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PRESS AND TRIBUNE
THURSDAY MOMMO, JA3TDA&Y 20, 1859.
Party Aid tavoked to Crush Municipal
Kights.
We alluded yesterday to some ol the means
employed to bring the enginery of State
politics to bear npon "the municipal concerns
of Chicago, and alluded incidentally to the
' claims which the Dyer charter and its back
ers had npon the Democratic party at large.
As the eutyect was not by any means exhaust
ed we will porsuse these investigations far
ther.
The pilgrimage made by the editor of the
Tima to Springfield has not improved his
temper. He comes back snarlingand snap
ping like a hyena. Before he went to the
Cppital he supposed his Olympian presence !
would put the Lecompton bill through in
three days. He imagined the severity of his
frown would quell caucuses on the instant,
and that the Democratic members o! the Le
gislature would run to his whistle like Fpa
niels. Cut not finding them quite in the
mood for eo disgraceful a conspiracy be
comes home in a paroxytm of malice to ply
the party lash—opening out in this style:
" TTe have been forced to make the bill now
" matured for the relief of Chicago a party
" measure, and a? such it will be urged from
"this time until it is passed." lean call
spirits from the vasty deep!
A change or amendment of the charier of
Chicago is purely a local matter, which inter
ests the people and property holders within
the city corporate limits, and them only. Iu
free countries like ours, the people have the
bight to choose tUeir own style of municipal
government, and no individual, clique or
party has any right or business to alter or
abolish it without being first delegated by the
citizens to procure such change. The pas
eage or rejection of the Dyer contrivance is
no more a matter for party action than the
bill to incorporate tho Rose Hill Cemetery
Association. There would be the same rea
son and propriety in making Henry
petition before the Legislature, for a horse
railroad charter, a party measure, as exists
for making Tom Dyer's petition for a new
Municipal Charter a partizan measure. Tbe
cl »im ol the 7\itics is an impudent pretence,
and an admission besides that the scheme has
no strength of its own; that on its own
merits it has no friends in the Legis
lature 5 and that it has no earthly
chance of [passing save by the ille
gitimate aid of party machinery. Rest
ing the success of the scheme on party
grounds, is an admission that the people of
Chicago are hostile to it—tbat tho tax-payers
have not asked for it, and do not want it
passed j it is invoking the aid of an organi
zation formed to advance State and National
measures, to override and crush out the will
ot the people of a city in a matter which
interests no living soul save the citizens
thereof. Tbe matter of a change of charter
in Cairo, Mattoon, Decatur or Chicago, can
not, in its very nature, involve a party ques
tion, because it is a purely local concern*
Should a party interfere 'iu such affairs, it
would sink to the level of a tyranny, and
would be legislating not to promote freedom
but oppression. Every member of the Le
gislature who lends himself to such a thing,
tramples upon the first principles or De
mocracy. _
The people of fcach town or precitict, have
a rightful voice in affairs of State, but State
governments have no right to interfere in
municipal affairs. Each corporate munici
pality is sovereign over its own local con
cerns, and State or national parties have no
jurisdiction over the internal affairs of
burghs. Every family must be in the
management of its own household affairs,
and the same rule must apply to communes
or clusters of families which have adopted
a rule of municipal government for their own
observance. We, the editors of the Peess
asd Tbibuxe, have just as much right to call
on the Republican members of tbe Legisla
ture to pass a bill changing the editors and
workmen of the Times, and netting up new
business rules for the observance of that
office, as the editor of that concern has to
call upon tbe Douglas Democrats of the Illi
nois- Legislature to change the charter of this
city without the authority or consent of the j
citizens thereof, which authority or consent
have never been asked or obtained. The
people of Chicago are deadly hostile to the
proposed usuipation. The remonstrance
against It has already icceived the signa
tures of over eight thousand citizens; of
these not less than two thousand arc Demo
crats, including near'y all of the best men,
and heaviest tax-payers belonging to that
party. In making the charter a party mea
sure, does the Times propose to read this host
of Democrats out of tbe party, and proscribe
them from its commuuion, its lights, titles
and benefits?
The Wisconsin Mortgage Distemper in
Illinois.
Great trouble and no little excitemenrex
ist in the counties of Carroll, Stephenson and
a small portion of Jo Daviess, among the
farmers who have mortgaged their lands aud
homesteads for the benefit of the Eacine and
Mississippi Railroad, and whose mortgages
are threatened to be foreclosed. Tbe princi
pal sufferers are In Carroll County, whose
isolated position in respect of railroad facili
ties, has induced the special efforts of her cit
izens to complete the Racine road to Savan
nah, its proposed western terminus. Ste
phenson County also has a heavy investment
in the Racine Company, and we believe the
north-western corner of Winnebago is under
a like cloud. Rock and Walworth Counties,
Wisconsin, are in for a large amount iu the
came way, but their case is less to be com
miserated for the reason that the railroad is
completed through their borders and they are
realizing the benefit they bargained for, in
the way of cheap transportation to the ports
of Lake Michigan.
The style of financiering which bas brought
our friends in the Western portion of the
State into their difficulties was modeled after
the La Orosse system, though we believe it
was first Introduced by the Milwaukee and
Mississippi Company some tight years ago—
Tiz: to exchange the bonds of the road for
mortgages of an rqual amount on improved
farms along the line, raise the wind with tbe
mortgages and . This tread
mill system of fioanee ha-3 never been in
vogue- iu this State before, and we trust may
never be undertaken again. If a projected
Railroad cannot command bona jlde subscrip
tions in cluck sufficient to make a reasonable
znarkct for its bonds, the bonds arc no equiv
alent for mortgages on productive farms, and
no farmer who is not in a condition to afford
the loss of his land, or who cannot pay the
interest and take up the mortgage at maturi
ty regardless of the promises of the Railroad
managers, cnght ever to touch one. Far bet- i
ier to nait till the work can be constructed
on legitimate principles than to hazard the
loss of a home and the earnings of an indus
trious life.
The aggregate amount of mortgages given
In this way in Carroll County Is about six
hundred thousand dollars, covering a tract
about twelve miles in width on the proposed
line of road. The Stephenson and Winne
bago contributions will doubtless swell it to
more than a million. For these securities
there has been no sort of equivalent given—
the work on the road having ceased some
where in Winnebago County. The Carroll
farmers arc about filing a bill in chancery to
kave the mortgages set aside on the gronnd
of fraud used in obtaining them. The
Stephenson and Winnebago sufferers have al
ready done so. The defense, we understand,
will deny the allegation of fraad and endeavor
to show that the holders of the securities pur
chased them innocently. Whatever be the
*wnlt of the litigation, let us hear no more
peaceful and prosperous districts being
•wept by the fire of Railroad farm mortgages.
A public meeting was held at Galena on
iha 18th inst., to conaidtr tbo subject of actab*
Ziflhisg a line of steamers to run the coming
MMon daily between Dubuque, Galena and St.
Louis.
recent Agricultural convocation at
Waanington, it is said, cost but $llOO, not $55,.
OOOf as some Washington letter writera have
The Ostend Manifesto turned against
U. S.
It was announced some time ago thut
the Government of Great Britain liad.
under consideration a plan for the confedera
tion of the North American Provinces, the
settlement of tbe vaileys ol the Assinniboin,
Saskatchewan and Red Rivers, the organiza
tion of new provinces as these settlements
extend westward, to be added to the con
federation after the manoer tbat new States
are added to the American Union, and finally
the construction of a railroad across the
continent on British soil, .through the
agency of which the trade of the East—of
China, India and Japan—is to be controlled.
That the scheme is entirely practicable, that
the proposed confederation of British States
would add greatly to the lustre of the English
Government provided she could hold them,
and that it would prove to Eome extent a
counterpoise to tbe rapidly growing power
and influence of tbe United States, no well
informed person will for a moment question.
Bat If there be any truth in the statements
contained in the letter which we copy this
morning from the N. Y. Tr&vnt, there is still
another important matter connected with the
scheme the practicability of which we should
say is somewhat questionable. The adden
dum, is in brief, the acquisition of the State of
Maine and its incorporation with the British
North American Confederacy. This is desir
able on account of tbe fine harbors of that
State, tbe great mildaess of its winter cli
mate which renders its harbors accessible at
all seasons cf the year, and the consequent
fact that it is one of the most prolific schools
for sailors in the country. While these facts
would render it a very desirable and import
ant member of the Confedracy, they serve to
make it, in connection with its proximity, a
most undesirable neighbor while holding its
present relations.
The paternity of this scheme is attributed
to Lord Palmerston. Lord John Russell has
warmly embraced It, acd all the leading
statesmen of Great Britain have signified
their cordial approval of it. They flatter
themselves with the belief that the assent of
the people of Maine can be readily obtained
inasmuch as that State would receive more
direct and substantial benefit from the scheme
than any of the Provinces, burnishing the
harbors, upon some of thftn—probably Port
land—wcnld concentrate the commerce or the
extended confederacy, rivalling New York In
its extent, and building up a city unrivalled
in point of size, wealth and influence. Induce
ments of this character, Lord Palmerston be
lieves, will prove irresistible with the people
of Maine. At Washington it is thought the
scheme will encounter greater difficulties, but
even these are not deemed insurmountable.
It is said tbat the true secret of Lord Napier's
recall was to makeroom for a man equal to the
undertaking. Lord Lyons it is thought will
prove fully up to the emergency. But if Maine
should continue loyal to her present political
relations, and if Lord Lyons' diplomacy
should not prove equal to the taslr imposed
upon him, then it is the intention of Great
Britain to take Maine by force,upon the prin
ciple laid down in tbe Ostend Manifesto un
der which we are to seize upon Cuba some
one of these days. Such is the scheme for
building up a British Confederacy upon this
continent, extending lrom the Atlantic to the
Pacific, which shall control the rich commerce
of the East, and prove an effectual political
counterprise to the overshadowing power of
the United States.
So much for what is contemplated at the
North. At the South, something of a like
character is in contemplation by Spain. Louis
Napoleon, it is well known, has been no friend
of the United States since tbe coup d* ctit\of
ISSI. His influence at Madrid is powerful, and
he is using it to foment difficulties between us
and Spain. Do not only udvises that Spain
present to the Cabinet at Washington a bill
of claims for expenses incurred in keeping
up a military and naval force in and around
Cuba to keep out filibustering expeditions
from tbeUniled States,but also that she should
at once lay claim to the re-possession of Flor
ida on account of its proximity to Cuba,and of
tbe control which that Peninsula must always
have from its geographical position over the
commerce of Cuba with Mexico and the Old
World.
Here then we have tbe programme of Eng
land Spain, and France, sa far as it has yet
been made public, respecting this country.
We arc either to be traded or whipt out of
Maine on the North, and of Florida
on the South. We are about to
seize upon Cuba, t»vo States of Mex
ico, and perhaps one or more in
Central America upon the principles laid
down in tbe Ostend Manifesto. Those prin
pies are held to be just and equitable by tbe -
Democratic party,—tbe ruling power in this'
country. England and Spain, upou the same
principles, propose to annex Maine and Flor
ida. We are estopped by our own theory,
and may very soon be by our own practice
also, from making any opposition. The pos
session or Maine has become necessary to tbe
seccurity and further development of the
British possessions on this continent.—
Florida is equally necessary to the west
ern possessions of Spain. Doubtless
those governments will offer the United
States a fafr compensation—but if that is re
fused, they have no other resource but to
u go in" on the Ostend Manifesto and appeal
to the god of battles.
