The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1875, Page 3

ae “TE LAND OF GOLD The Black Hills Country and Its Inhabitants. sanmmemeietiee THE The Indians Fighting for the Re-' served Domains. Past and Present History of the Complication. Statement of a Three Years Resident. LaRaMix, April 15, 1875. The gold fever in the West continues to in- atease, and numerous expeditions are fitting out to enter the Black Hills. The discovery of gold In thie region wiil hardly be news to the readers of the HERALD, the whole matter having been writ- ten up by your special correspondent over a year ago. TUE COUNTRY. As the traveller on the Union Pacific Railroad Bears Cheyenne, 516 miles west of Omaha, he sees rising before nim immense masses of dark hills. ‘The timber on their sides gives them a black ep- | pearance, and hence their name, “The Black Hills.” Entering nem at Obeyenne, tne Union Pacific Ratiroad winds up through them, and the highest elevation reached between Omaha and Ban Francisco is at Suerman, the top of the Black Hillis, twenty-fve or thirty miles west or Cheyenne. Ali teat country lying betw en the Cheyenne River and the Yellowstone 14 known as the Black Hills. | {tis nearly six nundred miles long aud two hun- dred wide, Its Lroper boundaries ar East, Cheyenne River; west, Rocky Mountains; south, Niobrara River; north, Yellowstone. Much of this Vastregion bas never yet been explored, and what is in at remains yet to be found ou, ‘4S GOLD THERE ?? This is @ gnestion Low unceasingly asked. 1 answer, “Ye.” “Butin what quantities? “No one can yet say.’? Sortiumately for our aiventur- dus penple, Hills rests upon better foundation than the wild stories put in circulation by ested cities and towns that desire only to guther crowds of excited people and make Money by fitting them out aud feeding them. Faiher De Sime: 15 tho best evidence of the exist- ence of gold in the hills, That he knew the Black Hilis country thoroughly and saw the gold there no one who knew the eminent priest will deny. On one occasion, when he visited St, Louis, be Was asked by a gentleman, who now lives there, if | there was gold in the hills, and after obtaining a | promise of secrecy, he gave @ long and glowing Account Of the country and said there was “Much yold there.” The gentleman to whom Father De Smet gave this information never repeated the conversation to any one until alter the Father's death, but he bas within tne past yoar Diten spoken of i, and feels it is not incumbent upon him longer to remain silent, It is tiso well known that De Smet on many occasions tautioned the Indians against carrying gold out | of their country or betraying the knowledge of its existence to white men. An Indian at the Whet- Stone Agency once repeated the following lan- Mage as being that of De Smet’s and addressed to his tribe. murder, rob, venture their soi salvation, Lf they Knew you had goid in your country they Would come and Grive yoo out, burn your villages | and take your land.” The singular devotion of Father De Smet to the interests of the Indians caused him to utter thia lauguage, and he continually exhorted them not to tell any white Man where goid could oc found. Right well na the Indians remembered his teacbings, ana to this day an Indian who would offer to lead a party of Miners into the country woild certaluly be killed by his tribe, WHAT 4 POST TRADKE BELIEVES. One of the firmest believers in tho existence of | oid in the Black Hilis is Mr. Bullock, the old post trader, at Fort Laramie. It is said his belief rests on the fact that im 1864 two Indians brought in and sold him several hundred dollars’ worth of | gold, They were soon found out, however, by their tribe and evther killed or ran of, Some yoars | later an Indian appeared at the fort with a quan- tty of goid dust and nuggets in a sack, and showed the gold to some white men, So many wisned to buy his gold aud urged him to tel! where got it that the Blarmed, threw the sack of gold aad all into the Laramie River and flee to the bills. In 1866, when the army temporarily occupied the Powder River country, gold was found in small quantities along the different streams. No effort was made to Prospect the country, and, indeed, no opportunity Was offered, tor Curing the jew mouths the troops were on that line they were coastantly engaged im skirmishing and fighting with the In. @iaos, uniii Captain Fetterman, on Decem- ber, 21, 1608, was massacred with bis entire command—forty-nine men of Company 4, Eighteenth infantry; twenty-seven men of Company C, Second United States cavalry; two citizens and two ofivers—Oap'ain Frederick Brown und Lieutenant George Grummond. This terriole affair happened near Fort Yhu Kearny, and scoop afterward Fort Kearny, Fort C.F. Sin and Fors Reno were dismantied and the troops retreated to Fort Laramie. The attack on the soldiers on this occasion was made by order of Red Cloud, and not one soul escaped, Over two thousand Indians were preveat in the batt Fetterman and his party tought hard for their lives. sixty-five Indians and ten pouies lying dead on the fleld. The indians charged en masse and overpowered the little band of solaiers, the fight being short, sharp and decisiv TMR LOCATION OF THE GOLD. To return to our subject—gold in the nille— Major Burt, au army officer of intelligence, was given by an indian at Fo hu Kearney & spicula Of gold, nearly as long Jead pencil aod halt thick as one’s littie Mager, Ou oeing