Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1873, Page 4

I'HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1893, e e e e e e et et e e e e e e e e e e ettt = = et ettt TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TENAS OF AUDACRIPTION (PATATILT IN ADVANOR), B bookivare: B 1500 | Wl :25:08 Tnrtw of # yone ot the ssmo rato. *'a provent dolay aud mistakes, bo suro and givo Post ©fco ndcresa In full, fuciuding Stato and County, Romittancos mey bo mado clthor by deaft, oxpross, Post Diico mdur, or in ropisterod lottors, al our xisk. TRUMA TO CITY BUNICNIDENS, Letly, dolisorod, Bunday oxcopted, 35 conte per wook, Dadly, dotiversd, Bunday included, 80 conte por waoks Addross THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Cornor Madison aud Dearborn-sta,, Oblcago, Tl TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. UQOLEY'S TIIT. Ulatk zud Lagalla, E~Randolph stroot, betweon eliool, MEVICKERS TIRATRE-Madlson stroo hotwnan Donrbora ond Btato, ' Vuproz and Uonodlot's Alin- Aicols, BUSINESS NOTICES, ‘PIUIE MAN FROM ORIIKOSIL 18 TIIT ELRPUANT 1o 1o Ghina Shey Dliva Logan's ? ut Long Dranell, $eo HLY AT 1Y SHANOE. Pioo, alSoYAT, IAVANR,, TOTEOREs W SOLD, nwing of 20 Apri he X rirg. r sonts informntion, givon. . T ATARTINEZ & CO.y Bankors, 0 Wall-st.” I, O, ox 485, Now Yurk. s Y Ehe Chicage Teibune, . Tuosday Morning, July 23, 1873. Ex-Gov. Colby, of Now ITumpshiro, who diod yoatorday, nged 80 yonrs, was tho only Whig over cloatod Governor of that Stato. Tho oloction of 1846 was thrown Into the Legielaturo, whoto o coalition was formed between tho Froo Soilors nand tho Whigs, which mado Colby Governor, and sent John P, Ifalo to the Unitod StatosBenate, It wae o similar alliance that clected Boutwall, thon n Domocrat, Govornor of Mussachusetts in 1851, md gave Bumnor, o Freo Soiler tho United Statos Sonatorship. Mr. Reuben Clevoland, an old residont of the Went Division, has beon namad by tho Mayor no Tolico Commisalonor to succeed Mr. Mnson. Tho Common Couneil lnid tho nomi- nation over for futuro action. Tho Coun- cil confirmed Dr. Miller 5s momber of tho Board of Henlth in placo of Dr. Rauch, and re- fused to confirm Edwund Jussen as a membor of the Boevd of Bducation, The application of tho Chieago, Milwenkeo & St. Paul Railway for ight of way in this city was again postponed for four weoke. The memboers of tho Dominion Cabinct su- thorizo the Toronto Mail to deuy tho charges mado againal them by 3McMullen and his n8so- ciatea in tho correspondenco published the other day. Tho Mail eays tho siatements therein made, that the Government, o any membor of it, was a party to auy agrcomont, political or pecu- niary, concorning tho award of tho chartor and construction contracts of the Canadian Pacifie Tilway, are altogothor falso. Tho Government promises to mako all tho faots of tho caso publie at aa early day. The Chicago produce markots were less activo yostorday. Mesapork wasdull, and 15@200 por brl lower, at $15.00 for cash or sellor Augnst. Lard was dull and nominal, at $8.05@8.10 per 100 lbs ensh, and 38.50@8.62}¢ for summor rendered. Menta wero moro activo and unchanged, at Tio for shouldars, 8@83c for short rib, 855@8Y¢e for eliort clear, and 10@12 for sweot piclled bams, Lake freights were active and a sbade ongier ot Go for corn to DBul- fulo, Highwines wero quict and 34c high- o, ot 90)4@le per gallon. Flour was locs uctive, apd o shade firmoer. Wheat was quict and firm at 1c decling, closing at $1.203¢ cash, and §1.159¢ sellor August. Corn wng quiot and stondy, closing st 873¢c cnsl, and 8750 sellor August. Oats wero less aclivo and casior, closing at 283@38%¢o cash, and 27go sollor Au- gust. Iiyo was quict and unchangod, at 66@5To cash, and 55c seller August. Barloy was nctivo, end advanced 6@9c, closing at 82@83c for now No. 2, eeller Soptomber. Ifoga wero dull ‘and lowor, owing to unoxpected heavy recepts; closing rates wero §4.40@4.85, The cattlo mar- kot was netivo and stoady. Bhoop woro quict. In another column we give Presidont Joy's an- funl statomont of the cnrnings, oxpenscs, and condition of tho Michigan Central Railrond. Stocklioldors may oo from his figures why thoy have failed to receivo their usual Juno dividend, although tho oarnings of thoroad aro groator than ovor. Tho ronson is, in briof, that tho enrnings of tho road have been necousarily turned over to the construction account in ordor to so incrongo its capnaity that it might transact businoss onough to pay futuro dividends, Tho compotition in Jocal 0 well as through freighis has been s0 intonso of lato yoars that rates have steadily beon forcod down until thoy aro to-dny leus than halt what they woro cight yoars ago. ‘To wmoke monoy at these lower rates it was in- disponsablo (hat tho business of the rond should bo espocially enlargod, and this could only bo dona by doubling its working powor. To this end, 141 milea of steol roil hevo beon Iaid during tho yoar, and 168 miles have been double-tracked. Tho rolling stock hne beon much moro than doubled. Thke inability of the Great Wostern Raflway to perform its sharo of tho through busiucss, Mr. Joy thinks, entailod » Ioss of half a million of dollars upon eonch Company, Thia will not bo likoly to racur, Tho Great Wostorn will oon hinve o through doublo tyack, and, boforo wintor, tho Canada Bouthern will also intorsect the Michigon Contral at Dotroit, and conncat it wilh the Erlo nud Now York Contral at Buffalo. The English papers contain ofiicinl statomonta of tho amount of taxation for local purposos in England in 1872-3, ho wholo sum was £L30,- 200,659, or $151,048,205, OF this sum, £21,680, €09, or $107,000,000, was lovied by tho local nu- thorities, tho rost boing rocolved from gonoral taxes, Tho DBritish Minister claseifios theso taxos 04 romunorativo sud non-romunerativo, and tho following are put down ns the non-ro- munorstive: Poor rates, county, rural, borough, and town police rates, metropolitan and London polico rates, ‘Thoso foot up moro than balf tho wholo of tho tex for local purposes, Tho Gove ernment claima that tho local taxes for othor purpuges are in the natura of yomunerative iu- vestmonts, such as taxes for roads, stroots, lighting, sowers, draluago, Lurials, “ Church ratos,” turnpike and forry tolls, markote, pilot and harbor foos, and tho duties on wine aud caal lovied by tho Oity of London. Tho taxou undor tho Liond of Church rates aro thoso Jovied on tho parishos, fron timo to tine, to ro- pair and prasorve Church proporty, and not for the support of tho Church. The sum of this tax colleotad In all England last