Saxon, Astor, brown, Baxer, Bel- moat, Big indiana, Continental, Oli, Com, Cas. cade, Comet, Culedomia, Kquator, umevt, Eiyaa Hise, Federal, Grimith, Gipta, Grand Turk, Heaton, Horrible, Hulda, International, La Plata, Liy, Magnet, Mendota, New Bosvou. Nackles, Uré- ney, Omaha, Par, Quaker, Koo, Suowdriil, sterling, Termble, tom Thumb, Whtie, Wueeling Youu Auerica. Among the tuuueis being bored are thy burteigh, Goss, Lynu, Marsnail, sicAfee, Morse, Pur and Suuth; and wmouy tivse projected are the Ainerican, Helmics, Morris, Potladeiphia aod Web- ster. These tunueia already cut or are proposed to cut certain valuable lodes ia diterent mouutatus av various depins, In sone respects Wnnellug nas advantages over the syste: 0: sinking euafis, Where a combination of sbaft and tunnel can be employed the advanvages of each aud beuetits of both can be secured, ‘This combination, which Hamboidt wondered was not employed in the famous \eta Madre mine ia Mexico, 13 Ulustrated to sume extent in tie Brown and Coll mines in tue Georgetown district, ‘they are silicate On the easiern siope of the Brown Mountain, At Gn alUiude of 1,,00 ana 1,500 feet above the bed of a branch of South Clear creek, wuich ows througa the gorge beneath, ‘The veins, undoubtedly, descend deep into the Mountain, aod are true fissure velus, whose yieid will be inex- hausudle, and the ores gre rich in ruby, Drittie aud native silver. The Brown miue ts vemy de- veloped by means of two tunnes with tributary levels, and two suafis Wich connect the ctunpeld, In mining phraseviogy tae technical term ior tue horizontal opentigs is adils, bat the famillar term is tunnels; the perpendicular cuimney-lke channels tat connect them are called, tecanically speaking, wings, bus more Ropulariy shuits, Hence tuis metuod of mining commonly called # system of tunnels and snaits, ‘ihe upper opening of the Brown ia 110 Jeet above Lhe lower Lunae:. Bota cut ine lode alright avgles at poluts approaching a distance of 200 leet irom the sloping suriace oi the wountain, Levels have been ran aiong tie outcropping veins in different directions. ‘wo shalts have been sunk from tue upper adit, the one connecting with whe end of the tower tunnel and the otber with its west- ern level, Great activity 1a manifested im tvuls mine, and additional levelling and shating us well as drifting and stoping are soou to ve pursued on an exteusive scale, ‘tbe combination of tuanel and shait, whieh Isaw practical y 1)\usirated 10 the Brown, secures Ab ONCO Lid three desirable advaniuges of yenulauon, drainage aud ao casy means ol oring- fog tue ores Out Co’ the suriace. The ores are con- veyed on @ tramway aloug the lower tunnel to its mouth, ‘Knence they are conducted on an aerial rallway, made of wire cables, down to tue foot of tue mountain, Where they are dumped from tie car inte the mill. The whole of these ar- rangements are ingenious, adinirable ana econoit- cal. The Coin lode, 200 leet avove the browa, now being worked by @ suait and @ tunnel wich is bélag bored to intersect 1, Wii eventually be connected With the ramifications of the Browa_ by the supse- quent sinking of the main shaft of the Cola, aad then the ores {rom both iuiues can be conveyed out of the lower tunnel of the browa. Attue mul be- longing to the Brown Company the ores are crushed, dressed, roasted and smeited upon tae oid principle, ‘Three Classes of ores are taken out of the mine, but only two are treated iu ‘the mul, She experienced eye of the miner perceives their comparative rica. ness ata giance. Subsequent ussays determine their actual vaiue, Two bundred ounces of silver lo Lhe ton of ore ts the average assay yalue of the first and second Classes, ‘The drst class is crasued dry in a Dubois’ crusher, whose rapavious jawa quickly crunch large lumps into smail pieces. These are tuen transferred lato the turnace. ‘The second is crashed wet in tne ordinary manner, Twenty stamps are at work, each weigaing 600 pounds. ‘ne water used in the slumping