6 WASHINGTON. Faces Passing the Glass. Clmrcli Cliimes—Our Itinerant BecoUecfcions. Kr. Whitelaw Reid and the Horace- Porter Faction. Merton and Smalley. From Our Own Correspondent. Washington, Dec. o. Governor Davis, of Texas, is sending up members here with ccrtilicatcs,who, he says, were not fairly elected. Ho says lie has no option under the act of Congress of May 01, 1810. Congress is assuming a volunteer char acter, so far as the South is concerned. You pack up your carpcl-bag, and sheath your i owic-knife, and draw iu advance for your mileage. Messrs. James, Abbott, aud Barringer re port that they have divided all our statutes into seventy-six divisions. They have al ic:uly determined upon £I,OOO sections. Sawyer, of Wisconsin, appears with a ship oanal extension bill—Green and Sturgeon Bay aud Lake Michigan. Washington Townsend, tho union of two great families iu one representative, wants ihe Surveyor of the great port of Chester legislated out. Won't he divide Mr. McCormick wants all the Territorial Governors to get $5,000 a head, and Secretaries 84.000 each. Approved, if they will only tie their hands behind their hacks, with the 3-alms down. Mr. Archer, of Maryland, wants C. W. Whitney to get SOI,OOO out of the Treasury for some old iron-clad battery* The cruel war will never be over at the Treasury end. Sheldon, of Louisiana, presents a ieveo lull, with tho name of James T. Casey iu it—brother-in-law. All Mississippi levee bills are rotten and immodest. Duell, of New York, ■warns to give away public land warrants to all the soldiers of the late war. Too thin. Let the .soldier lu-af his spear into a sickle, and settle there like an honest farmer. That was a game act of Lyman Trumbull, the other day.—to rise in his place, while they were talking of him for the Presiden cy, and move the abolition of the Light-Hour law. No demagogery there. Charles Sumner is\he lion of the anli-Ad miuistration party. "Witness his bill to abolish the oihee of Commissioner of Inter nal Bcvenne,now heldfby one of Simon Cam eron’s counter-jumpers. Hero is Lynch, with his old hill to protect Noah'S Ark. "We have sent for Captain Cod inan to linishnp Lynch. Horace Maynard has done a good thing, strange as it may appear, by bill for the better security of Agricultural College funds. Sheldon, of Louisiana, carpet-bagger from New York, wants money. He wants it for old cotton drawbacks, for relinquished lauds, for levees, etc. Here is Senator "West, one of the war moths, after a railroad to New Mexico. THE METHODIST PAPACY I observe the following highly reprehensi ble paragraph iu the paper of the gentleman who sleeps every Sabbath in Dr. Chapin’s Church: "What would stern old John Wesley have said to the Methodist doings in ‘Washington on Thanks giving Pay,—he who couldn’t endure oven Heeplesforms meeting-houses,—what would ho have said to tho dedication with prayer of a whole chime of bells, with processions, banners, and the singing of “Hail Columbia.” Truly he would have thought that these ceremonials smacked of the Scarlet Lady of Rome, aud would scarcely have permitted his primitive Methodists to indulge In any such elaborate rites.— Xeic York Tribune This refers to the church of the period. The pastor got as low toward the ground as St. Francis, however. Ho rode the whole length of the Avenue with Helmbold, the Buchn man, and had a horse-taming quack to give him a benefit—all to seduce subscrip tions for the chimes. The chimes are said not to do well; probably too much brass in the bell-metal. Tho New York Methodist Convention, which met at Syracuse tho other day, ad vocated congregational singing, simple church architecture, and godlv-mxndedncss, and pm itself iu opposition to the worldly innovations recently made by fashionable preachers and vote-getting members. "When will we see a Methodist preacher raise in these conventions against Presidential con fessors. ami the self-styled Biehelieus of Wesleyauism As things are going, I appre hend the time will soon arrive when we shall have the political stump and the ■mourners’ bench in the same enclosure, aud no souls will be permitted to bo saved un less they vote for Brother Harlan. It was my personal misfortune to have had a guardian who did not preach according to this new and better dispensation. He had unfortunately placed too much faith in the expamples of 1-rancis Asbury and Freeborn Jaru-tison. and he never collected subscrip tions for a chime of bells. Ho rode in a Milky drawn by a forty-dollar horse.—aud lie vas a good horse-trader, too ami the irreverent writer of these communications sat on a stool at his feet. We preached down the cold nocks of the Chesapeake,—that is. he did. aud I assisted him by being very still and asleep,—aud amongst the oysfery (Juak eis of the Pennsylvania hills. ‘We seldom voted, and we have no recollection of writ ing circularletters iu favor of the re-election of Senator Worm. We sometimes received as high as a year for preaching about r> far apart and yon can see a good ways,” Hu grew up under Hor ace Mann’s Western college, served appreu t iccsliipat conntrv-Ohio and Cincinnati jour nalism, developed in the w'ar, graduated iu Washington correspondence,—of which he was one of the highest exemplifications in both capacity and 'independence,—and how he in lps make the Eastern Tribune ominous and corrective. I mention him bccav.se the Horace-Porter litUMse-CoDklinghlxmiiiy-liat faction has been h;IJ !nir its chirrupers to work to annoy Mr. Ren; with that, kind of abuse which makes :is object, strong, lends him chivalrous jiiu ds. and condemns itself as more cou mi:]vv employed Reid to write a life, of Giant for u campaign sheet {one of those Miean.tng, demagogue sorts of campaign sheets which that Trilmvc has published ever since the Harrison campaign, and which read like Weems’ Life of Marion, or Parley’s llis- Icrv of the United States: blood, adjectives, victory, ami sulphuretted hydrogen from page one to the pory conclusion; and, to'the amazement of the candidate and his blus terer, Washbnrne, Reid wrote constantly what he thought.