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

TIHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 49, 1873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMN OF AUNAOMIPTION (PAYAULE IN ADVANOY Daily, Lo e B 12 O A ooty X Tarts of n yonr at tho samo rato, o provont dolay and mistakos, bo suro and giva Post OMca nddrgas in full, ncluding State and County. Romittarias may Vo mado oithior by draft, oxpross, Post Oflico ordor, or in rexistorod lottors, nt vur risk, TS TO OITY KUDACRIDERS. Daily, doliverad, Bundny oxcoptoa, 26 conte por wook, Dally, deliverod, Sunday Includod, 10 conts nor wook. Address THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Cornor Maitison aud Doarbora-sts,, Ubtonyo, Tit. TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph stroot, botweon Olark and’ Lagallo, **Hohor BUSINESS NOTIOES. INSTEAD OF BITTER, TROYAL TAVANA TOTTEIY—WE BOLD 1IN rawlng of ol April Jast tho 800,000 prize, Ulrcalars nt; information givon. o, U, ‘MANTINKZ & CO., - Baniiors, 10 Wallst.. ¥, O, 1iox 4685, Now York. TATOILLOWS NAIR DYE. THIS SPLENDID halrdyo ia tito boat [n tho world. Thio only truo and.por- foct dyo. Harmloss, rolisblo, and inatantanaous; nodisap- st oo et odiAtoly & auporh BIRCK 0% natura] brotwi, and loaves tie A bonutitul, Tho gonuin, signod We ATt ot AL R Grousiata. OHARLES A, T BATONBLOM, Proyrietor, N, Y. The Chicage Tribune, USE SWERT QUININE. or. Romo- ‘Produoos im- Tuesdny Morning, July 29, 1873, Lntost information from tho Custom-Houso i to tho effect that no Ropublican nominations for city officors will bo made this fall, Tho *“grand rounda” of fast trotters com- rences at Clovoland to-dny. Within the next four weoks the large sum of elefi,ouo in to be paid to the bost horsos at Cleveland, Buffalo, Utica, and Bpringfiold, Mss. The Commou Council Iaid on tho tablo tho recommondation of tho Judiciary Committeo thint the potition of the Trades-Unions concern- ing tho onforcoment of the Eight-Hour law in tho Board of Public Works bo referrod to that dopartment. ‘Mr. Rouben Cleveland was con- firmed as Polico Commissionor. Merriam, the only ono of the Minnenpolis party whom tho Manitoban Dogborry judged bailable, was relensed yestordsy., - Two of tho senlthiest and most rospocted citizons of Man- itoba becamo his suretics, to tho surprise and chagrin of the Manitoban authoritios. Attorney- Genernl Clarko still rofuses to deliver up tho 825,000 taken from two of tho Americans, al- tliongh the Conrt has ordorad him to do 8o. Des Moines sonds word that Yown grain and 2attlo dealora are sonding their shipments opst- ward by the way of Bt. Lonis instend of Chicago sinco the inauguration of the Illinois Railroad law. This kindles a hopo in 8t. Louip that sho may command thig trado heroafter, and to that end sho will bostir hovself to make connection between the North Missouri Road and tho rail- woys of Iows, Policemen arano longer allowed to visit sa- loons on Sunday 1n citizens' clothes to-cntrap tho proprictors into giving thom drinks, and thoreby gain evidence for prosccuting them for violation of the law, Tho mattor was-brought before the Polico Bonrd yesterday. Buperin- tendent Washburn oxplained that hehad author. ized ofliters to wear citizans’ clothos, but not to buy drinks, and the Board forbade any officer to repeat this practico. Tho anti-Butler movement initinted by Judgo Hourr, Johu M. Forbes, W. W. Rice, and Estes Howo has boon followed by & significant articlo in tho Boston Advertiser. None of the Boston newspapers havo yot declared that thoy would “Dbolt™ if Butler wero nominated, but the Ad- vertiser, after characterizing Butler aud his sup- porters ag **political banditti,” remarks gravely that ‘“all partios are to take a now departure within the noxt two or threo years.” Ars. Clive, tho English author who suffercd B0 torrible a death on the 16th inat., wrote some poems which gained tho - favorable notico of the Quarterly Review so long ago 08 1840. Bhe was tho author of eeveral works of tiction, among them * Poul Ferroll,” which has beon avery popular novel. Bho was 72 yoars old, and has been helploss for many years. BSho was burned to death whille working nt her writing- dosk, spark from the firo having ignited hor Aross, and her feoblonoss rendering it impossibla tor her to save horself. The 9th inst, was tho day at Vienna for a unj- verual exposition of tho mowing and roaping machines on show there, but it was praotically an Amorican oxbhibition, The English and French manufactirors declinod to stand tho tost of comparigon with tho Yankoe machines, 80 that the Americans had but four European compotitors. Everytlung that stupidity and lack of forosight could do seoms to have been dono by the manngers to provont o satisfactory trinl; but, despite thesofdrawbacks, the oxhibi- tion ia said to have beon vory fino. In 8Bt. Louis they have a floating rendering- oatablishniout—a steambost named Flors, upon which doead animals aro rocelved and worked up. Tlora, however, has not the perfume which her nomo suggests, Indeed, tho people of St. Louls have been vory indignant with Flora einco the cholora got thero. They havo held meotinga in tho First Ward, and then Flora would sail up the river to the Becond Ward, stealing and giving odor a8 gho passod. Thon the Becond Warders would get mad, and hold meotings, and resolve to burn Flora, wheroupon Flora would slip awny to the Third Ward, aud go on. Thero nover wero such ungrateful peoplo as those who live in St. Louis. Aftor tho Captain of the Flora haa done his best to accommodate them by distributing tho perfume ovenly aver the-whole city, even thon thoy are not satisfid ! Consul Thurington, of Aspinwall, on whoso {nformation Commander Reed of tho Kansas acted in giving the Virginlus safe conduct to son boyond tho reach of tho Bpanish man-of-war ly- ing in wait for her, Is enid to havo arrived In this -rotry with an oficial ststement of the facts of tho cife, Nothing now Is made known oxcept the rumor thet sinco her reloase tho Virginius las landed a cargo of arms and ammunition on the Cuban const, It was on tho ground that she had com- mittod auch an offouse bofore, and was probably sbout to repent it, that tho Spanish commandor denounced her ne g pirate, and asked that sho bo soized aud sont to bo tried by the United Btates Admiralty Courts, This was refused by Commender Reod, on the assurance of Consul Thurington that the Virginius was an American vesgel safllng rogularly undor the American flag. hoOhleago produoo markots wora rathior moro aotiveyestorday, Moss pork was 260 ner billower, closing nt 815.00@15.50 cash, and $16.00@16.40 gollor August. Lard was b fair domand and atoady ot 87.873¢@7.90 por 100 Ibs for winter, and §7.60 for summer rendored. Moats woro quiot and unchanged, at 734o for shonlders, 830, for short ribs, 0o for ehort olear, und 10@124¢0 for swoot plokled hams, Ilighwinos were quiot’ and lo highor, closing at 030 bid per gallon, Lnko. froights wora loss nctive and’ o' shade onslor, at 