The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 18, 1872, Page 1

oa Golconda PH duced to Real ae be Worth Three Hand Founded at the d eri and posse, and ev ten tevied on and remov ine. as if Lhad stolen the money they were houghe with, Twill state here that mean no re- lection on the officer, as he did no more than his ashe was, that Iwasa swine ‘ler, | have been informed thas the attach! was sworn out in this State by the agent of one Win M. Lent for $40.0 rowd enor nid awear 1 obte ow, Mr. Editor, as much has been cireulated by Lent and bis ring, for correct statement and my connection with the dia mond jouddie and Wm. M. Lent. ny eayiny Lhever sold one dollar's worth of pro- nt, nor have Lever had any contract het Iho bas on of the matters worty tol th him, hor any his ow #tespecting, vendicig and ans and by Hiccovertun vortod the Prancisry it being in olf to KEEP IT A PROFOUND SECRET »lore the country further, and Zteat of our dis- Coveries. So we made a second tri 1'we found ra very large extent of 0 other discoveries ar first discovery, wh until we could exp ascertain cry. al latter bi London, tit Hai vendls coveries, e@onsity, made a proposal to bu: velfout, [then refused to sell any part of it, at an: coin (this bel three-fourths. woveries, Now, the questivr amines should ‘be worked, iHarpending any, which Rober with to the explorations. A. month except Ri .now it for nearly one year after Slack His interest. Fefusing to and they bi bo mach. ¢ eon peop uy 40 Germany, to tie | road (Harpending, and the p #0 the compa neiKco, be it. dintely itubery, L bel heveral were f lown, Next wery early. Every in and dug where Ble reported L) us by dred yards (rc an to the the Lent Spee ‘ with o Trew cre presence. there after th ow, Beg Wiiive at tt rave! leas than, but © 6 aud a hall (Uae, Moasre diack abd Arnold r.cn fren done was © 800 Further, Worgh @ ceute' jer carat, bi 1% ‘Total prodice of Cue oud ® bail .one of gravel, 16, oF BAD—e.y $30) per Lor MODERATE ESTIMATE. Tne estimate wat o'A, aud selling b laine, be worth atltiate upon th a fiouo of thi eoum sh t fe effet of this ‘The washing was Wits the aaristane of Geold-rockers) the Fenulle of the same qaality of fer an rave) ovat, Gite foot wi Over, put Grou d prove as Fen vver only on th wanheu already, Ula a eau would 1 ure ind rubles the pare If Cea acres only, Which would fu be one-twrutied ety Uo sro are. One viock of ‘Tho first block alone, ee ‘ur all practica) Houta Lo the rach THR AMOUNT OF PROSPECTING DONE. er sanples from those portions ground wich are ia) bead only time to gath the 60 acre block of ve ry lat. Al Es ‘TIETH YEAR. qi) AMERICAN GOLCONDA, ASTONISHING STORY OF THE GREAT DIAMOND OPERATOR, cont, and does not enable me to form jade, nor limite either of the very Fieb or oDly ire only one-half y the purchase 10 acre tract will pro otoae per cent of the drop, when suddenly I} and begle crawling bxe 1d J thOURNE I wae Ay from wh: ‘that he kn Thaye already show: ifthe whole i it would furnish ab linmense articular attention to the Interviewer~How long did {t take yon to eury Gillette—All the time we were there about ® Interviewer-Then you «illlette We went to eurvey out with the confidence that J uestion. was th What did you du to th PROSPECTING? Gillette We were all busy with the surveys. who were not #0 occupled to the culinary departine! Ue frat loaf oF bread baked on the neveral cooks (not professions nd they took ( i ‘would pull out my kn ental rubles freq oepected wuder the roote of if anybody could salt them \d-no time to pr polute io the pla inple of which accompantes broad gulch has received the drain decomposition= DIAMONDS, RUBIES, AND GRAVEI— of the sandstone and c ‘over 300 yards, remely rich im the few experiments made confirm this belief. je Jo che mind of any t tharked 9 and 10. it gravel washed eet to the Relde un’ the Louwwelite Courier-Journal. Ruvanernrows, Dee, 4.—On my return veom New Orleans last night, Learned tom: Nt astonishment that my house had been sy hour of midnigh thing of value bad to parte unknown hfore ting and aitendin chit nee Roberts turned ow und, And it was furchaser that I am no wing to {he limited time allo he ground, how ext y, led to believe, up for Gre dorama Mi be ddd salted the tree to ry Whitt the genera of the felds? Anything to suggest the oi of diamonds, ant hills, @e.? an open, bleak, and in m there that had been left by the nding party lsat apriny . TOOK charge of Debuneh grass, Loterviewer~How d. THE BULLY MULE. will send out ‘of Monroe Thome ), the amount he ha: | ratore of the company. hin agent to be: om him by fraud. dence was gathered which than to recommend, tnvestm to me for consideration of # that so small an area should prov Price submite and el ‘aliforni: \. for the sake of chief of this strikers, * Lent b Ing,more worthless mining stock on the world, PHILIP ARNOLD, cemaicipens ad Slack tv jome* Their Rutecedents, Prom the Lowiertt zAneTutown, Ky., Dec, 14.—1 diamond muddle continues to be the excitin, —I wish to giv Tepaid in dividends DIAMONDS MAY BE FOUND t 1 ever ha Slack and myself were y the Kocky Mountains for A. Har- vy furnishing the iners with w ed di tnonds and ot nour return to $ Harpending then turily answered by if We found on thi aw We tode sisty tilles. to i ayaa that cosa ite devil that ever you reach the raliroad the I male looked as though Aud be fitted his D. Koberts, th oUheré are much of machinery and any ittie mule. And ua far as orke Roverts can eat more Hittie man t ever He atunda tn terribie strong for # little man, Why aid you tea 4 to Roberts ‘ors, I tell you Gi von Hy our discovery, aud promised Slac Ktuated that they cai ta moderate ‘and the ground froze, aud It w ‘Then the boy* took ready been comme iy roe extreinel tt 4 pdent In have time enough ich would have anaw ueatious, I do not doubt t! betract and duj Canuid.y, 1 tell yo 0 Viterest, bat all that the Investigations nia waid about will be at big expens: he washing, but the expense is t further prospect Hamonds over a greater nd bewring; and out 100 tiles south of ) satisfied will pay to bring in wa