Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1873, Page 8

8 TH 11ICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1873. - THE NEW DOMINIOM. Bomebhifig Regarding Our Cousins Over the « Border. What They Think of the Grent Tnland Water Route, A View of the Canal Policy and Measures. The Canndian Atlantic Route, and Its Aspects. ord Dufferin---Society and General Iatters. rreapondenice of the Chicago Tribune, .sflmwfl e G eata, Ot Fab. 3, 1679, THE RANUOK AND 118 CIADAGTERIBTICS, Tho traditionsl and genorally-rocoived Iden of 0 charactor of the inhabitants of the New Do- nion alwaya has been, aud atill continues to , that they aro stoady, sobor, industrious, od-fonrlng, take-things-as-thoy-come, absurdly Yoyal, nnd very superstitious. ‘They ave not joredited with tho onergy which spriuga spontau- ously whero tho ' Stara and Stripes " wave in o nir, and aro hold to bo scarcoly less rold~ ogylsh than tho inhabitants of the mother ountry, and not one whit moro enterprising. Jur wintors ars pictured as horrible, our sum- ors n8 tropleal ; our ideas of el to chango ith the seagons, and our hopes of Honven to ise and fall with tho mercury. Our Rovercnds 0 thought to be divided botwoen Presbytorisus tho West and Oatholics in tho East, with a oupcon of Episcopalinniom thrown in, to keop woet the imperial connection by offering daily rayers in the Liturgy for H. M. the Queon, and 4 those in suthority over us;" and our nows- aper-pross is, with a sncer, held unquestiona- ly to rival, in ono respact, tho Euglish journals fter which thoy aro fashioned, and that is in oir stupidity and want of enterpriso. e oxhibit s a bad one, I confoss, and much of t contains more than tho usual half-quantity of ruth, On tho othor hand, wo aro free from wieny of tho ovils which curee society across tho ho bordor. The average duration of lifo is ongor than in tho States, our population shows stondy inoreaso, and wo are eminently virtuous, ivorces are rare, and those taking thom aro worely let alone, without benefit of clergy. 'ho tido of immigration is conatant, and, whilo he back-gottlomonts are being populated, our tios are growing with a steady dovelopment, ;vhich promises enduvance, and oventually un- interruptod prosperity. The Canadinn, quiot fand .plodding sa ho mny bo, bLas, however, s ‘quick eyo to the main chanco, and, if necossity \compols, can oven toko o wido cnough view to urvey & continent, and mets out an ocenn, Just ‘st this timo, nine out of every ten of our people nro engaged in some such mental enleulation. Probably, at no time in the history of this coun- try, bofore or since tho confoderation of tho wovoral Provinces, has there been so widespread v dizcussion of the ono question which above all others appeal most strongly to tho interests of ‘Westorn men. The improvemont of TIE MAGNIFICENT INLAND WATER-ROUTE, nfforded by Lnke Ontario and the River and Gulf of 8t Lawroncoe, is a mattor which publio opinion is forcing in the most onoergetio way up- oo the attontion of tho authorities. When Con- foderation was being discussed, the leading men ——~g} the several Provincos Liad froquont meetings for consultation, and drew up s list of national §mprovementa which it would be the firat duty of the now Government, representing the entiro Dominion, to carry out. First and forcmost nmong theso was tho onlargoment of the canals which line certain parts of tho water-courso of the 8t. Lawrenco and connect tho two Westorn lakos of Ont arioand Erie, The magnitude of Ihe work alone was sufliciont to causo its post- ponement for some months ; and the nocessity of consolidating the now regine, of bringing inty ! .he fold the several outlying Provincos, was hold %o excuso innction. in tho mattor. Another moason also operated ngainst the work. The wonstant iteration of the benefit the work would o to tho Woestorn Amorican trado, though ne- companied with sbundance of figures showing ¢hat tho benofit of the ono meant the incrense of commercinl prospority in the other, disgusted 4ho ultra loyalists, and coused a spirit of an- ‘tagonism to riso upon the matter, however fool- fsh in itaelf, had iis springs in tho strongest pus- vions of the buman heart. The Alabama negotiation camo opportunely. The leading statosman of Canada, Sir J. A, Macdonald, was placed on the Commiseion for the express pur~ pose of gnarding Canadinn interests, and no foars woro folt but that n most_satisfactory con- clusion would bo arrived at. What that conclu- sion eventually turned out to be, is matter of history. It is not too much to sny that IT NEADLY PROVOKED A REVOLUTION in this conutry. From tho westernmost point of this Provinco to far-down-onst Gaspe, wore henrd mutterings of complaint, and one Lieutonaut Governor did not hositate ofticially to describo _the trananction, so far as Canadian_intorosts wero concerned, a3 an ontragoous swindle, With tho Bt, Albans claims loughed at, the Fonian grievanca ridiouled, the freedom of tho 8t. Law-" rence voted away, tho San Jusn boundary de- cided against us, etc,, the pooplo were in no mood for works of conciliation. One thing, and that tho mogt steadfast in Canada, our loyalty, survived. We would not leave, nor be kicked out of, our conneotion with England, and hero we are, Mennwhilo a Canal Commission lind been ap- ioinzud, and presented its voluminous report. separate Committeo of Inquiry had visited the Welland Canal, and, finding” unmistaliablo oof of rascality on tho part of the Superin- ondent, causod the removal of that official, and the appointment of another gontloman in his place. ‘‘ Tho whirliglg of time brought on" meetings of Parliament, and econvocations of | g NATIONAL TIOARDS OF TIADE. At the rocent meotings of tho American and Canadian' Boards,—tho first ot Now York, tho second in this city,—resolutions wero adopled /memorializing the two Ixecntives to appoint o .Joint Committeo on the subject of reciprocal trado betweon tho two countries,—one great factor on thoe part of Canada in the matter being the enlargoment by tho Government of hor canal-highways, The Dominion Bonrd of Trade, which mot at'the Governmont buildings in this city, was one of tho finest assomblages of tho commorcial high-pricsts of this country .that ever was rapped to ordor by ono gavol. Its Iato Prosident, Colonel McGiverin, of Hamilton, is one of tho most popular men of tho \Vast, and his namo e household word throughout the counties that lino tho eouthorn shoros of Linko Huron and the Coor- gian Bay, and across the peninsula, He was the chief ndvooato of 4-foot-8l-inch gavge, sa sgainst tho narrow 8-foot-6-inch guage railroad, for tha nupp(ljy of the pettlors in the prosperous countlos of Groy and Druco ; and, in Pocn mat~ tors, exorcises no inconsidorablo influence in dotormining the conduct of the Great Western Railway of Canadn, which, itis scarcoly necos- sary to tell a Ohicugo reader, in its connootion with tho Miobigan Contral Rallroad, constitutes oue of the most important lines of rails hetweon the Garden Oity and tho seaboard. Among the other mombors of the body worthy of special meontion was THE HON, JOIIN YOUKG, of Montreal, ot one timo tho Prosident of the Board of Trado of that city, und enletly known to Amorican readors by his advocacy of ** Inde- pendenco,” 'T'he represcntativos of t}e sovorul American Boards of ‘I'vado who have talen part In the disoussion of thelr national organizntion aro familiar with the fino, hale, liearty old gentleman, whoso silvory locks give oxtra welght to all tho good things ho utters, Mr, Young has given up all hopo of gooing his groat hobby evor carrled out in his lifotime, but utill hiolds stondfast to his boliof, in which, in- Jdeed, he is joined by avory rational man in the Confedoratlon, that'the ‘‘manifest destiny" of Canada i not always to ba tlod to the londing- striugn of tho mothor uuuutr{, not alwaya to be e nuclous of n young, vigorous, and prosporous na- tlonnlity, which shall vio, nof in arms, but in aris and thopursuits of peago, withitn older brothor to the nouth, Mr, Youn% was ot ono timo viawed with consldornble suspicicn by tho ‘loynlisis amongst us, but tho feeling Ir gradunlly yrearin away, and tho ancceos whicl 5o far has nttondo his offort looking to s rosumption of tho Ttcol- Eruclty tronty hins paved his, way fnto mmny earts whero Liovotoforo o haghold tho position of au outor barbarian, MR, TIOMAB WIIITT, of tho Montroal Gazetle, was ong of the dela- Fnlcn, and, an an ardont Montrealer, was uncens- g in his advoenoy of the immodiato improve- ment of the cannls, ITois the ehnm{\)lon Eng- Ml oditor of tho enstorn part of the Dominion, aud uny{purln tho froo-trade polioy heartily, Trom athor parls of the Dominion eamo othor roprosontative men, such as TIT ON. THOMAS SXEAD, af thia clty, whoso Fol. schomo {8 ono which in- timately intorests the Wostorn trade, and the ohiof solnlu of which, insomo future lottor, I intond to placo before tho rendors of Tur TrRin- UNE ; of courso, I rofor to what is known as the Ottawa Ship-Canal, 'The iden of this ‘:ru]ncl is to furnish n short outlot for vopsels to tho ocean; and it ia esyontially antagonintio to tho Qoorglan Bny Caual, ‘advocated by Mr. Tredorick 0. Ca- gmol. "Thore is not tho faintent probability that oth will ever bo constructed, and whichover slll remolvo taclf into an actual fct will giveto tho ports of ontry sud departure an importance uttorly unattainable in the absonce of this groat netional work, RUFUB BTEPHENRON AND RODERT WILKES aro both members of Parllament, and tho for- meor narrowly escaped becoming a Oabinot Min- iater. DBoth oro reprosontstive mon, ond oxpressed thomselves in full accord with tho sentiment of the rosolutiona 'passed by tho full Bonrd, looking to tho improyoment of tho Canadion inland water communication, At the mcnblnéza of the Board . woro soveral roprosonts- tives of the American Board, in accordance with o xeeolution passed Ly that body at its rocont meeting in Now York, IN THE DIBCUSSIONS on tho queation of cannl-onlargoment, the nsual local side-shows were introduced, nnd tho mattor was vory much clouded by the atfempt to enu- morate particular works in the resolutions pro- posed to be carried and sent to tho nuthoritios s represonting tho views of the Board. On tho motion of o son of the Licutonant Govornor of Ontario,” whoso pet mame {8 ‘‘Pooleg Howland,” a rosolution was eventually, earriod, calling upon the Governmont to fako tho quoention up, and also petitioning for the appointmont of & Commisaion to act with tho ono which the Executive of the United Btates had been roquosted to nominate. Voya- gours down the St. Lawrence arc woll acqnainted with the old garrison town of Kingston, the chiof business of which, apart from its poni- toutinry functions, is the transhipmoat of grain from veosels to barges, for it Lo meke tho do- scent of the river. ‘Fho roprosentatives from this placo mudo & strong effort to pnss o resolut- tion in fayor of tho improvement of Kingston barbor at the expenso of the nation, but without avail. The Board, on the contrary, resolved, on the motion of tho Hon. John Young, to expross its opinlon that * public funds should not bo ap- Med, oxcept to works of public character.,” H’hn dolegntes desiring plums for their re- epective districts joined their forces, bub were defoated by a two-thirds majority, and over aftor during tho Convontion managed to hold their peace. The sound feeling that exista on this quostion is ono of the most hopoful signs of the time. QUEDEQ AND MONTREAL. - Montreal City is already acknowledging that, ifat nll, tho most importgut wark of dooponing Lake St. Peter must he done by her ; and Que- bac, by her recent nnarFy in thopushing forward of tha North Shore Rallfond schomo, and in oth- er ways, ospecially by by uwnkonin!; to tho faot that, unless she utilizes her magnificent nutural advantages, tho ohred of that business which proporly bufinnga to her will follow in the wako of i?s follows to the moro enterprising burgh of Montreal. The municipality of Quebec are pro- posing to make docks to accommodato 100 sen- olng vossels, and claim that the eaving by not reaking bulk at Montrealwill bosoapparentthata uucconugfl busincss is assured from tho start. Thoro {8 the nico point reised, in the matter of deopening Lake St. Petor, that, by o doing, Montreal would be drawing off the water from lier own harbor; but this fear is icoffed at by many of the eminont engincors who have been consulted in referenco to tho matter. 'The Do- minion Government showod its approciation of the suggestions and of tho spirit of the Conven~ tion by appointing v THE HOR, J, W, M'ALPINE, tho eminont engincor of tho Btate of Now Yorlk, Asnoclato’ Commissioner with tho Dlossts, S, | Kecfer and Gzwosld, in deciding on the improve- ments necessary to be mado in the Welland Canal, and on the adoption of one of two routes for tho mow cut. Mr, MeAlpine wos employed on tho originel construction of .the Cornwall Oanal, one of the 8t. Lawrence serios, and will doubtless give n valuablo and impottial do- cislon on tho question. In the list of noticos already flled to come before the Dominion Parlinment, is one to build * oncor more canals to facilitate navigation past the Lachine Rapids, and gonorally to facilitate navigation and create water-powers at tho scliine Rapids,” The canal, quostion is, un- doubtedly, TUE ONIEY TOPIO OF THE HOUR. Ttlooms up on overy side, and tho constant reminders tho poople of this country ave roceiv- ing of the valuo put ipon their poxsessions in thia rospect by tho great Wostorn Statos, i stimulating them to unwonted actlvity in fho muotter. New crnals are bcln(i {xrajnuted, and iuquiry is rifo on the matter. Itis hoped that tho spirit of dilatoriness which has hitherto chnracterized our trentment of vital questions will not cause any trifling with this most im- portant one. If possible, tho lie should be given to our ancient traditions, and, in the role of oung giant nnfiuun‘ity, tho work should be pushed through with moro thun American apeed. And withont any Crodit Mobiliers, at thet ! It is Interosting to notico, an cognate to this question of navige- tion, that in noxt March, or at the opening of navigation, there will bo pluced on TOE CANADIAN ATLANTIO ROUTE two new iron stonmers, owned by n zew com- p;mf. ‘Thoy will run belweon Quobee aud Livor- pool aud French ports, and; while culled for by tho lurgo consignments of French goods sent from France to the Fronch-speaking population of Bas-Canada, sre yet put on to supply also tho demand for such goods in far-Westorn com- munities, ‘I'lie Directors promiso an entorpris- ing incronse of nccommodation on the siightest indioation of a demand therefor. TAE TARIZF AND RECIPROCITY. Tho compromise effactod betwoon the Protec- tlonists and T'ros Traders in this country is the incidental prototdion of 16 per cent, Lvory yenr tho quostion is disoussed, and o strong movemen bas been made of lato to raigo the ecnlo to 20 per cent, Tho Bonrd of Trado voted, by o largs mojority, to keop the figures ot the present point, and thereby donbt- less did whatovor business merchants in 'the Do- minfon dosired. Change for tho #ake of change, bad any where, is ruinous in trade-circles. In considering tho reciprocal trade rolations bo- [ {fod out of a apoon, and trealed s o somew] Fea e Famt o T ey fomawle tween this country and the Unitod States, as in that of canal-onlargoment, {ho Board mnintained whint ia tormed by tho loval and patriotio press .