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afa $lt(ltnrg fllaindfalcr. ̂ J. TAN SLYXE, rmnunwwu <~ JlcHENRT, - ILLINOIS. THE HEWS CONDENSED. . " THE KAS*. • saloon fight, in Newark, N. J., ona t hust week, men, H®nry Weber end Henry Maaon were killed, end several otben bedly cat. AFrue^TioK has been made to Mr. Justice Osborne, at Albany, by Henry Smith, acting Iter the fun«r*i of N57 York, for *-- carder that the Continental Life Insurance Com­ pany, of the city of New York, show cause why its buBinees should not be cloet'd and the company du*8olvad, its effects distributed, and • rooeiver appointed to supersede the present One in the action of John A, White against the ootnpany. .The vrder is asked for on the Strength of the report of Acting Superintendent Smyth, of the Insurance Department, who has made an examination of the affairs of the company, and considers their assets insufficient 10 reimburse the outstanding risks. The order wae grentoi. • THS WEST. F*OK late San PranciBco papers we glean aome additional particulars of the recent terri- Wb calamity st a Chinese theater in tliat city, teief mention of which hao been made hereto­ fore. It appears that the disaster was occa­ sioned! by the matting catching fire from a Gbin&m&n'a cigarette. A cry of fire was im- ttiedi&teiy raised. It was benefit night, and the gallery and auditorium were crowded to their utmost capacity with fully 2,000 men. Those in the lower "and upper circles rushed for the dooi. The crowd surging from the auditorium broke the door down, while an jpiwanaa hmm from the gallery brofee down the rtpjr.csae and nrAcipitated themselves on the heads below. The large, heavy double doors, twelve by Bix feet, were wrested off their hingee, and twenty-five or thirty men from above fell upon them and crushed a large num­ ber beneath. It was impossible to extricate "them, and they were trampled and mangled by the panic- stricken crowd. Nineteen were killed and twenty-aeven wounded. In the meantime the fire had been subdued, and the actors con­ tinued the performance, which allayed the panic, doubtless preventing many others from destruction,. The calamity occurred at mid­ night, Policemen Just going on their beats were attracted by the veils and moans of the wounded and dying. The news spread all over Chinatown, and in a few minutes there was a perfect babel of confusion. The dead and wounded, horribly mangled, and blood oozing from their mouths, eyes and nosee, were ranged • the sidewalk, while the shrieks of men and women mingled with theirjagonizing groans The report of James H= Smart. Superintend­ ent of Public Instruction for Indiana for the year 1876. shows that the common school fund of the State of Indiana amounts to $6,428,- 771.04; Congressional fund, $2,442,189; total fund, $8,870,871.98 ; increase during the year, •71,680 .29. There are 9,244 acres of Congres­ sional school lands still unsold in the State. A PASSENGER train going west on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad collided with a freight train, one day last week, near Shoals, Ind., killing Engineer Scott and Fireman Keifer. Some passengers sustained Blight injuries, but none were severely hurt Dr. A. G. Long, for several years an Indian delegate in Wash­ ington, died one day last week, at Tishomingo, the capital of the Chickasaw nation. Dr. Long was at the time of his death a member of the Chickasaw Senate A collision took place be­ tween a "wild"' engine and the west-brund passenger express on the Louisville. Cincinnati and Lexington railway, one morning last week, by which John Ginther, engineer of the single engine, and Moses Brashear, fireman of the express train, were killed, and two other rail­ road employes were severely injured. The aocident occurred about sixteen miles from Louisville. A FEW days since a oommittee of twelve from the Board of Trade of Cbicago waited upon Judge McAllister, and presented him a petition signed by 8,000 citizens, asking him to resign. The cause of this request was hie alleged unfairness and prejudice in rulings in the Sullivan murder case, lately tried in that city. The petition was filed by the Judge. AN attempt was made, one evening lately, to perpetrate one of the most infamous outrages whicli the mind of man can conceive of--that of stealing the bones and ashes of Abraham Lincoln. The scheme was frustrated, through Mr. J. C. Power, custodian of the Lincoln mon­ ument, becoming convinced, in some manner, that there were designs upon the remains. He communicated his suspicions to Leonard Swett and Robert Lincoln, who ordered a guard to be set at the cemetery. Elmer Washburn, late Chief of the