Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 1873 MICHIGAN. The State Constitutional Com- mission, Slotelies of the Membei's of the Con- claves Special Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune. LANsING, Micli, Sept. 8, 1873, Tho Constitutional Commission is fairly Tnunched npon tho task imposed wpon it by tho Jolnt rosolution undor which it was croated, viz: #''o oxamino into and roport such amondmonts and rovision of tho Constitution ny, in their Judgmont, mey bo noconsary for tho bost intor- osty of tho State and the people.” It ia at present Andulging in an {nformnal rooosy of two or throo days, which affords an opportunity that mnay bo profiitably solzed for o basty portraituro of tho gentlomen who composo It Tho difioulty of selecting thom may Lo guessod at from the fact that tha choico was loft wholly to Gov. Bagloy, without even ** the ndvico and consont of tho Senato,” and with no rovising authority what- ovor tosharo that rosponsibility for the results of thoir work whioh must inovitably creop back 1o tho appointing power, whother or not theso rosults nccord with his individusl views. The Govornor himself lina boou hoard to aver, in substance, that he wouldu't, under any considor~ atiou, undortuko such anothor tnsk as tho om- ‘barrassing ono of choosing theso ** elghteon able aud discreet mion” in such a mannor ns to give political divisions, pasties, and local intorosts, an impartial showing in the mako-up of the Com- mirgion, 108 snccoss, howovor, has boon such that it has roceivod tho crowning tributo that could bo asked for in sioh matters, nomoly: tho taclt or oxpressed nequicaconce of tho 0pnosition pross,” ns shown in the absenco of growling, and occaslonally in gunrded com- mondation. This lottor aims to give gomothing of an iden of tho character and charactoristics of the Commissionors choson, SULLIVAN M. GUTCHEON, Chairman of the Commission, ia a hoavily-built Ypuilanti Inwyor, of suave mannors and dignified bearing. Hot1a of Now Iampshiro birth,is s Dartmouth graduate of "6, ond In the years 1853-'60 Lo was Superiutondont of Schools in Springfiold, T, Ho camo back to Michigan in timo to bo clocted to tho Lower Iouso of tho' Togslature Just before tho War, and he ent in that body until 1865, boing mado Speaker at tho nge of 29, and so rowaining during the lattor of iy Lwo torms, prosiding throughout n regular, adjourned, and oxtra scswion of thoso troublo duys. For one year o was Bank-Examiner of AMichigan and Indisua, and; for seven more, of Michigan nlone. Ho was nlso o member f Ll Stato Military DBoard for -four Sonrs. . In 1863 ho- led tho Michigan Yclogation to tho National Ropublionn Nomwnring Convoution at Glicago, aud, four yeara aftorwnrd, he was » sturdy stump-sup- porter of Gen. Grant throughout the socond cumpaign. His traming in tho Sposkership ia doubtloss responsibla for tho decided majority he hud on the informal ballot for the Chairmau~ ¢hip of tho Comminsion, i 'ho Tirst District 18 represonted by Ashloy Poud nud Elijah W. Medduugh, both an‘ynm, both loyn in New York, and agod, respoctively, 15 oud 40 yeara, MR, TOND is a Domocrat, who would have had tha support ot tho Dotroit Bar and of nll good citizons, ro- avdloss of party, in tho nomivation, to the udgoship of ho Buporior Court of st city, fnst wpring, it ho could only have decided wheth™ ev o ot kb would stand for tho place. Tor two sears (1861-68) bo il the, Tloteliox Profogeor. ship of Law in the Univarsityof Michigau; and, ns o eafo aud wise counscllor, ho lns an emphntically first-class roputation, Porson- olly ho is o shght, dark mon, with refractory Lair and whiskers, and an _erratio necktie, and V1ELis s wbyde <€ anaaoh {hat ia mora nervons than elegant. 3B, MEDDAUQI, on the othior hand, i placid a8 s summer morn- ing, and speaks cosily, with a not-infrequont toucl: of careless banfer that muat be harrowing to n logs_sorono antagonist, Tho t¥o gontlemen appenred in tho liste hero last winter to_atgue tiie ** Datroit Park question ” boforo tho Legis- lature,—Mr. Pond gpenking eernestly in tho in- terest of tho taxablo publi¢, and Mr, Moddaugh Inzily dofending the speculators and monopolists of tho Park Ring. Mr. Moddaugh's nnme ap- ponrs on tha back of tho thirteonth volumo of Tlichigon Roports as State Heportor. Boyond this Lo bag not beon ofilelally before tho poople fo auy extent, and i8 known mumly ns a busy Jnwyér of oxcellont standing. sir, Cutcheon’s colleegue from the Becond District in & tall, even-tempered lawyor from Monroe, by tho uame of EDWIN WILLITE. For twolvo years o bas beon s momber of the Btate Loard of XKducntion. DPresideut Lincoln made him Postmaster of Monroe ; but his hoad wont into tho baekot along with those of other Inftexibles, when A, Johnson pngeed through that placo whilo “awingin’ round the circlo.” Ago, 43; uativity, the hemloek-hills of Cattaragus County, N. Y.; education, s clnssical_gradusto Trom tho Univorsity of Michigan iu 1855, I'he 'Lhird District continues the list of law- yors. 'I'he Hon. CIIABLES UPON, of Collwater, in Branch County, is an ox-State Senator, an ‘ox-Attornoy-Genoral of Michigun, an ox-member of throo Congrosses,—sitting in tho Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, aod Fortioth,—. and an ox-Judga of tho Ciccuit Court (rotiring ¢ fall, when the peoplo refuscd to raise Ju- inl salaries). Io was born in Connectleut, is b2 years old, and combines au odd, sla_uchmfi manner with n tondoucy to tell droll stories an o jovial appreciation of nvurytluus: humorous. Ticing, withal, of quick percptions, he is o rapid worker, and, whilo on the Beuch, was ono ot the Lost of tho Slichigan Judgos. Ilis colleagne in o gunt Democtat from Enton Rapids,whoso nauio— p SACRRNES i froquontly appoared ou mauy political hand- billy lnutynmnrx’ner, announciug that ho would discuss tho Issucs of tho Hour inthe Farm- Ilouse at such and such a timo, and invoking a “ Rully,” Like Cutchoon, ho was s power on the siump, jolning to the most Jugubrious of facos on_irzesistibly comical wy of - oxprossing Limself boforo the Jistening crowds, In coun- sel ho wears an air of dreary melancholy ; but Tus sandy hair and bristling red board ontwardly suggest his norvous enorgy, aud he brings to his work ao ability that no cno questions, A fow yoars ago ho ran_againet Austin Blair for Con- cress, tnd last fall he stumpod tho country in Buhnll‘ul his lato rival, for tho Govornorship. Tho Fourth Dintrict sppoars in tho porions of Ilenry 1L Riley, of Constantine, and Hozokiah G. Wells, of Kalamazoo, Both of theso goentlo- men are Jawyers ; and, though tho latter has Deen o County Judge, ho is rathor counted sa among tho farmors’ of tho . Comuisgion,~—thero having been s sort of an undoratandiug that the Governor should give the agriculiural oloment & showilig. i JUDOE WELLS' claims to eminenco as a farmer may, porhaps, bo ranked with Ioraco Grooley’s,. though, to bo sure, ho hing wat teu yoars in tho State Board of Agriculturo. 1l iv o slalwart gontleman of 62, and was born in Ohlo. Ho sut in the Constitu~ tional Convention of 1835, and again in ‘that of 1850, e amght, if ke chose, luy claim to thi ruro distinction of having rofused two goog Tedorul appointmants of lionor aud_omolunient, “Prowidant Lincoln having offorad him tho post of Minister Residoul to Coutral Awmerien, nnd Pronidont Johnson the Cousulship to Maiches- r, Lng. Liko tho -last-nomod Chiof Magis- trato, o was flve yours “an Alderman of his [native] villago,” prosiding over the Town Council of Kalamazoo for that longth of time, B, MILEY s u gentloman of 60, nnd a Democrat of tho old sehiool, Fo eanio from Mnssnchusotts, and years ngo setiled in Constantine, 8t. Joseph Couuty, immor talizing tho place in that mont side-splittin book of truo American humor, the ' Puddlefore pnpers.” Do book has long been out of print, 2nd the suthor docs not soom to have cared to rovive it, though It ought to bo n classio for ity aroll awd vivid pletures of pioncer life. Droll- ory, howovor, I# tho lnst thing 8 atranger would oxpect from & glance ab Mr, Iilloy's ginvo faca. 1is public oarcor soemns to havo been mainly confined to n torm in the Stato Honateyears ugo, Au o lawyer ho is held in high considerntion, and it ja'said that ho ususlly contonts himeelf, ovon ia the Supreme Court, with busing his briofs on somo universally-read and rocoguized plomentary authority, like Kont's Commentarios, inntead of loading themn with tho wikdom of the ngos, sot forth hx @n imposing array of clis- tions, : Ono of the most active momborg of the Com- fssion s the ITon. = um.xlmox 2 xrmu.