The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1875, Page 9

ol correspond with a group of scarlet bows and an ele- FALL FASHIONS. The Lay of the Last Bonnet and the Sonnet of the Modern Milliner, GRAND OPENING OF THE SEASON. Facts for Feminine Ears and Attractions for Belles’ Fancies. WHAT SHOULD BE WORN THIS WINTER. Yesterday was a bright and cheerful day for the sightseers and the pinbacked belles of Broadway. They were out in thousands, all eager to see and be seen, and they besieged the temple of the modiste to the im- minent risk of the perishable fabrics for the head and form that hung so temptingly on hooks within glass cases, The music of their voices, some ill-natured per- sons call it cackle, filled the air and conveyed intelli. gence of the most varied kind. “Oh, mamma, what « lovely feather!” “What airs sho is putting on, and that’s the commonest kind of silk.” ‘I think that crown of Spanish lace with the front of black velvet would become meso much.” ‘The L——'sare back from the country and N—— is still withouta beau.” “My dear Mrs, —, I’m 80 glad to seo you. How are the darling Uttle” children? (sotto voce, The horrid thing and | what squalling little monftersl”?) “I don’t wantto beill natured, but she really was the laughing-stock of tho placo.”” “Perfectly lovely and so cheap, Papa won't refuse me.’ “We are dying to see you at our house,’ “Dil tell Mary that we are never at home for such People.” Not always do the sotto voce remarks escape the ears of the victims, but even then the deception continues, and smiles are on the cheeks while enmity rankles in the heart, The streets are now radiant with beauty and “worth,” and many @ mathematician would be puzzled to find out the why and the wherefore in expense, style or common sense that sent forth such toilettes on the street. Yet there is not so much to find fault with if we compare this season with its pred- ecessors, Matilda says that it costs less now for dress materials, and of course she ought to know. As for that horrid milliner, who demands so much for her part of the business, she must come down to reasonable prices or else she will have no customers, Alas! here isthe trouble. The fashionable milliner waits like a wily spider, waiting for the unwary or in this case thoroughly posted fly to drop into the web of the | fickle goddess, She, the milliner, has been obliged to run the gauntlet of Custom House inspectors (the poor fellows know as much about the value of a $50 bonnet as our worthy Mayor knows about the Herzegovinian question), and she naturally wishes to impress her cus- tomers with the idea that she is a goddess of Fashion. But she finds many unwilling worshippers at her shrine. They come to seo the latest, but they select and think for themselves. There is little homago in this, And yet it represents a healthy state inthe average Ameri- can feminine mind. Paris is still respected, but the | fair city must consent to appear before a court of | American belles and show cause why it should dictate fashions, This fair committee of investigation has been for a few years in session. Modifications or adaptations ot Paris fashions bayve been generally adopted. Since the Empress left the gay capital, and she was wrongfully accredited with being the origi- nator of several extravagances in dress, American in- dtvidual tastes in dress have come into prominence. Individuality, perhaps we may better call it adaptay bility to face, form and general appearance, rules | American ladies to-day to @ greater extent than ever did the so-called proclamations from the Tuileries. AMERICAN FASHIONS first sprang from the ruins of the Empire. The Com- munists were not likely to impress the sisterhood of the petroleuses with any ideas of ‘‘what to wear and how | to wear it.” Therefore American ladies began to think for themselves, To think, in matters of fashion, is a serious matter for the female mind. Our belles said that as Paris was undergoing a baptism of fire, and as her heroines thought more of incendiarism than dress, it was about time for America, as far as Eve’s daughters ‘were concerned, to look out for themselves. They have ‘those so in their own peculiarly energetic manner. A ROYAL PROGRESS tm the days of good Queen Bess, showed far more ex- travagance than our beauties are wont to display in these times, When the wayward Queen visited the home of her favorite Leicester, and wished to appear as a buntress, we aro told by old chronicles “her sylvan dress was of a pale blue silk, with silver lace and aiguil- lettes, and akingdom’s ransom of jewels formed the decorations of the costume that dazzled every eye.” Re- | publican princesses and queens are not so lavieh of toi- let display, but show more taste and sense. A STROLL ON BROADWAY. Yesterday among the haunts of fashion showed that the coming styles are not so much extravagant as be- coming. The following houses were visited on this re nowned thoroughfare:—Lord & Taylor, William Kinzey, Conkling & Co., J. & C. Johnston, Greig, Haskell & Co,, A. T. Stewart & Co., Mile, Snedden, Mile. Dennin, Mme. Hartley, Mil Doane & Porter, Mme, Walton and Mr, Terry. The display of fall fashions at those houses was as complex as even the most variable femi- | nine mind, The head gesr of the ladies being the prin- cipal question among the fair ones at present, a few specimens of the leading styles, as seen in the above ‘establishments yesterday, will be of interest, BONNETS, Adrab feit, bound with silver braid, hada band of | brown velvet twisted around the crown and a long estrich feather caught on the left side and brought around to the right, hanging very loose, An immense | bow, with a solid silver clasp, fastened the feather over tho left side. A pink moss rose, with leaves, tame from beneath the bow, The trimming in the back coming to a point mado a very stylish effect. The front trimming is of brown velvet in three folds around the inside, leaving aspace ot about four inches | in the interior to pall down over the head. There wero | one pink bud and afew leaves fastened in front by a | trossing of velvet. A hat ot black velvet was elegantly flecorated with feathers, It had a round, crown and tolled front, with inside trimming of feather bands. A large green bird at the side and a small band and streamers of cardinal red formed a pretty decoration. A young misses’ bat was rolled in front and trimmed with silk and velvet. A long feather, a bird and a bow formed the principal trimming. Another was a very gh pointed hat, with a round crown, narrow brim, slightly turned up at the side, It was trimmed with bands of velvet, and hada bow, long plume and gold buckle. A bonnet, with black velvet front, the crown being of Spanish Jace, which was also wound gracefully around the neck as a sort of throat protector, attracted much attention, After passing over the shoulder the dainty ‘ece was fastened on the left side with a cardinal bow, pant plume, finished with a gold horse shoe. This was called by Mile. Dennin the “Leonidas.” Next to it was a French gray felt, forming two fronts, pound with silver braid, One long ostrich slume, drooping over the front, and fin. ished with a face trimming of dark green velvet and feathers formed another feature of this exquisite hat. rom the crown depended an elegant feather and silk warf, which was arranged 60 as to form strings, The “Marguerite,” one of the most elegant bonnets of the Neason, was of Gcru and (elt, trimmed with six feathers of the samo shade fastened on the crown with arare bird and bunch of roses, the face trimmings being of brown velvet with wings. The ‘Horton’ is a round hat of black velvet, the crown being arranged in plaits, form- ing an end trimmed with Russian Jace, An écru plume is fastened with an elegant wing and a grobe band was placed around the crown, A Nile-green velvet hat was trimmed with a cock’s plume, tastefully arranged with 8 delicate shade of peach colored silk and green feathers. ‘This bore the taking name of “Lulu,’” 9 WRADORAR FANCIES. A bonnet of cream-white fe trimmed with avery handsome ostrich plume of me shade, which falls at the left side, finished with a silk bow, la méme cou- leur, is mounted with a handsome gold and silver buckle, drapery of cachimero falling at the back, and won ‘ticular attention. The face trimming was of cardinal velvet, Another designed for Broadway was a sich dark blue bonnet and was of rich dark olive-green velvet, handsomely trimmed with a plume de coque and satin faced ribbon of the same color as the bonnet, This is @ new style of ribbon brought out this season in Paris, ‘The face trimming is of soft pink crushed roses, There ‘was also an elegant black velvet bonnet trimmed with ‘white ostrich tips and point lace, the face trimming ; NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1875.