Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1873, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TRRNS OF BUNBCRIPTION (FATAULE IN'ADVAXCE). a Q01 Bundas., Rttt S 1001 Waday Parts of & yoar at the samo rato, To provent, dolay and mlataken, bo suro and aive Fost 00 conddross in full, including Btato and County. Romittanoes may ba madn olthor by dratt, oxpross, Post Offico order, or in rogiaterad lottors, st our risk, TERMS TO OITY BUPACNIDEN, Daily, delivorod, Bunday oxcented, 25 conte por wook, Datly, dellvored, Bunday Includod, 30 conts por weok, Addrons THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Ooruer Madison and D TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, LEY'S THREATRE—Randolph street, botweon OmOun Tusmttor X Lt Lot vt Madison, botwoon Dear- MoVIOKER'S THEATRE. born and State, ** Dismonds ACADEMY OT MUSIO—IIalsted, botwoon Mn%fl? and Monros, Engagemont of krank Mayo, * Orookett.™ BY THEATRE-Dosplainosatract, botwoon Mad- I.IS:ILOINJ ‘Washington, “-"'X'mi'dm." b ' OPIRA-HOUSE—-Monroo stront, botwoon Dortart and Biatos T Msgre Now Dotafaect bl irony snd comicalitios, BUSINESS NOTICES, INGTEAD OF BUTTER, ygm swrnr QUININR TAVANA LOTTERY_WIt 8OLD TIE 8500,000 IN lnary drawlog, Apeil 2, Oiroulars 8onit, in- Sommation aivon o T KANTINGZ & 000 10 Wall'aty 5. lox 3,655, Now York Y it DYE. THIS BPLENDID nAmllngfl?hgneI}r‘? vl.gn:& world: Thoonly true and ror 3 0, and (nstan N g morid oo (s or wnplessanc dor, Tioms: o bonati o gontino, algnod W Bair claam forh ARLORRU N drvaninte: OMARLYS BATOIEIOM, Erarickees N, Y. VAN SOHAAGK, BTRVENSON & JUELD, Agoni The Chicage Teibune, Thureday Morning, Septomber 11, 1873, In his last spcech to the Convention, Geu, Butler declarod that the rosponsibility for the grab rostod on the Republican party. The farmers of Les County, at their meeting yostorday, nsked the Buporvisors of the ounty to reduco the snlaries of sll the county officors. Thoe placo whore the Polaris eank has baen found by Commandor Groon, of tho Tigross, off Littloton Island. The crow are shown by rocords discovered to havo eailed southward in boata made from their wrecked vessol. Thoy were in good health, and are beliaved now to bo on their svay home in & whaler from Cape York. T'wo of tho Bpringfleld banks are rogarded by Doputy Commissioner Swaeot, of the Internal Roveuus, a8 conacious roceivers of some of Har- por's stolon money, On the vory day the de- faulting Collector absconded he doposited in Buon’s Bank and the First National Bank, on his privato sccount, drafte which hohad received na Colloctor from tho Pokin distillers, On the ground that the bank officers know that theso wero public monoys, and could not theroforo bo ‘Tionoestly turned into Collector Harper's privato aacount, thoy have boen called upon to restoro thom to the Govornmons. The most remarkablo snlo of short-horn cattlo eveor made took place at Utica, N, Y., yostorday, Ono hundred and eleven hoad of cattle, com- prising tho celobritod Now York Mills hord, tho property of the Hon, S8amuel Campboll, woro sold at anction for an aggrogato sum of $380,- 800, Tho Eighth Duchoss of Geneva brought tho startling prico of $40,600. The Tenth Duchess of Geneva sold for $85,000, and $80,600 waa given for the First Duchess of Oneida. Tho sverago price paid for ten of tho Duchess tribe waos 21,700 ench, This herd was beyond ques- tion tho most valuable ever got together, and ita sule attractod fanoy stock-breeders from overy part of thia country as weil as from Europo, The threo Lighest prices were paid by English mon, The Pork Packers’ Couvention, which, with its suxiliary industries, represents one of the heavi- o8t interests of the West, is now in session at Myers' Opera-House, in this city. Delogates from every part of tho country sre prosent, The work of proliminary organization was the main business of yosterday, Ool, Hancock, in ‘’his opening remarks, reforred to the charges ro- contly brought against the Pork Pack- ra,~among others, by Beorotary Bmith, of tho Farmers' Btato Aseocistion,—that thoy attempted by their combinatlons to control tho prices of hogs. Ho said in roply that no one could fix tho price of live stock in & country liko tlua with any grenter success than would follow ono attempting to chango the movement of the planets by logislation. As s further roassurance to the farmers, 8 motion was passod offoring seats in the body of the Convention to eny ropresentatives of Granges or Farmers' Clubs who choso to attond and watch the procced- ings. No votes wero cast for Butler for Governor in the Masgnchusatts Republican Couvontion yes- terday. The author of tho salary-grab saw so plainly, from geveral preliminary test-votes, that he was moro than & hundred votes bohind Washburn, “that he withdrew from tho contost, The Couvention is described 88 uuususlly noisy and disrepytable for g0 staid a Commonwealtk, Tho disorder was duo to the conduct of the Butler delegates, who caught & dofiant and lawless tone from thoir leader. In braggadecio of oxceodingly bad tasto, the Genoral hinted in the beginning at 5 bolt, suggesting that ho would play the gamo under tho one-sided rulo of * Hoads I win, talls youlooso ;" but the othor sido professod therar golves 8o willing to adopt the code of bolts that the oncomore bottled hero suc- pumbad to party pressuro. The resolutions con- demn tho salary-grab, and deprecate the practico of intorferonce in the Btato olections on the parb of Yodorel officors, Thoy also favor choap transportation and tomporance luws, Tho Chicago produce markots were quite ace tive yesterday, but an easier feoling provailed. Mess pork was, dull at 816.90@16.00 cash or soller tho month, and §16.25@16.97}¢ seller Oc- tober. Lard was s shade eesior, at $7.85@7.873¢ por 100 tha for winter, snd §7.76 for summer rendered. Meata were quiot and unchanged af 13@8o for shoulders, 0@9}(c for short ribs, 934@9%o for short cloar, aud 0}@113(0 for ‘sweet pioklod hama, Highwinos wera quiot and steady at 820 por gallon, Lake froights woro less activo, but 1o bottor, at 160 for wheat to Buffalo, Flour wasdull and unchangod, Wheat was active at 1@13¢0 decline, closing at 1,18 cash; $1.13)@1.12%¢ sellor the month, and ®1.113(@1.113¢ sollor October, Corn was ac- tive, but 1o lower, closlng at 803§@4034o for reg- nlar and frosh rospeotively; 89¢o ssller the month, and 415 sellor October. Oats were moderatoly notive and % @34o lower, No. 2 olos- ing st 280 eash or sellor tho month,” aud 2850 for October. Bye quiot at 00}{@870. Darley petive and nominslly unchanged, No, 3 plosjug THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1873. at $1,20@1.27 sollor Boplombor, Ioga wore dull, and 10e lowor, COattlo wero wonk aud slow of sale, Blicop romain qniot and ateady, e Tho National Qonvention of Spiritualists Is an- nouncod to bo held in this city on tho 16th of Soptembor. There is a groat excltoment and int torost provalling in that * denomination” con- cerniug this mooting. ‘At tho Inst Annual Con- voution Viotorla Woodlinll was cleotod Prosidont of tho Bpiritualista of Amorlca, and, na such, will prosido in Ohicago. Binco that timo, thia woman has published many eosndalous stato- monta ln her papor, and bas boon locturing in varfous parts of tho country, These lac- turos aro roported to bo of tha most de- praved obarsotor, At a recont convention in Vinoland, Now Jorsoy, hor langusge on this subjoct wasof the most disgusting oharactor. 