Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1873, Page 2

P _The Legislative Session Ap- (- oroaching Its Close. " ~ tho Milwaukeo & St. Paul Rail- . ,road Company, : The Overruling: by the Assembly. of the Governor’s Voto of the La Trosse Bridgo Bill. 7L 20 Fram i, Qwn Goircapondent, B Mabisox, Wis,, March 18, 1870, Both-Hongos of - the Logislaturo—after.somo: . thing oyer an hour's nesuion, and. agroelng that, " aftor 11 o'eldok to-morrow, no business ‘shall bo transnctod-oxcopt rovining nnd ncting on mos- - -aagoa from one;Louso o the other aud from tho Governor—hnva' adjourned till 10 -o'clock to- + ., morrow moraing.. .The business of thio sossion :_> Ja-about ,concluded, and thoro is littlo noro to 1> hopa or fonr from the Wisconsin Legislaturo of ! LET ALL THE PEOELE BAY, AMEN," : for thota has seldom,:1f over as is gonernlly con- 3,1 caded by exporiended obsorvers, baon n Leglalo- turp. weakor - or -more vonnl,—with, of; courso, ‘hénorablo excoptions ;. soldom _oue accomplish- .ngBoittloof good;,nevor ono-so thoroughly -nnder controliof & great railroad corporation,— than this Tiogialature has boon during tho lattor dnys of,its session, when tho. majority hus slnv- iahly ohnyed the behosts of the Milwaukeo & Bt. ~\ {Paul Railroad :Company, aud, with ono pccord, ~ti beenrondy to sing . . : § i ¢ @i oo “YBOW DOWN TO NAMAN.: © - . . .. Not only has it passcd all the bills, whether of thoir own or athers, which tho Milwaukeo & Bt.:Bhul Reilroad fuglomon dosired: to havo on- |* " 'actod i ot only has it defeatod all' mensuros to * " 'which it was 6pposed,—bat its every motion has - boon' regulnted by the samo by no'means *un- ‘hon ‘nnid railrond men wantod sossions hold, the Legislature was in session; when'they wanted to adjourn, an adjournment ' wan“gure’ to bo. offected nt tho cxact. timo doairod, Tho. Railroad Compauy. *runs ™ the Logialaturo now, :, 't HOW HUCL CONTROL WAS GAINED. . becomes- mors notorious daily, - and nothing but tho fear of dlsgsnelng tho Stato by again aflixing the stigma which tho bribory and corruption of’ 1866, na dovalopod by tho invostigation of 1858, ‘attachod to the name of Wisconain and har logia- * Iators, dotors an investigation, Threats, Prom- , " 1ises, pussan; froo drinks, and freo oysters, pledges " to do something for a man’s constituents in tho "_wmy-of ‘ralirond_fecilitios, cnd, flually, dircot “payment of money or other valublo considura~ _tions,‘ have boon the monns cmployed. Ono momber’ of tho' Assembly, who was ono of -thio blaok ‘sheop of tho Liogislatire of 1856, s snid to have remarked to somo -of his frionds, in'a’ beer-galoon, that ho *mado agrent mistake whon'lie did not run for the -Bonato, “whero Lio could have got threo times ns much.” .../A most ingenions way of “whipping the devil “réund the stump " is wnid to have beau resorted *"to, which may be commended to compelitors for +*"Kangas - Sonatoralilps, and others seoking to . | Wpropitiate logisiators ; that io; Eo Invitomom- “bors_to “buck the tiger," or to pluy.* draw- rpkar," and, by an understonding, allow thom 0 win'n thousand or iivo’ dollars of railrond monoy. Of courso, thot.iu all nccording to Hoyle, and none but ths most Puritanical could aver fmagino anything wrong about it. -1t was voll known, during the B‘rosxsu of tha last cam- palgh, that Milwaukeo & St. Paul monoy was sent into doubtful districts to nid the cloction of. ‘mendbors, Thus somo mon wore bought’ at the “sleotion, Thib roason why of theso invantments " Is nowunderstood, though it was rather. incom- . prolignsiblo then, Sy That the Roflwiy Company knew tholr mon ; that they absolutely owned a considerable major- {ty,—wan made paiiifully apparont to-day, whon Gov, Washiburn,, tho most fearloss_and indo- pondent Governor Wisconsin over had, gent in 47" "A'VETO OF THE LACROSSE BRIDOE BILL, "which the. Milwaukeo & S¢t. Paul Railway Com- pany had geourad. tho pasongs of, In contiarioly o acts of Congreks undor which a differant loca- . tion'had been fixed, after thorough oxamination ., by s United Blates Board of Engincors., Tho mes- * sage,iwhich occuplios ‘about two . colunns of tho State Journal, preaents vory strong srgumouts o brond ‘grounds,’ bascd on the relative powers of Cougresa and fhe Blates_over nayigablo ntreamy, not altogather in one Stato, and the action of tho Unitod Biatea Ingincora In purauanco of the act of Cougrosa relative to, tho location of the bridge and msunor of its tonstruetion ; clniming that tho bill was substan- Hally an attompt to nullify an act of Congress, d an unwarrnnted nssertion of Btato rights, ainst the genoral public interost, in bohalf of one corporation. he principal points of tho mensage have been Rent you, and no extracts Are nccossary horo. 'Flio messago was ‘read’ by the Clerk, and listened to with profound atten- tlon, Tho,, membors, however, could got but an inadequate iden of its purport by , * honring it read onco, At8 o'ulock tho bill wag + takon up ns tho apolalordor, and, though thp mesyaga was not printed, and hied hot baon seon ‘by membors, immedinte action was insisted” on: ing tho racess tho Milwaukeo & St. Paul Bailrond lawyors and lobbyists hird been at worl, using ovory possible influonce to got men to Yoto with thom, or to uvoid tha voto. A fow who had voied with the company on othiar mens ures doclined to bo coerced into sustaining thi but others yiclded,—many of thom, howover, Go- daving it was ' a very bittor pill. Prob- ably feeling that *“Tho lcast eaid the’ soonest mended," and frionds and opponenta of the bill oconfldont of euccess, o voto was tukou without & word to controvort tlio objeotions -of the Gov- ernor, and the bill obtninod the nceceuary two- thirds, by & voio of 59 Lo 20. ~ Tho Senale has postponed action till to-morrow, whcn it is ox- poctad thnt & mun Lhoy bave ment for will bo hero. ~Tho proapects of a two-thirds voto aro ro- garded dubious now, but overy offort is muking (] m;nip::utu men into favorable feeling, S NOTHER LAND-GRANT QUESTION ban besn tottled to-day by tho indelinite pont- " - ponemont of g bill to ousblo:tho Wikconsin Cou: Railvond Comprny to got itn lands without building tho Jand-grant rord from Portage Ripon to Btevona Yoiut, ns their chnrter raqui ed., ‘ 1'v7o or threo compromines wero roposcd, .+ which woro aatistactory to gome localiiies sl gzx;uunl intorestod, but none to n majority ; and ally the wholo matter was dismigsod without sy logislation, leaying tho Reilrond Company to _ wark out ite own aulvation by building tho road it agrood ta in considoration of the ‘lands grant- “~ody or sharls i i i . ng wi t§ some other company who will & o/ " TUE BT. OROIX LAXD-GRANT. Thoro way & goad donl of foar bivo, onSunday, '\ that Goy. Washburn would veto the' bitl . giving. the Bt. Crolx & Buporior grant to the M\l\fil‘lk‘::%' & Bt, Paul Compeny, and & largo number of miombors who had gonlo o visit our commorcial motropolis’ woro hurrled back by a npecial train {Bundny uight, to find their alarms groundloss, for the bitl way sigued on Mnndnir' miorning, but not “with an cagle’s quill which had beon plucked for that purpozo,—n sicol pen being preforred. “It" §s, porbapy, duc that tho final vote in tho Bonnto ghonld’ ho published, as follows, on the pusengo of the bill: ~ * Aycs—Bouetors tacon, Baker, Blair, Brown, Bur~ _obard, Owmpbell, Cotzhaucon, 1, N, Davie, I, E. Davia, -Eaton, Grocne, Holloway, Irisly, Jouos, Kreles, Lindsley, Liltle, 3fitchell, Quithby; Schantz, cott, : Tuorp, und Wagtter—21, - Nocs—Bauators Hiner, 1ixon, Jolnson, MeCord, Me- Curdy, HNelson, O'lourk, Lraft, Potier, and Schinldt LIMITING INDENTEDNESH, . . Both Hongos have concarrod in a joint recolu- tion, whidh has ndw to bo submitted to tho poo- ple, ratifying the’ conatitutional ‘amondment countles, towne, villiges, oto., bo-. coming indelted for any purpose to) an_cmount probibitini ‘exocoding O per cent of tho vahio of taxable proporty. of mark that lobbyists * to seouro its passage. A summing up and roview of lt:lgluhtlon must bo resoryed till the work is finitho Prus. —_— KEITHBBURG, LACON & EASTERN RAILROAD. % Eerrnsnuna, Ilt, March 10, 1873, Zo the Editor.af The Chicugo Tribune: ' | .The Directors of the Koithsl rg,* Lacon & - Esatorn Rallraad, Company met’ horg yoaterdey, and comploted the organization of {hair Comipa- ny. Tho Direotors aro: W. D, 8mith, T, B, o~ beeu, and T, Glancoy, of Kelthsburg; V. E. ook, tho Hou, G L. Foxt, aud F, Gago, of Lue ndfi.v’tliniligislafim Ilas Been Sw‘dyofl'hy: i It is supposed to be in tlie interost i {ho doer people,” but it is instructive ta yo- 'for prominent rallrond cor- orations, who are not anxious for the conatruc- Elnn of compoting roads, intcrestod thomsolves T cbn} and W. T, Tichio, of T, P. Morgan & Co., Ohjeao. Wi, E.) Cook, of Lacon, wns elected Trosidont; W. D> Bmith, of Rolthwburg, Vico- Prosidont, aud O, A, Triok, of Kolthsburg, Soc- rotary. 