Hothing comparyd to the returns. id you fod the stones? be le property, a nate ‘our obedient strvant, HENRY JANLN, M. I will here state that after this rej 1972, I nade ancther sale to Harpending of shares, as arranged and ‘Tarrytown, N being alone present (and th company was formed), for $300,000, leaving ne 8,000 shares, es divided templated ‘company. ght these si Dod, ur report vin returned inthe meantime fro! attractive ome, Vary truly, ¥ times in the sandy I mille ceyond the there's plenty for th p ‘ou don't credit the salting” stories, How could they? Ail diamnonis,as I told you, 4 over an ares of balf « milo—ihey alteo much, could they, ani in auticipation of our visit, whieh they couldn't expect Interviewer—Were you provided with spiritous com- id men of reat speculative pro- Slack and m my interest, or price; but they succeeded to purchasing’ Slack ® intores’ at $100,000, gold in Juno, 87D), thereb: controlling interest—in the dis- arcee how the ud Roberts and roposed to incorporate @ com- n and always after oppose 0 this way the work was delayed. after Slack sold bis tai and Hi settled by them, at 5 Y., on Sunda} Hett—Salting ? j—d nonseare. away under roots, at one time by them in the con- indenture hares of me was th California sharper and a jad been on these diamond rts? ‘Gillette (amiling) anake Uites. Bi wld bave won every time, were like augel’s visite, WATCHING THR STARS, Interviewer—Did you camp out ? Glilette—Every night, and we had a guard mounted— fll in military style—eod nobody’ Deen safe to have attem tchword. We watched the on fellows 1a San OU COLI ACEO: te we gou howe ood miner, whi & elds seven da e three-fourths of my Interest I had left, ‘h would have given him the controllin, t in the concern—a thi rest he was employed by to make another trip Ids to make further {ter an absence of near two we returned with g being in July, 171 * Bol Know that a living seul KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT OUR DISCOVERIFS pberts, Harpending, St all partners In the discoveries liad been, but sold out. fug had sold out ay otthose knowing wuld have discovered as quick asa deer, that L hired at this place, last July, twenty-one jo out to work ‘these mine did as the agent of the and at this thme 1 had received ever of my money, being $55,000. tt would have been out to expose THE FRAUD WIICH 1 HAD PRRPPTRATED on“ simple and un J arrived at Laramie City, in Mr. Janin, the Superintendent, got up orn'a that we would train and left for me to remain thei mained until 1854, Now, up to this time I did the Chronicle any We saw it every won the Union Pacite And what do you in by and myself, newsboys selling I everyw. T told you we saw some Tudians. Lot them one da If Roberts or Harpe: part of their interests be- fi this I was entirely ignorant of it, nor did | nd they were anxio 4d -now this fs true — wiy Chr onicie, dated awny back lu the legislative times, when the paper used phe of the Eacrainento Ndoue up in & St Roberts and Harpending still in- ing on facorporating acompany, ang 1 still incorporation, afterward learned, sold terests as to | to regain control, voming Territe into @ larze they reimiaded him of the Swainp-land and S an Intelligent Indy. ‘Al this juncture the Chre exbaused and Ciiette beat e jumped on th allfornia bimiself, orderin, until Theard from him. tched ine to disband and rol, Mr. Harpending. sed to give me $20,000 for one-fourth one-fourth interest, to be pald $100,000 ‘and $15,000 wheu my statements were veri- tied by some mining expert, to be selected by him, which ps Mr. iH nry Jani icles representative felt ‘& guttural sigh of ‘action, and both went of to rejuvenate on ice did without luxuries which the diamond fleids of — REASONS AS TILICK AS BLACKBERRIES, 0 on giving “reasons thick as bl aking plain what ts al- ready “as plain as the nose on a man’s face,” |. ¢., that Lent and his ring must ha} oat for the $1,100,00 ra well known and able mining expert of California, who graduated at Freiburg, 0 to the fields and examine then. G. 8. Dodge, A. Harvending, Henr win, Mr. Rubery, Slack, and wiins Springs, Gn the Union Pacific Rail- out the Ist of J that'Mr Jenin, Roberts and and Qfteen others, all fine experts and experi- enced miners, the ‘said Boyd being a mining ex- pert of no mail calibre, and a bosom friend of vent and his especial adviser in all his minin operations—the man le wished and advise Harpending to send Instead of Janin, yse Judgment he has {requently said 4t dollar, and if any man fooled Boyd and never say a word ago. when he pur: of Wa, Wilson, where he has sin. je has received for thia company, suld since his last expedition made by the fifteen men aforesaid. say in this connection that an with mining will know th could deceive twenty of the greenest mon to ounty, as these m Aside trom t representati . but Invariably perts selected and p: J will remark from bis employers its hardship one accuainted vilege of one po man living Tor $40,000, realiccng $80,000 on the felds arty airived he has borne It the evening. Ail hands were anxious t ded to the lo found the first dii maiied there several weeks without, my being mines are nc cloc now, Hook 1 than he really i ness man, oftent awe them into ce to my pulling Nowe the result thelr return to 8 lowing description hat existed in the new Golconda. To set at rest all questions of my salting the 1g WoO diamonds there by d by the purchase: xt) to. $3,000 for thelr Janin received from Harpending & is, and had he would not have gotten one thy in bak with my promise to return itt had not stated facts as to t t,and hot on my representations to Har to Lent anything at any tune, great many old “a long head,” and Is to be amp er borne the contrary, bas hi dence of our people, and has lately 9 personas who needed help according to their deserts. daughter, and two « Dn the ground n wort where he pleased, he pleased, Janin's se Hort and subsequent statement to th Lotwithstanding KETURNED TO mense wealth ted adversely I nt, the money be- natural forn » bas ny ed by a reporte: neisey Chronicl pending, but neve arpending being & CONFEDERATE