8ho was backed up in this businesa by ono “Rovorond" Moses Hull, whoso spocches and lottory, it published in book form, would fall undor tho head of obscone litorature. Wood- bull, in hor loctures and convereation, has baon promising to "'spoak moro plainly " st COhicago than sho has ever dono yot, whioh means pos- sibly that doconoy is to be wholly ignorod. Thera 18 a revolt, however, among the Bpirituale ists, and moolings have boon held in various places, and dolegaton appointed, nnder instruc- tiona to votoat Chicago to deposo Woodhull, to ropudiate Hull, and to denounce froo-love doo- trines. Tho rosult will probably be a sopara- tion ; tho docont membors of the Bpiritualist body “will ecither rotire or expol Viotoria and Moses, and stigmatize thoir dootrines ns appropriato only to the gutter. Tho Religio- Philosophical Journalof this city, an organ of tho Bpiritualists, declares opon war upon tho froe-love faction. It ia to bo regrettod that a convontion under such a mannger as this voman should moot hero or anywhere else. It would be woll for the police to be on hand in sufficient foroe to disporso the gathering it it becomes, as is not unlikoly, & brothel-debating socioty. ——— THE CITY ELECTION, The meoting of the Cook County Republioan Oontral Committos, on Tuesday laat, to dotor- mine whother 8 convention shall bo hold and nominations bo made for the oity cleotion, doos not scom to have been a very enthusiastic affair, Most of the gontlomen who havo taken chargo of the patriotlsm of Cook County so many yonra were thore,—Schaffnor, Farwell, Judd, MoArthur, Charloy Roed, Goorgs Gage, Root, and Bheppard, but thera was a subdued mannor about thom, aa if the melancholy daya had come, tho saddest of the yoar., (Mr. Hoa- ing was conspiouous by his absenco.) They sont off no fire-rookets, They made no allusions to tho bird of froodom. They indulged in no speo- ulations a8 to majoritios, They issued no call to the poople to rally roundthe flag. For the firal time in tho history of theso war-horsos, thoro Wwas no noighing, champing, or stamping, no snufling tho battlo afar off. On tho contrary, the question of the day was whothor a conveu- tion ehould bo held at all. As there seoms to have boon no right under- standing of this quostion among the persons prosent, wo shall venturo to offer a fow words. In tho assets of tho Republican party are there auny prinoiples which will bo conducive to the welfaro and good government of the Oity of Chi- oago during the next two yoars? This is the only question worth oonsidering. If thore are, thon it may be well to hold a conven- tlon; if thero are not, then it will only bo & waste of time. Gon. MoArthur thinks thore are. Hois a Postmastor, and, being a new horee, it is inoumbent on bhim'to show somo mettle in tho harness. Mr. N. B, Judd thinks thero aro. Ho is Collector of Customs, and, being an old horse, ho must koep steady in the tracos, Mr. 0. B. Farwoll thinks thero aro. He is member of Congress and dispenser of grub. Charloy Reed probably thinks there are, but he didu't ssy so. We have no doubt all the loading offfoc-holdors think o, be- cause they want to continuo holding ofice. The only ones who take the opposite viow are the understrappors, who will bo asscssed to pay the expensos of the election, Granted that those offico-holders think they have a stock of Repiblican principlos exactly adapted to the government of Chicsgo during tho next two years, let us nppraiso thoir valuo, ‘What aro thoy? First, elovery must be sup- pressed. That was done somo time ago, Socond, tho robellion must bo put down, That was dons oight years ago protty effcotually, Third, the negro must be allowed to vote. That, too, has been sottled, and no one cares to question tho color of a vote. Fourth, the constitutional amondmoents must bo enforced. But they are enforced. We are not aware that the Re- publican party heas any other principles which {4 desires to enforco, excopt thoso which appear quite frequently in tho shape of defaleations, embozzlements, salary-grabs, and stoalings of the miscollancous sort, We fail to seoin what mannor the afirmative principlos 'we bavo mentioned can affect the quostion of good governmont in Chicago, or whereju they would exort any morp influence in that direc- tion than the laws of Lyourgus or the Book of Deuteronomy. The other two parties, the ‘‘Liboral Citie zons” aud tho * Law-and-Order Associa- tion,” as they nro called, havo distinct jesues which they are urging upon tho peoplo ; and thoso jusucs are of vital consequonce, They cannot bo avoided. Thoy must be settled this fall, and upon that gettlomont depends the quos- tion whether wo shiall havo good goyernmont in this oify or bad government ; good men in offico or bad mon; tho promotion of the city's welfare or the promotion of wmiarulp and disorder. These sro quostions whioh are pressing upon tho poo- plo for solution, This being tho caso, tho man~ agers of the Republican party, having no prinel- ples of their own which hayo any boaring upon tho present munfeipal sityation, should stop one side, nnd keep thelr docayod corpus out of sight, Thoy are offensive to eyo and noso, and their introduction at this time Is impertinont to tho oo~ casfon gnd an obstaclo to the businoss in hand, 1t they think the peoplo are going to fool away tholr timo voting upon slayery and the rebollion and negro suffrage while vital issucs sro crowd- ing upon them for settloment, thoy displgy vory little knowledgo of the age and community in which they live, Bo far as their action may sorvo to ausuro thojr spperiors in ofiico thnt thoy are not unworthy of tho grumbs, ete., eto. it js all vory woll, But boyond that it igan im- peachmont of the common sense of tho peopla of Ohicsgo, both of those who drink Isger and those who do not. E e —— Tho causo of edpocation in Georgis sepms to bo progrossing in a highly satisfaolory manner, it we may judge from a rocent occurrence in Danks County. - Tha Iato Mr, Alfred Alexander wag toaclior in that county, and s, Aloxsu- dor actod aa a sort of monitor, aud. roportod un-, ruly puplls. Amougst the latter wastho lato Mr, John H. Moss, & pupll ‘ot 26 yenrs of age, wha was roportcd duo day by Mra. Alexander. A dis puto ensucd botwwoon the toncher and the pupll, during which the late Mr, Alexandor atabbod the Into. Mr. Moss in -the broast. Thon Mr. Moss roplied by atabblug Mr. Aloxandor and killing bim, Thon Mrs. Aloxaudor got Mr., Boss' knifo nway from him and killed him with it. Nono of tho remaining pupils being suflolently accommodating to kill Mrs, Aloxandor or ench other, slio survivad to tolt the story, and it is tobo prosumed tho sehool was then closed for repairs, and