United States Secret Service, Detective Tyrrell, and three other men were stationed in Oakwood cemetery on the night in question,. The vandals were not arrested, but strong hopes are entertained of their capture. Hansom is the only conceivable reason lor the act AK accident occurred at Brownsville, Ind, on the Junction road, in which John Kelley, the Sretuksi. »u<l X^ujaoiln Scams, the engi­ neer <of a freight train, were injured, the for- •• Doer iti'tally. A misplaced switch V;LZ the cause. ^ THE SOUTH. AH accident occurred to an Eastern train on the Memphis and Little Rock railroad, the other night, near Edmundson, caused by the forward truck of a sleeping-car dropping down and throwing it over a trestle, pulling the next car off with it, and piling the passengers up to a pron.iflcuoiiB heap. Two passengers were killed, and about twenty injured. •' OERKRAL. THX returns of the National Agricultural Department for October indicate a reduction in the yield of the wheat crop of nearly one-sixth, While the quality is somewhat superior. Every section of. the Union indicates a reduced pro­ duct, except the Middle Statee, which increased about 2 per cent. The New England States fell off 4 per cent, the South Atlantic States 2 per cent., the Gulf States 27 per cent., the Southern Inland Statee 8 per oent., the States north of the Ohio river 14 per cent., the States west of the Mississippi river 27 per cent., the Pacific States nearly 2 per cent, These figures point to a yield of about 245,000,000 bushels. The rye crop of 1876 is reported 4 per cent, lees than that of 1875, but in quality it averages somewhat above its predeoeesor. The cot crop of 1876 showB a felling off of 27 per cent, compared with its Sredtceasor. Every section of the Union is efieieni. Buckwheat is folly an average. The barley crop is 9 per cent, lees th*n the average. THE case of P. W. Gilley, Jr., applying for an injunction against the Illinois Centra] rail­ road in reference to the bonds of the Missis- aippi Central railroad, has been decided, a New York court refusing the injunction ard sus­ taining the position taken by the Illinois Cen­ tral Railroad Company. A nmvY flood is reported from Cuba, caus­ ing damage in some port Lens greater than **>«» by the recent hurricane. The exact estimates cannot yet be made, but it is supposed that the sugar crop has suffered by both calamities, from 15 te 20 per cent. The crop will never­ theless be about as large as last year's. The tobacco crop will be retarded.... The Rev. Samuel D. Waddy, D. D., who was made Presi­ dent of the Weeieyan Methodist Conference in 1859, died last week. WASHINGTON. SOME of the prominent postoffice officials are of the opinion the Poetoffice Commission now investigating the subject of railway Kail trans- . fnrtation will recommend the re-establishment Of the fast mail train*, and will eupp< rt the recommendation by evidence of their neces­ sity. It appears that the testimony takc-n in nearly all of the Western 8tato» is singularly ^nanimoaa in favor of the restoration of this aystem. It is certain, however, tliat none of the railroads will restore these fast mails on- less increased compensation is given. • CHIEF JUSTICE WAITS has announoed the decision of the United States Supreme Court upon the application of Mrs. Belva A. Lock- wood for admission to practice in that oourt. The decision was in the negative, it being held that none bat men may practice as attorneys and counselors before that august body. Thrkk raes, John Wright. Sr., John Wright. Jr., and James Bodreman, were drowned while oroseing in a boat from Ellis to English Bay. 80 saya a recent Quebec, Can., dispatoh. FOREIGN. OFFICIAL dispatches both from St. Fot6W- burg and Belgrade, the Servian capital, an- nnnnftA that the Porte has finally complied with the demand of Russia fur an armistice, and that a two months' truce has been agreed upon, commencing Nov. 1. The opposing armies are to retain the positions which they now hold. THE Armenians, some 4.000,006 strong, not of the Sclavonic race, now see their oppor­ tunity, and ask the Porte to be freed fiom the Mosleaa rule of feudal lords in Asia Minor Prince Bismarck is seriously ill. His physi­ cians fear softening of the brain The for­ eign Am base ad ore met at the residence of Sir Henry Elliott, the British Ambassador at Con­ stantinople, Nov. 3, to settle upon a method of determining a demarkation liue between the belligerent armies....Decrees were recently issued at Peris pardoning or commuting the sentence of fifty-two Communists. "• CONTBABT to prevailing reports, no corre­ spondence has recently* passed between the Governments of the United