Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1873, Page 2

OTTAWA. What the LaSalle County- Sent X Lilke. The BSupreme Court in the Northern Grand Division of Iilinois. E “The Mill Where Law Is Ground Out for Chicago and Cook County. Thoe Gentlemen Who Reverse and Romand, Amrm, and Dispose of Qur Legal Troubles. ¥ Corresp ico of The Chicago Tribune. e M‘"O’r‘l/AwA, ., Apparfl 120, 1873, Thore nevor was such o straggling place aa OTIAWA § end there nover wassuch a placo for big lots Thi atrests aro sottlod 60 far out that a quartor ©f a million of people might aquesze within thelr genarous limits, The smallost things about the lots aro the housos. The Xlinols Rivor, now a awollon atream, swoeps tho south aido of the city, and the Fox River flows through it north and south, ompty- ing into the Illinois on the gouth sido, Connoot- ing tho west ond with tho east ia a noblo, single- apan suspension bridge of 287 foot, over tho F'ox Rivor, and tho south and north shoros of the Illinois aro jolned by & fino plor-structure, As tho Tllinois & Mlichigau Canal plorcos Oltawa ot about tho centro, an idea may be had of tho num- bor of bridgos. 1¢ tho Loglalaturo led advertised for a model community, into which they could drop a resdy- propared Buprome Court-Houso, Ottawa wm}lr] have filled the bill, Thoro is an air of nothing naw in this city. The Court-Iouge doos not ap- poar to have grown up among tho houses, nor $ho housos to have grown up sbout the Court- House ; but they seem to have dropped into the right places sll at onco. The starch-factory, the zeapor-works, tho glass-works, the olevators, the sash-mills, the cutlory-works, all havo an air of permancnce without dixb, aotivity without noise, and a8 thongh they hed beoon engaged in making atarch, reapors, glass, sashes, and cutlery, and storing corn, for ages past; and as though thoy might go on doing tho samo for conturios ~ to come. The very dam that was swopt away by the froshots seoms to have emitton when Dabol foll. Yot nothing is antiquated. Rip Van Winkle wouldn't have a chanco hore, Itis said bytho envious woople of Marsoilica that tho Ottawalans eleop with one eye open ; when they appear most som- nolent, they aro really moat wide-nwake. If thoro were a baronial towerhore, one would nat- qrally look for the fvy. As it {5, Judgo Caton bas piled up & mags of masonry {hat {8 & very goo«f substituto, and tho walls_are slready von- orablo; whilst Lis park is fitled with doar. THE COURT-LOUSE is in keoping. T'he churches orowd around it, Thera ia a.quet, old-fashioned square in front of it.- The louses ure of brick. Thore is an air of substantial thrift everywhere. Tho white steps of the Court-House lsad up under o porti- co fnto & roomy Lall, carpoled with stuff that cost 75 conts por yard. 'lurn to tho right, and you ontor the Olerk’s offico, whero the scrivon- s, young and old, look s though they had beon writing away in tho sclf-samo manner for untold generations. Turn to tho lett, and you enter the library; it is scarcely half filied. Thers ia algo tho court-room,—s spacious, lofty, woll-lightod chamber, thal is solomn enough and digaifiod onough to have accommodated the Doge of Vonice and his terrible Council; only thera aro sents for but scvon, Noxt ia the con- feronce-room, where tlio_ Jufiges propnta tho de- tonators that. afterwards lio poacofully in a growth of dust in the pigoon-lhioles, over ~ which tho Clork, holds undisputed sway., In thous quiet halls thers is a_muflicient smount of labor porformed, both physical and mental,: to impresa the boliolder with the iden that he here begins to got & glimpso of what tho Bu- premeo Court means. A glance ai the earnest Tncos, at the rapld pens, at tho piles of manu- ucr{fi‘, tho immensa record-books, convinces ono of u\mhilil;g ‘method, the inlelli{gant atudy, tho disoiplined thought, the practicod fingers, that hero tako chargo of tho LEGAL DESTINES OF COOK COUNTY, for, bo it known, that in this little brick shell are the judicial archives, the printed records, tho legal'history of all the businosa of the lnst court of appeal of that groat, wealthy, and pop- ulous commonoult, iucluding the' irroprossi- blo City of Chicago. It tho writer had baon sont horo to write up theso mon as dolts, and barnaclos, and worshipora of the sparkling diamond, the ruby wino, spotless white linen, sud trottors, he would return to Chicago dis- gustod. Alf that is goen hore moans untiring, almoat continuous, almost hopeloss drudgery,— »nd not much pay. THE OLERK AND IS OLERKS. Oairo D, T'rimsble, of Princeton, wax electod Clork of the Bu‘mmm Court Inat fall. Maj, Taylor's torm wonld not have oxpired till noxt. June ; but ho rosigned to connect himaolf with the Chicago Evening Mail, and Mr, Trimbla stopped mto his place. ~The compensation ia by oo, and ia variously estimated ot from $6,000 to 816,000 por snnutn, out of whick the Clork must pey certain salarios, If the Clork pockets 95,000 por eabnum after all js paid, ho must bo an ox- traordinary good mannger. - -Jomes Leland, the Deputy, has been Deputy £0 long that it is popularly atpposed thoro novor will be any other. Hois part and parcel of the Bupromo Court, Ho has grown gray in the eladow of thoso alls, and his opinion on questions of law is gencrally accoptod as Boal, Ho s o chubby, comfortablo-looking fantl&mn, with laughing eyes and rosy chosks, t is impossibloe to think of . Loland'as o hat- ter, ora hotel-keoper, or & railroad-man, or to aosociate him with now lines of spring dross- goods, or the aolling of unwxng-mufimu. but, at hig dosk'in tho Clork's oflice of tho Buprems urt, ho is perfoctly at homo and in kesping, and looks as though™ ha had been planted thers contemporancously with the foundation-stono and grown with successive appropriations, until the prosont full-blown condition of things, Mr, Loland rominds.one Cheoryblo Brothers on & law- stool, Heis diligont in business, and affablo in Aot T, Tagtor, most red H, Taylor, noxt sonior Olork, was as clated with Mr, Loland, as Doputy, uidpr Major Taylor's administration, aod i & poruan; Gt coite- toous, gentlemnnly manuers, Ho has boon in barncss four years, and will always. prove an officient aid to tho Deputy, whenovor the latter bas too much todo,~—as appears to bo frequently the caso, 2 Mr, A, M, Trinible, brother of the new Clerk, has just como in, and brln[iu to {ho worls maturg judgment, and & patriarchalbonrd of magnificent - propaortiona, - . Mr. J. N, Moore, who has been here only six months, has taken doop root in a congenial uil. Ho.woars spectaclos, saya litilo, and 14 tho pic-- ture of a Inw-scrivenor of the olden time. L. A. Lockwood is the legal wonder of the sstablishment, Althongh sonior, in point of longth of sorvice, in the Clork's oftice, to tho last-mentloned, ho {s much younger, in point of yoars, than any one in tho Cymm. Ho i@ spoken of a8 a thoroughly compotont clerk, and shows & capacity for acquiring logal kuowledge which conuigna bim to an oarly burlal in thoeo clois- tora, A young maon o apt will never go forth into tho world agaln. Mr, ockwood may bo said to hinve coms to an anchor for life, without ho soon tears himsolf away from tho fatal attractions of docisious in ocasey on apponl oudin error, Thore is another clork, Coorge A. Bherwoad, who has labored in thin vinoyard fitleen monthy, sud is now sick, Why they are not all sick is the marvol, considering tha abominable ventilution of the room thoy poison thomaelvos in whilat at work. Thay speak woll of Mr. Sherwood. The Librarian Is George 8, Williame, a gontlo- man of eulturo and experienca in constitutional {aw, which is to him ay the breadof lifo. Ho s completed & little book, the '*Constitution ot the United Btates,” that ‘ought to be adopted In the achools of every State in the Union. Bomo of tho Lighest authoritios on conatiluc tlonal law have apoken and writton in high terms of ihis work; and, s has beon altered and improved, at tho lu[‘;lguuon of varlous Judges, until altorations