that tho soholara are now lnving a8 vacation, growing out of the onforced absenco of thoir Iato tonohor. Monnwhile, applioations to flll & vacanoy in the Banks County achool aro in ordor, — A MUNIOIPAL MUDDLE. Tho City Governmont of Ohicago is conalder- ably perplexed as to tho logal existonce of tho offico of Commissionor of Taxes. Tho difieulty arigos from tho oreation of the office by special logislation, and tho attompt to abolish it by gonoral Iaw, Tho logal history of the mattor may bo thus atated: Tho office waa oroated by tho act of tho Logislature of Narch 9, 1807, By tho not of April 19, 1809, the Common Coun- oil was prohibited from fixing thoe salary of tho Commisaioner of Taxes at loss than $4,000 a yoar. In March, 1873, the Logislature adopted n rovenue law, which, by implica- tion at loast, substituted the machinory for tho collection of Btato taxes for that in forco for tho nescssmont and colloction of Btato taxes, This law, howevoer, did not go into effoct until July 1, 1873, by which timo all the cities of the Btate had assessed and lovied thoir own taxos under the old law, and maintained their usual official machinory. On Maroh 28, 1879, tho Loglalaturo logalized this procooding, logistation applying only to the" nescsemont, lovy, and collection of taxes for 1872. On tho 15th of April, 1878, the Leglslature, by gonoral law, spplioable to all incorporated eitios, pro~ vided for tho assoasment, lovy, and collection of municipal toxes, This law provided for the oloction, by the poople, at tho same time aa the olection of Mayor, of ** ono Assessor and ono Col- lootor.” Upon this Assessor it dovolved the duty of assosaing oll tho taxabla propertyin the olty. Tho act then constituted the Mayor, Oity Olork, and Assessor & board to hoar appeals from nsscesmonts; to rovise and oqualizo aa- sosemonts, &o,, the City Clork tomako out a copy of tho rovised sssessmont and hond tho #amo, with his warrant, to the Collector. Tho act subatantially transferred to the Oity Olerk and Asacssor, sepaxately or colloctivoly, all tho dutios herotofore assigned by law to the Com- missioner of Taxos, Tho act did notin torms abolish the offico of Commissionor of Tazos, but ovory duty horotofore performed by him waa {ranaferrod to other officors, ono of whom, tho Asgossor, was cronted for tho first ¢imo. Tho samo act, In its last soction, providos: The City Councll may, in thelr dlscretion, provida by ordinanco for the appoiniment of a Olty Tax Come missloner, ix his timo of office and salary, and confer upon him such powers and provide for tho porform- ancoof much dutios by him &s the City Counofl may deem necessary and proper; and all the pravisions of this act relating to the dulies of tho City Clork, or tha powers of tho Oty Olerk, in connection with tho ne~ acasmont of property, the oquallzation of such asscss- ‘ments, or tho Jovy or colloction of taxes, apacia! taxea orapocial asacasments, shall bo exorciiod ond per- formod by such Clty Tax Commissionor, if thoro bo one appointed ; and to that end snd purnaso, wherovor in this act horetofore tho words *“‘City Olerk” or “Qlerk " aro used, they shall bo 1old to mesn tho City Tax Commiseionor, and whorover the “Oity Olork'a offico ™ or “ Qlork's offico” i rofarred to, it ahall bo held to mean *Oity Tax Commissionor's ofico.” This nct-of the Logislaturo becawmo the law of tho Stato on July 1, 1873. . If it abolishod tho oftico of * Commasioner of Taxes ” croated by tho act of 1807, then that offico censed to have a logal existenco on July1.. The incumbont of the offico does not regard that it was abolished, for ho has evor since continued to hold it. Butitis sn offico without any duties. The Asseasor and the Oity Clork aro, under the new law, to por- form all tho duties of the old Commissionor of Taxea until the City Council shail provide for tho appointment of another officer, under a now title, tho City Tax Commissioner. The Common Council has matured and has or- dored to an engrossment an ordinanco providing for the election by the Common Council of a City Tax Commissionor, and this it docs under the 204 section of tho act of 1873 above quoted. Tho quostions which have arisen, and which soom to porplox the City Govornment, aro: 1, ‘Was the offico of Commissloner of Taxes abol- ishod undor thoe genoral law? If so, by what right has Mr. Holden been performing tho dutios sinco July 1, 18787 If mnot abolished, what dutios has ho to perform ? 2. Tho Legis- Iature has authorized the Common Council to provide for the appointment of a City Tax Com~ missionor. Ia this officer to bo in addition to, or to roplace, the Commiseloner of Taxes? Aro both to continue, or, if only one, which? 8. Oan tho Common Counoil provide for the clec- tlou of tho City Tax Commissionor by thoir own body ? If thoy ean, has tho Mayor tho power to romove the person they elect ? 4, Has the Mayor, undor the Mayor's act, the power to ap- poiat the City Tax Commissioner ? If ho has, whatis tobedone with the prosont Commissionor of Taxes ? If tho Mayor should veto thoordinanco: of tho Common Couneil, would the City Clerk and the Mayor be the Board of Equalization, and what ghare, if any, will the Commissionor of Taxes have In the dutios of that Board? It is understood that tho logal doubt as to whether the oftico of Commissionor of Taxaa was abolish- od or not is that an offica cannot bo sbolished by implication, and must b sbolished dircctly. This leads to another complication: Tho only Commissioncr of Taxes in the §tate of Illinois is tho ouo in Chicago, and that offige was oroated by the city charter; the Leglulaturo being pro- hiblted from smending tho charter of. any city, it connot abolish the office in Chicago, which, thorofore, {s porpetual one, Tho ordinary ojtizen, howover, who has no in- torost in offico-peckeors or oftice-holdors, will have no diffioulty in roaching the conclusion that tho ofilco legally consod to oxist July1, 1873, aud that it {s optional with the Common Councit to provide for a Oity Tax Commissioner or not, according to its judgmont of the domands of the public husiness, Tho condition of parjies in France mn‘y be aa- cortalned from tha' following analysis of tho composition of the National Assembly, which will alao provo of value for roference herenftor : Tho Assombly contains 730 Doputies, divided as followa : Right, 90 momlors ; Centro Right, 204 ; Bonapartists, 87 ; Loft, 148 ; Qontro Loft, 109 ; Radioals, 76, Total, 730, Out of this to- 11 tho Bight aud Contro Right, which openly fa- yor & mouarchy, nymber 860, In opposi- tion to them thoro sro three Ropub- Hean and oo Donapautish douomluation, numbering 870,. which give . 