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A Hound, as If from halls of sliver,
Or milli (IYIIIIIIOB smitten clear,
Through the frost joelured patios I hour
A Ilriglan,. which outnillnem the attoriking
A Apll.llllor hro , ,itilll( nu .1..1ny,
Beeltann udd tvinp, .rty G rt uway
I leave [inn trodde•n vilingp highway,
Fur virgin nn.)%v-inoln4 ulluunr ring through
A Jowoll.ll elm-11,0 liVkillllo,
W'lloru, %mot nvoltint no, wolln of wkipplllr
4 1,.1t1111.11; I ri•o-Imilx, loo••forogoo.l.
Hold ltp tloor of
I tr. 1.1 In Orient
I dronin 111.• Mng6 • M d ro, in le I ruv,•,.
h,•nrut❑ I ht• North vva v.
I Walk the IntirafElliornil,
111)11(11 howors,
ll_ MR', leaVo,
1 hr norn of the Toy.lle vinr•wurld
Around tn,• Itith 011 erp.tul
Tho poluln of IN vlostvred got.:
IVlgtl mirw•'r of u•lr•rd I runnrorm
I:111114 will! work "111.0Hl Find light
glimpse r/I glory
'ore gleam or the Holy (Aty,
to 11l o gL von,
'Pile white votollig down from lo
!low 1111.411 Lln ranked itn,l
hind ,larp-K11.11,111g SI/1,11 . ,“!
'rho liroolc Iln //111/111.11
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hla l• tut . ..
11. w yowl,. hioplati
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lil 4 . ll•trl•iS ill1),•11 MI h.•
Anti i/gil ,LN ,f wlnd.
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- I he., ho
11l w,ll 81' Wown It I wlty
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1,• 1 ,.. Os Its Nlllll lA,
I hnur th“ ra1,1.11 lightly h:,ping,
.pi 11 , • jav,
Th.. illopr,••N tts,••,l ~10.1ar
Th , clamor M 100,1,1,14
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tlr vattl,trami, vri•py
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thltStrallys. Sink
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Tiii t 111•1 1 .1,11, Of • '0.,. I mg.
Shine Icnrll ly II( W.ll, II I. 1 .II 1101111. it
111111111 hill 10.1 . 11111, I, It 11116
Tilt . \\ 11.1,4 n'll II
Awl soft mill Ititt',
Itrrut h, II 101 l it it yttli i i ittilttirrt•mt Iwzr
'rite I of ir•ttutititty
lilt It green ~f
4111,1 In thiSlitqltl, VOW tipilqllll, /11 - 111,,
,if rill' :+prmg !
faiscrlancous.
A ant Kezialrs Skating on Ne ly Year's
Day.
it soruls (II 1110 that Pennville never
wits hors.) Ii iias'lisuow;
is still' in their shells, like IL tllll.lo In k
1111111 lea more so—und
lam about as Ile/PI as any or ',III. 1111
I 'kill goinglo lullyou \Vital ImPl.qu'd
New N'ear's day. I h a d quite a string
ad vett hors.
This ISonncillr MM.. loiowing Ii
uofnl kinder dull 111.1'1., t,)lll . lt.Wileil
to 01 up a New 1 ear's id:ating party.
will pond was friz lip jest right Mr
it, they sed ; audit would lie It ne 11111ot/se-
Meta.
" !Awful !"sez I," why
I no itiorion than I coon!
fly: I've litel the rhrrnnnliz IL g,loli
111'111,11111i it'S Itinilr r illy finis.
I couldn't keep lily ciiiiiililirllllll 011 till.
Icn IL
htipplort pill!" the (learon,
1 . 11111! Ihe Wiillt With tlVii
( . 11.1104 Rhin' ilk Willi iill.ll, but SWIM, ill°,
R whlllercr, he's IhroWed one
(ll' 'eni it%vliy) —"I'll see li)
Slcatllig's In itra,ll:.
grand hand at It, I It ii..w —lt flue Ilium
ymir'n (411,..v , ( Iu olvatitagt. pit the
Ire I"
elolicegeol to ye," o-oloz I ; Minim cto ,
I shell unclertal:e to any, illy,,elr,
lea I guess I'll ge cloevn too the heel,
and see the test o ils 'ern ferm,l'm pew
tarn' Mint of seeing ielks injey their
ococel ye.."
"'l'lutt's right, sez the clue
von ; '• I'll veiny up fill' 3'llll by
sartin ; and mind yen, drys.: iiio
warm," sez he, mill with aii
squeeze or the hand. he &partici.
Serttli Ann didn't \vela ms• togco
linear the peel, lout I (cold her that .0
long al any hotly was alive, they'd het
ter let fell:s linew it! 1 don't held le
this (lead end olive kind of worl:s! I'm
one of tile t.te
I dressed tnycocell in lily green eash
mere gronovild, and It red cocilewl over my
shoulders. I leek in 3; lull in it, ler
knee - Ivieat might happen, end
it's :dills he,l to he prepared ter Milner.
geneies.
The deacon arriv at jest the apinted
hour, turd give 1110 litsartn to esquort nie
dawn the hill to lilt' pi)1111. lla hail his
vane, in his left hand ; I had my um
brill in my right hand, anti the arms
thud %very at liberty we hitched together.
l shouldn't have 111111 Well hini, if it
hadn't been so tremenjous slippery.
pond was lively enough, I tell
you. All Dean vii iv was there, hopping
and streal:ing it —the timstea! it was
mull' to matte your head dizzy to see
how they Ile%v round MI the ice.
Elder Toddy); and his dignified wife
was therm—he with his skates oil, uud
butte Of 'ern sailing along as slow a ,
hough the world revolved round un its
axletree only olive in a thousand years.
Dreadful stuck um proud feeling fll;s,
the 'l'apleys is!
I stood and watched the skaters a
spell and I felt jest as if l must have a
finger in the pie. It wasn't nu sarvice
to stand there doing nothing.
" Deacon,' scz " ' 1 dtdi't Lleece
hut I could skate as well :Is the
fastest 'tan ; it gaud mind u, try
" Oh, do,' sez ''l'll I, delighted
to assist you ; I've got in r skates, and
them of my sou, Daniel, in my pocket,
and with that he produced 'eat. I sot
down on the snow and lie .trapred Dan
iel's onto my feet, and then tin with his
VIII.o
Then he took hold of my hand, and
we steped out onto the ice. Gracious
marsey, how I felt. 1 seemed jest as if
I was standing . on the top of two sharp
sticks, about fifteen t'eet high—and my
head went round like the run of a spin
ning wheel. Jest. as root' as I attempt
ed to move, my left loot dew rite round
tether one, and if It hadn't been I'm icy
umbrill, that I stuck into a hole In the
Ice, I should have upset on the spot.
" Curridge," Ne% the deacon ; hold on
to me; I'm sate footed 'as a con telope ;
and I.y gracious, I shouldihink he was,
for then! come a little gust of wind, mid
took afrock In toy dress. I grabbed
tighter onto the deacon—lie stuck his
cane Into the lee, and gave a little whirl
round, nd the next thing I !Glowed, I
wits sailing °lron my own hook and the
deacon was down—with his head in a
fish hole, and Ids heels and cane In the
all'. Somebody Clewed to the rescue,
and I tried to turn about to see If he was
hurt, but lawful goodness, I couldn't
turn no more'n you could make a world.
I'd'got under way, with a fair wind In
my mans, and dead ahead I had to go.
The boys on the shore gave three
cheers, I flourished my um brill In re
lipollH, and run ahead.
.1 wontover the fall at a sweeping rate,
and after that, the lee was a leetle kind
of clown grade. I never went so fast
before In all my life! Them skates
acted Jeet, like tin: runners of a idelgh—
all I had to do wee to keep my balance.
I beat the comlek, and lowcofeco engine
all holler!
Folks turned right out to one side,
when they was a swine to Inset me; I
guess they seed that I didn't turn out
for nobody. Byineby, I seed Elder
Tapley and his wire a coming along at
hls Blow coach pace, and instlnktivly
knowed that there'd he a collusion!
" Clear the track !" yelled I, at the tip
top of my lungs,but the elder only lifted
his eyebrows, and kept rite on.
" Take the konsequeneee then !" see
01))c gartittet riiittettillettect
VOLUME 72
I, and squatting u leetlo, "'put my um- they lie down in their (Anthem, covering
brill before me, and charged ! The old- themselves with a blanket, if they have
or's understandings flew out like two It; If not, an otiereoat serves the pur
candle, down he cones, down come his ; pose,
wife, and on went I ! I wnrn't to be The Syrian provinces aro troubled
stopped by small obstacles ! with an over-abundance of workers, and
My urn brill cracked a leotle itt lice very little work for them to dn. In the
fray, but It wasn't hurt, and neither Asiatic district of Brussu, thanks partly
was I, if I axeept the fact that my cap ; to the capital's power of absorption, a
and wig had long before blew off,and de- ; different state of things prevails ' and the
parted for lands unknown. standard of wages is higher than in
I went so . Nat that a very few 111111UitS ! other parts of the Ottoman Ern pire.—
more, I Heed, would bring Me to open following is the maximum scale
water! I should be drowned, mail" ,of payment per day; Coopers, is.
