The New York Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1870, Page 4

Travelling on Red River. Winter Yhe Snows and Perils of the Northwest. fix Elours im the Jaws of Death. LIFE ON THE FRONTIER. Sr, PavL, Miun., gan, 23, 1870, Two weeks ago I set out from this place for the héw Winnipeg Nation, on Red river, and alter a imost painiv: but interesting experience among tue @nows Of the Northwest am compelled to abandon for the present the atvempt to cross the plains, and dave returned to civilization and comfort. I left St. Pant with glowing anticipations of pleasure on thelong arctle trp before me. Four hundred and ‘filty miles of sieighing across the prairies and along the winding course of Ked river, witb plenty of tobes, a good team and an experienced driver, Seemed ouc of the easiest things in the world to ac- complish; aud the discouraging stories related of ufferings and death on the plains at this season were listened to with incredulity, or, when believed, accepted as true with the idea thay the frozen tray- ellers bad not made proper provision for their trip snd might irceze anywhere. The characteristics St. Pav! are calculated to inspire in © mew comer with utter contempt for the thermometer, anda desire to get out on the hills {nd face the winds. The etty is entirely surrounded by lotty heights that shut out the biasts which Bweep So terribly across the prairies, and its atmos- ‘phere & so dry and clear that a moraing walk with the thermomever ten degrees below zero is a8 ex- Milarating as champagne. A few days’ sojourn here 4m the midst of St Paul’s most delightful winter ‘Weatber dissipated all apprehensions of trouble on the long route across the wilderness to Fort Garry, Qnd at eight o'clock in the morning | started, with igh hopes of glorious adventures, UP THE MISSISSIPel. A railroad to St, Cloua, etghty miles up the Mis- Siasippi, takes the Red river traveiler through @ de- lightful country, rapidly filing up with villages and cities. The Mississippi being very crooked, tne Toad runs across the praime at some dis tance from the river, not touching it even @t St. Anthony, whose roofs and spires can be seen a couple of miles across the Plain, and from which @ train comes over to the Station for St. Anthony passengers and freight. The Country here is periectiy tevel tor many mues, The farms all look thrifty, with substantial buildings, ‘Doard fences aiound the flelds and abundant stacks or hay end straw about the barns. There is no tim- ‘ber to be seen except on the distant biuis that skirt the river, und the snow-eovered fields, in the totai absence of trees to relieve thelr dreaty monotony, Jook Very desolate. About fifty miles above st. Paul ‘timber begins to appear, increasing in quantity apd size as we advance nothwestward, but nowhere standing in forests nor attaining sufficient gize ior lumber. Nearly all of it eonaists of # species of @crub oak scatiered over the prairie, and of no use Except for fencing. In this section the country is milly, with numerous springs in the gulches, but it 1s Not so well settled as the opén prairie, owing to the stoniness and sterility of the soil. Granite quarries bound, and vast quantities of stone are annually Shipped to cities along the river, at hal!-past one the train reaches 8T. CLOUD, @lmost the utmost extremity of ratiroads im te Nortnwest, the terminus being only two miles be- yond, st South Rapids, St. Cloud is a fourishing Uttle town on the banks of the Mississippi, and tor swenty-five or thirty miles north and west the settle- Ments are quite numerous, but beyond that limit is @ vast wilderness, but partially explored, and occu- pied by a few adventurous pioneers scattered at ‘Wide intervais. Tne railroad station 1s on the east Bide of the river and the town on the west side, a Bplendia bridge connecting them. Stage passengers take dinner at the station, but generally elevate it Out into the snow before they have ridden teu miles, ‘98 every article of food is saturated with grease, and staging over a rough road in & closely covered sleigh almost invariably produces at frst all the Rorfors of seasickuess. Such was the fate of our passengers, sume of whom were very much dilapidated for three days, lingering on through the weary hours of staging, with perfect Tesignutton io delays in snowdri{ts, capsizes and deach, but going into convulsions at the mention of pork and ‘beans. A long canvas covered sleigh, with four seuts inside, a large trunk rack behind, a high seat in front, four spanking horses, with bells of various tones, aud a river that could brave death eqnal to a New York omnibus driver, constituted the stage, Major Walker, paymaster United States Army, and his clerk, en route to Forw Abercrombie, Ransom aad Wadsworth, in Dacotah Territory, to pay off the troops; an agent of the Fe- Bian Brovherhood on bis way to interview Riel, and the HERALD correspondent, constituted the passen- ger list from the station; but over the river, in St, Cloud, the numer was increased by two rough wil- @erness surveyors and Shep, the express messen- ger. It was two o'clock when the stage dashed out of town into the long, straight prairie Toad, and sixty miles were to be made before stopping. The snow was only about four inches » ep, aitiougy in many places the drifts were very jerge, but the track was broken splendidiy and the stages sped along over the creaking snow at the rate of ten miles au hour, Elght miles from St. Cloud is the village of St. Jo, but the post office is called Ottnfon and bears the following sign:— OO POOLLC OL OO EE DOLL LODE DOLL LOOP IOIEOD EDD OE Sete POST OFECE, iH : CLINTON. 3 See GEORGE BERGER. 3 PO LOPEPOEE ODL ICLE DOLE LOLODE LORD OELIPLE OED) The first two words formerly had an & between them, put when the present postmaster took posses- ion be rubbed out that little superfuity, and now thinks himself secure in his position for life in con- sequénce of having effaced that dishonor to the postal service. Beyoud St. Jo, where we changed horses, there are fewer houses to be scen, fewer teams on tne road and the track rapidly becomes rougher until it enters the great forest, ‘nd there seems almost entirely to lose itself! among tie Many wood roads. These woods are thirty-five miles wide at this piace and extend from a point anout twenty miies to the southward, far up into the @lmosi boundiess timber regtons of the north. The Toad pases over a continuous succession of pre- cipitous hilils, between which are dense thickets of Direb, ash, povlar, oak, aspen, beech and alder, Wwhife their summits are erowned wiin more open, bus no more vaiuavie timber. There was no wind when we passe! (hrongh, and the jingle of the bella and the creaking of the runners seemed to fill all te air with reverberattyns. Thousands of dead trees were leaning Or lying brostrate in ail stages of decay, and in looking across tho narrow ravines through the wild and Ubdisturbed timber the age end loncliness of tho primeval forests could be fully appreciated, and one fet taste was reaily in the wilderness. Occasionally ® Geer oF lynx track waa seen crossing the road, and a8 darkness came on, while the “seasick” passen- gers savagely groaned out their misery, the red whiskered surveyor related tnrilling experiences with BARS AND INJUNS only @ year or two ago, Something had started conversation on ie subject of bears and indians, md the surveyor very soon had an attentive au- lence. ‘I recolieck,”’ saia he, “when you couldn’t “tnto the timber without meetin’ a bar or an jon, The cusses are jest alike naterally. They go @eaking around, tari’ up jest when you ain't in’ iur ei, aad if yeu ain’s got four aces and "t Dluif ike h—il you're cleaued oul sure. Why, to give you an idea of the critters, I Was a goin’ down aiong tue river one day, and ali at onst i heerd a splashin’ in the water, end the first thing { knowed up popped a id she bar right agin meon the bank. | hadnt a? with ite, anu we jest stood thar and looked wheach other, the Old bar @ growllo’ and | oi NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1870.