Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1873, Page 2

NEW ORLEANS. Tho Cfent Chongs from Slavery to Free- * -~ dome~~Tts ‘Effoct - Upon Buxinus_fi ' How Ootton Was Bought and Sold “*in the " @ood Old Times.” The New ' Regime---Rascalit; and Ignorance in High Places. Obstacles to Commerco---Port-Charges . ==Towage-Monopoly~--Inspect- ik ing Boards. ilenvy Buaslness in Cotlon, Sugar, and Tobacco--sNow Men Wanted in B " -the Croscent Clty, b nce of The Chicago: Tribune. Sl Gy sz;'/ OnLeaws, Juno 19, 1878, The stranger who comos to Now Oiieans ex- pocting to ind & city gono ontirely to decoy, will bo disappolnted. - Ho will find, indeod, a clty svhich has boon o snufferor by war, whoso popu- lotion has oftimos boon' depleted by postilence, and whoso troasury has beon drained by sucoes- sivo administrations of unfaithful offiolals ; but bo will still find that this is not the worst-oft of ‘Amorican oftios. Wero ho observant, ho would goo that wo recoivo on our.lovao vast qusn- titics of cotton, sugar, and other products; that, for thros or fonr miles, our landing 18 linod succensivoly with thoso gracofully-con- atructod steamboats which ply tho Wostern | rivors, and a proud shipping whosn prows have plorced tho waters of overy ocoan and soa of tho ' world; and that, notwithstanding our present ‘embarrassmonts, there are not & few -who have ‘tho most unfaltering confldenco in tho ‘fature commorcial groatnons and glory 6f tho Croscont City. > i ENTIARTABSMENTS TO COMMERCE. */Tho commerco of Now Orloans has, of lato ‘yedrs, had many things to contoiid against. The rovolution in tho Iabor-system created by the War nocessitated o complete and radical chango in tho manner of conducting businoss between ‘tha cotton aud sugar-planter and tho buyer of bia produats. . : TUE ANTE-DELLUM BYSTEM. : Tt was'tho cusiom, beforo the War, for ovory plintor in Louisians and adjolning States'to ‘Lava Lis factor in Now Orleans, to whom ho not only gold his cotton or sugar, but who asted a8 %in agent in buying supplios for his plantation, and transacting any othor busiuess which mlght‘ o required of him. Tho plautor also doponded| upon his factor for what money he m|gh¢‘ roquire,—his crop boing smplo sccurity for its “paymont. For his pérsonal services, the faotor ecoivad what, in other citios, would be consid- lered n princoly remuneration; and, for the - money which ho loaned, no rato of interost was considered onerous. s : PLANTATIONS IN DEDT. Tho planter was Invish with the money which “he did not have to earn, -and, oftenor than not, his plantetion was uudor’ mortgago, although it was o raro occurronco that it was sold. If o plau- tation was well stocked with slaves, thoproprietor ~'contd Taigo slmost any amount of money on it. + There aro many places in this 8tate to-day which could not be gold for moro than §4,000 or $6,000, . with mortgagos resting on them to the extont of £60,000 or sgfi,uoo. Buch was the artificial valuo givan to lands by the alnvo-system. CHARGES ON TiX COTTON-OROT, When tho erop reached tha city,—and, indoed, was on its way Lore by sloam’ o rail—it wag subjected to numerous ather charges, on a par with thoso of tho factor. Tho c‘.\nr;in: for press- ing and handling wore all on the high-pressure wystem. A -LUXURIOUS CITT. This olty then had no rivals, 'L'he planter was conatantly in debt to the oity, and had to send his cotton hero to pay his dobts. Indeed, he had no desire to go elsswhore. New Orleans had ovorything to ministor to his wants. Hero he came to spend his wintors and his money, Iere woro hotels unrivaled in their appointments and cuisine, 'Tho opora flourished hero better than in any other Amorican city. Tho thoatres woro botter conducted than clse- whero, Our race courses wero tho scenes of tho triumphant struggles of Lexington sud TLocomte. Thon why should the plantor seck to savo s cont or two & pound on his _cotton, ora small percontage on his borrowed money, by sending his cotton to another and less congenial market ? TIE LADORING CLASS2S IMPLOYIDENT. Tt will rondily be soen that this mothod cf dolng businese—if mothod it may be called— would not enswer for & cityin straitened cir- cumstances, It created a whola train of obuges. It mado mechanics and working poople extravagant aud improvident, = Tho; woro aa tho lilies of the field. The toiloi enough, to be suro : but * They took no thought for tho morrow.” This is evidonced by the fact that the doposits of our eavings-banks are less, in_ proportion to ourfiopuhtion, then in an othor American a.ty. must be remembered, algo, that our working peoplo roceived s far greater componsation for their labor, than was paid slmost suywhero else; which makes the uct of our small amount of savings-bauks de- poaite all the more romarkable. A DAD REVENDUE-BYSTEM, Another cffoct produged,—not direotly, per- bape, but 1 feel nuro it Ia am tndlrest cogultes was & loose systom of creating and collecting revenues for publie purposes, The laws were 80 lax, or clso wero eo unfaithfully exoccuted, that a cortain clsss of people,systematically - neglectod to pay their taxes ;..aud, consoquent- 1y, tho citizons who did pay hed to mako up the deficiency the next year. ‘The Colloctors wore paid & large “porcentage on tho amount collected, aud thoro - were separato Doards of Btato and City Asscesors and Col- lectors. 'Thero was that pernicious mode of fax- ation by liconses, also both Btate aud city. TILE PUBLIC MARKETS, - + Thoro waa that othor Jflm ‘for raislng monoy for tho support of the City Government, worse than all the othois,—that of selling the ronts of the publio markots to tho highutiidd_nr. Bya Iaw of tho Btato, all vegetablok, meats, finh, oto., could bogold inno othor placo than the oity markata, had money bought the privilogo of a whole market from the city, and could afford to pay a good price. 'Thio butchers, huckstors, - otc., ronted from them.. Aud so the consumor, with overy monthful he ate, assisted to enrich tho buicher, the huokster, the bakor, and tho # farmor " of - tho warkot, hesidos paying part of m: share of the oxpouses of tho Oity Govorn- ment. - : ¢ THE NEW XNA—LUGISLATION AUANDONED TO IG- NOUANCE AND BABOALITY. - This wos all bad enough. But with. the closs of tho War camo tho roconstruation laws, nnder whiéh, for a time, those who . hag: really tho greatest . matorial intevost in_ tho loglelation of tho Btate abandoned it. Tho white vropfir:ly-lmldnm of Loulsiann, fcr the most part, would not, oven by their pres- onco at the polls, countenance the changos mado bo those Iaws. Bo the first eloction went by de~ fault, and the government pussed into the con- trol, on the one haud, of men who had, with fow exceptions, no intorest to sorve but their own, and, on th other, of colored men, too ignorant and inoxporienced to chock (heir wmart whito colleaguos, even had thoy the disposition, TAD LAWS MADE WORSE, Tho new roghne, with such & ground-work of Iaws to commenco with, did not Lolp matters wmuch, Peopla did not expogt ((ey would, Yhoy, woro cursod for evorything thoy dld,—good, b and Indifforont ; and it must ho_sduwiitod’ tha (thoir logislation could genoerally bo desoribed by ono or the other of ‘the last two udjeotives, They ropnid curses by piling on dobt and . taxation, They taugh the ante-bollum law-makers lewsons in constructing bad laws, and made thowe worse which they found alroady at hand, TIHE NEW ORLEANH OF TO-DAY. To-day, Now Orloaus fluds Liorsolf in the posi- tion of & man struggling vith grost revorse of fortune, and who yot onunot rid himeelt of hiy old extravagant habits, 8he.finds it vnr{ A~ oult to =dapt hdreslf to the now order of things, Notwithatanding the plantor no longer ordors from his factor provision and supphios for his hundrad or two of nogroes, but every man buys on is own acoount from the country store, tho ¥hv Orleans merchant cannot seo the necoasity of mending out drummara to