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THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY. MARCI-t 2, 1874 HUMAN LIFE. Lectore Defore the Philosophical Society by L N. Stiles, A Plea for the Abolition of Oapital Punishment, Elaborate and Thorough Discus- slon of the Entire Question. Hatnrday svoning Gon, I, N, Stiles read boforo thio Philosphienl Hocioty the following papor on « Ifuman Life” Tho flrst convictions of tho sanctity of all ‘haman Jifo woro implanted by the carly Chris- isns, Auimated by n zenl which know no con- flucs, sustained by o faith unboundedand {llimit- ablo, commissloned by God an_they Dolioved to prociaim s now truth, o Landful of men con- Tronted tho philosophy of Grocco with o declar- ation of fratornity of all men, dostined to an jmmortality of happiness or misory, united to one suotlior by & epecial comily of re- @emption, through Christ, whoso blood hnd boon shed by an alouing eacrifico 1o un offonded Deity. TUNORTALITY. To tho Greel and Roman tho immortality of thosoul was st best but n dim, shudowy hopo. To the Chrigtinn it was o divine truth above and Loyond verification. .o fit the soul i this lifo foi tho possible blles which awailed it in tho gorgeons ronlms boyond was o duty, to the dis- Ghargo of which tho onrly Christiun’ brought to 1us aid n horoism nnud dovotion which hna bub fow parallcls in_tho wholo history of mun. “Douth,” suld Epicurus, * doos not concorn us, for whore wo uro death s nob, and whote deuth is there we ars not) But to the onrly Christion deuth was of tho geontest ponsiblo concorn, oliim it was a gato- wity whero the body restod whild the soul pagsed on to o iisstul heavon or ton joyioss holl. To hiw this lifo, though but o pilgrimage, was the pacred gift of God, valuuble ouly for its oppor- tunitios_ to fit tho soul for heuven, yot for this nlous of o vafue inestimablo. INFANTIOIDE, Viewing the question from a purely utilitarian stundnoint, the wisesuand most humanof tho Pa- gaus but feebly condemnuced nbortion and infanti- Bile, whilo othiors, like Plato, ovon oucouragad it The'painless oxtinction of ‘& uow-born infant, which hoa scarcoely touched the eurth, which kuows nothing of its sorrows and hitlo of ity love, was little calculatod to arouso the Pogun’s sympatby, sud oven at this luta dny cruses a gorrow which too _easily assuaged, ~ Thoro aro many reasons for belioving that womo of thesa Pagan practices have nof censod ovon rmiony tho lesrnod sud cultured of our own day ang onoration. . Wo Lave little or no resson to boliove that tho dostruction of unborn inlaut lifo in the days of the cmly Christian oxcited lis pity or Louched bis beart, Yot o him this “infant lifo uad @ fearful eigmfleance, Lo him, tho moment tho unborn infant acquired anima- 4ion it bocame-an immortal soul, responsiblo for tho sin of Adum ; destined, even if it dicd unborn, tobe raised sgwin oo the last day § if it perisbed without bLuptism, to bo cust into o joyloss, endless boll. ‘o him, s to the Igan, 1t was of littlo consoguence thnt a life bk heen jout, but to him it was 1 horror un- sponkubly that o soul Lud thus boon doomed. MAN'S INHUMANITY, Itis o fact, howover, dillenlt to realize, vet o fact novercholews, that _cultured, roflued, and woral wociotics have oxisted, iu which the slaughtor of criminals or eaplives ‘has been regarded with feolings of 1o mors com- punction than the slaughter of suimals for fand, W'ho treatmont of the barbarians by the Grooks, sud the slaves snd gladintors by the Tlomans; tho treatmeut of the Indians Ly the Spuniards 800 yenrs ago, and by our own conntrymen of to- day, and tho froatniont of ‘negro ulnves boforo onr lute war, 8t0 ¥O many vovifieations of tho truth of the stntemont. Evon In our own timo men who hiave nidod most conspicuonsly in the glaughter of their fallow-menw battle huve beon doenied thorefor worthy of the nation's high- eut_bonors, From Lhe General commandmyr to tho privato goldier in the ranks what prizes woro not awarded, and what glories woro not glowerod upon, ail 'who bora & oldier's part in aur Iato great war, in_which wero Waughtored mora than 1,000,000 of fathers, brothers, sous, and lovers, Yot we affect to look brek with wondor nt tho thousands of Athenians who gath- erad to witucss the gladiatorial games, Wihoro ovou the learned sud cultured, with broasts Leaving with emotion, gozed admivingly upon tho dying strugglos of (ho combatauts, whilo " tuo lovely _a{ou of beautiful women, trembling with pnssion, looked down ' upon tho vanquished ‘gladiator, rosirato in Lho dirt of the nrous, yet calmiy urning his throat to the sword of iy cou- quoror. ! R Yo:, says an ominent Clirietion historian, “in thoir private Jifo tho Athemans wero courteous, geuorous, aud humane” In all ages men soou t0 have hud a standurd of what wo call humanity, dotormined by the genorsl condition of socicty, and hove ngreed in condomming ull who foll Delow it We condemn unhesitatingly the abor- tions and infanticidos whicl tho ftomans up- proved, Wo look buck with mingled feolings of dirgust and horror upon the slaughtor of men ut their gladiatorial games. “Who shall sny that our children or