}', B of the Fifth District, Io hves in Grant iuds, uud prosidos ovor tho United Blatey mmfé? Court for tho Woatorn Dintrict of Michigan, ITo ia'a, Vormontor, by -birth, in" 53 ydars. old, and morvod in the Qonstitutichal, Conivontioh of| 1807, lie' roputatlon na s lawyor s onviably' high, aid no ‘mombor of the Faderal Judiciary! L titis-Btate yinkto bottor than ho In thia opinion of his. fellow-citizans, Vorsonnlly, ho' i of- striking prowonce,—hin high forohead, nilver hnir, and long, giny board givings him'n come g anpoliics it o' thiforturintaly no cripplod Uint, whion Lio stands vipon his feot, bin form is scou to bo very muel bont, s col- h.mguo,' - LYMAN Go MARON, . of Muskegon, is n Democrat, sud . lamborman of oxtonsive proporty and infiugnco_in the gront pino-timber regionw, whero ho rosides. 1le ran for Congress fn_ 1508, against tho ¥msuut Soua- tor, Thomas W, Ferry ; unsuccesafully, of course, o nFurou littlo in dobato, but Las'n businesy« ko nir of quick ponotration, Tho Bixth Diatriot is reprossnted by {wo far- mors, Meenrs, Lysandor Woodward, of Roches- tor, Onkland County, aud Ira D, Crouso, of Hartland, Livingston County., 3R WOOIWARD - unitos In himselt the two intoreats which aro at odds in Illinols; besides bolng a farmor ho was, until quito lutoly, a railroad Prosidont, Ho ls now n Dirootor of' tho samo road—the Do troit & Lny City. Ho was born in Counocticut, {0 63 yeara old, aud is quict, unobtrusivo, bub bard-working membor, "Noither ho nor his col- longue Linvo taken part in public political lifo, MR, CROUBE 18 by Dirth & New-Yorkor, and is 61 yenra old. E. W, Giddings, a tall, eldoily bankor, of AMon- roo, and John Divino, 'n Savilad lawyer, como from tho Soventh District. MR, aIDDINGS 18 of tho typo of old English gontlomen, dolibor- ato in mauner, oleanly-shaven oxcopt for n frings of short whito whiskors, & woaror of unimposoh- ablo broadeloth, and just thoman ono would take for a Bunk-Prosident., Ho is’ from Connaticut, and {5 68 yoars old. N, DIVINE was born in Canada, 51 yenrs ago, of Now York parents. 1o seoms to havo quiotly practiced law most of hia lifo in Sanilac County; but ho sat in tho Lowor Houso of the Logislaturo cightoen yonrs ago, aharing n desk with the Mormon mon- srch of Bonvor Island, King Straug ; and in 1867 l\lu was a mombor of tho Constitutional Convon- tion. Tho Eiihlh District,—tho moat populons part of which loes In tho Saginaw Valloy,—~is repre- sonted by David H, Jorome, of Snginaw,—othor~ wino callod Saginaw City by non-rosidonts,—and by Iorschol K, Latch, of Bay City. AR JEROME is n woalthy hinrdwarc-norcirnt, and has been for sevon yenrs Presidont of tho Btate Military lll?.‘urd. 0 {8 oativo to the State, uud is 44 yoars old, 7 MR, MATOI {d'a young lawyer, born 86 years ago in Now York, and uever liorotofore fn public life, oxcopt 28 tho Judgo of Lrobato of Bay County, Doth aro Ropublicans, Tho ** boys " of tho Commisaion bolong to tho Niuth District. They are tho Hon, Soth C, Mof- fatt, of Northport, Loolanau County, and James H. Dovoronux, of ‘Houghton. Tholr ages aro 3 and 83, respectivoly. AR, MOFFATT was State Sonator during tho neasion of 1871-'3, 18 of Michigan birth, aud gradunted from the University Law-8chool in 1863, i e AR, DEVERAUY, tho only ropresontative of the Upper Peninsula resont, is oditor’ of tho Houghton Gazelte, o i3 of Now York birth, and ia bardly clogsifablo politically, though - ho ratos . on. tho Commission as -a Doemocrat, Mr. Moffatt is o slight, black-bearded, small man, who will make u speoch with both Landy Jammed into his poskets, and who took tho oath of memborabip with & cigar in his Angors. Dovereaux has o sort of Bohemian afr, tho dis- tinctivofeaturoof Lis faco boing n loug, saudy moustacha; and, of bLis mannor, & Mark-Twaiv- ish doliboration of speoch and choice of lan- guago, THE ROLL-OALL BMOWS, then, that the average age of the Commission ia nbout 40!¢. Now England sends six of its mom- bors, Conuoatiout taking threo, and Vermont, Now Hampshire, and Massachusetts, one apicce ;' New York seuds ns_mnny as Now Lugland ; and theroe nro throe nativo DMichiganders, au Olioan, and a Canadian-born Yorker, Thirteen are Ro- publicans, fivo Domocraty. Tywelvo are lnwyors, two farmera ; ond, of bankers, merchants, edi~ tors, and lumbormen, thero is'ouo each,: Thoy have taken hold of their work in a decisive way, o ta ahawn by tho tolograpble ropurin of (helf daily progrogs ; and thoir discussions upon cor- taln sllbfncls, wherein the need of change has long been folt, are beginning to bocomo inter~ csting and animated. ‘Their session is not un likoly to stretch far into tho autumn, Work of the Constitutional Commiye ston--Abstract of the il of Rights, speciul. Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, . Lavsrsa, Mich,, Sopt, 18,—Tho Constitutional Come mission adjourned this morning until Monday noon, Articles wero submitted to-day on Leglslative Dopart~ ment aud citios and viijages, togothor with o bill of rights, Thoarticlo on Logislative Departamont pro- ‘Vides that Benators servo four years, to bo chosen bi- cnnially, alteruately botweon the oven and odd num- ber districts, Tho House may contain 110 instead of 100 a8 now ; roprosentation districts to contain 4,000 inhabitonts ; Teappointmont overy five years; all clectlyo Stato officers except Rogenta of the Univorsity ond mombers of tho Btate Board of Education, as well 23 Federal ond principal county officers, in- cigilo to tho Logisiaturo; bills may be introduced aftr fitty days in tho Leg mlaturo _on the Governor's rccommendation (the presdnt lmit is forty days, without modification) paymont of meiubers t0 Tomain 88 NOW; oxtra coma peusation prohibited; uo charges allowed for cone structive labor or printing contracts, The prohibition 1in the present Constitution against compeneating for religlous services in tho Legislature is stricken out, Tho nrtiols on citios and villages requires tho Logls- Iature to provide for tholr incorporation by gonoral law, This war dono at tho last sossion, rolibits spocial charters for villages, but sllowa them for citios, and tho Legialaturo must rastrict ths powers of oach 4n tho mattor of taxation, contracting dobts, and lond- ing crodit, Exccutive aud Legielutive municipal ollicora to be elected, The bill of rights 18 tho samo as recommended by tho Constitution of 1807, with slight ndditions and changes, Tho main provisions aro as follows: The Leglsiaturo may rovako or alter any special privilegs, Froerdom of conscienco is asured, and_support of the clergy to bo puraly voluntary, Religious belief not 1o lucapncitute withescs from testifylug ; Rpeech pro- tected; billa of attaindor, ez post facta laws, and fawa jmparing the obligation of contracts prohibited; habeas corpus not to be suapended, unless in caso of sobellion or invasion; trial by Jiry nsaured by the Loglalature, which may permit fivo-sixth verdicls; speedy triul counsol and compulaory procasa for obtalsh ing witnesscs grantod (o thosvaccused of crimo ; suitor may prosecute or defend in porsen or by counsol; un. roasonablo search or sclzure forbidden, and warrants must, on onth or aflirmation, ba exact in doacription; 10 socond trisl on morits after ocquittal ; all porsons Dailablo, oxcopt traitors and myrderors i no convice tlon for' trossou, uxnc{rl by two witncescs, or on cone. feston ; oxcessivo ball, finos, aud punisbiments prow hibited ; but depositions may ho taken bLofore trial, if accusad bo yresont 3 10 ono compollable fo eriminit bimself ; no imprisoument for debt except fu cases of fraud, broaches. of promiso snd of trust, and embezzomont ;. no Imprisonment for militaty fuo in timo of peaco; ovary one may bear arms {n dofense of Limuelf aud Blate military, subordinsta to the civil powers ; soldiers not to bo quartored on inbabitants in poaco nor in war ‘except according to law ; peaceablo gathierlugs nd petitions to the Legiulatura for rodress of griovuncea nllowed ; slavery forbidden ; aliens to bavatho same rights of property as natives; privale. proporty not to bo taken for publiv uso without just compenvation, . Fiually, providing that al] courts shull bo appallts, * o soclion contuii 2 womawiat riio: torical lourih, usylug Sustice sball be admiutstered freely nnd without purchase, completoly and . without denis}, sposdily and without' duluy, . NEW YORK CITY FINANCES, ' To the Edilor of The Chicayo T'ribune 1 Bir: Wostern men froquontly complaln of the Iack of knowledge'diaplayed in the discyssjon of their aifairs by Enstorn newspapers, Permit mo | to lilustrato tho dificulty of gotting snintelligant view of our neighbors' business Ly reforiing to the way in which soveral of your contompore arles hnve rentod tho subject of the muiieipal finances of Now York, Tho papors of Friday aud Buturdsy wore freoly stndded with hosd-lines roforring to tho * frightfal,” tho * dlsgraceful,” tho #alarming" coudition of the city finances of Now York, - Oua jJournal announced that the tnxou of thnt city wora * inordinalely high;" and snothor struck on the bright ides of making partisan capital ont of a ludicrously-distorted oxhibit of what it ealled, witl oqually ludierous lgnorangs, the '* Demooratio finaneen™ of Now York. I shonld abuse hoth your ‘spaca nnd your readors’ pationce were