Wo commend the developments of the Lon
don letter to the earnest consideration of our
professional filibusters and " manifest desti
ny" men. If the principles by which they
claim to be guided arc to become the iaw of
nations, tbe " gel-lorious bird of freedom"
will be likely to have quite as much to do for
the future as it can well attend to.
Kansas and Nebraska.
Annexation Movements.—A large meeting
of citizens of that portion of Nebraska lying
south of tbe Platte River, was held at Ne
braska City on tke let inst., to consider the
qaestion of Annexation to Knusaa. Resolu
tions were adopted declaring it to be the duty
of Congress to provide for a change of the
boundary line between the two Territories,
authorizing the people, belore such change
shall be made, to ratify or reject the same at
a popular election, to be held for that pur
pose ; that tho Platte River is the natural
boundary between the' two Territories; that
the ppecay lurumvUm uf » Ctaic QovßM»ut
will encourage immigration and stimulate
industry; and that copies of the resolutions
be forwarded to the delegates of the two
Territories in Congres?, and the President of
the United States. A similar meeting was
held at Brownville, on the sth. The press
and people of the northern portion of Nebras
ka strongly oppose tbe movement A reso
lution in favor of annexation has been intro*
ducod in the Kansas Legislature.
s*Txs axd Pre-emptions of Public Lands
in Kansas.—The following is an authentic ;
statement of sales of public land in the Dela
ware and Lecompton districts, K. T.:
lowiTrojiL»n'i, H43MB
Delaware Trus*. L&odj at Oswego 348.Ki0.t4
Public Land* ore empled 143.73.60
Lands told In Trust for Delaware Indiana, bj ,
Uen. Brindle, ljinf la Leareowortb County. 506.145.19 1
Total acrenold In above district......... L19C.129.t9
The amount of land Fold and pre-empted
in the other'dlstrict (office at Lecompton) is:
Bold la Trad for tbe Pcrla. Kaskuia. Pianke
shawand • ea conftderiKd bxnda lo Jane
acd July. 1&37 enibracedln Ly*enj
Laods »oiO to pro-ttDPtors from April 20. lto7,
to Decerabe lit, 18S5 *0,608.59
Lands md to pre-empt from April 30,1539,
entered ai above, with land warrantj 816,905.6; ;
- Total acres sold and pre exacted LU&&3.C? !
Total acres told and pre-empted In both
district*. B£M, 442.63
Kanias Lsgishtcbk.—Several bills .have
been introduced In the Kamas Legislature to
abolish slavery and to make slaveholdlng a
felony. Steps arc being taken to make a cod
ifying committee, to be composed of persons
not members of the Legislature. The Le
compton people were furious at the adjourn
ment of the Legislature to Lawrenct. The
Secretary of the Territory, Mr. Walsh,- took
the Sergcant-at-Anns of the House, by the
throat when he went to' remove the benches.
Two men were killed in rows at Lecompton
tbat evening.
Frederick B. Bringhao, until recently,
principal of .Union School at-Noriralfc, Ct., his
been required to give {5,000 t#>nds to answer on a
charge of attempting to poison-bis wife, and in
de&olt thereof, has been-committed-to prison.
our wAsninr jTO n letter.
*>-Tht Job Exposed and
J * SneUint: Robben. further
probed— l art cf Ifinety Thoutana Dollar*
yd musing. 9
[Fror'j onr own Corretpondent]
Wassimoto*, Jan. 15,155 J.
An cxtenSire scheme ot plunder, in which of
course the 'iFar Department figures as chief oper
ator, has been and in this case exposed
"before tbeschemers had carried their plan to per
fect maturity, and had pocketed the profits of
their job. Some time since, Mr. Faraswoith sub
mitted a resolution to the House, which was
adopted, calling for information relative to tbe
alTeged transfer of the Bock Island or Fort Arm
strong Reservation, in Illinois, from the War to
tbe Interior Department, and whether the lands
embraced in the Reservation hat been trespassed
: upon, and whether the Secretary of the Interior
had decided that they were subject to pre-emption.
The facts of this case aro theseßock Island
is in tho Mississippi river, opposite the city of
Davenport in lowa, and near that of Rock Island
in Illinois. It contains about I.COO acres, and Is
worth and would sell for S2OO per acre. Its total
value is fairly estimated at $300,000. The Island
was reserved for a military station inlßlG, and
made the site of Fort Armstrong. In 1816, Secre
tary Marey declared it co longer needed for mili
tary purposes, and the troops were removed. An
agent was appointed at a liberal salary, to take
care of the public lands and property. Some two
yean ago tho agent was a Mr. Danforth. Under
his administration of the trust, and about two
years ago, one Lindsley, said to be from Washing
ton City, moved upon the tract with a company
of squatters and occupied the bland, in the face
of the prohibition against settlement. This must
have been done with the connivance of Danforth,
for he appears to have done nothing to prevent it,
and indeed is now here, actiog as the agent, it is
asserted, of the men who squatted upon and
divided among themselves this valuable public
property.
It should here be stated that the Rock Island
country was settled op twenty years ag», and that
the neighboring farmers and other residents have
looked with longing eyes upon tho Reservation,
and have been prepated at any time dnringthat
period to pay high prices for it wheneverit should
be put np for sale. Its value is greatly enhanced
by the fact that it is so situated as to furnish a
vast water-power on tbe Illinois side, and this bas
already been mado partially available by a dam
thrown across lrom the town of Moline to tbo head
of the Island, by which tbe water is diverted as a
motive-power for machinery.
Tbe squatters set up pre-emption claims. Dan
forth resigned, and was appointed a Purser in the
Navy, so that here was a piece of public property,
"which had cost from SIO,OOO to $20,000 merely to
take care of during the preceding ten years, totally
abandoned. Rut this apparent recklessness was
not without a plan. A certain undistinguished
Western Senator is said to be the father and the
patron of the scheme, and his share of the profits,
in tbe event of its success, was to be so great that
I ibould be charged with gross exaggeration were
1 to mention it.
Of course tbo citrons of Moline and others in
tbe neighborhood protested against tbe claims of
the squatters to pre-emption. They insisted tbat
the land should be put up at auction; that those
who had improvements depending upon the water
turned from the river by tbe dam should have tbe
chance of securing them. The trespassers claimed
the pre-emption at ore dollar and a quarter per
acre, and offered $2,000 for tbe whole tract, worth,
as I have said, $300,000. They procured various
lawyers here at Washington to urge their case,
shrewdly selecting a well known Republican,
Montgomery Blair, as one of them. Upon argu
ment, Mr. Commissioner Hendricks decided that
the Island teas tubject to pre tmption, ar d that the
Lindsley squitters were the pre-emptors. Thus,
by a few scratches or the pen, tbe Government
was about to be deprived of a property valued at
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
At this point, however, the vigilance of your
Representative, within whose district tbe lands
lie, interposed a check uf>on the proceedings of
the speculators. The resolution adopted on his
motion brought the matter to the attention of the
Secretary of the Interior, and he caused the papers
to be transferred to his offi:e. After a revision of
the whole case, the decision of CommissionT
Hendricks was reversed, and the lands upon tbe
Reservation will in doe course of time be offered
at public sJe. It remains to be explained bow
and why the Reservation was transferred from the
jurisdiction of the War Department to tbat of the
Interior.
Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, has called for some
farther information on th* sale of Fcrt Snelling.
It teem? that tbe whob of the purchase money
has not yet been paid, though nearly two years
have elapsed since the lands were sold for less
than their actual Vi'lue. Are the parties to be
permitted to repose upon their speculation with
out " posting" tbe funds, until a return of good
times shall enable them to sell out for a million or
two ? Tbat appears to he the plan.
Jc.vivs.
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
Progrm of Uusineu—A ihort Swion—Tlu
JJolicnd Colony —lmprovement of Black Hir
er Harbor—Holland Method of making Pitra
InUreiting facts, etc.
[Correspondence ot the Pr'si and Tribune.]
Lusiio, Jan. 15,1539.
A considerable amount of local legislation
has already been accomplished, and aside from
the appropriation bills now in the hands of the
different committees, there is nothing of local
importance even before the Legislature of this
State. A spirit of economy appears to rule,
and in accordance with it, there is some talk of
an adjournment in the course of about two
weeks; thus narrowing down the session, from
its opening to its close, to about four weeks.
I bad a very interesting conversation to-doy
with Mr. Roost, of the Holland Colony, who is
now here, asking some assistance at the bands
of the Legislature, for the opening of the har
bor at the mouth of Black River, on the western
shore of this State, in Ottawa County, where
their colony is mainly located. Two years ago,
despairing of getting an appropriation from the
genera! government to aid them in opening
their harbor, they were authorized by tbe Leg
islature of the State, to levy a tax on them
selves for this purpose. This they accordingly
did, and with about $5,000 so raised, have con
structed some 700 feet of good, substantial pier
work'that is, 575 feet on the north side and 325
feet on the south side of-the mouth of their
barborv This work is so curious and novel to
us Americans that I must try and give you some
idea of it. Tbe whole work, below the surface
of the water is constructed of brush and twigs,
tied together in bundles of six to eight inches
in diameter. These bundles, in turn are tied
together into rafts of from GO to SO feet in
length, SO feet wide, and about 3or 4 feet in
thickness, and then floated to the place selected
for the pier, and then sunk to the proper place
with stone ballast, and secured by wooden
stakes. The stone are then removed if the wa
ter is not too deep, and another raft prepared,
of the same size, and sank so as to rest npon
the top of the first, and second in tbe sane
manner; and so on until the surface is reached.
It is then covered with stone to about three or
four feet in high on the outer side of the pier,
and slopes to just above the sorface on the in>
ner side. To me this is certainly a novel mode
of constructing piers, as, I presume it mast be,
to most of your readers.- Mr. Roost informs
me tbat most, if not all, of the piers ana break
water in Holland are bailt after this plan,
somo of which have stood for centuries. Its
cost is insignificant in comparison to any eTer
.yet constructed in.this country.
It is the design of the citizens at the colony,
to extend these piers, eo that the one on tbe
north side of the channel shall be about 7SO feet
. in lengtb, and the one on the south side about
759 feet. This will give them a ohannel of U
leet in depth,and open into the finest harbors on
the lakes. I have seen it, and can speak from
personal observation. The lake at the month
of Black River, and which forms tbe contemplat
ed harbor, is a beautiful sheet of water, six
miles in length, and from one to one and a half
miles wideband'from 25 to 30 feet deep. The
banks are bold and high, and on that portion
where the town stands, there is a depth of SO
feet of water within the same distance of the
sh ore.
The Hollanders, as a class, are industrious,
temperate and* frugal, and will carry through
this undertaking if any people can. Thus, one
more port will be thrown open to Chicago trade
and enterprise; for thither is the tendency.
PwtXSCLAB.
More Corruption in Obtaining Railway
.Land Grants.
