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

a T ——— THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY,” OVEMBER 20, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TRAMA OF AVUICHIITION (FAYARLE 3N ARA Dailyy $|‘2.(|l)lfivmxlny 8 Eymal Tri-Weukly, GO0 Parts ol n gear at tho samo rato, “fo prosent dulay and miatakes, be sur and givo Posl Ofyeo nddreas {n full, neluding Btato and County, : Nesnittances may bo made olther bydealt, oxprosy, Post Ofico order, or iu roglstered lottors, ut our riak, IENMS TO CITY BUNSCIUDENS, Daily, delivorod, Sunday oxcopted, 25 conte por wook, Lally, delivarad, Bunday Included, 90 contw por waok. Adilross THE TRIBUNIE COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Dearborn-sts., Uhlongo, . TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. JOOLIY'S THE Cinrk and Lasallo, vvoning. ~Tandalph stroot, hotwoen Huated Duwn," " Aftornoon and ACADIAY O MUSTO—inistod shvact batison - onroe, - lingagomont. o gila Thompion oupe, +*Hobih 100 - ARGEnoon M Ovuntig GLOBI THUEATRE-Denpinincs stroot, hotwoen Made eonnnd * Wuahis ungegement of Harry Lindou, ington, “*1tddon Hand,™ Afternoois and oveniog, MYERS' OPERA-1IOUSK-Monrno wtroat, hatwoon Dearboen and Sfate, Burlesano of **Th ‘Areival of Lucea" Minsteoley and-comloalios, - Attornoon aud avenlng. BUSINI MOTICES. TIANKS 70 THE TIMELY DISCOVERY OT MRS, et SoLhin, B e iy buvtonain oogts Wil his ey see faill 1o produce duiing (o sl 0 orlad of 0otning, i The Chiage Teibue, Saturday Mormmng, November 28, 1873, A proponition that tho Now York Chambor of Comurorco momorializo the Governmont to ro- .sumo specio payments was voted down ot o meeting of that body yostordny. The two nogro murderers, Jubu Feofoo nud Georgoe Williams, sentenced to bo hanged in Porry Connty, in this State, yestétday,have been reapitod till Jou, 9, by Gov. Boveridgo, Milton Mnlono, who was to have buen hanged at Savan- nab, Goorgia, saved himaelf from that death by, committing suleido with opium. Tho Covernmont has boon defeated in°the Credit-Mobilier suits brought at Hartfoxd, Ths question of jurisdiction is dectdod in its favor, but tho Court sustalny the domurrer made to the bill presonted by tho Governmont. The ground on which tho domurrer is sustained is that thore was no trust in bolalf of the Gov- ernment which hns been disrogarded, snd that tho damage it bas suffered is too remoto to afioxd ground for action at lay. An sppesl to the Supremo Court ig projected. Tho three chiof olicors of tho ship Sunriso, eailing botween* New York and San Francisco have received prompt and severo punishment for their inhuman troatment of their crow., Tho dotails of the *¢ discipline * which they enforced againat the mon havo already beon published in our columns, and comprise a story of atmost tnorediblo cruclty. The Captain is sentenced to four months' and the Scoond Mato to sixty dnys' imprisonment in the county jail, and tho First Mate, n monstor of inhumdnity, to four yonrs in tho Penitontiary. Ingersoll, the chair-making momber of the Tawmany Ring, has beon sentenced to fivoyears' fmpmisonment in the State Prison at hard labor; and Farrington, who helped him in his forgorics, to eighteen monthe’imprisonmont. . The success of the prosceation of Tweed, Ingorsoll, and Far- rington makes the ullimate fall of Nortom, Genst, Fiolds, Coman, and thie other swindlors leas o matter of spcculation than thoy, doubtless, would liko to have it, Tweed {8 still in comfort- - ablo quarters at tho Tomby, recelving and ontor- taining bis fomily and friends, despito Attornoy- General Darlow's remonstranca to Bheriff Bronnan, who ought by law. to have removed bim immediately ta Blackwell's Island. Thero was a Cabinet meeling at Washington yeatorday, concerning the Virgiuius caso, but, ns usual, nothing has transpired of its proceodings, Gen, Sherman, in addrosssng tho veteransof 1812, spoke in high terms of the efliciency of the army and navy, but did not express any opinion a3 to tho probabillly or advisability of war. Tho army ho thought far too small, but it could bo fillad, na by tho blast of & trumpet, with o large forco of mou who hnd boen trained in war by their recent milltary experience. An eb- ward story has found its way into tho papers, thet the " Government wero neyotist- sug for the purchawe of tho I'acitle Muil scenmships, but 1t bas Dbeen donied Ly tho ofiicars of tho Company. Thoro Keens 0 bo no relaxation in the warlike prepurations ot tho Government. For instauce, ordors woro racefved yestordny at tho Brooklyn Nuvy-Yard to huve ratlona for 10,000 men got ready to be slipped ot & moment's notice., P —— ‘Ihio Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Railrond caso Lias passod into o stage which recalls tho days of Jim Fisk and tho Erie iujunctions, Alr, Hinckley, of Chicago, one of tho Recolvors ap- pointed by Judge Tipton to protect the: stock- holders’. intercsts, attemptod yesterday to take posscsaion of tho Company's offices and business in ordor to cheokmato tho movo to deliver tho road ovor to Tom. Scott and the Ponn- sylvania Contral. -He was mot by the agent of tho Iatter mnd tho attornoys of the Gilman, Olinton & Springfield Rallroad, who dlsputed with him the control of the road. Pooding this, he was served with an injunction from Judgo Troat, of the United States Court, who forbade him to take the possossion to which hao wna authorized by the ordor of Judge Tipton, Mr, Hinckloy and his sttornoy theroupon ro- turned to Judge Tipton, who forthwith ordered tho arrestof the Prosident and Buperintendent and two of tho Directors of tho road nnd its attorneys for contompt of court. Hero thio case rosted for the day. Tho Chicago produce mariets woro generally oxcited yestordsy, with n lurgo aggrogate of spoculutivo trausactions, ot coneiderably on- hanced pricon, Mess pork was active, uud 30@ 0e. - Barley wan 2@30 highor, clonlny at £1,36 for No, 2, and 96@070 for No. 8. 1logs woro no- tivo throughont,‘closiug firm nt 16200 edvanco, | or ut $L00G.35. 