Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1873, Page 2

“THE CHICAGO ' DAILY . TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, NEW YORK. Contest of -the Bulls and Bears-==The Triumvirate-of the Street. A Mutual Admiration Sociely Indeed--- Stanley Africanus Bound for Khiva. Queer Company of Christiang=s=« Reported Removal of 4 Grace Church. From Our Own Correspondent, New Yok, April 24, 1873, As nearly everybody inany kind of business has lost money, directly or. indirectly,in tho Pull-and-Bear gerden which lies under the ehadow of Trinity, nearly everybody who is "ot ‘himself hurt or in peril receives pleasure from the condition of affairs in Wall strest. =~ . #Let them tear each other,” says one; “I enjoy their wounds." ¢ They are acommon set of thieves altogethor; the more villain robs scoundrel,” afirma another, ““the better I like it * Confound them!” chimes in & third; “I wish the whole of the binking quarter would open and gwellow them up. TALE AND TALE. Thet is the kind of talk one hears on every band. Tho operators of Broad street lock up currency, -advance tho rates of interest to 5 ruinous point, and meke the whole commercial community euffer. Such things are entirely sel- fizh, purely mercenary; that is “self- evident. No man ought to-act so; 8nd, for thst very resson, many men do. Wall gtreet merely reflects Beaver street, Bouth street, Water street, Broadway. They are all struggling to mako money; this 18 their only pim. The great merchant pats down prices to bresk smaller mercliants, and benefit himself. The large operator shuts up money to lower guotstions, run the Bulls, and sugment his ex- shequer. Where is the difference ? . When you end your partner are filling your purses, you are pot balf o serapulous touching the means as whon Jones and his partner are filling theirs. Ve have an elastic code of morals. Tho one that fits us will not apply to others, and-vice . versa. 'Facts existing outside of our interests warp our judgment. Our neighbors’ consciences &ro not ours,. If they were, they might be worae kept. . o USELESSNESS OF USURY LAWS. mue fearful rates obtained for the mse of morey recently show the worthlessness of our usury laws, With an nactmenton our statute- books that only 7 per cent per sunum shall be chafged"for loans, 7 per cent per week is charged. Will any of the penalties be enforced? Notoné.. Does anybody dpml:fisc such excossivo nsury secretly? It is done openly, publicly, witiont the lcast attempt at concealment. Whatever monoy will bring 15 exacted. There is fot a business day in the entire year on which more than legal rateis not askoed and received. It has always béen, and always will bo so. The Iaws do not hinder usary. Why do they stand? _Are they 80 ornamental they canuob be repealed? "Or is Form.so much more grateful than Fact? - THE TRIO OF DESPERATE GAMBLERS. ' ‘ Jsy Gould, Henry N. Smith, and Alden B. Stockivell are held to be respongible in the main for tho present locking-up; and the consequont curses heapad mpon them are both loud and deep. They are generally. regorded as the fathers of all the mischief brewing or brewed in the strest. Ever since Smith walked about for threa days with £5,000,000 of greenbacks sewed | don’t swear much, the 2o uch, thouy “guide infos wear h it is a-priyilogo we in New York. "In tgs chuntry,p:“vglnrfng‘ia Nfi&zflly ll]orbidg&u. But leti us b; ofl.‘" 5 Half-an-hour after they stepped into Harry Hill's noto; uston strest: the 3 ~companion that tho Chris: tians wero having a little rovival that evening. The Livingstonian was sstounded to see a crew of thieves,.courtesans, burglars, and cut- throats. calling for drinks, dancing, and singing | ‘baccnanal lcmg, etc. While,'in a state of semi- stupefaction, he was g to decipher the mnfio scene, a tawdrily-dressed woman steppod 3 slsppad on -tho shoulder, and said, “'flook ere, gawky, ain't yon Egln' to stand the gin?": That was too much; the young Chris- tian fled, amid roars of laughter. . ' BALMAGUNDIL Something of o sensation’ hias been croated in fashionable circles by the reaurt (not authenti- cated) that the Trusices of Grace Church have s0ld the Iand to a large Teal-estate dealor, and that the handsome edifice is to be pulled down and rebuilt near the Park. If this should prove true, what would become of Brown? The Tribung stockholders have not doferred their new building to next year, as has boen as- seried. They nre morely wnhing for settlod weather, when they will gflhay 8ay) begin opera- tions. -They have €300,000 cash to commence with,—not bad for s “‘ruined concorn.” A 'grenter irruption of ‘‘popular” lecturers next season than ever before, it is alarmingly whispered. That is, they intend to offer them- solves choap to all who want to hoar them. Among the unwelcomo will bo_a dozen or more Pearls of the Platform, Rosebuds of the Ros- trum, Lilies of the Lyceum, and Cherubs of the Chighon, of whom wo have alrcady had too many &nd too much. 2 i It Henry Ward Beecher gets through with his « Christ " by tho 1t of July, ho has serious in- tentions of gloing down the Danube to look st Yienna and the Exposition. Bincere pestoral admirers of Horacs Greeley, who have heard of u statuo to his memory, nob infrequently mistake Benjamin Franklin in front of the Tribune for the later Franklin,—totally dissimilar 88 the' two eminent men were in ap- pearance. Thannwmmlgini‘ed.‘\mr of the World, Jerome B. Btillson, is not s little annoyed when he is in the street by hearing persons say, “ There goes Btokes, Jim Fisk's murderor| I didn’t know he, had got bail.” There is & likeness betwaon the assussin and the -journalist,—euough, at least, to Le unpleasant. CoLsToUN. JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT. : BELLEVILLE, TIL, April 26, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 81m : As an old citizon of the State, and never an intenso partisan, I feel a deep intercst in the eloction of Judges of our Supreme Court in two of the Grand Divisions, next June. The Judgea elocted will not be for those Divisions only, but for the whole Btate; and hence sl citizens of the Btate naturally and properly feol anxious thiat competent, upright, industrious, judicious, sound, afid firm men should be elected. Tho judiciary is tho arsenal of populer rights and liberties ; and the Supreme Court is general- Iy the last resort for a redress of wrongs and the presorvation of 1ights. The waves of temporary excitement, prejudics, and passion should not control the courts. Their decision should bo made after a_ full survey of a question on all sides, mature deliberation, and on solid grounds that will stand the test of years, i not of ages. The history of England, from which we derive ‘many of our fundamental principles of law, shows that the courts have been tho bost guardians of the liberties and rights of tho poople. Consti- tutions and laws are mado by tho representatives of the people, and must bo regarded as the ma- ture opinions of the people. It isno the prov- ince of the courts to make or amend constitu- tions or laws, but to expound =nd enforce them in good faith, 28 tho best evidence of the will of the people. Judges are sworn so to do; and, if they make pledges in advance how thoy will do- cido cases to come before them, partis will not have s fair hearing, and might 8 well submit all judiciel questions to popular vote, to be decided atone election' one way, and reversed at the next. > In a Republic, temporary spasms of popular cumyhiml; peilcn v They are o ithe ont cause, and are founded always on some real up in the lining of his' overcost, he is presumed £ be ongaged in some Suancial ‘deviltry; and I £m inclined to think the presumption not far from. correct.. He, and Gould, and Stockwell ‘have been running in & trio for some time, and fhey sppear to bo of advautago one to snother, It s’ seid_that esch s:fipuee what tho other ‘wants,,and the result is, they form s very strong combination. NS Tndependent of the monetary pressure, the question of most interest, at prasont, is, How fong will or can_tho threo great operators keep on thoir feet ?