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J VOL XLI1. ^ IX.SSBORO, vS. LDXLSDAa, ?*L XL ISiSt>. N0.4?* THE SXO'tY-CAPPK!) i!!uCKIKS.M j dh'RE^ioxs <>r \ Tiiii" i uiKivmi: STATK Or < 05.;>i? Scene* Aloes the K<?st?e i>y Kai!?T!ic Wonderful City of Denver?The i"u(?< *<* of a (.;rc;it j Commonweal:!). CDenver Letter in P.>u:&ii.y"> !) r . ) Those wh^ ride in sleeping ears in the ' East are qaite iij?t to lvmain i:i tiu ii-j bench to turn, snooze, think, plan amij rest as on they roll. Xot so here. Hun- j rise, and ail were up. The cars of the i Burlington Route w ere so well LuUn i - > ? i with passengers mat every oer.u occupied, the great majority of passen- j gers in the sleepers being persons from j the East -who had never been to Denver, i never seen its rocky mountains. Near- i ing their destination, they were like tliu-j early bird. It is now six o'clock. In two hours ! we will be in Denver. The l?erths li:i\-> J all been made U2> for the duv. the cars j - dusted out and people are on the <[<h j vive. We are running southwest. L'e-1 hind us is the lieafi ox the liepublicun I valley and the millions of acres of choice j Nebraska corn land. We are on top of! the divide, as a fly would be on top of a j barrel that lay upon the ground. Miles j of unfenced country sire to l>e seen, with j here and there a little house, home of a homesteader or headquarters of a ranch- j man or cattle raiser whose cattle are to j be seen grazing on the wide expanse of j plains here being run over. HPIm-v lwnl/nnora ;>vo STPrlll. Dili 11 tod , J- l?\J V KS - 7 ^ . red and snug. Depots are so far apart that several others can be built between tliem in time! The appearance is that of a very ntw country, yet it is older in fact than is the East, as first of all from the vasty deep rose the backbone of the continent, st 'l to the west of us. A lady screams: iO! .Set-!'' She points to the west and there, sure enough, are to be seen the snow-capped mountain peaks of the grand old mountains. In a little while the cars have sped on so that we see the main range, extending south from Cheyenne or near there, for hundreds of miles. They rise as a great wall might rise along the sea shore, the plains to the east being under the evening shadows of the mountains that rise in the west. Now we sec down into the valley o! the South Platte. Many school teachers insist that Denver is a city en the North Platte. Such is not the c^so. Denver is on the waters of the South Platte, about 140 miles from where it heads. The river is not large, except after a freshet. It runs through a pleasant, wide valley that at Denver is fourteen miles east from the foot hills and that at Greely is about forty miles east. Along here is the choice agricultural lands of the State, taking in the county west from Denver to Golden in a gorge of the mountains, Boulder, Longmont, Fort Collins and Greely, in the respective counties of Jefi'erson, Boulder, Larimer and Weld. Longmont being in Boulder county, one of the iinest in the State. West of these counties, west from ~~ ' i - J- - ? 4 Denver, tiie county-seax ox A?ip;u:w county, are the Bocky Mountains, rising as an abrnpf granite Avail to tlie height of a mile, or 8,000 feet above the plains. From north to south we see them from the cars, a range of fully two hundred mile. Denver is about 0,000 feet above sea level. "We are a full mile near the stars than are those who live in Xew York. The mountains rise up into the clouds that rest upon their snowy peaks, from 6,000 to S,0U0 feet above the plains. The air is light, so clear, so. rarified that no new corner^ can judge distance. - To the northwest we see a very high peak, standing like a white-headed Long -TWhn TWntworth. of Chicago, higher than his fellows. That is Long's Peak. It is named in honor of Lieut. Long, an explorer who was a long time in getting to the top of it, there to float the American fiag. WHITE ABOVE THE GRAY AND GSEEX. Snow is white and deep on the tops and sides of the mountains, while the plains below are green with growing grains and grasses. Away along to the south rise the snow-capped Rockies, like a great cross-cut saw, its teeth in air. It is seventy miles from where we are this morning in the ears, west to the top of Long's Peak, yet people in the cars estimate the distance at fifteen to twenty miles. There are big mountains and little mountains all stuck in together like - - 1 clotnes-pms in a snow neap. ;iWUi seventy-five miles south from Long's Peak, and sixty miles due west from Denver, its snow-white top piercing a gray, snow-made cloud that is beating up to fall and to whiten anew, rises Gray's Peak, the top of which is 14,441 feet above the level of the sea. It is the mountain under which the company of which the editor and writer hereof is president is driving a tunnel at the altitude of 10,000 feet above sea level, and which tunnel will be five miles long. Welcome, old feHow! We have seen you before, as from your summit range we have looked east toward the Atlantic and westward toward the Pacific, miles upon miles. Some of these days we will walk through vox; and ride through you, and walk into your hundreds of fissure veins laden with gold, silver, copper and lead, and get as much fatness out oi you as a rat gets out of a cheese it has burrowed into bt-yond the reach of a cat. To the south froxn Gray's Peak, about seventy-live raiies distant, with many a snow-covered peak between us is pise's peak, distant about ninety miles from Denver, but its top riot so high by fourteen feet as is Gray's Peak, which up-shoots west of Denver, as a guide to Salt Lake City, which is 403 miles north of west from Denver, direct line, and 687 miles distant by rail, via Cheyenne, and 775 miles J distant by way of Puebio and Gunnison, j as rims the Denver aiul Rio Grande j Mountain climby railroad. rru^ ^ far as the eve I AilX'-U. vjj. i.v 7 can reach, rise the mountains as a wall! between eastern and western Colorado? j \l between the Atlantic and the Pacific, and i 1 known as the Continental Divide. g TOOK OUT HIS TUCK. ? Speaking of the above-named mounK tain route around and over from Denver & to Salt Lake, it is one of the wonders of the world- A prominent business man B and capitalist from Lincoln, Nebraska, was on the train and we heard him say: "I have been over the Northern Pacific, and the Union Pacific, and the Central pacific to the Pacific Ocean. They are ?Rut tlie grandest moun tarfe route of all that I have over rode ovei\is the Denver and Bio Grande from Denver by way of Gunnison to Salt Lake. It take? a man to the top of the mountains above the clomL, and lets him down into gorges tliat almost exclude the stui. I would not have missed it for anytir&ng, and vet I would not ride over it againVfor ten thousand dollars. The way the c$rs ran down tlio teziible grades is frightluL I looked out till my jiead ached. TJien I became seasick and nervor.s, :umT it seoni'.'d to me that I mast IjO to pleCCS." Tims do the works and reputations of i <nv::f :ti-.d Workers. ?