process carries the crushed ore ito @ circular Coraish buddle, making twenty revoiuuons per minute, where it ts dressed for tue farnace. Lhe capacity of the roasting furnace is four caarges of 1,000 pounds each. The roasied ore passes through @ four-incu tron pipe to a brick bin In close proxiin- ity to the smeiting furnace. The smelting is done according to the old principle in a reverberatory furnace capable of smelting from three to four tons of ore per day. it has not been worked, howover, to 18 (ull capacity. About 250 tons of ore have been treated during the nine months of the present year, Their average assay vaiue, as already stated, was 209 ounces to the tod. It 18 asserted that ninety per centy of that assay value bas been saved. Tie third class ore Irom the mine ls that whica assays under 100 onuces; 100 ounces per ton being about one-third ofoue percent. It is dumped out at the moutn of the mine and set aside in tue hope that in the future cheaper labor aud a more economical method of manipulation. will enable té co be reduced with proat, And tbis practice is pursue! at many of the miues, for it wili mot pay to work third ciass ores at present. ‘The Equator appears to be one of those true fis- sure veing which will be highly productive for a long time tocome, There are in tho Kquator mine five shafts and,two levels, having an aggregate depth and distance of 355 feet. The iain soafi ia 290 feet deep and is being sunk at the rate of two feet per aay, Atadeptn of 150 feet from the surface leveis have been run east and west a distance of 125 and 169 feel respectively. About five tons of ore are being raised per day by the ordinary steam hoisting inethod. ‘The ores are extremely rich in sliver. ‘Tae first clas3 ore ig hand-dressed here aud sent to Newark, New gees? for reduction. The second class 18 worked by Tuepeden & Co., in Georgetowa. Eighteen tous of first class ore sent to Newark represented an average assay value of $650 in coin rton. Afcer deducilog the expenses of mining, auling, transporting and reducing and the per- centage of #033 in the manipulation, a handsome profit is secured. The second class ore has shown An aycrage assay value of over $140 in coin per ton, ‘Tuls 1s reduced by liuepeden & Co., Whose works are adequate to the present productionof the mine, and are now being doubied in capacity to meet the anticl- pated increase in the yield, During July and August, the supply of ore being iumited, comparatively little work was done, Betweon the middie of July and the ist of August fifty-six tons of ore yielded a votal of $3,205 60 in coin, or an average of $68 85 perton. In August fifty-six tons yielded $$,211 79, oran average of $146 64 per ton. In September seventy-six and a half tons yielded $10,214 69, or an average of $133 52 per ton. A ruu of 127 tons, which has just been finished, yielded $15,876, or an average of $125 per ton. The expenses (in cur- roncy) attendiog the production of the bullion in these 127 tous are givea by Mr. Huepeden as fol- lows:— Estimated cost of mining and hauling tho ores to the mill, eighteen dollars per ton, $1,286; cost of reduction, fixed by contract, fifty-five dol- lars per ton, $6,935, ‘otal expense, $8,271, Leaving @ net profit to the owners of the mine of $11,513, In . currency, or @ fraction over $90 6) per ton, Atloast twenty per cent of the assay value of the ore is lost during the process of reduction, The assay value of the first and secoud class ores taken out of tho Equator ming this year thus far 1s about $100,000. Mr. Turck, who owned one-\iird interest in the Equator, has lately gold it for $100,000, ne Terrible mine 1 justly celebrated for its aplen- did ores and their abundant yield of bullion. Tho mining 18 pursued on the old shaft and level system, the orea being raised in buckets, ‘the matn shalt has reached @ depth of 156 feet, It 1s not being sunk any deeper yet, but stoping 13 being carried on be- tween the first and second levels, east and west. The backets