'Tho cattla ond shoup markotu woro without guotable shungo, an srticlo which ho did not like. Whilo tho man~ ngor had a porfect right to do this, the mannor of dong It seenn Lo indiento n bollef that freo admission to his theatro, nceorded ton journsl, 18 o gort of bribo, with whioh to concilisto tho good oflices of the pross, and that, whon u newnpapor grows rofractory, its punishmont will be o rovocation of tho priviloge, 'Fhis is anothor iustamco of tho mnecensity for abollshing tho dond-head business wo far a3 tho rolationy of nowspapors with othor inatilu- tions of o public charnctor aro concorned. Itis not lilely that thero aro many mansgors who ro- rard their froe lst a8 & protection from nafavor- ablo criticism, and i s cortaln thab no news- paper of any consequonco logks upon it in this light, whilo tho dend-hond systom is more of pn annoyanco than a beitofit to first-clas Jonrnala, If tho theatron would Imitato the Wentorn rafl- roads add abolish tho doad-head systom alto- gother, they could not do the nowspapor presn & greator fuvor, THE AW APZPLICABLE T0.TIIE VIRGINIUB. Iho Virgining affair has so shocked our foel- ings of humauity, and so roused our indigna- tion na o poople, that thore is somo danger of its running away with our judgment, and ovonof its involving us in o war which cannot but bo a miu- fortune, sineo war 18 always nmisfortunc. ‘Tho ‘best {hivg we can do, howover, is to look calmly at tho facts bofore wo bogin to think of war. Tave won casus belli ? It all doponds on tho facts of tho caso, aud, if wo do not kuow thom all, perhaps wo know onough to onable us to de- ¢idd tho question, Porhaps tho facts not yot Luown, or still disputed, avo ontirely frrelovant to tho quoation whother our’ rights have been disregardod. At the thno of the cap- ture of tho Virginius, ihe United Statos was ot pence with Bpaln; as much at peace with Spain as with England or Rugsin, And the Virginlug, i€ fitted out’ to engego iu hostilities againet Spain, was procisely in tho snmo condition as if it had sailed to flro St, Potersburg or London, and murder a Bt. Pe- tersburg or, London garrison. Buck was and must be its status before the world,—for we limve not aclnowledged Cuban independenco, nor do wo consider the Cuban insurgents ag pos- sessed of belligerent rights, Not consldering them engaged in lawful warfare, wo must, thiore- fore, considor them as ongaged In rebollion— trengon, This wo must not foll to boar in aind in discusslng the quostion, and yot this Lng . uniformly been lost sight of in tho argument; and principles of international law bearing on the subject 88 n consoquence ss much ignored ag if they had no oxistence. Not hoving granted tho revelted Cubans belligerent rights, our rolation to Spain is not that of a neutral but of n friendly power, and Spain is to ua not & country ongeged in war so much a8 o country struggling for existence. Tais distinction 1ny seem rather refined, buy, if wo mistake not, important conclusions flow from it. Writors on internatfonal lawdovoto con- sidorablo space to tho rights of nations to solf- presorvation and tho principles governing that right, Now grant, 0a wo must, that in 8paiu, ss in all other nations, this right 18 inboront. It ia n well-sstilod principle of international law thot tho doctiine of territorial inviolability is modifled by thes of self-proservalion ; that this lattor is the firat law of nationsns woll as of individuals, prior and pormancnt to the former. (8eo Phillimore, Intornational Law, Vol. 1,p. 237.) To moininin this right » netion is warranted to oross the borders of her neighbor's territory when robols sheltor thomselves thero, and ‘disporse or capture’ them, or do what- over olse tho exigencios of the case muyrequire. Vattol mainteins tho samo doctrine. In tho Canadian Robellion of 1833, the insur- genta found sheiter on the Awmerican frontier, and Amorican citizend joined their rauks, The stoamer Caroline was omployed in the trans- port of munitions of war, but when not so em- ployed wos woored off tho American shioro, A Drilish Captein and crow boarded the vessel, ent Lior adrift, and sout hier down over tho Vells of Ningara: Our Government complained to Groat Brituin. Groat Diituin plended roli-prosorvation, wud Phillimore, communting on tie case, remurks that, if the version of the facts bo corrcet, the plen was o complete vindicalion, Hera thero 1way no condemuation, no preliminery investign- tlon; nor on principlos of international law wun it necossary thero should be. ‘Fho-question of shooting the prisoners being loft out of eonsidor- ation,—nud wo need ot consider that lioro,—this seoms to have been o éase of more flagrant as- sumption of powor on the part of England then that of the Virginius on the part of Spain, Tn 1820, the muatoring and equipmoent of Por- tuguoso robela on tho Spanish frontlor, un- chocked by tho Spanluh suthoritios, at o time whon England and Portugal woro allios, was coneidored a good ground of interference by England, sud sho accordingly sout troops to Portugal. It Is laid down by eomunent jurists that, whero o nation has afforded n rofuge—as it cortalnly has a right to do—to tho leaders of o rebellicn, sho ia bound'to take all_possiblo carva thnt no hostlle oxpedition Is concerted within lor torritory. An eminont writor says that if the eoxpodition of tho late Emporor of the Fronoh, in 1842, againut tho then oxisting mon- archy of Franoe, had talon placo with the sauc- tlon or connivance of the British Government, England would have boon gullty of & gross viola-, tion of international law. From all of tho abovo it scoms to bo the law of natlons that a- nation's territory—and the decl of tho Virginiua was, for all practical pur- poncs, mch torritory—is not, under all cirenm- stances, Inviolublo, and that, eupecinlly in cnsen of rebellion, it iy, In tho oxorawo of tho higher Tight of kolf-presorvation, Jawful to evtor on the territory of u friendly powor, and thither pursue roboltioits #ubjoots oF thoso co-operating with them for warliko purposes, 'Tho cases of tho 70 por brl highor, olosing at $18.00 cash, wnd 318.00@18.65 sellor January, - Lord was netive, and }4o por 1b higher, olasing at 13(@734o cash, und &o saller Jununry, Groen hams wora gulob and firmer at 7}4@8o per Ib. Boxod ments wers strongor, at 43{e for vhoulders, 63{@Ul4o for short ribs, and 63{c for short cloar, Droasod Logy wore quict avd firmer, nt £4.75 por 100 s, Highwines wero active and 3o lowor, closlug at 8yc per gallon, Tlour was quict and 13}@25¢ por brl higher on shipping grades, Whont wos notlve and 2@de higher, closing at 81.00 cash, and 1.008{ wollor December, Corn was netivo aud 28{@%e higher, closing easiornt47o cash, und 47340 soller Decombor, Onts waro moro active, and 18{c higher, olosiug at 35}go cash, and 33%{c goller January. live waa 8o higher, closing ot Pront aud of tho Virginius are by no menny parallol. Tho Tront.was not & vessol of wav,' It wus not bringlng encmiey to our shore, 1t was not coming to our shores at all. Tho mission of Mason and Blidell was very difforent from that of tho