asoure that trade. Consoquently, .n clasn of mon Who | bnnnn uontly, tho country-morchant ordora from & Northorn drummor, or goos himaolf to some Northern olty for his stock. =+ TRTENTION OF OLD ATURFES, - Naw Orloans still rotning hor aboninable mar- kot systom ;_ and, during n rosidonco of sevoral yenrs hore, I havo nover hoard any ono say any-_ tl\lug{‘ln condomnntion of it, Hor port-clinrgos aro the torror of hip-owioers. ‘Tho expensca of voesola for towago boiwoen the city and tho mouth of tho river aro monstrous, If o ship gots * atucl" on the bar,—ns many of thoso of deop draft do,—tlio Tow-Bant Company, which anjoyn a- monopoly of tho tow-boat business, charges a cool hundred dollara nn hour for jork- ing ot hor. Wo have, besidos, all manner of ¥t Boards,"—DBoards ~ of 'Fobacco-Inspooctors, Boarda of Flour-ditto, Boards of Pay-ditto, Boards of Wolghers and Gaugors, Boards of this, and Boards of that, which have no objoct in the world thnt I know of, oxcopt to enrich the mombors thoreof. IR e A HEAVY DUBINESS. Indocd, commercs in Now Orloans i an or- od by o thonsand abusos, gront and smafl, . And yot, notwithstanding nll this, "sho tranenols a vory Inrgo businoss, She hna recoived this yoar ovor 1,350,000 bales of cotton,—noarly as much as has boen roceivod in ol the other parts of tho Unitod Btaton together; the tobacco-trade dur- ing tho.last wintor bas been larger than for cars ; tho businoss in sugar nnd molasuos has con respeotablo; and wo ars making B0 much whisky, and of such good quality, that Cincinnnti hes commonced to quatrel With us about it. Wo aro mnklnfi a fow feoblo and spasmodio offorts to establish s gralu-trade. ! OLD TIHINGS PARBING AWAY. ‘What Now Orletus noods is now mon, who aro accustomed to work for the-building-upof trade. Bho ia cortain to got them, With tho deony of tho . old modes of doing Dbusinosa (which woro- woll enough ‘ in tho - dnys, of nhvoryz must, pasa away tho mou who conducted them. Thoy cannot keop thoir heads nbove wator undor tho now order of things. Alrondy their ranks:nre foarfully deci- mated. Whilo their fall cannot but excito tho commigoration of lovors of tho old systom, every man who wishos for tho welfaro'of the Crescont Qity, and who dosires to_sco hor in the position ‘whioh o genorous Providenco dosignod sho should ocoupy, cannot but hopo they will spoedily give place to younger and abler ‘men. . 2, 0. -— ACCIDENTS TO ELEVATORS. Tv the Editor of. The Chicago Tribunas: Bm: Tho recent torrible .sccident at Ficld, Lolter & Co’s building, by which o dozon mon- wore dropped 50 feet on one of their olpvators, it sooms to mo roquires somo inventigation., Thero'are kyindrods of elevators in operation in this city, and manyof thom carry only passen.* gers. If thoy aro liable to fall at sny timo, it is woll that people should know it, and avoid them, ‘Many of tlose elovators have beon choaply sud .hastily constructed, and those postod in the con- -straotion of elovators know thoy are as unsafo ‘ag tho ono at Fiold & Leiter's, « - If thoro aro good aud safe clovators made by sny one, ownors of buildings, at lenst where thoy are used for passonger-sorvico, nlmuld‘ bo' -compelled, by force of publio opinion, to adopt -such in placo of the choap and uneafs apologics for..clevators .now in many of our® first-olass buildings. . - I bolidvo that thoro is no nocossity for running “any rislk pon an olovator, more than in walking ‘up-ntalrs. After investigating tho wholo sub- , Ject, I find that there are ‘machines made whioh ! cannol fall, and. that it is ns practicablo to make an olovator 8afo as nnything olse; but I regrot to say that many aro, in my opinion, entirely un-' rolinblo. 3 2 L ) If “wo cannot hayo oll clovators in- ‘spocted by propor suthority, it would bo well -for the people to forco manufacturora to tost . |-thoir machines in some public maunor, o that |- all may know which kinds are reliablo, 1 do not_beliovo it is ri(iht to lot this warning g0 unheeded, . without fully, investigating the merits of all machines offered to the publio, Owners of even first-olass buildings often pnt in an unsafo slovator because thoy can buy such for o few thonsand dollars loes than safo onoa cost. Must tho peoplo risk theix livos to anvo so little money to. tho wealthy owners of our great buildings ? ¢ I trust thot Tz Tnimnune will not drop this mattor until tho manufacturars of alovators feel compelled to satiofy ihe demand of the public to know that thoir machines are absolutely safv, Yours, o BAFETY. Cm0AGo, Jun s s SN CRUELTY TO AWIMALS. To the Editer of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: Alottor appoared in your Fridey or Baturday issuo, undor tho above hoading, stat- ing that the writer's friond had soon more oruelty to animals in this city than in &ll’ the remainder of his oxporionce; and asking why the Boclety for the prevention of the sams did not ook more clogely nftor thoir business, &e. Now, I would liko to givo that writer's friend tho hint that somo ono gave “Bomebody some timo ago, to-wit: * If you wanta thing done, 0 and do it yourselt,” It s vory easy to go owling nround about the derolictions of this or that goolety, %o.; butin actual foct, tho fault ofton lioa st tho door of tho howlers themsolves. It.is the duty of ovory citizon who seos an act of cruolty to bring the same to the notice of tho proper authoritios, and then attend to the proso- cution of tho offouder. If ho doosnot do this, ot him a¢ lonst refrain from whining at a So- cloty yet in ita infanay, doing} ita levol bost with the small menns at. its command, - and which calls upon all oitizous to assist it in its Iabor of love. this does not do, and-ho must still do something or say.somothing . about it, let him pull out bia pocket-book, and extract -therefrom all the Eim“ noke ho cen spare, aud hand thom over to this much-abused Socioty. In short, lot hina help, tob eavil at thom, v One word more: "I notico this warnt of the etrong ‘Bonge of duty in political mattora, Our citizens who hinvo o right to voto do not scom to renlize that it s thoir duty to yato, and, through their negloct to oxerciss this power, it scoms to mo, we may trace the clovation of unfit porsons to positions of trust in tho nation. Yot it is thoso vory mon who, by their neglect of aplain duty, oxpose themsclves to tho ovils thoy com- lzin of, wha complain the loudest and how! tho al:lgcn}. If evory man does his duty to soclot; and himeolf, to 8ay notlung of God, we shail have good men in oflico, and the dumb croation shall rojoice in whole skinas and unaching bones. I inclose my ' card, and am runpnnuullfiyoum Omroaaq, Til,, Jitno 25, 1678, EL W. 8, _— CLEANING THE CITY. To.the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : - Bm: Allowme to suggest & plan by which tho city can be put in a stato of porfoct cleanli- noss in n vory fow dayas Lot tho olty Lo dividod into sanitary districts, -corresponding With the oleation preclucts ag thoy now exist; and lot & speciol sanitary com- mitteo, of ton or o dozen citizons, bo ap- pointed in oach district. Lot these mon visit and © malto & porsonal inspootion of overy nlley, back-yard, barn, Erlvy, ditch, and. othor death-breeding ngonoy, and _seo that thoy aro placed in tho proper shape. Lot thom have sinfoctants as the city sup- the use ‘of. auch plios, and nfi)ply tom on the npot. Yooliug that they would work for the protec- tion of their own familios, thoy will make the ‘| canvasa thorough, while all citizens of tho pre-' cinet can easily communicato with thom, and im- part_such Kiowlodgo aa thoy have of placos ‘which need purlfieation, 1n this way within ono weck, tho city might ho placed in u condition to almogt defy the onolera- | :acourge. & ' 'Lho oxponso would not bo large,—less than the ‘| damnge to the cily's businoss for & -einglo duy, &hould cholern make ita apposranco. I make no compluint of the Board of Hoalth ; ‘but its Hinlted