questione the indian vaid be kuew where thore was plenty df it, but declined to indicate even the direction, TRave talked with many army odicers and ati. fens Who have visited the Gluck Hilla about gold, bad they al: admit tue existence of it, bul do net Know in what quantities, tor the country bas never been worked. HOW TO GET Az It, The fact of the existence of the gold being now protty well estabilsued, how to get at it is the qBostion that ayitutos our Western poopie. ur sourse if it ia there Wo will get it, bas We must all Walt a little longer, and not Make too macn haste, Tho goverusoent, wide Awake to the Gevelopaout Of Its iutoresia and deopiy concerned in the We fare of its own oltizens, 8 Using every exertion In its power to induce the Indiaus to give up tae Bleck His to the white m: WHA? THE INDIANS BAY. ‘be indians bave maiwtained » most digninea €8d seavivic coursa so far. They say the Great Fathor at Washington i# their friead and will fo what is rigut, Their confdence in te Wins is vnoouaded, wud they Wok upon the widiers as tneir allies, Note move ls made oy ihe Indians Without consulting the army odicers and the chiefs, Guneral Bradisy aud bis ofticers are ou the best oF terms with them, The oficers, to @ Mun, are in iavor of wbvogating the treaty {ud OAVise the Sioux ‘0 give up tue country, but at (le same imo say “the land i yours aud no O00 Ghai! take it irom you by ioree.”’ in racura tho indians eay “the soldiers ave our inond they aro honest und wilh oot allow ua to be oheated or driven of ovr imud.’ 1 voneve ap wrmy CMvor Gvuld today tuvel al sirough t Biack Lilia Bod go into every Indian camp with poilect aafety to himeel, Thw eortainiy arauce DISCOVERED NUGGETS. | the evidence of goid in tae Black | inter- | “White men to get gold will commit | age became | NEW Y , Boe BL A Coe. ORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. i ES ae le Map Showing the Auriferous Hegion on the Catnp of Avapahoes | Cheyennes July 9 oF) \ \PLPLompson _ ‘Terminus, ‘Capt. W esse well for the character of our army and the fairness of our soldiers. When the miners began to appear in Spotted Tail’s coun- | try, be sent word to General Ord that wnite men Were coming into his lands, and wanted to know it he might drive them out, ‘The General repiied, telling the chief to pick out filty of his best war- | riors, and he (Ord) would employ them as scouts and send a white officer to command them, The chief at once sent tne warriors, and they are now along the edge of the Black Hills, under command of Lieutenant Emmet Crawford, Third United States cavalry. it must have pleased the Indians immensely to be employed and paid by tue United | States to guard their own country. It was a happy | thougnt, too, of General Ord to so employ them. and thus get control of tue savages and prevent them from doing anything rash or murdering the aa- venturous miners, which they provably would have done ified by their own chiefs, With the present amicable understanding between our savage and civilized warriors there is no danger | Of anybody getting murdered; but if the miuers begin to crowd into the Black Hilis T fear tne truce will soon be broken, Tuere has not, I be- | heve, been a white men murdered by Indiansin the Stoux country since Generai Sheridan over a year | ago ordered the troops into the reservations and occupied Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, The soldiers and Indians were no sooner brought to contact with each other than they made /riends, and each party now respects tne otmer, The Indians de- pend on the soldiers to keep the wuite men out of their reservation, but if they find the white men are coming in and not expeilea by the white war- iors, then it is likely the Savage warriors wil try their hand at driving them out, With ibe present | influence of the army I believe if the miners would only keep out for a Itttle while and be patient the Indiang cold be induced to give up the Black Hills, Any attempt at force or too much haste | Will spoil everything and lead to @ bloody and in- | terminable war, _ WaT TOR INDIANS CAN DO, Red Cloud bas in his villages and under bis con- trol 10,000 Indians, and Spotted Tail 2,000, It is Nkely these two ontels, colfinined for the common Geience, could put in the fleld 6,000 warrlors— enough in the natural fortresses of the Black Hills to repel not only the entire army of the United | States, but as many more volunteers. Lei the rash gold seekers tnink of this and remember toe fate of ketterman aud bis party before they start West. The hairon the beads of the youths who are now go frantically rusting to the border will not be safe for one moment after they enter the | Biack Hills, and the oniy way to keep it in its proper place will be to remain qaietiy at nome until the government announces the country opened ior settiemens, BEWARE! We shall, of course, have all sorts of wild stories | about gold,ana maps showing how easy it is to | Teach the gold fields; but let no one believe them, ) fortne gold fields bave not yer been aefinitely Jound or located, and the nearest pois from the Tallroad to where goid is supposed to exist 18 over 160 miles—too far to run from Indians, Places will be transported bundreas of miles trom where they actually exist, and the mines brought almost | within the corporate limits of towns and cities to | induce credulous peopie in tue East to come West ! and outdt jor these places, | THE WIND RIVER COUNTRY. TAB