Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1873, Page 4

e THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: WEDN SDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1873. "o provent dolny and miatakos, bo suro and givo Post Cilice addrors in 1), ineluding Stato and Counts, Jtcmittances may bo made nfthar by dealt, oxpross, Post Ole order, ar in registerog lottozs, at nur risk. ALIMA TO CITY GUNACRIDENS,. Lefly, dolivorad, bundny oxcopto:t, S conte por wook, Luily, dulivored, bunday fucluded, S0 conts por wook, Addrces ‘THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Lurner Madison aud Dearborn. Chleago, 111, ndotph stroot, Lotwoon gty ovunig, ¥i—Madison streot, botweon ‘ronaliwomon," AGANEMY OF MUSIC—~IIntated atrcot, hotwvoan Mnd~ tron‘and “Monrog, agemont of Mre. "D, P, Bowors, “imy Robrart, Afioruoon and ovening. NOOLEY'S ‘T EATRE--] U aaY Casmir MG MeVIOKE'S TIURATR! Damiborn and State, ATKEN'S THIRATRE_Cornor Wabnsh avonne and serani st Thiaven of Bagdnd. - Aftorioon and ovenin. QLOBE THEATRE-Despiniucx stroot, botwoen Mad. fson and’ Washington, **Tala of Lincliantaiout." Af- ternoan and oveniig. MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE—Monros stroot, botweon Dt St Hass Maw Detufacs hulsstroioy suud comntontitics, "BUSINESS NOTICES, T POWDER AND YOUR LAR- R and beds will bo frov from cock- dor, kitchen, werdr toxchios, bugs, and REGUIATE THR BOWRLS — MRS, s Qi e e (B ably fong thaTmOHORS can rol Tor sois il “UAVANA LOTZRIY- W1 SOTD Tl oxtrnondinary drawing, Apeil = Olroninye fin ey ’"J'."l},.“.fi ARG 2600 o o Yo The Chicage Teibune, Wednesdny Morning, Septombor 24, 1873, The Stato Board of Equalization of Taxen yes- terdny adopled the minority roport of the Com- milteo on Railronds, which excluded tho cost of grading from the cslimalo valuo of the rail- roads. This matter is referred to in anothor artielo in this paper. Tho Attornoy-Gonoral of Minsissippi lLas do- cidod that no olection for Stato ofiicers in that Btato can bo held for two years. This will put an ond to tho canvags which has already begun, and which hing beon so far prosecuted with great bitternoss. St. Louis lad its sonsation yesterday in tho long-nnticipated prizo-fight on the Illinois sido of the river. Tho contestants wero Miko Me- Coole and Tom Allen., Tho fight was s short one, Allen winning the fight, disabling his op- pouent and recoiving littlo or no injury himself. About 1,000 persons wore presont. ‘Wo have recoived by the last mail o bateh of popers from Walla-Walla, Soattle, Olympin, Sollacoom, and other points iu tho extromo Norlhwest, all of which are still grumbling and frowling over the action of the managers of the No:tl:ern Pucifle in locating its Western tor- us ut Tacoma. Tho pupers aro of the dato of Aug. 80. Itisto bo proswnod by this timo tho Intest news of Northern Pacific hias been re- ccived thoro, and that the grumbling has been stopped. Scatile and Walla-Walla mey now exult over Tacoma. slmost o month beforo tho proseut panic, de- scribed the condition of Northern Pacitic vory succinetly in tho following paragraph Millions of doliara which helenged of Tight to tho raliroad, end in common honeely should Lizve been de- voted £o thie prescention of lie viork, luvo been solzed upon und wpplied L te privato use of {ho Directors, Litgo sums of monoy, borrowed upon tho credit of tho Jand-grant, bave been need up fu privato apoculation § In buging up raflroud compandea, vow bankeupt, and In building towns in which tho Railroad Company havo not o dollar Sutereat, direct and romote, mmd at poluts which nover ecu acquire moro than o specula- tivo value. Dy theso dishonest and corrupt procced- ings, tho credit of tho Raflroad Compauy {8 ulterly destroyed, its finances bankrupt, aud tho grond pro- Ject intended by tho munificent grant utterly dofeated, oaly to Lo resuscitated under other and moro honest susplces tn tho romoto future, Is it any oxcuso for th:ls combination of cormorants and thloves, that thoy hiad a vight to do as they pleased with thelr own? ottt Now that the finaucinl panie has commonced to cubside, would it not be well to rovert to the case of the Ironsides, which sunk oft CGrand Haven Inst weolr, and not allow it to slip from tho public notico ? In this connection, tho Mil- waukeo Sentine! ealls upon Mr. Englomann, the owner of the Ironsides, to como forward and ox-~ plain what ho knows about the disastor. Tho chargos linvo been mado by responsble partios that sho was unseaworthy, and that sho was carelessly managed, and no woll-grounded do- ninl has como from any somvco. The con- tinued milonco of intorested parties uudor such circumstancos hus, to sny tho least, an ugly look, and these parties should not bo al- lowed to uvail themsuolves of the recout public excitoment 08 o menns of ovading responsi- bility. Lot them be hold sirictly to account. T i e Thero wero wild rumors last night in Now York, alleging tho falluro of any numbor of Chicago banks, & demoralization of the grain traco, and o genernl disturbance horo of finan- Linattors, The first and only information on this subject was received hero from Now York In dispatches meking iuquiries as to tho oxtont of tho disturbance. Wo are bappy to sny*that no bank in Chicago failed yestorday, and that, when husiness closed in tho afternoon, despite tho intelligonco of tho failure of Honry Clows & Co., thero was no falling off in tho confidonce that tho Lauks would eafely go through the storm. Thero was u docline in whent and othor grains, but nothing that was not due to the reneral decline in business incidontal to tho otringency in the money markot, On Monday, o motion was mado on 'Chango thet tho Board of Trade adjourn, and yostorday tho same motion was ranewnd, and on both occa- slons was |)(-nmpt]y voted down. Itis undor- stood that another offort will bo mado to-day. The Boord of Trada caunot afford to do nny- thing of this kind, Tho only possiblo reason that can bo given for sueh nclion ig one that ehould defeat It. 