bring up about eigut tons of ores every day. Hitherto the trst classy ore has been reduced at Newark, but now {tis being sluipped to England, ‘Thore 1s fa assayed and old co parties Who parchase ores for treatineut in redudtion Works in Burope, It ig expocted that, noswitustanding the extra cost of shipping and insurauce, more moaey will be real- izeu trom the sales than has been hitherto from the builton produced in Newark, Tho average value of Gil the rst Class ore worked up to the present tine has been 3660 cola, or about $700 currency, per ton. Tho cost of miuing, transportation to Newark aud reducing there being deaucved, there has reverted to Ue Owners & Het profit of $650 1n currency per ton. Eleven tons—the jast lot seat to Newark—yielded @ net provt oi $7,584 64, currency, or anaverage of $08u OL per ton over all expenses, Ina single day iast Week there were taken out from the east stope thirty tous of ore, worth $16,000 in coin, None of tho secoad clase ore 15 bolng worked at preseat, but in the sum- Incr 2oms Was treated at slr. J. O. Stewart's mui, in Goorggtown. Ar, Stewart recolves ores from any one, but his mill has been principaliy pioyed Upon those from the Equator aud the Terrible. ‘ne td amount of ore put through the mili 1s about three tons @ day, or 1,000 tons a year, Tho average assay value of the ores he has treated They aro dried in iron has been about $100 per ton, pans, crushed dry in @ six-al reverberating furnace, am: iiitered, retorted, assayed, d stamped, Forty-six tons class ore, which assayed $229 coin, alter passing through this process returned seventy per ceal, The net profit was nearly $100 ene von. Nearly two-thirds of the assay value of the most refractory ores is swallowed up tn the cost of mining and mili- ing and the percentage of waste, which vannot be completely counteracted, At proaenut operations in Mr. calc estabiisamont are temporarily gus- pended, ‘The GriMth lodo ta one of the oldest and richest of the silver mines of Georgetown. Tue dip of tug vein is nearly vertical, incuning pligutiy toward tha Boul, 20 Masia Bait VAs OCU Buu tO w deyih of , old and leaves @ wife and four or five chlidren, 190 feet, and a drift 1s being struck fifty fect east and ten feet west, Assays of d/fferent spectinens of tho ores show values ranging from 100 to 700 ouaces W the ton. The aggrega:e average value 18 about 150 Ounces, AbonE LOS tons of ores mere [27 taken out and deposited at the top of the ming. Wien the improvements now tn prog ess shai: have been Colm pieied the company expect to bring fifty cous of Sted to the surface dally. Au aerial railway 1s being cou- structed for conveying the ores irom tue WP of tue shaft to the foot o1 tie mountain, ‘The new dressing orks are Deer'~ nat the company wilt very noon bo tty wusned, 8 v Ther * in full operation, — @ suregoing glance ab {Sw of the most prom! neut lodes in the vicinity of Georgetowa will serve toshow the chatacter of many of the mines that Ciuster around this silver centre. A hoot of splel- did lodes are being opened and developed, and new discoveries of valuable veins are being made almort every day, The Caiedonta is being carefuly expiored. ‘the main shait hap reached a depta of eigily feet, and the indications are that when greater depth shall have beeu gained handsome protiis will be Tealizod. Seiected spectnens oi the nest Caledonia ore have shown ap assay Vaiue O1 $1,400 per Loi. Somme of the ordinary ores have been treate! to thd their market value—one lot by Ba back & Company, an Newark, and another by Htuepeden & Company, in Georgetown. They vely 3280 and $108 1n com per tou. t lode 13 being developed on un extensive acaie. Tio tunnels are being bored into McClellan mountain. ‘The upper Ove 13 NOW avout 260 leet in Jengti, and the lower one, which 18 200 feet below it, has already reached auistance of 130 feet. Arrangeinents have been made to increase its lengtu by ifty fect. Assays of specimens of tue Belmont ores give various silver