Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1873, Page 4

* Dearborn Dynrbor 4 S T —— '1‘]1f3 CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUN TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TEOMS OF AUNBORIPTION (PAYADLE IN AHVAHUf e Dottt S 08| ey i T'arta ot n yonr at the same rato. o pravent delay aud miistakes, b suro. and givo Post Oftico addrensin fll, Including State and County. ; Romittancn mez ko mada elther by dratt, expross, Poat Oflics ouder, af i rogistersd lottors, at one risk, TKNMB TO OITY RUDACKINES. i Dolly, delirorad, Sunday oxcented, 25 conte por weok. Dally, dolivorod, Bunday Included, 8 oonta por wook. Addross TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cortior Madison aud Donrhoen-sts,, Ohloago, Tl TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. v g ATRE—Madison strost, botwoon DR intn. ngsgorasnt of Locta, L1t Neil and tho Marchiouoss,” LEV'S THEATRU Randolnl steaot, betweon O caitor Btrakoson Kot Oporatroupe: “actha N S1C—Talstod atraot, batsreon Mad- S oo, MR af tho [ydie Thompeon Burtowgue Troupo, * Siabad the Satioe, IE TITEATRI Deaplatnos stroot, botwasn Mad. It Wasgtbn dagemontof Liarry Liston, “Xaiting for tho Vordtos : ' OPERA-TOUSI: - Monros stregt, betwoen e O e Uricaane of it o ‘hoye." Minstreley and comicalitios, NGS 10 1TALT—Olark atroot, betsreon RIS Later “Contiits Uria Goncort Froupe. o Clnek aud, Washington L O e ato ot Lfe, v L JIN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY-Olark o Py Madivon and Sonocs H The Chicagy Tribune, Tuosdsy Morning, December 3, 1873. Wo aro Informed upon good suthority that JudgoMoAlllster has again roconsiderad his pur~ pose, and has dofinitely accopted thenomination of Mayor Colvin to tho ofiice of Corporation OCounsel of Chicag: Tho situation of affairs with regard to tho Gilman, Olinton & Bpringfield Railroad war ro- mains unchanged. Mr, Hinokley isin possession of the road, and says ho meons to keop it. There aro rumors of oll sorts, as that the affair will ond in & contest between somo of the larger raflway companies which enter Chicago. Judgo Treat has not yot given his decision on tho mo- tion to make porpetual the injunction ho granted Against Judge Tipton's Recoivers, Tho crop of defaulting County Treasurers con- tinuos to incresso, tho last ono which has beon reported boing the late Tressurer of Mnson County, in this State, Tho Mason City Inde- -pendent roports his deficit al $16,680.81, Ho left ‘proporty valued at $7,000, which reduces his bondemon’s damoges sbout ono-half. It isro- ‘ported that tho Tronsurer was & whole-souled, -gonerous man, whoso generosity was abused by political dead-beats, who got mouoy out of him by putting up their influenco as collatoral, Al- though this offora no excuso for tho Trossurer, still it would be somo compensation if these dead-boats oould be mado to disgorge in some Way. & The constitutionality of the socinl-evil ordi- nanco of 8t. Louis Lis boen afiirmed by the Su- prowme Court of Missouri, who override the do- cigion of Judgo Colvin, of St. Louis. Tho tenor of tho argument is, that the Legislature hias the right to invest the municipality of 8t. .Louis with particular powors as to the regu- 1ation, by liconso and otherwise, of prostitution, “Whother the ordinancos enacted for this pur- poso were wiso or notis a quostion that tho ,Court has nothing to do with, as it haa nothing to do with the question whother they promote spublic morality or mot. Buch considerations aro properly addressed only to the City Counil, which may modify, Intonsify, orrepeal the ox- coptionablo lawa. The plan which haa so often been suggosted of sending boof to distant markets drossed in- stead of driving it thither has boen put into practical operation by tho Toxas & Atlantio “Refrigorator Car Company. This Company has . #laughterig-houses and cars which enablo it to .3hip 600 hoad of booves every dny. Ten enr- loads of drossed beof nro mow on their *way to New York from Denison. The + Company expact to be ablo to sell their mont at . half tho prices now mling in the New York mnr- Teet. Should this prove to bo tho case, the gains .from the now entorprise will ba general. Tho ‘producor will got a highor prico for his cattlo, whicl will no longor be rn out of condition by boing drivon to market, aud tho consumer will get choaper, fresher, and bottor meat. Wo rocommend that the .Chicago Times take some pnins to ascertain tho faots in regard to + Copt, Fry's conduct in firing on wounded men struggling in tho water, Instead of railing at thoso who have published tho facts, The guestion it whethor Capt Fry was guilty of such barbarity or not~not whothor the persons who wroto the history of tho affair are *‘Bohomi- ao8.” Tho cditor of the Logansport Journal in- timates that thore are a great mauy disbanded Bohemians of the Forty-sixth Indiana Rogiment who are qualified to writo thobistory of that par- Jteular ovent. Col. G. N, Fitch, ex-Senator of the Wuited States, who resides at Logausport, can ‘probably Iay his hand on s official roport of the Aght at Ruddlo’s Point, Ark., containing a more explicit comment on Capt. Fry's conduct than any Bohomian whatsoover. Tho Forly-third Congross began itasossion yes- terdny. Vico-President Wilson’s hoalth hne so far tecoverod ns to pormit him to resumo Lis placo 18 proswling oflicor of tho Sonate. Ir. Blaine a8 re-olected Speaker of tho Xouso on the first :ballot, The Presidont's meesnge and Bocrotary Boutwell'a roport woro not presented, but are sxpected to-day. Tho enlary-grab was the sub Ject of soveral bills presented and referred for future consideration. Sonator Conkling intro- duces a biil to give tho Treasury a logal title to aoy of tho snlary stealings that have been ro- tarned to it or not drawn out, Bonator Wright, of Iows, proposes to repeal the grab; Honator Pratt has a singulnr plan for reimburs- ing tho country for the ateal, by deducting It «from the pay of mombors of the presont Con- gress. In tho Houso, Mr, Halo, of Maine, gave notice that ho would soon mova for the repeal of (the salary-grab, Beuator Morton has introduced * the bill, of which thoro hag boon a forowarning, for ropealing such scotions of tho Dankraptoy law of 1867 aa provided for involuntary bank- Tuptoy. The'Chicago produce markets were again nc- +tive yeutorday, snd grain was highor, notwith- yatanding the assurancos of peace, Moas pork was in good demand, and 80c por brl highor, .closing at $18.20@18.26 caeh, and §14,10@14.20 sollor Fobruary, Lard was quiet and a shade «enslor, at 87.40@7.60 per 100 1bg cash, and 87.05 «@8.00 mellor Fobruary, Meats woro quiot and {0 per"ib lower, at 43¢0 for alioulders, 6}(@05¢0 for short xibe, 63fo for short clear all boxed, . and 8@00 for swoot plokled hama. Highwinea woro quict and stronger, at 90c per gallon, Drensod hioga were quiet and firmer, at §4.76@ 4.873¢ por 100 the, Flour wasin fair demand, and stoady at 86.50@5.76 for good spring oxtran, Whoat waa notive, ‘and avoraged 1l¢e higher, clusing nt £1,00 cash, 81,0845 sellor the month, aud $1.10%@1.10% eollor January, Corn wan activo, aud 1fo highor, oloslng at 47@1730 cnsh, sud .473{@47360 ' sallor ‘ January. . Oals woro active, and 5{@1o highor, cloaing ab 3130 oash, and 880 sellor, Jnnurry, Ryo.was activo and 1o highor, clésing at 726, Burloy was nc- tive, and 2@30 bighor, closing at $1.40 for No. 3, and 81,05 for No, 8, IToga wora quict aud cany during tho forenoon, but closod activo and firm at 84,00@4.90, ' Tho cattlo snd shieop markots wore dull and unchanged. K Tho County Commisslonors. yestorday organ- izod by tho olootion of Sam Ashton as Proaidont. That porson in his nddross urged thoe Commis- slonors to tho practlos of cconomy and tho rigld sorutiny of oxpenditures, Tho specch was vory commondablo as & spoech, aud, if the Commissionors will only follow the advice of tholr Prosidont rathor than his example, tho county will have cause for congratulation. It appears that thoro. aro county. bonds unsold amounting to $760,000. Theso msy bo sold at any time by tho order of the County Commis- sinnors. It fs to bo hoped that thero may bo no occaslon for ordering tho sale of any of thom. ‘T'his is not & time ecither to sell bonds or bogin building large structures, It is not necousary that tho Court-Houso shall bo bogun or finfehed in 1874, or within any poriod until the commu- nity has ind somo respito from the oxcessive cutlay of the Inst fow years, and the couantry ro- coverad from tho offocts of tho panie, As those Commiselonors are responsible to nobody (ox- copu tho courts of justics), wo trust they will ack ocarofully, economically, and wisely, both in actual oxponditure and in tho way.of contract- ing dobts, & Whilo wo aro oxpouding 8o much pity upon tho Oubans and venting 80 much wrath npon the Bpanieh Volunteors, it will bo as well to find out whothor tho formdr aro entirely deserving of our pity. The Havana correspondent of tho New York Times, who writes in o vory impartial way, communicates somo facts which go to show that tortures hiavo boon inflicted on prisonars by both sides. Ho aflirms that on ons occasion a band of Cubans surrounded a country shop near Bava- nilla, capturing” it'with all its contents, Thoy then dronched tha proprietor with his own pe- trolenm, and, setting him on' fire, ronsted him to denth. ~ On ‘snother ccossion a party of Bpanish Volunteors, captured near Bantiago do Cuba, hed their mouths slit' from ear to ear, but their lives wore epared in ordor that they might exhibit themselves. On the othor hand, Capt. Sastno, of the regular Bpanish army, cut off thoe noses and osrs of & numbor of the insurgent prisoners. The horrors of the Guban war, thoreforo, soem to bo about oqually divided, and, although thia fact may havo no connection with the Vivginius affair, as affect- ing tho rights of this country, still it shows that tho grounds for gonoralsympathy with the Cuban patriots, for the reason that tho Bpanish Volun- teors are blood-thiraty, are not altogother satis- factory. THE OCEAN DISASTER, Buch a disnster ag the sinking of the trans- Atlantio steamer Ville du Havro can only bo ro- coived with s universal wail of griof. Iustan- tancous and wholosale denth impresscs all alike with a sense of horror which has no mitigating or compensating alleviations to offer, ‘There be those whoso offios in life ia to find consolation for tho desolato husbands and fathors, brothers and sisters, mothors and daughtors, and tho stricken frionds of the pnssengers who wout down with the ill-fated stenmer, To thom weo loave tho task of finding comfort for comfort- less souls, whoso grief can discover nothing providential in so hiard o visitation asthis, Totho public at largo, the disaster isonoof those whose gravity is not lost even through the frequency of their reourrence in late years. It will dampen the ardor of many who aroe looking forward to tho pleasures of o European visit; and it must siriko deop into tho hearts of all, th uncortain- ty of life and tho torrors of suddon death. But, o far, it teaches no losson aud seryes ‘not a8 o warniug, Itiaone of thoso dull, dead, dirgo- liko catastrophos at which men pause a moment in horror, then brush away tho confusing thoughts and unavailing griof to rush on again in tho world till tho blow strikoes somowhoro else. Porhaps it is as woll that tho details of tho disastor are so meagre and unsatistaotory, Thoy will bo kmown in duo timo and can bring with them only novw Lorrors and fresh grief, Every ono can picture to himoelf better than the most graphio desoription can picture for him tha hopo- loss situation of o collision at soa in tho slooping hours of early morning, followed by the sinking of tho ehip in twolvo minutes, Tho saving of go largo o proportion of tho orew, and the loss of 80 many of tho paseengors, is readily accounted for by the fact that half tho erow wero on duty, and all were fumillar with tho ship, while the passengera were asleep iu their cabing and unskilled, even whon awakoned by tho shock, in the meaus for eaving themsolves, Itls not improbable that tho majority of the pas- songers wore not awakenod to a realization of their dauger bofore tho “waves swopt over them, Twelvo minutes are but brief under any circum- stances ; thoy count for nothing in & sinking ship at midnight in opon soa for atartled, inex- perioncod, aud holpless passongors, whoso first thoughts aro probubly for some’ one bosidos themselves. Wo havo, a8 yot, no information that juatifios tho arrnignmont of tho ofificers of oithor ship for oulpable carclessness or noglect, In tho absonco of such information, however, it strikes ono with nmazomont that, in all tho broad expause of ocean, thiousands of miles in longth and broadth, two ships that do not measure 100 foot in aggrogate width should strike, It would seem o hard matter to accom- plish even in o deliberato effort of two vessels leaving opposito shores; it is almoat unaccount~ ablo when all efforts are made to avold collls- fon, After the collision, the colliding vossol, Loch Erne, appoars to havo mado Lorole offorts to eavo lifo, na eighty-goven of the passongors and orew wero picked up, Still thoro wero 220 liveslost, and it ia thia which canuot be forgotton, As woroad In the disputches of the enormous sizoof tho Villodu Havre, second only tothe Gront Eastorn in dimensions; of the groat speod mado in hor preceding voyage; of tho marblo wainscot- ing, velvet upholstory, carved wood-work, and tho olaborato olegance with which tho steamor was ovorywhora provided, wo can only wish that somo of the wealth and ingenuity which fur- nlshed thoso thinges had heon oxpended tosccurs & groator strongth, that might havo uverted so quick & wreok, and enabled morg porsops to pus oape with thelr Jives, 3 Amoug ail tho losses by the Villo du Havre, it TURSDAY MB! in not likely that any will Lo more henrt-rending than thoso sustatned by rosidonta of thin city. Among the passougors woro the familloa of Danol Goodwin, Jr., and H. G. Spnfford, both waoll-kown attornoys of Olilongo. * Mrs, Bpatford was savod, but without her four ohildron Mra, CGoodwin