'I'ho Bonrd ordorod nn fmmedinto survoy of thio lino, with o viow to active oporationsi. Tho lino in dosigned to bo n branch of the Tnu- {lton, Lacon & Lastorn Railroad, of which you havo bofora apoken, G ~*NEW PUBLICATIONS. © Logal Workn. - J ATREATISE ON TR LAW OF SUITS DY AT- TAGHMENT IN THR UNITED HTAUES, My Gitaures D, Dnaxw, LL, D,, Ohiof Juntico ot tho United States Court of Clalms, Fourth Editfon : Revisod,” With an, Appendix Cotalning the Lead- ing Btatutory Provisiona of tho Hoveral States and - Metritories of tho Uniied Blaton in Tolation (o Bults ' by Attnchmont, Octavo, 005 pp. Boston : - Liltle, Brown & Oo, Ohleago's L. B, Myers & Co, - Though tho remedy by sttachment is Imown | to the Engliah luw only aa ono of tho nnyritton oustoms: of tho Oity of London, it has been ‘adopted in onch of our thirty-soven Btatos with “go muoch uniformity of onacimont in subgtauce d in form ns to ronder o troatieo,on tho s of nttachments throughout tho| Duiled ‘Btatos ‘mot only -entiroly fossiblo, ~ but an availsblo for roady toforonce by tho |Iawyors of cach Stato as if wo hud s uniform sthtalo of attachmonts throughout the -ontiro | Nation. Evory Slato pormits an attachmont &n issuo " agalust non-rosidont, abaconding, or -concoaled dofondants, and against thoso who nro removing or conconling thoir property, or avolding sorvico of procoss. . Massaohusotts and Connccticut ro- quiro no spoolal roason, but, for any dobt, sttach all proporty not exempt from excoution. Ilii- nols snd sovoral othora add tho caso whoro the dobt sucd for is ‘contracted fraudulontly, Mla- souri and Arkonsss ndd tho caso where tho debtor has obtained posscssion of proporty feaudulently ; and BMissouri adds tho caso of damages arising from the commission of somo crime, or tho seduotion of any fomalo. “(Tho Missouri Solons commit the common orror of nasuming thet the term * fomale” sulliclontly designatoa a woman,) a ‘While Chiof Justice Drako's treatise, there- foro, rolates to a branch of practico under the general Btato atatuto in which thoy might bo ox- ‘pooted to diffor greatly, a caroful perusal of tho sevoral statutes thomeelves, as summarized in tho appondix, shows that their difforences are 80 inslgniflcant ns to render tho decislons and practico in oithor of tho Btatcs as authoritative in tho. ofhors as they would bo on o 'question of common law. Of 8,266 cases which aro cited, and tho points in which mako up the body of thia work, all but 16 are American. Of the Aworicnns, 02 aro'from roports of tho Unit- from tho roports of tho various States in varlous ratios, from 449" for Magaachusotts, to 1 for Ne- braska aud Oregou respoctively.” It does not in- oludo'thio spacial statutes giving attachmonts in rom'in Btato courts against ships and vossols, but only attechments which, aro collatoral to suils ngainst porsona. It is tho firab general Amorican troatiso on this subject, covering all tho Btatos. It groups, wo judge, all tho casos of any valuo which have over been degided, undor their appropriato topics, of which the following aro a pariial outlino: ' Of tho causes of action in which attachments may issuo ;- of causes for which, ete, ; of attachmenty ogningt corporations; of the afiidavit; the bond; oxeoution and return of the attachmont; agninst resl ostato; ngainst porsonal property; o very valunble ohupter ‘on simultancous, suc- cestivo, coumclin?, and frandulent at- achments ; of cuntody; of bail aud delivory- .bonde;- of improvomont attachmonts, and how dissolved ; of notice by publication; of gar- nishment, and how garnisheo may be charged; cupnoity and linbility of garnishee in yarlous as- poots ; of judgment against him ind his defonsa; vad of the right of action for malicious at{ach- ment. Tho roferonces to autloritica are copious, :and tha book is woll printed. Boing & worl sui zflncris, in & field not nccupied by any other, and - being ably, aud, 8o far as wo can now iudgu, ox- haustivoly cditod, wo do not doubt the profes- slon will givo it a liharal arcntance. A TREATISE ON TiIE LA ADMIRISTERED IN THE COUNTS OF TUR INITED BTATES AND ENGLAND, Dy Jimes L, Hiam, Counnclor at Law, Clicago : Callshan & Co. 1878, 642 pp. Tho title of this work Is perhapa slightly inno ourato, aa it dgea not rolate sxelusivaly ormueinly “to injunctlonsin the courts of the United Blates, but to ln‘ulmtions in tho courts of the eoveral Staton. Thero' aro courts i tho United Btatos, but they are not courts of the United Statos,—a distinctlon which Loa horatoforo wisely been ob- sorvad by law-writors. Tor instance, (he stand- ' ard United States Digent of decilgns iy Staly courts, is entitled * Digest of the Decisionsof Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the Unitod Btatos.” Though, in common parlanco, wo use the torm * Fedoral” or *“ National” todes- igoato tho United States courts, no such torms nro known to the law, and thoir propar designations are the Supromo, Circuit, or District * Courts o the United States,—a class of courts to whic] the prosont troatise does not specinily apply. o aro also ot o loss ta intarprot our ‘nuthor's exprossion in his prefaco, of & “ firm conviction that .the benoficont systém of equily, whoso * strong right arm’ constitutes the subject matter of ‘this worls, is destined to- outlive the icono- claym of modorn;law-roformers and codifiers,fand to constituto for nll timo an integral part of our jurisprudence.” Law-roformers have not songht to wbolish tha remedy by injunction, nor auy osher function of equity courts. They have touched the subject ouly to coufide oquity powers and law powers to the same Judge or court ; and thid is done in Illinoiy, as well ag in the States which havo n * Oodo of Practico,” and in England. Surcly, tho remedy by infunc- .tion has "been at ledst ns frecly used fu New York, uuder tho Codo, a8 in cuy othor Stato,~ not, howevor, becanso o the Codo, but becatiso of the Iargo accumulation of financial interasts | in that civy, and the corruption of cortain Judgen. The Codo impoges no chock but & bond and im- peachmont on tho abute of the power to grant injunctions; but neither docs tho provious chaticory systom. Tholaw of injunctions forma at onco tho mont delicato rud ouo of the most important branches of u}uily Qm:uce. Though the dis- crotion of the Judge is supposod to be guided by cortain flnoly-roasoned rulos and established precodents, it io still o ‘disoretion which may in fact bo guided thus, and muy bo seerctly influ- enced by ultorior motives, I'he most important point in tho whole law, therofore, is the right statomont of the oxtont to which the party ap-- plying must catublish his right in tho caso in ordor to justify tho proliminary injunction. This point Mr.Tligh states in tho Tollowing passage, whono corroctness we must bo por- mittod to distrust, Ho says, page b: 1t i5 {0 bo constantly borna fn mind that; fn grant- iog temporary xollef by futorlocutory infunction, courtn of equity in no manner cnticipata the ultimtd determination "0f the question of right involved. Thoy merely recognize tliat a_sufiiclont casa ks boen mado out to warraut the proservation of the property or rights $n fssuc, in statu quo, untll o heariug upon tho amerits, without expressing, snd indeed without having the meana af forming, any opinfon aa fo much rights, "And, in order to austuln un infunotion for the *protection of proporty yondenta lite, it is uot neccunary to declde in fuvor of compluinant upon tho morits, nor is it necessary that he sliould present sich @ cass «a ofil entitle him fo a decrec upon the finul hearing, slnco 1o sy bo oufitiod to au interlocutory lnjulictiun sithoughh bta right to tho rellel prayed msy wltimately i The italiclzed parts secm to s to convey. tlio fmprossion thut tho complainant may obinin an ln{uuchou by morely showing that Tio