WASHINGTON. "The Visit of the Grand Date Alexis. History of Our Intimacy with Russia. Our Ministers to St. Peters burgh. Tin in TJtali. From Oar Own Correspondent. Washington, Nov. 23. Alexis has seen onr President. Alexis is a -fine-looking youugman, of the largo stature usual to members of the house of Romanoff*, maintained without decay up to the present time. His reception has been warm, respect ful, and it has been well handled by those having it iu charge. He came through to "Washington from New York more rapidly than it has been the good fortune of any body to travel over that slow series of roads, and his train was, perhaps, the handsomest that we have yet exhibited in the country. After the great reception in New York, it was a tame affair here. A few people gaped -on at the little railway-station, and, without detention, he took a carriage aud drove to the house of Catacazy, the Minister. This is ■a roomy, rough-cast house, opposite Franklin square, which is full of green trees and of grass-plats. His rooms are iu the second story, and the whole house was made ad junct to tbe uses of himself and suite; the latter were bedded at the Arlington Hotel. W HO MADE THE RUSSIAN ALLIANCE? An article in the New York Nation on Thomas Jefferson, two weeks ago, alleged that not one measure of statesmanship of a lasting character could bo ascribed to him. If it was statesmanship to have first project ed diplomatic relations withßussin at a time when the Senate refused to concur, and thus •to have prepared the way foramoralalliauco between approximating powers which has strengthened every year, Jefferson projected at least one measure of good polity. Amongst .Jefferson’s last acts was a message to the Senate establishing a Russian Mission, and nominating for.St. Pcterslmrgn Mr. Short.who had previously been our Minister to Holland and to Spain. So well satisfied was the President tint his proposition was timely smd wis» that he sent Mr. Short a commission before the Senate had acted upon tho matter. That body, however, rcjfcted both the nomination of Short aud ol .lohn Quincy Adams. In the first year of Madison’s administration, Adams took his place at tbe Court of the Czar, where he had resided, at the age of 15, as aprivatesccrctsiry. lIUfJXESS RELATIONS BEGUN. We soon had occasion to use the services ■of the Russian Government, when, iu 1812, its Aaihassai I '>r at Washington, Daschoff, propojed Russian mediation, to close up our unprintable war with England; and ho ob tained from the British Admiral a cartel per mitting Bayard and Gallatin to pass through the English fleet and he safe from capture. While these missionaries were going out, the Boston Federalists were holding a big din ner to celebrate the Russian victories over Napoleoh. AMERICAN MINISTE fe TO RUSSIA. A list of the American Eavoya and Minis ters Plenipotentiary to Russia will hear in spection. One of tiie first was the illustrious ■William Pinckney, who had spent eight con tinuous vears in Europe early in life. He proceeded to Russia hy way of Naples, hav ing an errand to do for the State Depart ment with the latter kingdom. George W. •Campbell was sent out hy Monroe, in ISIS; he was one of the first native-horn Tennes seeans. and had been a Senator and a Secre tary of the Treasury. Henry Middleton, of South Carolina, went out in IS3O, and served with efficiency perhaps a longer term than -anybody else; he died at Charleston ip. IS4O, .James A. Bayard declined the Mission atone time. William Wilkins, Tyler's Secretary of War, a Pennsylvanian and ex-Senator, got it in I6*ri. John Randolph made himself foolish tiers in Jackson's term. Ralph J. •lu(*Cisoli, of Connecticut, had the place in 1?-5U. Mahlon Dickinson, of New Jersey, was named in li>34. In IS4O, Churchill C. Oam breling was nominated hyVaußureu. He was a native.of North Carolina, who moved to New York early in life, served with great distinction in Congress, and afterward went into business with John Jacob Aston be was abroad when he received his appointment; ho diod late as ISUii. George M. Dallas went out in IS;7—also a Van Buren appoint ment: ho had been, in ISIS, Gallatin's sec- TCta." v 111 Russia. and was son of the Sec retary ox Treasury. Charles S. Todd, an ■apparently Oo?r n F® ,TF a s made Minis ter to Russia in I>l x Ihckeus,of South Carolina, afterward k nrpiumeut reocl, was one of Buchanan’s Minist? ls James •Bu chanan served at St. Petershnrud two years, in Jackson's administration. Neil Brown had the place in ISoO. In 184S Arthur P. Bag ley; a native of Virginia, hat an Alabamian by citizenship, and a man of note, served well in Russia. In IStJO John Appleton, of Portland. Maine, who had been connected with the State Department for many years, and had served with Buchanan in London, and practised law with Justice Nathan Clif ford, now of the Supreme Court, and had de clined to be the editor of the Washington Union, —that hone of contention between Bn chauan and Forney,—closed up the list of Democratic Ministers at St. Pctersbnrgb. Since that time wo have had Cassius M. Clay, a very effective Minister, and loupjit the post: Simon Cameron; and, final ly, Andrew G. Curtin. Amongst the promi nent Secretaries of Legation in Russia have been John E. Bacon; Henry Bergh, the fnend of the animals; Anthony Butler; John R. Clay, who served about thirteen years: Jeremiah Curtin, who exhibted great activity in our interests during the rebellion; Theodore S. Fay, William R. King, John Lothrop Mot ley. Stephen K. Stanton, Beaufort T. Watts, rsmd Bayard Taylor. On the whole, we have no reason to be ashamed of our representa tives in that cold northern capital. Our Ministers generally mope at St, Petersburg!!, and dislike to live there: but, after return ing home, they generally recall the time passed in that country as rationally and profitably spent. Among our Consuls to Russia, Eugene Schuyler ha* done a good work in translating the novels of Turymieff, and making us ac quainted with the new literature of our friends. NOTES ON IUTSSIA. One lr*\dred and lifty years before Ameri ca was discovered by Columbus, the German ancestry of tbe present reigning dynasty of Russia emigrated from rrusaia to Moscow. Contemporary with tho establishment of .loh'n Robinson’s English Puritan Church in Holland. Russia became a nation under the fermentation of a national party, and the house of Romanoff famished a sov ereign to Russia in 1013. Almost simultaneous with the landing of William of Orange in England, Peter the Great got upon tue Russian throne. Our na tional relations with Russia commence in Hie reign of Catherine the Second, whose sway continued during tho whole pwiodol our colonial quarrels with England, and down to the close of Washington's adminis tration, —in all, thirty-four years. During onr struggle for independence, Russia ap peared among the great powers as an arbitra tor bctwfcen Great .Britain and the revolted colonies. Thenceforward up to about tho year 1x25, Russia and the United Stales de veloped quietlj’,—the former power display ing its prowess in the great series of wars which were required to put down Napoleon, while wc escaped horn that long broil with a few scotches. OUi: RAILWAY nru.DKRS. In lb2ii, Russia- cutered into the first busi -iiess relations with us, iu connection with the new Baltimore Ohio Railroad.