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DULUTH.

THE SITUATION OF THE INFANT CITY-THE I'M
PRovEMENTs THAT HAVE BEEN MADE-ITs
FUTURE PRosPECTs-THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD.
DULUTH, Mimi, March 90 1871.
While the people of all sections of our coun-
try take a national pride in any of our rapidly
growing towns, there are especial reasons WIN
f!miadelnhis:::.s T.. should be morsS m-s tnan usually
Interested ;.oi IN si' g;owth Of Duluth To Phila-
section of country is indebted for evelon IONS
ment, The substantial progress already niSs-
promises we'll for q brilliant future.
The youthful city is finely situated. Min
nesota Point, seven miles in length, and
hardly more than a hundred yards in width,
divides st. Louis Bay from Lake Superior.
The Point is thickly covered with houses for
half mile from its base, and the town ex-
tends thence on one hand along the bay, and
on the other along the lake.
From the lake shore, parallel with which
the main streets run, rises hillside up which
the cross-streets are already making their
way, losing themselves finally among old
stumps and plunging suddenly into the
forest A great deal has been done in the
matter of grading, and the work is actively
continued.
OF the natural advantages which Duluth
possesses great deal may be said with truth,
though it is difficult to satisfy the sanguine
expectations of the citizens of the place.
There is a good natural harbor in st. Louis
Bay, conveniently entered by ship-canal
across Minnesota Point Beside this break
water has been built which will not only serve
to protect the canal, but will also afford an
outer harbor for use in spring, even when the
ice has not disappeared from the bay. AT
present there is no ice remaining in the outer
harbor and it is favorite mode of rousing
the ire of Superior men by declaring that il
has all gone to block up the harbor of that
town.
Vast deposits of granite, slate, and sand
stone exist along the valley of the ST. Louis
river. In that neighborhood the ambitious
farmer can do better by hanging up his
ploughshare and prunin g-hook, and organiz
ing o mining company, than by tilling the
soil. To the northward stretches an unbro
ken forest principally of hard woods, birch
and maple, of which the soil is fertile and
likely to prove very productive.
AS the telegraph has already informed you
the Northern Pacific Railroad is already
graded almost to the Red river, and rails are
laid for nearly half the distance. The Lake
Superior and Mississippi Railroad furnishes
highway which makes Duluth the great ship
ping point on the lakes for the products o
Minnesota, at least. Our Canadian friends are
making Duluth an important point on theil
line of communication with the Red Rive
country, and indeed with all the western
portions of British America. Besides all thes
signs of future growth, the development o
the vast mineral resources of the whole LAX
Superior region must add materially to th
prospects of Duluth. A.
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PRUSSIAN VORACITY.
How they Picked Poor France to the Very
Bones.

How they Picked Poor France to the Very
Bones.
The French papers TEEN with complaints
about Prussian voracity. The following letter
addressed to the Opinion Ndtiondle gives a
striking account of the manner in which the
Germans have been picking France to the
bone:-
''SIR:-The Prussians occupy the forts in the
vicinity of Vincennes. They have disinterred
all the old pieces of shells, etc.. and are selling
them. They strip off the few shreds of lead
which hang from the gutter pipes of the ruined
barracks and dispose of them. For the last few
days they have been tearing up the artillery
platforms and selling the beams at a low price.
The French administration purchases them in
order to diminish the loss eccasioned by this
spoliation. At the Polygon there existed
machine for the testing of cannon; the setting
up of this machine cost 9000f., but the Prus-
slams have taken it to pieces, and offer the bits
for 500f.; the Government has bought them in
stead of the Jews. The wooden huts at st.
Maur, which cost zoe, 0,000f., were being demo-
ilshed, and it was with great difficulty that the
German soldiers were persuaded to sell the lot
as it stood"
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HARD ON A SCHOOL MARIN.
A Teacher Furnishes a Boy and In Return
SIS Beaten by the Youths Mother.