right Lo ultimato rolicf i3 dcubtful or possible, instend of Leing obliged, 83 wo had horetofore suppogad, tomake ench o_showing au will, in tho opinion of tho Court, ulem'l{ ontitlo him to thio ullimato roliof domandod unless the defondant shall tre- verad and disprove his allogations, Ko on In- Junctions (p. 12), whoso statement the author Booma to have had in view in writing the nbovo, g the langunge 8 similar and the nuthority cited the samo, renlly statos it very difforontly. Br, Kerr snya: : A man who comea to the Court for an Inter] Infunciion, (s noL Fequlred o Bvke pt 3 e i will entitle bim, at ull evonty, to vollof ut tho hearing, 1t 48 enongh it ho can ehow (hat ho hins n fair quostion to rafso s to the oxlstonco of the rightwhich he allegcd, aud can stisfy tho Gourt thut the property should bo prescrved In e presout uctual condlon, nntil el question can bo dlsposed of, - ‘Tho words hero iteliolasd plaluly indloato that tho ‘complainant’s allogations aro to establish his right, though ho is not required to make out an irrosistiblo caso, or ane on which ho could re- cover ‘‘ at all ovents,"—i, o, in epito of anythiug the dofendent mlgLL show, Willurd's fi uity Jurisprudonoe,* P, 143, mfl“ that injunctions, # ghould only bo grautod whoro the rightnnonghb to bo protooted ara cloar, or, at loast, froe from ronsoniable doubt.” ‘ho'New York Codo, which almed only to enact tho essence of the chiancory rule In tho briofest form, providos that the In- Junction ehall fusue only “whero it sball appesr \a. tho complaint that - the plaintit ie. entitled -to tho rellef, , domanded ; and such rolief or any {mt thoraof consists In rentruluing,” oto,, oto.” Wo Liliove the rulo s 6d Btatos, and tho ' romaining 8,168 aro dorivod | W OF INJUNU1ONS AS"|" -cor nbout throo weaks, Mrs, tho same in Illinols, and indeod universally ; but,' it it diffora in thoe praotiso of tho courts in tho varlous Btalos, a troatize dosi ‘und to bo nationnl ahould stato tho differonce, The digosts aro full of hoad-notos lil:e tho following on this point: 1L n a genernl rulo thiat a party acokingan fojunction to prolcet him in tio enJosmont of real proporty, st ahore n right utich a5 (ko Cowrly npon i3 owi ehowlud, will fecl bound to prolect agafnet tho defendanti—Oute calt va, Disborough 2 Green, ch, 214, . Tu short, the Court does not grant a tomporary fujunction, excopt whoro, woro the "’"’"l"“ nanty nhowing undisputed, howould bo ontitled fo a permanent h{unnuun, accovding to tho lent i\ul(mmub of tho Court at tho time of allowiug ho writ: 5 Wo havo atated thia polnt moro hecnuso wo docm it of too much imporfance to bo misstatod than from any failure to rncm{ulzu tho industry nand ability by which Mr, High's worl {6 charag- forlzod. It I eredltablo to tho logal profension of our city to find somo, ovon of its youngor ‘memboro, proparing claborate and * useful trontises on gomo of tho most recondite s well a¢ tho most practical topics of tho Inw, Mr. Iill's now works on Ohancery and Commoin Law Practico ars samplos” of tho moro practical, and Mr. High'n work on Injunctions of the recondite. Thoe, genoral practitionor would doubtlesa find the authoritics, cited with grent nyerago caro; and that tho work covers tho whole field of injunotious, whethor fn_ dofensa of raal, porsonnl, ceeloninsticnl, patont, or othor-riglts or contracls, It would raquiro oloso investiga- tion and analynis to declde between Lho prosont: work and tho works of Kern and of Iden & Watorman on tho eamo_subject. Mr, High hns ‘Therotoforo boon favorably lmown: to the profou- nlon in tho Northwest through his editorship of tho Bench and Bar, Mossra. Callahan & Uo's ll\w-mnnlhlly, and of the npoechos of Lrekine and othor Engllsh orators. TELEGRAPIIO OASES DEOIDED TN TIIE COURTS OF AMERIOA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND IRELAND. iturd & Jdited by OmAnves Auiex, New York: Iloughtan, Combridgo: 'Thie Rvorsido Press, cago: E,D, Myers & Co. 1873, 740 pp,, 8Bvo, This volumo purports to inoludo il tho onson yot docidod (oxcopt upon tho Continont of Bu- 7opo) concorhing telograph companios, including thoir linbility for incorroct transmission of dis- E’nlchnn, whetbor to sender or recoiver of ‘tho logeam ; thoir rights ngainst trespassers on thoir wiros and oablos; tho oxtent to which thoy mny limit their Hnbllitg Dy oxpress contractorno- tico ; -the moasure of damages for falso or do- Tayodt buginess dispatchon; thoir rights of onso- ment; patonts, taxos, oto. Tho pith of the nw Tore prosonted could doubtless bo comprerncd into & fow sontonces ; but all who aro inlerested in tho law of tulcgtnrh companios would probn= Lly profor to have the original decisions, and will find thin boole just what they want. P10 NONO—E\I ANERICA, Tho Darger of an Fxtremte Love of E2ichois Xrom the Catholic Revtefy, March 18, Tho_affeotion which tho Holy Taller outor- tains for Amorica is known to the whole world. On overy logitimato occasion he gives oxpresaion to it in tho most touching maunor. = Wo nre aut- {sfed that Amoriesns will return this paternal Tove, all tho mora bocauso it urges him to givo us wholesome ndvico and counsol agaiust & groat dangor which threatens us, Recontly an Ameri- can doputation had tho privilege of waiting on him in tho hall of tha Countess Matilds, and en addross hinving boon provented to him' by dr. Glover, of Novw Yorls, lia raplied ng follown : “The boautiful aud tauching exprossion of dovotion ond fidelity which I am ofton hearing bring to my heart & : consolalion o much the gronfer becauso thoy oxpress not only tho conti- monts of those hero prosent but also of all tho Catholics of Amorica. In truth, theso protesta~ tions, 5o sincoro nnd encrgotic, rouder mo pro- foundly obliged to tho nation which offors thom. Yo, Lfcol tho obligation of belng specially mindful of it andat the samo timo of praying for ncountry so particularly blesaed Ly God— Dlessod ns woll in the fortility of itk soil an in ity industrial prosporty. Bo assured that I bog God to incronso all theso Dlessings, and to fructify them more and more, but without omitting, lob it bo undorataod, to advisa evorybody that theso goods ought not to be tho orly love of thoso who possess them, North America is Incompnrably yichor than every othor country, but its richos ought not to form ity only treastro. * In the Gospel which I read this morning in the mass, Jeaus Christ unf‘n : * Where thy treas- ure iy there is thy haart also.” Well, Americe is o nation dovoted to a vast commerce and traflic of overy deacription, . Bo far 8o good ; for after all it behooves all to ook to thoso things which aro nccespary to satisfy the wants of lifo ; Lon- orable trado in that which Irovidonca hes bo- BLOWEA UPULrua la-allowed 4o all, and it is wight thet the fathors of families should bo particu- larly anxious to bring up and maintain their children according to tlo exigoucios of their soveral stations in lifo. There is not tho least swrong iu all that ; but 1t doos not Lohoova us Lo ontortain an oxcessive love for riches; it bo- hooves us not to bo too much nttnched to them ; it behooves us nob. to euchain our hearts too strongly to the tronsurcs of tho world. 'his fatal worship oI’i)rnnpcrily which is purely materiul, is condomned by Jesus Chrlst, Josus Chirist had also Lis Jittlo purso; ho bad ovon an sdministralor, Judas; but you know what was the end of this latter in consoquence of his immoderate love of mounoy., For ono to Fuaacua monoy, thon ; for ono Lonoestly to scek ncroasing what 1o hins for tho, purpoeo of being ablo to bettor tho condition of Lis_family, there in nothing moro natural snd just, but thls fa on ono condition, nnmol{' not to fix tlio hieart on tho goods of this wotld, and not to make of them o sort of ‘worship, 3 .