**n manly indopendonce,” Unablo to conceal— not dosiring, in fact, to do so—their urgent de- siro to obtain the re-ostablishmont of rocipracity, thoy atill wore eareful to show that * a spirit of complete self-roliunce guides thom in their doal- ings in tho world’s markets.” This s consoling to tho loyalists, and leaves a plonsant tasto in one's mouth. Further- more, thore I8 no doubt The Bonrd ent for soveral duys, and wound np with a graud dinner, Its membors snid many oxcollont things, and did many wiee ones. 'Tho harmony which ™ characterized its grcceodlugs showed conclusivoly that the several Provincos ars bocomingmore harmonious, and the travestio of the popular song— “ "1'g glorlous churter,—dony it who cnu,— ‘Ihe birthright of a irue-born Cunndian,"— bacoming somowhat of a possibility, 'Fhero is 1o doubt that we need gonie olevating influenco, Rotten as cortain political organizations have been shown to be in other countris, I question if ovor an opposition sunk so low as to dozorve the titlo of < #TIE BPITTOON PARTY." Yet by that title is known tho opposition to H, A.’s Minintora in this Province, ‘Thoniokunmo was gained in this manner: Bofore tho disruption of thelate Governmont, one of the Ministers, tho Hon, I, B, Wood, folk anxious to osenpa tha im- ponding wreek, and bogan to feel about prior ~to making s vomerssuit, While u this condition, n critical dobato aroso, and the leader of tho Oppesition sont acrous tho floor of tho ITouse o noto, on which was simply writton, ¥ Bpeak now." Blr, Wood utmlm ; his party was defoated ; ho was appointed to o fat offico by the now Govarnor, aud quiot would huvo roigned hud not ono of the Inte Government mem- bora plcked tho Em?ur out from & spittoon and howked it about tho country s an evidonco of the baso mtriguc by which honeat men had to glyo way to roguos. “ Tho Splttoon party " iy Uil in oxlstenco, & misorable shred; but {ho name will cling until doath ta Mr. Thomas TFor- guwon, whoro fingers picked tho cholee moracl out from awidst played-out * Lono Jack " and stumpa of cigars, in which othorwiso it liad gono to morlted oblivion, Tho Canndinn Parllament Wil sveamnia ae o b of Valeiers fov dha of its truth, dispateh of busincss, and, tho outs hope, tho “ Jinppy dispntol ” of tho Ministry ns woll, EANL DUFYERIN AND SOCIETY. Boolal lifo hero will take n groat start on the return of Enrl Dufforin, tho Governor. Gonornl, .to open Darliament, Oltawn without its Gov- ‘ornor Gouaral s an_intonsifiod Wost End with tho Quoon in the Highlands, Tradosmen look disgusted, overybody froia, and tho ratio of nul- clden risos and falla rnxnlnrlf. Bat, with tho ar- rival amongst us of the gonlal Irish nobloman, thoro will Lo a gonoral upheaval, o good denl eo- sentinlly snobbleh In oharactor, and yot not nlto- gothor no, ‘Whe prosont Vicoroy han won golden opiniona from ovoryono with whom he lins como i contact. 1Ilois ono of Naturo's [ionllnmoll, and his wifo is dosorving of oqually high praiso. His polmlnrll.y i partly tho rosult of his own magnoetism, of his entoring with hearty vim into tho sports of his * adoj tmf" country, and parte ly go the fack that his two predecos- sors woro tho grealost niggards that ovor played at royalty. Lord Monck waa an Irish- man, aod so {4 Lord Duffering but thoro s na great n difforonce botwoem thom s bolwoon the charnctors, Shaun the Post of Boncicanlt and tho Michacl Teeny of Burry, playod by thom ro- contly I beliove in the Gardon Clty. Monol ro- tirod, woll Prlmml with tho goods of this world, as tho rosult of his Viceroyalty, and has nover beon henrd of sluco; hin eticcossor improved on his stinginess, and pursued it with the slugle- oved dovotion of o student of a fino art. Dut of indopondenco, tho noblo Lord had but littlo, and, till witbin tho closing dnya of his Vicoroy- alty, nover was known to_do aught that was wnrh:y, per gc, of notico. DBut then hoe porpo- tratod’ o speoch which put into words all tho yonom on the Coloninl question of tho London Times oud tho illy-concenled desites of the Gladstono and TLowe ohool of mtatosmon. Tho spoech went like o shock over the land, and tho outiro peoplo shiverod. So unmistakablo was tho revulsion, as woll of the English as of the Kanuck pooplo, that the Britich Governmont thought it advisablo o vatire El.\;}g.dugl\r. Owing to tho bad imprey- slong cronted by Lis two predecesuoxs, tho pron- ont Governor Gonoral shinea in his liborality, warm-hearted intorest, and appreciation of the fxe: lo and of thetrhabits, with additional lustro, has strugpelod at nothing, Every clty Lo hing visited ho has submitted quictly to the torturo of nn address, has mado a civil roply, has visited ovory charitable institution, received tho min- iators of ull denominations, sat by the side of & Catholio priest, and held the same hymn-book with o Mothodist eldor; he has respected tho roli‘fiions seruples of our people, and abstained, 88 did not somo of his predecesuors, from A QUIET GAME OF LOO in tho rotronts of Redean Hall and tho quistudo of the Sabbath evening, In the popnlar sports hio has taken tho warmest intorest, and is to-day Honorary Prosident of more LaCrosge Clubstlinn thoro aro days in tho year. But ashort timo since, suiling himeol! to nll sensons, lio hias ou- tored in o wholo-souled way into the_ ploasurcs of skating, and, by giving prizes, dnily appear- ancos at the rinks, and unlimited onbonniere, hias medo the fortunes of the linrdwaro stores, s aud broughtabont « ronaisaancein fashion bofore tho ‘nllotted time had nctuslly oxpived for tho fickle damo to tym her favor on o neglected sport. In all his Works, and moroe especially in thoso having a charitablo objeot, tho Liarl isnbly nssistod by his wife, No sowing circlo ever destroyed hor equanimity, no boor- ishnoss over diaconcerted hor, and no snobbery has ovor recoived publio chastisomant at her hands, howover much sho may laugh over it in private. Tho offects of this happy sojourn amongst us of o truly cstimablo lady and gentla- man are likely to be far-reaching. 'Ihoy, indeed, ronch go far a3 not o littls to aftect the stabilily of our Imporial connections. It is certain that tho desiro for indopondence, if not for annexa- tion, was ;’l’,m‘“nx fust during tho torms of both Monok and Lisgar; to-dny, the point of the shatpest argumont of its “advocates is tumoed away by the gracoful emiles of the lady and the dignity of tho gentleman who are now living amongat us, A lettor from ¢ the New Dominion” would not bo completo were it to contain no reforenco to tho almost ludicrous attempts of the anthori- ties to hoist TUL OANADIAN PAOIFI0 RAILROAD COMPANY out into the watoers of lifo without endangoring their own positions, and at the samo timo socur« ing tho uupqurt of tho many varied contending interests. Whatover unexpectod success may attoud their efforte,—and it is roported thata Company is formed, and arrangomonts for work procoeding,—it is lmost boyond & doubt that ono of tho flrat agroements.entored into with tho Province of British Columbia at tho timo of her admiseion to the Confedoretion will bo broken, Thoe condition that work shounld be commonced on both ends within two yoars after the date of tho admission of ' tho Province into the Doumine fon, tho 20th of July, 1871, is impossiblo of ful- filment, oxcopt in a Pickwickian sense, No sur- vey has yet been mado, of s comploto character, of the torritory between Nipissing and For Garry, and, for 900 miles botween its castern starting point and the Ilnst-named place, is o trackless wilderness, that no surveyor has ever thoroughly ponetrated. At the other end of the lino, tho ignoranco of tho nctuslrouts to be taken is equally as profound. Nothing but the wildoest guessing has taken placo on the route that the rond will take from Tort Garry until it strikes far-distant British Columbia, "The Government bas spont a vast deal of timo in endonvoring to reconcllo * rings,” ond bas succoodod ot longth in orecting & monster ono which throatons to swallow itxelf. THE CREDIT JODILIECR ‘‘SCANDAL IN EMDRYo!" The unblushing wey in which railway > rings,” consisting of Bonators and membors of Parlin~ ment, have been formed, puts_to blush the foe- ble-minded lui;lulntom of ‘tho United Statos Na~ tional Capital. 