I to atfompt & full explanation of this somowhat fns trieato subject, I shall contout mysolf with briofly sbiowing that, in the provent gouditlon of trolior, Wan partly Justifiad by tho tonor of tho dia- ‘rnfch‘m?'u stion, ” Compnring that dispatch with liodotailedoport givon intho Now York papersof » I fiud hothing to Justify 1¢, save wittul decions ignoranco, Without imputing to Frida; or un tho hgonta of tho Asbeintod Irosn any wordo:| offonso than that of palting nows in na startling & shape s possiblo, 1 nubmit thal the crodit of o groat city in too serions o subject to bo treated acgording to tho motbods of tho sonantional 1o- lmrlcr. Worn it w I might nx}flnlu lic falso coloring which is givon Lo much of tha uow diggominated throughout tho country in ro- gard to the presont managemont-of Now York financos. Comptroller Groon has received a tol- orably conefstent support In hin dolicato and diffioitlt_tank from at mont only two nowspapors in Now York, Tho majority of tho daily pross, and tho secuisr wookly press, nlmost without ox- oeption, aro bitlorly opposed to Lim, having subatantinl grievances againat lilm in the shapo of reduction on bills for corporation ndver- tiring, ranging from 10,000 to 60,000, Then, * you will ‘allow mo to Bay B0, nowspaper mon aro not above the ordi- uary failings of humanity, and the abolition of sluccuro or semi-sinceurs ' clorkskips and stono- grophorehips ling o totally difforont nspect whon rogardod from the inoumbont's, instond of from tho roformor's, point of viow, Thus it will bo seon that tho medium through whiol the news about New York financen is largely transmitted i% not n very favorablo ono for tho prosorvation of tho ** daylight of unprejudiced truth."” 'o como to dotnils: The apparout cxcesa of £20,000,000 in tho expendilures ns comparad with tho rovenuo of New Yorlk for the financinl year doos not exist, in fact. It mnybe quito truo that the incomo from taxea and the ront of olty proporty only amonntod to £92,000,000, while tho gross oxponditures of tho yonr woro £52,000,~ 000, and yot no room bo loft for such opithets an ‘“disgracoful " and “alarming,” X noedhardly romind Chicago tax-payors that nvery Inrgo sharo of municipal revonuo is dorived from nsscssmont. on adjoluing proporty-ownors for stoot openings , boulevard Improvements, mnow sowors, &o, Notico of this branch of lncomo s supprossad by tho Associated Press dispatch. Moreover, Twoed foft Now York a respectable logacy of un- {‘lnld debta contracted previous to 1871, and laws avo slrondy boon pnssed nuthorizing tho issua of at least $10,000,000 of short-dated bonds to meot these obligations, 'Tale into account tho long bonds issned for pormancnt works, such s tho docke, parks, and water supply, aud, apart from tho proceods of tho goneral tax-lovy, snd of tho Dicomo from city property, tiio “alarming” discrepancy - botweon ‘alled “ revonue” and oxpenditure is easily accouuted for. As to tho ratoe of taxation, it ta this yoar 22 per cont on s valustion which- represents, on an averago, nbout G0 per, cont_of the market valno of tho proporty nsacssod. -Last year, the rate of taxation swas “about 2 10-12 per cent. Those figares, bo it noted, cover tha entiro tax-lovy for Btato, county, and city purposes. Does Ghict\zc‘ with the l‘rnpnrty valued on the Awnessors boola at full sale-valua, consider them * inordi- nately high? The increaso of £18,000,000 in the city dobt In fonr monthe can easily Lo ccounted for, ' Tho {oxes for the yonr domot begin to como in till Novembor., Tho oxponien hogin with, Junuary. Iu anticipation” of tho taxes of 1873, “revenuec- bonds—i. o. promises to pay at short dates— havo been issucd, otherwise the wheels of gov- crnment would bo at a standstill. As tho taxes come in, theso bonds will be canceled, and the proportion of tho dobt will shrink again. Tho Bystem Ia o bad one, but it _has been sanctioned by long yoara of usago, and it can only bo vory radually amonded. Again; thoro has lntoly con an oxcoptionally-largo issuo of what ara known a8 ' asacssmont-bonds,” lo pay for the Ttivorside Park and Broadway widoning improvo- ments. Theue will bo' ropaid out of tho nssess- monts lovied ‘on the proporty-ownors bonefitod by those improvemonts; buf, mennwhilo, tho city assumeu tho - responsibility, and tho tompo- rary: debt euffers o corrosponding incronso. Long-cutablishied usago is the only possiblo do- Tonso for this system of I.\o;ilnn{ng public works without.any monoy in linnd to pay for them. As to the Government of New York boing dis- cussed from o parlisan . sandpoint, I-thought that Chicago, at least, had sufliciont exporienco of the valuo of keeping municipal &ffairs outsido_of politics to provent any journal from wilfully misapprobending tho difficultics of tho Roform movement in New Yorlk. 'Tho re- spectublo voters of Now York havo boon protty thoroughly awnko to tho absurdity of making a man's opinions about the Fifteenth Amondment o toat of hin fitnesa for holding an ofticial posi-- tioun in n great city. Af Now York is to bo kopt oul ot the hands of ancther gaug of plunderers, it will only bo in virtue of the continued vitality of tho movomont in favor of non-partisan ro- form. Thoro have been blundors and betrayals enough in carrying out the mavement to dis- hoarton mome of ity most onrnest frionds ; but Chicago is tho lust placoin the world from which Now York Reformers would expect shallow mis~ ropresentation of the undoubtodly gront reaulis ‘which they have nccomplished, and of tho still groator which thoy hope to attain, New Yorrem, Cutcaao, Sopt. 7, 187, el e THE LAND-SLIDE IN PERU. Detarls of the Terrible Visitation, A correspondent of tho Panamn Star and Her, ald, writwg from Lima under dato of Aug, 14+ furnishes fall detaila_of the groat lnnd-shide in Poruon tho 31st of July, on tho routo of the Oroya Railrond : *“Tho slide took placo in the valley ekirted by tho railway ombaukment, about sixty-throo and a balf miles from TLima, and onoe mile beyond the old town of Matucana, on the loft bank of the River Rimae. At this point o narrow gorge internocts tho valley at right nvglos, runnin back at n very steop inclination until onds in & platoau of about o mile in dopth and half a milo wido, surrounded by high walls of schist, partly decomposod and mixol with & brownisl clayey earth, 'Chis table-lind is og- cupiod by & numbor of small cultivated estates, watered partly by natural springs falling_ovoer tko faco of tho surrounding cliffs, and partly by o largo aquaduct, six foot in width, tho oxcess of water tiltoring through the soil and’ finding an outlot in tho nurow gorgo loading to tho river, “Vurious emall slides havo previously oc- curred, due to the softoning of ‘tho lower strata by percolation’-the weight of {hio suporincume- Dout wass of earth and swmall rock boing superior to tho rosistance of the inclined clayey strata, consoquently givivg way. The appearauco of tho platenu, seen frow ita outor brink, 1,500 foot abovo tho lovel of tho Rimao, is that of the crater of an extinct voleano, so high and stoop aro the walls of the Lasin in which Ii licw, *The disastor, which occurred at 6 p. m., was undoubtedly the' result of tho eoftening of tho eoil, At taut hour, a rumbling sound wus hoard in Matucaan, and & slight vibration of the ground felt-by the inhabitants, ."This was . sup- posed to boa alight earthquake, and many have attributed the o:\tnu(rol)l\u itself to ona of those wondortul aad inoxplicsble throes of nature, They had, bovovor, confounded cause iwith offoct, Tho sight viovod from tho opposita gldo of the yalloy must'hive boon one of - awfil grandeur, Unfortunataly, none who saw it lived to tell tho talo, An” beoau of mud, oarth, and stoues Rnurud througi tho narrow mouth of the gorge, ashed fhrough tho river-bed moro than o thousand feet acrosa the valley, and hurled millious of tons of mntorlal -up tho opposito pide. Tho oarth-wave extended 300 foot abova tho rivor-bed and thon subsiding, formed solid dam ncross tho valloy, epparcutly 1,600 feot long and as mauy in width, It oblitorated tho mule-road on_tho right bank, overwholming nif] mon and ous woman, with the- snimals they rode.” s ; Writing on the 5th ult., & correspondent fur- nishoy o fow additionnl facts : 4 At-prosont writing tho Inbabitants of Limp aro_in dangor of & sorious innudation, The Iand-slido, which was an {mmenso mountain leaviug its base with = foarful noiso, {maulng soross tho ‘narrow valloy nud crashing up against tho opposite eido, formed a wall of eurth, rcoks, and-debrin iu {lio bed of tho rivar, 108 foer ligh, 'This olstruction is boing gradually underminad by the ncenmulating wators, and it is thought by tho ongincors of that soction of tho works of "the iailway that on J'.l‘humdny noxt the torrent will havo swolled to o greater height than the Impravised barrior, and will broak through, careylng all before it, aud rushing down the fallof a miloand a half to