Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1873, Page 2

(&) TTE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TURSDAY, THE VIENNA EXPOSITION, More to Be Seen in July than in May. Origin and Progress of Indus- trial Exhibitions. Dimensions of the Viennese Fair- Buildings---The Space Al- " lotted to Ench Country. The United States Department«== A Water-Tower. From Our Own Correspondent, Vienxa, April 14, 1873, Dy tho time this ronchos you, tho Vieuna Uni- yersal Lxhibition will havo oponed its portals to tho millions that will como from all parts of iho world to do homago to nn entorprieo without parallol in tho annalg of World's Tairs. You must not, however, imagino that, although oponod, tho Exhibition w:ll bo in completo run- niug ordor by tho 1st of Muy. Far from it, From gpreaont appenrancos, I judgo that thoso coming hero in June and July will soo 2MORE OF THE EXPOSITION than thoss prosont at the opening. Everything Is yet in n chaotio stato; and tho uninitiated, whilo walking over tho grounds, and sceing tho immoneo work that is to bo accomplished yot, in finishing tho half-completed povillions, restau- rants, oto., iu clearing off the millions of tous of rubbish, in putting up the oxhibitlon- ¢nsos, and in placing tho goods in thoso latter, will invariably shalko his Lead in doubt whon hio is told that tho 18t of May will open tho Vienna Exposition. Dut thoso who have walchod the progress of this grand undortaking from its in- ciplent stato know that Baron Schernrz, tho all- povorful, as tho Vienna pross cnlls him, will rodeem Lis pledged word, and the Vienna World's Fair will opon on the 1st of Amy; but, with this, it is not snid that all tho worlk will be dono by that time, No oxhibition was ever ontiroly rondy at its opening. It is & well-known fact thut, during tho Parls Exhibition of 1807, tho work on tho Palace and tho grounds ceadod only with tho close of tho seagon. Such, I daro say, may bo tho cnse hore. The programme whioh {Lio Baron Lins laid out for himself in tho bogin- ning has 'OVERSTEPPED 178 ORIGINAL DIMENSIONS, Ouo altoration in the orlginal plan brought fon another, and another, and go on, until the wholo of the original plan, a8 far as its magnitude wag concerned, took an entirely different aspect. Tho fivat 6,000,000 florins, which were supposed to bo moto than sufficient to cover tho exponses of this intornational holiday, were gono evon bo- fore most of tho buildings wore undor covor, \Vhat could the Austrinn Roicharath do but to vato an additional 9,000,000 to finish the work, which tho Baron threatoned to abandon unloss ho was voted tho means wherawith to finish it. But even that wag not suflicient. Only tho other duy, another littie lift, in tho shapo of 700,000 florins, was voted the Baron, and now all scems to ba as smooth as oil, and nothing remains but to get the money which has beon put into piles of brick, mortar, stouo, and iron, or at least park of it, back into the Austrian Exchequor, Porhaps it would bo well, bofore giving any dotailed description of the yot-uncompleted Ex- hibition and its untold accumulated wondors, to lools back to TIE ORIGIN of these grand Internnfional Fairs, and follow tho succossivo stages through which n vory small boginning hins passed up to the prosent grand culminating pinnacle. THE FIRST ORAND INDUSTRIAL EXIIDITION owed its existenco to tho Fremch Marquis d’Aveze. It washeld in the go-called Malson d'Orsay, in 1798, ‘The dimensions of the Exhibi- tion building were rot a8 large g thoso of some of tho many private pavilions erected in tho Vienna Exhibition grounds. The articlos Ex- hibited woro mostly borrowed by tho manager from their ownors, aud but very fow manufac- turers took part in {hat infantilo affalr. It was but a fair for show and amusement, and not for oompotition. Btil], this embryo affair was fols lowed, during that very yeay, by an Exhibition on a grander scale, ‘where ~manufac- tured goods wero onterod for compotition. The succoss of this last one was the cause of a ropo- tition, under tho Consulate, in 1802. Other 'i'lll‘gll‘l.(l!i! ;uar‘; !olmwnd in tho wfalm of Franco. il fresh in the m n rondars buw tho U0 O By oL yous FIRAT GREAT LOS] N "Ts brought inty 1ea nmo;! st!rig:?ol::o:m\ru of Frinco Atbort, Th £} London Universal Lxhi- bition waa got up G 'a grandor acale than any of 1tu predscossors. g Tyyotal Inlace'shore- th first Univoren!“Faie was hold filled, and st that imo Justly 4oo, tho hioart of overy Dritishor with rido;- e Gormans, however, lind no less ron. son to boproud of it than tho English; for a Gorman-born Princo concocted and carried into exccation tho plan. The subject of n Universal Exposition was broached by tho lato Prince Gon- #ort as for back ns 1844, If should not, howover, bo inferred that, prior to this luttor date, thero woro no Eshibitions in England. On the contrary, tho Irish woro tho most ready imi- tators of the Fronch. Thoy tnstituted also their Tricuninl Exhibitions; aud in England great Jocal oxbibitions wera ' hield, hogitning in 1820, ovory fow yoars, ot Monchestor, Birmingham, and Liverpool. ‘Ihe custom of holding fairs way soon carried across tho Atlantic, and brought into existence our State and county fairs. But tho London International Exhibition of 1851 was the porcursor of & sorios of exhibitions, each ono of which attempted to outdo its prede- cergor in magoitude and splendor, Noue suc- ceeded, howover, until Napoleon the Third, by Liis lavish expendituros, caused TILE PARIS EXIOSITION of 1867 to mark a new ora in the progress of in- tornational exhibitionn, After the World'a Fair 011857, Franco bad two International Faira, ona in 1855 and one in_ 1867 ; tho United statos ono, in ‘1853, at Now York; Holland and Belgium one, in 1861 ; England & socond one, in 1863 ; one’ was hotd in Dublin in 1862, whivh, by the way, proved pecuniarily n fuilure'; and England hi“ l{.w\“ & permanent Exhibition at South Kon- sington. 'T'o more fully appreeialo tho great prograes made in the ling of International Expositions sinco 1851, tho first one instituted un & grand sealo, I will, for tho seke of comparison, roeall some of THE DATA OF FORMER EXTOSITIONS, The cost of tho first Loudon Crystal Palace Exposition was nbout £350,000, {6 which the Queon contributed by opening tho eubscription- lint with £1,000. Tho building was constructed of glasa and iron, and covored an arca of 18 acres, Thero over 17,000 exhibitors, and over 6,000,000 of pooplo visited the Palaco dur- Ing the five months it was kopt open. ‘I'he larg- st number of porsons presout on any ono day whas 109,760, and tho avarago obout 43,000, The total receipts wora £500,000, Tho recond Englizh World's Fuir was hold in 1863, in n vast brick building at Bouth Kensiugton; it coverod about 17 acros. At thin fair thore were 28,000 exhibitors, Lewsnunbora of poople vieitod tho grounds than tho Cryatsl Paluce in 1852, Tho receipts, too, wore loss, whilo tho outlays were 421,000, Joving a cloar halanco of o littlo over £7,0(‘D. T'ho noxt aud wmost successful grand ahow was held in 1867, on tho Champs do Mars, ‘The Apaco covered wak lhlllf‘-nuv«n ucred, Tho b\llhlin{; was of an cliiptical form, with twelvo coucontrio eircles and a small central gardon, ‘This * Grand Exposition,” ni tho T'rench loved to call it, was visited by 9,921,680 porsons. As 10 the recoipts aud oxpenditures, they wero novor fully known to any ono excopt to the Emporor's satraps, who did tho mauaging, One thing is cor- tnin, howevor, that thoro was a lnr@c doficit, Now we havo como down to the Vienua Iizpo- Aitlon of 1873, which hins been commonced ON A GRANDER HCALE than any of ita prodecossors, L'ho spaco cover- ed here by tho public buildings, exclusive of the private pavilious, is over soventy-five neros, It 15 a8 yet difiicult to give you any corroct data ag to auennl spaco covored, dud ns to other mattors connerted the ]v}xrnnmnn, a8 _thore bas boon