'Cho latter have divided their spoils, howevor, snd somo are roaping the whirlwind, Our Senators and mombors are just sotting out on the chaso after the rainbow, and sco nothing but the rosy. “'The whirligig of time will bring nbout ite 0wn rovenges.” CANADENSIS, e fhe Kankatkee Draining Compunys From the LaPorte (Ind.) Argus, Feb, 8, Tho Directors of tho Knaknkeo Dyaining Com- puu‘{ mot at the Teogurdon Houso yesterday and ovidently iold n lengthy consultation, From infornation gained in u convorsation with ono of tho partios we infor that the Company will de- terminedly ndhero to their organization, but it Is probablo, that they will somowhat modify tho magnitudo of their proposed work, Our inform- ant statod that the membors of the Company wore #o desirous of layving thoir own landa druined that they wore willing to meet the op- pononts of tho project by n compromise, “'hey ostimato that somo threo times tho volume of water which now finds its way through tha rivor course will run through o diteh twenty-flvo feot wide and ton foot deep, when the courss is mado straight, = This, thoy' think, would oloar tho country of tho surplus water, and perform all tho necossary worlk of tho main chan- nel, and, ihoy say, such a channol can bo completed et " cost of mot over 2000,000, 'ho iden would thon Do to lot privato companies, or clubs of farmor, dig their own lutteral ditches and drain thelr lunds by thoir own labor if they choose. 'Ihey sy tho best logal talont of the country assurcs thom that thoy havo vestod rights, and by law aro fully ompowered todo the work in accord- enco with tho original programmo; but it is pfob- ablo thoy will sottlo upon tho plan which wo in- dicato, 'If fensiblo, the plan would havo tho morlt of being oheap, and soveral of tho mem- bers of the Compauny say they will pledge their lndll\;idunl property to raise the money to'do tho worl, —_— The Explocion nt 'Tidioute, Pa,—A Ilouse und Family Annihilated. 3r. A. 3. Dalrgmplo, of Tidiouto, was propar- ing a torpedo fillod with dualine, o substanco even moro poworful pnd dangerous than nitro- lycoriuo, Yo was pitting in o ohair with the torpedo betweon his legs, working at it, gottin it roady to put in & well, which hefim] contractel to do during tho duy, when, it is supposed, o sudden far or blow of tho hammor oxploded tho cep, 'Tho combustion lified tho front side of the howso out entiro, throwing it down tho bill, aud tho trunk of the Lody of Mr, anrymplu was forced through oyun cornor of tho roof, speeding through the alr a dlstenco of about twonty foot, striking on tho yoof of tha engino houso, rolling from thenco to tho firnunfl boneath, wlhoro it was pioked up, Upon the arrival of assiathnce, tho shattered fraginonts of the building wore cleared away, and Mrs, Dairymplo, slill “alive, but - sonsiblo, waa found ly ug oil Tiar uid, With Lor child near her, botweon hor and the stove. Thoy waro takon out and cared for nt tho house of & noighbor, near ot hand, and tho death of Mrs, Dal r{mpfu followed in about two honrs., Bhe was injured in the hoad, from whioh tho brain protruded from w horriblo gash., 1ler body wes not mutilated. Tho ohild was taken to Tidlouto, and, at Inst accounty, wag still alivo, but its ro- covory s vory doubtful, —_— —1It is eaid that tho Berlin Poat Ofilee {a about to introduco an fmprovement npon the originel postal card system, A card Is to be provided, on Which a mos#ago mny bo sont and roply returnod at onco, Tho original eondor, by paylng tho trifling postage both ways, mny thus stouro nn ' answor at onco, tho person addressod having ouly to writas 1ne or o upon the curd whon he rocaivos it, and retnrn it to the postman, This In & gront convenience, worth consl Tt Al et A T ke -\nunul:.m““x tdhe OUR NATIONAL MORTIFICATION A Pulpit Reviow of the Crodit Mo- bilier Soandal, Rev. Laird Collier on the Recent Develop- ments of Congressional Cor- ruption. The Remedy, a Higher Standard of Individual Integrity. The Rov. Laird Collior preached to a largo assomblago, yestordny morning, in Martino's Hall, corner of Indisna avenue and Twonty- accond street, the place of worship of the Church of tho Messiah, The sermon was as follows : OUR NATIONAL MORTIFIOATION, !l‘hlyl princes sro companions of thicves ; ovoryons ovetls gifts, and followoth ufter rowneds,—Isadal 1, 29, T como to tho consideration of this matter of Congroesional corruption, of conspicuous names which stand porjured boforo the country, with a porsonal and patriotio mortification which I have no words to indieato—certainly no words to ex- press, I have no wish to inorease a morbid hunger that feods upon tales of scandal, or that dopraved tempor which flnds a cloak for onec's own moral dofection Ain the oxposure of another’s, or to stimulato solf- rightoousness, which nsually has blatant or hid- den satisfaction, in tho downfall or misfortunc of ong's follows, and which gives occasion for tho Pharisce to say, “Beo, ‘I am holler than thoun.'” Every Amorican should rigo sbove partisan af- fillations and considerations in the vory words and tonos of voico brought to tho discus- sion of this sorious pags into which tho natfon I brought, ‘and with moral enrndatuoss of spirit, and disorotion and scdatonoss of speech, ot to work to make plain the vordict of tho popular conscionce, and give pledgo to one nnothor, as citizons of a proud Nation, that the oscuteheon so recently soiled by tlio nnmes of princos who havo ‘ sought gitts,” “followed aftor rowards,” and ‘becamo tho companions of thioves,” shall bo made purc snd unsullied, as of old time, And let’ tho speediness, uuhositancy, and com- plotoness with which wo perform tho duty be tho assurance to tho nations of the "world that Americs has o moral sonse, purposo, and exocu- tivoness which concoals no wickedness of thoso high in placo, but romands them to sphores whora less harm can bo wrought, and their namos to' tho censure and judicial punishment thoy merit, And WIAT MORE FITTING OCOABION could bo givon a ministor of Olrist to teach and impross nlesson of roligion? Let the rulers hoar thoe word of tho Lord, and the pooplo give ear unto the law of God: * Wash yo, make you clean; put away tho ovil of your doing.”" 1t s nothing that coriuption has charactor- fzod othor times, and rulers nnd logis- latora have been dragged to tho carth and mado to wallow in ita miro by bribery, and porfidity, and peculations; it is nothing that Juxury lias been the domon which has overborne the conscionces of Bonuntors and Judgos in Greck and Roman timos, and that what'we call worldliness, and what we know to be groed of gold, ing destroyed tha roputations and usefulness, and clouded inshamo names ntl‘mmlnu luminous in the amnaly of Eugland ; itis NOTHING IN EXTENUATION or {ll\llntlnn of this incoming tido of corruption, and this sweeping away of honorable nawes futo a history of infamy nnparaileled in barbaric or Cliristion times. 