—the .first of the great trunk-lines projected be tween tho Atlantic and tho 'West. Tho Rus sian Minister at Washington—Baron Kru dencr —took a ride in a railway car between Baltimore and the Relay House, about the year 1830, aud, in his letter of thanks to the President of the road, ho said: “I do not doubt but that His Russian Majesty will find the documents relating to tho origin and .progress of this road, as well as the ingen jou£ly-improved principle oh which your '.railroad-cars are constructed, deserving of ••:■^«selltion. 5, Soon afterward, in the spring of IKX>, a Russian delegation, headed by Cap tain Avinort, of the Russian navy, reviewed tho new road; aud a thirl delegation, appointed directly from the Court, took back To Russia Ross Winans. At that time Philip E. Thomas, of Baltimore, observed to Baron Rrudeuer that, before many years, a railroad vwmid be •constructed between Baltic and tho Black Seas. "W iuans, Joseph Harrison, aud others, obtained a foothold in Russia nearly forty years ago. aud laid the foundations of that commercial relationship which circum stances have conspired to make also a rela tionship of sentiment and sympathy. There are. iu fact, no real reasons why wo should be junketing with a government so very distant and so very different; but in Jove there .is no science; nations fall into frenzy and embrace before they know each other well. Perhaps cur mutual animosities have drawn us to -I'cthcr. At tho breaking out of the Crimean war, the British Government undertook to open recruiting stations on our soil, and our ship-merchants retorted hy seeking to sup ply the armv of Nicholas with materials to fight the allies. Tho war of the rebellion, however, brought into play all tho energies of our sympathy; aud the great, vague em pire on the border of Asia, contrary to the behavior of those nearer countries iu Europe, our natural neighbors, held out its distant hands and hoped for ns, and wo knew it. Lillie things, with States as with men, make all the difference between love and acquaint anceship. A paragraph in a newspaper-let ter, saying that when an American ship entered the Dardanelles and pass ed a Russian frigate, the masts and the yards were manned and the howeice resound ed, to the disgust of French, English, ami Turk,—this alone is a lilament to connect races. Happy coincidences, also, come about to connect us; as, for example, the apparent congruity of the action of the northern part of the United States and the Imperial Government ©f Russia in manumit ting slaves and serfs. Perhaps many of these happy fortuities would not stand the test of investigation but then' have entered into the traditions of the Great Republic and the Great Empire there they continue and, until grave reasons for close analysis prevail, our two States are popular allies. RUSSIA COMPARATIVELY. The entire population of Russia, including all its Asiatic possessions, is just about twice that of the united States. Russia in Europe which is, to all intents, real Russia, is about as wide as from Portland, Me., to Laramie. Wyoming, and longer than from the tip of Honda to the tip of Maine. This grand di vision of the Russian Empire contains sixty eight millions of subjects. St. Petersburg*! lias about tbo population of Philadelphia Moscow that of Brooklyn Odessa scarcely more than Cleveland. Buffalo, or Newark. The chief interior and coastwise towns, how ever. differ little in importance from those of the United States. There are no topograph ical resemblances, to speak of, between our country and Russia; its metropolis is as deeply inland iu Europe as Chi cago in America, ami its railroad system seeks only to connect the capital with more civilized Europe, and with tbo ports of tbo Black and Caspian Seas. _ Under tbo despot ic conditions of tbe Empire, individual gen ius is asserting itself, if not in the winged freedom of newspapers or public debate, in large material productions, and in a litera ture far from despicable. The Russians are inland Japanese, watching Europe and tbo world to see what is worthy of imitating. Their inauufacturesjshowcd well iu the Paris Exhibition; jlheir power iu war showed ill in thenctious of the Crimea; it was well proven there that the Great Snow-Gi ant was not the match for' Western Europe that it had seemed to ho for France In the campaign of 3834. OX TIN* IX AMERICA. The supposed tin-discovery near Ogden. Utah, is probably not bo much of u fraud as was hastily alleged. I visited one of these newly-discovered mines three weeks ago. The route to it led up a gulch, or canon, iu places very narrow, and we had to walk up the toilsome ascent, in some places through a running stream of cold water. This canon had once ucen a Mormon bridle-path. After walking about three miles, wo came out on an open slope, where wo had a superb view of Salt Lake, and of many towns in tho Valley. Tho ledge of tin. as supposed, was nearly as thick as an ordinary dwelling house, and it appeared to run up from veather conies on there is every reason to believe that it will be still worse. The most stringent sanitary regulations are in force, yet the contagion is iu the air, and all that man can do (except to vaccinate) in the way of sanitary precaution seems a waste of time, for the disease has a foothold, and the har vest of death will bo reaped. Let it be borne iu mind that the scourge is not confined to the poorer classes. Some of the richest families in Philadelphia are afiiictcd, and have supplied victims to the loathsome disease since it appeared iu Juno last. The small-pox hospital is situated outside of the city. It is overcrowded, aud touts have been erected on the premises for the reception of patients. It is estimated on competent autority that there aro no loss than five thousand people now suffering from small-pox within the city. There are of course many whose names are not report ed, although the law in this respect is very stringent. The number of deaths during the past week has been 350. New cases reported iu the last twenty-four hours, 02, The Board of Health met in session on the I2th of October last, aud published the fol lowing circular: Health office, Philadelphia, Oct. 12.1871. At a meeting of the Hoard of Health, held this day, the following directions of the course to be adopted by the puollc to diminish the spread of emull-pos, aud also of proper