and hor two ohildron wont down togothior. The two hnsbanda and fathors aro loft all alone at home to mourn 'a loss that can nover bo mado good to thom. Mr. I, T, Oulvor, of Ohioago, loses, - gon. Mr. O, O. Walto, aforotimo rosident of this eily, but now: and for sgomo years past. propriotor of the Dro- véort Iouse In Now York, Liad s daughtor and s gon on bonrd, the lattor saved but tho former lost.” Of the mambera of tho Into Evangolioal Allinnog on board, the Rov, N. Wolss and Emilo’ Cooke, of Paris, woresavod, and tho Rov, Autonio’ Corrasco, of Bpain, Prof. Drovior, of Genovn, and Mr. Lorrioro, of Pars, went down with the fated two hundrod and twonty-rix, . MAYOR COLVIN'S MESBAGE, Tho Inaugural addross of Mayor Colvin Is vory cloar and oxpliclt statomont of facts, and o frank oxpression of opinions In which thore will bo a vory general publio agreoment. After stating ¢hot tho impression had boon croated that tho porsons clocted at tho Iato olootion ropresented thio moro discreditablo portion of tho community, he tells the Council that for thiy ronson thioro is an additionul obligation reating on ovory mombor of the now Adwiuistration to disprovo thoso chargos, and roscuo tho city from any possiblo ovil effocts thoy may hinve had npon its oredit. Ho warns tho Common Council of tholr oxclusivo responsibility for all oxpondi- tures, and that the dopressed condition of .tho goneral finauces anud trado of the country, as woll as tho fact that tho financos of the city are by no moans in n prosperous or oven hoalthy condition, will roquiro nob only the utmost economy of expenditure, bub the moat skittful finanolal managomont, to proteot tho oredit of tho city. *.Tho immodiato resources of the oity con- sist of : Tax-cortificates of sale of 1873, Pax-cortitieates of ralo of 1872, Dalanco of Oaual Rodemption fund Total, . Tho immediato liabilities of the city lows: Floating dobtye,ses.s Bonds due Jan, 1, 1674, 0, Interest duo Jan. 1, 1874. e 407,750 Total, 1$1,801,704 To maot this debt of nearly two millions of dollars, the oity has but tho small sum of ©100,000 cash and what can be realized from tho tax-cortificates, Tho present bonded debt of the oity is $18,5644,000, which is 82,000,000 in oxcoss -of tho limit fixod by tho Constitution, so that no money can bo raised by the issuo of bonds. Thero is in round numbers $1,100,000 in the Clty Troasury, but this is deposited to tho credit of special funds; $700,000 belong to tho water fund, £100,000 to tho building fund, and tho xest to tho school and sinking funds. Nono is availablo to meot tho immedinto liabilities, Tho appropriations for the present flacal year aro £6,000,000, and the tax for 1873 will be 20 mills on the dollar, being 5 mills in excoss of the lovy of 1872, Tha Mayor submita it as n serlous question to the Councll whethor, in thege hard times, with a stringont money market snd in the faco of the unjust tox snddled by the State Board of Equalization npon this county, our citizens can meot this onorous levy of 2 por cent. Tho Moyor does not beliove thoy can do wo, and recommends that the lovy for 1878 be cut down to 15 mills. e also rocommends that all appropriations othor than for objects of netual nocossity bo dispensed with, that the tax may bo cut down from a rate which abeolutoly endan- gors its colleotion. Inviow of tho prosent difficultios, ho urges thet tho Oouncil initiato a strictly economical movement in overy branch of tho Government. Tho Mayor's observations upon the quostions of the Bunday law aro exceedingly well timod, and are direct enough to eatisfy every porson” ‘fho Mayor states that, during tho late Adminis- tration, public attention bad been directed by offorts a8 fruitloss aa frantio to enforco cortain ordinances in regard to the obsorvance of Sun« dny. However approprinto these ordinances may hnve boen when Chicago was a villago, thoy are out of place in ono of tho great citics of tha world., Tho practico Lias boen, of late years, to trent those as cheoleto. At tholate election, tho question whethoer these ordiuances should be ro- tained and onforced, or modified or ropoeled, was fairly tosted and overwholmingly decidod. It tho Common Council shall, iherofore, repeal or modify theso laws, they will bo but oxecuting the will of the peoplo. Tho Mayor’s cmphatic deolaration of opposi- tion to tho construction of the City-Hall and Court-Tlouse will moet with universal approval, a8 will his declaration that the railronds sliall bo compolled to falfill their contraots to build via- ducts over tho streote. : The Mayor calls attention to tho enormous cost of gas, and reminds tho Council that it has been judicially decided that no municipnl cor- poration has the right to contract to pay sums greater than the amounts yoarly appropriated for spocifle purposos ; and, thorefore, all the oxiat ing contracts with the ges companies are void, and an opportunity is afforded for a nesw con- tract. Excopt the introductory romarks, which seom intonded to blow Jifo into the expiring embers of o past political conflict, and aro to that oxtent in bad tasto, Mayor Colvin's Inaugural Is a vory creditablo and satisfactory document. Unfortunately, the excellent promise of the Inaugural is not borno out in the appointment of the Committoes, MNcGrath and Bailey, two {ndictod Aldormen, at tho head of the Commit- tees on Financo and Publio Duildinga (to carry out moasures of oconomy and reform), consti- tute tho anti-climax to tho Mayor's excollent rocommendations, Torhaps Ar. Colvin Lad poor matorial to make up his Commitieos from; but a docent respect for the Grand Jury should Liava consignod theso two mon to the faot, rather than the head, of tho naw Administration, The new opora of *Aida," by Vordi, has Loen hoard in Now York, and the vordict is a favorablo ono. Tho production of & new work by this venorablo Italian cnmp‘onur at any tlme would be an interesting ovont, but at this timo 1t ia moro than usually lutoresting, as it marks s new and broad departure in Verdi's musio, The soore of tho numbers, which was recently printed in tho @raphio, showa that ko lay omancipated himsolf from moro tickllng melodios into a broader and grander atyle of troatmont, more claborate orchostration, and majostio dramatio effoots, Boveral of tho numbors show that his recont visit to Wagner has not boen without re- sult, and ono of thom might have beon written by Wagner himeolf and doue no disoredit to the composor of ‘ Lohongrin,” This {8 s triumph for Waguer In an uwoznsatad quarter, forit iy agaluat the composers of tha Vordi woliool that lie hos mado bis most bitter fight, Now that Vordl, the Nostor of Italian musto, Iing given in hia adhealon to tho muslo of the future, wo may look for a musical revolution in Italy, as all the minor Talian ‘composars look to Vordl as thoir tonchor and guide, - LA INOREABING THE NAVY, = | Tho ! Quban war " boing over, thoro onght to bo & muaponsion of tho proparations for that war, and of tho extr_nv:gmt-9xp91g||(tllrou for fiting out A navy, But the four or five milliona of dollara expended during tho Iast throo wooks, Topairing and patehing tio old “rotton hulks and docropid monitors, Linvo only whetted tho appo- tito for & ‘more lavish diatribution of publio monoy. Tho Hecrotary of the Navy now rocoms monds that Congress shall at onos bogln & sys- tomatio conntruction of n navy that will'compoto in numbor of vousols and oMclonoy for sorvics witlt tho other naviea of tho world, Our prosont uavy oostd annually. $20,000,000, and-tho coun- try can undoratand what it will cost whoro It {aln- croatod four-fold. 