- *'I'Lis is tho ouly reflection which I wishod to mako before leaving you. For tho rost, I beg of you to piuy to God. "Bewecch of Eim to protect s aver, aud to give us slrongth and courage” in’ tho midst of the tribulations and dangors which' are unloosed on evory sido agninst tho, Cliurch. THore wo are, as il were, ovor & voleano, and by oxcess of misfortuno the Govarnment seems leasiod ot opening the crater of tho voleano. nt God will cavo us. « And now I givo you my blossing, that the - Tivoly faith which nnimates and brings you horo moy ovor go on incrensing in your souls for your, Lappincse, and may spread moro and move: throughout Amories, in ordor that those who oomo to Roma from that country ‘may be medo bottar if thoy aro not already good; if not (for all aro not really gaod), that (hoy may return thithor with tholr oyos nlmunil, and conyerted. Tiecoive, thon, the hlesving which T give you wwith nll tay heret. Receive it for yourselves, for your families, for your warks, for a1l your affuirs, und, above &l recvive it for tho end of your life, in order that you may obtaln that which congti- tutes our truo end; that isto sny, tho possesslon of haavon, in order that it may bo granted you to go thoro aud express your lovo for Josus Chilst, iu_praisto and bleygiug bim for all oternify. Beuodictio Doi, &e. Brutonl fMarder and XRetributive Jus« tiee. Svnaouse, N, Y., March 17, At oclack thiy aftemmoor, n'iuiu By tho nurhe of Albert Keeler, nged 2L yoars, lallod o girl nomed 1da Bponcer, nged 14 years, Ioclor Was n nophow of Misy Bponcor's fathor. Ilo la s Coundinn, and hnd boon visiting witl Jr. Spon- poticor woit to. Ouwogo to-day, and lott iox davghitor alono in thohouso with two old ludies, ‘ono of whom was sk and tho othor deaf, Noelor went out into the kitchen, whoro Ida was at worl, and, taking n short iron ber uned for broaking opon bozen, hio atrack hor on tho bioad, Sho foll to the 'floor, whou ho ropentedly struck hor on tho hond, nlmost beating her. brains out, Bho.lived about twenly minutor Keeler thon loft the houso by the back door ang ran down towarda the Contral Railrond depol A froight train had just started for the Tost. Toelor nttemptod to jump on tho hind end of tho cabooso for tho purpose of oscaping out of. tho tawn, whon, missing his hold, Lo fell back upon tho'track.’ His hewd struck tho rail, hia neek wag broken, and lio way killod instantly. "o motive which prompted Knoler to kill Hing Spencor 18 not known, Tt is said that ho might linve mado impropor advaucos_to hor which she repollod, and_that ho killed hor, fonring sho wonld d vldi,vu hig attompt. It is nluo zaid that I oolor was hoir to some properly whiel, with Misa Bponoor out of the way, ho might havo soourod. Tho murder creatos intouso excite- mont, #nd 50 doos tho sudden retributive justice which overtook the murdoror. = The {mttluu moved In good socioty, Thoy wero oxpecting to go to Jnnsns with s, colony shortly, RIS = B WL Amorican Icer ‘ Liko tho proverbial ‘ carryivg conls to Now- ocastle,” is the exportation of {‘ngar Doer from thio United_ Statos to Germany, - Trof, Liobig, tho gront chemist, latoly mado "o speech, which 1ins boon published fu and commented on by tho Gormau press, in which hio said s ¢ Itis charactor- futio of the Amoricans that thoy make bLettor boor thanwodo. I am_ convineed the timo is coming whon Amerlcan boer will drive German beor from tho warkot. With us overything #tands utill, and the worst boor browers aro in Bavaris, though formerly tho best uned to como from thot quartor,” The German broawers, ho added, “are ignorant porsons, opposed to' all improvoments, and continue to brow in the old routino mothods, {uospuble, seemingly, of help- ingthomsolyes. “I'ho Amoricans, on the contrary, no soonor obuerve anything requiring improve- fixg'ut. thau they tako note of and never forget cumstances no unlfi with o willingnoss, but with | 11fo ag great a pouishmont s ho 'THE'GAR-HOOK MURDERER.! . . Gov. DixIn Docleron=-1l1s Lotton1b tho Reve Dre Tyng==ko Will Not Annul. thoe ¢ Dolberaty and Woll=Oonuidor ed Determination of Juries und Couris,” =5 F Brarit o Neiw Yonk, TXrouTIvE OItAs mn,} 5 . T AMANT, Murch 17,1073, Revenesp awp Dean St e’ I Liave glven to tho representations contningd in your letlor ry moab ournost nttontion, und I havo carefully oxnmincd lt tho Lestimony, tho- officinl papers, and all tho statoments which have been made to mo in tho onso of William Foster, who lies under gontouco of death for tho crimo of murdor. Tn o recont cnso, not unlike his, Ienid I was willlug to linve it undoratood that clrounistances of n very.oxtraordiuary natura would bo noedod to induce mo to interposg for the purpose of an- nulling tho doliborate sud Woll-coulll‘&nrod dotor- miuation of jurios and courts. : .Ifind no puch cireumatances attending tho oriminnl'sot of Tostor, hia trial, tho vordick or tho decision of 1ho courts, by which thé record ‘waa roviowed, r T Tho public intoroat which hins hoon nnd s still folt In this caso, tho oxtraordinary efforts which liavo hicon mado to Yracuro acommulatlion of the sontenco, the publicity given to theso! offorts, and the long period of time—now nearly two yoars—whioh has clapeed sinco tho érlmd was commilted, mnko it propor for me, befora com- municating to yon my final decirion, to stato tho cirenmstatices and tho considerations on which it ia foundod, i y Tostor and Putusm, hin victim, mot in s rail- rond enr in the City of Now York, The Iatter Diad two Indlcs fn Lis charge, and, in consoquonco of cortain_aunoyancos by tho formor, romon< strated with him on Liia conduct, Itdocs not ap- pear that Putnam offered him any provo- ention, Fostor, who Lliad boen on tho front platform, ontored the car and sat down by Putnam, asking him sovoral times how far lio way going; sud whon the lnttor declined to angwor ond turnod mway, obviously desirlug to nvoid o gontrovorsy, Fostor anid, ©* Woll, I am going ns far 00 you go, und belore you loave thls car Lwill give you holl,” A o thon rolurned to the front platform and askod thodriver if he had a ear-hools,saying “‘ho would learn him (meaning Putnam) his businoss whon ho gota off the car ; hio would loarh him to keop his plnce.” When tho cor stoppod Fostor soizod tho car-hook, telling the drivor, who tried to stop him, to “go to lioll," walked the wholo longth of tho car on tho outside, ‘attackoed Put- nan, who had just got out, and struck him two blows.on tho bend, ono of which was fatal. Thay woro togothor, -nftor tho fixab couvorsa- tion ‘Lotweon thom, ‘whilo tho cer vas pnasing from tho vicinity of Twenty-ninth stroct to For- ty-sixth stroct, not far from throo-fourths of o milo, ombracliig oo long o poriod of timio to ns- oribo tho criminal act to tho suddon Impulso of passion or to exoludo tho preAumption of pro- meditatod design. Tho fatal blow was given with an fron rod, which was proved by tho resuls to bo a dendly weapon. It ismoro thnn 2 feok in longth, Laoving atoncend a doublo coll of iron, from 1% to 13 inclios _in circumforonco, and I capablo, in the hands of o man of orditary strongth, withoub auy extraordinary effort, of fracturing tho slull ot every blow. Foster had Dbeen s conductor on ono of thoeo strect cars; ho must haye kuown the capacity for iujury of tha woapon ho doliberately choso, and the jury miglit rightly presume thet ho intended to do_what o took tho most offectual menus within his reach to nccomplish. Tho murder wes committed on the-26th of April, 1871; the trial bogan on tho 220 of May onsuing; the verdict wa rondorod on {ho 95th, tho sentonco paceod on tho 26th, and tho 14th of July was fixed for his exocation. Early in July application was mado for a commutation of the goutence, and on_tho: Gth & writ of orror was filed tnd's stay of procoedings grantod, On the 21t of Fobruary, 1672, tho judgment was af- firmed at the General ‘Porm in ths City of Now York, snd tho 22d of Merch was fixod for the cxocution of the sontenco. Tho application for n commutation was ronowed and was donied by my prodoceskor on tho 4th of March. On tho 11th of that month a writ of error to the Court of Appeals_with o stay of proceedings was anted, and on tho 21st of January, 1873, tho §idgmont wos afiirmod by (ho. Iagtonsmed trib unal. Thiua it appoars that all the romediea provided by lnw for contesting tho rulings of the Judgo hoforo whom the trial took placo, havo boon ox- heusted, and that his sotion has beon affirmed by the two judielal tribunals hoving coguizenco’of the cace—the Intter tho Court of Inst resort. Tho quostion prosented to me is, vhothor I shall interposo tho oxeoutive nuthority of tho 1 mitto the penalty of deatl, which o S Strdol, Tt Tuprionont 1oF life, In support of {ho application, i is urgod tho verdict way accompnnied with a recommond- ation to worcy, and that it is tho duty of the Executivo to consider_tho one-as o part of tho othor, This is, no doubt, so far trus thatit