'Tho interost of a fow mon aro ag nothing compared with thoso of the commue nity, To adjourn, and arrost tho outire trado in grain, may ensbloa fow men to avoid making solos on o falling market, but would bo fatal in its offcots upon tho choracter of tho Doard, ‘Thero i8 an immenuo stock of grain iu storo and mueh to arvivo, and to suspond trade would do incaleulablo injury, Individuals cannot ex- pect the world to stand still for their conven- ienco, The Chicego produco muarkets weremoderatoly notivo yostorday, and grain was lower, on ac- ceunt of tho dorangoemont in Naw York, Moss pork was somowhat firmor, being quoted at B16.60@16.00 por brl cash, and §18,26@13.60 soll- er Decembor, Lard was quiot and & shade flrme or, ot ©8,00@8,05ver 100 Iba cavl, and §7,05 sollor Jonuary, Menls woro Guiet nt 7)@Tie for shouldors, 835@83¢a for short 1ibs, 8J{c fornhort olear, and 9@11o Tor swoot pickiod hama, igh- winon woro quict and stondyat 02, Lalo frolghts wore more netive and 20 lowor, at 108 for corn to Bulfnlo, and 20@31c for wheat lo Kingston, Flour was more noltve and cnsior, Whont was solive, and Glge lower, closing wenk at 07i¢e casly, and §1,08%¢ wollor October, Corn was loss aotlvo, and Yo lower, closlng firm at 8590 cnsh, and 383¢@30¢ soller Octobor, Outs woro moro aclive, sud 1o lowor, olosing at 263{@20340 cash, and 20)¢c gollor Octobor.- Ryo was activo, and advanced 2, closing nb 04}go, Darloy was ne- tive, but 5@10¢ lowor, closing nt $1,10 for No. 2, and 8746 for No. 8. On Snturday ovenlng Inst thoro was in storo fa this city 1,019,201 bu whent, 5,800,887 bu corn, 835,852 bu onts, 117,926 bu rye, nud 415,970 bu barloy. [ —— Publio nttontion L been 8o ongrossed by tho Wall streot panio that fow persons on this side of tho lino havonoticed the progrossof tho Cana~ dian Crodit Mobiler investigation, On Satur- day, Bir Hugh Allan took the stand, and among other funny things ho produced the following lottor from tho Inta Sir G, E. Cartior: \[Private sud Confldentinl.) MoNTREAL, July 50, 1870, Dean Sm Huen: The frionda of fho Govornmont oxpect Lo bo asulsted with tunds in tho ponding oleo- tionm, and any smount which you or your Company shalladvance for that purposo shall bo recouped to ¥ A memorandum of {mmedlate requlroments is below. Very truly yours, (Signod) @, E, Canmien, Mr. Cartior wae a Fronchman, and therofora the use of the word *recoup" for refund or. ropay, neads Lo bo studied from a French atand- point, Literally, tho word signifies cut again, cut bacle, Trobably Mr. Oartier intonded to By that, if Sir ITugh would ssaist tho Govommaut_ with funds to carry tho clection, the amount ho should advanco would bo cut from tho require- monts of {ho Pacific Railwny chartor. This is pre- clsoly what thoblackguardsof the OppositionLave alleged all tho timo. Thoy eaid that Bir Hugh's money wna 1ot to be repaid by tho Ministors, but was {o be recouped, at the public exponso, ——— Tho Stalo Board of Equalization of Taxes hag resolved that tho returng of tho nsessmonts, amounting o $1,100,000,000, shall bo doomed to bo a soven-tonths valuation of thorenl and por- sonal properly of tho Stato, Itisconcoded that it ia not o full valuation. Upon this basia it is pro- posod that the Auditor shall fix tho rato necos- sary to producoe tho amount of revenue required for tho yoar. Why not, if tho assessment in to bo raiged at all, add tho other throo-tenths and mako it o full valuation? For purposes of honest taxation, 8 one-fourth or one- third valuation would bo oquelly con- veuiont for taxation purposes ns soven-tonths valuation, According to this os- timate, tho valuation of last yoar was about throa-tenths tho netual valuo. Why not tako tho old assosamont, equalizo it according to the smount of property returnod this yoar, sndfix tho rato of tax accorflingly ? If tho objeot sought at Bpringfield was an honost levy and collection of taxod for au honest and legitimate purpoao, there would bo no difficulty in this matter. Dut ko and sought I8 not an honest ono. It is o dishouest altompt to folst upon tho Sinte Treasury o local railrond nid debt of over thirteen millions of dollars, nenrly all bearing 10 per cont interest, in deflance of tho Coustitution, Itis o dishonest nbuso of tho forms of law, for tho purpose of maling tho peoplo of (ke wlholo Sato pay this immonso lacal debt, owed by less than half the people of tho State. Tor this purpose, the Stato Board of Equalization is holding n seseion to bolster up tho declining valuo of bouds in tho hands of railrond speculators, and aro gravaly considering to what extont the people of this and forty-four othor countien will submit to bo robbed. i ————— THE FAILURE OF HENRY CLEWS & C0. The suspension of Henry Clews & Co., of Now York, just beforo the hour of closing busi- ness yosterday afternoon, bad tho effect of again disturbing tho market which had been comparn- tively quicted. Tho immediate causo of tho susponsion was tho rojection of tho checks of that Louse by the Fourth National Bank., Tho Tourth National Bauk is one of tho largest In Now York, nnd its refusal to cortify tho checks of Olowa & Co. must havo boon bocause of woll- grounded distrust of that house, Tho firm of Henry Clows & Co. is of tho samo class of bankors 0 Jay Cooke & Co. It aimed at gomothing moro than the character of a banlk, It ongaged in all variotios of business. Though it did not attempt, like Jay Ceoko & Co., to build a railrond, it dabbled in matters perhops ag fully speculative, It dealt largely, or at lonst hnd the credlt of déing so, in the bonds of Bouth Carolina aud othor Southern Btates, tho validity of which has boen somowhat ques- tioned, and repudintion of which . has been threatoned. Tho dishonest offleinls who issucd those-bonds, sud robbod their Statos of tho procoeds, negotinted thom ab rulnous rates through thohouse of Ienry Clows & Co. Though these bouds woro purchased at very low prices, their aggregato was farup into tho millions, and whatover capital was invested in them hna been locked up, and has becomo unprofitablo, for the interest on many of them is no longor paid, It 18 understood that thoso bonds are lnrgely held by Honry Olowe & Co., with othors in Now Yorh, and it has beon strongly in- timated that tho schema for the assumption of tho dobts of sll the carpot-bag States has had ita inspiration in Now York, What tho ohonrac- tor of tho othor investmonts of the flim may have beon wo do not know, but whatever was invested in thiscines of sccuritios is uitorly valucless nt a timo like this. The houso of Clows & Co. partaak largely of tho sousationnl, in this rospect oxccoding ovon that of Juy Cooke & Co, It sought overy mode of advortising itself, Of lato years, Mr, Henry Olows, in his charnctor of bankor, sesumed to bo nlso o politicnl londor, oslontatiouely holding public meetings at his own cost, ond na ostonintiously making himeolf consplewoun a4 thelr managor. A year or more ago, he recelved an fmmonso advortisomont Ly obtnining the removal of DBarlng Brothors as fisenl agonta of the United Btates in London, an