our chil- drens’ “children will mot Jook Tuck with liko feotings upon our appraval of the slaughtor of himan hoings, whether Ly tho soldior's musket or tlo hangmu's rope. BANCIITY OF NUMAY LIFE. This view, which was held by the early Chris- tians of tho wauctity of humny lifo, camo from the Ci ann doctrino of tho inestimablo valuo of cucht imwmortal soul. ‘Chioy for u long time op- posed tho shedding of Immun blood for auy tuuso, or under_nny protoxt. Thoy intorcoded for thie spaying of thiu lives of criminals who had ‘Deencondemned for the highest erimes. Mirneles, it was suid, were sometimes wrought to uttesttho inmacouce of necused or condewned prizonors, bub were never wrought to consign criminals to esoeution, Wlulo thoy found Diblical nrgu- ments Lo sustain slavory, they brought nono to countonance the shedding of Luman blood, ‘Uhe Limo camo, a8 wo kuow, when tho Christian pricsts vero willing to shod blood_cnough, aud for tho highest crimo regarded death, a8 tho just nud proper penalty. Thut bLighest erino wus not, treason, it was not murdor, 1t was herosy —unbelief, Thanks to man's love of liberty, 1t isncrimo no longor, doscrving neitlior dontl, 1ot bonds,—no, nor ostencism, The most formi- dnblo encmies 10 Luman fife Lave beon WA, VESTILLNCE, AND FAMINE, - 5o long us mon looked upon tho two Intter ay punishmonts wont by God, and songht to nvors them only by prayer and supplication, they re- mined wneonquered sud unconquorablo, They 1ivo now come, however, to ba rogarded ne al- mont wholly tho result of man's ignorauco and slothfulneds, Beientific Inbor and rosearch givo us mueh promiso that pestilenco witl soou conso to theeaten us, whilo in our own country tho probiem of how to dlsposo of all tho products of onr #oil shuty out o)l fears of famine. One of theso greab encmios, howover, remains uncon- quored, War, which has been thoimmedinte causo of vo niuch bleodshod, s 1esultod mostly from o fow cuusow: Trom roligious intolerenca ; from ho sipbation of rulers-or uations to_oxtend the arops OF, their sovervignty ; from offort s to di- Vit tho maskas of the people chintiug uudor rosl or fancied wrongs ; or, a8 1 the cuase of our lafe war, to provout tho dfsiutogiution of tho Gov- ornment, 1 think it may be enfoly eaid that in this country nt loast, under our Constitution ns it now i, one of theso ennses, viz: religious in- tolorance, is no longor suflicioutly formidablo 1o exclto our feurs, ‘o othor causes, howeror, remni, and may at any timo fan tho war pirib into a devouring flamo, TILE WAR BPILIT, That that eplric may Lo cusily enkindled, haw ‘boun shown since tho organization of this socie- ty by tho oxpros-ions of tho g througlious tho country aver the rocont *“ Virginina Affair.” I'hut excitement gave us abundant evidonco that tho Tand was filicd with patriots who, howovor caroful thoy might bo nbont the lxst, wors will- fug to shed their *“lust drop of blood” to uvenge the fusult to our flng, Tho supposed in- sult was the capturo by tho Bpamards of tho Virginime as o war-prizo, and their troutmont of Lior erow, Thounpatriotic fow wholove ponce, ad 1ot wat, hisve boon considormg whathor Lo renl insult 10 the ilag was not firat offored when it was hoisted over that pirntical eraft, INFLUENCE OF ‘TuE WAR, In thus doprocating tho war-spirit, T do not wish to bo undoigtood as fusisting that, under the prosont condition of humun afaivs, war is clonrly uunecessury, Yot I indulgo tho Lopo which Itrust {8 common toull of us that, in our day and time, no neceskity for war will ngaln erivo. That sinco our lust war thero hns beon a mnked decrouso of respeet for individual rigite, us well as for' tho sunclity of buman hio, I think is apporent to afl ob- woryiug sud thoughtlul pooplo, Fuwilingity with sconon of ‘rhnlnm% slnughtor tond, o n gonoral rulg, to lesson tho respeot for indlvidual lifo, and lend us moro cnoily to conceda the protonded no- conaity for tho inking of it, The horolo virtues of courage, pationce, nnd fortitude wero grontly strongthoned by that war; buttho noblor onos of ehinrity, love, and forgivonoss—for n long timo nonrly forgotten—ovon now aro nlmost wholly iguored in onr govarnmentol polioy, Theso, and many othor like considerations, will bo woighod moro impartially by thoso who will como aftor us, and who will dotormino in the ifght of nceumulatod oxperionco, whothor our lato end, yot 'still to us glorioun, war wns not, on tho \whole, & curso whioh might ad ought to bavo Dbeon avoidoi. Miuch lins hoon dono during the last decado 1o diseourago thio war spirlt, aud I oy, All proiso and honor to the man who hns nided, how- over littlo, in that discourngomont, and ths onconraged lhn(vrnwth of a viucore rospeet for buman lifo. hien such respect shall booome universnl among men, the killing of hnwan be- ingu will conse, whother by tho woldior's muslcot, tho assassin's fmu‘u. or the hangman's ropo. REAPECT FOR LIFE. Con wo. hettor oncourago the growil of wuch rospect for lifo's eunctity than by ourselves renpecling it? 1 concedo the forco of tho maxini, salis populi auprema lex—tho safoty of tho pooplo {s the highest law. I concado tho right of socioty to take