'The good namo of the nation in certainly cast down, but we are not in despair. Thoso invostigations domanded and now going on aro the process of cloaring away the undor- brush—it {8 purging tho dross from the sil- vor. Truo, i o high maching of moral fato ovor tho names of mon heretofore Liold high in the esteem of their follows—tho moral and inevitable fate of wrong- doing hns speedily and botimes overtalien the wrong-doers. ‘'ho nation is not Jacking in QUICK AND SENSITIVE PUBLIC CONECIERCE, 1t is o aplondid speotaclo to sco tho whole peoplo aroused and indignant, willing to have justice done to the nconsed, determined Justico shall bo done the Govornment. Though names have been onshrined in our hearts, the; sholl bo caat from us, until, by rcpentance an confession, full and public as the exposure, they shall make them worthy to bo tulken back, The whole nation is not morally stupefied and benumbed. WE HAVE NOT ALL GONE TO SLELP, nursed to indifferenco by & vitiated and stifling atmosphore. We have uot all be- come lovers of plensure mora than God, Some whom wo suppoged were gerving thoe Lord wo hove found out wore all the whila wor- shipping Mammon, And the God whom thoy gorve is powerloss to save them now in the timo of thair dire noed and extromity. Tho dotaile of theeo Congressionnl invostiga~ tions, I must ossnmo, you ave all familiar with, That it was morally wrong and partiou- larly harmful and disparaging for Congressmen to buy, and hold, and receive enormous divis donds upon the Credit Mobilier stocks, that it was known to bo wrong, and that it was an ac- cusing spectra in tho’ consciencon of Senators and Representatives who bought and handled thom, i8 cloarly shown by tho fact of porsistent concenlment, and then comes the added sin of lying, one of the vilest and most inexcusabloof all s\ns, concarning sll of which Harper's Weeldly, “a journal of civilization,"” the omi- nently charitable cartoons of which you must romomber, enya: ‘‘‘Thore is o painful foel- ing that {bo gontlemen implicated lave strangely rovaricated, if nothing more.” It is not left for us to dotermino tho original morality and wrongfulnoss of tho transaction;— tho concealmont, tho lying, tho perjury, 'to keop it concealed tell torribly onough whai 'the mon ongaged in it themsolves thought of it. I need not recito TUE CATALOGUE OF NAMES IMPLIOATED. Indeod, & sermon sliould aim alwaynat imporson= ality, but certain names aro represontativo, stand for moyemonts and causes, and to begin, at_tho beginnin g, M Benntor Nyé could not say to Vico Dregident Colfax what lie 18 reportedto have snid to Dlr, Bonntor Patterson,—that if ho wished to got out a patent for a fool he ehould doposit him in the Patont Offico for his model. Those avho have Lnown Mr. Colfax best have nover mistaken him for n fool. No men in Amerlca evor ployed o small card botter, or on loss capital did & largor businoss, He was fortunato in boing a cilizon of Indiana, which, if without fimnc ropute for enlighten- mont, has oxtended renown forreligion. That he wes a suitablo man to represent his State, Indi- aua hon vorily bolieved, When {mbhcly accused of boing o party to tho Pacific Railrond job, we all undorstand that theso ave_tho exact words of his full, flat, ex- plicit, and, for tho timo, efilolont donial's Nelthor Onltes Ames nor any other porson over gave or offerad to glva me ono Aliare, or wenty shiarcs, or two {hourand shares, in tho Credit Mobiller or say othor rajlroad stock § and unfortunately I have never soen or recelvod the valuo of o farthing out of tho 270 per cont dividonds, nor the 800 per cent dividends in Cash, stock, and boids you buve read about syery day for tho past month, nor 100 per cont, nor1 per ceut, nor tho one-tonth of 1 per cent, HOW PITIADLE, HOW SOLEMNLY GAD, this assevoration in tholight of these recent in- vestigations, tostimonios, and oonfossions | And what doos Mr, Colfax mean wheon lio aske for ‘o suspension of public opiuion ?" This is a solecism. Opinions nre not passive, but ac- tive; cannot bo kept in aboyance or held in sus- penso, Anud tho public are decidedly of the opinion that o lio hag boon told and sworn to, ‘Toward this man who has been honored beyond his duo moasuro and merit by his countryinen, words of censure have not been umnixed with both charity and scantinoss, ~Indoed, it is vory hard for our Western, practical, porpendicular toxture of thought “to neccuso men of bypoerisy. Mr, - Colfax has sob groat storo by tho othienl value of rheforle, It {8 reported that, within o fow days, ho sont his card to n friend bearing tho following inscrip- tion: “Your sorrowful but truthful friend, Bohuylor Colfax,” which hay in it o touch of ton- dornors,—it is reslly pathetio, It {8 no now thing, sooking a tomporance meoting in Baltl- noro b & flttlnf; oceasfon for Mr, Uolfax to mako |l!||hlln prociamation of tho fact that Lo de- sired ' to stand right in tho alght of God.” This goody-goodish SUONOE-UAKE BORT OF RELIGION has baon stook in trado which hus pald him prauf nenrly ag large dividends ss his Crodit Mabilior stock, % 1 will kick a doad nto & man Ang. and Lad eaid fuab thoee who nak things of- Mr, Colfax yoars ago, and publishod them, I chould considor I had no right to say themnow, But I have alwaye had connidorablo sympathy with tho moen who might ba more saintly wors they not in rightaous drond of being moro hypooritical, I hopo for tho purification of Congrora by this strango providenco of hnd- dling totfiullmr all theso conspfouonasly Ohristian mon,—tho Qhristian statesmen par excellenco, Pattorson, Qolfax, Pomeroy, Harlan, as tho chiof slnners, and this lmpn haa'sorious foundation in tho fafth that insincority—nhistrionio roligion, dramatio ploty—is tho moast holnous oln agnins! both man and God. 5 THUENE ARE CHRSTIAN STATESMEN at Washington, and thank God for them, who carry no placard sround with them, who do not thoir alms before men, who say not thelr prayers in tho market places to he soon of men, but wko put tholr convictions into tho moasuros thoy ad- vocato and thoir ploty into their votes. d now listen to theso fine and rhotorieal words—which muat go withont comment, for comment i noodloss and wonld be only the sug- gestor of painful memorios—of Mr. Benator Patterson ; - / Of this oulrngo dono (o tho fair famo of men who havo lived withiout reproach for half » contury, Ly driving thom into tho gazo of tho public with a acourge of epithets which ahmfid b0 Iaid upon the lowest criml- nal with caution ; of tho torturs infiicted upon men scnslfive of their goad names by subjecting thom to legislative lnquhlflnn without suflicient roason, I may take occusion to speak clsowhore; but hero I clor simply romarking, if such things are to continue, al decent men will leave publia life, 88 I do, with pleastire, and not with regrot, Trom an officor of this groat railroad, built by tho Govornmont,—that is, bg your monoy acd mine, bub owned neithor by the Govornmont 1:cr ouraolves,—Mr. Bonator Harlan recolved 910,000 for clectioncering purpores, when ho 0l€ waa condldato for re-cleotion. And finally comos tho political scandal of £8,000 given into tho hands of Roprosentativo York, of tho Legislature of Kanens, to securo the re-oloction of Bamuel O. Pomery to Con- gress, How portinont MR, HARLAN'S NOMILY, and you know ho knows how to praloh, for this was his profession for years. 