treatment of per sons who may ho attacked with the dis ease, were unanimously adopted, and ordered to be printed for public use: Vaccination and revaeeination -and thorough isolation of those sick with small-pox or vario loid, are the principal and most important means to bo adopted to diminish the spread of this loathsome disease. The deaths here arc among those unprotected hy vaecinnation. It is esti mated that iu Gi eat Britain 80,000 lives aro saved annually by vaccination; yet 5,000 persons die annually there from its neglect. If the vaccination scars are Insullioicnt in quality or quantity, revaeeination is necessary. This must bo determined by u physician. Every small-pox patient should bo strictly se cluded at homo or in hospital during tho whole progress of tho disease, as well as during conva lescence from it, and until all power of infecting others is past. Nurses should always ho selected from those who are themselves protected from small-pox. cither hy having had the disease, or by having been thoroughly vaccinated. RULES FOR NURSING SMALL-POX PATIENTS. Have tbo patient placed in one of the upper rooms of tho house, the farthest removed from the rest of tho family, where is to be had tho best ventilation and isolation. Keep the room con stantly well aired. Remove all carpets aud wool len goods, and all unnecessary furniture. Change the clothing of tho patient as often as needful, but do not curry it while dry tbrongh the hquse, but first place it at tho bed side iu a bucket of scalding water before re moval from the room. Boiling is the surest way of disinfecting nil contaminated clothing. If in fected clothing cannot bo washed at once, let it be sc-t to souk in water, to which may bo added a saturated solution of permanganate of potassa or of chloride of lime about a tablespoonful to the gallon. Small-pox is said to be most contagious during convalescence, therefore strictly observe that the patient does not mingle with the family until all the scabs arc entirely oil', ami only after a thor ough purification by washing and entire change of clothing. After the patient is well, or leaves tho room, let it bo purified by tho use of disinfectants, by white-washing, aud by scrubbing the paint and floor with soap, soda and water, and let such rooms or apart ments bewell aired before being again occupied. In regard to food and medicine, always rely on the advice of a physician, who should bo sent for as early us possible. The city provides for gratuitous vaccina tion, having appointed eleven physicians, whoso duty it ia to vaccinate free all appli cants who cannot afford to pay. ALEXIS, The Grand Dakc at Church From tlie New York HcraW, Nov. 27. Before 0 o’clock a curious crowd had begun to gather in Second avenue,in the vicinity of No. 051, the Russo-Grcek church. Byhalf- Sast 9 a. m, the crowd numbered a few hun retls, and at twenty minutes past 30 the streets and sidewalks from Fiftieth to Fifty first street were thick with people of all ages and both sexes. It required the united and steady efforts of Captain Gunner and several of Ins men to keep a passage clear in front of the house for the entrance of the imperial party. The windows and stoops or the houses on the east side of the avenue were swarming with human beings, ana at twenty minutes past 10 a. m., as the imperial carriages drove up, a cry was raised Hero ho is! Hero he is!’’ and cheers and applause followed. Tho service had been designed for 10 o'clock, but the Grand Duke was a little late in arriving at the cl urch. He was ac companied by Admiral Possict, Captain Schavrolf, Consul General Bodisco, and Vico Consul JScbultzo, and a few officers of lessor note from the fleet. There was in all about sixteen persons, including Mrs. Bjerring, the wife of tho officiating clergyman, and another lady. During tho performance of the entire service tho distinguished party stood up, the Grand Duke having a position to tho right of tho outer altar rail, within which stood the choir, who had volunteered from the Svet lana for this occasion. The reader must understand that this Greek church consists of the parlors of a private house, and only a part of tho front parlor is allotted to the congregation. A space of about live feet by eighteen is separated from the congregation, also from tho altar proper or tho holy place. Within this space the choir stood on tho right, while the officiating priest, during a part of the service, occupied a desk on the left. A richly carved screen, with beautiful 13* gilded swinging doors, divides this space again from the holy place whereon rests the chalice, tho crucifix, and the implements of service. During the consecration of the Eu charistic implements these doors are closed, but at other times the}* are open, so that tho priest is heard and seen by tho congregation. The chalice was covered with a heavy red satin elofji, richly embroidered and fringed with solid gold, and tho crucifix with which tho priestly blessing was given is of solid gold, about eight inches in length. It was handed to the Prince, who kissed it. Father Bjerring meantime having advanced bc3*oud tho altar rail to perform the service. The oortions ox .Scripture road were taken from Luke xii., 10 to til inclusive, which de scribes the rich man pulling down Ills barns to build greater ones, and God blasting his foolish schemes by demanding his life sud denly. Tho narrative of the cleansing of tho ten lepers, found in Luke xvii., 10 to 19 inclusive, was also read. During the pro gress of tho service, which lasted an hour and a quarter, prayers were offered up five times for tho imperial family of Russia sev erally, by name, and twice for the President of tho United States, tho Governors, and all In authority among us. Prayers were also offered for the Holy Synod of Warsaw, for tho Patriarch of tho Russo-Greck Church, for tho catecumeus aud priests and people of the orthodox Greek Church, and for other special and general objects and blessings and mercies. The litany and Te Dcnm was snug alternately in English by tho priest aud in tho Sclavic tongue by the choir. The English tongue Is used hero be cause it is the one best understood by promiscuous congregations, and tho Sclavic is the language hy which Greek Catholicism was introduced into Russia, aud it is re tained as having a sort of peculiar sacred ness on that account. Toward the close of tho service the priest handed the Grand Duke a small piece of tho consecrated sacramental bread, which ho took away with him. A short season of handshaking and greetings took place at tho close, and Father Bijerring was invited to dine with the Prince in the evening. The Horticultural Education of Women, Tlio Massachusetts State Board of Agricul ture, at its reccut meeting, listened to au address from Mrs. Sarah D, Cheney upon the horticultural education of -women. Here follows