a buman lifo whonevor stich. taking bess comos nocessary for tho enfoty of mocioty, As I know of 1o power sbovo tha forces of naturo with whom man can communicnto, or on whow o ean roly for guidance, I couoludo that tho right to tako lite must bo dotormined by man alono. Tvory momber of the Binto, using tho tonm a8 synonymous with that~ of orgamizod govormnent, holds Il Iifo and property subject to such uses and disponition us tho Btate may find nocessary to proteet its poace, or preserveit from dissolution. iu timo of war the gervicos and, in u cortain wensg, tho lifo of tho oitizon i at th disposal of the Stato, So in time of ponco the State Iy o= titled to the wervicos of tho citizon whon nocos- sury to arrost o crimingl, to stny o uunflnfrutlun, or fo disperso n riotous assomblage. Kooping within the utiiitarisn view of tho question,it will bo found that in clyilized socioty thoro are no vights, howover dear to tho citizon, of which' ho may not bo deprived whouover {ho pouco or safety of socloty require it, Inm om awaro that auother view is hold and defend- ©od with much enrnestnoss by many who ngroo with me iu the conclusion which I havo underta- ken to deduco iu this papor, viz; that TIE, DEATIL PESALTY in this part of the world is no longor neccssnry or advisable a8 o puuishmout for crime, 'That viow is oxlirnssull 1n tho idea thut lifo iy the gift of God, which Ho may recall whon it bost ploas- on Iim’; but thut man has no right to thrust it ‘back into His face as oo unworthy gift. Thovo is o great divergenco u(nfi)lnlon as t0 whether what mnny people etill call the Word of God, sus- tains a8 right or forbids s wrong tho taking of human life 08 o punishmont, 'ho law of God, 08 oxpounded by the “*man of sorrows,” woull $ieem to bo ngaingt such right, whilo tho Inw, a8 givon by God to Mosos, ns clenrly eanc- tions it. 1f woaro to bolieve Moses, God onco thought that stoning to death was tho propor ‘punishmant for the offanso of ploking up sticks on Bunday. +8o, if oue s disposed to discuns abstructly tho question of tho right to tako life, and rolies upon the Scriptures, takon ns a wholo, us authority, ho will fiud that cither sido of tho question can be sustuined, All arguments de- uced this mothod soom to me to bo _ bnse puroly upon the spoculative wnd tho idenl, snd have wo foundation in the realm of the real anu practical. Taere 18 A GOWING UNEASINESS in all civilized communities regarding the denth ponalty, By the ndvocates of that made of pun- ishmont this is looked upon as tho outgrowth of & sickly sympatly for tho crimmal ; Whilo its op- ponents think they sea in it tho evidences of an expanding public conscionce, whict renlizes that 10 man 18 wholly & brute, und that socioly ought niok to oxpeot pencoful fruity as tho results of bratal punishments, No thoughtful person now Justities (oponly at lonst) this modo of punish- nent a8 & retaliating monsure, and_fow, it auy, imagino that {6 possossos auy ofticncy in us- maging tho sngor of an offended dolty. 'ncso two modos of jushification woro onco reguded ns comploto and un- auswerabio, Tho position which is mow ontensibly rolied unon as -amply justifyiug the continuance of the dosth pousdty it ity GUPLOSED DETERRENT EFFECT. . But why deprivo the mora vicious uud eriminal portion of socicty of tho priviloge of witnossing the writhings of tho oriminat whilo undergoius sunishmont, If the morit of such o puuishment b in dts torrifying effect? Does any ous doubt ihat tho announcomeut of n public execution would draw togethor almost this outire cluss to Witness it, ns cortumly 08 tho ponceful und law- sbiding portion would stay away? 1f itis truo that tuo infliction of tlns sovero ponalty so oporates npon tho fonrs of men thas many are Joterrod from the commission of great crimes, would not great ndditivual offect be given in that dircetion by permittng tho public rally to witnoss the dying struggles of tho vietin? Undor the Jaw of this State a limited nimber only may bo presout av an executiou; aud no poron under the ago of 2L yenrs, unless ho be o relutive of tio crimmal, mny witnoss the awful death-seono, Thus the Iaw provents us from_gathering our fittle chil~ dron nronnd tho seaffold, aud impressing npon their tender minds the lessons intended by this awful _speciaclo, aud which would probably nover bo wholly offaced, Why Was it that pub- Jio oxceutions come to bo probibited, uulces it woe found that such a spectaclo tended to de- volop o coutempt or laeson tho rospeet for tho valug of life? 