—a candid analysis, fall of discriminate praise of tho Republican candi date.—good enough to please any man. capa ble of reading history. Great was the excitement. The roaring Cheap John of the house of Washbnrne, Telegraphed to slop that thing. Chandler, whom they had for a campaign Secretary, and who now leads a precarious life around the lobby and the Departments, echoed. “It must he suppressed.” Suppress it they did, and the political printing press had to suspend movements because a few points of fact, wedged it. The Captain of our salvation hated Reid for these things, and one of the objects of the Administration has been to Had a place io puncture Reid, and make him realize the idea that he is nobody. Administration! Every 3*ouag man is .somebody. He can live longer than you. He has less to fear, be cause his life being shorter, there is Ibss human in it. He may be sensitive, and prejudiced, and vain, and wrong; but he can discover his errors, ami. correct them. You cannot! You do not know how to govern, because you do not know bow to forget. The best way to surmount your ignorance is by magnanimity. The camcJstoops for two reasons: first, to ho useful: secondly, because bo is not very handsome standing up. And, if this Admin istration would sometimes stoop, it would be more useful aud mo rc graceful. The Administration being Horace Porter, ami the opposition being, to a great extent. Wbitelaw Reid, —both young men of about the came age,—my object is to see a fair light. General. Grant and myself have no business to interfere. The General has no policy to enforce he was the first President who said so, aud has since proved it. MOISTON AND SMALLEY Two great men have said things: Oliver— not Twist, nor Cromwell, but—Morton; and George Washington—Smalley. What a fear ful family diminutive that is to hang on the name of George Washington! Mr. Smalley resigns from tho Ginger-Pop International Club because he would bo compromised by its soliciting books for the bnmt-out libra ries of Chicago. He publishes it in the Eng lish newspapeis. Oh! purity of character! Ob, Cesar’s second wife! f i he Great War Governor has been lectur jng outbe advantages of despotism, to the Lost on people. The Journal there compares lum to Daniel Webster. Truly, the evil winch men do lives after them. The G. W. D/, a Democrat for years, says that commu nity rights arc tho devil in our system. He happens just now to occupy the intineutial position toward the system of this adminis tration that the personage of his ai'mik.* boro toward the sleeping Eve. Heaven help a people if this village Smithy should ever be at their head; who have abandoned all local pride, levelled their cit adels of resistance, and surrendered their in dividualism to a will as illogical, unscrupu lous, andunsparing as this second Oliver's, a little of Cromwell, aud the best OUcicr Ic Barbkr. Gath. X. 35.—Boston likes Morton because ho re sembles her Samuel Adams, who would have the State of Massachusetts to govern the Union. Boston to govern the State of Massa chusetts, aud Samuel Adams to govern Bos ton. THE HASSLEU EXPEDITION. Professor Agassiz Prophesies—A Predic tion ns to the Place iu Natural History and Specific Clinracicr'HiicH of the Ani mals, as yet Unknown, to be in the South Atlantic. From the New York Tribune, Dee. 11. The day before the Hasslcr started on her voyage of discovery. Professor Agassiz ad dressed to Professor Peirce, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, the following letter Camuridge, Mass, Deo. 2, isTi. Mr Pear Friend On tlio point of starling for the Poep-Se?a Dredging Expedition, for which you have so fully provided, and which I trust may prove to he one of the best rewards for your devotion to the interests of the Coast Survey, I am desirous to leave In your hands a document which may ho very compromising for me, but which I nevertheless am determined to write in the hope of showing within what limits Natural History has advanced toward that point of maturity when science may anticipate the dis covery of facts. If theie Is, as I believe to he tho case,a plan recording to which tho atUiultics among animals, and the order of their succession in time were de termined from the beginning, and, if that plan is reflected in the mode of growth, and In the geo graphical distribution ot all living beings; or, in other words, if :his world of ours is tho work of intelligence, and not merely the product of force and matter, the human mind as a part of the whole, should bo ebime with it, that, from what is known, it may reach the unknown; and, if this ho so, the amount of information thus far gath ered should, within the limits of errors which tho imperfection of our knowledge renders unavoid able, he sufficient to foretell what we are likely to And in the abysses of the sea, from which thus fur nothing has been secured. I will not undertake to lay down tho line of argument upon which I base my statement, be yond what is suggested in the few words preced ing, namely, that there is a correlation between the gradation of animals In the complication of their structure their order of succession in geo locieal limes; their mode of development from the egg. and their geographical distribution upon the surface of the globe. If that be so, and if the animal world designed from tho beginning has been the motive for the physical changes, which our globe has undergone, and if, as I also believe to be tho case, these changes have not been the cause of the diversity now observed among or ganized beings, then wo may expect from tho greater depth ef the ocean representatives re