Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1874, Page 4

) THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDA FEBRUARY 8, 1874, —_— ble, what the mob were doing. Everything ap- | apolis bridge, yesterdsy, whilo stepping from where he had worked for 3800 & year, Mr. Cor- | large constructiol ng tho Treasury, i ich i § CRIME. peating quiet, the Bheriff took homo?&u pEimm- one car to q’m{her, sm{z'zb!ud, Sod 2o betwaen CORCORAN. coran lived to bacome tho banker-in-chiet and ac- e glet P fg!;i:l:' Ihtsmr,:h Dwngfl!wi B):-nr‘ti ‘n‘-‘udnlxfi' cg:‘;:}z‘lel; mgm“fl,;"ngnh: '?,;h: nite e8, uuder Thomus Ewing, | wreath of nataral ot er’s hand and started in thedirection of Murphys- boro, avoiding a8 much 23 possible honses and the cars. Hia head and chest were crushed, and he fell dead to the ice below. EIs wife Wwas on quire his fortune. PZADODY'S YOUTH. 2nd is now the Quartermoeter-General's oftice. green smilax or other vipe that ends in a spray of fresh flowers whera thy ) ublic roads. E: and then they | the train, goiug to St. Paul with him. P ‘Whilo a boy in_Georgetown, Geo: Peabi AMr. Goorgo Riggs, his partacr, put up a residonce § h % Particulars of the Murder and Lynch- | Souid hear men balloiag ;. and, just when they | - —Tho Lomstille, Neatvile & Great Soathern, | The Noted Ex-Banker of Washing- | come maih s sncia o Sonbatroess, Moo | which sest. wibeheds oF 3000000, 2670, 4o | Hounco S ot etora o iyt in 3 struck tho Marphysboro and Catbondale 10sd, & | Memphia & - Charleston, Memphis & Littls s o your, b opon &y goods iore - Ch, | Simulate some Norehern penilemon who wora | snbey SRy Kty M bobind o i , M. Corcoran erected tho | Jace, whick, when worm, is also hens e be ing Case Near Carbondale, The Murderer Is Taken from Jail by a Mob of 500 Citizens. Ho Is Forced to Confess His Crime and Then Swung OF Cther Criminal Items. An Illinois Tragedy~-Murder of = Woman by a Negros-The Assassin back came along, and but a very ehort distance from them two men came out of the woods and inquured of tho driver of the hack if ¢ tney had yet caught the nigger.” Tho Sherif and his prisoner took to the woods and traveled on,— soveral times, when near the road, seeing and sad they crossod over. On the way up town, though it was after 1 o'clock, Bherift Irvin met a well-known doctor who was known to be strongly in favor of lynching the prisoner, but he did not recoguize them, When they ar- rived 2t the jail and Jailer Cully was arousod, no could hardly believe it possible that Sheriff Ir- vin could have succoeded in traveling the dis- tance and escape being caught and his prisoner taken frombim. Sheriff Irvia slept in the jail that night, and only that all pight o could hear Rock, and Iron Mountain Railroads, and their’ connécting lines, also the Momphis & Cincio- nati and Anchor Line of steamboats, will sell tickets to the Memphis carnival atreduced ratcs. —At Allegan, Mich., yesterday, the jury in tho case of Froeman, charged with rape, disagreed, 1ng the church at all, thongh the chapel suffercd severely, and the Sunday-school rooms in the basement of the church were flooded with water. Damage estimated at nbout $12,000; insured. The fire took from a furnace. —Gen. AMorrow, commanding st Camp Douglas, near Salt Lake, having recently caused to be Iaid before Chiof Justico AMcKean complaints of abuse of his soldiers by the police forco, the Chief Justice states in a letter that he las no power to protoct the soldiers, and that Gen. Sketch of His Career. Is Disposing of It. From Qur Qun Correspondent, ‘WasmxaToN, Feb, 1, 1874, Several matteraof local interest with s nationsl roflex have occurred in the City of Washington within the past forthight. One was the final opening of the grent gallery presented to the city by W. W. Corcoran, the retired bonker. the firm becominglinvolyed, he left it and wen: into the same business with Elisha Riggs,a trader of the back-conntry of Marylaud, whose mesns and enterpriso were such that bo scon left Pea~ body in charge at Georgetown, znd beganto open branch-houses in Baltimore, New York, ana Philadelpbia. . Peabody and Corcoran to resido in London as head of the great house of Peabody, Riggs & Co., Corcorau formod the gartnersbip of Uorcorsn & Riggs in the City of \Washington,~tho elder Riggs hoving retired oight years' before. From iheso coincidences W0 can get a fair understanding of the influonce of . opportunity upon men of widely differont origin, and also of the vigor resident in littlo orts like Georgotown, which, a3 I have heard Ir. Corcoran gay, had fivo times the enterprise of Washington City, and would havo beou ono of the largest towns in the counfry but for the per- Arlington Hotel,~uzming it in honor of Gen, Lee, whose mansion on the opposite heights had Toge. ago, at tho age of 75, he was & guest at the Justices of the Supremo Court, the bandsomest man in the pa straight : corpulent, but ot grovsly so; with & Dbeautifully clear ekin, fine liquid cyes, and luxu- riant white Lair, whi Lead. He dredses like o gentlemanin polite life, with some jowelry, gloves always out of doors, and carries o gold-beeded cane. He is probably tho nestest old man in Washington. beon taken from him. He also gave a large amonnt of State boads to Washington-Lee Col- FINTS, table of ~Presidont = Grant, amongst tho rty. To look upoa, ho is large and 'h covers overy part of hia GaTaE. breath of fresh grecn. two lace flounces, headed b lla:cut-ah:ped neck . Tho coat-sleaves have 3 T vines, and the s & very full fraiso of thy .ODDS AND ENDS. Although Paris haa began to purse her brow B e oo Big. Atuady bridgo the | oLy R el aEed. 3 1aat night n the chapel iy S Mr: Corcoran has thus lived to scquire s f ‘When they got to Big Muddy e the — e was discovered last night in the chape! were nearly of a same age, wera . Corcoran_has Jlived to acquire s for- | oy, ad he i 1 Sherift found “that it~ wea guarded, but | of . John'a Church, in Detrdit, but, after a [ How Ho Made His Money, and How He | well _scquainted, bad tho _same pat- | tunc, enjoy it, distributo it, muke his peaco with J;fs’&l”xfin'&d:;’:f)oufinm b :fx‘::d\'m after weiting a whilo the guards left | stubborn resistance, was subduod before burn- fon, ond when, in 1837, Posbody went | oll ranks aud parties of men ; and, s fow nights | Yoriito discioso hore, Tho us thing peramters all sincerity is, thatall out-of-door Gostames wil) £TOW even more masculine in Rerotofore. This may or may ment, bat it is likely to become a fixed fact. cut and finish than Dot be an improves Monsieur Wortk turns out to bo 0o German at all, but the 50n of sn unsuccessiul British bar. rister. M. Worth went to Parisin his boyhood to soak employment, got by accideut into 3 magasin des mo tune. On dit that striped goods will be the favorites for spring; aud, 28 stripes rarely make des, and thus fized his own for. protty, Hung by o Mob. _ men prowling about the premises. Aforrow will bave to protect his own men. This gallery was commenced in 1859, and grew 1 h v but TRE CRIME. c’{ha l;-nfgrigg ongym wn}; done hnbout 5 ont of Mr. Corcoran's taste for tho arts and | version of its destiny by the District of Colum- trimming, it is fair to suppose this only another From the Musphysbors' (IiL) Independent, Feb, 5. | o'clock yestorday afternoon. He wes hung on : : Mz 18, isat Hus only s g : AL compuay o actsts, and s dsite, n h 0b- | Ser s United Siates Dank swpende, | METROPOLITAN MODES, | 1o, Sovios (hat poctcty-puia sk o5 A mau by the mame of Moore, living with his family on a fiatbont just sbove tho bndge across Muddy, between this city and Mount Carbou, wos dieturbed between the hours of 9 2nd 10 o'clock Sondsy night, by s voice from the bank calling him. Ho got out of bed and went to the door, when he recogmzed a negro who had tha day before ¢St wood for him. The negro insisted on him getting up, ssying he had something of importance to tell him. atreeon the bank of Muddy River, mear tho bridge. 