Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1873, Page 4

« nntiom vl g TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TEMMN OF SUNNONIFTION (PAYADLE 1N ADVANOR), Latlg g . arWaskly il We Vneta of a yonr at tho sama rato, ‘fa prosont delay and mistakos, ho auro and give Tost Ofico nddress In full, including Stato and County, TRewittances may ho mado olthior by drat, oxpross, Post Ofhc orilar, o in replstored lottorn, b onr risk, NS 70 OITY BUBACUITELS. : nily, dolisorod, Sunday cxcepted, S5 conte por waok, Dalty: Colivered, Bundny includod, 3 cante por wook. Addross TILE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruor Madtson and Deatborn-ste., Uhloago, 1L, Y TRIBUNE, FIRST PAQE-NEws OF TiHE WERX: Washington— Tikea-Tolt {oni - Farclgn Obituary ~ Dersoni— S hon tadios- Hosniar Toulus— Aoty and Thmen ronda—traud and 1 a fanuring on tho Surfage—Shalloy o Bunt Wintor ~Applo—Tho “Plum, with gontlons in Regard to Improvod Varjotics, and o of tho Nativo rut—Tow tho Grayo' Has oo Iprasod, o, Will'Fhors Tio aort Grop Tre LUMNER-TRADE: Buspension of o 1loavy Combi. Ath Liahlities of 80,000,000, BECOND PAGH-EDITORALS: Aurioultaro the Basis of Tijiust th ru Kod.— 60 lmnl“nru‘ Movomont and the Ol LEIP:‘!‘BI o r. A. M, Oralg's Tito Taiteond Law-—Tlio. Town. oughh roigh “Fornado--The Crials ury-Deinleatlon—Taxation of Chu version of Truth. TIIRD PAGE—LIMA: Lifo in_tho Oapital of Poru—A Morning-Viow from tho 11ill of Corro - Arul—Lighte 10 Murkot- ro—Flowors, Krults, Dird: kess—A_ Btrost.Panorama—flogaars, Dog Koy-Bozzaris—\Vatorars, Donkoys, Atd - Lottory. ot TioAL, Ol Ttdpublican Hiato Convention St Nominated—Tho" Platform. *A Goob TFou: Wiat the Himano soolely ts Acgompliahn How Its Agont l\lnfllflfil Affatea‘at tho Block-Ya Iustances of Ornolty Practisod on Horses, Bi Oxen. Juntotal: Mossrs, Lawronco nnd G ig; Farmors' Asoctation of Knox Uounty vs, fi— Farmers' Convontion in_the Bogond Supremo Court Dis- tricts A Bplit and Two Nominations—Tho Uhlcnffl Olre cuit Judgos Announco Thomaoivosaa Caudiiaten for Ro- Hlegtion—Tattor trom Judgo Vandevoor—OUlrcuit Cone sontionn, fiustor: A Gollvotton of Gamicailtios. FOQURTH PAGE—EpITONIALS: Tho Farmors and tho Siprome Uourt—A. Korimmago in a Gravo Yand-ihio Pans Bystom—Blr, Jaspor Pokard and tho Baok.Pay— A Bupportor of Uralg. ''IE JUDICIAL KLEOTION: Monday, Juno 3, 1878-Oandidates for Bupre, ind Cirouit Judgos 1a lilinols—rooscdiugs of the ers* Convontion fur tho Sooand Sy rme 0ot bott, T KFIENE) What Polo, 'l H { i eativs siias Ligs bond for tho Hos:Mobh- Cutians Moth—ilow 10 Tiudos usation or Heiva tor 1ts Continusnoo—Doiay {n K Deitneoro Byl Socioly tho Wisim of s Con< finod TtHus—Uloattn Up'tho Dond Froon and Shrubs inaition of tho Oroliard~Tha Tnsocts aud tho Hirds 500 Uhinga that Slust Bo Jndurod—Ysukoo Hlint: orn. and . iickwlioatcAbont,Oronuot,Playimg~Ono St Niako fio ot oF 1 Hituntian. ‘lund BERneR FATLY: Arroat of dolin Iendor at 11 Sation, Jowa— NoTau: oo Distinguialiod Guosis. Wer Tt Town o Nobraska. £ INDIANS: Unicondittonal Surrondor “Ab_Amorlogn Io- Whto Oapt. A0 don: Hugk- ooy, I EATACE MoV Afvr:" Rosolutions of tho Hendorson and Do Kats Tonney Fasmera' Acsoolationa=Addrons of tho Farmera® Goilvontion of tho Twenty-thisd dudiolal Distriat. T ST5 ASTON UOUSE GONVENTION: Batoments by 3 Toutaraxa: el of Gon. Do Bisno a Oldiors ‘ot il Bl Martinivile Tax Resiators = Thio Drisiors Disohargod on tho Tovidonco of Witaossos for o Prosecution. TAILNOAD CONVENTION: A Honth. Atlantio Oullot, for tho Produots Of the Narthwo WEATHER AND ORORs: ' In_ Thinols and “Ki TIONAL, AGMICULTURAL CONGRERS: Ita Tudinnanolle, BUTTER ANDOUERRE: Salos at Flgin: Uitiar FRANARONTATION: Tho Farmiors’ Gonvantion st Kiiantn, Ga, NATIONAL FINANOEN: Hoootpty and Fxe pondlitiea”for the ‘Quartor Endiag Harch o, 1873 DVERTIRENENTR, o SIX T DAGHLTHE Towa Tonxavo: Tho Torrblo Us- clono In Worbtoaton ‘il KooKk Oounilos il Do- fafia of, tho;Hurticano of Last Thured Bilon of Davastation and Ttufn—Groa Zliusos, Darne, Fonons, Orohards, snd i l"llmllmdi—!!uls?ol-flm;\l‘m Tooliors, an Fhirled in tho Storm—Twaiva Prs 2oty four Maro or Loss Waunded——A Flook of 1,600 Lancastor, i iho Mississippl=Two llg;::(fl‘—’r:mlllns "Dbdoription of tho StormeKing's o SEVENTII PAGE—Tomuabors: At Varlous Polnta In Hiinois, and 85 Momphin, an, “Tuf Fotanda; § rlos of tho Itosoued—\Who Tyson and Buddington Are. A1s8 MEHETADES ON: An Interostin 5(0? by T.B. Aldrich, ‘Wil Thon Begln Lifo Again T —A Chineno Tave ng—Knty's Guass, RIGHTI P AGE-TINANGIAL; Olicago Monoy-Markot— Tow Ttatlroad Loans. - COMSMEROIALS Ohlcag brodgco: Markots, with Reviow for the Week—Ohtoago Lumbor- {_flmkul—-}le}r'klmuf Cnux’x‘ly‘ (N. flY D1 ki Cutopean, Markots—tiuiislo o MarkotasNow York Dry-Goods MarkoteNow York, i Louls, Toledo, and Milwaukoo Proddco BMarkots, LOUIRIANA: Broclamation by tho Prewident. G TRospECTa: In tho Northwest, and Caiifornis, PLANTING IX ILLINOIS: Promiu d Agrieuliural Hoeloty. * PEACH Doz ich.) Orchards, anut, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. iR'S THEATRE—Madison stroot, botwoon oo Eat Biate. Engngomont oF Kiwin X dssses *Linoch Ardon.” TY'S TIHRATRE-Randolph stroot, betwoen ARG Ladnitor A Faina Ruamorl ATKIN'S THEATRE=Wabush svonus, comar of Con- t. ‘Tho Lan Kenno Comedy Comblination, FFfatod Down 3 or, tho Twa Livos of Mary Loh. EMY OF MUSIO — fnlatod stroet, botwoon MAon and Mouros. Thoatrs Comlany Combiaation: "BUSINESS NOTICES. HAVANA = LOTTERY—WE SOLD -IN amenata AT AN, B BE0,000 prizo. Oiroutars rent; information givon. J. B. MARTINEZ & CO., ‘Hankors, 10 Wallst. P. O, 0x 4885, Now York. OPEN ALL NIGHT—OUR_ OLARIG-ET. BTORE glashort ben st ALty oo ite Srroteer Sk bonth, Ciarkeat oppoaits tho Court Houses and ilf ‘Wost Randolph-st. BATGHELOWS HAIR DYE. TS SPLENDID balrdye I8 tho st Ia tho world: Tho only truoand por- dect dyo. Harmloss, rolinble, and [nstantancatis; nodissp- pointinvot: noridiculous Usts or unpleasant ador, - dica tho fll offccts of bad dyes and washos, Prodices i~ modiately a suporb black o natural brows, and Joayos the , and beautiful. The genulne, signod W, RS BoaThy i _drcgie. OUARLES BATCIELOR, Troptiotsr, Ne Ys The Chicago Teibune, Thursday Morning, May 29, 1873. The Atlantio Bacl is not so badly hurt by Taintor's dofaleation a8 was feared at first. It asnots aro found to amount to 70 por cent of {hie siabilitios. Secretary Richardson hagrecalled all the legal- tenders outatanding of thoso illegally rolasiied by tho Troasury, and has restored the groenback eurroncy to its propor lovel of $356,000,000. In tho opinion of {ho Boston Eight-our Loaguo, tho suro curo for tho corrupt elections, dishonost Tegiolation, and wido-sproad crimes of thio dsy, is to reduce tho Lours of labor, From LaBallo comes tho statament that the diversion of the grain trado from