States and Spain concerning an extradition treaty. There is now no serious subject of controversy between the United States and Spain, the latter having; in a spirit of friendship acceded to the views of the former for the trial of American citizens in the island of Cuba accused of crime before civil tribunals Cardinal Antonelli, the Pope's Prime Minister, died at Rome on Mon­ day last. He was 70 years of age The merchants of Havre, dealing in salt pro­ visions have petitioned the French Senate to abolish the duty of 4 per cent, which was add­ ed in 1874 to the duty of foreign saltings Their petition especially refers to saltings from this country A dispatch from Paratcliin re­ ports that the Servian army can hardly be said to exist. It is utterly disorganized. The roads are covered with snow. Fugitives and soldiers are dying like rotten sheep. LEBDO Tejada was declared elected President of Mexico by 131 to 45. The Pronunciados are throwing down their arms in various direc­ tions. Their resources are all exhausted, and a fined collapse is expected. Oaxaca still gives trouble, but General Diaz and his followers are compelled to keep in the mountains, and are afraid to meet the Government troops The Duchess of Aosta, the ex-Queen of Spain, is dead Gen. Tchernayeff arrived at Belgrade last week, aooompanied by 200 Russian offioere. IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION. Al- Be- The Original Amount of a Note tered by Chemicals Cannot be covered. [From the Boston Herald, Oot. 90.1 The Supreme Court has sent down a rescript in the case of the Citizens' Na­ tional Bank vs. Biohmond. This was a suit to recover on a note for $500, made by Lucius W. Pond, of Worcester. It appears that in August, 1875, Pond applied to the defendant to indorse the note, being a note for $500, and the defendant indorsed it for Pond's accom­ modation. Pond thereupon, by the use of chemicals, rendered invisible the words " five hundred " and the figures " 500," and wrote over them the words "two thousand" and the figures "2,000." Pond then procured the plaintiff bank, in the ordinary course of business, to discount the note, and the bank did so, being entirely innocent of the fraud. Before this note became due, Pond was arrested and imprisoned for a large number of similar transac­ tions. The plaintiff bank, after the maturity of the note, applied to the writing, which set forth the amount for •which the note was given, a solution of nutgalls, and this application revealed that the change had been made from $500 to $2,000. The defendant was present and did not object when the nutgall was applied. The note was demanded and protested as a note for $500 and $2,000, and the defendant was duly notified as an indorser by two notices, one treating the note as $500 and ^mother as a note for $2,000. The case was tried in the Superior Court for Worcester- county, and the court ruled that the plaintiff could not recover, and the plaintiff alleged excep­ tions. The Supreme Court has given judgment for the defendant, holding that "the defendant never made the note for $2,000, which was the only one that the plaintiff accepted." From a Man-of-war to a Freighter. War memories were revived in Erie, Pa., a few days ago, by the reappear­ ance of the old Confederate propeller Georgian. She was built at Severn river, Georgian bay, Canada, in 1864, and sold to a Southerner, who pretended to be a lumber merchant, but who was in reality an agent of the Confederate Government. She passed through the Welland Canal into Lake Erie, bound for some Canadian port on Lake Huron, where she was to receive her guns and armament, and then proceed to John­ son's island, off Sandusky, Ohio, and liberate the rebel prisoners. The United States Government was informed of her intentions, and applied to the Canadian Government for her seizure, and when she touched Saraia, opposite Port Hu­ ron, in November, 1864, she was taken possession of by the authorities. Suit was brpught by the United States for her condemnation. Gn Jan. 24, 1865, the Confederate agent made a pretense of selling her to George T. Denison, Jr., of Toronto, for $13,000. On June 3, 1868, the suit was decided in favor of the United States, and Mr. Denison executed a deed conveying her to the Government without condition. The propeller now carries freight between Montreal and ports on the north shore of Lake Erie. The Last Fee. Dr. Woo a ward, a Glasgow physician of the last century, had a patient who always had his fee in his hand to give the doctor as he felt his pulse. One day Woodward arrived only to hear that a few minutes before his patient had died. "Impossible!" cried the doctor, "he cannot be dead yet. Let me see him-- some trance or heavy sleep, perhaps." The doctor accordingly went to the bed­ side in a darkened apartment.