'Does ho Tenr denth mazk who hay seen most of dooth, or henrd tmost of it? Doos tho knowledgo that one has died by lis own haud tond o dissuade otliors from imiluling his oxample? Is donth the groutost of torrors 7 o not won fly to death as 8 roefief from oven Jifo's carcs and troubles? Do they evor seok Jjuils and penitontinvies a8 o refuge from any of iho ills of lifo?. Do men ondeavor to priliste their misfortunes or excuse their crimes by in. vitmg publio opprobrivin? Do they welcome ag n goluco for any guilt the contempt of thoir fol- sowmen? While each of us reaiizes how little ho coutrols, and by how much Lo is controiled, we treat tho criminal a8 if bis conduct way on- tirely o umtlor of solf-regulation, Weo aro ready to look back to tho fathor, caudfathor, or great-grandfathior, that we may oarn tho causo of the equint-oye or the croaked back. Whore do we ook for tho causes of lust, untrathfulness, and cruelty, boyoud tho pos- possor? Wo nro contldent we hinve tho romady for such,—punishmont. Wo neither know, nor soom to taro to_luow, tho eures which hayo gone bofore, and of which thoy are tho logiti- o aud ingvitable products, Docs no shato of Yesponsibility for crimo boloug to soviuty itself? Ave tho criminal snd vicious or the pencoful g Inw-nbiding in tho mujority? Is all virtue outside of pomtontimy wulls 7 RETALIATION. fho timo was, nid_that time was long_after tho conmoneemont of aivilizalion, when the de- wivo Lor rowdintion was alouo doomed o sufliclout Justitication for tho taking of lifo Ly way of punishniont. Aud it i6 o question deserving of 2 moro thorough exumination thun can bo given {0 it in this paper, whothior at tho presont day, in tho State of Allinois, tho real grouudwork of the domand of n lifo fora lifo {8 not the spirit of retalistion, Where, altora criminal hus beon sontoncod to suffer denth, and for any renson tho oxcoution of the sentenco hag been postponed boyond tho timo originully fixed by the_court, it liad boon found mecossary to apponl to this wpirit in various Ways in order to dis- wuadoe an_enppeal for a commutation of tho puuishment lo imprisoumont for lifo, or to render such appeal fruitiess, this spirit is osolod in various wuys, The publie uro ro- minded from timo to’time, with tlo inevitablo profaco, “It will be remomborad,” of tho bloody dotails of tho muidor, tho nppearanco and dispomtion of the body of the murdered man, and the destituto vircimstances and sor- row of his bereaved family, 8o ulso tho stolid appewtanco of tho condomned man is dwolt upon, and his apparont indifferenco to the nwtul tiorror of his orimo; the rumors utlont ns Lo bis previous wicked Jife; what the polico say of him; Iiis uttor dopravity aud indiforenco fo lifo, us momfostod by bis rofusal to Lell o Yoportor how Lo fools at tho thought of being huug by the neck Lill ho fs doud, Novertholess, somo friond of the unfortuunlo wmon proposes s pobition, addrossed to the Ohlof Iixccutivo of the biate, naking him to exerciso the power conforred upon him by law, and commuta the outonca of death to that of imprisonment for lifa at hard labor, An this appeul often commonds itholf to many of the mont peacoful and order-loving membors of the vommnunity, it 1s numeronsly sigued by thoni, COUNTER PETITIONS, It becomes necossury to bring to boar upon the Governor such influcnces ns will counterngt this movemont Lo #uavo & life, Lhis I done in varlous ways—~by vedioting, In advance of auy oxpression of opin- jon on Lis part, thut ** tho Governor hns no fu- toution of interforing in thoe onse, buv will lot tho Inw taka ity course,” as if it wus not o8 law- ful to commute or_pardon as to kill; by threat- oning him u advauco with direful politl- cal disastors, fn case ho - doos intorfory by holdng up befora hi oflicial uyos the dyoas spootro of unpopularity, These -and ather kin- dred influencos hnve been found in most cates to bo offcctive, Danfod n place on carth, oven withiu prison wulls at hurd Inbor, thuo unly i 8l lowed fo Lt tho poor wratols for Lowrath futo whioh ho s soon to bo ushorod, twisting, chole ing, gurgling ot theond of n ropo, man's pun- Islmont for a erimo which ho s assured God lina forgiven. Can sucloty, by taking lifo, tonch us to rospect b7 DIFFERING PENALTIES, How littlo calm nnd sorious thought hos boon glvon to questiona discussed in this paner by tho pooplo of our own Stato, or at lonat how lttlein- loneo b hoon oxorled wpon our logislators, is shown by tho difforont punishmonts ln;Hum) undor onr Hlato Iawe for dilforent grades of Tomlolde, It t4 difiioult to eonceive whotain tho consoquences are losa disastrous, or the moral gullt of that man is lews, who coolly and dolibor- atoly takos {ho lifo of hin follow-man in n duol, urnn what Lns been strangely called the “ floll of honor,” than he who, nddoned by passion and bad whisky, sheds Iuman life-blood in n drinking-snloon, = Yot, undor tho Inws of Illinols as (hey sloud to-day, tho tormer can be guilty ouly of a “high misdemonnor,” the oxtromo lmulnhmunt for which canuot oxcoed fivo years' mprisonment: while, for the latter crimo, the offender may bo, in the Inugungo of tho law, * hung by the neck until death ensuos,” 1OW MUCI LONGER will thia domand for blood coutinue in Illinois, in tho faco of tho hummno oxamplos of Miclizan and Wikconsin in thelr abolition of the doath- penaity, the wisdom of which las boen con- fiemed by an oxperionee of moro than tweuly yonrn ? Hore, in & Sinto second to nono in the intelligonco, tho industry, nud virtue of its poo- plo; with its institutions of loarning, cbnrity, and roliglon ; itu courls fully orgamzed, pre sided ovor by Judges unimpoached and ynim- penohablo ; with its roform-schools, its houses of corrcetion, fts gnils and ponituntintios strong and sccure,—low much shall 'wo conthiwe