A Teacher Furnishes a Boy and In Return
SIS Beaten by the Youths Mother.
The Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday says
Considerable excitement has prevailed in Lin
coin township, for several days past, in conse-
quence of an affair which happened between a
lady teacher and the mother of one of her
pupils. Miss Capron a teacher at Union Hall
School-house Lincoln township, had occasion,
in her judgment, to correct one of her scholars
James McCracken, a boy about twelve
him he turned his face in such a position
to receive a stroke across the lips, which
was not intended. Miss Capron, as soon as
school was dismissed accompanied the boy to
his foster father, David McCracken and ex-
planned why she had punished him, and how he
had received the injury to the lip. Mr.
McCracken would not accept the explanation
as satisfactory, ana a few days after called q
meeting of the School Board to consider the
matter. The board, however, after hearing his
statement, regarded the case as ''too trifing for
action" and dismissed the complaint. This, it
was thought would have ended the case; but
not so. The mother of the boy, Mrs. Bradley.
became quite indignant, and determined to
avenge the wrong by taking the law into
her own hands. On Thursday last she went up
from her home to the school-house, and having
assembled a few female friends at a convenient
distance, called Miss Capron out and beat her
with some rods which she had plated together
for the purpose. AS legal proceedings have
been commenced by Miss Capronl against all the
parties concerned in the assault upon her, the
case is one which is likely to come before the
courts for settlement.
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-Miramon's widow is living with her children
at Brussels.
"A Boston paper mentions an individual there
who clasps his hands so fervently in prayer that
he can't get them open when the contribution
box is passed round.
The Sorosis of CTaw fordsville Indiana, has
finally gone the way of all flesh. 1t dwindled
down ts a membership of one, and that one
went and got married last week.
"A CovingtOn woman wants the Cincinnati
Ferry Company to pay her $4,000 for drown
ing her husband. They prefer getting her an
other.
"A mineral which perfsrms all the duties of
soap, and has an aromatic OdOT, has been
discovered in exhaustless Quantities near Iowa
City.
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THE SITUATION OF THE INFANT CITY-THE I'M
PRovEMENTs THAT HAVE BEEN MADE--ITs
FUTURE PRosPECTs-THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAuRnAn
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e-Preaident So. Q. RR. OK

<FEEk. PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
SMlkAks MAIL STEAMSHIP C0MPANY'S REL
GULAR sEMI-MoNTHLY LINE TO NEW Or
The JUNIATA Will sail forNew Orleans, via Ha1
vana, on wednesday, April 8, at s A. M.
The YAZ00 will sail from New Orleans, via Hal
vana, on Friday, March 81. - i.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rated
as by any other route given to MOBILE, GALVESj
TON, INDIANOLA, ROCKPORT, LAVAOCA, and
BRAZOS and to all points on the Mississippi rivel
between New Orleans and st. Louis Red rivei
freights reshipped at New Orleans without charge
OF commissions
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TOR sAyANSSAH ,sE q E o RGIA
AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
GREAT SOUTHERN j. FREIGHT FTNS AND PAssEN-
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA AND AT.
LANTbR FGUR sER sFEAMERs s2HE ERAVHh1AD' & WEEK.
TUESDAYS THURSDAYS,
AND SATURDAYS.
THE STEAMSHIPS
SAN SALVADOR, Captain Nickerson, from Pier
VIM. R. GARRISON, Agent,
No. Bowling Green
MONTGOMERY, Captain FaIrclOth, from Pier No.
-''- r. LowDEN, Agent
No. 9S West street.
LEO, Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. lS East
~ MURRAY, FERRIS & 90, Agents,
Nos. 81 and 81 South street.
GENERAL BARNES, Captain Mallory, from Pier
ave. ~ W LIVINGSTON. FOX q CO., Agents,
No. IS Liberty street.
insurance by this line oNE-HALF PER CENT.
Superior accommodations for passengers.
Through rates and bills Of ladng In connection
with the Atlantic and Gulf Freight line.
Through rates and bills OF ladng in connection
with Se6tEa 6WRNs Railroad Of e s YSMa PS3ts
No. 229 Broadway. No. 400 Broadway.
THE ANCHOR LINE STEAMERS
Il Sail every Saturday and alternate Wednesday
to and from Glasgow and Derry.
Passengers booked and forwarded to and from all
railway stations in Great Britain, Ireland, Ger
many, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark and America
as safely, speedily, comfortably, and cheaply as by
any other route or line.
''EXPREss" STEAMERS. "KxTRA" sTKAMKRa.
ANGLIA, IOWA,
AUSTRALIA, TYRIAN,
BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA,
INDIA, IOWA,
COLUMBIA, TYRIAN,
EUROPA. BRITANNIA.
From Pier 20 Nerth river, New York at noon,
Rates OF Passage, Payable In Currency,
TO Liverpool, Glasgow, or Derry
First cabins, S65 and $40, according to location,
Cabin excursion tickets good for twelve mOnthsl
securing best accommodations, $3.50.
Intermediate tss; steerage, s2s.
Certificates, at reduced rates, can be bought here
by those wishing to send for their friends.
Drafts issued, payable on presentation
Apply at the companys otilces to
HENDERSON BROTHERS,
No. 7 BOWLING GREEN.
s~x FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
lk4R and Raritan Canal
&L11zlzhS w IFT u RE CHARACTERIZATION
COMPANY: -
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURk LINES,
Leaving daily at IL M. ana p. M.
The steam pr0pelers OF this company will com
mence loading on the 6th OF March.
Through In tWentyf0ur hours.
Goods forwarded TO any point free OF commission
FreightE taken on accommodating terms
WILLIAM N. BAIRD q CO., AgentA
No. lS2 South DELAWARE Avenue.
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sHIPPINO.