^ He felt the pulse, and also a couple of guineas in the dead man's hand, which he took quietly in his own as honestly earned. "Ay, ay! poor fellow," said the doctor, "he is dead. There's a destiny in all things." And with this tag of morality he went on his way. ILLINOIS ITEMS. TBB wheat crop in the vicinity of Lynnville, Morgan oounty, la said to be the best sinoe 1856. THE cholera is playing havoc with the swine in the neighborhood of Mt. Car- mel. Many farmers ace sustaining heavy losses. A® Qair.cy, a few days ago, two col­ ored men, named Thomas Johnson and William Capman got into a dispute about Borne trifling matter, which resulted in the latter striking the former in the head •with a hatchet, fraoturing the skull in three places, and making seme ugly wounds, from which it is extremely doubtful whether he will recover. THE Rev. Josephus Collins, of Milan, Bock Island oounty, who was reoently accused of conduct unbecoming a min­ ister of the gospel, has promptly an­ swered to the charge filed against him in the civil oourt, and has in a most trium­ phant manner vindicated himself. The case was tried before Justice Krause, of Peoria, and after an examination of two days' duration it was decided that there was no cause of action, and Collins was discharged. So says a Book Island dis­ patch. THE pay-train on the Peoria and Bock Island railroad jumped the track about two and a half miles east of Milan, one day last week. The engine and pay-car were turned on their sides, and the en­ gineer, George Courtney, was caught by the lever in such a way that it took an hour to extricate him. He was burned and cut in his feet and left side. His fireman, Gus Parson, had one of his hands and his heacf bruised. They were both taken to Bock Island on a special car for medical aid. Paymaster James, of Peoria ; Road master Henry Marshall, Mr. Sudlow, of Coal Valley, and David Ballman, of Bock Island, were in the car, but were not injured. URIAH B. HAWLEY, Special Agent of the Postoffice Department, with head­ quarters at Chicago, died at his resi­ dence in that city a few days since. On the 29th of December, 1871, Mr. Haw- ley was appointed Speoial Agent in the Postoffice Department by Postmaster General J. A. J. Creswell, and was as­ signed to duty in the West. At that time the Special Agents worked inde­ pendently of one another, submitting their reports to the Chief of the Divis­ ion of Mail Depredations at Washington. Mr. Hawley, possessing more than or­ dinary ability, and an aptitude for his new business, became, in a little time, one of the most efficient officers in the service. And so much confidence did his superiors have in his capacity that when­ ever a case occurred in the West which baffled the other Special Agents it was turned over to him with the remark, " If it can be got at, Hawley is the man to do it." His knowledge of tne law, acquired dur­ ing his occupancy of the position of Clerk of the Superior Court of Cook county, which he held for two terms pre­ vious to his entering the Postoffice De- Eartment, was of immense benefit to 1m, and, always knowing what he was doing, he never made any mistakes. Pre­ vious to assuming the duties of Special Agent, a large amount in money was an­ nually stolen from letters. While some of the thieves were caught, the robbers were not kept in check, doubtless owing to the lack of detective skill on the part of those employed to run down the crim­ inals. Hawley went to work in a nfh- tematic way, and he lessened the num­ ber of thefts, and made peculation with­ out arrest as near an impossibility as human agencies can bring it. When a larceny was reported, Hawley took hold of it with a determination to get at the thief, and, though months were some­ times required, he invariably succeeded in catching his mail and convicting him. that they had so narrowly escaped a most fearful disaster. It is said that the upward train was in fault, not having stopped the required time at Fort Wash­ ington. "The blessed air-brakes" saved /nany lives. A SOUTHERN CYCLOKE. The Cost ot Charity. The following figures from the manu­ script of the report of the State Board of Public-Charities show the income and expenses of each of the State institutions for the two fiscal years ending Sept. 30, 1876, with the balance on hand to the credit of each on that date: 3EOOME. 