Shure! for I could not stop myself, if it ; dyers,ls,sll.; bakers,butchers,tallors
had been to save the univarse ! I grab- and saddlers, Is. 10,1.; tanners, copper
bed n bush, but the bush broke oil', and smiths, and tinners,:is.; shoemakers awl
away I went again blacksmiths, 2A. 2(1. ; painters and gun
.' !nada a little prayer, find , lothrniln- smiths, :24. 4,1.; silversmiths, M. lid. ;
Ing it 1 went down, to go with flying masons and whitestniths, lts.; quarry
colors, I if ist-fl iffy mlll,l'lll, and in I wen, ;Is. lid.; plasterers, 4s. ; carpenters,
went 4s. lid.; stone-cutters and Joiners, ;
Gehostiplial ! how could the water marble-workers, ;is, 41.; machinists and
was! It nigh about friz rue to the bone cabinet-makers, as. In comparing this
—hut in a nil unit or two, I found out scale with that of other countries, It
that I wasn't drownded, but safe and , must be borne in mind, as Mr. Milling
sound for the umbrill highml me tin
,jest : observes, that the workman is generally
like a lire presarver! I 11 , ,ated landlord, and not unfrequently
stream as tranquilly as a swan' ' owns a plot of land besides, while the
As soon as I got where I could handl ! cost it the necessaries of life is lower
bottom I waded ashore, and then conie : liaui in more advanced countrie•+, and
to look round, I a quarter Or the laboring dietary is chiefly .
a mile from Consin John Badger's. I , vegetable, and therefore of the least eV.-
made tracks for (bar as fast as possible, ly nature.
and liked to have sheered Cousin John's
wile into the linzlnlro,tutio,
rlie 101/11t1 nut %VII , ' I scud, she gave 1110
SMile (I ry elot In-, and smne din um, and
nn•
varriol nn• Lon
fiianil Hurrah Aim crying a- if I sir
Iu•:u•t aiiil \\ 11,11
==IMIN
into illy awl ! The Bill 11:1r1
lii ii frffill II pclll.l,sllt..ed,uffil
lier 1 wp, Ito \VAS :I ',in+
ink t I ivcr fill Illy no,v,
I=l
i pit f.ll nip ru
'I it.. tay.,. \Va ., With :11 , ';'1.1 , 11111-
11:11 talking at.
ryl,4ty oa. 111 l cr ittg t•vorylttttly
tti wtt, a !MIMIC
W111(.1'401111111, Cd.
WIIII rlrrl y;,11IS, Sl/111r with
vra66t.r6, NVIIAU in 1 114• river aI•F
Put o'hßt 11111:1/1',1
ill( (1,1,1 Me 111:1I 11 I , 111/111t1 oath
away 11,111 tI i \ v•orld lie ,Ittffild die io•
hi art ; tool uuty I nerd him, with
toy ',wit eyes, hoggiog the \\ idth"r
,itteii, and pc)liing, the ire with It caw.
to set. if my dead Iptily wits inky where
niunti I ()li, the
I wits t-ti (lit-gusted with his
that I gave hitt) a poke with toy wit
hrill, told in he tiro( riLt• iii 1,
the river.
'chi! folk , ,LA tip i I ellIlq! . !11,11 , 1, , ,:Tay
at sight of Illf . ; uud nine ur It• 11.• ni the
actually
hawl,sted ; and insisted MI illy 1'pr.•.1,1-
itig kuvi, the wind
I !laird iron the
in the land it Ili..
,ffiNtalit tho
‘Cali, Fin
Industry Ender the torte
M=l
MOM
In ,'l'tirkey, an artisan ela , s ea nnot lie
Said to but it hears a
very stnall proportion 1.11 the rest of the
',mail:dime—the great mass or the people
drawing their livelihood brain the
Agrieulitiral opera
tions, says ! 7mlll, .10111•11,11, lire car
ried on lit t‘vo ways, lit one, soil
the noire the lalskrer is a sort
of part uer; ill the other he works for
wages fu rash and usri.lllturill
laborers of the Ilrst-ehisk are termed
Ortakkljis; they pay till
with Ilse :WI of
their families, all the iit.,..,sary lahor;
the lartii-oWlier IVmliug sr,il, :Ma pro-
Viiiilig anti house-room. The
produce I reaping, threshiml and NVill
ijoWillg oven is
Ortali . kl,ii's part of (Ill' I'ut
lllyd the hinillord'ssliarelkas 111,11
raided thegranary. If the proprietor
lititisoxen for plowing,the laborer-share
Is reduced to two-fifths, Sometimes he
gels half an acre of hind for his sole ll,t•
11.1111 patio, 11l return for such extra ser
vices tie stood sell inking lill`
form plThillei!
lilt' /1 , 1.1/1i11 , 4 a fixed
kouttitity working In
the chance ()I' it hotter or
worse harvest ; then he is a lesettitl,jl,
not an Ortald,ski. Mett trio work mere
13' us
all' engaged 11y the ytlkr, it n rentutiera
-11011 In
ono distriet, the 'nimbus [trill receive'
frtansixty-eight to seventy-seven laish
els maize and rye, with a hundred
piaitres(alkoutsixteen shillings English
lit cash. In another, forty-live
of rye, barley ank I millet, thirty-three
and a half !moults of salt, led a hors,
load of cabbages or leelisdialf an Mx-ilitic
for sandals, told sixty to eighty piastres,
are considered oquiVali•lit to a year's
labor; while in atltird district, sevonty
three husliels or [['bent, with 110 unnley
:Lt all, aveorti ‘villk the views of loot ii
iiiii,ter:lllll
Labor is so far free, that a man eau
il'aVe 0111 employer fur :uudhrr rat the
soul of his It provided he ohves the
first nothing. he is in his delkt,
heeotnes a serf, exck.Tt ; for,
Ewing. charged compolind interest, the
debt grows 0) Iluirlac, iL is soon more
than he can ever hope to pay; tilld (licit
lie is liable lo be transferred, wills
debt, to any landowner thinking it
worth while tO pay uhf the original
creditor. In till's, lilt' out til:s'
debtor receives Itilleli grain every
year, stillieient, if he (ills a bulkily, to
I:ecp them and hinkselr, in a state M .
semikstarvation. St long :IS the 'furl:-
hilt laborer can :Void debt lie is not so
badly (kir. _Naturally of penuriously
economical habits, his wants arc fir v.
A two-penny eartheti‘vare pot is the
only ekkol:ing utensil lie needs to pre
pare his daily inkkali—a dish of heads (kr
odious, salt,piclded calklkage, gar
licand pelmer,eaten broad of:nixed
grain. Saliedelkeese,oliveoil,and hemp
seed oil are kmeasionally indule - ed in ; but
meat, wine, and spirits /11 . 0 ri,erVed
for feetiVal days. 'Vilese owl,• rather
I'relneull,c' with the —almost
ill tilt. rale one a tcrrk ; 1.4/tinting,
.."Alln , laYS9 their idle days nuntlierMnll
hundred in the courseof Ihe year. :\ lan v
live 1111 11 11 hrrul, Makilll2," - lira, or six
poillltis a (lay of that skilli••kk to keep
body and soul nerethor. Setting aside
the victims ml debt, the :agricultural
laborers are troll clad, and there:tnc but
l'ev; who cannot boast the possession of
a holiday suit, red leather shoes includ
ed---a stilt they malie last their lifetime.
Their ordinary clothes aro al' made
at 11111110' by their thriny, haul-working
wivvs: their working attire, (..11-kting
shirt and dra \vet's, thick
1v11 , 11 , 11 sodas, an Miter garment dark
!•ttill', a red skull cal. covered
with IL t•illt, II [Milan, 111111 ,a11,1:11, of
rlllv buffalo-hide; awl in \dikter ti an
overcoat of sheep-skin, with the Nvool
inside. 'Hi.. women \year cotton gar
ments, elaboratel • y embroidered withbright Inane-dyed wools, and fora head
(.ol,toll k1.1'1.1111.1 . , covering the
!leek anti bosom.
Theordinaryagrieultorui laborer lives
In a one-rousted house,
dried square bricks, upon a foundation of
stone rubble, cemented with wetted slay
and chopped straw. The rubble is car
ried about a loot above the HI uf the
ground, the walls being bound at inter
vals With HU ipS of rough-hewn oak,
beech, or pine, running along their
Hi
ner and outer edges, and fastened to•
getiter by cross-pieces nailed to them.--
I n some parts, the pent roof Is covered
with heavy slate or shale slabs, hot
light kiln-baked tiles are oftener used.
The room Itself Is from eight to ten feet
in height, Mid IlleaStireS from twelve to
mewl lest square. IL is provided with
one or two very small unglazed windows,
closing with sliding shutters, and an
open fireplace with a due. The white
washed wal some litres feet tide k , are
studded with wooden pegs; and In
their recesses, usually two or more,
shelves are fitted, while another narrow
shelf runs all round the room, near
the ceiling. Such a house will cost
twenty-live pounds. prosperous labor
ers will have two or tutors rooms, be
sides stabling and .outhouses. lit the
hilly districts of Macedonia, where stone
anti lime are easily procured, substan
tially built houses of two or three rooms
are common enough ; but whether the
house be or ritono or of clay, It Is equally
destitute of furniture within—chairs,
tables and bedsteads being articles un
known, or at any rate undesired. A few
straw-stuffed cushions, or even a piece
or two of rush matting, placed upon the
hard clay flour, supplies all the sitting or
sleeping accommodation the occupants
require. In fact, unless their domicile
Is provided with a sort of verandah,
they prefer to take their rest, In summer
at least, in the open air. In any case,
Jut nth r
Steslarl'i Residence.
IZZM=
Ii approaching Tiiirty-fourth litreL't
Ni•iv Firth Avenue, tile iew
UMW-Lk/II „1 • :\. 'l'. Cecil rising
in lints-lye grandeur
Iniil4:ings. It is
; w ilt of whit, m a rid-, and i•onsists of
the sr:wious
ha,e1,1,-lit floor and tl.e :Ipartnints of
the vaulted rie. The a telineeture is
Corinthian the most splendid °lithe five
is peculiarly adapted to
in which gayety or
reiplireil. The wain elevation
rrioniirg nu Tirirty-liiiirtli street, is
gained hp a night of eighteen marble
-.Lt•ps ; the portico is stlflloollNl by six
The height!' nl
the entablature is divided into six parts,
tyllich two are allotted to the arehi-
t rave, tom alit a .1:11 to lle i'lt , /.:, an(
one and a hall ill t11('• cornice. The en
taidatu Iferms a laisclor the pt•tlestaland
shall ,I n Ali' I• 0111111110 , A . the smile order,
wtin I rise to the heighth or the second
shaft
story. The WilitloWs of tlit 'I liirty
inart It street facade are twenty-three In
number, and those on the Fifth Avenue
rrolit and corresponding opposite end
number nine, respectively. They
are proportioned ill regard to the alti
tude of the several stories of the edifice,
:Hid each coetain: :1 single pane of
French plate glass. The proudest of all
the windows or the tits( door have fa
cial ornamental decorations: and a Va
riety or ornaments, Without profusion,
decorate the Windny's :If the ;;rand sa
loon and those immediately above. l'lle
profiles or the remaining windows or
the seefaill and all (lime of the third
story aro uniformly plain. All the win
dows of the first story have balcony pro
jections. A cornice surrounds the height
or the first and third stories. The whole
structure is enclosed by French root',
toicompassed by a profusely ornamented
balustrade. The four sides or the 'hill
:ire divided by gable and gablet win
dows, enriched with ornamentation.—
The roof is covered with slate tiles. A
wing projects froin the north aide of the
building, rises nearly to the height or
the !..t.0 . 01111 story, and is surmounted by
a. cupola light ; this is the exterior or
the tint gallery. I laVing 1.111:ell :t rapid
survey or the exterior of the building,
we proceed to take 1111 inspection of the
internal arrangement and decoration,
commenving at the grand entrance, the
door or Nvhiell is 'noodled With Orliti•
int , lital lights. The vommunicat ion he
t Ween the clerics is by a spacious stair
case of while marble ill the central part
of the building. 'flier,. to 111.0 a stair
case in the linialiWt". l l. angle, commenc
ing al the basement Iloor. The banisters
or this shine:is,. are of black Walnut, as
areal, the mouldings and all the wood-
Nvork or the basement. The domestic
divisions or tills part or the structure are
rated lip 111 the most complete manner.