vhould commond the caso to his moet careful and deliborato_consideration. It fs an appoal which he should racogniz:e by reviowingall tiia cir- donira to find in thom a justifieation for the e; creivo of his clemency, Thero is no respol Dility under tho law on tho part of juries in mak- ing such recomniendations. _On tho other hand iho rosponsibility of tho Executivo in ncting upon them s vory delicate, whethor they be con- sidored in reference to tho opinions of tho jurors who make them or to corsiderations of publio Policy, which s & conservator of tho good ordor of wocloty Lo is bound to regard in applicatious to mitigato penalties annoxed by thostatute to erlmos.” My piedecersor, no doubt, under tho {ufluence of such condiderations, or from (ho be- Tief that tho criminaly woro justly condemned to death, refusedin three instances to commuto | their ‘sontences, nlthough recommondations to merey accompanied the vordicts. % Tho apnlicnfiuu is supported on = anothor ound, which {s more omliarrassing, end whicl 28 been to mo & source of grent anxioty iu com- ing to n right decision.” A large mejotity of tho jurors,’ part of them by aflidavit and’ others by writton hiatements, declaro that some of {heir number did not bellovo Fostor intonded. to kill Putoaw, that they thought imprisonmont for desorved, nnd that thoy would not have agrecd to render tho vordict 6f murdr In tho firkt_dogres, involving tho penalty of death, if they had nof beon g~ purad by one of theif associntos, who profescad to have'n knowledgo of the law, that!such a vor- dict, nccompanied with . recommondution to merey, would insure a commultation of tho sea-~ tonco. With two oxcoptions theso statoments nre allrocont, nnd the {wo ocxceptions benr dnto mora than ten months aftor tho murdor was com- mitted. Two applications, as already stated, woro madoe to my predecessor for a commutation of tho sontonco—ono as Iate ns March, 1872 ; and there is no evidonco that any such atate- mont was presonted to him, nor is thero wny roforenco to ono in hia Iottor deuying thio Intter application, : tis o eottled principlo in thia'Stato that ox ]mrku afiidavits or statoments by jurors impoach- ng tho verdictu thoy hava rendored under: the rosponnibility of their oaths, will not bo received Ly the Courts in support of applications for new trinls. Indaed, I Doliove it may bo atated a8 o rulo -far mora widcly sccoptod thut tho “Courts will not ouffor tho jury * to oxplain by aflidavit tha grounds of their vordict, to show that . thoy intondod _somothing difforent from what .they found.” “Whothar the rojcction of suoli.afiidayits and statoments be founded upon thoe beliaf that, by renson of the protracted do- Iiborations of -juries in many cases, and tho “difrorencea of opinion to ho reconcilod in com- ing’ t6 " tho " rerjuislte’ unruimity, thoy. could bo oasily procuicd ; ‘or whothor Lhoy bo rojoctod up- on.tho ground.that stntomonts made under uo ronpousibility cannot bo pormittod “to ovor- -throw -adjudications- made undor tha highout, it can bardly bo doubtod that thoy would tend, “| it adwmitted, to’ unsottle tho admunistration of Justico and rondor oxecutions under capital con- viotlons noarly impossible, Bome of tho reasonn which govern Conrts iu rofusing to reooive such stalomonta in support of applicntions for new trials ought, in my judgmont, to govern the Excoutivo in applicationn for the ommutation of sontoncan. In the Judge's charge to the jury he aid: “ Doloro you con conviet tha prisoner of murdor in tho first dogreo youwinust bo aatin. fled from tho ovidoncs, not,only that Foustor Lilled Putonm, but that ho did o with o pre- meditatod doslgn to offoct hin doath ;" nud e was thus onvicted by tho jury upon the respon- nlbility of their othn, Quglit tho samo porgony tobo fiormmud nearly two yonra aftorwards to show by ox parte aftidavits and stntoments, mede under no legal rosponsibility, that thoir verdict wg;huntrun?d b i v 0 procodent of ndmitting aftor-ravolat! of tho socrot consultations of tho jury-room, h;g: the piirposo of aunulling. vordicla Tonderod as truo undor the solomnity of an oath, would be porilous in any condition of sooloty, aud in the deflant rolgn ‘of crime such & procedent would lmdlrnuuh! vith infnite dangor to the public ordor, Tvery proper applianco which wealth and the influoncs of a most estimable family conld un‘r‘i mand has beon omployed to uave Foster from thoscalfold, ‘Phe cuso has boen carried through all the courts by eminent counsol, tho opinions of gontlemen laarned in the law and carneat ap- pjicationa from reapeotod clergymon and citi- zons in good standing have been brought boforo me, and tho widow of the vicHm has come forth from her:solltude to pload for the lfe of lhor husbauds m\mfoxor. I have given to these' npponls my most @Iloughtfu{oonaidornlinu. If thore werd any ‘rongon to doubt that tho lnw was rightly ruled af b tho'trial, or that thie ovidonce fully warrantod tho Jury in’ rendoring tho yordist of murder fn tho first. degree, Iwould glive the criminnl tho honafit of {hnt doubt, Dut withn firm conyic- tion 1h:at thoro wan 10 “orror In elth:or, and that thoro i nothiug In his caso which ¢an Juatly commend it to fixcoutivo ciemoncy, I enunok n- torposa Lo mitigato his punishimeut. Ilnm pained to kay thin (o you, appreciating as I do your sincerlly and tho purity of yourmno- tivess and Ideciso fo announco my doclsion to ourgolf and the othor respoeted elergynion who {il\vu Juinad in intercoding for him, iu tlio spivit of kind consideration duo to tlicse whoue sacrad voeation tenches thom to loole with tontloraens upon (ho fraifties of others, o tho roprasontations of tho gontlemon fu “seoular ncnu[muonn who have appeatord to mo in h hin bohal? I have poid tho enmo rospociful con- sidoration ; but I rn constrafned to think that thoy have nolther givon sufliciont forothought to tho connequonces of what thoy nslk, if it wore ranted, nor considered that,with the best in- entlons, wo may, by misdirected sympnthy, con- tribito- unconnciously: to ondeugor. tho publia #afoly and our own, Lwn psked, in disrogard of tho oyidenco and tho_judgment of the” highost judicial tribunal in tlio Sato on the law, to. eet aside tho pounity awarded to the most alvocions oferimos. Iv Bcoms to me that tho incvitablo afTeol of such a procooding on my part, undor tho circumstancos of this caso, would be_ to impair tho forco of judicial declsions, and to broak down tho barrfors which tho Inw lns mot up.for tho prolection of human Jife. o thiy' act of socfal disorgauization I cannob lend {ho,ox- coutive m\flmrl&y conflded to mo by the pun’.{;le of tho Stato, deom it dua to the good ordor of socioty to ssy that, so far as doponds on me, the supremacy of the law will be Intloxibly main- tained, and that overy man who strikes n mur- dorous blow at tho lifo of hin follow must bo mado to feol tlint his own {o in cortain poril. If wo cannot by flrmuess of purposo attain this ond wo may noon ho forced to acknowlodge the dis- Rourtohing Lruth LAs tiviw in wnthing g0 choap or no ill-protected an humnn lifa. I addrosa this lottor to you becauze you wero tho first to npply to Qov. Hoffman and tho firat to apply to mo for n commutation of Fonter's wontence. It is nont in sincere sympathy with you, his omly spiritanl advisor, sud with his afflictod family, sumo of v:iom I know and hold in tho highest catoem, hut with tho cloar convie- tion thnt I am performing an imporative duty. I am, dear sir, with unfoigned rospoct and es- taom, yours, JouN A. Drx. Ttov, Szcenry I, Trxa, D, —_— e - DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. At Ogdensburghy N Yo Train the Ogdensburyh (N. X.) Journal, March 11, ‘About Lalf-past 7 o'clook “Sunday ' noruing firo broko ont in_tho tinmen's workshop of W. B. Allen & Co., Water treot. At tho timo o fourful. woutlrvoit gal, o Tumicane, whicly co!xgl‘mzi)_ncad about half-past 12, was at tho height of its fury. . T'he bullding in which tho firo took, and tho storo recontly oceupied by J. L, Ives & Son, and also the grocery storo of J. I, Morgan, all yrood, wera soon in flames. Tho firo crossed Wator strcet, commmaicating with “Marblo Row," owned by Judgo James, Tra Whoelock, and tho ostato of thio Into Smittl Stillwoll, Jr. ; aleo to tho Natlonal Hotel barnm, threo in tumbor, end ro- ducod tho whola to ruins, ‘About tho same timo it crossed TFord strot, and communicntad o tho stono building ownad by W. C. Gibbs. reduced it and tho woodon wingy, botl enat and south of it, tho woodon Dbuiliihg up the beuk of tho river, owmed by Tobert Atcheson, and oconpiod by Neil Gook s adyo-houze nud dwelling, zod” thouce to O. Loty locksmith-shop nud dwolling, all of which wero destroyed. Tiio rotal logs from dostruction of buildings, and goods, aud moving, must aggrogate woll up townids £100,000. : “Tho following aro somo of tho hioavicat lossos: 3.1, Morgan, 1 0,000; inonrango, 427,500, A.B. Joniee, 102 £13,000; Msnrance, 85,000 G. 000 innuranco, 35,000, K. 5 #7,000; insurance, 35,000, g, abonl $15,000, Laantascd nok Vo 3 Al H. IHouston, I Gibbs on buildin, known. 