5@614o for corn to Buffalo. TFlour wag moro activo and unchanged. Whoat was dull at about tho srmo average as on Saturday, closing wonk, at $1.203¢ sollor tho month, and $1.183% sollor August. Corn wns active nnd 9 ®%o lowor, closing at 8b6)o cash, and 86 @86%o ecllor August. Oats wore notive and }(@3o lowor, closing at 27@273¢o cash, and 26@20}o sellor August, Ryo was inactive, and nominally unchanged, at G6@G67. Barloy was quiot and stendy, at 80c for now No. 2, scller Bop- tombor, Tho hog markot was fairly activo and stondy, st §1.80@4.85. Thore was a modorate amount of trading in boof cattlo at about former rates. Bheop rulod quiot and stondy at $3,00@ 5.00. ——— It nppoars that tho proposition to re-oloct Gen, Graut for o third tormis not moro idlo talk. Thie Pennsylvania newspapors now roport Slmon Camoron £8 pronounced in its favor. Tho throatoned squabblo among ambitions Ropub-~ lican politicinie hins suggosted to many of the. organs and the working politiclans absolute foal- tyto Gen, Grant a8 tho surost mesns of main~ taining harmony in tho party. A fair eamplo of this spirit ia found In the Elizaboth (Pa.) Moni- tor, whioh says : Ulysses B, Grant will bo renominated for a third torm, and his triumphant clection will vory naturally follow. Gen, Grant wili bo Prosidont of this country Just as long as bo continues to do right by all classea and conditfons, Tho pooplo havo the disposition of this great oflico, and tho politiclans, if thoy attempt to thwart tho honest masses, will be sct ssldo, nnd made 0 tako back scats, This looka even boyond a third term. Itisnt distinot intimation that Gon. Grant has a por- manent lion on the Prosidentinl office during good bohavior. This will be construod by Ro- ‘publicans fomoan as long a5 Gon. Grant con- tinues to behavo no worse than ho has behaved horetofore. We have slrondy oxpressed the con- viction that tho movement should bo encouraged, because Gon, Grant is probably tho Sttest ropre- sontative of his party and its purposes, and wo now simplynolc‘ tho progroes that tho movement is making. DECAY OF OFFICIAL INTEGRITY, » Our oxchanges from all parts of the country toll of an unusual numbbr of cagoes of official dis- honesty in tho smaller nnd local offices, Theso dolinquencios includo afl grades of oflicials, from Attornoys-Genoral and Btato Troasurers down to County Troasurers, Bohool Commissioners, and even Constables, Bo goneral and so frequent aro theso cages that they can bo attributed to nothing olso than o torpid public soutiment. Publio ofiicors are not really selccted by tho people, and honca fool no rosponsibility to thom. Thoy are now sclocted by party caucuses, and these caucusos are coubrolled mainly by the men who hold the offices, Thus, for in- stance, inJIows, thero Las beon a dofalcation in tho Btato Trensury, and, though tho Statohos an Attorney-General and a Governor, and thero aro courta and grand juries in scssion all over tho Stato, there haa beou no effectual step takon to recover the money or punish the defaulter. In Minnosota, there have boen two Btate Trons- urers in suceession who have usoed and squan- dored tho public money, and lonned it to othor politicians without adequato security, but there 18 no prosccution, no recovery, and no disciosure pormitted, st it hurt the parly—thatis to sny, the lendors who had tho monoy. In Michigan, & Btato officer recently issued o Btato patent to cortain -parties for land which tho Btate did not ‘own; this land was pur- chasod in good faith at its full value by nctual seottlers. Tho Attornoy-Gonoral of tho Btato has evinced extrnordinary zeal to dispossoss the innacent purchasers, but no pros- osccutions have beon mado sgainst tho oflicors who committod .tho original fraud. In various counties of Iows, Wisconsin, Minucsota, Iiinois, Indiana, and Missourl, thero havo boen discgv- crics that county and other local Tronsurera hovobeon using the public money, and are now ‘uoable or unwilling to refund it, and that their bail is worthless, In Ohio, thero oxista » like condition of things, and in Fairficld County thero hios been 8 most extraordinary official robbery. In 1867, o Tronsurer was olectod who placed tho business in tho hands of his son; who, as is now roported, “bogan stosling in the forenoon of the day he entered wupon the duties of his offico.” Ho mado n combination with the County Auditor by whicl, sinco 1867, the county hag been robbod of over $100,000, and the inveatigation is not yob concluded. In the ligt of itoms there 1 ono which, from its nature, iu ensily practiced, and is not, porhaps, confined to Fairfield County, Ohio, Itwas this: When s man pald faxes to the Tressurer, tho officer packeted tho money, and marked tho tax-payer #dolinquont,”— and then the Auditor would omit the namo from tho delinquent list. An- othor itom was to Teceivo tho taxos, and thoen mark on the book “ romitted.” This system of bookkeeping dofied examination. In one county in Tllinols; thero Is a threat of ropudiating ovor 81,000,000 of public Uabilitics which the county officera havo atolen. Judge McCue, of Brooklyn, in tha case of the Iatest bank dofaleation, sald that the “error of using other funds than onc’s own was too preva- lont.” This “orror® is not only a provailing ono, but it bas becomo chametoristio of official lifo in all parts of this country. Nine-tenths of tho mon holding oficial trusts in the Southorn Btatos during the last six yonrs have been de- faulters. Tho only defense ploaded in thelr bo- halt is, that thoy are feithful supportors of the National Administration, In forly districta of tho United Btates, tho cost of mainteining Cus- tom-Houso officors oxcoeds the entire revonuo collectod in them, and tho ploa in defense of this scandal i, that the incumbpnts are all “true mon,"” and that to abolish tho offlces or reduco their numbor or oxpenso would Iujure and ‘woakon tho party, Siuco 1869 thors havo been s long st of defaleations in tho national sorvico and tho army, Of tho whole numbor, o fow comparatively have boon convictod, but speodily pardened. T'his gonoral substitution of partisan fidolity for porsonal iu- togrity re o qualifieation for oftico has had the natural effoct of domornlizing oficial intogrity outalde of the national sorvico, and its ovil ox- amplo hes extonded oven to tho banks, corpora~ tions, and morcantllo ocatablishmonts of the country, It is impossiblo to toll whero the bale- ful oxamploof n National Governmont, tolorating and defonding dishonesty and corruption as too trivial for notico, has not carrled ita corripting Influgnco. It haa blunted tho moral sonsibilitios of tho public, aud. by Including elorgvmon and roliglous tonchora within its distribution of pate ronngo, has dono whatovor it could do to sub- sldizo the pulplt, This balofnl systom of ofiicln! dishonesty is uphold and maintained sololy and exclusivoly by tho powor of tho caucns,—an fnvisiblo and irre- spousible parasiio on Republican institutions, Undor tho protoxt of putting down the