yoar was only €128,000. The local tax of tho United Statea for tho yoar 1870 was—State, $08,051,308; county, tax, 877,746,116 town, olty, ote., B184,704,108; total, $260,501,621. This was exolusively looal ¢ax, includivg, pothing nationsl. . It should, be ndded that this local tax in tho United Btatos inoludod o lovy for Intorost on & local debt of 803,670,768, —— A NEW TEST FOR OFFICE, Thoro i nothing ko domoralizing to tho ordl- nary politician as an inuovation, or the lutroduc- tion into politica of any now law or rogulation emncking of roform. Somo disorganizing indl- vidual proposed, at the rocont Rlopublican State Convontion of Tows, & vory embarrassing rosolu- tion, o ndopt it wna to practically abolish all prity obligations, and o reject ik was to leave the party opon to tho ohargo of winking at oblolnl dishonesty, After carcfully wolghing tho chiancos, tho Couvention adoptod tho romolu- tion as follows ¢ That 1t i tho duty of Republicans to oppozo tha cloction of o bad man and sn incompetont candidato, whottier lio bo o eandidato upou our own ticket or sny- othior tiekot, A considerablo portion of the Republicans fn Iowa Linving resolved to avail thomsolves of this privilogo, tho politicions have nwakened to what thoy considor tho dangors rosulting from tho horesy of tho resolution. What Is the valuo of & party nomination unless ovory man in tho party is obligod to voto for tho nomineo? What uso In thoro for a party convention if it is mado tho duty of ovory mombor of tho party to vote ngainst any nomineo whom ho may think is in- competont or othorwiso unfit? What is tho us0 of having o party when each mombor of 1t is at liborly to voto for whom ho ploases? Thoso nro questions which the party mon cannot understand, Some of tho papors, horetoforo strict organs, aro availing thom- selvos of tho freedom granted by the regolution by substiluting for tho names of objectionable candidates the words * somo Lonest man.” All over the Stato thoro are Ro- publicans, mocting in convention and othorwiso, snd following tho precopt of tho resolution thot it is thoir duty to voto against bad snd in- competont men when nominated by their own pasty, and are proposing othor eandidatos to be supported. Tho old party dootors aro perploxed Dby tho ravages of tho political epidemic. Thoy appesl to tho ¢ party,” to stand firm ; but & mul- titudo, showing the resolution, claim ‘that they aro porforming * thelr duty” in voting sgainat tho party nominecs whon thoy are not the men who ought to bo elected. Thoro was an attompt to arrost this intelligont and indopendont oxerciso of the right of suffrage by an intimation that the resolution was not in- tonded to mean anything; but tho doctrino of thio resolution is o much in accord with publie sontiment, and so wholly difforont from tho or- dinary platitudes of party platforms, that tho peopls havo accoptod it a8 o grest moral truth, ond aro dotermined to not upon it whethor it was origiually proposed in fun or not. The politicians of Iows have tried to convince the poople that tho nominocs of the parly are not bad mon nor are thoy incompetent, but_ tho dis- contonted oncs claim that cachiis to judge for himself of that fact, and to voto accordingly. Ag tho action of a convontion in nominating & candidate is conceded to Lo no longor conclu- sivo ovidenco of tho fltucss of tho porson, no indorsement of such porson’s fitness by o con- vention can control tho private judgmont of the votor, porticularly when it is made the “duty" of tho voter to dofeat tho eleotion of an incom- petont or bad man to ofiice. Now comes a Muscatino ornole, who exponnds the law of party, snd who doclaros that no Re- publican has any right, upon Lis own porsonal Lnowledge, to assumo that any candidate nomi- nated by tho party is bad or incompetont until such limo as tho whole party, ncting under “{ho dircction of its constituted authoritios,” ghell so dotormino and decide. According to this, if o Republican candidato for Conaty Tronsurer bo discovered to bo already n do- faulter, or be under indictmont for some other crimo, or the candidates for othor ofices have beon nolorious for accopting bribes, or are Lnown to bo personally dishonest or Incompe~ tont, Itopublicans must nevertbeless voto for them, Nor will it avail to prodaco the record of tho indictment, trial, and conviction of o person who is a candidate. According to tho Afuscatino expounder of tho law, the racords and Judgmonts of tho courts of lnw aro nob binding upon Ropublicans, and & Ropublican candidato or officcholder can only bo tried and con- victed by tho * constituted authorities” of tho Republican party, “'Tho late State Troasuror o’ Yows Das boon convictod Dby the Logislature, and by lua own writion statemonts, and by the fact of an ompty Treas- ury, of alarge appropriation of publio monay to his own uee. This samo pornon, if nominated for tho Legielature or for any othor offico by the Topublican party at tho coming eloction, must Do elected; no Republican in Towa can, accord- ing to tho Muscatino jurist, voto against Lim, until the ** constituted authorities " of tho parcy shall have formally placed him under the an of cxcommunication, This fs clniming & higher authorivy for party than was ovor claimed be- foro, THE LAW OF CORPORATIONS. ‘Tho Nation, in an articlo on tho railway con- tiovorsy (to which wo havo already advorted), spenking particularly of tho Credit Moilier plan of railway construction, says : Now, if anybody will got up and propose & genoral Tailrond act of thia naturc applicablo to all rosds horo aftor to be bullt, wo thinlk wo can promiso thut ho wily liavo the hearty support of overybody who lus cerious, Iy roflceted on tho ratiroad problom, Forbid the cou- structlon of any road execpt with tho proccods of paid- upwock, and forbid any bigher dividonds tuon o certaiu fixed percentago on this smount, and wo shall huvo o rulo of which pobody ean complain, Bo far us rolates to forbidding thoe construction of any road, excopt with tho procoeds of paid- up stacl, wo havo expressed tho opinlon that ihat fs the law now, and henco that it i quite unnecossnry for anybody to got up and proposo n goneral railroad act * of that nnture, For tho aako of convoniont roferenco to the law govern- ing such casen, wo have openod & -printed Lrlof preparod womo yoars sinco by Br Elliott Anthony, of thi city, in o caso then pondiog, which contains a completo synopsis of tho jurisprudenco of Gront Dritain and this coun- try applicablo to tho matter in controversy, To Bavo 8paco, wo glvo the prinoiples of tho law 0a thoy