3 A Serics of Crimes. Correspondence of The Chicago Tridbune. Barasoo, Wis., Feb, 4.—A report bos just come in that & man named John Crowell, living in the Town of Washington, Ssuk County, Wis., attacked bis own son, aged 8 years, kicking and beating him in such s msnner that he is not ex- pected to Tive, Crowell proceded to the housa of his brotherin-law, Patrick Karney, and £red Dis barn, stacks, avd wheat bins; and, finding An Overwhelming Ministerial Ma- Jority in the New Parlinmeznt. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, ToroxTo, Ont., Feb. ‘7.—Retnmes bave been received from four moro Nova Scotis constitu- ancies, threaof which return Government sup- porters, and ono is irdependent. Only one placomore to hear from. In Prince Edwerd Island, four Government supporters are elected, one Opposition, and one place to hear from. sence of any large postority, to leave some Aurable memento of himsolf and his success in life rmongst his fellow-citizens. Ho sent for Penwick, s mative architect, whose mother kept a boarding-house at omo time near the Capitol-gate, and who had designed the Smithsonian Institute, 3Mr. Corcorau's own mepsion, and some churches, depots, and 80 forth. Renwick 1ade a fire-proof building of brick dressed with free-stone, which cost, it is and beforo ke joined young Ar, Riggs, ilr. Corcoran alone had opened & modest baaking. house nezrly on the spot where Jay Cooke & Co. recently closed their doors, His business methe fino manners aud appesrance, sud spirit, which led Lim $0 choose tho bast _acqunintances only, gained him the respect of Elisha Riggs,who furnished mst of tho capital for his sons and Corcoran. MARSIAGR. The latter, waiting until late in life, addressed tho daughter of Com. Charles Morris, and, at 5 The Coming Shadew of Lent---The A Few Noticeable Costumes—-Ele~ Fashion-propheta have it that blue will be the color for spring aad summer, 28 it ka3 been for autumn and winter. Kettiedrum Wianicg Faver. but three breadths. not be dosirabla to take lessons in walidng from It is said the now walking-skirts are to have If this bo true, would it our Chinese sistors beforo adopting the now style, which seems eminently fitted to out the axiom of making hasta slowly ? ; gant Visiting Dresses. Low kid ehoes aud_croquot skippers, of hues to match the gown, Lave almost wholly takon theplaco of silk ond eatin boois for full dress. Rfooro puid vo ettention to his remarks, and | i e i : 5 1 a4 e ) A wont, back to bed, when the negro got on the | Dy PCPhO¥, James Kames, CHODEID | peturns up to tho prasent time stand as folloya; | i S600,000, and wms 125 by 10¢ feot, with | whisner of opposition, married hor—the old The latter are the moro comfortable stxle of d wood mear by, - i froe-atone stairways 10 fast wido, n pictiro-gal- | gentleman becoming roconcited later along, and foot-covering ; the former material the more top of the boat. nad went aft to where tho | ax, striking him on tho back of tho | Ontario, 64 Government, 19 Opposition, 3 Tnde- A 't {ipeateman nocatning revoriellod Iiteraloog, 230 satisfactory. boat is covered with canvas, and commonced | head, aed lessig him for dead. Ho then | pondent’; Quebes, 44 Government. 16 Oppeei- | 167 96 by 45 feet, a sculpture-hall 97 by 25, and, Eanty-one. wore BaAt on 16 seaia i sight of | Beautiful Imported Gowns---Blue | “*Tuile of xil colors,{as well 38 white and bisd to cut through. when Moors came out | fled’ A parts of four mea started in hot pursuit | tion, 8 Indepondont; New Brunswick, 11 Gov- | in oll, shont fiftoen exhibition-rooms. Thia wes | K¥onty-ona wors spont on the sea—iu tho sight of i 137t ba mush Wodk for fo. 1o Hoar bt 1md asked B what bo wenied Tho | of Lim 3s soon as possiblo s but, ftor following | eroment, 3 Opposition, no Indopendont; Nova | erected just oppouite the War Department | (FONIRIAY {&hes Horts vor who command- to Continue the Vogue. tertainments, | Black talle, With beight taisl negro told him thet tuere were 200 negroos armed, and that they were goiag to make & raid cpon that part of the town thst night, and ad- vised him to lezvo. Moore aroused his_family and Mr. Spillers, an old mao residing with him, and the party started up the bank to go _to the houso of Mrs. Patchet, closoby. When thoy got on tho bank, they noticed that the negro had gun, After some delay, Mrs, Patchet was swakened. While Mrs. Moore was st the door- rtep waiting for the door to b opened, the negro insalied her by taking hold of ber clothing. Mrs. Moore tcreamed, when Afrs. Pachet, Who had just opened the door, caught tho negro by the back of the bead and held him while he was dissrmed, when he ran to the entranze of the bndge, where four other him into Richland Cousty, returned, s one of thera had reccived quite o Serioug injury in the foot. Crowell had just returned from ilwan- keo, where he has been gince his release from State Prison, at Waupan last November, whers Be spont_a year for shooting & man at Sparta, Wie., and_it is_thought hehss gome back to Sparte. Crowoll ia about 6 fect Ligh, 38 years old, stout-built, has light complexion nd teddish haif, and shaves emooth. New York Criminal ftems. New Yomr, Feb. 7.—In the suit to-day of the Tench National Bank, to compel the Comptroller to pay it $256,000, alleged to have been advanced on'a requisition of the_Court-House Commis- tered the house of Wil eight miles east of this place, and engeged 1n a Scotia, 18 Government, 1_Opposition, 1 Inde- pendent ; Princo Edward Island, 4 Governmsnt, 1 Opposition, no Independent. 'Total, 141 Goy- ornment, 40 Opposition, 7 Tndepondert. — e INDIAN OUTRAGE. Attack of Indians on o Settler in Wa- dena County, Minn.--One Merson Killed and Une Wounded. Wadena, Minn. (Feb, 4), Dispatch to the St. Paul ess. About 11 o'clock a. m. yesterday, an Indisn en- iam Coatello, at Aldrich, building, and it was gtill unfinished when the Civil War brake out, and 3Ir. Corcoran, swho had then retired from active life, and was more friendly to the South than otherwise, re- solved to go to Earope and not retun during hostilities. He took with him a very lerge sum of money, and, while sbroad, patron- ized our artists withont regard to politics ; and I romember one day walking with Larkin Meade, in Pans, sbout 1863, who told mo that he had received an order from Carcoran,~—the first time T over Lieard his name. WAR-TROULLES. * Thefriends of Mr. Corcoran claim that he when sho Tought the Merrimao until she sank ; und ho i sl living neer his bracher-in-law, baving married the dsughter of Frenk Steele, of Georgetown, of whom I have sesn some mention receutly in conucetion with_ the Fort Suelling land-grab. The elder Morria’ bust is in the Cor- coran Art-Gallery. Hore wo msy romark how more gomerously | wealth is distiibuted in the bandsof men to Thom opportuity is ostended for thelr skill or talent, than by tie origanal gatherers of it. The Rigga Tamily, which is almost aboriginal on tho Potomac, hés doue nothing to liberslizo its na- tive refion; while tho sons of strangere, liko Corcoran eod Peubods, make millions consent to weo rich men thrive and spread their benefac- tions from Washington to London. merry