- No one gives thom beyond the esent vear. Some doclare they willbe borne own bofore the summer-vacstion. Others Eewear they are * broke " now, but are keeping a stiff upper lip. L . Itma{ly ‘bankrupt, which is. not st all proba- ble, they certainly sre wearing their lip firml: If they should tumble now, whai a howl of de- light wonld rise! Men would ‘embrace each other in sympathy of hatred. Come what may, tho thres cannot last very long. Nobody does Wall street. Gould has been on the rampsge for sbout five years ; Btockwell about three ; Smith about two. It is time their end was ap- proaching. ‘1t is only & question of Beasons,—. the bost scason perheps the last. As far as ‘can_be gathered. 8mith and Gonld arg, at present, hol up Btockwell, who, with s little more holding, hopes to be able to be in- dependently erect. Smith either has, or controls, from 915,000,000 to $20,000,000. Gould controls 820,000,000 to £25,000,000. 'Thoy are thoughtto bo in league with some of the -strongest banks, and thus they bave -the power to put the screws down until even a bag of doublo-eagles is com- - Ke’fled to bleed and scream after. ittle ones.~ - You are aware that - THE AUTHORS' UNION, v s it existed in the old United States Hotel, in Fulton street, was composed of Olive Logan and irt Bykes. _They were the authors; theirswas the union.- While their dual organization was at the height of “its pro?nrity, a country news- eper-publisher called &t their . buresu fo ‘seé - ~one- of them . about ' writ- »infiannstory.' “He encountered 8ykes,.and, while talking with the author, the suthor disappesred, excusing himself for an imperative.engagement. Then Logan dropped in, -and began en im- mense enlogy upon -her partner, pronouncing ‘him the equal of Dickens in genias, and & won- derfal obsarver of_human nature. .Before tho publisher conld reply, Logan bowed herself out, snd Sykes entered onco more upon‘ the &céne, tmt only to eulogize the gigantic: intollect, the %rliiumge _wit, the extraordinary -culture,” of e . . i -After this performance, shereturned; and they botly'eat quietly down to listen to the rustic’s Eragommn.' Ho had none to_make, .however; - ke had been 8o overwhelmed ‘by: Bykes' genius snd 'Logm‘s 'wit, with Sykes' powers of observa~ tion and Logan’s culturs, that he retired witha promise to call agnin, when the two did 1ot hap- pen toentertain quito 80 favorable an opinion of --eack other.. - . 3 ho Ho afterward said; * That was the Union’s mode of dging busincss ; bnt.I didn’t _quite’ un- derstend it. First, I wanted Sykos. Thon, when - I heard what 8 gifted creature Loganwas; I want- - ed her. After she had sounded Wirt's praises, want oither of them.” - . s " Albett thio Heraid peote ava losking very owl e Herald people are looking very owl- * Jikie over Sianley’s departare from this comtry, there seems to be little doubt, in the vicinity of Printing-House Square, that he, who really owes hti discovery to Livingstono, instead of Living- B direct to St. Petersburg, and thence to Khiva. “Mhere is more thian & fair probabili -:tween Russis and.Khiva, and Stanley is to join * the Imperial “forces, and tell all ho dires to a8 an lxmy-cones'pmdcm. *.War or.no waz, hewill be* Our Own ? on the: spot, and in position to do all the'gasconnding the Herald msy requife. The Czar is, of course, very.friendly fo Ameri- ‘cans (we are apt to bo well disposed toward peo- plews lmow very-little of), and will furnish s‘::;le with ample: imtgfi“ for. xel L& g8 a8 ho ought to see or imagin * ghall !;xngs@e Khiv:gsimfim from an dltogether their scattered . nobinsed point -of view,—ono upon: which the . Czar and ‘the Herald - curre: lent may “look -with complacent eyes. The Khivans may observe matters st another ‘angle’; but nobody cares | what they observo. - They aro not Irish, and therefure thay don't read the Herald.: Confound - the Ehivans, anyhow! e o g W e o, . ; ADETESTABLE JOEE -, awas played, the other evening, upon an amisble | zud Innocent youth living in Livingston Gounty, -~ who had maao his first visit.to {he metzopolis. - . Btaying at o quiet hotel in Gourtlandt street, -he fell'in with & bagmau, and inquired the dired- tion to the Young Men's Christian Associatiori. The bucolinist Was 50 ingenuous and. spotless that the wicked cit conceived a plan of wicked B deae;fiun, 88 he answered: - *‘ Certainly, I know ibe Young Christians, - I am ono of : them my- zelf, by ——! T'm_going up there in fiftoen minutes. You'd better go along.” = The youth could uot help remarking that He 'had not thought tho Young Christians awore. The bagman Lad not moticed his oath, but adroitly gaid, to retrieve himselfs *Well we | I finally I concluded Ididn't |- na to him, has sailed with orders to proceed | of war be- | or apparent grievances. r Fortunately, under our wise system of govern- ment, for elmost all real grievances s romed; ©an be devised for their ameliorstion or romoval, withont revolution or Inwlossness. Wo must have faith and patience. Violence of action and langusge iy injures & §ood couse, and de- 1ays the desired rclief. Solid reasons are more eflicient than intemperate denunciations, 4 Thricois he armed who hath his L;\unel just.” “ TTrath is mighty, and will provail.” In common with mauy others, I have deplored tho merciless attacks upon our.Bupreme Court for some of its recent decisions. The Judges are not mfim gladiators. They bave not time, it they had the disposition, to eugage in news- aper controvorsios with sallow reformers, po- Hantio sophists, and political demagogues. By #uch gross assailts, intellectual men of sensitive natures, liko Judge Thornton, mm{ bo driven from the Bench, and impudent superficial fellows, .‘‘great in promises ‘weak in performances,” may supply their £1M‘eu. It constitations or laws are wrong, they can be smended in 3 lawful manner. 1t 18 criminal and frandolent for ocourts to make or evade them. Courts mustexpound and enforce them a8 they and not as the Judges think they onght to be.- If Judges should uswp such rw&i 11 ";m:kxfi; laws, what ;ec;:ltyl:lfi n;y one or. life, or props would déprive the pouplo of 21 the P asttations] dhecks e ench department of the Government. It would be & revolution, by which the arbitrary edicts of courts would bs law, and not the will of tho peo- le, a8 mmi:egted in their constitutions and e, 3 - s ... Bince the Constitition. of 1870, our Supréme ‘Court has ehown, by its decisions, o disposition to protect the peoplo as far as possible against unjust discriminations andextortions of railroad corporations ; and it only remains for the im- mediate . representativea of tho people in the Legislature to enact such ' reasonable and con- stitational laws as will and can be enforced with effect. . That Court hes clearly indicated how it can be done. ‘Tho'decisions of Chief Justice Lavrence haye -been remarkablo for their candor, clearness, force, and solidity. They commend themselves to'the conacienco and_understanding of all who rezd them with attention, and are o credit to the -eat State of Ilinois.. No man can well supply is place, and it would bring an elective judiciary into diarepute, and disgrace the Btate, if he shonld not be re-elected. As one having more confidence in the sober judgment of tho mass of -yoters than in any one man and a Senate, I sin~ cerly hope the State may not be deprived of his invalusble sorvices, : 2 In another Grand Division, John Schotield is & cacdidate. I have kuown him for years asa member of the Bar, of the Legislature, and of the last Constitutional - Convention, and have always found him . to be an honest, {hon hiful, and able