values, from $100 to $1,000, Aiany tons of ore have been taken out and piled up for future treatment. Keduciion works are soon to be cunstructed. An ower lode, Known as Lelwoat No, 2, promised to be scarcely less important, The Hancoc: and Whison lodes, both evidentiy valuabie, are now be- ing developed. ‘The Snowdeit, on Kepubtican mouniain, produces elegaat ores from several silts, wiuch are being sunk at @ rapid rate, and by next spring It 18 expected to furnish sudicient to supply reduction worss of ten tons capacity per day. ‘Ths sliver In a ton averages over 10) ounces. ‘The Sicr- ling develops many of the characteristics of 119 Snowarut, to waich it is contiguous, Satta are betug sunk and preparations made to render it re- huarkably productive. ‘The fist class ore now at the miue 13 valued av $1,000 per ton. Ouse half of tie Sterling lode was recently purchased by a Phila delphia company, and the other is owned by Mr Bellamy, of Georgeiowa, The Sunburst, Madison aod urkney, in the same Vicloity, ure new dis- coveries, With undeudted mdications of rieit reaul On Sherman monntain the Cascade aieady ranks among the producing mines. Some of its selected ore, treated by Huepeden & Co. for experimental purposes, gave @ Yield Of $200, Col vaiue, Lo the ton, The Bush, Vermont and Robert Kumet loves appa- rently contain thelr snare of the sitver in Sherman mountain, ‘ney ave not been developed yeu to any great extent, The Heaton is anew and vaiuadio discovery on Leavenworth mouncain, and is being developed by a shait wich has been suuk to a depth of fitty feet. Assays of three selected spectinens of the choicest of its surface ore represented respec- tively allver values of $2,716 80, $3,425 and $13,475 03 per ton, Bat, of course, no such results as these can be realized out of the mine. The Big Inuian loue ts being developed by an adit east oi the cis- covery shatt, and the indications are inat a “neap”? of silver will eventually be reaized froma it, But I cannot even cataioguo all the lodes in this splendid silver region, ‘bere are more lodes than men to tue Georgetown district. Taeir naive is iegiou, und their united riches would more tian build a solid silver track for silver palace cars across tie Conti nent. A Allusion must now be made to the progress and the objects of the great tunnels that are be.ng bored invo, Leavenworth and sherman mountains, tae Marshall tunnel already runs intu Leavonworta Mountain a distance of neariy 400 feet, ne work is done by hand at a cost of twenty-vigut dollars per foot. Forty-elvht feet per month must be attained according to the terms oi the existing contract, the compieuioa of witca will ieave the tunnel in a dis- tance of 60u feet. Men are workiug on it day aud night. The intention 1s to carcy tis tunnel completely through the mountain, 4 distance of over 8,900 feet, It wiil be over 1,900 feet mm ieagth, and over 1,000 feet in depth wen under the summit of the mountain, J¢ wili cut at right augies many ot the most valuable lodes on Leavenworwn, The exca- vuted rock 1s taken out upon a trauway, General Marshall, Who cunducted me into tis tunuel and explained the mammoth enterprise, believes tuat 1 Will prove one of the most vaportaut means of developing tae weailh that is hidden to that mountain, Nor is ne alone in that opiaion, Where great depth ts desired and tunnels can be run, the economical advantages of Lunneis over shalts aro soon seen by any one. The Helimick tuabel, also in Leavenworth mountain, is running in, east of, par- alle: with, aud 200 feet deeper taau the Marsaall. it 1g intended to pass under the summit atadepih of 1,200 feet in @ distance of Over 2,000 Tevet. If carried to completion according to the present valcalau it wul pass under the left haud fork of souta Clear: creek, 400 feet below the level of the water, and into Grifith mountain. Ita total len gih is figurei at 4,000 feet. Lise tue Mar- Shall, it Will cut @ large namber of tmportant lodes in Us progress through the