tho canal, o necount of the Chicago inspoction, is #o serious that o largo number of boats aro lying idlo along tho river and the canal, which is doing less busl- nees than over before. Prosident Grant is said to sustain Col. Mac- Konzio unrcsorvedly in carrying Lis pursult of tho Kickapoo maratders across thie line and giv-" ing thoir dofont tho fluishing tonch on Mexlcan soil, and to havo dotormined to trost Moxico as u acgosgory if eho makos any protosts, Bpurgoon writos to o lecturo-broker of Wis- conein who offered him 000 a night to lecture for ono hundred nighta In this country, that his only ambition is to prosoh Josus Christ simply, and without attempt at eloquence. Io doclinos to como, but invokes a blossing upon our proy- L L SO Meotings were. hold Inst night in tho Third, Fourth,” Fifth," Bixth, Seventh, Eighth, Four- toontl, Ninéteenth, and Tentloth Wards, to protest againut tho temporance erdinancoes of the Common Couucil, and to solect dolegatos to the Contral Committeo, which meots to-day at Big- marck Hall, Soveral rallroads of - Lliis " Btdte, smong them tho Chicago, Allon & Bt, Louis. and the Chicago & Northwostorn Ttoads, Lavo assurad tho Rail- rond Commisnioners of thoir Intention’of oboy- Iug tho now Railrond Iaw, and lave asked for.a conferance, in ordor that thoy may loarn whiat Iy expeoted of thom by the Commlssionors, Santanta and’ Big Treo, who Lave ‘beon tried and convicted of murder and aro now in jail In- Tozos, aro the subjeots of a great deal of olial- tudo at the Intorlor Departmont.: Becrotary, Dolano has, ngaln ‘asked Gov. Davis to par- don thom. ' }o mado & gimilar requost on Maroh 23, but roonltod it thros wooks attorwards. Ho oxplained thnt this appnrent roconsideration was n temporary concossion to some objootions made by Gon, Shorman and to publio sonti- mont, thon inflamoed by the Modoo massacres. Bocrotary Dolano says Lo sces no roason for intorforing with tho awarda for Indian supplion rocently mdo by the Indian Commisslonors, and has approved them, Ho doos not think tho Commissionera wont boyond tho discrotion nl- lowod them by Congress, and, na thoy had the conourronco of tho Assistant Bocrotary of the Intorlor in all they dld, ho would not overrule tholr doclsions excopt for mistake or fraud, proot of whick haa not boen produced. Troo passos for themeolyes and tholr wivesaro to bo givon by tho Towa railronds to the Iowa oditors who go to Cedar Riapids noxt month to attend tho nnnual mooting of the Town Pross Assoclntion, and tho Chicago & Northwostern Railroad offers to carry thom all froo of chargo to this city. To prevont any possible misappre- henslon, a circular has boen sent to overy editor 1n tho Btato, tolling him whero and how to got his paas, ‘When tho Nowfoundland Govornment gavoe tho Now York, Nowfoundland & London Tolograph Company its chartor in 1865, it rosorved the right to buy in tho franchiso and lincs at cost in 1876. Iv now promises to forego this right if tho Company will forogo its oxclusive privilogo of landing cablos on tho {sland. Tegnl mensures aro boing takon in England to provert the Com- pany from joining in the cobsolidation of the ocoan tolograph companies. — A writor in tho Infer-Occan saya: ““If the school fund is to bo made an olocmosynary fund lotus have an oqual distribution, and givo as much to the poor as to those who aro rich enough to spond a fow yoars on travel in Europo.”” Itis fo bo hoped that Mr. Seammon will take tho hint from his own paperand pay up his indobted- noss to the achool fund, lest it shonld becomo an oloomosynary fund, and lest tho poor shoutd domand an equal with thosa who aro rich enough to spond a fow yoard on travel in Europo. 1t is stated by tho Seerotary of tho National Agricultural Congross, in sosslon at Indianapolis, that thoro are now 10,000 farmers associations in tho country, He assumos an avorage member- ship 040, which gives thoso socloties 400,000 membersinall. Tho Congross is attonded by about 150 delogates, roprsonting ninety Farm- or's Clubs, Btato Grangos, apd Agricultural Col- loges. Rosolutions have beonintroduced for the abolition of tho National Eight-Hour law, on ac- count of ite disturbing infiuence in privato busi- ness, and indorsing tho Morrill Land-Grant bill for the benofit of Agricultural Colloges. —eeeee The Chicago produco markets were gonorally wounk yostorday. Moss pork was active, and 450 por brl lowor, olosing at 816.70@16.75 cash, and $16.10@16.15 sollor July. Lard was dull and 160 por 100 1bs lowor, at §8.45@8.50 cash, and 88.76 @8.80 gollor July, Moata werd quict and 3ge highor, at 03¢@02o for shouldors, 8)@83o for short ribs, 85@83{c for short clear, and 10@120 for aweot-pickled hams. Highwines wero quiet and rother weak at’ Olo per gallon. Lako frolghts woro quiet and & shado essier, at Go for corn to Buffalo. Flour was dull and unchauged. Whost wag moderatoly active, and 1@13¢o lower, closing weak at $1,283¢ cash, and $1.263¢ sollor June. Corn was active, and @3 lower, clos- ing woak ot 88740 cash, and 88J¢c moller June. Oats wero firm at Je declino, closing at 920 cash, aud 321¢c seller Juno. Rya was quict and stondy at 08}ge bid. Barloy was dull sud nomi- nal at 70@78¢ for poor to good No. 2. Hogs ‘wora more quiet and easier, with sales at $4.60@ 6.00. Thp cattlo trade was dull While the Grand Army of tho Republic ara mounting guard to arrost any widow or child of a Confedorato soldior buried at the National Cemotery at’ Arlington who may attompt to strew flowers on the grave on decoration Day, tho Washington Capital publishes somo facts which tend farther to oxpose the absurdity of tho oxolusion, That paper states that * many of tho graves at Aslington to bo garlanded with choico flowers, as those of unknown Union horoes, really contain on the average about 25 por cent of & dead Confoderato's romains,— ‘sometimes only one of his boots,—somo- timos o pair of breoches” The job to cofiin and bury the dead, it soems, was lot out ta contractors, who were paid by the coflin, These contractors bogan by putting oach body into two coffln ; thon into three, and, Iater, into four cofting, Having used up all tho bodles of tho Union soldiers, thoy went for tho doad Confed- ¢rates, and romoved thom from their graves on tho roadsidon and farms ; each of theso doad Coufodoratos wae disiributed in from two to four cofiing, and his clothes and his boots into onb or two moro, Of course, those woro all buried a5 unknowp Union soldiors, and their gravos are’ annually decked by tho Grand Army of tho Ropublic, who cannot allow any Confedorate graves to bo garlanded on the samo doy. The Govornors' Couvonfiu at Atlants, Ga., after o two days’ sossion and onoe day's arimated’ dobate, adopted o momorisl to Congross. Tho memorial sots forth the fossibility of = canal and elack-wator