The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-08-10 00:00:00

THE YOUNGEST AMERICAN "CITY."

A correspondent of the New York Times writes, in July,
from Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, as follows:
"This is what may be called a roaring camp.'
People are swarming in from all directions. The main
street is thronged by builders, expectant tradesmen,
prospectors, labourers, clerks, all in good spirits over
the promise of the new mines, and anxious to get settled
down to business as soon as possible. Over 500 build-
ings have been put up in the last 90 days, yet there are
not enough to shelter the population. There are from 20
to 50 arrivals every day. The population of this camp
now exceeds 4,000, almost wholly the result of the big
rush since February. Within five miles, in small
camps, colonies, and prospecting parties, there are as
many more people. So the great silver-lead 'finds'
in California Gulch have already built up a 'magic
city'—Leadville, from which I write—located in that
part of California Gulch where it broadens out, three
miles above its junction with the Arkansas River. It
stands at an altitude of more than 10,000 ft., over a

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mile higher than Denver. The height brin,gs cold
nighti and frosts in michaummer, and storms of snow
and rain as late as July. A year ago Leadville was
unnamed. There was nothing to indicate that the site
it occupies would ever be built upon. Now it is a city well
laid out, with some of the buildings quite metropolitan;
daily stages, a money-order post-office, a daily news-
peer, two banks, hundreds of stores and offices,
1 a . city government, police system, public school,
, churches—almost who2ly the work of the past four
months. It is freely said by those who always croak
that the 'bottom will drop out' of Leadville before
long. But we are writing of the present. The ore,
which is being freighted to the railroad for shipment
to the works at Omaha and St. Louis, carries a value
of silver and lead of from 75 dols. to 100 dols, a ton,
on the average, and a great deal of it is worth four or
five times as much. Five months' work of seven men
in one mine' costing 7,000 dole, for wages material,
&c., turned out ore that brought the owners
45,000 dais. in cash. What is known as the
Camp Bird Mine, for which St. Louis parties paid
250,000 dols. is turning out from 2,000 dole. to 3,000 dots.
worth of ore per day with tne work of 40 men.
The Dana has yielded 75,000 dole. in two months.
These are some of the 'big things' that this camp
can boast of. Miners' wages are from 2 dole. 50e. to
3 dols, per day. It is the opinion of ore buyers and
others who ought to be good judges that the out-put of
sf silver and lead from the present producing
mines in this camp, during the year, will be about
1,500,000 dole. There is a chance that this may be
more than doubled, and even quadrupled, by the
°yelling of new mines. The completion of railways
tci Leadville, by way of the Platte and Arkansas
canons, will open to tourists new wonders in Colorado,
arid give them access to scenery and resorts hereto.
fore almost inaccessible. The ride through the grand
canons will rival anything to be found in the
Yosemite. And, best of all, the Twin Lakes, with the
most picturesque surroundings to be found anywhere
in: the Rocky Mountains, are brought within easy
, reach of the tourist and invalid. These two bodies of
' water, a mere strip of land separating them, are repe-
titions of Lake George on a small scale. Here, at
Lpadville, we may see some wonders if our eyes are
open. Up and down the gulch and far up the
mountain sides men hurry about as if crazy. At
night they will be thronging the bar-rooms or
, huddling together at the street corners, excitedly
diecuseing the 'finds' of the day. And while all this
mad clamour and rush for wealth is going on, you
can look over to the neat dwellings and see the tidy
hdusewife singing at her work and the school children
coming happily from their tasks. While I sit writing
-two little misses approach and invite me to join in
their Sabbath-school pieni). The neat invitation
cards which they offer set forth that 'Our altitude is
over 10,000 feet, our scenery the sublimest on the con-
tinent, our climate the most salubrious, and our people
the freest of the free.' Who will say that with allthe
mad thirst for gold, men do not also remember better
things."
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THE LOSS OF THE MABEL CLARK.
A telegram received from Lloyd's agents at Batavia
statee that the Cambrian Monarch, from Sunderland
to Singapore, had arrived at Anjer, and reported
having picked up a boat with some persons in it, form-
ing a portion of the crew of the American ship Mabel
Clark, from Liverpool to Hong Kong, which was lost
in June last on the island of Tristan d'Acunha.
Llivd's agent at Madras reports under date of 22nd
June that the Gladstone had been spoken with the
other side of the Cape of Good Hope, and signalled
that the captain of the Mabel Clark, his wife, family,
and fifteen of the crew had been saved, and that six
is
iru n had been drowned. It therefore inferred from
th telegram now received from Batavia that the
persons saved by the Cambrian Monarch are the six
seamen who were supposed to have been drowned.
The Mabel Clark was a new ship, having only been
built last year, and she was valued at £17,000.
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THE OUTRAGES IN BULGARIA.
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The Tinies of Tuesday putilishea the following letter :
Oir,—Absence from England in search of health has
prevented my saying in the House of Lords what I
venture now to commit to paper.
Much as I rejoice in the recent diminution and the
ap'proaching downhill of the Turkish Empire, I view
with horror the inhuman conduct of those who are the
corquerors, and of those who ate entsrine into the full
le tit of the conquests. It almost leads one to believe
t the whole thing has been conceived and executed
in I sheer hypocrisy.
The Bulgarians, having prated of civil and reli.dous
liberty, are become the fiercest oppressors, not only of
the Mussulmau, but of every large section of the
Christian populations. They seem bent on a competi-
tion with the Bashi-Bazouks, who so frequently and so
effectually ravaged their country,
The Russians appealed to the eympathies of Europe
as undertaking, single-handed, a war for no other pur-
pose than to put down bloodshed and Plunder, and
secure to all the inhabitants of the invaded provinces,
and specially the Christians, the enjoyment of life,
property, and honour. But the reports of Her Ma-
jeiity's Consuls, which appeared in your impression of
yeaterday, reveal a state of things which is in direct
aad flagrant contradiction of those noble professions,
and which, if there be any humanity extant, must stir
th consciences of all Europe.
soldiery, to
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if
Russian
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changed, will be discreditable to even the Emperor
himself.
Pardon me for asking a place in your columns. I
find it difficult to repress what I feel on the matter.
It is an appeal to public opinion, which in these days,
thank God, is oftentimes effective.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant, SHAPTESRURY.

