Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1873, Page 4

Aoy ; TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1373, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TTRMA OF RUDACRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE), }‘711!1‘4', Dby mall 912.()0[ Hunday, ) vi-Wookly, GO0 Weakly Tartnol u yonr at tha samo rtg. Yo viavant dolny and mistakos, bo suro and give Post Qe addrosa In full, tmoluding Btate and County. Hemittancos may b mads etthor by draft, oxpross, Post Otico viddor, or fu rolaterad lottars, at our sk, TRIME TQ CLTY SUACRINENS, Delly, dolivered, Bunday oxcentott, 25 conts per wook. Ludls, dellverad, Bundny tneludod, 00 conts por weok. Addeon TILE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Deatborn-ats., Uhfesga, 11l CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRBT PAGR—Washington Nawa~Now York Mattors— Miscollanoons Tulugrams—Advortisomonts, BRCOND PAGE—Tho Rallroad Question: Mooting of Turmors of Ford County, IlL.—Washingtan Lottor —Mareiage In Ohtua—Au Extraordinary Story: How Cngt, MoDaulols aud §7,000 Disappeared, THIRD PAGE~Tha Exposition—~Tho Now CltyMall— Wabash ‘Avonuo~Tho Law Co mm’};‘;}‘-‘;‘\‘gm"“"‘”“0' urts—Tho City In FOUTY AGE-Edltorials: Congrossional Bl Slmplification of Tar.Collootors; e l*’nrn?m!: rfxur'e‘ Plunderod by the Tarif—Curront Naws Items—Notos and Opinton, FIFI'Tt PAGE—Notos from the Stato Capltal—That Ab- Quotlon—~Notes and Opinion—Chlcsgo Dry-Goods and Livo-Stoock Markots—Markots by Telegraph— Amusomonts, SIXTH PAUOL-—Monotary and Commeratal, BEVENTH PAGR--Small Advartisomonts: Teal Estato, For Balo, To Rent, Wuntod, Boarding, Ledging, Fto. EIGHTH PAGE—Foroign News—State Loghalatures— Miscollancous Tolograms—Advortisomon TO-DA! AMUSEMENTS, M'VIOKER'S THEATRE-Ms Stato and Doarborn, * Mamlot." ACADEMY OF MUBICO— Halstod street, south of Mndison, Eagagement of Olivar Doud Byron. *‘Across tho Continent.” Afterncon aud ovening, lson streat, betwesn Engagomont of Kdwin Booth, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph stroot, be- tweon Clark and Loiallo, *'Poril; or, Love at Long Branch." Aflormoon and ovening. MYERS' OPERA 1IQUSE—Monroo strect, hotwosn Statu and Doarburn, Arlington, Cotton & Kamble's Minstcol aud Burloaquo Tronpo,’ 23 GLOBE THEATRI~Dosplainoastroot, botroon Madl- “*Octoroon," son and Washington, ovoniug, Aftornoor snd BUSINESS NOTICES. . OYAT, JIAVANA LOTTERY—WHOLI: TIOKET, c2s, Crecul t: Informati UL I MARY FTNED KOO Momidorn rmvatom, €i50%5, ilacieh Now The Chivage Teibune, ‘Wodnosday Morning, March 13, 1873, Promlor Gladstone has beon defoated in the House of Commons, which has rejected his Irish Land bill by a majority of thrce. Presidont Grant's inangural address ia ridi- culed by tho newspapers of Gormnny, which question whether monarchical countrios ought to maintain diplomatic rolations with a country whosae chief thus insults thom, [ ————— Portugueso papors not long ago hastoned with suepicious alncrity to aver that there was no Republican movement'in their country. They 10w admit that attempta are boing made to es- tablish a Republican party in Portugal with & vigor unparalleled in ita history. Pinchback thinks ho has not boen troated fairly. Ho snys that his clection was as good as Bponcer’s, and would have bean conceded, liko his, if ho had been & white man. Moreover, ho was elected by tho Kollogg Governmont, which fins beon recognized by Conersl Grant as logit- Imate, and the action of which should not bo rojucted by Congrous, When the question of prohibiting ecotarlan appropriations camo before the Constitutional Couvention of New York, that body adopted & very sweepiug clause which forbids tho monoy or credit of the Btato to he given to any nssocia- tion or enterprise, private, religious, or secular, o Convention rofusod to intorforo with liconses for tho liquor trade. No eupersedeas bas been grauted Driver, the wife-murderer. Tho aunouncomont that Judge MeAllistor had given a stay of proceodings in his caso had ils origin solely in o misapprohen- sion of tho prisonor's counscl, who mistook a packot containing tho rocord of the procoodings 1nd somo othor formal papors for the covoted writ. According to tho present outlook, Driver will bo hauged day after to-morrow. 7 No choico wag ronchod yostorday in tho elec- tion of n Sonator from Massncliusotts to succeed Vico-Prosident Wilson. Dawes and Boutwell weve the leading compotitors, Dawes lod Bout- «wall on cach of tho four ballots in the Sonate ; But in tho 1fouse Doutwoll showed such unexpected strongth—receiving on Lhe second and last ballot 124 to 92 for Daweg~—that thoro is little doubt he will Lo elocted on (he first ballot in joint session to-day. who way tho most intractablo of all the Moxican rovolutionists, and lnid down his arme and disbanded his troops but a fow months ago, has now beon elocted to the Chiof Justiceship of tho Suproma Court. Thia sudden frenk of popular favor, which would bo startling in any but Moxican politics, gives Dioz the suc- coeaion to tho Prosidency, sliould any vacsucy oceur, o ba mado Lo oceur, a8 Aomotimes bap- pons in Mozieo. Leading men in Senntor Bogy's party como to tha aid of tho Ropublican minority who, in tho Mssourl Legislaturo latoly, asked tho United States to supplemont the far- cical proceedings nt Jofferson City by wn Louost investigation. Theso Domo- crata aro stated, on what appears good suthority, to have addressed 1o tho Benato Blections Com- tmitteo o momorial containing new evidenco of bribory on Logy's part. Their statements aro pworn to, and coninin the names of the vilnesses, Now Hampehire olection returns up to mid- night givo Straw, Ropublican, avoto of 24,871; (“oston, Domocrat, 21,857 ; Blackman, Tomper- ence, 820; Moson, Liboral Ropublionu, 400, Thoro is, in comparison with tho votes of pre- vious years, a Ropublican loss, 8o far, of 808, Tha closenoss of the voto—which may bo made gtill closor by roturns not yot in from tho north- | ern part of tho Stato—ronder it possiblo that ¢hero hns boeu no alection by the peoplo, Should this bo the caso, tho clection goss to {ho Loglulatus Immodiately after conceding the opposition ono moro reprosontativo on oach of the im- portant committoos, tho Republican msjority in tho Bonato Incronso the Committeos on Appro- priations, Public Lands, Post-Oftico, and Eloc- tionu—tlio Jant of which s tho most jmportant of o]l tho committeos—by two mombers enoh, They will mow aumber nine cach, instead of soven. Tho ropresontation of tho minorlty, {nutend * of being ralsed to two oub of wovon, or nearly one-third, {8 reduced fo losa sLan ono-fourth, On tho' Committes which la sooond in importance, that on Foreign Affatrs, tho minority lisve but one mombor. o balauce theso inoqualition, thoy wiil bo allowed three mombers on somo of the minor committoos. — It ia statod that tho Iast rallroad victory facoured in the Now Jornoy Logiolaturo cost a quartor of o million of dollars, and that thon it 1t was won by a baro' mnjority of the voto, It thisin true, it affords