The Sun (New York) Newspaper, April 7, 1869, Page 1

fe THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. THE MURDERER JOHN REAL. THE MANHATTAN CLUB GAMES IN THE CITY PRISON, pana Ni The Atay of Execution Fy tive Night at Card-Playiny Prince among the Thieves nnd Bargiars, ‘The Sun's roporters havo already told the pub- Uc that the Sheriff's officers made no provision for » Police foree to attend the execution of the Hon, Joba Meal, and that on the aftersoon afer Judge Butherland had granted a stay of proceedings, the distinguished gentloman from the Twenty-first Ward was taken ont of ‘Murderers’ Row" and excorted to a light and airy erll ona higher tier, Of course it bad been understood that a citizen who had become cminent a8 @ political bully of the dead- Leas gort waa not to be hanged for the mere murd Of a bireling policeman, Not he! But, then, there hired a number of men who wanted a profitable job, find they made a clatter in the City Prison yard on ‘Thursday last, under pretence of erecting a gibbet, Nonsense. The hangman's instrument that has shut the light of life out of many felons lies in a Tombs Closet, ready for use whenever the Sheriff may have ‘Occasion THR ORGIES IN THE TOMR Bat the reporters did not teli the public what hap- dened afer the transfer of the Hon. Mr, Real toe cheer(ul cell on one of the upper tiers of the prison ‘The reporters left tho Illustrious Twenty-first Warder in tia celt, and supposed that he was pre- Paring for pleasant dreams of the timo when, ander A now trial, his friends should pack # jury and sct him free, or of bia lawyer's skill in befogging the Courts and staving off adverso decisions, But a man ‘Who was inside the prison last Friday night writes UA that the honorable gentleman from the Twenty- first Ward was invited over to the large and per haps not luxurious, but nevertheless foviting rooms Of the keepers, and that there the tables were spren! fora jovial deck of cards, ‘The viands were the cholcest of the | ixth Word imitations, and the deputy wardens’ guest was hilarious, The perty Fevived their memorios of Twenty-first Ward thtef: dom and the old Fire Department, They merrily chatted about thelr exploits in the brothels, and of the sleht-ofhand by which legislators had been mate. Anil they enapped thelr fingers at the law Which prescribes hanging as the medicine for mur- der. ‘The game went on with varying fortune, and A the wagers were not #0 large as those which are Played for tn the Manhattan Club House, the cards Were bandied with all the skill of Manhattan Club Players of the highest pretensions, and the play never dragged, ‘The players made a night of it, and were very boosy. THe FREEDOM ov Thm Towns, Next day the Hon, John Real—familiar with Ordinary Tombs discipline—saw in everythin, Around lim that he was not to be treated aso tho ordinary thieves of the Tombs, Tho undr Keepers nodded respectfully as, grand, gloom: And peculiar,” he paced the prison corridors, and before nightfutl he came to regard himself asa Twenty-first Ward Napoleon, and the Tombs bis St. Helena, He has had the freedom of the corridors ever since, and his friends yay hand + 4 dupiieate keys for an escape through the Special Sessions court room whenever they choose @0 todo, They have once attempted » rescue in this ‘Way, und, failing to pack a jury or postpone anvther sentence, they may repeat their attempt, TUR DETROIT POST ON REAL, John Real, who murdered a policeman in New York, was to have been hanged, Kither by the Bheriff or by the Vigilance Comulitee, as they swore, He was not hanged at all, Between two Stools he suck to the solid ground. Judge Suther: and gronted @ stay of proceedings, because he deemed it doubtful whether the jury ought to hay found Hes! guilty of murdcr in the fret degree, ‘The case is to be tried Tt is not Likely th aged. The “Nin wited the Court room. ed the Judge and ry i vowed that They soem to known what about, and to have uttered no idle vs should not they wore UTTER PROM AN INDIGNANT CITIZEN, To the kititor af The Sun. Sir: Ihave no manner of patience with the clamor that has been ralsed for the commutation of the ser tence of tbo murderer John’ Real, and T eannot eon evive how it can excite in the breast of avy just and sensible man any other feeling than that of unutier ble disgust. Mis f# notoriously one of the mont flagrant cases on record, a eriiae over whi Drutal bravado be gloried, wo long ax ho that the Influcnce ofthe “Ninctecnth atreet ¢ and its ex 4 him from jusite But now, sur work upon the publieation of such ed toby one David 8. Daly in at murders and kindred occurrence, and their so influcntial, that publié sentiment to acertaln degree tainted, and does not «the true character of the most atrocious Let John Real be hanged by the neck until appreci crimes, he ts dead, and may God have THE KVENING POST ON RRAL, O'DRIRN & CO. The public have had excellent opportunities of fate to understand the difficulties in the way of de: becting crime by iogal investigation, Out of five ar Fests, on strimg grounds and for high erim One prisoner is brougit to trial; and of those ‘who ied, the boldest and wickedest are very com: t) slip through the meshes of the aw at ople are not watching and it mockery of law and of tay of proceedings in ohn Realt But it seems su Inbor to Invent legal quirks and quibbles, vis to be interpreted as sentences of in olten sem to bein New York, A man dof borsiary, and the nominal judgment is five cv ton years or more in the Penitenilary; but justice is mo such a cose as that of the resi purisiment inflicted i9 a walk trough the region ajound the Five Points in the company of a Deputy Bheriif, who may or may not be lus friend oF In his pay. If he can quietly slip into cone oc if he Fan ron faster than the officer, or if w party Of his fricnds can raise w disturban and hurry away while keeping back his ardian, OF, A Way of ail, I the deputy can be bought, the sente of in at is followed by free ely until $$ POLITICAL —e- The Old Now York Fire Department Trans ferved to Jersey City-A Band of Highs waymen Housed with (the Machine’ —Derinion of the Pol At abu! 5 o'clock yest Mr, Jucod Kier, n German customers in Jersey City, a number om a. Fushod out of Jackson engine house No, 6, in South Eighth street, in the Sixth Ward, selzed a can of tnilk, carriod it Into the engine house, drank what they wanted, and turned thy rest into the gutter. ‘They then pitched the ean into the street. When two police officers approached, the firemen took re- fuge in the engine