-QUADRUPLE SHEB™ being of white carnations, A rich seal-brown velvet bonnet was handsomely trimmed with a wreath of vet leaves around the crown with pendants of lemon-colored roses and leaves falling at the back, a drapery of black thread lace three ari 100g winding gracefully around the neck and shoulders, A “‘sea foam’’ colored felt hat bearing the title “Le Cabriolet” had the brim slightly rolled and turned up at the back, the space between this and the crown being filled in with roses embedded in moss. Brilliant hued wings were fastened to the back with loops, and there wero long ribbon ends of the same shade, ‘sea foam,” a new and becoming color. This hat, as its name implies, is intended pour la voiture. other, ‘La Vénitienne,” designed from a new and of a white ground peculiar material, was composed checked with lines of black, blue and threads of gold, A garniture of old Malnes 4 POrleans, was car- ried in overlapping folds around the crown and fast- ened at the side near the back with ostrich feathers shaded in colors to match the material of which this bonnet was made; the front of this unique coiffure was filled in with @ plating of Malines lace intertwined enerenly with velvet and flowers. Another hat was of gray felt with @ rather high crown and rolling brim, bound with satin galloon of the same shade, an trimmed with a feather band overlapped by graceful folds of faille surmounted by others of satin galloon, The side was turned up with two long, sweeping feathers fastened with a rare purple hued bird, THE WEST SIDR. Sixth avenue fashionable houses are entirely distinct | from those of Broadway, There is a greater variety of attractions and a larger crowd, especially after night- fall On thisavenue and in the adjoining streets an enormous amount of business is done, The following list will give an idea of the —— establishments that trausact the largest trade on this side of town:— Stern Brothers, Mme. Michel, Richard Meares, Macy, M, Altman, H. O'Neill and Bislg, Sixth avenue; Whrich, Jones & Co, and Rodgers & Orr, Eighth avende; Mine, Demorest, Foyrteenth street;’ Rothschild, Johnson Brothers, John Daniell, near Stewart's. ON THE BAST SIDE may be found Waller & MeSorley, Bloom and a host of others, Here the business {8 carried on in more democratic manner than even among the west side ‘ople, Cheap stores are the rule, and there are very lew exceptions. Although the season for toilets, out- side of bonnets and other paraphernalia of the female head divine, is not yet advanced enough to give a pro- nounced opinion asto what may be confideatly looked upon us definite for the season, yet many valuable hints may be found in the accompanying details:— FOREMOST AMONG the fur line garments, which will undoubtedly be so fashionable this season, is the ‘Esmeralda’ pelisse, which, as its name implies, is a very long, loose sacqud of 8 gracstul shape. The “iEdroyna cassque, slightly fitted and double breasted, can be used for the same purpose, and the “Circular” and ‘Tartan’? cloaks are large wraps, without sleeves, especially desirable, for | ir. lining witl Tho “Farara” cloak and the “Hor- tensia’? paletot are novelties in outer garments much longer in front than in the back, and having graceful hanging sleeves. The “Veronique” paletot 4lso has wide, hanging sleeves, and is more suitable for the demi saison than either of those previously mentioned, In jackets there are the ‘Florizelle,’? which is cut away, displaying a vest, and especially desirable for a handsome silk and velvet costume; the ‘Faustina,’? long and gracoful, but more suitable for cloth and heavy goods, and the “Ursula”? which is just the design for sealskin sacquo, or a winter garment to be made in heavy material and trimmed with fur, FOR HOME TOILETS the cuirass basque still retains its popularity, and is variously moditied to suit individual taste and necessi- ties, The “Priola’ is ono of the newest and most simple, and in the ‘Jeanne d’Arc” style, shorter over the bips than in the back and front. It is trimmed in vest shape and has sashes added at the back which im- part a graceful tournure. The “Theodora” is also very simple in cut, has double side forms and is short in the back, having deep points just back of the hips, and short in front, a trimming being arranged so as to hide the means of fastening and giving the effect of being double breasted. .'Tho “Natalie” is an exceedingly long basque, almost as long as a polonaise in front, but short and simple in cut in the back, The “Armour” 1s quite as long as the pro- ceding, but is more pointed in front and tilion plaits at the back. Fora dressy toilet a trimmed skirt is very | more frequently used than an overskirt and underskirt, and any one who cannot make a selection from tho Fariety here displayed must, Indeed, be over fastidious, The “Inez? is the most’ elaborate, and combines the overskirt, and a broad sash with a demitrain under- skirt; tho “Princess” is cut so as to give the na 7ow, pointed effect which is so desirable, and is elau-.suely trimmed with shirred side pieces and sashes «4 the back, and the “Victoria” gives an exceedingly plain effect at the sides, witha graceful train at the back, shirred for about half a yard below the belt, which gives that sloping effect to the tournure which is 80 difficult to attain with an ordinary style of skirt, Be it here remarked that all the paiterns for akirts are remarkable for their graceful manner of hanging. INDEPENDENCE IN TASTE. In many cases a separate overskirt is to be preferred, and a style suitable for every class of goods can be se- lected, ‘The ‘“Labilla” is especially adapted for even- ing or very dressy uses; the “Aldona” very faithfully simulates a trimming on the underakirt; the Rosario” nasa double apron and a peculiarly graceful arrange- ment of the back, and the “Florida” and “Carlota”? are suitable alike for dressy and simple materials. In the minor details of the costumes there are handsome designs for fichus, pockets and an especially fine dis- play of sleeves, For those who enjoy the abandon of & wrapper, the “Zerlina”” and *Evilia”? will be found to combine style with neatness aud comfort, both being but half loose, one in sacque and the other in Gabrielle style, the trimming being disposed on tl “Zerlina” to simulate a deeply pointed sacque on the front. ‘Amid the variety of designs the little ones are not forgotter, For misses the styles of long paletots in- clude the “Elise,” which is double breasted diagonally, and nearly as long as a polonaise. The “Viola” is very long in tront and short at the back, and the ‘Alpina’? is very deeply pointed at the sides, and altogether styl- ish and becoming. In all classes of designs for children the display is equally varied and attractive, BOARD OF POLICE. CAPTAIN BURDEN DISMISSED FROM THE DE- PARTMENT. The full Board.of Police Commissioners met