Iawyer:and statesman. Cool, 88 sionate, logical, with strong roasoning’ powers, he has pro-eminently a judicial mind. No blandishments or seductions of wealth would be likely to induce.him to give corporations any- thing to which they are not entitled, or to sacri- fice the right of the common people, from whom he sprung, and with whom are Lis sympathies, These gentlemen aro not of the fame party, and hence I write from no partisan bias. Whether either of them will have an opponent, 1 know not'; but cannot forbear saying &-e, in my Judgment, the rights of persons and of property in this State would be #afo with both of them, so far 28 their. influence extended na Judges of the court of final resort in this Stato. i ) ‘WiLLiax H. UNDERWOOD. : ¢ ‘L —————— ANOTHER NOTE FROM MR. PHENIX. L7 *. " Brodimvarox, 10, April 23, 1673. To the Bitior of The Chicaro Tribunes " L. Bm: Once more, by your kind-leave. The Comparison with the South in the late Robellion 1 think sdmirable,—our tailroads being the reb- elsof to-dsy, the Igaser aguinst the grester, for | vested rizhts against good “government and frea institations. And how did those rebels come out? Ina Dnmocr;cy,_ghe pedple must rule; the lesser must submit to thegreater. If this vestod- right plea can hold, then is there Eobr it in our.amidst an_order of mnobility, &' perpetual dictatorship, and our freedom is gone, by our own sovareign ack, and Without real benefit to ‘“{fi’"” concerned. : . egiance and protection are reciprocal. The railrosds_disclaiming allegiance, it romains for the people to say when their protection shall be withdrawn, snd how far the penalty: sdministor- ed shall work a forfeiture of the rights, veated solely on condition of -allegiance, expressed or understood; ‘under .both - the State and United Btates Constitutions. - Our plos against the railroads is ¢ 1. Extortion roguiar ; 2. Extortion irroguler; 3. Exiortionin delaying transportation, and so dsmagiog trade 4. Rebeilion and extortion,—all o tho ples thal ong railroad King, and of course his satraps, can dono wrong. Under the circumstances, the for- bearance of the people is wonderful, and ought to lead monopoliats gverywhere to swift, hearty Tonentance. F. K. \ CHEYENNE. . .- Indian -Bepredations---Lone Wolf’s Band Encamped Beside (lio Raitroad-Track. Artesian Well gt Fort Russell-— How ™ Army-Officers Amuse Themselves. Loss of Life in the Late Storm. Special Correspondence of The Chizago Tribune. Cirevexxe, Wyoming Ter., April 23, 1673, The excitement here yesterday was very great, in consequeuce of a report thatthe Indians had attacked the settlors on Crow Croek, within 10 or 16 miles of Cheyenne. The story went, that ono ranchman had been killed, his stock’ taken, and his wife carried away into captivity. I have tried to find somo authentication of this report, but cannot, though the talo is genorally believed by the citizons of the town. = Just now, the set~ tlers, in view of recent Indian occurrences, and the atrocions murder of Gen. Canby, are very sensitive all along the border, and the smallest Indian report flies from mouth to mouth, until it becomes exaggerated into a formidable raid. ‘That the Indians are about, however, and on the war-path, is undoubtedly true, for yesterday a man—a stock-herder for Mr. Iliff—came in, hat~ less and ehoeless, and roported that he had been run off by Indians, He ssys that tho savages surrounded the cabin, and tried to blow him up by putting powder down the chimney. He made his escape, hawever, and, after being ehased for 10 or 15 miles, inally got into Fort D. A.Russell. He wasin pitiable condition, having lost his shoes, and run barefooted through beds of cagtus. His feot woro very much lacerated, and he was greatly oxhaustod. He seys that the TIndions wore killing Mr. Iff's cattle, and that tho party was a strong one. a LONE WOLY'S BAND. The poople of Bidney wero greatly alarmed, the othor day, by the sppearance of various Indians in the vicinity of ‘the town and Union Pacific Railrond-track. Citizens who went out fonnd about 60 warriors, under Lone Wolf, 8 Sioux of Red Cloud’s bands, Tho Chief eaid he and his band were fiiendly, and came in et once. Lono Wolf stated that his people were starving, and that be wanted to go south and Lunt on the Republican River. Gen. Dudley, the military commander at Sidnoy, permitted tho Indians to cross tho railroad-track, and wait until he could report to Gen. Ord and obtain instruc- tions. They aro now encamped S miles below Sidney, just beside tho railrosd-track. Western passongors on. the Union Pacific Road, who take breakfast at Bidney Station, are a good denl flustered at suddenly finding themselves in dians are the finest spocimens of savages on the Plains; and bloodthirsty-looking' fellows. Your correspondent counted 80 lodges, and 60 war- riors aro roported %o bs in them. = There was & great smount of stock, princi- pally pounics, - and the warriors were car- rying their women and children with them; which is pretty good evidence of their poaceful intentions, as war-parties never, or very seldom, encumber themselves with families. ' Why Lone Molt,if hungry, s ho says, did not go north in- ‘stoad of south to hunt, does not appcar just yot. I am told there are plenty of buffalo on the Pow- dér River, which is in tho Sioux reservation, while tho Republican is not. It is against the orders of the War Department for Indians to leave their reservoe for any purpose whatever, and it is bad policy to allow them to do 80, ex- copt in most extremo and urgont casos. Gen. Bherman's orders makes it an act of hostility in an Indian to quit his reserve, and the troops are authorized to attack him when found off it. White men are not allowed to en- ter the reservaticn, live upon it, or cven travel across it. It is not long since Red Cloud re- fused to allow soldiers to escort o_train across bis rosorvation, although tha train contained goods for the Indians; yet now he allowsa party of warriors to quit the reserve and go to the railroad,—the placo where they aro Jeast wanted, and where they could do the most damage if they were so disposod, It s likely Gen.” Ord _will compel these Indians to obsorve their treaty-obliga- tions ; and, when he heers of their belng on the Lno of railroad, will, notwithstanding their eaceable intentiona, hurry them back north of o Platte, whers they propurfi belong. Indians, bowever pescoable, will steal when & good o portunity prosents itself, and 2 good many ranch-~ ‘men in the neighborhood of 8idney wero consid- erably uneasy sbout their s One man, who ~had just lost three horses, sl he believed they were in the Indi camp; and anothor gontleman, who owned a large herd of fine brood-mares, was carcfully herding them, and very anxiouslest Mr. Loue Wolf should take s fancy to have some of them for his private convenience. CHETENNE. This town doos not improve rapidly, but it is growing some, and its growth is of s more permencnt natire than_ever before, The_new uildings are substantial, and the people baild Iattorly as it they wero going to stsy. After tho Indians, tho chief event of interost ig the birth of a female child, which was born to the wife of the Govornor of the Territory, J. M. Campbell. This is a happy place tohave & child ‘born, and it mekes no difference whether it is a boy or a gir, a5 women voto in Wyoming, and have equal Tights with the men. i’nrhnpn the young lady who has just been born to the Goy- ernor may eome day be Governor of the Terri- tory horself, and gat the old man a post-office, or mako him her private secretary. Women who aro in the habit of having girl-babies should move out here at onco. ABTESTAN WELL AT FORT RUSSELL. There is an artesian well at Fort D. A. Russell, or, rather, thoy are trying to make a-well of this boring was begun ; but, by misfortane or bad management, tho well is still incomplete. Con- gress