—-TRIPLE SHEBT. sl h nd @Way hie tuk & Chrougls the canebrake, f banged him and after a while got hold to the stern itn Bt pl the with a gun and hollered to him, and the fust thin; that ous up ta the tree Knowed he thought liven had struck nig," “Did you the others?" we asked. “Not ex: . You see, the old bar was so badly skeered tiat she never quit rannin’ Gil she got our ©! sight and aearin’; couple o' boys got arter the other young feller and ¢reed him up in the woods with a dog. Then, while one youngster stayed there with the dog, the other weot for a gun; but if it hadn't been for that dog tbat ere little Chap would got chawed ap in less’n no time. Every onst ina While the bar would commence growin’ backin’ down the tree and showin’ fite; but jest he'd git down about five feet from the ground the aog would take w runnin’ stars, sock his teeth into the bar's stern and send him up the tree agin afiukin’. Arter & walle the other chap come with tue fetched down the cuss as dead as a mackerel.” “Did you ever have much trouble with the Indians?” we inquired, “None to speak of,” gaid he, “though onst I thought I was gone up. That was tn £862 when the Sioux was kuhu’ everybody ont bere. ‘There was & good many murdered ’all along this road, and ts was always beileved baat the Chippewas up uorta here hada handio it, Well, you see Pa been surveyin and traveliin’ avout through these ere wiider- Desses Jor a loug time, and tho Injung kKaowed me putty well, po that when Lheerd that tue Cuippe- was had capuured all the traders aud huaters 1p their couniry, | thought I'd go and see what Icoula do for the prisoners, I wasn’s loug gettin’ up to the Cluppewa reservation, and came onto their camp Jestatnight. They was all daucin’ and shoutin’ around a big fire, and had their War pat on, which always means scalps. ‘Tucy didn’t sve me ull 1 got within @ hundred yards of ‘om, and then I busted — fuit jump for tae old chiefs, who was svandin’ together; for T knowed tf any of theat youug devils got a chance he would je| drop at met,” Weill, sir, taem was the surprisedes! set a tellers you ever seed, but I’d been amongst ‘em 80 Much that the old chiefs took care of ime, and arter a while let me go. {don’t know whether my tip had rouch to do with releasin’ the Port Or not; out [ told them old chiefs some things that made ‘em grunt, and it wasn't long béfore the pris- Oners Was ull set tree. I've been up there among the Chippewas since, and they ali treat me frat R butt expect with all my roughin’ & out pere trom Lake Superior clear ap along the lakes to Winnipeg, { never come quite 80 near iosin’ my hur as 1 au when I busted into the Cuippewa camp thas might.” NEW MUNIOB, @smali dettioment In the western openings of the forest, Was reached just after dark, where suppet Was (uruished ald Dorses Changed. ihe hotel where the stage stopped Was tlorougily Western in ohare acter, the proprigior looking upon travellers a Pirate may ve Supposed to regard merchant ves- sels. A luge red lot steve reeking with tobacco juice rendered & suwall barroom intolerable to per- sons coming in from the open air, and beliind & pine counter, about six feet fong, @ German Jew sold a Geadly compouud labled Whiskey, and watchea with an eagle eye the mouons Of the passengers to see how many were able to face bis supper tabie. Oniy two mauaged to force down @ liule supper, aud & third contented himself with a cup Of toa, Atthe couciusion of thé Meal the latter aquired the price of supper, “kitty cents,” replied the israelive, “Weill, | suppose Fone don’t charge full price for only acup of tea? Tnat was ali { took.” “Ob, nd, of course noi,” answered the proprietor, and, after figuring & while with the stamp of @ Peucil on a sheet of browa paper, Dlandiy said, “Tent Ue forty cents,’ Alter tour hours more of wearisome riding through the woods, over steep ridges, down mito deep ravines aud Out upon the open prairie, we reached Saux Cenire, another little cluster of houses in the wiiderness, aud stopped for tue night. Next day the route lay through 8 rolling couutry full of lakes, from a fourth of @ mile to five miles long, around whose eages the snow was badly drifted, rendering our progress in many places exceediagly diicalt, Once out upon the lakes, bowever, the travelling was splendid. There was but very litthe snow on the ice, and in some places it was bare for long distances, Whenever we struck the lakes the driver would put team © thoir best, and on we would fy actoss the sniooth ‘surface, seemingly with the speed of the wind, while the Jingng belis and ring of the iron runners upon the ico added tentold oxhilaration. ‘The stations rapidl, became Jess frequent, and degenerated from small Villages into a ‘stngie log Bouse wna stable. Hours wouid elapse while we dashed aloug the levelgprairie Wihous Our seetog @ solitary dwelling, apd with nothing 12 view but the sky and @ vast fleld of snow reileved here and there by @ little holiow cr a cluster of tall dried reeds. Dow vy the lakes are innumer- able mounds trom three to four feet high and about four feet in diameter at the base, built of grass and wood by the muskrats for their winter quarters. In these mounds the rats assemble and comtortably pass the winter, unless sume trapper cuts @ bole tn the mouna sud piaces a steel trap inside, when the rats upon returning from the water to their in- vaded home invariably pus weir 1006 in it, and get skinned in the fur trade. Wherever the snow is blown off from the soil on the upland tue little hillocks of tue gopher can be seen 4s Close together as potato biils, and occasion- ally @ iarge hole by Lhe roadside reveals the subser- ranean abode of the badger—an animal that may ve kuled by 4 rap on the nose With @ eck, and yet will “chaw up” @ mau if he does not know how to go at the animal. A few prairie hens ere seen, and at times a wolf skips away over (Be plain as the stage draws near to him; but animal life is scarce on the Prairies in winter, aud if it 1a not too cold to sieep one wil doze away nearly allthe trip. Three days and nights of glorious trotting 02 beaten roads and on the lakes; of weary labor ihrough great suowdrifts; of aching hands and (eet, with tue thermometer below vero, and of con- scantly increasing admiration of the expressman, Snep, whose long experience on the ime and teady energy extricates tue driver and bis team from maby @ peril, brings us pear our destination at Fort Abercrombie, in Vacotah Lerritory, Ab noon On the iast day we wok dinner at a lttie house perched upon a bluff of Red river, midway between 1g source 10 Otlertmil lake and the puint wuere it turns from its westerly course to flow norchward, ‘Tue stream 1s about twenily-five yarda wide and tie bauks ave trom twenty to tuuty feet high. Au old scow—the summer ferry—hes mgh and dry in the suow, aod drilis forty feet deep rear their crusted ridges above the biuits in many places, Ten mites beyond I4another house, and from there Is aa un- broken plaia, apparentiy ag level aud @3 Vast a3 tac ooean. ‘Toward night it commenced raining, od W6 burried on to get wm before dark. Just at dusk we came upon Wheeling’s rauche; next Nolaa’s, Harris’ and Broderis’ buildings loomed up in the gathering duskiness, and a mule beyond we aasied dowa into the hittie hamiet of McUauieyviile, as