havo boon Inid down without oiting the coagos which called thom out. Wo find tho fol- lowing principles muintained : 1, **It {8 an aphorism in Inw that a corporation ia tho moro oroaturo of the statuto, and hus no powors whatovor oxcopt those that are cxpresaly given it In mwpport of this principlo, Chiof-Justico | ‘Taney eaid that * a corporation crouted by stat- uto is & moro creatura of the lnw, and can oxor- olso no powora oxcopt thoso which the law confors upon it, or which are incidont to its oxlstonco.” It has also boon Leld that, ven inthe cago of a contract, the powor to mako it dooa nob oxist nnlosa it In exprostly givon by tho atafuto, or oloarly implied from the granted powors.” Again, In sovoral cnsen, it has beon hold that & corporation eannot act nt all without Inw; and that o contract mado by it withont au- thorlty Is vold * even in tho hands of a bona fide holdor for valuo.” It Jias alo beon held in gon- oral that n ocorporation can mako no con- traota which aro nobt mocousary, olther directly of indircotly, to offoot tho objeots of its orention, Tho dootrino I lald down by Angol & Amop, fn tholr work on Corporations, * tlint o eorporation and individual siand upon vory different footing,” and that tho former, “ having baen oreated for a spoolflo purpozo, not only can mako no contract forbidden by ita chartar, whicl, ag It wero, 1a the law of ils na- ture, but in gonoral can mako no contract whicl 18 not nocessery, oithor directly or {ndireotly, to onablo it to answor that purposo.” Inthe contro- vorsy bebweon tho farmors and tho railronds, it dovolvos wupon oach of tho Iatter to provo tint its chorfor Laa oxpressly authorizod it to issuo stock which roprosents no notual invostment, or that such issue was nocos- sary to onablo it to anowor tho purpose for which it waa creatod. 22, It i cqually well sottled that no corporate pouwer is ever oreated by implication or cxtended by construction. Chiof-Justico Tanoy adopted the law laid down by tho English courts to this offeot : ** That any smbigulty in tho torms of the contract must operato againsb tho adventurers and in favor of iho publio, and tho plaintifla (ie., tho corporation,) can claim nothing that i3 not clearly given them by the' ach' And, in ndopting tbis principlo of law, Ohiof-Justico Tanoy said, in offect, that it would bo a singular spootaclo if tho courts of this country should bo found enlarging tho privilogos of corporations by implication," while English courts aro restraining corporations within tho strictost limits, Tho Buprome Court of Tilinols hins caid that ©the powors of all corporations aro limited by tho grants in thoir charters, and cannot bo extended beyond them.” Tho Supromo Oourt of Ponnsylvania has eaid that * corporato powers can nover bo created by implication, nor oxtonded by conatruction;" and algo that “in the construction of a charter, to bo in doubt is tobo rosolved, and ovory resolution which springs from doubt is sgalnet tho corporation. This is tho rulo sustained by all tho courts in this coun- try and in England.” It Ling aldo boon hold that # noither priviloges, powors, nor authoritics can pass, unlesa thoy aro givon in unnmbiguons words, and that an act giving speoisl privilogos must bo construed strlctly.” It thoroforo, dovolvos upon tho railroad compamies to produco charters, or gomorsl gcts of incorporation, which oxprossly suthorlzo them, in unambiguous words, to issuo watered stock, or eny other stock, bonds, or sorip which incronsos tho capitul, bus which ropresonta no actual investmont. 8. It ia tho duty of Courts of Equity to keop all corporations within tho powers which their chartars givo them, This principlo Las been laid down in o mass of decisions in both English and Amorican courts. In an English caso, tho Lord-Chancel- Jor held that it was a most wholesomo ox- orciso of jurisdiction and most osson- tinl to tho interest of tho public to leop corporations within that limit which tho Legis- Isturc has thought proper to preseribo for tho exercise of thoir powors, and tho Court further said that it was bound to interfero when theso companlos go beyond such powors. I Qo mot eib in this court to onlarge theso powers,” s3id an English Judgo in anothor case, “but to keap tho companics within tho limits which tho Logislaturo has preseribed.” * Dam- ago or mo damago to others, thoy must oboy thelr chartor,” was tho language of an American Judgo. “If sou assort thato corporation has cortain privilegos,” eald Chiof-Tustico Dlack in o railrond cnse, “show us e words of tho Logislature conforring them. TFailing in this, you must givo up your cluim, for noth- ing olso can possibly ovail you, A doubtful chartor does nob oxist; becsuse whatover ia doubtful ig decisively cortain againet tho cor- poration.” A mass of eumulative evidonco might bo gath- orod to estsblish tho principlos of law reeay ulated abovo. Wo thiuk onough los beon quotod, howovor, to satisfy tho Nation thn what it. belioves ought to Lo tho law In futuro is tho Jaw now, and has been so ever sinco corporations have had oxistenco. This much seems to bo domonstrated ; That the right of a railrond to isano waterod stoclk must bo ex- progsly givon in its chartor ; thnt it has no such power by implicstion or under ambiguous words ; that it is tho duty of Courts of Equity to rostrain $ho oxorcisoof this powor unloss it is’ oxprossly grantod in tho chartor; that, ovon s sgniuat bona fide holders, watored stock may bo cancolod un- Jesa tho power to fesuo it can bo clomly established by roferenco to tho chartors. It becomes necossary for the Nation, thersforo, or any othier porson who believes that tho railfonds have tho rignt to ixsuo stook that ropresonts no actual investment, to provo in oach particular caso that the chertor of tho corporation express- 1y conferred this power in unnmbiguous words on the company in quostion. Wo suspoct that this will bho hard to do. All fictitions issucn of stock aro frauds, and wo belicve that the com- mon law affords tho people who are oppressed thoroby amplo raliet. M'NULLEN’S BTATEMERT, Tho Canadians have a sonsation which in many rospects exceeds our own Credit Mobilier case, Sir Iugh Allan is tho Ockos Ames, Georgo W. MoMullen, of Chieago, ia tho M'Comb, aud Bir Johin A, Macdonuld, Bir Goorgo Onrtior, Bir Fran- cis Hincks, Mr, Langovin, and othor mombors of {ho Ministry, aro tho Iarlan, Braoks, Bingham, Patterson, and othors of our memorable case of official and legislativo gifi-taking, Tho facts ns dinclosed in McMullou's Iatest publication may bo briofly stated thus: In Mareh, 1871, Molfullen