mountain. Tue Lyad tunnel, likewise in Leavenworth, was beguo oy Mr. Lynn last summer, for the purpose of cucing M3 easiern extension of tiie Nquator lode, This ais beea accomplisacd. ‘he vela was sirack wien tuunel reached @ distance of lov feet. Tae vein was lonud to be twenty-six Iect wide wiiere the tunnel penetrated it A drut is now boing carried westward in search of a vein of more solid ore at a greater depth. It is now iuseaded to drive tats tunnel, iike the others, comoleteiy sarouga the mountain, Many of tie splendid lodes of Leu veaworth wil be cut by this tuportant enterprise. The Burietgh tunnel is to Sherman Mountain what the Marsuall is to Leavenworth. It is being bored through the very hardest granite, syenite and aye nite greenstone. the rock 13 80 tenacious that a drill which wiil bore a hoie of from tive to ten feet long ia common granite will here bore only a tew incnes before 1s needs Lo be resbarpened, ibe styia of drill employed is the celebrated Burielgh dri in use in the Hoosic tunnel. Mr. Burieiga himnseif superimteads the Operations. ‘tne machine is mounted on @ platform Which runs on rails, Com- ressed air is the motive power that drives the drills. it is conveyed to the machine through pipes froin the steam engine outsido tue tunnel. ‘Tho cost of drilling is about fitty dollars per foot, and the ave- rage distance gained has been avout forty tect per monn, Two drills are now at work, and two shifts of eight men each. four drilla are sovn to ve em- ployed, and three shifts of six men eaci. Opera- Uons will then be carried on continuousiy, day and night, at the rate of seventy-five feet of tunneiliug r month. The Burleigh tunnel is now abouc 260 Feet in lengtn. It wiil cut in coutge the richest lodes of Sherman at different depths. At a distunco of 1,000 feet from tue mouth it wiil cut the Terrivic 800 feet in depth, and at a distance of 8,500 feet wil pass under the summit of the mountain at a depth of 3,200 feet ‘The Goss tunnel ia being driven into Sherman Mountain at another poins by the Colorado Silver Mining Company, which has a working capital of $100,00u. ‘The Gosa has already reached @ distauce of 20) feet, Hitherto the work has been rformed by hand, at @ cost of aoout thirty doilars per foot. Thee Burieizh drills are now being putin, aud the work will soon be pressed forward ata more rapid rate. Besides these the Par and the McAfee tunnels are being bored into Sherman Mountain. Tie Morris tunnel will aid the development of the stiver veins in Columbia Mountata. The Brown tunnel, 1a Browa Mountain, will reach respectively, at different dis- tances and depths, the Brown, the Con and the Lily lodes,as well as many ovhers. ‘These are the tunnels that are now in successful operation. { must omit the mention of many others which are in contem- plation; and also, for the present, allusion to otuer mines and mills in the surrouadiag region, as weil ag to the mineral productions of Empire and of Central and vicinity. Loannot close, however, without a few final words in favor of the tunnel system. ‘Ihe contour of the mountains, which rise from 1,000 to over 3,000 feet above the level of the vaileys, some nearly perpen- dicul but most of them at angles ranging from tweaty-ave to forty-five degrees, is particular! favorable for tunnels. The strike ot the veins wit! tho trend of the mountain enables them to be cut at Tigot angles by tho tunneis at a depth to which the sinking of shafts would be exceedingly expensive. Leveis and inclines can be run in different directions, from which large quantities of ore caa be taken at comparatively trifing cost and run out of the tui neilé upon tramways. ‘ts mode of conveyance supersedes the hoisting of ores in buckets out of suaits, and the expense of steam power attending it, as Well as the cost (which is heavy) of hauling ores from tbo mouths of the shaits to the milla, Tie tuu- nels are run {non a stight inciine so that the water flows out along the guitera on each side, and tio