monus will not enablo it to covor tho city so minutoly or 80 quickly as this plan, which, by tho way, may ba carriod out under tho diractlon of tho Board of Hoalth. Is not this nuggcation eminontly practical ; and should it not bo applied ut once ? ! * MERomant. —_—— THE DIET-QUESTION. % the Editor of The Chicano Tribune ; Bin s I fully coincida with Oh-Kay in hia viows about fruit boing hoalthful in warm woather, I am & working-man, snd I can trutlifully say that good, ripe fruif, with o moderats amount of moat, koep mo In botter health and spirits, and and Ican stand it to work hardor and mora hours, than if I livod almoat wholly on moat and pota- toos, ns the'working-class in goneral do, Now; my advico to worklg-pooplo, 1t thioy wish to avold that much-droaded discnso, the oholora, {5, 6 abstain from tho uso of infoxi- cating flfluam, and drink, instoad, plonty of cool milk, and live principally oa good ripe frult and vegotablos ; aud I will assura thom they neod nevor faar tho cholora, but will Aind tholr hoalth and aplrits inpioyed. Oxn Wno Exows, | litieal world. Oan nothing save our country— SWEET GIRL-GRADUATES, Oommencement Exeroisos of - Lako® Forest University. Intorosting Addrosses and .Iissayvs:‘ by tho . Young Ladios. . iy A Beautiful Coronation .Gerémnny at the Conolusion. The Commoncomont . cxorcisos of. Forry Hall Collegiato Institute, at Loke Forost, wore hold in the First Drosbytorian Church, yostordny. ‘Tho ahurch wan profusely docorated with flowers. On tho front of, thoe platform rose s large floral arcly, bearing.tho motto : *“ In literis coronaia." Tho attendance waa quito largo. Ly Tho oxercises wero oponod with muslo by 'the band, after, which tho divino blessing -was in- voked by the Rov. Dr. Kittrodgoe, of- Ohicago. Ausio followed by the band. d *Tho salutatory was delivered by Miss Mary E. Prickott, of Chicago, in n olonr, distinct voico, and had tho unusual advantago of being in Bng- lish, and so undoratood by the whole, instead of o smofl fminority, of tho audionco, ~ Aftor ad- dressing 'some , special - greotings to FPros- idgnt Woston, Gov. Bross, Prosident of 4ho Board ot Trusteos, the teachors, school- ‘matos and clagsmatos, tho address closed with o fow appropriato romarks to tho audionce, ! | Inquiry—"* Whither Bound ?” by Miss Fannlo! Attoridgo, of Lake Forout. This quostion should jmpress us with o decp nnd solomn sonse of duty, Many, scoking only ploasure, forget thoir duty .to othors. Somotfine tho memorios. of thoso veory plonsures will be only thorns to thom. 1If wo apply thia question to our nation, who can’ angwor it? Monoy is the groat raling power, It rules ourcourts of justice, It rules tho po- childof oarth's old ago—raised toliborty and froo- dom, from this great curse? Tho bost way tomeot tus question: i§ to have a well-ordered lifo, n cloar congclonco, sud cheorful submission o the ‘will of God. > B Y, An ousny on “Truth and Error” was road by Miss 8., Evolyn Bonedict, of Vorona, N. Y., inan; upnsually clear and powerful voice. Error is' liko shifting sand, and they that build upon it, will flnd tholr odlfico in constont dangor, and; doomed to inovitable destruction. Truth makoes no retrograde movoment, but every day some new orror is boing ‘ovorthrown, and truth eatab- Iished in its pinco ; and the flual overthrow of or- ror will bo the millonnium. In His own good -time, Ho who onco died-to snve a ruined world | can - cleanse - the sins of all: ‘Tho..bible 18 ono of tho strongest wonpons truth can wield In tho conflict with orror. It has oxtended its influence through a thousand chan- nels, until it warms and colors tho wholo vast domain of thought, and Ieads mon up to truth, to Hoavon, and to God. - . Following this oseny came tho chooring musio of tho band. e Miss Ella Johuson, of Logansport, Ind., rond an osssy on * Calcimining.” Caloimining is n. common oporation, well known to all. Our wall! 1s soiled and disfigured, aud wo loyo it washed over with white, making it pure end spotloss. JBow wo color oursolvea somotimes,—color our actions to othors and thoir. behavior to us, until wo porsuads.. oursclves that wo -oro oMl that - 8. por- fact. Yoars ngo & porsocuted and oppressad: Jeoplo’ withdow {rom an unnatural mothr,’ ho country is 8o vast in its proportions that undor its dome every weary pilgrim_iinds a wol~ como and a roat. Must wo suffer thoso pillars, to bocome battored ruins, and calcimine them ovor to r:groxcnb marblo? Thore is no heart, however fallon, that does not recognizo the Tack that vico will 'appoar’ moto sgrocablo to_ tho world when gpoased in virtue's robe; and tho ‘moariost “Yugchl on the oarth will ondeavor to wearit. But tho elains are only covered, not orasod. The unaffected manner in which: tha essay was road, tho sweot voice of tho speaker, and tho spicy, original matter, mado this, i.m. 0., tho most atéractive snd ontartuining of {ho essaye, ““Well Done,” by BMiss Abby J. Beuodict, of Lake Forest. *‘ Well Dono" and ler rival nave each strivon to gain tho throneof man. Whore- foro strives cho quoon of right so hard to gain tho throno? Somelimos the ocho of *Woll dono " comes go faintly that it cannot Lo Loard. Who can road the striking histories of Cromyoll and Napoleon, and not geo how poworfully thoy woro swayed by tho opinions of tho mass, Far noblor aro tho lives of- those who are influenced Dy the ' Well dono™ of conscionco. As tho magnet draws to 1t tho particles of iron, so mon of atrong minds influence thousands of others, and oven the lenst of us exert a cortair influonce ovor the livosof those with whom we come in con- tact, If this js 80, how careful we should be of all our actions, lest our intlucuce bo oxerted for ovil and not for good. When the mg%ud heights are climbed, and tha threshold of tho etornal gained, hio who hus bravely oboyed the voico of consolenco, will hear the voice of tho Great l\[nk‘n'r,v 4 Well dono, good and faithful sor- vant." This wan followed by an essay on ‘‘ Pandors,” b( Migs Kato B. Bkiuner, of Lako Foreat. In an- clent times mon wore more like gorillns than men. They lived in caves, we ars told, and were wholly ignorant of all the accomplishments of civilizod man. Whon Promothous camo all. this was changod, Ha initinted them into the mystorics of law, litoraturo, and medicine. But man has since beoomo proud, and, with but fow ox- ceptions, rofuscs to noknowledgo is relntion to his ocousin, the ape. Jupiter bocamo jealous, ond feared lost man should wrost his ncu{;tur from him, so he called Vulean to him and teld him to make a benutiful bewng,—to epin her trongea lika tho sunbenms, and carve her fon- turocs of the purest marble. Vulean did as he was commsanded. ' IIe opun the hair of gold, gavo hor azuro qyoes, ondowed her with all the races and virtues, and .a curiosity second only o thot of man, Khe was given the name Pan- dora. Now Pandora'knew porfoctly woll that sho had & mission in this world.” Bho know thnt ho wau croated for & purpose, and_she do- torminod to discover that purpose. Bhe ho- lieved implicitly in * woman's rights."! Now, Promethous had in his houso & jar contain- ing -various gifts which - ho -was acous- tomod to ‘give mortals ns rowards or pun- istmonta, Pandora opened tho' jar, mnd allowed thom to cscape, ouly clowing it in_timo * with tho proamblo of tho.resslutions s to mako ‘it justifiable to call.tho attention of thepublio to- So— humor, and no attempt wha mado at the solomn, funoronl sylo, generally consldered tho indis- ponanblo foaturo. - After n short addross by Goy. Bross; Prostdent ;of tho Bonrd of ‘Crusteos, in which he announcod: ‘tho matisfaotion of the Board: Wikl the:oxamina- tion_passed by.tho young Indlea, and thelr voto to award diplomas to tho olass_whoso, oxoroises Dhad Just doelydedl, Prosldent Woston couforred tho diplomas, nixd mndo somo oatriest and hoart- folt remarke to tho outgolng class, which woro listoned to by all prosont with tho groatost inter- oBt and atbontipn,: . oo iy ot Tho. Rov, Arthur Mitohell, dt: Ohleago, bolng ealled boforo.the house to mmko .somo romarks in liow'of tho uonal ‘orntion, said that gl had doubtloss heard of tho proprammo that waa ro- contly earried out botweon two ministora who had agroed to conduct sorvigos. on tho co-oporative plan. “You may conduct tho sorvices,” eald ono of thom to hia. colloagua, “nnd‘ I wil.put out tho houso," Mr, Mitoholl énld fliat ho waa called to ‘ack sort of oxtingnishor—to *put out the houso,” and deolarod that it was n folicit~ ous choico, ITo congratulatod tho young Iadios wpon their success, and hoped that tho samo succoss might attond thom through dife. . . ' Mr.