andImprovements appear Lo have become woll nigh oxliausted, It may safoly bo considored al- most npu‘:gml:(t wa{g. Mr. l‘;“‘m“ in engaged 1 on & now book on the sami o of conatitationa aw. Jadti tusaludonty b s TAtes roma, 6 man whio appoals acase to the Bupreme Qowst le gonerally & Yiotim to the belief that, by dolng do; hb secures n rohoaring by a.bort of Supromo Grand Jury, and that the whols trinl {s gouu over agaln, Ho ploturos tho term of tho upromo Court a8 nbusy nossion,—almilar, per- h‘npn o tho *“aesizon™ in . an Irish or English county-fown, whoro ail is bustlo and oxcitomont; whoro witnossos rosm about despondently, waiting with calm despair tho far- off, uncertain day whon thoy may bo calted upon to appoer; where litiganta keop “E thelr courngo with coplous and froquent draughts of alo and whisky; whore tho court-house is ' porpotual soono of slruggling, squoszing, shouting, swear- ing, and slrong amolls, & OW DIFFERENT FROM THE REALITY | The calm roposo of the Buprome Court 18 maver disturbed by nolsy brawlora ; tho uufimm aro oonspicuously sbront, being ropresonted Ly their sttornoys 3 ovorything is quiot, ordorly, rogulny, sud aigniflod.” Tho Justicos tsko ~their seats in o sort of doml-soml-circls, at o counter of walnut, on n platform, furnishoed with desks. Tho Clerk, on tho*opening of ocourt, calls out tho doocket, twenty casos por ay. 'Tho lawyors in tho canos, who avo seated, wl{h athors, ii chnirs ranged nlong iho walls, advanco up the hall in front of thio boneh, and siguif; thngthuynrn &npuod to proceed, If thoy dosiro to speak, they are pormittod to do #0 ; it ihey do not, fhoy formally movo the filug of papors, and tho osso is then, In duo form, be- foro l{l’u Qourt; if thero aro no lawyora presont to reply to thoe call, the oauso is paseed, orstruck off tho dooket, as the oase may bo. {¥hon tho oallof tweniy has thus besn dlaposoed of, tho Judgos pass by tho rear juto tho consultation- xoom, which 18 furnishod with a dosk for emch Judgo, and thon begina the . REAL LANOR OF THE DAY Oages aro comparad, tho points noted, and tho Iaw laid down; and a divislon of tho task of writing the decisions of the Court agreed upon for_the next recess, This labor is fior}uunfiy rolongod until far into the night, conforonce Ebinu rarely broken “E untll most of the JudFou aro phynlunl]{ incapable any longor to bear tho fatiguo. It Is an ungommon occurronco that consultation on tha call of iho day is comploted bofore physical endurance gives out, Whon it is, thoro are alwnya casos in arrear to be at- tonded toj or casos that, for somo reason or othor, have been laid aside for futuro roforonco. Whon the torm {s at an ond, the Judgos gop- arato for thoir difforent homes, and, at their lolaure, sot forth, in lauguago as clear, brief, and correct a8 they aro capublo of, tho opinion of the Court in {he cases of which ' thoy havo partioular chargo, On reassembling, at noxt torm, theao opinions are filed with tha Clork wmpidlg ag it ia possible for thom to be read, compared, and affirmed, Ottawa is tho placa for holdiog the mootings of the Bupreme Court for tho NORTIERN GRAKD DIVISION of the Btate; and, as the division includes the City of Chicago and Qounty of Cook, n soparato term is hold, when necessary, at somo place to bo provided, in Chicago, for such business a3 cannot _conveniontly bo transacted st Oltawa. VTho Court ‘mogts at Ottaws ouly once & year, in Soptomber, and thoe sessions vary in duration from two to four months., Tho numbor of canes varies from 200 to 400. Tho Judges liave slesping apart. ‘monts in tho bosoment of the building, with & common bath-room, of ecxcoodingly primitivo construction ; and t!’m( gonorally bonrd nt the Clifton Honso, which {8 near by. Tho nppropri- ation of £20,000, of Inst yoar, hns Jong ago hoon oxhauated,—tho builder's estimato for additions to tho Court-Houso having, of courso, boen ox- cooded ; and'othor intorosts, partloularly the law- library, aro luukinE in consaquenco. Tho chioeso- nring egonomy thst leaves a Bupremo Court fihnry ahort of necensary works of referenco, is tho oxtromest absurdity snd imbecility yab achiovod. Tho othor. torms of the Court ars hold at AMt, Vornon and Springflold. % M. podataie St S ke JUDGE LAWRENCE AND THE CHICAGO JOUR- Rocxronp, M, April 25, 1873, To the XEditor of The Chicago T'ribune : Bm: Iam ouo of thosowho beliove in tho propriety of afull and just oxamiuation as to the qualifications of all candidates for public position; but, as a citizon of this Stato, and an impartial observer of public affairs, I dosire, through your columns, to onter a golomn protest against tho unsupported and libolous asporaions . which aro being mado by the Chicago Journal upon Ohlef Justice Lawrenco, his nssociates on the Buprome Bonch, and the entire bar, not only of tho Fifth Judicial District, but of the Stato at large. It is unquostionably truo that tho et »n of the Bupremo Court in tho somewhat notorious con- tompt ease, in which -the Journal was the do- fondant, was unwise and {mpolitic; that the Court conld well have afforded to have passod by tho idlo and elandorous assertions of thnt poper in dignified silonco ; but the more fact that it did not choose 8o to do, but did, un- fortunately, eloct to givo-undue importanao to 80 trivinl & matter, is no justification, in tho minds of the peoplo, for a nowspapor-sditor who {8 known to bo smarting under the stings of o fancied porsonal grievanco, to clotho his por- sonal venom inthe guise of publio virtuo, and then procoed to flood the community with the caluminons and unsupported charges of *por- qury" and “corruption,” *faithlessness,” and ‘fucompotonoy,” as oagainst the Bupromo Bonch and _tho entiro Bar of the Btato of Illinois, ~ Thot the Chicago Journal has boon gullty of thia grave offonse against })nbllu Justico and fair-dealing, evory reader of that paper woll knows, aud no one knows tho fact battor than the vditor himnsalf, The Pmlum:o that the Bupremo Court haa laid itaclt liablo to theso foul chargea by its recont decision in the Alton Railrond cases is too shallow to atand tho tost of investigation, even fora single moment, and, if the editor of the Journalis not by this timo convinced of this fact, it inonly because his ignorance of logal prinoiples is equal to the blindness of his per- sonal malice, which is difioult to conceive. Tho Iaw of the Btate under which those casos aroso was clearly dofootive In its details, and the ourt was obliged, as a mattor of logal .duty, to &0 onounce it. This overy sonsibls man in_ tho Htate knows to bo the fact; aad, in addition to this, it is oqually well known that tho only principle involved in the dolivered opinion of tho Court, about which tho people were thon and are now atall inter- osted, namely: the right to regulato railrond- oharges for tranaportation under the provisions of oxisting franchiscs, was most clearly and manfully maintainad. knfluerx! tho Court, in ita opinion, 8o_far from turning its baok upon the farmers and business-men of tho Btae, notuplly wont out of its way, in ila dictum, to auggost to thom tho approprieto remedy for thoir Wrougs ; and tho wisdom and lmumst{ of its action, ns woll 88 the soundnoss of the fogal conclusions o tho Court, hiayo since boon fully vindicated by tho aclion of the popular graaoch of the Logisla- ture, in tho passago of o Lill by an overwholm- ing mujority, embodying tho vory identical sug- gentions conlainod in the apinion of Obiof-Jus- tice Linwronco. 