tho brutal prac- tico of killing. bumnn bofngs undor tho erutoxt,.thnt tho nfoty of sacioty roquiros it wvo wa ndvanced or retrogradod from tho posi- tion of some of the mombars of tho Froneh As- uombly of 17017 Snid one: “ Docs not sactoty, which” mnkos itaclf s legal modoraior, teacl murdor? " Sald another : "Tho nown having been brought to Athens that somo citlzons at Argos hind been dooimed {o death, tho peoplo sau to tho Temylo and prayed tothio gods toturn aside ihio Argives from auch cruct and futtlo thoughts, T am abont 1o pray, not tho gois, but the Ilegisiators, who ehould Vo tho interproters of thoso oxternal lows which tho Dolty bas Implanted in tuo human licart, to efface from the codo of the French {lioso'lawa of bload which command Judtctal murders 3 and which our feclings and the new Constitution sliks ropel, I will provo that (ho punishment of death is essentfally unjust ; tlint 1t bas no tendency fo ropross crimes, and thut’ 1 multipiles offenscatnoro thinu it diminielica thom, Tefore society in formed and Inw entablislied If T am altacked by b robber or an ussas~ rin, 1 must kil bim or bo killed mysoif; bit in clvils ized nocioty, wlere the power of all s concentrated agalust oe nlone, what principle, ofthior of justice or necesuity, ean nuthorlzy the publsmentol death? ‘The couqueror who kills Lis prisonce in cold blood is Justly stigmatized a8 o barunrion, A grown man who murdors u ¢hild whom o can dis- arm and punish appears a monstor, An accuisod por- son whom tho law Lina condomued § nofthor mora nor less than a vanquished and_powerless onemy, Ho ly moro at your mercy than u clifld_beforo grown wau, In the cyes of justico aud mercy, thorefore, theso death scones which are got up with a0 mucli soloinuity, oro_nothing less {han boso aeesssiuntions, solomin crites, committed, not by individuals, but by entiro ations, and of which every indiviuual must bear tho responsibility, The pmusbment of death is neces- wary, Aoy tlio parlisous of ancont barbatity, With- out’ 4t thero, esu Lo mo udequulo Bocu- ity ogalnst crime. Who folls you o7 Havo you really estimated the springs which movo tho human heart? Learn to how muny things does tho eataloguo of kumat woes Lell you tiat death isa relicf, Tho love of lifo yiclds to prido tho nvst ingonfous' of all pussions which dostroy tha leart, Tt 15 often sought ufter as o cessation of pain by tho lover, the bankrupt, aud the druukard, - Tho punisi~ mont'which 18 roally_overwholming is_opprobrium; tho general expression of publio oxccration, No ono seoka it 08 a refuge frow tho fils of ife, When tho legls- Intor can striko Liio guilty fn_eo many ways, morciful yeb terrible, bloodless yet eflicacious,’ why should ko ‘aver recur fo the buzatd of a publio ozecutlon ? Tongor Tho leglslstor who prefora death to tho milder chastiscmouts “wittin his power outrages “overy feoling oud bratalizes tho minds of the people. Sucli & legislator resombles tho criel precoptor, ko, by tho frequont 1rs of pul- niout, hglens’ aud, dogrudes tho miud of the pupil, wdston o tho voleo of fustico wnd reason, It tell you that human judgments nro nover cortuin enough for socioty to condomn a man to death; thoso who con~ down him boing men, and tiablo to error, If you liad fmngined tho most perfect aystem of Judieial ‘proced- ure, If you Lind found Judca tho most houest and tho most_culightoned, thero would etill slways remain soma placa for crror, Wherefore will you then intor- dict all means of ropairing yourerrors? Of whut uso aroslerile requosts, Hllwsory suppositions, which you accord ton vaiu shadow, to tho juscnsiblo ‘remaing’ of your victim? ey ore tho aadl witheascs of {lio barbarous temority of youlr peund Juws, To take away from muil thy pus- silility of oxpluting bix misdeed by ropoutance, or by 4ot of virtue, thus pitilessly to closs agninst him ail Toturn to virtue, to hls self-csteem, and to hasten hin to tho grave covered with the stain of bis racent crime, is in my eyes tho most horrible refuement of cruclty, MORE ADVANCED NATIONS. Let us then to & more onnobliug, and, it possi- ble, to & more chioerful nspect of tho question. ‘I'ha denth-penalty is sbolishad in Russia, Tus- cany, and in seveinl of tho Cantous of Biwitzer- Iuud, aud 1 our own country in Rhodo Island, Michigan, Wisconein,~ ond _lowa, and_ ' proctically also ' in Moo, In tholatter Btalo no oxecution ovor talos pinco uutil one yoar has oxpired aftor convic- tion, which gives the criminal time for re- pentance and for tho appearance of auy mow evidenca if ho should have been uujustly cou- demnod, At the expiration of that time, whon publio sontiment agningt the criminal has Lecomo 088 oxoitod, it is lort optional with the Governor to order lum oxceutod or dotain himIn prison, according o Lin viows of the rood and safety of tho Stntemay require, * Duriug tlirty years under this law,” tays Prof, Uphnm, of Bowdoin Collego, only one prisoner Las beon executod, nud Lio had ndded to his former erime tho killing of the Warden of the prison." GOV. BLAIL, OF MICIIGAN, writing to tho great Kuglislman, John Bright, in 1864, sy ¢ "ho desth penalty wos abolished in this Stato in 1847, Lifo is tot consldered less hecuro thun_before, Murdors ore probably less fruguent in proportion to thie population. Thirty years ago tlie populntion of 1o Stato was 400,000 3 naw it is about 900,000, Then 1t wan chiely agrieultural, now wo have mines of cop- per, fron, conl, cte,, brinigiug into proximily dissimi= v’ clughos ‘and ” incucrlug o probnblities of frequent erime, Boforo {ho abolition of tho dealh pouslty, murders Were not infrequent, but convictfons wero ' rarely obfuined. 