Fort Aber- crombie, om the banks of tue Ked river, through whose opem timber we could see the storm coming fercely ou across the plains of Dacotan. ‘fae ther- momeier was fifteen degrees beiow zero, and by ine o’clock the storm would have killed a man exposed in the open prairie half an hour. “ DOWN RED RIVER, Immediately upon arriving at the end of the stage rouve proparations were commenced for tue long ride down Rei river, 250 miles, to Fort Garry. Until the last two or three years this trip was always made with dog siedges, and even now these are occasionally used, As there were two of us in Company aud there were no dog siedges to be had we Look @ canvas covered bobsled and two ponies, with @ half-breed driver, The team and driver were to be paid for by the day untit chem return, and we were to furnish all the provisions and forage for the round trip, With good roads aud fair weatuer the journey from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Garry can be wnade in from five to seven days, bus aa the season was ao far advanced we were told by ail that it would take us from ten to tweive days, and we might not get tarougn at all. Tuere are but three places of shelter to stop at over night, it being neces- sary to Camp Out Ln the BLOW at least turee nights, aud perhaps a week, if caught in the storm. The Toad consists simply of atrall made by the half. breed muti carriers, between Abercrombie aud Pem- bina, and 1s liavie at any momeut to be buried in the dry sow, which whirls in blinding clouds with every puif of wind, like the dust of tue streets in summer, Some of the old settlers offered to bet two vo One that we should not get througu, and toid most discouraging stories of winter travel on the plains. Said an old Irontiorsman :—‘*Yuu fellows don't know what prairie travelim’ is yet. Way thar ain't & week arter the fust of January but somevody gets froze out in them blasted storms that come down on yer before you Know it. Jest as soon us one of them Atrikes you, there ain’tmo use trying to travel, tur you can’t see your hosses’ neads half the time; and M you can’t git into the timber thar ain't much show fur yoar ever being seen again ttl spring tuaws tue snow oif you. More’n Half adozen fellows { Kuow of have gone out this winter and never besa heerd on since. Only @ few years ago a whoie military com- Paay got Caught out in a storm, and tie oaptaim and idon't know how many men froze W death. Lust winter they sent out a trai of mule teams from the fort here, and they got lost in a snow storm, and was snowed in for nearly two weeks. ‘Tho men had to kill the mules and eat ‘em to Keep trom starvin’, Another party went out with a train o’ dogs, got buried In the snow, and got through at last wita only three dogs. ‘they mad eat all the rest. You sec when it blows it jest fllis the air solid with snow and piles tt up im drifes thirty or forty Tect high agin the timber. Out on tho prairie it tills every gully and liolier Jevei fal, ana if you don’t get lost aud bewildered and froze te death in the storm, You Gel stuck in a show Lauk, gMd there ata’ much duteceuco Which you take. Why lve beea out to Fort ensoi when & snow siorm killed dozens of mules end beef cattle right thar in the shedy, and the dritt# in the garrison were piled up so high agin the oMlcers quarvers Uhat they jest taanelled 16 right along ta iront of their doors and used the tunnel for over two montas.”? Cheering experiences like the above were related by almost every one we came tn contact with; but the weather had cleared up so beautually tae day after our arrival and it seemed so easy to get along Mf properly provided for, that we took the chances of @ storm aud starved at noon on tie 16th, invemd- ing to make twenty-flve miles before night and euch the Catholic talssion. We had in the sleigh tweaty-iive bushels of oats (that quantity being ne- ceasary for the delays wick siorms might cause), @ pentiiul ey Of bacon, ham, iresi Dee, hac ‘ead, Sugar and cores, tin plates, cups, a ‘tryin; pau, Codee pol, LOVE, @ae, iautorm, UUCkOs mu 4gzon butte robes gud biankets, Our per outfit would have created a sensation in Now Each had on, by advice of the settlers, two a FE Ree, Wapies ety and tick pent with moccasi two andershirts and 8 thick merino over- , cont, overcoat buffalo skin overcont, ick &cart to Wrap about the face, and long sheep- extn mittens with the wool inside, All this clothin| Was unendurablo tn the house, but half an hour's ridtog, with the thermometer twenty degrees below zero, aNd @ sti! norin wind whistling through our canvas covered sleigh, demonstrated that we neaded all we had on. When we leit Fort Abercrombie at noon the sun was siinin; brig, and we were pic- turing to ourselves at least two or three days of favorable weather and good travelling. About three o'clock, however, tt commenced to get thick overhead, and as the sun went down the alr became Milled witn dampness that keenly bit tho face and Tapidty changed to snow. By dark it nad become #0 cold that we had to get out and walk, but the snow had drifted so baaly to many places that tt was WIth extreme diMculty we could get through bby ga “ ag te Fw Ad — com. peli @ return w the lei and bury ourselves under the buffalo robes. Gecastonalty the borses would waliow to their belliés in snow, which in fair weather we would not have minded; but with a snow storm driven upon the arctio wind into our faces it was nO easy matter to force the red along. dust as we were losing the trai! in the gathering snow &® momentary luli revealed the glimmer of a light tar anead, and after half an hour of hard whip- ging and polygios cursing by the balf-preeds we rew up donind the log buliding of THE JESUIT MISSION, Sbelter was never more welcome; and my com- benion having @ letter of introduction from Paymas- ter Walker vo Father Genin we were soon comforta~ bly restoriug cireulation by a magnificent dry oak fire. This mission is the headquarters of Fatver Genin, a light-haired, blue-eyed, deucate man, of @bout thirty-five. He ia a Greek by birth, hus been thoroughly educated in the Jesuit coileges, has travolled over Europe, and knows every indfan and half-breed camp oetween the Missour! and Assin'boin rivers from tue Mississippi to tae Rocky Mountains, The bullding consists of a smalt two story log structure, with four rooms on the ground floor und @ coups) above, 4 hall breed and his wife occupy one of tue rooms abd board ther Genin when at the mission; but most of tae e he is out ou his long wancerings through the wilderness. When ho goes out on these trips he always scuds Indians or hall-preeds ahead, ana 10l- lows with a small party bearing a large whice tag, with & cross upon It Jn this manuer he travels thousands of mucs, visiting ho-tile ag well us peace- ful Indians, and extendifig and perpetuating wis re Mgion, as has been doue lor two bundred years in the wilderness or America, fis siuple harratious of missionary experience, filled with incidents of sufiering and pert!, are very thrilling; and, lisven- ing to his unaffected recital of bis duties, tuere comes up before the jistener & Vision Of the Savage congregations that assemble here aud tuere to hear the young missionary. some of his missions are 80 remoie that be only visits Lhem guce in iwo years; Dut ali this interval! is occupied in travelling between widely separated stations, with tae excepuon ol a snort ime in winter, when it 1s impossty.e to make jong trips, AU the Indians wuo kaoow him rever- ence bi however hostue they may be to the set- tor ind the ‘breeds, id peord he visite bag reed would terribly avenge auy outrage upon him give re gerd in his defence. de ts THtmoately as. svdlated