stu gftuttto Published every Wednesday by H. G. SMITH «fc CO A. J. Steinman. H. G. Smith, TERMS— Two Dollars por annum, payable all oases la advance. . OFFlCE—Southwest coun'ku of Centre Squaiie. 4yA.1l letters on buslnoss should be ad. dressed to H. G. Smith A Co. fwtojj. From the Loulsvlllu Journal. This truly Bublimo poetry upon the At lantic telegraph wns written by Mrs. W lleld, of Poweo Valley, well known to our readers for years as one of the very highest genulses of tho nation : The Atlantic Telegraph. 11l the grey depths of the silent sea. Where twilight reigns over mj ster>, W ore no t prevail of the tempest’s mood, And no forms ot P tl,e V nnper life intrude "Where the wrec * s of tne elder u orld are laid a "earn oned you to her iu a sly, half secret way ; and the eyes that looked out from • under the long eyelashes were full ot girlish roguery, and an inextinguisha ble mirth. “I did not know that that was Dame . Jenifer,” 1 said in a hurry. “ I thought the stiff old lady in the white muslin -apron and open black silk dress was .Jenlfer—tbe picture on the staircase I .mean.”: ; “My dear boy, you will never learn their nktiies. And yet I knew names ,uud histories before 1 was your age.” “ But then you hud always lived here, ,aud I am only just come.” So I persuaded my mother, who was a born antiquary, to put away the long manuscript and sit round towards the !iiro. —it was raining piteously —and tell me all sheknew of Dane Jenifer. While she is making the necessary iutroduc •«fcoiy remarks, X must have some further Lancaster ilntclliaciuTr. VOLUME 67 little explanation with the reader about "Twus the eldest of the three ohildrou, and I was twenty-live years of age. Urgent family aS'alrß, and health rather the worse for wear under the new con ditions of an Indian atmosphere, hail brought me home, after a seven yeais absence from England. My father was dead, and my mother had very unex pectedly become the possessor of an oiu property of considerable value. Her only brother, many years y ou “K < i !r herself, had left It to her unyondit onal ly and unencumbered. She 113(1 other sous, and I was to arrange , her to divide my father’s . b ® tween them, and, takmg her maiden name of Heuiker, become heir to the old estate myself. „iwavs lived Up to this time we had alwa & B MY®)* in London I had never seen Heniker Bill ow though I had heard it often enough my mother having oved her old home with a remarkably strong affection: and now as Ihave a ready ex plained, I was suddenly and deeply in terested in my mother’s ancestress,Dame Jenifer the owner ot the feather fan. ‘•Her name was Jenifer Obin, my dear hoy,” my mother began, taking ott her spectacles and producing her knitting from a long little India box which I had brought back .to her. Jenifer Obin s father was a Koyallst, as all the best gentry of good old Cornwall were and he died at the battle of Broad Oak Sown. My ancestor, Peter Heuiker, was there. He was of this county, as you Know and lived here. But he and Jenile:s father had been dear friends, and they had promised each other that if eithe died in the wars of that day the other should take the child that should so be left fatherless, and, bringing the orphan up with their own, arrange a marriage between the two. 80, by some means or other, when Sir Peter Heuiker heard of Captain Ohio’s death lie sent loi Je "Tlm child was ten years old. When she came she said she had pledged her word to take care ot a girl called Kate Cradock. if their fathers died in’ batt l3 , The double death 9 had occurred, and Jenifer clamored tor Kate, bir Peter was not a man to do any good in an imperfect manner, so Kate too, was brought to this house as Jenifer s friend and companion. “Sir Peter was a man ol about torty years of age, a widower with a son ot fourteen. To this son lie stood pledged to give Jenifer in marriage, and the children knowing of the arrangement made no objection. , “Young Heuiker, however, w e Jenifer was nearly fifteen, V if,,, by ail accident, and Jeniter and Bn Peter lamented together and consoled each other. The next male heir to tins place—lt was not entailed—was bir Peter’s nephew, the son ot a youngei brother who had married very early in life and was settled in trade m a neigh boring seaport. Tins boy was Jasper Heniker, and Bir Peter said that he was now to inherit the place and to inairy the young lady. . , “ When Jenifer was sixteen, Kate Cradock being a year older, the discov ery was made by Miss Obin that Jaspei and Kate Cradock had been making love beforeyoung Peter Heuiker s death. “She was furiously ango • I \°. t with Jasper for.loving Kate,— that she confessed in many oi her letters lvala herself which have been preserved, was natural enough, for they had received un equal amouutof education, and Kate was very fair, and very good. :Bat wl \ at Jenifer hated so heartily was the wil lingness of Jasper to give up Kate, and marry another without loving her just to secure to himself the place of his uncle’s heir.” , . , “Quite right!” 1 exclaimed. And I beg Jenifer’s pardon for having con fused her with the stilt'old lady on the St “Tuke care!” said my mother, bU I looked towards the picture. r I he lire played on the face and made it look j absolutely alive and then the flame died out and left the figure luJistad, but 1 had suddenly received the irnpi es sion that one day I should see flame Jenifer and speak to her. The notion was abused utterly unreasonable, but nevertheless it had given me the very oddest thrill I had ever suffered. “Why am Xto ‘take care tasked, and I fancied my voice had changed a little. Hut my mother only poked the fire once more into a blaze, and said, “ Dame Jenifer’s lias been the strange story of the family. I only meant to say,'take care how you praise her before you hear the end.” n ■So saying, she went on with Dame Jenifer’s story. ,- rvl .. M Terribly angry she was with Jaspei, and all the more because the love be tween her and Kate Cradock was us true as ever; and Kate was suffering bravely and secretly, and trying to make the sacrifice so generously as not to betray the whole truth. But the whole truth waskuown to Jenifer, some how, and yet she allowed the day for her marriage to be fixed, and let bir Peter make all the wedding prepara tions. They were to be married here in the hall, which was then a sort ot banqueting room; and they stood, so tiie story says, on the dais,— that raised floor just under the musicians gallery. “ But the night before ahe had had a great explanation with Kate Cradock, —that night she had seen his last letter to the deserted girl, in which his love was declared in the strongest terms, anil his marriage with herselt was spoken of as the hard necessity that grew out of Bir Peter’s .promise to his friend, her father; and he wrote that the estate would go to Jenifer’s husband, whoever he might be. . “And so, somehow, a strange thing was arranged. The bridal party stood lu their places about ten at night, ihe bride veiled, the bridesmaids veiled, they were three in number, and Jenifer had arranged their toilets. But when Jasper uncovered his wife’s face to give her the kiss that was usual in those days be found that lie had married Kale Cradock; and Jenifer, flinging back her own veil, congratulated him with all a girl’s revengeful satisfaction and force. , . “But it was Sir Peter who was most astonished. ‘Jenifer!’ he exclaimed, ‘you have done yourself a cruel wrong, perhaps. I promised your dead father .that you should be mistress of Hem ker. I have lost my sou, and you have cast my nephew from you; madam, there remains only myself!’ And so, taking the girl's hand, and drawing a ring from his own finger, he led her, speechless, to the spot the mar ried people had left, and, with a stern voice, commanded the clergymau to begin again. Aftera pause of a moment, to allow the girl to speak if she would, the service was once more said. “ When Bir Peter had to speak, his voice was so solemn and so respectful, — so full of manly loving and of gentle promise, that all of the many listeners were struck by the eloquence of its tones. They said that Jenifer looked up at him wouderingly, as he bowed his tall form towards her, and uttered the I will,; that their eyes met once, and that in that single glance he had conquered, and she waswon. Her voice answered him with a pathos and a meaning it had never had before,—and she was mistress of Heniker, and his word was redeemed.” “ Mother.” I exclaimed, I like our ancestress better than ever. I hope they were happy.” “ O yes,” said my mother, carelessly; “ they were very happy, and had a fine son who was one of my grand father. But there is rather an ugly story of Jasuar’s auger when this son was horn,and some ill-tempered wishes, which were to vex all Henikers till something impossible happened,—l can’t tell what.” “ And this is her fan?” I again took up the feather fan. “ Yes; Sir Peter was proud of his girl wife, and had her picture taken ; and she is looking full of youthful malice at the double success of her dariDg trick,—is not she?” “She is very handsome and I am sure I must have seen some one so like her." My mother's face was a wonder to look at when I said this. Her 11 Where?” had a strange anxiety in it; and when I Bald, " In my dreams, I suppose,’ she laughed, half Badly, and turned away. I had not been more than a week with my mother at Heniker. and I had not been in England more than a fort night. We had lived always in London, in u good house in a pleasant situation. To this .house my father had taken my dear mother when she first left Heniker to be his bride, and there all her child ren had been horn.„ . To be the possessor of Heniker hud never crossed my imagination. I had never thought of my uncle as a man likely to die, or even to live unmarried and so, when, on reaching London, I found my mother’s letter desiring me to join her in her own old home, I obeyeu, with an odd feeling of change upon me, to which it was not quite pleasant to feel that I had to grow accustomed. It was not the welcome I had expected. I was young enough.to expect aud to picture; to desire, and even to crave after the old home, and the sweet, soft voiced, tender-eyed mother, who had always made a darling of her first born. I would rather have met her in the home I knew. And Heuiker I felt to be something of an intrusion into my life, though it made her rich, and en dowed me with expectations. It took all the first week to reconcile me to the obliteration of my picture, and to make me look my fortune in the face in a friendly manner. But aboutthe seventh day I shook hands with Fate, and ac knowledged her bounties. My mother, on my arm, wandered among wood aud lawn, and ail the hitherto untold his tory of her gill-life dropped out. I knew the spot where she had first seen my father from her casement in the gable; I walked with her under the lime-trees where she used to read his letters, and wait for his coming. The fascina tion of a companionship more close than we had ever before enjoy ed endeared the place to me, and made me, what I was shortly to call myself, —a Heniker; a Heniker in heart as well as in name. But now lawyers and friends agreed that we might go back to London. It was desirable to do so; for Frank was coming from Oxford, and Fred from Eton, and I had not seen them yet. So we packed up sundry small treasures which were to travel with us, aud sat down to spend almost our last evening in the room where the picture hung ot the lady with the feather fan. lAs was natural, we talked again of Dame Jeni fer’s story; but I saw mv mother shrunk a little from the subject. And again and again, by the glinting fire light, as we sat gossiping, I caught the strange, life-like smile ot tlie laughing face, till I grew friendly with its beauty aud was almost cheated into thinking that the real fan, and not its picture, was beckoning to me from a living hand. I think this evening will always remain in my memory with a strange sensation about it. But in the morning came a letter, which made my mother determine to prolong her stay at Heni ker ; and I was too happy in our close reunion, after a seven years’ separation, to wish to leave her. tio the thoughts of last evening passed away, and the second part of our visit began. I felt, at first, «nrry to stay longer at Heuiker. I will honestly confess that there was something distinctly uncom fortable in the picture of the lady and her feather fan. Tfoere, on a table in a corner of the room, lay the fan that Dame Jenifer had really held, but the whole room seemed to be inhabited oy the picture of it and the fair holder. I felt her smile when I could not see it; and I am candid enough to declare that I looked round again and again when seated with my back to this haunting picture, as if to make sure that the fau was still in the place where the painter had placed it. Dame Jenifer’s eyes were always laughing at me, always following me with that quizzing expres sion which few men are heroic enough not to mind, and, perhaps, are no great er for such heroism even if they may have attained to it. I grew romantic sometimes, and fan cii'ul under the influence of that fan held out m constant beckoning to me. “ I’ll go up to her boldly, and ask her what she wants, one day.” Then I corrected myself of