nono officinlly published yot by the gonorni managoment, had occasion, [n some of my formor lottors, to give Jou tho dimensions of fhe various buildinge, and with ‘rants, oto. tho genoral divislon of tho grounda, Tho Iatter, howover, have hoon so much changed, and uro still boing changed, from thelr orlginal plan, tiint I hnvo consinded to wait, untll T shall be cortain that Baron Sohwartz' activo mind will not ovor night bring to nnulfihl my doseriptive efforts, 'The slzo of tho main Indistrial Palnco is tho samo a8 given Fon in my lettor of Oct. 20, 1873, namoly : “longth 8,000 foot, and width 100. In tho contro ia the Rotunda, all comploted, with tho mnqnlflcunt and [illunrlng Auptrlan crown, 10 foot in dinmetar, at.its top. This gront chot d'auvro, tho Rotunda, {8 460 foot in dinmotor, and 272 foot high to the pinnacle, undorneath which a gallery affords the most magnificont alght of the surrounding country, as far a8 hu- man vision sidod by optical inatruments oan ronch, Tho mpin ]mlnull.rlnl Hall I8 trayorsod by oigltoon smallor linlls from south {o north. Xach ono of thoso Lills s about 500 by 80 foat. Tho firat ono on the west was originally aselgned to the American Continont,—the south half, or 260 feot, to the United Btates, and tho north half to othor American countrios; but this has boon modified. TIHE UNITED STATES rotain their original epaco, with the addition of tho adjoining court, that lno been roofed over for tho uso of the Amorican sewing-machino in- toroats ; whilo the north half has beon divided betweon Brazil and England. Not only have all the twenty-six courts that intervonme betweon tho cross-gallorics boon turned into halls, but oll the spnce_botwoon théd mnin Industrial Pal- aco and the Hall for Machinery has boon com- plotoly filled up with lalls, pavilions, rostau- I should not forget to mention that the courts which have boon turnod into halls are ench 120 by 260 feet. The buildings erected on thom aro all balloon-frame, with sl jll bt roofs, somewhat in the stylo of our United States fair buildings, Thoy aro called zubauten (additional buildings.) Almost ~every country hes its Zubau, a8 the original spaco assfgnod proved too small. The Bp8cO, . A8 IT I8 NOW DIVIDED, inside tho main Induetrial Palaco, oxclusive of the Rotunda, ia o8 follows: Austrin hns 14,767 gquaro metres; Gormany, 6,741 ; Franco, 6,380 ; England, 0,860; Rusein, 5,310 ; ITungary, 2,072} ita 12 2,972} 'rumg, 2,038 ; Bolgium, 8,613’5 tho Unitod States, 1,360 ; blmm. 8iam, and Japan, 1,850 Bwitzorland, 1128; Bouth Aworicn, 1,000 Tgypt and Contral Afrlon, 1,00 ; Holland, 880 ; Grecco, 876; Bwedon and Norway, 865 ; Toumanin, 657 ; Spain, 605 ; Portugnl, 519'; Per- ein and Contral Asia, 846 5 '1‘unls, 209 ; Morocco, 86,—making o total of 60,000 squaro motras, At this writing, somo of the above-named coun- tries aro alroady recoiving nnd arravging their goods, but most of thom have nob éven their casos In tho hull. 'Tho Unitod Statos nre in this rnn‘muenlmlu worso off than tho rest, for, in their hall, save a few unpainted soft-wood cases, nothing can_bo scon yet. Btill, Gen. Van Buren, the United [States Commissioner, who has just srrived, assuroy mo that TR UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT will bo in as trim order by tho 1st of May as any of tho rest, Tho difficulty lies in obtaining workmen to do the vast amount of proparatory work, Tho laboring clnescs of Vienna have bo- come entiroly demoralized. Bocing how neces- eary thoy have bocomo toward tho accomplish- mont of the groat work, they make most out- ragoous domanda for thelr labor, which is poor at that. Thotsands of florins havo beon paid for show-cngcs that, in ordinary times, would not have cost as many bundreds, Tho Prussian C(lovernment, however, becamo sick of those ox- tortionate prices, and ad somo 500 of thoir mil- itary mochanics come liere and help finish up, There aro now here mechanies and Iaborers from all parts of the world. EVEN JAPAX 7 has gont some sixty of them, who, in the slor timo of two wooks, have put up two spacimons of Japanoso dvelling-houscs. Thoy forn®now the contral point of attraction to tho Vienon idlors, for it is very funny to sco them do all their work whilo erouching down, aund in an appa- routly playful maunor, They, nevertheless, nro better workers than the Austrian workmen. Theso Iattor, as far ns lazinoss is concerned, stand at the very Ltop of the seale. A fow days ago, TIE DIFFERENT OLARSES had their Presidonts aud Vice-Prosidents ap- pointad nccording to tha various countries. Tho appoiutmonts woro noty 88 a wholo, tho most suitable, for while wo gratefully ackuowledge to Baron Behwarz the lionor of gi‘v’hlq tho United Btates tho Presidency of Class 25, ** on Educa- tion and Inatruction,” and that of 26, “on tho Commereo of tho World,” wo must rogret miss- ing TFranco, tho most oxtensive wino-growing country in the world, from Clnss 3, * or Agri- culture, Wino, Fruits, Qarden-Culturo, otc.;” but, initead, wo 800 England, whers not & gallon of wine is mado, obtain ihe Vice-I'rosideucy in that snme class, whilo, on tho other hang is ignored in Class 5, ‘“on Textilo Ial In making the appointments, the Baron scoms to bayo takon into considoration gtiquette, and not usafulness. Tho United Btatos has also boen honored with the Vico-Presidoncy of Classes 18 and 20, tho firat in Civil and Construction En- incering, and tho last * on tho Poasant's Lodg- fi:g, with its Intornal Arrangement.” s I eaid at tho hnginnh\g, to givo your read- ors an intolligible insight into this Exposition, I shall have to wait until a little more ordor ‘is brought out of tho prosent chaos. P IN IT8 PRESENT BTATE, tho whole appears but liko a good-sized city that has just boen rebuilt after nomething like a Chi- cago or Boston fire, only with tlus differonco: that hore thore ave no ruins, excopt such as are sriifiolally mado for oxbibition; Lut, on tho othor band, brick, stone, lumber, and iron lay about, intormized with thousands of cases and boxes' containing goods, in most pleturosquo confusion, all over tho grounds. N ‘The goods that hava arrived ab Triesto by tho United Btates transport ships Gonoral and Bup- ply are expocted hore IN A FEW DAYS. The lighthouse apparatus, howover, must bo transported from Tricsto by borse-power, s, on sicount of ils length, it could not be loaded on railway trucks. TITE WATER-TOWER, ospoolally built to supply the grounds with ‘water, is one of tho groat works of this Exposi- tion, ‘and, in magnitudo, takes rank after the Rotunda. The colnmns cousist of iron, and aro of a hollow, cylindrical form, At tho hoight of 210 foot thoro isa wrouglt-lron resorvoir of o holding capacity of about 150,000 gallons, The water i8 forced up by & powerful engine into this resorvoir, whoncao it is distributed all over- tho grounds, for tho use of boilors, rostaurants, and thougands of other nccossary purposes, Nob Joss than 600,000 gallons of water in tho hourly supplying capacity of this tomporary Water- Towor. Gyura. S S — MAINE TRAGEDY. Boliending nnd Burning of Two Men =sELynching of the Murderer. Houlton (31e) (Vay 2) Corvespondence of the New York ieas. Last Saturday night, tho itoro of Duvid Dud- 1y, in Ball's Mill, Maploton, wra robbed by & deaperate man uamed Jamen Cullen, On Mon- dny moruing & warzant was istiod for his arrest, aud Granville A, Hayden, & Deputy Shoriff, of Prosque Iulo, started for Him, taking W, 1L 'Bird and Thomas Tlubbard, of Maploton, to auxist Lim. Tho burglar was -tracad to Bwanbock's 8bingla camp, on Cliapman plantation, aud _on “fuowiny night his arrost was offecled, Tho Bhoriff decided to stop in camp over night, and all hands went to bed. Noxt morning, Cullen awoke, and, obtaining an nxo, choppal ot tho hesds of Loth Hnydou and Hubbard, - The two othar occupauts of the tent, Bwanback and Bird, wore awnkoued by tho noiso, and wero witnossos of tho awful deed, Thoy'oscaped _from