1875. * 1876. NuitLfctxi iiinauc Hospital S04,40(!.tU $112,169.63 OpiitiftJ Insane Ho pital 110,26^.03 135 224.88 Southern Incs-iie Hospital...,113,964 86 107,332.13 Deaf and Dumb Institute 103.416.86 106,8>3.60 Blind Asylum 30,151.45 30,339.07 Institute for Fteble-Minded Children 32,940.00 103,823.72 Soldiers' Orphans' Home 49,119.77 64,128.48 Eye and Ear Infirmary .. 17,462 02 18,829.82 Keform School 36,869.41 39,683.43 EXPENSES. 1875. 1876. Northern Insane Hospital. ...$98,917.42 $107,811.88 Central Insane Hospital 88,648.00 11?,016,83 Southern Insane Hospital 105,2411.89 93,f 41.10 Deaf and Dumb Institute.... 83,117.65 99,916.89 Blind Asylum 29,716.93 28,974.85 Institute for Feeble-Minded Children 31,237.14 103,802.67 8oldiers' Orphans' Home 47,916.72 48,090.96 Eye and Ear Infirmary 11,833.37 14,408.06 Reform School 37,076 63 36,123.27 BALANCES ON HAND SEPT. 30, 1876. Northern Insane Hospital $ 4,357.95 Central Insane Hospital 23,207.65 Southern Insane Hospital 13,791.03 Institute for Deaf and Dumb 6,937.11 Blind Asylum 1,364.22 Iiintituto for Feeble-Minded Children 21.05 Soldiers' Orphans' Home : 6,037.52 Kye and Ear Infirmary 1,421.26 Ueform School 3,460.66 It will be noted that there is no deficit in the funds of any of the institutions, and it is believed that this fact has never before occurred. But it is also to be noted that while the fiscal year 1875 con­ cluded on Dec. "31, and so consisted of twelve calendar months, the fiscal year 1876 ended according to the act of the last General Assembly on Sept. 30, and thus included only ten calendar months. A Thrilling Incident on the Railroad. The Pottsville Miners' Journal prints the following: A thrilling incident occurred on the North Pennsylvania railroad, near Am­ bler station, one night recently. The western express down, crowded with 600 passengers, was dashing along at a rapid rate, while an excursion train, at equal speed, and about the same num­ ber of passengers, was flying up to meet it. The curve above Ambler station prevented the engineers from eeeing each other's trains until they were al­ most together. One train was provided with air-brakes, which were instantly applied, while the brakes of the other train were also frantically jerked to the last notch. Fire flew in streams from the air-brakes by the terrible friction, but they stopped the train when the locomotives were but a car's length apart. Yeiy few of the passengers knew All the Inhabitants ot » Small Island Swept Awajr by^ht Waves--Extraordi­ nary Suiterlngs of the Crew of a United Stated Steamer. A letter from Key West, giving the experiences ef the United States steamer Ossippee in the storm of the 19th and 20th of October, says: "The men, in getting about the decks to attend to their duties, were thrown violently from their i6ct Aiiu blinded by the Gait spray, and were obliged to go groping about as if they were in total darkness. They could only stick to their stations by the most desperate struggling against the hatches, grating, doors, deck- buckets, and many other artioles* that were being swept back and forth across the decks by the rushing of the water as the ship rolled and tossed. Breath­ ing was difficult, and the air taken into the lungs was so loaded with sea salts that it caused excessive irritation, pro­ ducing violent coughing and vomiting. The suffering of the men was most in­ tense, especially among the firemen and coal heavers, who were not only deprived of ventilation, but obliged to inhale the salt-water steam produced by the sea rushing into the fire-room. It was then thought advisable to encourage the men by the use of stimulants. The surgeon found a sufficient quantity to give all hands a "tot" each, and sent it to the cabin to be dis­ tributed. The effect of the storm on the animals on board was peculiar. The cats disappeared the morning before the storm, and were not seen for five dajs afterward. The dog Daniel, a splendid pointer, owned by the Captain, exhibited the greatest dread at being left alone, and was only ap peased when some one was petting him. The hens and turkeys, usually the most hungry and voracious and quarrel some beasts on board, forgot their hun­ ger, and barely opened their eyes when food was thrown to them. Two birds, bobos, a species of pelican, came on board while we were lying in the vortex. They must havo been drawn down while attempting to fly over us. The parrot was the only thing on board that seemed at all to enjoy the surroundings. The storm commenced on the 19th, and lasted twenty-six hours, and was intensely violent. The seas made clean sweeps over the vessel, and the sailors suffered severely. She lost her fore an£ main-top-gallant-mast, and much per sonal property was destroyed. The storm came up over Cuba, and passed over Key West, leaving a track of desolation in its rear. Much