an encouraging outlook for tho failure of railroad power ovor tho Btato Loginlatures, Tho prico hns bocome too high, It it takes & quartor of amillion to buy s baro majority of ono, tho investmont will bo too largo and tho results too uncortaln to warrant froquent ropotitions. It will bo found cheaper to run raliroads on their morits and without leglslativo nid Au olaborate argument in dofonse of tho rail- ronds, in thelr relations to tho public, was do- livorod boforo tho Jolnt Railrond Unmrqfl.tuo of tho Loglelaturo yostorday, by Mr. Robert Har- ris, tho Goneral Buporintondont of the Olleago, Burlington & Quincy Ratlrond. Ho disonssed tho quostion from tho standpoint of tho railroads in all its aspoots, and dofends their chnrges and thoir discriminations a8 forced upon them Ly tholr outlny and tho compotition to which thoy aro subjeoted. Ilia viows aro ox- prossed at longth, and aro worthy of considora- tion as tho prosentation of ono sido of this problem, which can bo justly scttled only after afulland falr hoaring to all the Intorcsts in- volved. Mr. Honry O. Kent, Chairman of tho Liboral Committeo of Now Hampshiro, has published o vory logionl and conciso addresa rociting tho rea- gous why the Liborala of that Btato havo nomi- patod a thoket of their own {nstoad of conlescing with the Democrats in the prosont campaign. The position taken by tho great majority of tho Neow Hampshire Domocracy last yoar, ho says, +wag Auch as to challongo the rospoct of tho Lib- oral Ropublicans. Novertholoss, thoro were 17,000 Domoorats in tho Btate who refused to fol- Tow the party standard, and thia dofeotion was suffielent to neutralize tho Liberal Ropublican stropgth. It doos mot nppoar that sny moro Tiopeful roanlts can be loolkod for in tho future from a coalition. Thereforo, an independent organization has beon decided upon in New Hampshire as the initial step to tho Prosidontial campnign of 1876, Tho dispute botweon Omelia and Council Bluffs for tho honor of belng tho terminus of the Unton Pacific Iailrond has recoiveda judicial solution, That Company has sought to provent Becrotary Boutwell from withholding one- half of the tolls charged wupon Govern- mont froight possing ovor the Omaha bridge by pleading that the rond did not bogin on the east side of tho river, and that tha rocelpts of tho Bridge Company word, thoroforo, not tho recoipta of tho Unlon Pacific, and not Hable to Governmont dues. In answor to this, the Attornoy-Gonoral rules that tho road doos bogin on tho cast side, This decialon, bo- sidon sustalning tho right of the Governmont to ono-half of tho charges on its froight presing over the bridgo, gives an incidontal sanction to the claimsof Council Bluffs over Omahaasa terminal point. E Tho Burgomastor of Strasbjirg rocontly ad- dreased a potition to Bismarck requesting that tho French tongue might be regularly taught in the elemontary achoola of the city in addition to the Gatinan, alloging its necossity on nccount of tho intimate commorcial rolations of Btrasburg with France. The crafty and versatile Chancol- lor sont back & vory decided nogative, stating that it was out of all experionco that children could learn both tongues 8o that thoy would bo of any advantago; that thoso poople who thought the Fronch tonguo of any advantage hod the opportunity to send thelr childron to thoso places whore TFrench was taught; and olosed with tho nent bit of saronsm that 4 go far ng is kmown, on the farther side of tho frontior, the Gorman tonguo is novor taught in tho French schools, from which it may bo gnath- orol that tho supposed nocessity of amutual Lknowlodgo of the tonguos of nolghboring Statoa has not yot boen discovered {n those schools.” The *‘map Jennings" is the subjoct of a good doal of mud-throwing in tho New York press, Tho man Jennings Is an omployo of the propri- otora of tho New York Times. At this distance it looks as though tho man Jennings, ns tho original instigator of tho grand bout, was tho most oxport and liboral mud-throwor of the wholo crowd. But why is the man Jonnings brought beforo tho public at all? Thoe Now York Zimes 18 tho offender, if there be any rock of offenso, If thot papor hires tho staff of the Eatanswill Gazetle to furnish its editorials, there is no- ‘ody to blamo and nobady to suffer but itsolf. Au old Grool philosopher onco sald: “If any ‘man abuses mo, it is not his abuse which hurts mo, but my own opinion of it. My opinion of it 18 under my own control; thorefore, if T am hurt Dby it, it ia my own fault.” If tho Evening Post will lay this toxt to heart, it will no longer find it necossary ta throw mud baclk at the men Jen- ninga. ——— ‘Tho Caldwoll debato is still running. Yeater- day the Bonate listened to tho remaindor of Son- ator Calwell's defoneo, in which ho snys that not a dollsr hing boen traced from him to any mem- ber of tho Logislaturo which elected him, nud solemnly declaros that ho nover paid, directly or indircetly, anything for any man's voto. He ro- fors to the chargea against him as tho fruits of “ the Sntanio mallgnlty” of his onomios, whoso caso roats ouly upon “thelr own false swoaring." Thoy aro ‘bold, bad men,"” who seck to make him “tho victim of a wicked conspiracy,” In short, Benator Caldwell makes it plain that ho is porsecuted by uurightoous men. Sonator Car- pontor mado tho only apoech of tho day, He expressed tho griof with which he had henrd Benator Morton, the day before, attack Caldwell 88 it he had been & political opponent, and pleaded with tho Bonato to oxamine the cese in an unimpassioned and judicial gpirit.” ‘The successes of tho Carlists, which are now reported almost daily, and the rapid mannor in which they are overrunning northern and cons tral Bpain, givo intorest o tho following state- mant of thoir strongth, which Is published in one of the Spanish papors : Baballs, Comman- dant-Conaral of tho Oarlist forces in the Province af Qorona, bins 1,200 mon ; Garcorau, in the Proviuco of Barcolonn, 1,000 men; Valles, in Tarragons, 1,600 men; ‘Nadarro, in Le- ride, 1700 mon; OCuculs, fn ElI Maos~ trazgo, 4,000 men ; Olla, in Navarre, 2,600 mon ; TLizarrags, in Guipuzeos, 1,600 men, In Biscay, thore oro also numerous small forocs, Tho same poper says: *The uniform of the Oarlist oavalry oonsfsts of bluo trousers with rod strios, dark-colored jmoltet, Welllogton boots, darlk-bluo clonk, and tho rod bogna. Tholr ap- polntments avo oxcollont ; the horses small, but suro-footod aud poworfuly tho mon well-armed with long-sword, onrbino, and pletols,” 'The in- surroction ls dolng immonse injury to commorco in tho north of Spain, partioulnrly in the Baaquo Provincos, which are the busiest in tho country, and most of tho manufacturors aro closing tholr factorios from Inability to obtaln matorial or dis- poso of their goods, Thoro ia & movement in England as woll a8 in this conntry to corroct tho ovilsof tho Jury pystom, To this ond, the Attorney-Clonoral has proposod, in Parllamont, & vory radical menenro, which doos not soom to command popular con= fidonco and