sembling these types of animals which were prominent in earlier geological periods, or boar a closer resemblance to younger stages of the higher members of tbesamo types, or to the lower forms which take their place nowadays. Ami to leave no doubt that I have a distinct perception or what! may anticipate, Xmako the following specific statement: It lies in the very nature of these animals that, among vertebrates, neither mammalia nor birds can exist In deep water, and if any reptiles exist there, it could only be such as are related to the extinct types of the Jurassic periods, tho Ichthy osauri, Plelosauri, and rterodactyles, but oven of these there is very little probability that any of their representatives are still alive. Among tho fishes, however, I expect to discover some marine representatives of tho order of Ganoids of both the principal types known from the second ary zoological period, such as Lepiloids, Sauroids, i’yenodonts, (Aelacantlics, Ami oids, and Glyptolcpis-like species may oven bo looked for. Among Selachians some new representatives of Cestraciontca or Hybodontes may be forthcoming, connecting tho latter more closly to Odontaspls. I ulso look for ward to finding species allied to Corax, or con necting this genus with Notulanua, perhaps also, Jurassic-likc forms. Among Chimierolds we may expect some now genera more closely related to tho extinct types of that family than those now living. Among ordinary fishes I take it for grant ed that Byrex genera may bo addod to our list, approaching perhaps, Hcanlis. or rather 3pheu ocephalus: also, types allied to Islicus, by Anen cheluro, and to Osmeroides, Elopa, and Argenti na, Pereetis and Jdochlns may also come up. Species of all classes of the animal kingdom which have been verv rarely met with bv fisher men and naturalists ore likely to bo found iu tho deepest waters, in wqich hooks or nets aro gener ally lowered. Nothing is known concerning the crc-atest depth at which tho Ashes may live. Upon this point I nope to obtain positive data. The Mollusks will, no doubt, afford a rich harvest of novelties, among which sorao may be ot the deepest zoological" interest. It stands to reason that a variety of Nautilold Cephalo poda may be discoveren when Nautilu proper and Spirilla are so rarely found alive, and among new forms there may be those combining char acter of Argonauts with features of Nautilus; some may even be coiled up like Turrilites. Bel euiuitl Squids would appear natural. Among Gastcropodwo maj’ look for high-spired, N.ilica hfcc types, for representatives ot Aeteonellu. Avellana, and the like; for small Volutoidsof the tertiary and cretaceous types, forßostellarias. even for Nericeas, and more particularly for fox ms intermediate between Firula and Cyprea. Among Actphula I woxdd expect a variety of Myacca approaching those described lu tuv monographs of that family from the Jurassic aud cretacaous form»tloaa, such as Ceromyu. Coriutfa, Cireomya, Gouiomya, Myopsis, etc., with Banorpa and rboladomya, and others recalling perhaps also Cardiuia, Gres slya, or Cardlacea more closely related to Uono cordinm than the living species, perhaps leading to Opis or Tx igonhe of extinct types akin to Myo pboxla, with I’achj’mya, Diceras, Grammlsia, In occramus, PUnerea. Monodis. and Posldoula. Ru distes should take the place of oysters, and the harvest of Brachlopods should be large. Among Crustacea it is natural to suppose that genera inav be discovered reminding us of Eryou or IVmpbyx Gamsonyx. or some Amphipods aud Isipods. aping still more closely the Trilobites than Serclis, or I.lumloids approaching that ex tinct family. The classification, embryology, and order of succession of Ecliinoiierius is now so well known, that it is perhaps still more easy to antici pate the character of discoveries in ‘this branch of the animal kingdom than in any other. I expect confidently to find Spatanpotds approaching Ilolaster, Toxastcr, Annnchytcs, Hempiieuestca or Meta porbnum, aud others akin to Dysuster, Eehinol amps approaching Pygurus. NucicoUtcs rending tofJvpcus, Galerites, like Pyrina or Globator, Ac., Ac., and again Cidaridsakin toC. gbmdifera and clavigera with Glypticns-lUo species, and Codiopsis. Co-loulourns, Chypsosma. and Saleula. Among Starfishes tho types of Gonluster and I.uidia are likely to prevail, with simple rayed Ear aloid genera, aud among Crinoida a variety of genera reminding us of Pentrenutcs, Maraup it»*s, Peiitacriuus, Apiocriuus, andEugeniaerlnus. The question of the affinities of MiUepora will probably receive additional evidence, and genera connecting more closely the Rugnsa and Tabulata with one another, and with Hie Acalephs, may be expected in the shape of branching Ileliopnrcs and the like. With the monogram of Pourta’es upon the deep-sea corals before me, it would be i sheer intension to say anything concerning the prospect of discovering new representatives of xhis or that type. His tables point them out al ready. But there is a subject of great interest likely to be elucidated by our investigation—tho contrast oft he dccp-Sfti lauuiv of the northern with those of the southern hemisphere. Judging from what Australia has already brought us, wo may expect to find that the animal world of the southern h( mispheru has a more antique character, in the same way as North America imy be contrasted with Europe, cm the ground of the occurrence in the United States of animals and plants now liv ing here, tho types ot which are only found fossil lu Europe. A few more words,upon another subject. Dur ing the first three decades or this eentury.thc scientific world believed that the erratic bould ers. which form so proxuinont a feature of the surface gcologv of Europe, had been transported by currents arising from the rupture of the bar riers of great lakes among the Alps, or started from the north by earthquake waves Shepherds first started the idea time within tho valley of Switzerland these huge boulders lmd bt cn carried forward by glaciers aud Swiss geolo gists, Vcnetz and Charpentler foremost among them, very soon proved that this had been tho case. Tins view, however, remained confined to the vicinitv of the Alps in its application, until I huggested that the phenomenon might have n eot-mic importance, which was proved when I dheovemi, in 3£lo, unmistakeaMo traces of gla ciers in Scotland. Englaudaud Ireland, in regions which could have had no connection whatever with the elevation of the Alps. Since that lime the <;UtcUil period has been considered by geolo gists os a fixed fact, what ever may have been the discrepancies among them as to the extent of these continental! maseees of icc, their origin and their mode of action. 