navigation, beginning on tho Olie River ot iho mouth of the Tennaudas, fol- lowing the latter river to Gunteraville, Ala.; thonco by a canal thirty milos long to the Coosa River, and by the latter to Rome, Ga.;, thenoo by tho Etowah River n long distauce; .thonco by a canal to the Ocmulgao River, and by tha latter strosm to tho oconn at Savannah. There is algo to bo from Romo a like canal and elack-water route to Mobile. The Goorgia routo, oxcluding tho Mobilo branch, is estimated Dby tho engincers to cost thirty- sovon millions of dollars, 'Tho State of Georgla hos incorporated a company with authority to construct thia work. This compauy has nolthor money nor credit, No sane man will invost dollar in such an entorprive, Tho momorial adopted by tho Convontion nske Gongioas to sub- sidizo tho corporation by an issue of national bonds in exchauge for tho bonds of tho com- pany; principal and intorest to bo pald out of tho emmiogs of the canal, Tho opposition in the; Convention was composed of thoso who, whilo agracing na to tho advisability of this work, opposod the intorvention of auy pri- vato company, and inslatod that the whols canal should bo constructod by tho Gonoral Govern- ment, The dobato on this poiut of difforonce waa warm, but the subaidy and privato corpora- tion plan carried tho day. Itis amuning to look ‘at tho votes. With true Bouthern dovotion to Siatq soveroignty, tho dologaten voted by Btatos, and, among those Btatea recorded ay voting In favor of an {ssup of thirty-soven millions of bm'!xda 4o Bubsldize & Georgis corporation to bulld o canal and wator-routo, 1,400 milps long, through the mountaius of Tonnorsco, Alnbama, naud Goorgls, aro the Biatos of Tows, Now York, snd Missourl, QOLD AND GREENBAOKS, B The Financier of May 24 tollu us why It thinks thnt the doprociation of tho ourrency is really much greator than tho ourront promium of gold, ~—~in opposition to somo criticlams of ours on tho vlowa of Prof. Porry and Mr, Amasa Walker on that subject. Wo Liold thnt tho gold promium g tho oxact monsure of tho dopreciation of tho cnrroncy,~nllowanco being made for abnormal dlaturblug causes, such nn victories or dofoats in war, QGovernmont Intorforoncos, Dlack- Friday conspiracles, oto. The Financier maintaing that tho gold promium s not such a mossura that tho promium ought to ‘bo much highor than it is as compared with cur~ ronoy,—how much highor ianot suggested. The ronsond it asslgne for thls bolief aroc throo in numbor, viz: 1. That tho Logal-Tondor act practically ;}pmon- otizod gold, loaving for it no uscs in this country oxcopt for tho paymont of mport duties nnd intorost on tho publio dobt, for tho arts, and for purposes of ornamont, That tho cossation of ita principal ueo (a8 moncy) chenponed it, Just a8 tho cosntion of the boor manufacture would choapen barley, 3 2. That tho law authorizing the Bocrotary of tho Trensury to soll gold Las artificially cheapen- odit, That tho Troasury is the bear of tho gold markot, forcing down tho prico whenovor it shows a tondoncy to riso, 8. That tho protectiv tariff now'in force hna artiflcially chonponed all exportablo articlas, fn- cluding gold, by causlng them to oxchange for loss quantitios of othor commoditios than they otherwiso would, The argumont is, that whatever artificially choapens gold causcs it to oxchango for o losa number of groouback dollars than it onght to and would if those artificial rostraints woro ro- moved. Wo think wo hpvo stated tho Finan- cler's position fairly and fully, We will now show whoroln wo think it is erroncous, That tho cossation of one uso'of & commodity susceptiblo of two or moro usos, the supply bo- ing the samo, choapens tho articlo to that ox- tont, is a trulsm in cconomic scienco. But gold Lias not censed to bo used as monoy in the world generally, nor oven iu all parts of the Unitod Btotos. Its uso as monoy has largoly incroased in Frauco and Germany sineo it booamo domonos tizod in this country, and has matorially in- creased in Indin and Japan. To whatovor ox- tont ite disuso in tho United States has oxcood- od ita inoroasod uso in tho rost of the world, it has boon chionpened, not in tho United States moroly, but ovorywhoro. This cheapening, bo it moro or less, is exbibited in bighor gold prices for commoditioa. Less goods will bo oxchinnged for tho samo weight of gold. The genoral fact, thint tho chenponing of gold in ono country will cnuso it to flow futo othor countrics, 8o that tho gold-equilibrium of the world shall bo presorved, s conceded by the [Financier. Bat it contonds thot, after tho surplus has gono out of tho country, tho Bamo causcs act upon the romainder—that is, upon tho smonnt rotained horo for tho payment of duties on im- ports, ote. This is an oxtromoly subtlo distine- tion, Woare not quite suro that we understand it, but wo think itis n euflclont answor to say that gold'is as mobile an cloment in the com- morcial, as wator is in the physical, world ; that in this respoct it iu poculiar, difforing nltogothor from barloy and overything olso, Yor whorens only a cortain amount of barloy can bo sold at any prico, any amount of *gold can. bo sold at 6omo prico ; that you cannok permanontly olo- vato or depross any portion of the gold eupply of the world a8 comparod with tho genoral lovel, unless you put barriors around it, virtuslly 8opa~ rating it from the mnes. You may artificinlly dam tho water, or you msy prohibit tho oxport or the melting of coin. DByt, if you leave thom froo, you caunot produce an effect upon one por- tion without affacting in liko mannor every por- tion. Now, tho dopracintion of groenbscks (which are more tools for facilitating oxchauges) is caused by tho fact that thero are moro of those tools in use than are neoded. Corn is dopreciat- od at the presont timo for tho samo reason. Hats would bo dopreelated in liko manner. How much aro the greenbacks doprociated? Tako s thonsand dollars of them aud see how much you can buy. You can buy 850 gold dollars, or you can buy a lottor of crodit good for that weight of gold coin or bullion in any part of tho world. What othor messare would you have of the worth of your greenbacks? Tho idea thnt thoro should be any othor test would pro- voke a umile if it wero not advanced by respact- ablo writers, It was advauced under analogous ciroumstances, and in almoat idontical langungo, in Englond half s century ago. It wasthon nssailod and demolished by Mr. Tooke in his Tistory of Pricos (Vol. 1, part 8), and by Mr. Ticardo in the House of Commous, Mr, Van- sittart, tho champlon blockhoad of tho poriod, contonded that tho English groonbacks wore not dopreolated at all, notwithstanding tho gold govorolgn was worth considerably mora than the paper ouo in tho market. Another party, whoso organ was tho Quarlerly Review, mnintainod