OF MINE IN SALTING, ver salted, and and Harpending, Lam sure, in at least as sulting mines as Bill Lent, as t lowing facts will show: If l bud comuilited « Simple Bill,” itis the drat in my life; He, ip the first litte WITH DIAMONDS. Youn was very much pleased with his © Onds found damouds one bun. Where we were digg ng. i would like to ask any sane nan how the ground could bave been "salted ' & as tu misiead and deceive so peing experts theniselve: one of the tn California on man any one fornia) “would Has reported on more than one thousend differ oat mines, and never was deceived tp Ebgm. We remained on the ground: : Y'said fpoinced out. to dar his ts too thin. tho was emplo; Co be deceived I will say tn had no conte iting, Dy men, they and especially Janin, yet he Is not # peighborhoc transaction, made over all his p d, and took the ac out of the left corcer of his eye, aud Hi acquainted in Cali- vivent act for full of moment. Gillette goes a reat deal on George Roberts.ani 00, the tickets being mostly But the winnin This quiet way to have you leave it tntral Poe ticket was in the ued to board T would hke to y of $3,000 to go there ery year by eratiompted * of the initie ead o| rain dd when He too late to be r ut 184¥, when f to California. » Horace Greele: Obert gave another “Never mind that friends bought lars in Nevada, 30 miles fre y 1 Pac calied the Mineral Hill mill, and worked down by 4 trick often phi sew crop of fools” that go there (A of Bap Francisco, but he greenest of the green. od or old settiers, much less experts. t there to test the grounds for parties trad he was weak expert, indeed, to dig only where | pointed out; and bisemployers @eing present, were weaker and not atsome absence of mine have bi ext morning en route TO SEE BILL HUNT, and make all needful arrangewients for a chicken fight Teally bad wothing to doin Like @ good soldier by og over the sierra seen of him until yeater: dand looking Sacrawento, wher built @ ten-stal shatt was continued down 400 feet without any They then filled up the old shaft to where the mine’ capped,” and made a dump pile so as to bide the works, to deceive buyers that the inine had running bis mill, wor bartictiar ahd nowhere to go. walted orders, Nf Nevadas, Nothing more wi Tt will be easier for the miner of California, and perew. whewhere, who have balling Was douw pharity, easy in his to me bg the surface ore and declaring dividends and paying them out of bis the proceeds of the mine, to « London com- {ng §490,000 as bis been there. was after this hot ain Hot the Lent that did it, mal was never ‘ We went from the tields 9 Now York, and Janin made # report in due tims, of which the following bs a copy; JANIN'S PRELIMINARY REPORT, Naw Yous, June 26, 1872 shrewd and pocket, and not out ¢ fran Cade bere swindler, he bas @ was born with as mu Folks haven't heard the oth Slack bas been represented to te as a tan whose Iast mouthful would nger if he thouxht bim needy le in this distr when that offic 1 OP ww, feller! Giad Diamonds, 7 tied ‘well you look! erie, brown as berries, aud ae 8 suckling ba! i} be was taken thase OP this little fraud, The English company went to work, but soon ut the Titgle thought of suing bin, strodgs AVE Up the Suit and tie Taine. WM. M. LENT AND 118 RING have floated on the people in. this country and ipliment» went roupa, the Chronicle's vampires, ‘olowe) surrendered, but nnu.2y bis ring’ too Hot uous: then, the tured, was takeo to & private ap subjected to nd being cap tubent, and there Triewing, process a (we present the ful: low ing as the suostauce of the Feault of THE OLLLETTR PUMPING PROCESS. Interviewer—Colonel, you were one of the Roberts dialuoud expeditio just returned? Gillette (who gets excited cegasionall Up 40d mixes In’ word why abk 80 Myth laterviewer— We byerything ww ceived from Mei tet reent rip to tie 'y Teport, which will embrace the Uerailed report @Lould sutice v determine 000k, W wake ur doclive the luvest jain sid elde there made putside of that rechyed from ms never t working elias: stocks, and your humb! Just nine years over #0, the greatest part of which can be (ound ‘the name of Wm. M. Lent, eliner as President or Director. Now, li Mr, Le court here that I have d ner out of one cent, or anything wiulever, Mm every Cont he Las W of worthless mining servant bas fost in tue Win wining stocks, on Washed of rich ay Lures (buuseude | Ounds, oF The atnount of worn was vune by since his a —You know thal over the ree nukes it appear to a efrauded him tn any have « beginning. Tbrotiiee bin d will give dfor,aud fo wan under the sun can say I F, DUL my (oUF days 4 arate of diamon $8 per F rubies, four pounds, or 7,4) |, Why, ook at me, Don't 1 from the wilds, having been in that busines of the Ume alnce he we A you leave our hospitable ‘4s the novel wri Itis ruinored at 1 ain to be indicted in Calt- requisision will be 4 the Govetnor of thin state forme; and, y be brought within the range of Lenv’s King, Iie on as.euder tonure indeod a by them that tay be if I could meet place outside the lufluence ing, With bis indictments, L would Le tov willing W be tried on any he or any of bis pirelings could wump up. 0 where “Le ts Gliletbo~Well, Left here Aajust 2; If that does you BC0d, and | traveled bf-frelche OY Ge Ae young Win; mrmind me, newer, I Uravuled Oo (ue ralirvad vould hold uw rary for their p him bere, or to an ? Well, Ldon't kuow a that would do you or en, When did you reach THE DIAMOND FikLDS? Gillotte—In good time, We ak-keir: afew d-days, aud found that 6 AUX.OUS Waco Where We Were Prrroute ow them—ab, | as thade With due | Lis great qaantlly la wi en they can be vroduesd, an ih uaatity Upoa tor market. jyue by haud, wn ord.uary gold pana Yen (be silty ic BL mouarch of ail lahed nround for rice were Very then we played nd bere the Culouel 13 SURM DEATH. If there ever should be such a requisition, which 1am sure Will uever be, as it is a ruse to drive me from my home, the Governor will be if be will only take the yuire into the true f Tam the only wor ‘Who ever had anything in fewer-Hlow so? split the party in aud Lathan