8o that, 12, tho SBuprome Court was corrupt in this mattor, according to the logio of tho Journal, the gullt of the popular brauch of the Genoral Assembly is ton- nls groator,— for this last notion has boen takon after long do- tiberation, and In tho vory face of a most carnost and far-roaching discussion of the subjoct by all tho [w?ln, throughout the length and breadth of tuo Stato, - Ihavo no dosiro, Mr. Editor, to trespass to sy great oxtent on your time or spaca; but I do #ay (and in this Q)i)luinu I nm not alone) that the publio journal which, in viow of the above facts, can bavo the hardilood to take counselof ita passions only, and thus wiltully tramplos on the Btato prido of overy good citizen of Xllinois, by oasting upon tho highost nud mosat sacred juai. olal tribunal within the limita of the Common- swoalth the foul charges of official porjury and corruption, without boing able lo produce the firut sointifl of proof to sustain them, is itsolf o dangorous institution,—daugerous to the rights and libortios of the poople,—and deserves to be discountenanced by o discerning public, and thus finally abated, N F'hio testimony of o witness who is known to bo smarting under a recent personal quarrel with tho partios to a suft, isalkind of ovidenco that no good Iawyor would ever introduco lo o jury, and yot the position of such & witnoss Is tho ex- act relation whioh the Journal holds towards the Chiot Justioo and tho pooplo of this State ; and, 88 it obtusonoss and stolidity wore the fit com- paniony for blind and unreasoulnyg vindictiv noss, its editor has not tho good wonge to dis- covor the uttor shamlossnoss of Llw ubject posl- tion. Might it not bo belter for tho Ch!cu‘:o Journal to descant less o the corruption of tho Judiciary, and tell us moro about tho dangers which are likoly to result to thn']mupln‘s Inter- tevests from tho vonality and blind malice of an onvenomod and unecrupulous presa? JusTIOE, —_— FATAL ACCIDENT. Waraaa, Til, April 28, 1875, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuns: Bir: A fatal accldent occnrred in this place, at a little aftoy 10 o'olock yestorday morning, to o boy about 14 ‘years old, named Willlam King, who was, with the rest of tho family (except the fathor, whe hed gone to Mampion In aearch THE: CHICAGO ' D) of town, grazing tholr horaos, conslsting.of & toam hitchod to s wagon, nnd a colt, which illam was loading by & ropo-haltor, ho being Soried o She hind Jaxt of Hho wagon, . \Wilist hind thoughtlesaly tiod tho ropo around hin walat. Tho colt, frightonod at Bomulh(n@s} Jorkod tho Loy fromn tho wagon, stoppod on hiw hond, aud thion ran away, draggiug him about a quartor of a milo, whou, turning a short corner, thio body of tho boy eaught on n 1:0»!. that had boen sot Jesning in tho ground to protoot the sidowalk from wagous, whon _tho rope broke, The bo; was plckod up dead, having tho skull fractured, both arms and ono log brolon, and being badly brnsed all over. —_—— FROM CHICAGO TO MOBILE. Or, from the Lund of the Northenster to 'Thnt of Sunshinc and Flowerss Correapondence af The Chicago Tribune, ‘Wo loft Chicago on the oveniug of tho 10th of Apill, 1878, for Cairo, by tho Illinola Contral Road, and arrived nt Contralin &t 7 o'clock a. m., whero e wero obliged toromainuntil 10 o'dlock. Tho sun looked out brightly, and the tints of verduve glinted lovingly in the sun's embrace. Hero the notes of tho robin aro henrd for the first timo this year. Tho town is amall and seat- tered, but choorful-looking fn thefresh sunlight. At Du Quoin, the beginning of the mining ro- glon, wo eaw for tho firet timo tho peach and chorry treo in blosgom, At Carbondalo,—a rug- ged-looking town, thrown in among the jutting cliffs of sandstono,—we saw THE JUDAS TREE— “ Qorcls Cauadonse,” of the leguminosm order— In full bloom. This troo puts forth its blossoms beforo tho leaves, nnd looks liko s quoon in its gaudy dross of scarlot-crimson flowers, relgning slono ovor tho dueky-colored raco of inanimate vogotation. Arrived at Cairo botwoeon 8 and 4 o'clook p, m. ; and woro aroused at 8 », m, for tho boat which was to cairy us to Columbus, Ky, thoro to take the train for Mobilo. Whilo in Kentucky, we mot.n Surgeon who sorved during tho War in Gen. Choatham's Divia- fon. From himself and lady wo reccived much information rogarding tho present social con- dition of thio South. The PREJUDICE AGAINST THE COLORED RACE lhiere, nt the present timo, cannot booxaggeratod; aud it is vory ovident that the two races can novor bo harmonized durlng the prosent genera~ tion, at least. Dr. A, avors that tho colored race aro becoming decimated y that fow children aro born to them ; thet most that aro born oither porish from negloct or aro murdored ; that thoy aro too indolont to provide for their off- spring ; and that their natural affection does nok excood that of tho brute. This same sontiment wng also reitorated by Mrs. G, of Columbus, Mise., o lndy of tho vory highost standing social- ly.. Bho says that child-murder is n yory com- mou thing with tho blacks nt tho present time in Missiesippi ; ihat, in clearing out au old well whichh lad * ‘mot ~ been used sinco tho War, they found tho remains of ton colored babies, and in auothor twenty. I givo this stato- ment just as it was utlercd by o porson who saemed to bave no furthor intorest in it than to stato facts as eho Dboliovod thom, This whole- salo alaughter and neglect woro furthor corrabo- ratad by country-gontry from tho States of Yon- nessen, Alabama, and Loulsiana, All avor {hat ouo or 'tho other aco must grivo way; and that, from the natural instinets of tho colored raco,— which they claim to be uuthrift, laziness, and want of matornal affoction,—the negro must finally succimb to tho whifo raco. X give you thase facts without auy coniment of my own, to ahow you that the hatred of colored rulo iu flxod deoply in overy Houthorn brenst, Lven at this vory hour, n boarder Lasleft tho house wo aro now stopping at (in Now Orleans), becauso tho lundlady willnot allow hiwn to bring homo Licut.~ Gov, Pinchbuck (colorot) to dinuor, Eho told mo, not an hou ago, thatshe dare not doit, ns it neodod only a spark to fau tho flamo now emoldoring : &nd, wore it known in the city that sho pdmitted o colored mun o dine, bhor houso would bo mobbed, As wo ndvanced in our journoy through Ton- nessoe, thero was o mavked cliange in Na- ture.’ ' Bummer scemed, indoed, to lhave usurped the reign. Negroes woro plowing tho flolds, with ono mulo, aud a bit of wood for » plow, closoly rosombling a crooked firo-poker. h‘lm fields wore scantily cultivated, and every- thing woro au ancient, heglocted rspeet,—more so than tho pasture-lands of the Miduissippl Tivor, whoro cattlo are_raised and -shippod to Mobilo. Occasionally thore would bo soou bales of cotton rondy for shipmont ; but THE EXORBITANT DATES charged by railroads for trauspottation give poor concourngomount for colton-raiging, T'he annual meoting of the atockholders of tho NMobile & Ohio Railroad comes off the prosent weolk, and anumber of landed gontry wore aboard onr train (accompanied by their” familiox), with the view of trying to malo somo arrangoment with the Company to abato tho rulnous transportation rices. b Tho rido through Missiseippl wns porfectly on- chanting. We caught tho summor Dreszes, Natoned to the song of birdy, and, whon the train would permit, snntehod fragrant flowers by the waysido, Hero the Red Bud, or Judas Troo, which we hiavo chinsed through Bouthern Illinols, Kontucky, Tenncsaee, and part of Misalesippi, is out of bloom, and supplanted by climbing rosos, sweot shrubs, jessamine, and magnolias. ‘At Mobile, Sunday morning, at half-past 10, wo aro seatod in the front parlor of the Loclede, watching the olito of ho city pouring into CHRIET OMUROH,— tho Indios clothed in their summor silks and gronadines, whilo tho ruatling of their trails upon tho pavemont sounds like the cddying of dried leayos driven by & whirling wind, “Thoir jaunty hats aro loaded with rose-buds, lonves, and flow- ers, which saem to vie with thoso we sa, in tho avening, coiled around cvery pillar end availablo placo aboyo and on tho altar. It was tho child- ron's festival of flowers, and each class came with its banner, ropresonting some word spoken by Christ aftor his resurrection. The aervices wore improssivos thoe altar was Toaded with rosos, japooices, lilles, magnolias, %o, whick oxbolod o fragrance almost ovorpow- ering; and the musio was 08 neatly divine as I anticipate hearing while a denizeun of earth, A rido on tho shell-road down the'bay, and & vislt to AGNOLIA CEMETERY, torminated one of the ploasantost days of my lifo. ~ Magoolia Cometory bonsts fow costly mon- uments, but the olysitm of flowers is Dboyond deacription. Wo visited tho spot appropriated to the Confodorato dond, Nino hundrod and ninety-nine lio burled side Ly sido. Just hnlf & milo to the southweat, whera Ltho flagstall pointa heavenward, lio only a fow less gravos of our own goldiors, DBoys in Lluo and gray, sloop qui- otly until the resurrection-morn, when your robos will bo the sawe, and we all shull bo ‘brothors. ’ X WEVINITED THR MARRRD in tho'morning, whnero were turnips, potatoes, groon pous, onfons, and cabbages, frosh chonp, rangiug about with our own prices at home whou vegotables aro plonty. 