10 . major- ity to the Ropublioans, the Bonainttlale in- oluded; ~ Tho Right Contro, liowover, {s not com- posod‘axcluslvoly of Monnrohlats, nd It containg 14 Republicans, who wont from tho Lott to"tho Right, owing to thoir hatrod 6f tho Rndicals,—n movoment which resulted in tho overthrow of M, Thiera and the formntion of the prosont Ad- ministration, Even admitting that thoy would not favor the olaims of cither of the thres pro- tondera to tho throno—the Princo Imporial, the Duko of Orloans, or the Count do Chambord, sl tho . Ropublican majority s 8o small that it might onsily bo swept away by any suddon outburst of monarchical enthusi~ 8sm, or dsappoar in & crisls from its weak foun- datlons. A sudden fronk sont the fourtoon Ro- publicans ovor to tho Right and doposod M, Thiors. An oquaily sudden froak may at any timo wipe out tho prosent misjority and doposs tho Ropublio itsolf. e ———— THE PROPOSED TAX ON FRANCHISES, The Bpringfield Journal, in answer to our ox~ planation of the duplicate taxation sought to be onforcod agalust privato corporations in this oity not exerclsing specinl or oxclusive priv- floges, thinks wo have overlooked somothing. Tho easo was whero a private firm with $100,000 investod in ground, buildings, tools, and ma- chinory, and making $26,000 profit por annum, hud thoir tangiblo property asecseod at $45,000, whilo a privato corporation, with the samo capi- tal fnvosted' In tho eamo way, snd making the samo profit, would bo assossed on the capital stock at par, and on $50,000 premium value; from which the $46,000 valuo of tangiblo property would be deduoted, loaving them to pay taxes on 105,000, whilo their nolghbora would only pay taxof on procisoly the samo businoss, and prop- orty on §45,000, The Journal oxplains that this tax on tho additional 50,000 *ia justly charged against tho corporation on account of tho fact that, by roason of tho formation of a corpora- tion, tho ownora are not individually. liablo for tho debts of tho concorn only to the amount of thoir stook respoctively. But A and B aro liable to tho whole amount of their respective property for the dobts of the concern. Tho corporation 1hias this advantage over the private firm,” ‘While the membor of the private firm is linble Individually fortho dobts of tho concorn con- tracted whilo ho is » membor of it, the membor of o privato corporation incorporated by special ohartor Is roaponsible, to tho extent of his In- forest, for all dobts and lisbilitios duo at tho timo ho leaves it, and for six months aftor ho has ceased to have any interest or to exorcise any control in it. Incasos of banking corporations, the mdividual liabilty is for doublo tho amount of capital stock hold by each ; undor the gonoral law, stockholders in manufscturing and other corporations are personally lisble without rofor- onco to the amount of their stook for all dobts duo for labor, And after all the vitsl quostion 18 not as to liability for possiblo debta, but to tho oxistenco of actual debts. Tha Journal over-ostimatos tho value of tho frauchiso when if claims that o private corpora- tion under tho genoral law or even under special charter should bo taxed 60 per cont highor on the samo property, becsuse the atookholdors aro porsonally lisble only to the smount of their stook, Tho actual capital invested in a private firm and a privato corporation being the same, the oredit of tho two catablishments ought to be the samo, but as the lisbility of the mombors of the firm is porsonal, its credit and its financial oharactor are a8 oxtended as tho means and proporty of its mombera. The corporation has no euch advantago ; ita capilal is the limit of ita liability, and, of course, of its oredit ; any credit it may have boyond its capital is due to public confldence in its managemont, and, sifted of ait chaff, it is precisely the possession of this con- fidence which the State Journal insists shall bo taxed. If stookholders ina corporation enjoy an exemption from lisbility for debts beyond their respoctive intercats, tho corporation itself i8 imitod in its crodit by the amount of its c- tual oapital, while' tho private firm has a oxedit in addition to its capital as oxtonsivo s tho ontire property and mesns of all its propriotors, Tho advantage which the Journal thinks ought to bo taxed 50 per cent in tho case of & corporation, is fully offsct by tho advantage of inoroased oredit by the private firm, But the real valuo of tho stock of cor- porations rosts in tho skill and rectitudo of ite manngers, The stock of a corporation so man- sgod that it inapires publio confidonco will sell higher than that of otber corporations doing twico tho amount of business, butin whose man- agoment tho publio have no such confidence, Lot noy corporation whose stock may bo quoted a8 ligh ns 200 change managoers, and pass into tho control of thoso in whoso ekill or porsonal character thereis loss confidonce, and at onco, and beforo any loss of business or any loss of menns takes placo, that stock will fall in valuo and continuo to fall until its entire premium is frittored away. The promium value on stock in almost invariably due to the skill and ability with which the business is conduoted ; it is not a computable valuo, a8 it may porish in a day, and that without any loas of tangible property of tho corporation. This promium valuo of cor- poration stook, which the Journal insists is the valug of the franchiso, is unsubstantial ; it heas a valuo like that of a good man's character ; it risos or falls as that character rises or falls, Tha editor of the Bpringfield Journal is a good maan, and has a charactor of groat valuo ; hooan raise fmoney on that charaotor ; his personal obliga- tions will goll in the market for more monoy than those of his tricky neighbora; but his oharactor, howover valuable it may bo to bhim, and lowover much it may add to tho value of his obligationn, is hordly o'fit subject for taxation, and the Board of Equalization might have some diffioul- ty In reducing it to s cash basis, This boing true, why tax the credié and charactor of o private corporation? The fact that 1t is charaoc- tor and not franchiso that it ia sought to tax is shown by tho fact that corporations not having special priviloges whoso stock boars no premium are ot taxed boyond the amount of their capital stocls, though they hiave prooisely the samo fran- chises as other corporations whose stook s at s promium. ‘The whole mistake has been in going boyoud the enumeration of tanglble proporty for taxation. Tho Coustitution never contemplated snything of tho kind; taxation of franohiues or spoolal tradea oud ocoupations was to bo accom- phwhod by othor means, and these not boing pro- vidod by law, the Board of Equalization s all at soa in trylng to fud the values of intangiblo and imaginary things. E— Two columns of sensational stuff were printed in tho Bt. Louia Republican a fow deys ago, to the offect that the writor of thom had econ Wilkes Booth in Ohina in company with Geu, Ward, after tho wurdor of Mr, Linvoln, Un- fortunately for tho writor's yam, thoro was a woak npot in tho mattor of datos, and a corro- apondont - tho noxt day showed that Gonm, ‘Ward wae killed in Obina in 1808, As M, Lincoln was killod in 1865, tho story of courso falls to pleces, and tho painataking fabrlontor hnd his troublo for nothing, Tho rovival of Wilkes Booth s nothing new. Tho atory has boon told scores of timon and will probably be vopeated indofinitely, Porsons