3 betels, however, one kind of evidence want ing to remove every possible doubt that the gi cater extension of glaciers in former ages was connected with cosmic changes in tho physical condition of our globe. All the phenomena Yc laied to the glacial period must be found in tho Southern Hemisphere with the same characteris tic features as in tho North, with this essential rificicuce, thst cverytliing must be reversed; that is. the trend ot the glacial abrasion must be trem the South northward; the lee side of abrad ed rocks must be on the north side of hills and mountain ranges, and the boulders must have been dcrivi d from rocky exposures lying to the M.uth of their present position. Whether this is t-o or not, has not yet oeen ascer tained bv direct observation. I expect to find it so throughout the temperate and cold zones of the Southern Hemisphere, with the solo exception of tho present glaciers of Terra del Fin-go and Patagonia, which .may have tr.ms polled boulders in every direction. Even in Europe, geologists have not yet sutllcieutly dis criminated between local glaciers andthophe itcmif--na connected with their different degrees of successive retreat on one hand, and the fact in dicating the action of an expansive and continu ous sheep of icc moving over tho whole continent Horn uoith to south. Unquestionably, the abra sion, of the eummils of tho mountains of Great THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER IG, 1871. Britain, especially noticeable upon SohlehaUion, is owing to tho action of the great European Ice sheet during the maximum extension of the glacial phenomena in Europe, and has nothing to do with the local glaciers of the British Isles. Amcng tho fsiets already known from the Southern Hemisphere are tho so-called rivers of stone of the Falkland Islands, which attracted the attention of Darwin during his cruiss with Captain Fitzroy, and which nave remained an enigma to this day. I believe it will not bo dim cult to explain their origin in the light of the glacial theory, aud I fancy now they may turn cut to be nothing but ground moraines, similar to the “Horse-Backs” of Maine. You may askwhat the question of drift has to do with deon-sca dredging* Tho connection is closer than may at first appear. If drift is not of glacial origin, hut tho pro duct of marine currents, its formation at once becomes a matter for tho Coast Survey to investigate, and, 1 believe, it will be found in the end that so far from being accumulated by the sea, the drift of the lowlands of Patagonia has been worn away to its present extent by the con tinued encroachment of tho ocean la the same manner us the northern shores of South America and of Brazil have been. Hoping some, at least, of my anticipations may prove true, I remain, ever truly yours, Louis Agassiz. Prof. Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent of Coast Suivey, Washington, D. C. THE NORTHWEST, ILLINOIS. A dwelling house belonging to Dr. Anderson,at Franklin, was destroyed by lire en the loth Inst. Loss, 538,000. —A County Agricultural Society has been or. guulzed for Sangamon County. —The City Council of Galena has annulled tho time-honored freedom of the city which tho hogs have enjoyed, ana on and after tho 15th iust. will give citizens the right to tho sidewalks. —David Sherman, ono of tho first contractors on the Chicago «fc St. Louis- Railroad, died at Springlield on tho llth iust. IOWA, lowa College Is about establish a normal course. —The members of the Congregational Church of Davenport have extended a pastoral call to the Rev. Mr. .Merrill, of Topeka, Kansas, with a proffered salary of 51,800 a year. —Sister Mary Aloysla, the most beautiful of the Sisters of Mercy at Davenport, died on the 7th Inst., aged 18 years. —An lowa City man who owns extensive tim ber tracts in Louisa County, has hired amongst his other choppers, an American woman, who cuts and “ranks up more wood in u day thau any other workman iu the timber. —Fred. A. Marden, Chief Clerk in tho Division of Accounts in tho Treasury Department at Washington, whoso aiTcst for purloining 512,000 from tho United States Treasury was telegraphed last week, was a former highly-respected resident of Davenport. —Benton County farmers carry water four and six miles for their stock. —Elisha Flaugh, ex-Sena tor from Jasper County died on the 11th inst. —Davenport has organized .a Lithographing Wood Engraving Company,*’ with John Bond re cently of Chicago, at its head, —The Cedar County Post suggests a State Inebriate Asylum. —Mrs. "Waters, wife of John Waters, of Anamo sa, committed suicide recently, by taking arsenic. She was enceinte at the time, and committed the act from fear of the pain consequent upon ussu m ing the relations of a mother. The deceased was a lady who was universally esteemed inAnainosa, and her peculiarly sorrowful death has created wide-spread feelings of sympathy. —The Supremo Court at Des Moines has affirm ed the judgment of the Dubuque District Court, giving Mr. Law of that city, SSOO