will not bo likely to pnss. Tho maln foaturos of tho Attornoy-Genoral's proposition aro & redaction of the number of tho jury from twolvo to sovon, excopt in trials for tronson and ‘mitrdor, and tho prinolplo that o mojority shall boallowed to vato avordict. Tho first chinngo {srecommonded in order to decrense the num- bLor of porsons withheld from thoir oce oupations to attond court whero thoy awnit summons LU Jurors, Tho Atternoy-Gonoral argues that thoro ia no magio in the pumbor twelve, and that tho numbor might just as woll be sevon. In roply to this, it is aneworod that thore fs no more magie in the numbor soven; that tho ‘evil complained of can bo romodicd in some other mannor, and that it would bo dangorous to change the number constituting o jury whon tho peopls havo lonrned to regard that numbor as nocossary to thoir protection. Tho second chango suggeatod by the Attorney-Genoral is opposed still moro vigorouely. It s similarto o proposition that hins boon meado in the Illinois Loglslature, ox- | copt that tho Iatter roquires that o two-thirda voto sball be roquired for tho vordict Both plans scom to bo Inconsidorato and dangorons. . In tho organization of Jurics, two-thirds of tho mombors aro na apt to be stupid blockhoads 88 one-third, and the pro~ posed change would give them the opportunity of dotermining & vordict whonever such n divieion should oceur, It would gimply bo an application of the msjority rule to jury ver- dlots, na it oxinta now In politics, Tho prinol ploia carriod far enough alrendy, and it would bo espocially dangorous and objectionable to apply it to absolute judiclal verdicts affccling lifo, liberty, and property. ‘The principle of unanimity has tho constant advantage of secur~ ing doliberation end consultation, more apt to rosult in & just vordict thau a hasty, inconsider- ato voto of tho majority. CONGRESSMEN’S BALARIES, Thero comos from Washington what we sup- rose to be an authorized apology of certain mombora for votiug for the increass of Con_ grossional salarios, and it reads as follows : It {a but justico to thoso men who, lke Bonators Trumbull, Bryard, and Representativo Banks, voted for tho Incrensed salary bill, to state thoir aido of tha queation, Thoy eny thelr support wos given to tuls messuro simply to oqualizo tho componention accouut. Thus, for instance, the members of bath Houses from Oregon gat $0,492 for (o sosslon on account of milcage. Thoso from Nevada got $3,600 3 from Toxas, $3,000; from Loutslana, $3,600 ; from Arlnnsns, $2,100 ; from Kauens and Nobrasks, $2,100, notwithstanding the no- torfotis fact that either these members had raflrond passes all tho woy or else pasned tho onttro sesalon 1o Washington, ‘Tho Incroaso-of-Sulary bill abolishcs mileago, and under this provision Sontor Kelloy will Do required to pay 1,403 futo tho Treasury instead of recoiving $0,402 therefrom, This explanation furnishes no defenso for the act. Becauso, under tho law, Mr, Trumbull re- coived moro miloage than Mr. Banks, Mr: Banks moro than Mr. Bayard, and Mr. Kolloy, of Ore- gon, moro than Mr. Trumbull, that furnizhed no, reason for goiug back two years, and allowing Mr. Trumhull and Mr. Banks to take money from tho Troasury in rddition to thoir logal salary for pro- vious servicos, »If it bod been proposed in this Dill that ench member should heod back to the disbursing oficor nll his pay and mileago, and then that the pilo should be divided oqually among all tho members, there would have been no objection to that, if thore ind been any means of enforcing tho law. But this bill proposed much more. It proposed to take moro money out of tho Treasury. If tho Pacific mem- bors rocelved more thau thoso residing noarr the Capltnl, it was casy to computo how much was the actual cost of the travel from Orogon to Washington, and allow them that sum and no more, The inequality was not greater in proportion to distance in the Oregon ecamo than in the caso of Mr. Banks or Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Banks recoived a8 mileage from Waltham to Washington about $160, when the actual cost of travel i not over $12. Mr, Trumbull recoived for milengo from Chicago to Washington nbout £800, and tho actual faro ia not over §24, Tho Orogon membor received a greater sum for mileage, but not perhapa in greater dispropor- tiony to his actual outlny. Mad thoso gontle- men votod to allow ench member tho actual cost of his travel, then thero would have beon an equalization of compeneation that would lave saved to the Treasury mony thousands of dollars ench Congress, For instenco, the Baltimoro City membors receive 816 for mileago to Wash- Ington, a distance of forty miles, whon tho actual cost is but £1.60, The sction of Congrosa was not to oqualize componsation by cutting off tho enormous abuses of tho milenge systom; it waa not to cut off the mileago bills of tho Cali~ fornin membors, but it was to level up tho mile- 8geo, and glve ench men an oqual share, Itia possible to undoratand how Mr. Kalley, of Phil- adelphis, should have voted to muke Mr. Kelloy, of Oregon, disgorge 1,600 and poy it back inte the Tromsury, but it {s not do casily undor- stood why tho money thus rofunded by Kolloy, of Orogon, should Lo paid out again to Xelloy, of Philndelphia, with censid- orable moro in addition. Under the quostionuble policy of robbing Poter to pay Paul, tho Inttor only recelves what is taken from {ho former; but our Congrossmon havo not only takon away a fow thousand dollars from a half- dozen mombers, but havo taken from tho Treas- ury over half a million of dollara in addition. Mr, Banks and Mr. Trumbull have beon in Congress for eightcon yoars, During all that timo tho Oalifornia and Orogon mombors huve been drawing this excossive milengo. Why limit tho posthumous equalization to two yoars ? Why not oxtend the 87,600 salary back to 18667 Thero can bo no exouso, pallistion, or justification of this vote for back pay for two yeaits that will not apply with equal forcs to the wholo olghtoon yoars, Tho fact ls, tho pas- anga of this act I8 unjustifiablo, Tho arrangement that it should rocolve about an equal numbor of votes from each party, in ordor to ““hoad off" any party advantago, wns a woak invontion, It docs not rolieve any membor who voted for it from responsibility for ay act that la wholly unjustifiable. It is immatorial what the politics of tho man who voled for this bill may De ; Lis aot caunat reflect on hiu party, but must refloct on himself, and foravor adhoro to him as plugder of tho Troasury for bis porsonal gain, Wo doubt whethor thero is any power In Cone gronn to make Mr. Kelloy, of Oregon, rofund any portion of his pay or miloage. Those wora fixed by Inw botoro ha drow thom. Iis sorvicos as a momber of tho Forty-socond Congross had ox- pired and his monoy was oarnod bofore tho now nct bocama n Inw. On tho 4th of Marth, he Govornment owed him n cortaln amount undor contraat for sorvioos aud milengo up to the pro. coding day, tho monoy having been proviously appropriated, and the amount