appointmont that houso hnd Lold for fifty yenrs, and seouring the appointmont for himsolf. It Is cortain that this substitution of Honry Olows & Co. for the well-known honso of Baring Drothors as fiseal agonta for the United Btates must hava boon & valuablo advertisement for a banking firm which at that timo was known evon by namo to compuratively fow porsons in this country. It is possible that tho houso Las resourcon upon which it can fall back, and In timo rocover ita charactar ; but thore {8, and will Lo for o long time, a distrust of any houso or bauk, holding itselt out to tho publlo a8 o bauking-house, that st the samo tlmo engages In epoculative ontorprises, and nassumes risks more approprinte to tho gamblers of tho stroot, than an institution professing to Lold and, liaudlo otlier poople's monoy snfoly and profitablo, Tho falluro itsolt is of trifling importanca; it fs hut the burinl of another dealer in fancy aud insubstautial seenritics, and anothor oxamplo of the folly, if not tho erime, of folsting disroputablo jobs upon the publis, OLEARING-HOUSE CERTIFICATES, Tho Naw York bauks havo adopted tho plan of gotiling balances with olearing-loueo cortifiontos inatuna of greonbacks during Lho present flurry. To, tho general publio it may bo woll to oxplain what this nction signifios, In o time like tho prosont, ovorylhing which tends to cconomizo tho use of curroncy is pro fanto o rallot to tho monoy market, Now Yorlk boing the monetary contro of {ho country, tho placo whore all othor bnnks keop groator or less bale ances, sho must respond with ourroncy whon tho banka of other cities call for tholr fands, But for all of hor own purposes she may uso anything which Ler own banks may agroe to considor good. All tho banks meot onco cach day ot tho Clearing-Houso to ox- chango chocke. Tho Park Bank, for inatanco, turns into tho Olearing-Houso chocks drawn on othor banks for §500,000. Tho othor banks por- haps turn in checks on tho Park Bank for $650,000. Tho Park ynnk, theroforo, owen tho Cloaring-TTouse 850,000, Usually this sum would bo paid to tho Olenring-Fouso in groenbacks, In order, howover, to economizo the uso of groonbacks, thie Park Bank, ite condition boing shown to bo perfectly solvent, passes in its own chocl for £60,000. Othor banks ngainst which thoro {8 a balanco do tho game. Tho Olearing- Touso then issuos its certificates for nn equal amount to the banks which Lave o balanco com- ing to them from the day's clearings. Tho systom i3 porfectly business-like and in accord with sound principles of financo, though it necossitates a froquont exnminstion of tho assots of tho several dobtor banke by the Clear- ing-House Committso. THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. Tho Btato Bonrd of Equalization Lasa come mitteo of five mombera to consider tho subjoct of railrond taxation, Thia Committeo hns disn- grocd upon tho quostion whethor tho cost of grading shall bo included in tho valuation of the soad-bed, Tho question of including {he cost of culvorts and bridges haa alrendy beon docided in tho afirmative. Wo supposo thoe Board will also decido that, whore s farm hins been drained by a ditch, tho cost of draining shall bo included in tho value of thefarm. 8o, whon & man fills up & awamp, thoe cost of filling it must bo included in tho estimato of its valuo, The man in town who cuts down o bill in order to orect bulldings at tho ostablished grade must bo taxed upon the cont of romoving tho obstaclo, as part of tho valuo of his buildings. On cortaln railroads, the cost of grading is but littlo; on othors, it ox- caads nll tho othor costa of construction. Tho Commitloo mado two reports, ono in favor of including the cost of grading in tho valuo of the rond, and the othor against it. Tho rosult prosents somo strange figures., Valuing tho property at sovon-tenths of its resl value, tho majority of tho Committoo, including tho grading a8 part of the rond, report (ho valuo of tho roads por mile as rauging from £9,231 on tho Sprivgficld & Illinols Soutbeastorn, to §33,363 on tho Lake Shoro & DMichigan BSouthorn Roilway, Tho four divisions of the Chicago & Alton Tailway aro difforently valued. The minority of tho Com- mittoo report tha cost of grading as purt of tho valuo of tho road, and tho rosult is asmallor differonco in tho comparative values. The ag- progate mileago of tho ronds in this State, not including the 1llinois Contral, is 5,701 miles, which the minjority of ihe Committeo valuo at $98,400,000, snd tho minority at §60,164,000. According to the programmoe 8o strenuously ad- vocated at Springficld, tho capital atock and tho bondod indobtedness of oach road are to ho sdded togethor, and from tho nggregate the value of the tangible property ia to bo deducted ; the balance is tobo taxed. Exactly how this'is to bo done in cnses of railronds like tho Linke Shoro and Northwostern, which uave im- menso capital stocks, and comparatively a small lino of rondway in tho State, is not oxplained. Stillitis to be worked out the samo way, It ia tho intontion, wo believe, to tax the railweys on £150,000,000, and that conclusion having boon renched, the exact arithmotieal process is per- hapaof littlo consequonce, In liko manner it is proposod to tax.Cook County on some fixed sum, rauging, according to tho varied judgment of tha membarsof theBoard, from $200,000,000 to £300,- 000,000. When the maximum sum is fixed, then tho Board will proceed to doctor tho items. It is said that ono mombor of tho Board visited Ohicago, and spent two days ot tho Paciflo Hotel, Ho cstimated, and returned to Springfield pro- pared to recommond that the value of town lots in Ohicago bo placed at an avorngo of €400 per front foot. IHo obtainedalgo tho offleinl state- ment that thero woro 850 miles of streets in Ohieago, or 1,700 miles of frontago. Deducting one-fourth for stroot intersections, o had & not frontage of 0,832,000 feot, This, at $400 por foot, would givo ns tho taxable valuo of tho town lots in Chicago the handsome sum of £9,752,800,000. It tho Board of Equalization will adopt tlns recommendation, it neod nssoss no other proporty in tho Btate. Taking that 08 o fair assessmont, it might oven rowmit tho railrond taxes, and pormit the private cor- porations and tho franchises all to pass untax- od. The Donrd of Equalization, if it is feirly ropresentod in the statoments of thelocal papers, have educatod themsolves totho polnt of be- lioving that Ohicago is an inexhiaustible mino of wenlth, aud thab its peoplo will voluntarily pay any amount of