house, locked the door, and then taughed at and derided the officers, A few mornings go, some of the same ‘fire ladies” stopped Car roll’s bake wagon and helped themselves each to a loaf of bread, the driver quictly subinitting, knowing that resistance would imperil bis life, Mr. Beune- mann, German, who keeps a lager beertplace ad Joining the engine house, has had his place sacked frequently of late, and on one occasion recently, t 4s alleged, the firemen attempted tocommit an out- fage upona giriliving in his house, On Friday night last some of the fire’ politicians went into Beune mamin's house and were about to help themsclyos, When he seized a snore and slashed around 80 vigor- pusly that the party, becoming demoralized, beat o burried retreat, They have not since troubled him. Bome of themen that loaf around the engine house have been arrested for robbery in the first degree, They live there year after year without doing a day's work, and when hard pressed forage upon thetnelgh- boring shopkeepers (mostly Germans) who live In terror and dare not bring theta to justice ia éonse- quence of threats of vengean ——__$—<ae——— The Hoboken Mystery. The Hoboken drowning mystery remains a mys- tery. The woman's body bas not been identified Mrs, Willeox, who $748 about to have the remains ex. humed, beheving that the description was that of a missing daughter, has been assured by John Schroe der, a Gorman, who made am,'avit before Coroner White yesterday, that her daughter is an inmate of » ow brothel in New Yorks A JERSE PIKE GANG morning, while milkman, was serving his THE SILVER MOUN ay THE MARVELLOUS WEALTH OF WHITH PINE DISTRICT. THE _—. Mines. Srecial Correspondence of The 8a9. Treasure Crrr, Nevada, March 20.—Although it Is possible that my letter of the 9 did not reach you, Tsball take (t for granted that it did, and en- deavor to give you what new Impressions and obser+ tions have been mine since that day. THM LAST GENUING EXCITEMENT. ‘The last, or perhaps I should eay the latest, ex- citement is over the uew discoveries of rich chloride and hora silver, similar to that on Treasure Uhtl, Fight opposite Treasure City, on the summit of the Base Range Moantaia, due west of us, and 400 of 00 feet higher, say at an altitude of 9,100 fect above the fea, The new discoveries are on a flat similar to the Chloride, Bromide, Pogonip, and Alta Flats in formation, but inolining somewhat toward the north: ward, The limestone, or dolom.te, pitches west- rd toward the White Pine Mountain proper, The Basco Range is midway betwoen Treasure Hil! end the White Pine Mountain, and the now discoveries are a thousand feet or more above the ‘ buse metal” deposits, which are found In the esfions on either fide at the foot of the range, As Tsit ata window fronting westward, I have a full view of the new aliver “fat and, with @ glass, can # every stick, atone, and ot t etlesing out above tho snow, the distance not being more than @ mile and @ half in @ direct Hine, At least three handred men sre running about with picks and shovels, making locations or dige ging down to the rock, preparing to blast toto ft, while hundreds on hundreds are crossing the Inter: vening canon, and climbing the ‘steep eastern slope of the range, in eager haste to get upon the ground and get thoir “atakos" struck, ‘The main street of ‘Treasure City is thronged with people, looking with las the naked eye at the crowd on the oppo Hite Lill, and as each has some friend there who. has agreed to put him in,” itis the old affair of the “Spectre of tne Brocken," spectre and spectator be ing only the shadow and the substance of the samo Individual, ‘The new discoveries are as yet not sum: clently developed to enable mo to say anything of their extent or value, batt have sent a friend over there, In company with others, to stick up some no- tices, and if the report ts favorable will go over my- seltinaday of two, The ground on which the Prospeeters are at work was in part at least located by other partios over a year since, but there Is con siderable new ground yet unlocated, Lam falling into the belief that it is cheaper in. the long run to buy good mines already located and opened, than to run off to every now acene of excitement in search of now locations anit attendant complications But this genuine thing reminds me of ANOTUBR NEW EXCITEMENT WHICH DIO Not fuRN OUT WELL FOR ME, About two weeks ago strange whisperings were toyed with by the frecaing binste of this lo ty height; Mysterious conversations were overheard in the smoky corners of barrooms, Men were heard to break out emphatically: “T told you so. “You bet." “Dents Rberhardt, and ne mistake," “This yar coon's boun’ ter git.” Tn a very short time—a day—these mutterings were interpreted by one or two inen, who candor compels me to admit had a ort of suspicious appear: ance and a bad smell of * White Mountain nectas They were hangers-on, “shiftiess cusses; neverth what they #ald was eagerly hearkened to by & score of hungry treasure seckers, It was simply tot new deposits of surpassing richness had been discovered at Egan Cafion, about 6 miles northeast, An air of veracity was given to the roport from the fict that the Social and Steptoe mine there had boen worked successfully for four years, and that the bul lion extracted was worth $2 an ounce, on account of the gold It contained, Some of those who had been unlucky here were eager to start for Egan, but the oller and more experienced minors amiled grimly and sald nothing. Taking Into consideration tho comparative ease of getting to Rgan Cafion, and not thinking of the diticully of coming back from the Heft the El Dorado Hotel, with which, by the way, the St, Nicholas would not compare unfavorably, aud went by stage to the place where every. thing was said to bo fine Woful dia appointment was mine; the whole was a com- mon ough hoax to induce as many a9 possible to lewve @ rich region and make more room, There Was nothing new except piles of freight and anxious people walting for a seat in the stage for White Pine, Even my hope of @ good bed and well-cooked meals Was a delusion, Nothing of the kind was there, and fix days aflerward I ungraciou ly bestowed upon a profane driver three hard dollars, aud was zigzag ing up the hill to where Troasure City eat tn the glory of silver and the pride of 9,20 feet of altitude, Laughed to scorn by those who knew me, with “How's Egan Calon? Like Gold Lake, ain't tt so much silver on top, "twon't pay t' git out the gold, eh?” A few drinks at forty cents (higher now, you