the tout. Cullon then kine dled a fire, and burned the bodies of the murdor- od mer, 1lo thon sot fire to the camp, Bwanback and Bird lurriod to tho sottlomont and gave the alarm. Darties of men Immnediato- ly startod out in search of the murdorer, and messenger gont in hasto to Presquo Isle. Tho wildest oxcitomont provailed. On reaching tho camp nothing romainod to tell of tha awful murder excopt koo heaps of ashos, o fow frag- ments of bones, and a bunch of Koys. Tho mur- dorer was trecod to his house in Mnlulomu. His wifa denied his presenco, but finally admitted that ho waa hiding in tho cellar, wlhiere Lio wan found by Constable Hughos and lis assistants, 1o ackuowledged his guilt, and said ho wished ho hud also killed Swanbeck and Bird, The oflicers aturted with Lim for Prosquo Inle. Aftor having procseded two miles (hey woro mat by o largo purty of disguised men, who took }mnacualun of the prisonor, who untill exulted in his guilt, rogrotling thut ho hud nol made a comploto job of it. ~ Ilo gald Lo wikhod ho hind killed his own wife and ¢hild, and thon he would Lo hung willingly. Tho disguised men placed a vopo round hig nock and Lung him to o troo thut hind beon prepered for tho purpose. Whon lifo was oxtinet the body was cut down nnd placed in & hox that had beou made to receive tho remaing of his victims, Cullon {# said to bave murdered lnwyer {n Now Drunswick, whero bo lud resided until within the puxt two yoars, IIuyden offersd hitn a chance Lo escapo if ho would leavo thocountry but hie was afraid to return (o tho Provineoy, and agreod to go with him peaceably in the morniug, Hayden was highly osteomed thronghout tho country whero Lo was woll-movu, Il leaves o wifoand ono child, The voica nf tho peoplo is that It servod tho murdoror righu, Hubbsrd was an unmarried man, MICHIGAN. The 'Work of the Legislature of 1878. Passnge of a Large Number of Imporfant Gteneral Laws. A Full Resume of Legislative Busi= ness. Speeial Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune, LANSING, Mich,, May 3, 1873, The Michigan Legislaturo practically onded its work on tho 26th of Aptll, but ita final sdjourn- ment was fixed for the 1st of May at noou. In its gossion of nearly four months’ duration, it hos onactod ovor 400 laws, hnlf of which are local. Tho romaindor include a fair proportion of comparatively unimportant amendatory ncts, together with somo striking additions to tho statutos, involving radieal changes and improve- monts. With tho oxception of tenor a dozon, hé nets of 1873 nre briof and ressonably ex-. plicit ; thoro are, howover, threo or four of groat Jength, tho ndoption of which is oxpocted to do away with the nocessily of n gront donl of formal and ropotitive logislation herenftor. OITIES AND VILLAGES, Tho two bills of which this is especially true aro thoso propared by tho Hon, Andrew Howell, of Adrian, who was solocted two yoars ago for tho purpoyo,nnd are dosignod for the gonoral incorpo- ration of citieo and vilinges. Prospoctivo muniei- palitios dosiring chartors may organizo them- sclves under theso without furthor legislativo intervenlion; and, i they should bo gencrally ndopted, it will probably result in saving o quar- tor of the timo of ench session, and in diminish- ing the unwieldy bulk of the bienninl volumes of lawa to one-third, at mos, ot tholr prosent di- monsions. < TATLTOADE, In tho usunl mass of Jogislation affect- ing tho railrond intorests, n now gonoral bill, rovieing the laws for tho incorpo- ration of reilwny companics, was-pagsed also. Tho expediont of eatablishing a Railroad Com- missionorship—an oflice hithorto untriod in this State—was ndopted, nnd tho supervision of tho affairs of all e railroads in the Stato, in their rolation to tho publie, is committed to his hands. Ho keops his offico in Lausing, nnd reccivos o 4,000 salary, Gov. Bagloy's appointoo to tho osb is Stoplien 8, Cobb, of Kalamnzoo. Aftor a ong_ oxemption, the Jand-grants muds to rid the building of railronds have Leon doclared tax- able, ond to the rovonue won from ihis sourco may bo added an income of 3 por cont on the pross recoipts of corporations manufaoluring and running palaco and slecping-cars,—a branch of industry that hias hithorlo cscapad taxation in Michignn. Pormission hns beon oxtended to railwey cor- Komuoun to convoy their franchisos of proporiy; ut polico rogulations for the security of the people have beon strengthened, two of tho most ractical roquiraments made’ boing, that all raing shall bo provided with air-brakes atter tho 1ot of October ; and that, after the end of Tuly, watchmon, gaten, and othor suitable snfoguards sball bo maintadnod ot such points o8 the Rail- road Commissiohor shall demguate, where the truck crosses tho trocts of o town. ¥ counta, Two now judicial cireuity, to be known as tho Ninoteenth and 'Fwentieth, hnve boon constitut- ed ; and the Ninth, Thivteentn, and Fourteeuth have boen _reorganized. “The Ninth now com- risoa the Countios of Knlamazoo and VanBureu ; lio Thirteenth,rtho Countios of Bmmot, Charle- voix, Antrim, Kalkaska, Grand Traverse, Loo- Janan, and Missaukeo ; and tho Fourteenth, tho Countlos of Ottrira, hluskegon, Ocounn, Novaygo, and Mecosta, The Ninctoenth coneists of Ben- zio, Mnnisteo, Wexford, Mason, Lake, and Ouceola’; and the Twentioth, of Allegan and Ottawa. Tho henvy business of tho Wayno Circuit will uow fall partly upon the now Supoerior Court of Dotroit, tho firat term of which hins just opened. The Lar of that city is greatly annoyed at the permanent removal of the Buprome Court to Lanuing,—balf of its ses- sions having boeen hold hithiorto in Dotroit. Tho galary of the Judges of that tribunal hns Leen raised from 22,600 to £4,000 eacl. THE 8TATE GOVERNMENT ling been further systemstized by the addition or strengthening of tsvo or throo importint burcaus, and by tho imposition of new dutics, Chief among these, porhapy, is the Railrond Commis- siouership. ut the Stato Board of Health hns also boon fairly organized, and ita Secrotary rece ognized a8 the Suporintendent of Vital Btatis- tics. 'Tho Insurance Commissionership has, Ly ghoor morit, forced itsolf upon tho good will of tho Logislature, which has fixed tho enlary of the Commissionor at $2,000, and that of his Deputy at 1,200 FIST AND OANE, Tho fishing intorest succeeded by hard work in gotting an appropriation of £7,500 a yoar for tho support of a fish-broeding establishment, directod by & Commissioner, whoso salary is fixed AL £1,200.° Tho laws for the protection of fish tn the inland lakes of tho State aro made moro stringent, n8 aro also tho game-laws, and the sonsons are distinctly specified whon it shall bo illogal to catch fish or kil daor, wild ‘turkeys, woodeacks, prairie chickons, ote. 1In the coneus roports, much more_nttoution will now bo givon to the fruit-crops, also. HALANIES, Efforts have beon mado to fix tho salaries of public ofticors satisfactorily, but with littlo offcct, oxcept in somo minor ecases, The enlary of the Probate Judgo s placed at €1,600, except in Wayne * County, where ho recoives $2,750, and is entitle to hoye o Registor Lo ausint him, _ Cortain pro- bate focs for transcript of prpors have also been rogulated, and the lnw providing tho oftice with stationory is mado to includo fucl also. Buper- vigors aro outitlod to €3 o day, aud 6 conts mileago, but thoy must not ait moro then fiftoen days at A regular mogting, nor more than threo in nn oxtra sossion. Chargl. for cortain papors in the Auditor Genoral's oftico Linve beon fixed, nnd so hiavo tho fees of Justices of tho Peaco, Sherifts, Commissionors nud Appraisers, jurors, etc,, in cortnin casen. Ono of the very best laws passed requires o full, detailed, and oxact account, fromn State Bourds and educational inatitutions and their financisl officors, of their stowardship with re- apect to nll tho public monoy_which they havo chnrgo of during tho yenr, Oficial Intorest in Btato contrnets is