The floor i.., roilood of ,011,1 bloolo4 of
marldo. The lipartwoot,, or the ilrst,
second, and third floors are or uniform
dimension and number, and the plaster
modeling or t he ceilings is exactly simi
lar - thus leaving very little scope for
the invention or the decorative artist,
whom We observe 11110 111,11 conlitelled
to form the variety of the ceilings by
contrasting colors rather than design.
The limos or the, three stories are
formed or Italian outride. ' l'lle nomlti
ings or the lirst and secnittl stories are
also or Italian marble. From the grand
vestibule on the tilt floor to the left
opens the Meal:fast room, which, with
its panels decorated ill yellmv and gull
With an ornamented margin 11l crimson
,11111 gilt, glowing ill the southern sun
light streaming through the windmvs,
seems flooded in golden light. 011 the
right .f tile entrance is the 1'1,111( inn
11111111.
The panel-arc frescoed in blue ground
work, enlivened by golden -tar , . From
this we enter the grand saloon, occupy
ing the eastern end of the mansion. Its
nj ,,, s ie e wind o w s face Firth avenue and
Thirty-rourth street. On this room the
eolorist has indulged in all the magic
tints, wttlt the absence ,if glare, with
exceeding ',unity and freshness of color,
retleoling instead of absorbing light,
retidering it particularly beautiful by
evening light, and its bland mellowmess
of tone is very charming,. The drawing,
anatomy, and expressson show the my
thological judgment of the artist. Lead
ing from the grand saloon is the
billiard room of :‘I r. Stewart, Iris
rued in green :ind gold, with har
monious margin. From this we enter
the picture , Jiite gallery, whieli is hung
with paintings by eminent foreign and
Aineriemi arti , ts. The north s ide of
this gallery is allotted to Atnerican art
; the opposite and east and west
ends are to foreign. range of drrara
live heads adorn the surmount. They
are portraits of eminent. French and
American artists, and tire correspond
ingly plaeed te,0,4 thew are Rosa
Itonlieur, Taut I.tiroehe, Messoider,
Criurch, Ilierstailt, ill l oril and HUM
i ngton. Mr. Stewart's agents commis
-citified to .t , 121111 works of art from foreign
countrys, are constantly remitting paint
ings and statuary for this spurious gal
lery, which are accepted, or !ejected and
returned, as they bear favorable or ad
verse criticism front competent
. judges.
Rost lion heur's lbws.. Fair, and a com
panion subject of (jattle, by her brother,
Ilu,tave Itotilieur, occupy the Space
allotted to paintings :it each end of the
gallery. Church's Niagara' occupies
prominent place on the American side.
Ilierstadt is represented by - large works.
" Rocky Mountain Views," and many
of the already famous paintings of resi
dent artists of the metropolis here find
place. }laving viewed the Inuit] apart
ments of the first floor, we ascend to the
second story and first glance at the ele
gantly appointed bath-rooms:1ml acces
sories of solid rich dark wood, cue suite
connecting With the sleeping and dress
Mg apartments of Stewart, located
fu the northwest angle of the building,
and the other connecting with the
dressing !Mil sleeping apartinell to oi l Mr.
Stewart, adjoining. In Mrs. Stewart's
bedroom we ob.erved a magnificent bed
stead 01 . 1 . 1011 y carved rosewood, inlaid
with other delicate ornamental woods.
This bedroom is of .Anterican manti
till'Ulre, The room on this floor corres
sponding with thegrand saloon beneath
Is elaborately decorated in a similter
manner. It is to be devoted to the use
of guests. 'File billiarti•rooni opening.
front It Is decorated In dark blue and
gold. The suite of rooms Immediately
above those are designed especially fur
the use of President Grant. 'cite dimen
sions are the same. An entire absence
of marble is observed in these apart
ments. The decorations are simplified,
and, in our opinion, are of far less mag
nificence than the other apartments de
scribed. A billiard-room also connects
with this suite for the use of the
General, and there is ono redeem
ing feature to the plainness of these
apartments, which undoubtedly the
President will appreciate,namely, their
accessibility to the wine room. All the
rooms of this third story have mould
ings of wood, painted to simulate white
marble, and lit all of them ~the frescoes
are simple, and vary In design and color.
The servants' rooms are located lu the
gabled apartments, and are luxurious
only on being within this marble build
ing. All in all, Mr. Stewart has decor
ated Fifth Avenue, cheated the hotels of
entertaining, Presidential guests, pat
ronized foreign artists extensively, and
made our metropolis the possessor of a
palace such as kings and queens might
envy—a White House In the metropolis
of the country.—Our Society.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 15, 1871
Parb Under Bombardment
A Graphite Account.
The Paris correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune, writes as follows :
PARIS, Jan, 15.—1 inclose the official
report of the casualties occasioned by
the bombardment from the sth current,
when the first projectiles fell within the
walls, up to the night of the 13th and
11th, Inclusively. What may be the
result, In killed and wounded, of the
last twenty-four hours' shelling, we do
not yet itnoW,bUt the cannonade during
the night has been occasionally furious
—which means it was intermittent. It
would really appear as though the Prus
sians proceed upun a methodical princi•
pie In their attack. They bang away
from dark till ill or 11, then stop sud
denly. Within this brief space of time
people compose themselves to rest. The
cold is intense ; there Is no wood, no
coal, no fuel of any kind, to be obtain
ed, and oil Is dear; so folks go to bed
early as a measure of economy. They
have scarcely dropped into their first
sleep than—bang! Ming ! clatter, crash,
dust, smoke, and the rest—a shell—per-
Imps two! And this goes on through
the small hours, when comparative
gulet '&4m-established. But this rain of
1416,111,41 Ilia continuous. riometitnes a
lu - 11 — of half an hour—an hour—takes
place, when the storm of iron hail re
el/Mmences with five-fold intensity.—
Of eourse it is understood that the ob
ject of the besiegers is to harass and to
terrify, and no surer means could be
adopted, provided the population would
only be harassed and terrified. But
so far as terror is concerned, the calcu
lation of the enemy is erroneous. The
imperturbability of the people in tile
bombarded districts is something won
derful. It is to the last degree stoical.
Of course, folks who are lifted on to the
door by a bomb, which explodes ruder
their bed, are "harassed," and so are the
Gunilies which are compelled to migrate
from south to north, at a moment's no
tice. Nevertheless, these victims of the
bombardment do not flinch. 'They
cleneh their teeth and suffer, but "no
surrender" is their last word. In this
there is no exaggeration. A stranger
who should be dropped upon the Boule
vards, say front a balloon, would not re
alize he is in the midst of Paris, be
sieged. I Ie would, if previously ac
quainted with it, observe a difference in
its :HIRT!. Ile would see shops closed ;
the large thoroughfares thinly pimpled ;
few omnibuses and hackney-coaches
circulating; awl five out of six adult
males, in almost every variety of Military
costume; but he would discern no symp
toms of uneasiness, still less of terror.
I le would remark motley groups besieg
ing, in long tiles, the butchers' and the
bakers' shops, and the cun(ines inuni
ciptles, early in the morning., often at
tnid-day, and in the afternoon ; but he
would be unable to record any sign of
impatience, still less any of rebellion or
rt volt, even ill the poorest neighbor
hoods. At night lie would find the
str.?ets, the ' , tied, the /001(10, the private
houses. dimly lighted. He might lie
surprised to discover that breakfasts and ,
di II tiers are not easily obtainable; and
vet more astounded would he be at
the prices charged in the establish
ments still open, and which still man
age to turni=p these meals. He would
certainly resent paying double the price i
for heavy, lumpy, gray-colored bread,
formerly charged for that white com
pound he had been accustomed to eat ;
and he might be startled on being in
formed that no white bread is to be had,
because the bakers are prohibited from
manulaeturing it, and Indeed are not
supplied with flour of the requisite qual
ity; but lie would be the almost only
grumbler. From these, and many other
facts, he would infer that the conditions
of life here are abnormal ; but were he
to judge of the actual situation of Paris
by the attitude of the population, he
would not believe it exposed to the tor
flits of a siege. lie would SM. 1115/1/10
going about their ordinary bu-iness,
much the same as usual ; the ~Vc, still
thronged ; the irrepressible rrL.i,i Nu
vermouth, and bitters being imbibed
the everlasting dominoes awl
1111`55 111111 1/111.11a11111111011, I
the amusements of the hour well
dressed ladles promenading; child-
roil playing In the meager snit
shine—life, in fact, not interrupted iu'
Its course, just as If there were no Pros
slim guns belching death and destruc
tion into our midst, and we were not
Imprisoned within a double chicle of
fire and iron. It' he crossed the Seine,
and visited the southern suburbs, he
would meet with evidenees of the prox
imity of all enemy intent upon mis
chief, in the damage done to our putille
building+. lie would see big Miles
pounded in the walls of the dwelling
houses, shops made bomb-proof by
meansof barrivades of stones, turd earth,
and bags of sand, and he would have to
gain access to them by a zig-cog; trees
rent in twain, and the boulevards thus
despoiled of their chief ornament; he
would run against whole households
etnigrati tiro with their goods and chat
tels • he might, perhaps, come across a
Slllllll group of thee or four citizens con
veying to the nearest ambulance a dead
woman, or a dead child, or a wounded
man ; he Wright, even, be startled by
the explosion of a big shell within a few
yards of the spot where he is standing;
nevertheless he would notice no essen
tial ditrerence in the general attitude of
the i habi tau ts of the bombarded neigh
borhood its compared with that of the
occupants of other quarters, and wquld
huru to record the absence of anything
like terror, even of fear. Yet, what a
lamentable disclosure does the ./outitui
Officia make this morning !
the period specified, ISII victims—of
these. 31 killed, the remainder wound
ed—olithe JL killed , 16 are children, 12
are women. Uf the 133 wounded, 21 are
children, -h. tore women. The area bom
barded embraces the entire southern
suburbs of the city. The shells have
fallen in every direction, spreading out
like a fan from the Prussian batteries.
and tending to the conclusion that the
object has been Weever as wide a space as
possible. It may not be the result
of caleuiation—although the fact: are
in favor of this conclusion that the
hospitals, schools, churches, and pub
lic buildings over which floats the
white flag with the red cross, have been
the chief objective points of the Prus
sian shells. Up to the present thine,
those lord the neighborhood in which
they are situated have suffered most.