appropriated some $10,000 for the work, and I am told the boring now dgoaa on, though the sppropriation was expended months since. It is. stated - that Ar, Wabb, - the gen- tleman who has the matter In charge, gots $40 por day, and 'all expenses paid, to bore the well. Out of tho $40 received, ho pays, say, $6 per day to four men, equal to_§24 per day; Which, doducted from §40, leaves Mr: Webb 818 KIG; day, or $480 por month, Now, it is said that 3 Wa!wb, at the handsome salary of 8480 per month, is not overly anxious to ~find water or finish the well. Thero has been £10,000 alread; appropriated and reported expended ; and now, am told, s new appropristion will be asked for.at the noxt meeting of Congress. Your cor= respondent visited the well the other day, and nsked how far it was down, and the-borer =aid 154 feet. Itis explained thint a hole was put down ovor 800 feet, when guicksands were struck and the well caved, necceeitating the giving up of that hole and sinking of a new one. After much delay, the necessary dpemleaion Was 16~ ceived, the machinery moved 15 fect, and a new hole commenced, 1t is this hole that s down164 feet. One of the workmen said that in the old hole they conld not find rock, and thathard rock bad nearly always to be struck and gone through before strong-flowing water was' obtained. Ono of the reporta is, in trying to drive the casing down throngh the quicksand ‘in the old -well, it was broken and_tho hole rendered use- Iess.” Suppose Alr, Webb rises and explains, in tho columnsof Tre TRIBUNE, just what he tes been doing with our 10,000 given him by the Government to make an artesian well at Fort Russell. : He ought never to. have beendpnid by {ho day, but by the foot, until he obtained water. The friends of this well said it would not cost §5,000,-vet 810,000 has been expended, &nd the wWork i8 but just begun. . . OFFICERS ON THE. STAGE. People in the East often wonder how oficers and their wives manage to piss away the lonj winter evenings, when stationed at tho isolater frontier-posts. Let me assro city-folks that Elmgnn-hm' is8 by no mesans as dull as they imagine. First, there are weekly hops, musical {estivals, dinner-parties, and whist-parties; then sleighing-partics, grand balls, and theatricals. Spoaking of thentricals, I must eay that one .of he very best porformances I ever witnessed was given on the bonrds of the officers’ theatrs, last night, at Port'D. A. Bussell, **in honor of the disting ed guests now at the post.” It would, indeed, have done credit to McVicker’s, and been applauded by a Chicagoandience. The play was Thia" Last Loga s and- tho b were admirably sustained by “Maj. ‘Burke, Messrs. Baldwin, Rochefeller, Chase, and Robinson, Dr. ' Pago, Mm. Owen, and Migses Owen and Butke. The musio *| stage-mansgers ‘the midst of o warlike band of Sioux. These In- |~ was no meagre . orchestrs, such 8s economical’ of twenty-five piees, handled by skilled musi- cians who hn\'g ‘been in the service ten and fif- teen years. ~-Tha-* distinguished~gnests "™ in Whose-honor - tho "performance was: given are- Gen. Philip - Regis ! de Frobriand, - Gen.- Géorge D.-Ruggles, - Col. Ath eoth, Co o i ert_Brackett, Col..Nngent,_Maj Gordon, and other army-officers now &t Fort Russell on court-martial duty. 'PERSONAL WAR IN‘WYOMING. Posey Wilson is a bauker in Choyenne, and a correspondent of the Omaha Herald. Somo timo ago, Posey wrote some very severe things sbout ief Justico Fisher, of "Wyoming. ‘the Chief Justico construed into contompt of court, and Poscy arrested. - THE LATE STORM. Rggox{s of the disasters occasioned by the late terrible storm still continue to. come in. The bodyof a soldier belonging' to Company G, Fourteenth Infaptry, has beon found near Fort Raussell. He got lost in the storm, and froze to denth. Capt. John Mix, who was sent out on the Loup, with a company of cavi ust before tho . storm, tahlifinpha to Oen.dBry’ {es ‘that he bas lost one-] of his horses. ‘hirteen dead bodies have been found along the line of tho Unlon Pacific Railroad betweon Grand Island and Lone Tree. All these people perished in the storm. Theloss in stock has been very heavy. A4nox ABOUT. THE WEST POINT CADETSHIP. Conclusion of the Examination of Candidates for the Ifon. John I Rice’s Appoinment--Benjamin &, Murphy the Successful Man. The examination of the candidates for appoint™ ment to West Point from the First Congreseiona District of Tllinols was concluded yesterddy, and the examiners, Dr. Gunn, J. L. Pickard, and J. 0. Glover, made their report to the offect that Benjamin ¥. Murphy was the best qualified, snd consequently Mr. Rice will send his hame on to Washington. : : The following were the namesof the candi- dates: Frank D. Fitts, Frank L. Robinson, Frank B. Cone, Christisn Rupert, Charles Wil- cox, Marion Pickett, Jacob Cole, Benjamin F. Murphy, Wyham Meyers, J.J. O'Callaghan, J. H. Horton, N.E. T. Brennan, Douglass 3. Sto- vons, Charles A. Caldwell, Thomas A. Dillon, and George P. Beriven. Tho last of these young men was very nearly onan equality with Mur- pfi.\y. and it was a hard matter to decide between thom. Tho following written questions wero handed to the candidates, ‘amd each one wrote down his roplios soparately, not being interfored with or disturbed by the presence of oth#a: History—Causes of tho American Revolution; early settlement of the country, by what nations and 'where made ; events of 1776 ; principal events of Madison’s Administration ; Hull’s surrender and Perry's victory ; Dattle of Now Orleans; nullification ; causes of ‘seces- slon ; name the Presidenta in thelr order, and give the length of service of each ; what Btates seceded - Geography—Draw a msp of Ilinols, loating ten ‘towna, railroads, and rivers ; namo and locate North- Amerfcon mountain chains ;' European_countries sud their capil@'a ; name and locate the British posscs- sions ; manky fivo large Axian rivers, and one city on each, . _Arithmetio—These exercisos consisted in simploaddi- aition and division, multiplication, etc., involving deci- mals and fractions, reduction of fractions toa least com- mon_denominator, interest, on, proportion, and to find tho differenco between two-thirda of & ton and six times throe-quartcrs of an ounce. Grammar—Tieading, analysis, and parsing of “Tho Dbugle's wild and warlikte blaat,” cte. . Bome of the answers to those rather queer, especially the historical ‘ones. Nearly ol 4id decently I _arithmetle, and fairly in geography, excopt that thero was much con- fusion 88 to the Capital of Italy, one seying Floronce, another Naples, snother Rome, another all three. Cl juestions aro tiana figured as the Capital of Norway, and Cork as that of Ireland. It was nlso_ stated that the White Moun- toins formed a part of tho Alleghanies. 