Rebollion of oight yonrs ago, of ratifying amondments which for throo yoars havo boen an undisputed port of tho Coustitution, and of maintaining nogro suffrago which no man s opposing, men aro xow olocted Lo offico without roferonco to thoir porsonal or moral fitness, and, whon a rulo i8 proposed like thot in Towa to disinfoct tho politica of tho conntry by *bolting” bad nomi- nations, the promoters and supportors of it aro ‘donouncod a8 Copporhiendsin disgaiso, Tho path of eafotyis to bo found in the overthrow and dostruction of all parties which nre oxisting on moro traditions, and Linve no other bond of union than the procooda of office-holding nug- montod by defaleation, ] THE PRESIDENT’S SUMMER-RESIDENCE, The proposition has boon broachod in influ- ontial quarters to provide tho Prosidoct of tho Unitod Btates with » summor-rosidenco at somo honlthful point, Tho friends of this project loy particular atress npon the fact that tho European Kings, Emperors, and Kafsors, tho Dukos, Princes, Duchosses, and Princossos, and oven gomo of tho small-fry who only carry gold- stioks and wonr docorations, havo onch their summor cottages, whoro they mny retire from tho ardont honts of tho weathor, and recuporato from tho fatiguo of ctiquotte and Btato dinnors ond the cabals of politics, If tho Turopoan monarch, say thoy, can have his rural villa whero ho can throw off his ‘conventional oli- quetto and tircsomo forms, and lay round and smoko and drinkat his enso,and minglo with the people incognito, why should not our Re- publican President also have a placo of his own, tnatond of being compoiled to undergo pleboian aesociations in hotels or sonsido caravanserais ? Quoen Victoria hss hor Bt. James aud Bucking- hom Palace in’ London, her palaco at Windsor, Osborne Houso in tho Isle of Wight, the Royal DPilace st Holy Rood, Balmo- ral Castlo, ond othor xosidonces for aught wo know. Tho Emporor of Germany can rusticato at Potsdam, Ssns Souci, Oharlotton- horg, and Btatzenfels. Franols Josoph has his Tmporiod palaces at Vionns, Prague, Iscll, Salz- burg, and Presbourg. Even the French Prosl- dont can luxurinto in the Tuileries, Versailles, Bt. Cloud, Fontainobloau, and Malmmson, whon his subjocts aro not engagod in a rovolution, at which periods thoy have the aggravating habit of oceupying tho summor-palacos thomselves, and Leoping opon houso for the sans culotles of all tho surrounding country. If theso effeto po- tentates aro to bo allowed the luxury of four or flve summor-residoncos at their option, is it too much to ask that Grant and the future Presidents shall bavo one, and that tho country shall foot tho bills? Evon with the back-pay bill Grant hns bub 860,000 por yonr,—$4,166.66 por month, $136.98 por day. Is it not a little stingy, not to say dierespoctful and irrovorent, to domand that ho sball pay hotel bills out of this meagro pittanco when ho has a mind to disport himself by tho sad soa waves, and, now that tho pnss systom is cut off, that ho shall also be compolled to pay full faro for himaclf and his horses overy timo ho wants to tako a run down to Long Branch? Under tho existing condition of things, and by the mystorious disponsations of Trovidence, iv in impossiblo to say how long Gon. Grant may oontinuoe to bo President, If it is foroordained that ho is to grow old and fooblo in the Presidential chalr, then cortainly it is the duty of tho American poople to provido for his advancing yeara aud smaoth his declining path. Granted that tho Promdont should have 8 Bummor-residenco, the only romaining problom s that of locality. Fortunately, this is essy of solution. Every inducoment, moral, sooclnl, natural, official, or otherwise, pointa to Chicngo as tho only proper placo for thot summor-palace. Horo Naturo offors attrac- tions, and disponses hor bounties with lavish band. On the ono hand, he will have the many- tintod oxpangs of Lako Michigan ; and on the other, the green waves of the boundless prairio, not to speak of Holatein on the north and Calumet on tho south,—possibilities of scenery which ought to satisfy the most ardent wor- sliper of Naturo. No other city - offors him such fuducoments fn tho way of horacs, Tero wo kave two or throo race tracks, the pmk Dboulevards, .and the lake-ghore drive, the Wabash avenue omni- buses, and plonty of ambitions Jehus, who would accommodato him with a strotch of two or throo milos any ovening. As for cigars, ho can have tho choico of Havanas, which wo know to he good, beeause thoy are made here. Does hp want to ish? Al day long he can sit npon the Dbronkwator and outico the speckled pereh and molancholy shoepshead. Does ho want to hinnt ? Any timo he can have an aftornoon with the buffalo at Lincoln Tark, and thero is many a jungle on - Mad- ison stroet and Fifth avonuo whore tho *tiger" may bo found in all his nativo florcencss. Would he soothoe his fovered brow with music? o Lag but to opon tho doors of tho summoer-palace in tho ovoning, and violing and harpa will discourse Verdi to him for onlyacontatuno. o can have thoe fruits of Californis, the vogetablos of tho South, tho grapes of Lake Erlo, the antelopo of tho far Wost, tho cattlo and shoop on a thousand hills, and the delicnte-mented flsh that swim in tho eold, clear depths of the Inkes. Thon for drink, ho will havo tho largest rosorvoir of good water in the world, Ho can worship in an sort of a tabornacle, from Jow to Mothodist, Sundny mornings, and at Turner Iall on Suuday nights, and Mr, Balatka wonld undoubtedly by special disponsation al- low him to emoko on the lower flaor through the first part of tho programmo. Wo have a Sub- Trensury, too, 8o that therowould bo no difflenlty in drawing his pay. IIo would be noar to Guolena, so (hat Lo could run Liome onco in awhile, Tis brothorlives hore and hisson fs quar~ torod hore, and this would bo o great advautage. Bottor than all theso {8 tho fact that ho would hovo grent othical advantages, and would con- stantly boin a healthy moral atmosphoro which bo could not onjoy among tho dlusipations of Long Brauch, nor in tho wicked citics of Bt. Louls, Cinclnnati, Milwaukee, and othor places, where vico reigns supreme. Ho would have tho oxamplos of A, 0. Heulng, John Logan, Charloy Farwell, aud J. Y, Scammon always boforo him, aud Lenco neod never go astray. ITe would have nono of tho tomptations which wonld besot him iu the frivolous placos aboye mentionod, whoro, though ovory prospoot pleases, mau is very vile, Bottor still, o would bo right horo whore the Tuter-Oceanf§s printed, and resding it ovory moming ho Would apond the rost of tho day in sloop, aud thus avold overy pocios of oxoils mont. Considering thoso transcomlant mlvlm-' tagos, wo submit thnt I¢ tho Prosldont is to have o summor-rosidonco, Chicago is the very placo for it. THE HOHENZOLLERNS AHD SPAIN, Thoro is a roport from Luropo that the projoct of placing a mombor of the Holienzollorn family on tho throno of Spain hns not baon abandoned. It will bo romomborod thnt i was the rofasnl of