cs brotae whe Gs Ds tobe ire, abd would more tan txpemen of producti on ta value omy Owe vory slow to nd trouble to | ba this case. man or prospect Lents reach that be did not get, nds und rubles are the ‘hat soil cau be seen by the appended reports, he Sau brancioes of the mace Ould atti be worth #y per ee PruBls, Lf washed ia quaut ti THR EXPENSE OF WASHING ould never excced $10 09 square fect wud with au ay e Of us Went the Ut Teoberts crowd, nd would pay Very dt guess they bad Well, what did you do when you Snally diamond felis? ould we do but camp? ‘d, aud covered It witn Lrush, the wt reached the so-calle atural product of Purchased dc Aa acre covers depth of soil of oulit & kind of “poor Janin, Id produce we started ta Chronacle of Oovober 8, 18TE: THS ORIGINAL DIAMOND DISCOVERY AND MIN- INQ COMPANY, Who led the expeditio A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO ROBERTS, stones were found e Gillette George Koberi# was captain, and a b-b-bet. OF straddied w kickit u had the names all Vor by le yleid of y 20,00 toms, to an rich aw tie Deat ad, the produce will amoual Lo $>4M0.0Y, oF $30 por Rew the company own block arouuu Upon the etren Tevplations the origin aod Mining Company was” Lnco: poraved, and arangements were au expediiou It leaks out, sold | G Wit RUb-b-bery, who was pilot, led pieaty of thulea packlag aid horses to il Low se-kulvos Lu AbUNdaCE, uuu discovery of,, Aliugetier we w the arrangements had heev pearly ail Comploted. company ha! some time proviously #out a party to the piace, Bud thereupon be Was pul upd rourerentatly of Janin, the Vio te wthit fa the cliy Ah & Chrowicie reporter, enough to survey 5.00 ai In conversation Me LnveuLtow to party of bis ow sald atock, au Urposes Ibis sui vecasoual diversion: Kek-kilfed ‘em tn of «iillag dear Party pent out by the uccossful. The seo Goorge A.” Treadwiil receipt of @ letter from | statlug that they had found procious {but Bost ie amart on the trigger Cau't help teding you a litte incl confidence); don't want bel: mond Geld Was ao short (we wore much to be dau in the Way ol 10 ing the proper ett Mert ube to ie Shole erect of to kuow I cold you, track of round. rly SMO acca Would oecupy 1 age Sud report what you see \t, and the reeult will ont lapidary fur a sche Ge made public “Fie work, and say intil the stones are OF Worthlosspess ascertained, THE AKIZONA DIAMOND MINING OOMPANY, Bhortiy after the discovery of r stant from the original trate that ats kreater amount marrow -booes the black spot fad then he res the ri raise ip wi cxveoted lo hour the shst and Page ane Lent, Roberts, Har- Pa raat ‘ba on \“a Th “__ = ee we ke} perty of who ts well kn the bed ew somethi \d felde, After an ele, i him in that Jospecti es ee on, Yr pronounes re but few diamonds in pon the streny pained company was heaviest capital jour woeks 90 with a small party, A Rtlog be han fo ‘Teanlt of hie sec ootained by him, 1 te and min which was one of the trouble of fi le Courier’ city Taree pac bo hot Be penane by. ind & pack: pected to ted some time yan ming set, with Old Ken win the newspapers, ‘Tho Assoc t started from for the purpose ing suit against Arnold for $150,000. ‘This {i a mistake, on the Associated Press in San Pranciac and John lack patches n the Courter-Journat Wm. M. are the de! ont may hay h ~h, but the suit aw for which the sult ts Phill ate | i id i out of the excitement, ee! sy wo for 4 de i id tor tes and ity of tne Roberts ly, but they ‘on the ground, In s few daya the comn- ‘ye or six men under the the original incorpo- ed but little of what I know, and I e time and trouble hereafter to state of ail the payii eines of designe ring humanit; § hot $150,000, according to the report of the agent and are both natives of Hardin PHILIP ARNOLI was quite eventful in his eartier days, When boy about fifteen or sixteen vears of age, he nd to Judge Jobn Morris (now dead, but formerly an old citizen of our town, and Judge of the Hardin County learn the hatters' trade. But avail, for, the hardships of a soldier but whén the war closed, he did not return to the State and county of bis nativity, but chose Californial as his home. There he re- Returning to Elizabeth- county seat he was born, boyhood was od, his old gssoon boyna uta er tim t proved of no. he was, & Sdidier should; ime ty) otony ani yey. but was rr dull transactions of y village, as Elizabethtown was road, or anything to give of life and buoyancy. Li ‘8 LITR ung day vontained a telearam saylna that Win. 8 e i t as al- atated by your Wedhesday Courier-Journal. instituted 1s 00), as stated in that correspondence, and Dp a of the count between bis y and where his had know MARRIED MI88 MARY MAY, ving a few miles from town, with whom be went to San Franolsco for th vurpose of again taking up his residence there. Reports from him were ver} about IN! he returned to this county, bought 0, and Was reputed Lo be very wealt weemed dissatished with his nativ pd returned to California with his family, and came to our town no more until several months bared (he handsome resides q.. in the suburbe of our town, resided. PHILIP ARNOLD OF TO-DAY. He ts about 42 or 43 years old, and though he has seen much of this worla and boroe many of having followed the business of miner 4 portion of the time, and been one of as any prospecting partie: tern country pel id any man of bis J rel. and though Just in fe. Io thy, Stl he was received quite ‘and with whom he seemed to have been quite a favorite. returned with among the ap o.d Kentu In 1N4-5, with: even the semblan: He had tess orable, and in county, ip the wilds of the perhaps younger axant and oc He has what ke care of him tas He ts a keen, shrewd busi- es apparently as retic very pl 8 conversation. ntuckians are pleased Lo ¢ pposed by those wh ne ter of a bad ponfl- His family consists of a wife, JOHN B. SLACK, of ( Cy HIS CHARACTER. He net mas his headquarters when retur He is, itis said, a good minor, ¢ xreater portion % to that country, 1h Arnold, has # large circle of relatives in this county, ere 1s all manner of gossip In regard to those pulatlons, the opinion