'This is his ser- mon: Tho oxpendifuro of money at cloctions s & evil. Tho apology for doing it on ono alile i dono on the otlict, and the poril grows out ot tho fack that {¢ {s often bandied by’ \Inlcrug,ulonu agonts, mako o uso of it not contemplnted by thoso who fur- nish i, A public sentimont that will make it porilous to n candidate to allow tho oxpenditure of monoy to ine fluenco ulucunn? without restricting its usca within clearly prescribod limits, i one that noods strongthen- ing by all tho arguments our beat mon and purest jour- nala can adduce, MMr, Harlan ig now tho editor of o Washington newspapor, and this Lo uses to give a savor of sweelnoss $o tho namo of Pomeroy : ‘We aro utterly at a loss to account forauch a ropro- sentation of Mr, Pomery, Thoso who know him {ntl. mntnl{ and well bellevo him to boone of thotruest snd purest of our publio men, as they know him to bo ono of thomoat_gonerous, His bonofactions have made hundreds of worihy families rojoico, Thoso who ouglit to know him thoroughly regard him ne singular- 1y unselfish, cariog only for monoy sa ko can use it, Tot to aggrandizo himeolf, but to accomplish somo 00d. I shall waivo all witticisms about how he made his monoy, and how ho did caro to use it and ac- complish somo good with $8,000 of it. That Mr, Amos is THE CHIEF OF BINNERS, it wo only allude to or1ginal sin, I admit. ¢ Nr. Wilson, Vico Prosidont-cloct, was “born in obseurity and roared in poverty," is not to tha point, That many names of lesser noto are fnvolved and must pass into a datlk chaptor of the history of Fedoral legislation, is painfully true. Our National Congress in many waya is of hl%lmr quality than in tho daya wo doém its polmicst, There is broador intelligence, finer averago culturo, loss profanity, intomporance and dobauchery; but theso last aro not the bo- sotting sins of Congressmon now-n-days. They ‘havo bocomo ** tho companions of thieves: every one lovath gifts and followoth aftor rewards.” I teko to my hoart deop pain and unaffected sorrow that “the names I have been com- polled to montion in order to give difi- nitences to my discourso are all identifled with tho intoreats and worship of the Christien Chureh. THE OHURCH OANNOT DE NARMED by individuel infidolity and disloyalty. I trunt these men aro nono the worse by ronson of their rolations to the Church, I have no sympnthy with the fl(gpnne allusions of somo ndwapapor items which gcoff nt their rulI%imm professions. Ishnll novor conse to feel tho truth of Bir TRobort Pocl's admonition: *It is not pru- dont, a8 o rulo, to trust yourself to any man who tells you that he does not be- liova in n @God or a futuro after dsath.” Roligion and the Ohurch, which oytwardl: stands for it, Liave for their aim tomake meu bo! ter, and I do not bolievo that they ever made o mnn worse. Thoro is base coin and counterfeits, but in mall proportion overywhere to the genu- ine; and it is only by reason of the gonuino that tho baso and falso hayve any ourront value whatover. 5 We lave dotocted the ostonsible and paraded roligion of theso men to bo not of the true, but falso. And, wing TO OURE THESE EVILS of our time, the greed of .13 worship of ~ Mammon, corrapth o bery, ~ peculations, aond vorfidy, no short cut, no new patents Only the old time uovctufigu remedy can I suggest and carnestly inculcate—individual integrily. Do our youth hold it s o first and fast principlo of lifo "that intogrity is better than place, that lionesty i bottor than riches? Wo must begin at romo,—with ouraelves and our children—nob with conventions and new maohinerics, but with congciencos and their training, their bonding and holy binding to ~ the standar of tho Gospel of Jesus Christ. Charactor, splon- did charactor, must bo set bofora tho peoplo as THE ONE ORITERION OF WORTI,— not wealth, not_ conspicuousness, What have thoso mon gained? It woro bettor their names lizd never béon upon tho lipsof supercilions ond _obscquious votarics, than that now thoy sliould bo folded in these dark clouds of bribery, or ovon suspicion, And we are comé fo n timo whon, in choosing our rulors and logislators, wo must chaoso botweon porsonal worth and }uu-ly fenlty. Bo great was tho disin- clination of tho Great Pericles to the rocetvin, of gifts, so utter his contompt for riches, thal though the menns of raising Athons to be the richest nnd most flourishing of the Grecian States, he added not & single coin to tho catate ho inhorited from his father. WE MUST SEEK RULERS who aro ogssossed of the splrit of tho Egyptian Xing, who &id he could better afford to meke his subjeots rich than bo rich himself, Lot us instil that splondid antique parsonal solf-rospact which characterized Benoca whon ho dofiantly snid to tho tyrant Noros ad rathor offend you by n&moking the truth than pleaso you by lying and o attery,” I am porsuaded that Cougress will do its duty—tho poople must mee to it. This is ‘our Nation—proud we aro and ought *to bo of it ; it ia the froest on tho onrth, and wo aro the froeet and best favored people. The na- tions of the world u!rcnds know of our painfnl mortifleation. Tho sccond officor of tho nation Lias como to trinl boforo the conscionce of the nation, aad muet before its judicial tribunal. Wo ask not for sovere punishmont, nor for an punishment,—only an adequate troatment of al those names which shall demonstrate the infloxi- blo intogrity of the nation, And, my frionds, LET US BEARCI OUR OWN HEARTS, Haye wo ever, in these hoarts, got o prico upon our own virtuo and honesty? Ilave we been Just in that which is lost? Would to God I conld make it plaln to every individual whom I addroas—to evory young man ‘meditating and starting upon o careor in lifo— that placo, and_ consplouousncss, and wealth, and solfish ambition have to pay groat pon- alty, and afford no satisfying penco to the soul, Only & consclence at rest, only duty unostentatiousl: porformed, only roliance upon God, and Iis approval, can send iulo our souls the angel of peace, thore to fold his wings and abide. Tho world and the fashion theroof passeth awny,—Ol ! Low soon and how suddonly,—yas, it is lilo the morning dow. But God, and char- sctor, and love endure forever. Revorently lot us commit oursolyes to leayen’s guidance. Manfully lot us boat back the temptor, till we aro gocure in the nll-ulunlngsonsu of atrong, assured oharactor, Truly, like God, lot ua love and help ono another. And humbly walking the path of duty, the flowers of beauty aud poace shallspring up, greet, and bleza us on the way. MISCELLANEQUS CITY ITEMS. A littlo child foll into a kottle of boiling lard, ab No. 242 Ienry stroet, Saturday afternoon, and waas g0 soverely burned that it died yostor- dayafternoon, Tl Coronor will hold sn in- quest to-day, Tho body of Mry, Chievers, whoso death was supposed fo hiavo boon haatoned by abuso in- flicted by her husband, was, yestordas, placed in tho rocoiving vault of Ioschill Coniotory. Dr. Emmons, the Counly Physician, and Coron Stoplions, will make a post morfem oxamnation this morning, It appenrs that the attendin physioian, Dr, Gall, mado out a cortiflonte o va, Ohovors’ denth, ataling that the immodiate Gause waé Bricht's disoane of the kidnova, bub ho sayn that hor doath was cortainly hastonad by tha bratal treatment of hor husbaud. Androw DBonson was yestorday srrcsted by .Oftleor D, Hogan on tho double_oliargo of com- mitting an_ssssult with a doadly wonpon upon Andrew Andsrson and of taking impropor libor- tios with a !vonnfiwnmnn omployed in & boardin houso ab the commor ‘of Cook _ani Dunn streots, whoero both affaira ocourred, Bone son and Audorson wore both ongor to soouro tho oxcluslve right to the company of tho fair girl. Sho duuldufily preforrod Andoraon, 'This ox« asporatod Benson, and ho yestorday sfternoon sought to draw swaotuoss from hor lips by force. Bho resisted and bogan to soream lustily, The crioa df tho fair (rF woro hoard by Anderson, who rushed into fiur room aud rosoucd her from Bonson's compulspry embracos. Benson thon turnod upon his rival, and nesaulted him with a dirk knifo, and bofore ho could bo arrosted had out & sovers gash in Anderson’s head, noar the vory bump which hold the_bulk of hfs rockdoss Enunlon. Donson was lodged in tho Central intion, and will have & hearing this morning, THE JURY QUESTION. The Majority Versus the Unanimity Principle. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: ° Bint Two billa have been introduced during tho prosent sossion of the Legislature,—ono providing that three-fourths, and tho other five- eixths, of o jury may bring in & vordlet in clvil cages, Imotico that othor Sthtow aro ogliating the samo subject, and that the solid mon are vory muoch in favor of it. At the Iast session of our Legielature o similar bill was introduced, but nevor escapod the hands of the Committee. Nono seomod to objeot to it save o fow lawyers, and this Is cortainly an argumont in ita favor, for it is concoded that, should such & law pass, it would provent much protracted litigation, Tho proposed amendment would sccord with our entiro syatem of ropublioan form of gov- ornmont, That *The majority rule,” hns be- como an axiom. In Congress, Btato Logiala- turos, City Counoils, Township Boards, Sohool Trustees and Dircctors,«—{n faot, in almost overy corporation or assoclatton,—the principlo {8 roe- ogoized that * Tho majority rulo.” Inlegisla- tive bodios,two-thirds or throo-fourths may even pesanlow over tho voto of Governor or Presi- dont. If thoso who make tho laws neod not be magnanimous in tholr opinions, but a majority may enact the Iaws, why should a unanimous vordlot be roquired to enforcs thom, particularly whon the vordict must pass the ordeal of o Judgo who may put his *voto” on it da often ag, In his opinion, justice requires it 2 . Neithor the Bupromo Court of tho United Btntes, nor of any State, require tho consont of all the Judges; but, if & mejority u%ma, it is sufficient oither to reloaso tho innocent, or take the life, if ncod be, of the guilty, If mon with all the wisdom of Bupremo Ju: fins are not ro- quired o be unanimous in their viowa of the law and tostimony, evon in cascs involving the 1ifo of o human boing, bow can it be oxpeoted that the common pooplo, who sit ag jurors, and who rarely havo their attontion ealled to such mattors, shall agrao on overy point raised in o trinl; or why should it bo expected that, in overy dispute brought into Court, in every mat- tor, elther trivial or lmportané, oach of the twelve jurors, gathered from their differont avo- cations, and difforont parta of a county, and por- haps of different nationslitics, sliould look procisoly alilis upon & matter which the liti nnts Dave heon unablo to agreo tpon ? 0 vory fact that tho ltigants who are most interosted, and havoe all the costs to p?, cannot sgree, ought to bo presumtive ovidonce that twelvo other men could not agrac on all points of differonce, Again; in all other branchos of udicature, & msjority is sufficient. Grond urors, reiumes, arbitrators, are not required to agroo unanimoudly in their decisions, but o ma- Jority-verdict is sufticiont, In" n paper of rocent dnte, T saw the following Innguage with roference to this !ub{uuh *Tho vital prinoiple of the jury systom is unanimity among its members,—that ‘is, the united judg- mont of all tho minds, The theory {s, that tho conclusion of one man's judgment is as good as that of another; and that, as = factor of tho rosult, it should be exactly oqual to thatof any other. Theorelically this may all bo very fine, but practically it is nonscnse, Evory lawyer and gurym:m nows that, in fact, thero ia no imanimity 1n the vordict of o jury in tho ma- Jority of cages, To suoh an extonthas this want of “equality or \xmmlmity" grown, that it is o standing Joko that ovon Tho Omnisolont crn- not know the vordict of o jury,” And not even the writér of tho articlo roforred to would sasert that, with all the “factors,” ho could find the fiyesult” in a jury trinl. it is woll known that, in nearly nva cago where the juryretire to con- sider the verdlct, thoy stand with » majority ono waoy ind a fow the other; and that then it bo- comes o quostion of ‘mero intellectual or physical ability on the part of tho juroraf {If thero sre one or two ‘strong men” on the jury, they will eithor ¢ bring over” tho othors or ¢ git thom out,” and tho physically weak must | aucoumb, This is well understood by lawyers, ‘| and an old, sagacious practitioner will often win »_judicious solection of his caso simply b Pgn Zb Bnt “thnt vital 4 gtrong mon" e jury. principlo,” #tho united judgment of all tho Tninds,” {8 still lncking, The jurors * brought over” aro of the samo opinion atill ; thoy have simply *glven in” to tho others, Itis woll knowa that, in most cages whore juries * hang," ond ate kopt out over meal-time or all night, thoy agreo from moro physical exhaustion, nof monhfconvlction. Doet tho sagont of o fow such mon add anything to the verdict of thoma-~ jority who agree on the firat ballot ? ‘Varlous devices aro resorted to by jurors to offect an agreement. Ofton each marks the omonnt he thinks the verdict shonld be, The sums are added, and the product diyvided b; twolvo, snd & verdict rendered accordingly. have known a verdict decided in tho jury-room by toesing pennics; ond, in ono cnso, not ‘150 miles_from Chicngo, & rubber of whist was played to docide the verdict, OFf courso, such aro oxcoptlons, and, I trust, vory raro; but that vory fow vordicts are in fact unanimous, all will acknowlodge who have had any experienco as o uror. The E,ury may *“agres " to tho vordiot, ut it is not_bocause, in the opinion of all, it ia a8 it shonld be; but, weary, hungry, and sleepy, an'nrs are led to commit perjury so ag to boable got home. But what is the bonefit of & unanimdus ver- diot? It mnst eithor be for plaintiff or defend- an, for, if thoro lu o disagrooment, s new trinl must bo had, oo that, ultimately, a verdict must olther b for plaintiff or dofondaut. Now, if o mnfuflty sgrae olthor way, what benofit can there bo In compelling that anonty to sit for hours, and perhaps days and nights, ‘to forco the obsti- nato fow to agroe, for, after all, it ia tho same verdict which the majority would have rondorod. There cortainly can bo but one objoct in com- elling o unanimous verdict, and that is to have Phu majority yield to the minority, for in no other woy I8 any different result attalued. Is this dosirable ? "Tho costs and oxpenses caused by the dolays in l\rlngin%l over the obstinato jitrors are vory groat. It has boon natimated b Bome oxcollont Inwyors that fully one-half of all tho timo ocoupiod by jurors is in obiaining n unanimous verdiot after the mejority have agreed, gignln; it is woll known that many of the most hotly-conteted cases nover would ocoupy tho Qourts, but be sottled quickly, if it wore not for the hopo, in some cascs cortninty. of *“hanging the jury.” 'This ia & hope always indulgod in by tho ‘defendant, because he only requires ono Juror out of tho twelve to defeat a verdict, Many cagos have ocourred whoro the plaintiff, with a just cause, hns been ruined by tho pertinacity of a dofendant whoso lawyer ‘‘know n juror who would hang;" aud, again, many o defondant, from the samo cause, has hboen utterly ruined by & woalthy, unprincipled plain- tiff, who has dragged thq dofeudant term after torm through the Courts, with a causo only plansible enuuqh to be #o handled by o sharp lawyer as to * fool a jurer,” and thus pre- vent s verdiot, I cannot imagine o civil suit whero a unani- mous verdict would be, in any respeot, bettor than two-thirde, or wheore s mnjority verdict would bo more injurious than one unanimous]; whilo I can racall'to mind many casos whero tho two-thlrds verdict would have beon bettor for all parties, saved tho time of the Court, and pro- vented groat exponee to the litigants and tho county. Brlgury and corruption, eithor with money, influence, foar, or fayor, ara very commop, and, under the prosent jury system, unevoidablo; for if, among the “chosen twolve" Apostles, there wau one Judas, Liow oan wo expeot to be any more sxem&t in tho sclection of a eury of tweolvo mon ? o know and expeot that evory dishonest man, and a clasa of Inwyers called * glyyators,” will opposo tho law, and 8o will evory man who has n. dnu&omtn onso to come be- fore a Court, for, under tho prosont aystom, it is bottor for a man who has & just olaim to loso it !l than try to colloat it by law, while the sooun~ drolawill, in some way, securo ona man on the Jury, and thus defest tho onds of justico.