tho King of Pruesia to pladge himsolf that no meombor of that family slionld ovor accopt tho Bpanish orown that furnished tho protoxt for tho Fronoh doolnration of war in 1870, Tho Span- 1ah successlon haa boon twico dotormined by tho - intorvontion of tho other European nations, The Bourbon clsimauts wore placod on that throno after a long war, in which France, Aus- tris, Holland, England, and Prussin tookan nctivo part. In 1889, tho nations of Europo intervened to put s ond to a revoliing olvil war, and com- polled Don Carlos to leave tho country, and united in tho protoction of Isabolls, The throne is now vacant, and Gpain 13 again torn by a olvil war which promises to bo as prolonged asony of ita prodocessors, If thero be any truth in the roported roconstruction of the Ger- man, Austrian, aud Russian Empires, it may not Do Improbable that the furnishing of » mow dynasty to Spain 18 included in the schemo, and no family porhaps 18 moro oligiblo, than that of Hohonzollern. Tho origin of this house is gomewhat Involved. Ita home in tho ninth contury was at Hoch- ingen Castle, on Zollorn Hoights. Two con- tarles Intor, n youngor son of this family wns moade Burgrave of Nuromburg; and about tho yoar 1417 his succossor purchaged the £loc- torate of Brandenburg, and in 1701 hia descond- ant, Fredorick L., the Eloctor, was made King of Prussis, Thisis tho branch now reiguing in Prussia. Tho original family, which haa adhored to tho Catholio religion, was divided intotwo branchos : 1. Hohonzollern-Hechingen; 2. Hohenzollorn- Sigmaringon. Tho head of each ‘family was sovoreign of a Principality until 1849, whon, by » family compact, tho reigning Princos abdicated. in favor of tho King of Prussis, to whose King- dom both Principalitios woro annexed, the abdi- cating Princes rotaining their titles, and having o largo annuity paid to them by "Prussia, -Tho ohdicating Princo Froderio of Hohonzollern- Hochingon died in 1809. Ho was twico marriod. 1iis first wifo died in 1847, leaving no children. He contracted n morganatio marrisge in 1850 with the Counteas Rothonburg, by whom he had sovoral children, who bear the titles of Counts and Countosses do Rothenburg, That is tho last of that line, Princo Charles Antoino of Hohenzollern-Big- maringen, upon his abdication in 1819, was created & Prince Royal, with the titlo of Royal Iighness, and appointed a commander in tho army, snd a membor of the Houso of Noblos of Prussia. Ho married, in 1834, Josophine, daugh- ter of the Grand Duke of Baden, and grand- dnughtor of Btephanic Boauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon I. He bas sevoral chil- dron: Horeditary Princo Loopold, born in 1835, to whom the orown of Spain was offored in 1870, Hois on officor in the Prusslan army, is now 88 yenrs old, and is married to Princesa Antonis, sister of Lonis, tho presont Kingz of Portugal. A sistor of Loopold's was married to tho lato King Podro, of Portugal. Princo Loo- pold has now four sons. There aro two other Princos of the house of Mohenzollorn-Sigmaringon, brothers of Leopold. Thoyaro: 1, Charles, born in 1889, and made Princo of Roumania in 1866. 3. Prince Frodorio, born in 1843, nn ofticer in tho army of West- phalia, and unmarried. Thoe only daughter of tho family is Princeas Marie, born in 1845, and married in 1867 to Princo Philip, Conut of Flandors, brother and hoir-presumptiveof tho King of Belgium, Wl Princo Loopold, who is the prominent membor of tho family, is o Roman Oatholio, and, while & membor of the royal family of Prussis, is al-, lied by tho marriage of ono sistor to the King of Portugal, and of another to the noxt King of Bolgium. o is & man of great ability, s gallant soldior, and, if Spain is to havo a King, heis’ porbapa tho most oligible Prince, porsonally, that can be picked up in Europo a$ this time. — THE GERMAN NAVY, Tho German navy, to the condition of which tho attention of the Reichatag was callod about a yonr ago, is making satiefactory progress, Tho first iron-clad from a Gorman navy-yard is noar-- ly, and tho corvette Ariadne ontircly, flnishod. Workmen are employed on five largo iron-clad frigatos, and considerablo attention is bestowed' on the construction of torpedocs for Wilhelms- Lafon, tho military station in tho North Bes.. ‘While great enorgy is thus obsorvablo in its navy dopartment, it is not to bo supposod thal it is the ambition of Germany to becomo o first- clngs noval power. Indeod, German etates- mon recognizo the socondary importance of a navy for the Empire; and recommend that it support ono only for purposes of do- fonso. Thoy recognize, moreover, that it is impossiblo for the same powor to maintain o first-class land army and a first-clasanaval force, and that it {8 vory poor policy for any nation to ‘wasto its military enorgy in kmeplug up & navy out of all proportion to the-extont of its foreign commerce. Tho trua policy is, according to Ger- man authority, to dovelop the former; a8 tho Inttor dovolops itsolf. Tho oneishould go hand in hand with tho othor; tho only, permanont uso of the one being the dofonse of tho othor. If wo can roly upon Gorman giatistics, tho ocoan~ commorco of tho Empiro hns incroased since the ‘war to such nn oxtent that it hias bocomo noces- sary to increase ihe numhbér of Consuls to foreign ports by ono-fourth of tho wholo number boforo that ovent. Tho snmo reasous that have made it lmperus tive to incroase tho numbor of Consuls make it imperative to incronse the number of ships of various descriptions in its navy, sinco, whor- over tho flag of the Empire floats, tlore the Em- plro must bo to protoct it. . The foundation, 8o to spoak, of tho German navy, haa fallon upon ovil days. 8o somo thinlk, There aro others who think quito tho contrary, liowever. It ws happoned ata timo—a transi- tion timo In Yaval warfaro—a timo whon radioat changoes are making i that modo of warfare. The introduction of iron-clads and tho con- sequont strugglo aftor an equation botween the thioknoss of the clothing and projeatila torco, bave .mocessltatod attempts at now con- structhons—constructiona which are mno hins beon projocted of a Gorman navy. It 1a supposed that twonty iron-clads will bo rondy by 1879, and sixteon woodon coryettes by tho samo timo. The erudito gontloman who furnishos astro- nomical misinformation to the ronders of tho Providonco (R. 1) Journal proparod an srtiolo on tho planct Saturn, for tho issue of July 21, which statod that onftho following day the dis- tanco botwoon tho onrth and Baturn would bo “ only about 400,000,000 milos, while, whon in conjunction with tho sun on tho opposite side of bis orbit, his distance is 500,000,000 miles.” Inasmuch o tho avorago distances of Baturn from tho oarth at periholion nud apholion aro 780,000,000 ond 903,000,000 milos, respoo- tively, it is ovident that tho nuthority of tho Providenco Journal made o slight migtake. It Is probable that, in taking his orig- {nal information from some toxt-book, ho coplod the flgures for Jupitor's distances, instond