boing at Ottawa, Canada, mado the ncquaintanco of ono Wadding- ton, who was thon tfalking of tho Canadion Tacifto Rallway, In consequence, Waddington soon after visitod Chicago, and MoMullon un- dortools o orgunize o company to build tho road. Tu July, aftor scowring financinl aid, ho wont to Ottawa und discovered that tho Govornmont did not iutond to give tho work to Wuddington. MoMullen loft his name and that of 3r, Charles L. Bmith, of Chicago, with tho Govornment , to Do addressed if anything turned up. Bomo weoks Inter, Bir Iiugh Allau wroto to Smith, at tho sug- goution of BirFranols Hincks, Tho rosult was an interviow and an agrooment botweon Allan, MoMullen, and Smith, by which Allan was to ro- colvo o largo amount of stock for distiibution, to bo *placod whero it would do tho most good ;" that thoso partios wore to pay nothing for the stook, which was to bo oazried for them, This mooting and Its rosults wero mado Lnown to 8ir John A. Macdnald, tho Tirsé Ministor of tho Canndian Government, and ho ngrosd at an oarly dato to givo an offi- cisl impotus to the Company. BSmith and Mcdullon mot tho mombera of tho COabinat, nud, owing to o diangroomont, the mattor was again postponod, After varlous dolnys, tho con- traot wan eignod in Docombor, 1871, at Now York, by, which Allsn and his Couadion eso- olatea woro fo obtam tho job of bullding tho rond for tho Compauy, of which MoMullen and Bmith wore membors, ropresontiug Amerlcan rallway onpitalists, undoratoed to bo Jay Cooke, Goorgo W. Cnss, and othors, of tho Northorn Pacifio Rallway Company. Allan roprosontod thint money was necossary to soouro tho propor logislation trom Pariiamont, and the co-opora~ tion of certain influontial mon, and his earlicst oxpondlturo, ns ho enid, was $8,600, losned to Bir John A, Macdonald and Bir Francis Hinoks, with the undorstanding that ‘it was never to bo repaid,” Allan nlgo setated that Bir Frovols Hincks, who was. Financo Ministor of tho Oanadlan Govornmont, hnd elected to tnko 360,000 cash, and tho placo of Bocrotory of tho Company for hin gon, in proforonco to stock and ultimato profita, About tho timo tho Parliament was to moot, Allan required monoy for curront oxponses, and a lovy of $50,000 was mado on the Amorican partles in April, 1872, ond tho sum was placod to Allan's credit. Of this sum ho drow §40,000, and reported to Mcdullen that ho hnd disbursod $10,000 to Bir Francls Iincks, 806,000 to tho Attornoy-Genoral, and $18,000 to cortain Fronch nowspapers. Tho nocesgary logislation was obtained, and Mr. Abbott, & partner in the concorn, wns author~ izod to pay Mr. Langevin, Ministor of Publio Worke, $25,000 *to aid In elections about Quobeo,” : In July, 1872, Allan wrote to Mcllullen, ‘stoling that Bir Goorgo E. Cartior, Ministor of Militih and Dofonso, was opposing tho Company, but that ho, Allan, could &0 control oloctions in Quobeo that ho could forco Minister Cartior into their support, and sub- sequontly ho wroto that ho had dono 8o, and tho whole Governmont was now with him ; that ho had scoured & majority interost in tho Company to build tho road (a sost of Crodit Mobilior), but that ho had bad to expond §200,000, and had promised 100,000 moro. 1In Boptombor bo agaln wrote, giving alist of thoso to whom lio had or intended to give stock, and stated that ho had then oxponded §943,000 in gold, snd owed $13,000 moro. McMullon, thoroforo, wont to Montroal, and “ wantod to know, you know,” what Load beon dono with sl this monoy. Wheroupon Allan (ss Oakos Ames d&id to M'Comb) gove him a statomont show- ing whoro ko Lnd placod it. Among othor disbursomonts, Allan reported that Lo had paid out $200,000 on Cnrtior's drafts, taking his recoipts thorefor, whon ho had demanded an agreomont that tho wholo Government would sanction tho agreomont. This had prooured from Bir John A. Macdonald a ratificatlon of tho agrooment, Allan had then continued to pay out monoy, nominglly to aid in the cloction of Ministorial csndidatos, to the sum of $358,000 in sddition to tho 40,000 recoived from tho Amorican partios, and wanted the latter to ro- fund the money. MoMullen roported this ox- plavation to bis American backors. Tho rost of tho story is short. In October, 1872, Allan gavo notico that ho must broak off with the American partios ; that the company, to bo euccossful, must bo exclusively Canadian, ote, McMullon thon visited Macdonald, laid all tho facts and papors and Allaw's statomonts bofore him, and Macdonald denied that tho Government had ovor boen bribed, Modullon now gives pub- licity to tho following papers, confirmatory of somo of Allan’s statements concorning the digtribution : Moxrnzax, Aug, 24, 1670, Dran Mz, Apvorr: In the absenco of Blr Hugh Alluy, I sball bo obliged by your supplying the Cen- tiul Comunittco with further sum of $20,000, upon tho ssmo conditions 08 tho mnount writton by mo a tho foot of my letter to Bir Hugh Allan of tho S0th ult, Geonak E, Cantren, P, 8,—Ploaso nlso send Bir Johm A, Macdonald $19,000 moro on tho pamo terms, Recelvod from Sir Hugh Allan, by tho hands of Mr, Abliott, $20,000 for goucral alection purposce, to bo ar- ranged hereaftor, necording to the torma of tho lefter of Sir Goorgo E. Cartlor, of the dato 30th of July, aud in accordanco with the roquest contained in hia lotter of tho 24tls inst, Moxrneat, Aug, 26, 1872, 3.1, Beauouy, L. LsTounNEY, Hexny SBrannes, P, 8, Muneny, Tonoxro, Aug, 26, 1872, To the Hon, J. J. C. Abbott, St. Anne's Immedisto; private. 1 must have another $10,000; will bo tho last timo of calling, Do not fail mo; anawer tooday, Jou A. MA0DONALD, MONTREAL, Aug, 29, 1872, Sir John A. Macdonald, Toronto : Dinw on 1o for $10,000, Tonoxto, Aug 36, 1673, At oight pay to my order, at iho Merchunts' Bank, tho suta of $10,000 for valuo rocoived, Joux A. MacpoxALD, [Tndorsed] Tay to tho order of the Merchants’ Bank of Canada, 3 JonN A MAGDONALD, ‘Tho statemont of Allan huy already beon given. It is protty muchlike thoso published in 1872 by Oalos Amos concorning our Credit Mobilier chaps, and which hio attorwards explained he had writton at thoir roquest, in order to’ lot thom off an onsy as possible. Dut hore is tho distinct utatoment that $308,000 was paid out by Allan in cash, of which thore wae paid to tho following ofticinls, for clection expensos, the sums sot down: To Bir John A, Macdonald, First Minis- tor, £20,000 or moro; to Bir George T, Cartior, ahout $900,000 (doubtful); to Sir Francis Hingks, Ministor of Financo, 818,600 ; to Mr. TLangovin, Minfstor of Public Works, §25,000; to Mr, Oulnot, Attorney-Gouoral, 10,000 Bir Goorge