Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-06-04

Special Correspondence of'he Con.merciaL
CiilcAGo May 81, 1863.
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the eccentric minister,
now in attendance on the Methodist Conference
in this city, on Tuesday night lecturcd on :" Re-
collections of my Eiry Life" He was born in
1855, and by September will be cighty-three. Be-
gaming at eighteen, for sixty-five years Peter
Cartwright has preached the gospel, and is doubt
less the oldest effective clergyman in the country
Most of his ministry las been spent in these
Western regions enduring all sorts Of hardships,
riding long circuits on horseback, swimming
rivers, sleeping in tents and cabins, receiving
scanty pay Ills first years salary in Illinois was
forty dollars, and this with wife and six chill
drrn 10 support. Ills narrative was cnlivcned
with frequent touches of that humor which has
given his name kindred celebrity with that of
Lorenzo Dow or Rowland Hill. The old gentle
man talked an hour and a half in quite strong
voice. with little apparent fatigue. lie has full
shoulders about five feet six in height, and in his
prime. must have been stout specimen of man
hood
| BY late report to the Chamber of Commerce
it appears there are 3,0Dn,0O bushels Of grain 10
atorc. About one half of this amount was corn
the rest consisting of wheat oats, rye and barley
Tie business Of receiving all this grain as il en-.
tiers the city by and canal, or leaves by schoon
or is done by sixteen elevators, with a tota
capacity Of 1000 900 bushels. For example, th,
two elevators of Armour, Dole Il Co, the larges
in town have twcnty-nine of Fairbanks 800
bushel hopper-scales. Eighteen cars can be nm
loadcd in less than ten minutes and G,000 bush
els per hour can be discharged into vessel. III,
| Iapidity with which the scales can be operated IL
indeed marvellous.
Our Library Association is the happy recipien
Of princely gift from England. Ii may be re
, ncmbered that some time ago three sets of Brit
ish Patent-Ofiice Reports were presented to a
many different institutions in this country-th
] Aston Library, New York; Patent Office ut Wash
ington, and our Association here. OF the $50
volumes forming the entire set, $50 have beef
received and the remainder are soon to be for
wardcd. The initial number begins with the dc
scripton of a patent grated In 1917. Each vol
nme is deliberately illustrated, and will be of grea
value to mechanics and engineers.
Al the Opera House, on Tuesday evening, tn
Il Strikosch troupe gave Donlzctti's charming CON
ic opera, Don Pasqualc, to fashionable an
crowded house. La Grange and Brignoli wer
the leading singers. On Wednesday, Mt McVicl
Il er's Theatre, was presented new play, 18th
i Coming Woman" by Mrs. Curtis, of Boston,
is intended to exhibit an amusing picture of &c
cietv ten years hence according TO our preseI
rate of social progress
G Summer is opening around nsin all her charm
q rhcse soft balmy days, ms Irving says in tt
Sketch Book, dispose one to quote poetry an
fill the mind With music The trees are in tu
leaf, and the yards are gay with flowers an
e shrubbery. In the country vegetation is shootir
d rapidly forward. The wheat fields never ga,
= promise of richer havest. Corn planted la
q week is alreadyup. The market is well supple
If with strawberries from the South, ranging fro
fifteen to twenty-five cents per quart.