see) mollified their mirth; then to my old qu Ail full, was the fell respouse. TK COANGES OF A WkER. Disconsolate, weary, and savage, 1 wandered the strects, observing the changes that have taken place in little more than a week, ‘There are more tent- covered houses; innumerable new board shauties have started from the frogen ground ; shops, giv mulls, and gambling hells have been buiit, ‘There, is new assay office; here, another, There, a hotel ; here, a log hut, ‘There are twice as many men talk- ing in knots, if they can endure the piercing wind which acems to blow from every quarter. It reminds one of Buflalo, where, when ® man comes to a cor. her, he instinctively buttons coat and smashes hat tight down on his head. ‘The arrivals number I don’t know how many a day—perhaps two hundred ; but they are changed ia character. More of them are old miners, more are blacklegs and desperadoes, and more are women of certain character, More are keen speculators and moneyed men from Frisco, More drankirds, and the material of which drunkards are made, throng the barrooms or lie in wai In conceivable place, hoping to ensnare a * flat,” It is only the blessed, cursed wind that k onté dealers and sweatboard players within doors, but there are enous. of them there, * Stakes" of conslderable amount, earnod by tho nara p'POF of weeks, are lost at faro and monté in half an hour, by brawny whiskered fellows, who know where more can be got, ‘The scarcity of Lorses is noteworthy; it is because ‘ horse here would ent his head off in ® month, with hay at $250 aton and $38 week board, Dogs are more plentiful; they furnish good revolver practice to the miners, Some of the signs stuck upon the habitations are worth transcribing. You have: © Red Dorg Bill; old & Restarrant; all driake and miners Oty, miners’ outita.» "Branch ot "Frisco Hote!—meals all boure."* Essay offis, corect returns," “ Loformation given relating to all cisuns, lod mines." (This fellow ts a sharyer.) “Frang Untersobleifer from Freiberg (Another *windler—no such name on the Freiberg record.) Dr, 8, B, Crain, graduate of the Coilege of Geneva, New York, and licentiate of the Medical Board or Victoria, Australia, gives particuler attention to Women and children, ‘This is just a little funny when one enumerates the women and children re fiding fn the region. But, tired out, I went Into a ree FRED, Tt was a nasty, greasy, smoky, foul-emeling place, with counters on two sides and a Jong table la the middle, It was crowded with men, and ob! the way they devoured, What I had was a muddy, warm, brown Liquid, (Thad ordered cotfee, but tu the hur ry they made @ mistake and Wrought this stu®.) ‘Then for bread was some unknown compound of Agus, Water, and ashes, with @ few lary sdickiag ters. call." means and ant for NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1869 ont; on breaking it open, the burned end of a match dropped Tho ment was, fret but this being rejected, after half an hour's delay T got a plece of beef that was once good, but had been spolled in cooking. Fora banquot like this @1.50 in coin was ebarged, Hero are a few prices for dishes “to order: Roast chicken, $2; roast tur- them in gold mining would change when they ¢ tilver, ‘They had been there a week, and being prac tised bande were earning 88 a day, Their experience in ghing It in California forewarned them of the hardships too surely y be encountered, and hence they were provided with @ tolerable eabin, and everything indispensable in a miner's camp, My quarters were quickly made with them, and half the bight was devoted to talking of old times, singing, They took turns in cooking and and aguardiente. all other daties, so (hat next morning, when I was awakened by a rough slake of the shouller, wos @ break(ost ready, consisting of brotled steak, potatoes, beans, and coffees, Bofore falling to, Bill, guessing my astonished expression, sald: “' Taint bad, Is ib?" then triumphantly: “And that break. It’s the only cheaper and bet- Justice was done to that sriumph of manage and the miners went to work, leaving me writing this letter After breakfast and @ “spell of w thought me of the very human desire f AMUAEMENT. ‘The White Minors are hard pressed for amusement vening hours, and are perforce driven to cntertain themselves with whirkey or gamblii Only a week or two ago, however, Joe Coburn, » fast for four cost just $2.50, by Gd! way to live in these rough places ter." ing I be tered all the leading men of fatic atabition in this region, and gained some money thereby. ‘There is now @ room whero the glorious burdy-gurdy rules mellifl e hurdy girls aro almost without ex ception of Gorman nationality, and honest of deport ment, They seat themselves on a beech on one Hide of the room or all around It, and ure ready and willl applics, for the customary fee of a dollar, to which sum, however, mast be added the compliment of a trent, so that he who would dance with a hardy girl must needs expend at least $1.50, To the eredit of these girls be it said that they never got drunk, are always woll behaved, and save money either to send home or take themselves ere, Even tn drinking their thrift is displayed, for they drink nothing, an earn so much more from the bar, A row originated in this place recently which Fr in Daniel Fiynn, better known as" Brocky,”* being shot by Pat O'Brlen, The wounded man died wext morn ing, while the murderer fled on a it has not been heart of ince. A good or even tolera ble company of fiegro minstrels would doa driving business here for some time, Apologizing for put ting them under the head of amusements, let me that the Masons and Odd Fellows cach have an nsso ciation here # ¢ benevolent and protective purposes Both associat ons hold weekly meetings, and have large memberships. They serve actively tn pro moting a good state of society, THE EXTENT OF THK DISTRICT eannot be determined for some time, It ts sail that ore has been taken ont at the Grant mine, sixty-five miles south, which is as rich as any found bere ‘The same is claimed of the Kureka district to the weet, but this Idoubt, although that region might be classifled a a portion of the White Pine, My experience at Ezwn Caflon naturally makes me In eredulous of these wonderfully rich new mines. ‘The question whether the mines will hold out or not of course depends upon the extent; but relying upon the opinion of experienced miners, Iam inclined to believe that it will be a long time before they can be exhausted, although undoubtedly the ore will not forever continue as rich