a portion of the lecture: The purpose of the lecture, as stated by Mrs. Cheney, was to urge upon the board the importance of providing a means for the ed ucation of women in theoretical and practi cal gardening. This was not a new subject for consideration. In the earlyhistory of the world it is the woman who tills tho ground, while tho man engages in war and anting. Tho heaviest toil is always the woman's until the lirst great step in civiliza tion is taken and man shares her burden. Poetry recognizes the fact, andMdton makes Satan’s lirst step in evil .the separa tion of the mau and woman at their work; it is not enough to say that the hold is open for women iithoy will enter. Their energies are paralyzed by prejudice, custom, aud self-indulgence so that they need to have the way made verv easy for them. }v hat women ask is a fair held, and no favor; that those who hold the gates should open to them. A few great souls can win their 'vay, but the multitude need much as sistance. Even now women do share in out kut on y as is degrading. SJiii JV 1 therefore, he avoided by women of Sri +i» aud In England, in Wpi!2W^ ,usß;ro,nßll engaged in out door labor, but it was rough, illy paid, and open only a portion of the yeKr. This III 11 tol slioultl ba elevated so enter it. All classes need new light and life in this direction, butmore especiaUy those that are highest! Iheellect ol such work will bo a nmtinl benefit; the work will broaden and deepen tho culture, while the culture elevates the work. Mrs. Cheney next spoke of the in fluence of out-door life upon tho physical culture of women. Above all things, she said, such culture is important for mothers. It has come to bo considered generally that the feebler a woman is the more of a woman she must be, and so the effort has been cou stautly to deteriorate the physical condition of women, to make them smaller and weaker. This is directly opposed to tho method of nature, whose tendency is always to seek au equilibrium of the sexes. She balances masculine aud feminine traits hy THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE:: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 187 L tlie transmission of peculiarities to tlie opposite sox. She socks to lessen differ ences, ana the result is that in the finest specimens of physical hftmanity wo find a combination of the host characteristics of the man andt-he ■woman. Art has followed nature, and in the Apollo we mark a femi nine grace, while in the Diana and Minerva we discern a masculine firmness and energy. Only in the Hercules and the Venus, ex treme types of each, do wo see the sexes represented as utterly distinct. Oiir later civilization, on the contrary, has sought to make the widest departure from the original typo, and tlie physical degradation of women has descended not only to the daughters, but to tbo sons as well. In Germany, Switzerland, and France, the women share all the labors of the field, and are harnessed with the ass to the plow, while tho man walks lazily beside them. During the existence of slavery the women of the South know what it was to bear tbo severest toil. The work of agriculture will benefit the health of women by bringing them into contact with vegetable life, which is in itself beneficial. Moreover, it is a field of profitable labor, and in this light is to bo considered as a means of employing tbo surplus of women in Massachusetts, which it unemployed must put her below the level of other States. It is to bo au employment for women of all kinds, and is especially their work because it can be closely connected with tho family life. It is an educational instrument, as illustrating the methods of human life', and as such is of great value to mothers in tho training of their children. THE TICHBORNE CASE. Bateuct or Butcher V* From the New York Times. Tho famous case of Tichborne r/t, Lnsli ington lias been resumed iu Loudon, aud it is tiiouglit will soon bo enlivened by im portant discoveries. Our readers will re member that tho case began May 10, and continued almost from day to day, until July 7. Judge, jury and counsel were by that time so exhausted that an adjournment became indispensable. Loth sides were willing, since each hoped in tho interval to secure conclusive testimony. Public excite ment ran high at the time of tho trial, has abated but little siuce, and is now dt a greater pitch than ever. Tho extraordinary confidence of partisans respecting tho chief matter iu dispute, the point-blank oaths of trustworthy witnesses in confirmation of the alleged Sir Eoger Tichborne’s identity, and the'directly contary oaths ot witnesses against him—the undeniably suspicious cir cumstance that the plaintiff failed to remem ber in tho slightest degreostudies with which tho veritable Koger was known to have been familiar, ami, on the other hand, his minute acquaintance with tho incidents, places and individuals equally familiar tothetruoUogor at the same period, all have invested this «i«*c eelehre with remarkable interest. The belief of many, ami the theory of his antagonists, has been linn that the plaintiff is in fact Arthur Orton, a man once a blither ut tWapning. In truth, nearly all opinions concur that if ho is not Tichborno ho must be Orton. The Baronet or batcher” alterna tive is sustained by plausible circumstances. On the night of Ins arrival in Loudon the claimant -was known to have gone to Wapp ing, and to have corresponded afterward with Orton’s sisters. The awkward conjec ture is supported by other circumstantial evidence. There have been several times when it has seemed that the indoutification of the pJaiutifi’with Orton must bo conclu sively established. But now it is thought his counsel will play a crush ing trump. This is nothing less than the production of the real Orton himself, who. it is predicted, will bo brought forward at the proper moment to overthrow opposition. Yet the adverse lawyers are not unprepared even for this. Suppose an alleged Orton ap pears, why should he be a real Orton There may be difficulty in establishing his identity. If the alleged Tichorno is an imposter, it *is not impossible to conceive of his claims being backed up by another impostor. It is known that agents have been working with great energy in Australia in the interest of both sides in this action, and wc shall doubtless] speedily get decisive accounts of the result. Pending this it may bo useful to give a brief outline of the situation. The case for the claimant is substantially as follows: He is asserted to bo the eldest son of Sir J. F. D. Tichborne,tenth Baronet o£|Tlchborne. The latter was younjgest of three brothers, and the youngest died before him. Ho subse 3uently married in 1827, Roger was born anuary 5,1820. A second son, Alfred, was horn, who married iu ISOI, and died in I#3o. Alfred left a posthumous sou, and it is in