yester- day, President Matsell in the chair, A communication was received from the chairman of the Assembly Investigating Committee, requesting to be furnished with a schedule of ali property captured from gambling houses now in the hands of the property clerk at the Central office. On motion of Commissioner Voorhis, the request was granted, A resolution was adopted asking for an appropriation from the Comptroller of $6,000 for expeuses for the Bureau of Elections, as provided by law. A communication was received from the counsel to the Board, reporting adversely upon a request made by the Citizens’ Protectivo Association of the Fifteenth Ward, that the Board of Police appoint special police- men for the use of and at the expense of said associa- tion, The counsel gave as his opinion that the Board had not the legal power to Cod a Bes the request. On motion of Commissioner Voorhis the following patrolmen were dismissed trom the department:—Al- man W. Gould, Fourteenth precinct; Michael Brooks, Twenty-second precinct; John J. Cosgrove, Twenty: second precinct, and Cornelius O’Brien, Seveuth pre- cinct, A resolution was adopted requesting the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to transfer certaim real estate, the property of the city, to the Police Department, to be used for the erection of station houses, The property consists of two lots, one about forty feet front, situated on the north side of Fifty-first street, west of Third ave- nue, and the other fiity teet front, on the north side of Sixty-seventh street, west of Third avenue, ‘The case of Captain Henry Burden, of the Twelfth precinct, the charges and evidence in ‘which have ap- peared from time to time during the progress of the trial in the Heranp, was called up and on motion of Commissioner Voorhis Captain Burden was dismissed from the department, all the Commissioners voting in the aflirmative. COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION. A PROTEST AGAINST A DUMPING GROUND OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF DOCKS. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration held a meeting at Castle Garden yesterday atternoon, The ordinary rou- tine of business was first transacted, after which were read several reports from the secretary. It was stated that the sum total of the bills pald dar- ing the month of September amounted to $5,638 75, and that the sum total of bills audited for regular ex- penses, for provisions, gas, &c., amounted to $4,676 02 Commissioner Lynch then rose and stated to the Board that the Commissioners of Docks had instituted agarbage dump at the foot of 110th street and East River, directly alongside of the ferry communicating with Ward’s Island, and that the point where a largo amount of the refuse of the city was to be deposited was only 400 or 500 yards distant from the Verplanck Hos- pital, He then proposed the following resolution :— A PROTEST AGAINST A DUMPING DOCK. ‘That the President of this Board be requested to com- municate with the Commissioners of Docks and inform them of the injury that would result to the interests of tho commission and of the danger to health if the pro- posed dock, for the dumping of gurbage and refuse ma- verial, is established at tho foot of 110th street and East River, the proposed dock bein, jacent to the ferry to Ward's Island, which was eat od by the Comms. sioners of Emigration over twenty years That the President ask that the Commissioners of Docks do not locate a dock for the dumping of refuso at 110th street and East River, This resolution was unani- mously adopted, ‘The President of the Board then announced the pres- ence of several strangers, and asked them whether they had any information to communicate, One of the gentlemen at once arose and presented a petition yned by numerous people residing near 110th street, protesting against the garbage dump. The petitioners were informed by the President that the Board would do all in their power to prevent the nuisance, and that the complaints received would be sent immediately to the Commissioner of Docks, Several communications were read from physicians, in each of which it was stated that a garbage dump at the foot of 110th street and East River was exocedingly dangerous to the health of the immediate neighborhood, Due note was taken of these communications, after which the Board ad- Journed, GEORGIA’S FINANCIAL CONDITION, LETTER FROM CHARLES NORDHOFF. To rae Ep:tor ov THe Herat I thank you for sending me the communications, which I enclose, and which, I hope, you will print with my reply. I have to say:— First—I have not anywhere written or said that the debt of Georgia is larger than that of other Southern as “Subscriber” asserts, On the contrary, ina letter in the Hxkaxp dated September 11, I called spectal attention to the financial condition of Georgia, saying ‘ably trol | eight millions, the State’s credit is high in New York and | Europe, the county and local debts are trifling, and there is a surplus in the State treasury of a million, These words follow this general statement in my let- ter:—‘It is altogether such a showing as these demo- | crats need not be ashamed of,” I may add that the Augusta Constitutionalist of September 26 remarks :— “Mr, Nordhoff never attacked the State finances of Georgia, and yet some of our contemporaries are pub- lishing ong articles to prove that he did.”” Second—I made no such comparison between Georgia and Mississippi as Mr. Wolford asserts and evidently believes I did. His letter, however, incidentally con- firms some of my remarks upon Georgia—namely, that ite soil is older and jore worn than that of some of th newer Southwestern States; and that the manufactures | of Georgia are in a singularly prosperous condition, Mr, Wofford’s letter confirms all I wrote on these points, But, I repeat, I made no comparison between Georgia and Mississippi such as ne seems to think I did. Third—I was greatly puzzled to account for such | miarepressntesjons of my report to you on Georgia, until I noticed that several Georgia journals discuss, not my letters as they appeared in the HexaLp, but the com- ments upon them made in sonfe Northern journals; and 1 am taken to task for these comments, We are here, in the North, just now in the middle of an election ex- citement, and I profer to be judged by my own words, and not by partisan versions of my report, Fourth—Some of the Georgia journals suggest that 1 was deceived about the number of people who have left the State. I reply that | received my figures, not from @ negro. as they suppose, nor from republican sourcos, but trom several of the most eminent democrats in the State. Iadded, what these journals confirm, that this emigration would not hurt the State, because it opened the way for emigrants from other States. Fifth—I did say that the cotton region of Georgia seemed to me less prosperous than that of some other | States, adding that the grain and farming country was reported highiy prosperous, and that the manufactur of the State were remarkably successful. L accounted for the condition of the planters by the fact, admitted | by Mr. Wofford and by the newspapers, that much of the cotton land is worn and ‘needs | manure; and by the injurious effects of the Lien Law” now repealed. Kyery planter I met in the State spoke to me of this law. AS an evidence of what had been told me, I quoted from a Georgia democratic | journal, an Augusta paper, a table showing the | business failures in Georgia during the previous six | months, and, comparing them with those in other | States, ‘I mentioned that the table was taken from a | Georgia newspaper; I do not suppose the Georgian meant to or did misrepresent his own State, I believe, if your correspondents, Mr. Wofford and “Subscriber,” or any other fair-minded Georgians, read | my letters, they will