with Bulop Tache, of Winuipeg, and 1s belie Pe. ope of the controlling spirits in the er rovolation, Hed Sunday moraiog, pf dismal enough. We had hoped that ch stort Foard cease duri tae nignt, but daylight showed that although séy rai iacics of suoW had falien there was every propa. bility of the storm continuing for a @ay or two, At ten o'clock services were lield in ug oha, on the upper floor, which, notwithstanding the mM, Was died with A HALE-BRERD CONGREGATION, ‘Thess people were of various colors and grades, like the oegroes and mulatt of the South. Tae storih was so binding that 1t Was un} le to see but @ rod or two frow the building, and as tho hour for worship approached Lt Was strange to witness these people, some, im color, manner and dress, re- sembling tie fuli viood Indian, and tne rest bub lit- tle more civilized in appearance, dart into the dis. cernible mpate about 5 ad mission from all quurierd, ‘hey generally came sing and ga the run ‘Ther dia “not scent” to “be at alltroudled by the storm, and would suddenly break in upon us out of the gloom of the blinding snow, Seeunngiy with the uverring instinct of the bec returning tv its hive. While waiting for the ser- vices to commence they all si00d oul iu the snow, and when wey did emler they went 10 with @ rush, Ut would be diMcuit to adequaceiy descrive that con- gregation. Everythtug about it was Lodian in cliar- soler except & few articies of dress, and the hoarse responses Of the men sounded more like the pro- Jonged growis of caged Wiid beasis tawn the ardou- lation of human beuigs. All seomed very devout; but when the services were Conciuded suey rush Out us hastily as they went in, and, with scarcely a word 10 any one, darted away in various directions into the dense log of snow. . had heard that a party Previous wo the services we of Canadians from Winaipeg nad arrived at a lyu. breed's house wpout ball & iniie from tae mission aud we went over to see them. ‘They consisted of contractors aud engineers wio hed been enployed a tue Canadian road via Lake of the Wi and Kainy lake, and nocwithstanding their baying beca at work all winter ia the open al, ther thick cloth- ing aud their having the wind to toeir backs on the jouraey, some of tuem were Uhaly frozen. ‘They re- ported that they had been eleven days on the road, and expressed che belle! taat this siurm would com- pletely blockade the route, They stated that further orth the road was already badiy drifted; that they had veen caught out in # storm @ few aays belore, and that x would be very Bazardous to attempt to £2 farther in that direction. The Winnipeg news rougnt by the Canadians hag already been lor- warded in & previous Jeter. THE GREAT STORM, I perceive by the papers that the storm which we expertouced on the 16th extended down through Lino, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, domy great damage. Substitute snow for rain in those acconnts @nd consider the thermometer twenty-ilve degrees below zero und something of an idea way be formed of wnat a Northwestern prairie snowstorm is, ‘Tax. ing the advice of Fatuer Genin aod the Canadians we concluded to return to Fort Abercrombie, as there Was nv prospect of the road being opea in a week or more, and tue season of irequent storms had just commenced, Fearing that u we delayed our returo the road might get closed up beuinod us, and as we wouid bave the wind to our backs, we determined to get out lor Abercrombie at ouce, ana at noon started from the mussion. She mission is located im We timber in a bend of the Red river and has above and below along the stream aovut a cozen hail-breed tamed. Tho fact wat the road from the mission to Abercrombie 14 in ne place more than two or taree miles ffom tunber, apd In many places touches the bends of the river, heid out to us tue op- portunity Of getuny into some slight shelter, where We mjght start @ big ure should tue storin siop our progress; and besiies we might possibly in such a case be able to reacu @ hall-breed’s lug hut. We bad not realized the nature OF the storm, however, be- fore leaving the mission, and when we got out on the prairie, away from the timber, we bitteriy re- Gretted that we Dad started. ‘dhe snow Was as dry and light a3 ashes, and tue fierce wind not ‘only powdered the’ fall- ing fakes, but caught up the snew on the prairie, filling the air so densely that wo could not our horses’ ears over one-half the time. i¢ Wasa thick, stilling, freezing gloom. The blast howled with fearful violence, shaking our can- vas covering agif it would tear it to ripvons, and drifting im upon usa heavy weight of snow. road, fortunately, having been travelled a great deal between the mission and the fort, had no weeds or grass in it, and by closely observing at the sides of the toam the line of reed tops above the snow we were able to keep in the track, although in many places it was already drifted so that it was almost Impossible to get tarough. ‘Ine appearance pre- sented by us an hour after Jeaving the mission was rather curious, Our whiskers and mutters were frozen togetner in @ solid mass of ice from our congealed breaths, and, strange as it may seem, nob ouly were our mustaches as solidly frozen as if immersed in water, and having a heavy weignt upon toe hip, but our eyelashes were 80 loaded with frost that we could Bot seeeach other's eyes. The snow beat into the hatr of the ponies and formed a coating halt an inch thick, into which the harness was us firmiy weided a9 frost could doit, The haif-breed driver did not seem to mind the cold at ail, but sat in cue front of the sleigh, lashing and cursing his pontes, while we huddled under our blankets aud buifalo robes, aad just at dark, alter what seemed an age, we reached the timber near Fort Abercrombie, with noses and ears frozen and about half buried in snow that had blown tnto the sieigit. On our arrival the thermometer indicated thirty. seven degrees below zero. The paymasier, who had set out from ort Abercrombie with two good teams and an escort, had been iorced to return, aid ‘the old settlers pronounced ihe storm to be ble Wout one since 1856. ‘the stage trom’ St. Cloud due Sunday morning dia not get in uotil Monday nigat, and toe baif breed who carries the mail froin Aber- crombie to Pewoina did not dare to venture out Unttl Suesday, aud then had doubts of getting through. As soon as tho road was opened to St. Cloud the paymaster, who bad abandoned his Forts Rausom and Wadsworth trips, jomed us gud wo returned to St. Paul, travel on Red river hav- ing been pronounced closed for the season exceps to Tndians and hall breeds, Here we have reports of siages that started out from the northern seitie- Macuits just berore the storm and have not beon heard from; and it 1s expected that a great many lives have been lost, as the snow fell to tue depth of eighteen inches, and is terribiy drifted. Our trip from Abercrombie to St. Cloud was @ succession @! capsizes and pounding in suowdrifts, and ail of the thirteen passengers wuo Came through worked thelr passages with suovels in bringiug thestage along with them. LIFE ON THE FRONTIER May have many bright sides and much that is ro- mantic in summer, When the prairies are beautiful wtth grass aud flowers, but tis winter experiences are very dull and dreary. Fortunately for the pio- neer, he has generally had a rough scliooling belore coming out to the wilderness, and is well fitted to meet uncomplainingly the privations and hardships Of his iot; but the delicately rearea, uniess he be un- usually adventurous, cannot keep at the front of ad- vanciug Civiliaation, Here on the prairies over Which I croused are families living ten, fifteen, ana