fixed by statuto, Congrosa conld no moro compol him to rofund any portion of this than it could compel Mr, Banks to rofund his pay racoived as Spoakor sixe toen yeara ago. Wo nro espeoinlly painod that Mr. Trumbull should hinve voted for this bill, snd wo anrncstly opo that he will refuso to avail himsolf of its provisions, or to take from tho Troasury alargor sum than ho had sgreed to sorvo for. BIMPLIFICATION OF TAX-COLLEOTION. Thero is a Dill boforo tho Leglelaturo of tho grontest importanco to this city, and that is in tho mattor of providing for rovenue, It pro- vidod for tho asacssment and collootion of tnxos, and romoves many troublesome and voxatious procoedings by which taxation is now defeatod by those who enjoy ita bonofits and ean hest afford to moot it. Tho bill ought not only to pnes, but it 1s vital to tho financlal oxistonce of tho city. Without it, Ghioago will bo helpless,— deprived of the means of carrying on tho Gov- ornmont, . Thero is ono thing whioh this bill, bowevor, dooa not contnin, and tho omission ought to bo supplied. It will add nothing to the oost of col- lecting taxes, but will' save an immenge amount of trouble and of loss to the publie. Undor our present systom of taxation the cityhns a gonoral warrant for tho collection of all taxos lovied for ordinary maunicipal purposes, For each soperato improvomont it has & spocial warrant. Thoso spocial warrants ara lovied for lamp- posts, water service-pipos, unpaid wator rates, soworage connections, new sidowalks, paving stroots, maeadamizing stroots, graveling streots, ropairing sidewalks, paving alloys, aud perhaps other purposes. The cost of oach of those im- provemonta is charged to the proporty cspecially benofited by the work. Tho number of thesa specinl warranta ranges from 260 to as high sa 600 cach yonr. Tho elty, thorotore, goos into conrt ovary yonr with nn nverago of 460 tax-war- rants, asking judgments on thom all. Some of those special warrants are for a total not exceod- Ing €60, othors for suma rangiug up to 20,000, but all of them covering proporty worth from $200,000 to $1,000,000, Tho tax on each lot in ‘many cages doos not oxceed seventy-five conts. Porsons may in good faith go to tho Colloctor's oflico and pay hia taxes, and yot lis property, without bis knowledgoe, mny hiave boon taxedn dollaron ono, or threodollars on anothor, of theso speciel warrants. It ofton ocours that & lot s taxed on a8 mapy ag four orflve difforont spooial wartants, and, as & rule, the ownor is not awaro ofit, It is enid that four-fifths of tho proporty sold for taxes is sold under those spocial war- rants, and tho first kuowledgo tho ownor hsa Ia 4 potico from the tax-purchaser, or, whon ho seoks an abstract of title, inds that thero aro threo or four tax-deeds of his lot. Al this s porfectly familiar to tho city officers, Thoy know tho trouble and confusion resulting from this mode of doing business, and now, whon tho city is ropairing its tax system, why not provide that tho tax-officer shall oxtond on his boolks, “opposite ench lot, in addition to tho general tox, tho tax for oach spocialjobject ? By this means oll the taxes will bo in ono warrant, and when & man applios to pay his taxes ho will recoivo one bill for all ho owes. It is no part of tho businoss of the ofty to entrap peo- plo fnto tho loss of_their proporty, snd whon a man offers to pay his taxes the lonst the city can do is to inform him how much ho owos, and of all its claime agalnst him, It is no advantag to have five or six hundred special warrants hid in a corner, when tho only motlve the city ean have is to got its rovonue. Lot the now, and in many respoots groatly-improved, aystom of col- lecting tho taxes bo still further improved, 8o that the tax-book shall show in full all the taxos, genoral and speclal, chargod against each ploco of property. This will avoid five-sixths of tho salos of lots which now teko place, and if for no other reason should bo incorporated in tho bill, HOW FARIMERS ARE PLUNDERED BY THE TARIFF, M. AL Bt Lloyd, of Orion, Honry County, ad- drossos his follow-farmers in a very sensiblo way, not by any means dofending or oxtenuating railrond injustice, but ehowing that these farm- ers are respongible for much of thoir own op- preasion, He thus closes a lotter in the Cam- bridge Chronicle : Thas you pass ‘s protective tariff law, pretending it da for tho benefit of tho producer, aud to avold tho necossity of tranuportation; Then uuder it, and by offect, you muke hirh pay a greater cost of transpor~ tation than ho would without i, thus receiving his prico for hfs products, aud paylng 60 per cont more for the manufactures which he must of necessity buy, Dlooding hian at both onds, and at tho samo time hum- ‘bugging him so complotoly rnd entirely that ho thinks it 18 all for his benoft, und e wanta more protective toslgy, Thus we co that, though manufacturing in the Weat 18 whiat we wish—what wa desirc—proteotive tariff fa not tho thinyg to bring it. And, iu fact, it can only como by years of yrowtl, Tho tim. will undoubtedly come when this vast ‘Western country will consume its own agricultural products, but it may bes Luudred or two Lundrod yeara lunce, ‘Wishdraw, then, thoso so-called protectivo dutics, nnd givo Western producers (aud othors) a chance fo livo provious to tho oxpiration of thoso years, Yours truly, M, B, Lrovn, M. Toyd ia on the xight track, and is in sin- gular contrast with those demagogues who aro urging farmora to auts of violonce, while protest- ing in tho Leglelature and clsewhoro against tho reponl of oxactions that aro consuming far moro . of tho subatanco of tho pooplo then tho excess of froight chargos ovor a just and rensonable rato. The complaint is, that corn s solling for only 20 conts & bushel, and that roilroads do- mand 46 conts for carrying it to Now York., Now lot us seo how tho farmors are plundered ab tho othor opd s On overy overcoat costing. $ 25 ho pays tax,.$ 9.00 On oyery suit of clothus, 80 16.00 On six Aliirts costing. . 1 4,00 O hoska and widurwost [ 200 On ko pairs biankets, 10 5.00 Ou shuwl for wife. 1 500 On woman's shoes, 4 1.0 Bamo tirticles for reat of 50,00 $01.50 Out of every $107 ho oxpends for the noces- gary olothing of hin family 861,60 is for tax, not to the Govarnmont, but to the woolen aud cotton monopolics, pensioned by law. This tax is oqual to 807 buslhels of corn, and {g that much of the annual product of tho farmor's labor takon from lim ond given over to cortain monopoliats, without consideration of any kind. 1t this tax woro paid into tho Tremsury thero ‘might bo somo exouao for it, but it is taken In the formof ossh, and paid to the monepolist that . Clevelaud, Ohio ; Vico Presi ho may bo * encourngod” to ropoat tho opera- tlon, ‘The sama farmor pays an ‘avorago tax of 50 per cout ou ovory implomont of iron that ke maen; onhis horseshoos, on his wagon-tiros and his plown; on overy ficrow, bolt, nail, or rod of fron; ho pays the samo tax on tho tin and oopper ware ; on his cook-stove and pipej on hix glass and crockery wara: on his cutlery; on s carpot, and on his bodding, ITe pnys tax on hia ealt, lambor, vinogar, and mustard; on nonr- Iy oll that ho ents, drinks, nud woars, oxcopt what ho raisos himsolf ; and about fifty conts ant of ovory dollar e oxponds is paldoveras aapaecial bounty to monopoliats who Lavo obialned from Congross tho special privilogo of taking other people's proportyand earningsa without consider- atlon, Hore {a & practicnl griovanco that can bs romedied at tho ballot-box by tho farmoers, And yot how many of tho men who aro traveling the Btato, urging farmors to violenco against raile roads, have a word to say against this form of Iogielativo plunder ? Somo of them nro gotting tholr oges opon, but tift gront mnsa are wtill deaf and blind to the chief causo of their pros- ont aufforings. WALL STREET. IReview of tho Moncy, Stock, Rond,. Gold, and Produce Murkots. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, New Yong, March 1i.—Monoy wna closs to- day, ranging from 7 to 1-16. Leading Govern=~ ‘ment bond doalors quoto tho marlkot at 7 curren- oy and 7 gold. Prime morcantilo paper is held at 9@12. % . BTOORB. Tho stock market wns tamoe, except in a fow specinltios, such as Rock Tulnnd, Paciflo Mal, Central, ond Wostorn Union. Tho reason as- signed is, that leadors aro awaiting nows from Boston before thoy determine which way to movo. About 2 o'clock & report was otrenlated that Boutwoll would bo dofoated by Dawes, and tho atock mnrket foll oft, Lato in tho day, however, thoro wns o stondior fooling, an gomo rocovery in pricos on speoial tolograms from Wasbington, which stated that Socrotary Boutwoll was encroaching on the 44,000,000 logal tenders ; and also that the bond purchases wero to bo discontinued, and gold salos continued * ag usual, Telograms from Amntordam and Trankfort report considerable deprossion in American railway bonds, with » decline of § to 10 por cont ou £ho poorer class of tho samo with- in a fortnight. t aoLD, Gold was quict and stendy at 115 to 1153, ‘Tho position of gold spoculation ig underatood to bo s follows: The cligue held $15,000,000 to 520,080,000 on Friday last. On Baturday from §9,000,000 to 13,000,000 wero marlketed, ¢ partly on infimations from Washington of oxtra gnloa this weok, and partly beenuso at 6@, 1158 o good profit could bo socn. EXPORTS, ‘The oxports for tho wook ondhw to-dey wero 85,306,814, oxclusivo of specio. Thia is sbout!| 1] from tliat timo fo the timo of tho the samo a8 Inet woel, BONDS. Govornmonts wero #ten TUODUCE. g \ Flour woa quiot and stondy, with somoe demand " for low grades which aro ecarco. Modinm, fmdos sro plonty' and quiot. noctive nnd nominal, owing aud gearcity of vesgols, ~ Héldors sro fim, Pork ia firm ond falrly active, with | saleaof 300 brls at $16.00 for mnoss, sud .48, for extra primo. For future delivery, 1,000 briaj ab $16.06@16,00 for May. Cut meats show o' moderato business, Tho enlearoported include 50 brla dry enlted shonlders nt Gifo for thip wook; 10,000 ha picklad bellles, 0@12 tby,at 9 @960 1,600 amoltod bamn in'thé rough at 123 @18340, ond 200 do shouldors at Tie. Buoon 18 more active, Bnles wro roportod-of 1,000 boxes long olonr at 7£@80 for March. Shott clear fa uoted at B3(@8i¢c. Tho lard market i cnsior, gn es aro reported of (00 tlerces of Wostorn at 834o for primo on tho spot and for the month. DUBUQUE. Attempted Suicide=-The Northwestern Sengoerbund «- Water~Works Com= poany. Speelal Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune, Dopuque, March 11.—G. T. Jenking, & well- known citizon of Osage, Iowsz, nttomptod sui- cide, to-day, by shpoting himself - twico through the hoad, inflicting dengerous but not fatal wounds, Tho cause of tho rash act is sup- posod to be tho offect of excitemont on spiritual ma ttern, P Tho first whent-sowing of the scason took placo to-day, noar Duncombe, Hamilton County. ., Grent grepnrntlous aro making for tho meot- ing of the Northwostorn Swengoerbund hero on Juno 20 noxt. Forty-six socletics, from all parts of tho country, haye already signified their intention to be Pms\mt, and many more are oxpected, Delegatos from a numbor of -tho most important sociotien aro alrendy hore, looking to tho pro- liminary arrangoments, Tho Mmnnorchor Baoiety expect to havo their now Opera-House 5o nearly comploted né to pormit the singing to tako placo within its walls. The Inrgest gathor- ing of tho kind ever wiinessed in tho Northwest isexpected, At tho rogular annunl stocklioors' meoting of tho Dubnquo Water Company, hold yosterday ot tho Company's oflico, tho following-namad gon- tlomon wore eloctod to fill the vacancios for tho onsning yoar: Prosident, 8. Chamborlin, dent, P, L. Cham* berlin, Clovaland ; Tronsuror and Scerciary, 1. J. Gibbs, Dubuquo ; Directors, 8, Chamboilin, 1i, L. Cbamborlin, J. L. Ohumberlin, * Cloveland, Ohio ; E. . Porking, N. W. Kimball, P. Kien- nosio, I, J. Gibbs, Dubnquo. THE FARMERS. An Agriculiural Convention at Quine ¢y, E1l.—The Rallronds Consurcds Special Digputeh to 1. hicago Tribine. Quixey, 11, March1 T'ho farmers of Adams Couuty met in convention in this city this after- noon, for the purposo of forming n County Farmors' Socioty, to net with the Stato organizn- tion. A, H., Trimblo was choson Prosident, and John Stuart, Socretary. Addresson woro made by Col. K, K. Jonos, tho Hon. 1. N. Morris, aud othors, Bir. Morris spoke at length, and was particularly sevors on the raflroads.” A bolligor- ont memorial to tho Logisluturo, in reforonce to rallroad chargen, was prosontod Tor tho indorso- mont of the meating and referred to a commit~ ton, After a ecattering debato on the proper titlo for tho socioty, ete., tho maeting adjourned until to-morrow. _LOUISVILLE, Further Detnils of the Robhery of the Falls Clty 'Wobacco Sl LovisviLiLe, Ky., March 11,—Othor spooial do- posits in tho Falls City Tobnceo Dank, robbed O Hundey nlght, ave found o bo midsing to- duy, nwong thom ton bondy of the Louisville, Cinelonati & Loxmgton Short Lino Railread, nuwbors 193 to 292 “inclusive, of 31,000 oach; a0 195 to 140 inclunivo, and 149 and 160, Joifors sonvillo, Madison & Indiannpolia Runilrond firab mortgago bonds, $L,000 cnchi; also 1,637 to 1,694 J,csforsouville, Mudison & Madison ltond, socond grortgage bonds, 31,000 each, All the Jefforsonvillo’ Itailrond bonds, tho Bhort Lino Tailroad bonds, and tho Now Albuny eity bonds aro misaing, amounting probally ovor $100,000, 1t sooma tho burglars selected ull tho ecourltios onsily dispored of in_tho Enst, loaviug the local socurities scattorod ovor tho floor. Tho vaulg Was ovidontly donc by profosional burglars, tho most ekiltful “and sclontifia in tho Lusiness, A furthor oxaminntion of the vault, to-day, rovenls the fact that s previous offort had boen made to burglavizo tho bank in tho samo way, An iron wedgo was driven in tho corner of tho innor casing, qu ulso a small Tiole was ont throngh the top. ‘Tho wodge was rusty, and tho holo waa filled up with putty. It is supposoed tho mtemfiz was mado nome mnonthy sluco, and relinquislied for lnck of tools, but tho sawe partios roturned well propared aud accom- plished tho worls. ————e work Durned to lh!!l(ll.r ectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Dz‘xfi’(au‘, Mi]ch., March 1l.