mine 14 seif-draining, Ihis does away wiih tuo inconvenience aud expense of draining, as in suatis, by means of pumps or buckets. Altoget the tun. heis will untimately prove eminently economical and advantageous, and, it is truly dai, are destined to bo tho keys that are to ualove the silver treasures of those mountains, A NEIGHBDOALY DIFFICULTY IN KENTUCKY. One Man Killed and Another Wonnded~The Parties All of the Highest Respectabiliry. [from the Cincinnati Gazette, Der Tnosday aliernoon, at Auusia, Bracken county, Ky., James Agoury became invoived in a q with & young Man named Keynolds about th of some cate witch the uncle of the iatt purchased from Asbury. While the quarrel was - Gressing the uncie of young Keynoids, named Wil- liam Reynolds, interfered, when Asbury drew a pis. tol and fired at young Reynoius, vie ball penetrating the feshy part of thearm, Young Keynoids then Tran away and Mr, Asbury fred a val at Williaa Reynolds, the uncle, which sirack Lim in (be breast, bul toilowed the course of the ribs Was com- aratively harmiess, Another shot, ho ry struck tr. Reynolds in the neck, killing him instantly. Mr. Asbury was arrested, but found no difficulty in securing bail. Mr, Reynolds was of the‘tirm of Key- nolus, Powell & Go., Augusta; was about filty years gy) Partics to (his alfray were all of the tiighest reapect- ability, and had proviousiy been neighbors and the beat of friends, SUILER EXPLOSION IN MASSACHUSETTS, cam Pour Persiity Senlded. {Prom the Boston Journal, Nov. spl The steam votler in the estaviatiinent of Daniel Oartis, soe manufacturer ia t , exploded Monday morning at hall-past sever ng the engineer, named Bares, 80 Lal expected to live, Three other empleo, ivhiaeut were Injured, bub how severely We Guid not learn. The botler was o small one, supe plying an engine of jour or five horse power. it was constructed by Messrs. Hall & Co,, of Marlboro’; it wa3 alinost new, and sup) be one of the saiest boilers that are built, The engineer Was an experienced mao, and the cause of the explosion ts not explained, Jt was located in the basement Of tie manufactory, and Ste burst wita great fores “42 dajiage to the bul Was not extensive. ‘The maciiuery Was gonsidera: biy torn and twisted. LITERATURE. “ Reviews of New Books, Tor RoMANCE Ov SPaNisH History. By John 8.0. Abbott, With Liustvations, New York: Harper & brothers, We have no doubt whatever that Mr, Abbott con- scieutiously believes this work @ fair, impartial and just contribution to historical literature, We regret. the necessity for expressing our conviction that its reilabillty is, to wre mildly, most questionable. Spanish history contains more of ‘romance than the history of any otner existing people; but romance does not necessarily imply fiction, Now, much hag: been written about Spain which ts absolutely false, and bas been so proven trom time to time. That Mr. Abbott should have ignored the contradictions, with. accompanying proofs, and accepted the original falsehood, 18 @ deliberate act of partisanship which cannot be too deeply depiored. It is pandering to- the vulgar prejudice wuied persistently refuses to hoid otuer tian vervata optuions in the face ot facts to the conirary, We lear tuat the valgar min which canaot reflect, ana wouid not if it could, wil hever be Waugh to belleve that Lucretia Borgia was ap virtuous and charilable woman. And yes What schoar of tle present Gay dares assert that she Was the horribie creature vopular prejudice De- lueves her to lave beca, i tue face of overwheiming evidence to tue contrary? In lke manner there are cartatn statemeuts eyunating from the enemies of Spain which have iony siuce been deeply rooted im. tie MNS Of the Masses, Dub Which the researches, Of jearned Meu beve proved erroneous in every par- deulur. ii was hardly to be sanecin) that My. Abbott would display erther partiaitvy Se moderation in his narras tion of evenis im Spala. To “uit a man when he is down” is hardly fair; but it is fashionabie, A more