It is said that our enemy entertained an
impression that the Pantheon was a
storehouse for ammunition, mid, there
fore, they fired at it; but (len. Troche
sent \I. he Moltke a messenger to disa
buse him of this notion. Nevertheless,
that building is still a target for the
Prussian shells, so there can now r/-
main no doubt the enemy's artillerymen
have orders to continue the fire of their
batteries upon the same 'mints. I have
not seen the fact officially announced,
but the statement has found its way
into all the papers that, in conse
quence of the bombardment of the
Val-de-Unite, which was full of
French wounded, (letters! Trochu
has ordered their removal, and the sub
stitution of Prussian sick and wounded
111111 prisoners, and 11115 111 formed M. de
'Moltke of the change. You will see by
the extracts I have already sent—dupli
cates of most of which- inelose—that
the physicians and sir rgeons attached to
our hospitals and asylums have protest
ed against the methodical barbarity of
the Prussian Commander-In-Chief, In
directing the fire of his batteries upon
edifices occupied by children, by de
mented men and women, by incurables,
by lying-in women, and by the aged
and destitute of both styes. Another
has gone forth from the Curator of the
Museum of the Jardin-des-Plantes,
of which the magnificent collec
tion of orehideous plants (valued
at 600,0(10 francs) has been destroyed
—a collection unrivaled In any part of
the world, and which It will require
many years ter replace, If the rehabita
tion can over be accomplished. The loss
to botanical science Is immense. The
protest of the members of the Diplo
matic corps and of the Consular service,
Is based upon the right of neutrals to
receive intimation of an intended bom
bardment, In order that they may have
the opportunity of quitting time city.—
The document which has been trans•
milted to M. de Moltke asserts this right
after laying stress upon the fad that
several citizens belonging to neutral
Powers are already victims of the bom
bardment. It also points out that
women, children, and wounded persons
have been killed ; but it is not expected
any of their protests will produce the
least result. 'Phi bombardment contin
ued through the whole of last night,
and at this hour of writing—mid-day—'
our forts and bastions have not ceased
firing. It is one continuous roar.
PARIS, Jan. 16.—Yesterday I visited
the southern districts. The wind set in
from the southwest, and brought In a
steady roar from the forte and ramparts
on that side. From the Trocarkro the
flushes of the guns In the Prussian bat
teries could be distinctly seen, retteld g
from Montrouge to Mention and the re
doubt of Itrimborion. Never was such
an infernal din. Mont Valerion distin
guished itself most particularly. If it
was the young lady eintstened
whom I saw mounted on her Iron car
riage oa the summit of the forr when I
was there, on the 2uth of November,
who spoke yesterday to the Prussians,
I can compliment her upon the
strength of her voice. Like "Johnny
(lilpin," she "carries weight." With
out her stand, she tips the scale at
51 tons. Her mouth I+ 21 centimeters
in width, or call it bore. ishe I. mount
ed upon a movable platform, and coughs
out prof eetiles weighing 29 kilograms
each, which her strong breath propels
to the terraces of Versailles and St.
liermaln. They have [[,lumped down
upon those spots more titan once, to the
considerable astonishment of the non
native intruders. Yesterday site was
pounding. Montretoul, (larches, and
Brimborion at a rate and with a vigor
which left nothing to be desired. ;he
has a step-sister, named Josephine, at
the battery of the Point du .Jour, who
was sending iron compliments in the
same direction and with equal vivacity.
The fire was continuous all along the
line of the fortifications—as well as from
the forts or Issy, Vanves, and Mon
trouge—departing from the Seine to the
bastions in the rear of the last named
fort. I d., not think such a cannonad
ing has been heard since the attack on
the forts commenced.
Making the best of my way toward
the quarter of the Invalids, I reached
the „6 , d loin , at Itrenelle. stnelis had
fallen iu the great court-yard of the for
' mer building, Aithout doing much
damage. The cupola remained intact;
but thedlgittoirs were riddled with holes.
Some distance further rut I saw a written
notice posted within the iron-grated
door of a butcher's shop, to the eirtaut
that, in consult:cave of the bombard
went, the dist) ibution of !neat, which
should have taken plat^e that day, was
postponed until next day—to-day. I
found the Boulevard 41u Nom Paillasse
pretty lively with people. but being
within loin yards of the Western Sta
tion—that is of the Left Hank N'orsailles
Railway—a shell came cra,hing through
the roof with a big bang, and I deemed
it prudent to take another direction.—
Hie inhabitants of the quarter were re
moving their goods in wheelbarrows,
hand-carts, and:trucks, or by hand. In
the Rue du Bae, on the right coming
down front the Rue de Sevres, and pro
ceeding tow trd the quay, stood a small
crowd opposite a house, No. I2S, a yen- I
der of furniture. A shell had burst a
small hole in the wall over the door,
and had splintered and shattered the
windows of the house immediately op
-I)4,r:fly. These homies are in the very heal t
of the Faubourg St. Germain. I had I
Leery informed that the liovire do
Chard..., in the Rue Jaeob,lharlialso been
damaged, but this report was unfounded.
I need notgointodetails but may saygen-
entity, that although the lower portions
of this neighborhood—those nearest the
river—had been damaged by the furious
bombardment of the previous night and
of that day (yesterday), and circulation
in the streets was really dangerous, I
perceived no indications of terror in any
of the districts I visited. The dome of I
the Pantheon has a hurtle in it large
enough to admit it small boy, and a
cordon or National ;umiak pre
vents the erowd Ira n t stationing un
the southern and tile western
sides. The splendid and rare library of
St. thenevicve, adjacent to the Feole de
Droll, has not escaped the PrllSSitlll
bombs. Every precaution has been
taken to preserve the building and its
contents from harm, but it has hig
mpieces of its walls chipped Mr and two
ules in its roof. Theshells were falling
so thick and fast in the Rue IraillCtard,
I did not deem it prudent to pursue any '
further try peregrinations ward.
(1.3 •ilay II vro
Two simple little incideids come to us
in our exchangeN, which seem to us al
least as well ;worth the telling its the
latest history of adultery and murkier.
One is the story of a poor acrobat out
\Vest, who was dashed from his giddy
height to the ground ; and who, when
the crowd gathered al out him, raised
himself, mangled and bleeding, to gasp
out entreaties for them to save the two
girls left unsupported on thetrapcze. 11
refused to be lifted until they wet ,e res
cued, and in the agony of his fall anti
shuttered limbs was the only man in
the large audience who forgot his own
necessities and had the cool presence of
mind to direct how they should be
brought down. When t h ey were safe,
pain got the better of him, and lie Was
carried as dead Ml' the stage. The wo
men were strangers to him.
The other story is of a little girl who
wandered on to the track of tile Dela
ware Railroad as a freight train of nine
teen cars was approaching. As it turn
ed the sharp lop of the grade, opposite
St. Georges, the engineer saw the child
for the first time, bloc " Down brakes,"
and reversed the engine. But it was
too late to slacken its speed in time, and
the poor baby got up and, laughin;;
ran to meet it. " 1 totti the conductor,"
says the engineer, "ii he could jump
off the engine ;hid, running ahead,
pick the child up before the engine
reached her, he might save her life,
though it would risk ihs own, which he
did. The engine was within one foot of
the child when he secured it, and they
were both saved. I would not 11111 the
same risk of saving :t elLild again he
way of experiment for all ;Newcastle
county, for nine out of ten might 11111
escape. Ho took the child to the lane.
sail she walked to the house, and a lit
tle girl was coining after it when we
left." The honest engineer, hav-
Mg finished his day's run, sits down
the next morning and writes this
homely letter to the father of the child,
"in order that it may be more carefully
watched in future," :Hid thanking (hr.!
"that himself and the baby's mother
slept tranquilly last night, and were
spared the life-long panes of remorse."
It does not occur to him to even men
tion the conductor's 1111111 e, who, he
seems to think, did no uncommon thing
in risking his own life, unseen and un
noticed, on the solitary rad, for a child
whom lie would never probably see
again. The moral of the story to him
and to the good clergyman who pub
lisheS it was, apparently, that mothers
should keep theirchildren oft' the tracks.
It seems to us to have a different
meaning, which every man can read for
himself. We give the simple little
story a place, therefore, among the his
tories or the war, and murders, and rec
ords of the l'olice Court, for no practi
cal lesson, hut just as one would hang a
bit of green landscape on his wall on a
Winter day. After all, in spite of the
transient ruin, there is under all a :7,•utn
liter and God. It is worth while to re
mind ourselves of that now and then.
We believe, too, with the plain-speak
ing engine -driver, that the conductor
did nothing more than eight out of ten
manly young fellows would have done
In his position. Police reports and the
daily press bring the murders and the
IlleallaCSSVS of the world so constantly
to the surface on week days and the
clergy open our eves to human depravi
ty so clearly on ..I.ltolas, that we are
apt to overlook' the actual honor and im
tegrity in the mass of ordi liar:: people
about us. We grow so bilious in our re
forming zeal that It Is worth while to he
shaken into a more Christian charity,
and convinced that it is not a matter of
wonder to Ilnd a Bayard In the pour
conductor of a freight-train, or a [mut
in it.clrcus-rider.—.N. Tribim,..
One of Josh 11111Ings' Prayers For "Good
Lord, Deliver Es."
From to many friends, and from
things tit Luse ends.
From a wife who donut luv us, and
from children who donut look like us.
From snalx In the grass, from snalx
In our butes, (ruin torch-light proces
sions, and from all new rum.