aternly prohibited, bosides, Theno facts will discoyrago smull thieving. Bloroe attoution i boing paid to- atatistios, also, Tho County Bupervisors aro instructed to furnish to tho Kocretary of State whatover dotails thoy can obtain of the inssue within .thowr jurlsdiction ; and & now Inanno Anylum is to bo built_on the easlern sido of tho Biato, ut a cont- of 8400,000, including the price of ut lenat 200 ncros of land, ‘The Stato also Becones n trusteo for tho inkane. Tho stativtics of Mebrintion nro to La compilod h‘y & Commission appointed by the Govornor, and all _possible information that can ho glawned from jail records. and roports, relating to the lustory and ciromn- slunces of criminaly, togothier with details of tho expenso of keoping thom, are to Lo gathered with some iden of scientifically checking crimo in tho light of n kuowlodge of ita causos, Tho prison-maungement of otbor States {s to Lo studied in this connection. Although the Login- Iature refused to establish a Blato Iistorio- grapher, it has given facilition for incorporating Listarical, biographical, and goographical socio- tion whorover thoy riso, Something like an ofll- clal rogistor of minor officors s provided for in laws requiring the post-offico ‘addressos of all Notarios Publio, and tho dato of filing thoir oaths and bonds, Lo bo m‘l\)rlml to tho Kocrotary of Stato and {ho Stato Trensuror, and causing town- ehip and city officers Lo raport thoir ndiressos to their respective County Clurkr, who are, in turn, to tranemit them to tho Socretury of Stato, MILITARY, 'The militin syatom hna been thoronghly rear- ranged with n view to making of it roniothing moro than aplay-day pantomime. ‘Tho purchane of grounds in or nour Detroit hag heon author- fzed, n order to provide n fiual reating-placo for tho soldiers and sailars who In_llr'ht. n tho late War under the battle-flaga of Michigan, and who muy muy dio liero poov and friendless. Proyislon Is mado for transforring tho insnno inmatos of tho Soldiers’ Home at Dotroft to tho Asylum at Kalamnzoo ; and tho annunl appropriation for tho Boldiors' Aid Fand is raisced to 25,000, Theunox- Joudod balanco intended for tho National Coma- lm‘iuu at Antictam and Gettysburg are trang- forred to tho Cicnoral Fund of tho Btate. REVISION OF TIL CONSTITUTION, Eightecn Commivsfoners nre soon to bo ap- Imim“d Ly the Govornor to roviso tho Constitu- ion, and " to suggest such changos to the nest Logislature au_thoy consider noodful. Rach ?ongrunulnnnl District is to bo roprosented Ly WO, CODE OF PROCEDURE, Two Commissiouers aro also to be appointed to propare a colo of proceduro in tho Blate, similar to that used In Now York or Ohio, 'L'is Inttor mensuro soemu to be atrongly opposcd by many of the Inwyors of tho Btate, and it barely passod the Houso of Reprosontatives, ., MUSBAND AND WIFE—WILLS, Tho ‘abolition of cstntes in dowor, and of tennnoy by the courtony, was unauccesafully at- tempted during tho session ; howover, a Inw was Bnnucd barring the rightot dowor of ineano orim- ocilo womon, Another rot nuthorizes chanooty courts to n;ml o part of aman's proporty to the support of his wifo if he han noglocted or de- sorted hor. Tho oustody of tho mqlmr childron of separatod parents hine beon eotiled, the hus- band taking those which aro over 1‘.‘5, and the wifa those bolow that ogo, But the Court mny order othoerwise, It is provided, too, that any porson, whothor malo or fomale, who Is the own- or of prorurly, may make untrammeled disposi~ tion of it by will, Exeoutors and adminlstra~ tors, are, Liowover, kept out of posassslon of tha Eropur!y of the doconsed until tho Probato ourt 18 satisfiod that thoy have sorved notico u])on tho holrs, it possible, and until thoy havo filed a potition showing their claim, It is mado the duty of courts to compel prompt reports {from sucl officara, POLIOE REGULATIONS. The publio safoty receiven additional protec- tion from cortain long-noeded police-regulations, chief among which aro tho iwo alroady men- tloned, viz: tho compulsory introduction of nir-brakes, aud the ostablishmont of watchmon b atroot-crosalugs, upon tho railroads. Hero- aftor, alao, nitro-glycerine may not bo trans- portod In passonger conveyancos of any kind, must always be marked ' dangorous,” and mus| novor bo unloaded botween G In the morniug and 6 atnight, Tho aduitoration of conl olls is to bo sternly punished; potroloum shall bo care- fully Inspected, and none shall bo usod or Lept”| for snlo that will ignite, or gonerato an oxplosivo gas, at 160 degrees _Fahrenhoit, Tho adultoration of milk sold to chocse- makors is prohibHod with penaltics, Al polsons must honcoforward be labsled with thoir gim- plest and most ensily-obtainablo antidoto, And, finally, whoover eells medicinos for tha accom- plishmont of abortions, excopt upon n propor progeription, or without' tho stringent precau- tions prosoribod in tho law, ehall bo severcly punishiod, Two of the most notorious abuses in our criminal jurisprudenco are met by statutes on- tiroly now to Michigan.: One prorcribes that no jurar shall bo challongod for tho possession of an ormiun that is not positive; gnothor prompt- Iy places in safe-keoping and confinement tho “insanc” murderer who oscapes punishmont h{ P]cmlhng hig infirmity of miud, Iieronftor, tho ownors of buildings that aro used as dens of drunkenners aud infamy are to bo lield as accessory to the wickednous committed thors ; aund thoss who sell liquor to disordorly persons aro to bo regarded ns dis- orderly thomeolyes. The nbetiors of dog and cock-fights aro bronght under the samo law ns tho prineipals. That crimo has no sex is shown in au ennctmeont aking the man who burns his wite's dwelling & guilty of nrson ns the woman alrondy is if who sots fito to hor husband's Louse, Another lnw places femalo liquor-denl- ors 'on tho smwe fooling with males, -and €iib- jects thom to oxecutions issuod by Justicos of tho' Penco. Upon sworn stntoments of sus- rlcinn, Dodies may bo disintorred and exam- ned to ascertuin whather they suffored violent death, In cases of douth m:cidonlnllg caused by wrongful acl, the roprosontatives of the deconso: muy briug action, THE STATE PRIEON. Ono hundred and sixty thousand dollara hag boen approprinted for ropaira and additions o tho State V'rison ; tho conviets are to bo freod f1om the ignominy of wearing striped clothos; auch ns desiro it are to reccivo tho clements of an education ; tho Prison-Agout is authorized to furnish thom with suitablo secular reading ;. and onch man, upon his dichargo, is to e presented by tho Stato, if he noeds it, with 310 worth’of clothing aud $10 in-noney, boside the earn- ings which ho' may lave accumulated by working out of houre. Lifo convicts will bo allowed to correspond with near frionds aund rol- atives, The contract systom of convict Inbor is also modifiod by & law Yoquiring full notico of ho lotting of contracts to bo published for six weoks proviously in six difforent papers in dif- foror:t parts of Mo Stato. . STATE INSTITUTIONS. An snnual tax of 1-20 of a mill haa boon im- poncd for the beneflt of tho State University, and two Chnirs of Homoopnthy have Lison adidc to tho Faculty. 'ho Institution for tho Deaf and Dumb aund the Blind ot Flint recoives nn ap- propriatigy of £92,000, and provision is” mado for tho {r6o education in that fnatitution of poor deaf and blind children. 'The Agricultural Col- lego and the Btato Board of -Agriculture reccive 206,000; ond tho Bosrd, which is to contain roprosentation of pomologists, is orderced to mado detailed reporta of tho results of its ex~ periments in agriculturo. THE INSURANCE INTERESTS. have also roceived somo attention, the most im- portant act rolating to thom boing one to defino and catablish o roinsurauce reserve, which in placed high ouough to assure policy-holders of tolorablo necurity. Bills wero also’agreod to incorporuting mutual {nsurance companios, and allowing forelgn mutual marine insuranco cowm- panios fo trananct businoss in the Stato. 