Metropolitans, tho two weeks betweon now and then will be crowded fuller of entertain- ments than any fortnight of the.season. Itia not that everybody is so pious in Manhattan 28 to be willing to devote a fwelfth of the yesr to spiritual matters,—having eagerly givon the ro- maining cleven-twelfths to matters most nn- spintaal,—but that everybody is glad of a little rest, forty days for theological, keep them for From Our Own Correspondent. NEW Yous, Feb. 4, 1674, As the shadow of Lent s looming up before i3 Thereforo, those who do mot keop the | g son ara of spun-zlass, tinte satin pipings, bindings, and_wresths of brighs leaves, hasthus far been the most popular of thin dress-stuffs. F ‘TRBELOW. fKiscellnneous Fashion-Items, From the New York Mail. In Paris, strange asit may sppesr, black is pow the fashionabla color. —Tho old style of making button-holes has gone entirely out of fashion. Nowadays they aro neatly boand with silk braid the color of the dress trimming. —Somo of tho prettiest aigrottes een this ses- every imaginabla me and color. They are capecially effective un- er gaslight. —In Paris the ladies only wear white potti- s sioners, the affidavit of Michael Morton, one of i 0 S by = . pegroes vero scen. Tao party, went, into the | tho Comumissioncrs, was read, in which Lo statoa }X‘;‘:':h:")’:‘o:: C‘I’;‘g’czf:;’y a0l v ojected | novor had sectional fosliogs, snd the bis Jour- ey | hvgienic reasons ; an tho good they thus derive | e2ata for currisgo or cvening dress. For audie fo dle Gy Marshal. Tho neross ‘id | Lofk RERPITCYSS ol ton VAN B MM WA | hroug the door, tho bal passimg throusl arr, | D (0 Eutope was induced by decliving years, | The | honso crone Cproorti ;& RIEE3 | i porhiapy, s preat es that gainod by thoir do- | TEY A% 058, promensdo Wear black sl or around the houss, and, evers timo the door was | 5 foSaraal, w e 3 | Costelio's hand, 'and entering the head of his | AVersion to seewg his neighbors at warfaro and , A ek ¢ | vonter meighbors. Balls, parties, rcceptions —Fringe on szehes is now indispenssbls, and weod, Connolly, and #atson, and signod the 5 qubrea of b ot War by | e poen oo | arageon rihen s now indispenash, sna opened, they would fire with revolvers at the ty. Mrs. Pachet bad threa shots fired at her E&ug the night. The villains 1sid sround the house all mght, Next morning, ea:ly, during ihe absence of Ben Sams, the same negro went 1o his house, and anked for some mustard for a &l man. Mrs. Ssms svent into tho Inrchen to get the mustard, when the villain attempted to Violate the perren of somo of the little girls, A pariy of men, bearing tho noise from the coal dump where they wore working, ran dows, bt wezo t00 late t0 catch the negro. From hore he discopears, Abont 8 o'clock thie same morning certificatos presented by them. The afiidavit further atates that Norton first heard of the =advances by the bank in Sep- tember, 1871, from Ingersoll and ex-Chamber- lain Palmer. He informed Palmer that the Court-House Commissioners would not sccept o Ioan from the bank. Palmer and Tweed wanted bim £o sign a certificate of the losn, and he had several ioterviews with the “ Boss™ on the sub- ject. Ho refused to do until he became a candi- date for tho Senate, sud then he signed it, but no pecuninry considerstion caused Lneading bread, killing her instauntly. parsued the assnssin and wounded him in the right breast, tho wounded dispatched to this place for assiotanco, which w8 promptly rendered, and the Indians pursued n:xf}lovemken about six miles north of Aldrich, at 11 p. m. daughter, aged 13, who was_standing a: a tablo Tho son Tho Indians decamped with man, &ad & mMeeseoger was ‘There was some ghorw of resistance at first by the dusky warriors, who numbered up~ ward of forty, but_they finally vielded to tho stern demands of the whites, whose forca con- sisted of but twelve men. The prisoner, who is the city of his childhood the great object of contention, and particulatly by the exilo of his beloved grandchildren, whose mother, bis only child, bad married George Eustis, of Louisians, an ex-Member of Congress, and Secrelary of Slidell, the Confederate cmissary to Lurope. Of th3 bereafter. At any rato, the Quarter- master-Goneral seized the great Art-building for an office; and 3ir. Corcoran's iansion would havoe been confiscated but for its prompt occu- Kntiou by the French Mibistor, who claimed that e hed rentod it. Tho owner's furm, called the intunacy between Robert J. Walker, Sccre- taryof the Treasury, aud Mr. Corcoran,—receiv- ing the Government loans to negotiate, taking tho bonds, and, as some say, given liboral tima to make payments upon them, or time enoagh for Mr. Corcoran to proceed to Eurcpe and sell the bonds, and return with the money pius his profit. Hov much monoy was mado 8 that po- riod by the house, we can only guess at. De- tween 1846 znd 1349, tho Government debt in- creased about 348,000,000. Mr. Rirrgs once told ‘me that, prior to the Rebellion, their house had all the Government loans. _Af any rate, the op- lunches, dinners, and the recent importation, the kettledram, are crowding these pre-Lental days to overflowing. is steadily winning favor in New York. Last 8eason it waa new, end it was thought that only its novelty made it popular. Nobody could be- lieva that an ontertainment, given between the rather nondescript hours of 5and 7, where there- {reshments were of no more solid character than o THE KETTLEDRUM Ve of [l and sleeves. i3 alwaya elegant and stylish, and this new mode r darker shade. Indeed, the new French eashes are abont one-half silk ribbon, and the other half frioge. Tho fringo is braided or kaotted, and iy, withal, pratty and stylish. -Many of tho newest street costumes of black siliz aro trimmed with wide stripes of black vel- et down the front breadth, and on the waist The combination of silk and velset f trimming comes decidedly under thosa heads. —The atest thing in envelopee i a small black lovil on the fold. with the words “ Who the™ JOREE Ocines M % | him to sign tho obligation. The announcement . 1 i to ; i ] 45t FToES quite & sensetion in court, 88 it was gencrally | to-dsy. aken, howaver, for an army-hospiial; and I be- | ghowed that Mr. Corcornn was capable of con- | would 1lwst & sccond semsom. But this “f’uei‘;‘,fi"_‘};fi; Fugenis tiust have hdan railrazd track in the ditection of the houso wkaero 3rs, Byan was found murdered, and, as & party of nogroes were seen a short 'fume after 8he Wi found, it i8 supposed this ia the same villain \hst wurdered her. Itis reported that the samo negro went into 8 storo in Carbondale believed he had fled the city. Ex-Sheriff Brennan and ins Deputy, Williams, left Ludiow Strest Jail to-oay, the ume of sent~ ence having expired for contemptof court in allowing Henty Bennett, pending sontence to LATER, The Indisns received reinforcoments during the night, aud this moring refused to_give up the prisoner. The Sheriff returned this fore- noon and has sent to Brainerd for asuistance, A posse will bo organized bere, and every effort lieve no_ckarge was ever presented for the uso of it. While abroad, 3r. Corcorzn’s intercsts woro chivalrously pleaded to Mr. Lincoln and others by resident Bepublicans of the more ‘magnsnimous school, and Mr. C. prudeuntly ab- stained from saying, printing, or Riviog any- dacting his buriness npou the largest scale. Had I the time, 1 might insticute A COMPARISON between the bouses of Corcoran & Riggs and Jay Cooke & Co., which are within sight of each othier in this city. Mr. Cooka had such an “* British