damages for be ing ejected from a car on tho Illinois Central Kailroad. —Tho Manchester Press tells of a German who killed a panther near that place the other day, and adds: “He emptied tho contents of his gun into the animal, whereupon tho ferocious beast attacked him, when he broke his weapon over the panther’s head, and Anally succeeded in killing him. The German was badly bitten and torn, and when found, some hours after, was insensi ble, and now lies in a very critical condition.” —Mr. C. L. Franing, of Coal Valley, was killed a few days since, hy falling from his wagon. WISCONSIN. An attempt was made last Monday to burn Ilemenway, Wood A Co.’s sawmill, at Lansing. About 3 o'clock the watchman* Mi*. Maxwell, dis covered a man near the plcket-phc, chased him away, followed him some distance, find] fired two shots from a revolver at him. On going lo tho spot where ho had first seen tho man, ho discov ered a pile Cf shavings thoroughly saturated with kerosene, and all ready to set fire to to. Kero sene had also been poured over tho pickets, show ing that tho scamp Intended to mako euro work of his job. —The Douglas school-house, at Hill’s Prairie, was burned Dec. 5. This is the eleventh school house which has been burned in Illinois and Wis consin within a few weeks. —TheMcuaaha Press says; “While on a tour through this locality, the other day, we saw some thing that no other Wisconsin editor ever looked upon. It was two young ladies with shot-guns on their shoulders and pouches by their side, strid ing off to tho woods on a general hunt.” —“Mississippi Jack,” alias John B. Smith, a noted desperado living in the northwest part of tho State, was convicted last week at tho Circuit Court in Portage, of an assault with intent to murder nn officer, who arrested him on a charge of stack-burning m Trempealeau. lie will get the extent of tho law. .—The Rev.” Frank Whitcomb Is operating in the northwestern part of tho State, preaching and collecting contributions. —The colored people of Fond du Lae arc having a series of protracted meetings. They have se cured a colored female preacher, who, they claim, eclipses Mrs. Van Cott in eloquence. INDIANA. William Merritt, at one time City Assessor of Lafayette, has been missing since tho 7tU inst. —The Fort Wayne (iazette of the lithsaya A few days ago a child was born in Allen Town ship. in this county, whose form displayed one of the most remarkable freaks of nature of which we ever heard. The child combined tho appear ance of a human being and a ’coon, the entire upper' part of tho body being an] exact counter part of the *c*oon. Tho child was still-born, but the mother is rapidly convalescing.” —The Terre Haute saloon-keepers evade the Sunday law, by selling crackers at fifteen cents each, and throwing in whiskey. —Jacob Slough, of Bourbon, Marshall County, was crushed to death at that place between a car aud a warehouse, on tho lath inst. —The Rev. James Green, a convict m tho Jef fersonville Penitentiary, will preach to liis fel low-convicts on Christmas day on tho Follies of Atheism.” —Laporte lias discharged its llrcmcu, having adopted the Holly system. —A rolling mill is projected at Evansville liyE. S. Hubbard, who is interested in the iron mines of Saline County, 111. —A little daughter of Mr. Smith, freight agent at Osceola, wa* accidentally scalded. last Mon day, and died the next day. —Five or six children died of diphtheria in the vicinity of Avilla during the past week, and it la feared a like fate awaits a number of others. —News was received at Jeffersonville, on the oth. that Helen Park, one of tho victims of the Park family murderers, was rapidly sinking, and not the slightest hope of her recovery was enter tained. —Eli Smith, of Kiles, while wringing tho neck of a chicken, gave his own neck so sore a “twist*' that a physician had to he culled to his ala. MICHIGAN. Hon. T. C. Grier, Judge of the Circuit Court, at Bay City, has challenged the Ecv. A. J. Frost, Pastor of the Baptist Church, in that city, to q public discussion of the question that Tho death penalty should be restored as tho punishment for murder In the first degree;’* Mr. Frost to take the affirmative. —Eighty buildings havo been put in process of erection at Holland since the lire. —On Monday night, tho planing mill of the East Saginaw Salt Company was destroyed by ill c. The mill Is situated down tho river just out side the city limits, and had commenced oper ations last week. Loss, $27,000. —Bay City is trying to induce Henry Ward Beecher to open its new Opera House. —Big Rapids has received twenty tons of machinery for tho new IIOII3* Water Works. A special election has been called for tho purpose of voting an additional $16,000 to aid in their con struction. —Hamlin Hines, living near Grand Lodge, un dertook to HU a burning lamp with kerosene, on the sth lost., when an explosion occurred, burn- Mrs. Hines and an infant child so severely that they died. The house and contents word destroy ed. Mr. Hines was so dangerously injured that his recovery is considered doubtful. —An Insurance agent, named Hovcy, was met by three men in a sleigh, about three miles north of Flint, on Wednesday evening of last week, and robbed of $250. Two of tho rabbers held pistols to his breast while the third searched his per- S Mrs. Defoe, of Esscxvillo, perilled her life to rescue her husband, James Defoe. who had fallen through the icc of the Saginaw River, on the 9th. By means of a plank sho succeeded in oxtricat k'—The Saginaw JCnfci'prisc [says that Dr. Buck ham’s house and bain, at Flint, were twice set on lire duringtho night of the llth, and also the fur niture shop of F. B. Kill. Kerosene oil and shavings were used by tho incendiaries, hut for tunately tho fires were discovered in time to prevent much damago. MINNESOTA. William Smith, of Waseca, reports to tho Gov