From pack-peddlers, from young folks
In luv, from old aunts without motley,
from kolera morbus.
From wealth without chariter, from
pride without sense, from pedigree worn
out, and from all rich relations.
From nusepaper eels, and from pHs
that alnt phlsik, from females that faint,
and from men who flatter.
- . -
From virtue without fragrance, from
butter that smells, and from cats that
are courting.
Erom old folke's secrets, and from our
own; from megiums and wim men kim
mittees.
From pollyticians who pray, and from
saints who tipper, from rl kofll, red her
rings, and awl grass widders.
The Inventor of Champagne
In his work on Champagne, its Ilk.
tory, Manufacture, Properties," Jlr
Charles Jovey gives the following ac
count of an inventor to whom the world
has been Indebted for so much ex hilara•
thin :
"'l'o the renowned royal Monal , tery
of sc. Peter's, at Hautvilliers, sparkling
champagne is said to owe its origin.
This monastery formerly gave (mays Its
historian,) nine archbishops to the See
of Rheims, and twenty-two abbes to vi).
rious celebrated monasteries. One of
; monks I Benedictines), Father Perignon,
who died in has the reputation of
being the first tN gather the wines from
various districts to mix anti make them
sparkling. Before this period chum
! pagne teas in good repute, but it is not
probablu that the selentffic treatment
requisite to produce what is now known
as champagne was understood pr Irrr
to the lust century. We have it on
record that in 1:07 Vinceslaus, King of
Bohemia, on coming to France to newt
tiate a treaty with Charles VI., arrived
at Rheims ' and tasting for the first time
the wine of Champagne, spun out his
' diplomatic errand to the latest possible
moment, and then gave up all that teas
required of him in order to prolong his
stay, getting intoxicated on champagne
daily before dinner. And we learn,
likewise, that among the potentates of
Europe who were partial to this wine
was our own Henry VIII., who had a
vineyard at Ay, where he kept s super ;
intendent in order to secure the genuine
production for his table. Mention is
likewise made of Francis 1., Pope Leo
X, anti Charles V., of Spain, as reserv
! ing for their use vineyar Is in Cham
pagne, The celebrity of this WHIP, then,
is not of modern date
"liar it is to the jolly monk 1)010 Pt•r
ignon we are indebted for the enliven
ing qualities for which it is now so pop
ular. Ile was chosen pro,rireur of the .
great abbey for the purity of Ids taste
and the soundness of his head, and devo
tion to hie occupation does not appear
to have shortened his days, for he lived
to the ripe old age of four-score years.
His chief duty was to take charge of the
vineyards (of which the monastery pos
sessed the broadest and the most favor
ably situated in the whole country) to
receive from the neighboringcultivators
the tithes of the wines they made (their
due to the spiritual lords of the abbey),
to press the grapes from the monastic
vineyardsand blend this wine with those
that had come to the abbey as tithes.—
' In the decline of life, Father Perig
nom' says an old chronicler, being
blind, ordered the grapes of different
vineyards to be brought to hint, recog
nized each kind by the taste, and said,
you must marry (mix) the wine of this
grape with that of another." In the
course of his wine mixings and blend
ing of one quality with another, hum
Perignon, who had already by his skill
raised the wine of the holy fathers of
the monastery* to the greatest perfection,
discovered tlie process of making the
wine effervescent, and as It was utterly
impossible to keep it in this condition
by the old process of a bit of flax or wool
steeped in oil, which was the only stop
per then in use, he further added to his
celebrity by the employment of the
cork, which he secured with a string."
Singular Ornament
A brooch worn by the countess of
K— has recently been the subject of
conversation in an eminent company of
polished nobility, who are now exiles
in Paris. Encircled by twenty brilliants
upon a dark blue ground of lapis lazuli,
and protected by a glass in front, may
be seen—what? A portrait? A lock of
hair? No, neither the one nor the oth
er; but only four-bent pins wrought to
gether in form of a star. 'Fite history of
this singular ornament Is contained in
the following communication : The
Count K---- was, some years ago, In his
own country, suspected of being too
much inclined to politics, and was, con
sequently, one night, without examina
tion or further Inquiry, torn from the
bosons of his family by police officers,
conveyed to a fortress in a distant part
of the country, and thrown inb , a lark,
damp dungeon.
Days, weeks, months passed away
without his icing brought to trial. The
unhappy man saw himself rubbed of
every succor. In the stillness of death
and thndarkness of the grave lie felt
not only his strength failing hint, but
also his mind wandering. An unspeak
able anguish took hold upon him. Ile,
who feared not to appear before his
judges, now trembled before himself.
Conscious of his danger, lie endeavored
to Ilnd something to relieve himself
from the,double misery of idleness and
loneliness, and thus preserve him front
a terrible insanity. Four pins, which
happened accidentally to be in his coat,
had rortunately escaped the notice (tithe
Those were to be the means of deliv
erance to his spirit. lie threw the pins
upon the earth, which alone was the
floor of his gloomy dungeon, and then
employed himself in seeking for them
in the darkness. \Vhen, after a tire
some search, Le succeeded in finding
them, he threw them down anew, and
so, again and again, mliii he renew his
voluntary task. All the day long, sit
ting, lying or kneeling, he groped about
with his hand until he found the pins
which he hail intentionally scattered.
This fearful, yet beneficial recrea
tion continued for six years. Then,
at last, a great political event opened
suddenly the doors of his prison. The
count had just scattered his pins, but he
would not leave his cell without taking
with him his little instruments of his
own preservation from despairandinaml
mmi,,, lie soon found them, for now time
clear, bright light of day beamed in
through the doorway of his dungeon.--
As tim e count related this sail story to
the countess, she seized the pins with
holy eagerness. Those crooked, yellow
brass pins, which, during six fearful
years, hoof been scattered and gathered
alternately, were become to her as pre
cious relics; and now, set in a frame of
brilliants worth f. 400, as a treasure or
much greater value, she wears them on
her Bosom.
MIME
lbsintlie,' which simply means
" wormwood," is made by the distilla
tion of a number of plants—the tops of
wormwood, flag-root, anise seed, angeli
ca root, leaf of the litany Orifiltllloit die•-
fruitin, and sweet marjoram. All these
are macerated and placed in alcohol of
very high proof, and permitted to re
main eight days, when the mixture is
distilled, half an ounce of the essential
oil of anise being added to each three
gallons. The effects of the constant use
of this villainous liquor, which a friend
once said, "is kept in glass bottles sim
ply because it would cat through the
staves of an ordinary barrel in fifteen
minutes," are summed up in a sentence
by Dr. Aletot 'as a general poisoning
of the system, which terminates in
insanity and death. Among the symp
toms which precede the final re
sult, are uncertainty and indecision of
the muscular system, easily recognized
by contractions and trembling of the
forearm, of the hand and the interior
members. Strange sensations are ob
served, such us tingling and pricking of
the skin, heaviness of the limbs and
numbness, the hand suddenly seizing
and letting go any object within Its
reach. The patients are weak in the
legs, and in standing, require something
to lean upon; the knees trembleato
d
bend; a general air rf sadness and
heaviness settles upon the features;
the lips, the tongue, and muscles of the
face are tremulous; the eye is sunken
awl sorrowful;; the skin 11.4,31111104 a yel
lowish hue; dyspepsia and wasting
away follow; the mucous membrane
becomes of a violet color ; the hair comes
out, and the entire framework of a man
falls Into in premature old age and dilap
idation. Sue!' are the bodily symptoms
of absinthe poison, and the mental
troubles progress concurrently with the
disorders of theuscular system. Owing
to the progress 9fthe disease of the brain,
the sleep of the patient Is disturbed ; he
has terrible dreams and night-mares,
anti sudden waking, as though he had
been shot from a cannon ; lie is troubled
with hallucinations, illusions, blinding
of the eyes and hypochondria ; exhibits
a very marked embarrassment, and
dwelling upon words when speaking,
and constantly decreasing strength of
Intellect.
The Bristol Cnirier thinks that flume
time in the future a new State will he
formed out of East Tennesee and West
ern North Carolina and Southwest Vir
ginia. For the present it rather oppo
ses the measure. The Jonesboro Her
ald and Tribune (Rep. ) favors the pro
ject. The Greenville New Era is in
favor of the "new State."
the (Dories of Duluth. lotion enough in ton years to fatten it grass
hopper? [ii rout laughter.] IVliero Is the
llisiuoroti. Speech 01 Illnn. J. Proctor patriot who is willing that his Juitintry
IS um 1, of lientiicky. shall incur the peril or reinairilng another
day without the amplest railroad connee•
'rho lion. J. Proctor Knott, delivered the : Bon with such an Inexhaustible Mine of
following very holnorolls speech In the agricultural wealth? [Laughter.] 11'ho
!louse 01 iteprosentatives, nn the 27th ult., I will answer for the consequences or alum.
the bill granting lands to the St. Croix and diming a grout and warlllco people, in pos.
hayfield Itallroaci bring under emlsidera- session or a country like that, to brood
lion : over the intillrorenco and neglect of their
The House having under eonsideration hove:ll:Tient 7 (Laughter.) liow long
the Joint reaMution (S. 1-. No. /11 extend' iimulti It be before they would take to
inc the time to construct a railroad from studying the Beelitratiiin of Ittilepondonce
the St. Croix Itiver or i.ake to the west end ,and hatching ;Jut the (dimmable heresy of
or Lake Superior and to 11:1•11,4ti - secession'? flow long before the grim tie.