Limn, will complotoly cover the lower partion of tho city, aftor hl\vm‘,’ inflicted iucalculable dame sgza on {ho estaten bordering the coureo of tho river, . Active stops are belng taken by tho aus thoritien of the eity to proteot tho threatoued dis- trict; the riyer wulls aro boing etrongthened, and the pooplo, fully aware of the |mn,nm busily ongaged in’ moving thoir valuables to tho uppor atorics of their dwolllngs, It is caloulated that 10,000,000 cubic ynrds of carth wors displaced by tho slide, nud the oause is aftributed to the Now York fnancos, thoro iy nothing olthor teightful™ or “disgraceful,” excopt in go fur a8 thioy embody the results of paat misrule; that tho taxes pro not *inordinately high;" that tho city is not yunuiug Into debt pb tho rata of 54,000,000 a yoar; and that tho presont ove ornmont of Now York is not g question of party rospousibility st all. Flrat, howoyor, it must bo admitted that tha moralizing of tho Ohicage papers, on the briof tologram abous tho roport of the Now York Comp- radual lassepiug of the foundation of the hill fiy the flltration of the mountyin-stronms courds ing down ity sidos, "on porsons in el aro known to bovo perished,” st S Workingmon in New Zouland An Auckland (Now Zonland) paper snys; *For Bometimo attontion has been ocensionatly drawn to the fact that lnboring men in tho Canterbury Provinco had beon in tho hiablt of going to their dllt{ worl fu earrtagos, 'I'ho Provinco. of Auck- land i not s whit behind Cauterbury in this respoot, Tor sovoral wooky # party of mon ou= inb Jing hay ) for tl?a tharket, on & farm 6 " amaki - dlstriot, linyo’, indulged in tho" lusiiry of riding ovory marming £ theie work ia A trap with .nllL‘lllmGd nonts, Thoy have boon ‘'onening on an_average 7a, 0d. por diom, andh fow dnys ano they‘waited mpon their employor, ond foprondntod to him that It syould bo nocos- sary for {hem to recoive nt Toaut 10, por dicm in tha fuinre, ns they conld not keop up & horse sud buggy upon loss," - - & > FOREIGN. “SPAIN. ., ot e Mannm, Sept, 19.~Lafer ineliigonce from fhio sceno of tho accldout yesterdny to the cxpresa train from Vittorla for Madrid howa tiat th dissster wak far inoro sorlous than was ot fAirst anmounecd,” Tho number-of killod was noventeon, nnd soventy woro wounded, Beateely 8 poraon on (ho trajn escapod un- injured, ¥ Al the clatines of the bill fncrensing the powora of tho Government have booii adopted by the Gorles. It 1a roported, tint Don 'Alphonso, the brother of Don Carlos, han' loft hia command snd Folurnad to ‘runce, Bovoral ‘peteins who fook nn_nolive port in tha {naurseetion at Alcons, have been tried and condembed o denth, MabRID, Sopt. 19,—A roport {8 eurrent tuat tho Tn- transigento Deputy Galyoz Liaw plncad crows; nirbor- inge in all 1,000 mon, upon the frigate Now Mancin and tho atoamor Fornando ol Catasio, and tlint thoao vés- scls huvo satled for Cartagoun or Torravige, ‘The Intranaigoutes mlfln another sortie from Osrine genn yeaterday, nnd met with moro succoss thon on thio day before, Thoy caplurod a numbor of mules and soveral piooss of artillery, ‘Thoy also burned tha fag. clioa of the worka of tho Govornment forcos, ‘Varfous liodics of Republican troops iv tlio north are about to take united setion agaist tho Carllsts, skl i FRANCE, PAn1s, Bopt. 10,~Vordun was_ovacuated by the Ger- mau troops this mornfng. Immedistoly after they had Inft tho streats woro flled with rojoleing realdents, and Dumberless Frouch flags: wore displayod from tho butldluge, " YELLOW. FEVER, ‘The Discnse Males Its Appearance in Momphis=Tho Scourge Unabated ot Shroveport. Mexiems, Tonn,, Sopt, 13,—For two' dnys past, Tumors of tho provalonce of yellow fover fn this city havo provailed, Tho officors of ko Board of Health woro roticont and non-committal on tho subjeot; but ata moeting of that Lody, thip afternoou, at which 1horo wero present nearly al tho prominent physiclang of tho clty, the following addreus waa prepered s - Lo the Cilrzens of Memphis: . o regrot to announcs to the public tuat yollow fover oxlita fitour city. It fs conflued to fuw biocks in tho northweitern portion of tho clty, and wo trust that it will ndt "becomo_opidemic, ‘We. buva insiructed our Becretary to mako dally 'report of deaths from this and other causts, and -wo will from day to day furnish such lnformation concerning the progrons of tho disonso as wo doem necesnary. Up to s un tlora hus boon about thirty doathy Erom this diseano sinco tho It fuslant. By order of tho Bosrd of fealth, * » (@igned) * 7 3. W, Nutans, Secrotaty. Tho Infactod quarter fa known hero us tho Pluch, and {a principally composod of tenomont Liousga beoile ‘pled by Iriak famflfos. Bo far thoro has boou but ono €na0 south of Poplar Atroet, Thoro ls but iittle ozcite~ ment as yot, but to publication of the foregolng in tho morning will doublless caueo many fo Teave the city, WastkaTON, Sopt, 13.—Sonator West, of Loulsiand, recolvod_tho- following dispatch to-nfght from tho Mayor of Biitovoport ¢ g . +¥Tho peoplo aro panic-strickens All that could havo Tett, The poor ure noarly all on our bonds. No monoy in thie City Treasury, Al pocuniary afd will bo (hauke tally rouelved. Fover iporerging. Niw OREEANS, Sept, 19,—L." 3. Jnckeon, {olegraph operatar at. Shrovoport, dled to-day.. N, Zne, tha tclegraph managor, 18 ot oxpettod fo Tecover. SPORTING MATTERS, THE TURF. TACES AT LEXINOTON, KY. Lexmvarox, Ky,, Sopt. 1.—The week's racing ovor tho Aesociation Course terminated to-dsy with tureo vory good races, The firat, s mile aud & quarter dash, wue won' by Grinstead's b, f.-Tho Glesner, beating Lampi sud Kavauaugh in 2213, “Tho second rdeo, mile heats, was won by Grinsteada 1 ¢, by War Dance, beating Boyd's Nellio Giving, Roy- nolds’ Elalo, and Kojght of Lexington, . Time, 1655Y § 166i¢, Tho third race, a dnal of three miles, Woa won withont any troubla by Grinstead's b, f, Waverly, beat~ ing Cadwallader's ¥anuy M. moro than a hundred yonds, Timo, 5:58k. ‘Track very muddy on account of n heavy rain during tha night and up to n honr hofore the rade, Noxt montli thiero will bua trotting mecting held at tho same course by tue Kentucky Trottiug Horse Drooding Awsociation. The ntaken-nre alrendy filed, and goarl raclug is oxpected, Ouo stakoin $1,000 fof horacs that huvo nover Leaten 2:30, THOPEOT rAMK N3 i v, Nuw Yorxk, Sopt, 13.—AL Proupuct Park to-day thero | ‘wan a lurgo attondance, In the first race, & dash of one ‘milo for $500, all ages, ninoatartod, Hitohcock's cliust nut filloy, Quits, entered just boforo the atart, and rold in the (qud, 1ook tho lead nud kopt it to the close, and ‘won tho raco in 1:45, besting M, A. D, Carriboo's Muld of Orango and Camden, "The uecoud race was 8 handicap for all ages, purso £800, two and & quarter miles, This waa won carily by Yillage Blacksmith in 4:08, beating Rangon, Chicka- ‘biddy, Utiea, and Mildow, “Tlie third tace wus for the consolation purag, $400, ono and a half milex, Fivesturted, OQoffecs gray Lightuing Colt won if 2:413, bealing Lizzle Lucas, Quite, Gorald, ond Chickabiddy, “Thé fourth race was a hurdla handicap, purse $500, two miles, over eight hurdics, Threo started. Lot ‘vengo, the favorite, threw Pepper, his rider, ot the scc- ond hurdlo, Impecunious at tho time was forty lengths ahead of Blind Tom, the race ‘then belng e twoen these two, Dlind Tom, however, was driven up and caught Impocunious, both going over the last hurdlo ut the same timo, Blind Tom then steadily took the lead, and beat Impecunious by s length, Blind Tom's timo waa 4 nfnutes, ‘ho hurdles ‘were considerably bigher than at the provious race, whicl necountu for Rovengo throwiug his rider, BASE-BALL, IR GAMP AT TIE TAST, NEw Yonr, Sopt, 10,~Dusc-Ball—Mutuals, 7; Phils- Qelpbiss, 3, SAN ‘FRANCISCO. Enthusiastic Recoption of Gov. Booth. BAN Franoisco, Sept, 1,—Tho Tocoption of Goy. Booth to-night, when hoarrlved from tho Capital was 8 perfoct ovatfon, Thousands of peoplo asaombled at ihoboat danding with muslo, and_ transparencics : Tontires wors kindled on Tolograph 11ill and the houses ou the line of the procdsslon woro illuminated. o waa eacorted by tho énthusisstio multitudo to Grand Hotel, "whoro ho “'niade " n specch congratu- lnting tho pooplo on :tho comploto victor over ' railroad monopoly, Ho referso briefly to Staufords statouicnt on Thursdny, at Sacra= monto, that tho bonds of tho Company cannot bo sold st tho Haxt or in Europo sitico the result of tho olectlon wis madoknown, 1o said tho bonds wera worth as much now as over, but if the credit of tho Company dopended on (he pledgo of the mankiood and indopond= cnco of tho ycople of California, the mooner this credit wan destroyed tho bottor, ~ About 6,000 people formed in proceasion and Jstencd to the speoch, Tho great- eot enthisam prevaiiod ‘throughout, Seldom Mas fo gruid u populur deimonstration boon witnesued i this city. 5 HORRORS ON SHIPBOARD. Capturc of o Slave-Ship, on which, Out of 300 Sluves, 230 Dicd of Smalls Yox, Loxnow,Sept, 16,~A dispateh hina Juat been rocotvod at the Admlrnll{ Oflico from tha communder of the British wteam-sloop Daphue, announcing the capture, .