PLAINS, April 18, 1875, General Sherm: ys there is more gold in the | Wind River country than in toe Biac@ Hills, and he | may be quite right. The proof of a pudding, they | say, 1s ia the eating, and we already know there is plenty of quartz gold 1a the Sweetwater gold mines at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, | These mines are one hundred niles north of Bryan, | @ station on the Union Pacife Kallroaa. They | Rave been werked since 1869, and over jour yun- dred shafts and holes have veen dug. There is Plenty of gold there, but water is the troubie, there being too ilttie on the surface ana too much in the shafts. The mines do not pay, a the places can only be worked for a few weeks In the spring while the snows on the mountains are melting. At such times the streams are very | Digh, and the water breaks into the shaite and drowns out the miners. Springs aro struck at a | Gepth of trom twenty to Arty feet, and tue water pours in lrom seam rocks, The expense pumping iw #0 great that it is estimated to cos more to keep a shalt dry than to mine and mill tne ore, Twonty-five gvod lodes ni been found, but the miowt of them, jor the reasons Jost mentioned, are waprofitabie, The most noted mines in the Swee Young Americas, Carizo Soles and Perkins’ Tre Young America cost $20,090, and at «no time was sold to ‘ater country are Tho | | although to General Sioux a Reservation. ao Na ot ot 200 =: z 0 ety x \ 2 Gmina Kes fie ar aa 7 pan as Seg, Siotte fever oy sully ee) Tep.2822h gh US Cr Siompee aI a Sa] Wins al ener \) E SS > co s ROI ts nga kes, nearly all the miners who ventured into the moun- | tains were kuled by Indians, At that time the Wind River country was ein- braced in the Shoshone Indian Reservation and the Sioux and Shosnones were at war. Since then the Siosnones have sold most of thelr reserva- tion to the government and it is now open for settlement, I saw a Neutenant of cavairy who hud been out acoutiug anu he bronght back a piece of quartz rock, which was very rich with goid, and he said tae vein was four jeet wide on the sur- | face. I saw cavalry soldiers who haa been in the Wind River and Ow! creek Mountatus, had in tuew possession very rich speci- mens of gold bearing rock they had picked up. One sergeant had wearily baif a bushel of these specimens in a& funny sack which he bad gathered while on a scour. He said he had jound agreat many rich quartz ledges, and alter aigging into them a httle way tad coy- ered them up agata and marked the place. I did not hear of any placer mines; but these men had little Jactlity for testing placer mines. | have no doubts where rich quartz exists placer gold can also be found, I should hke exceedingly to see the Wind River country prospected. It could now be done with comparative safety, and Iam very much of the same opinion a3 General Sherman, that more gold willbe found there than in tue Black Hils, ROUTES TO THE BLACK HILLS, ON Tax Union Paciric Pie April 12, 1876, The nearest points to the Black Hills inhabitea by white men are Camps Robinson and Sheridan, situated respectively at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. These two military posts, estab. lished last year, alter the killiug of Lieutenant Robinson, in the very heart of tne Indian country, bid fair to be great adjuncts to these new flelas shouid they verify the present reports concerning them and the now existing Indian treaty be set aside. From tne latter post the rouga, scraggy spurs of the Black Hills are piainiy visibie, ana being only about twenty mules distant, it mignt be said to be inthe country itself, It is also very close to the supposed gold region. ROUTES TO THE BLACK HILLS. As to the different routes leading to the Black Hills from accessibie railroad points, the exaggerated advantages of rival points that are so couspicue ously held upto the public, maxe it bard ior a person otuer than a domictied Indian to caoose between them. Sioux City, in Iowa, is certaimly very accessivic <0 the East, but to the country in dispute I tuing itis very Goubtiul whetuer it wili compare with Points along the Union Pacific Railroad. Itis separated by at least 360 miles of staging or con- veyance otner than rail, and along tais route are Many bad stretcves without water, altnonga tuls latter diiculty is presented along all tue routes to @ greater or leas extent, Starting ‘rom the Union Pacific Railroad as a base of operations three lines of man@uvre are presented for consid. eration With their relative advaniages. point that we rewch is the North Platte, waere we can cat straight across for tue Black Huls. Ynis jitile village, wita its 1.200 people, has the advan. tage of a splendid bridge across the North Piatte | River, & stream that aurimg the summer months makes it dimcult to cress = ita | 2,000 yards Of dangercus boggy quicksand. | ‘the advantages oj} this route are not known, ¥ claim that ordinary outfits—siage: light vehicles, £¢—could easily travel 4 that separate them trom Cainp Spotied ati Agency. The goverument, a or the importance of this line, ias ordered a airy cooimand vver it te report upou its practicability asa juice line of supplies. OTHER OUTHIETING POINTS. The NeXt Dome is Sianey, the sipping depot of the government supplies to tbe two poss and agencies. It has a guod road and the shortest Toute to the points mentioned, sud to a tempers Snce person Wio Woulda’s mina being submerged Mn the Norta Platte River until they turn