'What do wo want with such n. navy? Intlmoof genoral wars, tho commoroinl natlous of Enropo found it neconsary to ontablisli navios to convoy and protect thelr morchantmon, Long and rolontleus wars produced pirates and frosbootors, and naval ostablishments woro nocossnry to protect ponceful commeroe from thom. - But tho daya of pirates, and buconnoors, and slavo-tradors havo pasred away, snd thoro I8 not a port In the civillzed world where an un- armed merchaniman mny not lis as froo from molestation an n vonsel-of-war., ‘Tlio old.usos of navios havo passed away. 'Thoy aro not any longer requirad fo protect comwmerce;. their principal uxo at this timo is to guard, proteot, .aud, If nocosnary, Liold in aubjection remote and outlying colonlos or‘ depondoncies. Great Britaln noods a navy bocanuse of lor vast pos- sonsions in all quartora of the globe, and to de- fend horaclf against powerful noighbors. Rus- #ia noods & navy to keop opon hor narrow son commumcations, which, in time of war, may bs outoff. 8o with all othor Powors keoping up largo navies, Inall those rompocts wo diffor from European countrics, We havo . not, and It is to bo hoped mnever will have, any outlying colonies or dopondencies to pro- toot or keop in subjection. . We have no power- ul noighbora. Wo liavo no foreign conquests to make. Wo do not dosign seizing any part of Europe, Asfa, Africs, or Amorios, nor any of the ilands of tho gon. " Our commorco—what inloft of it—is as eafo in all parts of tho world as if wo iad & mav-of-war in eyery foreign hurbor, The peaceful offorts’ of our Consuls aroall that is necosaary to securo sll the rights that our cit- izens or our morchantmen can claim. Even had wo hind & fleot in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, it could not have provented what took place there, unless, indeed, the Admiral had assumed the responsibility of making war against Spain. It would require the combined navies of the world to really protect our const ; and oven thon the protection would not bo so complote as that which could be improvised on land in ten doys" notico. This idea of building navies to rot in limo of poaco 80 a8 to bo ready incaso of war, 18 extromely absurd. Navalarohiteoturo changos overy few years; tho great war-ships built by England and France, at an immenso cost, within tho lagt fivo years, are now valueloss, It has not yob beon discoverod what ia tho proper model nor what tho most offectivo srmament. Tho plated vessols so far construoted are mo moro proof against tho newly-invented ordnance and shot of this day than wore the woodon ves- sols against the shot of twenty yonrs ago, ‘Whon the War of tho Rebellion broke out, we bad no moro navy than wo have now, noras contly a ona; wo wont to work and built a navy, and at the closo of tho War we had 500 to 600 vessels of all kinds afloat, Whon the War waw over, wo #old ull wo could, gave away others, n fow wont to tho bottom, and the rest have beon rotting awsy or fulling to piecos ever since, Ocoasionally, tho Navy Dopartment would ropair & vesgol, the cost of *ropairing" ofton excood- ing the original cost of tho vossel. Tho fact is, wo have no possiblo use for a large navy. Tho Atlantio cable and o common-gonse Heoretary of Btato at onch end sottled the Cuban question in ton days more satisfactorily than the navy counld bavo done st & cost of & thousand millions of dollars in a ten-years’ war. The talk about American citizena abroad bolng grioved at not seoing the American flag in foreign ports ia real- 1y too thin for the occasion, American citizona abroad who have such a pious affection for the flag can Liave thelr yoarnings gratified by s re- pealof the sbsurd tarlff laws which havo crip- pled our commerco; or theycan carrya flag with thom in their hands ; or, if they are tired looking at othor flags, thoy can come liome. Our flag is a flag of poace and union. Wo ought to bave tho largest commercial navyin the world, and would hiave If Congross would ropoal tho ra- strictions and prohibitions, . That is tho navy which the world honors and respects; that is the navy which is to spread knowledge of the power and wealth of the Amorlean Union, and thut is tho only largo navy wo nded, pe sl it ol Thoy have got s woman in, Toledo who can't speals without rhyming. Tn all Lor couversa- tions about tho house, even in her orders to her sorvant-girls, sho uscs poetry as tho vobiclo of hor ordors, The rhyming manin selzed her wftor o sovero fit of slcknoss, and now sho can- not got rid of it. Of the desporate character of the now disenso which afilicts her, the tollowing daliverod at o publio meoting is a fair sample: Who helped thia woman, she, I pray Who speaks to you to-day? 1t was only o short time ago Blio was vory low, Svon oy S 1 iven up by tlia She coutant live thoy °.:§.' oriear While sirong fu ealt! And prospering in wealth, You are Loro to-tay, In tho wnorning you'may be in the clay, Whero will you be to-morrow ? Wa shall soe— ‘Where {u one hour | 1t your disposltion fa sour, Where will you be 7 It will not bo romarkable if those who have to liston hinbitually to this sort of stuff are **in the clay " beforo long. ———— Tho rocent correspondence between the Pope and tho Emporor of Gormany has a parallol in & lottor nddressed by Pius VIL to Maximilisn, Duke of Borg, in 1803, consuring him for grant~ ing tho rights of aitizonship to members of all creods within his dominions, commanding Cath- olio pariuh priosts to porform the nuptlals of Catholics and non-Catholles, and abolishing cor~ taln fast days, ‘Thio chango in the power of the Dapacy alnco that thmo is mauifest in the charac« tor of tho respeotive lottors, Iustond of theen- troaty which chiaracterlzo Plus IX,, the lottor of Plus VIL is bold and threatoning, The Popo says: “Wo thoreforo hope, not without founda- tion, bost-beloved son in Christ, that thou ®wilt allow our fatherly admonitions to sink into thy hoart, and not suffor that the Oatholio Church whould lavguish upder tho burdon of purseous tlon. It not, wo shull infallibly employ, for the good of tho Catholic religion and the salvation of tho souls intrustod to um, other monns-of doliv- eranco, in order to fulfil the duty of our ofilco nnd oalling.” Instead of tho foarlesn reply of the Kalsor, Duke Maximilian answored in n pa- ciflo mannor, und followod the recomniendatious of the Ioly Father, W _NOTES AND OPINION. In accordance with a apocial act passed by (ho Inat Loglulaturo, Toxas will elect, to-day, Dec, 2, itn Bxooutive and Loginlative officera and minor ofilelsls,; Fow elootions havo boon hold in the Btato ninco the War, 'The prosont Governor, who i nominated for ro-olection, was chonen in 1869, holding hin oftico four yonrs: Last fall the clace tion'for Praenidentin] Illootora Insted four days, and rosultod ns followss Grant, 47,400 ; Greoe loy, 60,600 ; O'Conor, 2,580, Tho voto for Govs ornor in 1809 wan: Davls, Ropnbilcan, 30,898 ; Tamilton, Gondorvative, 8,055, Tho two tickets for Btato ofMcors aro as followst Mtentebifean, Demosratio, - Qovornor, ... vu.o Edmund J, Davin,Riehurd Coko, Liont.