| in tho Indfan_Occun, near {he Zychollo Tslsndw, of & aluve-ship, upon which thefs bad-hoen horrihio suffor- ing, o smull-pox biad raged on tho ship, snd out of 300 slaves taken on board 250 died, The remainiug Afty were torribly emuclated from disenso aud want, e Suprema Court of Mlinois, | Snecial Dispateh to The Chicago 4 ritune. O17TAWA, IlL, Bept, 13,—~The following '8 tho record of the sll{ll‘tmfi Court to-day: ™ Mary O, Worrell ¢t el va, 3. A, Untlen etal, : motlon for upersedeas 1o be allowed whien rule of Court requiring tho fillng of nbe wtracts, aud briefs shall bava been complied with, Ristug ot al, va, Carr; writ of certiorari allowad, | Moe Quy vé, The People; on mollon, trausferrcd to evil dogkot! William- A.' Rubinson vs, Duvid ‘Tobfusor motlan to dismiss upe'mnl with 10 por cont damnges lowed, O, &k ¥, .V, Railroud 've, T, P, Bluck ¢t al, leavoisked 1o 8o cory of appeal: S0 s nadittouol trankeript, and cortiorart allowed, - J, X, Bissoll et ul, v. Wiliam Terry ot al,; suggostion of dfmindion: of rocord, nud lesve to filo sduitional vecord anl coriio- rari alfowed, 3Motion 10ado Lo strike cortiticato of oyl denco from tho iles, A Tho following young atlorneys’ wero admitied to tho Dar: O, 11, Bonsior, F, M, Takor, N, Dacon, J. 3. Dyer, Wiltjom L, "Douglar 1, M, Dormiln, Willinut 11, Griricey 0.%, Guading, &, M 1l J, Bolubu, 3, b Warrai, €] A, Koller, ™. X, Kershaw, 0, G, Lovo) oyt B A, McDonald, B, MeConuoll, 0, O'N derville, O, J, Thornton, L, J. Wiate, J, H, ards, of Chieago, calored, was rejected, ‘The Court found him deficient {n general reading, and tho student hind never read any wori on ey, Lhis wlone would defeat np applicunt, 4o tho rula of tho Cotirt raquires thorongh veading au this as of other subjects, I'he Oourt i a frioudly way ndmonfshod the colorad party, who was absont ut the time, to try ogain. “Tho Court adjourued tilk oélock p,m, on Monday next, : : : e e ; lon of un Ann Arbor Banking Birm Dersior, Mich,, Sopt, 19,—3iller & Wobster, lnuk- ery, of Aun Arbor, made an sssigument to day, ing yol kuown as £0 thelr liabilitfos or causo of B Xlorse=Thleves Lynched in Louislann, New Inenia, La,, Bept, 18,~Tho Parish of Vermilllon hus been for yeard Infested with cattlo-thioves, Tho peoplo hiayo boun unablo to obtain redress by process of luw, and luat mouth organized a Vigllant Commit teo aa a last resort, A largo number of thioyos aud tholr confodoratcs wors given notico to lavo within a spocifiod tinte, but, instead of doing no, arned thonie aelvas, and throateriod to deatroy tho Toiwn of Abevilla, Tho Vigilntos pressod _them, and thoy acattored, 1t 1a soportod that three of tho band wero hung on Fre Suspe! +dny tho 6th fust, On Wodneaday night, tho 10ih inat,, onoof thasowlio word cndenvorlig to cheapo wga nrxeated undor olvil procoss at Brashoar, and whila en routo hore, was fakon from tho ateamer Avery, at Juanewville, Dy o mqund of armad men, and hnng in Lront of 1 Dr. Dungan'a_reatdence, 3 milen abovo tlint fownc. A1l kinda of vagio rimors nro aflont lier eon- cerning tho number executed, but no postiiye infore wation ean be obtaines THE CANADIAN SCARDAL. Eurther Festliiony Eeforo tho Roynt Cominianion—A General Concnrrenco in the Matter of the ton Fuud— What the Gpposition Propose to Prove, . Spectal Digpateh to The Cldeago Tribiine, OTTAWA, Bopt,. 13.—~At_tho opening of “tho Royaj Cominslon, yoatorday, 1t was ascorfnfned thit Aoy eral alterations had {0 Lo raado to tho aflicial raport of D, $1 MeMullen’s evidence. This done, tho witness wan not discharged until again submilted 'to a tlgid crosa-oxamination at tho handn of tho Premier, who did nat pucceed in affocting Lis testhnony In any WRY, though hla evldont alm wis to suortaln how G, W. Moblullen got thio coples of cortain damaging tole. grams, and what had bocoma of them s The Ilon, J. O, Chidpais, an ox-member of the Cabinet, was next placod on the witness stand, and, in common with ravoral other provious witnossoe, {oiti- Tlod that. what' Do knew of the. Tneiie emeofal e «wholly obtained from reading papors, Frod, Cumber Jund, .\In\mu!ug Diroctor of tho Nurtliorn Raflway, ono of thio Bourd of Directors of tho Ganada acile’ Ratl way, doposed that be hind been Provistonai Dircolor in tha Infor-Oceanie Raliway Gompany, whleh had. been organized on the principlo (hat {tsnowid contain only Ziritleh ond Qunadlan futercets 3 that it was antagos nlstie to the Paciflc Rullway ; that ho was made n_Di~ rector of tho Puvific Gompany while abaent lu Eng. land, nnd had no knowledgo of who the instigator of Lhin appofntment was, though ho hact hir suppositions, Bealden himuelf, two other Inter-Ocvanio Directors ‘wero placed on tho Pacific Board, Wituess ngreed to o on the Bonrd se a public duty snd from patriotio notives only, i contributions {o the election fund Wero a8 & mombor of & party, sud i no wy a conald~ eration for railway Interents, D. Meluuls, of “Iamilton, anothor Dircctor of tho Pacifio Itaflway Gompany, ndmitted spending money in tint olty or ofection pucones, which he awvro ho did of bis awn nccord, but not s pricoof belug on tho Pacllo Board, Bonntor Cochrano, in hia ovidence, admitted thnt tho firm of which he was A membor had contribe uted to tho last election fund, which thoy had beon In the habit of dolug previously. Tho fact fs worthy of noto that both Cumberland “and Innis, two Direc- tora of the ¥acifio Uunxmny, adinitted beforo tho Commisslon that they lhad been placed on tho Board by Bir Jobu A, Macdonald, o bad acted ss nttornoy without legal suthority, This goes {0 provo the ceu- sation mads at tho fime, that the' Company was o mora committeo of Governmont nominees,” In thoe evidenco it waa not clicited whethor Oumberland, Iunts and Hall had made good their claim to the Directorship by the sctunl deposit of 76,000 each, or whothor the crodit of the Cumpany was launclied, a8 {8 Lelioved, on the credit of Bir Hugh Allan, with Government backing, "Tlis rofusul of Lue Commission to permit Bir Hugh Alian to be ruprcwuwd Ly counsel gives rise to much comment, Tho nppearince yestorday and to-duy of Judgo Rameoy, Alinn'a counsel polut to tho cor~ rectnoss of tho opinjon provailing, that Sir Hugh ‘would not bo examined, but that hin sworn stateine 20mo weoks ago published in tho nowspapore, wonld ‘bo accepted a8 his contribution to the ovidenco upon ‘which the Commissioners will found their roport, Tho Royal Commisslon’ resunied its inquiry at11 o'clock to-lay. Boforo being diamisaed Honator Coch~ rano testifiod that on soveral occasions hefore the Pa~ clio - contract of 1872 was slgned, tho Hon. Mr, Popo told him that on no uccount would Americans be al- lowed to havo anything to do in tho mattor, Mr. Hamel, & Quolos merchant, & friond of tho Governmont, porsisted in the statetuent that ho knew nolhing whatover of the srrangements reforred to in Huntinglow’s sapersions, aud thought the porsonnl friend of -tho Governnent had never conversod with them .on the subjoet, 1Mo, howover, admitted Lis kuowledgo of tho fact tint botween $6,000 und $6,00 wore oxpended on tho constituency of Kulaursks, suj:- plied by fricuda of the Government in Quobe o ‘wan not awaro whether Sir Hugh Allan cmployed auy of that moucy. R, Burkd, of ono of ilio Lower Provinces, had his nume outered nu o defaulting witness, Tl clased tho busiucsa of the day, with {hio oxcoption of thosigu- mg of deponitions, whith touk placo later in tho day. ¢ will Lo noticcd thut all the fmportant Governniont witueseos admit thoir kuowlodge that largo wuma of money wero expended fn difforont nuniclpalitics in tho interost of tho Ministerial candldutes, but caim thut this money was contributed by frichds of tho _Government in thesa places, Tt I8 tnderstood th tho Opposition will bo propared to show in_the courm) of tino that tho money ndvanced by tho Miisterial supporters was proviously aont to trustworthy sup- yporlers, by Allan aud tho Qoverumicnt, o by sub- seribd ad oppoars by ovldeaco o buvd Leoi dous, Timo Wil toll, fiowever, (7 the Associated Press,) OrzawA, Sepit. 