>'ird flic con- I tinent and stretch from polo to pole; but there is : o more need to doubly insure your life when riding over the Denver and I;io (Jraude Railroad than when riding over any other road built and operated by men who know their business. YEARS AOO. To Pikes Peak. That is what folks said y. ars ago. Thcv did not go to Pike's Peak. l>ut to the junction of Cherry Creek with the South Platte river, where in the bed of the stream gold was found. Pike's Peak was a landmark seen for hundreds of miles, and to get within seventy-live miles of it was "getting there" in those days. The beautiful temperance city of Colo ? ' < -j- '1 - * - n -r vnuo springs, lony-nve mixes south iroiu Denver, is between Denver and Tike's I\ :tk. but there are no springs at Color.ulo Springs. At the foot of the mountains, live miles west, are springs, at Manitou, or hx the garden of the gods, ::s some one named this grand, majestic locality, from which foiks start 011 horses or muies for the top of Pike's Peak, and a chance to see the world below. "We see into the valley of the South Platte. It comes out from a doorway in the mountains. :iltout twenty-six miles southwest from Denver, as the water.came out of the rock struck by Closes. By the way, Moses was different from some people of to-day, as he was a successful striker. See the crooked line of bright, green trees, thrifty cotton-wood, that mark the course of the river. See the belt of green farms along the river, clear down to Denver, and ou forty miles north, showing where farmers are getting in their work, and by irrigation bringing forth crops that pay large profits. DENVER. Now we sec the spires of the city. Now the city itself. Uraeious! what a city. There it is. fourteen miles east of the foot mills. Fourteen miles east from the mountains, on the plains. It looks like ; an oasis in a desert. A city four miles long and about a mile and a half wide. A city of 80,000 inhabitants. One of the handsomest, most progressive cities in the Union. Considering all tilings it has ; no rival 011 earth. Where thirty years , ago was a bald-headed plain, now rise : tens ef thousands of trees, to almost hide 1 the beautiful city they shade. Out from ; the green rise towers of churches and ; schools, liner than are to be found else where west of the Mississippi river till w? reach San Francisco. Cupolas of palatial private residences, and high- , headed towers for electric lights, prove , that a modern, progressive people are : Tlrnsc who live in the citv named in lion- , or of General Denver, the gallant pioneer and statesman, who now resides in Wash- , ington. From the tops of those high smoke stacks that mark the location of the great smelters of Argo, owned by United States Senator X. P. Hill, Wolcott and others, and of the Omaha and Denver smelting works, owned l>y ex-Governor Grant and others, the smoke rolls day , and night without ceasing, as millions ; upon millions <>f dollars' worth of gold and silver bullion are here each year j roasted and stowecftmt of the ore brought < here by e:>rs from the wondrous mines ] of Colorado. Thirteen railroad lines < centre here at the Union depot, one of 1 the largest and handsomest in the world. ] Now we come up to the broad plateau 1 of railroad works in front of the depot; i on time to tb^ minute, from Chicago to i Denver direct by the Burlington route, ] 110 more worn, worried or wearied than j though, we stayed at home and worked ] in the garden. Here are lines of horse j cars leading to all parts of the city? north, south, east and west. Here are ] wide, clean streets of the broad gauge ' pattern. Aside them on each side run j streams of water, used for "the irrigation of gardens farther back. Here are shade trees making Denver to appear as located in some enchanted forest. Here are tele- < graph messenger boys; churches as fine i as are to be found in .New lorli city, ; with audiences that cannot be excelled , for dress and all that pertains to modem " enjoyable religion. < Here are monthly, weekly and daily ? papers, chief of which is the Rocky ] Mountain News. Here are banks as ? line, as well officered and as solidly foun- ] dationed as are any in the country. Here < are more large, beautiful stores and more j live, prosperous merchants than can be ] found in any city of its size in the United < States. Here are hotels equal to the vers* , best in this country, with guests from , all parts of ihe world. Here are manu- ; facturing establishments growing into ] perfect life. Here are as good people < and as deserving as the sun ever shone : on, and more of progress to the square , incli than can be found in any other cities of this country save Chicago, St. j Paul and Minneapolis, as into the West , rash the vigorous-minded men wlio make : fortunes quickly, as they have vim, brains and means, with courage to invest ( not alone in Denver property, but in outside lands and mines. ; Here, too, are lines of gamblers, sharks, . shysters, dead-beats, bunco steerers, and ; all that goes to make up a live, cosmo- ; politan city. Here, too, are the jay-hawkers, black-mailers and scheming plunder- j ers of all who have legitimate business enterprises in tow. Here, too, are the ; selfish, heartless grabbers for all there is in sight. Men who get drunk, abuse xi ^ - "i1 oil i of +T?nvn A Ton ! til Iil5CA> itiiV.1 iUJL ?JUW U uoc ViiViA* . who have Splayed out" in other locali ties, ancl who came here to whet their fangs against each other, and who rip it into all whom they can fast-en upon in , the guise of friendship or the garb of business. Here are misers, meddlers, skin-Hints, land-pirates and hoodlums, all bunched iu together and helping to swell the grand variety. Here is a Chamber of Commerce made up of Al, men, from first to last. Here arc as fine places of amusement as can be found in New York, and here gather audienccs that for wit, wealth, worth, beauty and style, cannot be excelled anywhere on this continent. All in all, Denver is a model city, with hundreds of attractions and but few black 3>atehes or drawbacks, iier artesian wells from which come the purest of clear cold water; her rich gardens from which come small fruits and vegetables; her fine hot-houses from which come choice flowers in endless variety and profusion, and her unequaled climate make i this the capital of Colorado a city to be j proud of, built here as it is in the midst : of what was once called the great Amerir can Desert! And this of a State that yields the best wheat in the world and that, with a population less than 300,000 i : total, lifts ovc-r 40,000.000 oi dollars' I of lif-i- iron. I J* V?Ui:u VU JIV.UHU W j f i gold, silver, lead ana copper mines vearj iy, hardly yet dug i^to except as prospects to determine hfyv to conduct fututo j mining operations. How bright and j beautiful the morning! How busy are j ail whom we meet! | "White undressed kids are fashionable for i tin- evening.?Ex. The}- arc, and eiijht j o'clock i=> about the hour for undressing I 'em in well regulated families. oa j agggaa?anaai1 * eagagaBMBEWa OI K CRWSVM. CHJ.ONY IX CAWOA. 