crow of the Virgnius, Ttennnot bo claimed that the search of tho Virglnina was o broneh of international llniw. The right of yislt msy bo oxoroieod in “timos of penco oven, Tho right of search is moro ro- ntrietod ; but it in grantéd that o belligerent hag tho vight always, Duch moro musk & uation on- goped in supproosing o robellion have it, on tho ground of wolf-proservation, if on no other Hueh natiou haw, wao tulka it, all tho rights of bol- ligovents, plus some which tho moere belligorent hus not. Aguin, s flag has long since cossed to ho o cortain mark of tho nalionality of & ship, for it muy tly colorn frandulontly, Andtho right ot soarch oxisted on tho high sons no less thau in tho wators of Spain fteolf, sud ns to overy ahip mot with on tho ocean. Strictly sponking, tho internationnl law of capturo oannot bo ap- plied to tho Virginiug ; that law {s not applicable in cakos of robelllon, or of expoditions from ono Htate by individuals, without the sanotion of thalr Qovornmont, ngainst s friondly powor. And thia loads to tho quostion of the character of the crow, 3 i Tho crow of the Virginins are oviminals,— crimninals undor tho law of tho Uniled States, and oriminals undor tho law of Hpain,~orimi- nols undor tho law of natons. Boe. 6 of the noutrality Jaw of 1818 provides that *If auy porson nhall, within the torritory or ju- rindiction of the United Btates, bogin, or rot on foof, or provide, or propare tho monns for any militery oxpodition: or entor- priso, to bo carried on from thenco ngainst tho torritory or dominlon of any foreign Princa, or Stato, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States aro at penco, ovory porson go offending shall bo deomed ity of & high misdemennor, and shall bo fined | not oxcooding £,000, aud imprisoned not mora than throo yonrs,” And whonover an armod vansol sulls out of-iho ports of tho United SHlatos, tho ownors or consignees (it is provided by tho tonth sostion) shall give bonds In double the amount of tho vessol and cargo that said ahip or veasol sball not be employed against sug foralgn country at peaco with the United Staten, And tho clovouth ssction makes 1t the duty of the Colleotor to dotain any vessol sus- pocted of o design to infringo theso provisions, Thus tho crow wero criminals, engagod in tho doing of & crimiunl zot, Thoy were lkewise violating the law of notions, nnd as such ninenable to the Iaw of Bpain. Thoro remaius tho question whethor the doous ments showing tho vessel to bo an American vessol, with a regular clearance, did not entitlo tho crow toa trentment which otherwise thoey did uot desorve. It is hard to soo why thoy should; for thoso documonts must have beon frandulontly obtained, and fraud, we know, vi- tiatos overyihing. If the charactor of tho crow and of tho vessol was notorious, the fact that thoy wera in possession of n rogular clearanco proves nothing, Eithor tho agents of our Gov- ernment lmow the charactor of tho’ chip and crow, or they did not, If thoy aid, our Govern- ment owes an apology to Bpain, If our Govern- ment did not know tho character of tho ship, thon tho ‘ddcumonts wero obtained by fraud, In oither caso they wers more nullitios, and the vesso! was without credontials of any kind what- ovor. On this stato of facts wo can seo no ground for war. The treatment of the craw by tho Spanish authoritios wes brutal in the extromo. But it s not our place to redross o wrong which {a 1o moro ours thau that of any othor power, Thers is no roagon why we should be the Don Quixoto of natious. THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL, Mr. Colvin, the Mayor-elect, whilo holding out othe public tho gratifying assurauce that ho intends, 08 Mayor, to rocognize no friends or foos, but devote his whole onerglos to the pro- motion of the publio interests, is a trifle incon- sistont, in attending caucuses of a portion of tho Common Couueil, and making arrangements with them. There are,as wo underatand it, twonty-threo Aldermen who claim to roprosent the peoplo of Chicago, They do mnot rocognize tho other soventeon Aldormon s roally entitled tosuy voico inthe Olty Government. Theso twonty-threa propose to ran tho city on tho caucus esyotem; that is, a majority of tho twonty-thres shell in caucus ‘detormino how all the twenty-throo shall vote, Tho Mayor- clect Lias alrendy attonded ono caucus of thomo Aldermen, and obtnined from them an agrec- mont to vote for the confirmation of his nom- inces. In return for this condescension, he bas promioed to attend another caucus of tho samo men, and submit to them o list of all his pro- posed sppohitmonts, Of course, by this ho recognizos thom as tho Common Council. If a wajority of the twenty-three shall decide that a nomination proposed by tho Mayor shall not bo confirmed, then that sotllos tho case, so far as thoy are concorned, without allowing tho other members of the Council o word in the matter, But, of course, theiraction ie not couclusive as to the Mayor, unless ho chopses to consider it so. This is all wroug. Thero is but one Board of Aldermen, and that cousists of forty mombors, and tho mistake of tho Mayor is In recognizing any othier Lody less than tho wholo Board ns the Council, 1o should not attend the proposed caucus, nor hold coramunication on the subject of appointments with any body of Aldormen less than the Common Council, Itishis dutyto nomiuate, and thut of the Council to confirm or rojoct. Ho is rosponsible to the whole people, and not to the Councl, and muych loss to & frac- tion of it. Whon he is ayor, ho can meke his nomiuntions, and leave tho whole Council freo {o rejeot or confirm thom, Tho attendance of a Mayor-olect nt o caucus of Aldormon prior to s Insuguration is an ovent wholly unprocedontod in the history of Chlcago, Even {n “tho wildost timos of party rulo, the Mayor mnover was guilty of such nn indiscrotion aa this, The Mayor, by rocognizing & *‘mejority’” in tho Counoil pledgod to support hiw, wcites tho organization of tho ““minority " as an opposaition party, when, in faot, a4 ho may in timo find, tho support of tho mombors of this mnority will bo ossentisl to him {n earrying out his plana for an honeat and ofliciont Govornment. It I8 a necdless taunt to this mivorlty ; a gratuitous notleo that ho can got along wilhout them, and that, Laoked by the twenty-throe, he can safoly ignoro the other mombors of the Councll, Let tho Mayor begin right, and to do thut lot Lim koep sway from all cnugusCH. About the fivat of this month, the Italian Goy- ornmont made anothor uld upon the religlous