prop erty was destroyed, and several lives were lost. The island of Kaya Sarga was flooded, and its entire population swept away. There were about 400 people there. One vessel was capsized in Key West harbor, and all hands drowned. The storm is pronounced the severest that has visited Key West since 1845. A Traveling Bank. About six months ago a man entered the bar of the Belvidere House, corner of Calvert and Franklin streets, and called for a drink, which he took and withdrew. It was noticed at the time that he was very much intoxicated. About an hour afterward J. P. Powers, one of the proprietors, found a small valise behind the door which he sup­ posed had been left by the stranger, and accordingly had it put away, thinking he would certainly call for it again. A few days after Detectives Mitchell and Kimmel visited the house, inquiring if a man named John L. Johnson had stopped there. Although he had re­ mained in the bar-room but a short while, Mr. Powers recognized his visitor of a few days before from the description furnished by the detectives, and in formed them of the valise left in the sa­ loon. This was the object of their search, as it contained $35,000 in bonds and greenbacks, which were delivered by the detectives to Joiinson. Nothing more was heard of him until yesterday, when Detectives Gault and Pontier ar­ rested John Parsons, of the American House, corner Calvert and Franklin streets, upon the charge of having stolen $285 from Johnson. The latter said he was kept up by Parsons until a late hour Monday night drinking, and that when taken to his room he remembered being considerably jostled and pulled about. The case was brought before Justice Gaff yesterday afternoon and dismissed for want of evidence. Johnson hails from Pennsylvania, and has a brother in Indianapolis, Ind., who is a banker. The latter, it is said, keeps him liberally supplied with funds.-- Baltimore Ga­ zette. A Dreaded Bandit's Death. The killing of the desperate bandit Ohato Alejandro, was characteristic. He commanded 400 men. He took up a position at Huitzilao. Col. Ugalde of the Federals, attacked him, and, after a desperate fight, in which the Revolu­ tionists lost forty in killed and wounded, and the Federals fourteen killed and eleven wounded, the Revolutionists fled, and their leader was shot through the brain while trying to escape from a house in which he had taken shelter. Chato Alejandro, whose real name was Alejandro Gutieirez, had been made a Brigadier General by Gen. Diaz. On one occasion ho kidnapped the wealthy Don Santos Degollado. He asked his victim what he would give to be re­ leased, and Degollado replied that he would give everything in his posses­ sion. He then handed the bandit a gold watch, a sum of money, and other val­ uables. These the wretch pocketed, and calmly taking out his revolver shot his victim through the brain. His hands were red with the blood of his country­ man.--San Francisco Chronicle. LENGTH of service in the British army often extends beyond the limits usual in this country. Attention has been di­ rected to the case of Col. Henry Grier- son, retired from the Fifteenth Foot, after a service of forty-three years in the corps, six of which were passed in it in company with his father, the late Lieut. Col. W. Grierson, who joined the rgi- ment as Captain in August, 1804. Thus father and son served in the regiment upward of seventy-two years. i THE POLAR SEA. Bnglaad's Attempt to rind its Pol* m-.Wikt Faroe that Cost 9750,000. [I. I. Hayes in New York Herald.) I Mve always believed in the esttiiee of an open Polar sea. I think I stood upon its shores in 1861. I believe that sea navigable, and I am utterly at a loss to understand why the Alert and Dis­ covery did not sail upon its waters, un­ less we assume that the spirit which animated Baffin, Ross, Parry, and the long list of Arctic heroes has died out with the advance of steam, the telegraph, and home comforts. Now, please re­ member that this great English expedi­ tion really etarted where I left off. The north pole was only approached by Hume eighty miles nearer than I ap­ proached it. It is said that the ice was eighty feet thick. In plain English, I don't believe it, tod I don't understand how it happened that a grand expedition, fitted out with such a great flourish of trumpets, at such enormous cost, should have got frightened after one winter, and hurried home with the old cry that the north pole can't be reached. They did not stay there long enough to tell anything about it. To be sure, the matter of getting to the north pole is of little consequence in a business point of view. It may be of no consequence