bigoted, tyrandical set of ruers than the Spanish lave not exisied since the birth of Christ; and thelr enemies faye not Lesitated to patat them biacker than they were. in the work belore us the author records, 1 Nis usual yerbose style, the most recke less’ of stavemeuts, and endeavors to clothe tiem In (he so.cwn garo of history. Questiol in dispute between iusturians he decides accordin; Ww his prejudices, without fairly acquaimung the reader With the Jact that their truth 18 cons tested by the most ewineut of men, The internecine struggles on the peaiusu:a Lave given rise to a vaas amouat of paritsan liierature, in whieh the wEllers: do noi hesitate lo ascribe Luc Most monstrous deeds Ww weir oppouents, dir. Abbott does justice to neituer side by lis paruality. Tho stories told of Spans brutality, of ie oarbarity of political lead~ ers, Of Lhe Horrors Of tue Luyuisition, Of the * corr tion’? of the Caiuoue clergy, &¢., contala a suflictens modicum of truta which are pad enough, We think, without accepting tbeir every wild assertion. Now tis broad acceptance of the most palpable errors is what we find fault with, In this bovk there are numerous errors whick we are debarred from pas’ ticularizing for Waut ol space. The frst and the /ast chapters we do not fad iauit with; aed are, In the mula, reliavie and lmparual rom the expulsion of the Moors 1o tue Oulbreak of the Carlist war; uow- ever, many of his statements are conspicuously in- correct. Of course tuere is abundant authority for inem; but noae of the most relabie authority. But could we expect Oluerwise rom @ Writer who refers. approvingly to Napuicon’s brutal “recommendation to his brotuer Josep Lo Dura a few Spanish villages and putto death a few aundred Spanish prisoners, and who, in tis book speaks with pious horror of Las Casus tor recoiamending the shipment of uegrocé as slaves to the West Indies, There is touch of tine Pecksuifian about this which wo be amusing Uf tie Buajoce Was Rot so grave a one as hustory. Lapy GERALDIND’s Couarsmr. rete Browniug. New York: & Co. In this charmingly gotten up volume we have “Lady Geraldime’s Courtship” illustrated for the first time in astyle worthy of the poem. The artist seems to have cavgot the spirit of the work in bis conceptions of the numerous engravings that embel- lisu it, Weneed not, of coursy, refer to tue poem itself, which 18 too weil Known aud popular to need iurtuer notice Gian & mere mention of it. The form ta Which itis now published will undoubtedly add to its popularity. By Elizabeth Bar- Charles Scribner ‘HORWALDSEN AND UTS Worgs, containing 365 engravings, With Explanatory Text. By J. M. ‘Thiele, of Copeniiagea. ‘ransiated by Prot. Paul ©. siudiog. Vol. J. New York: Joun G. Unaevebr, Tou. 5 . Notwithstandfmg a certain measure of justice in Mr, Palgrave’s severe criticiam of this unveiling of the life of “a woriuless3 man aad an indifferent artist’ by an idvlizing biographer, Talele’s memoir of Tuorwaldsan aad nis works is too valuable a con tribution to the history of modern art not to merit. @ piace iu every public library and in tne library every scuiptor. ‘ihe engravitige are finely executed, and the text gives uetaiied descriptions of the origl- nul groups and slaiues. Perhaps the Danish sculp- tox’s elavorate trainiog in tecunicalities, although devoted to the service of the pseudo-antique school, which 1a lis day tried to gaivanize the Pantheon of an extinct world, deserves more commendation than it now receives. Thorwaidsen 13 at present decried as unjusdy as he was fora long me extravagantly eulogized. ‘the very celebrity which ne so long enjoyed without dispute has wade his name and his works iitstorical, and Sinding’s excellenc translation of fhieie’s Look wiil probably have an extensive circulation 1 the United Staves, ag it already has bad. 4a Great Eritaia Magazine Notices, Harpers! Magazine for December ts a fine number. It opens with the first instalment of a life of Fred erick tho Great, well illustrated; the