'Tho oxisting laws relating to firo and marine insur- anco companios woro 80 amended that their capital stock shall not bo losa than $100,000, and individual shares shall not Lo leas than $25 nor over $50 onch, - TAXATION, A proposition wns made to substitute the county systom of taxation throughout the State for the gonoral system contralizod at the Audi- tor Gonaral's office. This was barely dofeated aftor about tho sharpost atrugglo of tho sossion, and no other changes of spocial importance were made in tho oxistiug taz-lawa, It is provided, howover, that tho Auditor-General shall give four weeks' notioo of the saleof lands delinquent for tazes, EDUCATION, .Bomo alterations, liko tho abolition of tho County Buperintondoncy of Sohools, wore pro- posed in the educatiounl system, but they failed to carry, and the schdol-laws were amiounded only in some trifling mochanionl dotails, Tho forogoing statoment covors. thio saliont foatures of such gonoral loglalation of tho past sension as In of intorest to the public af large. WISCONSIN. 'T'he Prospects of the State for the Coms ing Yea From the Milwaukee News, May 4. Tho foars of our Wisconsin farmors that tho winter wheat had boon destroyed by the cold woather, aro now proved to be protty near ground- loss. In somo very oxposed situntions, on ridges that wero swopt clear of show by the hurricano blasts of wintor, and on opon prairics, tho crop lins really suffored. But the destruction has only been limited, and will not operate to soriously diminieh an ayerago crop. Tho spring whoat waa fairly in the ground previous to tho late raius, and 8o hoa o start for o vigorous growth. Unless somo unforscon catastropho of drought, or {ly, or worm shall assail tho wheat, wo may oxpoct n magnificont yiold, '5.‘110 lumbor product of Wisconsin the present yonr will bo enormons. ‘The spring froshet in all the wator coursos which flow through tho pinories hae boon swooping, and groater than for soveral years, Logs out ono and two yonrs ago, and which have lain ou tho banks of the strontng in tho depths of tho fBroats awalting a rise of wator to flont them off, but which nover camo till now, bave boon brought down to the mills, and will bo mado into Jumber, furnishing an amount to the Bonthorn and Westorn markets which they have not soon in years, ‘Thoro nro various rumors ubout the hops, In localitiea they have beon Injured ; but that will muko tho balanca of the ‘crop more valuablo, 1t in quite likely that tho injury to the crop will bo ns gront elsowliere ns in'thia State, I'horo Is sufticiont renson to oxpoct a good market for this Wisconsin staple. Qur tobaceo-growers, thus far, have not ro- coived the groat encouragoment 'which thoy ox- pocted, und thoe spring is cold and backward. Fhe romnants of old crops are boing sold off for what they will bring, and wo hear loss from the rowerd of tho woodas to thoir prospocts or in- ontions, . Othor industrios of the Btato aro prosporous, with oxcollout prospects for the year boforo them, The cheese-malkers ara beginning oporn~ tions with uncommon activity. Tho cranborry men are uxdmnllng a good orop and an incroaged demapd, btock-growors find sufliclont oncour- ngemont fo increaso thofr products, which find a rendy markot in the pine and iron contres at Northivard, to which traneportation is oasy and eheap; for if the railronds eharge too much for carrying their brutes, thoy can drivoe tho oron- turas ou foot to their destinntion. On the wholo, wo look for & year of unusunl prospority for th Stato, An abundance of the ataple productions will, at lenst, bo realized, Eveu if prices, under o stringont money market and an over supply, should rule low, the aggro- uto cash recoipts for our diversified cropy will o unusnally large. Hallroad bullding will also bo pushed forward iu the Btato, thls yoar, Tho Wiconsin Centrul will bo crowdod toward Ash- land, and tho ‘now land-grant branchos of tho Milwaukeo & 8t, Panl Road will bo put well un- der way, Al these (hings must bring much money to tho Btato the present yoar, THE ' COURTS. A Mixed-Up Real Estate ) Affair. An’ Alleged Fraudulent City Tax- Sale. Moan from o Orass-Widowor---Bank- yuptey Items, Eto. Percas B, Iiamiin files hier bill in the Olrcult Court againet Oharlos W. Shumwoy, Erastus M. Moffott,Jamen T, Tylor,Jonnio B, and Samuol W. Pease, Complaluant avors that, on tho 2d Fob- ruary, 1866, sho was the happy owner of 14 sorca of roal-estato in the 8, B. cornor of the W. 3 of B. W. X 8oc: 10, 8 N, 14 E., 8 P, M,, commenc- ing at tho B, E. corner, thenco N, along W. lino Indiana avenuo 10 chains 60 links; thonco W. 18 chaing 42 linke, ' to onet line Georgo Mannor's proporty, in 1861, thonos ‘8.’ along said east lino to 8. lino of said quartor, and thenco E. to place of boginning ; that, ot that timo, ono Cyrus AL Albert claimed to bo the ownor thoreof by vir- tuo of a deod of conveyance purporting to bo ox- ecuted by complainant and her husband, by Josoph H., Tiffany, tholr attornoy; that com- plainant urged that sald dood was not binding upon her, as Tiffany bad oxecuted it with- out nuthority; thet, on account of tho dis- puto, complainant, then =& widow, ap. plied to Charles M. Bbumway, hor friend and meodical advisor, who undertook to prosceuto complainant's claim, and, to onable him to do 8o, complainant dolivered to Bhumway, in trust, & warranteo deed of tho proporty, tho considoration therofor boing recolved from Shumyay, who employed ono Sloan to prosecuta tho suit, who commencaed action for ojectmont In Decombor, 186—, against Alber, which was dlsmissed by Shumway in May, 1870, without complainant’s consent ; thus about the April 1, 1870, Shumway ongaged ono Andrew Garrison a8 counsel in sald matter, and authorizod him to compromiso with Albor ; snd such-arrangements wore mado that tho pwpun‘i was conveyed to Jounie 8., wifo of SBamucl- W. Donso, who con- voyod it to Iivastus M. Moffott and Jumes L. I'aylor ; that out of thio proceeda of - such wsalo 211,000 was paid to Alber, in conslderation of whith. ho'sbandoned all claim to tho ety that a Jarge sum of. monoy was paid Shum- way for (ha ‘convoyance of tho property, the oxnct amount complainaut knows not; but she knows that as o part of the cousidoration & promissory note for 5,000, dated May 3, 1870, was exoculed by Jeiuio. 5. and Samuel W. Poaso to Bhumway, which note Moffoit and Tylor agreed to pay a8 o part of iho consideration for the conveynuce to them; that tho note is not paid, but is still held by Shum- way, who s ondeavoring to collect it; that Shimway claims to bave roceived only $15,000, benides said noto for tho conveyanco; that Mof- fott and Tyler agreed to pay therefor ©44,687.50, all of which has been paid oxcopt tho £5,000 noté; that all_Shumiway hos paid <hor is $6,000, and ho pretends that ho ia not liablo to pay her any moro; that Shumway ia of doubtful eol- voney, and she foars that if the $5,600 note-is paid him it will bo totally lost to her; whetoforo complaiuant prays that an account bo taken' ba- tiwoen hor and Shumway for tho amount received by-him for tho promises ; that Moffott and Tylor Lo roquired to pry complainaut tho 5,000, nud -Shumyay bo enjoined from receiving the samo. ALLEQED FRAUD ABOUT CITY TAS BALE, - Michaol J, Lich, Blizaboth Hchaormaun, and Frodgrick and Jacob Lich, minors, fila o bill in “the Circuit Court agninst the City of Chicago. Complainants aver that thoy wero ownors of Lot 2, in Block B, in Rockwell's Audition to Chicago; that complainants havo beon notifiod through a notico to redoom issuod in Lho namo of o City Comptrotler, but the land was sold to one Goorgo Maylor, who nasigned it' to thp City of Chicago, whicli now claims $1,239.18 far tho re- domption of eaid premises from said protended galo, which was mado on the protended authori- tv of & cortain spocial ndecsnmont on warrant No. 1112, for oponiug o srcot 66 feat wido, from Madison stroet to ‘Cwolfth street, whilo in fact the premises so proposed to be taxed nio not contignous to said atreot 66 fect wido from Mad- fson to "Twellth streot; that tho city refuses to surronder 8aid protended claim, and complainant fears that tho services of Jowoph Pollak mny bo - called in requieition for n deed of snid promises In pursunuco of eaid pre- tondod galo; whorefore complainant prays that tho sale may_ bo dsclared by the law to bo null and void, and that Josoph I’. may bo enjoined perpotually from giving tho city dood for the proporty. A PRO TEM, WIDOWER'S MOAN, David Cashou, & grass widower, whose wite is locked up in the narrow conflues of an Armory cell, applicd yesterday for s writ of Labeas corpus whoreby he might regain the comfort, society, caro, nud protection which ho hng miesed so0 wadly since. 