into a “demued moist oudy” or a bu , 1 would ree. omincad it. At present the river ts not niga, and Wii not be Gutil the spriug meitiog of mountam snow, anu, leaving out tue diferenve in iare be- it and other poms, over @ rail that knows how to charge, it as known at present, the Vest route. distance irom siduey to Spotted Tail, via Ked Cloud, Is 102), Miles, The tuwn contains ony suo OF 400 INUaDItAbts, and jor Suis reason alone 18 the poorest piace lor outtittiog, Cheyenne, in Wyoming Territory, is the next Pome ior consideration, It 1s quite a jarge piace, and for this reason very guod jor outuiting. is | suowiog Lae an English company for £20,000, The ore yields | $80 per ton, The Cariso cost $80,000 to develop, then sold in Loudon tor $100,000. The the Miner's Detignt lode ts the great mine. It has throe abaita, the deepest being 128 {eer At one time thid Mine jJicided $1,000 per day and could have been sola for $300,000, It floods badly, aod it i aimort im possible to keep it dry enougn for mining, 121871 there wore twelve samo milla in the Sweetwacet district, running 101 stamps. ‘Thoy cout ubout $1,000 por stamp. Most of tae mils Aud stamps HAVE since been abandoned, not | Jor want of good paying ore, but on account of the troubio and ¢xponse in taking 1t out, When i Wwas in Sweotwater jo 871 there were good guicn diggings; tae Yankee Guluk yielding $8 por day tu the hand, Kock Creek Guich, $3 50; straw- berry Guich, $4, and Spring Gulch, $3. At one me Spring Gues yieed $35 per day to the band, Promise Gulob, a iittie raving naif a milo | long, yielded $10 por way to the hand, and in one sUmMor season $36,009 Was taken vat, THURE YBARS IN THY MINES, JT Den'tion (uese WINGS Luus Partowariy Decauaed litte is kuowa of them, eral Sievmau has me Was three years io tuese 11068 and KNOW ail aooUs thom. But litle prospecting has been done ve. | yond Swoetwouer end none in the Wind River Mountains, Ac toe tlie the writer lived there it | Wal ub 86/6 10 Zo 10H miles irom south Pane, Aud ida $49 to $80 por ton, out caps badiy, | | Gono: suppoRe Gon. | ethan heard of thom. [| had a Very good ruad, although hot as good as | Siduoy, leading, via Fort Laramie, oa ine North Platte’ iver, to Camp sherniaa (sported Pail Ageucy), u distance of 208 miles. Compared with other punts wong the rauroad, it bas tus disade vantage Of @ Very great addition tu the iare aod & longer road; alinuuga to persons (iat Would fad iiinas Pacific Kalltoad mure attainable than Univa Pace io thor ratiroad route Oheyeuue Would be pi as it réveives the tormer Li Over uli tue routes guod grass 18 found in abun dauce, water Wwe, tue Norca Llatte best, irom tie ollleial veporr Mutary BOOUls, 28 1 sKiris th of the bravcacs of tbe Loup Fort Timoer is very scarce over all tne ro lines Ovusidered are in tae ,ortion States kuown as the Plains, Whied ute Lotorous OF SOIT abseuce Of timber, The traveler over thei: Vaal OxpROses Of Mrewu Tiling iis i Bele Gow greeted With a MgOt Oi Lue furesiw #0 Common 10 (no Bastern States, While oven a ciuimp of three OF uUF Mic gone Aly Romored with suvu Oxp/es sions os “Cotonwood Rased,"” “ind Ureek" or Jit they pave suo tortune to prox places Meutioued. TUB INDIAN TITLE, agiuary aurlierous tract FY ih 1863, When Convers teat ROUX Dain, reprovegied by the Ul Vlous and Spotied fail, Tiid tveaty gay wil toe Country AoTth uf tie Norco Piatee ey vom Ma juuciion with the to vlatte, aud builded On the weet by (he crests of the Big ore Wiountains, and emoracig io roagn Buy BOUL S40) BQuare Milge its 689.era DOLL hangs vw the Over ali this t Treaty o 4 18 fhe Meriuiad pussiog tarough toe jue. tion uf the two Platte rivel borsern vGundary, I petieve, ibe government al present 16 Cures 10 Wake O Uw Be: tiem a (0 tarot tie Blace Lilié portion ¢ cous pahow, gud {no general velief turoumuour Laid poriivd of the country is (ha! bo@ Inoland ure Vory lsvorable to the seiiag a cowalry bo must jose uuaer any ci Cumstaaces, Waverstandiug Of tue to sues & soho GF thE Qagstion, Whica is very ae- 0, for suvaid toe Black ris tivouguout Weir extent JUsily the woturety given too portion of (hem vy ine Coster bk .euition ot ytd yuk werio atock rising and intnera pars poses, (idy Wik give Homes wad ciple io WARY (HAL are NOW #aHOring tarows) Bast of Yaut OF juss suou places, W MuUdu FOUgE ator Bi wAweMOER! VaR oO God & matter oi rapidly OD the pat: Of Unie sum nis Wel, aad 118 GElay Will ODLY Load W fuLmie dive who | The first | | Ruvads, Samuel Morris, Francis R. Cope, William | ts —— . | Shortly attor ejeven ofclock on Wodnonday n | je complications between troops and zens should the present stringent military | orders be rigidiy enforced, PLATINUM MINE IN THE BLACK HILLS—INTER- ESTING INCIDENT OF THE GREAT INDIAN MISSIONARY, FATHER DEE SME. The following correspovdence has been recetved for publication and wiil be read with interest:— fs, Y New YORK, April 22, 1875, | Yo 18 Eprror oF THE HERA | General Van Viiet, a bignly intelligent ofticer of the United States Army, formeriy aud for many years stationed in this city, Whien Iurnishes adai- ional imormation Upon & subjeco Walch 18 ate Wacting puolic attenuon, ‘Truly yours, THURLOW WEED, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE sri Orvice OF ‘THE CHEV QUARTERMAST Yorr LEAv TuURLOW Weep, m0 My Dear sirn—l your remarks on wourr, Kan, April 17, 187 ‘read with great pleasure our old friend Fateer be Smet. Over twenty years azo my home Was on the prairies. J