this vaunting humor, and said, with an inward laugh, “On my life I believe she would answer me !” But all the while —in some noHo-be-explained manuer —I felt falling in love with my ances tress, and thinking of old Sir Peter as very lucky in having suddenly become possessed of a treasure so rare as this lady with her feather fan. Then I would take up the real fan, and con sider its beauties, and I was once even foolish enough to shake the pretty thing at the pictured owner, and defy her, with all the airs of superiorpowerwhich life and health and the possession Hen iker conferred. But I stopped short in my silliness. “Frightfully disrespect ful!” I muttered. “After all, she isone of my grandmothers, and deserves my thauks, and she can only laugh at me now. But—but if this fan has not something to do with my destiny, I 11 nevermore listen to one word in favor of presentiments.” The cold spring had suddenly left us. Our visit to Heniker had begun with gloom and the friendly consolations of great fires ; but now, suddenly, spring had cast aside her winter garb; the trees were bursting into leaf so quickly that from day to dav we recognized a glorious change. The plum trees were whitening with bloom, the cawmgs of rooks in the elm avenues, where the ground was covered with a carpet of colored flowers,— prim-roses, cowslips, golden cups, violets, and blue-bell,— were delights indescribable for the ear and eye. My wanderings with my mother were prolonged till late in the soft evenings, and it was during oue of those sweet, sauntering hours, that I again talked to her of Dame Jenifer’s story. “ What became of Jaspar Heniker, and his wile, Kate Cradock'.’” “One day you must look over tile Heniker letters. They will please you, for Kate and her friend wrote pleasant ly to each other, Kate had children, and oue of her sons married Jenifers only daughter. But there was no issue from that marriage. Jenifer’s son was to have married one of Jaspar’s girls, but he had a spirit like his mother’s, I . suppose, and he would not fulfil what the mothers wished for. He took his wife from a noble family, and the place I came down to us in an uubroken line. > “ I shouldlike to visitjaspar’shorae.’ “ It was somewherenearNVhitesands, [ I have ridden there as a girl.” “ And did Henikers live there then? “No. It was alow, long, ramblin farm-house. Mr. Heniker has let it many years. He was the last, and was in India then. Since that he married a youug widow, with a daughter, I think ; but he never had any children of his own, so “ pick Heniker,’ as my father used to call him, was the last of Jaspar’s descendants. The house was called Whiteacres Farm. Hick was a little older than me." “I shall ride over there to-morrow," Jsaid. Aad when the morning rose with all the promise of a summer’s day, I pro ceeded to keep my word, ordered Jessie, my favorite, out of the Heniker stables, and after breakfast mounted, and rode away. There is no more lasy enjoyment, and no one more luxuriates in this particu lar sort of pleasure than a thoroughly strong man ; there is no gentler luxury than a summer ride through a rich country on-a good horse, —a horse that seems to enjoy itself, and that appears to have Borne sort of sympathy with the master who rides through the flowery lanes and by hedges, listen ing to the strong music of the skylark, rising from the short grass,—from home to heaven, —and feeding, as it were, on sights and sounds with a spirit-satisfy ing contentment, and a heart full of love. In such a way I rode that Bweetspring day, under a sun as warm as summer, with bright butterflies about my path, and the cuckoo with its sweet monotony almost persuading one in a long sum mer’s day that Time was standing still, and that there was never going to be aught but sunshine in our lives ever- LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5,1866. more. My way was through a fiue rich country, with occasional breaks of pic turesque beauty almost reaching to grandeur, where granite rocks rose high, and tangled banks of oak edged the clear waters of rivers which were spanned by wooden bridges, and flowed away among feathery fern-beds, and reflected wreaths of hawthorn flowers os they went along. I reached Whiteacres at lost—a farm standing amidst many enclosures, and having a few line evergreens to shelter it. I found only one woman and a girl within. She was the farmer's wile. Three dogs rushed out at Jessie and me, but Mr. Brookß pacified them, and then asked me what I wanted. 1 told her who I was, and that I had a fancy to see Whiteacre. “ To whom does it belong?” I asked. “ It’s a gentleman high in the army, sir, who takes the rent —I can’t tell his name. I know it sometimes. But I think he takes it for some one who is not of age.” “A Heuiker?” I asked. “ O no, sir ; they are all gone.” “ Is there anything worth seeing in the house ?” “No, sir. There were some ancient things, but they were all moved about a dozen years ago—just before we came here. There used to be more buildings out that way, but they were pulled down, and the stones used for repairs. There’s old arches and window-mould ings round at the back in the walls of the wagon house and piggeries, sir, if you please to look at them.” This was all I got for my ten mile ride; and thinking of how all things live their time and then pass away, and are forgotten, I went back to Heniker. At last the time came for us to return to London. My mother, in her child hood’s home, had been living with me through many tender memories, but she seemed to put them aside as she packed up to go away, and in London she was all brightness, lile, and activity, and as proud of her sons as they were happy in their mother. The weather was radiantly bright, and our lives were full of as much enjoyment as life ever yields, and then there came an event. My mother’s friend, Mrs. Chester, had come to London to get dresses and make arrangements for a fancy ball which she was going to give at their home in Hampshire. Two daughters had come to town with her, and my brothers were upon me. “ Now, Heniker, which areyou going to marry ?” To marry either of the Misses Chester did not appear a particularly easy thing to do; Lhey were very grand person ages, and kept me at a considerable dis tance, until I was discovered to have a ready pencil for drawing dressed-up figures, and a good fortune waiting in broad acres and the Three per Cents. By degrees—knowledge having made these advances—we became acquainted and on familiar terms, and engaged to dance certain dances at the comipg ball. We all went to Shortlauds; and the night after our arrival tvere all in the ball-room. Regimentals had