-Govoruor .. ltobiort I1, Taylor.1t, 1), Iubbard, Uomptrollor. ... i3, W, Thom: +8. 11, Dardon, FrOABUTCE. .44 0o Ay 'T, DiODIUD, o 3. Dora, Laud Q'miniss'n’r.Jacob Kneehlor, .3, J, Urosx, Behool Supt.......A. I, Norton.,..,0, N.hllvlllngp . wortls, . ’ ~II'ho officinl election returna in Misslasippi aro roquired by Inw to bo kopt sealad until the moot- ing of the Legislaturo on tho first T'nosdey in Janusry. Novortheloss, a- table, compiled on thoe bost Information obtainablo, gives a correct statoment of tho rosult in all oxcept nine conu- tion, showing thal Ames' mejority is.ab loast 18,000. In tho Legislaturo tho Republicans havo'on joint ballot s majority of 85 or 40, + —The Quobeo. Clironicls iakes up the quostion of a copyright for nows on tho plan proposed in England, and advacatos it strongly, It sayas Tho ovil of Nterary thieving, and capocinlty the pur- lofning of telegenms, whick {8 carriod on overy day hera, oporaten as a promium. ou dishonesty and Jour- nallstia tnanition, doLtsating i CorFespORING ok ure from thio roward of houeat and legitimato nowa- papor outerpriso, Tho proposition toscouro bya copy= right law pm{mrly which {4 only acquirod in rlhl Orat iuatanco ot s heavy outlsy, and which 8 now vxposed to general pillugo, meein with our unqualificd ap- proval, und we trust that our Parlfamont will extend tho oporatfon of tho proposed Imperisl act to this country, whoro it Is most urgently needed, It Is no oxaggeration to say that **things nro Tooking up,” for the whole body finnnoinl being on tho flat of its back, can't woll look any other woy.—Pitlsburgh Commercial, —It i8 narrated of a Conneoticut thief that, having stolen a farmot’s walormolons, he Aot tho socds back in a lotter, and requosted him to plaut them noxt year. That follow was intonded for o railrond Prosidont. In that capacity he would take n farmor’s crop, and send_back only onough to make suro that thoro would ho anoth- or crop for him to take uext yoar.—Afl. Vernon (d1.) Sucker State. : —It would bo n great -pity if a foroign war &hould provont tho ploneer from receiving that mnuflou which ho las so long noeded. The ing of & few buccancors, who cowardly sought to Boroon thomselves under tho - American flnfi instead of hoisting their truo colors, {s o smail mattor in comparison with the outrages that have beon porpetrated by the. eavagos of the plaing, and received no atlontion,—ZLaramis (Wyoming) Independent. = —Tho Republican party of to-dny isnot the old Republican party in whose proud record tho nation glories. ‘Tho old timo leadera have boen {hrown overboard, and mousing and rait; politicians and & Lost of salary-grabbors anc Oredit Mobiliers hnve taken posscssion of the abip. Tho Ropublican parly is governed to-day by political ypocrites, cloventh-hour mon who rushed into tho ranks aftor it bocomo established in power, in order to rulo and slenl,—mon? who bave beon political tncksters and traders and laco-hunters ali their Jife; who follow for the oavoa and fishos.—Lacon (Ill.) Farmers' Advo- cate, —Unlees the currency be largely oxpanded, the cnmh)f futuro i8 the timo when the peopla will learn the mnecessary and profitablo lesson of economy. Wo have been running with o full head of stcam withont the brakes down forten years. Twonty yoars caunot ropair the Ioss, and bring back our “people to tho notion of living within thoir means,—Jowa Stals Register, —Judgo Sherman has resigned, and his sue- cossor bas beon appointed. It was impossible to undsratand how a Judgo, convicted of vonnli- ty, as Shorman was, could hnyo tho assurance to hold on to his ofiice; but it is not eatisfactory to hear that hio hos beon allowed to resign. Tho only consolntion is that tho Fedoral Beuch is rolieved of tho associntion of one who disgraced it.—Buffalo Commercial Adverliser. —Wa trust it is true-that the mombers of Con- gress from Minnosota are infloxibly opposed to tlation, in whatover soductivo guio it sppears, ‘Mo country ought to creep back towards Bpocio paymont just as fast a8 poasible, and any expan- sion of tlio currency would postpone thel day for yonrs. Of courso wo do not want our curroncy redeemed, but we do want to have it redeom- ablo; it is much more conveniont than gold, and it it would sell for gold nobody would wish to sell it ; Lut there can_bo no Licalth in our finsu- cial body till thoso dishonored promisos to pay of ours aro exchangoablo nt par for tho money of tho world.—Afinneapolis 7ribune, —Jay Cooke L bo the Oalkon Amosof tho presont session—~ouly morc so. Hiu outlay of monoy, whero it did tho most good, is said to have boen simply sstounding, ' ints from ‘Washington indicato that his little book takes in all those who wero oxempt in Onkos Ames’ Crod- it Mobilicr, and they do say that Olivor's suddon rovorenco for tho Constitution i inspired by the livoly approliensions of oxposures to come. Ilo- garded in a matter of fact way, it looks vory much as though some protty cogent reasons must have boon brought to bear in extorting the Northern Pacifio grant from Cougress, while the Qontral and Union Pacific wore yeb undor way, Tho last exposure took noarly all the Chriatian statosmen,—tho prosent will cloan out thoso acuto rogues that turned to tho grab to make np for tho lost chances of tho lust Bession. You may be sure thore is somo foar and trembling when chaps like Oliver givo timo to the cons structing of ox post facto laws, likke this bank- rupt dodgo.—Indianapolis Seninel. —Lho Chicago Z'imes Is tho most rabid war- newspapor in the country. It ia & groat pity the Times did not do o little of its Liowing off ten years ago. It would havo been mueltinore to the poiut.—Logansport (Iml.z Pharos. ~—Tho Chicago Zumes is bitter in its denuncin- tion of & ¢ patornal governmout.” This is not tobo wondered at, If tho editor of the Times had had moro ** paternal government " in i enrly yoars, bo would probably have been a bot- tor citizon to-day.