Homburg, August 2.

The Council of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society
have decided, by a large majority, to hold next year's show
at 14,-,eds.
The death i 4 announced of Captain John de Courcy
Dashwood, R.N., aged 76. He entered the Royal Navy in
1814, and served as a midshipman during the American war
Of 1816, taking part in the expedition to New Orleans. As
lieutenant of the Windsor Castle, commanded by his father,
the late Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Dashwood, he was stationed
oil Lisbon during the rebellion in 1824, when Iling John VI.
took refuge on board the Windsor Castle, and subsequently
conferred decorations on the officers of the ship in commemo-
ration of the occasion, Lieutenant Dashwood receiving the
Portuguese Order of the Town and Sword. lie was promoted
a retired commander in 1864.

THE QUESTION OF MIXED
, MARRIAGES.
Vice-Chancellor Mahills had before him on Monday
a petition by Mrs. Agar-Ellis, a daughter of Lori
Camoys, against the carrying out of a scheme framed
by her husband for the education of her three children
—whom he has made wards of Chancery—as Pro-
testants, she being a Roman Catholic, and alleging
that she married Mr. Agar-Ellis on the strength of a
distinct promise that the children of the marri.ge
should he educated in the Roman Catholic faith.

The Vice-Chancellor, in 'giving judgment, said that
even a positive promise by a father that his children
should be brought up in a religion other than his own
could not be held binding upon him and could not be
enforced, although the wife might have contracted the
marriage relying upon it. By the law of England and
by thels,w of Christianity it was the duty of the wife
to submit to her husband, and if Mr. Ellis had made
up his mind to have the chilren educated in the Pro.
testant religion, it was her duty t 3 submit to his wishes,
and by that means only could she bring about the
happiness of her family.
The petition was dismissed with costs,- and an order
was made that the children were not to be taken again
to a Roman Catholic church, that they were not to be
taken to confession, and that Mrs. Ellis was not to
inculcate in their minds any of the distinctive doctrines
of the Roman Catholic Church until further order.