- ‘Woston -statod- to tho audionce that he had invited Prof. Bw!ns to dolivor tho orstion, but the Profossor-had deolined, saying that ho could not bo present, Beoing him thore, nover- tholons, ho should call upon him for tho oration, whioh hio was in duty bound to doliver.~ .. - -Mr. Bwing rose wi{h flushed- faco, advancod & fow stops from his seat, - and _onterod an oxcited qrotust l'\'fitlnue» Trosidont’ Weston's statoment, denying tho oxistonce of any obligation on his part tomoke s apnech‘ whon— Prosident Woston—'' Comeup on tho'platform, Mr. Bwing, so that you can bo seon,” : . “Prof, Bwlog—'* 1 don't want to be seon.” Mr. 8,, however, thought botter of the matter, ond mado a ploasant apd well-rocolvad addross, Prosident Woston—'‘ Wo would liko to hoar a fow words from Mr, Boulo, of Blsokburn Uni- yorsity.” e . Mr.Boule, & gnnlhmnn of oxtravagant hoight, ‘slowly rose, and was proceoding to oceupy Prof. Bwing's position, 1 . : Presldent Weston (in & bonovoloiit -and con- dosconding .tone)—* Mr, Boule, as you are not }wry tall, you had bstter como up on the plat- form, 5 Dut Mr, Bonle majestioally. doclined, ana pro- coeded to make somo briof romarks, congratu- lnlln{: tho *young ladios upon their succoss, and wishlog them a happy future. . AT Next a vory bonutiful coromony toolk 'place. 1} In necordanco with their onstom, and ‘tho! epirit of the motto, * Crownod'in lettors,” tiio young Indios wore cailed upon the -platform, 'and - the -Prosidont, ‘witli his own ‘hand, laid upon tho honda'of oach & wroath, after which "o’ parting ‘hymn, composod for tho occasion by, Emil Lieb~ ling; was sung by the clags, and -after thoe beno- ‘diction the audiebco was dismissed. * - It would be diffieult to find anywhero & more comploto sympathy oxisting botween tencher and - studonta than is maniféatod ‘between Prosident Woston and the {onng Iadios of Ferry Hall: Mr, “Woston is a gontioman, kind'and genlal in man- ner, and it is” ovidont fo all thut tho relation ho sustaing to thoso'under his, chargo is that of & kind friond and counselor,” - - ——————— ! RAILROAD-PASSES. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : i Bm: In the resolutions of railroad-man- agors, rogarding the abrogation of tho pnss-nuisanco, a8 publisHed in T Trro-i UNE of the 21at lnst., four provisos are: montioned, one of which is in so diroot a confliot it. . Imoan tho fourth proviso, which rodddas’ follows: * Provided, That oach company. may .suthorizo tho wives and children of the officors; and omployes of the compauy to traval without - payment of fare on their own ronds."” Now, the {ssuing of freo passes to women isono of tho prinoipal * cduses of frequont and woll-! founded dissatisfaction,” and is considered by all parties not directly intorestod in this liconse *to bo inconsistont with propoer rallrond man- agemont.” I’ am o stookholdor- in two .of our . prominent Wostorn railrond companies, but con- to impriaon Hopo, Now-if Pandora lad_ but waited until the proper timo, sho would, no doubt, havo been allowed to distribute thioso gifts borsolf. Ko in the prosont day, women aro Conatantly soarching for thoir mision, and aro doing os much miechiof ns Pandors; whoroas if thoy would only conse thair constant clamor and soarch, it would, in proper tims, como to hon, +'Lhis was an ablo offort, and did gront crodit to Bliss Skinner. - .. Eusay by Miss Flora Woodard, of Chicago,— “ Amongg tho Rooti.” _Walldug aloug the shore of our bonutiful Inke, I dlscovorod many heuti- ful plants, and investigatiow’and analysis showed mo tho hidden gourco of vitality—the lifo-sus- taining root. ‘Cho lover of Nnture looks through root, branch, trunk, and Jinbg, From Naturoup toNaturo's God,” Bo wo koo tha varlpusblessings around us, the xu!vuutn;i.eu ot socioty, of liter- ature, aud art. But the thongliful man or woman docs not atop hore, Thoy find the warm, living henrt boneath, All we have to do isto open our honrts and let tho sunshino of God's truth flow in, On the surfuce of socloty flonts o'l petty ovil which wo czll scandal, It scems the chiof dolight of somo to collect, distributo, and manufacturo choice bils of news concerning tha private nffairs of othors. Idloness breods mis- chiof, and tho best and mout oifeclive proserip- tion we can give them is: Whatever thy handa find to do, doit with all thy might, In’ stody, nll succoss dnyondu upon going to tho root o ovorything. 1f the roots of a treo are firmly .planted, the trao will grow and flourjsh, But, if uot, it must porish. Bo, if our thoughts aro shallow, thoy will bo ahort-lived, - If founded on o firm basiy, thoy will live and flourish, v Livor In lifo, ns in tho tree, wo go down to the rootd for the true source of lifo, aud thore wo find the God-givon influonce of the Father in wham wa roposo our confidonce and our love, Woights and Monsures " was the subjoot of & woll-written esuny, b{ Miss Mary R, Priokots.’ Congross rogulatos the welghts and measurey that aro used throughout tho country, But thero ara weights and measuros that Congress cennot rogulate, Wo aro conatantly seking oursolves how we can bear the tost. Wealth iy tho atand~ ard by which many meaaure themselves, . Othorn wolgh thomsolves'in tho sonlos of fashlon, and all sro constantly striving to reach thelr atand- | ard, Bring forth moro worthy Jowele—your tnl- onta, your “nchiovoments,—and’ throw aside tho fulso standards, The valodictory wan delivered by Miss Kate B, Bkinnor, 'This nddross rmumcd an_agreoablo contrudt to those ususlly delivered on similar occaglons, It was briof, pointed, with & dash of fegs that Inm unablo to sco why the wives and childran of tho .officors and omployes .shall bo grantod tho right to travel npon railways with- out tho pnyment of faro. Buch practice wonld croato again a forcod privilogod class, who gen- ox;nlly ?uo. or rather misuse, such licensoto the utmost. If thore must bo an excoption to-tho gon- oral rulo, lot it be in favor of tho .officors and umpln{uu of the different railronds, for, in puch caso, the rulo wonld bo_bssed upon’ & sya- tom of mufual obligation, and no railroad com- pony would loso anything by it.- Another incompatibility is the retaining of commulation tickels, Tho iesuing of commutn~ tion tickots nt o lowor rato than the full reguler faro is o diroct discrimination, on the part of the railronds, i favor of tho rick man, who is able to pay at oncefor twonty-fiva or one hundrod ridos, against tho poor man who_is not able to 8raro 80 much money at once. The poor men is thus obliged to pay & highor tariff for his ride than the rich man,” Tho injustico of such a yrncfica to the public is o palpable as to make urther commont upon it unnecossary. A BTOCKHOLDER. — NUISANCES. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: A BIn : As o residont of the Ninth Ward this six ' years, I would call to tho attention of the city officials tho stato of Sholio stroet, corner of Taylor. On last Monday, tho city carts dumped four loads on Bholto stréet, composed of manuro and fiith. Tho Health Officor came around soon to find out who did it, and wanted ‘it to bo re- moved right off. But it romains there still, to- gethor with n dead dog. I bolieve it woull be removed only the two colored and two whito mon who brought it thore got their boer snd whisky froo for o doing. Who ia to blamo ? . Wxsr SmoEn, Onroaao, Juno 25, 1674, o the Editor of The Chicigo Tribune : I \ Bin: Inoticed in your issue a fow daya ago that partles woro complaining of the fllthincss of somo of tho streots in the West and North Di- | visions, - I thought at the time of the: condition of Indiana avonue, botween Fourtoonth street .and tho Chieago, Burlington & Quincy. Railrond orossing; in other words, tho ‘P atois,” as it is | callod, The people throw all kinds of slops and rotten motataes, dead chickons, dogs, cats, rats, | ete,; into the streot, and vory:often tho boys take delight fn burning all this tuff, ta tho an- noyanco of a numbor of poople who imvu got to stand it. Chero should bo’one policoman within amilo of that Lhm-uufihmm, at nn{ rate, and | somothing should be done at onco to stop this nuisance. Bouru-BIpER. T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sin; Coctain partion follow the practics of londing garbugo noar tho cornor of Eightoeuth and Lumbor etrots. Unloss the nuisanco. i) forthwith abated, the proliminary assistance of tho Grand Juiy will bo called in’to docido the question whother Eightoonth sticet is any moro proporly tho disbarsing encampmont of scaven- goro than was Twenty-sixth streot, whonce, & yoar or more ago, tho law compolled them to do- camp, Thero aro hundreds of mon constantly omployed in the immadiate noighborhood dosig- nntod, upon whoso éndurance thio sweltering hoat of the past fow days Lias boon a crushing $4x, to” nny nothing of the additionnl imposition’ to whioh thoy ure thus cruelly. subjocted,—that of inbaling nn atmosphare ladpp \ith' nouscnting Fflhmn onough to sioken Luzxsids., - Proseent- ng witnosses will not bo wanting in scores fo oloan out this business qam?lotuly and tho of- fonding partien ‘:m takeo notice and govern them- golvos aosordiu ly - BusiNess s Busixess,' Ouioaao, Juno 1, 1873, . ! — THE SEWER-QUESTION. ‘T the Editor of The Clicago Tridune: - | §in : L6 waa with plonsuro that X read your ods;) itorlal on tho Mayor's mousngo in, roferonce td tha sppropriation for more sewers, Without doubt it meota tho approval of every one, oxcopt thoso who have all tho 'soworsgoe' improvements on thelr own, property. Novw la tho time for our Council to take action, No -one with any scnse, or apy rogard for tho hoalth and cleanlinese of our city, would hold, flro on such n guestion, The Councll ought to not right off, and have the work fully under way ! i .Bingalar Actlon to Sct Asido a Mot~ ; - gager - - rpen Hooond ‘Day *of thé “Tuoker-Relief i Society’ Trinly & "+ Interesting Action Regarding the Tourteenth Street Line. Tn thio Buperior ourt Mictincl:fL.' Hally filos | “his bill agafnst-Hildebraxdt'A' Vouglahn for an injunction. The case is & poouliar one. Com- plalnant’s nllogation chargos that,about tho yodt 1806, ho boeame ncquaintoed with dofondnnt, who, by o sorios of delicato attontions to complainant and heiwifo, " Ingratintod” himedlf with them, and’ gotsoon; lookod upon as A'momber,of tle family ; that complainiant wag, and still is, & ton- ant of dofondant, who boards with him ; that, ro- lying upon the oconfldence in which ho was held by complaiunnt, the dofondant porsuaded him ,to . purchase. from, ono . 8...Dick- son tho followlng proporty, namely: Lots 26 to 28, 84, 85, and 36, in Blook 21 ;- also Lots 1 to 27, and 86 and 96, Block 10; also Lota 5 to 10, and Lots 45 to 48, Blook 22, all in Lafg- loy'a SBubdivision of the N. E. 3{ of 8, W. %{ of Boo, 18, 87, 14 E.; that, in addition to this prop- ort) mmp'lslnnufi ownod Lot 2, Block'0, Rogera' Bubdivision of N. E. 3¢ of 8."W. X{ 8co, 4, 80, 14 E., togother with billdings thoroon ; . that do- fondsnt, ingratiating himaolf_with complainant's wifo, succooded in porsuading hor that com- plainant waa too much of & drunkard to adminia- tor his affairs properly, -and that sho had bottor np}mnah complal nant and got him to convoy dofondant oll his property in trust for hor and tho family. Bho persunded, and complain- nnt’'consontod and signed Ndnoc‘, but complain- ant ayers 'that- at the timo ho was intoxicated, and did not know, what ho wns signing, whilo the wifo signod bolloving in tho fulluoss of Mor honrt that the emmg man was doing an not of kinduees ; thal now defondant has mado known tho fnot that the deed was iniroality an ordinary mortgago, which ho throatons duily to foracloso on account of tho non-payment of a cortain promiesory nots mado by compininant to him ; ‘whorefora complainant prays for an injunction rostraining dofondant from Prccnud.(ng with tho oollection-or disposing of said. pronissory noto, and xnstmlnlns ‘him from relling, ounumbnrlng, or in any way disposing of any of the proporty above mentioned. w A COUPLE OF TEASTH. 1t Mr. Lont, of tho monngorio and circus, could got hold of Richard McCarthy Kirkland an Johulgruue. portios defondant to divorco suits of which the ){’utlunlms aro now mada public, ho could probably advertiso that ho had obtalnod two of the.greatost,.if not tho two greptest, boasts in tho world, Tho only difficulty ho would have would bo_in fiomug tho rest of tho beasts to asspainto with the bestial bipeds above ‘montionod. ~' In the BSuporior ' Court, -Miriam Kirkland files her bill for divorce against hor husband, Richard, stating that Bho was martied_ to,- him "in uguat, 1870, at Littlo Rock, Ark, whon but 156 yoars of ago, secrotly loaving school at his instigation, and oloping with him to ‘s Nagistrate's offlco whore thay wore married, defondant boing ab \that timo 71 yoars hor senlor; that since thon he'hns bocomo's misorablo drunlkard, sponding ‘’his timo and money in saloons and brothols, con- tinually threatening hor lifo, and entroating her to onter upon a lifo of ill-ropute. Tc this mon- utor tho unfortunate ‘flrl,' now only 18 years of age, lias borne two childron, tho youngost only 4 nonths old, and as she doos not look forward to living any longer with beast No. 1 continually abusing her and throatoning hor lifo, sho npplios for & divorce, whichit- is to bo hoped the Court will grant hor. W Bonat No. 2 is namod John Bruc, and he tao is, or rathor was, dofondant in divores suit, tho docreo having been wisoly granted by Judgo Gary alroady. The evidenco in this caso s o ropotition of tho old story of a child of 16 bolng forcod to marry a man of 40; tho complainaut, 1n lauguago that shows Lor oducational advan- tagoa o hnvo boon above tho common, rolatiny how her parents, notwithstanding her toars an cntrontios, bont her will until it gave way, and sho booame tho wifo of the defendont. The for- ty-year old beast, instead of oherishing tho oung fiifl who hnd boen forcod into hie arms, Eum“ I-troating hor two days after marriago, and, in less than six months aftor, kicked her becauso shio asked for moro food and deconter clothing, Eupplomunfinfi the brutal - nesault with insults of the most dograding kind. Worso than this remains to bo told. Withins woek after complainant’s - confinement defondant” assaulted ler in a horrible mannor, notwithstanding her Desooching him to dosist, and the consoguence of hio trontmont was that for two yonra com- plainant lay nigh unto death from 'a nervous disenae causod sololy by hisill-treatment. Worss gtill, when asked for clothos by his wifo ho cooly told hor, that she had o protty faco and recommended prostitution os & means of hor rotting monoy to buy clothos with. Worso than is romains to bo loft untold. These are por- ‘haps the two worst divorce cases which hayo ap- peared for yonrs. i, TUOKER V. AVERY. i Tho sensstion in this case Eestmhy was the opnulnxi spooch of Loonard Swett, which waa yery sblo, and tho oxamination of Miss Tucker by Bidney Bmith, which was also conduoted in & yory masterly manner, roflocting crodit both on lawyer and lady. - Tho most intoresting part of tho ‘onse -is - tho. bavy of fair ladies, varying in summors from 18 to 80, who aro watching the case and al‘alplnudlnx with and head-noddings any peculiarly pert reparteos which Bidney sutfers occasionally from tho wit- noss. Miss Tucker s drossed in o light-graon suit, ‘which color im dolusive, ng eho {s by no monns as grosn || a8 her coatume would mako out. IHor personal appearance ia such as to enlist tho sympathios of onlookers, and an unwontod tremor is mo- ticeable in the voico ‘of even the stony-hearted Bidnoy, as he procoeds with her cross-sxamina- tion. Toho lady frionds’ alrendy allndod to bo- como occaslonally intensoly sympathotic, and & pint-bottle of ammoniacal alts Is Landed round with the celerity of ‘a ronnd-bottomed" bottlo of clarot at an Irish hunting dinner, Five-and- thirty fans at one moment chaso tho cooled air upon as many porspiratory faces,—tho 5- cont palm-leat “fan, the 10-cont Chinose iotorial ~ fan, tho ):gll.blg—up fan, the umhcr-t(p})ud fan, tho picturesquo fanm, Jandscapo fan, and tho all round wooden glat fan being the noticeablo variotics. Tho colleation of parasols displayed is vory fine, one Euou_umty beingathat tho iren points aro all put on'at tho wroug ond, o WHERE 18, TIE TOURTEENTH STREET LINE? In Judge ‘Willinma' room, tho cage of Lull v. ‘Tho ity of Ohicago waa takep up. This is ap motion brought by .plaintiff,. ono of the Four- toonth stroot proprictors, to -onjoin' the city from . improving. Fourlcenth ' stroot aon the lino - of. . tho . streot ..on which tho improvoment has beon 'commenced.” Tho point at issuo has been in dispute over sinco the .yonr 1858, as is about tho line of . tho stroet, {ho city c]nh.n!m thab it is six foot north of whero it was orlgini ocoupiod. -The truc line, .according to the plat, jssix feot north. Tho proporty-holdeva reaist, na it involvos @ -loss of kix. oot of ground. Tho toutimony was being road yastordsy and tho doy Dofore, and will bo concluded to-dey, when the - connsel will deliver Lhoir.argumonts. Niclolls & Morls for,complainauts ; Alr, Tuley for thoe city. : Y stNoTIoN To nEsTRAIN TAX-DEED SALE. Jumos Patorkin fllos o bill and applics in the Suporior Cowt for an‘injunction rostraining Jo- soph Pollak, County Clerk, from transforrivg to John Forsythe, or any other porson, any dead or conveyanco of Lct 1, in Dlock 12, in mli,'ghm, Law & Co,'s Addition to Ohicago, grounded upon o cortifloato of ealo of-suid prowlsos of Juno 30, 871, and to roatrain Forsythe from tranaforring said cortificato of -anlo, and from npslylng for or accopting any tax or assoosmont dood of said proporty grounded upon said cortificato of salo. - TIE COURTA IN BMEY, “'In Judgo Wood's_room tho caso of Rudolph R. Hchultz v. Ivaao Frazoe otal, u suit on o 8300 ‘bond, took up the morning. ‘o Court took tho matter undor advisomont. In Judgo Murpby's room tho case of Bittlg v. Westorn Division Railroad Compauy wad commenced. ‘This is an interesting caso, "holug brought by the plaiutiff, & niombor of tho loo: QGorman pross, to rocovor $20,000 damages for & hernia caused by a kiok given him by one of dofondants' condnotors. Tho oase will go to the Jury to-da; and rushod to complotion: us soon a8 possible, No member of tho Qouncil ought to stop a mos ‘ment on such & quostion, Bo, gontlomen, Elonan push It along, and lot us sco (hioago’ pluck and entorprigo start tho seworago mattor a-golug ' as short s Limo as possible, *imo I8 money ;" but, in this caso, time ia hoalth to many of us; so fire_awsy, gontlamon of tho Councll, ot onco, and you will obligo many. o D Quivaao, June 25, 1673, Tames' B, Tlirligo, o minor, by Muldsh 3t, Eldridgoe, guordian, filcs his bill, in tho Oirouit -Court, - for thq.partition of Lot 10, Block 1, Arohor's Addition ‘n Oliiengo ; also Lot 1, Bloek 8, Tylor's-Bubdivialon'of H. 3¢ of N. W. ¥¢ Beo, 84, 39, N, 14 Ii.; anlso W, 34 of N. W. X{ Boo. 83, 17, known 0w the * Bass Farm." L NEW SUITS, " ‘Tow Uwrtzp Stares Oounrt,—Homor Oook, As- stemsa of the Ohioago News Printing Qowpauy, v, | Gioree on “wrcund ‘Michais! Qreonobaum ; assunpait, $1,000:: Josoph Laton ot ol, v, Ohauncoy T, Bowon; bill. 'Ebon B, Philiips ot 8l v, Joln B, Young ; assumpsit, $1,400, 5 _Tnn .Omousr, COURT,~7,515—CGhntlen W, Damelor and Robort 8. Eldor v, Goorgo ¥. Work ~And * Janms ind Onroline B, Oouch and Willam Wood, trustees of tho Cotioh catats, also of Catborino I, Jobnann, do~ ceaned, Irn Qouch nnd George I, Johnson, 11, I, Ma- iglo, nnd the unkiown adminlstrator or Tegal ropre:~ nontativen of tho estate of J, High, decoaned} potition 1for mochanica’-llen, $9,413.03 on Commorclal Hotel, 1,616, 7 — Appeal, 7,518 —O, B, Wilson ot ‘sl v, Wililam and Adolph Loob; assumpsit, $1,000. 1,510 —William E. Travors v, Goorgo F, Worth at nl, poti- ton for mechanica' lon, $3,785.10, on Commorcial Holdl, ™ 7,020—Wiliama A Furh samo, hor v, Bama 43,670, onzo 0, Wood v. ‘3%, T, Osrrolty nemumpelt, $000, 7,620~I, Bushnoll ot al, v, William Lty asshmphll, 8600, 7,630—Jomes B, Eldridgo, n minor, by guardian, eto,, v, Arthur W, Eidridgo et al,; Vil for “paclition, ' 7,63k—Appeal... -MoFarland al. v, Goorge Work etal.: potitioR for meohanics) fr '$965.20, on Commerolal Trotel, 7,526, 7—Rostored Ton Burznion Gount.43,000—Jnmes Fostor jet ol v, Currlo Coldwoll;', sssumpails, = 500, ‘43,001—McLoan _County ‘Coal -Oomvang v, Jou' jupi “’ln Marts © A $418. 43,000 rosscd sult, Goorgo Musicl snd J.-H. 0, Gross; asumpsit, 3500, 43, 900—biaria T Teifoathior' v. Mishaol Toucathor; ‘of dosertion, 43,000—Miriam Kirkiand v. Richard McCarthy. Kirkiand';.divore on ud of drunkenaess. and cruslty, 43/007—osoph W. Fullor etal, v, Joioph ond Gliarick Tigge; se- sumpelt,. $300, 43,908—Alozander Graliam of al. v, Gnoss & Phillipa Manufhchuring 0o [y, assumpat, " $200. 4,09—ichael 31, oy st ol v, Hildsbrand’ A, Von Glahm; bill for {njunction, 43,910—Jamos Peterkin v.. Josoph Pollak and Jolin Forsytho; bill for injunction. . 43,001 —Ohicago & Lyous Limo and Btono Compnny v; Will- fam Bchwarz;" assumpsit, . 43,912, B—Appoal, 43,014—Frank Sturgos ot o). v. A. & J, M, French; ne= sumpait, $1,000, 43,915—Mary B, v, Join Kolly; bill for sopsrato maintenance, 43,016—Nathaniol Douton gtal. v, Taimadgo E, Spafie potition {o supply record anc B, Keopors v. erican Bridgo Oo: any; sssumpstt, $LG00, 43,016—ohiy Olarka' & Co, v, H. O. 'Datta; confosslon of judgmont; $02,50, 43,810—Jonathan B, Kimball ‘ot al. - W. 0. Brudley sud E, D, Wolln; cato, $600, 43,021— Dennis 0'Connor of-al, v, Rufiia Band; assumpsit, 23,000, 43,021 ~Snvings Dank ofs Fond u Laov, 3. 3/ Moniaguo ; sssumpait, $1,000, 43,033—Obarlos B, Mo~ Kay etal,'v. J. O, Young'; ssumpalt, $600, 43,024— Soxtus N, Wilco, Truateo, etc., v. Goorgo R, snd Josso B, Thoimaa ; assumpatt, §3,000, 43,125, 1L Pitch ot al. v. Johin' G, McCoy ;' nanumpsit, $200, 49,028—Alphionso Lejonno v, Louis Sordet ; assimpait, $176,35, 43,07—Amod D, v, Selinda A, Bishop ; divorca on graund of desortion,-43,098—, Wilbeck'& 0o, v, M, B, Dalloy ; sssnmpeit, $500," THE TIMBER ON FIRE. Aro We to Hnvo a Ropotition of tho Scenes of 7711 oL From the Saginaw (3lich.) Courfer, Jine 22 From pasgongors on tho ovening train of the T. & P., M. R, W. from Reod Olty, we lrarn that oxtonaive firos aro raging about tho vitinity of Evart, Tho Inhabitants had turned out en masso to fight tho oloment, snd the village was in groat dangor . of destruotion, 'rom_ all fiunrtnm_ up the lino of the J. L. &8 R: . wo honr of dostriotive fires tr\mnlng through thé 'timbor,” endangering mills an burping up lumber-camps, l(fia, 0 oto. Gront columne of smodke ariss from firgs, and it roally soems as though the frightful 'aconos of "71 were to bo ro-onacted. Tho whole' country is, from tho oxtended drought, liko a tinder-box, sud o stray spark from o locomotive will'sot o tract of country on firo, snd thore nro, of courso, no moans at hand for stopping its sproad, save the individusl exertions of porsons intorestod. Bponking of tho fires, tho Bay Oity' Tridune of Inst ovoning has the following, by spocial tole- graph'from 8tandish : : W SraNDIsy, 214t, 2 p. m.