ad- dicted to this harmloss sort of nonsouso, how- over, should be enreful of thelr datos horo- aftor. . THE CALIFORNIA RING, Tho Iato eleotion in Oalifornin prosonts somo foatures of groat interest to ovory man who de- sires o roformation In polities, Tho fssues in that Btato woro not undefined nor uncertain, nor wes tho strongth of tho Ropublican and Domaoratio partios 8o unoqual as to make n third party cesontlal to a spirited campaign, On tho contrary, tho Btate has always been very ovenly divided, and party linos have boon drawn vory close, £o that both of the old parties folt highly confident of victory,” Undor thoso olr- numn!mcn.q, it {8 ovidont that for any third party to achlevo succoss, or even a respootablo voto, thoro must havo boon & gonoral foeling that from moither of tho existing partics could any good be oxpoctod. That this was tho case tho rosult of the election has abundantly proven. During the Inst six yonrs, Oalifornin, and, in fact, the wholo Pacific const, hns beon dominated by & Railroad Ring that for audacity and tyranny hag nevor been surpsssed. While this Ring ro- mainod nunbroken no man could safely opposo it. Businoss men dared not malke tho least opposi- tlon, lest thoy should bo ruined by discrimina- tions ngainst thomselves. No politician could vonturo to speak or not against Stamford, Hunt- ington, and Crocker without boing consigned to oblivion by their influence. The rovolution which has now been succoss- fol was finally forcod upon tho people by the continusl encroachments of the men who had absorbod the Contral Pacifle Railroad. Tho olec- tlon of the last previous Logislature was made the teat, and two tickots only woro practically in tho flold,—tho Railroad ticket and the Anti-Rail- rond ticket. The lattor was gonerally success- ful, but whon the Logislature met it waa found ¢hat the Ring had simply been playing & gamo of ““honds I win, tails you loso,” and that thoir power waa evon greater than beforo, 1he samo trick was again altompted at this oloction, and the Republican and Democratic nominces throughout tho State were equally committed to tho railroad intorost. The Anti-Monopoly party, hoaded by Gov. Booth and tho Sacramonto Union, now mado & determined bolt. Tho pledge required was merely to support Booth for tho United Statos Sonate. Tho tost wonld soom to be an inadoquate ono but for the thrent which this nomination implied. It monnt a com- pleto invostigation of the affairs and manago- ment of tho Contral Pacifle Railroad Compauy, and tho opening to public inspection of a awin- dlo groator in amount and moro scandalous in ite oharactor than tho Credit Mobilier. This Con- tract and Financo Company, s it is callod, was engineorod by Stanford, Huntington, tho two Crockers, and ono or two othors. Theso mon have ncoumulsted in A fow years fortunen reaching far into the millions, and thoy naturally objeoted to any investigation into the manner in which their plunder was scquired, One California Congressman, Luttrell, from tho Third District, is alrendy proparing for a cam- paign in the noxt Congress sgainst this combi- nation, and, if Booth goos into the Benato, it is likely that tho Contrack and Financoe Company will bo hauled over tho coals with as littlo rogard to the finer foelings of human nature as was its Biamoso twin, tho Credit Mobilior of Amorica. — NOTES AND OPINION. Election-roturns from Ohio and Pennsylvania will not enthuse the Domocracy any. In Ohio Gov. Noyes' olection is alroady promised by 0,000, and in Pennaylvania tho Harrisburg Pa- triot concodes to the Ropublicans ll thoy want. Thus early the * Democratio rovivil” proves to havo boon paid for only to koop the Credit Mo~ biller organization from bursating asunder. ~Jackson County, in Bouthern Illinois, is John A. Logan's owu, It gave Fromont (in 1866) 14 votes out of 1,400, and last year gave Grant 850 majority. Of tho presont situation, the Mur~ physboro Argus says: ‘Tha farmora of Jackson Connty havo already unfurl- ed thelr baunurs to the breeze, and will bo tho best or- anized county {n tho State, by men who will prove by oir aotions next Novembor that opprosaton will no longer be born in submlssion, They will no longer submit to the tyranuy of railroad monopolies, ealary- be, and political knavery, whose proscnce in the {30 1a o grestor funuit fo honsoly than' tho Mot ine famons acts hitherto, —Oglesby was invited to attend tho lato Har-~ vest-Homo Pionio at Clinton, but ho declined tho invitation, saying, it is wsaid, that *The Ro- publican party is good enough for him.” We foar * Qov. Dick ™ is still woddod to hiy idols,— Decatur (1U.) Magnet. Dick can now afford to take no heed to invi- tations from farmors, for he has beon olected Benator, to Borvo six yonrs, and ho doosn't loso 8 singlo trick by such & courso, Monopolics of ull kinde will applaud him, and male up for all lossos ho may sustain.~Sullivan (1) Progress. —The viotory of tho oppononts of the high- handed oppression of the Contral Pacific Rail- rond in Oalifornia, at the recent eloction for members of tho Legislature in that State, is do- cisive and overwhelming. Evon in Bun Francis- 00, whore it was thought this railrond powor was omuipotent, it had beon signally defoated, . . Now lot other railroad companies disposod ta ress the poople to the wall, take warning,— fiuw Island (1UL.) Union. —~The Central Pacifle Railroad corporation hag boeon well doscribod as ** the strongost, tho most compact, tho boat organized, and the most ably directod combination of capitalists now existing on the continent, Compared with this small di= roctory of millionaires owning tho Central Pa- oiflo Railroad, the Bauk of California, and vast corporato interosts in San Irancisco and elsowhoro throughout tho Stats, and wiold- ing nu immonso patrousge which givo it ront - power over the polly, the Pennsylvania ‘entral ring is an iofant in polities.” *, . , The significance of tho Calitornia eleation result is yory plain, It conclusively shows how univer~ gel iu tho rolaxation of party tios, and Low roady the people are to deal monopoly and corryption o blow whoneyer opportunity offers, As a polit- ical syatom it {a a healthy one, for it is woll that all intoreated should understand that the num- bor of votors who will not tamoly submit to the rostitution of party machinory to_rotton onds Tu alroady uncomfortabiy large, aud ia steadily growing.—Detroit Tribune, —There can be no question that the anti-mo- nopply sentimont is constantly gaining in strongth, and whonover it bocomes an fgsuo in a gonoral cloction, tho fight, which now takes the form of mnss-mooting protosts to party plat~ torms, will be waged moro docisively by our na- tioual law-makers, A C ongress elecled by the conle for the speciflo work cannot shirk the duty {huu jmposed; tho members will Lo forced to take tho railroads in hand and exercise tho power given thom by the Constitulion to regulate com- morco botweon tho Btatos, 1u this way only is n vindication of popular righls possible.