- B, Snowbnlls Made Usefuls From the Har{ford Thucs, A funny ecens took placo last ovenin, Johw's Churah, Fast Hartford, during in 8t, 0 8or- vloo, Tho oholr had just finished ohanting tho paaltor for tho day, whon a Iargo coron & of avor- gmnnu Lolding o couplo of dozen candlos, wes found lo bo on firo, 1t was suspended by wiros dirootly ovor tho ohancel, and held bylm‘qa wroaths of ovorgreons ron.chln;} the coll- ing .and sidos of .tho sacristy. It was- im- possibla at. tho momont to ' pull these down, and {hoy wera goon on fire, tho flames mspronding rapldly along the hoavy ropes of dry ovorgroons, Tho Rov. Mr. Hobblo, tho Rector, thraw off bis surplice, and 60 nleo did tho chorisiors, who, \\‘nhrrhn malos in tho audionce, rushed out of ‘doora for snow, 28 no water was avsilablo, Thon commonced & funny scone, all of theso mon throwing snow- balls nt the burning wreaths, Thoy thus suce coeded In putting out the firo, whioh, but for tholr prompt efforts, mllflnt have proved serious; Aftor tho excitomont had boen quistod tho norvice waa resumed, the Reotor announcing that tho Ta Doum would be sung, and all the con- gregation, which wan a largo one, joinod in inging it. In consoquence of tho smoke which filled the church the sermon was disponsod with. —— Living by Rule. Aloxander Roborts, born in_Dotrolt soventy- £wo years ago, died the other day in Loods, Eng- Tand. 11is fafhor took him to England whon but o boy, and soon aftor #ot him up in business, with'tho positivo injungtion nover to spond mora than mfim shillings and sixponco o wook, Rob- erta adhered closoly to hisinstructions from that timo to his death. IIe construed the rule to Involve tho rent of his store, and so in n little while, whonincroasing business mado himenlarga his ntore, ho gave up any outsido homo and lived and aloq‘f thoro. As ronts roso and his businoss, socond-hand clothes selling, incroased, he had to cut down his food oxponscs still Iower, and to move into narrower quarters. This ho did time and again until at the closo of lnst summer ha’ was neatly starved to doath. His acquaintances finally ono dsy found him prostrated entirely by the overwholming filth of his narrow homo and the lack of all nourishing food. They per- suaded him to buy somo medioine, but when he got it, 1t ouly gave him an appotite. He could not afford to buy any food nfter paying for the modicine, 80 ha wanderod out to a horsochest- nut troo and filled himsclf with its lusclous fruit, o roturned to his homo and died thera. This s the brief story. Ho was reputed to ba worth at least 8000,000, but his onrly vow was kept to the ond, and so long es he oxisted it waa nover at o greator oxponco than cight shillin and sixpenco o woolk. Ills instructions woro fo Jivofor thnt sum, andho thought hoobeyed, Yot living for that sum cauaod Lja doatls, sad 1t bor comes a question for the logician whetherthe man did not by dying disoboy orders. But what will bo of moro intorost to tho unwike is the fact that Roberts has loft no hoirs, except such claims aa can bo advanced by a natural son who is somewhore in Ameriom Have wo not & “claime ant” among us? —_—— Coincidences, An nccount was given, somd days, ngo, of & singular coincidance between tho battle in which Goneral Zollicoffer was killed in the West, and a rumor which preceded tho fight b{ threo or four days, and gave the actunl partionlars as thoy afterwards occurred, oyen to the doath of Zollicoffor. It is vory singular what strango forms these coincldences assumo, TFlamsteed, tho astronomer-royal, tho first director of Groon- wich Obsorvatory, and tho most ominent English sstronomor of his time, was onco asked byan-old woman—who, accordingtothesu- perstition of that duy, considered him an ngtrol- oger and magiclan—the whoreabouts of ‘& cor- tain bundlo sho hnd lost. Flamsteed gravely told hor to look in o cortain ditoh, and then como back, Meanwhile he propared himself to givo hor a severo lacturo on her folly, when tho old woman returned in_great delight, with the bundle in her hand, found in the ditch. It is neodlens to say it wna- thoronfter impossible to shake her belief in Plamstoead. DIED. RS LSy SRR NP PP P HALL Sundsy morsing, Teb. 9, Mr. Lemborton O. Tall, {n'tho 68th yoarof hisnga. ' ! Funoral Thursd h( ¥eb, 18, at 11 o'clock a. m,, from his Into rosidonoo, 608 Wabash-av. VANGQRDER—Sundsy moratn, Fob. 1 at 11 o'clogk, g R (L e e ; a0 : songnsiow, He L Sristol, 11id Stichigan-ar, Frioads of tho family invited. Tl i '—At h id ), 81l "osf adison-at., TR HRS Y W Bleorows uged 80 3oats, § monthi, oY% sevtoon at hip Lato rosidonos, Tuosday morn- tug, Yob, 11, 1878, Rowmalns {0 bo tskoh o Rosohill by traln, Mombers of H. W, Bigolow Lodgo 438 A. F. & A. M., aro Fonupstad o sot gt Loastng Hall, No. 13 Norih Clinton-st., Tussday, at 10 o'clock a. m., sharp. {ESERVE~At his rosidenco, No. 611 Hurlbut-st.; ) ufl‘:} QVnnlnlr at 5:3 o’clack, O, O. Mosorve. toohor ad b Dupers pleaso copy. AUOCTICN SALES. By ELISON & FOSTER. Chattel Mortgage Salse OF TUE . ; Entire Furniture OF THE GALT HOUSE, No..42 South Water-st. 13 i e Bl e Ot s Jargo' Hotol Rango, with ‘Cooking: Utanslls, Badding, Eiaon Towols, Mirtors, Bax and Bar Etiron, Show 3 g nertalning to hoto Datptsos."?* 40 {LISOR" S HOSTUR; Auctfoneots. 597 ST.AMIS=ST. BANKRUPT STOCK oF Hats, Caps, Furs, and Gents’ Fur« nishing Goods; also, Store Fixtures, at Auction, On WEDNESDAY moming, Tob. 12, at 100'clock, at 5 b By oftlor o sarpe RonFRt E, JENKINS, Aesiznco. ELISON & FOSTRI, Auctionsors. 551 Michigan-av. G I3 IN 0 I S K Honsehold Furnitare, o0, on THURSDAY morning, Fob, 18, ot 10 #:loau‘;,flgn:-lnflzun( Parlor, Chambor, filnlmpmnm and e e e e Ot ovea, o, v bty og; Fronoh Ohtnay, DINON & FOSTEN, Auctionosra. — By G. P. GORE & CO., 23, 4, and 23 East Randolph'st. SPEOILAL AUCTION SALE On TUESDAY, Fob, 11, at 93 a. m., of 100 DOZ. POLISHED SHOVELS, Hardwaro Tools, Tablo and Pookot Qutlory, and at sams lmo an fnvolco of HOSIERY, an fnvolco of ORASIY, and a lot of NOTIONS, GEO, P, QORE & 0O0,, ), 24 and 26 Randolph.-st. Men's, Boys', and Yonth's Calf and Kip BOOTS AND SHOES, ‘Wom's,, Miss', and Child's. Sergze and Goat ang Buit Bals, and Polish, AT AUCTION, On WEDNESDAY, Fob. 13, at 03¢ a. m. GEO. . GO & 60n B H a8 Randotob-st, WM. A, BUTTERS & (€O, (ESTABLISHED JANUARY, 1856), AUCTIONEERS, CEHICACGO, Nos. 66 and 57 Bouth Canal-st., WILL BELL, DRY GOODS, OLOTHING, HATS, &0,, ON THURS. FURNITURE, HOUSRHOLD . VAL MEROANDISH ON B%QSR%A\A'.N e BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, AND HARNERS, Wednosday and Saturday Mornlugs, - ALED, 27, 20 & 81 Wost Washiligton-st. &~ Uonsignionts solloited, Fr-Giah Edvaoos moan o sooolpt of goods, By T. 8. FITCH & CO, REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. TRognlar Wookly Salos at Bal 157 Doarborn. st., ovary Wolnosdny, at 3 o'alock p. m, " Partioulars ag thid ollica. * Hirlug Inyour ilsts Bpecial aitention gisan to out-door sales, ', 8, FITOIL & O WHEDON, TYLER & CO., Qonoral Auotionoers, 117, 119, 121 and 123 Lifthost., car, Pino, Bt Lauis, Mo., Liold Kegular Trado Salos ovory dng; fondaya and te and Stiocs. e e e e ot ona, o, Wodneadaya—Clothing, Fleco Gonds, &o. o Saledaye, el B Taidwaro, Furnts ro, 1088, . W 3.'-';';'1||."a .m‘.'nd oliablo Auotion market in tho ouns we Oashadvaneed on CORVITERON, TYLER & CO, s—Grugorlos,