51<>w of tl:?* Runaway llfapurt in Their City of Sc'mc. A Montreal correspondent of the New York Mail and Express writes: '-'John ('. ?.no lieaits tuc list o* criminals ui v au;>(la. He is living :it Quebec. The house lie routs is large, and the situation delightful. Tt is t\v<> und a half miles from tin.' j>ostoliice. The rent he pays?nearly ;?:!, < MK) a year?is, for Quebec, enormous. This means, proportionately, about SO,000 to .^,000 per year in New York. Rents are ven* low in the Gold J Jock City. and the Eno bor.se at Bcauvoir is one of the finest in the suburbs. Financially, lie appears to be at ease. He drives good horses and is liberal with his money, but socially he is not known. Neither he nor his wife is ever invited out, nor are they visited 1 ?y society ])col>Ie. Eno has never been asked to the Garrison mess, and does not belong to the only social organization in Quebec of any pretensions?the Garrison Club. The old French families do not ask him + +-1wiiv l./lncnc VTic o/VllKlijl+riTlfWI flv<* principally made at barrooms. Some few society men have a nodding' acquaintance with him. Society is exclusive, and the old noblesse have long memories. "When Eno gives dinner 'parties" J they are only attended by his legal ad-1 visers, or speculators who may wish to see him. The Commercial Club he belongs to is a small place where men of business meet. It has no social significance and does not j>retend to any. Many respectable merchants belong to it. These men meet Eno in a business way. They do not ask him to their homes. Some of them may drink with him at the St. Louis Hotel when they meet him there; that is all. He visits the houses of two or three personal friends, but the stories about his being received into society are exaggerations. Ho attends cocking" mams and billiard i tournaments, and he is a constant visitor j to St. Rock. This is tlie roughest sub-1 urb in the city. "The New York Aldermen and their friends attract much attention. They arc Billy Moloney. Charley Dompsey, Keenan and De Lacy. They all have rooms on the same Hoor of the Windsor Hotel, with the exception of Billy Moloney, who is in a small house near the hotel. J)e Lacy and Keenan are great chums, and arc rarely out of each other's sight. Moloney and Dempsey, however, seem to be engage in picket duty and throwing inquisitive people off the scent. They all live like lords, getting the best of even-thing and scattering their money about like water. "New York has not a monopoly of the sriminals here; Chicago makes a very I good running for second place. Moms, I the 'church deacon,'and trusted adviser j of widows and orphans, heads the list, j Morris had thousands of dollars intrust-' ed to his care. The people whose money | he had were chiefly poor, struggling men and women, who had saved the gatherings intrusted to him after years of selfsacrifice and privation. The victims of this man thought they were saving up for the 'rainy day.' Many of his dupes were laboring ir.c-n, charwomen and orphans to whom small sums of money had been left. He encouraged the people to deposit their money in his keeping. When he got what he considered sufficient for his wants he left. He made paupers of hundreds of poor people in Chicago. He does not appear to mind io inn vnn rr o lillfti a ess here. The writer saw liim in a Duggy yesterday. He sat behind a fasttrotting black. The flush of health was present on his countenance. There was ao cowardly conscience in that man's tact:. But the detectives say that Morris is not at ease, for all his assumption of indifference. They have noticed that he ilways employs the one driver to take liim in mirl frnril bis of bvsinoss. fhey think he is afraid of being kidlapped." The Knights cf Honor. Xew York and Massachusetts lead all jther States in membership in the order, :he former having on January 1, 1S8G, 15,559, and the latter 10,686. From January 1 to December 31, 1S85, Xew i'ork hud 216 deaths, and paid into the supreme treasury three hundred and sixty-five thousand and twenty-two dol.ars, but withdrew to pay beneficiaries 58,078 in access of the amount paid in. For the same period Massachusetts had )7 deaths, and paid in two hundred and fifty thousand live hundred and twentyaine. being ?58,529 in excess of the imour+ withdrawn. In New York the leath was 13.9 per thousand; In Massachusetts, 9.1. As the payments from Massachusetts into the supVeme treasury liave constantly been in excess of the amounts drawn out to pay her beneficiaries, it speaks highly for the care exercised by" her lodge medical examiners. As the highest number of assessments in any one year lias been twenty-two? and tiiat in but a single year?would it not be a good idea for lodges, when the monthly assessment plan goes into effect f.Tult- 1 \ pfintinnf" +!if> rlnnlVlf r*nll rm til one or two assessments in advance liave been collected, and set the same aside in the lodge treasury, that it could be forwarded promptly on receipt of the assessment notice from the supreme reporter, thereby avoiding the delay now caused by too many members availing themselves of the thirty days' grace allowed by the constitutions. This would facilitate payment of the benefits, and prove a great protection to lodges and members against suspension. "While there are no doubt some who would ob??* >+ frv +V>ic c+ill oc if tivmii/1 "nor haps six months before an assessment in advance of the number called could be set aside for such purpose, the objection seems very slight when compared with the good it would accomplish in protection to the members and the prompt payment to beneficiaries. Russia's Influence in Greece. Among certain persons here, usually well informed in political matters, it is now nretended that the Greek policy has X J. V I recently been solely influenced by Russia, through 31. Butzoff. The p-f sence ' of two Russian vessels in the bloc';?.ding fleet, it is said, has been a mere blind, which has deceived the leading statesmen of all the others, with the exception, j perhaps, of Bismarck. Greece lias not, ! we are assured, been simply posing liefore the world as a small but determined and pugnacious power, whose absolute restraint called for the collective coercion of the united maritime strength of Eih rope. She has abandoned for the present her threateniug attitude wit-h the best possible grace under the circumstances, but only on a distinct under standing vita Kussia, who in iter own good time will proceed to accomplish her fixed Fanslavist policy in the Balkans, and thereby create :i political position in Southeastern Europe which will be of inestimable assistance in the furtherance of Hellenic claims on Tnvhey.?Odessa Letter to tli T.ondon Daily !N ews. \ number of Washington gentlemen have organized a company under the name of <:Tlic Long Fibre Cotton Gin Company,'' to bet in an enterprise at Woodlawn, near Birmingham. Ala. w:>T i?0?\T K ' ( nih-t"* Tri'sf Tti"ir \i*iior-> to i'irci;* An interesting feature of ilie West Point Military Academy cm Thursday last was the mounted exercises of the cadets in the riding hall. By the time . Secretary of War Juidicott and pai-tv ar > . 