We learn from the St. Anthony Evening ITewt
that the Minnesota and' Pacific Railroad Com
| pany have incurred the displeasure of the peo
: pie of Minneapolis, by not commencing their
road at that point, as it is claimed they are re*
qqir«d by their charter to do. Two meetings
were held in Minneapolis the second week in
January,- in which the officers of the company
were severely censured for their alleged bad
faith.' It was charged by some of the speakers,
and virtually admitted by one of the Directors,
that t2g4,OOOhiad been used to obtain the land
grant. We'infer from the remarks in the meet
ing, that it mi supposed the State hoods issued
to this Compsny had been used to liquidate this
confidential indebtedness, instead of applying
the funds to the construction of the road. It is
to be hoped that the parties implicated will be
able to show their innocence of the charge.
EUBOPEAIff PROJECTS 05 AMERICA.
Annexation of Maine to Great Britain.
CAPrivate Letter Communicated for the N. Y. Tribune.]
. Bosn Steut, London. Dec.23,1853.
Mr Dear Sis : The discovery of gold in New
Caledonia has given a new spring to British am
bitio'a of colonial and preponderating empire on
tbe North American .Continent, and has conse
quently originated a new transatlantic policy.
Tbe British Colonies which lie to tbe north and
ear.tof the United States .possessions are to be
wr.ited under a common vice-regal fgovernment.
Riilwavs are to be extended from the Atlantie
to tbe Pacific, and a lormidable attempt by that
means is to be made to command the travel aDd
trade ot the East in all articles that will bear so
long a land transit from China, Japan, and most
of the Pacific Islands and Australia, through
Canada to England. But it is perceived that
the frczen regions of the Lower St. Lawrence,
New Brunswick and Nova iScotia present great
embarrassments to the carrying out of the ob
ject in view.
A new scheme has been suggested by Lord
Palmerston, in which all tbe leading statesmen
of the Empire who have been confidentially con
sulted on the subject by Lord Malmeßbury con
cur, which will obviate difficulties, and lay tbe
foundation of a British Colonial Empire to the
north and east of tbe United States more form
idable, perhaps, than that of the mother coun
try itselt
Tbe scheme to which I have referred consists
in the acquisition of the State ot Maine by
Great Britain, and in constituting it a member
confederation of Provinces extending from Van
couver's Island to Newfoundland, and north of
the American line to the Arctic Regions. The
State of Maine abounds in good seaports, acces
sible at all seasons of the year, and is conse
quently tbe most prolific school for sailors in
the New World. Its proximity to New Bruns
wick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and other
islands, it is thought to present an obstacle to
tbe before-mentioned plan of a vice-regal em
pire, as well as to be dangerous commerce
likely to fiow from it. Besides, there is already
established an English railway from Portland
to Montreal. lis terminus at Portland is being
filled up with English families, representatives
of important Canadian and British interests.
These interests tbe Imperial Government has de
cided to protect and enlarge, by fair and honest
means, if possible. But the possession of tbe
State ot Maine is considered so essential to the
developMent ol the projected Canadian empire,
as well as tbe security of the trade between it
andtbe*British West Indies and Europe, that it
has, 1 believe, been decided to take it by force,
if the reasonable representations of tbe English i
Government to tbe Cabinet at Washington,
backed by tbe offer of a liberal pecuniary in
demnity 6bould fail. To carry out this policy at
Washington, it becomes necessary to huve a
new man—firm, able and persevering; and tbe
man for the work is thought to be Lord Lyons.
This is the secret of the change which has been
decided on in the personnel of the British Lega
tion. It seems to be believed that no inconsid
erable portion of the people of Maine will m st
readily unite in a measure wbioh will open all
the ports of the British Empire, in every sea,
to the free admission of tbe vast amount of tim
ber to be exported from it. Portland will soon
become—to some extent, at least—the rival ot
New York in commercial importance, and as
tbe growth of that city will have a favorable
effect upon the general prosperity of the whole
State, it is believed tbe entire population will
finally concur in a desire to witness the realiza
tion of the object. Liberal pecuniary means are
at the command of tbe Ministry to overcome, by
corruption, any refractory opposition that may
be encountered at Washington or in Portland.
Lord John Russell gave his hearty approval of
the plao, if 1 em correctly informed, und sug
gested the name of Lord Lyons as the most
snitable |agent to carry it out. Although tbe
Hague is not, in certain respeot*, so high in
point of rank as Washington, yet it is more de
sirable for a man of family on account of its
proximity to London. For this reason Lord
N'opier's transfer to Holland will doubtless be
acceptable to him.
It appears pretty clear that the French Em
peror is endoavonngto stimulate tbe Spanish
Government to present a bill of claims to tbe
Cabinet at Washington, for expenses incurred
during the last five or six years in keeping up a
large military and naval armament to resist tbe
constantly threatening invasion of filibusters
from tbe United States. He has even gone so
far as to intimate to the Minister at Madrid,
that it has good grounds Ito claim tbe posses
sion of East Florida, on account of its proximity
to tbe gem of the Isles, and the control which
that Peninsula must always have from its geo
graphical position over the commerce of Cuba
with Mexico and the Old World.
You may be assured that Napoleon tbe Third
is no friend to America. He is doubtlesß con
cocting in his fruitful brain all Borts of plans to
embarrass und thwart tbe Cabinet at Washing
ton. Ferdinand Barrot, one of the most talented,
astute and sycophantic devotees of tbe Emper
or, has just been sent to Madrid te stimulate the
Government to prosecnte these schemes, and to
induce it to sustain the Anglo-French policy in
the New World, especially in the waters ot Mex
ico and Central America.
Tbe whole country has been lately agitated by
Mr. Bright's plan ot reform, bat tbe ministerial
and conservative parties are rejoiced to find an
irresistible argument against the adoption of the
apprehended universal suilrage in Mr. Buchan
an's letter to bis Pittsburg fellow-citizens. Tbe
corruptions which it acknowledges as the result
of popuiar government tends to give a new
lease to monarchical forms in the Old World.
THE BORDER DIFFICULTIES#
The Forts, Arms and Forces of Mont
gomery and Brown.
Mr. A. J. Weaver communicates to the Jef
ferson City Examiner of the 15th, the following
piece ot information:
I notice in your issuo of this morning a small
error in your notice of "News from the Bor
der," but which 1 found, on my visit to the
House of Representatives, was magnified into
some importance. The error was in the loca
tion of the fort bnilt by Montgomery, Brown.
Jt Co., on tbe Missouri border. Instead of
tbe present lort being a third of a mile from
tbe border, it is—or one of them, for there are
more than one— some eight or ten miles. An
other is some thirteen miles from the State
line; and a third, which I have not seen, but
which 1 nave sufiicientl? reliable information to
satisty my mind is really building, is only some
four miles.
A fort was commenced some months ago, by
old Brown, within one third (perhaps less) of a
mile of tbe State line, but, through my exer
tions as an officer commissioned by ex Gover
nor Denver, was deserted and abandoned by
Brown in an unfinished condition. These forts
—for so they maybe called—are located, one
in Bourbon, and the other in Linn county, in
the Territory ot Kansas, and are of sufficient
strength to defy anything short of artillery.
The walls are composed of logs of earth, and in
the smallest forts are three feet thick.
These outlaws have in their possession two
pieces of brass cannon. One of these I have
seen, and is a six pound howitzer. Their arms,
of which they have a large quantity, are of the
best—Sharpe's Minnie, and tbe common U. S.
and Kentucky rine; muskets, gun-sbots, and
Colt's and other revolvers. Most of tbem have
the Sbarpe or Minnie rifle, and from one to four
revolvers.
Their numbers, from the best information
that I can obtain (and I have myself seen many
of them, living in the disturbed district, at
Paris, Linn county,) are from two hundred to
three hundred and fifty in tbe field, with from
two to three hundred, or more, whom they can
gather from different parts of tbe territory,
and the adjoining counties in Missouri, in case
of emergency.
Barnum in England.
Mr. Barnum's first lecture on Money Making
at St. Jamei* Hall, London, was a success, an
"apotheosis of notoriety," touße the expression
of the London Times, which says:
If Mr. Barnum has got nothing else by the
admiring throng who pushed, and listened,
and cheered yesterday evening, he has at least
got a new chapter for a second edition of his
autobiography. Having already related bow he
drew together a mob of Yankees to see a few
tame bulls, he can now describe the eagerness
of John Bull to see the most enterprising of
Yankees. Whether a huge multitude applaud
ing an orator for a deliberate paoegyric of
"humbug/ may be considered as a sign of the
high moral state of a nation, is a point that we
will not here discuss. But we are bound to ad- !
mit that Mr. Barnum is one of the most enter
lecturer* thai ever addressed an audi
ence on a theme univers%lly intelligible. Cic
ero's great work "De Officii*" ia not more sys
tematically drawn up than Mr. Barnum's dis>
course on the particularly profitable virtue to
which be has given bis attention, and thus the
fun attached to a series of successful imposi
tions is heightened by»their envelopment in a
grave ethical essay. The appearance of Mr.
Barnum, it should be added,'has nothing of tbe
"charlatan" about it, but is that of the thor
oughly respectable man of business; and he has
at command a fund of dry humor that convulses
everybody with laughter, while he himself re
mains perfectly serious. A sonorous voice and
an admirably clear delivery complete his quali
fications as a lecturer, in which capacity he is
is no "humbug" either in the higher or the low
er sense of the word.
The Minnesota Railroads.
iTroa the GalenaAdvertlfer.l
The following is an extract of a letter from a
gentleman in Winona, to his friend in this city.
It explains itself:
••Our railroad is progressing rapidly, and
next 4th of July we Winonians expect to take a
ride on the cars to Rochestdr, 50 miles distant.
I notice by the Adcertiser of the 6th inst, an
article taken from the correspondence of tho
Madison StaU Journal, which says the Minne
sota Roads haT6 stopped work, probably for the
purpose twpinj our the Transit Road. If you
sbouldtee Mr. Houghton I wish you would tell
him that the uid correspondent told one tery
big IU when he said the Transit Road had sus
pended work. There are this day at least 600
men at work in the Blnffs, about twelve miles
-from hare, and others are at work farther on.
I know this to be so because 1 have seen the
men."
Canadian Finances.
The flnnnftfta of the Canadian government are
not in a flourishing condition. In 1851, with a
revenue amounting to £1,200,000, the expendi
tures were only £750,000. InISSS, with a revenue
amounting to £1,550,000, the expenditures had in
creased to £2,350,000, showing a deficit of £SOO,-
000. Tbe Montreal Herald charges the present
Ministers .with corruption and extravagance,
and says that they have brought the country
to tbe verge of bankruptcy. It also accuses
tbem of spending, without any authority from
Parliament, the £700,000 repaid by the Great
Western Railway Company, though .the debt for
which the money was paid still stands against the
Province.
Personal and, Political.
Elaewhero we gire the result of the Sena
torial Democratic caacai on the Acquisition of
Caba. Senator Douglas attended the caucus*
much to the surprise and disgust of the Anli*
Lecompton members of Congress.
Lola Uontez, who has been lecturing to im
mense audiences in Dublin, is advertised to
speak in Manchester before long.