pussed = several years between the Missour! River and tne | osky Mountains, and it wag while leading that | lle (became acquainted with Father De Smet. it refer to this Im connection with the precious metals m1 the Black ills, One day, tn L851, at the dinger table o! our iriend, Colonel Robert Camp- bell, of St. Louls, the conversation turned oa our wanderings in the mountais, when Father De Smet reiated THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT, which occurred in the Black Hills beyond the Cheyenue:—Oue day while among the Indtans # Chief Came to him and showed bim some pieces Os metal wuich he had in his buiies poucu, As soon as the hather saw it he recoguized it as Pluunum, ilo company with the chlel Le visited the piace and discovered a large mine of this | Metal. He said it Was of great extent and of un- told value, fie mace the indian promise never to divulge the secret, for une did the waite peopie Would clear tae Indians out of tue country, io als0 promised to Keep toe seer He told us that he bed carefully described the location of this mine, and ‘iat When be died the secret would be with tis Ohureo. Father De smet could not have been deceived, and 1 iirmiy believe that there 1s & vaiuapie platinum mipe between the Yellowstone and the Cheyenne. As this metal is worch $116 per pound avoudupols and silver only $18, you can well un- Ger-taud the joriune that avalts some Lucky man, Yours twuly, SYEWAKT VAN VLIET, U. 3, A, THE GENTLE ABORIGINES. LEADING COMANCHE CHIZIS COMING IN, WASHINGTON, April 22, 1876, Indian Agent Haworth telegraphs to Commis- sioner Smith, of the Indian Bureau, under date of Fort Sil, April 19, via Caddo, April 21, that on the preceding day the famous bhosttie Comancne chiets Mawwoy, Long Hungry aud Wild Horse came in Gad surrenderec, together witu thirty-six braves, | 140 Women ana children und 700 ponies. MRETING OF THR FRIENDS’ INDIAN AID ASsOcI- ATION. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 22, 1875. The sixth anoual meetiog of the Friends’ Indian | ports were read and discussed, society to be prosperous in its work. An election | tor officers resulied as tollows:—Clerk, Richard | Cadoary; Treasurer, James Whitall; Executive Commitree—Thomas Wister, M. C, Cope, Jumes E. showing the | svaus, Jono B. Garrett gua Charies Ruoads, ANOTHER FIRE IN WORTH STREET. PROMPT ACTION OF THE YIRE DRPARTMENT. At tweive minutes pas: nine o'clock last evening aire was discovered underneath the stairway between the second and third Moors of No. 115 Worth street, which 184 a1x story tron front butid- ing. AS 8000 a8 the signal was given six different | engines repaired to the spot, and the dense vor ume of smoke which sued from the | balding caused the district engineer to send out a second alarm, as, irom the | appearances maniiestea, it was thought an | | | | extensive conudagration was brewing within. | | Hemorcements svou arrives freu the meig: vor- lug @.at but bappily wey were not peces- Surly, a8 (Le fre Was not so extensive as was at | Grassupposed, The basement, rat, iourth, fith and sixth foors are occapied by George ©, Rica- ATU8OU, dealer in carpeting and heavy dry goods, | His stock t« damaged about $500 oy water, J. i. | Sheidou, who occupies the third floor, suffered a 1oas Of About $icv. Tue third floor, whicu Is fitted p for offices, Was Gamaged to Loe extent of about The outiding, Woich is owned by Mr. George | Ricaarcson, was damaged to the extent of $2,600. Fully insared, j | | A fire Droke out on the top Moor of tno five story | brick owllding No, 112 Fourth avenve avout nine | o'cock iat Bight, The building is ownea by | Samuel Hant, and was damaged to the extent of | age. Mr. Richard W, Veost, wao oooupies tho MMses, 15k AOOUE $800, ibhdeee ee | I inclose herewitn a leiter just received trom } Aid Association was held to-nignt. Tie usual re- | THE PEOPLE’S CENTENNIAL. THE MASSES TO BECOME COPARTNERS IN THE PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL—SUBSCI¥°TIONS OF THE SEWING MACHINE COMPANIES—DIS- TRIBUTION OF THE CERTIFICATES. and Concord nave greatly revived the local inter- est in that national commemoration of 1876 tn Philadeiphia. Ex-Governor Bigier, who is at the head of the City Bureau, at the St. Nicholas | Hotel, is stul unremitung in his efforts to pro- mote the prospects of the vast enterprise, and has extended to the peopie at large au oppor. tunity oi becoming copartmers in the Philadelphia | World’s Fair. This bas been done by addressing a circular to all the avents of express companies in every portion of the country, inviting them all to become agevis for the sale of Centennial stock. There are some 30,000 of these in this hal{—can be raisea in this manner, and tne patri- otic undertaking can taus be made uonal in its character by diffusing the pecuniary Interest tn its successiul issue turoughout the United States. ‘The express compantes bave directed their agents to devote themselves ener- getically to this task, and deserve great credit for thus suspending ail their hitherto stringent rules in permitting them to engage in this enterprise. Another hit has been made by perfecting arrange- ments with the Puliman Palace Car Company by which all {ts conductors will be enlisted in tue task of selling the beautifui embiematical medals on the sleeping cara, All this 18 calculated to ex- tend the popular knowledge and appreciation of the coming celebration to every class of the com- J ‘The city millionaire