Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1873, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TPAMS OF nunumgn-mu (PAYATLA TN ADVANOR). of Sunday,, Dot bpamat..:- SUEH8] Wesly Parta of A yoar at the samo rato. o provont delay and mistakes, ho suro and give Post * Offiee addrens In full, iucluding State and County, % Tomittanccs mny bo mado althor by dralt, oxpross, Post Oics ordor, or in rogitorad lotfors, at our risk. TENMB TO CITY AUNSONINERA, 2 Daiis, dolivorod, Sundny oxcontod, 26 conts por ook, Daily, dolivorad, Bunday included, 30 couta por wook. Address THIE TRIBUNK COMPANY, ‘Coruor Mndison and Dearborn-ata,, Ulloao, Iil. TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. LG, TIEATRY-Dosplninca strent, batireon Mad: O Nt Aiiea Afiato Uiemiinand Sie. donm ack in **''ho Now, |T'1=n\0'l-" ‘I'n conoludo with ** An o torno hihor'of ntorone oon and ovoulng. "BUSINESS NOTICES! LI10NS OF BD-BUGR AND COORROACHES acn o Aty it Lon's. Insoat Powior. “iiit BURK AND OALT, jng Syrup.” T4 softons (bo ‘mntion, curos wind collo, allnya al chitld quiot, natneal sleap, from which it nw: Muil and rofroshod,® Porfectly safu in all o fons of mothora oan tostify. i “FOR_TREOKLES AND MOTIL PATONES, ABK our_degaiat. for 2 o tation. !)nun‘:' lfl?ionl‘] ot N:IW ork, Fl\‘r I'lm[xllt‘&flgnm(‘!l.nr‘b’él:':, . and Iloshworms, uso Porry'a I Thins Al tlmple Romody—-tho. Urest SKin Modieiuo: . WINSLOW'S Foduces (nflan- ums, uniit, nnd givos tho- oo a it Frepated only by De. B. U, Porry, Dormtologist, 49 Bou: Now Yorl The Chicage Teibmie, Wodnesday Morning, August 0, 1873. Tho Democrats of Olio hold thoir Convontion to-dng ot Columbms. A proliminary- canvass of tho delogates who have already arrived shows sn almout unbroken front ngainet tho Liboral sud *Allon-County movemont, and s dotormi- uation to run » straight Domocratic ticket, ovon it ho run only Into the ground, aud tho Stato thoraby yiclded to the Republicans, ‘Tho favor- to candidato for the Governorship I8 tho Llon. Willizm Allen, of Ross Count, who was in the United Statos Sonato from 187 to 1840, Beor-seHing is not tho only business forbidden by tho Sunday law under which tho enloous of Madigon, Wis., wore closed lngt Sunday, Stoam- bonts, stages, soda-fountnius, livory-stables, and many othor occupations eome within its scopo, wd tho liquor-dealors, in thoir indiguation- meoting on Monday night, ealled on tho Mayor to forbid thom all to. do any work on tho Sab- path-day. Thoy have appointed n Committooof Twenty to prosecute for such violations of tho law, if ho fails to do ., Clatkson, cditor of tho Desdoines Register, that, at tho time our roporter was in DesMoines, writing the history of tho Town Granges, ho (Mr. Clarkeon) was in Davouport, Thercfors, the alleged iutorviow with Mr. Clarkson could not have iaken placo. Tho stalement of"our roporter was, that he was introduced to & porson whom be bad nover be- foroseen ag Mr. Clarkson, editor of the Regis: fer. Wo aysumo that Mr. Clarkson knows whero 1o was at tho timo, and that onr roporter: was docvived ns to tho identity of tho person to whom ho was introduced. + A moeting of the Ropublicans of McLonn County was hald yoslerday, to nomiuato county oficors. This task accomplished, thoy gave oxpression to. thoir views on (he po- litical questions of the day in n ko- rios .of rosolutions almost idonticel with those passed by tho Town and Minnesota Slate Conventions. Tho Ropublican party is avowod to ba tho party of progross, able and willing to grapplo with all now problems prossing for solution ; Congress ia applaudod for its Crodit Mobilior inveatigation; tho salary-thioves aro condomnod, and tho rogulstion of rallroad ehurgos i doclarad to bo o logislativo duly. No notico s taken of tho Adminstration. Wo print elsowhora an articlo from the Toronto (Canada) Mail, giving o skotch of tho carcor of * Lord Gordon,” tho individunl who is tho con- tral figuro in tho Minnesota-Manitoba imbroglio, Tho Lord" fs n humbug of the first water, bo- Ing in no way conneeted with Britiah nobility, and having, all his lifo, Glled tho role of & first- clnss * confidencor.” Tho fact that he snceooded in uvindling Juy Gould shows tho maguitude of bis ability in tho lino of rascality, Amoricans whom ho hng duped and gouged havo the faint consolation that thoy aro not tho only vietims of this sharper,—he having, Leforo coming to this country, operatod exicnsivoly and profitably up- on numerous porsons in England and Scottand. Bumo impertinent ceusuro has hoen heaped upon the head of tho Rov. Roberk Laird Collior, of this city, who is now in Boston, bocause the- printing of tho report of the Reliof and Aid So- cioty s boen given to the Riversido Pross, of that city. Theroaro throo very conclusivo roa- gons why this consure is undesorved: Firut, tho Relief and Aid Sacioty itselt voted to havo tho wark dono in Doston, in whoso bohalf Mr. Collior i ouly acting s agont. Socond, Boston contributed $500,000 to the funds of tho Relief Bociety, Chicago notbing. 'Third, the Rivorside Preen’ offered to do tho worlk nt cost. No Chi- ongo louso made siuch an offer. In viow of theso facts, tho consure of MMy, (ollior is not only very nnjuet, but en oxhitition of gratuitous impudenco. The Common Council hns passod o ridicalous ordinunce requiring nll livery-stablos to numbor their carringes, display lights so that thoeo num- bern may be seen, and otherwiso make them con- furm ns nenrly as possible to stroot-hacks. Tho distinction betweon “ivery-carringes and streot- Dcla obtains in all o cltios of the world, and it is o proper avo. Thero aro associations about strecl-hncks that naturally keop & great many people from omplaying thom ; but theso people should not bo depiived of tho convenionco aud plenurao of rlding in bired carrioges on that ac- count. ‘Tho ordinance fs simply o lovoling pro- conn, aud it {a Yoveling the wrong way. Tho in- fluence of thohackmon secms to proponderate in tho Council. ‘The Magor will do the publio sorvies by votoing the ordinauce, rero——————— Not o whit less impostant thun the political convontions which make 8o much moro nyive i tho meoting of tho Nationn! Educationa| Aduocin- tion, now in scssion at Elmira, N. Y. Ono thousand delogates aro in attondaunco, yep- rosonting ovory part of tho country. Whoir do- liberationn aro led by such mon'as Dr. McCoah, of Princoton ; Preuidont Edwards, of tho Tlinois Normal University; Prosident liot, of ITar- vard; and othor ominent nstructors. The meoting witl last threo days, during which pu- pors will bo read and discustons hold on all the varled mothods and instrumentalitics of culture, from the common school to tho Notional University. Prosident White, of Cornell, will pponl on the co-education of the aoxos ; Prasidont Fdwards, on the dutios and