'The evil gonius who is restraining bor from rogulnlny tho fireside cornor of home is one Michaol O, Hickey, and tho heniousuness of higactis intensified by tho fact that tho fair Lilly C. was impri¢oned without warrant, and is dotained, although no charge was ever mado agalust hor, P CRIMINAL COURT ITEME, Judgo Troe took his soat in this court yestor- day morning. Eloven of the Grand Jury have been alrendy obtained. Sixtoon porsona meutioned in the vonire woro on hand, of whom oleven wore choson and oxcused until Thursduy next, in or- dor to fill up the panel of twenty-throo. Charles Liohmau, whoso proper namo is Ijnao Woodman, in February last suffered from tho oxtromo cold which provailed at that time, and bogan negotiations for the purchaso of an over~ cont. Xuving no money to pay for it ho devisod an ingenious mode of obtaining posscasion. Pro- ouring one of tho business cards of a tailornamed ‘Wenderly he wroto an order on the back of it iving instroctions to the sorvant of a Mr, radioy, of tho firm of Fair & Bradley, to yield to him'an ovorcoat, undercoat, and vest. Armed with this forgad document, Lo prosented him« self at Mr, Bradloy's houso and demanded tho clothes, whicl, ho sald, Mr. B, had ordered Wen- derly to ropair. ~The morvant gavo them up to him, but, thinking all waa not right, sent the cnrr‘ngnvmnu aftor Lim, who traced him to & Luoke streot tailor’s shop, whore Lehman traded tlie gooda for n very neatly-fitting overcont. o was shortly afterward arréstod. A voryingonious attompt Lo fofton tho hoarts of tho jury by intra- duclng at tho Xrinonor‘fl sido & womnn with child inarms, was dofeated by the Btate's Attorney, who drew from the mother the assortion thiat prisouor was & bacholor. Under theso clrcum« atances, tha. [;l‘oum:n of tho weoping woman and wailing child very naturally failod to crento any aympathy intho bronste of tho Donedicts by whom Llio cano was trisd, who decided that prig- oner should go to the House of Correction for nix months, * Tho case of George Gilfen, for atealing a load ot iron, which was tried somo thros mountha ago and educed rome remarkablo coutradictory tos- timony, was dismissed for want of evidence. BANKRUPTOY MATTERS, Tn the matter of tho Lyon Rufllor Company, an insolvent, tho potition'of Geo. W. Lyon was filad, tho Judgo allowing that it bo granted, and potitioner pormitted to remove property from prosont promisos, No. 67 West Washinglon streot, which have beon damaged by fire, to No, 9 Bouth Jefferson stroot.” In tho maitorof Charles Foshender, an in- solvent, sidward (1. McClellan, Assignoo, was romoved from oftico, and Hobort K. Jenking was appointod in bis placo, n tho matter of Jozoph E, Wright and Au- rolius O, Stovonw, insolvent, a rula to show oauss was onterod, aud provisional warraut of wseizure was lasuod.’ In the matter of Bornard Bawnn and Frod- orick . Basch, tho order of dismissnl was mado absolute. .- i TIIZ COURTS IN RRIEF, A maliclons prosecution case was tried in Judgo Booth’s Court zeutunhy, in which John D, White, real estate broker, sought to recovor £10,000 from Will R, B, Btovons. Plaintiff wag, at dofendant’t instigation, brought up bo- fore Banyon on a charge of Inrcony in June last, Plaintift " was found not guilty, and now brings action to rocover damnges for the slur on Lig roputntion, and tho discomfort ocansed by his lodgment in durance vile, Tho jury retirod, and, by agroemont, thoy wore ullowed to deliver o sonled verdict. 'T'hie cago of Boatichor v, Beliweltzor came up before Judge Booth yostorday,on tho application of defoudunt's attornoy, to lavo vordict set sasido on afMdavits to bo iiled, E In tho caso of Al:ioruon 8, Chaso ot al, v. Dil- lard Rickotts et al,, Ilenry W. Bishop, garnl- shoo, wag dlacharged by order o Rogord, Tho ease of Campbell v, Prout was dismiseed on ‘mntluu of plaintifs attornoy, at plaintit’s coats, ‘I'ie cago of Harder v, Globo Insuranco Com- pauy came up before Judge Porter yesterdsy, Judge counsel for. dofendant domurring to tho smended narr of plaintifl. Tho cano of John Erongor v. William T\, Scott, John W, Iorton, and Timothy Oumman was triod in.Judgo Rogers’ Court yosterday., Dlain- HIT charged “defondants with” earrying off and dontroying n quantity of his offccts, nmong other things a numbor of poach navlvnu poplar, rose, Tilao, andl joanmino troos, 2,000 feol ot Inmber, T'his nction rose from n ront dispute, Pronger helug Scott's tonant, Tho caso le probably bo coneludod to-doy. 'lig caso of Lyman Biogel v. B, B, Maun, Wil- Hm| 3.4.‘51“run, .?mll m:l?rgn 1'i Hhfinrs wxa't‘l’l’ud without jury. Judgo Portor found for the plain- IUIT W‘Ifih Eflflfl;fl? gn’r&uguu. Vi n tho cogo of James Allen and Murray Bart- lott v. A. F, Doromus and M, B, Murwlny, ade- oreo was onterod for amount of tho debt, $266,98, I-‘,llli‘guuu I, wf":!ll“l‘xw flludé& 1};001 olln troapags on tho caso againt Thomas O, Boyd, Iaying - a70s AL 86,000, g g "Tho Bank of Gh(cugo brings a sult in tho Bu- anlor Court ngainst - Bamuel Danlop, C. B, lonrtt, and Chorlos Busby, in assumpsit, for 3,000 damnges, itho Receivor of the Lamar Insurance Com- pany brings notions in assumpsit against sevoral artios in tho Buperlor Court, viz., G. A, Hub- ord for §1,0003 O, W. Hammond, #1,600; O. M. Fiteh, $1,600 ; William A, Omstond, 20600; Oharlos J. dtnkou. #0600 3 Judson M. V. Jones, $1,000. In tho lroult Court Mary L. Douglan filos o bill ngainst Willlam E, 'I\Inrlylmur asking for oa- tablishment of hor title to tho E. 20 feot, being cE. gx of Lot 80, 17 {n the original Town of Ohi- ago, 5 NEW SUITS, Tue UNtTep . Brares Omourr Count—Orrin T Mavn V. A, Vanco Drown; sssuwmpsit, $7,600, Honry A, ' Dalo v Androw, Clorles ‘A, aud Nichols DeGraft aud Willlam Orooks; ' covo- nont, Olark V. Upton, Asslguco ' eslate Gront Westorn Insurance Company v. Judson A, V. Jonos ; appeal, Samov, Bonjamin Carver ; samo, In iho matior of the cinir of Jesso B, Kotchum v, Auro- a Firo Tnsurauco Company, a bsnkrupt ; appeal, “in'lrlv X‘l“l’l‘illl‘l:"(;?mfir—fl,HW—Fmdurlck Emmorich l Vo astings ; assumpsil 00, G, Tthiol D Farnum ; anuspelts $100, t‘u,uvn-s“’g:o;: Jolin Ballubur) imo, $600. G,A12—Ifenry W, Cloment ot al, v, 8, L. Ranuy ; same, $500, 0,813—Fetor Hayden et al, v, K. Geo, Kubnoru ; sswo, 10, 0,814—Nowoll Avory o+ al. v, Allert R, Cooke’; samo, $500, 6,816 AMiclinol L. Eich and_Elizabeth Sehioneriuan and Frod- orlck Jncob Eich, minars, v, Clty of Chlcagn bill to #ot asido tax gulo, 6,81G—) ores case, P, I, Homlin v, Chas, W, Bhumway, Erastus 68171, . ¢ . Mofrets Jouien E. ylor, Tonglo A: and Garsh W, Poxscs byl foF Injunction. 68it~Tus Feoplo o tie Stato of Tilinols ¥, Michaul’ O, Hickoy ; petition for writ of liboza cors pis, 6,819—Appesl, 6,820—Eugeno F, Wonshaw v, Thomnu O, Boyd ; treapans on tho cano, §5,000, (Burnt Rocord,) GA—Mury I, Douglan v, Win, &, Mortimer; Lill to catablisl titlo o tho caet 30 feot, hoing onst A of Lot 3, Block 17, original town of Chichgo, Tuz Hurnion Covnr.