TTNHE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI-
IL LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM-
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorised TO Issue through
oils Of lading to interior points South and West In
connection with South Carolina Railroads Company
> ALFRED l. TYLER,
Vice-Preedent SO, o. RR. Co
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WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, GA.

WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, GA.
The TONAWANDA will sail for Savannah on Satl
urday, April s, at 8 A. M.
The WYOMING win sail from Savannah on sat
urday, April s.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADlN9 given TO all tbs :
sissippi Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in cof
nection with the Central Railroad OF Georgia. AtY
aptic and Gulf Railroad, and Florida steamers, ~
aslow rates as by competing lines
SENII-MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. Cp
The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Satu1l
iay, April s. at 6 p. M. Returning, win leave
wilmington Sunday, April TO-
Con1ISote with the Cape Fear River Steamboat
Company the Wilmington ond Weldon and NORTH
Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Mani
chester Railroad to all interior points.
Freights for Columbia, s. c., and Augusta, Ga
taken via Wilmington at as low rates az bv and
other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers
Bills Of ading signed at Queen street wharf on OF
WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent,
No, 100 s. THIRD Street !
New-York tribune., 1871-01-19
MR. LINES FISK. JR.


About 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening two
unknown persons called at the Office of this
paper with large bundle of manuscript,
which they demanded to have published in
the next mornings edition Of TIE TRIBUNE.
They were informed that we accepted moth
ing without examination but if they would
leave the documents they might call again at
II o'clock for an answer This did not satisfy
them, and they carried their manuscript to
Mr. Fisk's newspaper, in whch-as it was a
defense of Mr.. Fisk against certain charges
made in a communication to THE TRIBUNE
il of course appeared without delay. 1t is
clear from the language of the article and the
manner in which it was submitted to us that
Mr.. Fisk neither expected nor wished it to
appear in TIE TRIBUNE; and we might con-
slider ourselves absolved from the necessity of
noticing it in any way whatever, except for
the conviction that nothing can absolve a
journalist from the duty of repairing an in
justice-even to Mr.. James Fisk, ir--if he
feels that he has committed one. Ii is hardly
necessary to say that Mr.. James Fisk, jjr., is
a person whose affidavit is to be accepted
with the utmost caution, and his denial would
have no weight against the assertions of re-
sponsible correspondent. Any one who has
taken the trouble TO read the afiidavits from
presidents, agents, and other persons connected
with various companies in which he is under
stood to be concerned will see that some of
them are Elusive, inasmuch as they do not
traverse the statements made in our columns
by ii. G.. F.-he never said for instance, as the
article in The Sun asserts, "that Messrs Fisk
land Gould have received large sums of
"mOney from the Brooks Manufacturing Com
"pany "-and that most of them only prove.
at the outside that very little of the stock of
those companies is borne in Mr.. Fisk's name |;
(which we are quite ready to believe. Yet it
is easy enough to understand how the Erie
"Ring' may have an interest in these com
panes without any record of it appearing on
the books, just as the leading members of the
Tammany Ring virtually hold half-a-dozen fat
Offices apiece, without any indication of that
fact showing Oh the city and county pay-rolls.
Before accepting any statement whatever from
James Fisk, jr, we await something further
from ii. G.. L. Meanwhile we know that the
charges made in the communication of the lat
ter gentleman are common in the mouths of
persons cOnversant with Erie management
and most of the signers of Mr. Fisk's afiida-
Wits are understood to be in the closest pos
sible intimacy with the Erie Ring, if not
actually parts Of it.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-19
aetp-21ork Dailu 0ribu11e.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1871.