—~Thorocont dry wonth- or has proved somowhat disasirous at various points along tho Lake Shore and up tho northorn | oxtenslon of tho Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad. Tho day boforo yesterday the fires were 8o bad dlong tho shore south of Hurrisville that it was with groat diffoulty that toams conld ot nlonfi; ‘Tho tolufi;}sh line to-Au Bablo was §lunblod ¥ firo, and soarcoly boon repaired yot. ‘Harriavillo was thought to bo in groet don~ gor from tho firo at ono time. All points south ©f Alpona the country is suffering from drought, and unless ‘rain fails goon the domago dono'by the forost fire will smount to many thousand ollara. i Iu tho vicinity of Georgotown, ontheJ. L. & 8. Railrond, conslderable dnmage has beon done to tho lumber intorast, Soveral hundred acros .of pino and hardwood lands have beon burned ‘ovor,,and ot lnst_nccoints tho progrosaof tho work of dostruction was uunbatod. Othor fires’ will undoubtedly ‘soon bo roported unloss wo, havo a fall-of ratn which will deonch the surfaca of tho earth thoroughly. Yostordy, fres weroTaging foastully along tho lino of tho J. L. & 8. Ballrosd, provonting tho ‘Tunning of traina ontirely north of Wolls, Tho ‘morning; oxpress aftoriroaching Wright's Station was compeltlad to roturn to Wolls, Thoflameswere swooping across tho track at o foarful rato. At 2:95 p. m, thoy ngain tried to make thoir way through, but wore again drivon back., This ng the freight coming eouth, after s hard stmggle, succeodod in gotting through to Wells b 6:55 p. m. without any sorious damnge. Tho wind has gone down, snd trains aro again run- ning on thoir zogular timo, The track is con- gidorably damasged, both north and sonth of West Branch, and the tolopraph linea and poles woro burned for the half or three-quattora of o milo botween Wells nnd’ Wost Branch, iving us no communication north of €Vsllm ‘It s again- working through to Crawford. -Tho fires in tho woods south aud wost of hero yostorday were sweepln approolative snickors | stakod out, and haa since beon. toward tho town at & frightful spoed, but al turnod out with axes, pails, etc., and prevented it ronching the villago, Tho road train, with s gang of about forty men, was immediately sent to our rescue, and all passod off without any gorious injury aside [from the lombor-camps, oto,, in the woods about hero, The railro; company haa lost considorablo wood, Tho fire is atill 2aging in gpots along tho lino of tho road. . . 8p,a,—Tho wind is shifting toward tho south, snd {8 increasing. Thoro aro hoavy smokos north, south, and sest, giving signe of tremon- dous fires in thesa direotions. - - ! The Burning of Micliignmmli. From the Sarquette Mining Journal, On Taesday ont mining_editor made n'profas- sional visit to M.luhl%lmmi City; sud lookod over the mine of tho Michigammi ompany. At thiat timo the forest on the north side of the loeation was on flre, tho flamos taking hold of all the combustible matarial within resch, snd thoy soomed to bo raging in altogethor too dangerous roximity to tho improvoments of tho location {o causo tho inhabitants to focl anfo or comfort- ablo. § The town was built in n forest. Stroots wore not graded, not but little more than trails were used to get from ono houso to another, whilo ‘the whole Burfaco of tho location was coverod -with stumps, interspersed with treos and qvory kind of forest combustiblo mattor, It would soom inovitable to the most casual observer that tho location would have to burnoverif afira was fairly started in any part of tho forest ad- jolning, " ‘The saw-mill—though to & groat ox- tent soparated from the forest and the village— was surroundod. with shavings, shingles, and lumbor; and'lookod like & ‘strong invitation to fire: Hence the disestor of Thursday. . . . | Tt soomms that quite oarly in thoday afire which Dboyond Spurr, woit of Michigammi, camo worl- ing down on the railrond, consuming mosf of tho improvoments at Spusr, aud driving tho Ynhabi- tants from tho fow housos'thora located to the foreat north of the location. . The minors fought it manfully and succeoded in saving a portion of tho property of tho company. W Prosently, ns this firo appronched Michigamuwii, tho ono already burning at this. place bogau to manifost symptoms of o dangorous sproad, and- proeparations woro at onco mace to save proporty and the population. " At about 1 o'clock flamon broke ot inthe village on the south eido of the railway, and, being onlivened by a !tro:g’bmoze, within'a fow minutes they were kindled to such &0 oxtont s to grasp evory stump, and root, and treo within range, and 1t soon swop through tho villnge, whero slight, tinder-box dwollings and placos of businoss woro “ercoted” amidst tho stumps and dry timbor of s partial nlemuf‘ The whole surface of tho locality was but littlo Icus than a magnzino of combustion, in the most combustiblo form, and the result -was flames, spread with suoh rapidity that tho ‘ocoupanta of dwollings and places of business hnd barely timo to oscape alive, Tho confusion, the ngony of tho; women and children, and tho torror of tho wholo community cannob ba described,~ Men rushed wildly toward thoir houses to enve thotr <wixos and _children ;- women shrieked for aid, nnd childron wailed for help, which did not scom availablo, Yot, though 'tho flro raged through tho town, taking houses, the troos, atumps, and fonoos, and all elso, with which it camn in con- tact, tho inhabitants were fortunnte enough to oscapo tho conflagration with their lives—somo with thoir olothing and somo without— somo with monoy and valuablos and: somo without—but the largest proportion with nothing but_what covered thoir badios as they 1led boforo the rago of tho storm of firo. Most of tha poople flod to tho shore of tho lako, and many oF thom with piank, logs, and whatover olso wna_nvailable, resortod to the wator for safoty. Bome of thom at ‘once moved out. into Al lako somo_distanco, whilo othors kept noar the ‘shoro, Many followod-the bush- on- the south nnd savod thewsolves, Meanwhile the stonm pumps at the saw-mill were kopt at work and that proporty was saved. Evocything olse ‘was awopt out of oxistenco. As soon aa tho disastor bocamo known a¢ the office of the Marquotto, Houglton & Ontoangon Asstimpall 0h B 0 00k Trwania . Daer . | Hal! | Railrond in this city speolal trains_woro ordered to thorolie? of thio anfforors, Tho prasongor train coming oast ran tho gauntlot through the fire; nud took -up a8 many.of the homeloss men,. womon, and childron an J& could oarry, au brought thom to Chninplon, Clarkaburgls, Tlum- boldt, and_Ishpetning. Somno of thoua asson- goré oro “in tho "miost daititito cireumatanoon, ‘boing but balf clad and without “foud or_monoy, ;but all, an far- as wo can boar, woro woll inken. ‘oaro of bofore night, . . As soon nd-tho nown of tho extont of tho ca- lamity reached Marquotto, mesnures woro jm- modiately adoptod for tho roliof. of tho sufforors, Food, -clothing, and utonsils for cookiog and, ladging Zwero ‘st tomco contributod, and sont: to tho rollef of thio sufforers on & spocial traln. , ' Tho numbor of ‘lives lost bas not vot baon, nscortained. At ‘Spurr sll tho.inhabitants es :oapod, though overything was burned excopt tho ‘company's offico, " Twwo charred bodies were itound in tho ruins of Michigsmmi; onomania {known to linvo' boen drownod in ‘tho Iake, and i, 18 supponcd - othora wore drownod, as sovoral , Women and ohiidron aro misaing. é # : HOMICIDE AT SALEM, IND. i It ] Deasporado shoots Down n Cltizen - on tho Stroct. i From the New Albany Ledger, Juno 21, Brlom wan tho ccene of & most horribla tragedy which, if wo have boon corractly informed ns to the facts, will rosult, aud. ought to, in Delos ' Hoffron's going out of the world at tho ond of tlio