been voted sufficiently brilliant dresses for military men, so I was pro vided with a costume. My brothers had chosen to be attendants on my mother, who was dressed to represent some character which demanded such appendages ; and in the midstof a scene far too full of sparkle for me to write about, we stood, admiring, and, to some degree it is to be hoped, admired. Next to the ball-room, which was crowded, there was another large room, which looked like a bower of fruits and flowers, lighted to perfection ; andthere a few of the guests, seated among high oleanders, and trained vines, andorange trees, were waiting, or resting, listening to a well-practised baud, and being re flected, with their surroundings, in long, narrow mirrors. I stood in the entrance of this room, and saw in a mirror towards the end, on my right, the lady with the feather fan, Lam.e Jenifer, looking as much alive as when her wooing and wedding took place together and at once, in the old hall at my new west country home. I consider it no disgrace to declare thus publicly that I gazed with a breath less feeling of surprise, and a sensation so like fear, that I stood rooted to the spot, and most uncertain as to my eye sight; for on looking with determina tion round the room, and again at the mirror, the substance was not to be seen, and the shadow was gone. ‘‘Don’t you dance?—Come here. I want to introduce you.” “Stop, Chester. There’s a woman here with a feather fan.” “Fifty, I should think. Everybody has a feather fan. It belongs to a fancy No, no; uot this feather fan—let’s find her.” “Nonsense! Won’t you dance—” “ Only with the women who have feather fans—there she is again ! Now flesh and blood, I declare!—now,Chester, are you mad ? What are you staring about? She’s handsomer than Dame Jenifera thousaud times ; and I'll getto the bottom of this, if it’s my grand mother’s ghost in good earnest.” “ Miss Clayton, said Chester, who had been dragged by me across the room, foicibly, “if you are not afraid of a lunatic—he is a great friend of mine!" She burst into a low, musical laugh. I felt sure she had seen my start of as tonishment reflected in the looking glass.” “This,” said Chester, forgetting my change of name, “ this is Alfred Pel ham—Captain Pelham, I mean, I beg your pardon. He wishes to have the honor of —” “Talking to Miss Clayton about her dress and her feather fan,” I said, in terrupting my friend. And then all three indulged in a laugh, and Chester walked away to leave us to our mys teries. Upon which Miss Clayton and I sat down, for I was far too much in earnest for dancing. “Now, Miss Clay ton, what made you appear here in that dress ?” “ I chose it because I liked it. I made it witli my own hands, helped by my aunt, Lady Ross, and her clever maid.” Solie, spoke good-humoredly, like a child answering questions. “ Forgive me for keeping to my ques tion. What made you chose it?” “ I have, at my uncle’s house, a colored sketch of a lady on a Bofa, with this sort of fan in her hand. She is not a very laudable lady, for we used to say that she cheated us out of a good in heritance by marrying the uncle in stead of the heir. And so there was an evil saying that those who inherited from her should never prosper till the two lines were united. But there are no men Henikers left in the world now, and I have dressed myself like the old picture, with no evil feelings in my heart, but a moderate complacency only, which I believe not to be criminal.” She made this little speech with the drollest affectation of candor, and the glance of her pretty eyes was just Dame Jenifer's over again. ‘I said, “And were the families never united ?” “O yes; Dame Jenifer’s daughter married her old’ lover’s son, ana she brought the picture into the house. But that was of no use. Dame Jenifer’ssou carried on the elder line, and the old gossips meant that the two lines should become one.” “ I have studied the pedigree, Miss Clayton. I thought Richard Heniker, of Whiteacres, died without children. Allow me to ask, Who are you ?” “ Richard Heniker died in India. But he married his cousin, my mother, a widow, Mrs. Clayton. So when my stepfather, who was also mv cousin, died I was the only Heniker left in the world, and I was given to the guardian ship of Sir James Ross, because his wife was my father’s sister.” “And is Whiteaeres yours?” “ Yes." She rose up, and I took her across the room to Lady Ross. She introduced me as Captain Pelham, and I said, under the protection of Lady Ross’s presence, “I was called Pelham ; but I had to take the name of Heniker last week.” And then Lady Ross, who had learnt all about it, was so glad to know me, and while Mary Clayton colored orimson, I felt that the aunt hadmarked me down as “eligible.’ I danced with Mary Clayton, I talked of Heniker, my beautiful mother, and Darne Jenifer’s portrait. I Introduced my brothers to her, and we Bet up a cousinly monopoly of the young lady, whloh lasted till theycalled her ‘‘sister,” and I had brought to Heniker, as its new mistress, a new edition of '' the lady with the feather fan," Dlfettlbratou*. The Chicago Tunnel. THE PROJECT. For a long time previous to the year 1563 the impurity of the water supplied for drinking purposes was the chief ob jection to a residence in Chicago. The effect of the Chicago river, reeking with the discharge of seventy-five mi.es of sewerage, and the refuse of numerous packing houses, breweries and distil leries, could often be detected in a sick ening, disgusting and nauseating efflu via, which made the drinking water supplied by the water works of Chicago unfit for the use of man. This water was pumped from the shore of the lake, three-quarters of a mile north of the mouth of the river. And, horrible re ality, the winds drifted the concen trated filth of Bewerage from the river, along the shore of the lake, to the very mouth of the inlet pipe at the water works, where, in a slightly diluted state, it was pumped up and to the city, through one hundred and thirty-one miles of pipe and hydrants, for use in the kitchens and dining rooms of the inhabitants. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK. The tunuel consists of three parts: the tunnel proper, the shore shaft, and the lake shaft. The shore shaft is lo cated within a few feetof the lakesliore, and the outer shaft or terminus, in cased in a hugecribof ponderous mason ry, stands at a distance of two miles directly out in the waters of Lake Michigan. The first 30 feet of thesliore shaft is inclosed in iron cylinders, three in number, one resting upon another and firmly bolted together. Each cylinder is ten feet long, nine feet in diameter, two and ahalf inches in thick ness. and weighs about 30,000 pounds, or, in the aggregate, the three together reach the enormous weight of 90,000 pounds. When the first of these cylin-- ders was placed in position on the sur face of the ground, the miners com menced tlie work of excavation on the inside. As the earth was thrown out, the cylimfet, of oourse, settled down. Another section of the cylinder was placed in position upon the top of the first when it had sunk to a level with the surface of the ground ; the two were finally bolted together, and then the work of excavation proceeded. The third having been attached in its turn, the work was pushed forward until the sliaft reached a depth of 30 feet. This brought the miners through the soil and quicksands, and some feet into the fine clay formation, wherein they were safe from the irruption of water. After reaching the above named depth the sliaft was contracted to a diameter of eight feet, and thence pushed down ward to a depth of 47 feet below the bottom of the cylinder, or 77 feet from the surface of the ground. From the cylinder downward the shaft is lined with brick measuring twelve inches thick, laid in three shells in the best of cement. The shore shaft, then, as com- pleted, measures 77 feet in depth, nine feet for the first 30 feet, and six feet diameter for the remaining 47 the tunned commences at the bottom of the shore shaft, 77 feet below the sea-surface of tlie earth, and extends, at right angles, a distance of exactly two miles. It is almost circular in form, being 5 feet 2 inches high and 5 feet wide, (in the clear), the variation from a true circle being made on account of the keystone of the aich'. It is lined with brick ma sonry, 8 inches thick. The brick is laid lengthwise of the tunuel in two shells, with “toothing-joints.” Hone but hand-burned, clear-ringing, well-form ed bricks, entirely free from lime and S inches long by 4 inches wide and 24 inches thick, were used in the construc tion of the tunnel and they were laid in the best of cement, only one measure of dean, sharp sand being allowed to one measureofcement. Includingtheshore shaft, there are nearly 5.000 cubic yards of masonry, which required in round numbers about 1,000,000 bricks. The actual excavation of the tunnel, in order to give it a diameter of 5 feet inside the masonry, is about 7 feet in diameter, re quiring the removal of about 16,000 cubic yards of earth. THE CRIB. This crib was constructed upon the North Pier, near the entrance to the harbor, and was one of the most mon strous structures ever launched upon the waves. It was forty feet high, and had five sides, each of which was fifty eight feet long, making the structure about ninety feet in diameter. It had three walls—the outer wall, the centre wall and the inner wall, each con structed of twelve inch square, timber, and caulked and paid like a first-class vessel. The frame-work, as thus con structed, formed a powerful combina tion of massive timber and irons firmly bolted and braced in every direction Within the walls of the orib were fifteen separate water-tight compartments, and the inside wall inclosed a cylindrical well, open at the top and bottom, and twenty-five feet in diameter. Each angle of the structure was protected from ice by an iron armor two-and a half inches thick. After its completion, this marine structure was launched in June, 1860, and towed to its position over the outer terminus of the tunnel, where each of its 15 water-tight com partments was filled with clean rubble stone. By this means the crib was sunk until its Bottom rested upon the bed of the lake, where it was securely moored by immense cables, reaching in every direction to huge mooring screws forced 10 feet into the earth. The water bore is 35 feet deep, and the top of the orib was therefore five feet above the ordinary surface of the lake. Some idea of the magnitude of this part of the work may be inferred from the fact that the cost of the crib exceed ed SlOO,OOO, or nearly one-third the total contract cost of the tunnel, There were used in its construction 018,825 feet of lumber, 0,028 cubio yards of stone, 400 baleß of oakum, and 65 tons of iron bolts. After the crib had been Beeurely moored in its proper position, the work of constructing the lake shaft was com menced. An immense cylinder, 64 feet in length, divided into seven sections like that used in the shore shaft already described, and weighing in the aggre gate 203,000 pounds, was first sunk in the well in the center of the crib, of which mention has been made above. The bottom section having been first suspended in the well the nextwas placed upon and firmly bolted to it, the joint being entirely water-tight. The two were then lowered, when another sec tion was placed upon the top, and so on until all were firmly bolted, together and the bottom rested on the bed of the lake. A few inches of sand covered the clay at the bottom of the lake through whioh the cylinder forced itself by reason of its weight. By means of a steam engine working upon the crib, the water was pumped out of the oylinder. After this, the sinking of the oylinder to the re quired depth in the clayey bed of the lake was accomplished by the pneuma tic process, which operated so success fully in securing foundations for the Harlem bridge, New York, the bridge aoross the Pedee River in South Caro lina, and the railroad bridge aorosß the Savannah River, on the Charleston and Savannah Railway. A brief description of the process is worthy of perusal in this connection. The cylinder being in position in the central well of the crib, and all water having been pumped out, the top is closed and made as nearly airtight as possible. A powerful air-pump driven by the steam-engine is then set at work, and the air having been withdrawn the atmosphere then forces the cylinder downward with tremendous power. After the vacum Is complete, eaoh sjroke of the pump draws down the top of whe oylinder with a to roe equal to the ex pansive power of the steam In the boiler, less the amount expended In running the engine. The power on the inside drawing down, and the pressure of the atmosphere on the outside, were sufll cient to force the huge cyliuder many feet into the hard blue clay which forms the bed of the lake. This process was the only one by which tne cylinder could have been sunk. The operation of excavating and allowing thecyllnder to settle of its own weight, which was adopted at the shore shaft of the tun nel, would have scarcely worked here. WORK IN THE TUNNEL. The foregoing account has explained the mode of constructing thetwoshafts, or opposite starting points of thetunnel. We come now