Accncentrsted fire has been directed on Fort DTssy
aud the French are removing the heavy guns. ==
Elurnak has been twice repulsed near Belfort. =-
Fadberhes army, in the North Of France continues to
advance. -- CbaDzy is still retreatng in an orderly
manner and the Prussians have occupied Alcncon. =
IT, Prussaus have expelled the Poles from Msace ==
Lord Granville will preside at the Conference on the
Black Sea Question.
In pe senate yesterday, the Finance Committee were
relieved from the further consideration Of the Central
Railroad scrip Dividend Tie bill redeeming cop
pr and other coins passed motion TO appoint a
turcih Committee to investigate the outraCes in the
frhrn states was debated at great length without re-
,uii -= In the House, the Omnibus and Post ONCE
Approprlati0n bills passed. The charges against
Mr. James Brooks dismissed
b appopriating S2O0Ooo more for the completion OF
the new has been introduced i'll the Legsa-
ture == A man accused of stealing has been liberated
In san Francisco under the recent decision Of the Cali
fornia Supreme Court that Cinnamon cannot testify
against white men. == Another japanese Embassy to
his country has arrived at san Francisco - IT Is re-
ported that the coal miners strike viii soon end by
.aropro,1,sso ->u earthquake shock has been expe-
fenced in New-HampshiIe.
The released Fenians expected today. 80 The
Book Committee will probably refer the Of DR. Ian
than to the General Conference in 1872. =- United
States Marshal Daon The Brooklyn Union for libel
e. Gold nOt, lIo5 11oi. Thermometer, 32' n', So.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-19

Mr.. Mayor Oakley Hall is resolved not TO be
satisfied with the Government revision OF the
census of this city. He has ordered the police
to make a third one, as a check, we suppose,
on the. Government Marshals, whom he sus-
poets of living only TO falsify. The returns
for three wards in which the Marshal has re-
taken the census do not materially dli-
fer from the original, but we do MT
doubt that Mayor Halls will show con-
clusiycly to every Democratic fasiiler
of late election returns that the population OF
the city is two or three hundred thousand
more than the Government and honest men
credit. When the late census, taken in MD
summer, was complete one universal hoWl OF
1pge arose from the universal Iammany
throat. whereof Mr.. Mayor Hall is the double
goared, forward and back action tongue, be-
cause it did not show a population quarter
of million more. According TO present IN
dications, the most careful census that can
he taken. at the season when the city
is the most crowded, when every
hotel and boardinG-hOuse is full to repletion,
and every man doing business in New-York is
at his post, will show barely twenty to twenty
five thousand more population than that of
midsummer. No testimony to the substantial
accuracy Of the former census and to the con-
genital folly of the claim for quarter Of
million more, could be more conclusive.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-19
uR TWOURLY,S CASE.

Uoratio N. TwOmbly, as is widely known,
was, at our last State election, chosen to the
Assembly from the With District of our City,
by n majority of II votes. There was at the
time no dispute and no difference az to the
fact.
Two or three days afterward, it became evi-
dent that the Assembly was very evenly di-
vidcd between the two parties: so the Official
Canvass of the. With District was post
poned, under one pretext or another, until
it had been ascertaincd that there would
he no Democratic majority in the House if
Mr. TwOmbly should be returned-thC whole
number standing Gas in 1869 Ga Repub-
Leans to G4 Democrats. Hence, Mr.
Twombly was counted ont, in Difference
to on assumed party necessity, by the easy ex-
pedient of rejecting and aDnuliDg the vote Of
a Republican district, on the assumption that
the Inspectors Ga majority of them Democrats)
had committed some informally in counting
the votes. Nobody pretended that Mr.
Twombly was or that his supporters were i'll
fault, or that the vote was anywise affected
by that informality yet the seat was given
by our city canvassers (all DemOcrats) to Mr.
f. l.. Carey, the defeated Democratic candi-
date, and Mr.. TwOmbly cOolly told that the
Assembly would redress the wrong, if wrong
had been committed.
The Democrats by Mr.. Carey's vote, bavo
secured the organization of the House. They
have Speaker, Clerk. and all the hundred sub
ordinates they have the Committees fixed to
| their liking; they can shape every bill and
conduct it through every stage of its consid-
Grafton. That we suggest, is quite enough.
If they intend TO avail themselves of their
fraudulent majority to pass measures like the
Apportionment for Representatives in Con-
gress it becomes the Republicans to resist
even 10 the extremity Of abandoning by con-
cert their seats. 1t is neither honest nor de-
cent to attempt to pass such bills-nor, in
deed, any measure of importance-,lnhl Mr..
Twombly shall have been admitted to the seat
whereto he was unquestonably elected.
! There are in the Assembly not less than six
Democrats who represent districts unquestion-
ably Republican. There are Democrats in that
body whom we have presumed incapable of
gross dishonesty even when a party advan-
| tage might be achieved by it. We make no
! appeals and ask no favOrs but we do ask the
! Republicans in either House TO defer all i'm
portant legislation until Mr.. Twombly shall
have been admitted to his seat.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-19
BLATIERSKITE INIERVIEVS. ;