—3,219—Louln Engelman v, Pator @, Holtnbach'; confossion of judgmont, $22.05, 43,280—William E. ' Jolinson, for vinoof Cord Houry Qoltiy, v, Campboil Swmith aud Robort Ruasell, coparte noru; assumpslt, $800, 43,281—Hermann i Jotta' and Borthia Ttobinson B, Bailey v: Avas Hadloy 3 dI Yon, “402i1=—han of Ghieago v, Knmuol Dunlop, . and* arles neby; nasumpait, F000, 43,30 Frank v, Jonny | . Frary: divorce on ground _of doaurtlon, 4,295 Catherino E, Fronoh v, Jobn E. Owwloy and 'Joln Wortly tresyias, $1,000, -43,280—Willtam 1. Dogot ¢t al, v. {lonzo 1fayen's potition (o supply record, 43,287 —Samno v. eama; aamo. 40,288—Clandler, Recolver of tho Lamar Insurauco Company, V. Gordon 8. Hub- bard's susumpsit, $1,000, 43,289—8amo v, C, W, Howm~ mioud ;. wane, $1,600. * 43,200—Hamo v, C. M. Titeh 1 samo, $L60, €h01~uno v, Willim A, Omstesd ! o samo, $500), j9:2—8ama v, Chiarles J, Stokex 3 same, U0, 43,293—tamo v, Judson M, W. Jones; sumne, $1,000. 43,204—Wm, McConucll and FEdward B, Reoso v, Luuisa O, Dyer ; assumpsit, $500, COUNTY AFFAIRS, Places Assigned ond Xnspectors Ap= pointed for the Judicinl Election to be Jlokd in June~=Thoe Jounty Jait Stono Uontract==Frotest from the IKankas koo Quarry Gwners. The County Cominissioners met yosterday aflernoon, Prosidont Miller in the Chair, Pros- ont, Cbmmissionera Ashton, Jones, Lonorgan, Horting, Binger, Bogue, Harrison, Olough, Rus- goll, Crawford, Pahlman, Roolle, Galloway. "ho County Attorney roported tho rosulta of the nction of the Logislature so far as Cook County was concorned. Tho bill for County As- sesuor, for increasing foes of officors in cortain cnsos, for the Industrial departmont, for mbol- fshing town moetingain Chicago, did not pass. Tho Bond bill passod, together with ono amend- Ing the Revenue law #o as to facilitato tho collec- tion of taxces heroaftor lovied. The Board of Town Auditors of North Chi- caga complaiued that tho money set apart for tho Assossor was usod to pay the Collector, and . that tho former officer, who lad received noth- ing for 1872, would have to wait another year for hin dues, Soveral applications for rebate of taxes wore Brcnoutod, among them one from the West Bide wodenborgian Church, The Clerle was ordored to draw an ordor on the Troasuror for §4,110 in favor of the contractors for the County Jail. (= The purcliase of o horso for tho Poor Mouso ferm, and of 100 troes to bo sot out thoro, was orderod. The Clork was ordered not to pay any persons sorving on Coroners’ jurios whon thoy are county omployes, * Mr. Galloway offerod tho following, which was adoptod: ‘Waenzas, Thero will bo an olection in tho County of Cook, on tho first Monday in June, 1873, for tho elec tion of Circuit Judges ; and, Wuzneas, For tho purposos of tho clection held in November, 1872, thls oard did_divide somo of e towns and wards, In satd county intoalection precinets, olc,, and appointed tho judges ; therefore, esolved, 'That tho sald sovoral precincts, as fixed and establishiod, bo and tho samo aro Lereby fixed and catnblished an procincts for the purpose of the clection in Juno, 1873; and + Jtesolved Thiat tho places for voting in eaid soyoral procincts be, aud tho samoare heroby fixed at the placen whoro the sald clection in November, 1872, was Beld, and that tho aovoral porsons who acted na judves f aald last montloned olection, n thelr respoctiye pre- cincts, bo and they ato heroby appolnted judgea of aald clection, 80 to bo held in Junpaforesald, and that the placos of meoting for thio purposo of Toglatration iu 8ald several pracincts bo and they ara horoby fixed at tho places respoctively for holding kald registry, Bherman, Hale & Co., the ownors of the quar- ry known as the Kankakeo sandstone, sentina protost against the vote by which limestono was substituted for sandstono in the construction of tho now juil, such action being had by & minori- ty vote of tho Board. The records showed the voto was not a minor- ity of tho wholo Board. Tho Chair moved tha potitioners have leave to withdraw, sinco thoy stated tho Board voted from intorested motives, ‘ 1t was flnnll& orderad that the communication bo not roceived. Tho Boavd adjourned. SUBURBAN. NORWOOD TARK. I'his dolightful spburb is only ton miles dis- tant from the clty, on the Wisconsin Division of tho Chicago & Northwostorn Rallrond. It claims to be as high ground as can bo found in Cook Oounty. The villago is 1aid out in & vory artistio mouner, and the ‘Uruateos ere not sparing timo or money to make it one of tho most degirable of suburban towns, An artesian well has boon sunk to tho dopth of 850 foet, which now yieldy n coplous supply of sulpbur wator, Tho water is not at all dieagroeablo to unregonorated men; in fact in quito tho roverse, being in taste and madicinal virtue tho samo as tho wators of the Whito Bulphur Springs, Ohio. Conveniont to tho depot a fino hotel has been crocted, which will bo oponed thin 6oason for invalida who may wish to try tho curative powor of the wator, and othora sooking a pleasant country home. TFino rosidences and ~ storos: aro boing erected in different ortions of the villago, ‘Tho Baptista hold their first sorvicos in their now church on last Sunday. The Duteh Re- formed Church I8 o Jurgo and tasty structure, A now Mothodiat church is also to be bullt this meason, The Norwood Pross and Job Printing Establishmont is located horo and omploy n Inrgo numbor of hendd, It Line beon erroncons- ly siatod that thoro is o cemotory located at this Klm 3 tho facts are theso: A cliurch in Chioago, osiring o placo of intorment, aout & commitieg out prospecting, The Qommittoo found a Cer- man owning # large farm on the Plank Road, about two miles from Norwood, wha was willing | to sell his Iand at a low figure if ho might have n semivary located near him, Thoe land was pur- chasod, and it was not until the doeds wore mado out that ho discovered that, in his Door knowl- adgo of Eugllsh, he had mistakon * cometery” for “gominary.” Thore Is not a more disgusted Gorman in the country than tho one atorosald, LINCOLN PARK, Lincoln Park was orowdod on Bunday by clti- zeus onjoying one of the fow shining days of tho aoagon thus far, All day long vehicles of all do- scriptions passed throiigh all the drives and wound an unending styeam aniong the troes, Excollont ordor was qnnnrnlly obsorved, and the fow cauou of disorder] i'mmlu n vory sinall exbibit a‘inlnst tho enjoyment of the many thousands who enjoyed Lincoln Park, Ono of those cases was that ‘of & Dan Pastor and Honry Yerkivs, flued $5 onoh for boilux drunk aud diserdorly, Morgan Dopl wan fined for fast 008LE, Amongs Lho cason tried at tho Town IHall of Lako Viow, whoro, horeafter, all polico trials will Do hold, was {hat of IHonry Daich and Goorgo: Ratwer, fined %10 onch nnd costa for stonling trees from the gronudsof Benjamin Bhurtloff. T.argo numbers of workmen aro at work putting Lincoln Park in ordor for tho sm- mor, and earrying forwnrd improvemonts Logun, Aont-rido at Tivorsido 1ast Sund - voraido lnst Bunday aftern resullod in the drowning of two xr?en, Dur%gg Robsou and Michaol Callahan, who woro rowing 8 sldfl fn tho Aux Plaines, the curront of which, awolfon by spring raine, was very strong. 'Uho; incautiously floatod too noar tho Lyons dam, an wore carriadl over it, despite thelr frantio strug- filen to snvo themsolves, and both woro drowned. 4 latost aocounts nofthor of tho bodios had beon_rocovored. Callahan was a singlo man, but Robson, n butcher Ly trado, was marriod. 