to the construction of these two shafts by a subterrauuean circular passage, of enduring masonry, 2 miles iu length, TO teet-under the water of Lake Michigan. When the cylinder had been driven down into the clay toitsproperposition, the work of constructing the outer shatt was carried on and finished iu a manner precisely Bimilar to that adopted in the construction of the shore shatt already described. The bottom of the East end, or outer shaft of the tunnel is 60 feet Oelow the ordinary surface of the water, or 36 feet below the bed of the lake, and the bottom surface of the tunnel slopes uniformly to the shore shaft at the rate of 2 feet per mile, so that whenever repairs are necessary, and the “ inlet gates” are closed, the water can be entirely' pumped out at the West end. From the foot of-each shaft a narrow railroad track was extended as the work o! tunneling progressed. Cars capable of canying one and a half cubic yards of earth, drawn by mules in each sec tion of the luunel, brought to either shaft the earth as it was excavated, when the car, with its contents, was hoisted out by a windlass connected with an engine. Two members in each section of the tunnel yvere left at yvork, each drawing two trains of cars to the shaft taking out the earth, and bringing back brick, cement, and other material. Chambers and turn-tables constructed at convenient distances allowed the trains to pass on their yvay going or coming. And there yvas another in teresting feature in the construction of this gigantic undertaking. A railroad, with regular turu-outsand stations, iu operation doyvn deep under the water of Lake Michigan. The railroad had at times its human freight, for General Grant himself yvas once a distinguished passenger to ride through these dreary depths. In the tunnel two classes were em ployed, namely, miners and bricklay ers, each of whom worked separately in gangs of five each. In tunneling, one of the miners went ahead and ran a regular drift in the center of the tun nel, being an excavation of about two and a half feet wide. Another folloyyed and broke down the sides of the drift. Another folloyving trimmed up the yvork to the propershape and size, yvhile the other tyvo loaded the car. Each car going to the shaft with a load of earth brought back a load of brick and cement and the masons followed only a few feet behind the miners. The contractor employed about one hundred and twenty-five men in the work upon the tunnel. These men were divided in three watches, or reliefs, changed every eight hours. The work yvas pushed forward night and day, the only cessation being from 12 o'clock each Saturday night until 12 o’clock on the Sunday night following, except on a feyv occasions when the miners un earthed a jet of inflammable gas or a fissure filled with water, yvhose irrup tion was certain at once to spread dis may among the miners and induce a precipitate retreat to the foot of the shaft. But, very fortunately for the success of the great enterprise, none of these irruptions let in any considerable body of yvater. An ingeniousmode of ventilation was adopted to secure to the miners a steady current of fresh air and carry oft' all foul vapors. THE LAKE TERMINUS. The crib already described is a tem porary structure, which will soon give place to a massivepile of masonry which yvill atonce protect the cylindrical shaft and inclose the inlet gates by yvbich the supply of water yvill be regulated. The rubble stone placed in the water-tight compartments of the crib yvill be re moved from one compartment at a time, and spread over the top of the othem to prevent the crib from rising. The stone yvill then be laid back in hydraulic cement, the masonry rising several feet above the water in a series of massive blocks of granite, bolted and cramped together with iron bar, and rude stone cut and morticed in such a manner as topreventthe displacement of one with out the displacement of all. In this manner the stone in each ot the com partments will be replaced by the most enduring masonry, which when entire ly completed, with its numerous bolts and bars, running in every direction and firmly binding the whole together, it is not unreasonable to suppose, will resist for countless ages the fiercestgales of Lake Michigan. The top ot the structure will be surmounted with a permanent lighthouse, constructed and maintainedat.the expense of the city, in conformity to a recent act of Congress. HOW THE WATER IS LET INTO THE TUNNEL OK SHUT OFF. There are three openings or gates through the cylinder of the lake shaft which will connect with flumes or pas sagesthrough thesurrounding masonry, when they will be covered by double iron gratings, and capable of being closed by gates, easily operated by an ingenious combination of iron rods, levers and wheels. Gates will also be placed upon the openings through the cylinders, so that each of these passages for the ingress of the waterwill deepen ed and closed at both ends. Each of these inlet gates covers an opening live feet long and four feet wide. One of the openings is five feet from the bottom of the lake, another ten, and the third fit tipn feet. J’iaeh is on a different aide. This arrangement will afford tliepurest of water at all seasons, despite storm and regardless of the direction of the wind. THE QUALITY OF TIIE WATER, Repeated analyses of water taken at • different seasons from the surface and ' bottom of the lake, at the outer shaft, Erove conclusively that Chicago will ave, by means of this great public im provement purer and better water than that supplied to any other city in the United States. At the distance of even one mile from shore, the water is never contaminated by the most violent storm, and the water in Its natural quality is singularly free from impuri ties of animal or vegetable matter. Its crystal-like clearness is equal to that taken from the purest spring, and silver coin dropped into the waves gleam and glisten deep down in its transparent depths. It is worthy of note, as a remarkable fact, that during the progress of this work, a period of two and a half years, not a single aooident has befallen any of the workmen. But this auspicious circumstance is marred by asingle deed of crime—a tragedy, In fact —fatal in its unhappy consequences to one human life, which occurred in the very tunnel itself. One of the workmen engaged in an angry quarrel with a co-worker in a frenzy of passion, for which, indeed, there was the legal justification of severe provocation, seized a pick and Btruck him dead. The original contract price of the tun nel complete was $315,139, with a pro vision that, in all ohaupes in construe* tion