E. Cartior died bofore tho mattor gob publio, and Sir Francs Mincks, the Ministor of Financo, is out in an oxplanation, which Amoriean rondors will notlce is almost {dontleal with that of Bountor Harlan, who, whilo Bocrotary of tho Interior, rocolved $10,000 from tho Crodit Mobiller, through Durant, Iiincks donios that ho askod or rocoived any monoy from Allan “in conuootion with the Pacifio Railway." Ilarlan also racolved the monoy from Durant, but not from tho Pacifie Railwsy Company, It sooms that tho ontlro loss of tho Amorican sotors in this affair was only £40,000, Against this must bo offsct tho sum MolMullen got back from Allan for not publishing tho lottord and papors, and tho amount ho has got from other parties (if anything) for furnishing thom for publica- tion, Disgraceful as was tho bribery of Awmori- can oftiefals by tho Crodit Mobilier, thoy sold out choap, considoring the immeuso aum st stake, whon compared with tho thrifty ofiicials on the othor sldo of tho lnkes. In an editorisl article on tho For Bnolling cago, printed in T'me Trisuns of yeatorday, tho following sentenoce ocourrod: *Tho pame jour- 1al (4. 6., tho Bt. Paul Zvening Dispalch,] ohargos that Sonator Pomeroy asulsted the Stoclo pasty 3.3, 0, Avnorz, to acquiraa titlo to the land from tho present Administration.” Tho namo Pomeroy was o misprint for Ramscy, which was written, Wo know nothing of tho truthof tho charge, and simply dosirod to roproduco tho statomont made by the Bt. Paul Dispatch. Mr. Pomoroy has ouough to carry ou his shoulders without boing saddled with s cuargo that wna made agaiust nanother man., e BRIGHAM'S DIVORCE. Numbor Scvonteon, 80 says tho telegraph, tr- ing of hier fractlonnl weddod lifo with Brigham Young, has sued in tho Gontilo courts for o di- vorce, a mensa ct thoro, and asks for allmony. Without stoppiug to Inquiro why sho gets o di- vorce, or how eho wiil got a divorco by tho Gon- tilo law, which doos not rogard Number Beven- toon a8 o lognlly-married woman ot all, thoro ara othor foatures of tho caso which aro worth congldoring. Numbor Boventoon desiring o di- voreo, it is talr to prosume that Numbor Seven- tooniaa long, lorn, discontonted woman, who s fatled to discover any Cuplds, roses, or rain- ‘bowa in her corner of the matrimonial paradise, and is, therofore, dotormined to securo n wholo man before it {8 evarlastingly too late, rathor thon ploo awey on tho fractional scction of ono any longer. Itia to bo prosumed, fur- thormoro, that Number Bovontcon must havo boon moro or less & stubborn and rocaleitrant womgn, who haa been aubjectod to fomily dis- ciplipe. Perhsps ehio wes o Xaatippo, who mada it 80 lively for Mr. Young that ho waa compolled tobanishbor from bed and board, whoreupon, we prosumo, sho has got mad, and is striking out for an incronss of privileges by & decrcase of her ‘marital rolations. Whatover may bo tho cause, it s ovident onough that thoro is nrow intho houso, nnd that tho ono soul with 40 hearts, which do not beat as ono, haa got an episodo on hand which ho hae nover drenmed of bofore. That ho will do romaine to baseen. Ho must do somothing, othorwiso Numbors Ono to Bovonteen and Numbers Righteen to Fort-y- Bix, inclusive, moy pick up their 40 envpot-bags and 02 band-boxes some fiue morn ing, ond leavo Mr. Young to ont his bronkfast slono and take caro of tha GO0 or 70 youngstors during the day, which of iteclf in sufiiciontly appalling to contemplato without suggesting any furthor horrors. Tho Bhah of Porsin could cosily golvo tho dificulty by shortening his wives tho longth of o hoad onoh, or quiatly dropping thom into the Porsisn Gulf, ncatly sewed up in COnmol's-Hair shawls, and then ordoring n frosh 1ovoico, Had Mr. Young tho sbsoluto powoers of tho 8hoh, he might drop thom all into the Salt Lako, tho salino proportios of which would for- ovor keop thom from spoiling, nud there they might float 08 s warning to futuro wives not to! turn back,—tho samo uso to which Lot's wifo was put by o similar process. The action of Number Seventeon shows that sho is not very proud of Mr. Young, sud sho is probably only ono of 46 others who in- dulgo in the ssmo feoling, Tho woman who can gob up any intorcat in tho 1-46 part of o man, a8 mon averago, must bo a curious sort of woman. Horeaboutd, and in most all communitics less enlightenod than Utab, it is oxtromoly difioult t0 got & woman interceted In 4 wholo man, and, ovon aftor gotting intorested, soma of thom gob tired and want n chango to roliove tholr ennui. 1t talos o great many rolays of mon hioro bofora woman gots thoroughly intorostod in one man, ‘When Number Soventeon was signed, sonled, and oliverad to Mr. Young, showas not by any moans mado 17 times happy, but sho was only happy in thoratio of 1-17tol, and this @mall atock of happinoss has sinco beon stoadily docrogsing until it is now roprosented by tho ratio of 1-46 to 1, with tho ponsibility of still furthor reductions, A woman who could bo sat- fafied with this infinitesimal dowo of happinoss would go into ecstasiea of dolight if sho had an opportunity to bo hanged. Then it must be ro- mombored that, whon Number Two married Mr. Young, sho not only lad to hnvo the consent of Mr. Young but also the consont of Number Ono, and 5o on down, 80 that when Number Soven- toon promised to love, chorieh, and obey bor tractional section of that gonttoman if sho did 50, 5ho not only bad to have hig consont, but tho consent of Numbers Ono to Sixteon inclusive. This, a8 tho worthy Ecclos was wont so often to romark, “ecs 'ard” What woman in this freo and enlightened communily would ever got married £ sho had to ask tho consent of six- toon other women? Aud how the chances diminlsh} Tho noxt woman who marries Mr. Young hes got to ask 46 others, and recoivo' 40 dorisive affirmatives. Wo sy affirma- tivo, for wo prosumo not one of them would ro- ply in tho nogative. Having gob cought thom- solver, wo have no doubt thoy desiro and contrive also that all other women shall got caught, on the sama principlo that whon o man got into the Sons of Malta—that gociety which so wor- ried. good Dr. Blanchard—ho was always eagor that all bis friends should got in immedintely. Buch is the porversity of human naturo. W think that wo havashown good grounds why Number Soventeen should bo discontented with 1-460f & mun, 146 of o table, 146 of the poclsot-monoy, 146 of th childron, and at hav- ing to find her 1-46 of tho clildren among tho other 46-46, all bearing n family rosomblance, and all Young. It is anothor question, howovor, whother Number Seventeon should have adi- vorco, and