that tho resl dopreciation of the bank-note was much greator than tho differanco botwoen gold and the bank-note in the market. Both theso fallacis wore so complotoly oyer- thrown by Mr. Tooke that they bave not sinco boon sustained by any rompectablo British nuthority, save in o qualified mannor by Mr. J. R. McCulloch. They are now consigned to-: tho Limbo of forgotten horosics by English ocono- musts, and aro deemed worthy of littlo more than & sncer by tho ominont Fronch writer Ohovalior, Wodo not seo why tho law authorizing the Becretary of the Treasury to ell gold should bo mnado moro account of than the law suthorizing Lim to hoard it; why his power to put it out #hould bo of more contoquonce” than his power totakeitin, o lhag no gold excopt what ho colleots from the pooplo, If Lioobtained bis sup- plics by alchemy, or from themoon, tho caso might bo difforont ; but sinca ho moroly holps him- solf from timo to time ton portion of the com- mon stock, and discharges it again into the com- mon atock, his traneactions, although largor, are in no wise different from those of any other broker. Tustoad of boing a bear on tho gold market, tho Treasury has boen a bull from the boginning, for it hins kept out of the market trom £60,000,000 to $100,000,000 ever sluco tho closo of tho War. A fow oxtra dischargea have boon mado by tho Bocretary of tho Trensury, to chook the advanco in gold caused by Lis own unscl ontldo action, and thoso havo sometimos, though not always, boen offective, A mora gambling oporation can be ochecked by discharg- ing upon it & cortaln amount of thia hoarded gold, just as s tomporary fountalu i croatod at Holonloho by damming thewater for n wook snd lotting It all off in an hour. Dut whon thero fs & real caugo for an advance In tho price, as thoro was at tho outbresk of the Aus- tro-Prussian-Italinn war, tho Beorotary of tho ‘Tronsury i as Impotont to stop it as John Bmith, o ropeat that, to tho extont that tho Troasury withdraws gold from use (i. e, lessona tho' supply), it causos an advance in the prico over and abovo what it wonld naturally bo. Instead of chonponing gold, tho Troasury hns mndo it on the avorago dosror than it should hinvo boon ovor siuco tho hoarding policy wag commoncad. . That tho oxleting tarift s srtificially clioap- oned all oxportablo articlos, including gold, cauaing thom to bo oxchangoed for loss quanti- tios of non-xportablo commoditios than thoy otherwlso wonld Do, fa tiup, Thatls what pro- tootivo tariffs are intonded for, and that is whot has boon accomplishod In this instanco. It doos not follow, Lowever, that the gold premium Is an inadoquato’ or untruo mossuro of tho de- proclation of tho ourroncy. Relatively to iron, both goid and whoat Lave baon choaponed by tho tarift. Relativoly to groonbacks, whoat may havo boon cheaponcd aleo, though wo doubt . But gold, by rosson of its oxtromo mobility,and by reason of the fact that # is money, transfuses itsclf into general prices throughout,the world. Henco wo say it doos not follow that booauso the tarift has changed the relativo values of gold and irom, or gold and cloth, in this country, it has thoroforo madogold any tho losa a truo measure of ¢no de,rociation of tho curroncy. THE COUNTRY PRESE AND THE DEAD- HEAD BYSTEM, : Oneof the best points millo by Mr. Honry Wattorson in his addross on Journalism, deliv- ored rocontly before tho Indiann Editorial Aseo- ciation was in roforonco to tho do- pendonce of tho newspapors on tho doad-hond systom. Tho country nowspapora scom to have accoptod Mr. Wattorson’s advice in good part, ond aro gonorally ranging themselves on tho right sido in tho presont agitation of the -rail- rond-pass eystem. The Dost. article wo havo socen on tho quostion is from the Woodstock Sentinel, which wo ropro- duco. Thoro aro encouraging sigus from various quartors that the abolition of the pnss systom \’oul(l bnuwull received by the bettor olngs of country oditors. Thoy cannot fail to porcolvo the degrading character of the prao- tico, and will not bo_ able, it they should try, to dacoive tho poople in rogard to it. Tho rallrosd Suporintondont who gives nway o pass disposos of ‘tho proporty of othor peoplo. If & men shonld ontor his office and beg for 810 of the company's money, becauso Lo was an oditor, & Congressman, a clorgyman, or & largo shipper, the Buperintendont would bo likely to show him the door as a dead-boat and a nuisance, Yot tho opplication for & pass ovor the road for a dis- tanco for which the faro is 10 amounts to pre- cisely tho samo thing if the applicant is undor tho nocossity of making the journey, and, it ho is not under tho necessity of making it, thoro I still loss ronson for giving him tho pnss, This 18 equivalont to taking $10 ontof the pockets of tho stockholdors of the road, and s multiplica- tion of passes is oquivalont to o multiplication of the $10 fares thus given away. Thoro is no Justification for this disposal of othor men's monay, excopt an old and corrupt practice. The losses thus sustained aro thrown npon tho pat- rons of tho road, who aro roquired to mnko up In ldghor pasnengor and frolght rates tho cost of the gratuitlcs disposed of in this manner. Theéo payivg patrons aTe likewiso the clionts of tho nespapor, whose duty and profit alike con- siat in tho protection und prospority of the com- munity at large. Tho dead-head systom subjeots tho country oditor to an infinite variety of mortifications. Holas not alwoys the influonce to obtain the gratuitios to which he thinks tho system en- titles him. Ho theroforo frequently advortises Lis lack of consequence ,by an applica- tion to n city nowspapor to help him out. It tho country editor hss ever writton s lottor, sent a dispatch, or copied a prospoctus for o city journal, it forma a protext fordemand- ing the assistance of eaid journal in tho proour~ ing of gomo slight gratuity like the transpor- tation of tho cditor and his family to tho East and rofurn, If tho country oditor takes a notion to run up to tho city during an operas-onson, ho is of tho opinion that his motropolitan colabor- ateur ghonld provide him and his party with soats, If tho country editor has nover writton a lottor, or sent a dispateh, or copied tho pros- pectus, and still wonts o favor under tho derd-head system, ho ngroos to writo alotter, or sond a dispatch, or print puff, and thinks that this is sufMiciont to procuro s rocommondation for a railroad pess or an ordor for tiokets to tho iheatro. Bolong as the doad-hoad gystem shall Do retained, just &0 long will the country editor yleld to the temptation of soliciting at tho sacri- fieo of bis indepondonco, and just so long will tho motropolitan oditor be compolled oither to mako an cnemy of tho country oditor by rofus- ing him, or got tho roputation of an incorrigibl