4 Nullification” wa3 & horriblo stumbling-block, fow answoring it at all, and but one correctly. Oneindividual declared that it came about becauso Congress pasged 8- law declnnng that no State had a right to socedo, whilo the Southern Btates hold they had. Theso laws were called the “4lien and Becession ” laws. According to the samo individual, these laws, the Missouri Com- primiso, and tho- Fugitive Slavery lsws, which the South declared null and void, were the prin- cipal causes of secossion. According to another, secession arose from slavery, and the John Brown raid; according-to anothor, it came about because “ & part wishod to haye slaves, and the other .part of the United States didnot wish them, The Confederacy claimed thut each State had tho right to do a8 it wished. This led to rebellion.” Another said the South wanted a President a8 well a3 the North, and hence the split. Very few of them, 'and the youngest was 16, seemed to havo a clear idea on the sub- ject. Oneof them stated that the principal event of Madison’s Administration was the war with Mexico. They all agrecd that the Pilgrim Fathors camo in 1620, and that was about tho only date they could hit on. ‘he successful competitor is the oldest of them all, being 21. He is sol-educated, poor, and am- bitious, and will be very optto make a good rocord at the Academy. WEST SIDE ELECTION CASE. The Writ of Injunction Refused by Judge Williams. His Honor Judge Williams rendered his de- cision, yesterday momning, in tho case of The People ex rel. Bryan et al. v8. Louis Amberg. Petitioner’s bill, it will be remembered, asks for sn injunction to restrain defendant from mak- ing sn assessment-in West Chicago, on the kind there. It is now about two years sinca tho- . ports that ground that, by reason of the illogallity of his election, he is not the Assessor. His Honor briofly reviewed tho points upon which petition- ors based their application for the injunction, and statod that, personslly, he has doubi as to his jurisdiction in the. matter; but as the issue hgd not been raised, he did not foel bound 0 decide the point. Tho guestion to be discussed was the propriety of granting the injunceion, If it Wore merely a question of, tenure of offico, this would not be the proper Court. For such cases the statuto has provided another remedy. But the question'was onein which the public interest is conceined, viz: sa to :!c:hn oflicer; who will assess the taxes, and it was by virtue of its public interest that it camo into that Court. "The fact of the transfer of tho ‘books to Amberg gavesn aspect to the affair which would cause a very different decision from what would have been made had ‘the question of dofondant's power been raised provious to the transfor. In that case, the Court would have been disposed to issue an interlooutory order for an injunction pendin the decigion of .the case. Tho sole point to be decided now, ‘however, wag whether or not Ambnr% was.to be restrained from proceeding with the asseszment. In this case, 88 _ between the two parties claiming the - Aresssorship, there is ampleremedy at 1aw. But, supposing the Courtigsue an injunction, and pro- vent defendant from acting as Assesgor, it ties up the assessment: for & considerable. time. If tho injunction be di ,_com| int- still_has tho sight to oppeal. If defendant was not the ‘Anessor do jure, he was 6o at least de facto, and 1o one hna a right to question his action, sayo by a direct proceeding. As he is' ready to act, and his act can hurt no_one except the party on the other sido of tho suit, there is no reason why the Court shomld nt -the injunction. The Court discriminated betwcen the nature of tha cases presented to him by tho counsel for peti- tioner, and cited several authorities in sy ort of his views, after reading which he stated that ho did not Bee how the public could be hurt by & refusel to grant the writ, while he could see how jts intercsts might be imperiled by "his ting it. In tho existing state of ‘tho case, the Court decided, he ought to refuse to grant the writ. Mr. Tripp; counsel for the petitioner, obtained sion to withdraw the papers from tho file; in order.to seek relief in & writ of quo warranto. ~ THE GREELEY MONUMENT, -, Since romitting A1l the moneys in my hsnds’to the Treasurer of the Greeley Monument Fund, New York; I bave received the following sums : A. Scott Sloan, Béaver Dim, Wis, reeesis 3200 From the gentlemen conn: ] oarmer ofice.. * 2350 Further subs will “be' duly ‘acknowl- edged. ' 'War. Bnoss, Committee. R A PR s weet Affection. " A Sister’s Swee ‘ " From the Attan{ (Ga.) Herald. .- :' ! * One of our agents, writing from LaGrange, ro- 5 fow days.sgo s littlo negro girl, 8 ‘years old, living on .the ‘plantation - of Senator Georgo Peavy, in Meriweather Connty, gmwiqg weary of nnfl{ng her little baby brofher, 1ai him on the floor,'and with an aX split the baby's skl open; after which she cut his hand off and put it on the mantel-piece. On """5 juestion- ©ed 88 to why she committed the awfal deed; she repliod she would treat all of them in like man- ner if left in her care. But a fow weeks ago she threw the same child she killed into the branch, 8 gho declared. to drown it furnish in’ cities, but & full band inches front by 150 feet in depth; that, after - de ut they declined to -give him one, exce) . the Iattor agree,. for tho_sum of. €3,900, to el “thom Lot 1 of tho eubd . oner. her wallet and jewelry. their stangely prolonged Wi APRIL 29, 1878, and Mra. W. conversing all night - | trangeness of this coiricidence .can oi THE COURTS, A ; eight with the jury, who, atlast acoounts, wers Auswer to. the_Bill_for_a Receiver | 3oblo to agreo, and were directed to dalivera [ John Renon, another sneak-thief, who got into . 1o the McCord Estate. house nnd remoyed & quantity of T ioibs and -~ - | Jeyeley, was found guilty, aud, being uuder age, g0 S s T il ilg u?nahxlx&i;,zaécngeeuon. o Cros; o “Kentucky, Lof caso came up before T e Dl e e T T 2 = wind o agent of the head offics otte: 3 Bankrupt Court, Eentutky, was placed o tral {0 anawera charge g . of selling a lotfery ticket in the City of cklclgi;:. ‘The point raised by the dofense waa that the ‘modus operandi of the lottery man here was sim- The Gilbert-Post Libel Bnit--Tom | 5is'totake an order from parties wishing to try ‘White, the Cracksman, on Trial, their luck, which order, with the money, & o ho sent along to XKentucky, receiving tickets in exchange, and an operation was not & sale. The counsel for the defendant mado & very able argument in. favor 2 of his client, aud & pathetic appeal in support of — - %\u ltufl;;nggheme, inuhuci;a;gh Lg; {ntb ab blhs Peter L. Yoo, one of the dofendants to the | Kentucky Library was ono of the firat subecribers Bill of complnint flod againat him by Hasrit | 15,00 cen 0sd Hotwoon. Biaty and ore MecCord and others, auswering. 88 ho Was 8D~ | nary lotteries. The former.aro based. on Btate pointed co-administrator, jointly with John Mo- | law, tho other on no law whatever. He also Cord, of the estate of tho decessed Jason Mc- | deprecated the abusive manner in which a cer- Cord, roferrad to in the bill, and, on the 23 | tain newspaper of Chicago had spokien of the en December, 1870, was appointed by John MeCord :::'z’ft‘:fx’o:m!}:.;;:o e fook” tha. masdior his agent of and concerning the real estato loft | under advisement. by said Jason, and on the 27th November, 1871, | THE COURTS IN BRIEF. . agent for the wholo of the real estatein the | Judge Farwell yesterday, @t the Circalt City of Chicago of said John McCord, S:fi“;‘:g:i,g"eg 45‘?3“&;&’?&': b Z,’,&::{ with power of attorney to make contracts for | of equity. i-hd‘: cross bl brought by Terry was bailding, to lease, to collect, and disburse money, | also dis od. . Bissell prayed for an appeal.. and generally o care forand improve said estate. | _ The cese of Booth v. Harrison came up befors i W 1] Judge Booth, yesterday, on motion to remove a That he acted under such powers until the death wnnaorvnux.' ln“ nxyy'i 5 that Goorgs A of John McCord, on the 1t of March last, 88 to | Harrison is a it and proper person to have eare, Doth estates,and up to the settlement of the | oustody, and control of his property, and thirty Jason estate in the Cook County Court on 26th | days were given the conservator in which to set~ December last, and has continued in care and | tlo acoounts. 2 custody thereof eversince, es hoisin duty bound | , Frederick I Colo yesterdsy commenced guit : the ited States Circuit Court inst the fodo. That John McCord fived. 8t Gooding's | Hhvon Forediny forks, ta case, 15,000 dam Grovo, Will Connty, for many years, and at-the | ages.. timo of his deathi at Blue Island, Cook County, Judge Blodgett, on Saturdsy, heard the nfi!