dangora of normal kcbools ; President Eliot, onn ‘* National Univorsity.” ‘“Lhere will'slso be TIE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUN 6, 1873 papora on the comparative valie of tho natural sclonces and tho clnesies in culture, the oduen- tlon of Amerloan youth abrond, and similar quostions, Bomobody's stupldity is responsiblo for a sorl- ous railrond accldent yestorday on tho Burling- ton & Quincy Road, about thirty miles from this city. An extra froight-train was put on the track {0 run nhoad ono slation, tnke ing advantago of tho tardiness of tho Dubuquo Exprons, which was bohind timo. | What with tho oxtra speed of tho lattor train in tho offort to recover ity lont time, and the dolib- orato movemonts of tho frelght-train, the con- ductor of which was told ho had timo onough to make his station :loisnroly, tho. two cnmo togothor. A fog, ‘o curvo, ond a down grado, all combined to provent tho onginaor of the purauing oxpress train from soa- ing tho other. T'wo mon wore killed nnd sovern! othors budly injurod. As thio rear train carried passongors, thologs of lifo might onsily hava been groator. —— The practical oditorof the Londou Practilioner s rocontly boen oxamining homeopathic modi- cation from'n chomico-analytical point of view. Taving oxamined tho *second dilutions" of copper, mereury, nux vomics, and belladonnn, and failed to discovor any of tho drugs thoy aro snid to contsin, ho nmext turmod lis attontions to tho * firat dilutiona * of aconito and belladonns, taking for onch analysis 100 pilules, which, ncoording to the homoopnthio formulw, should contain just 1 por cont of those romedics. Although tho processes wero dolicato onough to have discovered tho very emall froction of a grain of cither, he got no chomical ronction whatovor, Theroupon, the editor of tho Practitioner decidos that the curos enid to bo offected by homdopathy are duo cutirely to tho imagination. Dut aro not cures offccted by tho imagination juat as good 03 curos offected by medicines ? The Washington Ohronicle (IIarian) has a Jong editorial on “Cmsnrism,” meaning thoroby the third-torm principle. It commonces and onds with appropriate quotations from tho play of Juliua Cresar. It honpa o vast deal of ridicule on the Cwmearistic journalism of the day, and then gravely romarks : Harely the cxamploof Washington in declining to b clected ton third Presidentinl term is entitled to tho most profound reapoct; but I the opinion or examplo of any mnn to bo hield Auperlor to the Constitution jt- self? Yot that instrument contafos no clauso which ‘prohifbits o Presidont’s sarving for threo terms, if tho conditions of tho country or the deliberato will of his fellow-citizens phall demand of him to do so. Tho daugerof the Domocratic party gotting into power and ropoaling the Thirtoonth, Four- teonth, and ‘Fifteontlh Amondments is also fecl- ingly introdnced, with the suggostion that it may be necessnry for Grant to run again in order to provent so diro n calamity. Quoen Victoria reviows tho public oveuts of 4ho year in bor address of prorogation to Par- linmont. Tho marringo allowance to tlio Duke of Edinburgh is deemed worthy of the first men- tion. Trentics havo beon coneluded with tho Bultan of Zanzibar, tho Bultan of Mus- cat, nnd other Chicfs, which will put an, end to the Tost African -slave trado; tho commercial treaty of 1860 with France has beon renawed, with o few changos tho incomo-tax and the cugar duties have been raducod to the lowest point thoy have yot ronched. M. Plimsoll's work recoives indirect notico in tho Queen’s allusion to the various ‘measures takon to protoct tho seafaring popula- tion, Tho addresa closes with o roassuring rof- oronce to the unuoual dulluess of commerco and monufacturos, which has oxcited & foar in Englaud that hor old-time supremacy is waning. Tho Common Council bas done well to order tho Board of Public Works to raport what meas- ures have boon taken to oxtond tho sewer at Twenty-second streot into the lake. Tho sow- ogo ot this point is discharged diroctly into the narrow basin, only a fow feot in width, botwoon tho breakwater and tho railrond track. When tho wind doos not blov, it stngnates thora and poisons tho shallow water which washos in bo- tweon the piles. If tho wind is from tho north: oust, cast, or southoast, tho flthy sowngo i8 kopt in continual agitation in this narrow spaco, or is forced back into tho sewer to contaminate the atmosphore of houscs:| with its poisonous gases. Being dircetly at tho railrond station, it is tho first scono which moets: tho ayo of the stranger aod tho fivst smell which groots his noso, Wo biopo the Corumon Council will follow the matter up until the nuisance is abated ; otherwiso it will goon breed a pestilonco in that part of the city. 2 The interest of tho forthcoming elections in Nowfoundland turms upon the Camfedoration question, Tn the gonoral elootion of 1869, tho schome to unito tho ieland with the Dominion was almost unsnimously rojected. Tho torms. offorad woro n roprosentation of cight mombora in the Dominion Parlisment and an annual alllowanco of money not quito half tho amount of tho rovonues of tho island for tho last fiseal yonr, whilo the taxation proposod was far in oxcens of the prosont local taxation, The question is now discussed again in viow of the coming olections, but tho popular feollug i still vory strongly against 1t Tho people of the island opposo tho sehome Decause Caunda i8 too romoto from them, and becauseshe cannot gusrantoo them any just compepsation for the ancrifices thoy would mule in joining the Dominion. Thoy have alvwo taken warning from the condition of New Brunswick, whose Tronsury ia doploted, and also from' Nova Reotia, which is fast lapaing into the same con- ditlon. 1t is tho opinion of thoso wha aro ac- quninted with Nowfoundland that sho will nover jow the Dominion oxcopt undor coorcion. The Chicago produco markots wero gotiorally quict yesterday, escopt corn. Mosn porl was rathor more activo, at unchanged pricos, closing at 15,80 ensh, and 216.00 aslad for sollar Sop- tembor, Yard was dull and nominally un- ohianged, at 79{@73go por b for wintor, and 73§ @730 (ov enmmer rendared. Moats woro qulet, ; Bus higher, at 73o for showldors ; 93@0%0 for' short middlos ; and 10@12)go for sweot-pioklad Lems. Highwines were dull, and nomiually le lower, cloging at 920 par gatlon. Tinke l’rulghln" waro active aud stoady, ot 5o for corn to Duf- falo. Tlour was dull and steady. Whoat was aull aud a sbodo casiar, closing wenk nt $1.103¢ cosh; 811454 sollor tho month ; and SLO7X sollor Boptembor, Corn § Was active and %fo highor, closing nt 870{c. cnsh, and 3814@IR(0 sollor Soptomboer. Oats’woro dull and a shado ensior, cloning at 205€o cash, and'25%(o mellor Soptombor, Itye was'quict snd firm ot G80. Parloy was qulet and. 2@%0 highor, closing at 80c for now No. 2 sollor Soptomber. On Batur- day evening lask thero was in storo In this city £92,000 bu whaat, 2,704,180 by ,corn, 020,088 bu onta, 59,248 bn rya, and 83,217 bu barloy, Ifoga wore in falr domnnd nt firmor prices, ealos’ making at §4.26@4.00, Thoro was no important chango In tho eattlo avd shoop markots, the former ruling firmor, and the latter quist and onsy. “ THE COURT-HOUSE PLANS. 