—The .London Jferaldof tbe 30th nit. sajrs:-
* 4 rhe object of Sir Allan McNab's riait to this
country is to promote the proposed railroad from
the head of Lake Superior to Red River."
A Mr. E. Andrews of Albany, N. Y., gives
notice that be will contribute 1,000 loaves of
bread to the poor of that city. He issues tick
ets and refers applicants to tbe pastors of the
several churches, who gire out the tickets at
their discretion.
—The whole annual expenses of tbe State
Government of New Jersey wer«laat jear $20,-
000, about three-fifths of which are contributed
by a tax upon railroad passengers. These are
mostly the inhabitants of other States.
An order has been introduced into the Mas
sachusetts Legislature requesting the Governor
to inform that body whether there is not an
other Massachusetts vacancy in the United
States Senate besides that to be occasioned by
the expiration ot the term of the Hon. Henry
Wilson, in March next.
Alexander Herzen, tbe Russian exile and
journalist, is just now most popular in Germany.
His "Memoirs of tbe Empress Catherine II."
; is tbe topic of the day. Everybody reads it;
: &U the great journals review it, and all tbe
small ones which cannot afford the luxury of
original articles publish extracts from it.
Henry A Willard paid into tbe Marshal's
bands at Washington, on Thursday last, $1,015
of amount of forfeited bail for the appearance
of John W. Wallcutt, indicted for refusiog to
answer questions nut to him by a Committee of
the House of Representatives last session, con
cerning the bribery of Congressmen to vote for
free wool.
John Bird, of Dutchess County. N. Y., a
gentleman ol large wealth, and also ot large
heart, in six years has expended orer|6o,oooin
erecting and supporting chapel schools, night
schools, and clergymen, and in other kindred
work, not the least practical of which was the
erection, to near completion, of a beautiful cha
pel on his own estate. Work to the amount of
120,000 had been done upon it, when it was de
stroyed by fire.
L. D. Campbell of Ohio, is recovering from
tbe effects of tbe recent assault. The man who
attacked him was drunk, and Mr. Campbell re
fused him money, upon which be knocked bim
down down with a club.
« William Lyon Mackenzie, the leader of tbe
Canadian rebellion, who was driven from To
ronto when the war broke out, is now in high
favor there, recently declined the mayoralty,
and is to be presented with a homestead, for
which over $9,000 has been subscribed.
Western JVetcs Items.
Sao Cass or Elopemcnt and Dzskbtiox—
About three years ago a gentleman, with a fa
mily consisting of * wife and two children, emi
grated from Philadelphia to Nebraska, and set
tled in the town of Omaha. Here he opened a
hotel, and employed a youngman to assist bim,
who wes also married. Tbe wife of tbe latter
soon died. A short time' ago the proprietor
went to Philadelphia on business—was gone a
few weeks—and on his journey homeward as
certained that his assistant, whom be had left in
charge of his business and his family, bad
eloped with his wife and children. Hasting to
St. Louis, be soon learned, by the aid of the
police, that the fugitives had been in that city,
but had taken an obscure boat for Qaiocy.
Thither he pursued tbem, and ascertained that
they had proceeded northward on tbe railroad.
He followed as fast aB possible, and overtook
tbem at Macomb. He discovered tbem in the
act of taking passage for Bloomington. He
jumped upon the same train, and followed them
to tbe hotel where they intended to stop. He
would have taken summary vengeance upon the
wretch who had robbed him of bis earthly bliss,
but the sight ot his wife and children unnerved
bim. Resolved to have nothing more to do
with bis wife, he simply demanded that bis ch.l
dren should be given up. The scene which en
sued is said to have been indescribably touch
ing and painful. The wife, having by this time
repented of ber folly, frantically begged not to
be separated from her children, but to be taken
back with them. Tbe husband firmly refused
to receive her, took his children, and left ber to
follow tbe fortunes of ber unprincipled para
mour.—Morgan Journal.
Mtstk&iods Disappeahaxcs.— A man who
bailed from Broome County, New York, as a
pedlar of jewelry, arrived in Peoria on Wednes
day of last week, and took lodgings at a private
boarding-honße in the upper part of tho city.
He had considerable jewelry, which he seemed
quite anxious should be safely taken care ot;
also considerable money in bis possession, and
appeared from his conversation to have been
somewhat a dealer in lands. Friday morning
bo left tbe bouse apparently to take a walk, and
up to last evening he had not returned, and no
trace has been obtained of him. His jewelry
and other property is still in the hands of his
boarding-bouse keeper, and as be was known to
have considerable money with bim, it is feared
that foul play may have something to do with
bis absence. He was an American, of middle
age, well dressed, but what is somewhat remark
able, no one remembers his name it at any time
be mentioned it. All that is known of his b.s
tory, was his speaking of himself as being a
widower, and having bve children in the Slate
of New York. Time may unravel the mysterv,
and it is hoped that nothing serions has trans
pired to cause bis sudden disappearance.—ieo
ria Transcript, ls^A.
Wholesale attempt at Poxsoxdco.—We have
learned tbe following particulars of one of the
most fiendish attempts to take life that has ever
come to our e&rs. The attempt was made, by
poisoning tbe cistern water, upon tbe family of
Mr. John Sovereign, an aged and well-known
citizen of tbis county,} who res:res some two
and-a-aalf or three miles southeast of this city.
About a month auo the family were all taken
somewhat sick and wereattitcted with very sore
mouths, which fuct aroused their suspicions of
foul play (we may here state that this is not the
first attempt that has ibeen made upon the old
gentleman's life, as many of our readers know)
and they ceased using either the cistern or well
water for drinking or cooking purposes, prefer
ring to bring water from a distance rather than
use it. After quitting its use they soon recov
ered, in a measure, from tbeir sickness and sore
mouths.. On last Thursday morning one of the
women of the family went to the cistern to pump
some water (which by tbe way is a chain pump)
for washing, when her attention was directed to
a large quantity of white powder lying about
the tin conducting pipe where it entered tbe cis
tern, where it bad been placed that it might
work its way into the water. A considerable
quantity ot'the life destroying potion was also
scattered about the cistern. Mr. Sovereign was
called, who examined the powder, and gathered
up a quantity which he brought to the city and
bad itexamined by a physician, who pronounced
it strychnine. Mr. S.~ states that in tbe night be
beard a noise about the house, but thinking that
some of his folks were up, he paid no attention
to it. In the morning fresh tracks.of a person
were plainly visible going to and from the cis
tern, that the powder was scattered along lor
several rods.
Tbe above are tbe facts of a most diabolical
attempt to take life. That there was a wretch
among the citizens cf this county so lost to hu
man feelings as to seek to destroy a whole fami
ly by such means, we could not believe, were it
not that evidence of such an attempt is so well
established. We trust that the unsuccessful
murde.'er, thus far, may be brought to justice,
as such an attempt richly merits the most con
dign punishment.—liock JSiver Dim., ISM.
Pick's Peak.—These golden words seem to be
in the mouthsof every body, iromthe big, strong
me a, down to tbe little low-priced boy who is
ranning the streets with a *' letter in the post
' office." "Goin' to Peak's Pike or Pike's
! Peak!" is beard on every street corner, in all
: our places of business, in fact, everywhere. Tbe
gold fever is raging, and unless something turns
up to throw cold water upon the brilliant pros
pects which are now all tbe there will be as I
great a stampede as there was ia '49 for Califor- ;
nia. Many of our citizens are making|prepara- |
tions tor a voyage of discovery to that region in '
the spring, and should they go we hope they
will reap a golden harvest. However, we would
advise all to take the stories they bear of im
mense deposits being unearthed with a grain,
ftnd a large grain too, of allowance. That there
is gold there we do not doubt, but we don't be
lieve they shovel it out with a scoop shovel.
, We don't.—lb.
Fatal Accioxkt.—'The Trantcripi of this
morning learns that on "Wednesday morning
l&st, a man by the name of Samuel Phillips was
instantly killed in a coal bank belonging to Hi
ram Jackson, by aslip of slate about seven inch
es thick, falling Irom the roof of the bank upon
him and crushing his head. A man named Sam.
nel Potts was also canght by tbe same fall, and
bad to remain in this situation until extricated
by his fellow workmen. He was very much
bruised about his legs and hips, but was able to
beabonton Saturday."—Piorii Dent. Union.
Eaa axd Wabash Caxal.—On Saturday night
last a number of tbe citizens was called at the
Court House to hear some statements from the
Chief Engineer of the Canal, ia respect to the
course to be pursued by the bond-bolders in the
future management of the canal, and to consult
as to what measures were best to be adopted, to
insure the opening of the canal in tbe spring,
and keeping it up in tbe future. The bond
holders hare notified the State authorities that
the income from the canal is insufficient to keep
np the repairs, and that tbey will not furnish
means for that purpose. They do not say in so
many words that they have abandoned it alto
gether, but fears are entertained that unleas the
people of the State take hold of tbe matter ia
some form or other, there will be no canal navi
gation the next year.—Fort Wayne Rep.
A Mail-Robbing Post Master Con*
victed.
In the U. S. Court, at Springfield, Newtna F.
Jones, late deputy Post Master at Anna, Uuion
county, has been fouad guilty of mail robbery.
Tbe Jory returned a verdict of guilty, hut the
judge has not yet passed sentecci upon bim. Ten
years in the State Peoitentiaiy is the penalty. It
is supposed that Jones has stolen thousands of
dollars by intercepting mail-matter. Letters
which he had broken open were found in tbe
office, and the proof was conclusive that hundreds
bad been destroyed, after having been Intercept
ed. A small mall-bag full of old letters, that were
found in tbe office, were brought op &a evidence*
Facts Regarding the Flllibastcr Eipe
dition*
[Correspondence of the St. Loula Republican.]
Nsir OtLSUOk Jan. B,ISCJL
Many of the fillibusters who sailed in ihe unfor
tunate schooner Susan, have returned to tbi* city,'
but a majority of them are still in Mobile. Those
with whom I hare convened take thir disappoint*
ment philosophically,and axprpsa% <V;k»rmln«tinn
to be on hand when ibe next opportunity for "em*
igration" to Central America snail ofler.
The original programme of the expedition was,
itappeais,changfid-lii consequence of icfonnation
that a BriiLsh vessel had been detailed to watch
the mouth of the Blewfield river. As it was. the
simple accident of having a landman at the wheel
seems to have been all that prevented the saf? de
barkation of the fillibniter force at Omoa. Hondu
ras, and their subsequent entrance into Northern
Nicaragua. They had scaling ladder* on the Su
san provided for the porpose of capturing the lort
at Omoa, which U or was manned by merely a
nominal garrison, and would have been taken,
probably, without any loss ot blood. A procla
mation would then have been issued, informing
the llondnrian Government and people that tbis
proceeding was only induced by a desire to secure
hafe and peaceable passage through their territo
ry. It was believed that not only would the peo
ple.prove friendly to the expedition, but that a
large body or men would join It.