of those of Saturn, and porhaps did not know the difforenco. ‘Evon this, howovor, is & loss ridicalous blun- dor than tho ono mado by the same authority somo throo yoars ngo, on which occasion ho askod his roadora to bollove that the invisible companion to the star Algol’ ravolves at tho rate of 7,000 milos por socond. Xt should be romem- bored that tho groatoat possible speed with ‘which a planct could rovolve around our eun ia losa than 50 miles por socond. NOTES AND OPINION, Col. Bmedloy, Mastor of tho Btate Grango of Patrons of Husbandry of Xown, daclines to bo considerod as a possiblo condidate for the Iown HSonato, whoreat tho Dubuquo Z¥mes, over faith- ful organ, says: Mr. Adams, Mastor of tho Nntlonal Grango, with- - drow from tho political fiold when pushod into it as tho spocial roprosontative of tho Granger interest, in n noblo and manly lettor; and now Mr. Bmedioy, Mas- torof the Btato Grlni ), showa thatho considers tho intoreats of tho order of far greater importanco than tho gmunuuau of nuy porsonal smbition for palltical pro- ferment, 1Mo applles to himeclf tho principles which ho s constantly fnculeating to tho Patrons of the Btate, not to strand the order on the shouls of par- tisan nolitics. By hin present course, Loth Lie and tho order of which ho 8 at the head in this State will ain in tho ecstimation of all peoplo of worth and fadgnicat, And yat the Times is not happy. ~Lot it bo recorded : thatDr, J. A. Chapman * horoby resigns” his position ns Chairman of tho- Domocratic State Contral Committes in Orogon, ond announcos that the Republlcan party ehall hencoforth receive his unquulified support. —Tho Boston Journal takes hoart of courago and tolls what tho Republicana are going to do, thus ¢ Thoy aro dotermined that trickstors and demngogues shall take back seata If "mf atay in the party, that at all ovents thoy shall bo hurlod from power. - Itis no gurpriso that such mon luvo appeared ia Ligh plsces through Ropublican as woll as mlwrnuosurpor(, e a timo whon financial corruption i3 prociaiming ita victims among tho most Lonored namea in ali our cities, It {8 an ovil of tho day, and jt respocts neithor politieal nor social lines, 1dut tho Republican party, within §ts splhiere, will not succumb to this ovil ; it will wr upon it and Overtlirow it. It colls upon al truo men to enlist for tho fight—which, indeod, {s but the continuanco of thy samo groat struggle which oyer. throw elavary, rescued {ho Union, and ostablisbed it anew on tho basis of oqual rights, Whon tho Repube licana of Massnchusclts como to spenk, who doubts that thoy will tako tho samo noblo atand, ond move forwnrd With oqunl unnnimity ? —In Kentucky, whero tho oloction of o Legis- Iaturo will bo mado noxt Monday, the * boot is on tho other log."” The Louisvills Commercial (Ropublican) snys: The rings aro thovoughly frightencd, but thoy aro thoroughly arouacd, too, "They sed that tho people aro dotermined on reforms, and that,unlees their attention can bo distracted in soma way, the day of rings is over, Ifonco they aro abouting loudly tho old party crics, they aro appealing to party discipline, and thoy aro calling the reform movement a Radical trick, as thoy did last summer, If tho peoplomean reform they must shiow ft by thoir votcs, —The Philadelphia Press says : Stato Treasurer Cardozo, of South Carolinn, has furnislicd to tho corrcapondont of n Chiatloston jour~ nnl some figures concerning tho debt of his State, Trom what ho rays it ia ovidont that tho thieving poli- telans of that Stato hnvo in contemplation tho repu. dlation of somo $7,000,000 of bonds. Vory llkely theso were rmudulenu¥ negotiatod, but {f repudiated at this timo tho loss will certainly fall on innocent partics, Cardozo, in tho samo interviow, oays thero in a vacuum 1 tho Stato Treasury, Tho samo could not with truth Do sald of tho pockets of some of the presont aud ox- officials of ke Blate and of thoso of ita represontatives in Congre:as. And theroby hangs o story with o seri- ous moral. Tho * innocont parties” will be found to in- cludo Honry Clows & Co., and Morton, Bliss & Co., and George Opdyke & Co., and other bankers-in-ordinary to tho Long Branch family. Of course thoy should be paid, And tho Stato of Bouth Carolina, which absolutely got nothing for tho §7,000,000, may thon eutor upon “ao twenty-five yoars’ 'lawsuit,” as Unclo Sam hna done with tho Crodit Mobilier gang, if, indood, tho Btato can find any who aro not innocent par tes to bring suit against. ~—The Rochester (N. Y.) Union insiste that the accoptanco, by Xuocius Robinson, of his recont olection in tho Erie Railrond Diraotory, takeshim out of the list of availablo candidntes for Comp- trollor of Btato by the Anti-Monopoly party, and snys : 1t behooves the peoplo, in this timo of public plun- dor, ta lay down and rigfdly adlioro to the goneral rulo that tho man who i a Director in 5 _groat railroad or other corporation shall not recolve their sufTruges for any publio oflice in tho exerciso of the duties of which tho public tutorost may bo brought into collision with tho intorests of tho private concorn. . . Boo on every sido tho hands of great corporations, and eapecially grest oad corporations, in tho Govern- ‘menta of tho Btates and of tho Unitod Htatew, and think it 1s about time thoso bands were off, We beliove tho groat maan of tho peoplo think 8o, too—know they will think 80 whon thoy como (o realizo in tho Exat, as they now do in tho Wost, the fact of thelr oppression by tho creaturcs of their own law, —EBs-Judgo Johm A, McClornand, of Spring- fleld, 1L, hins beon rotained as conusel by & man who rosists a condomnation of “right of way" over lua land in Bangamon County, and in his argument MeClornand says : ‘Why ia it that a roilroad corporation may claim to bo tho beneficlary of the oxorciso of tho moverelgn right of ominent domain? In wbort, that it may tako pri- vato proporty for ita usoa? Tho muswer, in turn, to thia queation Involves somo Inconeistency,’if not cone tradiotion, In tho light of legislativo and judiclal aue thority aud procedent, Tho Leglslaturo and tho courts lave declared that such corporations moy nssumo this prorogativo, or ight, upon tho nssumption that. they aro public or quasl public_ - corporations, and bocauso thelr uscs uro publio usca, On tho other hand, tho courts have declarcd that such corporatfons sro private corporatfons, ~They have beld them to be pris vato corporations ‘in rcspoct to tholr contracts with tho Btato, inviolabla by it; again, in rospect to tho irropealabllity of their chnrtor, oxcopt upon tha ground of forfoltira Judlelally doclirod s snd, again, L yespoct to tho cluim of auch corporations to bo oxompt from tho suthority of tho Leg. ialaturo to rogulato their charges for tho transportation of passougers und frelght, Ii follows, then, that o railroud corporation is Loth publio and private, It {8 publio, aud cluthod with aud ropresoutd tho soverelgnty of tlio Sate, for tho pur. poko of taking private Frnl‘urly for cortain uscs ns publio usos, aud it {8 privato i tho sonso that its char. 1ox 1a's contract aud frropealablo i tho. fmnuity of its charges for the trausportation of passengors and froights to leglalntive control or regulation, In ofhor ‘words, it 18 publio when its intorests aro to be sorved by tho claim by it of a publio oharcter, and it is privato upon tho samo condition und to the sumo end, —I'ho poaplo of this country built thoso rail- ronds for tho purpose of gotting thelr produce to markot, aud thoir moronandise in roturn, chonp- ey than they could do Dy toaming, . . , If tho prosont” mnnagomot continuos, thoro will soon e no use for the road for froight purposes bumfin Aurora and Chicago.