1t beenmo tho common belief that 1o Jury could bo fouud which would convict, 8iuco thobalition, there Iinvo been fu soventeen years thirty-soven couvictions, “Chiere can bo 1o doubt that public_opinion sustaiug tlio present T, £nd Is against the restorationof - the denth povalty, ' Convietions und punfsliments are uow el 1oro certutn tha hofor tho chungo wae mies, Murder requiren i greater imuount of proof thoa auy other orimo, and it i found that o {rial for murder cxcifed no very unteunl fnterest, 1t {herefore dovs not wako o lioro of tha_ erlmiual,” Tho punishiment ix solitary confluement ot hiari fabor for life, Since 1861, Towover, this class of prisouers lave been employed us oflier prisoners, na it was ditlicult to keep thiem ot work fi cells without giving them touls, and there was danger aleo, of thelr bocotalug fukane, In a leiter, nlo to tho enme gontloman, the Governor of Wisconsin snys: Tho vil tendeney of publle oxceuttons, the groat averslon of numy o the taking of life, renderiuy it almost {mpossibloto obtau Jurars from fho More - tolligent yortion of tho community, tho liability of tho funceent to mifler ko oxtremo o henally, and so Lo placed beyond thoreach of tho parduning-powor, and tho disposition of courts and jurivs not. tu conviet, fearing tho junocent might sufior, convinced mo that this Tollc of barburisw should bo aboljshied, Tho desthe penalty was_repealed in 1633, eatablished 1l tho peoplo fnd themsclves_cqually secare, and tho publle more corlain than before, The powlation of tho Blate in 185D was 905,000, in 1650, 06,000, Wil thie largo tnerenso_of vopulation wu might oxpect lrgo Mereass of criminul cases, but thls docs 1ot uppear to bo tho case, Bo far as I havo beon ablo to ascortain, no Government which hus onco nbolished the death- penalty has deemied it wiko or nacessuyy to ro- slova " i, with ono oxcoption. Tuscany abolished it during tho latter partof thao last contury, At ubout 1850 it was rostored forn fow yenrs, during whicn tme no executions tool placo, aud it was again nbolishiod. ALL OF THE ANGUSIENTS now used in favor of enforcing the penalty of Gonth for murdsr wero formesly nrged v - fouso of like punishmont for muny lossor crimes, among which wero forgory, robbory, larcony, heresy, aud pleking up stioks on Bunday. When in England honging for stoaling was * played out,” to quoto tluug mathod, much absorved, of oxpressing nn ennobling fct, and for thiubar- TLiarous ponalty flua and imprisoument was sb- stitutod, it was found that thoroupon these erimos did not incroane, Mr. Moir, su ominont Lnglish barristor, who bas collctod aud pub- Tishod a groat mount of statistical information upon this subject, suys : With rogord to thein- fluenco of the luws Dy which for cortain crimoy tha proviously threatenad death punishmont was abolishod, statisties atlord nothing but favorablo seoounts,” If tho exporionce of othor Btatos and Govern- monty, oxtonding over & poriod of from lon lo 1lfty yours, demots.rales the safoty and wisdom of tho sbolition of the punishmont by doath, what Jovor of humanity is unwilllng to lave tue oxperimont triod in our Btato ? “THE GOOD WORKERS, Tull of falth in God, tho early Chrls- tians taught tho eatotity of = Lumun lifo, and pought o~ preserve it for the soul's sko, Thoy songht this uneided und ulone, Kull of fuith also, somo of the Chylatinus of to-tlay aro teaching us & losson of life's eanctity. “Thoy, too, are seoking to pre- gervo life, porhaps fortho soul's sake nlvo, Thoy aro not nuaided, They aro not alons, Men aud women there are, not Chrlslinns, supplomonting theiv oftorts, for bumanity's sake, All Lionor ta No Jeglslation bnw ro-. Doth. 'Thoe lifo of the foundling and that of tho oriminal mny onch bo of littlo ronl value Lo itn posuossor, Doen not tho enving of tho lifa for humnnity's sake tond moro to tho growth of n rospect for lifo than tho oxccution of the othier for tha law's sako? I vonture the opinfon that tho calablishmont of the Found: lings' 1lomo iu tlus city thros yenrs ngo linacon- tributed moro to the protection of humnn lifo onorally than ol the oxecutions syhich have tn- finll place in this Stato during tho Inst twonty onra; Hat_criminal would hardly dosorvo t o oniled n man, whose honrs would not_grow warm with bottor intuitions at tho knowledge of this moble ovidonco of min's humanity to man for humanity's sake, TEACIL Y EXAMPLE. Would wo toach our childron to bo truth- ful, wo must be trathful to them. Wonld wo have them pationt, wo must ou solvos Lo pationt. Would wo havo mon ohari- tablo, wo must deal with mon chariinbly. Would wo havo mon respock owr rights, wo ‘must rospoct thely rights, Would wo