Col. Anderson, who had command of the filli
buster lorce, was strongly centred for the course
be pursued after the Su>au became a hopeless
wreck on the coral reef. They bad a large supply
of arms and ammunition [on board, including
sufficient numbrs of Minnie and Mississippi nlles
to arm three times their force, and these were
thrown overboird, probably with a view to des
troy that amount of evidence as to the object of
the expedition and its hostile character. The
folly of tais proceeding became more fully appa
r*ni when the Governor of Belize voluntarily gave
tbem free permission to carry back all their arms
in the steamer. It wasarianged, before they left,
that an attempt should b2 made, under the super
vision of an American gentleman who acts as our
Consul at Belize, to recover the aim*, and it is
supposed many of them cau bee fished up unin
jured, as the water all about the wreck was not
more than knee-deep at ebb tide. Much dissatis
faction was expressed, too, by the men, and by
General Walker after their return, because Col.
Anderson did not tee til to avail himself of the
only chance that offered of proceeding with the
expedition to its destination. He failed to pro
cure a vessel at Belize, but the person who lived
on Middle Key, and who assisted thein in remov
ing from the wreck, had three good sized scboon
ers, capible of carrying the men, and be offered
to transport them to Omoa for the suti of MOO.
The person from wbom;l obtained this information
was one of the emigrants, and he gave no satisfac
tory reason for the offer uot being accepted, nor
why it would not have been as advisable to pro
ceed without rifles on the schooners us in the ves
sel Ant'erson proposed to char»er at Omoa. But
for the mistake of throwing overboard the arms,
undoubtedly they would have proceeded. It wa-»
as well, perhaps, that they did not, although well
provided with knives and revolvers, tru-t them
selves in a country where the nature of their re
ception would have altogether uncertain.
Douglas' Position.
From the Ciaclonatl Conmtrci&l, (Dooglat pa; er)
Senator Douglas has allowed his position re
garding the Administration to become doubtful,
and is daily losing ground, as fast as be was
gaining a year since. We are informed that be
"laughs heartily" at the action of the Senate in
degrading him from his post as Chairman of
the Committee on Territories, and that he dot*
not approve of the recent attach of tiu Chicago
Times upon Afr. Jiuchanan, tchile he is ar.xious
to It U--i closely identified in principles and feel
idg icith Col. Sorniy. It is evident that he has
become personally more circumspect, and is for
the present pursuing ado nothing policy. This
will never do for him. if he quietly goes into
the party under the lead of the Administration,
and neg.ects and seeks to forget those who fought
by his aide when be took high rank as a rebel,
he will sink in the popular estimation, lice lead
in the mighty waters. He has been received in
the moat important cities in the country with
popular acclamations, not as the friend, but as
the foe of the present morally degraded, prolii
gate, would-be tyrannical Administration. It is
tight or die wuh him.
De Quincy.
A writer in the North American Review, gives
the following sketch of the personal appearance
of De Quincy, the celebrated writer:
In person be is anything but prepossessing;
oeing diminutive in stature, and awkward in
his movements, with a shrivelled, yellow, parch
ment skin. His bead, however, is superb, and
his face remarkably sensitive and expressive;
the eyes sunken, but brilliant with the tire of
genius and the illuminations of opium. In man
ners he is a mo el of decorum, urbanity, and
natural, unaffected gentility, lie is a magnifi
cent talker, and a tine reader; which last qua!,
ity he notes as a rare accomplishment, whether
among men or women, lie is genial and hos
pitable in his household. He performs set t&3ks
of walking, day by day, in bis garden, and
marks his progress by deposits of stones, lie
has offered his bodyafier death, to the sur
geons, for dissection, as bis contribution to
physiological science. He seriously believes
that the dreadful gnawing of the stomach, al
ready alluded to, which arises, perhaps, from
the collapse and impotencj of that organ through
the use of opium, is caused by the ravages of a
living animul. He is singular in his habits,
otten disappears from his home for days to
gether,—no inquiry being made after him by
bis friends—and returns as mysterious as be
went. He has two daughters, one of whom is
married to an officer in the Indian army; the
other, the eldest, presides over the house, and
acts as bis amanuensis.
Meeting of Railroad Presidents—Vio*
latiou of the St. Nicholas Hotel Com
pact.
Baltimore, January IT.
A Convention of four Pre>ldents of Eastern
Railroad lit es has been called to meet in this city
nest Wednesday with reference to violations of
thti St. Nicholas Hotel compact. The Pennsylva
nia Central appears to have been the only trans
gressor. Mr. Carrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio
Kiilroad; Corning,of the New York Central
Riilroml ; and Mu-an, of the .New York and Erie
Hiilroad; have been desirous of maiutainiug the
compact, but confidence being now for the third
or fourth time destroytd, it seems probable the
contract will be annulled.
miscellaneous Items.
SST BelTs Life in Loudin estimates Mr. Ten
Broeck's winnings on the Eugl'sh turf at $15,745,
but says nothing about his pretty criubage games,
which it is Kiid were so lortuoate.
£3* SI. Higault, a Uadiog writer for Parisiau
journals, while absorbed iu composition, several
weeks since, buddenly lost all memory of the past,
aud is u mere child again; and will be incapable of
further effort, unless a reaction shall occur.
SS" Felix Sanchez, the young Spaniard, who,
a few days since, murdered his tather-in-law, and
attempted the murder or his wife and his wile's
mother, in Sullivan street, New York, has not yet
been arrested; neither has the slightest clue been
obtained of his whereabouts.
No Old Maids in Japan.—No eiog'e women
are allowed iu Japau. Every man is allowed one
le;4al wife and as many second wives as his means
will allow him to support. The second wives arc
sslect.d by law from the poorer classes of society,
who.-e relatives arc unable to t aiutain them, and
the children are all adopted by thelega* wife, who
is the only acknowledged mother. The old rule
is therefore reversed in Japan, where, instead of a
boy not knowing'bis own lather, hundreds do not
know their own moth -rs.
Collins' Steamers—New Ocean
private letter from Pans states that a French com
pany, organized at the wish of the Emperor, are
about to purchase the Collins' steamers, to be
placed, with others, as a regular lire of packets
bet-, een France and New York, the French Gov
ernment having agreed to pay the comply a
yearly sum of 15,000,000 francs for carrying the
mails. The sale of the Collins' steamers wi'l be
effected through the personal agency of Captain
Comstock.
Longetrt of Bisncrs.—The IVtiltm Epis
copalian says that of forty-three Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, consecrated during
the last thirty years, only five have been removed
by death. The presiding Bishop, Dr. Brownwell,
is now in the lortleth year of bis Episcopate.
Bishop Meade, the next in seniority, was conse
crated iu 1629, ten years after Bishop Brownell.
During the four yeais §ince the consecration of
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, there lu3 been but
one Bishop consecrated—Bishop Bowman, of
Pennsylvania. During the four years preceding,
there were no less than 'welve commissioned lor
the Episcopate.
A Nct for toe S a vans.—A Sir. Tromhly Iku
been siuklnga wetlonthe western outskirts ot oar
village, in the progress of which the fullowingas
tounding fact appeared. At the depth of tweuty
five feet the workmen came upon frozen ground!
Through thi* layer, some fifteen feet in thickness,
they worW their way by dint of persevering
efforts such as are always recessary ia digging
compactly frozen earth. At the depth of lorty
feet water w as obtained, which nightly lrcze over,
the ice forming some three inches in thickness.
Will some one account, on any known or unknown
principles of philosophy, for these astonisbing
lacts? We loam the freezing of the water con-'
tinups now that the well Is "stoned up."—S'ojih
ern \ r uitor, Brandon, Vt.
" The Weong Pew.'*—A correaponeent of the 1
Addison, (N*. Y ) Adcertiier, writing from Wood
hull, gives the tollowing iocideut as of recent oc
currence to the Woodhull Brass Band: " They
were invited to Ja3per,to attend a lecture, and
enliven it with their mu-ic. The lectnre was to
be at the meeting house, and at the appointed
time the band marched op rnd proceeded to tho
gallery. Finding a few gentlemen and ladies oc
cupying the seats below, they immediately struck
up Yankee Doodle, a very excellent tune, and ex
cellently played, but singularly inappropriate to
the occasion. They had broken in suddenly on the
solemnities of a prayer meeting! The lew per
sons below turned around and viewed the intru
ders with 6taring eyes and gapiog mouths, which
toe band very innocently took for an expression
of admiration, and they at once struck up the
Americas Quick Step.
A Hit teat Told.—One of the most "palpable
hits" of the winter, and one that completely upset
the usually imperturable self-conceit ot a Demo
cratic cr.»wd, occmred on Friday night at Hugh's
saloon, where tbe Democra's were rejoicing over
their victory. We tell it as it was toid to us, for
we did not hear it. The crowd were drinking
toasts and making speeches in an irregular sort of
a way, when Mr. Attorney General McDonald was
called u;',and made a heavy, prosy Democratic
speech, of the regular stump pattern, concluding
with the sentiment, "TbeUnitedDemocracy—the
gates of bell cannot prevail against them." Mr.
Terrell, of the Lafayette Journal, was called next,
and remarked that ne "thought McDonald's senti
ment very appropriate and just. When the United
Democracy presented themselves at thfc gates of
hell, they would find that the 'gates' would not
only not prevail against them, but would give way
to tbem,and let the whole crowd right in!" The
jabilant Democracy were not po complacent for a
little bit after that.—lndiana Journal, nth,
OX GROSS LYON'S KATHARION, JOB
Zy sale by
rtrt \t BAWTie* PATOI * oo
Bleached elephant.oil job
■xls by the Oaak er BbL by
BAWYXJL PAIGI* OO^
>U U <fM>.
1 A TONS FOB SALE
JLv/ by BAWTX& PAI6X 4*oo. dalUi .
Miscellaneous.
BE A T W E~ST ER N
LEITIIUR I\U HIDE STORE.
aoi aud 303 South Water Street,
CHICAGO ILLINOIS.
We are to reerire oar Winter Btoc* el
FRENCH KIP AND CALF
Which has beta «eU-ct#*l >rcn the Manafaeturer't Stock
tnP*ri»by oorMr. RT. hackbura. Tfte qoalUj Isio
serior.aodwiilbeeoldLOWfor ibe QDXLi"f. AUo—
PMUdeiphli Klii.
Side Kip tor B*ek. •
BUnxLtered Leather. b*st Qaailtj.
fcpftnLh do do do
Oik &aa<hte* Sole.
„ , Hemlock and o*k Duyer
Bezalock. Kb ind Calf skins,
ualsA, Rous, aad Flodlno.
Lart*. Crlsctatf tc
k. T. BLACKBL'&S Jl Bat/-,
201 tc 203 SOOTH WATEH-ST
. »**ANTED—Green aad Dry Hides iot vtiict uie
hlxfaeftmarte' pricewllbeuald.
LEATHER!:—
HafiT CLASS CAZTISU
just re.r.*s<J
DIRECT TRO. FRANCS.
ST
JAMBS KELLY & CO.,
H3 LAKK-8T 413
Chicago, HI.
Who keep eoujustlj oa haaJ the laraest itcck of
Leather and IpimUnjrs
To be fooad la the West Also, timtestockofsussrio?
LEATHER and ISDIA RU3BCK DELTIN'G.
All of the above will be sold tzst lov for e&sh cr ksy
proved puer. JAMES KKLLY « CO..
oclt> lj-bl!*7 C 43 Lake street, near the BrUae.