nstitution" promises to be naturalized Lefore the erd of winter. cost accards well with the supposed state of our finances. and unlimitod tea and cako, repredeat the®itoms In tho first placo, its A fow flowers, an extra waiter or two, extraordi every lady who has return the Iast six months exhibits some kopick-knack which i8 said to bave beon onco onned by Eugo- nic. We fear tho London and Peris shop-keeps ers hiavo imposed o tho well-known credulity of largolot of jowelry, for almos: from Earope within : g the State Prison, to escape. : 1 Iater in the aay to buy some tobacco, which he i Howary lionai 3 made to capture tho Indians, They are enronte | thing, daring the conflict, in tho inter- i tho~ worll I Kords s allcredo paytoe with i 90 i, andClindy higost Howur, the) e e meker, | Tar fhe reasrvation: v eata of tho insurgente. At tho ond of the War | pREPTUY, 88 tho Mord sellom afords o | of oxpemsc. Secondly, strect or carriogo-cos- | Ameriaan Indies in this mater. g % . N and quietly sct sbout sranging his sf 3 To-day, it not sible, but quito the thin, Sk & o ey TRANSPORTATION. ad gafotly sot sbout soraniog bis ey, &0 | nicd Lo fhom. Toag, owor that cnosaious | ders it ot only possible, but 5, to | yintas than they had any ustor planalblersasa tion of Caivo. In the meuntime telegrsms wwero sent to Cairo, sed City Murabal Joo McCullough started in pursnit. Hsm Irvin, Sheriff of Alexander County, was witing for hia arrival at Cairo, at which placo the negro arxived the following morping. To be certain of tie prisoner’s iden- tity, Sheriff Irwin proposed 10 tko negro that, if be would divide ths spoils with him, he (Irvin) wonld assist hiz to make hia escape, which tho negro agreed to do, when the Sheriff started to jail with his prisoner. In passing up the leveo the negro startod to and was shot througl the back and eap Sberiff Irvin and Joe McCulloogh etarted to Murphysboro with the' prisoner on tho evening train, but, for fear of the vengeance of an outraged commn- nity, they stopped off at Jonesboro, and took the freight which pssses Carzbondale” at 10 o'clock st night. They amved st Carbondalo and got off at the Normsl building, n order to evade s collision with an inforinted crowd in town, McCullough went to the livery-stable to fietn team 10 take them to Murphysboro. Ho ad been dgone but 5 short time whan the noise of & crowd of excited people coming was heard. Irvin started alone wmith his prisoner through the woods afoot. Nob being scquointed with the couotry he had to dopend upon the prisoner for guidsnce. Thoy mrrived, howerer, after some trouble in evading parties waiting on tho rozd near Mt. Carbon. At 2 o'clock this morn- ing, Irvin arrived in Murphrsboro, ond safely jiled the murdever of Mrs. Ryan.” This is the semo villain whois referred toas having at- templed to ontrago the persons of Mrs. Moare The Gad’s Mill Ratirond Robbery. St. Lowss, Mo., Feb. 7.—The Republican's Jefferson City correspondeat says: “ Gov. ‘Woodson has offered n reward of $2,000 opiece for the outlaws who robbed the Iron Mountein Railroad trein at Gad’s Hill, Mo., & few days ago,” but no official announcement of tha fact has yet been made. A Virginia Revenue sconded. Ricmyroxy, Va., Feb. 7.—John C. Houry, Chiet Clerk of the United States Revenue oflice at Lynchburg, has absconded with & large amount of money, 6aid to be $100,000. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. No Verdict in the Springticld. Special Dispatch o The Chicago Tribune, SeumvastELD, Feb. 7.—The jury in the case of the United States ve. David T. Thompson, dis- tiller, after baving been ont thirty hours, wera releaged by Judge Treat to-night, until Monday. 1t will bardly accomplish anything, for the jury still stand a8 they did last night—seven for de- 1endant and five for tho Government. Another ono of tho cases against Thompson, to recover on his bond, given in 1868, was takon op this morning. It islike the other case, the bond having been stolen, and {3 to recover the Officer Ab=- tillery Cases at Toledo’s New Canal Scheme. Torrpo, 0., Fob. 7.—The Board of Trade to- dey ndopted s series of resolutions in favor of the enlargement of the Wabnsh & Erie Canal from this city to Terre Haute, Ind., and its ex- tension from that point to St. Louis. The reso-~ Intions set forth the peculiar advantages of this proposed water route, which will aord con- venient snd cheap transportation facilitios be- tween the Great West and tide-water. A com- mittee of threo was appointed to present tho zesolutions to the Nationsl Grange, now in ses- sion at St. Louis, and the Secretary of tho Board was instructed to send copies to - the St. Louis Board of Trade snd to all Western Senators and Representativea in Congress, The Wabash & Erie Canal. Speaic! Dispatch ta The Chicago Tridune. Loaaxseont, Ind., Fob. 7.—At a meeting of the Doard of Managers of the Wabash & Erie Cacal, Inst nignt, it was resolved to turn the canal over to the Trustees on the 10th of May, and its opeiation after that time will depend on the Trustees, = CASUALTIES. Accidents on the New York Railroads. AvLBANY, N. Y., Feb. 7.—The rear car of the afternoon train from Whitehsll was thrown from the track by a broken rail, and foll into a ditch. One of the occupants, supposed to be u railrosd to public use should be left ia no uacertain con- dition. S LEGACIES. . These were the Cemotery of Oak Hill, which bo had preseuted to the two corpowations of Georgewwn and Washington, through a Board of Trustecs, and endowod vith $1%0,000; tho Louise Home, named for his deceased daugh- ter, endowed with $450,000, inclusive of the edifice ; the Columbian Univarsity, endowed with £250,000 conditionally ; and tho Corcorun Gallery of Art, mupificently endowed with real estate, stock, bonds, and_cash, already smounting Lo 900,000, bearing $52,000 intercst th prosent year, and 0 regulated that the interost, within three of four years, will ineure $100,000 per sonum,—s sufficient sum to put this gallory ahead of any other in the country. It was a tedious and disheartening business for 8o old & man, however pationt, to meet tho ALTERED CONDITION OF THINGS, the obduracy of tho victorious section, and the status cflected oven in his codowments by their prolonged tenuro in strango hunds. The beautiful cemetery, in the centre of which repose Lis father, brother, wife, daugater, snd ncphews, wasnow in the hands of Trustees who gave him littlo welcome, and so ontraged his feelings that be applied to tho lot-holders wunder authority of the Court for & Lallot; and the common oblization was so plain that neariy the wholo number camo to his support. The con- sequence is, that Oak Hill Cenretery, besides its_ superior natural beauties, contains some of, the best biography of both tho North and the fortune, amass-meoting of starvoling creditors is assombled, smply eatisfied with less than 20 cents on tho dollar ; while tho house of Riggs & Co., succeseor of Corcoran & Riggs, still en- ecouced in the old United States Brauch Bank, paid every check with _cash, while their noigh- bors’ doors were closed, and obtained the bulk of their business. Was it in the men? TWas it not in tho aystem of gold and paper which provailed? All CORCORAN'S LOANS were made in specic-paying times. Cooke's appear in tho same dress agsin and again, As gentlemen are now invited,—though this ia a de- partare from the original custora,—thoy come in morning suits, even in business garb, since they not infrequently drop in for a cup of tea on their wey home to dinner. drum is not & succesa. Each gucsv