taxes that may Lo levied upon them, S et s S A e COANADA BOUTHERN, Tho suspension of tho Caurdn Southern Rail- way would bo a publio calanmty, No railrond ontorprise of Iato years was inaugnrated with brightor prospects, Its Diveotors ombraco mev- oral of tho wonlihiest and most prominent rail- rond mon in tho country, From the day of it making the councetion botween Chieago and Buf. fulo it would cortainly derive all tho through Lusiness it conld Landle, It has eccurod tho besit natural line belwoon {he polnts named, no grado on the roulo excoeding ,eightcon foot Lo tho milo. Of thomany railroads recontly pro- jeoted, it wns probably the ono most nooded, Incrensed transportntion facllitios to the XLast havo long boen n want sorely folt, Tor yoara past tho West has been disproportionately favored. "he resnlt is, & con- stant blockado of esst-bound freight in this city during tho winter months, Tho immediato caugo of tho Cannda Bouthern troubles was tho utter failure to nogotiato ite bonds in London, Kenyon, Cox & Co. had ox- hausted their resorvo in advaucos to tho rosd. Tho Company, trusting to the spoodysalo of bonds, had {ssucd paper to the amount of $1,460,000. ‘T'his waa iudorsod by Kenyon, Cox & Co., of which firm Danlol Drow is o goneral pariner, On sovoral provious -oceasions, tho firm had como to Mr. Drow's resouc, no- tably in the Norihwestorn ‘cornor™ of last yeor; but ho declined to oarry tho Company through their lato ombarrsssmonts, Thoy wero tho Trensurors of tho Cavada Southorn, aud thelr susponsion inflictod o blow on tho onter- prise which, though it may not prove fatal, witl quict it for months to come, Somo think this reault might have beon forcseon, It ia clalmed that tho Connds Southorn, having tho lake for its compotitor on tho couth and not a single city along ita entiro routo, s, thoreforo, wholly de- pondont for its ravonuo upon through businoss, whicl, nlone, nevor paya o profit to any line, But tho men who fostered the entorpriso also controlled tho Wabssh, Rock Inland, and North- wostorn Runilronds, whoso through businesa ‘would yleld such trafie advantages to tho Cann- dn Bouthorn as wore never prosentod by any other route, A mooting of tho Direotors was oalled for Sept. 17, to considor tho condition of tho Company, and if the roport slnce tolographe od, that oll contracts had been annulled and the digchargo of all, oxcept train-mon, ordored, is {rao, tho prospoot of tho oxtension of the road to Chicago is vory dubious,—s result which overy business man in our city would bave cause sincoroly to rogrot. * THE PANIO AT BY, LOUIS, Thoro is at loast ono city jthat haa so far es~ caped all infection from the Now York panfe. It is 8t Louis, Whilo Milwaukeo thought safoty dopended on tho olosiug of its Board of Trade, and the financial circles of Oshliosh wore shakon at their very centro, 8t. Louls took no thought of Jay Coolke, Northorn Pacifle, Fisk & Hatch, Ohesapenke & Ohio, fancy stocks, burst- ing bubbles, and toppling brokors, It has had other flsh to fry, The importanco of = lacal ovent overshadowod tho financial disturbance throughout tho rest of tho land. There was no concorn in Bt Louls whether tho Gov- ornmont dssued tho €44,000,000 roserve or moh, what omount of bonds woro offered for salo, whot number of banks sus~ ponded, how many dofaulting cashicrs ran away, how much stooks declinad, or how florcoly ‘Wall troot ragod. Tho bulls and bears of Now York might fight it out aa they plonsed. Bt. Louis bad a fight of her own on hand,~not alto- gothor unlike o bull and bear fight,—In which public intorost contored. McCoole aud Allen wore to comoe upon tho fleld of the cloth of groon, and the all-absorbing question has been a8 to which of theso fistic gentlemen would be fiest sont to grass, St. Louis.lhad had its own “fanoy etock™ to look aftor. Margins had been put up, not on Weatern Union or Harlem, but on the mill of McCoolo and Allon, Thelr thoughts have beon, not of drawing balancos, but of drawing clarct. Thelr corners wore not in & ring of railrond so- curitios, but {n a ving of ropes, with soconds and sponges in attondanco, Cho stending grooting of thoday bas been, not *\What baak do you doposit with?" but * Which man Lave you got your money on 7" Al the rest of mankind has been anxlously waiting to sco whothor tho Gonor- al Goverumont would come mto puta stop to the fluancial panic; the St. Louls people Live only beon worried to know whother tho Local Gov- ernment would como In to puta stop to the prize-fight. McCoolo has beon tho lendor of their bLulls; Allen the leader of their bears. How much bhas the MeCoolo institution beon strengthonoed? to what extent hns tho Allen side, been dopressod ? these buve been tho lead- ing questions. Tho ntaplo quotations Lnve been: McCoole, 200; Allen, 170; with startling and alarming advance and declino on both sides, ond tho wildest streot rumors, that sent tho MeCoolo stock booming or made tho Allen party elok. In tho turmoll of euch a local sensation ng thig, how could tho Bt. Louis peoplo bo ox- pectod to pausa on account of a littlo sido-show in fanoy slocks in Now York? Had they not the vory kings of tho funcy among them? What was the collapse of Jay Cooko to the first knock- down for Miko McCoole? What the burating of the Northorn Pacific in comparison with tho bursting of Allen’s proboscis? Now that the bloody duy ia passed, it is possiblo that 8t. Louis mey havo timo to contomplato the results of tho Now York mil A NICE FAMILY AFFAIR, That was o pleasant little shooting picnie at Indopondenco, Mo, on Sunday lnst,—n quiot, if not impressivo, manner of obeerving tho Lord's Day,—a touching instance of fllial dovolion and parentul lovel The cheerful littlo shooting af- fair, in which the contonts of sovoral pistols weroe distributed in an entirely impartial man- ner, tolls its own story, and hardly nocds to have its moral poiuted furthor than to romerk that Indopendenco must be a delightful retrent for pooplo of wonlk norves and invalids seoking quiot and reposo. Tho horo of the affair seems to have beon ono Jim Crow Chiles, = gontleman of the border-ruf- flan persunsion, & prominont moembor of that olags which Brot Harte and his imitators havo spotheosized 8o many {imes of Iato, Io wasa gentloman who bhad killed soveral people who lnd tho tomerity to trospass upon lis gentlo disposition, or make themsolves offensive to his cbivalrous notions. It is roported that whon gober ho was a very high-minded and goninl man, but unfortunately it wua oxcoodingly difi- cult to