ernor tho names of forty-niuo families iu two townships of Waseca County who lost tho whole or greater portion of their crops by hail-storms. They need aid this winter, and aro wholly with out means to purchase seed next spring. —Mrs. Palmer, formerly of Mankato, and wife of Jeaso W. Palmer, was frozen to doath near Heron Late, on the «h Inst., and her body found tho following day. she had tried to reach a neighbor’s house to obtain assistance in procur ing fuel, but failed to do so, and lost her life as above stated. KANSAS. Coal has been foxend in Marion County, and a company is formed to mine it. —The new Presbyterian Church at Emporia was dedicated last Sunday, it is a handsome edifice and cost 57,500. —Abilene is making efforts to avoid a coal famine by adopting measures to open mines in that vicinity. —One man in Ellsworth County ia preparing to plant 100 acres iu fruit trees next spring. —A school teacher down on Indian Creek “licked”a girl; tho girl's father “licked” the teacher, plead guilty, and paid a fine; the teach er had the father arrested again, and another Judge said the prosecution was malicious, and fined the teacher. The Board of Directors has now entered complaint of immoral character against tho teacher, and, if things keep on, that young man won’t have occasion to complain of dull times this winter. the fat: west. The Treasurer of Arizona has given notice that there is money enough in the treasury to pay all tho outstanding indebtedness of the Territory. —Tho Grass Valley Rijnihlicuu of tho Cthinst. says: “At tho funeral of JohnT. Bennett, yes terday, all tho Chinese merchants in town, at tended, some in carriages, some on horseback. Aa carriages were scarce, they telegraphed to Nevada for them.” —Preparations for the winter campaign against tho Apaches In Arizona arc active. —Kalama, Washington Territory, has been in corporated as a city, with Colonel James Tilton for Mayor. —The message of retiring Governor Haight, of California, contains some Interesting statistics concerning that State. The present funded debt is $3,152,000. The number of children in attend ance on the public schools is 83,528, and the total value of school property is $3,352,580.18. There are 1,000 persons in tho State Insane Asylum, and 102 in tho Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum. Dur ing Governor Haight’s term, one-third of tho State debt has been paid, and tho rate of taxation has been reduced from $1.13 to 801-2 per cent. —Late San Francisco papers estimate tho rain fall up to date at betweeu three and four inches, with a good prospect of plenty move. This has put the farmers, and indeed all classes, in tho best of spirits, as it means abuniaut crops next season. The only drawback to tho general re joicing is the chance of freshets. The Death of LconiilftK Polk An cs-Confcderatc, “writing for the IVcsl iniiufhr Review, gives the following account of the death of tho Uishop-Geueral: The death of the distinguished man was a mel ancholy one. It occurred while onr army lay in front of Kennesaw. Johnston, with a group of ollicers, among whom was Polk, were making a rcconnoiaaucc of the enemy’s lines from tho sum mit of Pine Mountains, a lofty, solitary mount, which jutted out from the range, and formed tho apex of an acute angle, on which out* line was ar ranged. Tho situation was a very hazardous one, being commanded, or rather reached by gnus, from any portion of the enemy's lines. Tho unusual asseuiblngo in such a conspicuous place soon attracted tho'vigilant enemy. A battery in front immediately tired one shot, which was after wards found out was but tho prelude to one of the most fearful shellings I over witnessed. The group were standing between young Beaure gard’s battery and tho Fifth company of ‘Wash ington Artillery, Johnston being on tbo works looking through a Held-class. The first shot could not have missed him two feet, bat tho only attention he paid to it was to turn his glasses to the batterv that lixcd it. Polk had in tho mean time separated from tho group, and was walking thoughtfully away with his left side to tho enoray—hls head down nml his hands clasped behind him. Tho second shell lired at the crowd struck him in the arm, and passed through tho body, tearing out tho heart, and then crushing his right arm aoovc the elbow. Ho dropped on ono kneo. wavered, then fell on ono side-dead. I had hardly turned my back when I heard tho mur mur of horror run through tho line, (tenoral Polk is killed.” Johnston said not a word, but ran to him and lifted him in his arms. Hardee uttered a cvv, and also rushed forward. He was past all human help. The members of hia staff tenderly lifted and bore him from tho Hold. MACHINERY. W. A. JAMES CO., 113 Fnlton-st. WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF Iron Lathes, Planers, Drills, Bolt Cutters, Planers and Matchers, Farrar Surfacers, Resawing Machines, Sash Door Machinery. C. S.RAmii\&CO., WMral Iron Iforls, CINCINNATI, Manufacture Store Fronts, Doors and shutters, Jail Work, Gloss Pavements, Orates, Mantels, Railings, and oil Iron Work used in the erection ot buildings. STOVES. LARGE SIZE BRILLIANT BASE-BURNERS Yor heating Stores, Halls, and large rooms, manufactured by J.f.RATHBOMG&CO., 30 and 32 South Canal-st. STOVES. If yon want a stove lor your parlor, store, office, oi chamber, get the King of BASE BURNERS, THE ILLUMINATOR. If you want the beat cook stove In, tho world, war ranted In every respect, get the MAGEE ADVANCE, MAGEE STANDARD, with roasting closet, &a, or Magee’s New Portable Range, T2ie Cheapest and best range In the market. Sufferers by tho great tiro can get heating or cook stoves at wholesale prlci s, delivered and set ap by TXLIvOTSOUf BEOS., Jtfirhiffan-ae. corner JTackton-Mt. hats, caps and furs. MIS, GAPS FURS. 200 sets Fine mink. 100 sets Fine Fitch. 60 sets Royal Ermine. 