whatever, but here is an expedition fitted out expressly to do it; has unlimit­ ed time; has every possible advantage, has the unqualified support of the British Government, and envet, frighted by one winter's experience, hurries home to re­ port another failure. The Polaris did better, for even after the death of poor Capt. Hall it stuck until it was crushed by the ice. Had Capt. Buddington been imbued with the same emotions as actuated Capt. Hall I believe he could have steamed to the north pole, and I venture to say that, whether the Alert could or could not have gone there, one year's experience was not enough to prove it. I am a firm believer in an open Polar sea. It is not a sea available for the pur poses of commerce, but it is certainly a sea or ocean, as you may please to call it. Whatever interest attaches to it is of a purely scientific character. To pujrsue science requires patience, and to go with a great Government expedition, especially to make scientific discoveries, with the distinct understanding that there is no other motive, seems to me to i equire something more than a simple " It can't be done." So far as getting to the north pole is concerned, I am sure it can be done, and in failing to do it after only one year's trial I think the English expedition has shown a lament­ able lack of English pluck. They say they had a dreadful time of it, some people were frozen and three or four of them died. That was their own fault. Traveling in the Arctic regions is not more terrible or more dangerous than traveling anywhere else. It is a matter of care and judgment. Accidents may happen, but it is the duty of a com­ mander to see that they don't happen. I believe I have made as long a sledge journey as any one on record. I experi­ enced a temperature during that journey of 70 degrees below zero, and yet there was never in ali the sixty days occupied by the journey so much as a frost-bite to any of the party, and yet that was in the exact region where the English ex­ pedition has been, finding, as they say, eighty feet of ice. The Polaris was in the same quarter and got nearly as far north. The Polaris met with no such ice, but met with the same evident demoraliza­ tion. In my opinion there is no serious trouble about getting to the north pole, but I don't believe it can be done in one year and may be not in two, and I must say, and that most emphatically, that the results of this last of the Arctic expedi­ tions are in no way commensurate with its pretensions any more than they are with its opportunities. Its like will never be seen again, and the chance for a giand achievement has been thrown away. In short, the whole thing is a failure without the explanatory clause, " We stuck till the last moment, and did what we could." They had food and all manner of stores for two years more, and should, in my judgment, have stayed there until those stores were eaten up. In the Arctics it is generally down to 29 degrees, but even there it does not freeze unless the air is entirely calm, for water in motion does not freeze. I have seen waves rolling at 50 degrees below zero, without a particle of ice in sight. The next day, when the air fell to calm, the whole sea was covered with a crystal mantle. The Arctic ocean is over 2,000 miles in diameter, and if anybody will once get over the land-clinging ice belt and into the middle of the Arctic sea he might sail there to his heart's content, and I, for one, cannot see why this En­ glish expedition should so soon have abandoned the field. There are certain avenues to this great, mysterious, un­ known water. There is the oft-tried Behring Strait, there is Baffin bay, there is the Spits­ bergen sea and the Greenland sea. In this last quarter the Germans have found a new land. This land lies mid­ way between Soitzbergen and Nova Zembla, which land I predicted many years ago in an address before the American Geographical Society. It completes the almost continuous line of land that invests the great Polar basin. In conclusion, allow me to say that this great English expedition from which so much was expected lookfe very like a farce. The Pandora was sent out to carry letters, which she left at Littleton island, near where I wintered in 1860- 61, and, with the best intentions in the world, discovered the great expedition, not where it was expected to be, but in mid-ocean on its way home. And now, after all, the great object has not been attained. The scientific world and the curious of all civilized nations are griev­ ously disappointed. Foronce they were convinced that, since the British Gov­ ernment had expended its best efforts and spent its means to the