Mr. g Nurr said : nein or civil discord would rear again Ills
Mr. Speaker:—li 1 eould hr adtuated hy horrid head in our initist, "gnash loud his
any eon...flyable indmement hi betray the ; r
.ron lungs and shake his crest .if brbitllng
sacred trust reposed in its by those to bayonets?" [Laughter.)
whose generous emilidenia. I itm Indebted
Then, sir. think or the long and palnfal
lbr the honor or a seal on this floor; If I !MU,. or reetnistruotion that must follow
11111111 be inlilit'lleoui by any possible l'""' with Its coneomilant, ain[tillttlent, to the
ttitleration to become Instrumental in civ- constitution: the seventeenth, eighteenth,
ing away, in violation of their knoit it wish- and nineteenth articles. 'rem sixteenth,
es, any portion or their Interest In the , it is of ethic onderstood, is to he oppropta
. nubile ilmnalti for dm mere promotion or aced to those blushing damsels who are,
' any railroad cuterprist whatever, 1 should • day alter Mit% beseeching us to let them
veil:11,0- feel a strong inclination to give vote, hold ttillee, drink ravii-tails, ride
Gil, inea.stire My most earnest and hearty ! astraddle, and do every thing else the mon
support: Mr I sat assured that its su t tees., ii,„ i Roars if laughter.] But above ;ill,
would materially eilliatioe the pecuniary • sir, let me implore you to reflect I'm a sin.
prospel ity of some of the most valued : gm 111,11101 a on the deplorable condition of
• friends 1 have on earth : friends for NV111)50 lair country in ease ill' a foreign war, twill
• aecommodation I would he willing; to [mike , ail our ports blookailed, all our titles in a
almost, any sacrifice not in volvotc.; iii)' per- I state of siege, the gaunt nileet rr or hotline
. sehat honor or my thiclity as the tester. brooding Idle a hungry vulture over our
' 'faun express trust. And that Bret or itself , starring band; our VOIIIIIIinnary stores all
would be suffieient to comitervail atoms" exhau s ted, and our famishing armies with
any objection I might entertain to the Pi.' , mug aw.ty in the field, it helpless prey to
sage or this bill, not inspire.l hy any nil- •1 ;isah ;ate
toe demond 14' hunger : our NAV)"
perative and inexorable son-, or [mid i- , rotting in the deeps fir Want or provisions
duty. , for 0111- gailant seamen, and Il . l• are withou t
lillt, illileilUndent of the sedllclil e illtill ' any railromi communicatimi whatever with
1 noes of private friendship, to whist! I ad - the prolifie pine thickets of the St. Croix.
mit I am, perhaps, as susceptible ;is ally iii
,lititial billgillail".]
Ulu gentlemen l set. around tllll,tlio burin-
.\ll, sir, i could very well understand telly
sic merits of the measure itself ane of such :m y atilialilo friends from l'ennsylvailia
11l extraordinary eharacter as to coin mend I . AI r. Myers, 'M T. I:elley, and Mr. tr Neill I
it 1,11,4 strongly to the lavorablo. consider- should iiii ,4,1 earnest in theirsupport of thin
'ft. o of ever.Y nionlio'r of thus 1/..(l`et illy- ' Mil the tither d.iy, and if their honorable
-, li not excepted, if tttvitli,lailding iny ladle:lgoe, lily friend, Mr. Itandaldwill par
constitnents, in whose holialf alone I alit i don tile rent/Irk, I will say I emisiderttd his
~..tug limo, would not be henemed b].' ils criticism Ill' their action oil that "evasion as
passage one particle more than they would ' out only unjust but, ungenerous. I knew
he by a project to cultivate all orange grove , they %very looking forward NI ltil the rsr
lot the bleakest summit of trectilaih'•••• icy ' reat•hing, ken of toiltghtened statesmanship •
mountains. 1 Lalligllter.] . t o the pill/1111e 1.0111111.1011 ill Willett l'illillliel
NII,v, sir, as to those great trim!. Imes 11l phi. will be left unless speedily Stillilileti
. railway, spanning, the continent from ...eon ~s . i]], ] .,01,1 ..,,,,,,,j,,,, In „„„],, wa y orb
DJ ocean, I confess my mind Its never been , other with this garden spot of the universe
Billy 111/1110 11p, It Is true they may afford j [Laughter.] And besides, sir, this discus-
niollle triffingaltivant, to Meal truth,', and j stun hats relieved any mind of a mystery
I
alley May even in time 1,,,,,,,,,tii,,,1iannek that Ibts iveighed upon It Ilk,' tin Moulins
Ma [ore extended commerce. Vet I have i for years. I cotlld never understand be
never loam thormigddy . ;] ii s ti e d either or ' fore why there W 11,1 so much exi.itentent
the neeessity or expediency iii' projects during the last (I'ongress over the lietinisi
! promising such Meager resells Li, line great j tine of Alta Vela. I could never under-
body of our people. II it. With regard to the stand why It was that some of our ablest
transcendent merits of the gigantic enter- statesmen and 1110SL liinillterentOli patriot,
prise contemplated in this hill I never en- should entertain suet, dark forebodings of
tertailied the shadow It a doubt. [ I.augh- the untold calitinities that were to befall
ter. J I our beloved country unless WO:lilt/UM take I
Years ago, when I first Inatid that Iliet•e :
aninediate possession of that desirable
Ivan ou'illieurhere ill tho rots , frrril lool''OPhho. island. Ilia I see now that they Were
somewhere in the bleak regions of the great laboring under the mistaken impression
Northwest, a stream of tvater !wawa to the that the iltlVerlllllollt would 111.041 1 110 gll/11111 '
noinitdie inhabitants of the neighborhood CO 1111111111, the pill/Ili. ialllin lull tile St. Croix.
as the Hirer St. Croix, I became .atislied jilt-eat laughter.]
that the construction of ll railroad 1.11/111 NOW, sir, I repeat I have been satisfied •
that rouging torrent I" same IHoilit in the for years that if there was any portion of
civilized world slits essential lit the happi- the inhabited globe absolutely in it sutler.
ness and prosperity or the .xtrieriven IS" , , itig iaiiiilitiiill lot' want or It railroad it Wan
tile, if l'"' ÜbS".“' l 3 . in'"P"t'ahle '" the i these teeming pine barrens of thefit. Croix.
perpetuity ;if iteptiblican institutions nu' [Laughter.] At Willa particular point on
this. continent. [t :relit laughter.] I felt that noble stream such a road should be
instinctively that tile ',mindless rittiollrees el/llllllelleeli I key,. was immaterial, and
or that prolific region of salid, phi() and I so, it seems; to haw[ berm considertal by the
shrubbery would never he fully ;level- draughtsman of this Init. It might ho up
aped without a railroad eonstroeted and t o the spring or down at the foot-log,
equipped at the expenso of the govern- lie the water-gate, or the lisp-dam, or
anent, and perhaps not then. [Laughter.] anywhere along the liatWit, no matter
I Mid ;in abiding presentiinent that, some iyhere. [Laughter.] ilut in what di
dayurlather, the people or this whole coon- rec;ion should it run, or where it should
try, irrespective of party atlillittions, re- terminate, were always to any mind
gardless of sectional prejudices,llllll "with- questions or the most palatal perplexity.
out distinction or Feet., color, lie previous I could conceive of no place on "thud's
vondition of servitude," would HMO ill their green earth " in i4ticli straitened eireuni-
Majesty unit demand an outlet for the stances fiir railroad facilities as to be likely
01101'111011h agricultural productions It those LO desire In willing to accept such a ellll
- 111111 fertile pine barrens, drained ill section. I Laughter.] I know that neither
the rainy season by the surging waters 1 ; hayfield nor Superior City would have It,
the turbid St. tdroix, ilireat laughter.! for they both ind igrutntly spurned the 11111-
I'lles., Impressions, derived simply and in ; h i
cence or the Government when coupled
solely \'folll the "eternal fitness of thing., - with such ignominious conditions, and let
Were not only strengthened by the inter this vet,same land grant die on their hands
esting and eloquent debate on this bill,
.to years and years ago rather than submit to
which I it/4(0110a twilit, ill/ 11111 ell pleasure tne the degradation of it direct communication
other day, hut. intensified, if possilde.las I by railroad with the piny woods of the St.
read over this morning Inc lively colhulilY Troia : anti I knew that Whitt the enter
ivhich took placed"; that occasion, as I find prising inhabitants ill those giant young
it reported in last Friday's 1:1ohe. 1 will cities would refuse to take ivoulti have few
ask the indulgence or the 1 I 1)11,0 while / eil i
arllln for Others, whatever their nevessi..
read a lets short passages, which are sulll- ties or etipidlty might he. I Littightor].
runt, In my : judgment, to place the merits
/!more,4 144 I iIIIVO 011111, sir, I was utterly
of the great enterprise contemplated ill Lile et a loss to deterinine where the terminus
measure DOW miller discussion heyond all of this great. and indispensable road should
possible controversy, be, until I accidentally overheard sumo
The honorablogentleinan from 11l inneso- gentleman the other day mention the name
' a o I 11 . Wil ' llal ii w il,",' Il Yli l jr" ,i'" ' la "' lIC "Duluth." p ;root laughter.] Duluth!
aging tills hill. ill `I l eolotong"I I II ,I 'llara'lla ] The word fell upon my I'llf With pvetillar
t.l the laundry through tilliell thls l'llliroilli and indeserliathle charm, like the gentle
in 11) mss, 1411yM this,
murmur or e low rountete stesneg forth In
"\\ ii want to have the timber brought to t h e , 1 r
Illilint 11/ ruses, or Lilo soft, sweet 110-
11,1 RV l•Ill'Iti/i V Ins plisSibil., Vow, 11 1 3 .11 ° 1 II"
'ants or ell angers whisper In the bright,
sc
up ' 11 " I ' m " I" this wa . v i Oil that ," nth] joyous dream or shaping. intiocenee. Int•
ellll DO Di/Willed to Lill.lll--for no nuttier iijili loth I "p„,,,, t i j ,, ~,,,e , for which in);
go 011 illehe lands, For ill. eltllllia 111111,1, 11V
soul hall panto,! l'ol. years. as the hart.
itig—you deprive us ~r 0,,, 1,,.,,,,fit, o r that
I hither." 'unapt!' ror the v. mer-brooks. c ',teem
'al taught,' ' But where Wllll /1111101
Row, sir, I not hint it tc any
means inferred from this, that thi• gentle
1111111 from NI innesota would insinuate that
the people out Lt 11111 suction desire this
limber incrol,v fur the purists° of foneirly,
up their ferns, so that their stuck may not
wattiltu• and di.. starvation among the
bleak hills of the tit, Croix. Wangloter.j 1
road it for nu stiehlairpose, sir, and make
no such comment on it 111r , ( . ;1'. In n,r
r,,i,,,ration of this statement M . the gentle
man from NI intl,llll.il, 1 1111t1 this testimony
given by the honorable gentleman front
IVisetutsin, [Mr. \Vashlturn.; Speal:ing of
those same lands he
" Under the bill, as amended in,n my
-
friend Irian Miiinesiita, nine teuthv
hind is opoi to 111111111 settlers at per
acre; the remaining olio-tenth is pine
lieroil land, that is not tit for settlement
:lull never still be settled upon: hut the
umber will he cut Ott, 1 /Ijllllll. (limit it 1,
theinnst valuable portion of the grant, 'inc
most of the grant is nut valuable. It is
unite valueless; and if you put in this
amendllient or the gentleman from I mu:Ma
you may as well just kill the hill, Mr 1141
man and no coilipany will take the grant
and build the road."