most gener talued being that tuere mat Amoid claims th the terinination of the that he can substs that all the tr-nsaedions that he and Slack erivctly legitimate, and those who are now accusing them of wrong and parues who attempied fraud, but, fe eauat in Weir deck sus, Cra pe innocent men to shield themselves from publi judignation, ANOUT TH DISCOVERIES. ‘There are queries in regard to Lent, the man stoutly denied by the Arnold's frlenis taat Lent ars worh of the dia dani vot he au he is called by a Callforol Aru orrespondent, i) his first repc those who purchased fr that the mines are very rich, and pre en beneath the roots of tre: where no other and but that of nature could have planted them. & Co, put the stock upon the market, aud Janin, UN) Riiwres at €40 poral denly became convine ter was a fraud sudd to ou some Teh Arnold anc Une market, ut upon citizen: unters of the for b yas anybod yet." In fae be dyided wit t under ty e other defendant to the suit, is an older man an Arnold, an old bac before. is a native of Hardin county, born in the known as Howe's Valley. He was much esteemed as a young man, as we are informed by the old residents of the place, who “knew John Slack well.” the Orst of our young men who volunteered Mexico at the breaking out o the Mexican war. elor, and, as we said He was one among of Green coun- his service be returned to ompany, but was great) was decided th elved y hy the overland route, « very interestin unt of the Journey being p lisbed in the ucky Reyister soon after the arrival of Lim- If and party. The world did not at first go well with Slack bis occupation as a miner. He was full « ature, and had to assume a ton an equal footing th plotting money-h Inaconversation with an old gentle: rked: “If John Slack is 9 yulred & second natu of 10 at ne y ty FWwas appointed J himself in tha posivion very worked very har: Money, We tude be ‘is said to diamond ap. me nin Kentucky but mt departure, but bas been the golden Wen Ho was atone tine a memo #f the Arizona and I believe his home; t (2 San Fran being unc” ted, ly onte: ay Las an expert fe nce tn Uh bree years ago urn, bu! paratio @ other pariies far r than Arnold and Slack he hax no f it, feeling confident ate the fact to any Court ° made aud arc Slack, von after thia re ort Lent ean ad Uh Arnold and Shick inderstanding, before the their representa pert einployed by those ward purchased the discovery, made up the company, The people here are, however, awalting anx- lously for further developments, and aro ld to form ap opinion until the matter is more ful ly developed, ARNOLD'S REFURN TO ELIZABETHTOWN, Arnold arrived here Thuraday night loooking ‘8 Well as Usual, aud still expressos a feeling of ton of winning the sult when It comes Slack has not been here for some time, only took up his res! wentystWo or twenty. T have not seen Arnold since bis last r: am confident be is making pre the attachments, and Gnally to win th Joast that is my Information from persons who claim to know. Of course much Interest ts manifested pro and Many of o} are outapoken | thelr condemnation of Aruuid and Slack. Som far t oO meet it at in ° PRIGE TWO CENTS, LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS, DASHES HBRE AND THERE BY THE SUN'S REPORTER. a Stealing from the Penusyivania Railroad Company. For several months past t) road have been troubled by the depredations of # gang Of iron and brass thieves, whore operations in that time dave cost the company several thousand dollars. Detec: Live Nugent yeaterday arrested two of the principal re Celvers, Large quantities of the Iron were traced to the ¢ Factory in Washington street, Jersey City, f tne iron car tri ied by the rail yarchase Jnnk dealer of Morgan street, He wae arrested, and heid in $2, Dy je declared that ANNA FB. DICKINSON INTERRUPTED. Last Night—To- that if the two mn traud they have only beev ‘ankeeing the Yankees, te A Breore tn Neotaw: expected Question which Did Not Choose to Answer. Last night Miss Anna E, Dickinson ad- dressed ® tolerably fair audience in Steinway subject of Iabor. . Which, ahe sald, only served to fill our factories with foreign workinen, and consign the American mechanic to pauperism. Already the workshops of the country are in nine cases out of ten su ‘The action taken ight-hour strike of last summi owardly and dishonest, ling in this strain, she was Inter. rave, middle-aged inan in the k a question. teplied Miss Dickinson. 1 ain ® practical jewelle suppose you bring ager watch to be 4 fectly iegitimal He to stand It, and the most o| ig made by the same bold schemes. The Engiish only « short time was taken from the capitalists in is said that s Kentucky Yan- ia the cutest whore wealth Company frat Fras ki ‘Yank in the world.” ee THE TATTOOING ARTIST. Mr. M. Hildebra Bhe declared against strik himself loose erintended by Sein '» Card—Where a Gon- tleman Can Get a Beautiful Fricate Jab- Arm for One Dellar—Or an and « Tombstone for Twe Dollars. “TI learned tattooing twenty-six years said Mr. M. Hildebrandt to # SUN reporter, day, “and for the last six years have made it my exclusive profession. air, and I should be glad to see you any time at my place of business.” The following Is About three toi aring were ide ji audience, who aid the ques- | Ler was another dealer named Somervil ton street, just below the Ames factot red_and committed in default of Sc.nerville worked through gang compose’ young atreet boys sud partly of the workmen om the ago, mended, for which day to do it, my much of the profit should go to and bow much to me?” prepared witl jon disposed of th a cf to individual objectlo: ceeded with her lecture, clo icture of the results to society should the eight-hour law be adopted by all classes. jardiy had the applause which greeted the ure subsided when an em- ted attention while ay being OH cent: Here is my card, ey employer ease, and not to She then pro- ing with a ludi transcript of the card 7, TTOOING IN Din 1 x M. rpEbraxpt, conclusion of her loyer In the audience req answered the question propounded by the i owever, Was 60 ‘and James streets. nu ters in