required by the Board of Public Works the contractors shall receive suitable pay. But it must be remem bered that the contract was made when gold stood at 120 and before there had been any Increase in the cost of material or the wages of labor. Since that, and during the whole period the work has been in progress, both the cost of mate rial and the wages of labor have in creased to more than double their for mer figures. Hence, the actual cost of the work has been greatly in excess of the contract price, and, taking Into con sideration numerous items or expendi ture. foreseen by neither the Board of Publio Works nor the contractors > themselves, it is more than probable that $700,000 will not cover the real ex ; pense of the undertaking. NUMBER 48. Tbe Little Cup of Tears, The following beautiful German legend Is told In “Thorpe's Yule-tide Stories:” It relates that a mother who had lost a darling little daughter, sorrowed day and night for her, as one without hope, and that for three daysand three nights she neither ate nor drank anything, but wept In the bitterness of her soul. The third night, as she thus sat overcome with suffering, In the place where her ohlld had died her eyes bathed in tears and faint from grief, the door softly opend, and the mother started, for be fore her stood her departed child. It had became a heavenly angel, and smiled sweetly as innocence, and was beautiful like the blessed. It had in its hand a little cup that was almost runnlngover, so full it was. And the child spoke; “ Oh ! dearest mother, weep no more for me; the angel of mourning has collected in this little cup the tears which you have shed for me. If for me you shed but one tear more, it will overflow. I shall have no more rest in the grave, and no joy in heaven. There fore, O, dearest mother! weep no more for your child ; for it is well and happy, and angels are its companions!” It then vanished. The mother shed no more tears, that she might not disturb her child’s joy in heaven. Ptettllaiuous. CORN MUELLER ANI> CLEANER.—TiI E attention of manufacturers is called to this lately patented improvement, by means of which the farmer can thresh and clean, by one operation, from 1,000 to 1,500 bushels of Corn per day, with no more power than is required to drive the old-fashioned “Cannon Sbeller,' the machine doing the work in tiie most thor ough manner, and is not liable to get out of order; the farmer being able In a moment to set the machine and to clean any sized corn, mouldy or dry. County and State rights for sale on reasona ble te.ms, by addressing \VM. R. BURNS, Lancaster, Pa. gECRET OE BE^TT^ June*6 tfw 22 GEORGE W. LAIRD’S “BLOOM OF YOUTH.’< This celebrated preparation Imparts to the akin a soft satln-llke texture, and renders the complexion clear and brilliant. This delight ful Toilet Is different from anything ever offered to the public before, and is warranted harmless. Ladies give It one trial and be con vinced of Its value. Genuine prepared only by GEORGE W. LAIRD, 7-1 Fulton Street, New York. Sold by Druggists and Faucy Good Dealers everywhere. imay 111 lyw 19 JJ J. CONSTIEN, 'jf KRCII A N T TAILOR . Wo. 40 North Queen Street, (Three Doors South of Orange Street,) LANCASTER, PA., Keeps constantly on hand a variety of Im ported Cloths, Casslineres, Vestings, &c., of the latest and most fashionable pat terns. Also, a large variety of Gen men’s Furnishing Goods. Quality of Customer Work Promptly Attended To. sep 21 tirndiw QOLCMBIA ISBIIUASCE COMPANY CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $532,210 19 This Company continues to Insure Build ings. Merchandise, and other property, against loss and damage by tire, on the mutual p'au, either for a cash premium or premium note. SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. Whole amount 1n5ured,...58,301,295.51 Less ain't expired In '50... 212,336.00 8,091,959.51 CAPITAL AND INCOME. Am’t of premium notes, Jan. Ist, 1805 8428,090.00 Less premium notes ex- „ _ pired In 1805 10,078.55 410,017.21 Am’t of premium notes received inLBB5 Balance of premiums, Jan. Ist, 1800 Cash receipts, less com missions in 1805. CONTRA. Losses and expenses paid t In 1885, 8 37,987.88 Balance of Capital and Assets, Jan. 1, 1888 532,210.49 8570,198.3 A. 8. GREEN, President, George Young, Jr., Secretary. Michael 8. Shuman, Treasurer. DIRECTORS: Robert Crane, William Patton, R. T. Ryon, John W. Steaoy^ John Fendricn, Geo. Young, Jr. H. G. Mlnlch, Nicholas McDonald, Sam’l F. Eberleln, Michael 8. Shuinan, Amos S. Green, S. C. Slaymaker, Edmund Spering. THEO. W. HERR, Agent, North Duke street, opposite the Court House LANCASTER, PENN’A. t.fll.t w goitre. REGISTER'S NOTICE.- —THE Ac counts of the following persons nre filed in the Register’s Office of Lancaster county for confirmation and allowance at an Orphans’ Court to be held In the Court House, la the City of Lancaster, on the THIRD MONDAY IN DECEMBER, (17th,) 1866, at 10 o’clock, A. M. Jacob C. Stoner, Guardian of Clementine G. and Esther H. Davis—now Esther il. Tltlow. John T. MacGouigle, Administrator of Arthur Quinn. Adam Herr, Guardian of Ann Marla Maynard and Franklin Maynard. Henry Heldelbaugh, Guardian of Abraham Hess. Daniel F. Yost, Administrator of Henry Yost. Sidney Howell Myer. John I*. M. Myer, George M. Steinman and Elias Reeves, Executors of John Myer. John Huber, Guardian of John M. Weldler and Sarah M. Weldler. Daniel Dougherty and Mary 13. Dougherty, Administrators of John S. Dougherty. Charles K. McDonald, one of the Administra tors of Thomas McCausland. Ann E. Christ, Administratrix of Jacob Christ. John L. Denlinger, Guardian of Elizabeth Hoover, John Hollinger, Executor of Ann Shenne- brook. Samuel H. Grlng, Guardian of Ellas Hartlng. Amos Groff, Trustee of Philip Hlltz. James P. Boyd, Guardian of Mary E. Markley. Jacob B. Tshudy, Executor of Dr. Levi Hull. Levi S. Relst, Surviving Executor of Christian Gutyaur. George B. Warfel and Christian 11. lanes, Ad ministrators of Melchoir Hackman. Peter B. Nlssley, Guardian of Fanny Brandi. A. R. Witmer, Executor of Samuel Hougeu- Br°ntou Walton, Administrator of Hannah Henson. Abraham Brunner, Administrator of James T Little. Ezra Relst, Guardian of Wm. H. Bollinger. John and Joseph Hawk, Admlnlstratois of Jacob Hawk. George T. Hummel, Administrator do bonis non cum teslamento annexo of John H. Mil ler John B. Smith, Henry Eberley and John Fry, Surviving Executor of Daniel Merkle. Daniel F. Hamaker and Benjaralu B. Braudt, Administrators of Daniel Brandt, deed, wno was Guardian of Elizabeth Will, (formerly Brandt.) Amos Bushong and Jacob S. L iudls, Admln istratorsof Marla Landis. David Slyer, AdmlnDtrutur of James Qualn tance. Jacob K. Nissley, Elias Ebv and Jonas E. Hos tetter, Executors of Jacob Nlssley, John Miller, Guardian of John K. Stark. Jacob Hurst, Guardian of William Good. Abraham Hess, Executor of Elizabeth Ilelu hold. Martlu Shrelner, Guardian of Marcus A., Mur* garetH., and Mary K. Eicbelberg-r. Henry H. Kurtz, Guardian of Franklin O. Kurtz. , If . , Arthur B. Ayers, Administrator of Hannah J. Fellenbauin. , , w BenJamiu F. Musselman and Daniel E. Mow rer, Administrators of Joseph Herr. Samuel Nlssley, Adraiulsirator ofiJeo. Becker. Samuel Lessley, Administrator of John Eess- John* Mecarlney, Executor ol Susauna Uoch- Ensminger, Kamuol A. En»mmger, Cvrus J Suavely und Emanuel * . Hosietter, Executors of Samuel Ensminger, who was Administrator of Joanna Hahn. John Mecartney, Guardian oftanny Burk- C Trustee of Christian Grot!'