—Icoria Keview. —_— WOMAN'S BOASTS IN EVANSTON. To the Editor of The Chicago I'ribune : Brx: Your editorial chapter of witty and amus- ing badinnge about “Woman's Rights in Evans- ton," which I thiok overy one who read must lavo enjoyed oxcoodingly, bos, I sce, had tho effect to bring into your columns, in tha shape of communications from differont porsons, sovoral fino spocimons of high tragio wiiting, Funny a8 wag your contribution to tho literature of this quostion, excuse mo for saying that, if you sought chiofly the entortainment of your rend- org (a8 I suppose you did), you *builded wisor than you know ;" for tho rojoinders which you Tiavo published, intonso and tragio as thoy have Dboon for thoir carnestuoss, have furnished your readers with more and richor ontortainmont than that which tho article that provoked them supplied. I'he point of your editorial, i I wns notso stupld as to miss it, ,was eimply this: that to boast that both sexes stand ou a porfect equality in the Northwestern University was hardly be- coming in view of the fact that the pupilaof ona sex roquire thirteen rules to keep thom straight, whilo thoso of tho other mny bo eafoly loft to bo “a law unto thomeolves,” Consistonoy would soom to ro- quire that eithor the rules or the boasts should bo abated ; for cithor makesthoathor ridiculous, You, with your eaglo oye, kaw tho point, wore amusod by the ovidont inconsistency, and nc- cordingly, in good-natured and aeveu merry mood, procoeded to polio fun”at the authori- ties of tho Woman's Colloga for the way in which thoy woro illustrating * Woman's llights m Livanston.” It was o polut woll taken, If the Boxcs are nol ‘mt upon an equality, why keop boasting? Why h'{ to sond the roport to tho onds of tho earih that thoy are? Tut, cheorful roading us was your article for theso tinios of panio and fluancial distross, tho replios it lns oyoked aro pinusing in the oxtromo. 'They aro s0 ohlotly for two rousonss First—Bocauss thoy aro 8o drondfully In enrnest that thoy take your good-uatured buntor a4 a serious and indiguant assault upon the institution itself, or, ut loast, upon tho thirteon rules which public opinion, {mnmulllml in I.‘yrunmuul, Dloody-minded man, hus forced upon ft, Hecond—DBocause they utter suew tho old boastings that tho Northwestern University is tho vonuuard of tho whole race, and leading it on, by a newly-discoverod and vet}‘? ghort route, to tlie Millonnfllm. ow, that Univeraily {3 boglnning 1o take’ rank,'as doubtless it desorvoa to do,-among tho Dottor clas of fustitutiona throngliout the coun- lrIv. But the bonst, put into a thousand forms of B{]V(fl'lhflufi. that, for oxcollouco,” It is_unnp- proached aud’ unapproschablo, wili b thought modeat or othorwins nccordiug to tho differont notions whioh difforont péoplo huvu of modosty. ‘The quostion, too, of advertislug an institation of learning—oapceially onb which olaims to o of bighest oharacter—as. Bonnor doos his Ledgery or Helmbold his Buchu,” or Collius his Opluwm- Curo—lg'ono of tnate, concorning which thore feed bo-no disputo. Yot bonsting s ofton Liarmless, nomelimon entorlaining, and nover, nrhnlm,' to bo complnined of.. And yob to thiy ot thero bo ono oxcoption mado, It han boon widely and lotidly olainiod by the Uni- voruity, or by fts frionds, that, for the discover: of the'idon of tho co-oducation of the aoxen, ft alono ig ontitled to lotters patent. -Oberlin is iguored ;' Knox ollege is forgotton ; the scoros of nondetnten and highor sominnrics 'whoro both Boxos ate bronght togethor in tho pursuit of the #amo sludion are passod by unnoticed; and, Dblushing with all the honors of sgreat discoves tho Womaus Gollogo Lioralds fsolt to tho world a8 tho firat to offor tho sama footing aud preciso- IE crgml advantagos and )l)rlvungunto both soxes. That oquality of privileges and of rights has boon proclaimed ss both' the distinctive oxcollonce of the institution Itself, and ng also the panaces for human ills,—the one grand Liopa of tho raco, You have banteringly, and in o upirit.of good-natured rafllory, shel th bh shown whoroin tho 'cl(:mh‘l\v conslats, It would also bo interakting to botold how thoboastof this institution, that it was tho firat to entor the lists a8 tho chainpion of the co-sducation of thesoxen, can bo vindioatod, % Most everybody wants to render **honor to whom honor 18 due.” This, too, is the dosiro of + A Bubsomnzz. 5 EvAxstox, Nov, 29, 1870, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: have rend your article respeoting the adios’ seminary in this placo with mitch fatisfaction, and boartily accord with the views you expreas, But I wish tosay that youreforvery briofly to what Irogard as by far tho greatest objeation to tho rules, and to the systom by which any such rules aro adopted. My objoo~ tion is ombodied in & romark made bys lady whon sl had read thom: * Catch me sending a daughtor to o school where she would be taught .to becoma n liar," The ' system of requiring pu- plls to report respecting their own' delinquon- oles 18 not original with this seminary, thongh T bollove it Is gonorally discardod in most good achools in the country. I wish to eay few words rospectlog it: A gchool which adopts this systom, whatever the spociflo rules may b, requires the pupil to oriminato Lioraelf, and. thus bocome exposed to unishmont; for, if no othor ponalty ia at- achod, tho fact that she Is known to- Lo guilty of violating the rule, and that tho offense is re- cordod, {8 o gevore ponmalty. Sho knows that her camgmlm\s ore guilty of those violations of rulo, and that somo of them nover report them, 8ho regards theso rulos—ns do all_her school- mates—as oxcoedingly trivial and oppressivo, and does not considor tho violation of them as an offonso. Bhe caunot understand, for .in- stanco, why it {s wrong for her to be” accompa~ niod in hor walk bome from tho rocitation-room by a rolative, or by some friend, even if he has tho misfortuno to ba of the male sex, when sho soon the highly-cstoomed Lady-Prin- cipal and tho other fomalo teachors oft- on accompanied in such walks by one of the Profossors, or by soma other gentlemen. Under such circumstances, s tomptation is of~ fored to conceal tho truth, which a young Jady of averagae conaciontiousness will hardly resist. In othor words, sho is rowarded for being un- truthful, and trained to bocome such, : Iu it not ovident that tho systom of trusting to tho integrity and good sonso of the young ladies, whilo, at tho samo_time, a careful, though not Prying, watch is kopt ovor thoir conduct, ls far otter adapted to human nature ? It you say to & young lady that you confide in her knowledgoe of what is right and ladylike in her gonoral cou~ duct, and ospeclally in ber intercourse with the young mon of her acquaintance, sho will protty uniformly show that she morits yourconfldonca}; but, if youatiompt to control every movement bfi' rule, and roquire her to report Violations of theso rules, you will probably flud that Solomon know something about human nature when he in secrot is pleasant. A Farner, st P, THE NEW BURNT-RECORD BILL. Lettor Xf. To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune: Bm: Iaving, in my firat letter, shown, to my own eatisfaction at loast, that some logislation for tho restoration of records is necessary, X will now dlsouss briefly the plan proposed. By this wonns, somothing botter may be called forth. There ia no pride of patornity attaching to this bill. Qorrections, obanges, improvemonts, would be gladly rocolved. I will, howovor, pauso to remark upon thio objection made sinco my Inst by a very eminent