extent of $750,000, we should have some positive knowledge as to what nature is busy with about the north pole. A Big Plum for Philadelphia. The cash receipts at the gates of the Centennial Exhibition will not be far from $3,000,000. For every dollar that has been spent in half-dollar admission to the exhibition, not less than §3 have been spent in board and lodging in Phil­ adelphia, making $9,000,000; $6 for traveling expenses, making it $18,000;- 000, ana say $5 for some article of wear or use that would not have been pur­ chased save for the trip, making $15,- 000,000, and we have from these few ^emsalone the «tolerbul » neat sum of $4o,000,000 spent by the American peo­ ple upon this part of their 10©th birth- day fete, about a quarter of whioh will be ieft m and about the city that love* us x ke urothers. what wonder if th» country feels "awful poor" again prely SUICIDE. And How to Prevent It. [From the London Saturday Be view.] R has often been said of people shghtiy insane, who commit or attempt suicide that they are moved by unreason­ ing selfishness or vanity. Even vanifcr might, and we venture to think would be m many cases overborne by the rec­ ollection that suicide is murder, and that the person who commits it will be treated after death as a felon--his body buried without Christian rites, his family dis­ graced and his property lost to them. The man who could make and sign a dis­ position of his property with the inten­ tion of suicide clearly in his mind would be more determined on seLf-deatraction than certainly a half of the persons who at present commit the dreadful act. It has not, we believe, been denied by medical men that the homicidal & frequently restrained by the fear of pun­ ishment, But, as the law is at present worked, many cases occur in which the maniac coolly counts upon the immu­ nity which will attend Ins crime. The same feeling may work upon suicides. They may, and no doubt often do, know and believe that under no circumstances- will the old law be brought to bear upon their case. Among recent examples there is a large proportion in which the suicide, however insane upon the one point, was perfectly sane upon every­ thing else, and there being no restrain­ ing thought in the fear of legal conse­ quences, has been left to commit self- murder as an act affecting himself alone. Thete are many men to whom disgrace pears worse than death. Such a feel- ng is not uncommon even among those whose intellects are considerably disor­ dered.^ Stealing, adultery, blasphemy are quite impossible to many a man who will yet commit suicide. The idea of hurting another is often more repugnant' than that of hurting one's self. There are many with whom a consid­ eration of the injury done their families would operate powerfully as a deterrent, even more powerfully than the desire to gratify the suicidal impulse. Passion is thus controlled, and the man who would stick at no crime to attain an end where his own longings are concerned, is yet held back by the consequences his rash­ ness may bring upon those whom he loves, or even those with whom he wishes to stand well. It is not possible to believe that if every intelligent suicide--that is, every suicide wh®se intellect has only failed on the one point--could be shown, whether by argument or by witnessing the experience of others, that his crime would be punished by social disgrace, he might not be induced to hesitate, and, as in all diseases, time gained would be life saved. The impulse is often transient. Re­ strained for a sufficient period, it dies out, and every consideration, legal or moral, which can be used for its re­ straint should be diligently sought out and employed. Half a dozen verdicts of " felo de se " would have a stronger influence, we are convinced, upon in­ tending suicides, and would have a greater effect upon the annual number of cases than any medical treatment what< ever. A CORRESPONDENT sends the following: "A pair of heavy, thicksoled, calf skin boots had been worn two years, creaking uproariously at every step. I could stand it no longer. I determined to con- 3uor them, and I did it thus: I saturated le insoles thoroughly with kerosene oil, and sat them aside a couple of days to exhale their fragrance. When I next put. them on they creaked as badly as ever, but I had not walked half a mile before they were as silent as kittens; the soles, which before were so stiff and unyielding that I could only wear them two or three hours at a time, became soft and pliable, readily accommodating themselves to the shape of my feet, and now are as easy to wear as moccasins. 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