deni-beat among railroad men, theatrical man- agers, and othor classos who follow the systom of making tho public pay for what thoy givo away. - .. Tho country oditor 1s* notually tho sufforor by the syatem atter nll. Ho depreciates the tono of Lis journal, bartors off his independenco, fills Lhis columus with flatulent puffory, disgusts his rondors, and ruins his " advertising patronago. Tor doing all this, he receives loss in return than tho city journaliat, who takes tho favors of the rallroad o & mattor of courso, withont thinking of making a roturn—which is quito as domoral- izing as anything that the conutry editor does. Intho meantime, the country editor struggles slong, and wonders, with ingenuous.bitt unex- prossod astonishmont, why it Is thht his good-natured notices, his persoual puffs, and his gratuitous advertislng are unappreolated. He does not scom to comproliond that ho hus cheap- oned the valuo of Lis columns by giving awny what ho should havo been pald for. If tho *country editor should go over tho columns of Lis nowspapor for one yoar, and computo, at averago prices, tho valuo of the gratuitous ad- vertising that ho has douo, and then foot up tho uumber of passes and other gifts that ho has racelved, tho timo ho has lost {n sccuring thom, the mortification ho hLas ondured, and tho troublo ho hag made for mon upon whom ko hins 1o olalm, he will probably find that tho bal- oance la against bim. One of tho chiof abjections to tho dead-hoad syatom ig, that the componsn~ ‘tion Is not governod on oither eldo by any falr and regular prisciplo. Tho ebrowd and “ chooky " aro tho ones whomonopolize the ben- ofits of it, while they throw tho disgraco upon tho whole profession. It f8 In tho jn. terest of country nowspapers that the sysfom should W0 hroken down, aud they will do woll to oncoursge the ralironds, who aro now sgitating tho question, to load oft in a movomont for tho uttor abolish- mont of tho practice of granting passes for whioh thoir constituonts have to pny. Woe claim for tho olby pross no superlority ovot the coun- try oditor in this mattor. Wo bave all beon slnnors aliko. Now lot usall join in tho offort to broak down tho viclous systom. Whoro ia tho rallroad that will take tho lond in rofucing to glvo pasaos to anybody ? That road s tho ono that all aditors ought to patronizo, and, it thoro is any pufllng to bo dono, thatis tho ono to bo puffed. THE HEATHER CHINEE, Tho Chinese question is boginning to look up again in Ban Francleco. Tho suthorities in thelr moasures of opposition to immigration from Ohina have adopted a vory singular, but at tho samo timo vory offeotivo, oxpodiont, which has worked 8o woll that the six Chineso companicn bove tolegrapliod to Mong Kong advising their countrymen to stop coming to Callifornis. Tho obstaclo placed on Chineso immigration is of o throofold naturo, First, all Chinsmen sentoncod to tho County Jail aro to bo deprived of their pigtsils, This touches thom in a tender spot. Evory well-rogulated Ohinaman rogards his pigtail with voneration. He would almost s soon part with his hoad o with that ornato ap- pondago, ., For any outeldo barbarian to mutilate it, in profanity ; to cut it off, iu sucrilogo. It i8 cloarly within tho logal power of tho San Fran- clsoo Bupervisors to carry out this hosd-shaving rogulatlon, it it is mode genoral, If they have & right to shoar an Amorican or an Irlsh convict, thoy havo the samo right to shonr what little hair is loft in tho Ohincso convict's pigtall. While such s punishment msy soom & very trifling one to Amoricans, it is a very serious ona from tho Coloatial polnt of view, and the Ban Francisco Buporvisors aro entitlod to credit for shrowdnoss in having hit upon an expodient for aboliehing the cheap labor of the neathon Chi- neo which doos not involve an act ot barbarity, ‘whicl is apparently harmless, and ot thoroughly effective. v Tho othor fontures of tho plas, howover, will not hiold wator, One of thesois to prohibit tho romoval of dead bodies to Obina, and tho other, the imposition of a tax "of $15 por quartor on Clineso Jaundrymon, The privilege of burial in Chinoso soll is the lasb privilogo with which Chinaman will ,willingly part. Tho fow prospects of immortalily which Buddhism holds out disapposr entirelyif tho lato decengod is buriod outside the Great Wall. He losos all thoso dolicato attontions which otherwise would bopaid to his gravo, in thoshape of fire-crackers, colored paper, rico offerings, otc., and has no ono to look after him when he arrives m the other world. To a Ohinaman, the Chincse routo is tho only route to Hoaven, and this custom of burial in Chineso soil is such a vital point that in all contracts for Chinose labor in this country o epoclal claugo 5 insorted which binds the contractor to send back all who shall happon to dio Dbeforo tho contract ox- pires, and their comrados =slways ece to it that this clause s faithfully carried out. This proposition, therofore, is quito as cunning na that to oliminate tho pigtail, but it ia ques- tionable whethor thoy have the legal right to probibit tho romoval of tho bodies. The Ohinesoe aro not citizons. They “nover domand or oxerciso any of tho. peouliar rights of citizons, They come hero only to make some money and then return to their native land, and wo question whether the authoritics have any more right to stop thom from going back doad than they have to atop them from going back nlive. Stch a rog- ulation is cloarly a violation not only. of inter- national law, but of troaty atipulations. T'ho third and lust proposition, to lovy o spe- clal tax on Chincso laundrymen, is plainly illegal and in contraventiop of treaty stipulations, which cannot bo thus arbitrarily sot nsido by munleipal or Btato law. -Tho treaty botweon the United Btatos and Chins guaranteos them the samo privileges'of making s living oud ongaging in busincss as othor alions in this country, and these guarantoes are raciprocal. The Ban Fran- claco Bupervisors might, with tho same consist~ ancy, lovy & tax upon German boor-sollors ox- clusively, or Irish grocors oxclusively, or dis- criminato in any othor way ogainst for- oigners in business, It the OChineso in that city, thoreforo, aro disposed to tost tho tax in tho courts, tho decision will indubitably be in their favor. It s highly probablo also that the Courts would docide that the authorities Liavo no right to prevent the xemoval of bodics to Ohina. 