seo that I have given a careful and | accurate account of their State. Almost every state- ment actually made by me to which, so far as I know, exception has been taken, came to me from democratic sources, It would have been easy to make a partisan ; Statement either from the republican or the democratic standpoint, but I did not do so. CHARLES NORDHOFF. | Avie, N. J., Sept. 28, 1875. SAVANNAH, Sept. 9, 1875. To rae Eprror or tHe HERALD :— Had Mr. Nordhoff figures before him when he wrote that letter in which he stated the relative debts of sev- eral of the Southern States, and placed Georgia as much | larger than that of several others? The writer knows to the contrary. The States he mentioned, in com- Parison, are notoriously in a worse fix than Georgia, © of this State are proud of it and its recent manage- ment, SUBSCRIBER, Canrensviite, Ga, Sept. 13, 1875. To rae Epiror or Tus HeRatp:— Your correspondent, Mr. Nordhoff, in alate letter upon affairs in Georgia, instituted a ‘comparison be- tween Georgia and Mississippi, by which he demon- | strates to his own satisfaction that Mississippi, not- withstanding negro rule, is in amore prosperus con- dition than Georgia; the latter being controlled by the | white democrats since 1870. While I intend to show by the facts that Mr. Nordhoff is in error, it will be use- | ful to keep in mind that it has been | five years only that the people of Georgia who are interested in the welfare of the Commonwealth have had the reins ot government, Mississippi is a younger State than Georgia, and its soi! is naturally richer, The Mississippi bottoms are not surpassed for fertility by the lands of any State in the Union, 1t takes more labor and higher culture to pro- } duce as good results from Georgia soil as Mississipp! | soil produces, About one-fourth of the entire area of Georgia is mado useless for agricultural purposes by mountains and hills in the northeastern part of the State, and by swamps in the southern part, There it considerable portion of Mississippi too low for cultiva- tion, but there is no part of it too high. About the same number of acres in each State is used for the growth of grain crops, while there is more land given to cotton in Georgia than in Mississippi, And it may be useful here to state that the total area of Georgia is 67,000 square miles and that of Mississippi 47,000 square miles The, population of Georgia |s 1,184,109; that of Mississippi 827,922. ‘The grain and hay crop of Georgia for 1869 brought over $32,000,000, and that of Mississippi $28,300,000. The value of ail property in Georgia in 1866 was 1874 is shown to makes an increase iu six years in Georgia values of $51,000,000. The re- turns show that Mississippi for the same period has not increased in the value uf her property $20,000,000 for the same period. Mississippi, which has honestly earned the cognomen | of the “Cow State,” in 1860 slaughtered and sold tor slaughter animals of the value of a little over ' $7,000,000, while Georgia for the same purpose produced | $11,000,000 worth. In 1870 Mississippi slaughtered only $4,000,000 worth, while Georgia had $7,000,000 worth to use in that way. In this matter Georgia has sustained her superiority in a very striking manner, The annual products of Georgia is $10,000,000 worth more than that of Mississippi. Georgia every year pays more than $20,000,000 for help, while Missis- sippi gets on with the payment of $10,000,000, There are only three States im the Union which pay more in this way than Georgia—to wit, New. York, Pennsyl- vania and Illinois; while there are nine which pay more than Mississippi. Georgia, on $273,000,000 of property, pays in State, county, city and town tax $2,600,000, being about one per cent. Mississippi, on $177,000,000 of property, | pays $3,700,000 of tax'to State, county, city and town, And wirile it is true that the people of Mississippi pay three times as much tax as the people of Georgia, the public debt of the latter State is considerably larger than that of the former. The average value per acre of all the land in Mississippi is only $2 51, and that of Georgia $3 33, The depreciation of the value of land in Mississippi from 1860 to 1870 was $39,000,000; the de- preciation in Georgia for the same time was $35,000,000 | only. This takes no account of the appreciation of Georgia property which has been going on for the last half dozen years. In 1360 Mi bales of coiton ; Georgia the Mississippi produced 564,938 bales and Georgia 473,934. | In those ten years Mississippi fell off in the production | of cotton 637,569 bales, while Georgia, deprived of the | blessing of a negro government, kept within 227,808 | bales of the old crop. ‘There are over 4,000 manufacturing establishments in Georgia against 1,700 in the other State, There are in Georgia water wheels and steam engines propelling machimery requiring 40,000 horse power, | while all the power now needed in Mississippi, both water and steam, is 12,000 horse power. Georgia produces annually $35,000,000 worth of man- ufactured goods, and Mississippi $8,000,000. Georgia has $16,000,000 invested in manufacturing and Missis- sippi $4,000,000, In 1860 Georgia produced about $16,000,000 worth of manufactured goods and Missis- Sippi $6,000,000, In the last ten years Mississippi has increased her production of manufactured goods | $2,000,000 only, while Georgia has addod $20,000,000 to hers. I doubt if any part of any State was as much devas- tated firing the civil war as that part of Georgia be- tween Atlanta and the Tennessee line; but the peoplo are gradually ex th their condition, and will, ere long, be prosperous, at isthe best part of the best cotton State, ‘And while I do not say the foregoing 1s a good show- ing for Georgia, I do say it proves that a State, ridden | and robbed by negroes and scalawags, 1s not more pros- perous than a State controlled by waite democrats. For the truth of history exacts the statement that we have had a few journeymen thieves in Georgia, who ‘would not feel complimented to have it said that Souch Carolina or Mississippi could produce their superiors, They have lett their footprints upon the old red sand- stone of Georgia, and. there it will stay, and when our prosperity or the want of it is talked of this should be remembered. The day will come when Georgia, in place of employ- ing 20,000 hands, as she now does, will give work to 100,000; in place’ of turning out $35,000,000 worth of manufactured she wii puton the market annu- ally $150,000,000 worth. f wise statesmandip, coupled with industry and frugality by her people, prevail, in twenty-five years Georgia will be without a rival for the leadership of ber Southern sisters; in fifty years she will rank with tho first States of the Union. God grant all the people of all the States the obsery- ance of Georgia’s motto, “Wisdom, justice and modera- tion,"” Respectfully, JOHN W. WOFFORD, AN OLEAGINOUS CASE. Thomas Wilson was arraigned at the Washington Place Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a tub containing fifty-three pounds of butter from a wagon driven by Charles F. Bursing. Officer Ferris, of the Central Office, on Monday afternoon saw the wagon in question passing through Third avenue, and saw a man, unknown to him at present, snatch a, tab of butter and hand it to Wilson, who ran away with it, The officer pursued Wilson as far as the corner of Nine- teenth street and Third avenue, when tho latter turned around suddenly and flung the tub and its contents in the officer's face, cutting him severely, Wilson was ar- | protection for years to come,” | the London and Paris journals, PERU AND BOLIVIA. COMPLETION OF THE SUBMARINE CABLE BETWEEN PERU AND CHILI—THE NEW GUANO AND NITRATE LOANS—THE INTERESTING QUESTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BANKS—ATTACK ON PERU BY THE LONDON