1.000 sets Alaska Sable. 500 sets Children’s Fnrs. 600 Men’s and Boys’Petersham. Astrachan and Doeskin Caps. 1.000 doz. Buck and Kid Gloves and mittens 100 Wolf, Buffalo, Beaver, and Fan- cy Rohes. 59 k 61 West Waslungton-Bt, SWEET, DEIttPSTER k CO. TO KENT. .CORNER STORE WOtt RENT. Brick Block, northeast corner State-st. and Eldridge court, 20x£0. Possession January l. Apply to BAIRD BRADLEY, 384 Walmsli-av. TO RENT. Twomew R-storv and basement buildings. Nos. 54 and 50 South Watlr-bt.. suitable for wholesale or man ufacturing Imimul*h9. Rcatlv for occupancy January 1,1872. Apply to WML SAMPSON CO.. Beal Es tate and House Renting Agency, 255 West Madison-at TO RENT. Double Store. No. 7 South Jeffcrson-st Apply to RAND.McNALLY CO, 103 Randolpu-st., and3o3 W’ahash-nv. OFFICES TO RENT In new brick bnibllng aiijoining Madlson-st Bridge. Beni low. Immediate possession. KORTON COi WATCHES. Holdaj Prats! ELGIN'WATCHES. Enll-plate Movements, adjusted to tem perature, iu Gold or Silver Cases, for Gents’ use. The B. W. Raymond, H. Z. Culver, and H. H. Taylor movements are especially recommended. The LADY ELGIN, in Gold Hunting, enamelled, or engraved case, continues the most popular watch for ladies’ use yet offered for sale. No more charming present could he made thau one of these beautiful time pieces. The ELGIN WATCHES, of style and price according to taste and purse, are for sale hy all Chicago Jewellers. No movements retailed hy the Com pany. The Elgin Illustrated Almanac for 1872 has just been received from the Aldine Press, and is in the hands of Chi cago Jewellers for presentation to their customers. It will also he forwarded by mail to any address upon application to McM (Elan) Watt Co, Cor. Green Washington-sts., EISWOITH, 56 North iefferson-st. iL P. CARROLL. Manager. GUNS, RIFLES, Pistols, Fishing Shooting Tackle, Breech-loading Implements and Fixed Ammnnltion, Pistol Cartridges, Gtuipowder, Shot, Lead, Blasting Powder, Safety Fuse, a general assortment of Sport lngGoods, Gunsmiths’ Materials, Pocket Cutlery and Newlxouse traps. Agent for Geo. T. Abbey’s celebra ted top-fastening breech loader. All orders for goods in (or ont of) onr lino shall have prompt attention. E. E. EATON. 7M Rtsto-st., Formerly Eaton i.x. SOLDIERS OF THE LATE WAR are entitled to a FREE HOMESTEAD OF 160 ACHES, Within Railroad limits, equal to a Direct Bounty of S4OO. for the new edition of descriptive pamphlet, with new maps, mailed free everywhere. Address U. WAVI9, Lami commissioner U. P. R. R. Co.. OMAHA. NEB. dll' ill mis TOR SUE, Lot 22, in Block 46, School Section Addition to CW caeo. together with the frame bulldingstandlns;_there- on (known as No. 81 West Jnckson-st., near Clinton- Bt) bald lot is 53 feet front by 82* feet deep. Bids will ho received by the undersigned until ISth inst. at noon, and will be submitted to JVS-££» mon Council lor action thereon. ‘ing.'compmulr. CJiicago, Dec. 4,1371. Sugar-Cured Bacon Hams. Jnst received, a smaU consignment of the celebrattd "MARYLAND BRAND” of Bams; also, of the "SIMMS BRAND "of Ham*- well-known and highly-appreciated in r^ ora go H. Southern cities. 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It is a monthly that corner every week."—The Advance, Chicago. “It gives to its leaders more than threo thousand double column octavo pages a year, of tho most vain*.«*■ able, Instructive. and entertaining reading of the daw. Slstory, biography, action, poetry, wit, science.’ pc* r; tics, criticisms, art.—what is not here f It is theory compilation that presents, with a satisfactory com pleteness, as well as freshness, tho best literature o£ the almost Innumerable, aud generally inacccs-jiM'*. European quarterlies, monthlies, and weeklies,— r-■' u crature embracing tho productions cf the abl.'si, ax. mostcultured writers living. It is, therefore, in .-is- sable to every one who desires a thorough eotnpe..# of ull that is admirable and noteworthy in Uxo UL.mi. WfrM.”— Bouton I'CAt. Published weekly at SS.OO a year, free of pottage. Address JLITTKLL GAY, ilostoo, Thebest Horn? iCoreisnLiteratnreat Club Jr-V. Posscpssd of LITTELI/S LIVING AGE/ and a one or other of our vivacious Amu: icon uxonthljiv* subscriber will find btmoelf in command of the wuotu. sltnaUou.” I‘hilattelohia J-.'mUnfj iu»Urff.~,.'i Fop Ten THE LIVING AGE, v,veV talnlng the cream of I oreign Periodical Utera* cither one of tho leading Magazines of Hwr ture named below, will be sent to ono addre*^ year, viz.; Harper's Monthly (or Weekly, or Bazar). T*i. tic Monthly, Lipplncott’s Monthly, Tho Galax i r and New, ycribner’s Moatldy, Tho Overland Moat! or Appleton’s Journal (weekly): or. fur LIVING AGE and Our Y’oung Folks. Address as above. Tlie Cause and Cure or C sumption. The primary cartso of Consmnption la denawaVv^- of tho digestive organs. This derangement pf-tnec deficient nutrition and assimilation. By art. I mean that process by which tha nutriraenc u< food is converted iulo blood, and thence into the of tho body. Persons with digestions thus iiqgisAnHt liaving tho slightest predisposition to imltuoqftrydis case, or if they take cold, will ho very liable tv\havo Consumption of the Lungs In some of its forma? v..r .1 hold Uiat it will bo Impossible to to euro any a*.: -w .