Dr.'Gree! bey took charge Erie last eveuiny practical jewel was inaudible. im. ‘The person address for off to know what was feo! that it was not favorable to his class replied with acrimon in kind. Miss Dickin smiling graciously upon the disputants, many of whom had resur seats, applauded vociferously as a thrust was parried with success. ‘Th discussion at length became very animated. Th audience in the body of the hall was divided between emplovers an ertod themselves to clear nd the assemblage dispersed, thor- oughly satisfied with the evening's entertain- ‘The reporter accepted the invitation, and soon after visited the pla HOW THR ARTIST ROSK. Mr. Hildotrandt sald that in 1846 he was a sea- man on board the United States frigate United States, one of the men-of-war composing the African squadron under the command of Com- modore Reed. “Twas a young fell “and the sea was rose-colored to me, ined there was no place so attractive as on board ship, driving along before the wind, bound for » It has taken a great many years to get that idea out of my bead, and I am not sure 23 igh much too The youn ‘day, inate ——.— rennin Se produced a retort on the platform Yigorously given or ww, then,” be continued, ‘The Behool Board forcivl Mr. Hyer. An ind yer tord hin that ¢ Hy er then referred bia case f Public Instruction in Albany Asking that officer to relustate bim, ‘The Superintend @it Las declined to tterfere, In hi that If the courts can give Mr. ilyer no reilef his case a A Jerecyman R: As Jacob Membeth, a well-known citizen of Hamilton square between 1! ‘and 1 o'clock yesterday morning, he was met by twe Welldresse d young men, one of whom dealt him a blow tn the temple, as he believes, with » pair of metal He was rendered tnsensitie and robbed of old watch. On recovering con for the police, wi ance, aud Aually tm: been’ confined io fs mot thougat to bv dangerously injured, No arresta, Street Tragedy. The application of James C. King for a etey until the Fétura of » Fommission from Bremen wae rp owed before Judge Ingraham yesterday, on» i6™ Gavit showiag that the defeuce Intend to 3, and March, “alte prieong| Barker, oustin of friendé of Mr. ght to remove him. M| foreign port. ———_ A COMPLICATED CASE. ahitch, took airesh chew oi tled himself as if he were old forecaatle yarn, In 01 infliction the reporter sai: ‘Tell us all about that. Hildebrandt—I was coming to that. one of the men on board—Harrington hi vat big six and a half footer alithe tattooing on the ack with the crucifix him about ten days to do It. Afteen years, but I suppo ALL €ATTOORD BUT MIB FACE. Reporter—Are you tattooed much on other parts of the body? Hildebrandt oing to spin a regular prevent such an yell, about the About two weeks ago Edward M. Cook and G. W. Bertrand were arrested in Hoboken, charged by Gilbert F. Raisbeck with conspiracy ‘The latter alleged that he had purchased some Brooklyn property from a George W. Gardner, and that after suits in the New York courts he had been obliged to com- promise concerning the disputed title with Gard- In this matter Cook and Bertrand, the latter of whom is a lawyer, acted as agents, yment vf the compromise, the Jersey City, was cross and blackmatlin; adelphia, he was dol And he could covered my b $n money and « there isn’t an inch of m: skin except my face but what Is tattooed. Wel as I was going to say, T got H. me to draw, for that is the principal thing. The pricking of the skin is quite easily learned. I had &® natural taste for drawin’ even when i was a and would always rather do that at we. And so in tattoo as well But hin and me never fell out T never took any jobs from bim that ‘The fact ts, we both bad as much wz When we were off watcl, n the cruise? Arr gran to tench | in order to prevent ti which were stil! in the New Yor cided, and in the course of two years n@ had paid them $9,000. This was Raisbeck’s slate- and on it Cook and Bertrand were ar- and lodged in the Hoboken jail, anda however, served, was courts unde~ t in Jaguary, February JiogseniSle Ss te tae Re i a his cave. Judge Ingraham reserved his a a G00D NEWS FROM CUBA. parte vias The Alarm of the Spanish Soldiers in Santi+ time I got so that | coul warrant, which was not, issued for the arrest of ( Since that time the two men in J statements deeply implicating Ralsbeck, which tements were also published at th the case was !1 have made How long were you Hildebrandt—Three years. We came hom and were discharged at Norfolk, Va. 1 went with Commodore ‘There L had everyt There was no other sailor in the squadron who could tattoo as well as I could. THR ARTIST DESCRIBED. ‘The reporter during the recital had leisure to examine the tattoo artist. He is a medium-sized man with a clear, open, honest expression of His face 1s bronzed very dark by many years’ exposure to the tropical sun. vy black moustache language indicate a considerable degree of cul- ture. much more than ts usually found among the better class of sailors. Roporter—Do history of tattool Extract from a Lrivate Lett Krvoston, Ja., Nov. 26-—The offic spatches which haye been received here lately from the Eastern Department of Cuba could not be more favorable to our cause, Mr. has just arrived here from Santiago de Cuba tells me that on each of three nights that he spent inthat city the alarm was sounded and everybody momentarily expected the entry of the patriots into the city. monte goes from one end of Camaguey to the other without meeting any oppositivn. ently captures small Spanish o uan Andulsa, who Fon the scene for pe the first time The proceedings w ‘on the Japan ex- ing my own Way. property to Raisbeck for $25,000 In order to remove It from litigation, with the understandin, buyer was to give him five mortgages total amount of $2460. These mortgages, it is alleged, were never given. not one was ever paid for the property, and all attempts to secure its return were ineffectual, davits embodying these statements Rai: bock was yesterday arrested on Je! and taken to the County Jail. Cook bas im troduced him Gardner, but w dner, and in his presence si operty as above, giv time thought the