still another whcthor Number Soven-~ teon can have omo if sho should, When Numbor Boventoon bostowod hor maldon affoctions upon MMr. Young, Number Boventoon know what sho was doing. Sho know that sixtoon othors hind beon through tho samo coromony, Bho lmow that meuy moro would in all probability do likewieo, and sho know that sho would bo sandwiched in with the wholo of them, and would avo to take hor share of the hard Inck. Numbor Boventoon koow that it must tako a vory long timo boforo 3fr. Young could taleo Lor out buggy-riding, and that saveral monthe, perhaps years, might elapuo before ho could got away from tho othor Mrs. Youngs long cnough to ecall upon hor, and look after tho cbildron. Ilaving thorefora doliboratoly put her finger Iu tho fivo, knowlng tho rosult, vy ehould sho complain If Ler fingor smarty ? Bho took Mr. Young for better or for worso, just s tho othor sixteon did who procoded hor, and na twonty-nine othors have dono sinco, and why shouldn't sho keop her 1-40 part, whother it bo good or bed? Number Bovontoon know vory woll that Number One was tho ouly logitimato wito of Mr, Young, and that, as far es o wifo's priviloges undor the Inw are concorned, o woman in Kamechntka s jnst o8 woll oft as sho. Thoro iy no doubt Numbor Soventoon got into & bad scrapo when eho marriod Brigham, but sho know it wag o bad scrapo, snd thsb sixtoon othors wore i tho same sorapo. Buc even if sho “should hiavo a divorco, how Ia that to bo obtained whon ghe Lias not boen marriod undor the lawa of thio Qentllo courts in which shio sooks yollof ? How oan sho bo rolioved from a marriago which hins nover lnwfully taken placo? What comfort, thorofore, can sho oxpeot to ind? Tho only solution wo 8eo is for Numbor Ono to apply for & divorco, and Number-Two to Forty-Bix, inclu- alve, to rosign, But as Numbor Ono las tho only right to tho old gontleman's prop- orly, naud hes beon walting for b a long time, sho probably wont do anything of tho kind, Tho bost thing Num- bor Boventoen ean do, inasmuch aa sho has nov- or boon logally marriod to Mr. Young, is to quit tho old roprobato, paol up hor trunk snd go Wost, whoro slie may yob live to marry somo eatimabloe wholo man, ond epond her daysin ponco and happinoss, ‘The now bill for the rovieion of tho Swiss Feds oral Constitution has just beon published. Tho following aro among tho prinoipal provisions Tho Fedoral army is to consaist of all men Jablo to military sorvico, and overyBwiss is made liablo tosorvo in dofenso of his conntry; the Cone foderation is empowored to establish o univorsi- ty, polytechnio school, and other elmilar institu. tions, and tho cantons are compolled to furnish gratuitous primary instruction; the establishe mont of gaming-bankas is forbidden, snd sll gombling-houses now in operation must be closod by Deo. B1, 18706; completo freodom of conscionco aud crood, no ono boing compolled to pay taxes speclally im- posed for tho intorcats of any Ohurch to which ho does not belong; oqual freedom in tho oxercige of roligion, and equal proteotion for tho sorvices of evory Church; tho right of ox- polling from tho Bwiss torritory all forelgnors who eudanger tho intornal or extornal seowrity of tho country. Thoso ombrace tho most im- portant of the provisions, and in all thoso re~ gards tho sonsiblo Bwiss aro sotting a lesson for tho fantastio Fronch sod tho spasmodio Span- lards, in tho administration of a Ropublican torm of govornmont. er————— NOTES AND OPINION, Bimon Cameron, thoe so-called * Winnobago Chiof,” and his wnrriors, had a pow-wow at Bodford Springs, Pa., last weok, and unto thom camo Ssmuocl J. Randall, the salary-grabbing Domocrat, and othor Domocratic chiefs. Of Camoron, & Philadolphia Press corrcspondent s0y8 : Tho General 43 n tho highest possiblo spirits, Ho rogarda himolf s tho master of tho situstion, and 15 a4 enger for viclims sa Copt. Jack boforshio was caught, s rofainors instst tiat Grant will recog- nizonobody that will not bow down_boforo tho grest ‘Wiuncbago, thoiero of 5o many Indlan contrac Liorso contracts, Leglslative contracts, and doubtfy cloctions to the Senate. —The well-informed Washington corrospond- ent of tho Boston Post declarcs that Bimon Camoron has announced himsclf in_ favor of Qon. Grant for a third torm, It may bo expect- od {hat all tho old Eum\chnfl, like Camoron, will tako o similar position. Thoy oo that thore is no chanco for themsclyes, and thoy would rathor nave Grant, and sharo his favor, than trust to a new deal.—Albany Argus. —Whero an incumbont can “take it easy,” thore would scom to bo no limit to his capacily of guduring Prosidential honors. Wa hopo-and beliovo, bowever, that Grant, evon_ though not wewled with offfoinl burdons, will have rospoct cnough for pracodent and public opinion not to attompt & third torm.—DBaltimore Sun., —QGrant hos threo yoara yot to serve, and it would bo woll tolot him fiuish one termata time, or,ovenif it bo wished to establish him por- manently, lot us not do it right away, but wait until the cholors subsides.—Austin (Afinn.) Register. —Grant iz onlinted for lifo, and will not bo donied. Tha people’s libortics axo at Lis meroy ; Iue own nomination within Lis grasp, virtuo is no longor rogarded a8 an attribnto of statosmanship, it is quito llll.ol; the prodiction of Trank Blair will bo verified. Tho day of Ropub- lican doom poors out like tho ghost in Ossinn, and, just now, when tho cries of morning pass unhocded, wo 8o no hope of arrcsting the volocity of its progross.— Vicksburg (fnu.) Herald, —Tho pooplo of tho North aro_roalizing in somo faint degree to-day what tho South has re- alized for years—tho steady, solid, rolontlees on- cronchmont, dny after day and_yoar aftor yoar, of tho contral power and, the hidoousness of tho domination, whon fully established, of an irro- sponsiblo dospotism bearing the namo of & Ro- ‘public, and doing tha deeds of an abeolute mon- nrch%—-Wilminglau (N. C.) St ar. ‘hore is yot oue thing that mars tho happl- nosg and joopardizos tho safety of the Adminis- tration. 1t hag succeedod in dobauching the morals of the country until dishonosty in ofiice hag becomo tho ruls; until men who porjuro thomselvos to oscapo tho charge of bribory aro rocoived with ovations ab home, and those who aro convioted thoreof by formal and lo- al invostigntions aro “promoted to bo Forolgn Ministers ; until it is not sshamod of having bankrupted States, nor to boast of its infamous work in Lounisiona, It hng met witha degroo of succoss in theso dircctions that ought to gratify tho ambition of its most zoalous and intorosted partisans. Bub tho Administration and its tools aro unhappy under tho stricturos of the nowspnpers. Thorofora, it I not surpris- ing to find a concartod offort begun to muzzlo tho pross.