ingtitutiony of Rome. Ou that ocension, it took possession of the outo of tho Infirm ut Banta Mavia, the Gonoral oapleo of the Dominicany, the Déminieun Convent, aud two minor conven- tusls, ‘Tho Dominicans wore Lo only ouecs who intorposed any opposition, They first clnimod fmmunity on tho ground that heir institutions woro of ap iutornallonil cliavacter, but this fuiled, Then (ho Viear-Genoral, the Master of {ho Buered Apostolic Palaces, the Commisnary of tho Inquialtion, aud soveral othor high dlguita- rles of tho Church pluced themaselves In front of, tho Hbrary door of tho Dominiean College, and played tho herolo for » short thne, Tho dol- ogatos of tho Junta, Lowever, sont off for a body of the guesturinl (tho Itullan police), nud, befove {ho forea arrived, tho roverend futli- ers coneludod to aceept tho situatlon, 4he noxt movemout of tha Iialiau Government will by oagaiust the Irish Colloge, aud aftor that agoinet the English inatitutions, Many ot theso rolig- ious houses have booke, manuseripts, sud other 1ossossions of groal valuo, of all of which the Itallan Govornmant will take ponsossion, 'I'he achomo to roponl tho Bankrupt Iaw and remand tho basinoss of tho country to tho dayn of eharp praotleo and dichonost doalings sooms to find favor in cortnin high quartora, Tho latent giving out js that Senator Morton intouds to introduco o bill to ropoal all that part of tho Boukrupt Jaw authorizing involuntary banks ruptey, and to includo in tho reponl nll such baolruptelon as may hiave taken place sinco the firat of Soptembor lnst, 'This is intonded, por- hiape, to resouo Jay Cooke & Co. from the pro- ceedlngs In bankruptey alroady bogun, and to compal tho ecreditors to nccopt such terms of sottlemont a8 that firm may propose. Any rotroactivo logislation of this kind must always Vo vicious, Why should Congress intorveno to provent Jay Cooke's bankruptey? What claim ling hio upon tho nation that. its laws must be chianged to suit hia convonienco, snd tho process of tho courts arrested for that purposo? Apart from the groat ecandal to which such n proceed- ing will give riso, thiy kind of loglolation i fondamentally wrong. Why should tho law of involuntary bankruptey bo repoaled? Involuntary bankruptcy may bo declared upon the potition of creditors, whon tho debta oxcood 3300, and in oaso of a dobtorwho (1) absconds from the placo of his residenco with intent to defraud his croditors, or, bolng abaont, romaing away with such intent; (3) who concoals hiwmaelf to avold sorvice of logal procoss (8) who conceals or romoves his proporty to avold its bolng taken on logal procoss; (4) who makos any assignmont, gltt, ate., of his proporty with intont to delay, defraud, or hinder his crodit- ors;’ (6) who has beon srrested aud held for soven days undor mosno procoss for a dobtexcood= ing 2100; (6) who has beon actuatly imprisoved for moro than soven dpya in a clvil astion found- od on contract ; (7) who, boing bankrupt or in- golvent, makoes any psyment, gift, trausfor, or salo of his momoy or properly, or gives any warrant to confoss judgmont, or suffera his proporty to bo taken on legsl pro- cosn with intent to glvo prefercnce to ono or moro creditors, or othorwise, with intent to defeat tho Bankrupt act; . (8) who, boing banker, broker, merchant, trador, manufaoturer, or miner, hias fraudulontly stopped paymont, or Iins susponded payment and not resumed pay- mont of his commorcial paper within fourteon days. ] It will bo soen that in all theso instancos, ex- copt one, tho lnw roquires some evidence of ac- tunl fraud, or fraudulent intent to justify invol- untary bankruptey, The excoption is in tho cnso of bankors, brokers, merchants, traders, manufacturers, aud miners, who actunlly stop the paymont of thoir debts, or leave tholr com- morcial papor unpaid for fourtcen daya. ‘Inall othor cases, tho Bankrupt law gives tho creditors tho powor to arrest and set asido any fraudulént disposttion of the bankrupt's ecstate or any proforences of creditors, I roquires an honost and oquitablo divieion among creditors, no moro sndnoless. An honost oreditor or dobtor can ssk for nothing olse. What will bo tho result of ropealing this part of tho law? It will bo to legalizo all the frauds which this law was in- tondad to cut off, It will enable any debtor to oconfess judgments, mako asignmonts, sell and convoy all lis estals, to 'mecuro the claim of ons or more preforred orodit- ors, and leavo all othors without any sharein Lis estato, It will onablo any man to loava the place of his indebtedunoss, remove his property socrotly, or avoid logal process, and bid deflanco to all is creditors. 1t will enable bankers, brokers, and others to closotheir doors, suspend business, and mako away with their na- sots under swindling assigumonts. It will on- courage and foster fraud ‘and diskonesty, and must of nocessity weaken, If not destroy, tho cradit of thousands of porsons, A erodit systom ‘which enables the debtor to frandulently dispose ' of his property rests on sandy foundations. DBut it is proposed to repeal this involuntary proceeding, and restoro the old systvm, undor which u failing person may assign all his ostato for thobenefit of u faw real or flctitious creditors, aud then, at hig loisure, proceed to buy up his own dobts atn fow conts on tho dollar, and blosgom oub again ag o mostexperiencod and suc- cossful mon of businoss, Tho country has hun- dveds of such porsons in the bauking lino, who,,| if this part of tho lnw bo ropealed, will at onco mako theso assignments and bocome rich upon otlier peop:e’s monoy. It is this olnss of men who are clamoriug for the repeal of the Inw. No honest debtor objects to tho law a3z it stands, That luw rofusoes him a discharge unless ho pays 50 conts on ‘tho doliar of his dobts, and honostly divides it among Lis creditors. That is not what theso mon waut to do. They want to roturn to the old syatom of paying Just what thoy pleaso and to whom thoy ploaso, and to make a failuro but another nameo for gotting rioh by the spoliation of thelr croditora. If the *involuntary” clauses of tho Bankrupt Iaw arovoposled, the “ voluntary " clause should be made to includo all agsignmonta of property fortho benefit of croditors, both thoeo which aro made {u court and those made outof conrt, Tho effeot of maldng theso changes would bo to leave tho colleotion of dobts to tho common law pro- casa, the old-fashioned ‘*raco of diligonce," but would make svery protended surrendor of prop- orty for tho boneflt ot|arodl¢nn an notusl sud bona fide surrender, RICHARD