—Last night the lious of M. Q. Smith, in Caecado, Kent County, Miobe was destroyed by fire by tho oxplosion of o liorgsono lamp, ~ Mra. Smitl's clothing caught firo from tho explosion, and she was burned so that she will probably di Tho flames spread g0 rapidly that s gon'of Mr. Smith, 14 yeard old, asloop in auother part of tho bLuilding, was burned to doath, it boing impoasiblo to rescuc Lim, Mr. Smith {6 so burned thst it Is Lolloved that his oyesight ls_entlroly destroyed, and his bands criopled for lifo, A DCOMED MARN. It 'Was o Mistake About That Supersedess. George Driver's Time is Up on Friday. Tudge MeAllistor Satisfled that o Wos Fairly Tricd. How the Condemned Received tho Nows Yesterday. Tur Tnroune wan misled, yestorday, into the statomont that Goorgo Driver, the wife-mur- doror, had boon grantod a suporsedoas, Tho stetoment wea mado on information rocoived from tho criminal's coungel, Mr. John Mason, who wné vory positive in the nssertion thnt Judgoe MoAllistor had discovered o snficiont number of matorial orrors in tho rocord of tho trial to war- rant o atay of procoedings. Tho faot is, Judgo MoAllistor refused to grant n suporsodoas, o failed to find whore any Injustico had beon dono the murderer, and ho so informod Mr. Mason in o gonled communication contalning his opinios, Mr. Mason, howover, did mot opon tho lettor, but wmont it direot to to tho Olork of tho Buprome Court at Ottawa. Ho imagined that it contained the Judge's ren~ 80n8 for granting s suporsodons, and Lo clalma that'the languago of tho Judge, when ho flrst oxamined the record, warranted Lim in g0 imag- ining. Whon the Olork of tho Supreme Court oponed the communication, he discovered that its contonts woro entircly difforont from what Mr. Mnson had supposed, being as follows: Ths Is an application to o na Judgo at Gharbers £or tho allowanto of A writ of error, in bohaif of 8 man tindor sentenco of doath fc: tho crlme of murder. It in dnio to him aud tho administration of justico that the viaws of siich Judge, whose actlon’ must forover foreclose tho prisoucr's’right of upyeal 1o any otlior Judiciol triburial, should bo publicly stated, ‘Tho rec. ord presentod hos bocn nttentively read ; and tho polnta reliod upon for orror hava boen examined with &l the caro ond doliboration demanded by the solomn {ssus involved, 1, 1t fs objectod that tho court errod in sdmittiny evidance of thrcota mado by the prironor to sloot hin wife, in 1600, and acts of abuso and violenco, pix niouths and three months before tho homicide, ox tha round that thoy wero too remote, ‘Tho ovidenco asto o threats o shoot hor b tho timo and undor tho cir- cumtancos, s mede, could havo had but littlo welght With tho Jury, nnd, standing_alone, would not bo com« tont, But theto woro followed up, and it waa on bia ground that thoy wero admitted, by evidonco, showing a oruel and barbarous disposiiion toward hor omicide, _ All this ovideneo waa relovant to tho queation of malfoo, snd wan clenrly ndminsiblo, . Tho hext polnt urged ia based upon the nowly dissoverod ovidenco of dying flecaration mado Iy ho ned, 1o the offect that kfi‘n m»tmnor waa drunl at tho thao ho shot her, clse bo would not havo done it. Thio ovidenco was oumulative, 1f thera {n any on fact eatablished by the ovidonce fn_ this case, it ia that the prisoner wad canaiderably undor tho infiucnos of liquor at the time of tho homicide, ond it ia conclu~ aivoly sliown thiot he hud all of hia tsunl powers of fo- comotion And speoch, Thoro 1 1o fact or_condition about which wituosecs Would so entirely disagreo in oplnion &8 in rospeot to tho dogroo of drunk. énness ypon s men Who was thus ablo to walk ond This wns but tho opinfon of Li lato wia, 6 bo considerod with the_setual facts, viz:: hid abilify to iwalk and converso, Butif takon g al sotuto and conclusivo, which it could not ha, stil it a tho law that voluntary drunkonness is nb exouse for any crimo, Buch wod the common Jaw, i has beon put into sintutory form in this Stato, 'To subsarvo tho purpoucs of n gonersl rule, that the jury sbould bo pormitted to soo all of tho olrcumatnnces: connectod With the commission of tho Rct it hes boen Lold ad- mishiblo for the prisonor fo show his condition {n this Teapoct, at tho timo, In domo cascs, when ho drunk~ . onucns o not oocasioned by elther the fraud, contri- vance, or_force of others, it might bo o purely tho result of ocoldont, thoughtlcasness, or from 8omo poculiar conditlon of n party not addioted to tho ‘vico, in which oancs th fot of drunkenucss ought to o faz in mitigntion of tho punlahmout, So wlicra tho inatrument usad 18 not obviously n_dondly wenpon, ft being usod by o drunken man, should bo conadered a4 to the quodtion of intentlonslmalico, o, when tho queation is gullty knowledge in passing countorfolt moncy, And somo courts have held that it should be considered whero thoro was legal provocation, snd tho aceuead carriod his resoutmont boyond tho proper boitnds. But this lstter position tronches upon tho Tulo that voluntary drunkenness mhall nob oxeuso. 8o that o8 rulos must Vo gonera), it la necossary to rocognizo tho ndmissibility 'of cvidenco of tha fuct, loaving ita offect to dopend upon {ho circum- atancen of cach case, Ido not think thero wae any orror in not granti s now trial, for the nowly-discov- cred avidcnce, becauso thio evidonc war morely cumus Iativo, ond cotild add littlo or nothing to tho welght of thiat givon In tho caso, 3, Fho lnst point 13 omo of moro diffculty. Tho Court wan aeked on behnlf of tha prisoner to in- struct tho Jury, in aubstanco, (hat if jurt beforo thonct of ahiootiug tlia prisoncr was Iying “on his bed in the bed-room, and tho decoased wont into it In an angry ‘manner, aud thon and thora struck tho prisotior & blow on tho foco and cut bim or mado him bicod, and that Lo theroupon, without deliberation or malica aforotlought, in s momentary prssionate impulso, shot snd killed the decorsod thote, fu that. caee such killing ould amount ouly to manslanghter, sud nob murder, and tiie Jury should o find, ho’ Court rofusad to givo this instruction, to which exception was takon, o question horo 'prozentad fa tho only one about which 1 havo any hesitation, r. Russoll, writer of grent authority on criminal law, atates the doctrine in- Solved in tho sboyvo instructfon, thus: “ As tho in- dulgouco which u sliown, by tholiv In sorao carcs {o thio firat_tranuport of passion s & condeconsion to tho frailty of tho Lumun frame, to tho furor brovis, wlich, whilo the frezy lasts, ronders a mnn deat 10 tho yoieo of reason; 8o the provocation which lu nllowed to oxtontiata in iho caso af homicido, ‘must be somuthing which o man s conaclous of, which ho fecln and rewents at the fnatant tho fact which ho would extenunto was commtted. Al of {lio circum. stances of tho caso must