1,—Tho Tuvestigation Commission ol at 11 {o-duy Lo close tho dopositioun mado yeator— day, Beaator Cochrane addod to his testhnony that, in tha fall of 1872, tho Llon, Mr, Lapo repoatuilly as” mired bim that the Goveriimont wero Unanimonsly detormined_upon tho cxclusion of Amoricans from tho Pacifio Raflway. "o testimony of Hale, Cumberland, nud MeJunes was rend and signed, e, MeJuncs wished to mnko s wdditton to lia deposition, Ho satd ho had seen in tho paers that o was to reegivo 150,000 du atock of tho Cuninda Prcitic Company. No kuch proposal or protus 180 was cver madeto me by Sir Hugh or any one olso, 3r. Ttunel wan cxmined, and teatified in French, e dfd not know why ho Lind boon put on the List of Sitnenes, Knew notbing about tho matter. ward It, Burpeo was uoxt called, but did ot ap- pear, SPRINGFIELD., Amountof Blarper’s Defalention 3106, 748 10==Additionnl ucts Regnr o Casce=ERarper’s Probable cessor==State=ilou Contrncet. Special Dispateh to The Chicago T'ribune, BrraNaFiELD, 11, Sopt. 13,—Tho cxact amount of tho defaleation of Collector Harper was ascertained tos dny, if thio vouchers on file in tha offico are duplicates of thoso sent to Washington, It is found that the cash defalcation i §85,300 ; etawps, $1,048,19, Harper admits that ho recolved from partles who bad cotnpro- mieod suits which the Governwont had instituted against them in all $19,600, making a total of $100,- 74819, The Lant item Ia not shows on tho bookn of the Collector’s oflico, na it wos no part of his duty as Colloctor, It fu uot certain, thorefore, tho amount given abovoe Is correct, aud it cannot be verified until tho conatitution of il tho suits brought by the Gov- orument fs ascortained, Tho parties engoged -In tho fuyestigation aro Atill anxfous to show tbat thoy aro fu nowiso to blamo for tho -defalcation, and Lave given out just puch evidence as will show that the Governe ment and {ls officlals had beon after Harpor for s long timo; but this does not chunge the fact thut thoy did mnot detect Lbim until ho Lad gotien tho “awng"” and decamped. Mr, Yaryan ‘Wwho was in this city three timen within tho last threo months, Apeclally” to look after Hutper's books, Is enpecially auxlous to eacapo his sharo of tho respoLsis bility ; and, in this couuectlon, it i rumorad that, when he was in this city in July, ho was a candie date for Deputy-Commissioner, and 8o stated to Mr, Iarper, M, Harper, of course, was glad to hear it, and nesured Mr. Yaryan Alaf ho could brang uil tho lllinols dulegation to his eupport, aud it is further eaid that Lis examination of Harper's Looksa for . that mountlh, I mado at all, was casual, and in his visit to Pekin he was not us determiued to colloct tho taxes from the di-tillers na 4t hus | con mado to appear, snd at that timo Lo xecome mended that they have tweuty days in- whick to pay, ‘What all this meons 1 do not undertake to say, It weems, alvg, that Mr. Collom, last June, went to Wash- ington to utercedu for the dlatillers ; but, against Mr, Collow’s nnd Mr, Yuryaw's intercession, the Governs ment ordercd tho poremptory collection of the S back taxcs, Thess wore tsxes under the old luw, which oxpired fu Augusl, 187 ogafnat tho distsilorios, and nob taxea on distilicd lquors, for theso are pald with stamps sold by the Col- Iector, hnd then 1t was that Harper wak foredd to bore row lils $18,000 to squaro up hi's nccounuts, and on the 1t of Augist bis books show. d him sauiro, Duriuy August Do collected 10,6041, Ho- ddoposiled $4,400 only, Tho ditterchc lio placed whero It'would o tho most good. Mr." Similh has thres cortificates, two for $5,000 nud ono for £4,000, dated July 14, 1873, payablo Jan, 1, 1673, Tho bank hos been notifiodnot to mako payment of thewm il i b4 serortuiued IF thex represcat tho Goversy~ ment, . Mr, Biith licld no ofilctal poition, it i euid, undef-iho- Goveruuient, but s simply tio clork of Mr, Hurper, 2 o whcceuston to Mr, Tiarper, it fa belfevad, (s sl ready settled in favor of Gen, Bates, alibough Col, Morciam, of Tazewell Cowntyy i looiniug up, ~ Tho Iatter 8’ atrongly supported by Gou, MeSuitd, who knows that unloss o can Alsposd of Gol, Movelin bu- foro the nest Congrescfount clection, that Lo (MeNulta) would etand no clianco to bo Lis oW sicecssor, . Cul, Merriam is o largo farmer, and coutrols that clement in MeNullws distrlet, "Thie U auxloty, - Tho coutract of Sthilh & Eastun, Uio Chicogo firm w510 bid off tho plasterhug of the now State-Howso for 205,000, waw forwarded W them to-uay,with 1 roquent to complolo nnd filu (hele bouds ut ouce, Itfs supposed tlat thoy will refuso tado it, Bhould they do 6o, it would fivolyo readvertisiig, or it would puss to tho noxt ifghest bidder, whusu bid b §124,000, ov. Hesertijotcduy uppotulid %, 0. Yotrio County Tudgs'of Oglo Couuty, vico Aaron aviim, doceased, and 3, 0, Boyle, of Kaudolph County, Tristeo of ths boutlers Tusaue Asylun, i the plued 0f Jubn Stovens son, reslgnod, STEAMBOAT DISASTER. RBurning of the Stenmer Fames Hows ard on the MissiwwippisThe Iout Seattlod and Suni, Speciul Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Oatno, 1L, Sept, 13,~Weo luve another stewmboat Quuastor {0 rucord, bul not w0 merious na many that hayo Leen reported from this point, Tho splendid steamor James Howurd, bound from t, Louis to New Orleans, cuught fire iu her hold ot Comnierce, Mo., yosterday, st noon, or o little later, whon tho hatchos were closed, aud un offort made to extinguish the fire with steamn, In the meantime, overy pussengor soun roachied tho land 11 enfoty, uid much of (ho frefyht wus removed to n burge, " 'Tho night was spout fu un offort to save (ho buat from burning, aud this morn- fng, o8 & last renort, sLo wan seuttlud, Tho steamoer Tckort has gono to hier relief, and, as tho water le not doop and the boust liex stralght, it In expected sho will o eaally ralsed, Tho First Clork, who wua in this city this atfornoon, soys that the orlgiu of the fire {8 eus veloped fn mystery, B1, Loutw, Bopt, 10,—A brief dlapatch fust rocelyed a6 Assoclatod Preds otlee from Cunimorco, Mo, saya: Tho stosmor dames Ttownrd caught fira-1n tho | reaidanco of Mra, Wondrur hull yesterdny whilo ying attist placo. Tho passen- gorn ah bagago wero tnan anloro mofoly, nnd tia ntonter woa being souttied, which was_the'only hopa ofsaiug hor, No furtler'pnrlioularn hevo bosn yo- célved, ~ThoJtoward wan tho largeat ateamor on-thio Wenlern sivars, heing 1,000 tona burdess, Sho wan awned by Capt,'B. 1, Vegram and 4, }, Ofinstng, of Bt Tomie, aud Jaties Howard, of Jofersonyillo, Tiid naid cant, ta yours ago, $160,000. Bhowa dnwured. Clucinnatl and Pittabirgh, Lut for -what snount and 1 What nilicen ik ot sot necrtained, Bhio 1eft hers an Werlnesday for New Orloans with 1,600 tonnof frolght and u bargo n tow, NEW YORK. New Yonr, Sept, 10, Kenyon, Cox & Co,, bankers nud brokers in Wall . atreot, suspended to-day, Daniol Drow was apaclap partner in tho house, It {a sald, and rumor hias it ot tho difficnition of tho firm woro causod by tho opera- tiona fn tho intorest of Drovw, 4 Tho businoes of Konyon] Cox & Co. waanot tho cauno of thelr auapenaion, as they woro enrrying very fow ntocks comparad (¢ thelr uausl complorhont, Only 3.000 alinres woro sold ont undor the Tilo to-dny, and of this Tako Shoro old ot 91@01A. Tho real tronblo hiua bean large advances to tho Cauadn. Southern Rail- way, somo of which aro now leginning to fall duo, Muwara, Kenyon, Oox, and Danlel Drow, and ofhern, it 18 wndorstood, loaned thelr paper to assish in completing 'tho road, trusiing - fo the furtlor negotiation of nds st Lone don, Last Mouday advicea woro rocoivod from Lonw Qon, statlng that {t was lupossible, at prosent, to ne- gotlto maro bonds, and a consultition was Leld of purtios i tho Interest of tho Canads Southern, Ken- yon, Cox & Co, reaolved to suspend, A docllng of 43§ centn in Wabash thin moruing wns baned on the supe P(Mnun that the firm and. thelr frivnda wore large iolders s but it appeara that they hnd been roloving themselves for soma Hmo past, and bence there wau comparatively littlo stock 6old, In regurd to tho Auspeusion of Mr, Cor, when aues- tioned this aftornoon, ho sald tho Cannda Bouthern Rallway owes 2,250,000, and haa $3,250,000 of Orst mortgagy bouda of its own and conhecting zoads, A8 lato na last Monday favorabla advices word zecolved by cablo in regard to tho placlug of Londs sbroad, A difliculty Lud ocourrod vory suddenty, and oceasloned sa mucli surpriso to Az, Drow as to any ono. Cox douled that thoro was any foundation for tho Wl alrect runtor that Drow pormitted (ho s pousion of tho firm for some ulterior objact, Mo sald Drow had, tnus far, - neted fulrly and bonombly in o matter, and would, could he liavo foroseon tho complieationy threo weoks ngo, Jiave provented tho muspenaion by converling somo of biA nssols Into cash, Cox kaid tho notes of tho Canadn Boutliern Raflway to the smount of $1,500,000, bearing fndoracment of himuelf and Drow, will maturo within thirty days, begluning to- day. ’ Although they could not bo mot {mmodiatoly, hig Loileved that overy craditor would obtain ono hundred conts on the dollar, Woalthy men who aro luterested in the railway, olthougli_they might ak firat bo unwille ing to mnlio “#acrifices for tho honefitof the pooror stockliolders, would eventunlly 1ift it up oud make the Toject sucecnsful, e inlstod enpecially that {t would 0 an pet of folly for Lioldzrs of bunds’ to sall thewm at n sacrlfico Lucauso of tho proscut excliemont, Par- thos connocted with tho Canada Bouthern Itudlwmy aro among the richest and most influential rallroad men of tho country, fncluling John P, Tracy, Milton Gonrtright, Hudloy