'The loss of tho pigtail, however, atill remains, and its effact witl bo quite as forcl- DLlo in provonting omigration as tho other two plans combined, inasmuch ss without that appendago tho Chinaman loscs casto in this world and jeopardizos happlnesa in tho next. The limitation of tho rule. to couvicts is an unimportant ono. Cheap labor is at tho bottom of tho wholo matter, nnd o thousnnd and one pretenses will bo mado to got Chinamen into jail. The samo dispatoh which brings the nows of the action of tho authoritios statos that the County Jail is overcrowded with Ohineso convioted of violation of the sleeping ordinance, requiring a cortain amount of spaco for oach man In lodging-houscs, Thore s u atill more important question involved, and that is tho moral right of any country to rofuso for- clgnora tho privilege of carning their living in it, which suggosts a wido and fortllo fleld of in- quiry for the soclal economist, Prosidont Whito, of tho Cornoll University, Lias como to tho defonse of Mr., Ezra Cornoll. Ho rocontly delivered au elaborate address &t Ithacn in rofutation of the charges prosented by Asgomblyman McGuiro. Mr, Whito ssys that Mr. Cornoll first purchased 100,000 acres of tho land-serip at 50 conts por acro, and plodged him- solt undor bonds to turn over all profits to tho Cornell Uniyorsity, As soven-cighths of tho Iand then romained uneold, the Commissioners of tho Land Offlos of Now York Btale con- trocted with Mr, Cornoll for the ssle of tho romaindor at G0 cents per acro, Mr. Qornell ngain agroelng to account for all profits to tho Cprnall Univorsity. In doing this, Mr. Whito claims that Mr. Cornoll gavo hia services to the Btate, without compensation, to do what the Commissionors found thoy could not do— disposo of tho million acros of land which Con-. grosa hod grantod, Aftor locating all the lands, oxcopt 300,000 acros for tho benefit of tho Univor- #ity, ho procooded to soll this rosiduo, 1fo sold some of the sorlp at $1 per acre, somo for less, “Dut," ‘enys Mr. Whito, *Le novor eold an scro for which ho did not obtain a highor prico than the most sklliful Comptrollor of tho Btato had over done.” Ho offored 100,000 acres publicly and privatoly at 5 pornoro in valn, He thon endoavorod o organize a land-company for the purchaso of 14 at this price, and, {n ordex to establish conf- donoo, proposed ta subseribo largoly to 1t him- solf, This plau also fallod. Meantimo the Uni- varaity was sadly In need of funds, and tho only offor that wag mado came from Mr. John Mo- Graw,—who lind given one of tho colloge bulldings at Cornoll,—at $4 por noro, Toralong time Mr. Cornoll rofused to sell at this price, but finally declded thnt ho wouwld do so if all tho " Trustoos, including tho Govornor, Licu« tonant-Governor, Buporintondent of Publio Tustruotion, and tho Comptrollor of tho Btato would sign n paper roquesting him to disposo of tho Iands at that figuro. This waa dono, and tho salo of 100,000 ncres nt @4 por acro wag made to Mr. MeGraw. The baro statemont of tho facts in tho caso Is tho samo which As- somblyman McGuire made, but with n difforont coloring, Presldent White holds that Mr. Cor- poll thus mado 300,000 clear for tho State which ho might have put into hia own pocket. Mr. McGQuiro snys that tho Iand was worth mora than it brought at tho timo of the sale, and that it could havo boon sold for moro, Ho also cbarges that Mr. Cornoll was associnted with MoGraw in tho purohase, and that the lands which thoy paid $4 for are now worth $00 por soro,—which is & porfootly proposterous state- ment. NOTES AND OPINION. In the Natlonal Conventlon of Spiritualists, Froo-Fovors, Woman-Buftragists, and that sort of pooplo, at Olnoinuati, Miss Addio L. Ballon took the platform, last Monday, and is thus ro- ported : Whilo sho did not indorne all that Mrs, Woodhull #aid and d!d, shio could not sit still and hesr lor villl- fled. If free love would {ntorfere with tho laws of parontagaond tho deacont of proparty, bow ‘much worso would {t bo than tho system that provails now? What man waa thore in this room who conld toll which ‘woro his childron? o might recoguizo some, but What of thorest? If thomen horo woro faithfil in this N:elut, they wero excoptions, Which sentimont waa recolved with great choors, sud tho fair speaker subsidod., . —Tho Milwaukeo Sentinel opens a viow of tho futuro of tho railroad question in Wisconsin, saying: . It fa high timo that both thoso corporations [the B, Paul snd tho Northwestern) wore mado to under- ftand that tho people of Wisconsin havo rights which thoy are bound to respect. It is high Mmdn, that the Wall strect and European ownors of ‘were in- formed that it ia for thelt intersst and tho inforost of tholr roads to bo guided maro by the sdvico of thoso at this ond of th liue, Tho rejection of tho land. rant was o groat mistako, aud by it the 8t, Paul Road [ incureot tho displeaird f & largo proportion of tho peoplo of tho Stato, It has Liore, and thelr frionds who alde laced ita managors thoin in_obtaining tho land, in'a false and very am‘ml{:na!n position bo- foro thopubllo, tTho 5t Taul Toad will vo mado to {eol its blundor in tho unfriondly acta of legislation in tho tuture, . theso Now York and Eu. o o o Lof roposu stockholders bowaro how thoy disrogard and tramplo upon tho rights of tholr patrons in tho West, Lot them not pravoko tho oxorelsn of thoso smplopow- ‘ors which have boon reserved in our oiganio law to doal with corporations sud protect the righta of tho pooplo, —In 1850, boforo tho oloctions of that year, and whilo tho Congress had anothor session to sorvo, Congrossional pny was raised to 9,000, Again, in 1860, boforo tho clections of that yoar, snd while the Congress had another session ta gorvo, poy was incrossed to £5,000. In both instancos tho judgmont of the peoplo was pere mitted, and, indood, invoked.” In 1878, upon the last doy of n corrupt Congress, tho elootions having paesed, & combination of membors who nover oxpacted to como back, and of othior mem- bora who woro sure of two years moro (within whiol time, it was Loped, tho storm would blow .over), raised the pay to 87,600, and had almost raised it to $10,000. Buch being the history of theso transnotions, the Milwaukee Sentinel, with- ont foar of an overshadowing Unitod Biates Bonator, saya : Tho fact that 50 many mombers havo already cavered tholr back pay futo tho Troasury {aan evidonco that thoy think tho Increnso ot best was of questionable pro- prioty, and its application to thomselves was all wrong, Andl tho only consistont thing for Congress to do, and tho only thing that will satiafy the peoplo, s the un- conditional ropoal of tho'spt. —The eommon scnse of the country has como to the gonclusion thet for mon hol ns o enorod trust powor tovote away public monoy, to yoto it into their own pockets, ia a scandaloug Dronch of faith, and an act diéplaying & dobnsod standard of honor. This conclusion is a sound ono. If it_ia poculiar to thoso lator daya, so much the bettoer for the country. If somo ro- spectod mon did not view the matterin this light soven or sovonteon yoars ago, 80 _much tho worse for tho memory of thoso men, Tho quos- tion is ono of proscnt and sctual morality, and no amount of procedents can obscure it now. It has gono too far for that.