JUST RECEIVED
-AT TlLfc
Homoeopathic Pharmacy,
ICS CLAitK bTiIEET ItiS
A fresh saccly of
HOMOEOPATHIC CHOCOLATE
o a
ALICKT T .
Alio, another lot of
BEJLLOC'S CIf^IiCOUJL.
j»l3 IIALSEY A &IXG.
Notice to Shipper*.
OX AND AFTER DATE THE RATES BT
all r. utei fr-m CLiiiio Ess'ea ProTlsJoss and all
fourth-dais Vrelgb* will be Icllcwj uaili luitccr no
tcs:—
Chicago to Eo3ton. all rail, by 1L 8. i 31.
C. KaJreals Tic. perl» Zi.
Chic*fro t j Best ii. rail 10 Pcrtl&aa. LDcuce
water 70c. "
Chieatoto Dojtoab/ rail to PiillaJilohia
cr Baltimore. t-Tc.
Chicago ta New York by allrcut a a 1 r%il.tv>c. "
Chicago to PiilAlebhia or Baltimore "
J. NOTTINGHAM, for K. 8.8.5.
H.E. SARGENT, for M. C. E. E.
J. J. HOUSTON, for P. Ft W.&C.R. B.
jalWt-cl3
TO SHIPPERS.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company,
Aie
Sl Louis, Alton, Springfisld aid Bloomington,
WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARi.
Tlae as Qilclc and rates as low as by any other rcute.
Deliver Freight at the Stone Freight Dc;ot, foot of Soath
Wa.er street.
Forlafonaatlon as ts rates aad c3sditlon.» Tapply »o 3.
FOS3YTH, Gea'l Freight iesnt, office la Paijecjcer
Depot, op stairs, or to C. M. SMITH, it't TreUht
Depot. ja?.| Ms; ia
TO SMOK.EKS!
Tax GOCDI
LATAKIA TOBACCO,
Manufacture! expressly for
THE LONDON CLUBS.
ll£o
Heal Turkish Tobacco,
Aad CESUIXE
XVXEERSOBBTTXa PIPES.
JCST &CCUVKD LY
J. 11. ItEED & CO'S, Apothecaiies
I+4 AND 115 LAKE STREET.
i>!?-ly
RIGGiyS BROTHERS, HU;IC PUB
LI*HE?3. *5 L%k* rreet, utill have oa haad the
l&rgttt »tr>ck of Mas'calmercl.antil eke thy any ether
house ta tbeNotthwest. He are s -)« ajtenU for ih-; cel
eor?t;d "Model Milcd;on.** made b? M&»>n k Uarnlli.
"osum: also ax*Ql« fjr L'ghle- ftewtoa ± Uradiu y's
.PIaNOS, withlhe"P teat «ich * rest rlaok." wh chls
turd by no other Maoufact-sers io the wjrlJ. aad Ij tie
Dostlmjo taot aechaalcal ImprtvetnrDt. lastea o
qsllk liooastsosi m&k r* do—which »W«?s tU; bs. o-
Bent a m talis aad <llattrret»ble sound—or oai"* wocd ia
the ori Inary wa*—wh-ch render* U to wfaVca
the part of tbe iistramsnt whtreia the cre&test povlbie
syencthisreqalr d—by cuUU* acres tie srala r>f tho
wocd. Uwhte. X Bradbury's have a net*! I
whereby the> sr>rla« this patiotWre.t Into proper <ona
by the aid or steam an t pawerfal mnehuiery, A st aln
of ten toas will irutc no impreaa'oa o. the arch, w »a
the fibres of the wood tastetd n f beln* weakened by the
continuity fcetig Interrupted at short distances, have ft Ir
aatoral p wer cr rts>staace g>eat!y augmented by the
nec liar form they are tz.ade to a«nme la the i'ateat
Arch Wrs«. Ev.ry Ins rumen* Is warranted.
All tods of Chur b Music Bo«lsf*r »al*
The ehear'st amlUies tilee tfo-.kout is the MWXE*
HA HA. Prl?eiu.Rle cipy »3 cests. sent by trail put-
rer 'k>i;a c.5» All orders must b* *ii'Jre«seJ
to LIIGU.Ni 1)110*.. lo Latie-s'.. Chicago js o bi-v-) ly
AHD SILVER-WAKE
For the Holidays.
NEW GOODS,
Bieh. Rare. Be%at!fal vid Ui-fal now rece.vla* at the
Largo and Fas:.) .a uH Jewelry ttore,
NO. 117 LAKE SIKEET,
Nfarly opposite Mr. Piiraer's Dr/ Goodi Stores. Tl®
ladles aad geatiemeaof Oa.ca<o. aid those desirous of
procuring alee presents for onrlstmas and tbe holidays,
•re invited to call rod eca'niaetie largest and best va.
rietyofthe most desirable sulci of goods for that pur
pose to >•« fourd la Ohlearo, whL-h will be sold cheap fcr
cash, giiver-ware aeatl/ eagravei free of cnarae.
JiilKiH. HO-3.
aoSOb63o3a Sqcee<s , »r to tfoard A Avery.
New music store.—
95 CLAKK feTREKT,
Opposite the Court llouse. Chicago, at the SUa of
-C . '
Tho Star Spangled Baa-ncr,
MESSES. EOOT & CADY,
Take this opportoaitvto mpectfclly Inform tbe Mcs!c
bayers of Chicago, aad the Nort west, thatthev are no*
receiving one of the largest and most aMrac'.lve assort
ments of Mnsical Merchandise to be fouad West of New
THE IRE3HE3T, NEWT3T AND BEST SHEET MC3IO
OF THE DAT.
INSTRUCTION BOOKS of ALL KINDS.
Church Stale, Glee tod Juvenile Books.
Stelnwaj k Son's
GOLD XEDAL PIANO FOETES.
Prlnc® h Co'a
IMPROVED PATENT MELQDEONS L ORGANS.
Wo. llall & Ecn's
Celebrated Oaitars, Hates and Banjos.
Also, iast Imported from larope. Vlo'laa. Tlolonceltos,
Oornopeaas. uoroetr, Accordeons. Flutlnas, Coacertiaas.
Tamborines, Pitch Pipes. Kos!n, liows, eta. e'c.
Rest Italian. English. Freach. G-rmaa aad Ameri-raa
STttlNßsfor Vbiin, Vbloncellc. Double Kata. Guitar.
Banjo Harp, etc.. ets,. etc.
are the facilities of tils n-*a»e thatDesl*rs,
Teachers, aad Seminaries la tbe Northwestm»y here ob
tain the bes*. of everytb-ng Maslctl as cheaply »nd with
murh greater dispatrhthaa Cram the Eastern cliles.
Onraaf, PLaaos. Metndeoas. aaj all kinds of Uasical
lostrumeati toned aad repaired ia tbe most reliable
maimer.
BOOT k. CADY
s. T. BOOT. I No. 93 ciaik street.
C. M. QAOT. j ials CHICAGO.
meye:r*s
Miraculous Vermin Destroyer,
For the Destractloaof
BaUj'inicC) ?lole% .Honqnitocs,
lioaclics, Fleasf Hotlis, Garden
Inaeets« Ants, Ac.
Th e chemical
known underthe above UUe fortte laat 2}ye&ri
throaghout Korope. where ther hav-met wiih atrium
cha:t fuceesa. have •eqaired for their Inventor aad
ManofacUirera world-wide celebrity, attested by the Em.
perors of Russia. France. Austria, the Queea of En*
laad the Einxs of Beigluxa. HoUaad. Naples, llavari*.
Saxony. 4c.: aad la America their eSdency has been
endorsed by the Directors of Public Institutes uil
the approval of numerous private citlicca, that they are
the oalv remedies la the wotld care to eateraiiaate all
klals of rermia.
Meyer's Miracaloos Preparations destroy the aawel*
come Intruders without mercy, aad never falL His art
has nroeghl death to millions of tbem ia the wnrkl. aad
from this day the watea-word of all hoasen-epers. mer
chaata, shlp-ownen, aad huabindmea will be fc *onore
Terrain."
K^Kctillpackages from S» eeat* to 11.00 Tiaxs—Sir
months, or five per cent, off for cash (ao ageau. Depot
of theloreatoraai proprietor,
JOSEPH METEPractical ChemTrt
6U Broadway, (cor. Hooston-ft,.) New York.
General Agent for tae United States aad Caaadaa
FRKDKitICi V. BCStiroN Drasgist. No. lo Astor
House, and 4lf Broad war. N.T. de3*Jbe6S6o
QHIOAGO LEAD PIPE AND
Sheet Lead Works.
COLLINS & BLATCHfORII,
mnryaomuts of
Lead Pipe, Sheet and Bar Lead,
A3D.DKALXU XN
no xia AD.
Areata for
COLZJXB WHUS LX&D Jk OIL COXPAJTT,
-a»-
St. IJonis Shot Tower.
HTi fflß aaortaect of tho above Maaafactarea coa.
tUnUyoahaad.
OEDEBS YKOM TOTS TSADK SOLICITED.
Collins 4c Blatehlordi
aaSo97-ly Comer of Clin ton aad Pulton itr*eu.
UNDRIES—SO BASKETS CHERRIES,
50 bags Uapired Peaches.
JU bHa Pared Peaches.
5 brts Dried Raspberries,
SO brts Dried Blackberries,
W kegs freoch Prunes.
10 baaketa Hungarian Praaes>
S6 keo Turkey Pnxaes.
Jast received aad far sale by WILLIAM LITTLE ft
OCX. 161 South Water street. del4.lv
/CHRISTMAS—2SO BOXES FANCY TOTS
\j S9O boxes Fancy Candies,
SSO boxes IPancr Prunes,
600 boxes 801 l Loseagtrs.
PoruieatWl douth Waier street, by Wit. LITTLE k
IP deli4i
9X« If AIB St Cu ,
x. -x. as; if x, ocr s.,
Maaa£aciarad aadfoxialeal
. THX IOVSLTT MILLS
>im KM and pa auu ■>«<
T7IXEGAR I-QENTTIfTE NEW JERSEY
V Oder Tlaeor. fbr tale by the bbl. at -
, • BAirajL PAIGE k CO
deiWj Smote U Lake street.
illcbicincß &z
\1 OTHERS, AS TOtf LO7E YOUR
1 'Children, be on Ue Alert fnr every omptoo of
Worms, for worms cause the death of mtfe than any
_ _ other disease* Ta all cases
DEAO SH'I !' connlmtcce. UrtJ
clrde ar-und the eyea and
_ - _ fool hreata rive IToLLO
FOR W A Y*i* VKOKT% D L£
WORM CONPKCTION3.
O R IVT S ' They are a delicious prera-
V niao. of that wy child
will crave. If worms are present, tbey will safely and ef-
Jlj remove them aaa restore healrbtn all case*
Honna: worms!— These trcublesome tnfests 01 the
stomach andbowetsof children have at last found their
m.trhtn a mvch'ejs oreoMTvtlo > called " llolloway's
worm Confection," whtch U la the form of a pleasant
and azreeaNe candy. The little children affected with
worma. which heretofore turned ut> their noses and
sputtered aad cried about the ariinlnls'ratlon of the
nanceousitua under the name of Vermlfu*i», will or-m
th»lr UiUe mou'Xs with ecstacy to thaak the Inv-ntor
formiilca a pkaxant core for one of the most trouble
jom- diseaiea. Itvery box warranted.