as that now being taken out. Itts safe to say that there ts enough silver there to last at least until the proper season for travelling comes round, Although, as Ihave stated before in contradiction to many accounts of this district, there t# no'hing anomalous tn the geological formation, there are several very remarkable features in the mineral deposits of the White Pine region in which they ditter from any others on this continent. First, the unprecedented richness of the ore, The richest speci mens taken from tho famous Comstock lode, which bas produced 1,000,000 in bul ed $4,000 a ton, while specimens taken from the Eberhardt, Mis- yi, and several other mines In White Pine have ansayea;uref $22,000 a tons, Then in the mines of Colorado, Idaho, and other distriets, Only eulphur- etted ores are obtuined, and thoy are always more or less combined with lec@, eopper, antimony, ar senic, sulphur, and other substances. ‘Those a) phurets have rarely been made to yield more than 70 per cent, of the silver contained in them, The White Pine ores ure chlorides of silver, with only n occasional stala of copper, and with ordinary care are made to give up 90 per cent, of the silver. T have # notion that the famous miues of Potosl, In South America, are somewhat similar to those of Treasure Hill, but know nothing of it from observation, ANOTHER VISIT TO KDERUARDT showed incrsssed activity with no dimiou in the richness of the ore, It was the same old story of “ Sllver everywhore, Aud nots pound to tare." This thme I did not sccure what would make a nice little button, neither were many now facts acquired. However, I learned that where it now costs about #0) aton to extract the metal, next summer it is ex- ected «2 ean be done for tess than half a9 much, The Eberuarae #183 feet wide from wall rock to Wall rock, and plteci@# 8 an angle of about 70 de Prere Of course you knw,” Ht has been Jolued with Ledge, which 1s The Mississipy. western outakirts oF Treasure City, is 6 well defined and very rich five-foor yela, This mine was located in July, 1863, and bas been setrated only nineteen feet; but the yteld of the ores taken out averages as high as those of any mine in the district, One specimen of chloride, weighing four pounds, taken from this mine,ylelded one pound of pure ilver, First-class ores have averaged $1,900 8 Woes and second-class A800 ‘There are mawy ulber greaty bacon, | key, €2; fried potatoes, 99 conte; canned fruit, 78 cents; apples, ta cach; cup of coffee (so-called) | and tough, fried steak, 81.25, Water brought from | Hamilton, or snow water, 0 cents a amall bucket, I Teft the restaurant with a scnae of heaviness in my stomach and premonitions of a lightness soon to af- fect my purse, to say nothing of a #ire conviction | that nigitimare would come apon me before morn: ing. As I moped along intent only on fading het ter for the night, a peentiar whistle from over the way transported me back to Dutch Flat and 15% {nan instant, Tarning, I saw AN OLD ACQUAINTANCR Lot tho meeting pass—it was too good and af fecting to be described, as was also the evening spent with my friend lish Bilt, who hat come with two comrades to ace if the bad luck that had always att there | to dance of waltz with any rough miner who | ay | rich mines, but Teannot deseribe a tithe of them; thoy number by hundreds,; The Galena, on the Basc Metal range, however, doacrves notice, ‘This mine ia located about a milo north of Silver Springs, and | consiats Of four separate locations of 1,000 feet each, Ivhas been opened in several places, all of which ded exectiont ore,showing the veln to be very ex- ensive, apparently one hundred feet or more in width, Assays as bigh a $1,700 per ton have been | obtained, anda few tons worked by mill process slelded $159 per ton, notwithstanding there is con. siderable lead and copper combined with the chlo- rides, Aquantity of the ore will bo smelted soon in the mew furnace atthe new town of Swansea, | | which is about haif @ mile from this tw Ho fir na | the vein has been opened, the ore will yield an average considerably above $100 per ton | YIRLDY AND AVREAGRS OF Mi¥e | The following correct list of returns for the month of December will give the relative yield of ditferont | min Av. per | Mines Toys. Ton. | Mines. Bberiardt 18 $5.4 0) Relipa | Keystone 0 RM OD Lat Ch Hidden Treasure a T further give the following returns of the Oasis | Mill for the quarter ending Jan. 13, 1860 | Wo vnnte Mines w Atirora Anrorad | Anrort | Aurova, Wiewa Vista ‘ ona a iB 205 Hea 48 HO et 6 6909 And the returns of White Pine Mill and Mining Company's mill, situate In Hamilton, for the month of December | Sante Vite nowalh Watlsworti Mines Sania Tita, frat elas Banta Itita, second Ph sherictas toh id the following, which aro only part of tho wii however: Manca thle Stonewall The avorage £257.17; for December, $120.52. But absolut thing can be told whieh will adequately set forth to | the people in the East the worth and Importance of | the mines here, A plain cirenmstantial account of | Uie White Pine region would read more like a story | { Sinbad than what tt Is—a fet, rie Mints | now ‘in operation fare the Oases, 19 stamps; Moore's, Hata the Metropolitan, 15 ata Silver Springs; the Whito Pino (Silver Mining Com pany's, 1) stamps, and Felton’, 5 stamps, at Hamilton, A 9) statnp mill if being ereeted at this place to crash res from the Aurora mine. In fact, the proprie: | tors have sixned a contract to redac @ 12,000 tonsa of for $90.4 ton, A stamp mill is being removed | 1 Swoky Valley, and three other mille, numper- | ing abc 4, are being brought from Virgl- hia City. But there Is work hore for fivo times | these 159 stamps, T Hers now charge $50 ton | for reducing ores but there is no doubt that before the 4th of next July they will be glad todo it for $96, In this connection, lot me Incidentally say that an assayer's charge for assaying an ounce of ore ts Tum Dest TIMM TO COMM | ls as soon aa the snows have melted and the ronda ‘ecome passable, Until then, say in May or June, | (he cost of transportation, and hence of everything | | necessary for subsistence after urriving, 1s enor- uous, The Union Pacific Railroad i» now com- | pleted somo twenty miles woat of Ogden, which Is | heen miles north of Balt Lake City, ‘The Central | Pacific coming from Sacramento to mect the Union j has passed the Nevada mountaiue; and I believe | that there is vow leys than 120 miles of track to be | laid before tho gap ts closed, and a continuous lino | of railrond from New York