1.1 . i;..? nvou. l^api. .-\ugiir nun jjj.i- <u u??i.ic- f ; men before him. The men wore their j ; tri~iy fatigue suits ami all sat their horses i j well. At a word they started oil' one j t after another and swept about tin' area atj a galiop. Then sabres were di.iw.n and j : the drill commenced. First the blade J ; was brought down upon an imaginary j 1 foe at the right, then it was twirled in j ' air. next thrust forward, again backward, j I fill"! ;! SV.W1 >i?o- shisll WJ1S Made to i i the left. Once the horses were in line, i the men stood at their heads. "Mount." In a twinkling, even1 cadet was in air. ; In another, without touching a stirrup, | he was in the saddle. Another coin| mand. The men wore on their feet again, but only to vault clean over sad! die and sill and stand ready at the other | side. Then up again in the saddle. They twisted around, now facing forI ward, now backward and again sideways. And while they so drilled two uprights were fixed at a distance of about fifty feet from each other with a pad as l>ig as a cap fixed upon each with a handle attached to it. At a word the cavalrymen dashed oil. Now one came along at full gallop, leaned over as he reached the upright till his hand was below the level of the stirrups, and in full career picked up one pad after another and tossed it behind him. It was a feat requiring coolness and address, but nearly all executed it satisfactorily. Next tin: pad was placed upon an upright the height of a man, and at the same distance as before another was placed on a lower stand. Between them was placed horizontally a beam resting on two uprights?a good, stiff jump for :i lmr.se in sneli a limited snace. and one requiring a rider to have his brain clear. The word was given. A horseman came galloping on. As lie reached the taller stand he drew a revolver. It flashed, and the pad, struck by the bullet, tumbled oft", while the horse dashing on was a moment after lifted over the bar in a flying jump. Bound still the horseman went, his comrades following one by one. And now as he approached the stand on which the pad is replaced he has his sabre out. He slashes at it, hits it fairly, and almost before it reaches the ground he is over the bar; his sabre cuts an arc through the air as he leans over his horse's shoulder and tosses up with a great slash a .bunch of tan! >ark, and then just recovering in his saddle he brings ' down the blade with a sweep upon the pad of the second upright and tosses it off. In the next exercise the uprights :iud pads arc still there, but in place of the jump is a high pole with a transverse ' bar, from which hangs just within reach of a horseman's sabre an iron ring only a few inches in diameter. And through all this, too, the horses go around at the top of their speed, the feat repeated ; again and again, a few failing, but nearly all successful. Xext saddles are removed and the men ride bareback at will. There is no circus performance like this spectacle. The ' place is fnll of hounding steeds; some with riders leaning over their should'-" -, j till their hands sweep the ground; some . lying at full length upon their backs; | some facing to tlie rear, but guiding them with spur and rein; some jumping on ' and oiV. like circus riders, while the ani- < mal is going at the top of his speed, and ; some vaulting clean over them and keeping up the pace. It is a thrilling spectacle, which a burst of applause rewards, and then the men repeat their exciting ' drill, training by coupies on half the j number of horses. It would be called a gallant equestrian show anywhere. An old officer's comment interpreted the general opinion: ;'I never saw better ^ riders." ( A Cvclonc of Fortv-foMr Years < Stories of the recent cyclone in Ohio are coming in quite freely, but they do not approach the marvelous stories of the tornado that swept up the valley of j the roaring Codonis, in York county, in j the spring of 1S12. After the s*orm we i speak of one farmer found that nis well 3 had been pulled up by the roots and was hanging on the limbs of a white oak tree j four miles away. A cellar belonging to ' one ox his neighbors was split vi two, oue half of it being blown 1 ough a stone quarry and the other half turned . up endwise against a haystack in the ; adjoining county A flock of geese were j completely stripped of their feathers by ] the wind, and a di*ied apple pie was j blown through the side of a school house, terrifying the teacher and scholars, be- j sides ruining a large map of the grass- ; hopper districts of Kansas. A large bam containing thirteen tons of hay was ' lifted oft' its foundation and carried bodi- ' ly six miles down tlie. valley, where it sett'ed down so squarely that the doors 1 could he opened without prving tlicm. , Tlie wind blew the tails off six Durham 1 cows, and a Berkshire pig, weighing 200 , pounds, was blown completely through i his skin, the hide remaining in a. stand- j ing position and preserving an expression of naturalness that deceived many vis- j itors. The boundary liacs of several ] townsliips were bent all out of shape, so j that they looked like a curled hair mattress on a hot griddle, and the air was blown so completely out of the valley that people had to go up on the hills . -n-lion tluiv wrm+fil fr? brpntlin?Pbilflflfl- ' pliia Press. , \ Rn?li Kditor I'nys for a !Ir.t. The Cleveland Press permits a little ' facetious diversion in its State news column, wliicli is eonuueted l)j a young Xorwalk newspaper man named Poster. It is appropriate to say that he is unmarried and unengaged. Last Tuesday lie published a paragraph to this effect: "A Marion girl started her graduating essay as follows: 'I am fairly wearied out with the incessant prating of the lords of creation on the duties and sphere of woman.'" The paragraph closed with 1 the somewhat dangerous assertion that ' the editor would bet a new spring hat . that the author of that discourse on woman's sphere could not bake a loaf of bread. Saturday Mr. Foster received from Marion a large box. It contained 1 sundry light loaves of bread and cake, marvclously toothsome. An ?? -ompa living affidavit bore; tlie solemn oath of the sweet girl graduate ( who possesses the pretty name of May Williams) that 1 slie had, unaided, baked the wheat bread marked "Exhibit A,'' the two specimens of corn bread marked "Exhibit B,*' and the chocolate cake "Exhibit C.:' The notary's seal of oliiee was affixed to the j aft.'flant, and it was settled beyond a doubt in Mr. Foster's mind that iiis rash | vr'&ger iiad been accepted. Ho therefore j went out and lavished his week's salary j on a new spring hat. Of course liy had never seen Miss Williams.- Cincinnati Eiujuii-cv. j 1:1 llxis roumry 11 (iocs noi manci v. Ui.ui j er u man is a blacl-:smiti?, a shoemaker, a j faymer, a banker, n lawyer, vr a doctor, .so j long as his business is moral and legitimate I he may be a gentleman. WT li An ittioi.'j.itit* Fi-.ij.LiKc .\5;??.*I*Issi* of Vv iiii-ii ( !)