'Phere we aldo saw atrawberrics, although thoy aro not Blunty as yet, 'The onbbagos, &e,, aro planted in acembor, Duriug the summer months nothing is raisod; as the noil i driod and parched, During those days, most of tho residonts go North to uuulru yollow fever and othor sickneasey, or, as our faudlord remarked, simply beanuso {hefs i nothing to do. Mobile s fourfully dull now; Dbusingsy is dead ; and overy ono moyos so slow- 1y, almoat lifolesrly, that you would imegino a fiw-t pnrnl()‘sln had Bojzed upon all, white and lack,” fnaieviluttuuiely. Alng, LEANDED BTONE, — ANOTHER GROWL FROM TLE WEST SIDE. To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune: Bin: I have read, with some surprise, an arti- clo in your Saturday's issue, Loadod * West Bido Growlers,” in which our worthy Mayor enumer- atoy vast sums of wnonoy paid by tho city for im- provements on tho West 8ide, Now, sir, I have 1iha groatost rospoct for our Ohlef Magistrato, than whom this city nover had a botter, and no- copt his figures as facts with rogard to tho ox- ponditure of tho public moneys; but I look in vain for the improvements which should bo the rosult of suoh honvy disbursoments, The Wost Bido i8 by far tho most oxtonsive portion of the cily, and, although so much monoy hna boen spont on it, thero aro but few utreots it to walk through, Boing » poor man, I have tho misfortune to own a Jot on s uupaved and unsowered stroet, where the sldewalks aro so rotton that thoy aro full of man-traps, and dangerous elevations are frequont ; whero ono may fool thankful if ho oty to Lils sbanty without bronking his log in & finln, or his neck in sorambling ovor those horrl« blo ‘mounds whoro the sidowalk bhas been “brought up to grade;” where no team can haul evon an empty wigon along tho straet, without atiokiogin Ifw zand; and whero the happy ¢itizen, ILY “TRIBUNE: ' WEDNESDAY, "ot emptoyment), out on the common, Just- onst for Whioso benafié such vast suma aro lnnunll{ paid, baa tho pleasure of enrrying the fuel and othor roquisites for homo-*consumption on his shouldors, over such a sidowalk; whora the ditchen rook . with misemn; and® whore—-but ,xule,lllnl doslat treapaseing so for on your valuable 0o, ok A Such & atatn of tlilngs may bo found on tho groat thoroughfara-from the henrt of tho olty wost, viz. Twolfth stroot-from Contro svenuo to Ashland avonue, on .the diroct lino to Doug- Ing Park.” T havo pald three times the ' amount of tnxos this year comparod with tho ashossmant. two years proviously, and can seo no roturn in tho "shape ‘of Improvemonts, and so I cannot #uppross- o growl. Darks and boulovarda: aro very desirablo additions to & great oity, bul I do {Hink wo ought to havo tho stroots put in order bofore sponding mora monoy on ornamontal rounds’ threo miloa out, which ‘nobody ean gat 0,—moroly onhancing the value of speculators’ property. "Yet ua have sowors putin to carry .off the Milth, and so avoid foarful mortality thia coming summor, Lot us have the sldewalka kept to-one layel,—oither the whole 'broufihtup to grado, ar all kept down to the mud till the streot lu paved, Lot us have_ Lhose lamp-ponts put down on the block from Lofln to Aehland which were paid for two yeara ago, but Liavo not npi;nnrnd yot - ‘Do try, Mr, Mayor, to got ug somo of thezo inestimabls blessings put through, and whilst, h:f 80 doing, you Wil fmortalize yoursolf, you will also onablo many of your Wost-Side frionda to **go ou their way rofolcing.” Vox Poruii. 0mi0Aqo, Aprll 28, 1873, Pt e o OUR RAILROADS. Benrnoriznp, 1il, April 25, 1878, To the Edttor of The Chicago Tridune: Bin: Having read with much intorest, in Tme TripuNe, the discussion of the railroad quostion now sgitated in Illinols, #o important to tho prosperity and all intorests of tho State that oomo judlclous polloy alonld bn: definitaly sot-. tlod, T offor somo suggestions on the subject, In explanation of tha probable results of tho war- faro. The present age is emphatically ono of progross and improvomant, aod In no dopart- mont has it advanced more rapidly than in tho facilitios for transportation of porsons and prop- orty; and tho transmission of nows nnd thought by tolograph,~—iwo agents so intimatoly connoct- ed with all tho matorial.intorests of tho country, that they should bo doveloped and utilizea for tho bonefit of commerco nd civilization, Itis proposed to limit their influence by re- striotivo monsuros, prosoribed by legislativo, judicial, and oxecutivo action, o ag to chango woll-accopted iInterpretations of organio and statuto Inws, upon which tio rights of all valucs and property aro based and secured, equally to individuals or corporations; algo, by a rovision of tho Conatitntion and Courts, on the plea that thoy are anclent and not io conformity with the ;no lorn viows ontortained by some on this sub- oct. . The Constitution ia hlgl\et than nny law or docreo by any officera nnder {t, since thoy must oxorelso a dologatod authority, and must bo sub- porviout to tho instrumont by which the deloga- tion ls mado; and, in any caso of contlict, tho fandsmental law must govorn, and tho statute 1aw will becomo fovalid; thou thero will bo o controversy, which must Lo sottled by the conrta, ¥ Tho Leglslnture cannot exorcise _oxocutiva or judicinl functions, oxcopt whore the Conatitu- tion oxproasly permita it, and thon only to make Inws, alter or ropesl thom ; nor can n court de- claro a law unconstitutional olely on tho ground of opprossion, unloss it can bo shown that the rights claimod aro guaranteed by the Constitu- tion. ‘Iho fundamental maxims of o froo gov- ernment scem to_roquivo that tho rights of pri~ vato property should “bo held sacred, and that courts” cannot daclaro an act void Decauso of supposed, and not expressed, spirit of tho Constitution ; and, whonever an act of the Logislature can bo 8o construed and nrpllud ‘a8 not to conflict with tho Constitution, it will be adopted by tho Courts. These genoral principlos aro applicablo to all intorests’ alike, whothor under carporato or individual rights, and bind- ing on ariificial or natural porsons, end.afford oqual protection to the diversity of omploy- monts, and all claskos, snd all dopartments ‘of businees and trado. 