—New York Times, —All tho mombars of the Forty-third Congress who draw pry at tho incrensed rate during the existing recess are oqually culpable with the members of the Forty-second Congross. By ac- copting it or any purt of it they make thomaelves a party to the wrong. it wag o !*steal” on tho part of their predacessors, thoy ropeat tho “thoft,” and mako it their own crime overy timo thoy accopt & dollar of tho excoss. Who will ba tho firat, a8 ho draws his monthly pay, to dis- gorge §308.381¢—tho differonco botween the old and new rato of pay, andto cover it into the Troasury of the Unitod Btatos, and to koop it w monthly until tho law shall bo repoaled, or unti the uu({nf hig oflicial torm of service? Gentlo- mean, do not spoak at onco! Some of you have noknowledged tho principle, and have com- monced nobly. Lot there bo no wavering, Car-. ry it out to its fair logical couclusion.— Wash~ ington Chronicle (Harlan.) 0 —Jaspor Packard has grown witty, if not wiso. He writos to his constituents, with a borrowed bravado, that e will return 812 of the back pay ho has takon, that smount boing about the pro- portion [as lio caleulates it] duo to his district. o appoars to bo too obtuso to porceive that the domand for restitution of the filched lucre i wado from the wholo country, and not from any partionlar locality, and his frivolons imperti- nonce i reslly more insulting than his orl §inal rab w-ls dishonorably greedy.—Lafayelle (Ind.) fournal. —Acker's dofonsd to the bnck-pay steal is frivolous and absurd. Liko Boyer, he hsa in his pockots mom‘)]y bolonging to the pooplo which ko never oarnod. Wo nsk the Demmocratio papers aud Domocracy of tho Btato to spoak out againat thoso two ambitious tricksters.—Reading (Pa.) Zaglo, ”15. 0. Pomeroy, who was vory nearly ex- lled from tho United States Sonate for attempt- ug to socuro his ro-election tothat body by brib- ory, announcos himgolf ns & candidato to il the vacancy causcd by tho resignation of Mr. Cald- well. iln hag, it is said, entored activoly into the canyass and is confidont of succoss. Alr. Pomo- roy is & man of nml;zinF effrontory and tho peo- plo of Kansas oxcceding| Ey tolerant.” Thoro is but ono parallel_casa in history, and wo had hoped that {t would bo tho only fbstance of the kind. It sooms, howovor, that Wo aro mistaken, and that tho young polifical systom of tho Wost Is 5a rotton s the old oue of Pounsylvania,—Phile adelphia Press. —Tho chist omfiln{monz of Ponnsylvania poli- tclana scoms to lo in getting togethor in con- veution aud “rovising tho rules” of the Clvil Bor~ vico, when they are not trying to discover whoro- in lsunnsylva.\lin has boen "‘allgmed " in tho matter of aj QDXutments.—I\'ew York Times. 1t ok tho publis good, o wollbeing of tho whole poople, that is taken into account by tho party pross, but tho intorests of the few party londors or Bookers aftor oflico. Tho high- oat aim of nrfll;nuuhlP sooms to look up no highor thau to placo this one or that in_somo rafltablo position. For that purpose, and only ?lmt, it would seom from the party: papera gov-~ ornmont was _Inatituted, soolety organizod, and mavkind oxists, No wondor that, with such toaching by the party pross and by such follow- ing of tho paoplo at large, thologialation of Con- rogs and of Stato Legislatures is what it hos Faon of lnte yoars, and stll losa wondor o 1t iha the National'and Btato Govornments are admin- istorod for privato and porsonal onds, and not for ho benefit or in tho intercat of tho groat publio.—Dubuqua (Jowa) Telegraph. —T'ha timo has come \hou & complete renova- tion must tako placo. Old Turl{ hacky aro spavined, knnu-npruny.i, and wind-broken, and t}norolo\-n unflt for furthor sorvico, Party is but o name to securo oflica; ofiico is put o position torob the [mnpl«, and wo_blush' to say it, yot duty compols us to deolare, that Au{l(dtpmvl 6, from tho Bourd of Suporvisors to the Presideut ot tho United Statey, to dofend, and to onrich tho holdor of oftico at tho oxponso of Lonor and Jjustico. Not evur{‘ man is thus dishonoat, but whore shall we look for that purity in position thint onco distinguluied tho patriotio peopla of the Unitod Btates? We aro willing to try tho grangors, and, if thoy fail, let Gabril blow his ior, for the last hopois gouo.—Audubon Coun- ty (owa) Dofender, —Politicians aro buglnnlng{tn learn thot what ia known as the ¢ Farmers' Movement” is not & nine-days' wondor, It is tho result of a long- folt want, aud is aa natural and legitimato as any othor reform—a movemont that ia born of #ho timos, and not manufactured to order in the aditors’ sanctum or the political elub-room. No doubt, those who organized the first Grange builded battor than thioy know,—all original_and truo rotormora do,—but the movomont. itsolf is :: ‘:’u& hz g::rnw l:ml win Lho’ond’ 0 tnll’th 13 2 over orror in time.—@ran TRaptds (Alich.) Demasrag" - —Tho noble fight which the farmors of the ‘Weoat aro now making againet the iyranny of monopolies anlists our honrtiost sympathy, “and wo will fuln hands with thom In” tho struggle whioh fa to bo mado against tho Inlqu?ty known 08 o Frntcntlvo torifr, anization to shapo Iaw is the right aud duty of cltizons, aud whatovor can bo done tocontributo to tha pros- pority of the farming population is an tdd&lon- al woalth to tho country, To this ond wo will labor, bbt whon wo so mistakes mado, or what wo honoatly bolleve to -bo mlatakes, wo shall lral‘nkly point thom out.—Lafayetla (IM.) Jour- nal. —If thoro lan_Btato worso tax-ridden, and arty-riddon, and cliquo-ridden, than Minneso- Wo liavo tosooit, All tho way down from oflicora to county oftlcors, the whole mnt~ tor is fixod up by a fow gontlemon of lolsure, re- gardloss of tho bost intorest of tho eoplo, and tho _pooplo.— Winncbago ity Press (Republican’ ~—If tho rnflrom? on manage to control tho 4o party convontions of Minnosots, thon wo aro in favor of a third &n’t{ Tho name of a part; is nothing to us. Wo believe in moasures, -ni In eleoting mon with suffiolent braina and honoss :{1 :a carry thom out.—Waseca News (Republi- —Tho Minneapolls News (Ropublican) thinks Mr. Booger was in tho mnqn R clnwhn)n of tha most scoundrolly politioal corruptionists that ovor disgracod o Stato,” and adds: Wo do not 8uppogo that tho ring would have hositated at sy monns to provent an invostigation of thelr uso of tho Btato Troasury, and find Boegor ro- fused to have pload guilty in_sccordanco with thoir demand, ho would doubtloss have buen mardored.” —Wa bellevo that tha Fnoyln of Tows will not ro-oloct & man 80 corrupt and vacillating as Goy. Corpontor. All know that ho was tho prima mover in having Rankin shiclded from the pun- {ohment of the law; thorefore no ono who wants an honest Exocutivo in Jowa can support him, Two yoars ago Lo waa tho railrond can- didato, and olocted aa such. Now tho formors oro ahoad, and ho protends to be on tho sido of tho farmars, Tho fact Is, tho railrond rings un- dorstand him, and he is only trying to chieat the Gnnguns.