—Zrig (1‘.13 Dispalch, alifornia Ropublican journals onlled the Auti-Monopoly tiokot tho *Dolly Varden," Iowa Ttepublican journals call the Anti-Monapoly t(u‘lmt the “Potato-Bug “Tickot," ke ‘*Dolly Vardens" of Oalifornia, with two oPpnumon tlokets in the fleld, fouglit and won agaiust pow- orful comblinations of capital, Will tho Iowa # Potato-Bugs," with one opposition ticket, allow thomselves to bo overpowered P—Foré Dodye (Towa) Times. ~—I'ho prosent Rallioad law of Iilinols, aud the motion of the railroad compauios under it, has baon go often pointed at as an illustration of tho effoot of tho pooplo {rying o diolate railroud logisintion, thas wo foel called upen to euter our proteat againat saddling the blunders of our loglslators upon tho peoplo. 'Tho puopla asked for a Inw {o prevent oxtortion by railroads, and tho Inwsora of tho Logislaturo concootod tho prosont Iaw, and aswured tho -pooplo that it would prove an ofllelont remedy. That it hoa not 80 proved, Ro far, Ia an apparont fack 3 and it in just ns spparont that logal talout of the Logislature In eithor of very poor: coptiblo to theinfluence of moneyed corporations, ‘Lhoy con take oithor lorn thoy chooss, If the people aro to be given logal a{onnu whon they ask for logislative bread, tho sooner thoy clect Toginlators with less legul talont and mord com- mon reuso, the botlor. Wa don't waut the blundors of logislators thrust upon ua o8 our off- :prlnf any longor.—Olinton (1) Register, —It is°a shnme that our loglstative bodics should bo filled nlmost wholly by profossional mon ; thoro shiould bo more Inborers thers, moro producers ; but thoy cannot go without infor- mation, and they swould do thomselves no erodit woro thoy to do it. Ienco, thoy aro undor the nooossity of boing roprosonted by a olans of peo- Pln who, In mauy oados, havo no sympathy with hom. Thoy placo tholr intarosts in ohargo of porsona who aro uttorly Indifforont to thoso in- torosts, but who aro caroful to keop a shar; 'Iotikout for thoir own.— Woodslock (IUl.) Sentis nel —Frantio efforts are bolng mado in various parts of tho country to nrrost tho rushing tido of Enbllu,oplnion that threatons the old partics with destruotion ; yot the rovolution goos stend- ilyon. . . . Tho old politieal housen will tumblo to pioces to make room forn clonnor, noator, graudor, aud more elogant and substan~ tial structure, founded on princlplo instead of pru]udlum——;{urnm (Ill.) News. +—It {8 [rmhnhlu that all the worn-out political hacks will attompt to join tho new party, what- over may bo its namo,” Their plang should be obrorved, and they should bo rojeotud by all bon- eat mon.—Farlville (1l.) Transcript. —All over tho country tho ofticoholdors, tho rlnl? Pnuuclnna, tho oflice expoctants, and the political doad-boats generally, are proparing to mount the boks of “farmera and anti-monopo- lints, and rido into Powur and placo. They caro nothing about the farmers and thoir movemonts, 80 that thoy oau got a ehanco to fill their insatins blo maws at the public erib, It thoy aro allowed to manipulato and control farmora’ conventions, tho whole movemont will oud in failure, and tho raflroads and monopolista will rido rough-shod ovor the country.—Afonmouth (1) Review. —Your avorago small politiciau dreads nothing 80 much as dissonelou in the Enrty. Ho baliovos in tho divino right of King Caucus. He builds all his hopes on an iron connaction hotwoon cau- cus dictation and party voto.—Rockford (Iil) Register. —In Rn[)nblicnn counties 1n_Illinois, our own boing an illustration, the Republican newspapers snd Republican oftice-holders and _wire-pullers havon gmnt deal to un[in favor of tho principles contended for by the farmers—they have o high opinion of farmors (as long as they will vote their ring tiokoet) they think the principles cuntended for by them aro correct, but issuo a flaming call for a party convontion just for fear that tho farmors might not put all Ropublicans on tholr ticket for county officers. In Demacratio counties thoy ara porfcetly willing to divido tho officos, but not in countiea where they can got thom all. The Democrats in Falton County (a county that never clooted a Republican to auy oflico) have abandoned thelr party organization, and go with the farmors,—an example which no Republican county has followed,—Ruck Island ) Arvgus. —The Jacksonvillo (IIl.) Journal is opposed to tho prosont Farmors' Movement ; but it is not gonorally found out yot, so that thore is still soma hope for the Farmors’ Movement, It hords 1t8 report of Mr, Flagg's spoech at the recent masa-mooting in this county, ‘A Lunatic Looso," ‘Tho gonius of that papor will find, by a littls in- quiry into nffairs, that there aro about 2,000,000 of such ““lunatics " loose, They are going o im- prove tho condition of their asylum.— Winchester (Ill.) Times, —Tho agricultural half of tha country has not fair play—and to that we aro cortunly ontitled. »+ » . Double our incomo, Mr. Othorhalfofthe- population, and wo won't grumblo | If thia can't o done, don’t make us pay to double yours, And this is what s high tarilf moaus, It means to mako tho rich richor, tho poor paorer; it Tacans monopoly and coucentration of capital in fow Liauds ; it moans rings and the power of rings ; and with it the farmer can't axpoct $o thrive. Lot us stop this bungholo and thon aco if tho apiggot alao loaks.—E. J, Dobell, in Albion (I Journal. —If Congress wanta to bonefit the Yuopln, Tot the body at tho ensuing session turn their atten- tion to il fluances of the nation, and let their attention bo dirocted to retrenchment, to n de- croago of taxation, to reform, and the gonernl alloviation of the distrossos of the country, on- tailed lg' unscrupulous Radicul Ifansas City Times. —* Bnck-pay,” a8 a subject of discussion, is giving placo to “forward-pay.” Pooplo are bo- ginning to ask i thoso memnbers of Congross who aro gathoring in €025 o month for dolug nothing are just tho mon who are likely to voto for a ropeal of tho law incrossing salarios, Ouri- ous and impertineut individuals are also investi- patiug tho right of tho Government, should the act bo repealed, to collect from mombers the amounts already recoived from the ’l‘nmmllz in exfie;mol the old rate of paymont.—5St, Paul Dis- aleh. 2 —Tho Republicans of Ashtabula County (Gar- flold’s district) ndopted the following resolution at thoir recont convontion : Resolved, That the lato aot of Congroas, commonly called the Balary bill, meot with our most hearty condemnation, Loth {u'lta retrosotive and [rompectivo lucreaso of snlnries;and wo most unqualifiedly con< down tho authors, supportors, and signer of tho bill; aud wo eall upon’our Roprosentative in Congress to ‘uso his best offorts for the repeal of the same. —Sonator Thurman condemns back-pay, bat history givos no account of his having rofnsod front-pay.—Ohio State Journal, And how much worse would it have been for Thurmnnn to pocket 87,600 for s lnst yonr'a serv- ices than it will bo for him to pooket that amount for this yonr’s sorvices? Did he not contract, whon eleoted, to sorve for £5,000 this year as woll as for tho last yoar ? How can he take the extra $2,600 now, if it was wrong for him to tako it last urflngi‘ Will the Benator explain ?