raely re- 1mwaina over half an hour, and_the constant com- ing xnd going is anything bat inspiring to con- versation. loans ware mads for nationsi-paper times. Doth ars were successful, and the conntry thereaftor unuenally prosperous for zbout mine years in ench caso, But o gold-panic is solid Tuin. A peper-panic is vagarions ruin. In times of paper-panic, men's heads sod principles are va- grent. Their gchemes aro a3 oxtravagant as Sro their remedies in financial polity, when they seek to drag some form of cwrency up to the relief of their rnin. Can this be better set forth than in that bullion-book of Senssor Ben- ton, as follows : Tho issue of the war with Mexico was 88 disastzons to the poper-moncy party as it was to ths Mexicans themseives. The copital was taken In each case, and the vanquished eulmitted in quiet in each case, . . The war with Mexico wus confidently looked to a8 the trial which was to show the inadequacy of tho hard-money cusTency to its exigencies, and the neces- kity of establiahing a nationsl-paper currency. Those who had asserted the inadequacy of oll tho gold and silver in the world to do the bisiness of the Uniled States, were quito sure of the fneufliciency of the pre- cious metzls to carry on a foreign war in addition to all domestic transictions, The war cams; its de- sensc, never having been 3 distinguishing char- actoristic of fashionable society, it may not mat- ter if hottlo-drammers havo to do without it. From s intellectusl point of view, the kettle- S Conversation, however, in any strict 3 STRIKING COSTUMES. Atoneof theso recent tea-rounions, there ‘were somo strikingly-pretty costumes; a carriage- dress of grape-blue gros grain being one of the prottiest. ‘The demi-traiu 1s silk, with alternato two-inch stripes of silk and volvet,—tho lntter two shados darker than tho gros-grain stripes. “Fhe skirt is entiroly without trimming,—s volvet cord the size of one's finger finishing it round the edge. To lookat it, one would fancy there weronot more than three breadths i tho train, so closely does it eling to the figure, though without uo- gracefainess. that alirss of o fullnees oven t.an certainly bas baen as littlo as wo_should havo supposed grace would admit.) pcke onaize is of velvet. tho shado of tho stripe‘in the skirt; quite long behind ; hangs without looping, exceps on the hips; 2nd in {zontis open, turning back with wido revers of plain sidlz, tho tint of 1 one of the sons of Lot me remark, in parentliesis, Jongths ore tonding tomrd lesd {hey havo had of Iato; which ‘Tho jacket-pol- c curred at the rolling-mill in this city. Itisc fined to the puddlers’ helpers, and the puddling- mill hes in consequence stopped. ill from eating pork affocte about a month ago, is dead. His death first fatality. orders aro farge, and their patrons don’t cavil at the charges. Although flowers aro comarative Iy cheaper thia season, wo know of 3 recent To- ception where the florist’s bill was $2,800. LABOR AND CAPITAL: trike at the Springfield Rolling. Mills. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Srmimaasin: L Fete TooA sirike, bia oc- DEATH FROM TRICHINAE. COrvemNatr, Fed. 7.—The Eng.irer‘n special rom Aurors, Ind., says that Henry Tramart, Mrs.§Framart, who was taken with trichioe, is the ' MISCELLANEOUS. Boston's corn-doctor is worth $800,000, —The number of children of the achool 2ge in the country is put ot 1%,500,000; the teach- ara at 221,000 ; the cost_of maintsining schools at 895,000,000, or 3§ of 1 por cent of tha valua of all the nation's property, real or personal, so- ording to the consus of 1870. —*¢Somo of these fine days,” placidly observes the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Judge, jury, 1o- porters, and spectators of the Hustings Cours v and Bex, Sams’ Hidle gin deficioncy tax, smounting to 926,000, The ovi- | employe, was Lillod. ' Tho other cocupants, four | Seut, PIOEraphy of botls tho Nor Van | mands on (ie woHd currency wero mot felt | puck Wi Rlde revers of plun aill, tho He¢ of | porters, and spectators of the Hustings Cout dence 5 not all in yet. in number, were with difiicnlty rescoed from the | Nowe: bovg Botises Gon Haton Soes Doy |io its dimiontion nt Dome, Govers- | e @ po. Jevers, 3 | will wake up o 10 Cliy Hall, s 5 s ees, Count Bodisco, Gens. Eaton, Meigs, Pe- s wronght velvet buttons “acd simulated volvet | under about 14,000,000 pounds of brick and-mor- flames, the car having taken fire. K f ! i jenp NS o e Pl Bl e button-holes, continao up tho waist to the zeck. | tar, and find themselves all ‘dead corpuses.’” THE LYNCHING. . Carbon, TU. (£, 5), Ditvatoh te the Cairo Bul- i " A mob numbering abont 500 ren to-night tool ‘Harper does not tetify until Monday or Tues- day. His testimony will be substantially s re- ported inIxe TRIBUNE in the former cases, ex- OGDENSBURG, Feb. 7.—A portion of s train on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburgy Road having ters, Towson, Churebill, tbe Carrolls, Nickolson, otc.’ The Louise Home is designed for gentle- Ioun taken ot 3 premiuml—and only obtained upon3 hard competition! . , . Tho Lt loan suthorized (winter of 1843-148), of $16,000,000 brought a premium Round the neck is & poculisrly-shaped standing flaring collar of silic, inside of which a ed to wean a follow-student from —Six students in Kalamazoo College attompt- the habit of the besto Wyatt out of the County Jail and | cept that bo will nob be able to swear to any of | becomo dstached last evening, an engine wont | Nomen of education sud refinoment reduced to £ ¥ he brougist, hit (=t M oy e datcpoime To0b | poverty,—s cises, ns moy bo supposed, unusu- | of sbout 500,090 ; 'aud one-balf the Lidders were dis- | high, full ruche of lace is worn. Tho coat- | using profane langusge, and of splitting wecd ng! m over to M. Carbon. At first be | the signatures except that of McIntyre, who, it | down the road to bring the detsched part 1o ‘.’n, lorge in an eficial city. Au present, fifty- | appointed aud chagrined. boszuso they oould got 1O | giceves aro rather broadof at tiro hond than has | in o on’Sunday, by holding his Lead fore Zenicd all smowledgo of the Lilling of Mrs. Ry~ 23, and the mob bung him up, but did not let bim baog long, WWhen they let him down, he 2skod tem it they were “going to kill him.” They told him they were, of course. He then seid, '“Well, I don’t want to die with & lie in my mouth : I killed the woman, and took her mone 3 & e Spesai Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, was roturreed to the Trustees after man: s 3 . = mfi;fifl:;;&‘fi;mm?fig?