PRESS—HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF ANDREW JOHNSON. Lima, Sept. 5, 1875. The Dacia and International steamers in the service of the London Telegraph Maintenanee Company ha’ successfully concluded their work on this coast, and & Submarine cable now connects Chorrillos; a watering Place nine miles from Lima, with Caldera in Chili, whence telegraphic communication may be had, via Valparaiso and Santiago, with Buenos Ayres and Monte" video, and from these last named cities to Europe and | North America by way of Rio Janeiro, Bahia and Lis- bon, The coast line touches at Mollendo, Arica and Tquique, passing then to Bolivian territory at | Cobija, and thence to Caldera, The frst messages were despatched by Mr, Pardo to the Presidents of Chili and the Argentine Confederation, and to the Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, congratulating them upon the | new link established between the respective countries, | The enterprise should prove to be a profitable one, but the tariff now fixed is so excessive that the privileges afforded by tne cable are, ipse facto, placed beyond the reach of the great majority of merchants. Even for | despatches between the coast stations of Peru a charge | of twelve hard dollars for ten words is exacted, making | correspondence more than expensive, A curious fea ure 18 to be noticed, however, The Minister of the | Interior, in a circular addressed to the different pre. | fects, subprefects and other officials of the government | in the South, orders them in their communications sent over the wire to SUPPRESS ALL CEREMONIOUS TERMS, | and even to addross the President of the Republic as a | mple, private citizen, leaving out the interminable “Your Excellency” and “May God keep you under His It is shrewdly sus- | pected here that this order of the Minister is by no | means agreeable to the telegraph company, as their | profits will be notably diminished thereby; but the wishes of the Secretary are paramount, The Havas- | Reuter Agency, opened in Lima, promises to do a fair business, the system, a8 is weil known, being econom- ical. ‘The news received from the Financial Commissioners in Paris and London specially appginted, as it will bo recollected, for the purpose of selling the 2,000,000 tons of guano, is far from being satisfactory. Up to last dates no favorable proposals had been received, and Messrs. Rosas and Althaus, the gentlemen in ques- tion, were apparently somewhat discouraged, Ono of the reasons of their, we hope, temporary failure lies | in the most extraordinary and uncalled for crusade | against Peruvian credit recently initiated by several of Peru has always been so religious in the discharge of her obligations abroad, that is to say, since the guano was offered as guarantee, | that it is dificult to conceive the motive animating | these inimical newspapers in_their attack on the coun- try. One in particular the World, of Loudon, indulged in two columns of a leading article a few weeks since i which Peruvians and their mother-land were described as savages living in a wilderness; the rifle and poniard as their national emblems, and tho resources of the Republic as simply ‘ni, The utmost indignation was aroused here by the perusal of | this diatribe, Even the foreign merchants doing | business in Lima deliberated as to the advisability of | answering the libel; but, when it was made public that | the representative ‘of Peru in England had consulted the lawyers of his legation regarding the steps to b taken, it was deemed better to await the result of hii proceedings, The author of the editorial referred to must be strangely ignorant of the wealth of Peru when such animadversions are indulged in. Only one little fact is sufficient to disprove, were such argument neces- sary, the allegations of the World, Over fifty steamers | are continually plying up and down the Peruvian coast, | carrying products of the country to be re-embarked for | foreign ports, and discharging, In Callao, Mollendo, Arica, Iquique, Pacasmayo, Payta and’ Chimbote | the vast quantities of merchandise destined for | the supply of those towns and the interior districts. Nevertheless, according to the London World, Peru is a wilderness. Negotiations are still going on between the banks and the government w.th respect to the money accommodation asked for by the executive, but | ‘as yet no detinite conclusion has been arrived at. 'The | banks offer to give the government @ sufficient sum of | notes for immediate expenses, and to take upon them- | selves the service of the interior or home debt, in con- | sideration of a yearly interest of six per cent (a most en- | ticing figure when it is recollected that money is tight in Lina at eighteen per cent per annum) and the privi- lege of the guano consignments to the Mauritius, La Reunion and other small markets; also the banks do- sire the consignment of nitrate under the new Expro- riation law, It is understood that acceptable olfers ave been made in Europe toward supplying the gov: ernment with the £4,000,000 necessary for the | purchase of the nitrate manufactories, but the | interested parties abroad were holding back to await the result of the guano sale, so that really we are at adeadiock. ‘The government has no money to even attend to daily expenses, and such Is the financial crisis | through which we are passing that capitalists of a year | since are only rich now in either retrospect or hope. By next steamer I hope to be enabled to report as to | achange for the better. The government of Peru and the forcign legations of this city hoisted their tlags at haif-mast on the 4th inst, in honor of the memory of | | shown to a notorious pickpocket who should have been | got off with twelve months, TL WANS. OF COME Workings of the Police Courts—Ev- idence of Judge Flammer. | Jealousy Among Police Captains and Detectives,” A PICKPOCKET’S LUCK. The Legislative Committee on Crime and its causes resumed its meetings yesterday forenoon at the Alder- manic Chamber in the City Hall. There were present Messrs, Campbell, Dessar, McGowan and Hess. The case of the alleged stealing of a couple of blankets by | two of the detectives at Headquarters came, up for fur- ther investigation and developed the fact that among the detective force there is an amazing amount of Jealousy, while between them and the police captains | of the various precincts there is the bitterest antagon, ism. The Committee showed a laudable anxiety to get at tho bottom of the facts in this matter of the blankets, and vindicate, if possible, the character of the men who | might, by a conspiracy among tho other detectives to | get rid of them, have been unjustly accused and un- | justly discharged, Judge Flammer’s evidence as to the | workings of the police courts was quite interesting and also Mr. Sparks’ in regard to the District Attorney’s office, There will be seen the curious degreo of leniency banished from the city for five or ten years and who | In regard to the blanket alleged to have been stolen at Police Headquarters by Detectives Heidelberg and Tilly, those two officers were placed on the stand and stoutly denied the charge for which they had been dis- missed from the police, and Detective Ira M. Clapp testified to Minding the blanket in the closet of the ac- | cused detectives, The testimony showed that much bitter feeling existed between some of the detectives, Detective Heidelberg said he was aware that there was a good deal of objection on the part of captains of police to detectives working in their precincts. Witness related an incident of a German coming to Headquarters and making a complaint of being robbed of $750 ata gambling house, No. 702 Broadway. Witness took the case in hand, and came into collision with Captain Byrnes, in whose precinct the robbery was committed. ‘The captain