jurist, “That ho foared stir- ring the mattor up would srouss litigation; that wo wore gotting on pretty woll, and the whole matter would right itself if left alone.” . I have mat but two prominent lawyers who deprecate - action in the promises. And, it Iam not mis- taken, both of theso, vory early attor the fire, being thoroughly conversant with the titlea to their own proporty, perfected documentary ovi- donco to the liuks in the chains of their titles. Tho storm-toesed bark was viewed, in tho days of tho Roman eatirist, with a species of satis- faction by those who wero securely housed upon tho solid rock, Human nature is unchanged. It is much onsier to defond against a vaguo claim to our land now than it will be five yoars hence, Andit will bo ensior five years honoco than it will bo fon, fiteon, or twonty years lator. Enuch deparling yosr romoves a landmark and rondors documents moro difficult to be found. An the difiicultios of defenso incroase, so we thfuk will iucreaso tho davgor of attack, Animal organization {s daily roncwing iteelf,and, in con- quenco of such law of nature, the coustitution of o living beiug is ofton the bost of physicians. But is thore anything in the constilution of land- titles which makos it the besl curo for the dis- onues of thoso tiflos? Nothing except the bars of Jimitation, 'Lhey have beon sufliciently ad- verted to, I'ho cardinal points of & law on this subjoct aro pix: First—Tower in tho law to enforco itwelf; Second—Conclusivenoss in its rasults ; Third—Protoction of rightful owners againet wrougful protondors; Fourth—Specdiness in action ; Fifth—Economy; and, i fixm—l’lnulng the expenso whero it properly elouge. Aro theeo desiderata to be found in the pro- posod bill, Lot us soo: First—The Constitution of tha Btate forbids, a8 you say, the oxercise of juaicial fuuctions to othiora than tho judicial tribunals. But the pro- ceduro under this bill is judicial from bogiuning tooend. Its whole nction is the action of the Court, olthor directly or through its logally-ap- pointod ofticers, T'koro is not, as you sugyost, any unconstitutionaldelogation of powers. Now, tho county revenuos dopend Iargely upon the se- curity and stability of the titles to land within its boundaries, 'The county,.theroforo, has & direct inferesl in and right to Liava such Boourlty oud stability establishod, The county was the custodian of the records, undor an implied agroo- ‘ment and pledge to preserve thom. It has vio- lated its agreoment and boen falve to its truat. It is, thoroforo, also its duly to ask tho Courts to roatoro these rocords, With this right, and porforming this duty, {t commeuces anuif for tho purposo. Aud thu the_Court sc- quires jurisdiction in the matter. The Court n(?mluln Special Commiseloners to do certain things within the provinco of such Commission- or, whoare, quoad hoe, Mastors in Olsucory: You suy, the Commissionors boing unablo to punish for contetapt, will ba unablo to enforde attend- anco of withossos or production of documants ‘Tho summons to lp\mnr befora the Commissiol org will iasuo from the Court. Disobodionne will Do vunished by the Uourt, as would disobedience touny othor of its maundatos. ‘Tho power is Flvnu tho Commissioners to compel attendanco, T'ho machinery therefor {s furnisbod through the procoss of tho Comt. Thoso Commissiouors simply seok, flud, and roport upon the faocts as to titles, ‘Phoy do no wore thun Mastors in Chan- gory do, 'Tlio Qourt, on thoso faots, issues its docreo, 'Ihese deorces will have all the fores of any othor of its docroos. Is there any luok of pawer? Seccond—The languagoe of ths bLill giyes diveat- ly, in expross terms, couclusivenoss, 'I'he only question thon is, hna the Logislatura tho power so todp ? 1t is hot quostioned, I belieys, that mattors romedial are in _tho hauda of tho Legis- Intuva, The matter of lmitations fs purely romedial, ‘Tho Logislalure, theroforo, can aiter or shorten tho rules of limitation, And sush alterlug or shortening is not an impairing of tho obligation of coutrnets, The records of ovory culluy in the Btato aze lable to destrue- said : “Btolen wators aro aweet, and bresd oaton” tion, No ono oan foresco whon auch destruotion may tako placo In any couuty. This bill, thoras ford, 1 fn o way spocial loglrtation, ~ It, thon, tho Court shiall aoquire jurladiction of the subh Jeat-mattor, will thore be any lack of conolualyoe ows in ity dooraos ? This bill Ignores the dige abilitlos usunlly proteoting married womon,— dianbilitios crentad when woman way, in the oyoof tho law, but_tho thrall of man. But, undor our rrosgnt lawa, men have but fo rmnnrty rights Which thelr wives need rospoot, f tho honest opinion of our Inwyors conld Do Liad, It would probably bo, that uuits for dow~ orp aro gonetally littlo Jous Lhan ** robbory une dor tho forms of Inw." Thay nro procosdings ta obtnin.a logal l'l‘uht by tho doing & moral wrong,; —n duo pro jortion of those wronged hoing wom=~ on aud childron, — But fow suits for dower to landa alrendy conveyed grow oul of the want of uignatures of wivos, but bocawne of informal on dofectivo acknowlodgments, audaro a_source of sliame to our true womon,.who are ondowed withy & high fenso of right. Third—It is bohoved that nonrly every trac and lot of land in tho county is roprosentoed bya Tosldont owner or- ant. It by agont, is (he probability that such agont will be so unmindful of his trusts us to fall to apprise his thlclpll of tho acopo and sotion of this bill, suflclant to ba an objactlon to tho bill? But, out of abundan preeantion, advortisomonts are ordored through. out tho Union, o na to insuro natice to evo porson iuterented In Cook County lands. — Bine our Grent Tire, Ohicago hna mequired sucl notorloty - that tho possession of land: ints noignborhood s probably known to the friouds aud noiglbors of ovory such holdor. Eithor direolly or indircclly, thcrofore, notic will soarcely fail to roach_every porson ownin, 1ands in'Cook Qounty. Our Isnds have becom 80 valuablo that it in oxooedingly improbabl that any minor .or person of unsound mind not roprosontad by somo guardinn or custodi and agont,” Tlis bilt makes 1t tho duty of th COommissionors to proparo tract-Indicos, {a whiol thio namo of overy alalinant will bo writton un=, dor onch particular tract, lot, or parcol of lnndsi and theso indicos aro to boopon to thio publion TLvory owner of land, or Lis agent, will bo vor: suro Lo inapoct this index ; and will thus hava timoly warning if thoro bo nn? advorso claim ta his property. It is the intorest of overy ono tor kuow if thoro bo any such claim, For ho wilk thus bo x;ropntod to defoud his rights, instoad of boing kopt in the dark until a trap ia Aprung upon him, or upon his ine nocent grantce or heir, Tho notorioly of tha procesdings undor this bill will rendor such proe coodings much safor to all, and pariicularly ta non-residonts, than ordinary judiclal prococd- inga aro, in which coustructive ‘notico is givon: . through a local newspaper, songht becauso of tho chieapness of ita columns, tho rosult of itg