After the extraordinary progress in Upper
tinence and self-abasement which has been
made within year or two by that peculiar
product of American culture, the special in
terviewer, it would be rash to assume that tho
creature has reached its full development, or
that below the lowest depth yet reached The
Ne,c- York BlathrSkite will not find lower.
IL does seem, however as if the tender bud of
impudence had blOssOmed at last into such q
stupendously big peOny of vulgarity that no
art could force it into broader bloom. Even
Mark Twain's burlesque of the reporter who
pushed himself into the cabinet of the captive
of Wilhemsh0he, and came away unconscious
that his Majesty had civilly turned him out of
doors without saying anything, is not half so
absurd az the sober narrative printed yesterday
of the ineffable funky who worked up" the
amours of Mr. James Fisk, jr. The interviews
of the representative of The Bldtherskite with
two gentlemen concerned in the fearful
episode of Fisk's gum shoes revealed nothing
beyond the fact that "Mr. Ulysses Thomas w.
"Pttmann wore diamond ring on his we'd
ding finger whichever that may be), and that
"Mr. Achilles StOkeso is perfectly well-bred
and has beautiful moss-agate seeve-buttOns
We might be skeptical as to The BidthersLite
standard of good breeding, but Mr.. Stokes in
yited the reporter TO "cOme down to the din
"ing-room," and that explains a good deal
What they did in the dining-room We unfor-
tunately, are not told but in a short time we
find the reporter, in company with friend
named Smith, performing an exploit that
beats even The UnirerSfS description of
Father Hyacinthes wash-basn There are
places into which we should think
even an interviewer would be ashamed to
intrude, and scenes which even The Blather
Skite might hesitate to depict. Mr.. Fisk, for
instance, in his hours of relaxation is a spec
tacle not exactly fit for public exhibition; and
his Josie, however picturesque she may be in
an affidavit, Ought-fOr several reasons-tO be
spared the nuisance of visits from reporters.
To the private residence OF Mrs. Helen Jo-
sephine Mansfield Lawlor, nevertheless, the
representative of The BlatherSkite went; and,
having got admission, he proceeded to turn
the establishment inside out with a reckless
freedom at which responsibility stands
aghaSt "Tbe approach TO tho hall-door by
" the lofty stoop," we are informed, made
/" the reporter and his friend feel
"a sense Of are as they asceDded
New-York tribune., 1871-01-19
.ueenente, ctc., CHS Grenins.

ACADEMY or nfUsrC BvOoklyp-At2 , Holland les,
rcran cd" ar' Heart Ncve Won Far is SHd lV A'''Oe''
hnf. Jarcu>c.r..
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ksec-ne adj p .ru BIO" and Love sad b!"9 "'' '"'
lou El.u Booth
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PAI.E IHrkTER, BRooErYN AZ Holland Testi-
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Sec-.ch
WML,Cy's ,THEgEr. At 4 CIolland Testimo-
ra): "Ns LIST les" Rec':stons 81 q FAINT Heart Never
Won fa-r 4--.. aa4 '--se4 VR- Lester "ai@e..
ACADEMY or Music" The Messiah Miss Kel-
iogg
SAN FE,vC1sCo MNsTRELs, Ne. 5s5 Broadway.
Sorcs dsuo,s. eco-l.3c acts &C.
,tcCtf, NlrerV,i A,p NFN kGFETF.-A > tiiolland
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