abused him for having anything to do with the job, as he wanted it for himself, and it was within the limits of his precinct, A NOTORIOUS PICKPOCKET. Stephen B. Brague sworn—Said that he lived at 1,168 Broadway; on July 8, 1875, a thief picked his pocket of a gold watch-and chain; at the time he was standing on the tear platform of a car, when the thief grabbed his chain and pulled the watch out of his pocket, but he had it so secured that it was difficult to get away with itina hurry; he was arrested by Officer Conklin; the thief did not succeed in taking the watch entirely out of bis possession; had quite a scuffle with him on the street as he dragged him off the car; he stooped and slipped out of hig coat and made away; complaint was preferred against nim; he gave his namo as James Anderson; he was a well known pickpocket and was held to bail in $2,000; went to the District At torney’s office and also before the Grand Jury; went to Headquarters and saw his likeness in the Rogues’ Gal- lery; Inspector Dilks told ifn his mother was wealthy; witness never was called to testify asa witness in the case though he appeared in court for that purpose, OMcer Conklin said he arrested the pickpocket men- tioned by the previous witness between Fifth and Sixth avenues, He had his coat off at the time; never was | called as a witness in the case at the General Sessions, though he attended. KASY ON THE CRIMINALS. Mr. Aub, assistant counsel to the committee, here read the complaint against the pickpocket, whose name was James Anderson, and also read his plea, conviction and sentence to twelve months’ imprisonment, quoting from the statutes to show that for grand larceny from the person he could have been sent up for ten years, and that he was a well known thief, Isaac Taylor sworn, said that he discovered last July that his name was ona bail bond without his knowl edge; received a notification from District Attorney Phelps to produce a man named Schwartz, of whom he never heard before; saw the District Attorney and told him as much; soon after subsequently found a judg- ex-President Andrew Johnson. President Frias, of Bolivia, has given up his proposed trip along the limited seaboard of that Republic, bis pregance being deemed | more necessary 1 the capital, La Paz, Nothing of any | importance has reached us from Bolivia. The electoral | campaign for the Presidency is conducted, as in Peru, | quietly. Only a few encounters—none ‘serious—have | occurred between the rival parties, and General Daza | appears to be the first favorite, just as General Prado is with us, Yet on these delicate topics your corre- | spondent prefers postponing any remarks ‘until a(ter | the vote. Nothing is positive in the political line either here or in Bolivia, THE WAR IN COLOMBIA. THE FIGHT AT CHAME—PROCLAMATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS—OVERTURES OF PEACE. The Panama Star and Herald of the 16th inst. con- tains a full account of the late troubles in Colombia, from which the following is selected :— THR FIGHT AT CHAME, The government forces left here on the night of the 31st, consisting of some eighty privates and twenty officers under command of Colonel Vergara and Lieutenant Col- onel Joaquin Arosemeni, Not having a favorable pas- sage the party did not arrive at the Chame beach till early in the morning of the 2d inst, The force disem- barked and were marching toward Chame, when, about daylight, they were surprised by the enemy, who fired | on them from ambush. After a short fight the govern- | ment troops, finding themselves short of ammunition, having left their chief supply on board of their boats, retreated, leaving four or live dead on the field, somo wounded, several made prisoners and others who de- serted. ‘The government force re-ombarked imme- diately after the fight and returned to this city, arriv- ing here about ten P. M. on the 2d inst. The govern- ment loss is generally placed at eighteen in killed and migeing, though some accounts put it as high as thirty odd, which seems an exaggeration, Of the rebel loss | we have heard nothing. AIZPURU'S PROCLAMATION, On the 2d inst. a circular m writing, signed R. Aiz- puru, dated General Cuartel, Guachapeli, August 25, 1875, ‘was addressed to several of the cousulsinthiscity. The circular states that the government of Senior G. Miro had been disowned, and that he, Aizpuru, had been elected | chief of the provisional government. ' Tho circular goes | on to state the chiei object the revolutionists had in | view was to prevent the State joining those of Magda- dalena in the present movement against the national government, and winds up with the assurance that | while he occupied the position of head of the govern- meut tho rights of all would be most sacredly Ur ve § &e., ke. We understand that some prociamations an other documents of a similar nature relating to Mr. Aizpuru’s provisional government were also circulated, but none of them have come to our hands, RUMORED ASSASSINATION, It has been reported that after the last engagement at Chame between the government forces and the ad- herents of Mr. Aizpuru the wounded officer, Lieutenant Vargas, who was missing, was taken prisoner and as- sassinated by orders of the leaders of the so-called provisional government of Guachapeli. As a fact of the kind would characterize any party of men capable of perpetrating such an infamous action as being but little above the moral standard of savages, the success | of & cause so stamped with infamy could bring no good to the isthinus, PRACE NEGOTIATIONS. The readiness with which President Miro has re- | sponded to the favorable change of the situation on the Atlantic as respects Panama, and has rescinded all the decrees declaring and consequent on @ state of siege, which restores Panama to a state of peace toward tho eneral government, without ceasing to preserve its ‘aternity with the other States, merits the praise of all patriotic citizens and the aid of all good men. Al- though the State of Panama was not included in tho pact, or convenio, above alluded to, the government of Bolivar, not forgetting the fraternal sym- athy extended to her in her troubles, has sent ir. Amador Fierro, well known and reciated here, toconfer with General Lopez, tho chief of tho national forces, in order to have {t understood that Panama also should be added to the States affected by the treaty of peace, In consequence of all this the government of Panama at once has hastened to show its acquiescence in the proposals for peace, by sus- pending the state of siege, which has borne so heavily on the social tranquillity and industries of the Isthmus. Let us trust that public opinion will uphold the gov: ernment for its readiness to consult the welfare of the people, the moment it felt it could do so without sa rificing ita dignity, ite duty and the trusts deposited in its hands by the votes of the people of the Isthmus. ANOTHER BRIDGE AT HARLEM. Ata mecting of the Park Commissioners yesterday the plans of approaches to the proposed bridge across the Harlem River at 181st street, submitted by W. H. Green, engineer to the Bureau of Construction on the ‘ist of last April, were adopted, and the topographical rested, however, and Judge Bixby held him in $1,000 bail to answer, | very rare; ment against his property for $2,000; went and saw the District Attorney again; asked him why he allowed that to go against him. After further inquiry found the judgment was in the hands of the Sheriff; saw the Sheriff, who told him, only that he had to sell some of Harry Genet’s prop- erty that morning, he should have sold his; informed the Sheriff that if he attempted to do so he would blow his brains out; went again to the District Attorney and demanded satisfaction from him in the shape of some paper that would secure him from further annoy- ance; told