YATES, Tho death of tho Hou. Richurd Yatos, tho once popular War-Governor of Illinols, which wag announced in our issuoof yesterday, will bardly take suy ono by surprise, ns it is an event which might bave boen oxpected any day. iiw nawme, howover, has boen so intimately con- neetod with tho political biutory of Illinols dur- Ing the prut twonty yoars, and he has taken so deop o bold upon the popular estoem, notwith- vtending s 1oany faillngs, that his sudden denth will undoubtodly produca a wide-spread feoting of rogrot, Prior to thoe War of the Ro- bollien, his orvices and Lis roputstion were of o local character, Ilo was s Kontuckinn by birth, but camo to this Stato at & very emly age, and obipinod Lis oducation loro, sraduating with high honora from Illinols Col- logo, and shortly uftorwerds took 5 leading posl- tlon at the Dar as o young lawyor of groat promise. Liko Mr. Lincolu, of whom ho was o warm porsonal friond, ho took a very activo part in politica at tho outsct of his carcer, saud at ono timo wasono of tho moay zealous, influentials and promising asplrants for political honors in that coterlo which embraced such namen g Lin- colu, Douglus, Buker, and others, Iy public career commonoed 1 tho Btate Logisluture, to which io wes elactod wevoral Limes fn succousion, ond was 80 uatisfactory that the pooplo mont him to Congross, rononted tho Btate in tho” Lower Ifouso from 1861 to 1866. Trom 1801 lo 1866 ho wan the Governor of the fitato, il Administre~ tion covering tho porlod of tho War of tho Ro- bollion, during which his ominont sorvices gave bim o natiovsl roputation 8s ouo of the mast unorgotle and succossful of the War Govornors, ‘Whou war was declarad, 1o hositated not n mo- mont in glving tho Govornmont tho aealstanco whioh it needed. IHo had tho first troops in tho fleld, nnd tho first commission which Gen., Grant recotvod i tho War, as Colonol of tho "Iwouty-firat Illinols, bors his slgusture, Under his caroful suporvision, Illinols not only fur- nishod the requisite numbor but they woro oquipped and in & fleateclass nauner. Hiw admine istration of affairs during this oritical porlod was not only from tho lixecutivo Man- vlon at Springfleld, but from the camyp, tho bat- tlo-ground, nnd tho hospital, at all of which he waa & fréquent visitor, Among the troops he ‘way n univorsal favorite, and all ‘at home re- poeed in him tlto utmout contidence, His proc- lnmations and orders sud spoochos wero widoly quoted on modols of cloquonce and statoaman-like documonts, ond, at tho closo of tho War, his great popularity holped to sccure for him an elcotfon to tho Unitod Biates Sonate, wioye ho wab till 1871, IMis rccord, however, in tho Sonate did not show tho truition of hig early pronmse. Year by yesr his influotics waned, aund his powars grow wheroe ho rop- of troopy, provided weskor undor tho influonces of in- tomporanco—that - bouo .to the usofulness of B0 many of our public men. It would bo idlo to overlaok what is n mattor of univorasl notorioty. Mr. Yatos nevor concealed or vought to concenl his failing, It mattored not to bim that it way publicly known, und its publio announcoment, ovon at this time, cannot do uny moro harm to hig memory than ho had dono Inmeelf duriug his lito, It is ono of the most surprising facts of that lifo that, wnotwithstanding his notorious habits oud his publio display of thom, and notwithstonding the animadversion which thoy ofton provoked, the peoplo still ad- mirod him and ho retained his popularity to the closo, Undonbtedly, his gonial social qualition aud persounl magnetism in bis public addresses Lad much to do with this. In looking over his lito, while thore Ia much to admire, especially for the manner in which he upheld tho dignity and added to tho roputation of Illinois during the War, thero is much moro for rogrot. Tho record of such a splendid promise which never came to its fulfillment, of such powers wasted and shattored, can nevor woar anything but a sad aspoct, Undor other ciroumstances, ho might have mnde for himself o high roputation, and achioved an enviable national distinotion among tho groat namos of tho country, A TEST QASE. EL Paso, Itl,, Nov. 25, 1873, o the Editor of The Chicago Tritune : Sm: Wil you plesso ndviso us of tho courso Chicago intends to tako in regard to tho “rallrond-aid tax " that i ubout to bo wrung from tho peoplo? A mafority of ‘the towns of our county (Woodford) owe 1o rallrond dobt, and do not intend to pay any, if 4t can Lo holped, We want to act with Chicago in tho matter, g0 far 88 wo can, It s time we wero stirring to reslst this outrago, Btir it up allyoucsn, Youaro doing a good work, Koop on, Respectfully yours, ‘W. G, RaNDALL, ANSWER. ‘Wo have no doubt that opposition to this tax 18 goneral among the peoplp of Illinois—includ- ing those who bavecontrnoted railroad-sid dobts, Tho remedy ot thia timo is In an appoat to the courts, Countics and towna cannot in thelr municipal character instituto such suits, ‘but citizons saperately or collectively con do-go. A multiplicity of suits is not desirable, but it ia proper that a suflicient number of casos be brought, so that tho wholo ground may be in- cluded in n teat caso. No person desires to do- foat the colleotion of the lewful revenuo of the Btate, yot no one can pay tho tax without losing the opportunity to tost the validity of the lovy and tho recovery of tho tax itself. It is esson- tial, aleo, that a test case should be heard at an enrly day,—cortainly uot later than the Janu- ary torm of the Supromo Court,—in ordor to bavo o deciaion beforo thoe nssossnont rolls aro placed in tho lands of the Collectors. It is "doslrablo, of course, that there shoald be con- cert of action among all thoue who wish to tost tho Iegality of tho tax lavy, though avy citizen may instituto & proceoding, Mr. Edward Roby, of tlns city, in bohslf of cortain peruons, has in preparation a bill, which will soon bo filed, covering the queations of the tax on renl estate. Ex-Judgo Lasronco hus filed n bill covering tho Inw on capitu! stock. Theso bilts will attack the validity of tho ussessmont us made by tho Board of Equulization, and wo advisa porsons in other parts of the Stato proposivg to act in this mpt- ter to correspond with them, 8o that thoro may bo no failure to have all the quostions iuvolved prosonted at ouo time. As this matter involves possibly the dofoat of tho wholo nusossmont, tho Attornoy-Geueral, ropresonting tho State, should oconsony to have an early and thorough presontetion of tho wholo cago to the Nupreme Court, Tho