find him sober, and, as ho always earried an araenal of pistols about him, with which to dofond himsolf against the dangers which threat- onod himin this troachorous and changoablo world, and always used them freoly when inn stnte of intoxication, which waa his normal con- dition, many unfortunate individunls got in his way , and paid tho penally therefor by being spoedily put out of his way. On thly partieular Sunday morning, Mr. Jim Crow Ohiles, not boing in the mood for golny to oburob, lapsed iuto his normal condition nnd, taking his arsonnl with him, went out for o stroll. When in this condition, tho lato Mr, Chiles was not particular whom ho shct, Tho firat porsou whom ho mot was ususlly tho ro- clpiont of his favors, Impartinlity was ona of Ly brightest charaoterlotics, A small hoy, n womau, or a horso would have sorved him just ag woll sa n man, but unfortunatoly for Mr. Chiles ho mot & man—n yory competont man— & Doputy United States Marahal, and o vory ofil- olont Marshal—who, notwithatanding his namo, showed no disposition to turn tail upon tho lato Mr, Ohilos, Marshal Poncook wished him good morning. Tho late Mr, Ohiles, not wishing to be disturbod in his Bunday modita- tlons in this abrupt manner, at onco commenced proparations for tho Marslal's funoral by atrik- ing him. Tho Marshal dofended himself with his oano, wheroupon Ar, Ohiles drow Lis plstol, Tho Marehal, by no means anxlons for an obltuary, slso drow his pistol, and sought to wront Chilos' pistol from him, At this junciuve, tho Marslinl's boy got a rovolver and nunounced hin prosonco by lodging o ball in Mr, Chiles' back, which must have surprised ond mortifled {hat gontlomon, as hitherto lio bad elaimod tho monopoly of shooting. Then Mr. Chilos' boy oulorod upon {ho scono of nction and quiotly elob tho elder and youngor Lencocl, Things woro now coming to aliond with com- moudablo colority, Tho Marohal qulotly pro- eonted his rovolver o Mr. Chiles and shot him throngh tho hend, and that was an ond to Mr. Chilos, who took bis departuro to n rogion whero shooting and {ntoxication aro strictly for- bidden, not only on Sundaya but overy other day in tho woek. It was not oxactly the de= nouoment which A, Ohiles had oxpootud or in- tendod whon ho got out upon his Sunday stroll, and {f Mr, Ohilos in bis progent whorenbouta hina any rocollootion of that littlo Sunday affair, be is undoubtedly a sad and dlsappoluted man. To ho cut off in hig prime, and leave g0 many opportu~ nitios for shooting, aud leave so much whiaky unconsumod bohind him, {8 enough to saddon o man liko Chiles, who was so gonial and highe minded—whon sobor, Ono of the brightest and sunnieat opisodes in tho wholo affair is the impartinl viow which young Mr. Pencock took of it, and his detormi- nation that oxact justice should bo dono to all parties concorned. Tho situation was ag fol- lowa: 01d Chiles hiad a bullat through his hoad, which had dono for him, and & superfluous bul- lobin his back, Tho Marshal nlso had o bullet inhis back, Young Mastor Peacock had a bullot mhisleg. That boy of Chiles!, howevor, was thus far whole, altkough he had bad two shots, Thinking that one good turn dosorved anothor, Mastor Pencock quietly put a bullet into Master Cbiles, and so cffcctunlly that the physi- clans will not Lo ablo to deter him from going in senrch of his father. Had tho af+ {alr Lialted ot this point, it would havo been har- monious, symmotrical, and bonutifully-rounded, but thero are always intermeddling peoplo who sro not contontod with an impartinl stato of af- fairs, and must tako a hand in where it does not concern thom. This was tho cnso with Marshal Faorrow, who put in an appearanco, and also gob o bullet, without aven tho consolation of know= ing who gavo it to him, which was a gentlo ro- minder to Marshal Farrow to let woll cnough slona horeaftor, It is rathor romarkable that moither Mrs, Chilos nor Mrs., Pes- cock mndo any oppearanco in this lit- tle family affalr, but, as both stayed awny, their absenco does not mar tho admirable symmetry. Bunday services in Indopondonco will not hencoforth be disturbed by Mr. Chiles' littlo accentricitics, and tho chip will probably go tho way of tho old block. Tho others will ro- cover, which is ns it should be. Masanswhilo, Toncock, soulor and junior, are to bo congratu- Intod on their lLandeomo miorning’s work, aud Marshel Farrow has our regrets thet he got pep- pored without oven knowing who did it—which Lins happened moro than once to outsiders intor- foring in family diftieultics. In analyzing tho causes that have led to tho present Now York panic, the Now York Tribune gives n prominont place to tho inad- oquato nmount of cash kopt by tho banks of that city, in comparison with their liabilitios to dopositors, « There is no doubt that this was an important7agency in oxtending tho panie. Tho flrat failures wero oconsioned by illegitimato in- vestments in uuprofitable railroad onterprises, ond tho failures among the brokera woro the naturnl result of tho rocklcss system of spec- ulation in vogue in Wall street. But,if tho banks had been in possession of as largo n ro- sorvo a8 thoy should always have on linnd, tho loss of confidonco would mot have oxtended 50 generally among the business community, Tho statoment is mede that the maximum ro- sorve in tho Now York banks does not equal the minimum resorvo of the DBank of England. During the past two years, the cash rosorvo of tho Dank of kngland has nover fallen below 80 por cont, and haa often oxcceded 50 por cont. Intho Now Yorl banks, sinco 1869, the highost avorago at any timo was 80 per cont, and tho ro- Borvo has usually beon bolow 25 per cent, and ofton below 20 por cont. The Inw requires that the resorve shall be 25 per cent. Wo do not be- liovo that the averago roserve of the Chicago banks runs g0 low as that of the New York banks, Dbut it doos not probably exceed the requircmont of tho law. Tho Chicago banks have another advantago, to the oxtont that lonns are mado on grain, lumbor, pork, ote., and not on Wall stroot stocks. A number of progressivo ladies havo started o project for holding what they call a ‘ Con- grossof Womon," tho purposo of which is aun- nounced to bo an intorchange of thought and larmony of nction among the women who have intorestod thomsolyes in tho advancoment of their sex. Mrs, Charlotte B. Wilbour and Miss Alico O, Tlotchor aro respoctivoly the Presidont and Secrotary of tho movoment, and & number of tho foromost thinking womon of tho country aro eaid to Lavo beon onlisted in it. From