the District Attorney that’ he never went bail for any thief, aud gave him a sample of his hand- writing to show that it was unlike that which was on the bail bond; the bail has net yet been released. Mr. Townsend said that he intended to show the man- ner in which bail is accepted at the General Sessions, and how easy it was for straw bail to be imposed on the Court. THE RULE ABOUT BAIL. John Sparks, Chief Clerk in the District Attorney's office, said, in regard to the rules concerning bail bonds, that ‘a man gives bail to answer any indict- ment against him; after the indictment the bail is continued; thought that @ rule re- quiring bail to be renewed would be @ good one; bail is forfeited on the nonappearance of the person | signing the bail bond; on its forfeiture judgment is immediately taken; if persons found that in signing a bail bond it became a lien upon their property they might not be in such a hurry in signing bail bonds, and it would act as apreventive against the giving of straw bail; when an indictment is quashed the prisoner is not at once discharged; he may be remanded for another indictment, or bail is taken for his appearance ; in the case of Hubbard, against whom there was an in- dictment which was quashed, a certified check of $2,500 was taken in lieu of bail; no subsequent indict- ment was found against him; that is not the customary way of doi business; it is knew of no rule where money was put up in’ place of bonds; was not aware with whoin the money was deposited; the cases of Adams and Hub- bard are the only two witness could recall where money was taken in place of bonds as security. Mr. Townsend—There were 700 indictments that wo find no record of in your office. Is it customary to | allow indictments to be taken from your oilice without a receipt being taken? Witness—it is almost impossible to take receipts for all cases; the District Attorney receipts for every paper that comes from the police courts of the city. Mr. Townsend—Is it customary for prisonors to plead | guilty and be sent up to the Island without having counsel assigned them Witness—When on the papers the case appears very clear against the prisoner counsel is hardly required; frequently when prisoners are arraigned they have no counsel, but when the case comes on for trial they manage to get counsel, though it would bea good idea to assign counsel to prisoners when they are arraigned in place of waiting to the eleventh hour when there is little time left to look into the merits of the case; | know of no cases, however, where prisoners have been tried without counsel; prisoners under sixteen are sent to the House of Refuge; up to twenty-one they aro sent to the Penitentiary; the Court has the discretion of sending them either to the Penitentiary or the State | Prison; in some cases boys overstate their ago to avoid being sent to the House of Refuge, In the opinion of witness thero ought to be a return made to Court of all prisoners convicted, that they reach the prisons to which they aro sentonced. There is a return made to the Sheriff, but it goes to the Secretary of State, It ought to be duplicated aod a | copy deposited with the courte. PIXING BATT To Mr. Campbell—Knew of no law giving wer to the District Atsorney to fix bail out an order of the Court. It is a custom, however, of long practice. To Mr. Townsend—Do not know of any power the District Attorney has to reduce bail; think it would be well that Assistant District Attorneys should be sworn officers; formeriy {t was customary for the Sheriff to take prisoners from jail to court; there aro still, however, deputy sheriffs who are specially depu- tized to take charge of prisoners; prisoners for the Court of Oyer and Terminer are always in care of the her iff, x Mr. Townsend—Who is responsible for the safe keep- ing of a prisoner prior to conviction ? ‘ itness—The Warden of the City Prison; after con- viction the Sheriff is responsible for his delivery to the State Prison; I doubt if there be any law compelling the Commiasioners of Charities and Correction to de- liver up a prisoner on an order of the District Attor- ney ;it is entirely in the discretion of the officers who 7 the examination of prisoners ana intimated to witnes# that the Police Court custom was contrary to them. Witness continued and said that in cases of felony & certain number of questions are put to the prisoner and@ he signs the paper ‘on which they are entered, but im majters of petit larceny and the like there is no writters examination. Mr. Townsend again read front the statutes to point out to the witness in what regard they were overlooked by magistrates in the preliminary examination of prise oners. Witness said that in most cases of felony prisoners: waive the preliminary examination and alow the case to go to trial; many examinations are taken in a pri- vate room; ‘the preliminary examination is more for, the purpose of making up the record than for anything. else; when he went into office he followed the customs of his predecessors on the Bench. STATION HOUSE LODGERS. From his experience about one-third of the cases they have in the police courts come from station house lodgers. They come to the city trom all parts of tha country and five in idleness. They start out in the morning cold and hungry and are ready to steal any thing. If they were set to work cleaning the streeta and got a meal in the morning before they start out a good deal of crime might be avoided. One-half tha cases at the Tombs Police Court come from the common! cheap whiskey that is sold around the streets in thé neighborhood. Most-of the cases are traceable to toxication, though there may an occasional com< plaint of private rights being involved. WHAT TO DO WITH DRUNKARDS, The extent of bis power in regard to cases of intox!~ cation iva fine of $10 and bail for good benavior for oue year. All persons arrested for cation are detained a sutlicient time to able them to get sober. He thought that idle, dissolute persons, in the habit of getting drunk, when arrested should ‘be sentenced on a charge of ¥ grancy and sent to the island for six months, This would be a great relief to u where such peopla are being constantly brought up every ten or twenty days, Some offences under the Lottery law are tried) at the General and some at the Special Sessions. Mr. Dessar said he understood there was some cons flict of authority between these two courts. Mr. Townsend asked that, supposing a young girl,, charged with prostitution, is brought before bim,, whether the matter of her religion is looked into, Witness said that is never overlooked; her religion igf ascertained and she is sent to a reformatory ge | of her own creed; in regard to taking bail, cases ari very rare where the Court is imposed upo by” bogus bail, but it is mot customar, to examine very minutely into the character of thea bail. He was not aware that cases were common where & person committed for examination was held in prison for so long a period as nineteen days without trial. It 1s possible that a commitment paper may be lost, andj the person committed is not heard of unless the keeper of the prison informs the magistrate of the matter. The average nimber of cases tried at the Tombs dailyt is about thirty. In many cases persons are glechargedl on their own recognizances, where the magistrates tee! that they can be sure of the appearance of the parties. | Mr. Dessar said be knew of instances when respecta~’ ble people were unjustly arrested on a Sunday afters noon and had to remain in the station house till nex day, because there was no magistrate sitting. and bh wished to know of the witness if it would not be a go idea for the magistrates to sit for awhile on Sundays afternoons. Witness said police captains had the dis cretion of taking bail in most of the cases that trans-( pire on Sunday afternoons. John Reilly, detective, sworn, said he knew the pick Pocket who attempted to rob Mr. Brague, and that he was a notorious character; he k also the man Hubbard, who gave acertitied check of $2,500 to tha District Attorney in lieu of bail; Hubbard was in tha sawdust business and was a confidence man; neved knew that he was tried, and have seen bim since walk~ ing about the streets. ‘Two witnesses named Hirsch and Isaac testified to a case of perjury in which the latter was complainant against two men named Goldstein and Schoenberg.) Isaacs testified to having called a number of times al the District Attorney’s Office have the case brought to trial, but never got any satisfaction about it. The committee then adjourned till Thursday, at half past ten, to meet at foot of Twenty-sixth street aud proceed to Biackwell’s Island. A BURNING MINE. A RAGING FIRE IN A VEIN OF ANTHRACITE THE NATIONAL MINE NEAR SCRANTON THREAT ENED BY FLAMES~-WORKMEN COMBATING TER ELEMENT DAY AND NIGHT. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 22, 1875. The sensation of knowing that beneath one’s house, ata depth of about 100 feet, a fierce fire is raging, ted by acres of anthracite and bidding defiance to all humam efforts employed to extinguish it, is not calculated to excite emotions of the most tranquil nature, and yet this has been the precise position ofa portion of tha people of Minooka, a mining suburb of Scranton, fos more than a week past. About two weeks ago a clump of brushwood, on the side of a eighty feet in depth caught fire, and ex4 hausted itself in the flames, This fact did not attract attention at the time, as the burning of a clump of brushwood was nothing uncommon in that vicinity, A branch railroad connecting with a coal breaker runs along the brink of the ravine at the point where the brushwood burned, and the empioyés on tha coal train were somewhat surprised to see smoke ema- nating from the embankment without any indication of fire being apparent. A few days later smoke began ta escape from a crevice in the rising ground about 10d feet north of the ravine, and at nightared glare o« light was visible where the coal first caught fire from the burning brushwood, The news soon spread in thd vicinity, and the fact that a ‘vein of coal in the Naw tional Mine was on fire created considerable alart ‘The attention of Mr, William Connell, one of the pro prietors of the mine iiving at Scranton, was called td the circumstance, and he, at once realizing the threate ening character of the conflagration, sent a force: of 100 men to extinguish it, working in gangs of fifty, day and night, The extent of the fire had been greater than they anticipated. It had penetrated and was rap idly pushing forwara through the first vein, devouring “top coal’? and pillars in its progress. This “top vein’ had been worked out several years since, but, according to the custom dictated by safety to the lives of ine miners as well as those whose homes are on the surg face of this property, a large proportion of coal wag left in the roof and in the supports, On this the de« vouring flames were feasting, fanned by the swift cure rents sweeping through the underground chambers of the worked out mine, and receiving an impuise to their fury trom the long accumulated gases that traversd these dreary passages. After the men had been af work some four or five days, they found thay their foe, instead of becoming vanquished, grew more and more formidable, and threatened ta defeat all their efforts. Its course lay against a risin; ground, and in the direction it had taken the vei which it raged had been worked out for more than @ mile abead of it and beneath the most thickly populated portion of Minooka, Already portions of the surface over where it had devoured the pilla began “caving in,” and this intensified the feast of those living ‘on the surface, who began ta think it could not be extinguished. The nearest avi able source from which water could be directed effective. ly against it lay about 1,000 yards distant, atthe Meadow Brook breaker. and engines were set to work and cd straggling ravine sem@ constantly pumping streams upon it through hose o sufficient strength and capacity to keep up a continue: werful flow. Aiter working for sume time at th face of the burning the workmen found it a futile task to follow the fire, and so they adopted, another plan. A body of men were sent into tha mine through the main entrance and they went to worlg cutting down the pillars and placing all she. qtatructiond ponsibte in thé path marked out fet the famen This was @ most perilous task. The chambers were sur- charged with noxious gases and sulphurous vapors gen- erated there for years previous, and it took but a short time to exhaust each gang of workmen. Having re- moved a good portion of hot ge J the exact locatiom of tho fire was ascertained, and the heaviest undertak- ing of ali set on foot, It was to surround the burning spot b. digging @ deep trench around it from the ‘suriace, and thus teclating and leays ing it to wear itself out The = task was undertaken, however, and pushed vigorously a Additional hands weré set to work, and are still joyed day and night cutting their way through the bi and endeavoring to environ the irrepressible fre. ‘Already in some portions they have penetrated as deep as a hundred feet through hard-pan and rocks, and cub off a portion of the burning mountain, and the remains der of the work isin a fair way of being accomplished. When | visited the scene this afternoon some sixty mem were employed there. An old miner informed me that he worked in the vein where the fire rages eighteen years ago, and that it extends for more than a mile across the country covered by tho viliage of Minooka At one time, he said, they did not think the} could arrests the fire, bat now it is nearly under control, and wilh Dagens A be extinguished this week. A portion of the ‘ill where the men are at work presents a carioug spectacle, 1t is completely honey-combed by caves and fissures, some of the latter large gaping cracks nearly @ hundred foet long, and looking into the most densa opacity, About a quarter of a mile faom this scene most singular sight is presented. It is a large fissure the surface, which occurred about a week — tha vicinity of a school building where the mine began to “cave in.” It is about slghey verde Jong, extending: across the main road and ediately under @ frama dwelling, which the strange convulsion in the earth ti up on an angle of about 36 de~ pag ‘Eis house belonged to bet aod when the phenomenon occurred, his wife and four | children were within it preparing for dinner. A shower of bricks from the imney shattered the stove lous circumstance, they are detailed to carry prisoners from jail to court how they shall take them, whether im @ Van or on foot, or with or without bandcutls, THR POLICE COURTS. - Police Justice Charles A. Flammer, sworn—Said the custom in his Courtin regard to the examination of prisoners was that the Clerk of the Court prepares the affidayit, which, on being sworn to by the complainant, is filed, and afterward when the complainant makes a general statement of his case the prisoner is given a chance to answer, engineer ordered to make three plans of the works and \ place them om file, Mr. Townsend hero referred to the statutes eaverning most miracy- joorstep bad sudden height of nearly fon ly risen to & nearly four fe the hoor assumed a steep incline, making it, for the frightened family to escape. ver, after a hard sti and were eighboring house, I this a 0" nature o| hyve jo gee m wi mine fire exists, From of the caves and ices to which I have alluded a most di le ts belched forth, making the decidedly pleasant The men are work! pluckily day night, and will doubtless completely conquer the flames this week, ceappemmenasne er ;