second paper on “Beast, Bird and Fish” (itiustrated), 1 most interesting and entertaining; ‘fhe University Row- ing Match? telis ‘ue story of the late contest between the Harvards and Oxfords, and tells it well. “A Brave Lady” 13 continued, and “My Enemy's Daughter” conciuded. *Kcumenical Councils’ is a pitch-into-the-Pope article, aad winds up with a ter- rible threat huried at Kome and the head of his divliness, The other papers are interesting, In the “Eadttor’s Easy Chair” there 14 @ capital articlo on “Father Hyacinthe and Jenkins’ Account of Him’? It is ric in satirical humor, ; The Eclectic Review tor December 1s remarkably good, Its contents comprise “France and the Ecu- menical Council of 1869," “Female Education tm France,” {Of Unconsciousness and Annibiiation,” “oman Imperialism,”,““A Set of National French Novels,” ‘fue Aurora Polaris,” “A Peep at Pom- ,” “De, Hanna's Life of Christ’ (concluded), Jestine Exploration Fund,” “Artuur Hogh jough,’? “Terrestrial Magnetism,” “Wild Cate” and “Firat Love,” together with several poems. An ar- ticle on Pere Hyacinthe, with steel engraving of the pere, will attract attention for the moderate and: sensibie view 16 takes of tho quarrel between the Trench priest and his Order, Appleton's Journal—Monthiy Part, No. &—The continued brilliant success of this pubitcation, even. Without the additional attraction of a great novel by Victor Hugo, is a gratifying indication of a dispost- tion on the part of our people to liberally support ». really frat class literary enterprise. We doubt if there are many Weeklics or monthliea in Great Britain the standard of whose contents areas high as those of Applelon’s Journal, either in thetr prose and poetry or in their engravings; and certainly there are none superior. it would require more -8pacs than we can afiora to enumerate the varied. contents of this monthly part of the Journal, They comprise every subject appertaining to litera. ture, science and art, every paper on which 1s well and interestingly wristen, ‘Ihe tiustrations, we need not repeat, are ali tuat could be desired, m am artistic point of view, Blackwoows Edinvurg Magazine for November opens with & new novel entitled “Karla Dene,” tho first part of which reads strongly as if the idea wos borrowed from Victor Hngo, The ‘Jewish: mation and the ‘Lalmud’’ ts an instructive ollus O'Dowd” satirizes “Dr. Cumming "and discuse e Land Qu it of a story; .loy-sur-Co-Demes,’? Varese Saga,’ dod “Seotiand m Parliamcut— the Poor Law Inquiry,” complete tie contents of Qu exceilent number. The Old Guard ts unusually good, Its contents comprise ‘Tho ‘Conservative’ Southern Victories,” “The Last of the American Female Ghoul,” “Down the Dead Men,” bout Lodgings,” “The ranger,” “About Sabres and Such,’ “Tho Song 0! Roland,’ “Political Roman Commonweaich,” “An Old n,” “Some Uses of Lead,” “The Myste- nous 0? and several poems, Mr, C, Chauncey bore announces IMs retirement from the mayazine. Dr. Lugush succeds hin as editor. Amon A Cuean Lavy Rossmp oF TwenTy Trovsaanp DOLLARS WORTH QF DIAMONDS,—A Short tlie pre vious to the landiag of the steamer Richmond, or Wiiie sao was lying ab the Whart boat ab Vicksbury after midnight, November 14, the stateroom oce pied by hive, Tenaga was ontered and tie lady sire Of diamonds and other joweis, valued at $20,000, poled, Mrs. Yenaga is tho wife of a Cnoan genticman who has a largo planting inverest nowt Waterproo!, La, and in the island of Cuba, 8he took passage for herseift aud Qaughiers from Memphis. She staves: tbat on Monday eveniug she hac hor jeweis in a sack wich she piaced in the pocket of her dress, Before retiring she hung the ga onahook, In t morning gle Joubd the pocket and dress cut and the Jewels inlssing. ‘Ine doors were locked, but the jo transom Was open, and tie thief bad secured Ji this opening. A thorough » oye uiltees appointed by tie ti ; but eve ligt [Hat Was elicited tend | vo Ve list (he cover uiuel Lave got of wih bis i booty at Vicksbu, a4 Mma