>f Consumption without first restoring a good di,itloa and. healthy assimilation. Tho very, .fjwt thing to be done Is to cleanse tho stomach andbOwcl*' from all diseased mucus and slirao which are c’’- those organs so that they cannot perform tions, and then rouse up and restore the il.cr to healthy action- For this purpose, tho surest and best remedy la Schcnck’s Mandrake Pills- These pills cle- the stomach and bo.wels of all dead and morbid slime that is causing disease and decay in tho whole system They will clear out tho liver of all diseased bile that has ccujnnlaieil there, and rouse it up to a new and healthy action, by which natural and healthy hilQ 13 secreted. The stomach, bowels, and liver are thns cleansed by. the use of Kchcnck’s Mandrake Pills; hut there re* mains in tho stomach an excess of acid, tho organ is torpid, and the appetite poor. In tUd hSWels. the lac teals aro weak, ami requiring strength and support. It is in a condition like this that Schenck’s Seaweed Touic proves to be tho most valuable remedv ever dis! covered. It is alkaline, and its use will neutrallto alt excess of acid, making tho stomach sweet and fresh; It will give permanent tone to tills important organ, and create a good, hearty appetite, and prepare the system for tho first process of a good digestion, and ultimately make good, healthy, living blood. Af* ter this preparatory treatment.* 1 what remains to cure most cases of consumption Is the free and per-* severing use of Schenck’s pulmonic Syrup. The Pul*- monlc Symp nourishes tho system, purities the bleed, and is rcnclly absorbed into tho circulation, .-’.a theuco distributed to the diseased lungs. Tlioctf'iS ripens all morbid matters, whether in the form of abscesses ortuborclcs, and then assists nature to ox* pel all the diseased matter in tho form of free pcctoratlon, when once it ripens. It is then, by great healing and purifying properties of Schcnck*a'‘ Pulmonic Syrup, that all ulcers and cavities arc healed up sound, and my patient la cured. Tho essential thingro oo dona in curing Consump tion Is to get up a good appetite and a good digestion, so that the bony will grow in fiesb and get strong*. I' a person has diseased lunga, a cavity or abscesjrtUera. the FKvity cantfot heal, tho matter cannot ripen, so long as tho system is below par. What is necessary to cure is a new order of things, a good appetite, a geo' nutrition, thebodytogrowlnUesliandgutfat; then turc is helped, tho cavities will heat tho ma*. ripen and be thrown off in large quantities, and tb person regain health and strength. ThUls tw and only plan to cure Consumption, and If a* t >n is very bad, if the lungs »T0 not entirely destroyed, el even if one lung la entirely pone, if there is cum**’, vj. taliiy.left In the other to up, thoro Is hope. I have seen many persona cured, with paly oart sound lung, live and enjov life toagoofl old is what Schcnrk’s medicines will dotocurccouaiu. tlon. They will clean out tho stomach, sweeten strengthen it. got up a good digestion, and givani-. the assistance she needs to clear the system of all the disease that is in the longs, whatever the tom maybe. It is important that, while using “fechenck'a med icines, care should be exercised not to take co!d:-kseft In doors in cool and damp weather; avoid and take out door exercise only in a genial and warm sunshine. Josetii Moore, Jb, I wish it distinctly understood that when I recom mend a patient to bo careful in legavil to taking cot., while using my medicines, Ido so ftuva special reasv.: A man ■who has hut partially recovered from the effect* of a bad cold is far more liable to a ndap.lo than. one whobasbeen entirely cured, anti if is precisely the,, same in resard to consumption. So long as the lungs nre not perfectly healed. Just so lung is there imminent danger of a full return of the disease. St oca it is that I so strenuously caution pulmonary patients .-unuost exposing themselves to an atmospnaro that ts not genial and pleasant. Confirmed consumptives’ lungs are a mass of sores, which tho change of atmosphere will inflame. Th-- prand secret of my success with my medicines c;-:i •sists in my ability to subdue Inflammation instead o£ provoking it, as many of the faculty do. An inflame; lung, cannot with safety, to the patient be exposed t** Ibe biting blasts of winter or the chilling winds spring or autumn. Itahmud bo carefully shir* from all irritating iutluences. Tho utmost cr;/. should be observed In every partbular. as without a cure under almost any circumstances Is an imr bllitv. Tho person shonld bo kept on a wholesome and tritiou* diet- and all tho medicines continued until body has restored to it the natural quantity of £c and strength. 1 was myself cured by this treament of the wqr, kind of consumption, and have lived to get fat iu.- hearty these many years, with one lung mostly gov I have cured thousands since, and very many Uvr been cured by tills treatment whom I have never scan. About the Ist of January I expect to take po.Soe-ortffV ol my new building at tho northeast comer of airl and Arch-sts., where I shall bo pleased to give advice to all who may require it. Pull directions accompany an my remedies, so t jeat a Seraou In any part of the world can bo readily core., y a strict observance 3f. Ik, Piillaitelphtx Price of Pulmonic Svntn and Seawenl Tonic. ?i-'. per bottle or *7.50 per hail dozen, ilaadrako Pills, .-t cents per box. For sale by Druggists In tho Northwest generally. Batchelor’s Hair Dye. Thlssnporb hair dye is thn best la tho world—i. Iy harmless, rf liable and no meat; no riuieulous tints or genulce Wm. A Batchelor’s hair dyo prpfi:. atelya splendid bh*ck or natural bre.ra, hair clean, sott, beautiful; docs not contain of lead, or any injurious compound. Sold gists. Factorv. Ifi Bond at.. N»w York. Cristadoro’s Hair Oyth Let themleave tho field: there to no lonir •ing for other and Inferior Hair Dyeasluce c::.-. famous preparation was introduced. It .to u-»t» onlv dye used by ladies or gentlemen of dtscmanwc Nothing was over asked for it but trial and com:-. son, anti tho result has expectations of its inventor. feold everywhere. Mh nfactory. 63 INBSASt OCEAN STEAITISmi^V Carrying: tte Halls between Enrops arid America* Steam twice a week between ffew York and Liverpool Qaeens town, Londonderry, Glasgow, a,nd Scandinavian, German, and other Ecropean Ports, Throngh Tickets b«‘twceiiaU Vie principal cities'.- Ireland, and tSe Continual CIS c BRO WIT, m \V