twenty miles irom any otger habitation; shut in by snows in winter and wholly dependent upon their own simple remedies in cage of sickness, | asked @ settler up near Fort Abercrombie bow it was that every one looked so rugged. “Well, you see," sald ae, “tne weakly chiidrea all dle off, and only the tough on ‘ow up.!” ‘That, of course, doos nos apply te ail of Minnesota; ‘tral and southern portion of tho State is Progapiy one of ie Healtaiest regions aa the Conti. hent, and ts unsury ‘ag @ resort for consump- tives, But out oa the unsnelvercd or Red river and Dacotah winter 1s littie less severe than tn Labrador, and very few oare to brave ts dan; more than once, All this country hie aly ra Ma Up, however, and the great BI 7 Coluing Ante the stale Will soon populate mach of e extreme northwest, ealeary duty on the frontier is not @ desirable post, especially in winter, The routine at Fort Aber. cromble 1 not widely different from that at all other (rontier garrisons, and tt seems wonderful that officers and their famines can become accustomed to such monotony, Brevet Brigadier General Hunt 1s in command of Abercrombie, and has two compa- nies of bis regiment—the Twentieth fofantry. Gen- eral Hawley, who commanded @ brigade in Sher. man’s march, 13 Commissary of Subsistence. Major J.D. Fury, connected with neadquarters of the Ar of the Potomac through nearly all its campaigus, uartermaster, and l,teutenant Rodman, son of jeueral Rodman, is adjutant of the post aud com- mander of the Indian scouts, ‘The latter are dressed as soldiers, and do fatigue duty, pilot teams across the plains, and, in active operauons, are & very valuable arm of the service, generally serving with great Hdelity and performing highly meritorious services. Their squaws and families ve in buffalo tents inside the tort, and form quite a little Indian village. : ‘The fort consists of a stockade enclosing an area about 100 yards wide and 300 long. The officers’ quarters, sOldiers’ barracks, storebouses, shops and other buildings are all built of lumber, and wilt compare favorably with those of the eastern bar- racks. Military duty consists of the same unvary- ing programme week alter woek, but the familles of oiicers manage to devise consiverable diversion, aud concerts, amateur theatrioals, whist parties, &c., with au occasional bail, serve to relieve the tealonsness of winter life, There ere a few young lnoies living in the adjacent settlements who some- Uines add to the number of fair ones tn the stock ade, and some of the bails are said to be most recherche, They bave a chaplain, who of course needs @ choir, and this, with the peripatetic melo- which travels from one family to another deon, in the fort once @ week, sffords another suuree of amusement. Whist Diaying, how- ever, ts the “pride and glory” of the lady members of the garrison, wlio invariably rout all newly arrived caawpions of the game, horse, toot and artillery. ‘0 summer it ts delightful at the fort, sitvated as 16 13 on a com- manding ridge, and, judging {rom the topography of the country as seen in winter, the Red river ion from May to September must be a sort of paradise of beauty. M‘CAULRY VILLE is the name of a settlement at Fort Abercrombie, and promises ¢o soon become a flourishing town. A large steam mill ts driven to tts utmost capacity to furnish lumber as fast as required, and the prospect of the Northern Pacific Rallroad cro: Red river at that point nas given (ots piace great impetus, A large extent of prairie under cultivation, and as the soil 1s very productive aud timber abundunt there 1s every probability of 8 Mourishing town suddenly springing up ander the walls of Fort Abercrombie. SPECIAL POLITICAL NOTES. How to smash up agreat party—Abolish one of the Most stupendous electioneering machines extant, the franking privilege. How to demoralize the country party press—Abol- igh the free list for exchanges. A grand humbug—The scheme of the republicans to defray the expense of constructing @ postal tele- graph by abolishing the franking privilege. How to relieve the Post Office Department—Don't allow unclean linen to be passed as letter press mat- ter coming under the franking privilege. Remarkable political fact—That but one or two prominent radical papers tn the country are in favor of throwing overboard Mr. Dawes, the radical un- peacner of & radical administration. The Vinctnnatt Gazette believes that Mr. Dawes, in his apeech on public expenditures, ‘‘etruck the key note of the republican party of this Comgress,’’ and, it might have addod, the death knell of General Grant's popularity. Among the prominent republican organs that sus- tain Mr. Dawes ia his demand for retrenchment are the Boston Advertiser, Boaton Transcript, Albany Evening Journal, Chicago 7ribune, Baltimore ameri- can, Indianapoits Journal, Troy Times, Worcester Spy, Hartford Courant, Utica Herald, Barlington (Vt.) Free Press and hundreds of others, A down East paper asserts that ‘the people Will, in-Dawes what Mr. Dawes saya." But wiil that be in-doors or out-doors of tho administrative party. The latest league in the radical ring—The League Taland job ventilated by Mr. Dawes. Does this ac- count for opposition of “my two papers—both Gaily 2” What's nis name? That of the colored Senator from Mississippi, Revel and Revels? There bave been many high old revels in the House, but we never heard of one in the Seuate before. Was disappointment at uot being made Speaker of the House the cause of Dawes’ whizzing éxposé of the profigacy of the administration? The Quincy Whig says its democratic friends nave Jong siuce lost all respect for Congress and now con- sider the United States Senate as little better than a woodpile from what they expect to see fn it, Down on tbe abolition of the franking privilege— Senator Sherman and General Batler, They will probably join hands on this issue. The Uartford Post became baimy during the late genial weather, and thus cheerfully discoursed about Connecticut politics:— April is at hand, election day approaches—‘or the old cocky Wax Who ulways votes the republican ticket, and always has, and nevet voted anything éise, but who has seen the error of his ways and now proposes to vote for the democratic candidates, wan- ders out into the culumus of the 7mes, runs his fingers through his slivery tresses, and goes at it again. His opening conundrum is, ‘Is it not Time 4d Pl Peace?” That's a good beginning, old Tellow. “Old Cocky Wax” is good, Is Grandfather Welles entitied to the appellation? ANOTHER CLERICAL SCANDAL, Flight of a Married Minister With a Young Girl—Her Death—Alloged Poisoning—His Arrest. {From the Riehmond (Ind.) Telegram, Jan. 28.] Another canting villain, who has used the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in, has come to grief, and Dow looks through the bars of Ballenger’s jail, at Centreville, awaiting trial for the murder of the victim of his lusts. Without friends to find excuses Jor hi villainy, and evidently not familiar with the Modern means of dodging justice, he does not deny that he led aa innocent giri to her ruin. He docs not even ask the church to cover up his iufamy, tor fear that tts exposure will ‘injure the canso of Christ;’’ or @ la Cooke, put in the piea of insanity, In the month of October last @ man calling himself Salmon caine to Henry Gates’, two miles west of Centreville, near Pin Hook, and with him was a woman apparently fifteen or twenty years his jonior to age. They represented themseives as husband and wife, and he repeatedly stated that he wasa United Brethren preacher, and did preach several sermons in the neighborhood. He further stated that they were goiag West, into Illinois, to take