to San Francisco open: | ed, Allowing four miles a day to be laid on both | roads, it will pot take more than a month to complete | the whole, Theentire distance from Omuba to San | Francisco is 1,589 miles, and to the nesrest point from which to reach White Pine Elko, about | 16%) miles, including some 110 ules sta. king. The cost of passage from = New | York city to White Pine tn round numbers is #200, Including staging from Balt Lake City; of | freight from New York to Salt Lake City, 9 cents a pouad; from Omaha to Salt Lake City, 7 cents @ pouud; from Salt Lake City to White Pine about % centsa pound. Al theso prices aro changing, and | thore ts no such thing as now giving correct Sgures, | Railroad and transportation agenta aro the only ones | who can do that, and even they as yet seem to have | notling settled, From San Francisco it costs to get hore about $100, and an average of about 8) cents a | pound for freight, When the road is completed \ map can come bere from New York iu seven anys for $2, A further word as to prices of | articles here; Lumbor i» now from $480 to 59) a | thousand; commonest doors, $3); double door (5; windows, 8x6, $00; nalle, % to 99 ce: | a pound, Meat will probably be cheaper soon, since the grazing is good at Elko, Bradley, of California, has brought some 14,009 head of eatile here, Ho expects to make his fortune ont of beef, and literally has herds upon a thousand hill With this excoption, it {8 safe to say that prices will continue to advance until summer, I send ® map of this region, drawn with the great- eat caro by one of tho most accomplished civil eogineers of California, By reference to it (if you siculd have {t engraved), your readers can ata | glance learn the route from Kiko, on the Pacific Ratlrond, to the White Pine District, I would, how- ever, suggest to each and every one who intends coming here the pradence of making full inquiry tocostand time in transit, ‘That ts, let every per- | #on come forewarned, ‘One dealer alone, Major NTS are enormously high, I verily believe that a pig stye | would command $20 por month anywhere on Main Feet in this plese, Vo room can be had! \ any | favorable locality ort of $300 to $500 por mi nth. | You run seross building # box 12x16, witch | he Intends to You inquire the price; $5 a onth—will b¢ — gigt tm two days, All right, you Next} nnd to look at it, take tt, 704 come a : You feonsf, fer walking arouns, spay Psd proprietor © patronizingly remarks, * ing for & house?" You reply, * No; I have leasea , this one." A little explanation, and you and your domlet 1m prospective has been let over your head for $80, ead the chances are some third man wolegs) at $00 after all, You go around among your friends, and probably indulge in some strong remarks about the lack of honor among house proprietors here, Bat the onty sympathy obtained Is 8 laugh, coupled Probably with the remark: "Honor! Why, how long have you been in White Pine? Honor's played out! People here are ‘on the make!’ What d'ye #'poss they come here fort"? The samo thing is the ease with lots. You see a lot; you like i; buy It; ordor the deod made out; foo It sl You go after the money, and hunt Your man up, only to find that some one o him OMy dollars advance, and thatthe lot Is sold, You splatter a may be, but you are completely taken, aback by the Honchalant reply, “Oh, stuf What d'ye ‘spose Leamo here for? Take a drink, and have your money with you next time." Aba natural consequence, everything in the way of real estate t# advancing in value, A corner lot, 30x 100, wold the other day for @8,000, gold. Another lot, 25100, eald for $5,000, good, eubstan- al frame buildings, f projected, but as above stated, there is nothing yet erected worthy the ame of a Waihiing, ‘One man invested @40 in November taat in amit: nda couple of weeks ago sold his purchase for A certain property in ‘Treasure City advance: from Feb. 15, at $4,500, to $25,000 on Mareh 8. Althongh Thave written of Faro and other gam- Bling Institutions, you must not suppose that we have not responsible banking houses here, In thie district there aro Aix legitimate banking house: You can buy exchange on Now York at 4 per cent, and can sell bullion (if you bave it) for 14 per cent, Premium, The banking business pays weil and is rapidly increasing. A GHOWL AnOUT Tie Marts, If Wells, Fargo & Co. could once realize the male: Aictions and imprecations that go forth from the throats of one-third of the 5,000 Inhabitants of ‘Treasure City every day against them and their de- livery of the mai @ fear would seize them, In short, the way the manila are delivered is a shame ; but tt ts easily accounted for by consticring that W., F. & Co, make morte money by carrying males and express parce! PROSPECTING, DIGGING, AND MINING continues with all the vigor possible to be attained by thousands of enthusiastic bard workers. It would de lle for me to undertake an enumeration of even the leading enterprises; and itt# therefore that T have written in such a sketchy manner—a manner designed only to give your ri it notion Of the diMcultics aud hardships whic will be theirs Mfthey come hore. Eberhardt will neither run away nor be dug y before wus er, #0 let those minded to come wait yot a season, Bat here come the owners of the cabin whero Lam domiciled, and I must wind up. DE LA PLATA. We append to our correspondent’s letter the fol lowing communication ; U. 8. Assay Orrice, New Youx, March ™, 1909. Draw Sin: OF your suupie of sliver ore. fron, th White Pine bistete, N no portions weighiin 21st Ylolded sliver wt tho rate of 64%140 por ton Another traginant, welghing’ 10.12 0m ver at the rate fon. Tho hie snail bar “i by fusion wie That marked ti iy i helwer : : a THE PACIVIC KATLROAD WAR, > nees of Getting M How Street Jail, dia decision yesterday ay of proceedings restraining Judge Blatebf upon the motion;for a the State Courts from tuking any action In the case, ‘on the ground that the suit has been removed to the United States Courts, and that thereforo the State Courts bad no longer any jurisdiction, Judge Blatebford delivered an elaborate oral opinion, hold- ing that he had jurisdiction ip the caso, It having been ipso facto removed to the United States Courts by operation of the petition to that effect, Irrespec- tive of any action on the part of the State Courts. An order for the removal, by a Judge of tho State Court, was not necessary. The case being therofore removed, all proceedings tn the Stato Courts were null and void, and acts dono by authority of the State