ordinary wmode ond dolay of filing n bill in the Circoit Court oun o avoided in this cuso, sinco the Supromo Courk has orlginal juriadiction in oll casos relating to tho rovenue, If the Attornoy-Genoral consonty, tho whole matter can have an early hoaring and decision, aod timo will bo loft to correot tho ervor, ! s THE COMPLETION OF THE HO00SA0 TUN- NEL ‘Tho great oosao Tunnel, alter twenty yoars ot labor and tho oxpondituro of twelvo millions of monoy, is ot last comploted, at losst suffi- clontly to lot daylight plorco through the moun- taln. It was, uudonbtedly, & sourco of vellef aud apocial Thokegiving to the poople of Mas- snchusobts when it was aonouncod that tho last sootion of wtono had been blown out. Whilo it has boon & friuph of enterprise and skill, its history is novertheloas marked by many acts of corruption und fgnorsnce, and tho offorts of ita frionds lo obtain logislution dovelopod tho most corrupt lobby iho Htate bas evor known, The pade wasy first struck on .tho mountein in 1852, Lhe Troy & Greoutiold Railvoad Company, which at firat undertook tho work, obtuniuod nsslstanco from the State in 1854, In tho shapo of u loan, but the Company tound jtsclf unablo to obtain tho gunrantocs for tho loan, Notwithatanding these discourngo- wmonts, & conlraot was mado with Sorrell & Co. to undortako tho work, The Company appealed to the Loglalaturo for a Biate subseription, but it was rofusod, and tho contract foll through, Tho last contractor with which tho Com- peny had suything to do was Gen. Haupt, of Phdladelphta, The work wout on vigorously until 1860, when suspiclons wore vaisod that tho purpanes and provislons of (he Logislturo wero bolug evaded. An invostigating committoo was appolatod, and the result of their investigations was tho olosing up of the Maupt contract, which led to long and bitter litigation, At Inst, in 1862, the Rallroad Company votod to sutrender tho proparty to tha Btato, and tho lattor took possos- slon in Beptomber o that yoar, and commonced its oparations systomatlcally Ly souding oxports to Buropo to examiue the English and Alpine tuonels, The work wes {hon placod undor the dircction of Thomns Doano, on onglncor of the highest oapaclty, who iutro- duced most of the now and approved mothods of tunneling, During 1865, tho total wrogrous waa 4,305}¢ foot. Tho work, lowevor, dragged slong slowly until 1808, whon tho Qovornor of to Stato awarded the contract to tho Mossrs, Waltor and Y'rancls fillnnly, of Cauads, for 4,020,000, Tuoso gontlomon bavo carrled tho work through to ity cloto with geeat ludustry and cnorgy. Although tho holo fs plorcod through the mountain, much yet romains to bo done boforo It cau bo put into complota order for trains, Tho tuniol ls49¢ milesinlongth, the oection of road to which it belongs bolng 45 miles in length, oxtending from Grooufield, on thoCon. nectiont River, to tho northwoat corner of tho Sinte. Tho totsl cost of tho road and tunnol to thso Stato is estimntod at 812,880,000, which will bo increasod sovoral hundrod thousand dollars Ly miucollancous exponscs boforo it Is ready for traing, Tho dircet conncotions with the tunnol, ast snd weat, makoup a contiauous lino of rond from Boston to Troy on the Hudaon, and thin opona a second llno of communication from Alaasnchusots to the Wost, tho othor boing tho Boaton & Albany route, Of it offeots upon tho Btato, tho BpringQold (Mass.) Republican saya : “To tha peoplo of tho towns from . Fitchburg woat to Now York, the result is the fulfillment of a deep do nire, tho ackilovoment of a long struggle. They have 10t put much money into tho onterpriso,—wa cannot find that, from outside tho Stata Treamury, more than $125,000 hian been patd toward it,—but thoy have ehown thelr slucerlty and earnestucss in overy othier {mage nablo form, To them, tao, the advantuges will chiefly aceruc; cheaper food cnd coal, and olhor raw materi- als of lifo oud mauufacturcs, will coll into sclivity and profit thelr Levctoforo undeveloped capacitics; snd tho gains in population and wealth slong {he lino of tho Boston & Alvany Tailway will, from like causes, be oxtended to tho melphborhood of {his now avenuo of direct conimuni- cation with tho great markets. Boston already hes ‘moro facility of communieation with the Weet than whio can ulllizo ; tho existing roads do her businers with that soction cheaper than it can ho well aorded ; 1o hor, thereforo, tho now line can bring no groat die rect or immedinto sdvantago ; but, in the waliug nto luatler lifo of a now acction of lassachusctts, sho will find a ronl addition to hor real lements of wealth aud prospority, As s ehipping port for Western produce, Boston {4 a fallure and & humbug,—tis business is fickle and unprofitablo, but as tho storchouse, capitale 4at, nnd market for tho manufactures of two-thirds of Now England, sho is a triumpl, and {5 dostined to con< tinued victories, Notwithstanding all tho monoy that has been squandered through ignorance and wasted by corruption, thia groat work, the largest of it Lkind in this country, is ono of which the Stzto of Meassachusetts may well bo proud, all the more 80 that it has cost so dearly. It 18 & monument of courage, foith, and patienco, as well as of on- terpriso and skill, Alabama i in tho pame condition as moat of the other Southorn States,—out of money, car- rying alarge dobt, and with no credit to ralse more monoy, A correspondent writing from Tusoaloogs says that the altornative pro- gonts itsol? of taxation or repudin- tion, ‘and that, although the Ilatter has nover yot been soriously discussod by tho roprosontatives of the peopla, the former is out of the question at the prosent time. Tho cotton- worm hias boon busy a its ravages, and the panle has followed with its reduction in the price, At the same time, the poople nre forced to recog- nize that somo of thoir beat cotton hands are wooring out. The “ Northorn capital,” of whose eficionoy so much was oxpected, has dono little or nothing for tho Btate, Bo muchof it as has been invasted hos been badly managed ; but the majority of thoso who have gono from the North have gono without monoy, snd many of them havo holped to bring sbout the dejocted condi- tion of things now folt so sensibly. - NOTES AND OPINION. A correspondent of tho Miunospolis (Minn.) | T'vibune has been inverviewing the Hon, Morton 8. Wilkinson, ox-United Statos Senator, and now State Sonator-elect, in relation to tho Grangors, the control of rallroads, reduction of Btate expenditures, otc. Tho Benator looks upon the Grango movoment as a