*&( Thicx* ;irv Kxjw'.i'il. Lieutenant 3L E. Hail. U. S. X.. who fcv sL'Verai yt-uvs has been endeavoring to perfect u fish torpedo. has one now nearly perfected at the Eagle Iron "Works in Br.lTalo. Tin- Conner describes it as twelve feet long, in three sections, and re-en forced l>y four longitudinal girder;-to give it greater strength. Tn the extreme bow then* is a capacity for a charge otffceventy pounds' of gunpowder. This is fixed by mcann of a primer of fulminate of mercury. A .pltwger projects iu front, having two crossed knife edges constructed so as to act when the torpedo strikes a vessel at a small angle. The ordinary torpedo in such a case would simply allow the projectile to glance oil rHw\ r?lin-i^nv Vflllll'lll CAJAUJUllli^. J. Iiv; il 1/K.uao the screw that holds the spring-firing apparatus, thus releasing the firing pin which explodes the charge l>y striking the sensitive primer of fulminate of mercury. On the bow there are two automatic fins used for steering. The generator is composed of a series of tubes il -ut hold gas and vapor at 2.000 pounds ; pressure. The middle section consists of plain cylinder 15: inches in diameter, and in this the generator is contained. The tins arc worked by small engines ( whose valves are automatically controlled : by power derived from the generator, ! whose great pressure, 1,000 pounds to flir? smi:ivA incli Lns nrslv ol)l:iined i ; niter incessant labor and innumerable experiments, many of whicli were failures. The after section of the torpedo contains the propelling apparatus, consisting of Gardner's patent three cylinder : engine, which works two screws by gear- ] iiig. These screws are two-bladed, and revolve in opposite directions. Their ' peculiar feature is that the blades of one 1 screw are each at right angles to those ^ of another, thus enabling screws of large ' diameter to be used as inner blades of 1 the screws revolving in the same space. ( The three different sections of the ^ torpedo are screwed together so as to f make water-tight joints. The projectile [ is so constructed as to dive and keep a J certain depth by means of the automati- ^ eally controlled pins in the bow and the ^ diving.rudder in the tail. Two tails tend ] to keep the torpedo upright and regular, [; enclosing the screws to prevent tlieir l)o- 1 ing fouled by any floating object, such 1 as seaw eel, etc. l)n the top of the deathdealing machine are three hand holes * covered by plates?one giving access to * the apparatus which controls the fires at ? the engine, the other affording access to < the diving rudder. The engine is in- 1 closed in a steel case, which slips into its 1 place in the torpedo, and is there held by ( three bolts, so that it can be readily re- : moved for examination or rej)air if need \ be. Attached to the engine is a governor, ' the invention of 3Ir. Gardner, foreman 1 of the Eagle Works. This governor con- 1 trols the engine so as to give uniform t rate of speed wlijle working under vary- - 1J1? UL'LjrCUS UI [JiL'fcMllC. Tlic great advantage claimed for the a uew torpedo is its straightness of course. v The undulating motion of the ordinary ' torpedo frequently causes tlie machine 11 to dive "without striking its ol?ject. The ' new one, it is said, can he aimed more a directly and certainly at the precise spot where it will have the greatc-st destructive c ower. Another advantage is in the dis- 1 ranee traversed. Hie ordinary torpedo ; lias a range of ahout 700 yards; the new ^ tinny creature speeds along to the extent } of about a mile and a half, or 2,100 i yards. The engine is the only one made ? in this country at all suitable for tlK* i ?vork contemplated, and the patent for * this part of the apparatus is vested in the * Eagle Iron Works Company. Without t my special tests or appliances, it is 1 nothing short of wonderful how efficient- [ ly the new toipedo in all its parts has f been completed and now nearly fitted A together. It will shortly be put to the * test in Lake Erie. 'I he whole apparatus lias a buoyancy of fifteen feet, and it is 1 lomputed to be able to blow into smith- t Dreens the largest vessel afloat. t Senator Van WycK. Vail WycJc, oi -Nebraska, is tne oiuy , Senator whom his associates do not pre- j tend to understand. He is liable to get 1 up at any time and create a row, and the ? records of the present Congress will allow c that be lias had as much of the fun of } the Senate as any two men in it. Van t Wyck is nothing if not audacious. He \ will attack any one who stands in his tray. Only a few days ago Edmunds jlrose and attempted to squelch the fiery i Nehraskan with an avalanche of Sena- 'z torial precedents. But Tan Vv'yck abso- ( lutelv refused to he squelched, and mere- j [; replied in his most rasping tones: ( "Xow I suppose we shall he treated to <. the terrors of the Supreme Court." The ] Senate, of course, laughed, and that, too, s it the expense of the great Edmunds. r Van Wvck is no respecter of person . , When fully convinced that i. certain j project is right and ought to prevail c there isn't anybody in the Senate who ?an prevent his fighting that measure to v the bitter end. "Old Van," as the boys s ;all him, is against secret sessions, lie believes that the Senate was created for f the purpose of attending to a part of the j people's business. Therefore, he argues, ( the people are justly entitled to a full ^ knowledge of all that is going 011. ?"Was] i- + ington Letter to the Boston Traveler. ~ The .Joi*liC>V IsTi. ] There arc people who imagine "that a 1 jockey's life is a joyous life; that earth \ ?an ofibr few greater deligiits than to n ride tlie winner of a great race and to be r led back to the scales by an ecstatic 1 srowd, and that the sole drawback to the r profession is the chance of being asked 1 to pay income tax on ?10,000 a year, s But how utterly untrue is such an opin- r ion is well shown by the racing < < rre- : spondent of the New South Wales I->ho, j who saw Archer's face at the Derby, and t Hm? ciAtr-n'hot; it: "it w'.as like that of a ( tnaii abont to l)e hnngcd?a duelist light- a ing with a foe at once feared and hated r ?a man, in short, in any posiiit n of 1 awful strain, with the complex emotions \ of terror, hope and resolve. It w:>s all i the observation of second; but it <' brought home to ihe mind the abysmal ] depths of life and death, exultant joy or s horrible despair that underlie the gayetv and the blare, the bright ilresxta, the s smiling women, the popping of cham- 3 pagne bottles, ami the vacuous noise of t Epsom race course." After this there t would seem to be nothing for it bat to \ start a Jockey's Ecsc.ie Society.?Pall Mail Gazette. n Ti:r. of i{i:ii:iii-.\ Quinine, ll.o alkaloid of cinchona thai is ( most largely used in medicim*. is now 'o\v- : ir in price-than it has ever before hecn }? ! t the history of its manufacture. When < on- | ^ UToss removed ihe im^ri tin:y on ihe va- j . lious s.,l? 01 quinine in July, ls7'->. the | < price of sulphate vf?ji?ini:ip. of American . manufacture, was x3.:;3 jn-r mince in hulk, j ' hut since thai date the j-j lo. w ith the ex : ' ecptiou iif u i'r-.v iiiultt ihietuaiiocs, has 1j steadily ?. ended downward, unlit at the ' present lime the American >iru-- y^uoiedh at Os cents per ouuro in hulk, while tin*' * foreign article is quotcl ;il about four crnts j 1 per ounce less. ' ] \ j TiiK i'iilXCES AS THEY ARE. >Ki:T< Hr> OF T1IK BOX VP ARTISTS Til K Hr.ri r.