Courts were trospasses, Tho United States Cireult Court had power to issue any writ to tho State Courts necessiry to sustain its jurisdiction, but ‘fas uny acts done in this case by the State Courts were null and vold, there was no necessity for the stay of proceedings, and the motion for stay was therefore denied, ‘This decision, tt may be inferred, leaves the Pa- elle Kallroad Company ground for a sult against the receiver, Mr. William M, Tweed, Jr.,for trespass tn smashing thelr large and costly safe, So we may ox- pect another complication, Refore Judge Barnard yesterday, Mr. D. D, Field pressed a motion that Mr. Joho B, Alley be adjudged guilty of contempt in omitting to disclose the eon. tents of the minute-book of the Union Pacie Rall road Company's last stockholde necting. Judge Barnord held that Mr, Alley had been guilty of gross contempt ; bat his Honor would give him time to purge himself, ant therefure the bearing should stand over until Thursday ANOTHER RAILROAD WAR, In the Supreme Court yesterday, Charles A, Lam bard entered suit against the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company, He alleges that was made by ning associates, of whom he was one, to forms corporation ta Towa to construct a rail road in that State; that eaca associate should havo | an cqnal interest in it, and that if any of them sold out, their shares should be purchased for the joint beneft of theremaining associates, ‘The Stoux City and Pacife Ratiroad Company was accordingly formed, with a cupital of two aiillions, afterwards increased to four millions, and some of the associates sold out to others fur the Joint benetit of the remain: ing associates. The plainti’ clalins that he is de- nied his own ninth interest tn this increase of the capital stock, and his proportion of the shares of those assockites who sold out, and he sues to have Dis rights in that respect declared, and to compe specific performance of the agreement, Decision reserved. Lager, eparing for Free lager from the Legistaturo has materially reduced te namber of applications for licen and the probability t# that Mr. Monierre will find w sorry dofict in his treasury on the 1st of May. Everybody 18 going into the lager, and the dealers will sell nothing but the lager, In the Bowery, yes- torday, Irish dealers who never had a glass of the ‘Teutonic beverage of King Gambrinus in their houses, were fitting up thelr places for the sale of lager beer, One man has had the yard of his house completely reconstructed and boarded over for « luger bier garden, On Sunday,” said he, © tho bar will be completely and effectually closed, but I can accommodate my friends in the garden with the fouming lager.” ‘The result will be, as everybody most see, that under the amendod law all classes will ‘ate ® tate for the mild and harmless beverage ” Jony Germans, and the more fery and poison. “) esi wit 08 cease Lo be in dauvand, WENDELE PHILLIPS NEFORE A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTER, naan The Terroriam of the Massachusetts Cotton rpornt| the Corporations be Amertonnized-Tho Trades Unions tho Ouly Menus of Selfvro~ April 6.—Mr, Wendell Phillips to-day addressed the Legistative Committee appointed to investigate the subject of the hours of labor. He estimated the carnings of the laboring clase in this country at nearly two thousand millions of dollars annually, and thonght that that fuet demanded the attention of legislation to thelr interest, He depre- cated the tendency, eapecially evident since the war, of legistation for the rich and for the poor aa inde- pendent classes, tho rich growing richer and the poor poorer, The tendency is for the children of the rich to be separately educated and the great mu. tual benefit of thelr coutact with the children of the poor ts lort and with it also the interest of the rich in the public schools. THE RNKLE OF AMERICAN REPEHLICANIaM, When, said Mr, Phillips, the time sin thts country that a permanent laboring class existe, the knell of republican institutions hae beea sound A great problem of Anicrican tatesmanship is to myke corporations consistent with American institu: one, THR FIONT-TOUR LAW AN OPENING WRDGR, The great qaestion of the future ts cooperation, to which we must come sooner or later, The question of cight hours he considered a atepping-stone to a better condition than the laboring class now enjoys or suffers, Mr, Phillipa spoke of the “Trade Union,” not defending them, but clalming that they are the only means of self-protection the laboring classea have, The whole aystem ts indeteusible, ex- copt on that ground, He favored a commission, but feared that a patisfactory one could not be obtained, Girls who appeared before the commission Inst year and eave their testimony lost their places of work on account of that testimony when they returned. TUR PARTY OF PRERDOM TO SRCURE THE WORKING. MEN THREE RIGHTS, Mr, Phillipa did not suppose the rights of the Inbor- ing people could be secured except at the hands of the Republican party; but he did not expect that party to tnke liold of it until the power of the work: ing men is felt at the ballot box. A feeling must be ereatod that there 18 no right by which men shal be worked up to niake colton cheaper. anon amission, he would Failing in having a proper ec have an officer appointed as an inspector or commis- sioner of Inbor, witha good salary, wo would have the power to require exhibits from eorporations that all laws in rogard to labor have been observed, and with power to compel their observance. He wanted the samo oficer to collect information in regard to the annual average hours of actual Inbor each day, ting absence from sickness, &e., rates of ‘wages, rents, prices of provisions, some estimate of the social and comfortable condition of the laboring classes, and, in short, all matters relating to them, Such a step he also considered only temporary. The arent remedy ts yet to como, when the ballot is Placed in the hands of the laboring classes. pecans tei the Ei ment. To the Bititor of The Sun. Sia: All workingmen will read with astonish- ment the action of Secretary Borle on the eight hour question, Occuring at this important time of the year, when workinginen are banding together to enforce the movement, with reason and strict justice on their side, Secretary Borle's letter begging for the repoal of the Kight Hour law, is singularly un- tied and unfortunate, Would Secretary Borie like to ree our naval garde Managed aa In England, where the Government pa the poorest Wages of ll employers, aud