powerful one, an uprising of tho poople to redress tholr wrongs. If they had known how strong they wero, and mado an onorgotio canyass, tho Ropublican ticket would not have boon elocted. The ideas of the poople on the railroad question, according to Lim, aro very cruda, Plans will bo proposed in the Logis- lature this wintor ; but whothor any one will wuccaed, or whother tho Anti-Monopolists will coutrol that body, ho fa wnable to tell, —The Honey (TIL.) Republican calls thio atton- tion of the peoplo of Marshall County to tho fuct thet thoy will soon bLave to pay the princlral of thio bondy issued for the American Contral Lail- woy,—a roud which nover iwas built, and on whicli tho county bas pald noarly $200,000 in in- texcat, Encouraged Dby the recent decision of the Bupreme Court in relation to tho Ottavn & Fox River Road, the Republican invitos tho pooplo to 1ise, and attompt by overy legal moans to throw off this burden. —According to the Chmmpaign (IlL) Gazetle, tho Eon, J. G. Caunon, M. O. from tho Four- toontl Congragsional District, has modidled his viows on tha salury-grab, in dofonso of whioh ho mede & speoch some time ago, Tho Gazells enyat 1u o vonversation with him, previous to his depar. turo, bo oxprossed Limualt 10'un ne Lung dwtermined tocuit bia voto and iufluence fu favor of i repaal of the palaryogreb aud for » rlustatomont of thu uid Ly Ho alko ecid ho fntended to favor tha froo dolivery tlrough tha mually of nowapapors in ths countics i whicli thoy are publiahed, Concorning the prosont fluunuial condition of alfairs, Mr, Caunon scomod to thjul: that o modorate isaue of legul-tendor uotes by the Goyernment would brlnfl tho relief st this time dgabred, toud to yeatoro conildence in business clroles, and give tho country whet fs Just now most needed, numuly : 4 clroulating medium in suificlent amount enablothe pooplo to carry on tho ordinury busiu of tho vountry without hindranco or financial embar ru: nt, —'I'io Mount Pleavant (Ia.) Press suys that tho salary-grab s not yob forgotton by tho votors of thal State. DBy Deo. 4 the amounts paid tholr Honators and Nopresontatives, under tho now 1aw, will bo 85,625 cach, or & total of £61,875. ~The Lagrango (Ind,) Sentinel, though a Ro- publican papor, it not satisfled with tho present represontatives of that party, and appoealn to the now Congress to turn in andsave the organ- izatlon by wiping out the Salarybill, cutting down exponditures, aud redeeming pledges gon- crally. Itenys: The majority of (he Ropublican members of Con- qress munt stond nelde, A Ouban war or any olher counter-hiritant can®t'suve (bem, Pronident Grant docs woll to entertain no usplvction fur ve-cleetion, “Tho party was pron:ised tho bread of ecouoray, but got fnstoad an indigesliblo lump of oularged” oxtravas goneo, 1t wil uiot digeat, and thero du no political popsin that can mako St digestible, —The Miuneapolls Z'ribune is inclined to givo up the election 0f the Republican eandiduto for Seovotury of Stato in AMinvosota, rathor than Tave it seourad by unquestiouablo frauda. Thore is no doubt of thio illegality of tho voto of Wat- onwan County, which doublod its voto of las yoar, and, if itls throwu out, the Farnors' candi- dato ig carviod in, . “'ho Spanlsh navy is sala to bo tho third bost in tho woild, We haven't got mnynnvy worth talliing about, but wo'vo got s Suorotary Hobao- | son, which 1 & deucod slght bottor,—Louisvitle Courier-Journal. ~—A woekly enbsoribor writes us from * uoar Trafalgar, Ind,,” dissuproviug our viows on war with 8pain, aud on tho curreuney, Ilo says tho pooplo want war and moro currenvy, and he s sorry tho “ old Gazelte” doon not. IIn says h likkon tho plan that Govornmiot sl innus juore greenbacks and lond them fo tho peopls on mortgago at 4 por cent, und that he wants wome of that monoy on & mortgago on hin form, and o knows of fots of nelgnbors who do. If thore be auo thing {n which wo flattored oursclves we Lud sccoedad, it was porfeot sgreomont with ovory aubneribor ; but it apponars that wo have failod In this, for onec differs. But we Loliove wo oan do boltor by lim thau 1o proposen tor himself, Lot Governmont ostimato tho cost of war, and lond that sum to_the pooplo Instoad of sinking it In thosos. Aud, as 1t would bo im- proper to take intorest from {ts owu pooplo, lot the loan bo frou, No subscrlbor nlmfi como to tho Gazelle with n complaint without an offort on our part to satisly him.—Uincinnall Cazelle, —It scoms to uA that the f)fluplu “Gudorstand thin stato of things porfeotly woll, Thoy aro not decolved by the caleulating enthuslasm of Iatform orators. Whey stand by, listoning to ho band and watching the banners aud tho caleium lights, and go liomo aftorwards quito calm and self-ponscssed, Tho fact is, they hiavo Jost confldenco in politiclans, ‘They have had o bitter vxperiencs lately of patriofs, and roformors, and Christinny, avd it hns tought them to think for thomsolves and to follow nobody’s lond, Most of them probably havo made up their minds what onght to Lo done about tho ueizure of tho Virginius, but thoy are not dluposed to throw up their hats and hurral for anybody's bidding, Never, porhaps,* hay & question of nntional honor been welghe: by a community with go little passion and such & fixed rosolution moither to (Yonwroug nor to vuffer an affrout, A tomper like thiy nngurs woll for o juot, honorably, diguified, inflexible managemont of the quarrol ; bitt it makos the worat ind of wonther for profossiounl patriots. —Yew York Tribune, ~—Lho war flurrs is blowlng ovor, and tho Now Yok Herald wili have to gaplmliuo Homo Huw soneation. Along with its combustible patiiote ism, thoro In o groat decl of ool sonne in this country, take it b(v and Jargs, and attor the Jler ald has liftad up {to volce, und howled and vent its garmonts, nud cortain jmmanso gathoringa navo beon hofd in Now Yorl:, and Guban paisicts and irato ph(lnnthral:lfltu dead-boat pu]‘iliciann and sanguine Micawbors have blow: off steam, thero comes a ransible and rofreshing pause, and Dby tho timo Congrens meeta the American pooble who don’t live in Now York or Washington will have thought it over, and, having slept on it, will eall in tho dogs of war, As to Gon, Burrie! and tho murdered studonts, and Cubun emenei~ pation and Gen. Ryan, and annoxation, and tho littlo Elrl that was sliot, and the filibusters who otakod thoir lives and lost them, aud tho honor of our ilng on the high seas, and Gon, Sicklos, and several other things thut have gob mixed up aud need nttonding to, we bopo that they will re- colve nttontion ; and, if ovorybody is nmot pun- ishod us thoy desorve in this world, wo take great eatinfuction in the beliof that thero s another, But it is too much toask of this coun- try to wield all tho thundor-bolts of Jupiter on genoral principlas of equity, nilerly rogardless of oxponse.