— Toledo Blade, ~—Mr., Goorge W. McCrary roturned to tho Treasury tho 36,000 “back™ and pocketa the £06,000 * front " pay addod to his talary aftor ho was olacted, . . . Waostill contend that thora 1s nodifferenco, either morally or logally, between Congrossman who adds 6,000 to hls Salary out of his omployor’s monoy at tho end of lis torm for servives alroady performed, and tho Con- essman who adds $5,000 to hie salry after ho 8 olocted, out of his employer's pocket, for sor~ vicen tobo porformed, and pookets tho monthly ay nino_months beforo ho daes any work.,— gx'wxmk Constitution. —It is not enough to require thoso of the last Congress to pay tho back inorense into the Troas- ury, and excorato in oxtravagant langunga those who do not, but all our prosont Congrossmen should bo roquired not to receive any of the in- crenso, and overy one who doos resoive the in- creaso, and appropriatas it to his own uso, should bo regarded a8 a butrayor of tho trust placed in him, and should bo hold ns uuflt for re-election, ond au nusafe man for public position.—Peoria (IU.) Democerat, E —Ames and Aleorn aro rival candidates for Govornor of Mississippi. Thoy are both unlavy- rabbors, aud 1t would be just the thing 1f somo fioncnt, capablo, colored man-wlike ox-Sonator Tovels, for ingtauco—would come out and bent them both.—Burlinglon (Iowa) Hawk-Eye. —No Honator or momber of the House who holds on to his brek-pay grab need hava any foar of ovor being placed in a position whero it will becloud his Prosidential prospacts. Poerliaps wo might convey our idon moro cloarly by say- ing thut overy Sonator and Congressman who holds his firnb rany safely dismiss from his mind the thought that'he will aver suffor any risk of losing his wind in running as a candidato for the Prosidonoy of tho United Statos, Tho grab will not bo forgotton iu throa years, nor iu soven, nor in oloven, The older it growa tho worso it will smoll.—Cincinnati Commereial, —Tho 8t, Louls Democrat has rocontly taken u groat doal of crodit to_itsolf for tho dashiug and indopondent manner in which it has “ gone wisrulo,— ' for " ovorything which looked like n stonl, Ona w vo supposod from roading ils donun- n]g:xll“dn:mur s {l’ puire, and ¢ Harrls, and # Qrodis Mobilier,” and’ * back-pay geabs,” that it possgssod an amount of political virtue which lnood it for aboye the common run of papors. ut Postunster Filloy, of 8t. Louis, has roseutly boen doteotod and oxposed in a pleco of ewiu- dling whioh {8 moanor than austliing yot,—tho practico of exacting 8 per cond from tho snlaries of tha clorks in his afico,~and yet the Democrat has ocither not yet heard anything about it, or gloauos It over with tho oasual romark that tho assossmont was for ** politieal purposes.” , , Whon the Democrat ean wink at such stoals, it had hotter stop talking about ** salary-grabs,"— Tilinois State Journa Pure Iro Absolutely pure iron is said to have boen pro- duced by a Rtussian_chemist by meaus of the galvanio battery. Duriug tho procoss » lnrlgu quantity of hydrogen was discngaged from tho ordinary iron used, Tho puro iron i8 a silvor- whito motal, very malleable and duotllo, and so soft as to bo roudily eut with a pair of Boirsors, It is yery differont from iron which has horoto- foro hoon supposod to be pure. It oxidizes very rapldly, and wator ls docomposed by it by tho zopid absorption of oxygen, nnlity, or nus- | THE COURT-HOUSE PLANS. The Threo Competing Architeets Before the Council, Messrs, Matz, Goy, and Tilloy Explain Their Designs, A apectal meeting of {ho Common Councll wan Liold Inat ovening, Ald, Bond In tho chalr, Thera wore also present the following Aldermen ¢ Rlchardson, Dizony Warron, Oooy, MeAvoy, Sidwell, Dickoring, Tracey, Cullorton, Dalloy, Powell, 0'lirien, Bherwood, Mooro, Oloveland, Quirk, McGrath, Eckbardt, Stout, Mahr, Lengacher, Schaftner, Oarnoy, Cnunot, Iirandt, Wood man, and Corcoran, Tho call for tho mooting molting forth ita object, which was {ho considoration of tho threa plans oblatn: ing promfums, was read, On motion tho Counell went into Committos of thy Wholo, Ald, 3cGrath in the chalr, and turnod round to facotho wall wheroupon woro hung thio sovers) drawings of the plana of Mesers, Matz and Gny, Ar Tilloy's # Eurcka " plan adorned tho oppasite wall, Otto Mats was firat callod upon to oxpladn, and A1d %0 at conslderablo longth, boing cross-oxaminod by overy Altorman, Mr, Matz claimod that he had 13- 000,000 cublo foot, and oatimated tho cost at 1 cents & faot, Ald, Balley maintainod that ho could not build 1t at & Toun cost than 05 conts a cuble foot, which would mako tho cost $4,200,000, and not $2,522,000, as clalmed, This was tho most important potut arrived at by tha Gommiltoo, with regard to Mr, Matz's plan, Mr. Goy's plan was noxt submitted to scrutiny, Th polnt mada by Mr, Gay was the system of ventilation ho bad introducod, i column could not bo seon from tha stroet, Tho cubical contonts of his bullding 870 7,776,000 foot, which, at 30 conta a foot, wonld be 42,092,600, Ald, Batloy sttll hold, a did othor practle cal builders, that it would cost not leas than 35 contaa foot, which would make tho cont neator $,000,000. Mr, Tilloy explaiued his plan, Among othor pare 4oulars ho clatmod that, whoreas the call for plang domandod 128,140 aquaro foot, Lio had given 173,70, with o margin'of 48,403 feat, Tho cublcal contents his Imilding ws 7,250,320 cublo foet, which, at 35 conts a feot, was $3,637,012; tho dowe, at 95 conta o foot, would cont $135,400; u total coat of 2,800,012, o hiad von estimatos for masonry, wtous, irom ote.,at ,009,620. - By nctual bona fido bids, e could do it for $2,710, 4 Mr, Tilloy onuncisted some propositions, faunded upon personnl observation of the largo public bufldlugn u Washington and other cities, Tho most moticeablo of thoko wero tho offocts cauasd by the imperfect light and ventilation of rooms {ronting on iuterlor courls, Me furthor pointed out tho advantages of tho accessibility of the diagonal plav,with an ontrance on cach corner, Hocould I!lD get o larger bullding on & amall pleco of ground, To build such s structuro os his squurcly with the Jog would rojuiro that Iot to bo 100 feot larger eithor way, He had eatimatod that tho aggregato amount of traval savod by thio diagonal cutraucon in ono year wos eqal to 7 timos the circumferenco of the earth, Tho Cum- mittes sudduuly, out of all precadent, lot Mr, Matz loos0 on Mr, Tfl!fihwhon Mr. Gay was called in, snd corrobaratod Mr. Tilloy's systom of estimating cubleal contonts, Tho Committeo rose and roported, and the Council adjourned, SUNFLOWERS, Disastrous Result of Purchasing tho Seed on Shares, A packago of flower seeds may soem to bon vory trifling thing, Lut bo sssured ftfsnot. If any ona tells you that it {s o thing of no account, over after- wards look dlstrustfally on that mon, snd placo but Littlo roliance on his atatements, Ho a not to bo truste od. Hodoes mot think even once fefora ho speaks, Atk him why this