believed the stran, Cook and Bertrand wert default of $22.00 bail, and yeaterday, bLeck's arrest, the Jatt amount and the pris iu turn authorized t was arrested on their affidavits, and sivned 1 recogoizance becoming responsible for bis ap- pearance and releasing the Sheriff from all re- This looks aa if it wore to be the of the matter; three men arr es made by the other, through each other's instrumentality, countenance. His manner and y City Heights ‘nt that Raisbeck in- anything about the Hiluebrandt—Ob yes, I've made the matter a ve read everything | o If you will look at the Amerie. Lsaw one up in the Cooper I find that tattool nly practised among the nolent times; and even amou of the civilized nations of the Kast, thous Years ago, tatioolng was Britons also indulged in mortgages on the he stranger, ter was all right an day they att signed bonds for that rs were released, ase of Raisb and so did the Angio- Butin later times the South Sea Istaud- ers practice it more than any other people. was probably introduced there b: the early exploring expeditic or somebody's else higher the rank of the person the more he ii tooed on his face a HOW THE ARTIST DORS IT. Please lot me see your implements for tattooing, and explain to me how you do it Here they are. eambric needles, No. 12, fastened in a bit colored India nk properly called Chinese in! where It comes from. Thi used by architects and are not less y the deaths Spaniards were one day, and som over for the next, ee MISSING THE RUNG. pata de Twe Mon Falling f and Escaping Unhurt, Correspondence of The Sup. Wiarorton, Del ome one of | sponsiollity. ptain Cook's sted, each on In New Zeala’ nd then released MR, SUMNER CONDEMNED. Renolations lemning Mr. Sumner’ Here are three Boston, Dec. 17.—In the Massachusetts House to-day Mr. Lincoln of Boston, from the Committee on Federal Relations, reported in a draft the resolves relating to Senator Sumner’ proposition, as follows: Resutved, By the Bei tn general court sasern ink ts the same as rveyors, and is of the ‘There is no camphor in It. e ink oF ple- twith a ittie water In 1 then dip the ends of the needles in the ink, and puncture the skin with them, drawing the design on the skin as I proceed, Fr cause the blood to flow, and {tts not very 1.60 an ounce. for use by mixt so of Representatty, + whereas, @ bill hi roduced into the Senate of the United Stet Here are nome a n kof the styles of work Ido aud the pri Colors of the United Stites ‘and dypreciite their grand achieveuieuts ia jon meets the unqualified The reporter examined the book. ing represents the ‘and tou the bate rebel lua: there Aesorwed, ‘That wach ley condamanation af the peo} Kanotved, oddess of Liberty, resdimg her loft hand on an eagle, and holding in her right hand a staff, from the top of which Boater The goddess ts » most She has light curly bair, with a ‘Th bod} of hor oe tatteting p our Reuators aud Kepreseatatty f these resolution Messrs. Thompson, Smith, and Heard of from the report of the rity of the committee, believing that it is in- pass any re8o~ lutions doncerning the action of the Hon. Chas. Sumner in the Senate of the United States rtla- riny register and regimental clors. nw of Newton offered a motion that the rules be suspended tn order to allow thelr consideration at once. Hips of Sate parting on her forebead, dross Is red and her wkirt blue nis design on the breast or other part of the body the artist charges 62, BAAUTIFUL Dearne, Anothor dostzn Jy an angot kneeling in front She bas beautiful blue The waist of her Teis out low Most fasitonable style. ely pea green, mi-tpain with @ rumMe at the bottom t dno dollar Is the price « Faith, hope, and cbarity Is represenied. by a rysh, kb anshor, and # heart en 6 dollar, and ts use dissented expedient for © Legislature other for an explanation, tude of an aggrieved man, Wd Fa.d his wrist wag nowed a scratched and said he didn't her man ress Is of & deep vermilion color. hand and a bruised shoulde {nthe neck aod in th opposed the motion, on oodented legisia jon and should be fully considered, and the motion was withdrawn, The bystanders te help rematm: of box plaits, The South Car, ing Things with Graphic Sketch o! eut Condition ef or dn thd bAgK of at Col, Joun J Kk beautiful on the arm of at the elbow, or Instend of & braclet A dancing girl with a sharrpslow skirt Is & You take the tr: The next day at noon At ‘thirty Tye “alo hear the tews that «new Sayern- ed. At one you ernment has upaet At twenty imincutes a usw Gover the one o'clock one, Kk walst and sash and J CveNen Tron Hildebrandt baa nallof his back. A learn that another new G the one of twelve thirty-tive. Past one Hews Teaches ment has ups: Ler to three you hear peuple ty about to brenk out the engine gives a gruan “Alight, eeatemen.”” Jump vut on to the roaa more dead chan A star, anchor, eagle, PuBie Of the witnes a ee Inoted agminst¢ hb Open court rey uiileted (helt aff hands underneath, d bY M Wreatls, Ov has this desig: shoulder blade ind ts emblematized by a harp, attached hts the fgure of an aigel with'outaproad wings, as if she were flying away with tie in- Underneath are the patriotic murda: y (hata revolution era tunnel; volve shouts out, Afier an elabor terious person, ahmuded ina cloak, bis me epplauie 9. der the broad brim of bls wat, is Hwith his muskot, ERIN GO BRAGH, Growing a line on © Your money or your life ou band over your @ meaning of all this. WLACK-EYRD BUSAN, But the sailor, the jolly Awerican sailor, and san is the thing to take the eye Ula young follow who Wishes lo see the world, perfectly happy they are—especially Sua Sulp is if the distance, I) Ing at anolor. has Justarrived from a Jor b & blue woollen brond-botiomed pantaloons, kets are tull of money, for wayes have been tai dressed in pink from top to bottom, both hands, and she st William ib getting uire into th How quickly relieves: y that you lave been plundered by the You continue your vo: on foot, first village you ston ng dl : * firing party itis the Mc t you hear the shots of a sya pie shooting Repub Tn Madrid you Ond a Governuent which can hardly