tho announcemont of the subjects to be dis- cussed ot the Congress, and tho tone of tho circular gotting forth tho pur- posos of the movement, we should sy that tho loading object was to antngonize tho Incubns of Woodkullism that has fastonod iteolf successivoly upon Woman-3ulfrago and Spiritualism, Any effort on tho part of women ocoupying aposition before the publio to rid thomsolves of this contamination ought ocor- tainly to bo oncournged. A preliminary mosting is called for Oct. 14, wheon tho time for lolding tho Congress will probably bo fixed. Among tho subjocts sunonnced for discussion aro : The Ifouschold ; Equitable Monotary Division Botween Husband and Wife ; ‘Tho Relation of Woman to her Dross; Oo-cducation of the Buxes ; Woman in Litoraturo ; Prison Reform ; Woman's Work in Philanthropy, and gen- orally tho rolations of woman (o the sevoral proforsione, The Z'wo Republics, published in tho City of Moxico, prosonts n very material offsct to tho claimy mado by citizons of tho Unitod Btntes growing out of raids on the Rio Graude committod by Indians from Mexican woil, and ineists that all the ralds from both sldos of tho Rio Grando boar no comparison with thoso committed on the peoplo of Sonora alono, and committod by Indians living on rosorvos, and clothod and fod by tho United Blates, with tho couuivance of agonts and ofilcers of tho Govornment. To maka good ita statomont, it publishes a detalled list showing that in tho fivo months from Oct. 18, 1873, to Mareh 7, 1873, thero wore thirty-ono raids com- mitted, and that, bosides tho robbery of horsos, cattly, and othor property, twenty-four men and threo womon wero murdered. It Is not tho lenst sorious featuro of tho affalr that thoso raidn woro commilted by tho Apachos, and that tho Apaches oseapo under the treaty made by Qen, Howard, which 18 #o porslstontly lopt out of sight by the Govornmont. English papors record the death of 8ir Francla Ronalds, ¥\ R.8., the eminent sclontist, For over slxty yonrs he hns dovoled hla lifo to tho study of clectrlolty, ITe mado soma very im- portant rosenrchos with rogard to tho quantity of oloctricity in tho eleotrio pile, aud invented a clock to bo kopt inmotion by electro-galvanic power. Ad long ago a8 1816, he proposed to lay down 8n oleotrio tolograph botwoon 8t, Jamos' Talaco and Brighton. In 1826, ho invented a porspective tracing instrumont, to facilitate deawlog from nature. 'To his ingenuity aro duo sovoral gront improvoments In instrumonis and mothods of testing and recording the natural phenomens, tho atmos- pheric-cloctrio conductor, the photo-barograph, tho photo-thormograph, the pholo-oloctrograph, sud the photo-magnotograph,—allvaried applica~ Hona of ono and tho eamo discovory. His ate mospherio cloctro-conductor has boon adopted in all tho prominent observatorios. Ho died in 1ls 80tk yoar, Tho enmo mail also announcos tho death of Mr. Josoph B, Wyon, tho famous medalist, who, at tho timo of his donth, was Ghiof Eograver of tho Boals of tho English Government. Among Lis most famous works aro tho Watt medal, the Gront Sonl of England, tho Princoss Aloxandra modal, and tho modal struck by order of tho Ganadian Government to commomorate tho Cone fedoration of tho four Provinces of tho Dominion of Canndn. Tho Great Beal of tho Dominion of Cavnde, o boautiful work of art, wasalso ox- ecutod by him at the same timo. —— A vory important movement has beon quieily progressing for some timo in Europo, and is now ontho ovo of ronlization, which contemplatea tho establishment of o scientiflo institution of interuational law, to tako tho placo of intornas tional congresses and arbitrations, Tho pro- posed institution wilt be indopeudent of all Gov- crnmeonts, and is to consist only of mon who bave beon practically or eolontifically occupied with internntional lnw, but who have no diplo- matio offico, which might projudico thom. Tho purposo of the institutlon will bo to give its views of the principles of international law, to givo opinions in cases submitted to thom by tho different Governmonts, to mako proposals for statutes with roferonco to arbitration, tonct a8 o Court of Arbitration, and, in genoral, to further tho dovelopment of international law. Tho sent of the institution {8 to boat Ghont, and ubout thirty gontlemen of different nations and distingulshed roputation have consonted to assist in carrying out tho project. — ‘Tho Rov. T. DeWitt Talmadge, of Brooklyn, in o discourso dolivorod last Friday ovening, alluded to tho financial panic, and gavo Mr. Jay Cooke a very fulsomo oulogy, charreterizing him a8 ono of “God's picked men,” ond that it was his misfortuno “to oxpoot to bulld anything in this treachorous, docoitful, and changonble world”! This is docidedly tho most novel and original viow which has yet been takon of the situntion. If Dr, Talmadge renlly thinks that thestock-jobbor who hias flooded thoe country with worthless railvond bonda ia ono of God's picked men, it would bo intoresting to know in what eategory ho would placo Cooke's victims, The Tov. Talmadge may bo good authority on build- ing munsions in tho skios, but ho is bringing himself and Lis profossion into ridieulo by such nonsense a8 tho abovo with referenco to build- ing railvoads. e — NOTES AND OPINION, The Galonn Gazetle is affectod to horror at discovering that tho Farmors will tako tho flold in Jo Davioss County, aud it wants to know if thereby tho farmors will not go back on their truo friends (the political ring-managors), who Dove just resolved thet * tho Ropublican party will bo their ally." Tho Gazetto snys, indoed : Tho organization kuown ns tho Patrons of Hus. ‘bandry comprisea 8omo of tho bost mon in Jo Davieea ‘County and iu the conntry, Wo havo looked for much good to reunlt from ity inauguration. But if it fa to dip ita hands into the peol of ward and town politic, and soll its garments with o seramblo of lacal oftices, thero ds dauger that the public will begin to beliovo that {ts nims nro not 8o cxalted as they ind boon sup- posed to be, 'Wo Lollovo that tho parties who are mov- ing in favor of this County Couvention are Loncst, well-meaning men, but at the sume thne we beliove they are making a mistake, —Our npannonts shotw signs of boing troublad. They fear tho peoplo havo thrown off the con- trol of tho monopolists, and will bring back tho Government to tho original designs of its found- org. In such an oventthey know that the days of thievory have passed awny, and that thoe dawn of bottor timos for the laboror nnd producors would light up the horisn.