his interest that the present suit is defended. Roger, the true older son, had rather eccentric tastes and habits. He fell in love with his cousin, and was refused by her. Then he got drunk and swore to leave home forever. He did go oft’ to South Amer ica, and wandered about there in a reckless fashion, corrcspondingat spasmodic intervals with friends in England. At last, ho made his way to Rio .Janeiro, where, being quite tipsy at tbe time, lie went on board an out ward-bound ship called thcßolla. The Bella went down, as was supposed,with every soul on board. But the claimant says that, who ever else wont down, he did not. Hojallcgcs that he escaped iu a boat, and was picked up by an American vessel which took him to Melbourne. His opponents say this is a sheer fabrication. If it in, what the claim ant knows of thedrownedmauhopersonatos, has been gained and worked up with aston ishing skill. It is true that he could not on the former cross-examination name one book that ho had road with his tutor Cha tillon, and lie knows no more of the Greek and Latin of which the true Roger had ut least a smattering than he does of quadratic equations. But the true Roger when ho went away left a scaled packet with Mr. Gosford the family steward, which was not to be opened unless certain events occurred: and the claimant named the contents of that packet—never having had any chance whatever of access to to it—m detail. Besides this, the affidavits of his moth er, Lady Tichborne, of Mr. Hopkins, the family solicitor, and of two other per sons, all attesting under oath the identity of the claimant with the long-absent Roger, come in for a due share of weight. Those witnesses are dead, but James McCann, Sr„ Roger's servant, when ho was in the carabi neers, Colonel Norbury, commander of the regiment, and a number of other officers, pri vates, and tradesmen, who supplied uni forms, helmets, &c., are alive, and their tes timony is the same as that of the others. To rebut this powerful array of proof—in addi tion to the claimant’s astounding ignorance of various matters with which lie should bo familiar—other witnesses, as positive as those who swear to Ms identity, make oath against it. A BEDE FOB LIFE, A Volins' Lady Caught in a Railroad Cut —Thrilling Scene on the Oregon Cal ifornia Railroad. From Hie Portland (0.) Bulletin, Nov. 10. Yesterday there occurred on the Oregon California-Railroad, between this city and Salem, one of the most thrilling railroad in cidents wo ever heard of. 'When the down train came near one of the stations on tho road it was running at full speed, in order to make up time, as it was a few minutes be hind- The road at this point runs through a cut something more than a* mile in length, ana in entering it tho road makes a curve so that tho engineer cannot sec entirely through it. So. as he thundered along yesterday, he little thought what stirring times were upon him. lie had hardly gotten into the cut be fore he saw a woman riding leisurely through it, and with perfect nouchalonco using tho centre of tho track. She was not more than half way tlirongh tho cut, and barely a quarter of a mile ahead of him. Ho immediately whistled "down breaks,” and then sounded the warning. Tho woman, hearing the peculiar doath 'whistleof tho locomotive, looked over her shoulder and saw the train rushing at her. She did not shriek, nor faint, nor give up all hope, but. like atmo Wcbfoot, her courage rose equal to tho emerge 1103% and without a moment’s hesitation, she commenced swing ing her riding whip from one shouldorof her steed to tho other, thereby urging him to esm his utmost speed. The whip, and, per haps, tho shrieking of tho stcam-whistlc, caused the animal ridden by tho lady to put in its best licks, and ho made about as rapid time as any animal over seen in Oregon; but each instant tho iron horse gained upon tho one composed of blood and muscle. Tho shrieking of the locomotive’s whistle caused tho passengers to look out of tho win dows, and upon their discovering what was the matter the wildest excitement ensued. Several jumped forward and siezed the bell rope, and commenced pulling on it as if they c#uld stop tho train by that means. The brakemen were oxertiugall their strength on the brakes, and tho engineer had ent oil' tho connection, and was doing all that he know to stop the train, while the woman was do ing her level best to make that bit of horse flesh rise to tho speed of a “Holmhold;” but, allin vain; tho locomotive kept keptgainiug on tho horse and its rider, and there was hardly a person on the train who did not ex pect that both tho woman and horse would bo killed. There was perhaps thirty feet intervening between tho cow-catcher and tho horse’s heels, when, fortunately for tho woman, she observed a place which was a little wider than nsnal, and, with a steady rein, she guided tho llceing horse fjrom the track and endeavored to press him against the wall of the cut in order that tho train might pass by without injury. In doing this tho woman was encouraged oy Mr. cam ‘Wiiians, tho conductor, who had run forward and got out on tho locomotive. A few seconds only pass ed by when the liory monster poked his nose Sast tho ramp of tho horse. At Hits moment [r. AVinans throw his whole force against the animal, and held him until the tram stopped, and then a rousing cheer of gratifi cation and joy at tho escape of the woman from a terrible death was given. Hr. Seward ITlahca n mistake. James Brooks writes to the Xow York Ex pm, from China: ‘‘They tell a good story in 1 ckm of Governor Seward, when here— doubtless a lie. but too good a story to be lost for that. The expectations of tlio ex- Govornor were doubtless great when he en tered the great capital of this great empire, with which ho had made a great treaty; and ho therefore indulged in theso great expecta tions of a great welcome. As ho entered tho gates of Pekin, a great funeral procession was coming out, with music, catafalque, Ac., Ac., all as imposing os a grand procession of some great dead man could well bo made. Tho Governor was entering with tho marine band of the Colo rado, mounted on donkeys, as this grand procession was going out. The great living and the great dead thus mot. The Governor, naturally enough, concluded this was in of his grand cniree t and ha rose, in his open Sedan chair, and bowed, and bowed, and then ordered a halt, and got out, and bowed, and bowed again, to the catafalque and tho dead. The Chinese think all foreigners are rather mad, and hence did not marvel over it as much as they might; but when Governor Seward found out what hp had done, the story is, he was more mad than pleased. NEW YOKE. Xbe Official Vote* 1870. 1871. Governor. Sec. or State. Hep. Dem. Hep. Deni. Counties. Wait'd. HofTm. ScrVr. Will’s. Albany 11,7:0 13,310 12,504 13,759 Alleghany 5,410 2,747 5,282 2,400 Broome 5,104 3,893 4,582 3,440 Cattaraugus 5,109 3,742 4,675 3,154 Cayugu. 