‘l- wheraho transacted nearly all his business. ‘ments on the &Bt\hnn for the removal of fhe g 5 - Assigneo of the Aurora Insurance Company. That the prescntation by bim of thewill of the [ pRe€7H0 o0 B8 G I CnpY the el deceased John McCord, to the County Court, and | tion of His Honor for some time to como before tho action of the Court thereon, were duly noticed | he can deliver his decision. - = by.the widow, and adult heirs, who wero well |, Alfred Gaas yesterday brought suit for £5,000 aware, beforo the death of said John McCord, of | damages, in case, againat Charles Dopke, in the the substantial provisions of said will, and Circuit Court. = 10 objection to thom until after tho probate, ex- | Catherine l_iol,meuiyeat,er@-y commenced suit cept the widow, who stated that sho thonght the | 8gainst the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & Bt. Lous testator had not loft her enough ; that Jason, an | Railroad Company, in case, §5,000 damages, in adult son of the deceased John McCord, was | the Circuit Court. - prosent at the Probate Court during the proceed- | _ Sarah M. Btevenson was, at the Gounty Court, ings, and mado no objection. That, on the 24th | yesterdsy, lpxamted executrix of the estate of nlxsfl[nch. "Andrew, ‘another adulb son of said | the late David Stavenson, under s bond o be ap- John McCord. obtained an sppeal from' tho | proved of £60,000. .2 County Court order admitting the will to pro- | In tho mattor of Van Volzer & Blakemsn, bate, which suit is still pending; that Andrew bm!n;l&ts. s dividend of 20 per cent was yoster- was' tho only adult heir who {rrnyed such ap- dnid_ ired. eal; that tho filing of tho bill of complaint ddison Colborne & Co., of E! Jows, orein by said Andrew is & walver of such %m_in shippars, sesterdsy commenced suit in tho sppeal ; and_that Barsh Ann Pettijohn, an adult | United Btates" Circuit Court against “Burton, daughier of Johu M, Cord, deperted this lifo on | Btovens & Co. In easumpsit, 33,000, chargin tho ath April instant, leaving two infama, Elsio | that, on the 11th of Augnst last, they employe and George Pottijohn ; that, as execatar, hio has posseasion of the doccased's personal estato, ox- cepting portions thereof in the hands of tho widow, for the purpose of presorving during the pendency of this litigation; and he claims the Tight, subject to tho proper control of the Conrt, to manage and control said estato ; but he de- nies that ho has claimod to do so without per- ‘mitting complainants to know the condition. of the estato, or the amount of Apmgurty on hand, or of what tho propéity consisted; but that, on the contrary, before tho eppeal hercin was taken, he met the adult hews by appoint- ment, on tho 18th or 20th of Aarch. ‘last; at tho -offico of Mr. Holden, their solicltor, ‘and then and thero gave them the information roferred to, as faras ho was sble ; and he far- “ther told them that ‘their father’ being Iftcly deceased, ho Lad not been able to complato tho list, but was then engaged in making an inven- tory for the County Court, whorein tho ostate woild have been fully shown had tho appesl not been taken, Ho admits going to the home- Thz Kentucky Lottery‘()nst;.' tho defendanta to sell for them 5,000 bushels of No. 2 wheat, placing in their hands at the same timo £587.50 margina ; that said wheat was sold next d:dy counted far, for which action is brought. DANERUPT ATTERS. * In tho matter of J. M. Fisket al. a rule was enterod on the sttorneys for objecting creditors to pay certein feos. djudication by . default was entered in the nmatter of George AL Arnold et. al. - .. An order-discharging the Assignee from his duaties was made in_tho cstate. of C. A. Stark- ‘weather. An order for hearing and creditors’ mecting, in tho estato of Jobu' L Bariz ot ul, masyes: .y terday entored, to take place at- Freeport, on,thg _Mt‘t‘xmg} 2 K. Crain, Register. June next, before J. NEW SUITS, Tz UsTIED STATES CmRourr Coumr.—Samral J, Walker v. Joseph H. Burkham etal; transcrint record from Circuit Court of Cook County, Frederick 8 in Blue Island, and taking possession | B, Colev. Union Foundry Works; case, $15,000. Ad- there' of the personsl proporty, for which, as | dison, Colborme & Co. v. “Burton, Btovens & Co, ; as- it umj 3,000, & 5 executor, he was responeible, wit exception | ® i g: e o 7 Cotiy SRERET of about’ 8200 that waa in the houso, sbout 83,800 worth of Government coupon. bonds which wero in the hands of the widow, and about 1,000 worth of furniture ; but ho donies thera making use of the expressions attributed to him. Engelson v. Steamer Union, of Green Say; libel for wages, - THE CIRUDTT COURT.—8,723—Appeal. 6,194—F. J. Abbey ct al v. J. P. Grund ; assumpsit, $500, 6,725-8 —Appoals, W, H, B & e Gas an Gharioa . Reynolds 5,000, 8,728—Charles E. Cock v. C. o; case, Her's in his p;)i“lualion ltlfihe gl;e o)l’ Jnthg Me- 2 gl e e 8 Cord's death, of his personal estate, about $104,- | Xo! D ; 388U, 200, 6,729—Ca 0 i Hennessy v. The F:itsbt Cincinnati &' 8t. Louis 500 worth of United- Btates Government bonds, | Hepnessy.v. Tho Litaburgh, @ucpost LSk, 1,000.in City of Chicago bonds, £20,000 in bank stock, and a Tight to about 810,000 other stocl subject to payment out of tho estate ; alo s Targe amount of notes secured by trust deeds, in which dofendant is trusteo, with the exception of ono on which §6,000 romains duo, in which L. C. P. Freer is trusteo, and about £35,000 cash on hand. Ho goes minutely into tho charges mado os o the building, making contracts, snd 80 forth, and answers generally that his conduct 8,731—Rosanna Davlin v, William P, Fowlerand Dantel Buckley ; dcbt, $500. 6,733 —James Wright v. Michnel Lawler ; restored case. T Tax SUrERIOR COUBT.—3,220—Mary L. v. Samuel F. Wright; divorca, £3,207—John Sandgresn v. Jo- Beph. E. Lockwood ; bill for specific performance of contract, 43,228—Henry B. Dietrich v. Christiana Newkdrch; same, 43,299—Zell. Hall v. John'T. Sims ; confoeslon of Judgment, IS0, - £5:230-1—Appesls. 43,232 —Henry C. V. Charles E. Babcock; ac- count, $300. has been dictated by prudence and regard to the . s interest of the heira; showmg, with referenco FRESH (MEAT) TROUBLES, to the building contracts, that they were entored |- i ey upon during the lifetime of John McCord, | qno Riverside Hotel Company Sued and with his approval. ~Ho denies by Their Butcher. that said. McCord was mot .of ‘sound Rudolph Wehell has brought & snit in assump- sit in the Superior Court sgainst Emery E. Childs, Sencca D. Kimbark, -William T. Allen, George M. Kimbark, David A. Gage, Telfard Burnham, George Chambers, Charles Gladding, Louis_Saplehs, Henry E. Seely, L G. Conrad, John O. Dore, Gordon 8. Hubbard, Jr., Fred Schultz, George M. Pullman, Leverett W. Mur- ray, H. M. Kinaley, tho Northwestern Gas and Water Pipe Company, David 8. Dancomb, Fred H..Avers, James G. Dwen, Alpheus C. Badger, and the Biverside Improvement Company, cor- porators doing business under the name of * The Riverside Hotel Company.” Wehell, the plain-~ tif in tho caso, is a butcher, and he sues defendants to recover the smount of an account for - $699.43, -which defendants, as hotel-keepers, ran up with him for porter-house stesk, tendarloin, spring lamb, liver snd bacon, and the thoussnd-and-one vi- ands which e the table of a high semi-private hotel of the **Riverside p- tion. The hotel is the third of tho ** Riverside” ventures, and, like its predecessors, it seems to have been inaugaratod whilo an ovil star was in the ascondant. First of all was the * Riverside Improvement Company,” the etockholders in which hoped to build up a fancy-like suburban retroat, whither they could resort and enjoy life -after the busy cares of the city wers over. This got into trouble, as everybody kmows. Then came the ‘‘Northwestern Gas™ and Water-Pipa Company,” which also didn’t succced ; and the ¢ Riverside Hotel Company,” the defondant in the present suit, followed,- tho™ last™ be- .ing 4. sort of ~compound. of tHe two ‘former yentures. After the firo the Com- anies were found to be considerably involved in