New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-09
GENERAL NOTES.

The movement is still onward We hear of a
Club he Rossin of musical ladies in Portland Me. Mrs.
bennett the President thereof Yields the baton with
the precision grace and vgor OF Bergman Zerrahn
indeed II Tey Mre W Wond the es basos
and h2d Tnf T9 WOE y aS lSf
TO say entire Club is under pettcoat government
and The crustiest double performer take his
tempos from the accomplished Mrs bennett, As chorus
orchestra and all start of with presto and clnD 70 the
very top wave OF cIescendo imagine St. Cecilia
looking from the skies with approval, or even mTacu
lousy calling to Mis- bennett to take the movenent
little slower.
The irrepressible editor of The Caucasian,
weekly published in Missouri declares that he will never
quit editing while God gives him strength "to swing
pencil stick moral cookie burr under the Grpper of
oyaE ana sa ad G hoIrd naraIbl
MALTA, is seourged bowling back TO its native hell"
forty millions OF American WHITE BONDsMES, and Free
DOM Peace, Prosperity, once more reign triumphant
from Moosehead Lake to popoeaapet from SHOWDOWN
heroic resolution the part of the gentle editor is the
damnednent tbroGchout the .'UnTed states Of New
Africa Exercised IS no nano for the state OF MS feel
ngs. He must let OF or burst Just listen to his tale
Of woe
ton boorh ayag those relations are to-day dining on roast
old women and frease s 70 wos eaaaoa TASTE, no da Is 80
gbberng ae-niege ignorant S mn and VIII no more oni than
MEsoURI-,SD THOUSAND WHITE MRs
DIsgK.ScnsEp POLITICAL ourc1[s, SLAVES $40 A.. r Co.
This agonlzng Indeed The case Is one mat calls Tor
sympathy. Not at all To be commended is the course of
Indiana which Violently attackS TINS nlsor-
able editor, and gets itself referred to as little niger
newspaperia snOOrag, all the way from Mormon sham
ing Indiana and otherwise severely used up Soothing
strip and kind treatment must he employed in such
cases Inc action OF the 3laln Is no. qute regular and
the subject is not TO be held responsible OF course.
1t is refreshing to know that there is some
body enthusiastic about Alaska. "Mr Dali" says the
official document before the House respecting the survey
of Alaska and the Alentian Islands, "is OF sincere
and honest enthusiasm He proposes photographic
reconnaissance and very hydr0gTaphe IN tat climate Of
fog and rain his abors are likely IL be. He says that
only during the Winter season will IL be possible To deter
mine the astronomical points and he expects survey
but not thorough tiangulatOn. single fact which he
adduees sufficiently shows the deporabe effectiveness
of present information regarding those islands In 1865
an American vessel sailing according 70 the best charts
between Unmak and Alaska, found only two or three
feet OF water where the chart had 10 fathoms. Had the
weather been rough she could not have been saved In
the vicinity Of Nnivak Island there has been survey
since 1920 the charts differ with each other much
they probably DO with TRUTH and the world knows
much of the facts in that vicinity Goldsmith when he
described the slong howl from Oonalaskas shore
Smuggers make these coasts their haunts and
cutters cannot follow them In 1858 the brig Pfeil OF
Honolulu, following the icepack" at its earliest open
and to the Sandwich Islands before the revenue
cutter had entered B6hring Sea. The same year the
seized aud occupied OF the Russian American Com
Panys forts on the river and disposed OF quantity OF
The surf beats eternaly upon these shores, and MI
DalPs undertaking is not without spice OF danger
About $4,000 is its estimated cost.
An interesting discovery is reported from the
Mississippi River the mouth of the Arkansas which
Is less than the finding OF ancient vessel buried
under island, and supposed TO be that in which De
SOtos body 800 sunk at mldnlght In the
midst OF the river. When vessel or steamer sinks and
rests upon the bed Of the Mississippi an island Is ut
matey formed by the deposition OF sand made by the
broken current round about and upon It, Higher and
higher in the lapse OF years grows the hock OF sand
which constitutes the vessels until last IL rises
above the river surface, and is warmed by the sunlight
and crowned with vegetation. Many islands In the Mis-
sissppi covered with yerdre and growth OF forest,
their existence TO such certain captain the
river who devotes himself to dragging from its depths
sunken property, knows the island formed a
boat wrecked in 1874 with 800 barrels of whisky ON
board He proposes 10 IL, and the interesting
question win come up at the same time 10 whether
that whisky has paid tax or not. He also knows the
island which steamer sunk 80 years with
he proposes TO Investigate, but his most wonderful ds
cOvery the first mentioned While inspecting
Gently the water line along the eastern shore observed
the bow of small copper-fastened vessel protrudng
into the river Having no tools and being In "A
dugout," he could do no more than make careful
animation Of the boat and the place where II found
observed that trees from five TO feet In diane
ter grew Immediately above the buried boat that
their twined about the ancient vessel The
asenngs the length OF time 10 has rested between the
soil and water shown by the huge that embrace
IL with their roots, excited the captains wonder and
curiosity the last degree Who had such boats upon
the Mississippi before these trees bagan growlngf Echo
DE soto, nobody that know OF. The cap
tain Is in Memphis, and viii shortly eXhume the
ancient vessel aud IN he expects Ia ind the skce
the romantic seeker after the fountain OF youth" The
museums viii then make hls everlasting fortune. |