I simply pause here to ask Sl , lllll gentle
better versed in the Self'111•1. of matho•
mattes than I am to tell nue if the I.llllbered
lands are 111 (let the most valualil.• portion
of that section of country, and they would
he entirely V 111111311,1, Wllll l lllt the titnher
that is on them, what the remainder of the
land is ‘vorth which has no timber on it
at all? [Laughter.]
lint further on I find a most entertaining
and instructive interchange of views be
tween t gentleman front Arkansas, t 31r.
lingers,} the gentleman; from Wisconsin,
(Mr. NN'ashlatrn,) and the gentleman from
Maine, 131 r, Peters, upon the subject tit
pine lands generally, which 1 trill 1.11. x the
patience of the House to read:
"• Mr. Itogers. Will thegentlimian allow
MO to ask him a question?
" 11'ashburn, ni NVisoonsin. Cer
tainly.
" Rogers. Are these pine lands en
tirely worthless except for ti Ell her?
•'Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin. They
are generally worthless fir any other pur
pose. I am perfectly familiar with that
sultject. These lands are not valuable fir
purposes of settlement.
"\I r. Farnsworth. They will be alter
the timber is taken ofF.
" r. Washburn, el No, sir.
"Mr. Rogers. 1 want to know the enar
iteter ut there pine lands.
" Mr. Washburn, of NViseonsin. They
are generally sandy, barren lands. Jlp
friend from the Green Bay district [Mr.
Sawyer), is himself per feetly familiar with
this loestion, and he will bear nut in
what I say, that these pine timber lands
are not adapted to settlement.
" Mr. Rogers. The pine lands to which
I Kill arcustorne.l are generally very grand.
\Villa 1 want to know is what iv the
iiflcr
once between our pine lands anti yourplllo
land 9
" Mr. Washborn, of Wisconsin. The
pine timber of Wisconsin generally grows
upon barren, sandy land. The gentleman
from Maine, [Mr. l'eters,] who is familiar
with pine lands, will I have no doubt, say
that pi no timber grows generally upon the
most harren
" Mr. Peters. As a general thing pine
lands aro not worth Much for cultivation."
Anil further on 1 find this pregnant ques
tion, the Joint jmoduction of the two gen•
tlemen froni NN iscmisin :
" 2,t r. Paine. lines toy friend from
ana suppose that In any event settlers will
occupy and cultivate these pine hands?
Mr. Washburn, of Wh4,l,llMill. PHNIVU-
IarIy without a railroad?"
Yes, sir, "particularly without a rail
road." It will be asked alter awhile, I fun
afraid, if settlers will go anywhere unless
the tiovornment builds a railroad for then,
to go on, [Laughter.]
I desire to call attention to only one inure
statement, which I think sufficient to nettle
the question. It is one rondo by the gen
tleman from Wisconsin, [Mr. Paine.) who
says:
"These lands will be abandoned for the
present. It may be that nt Nome remote
period there will spring up in that region a
now kind of agriculture which will cause a
demand for these particular lauds; and
they may then come Into the use and be
valuable for agricultural purposes. But I
know, and I cannot help thinking that toy
friend from Indiana understands, that lbr
the present, and for many years to corn (1,
these pine lands can hare impossible value
other than that arising front the ;tine tim
ber whim stands on them."
Now, sir, who, after listening to this
emphatic and unequivocal testimony of
these intelligent, competent, and able
bodied witnesses, [laughter ;I who that is
not. as incredulous as St. Thomas himself,
will doubt for a moment the Goshen of
America Is to be found in the sandy val
leys and upon the pine. clad hills of the tit.
Croix? [Laughter.] Who will have the
hardihood to rise in his seat on this floor
and assert that, excepting the pine hushes,
the entire region would not produce.vege-
NUMBER 7
..oL where was I/1111101
Never, in lilt my limited reading,
hail toy vision been gladdened by now
big the celestial word in print. Laugh
ter.] And I felt a prflf,llllltillf )111111111/1ti , ,11
ill lily ignorance that its dulcet Myllithles
had never 'whits. ravished my delighted
ear. I Roars of laughter.] I wen vorlain the
draughtsman of this hill had never heard
of it, or it would have been designated as
one Of the Li.l . lllilli of Lids road. I asked
my friends about it, but they know noth
ing alit. I rushed to the Li liritry and exam
ined ail the maps I could mind. ;Laugh
ter., I discovered in tole of them a deli
cate, hairdike line, diverging from the
Mississippi near a place lintrked Prescott,
which I sillpOSI•il lyric i1111`11(i0,1 lu ret,it
sent the river tit. Croix, hit I could Ivo
tchrrr 111111 Duluth.
Nevertheless, I was 1 , 1111.11 . M it. 4•Xi-it.1 ., 1
sfallONVllol',llll , l tll,lt its discovery would
constitittolliecrotvning glitryof the present
contury,if not.rait niod,rn times. [Laugh
ter.] I knew it was bound to exist in the
very nature of things; that the symmetry
and perfection of our planentry system
would be ineomplete without it, [renewed
littighter ; I that the elements of material
nature would long sites, have resolved
themselves back into original chaos if there
hail been such a hiatus in creation as would
have resulted from leaving out Duluth.
[Roars of laughter.] In hart, sir, I was over
tvluilmed svith the eiinviction that Duluth
not only existed somewhere, but that wher
ever it was it tvas a great and glorious place.
I was convinced that the greatest calamity
that ever befell the benighted nationsof the
ancient world twll-4 in their having passed
away trithout a knowledge Of I.llelletAlltl ex
istenee or Duluth ; that their fabled Atlan
tis,
never seen save by the hallowed vision
.4 inspired poesy, was, ill fact, but/Mother
rtin. for Duluth; that the golden or
eliard of the liesperides was but a poeti
cal synonym Mr the lierr•gitrilens in the
vicinity of treat laughter.] I
was certain that II eredotes had died a mis
erable death because in all his travels and
with all his geographical research lie had
never heard of Duluth. [ LaughtPr.) I
knew that if the immortal spirit of Homer
could look down from another heavemthan
that created by his own celestial genius,
upon the long lines of pilgrims from every
nation or the earth to the gushing fountain
of poesy opened by the touch of his magic
wand ; if he could be permitted to be-
110111 the vital 11 , 1mehil,hivo - or grand and
glorious production of the lyric art
called into being by his own inspired
strains, he Wa aid weep tears of bitter un
guisll that instemt of lavishing all the stares
of his :nighty genius upon the fall of Ilion
it had net been his more blessed lot to crys
talize In deathless song the rising glories
of Ituluth. [Greatand continued laughter. J
Yet, sir, had it not been for this map, klud
ly
rn i4hed me by the Legbilatureof NI ins
nesota, I might have gone down to my ob
scure and humble grave in an agon.v of
despair, because I could nowhere tied -
Ul h. [ Renewed laughter.] Bad such been
my trielaneholy fate, I have no doubt that
with the hint feeble pulsation of toy brook•
ing heart, with the last faint exhalation of
my fleeting breath, I should have whisper
ed, Where is Duluth 7" [Roar, of
laughter.]
Ilut, thanks to the beneficence of that
bawl of :Monitoring angels who have their
bright abodes In the far-off capital of Min
nesota, Just an the agony of my anxiety
W 11,101011( to culminate in the frenzy of
despair, this blessed map was placed In my
hands; and an I unfolded It a resplendent
scene of inetlablo glory opened before mo,
such as I Imagine burst upon the enrap
tured vision of the wandering peal
through the opening gates of Paradise.—
iltenowed laughter.] There, there for the
llrst time, my enchanted eyes rented upon
the ravishing word " Duluth."
Thin map, air, is intended, as it appears
from its title, to Illustrate the position of
Duluth In the United States; but If gen
tlemen will examine it, I think they will
concur with me in the opinion that It in far
tun 1110deSit inn Its pretensions. It not only
illustrates the position of Duluth In the
United States, but exhibits its relations
with all created things. It even goes furth
er than this. It lifts the shadowy veil of
futurity and alfords,ns a view of the golden
prospects of Duluth, far along the dim vista
of ages yet to come.
If gentlemen will examine It they will
find Duluth not only in the center of the
map, but represented in the center of a
series of concentric circles one hundred
tulles apart, and some or thorn as much as
four thousand miles In diameter, OM brac
ing alike in their tremendous swoop the
fragrant savannas of the sunlit South and
the eternal solitudes of snow that mantle
the ice-bound North. [Laughter.] How
these circles were produced Is perhaps one
of those primordial mysteries that the most
paleologist will never he able to
explain. [Renewed laughter,] But the
fact Is, sir, Duluth Is pre-etninently a cen•
tral place, for I am told by gentlemen who
have been so reckless of their own personal
safety as to venture away Into those awful
regions whore Duluth Is supposed:to be,
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that It la.so exartly In the venter of the viol
btu univerno that, the sky notions 11011'11 a
preelnuly the 001110 IllatallCO all Around it
litoaria of littnilitord
I thud by roteroneu to Oak neap that Ito
j loth In animated .oineavhero !Mar tae 1, cot
j urn and of Lake tioporlor, but an there I
no dot or other mark Intlieatlo p ! , Its exile
!ovation I ant tumble tic may svhether It I.
Retinally confined to Roy piartleuhar Alain. or
avlonlier "It Iv Just lying around the:.
loose." I Itentoved laughter.] 1 really vati•
not tell avtiether It 1.11110 or
creation. , or intviiet•timi frost-worlt, morn
intangible them the ro.o tinted ,doilds i i
mummer sunset; one ad this. , airy t•
(lawn ni the brain, whiali 1 11111
told urn ever tinting to the form or town...el
eine. along thou lino, .I . l..itruad,),,,tit itti
(;‘),,,iinenL iiii‘vw. ) ,
.outer us the mlrnee of the desert hires the
hoot...Wog traveler on, and over on, well it
M=B=Ef==l=
whether li s is it real, bus, fide, substantial
rite, all "NLitkoll On," with filo Inds 111111'lied
wuh their,,,os% tiers' Haines, like that proud
commercial metropolis recently
on the desirable shores or Still 1)0110114,
',Lllllghtler.} Hilt, 11t1WeVer that may he, I
am satisfied Duluth i.s there, or thereabout,
kir I no., it statist here tie thin map that It i,
exactly thirty-nine hominid and Moil%
miles from Liverpool, 'laughter:l though
have do doubt, fir the sake of
letter, It trill ho move .l Larlt ten tilt lrs , sii
as to truths the IliStallett nn eVell feel. lleeit.