the wor when executed costs double the value? Sir, Tdisdain to enter more fully on the subject at present, but earnestly eall on all true men to m in some public place and pass m vote of censure on Hour Move Secretary Borie, Yours very faithfully, A WORKINGMAN, ollie Se THE LATOR MO MENT. - ‘Testing » Corporation Ordinance. A meoting of the Public Cartmen's Prot otive Union was held last night, and the eomplaint of the preceiting wook azalnst Michael Reily w ly discussed. Reilly had made uso of I ry fthe law, which allows but th fore Marshal Tooker he jon no more than the legal num: ntative of the t had none with him, ‘compelled to ask fi Journment of the trial. La y an v0) wi in be deeided favorably, @ number of other sunilar prosecutions are to follow, coed Charter for the Bricklayers! Unton, Wasiiatoy, April 6,—Mr, John W, Browning, of Now York, ‘is here, acting as a Committee from the National Bricklayers’ Union, to procure a char- tor from Congres tor that body, ‘The petition was «1 on the $84 ult. ut in the press of basin ove ie not been acted upon, with Col, Saunders, Becretar District inform charter co At this session, but should be piaced oa Ble #0 as to be acted upon early at the next. — nthe Kight-Hour Law, Wasminatow, April 6.—Mr, Secretary Bori communication asking Congress to reduce rates pald in Government workshops and ship- awakening the indigaation of the working vughout the country, And in comm pierce with the wish of many of his constituents, Senutor Wilson bas introduced a bill dedniug the Intent ot Congress in passing th bt-Hour law, Which was to wake a reduction in tho hours of labor, but not in the remuneration therefor, ‘The bill had veen sent ty the Judiclary Committes, —_—— Another Strike e Stevens Battery, ‘The Inborera on the wonderful battery in_tto- boken struck yesterday. ‘They had been paid 81.75 per day, but were cut down to $10, Thoy demand Vhelr fucmes rate of wages, The old Commodore loft $1,000,000 to finish the battery, ‘The motto ems to be, * None for Senator Wilso! among those im power now dus, —_-— The German Clear Makers met lust night, and Mr. Kuhim presided, From the Guancial report submitted, i appeared that the assets of the Suciety amount to $4,300, ‘The number smibors in 1 An clection of delegates for man Workingmen's Union resulted in the Messrs, Kubo, Krueger, and Kampraud, Berk, Schacter, and Keiubardt, —— Other Labor Meetings, Laborors are wanted in Alabama, The printers held a large meeting at Masor Hall last evening, and ratiied the action of the Com. wiitteo of Conference in wottling the strike, The German United Cabinet Makers, numbering 2,00 members, had a crowded meeting last night, snd action Was taken in reference to tie great Ge: nan workingmen’s festival, on the 5th of June, Joopers’ Union No. 2 mat last evening, John Dwyer in the chair. ‘Tho wages now range trom $4 $4.00 0 day for trina All the coopers eemployed, and tuere Is au increasing demand for Tabor in the iFade, Tho 'Longshoremen's U. B, 8. met last even. ing, President J. Keane in’ the chai 6 Trea: surer's quarterly report showed that after disburstag #h08 for expenses an wick dues, there Ws Ia his ands and in the Bank $2,714.14. eee A Warning to Sowlvg Girls, To the Editor of Tha Sun. Siu: Knowing that your valuable paper ts much read by the working class of people, I wish to Hurorny the of w certain establishinent in Thomp: fonville, Conn., under the nome of the Enfield Manulacturing ‘Company. It is nothing more nor jess than « public swindle, They ensago girl with fair promises and flattering hopes, and send them 130 miles in Counectignt, and when they get them there He fs quite @ ditvent thing, ‘They naye to work eleven hours and a haifa day, and don't get paid but once a month, and it takes ‘ail they can earn to pay their board, engaged ime with eighteen bthers as operators; but Whew they got us there we tutes had to sew by han: OPERATOR, New Youx, April 6, 1869, ee Modifying the Excteo Law, ‘Yho Thiat and Fourth Presbyterios of this city, embracing mwre than one hundred ministers, at their meeting on Monday adopted resolutions protesting Agalust the proposed. modification of the Excise law, which exempts lager beer from all logul_ restric- tiotis on Sundays as well as other days. They an: nounce 4 meeting in Living Hall to-morrow evening to 4lve embbasis (o aw Drotest ——————--_} TWO CENTS PRICE A MYSTERY IN BROOKLYN, — A MOST REMARKABLE MURDER, LF A MURDER. —. A Rody Exhamed for Second Inquest—Suse Denth— Money and Papers Missing Twe Witte Claimante—The Doctors Disagrees Coroner Jonos, of Brooklyn, is investigating @ mystery, John Peters, ® watchman at the oil works of Mr, Shepard, went to his work on the evening of Febrnary 16, appearing to be in good spirite and health, had some coffee brought to him about if o'clock, and between three and four o'clock in the morning was foand anconscious and his pocketbook, containing @50 oF 60, was gone. He had only one shoe on, and lay at the top of the frat Miant of states in his residence, His gloves were picked up « ham dred feet from the louse, and the missing shoe om the sidewalk without. From that moment up to the time of his death he was anabie to utter « single tm telliaible word. He was living with a favorite nieces, to whom he intended to bequeath hia money, Ow the night of bis strange mishap, Jobn Sorensen, the husband of this niece, hoard between three and four o'clock in the morning a low knock at a door on the second story near the head of the stairs, Immo diately before the knocking he heard the footsteps of a man who se to have (wo shoes on, and thas was all, He found Peters lying at the top of the staira where be bad heard the knock, He was lying on his breast trying to get up, but unable to do se Ono shoo was missing, his gloves, and bis pocket book, but his silver watch was not. No brulee or mark was found on him, and they put him to bed: and called a physician, Drs, Gregory, Clark, amd Chapman attended the dying mao, examined bie "1 thought that he was dying of uremia, tm by diseased kidneys, 80 on March 9 he wae buried. But acitizen of Brooklyn was not satisfied With this, and through a letter of his to the Jrooklym Eagle, the Coroner was moved to order an ihyestigne tion, ‘The body was exhumed, and a post mortem cxam Inatton followed, in which Drs, Shepard and Stiles, the latter Deputy Superintendent of the Metropotl. ten Board of Health, have decided that the man aia not dte of uremia ; that bis kidneys were not diseased § that bis urine did no¢ contain albumen ; but that hig death was owing probably to apoplexy. But whichever of the two is right, some things a together out of keeping with their decisions must be explained, Aman dying of apoplexy or uremlay fo matter which, will find no time to hide bis poek+ tthook so that nobody by any exertion can find i nor would he be likely to kick one shoe Into the gutter, and leave the other om. Nor will » robbee either, for the fun of the thing, carry away old shoes 4nd gloves and scatter them on the sidewalk, So fur the testimony baa shown that be loved tie niece ; did not care very much about his other ret tives ; was possessed of @ little property ; and he made two wills, with this difference betwoon them : ‘That $700, which the Grst assigned to one William Dunn, was by the second bequeated to William ‘Wade, the nophew of the decedent's first wite, en GOING UP, - Adventures of Two Connutrymen | Astor House-They Get ta a M Room-The Koom Kune Away with The Correspondence of the Cincinnatt Times, A few ovenings since two rustica, who had made their Oret visit to the metropolis, and had very mae xam{ning rise and delight, ‘Thoy went ap rs—looked into the breakfast ‘and dining rooms, the parlors, the office, the saloon, the barber shop, and had many words of commends for ene ‘At last, wandering along the corridors, one of them the elevator, the doors of which ere, Joe,” eaid he to hie friend. ” Peed little room, but there's no bed tn it, I wom curiosity was aroused, So he stepy jote ‘or, and He and his companion sat down om one of the cushioned seat This (8 ploe, re marked Joo, "but Ldon’t #eo exactly what it's for, Do you, Phil Whild they were trying to find out what the nlow little room ‘War intended for, they to rand terror that it cried dug, W runnin’ away, tir mean whoa’ vil does thig hoa! whoat roamed Bill, endeavoring ——n the lufernal thing, et out, , or you'll be y both began to climb up the sidey ‘but were nnable to escape. Jontonad the luck, this isa wooden dalloom we've got into, Bil, ICs going right up through the roof, sire. When It gets on top of the house, let'e break outand OL for our lives, Le watch bow for our chance, old boy, or we're goners.”” Stil the elevator ascended, and the two bumpkins fat sul With pale faces and compressed lips, as thoy were approaching the rapids of Niagara in aa. open boat Tiey evidently anticipated deat wteuglo, and were prepared for jn a few more seconds the elevator stopped. ‘They Were about to step down it went, to the new astonishment terror of the bucolic patr. ‘They then gave themselves up for lost, and when the reached th i oe ney were asked servi they wished to goup ag into the corridor as thouga ney ied at of their graves, What the devil is that thing?’ inquired Joe, Is the helevator,” replied the serving mam, cing Roglinh, ha aspirations of course, ll, L thought there must be some kind of hell about it, Is it a trap to frighten strazgers, or an im fernal machine, or one of them d—d velocipedes I've beard tell #0 mach of ‘Tho servant endeavored to explain what an clever tor in; but he failed as completely as H. G. had ab the poultry show, ————————— Gen, Gravt's Game of Bluff. Correspondence of the Syracuse Journal, * * © This report reminds me of a little story [have often heard told by old army officers, who knew Capt. rant, and sinoe served in the war him. | The expression was common amoog tendfast reticence on military pure ns were commented on, * Well, Lwome um Grant had in his band.” ‘The or! When a Captain in the + generally and familiarly called © Unele Sam’ or Oil Sam Grant,” At one time, Ingulls, Pemberton (afterward defeated at Vicks: burg), and some others known since on both sides of the great struggle, were stationed with Grant ab an Oregon post. fo while away the dull houre of @ jarrison Life it ia said they played cards a good deal, Dae evening ee ;, of whom Grant was one, sas down to play * biulf. They staked small amonnte on the results, but finally it grew more interes! Grant at last had a hand which be refused to show, the customary bets were made went * one better,” ag the phrase gocs, ‘The excitement over the" biufl"” grew turlous. Grant sat evo! and ime perturbablo, covering the stakes of his a: first with the casi he had, and then by sigas ing and hypotheeating his pay roll for @ twelve months in advance At last they wore Dluded, and refused to stake any moro, and, as @ consequence, Captain Grant swept the board, he did not show his hand, as most men would doz and to this day none of that rty have sag ceeded In inducing him to tell what he bad ta his hand, It might bave been trumps or ft might have been’ a deuce of another sult, story, whether true or uot, well illustrates bis capacity for keeping his own counsel Saiieeenaniaennan How President Fianey Tried to Secretary Cox. From the Church Union, Whon the news first reached us ointments, and iy wife broke to 1 intelligence hat J, D. Cox was oge, I thought more of Grant thea Tover bad before. And it was because I knew Cox. I never had onal acquaintance with him, but being at Obers fivat the tine. that be was, and engaged ib study, had good opportunity for ‘knowing something him, What made me esteem him so highly was, unilinching defence of the truth ae he And the fact that Le differed 40 widely from those “authority” marked him as a “Diack sheep, and he wus regarded by many as bordering og infidelity or something worse, because he to resist what he reganiod ad untruth, | He osiecmed by all for his foe talents, and a} vert to the ap {0 sppear (0 me, that President Finney hus couvervion to certaln theological views as more importance than all the class besides, I ha ‘n Mr. Finny when he appeared as if the fron ot Vesuvius were burning within bim, and he w pour forth volume after volume of such burning elas quence as would electrify the best congregation ; and Whee in bis most forcible arguments and bur appeals, he would tura his back to the congr and state Cox in the face, and seem to be lal ring efforts to overcome what he regarded ry me} bs n° seen bim ny ‘the con- reat efforts turn away and w aw in the face of Cox that nis effort was Toot 't have oftea beard wonder expressed how it was pos. sible for any human being to sit and have volley ats ter volley of hot shot poured into him, amd ao marks of surrender appear ou bis countenance, Tho project for a paid Fire Departmous’ foe Brooklyn meets with muel favor among the — ers, and we should think It ought. Tt was pw Wek might chat ‘Capt Cornelius Woujom ‘ce ar selected to preside over the Kew Bo,