lobt, and some of the shareholders were let in metty deeply. Among theso was the noble Sapieha, who had invested considerable money he riparian stocks and who filed a petition in icy against tho * Riverside Improve- ment Gompany.” -The action in bankruptey is still pending, and the plaintiff urges that-the corporation uses this.fact at once as a shield and & wesapon. : It is suid that tho members of the | corporation are going to fight every case to the bitter end, 5o that sn. interesting trial may be looked forward to.in Msy, when the case of Weheli v. Childs et al. comuh?!p. Joseph Pfirsh- ing is attorney for the plaintift. - = - . "A TURDEROUS ASSAULT. ~~ mind when he made tho will thet waa admitted to probate. It is truo that he wes in feeblo health, but it is donied that any undue inflnence was brought by defendant. “He avers his ability to mansga tho estato, and denies that the appeal from the County Court was taken in good faith, alloging that such appeal is sololy in the interest of gdujt heirs, and in prejudice to the minor heirs, for proof of which he Tefers to the.will it- self.” Ho insista that tho minor heirs should haye been mado defendants and not complain- ants, and prays the Court to in%\um ‘whether said bill ought o be prosecuted by the minor hoirs - ogainst their manifest - interests. Fo hse heard that tho widow,” om. or about the 1ith_of March last, renounced the benefits secured her by tho will, and elected to take her dower and sharoof the estate as though no will had' been made, and he insists that she ‘s ot shown any right to contest said will or to have # Receivor appointed to the estate. Ho skotehoa the history of hin intimacy with Jason and.John MecCord, to show that it wasno im- proper sct of his, bt rather as the result of thoir Sonfidence in him, that lod to his bocoming agont of the estate. 5 LAND SUITS. In the Buperior Court, John Sandgreen files & billin chancery * against Joseph E. Lockwood. Inlus bill, complainant avers that in March, 1872, he entered into- negotiations with Messrs. Limb and Hawkinson tending to & purchase of & piece of realeatate from J. E. Lockwood, whose agents they are; that he ed, upon cortain terms, to purchase a lotin Lake Viow, which they represented ns containing 92 feet making his payment, he ‘asked for a warranty ing for a lot containing only 73 foet front ; that they offered him $75 to make up the deflcit, which he declined to accept, as the price of the lot was $850, Compleinant asks that defendant |- be brought into chancery, snd"be mado to fulfll he original contract. e : int Henry 8. Dietrich avers thatt on ‘the 18th ot | 1% March last, together with one William H. Phore, hoentered 'into a contract with "Christian New- kirch, of the village of Blue Island, .wherob; ion of northeast 3 of Sec. 80, ‘Towmhip 87, north of rango 14, et of 81 p. m., in Cook County. _Bince that time Phare tranaforred his right as one of. the contractors to Dietrich to bring suit in the Superior Court ogainst. Newkirch, averring that he rofuses .to fulfill his part of the contract, although Dictrich - hes repestedly offered him the amount agreod upon for the second poyment, some 31,263.83. |-+ - - - GILREET V. THE POST. . .~ A notorions ruffian, named The case of Miss Gilbert v. The Erening 2} 4 ‘Post Printing any was. the first called ay | Srraigned before Justice Scully, yésterday morn- Tudge Rogers’ Court yesterday. Tho Post waa | ingycharged with an attempt to commit murder. Teady, tho emiling countenance of the Hon. | The evidence déveloped the following circum- Leonard Swett owledging -that it .owner | gtances : - On Sunday afternoon,James Ratigan waa prepared toproceed. Miss Linds, however, | ‘called at Finan's bénid.ing—h&mé,;fln.' 194 Bamps son street, t6” seo the landlidy. " He remained her counsel, ‘degf: Van klinn_n, -asserte "_‘w;s_ ronsls suflering )m & Nervous af dangaroncly il 5 3 | during the afternoori end evening,'and finally _sent fo bed in one of the rooms of the house. in su| of which statement he read 2 lengthy medical certificate. Tho Post attornoy smiled Atout midsiglit - Finan ;cropt” stealthily into Ratigan's room, and, eding to the bed incredulously, at which the Judge waxed wrathy, but the case was finally continued generally. proce where he lsy, made four vigorous stabs at his head end ‘neck, with s jack-knife. The blood CRDIINAL COURT TTEMS. “Tom™ White, s professional cracksman, was charged with feloniously entering the domiicile | flowed coplously from the wounds, and Finan, evidently acting under the impressiod that he had killed 'his man, rushed of Mr. Updegraff, druggist, living down -South State ma‘fz, m.'daufig? ut ths plase of il .out of the room. Bergeant O'Donnell, having heard of tho affair, jed to the house to arrest Finan. He was, stray .yalusbles. The prisoner, " according to Mis.; Updeffraff, climbed .over the. door of the owever, not tobe found, and the inmates of the house denied that they knew of his where- room, and presented a revolver at the head of A more thorough search of the house her beloved lord: With the agonizing dread of impending widowhood ehe yielded to tho pris- | ‘abonta. - o White then went |‘being instituted, the would-be:mmurderer was for a companion, and together- they made a | found in & back room, curled up behind a lounga; search of the premiscs,” and 'accumulated a | He was arrested,: and ‘before Justice ly guantity of epoil. Overcoming her dread of ade- | yesterdsy morning ho was bound over to cree of divorce issued at the revolver muzzle she | the ~Criminal without - bail. awakened her spouso, who tackled the intruders, | gon's wounds, although painfal, are no Put could not hinder their escaping by a back | berious.~ Finan was® incited 0. the bloody door. White was subsequently arrested by Ofii- | act_ becauso- the .widow. smiled oftener s “Th TBOR . b equaled by its extreme tenuity, yet it lm{ ita" | at 154, but the proceeds never ac-| ‘James Finan, was |- uly escaped the same punishment by turnip, Btate's e!gsgnpe. _Sincapnzlt fim‘sl lmy has lodfi wild life, and it will be & good thing for the com. xfi:‘umty it he goes to Joliot for the rest of his . A e LINCOLN PARK ASSESS Arguments of NMessrs. Daniel Shorey, Wilson, Perry Trumbull, and. Koy, Lyman Trambull. b -The arguments of counsel in the Lincoln Park sasessment case wero continued before Chieg Justico Williams, in the Cireuit Court, yestardsy; Those who have givep attention to this intereat. ing and important suit will remember that when the Court sdjourned on Fridsy “afternoon, Mr, Daniel 8horey, who appears in part for the ob- Jectors, waa in the middle of his argument. Tho sdditional points made by him yesterdsy ‘wore as follows: That the assessment had not been made by the: corporate anthorities of the towns of North Chicago and Lake View, for tha corporate purposes of -thoss towns. That the Assessors and Supervisors wero not suthorized to mako an assessment for park purposes, being bt o part of the Boards of Trustees of their re. spockive towns. Thai tho action of four men, two from each town, in levying an assessment without proper suthority of law, did not determine the wishes of the in~ habitants in the matter. Mr.Shoney concluded Dy aaying that tho_caso had_shown up clearly that the town officers of North Chicago and Lake View had scted with uncertsinty, and without 'restraint _or msponsibili!y: Tho only danger he feared was that the unjust ssgessment might be pushed through, as the general public, who had nothing to pay, was mongx‘yvm favor of parks. - -Mr. Wilson followed for tho Park Commis- sioners. He claimed that the proceeding was not one for the collection of su assessment, but for its completion.