Mel. l Itufw‘veti laughter.]
'Thou, sir, there is the climate of
unquestionably the Most saltibriens and
delightrul h. be found anyNvliere nu 1111 ,
earth. :s; sit, I have always been
under the impression, as I l‘ft-oinie other
gentlemen have, that to the reginn around
Luke Superinr it was odd tinniigh tar in
10101 10110 Months iu the year to freeze the
'smut: r-sancta .at' /1
laughter„ Itut I see it represented on this
map that Duluth is situated exactly halt
way het, een the latiltillesnf Paris and \'ati •
ire, so that gentlemen pp ho !tat 0 inhaled
the exlinarantit air+ of the one, or basked
in the golden sunlight of the nther,iay nee
at a ?.:lattee that thiloth hoist Ito a phtee nt
untold ilatlizhlorJ a lerri,trial
paradise, Limn,' lo,v the balmy zephyrs ol
all eternal spring, clothed in the gorgeous
sheen ill' ever ldoomiug lltiwers, and vncal
with the silvery melody of nature's chniee,t
songster'. kiiiighter.l In Ihet, sir, since
I have seen this mop, 1 have 110 liOkillt that
roil was vainly endeavoring to convey
Monte ratitt ceneeptitill of the deltehool
eleiritei or Duhith when his pot‘llo soul
gushed Garth in Um rippling ,trallot of that
e the Inta.4 the Int%
\Vt.., the ~,t• hew.
evet shine;
Where tllt , Ilghl tl logs of Zephyr, oppres,tst
to 1111 pert.mte,
lVax i.tint oer Ito Ltartletts of (Jill In he:
Wotan:
\Vhere (Is• enroll tool ttlllc are lairt , st .t 1 (ruit,
A n d the v..lrl•or the nlghtln¢ul: n•ver L. nun e:
‘,l here the mots 1 , 1 tae ...trill and the Imes at
the sky.
in .411..1.1 11.1114 II ,arltsl, In 1...1101) Inn) vie?' .
[l.atighter.l
As 04 the C(4111111.,h11 reS.4lrelle
of Uu
luth, sir, they Oro simply illitnitablo and
inexhaustible, as is shown by this map.
see IL stated Intro that thorn Is a vast
scope of territory, embracing 111 . 1,11
of IlVer (We million suintre tulles, rich
in every element ill . material Nveallit and
commercial prosperity, all tributary to
Dilluth. Look at it, sir, [pointing to the
[lmp.] Hero aro inexhaustible mines of
gold, immeasurable veins of silver, impen
etrable depths of boundless forest, 1, itst
COlll-1111011,411 . ,, NV HI., extended 111111115 of
richest pasturage, all, nil embraced in this
vast territory, which must, In lito Very na
ture of things, empty the untold treasures
of its elllllllll.ree 11111/ the lap of I)tiltitli.
Look at It sir, [pointing to the nntp,] du
not you sun from theme broad, brown lines
drawn around tills i 11111102040 territory that
the onterprisieg Inhabitants 111 . Duluth In.
tend Melee day to 111011/MO It 1111 In nun VIISt
corral, PI/ dila It,, commerce will be bound
to go there whether it would or not 'f (ii rent
laughter.] And here, sir, [still pointing to
the amp, I I Mid ‘vilhin it convenient Ills.
1/1111.0 the Piegan I tellims, which, I,r all th.•
many accessorws to tho glory of !tallith, I
consider by far the most Inestimable. For,
sir, 1 111100 11e111 1.11111 that, W the 1.1111111-
!MIX breaks out 11111(41g the 100110.11 111111
elellll . oll of that. 1 . 11111e11,1 tribe, its It 0111111.-
tllle.l 1.1111,5, t 111.3• alrorti the lines! subjects
In the Neer!) for thostrategical experiments
of any enterprising military Intro who de
sires to improve himself in Ilie noble art ot
%VIII'. [laughter •,1 espeeililly Mr :toy 111111111
l-letitenant lioneral 1011ose
"Trenchant blade, Toledo Irllsly,
For 11,14 of 0,4111114 z grown 11,13 ,
Ac.! vol. Into lOo•If for 1111•11
ill 111eN and hack."
Sir, the great conillet new ragtag it, tho
()id ‘VAritt has presented It phenomenonlu
military eller:lllmin onprovel knifed hi Hitt
mankind, n immimmanm that
hue reversed all the traditloits of the
past us It has disappointed all the
expectation/4 of the present. great
and Nvarlike people, renowned alike for
their nitlll and valor, have been nwept
area) , before the triumphant advaneo of an
Inferior lmt, ilka ammnii 1,111111/111 Illtfirre it
hurricane of tiro. Ver aught I krep.v, the
next Ranh ofulectric liro that simmers along
the mean ruble may tell us that l'arls, with
every libor quivering with the agony oi
impotent despair, wri thee hoileath the volt -
filtering heel of her versed invader. Errl
another 1110011 Mll3ll was and Wane, tie ,
brightest star in the gallaxy lit nations may
fall from the zenith of her glory, nuvor to
rise again. Ere the modest violets or early
spring shall: ope their beauteous even the
genius of eivilization may eliaunt the ,all
- of the proudest nationality dm
world has liver M 11.1.11, us 41111 scatters her
withered and Mar-moistened lilies o'er the
bloody toilth of iamdmred France. But,
ear, 1 r ash to ank, it e yuu honestly and can
didly believe that the Dwelt would have
ever over-run the Frotieli in that kind of
style, if General Sheridan had riot g ,nr over
there and told Xing NVilliam and VOll
Mtdikl) hew lie loud managed to whip the
Piegati Indians. It;reat laughter.'
And sir, rovorring to the :nap, t
find in the immediate cirinity of the
I'iogate4 " vast herds of immdo and "nu
u,rrwo
nom. rich wheat lands."
J Here the hammer fell. j
[ Nlany eries ; 'ul,,,,!'"tie on j
The Speaker. Is there objection to the
gentleman from I<etitticky continuing his
remarks? [The t hears none. The
gentleman will proceed.]
Mr. Knott. I was remarking, s;r, upon
these vast "wheat fields" represented .11
this 111111, in the immediate neighborhood of
the buffaloes and the Piegans, and was
about to say that the idea of there tieing
these immense wheat fields in the very
heart of a wilderness, hundreds and hun
dreds of miles beyond the utmost. verge 1/f
Vi I iZai i , /11, may appear to some gentlemen
as rather ire on no rather too great
a strain on the "blankets . ' or veracity.
But to my mind there is 110 dilllcully in the
matter whatever. 'rile phenomenon 14 very
easily accounted lor. It is evident, Ka . , that
the Piegans sowed that wheat there and
Llowed it in with buffalo hulls. ],(:real
aughter.] Ni,,,', sir, this fortunate com bls
nation of buffaloes and Newlin', consider
ing their relative positions to each Mill r
and to !MIMI), as they ere arranged on this
map, satisfies me that Duluth Is destined to
be the boot market of the world.
Here, you will observe, [pointing to the
map) are tine buffaloes, directly between
the l'iegans and 'Duluth, and here, right
nil the road to Duluth, lire the Creeks.—
Now, sir, la lum lino um Ifalots are sufficient
ly fat I'l'olll g1 . 117.i11t7 all therm 1111111011 h.
Wheat 111.1114 you see, it Will be the easiest
thing in Um world for the Pieg,ans to drive
them on down, stay all night with their
friends, the Creels., and go into Duluth In
the morning. [(frolic laughter.] I think I
see thorn 1111 W, sir, a vast herd of buthdoes,
with their heads down, their eyes glaring,
their nostrils dilated, their tongues tint, and
their tails curled over their haiku, twirling
along to wariliDuluth, with about a thou,
and Piegann on their grass-bellied pantos,
yel ling lit their heels! [Great laughter.] Orn
they courel And an they sweep past the
creeks they Join In the chase, and the way
they all go, yelling, bellowing, rippling and
tearing along, amid clouds of dust, until
the hunt buffalo is safely penned in the
stock-yards of Dul adi I [Shouts oflaughter.
Sir, I might 'Mind hero for hours end
hours, and expatiate with rupture upon the
gorgetim prosperis of Duluth, 101 liapilltall
pm, this map. MIL 1111111111111/e 1,1 WO short
and the time (MUM+ House fur too valuable to
allow me to linger longer upon tine delight
ful thence. [Laughter.] I thlirk every gen
tleman on this floor Is an well medalled us I
am, that Duluth Is destined to become the
commercial metropolis order uniVerse, and
that this road should be built at once. I ant
fully persuaded that no patriotic Represen
tative of the American people, who has a
proper appreciation of the ammoniated glories
of Duluth and St. Croix, will hesitate a
moment Lonny, that every able-bodied fe
male in the land between the ages of eighteen
and fortydlve, who is In favor of "women'.
rights" should be drafted owl set to work
ut/011 this great work without delay. [Roans
of laughter. ] Novertheleam, slr,lt grieves my
very soul tin be compelled to say that I can
not vote for the grant of lands provided fur
In thinMlll.
Ah I sir, you can have no conception of
the poignaney or my anguish that I am de
prived of that blessed privilege ! [ Laugh
ter.] There are two insuperable obstacles
In the way. In the first place my constitu
ents, for whom I am acting here have no
more interest In this road than they have
In the great question or .iiinary taste now
perhaps agitating the publie mind of Po
minis', as to whether the illustrious com
missioners, who recently lull this Capitol
for that free and enlightened repubile,would
ho better fricasseed, boiled or roasted,
[great laughter;] and In the second place
these lands, which lan asked to give away,
alas, are not mine to bestow ! My relation
to them.is simply that of trustee to an ex
press trust. And shall I ever betray that
trust? Never, sir! Rather perish Duluth!
[Shouts of laughter.] Perish tile paragon
of cities! Rather let the freezing cyclones
of the bleak northwest bury it forever be
neath the eddying sands or the raging St.
Croix ! ((heat laughter.]