—Portland (flm.z News. —Wo trust tho_solf-constituted champions of liberty will now broatho freer. We hopo those {mlriutlu ‘souls that wero 80 profoundly solicitous oat_tho frocdom of tlio pross should bo ground to dust undor tho hools of a_tyranpleal and bloodthirsty Administration, will be ablo to re- sumo tho poacefulness of their slumbors, - For Judgo Blatchford has decided agaiust the re- moval of tho libol suit of Mr. Daua from New York to Washington. Noither tho insidious blandishments of tho infamous Board of Publia Works nor tho appalling dospotism of an arbitrary dictator has induced bim to doliver the intended victim into tho jaws of tho Lidoous monster waiting to crush him and the wholo ;m;w with himl—Abany (N, ¥.) Evening Jour- n al. —1t ia woll enough—indocd, thero is an entiro propriety in it—for tho prosses which draw thelr Support from govornmontal patrouage, or whoto editors hold good and well-paid ofiieial positions under the Government, to encer at tho noto of alarm givon by all the Domocratio paporyy at tho recont offort to oatablish another' ovil precedent o8 nground for o furthor stop toward Cuvsnrism —in othor words, towards the gathering of ab- soluto power al \lelblgton controd in the Prosident—Pillsburgh (Pa %‘)‘ml. ~Porhapa tho most remarkablo thing in Mait. Carpentor's dofonso of tho salary-stoal is the Eumly moruom.r{ and morchantablo view which o takos of hls positlon, and gravo publio dutios. Io looks at tha wholo mntter in the light of o businoss . transaction, and upon that bosla makos what ho ovidontly considors & protty strong srgumont, Xonor counts for little, patriotism farless. . . . . T'hero was & timo in the history of this country, whon it was considored a distinguislfed honor fo bo o United Btates Bonator. Butall that is past, Wo live in other timos now, aud public acte and ublic men ara for salo to tho highost bidder, Mioro is no honor loft, patriotism las long sinco Deon forgotton, all is sunk in greed and gain,— Ollawa (Xan.) Journal. —'hio ciass” of mion ususlly elocted to Logls- Iaturos nro possosred of neithor wisdom, ability, Tonosty, nor plain common senso; and couso: quontly wo havo laws passcd which, instoad of benofiting tho gront mass of the pcoflu, aro B gource of annoyauca and o positive injury.— Galesburg (IIL.) Republic. ZNo npcocli to & popular audienco of lato sooms to patisfy nntoss thoro is some out-crop- Ding of tho porvading oppoaition to monopolioa and detormination to swoep from publio sorvico dinhonest and wnfaithfulsorvants.—Clinton (1) fegister. H—'L'l‘hn Koolkuk Constitution has acall for n Poo- plo's Convontion in Loo County, uanu\ by noar fivo luodred names of both politicul partion. Tho Convention is to bo hold Aug. 4, at Frauk- iin Contro. W hopo to aoo suoh & move started in this county. ‘Cho county can be carriod clean with on offort of ihis kind, It is timo for tho peoplo_to tako politics in thelr own handa and Pronk down tho tyranny of pacty, which is brcd- ing il tho corruption now Witnoused ovory- whoro.—Burlington (Jowa) Gazelte, ‘Phoro aro thousauds of voters in Towa who aro nat, Grangors, but who havo o common intor- st with thom in putting down corruption and oxtravaganco, and roducing taxation, It 1s vory watural thot politiciana should beoomo alarmed loat thoso natural allloy should combine and nako & common eauao of putting down politival Yiugs and placing honost mon iu positions of yublio trust, instead of tho politicians that now veeupy thom.—Layette County (lowa) Union, "2 om 43 coutio of eountien wo may calous Inte the courao of tho Btato, and ovory sntl- monopolist, working man, nnd farmor through- out the lnnfith and broadth of Town considors tho ticket givon by tho Ropublicana ag an insult to thoir principlos and & doflanco of thalr powr, The State Jonvontion, to e hold Aug, 13, will show tho offico-holdora’ ring such a rlaing na will toach them what it I8 to play fast and laosa with tho peoplo of Jowa.—Davenport Demoerat, ~It wo despnired of correoting tho abuon in tho Ropublican party, then wo, too, would join in_ this movomont. . . . . Wo ropoat, thiovos in the Ropubliean party aro to bo, an il be cant out and tho party roatorod to its an- clont purity. 8o bolloving, B0 wo shall act with tho old party,—Marshallloton (Totoa) Times. ~—Tho Bankn steal, tho back-pay éteal, thova~ rious raflroadstenlnthat havo oursodand dlsgracod” tho country aro fresh in Lhe minds of tho poo- Yln, ond tha foct that nong of thelr corruption~ sta havo boon punished by the party, and tho furthor fact that couspicuous oxamples among those corruptionists aro boing honorod by publio A{lpoinlmuuts—nll stand out an accusors againgd thom and testify to thelr insincerity and Lypoo- risyodlitls Counly (Jowa) Jourm, —All ovor tha Btato the prous 1 sounding the arm, aud calling upon Nopublioans to stand und prosont s bold and unitod front to the enomy. All along tho lino tho old familiar watchiword s hoard, *‘Close np tho ranks” and m{p"fl for tho confliot,—Indianola (lowa) Jour~ ~Wo are all anti-monopolista; wo ara all sgroed that abuson by e (R corpo- sations oxint; wo aro all agrood that thoy shall bo put down. Wo aro all agroed that this shall bo dono by law. It i no merit for tho Demo- eratio and llldu{laondent editors and politicians ta bo assorting this and harping upon. it.—Keokuk (a.) Gata City. ~—Tho Minnosots Ropublican resolutiona ara intonded to be_a clover example of vorbal bal- IDI:,I;P, and might be condonsed thus: * Re- solued, That tho farmors aro right ; Resoloed, thnt tho raiirond companios aro rignt; Resolved, that both partiea ought to agreo with ench othor, snd should not, by their quarrols, intorforo with logitiraate politica,”—Phl adc’l]zM’a Inquirer, —Thora ls high nuthority for saying, “In vain tho fowlor sets Lis not in sight of any bird.” “who farm and Iabor classcs have just soon tho Grant, managors’ not sot in thoir vory sight, and it will bo strango if thoy got caught, . . . What is tho uso of making now promisos, whon ovory old ono is unporformed ? 0 tho paopla Qisposed to givo frash oradit, when nothing baa beon paid on dobts long overduo, and nntinnk- ruptey is admitted? \What has the Ropublican party avor done for Miunesota that it should be entitled to such favors ? ‘Phoro is not & monop- oly privilogo of auy kind it has not croated. Al its manngers and loadora are, snd havo been mo~ popolists, intorested directly in thoir own work. And now, sfter committing theso offenses, they come and domand that the peoplo shall bolievo that thoy aro opposed to monopoly! Aro old birds to bo caught by such ohaft?