defend {tself from the attacks of opposite political parties, a inanition In a desert La Revolucton de Cutt, the Government in this city, in shirt with a ong the ‘breaker wide, open colle * ea, epruay alouk and wae lo ‘outa, and after 4 ¥anciu (/) alles Ithas boca anowlug here ill day, —n Navigation on the Hudwon, nd which is dying of days" exposure She bas Willian clasped b: is willing and able to ass! rid of his hurd earnings. Mr. Hildebrandt has this design jabbed on hie stomach, and he'll punoture it On anybody ol¥o's stomach for $LM), ‘There are Dumerons ot roof a religious ¢ dt sald he wax frequen rgan of the Cuban menting op Lhe Col, Acosta y @ former ix, notwith what Kuperi: which was Composed ohietly ¢ members of the chain gangs ‘ause the first regiment which was #o ot by the patriots, Koarce= Of the Orat enrolinent surviving Vhis was the regiment which murdered the fame Hy of the Molus in Camayuoy r designs, man: Horkes continues to the Tater, Jail birds and We’ say was ummoned by 1y choad honor of tattoo. Major Tarr, En dof Aldermen, bis arm a square and compass, Live uumber of bis lodge, and his nametn full, Mr. Hildebrandt said he had from Southerners while on a visit to the city stoned was destro! ty @ single ma JSOTTINGS ABOUT YOY frequent oalls* The Alnbama Troub) Mowrtoommny, Deo. According to agree DER Of the Conrt House and Capito yet at the Biate | ees, acCUrUILY Ly,{he plau uf Ab beat customers, gentlemen he has pun “LT may therefore “ that tattooing Is at On many of these Way eva ar ured an old frigute for 8L clude,” natd the repuiter Used Lo a Consider M1 proceeded to Lux. General Willl Hiltobrandt sniiienium artives. be a pure white, wiih vole divtiguring mark pon us. Miho tattooing ways will be until the nbiicang elocted the temporary tne Clerk, They will have «majority of lor-artist then called for » glass of grog all around, and the laverview was Fifty atxth atroct, a of Edward A, Pollard, editor and axlbor, died GL, Pog of 2 Coe bail by Comisetor Uulled buses shipping wt by Koippiag we Wiinod Aud VUOFe Ik (he AuerivaL schoooe: nal Office pro- Lyuchburg yooterday eve now and rain ia the ee eee ® —<——— nd bral joyees. Th the iron In good fait 6 pring! Dr. Henry Greene of Grand Rapids, Mich., whe was taken to the Park Hospital on Satarday suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, died yesterday forenoon. Dr. Greene had come on from the West te be married, and was lotended bride resid his way to Armenia, where his Meeting some old friends he nk #0 ‘As to induce ma heavily ied. From the papers and let it was secertained that his they hastened fo New Fork the body and atarted with 18 woman who was to have ‘accompanied the corpse Fuss. Until last August Wm. H. Hyer had been Prins cipal in Sehool No.4 in Morriannia fortwo years. He ‘was reioved by the School Board on the charge of dis respectful language and eonduct toward the members rot. Barker of Bufalo was appuinted Principal, buf when school opened In September Mr. Hyer refused te instaliee Watjou dud Was attacks a 10n, cr over to the patriots with eight other armed men, and on the following hed the fortitled ¢ They sacied nine wa Gre to the piace. ‘The Spani«h sick and wounded in hospitals tn than a thousand. ‘The avorage number of deaths is six per day, but on mounted to over able to bury this last lot in consequently, bad to be left igity. Th Five-Story Build! the man below him, ouse upon him, who rushed t in Accuners, ‘The alleged bribery onsoe Patterson, and Gen. HG. Worth ington, In connection with the Fecent ebection of Cob Patterson © the United Blates Sevate,was hoard to-day. Before Justice Richm: The toatinony was freely taken, overwhelming ard couciusive that n ond, OLPateron end Geu.Worti tapos aud swore ti ib Maning the ean One 3 uvitted the taaity of bis aftiday ‘ouipel Cule Batterson by 8 CAutoation “ull tie conte agaltat mi tuhugts wily di nena The steamship Seandinayian galled at noon to-day for The brig E. Bertha of St. John's, N. F., struck upos ddle Ingovish and went to piroes las Pride crew safe, was lost by ® sudden Drowking Up of tue he steamer Kamad IN ns of the artist Kensett will te Acwieniy of Design frou ty to L bed today, Miss Noilson visited she Tombs yesterday, aad ¢ building by Justice Dowling, The Hen. Thomas H, Nelson, United 8 Mitton to Mex Huet City of Merida, Mr, Walter I’. Grover te Hail lant evening ow palied’ yesterday fur Vora Crus by clure bad be been slyig Yestorday afternoon Dennis Daley, a laborer, d Mul Forty-eb hth street aid Kiest wy: tured in. Aswelation “The Currency of Co Y Would have presiied ab U sue, (ol I eior) of ane hist 18 ar Bixih ayeune, Aud Was fabaliy 3 sly was held Li $50 he yeats on acharge oF ams Sh Pennsylvania Rall Pa pag Fees a <a gecnen, er he eayt required for al de- whe Gen. Ignacio Agra. He fre. houses an! set Many Spaniards wore killed A party of elubty vagabouds, who fs being taken by the Spaniards under escort trocha, hilled their esvort and joined the insur to the , Dec. 4.—The other day a very remarkable accident happened here, Seven colored hod-carriors were at work on Poole's wharf building, four stories and a base- ment. Six of the men were on the ladder at verious points. Sam Griffin waa in the act of stepping from the top of the bullding upon the ladder with an empty hod. His attention was instant by something. He rasped at the rung of the ladder and tnissed jon Isaac Backu ed him off the Upon the next m to the ladder. mony stones and ru sping the hod. aw Uh it would prove fatal acore of willing mt falien hod carriers could get to the spot, Sam Griffin arose to asitting posture on Ike's breast, looked around bim, and rubbed his shoulder, lke Hackus made a move upward and displaced Then both ares and looked at exch Tke as ued the att: ladder. Backus fell ed the fourth, but Backus fell into’ the bbish, and Grifin accident expected that both men, Before the aid the Say caus Ve supt at bri tereon or iis fricnde had been attempted. * NON whose afidavite warrant rH . a laige crowy lh atone The steamehip Mans Wo great por Iver navige very heavy ey with continued ould