. Henry CopeDhall'er, Administrator of Sumu 1 Ingram. John K. Eberleln, Executor of James Pearson Samuel Shirk and Mary Shirk, Administra tors of Daniel Shirk. Andrew B. Hauck, Administrator of Elizabeth Roland. Peter Brubacker, Administrator with the Will annexed of Magdalena Brubacker. Levi Knelsly, Guardian of Anna Knelsly. Henry Lively, Administrator of Jacob Christ. John Quigley, Administrator of Catharine Ruth. Sarah Stauffer, Administrator of Samuel F. Stauffer. .Frederick McLanahan, Guardiau of Ellen Mc- Granahan. Franklin Dltzler, of William Dltzler. John Seldomrldge and Nathaniel E. Hlay maUer, 'rrustees under the Will of David Brlsben. Dr. Jacob H. Musser, Guardian of Benjamin and Jacob Landis. Dr. Jacob H. Musser, Guardian of Theodore and Emma Landis. ~ . Dr. Jacob H. Musser, Guardian of Elam H. and Amanda Landis. Dr. Jacob H. Musser, Guardian of Mary Ann and Leah Landis. , 4 . Dr. Jacob H. Musser. Trustee under the Will of Benjamin J.. LaDdis. ~f nry Dr. Jacob H. Musser, Guardian of Mary Jane y/ntilfm B. RnJriwln and John Huey, Execu tors of Joseph B. Baldwin. Henry E. Denllngor and I*" 1 ” tsbenshade, Administrators of Henry Denllnger Sarah Jane Land Is and Mark P. Cooper, Ad fflnKraion r John Johns. Jo SMaMraKhEr, Guardian ar Jacob Dem- Henry N. Landis, surviving Executor of Abra. of Thomas Starrs. Isaac N Townsend, Guardian of John A. W Sana,' Levi P. Williams and William B. W Hams. EMLEN FRANKLIN Register. rsqistsb’s Office, Lancaster, Nov. 20tb. nov 2i 4tW49 RATES OFABYEBTISITO. Businessadv tisemejits, 112 « year per ■Wf «of ten lines; ten per cent. iHoreeeefbr fractions of a year, AkaZi Sriti, Fxbsoval Pbofxbtt, and On* ■sal Anvunsnto, 7 oente a line. f&r tbe first, and 4 oe&ts for each snbseonent inser tion. Special Nonets Inserted in Local Column, 16 cents per line. Spxoial Notices preoeding marriages and deaths, 10 cents per line for first insertion, and 6 oonts for every snbseonent insertion. Business Cards, of ten lines or less, one year........... 10 Business Cards, five lines or less, one year,.... 6 Legal and 0 m * a Notices— Executor*’ notice*.. 100 Administrators’ notloe*, 2.00 Assignees' notice*,... 2.00 Auditors' notice* ... 1.60 Othor “ Notloe*, 'ton line*, or less, throo times, «•••• 1.60 U. 91. NORTH, Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa, H. B. NWAKH, No, 13 North .Duko at., Lancaster) CHAN. DEN DEN, No. 0 South Duke at., Lancaster. ABRA9I Nil A N IC, No. 30 North Duke at., Laucaater, J. W. F. SWIFT, No. 13 North Duko bL, Lancaster. F. N. PYFER, No. 5 South Duko at., Lancaster. S. 11. REYNOLDS, No. 61 East Klug et., Laucaater. J. W. JOHNSON, No. 25 South Queen at., Lancaster. A. J. STBINHAN, No. 23 west King et., Lancaster J. B. LIVINGSTON, No. 11 North Duke at., Lancaster. S. H. PRICE. No. u North Duke st,, Lancaster W9f. LEAH AN, No. North Duke at., Lancaster GEO. NAC.UAN. No. 15 Centro Square, Lancaster grtj ©ooilsi, &r. B Y <4 O O D H -AT REDUCED PRICES! HAUER i BROTHERS are now selling at greatly reduced prices DRESS GOODS, GINGHAMS, PRINTS, MUSLINS SHEETINGS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, Ac, JUST RECEIVED FROM AUCTION, A choice selection of Slik Warp Poplins, Empress Cloihs, Frenoh Mennoes, 0-1 Wool Du Luluoh, Wool Plaids, Black and Dol'd Alpaccaa, Shawls and Cloakings, which we are selling at very low prices, uov 20 Lfddwl HAGER A BROTHERS F U R H I MINK, SABLE, SIBERIAN, SQUIRREL AND FITCH. A complete aHHortuieut In MARTA LETT AH, BERTHAS, COLLARS AND MUFFS. *3“ Cull and examine. novaotfdAW] HAGER A BROTHERS. jyj EN’N WEAK! CHINCHILLA, MOSCOW AND EDOERTON BEAVER OVERCOATINGS. BLACK AND COL’D FRENCH CLOTHS. FRENCH AND AMERICAN CAHSIMERES FOR SUITS. ' READY-MADE CLO'IHINU ! The largest stock in the city, nt very low prices. HAUER A BROTHERS, uov 2U Udrof. McEntyre’s Celebrated Medicines, aug ie lyw 32 866. Ik II Y HOOIkS. 1866 WENTZ BROTHERS BEE HIVE STORE No. 5 K;a9t King Street. A BEAUTIFUL DEMONSTRATION, PRICES ARE DECIDEDLY REASONABLE. We have now on exhibition a most superb display of reasonable and fashionable goods os well as a largo stock of Staple and Domestio Goods, to which we Invito Enrly and Special Attention. Our prices will be found low. CARPETS and OIL CLOTHS claim an earnest attention. The long established character of the "BEK HIVE STORE” is a sufllclont guarantee that every customer will get the worth of their money. ■ADIES SACQ.UES, CLOAKS AND CLOTHS. WENTZ BROTHERS .Sign of the Bee Hive,” No. 5 East King street. npr i') tfw l(j| sats, fflaiJS & Jurs. J^AIUKS' NOW OPENING AT SHULTZ & BROTHER’ H 20 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER , PA Avi ry oice collection of Ladies' Fancy Furs, , ..»INK, SABLE, GERMAN, RUSSIAN AND ROCK MARTIN, CAPES, VICTORINES, BERTHAS, CUFFS AND MUFFS FOB LADIES’ AND CHILDREN’S WEAR. Ladles’ nnd Children’s Hoods, Caps, and Fur Trimming. Gentlemens' Fur Collars, Gloves, aud Cups In all qualities. A complete assort- FANCY SLEIGHING ROBES. SHULTZ & BROTHER , HATTERS AND FURRIERS. «-AU kinds of SHIPPING FURS bought, aud highest cash prices paid. inov 1-tfdAW IJIHE GREATEST bargains. I aRGEST ASSORTMENT AND LATEST STYLES, To UK FOUND IN THE CITY, ABE AT J. if. GREEN'B {Successor to Jesse Smith. ) NEW HAT AND CAP STORE HOWELL’S BUILDING, No. w, Nobth Queen Street, LANCASTER, PA. The proprietor, having Just returned from New York aud Philadelphia, would respectfully Inform his patrons and the publlo generally, that ho has now on hand the Latest, Best and most complete assortment of. HATS AND CAPS, ever otTered to the cltisena of Lancaster and vicinity, and at the most REASONABLE PRICES, This stock consists of all the novelties ol the season, some of which are: THE CHAPEAU BREVETE, NEW SARATOGA, CYNOSURE. INDICATOR, SARATOGA, MORTON, AND PETO. ttt*W SATINETTS, TICKINGS, 40, FANCY F U II H SIBERIAN SQUIRREL, AMERICAN FITCH,