charge of a new Circuit as: ed him, but owing to the feeble health of his wife he tarried at Gates’, and about three weeks ago the Woman was delivered 0! a child. She aud her child did well for the eight days fol- lowing, when the woman was taken violently ill, with strong symptoms of poison, and lmgered oh unul Friday night, the 20\n inst. On che next day Mr. Saimon expressed the corpse to Piqua, going With i. From Piqua he sent if to Bodkin, in Shelby county, directed to Joseph and Elizabeth Lambert, and Salmon came back on Mon- day evening to Centrevitle, and on that night was arrested at Heury Gates’ for the murder of his wite. On investigation Mr. Salmon proves to be the Rev. SS. Walis, of Van Wert county, Ohio, and Mrs, Mortha Salmon, his wife, proves to be Miss Martha B. Lambert, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Lam- belt, of Suelby county, Ohio, Walls is ® inan about thirty-five years of age, & litue above the medium height, black hair and eyes, fut) beard, and dressed in a suit of respectable black, He would pass anywhere as an itinerant preacher of more tan ordinary intelligence and cultura. Although evidently anxious and depressed, he talks freely about himself and his career, He confesses the Waoie story of his Ridges en 9 only denying that he 1s goilty of the crime for which he is arrested—poisoming his victim. He gays that he made the acquaintance of Martha Lambert nearly three years ago, While traveiling his circult, and that he seduced’‘her, Finding that their guut must soon become known, he ee an elopement with hor to the ALS where they intended living together as man and wile, About October 15 he left home, telling his wife ana friends that he should make an extended trip west. Afew days after Martua left home, ostensivly ta visit some friends, and met Walls at Piqua, trom which point they started west in @ carriage. Bat the poor girl was tow sick to travel, and when tuey reached the honse of Henry Gates, near Pin Hook, iu this county, they haited Lo Walt for her recovery. In a Jew days she thought she could endure travel, and they started on, but on reaching [ndianapolis were obliged to avandon ine trip, and having ivund Mr. Gates’ family kird they decided to retura there and await the giri’s approaciiug Confinement. While there he passed under the name of Rev. Samuet Salmon, his full name being Samuel Salmon Walls, and Maria passe as his wife. During their stay at Mr. Gates’ a revival broke out in the neighbor- hood, and Mt. Saimon, a3 a minisver, was urged to take part, and finally did conduct the meetings, a4 tle says, to preveut auy sugpiclon from falling on bim, feeling satistied that though a bad man, could give good advice, ‘give the Lord an opportunity to bless te truth for the truth’s sake’ No suspicion of che real rolation of the par- ties acoms to have geourrod toauy ong tn. he med? =©6GAMBLING FOR OFFICE. Tone of the p @eemed Likely to protect xpoct her to survive, any ills states that he Gid not expect her fOvun nor, { Two Candidates for Interpreter of tho Yorkville she advising bim not to go home with her body, but Police Court Draw “Frits, the to go to Piqua, so as to send It safely to her parents, Lote— and then go West until the storm of indignation Barber," and the Pretzel Mas— dlown over; after which he promised to return Exo 4 his family and make such reparation as was in his iting joones. pees, ‘After taking her boay to kiqua be reuurned, intending to settle his affaira and start West; but ——— the hand of w Was too quick for him, and, ‘The position of Interpreter of the Yorkville (or Fourth district) Police Court, which became vacant on the 1st of January, has been the cause of muck contention between the German politicians of posh political parties in the Nineteenth and Twenty- second wards. There were several candidates who aspired to the position before the result of the eleo. tion had been announced; but since then the number has been growing beautifully less, until at last thera ‘were but two, and these malntained their ground, resolving to go in, come what would, each refusing every inducement to withdraw i favor of bis op ponent, Mr. Dorhenwond, the former interpreter, hugely enjoyed the fight which was raging between the two would-be linguists, and even from time to time did something to keep affairs in a red hot state; for, he reasoned to himself, the longer the appoint * ment remained without being made the betier is would be for him, and probably by moving in the right way he would eventually succeed in retaining his place for another term. But, as the sequel will show, be did not reason weil. Last week the two candidates determined to bring affairs atripped of his cloak of sanctity, ho awaits in jau the result of fresh investigations, The reverend villain been a minister of the Gospel, United Bretnren Church, for many years, 1n landing; leit amexcellent wife and throe or four children in Van Wert county to ran off with a girl he had rained, and for whose death, whether Bho died by disease or by bis band, he Ws morally re- sponsible, THE WESTCHESTER TAX WAR. TEE A Card from Join B. Haskin in Reply to the Opinion of Justice Joseph F. Barnard, New Yor«, Jan. 31, 1870, To THe Epirow oy Tas HRRALD:— In your issue of Saturuay last under heading, “The Westchester Tax War,” your report contains erroneous statements, whioh, as the relator in the Proceedings in which you publish Justice Joseph F. Barnard’s gpinion, I claim the right and beg of you the privilege to correct. The report states that the matcer of the injunc- tion granted by Justice Tappen “came be- fore Justice Joseph F. Barnard, of the Second Judi- olal district, on Motion to aet aside the injunction,” crisis and to se@ who was the strong. and then follows bis opinion. This is nottrue. The oat . ce the CAM tn ry Pllnee Coo had the promise of one o! new! ct action in which the tpjunction against Madison ave- on Boulter asack 10 bis nan, Beodectek: ue was granted was commenced by Patrick H. Han- lou, & property owner on that avenue, against 118 commissioners and others, and after a full argument by S. E, Lyon and Judge Cochran for them, and my- self for Hanlon, to hold the injunction pendente lite Meyer, allas “Fritz the Barber,” like & hot potate, wulle Judge Bixvy was equally, but less tiously, u# firm for bis man, Ha Metzinger. “fritz, the Barber,’ the mame oy which Mr, Mover ie best Known, keeps a shaving saloon ta Seventh ave- nue, while Metzinger seilé lager and pretscis tm before Justice Tappen on the 17th inst, he holds the } First avenue. A meeting — agreed upon motion under advisement and it i# yet undeter- | between all hora ae yer a mined. last week. At this meeting it was di and the two candidates expressed themselves pe fectly satisiied to abide by the result, to meet af same place again yesterday, witen lota would drawn by botu for the position. ‘This arrangemen| became kuown to @ large number of outsiders some manner, althoagh it Was not intended to be Bo. Tue cousequence was that &® large crowd of idie: @mong Whom could be seen 8 fatr sprinkling of aters, collected in the examinauon Toom snd oO: he stairs leading thereto. Considerable spec was indulged in a3 to who would be the lac! tne 0 psa oe te, thi The matter before Justice Barnard was on a com- mon law certorart sued out of the Supreme Court in the name of the people by myself as relator, against the Commissioners of Madison and Berrian avenues, granted by Justice Tappan on the 27th inst, and made returnable at General Term at Brooklyn, on the 14th of next mouth, Mr. Justice Barnard saw no force im the prelimimary objection made by my counsel, that the motion to supersede the writ should have