Dillon, and Wm, L. Scott, Ono Wall streot'writer nys Dunfel Drew 18 u goneral pari- mer in ho hounei flnt Lo has_{roquently {uibbled ind compromised whien eaught Ly somo. of the carnoring operutions of Wall stroct, but this in tho firat timo ho han actually suspended, It s stuted ho took this caurso by urgent advica of hia counsel, who ndvisod Lim to-stop inimodiately s0 as to learn the ex- el position of offairs, Tho troublos of Keuyon, Gox & Co. nro_ supposad by inavy to daa. bnck to thio an- cient’ transactions of Danufel Draw in tho famous Northwest coruer of last year, in which Drow was worsled, Mo 14 gald o huvo permitted Ionyon, Cox & Co, to pay up the diffcrenco on stocks, and as tho fixm, ‘nccording to_rumor, havo not bech ablo to gob seitioment with Drew, & contributivo causo of susponsion therafora oxluted, RAILROAD DISASTERS. ©ars Thrown from the Track on tho Northwestern Itond by o Groken ERaul- sylvanin Roud, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribine, IADISON, Wis,, Sept, 10,—At 1 o’clock this morning, abroken ratl,a milo this #ido of Caledonin, threw from tho trackand overturned down an ombunlmont tho Puilman- sleoper aud two passenger-cars of tho traln which loft Chicago at 9:90 p. m. yesterday, "hough two of tho cars wera turned complotely over, 1hio train was hield togethor by tho Miller coupling, and, with (o aid of tho air-brakes, tho locomotivo and bagiage-car, Tomaining on the track, stopped simost fnwiandy. * Men, women, ond ' clildren wora Duntiod” ‘about pretty lively, aud many some. what bruived, fucludivg Col, 8. V. Rhipman and Tiddward Sumnor, of this city, but 3o ono was burt bads Iy or hones broken, The presorvation of tho passen- gerw! livos {n nlinost miraculous, . Among the porsons recelving injuries worth montionlug wero Mrs, Poo- blca, of Barabog, Ladly Livised ou tho vido aud o the Tabbits, of Menominco, shoulder iead ; 3lva. J. dislocnted, Bupt. 3, H, Stewart, whoso hoadquarters urc here, wns immeintely informed of tho nccldent, and sout relicf from] oloft, and with cars obtained thero and of the down traln sent the passengers on their way assoon 88 tho Lrack was cloar, providing them a breakfaet liero between B and 9 o'clock, tho truln ‘bofug only four hours aud a half late, Trrrssunon, Pa., Sept, 13,—Shortly beforo 4 o’clock {hia morniug s frightful ueeldent occurred on the Pounnsylvauls Rallrond, ono mile east of ‘Wilmore, by ‘which one man was killed and several wonnded, Al trains cast and west woro dulayed, sud a largo nmount of property was dostroyed, T'hd nceldont was unmis- tukubly tho result of violations of regulations in refer- ence to opening and closiug switches from tho muin track, At the polut named a freight train bound KEast was #witehed from the maln track toa widdle siding, according to orders, 80 a3 to allow the Philadelphia expross, which loft that clty at 4:40 p. an. yesterduy to pass, A wostward-bound freight trafn camo darting aloug. Bofors thg switch st tho cast end of the alding could bo turned to the main track tho westward train ran on tho slding, and collidud with tho train . which was lylujz thioro, About tho sama moment tho Philadelphia express pus— songer train eas Leame along,aud poased safely uutil tho rear of tho slecpiug-car wus reaclied, whon ono of the «cars of tho castward-Lound frelght atruck It and badly wrecked it, Ouno lady who occupled a eeat in the reer car rocolved o uumber of brufaes from flying dobri, but was not seriously fujured. Tho express train was not serlously damaged,but tho cacapo from deatruction was almont miraculons, Tho ongineer of the west= ward frelghit-train, Willlam Greon, s resident of Al. toona, was caught in the cab of. his cugino aud rvee celved such injuries o8 to causo death nstantly, Tho engluoor and firewan of tho castward train Wero alao injured_ Ladly, but not fatally, Threo locomotlver— ouo puslier and two cnglucs—were almost totally do- stroyod, A number of freight-cars were ulko demole dshwed, Tho different tracks around the slding and the grousid for o considorablo distance were torn iip, NEw Yonx, Sept, 13.—A Philadelphla dispatch rays ciphia express, which loft Plttsburgh st terdny, mot with a kerins aceident. When 10 miles \est of Cresson, two frelght-truins, ono moving on tho man track uiid ono on thio eiding, camo in cols Hsfou Just us th oxpress was pusaing on the other main track, Ono of tho = frelgnt-engines was thrown of the track, and rukid the side of ‘throg rear Tullsan cars, throwing the last one off tho tracl, and crushing {t badly, ‘Cho passengees woro thrown in sl directions, Dut mone killed. Mrs, Wijllam Bhicets, nn 0id I' dy residing In Indlaapolis, was bad- 1y but not dangei surly brujeed and eut, Tho engincer of one of the freight-trains was killed, and thu other cugiueer aud bis tireman wore badiy Lurt, CANADA, Rope-Wallke Ningara Fa Tope Letters Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, Tonoxto, Bept, 13.—A conulry boy at Niagara Falls yoslerduy crossed tho river on o rope duriug . gulo aud pertormed avveral gymunstio feats, rivaling pro- fostionul ropo-waliors, "Tho Preka Assocktion of this Provinco mosts at Ton- don during tho Provinelal Fuir, MoNTREAL, Bept, 19,—A claim s ponding againat tho corporation to tho amount of over $1,000,000 rie- ing out of appropriation fur tho mefutenuuco of {bo parte, i : Notico {a posted in the' T'ost:Oflico contalning a face similo of tho envelops sildressed to the Hoir, John Youug, contuluing the Macdonald-Tapo lettors, Tho- notjcs coutains relieapaal of. tho cireumistances nider whicls the letter was tuken, aud offers o reward of $100 {0 any jerrou giviug information that wiil lead o tho conviction of tho thief, 3 . WASHINGTON. Spee: 11 Dinvateh to The Chicago Tribune, THE BEAL-LOGK QUESTION, . WASHINGTON, Supt. 10—Tho eal-iock controvorey hos been temporarily sottled by tho adoplion of tho poteut of Miller, un oxpert of Pulladelphia, The Com- mitieo hevitated woveral hours between. this and the patent of the Buftalo {uventor, but promptly rojocted tho specimen offered by the Aweriean Beal-Lock Com- Experimonts Igeal'ho Mucdonnid= pany, whoko patout hes been i uso by tho Trepsury Dopa rtmout for alout two yenrk, snd for tho reatop tion of which it s alloged cortuln myutertous influneon” uro at work, HATLAN AND TICE BAOT-PAT, : ‘Ex-Sonator Hurlan oditorlully doulew, u tho Chroniel, s morning, (hat bo as drawn hié back-pay, g says thut Do voled i the Scunto. stendily aguinet tho propositionio fnereasy tho componsation of Bonatora and Roprossttatives, and at the closs of tho sesslon, whiich wan_nlao tho cloeo of s Sonutorial term, o vote tled up with the Governmeut under tho old law) at tho provious ratos of pry, and bus nover since apylivd for oe rocul¥ou vl ol of th baclny grab, . (70 the Amvociated Press.] THE NEW DISTRIOT GOVERNOR, WasmnoroN, Bept, 13.—The Presldent hms ap- tutod Alosander R, Bliophord Governor of tho Dis. ct of Golunbin, vied Menry D, Guoke, resiguad, —_— Rapo Cawe at Circlevitio, Ohio, Specias Digptel lo The Chicugo Tritwne, CInCLEVILLE, Oy Hepl, 1h.—Robert Goachman, col- ored, wan brought bufure Mayor Millor to-dny, ehariod with’ atlompting to commit a rapo on Hohocen A, Woodruff, white, Tho avilutico produced showed thnt Coacliuun, with two white meu, forelbly enterod tho I of Ne Fatal Collision on the FPonne at 4 0 tho morntng, and whila fhio whilo mon Lield Tier tha 1iegeo attom o ta nccomplisly Iin hasa desfgn, but wan Truntrated by tha appearanco of n relation’ of tho femaln, Th white ment boil fléd hefora a warrant wau haed, Gonthe man was bound ovor to court {n tho sum of §300, CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. ‘Teatimony of New York Merchonts and Railroad Men Hékoro the Cons gressionanl Committces=Want of nge Accommodations nt (he Ken. lourd--Arguments in Eavor of tho Improvement of the Wnter Eout Nuw Yons, fapt, 13,—~Tho Senatorial Commitieo on Transportation wero In sossion to-dny, Bonafor Wine dom presided, Mr, nyes, Gonoral Manager of tho Diuo Line, mndo o mpplementary statoment, Aftor showing tint local {raffe 4n ahiort hauls costs moro in proportion thau trafic fn long Liuls, ho said tio throngh lines, in ordor to cheapen traunportlon to the producer and consuimor,woro compolled to fnsugurates nystem of through frolghingo, Tn roply to questions with Togard to recelpts given without guarantcoing amount containod in tho ear, 1fayca sald thero ara mun: points ot which ratirond compaiiles aro too poor to I'IIIK] Waro- houses, Privalo porsous own theso warchouses, and somotitica tho Innd around them, and &ro purchasora of produce, Thoy bandle and lead their own proporty when It arrives at its deatinntfon,- It passes from tho hinnds of tho ratiroad companles info the hands of pere sous not conneeted with the roads ; thereforo the come panion neithor welyh in or out,” Trom an clovator ownod by the railroad company, in loading a given unntity, und ronding I to Boston or any other poiné whora tho compauy owned an clovator it §s wel iglied out by the compatiy, ‘Thoy have guaranteod welghts, deducling 1 per ‘cent for mhrinkago, It was layes' opinfon - that If n company conld roe colvo and dincharge, thoy ahiould assumo tho aliriake g0, 8o as to doliver the quantity loaded at it valuo, 1o also eaid that New York must build clevators tq meet_tho competition of othor seaport towns, otliere ‘wige Now York must loso its busine: Many of tha raflronds centering In Now York ond in Jorey, whild tho Now York Central onda in Now York, . 