groat and glorious lepublic runs & pational sood houso st Washington, and oxpends hundreds of thoussnds of dollara overy year, if 1t I not o send to the Postmastors and a fow prominent Tocal politictans every year o littlo fnsignificant-looking packago of flowor-aveds, or maybo a Tot of that wina plant.” Ifthis doca not vanquish tho shallow-patod fellow, relato to him tho talo of how n package of sune flowar seod hua forover rafscd o barrier botweon tho famllles of Jobn Leary and Thomss Rourke, 2nd broken off the cugagoment botyeon John Leary, Jr., aud tho pride of thie Iourko family, Moggio by nomo, theroby biightiug two young lives, ond tnsybo boing tho means of souding them botli to destruction and an oarly grave, Tho way in which this sad chain of aventa was Lrought about Is thiswiso : Last spring, srlion tho strocts bogan {0 aanime that. plastlo Soudi: tion which wo 8o much admired at the time, and whon country papers biated of o fancled resemblance bow tween March taking ita doparture, and tho noblo king of boasta doparting for unknown' climes, tho young Lonrya and Rourkes notifled thoir paronts by tracking mud iuto tho houso that it wan about timo for people of forcaight to lny in tholr supply of gardon sceds, Now, og eich family bad but o small plot of mother earth, snd could not possibly want a whols packago of secd, they concluded to buy but ona paper of each kind of secd, and then divide the gooda ‘equally betweon {hom. 1u this way thoy could save half tio monoy thoy usnally invest {a acods, and by able to donate it to the Loulsvillo Library or holp pay off tha dobt thair countrymen inourred fn ihoir lato fracan with Gormany. in tho purcliaso of thewo soods it was declded to buy somo for oruamenting thoir door-yards, and as o board fence, fivo feat high, - closca thelf reapoctive homestoads, it was nocessary to got flowors that wonld grow to the height of miora- than five feot, or olso loave tho- gato opon and ot elray cows o to feed -on hofr cabbages and othor things necossary to s Frenchman's Tappiness, for o ono rafses flowers except to bo acen, snd at laat it was docidod that tho majestic sunflowar was the proper thing to grace the Leary and Rourke yards, Tho scoda woro purchased nad divided. Tho sunflowera grow, but by somo mystorlous process tha planta of the Rourkes flourished much moro than tho ones fostered by the Leary brigado, and at laat tho conviction forcod ilself on tho minde of the Iafter tiat the former appros pristed the largest and fineat Thoy charged thom with I, sud as the Rourkea felt insulted, thioro was trauble immedlately, sud from words they came to blows, and in tho genoral confu- slon all the sunflowers woro trampled under faot, Tho case wan docidod in the Police Qourt to ba out of thelr jurisdiotion, and hat tho trouble was caused by tho liitlo packsge of sunflower soeds, Who will now say that such a packago is & trifling thing 1 AMUSEMENTS. M'VICRER'S THEATRE, “Dismonda” atill draws falr houses at MoVickers Theatre, and Mr. McVicker has doclded to keop it on the boards until onday night, when ha will have # Xrenchwomen * produced fu tho best possible form, Apropos of this pleco thero promisca to bo somo amusement n its production, Thoro has elroady beon 5 little disousslon upon tho subjoct, snough to awake publio curlosity, and the fssuc ia looked for with somo curioaity, 1t may boss woll to stato that with all Mr, Toucleault’s bombastlo threats about prosscuting any manager who may producen pleca {n which the’plot, charactors, situalions, aud dinloguo of “3imi™ ap~ pear, ho has already’ weakoned, Mr. Cazauran has translated Menri nlur?rh “Ia Vie de Bo- from wblch Dousfeault drew Lis “Mimi" and christened it * Fronchwomon,” Baning his clafm upon somo principle not fully appro~ clated by the averago human belng, Mr, Bouclcault calls b piracy, and regurds Wimacifia a viotim, Ilo adds thot ho wiil mako bis aggressor pay damigos. Br, MoVicker, desitous of infriugmg on nobody, sud oqually desiréus of keoping out of nsuit in which, thiough succosaful, hie wauld o out somo hundred dolt 1ars, telegraphiod {0 Mr. Bouckeault for his * Mimi,» 10 obudor {hat he InJght comparo . Carauratcs. {raitie Intion with it, and docido for bimsélf whother tho lat- ter was o houn-do_trauslation, or, as tho great pirste clating, & plucy, No answer ik bean recaived by Mlr, McVicker, but a rosponse hos been roveived from another quartor, which showa the whito feathor very plainly, Fiuding that Mr, MeVickor wos not readily Dearad, and knoving thnt his caso was i weal ono, Me, Boucicault_abandoned tho dea of o fair fight, and triod o flauk moyement, Ho tolographed to Mr, Hooloy that 3¢ ho wonld tako off tho ehatining ploce Lio 14 now ‘pluylug, *Lillan’s Last Love,” and substituto * Mimi » Fort, o would,furnisiy Oathorbuo Rogots to play londe ing bhsincss, Thia insidious offor mot tho fato it de sorved, Mr, Hooloy nover did a mean thing, aud would ot on thls oceaslon, Ho qir 1y decliued tha offer, proforring to rotuin tho pices uv is #till plying to crowded housos, Tho plain English of this fs, # Bouelcault won't fight.? Mr, Cazauran appareatly hus good grounds for the anoers ho b Mdulgud in ut the great plaglariat’s cxponso, Now lot somo othur ontorprising dramatiat seoura tho original drama from which #Egrry " was adnpled, aud hia long-looked-for aiscomit@®e “will bo complete, Sr, Melickor will probably recelve the nianuseript of “Mimi ¥ to-lay, if tho “author " yends it at afl, 1If not, thers s reison bo soon at Mos to bellove that * Fronchwomen " will Vicker's on Monday ufght, Vienna Promiums Again, and the Amer- ioan Sowing-Dlnchines. By roforence to tho ** Goneral Regulations of tho Vienns Univorsal Exuibition,” publishod by Arch duke Reguier, Prosudent of tho Imperial Commission, we find modals woro to bo awardad, in tho Mechanteal Dopartmont, in two classes,—ono for Merit aud ona for Progross, Tha modal for merdt was for tho article possosulug the_ grontest morlt of ita kind and class ; and tho medal for prouress for the artiola or thing whioh hnd mude tho greatest progrossion toward per- foction, (In this couniry, tho award of progros would be callod a second premium,) 1lence Wo cons cludo hat, as the Wilin Bowing-Michino was the only sewing-machino that recelvad thio Grand Medal of Merit, whon tho awards woro muado at tho Vieuna Ex- pouition, 1t must Liave beon tho best sowing-maching on oxbibition ; ulthough other sowing-machines that recofved modals for progress should uot be consldared yery inforlor machinos, - At the great American Cons toubial Exposltion of 1870, thoy muy hovo so improved s to oqual the world-ronvwiod Wilson Shnttlo How. {ug-dachino,—New York Tribune, Sept, 8, 1819, e — " Auction Snle at Evanaton, All persous seokiug safe and profitable {nvestmont will arrauge tholr business 8o ag to attond the suction salo of Evanston proporty to-day, Auothor such favore abla opportunity may never bo within your reach, A Rpocial free train will leave tho Northwestern Railway depot at 1:30 p. m, Bee advertlscmnent in anothel Gofuma, anis L] o