1o leavos & wifo, upon whom tha blow falls with ferriblo forco, thio moro #o that sho lost hor tiwin bnbos nbout throo woola sinco, _Tho cataatropho croatod groat oxcitomont in Rlivorside, whoro Ttohdon hiad beon known for movoral years ag coachman and gardenor of T, Murray, Esq, Col, William A. Jatmos, his Jol, iam A, James, Mayor-oloct of Iighe land Park, will read & paper boforo the ]:Mnrfll Club at its regular meoting this ovoning, V. l! Donslow, Esq., and othor diatingulshe gontlo- mon, will joiu in t4& discussion of tho paper., —_—_— : THE PHENICIANS IN AMERICA. Discovery of a IRemnarlable Mistorienl Tronsuro in Irazil--Record of Pheniclan Visit to tho Territory Five Centurics Icforo the Birth of Ohrist-~Tho Snvans Amazed nnd De lighted, Rio Janciro (4pril 6) Correapondence of the New York Herald, Thoro are good grounds for tho bellef that a romarkablo historical discovery has just beon achioved in Brazil, no loss than an en- gravod stono, boaring a Pheniclan ip- geription, commomorating o visit to Drae zil somo five conturies boforo tho birth of Christ. The circumstances aro: Viscondo do Bupercaby, & mombor of tho Emporor's Couneil of Btato, roccived, throo months ago, o lotter {rom Paraljyba, onclosing o drawlng of tho in- acription upon n stone which tho writor's slaves had como upon' during thelr sgricultural laliors on his farm, and which drawing had boen madoe by the writer's son, n young man who could draw o littlo, - Thi dopy was urad ovor to the Historical Eocln!g of Itio, and by it to Bonor Ladislno Netto, Dircctor of tho Tio Musoum, for an oxamination, On examining it ho waa surprised to find that the charactors woro puro Phonician. I will now quote from tho lettor of this gon- tlomnn : Aftor the first natural transport at n discovery of ko gront_importance, it occurrod to mo that, with the aid of uncient_Iobrow, a noighboring lauguage, and closoly allied to ‘Phonician, and somotimos, with much ronson, confounded with it, nll tho Phenician and Phenicopunio inscripe ‘tions found on tho Mediterranoan had boon in- terproted, and that, a6 I know something of tho holy:tonguo, a8 the Oriontalists call it, I might, porhaps, by study and porsevarance, arrive the iitorprotation of this curious monumont. Who, - indeed, would not fecl wplifted,—who wouldnot oxperience n sentimont of pride ot such n troasure-trovo, if it should end tho gront- est and most gonoral intorrogation in_tho Lis- tory of the early peoples,—if it should confirm tho atory of tho voyage of discovory commanded by Nekau and exocuted by Pheunicians six contus turies boforo Christ to’ circumnavigato Africa, confirming ot tho snmo timo the periplo o Hanno, the Inecriptions in North Amorica, of which Count Gabolin speaks in his ¥ Primitive World,” and perhaps even the curious inscrip- tion roforrod {o by Kostor as oxisting in Parahybn do Norto, For gomo months I Iavo baon worke ing on {his grand problem without wonriness or intormission, rathor with growing interest and zoul. Igpenk with sincority, but with n_certain resorve. But, fagciuntod by tho singular boariug of tho resoarch, I havo boon amplifying my ac- quaintance with Hobrow; I lLave_gathiored around me the nnoded books upon the Phonecinn language; I have studied a grent deal of what has boen written upon this specialty; I have consulted moro than fifty Phonician inscriptiona which havo already boen translatod and disousa~ sod, lottor by lotter, by tho groatest modern linguists, and after jmmonso labor I liave been able to interprot this inscription with such good fortune thot only two or thres words have proved beyond my poworss. The inscription is of a commomorate stono—a rough monument erected by some Phenicisns of Bidonis, apparently exiles or refugees from their Dative lan , botwoen the ninth and tonth yeara of the roign of a king namod Hiram. Theso rash or unfortunato Cansnnites — the pantronymic which thoy have used to denominate themselves —loft the port of Aziongaber (now Akaba), & ‘port upon thio Red Son, and sailed for twolve (?) novilunes (lunar months) along tho land of Egypt—that i, Africa. 'Tho number of vossols * they bad and tho number of the males and fo- males composing tho advonturous oxpedition aro ol 8ot forth in & concise and seowmiugly elogant stylo, these particulars boing placed iutor- mediato botween tho invocation—somo at the boginning aud tho others at tho oud of the in- scription of the Alonim Valonuth—i, 0., gods and oddossos, or superos superasque,ns is the Latin ranslation by Gesenius of thoso well-known Phonician words, Tho inseription is in cight lines of moat beautiful Phonician charnctors, bus without soparation of the words, without the vowel points, and without quiescent lottors— throe great obstacles to the interpretation, for whose overcoming o more knowledge of Biblical Hebrew is insufficiont, . A cortain ararism, not s!l(i'hlly manifost in tho emphatio termiuation in aleph and in the fomi- nine ono of #hau, and moro than this tho forms of the letters mem and shin, induce mo to be- lievo that the reign of tho second of tho two Hi- rams was the epoch of the adventure, and that the voyage was, thorofore, made in the years 643 and 542 B, C, ; that is, twonty-six years aftor tho siego of Tyro by Nebuchadnozzar, aud four years ‘bofore Cyrua reignod. Tho inecription does not declaro which of tha two Phenican monarchs is referred to as tha Hiram of tho opoch.. The firat iliram of tho two historical ones was the Iiram tho ally of Bolomon, and he reigned in 930 to 947 B. O. The gecond wag an obscire Princo, who reigned in 658 to 652 B, 0., under the pressuro of Babylon and Egypt. Bub whichovor tho ono, this in= scription is ona of the oldest and evidently tho most notable record yot discoverod in relation to the horoic and onlightoned people to whor, it would seem, thoe wholo of the seas wore known. Lonving apart trifiing mattors, of which it in needless now to treat, I will proceed to tront of driving $10 and the - crossing of tho Phenicinus from Africa tq Drazil, To oxplain this cross- ivng, of which thoy thomsolves appeared to he unawaro, I havo rosortod to tho beau- tiful and classie studios of Maury on oceavig curronts, and T gathor that the snme happened to our Sidoninvd g did to Pedro Alvares Cabral 2,000 yours Intor, when, knowing nothing of Brazil, he found himself unexpoctodly off ite shoré, I'he ouly difforence Is thnt Cabral sailed from north to south, whilo tho Pheniciaus voy- agod from south to north, Like Cabral, in flco. ing from the storms reigning from the Cape of Good 1ope up to nonr Sonogambin, they atoored into the high som, and, scized by the famous oquaterial curront, which somotimes flows with oxtraordinary Bwiftnoss, they unexpectedly camo upon tho Brazilian shores, I have writton to tho lonrned linguist, Erncat Ronan, and to the uob Jous lonrned Fathor Barges, giving thom some words of my version, and asking their advico how to mako my offorts of the most sorvico to seionco, But it is plain thet, until I seo tho stone mykolf and oxamino the locality whonco it was drawn, T canmot loyally givo authoritativo oflicial publicity to tho matter, I am, howover, far from Laving any foars in vegard to the bona fides and'authon- ticlty of the copy in a langusgo studied by vory fow men, and by thouo fow only of rocont years, Porhapy thoro aro only six mon in all Enropo capablo of forging such n writing, aud they aro beyond susplelon. 1t iq not, thon, from foar of unydcnu?tlun that 1 dofor full publication ;' it Is boeauso I must bo able to givo tho testimony of the stono itself, na takon by mysolf, and becauso Imuat roctify somo of tho letters, whoso copying requires s knowl- edgo of Phenician to Le able to discriminate thom—= knowledge certainly not possessod by tho copylut of that Lioforo mo, ns ho has at times confounded nem with named, van with Caf, and Laleth with " Regh. —_—— PRESIDENT GRANT. Tho Prosident kept away from the public eys a4 much as poesiblo, yesterday, ITomada sov- oral personal calls, and transacted somo private businoss, tho lattor boing the principal object which brought him to the city, 'L'ho party to be givon at tha residonco of Mayor Modill this evoning will not bo a formal rocoption, 88 orro- noously stated yostorday morning, but o soloot athoring of young poople in honor of Miss ollio Gant, > 16 wiit brohably Lo atioudod by fow old frionds of tho Presidont. To-morrow ovoning tho I'rosidential purty will bo rocelved at tha rasidenco of Mra, Goorge M, Pullwaa,