7,120 ‘4,0il 6,926 4,266 Chautauqua 7,770 4,254 6,415 3,247 Chemung. 3.502 4,082 3,602 3,918 Chenango 5,450 4,082 5,557 3,913 Clinton 3,791 4,420 3,798 3,653 Columbia 5,415 5,663 5,269 5.317 Cortland 3.626 2,212 3.170 1,657 Delaware 5,353 4.447 5,055 4,010 Dutchess 8,442 6.712 7,188 4.726 Brio 13,937 15,371 14,357 13,520 Essex 3,185 2,414 2,876 1,743 Franklin 2,078 2,243 2,776 1,810 Fulton y,064 3,601 3,221 1,912 Gtliceeo 3,701 2,518 3,384 2,152 Greene 3,102 8,759 2,801 3,347 Hamilton 225 457 221 572 Herkimer,. 4,971 4,073 4.896 3,730 Jefferson 7,211 5,704 7,442 6,433 Kings 23,159 36,328 30,300 39,156 Lewis 3,030 2,893 3,017 2,691 Livingston 4,296 3,283 4,299 3,489 Madison 5,545 3,811 5,190 3,275 Monroe 9,995 9.168 9,801 9,107 Montgomery 3,932 4.215 3,832 3,563 New York 34,391 80,668 51,137 83,320 Niagara 4,791 4,322 4,651 3,870 n nclda..., 12.149 main Oneida..., 12,149 10,819 11,596 9,670 Onondaga 11,248 8.G13 y.ass 7.154 Ontario 5,064 4,217 4,789 3,520 Orange 7,870 7.490 7,852 8,090 Orleans 3,607 2,380 3,477 2.247 Oswego 8,079 6,028 7,931 5.731 Otsego 5,924 6,848 5,851 5,754 Putnam 1/230 1,487 1,481 1.457 §ueens 4.403 C,CO3 4,C02 5,213 eusselacr 9.330 11,105 9,C43 9,830 Richmond 1,923 2,799 2,201-2,390 Ifockland 1,497 2,189 1,889 2,101 St. Lawrence 10,000 3.518 8,814 2,870 Saratoga 0,094 r.,i88 G,300 4,192 Schenectady 2,342 2,444 2,450 2,213 Schoharie 2.900 4,530 0,930 4,toi Schuyler 2,505 2,118 2/123 2,000 Seneca 2,cic 3,115 2,492 3,209 Stenhen 7,290 3,522 7,523 0,390 Suflblk 4,234 4,000 3,830 2,838 Sullivan 3,081 3,522 2,50.7 3,018 Tioga 3,878 3,125 3,810 2,098 Tompkins 3,903 3,003 3,503 2.573 Ulster 7,420 8,581 7,907 7,517 Warren.. 2.490 2,424' 2.473 2,079 Washington 5,708 4,249 5,938 3,037 WaynC 5,442 4,243 5,331 3,800 Westchester B,on lo.asi 10,797 B,cio Wyoming 3,384 2,400 3,444 1.901 VatCS 2,747 1.805 2,052 1,784 Total. .3CC,J36 303,533 387,107 308,204 Majority for Hoffman, Democrat, in 1870,33,033. Majority for Scribner, Republican, 1871, 18,903. Total vote for Governor in 1870, 765,908. Total vole for Secretary of State in 1871, 755,311. A BABON IN CANTON. A Romantic History. From the Canton (III.) Register. Mr. Henry Christ, a cigar-maker in the es tablishment of F. H. Curtis, in this city, re ceived a letter from Germany, on 'Friday evening last, cominunicatingthe intelligence that ho was entitled to SIO,OOO in Prussian money, and the title of Baron Herman You Christ. The story connected with Mr. Christ's life is romantic; and wo have suc ceeded in eliciting the following, which will bo of interest to the many friends of this young man, and the readers of the licgisfer: Mr. Henry Christ was bom iu the city of Charlcsdale. one mile from Heching, Hohcu zo]lcu iii the year 1-547. His father was Superintendent of all the woollen and cotton manufactories of the Prince of Hohouzolleu. His mother was a Countess, a sister of Baron Von 'Warner, present Private Secretary to the Prince of Iloheuzollen. Ilis mother died when ho was 10 or 11 years old, and his father married a Baroness, the daughter of Baron Von Fisher. Henry, with two sisters, lived at home until 1861, when no loft on ac count of the abuse and mistreatment of liis stepmother. At that time his father lay sick with dis ease of the brain. Ho bade farewell to his father and sisters, and, in spite of the en treaties of his friends and relatives, ho turned his footsteps toward America. He lauded iu Kew York, in 1884, with S2OO in gold. This he converted into greenbacks— as gold at that time commanded a high pre mium—and started for the city of Pitts burgh, in hopes of finding friends and em ployment. He arrived there, hut after a vain search, a stranger in a strange country, and among strange people, he did not succeed in finding them. lie applied for a situation as clerk or salesman m a mercantile house, and obtained it—as ho had served a shore apprenticeship iu his natir© country in the commercial business. He was also in pos session of a splendid education, having had the benefit of the beat college in Germany, lie was a schoolmate of the sou of the Prince of Hohcnzollen. and the first families of the kingdom. He did not remain iuthis situation long, but concluded to learn a good trade, and be an independent man. Ho applied as an apprentice to a tobacconist, but found that tbo sum paid, apprentices would not board and clothe him, and ho concluded to buy a small stock of tobacco, and make ci gars (he had gained some knowledge of the manufacture of cigars by closely observing the workmen), and peddle them on the streets. In this enterprise, ho succeeded be yond his most sanguine expectations, and soon found that the cigars ho manufactured were very salable, and brought him a very reasonable profit. Mooting a cigar-maker one day,he was persuaded to accompany tho latter to Cincinnati, where ho was assured ho could got a situation as a “jour.” Ho consented, and went to Cincinnati, where ho worked some time at his trade. Hearing a great deal about Chicago, tho Garden City otlhe world, ho abandoned his situation, and sought work in that city. Here ho re mained two years, and made hosts of friends by his gentlemanly deportment, honesty,ami industry. Ho left Chicago iu 1880, and went to work in Peoria, for Charles Xiehaus. In. Peoria, ho met his wife, the eldest daughter of Mr. Peter Wasousic, a cabinetmaker-. Ho was married to her, in September* 1870, and a few weeks afterwards moved fo this cit3 T and was employed by Mr. K. H. Curtin. Mr. C.’s father died about five yc<\rs since, with tbo disease winch attacked him while Henry was at home. Since tho death of Baton You Christ the estate has been iu litigation. The stepmother has endeavored to collect a large amount of money, which she held was duo her for tho education, of Henry, declaring that ho was educated with tho funds which were rightfully hers. Tho question has at last' been settled, and tho widow allowed a child’s portion of SIO,OOO. Henry has two sisters living, the oldest of whom is soon to bo wedded to a young nobleman. His stepmother lost a brother, Baron Von Fisher, in the late Franco-Prus sian war. Kewaskilledatthesicgcof Stras- Inirg, and was a Colonel of a Prussian regi ment. An uncle of Henry’s, a brother of his mother’s, Baron Von Warner, was killed at the siege of Metz. He was also Colonel of a Prussian regiment. Tho letter received by Mr. Christ, last week, was from his guardian, Count Julian Von Mock. Besides tho SIO,OO0 —which is subject to bis order—ho will also receive a largo amount from the sale of tho personal property of his father. He has not yet determined whether ho will return to Prussia or whether ho will close out all interest there and become in fad, as ho is in heart, an American citizen/ GLASS AND PAINTS. Glass Paints. ALSTON, CO., 67, 59Sc 61 