-. in.-. I'tdK-Pio:! Too >!; < !! of a <'o?nrd lo Eter <ii\r ilaltlc?!Juv. LouN nnd I'rince Victor \|>{i?'arivl in School !>i?vs. The proposed French law for the expulsion of the princes of noble blood draws ihe attention of the world to the .-trango political situation of France as it is to-day and lias been for six or seven years. Tlii! republic established at the close of the Franco-Prussian war feels iiiciiniiivi vrifl) flip IllV-tmi /lr>VS t.O t.llf! Ui,;VVlUC throne within its borders, and fears that through some intrigue the present government may he overthrown, though none of the pretenders can actually count upon a sufliciently large following to dare to take any decisive stop. The Orleanist party is rich, but not wry numerous and far from active. The monarchical party is iii favor of a king by divine right, but has none to go to. f*' ^ ^ li -LJJC? illl'iiiuurs ui lui.^ panj ua>c uccjll brought up to hate and despise tlie house of Orleans, yet the elder branch having fallen, the hated head of that family is ilso the heir of Henry V. and of all their kings. They prefer the republic, prefer .my thing to having the grandson of Louis Philippe and the great-grandson of "Louis Egalite" profane the throne of Louis. "The strongest party, the Bonapartists, want an empire, but are much in the same position as the Monarchists. I'he heir of the great Napoleon is the hated Plon-Plon, the most unpopular man personally m an j? ranee. jsesiaes this, it is objected, his father married a German princess, he an Italian. Many irdent Imperialists say that they can iven place no hopes in the sons of a man ike that until they have proven themselves possessed of the virtues that enleared the founder of their family to the French. Had the young son of Xapoeou III. iived, they si y lie would surely lave become emperor, but the brave, landsome boy went to his death in Zululand to gain a little gloiy, and by lis last acts endeared his memory to the learts of his countrymen. It is probable that if the bill expelling lie French princes should become a law he majority of the exiles will seek an tsylum in the United States. The Comte le Jt'ans, who served ciurmg our civu var iu tlie Army of the Potomac, has al cady been cabled an invitation to come )ver by some over by some of bis old inny comrades, and it is fully expected hat be will come. The Comte bas many riende 011 this side of the Atlantic, and lis literary labors in the revision of his listory of the civil war would be facili- j ated by coming here. Prince Jerome Napoleon has expressed himself on sev;ral occasions during the past few years is anxious to come to this country, and vill doubtless avail himself of the excelent opportunity for traveling offered by l forcible expulsion from France. Prince 'L-vome is, in his every tastes and char lift UJliUICXlt XXKJ11X c Il'J 1XJL&V sapoleon as one man can be from another, His cowardice made him cut such a idiculous iigm-e during the Crimean var that Hie soubriquet of PlonP]on he von then has stuck to him ever since, le takes after the founder of his family n but one respect, his personal appearmce. Of this resemblance Prince Jerome j s very proud; he is rather taller than j he "iittle corporal" and is just about as leshy as his famous uncle was in his later years. His cheeks and lips are closey shaven and liis features large and atlier handsome. No one who is amiliar with the pictures of Napoleon I. vould fail to recognize his lineaments in lie face of his heir. Prince Jerome is a polished man of etters, studious and thoughtful by naure, liberal in his religious views, exremely fond of good living and pleasant lompany. He has an unusual aptitude or language?, speaks well half a dozen dioms. and is interested in anything ap jertaing to j>liilology or etymology. Jble las written several volumes, -which have uet with uniform success, and has rankid among the leading savants of his ountry. He is fond of the company of iterary men, and likes to walk along he streets slowly, with his Lands behind >ack, his head erect, discussing books .nd authors. Though by nature an sisy-going man, of pleasant disposition, le has never been able to get along with he members of his own family. His [uaiTcls with liis wife, largely on religous grounds, as she is a devout Roman Catholic, attracted as much attention ome years ago as did his difficulty with lis eldest son, Princc Victor, which reulted in a complete separation, more ecently. Loth of the sons of Prince Napoleon nay come to this country when they are ixpellcd, and it is certain that Prince actor, who is now making a tour of the i'orlu; will be here soon. Some six or even years ago both of the young men rere students at the Lyece du Yauves, ormerly known as the. Lycee dn Prince niperial, situated just outside the walls >f Paris. The writer was at the time at lie Lycee, having been for four years in /.locc oc "Pvinr>r> T.nnis Tll? lie DUllie Vitloo M.-o J. A ildor Prince was a tall, raw-boned boy if nearly six feet in height. He had >een growing fast for several years, and le was rather clumsy in appearance, but ras very strong physically and quite an .thlete. His features were heavy and athcr coarse, his hair always cut short, lis upper lip shaded by a slight dark nustache. He was scrupulously neat in lis dress, and was inclined to hold liimelf aloof from his classmates who were ather inclined to ridicule Lini. He did ?1 ?-*4- +1*T :io lovrro mo_ IUI UUctJLU iit LUC JJ > vtt?j MO oritv of tl'e students (lid, but lived at he house of one of the professors, Mr. Juvillier, a friend of his father, who .ccompanied him to and from the place icarly every day and assisted him with lis lessons. Professor Cuvillier usually valked up and down the corridors durng the recess hours, tramping up and lown slowly with his pile of books'under lis arm. Victor w?s an. intelligent cholar. but not bright. His mind was .f a rather heavy order, and while he coined to work quite hard he rarely held , better rank in his cla?s than about half vay. In mathematics and history he Viir-i unusuauy sumious ami aiways svuuu veil. Prince Louis wtvs by l'ar the handsomer ,nd more clever of the two. Of medium icight, with finely moulded features, a jure dark complexion, 1 >right eyes and veil proportioned body, he was in looks in ideal prince. Tie had none of the nn.nly qualities, however, that would enhu.se his fellow countrymen. Ho was rery much like his father in one respect. hat of coward'ec. He invariably j)rovetl | limsi'lf timid as a little girl, and coukl! put tu flight by the slightest indica .ion of hostility. While the majority of ;he young men, iu his class played foot >:<.ll :-ju1 other games he would quietly >ueak into the playground and wait