lead 40 tho conclusion that the nct dono, tiough intentional of death or great odily harm, wan not tho result of a cool, doliborato Judgment wia provious maligaily of heatty but solely wputublo to human infrnity.” For thors aro man; trivinl, and_somo consfderablo, provosations, whic aro not pormitied to uxtenuatoan act of homicide, or rebnt tho concluslon of malice, to which the othor cirs cumstances of 10 caso ey lead.” 1 Ruks, on Crlmcs, 513, 514, Tt i alro the rocognized rulo that"an assault, though fliegal, will not reducn tha crime of tho party killing tho poroon assaulling him o manslaughtor, whero tho rovongo ia dlsproportionato and burbarous, Ibid, 616, Jacob v, The Stato, 3 Humphrey, 493, Onoof tho prizoner's dauglters festifics that her ‘mathor camo out of the bedroom, and was standing bo- #ido tho stove, Tho prisoucr thon came out and fook & positon on tho other sido of thonatove, and asked tho decoancd for moncy, which sho declined o lot him Bavo; that then he took somothing ont of his pocketi doccasod said, “Dowlt wlab e swhore upon ho ehot her with tho 'pistol, An- othier drughter testies tiat sho eaw hior mnothor gointe tho bodroom i striko tug prisouer in tho faco with her houd whilo Lo svas Iying on the bed, Thiat thoy both ctuo out, and the witness stood around thiepo soine time, and {hon went out doors and down to tho coal-room, and, while there, Licord tho shot of tho plstol, Sho was niot nalied ho'y longs sho was thero beforo tho shot was heard, But from hor wholo testi- mony, taken in connaction with that of lier alstor, who Foura iim awk tho doceased fos: money, it fa perfoctly appatent that ho 054 nob shoot his wife In tho firat transports of paesion caused by hor striking him, if Lo folt any such, nor rescab tho injury at {ho instant, or whilo onrzgod by it effect, Nel thor ot tho witucacos &mw sny blood on Lfs face, and §t is wholly improbuble, when Wo coneldor tho prinonor'a_nbject and_beotted condition, that ho s capablo of belng thrown into o tranaport of pas- slon ou account of tho moro insult to Liim, na another clinractor of man_ might, under otlier circumatancen ; and, bosides all tuat, it {a not tha law that a man who Tosouta the (njury of a trivial elap in the faco, in tho disproportionate maurer of using o qun or platol and shootfig <down his wife, can mitigato tho offenso to ‘mero munsinughter. If allowablo, it must bo undar very Qiiferent olrcunitinecs from thoss dfsclosed in this cueo, The priconcr hud exhibifed towards Lis wifo o ‘most malignant daposition, for n long time anterior to tho nct of Aliooting. Such’ boing the caso, and the Iapwo of 50 much t{no hetween thie allegod ‘fusult and thio shooting, it wus lmpossiblo for tho Jury to iud that auch act wai not tho reanlt of delfboratd Judgment and rovious mulignity of heart, but was sololy fmputablo o (o first transport of passion aroused by slapping bim In tho face, Without £urther qualiileation tho tnstructfon shonld not hiava beon given or nwked. 1t did not apyiy to (ho Gotual facts, nid ita ouly offect would havo been to misicud the $ury, “Tho videneo fully sustatns the verdict, ond thore fa, in my Judgment, no matorlal error in thd record, Mia erlmo, Hiko' & larjga proportion of thoso commitfad by ‘violenica npon tha puraons of othors, wus cansed by ox- ceaslvo usa of strong drints, This’ thorecord conelu- sively shows, So far o thin caro in cancornadl, failing to percoive its own rcsponsibility, will sy, “WLot bim suffor tho pensities of (hbinw.” Boho mut, And tho warning uttered by his crime, Lis trial, ana bis seafold will bo forgotten Uko tho voices of ail ugly dream, Writ of error refused, The Stute's Attornoy was informed of that fact, yostorday, In nn oftieinl dispatch from Ottawa, Meanwhilo tho condemned, Driver, had Leen notified that his lifo had boon oxtondod through the clomenocy of Judge MoAllister. Tho notification was in tho shape of a noto in tho Lis wifo handwriting of Mr, DMeaeon, whith was bronght to the jafl. Driver, 8s o mattor of courso, was yery much olated, ands ontortalnod hopos of lottor forluno in & new trial, Ho could searcoly sleop during tho uight, owing to tho fuliness’ of lis Joy. It wan not until yestorday at noon that ho discoveroed that 1o had built his hopes upon n inive foundatlon. Lhe effoct of tho discovery g =, upon him was torriblo. Flanging would have b)l:cn milder punishmont. Ho haa eald but little ninco. Iope hes dosorted him, and ho poems rongnod to hfs noar fato, i M‘f“.’ Mason is said to be vory lll,—s0 Hgfi in fact, that donth §n feared, A roportor of Tus TrinuNF oalled at his rosidonco Insb ovumnfi to anortain how tho doplorable error hnd boon mado, and was informed that ha could not ba soon by suy porson oxcopt the physiolan and tho olergymnn, Tho_ roportor loarned, Tiow= ovor, that Mr. Mason had beon lad to beliove, from what Judgo MoAllistor aaid whon tha rogord waa first prosonted to him, that & super< sodons would bo grantod withoul doubt, It i clnimed that tho Judge’s romarks on that poinb waro vory positivo. Aceording to his own atates mont, or at Jenst necording to tho atatoment of tho porsona who roprosont him st his residenco, Mr. Mason was g0 ennguino that tho commutn~ tion from Judgo Muflllslur wea an opiniow granting & uporsodens thab the thought of oponing it nover onterod his mind, Ho would Liave staked hiy Erofnnsionnl roputation upon it, on account of what the Judge hiad safd. Driver wns notiflod m good faith, and no person can fool moro horrified at tho turn affairs _have takon than Mr. Mnson. It may be romarked, in paesing, that this la very poor consolation for n man whoso nock ia to bo strotchod on Friday, unlosa Gov. Bovor« Iilgo interponos his ofiicisl clomonay. rivor hng untlrolfy recovored his solf-possoss sion o is as cool nnd colleoted as over, snd talks about his appronching ond with a carolosg noss that would shock porsons who aro sonsis t..0 on nuch a gravo mattor. .Tha writor had a brier convargation with him lnst night. Ilo said that his counsel had ioflicted o noadless tortura he! hig ator{ about tho supcrsodeas. Had he (tho couneol) nttondod to the matter at the propor timo it would have bonefitod him (Driver) groatly, bocauso if success was not ate tained, ho_would thon have time to npply tq tho QGovornor for o commutation of sontonco, His friends would work for him, howeyer, in'tho short timo that romained, but ha iad littlo faith in tho rosuls vt their oudeavors. In anewor to tho quoation, ** What do you supe poso causod your counsel to tell you tgne a B poreodons had beon granted in your caso when o was not cortaln of it7" Drivor auswered, “*Whisky. Tho man bad boen drunl over sinca tho trinl. I'll romembor him as lon‘; 8a I live, which won't b very leng, I supposo.” Tho Stato's Attornoy, while eommiseratin with tho unfortunato Driver, foola somewhol Jubilant at tho result of tho application for a Buperaodoas, Ho thinka that o Obiengo paper, known by the namo of Tnter-Opan, g 1ot 114 foob in it in giviug an opinion for s Judge of the Buprome Couri