—gt Paul (Minn.) Pioneer. —Tho Bt. Louis Democrat saya: The Farm- ors' Moyoment hns recoived its quiotus, Mrs. Oharlotto Smith, of tho Inland Afonthly, says shio cannot support it. Not only that, but_this s Wa cannot indoreo any aort of war upon railrosds, and henco wo havo 110 sympathy with tho Iato moves ‘ment in opposition to rallroads, Wo do not consider 4t politio or Just. Wo doubt whiother the farmers havo Bufforod ono fota from any encroaclimont by auy rafls raup(‘l‘zr‘u‘enwly. Wa aro (ho frionds of railwsys, snd oxpect to bo, —The wlolo platform of the Anti-Monopoly Convontion at_Des Moines, Tows, excepting tho almosat insano hostllity to tho railroads, without which railroads most” far-Westorn farms would hiavo to bo abandoncd entiroly, is an exception- ally sonsible one. Thore is not aword in it sgalust lthor tio Ropublicaa paiy or o singlo oo of its principles.—Philadelphia Press. —_—— THE CITY IN BRIEF. A spoolal mooting of the Jewish Union will ba ‘Theld this ovening. Tho Firo Insurance Patrol yostordsy rocoived a oplendid plcturo of tho mon and apparatus of tho Insurance Protectivo Dopartment of Boston. 1t In ologantly framod, and will bo sn oruament t0 tho wulls of tho Patrol Houso. Officer Wators yostorday aftornoon arrosted s man at the carnor of Madison and Clark atraats, who hod about twonty revolvers stowed away in his pockets, At the Armory Station, ho gave tho nome of Frank Jonos, Tho' Logislativo Committes on the revislan of tho lnwa will moet In Ohicago on thio 234 for tha urposo of comparing. tho work already dons, and to attond to othor important dutios connoot: od therowith, Tho Committco is sa ablo ono, and tho rovision will bo woll dono. Tho Journal tairly surpassed itsolf aa & sport- ing outhority whon it roceived the {olographia dispatch announcing that_*Tho Irieh team won thi Bicko olinllongo shicld by placing tho itom undor tho hiead of * Raclng in knglaud.” Next yout wo may saticipato s Journal roport of the orby with tho numbor of bulPi-cyos and cone trea mado by tho winning Liorso. At 8 o'clock yostordsy morning & man named Johu Getison, employed at lough's elovator, near South Iialsted “mtrect bridge, foll from a ludder to the ground, a distanco of fftoen faot, alighting op his hond, Tho man's rosidonce could not be learned st the timo of tho accident 88 ho wag rondered unconscioua. Officor Pioklo convoeyed him to tho County Hoapital. A glancoat tho books of the Hoalth Doparte ‘moné, yostorday, showed that thoro Lad beon 422 doatha during tho weok ouding on tho 19th, 820 of which word of ohildron undor b yoars of ago, Thera had beon 148 cases of cholora infan= tum, and 14 of cholora morbus, but uothing that could by any procoss of iwisting bo mado to aj periko thio gonuluo Asiatio olilors.. It wouid o blosging to tho younger portion of this come munity if tho_Health Offcors would conflacata tho greon frult and impure csudics that aco sold in booths at overy othor streck cornor. Bomo of the mombers of tho “Dramatio Clasy of tho Chicago Christian Union " claim that thoy ‘were, misropresontod in Tie 'CRINUNE'S notica of thoir portormagco Iy Alkow's Thoatro, ou Isat Baturdsy ovoulng, oy svar Lhat tho portorm- anco ws recoguized by the Union, Thera is no doubt that it was tacitly rocognized by somo of tho officors of that body, to thia oxtont, that whon thoy woro consulted in tho mattor, desirod it o bo distinctly understood that tho Union conld not bo responeiblo for thair bills, and ad- vised tho olasy not to undertake tho rosponsi- bility, Mr. W. J. Maskill roportod at the Contral Polico Btation, yeetorday aftornoon, that on Bunday aftornoon_ Lis littlo boy, 5 yenra old, was drownedin tho rivor attho Adams stroel Dridgo. Tho only witness of tho lamontabla affair was & playmato of tho drownod boy, wha brought o bt to Mr. Maskill's houss, and said that~ it bolonged to his litho boy, who was drownod, As the bridge-tendors do not know anything about tho mattor, it i# not im~ probablo that tho Loy wandored off from his little ploymate, who accounted for his absonco by sup- Posing hftn to bo drownod, Yeaterday tho vivor, ponr tho bridgo, was draggod, but 0 body woa found. 1t I8 oxpected that an important mooting will Do hold in this city to-dny—probably at tho Sher- man Houso, T.C, Capreol, Eq., Prosidont of tho Hfuron and Ontario Ship Canal Company, baa invited tho Govornors of the States and Tor- ritorios of tho Northwost to moot him to confor on tho subjoct of choap froights, sud _espocially with _roforonco to tho groat work with which Le haa solong beon connootod, Govy. Bovoridge, of 1llmois; ond Goy. Austin, of Minnecsota, havo accopte tho iuvitation, and probably teveral othors may bo prosont, Caroful survoys hsyo beon mads, and tho fensibility of tha ‘work hns beon fully domonstrated. ‘ho troublo is, it will cost & Iargo amount of monoy, Low it is to bo raised 1a the question, 4 A? hulf-past 3 o'clock yestordsy afternoon, an omployo of the Tilinois Central Kailvoud, uamad James Atwood, found tho body of & man tloatin in tho lake near tho foot of Lako stroet, and, with tho nasistance of somo laborers in tho vicin- iy, brought it on whore. According to Lia state- miont the” body was warm whon taken from tho swator, but lifo n!mnm‘cdf.o bo entiroly oxtinat. Acloge exawination revealod no marks of vio~ lenco, Tho docensed was apparevtly about 43 yoars old, aud was quito o gontool-looking ordon. IHo woro black Imntu and vost, and a inon coat. 'Thore was nothing about hio porson which would lead to his idoutity, A small sum of monoy was found in o vost pocket. No ono in tho violnity, #o far us could bo fearncd, had soon the man fall into tho wator, ond it is & matter of conjecturs whothor ho committed suiclde or was accldontally drowned, Officor Floyd waa informed of tho recovory of the body, and bad it culwe{jml 10 the Morgus. The Coroner waa notifl ut deferrod the holding of tho inquost until to-day, in the hopos of socuring somo oluo to tho man's jdentity. 14l and Brownlow, The frothy coutrovorsy betweon Gen, D, I, Hill and Parson Brownlow is still going on. In his Iast lottor Mill sayss * Brownlow boaats thab L still lives, Yos, hio does drag out a miserablo oxistonco, apparoully that he may etand aam ‘monument of tho offcots of wickedness and the malignity of Hatan, which oan thua form a human being into a hideons and flllltly mfi, Joering at Hoavon and ablorred of mans 7