- There had been no_ assess- ment, as'there was no person to whom it could bo paid until after the Court confirmed it. The effect of the act under which the assessment had been estimated was to mako tho towna of North Chicago and Lake View a park district. Thelsw -had made the Assessors and Supervisors of those towns an Assessment Board,.and had endowed improvements on property that would be bene- fitted by such fmprovements to an extent et}‘usl to tho amount - of the assossment. The fact that officers of different towns had made the assessment under consideration, did not af- foct its validity, as was clai by opposin; counsel. They acted as the corporate authoris ties of the park district, baving been elected from parts of the district. An Alderman, though only elected by ono ward, became, nevertheless, a cor. porate ofiicer of tho wholo city. The same argu- ‘ment applied to County Commisgioners, mem- bers of the General Assembly, and corporate au- thorities of park districts. It was reasonable to suppose that the officers who mado the contest. od assessment had been elected with special ref. erence to the powers ‘conferred upon them by th:nkfon;fihfiun! with - reference_to .assess. me lor c purposes. In anawe to ‘the objg:éon e i o Lad been made by persons who had ‘no Imowledge of tha value of the land assessed, or of the value of the benefits that would be con- ferred by the contemplated- improvements; the speaker cited the manner in which the Board of ‘Publio Works made special assessments. . When (it became necessary to make a public improve- ] ‘ment, the Board simply estimated the cost, with- out faking any testimony on_the matter. The fnembers acted under no special oath, but under their oath of office. This was what hsd been done by tho Assessment Board in the Lincoln Park case, and 1o charge had been made that _thelevy was too great, and the action of the offi- cers had not been impeached. The speakeralso explained thst a tax and s special asseesment were widely different. The' former meant 8 burden, from which no_ spproximate remuneration could be obtained; the latter ‘meant a benefit.. Thero could bo no loes, and there gometimed was' & positivo gain' derived froiit.. In this connection he answered an objection to the assessment, bazod on s ststu- tory provision that cemetery lands shoald ba exompt from taxation, claiming that such_lands were not exempt from assessment, and wera liablo to condemastion when not used for the ‘purposes for which they were secured. It“ape gxenad to him that the objectars were believers foreordination. They knew that the park ‘ would be enlarged in time, and that their -prop- erg wonld increase in velue in consequence, and they wanted to have it done withont ‘cost to -themselves. 4 : Mr. Perry ment on behalf of the objectors. He reviewsd “and explained certain objections which had bean fally teviewed and explained bofore by Mr. Shorey, and, it may be said, cast no new light o the subject. | The Hon. Lymsn Trumbull was. the noxt tspeaker. -Io is lemiln% connsel for the pro- esting property owners. Ho said that. his clients 'were not foes to the establishment of parks, or to their improvement or enlargement. What thla!:)bjuclod to was the unfair and unjust means W] ’had been used in raising money by asseas- ment. Their property would not be materially _affocted by the proposed improvement, 88 it now fronts on the_improved portion of the park. The peoplo of Hyde Park cry out -flmz being compelled to subscribe money for the purchase of land lying within the limits of the city. They do not want the land, and they have no need of apark. Parks were not designed for country people. They were intonded for residentsof a city, whose business confined them to badly- ventilated rooms during the day, and made pure air at some time a requisite of health and life. The plowman is not one of those o whom 5 park i8 & necessity, for he finds fresh air and he in the t of his avocation. He would not like to be compelled to pay for & park in-the city. This was the view takon by the people of Lako Viow. .Thoy live in a nafural park, and deem it a hardship to be assessed nearly $500,000 for the purchase of land lying outside of their town limits for which they have no use. 1 Mr. Trumbnll then attacked tho bill under which the assessment had been made. While sdm!tlingrthlt it had been intended to gfily to Lincoln Park, ho contended that it 'did not apply to it, and conld- not bo made to suit the emergency by any logal - device. He claimed that it was ~a special 8¢ and, consequently, in open and direct conflict with the Constitntion, the Court found it to bo m0, it would be its duty to recognize the high- er Iaw, the Constitution.” The bill was undoubt- edly drawn up with reference to Lincoln Park, ‘but, were it not for the legialative morality of the times, and the honorable motives of mombers of legislativo bodies, ho would call it & cunningly- devised scheme to avoid constitntional-pro- visions. If it did not refer. to Lincoln Park, to what did it refer? He couldn’t tell. . Ho might hunt-the statutes over and-meet with as much success ga Diogened in Lis search for an honést man in the market-place. _ gl Tho speaker, was abont to arguo that tho Lill roferred to s particular class of acts; and was, therefore, a local and special act, when tho Courd adjourned until 10 3. . to-dsy. » ; ©_ " BOARDOF POLICE.* '3 "N 'regulir taéoting of the Bosid of- Polich'ssd Fire Commissioners was held yestorday sfter- noon, ~President Mason in tho. Chair, ;0om- _missioners Wnght and Sheridan and Baperintan- “dent Washburn werd also present:~ =~ **~ Officers Patrick Mahoney and John Moynshsa wero charged; the first with maltreating a citizes, aid tho other for not- reporting the matter:-The ease was continued until Friday. Itwaa do: cided that they had used unnecoasary violente, and procured thq absence of witnessea. : (7;} Tho “following” resignations were presénted: Colvin Hill and Henry Brundt, patrolmen. | Charges wore' proferred sgainst Officer Dyer for intoxication. “The officer not makin his 49~ “wag' postponed .unt Fridsy ‘next. ~ i g SN - : The- following communication -was mfihld_ from the Board of Health: - - -+ "™ a{‘y‘fl;{ thau myenua:d-w £ slaughter: I am instructed to request ‘honorabla body in detecting and suppressio; arising from the condnct of the business of |- ing and rendering. Nulsancea’incidantal-to. he par suita, especially of offcosive odors emansiing o rendering, estzblishments, most- frequently. 0cCO, night. - Oar poli g tnadequata 1 ' snd.night duty, it is often very dificalt to trace “u sances totheir proper sources.- -Tt would therlors of great scrvica to the department If yon wil {mHs patolmen to report violstions of the bealth cansod by theso establishments that may co= et theix notice, By order of tho Board, . . g 3. W, Rusesin, Seerelsil: lb_'wz,nferxed to the Superintende: ‘power to act. % e, o F < . Frod. Leibrandt was appointed specisl B “Ticeman for the Health Dopartment. - - ‘The Board adjourned. 2 " Vordi's *Alds" sppears to have Leen E7ed with great. success at Naples on the 30th ui. % telogram saya : -“‘Indescribable enthusissiii all the piocos wniversally spplanded ; the E: = orod. . Vardl recalled ’thxrti-flg cer Flanigan. An original kind of alibi was set | on Ratigan than on him. Thecriminal record of HP in defenso. A Mr. and Mrs. Bhoredike, who | Cook Comnty centains Finan's name, =28 sleop in the next room to that cccupied by White | being one of, the three parties implicated in the and wife, testified that on the night of the bur- | murder of Patrick Maloney, at 8and Ridge,'some glary they lay awako all mfixt long, and dt years sgo. Corbott, Fleming, and Kennedy, his efulness they he partners in the tragedy, were hung, and faun ey i it tian march enco; u o8, and, scenary splendid. Be i firat night . Bubscription list full. TH orsar, t'ce of FAida’ is & grest artisHd ovent 1" = them with power to levy an asscasment for. park . neeesament Trumbull followedin a_briet argus . OIS0, SO, SO U