'Tho theory advauced, that the Btato or Fed- oral Governmont may constract and oporate rail- roads, is a quostion of expodioncy which all pro- vious oxporionce has fully domonstrated to boe follaclous,—falliug of any good results, from want of oconomy, eflicloncy, and rosponsibility in management, so nocessary to financial or com- mercial Buccoss in such entorprises. While Congress may have tho power to regu- 1ato commorce, a8'to ite convenionce, sufoty, snd scourity, by proper rogulations and suporvision, it has not claimod or exercised by logal author- ity tho right to dotermino the ratos of transpor- tation ; and thero aro grave doubts that any such suthority oxists, or that such laws can be enforced, when 1t is proved that toriffa aro roasonsabla, and only afford o fair romuncration on tho capital Invosted. ‘Pho proposition to use railroads as public high- ways, without and beyond the control of ownor- h‘ixp, by the pincing of cars on the lines by individuals or assoclations, has no merits or advantages, from the fact that it cannot bo dono g safoly or economically by othors ns by the prosont managers of vailroads, who must furnish the motivo-powor and control tho movoment of trains, or a conflict would onsuo as to erorlly of transportetion, with unfavorable results to the public and the capital invosted. The experiment hag boon tricd upon many railronds, with *colored lines" of. cars,—in which proportions of cars according to distanco are furnished by tho rospective roadson tho routo “traveled, and thoy {mtici ate in the profits “pro rata” for through traflio,— with success; and, in #ome cases, the lincs of cars haye been ownbd by other parties, and the railroads allow for car-sorvico, If such rates are roagonable, the system offera to ronds tho use of rolling-atock for traflio, whon thoy havo not the capital to purchaso it ; but, if tho ratos aro mado too high for such sorvice, it shonld bo regulated nccordingly. Yot this does not necossarily fucronse thio coat of traneportation to tho publis, ‘but, by such compotition reducas it. Tho most offoctual remedy for the complalnts in transporiation is competition in guch a man- nor a8 to preclude combination ; therofore, the construction of the lines of rallroad from tho West to the seaboard now in progress by the COhosapenko & Ohio, Pennsylvania Coutral, _| Baltimoro & Ohio, Oannda Southorn, New Yorl Contral,’ ond Hoosao Tunnel routos,—also, the Canadian water-routes proposed to bo en- Iargod to permit yessols of 1,000 tons to pass to tho ocoan by the Wolland and- Bt. Lawrence Canals, ag woll ag the improvomonts of tho Mis- slssippl, llinois, and Ohio Rivers by tho United Statos Government,—aro all evidences that the xatos of transportation will be much botter rogu- lated in auch mannor than by logislative acts or judicinl decisions., ‘Lo Logialature "of Illinols proposo to enact laws to rogulato rates on railrouds by a uniform and infloxiblo toriff of rates, and the offect muat inevitably. bo to raige tho rates at all com- poling points, In ordor to equalizo ‘them and provent unjust disorimination 'at thoe other F]"o. i yob it will tend to incronso tho cost of ransportation (‘}'lunnnlly in tho Btate, and will discriminato unjustly botween tho different linos - of railroads, and the Iargo cltios, whero the moat trafio is obfuinod ; and most cfearly such a dis- crimination the Constitution procludes ‘as un- Just, as indicated by a ‘truo Interpretn- tion of it, as roported in the rocent docislon of_tho Bupromo Coutt. IV 1k miniad ly nnma thad snilivad BIOCKE 01O incroased without a cash equivalent, nupon which dividonds are mado ; yob there is uo authentio ovidonco of that fack In Tllinols, Thors have beon some creos where monoy has been expended for improvomonts on railroads, which was ap- plied from the curront recoipts, wion loans conld nol Lo mnogotiated, and subsequontly has boon ropresonted by stook-dividends ; yet thero has boon & lurgo amount of money Invosted in stacks and bonds that has boon lost and oblitar- ated by foroolosu.o of mortgagos, thal in not reprosonted or romunorative, on mnni roads in the West which tho publioc have the bonoflt of, and no adequate compenuation or profit has boen f)}vur dorived by the pmrtion who invested in om, 3 Tu viow of this state of affairs, it would seom 1mpolitio, at least, for pooplo here to discourage tho completion and oxtousion of rallrondsin Ilmgruas from the West to thomarkots,or pravent ho nogotiation of loans to finish tho 1,500 milos of roads uncomploted in Illinols, which sr0 necossary to afford _facilltion for the' trans- portation of the increasing agrioultural products of tho Missisalppl Valloy to a market, and the roturn of tho immenso amount of mor- chandise consumod, togother with the raw materials and manufaotures nooossary for tho use of ita citizons and the trado of the country, The tide of commores is flowlng to and from the rogiona in the Far Wesl, through Tilinols to tho soaboard, and to forelgn natlons, by various routes; and, unless we can offor rapid and chesp tnnngnxlullon, it will bo soon diverted in' ofher diractions, Aud tho same re- sults will apply to the Iuvestmont of oapital to develop the resouraes of the Btato in its mining, ;nlmz!mludng, machanical, and sgrioultural in- orouts, T6 18 (mportand that much leglelation b fa« CAPRIL -80; dytond that.cabital! wiil. continuo to expa the channels of cammoren, stimulate industry, do- | volop . the woalth of tho Btate, and Invilo gaolous mon of ontorpriso, rathor than erlpplo tho monns of axisting rallronds, or tho proapoots of now linos of tranaportation, ' T, J, CaurEn, —_——— i FECHTER. is Monagerinl Tribulations, * Iyom the New.York Sun, April 5, Oharlos Foohtor, tho woll-known actor, has suod William Watts Bhorman, of Duncan, Shor- man & Co., for $412,000 damagos for breach of contract on the part of Mr. Bhorman, In conneg- tion with the purshaso from’ him by Mr, Faohter of tho Fronch Thoatre, in Fourteonth streat. Mr, Fochtor says thats writton agrooment was ontored into botwoon himsolf and BMr, Slior- mon on'tho 26tk day of July, 1871, wheroby tho Inttor ngroed to soll tho theatro to him for 140,000, 800,000 boing In mortgagos " tipon tho promises, and for the romaining §50,~ 0 Mr, Fochtor was to give abond and mortgage rmvld]n for tho payment of $35,000 on July 2%5. 873, nnd $26,000 on July 35, 1874, Mr. Fochtor was to oxpend at loast 630,000 in pormanont im- provemonts within six months, and was to take mensurca . to bocomo & citizen of tho United Btatos, 80 aa to becomo qualified to hold land, In Juno, 1872, a further agroemont was ontored in- to wheroby Mr. Fechtor was to glvo mortgagos to mocuro to Mr. Bherman 200,004, which he was to expend in comploting tho ropairs and altora- tione upon the theatro, Then in_Ootoher, 1874, Mr. Shorman further | sgreed to finigh the altorations thon in procons Dby tho 25th of Novembor following, and to fit up and furnish the theatre with all such sconery, costumes, dromses, furnituro, upholatery, an appointments as in Mr, Bhorman’s' judgment might be raquired to onable tho'manager to pro- duco in bocoming style tho 'play that Ar, Fochtor had agreod to Mprad\mo during tho songon thon approaching, Mr. Fochter to Innnngu tbo thoatre-aa a frabclann inatitntion. Mr. Bhorman waa to appoint & treasuror, who was to rocolve and P’n all monoys, whilo Mr. Fachtor waa to bo onlled manager and propriotor, and to tako publis part in the phzs to bo por- formed, sud-to have $1,600 per month for nils porsonal uso uutil. the logal titlo bocamo his, Two-thirds of tho net profits wora to°bo allowed to acoumulato until tho; amountod to $30,000, whon it was to bo applia to the Ynymunt of advancos. A deod was then to bo given to Mlr, Foohter. It {4 claimed by Mr. Fechtor that timo was the essonce of tho contract, and that whilo ho per- formed all tho conditions on his part, Mr. Bhor- mnn failed to finish tho altoratious and improve- ments agrood upon, and to furnish the theatre 'with proper smmufiy, 80 a8 to onablo Mr. Feohtor to open {t and produco the contomplated plays, Mr. Fachtor says ho was not allowoed to manago tho'thoatro in hig own namo ; that on tho 25thof March last Mr, Bherman rofused to allow Mr. Fechtor to enter tho thoatre. Ho says ho ox- ondod upon it, under tho agrooment, up to ovembor last, $65,000; that ho has thrown out of omploymont by’ Mr. Sherman's dofault, and Tost thoroby £63,000; that ho paid $10,000 in eal- arlos; that ho dovoted Lis tima, oaro, nd talonts to tho altoralions and ropairs, provonting his porlorming 0g s adtor, to Lis dnmago $25,000. [0 al8o gnys Lo loat £25,000 in InHXnE tho inven- tiona and contrivances put in tho building, upon which lio brought to boar the knowledge and ox- porionco of twenty years, Ho had iuteuded to orect & modol theatre, difforent from sny othor, and ontiroly now in its essential appointmonts and workings. o claimed also that, by reason of this bronch.of contract, he hns bosu injured In his good namo, fame, and roputation ay an