8. G. 3,000. W, B, }xu, 1oz 05 insuraunce, on & Co., nbout §15,000;5 I. Wheolock, $3,000; Kolloge & Co., £2,000; O. Tonis, $2,000% Stillwell, £5.000; W. O. Jillson, £9,600; 11, Atcheson, £1.003. ‘Almoat, ovory busitieas inan on tho atreot suf- feved to tomo extent in avine goods, for it nocmed thiat tLo whole eity wo3 doomed. Thers in hardly o thle ayning from Catherino to Btats streot, oll having baen atripped to keop thom from faking fire, rud thus oxtending the worlk of dostruction. 'Tho sparks Llow in showors all over fown naund commuuicated firo to mouy buildings, The buildings ot the yenr’ of J. I Normund's, Diffenbachor & Dovidson's, and af Bell Brothors' ero several times on firo. At 11 o'clogk tho efforts of tho firctaon Lo stay tha aprond of tho fira* woro muc- cosulul, and ovarybody rojoiced that what prom- {60 tobo worso then (ho great firos of Chicago and Boston, to Ogdeubnrgl, hizd been got undor control. About this timo' au. oxploslon took place in Hotcton's grocory atore, aud 'tho- flamo Fhot ncrasy tho streot, burbing the oyas'of Cliof TEnginoer Tytlo and dirabling him from-furtiior servico. A short Limo aftar thin explosion tho novthoaut wall of Houston's gracery fell with o fenrful orash, fllling tho road to Cathorine stroot and up againgt tho National Hotol, smash- ing in tho doors and windows. Sevoral peraons in-the streét when thoy bogan to toltor, hid a. Lnic-breadth eacapa. § ey A spocial dispatch unys that the firo dovestated an avea bounded by Ford and Water sireets, and Cathorino strect to thoviver. Who loas is cati- matod at §250,000; insured for $100,000. . At Lawwrenceburg, Ky.. . Trém th Louiscille Commeycial, dlureh 18, Iho-following fetounisof. tho fire ara from ro- Tiablo citizens of Lavrencoburg, who assuro us thiat thoix cstimatos of tho losses will probably . oxcead tho figures givon : ¢ On tho niternoon of Saturday, the 15th inat., botweon tho hours'of 12 and 1 o'elock, the alarn: of firo was-given in Lavwoncehurg, and by 8 o'olock soma flits-flvo or sixty dwellings and busmoss houses, soversl Iarza mtables, and s number of out-houses, had burned to the ground. Thyeo-fourths of tho toyn is s mass of ‘ruing; with faw walls and quite n number of ohim- noys © standing, to mark - tho plucos wliere ibe houses formorly stood. . Buv- ing the Court-Touua thero was nob n louso loft on exther sido of Maiu slreet’ for two whelo Bquares, and throo Lionscs on oach sido.of, tho third £uare wero burned, Eyery businesy houzo in the Lown, including both hotels; was burned. o Lioat was o intanse that overy troo: nlong tho ntroot whora the firo. raged was hurned to o stump,. ‘Pho town was, mainly suppliol with wator from wolly, on tho street, but theso wore 10 eavoloped in the inmesno dno could got to {how, o that very litlle could bo done to arrest tho progress of tho fire. - 'horo could be no prssing through tho stroot from north to south, aud those ot ono end could not tell what was bo- ing dono at tho other until the flro consed, A Tigzh wind was blowing from the southwost, and thoso persous living on tho oast side had litle ~chauco to wave anythiug, tho goods and _furnituro thoy carricd to the renr boing burnod on the ground in n few minutos oftor bolng put thoro. Thoselivin on the wost side woro 1nore fortunete, saving al they could curry ont ; but tho alarm was so sud- don, and tho spread of tho firo wo rapld, vory 1ittlo, comparativoly, was sayod. “All tho provisions in the town, eave what little may be found in privato pautries, were burned, “Hovoral families are loft ontiroly desti- tuto, suving nothing but o few clothos and a bed or two; awoug them some tiye or six widows. It i supposcd the papers and monoy in tho eafe in tho bunlk vault aro uninjurod,’ but neithor Lliave boen oponed. & g ““Many whoso fortunos wera not totally wrocked will immediatoly put up box hounos for immediato use, tud duriug tho swnmer ercct substoutial business houges, thus manifesting an onorgy and o disposition to keep up the busl- ness of the town, and substantially rebuild it, The total loss by tho fire is estimatod at aver $250,000. Ihave mo means of ostimeting the insurauco, but, from all I can learn, it is com- parativoly light, # < —_— IRoney—¥Vhat Onn ite Dono in Minnes sotu. % From the St, Paul Press, - ‘The Doo-Kocpers' Associntion of Blue Earth Qounty of which Mr, A, D, Soward (a caroful sta- tlaticlan) is Booratary, {sjaithority for tho follaw- ing, to sny tho leust, ‘ustonishing slatemont, Wwhich thoy indorsed in the form of & resolution, Thoy took the ground that tho quantity of honoy roduced by nntura, or that could bo praduced y & proporoultivation of the matorial provided by nlliuru. far oxcoedad the imagination of most peoplo, A}sl’or instanco: Thoy stated that thoy know of a_caus whore, in the yonr of 1874, 20,000 Ppounds of surplus honoy wore gathorad by tnd Fokan from boes i no location, whoro thoy rauged ovor nn aren of uot exceading two Eoo- tioun, 'Thoy exprossed themsolvos as boing con- fidout that mmore honey could Linye beon gathered in_ tho samo locality by & lavger numiber of bees. Then thay weut Inta estinutos. At that rato Dlue Earth County would luvo produced 7,200, 000 pounds of tho artlolo, Entfwatine, st thio lowont prico, 20 conts por pound, and the result would hnve' beon §1,140,000, Wadeon Count: would hnve producod 4,320,000 pounds, worth §804,000; Nicollot, Brown, Watonwan. -Farl- bault, Stoelo, Rico, T.o Buour, and Bibloy %nu- timated aron) would have produced 40,000,000, or honoy worth, at 20 conts, £8,000,000, ‘ITine -the -(otal - for (en ocountina would have.boon 51,690,000 poundy, worth §10,301,000, ‘They ho- lioved thosa fignroy Liolow tho truth. Naw ot thin rale the Stato would produce an avetogo nmonnt of 805,000,000 jivands of thin doloctablo rdccharino }lrpdm',t por year, worth the nstounding ewm of £61.000,000—~cnough Lo onnblo ovory farmor in the Btato to licop's hired glel, - - I UNCLE SAM.” Praduction in Now York of Snrdow’s Now Play. From the New York Herald, Marel 18, The production of the long-promined play of # Yuelo Sam” at the Graud Opern-llonuo last night, was & groat succens, both In ity mlsmuun- tation and the number of porsons who witneuabd tho performanco. Tho fact that the plny had hoon )‘Jmhlhlled in Paris, ostonribly boeause it wan likoly to bo offouslvato the Ametican poopl, only sorved to-advertino it and increnso tho “do- sivo to' sco it. ' In consequonce, tho immenso thontre was fillodl by ono of the lnrgest nudioncos ovor gathored within its walls, “Unclo Sam” i a ploy in four nots. Tt ix eallod n comedy, but Is in fact & drama. Thero 18 not n real Amorican lady or gontlemon in tho pleco. . Tho thiond of tho story In ox- coedivgly Hght, and ench not dn in “fact only & farco. Tho piay opeus on tho romoundo-deck of the Hudson Itiver ntenmor b, John, When the curtain risos, a traditional naloon linnd 15 seen dusting chaira and arranging tables, A strolling Fronch fiddlor ou his way to Now York to give a concork at Stoinway Hall is the frat to onter, aud is soon joined unexpeetod- 1y by & former friond, tho Aaryuis de Roche~ more. Then come_Afme. Bellamy, and Zillioft, an Americen journillst. Tho talk, of courso, ia about Amorica and' the *imporial city.” AMme, Bellwitvy 3o Jingnatad wwith Hea anuntem, snd ray e wmantof 1o s i youns Mrenchiman sk encountered. Bho has good reason to be dis- gueted, forgho lnd bought land in Koutucky, whieh was & bog, and took in all its propristors, aud had o lawouilt in bwo Staten for proporty sit uated partly in Corucoticut and partly in Mas- gachusotts. ~ Sho gainod hor suit in Connecticut “and lost it in Magsachusotts, znd thon appealed, geining it.in Mes:zachusotts . and losivg it in Couneeticur. In the end, tho courts of tho ono Btato awarded hor-the drawing-room, nud tho conrts of the othor gave tho bedroom to Lior ad- verunry, Tho purpose of? all_this tall s to pre- are for the introduction of Aiss Sarah Tapple- t, the nices of Sam Tapplebol, o Now Yol mifliousive, living nt tho Fifth 'Avenuo Hotel, Miss Sarah, with some of hor frionds, has boon at & camp-meoting at Weat Poiut. ‘Fho Fronch description of (o camp-masting s vory funny. I.riot relates how the Itev, Jedediah Duzton do- nouncod nll alcoholio driuks, and rocommended {ustond tho #Calcbrated Indion Bitbors—FHonlth Rostorative—B—1'—1890—Wux,” which was to Do lind only at_© Boum’s, No. 173 Liast Twonty- socond strcet,” Ellioft describes old Sam— naming limeclf na San's ox-son-In-lav—an o broomsoller at 12, o pork-packer at 17, nnd o maunfacturor of blacking 6620, whomado n fortuna 1u cocoa, way ropentodly ruinod and finnlly ontab- Tished by a luoky spocutation in guano. ‘Then thio ladies appoar—Grdce Flibburly, Elliolt's ox- wifo; Jetsy, o music toachor, and ntrong-mind- ad, and Mis3 Sarah. Liobert do Rochemore i in- troduced {0 Sarah, and whon tho boat atrives in Now York sho talktes o arm nud foreibly walks him off, with Alme. Bellamy's ** Bowaro " sound- in his oars. Thosecond act shows us Sem himsolf in his privato parlors, 1lis firat duty istoracoive Fair- Jax, s lawyor, and Jyp Direson, o politicizn, who ure managing his canvass ¢ o candidate for tho Common_Council. Thon his family como to- gothor, Uiysses, bis oldost son, who hag just fuilod for & milllon and founded n bauk upon linbilitios ; Ben, Lis youngor son; Graca -F' burly, his dsughtor, whom ho has not seon for ‘yeur'; Col. Nathaniel ¥libburly, his nowly dis- covered son-in-law, and tho other born .of the Tapplebot family, including AMisg Betsy, thelr musio tonclior, Sam asks overybody to dinnor, and aluost ab the sumae moment the Marquis comes to tako tog, at tho invitation of Afiss Sarah. Driot alio appears, nand Afadame Dellamy stops _Sam on hia way to dinnor with o proposition to buy some moro land in Tafllobot cit?. According to Madame Bel- lamy and fr; Wardon, tho young: ladios of New Yorlk always visit thoir frionds aftondod by thoir *f beaux," and 80, aftor dinner, tho room is filled with visitors, igs Olympia_Olyphant, Miss_ Lu- mem- Renwick, and Miss Lydia Pollemus, onch nte tondod by hor'bosw. Afiss Sarah forwnyds hor courtsbip with {ha Marquis, nud tho act ouds with her doparturo, ostensibly for Long Branch, lier now lover accompnnying her. i o third act takos place at Long Branel, and couists of business, liko tho second. act, {ho opisodes bolug the marringo of Briot and 'Afisa lolsy by tho Rev. Jedediah Buston, grently to tho amazomont of tha Fronchman that” he could Do wedded at o Sodn Wator fountain, and a pecn- linr quarrol botweon Miss Sarah and tho Alarquis, with o notifieation to tho letter from Sam and Faiijaz that be will bo compolled to pry for tho injury dona to thav parb of Saral’s anatomy eho colls Dor hoart, In tho lnat nct. Ame. Bellamy coniplotes Lior purohase and circumvants Sam ; Iiis son Ulysses chonts hin father out of tha clec- - tion for Common Councilman. Fairfax aud the Hayquis fight wifh pistols in tho Titth Avenus E‘{;];te , and ovoryboay is reconcilod, nocording to -, AL Berdow's. playis notn play on: Amoriean docioly and manners. It is nol ovon o cariestnra upon Atnerican yoclaty and msners, | Yet it is 2 bittor and nob_ontirely unjust -setiro on many courdo, nu oxggeration of occurrencos which have had 2 foumdation in fact,-and wo ara nob dizposed to ovorlaok the truth It‘contains, or to cry out in angor nzoinst iho losson it toschos. "Unclo Sum ™ is justauch a play - a8 an intolli- gent foreigner, whoao knowlodyo of America wan, drassh from' books, and newspipors, and eloddy tourists, would write. 'Tho wealkest chnrncter in tho play is_Unele Sam Tapplebot himeol, for tho typo torwhich-Lods eupposed io bolong nevor travols and hus nover been deseribed in bools, Nathaniel Flibburly, on tho other hand, '3 strong, bocpusoDickens farnishod the idoal for lim aud for "Papplobot City in Martin Chuzzlowit," - In ovory purt of-the lylay aro_ evidancos,of M dou'y ronding. _Hopworth Diton’s | pititunl Wives " pupplied bim with his ideds of tho froo love tendencien of ‘Americen womon, He gon- oralizos from tho storios about tho Onelda com- munity, the insnve uttorances of & fow pooplo like Mra, Woodhull' and mewspaper talk about Ohieago and Indlann divorces. Though ho spoaks of tho virtuou of thin country, to his im- agiuntion tho whola Amoricen Continent {8 nob a8 great in oxtont, or oo diversifiod in munnors aud custom, a4 his own city of Laris, . Madamo Tollamy, who married s Créolo, nod wont to livo in' tho BSouth,‘is in tho North. Ior Western property—tle 'l'npfilohot City lots—is in Kone tucky, and hor Southorn property on tho line he- twaon Connootiont and Muasnchusotts, His iden of the bohinvior of respectablo American lndies is quitons nbsurd s his notions of Amorican geog- raphy. Barah Tapplebot s scarcaly as modost or o4 woll brod as the worst of ~abandoned womon, At their first interview she invitos tho Marquis do Rochemoro to tale toa with her nl tho Iifth Avonuo Hotel, Bho gets from him something liko & writton promiso of marriaga the samo evening, and goes with him to Hara- toga in the middlo of tlo night, spondivg threa days in his company without hurt to hor ropnuta- tion. Mrs, Graco Flibburty, described in tho Dills of the Grend Opers Houso a8 “a married butterfly, with o penchant_for divorces,” is fumiliarly talkod abont by M. Bardou's other charncters in’ the -play a3 “tho ex-wifo of Tlliott.” Bam, atrango to say, wag in eutiro ignorance for “thrco moutha thnt his doughtor }ind married his ngont, Col, Flibburty, and when Lo i told of it bio thinke if ho had honrd it bo- foro ho would have romembored it, ‘Tho failurg of Ulysses ia s characteristio ploco of satire, and porhips it is not unmorited. In ovorything Which tho dfamatist brings . into the Bhy thero is = cortain grain of ‘ut! ut tho fuult is that ho locallzos univorsal vices and soows to make thom nxclual\'a]x Amori- can. Ovordrossing In not confined to Amorioa. -Bpeoulating in stooks and making finenoial fafl- ures for money gaina nro as much Ironch ag American, Freo lovo is advocated by a fow per- Bons in overy country, and tho iden of npiritual swivon {8 n thing that would hardly be undorstood by tho bettor clnse of Amoricans, Itis anoex- tremo oxuggoration, and ono that is indofonelble, Lo reprosent young ladios as publicly Bmmq on mon’s kneos—this 10 tho lnn(.]lmgo of tho play, “ultting o this one'a kne; claspod in tho other ona'a arme; brushing hor golden halr againub this ono's board.” A seone like thia M. Sardon roproyonts as nolunflfi taking place in Ham's par- lors, It ia vory much as if wo should represent Fronchimon solling tholr daughtors in tho mar- Jot, though we must do M. Sardou tho justico to Bay that that this is not €o cruel a pioturo, and we Lopo as woll fonnded, o8 that which ho filvoa ot hfla own countrymon in the third act of Agnes." In apeaking of AL Bardon's p]n{‘ ona thing must never be fory ' otton—it I8 o Tronchman’s iden of Amorics. In thisrespoct it is a skillful, and in I'rauce it moy be regarded as a Lrillian production. Bus tbe dramatinl entiroly losos olght of his art, snd mokes oxezworations of erezia Lrown, Miss Cora Livingsion, Afiss Clara, things that aror Amcrican, This -selive is,.of. exaggorntions pans for roprosontations of man- norw, a crndo collection of lmx:anslhlo mon and womon for socloty. Such an it {s the ploture ia well druwn, and Whoro it is grotesquo it only provakes n smilo. Wo liave nol seon anaudionca which onjoyod u lay moro thoroughly this win- ter, nor & plny whioh wos more enjoyubla, Wit by evon whon il was mout.aburd, It “was impos- wiblo to frown down the catlentwre, Appluso followad every thruat, and tho keonor o blow the moru wirestrained tho langhter, It wia Reelng onrsalves a wo nover naw onrsolves bae foro—ng 10 human bomg over _waw g, J had o tho grain of truti wo discovared in whab M, Eardou Liay to sy of us seted liko tha #pico of the dinh o placon beforo un, And, most of all, the Ameviean paaplo showoed