who contribuc $10,000 and the country mechanic who purcnal @ Co-proprietor of the Centennial buildings. YROGRRSS IN CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. Mr. Bigler gays that the progress in city sub- scriptions is gratilying. It will be remembered that the list already published tn the HenaLD made a fair showing, the amount then s | emg about $120,000, No subscriptions that have 8 | brought up this bum to a total of neariy $200,000. | Within the iaat tow Gaye be bas more particularly addressed bimsell to the sewing machine compa- | nies, Their bearty response was one that redects credit up thetr iloeraiity and pudilo-spirited management, Eighteen toousand dollars have beep subscribed by three compan and all th jarge companies promise to fail into line and giv substantial proofs of thetr interest In this great national festival, The full list of savscriptions of this ciass will be given to tae press at an early day. DISTRIBUTION OF OBRTIFICATES. ‘The certificates of Centennial stock,ave arrived atthe City Bureau. They are superb specimens of the engravers’ art. © signed by distinguished artists @ memento of the Centental celebration, and executed o. steel by the most emineut engravers employea by the | bureau of Engraving and Printing. Tue plate is twenty-iour by twenty inches, and as a work of | artis said to be wort the cost of a share, wuich | by the act creating the Bourd of Finance is tixed at | Deen assigned the work of printing tue cert.ficactes, | and it has been the atm of the Treasury Depari- ment that this gileshouid be worthy of the nation and the grand commemorative oecasion, control of the Centeunial Board of Finance at | Pailadelpaia, by whom Congress nas directed tt | saat be issued, WHAT NEW YORK WILL Do. Tho bill jor appropriating $25,000 toward de- fraying the expeoses of this Scate at the World's Fair 1s still penaing before the Legisiature. It is expected that the Committee of Ways and Means will report favorably Upon it, and that tt will be ‘the Bm gen gp of this bili will aiso enable Governor Tilden tu appoint the Commixsiouers who are to represent this Stave at tne Exbuicion, | ANNUAL MERIING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS—IN- TERESTING REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS—PRo- CERS—ACCOMMODATIONS FOR CENTENNIAL GUESTS. PHILADELPHIA, April 22, 1875, Director Geuerai Gostorn, of the United States Centennial Commission, ia about to appoint a {eminent citizens of this city to con- best means of providing accommodations for the scores of thousands of visitors who are ex- pected at the Centeanial Exhibition, This is matier whose importance cannot be over-esti- mated, and yer littie has been done. Tne Centen- nial Commisetoners can take 20 jurisdiction im this alrection except to encourage private enter- prise, ana this they bave done pertinaciousiy. | Capitanets are very slow to respond, bowever, and no adequate lodging and hotel accommodations | are Known to de In contemplation, except the Duildiog of a few rows of houses uear the Centenaial | FIRE IN BROOME STREET. Afire broke out last evening in the attic room of the thre® story brick ualldwg No. 498 Broome | stveet, Which Was ocvupied by L. Levine, manu- | facturer Of canes. Tne damage done to his stock aaounted to $100. Wiliam San, deaier in arti- Hetal giase, Oveupied tho second oor, and lost by ure aud Water $250, F, G. Heangon, prin oo tie | lop floor, suitered @ lows oF uding iteel, was damaged fo the exient peur: | pace aad cause Of Ore uaxaowa, j ANOTHER FIRE IN JERSEY. | ‘Phe barn aud outhouses belonging to Frederick Sohupp, @ Corist, at Grace Hill, New Durham, N. J, Were destroyed by fre yesterday morning, | Two horses Were rescued aud one Was suifocated, ihe resideace of Mr, sehap» narrowly escaped. The losais Seb Gown Gt $5,000, Oo WitoOn there i no insarance. Tue Ure Was (he work of ao ine Condisty., FiRE AT SING SiNG, nigut @ ye beoxe Out ia the cooper slop at Sing Siog Prisdb, which ina snort tine extended to tne lime shed4, tovally destroying both baldings, tov | gotier wiih 20008 three \oousand varrois of lime, Wwohiaer), Lodls, &C TRO lume 10 toe State 1s eas | tumiated by Worden Waiker at be\weea $14.000 aad glo. A lathe Dauber Of CoBVICts Are reduced to \heDess py Lue Are, Which is believ nave | Hoon OGeadONI OF a +“paré tom & pomeing loed | muuve On tue Hudsoa Hiver Ruuroad, THR WELLAND CANAL { Pont CoLwoRNs, OBt, April 22, 1875, it ta reporied to-day that the Welland Canal will | pat be reAOy ts 6Den WOH May & | vania Ratiroad has announced its inteution of pute | ingup. Even at the present time there are too few govd hotels in Philadelphia, and aside trom the Visitors Who are expected next year, a city of over 700,000 souls should have increased and tm. proved factities jor traveilers, Tn is not at preseut a comfortable hotel within tro mulos of the Centenmal grounds. The commiitee to be ap. pointed by Mr, Goshorn will take thia matier into | Consideration and will doubtiess take important action. Anotber Mater which they will discuss is (ranaportation, Thousands of persous will have to be carried to aod irom the Bxntoition gruunce daily, and only one line of street cars now connects hers. Many other city lines, however, 80¢ the policy of excoudiug ther tracks, and have expressed chetr intentions to set avout the Work, #0 (bat this Orauch of the problem will not be so aitieatt to soive as the jormer. The Road.og Rail- road aad the