nator to tho oxtent of §25,000. Mr. Shorman being & residont of London, an ordor was fin\nmd yeaterday for sorvice by Em lication. An ordor of aitachmont has aleo been grantod, tho underiaking bang $10,000. ek A PLEA FOR THE CHILDREM. o the Editor of The Chtcago Tridune, 8rm: “All noxt weok will bo vacation ["sald s Hiitlo girl, ns sho brought hor books home Friday night, and her oyes fairly sparlided with joy. Yes, all noxt wook tho achool-house will be shut np, and those old school-books, too, Forsixteon long wooks sho had been denied hier accustomed sports,” sud boen shut up In tho school-room, No wonder the little girl was delighted to have n ‘whole woek in which to enjoy her childish sports in tho opon gix, without any rostraiut from tho toacher: * Asmy sttention was called to this little incl- dont, T thought this was not the only child that was happy becanso the torm had closed. Thou-~ sands wero just as happy; in fact, it would bo diffoult to find ono pupil in'tho wholo city, efther young or old, who was not equally plensed at tho thought of having o wook's rest from school-du- tios, Then I asked myeolf tho question, and I sk you the game, Mr, kiditor, “*Aro not the chil- dren schooled too much?"” I do not wish to insinuate that they recoive a bettor oducation than they need,—for, of all oarthly tronsures, that ia the moat valnable ; but could not a8 much or moro ?progmus be mado in nino months thanin ten? In other words, in tho acquisition of knowlodgein proportion to the number of hours spent in the school-room ? Huying been engaged in toaching for some timo, and noticed the progross of atudents, I would answer the latter question in tho nogative, I am not alone in this' opinion,—for recently, whilo traveling in Minnesata, the Principal of & 8ohool in & largo town told me that thoss boys who worked during the cummor, and attended school only in the wintor, accomplished as much a8 tho othors who attendod chool during tho on- tiro year ; because thay woro not tired of books and tudy, and wont to work with all tho vigor that thoy could command, detormined to make the moat of their limited opportunities. It o given losson can bo loarned by close applloation in one hour, it is far: bot- tor- for tho studont than to spond two lLiours In careless and indifforent study ; and it ia self-ovidont ihat tho progross mado must be in proportion to the amount of study, and not to tho rinmber of hours spont in lookihg at the rinted page. ‘' All work and no play makos Fack a dul boy," it 84 true in the school-room 2 in'the flold ; and; of sl things, the most dis- couraging to the toacher is & room full of children who have become woary of their books, nad go to school simply becauso their parents oompel them to go. Iftho timo ever comos whon mohool-officors support aschool for throo tivelve-wook Lerms, hay- ing threo weeke' vacation in Decombor and AKril, bosides tho usualton weels in summor, | will be 80 much mora onthusiasm aud carnost- ness on tho part of both tescher and pupils that moro will be accomplished than now, and achool- lifo will be a lifo of ploasuro, rather thansa round of dull, monotonous dutios. But, you may sny, the toachor cannot woll find employment during tho romainder of the yerr, leiI Will bo nocessary to pay tho'same for uine monthy' work that we' now pay for tou. Vory likely, but will not tho same amount of work bo done, and in a moro satisfactory menner ? 1 donot proposo any longthy discussion of tho subjoct, I wish moroly to call tho attontion of thosa interosted, that thoy may cousidor the ‘Bubjeot for thomsolves. Lot it bo.underatood that I have na porsonal intorest, as I have nover taught in this Btato, but havo boen teachlng in » town in Iowa, where they aro all right _on this uestion, only they havo f\fiu’vfi-fl" & Heue fure lor thats Obieago ill bo-Nkcly o go at preseut, Haying, evrpvesod & 6chool nino months & yoar 108 1ant two Jours, they now proposo fo-iave onlg‘nlght months, and have offored more for oizht months' work than thoy have paid for nino; and, in my oplnion, mora will bo accomplisho tho coming yoar thanin the past, though part of 1his nay o attribuod to o chango of teachors, 88 i¢ 14 to'bd hopod somo one has boon omployed in the place formerly occupied by your corro- spondont, who bottor undoratands “the dutios and rasponeibilities of the tencher, NODW Cuicaao, April 26, 1673 ey et i) ARSI, ' CAPT. WRIGHT AND THE MODOCS. * . Font Warxe, Ind,, April 26, 1373, T the Xdilor of The Chicago Tribune : Bin: Your Baturdny's issue contains n atato- ment (from tho Now York Sun) of “Ilow Capt, Wright sunned tho moocasing of 800 Indipna," Nov, this is 3 big mistalte. o did no such thing. 'But ho did, with his own hand, begin the alaughtorof 10 or 20 Indians, agaiust whom thioro wag not tho shadow of n oharge of! mis- dolng. You will allow tho statement to be heard, not of ono who writos of that event aa a trapper, 23 the Sun's man asys Lo and Wright were, but of a goldier ; nnd such was Capt, Wright, though tha writor of the articlo roferved to donies it. Hocould havo easily loprned the truth of my assortion had he beon wo dlsposed. But I take tho suthor of the dounial of Wright's beln, anofficor in tho army to be an officor hlmsalE sand, a8 auch, secking to cover up the misdeeds of a brothor officor by donylng Wright ever was ono. As near as my mumor{ sorvos mo, it {8 about twenty years sinco the killing of those Modocs, Thoro badbeon very rauok hlE of, and #OMO trQu- ora blowith, the Indians, Somnemigranta on the Kia- math Riverand tho old emigrant-road orosain, tho Blerra Novada had beon killed, and muc) atonling indulgod in; and, while I am satisfied -that aoma of tho dopradations wore committad by- Indians, I am equally satisfiod that bnd whita mon, whoso doeda of outlawry had driven them from tho Btaton, committed fully ono-half of the murdors and thofts that woro chargdd to the In: diang, It was this troublo that caused an ordor to be isanod. to Oopt.- Wright, then stationed at Bnoramonto, to take tho omigrant-routs, aud to prirauc and punish any Indinna to whom any dop- rodatlona could bo tracod, Our start was made sbout tho lstof March. Wo numbored 80 en- listod mon, bosidos officors. Wo found somo ov- idonco of stoaling by Indians, and.threo or four bodies that had boon murdered 3 but eaw no In- dinna in our march, until near April 1, except an_ occasional ono, About this timo, whon noar tho Klamath Rivor, wo camo upon & camp of nbout 00 Indiaus, squaws and pspoosos includoed. Our force bore down upon them. Thoy soomed to tako u for frienda, running out to moot us, &o., &o. Cnpt, w:lgh! ordored thom to surrendor, lvo.up all thelr ponlos, guus, &e. Thoy naked or & council, It was granted; and, during ihls talk, tho slaughtor was Eagn.n on thounarmod Mo- docs who came out to talk, in which 19 or20wore killed, Tho remainder oncapod; and to-day I bolieve theso Modocs aro but avenging the mur- dor of thelr fathora by tho ordors of sn offleor of tho United Htates, OLp Borviem, BLOODY WORK. IMomicido in the Xndinn Nation. Vinita, C, N, (Aprit 10), Correspondence af the Neoho (Mo} Limes. A double tragody ocourred at this place, com- monolng on tho 17th, and ending on the 18th inst. Twoyouug Cheroksos—Georgo Cochran and Joo Quinn—bought whisky from n whito manby tha namo of Ruch, sufficlont to maké thom drunk; after which thoy raised a dlsturbanco in tho_houno of n_woll-known cyprianof thin placo, sho being thio mistrosn vt Rush. Ruch sont for and had » mon come and disarm tho young Chorokees whom ho had mado drunk ; after whioh ho wont in with n hickory club and atruck Cochran abovoe the templo and fracturod the skull, from tho offocts of vRI.nh ho «died nbout 8 o'clock. Ruch was captured at once and tiad to tho bod of tho dying man, whoro ha was kept until the next moming, at whioh timo (about 7 o'elock), ho was taken out Dy & brothor of tho murdored man and told to proparo for desth, Drawing o revolver, Cochran procoeded to avengo his murdered brother by firing