1f thoro bo, a8 somo have claimad, 5 domon of porversity, that foll spirit has taken full posaos- slon of ovorything and everybody connocted with tho Court-Ilougo plans. The projoct of got- ting o plan commenced at hap-hazard has boen matured in ignorauco, and hias alrondy culminat- od in stultification. For a full four months, tho Oommittoos havo had theso plans undor consid- eration, and tho tax-payers of.the city aio no noaror tho new Court-Houso to-dny than thoy waro whon tho mattor waa firat broached. The' racord of tho doliborations over thoso plana in- mnrked throughout by gross ignoranco and wrotchod bungling. Early in April last, tho Toint Committeos mot to oxamino tho forty-nino plana which had boon submitied. Prior to that timo, tho public bad oxamined them and dis- cnsrod thom; tho nowspapors have hnd their any, sud very naturally no two of thom agrood upon nnything. Tho architects thomeelves rushod into print, and no mon aro o morelloss agmnst ench othor s those in tho samo profes- sion.1t was to bo presumod that tho Joint Com- mitteos had beon soloctod of practical mon, who bnd somo knowledgo of architoctural drawing ond butlding, and wors, thoreforo, compotont to dooido upon the relntive merits of tho plans, It may bo possiblo that whon thoy undortook tho tnsk thoy understood thoir duties, If o, thon tholr Loads woro turmod by the molso and jangling which bnd beon going on oil aronnd them. Thoy got togothor andthoy spoedily throw out thirty-ono of tho plansalto- gothor, lenving but cightoon for considoration, Itis oasy enough to decido what is & bad plan. Tt in not 8o onsy, howorver, to decido npon n good plan, Tho Committeo, howovor, got on swim- mingly. Tho cightcon plans wero roducod to nine, tho nine to six, and tho six to three. This looked like business, and tho tax-payers con- gratulatod themsolves that at lnst thore was o prospect the Conrt-Honso might bo bullt within tho prosont contury. With tho throo plana bo- foro them, Lowaver, tho Commitice shrank from tho romponsibillty of choosing ono, and, like the school-boy puzzied with iy eum, who in sheor dospair rubs tho figures all out nnd beginy anow, so the Committoo rubbed everything out and commonoced de novo. In other words, the Committee still had the forty-nino plans boforo them, and had dono noth- ing atall. This was the signal for architeots, amatours, builders, Aldernion, real-cstate deal- ors, and kcribblors of overy description to rush into print, defonding thelr favoritos, assailing thoir enomios with porsonnlitics, making ohargos of corruption snd undorhanded dealivgs, and throwing tho Committeo, who woro already suf- ficiontly Lowildered, into the most distressing stato of imbecility, Sleove-buttons began to appear in tho case, and gifts of & more valuablo description woro charged upon sundry architects. Inthomidst of allthis hubbub,thoe dazed Commit- teo went through the form of attending to thoir dutics. By and by the clamor died awsy, and tho wholo subject was being gradually forgotton, whon the Commilteo, having rocovered from its stupor sufliciontly to romombor that it was obliged to muke somo kind of & roport to tho Common Council, finally determined to muke & decigion. On tho17th of July, therofcro, after sitting ovor throe months on tho plans, they got togethor, and, sclecting fourteon out of tho forty-nine plaus, bulloted for the threo plans which should havo tho promiums. Tho fist was awarded to Mr. Matz, as being tho bost plan; tho second to Mr, Gay, and tho third to Mr. Tilloy. Oncomoro tho tnx- poyora bogan to congratulato themselvos that somo progross had beon mado towards getting o Court-Hougo, but once moro thoy wero doomed to disappointment. At tho last sossion of tho Common Council, tho report of tho Committeo was prosented but was not taken up, nlthough tho Council woro ns rendy to not then ns thoy ovor will bo. Its considoration was postponed o wool, which will give anothor wook for obfus- cating overyhody. To atill further muddlo tho matter, tho Corporation Counsel sont in an olaborato opinion to {he ofect that. tho Joint Committees of tho Council and Cotinty Commissionors Lad power given them to award tho promiuma for tho plans, and that their action bound tho Council, sofar as tho premiums wore concorned, without, howover, binding it ns to tho nolection of a plan by which to build the Court-Tlouso. This is probably truo a3 o matter of law, and it amountu to this, that, although the Committeos havo decided that Mr. Matz's ia tho best plan, the Council is not obliged to nccopt tho best plan. This virtually Tenvos tho quostion all opon again, and tho mir- ngo of thio now Court-Houso, which hns been showing itsolf mo Drilliantly, onco moro dis- solves and disapponra. What shapo it will take when it appears . again, no ono can tell, but 1t will probably wot re- somblo any of its former sspeets. As tho Common Council is not hound by tho action of tho Commitieo, tho wholo forty-nino plans once more come into tho fiald, and, ns no 1wo of the Conucil havo tho same mind or know anything about the matter, in all probabitity wo hovo got to go through tho enmo old wranglo ognin, Looking nt tho farce from this point of view, the question at onco suggosta iteclf, it the decinion of the Committeo is n more abstract ono, earrying no forco with it, what was the nocessity of having tha Committen at all? Was it moroly for tho purposo of paying out several thousand dollars in promiums for plans. no ono is bound fo mccopt or oven to cons gidor? Doople who nre mob mombers of tho Common Council will agk, if Mr. Matz's plan is tho bost ono, why s it not accoptad? It 1t I8 not tho bost ono, why was ho paid the prize of $5,0007 Tho wholo mattor is now doforrod for n wook, and, if the samo policy is pursued in the Council which was pursued in the Commit- | teo, it will go ovor many moro wooks, with o prospoct of even worso confusion thon wo have had hovotoforo. Wo think the farco has boou played long onough. A correspondont aske us: “Can you induco 4012 Probabilitios’ to placo San Irancisco on tho list of stations in the dnily weathor 'roport. 