—-fiaga Qounty (lowa) Democrat. INTERESTING CASES. Sult to Recover on Lifo Insnrance Pole icles—-Tho Companics Assert Thar tho Policy-Holder s Still Alivess ©Cana Pardencd Oriminal o Bound by Conditions ? ‘Wasmivarox, May 28.—Tho courts of Baltl- moro are just now ongaged in solving two logal cagos of tho most intorosting charactor, The flrat 18 8 lifo-Insuranco caso, whoro the widow bringa suit to recovor $20,000 aceruing from pol- icios on hor doconsed husband. Tho plaintife olaims that hor Lusband lost his lifo by the ex- losion of & coal-ofl lnm%, which * burned imsolt aud tho uilding which he . then - occupied. The ~companics rofuse puyment on the ground thafithe husband iumot dend,as was provad by exhuming tho body, which was subjected to a thorough modical ox- amination, and witnoasos of tho highost stand- ing hayo Boon subpanacd, both for plaintif and dofondant, and the trial promisos to bo both ex- citing and gensational. Tho socond case is more Important on account of tho logal considorations ralsed. It scoms that ;ln 1800 o man named Tuckor wne convicted of orso-stonling in tho Court for Oharlos County, and was sentenced to tho Penitontiory for the term of soventoon yoars and 8ix months, When ho had sorved out uomnlhinq, near six yonrs' of his torm, he was pardoned by Gov. Whyto on condition that he would leavo the Btate of Maryland and nover ro- turn, Ho roturned to Baltimoro last_January, and 800n after was arrested for allogod compiice ity in tho angfly murder. It was sacortainod that bo liad no hand in tho assassination of Mrs. amprey, but fn tho mosntimo attontion wea callod to lis violation of, tho conditions of his nrdon. Ho was brought bofore the Court on Fri~ y last, and tho - jury impaneled to try the question of facts invoived, returned: an indiote ment sotting forth that Tucker is tho same man who was sontenced in 1866, and that ho did vio- lato tho torms of his pardon, Had tho trial end- od hers, the prisonor would have beon remanded to prison to erve out the remainder of his term, bug his couneol mado & motion in arrost of-jud, mont, aud upon this motion the cnstitutionall of the recommitment of pardoned conviots who do not obeorvo the conditions of their pardons will be argued, Should the motion be over- ruled, the case will bo earried ta tho Court of Appoals. —_— THE JUDICIAL ELECTION. Thoe hendquartors of tho Executive Committee which has in chargo tho intorests of the five, Judges who aro socking ro-olootion noxt Monday,. hava boon established in the basoment of No. 92 LoSallo streot, and tho Chairman or somo of. the mombers are constantly on hand to attend. to bueincss, Tho general apathy on the subject: is 80 groat, however, that there 18 very littlo for: thom to do, and their rooms are slonuznuy empty. There seoms to be o goneral digposition to lot. tho elaction go by dofault, espocially in tho: country, where, just now, the farmors havo: no timo o spsre for voting, if tha: wonther is pleasant. Whatover voto is poll-- ed must como from the city, and, from present: indications, that will not oxceed five thousand.. f tho turn-out {sso smnll it is not imposaibler that Sam Ashton may b clooted, for Judge. Booth will hardly roceive any votes on tho North: 8ide orin the southorn wards of the West Di- vision, sud Ashton’s friends, such as they are,. will all be ¢ the polla and do all thoy can for him., It is by no means certaln that all who scratch Judge” Booth will voto for Bam, buta cortain porcontago of thom will. This being the case, and Judge Booth boing speoially attacked sinco ho ig's temperance man, it would ba well for all tho temperanco poople, regardless. of woathor, to vote Monday, and show whother they do possces any strength. Tho registration has been vory imperfect in many precinots. In some, it is reported, there has boen none at all. * In othors, Inat yoar's poll liat has hoen taken ag. sbnsis. In all evonts it docs not take a man long to swear in his vote, and thero will certain-. Iy bo no crowd at the polls. The gentlemen ap- pointed ag the various Ward Committoos are ro- queated to meot at once, to organize, take mong- uros for tationing men at the polls, distributing - tikekuts, gotting out as full a voto aa possible, eto. b THIS SETTLES IT. It having been rumored around by certain . ovil-disposed porsons that tho threo billiard games to bo played botwoen Ubassy and Bossun- . gor will be hippodrome affairs, gotton up for the purposo of aatoliing bets, the following afdavit ‘Thag boon subscribod and sworn to before J. Ap- ploton Wilson, Notary Pubio, by the porsons moat interosted : A, P, Rapp, John Bessungor, Thomss Foloy, Monw, -, Lacoumo, AMone, Ubassy, and Heory Monhaimer, o ing duly eworn, doposo aud say that tho threa gamos ., of bllliarda now pending betwson Mons, Ubassy and Johin Beasunger aro legitimato and for' tho amounts < statod in thelr contract and published ‘advortisoment, . numoly, two hundred and fitty (250) dollsrs & side on | each and evory one of the {hroo games, aud that & for - £olt ia in tho Hands of Tenty Mopholmor, Provious to gumng out the afidavit, Mr. Tom Toloy bot $500 to $25 with Mr, Miohnof Wonoban., thnt tho gamos wero intonded to be, and would: bo, slzlfinro onos. 1n {ho salo of pools laat evoning for tho firat. match, which ocours m-uight‘ and in which Jbnssy gives tho odds of a discount in 400- ‘Points, Dossungor was tho favorito at an averago: rato of about ten to seven, About $700 worth. of pools wera sold, ‘Fhe salo will bo renowed at. half-past 4 this aftornoon at Foloy's. poiie B N sl The Town Doctors. Bpectal Dispateh to The Chic Tribune. MansiiALzov, Tows, May 45 Tlio annual mooting of the Iowa Stato Modical Socloty waa called to ordor by the Prosidont at 10 a.m. Thero was a largo attondatce. The President, J. Willismson, of Ottumwa, dolivorod his ad- dross. Papors woro preseuted as follows : Ro- ort on ’Fburmomn ory in Disoago,” by Dr, W. . Robertson, of Afuscatine ; * Optioal Dofooty aund their Correction,” by E. H. Hazen, ot Davonport ; * Prosontation In Labor," by 3, W, Bmith, of Charles Oity. Thoso papors elicited. considorablo discussfon, Adjournied to 7 p, m, The MInk-Baker Murdor, * Oaupey,: Mo, May 28,—The Coroner's in- gmm in the Warron murdor case rendered a vor- ict that Dr. Bakor came to his doath by means of o piatol in the hands of Lucy'Anniflnk. el el i Local Option in New Yorke Arnaxy, May 28.~Tho attempt to reconsider the voto by which the Local Option bill was lost: failod by & voto of 68 to 40, . sbs