. BJLLE9. SMITH A CO..
dell V.iLak*st. Arents for ►•.
Brown's Bronchial Troches,
OB COUGH LOZENGES.
from Rer. linry Hard Bcdur, vho JLu tut<l
Troche* fiee y*r*. I havt» never njv
mind respecting them from the tirst. exrept to think
yet better of thai which i bezaa in thiukuig well «!'.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
From Rer. E. If. Ourpin, P. D.,X*a Vjri.— rcon.
sider your Ix)zen;« an excellent article fur their pur-
and recomiiieud their u*e to I'uhlts sneakera.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
From .Vr. C. 11. Gardmr t Principal of the
Femslt Imtitutt, Jt'rto York. I Ikiv» b*en .itll7eted
with Broncliitij duriue the piat wuurr, aad fuun4
no relief until I found y war Troches.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Dr. Lane prweribes them in his practice.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Dr. Bipfhtr says are einiplo and certain.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Indispensable to Public Speaker*. Zwn'j Herald.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
An excellent article. .VafiiftaJ Era, ll'iithington.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
A moit admirahlo remedy.— Jjumal.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
A stirs remedy for Throat Auctions. Transcript.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
EiHcacioui and pleuanu Traveler.
Browns Bronchial Troches
Cures any Irritation or Soroflcsj of tUo Throat
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Cures Cousli, Cold or Hoar>ene«.«.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Cures nronrhfci. Asthma and Catarrh.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Clear* and jjivos tn the voiro of
Brown s Bronchial Troches
Cures Whmipjnj Coujh and ImluciKX
Brown's Bronchial Troclies
Are the greatest Remedy *ftenee ever produced.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
Are only *J3 cts. per Rox.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
SOLD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
—IT—
PENTON <Ss CO.,
94 Lake Street 94
OPPOSITE THE THEMONT HOUSE.
DR. G. J. LEED'S
QUININE SUBSTITUTE,
Or, .V£Jlf*£ TO.VIC,
WILL CURE
FKVKK AND AOUE.
Also, yexlow. ciiagres axd
Panama Pever* can often be preventeel by the tue
of thlslnvaluab.e remedy. The redpe Is from a very
c-lebra'.ed Pata'claa after thlrty-flve ye*rs eap»r'.e- ce
In Hospitals and rrlvate practice la New York Uty. and
has beentest«tl In a l l sections of the country durine the
past six yea;s with the most wonderful success. In the
W»sternand S.uihwestera cauatry. where Fever an i
Arue prevail it h.vs accomplshed much by curing tbe
disease as well aa renovating and recuperaxlo* the rys
tem already shattered by the use of Quinine. Morphine
and Mercury, or Tom too free use of the trashy nostrums
such as are d .lly belDit forced upon the unsuspecting in
valid. To all suffering from rrorratloa after dliease I
reoenmend and raarante'i this Medicine as a perfect
T nlc. To traveller* la unhealthy cilmVe*, I would use
the words of the well known Captain John W. Manson.
now of a Liverpool Packet Line, a d mazy years In the
Southern and South American Coasting trade. " I
would a* soon thtnkof going to sea without* rudder as
wlthoatthe Quinine Substitute "
J. 11. UAZARD. Proprietor,
l'jl Maiden Lane. New York.
Pcnton* icoblnMin & Smith,
fftolesal'* Agents, L? South Water street. Chicago, 111.
de»4-tr-J tAtiH
\¥7EIOH AND CONSIDER.—AN HONEST
»V QUAKER'S ADVICK TO CONSCMPTIVEd—
"FiIerds del<y not
moment In u«itig
death is very neai" thee ft'fc "* .
a'dthssaniis of >hyvil-'Jil
ll'e are cearly runout V 1 SA*/
Hwill be to ihee the *W: -rHg
Spring of Ufe. and / \
thou wilt he restored [ m f ,t -=—* —"/ \
xnla t> thy faialtv. fiQl
Thou need not despair
for as r.ear'y asttauart goaetfcy condition !a not m:re
hopeless than mine was. and as thou knoweih. I
have been restored to robust health, as well as thousands
«f others, whose testimony thoo wilt find with the hot-
Uea. Think net, because evrryihl-g tbr>u basttmd has
f»lieo, that thou art bevond the reach of rredlclnes.
Thou will surety not be deceived by thla j->od remedy.
Be that thou gettest no other medicine.
Sold by BOLLiS. SMITH k CO
dell ui Lase street.
a t^vewus
80l. | - E f|Sl|l'gc0 5
124 Lake Street;
HIE GREAT WESTERN
WHOLESALE 4ND RETAIL
PATENT
iflEmci.YJO Itit'OT.
If you want a Remedy for your Cougn,
—OO TO—
BOLZ.ES SMITH & GO'S-
U4 Lake Street, the corner of Clark-*
Fyou want a Remedy to Purify the Blood.
Go to BOLL£3. SMITU A CO.. U4 Lake-it
Pyou want a Ferar and Ague Remedy,
Go to BOLUS, SMITH k CO., LU Lake-A
17 you want a Hair Restorative or TTsiy Dre»*
A ISG. Go to BOLLEd. SMITU k CQ_ LH Lake-et.
Fyou want a Rhcumatie Pill or Liniment.
Go to BOLLES. SMITH k CO. 134 Lale-rt.
Fyou want a Remedy for the Pilet.
Go to BOLLES. SMITH k CO.. 134 Lake-A
Fyou want a Hair Dye—Warranted.
Go to BOLLXa 8 XITH k CO.. U« Lake*
Fyou want a Purgative or Cathartic Pill,
G<»to BOLLE3, SMITH k CO.. Lake*!*
Fyou want a Pain Siller, or Pain Extractor.
Goto BOLL£3. SMITH A CO.. U4 Lake-cV
TP you want some Tbaic Bitters or Scheidam
A SCHNAPPS, to to BOLLitS, SMITU CO.. U4 Lake
street
FIR Duponeo's, Clark's and Cheecman'i Fe>
MALS FILLS, go to BOU.irt, SMITH k CO M V.i
Lake street.
T?OR Cough Candies, or Pulmonic Wafen,
A 1 Go to BOLLES. SMITH A CO- LM Lake-st,
T7OE a Powder, Paate or Wash for the Teeth,
A Goto BOLLEa SMirH A CO. U4 Lake-sr.
T7OR a Liver and Dyipeptic Remedy.
A Go to BOLL£S. SMITH k CO., u4 Lake^at.
T?O3 Vermifuge, or Worm Loxesees.
A* Goto 801.1.ga. SMITU A CQ° l7iLAka-».
T7OR Strengthning Plasters of all kinds,
A Goto BOLLta, SMITH A CO.. li* Lake-H.
ITOR a Remedy for all Private Diseases,
1; Go to BOLLES, SMITH A CO.. 134 LalN«t. -
T7OR a Remedy for Diaea*ea of the Skin,
r Go to BOLLIB. SMITH A CO.. IM L*k*sl
T7OR Fancy Soaps, Brushes, and Toilet Article*.
X 1 Goto B0LL1& SMITH A CO.. LU Lake-st.
T/OB Handkerchief Extracts and Perfumerr.
r Goto BOLLES. SMITH A CO- Ut Lake-st.
Tiuces, Shoulder Braces and Abdominal
A Supporter*. Thev are agents forthemanofacturere
aad will tell at low nrf.->es.
Goto SMITH A CO- 134 Lake^C
THE LIVER INVIGORATOB ,
72Z?A2ZD BT DJL 5.1N702D,
tO2IPOr?n)KD ENTIRELY FRO 3 GOB,
15 ONE OF THE BEST PURGATIVE
and LTV£3 MOICIXI3 now before the public.
These flams retaovel I One dose often repeated
all asrbtd or bad matter' * is a rare cure for Cbols*
i from the tyitexa. nsply-f fig ,r» Morbos, and a aro-
Ing 1a their place a F*i veatatlva of L'bolsra.
healthyflowofbUe.lavlji-1 . ,
orating the stomach. Cj Only oaebottle li seed
food to digMti ®d to throw oatofthevs
well. 9 arlfflne tdßj item the ejects of xaedl
bk>o4, girtng tone aadj idaeafteraloafslckaeaa
health to the whole na-* j /v_. . . .
chiaery. removing the <3 Ukn tot .
cause of the disease—ef4 'iniSit! removes all
fectlax a radical cure. or unnataral
BIIUou .tlvki uJ K color tton U " lUa -
Cured, and. what Is betMfj a Ona dose taken a short
prevented by the oeca-1 U time before eating give*
slonaluseoftheLlverla-i . vtxor to the aroetite aad
vi«orator. I Q makes the food digest
Oae dose after eating. w * u *
Issafficleat to relieve the! M One dose, oftenreceal-
K.
fcodfronrlitaxindioiip. , htrm i u worrtlor _
while t» anoa • r aad
Onlyoaedosetikenbe- 7 Bowel Complaints
fbre retiring, prevents yield aksost to the 1M
aisktmara. dose.
A 'ewbottlstvUl ear.
Uroimr bj adtlia U»
OS sbaorbanu,
OOfS dose taken afto •• WeUkeDleacsrelnre
each steal wtil care Dy» ISJ eomaeadlac this medJ-
cine as a preventative
■ ■ . , . for Pent aad Aate
Li «f • UUIWm.
11«T5 alek HH im It Dtmla wttt-
Only one dose teniae- . ecrtalntv, and thousand
diatSy relieves Cwlie, Hi |•« to testify
while 1 lite wonderful Tittoea
ILL WHO U»J| IT ABB OIVTH3 THE XX
UMANIMOm TESTIMONT IN ITS FAVOR.
BTMLx water ta the month with the Invitoraior.
■wallow both toc^^MT
' rarct MSOtLix rm nmi.
Dr. BANFO&D, Proprietor. No. 34K Broadway. B»»
lori. Xrtalled b* all Sold, also, by
anr.r.n ucth > oa. l3«Lak&4t., |od
FAHHVTOCK k DAVIB,
jyH-ly-am 118 laadolph strstt
ENOSHA WATER CURE.—THIS
ttltutlca Is located at Wla, on the CM
eaao and MUwaokee Ballroad. Its location Is etrtnenUs
adapted for the purpose. Seoosna bdni n ne of the mod
West The Cure wQI b« kepi open
Real (Estate.
JpiRST OLASB PB OPB RT I
For Sals Clieap !
CHOICE LOTS ON MICHIGAN AVENUE,
Near Monroe street, (hll deuih to la aller. Very chew.
KIOHTY ACRES
Divided by the South Breach, particularly to
Manufacturing Purport
TWO LOTS 05 STEKET
la School Bestloa addition to Ctdca«o.
OKI HUNDRED AND FIFTY LOTS
la the Wes; Division,
All the above Property will be sold very cheap tor
ca.h oroatime. C.illandsee. Inquire of
CL F. FICX.
jal b9 I lm 131 Lake street.