3 think it would bo moroacceptablo to amejority of your rondors than such outlandish plnces sy Fucanabs, Dulutn, or the Onunlbal Islands " /To thiu wo auswor s * Iirst—"Tho United Btates Signal .Sorvico +Burcnu doos furnish reports of the wonthor ab 8nn Franeluco, and at a groat many placos La- *pidos thoso named In tho tablo publinhod in Tue [ Luinung onch duy. Becond—Our nim In publishing nuch tablo is to [ ouablo our rondora to traco for themsolvos the movomonts of tho atmosphere, which aro known {nn sioathor changes;.dnd wo hnyo, on'nevornl occaslons, statod tho gonorsl principles of wonthor Inw, by a knowlodgo, of which tho wonthor of the neor futnio ‘may bo obialnod from n nludy of tho figures glven in our dally "tablo, Wa publish tho moteorological condltions that obtain at amnll placas, liko those namod Ly our corronpondont, not foit tho bonofit of tho in- habitanta of those placos, but bocauso thoy form ngerios of atations surrounding Ohicago nnd ita neighborhood; and the weathor of somo one of thoso poluts is alwayn moving upon Chi- cngo, while tho wonthor of Ban Francieco doos not, as s rule, affect the metoorological condi- tions of this rogion. If our dorrespondent will loarn to uso our daily woather report, ho will so that it is not advisablo to mako tho chongo which ho proposes. ey DESPOTISM IN GERMANY, Woprint clsowhoro in this isauo an interost- ing lottor from Gormany, doscriptive of tho- political and social condition of tho Empiro na seon by an Amorican. Tho ‘conclusion which will forco itselt upon the inteiligent reader is,: that the Gorman Government of to-day is ono of tho most nbsolute and dospotic ovor known to tho world, Thoro have boen autocracios that pandorod moro to tho caprico of a despot, and thoro have boan aristocracion, in tho foudal dnys, which onslaved tho mosses in a mauner that would not bo possiblo at tho promont time. Dut thero has novor boon so thorough and sys- tomatic n domination of the Stato over tho individual. The Gorman Empiro is the om- bodiment of the Patornat Systom. The Btato is ovorything; tho - oltizon nothing. 1t is tho principlo’ of Protoction ap- pliod univoreally. Govornmont in Gormany moans that personal rights, porsonal opinions, porsonal roligion, poraona} education, and ovory othor individusl thing, must submit'to tho will of tho Stato. Tho influonco of Prussin was Inrgoly folt for yonrs boforo the Franco-Prus- sian war; sinco tho war, North Gormany has beon Prussinnizod to thocore, The subjection of tho people, and all thoir institutions to the Governmont, has always been tho policy of Princo Bismarcl, {n which hio has fiad an offi~ clent and strong-honded condjutor in the King ‘of Prnssin, now Emperor of Germany. Tho ‘martial proponsitics of tho halo and burly King William, who lunchos with his Lolmet on his lond and sloops in o eamp-bed, have always proved an offective support for DBismarck'a budgots ; and now tho syatom, which hns beon 80 solidly ostablished in Prussin for years, has pormonted nll that part of Germany which Prus- sin ks practically absorbod. : Tho military prowoss of tho Qovernment is its main relionco. Te sustnin it tho poople of the Empiro nro taxed 112,300,902 thalers a year, which reprosonts, at G per cont, tho intorest on o publio debt of 2,216,019,840 thalors, squivalont to a8 many Amorican dollars on & rolativo basis of values botweon tho two countries. In other words, the pooplo of Giormany pay a8 much an- nufily for tho support of an srmy in time of poaco 18 the pooplo of “America pay to dischargo tho intorest and reduce the dobt which resulted trom o fivo-yents' civil war. ~Every malo eitizon i subjoct_to military sorvico for twolve yonrs, threo yoars absolutoly and nino years in case of .war. Tho military disciplino falls upon tho par- tcular timo whon manhood is forming, and its Ieasons lagt for & lifetimo. This military sorvice, and other rostrictions on marriago, have a bad of- fect on tho morals of tho lower classes. Itia also & diroct causo of tho degradation of women, who aro forcod to till the fiolds, follow thoplow, and bow themsolves to unwomanly worl, whilo tho mon aro enlisted in tho army for the good of tho Stato. Tho dogradationof wom- on of the lowor clasacs, morally or physically, is an ossontial olomont of comploto dospotism, Tducation nnd roligion are rogsrded as mero ol~ omonts of that intangible but all-absorbing pn~ tornity known as the Government. Both aro compulsory. Every child must go to school, and overy child must be confirmod, The lawa aro somowhat different in tho difforont Statos, but all point alike to tho strongthoning of tho Empire. Tho womon keop up their church- going practicos ; tho men drop it altogethor aftor thoy heve issued from the schools, Both conditions are rogarded ns advantageons to tho Govornmont. Just now thorois s porsecu-« tion of tho Catholics and a crusado againss tho Jesuits,—not becauso thoy are Catholics and Josuits, but bocause their principlos and prac- tices are oppoacd to the dospotism of tho Stato. If Mothodism provailod in Germany in the same dogreo and with the aamo force ag.in this coun- try, Bismarck would turn Lis lanco against it Just as rondily s ho Las ngainst Catholiciem, ‘Tho polico systom is military in discipline and Joesuitical inpractice, It porvades all Gormany. Thera 18 no porsonality, no domeaticity, no wociality, no pross freo from its surveil- lanco, The polico of overy city have n com- plate descriptive diractory of ovory man, woman, and child, whother thoey nro rosidont or transient. Thoy are organized mainly to watch the intorosta of tho Govornment ; incidontally.to proteet tho cltizens. Thoy excreiso judicial na well as oxecu~ .tivo poworsa in public and criminal matters. Thoy aro social apics, who stop at no means o obtain information that they dosire. Not only thg mails, but tho tolograph, tho oxpross, and the milrond systems arc under Covernmont control, and nll agoncies aro used for Govorn- mont purposes whonover it is suspocted that privato cuds clash with thom. Tho pross s totally subjected to polico authority. Shortlynf~ tor tho briof Austro-Prussinn war of 1866, tho formal Press Censorship was abolished, but it was only to throw the control of tho press moro complotely into tho hands of tho polico, who have sinco suppressed nowspapors and impris- oned editors without waitiug- for censorship.’ There was & recont offort to pnss a liberal Pross bill In tho Reichatng. Bismarck askod o post- poncment, nand mado o “concossion” with o now Ll of his own, The concossion only givos the pelico widar scopo thau ovor, for & journal may Vo summarily punishod for anything which in goioral throntens tho ‘right 6f proporty, the institation of the family, tho military systom, ote. Itisnn authorization for auppression of nowspapers for gouoral aud indefinite offenses that nay bo construod at plonsura, Tho political ignorsnce of tho people Is almost incomprokon= siblo. Though thorois a mystem of univorsal auflrage, with. proporty distinctions, the poopla {0 noi understand it, and tho goneral Lontimony is to tho offact thatlawyers alone aro familiar with Qovernmont affuirs, I'ho’ Gormon Govornmont of to-dsy is osacn- tially p strong Governmont. Tho cdnolusion which, our correspondont draws, to tho effeot that # the people will not fight to maiutain their Gov- ernmait whon domestio foos attack it," may bo truo, ‘ue tho army will, Novor was sodition so quickly and complotoly crushed as in Borlin in 1848, ".Tho Gorman army fs a8 offeotive in revo~ lutlon nt homo na In war abroad. Thoold Flold- Marshal -yon Wranglo drow .up .Ljs cannons at tho hoad of Koonig strasso in Derlin and awopt tho stroots, and platoons of soldiors fired at the word, upon crotwils of ‘podplo in which their fathors and brothers, mothors and slsters wro likely to bo, Tho paternal systom of gov- “ornmont in gonoral, and the military discspling in partioular, ia coleulated to impross tho poople with tha notlon that thoir firat dutly Is to tho Btato, and that whatover it doos fs right. Tho flood of omigrntion that has poured from Gor~ many to Amoricn lins probably boon eausod mora by tho prospoots of doing botter in a new couu~ try than by tho attraction of polltical froedom. Rocont discussion on the subject of Scandinavian omigration to America hns doveloped this fact with rogard to tho Swodos, Dancs, and Norwo- glnns, and it is probablo that it applies equally to tho gront masa of Gormans who como to Amorlen, Pooplo bocomo acoustomed to tho paternal system, and like It ovon at tho sacrl- fico 'of personal freedom, Tho dangors that thronton tho strong systom of Qovornmiont so rigidly ostablished over North Gormany aro rathor theso: (1) Tho nbuso of the power of tho Btate by a corrupt ruler and Ministry; (2) the old scotignal animosity which formorly ox- iatod, and tho now jonlousics that are likely to ariso among tho differont Statos; and (3) tho natursl ambition of a powerful and contralized Governmont to oxtond its dominions. Disluteg- -| ration of the Gorman Empire i likoly to grow out of onoor nll thoso posaible conditions in timo; but, ns tho peoplo thomsolven are gonor- ally renponsible for the Governmont thoy live undor, tho Gorman pooplo have providod a Ays- tom which is lilely to hold thom down to it by its own ndlesive strongth and grovitation until sbusos difforont from any that avo juberont in tho system combino to weaken it. NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Tltinole Stato Board of Equnlization meots nt 8pringflold noxt Tuokday, Aug. 12, aud will bo composed of tho following gontlomon, olectod Inst yoar, but now to bo assomblod fcr tho firat timo, vi Ez-Officio—Chsrles E, Lippincott, Auditor of State. Diat. 1—ilinm 3, Whitiey, of DuPago, omns Prosacr, of Caok, omor Willmarth, of Cook, 4—Orson O, Diggins,'of Mcllonry. G—Edward B, Warner, of Whitesido. G—William L, Wiloy, of Henry, 7—8ylvoater 11, Dowey, of Grundy, #—1raC, Aloaler, of Xankakeo, §_Rufus W, Blilos, of Kuox, 10—Daulol D, Parry, of Warron, 1—Levi 7. ¥ hitesides, of Greutio. 12—John IV, Savage, of Crum, 1i—Stophon D. Fislior, of Logan, 14—Josoph G, English, of Vermiiion. 16—Samuel MeNutt, of Edgar, paniel L, MoCalcley, of Oi 17—George Iiunter, of Macoupii, * . 18—Daniol R, MobMantors, of Rtunidolph, 10—Arad K. McCabe, of Gallatin, Becrotary—William Staddon, [8ix Liborals, in altes,] —The olection of Dologato in Congress, Bopt. 1, by Now Moxlco, will bo hotly contested by Joso M. Gatlogos, tho lato Dologate, aud Stophen B. Elkins, candidato of the office-holdors’ rogime. Whuchover of them is apparontly elected will find, under tho bonoficent snlary-grab law, an acoumulation’ of 95,626 salory, which may bo drawn before ovor Congross mcots, and without eveon the troublo of o visit to Washington. —Richord P. Morgan, Jr., of Blovmington, ., accopts tho Anti-Monopoly nomination for Treasurer of MoLieon County, Aaying : 1 have informal knowledgo of my nomiuation to tho offico of County Treasurer of MeLeau County by your CGonvention of tho lst of Auguat, Tearing, should I dulay nccopting tho nomination until after the Iopub- lican Convention, o misconstruction of motives, 1 de- slroat oiicq to taulk you for your oxprossion, of conl- douce, audif elocted I shall tako prido in trying to perform tho duties of that office fu all respects, 60 s %o justify your good opinion of mo, 1 firmly bellovo that through tho wrongful and ° per- nicious influonces of the various monopolies cxisting in this conntry, tho just and proper lberties of tho Anericon pooplo are already seriously ondangered ; and thot it {8 thorfors vitally necowsary to very truo and patriotic citizen, to arrest without do- oy {ho mononoly rovier, whiel' i hoon pexmitted to advanco o fur that tho ‘prople of thy Obited States, from Moo to Oregon, aro startled by it portentious shadow, 1 firmly beliovo that ndoquata rellof for tho ovils complaftiod of cannot be_obisined through tho sction of oxlating political partics, trummuled, 18 they nro, by many unworlhy mon, th serious effect_of whoso faithleus porformanco of duty tho people aro now ris- 1ng to overcome. ¢ it shyll bo neoded to Aay moro than this beforo olection dny, I will try to 2082, in word and Apirit, to meet your npproval, and also tist of iy 0wn souso of duty touching tho exigoncy of tho timed, Tuciarn I, Monaas, In, BLOOMINGTON, Aug, 4, 1874, —Wo beliove that the Domocratio oational purlyia o ull iutouts end purponcs practically dead, though its principles will live ‘while & Ropublican form of ‘governmont cxistss in ourland. It may secm to some unroasonnblo that any man should be deterred from support- ing Domocratic principles merely on account of the name, but it is & fact novertholoss, snd meu who are weddod to the namo of Democral ought to be ag willing to give it up for tho sako of principlo,—Bloominglon (1ll.) Democrat. ~—Tho nbandonmont of tho Domoeratic organi- zation is o chooring sign. Wo hopo & political nrty may nevor again havo such a lenso npon fite "Lamg.contiancd - prospority is always accompanicd by corruption, and & Lroaking up and frosh commingling of tho elements ovory fow_yonrs would bo for tho mation's health. Look at the Yrosn'nl Republican party, rioting upon tho National ‘I'rengury | Beliold its Crodit obilier, its snlary-grabblog] Thaso * eine and wiclfodnensos " ought to bo onougl to cholio tho lifo out of it but wo mistruat that oul{‘b titho of its corruptlons invo como to tho light. Whenovar a party s guilty of u crimo 8o hidoous s tho anlary-grab, it 18 fitonly to dio, A Repub- lican Congrass and a Ropublican Prenidont com- passed thiv incifablo meaunosy,—Danvills (IUL) Times. " _'Iho gront renotion nowin progress, ll tends to an nltimato aud certain result. The cheated and botrayed masses aro already looking for n roliof that can only como iu one way, ‘Lhoy tco through the goom tho star that horalds the ad- vout, and aro nlrendy bastoning to regain tho rond trod with sufoty by such multituden boforo them. In the near futuro it is ns cortain to tri- umph s tho world movos—St. LPaul (Minn.) Pioneer, —Fortunately fos tho country and for tho oredit of tho pros, tho epoch of jonrnulintic sor- vility na one of tho chief agoncics in yolitics is passing away. In nll quartors thoro aro signs Rbrond of this purport, whick nithor aletosman nor patriot ean heholdwithoutn thrill of sntisfucs tion. 