been made before the justice who granted it of the full bench at General Term. I do. This has been the uniform practice. Tho jus- tice who granted this writ examined the reiutor’s Papers and the proceedings, and exercised his judi- cial disoretion in doing 80; his late residence, where he had resided for ni twenty years, overlooked Berrian avenue; he bad been @ justice of the peace and the supervisor of the town of West Faris, a aud bets were freely offered and taken on # It was not until tweive o'clock, however, excitement had increased to its utmost it the drawing took piace, aud everybody pile on the resylt, Everything being arranged, all who were interested having n admitted U1 one of the private rooay hat was procored ang the lois were thrown into ts. Mr. James McCabe, Judge Bixby’s evor obli; and courteous clerk, Was mutually Qpon the candidates as tue person into Whose hands tl < legtstator im it, @ member of the fate Won- | making or breaking of one or the other shouid de atituuonal Convention and a Siate officer, | entrusted, He it was, accordingly, who drew the Was person: cognizant of the of the town ana the Jaw and proceedings In the case, and he, with a knowledge of its facts, exercised hls jugictal authority to have the proceed- ings reviewed by tho fall bench of his court to ascer- tain whether a “burdensome” tax had been legally imposed, and “oppressive legisiation” was constitu- tional, Air. Justice Barnard, residing at be or aie (an inconventens place to take the parties, and not Justices Gilbert or Pratt, in Brooklyn), 18 ap- pealed to to supersede the decision of Justice fap- pen, and to prevent the certiorart being heard and determined at General Term, and Justice in the interest of the alleged “conspirators” has made an order superseding the writ of the people. He clatms that one justice of the Supreme Vourt may supersede what another has judicially done, but pro- per judicial deiicagy should Jocbid at, unless he wao does it desires the ‘bad eminence” and the unenvi- able novoriety given by similar proceeding in the Erie ‘case scandal, where the exercise of the authority by differeut justices ana for diferent con- siderations has lowered the character and repuia- tion of the State judiciary to a ‘ower depth” and Tendered the justices who have exercised the author- ity more “odious and ous” than any Wo Lave lived during the history of our jurisprudence. As to the vical consututional questivas raised vy me, he says, “‘l think this is not well taken—the question of the constitutionality of Berrian avenue sot. The peopie’s writ would have been reviewed and Judicially passed apon by the General Term, aud not by one prejudiced und hostile justice. ‘This was ny Tight. Louts XLV. said, *'l ami cae State.” Barnard in effect says, ‘1am the General Term.’ The sequel ol my proceedings ta this case will prove whether ue 49 not now its mere p: justice. He also says, “The tax is very burdensome; butit has peen im- posed by the Legislature under its unquestioned powers, The Gourt can give Bo Falets' that I “cannot assume to be the champion community and challenge the commissioners to defend their omiciat acts.” Who cau? According to him only those wi@ own property along the line of Berrian avenue which is to be immensely benefited and increased im value by the imposition of this ‘burdensome tax " upon tue tax payers of the town generally! A monstrous Proposition | That the * coospirators’’ who, on the Jast day of the session of the Legislature, corruptiy have an act for their benefit, are theonly persons to invoke @ review 1n the supreme Court of she proceedings of their commissions, and a decision as Wo the constituuonailty of their special Isw. ‘As a large tax payer and citizen J champion my own rights, and incidentaily the rignts of three thou- sand taxpayers of West Farms, ugatnst the imposi- tion and collection of @ sraudulent and unconstin- tional tax, and I seek to * question the Legislative the lot which was to make @n interproter of ‘‘ritz, the Barber," or leave Bi barber for evermore. The jittie pleco of which was to decide this important qnestion a length drawn by Mr. McCabe, who, after examin! 1t, pronounced Frits the tucky mao and the expounder of German jaworeakers for the hone! ot pe beuighted magistrates at the above cou! instead of the miserable postion of a “comm barber” on Seventh avenue. The Ler gee, oe: was received with several cheers, and *4 the Barber” received sucao hearty congratulations as no poor barber ever received before. In fact he was 60 Overcome that it was not untti he had taken severat doses of something stronger than lager, around the corner, that he was able to retura the thanks he fels for the $1,200 per year waich bad just been coa- ferred upon him by tis friends his owa fortune, Toe drawing was conducted on @ aq basis; no “shave” about it, WOMAN SUFFRAGE. A Womnn’s Rights Mecting 2 Richmond— Two Streng-Minded Agitators frem tke North—The Status of Woman Diacaiged~ Adjouroment to Meet for Organization, RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 99, 267% Ir there is asign of progressivencss mote potent than another here it is that a woman's rignts most ing has boon held in she metropoils of among the F. P. V.'s of femaie society. Such | announcement as this may startie those fami! with the character and disposition of Virginiafadieg, and it may astound the male portion of the commas Dity bere, even the most intimate acquaintances of the ladies themselves, bus the fact is clone true beyond the shadow of a doubt, For some rea son best Known to the ladies the matter has 60 faz ween kepta profound secret; but unfortunately some member more indiscreet than others, with the weak- ness to which thesex is addicted, ‘‘blabbed” im @ confidential manner to another lady friend. and te this way direct to your correspondent. Perhaps % Was deemed proper to organize, strengthen them- selvea and fortify thoir position in a very disorimi- nating community before the public should be in- formed of their movements or future intentions. ower,” and shall do go belore a fall ench of the Supreme Qourt, Barnard to the | Auyhow, my lady informant was exceedingly contrary notwithstanding. I have always believed | guarded in the statementé she made, and it was in the elementary principal, “Where there 18 a wrong there 1s a remedy,” and that ‘vigilance’ in courts of justice may proveut iraudulent, unjust and illegal exactions in taxes or in any other illegal imposition attempted under “oppressive legisia- uon.”’ Justice Barnard cannot do away witu tae freeman’s right either to the habeas corpus as to tue person or to te common law writ of certiorart to Lis sacred right of property. | have appealed to the general term trom his order saperseding and tis Opinion, and have au order from tue Supreme Court staying proceedings until the determination of that appeal, Perhaps he will supersede that order, aod pernaps a letter, of which ibe foilowing is a copy, deiivered to him on the 16th day of December, 1803, and other confideratious, May Have had something to do with the superséeding order of my quondam friend Jusiice Barnard. JOHN B. AASKIN, The following is the letter above referred to:— 106 BROADWAY, New York, Dec. 15, 1868. Dear Sin—From tho ciose judicial intimacy and fraternal relations existing between Justice George G. Barnard and yourself, and from ils and your re- cent expressiona and conduct towards me, J have reason to know that you have fuli knowledge of the contents of @ ‘private’ communication addressed by me to him on the 10cn day of May last, sunder- ing the intimate friendly relations wuich had there- tofore existed between us. 1 had not, however, only