WorthDesplaines-st, FINANCIAL. iiifir&si'i Will sell at public auction for account ot FIELD, KING Sc CO., To the highest bidder for cash, on Tuesday, Decem bers, 1571, at 11 o’clock a- m., at tho ottho Thinl National Bank, Chicago. No. 370 Wabashav., forty thousand dollars of tho first mortgage bands of the Chicago, Danylllo Vincennes Railroad Company. JOLIET IRON STEEL CO. By J. H. ‘WRExy, Secretary and Treasury. HONEY TO LOAN on collateral security, by E. JACOBS, 23 Qulncy-st., between State and Dearborn. Office boors, from Bin tbe morning till 4 in tho erenlng. PROPOSALS, Treasury Department OFFICE OF THE LICHT-IIOUSK BOARD, Washington. Nov; 27. isn. Sealed proposals will ho received nt this office until l o’clock p. m., on Monday, tho Bth day of January, 1572, for supplying ninety-one thousand gallons of tho best quality winter-strained, pure Sperm, Colza or Lard oil, for the United-States Light-House Service, according to the specifications bearing date os above, copies of which may bo had on application to tho Light-House Board, to the Light-House Inspector, No. IS Broadway, Now York, the Light-House Inspector at No. I I Pem berton Square, Boston, and tho Light-House Inspector at Detroit, Mich. JOSEPf* HENRY, Chairman Light-House Board. BANKING. B&HS NOTICE. MomemlMgilltt (National No 713. Established 1355.) HAS REMOVED To its centrally located now temporary building on The Crosby Opera House Lot, Washington-st., between Dearborn and Stato-sts., burnt district, a location which it is believed will bo enually convenient for customers in all parts of tho city, by reason of the street car and omnibus lines con tonne from all directions. This institution transacts a regular banilngbualness, buys and sells exchange, makes collections, issues cer tificates of deposits, discounts commercial paper, ad vances on convertible collaterals, aud accepts deposit accounts from business firms, individuals, corpora tions. institutions, banks, and bankers of known good standing, and affords patrons liberal facilities .and legitimate accommodations, but does not solicit inter* est bearing accounts. DIRECTORS AKD OFFICERS. H.W. King, E-P.Pulsl H. IT. Taylor, Albert Keep, A. Cowles, 8. W. Bdwsou, E. IJ. Phillips. 31. Z. Culver. ‘P. B. Westfall, Bacon Wheeler, N. O. Williams, W. H. Perry, n. T. Earned. H. E. EA2IES. President. W. h. FERRY, Vice President, 21. D. BUCHANAN, Cashier. OEO L. OTIS, Asst. Cashier. The Commercial LOAN COMPANY Has purchased, since the great fire, tho stone-front building,-126 ABCHER-AV., junction Twenty-second st., and have resumed business as usual In sold build ing. A first-class fire-proof vault is completed. The patrons of the Bank can deposit valuable papers or articles In said vault without charge. THE COMMERCIAL LOAN CO. will transact a savings as well .as a general Looking business, sell bills of exchange on New York, and the principal cities .of Europe, Tbe Commercial Loan Co. has also secured a twenty years lease of tbenorthwest comer of North Clark and MichJgan-sts. A fire-proof building and vault is now being built on said lot, and we expect to resume our North Side business about the first day of January next. PEED. MEYER, Cashier. TOLMAN WHEELER, President. TRUSTEES—M. D. Buchanan, Conrad Gchrke, Tolman Wheeler, C. Kann, W’m. Knoke, Wm A. Ewing, Bacon Wheeler, C. B. Meyer, Thomas Buchan nan, Jr„ Fred. Moyer. O. Cronkhlte. CHICAGO, NCV. 20,3STL HIT, PHSTffI KM, BANKERS, MASONIC BUILDING, Corner of Daisied and Bandolph-sts., Branch Office, 493 Waiash-av., Transact a reeular banking business same as State or National Bank. Also deal In Government Securities, convert the ’62 s*2os due Dec. f. Draw Cold Bills of Exchange on New York, and Sterling Bills direct on Lon don. Real Estate Loan and Trust Co. SAVINGS BANK. SOUTH SIDE OFFICE, 683 VV abash-av. WEST SIDE OFFICE, 121 WEST WISHISGTON-ST. BENJ. LOMBARD, President S. A. BRIGGS, Vico President EDWARD HAIGHT CO. BANKERS, No, 9 Wall Street, New Tork. FIVE PEB CENT. Interest Allowed on Deposits. Tho business ot onr Ann is the same as any State or National Bank. Individuals or firms banking with us may deposit and draw as they please, the some as with any Bank, xcept that we allow interest on all balances (of five per cent) We buy and sell Bonds, Stocks, Gold, Business pa* f ora, and collect business notes and drafts throughout ho United States, giving prompt returns. BANS NOTICE. The office of the THIRD NATIONAL BANK has been removed to 376 WabasU-av., near HarrLson-st. Brunch office, 26 West Washington-st. J. IRVING PEARCE. President, L. V. PARSONS. Cashier. W. S. SMITH, Assistant Cashier. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. W. W. KIMBALL, 610 Maclaagaaa-av. INVOICE RECEIVED DAILY OF Find Ops. Orders f{?a dealers filled Willi despatch. SEW PI,Vi\OS TO RETT. Pianos toned, re paired, and stored. BOORS, Medical Books. Our stock of Heal id Sorilcal Bools is as complete aa before tlio fire, embracing aU of the new edition* nml many now books. PHYSICIANS who bavo lost their libraries are in vited to purchased us, oar stock being entirely new anti fresh. J The usual discount will be made ou all bills pur chase*! of us. W. B. KEEN, COOKE CO., Medical Booksellers, »Tcn. O and 7 JEait Watbingian-at. LAW BOOKS. Until my new building is completed, I shall con tinue doing business at my residence. Haring no rent to pay, and buying exclusively for cash as before the fire, I can and do sell lower than any house East or West, and give special rates to my customers who suffered by the fire. E. B. MYERS, Law Bookseller, 1022 Wabnab-av. CLOTHING. MAM MIL. We have just opened a splendid line of MEN’S OVERCOATS CHILD REN’S SUITS. 122 W. Madison-st. RAILS. COLLIERY RAILS. 12 Founds to the Yard, Notched and Sawed Ends—Extra Quality. INQUIRE OF Hall, Kimbark Co., Mlchigau-nr-, near Randolpli-st. SOAPS. Oriental Soap Works. (Established since the fire. Canacitv 105,000 pounds per week.) E. JENNINGS CO., Manufacturers of fine Staple and Fancy Soaps. Man* ufactmy, 420 West Randolph-st.: Office. No. yj South Caunl-sr. WILLIAM LEITCU, Agent. JOHN COMPTON. Superintendent. SCAJuES. FAIRBANKS' STANDARD /P SCAIdSS, Of All Sizes. Fairbanks, Greenleaf Co, SSBpSSfcg? U SOUTH OASAL-ST. H AWCiii “The First in the Field.” THE HOME OF Columbus, Ohio. Cash Capital, $500,000.00 Cash assets, Not. 1, 1871 995,479.12 liabilities, includ ing Chicago losses, 353,479.12 Was the first Company to notify policy holders In Chicago that claims would be paid in Ml. The losses of the Company by the Chicago fire are being adjusted and paid as rapidly as possible. Business solicited at fair rates. Adjusting Office for Chicago, No. 17 Eldridge-court Agents of the Company visiting the eity are requested to call. JACOB PEETBEY, Gen’l Agent. Geo. Clarke Co., LOCAL AGENTS, 10 Eldridge-court. /ETNA Insurance Company, OF HARTFORD, CONN. Organised Jl. Mt. 