—Saybrook (IlL.) Anti-Monopolist. ~Tho Republiean party has nearly ruined this country, and, if pormittod to go no with its cor- ruption, and unjust iunovations upon tho peo- plo's rights, it will complotoly and irroparubly ruin the country, and doliver it ovor, bound Laud and foot, to the iron grasp of monopolies and rings, to Yo the proy of demnfognuu and swindling office-scokors,—Havana i‘l .) Clarion, —T'ho farmors are o power i the land, and the party that snubs them may in timo repont it. —Jonesboro (1ll.) Gazette, ~—* Anti-Monopoly abortion® is what Gov. Carpontor ealls tho peoplo’s movoment in this Btato for a better —Goverumont,—Dubuquo (fowa) Telegraph, —''he farmenrs of Illinols and the country aro now organizing and just ontoring upon a’con- flict that will tuko yeats of onrnest vigilauce and uncensing work to obtaiu acomplote victory oyer thoso who aro now, and have been, opprossing thom for yoms, Itisno idle play, . . . no man can estimato tho value of o _grand trinmph of the pno’xln over tho monopolists this tall,— Ford Coun ty (2L.) Journal. ~If tho Farmors® Movemont is to amount to anything, and result inauny good, it in to be in tho direction of ** cleaniug " our Legislutures of raitrond attornays, ov mon in thoe p:\f of raflroud corporationn. A bold attack on this class of moi, and tho abuses of those corporations, and thoir high ratos of froight, is tho only’truo courno.—Darlinglon ( Wis.) Demoerat. —T'ho rocent olection in” Califoruin resultod in the succoss of the Anti-Monopoly ticket, aud the dofest of both tho old corrupt political partics, It is good, and if tho poople i lowa will vally in thoir might they will have the privilege of yo- joicing over tha suwme kind of u victory, Will thoy do it, or will they staud {dly by and kea cor- rupt odicials rule tho duy a8 horetofore P—I'age County (lowa) Demacral, —Now, Dby Siint Paul, the work goes bravely on, - Wa hear the most cheering nows from all parta of the Stato, und, from prosent appearances, wo predicato equal prosperity to tho Auti-Monopoly tloket throughout Iows.— Datenport (fowa) Demooral, —A conaidorablo voto was caat, last yoar, for CGon, Grant, under profest, aud the object of thnt voto hoe beon nehijoved. The intelligent and connciontlous opinion which Ins alwayn bacn, and {s now, tho Republican strongth, is vory indopendent, and woars lghtly tho party cockado.—Harpers' Weekly, —Wo seo tho Ropublican party today strug- gling with Its own corzuptions and trylng toeuro them In tho mass by plastio plutforms aid highe sounding rosolutions, but siill roteining within its folds, and in Bomo of its placos of honor, tho bloats and barnnctes thiat ourso und disgrace it. ~Milwaulkes Sentinel, ~—'he Ropublican party {s pre-ominently and omphatically tho groatost and most dangorous monopoly in tho lwnd, Itisnn ofiice-holding, ofico-oronting monopol{. and, whilo the people ara just now ongagod in slashing off the honds of tho bydra monstor, lot them plungo the broad-uxo of their indignation into tho egp- pouch of tho old reptilo Itwolf, tho Ropublican purty that hua spawned this logion of monopo- hos upon it.—AMadeira ( Wis.) Democral, ~1ho people are boginning to oo tho Injus. tlea of this principlo of proteetion, and tho houe * ia not far off whon thoy will ' Insfst on tho ropent of nlt laws that dmposs dulies on articles of Ameriean manufactura for tho purpogo of ewabe ling o fow to ratso thoir pricos, w hich, in turn, liava got to be}mhl Dby tho mawn of tLo pooplo.— Champaign (1) Times, —To that comploxion aro wo coming Lhat rail- rond and manufacturing mcnopolies aro pided by Inw to realizo the lnst dimo of (lo luboring man'y enrnings, boyond & bare support.—Juy-, lington (Jowa) Gazelle. ' —1lio valuo of tho prodictn of the furmors ot thin Btate I thus subjoct Lo the will of tho Rigs soll Sagen mdeux Goulds of Wall giract—tho magnates of tho Milwnukeo & 8t I'aul und the Clitengo & Northwostarn Railrond Companicn, * Thoy moot, dinc and wine, telegraph (o {ne man- agors of their ronds in Wikcongin to put up their frolghta 10, 20 or 40 per cont nnd down go whoat, lpark, and other products accordingly, ‘*How Iong ahall thoo things continuo to bor"— Prairio du Chien (Wia.) Courier. —It thoy sack to usurp the Governmontal {fuuctlon of lovylng dutles on trade, wo had bot~ tor know it at onco, and proparo to meokb it.— La Crosse ( Wia.? Teepublican, ~—Theso swindling manozmlieahu\-n got to car« rying thinga with too high o haud, and it is tha duty of tho Ipuopln to oloct such n Legislaturo na will compel them "to chargo only ronsonabla rotos.— Winneconne ( Wia.) Jiem, —In tho midst of clroumstances Hko these, it is not surprising that thero provails strong impression that public virtuo and adherence to })rlnclplo have doclined from the standard of ormor times. This impression, too, is grontly strongthoned by tho oxnmglm! of gipantie fraud with which wa_havo all bocomo 86 faniliar.— Providence (R. L) Journal. —Instoad of having mon at the hend of onr Govornmont who, by their clovated character, honesat purposes, and upright conduct, might checlk thoro yflgnullu avily, wo Liavo, unfortunato~ 1y, through tho dangerous power of money, had placod over us tho lowest and most unsorupulous of tho nation ; mon who, by their oxample and thelr hnbits, boldly countenanco and oucournga tho stosling of tho paoplo’s moncy, . . Tlis financial crisis is but ono of tha natural, inovite ablo goquouces ; and thore can ho no ond to thia condition of thingsso long ns the present cors rupt Rivg Adminietration continues in power.— Piltsiurgh (Pa.) Post, —8o far a3 tho disnstrons offects of {hin faile ro of the Administration bankers is contined ta thomnolves and thoir politieal pavtucry, and to amblers of {lio money contres liko thomselves, L i6 to bo rojoiced over rathier than doj lored, for it brings down tho worst onomics of tho peopla andof pure and simplo ropublicnn. government thnt this country has ever had.—Joehester (e.3 Y.) Union. —Tho fow wrecks that now line the financial shoro aro tho work of only a gentla finaucinl broezo. How many such baks would outride n tompest ? Aro any weal onough Lo believo tunt the sky will always bo clear, and gales favoring ? Thero'is nn * Old Probability presiding ovor the world’s cconomio afairs, that forbids any such fooling of over-sceinity, ‘Uho ele- moats are gathoring that will seon test whethor o lenky credit canos is a propor eraft to brevetho Burges of tho great financial occan when the winda aro out {u their wrath.