being but little read. You soem, sir, oxoroisod on tho oppressivencsa of dragging non-rosidenta hero to put in thoir olaims, Aro thoy not draggod hora onco & yoar to pay thoir taxes And, if thoy fail to bo 80 draggod, nte thoy not; nuh{uol to costly redemptions ? And doos notz a failuro for two yoars cause thoir posnossions’ to fia into the rapacious maws of tax-buyers{ Will this bill cause much greator hardslips 2 To preserve ono's rights to laud in this growing aounty I8 woll wort ail thio troublo sudh & lagg will ontnil, capooially whonit is probable, of oven possible, that an exemption from such troublo will bo followad by a loss of the proporty iteelf. It is a fact, howover, that non-rosi~ donts aro, ovon now, fat moro uncasy about tho accurity of their titles than are our: residont owners, whown quict possossion hay lulled into fancicd socurity. Agents are in con~ stant roceipt of letters on the subjoct. Undor, this bill, if conflicting claims ariso, tho Commis~ slonors drop tho disputed Ipraymrty from thoie lists. Tho contostauts will try, if thoy wish,} tholr causce according to the ordinary forms of law, If, too, a claimant is eatinfled with Lia munimonts of titlo, he can, by a rulo of the Court, havo his Iands droppad out of the pro-: ceodings, ‘This provision, sir, you scem to have overlooked. ‘The bill, hawover, makes it inoum- bout upon any ono entisfled with Lis munimenta to got such order. Tho reason of this provision wad the fonr that Somo ono, knowing of some noglected proporty, might put in & claim, andi then havo it droppod so 83 to ousblo him to) -manufacture a titlo at Lis loisure, A sharp tax< buyer, genorally well informed 28 to such noge, locted property, would bo thio one to take advans, toge of. this, if the bill did not muke i& the duty of tho Court to inquire into hix reasons for wishing such picce of land left out.; Toan #co no bLnrdship to an honost owner int making him gt such au order, enpocially as il uts biin t0 10 exponse. If any wroug s done E the Gunirk, evaiy ony bas. b year to oponjthe decree. Can the Tights of rightful ownars muf~ for by this bill? Fourth—Thera are in thiscounty somo 225,000 tracts or lots of 1aud, mauny of ‘them of smal} valuo, in out-of-the-way subdivisions, and owned by comparatively fow individuals, Of thesa separata parcels thora will probubly not bo,000,— possibly not 1,000,—ia which thero will be any coutent of ownorabip. Nenrly ovory tract will bo claimed, so that the ncraping process om which you animadvert will not bo necessary.' Abstracts covering the earlior chain of titles tol lands in the neighborhood of the city and tha principal villages’ aro in existeuco. In the farming portions of the county, the ti= tles of mearly all land is of neighborhood: notorioty. ~Lxisting abstracts will bo evidenca of titlo to large tracts, to & cortain point, wube; soquontly passing in many lots to various own- erd, The oxamination of tho titlo in Ogden's Addition, for cxamplo, will satisfy the Columis~ sionors through Mr. Ogden's ownership. Liviug. wituess can bo had from him down a8 to every subsequent conveyauco. And thus with other. subdivisions, Neighbohood proof cau bo easily. obtained in all of tho luminlz' ortion of tha county, For thechango of a titlo is gonerall; disoussod among & rural population ; 80 that i is belioved that the titlo to nearly all tho land in the county will bo settled within two years. Whiat courvo conld bo moro npeedy ? Fifth—Lhore will bo threo Commissionors, Fix their salaries nt 6,000 cach. This sum wilk get ablo and honest me Commissioners’ sala- ries for three years, $54,000. Double this for all othor exponses, and we_shall havo a totul in throo yonrs of $162,000. For unfety say $200,~ 000, A quarter of.s million would b cheap for the singlo objoct of goting tract-indicos with the Tire ns an iuitial ront or sourco of title. ‘Tha cost of roal-ostato litigation do{)undn largely upon the longth of the chain of title. Tho cosiu attonding overy chungo of ownership depends upon the samo thing, Thus the diminwhod costs of litigation, Talling Inrgely upon the county as such, and tho dininishod costs of con- voying and mortgagiug, falling diroctly upon tho people aggrogated in the couuty, would justify the conuty in this oxpendi ture for the })urpnn nbove rmed alons, This would, theraloro, loave the matter of sottling titlos at’ nothing. = Yor n your the County Board was Importuned to purchaso im< porfect abatracts aud traot-indicos_at » cost of three-quartors of a million. Tho Burnt-Records Dill msdo theso books, when purchasod, prima faois ovidonce of overything theroin coutained,— thus throwing Sthe burdou of proof upon the riuhitful ownerto do away with clonds upon his titlo growing out of miutakos of thoso books, which wore gotton up by the owners for tho pur~ pose of facilitating thom in the oxamination of thie racords thomsolves, ‘I'hese buoks wero nd- mirablo for the purposo dexignod, but were nevor 1t to bs substituted an records, ‘Sixth—The county, ‘:f its nogligouce, permit- tod the rocords to ho untruz’ud, when its duty was to proserve, ‘I'lis_quostion as to the pro= prioty of ity boing at all expouse for thoir restas ration roquires no argument. Respectfully, Oanten'H, Hanutson. ——— ST. ANDREW?’S BANQUET. The Illinols St. Androw's Socioty hald thelr twonty-eighth annual banquot last ovening at the Sherman House, Provious to tho banquet, a business-meoting was held in the club-roon of tho hotel. Throo now mombors were clected, and tho retiring Presidont, Lobort Olark, woloomed tho new oflicars for the emsue ing yoar, aud conducted tho President-cloct to tho clair, Tho officors for the noxt yoar aro as followa: Prosident, Robert Horvey; First Vico-Presidont, Aloxander i. Thompson; Bece oud Vico-Prosident, Rtobert 11, Forrestor; Phy« sician, R, D, MoeArthur; Tronsnver, Willlam M. Dale ; Baurolnr{ Johu Stewart; Assistant-Sec zotary, Goorge 1% Forguu. Teaded by tha pipor of tho'Sooloty, the Lunqueters proceeded to the graud dining-room of the hotel, where thoy sat down to n sumptuous collation, After appons~ ing tholr hungor, the cloth was romovad, and tomsts wore doclared in order. Among tho guosts prosont woro Muyor Colyin, ox-Mayor Yond, Collootor dudd, Prosidon Booth, of tho8t. Gearge's Soolety, Judgo Forross tor, Dr. Ourr, Alfred II, llh\almli: J. O, Raukin, aud mauy othor distinguished goutlomon. ‘The following woro the tonsts, with tho names of those aunonnod to rospond: *'The Day and &' Whin Honor It 3 ¥ ''hio Queen of Great Britain and Ivoland ;" # Tho Prosidont of the Unitod Htatos " *Tha Horoen of Beotland,"—Responds od to by Judgo Robert W, Forroster; * The Poota nuid Poetyy of Svotiand,"—Itesponse Ly tha Ttev, lobort Coilyor ; ** Our Manufaoturing and Comuercial Intorosts,"—Responso by the Ilon, N. B, Judd ; ** Our City and Stato,"—Rosponsa by Goy. Bovarldge aud Mayor Colviuj ** The Army and Navy of tho Unitad Satos,"—Rasponsa by Lisut, Gen, Blieridun; * Our Sistor Bocietios," ~Rosponso from Histor Bocioties ; #'Iho Prous,” —NRosvouso by Hormann Rauter,