—Aurora (JU.) Herald, —A. Carlinvillo correspondent of the 8, Louls Qlobs romarks that tho *‘ charges of the Ohicago & Alton Railroad are simply onormous under tl’:u 3 nxlntluf; tariff, 'Thoy have mnde shipping grain or cattlo from this point Last impossiblo, and tho grain-buyors of this place, by this unjust digorimination, are plucad whero thoy aro unable to compote with oithor Litehlold ‘or Modors, thoreby causiug an immonse amount of trade to ba diyerted frowm our Ylncu, and iu so doing they nolt nulEy'!u]um this place, but injure their own orosl soonor comploto - than mado usoless Dby othor oanatructions. The- Gorman Emplre lLas slready. five coverod corvottos—the Augusts, Viotorls, Nympho, Medunn, Ariadne, Two othe ors aro to Lo rondy soon--the Lulve and Freiw in tho spriug of 1874 ; tho- other in 1875. Ao~ cording to the plun of the Minlstry of the Navy, it will takp till tho yoar 73882 to comploto What inf 3 ' —P'no Carlinvlllo (IIL) Demoacrat thinks, « it thoro is any virtuoe iu the })mvlulnnu of our now Constitution, nomo roliof from tho opprossions of thoso soulloss monopolies can bo had at Springtlold.” —TIustead of tho contost belng over aud tho triumph bnhlg for tho roads, tho poople, in the languago of Gommodore I'aul Jouos, havo just bogun to fight.” Unloss tho ratos established by thoroads aud now in forcocan bo overturned and others forcod from tho companies, the contost in Iilinols will speodily end in sn uttor dofoat of tho pooplo on that tack, Thoy mean at lenat to mako a farthor affort to earry thoir point.—St Joseph (Mo.) Gazette, —If roiirond emnrnu(nn in this Btato choose to enrry large and froquent shipments for logs than logal rates fized for all, thoy may antely do #o, Thero is nuthh:F in tho lnw to prohibit just and reasonablo discriminntions of this charactor. ‘Thoy aro supported by common roason and fair business prinolples, and not Infringed or for- biddon by law. Ido not boliove that the presont high ratos, aud rofudsnl to discriminate Justly ond ronsounbly by loss rates for Inrge shipnonts, iy according to tho Inw of the Inst sounion,— Senalor Archer, of Pike Coundy, 1ll. —1'ho Constituilon of Diinals providos that ovory poraon and corporation bhnfi pay a tox in proportion to the proporty owned by each, Liko tho Conatitution of Iown, the intont ls that all Jinds of proporty, whother bolonging to individ- uals or to cuqmullouu, for pecuniary profit, shall bo subject to the snme rato of taxation, ;’u our own Htato, this provision of the Ooustitution has boou systomatically violated from the day tho first milo of railroad was built until tho prosont timo, . . . . ‘ako, for example, tho O, B. & Q. and B. & M. Ronds, which bavo within tho limits of tho clty from 600,000 to n £1,000,000 worth of proporty, yob tho longth of the main track in the oity Is scuroo- ly moroe than amilo. And as therond ls nssossed at 80,800 n milo, it s only on this pitiful sum that tho city and county can colleot taxes, A law g0 grosely unjust, and 8o pnlpublr in violation of tho Coustitution of tho Btato, Is a disgraco to our statute-books aund ought to be expunged at tho oarliost possible moment. And it will be, na 500n 88 tho pooplo are out from under tho charm- ed influonce of railrond corporations, and sond mon to tho Goneral Assombly who will logislato for tho intorests of tho pooplo, and not in obedl~ enco to tho mandatos of the railrond lobby.— Burlinglon (lowa) Hawk-Eye. —Wo notico that the Olioago, Burlington &. Quinoy Railroad, in an adhorence to tho. Grad- grind policy, havo slready putin the ploa that thoir station-houses, shops, machinery, etc., como undor tho nssogement hond of * railro tracl,” aud wo Liopo that they will by no_menns bo allowod to dodge paymont of taxes in this way. Thoir theory fs that tho valuo of their shops, for instanco in Aurors, Is cast pro rata along tho lino of their rond, and wo liope our Buporvisors will not pormit any suchsubterfuges or sophistries to wolgh with thom, Lot their proporty in Kano Gounty bo taxed in Kano County.~—Elgin (Iil.) Gazelle. —1This infamous rovenuc lnw of Ilinois wns diotated by tho railroad intorosts, It is so ar- ranged that the ultimate power which fixes the valuation of railrond property is in tho hands of cortain parties at Bpringfield whom tho rail- ronds may control. Tho valuo of tho railrond property of this Btato (oxclusive of tho Ilinois Contral), at tho valuation fixed by the mansgers boforo tho Logislative Committoos last winter, to-wit : #60,000 por milo, would bo $2323,450,~ 000. Wil this vast proporty, like tho {u’ogufly of individuals, bo taxed lto full valuo? It ghould be, sud will be, if the law is enforcod agalust railroads. Lot tho pooplo watch this point closoly. Xternal vigilanco i tho prico of protection ngaiust monopoly and rob- pery. tho farmors don’t want to pry tho en- tire crop of 1873 in taxes next winter, the must wake up now, oud act now.—Earlvi (dlL.) Transoript. ~—The extortions, rubberics, and giant monop- olios which lave grown up under the fostering caro of tho Ropublican party, aro palpablo facts, tho poople aro mado to foel and know of them overy doy of their lives; and just at present thoy aronotin amood to bo hoodwitked aud Lomboozled by any cliquo of ofiicials,—Princelon (L) Tribune. —When o stato of sooioty supervenes that renders all proporty insccuro, Ofd Vanderbilt's $60,000,000 will slirivol and shrink to £60,000. His railrond tracks and railrosd stocks will ceaso to have o markotablo value, You caunot rob mon, and then ask them or forco them to be lonest, or respoct tho iniquitous laws you mako, We_ bonst of our wealth and progress, But thoso “railroad operators,” who hoave been for years manipulating tho laws to rob tho people aud put tho monoy into tholr own pookots, have been sowing & whirlwind which will sweop thom, and s, nud our once glorious institutions from the face of the enrth, unless tho brakes of honest: and morality aro instantly appliod,.—Jacksonville (21L.) Sentinel. < —Ouo of the duties dovolved on tho noxt Gen- eral Assombly of this Stato is to pass un act do- claring all stock in Iowa railronde, which has not Leen paid for, fraudulent, and bave it o tronted. -Let us have thorough work made of theso monopolics, and bring thom down to hon- oot managemont and falr dealing.