'Tho indopondent and impartinl pross of tho country may not bo ng_courageons and s far-roncling ns it ought to o, or s wall appro- clatod g8 it should bo, or as commanding and offoctivo ns right-minded pooplo would havo it De; novortholows, it in doing o wholcsomo aud goad work.—Philadelplia Telegraph, —8ome proplo think the farmory’ movement in not accomplishing nnything. Huch iw not tho caso, howover. ‘hoso railtond gontry aro bo- gloning o liavo rospoct for tho movomont. oy seo that it monns businoss, and that tho farmors aro terribly in enrnosr, and that it won't do to * fool thom,"—Mattoon (1ll.) Commercial. & —Weo do_bolieve this * irrcproesible conflivh ill go on " until tho principle is catablishod that acorporation cannot bo grantod powers by the uop}c’u roprosentatives and agonts to opprosy {’Imm, without s just remedy, and that corpora- tionss must forfoit thoir franchison to tho Btato s tho agont of tho people, whon the granted rights, chartors, and_franchizon have boon per- vorted, nbused) and misused.—Matloon (1) Journal. ~'hosio who object to the Railroad law on tho ground that it hay flzed the now freight rates are mistalion. Tho ralrond companios have medo tho rates. Their gradually asconding senlo of pricos 4 n coicopsion to that part of tho Jaw which prolubits unjust disorimina- tlon, but in fixing the initial rafo and tho sealo of ndvanco from_ stntion to stntlon thoy have followed “thoir own ideas. 'Phoy could have made tho tarif 10, 20, or 50 per cont bLolow their Ibleflom ratos, and havo bottor conformed to the v Lincoli (1) Horald, g —Tirat-cluns froight from Now York to Ohi- ceago by rail is now 76 conts por hundred, Tho agorporntad gung of robibors Kaiown uy tho Wost Wisconsin Railway Compuny ohinrge 40 conta por bundred from Cnmp Douglus to Hiumbird, ow {8 that for stoaling ?—Neilaville i“'i'fl.) Preas. —1'lip discussion of raillway frolght ratos, from the standpoint of city interests, hos now com- moncod, The ns:ulu on, horetofors, 18 from the farmore’ standpolnt; Tho position (nken by tho New Yorkors i, in the muin, mare tonablo than that of tho farmero, although tho griovances of Juty an o tha two aro, probably, quito oqual, Now York objoctn against the 'disorimination practiced againat hor, in favor of other citlcs. Bho nlro donouncos {ho systom of *watorlng” railway atook, now Ao common, and tho onforcomont of o frolght tariff inlonded to recure dividends on stock not really roprosented in tho cost of tho raflronds. Wo ‘waleomo tho ngitation an likely to lond to raflway buninosn boing branght down to a solid huaincas basis. Wo baliove tho neoplo, not Constitutions, will remedy the rallroad ovile oxiating.— Pillsburgh Gazelle, —Tho Doston ~T'raveller, which may bo sup- posod o be conversant withi Gon, Butlor's plans, gnyr: It s no longor a question whethor Gon, Tutlor will bolt—ho will bo tho candidato, snd tho bolting, if any occurs, will be by Lis oppo- nonts, * Will they bolt? " is now the groat quos- tion of our local politics, Wo don't holiove thoy will, but until that doubt is rottled, tho propricty of tholr nttompling to control tho party iy quos- tlonable,” 2 . —The Washington Ohronicle suggests that thoso who denounco Gen. Butler as the author and dofender of tho ‘‘smalary-grab,”.and tho Sonntors and Nopresontatives of tho oxisting Congraes, all of whom, possibly with ono or two oxaoptions, aro rogulnrly = rocelving and ockoting thoir littlo §026 per month un- lor this law, aro not vory consiatont tenchiors of mornlity. The honorablo mombora . from Massnchusotts, whore pockets are plathorio with groonbacks drawn sinco tho 4th of last March ns monthl{‘pny at tho incronsed rates, as mombors of the Forty-third Gnnfi:ons, and do- nounco Butlor for supporting tho law undor which they roourae this luoroe, ate not very valua- Dlo as shining axamples of virtuo, It is Rhout thino such domnagoguism was playod out.—Jur- lington (Ia.) Haiok-Eye. —Wohiopo that Butlor will get the nominntion, for ho can do far loss mischiof in Massnchusotts than Io could at Washington, Bome of the most unpopular monsures of the Ropublican party hind their origin iu'the versatilo mind of Gou. Butler. An QGovernor of Massachusotts his influonco would bo moro loeal than national.—Afilwaukeo Wisconsin. —Thnt Grant bhimaolf is_intent upon a third torm, and that his trusted mavipnintors, the offico-holders, linve alroady their cuos no intolli- Honb obgorvor of current ovents can hardly ioubt,— Quincy EI 1) Herald., —Tho discnssion of the third torm has beon brought about by n fow politioians whuno dosire for oflico rondors thom sycopbantic and foolish in thelr conduct, aud hoa hoon takon up by cor- taln portion of tho press in order to make n point in favor of their pot thoory that tho coun- try is drifting toward Owmeatiem.—OCheyenno Leader. —Ono thing is cortain, Tho sllly talk of tho Domocratio papers about * Cresarism" and tho third-torm nonsonee is & ntriking, though 1mvol- untary, tributo to the atrength of the Republican prrty. It wos thought a year ago that tho Lib- ‘oral movoment wns quing to kill the Republican arty, and wo woro told ovon thon that it bad ulfillod its misston, outlived 1ta ueofulness, ete, But it vindieatod itsclf with sn outstrotched arm, and carrled tho conn! :f » tromondous majorily. Bince thon it Lina hadsome ugly licks, such a5 Orodit Mobilier, back-pay. otc., doalt it by lis own frionds, and yot our opponents admit if tho Republlcan party choose to nominato Gon, Grant for anather torm, an ovent which is uttor- Iyond abenrdly jmprobablo, thot hia olection would bo cortain] It shows what supromo con- fdenco thoy havo in tho_strength of tho Ropub- liean party.