linva thom oboy tho Inws, womust sot tho cxample, Would wo bo forglvon, wo must oursclvos forgive. ‘Would we hiave mon roverenco buman lifo, wo nust show our raveranco for it, And what, in all thie wide realm of croation of which we can inka cognlzanco through tho medium of our sonsos or monsire by our ronson, {8 mora desorving of our rovoronceo, our rospect, our love, than hu- man lifo with 'all its posibilitios? YD PARIL. At tho ropular meoting of the Iiyde Park Truntoes, Saturday, thoro wero present Mossvs, Barnoy, Doylo, Gray, Stobbwgs, and Prosidont Undy. OALUMET BRIDGES. Tho rogular ordor of busiuess was suspendod to conaidor the subjeot of spcody construction of tho Columot bridgos, especially tha ono nt Ninoty-fifth streot, to accommodato South Ohi- engo and Indinn Ridgo. A hond was prozonted from Esthor Taylor and D. 8. Taylor, hor husbaud, by Oharlos H, Vouto; and C. W. Oolehour Ly W, H. Colchour, to Ohintles Groighton, for §1,600, to bo paid to him in exchange for tho samo smount in warrants of Hydo Park, payablo In ono yoar aftor dato, with intereat at 10 por cont, boing a cash advance to tho contragtor on complotion of tho brldge. Propositions wore iutroduced to accept bonds whon logally executod; to rofor to tho Attor- noy; torefer lo Financo Commilteo, with dis- erndmmry powor ; and, flually, to rofer to tho contractor himsoll, M, Crelghton goon apponred, and decided the question ac once, contract was with tho Village of Hydo Park; the bond should bo ac- coptablo to thom ; it was nothing to him. It wns resolved that tho Prosident and Clork oxecnto the coniract with O, Croighton for the bridges on tho approval of tho Attornoy of the security for the HSVMICD of $1,600 offoroil by tho properiy-owners in liou of villago warrants, with 10 por cont intorest frow the payment of the money to tho Trousurer,’ BILLS PAID OR REFERRED. Tho bill of ‘', W. Adaws, for ront of house for oloction purpoiscs, was rofused by tho Comumit- tee, bocause thoy are mob iuformed that the promises wore ocoupiod by the Villago of ilyde ark. The following bills woro approved and_paid: Nicholaa Hoingon, Calumet forryman, S82.08; Churuloy Bros. & Co., four lumbor bills, $282.67; Michnel Doyle, for nails, &e., 88,26; pay rolls on improvement repairs, §70,22, Totat, $102.20. ‘The following wero prosented and referred: Hydo Park Gas' Company, lghting strocts_and ball, 8206.163 J. 8. Scovol, services as Com- mistioner, $72.00; Sunuel G. Rnoades, map for wator-pipo assistant, $75.00; Rand, MoNally & Co., registor for coupons, £40.00; Charuloy Bros. & o, Tor lnmber, 318.81; D, W. Caolo, fecding Drisoriony, §0.00; polico poy-rolls for Fobruary, $009,60; pay-rolls on wircot improvoments, 00,87, Total, 91,508.94. TOLICE REPORT. Capt. Binford's report for Fobruary showed fourtoon urrosts; fincs nwsessod, $U0.00; fnes collected, $80.00, 1t was placed on filo, TOWN PLATS. Col. Bowon's plat of subdivision of Nlarket Addition to Rivorsdalo, being in Soc, 84, 37, 14, wau prosouted for upprova baving beon again revisod and corrected, Was again approved. TONTY-S8IXTH ATRELT. Drosideut Cady prosontod tho urgent roquout of Mr. Dupoo to have Forty-uixth utroot graded betwoon Greeuwaod and Woadlawn avouucs. Ho had built six houses thove, and could not got gos-pipes lnid to thom untl tho sireot was gmdpm]. Tho President was authorized to direct tho Bupounfondent to grado tho streat when sntisflod that it wos logally dedicated {o publio use. the third titno, and INDIANA AVENUE. - The Clerk reported that, in _nccordance with directions of the Board, ho nud the lresident had signed the contiact with John BMeGafTrey to mngadamize Indiana avenue from Thirty-ninth to Fifty-first stroet, but had not delivered tho samo because Mr, McCaftroy wished to fnsert in tho spocifications cortain additions not covered by tho contract. The subject was roferred to tha Judiciary Committeo, UNION CONFERENOE. Tho Oleri also reported thnt Lis hed rocoived communication from M. Floming, Lown Clork of tho Town of Lake, ncknowledgiiig tho roceipt of thowvitation to meot tho Hyds Park Frus- toes on tho water-works question, nud stating that they would bo preseutat 6 o'elock p, m, Plncad on file, and the masting adjournad to meet the Trustees of Lako. JOINT MEETING OF TRUSTEEH. Mosara, Coteman, Colvin, and Diake, Trustoes of tho Low of Lnko, appeared nud took scats n Joint scesion with the Trustoes of ydo Park, On motion of Prosident Cady, Mr. Coleman was olected Chairman, and Charies 1. Pope Sec- retary. Aftor considorable diecussion and adjustmont, the following woro adoptod : Itesolved, That the ** Board ” mentioned in_ Articlo 0.0f the coutract botween tho Vilago of iyde Park und tho Town of Lake, for tho conateuction of water works {hiervin provided for, to iave tho control aud munuge- ment of sald worke, shall ho knuwn as the 13 vard of Water Commissfoniers of lyde Park aud Lake,” and shall conrlst of Lo peaous to by uppoluted ws provid- ed fu gk contract, Atesolved, ‘Lhat Zenas Coleman, of Lake, and John F, Batnoy, of 1ydo Park, bonppdatod & commities (o ©xamiiio, digeat, and report rulw und regulations for tho control wnd nauagetnent of 1id