hangman's rope. It scoms that a man by , tho namoe of John Halutead entored the snloon of i Dolos, Hofi'zen yostorday morning, and bLocame ongagod in ‘an’ altorcation with Hoffron, He, iowaver, left tho saloon without anything woras than’a quarrol with Ileffren having takon placo, iond went on about lus business. What the gmrml was about, or who was at fault in it, we n;n rtmtabnuu nblnl to lun:n.m . Yosterday evening, al minutos . past. o'clovk, Halstond was passing Molfren's Enluan‘,! whon Hoffren rushod out of hia door into the stroot with alarge rovolver in his hand and shot IInlstond four timos, killing him-at onco. One ball entored his &ido- about the fitth rib, another o little highor up, another through the centra of tho bronst, and & fourth throughl the unfortu. nu'fi: maa"s h‘;mrt.'h- b‘ 5 0 other barrol tho pistol refusing to ga ofl\ Hoffron grasped tho prostrate mbniy tlix;a collar and beat ont his bralng with the plstol. At thio timo of shooting ho was 8o near to Hal- ;t:n{‘l that tho flash of his pistol sot his clothes ro, . Hoffron waa arrestod and conflnod in jail. {ubllu indignation was aronsed to anolz an Te’;‘: ont thata uomgfny of oitizons agsemblod and voted to swing Hoffron to a troo. Foarfully ex- cited, the crowd started to the jall to oxccuto vengoance on tho murdoror, Lut boforo thoy roached it thoy were porsusdod by tho oarnest ontrontios of the moro orderly citizons to aban- don thoir purposo and lot the law take its course. Our correspondont doos not know the murdered man, and Lo has beon but o short timo resident in Balem, o is sald to havo boon & new-comor there from thia' city, Our correspondont tolls us that nothing now in rolation to the tragedy hds ocomrred since tho orowd of lynchors dwporsed lnst night, The town, howover, ia frunfly excitod, and it Is necossary to guard tho all for tho protoction of Hoftren's life, ns tho Eonl‘up foolinga of the pooplo muy nny moment roak forth into violonce, . Hoffron is a brothor of Col.. Horaco Hoffron, of Salem. Hais aman of desporato charactor, and when undor thio influenco of liquor, or when his posalon is aroused by any cause, he is ox- tromoly dangorous. Ho has boon ongaged in numorons broils and acenocs of bloodshed in Sa- lom. Whon ho' iz sober ho hes some, indoed many, -excellont traits of charactor. A fow yonrs ago ho killed & man by tho namo of John- son and aftorwards marriod ‘the murdorod man's widow. For tho sake of law and ordor, we-trust thnt tho citizous of Salom will control fheir just- Iy excited indignation sud loave nhim to the law. 8 court {8 in sossion, we suppose ho will ba in- dioted nt onco. ——— s A MISSOURI TRAGEDY. A White Girl Outraged by o Nogrosw Thoe Lattor flung by o fob. Auguata, o, (June 1), Diapatch (o the St. Louis Res - publicun, 3 Ono of the most datnablo ontrages that ever shockod o community was perpotrated this morn« ing at o farm about ‘two miles weat of this sta. tlon, Tho facts, a8 nearly as can bo loarned, aro theso: A littlo girl by tho name of Lizzie Cufl, whoso %nmnl.s rosido ot Gray's Bummit, a station on the Missouri Pnoific Ttailroad, four miles wost of Franklin, went out early in the morning to pick berrios, Bho was working in tho family of Mr. Hinkaots, o well-to-do farmor noar this sfation, at the time, and was request- od to o' and pick somo borriea for dinnor, Bho went across the flolda alone, na they snflpnscd. A nogro who had boon prowling about the noighborhoad followed her, aud, whon » ghort distanco from tho Louso, attacked her in o violent and brutal. mannor, and outraged her porson. Nor was thia all. * After_having accom- ginhud Lig hollish purposo, tho fiond attempted wmaurdor hor by cutting hor throat and other- wise mutilating her body. The poor girl was found lying in the bukhos noar o stream, in an unconscious condition, abont 10 o'clock this ath, | had beon burning in the woods some distanco | morning. Bhe was first discovored b?' a party of youngstors who had gono to the fleld, like hor, to pick berries. Thoy favn the alarm, and, after taking tho outraged girl to tho hona whoto sha had been living, soarch was immediately inatitut. ed for tho perpotrator of the crimo. In a short time tho girl became -conscious, and informed thom of the person. & Bho said it was & nogro, and named him as the ono whv had boon seen in the neighborkood for gaveral days. .When it becamo knowa tho ex- citomont was-intense. BSquads of indignant cili- rons soarched the fields and byways leading to the placo, Aninnocent girl had boen ontraged, her life despaired of, audtho binclk, haso orimiual was still at-large. Evory part of tho field and tho adjacent highways were scarched in vain, Tho news renched the station, and shortly after, tho old adago that * Murder will out™ was nover moro siraugoely verifled than in this Instanca. Attor committing the horviblo double crime the ravishor and would-bo murderor had taken across tho flelds in thoe diroction of the railrand. Tho employos on the east-bound m(§m train, No. 82, dus' hero about half-past 1 o'cloak, learned of the horror, and that tho negro wore a goatoo poculiarly shaped. ? About two miles cast of this polnt one of tho. ‘brakomen discoyored him Bltung on & log nenr- thorond. The train was stoppod.” Tho brake- mian chased and ovortook ‘tho villain, drawing . gix-shooter'on ‘him and making him _surrondor, Ho was takon baclk to tho atation, The nowa of * his oapturo attracted a multitudo of dosporate - copla around him at the depot. - They formed ymn lino and marched the prisoner over o the. Lod-sido of the little snfforor, who was spared: long onough to know of his eapture and.to idon- tify bim. Whon thoey lod him into hor prosonc sho opoued hor eyos and exclaumed : ¢ ‘Chat ie: the man,” . Tho nogro wag thon takon out and hangod tes tho firat treo, It was not the vigilants this timo, but tho poople, rogardlons of 8ox, color, or party.. Tho nogro confossod. to tho orimo, 15 namo s} nok known, but ho ia said to havo boon employed: on's stoambont running botwoon Memphis andi 8t. Louis, N o Tho qhyslclx\nn attending tho littlo girl say she: cannot Yive. Bhe suffers intonsely, and is out of hor mind most of the time, Bhois rapresentod as. bem{i’ o vory honest and respoctable Gorman. girl, lidtwoon 16 and 16 yesrs of age, much loved fo thio neighborhood, 3 e A Call for Liberal Republicans, | Froni the Syracusa (N, ¥.) Standard, Jurie 20, * - tFho following invitation haa boon’ fssued and eont to many Liboral Republicaus in this Stato: New Yons, Juno 17, 1673, Sm: Aftor n comparison of.-viows by's large numbor of Liberal Ropublicaus residing in dif- foront parts of .tho Stato, It has boen deemed advisablo to rocommend an informalmeoting for consultation, in viow of tho apvroachivg olec- tion, by thouo Republioans whoso sono of duty oud consistoncy- led them to support lorace Grooloy. : -Tho undersigned, thoreforo, take the liborty to namo as tho place and timo of holding such conaultation, the Bt. Nicholas Hotol, New Yorlk, and Lhursday, tho 25th day of Juuo, 1873, ot 12m. It s 'lm{)ml and expooted that tho meoting, although of o privato aud confidential nature, will bo woll attendod, and that evary soction of the Btato will bo fully raprosontod. T'ho Liboral Republioans, by actlug wisoly snd unitodly at tho ensuing Btato oloction, cannot fall to impress their just and mmoflo viowa forelbly aud uaufully on tho political futuro. You aro urgontly roquostod to bo present at thoplaoe and time namod, Reupeotfully yours, * Joln Cookrano, D. O, Littlsjokn, onry Shorwood, Qliarics T, Blinw, ¥. A, Conlitug, : E, It Rognolds, Qiinoll Burt, B ¥, Jonos, . Clarke all J N, W, Nilos, W, W, Rackwell, 0 B, Bwaln, G. V. Howlr, 1. C. Olevolaudl, Waldo Huteliins, Luthor Osldwofl, D. D, 8, lrown, W. W, Goodrich, ¥, J. Filhian, E, A, Morritt, John Bwinbirno, Eitinn Allen, 1. F. Maulorre, 8, G, Tubory Alfrod Wilkiuson, George W. Palmer,. T, E, Blowarh, Do, Fiold,