\ RARE CHANCE.— FOR SALS OR
n. Lease *t a great bargala
A GOOD BITER LOT,
feet oa the river hy 55 ffH deep. *o Lumber street.
T.ie ici !s well docked, aid well -lasted for * lumber
"f?*. Tto A. T SHBtMANaCO.,
de~ 1m HviktT*. '»> Car* *t*g»t.
Improved Farm for Sale.
A WELL IiIPnOVED FiKH OF ONS
*cre* vlih aa abuidanc* of
woo.! and llvlns wa*-«r. e*n »* b>u rht At» very low price.
TVs farm Is w tu!n amile and a nM' of the ua'ena Rail
,he ,am " 'Stance 'r m lUUTt*oa tie Bur-
Ungton toad. about Ihixty-dve mik.i from Chlc*«o.
Inquire cf n » u.-, J*
Jsi ' 1;1 street,
W ANTED TO exchange for a cm
» * SjaMeaee.*
HOMEtTEA U,
Ct rMLMof * Two-rtorr Milwaukee Brlca Hosie. Oa
04i,0.an. Yard uJ Gur all la complete order. local
>i in oae of i.:o ; e beautiful and healthy Like Towns ir
Ton -fab cUy oa Xh? line or «b-.
Hi.nre iUuca.l.
tell or exch.iag fo: city property,
Whconsin Firming and Pine Land*.
f-jr Par. !t-Lan address ?n«t OJce 9o* l&f&.
aJg-ta-c :r
JJ S. GOVERNMENT LAND LOCATING
AGENCY.
The Subicr'.ber having had much ira«tlcal experience In
SELECTING AJfD LOCATING LAUDS,
la the various L«nd Dlrrirtsln theWesiern Hates b
unusual facU:t.eJ for maki j; valuable seclectioas
70S LAND WAB2ANIS OS CA^H.
Choice Selections miy now be made la
IOWA. WISCONSIN AND MISSOURI,
Persons h*v!n* Warrants can h*ve U:eai Located la
their Own Name.
Aiid 40 per Cent. FrotU Guaranteed,
Payable in One Year.
Ci.^r 4 ' W!sConila liUaolj Lands .'or sale low tor
Money Inverted la Kansas and Nebraska.
Land Locailn* A rent,
aulj so.' ly y ciark street. Chicago.
©ptifians.
QHICAGO CIIAa IT A B ITE
EYE AND EAR INPULTXIBY,
Dispcnuary ot th* latipnuiiy
Op<aEvery from II l-2to 12 l-2o'clk
FOR GRATCITOL'3 TRSATMBTT
Of ths poar afeeted with JUeaj?i of the Eye and Zar.
ITo. 60 Jlorth Clirk Street, Cor. Michigan.
Newberry. 0 V Dyer and
W/W V * o Fre *i d , ei -«? ; Secreiary A Treaiar^r;
J 11 Rer 2 '• D i>. w Uarrv, p Carpen
ter. W 11 Brown, K U
... u «-c*'TisioJ«CM*.«i-Prof D Urainard. M D, Prof J
» rrcr. M D.
ia«m* ISd Scmeo,3 " E L Holmev MD.W I! BaltteU.
t) U1 S !>! AI.S & ,
Practical Optician,
[!, ate wtta Beui. Pike A Hoot. N. T..J
19 SOUTH CLUK BTUSET J»
(•[ipuilta i!i«* I'otirt Hon •(>,
Lar*e«t an.t eholceit #ssnrtneat of Optical and Mather
matical (toods In the Northweat.
n' 1 ?' «n_l Genome BRAZILIAN PEB.
BLE SPECTACLES constantly oa hand. a!k».
Opera Olaue*. Mlcrt»s«>o«, "arom«ter%
Therraometer*. Kr-lronetet#, aTtRKjaCOPW. Mula
Lantertu. me., Aa
" e *° ld 11 ,owert York pri cm.
EYE A\ 1) KA K .
OK. I'^lbKItWOOl),
Of T.HK EYE AND IAR
. Inflravy of Louisville. Ky.. and more recently Phy-
UcJan aad 8 art eon to the Kye and Ivar lniirmary. Colon,
baa. Ohio, and author of a "New System of Trratlnt Di
seases of the Kye and Kar without t)i< a of the Knlf*. - *
woaia announce thai he ha« permanently etiabi'uli-d ao
Iu5 l s£f? lnthtfcU * of Chicago, lllluols. at aKVKNTY*
*£Xj*outh Clark street. In ordei la afford to those af
alcfed with uiseasea of the Kye and fcUr. ao opportunity
or beinc treated by a »ystea whlcn L* entirely new. per
recti* safe, aad has never been known to fall la effecting
penaaaest cvea In all cases within the reach o! human
sr-ja Km-a-^.t
Profcssionai.
Wll KEX N I
• DENTIST.
j -jl 131 l*jaKe Street.
DR. BURNHAJU,
HOMEOI'ATHIO PHYSrCIAN.
OFFICE 7S DEARBORN' STREET. RE3-
Idenre. earner of West Madlioa aad Peoria street.
de3lb77dlni
ACnRO.VIC DISEASES
I J Drs. RBADINO k NfltAl)
maybe contu'ted daily from 9 JvdnflA
A • SL to 1 P. il. aad Tram 3 to rt
P. M. for alldloeaw* of LUNGA.
HKARTand LIVER. ISMALB/ ' \
and aILT /M-nM|9i §
CURONIC Aatbe*«T 1
diseases proxren rapidly, ana" Wf'BiVll *
oftet Imperceptibly, tn a fatal
termination aaless promtitlv ar
rested, aa «irlv application yyWjlfw
i* Qf Via imp<>rt<tn< *
to ad who wish a PhUMANKNT and BfaKliY CURB*
Taeir FTstemof treatment by
cetber with constitutional remedies, la entirely different
irom anythlojr before the Dublle. ao<l they are confident
hat any candid person will t>e convinced ot it* created
Scary by a csrefal exarnlnatloa of lis m»*rlU.
at No. 10 J (Suae street, of Wa*b>
ln«ton.-.£airaace oadtate street. Cocsultatloa free.
dell
E. A. BOGUE
T\ENTIST.—OFFICE NO. Ml JES^
X-s Lakesueet. (opp. J. ILReed .
CoWi) ae3iy T T ?
DBS. FULLER & ALBACGH,
Dentists. office, no.
4* West RacJolpb ft.. Chicajro. awX,
DL Superior work womsUy done at our
office. Responsible cuarantes for cao> 1 ' 1 1 1
cewjn allcaaet
tyCall and leeapeclmena. »e34-ty-agT7
DB, J. BEAl'DlNE,D«atl«t.
T ATE ASSOCIATE (-F DR. A. WOOD.
J J RCTf BROWN, of No. 5 Great Joneastreeit New
lore.
Office 100 Lalce Street,
Over Tripp & Hale's Patent Offlco Depot.
noliMTSly
RS. WARNER & KETCHUM, DENTAL
SURGEONS. Office aorthtait eorser of
Lake and Dearborn
Up stairs In room No. L. 0c!3b160-ly
W. W. ALLPORT.
DE N T I S T.-OFFICE
Residence. No. 83
street. ocl b03.1»
DOCTOR N. F. COOKE.
|_T OMCEOI'ATHIC I'HYSICIAIT OF-
I I FICK and RMulenee remova l Jiy MlrSiran
sir»»t. two ilnor* from Uiuli street. tn»t'Ui ly
ENTISTS.—DRS. Q (JINLAN & CUsS
110.
atmosorr
OmOX-NO. 68 CLARS STRUT.
miJ4.ly-t>SBS Op posit the Co art Hooml
F. A. THO3IAS dc CO., '
MAXcyicrQUKs or
Dins' pitstt alsphaltic soomc*
CPATENTXD AUQCST ». IS&S.)
"PREMIUMS AWARDED AT THE LATE
JT Mechanical Talr held in this dtr.
the foandatlon of thla roodnt oonslsta of Canvass sat>
arated with underlaid with Pelt paper, or of
felt alone. Theeoverlas compound is composed of A»>
phaltam. Ladlaßubber and Guza Hbellao. A newmeUn
odhavln* been discovered for dissolving Rubber aad
Shellac, allowln* any quantity desired to be used, and
combining tnem wltn Aaphaltom. wttkout the use of ex
pensive aad Injurious solvent* used la all the Coal Tar
OetaenU. walca always evaporate aad leave the Compo.
dtloa porous and brittle, la this Compound all the vol»>
Ule matter la removed, entirely freeina It from such de>
fecta. and la known to be tb« mast durable material for
roolac la the world.
Old Compodtloa Roofs of every description repaired la
a permanent and satisfactory manner.
All order* promptly attended to. Orders from the eoaa
toy snppUed with the prepared Canvas PaotfaadCoia
poslUoa. with Instructions
State aad County klxhta for tale oa termao treat ad
vantaae to those who wish a permanent bustaw la
Office with G. P. Randall Architect. Room .t <?. 20. Port*
land tilock, comer of Dearborn aad Waahiar i nreet*
ILL P. O. box aa. o?i 'glUMm
BAGS! BAGS ! I BAQ3! I!
rARWXXiIi'II
STKIS BAG 3UXITACTOIY,
43, Uk U Wabaah avenue, Chlcaco.
RAGS AND SACKS of every description
tonlabedoa abort notloe.
and printed vlih
JIXW AXD DK.IUTIFLL BHABDtT
BZMSOIf VAAWXLL.
iti-dAwly-tTTL
nHIOAGO STBAM DTE Wo3x£H
COOK. BKO. & CO. #
ISS featfc Clark Itoreat. its
CHICAGO ILLINOIS.
Cartalas, Crap* ffiuwl* >od OuUrpABM
(XiBASIDi BLBAOSBS.
And vaimOad to look aa good m sav.
CARPETS, HSAKTH KWS A3D VUIQWTS*
Of all kinds, cleaned tad nmted,
ORAFII lis,
Dyed to any oolor wltb every Und of LadJiVßUk.Bat!a
and Woolen Shawls and Priests: Broob«. Stella aaa
Wollea Shawls Qeansd aad Pressed in a superior manner.
KSHOAOTxxji 7xson oooxm,
vm Aiaomujujta.
Dyed and K».finiatie<l.
1 B.—Geata* Ooata. Vaata aad Pants Cleaned and 1*
paired with «wt»
HAMH.TOW. gUT.TiBH A CO.
SEABI VOTZ9SXSS ASD BTXAX 7ITZZSS.
MANUFAOTORV
No* 11S and US Franklin Street.
Malss Haois tQ| Lake Mnet
AND DEALERS IN
IVI all «f Braai> Copper, Ha. aad Sheet Iron
Work. Railroad and other Aituiu
Well Pise. Smoke Pipes. Steem '.vhlstles. suite aad miq
Worma, PlnmOT* BoUen. aad all klade ot Ptumber'a
Materials.
Plain aad Japanned Tin Ware. Water Coolers, Gro
cery Canister* Toll#i Mta, a lane *oo* of COOK
amp parlob siovaa.
/JUNKIES—NEW AND SECOND HAND,
*d te mi* * OHIO