throo shota into the body of Ruch. Young Cocliran, the brother of 'the murdered man, hns tho approval of tha citizens in tho courso ho pursuod. From the Denison (Texaa) News, Aprit 20, A roport camo into town last Swturdsy thot murder had been committed the day boforo about fourtoen miles from here, in tha Cherokoo Nation, st the house of ono Mr. Love. Tho story on tho part of Frank Durham, o romidont of Hunt County, about M%hty miloa south of hdro, is that Gadrgo Elam, tho man killed, was o horse-thiof, and that ho passed through Hypt County on the 6th inst. with thirty-four horaes, all bolioved to bo atolen, Mr. Durham misso throo valuable horses, and bolloving that thoy bpd boon takon o by Elum, followed him up, accompaniod by’ four of his moighbors, who algo lind “horses missing. .Thoy sny that thoy tracked him ond his 0r8C8 to this~ noighborhiood, and ‘found * that ho crossed a _part .of thom ovor Red River into the Nation ‘at Colbert's forry_nnd o part at o place lower down, Durham and party followed ‘up to tho houso of Mr. Love, where thoy found Elam and his family, and whero ho makes his headquarters. Durbam snys that, ns soon an ho camo in sight, Elam snid, * Thero they como, thoy aro aftor mo,” and commonced firing, shooting Durham in the head and wound- Ing him soyoroly, Durham and purty roturned the firo, killing Elam, ud also his littlo gir], 8 yours old. 2 : Elam'a frienda tell tho atory a little difforent. Thoy call Durkaim a * Texas desporado,” who, for somo cauzo, wanted to kidnop Elam and tako him oyerthe lino-into Toxas, They eny -that Elam did not firo until after Durham tried to tio 'gl![n witha cord. He thon shot Durham in solf- lofongo, S —_— “MILK, To the Editor of The Clicago Tribune : Bin : Whilo n resident oz the North Bide I com- plained that we were treatod badly by those who suppliod us witlyy an (Loy callod 1%, **atrictly pure " milk; that they put too much wator into thomilk; and tho answor givon waa: ** How can you oxpect us to supply you with pure milk at 6 conts o quart?” Ihave removed to the Weat Bido, and find that tho mon who have supplied mo with milk there aro worso than those on the North Bide, for the Ilattor did givo, um obout. ono-hnlf milk to ong-half wator, but oa the Wost Side wo get only one-third milk to two-thirda wator, ang, if wo romonstrato, we aro nbused. Now, it is high time that thoso who aro thus imposing upon tho ublic should be exposed, and I, for ono, am so!ermluod to have aome of the milk which T buy analyzed, and, aftor_it ia tosted, to atato'to the publio the result, and the names of the per- sons from whom I bought. T. D, ‘Vax Burzx StaeeT, April 24, 1873, _ THE CHICAGO DAILY UNION. . On Friday the stookholders of the Ohlosgo Daily Unfon held a mooting at the offico of Francis A, Hoffmann,Jr., and elocted tho follow- Ing gentlemon a8 the now Board ‘of Directors : Francis A, Hoffmann, Jr., Col. Arno Voss, Will- iam Bellinghaugen, J. B. Guontzor, II. J. Chrig- top, Max Eberhardt, George M. Jil- lor, Thomss Brenuan, Honry J, Hamil- ton, Jonry Alholf, Hormaun Licb. It is tho intontion of tho, Board of Directors to place o sufliciont numbor of shares of the capital Btock of that Company to enable thom to enlargs tho papor to tho size of the Staats Zcilung, and to'mako it in every rospoct & firat-class German daily. The Union was ‘establishod in 1855, and is rapidly galning in favor among our German population. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CQNGHESS. . PUESTDENT'R OFFIOL, : Ontoaao, April 28, 1873, Tho meoting of tho National Agrioultural Con- gross for 1873 will be hold at Indianapolis, com- mencing on the fourth Wednoaday (tho 28th ) of May. Papors which havo announcnd a_difforont dato will pleaso mako the-nocessary correction. e Joux P. ReyNorvs, Prosidont. PO i Strango Wife=furdor Cnse. ' Onowda County, New York, has furnished a case of wifo-murdor rovealod undor most pitoous cir- oumstances, Robort Piorco, an industrions and tomporata youog farmor, resided thore with his wife and threoe childron, tho oldest of whom waa but 4 and the youngest a bubeof 1 yoar old. Tiho ouly dafoot that hud appoared In fils charac- tor was an unfoundod and unucoountablo jonl- ousy that mado him vory harsh and abusivo to big wifo. 1o had threatonod hor lifo and mal- freatod hor until tho law .was at last invoked, and ho was put under bonds to lkeep tho peaco tuwards hor, Laut Sundey.bhis littlo. brother, who lives with their fathor noar by, wenbt ovor to Robort's house, and returned with the story that nobody was to bo saen about tho promiscs ‘but hin sistor-iu-law, and that eho was asloop on tho floor. Tho old ‘man thon told ono of his daughtors to go ovor and soo _If anything was the matter. Tho daughtor woiit, .aud on onter- ing tho houso boheld a horrible speatacle. The room was bui(;ltloffld.wilh blood, and near a bloody axe ou tho floor lay tho doad body -of Lor sistor-in-law. Tho dood had ovidontly been committed soveral days bofore. The two oldest children croncled together in n Lod, almost. in«| sonslblo from cold and hungor. 'ho babo had wailod in'the room with jhebody of itsmurdered | mothor until {t too had becomo unconsclous, and g0 little of tho vita] spark remained thal thero arc doubts of its recovery.- The littla 4-year old mnid: * Fathor hit * Mamma with tllo nxe, Mo got his gun and wont nway,” Robert Plorce indnot boon soen in tho neighbor- hiood aince the I'riday bofore, but the, soarch for him is oagor, as thoro ia no doubt of kil guilt, — e Chopping Ju=Ju. | The misslonary establishmonts in the noigh- borhkood of Bouny on (he wpst coast of Africa aro sald tobo numorous, venerable and excollont, Novertheloss it is to bo remarked that porsons connectod with them do not complain of any sorlous dimipytion of tholr opportunitios for studying the pnfinnutrloa of pagan worship, On tho 18t of March, for instauco, thoy ‘were wite, rnsn:lul ‘er L3 ‘“‘6?."‘“! hn}th}m ,coremonial which; s calle opping Ju-ju," spooles of red tapo Indispensabla bythe Talitiontion of trostion botween the barbario potentatos of, thab ro- fon. His dusky highnous, King Ja-Ja of Opo- 0, having ngroed upon s compaot with King' Goorgo of Bonny, sent to tho lattor capital &) alave to be choppsd up in the pressnca of their; ?nnlpotonmrinl Iszuy of wealing aud sanoti. yin%:!’n troal l this slave roamed for sev. oral days about the atroots of Boany, aware of bin doom, and quite indifforont on the subjact, misslonary Influonco waa brought to bent on King Goorgo, and lio was pravailod upon to oftor cown and goata na anoriflclal substitu(os. Thoso, however, tho dread sovvorsign of Opobo_ro- octed, and King Goorgo was obligod to *chop u-fu’ or forogo the Lonofits of tho troaty. All the pooplo of Tonny, migsionatios ine cludod, wero pormitted to 'witness tho groat Intornational ceromony, Tho alave wna firat markod in a atraight line from tho crown of Lis hond down tho front of his body with o sharp knlfo, cutting daop into tho fleshi ; ho wa1 thon hold by two or throa stout follows and choppod In two oqual parta; his outrails woro soattersd about, and Ja-ja's Ju-Jut man, taking one-halt of tho body, throw it into thoubfzInF tido, tho Bonny Ju-ju mnn taking tho othor halt nud doing tho same; It I consioling to know that the victim of thia diplomatio necessity was not wholly igno- rant of misslonary dootrines, and wag solacod and sustainod in lis lnst tx"{(ng motiionts by firm falth that, In o future life, ho: would moot thomen who out him up, and would have the ploaguro of outting thom up in the samo woy. i . N%E“‘T‘S §AR’AGRAPKB. 