Penn-yivania Kailroad tracks now run withia a short di they Will aflord transportation to many visitors frow other cities, the Readiog road having aiso means of carrying jocal tra The Pennsylva- nia voaa will run quick trams to New York, so that Many visitora will be aole to lodge in New York wid make tbe journey to Fhiludelphia and buck in one day, Wits pienty Of time to Bee LHe bxwvidon ed yesterday the lowing vireu ay, cousidered w great improv ment OA tae PlAus Used AS previoss World's Halts FYiret— Awards mali be b wy tested DY the wt natures Path at Abad Lawes Swowmswo hundeed Jadaus shal be Mare such reports, ode bali of Whew snail peheinige 3 Ad Gne-ball olisend of the Coiwd olmled, / Gay Will a deieoiod Fur thee ROU WO YuAUKeatons aad | The great Centennial celebrations at Lexington | i couutry, and if evch sells only five suares ($50), | the amount stlll required—about a million and a — intensely na- | | te @ $6 or $3 Medal wili be equally interested in it as cate was de- | $i0. The most skiful printers have | It can only be obtained by subscription to the | Centennial stock, belug exclusively under the | GREss OF THE WORE—ELECTION OF OFFI- | grovuds ond the Jarge hotel which the Pennsyi. | | end will be experts in departments to which they will | Respectively assigned, The foreign members of thia b wiil be appointed by the comulssion of each counts | and jn conformity with the distribution and aliotm | tocach, which wil be hereatter announced. The judwes | from tive Umtod States will be appulnied by the Centea } mat Commissi | Thira—1he sain of $1 be based upom merit. Lo inelitde considera, . wo us tation to pu Lreport will b ivared to the Centennial tas sOOW AS Contpleted tor Anal award and reed eunapiia rat will Have the right to repro duce and pulls the report warded to bum, but the (i Siates Centenalal Cominission reserves the right fo publish ait disp (all reports tu the inanaer i thnks best for public jgtit alee to embowly c et ‘is of the Exinbinon. sued 3 e213 OSLORS, Director Geuerak Joux L. Camroxai. Secretary. MEETING OF CENTENNIAL STOCKHOLDERS, The second annual meeting of the stocknolders of the Centenmal Board of Finance was heid this aiternoon, to elect twenty-five directors and re- | ceive reports, About Jy.00) shares Of stock were represented. Guvernor Joseph D, Bedie, of New S called to the chair, On motion Of Mr, . Dudley, In his speech on taking the | chair Governor Bedle said that New Jersey was ed as a § # & stockholder, and he | was giad of it, The Centennial movement bad | progressed tar enough lo show that success Was | assured, bne tt was their duty to make it as great as possible, He said that every state epresented ii its sovereign capacity. hould there be jealousy of Pennsylvamia? he Not here, | independence was de should assemble to thank God for the success ot This uation, Next year we will meet, not to exulg over victory and couquesi, but to ceiebrate the results of Victory obtamed, the like 01 Watch the ‘World nas never kuows, There will he an inter. change that wil promote peace. ‘the people ot the pouta suonid be ere to cement attacnmenté that existed previous io the war. ‘Tbe war will b¢ Jorgotten and the whole Nation cemented in one. NNUAL REPORT OS THE DIRECTORS. Joon Welsv, President of the Board of then presented the second annual ree port of the directors, Which Was read and ac cepted by the meeting. ‘Tne report was interest. | log, ana, u reciting the deinus of the work of | the’directors during the past year, concludes as sohows | To tuily complete the work and bear its expenses to the cud wanted to raise the sum. or 88,0000. aad 1% | rests wath the peopie to xtreng ur hands in pasbing 1 Mr. Piuance, & jorward the unaert o its ereatest capabiuties, | tend thetr ald in suppiying the necessary meaus 1vhas in the past_muc iation that, the | ineuns necessury for the pertect i tration 0 ust Were Bot to tie Cult tarily pr BNE as thus eircumsianee did least det the nobility of th terprise, oF fron the lo which it was intended t@ erred trom making pef- agaistauee, Vv of Philadelphia, the weight amd ree uded so gener ied irom glean i responses Is to the p nt Penusy h = ns. on list reveals the fact of the (citizens of undoubted pias Whose deiay to caro many 1 and ability to con yuly be accounted tor by a prudenital ‘Ths period them reserve uu Ime of assured success, id, © fb responses wall be of avaal tor vy work, and with it civses the roll of ‘who assumed thet share in the undere r ation was made by the Foriy-third Con- | gress, nC itssecond session, of the sum of $505,000 10 ens able the Excentive Deparument of the goverument and jithsonian insatute co participate in the Imier- national ixiibitiou, i This appropriation, while it adds nothing to the rey- ennes ot your Board tor buildings, grounds or adminis- i enable the officers of the government to ats or the work an collections of the interest tment ot the extubition. —8 fine steel engraving, whica depaaueut of the their se atl depa: of the American dep ‘ihe certificate of sto | Was execned in the engrav ited states Treasucy—Has been printed and 13 now Yi ivery to the stockboliers, tts execution has been conducted with yreat care, and aga work of art, both iv design and execution, itis worta the price at which the shares are sold, In suitciung subscriptions to stock your Board, not re- garding 1t1m the light of wn investuient for profit. have atali Gmes been cautious in hazatding opinions or