iround near the door foj* some kindiiearted fellow to come up and talk to aim. Of a very retiring disposition, he was apt to seek refuge in flight if the crowd approached him. His great delight was to walk up and down with some other young man, braiding elaborate castles in the air; a few words of praise would elate him as highly as any harsh- j ness would deject him. He was by nature light-hearted and bright, but woful-' ly lacked application. He had at the j +i'virtA oe nit/i nlwnt Aivtr-vipil :1? i - - - - most Frenchmen have, ami lie often J asked the Americans at the Lyeee most i absurd questions abont theiv country. | Ho was very grateful to the writer for having protected him from the roughness of his classmates on one or two occasions, and in the plans he made for the time tliat his family was to return to power he invariably included the writer, to whom he said he intended to give one of the highest positions in the land. Louis' laziness caused him a great cleai of tronble in liis studies. Pie invariably putoffliis work until the last moment possible, and then rushed through with it carelessly. He frequently appeared in the class-room without having looked at his lessons. He would take his seat a short time before the professor arrived, and try to make up for lost time. He had a faculty for committing Latin and Greek to memory, and could get a fair idea of what he fiad to recite in a few minutes, but he forgot the lines as quickly almost as he learned them. On Thursday mornings, which were devoted to competitions between the students for rank in the different studies, after the > subject had been given out, Louis would I generally sit for an hour or more idly I looking at the paper before him, or mak-1 in nr roiifrh and iioor sketches over his o O? JT books. When lie finally got down to work, his sole idea appeared to be to riisli it through in any manner he could. One day when the competition was in Latin verse on a subject given out by the professor, Louis only managed to grind out one verse during the two and a half hours allowed to work. The two Americans in the class had rather the faculty for grinding out "machine" verses* rapidly, and stood respectively first and second in the class, and Louis professed to warmly admire their "talent." He assured the writer that "when he became Emperor" he would appoint mm "juatm poet exiraoxuxuiirv to tlie Court." Both of the young Princes Napoleon are very pleasant socially, jmd if they conclude to come to live "here they will become social Hons. Nicholas Piddle. A XEW STRIKE. Dr. Talmage Wonts Laborers for AicoJio! to Quit Work. Tlie Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a sermon last Sunday in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the poverty among the working classes caused by the use of intoxicating liquors. Dr. Talmage introduced his sermon by saying that there ought to be more public fountains, where persons on I the street could get pure cold water. "In Persia," said he, '-under the reign ' T^.iw'nc TTvrcvfocrrvic: +TiA r>r>mVlr* ilirl nni* I VI JL/aiiUO JLXJ-W1V ?svvj?/?.v w*v? *?vv prosper. They made money, but did not keep it. "Wliat lias become of the billions and billions of dollars paid to the working classes in this country? Some of it lias gone for the necessities of life, but most of it has been wasted in foolish outlay, wasted at the gaming table and in intoxicants. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centimes, and has boycotted, and is boycotting, the body, mind and soul of American labor. Within three hundred yards of the ^ands Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn, there arc fifty-four saloons, and another is under preparation. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it is carefully estimated tliey would reach from New York to Chicago. "While the ordinary strikes arc ruinous, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which, if kept up, will be a relief to the working classes and the salvation of the American nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next twenty years, if he will refuse all intoxicating beverage and be saving, may not become a capitalist. . "When you deplete a working-man's physical energy you deplete his capital. The stimulated workman gives out before the unstimulated workman. A Ui.JLOJL ^ltv.0 JUULO tAJiyVilencc in this matter among men in Lis employ. He said: 'The beer drinker who made the fewest bricks turned out 60S), 000, the abstainers who made the fewest bricks counted up 746,000. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger was 87,000.' When the . Russians go to war a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of each soldier. If there be in liis breath a taint of intoxicating liquor the man is ' sent back to the barracks. Why? He ( cannot endure fatigue. All our young men know this. "When they are prepar- , iug for an athletic event they abstain. Our working people will be wiser after awhile, and the money they thrpw away ; on hurtful indulgences they will put into co-operative associations and so become capitalists." Dr. Talmage has arranged to go to the Thousand Islvs June 2fi with GOO of his : congregation. They will travel in parlor and sleeping coaches and will be gone three days. i?iur\tt(iun * lines in me cviiiii. Even as early as the Spring of 1803 the question of food had come to be a serious one 'with the Confederacy, leading the Richmond Enquirer to say: "The custom of three meals a day should be abandoned, two are amply sufficient; it is a habit?this eating three meals a day, and, at present, a bad habit. We can accustom oiirselves to two meals, and to two light meals at that, and it is a duty we owe to the cause. It is nearly as bad 4./-V ?<->4- O4-r\ r*r\4- *n/?T> TT'llllo WOT W gJLKJW XOtV ao t\/ liv/u v^a?j ?. %** is being waged." Speaking of tlic high price of board, the Richmond Examiner of Marcli G, in the same year, says: "Not less than 1-i of the- largest boarding houses in Richmond have closed their doors the present week to table boarders on account of the scarcity and unprecedented high prices of all the necessaries of life, and more will follow their example soon. At the large hotels the price of board and loding per diem is $6, and if prices continue to advance in the i same ratio in the future as they have in j the past, boarding will advance to slO a day." A Legal Uuestiau. A Trial Justice refuses to issue warrants to compel defendant's witnesses to attend ill vooco \yi. j/x ?7j? uiv/ >;uicv., ^v.v,^<l i for felony. And the County Commissioners refuse to pa}' Sheriff's accounts agaiust j i i ie County fur serving subpoena's un ?lci fendani's witnesses in such cases. If the | defendants arc unable to pay the Sheriff for ! such services, how is he to get his [<uy. and i ! can lie l>e compelled to render such -ervice I without pay, is a legal question which ! should Ik; settled.?Lano.'M-:r lienc It is somewhat singular luat ail tinhomely girls arc poor. JNo one ever s?w a 1 homely heiress. ' THAT 150I\I>\RY-LI\E. WiSi \ortli Carolina <?et a