—Dubuque (Jotea) Telegraph. . —Nino-touths of thomon who are loud-mouth- ed in their denuncintion of tho fact that no schome of railroad rogulation hay thus far beon ndopted by tho Logisfaturo, and who will bo pro- lific of promiscs that it thoy oro sent to Dos- Moines next winter they will have an equituble froight aud tari® fixed for all tho roads in this Btato, aro not cupable of giving tho first idea of how such o tarift should bo frawmed, or what would bo the effect of any givon plan upon the Stato at large. Thoy know that if it dopouded upon them todraft such a law it would bos ridiculous failure. Thoy oxpect that somobody elsa will have o plan slroady preparcd for thom, and all that thoy will have to do will be to adopt it. And their ofihth of it will be guided, uuquestionobly, by thoe consideration whother tho schedule proposed gives their town or thelr county lower ratos thau before, If thoy should happon to lhave boen located at o point where competition had given thom low freights, they will oppose, with all vigor, any proposition of graduated chargos that brings their charges up ; or, if thoy do uot, thoy will bo likely to fin thomsolves condomued by their coustituents for lending thomsolves to tho cstablishmont of lnw increasing, instead of diminishing, their railrond chargos.—Dubugue Times. bt e RAILROAD FREIGHT-RATES. QurAMPAION, 111, July 20, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: My business callod me to Danville on Monday of this wook, and I fonnd the lumbor- denlers thore buying all their lJumber at Michi- gon City, The froight on a car of lumbor from Michigan City to Danville via Lafayotto Is £26; on the Chicago, Danville & Vinvonnos Road, 840 per car, although at loast G0 to 80 miles loss. I supposo tho trouble is, tho Illinola TRailrond is constitutionally unable to carry freight for s legitimato prico. But, it will be 8aid, tho now law maokos tho railrosds carry froight without discriminating, DBut docs the law require the railroads to raigo their froights ? Asnoar a8 I can loarn, tho railroads have tnken the rate at any point on their own_roade whero there was no compoetition, and graded ov- ory other point up to that. Yor instanco, Ran- toul, 15 miles north of this placo, in this county, always had to En{ from 3 to 10 conts moro por bushel for corn to Chicago than Ohnmpn(En or Tolmo, 15 and 24 miles farthor mouth, Now tho railrond takos tho rato at Rantoul as rensonable, and ratos overy otlier point south up lyro]vuninnncn- ly. Tho soienco of that kind of reduction is splondid, It must, howover, bo very plain to overybody that this raising freiphts’is done to rondor tho law odious and to causo_its ropeal. But, supposing tho railronds had taken tho low- cst froight-rate at auy point and graded tho rest of their rond to that? Would not that have mado » diforent figure ? A, B, HARMON, Sk e Ve THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MRS, SHEDD. ¥ Gexeva, TIL, July 28, 1879, To the Editor of The Chicayo Tribune: Bmm: In your ssuo of tho 23d Inotice tho statoment, in a telograph-dispatch, that ineanity wns foared in the mystorious disappearance of Mrs, Shedd. Novw, as the dispatch statos no fact from which tho viritor soems to havo inforrod that sho was Ingano, excopt tho fact that sho bad absonted horselt, pormit mo to suggest that Lior loartng undor tho clroumstancos was strong ovidence of hior porfect sanity. Bho had gono through tho excitomont and anxioty.of o trinl whioch accusvlml #ix dayn (Sun- ny intorvoning) of oxconsivoly liob woathor: lvlur counsol, in hor prosenco, stated to the Oourt that his business in Ohicago was In such a condition that ha could not agalu immodiatoly try tho caso. Was not this fact alono suficlent to prompt Pmdum snno porson to got out of tho hands of hor prosecuntors, {f not porsocutors? Ithink it was, 5 T'hon, when we conalder that tho complaint statos no fact oxcopt that pho wae insano, from which no_inference could be drawn as to what facts would be proved to ostablish tho fact of in- sanity, Iean rendily imagino that snomight nood now witnosses to overthrow the tostimony al- rondy introduced againat hor, cspocially ns they road In evidenco a Dill for & divoreo filed by lior in May lnst, in which sho charges hor hushand with oruolty, morital iniidality, and drunken- noks, 5 Theso facts, hor husband and hls coungel con- tondad, wore evidonco of hor inuanity, beoause Mr. 8hodd sworo mositively that all those oharges woro absolutely falso, and that thoro wat 1o foundation for nmf thom, Of courso she bad no ronsonablo thuo to got witnesses to {;mvo tho truth of lier bill, oxcopt partially, and his sho did. 4 Bomo of thoso witnessos, sho alleges, wore nof thon, sud are not now, in this Stato. 1t {s worsotlian Idlo prattlo (it seoma to mo) to msy&hnt hor abgonting herselt is ovidenco of in~ sanity. 1f "thin proves inganity, It will bo difiloult to find a porson who 8 not insane, JUBTIVE. e R THE STATE FAIR. Birdsoyo View of the GroundseA Splendid Building nud Amplo Ace commoilations, 1'vom the Peorda (Iil) Tranacript, July 25, Yostordny aftornoon, in’ company with Mr. Jacob Littloton, who 18 ovorscoing tho propara~ tlona of tho now fair grounds, wo visited tho laco and woro thomngily {nstructed na to all ho improvoments comploted, undor way, and projectod, Wo propono to glvo our readors ae :flfl;mtonduanrlpuou theroof us spaco will por~ TFirat thon the ontrances. Of thoso thoro nre to be £, tho main one opening on Jofforaom stroot, and tho othor almost na largo, thougl not 8a imposing, opening in tho wost side of 4 ounds, on wht wonld bo Porry stroot i ox: ondod. Tho Phn for tho main ontrance, mod by Mr, Valentino Jobat, who Las the contraotl lfir the Nzu]?“ém uof all shows 18 af will bo offair. Anarch of 64 foot will an‘:n H’]:luu;}’fla in tho ocontro aro the tickot ofices’ Om cach eldo of tho lattor fa an ontranco for, ‘vohialos, and beyond each of them aro thoso for foot passongers. Tho first thiug that strikos tho oyo after ontering aro tho fnng rows of stalls for enttlo and horaos, Of thono thoro ar 800, neatly bonrded, and ovory tonth ono 115 ranged with doors Bo ns to sorve ns n slooping apartment for those who take charge of tha stocl, To tho right of tho entrance, snd about 500 feot from it, uto tho hog and slheop pens, 300 of tho former and 200 of tho Inttor, Theser aro noarly finished, and arranged in sopnraty buildings, fivo in number, with s road bolwooni onely ton ook in width. Wo would romark, i pussing, that all tho posts for tho stalls, pensy and foncing wore takon from tho groun: 8, ane #o thickly was tho place wooded tfi\nt tho ngso~ clation has plonty of timber to sell. Throo hun< hundred and forty thousand foot of sawed luma bor woro unlonded from the cars and pilod on tho grounds bofora tho butiding bogan, “I'wo avonuos, ench fifty foot wids, have boom out, ono on tha'castorn aud the othor on thg westorn side of tho grounds. Theso aro to ba- connected at Loth ends, and & third, running sround tho Floral