10 now Burtls Hotel, Davonport, ovar 100,000 whon complatod. T~ "o ©* *"—Tho National Christian Asgociation, opposod to socrot sacloties, holds its ffth aunivorasry i\‘x.h yoar at Monmouth, Ill., commoncing Aay —A potrifiod Indlnn, discovered in tho blufty on tho North Platto, last summor, has been gon{ ol (@ —The Olivot (Congrogational) Church prop- orty, in Milwaukoe, has boon #old ta tho I sopdlisus tor sibi. ° " B —The Han Francisco Call dounts up o Chinest immigration of 7,600 arrived or duupln tho firal fivo months of this year. : —A youug man ot Konosha bot 82 that he could take o certsin man's noso botwoen his thumb and finger. ];'A‘}though k‘i}\m Bald certain man was 8 church doaco; o seld youny man'y doctors bil wes fim:‘ HE —Wa loarn that on Mondny tho wives of two worthy ecltizons of ('.Iolumbluy County, Mossra, John Bmith and Thomas Pasoall, gavo birth to geven children,—~tho wifo of tho former to throo, mdt !?t the \]in"i\?; llto four, Adt ‘lut accounts the mothors and children wero doing well.—Satane nah (Ga.) Republican, J " —Robert L. Groondyke, an Towa boyof 8 years, hos rocontly passed an oxaminat{on one Htling him to a cortificato as tokcher of tho mac- ond grado if he cares to tako it out. Thoro will bo n paragraph in the Iowa papors somo of theso dnya concluding with : ¢ Doarost Bobby, thou st lott us,” &o. —Day bofore yostorday, Conductor Whaoler's train from Chicago passed through six different snow-storms, and ono heavy showor, Twico the train paused hu-nufih scotions of country bleasod with sunshing and summer warmth. ~Quito a varied weathor oxporionce for a run of 180 milos, —Davenport Gazelle, 20(h. _ —An itom was published tho other dny about tho porformauces of Gilbort A. Dralko, of Bloom- flold, who siolo bis wifo's property and ran off with a woman of low character in this city, The horsa and cow hodisposed of hiava been rocover~ ed on & roplevin, Tho mosn scamp stolo, among othor things, o rag carpot which was moade by his wife's grandmother, who is 81 years of 1go, and gold that.—Iarlford Courant. —An Amoriean govorcign, married to o scion of Spanish royalty, rocontly prosentod for bape tism at tho font a_littlo princo of his house, Thero are said to havo been abeolutoly no limiis to tho furlous and indeseribablo howls and yella of that aristocratic infant whon the ncmo—tha low and unmusicel namo—of * Perkins waa pronounced abovo it. * To inflict such & nama upon tho deecendant of a Bourbon is an outrage which evon an offoto civilization cannet placl oar. —Bofore 8t, Paunl, Minn., had railroad com- munication with the East, tho first stosmboat arrival In tho spring was an ovent. of much grenter importanco than now, Thore was quite a colebration, ouding with a danco on the boat, and tho stoamer was given tho froedom of tho city,—that is, waa allowed to use the loveo frao of wharfago all tho season, —Tho transportation of coals to Noweastlo, according to tho Now York Iferald, is, from bo- g & provorbial oxpression, in a fair wuy to bocome o Iaot. That paper loarns that the Great Enstern, oftor laying tho now Atlantie cablo, i o take a cargo from Cow Bay to Europe, on her roturn trip, of 15,000 tons of conl, and that one of tho principal shippors in Capo Broton hag contractod to load the monster steamor in fiftcon days. —The 8an Franoisco Alfa isresponsiblo for the story thag s Novada lawyor had a8 o oliont a man nconsed 4,8 murder, and that the principal witnosa in his fa¥or boing his wifc, who was incapacitatod from giving testimony by ronson of her rolation to him, ho gob tho murder trial F‘nnpunud, brought suit for divoreo in lor bohalf and se- oured it, and then triumphnntfi placed hor on tho stand to socure the ncquittal of hor husband. ~—A doctor in Greonville, B. 0., writes to the local nowspager to say how he treats corobro- spinal moningitis, - Ho bathes the spine with epirits-of turpontine, and then pnsses over it & woll-heated smoothing iron for fiftcon minutes. At the samo timo ho gives quinine in herpic dosos, each followed by a horoio dose of bromido of potasgium, combined in solution withan or- dinary dose of solid extract of hyoscynmus. Ho throws in at tho samo time great doses of calo- mel. Aftor such troatmont it is evident that tho oor patient must oithor die or get wollin solf- ofonte, —The witches' cauldron in Macboth is now nob meroly & pioturesquo myth of the stago. Tho othor day two Fronoh fortune-tellers wero triod at » town noar Parig for obtaining 800 franca from their dupes by furnishing them with theso two charming mixtures : ** Camphor and ossenco of cloves, with rat-broth a discrefion,” and ¢ glixir of toads and powderod rhubarb in equal arta.” Tho hidcous old daucers on the Scotch [ hoath couldn't have mado s more ingonious ro- oolpt, Thero has been nathing liko 1t sinco the English King's physiciane gave him that nico medioino of ground skulls. —A, pathotio incident ocemred during tho flooda ng Binghamton. A Blra. Fox, residing near tho cometery gato, horrd, in themorning, a poeu~ liar monning in tho diraction of tho cometery. I A Propnecy "About Going thero ehe found a littlo child waiat-deep in wator and - weeping nosr a hoad-stono, which marked o lonely grave. Upon being questioned sho said that she lived a. long way off. 8he had -hoard that tho graves wore coverod By.water, and sho foared that hor mother's would bo washod away. Bo sho wgnt to keop hor poor watch and ward bosido it. “Sho was kindly cared for, nnd roturncd to hor motherless homo, “_The gossip-mongers of Paria aro onjoying o moracl o? seandal about & young vordant who bocamo infatunted with Cora Poarl, tho fiuy As- posia of that oity, g0 much that ko employed a cunning silvoramith to deviso a oup at great aost, tho lower part of which was a modol of Oora's hand holding tho stom of tho bowl, which wag . modol of her oxquiaito bust. ‘Thoe modole ing alone of the cup, whioh was of suporb wor]f- manship, cost 8,000 franca; but, as tho lovor's purso was not 80 rich a8 his affoction, tho brills jant domirop had to pay tho bill horsolf; and hor sdmiror now yofusos to part with his unique ablot, which ho cun keop to hold the tears of gughtcd Tove. —A provision in the new “insane” law pro- vidos lfint fino fomalo chall bo taken to tho hus- pital (by tho Sherift) without tho attendanco of omo otlior fomalo, or soma rolativo of such por- sou ; and tho Buporintendont in his acknowledg- mont of- dolivory must stato whother thero was any such porson in aitondanco, and give the naino or namos, if any,” 'The frynor of that Inw must have rogarded tho Bheriff with a pus- piclous oyo, Why did Lo not make a provision sbout tho retwn trip of tho Bhoriff with the other fomanlo? Certainly tho maker of that law is'rathor inconsistont.—Omaha Bee, ~—Thoe coming postal card will no doubt bo a good thing and o convoniont thing, but human {mrvoruuynnd ingenuity can mnke ovon good hinga.tho velicle of injury and dishonealy, In England, thoeso cards on thelr introduction wero mndo tho means of ananymous slander and [n~ dacont ribaldry, In Fronco, in at Jonst ouo in- sianco, they were mado the ngoncy of a vory adroit swindler. An entorprising chevalier d'ins dysirie nddressed to himsolf several cards onlle ing-upon him to recoive monoy duo him, and notifying him of tha success of his addressos to 8 Jady who poesossod a very handsomo dol; 'The cyriosity of o lmlnHmuFer lod him into thio losa of his monoy, 1o lent the men who was so wbll off, and with ‘auch fino' prospeots, 10,000 fraucis, and could glvo no_Lottor ronson for hia act than that he was proud Lo bo thoe croditor of ono who alrondy posscssed so much, tho Steamox Atlantice Tho Boston Times rolates the following {n« cidont of the lost Atlantio: *Whon about miu- ocoan & curlous Incidont oocurred, which if truo, 88 rolated to our roporter, is vory unaccountablo. Tho ateerage pmmeugora sy that at about that point on the voyago tio or threo of the pagson= gora_deolared, ne I gifted with the spirit of groghmy, that the ship and all on board_would 0 lout, They kopt ropoating tho prediotion, packed thelr carpat-bags and went on dock to Watch for chanco passing vessels, saying that thoy wore golng to loaye her, as th? Wore sure shio waa doomod ‘to destruotion, The Captain thop intervened and locked them up as made msn, .and when tho prediction tlm( bad made in thelr supposed insanity rocoivod {ts foarful fuls g::::u‘, thoy, It ta oald, perichod in confines —