by an adroit system of interwewing that the facts of the matter conld be arrived at, Aftera roundabout sort of conversation, beginning at the middie, jumping suddenly to the end, and chem going back to the slartiug pDolni proper, tb turned Out that two very energetic representatives of strong-minded, hailing trom Pennsylvania, but late in attendance at the Woman’s Kights Convention held in Washington, had made thew advent in Rich. mond some two weeks ago. The names of these ladies were Mra. Davis and Mrs. Johnson, — their ostensible business was the sale of a which brought them in coutact with most or the ladies inthe city. By this means an opporrunity Was afforded them to ascertain thesentiméat among the sex here on the vital question of woman's righ, which they found decidedly weak; but with so: perseverance and afew copies of the Zeroluton the, were not long in implanting the doctrines of Susan B. Antnony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan- ton. Having at tength enlisted a suficiont gumbor in the cause it was determined to hoid @ ecing (privately) at the residence of one of the ladies on Caurch Hull, to which a number werednvited 06 previously acquainted with the nature of the move- ment, This took place @ few nights erg fe was largely attended, among those present being Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wail, Mrs. pellet irs. Bodekck, Mee. Smith, Mrs. Crew, the Miases Bal awin, Mrs, Tom Until the ume of the argument before you of the mo- | xing’ Miss Carrington, Mrs. Jacobs, Mie. tion to vacate Judge Lott's stay, and your state- Couts, Mra. Bradley, the Misses ‘Powell, Miss ment thon made, embodied in the written | Burier, mira, Hoppie and Mrs. Davis aud ra. Mrs. Johnson, the two ladies from the North. Mra. Davis opened the meeting by an explanation of tw object, and then ahe spoke elognently of the wrongs to Wiich women were subject over the entire coum try, In Pennsylvania they had absolutely no rigits, and she believed the same state of affairs existed im Virginia. she called upon her hearers to arouse aud atrike for their rights, and pened out t9 them the progress made by the wolnen of the North, who were everywhere moving with giant strides. The South should be shoulder to shoulder with the Nor end both sections should vie with each Otuer unt the ballot box was as free to women as it w: men. Mrs. Bodcker, one of the Kichmond | then followed ina fow remarks, in whioh she ex- plained the status of women in Virginia. A gencral conversation ravher than discussion on the Cod then took place, lasting fora couple of hours, after which the meeting adjourned, to 1eet again at some future time for the purpose of perfecting an organt- zation and adopting @ gonstiwuiion. 8o far tae Movement 1s in & miik-and-water stato—st least the Jaaies are not enthusiastic. ONE OF THE “GARDE NOBILE,*? Points of Mr, Dykman before Justice Gilbert (‘that Motion wasfully argued, and Judge Barnard retused to interfere, and stated that if this motion was before him, he should consolic the @ctions’’), supposed or believed you would have made your brother's differences with me your own, and, therefore, sought to do me a0 act of injustice, In this charitable view I have cause to feel 1 have been mistaken. Remembering that probably but for my etforis you would not now hold the position you occupy—one where law and justice, without favorit- ism, malice or revenge, should be fairly adminis- tered—makes me the more sensitive in the protection of my legal rights and my observations of your marked elfort during the | Seta on tie ch LO unseat your peer, Justi pen, in my case, lase Monday, induces me to énclose for your considers- on the accompany in, davit and this note, ieay- ing your action to sucl sense of propriety as you my enteriain 1D sn premises. Yours, iruly, ion. J. Fy B. De JOHN B, WASKIN, LETTER MA RESOLUTE MORMON WOMAN, BALT LAKH City, Jan. 20, 1870, To Tas Epitor oF THe HBRALD:— Permit me to rectify an article pubiisned in your paper of the 8th inst., entitled “Mormon Romance.” I still reside in Salt Lake City. 1am the grand- daughter of General de La Harpe, the Swiss hero who fought Sor the liberty of his country and who distinguished Nimself as general of division under Napoleon thé Great. I was a Protestant, or, rather, an earnest inquirer atter truth, when I embraced the Gospel—restored to the earth with all ita spiri- tual powors, gifts and blessings—as it wags preached by the Saviour and His aposties, Atter ‘recely- ing the tras’ my greasest desire was adentify myself mora directly wit the peo- ple of God, and for this purpose I made the sacrilice of all I hold inost dear and near to me ou ih—my children. I was the widow of tho Kus- an General Consui in Havana, and, as yousay, | was Associated with the aristocracy of that couuiry (Russia), wheré I bad many friends. It 19 true that nothing could prevail vo stop me from coming to Utah, the piace appointed by the Almighty for tna gathering of Israel in the last days. As f could not get ny means I just enough tu cross the ocean and the States and I crossed the great American desert on loot, through great tribuiations, it is true, but the God I had enlisted to serve gavo que power to endure and to arrive here safely chir- teen years ago. ‘Delusion,” sir, would not have given to o deilcate, nervous woman the super- natural strength required to accomplish sucha feat. When { arrived im Council biuts £ received a letter from ove Of my relations enireating of me to go back, stating that botn tue Swiss Consul aud Russian Ambassador bad received orders to ar- rest we and send me back; but Pescaped from their hands, and here i am preferring to serve the true aud living God, under che iuspired voice oi a living prophet and aposties, in a mudest position, than vo epioy all the worid can give. Wirth the biguest con- sideration, J remain, sir, yours respect(uliy, JUSHPHING DE LA BARPS URSENBAUH. Preves to be m Fraudulent Chock Shover and a Heavy Wine Drinker. @n Saturday last a young Frenchman, named Ed- mund Revels, who claims to be an officer in the “Garde Mobile de Paris,” applied at the boarding house of Annie J, Worcester, at No. 170 Fifth ave- nue, and engaged apartments at the rate of $176 per month, The landiady demanding ner pay tm advance, was azsured by the wily little French- man that she need have no fear of losing anything by him, and accordingly draw- ing a blank check from his ee reel the Park bank, filled it out payable to her order, signea by himself, for $120, assuring her it was good and Would be paid npon presentation as he bad @ large amount of money deposited there to his cred. Sac did not recetve the check on Saturday afternoon Until too late to present tt at the bank, and conse- queutiy deferred i¢ until yesterday moroing, Kevels on Saturday night and Sunday lived on the fat of the land and ‘“reveiled’ in wine to the extent of $35, Which the landlady was very obliging in furnisiing, as she surmised she had good security for any anount he might order. Yesterday morning Mrs. Worcester resented tae check at the bank, and was informed by the paying telier that it was worthicss, as no suck person had any money deposited there, nor ever bad. ‘The landlady, becoming convinced she had been vicuuin~ ized, hastily returned to the Louse, and, securing the services of oificcr Banker, of the twenty-ninth precinct, caused the “bold soger boy" to be ar- rested, He was arraigned before Justice Cox as Jefferson Market yesterday afternoon, aad tempor, ratily committed to answer the charge. Peacn BLOOMS IN NontTH CanoLina.—We were showh Ob Saturday a peach bloom trom @ tree in ‘Guus city. —Raisigh Standard, Jan, 31.