—St Puaul (Minn) Pioneer. —If tho check hnd come o yonr ago, tho shock of the suddon stop would have boon loss severo and loss injurious to tho trado of tho countrs, and far loss demaging to Amoricau eredit abronl. It is to tho powerful momontnm nequired in the long and uninterrpted conrso of radway npecu= Iation that tho prosont chaugo is mainly duo; honco, whilo it would huvo bagn bottor at o pro- vious stago of tho downward progross, it i for- tunato (ot it was not longer delnyed.—ZTolede (Ohio) Commercial, . —1Lhe wild speculations which had their birth inwar times—~whon mou wero willing to putmonoy of uncertain valuo in anything that promised la bo of pormanout valuo—must bo abandoued. Panco orects burriors to “short-cuts” to fortuno, “'ho country is rolurning to its normal condition, Individuals must do 80, and must ho content to acenmulato fortunes, if at all, in the slow and steady fashion of tho past,—saving as well og nuakiug.—DBrooklyn (. J',g ZLagle. —Why not tell the truth? ‘ho present crisis momua: . . . . Thatthe pinchingpoverty of tho peoplo will enforce economy upon our Gov- ernmont; and rascals, political hud commorcial, will hereafter be punished without morey. Au ore. of comparativo purity, as compared with the past, bos at lnst opoued” upon ws, Tho country will no longor tolorato financial crime nnd wasta in h]fh places.—New York Graphie. ~—1ha peoplo canuot, and are detormined that thoy will not longer submit to such manipula. tions of tho finances nu have loretoforu beon mado on all the trunl lines in the countzy, and mado with solo rofcrouco to imposing rates which bave becomo too heavy o tax for tho busi- neus intorests of the country to boar. OF courso, all-excessive rates havo to be borne by tho ngri- culturist in tho incrensed cost of everything which ho buys and in getling bis prodice to markot; and it isnot strange that (ho furmery of the countr{‘ aro organizing to demand protee- tion against tho robberies which iave been prace ticed upon thom by monopolics of overy kind.— Janesuille EWia. Qazelte, —It is idl to deny that thero is grave canse for apprehension, Lut this rises woro from s fear of whot may Lappon than from what hos alrondy oceurred, . . . Whon n war wes made upon rairoads & distrust was created in tho minds of capitalists, tho bonds did not find s ready market, and tho inovitable ond was foreshadowed, ‘That end was a collapse. . . . If tho result shall bo to turn tho capital of tha country in_a moro legitimate business direction, and mako it available for the purposcs of come morco and manufuctures, it will provo in tho ond ndvantagoous rathor than disnstrous.—Buf~ Jalo gfiv Y.y Express, —Tho time calla for the lightning and thun- der of bolting aud party dinorganization ovor tno wholo politienl firmament, to purify the o litieal atmosphore. It will nover L6 pusified undor strict parly rulo, for tho worst nien con- trol all strict party organizations.—New Ortcans Times. ~If Congress bo coneidered, from {lio sonti- mental point of view, aga placo of roposo for mon who_live gone’ through the hard vieisste tudes of lifo,—n place of rest and reereation where, daiug nothing, they can bo libarally sup ported, and havo tho amusoment of making omp- ty speeches whon thoy feol iu the humor for orne tory, aud the coarso plessures of hotel-lounging, and card-playing, an wcnzm-goiur. for ail o which thoy yournod in carly life without huving tho timo or monay to indulge, then Congress nd- l;xim}}:ly fulllls its ounds.—The Nation, New Cork. 1, - s e THE “ NON-PARTISANS,? Elow the Eleventh W vided with Nico when [Mr. Periolat Is men. Perlolal’s crowd, or, as theg Ayl themselves, the * Non-partisun Citizens ” of tho Elevenik Ward, held *d U5 to Do Proe Sidowantioy seted Aldors another of thelr indignation meeliugs Tust ovening ot O. IL Seanlows suloon, No, 22 West Randolph street, for the purposo of wllowing some of thefr ill-feeling agalnst the present Aldermen of the ward to escape, nud to make eapital 1 the Interest of Mr, C, ¥, Porlelat, who has been o chronfe candidato for the oflico of Alderman of tho Eleventh Ward for n century or more; und who intonds to try it again next fall, Col, Lyman wan elceted Chafrman, and geeinod fo bo greatly tickled over tho *honor? conferred npon lim, M, Ourry was cleeted Sozrotary, Mr, Jumes Fovaylh waa tho first spealier, and ex- preesed o great deal of Indiguatlon beeauo somo of {holr pldowntks wero not new, and said that 3 M, Terlolat was thelr Allermumn they would huve new sldownlka ull over the waxd, AIr, Perlolut, Leing ealled upon, nlso gave vent to samo of his indignation, and evid that ull goorl eitlzens of tho ward, regardless of party, should join hauds noxt fall and oleet sricls o man (bhmeolf) for Aldorman as woulil seo 1o 3t {hat thoy Lud ulen now cldewalles, Maj, Maliors, tho noxt spoaker, was 1140 vory ludlg- nunt ahout the sidewalks, Haid ho thought thero must Lo holes in them, heeauso ho hud . fallen into ono him- self, and nearly broken his neck, Maj, Mahers tricd oo facetiaus, but no oue prescnt could geo tho “points ¥ of bl Jokes, son, 0 gentleman whoso noso waa fia full w called fipon for u spects, 3r, Wikion toole Dby stand by tho Cladriuna. rido, aud Suppor solf on that gentleman's shoulder, Tl sald ; tlomens ! Tn regard o our Alderminn (i), in reg.rd Lo Aldoriyan Priolal (hie) Deriolut 1 in tho Beventh (i Ward und kopt o chebang (ble), Mr, Priolt s 6 good man, Wooroall good men (bie), In this straln tho speaker continuod for about hiif an honr, e closed with o grand peroration about Mayor Medl, who, Tio sald, had run away with tho fuwda of (he ‘city, ind about Mr, Ramsoy, Mayor Bond, und oflior bad 'men, The wpeakior was frequéntly npplinded during. the de- livery of i oration, Hoveral other jentlemon woro urgently requested to coma forward anid be eloquent, hut 1hey all deotined o ko fouls of themselves, aud tho meeting thereforo adjourned, —_———— Why don't the Damoeratio papora turn tholr bat~ torioa on Me, Evarts? Not long ago thoy paunced upon Bonator Conkling for havig the temevity us & lawyer to bocome counsel ina suit for the Ceniral Radlroad, But now Mr, Evarts 8 ot Hartford opposing tho Government iu the wreat Orodit Molflior sults and dofonding thoso whom it 18 teying to make di gorgo, At the ame time, Lo #s proninently meutlo od for Oliief Justice, Horonro all tho eloments snother Democratly pop-gun fusdilade of absurdity, Why dow't thoy poiut out the monstrosity of n possible Obifof Justice uiting Wfinself ou ho uido of tbo Orodl obiller 1= Albuny Eroning Journal,