1819. Losses paid In fifty-two years Over s29,ooo,ooo—Exclusive of Late Chicago Losses. Cash Capital, $3,000,000, With an ample re-insurance fund after Paying Chicago Losses. Assets Over $4,500,000! This well-known and reliable Com pany, which has stood the tests of over half a century, will continue Issu ing NEW POLICIES and RENEWING OLD ONES at current rates. coora k pasco, Ain, Office, 585 Wabasb-aT., 43 South Canol-it., Adjusting: Office: 750 Wabash-av*, Up to Saturday, November 18, 1871,803 claims had been paid, amounting to $1,500,- 670.62. Underwriters’ Agency, 03? NEW YOBS, Cash Assets, Alter paying Chicago Loises, $3,000,000. We are paying losses In foil as fast as ad luted, by Sight Drafts on ffev Torfe. ADJUSTING OFFICE, 60 South Canal-st., SECOND FLOOD. FIRE INSURANCE Blsbi written on Dvcninga and otlicr prop erty, at (be total Office!, 62 South Canal-st., fSd Hoar, and 475 Wabash-av. OGDEN, SHELDON k SUB, AGENTS. TO THE HOHI Of POMES Suspended Insurance Companies. Tlic underalgned.a committee appointed atamceting of policy-holders in suspended companies in Chicago and elsewhere, have, hy direction of such meeting, undertaken to ascertain, as nearly as possible, the ex tent *f the losses of each company, the value of its assets, and tocompclthc immediate conversion of such assets into money, and the application of it upon the policies, either by the action of the company, or of the bankrupt or other courts. To that end, every policy holder in such companies Is requested to present his policy, and a statement of the time when he mode proofs of loss, to the undersigned, on the southeast corner of Monroe-st. and Fifthav., an the 27th of No vember and thereafter, where some person on behalf of the committee will be present to register and re ceipt for the policy. Ho will be expected to sign a powerof-attwiey, furnished by the committee, author izing the adjustment of hts loss, and any action on the part of the committee, which it may deem for the gen eral interest of the policy-holders. United and general action is necessary to enable the company to act effectively, and it Is essential. In oredr tojprocuro speedy collection, lhat.tho policies bo fur nished immediately. GEORGE ARHOUR. C. P. KELLOGG. NATHAN HEARS. C. B. FARWELL. W. O. HIBBARD. POTTER PALHEB. H. G. POWERS. D. A. JONBS. L. Z. LETTER. C. if. HENDERSON. To the Policy Holders nil liitE EHK It is indispensable that imme diate action be taken in order to preserve the interests of policy holders. The committee can take no steps until the policies with porfer to act, arc tiled with it. All who intend to be repre sented must bring policies at once to the committee at south east corner Fifth-av. and itlon roc-st. By order of the COMMITTEE. NOTICE. WlMSffliCß GUM OF NEW YORK. Meeting of Policy-Holders. Holders of policies issued from tho Chicago Agency, for above named Company, aro requested to meet at our office, 379 Waba«h-av.,at4 o’clock p. m., on Sator day, December 2,1=71. To Policy Holders ffififfl IKfflSli MPJHIB. Your committee are Informed that several insurance companies, now In bankruptcy, are sending blank proofs of claims to their creditors, with blank powers of attorney to bo used by tho companies in the elec tion ol assignees in bankruptcy. For obvious reasons your committee prefer to so- Icctsnch assignors, and therefore request all parties who may bo so addressed, to execute such powers of attorney to your committee, and not to tho insurance companies. Blanks will be furnished at the office of tho committee, Sonllieast Corner Monroe-st. anil Fifih-av., On WEDNESDAY, Not. 29, and thereafter. Bv order of tho COMMITTEE. Globe Ins. Company, OF CHICAGO. ADJUSTING OFFICE, ROOM 1, NO. 63 CANAL-ST. H. F. WALKER, President. EEPIIIC iSiICS C 9. 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Chicago Tribune, tor the year LS72, will consistof first-class original and selected mat* ter, embracing tho latest news by telegraph and mol], down to the hour of going to press, edi torials, correspondence, reports of the pro ceedings of Congress and of the Legislature* of the Western States, and of important pablio meetings and political speeches, .financial] and commercial Intelligence, reports of tho grain, provision, Inmber, drygoods, cattle, and gen eral markets, notices of new pnblleatlons, and other literary and miscellaneous Intelligence* It will also contain wcekly.snmmarlos of information concerning the-work of EEBXTELDIN’G CHICAGO, And restoring its former greatness after Its late dc« vastation by fire. The year 1372, it will be remembered, is a PRESIDENTIAL TEAT?., And tho campaign will, in all probability, be as excit ing as any that has transpired since the outbreak of the late war. tue Chicago Tribune will uphold and defend the principles of the Republican party with its accustomed vigor nrni earnestness. Our platform consists of: Equal and exact justice,'at'lhe ballot-box and before the law, to all men, without distinction of race or color. Amnesty for all 'political .offences connected with the rebellion* A tariff for public revenue only. 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HOTELS. St. James Hotel, LOCATED Corner Clark and Folk-sts. Containing ISO Booms. The Largest and Best Furnished Hotel in the West. H. 1. LOEISG, Late Saticson Home, WILLIS HOWE, Late St. James Hotel, Will be pleased to see their old Mends. Ask blisses lor the NEW ST. JAITE3. Clifton House, NORTHWEST CORNER OF WAiIiTOI ME HMSTEMTS. W. A. JENKINS, Proprietor. H. F. BTTTREDGE, RIVERSIDE HOTEL Accommodations for the fall and winter at very mod* crate prices. Inquire at Bivcrsld Hotel, at at the of* floe of the Riverside Imj rovenest Company* lyne wat?a«ift.av* REMOVAL. ALLEN 9AGKE7 rAve REMOVED TO THEIR NEW STORE, Cor. State and Monroe* JLOST. LOST AT THE ME. One'trunk, marked “BROSS, IT. S. A.”; one packing trunk, marked “Bross,” with woollen clotbing, women’s; one fine pic ture, landscape, with cattle, horses, etc., by J. F. Herring, name on the picture; one baggy, with single harness, horse blan ket, etc.; one bundle of women’s clothing, lace fan marked J. L. 8., and other articles. Whoever wiU leave informa tion with the Cashier of the Trib une, 15 South Canal-st., or drop a line, with place where they or any of them can be fonud, toWX. BROSS, Tribune office, or at No. 6 Sixteenth-st., shall he libcraUy rewarded. NEW PUBLICATIONS. VICK’S FLORAL GU3DE FOR 1 573. Over 100 pages—printed in two colors, on superb Tinted Paper. Pour Hundred Engrav ings of Flowers, Plants, and Vegetables, with Descriptions, and two Colored Plates. Direc tions plans for making Walks, Dawns, Gardens, &c. The handsomest and best Floral Guide in the World. All for 10 cents, to those who think of baying Seeds. Not quarter of tho cost. 200,000 sold in 1871, Address JADQSS VICK, Rochester, N. Y, 3 -50 ..20.00 50.00 .5 c.OO 50.00 12.50