1ijoro i consequontly a differance of opinion ns to what polut can Lo calied New York, ‘Ll raflway companics claimn that Now York a whero the rond ondafrom whora they dischiarge into bLarges in five-carload lots, and dolivéred to any ship, warohouse, or fnspoce tlon yard, wholhor in' New York, Drook or Jeraoy City, Theno barges ard controlled ontiroly by ‘peraonn onlsids of tho ralirond companies, The oxpenses of thin ranges from 60 conta to §1 per ton, for which nelthior tho Droducer nor con- Bumer pays anything, This s onoof the Credit Mo- Diller srrangementh by which compantes pay, but got nothing {n return, The raflroad cumpanics aro’com- pelled to competo will other linea centering in other towns, Yayes read s brief payer, showing thatno fection of tho conntry fu moro prosperous than the ‘Western country, xmhmhnlnuu}ng the crios of op- Drosslon of railway monopolioy, A dulegation from tho Cheayp ‘Transportation Asso- clution nwde atatements with regard to raflrond mo nopolies, thelr control of water frouts, uud thelr legise tativo johbory, Mr, Walker, Blatfaticlan o tho Droduco Ex« most promising com. chinnge, safd ' (hat {he eting routos will o through tho Contral of ew Yorlk and” throngh the 8i, Lawrenco routa wlien tho canals are enlarged, Tho State of New York anust bo propared ta meet competition by the St, Lawe Tenco at a rato not to excced 10 cents por bushel fron Chicngo to Montroal, Tho remedy for ezorbitan xail rates I the {mprovoment of water routes and ine creased facllitios by rail, Many lincs are now doubling thelr tracke, and they can_gearcely do so fast onough, “Cho cauala sluce 1837 havo transported over $7,000 900,000 worlly of” proprty and havo produced a rove: 1110 sufliciont to yiay for themsolves, 'Lho tounago of tlio canals for twenty-thres yonrs law boen moro than doublo thy tonnaga of all th vossels onteriug the port ew York: e greatost capacily of he caunls to move property Exstward in 4,000,000 tons. A lock sliould Lo able to aceommodate i buat of 2,600 (ons, The Kailrond Fight in Xansns, wENWORTIH, Kan,, Sopt, 18,—Tho raitroad fight reoroacd oarly this morning,” and tho ofices wors all st once Leateped by buyers, The lannibal & St. Joy and Missour] Pacific mado common causs during the day ngnitat tho North Missonrl, Tho Clifeago rto roe mained at $7.50, tho lowest fignro of yesterday’s rediica ton to thut bolnt, Lut {ho furoto St, Louia was cuf down to #4, aud Fomo tickets sold at 39, Tho rato ta Cinclunatl, Loufsville & Indfanapolis wan nlio re. ducod, Tickots wero In great domand, Every firm of the clty received dispatehen from (heir customers throughout thiz State and_Missouri ordering the pur- chasa of tickets, Thoussids of applications were recctved by telegraph and wafl, but tho reilrond ngentd endeavored toevado_ tho 'alo specultors, The Chicngo, Ttock Island Pacific, and Chis cago, ~ Lurlinglon & Minsourl River Itaflroada did not recordo frow thelr regular sates, though_overy offort wan mado {o get thein fu tho fight, Ticket Agente, A, E. Ford, Groats, Dawes, und Purker held o e ferenco ubout durk, and agreed'to rostoro tho regua lor rate. Tho cut'on local faro Inst night Detween Kanens City and 8t. Joo wis mndo by tho Hennfbal & 8t doo und Missourl Vacife, to punieh tho Kanrus City, St Jon & Councll Bluifa Rail road for assiating the North Missouri; and tho Chix cngo reduction wus made by the Iatter road to rotallata on.tho Hennibal & 5t, Joo for jolnlng tho Missourd Yaclfic, It da belioved thy war is now ovor, POLITICAL. Orcgon Mcpublicans Indorse J. ilips Dle Mitchell, Hax Fnaxotsco, Sept, 19—1The following s fhorcsos Tution of {lio Oregou ltepublican Stulo Convention ala Tuded to in the dispateh Jast nlgh Ttesolved, Tt whotever imay huve heen_tho misfors tune, fuults, or shurtcomings of J. II, Mitchell, Unitad Slaten Senator from this Stale, ' Lin carly Iife, wo nelther apolagize ot pasy Judgment upor nor Juatify him, but cxpress tho unguailfied bolle thut, by I8 mnly years of courlatent, upright, and Lionbrablo conduct n this State, Ly L’ ontlived any fmputations cast upon ifm g that to-day not only the Ropublican party, but n largo_ njority'of tho peoplo of thia Slate Lnve cntiro confiderice i by intogrity, ability, and patiiotism, and that o will fathfully and, ably répresout thom in the United States Sonatv, Minnesotn Grangers and the Ade vanced Ralrond Ercighiy, Special Dispatel to The Chicago Tribune, 8t PAvL, Minn, Sept, Ki—Merchunts and ehipe ers liere aro bitter In expressionn concerning (ko ad vanco of frelhl rates by rallwnys, donomicing it as outrageous, aud taking advantsgo uf the noccasitics of the country caued by largo crops, luw waler o the slver, and the proposed oarly elofig of fhe Lake Sue yorlor rauto, "I tho feclilyg hero provails over tho Kitale, the Grangora will cloct the next Leutudature and find & way to ye'ralato rutos-aud fures, Tho advauea @ fuamgurates o cantest whislt will rosuit in 2o good to thu cajitl favestud In rallrouds, aud moy injuire other hntorests * The Oalifornin Eloction, BAN Fnaxcikco, Sapt, 1 dreaved a meoting'of workingmen in _the khops of the Central Company, at Sscramento, yeaterday, on tho subjoct of the recent elwtion, Tho peoplo Huving des cldil agaluat vaflroad bundn, the bouds of tho Comia pony aro Woseforo uot walsabla at tlio Eet or i Sarope, and_constrnelion must bo stopped, Many workmon hnve beon discharged, s othora must foi- low, It not (he-intontion of the Company to remove ths ‘alions from Sacrementa, (G, Tooth liag Leen tendored & publie reception tos nigut by the yeoplo of this clty, A Question of Veracity, Corusrus, 0., Sopt, 13.—Senator Uhurman utierly denfes the sistement of Srnator Morton, at Duyton, that Lo requested Mr, Morton to withdraw his motiun 1o strike aut of the Salary DMl the clatixe {ucreasing *Mr, Mortan ubout that motin; tho ralurics of “the Benwors and Itopresentatives fu Cougress, Ho waya that ho did not say one word to Tio will uotico this and sumo vthier pointy of Mr, Mortou's epcech uoxt Tuesday ul Datavia, Wisconsin Politice, Speetal Ingpateh to The Chieago Tyibune, MADISON, Sept, ¥, Indientions thicken thal it any preferabl eatidates. are nominated thera will bo a Dbreak from the Republicen ranks on two or three of tho regulur candidates; also, (Lt Qov, Washburn il roceiva very vousiderable support outside of tho Ite. publican ranks, Feople?s Ticket in Brown County, 11, Special Dispateh to The Clicago 2'ribune, - B, B13ncaNa, TiL, Kopt, 18,~At n 1neeting for cone sultation beld by ropressntative mon of {his (Brown conuty, irreapective of ol parcy lines, 1t was ajgroo Uist s Fonplo's Muss Sleatlng "bo Ll Tn thla pluce on o ilio 27 Justant, to nomtnate o People's v Democracy luve nominated g couuty ticket, which wo Lave 1o duubt wo will defeat attho yolls, _AERIAL NAVIGATION. A Card From Prof. Wise-=Tho Geaphie . People to Pry Aguin--A Fluladelphing i Beheme, - Niw Yo, Bopt, 19.~Prof, Wiso publishes n eard defendiug Lit theory of an cantorly ul-current, and aunounclig hiv readiness to skurt for Eavapo ut any Hhino 1 a gas-ght eilk halloon, 1o uls consures at feaupls to turn i grest scientitio exporimeut into an cutorpriso for moiiey-get ing. Meantime, tho Graphic yeoplo aro rranglug for (he coustragiion of n efllc Lalloon for Prof, Doualdson, while tho Philsdolphin Herald annotnves s balloon cne terprino in that ity on nh utiroly new plun of fuflation and couutruction, withs po ehargo to thy publio, - " . A €nlifornin Murdorers A witucss agaiust the youlhful Mra, Gorss Do, for murdoring hor neod .husband .ot Mar- tinez, Californin, tostilles: * Nle mado all the attompts at poisoning hersulf. Bhe -put {he Inudanum iu a coffes-cup an hour befora dinner, aud ot another cup in that to cover itup. lor plan was to stupely him and thon pry his mouth nPnu and ponr moro laudanum down his_throat, Bhe guvo him the croton ofl aleo.” Thoe old man, however, was tough, and one of {hae woman's parsonrs had to shoot Lim, A young man in Lawrence, Mnss, who waa paying attontion {o a girl, gavo lior somo trinks u8 Lokens of hia affeotion, fucluding a ring, bracalots, earrings, ete, Booing hor hlb othor ovouing with “anothor foller,” ho walked up oud domandod his loyo-tokena back, and—being & special police officar—informed hor that it sha did not comply ho wonld takw her to the policg stution, Bho surrouderod the baubles,