to tha world Inot night that thoy aro not over-konnitive an ro- ards what other peoplo sny or think of them. . Ihoy showed boeiden that whnt thoe I'rench Coy- ornmont foared’ would prove offousive to this country was, on tho contrary, o plearuro both in its troth and is absurdity. Considored ay o cnmed{ ““Unclo Bam " Is full of things (hat are unworthy of dramatic ave, but as o ronring dinma of tho clans of ““Round the Olock” and ! Roughing It " it is oxquisite. There hns not been o better burleaque on any atage sluce (ho fivwt production of “ Tho Tady of Tyonn.” It ia no wondor our peopla onjuy it, for a mind fully comprelianding the subject cot:ld not havo conr— coived n pleco nt onco 80 frue and so ‘fulse, B0 sorious and so abs: A PHILADELPHIA TRAGEDY. A YWiio Murdered Whilo Asleep by o Prunken LlushuandesIle~Orushes ko Fler Slkutl With an Ax. Phitadelphta (March 15) Correspondence the N l'ur}: Alerald, 4 s Charles J. Olonk, & mechunic, emplayad at tho Taldwin Locomotive Worke, n mun who, when gobcr, i tho most quict aad inofTonsive man t bo found, returncd to hig home, nt 2037 Reeves atroot, about 5 u'cloclc yeatordsy nftornoon, pe fectly wild from tho offccty of sirong dvink, 1o waa ot quarrclsomo, but oxeaodinggly hilarious. o old mother, B5 yoars old, nidod by L8 wixo, pucwandon in gotting bim {o bod nt about 6 o'clock. o vas too rostless (o romuin lmuzi ond shont 7 o'clock hio camo doswn staiens . drznk some chocolato nnd ato n pioco of broad und‘anulcd forthinto tho slreot, 1o roburnud at 10 o'clocly, and his wifo and mother tied bis handa, affer first taking off lis clotbing, favo Lim some tobacco, aud put him to bod. fhen old Mis. Cloalk end Cloaka wife and o littlo iceg of Glonlt's, ngod 18, whom lio lied adopted, and QObiarloy, on adopted eon, ngod about 7, votired to bod. ' Nothing unusnal oceurred until morne * ing. - Tho old la:ly had boon in the habit of got~ ting up 8t 2 o'elogk in tho morning to seo to th fire, Bho arose at that tims this morning aud &nrfll;:l‘;txx‘mfl that duty, wout bacl to bed nnd yout About half-past 6 o'clock tho littlo girl i wwakonod by a light whining in hor cyos; M Tooked up aud tiniv Cloak standing in tho room Tooking at Lis wife. Ifo onid—* Mary, look at your mothor” Si-. looked nnd snw Mrs, Cloak covered with blood, and a great gash in hor left fomple. * Who did this, papa #" sho aslicd. **1 don't know," Cloak roplicd; * como ona must havo como In and dono it," and lo then _burst into toars. Tho littlo girl soomed to havo possossed en oxtreordinary norvo, for, instoad of shricking or fainting uiay, #ha' said, *Wali, its no uso standing thoro ; why don’t yon go for a doctor?” Clonk socmed to havo lost i memory, and askaed Lier where bo ghould go, __tia was divectod to go to Twenty-first and Viee stroots, aud put on his shoos and startod out. Tho girl got up und callod across tho streob for o noighbor. By this time tho old lady, wlio is very deaf, woko up, and, wishing to pxcertain who‘:‘ficr thr boy va well coverad up, reched over on il {l o\‘v, und was horrified to find it coverad with lcod, My God, what's this 2" sho criod, and jump: od out of bodas quickns cho could 'eud gat light. When rho rofurnied Mlrs., Clonk gronning, but iusousiblo. Tho noighbor Gomo from neross tho strcot, and old M, Cl lot Loy in, but all thelr offorts to got a wos tho murdered woman wero unavailing. sympathizing neighbor licld, Mrs. C! in her hands, and wiped the clottod blood frox her mouth. ~ Mys. Cloak lingorsd for an hou and a half, and died about 7 o'elock. Cloak (& not return to tho house, but waa arreated below Llio hud procesded far, and token to the ntution houeo ut Twonty-third and Drown atreots. It scoms that Clonk awoke about 4 v'clock thit _morning and dressed himself, then procceded & tho collar_and gob nn old Tuslyesx, inwhicl Mrs, Oloak, thomurdered woman, had ins a broken handloe nbout Lo wecka tgo. Sha! used it for broaling ico, It was fixed juss wonnn would bs likely to fix it. nidlo ‘boon broken, ard what was left offUit Liad b whittled down and fitted into the eys-f {he in o lind of brokon-backed phape, Ctoak A. this ax nnd_slipped quially up-itaiva, with Ui light in ono hand nud the ax in the othor. Inying nscorteined tho position of hin wi placad tho light on tho mantel and dealt fearful blowi on thio loft tomplo. ‘Cho firat 1 sunk tho back of tho ax’ two end o half iuchc intohor skull. 'Tho scvond blow. was not 5o ot vera, bt morely broko tho skull. o thex prc cooded down-stairs with the ax, and Ixid it m der_tho table, Then he retwmed and stood I the bedsido to seo her lifoblood obb away. . Mra. Cloak appeared liko o hardworkin ‘woman, and bora on Ler framo tho o fatiguing labor, Ilor wister and brothe mained down stairs, Lold me eho lad frequent supported the family for weoks o e time, vil: Oloak was off on his periodieal sprens ‘e prisoner is & vory respectable, intolligen looking man, and noat in his got-up, solid Dbuilt, and nflparuuuy about 45 yeurs of age, I was not incliued to say mucl about the murde save to deny it. Coroner -Brown hold an inquest nt 5o'cloc TLe evidones of Cloak's mother and tho lit! gitl, and tho wonnu, from acrous the lreot, v Yory clesir and_convinciug, and at its coneliu: Olosk was fully committed in aecordauco vii I the verdict of the jury. THE FARMERS, State Convention nt Springiicld, [ Aprad Q. Farmera of Ilinofo: 'The busy eeason ig approaching, and onr et ‘mion are vejuicing in tho hope thas wo shall so Do 80 abaorhell in tho business of getting in o crope ne-to forget thom and the wrong: wo sulering nt their hands ; let us dirnppoiut the in this, “We biave yot Limo for one more ally,—for ono tore united off i solyes from tho grasp of ihdt y: sorbing all tho profits of our labor, You aro thorofora heraby. requ Excoutivo Committeo of the Stats Fevmo.s' 4 sociation, to hold anothar Convention in ea of your 'soveral countics to eloct ono or mic delogaton to moet at Springfiold, on Wednerd. tho d of April, for, the purposo’of attondi our interosts In the Legislature, and of givi that body oud tho Governor to undorstand t wa mean business, end are no lougar to bo triil with; thnt whilo e heve o disposition to fringo upon iho rights of othois, wo dema thint protoction at tiicir hauds from the intol. ablo wrougs now iuflicted wpon us by tho 1z fl;udu which thoy have a constitutional night vo us. e Tho recent meoting of the various railre oflicials at Springfiold means mischie! to us. Totus be represontod thero also, Thong! ‘may cost us & fow dollars it will be monoy w wpont, if wo anccoed in counteracting tho poer cious influonae they ara oxerting upon the I {slnture, and of aronsing that'body to n raul ing souso of tha duty we domiand of thom. 1 otitions, resolutions, aud mumorials that b eon_pouring in upon them for the past ¢ months havo elicitod ns yot nothing that loc Jikely to holp ws,—nothing uavo el fali littlo purposo. Meantime tha ecaulon is weari away, and if, a8 scoms probablo nov, the ti for adjournment arrives with nothing for our liof nccomplished, wo shall ho loft for two §. ‘moro 8t {hio morey of the cormorants who are « vouring us. % Now farmers fixvu anothor day to your eaus botter remain idio all tho ycar,” than continue toll, that tho railvoads may reap the profits, | Jeot your best mon for tho purpogo from of counity, and sou to It that money onough bo ¢ odto puy their nocossary expones, Appe your moodtings whou it will bost suit your o Yonionco, but In time for your delogatén to ro ta rench the Capital on tha 2d proxiuo, 1t 1s hoped thet oyery county In tho State n bo ruyruunutefl. und that County Committoos v glvo this mattor -their entiro porsonal attontis and holp to mako this tho most important Ct vention yot Liold and the ono most prolifia §uod rosulld to our causo, Onco mora th armors, to tho roscuo ! By ordor of tho Btato Exeoutivo Committce, 8. M. Barn, Bocrotary e —A fow ianrfi sinoo thoro renided, inono of 1 connties of Bouth Carolins, two respectablo o venu, ‘Ihey wera of tho same surname; tl also wero cousius, They wore mombers of 1 same religious donomination: their wives w slstors, Mhoy woro both nulliflors when Sor Carolina took the land in this political adventu Tach ono was tho father of thirtcon ohildre oach of those mnen had three sons and ten dav- tora. Yhoro cau a parallel to this be foung? tod by ¢ ¢ ! ]