—Indianapolis Journal. = —Now tho quostion arises, what hsa Georgo W, oCraty, tho mombor of Congross from thia District, dono since the 4th of March lnst to en- titled bim Lo draw up to this timo tho sum of £8,126—that {8 $625 o month, Ins ho not, dur- nll this time, beon attonding to his own pri~ vato business, making a8 much aside from his salary-grab, probnbly, a6 any lawyer in Kooluls? —Burlinglon (fowa) Qazelle. y ~—\o wero nover moro firmly resolved npon anything upon this enrth than that Congross- mon shail not hayo moro than 5,000 a yenr for their services, 1f Mr. Josoph G. Cannon takes moro, wo shall do our utmost to dofent him if bo prosonts bimeolf for ro-cloction, If bo takes tho wages it was oxpooted ho shonld have whon elected, and no more, undoubtedly ho_cnn havo our support if ho deoms it worth the having. But we aro roady to vote for tho most batoful and villninous Coppor- hoad God suffored o como throngh the war alivo Doforo we would voto for tho most * truly loil” snlnry-grabbor. Thero is & personal meannoas, an individual sordidness, n crystalizod cnssed- ness, an_avarice, an_ indoconcy, abont tho grab that rousen ono's anger and. provokes profanity, Tho man who las mot got tho gristlo to roson this infamy ought to ralue corn ail his lifo for 20 conts bushol, It was tho lnat act of & Congrois rooking in rotionness and corruption. act was indorsed by o Ropublican Prosidont.—Dan- ville (1L,) Times. - —Wo hopo overy Democtatio papor in the Dis- trict wil sponk oit, unoquivocally, o poopla ropudinto Mr, Comingo's conduet, and tho orgaus of public sontimont should not bo silent. Con- corning Mr. Comingo personally wo haye not & word to say. Wo havo always rogarded him as an honorablo gentloman, and for the many favors ho hins shown us porsonally wa feol cs- pecinlly grateful ; but still our duty is clenr and we have not hesitated to condomn Mr. O's con- duct on the an!nri question in the most unmis- takablo torms, Ho no longor roprosonts tho eople of tho Eighth District and it bocomes his Euty to resign, nud Lot the placo Lo filled by one about whoso garments thoro ia no taint of offi- cinl corruption. Wo aro convinced that four- {ifths of the tax-payers and votors of ench achool district in bis Congrossional District domand his Tosiguation. They aro boginning to speak out, and Mr. Comingo may expoct to hiear tho voico of an outragod constituoncy until ho doca yiold the placo ho is no longer morally entitled to.— I‘Zaho QCity (Mo.) Landmari:. —Mr, Grant's Postmastor at Frooport, and oditor of tho Fraoport Journal, this Stafo, st nflont o story nbout a secrat circular from the Domocratio Stato Contral Committeo of Illinois, concorning the county olections this fall. Nr.® Grant’s Yrooport Postmnster-oditor hos been aesured by o membor of the Committee alluded to that no such circular has beon issued, and that tho snid Committoo has hadno mooting whatover, this yoar. Yot Mr. Grant's Post- ‘mastor-oditor, and othor oditors, monihovs of Mr, Graut's party, pormit thelt falsohood to go on ity travols, uncontradicted. 'This is 5 samplo of tho morality of Postmaster-editors, bolouging to Mr, Graut's pacty.—Rock Tsland Argus. e i 2 Murderer Captureds OAmo, T1L., Aug. 6.—Dainy Breeso, the murdor- or of Lfs brother Don, was captured in Willinm- son County this Moris Bearch was institut- od on Sunday by Bhioriff Irvin ond & pouso, of this county, but no discovorios woro made. Sus- pocting that Breeso bud gono fo Willismeon County, tho Sherifl, with n Mr. Groenles and Mr, Walker, tho father-in-law of Don Breco, toolc tho Lrain on Sunday night for Carbondalo. Arriving thoro about 2 o'clocck yeaterduy morn- ing, thoy started for Williumson” County, and ot o littlo aftor daylight thoy lenrnod that thoir ame was hiddou in a field of weeds mesr by, ho fiold was thon wurrounded, whon Dainy showed Limself, and declared {hat ho would not bo takon. ' Tho Sherill drow his rovol- vor, whou somo ono of tho party, on the other 810, fired, and Drocso was shot through tho shouldor, ' capturod, and_brought back to this city this moruing, whoro ho hua hoon lodged in Jail. ITis wonud I not thought to bo dangor- ous, Wo have not honrd thut ho hna mado any admissions 04 to bis gullt. Shoriff Irvin doserves gront credit for thus promptly pursuing and Gapturing this dangorous mu. B A Prisod Warden Auacked . Convicts Bostow, Aug 5.—Danicl Wholton, & convict in the State Prison, to-lny ttacked Warden Olinm- Dorlain with o shiovel, atriking him in the faca, Tho blow took offect over the right oyo, and along the right sido of tho Warden's faco, pouc- fiating to. tho bouo,. Chamboriin firod'st. tho convict, tho bull brekiug ono of his ribs, Ifo W taken to tho hompital. Chumberlain'a wounds, although serious, are not dangerous. sk b s e rales sl Arrest of n Deanler in Counterfoat United Stutes IEonds. o Special Disputeh to The Chicago Tribune, Pernor, Mich., Aug. b.—A Dr. Goldshorough, at Mungervillo, was to-dny arrostod for dealing in conntorfoit United Statos bonds, of which, it in alloged, ho sold 220,000 worth in Tonnaylvanin. Thin oifense is snid (0 hayo beon committed lnst summor, and it is olafmod that ho goos under an alins, by o SR Adrift on the Lake, i s Drrnorr, Aug. 6—Yostorday Sammel Cooloy and i41i Duival woro picked up. In Lake Erio, oif Stony Polul, by the tg Frank T'racy, thoir bont liaving eapsizod on Buniduy morning, slhoo which timo thoy had beon in the water, unablo to right thelr boat. oy were very much oxhaustod, and one of thom was nearly doad. e — = Eicctions in the Chorokeo m\lulnln. #ir. Lours, Auy An elootion was held yos- Lorda in thp Olorolioo Nation for mombers of tho Nntiona! Council and Dologatos to tho Grand Couneil at Ockmulgeo, which moots on the firét Monday of Decembor noxt. ‘ho intorest af tho oloctiou resth mainly upon tho fusuos which havo #prung upn tho natlon during tho fow past yoars, rolativo to tho ostablishimiont of u Torrltorinl Govornment for the Indinu Torritory and tho allotment of land in goveralty. r?rhu pro- gronsive party beliove thoy havo carriad the oloc- tlon, but, owing to the romotonnss of nomo of tho voting procinets aud tho absenco of tho telo- aph, tho result cannot bo arcortained for somo jays. Tho now Conncil of Chorokees will voto 10 ratify or roJoct tho Conatitution which was framod by tho Grand Council at Ocknulgoo :‘H’IO. 3!)(\ upon thin oeno the campaign was con- ncted. MADISON. German Protest Agalnst tho Saloons Ciosing Ordinance-=The Mayor Crile ©d Upon to Closo All Othor Duuiness Plnces on Sundaye Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Mapsoy, Wis., Aug, 5.