Slice of Our Territory. (From the Rilfigh News-Observer.) Mr. Arthur Winslow, engineer, has completed tlie field work of Ms survey of the disputed boundary between North QIMI+II /"^wOino ayi 4-1^/a ^ v_/?; 11'i i ?v 11 v l > j\j \ in; vaiwiiua< v/xx uu\./ juuiv between Mecklenburg and Lancaster conn tics. He spent three weeks in making the survey, the work being done by direction of Capt. S. B. Alexander, of Charlotte, the commissioner on the part of North Carolina. The survey was made some years ago by the South Caroiina commissioner. He made a compass survey. Mr. Winslow's survey was what is technically known as a venier survey, in which a venier and theodolite were used and the exact course was taken from the stars. Numerous errors and variations were discovered in the old survey. In all Mr. Winslow Trent over thirty miles of line. Tlie greater part of the country is fine fanning land, but near the Catawba river there is some land almost mountainous in its roughness. In a distance of five hundred feet there arc valleys ono hundred and fifty feet in depth. By 3Ir. Winslow's survey, made with the greatest care and accuracy, he states, about seven thousand acres of land heretofore claimed as South Carolina territory, are part and parcel of North Carolina. Most of the people in this territory Mr. Winslow found to be very well pleased with the change which throws them into Mecklmrg. They are in a strip of country far from Lancaster, the county seat of the county of that name. By the change of counties and States they get within tivn nv f.Tvr-1 vp nn'loc nf <"Vhov1/"v(~f<i oik now county seat. Of course some of the residents in the territory do not like to leave South Carolina, on account of old associations, etc. Mr. Winslow will to-day begin to make up the maps, etc., from his survey. The papers will all be placed in the "Governor's hands. It is probable that a board of arbitration will be required to adjust matters satisfactorily in all respects. The Fishery Quarrel. The Yankee fury over the fishery question find* little echo in the West. The Omaha Bee declares that the people out that way have no disposition to go to war to maintain the rigiit of the United States to tax Canadian fish landed in this country, while claiming for their own fishermen the free use of Canadian fishing grounds. It declares that "the New England representatives misjudge the temper of this section of the country if they imagine that sensible citizens will lasli themselves into fury over the question whether the products of free ocean are to be taxed when brought into ports ^y fiiendly neighbors." The Bee declares that we have no one but ourselves fr? l\1omn tf li -foilnro +/% tatiaxr? i.\S MiUJiiV J.V/1 XUiitUV/ CX/ XV/1IV TT UU>KJ fishery treaty. Jt will' l>e well for the East to study tlie attitude of the West on this subject before trying to bring about a war. This is a big country, ana u question must be a pretty broad one to make it "fighting mad" all over at once. A&'tiu Afraid of the Fenians. Militia circles \rere, yesterday, reported in*a state of considerable excitement, a rumor prevailing that the Fenians? owing to the failure of 3Ir. Gladstone's home rule policy?were preparing for an * | immediate raid over the Canadian frontier. The rumor?after examination bv our reporter?ai wears to have verv little iii it.* It seems"that an officer from one of tlie frontier counties came to town yesterday to make arrangements for the summer camp in -his vicinity. While so doing he stated to several Montreal ofiiccrs that he had incontestable evidence to the effect that the Fenians v. ere hard at work in Boston drilling for a raid into Canada, and that they were, moreover, to be assisted by the aggrieved fishermen of Maine. * Our reporter visited the ofiicers in charge of the Fifth District, in whose territory the country said to be threatened lies, and was informed that no credence was being placed hi the story.?Montreal (Canada) Witness, June 11. The Continent's Smallest Newspaper. The smallest newspaper on the conti x : ~ J ir??_ - u'jiit is jmviosueu iii v_j uucuuuja.ru, Jiexico, the capital of tlie State of Jalisco, and one of the leading cities of the republic. The El Telegrama, a copy of which was shown us by Major Hilder, the energetic commissioner to the World's Exposition, in this city, from Missouri, Is a fourpage weekly, five by three inches in size, and, as may well be fancied, is a marvel in the way of condensation. The motto of the paper, as translated, reads: "Little straw and much wheat." The condenser of either the New York or Balti Liiuxu >jun huiuu luxii yreeu wiui envy after takii.g a glimpse at tliii; really wonderful little Mexican sheet. The" price of the paper per week is one cent. At the bottom of the first page is printed the following: "Responsible?LinaLnna, R. G. Fuentes, printer." The copy in band contains five small advertisements. ?New Orleans Times-Democrat. Tar and Feathers and Drums. Omaua. Xeb., June 15.?An exciting tar and feather affair occurred at Rush villein northwest Nebraska on Sunday. A man named Iken. a lawyer and land agent, was the victim, Iken had made himself disliked i\\' ?i 1 > vcrft nnmlwii* ~ ... ,.,.sv "uui./v.i ui ottutiO uj jjcuiug their confidence and then contesting their claims by means of information thus surreptitiously obtained. A number of his victims took him from his office, stripped liim and applied a coat of tar and feathers, forcing him at the muzzle of revolvers to assist in decorating himself. He "was then marched through the street in broad daylight to the music of drums, which headed I lie procession. Finally he was ordered to leave the country, and proceeded to do so us soon as he could get the tar and feathers :jfT himself. The Destruction of a City by Fire. Xkw Westminster, B. C., June 15.? The city of Vancouver, situated at, the Pacific end of the Canadian Pacific Railway. is in ashes. Xot a half dozen houses remain of live hundred, and the 'worst of all there is ;i large loss of life. Ten bodies thus far have been recovered and a number of persons are missing, supposed to have perished. ()ne* short hour did the whole work. Tlf property saved is insignificant. A "clean >v. ?ep'' defines the situation. A thousand men are at work clcarin^up the del iris for t.lio r-iiliwirl mmwn,. contracts for rebuilding have already been let. Many men lost their all, but are determined to start again. The property loss falls directly on the pioneer element of the new city. Hundreds of people are camped out. The K t> cm band of Cherokee Indiana is now static: ::: six States, the hulk of the trine having tl-.cir home in North Carolina. In sjwaim ami other Western Counties thc-e Indians have a reservation of seventythree thoii^iiii! aci\ s. for which they hold a deed of irw-t. L'(>on this vast tract they live somewhat in common, cultivating and olh'-rwi-i: u -ii:g the land :ts each deems Ti c whole number of Clwrokees bcf" the Eastern band is 3,029. Of these I.I are in Nortli Carolina, 750 in t% .: ??i.ifr - - - ? - oi-j ui i ana evzht in JNoy Jersey. J