‘:gfi BenryGFiELD, IiL, Feb. Te—lhe Toledo, Wabash seuger. The wmush-up caused bwelvo hOWs' | voyry, and Congress peid o rent, sevescly e T e b ssaasity | exDibit: ershas just dissolved partmership. Threo of his neck and swnng him up. & Wectern and Springfield & Illinois Southeast- | OPstruction of the road. estimated, for tho Fears of its ocoupa- | was'above par, tho matioual coffers full of gold; and A PRETTY VISITING DRESS. them could not sign their names, aod have sk He is still banging, and the mob will not alloy | &2 Railwaye have joined the Chicago & Alton in tion. Aftor thorough removation, r. | the Goverument, having the wones ou land,and | Another visiting dresa is of bluck silk, finishod | ways put their cross to the firm's documents. i the_resistznce to the collection of tax on their THE WEATHER. Corcoran removed to it about 100,000 | anxious to pay ita loans kefore they wera due, could | with three whiades of blue, tho lighteat being | %I thoy conld have used their pens well” re- |- any one o interfere with the bod; 5. A, H. Inwiy. From the Cairo Bulletin, Feb, 6. From Bheriff Irvin, who returned homo by the train this moruing, we learn the following his trip from Cairo to Marphyshoro : will be remembered, signed the other bonds, and Jomes A. McGraw. _The other secmities ara Hiram Van Dovert and James Whitfield. Railroad Eesistance to the Collection of tite 'Tax on Capital Stocks capital etock. Application will be made next weok foron injunction_beforo Judge Treat to enforce the collection. Itis said that a meeting of attornoys of other roads of the State will be held in this city some day next wesk, to ngree upon & coucerted movement. Ronsaellaer, with tho undorstandiog that tho Southern-bound passenger-train should be de- tained at Ronssellaer, to await the arrival of the Jost part. Owing to some mivunderstanding, the passenger-train wes not detained, and & collition was the consequence, smashing two engines and wounding the conductor and a pas- WasmTseToY, D. C., Feb. 7.—For the Upper Lake region, light, variable winds and partly clondy weather. ‘ToLioxTO, Feb, 7.—Owing to the heavy snow- storm Western trains are eight hours behind ime. five Iadies occapy this new and palatial bulldiog, where they have many of their former modes of recreation, ape cared for by lady Trustees supe- rior to_them onlyin fortune, and the donor dines with them froquently. THE CORCORAN GALLERY worth of paintings, busts, and_statuary, which had long wade Lis privato residenca enjoyablo ; amonget them tho original Greck Slave, which mude Porvors’ reputstion in Englend, and an un- ususl nuknber of portraits end compositions by such Amocrican artists as Elliot, the Peales, £ part of it. of 1512, during which tho Federal Government was 3 mt for loaus, and paid or enflered o loss of 5,000,000 to obtain them ; and the virtue of the gold- Currency will_stand vindieated upon the test of war, and forcign war, as well a8 upon the test of homé trensactions, The war was conducted mupon {ho hard-movey basis, and found the basin to be as ample ouly obtain that privilego by paying o premium upon it, ometimes 18 higi 18 20 per céntum,—thns actually giving one dollar upon every five before it was duc. And chis, more or less, onall the loans, according o tholength of time they Lad yet torud, And tlisls tho crown snd seal upon the triumph of the gold car- rTency. been thio mode, and have deep Louis X1V, cuffs of silk, benantli which an undensleovo of laco is required. ‘This suit is severoly simplo,— worth describing, porhaps, excopt that its ex- guisito eloganco 1 noticeabo beaido tho ostraor- wastofulness which tho masjority of costumes train is @ foartecn-inch biss dounce of biack, burdzred by three pipings of tho threo shades of blue. The top of tte iourco is Gnished in the samo way,—tho lightest blao comi edge, and being carried_down as & liniag for the 1rill sl dly ary combination of ill-taste and sheer | ¢ sky-color. Around the bottom of the demi- on the Tormed by tho plaiting of the flounze, The number plied the handle. e only partially saccessful, and the reforming sta- F donts, upon being arraigned before 3 Justica of | the Pesce, were giad to sottlo by tho payment of e one of their hort timo under tho iment wes ump, wl Tho ex) he costo. —A wealthy London firm of four brass-found- marks the Court Journal, *they might have become Government clerka at 15 billingsn ‘week. —The Baitimors American sonuinces that tho proprietors of that journal Lave purchased, ct & cost of 125000, the building corner of Baltimore and South strests, Daltimoze, 0b% Stuart, Colo, Lentze, Huntingdon, otc. At the GENERAL ORSERYATIONS. H same tme, ALr. Corcoran’s friond, W. T'. Waltors, On Wednesdsy afternoon, Sieriff Irvin took Ciicaco, Feb, 8—1a. m. the prieoner, Alex. Wyatt, end, taking the § occupied by ti Western Union Telegraph Com- flounco is leid in” box-plaiis, two inches wide, pany and other offices, on the site of Wl romey, the noxt th Having mado his money, the next thing was, rifsn) i Gy | Wi equnl epace botween. On the right Verdict in a Big Lead Suit at Rocke ‘What to do with it. ir. Corcoran answored thig o'clock train, started for Carbondals, When ther ford, Tl s TR of Baltimore, who hes one of the most remgrk- train arrived at Vills Bidgo, Ryan, the husband. Svecial isoatcl to Tl Shiceao Trivue, | _Staton | BerThr| _ Wond. _[Rain) Weather.” | Lpto pichuro-allerien fn Amorica, ond especislly | question. as. minciy-hin men ot of a hundred | side, the fowice wideus il i reachos bavit way | They propose fo. erectie bew American buldiog, of the mardered woman, who Dad just returned | Rocxrom, Iil, Feo. 7.—The lead mining suit | Treck'ridge 30.00] 23N, fresh .. rich in master-picces of the French and Belgian | ought to do; and, if more did so, every locality | up the skivt,—the finish and plaiting beirsz tho | —A London correspondent, in speaking of from the funcral, was met by the Sheriff. Ryen | from Galens, known as Kamphouse ve. Gaffne, | Cairo.. .zsu.m 82|E., frosh, schools, was dispatchied to Europe with $40,000 | in this country would blossom, progreas would | same es in the narrower part. This bold n'&me the Tichborno trial, says : * No case has aver, I wentinto the car, and, seeing Wyatt, remariced | was decided this afternoon in favor of tho de- 29.93 to mako purchnses. Helaid out a part of his | be more harmonicus, Utopian speculstions would | 18 prevented from appearing awkward by a mmsh | believe, produced as many liars aud perjurers b that he was the murderar of his (Ryan's) wife, | fondant. Thecoce bag been in progress for two b E money _judiciously in such objects of gew- | not provail, and the comntry would bo | overakirt. This is edged similarly to tho llounce, | any country as this one has. A regular bargsit and at the same timo kicked him in the face, Wweeks, end involved the ownership of 200,000 eral inepiration a8 the Roman Hildes- | civilized in tho ratio of its seitlement. He laid { and is drawn on tho right side, abovo the wide | and sale of witnesses has been the rulo on bt csusivg blood to flow from his nose. The | poundsof lead ore. Tho jury was out only helf heim plate, casts of the best statu- | out his money on thio spot whers he had reade | portion of the flounce, through three long loops, | sides.” Sheriff’ interfored, and Ryan was removed | 2n Lour. ery, modern, medieval, and autique, and | jt,—where ho could control tho investment, and | formed by folded bunds of tho tiwea = to suoiber car, and the train proceeded ou its T veses in Fronch and majolica. He purchased | bewefit his neighbors. Washington wasthen a | shades of blue. Alior passing through the MARKETS BY GRAPH, way. Before reaching Jenesboro, however, Ryan | ATRUSt Relmont v. the State of North Gezomo's large canvas of * Czsar Dead,” Por- | beggarly place of nbout 80,000 poople ; aod the | loops, it is carried rousd the —skiht, —_— re-entered the car, carrying in his hand 3 large Caroiina. tacl's prizo-composition, 2 master-picco by ATy | Lot which tho Governmeat scquired. by division | tying omeo, loosely, low on tha loft. - Foreign Markets. o kutife, and attemnted to kill the prisoner, but was Raremom, N. C., Yeb. 7.