—Springfleld (Mass.) Jeepublican. - THE FREE-PASS PROSECUTION, To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune ; Bm: Tho prosecution of the Chicago, & Northe western Railroad by tho Rallrosd Commissioners, for giving nman a frosride, bringa tolight the very natural fact, that *The law s n a8.” Parentnge will toll. Tho law creating *‘tho Railroad and Warehouse Comtnission” makea it abligatory upon tho railronds of tho Siato to furnish tho Commissioners with freo pasees over their lines. Tho law of last winter makos it a ponal offoune for o company to issuo passes to anyono. At loast, tho intelligent Commissionors and astuta Attornoy-Genernl 80 construct it. _Aud tho only way thoy seo to harmonizo the two laws is £o downnd tho passcs undor the {lrst law, and prosecuto the Companies for giving thom undor tho socond. Tho first law theso Icgal stratogists bave long enforced with tho most satisfactory succens. Tho enforcoment of the socond is & question of the futura. It ¢ o less pleulnfi tnsl to the great mind of a Commissioner, and iu indebted for its undertaking to o storn senss of duty_ on tho part of tho only putriots in tho Btate. Vory fow mon would sncrifico or joopar- dize such oxtonalvo solf-intorests as do these uoble men in seeking to kill tho gooso that laya their faldun ogg. Will tho Court in Stophenson Conuty that is to hear tho Chlcago & Northweriera cass teko cognizance that those Stato laws cpit in the face of onoanother? I so, will it toconcilo them by tmuising tho first moroly au oxcoption to tho rocord ? ~ In that caso, tho only stop neccesary to ennblo o railrond company to oxtond its paste= board oharitios boyond the Commissloners will bo to Lnvo the names of_tho needy onumorated inn special actof the Logislature. Nocom- any could object to that trifling trouble, Bnubfleas it Is by virtuo of some such special act that the Attorney-Goneral claps, at will, & froo saddle on tho sionm horso whose sides ho gooks to rowel doep with the spurs of prosecu- tion. Or will tho Stophoneon Court ait down on tho stronger horn of tho dilemma aud eay that the Inter,law works a repoal of the earlier? In this casa thiere is nothing for tho cowpanios to do but to treat the Commissioners like othor common deadhoads, and atono for their offonse in letting them herotofure rido freo by sceing that thoy don't do it hereaftor. But thie logic of tho fools who contond that the law intends to say that all men must ride fro0 bevauso one does, or that ouo man must \i‘)ny beeauao all the rest do, is tho sophistry of a ad causo and the &flnmllnga of pettifoggers, If tho law doos intond this, Tondas Ibogan: ' The Iaw is & ays,” and tho Lord forgot to make an exception of railronds whenho teught that a man may do what ho will wich his own, and bestow a8 Iarge o L)olmy on tho hired hand of an hour as on tho workman for tho day, without being guilty of_“oxtortion" and ‘*discrimination.” Yours, in behslf of tho xlflluh' tido ngsinad some of the foolishnous of the Rnilroad law. Cuicaao, Nov. 26, 1878, H, P. AvsTIN, g L THE SUPREWIE COURT. T'o the Fiditor of The Chicago Tribune : sm: “Tho Supremo Court o lllinols has prob~ ably nover attractod o much attontion to itself as within tho past two years. By roason of many of 1ts decisious during that time, somo have como to regard it as a fraud upon justico, il not actually particeps criminis, Of course, tho Supremo Court is not to bo condemncd in this wholesalo manner, but rathor uphoeld in ad- ministoring tho law as it is, oven to its utmost tachnicality. But it must bo Lold to the striclest account for falling into oustoms which, whilo innreutly lossoning its labors, tend to promote litigation and dofent justico. Aun court of last resort, it should mako its decision a finality in overy case, 80 far an pousible under tho law. Moy seldom this i done is not gonerally known. ‘The custom veferred to is that of not examin- ing all the grounds of reversal and affirmanco in oach case. A oase {8 taken up on appeal or writ ot orror, and oach Elrtypronnutn a dozen polnts. Loug briefs and labored argumenta follow. sovou wise mon proceed to detormina the case, when, prosto! it 18 dl-rulnd of thus: *We shall consider only one iustruction, for tho glve ing of whish judgment must be reversed.” 8 ovil is npparont: Tho csso ia taken :F as _mony times as there aro - leged orrors, provided tho appollant's money holds out so ung‘ it not, tho solution of the ro- mainlng Eolntu will nover bo reached in his cago. Agsin ; thls oustom makes it nocessary to ape poal numbera of casos involving the yvery quese tlons that might bave boon eettled in & slnglo one, Wautof time Is no oxouse for the oustom; for, by pursuing the propor course, litigation would be Frcpomauatu y avolded ; and cortainly all qtllmi( ons proporly ~ beforo tho Court are equally worthy of consideratlon, if not worthy of equal considoration, C R J e A DOUBLE WEDDING. Mansmarzrowy, Ia, Nov, 37, 1873, o the Editor of The Clifepo L'ribune ! Bin: Tho grentest sensation of Thanksgiviog Day hora was tho double wodding o Ool J, iosn Uowler, Iaadlord of the Bowlor House, and Miss Tlorenco E, Bromloy ; Yred T, Welle und Miss Morio Biatler, deuglter of Dr, Statlor, The swoeb young brides wora drossod in whito Frouch popin, on train busques without ovorskivts, with 1lfusion veils of tho usuzl rozulation longth, and 10 ornamonts but tho traditional orango-bioa- soms, ‘Thoro wore no bridesmsidy, ‘I'fio coro- 1nony was perforuied by tho Rev, Mr. Rendiy, of Cedar Rapide, nssiatod by the Rov. Dr, Therpe, pustor of tie l'reabylcrinu Clurch whero the wodding was hold, The ushers in atlondanco wora Meauve, Neil, Fletchar, und Reed, who seatod tho immonso audiouco to the uatlefuction at oll, Mre, Mullory, organist, played Men~ delssolin's Wedding Mareh as the bridal party apposrod at the church-door, On tho wY\ulu. this wus one of the most stylish weddingy In the bhistory ot our city, Oalifornin Sunday Train, Tho Through Vacifle Expreas Train for Connefl Bluirs, Omahs, Sun Franctsco, aud all othor Far-West ointy, will lcavo the Wella utreet dopot of il Chicago & Norihwestorn Tallway ot 10:16 a, m, Sunday, Nov, auom}&m. n:('lhsmunu ;1:}‘%& via %mukuuo. nuuflimon & £ Talind & Fuct o 2000 00 thls trats, SHEINE