giv ing unWarcanted assurances of the provabie return of moaeys'to the stockholders until the ultimate Limit of | the expenses could be kuowa and relied upon. ‘They fre how able to srave, with wiull und liberal allowance for ali the costs and expenses iocurred and io bein curred, that it the mawber of paying admissions to the | Exhibition, at tty cents each, shall reach i0,v number but litte exceeding (le admission to'the Paris Asxposition ot 180/—they will be able to return every dok ar io the stockhulders. ‘This number of admissions is regarded by many of the best intoried persons as the minimum to ve expected, and the calculation is made with sirong arguments tot Tealization. Philaleiplis iveit, one or the great cluet Oi the world, is sitaaied in the heart of adense vopula fion who cau reach the Exhibition without expensve ot exbaustive travel id when itis Known that the in- imost distaut. tates of the Union bas already $0 us to make it one year in @ivance oF ,@ Constant topic of comversation and discus: and Whole populations of Western and poutbera “ited evince a desire to visit the Mecca of inacpend- ence in is7é. With the Known avi or the Amnerican people in accomplishi orject oi, desire And pursuit; with the fact thata majority of them will with a single visit to an Bxbiui examiautions many tr views from Europe that th will te larg an the most sai expec | formed, and tax the capacity of the trans-Atianue ve eels, and many olWer indicatug circumstances give @ strong probability to the prediction. The Hoard axaiu desire to acknowl and efticlent services of the Ladies’ © tive Committee (rs. I. D. Giliospie, @ sion. dition to the moneys contributed as. to the ears. have obtained sabscripuons. to the stock to ® ‘larec ainount, and have also promoted the cause most @ssencualiy by the formation of powerlul auxiliary of | aaa REPORT OF ite TREASURER. Tae | The receipts trom May 1. 1878. to April }, 1878, the close of the fiscal year, were as follows:— }@ tock — be fer asnoune paid for instalments by stock- oe olde: os eae 045,251 nalious— | PUhtlauelphia Polive fund. 14.700 «9 | Women's Centennial Exec Seu 8 ny ss ) tate of Pen sss Yor storia ‘of permanent building........ 218.159 45 City of | e!pnhia— Por crestion of permanent building........ 128,695 08 Saies of memorial medaie— Received trom agents. o 6083 Misce!laneous- | Interest on deposits, sales of pamphiets, Waste paper, 18,202 25 ‘Total.. $1,105 a for the fol- ounts: etates beatonsial bee aggee pert es. clerk hire, printing, advertising, | unonery, plans and other charges......-1, G11 465 31 Centennial Board of Finunce—Saluries. clerk ‘hire. rent, printing, advertising, stationery, frovtvaniother charges and exponses..., 9867 80 Treasure’ of tne Umited States—ror cost of ngeavinw and printiug Memorial cera OK ; pee ites te count of buildings aud for ad 1 | age wad Jaying out ercunds, plans, sal: | SFurchtveces and. engineers, clerks, prin. ing, advertising, stationery ‘and ail other | charges incident to said buiidings and BTOUNGS, wees ahs saa71 78 | Bhiauce—Cash oa Geposit’ ia beaks Cash in hands of Treasurer, tin] Total wii “s 85,105 ke scat ows JOHN WELSH, President Faun, Fraier, Secretary. APRIL 23, ISTE Major Jolin 0. yamos moved that the report be | adopted an. printed in pumphiet form. Agreed to DIRECTORS CHOSEN, The meeting tien elected the following direc tors of Centennial Board o1 Finance for the ensuing year. Taey were ail renominations ex- cept in the cage of Mr. Strong, oi New York. aa Tequirea by uct of Congress the nominat made irom @ jist of 100 names presen stockholders by the United States Commissioners:— Joun Welsh, William Sellers, Samuel M. LA ong of Dantel M, Fox, Thomas Cochran, (lement M. Biddle, N. Parket Shortritige, James M. Roby, odward 1. Steel, Jona Wauaimot ir, Joba Price W Heary ns Amos PB. Awe, Joni d i. Mag = a oy; Ae ‘ow John Gop THE ISRAELITE DIFFICULTY. A LUNATIC FRUSTRATED. Bernhard Straus, formerly a dry goods dealer on Ewen street, Williamsbore, out who through com tinued reverses has been compelled to retire by the fatlare of bis mental faculties, bas of late com Geived tne mostintenso hatred toward bis best friends, especially \hove who had the most assisted Dim during his pressing embarrassmenia, He bas presented aimeell to every police Jastice in Brooklyn, bus they declined to do anything with the matter; but on Wednesday he succeeded in obtaining from Justice Wiliam B, Boward, of Bast New York, on a cha of “#onspitiog with intent to kill,’ warrants for the arrest of Moses Muy, Michael Heasporg, Ludwig Levy, Jacob Uiman, T. Plant, 8 Hambarger, BH. Biock, Lous Wertheimer, M. Michel, A, @ loch and Moses Meyer, the Wealthy Heorewa oi ids or bapa The Warrants Were placed in the hands oi vepu Sheri Hayes, who speedily executed them, as w Qs suopcmualog Moses hess, lsadore Lreiued, Moses Springer, B, Van Lier, J. Oppenneim, Captail Kaizer, ert, Joun Raber, 8, Moow and L. Apt | AS Withegses, wod the CxXamination took piace at Bast New Yors yesterday aiternoon ia Justice Howard's offce, ‘THe arrests caused Maen exottement in Heorew f visited New Lota circles, kod Vory many oO; ah pr but Justice Howe tal ide to Withess th p been MAGE aWae Srraity or tae couplaspaat postpones. th ra: ly 1 compla iuuedhiters, statiog iat ne-woule Louly the Hes. Be, wanted. (nel. ‘jaa awen vee by tue Depury Sherult, WHO Jor arresting those } i Di waea thot Matter is settled au Wil decide woe lature carver | Sites,