Hall, will soon bo finished, Tho last-montioned building fs _tho largost om thoe grounds, and looms through tho treos fronr tho first of tho two kuolls in tho grounds, tha other boing inskdo tho race-track, fllu immonsa structuro is built in the shapo of n Greol cross and has s substantinl foundation con- taining 50,000 brick., On entoring it wa wore impressed by ity _sizo, and well wo might bo, as each arm “of tho gross is 75 foot longy with a width of 40 feot. In the contro, whorg the four arms moet, & fountain is to bo erocted to sorvo not only for ornament but use, Tha hufldjufi!m covorod by n suspension roof, and not a pillar or augport obstructs the speee ine side, The rotunds will bo surmounted by X domo 24 feot higher than tho rost of the roof Flag-stafls ara oractod on eack of the four ondey aud another, 26 foot loug, surmounts tho dome, Wo aro pormitted to stato that it is tho inton~ tion of tho mombers of the Fair Association ta isauo, about tho 1st of Boptomber, 1,000 carde of-invitation to n grand ball, to bo givon in tho Floral Hall on or about the night of Sopt, 11. Tho tickets will Lo €5 oach, and none, of course, but thoso invited will bo aflowoed to par- ohneo.' It is tho intontion, if possiblo, to pro-: curo for this ball—tho grandast, probably, over beld in 'Contral Mlinofé—twenly angino hondw lights with which to illuminato L{\e building and firoum]a, An orchostra of twenty iplucmx, and o oor big enongh to accommodato o hundrodsots,. will go to make up all that is needful for & dancs or's paradiso, . To roturn to tho buildinge, Of thoso alrondy erocted, wo noticed, firat, the ladios' drossings room, 20x30 foot in dimonsions, and to bo proe vidod with separato apartments, frosh water, &e. In tho rear of the same will be tho wator= clogets for the Iadies, conuected with the dross~' i“lf'mmp by o covered archway. Opposite this. building is tho President’s office, a largo building 50x24 feet, and, like all theothers, of twostories, ‘'ho Buperintondont's oflicois near by, its dimen< slons boing 24x10. In tho uppor story of tho lat< ter building is tho roportors’ room, which i to have wiudows openiug on nll sides. The Tronsuror's, offico 12x24 foot,and thio Sogrotary's, 16x24, aro near tho western fenco and not fay from tho ontranco oo that side, snid entrance bed ing wido onough far the passage of two vehicles, whilo on each side aro smaller entrances for foo! pRusongers, Thoso buildings ara all noarly complotod, and thoro romaing 0 bo put up threo moro, tha dining-hall, whick will bo moved from the old fair r.zmundu on tho blufl, the horticultural hall, which will bo thoroughly naw and will bo 100:2{! feot in dimonsions, and o shed for carringes G6x 80 foot. Thoso thres will all bo completed befora tho mddlo of noxt month. Loaving the lower and more_thickly wooded portion of the fifty acres inclosed in the grounds, wa como to tho immense amphitheatro, which ig erocted just outsido of the lower curve of thd raco-trnck, This building was partinlly built from Iumber takon from tho ono on the old unds, but nearly twico 28 much more has oon usad. The building has but little curve,. but sufilcient to afford from every part of it & completely unobstructed view of the raco~ track from tho start to tho finish. It is 280 foot long, 40 feot wido, nnd 24 foob in hoight from tho ground. ‘Thoro aro 18 rows of sents and a wido passngo-way bo~ hind all, This sllows for the comfortablo’ nccommodation of nearly 6,000 people. In thor contro aro sonts and tables for tho uso of the re- portors. Tho judges' stand is opposite, and ia tho samoe ono used for the track on the bluff, In regnrd totho track itself, we bavo heard many complaints, but we feol suro that if the complainors would only wait until the grading and cutting is completed, they would find thein objections to bave melted into thin air. Tt will not bo porfectly lovel, though sufflcientiy so for "all purposes, good _ horsomen’ contouding that & horso travels botter aud moro onsily whon the track, unduleling slightly, gives them a chance to call difforont musocles into rlny thus, a8 it were, rosting the tirod onos, Who track fs o Lnif-mit ono and is, very wide. It is to bo onclosod on the outside and insido with n railing four feot high, Over tho soil is to bo thrown a Iayer of cly six inchea deop, whilo ton-fnch tilo drains carry off nil tha wator, An exhibition tracl, alse enclosed, encircles tho judges’ stand, and has o dismetor of 400 feot. Tho treos loft standing in the contra have oll been trimmed, so that thoy can inna way obstruct tho viow, . ‘Wator from tho Water-Works will be on the ground, the only question now boing whether tho city or tho Association will lay tho maing, Thoro are to be sixty hydrants of tho kind krown 28 goose-necks, and each will bo o arranged that anordinary gardon-hoso can bo attachod for sprinkling ‘ho grounds, and thus keoping down t{\’at o8t of fairs—tho dust. Taken for all in all, the grounds are such, both for matural advantages and well coloulatod improvements, as to challongs tho admiration of all who see thom, and lona ua to prophesy a State Fair that will, by far, eclipso nny provious oxbibition givon' in tha Btato, If ‘thoro is nuflthing wo could wish changed, it is tho growth of treos. These scom tous too thick oven yot, although thoy have all ‘been carofully trimmed, and hundreds cut down or grubbed up. The difficulty with such a donse rowth is that it is not only cumborsome and in fhu way, but alao a rogularifurnaco, no brooze beiug ablo to ponotrate its donsity. tarn e A o A Strango Furdor. At Jozi, in Itely, a fow days agoanold woma:a namod Capanori, announced that sho had fonn hor husbanud’s body in a ditoh at the bottom of a rooky eminenco, fram which ho muat have fallon by aecidont, Suspicion, howover, foll upon her, and she was arrostod. Bhio confessed that she eausod hor husband’s donth by puuhlufi him over tho cliff whilo Lo was at work., o had fallen into the ditch and had boen drowned. Matornal love had prompted tho commission of tho murs dor. Bhe had boon told that tho ouly way in which sho could have hor son rostored to™ hor from tho ranks of tho army wan to hocome a widow. In ordortodo thig'it was nocessary to 1dll hor husbaud. . Dre: . From the Louisvills Couricr-Journal, Don't toll us thore Is uothing in droams, A man down in Ponnessoo droamed that two cor toin numbora would draw each $10,000 in the Tublio Library drawing, and so improsted waala by the vision that lio camo all the way to Louis~ villa to flud tho tickets, whioh Lo succeoded in dnlng aftor o day's searoch, And Do says now that if ho hind oven (.iuuuu Tin §20 back ho would Lave beou bottor aatisflod thau bo s, The Turner Engravings. The Turner ougravings atook has boen pure chased for £10,000. It bad baon tho intention of the owners to ‘loall‘of the plates aftor tho sale of the plotures, but a high bid was mado for them, and thus the number of coplos will be no longer limited to tho comvaratively swmall number i oxlsfouco.