—About 160 Clormans enllod togothior by a hand-bill printed in Ger- man, nesombled at Turner's Hall Inat ovaning, with a fow othors, loss than 200 in olt. Aftor o fow opaaches, in Which no oxcltomont was shown oxcopt by ono man arrested for Sunday liquor solling without liconso, but in which tho condpct of noling Mnyor Chapman, in attompi- ing to provent the sals of liquor on Sunday, wns sovoroly condommned, and rolloctions made on Mayor Grogory, who had Loforo tho oloction promisod mot to intorforo with llquor- m)lllnfi, regolutions wore adopted in subsinuco a8 follows ¢ Thot othor Btato Inwa and ordinances cons corning tho obsorvance of tho Sabbath, besidea thono rolative to snloons, should bo enforced ;. requesting tho Mayor to liavo notico Sorvod om propriotors of ateamboats, omnibuecs, livery stablos, sods fouutnins, confeotionerics, and va- rious establishmonts, somo of which have boon opon on Bunday, and roquosting thom to fuss pond bueinoss on that day; that n committao - of twenty citizons Lo ulmo(mud to proscounto violations of the Sunday Inw unless the Mayor talos tho responsibility; that o committoo off six bo appointod to wait on Mayor Grogory whon ho roturns, and Inquiro hia opinion and! intentions in rogard to this matter, : ‘Tho meeting also resolved to Join tho Congtis! tutional Union, latoly organizod in Milwankeo, and sond dologates to ita mocting on the Gthd,} with & view to scouring pnmmmF Mberty an oquality to all bofore tha Inw. T 'fho mooting was mostly compored of beor-! ‘vondors and thoir special eronies, fow prominent Gormaus taking part, and tho sontiment of tho! mujority of our citizens indorses the Mayor'a! actlon,” .+ RAILROADS AND WAREHOUSES. StocksShippers Complain of Figh Xentera==Deficit in the Chicago Grain . Xnspection Department. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Brnivarieny, I, Aug. 5.—Tho conferonco of tho Railrond Commissionora with the gentlemon whom they had cited bofore them resulted simply in ostabliehing the fact that stock tarifrs, * 08 ostablished by the July achodnles of tho'rail- roads, wore oxcessively high when compared with tho old toriffs, This was tho opinion o Mr. Joel Dalboy, of this county, tho only ono of tho stook mon prosont. o is a vory intolligont gontloman, of largo oxporience, and capablo of giving & rolinblo opinion, g Moasrs. Oborly snd Hart, of tho Spocial Legia-" lative Committoo of Thirteen on Railrond Legisla~ tion, wera in nttondance this aftornoon, and 1t is undorstood that thoir opinions of tho law nagrood mainly with tho intorpretations o far' given it in tho publiskiad opiniona of tho Com-, ‘missionors, discluiming tho fact, howover, that tho Commissionors had abridged inter-Stato commarco, or attomptedo to d 8o in any of their opinions, in which disclaimer the Commissions ort ngreo, Tt is probablo that much doveloped to-dny will find nxpmu»inn in tho schodules un- der proparation. 'Tho Commission moots ngain to-morrow. a Tho Commissioners bnve been ongagod in - diting ond approving tho mouthly bills for tho grin’ inspeetion dopartment in Chicngo, Tho accounts show o doficit in tho cnsh for Juno of $4,78%.47; for July, $2,460.16. Tho Commis- sioners are of tho opinion that tho departmont will, from this timo forward, bo solf-sustaining, Tho oxponte of both tho grain and Rogistars® dopartments for July wero $9,989.80, PACIFIC COAST. Fire Relief Committee for Portland, Orcgon=-Decision in an Important Land Cave, 8N Fraxoisco, Aug. G.~Tho Mayor of Porte Iand hnavnplroimed & Holiof ‘Committeo to raiso funds in aid of tho sufforors by tha into firo, He' desires the Committos to seok relief at homo swithout calling upon othor committaos West or ‘Enst unless abgolutely necessary, Tho caso of Houghton vs, Sarveyor-Gon.. Hardenburg, hwo‘l\‘iufi thio right of custody of tho Los Animos Land Patont, by Hordouburg, has boen decided in the Twelfth District Cour! in favor of tho Inttor. Houghton will appeal to tho Supremo Court. —_—— The Xower of Henling--A Singuiar Story. SerivarFIELD, Aug. B.—A singular mpm-tf comes from Olney, in this State: Mra. Powell, wifo of Hon. L. A, Powell, membor of tho Twen- ty-soventh Genorat Assombly, is uid to bo pos gossed of tho powar to hoal and cure all kinds ot Gtaonso, aud that sho roally hns porformod tomo ‘mirnculous cures. The powor hos latoly como upon hor, and my informant, who calicd upon hor yostordny, eays that thero wero b lont thirty womon with various kinds of disenso in- #ldo lior Liouse, and a large number of mon out- aido, all waiting to bo administered to. 'Tele- grams and lotters are reaching Lor frow all di- Teetions, e e Ftiotons Negroes Arrested. Meyring, Teon., Aug. G6—fouty nogroes, charged with Ku-Kluxing W. II. Wyalt, in Da-’ faon County, Tenn,, &8 Foportod in theso din= patches, havo boen mrested by citizons, and car- Tiod intd Jnckeon, whero all wero_ndmitted to Dnil in 9500 cach, oxcopt Joo Rico, Monroo Tith- oridgo, Nathan Fuir, aud Charles Rood, who woro committed withont bail. Tho Iyuchiug of Wyatt was o most bratal_affair, and tho story oft his having outraged an old nogfo woman s in= dignantly deniod by tho womat horsalf. gt i S Browned. ; Mextens, Aug. 6.—Two soua of David Ken- anil, o bighly ‘romoctablo lizon of Moury County, agod 18 and 22 yoars, woro drowued in tho Wost Sundy lnst Saturdsy while bathing. Ono, who could not ewim, gob into doop water, and his brother, in_ attompting to svo Lim, waa clutehed in his arms pnd carricd down tho river. Deznorr, Mich, Aug, bFrank Amold, wn old citizon' of Grand Rapids, Mich., was found dead in tho canal thoro yostorday. o et o Qcenn Stoamship Nows. Livenroor, Aug, 5.—Stenmahips City of Brin- tol, Ponns; lamice Villo do Iaris, and HumUoldt, trom New York, bayo arrivad out. e, BosToN, Mass,,, Aug. G—Arrived—Steimship Olympus, from Livorpool, : Ew Yo, Aug. 5, — Arrivod— Stonaships Furops and Atlag, from Glasgow ; Wyomivgg, from Livorpool. Utah Itoms. SAur TAke, Ang. 6,—The Torritorial olection nased off quietly. Ontside of tho Genlilo min- g camps tho Mormon is tho ticket lected. A tmmox;gnusb ;m:lx storm occurred yestordny loing considerablo damago. . % 'l‘lfil houdquarters of the Western Union Tote- graph Company is moved from Omals, and oy tablished hore. i SREEEER Xall for tho Benciit of tho Portland * Orego Fererss NEew Yong, Aug, A graud reception, prom: onndo coucort, and ball will Lo givon at the Ocent Tongo, Longs Branch, noxt Saturduy avoning, fo iho boneofit of tho Portland, Orc., suflorors Tresidont Grant, who was 8 former residont o TPortland, will bo prosont. —_—————— Amerienn Dental Asumnll\!ln:lh : ) e, 5,—Thbo thirteouth annual meel x..gfi‘flifl; A fiean Dontal Amwoclation mot & Tuit-in-Tiny to-day, at 10 a'clook s, m., Dr, Lunt of Indiannpolis, Prosidont, in tho olmir. T'h O enlod, fnd proliminary business trane acted. Thero nro prosont ahout 160, raprosont T varlous Ktatos, aud quilo & numbor aro sti) toarrive. —i Ly Fatal Fall. ; Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Tanmiri, Wik Aug. be-Fx-Postmets Potor iiare, ot Rchmond, Walworth County Wik, foll slxty oot from a windmill yostordu} sustalniug probably fatal injurio e A Murdoror Denied & New Trial. Oammo, 111, Aug, b.—A molion for & now tri wai arguiod to-day and over-rulod by tho Judy: in the caso of Willlum Campboll, convicted ¢ tho murdor of Doyloe, mato of tho stoamer drar “Tower. VicesProsident Wilson. . Bosroy, Aug. 5.—Vico-Prosident Wileon w: in Lown to-day, lookiug very well, o js imovro lux fast