without first consulting the gentloman, However, ho thinks that that paper mado an nss of itaolf whon it said that umxx,'uguon why Judga MoAllistor grantad the suporgodeas was Knu-nuu thore lad not been & logal Grand Jury impane noled {n Coolt Qonnty for sovoral months, E?l statoment, ho thinks, appoars all tho mnoro seste nino in view of tho fact that no suporscdeas waa firnnlml. Mr. Rood bolioyes that Driver ought ta 0 tha last man hung in Ghicago. Inlis opinion, Porteot and Rafforty should have gone befora him. Ho caunot soo the cousistenoy of Judga MoAllistor granting supersedens writa in thelr cases and rofusing ono in tho caso of Driver, whois no worae in_poiut of character and whose trial was no more {ree from error. LUMBER INSPECTION. Rulos and Rogulations Adopted by the COhicago Lumberman’s Exchange, At the mootiug of tho Board of Dircotors of tho Lumbermon's Txohinngo of Chicago, hold in tholr room, cornor of Franklin and South Water stroots, yostorday, the following resolution waa adopted : Riesolved, That the Commities on Inspoction ba ine struicted, drot, to no catablish tha rulcs for the inspeo. tion of lumnor in this ymarket that tho gradlug and age sorting of 3L Iumbor hold by cargo Or othor Joi shall be the ssme a8 the grading and askorting practised in snd by the yardsin thio ity ; gocoud, that tho past oz« porienco of this organization hua proven tho difenlt: 2nd impractiesbllity of framing written rules that w covor the desired points comprehensively ; third, that tho Commitieo bo empowered ' to 'form » school of prastico for XInspoctors; fousth, that the object of much school b bo o familartzs Tunpactors wit such yard-sssorting ; AL, that tho menner and detail of conducting sald achool of practico bo loft to tho discretion of the Come itioo on Inspection, with full posver to act and carry 1t into effoct, GUASSIFIGATION OF GRADES, Ta pureusnco of the abovo {natructions, ‘tho Coms mitteo announco the following ns tho classification of tho grades adoptod for tho inapoction of lumber in thi market: Firot, socond, and third olass usually {ne spocied aa gne quality. | Holects, ** A” and * 1" stock boards—Beleets includa sl kinda that aro battor than common, and falling bom low the grade of closra, Tirstand second cledr atrips—Uaually Luspoctod sa onio quality. First and socond common flooring—Usually inspoct~ od as ono quality, ‘ommon” ncludos all lumber bolow abovo grades, and botter than culls, “ Culis” {ncludes all kinds poorer than commnon, nod ombracing refuse or worthloss lumber, All taporing lumber should bo mensured ono-third of the distanco from tho narrow ond. Any fractionnl part of ouo foob should not be counted, excopting acantling ond joist. AHM boards ond plank to bo mons- ured in even lengths, Culls should commence ten fee in longth, and moasure samo o8 other grades, ‘The manufacture of lumber snould bo taken into considorstion, and_whon badls manufactured should veduco tho grade. In all cases tho Inspootor should examine both sldes of lumber. DUTIES OF INGPEOTONS. It shall b the duty of Inopectors to keep the originak {ally-sheots at least ono yenr, and that safd tally-sheots shinll at all times boacoosaiblo to any of thu parties in~ torostad thoroin. A refusal by any Inapector to oxhibis such shoets whon called upon’ by any of tho partics ine tareated, or any of the membera of the Inspection Come mitteo, shall be doemed suflicient causo for revocation of his cortificalo of appointment. Inapectors aro dirocted not to intrude botwoor, buyar and sollor whilo sales are boing mndoy and_ tho' sunllluut interforenco by any Inspoctor shall bo unem'nd sufliclent causo for rovocation of his cer~ ificate. B After auy Inspector has received his insiruction: from both buyer and sellor, givon together, ko ehall pay no atiention to any ditforent fustructions or sug~ goations from oither party given slugly. Tha Inapoctors and menaurers shall in sl cnses em- floy competant tally-imen, sud shall eallout in qusht e8 not ovor (60) sixty fcet, and bg apawored back by thelr tally-mon diskinctly, R, K, Bioxronn, As A, CAnprNTER, Wat. BLANOIARD, Inspoetion Commitloe. e DISPATCHES TO THE MAYOR. The following communications wore recoived by tho Mayor yesterday. The first, from tha Mayor of Denion, Toxas, refcrs to the recent oponing of a railroad lino which makes Denison s town of somo importance in this Republic. The second oxplains itself : . i ‘DExIa0N, Texas, March 10, To the Mo ago : Denllnn”g)}:r :il:ngadflu from the Puciflc to tho. Atlantic, sonds grooting, It has remained for Denlson. to bacome tho groat connecting link uniting the South with the East, North, aud Weat, May tho unton be one of luating poaco and prosperity. _ . L. A. Owrxa, Msyor, SEoNETANY'S OFFICE, LooxroxrT, March 11, 1873, Hon, J. Med(ll, Mayors Dean Bta : Your osteomed favor of the 7th wag dnly received, indorsing a lottor from tho Hon, A, P, Dere rickson in referenco to shutting the lock gates at Sums mit, in order to turn the torrent toward Chicago, T aleg obsorve your views on tho stmo subject. Tho Josl gatea lsvo beon kopt looso all winter 5o (it thoy ‘could bo shut at any moment, 4 haa beon our inton~ tion to shut tho gutos aud draw off the wator just o% soon a8 the ico would pormit, n order to got tho canal cloaned out, Tho Genoral'Superintendent hns® Juat roturned from an oxamination of tho canal to-dny,y aud finda tho ice from Lemont to Summit so far gono a3 {0 warrent hiw in cloalug tho gates and drawlng off the water, and cotnmencing operations in cloariug ous tho bara, " Tho Jock-gates will, thereforc, bo closed tos night, and remnin so for olght’ or ten duyw, which, X+ hope, will havo tho effoct on our river which you an= Hctpn\a. TRonenT Mg, Gen, Bupt, i PERSONAL, Among tha arrivals at the Tromont, yesterdsy, waa Mr. 0. H. Daero, of Moline, IiL " * The Rov. J. M. MoLaughlin will load thonoon pmi’lnr-muuhné to-day. BSubject of meditation, “rho Gospel Call” Mr. 0. H. McCormick will sond two of his splendid_combinoed reapera and mowors to the enus Exposition, Mia machines carried off tho flrat promium at tho groat Paria fair somo yoara sgo. Ameuuu;r' of mombora of tha Beloit College Alumni Socioty, of Chicago, and of othor frionda of tho collogo in this city, will be held at tha Mattoson Houso, st 8 o'clock this avoning, ta tnko action in regard to the doath of Prof. J. J. Bushnell, 1LLINOIB AND MIOHIGAN Omu,} —_— To the Ladios, Dlack ailka of our own importation, 1,000 plecos Junt arrived, Finoand heavy real Lonnet at $1,80, $1,76, :;d s(';v; t::a and ‘llu\l;'y groa grain Guinot at $3, worll 9, Onothousand ploces of cambrio odgings and {ne" svrtings at ebout hale the usual pmufiugwo white Marsellles tollet quilts, at not much over half thele cost to manutacturo ; 500 planocovers, lnevery quality and varlety, Alio, 800 casea of nsaorted spriug dry 800d8 will'bo oponed this wook, Buyers who care ta 8870 their mouey aliould givo ua s calf bafore purchas. ing, 0. . & E. PARDRIDGE & 00, Nos, 118, 130, 123, S 124 Biato atFeol Host Madison:’ : A