—Buita wera instituted Scieffer, and & number of pleasing paintings, | with tho owuers of the soil were bewg éold off a3 | The waist is cut in throo deep points behind, po~ | _ Livemroor, Feb, 7—11 a. m.._—m:l-::’-'. fi‘?fld@l" provented from doing so by Sheriff Irvin. to-Gay in the Superior Court of Waie County by various 10 motive, by liviog I'ronch and German | guction with few or mo takers. It willnotdo, | der which ia caught a triple frill of the shadles | Whest=iWinter, 13y sd@is ;g‘-“:géem " orm, %4 Tha conduct of Ryan and other parties on the | August Belmont & Co., to compel the Stato Au- ortisin, Tho residue of tho money was loft with | therefore, to say that, when Mr. Corcoran | of blue; or, what is, perhaps, clearer, three 1 ap- 6@ 10, ‘“'Pm.h ag Lard, 485 5d. trein convinced Sheriff Irvin that it would bo 28 { ditor to collect special-tax bonds for the pay- en accomplished buyer, and, onc week ago, tke | bought, it involved no enterprise; forafes | piog frlls, tho lightest tiot uppermost. In Loxpox, Feb, 7—5 p. m.—The rate of discount i3 good a3 the prisoner's life £ attempt o take | ment of tho interost for the yenrs 1870 to 1874. gallery in Washington was opened, aad thedonor | cents por foot was then ag deur as 32 per square | front, the waist is in double points over similar | the open market for thrve montha’ bills L 3 per ¥t aim throagh Carbondale, and le concluded to ( Fab. 20 was set by Judgo Waller for the hearing sat there all day and evening, receiying tho Pres- | foot to-day. In tho beginning of tho city, tho | frilla—the threo paesing ontirely round 1:ho | or 3; per cent below the Bank of England rate. fi? leave the train at Jonesboro and place the pris- | at chambers & motion for peremptory mandemus. Clesr. ident, Cabinet, and all the official socicty of the | Government acquired more than 10,000 baild- | middle points up the front, axd round theyV | 20l for money, 9:@92); on sccount gflé@d L Cloudy. which it dissipstod and drivoled | neck, forming o full and very becoming fraise, | United Sates seciion o 2 O O3 10 ok Ca oner in jail there untii something definite could bo nscertained with regard to the frue condition of ofairs at Carbondale. Accordingly, when: the irain reached Anps, Wyatt was hurried into a hack and taken to Jonesboro, whers he was plsced in jail. ‘When at Jonesboro Sheriff Irvin lnd his pluns, concluding to take the first up freight, and huve the truin stop a'short distance sonth of Corbon- dale, whera he wou!'d leave the cars and go across the country, and thus avoid going ta Cfarbondale atell According to arrangement the train was stopped just below the collewe, or about half a mile below the station, and Sheriff Irvin and his ‘prisoner, ascompaniod by 3lsrshal McCullough of Carbondale, got off. ~ McCullongh suggested that they could go into town without fesr of mcl:station _from the mob, puv Sher- piHs i determined to run no _ritks; asd then ArcCuilouvh started to town for a buggy in which to convey the prison- cor to Murphysboro. In the meantime the train Went on up fo the station, and some one, probe~ bls one of the brakemen, iold some ono ihat the Sheriff had_got off bulow town. The train bad been at the statiem but o very few minutes when the Sheriff conkd, hear the yélling of men, snd the eracking of pistels, and in a few minutes the hurried tread of wen, indiceting that the mob were coming. The iSheriff wasnot long in making up bis mind %o leze his hiding- place, and, though McCullo:gh had not yet ar- rived with tho buggy, he told the pazro to jump a fe:d::e near by Ar.nri they wonld tuke to the wocds. £ However, when they first got "of_the train, they went to a house near by, rmd McCallough rapped a¢ the door, and was asked, “Who's thera?” = He sunswered, and -asked where the men vere, and was told in repl y tbat fhey were 31l down town.” Wyatt, he anng_this reply, uid* “Yes, dey's all down da re waitin' to hsng me.” After gotting over th » fence, thoy ran shrough two zelds, snd fir .3‘13 came up close to the new Normal School b , wheze iho Bheri® baltod {0 livten, and - asco: it Shoald the State Qourts decide adversely to the plsintiffs, it is the intention to carry the case to the Supremo Cours of the United Siates, The Conflict of Anthority Between the United Stales Circuit and Xowa Supreme Courts, ‘WateeLoo, Ia., Feb. 7.—Tho next step in ths curious Judges Bagg and Wilenn-comrict-con- tempt-of-court-habeas-corpus case is an_ap; cation by Mr. Hurlburt’s attorneys to flmg preme Court for 3 writ of cotiorari. The writ bas been granted by Chiof Justice Cole and a :\;Fa.—seden issuod, with & stay of proceedings ill the March term of court at Council Bluffa. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Business on the Canadn Southern Railrosd is | prosperous. The road now transports a daily average of 120 cars of freight across the Detroit River. During the month of January $150,000 were oollected from importers in New York who were cherged with fraudulent under-valuation of 00ds. 5 Tho nrmboer of hogs slaughtered in Cincinnati. last weok was 2,705 total for the season, 564, 818; samo time last year, 592,811. Col. Merriam, Collector of the Springfiald (TL) District, assumed charge on the 12th dayof 1ast Octobar, and in s little over three mouths his colloctions reached §500,000. The new Court-Honse of Adams Connty, Ind., at Decatur, is now completed. The total cost is 79,000 1t i8 66 by 106 feet on the ground, fire~ prool, and_built of stone, brick, and iron. It iz u large and imposing structure. . —Arunsway team dsshed through Chicsgo- street, Elgin, last night, and run over Ar. and: Mrs, Joeeph Wright, who were crossing the strect, knocking thon down and cutting them severely. Itisuncertain yet whether thoir in~ thoati~ | wooks ago, soarching for work, at the juries are fata) or not. h —A man named Bruette, from Memphis, two Minne~ hi g o Explosive Wells, From the Clinton (Ill.) Public. On Tuesday morning ld. Henson and Cy Jonos were at work digging & well in the north- western part of the city, when Cy, who wus at the bottom of the well, struck a gas vein. As quick na thought he fastened the houling ropo about him and was drawn up to tha sarface. A liihhfl candle wag then placed in & backet and et down into the well, and as soon as the car- Tent of gas wna reached an explosion tock place. Apaity of men and boys wero standing looking into the well, and from the volume of flame that hot up some of the parties were badly burned. The force of theexplosion was felt for a distance of four or five squares, and a rattling was caused among tho dishes in some houscs. Among those who were soriously injured were Robert Millard, Decatur Millard, Ed. Henson, and Cy. Jones. The two Millards were so baidly burued about the face that for a omugle of days they could not open their eyes withont suffer- ing great pain. = Wo learn that ali the injured parties are in a fair way of recovery. Lou. Morse also tried his hend nt well-olean- ing on last Tuesday. Fearing that the well mjiht be filled with impure gas, he desconded with a light in his hand. “’Een but s fow feet down the §38 wus ignited by the candle, and a lond explosion followed. Morse was blown out of the well by the concus- sion, and thrown over an adjoining fence. Hs was badly burned about the fsce and head. He | a3 since been conficed to his bed. The accidents by the explosion of gasin the wellg in the north part of the city bring to mind the fata of poor Carroll, who was saffocated to death some years ago while digging & woll whero Heury Ni now lives. A woman who went to Lis relief carriod a8 light in her hand, and when she neared tho brink of the well the gas took fire, and an oxplosion followed that jarred the ‘uildings within a circumferencs of two or three squares, i | L Cspital. o is the first man, native and success- fu}lm the District of Columbia, td show suf- ficient passion for the placo to lay out nearly all Lia ucquisitions upon it. Buch a man may poseess eome interest, even at ibe distence of Chicago, and his lifo, apart from Lis charities, hos a force and romance. A BANKER'S BEGINNING. Hia father, Thomas Corcoran, emigrated from Irelend to Goorgotown while _Gen. Washington was a couniry-gentleman at Mt. Vernon, prior o his Presidency. Although a shoemaker, tho elder Corcoran hind the addreas and spirit to be- coma Mayor of the village ; ond the Masons of 3fasos’s {sland, the Peterses, and other ruling aristocruts, were not independent of his influ- cnce. He' dicd in 1830, soven years after his wife Haunah,—having been Maoyor, it is said, when Washington took measures fo buy the site of & cspital to encompass Georgotown. Hi threo children developed socially ard in entor- prigo, being distioguished, like Ilr. Corcoran, for large and noble sppearance, aud a certain coursier-character, to which Mr. Corcoran owes Ius_prosperity. ‘William Corcoran was placed in an humble position,—first in & dry-goods store, and then in the bankat Georgetown of which Gen.John fason was Prosident,—theson of Georga Mzson, of Vi.rgini? ‘Washington's neighbor, and the father of Jomes 3L Mason, late Confedorato emissary to England. It is a coincidence that the same ship-of-war which took Mason off the ‘Trent took LEustis also, Blidell's Secretary and Mr. Corcoran’a son-in-law. Yoang Corcoran was troneferred from Mason’s bank to the Branch Baik of the United States, opposito the Treas- ury, where he got the confidencs of the Pres- ideut ; and, when Mason's bank susponded. was delegated to dispose of the real estate which the United Btates Bank, a8 creditor, bad to take. In thosedays, the associationaof Alr. Corcorsn were with the Fedeial school; but thore was Lt politiat vife until Jackson's poriod, whea the United States Bavk was sst upon by the Ad- ruined. In building tion and that same iog lots, . awsy, and acteally roceived but $740,000 for the whole of them. All manner of churches, schools, and charitable institutions prayed o Congress for thoss lots, just es, ot present, they wrestle for the public domain, Four instita- tions, of which three wero Catholic, got 771 lots, whick are worth io-doy five times the whole aggrogate of sales aforesaid. A building-lot &b tlie proseut time, 1n aimost any part of the town, will bring $2,000’; but, about the time_Mr. Cor- coran bought, we find salos of thirty-six lots for 2126 in all. Ho purchased in tho West End of the city, near tho Exccutivo Mansion, whero the future fashion aud wealth were cerfain to be; and also bounght several of the neighboricg farms, and pursed them for years. Ono of these, called Tricidad, he hag presented to the Protestant University: ond anothor, ** Harewood,” waa 8o carefally sttended to that it doveloped gide by side with ™ the Sol- diers' Home, and, a few weeks ago, Wwas pur- chased by the Milizary Governor for upwards of 8200,000, and the money turned over to the Corcoran Gallers. Real estatein this city has ‘brought Mr. Corcoran quintuple the monty he made on the Government loans. DOMESTIC AND 50CLAL. Hia daughter died early, aud her hugband fol- lowed ber tothe gravo after s lapse of years. Alr. Corcoran has brought up the children sud made ample provision for meaa- time iolwbiting the well-kmown residence facing. tho President's Houmso, which had been begun by Thomas Swann, and occupied by Baron_Erudencr, Asron Vail, and Daniel Webster. Tho house waa Lought for Mr. Webster by soms of his Whig friends, and it i said that he_sold it like a spendthrift, and spent the money like an ingrate.” After dIr. Corcoran enlarged it, attached & noblo walled garden to it, and filled it wicth works of art, it was called the finest town-house in America; and its hospitali- tv, particularly in_Picrce's Administration, waa diseriminating, efined, and constant. Mr. Cor- | ooran bulld considerably, and ons of Lis ing tho division, sad_eading i a cunping 1i ttle shaded to match. Ib is hardly necessary to ze- mark that this dress is the property of a bloode, since few even of tho clearcst-tinted brunettes lilac gros-grun of the richest guahity. Ths bov with fringed ends. The bonnet belonging to'this costumo 15 of biack velvet, with pipinga of tho three shades of blue, and ostricb-lips i would choose to risk so many shados of blue. IMPORTIED GOWNS. A l2dy just from Paris brings several govma | 8 plain and elegant as have been promised for the last two years. Ono of them is a delicnte uplands nothing below good o oty and February, 7Xd; Maceh, 174d ; March and April, 7 15-1 The sleoves aro coat-shapo, and trimmed ab out 3 , the hand with three frills, of tao difforent bl ics, | ' 3554y, Boim 47 o, profersed, T0. {urning each way; a folded band of black meek- | Frankrour, Feb, 7.—6-208 of 1853, 98)c. Livenroor, Feb, T.—Cotton quiet; middlicg U~ Iand, 7Xd ; Orleans, 8d. Ssles : 10,000 bales; 3857 % Sslest ; peonlition 3nd ezorl, 100 SE1 smm.za“_’r eprasry 34 can, 6,300 Bresdstuffs quiet tnd unchanged. New York Produce Markets. Kxw Yorx, Feb, 7.—CoTToS—Firm ; middliag up- 1and, 16c; fotures closed weak; dales 15,700 Lal February, 15 3-13@15%c; A bt March, 15%4@15 2130 May, 16 11-16G16 233c; Juoh sTorrs—Flour quiet and unchanged: I ril, 16 732c% 1-I6o, demi-teain skirt in_guiltless of ornamentation, | ceipts, e”,ow brls, Bye flour a shade flme:fl%‘”g and hangs closoly o the figure in front and on | 595, Cornmeu dull; Western, SCBLTS: Wiy the sides. Tho waist o simple jockey bascpe, § fairly active and unchanged; rocetpty, 71,000 b, B finished by & large cord of black velvet and & ‘ o L N e trimming of Chuntilly lsco. -The sleevoy are | Sochanged: Tocelpts, 41,000 coat-shepe, and corded with velvet round the e Eirm: A % band end up the back seam,—a slightly-gathered Hors—Unchanged. ruffle of laco following the cord. Black volvet | Guocemizs—Coftre quiet; Blo, u@Ke. E buttons, set in little rosettes of lnce, close the | firm. Molasses dull Rice guiet. 15 waist. TThis robe is an ideal creation in point of | PETROLEUM—Crude, 1Y@1xc; refsd, beanty, and very real in point of good taste and | EURFESTINL-StesdyatOne oo practicability. ?e can bo readily cut from four- | Tiizoen Uhchanged 2 teen yards of sills; and just refostpon the | Troor—Qutat ; domeatio flaccs, 40@T0c; TowHbHs j differdnce between that dnd thirty! Its the | 18@sc: pulled, S1@5%c. g difference between one gown and two,—to sny | Provisios—Pork lheavy; new “},;',:K'M 4 Dothing of the relief to eyea nod body to be | cash; 18.00 March: €035 Ay, Beel M. freed from the wrotched conglomerates wo have | Teata uachanged. Middlea dal; long SE5% dared 80 long to style artistic trimmings. ! Fobruary : 9500 9-160 for April © A whito gros-grain, while it is not so sbgo- | % S5C LT February ; 95@9 910 for - lntely severe a8 Lg?fiuc, is 0s bosuliful ag.the | Mrerars—Mannfactured copper stesdy ; SN0 frosi-work on & January window-pane, 'Still, | Superior heavy st 2@y cuh pig’ ch O tho skirt 13 a demi-irain (Paris sectos tor have | Scotch, 41@4sc i Amerlead, 9G350, 1id herself of at least ono abomination—the | Bussls, sheet, 18X@17xc in gold. Narns—TGn od. . three-yard trail of s few seasons ago), buf; this % 1Lii.ma with 50 exquisito garniture of Valoacit unes Wamzr—4i Arminatsl o o ounces; four of the: gradusted in v/ Pittsburgh 041 Mari pessin; c:nwonl-shxps’ across the tablier, and Prrresvnon, ¥eb, 1.£cmda g;:ll; m:x’n?d‘% termin; on the back seum of the gacond | ‘off for s decline; sales at $1.30, Reficed bresdth. Each flounceis caijght to & u arrow | Bazd, 14xe,gAprl, 14Ke.