works, Thoy adjourned to meot again in joint sosion Saturday mornlng, March 7, at 9 d'elock 8 m, At e Yown all m the Wowa of Lake, WOODSTOCK, ILL. A Projocted Canned-Fruit Hictory. o Corresnondence of The Chicasiv Tribua Woonstack, Henry Co,, 1ll., Feb, 8 flvo miles noxthwest from’ Chicago, on tho Chi- cago & Northwastorn Railrond, is the thriving city of Woodstaok, with a popilation of 9,000 inhabitants, Like all Iliinois towns, the’ bubi- uesd portion Jy Inid out In o squaro, with tho Court-Louse as o prominent Inudmark. Tho Intost oxcitoment hore Lins boen tha formation of 4 compuny for the manufnoture of piclles, pre- sorves, ond all kinds of ownned fruits. The oitizons nre vory ssugning hat this new branch of industry will bo_tho nu- cleus of 8 manufacturing poiut,” Fifly thousand dollarshasboensub seribod by the morchnnty and farmors. A suitable building is to bo orocted nt onco, and operations commoncod as soon us the Duilding is dnlshod. This ontorpriso is a good ono, and will doubtioss bo the menus of rulsing the prico of proporty to a lurge dogreo, ospooiatly 8o in rogard to favms, for furmiors will find n roady nnd rapid salo for all products, such wy cucumbors, tomatoes, fruits, oto., ete, . ALBANY LIVE-STOCK MARKET, Speelat Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune. ALuANY, N, Y, Marel L—BEEVES—Tho raliug of tlio market diiniilg tho wedk bos been steady and aoe tive at tho closing prices of lust week, Thuraday flio uttendanco of Eastern country denlors wan good, and {hoy toolt Whorally of tho offerings at prices eureent, On tho following duys tho attondunce was lurgely e roased by tho weriyal of ot ouily country dcafors, bt soveral leading denlers from Brighton und Now York, “Crado continued quits uctivo, neurly all thoso {n_aie tendsuco taking freely of tho offerings, Now York doulers wero the flrst t0 lead of, s, by s doing, so- cured most of tho choico atock 1 (e peus, o Brighitou dualors wero thus couglt ut n disndventage, aud woro compulled totake what Loy could of the ok emalniug, piying Cll ricoz, A woun, Baturs duy, {liers wora s (ow hundred headl st fu the yarda unsoid, bt all wero wanted, Atong tlo dealors in atlondineo was Capt, Vedoy, of Normuda, who purchused soma of Uhie best siock in tho market for shipment to the Bormuda Tslands, Mo receipts wero 5,8d houdt, Who averago quality In_comparlson with Taut week I scurecly 80 good, Iueluded jn tho Tecolyta wera many Duor nnitves, i fow gond Ghorokees, and o Tosauy, A notublo bunioh of cattlo was (bt ownod by Jienjoh Doran, of Missonrl, They smbored twaive ‘ead of Missourd stoors, sveraging 1,630 lue, Prices wors o follows Surer anp Lasns—Tlecofps for (ho week, 12, hiead, Tho local trado dowind bus beo Hmited i mont of thosy diuposod of were talten by Eustern .u-f.‘fl DUST TO DUST. The Funeral Services of Chris- topher Rafferty. The Crowd at the Church---Thoe Long and Orderly Procession, The Body Buried in Calvary Cemetery, Thoe final ack in the momorable Rafforty- O'Monrn brngody hos beon played, and the soll of Onlvary Comotery has fallen like n ourtain abovo the dust of the vietim and his destroyor. Chrlgtopher Rafterly was buriod yestordey, with ol tha formelitica that gonorally mark tio obsos quics of mon who were not molofnctors, Aftor forty-eight hours of watcling, tha frlands of the oxeenlod felon conveyed his body to the Catholie placo of sopulture. ‘Tho remaing of the do- conged woro first taken to Fathor O'Noill's church —that of the 1loly Trinity—on Houth Halsted strect, whoro the customnry servicos for tho dend wore performed by the pastor and his nesistants, Tho hoarso, adorned with (the melancholy pomp of eablo plumes, wns fol- lowed by sixteon carrioges ond by two dozou other vehiclos, contnining tho immoediate relatives and most intimato porsoual frionds of tho rash ond ill-storred dead. - Bvorything way ‘modext, gravo, and ordorly, Tho procossioniss —most of thom bumblo working-peoplo—do- ported thomselves in n mannor that might have reflectod eradit on thowe in tho highor walks of lifo. "horo woro ovidencos of profound sympn~ thy with tho law's vielim—ns much, perhaps, owlng to the misarablo citonmstancas of his l'numi, 18 to any- animal magnetism that lod beon bis gitt in this lito, Raflorty was, undoubfodly, populsr nmong hia follows, 7Tho Irish naturo is peouliarly mado up. It bus moro of dotostation for potiy than for great crime, It will shrink from contagt with' o thief, a Iibertino, m‘nfinmblur. but it doos not quiver at tho u\g t of blood, unless tho slaving be surrounded by peculiar cir- cumstancos, such ns murder for robbery or for tho gratification of brutal lust. Lxplain it who may, it caunot be donjed that the uncdueated Irish massos Linyo vory smell sympnthy with po- Ticomon,—ospecially at home. 'Lhis feoling thoy soniotimos carry with thom to Americs, appar- ontly forgotting that, in tho Unitod Btates, tho oflicer ol the law is the sorvaut of the people, not of tho despot, O'Momra waan far boltor Irishman than Christopher Rafferty. Yot the unthinliog portion of the Irish people feel moro symunthy with tho slayor than with the slain, Changothe case~makeo Rafferty tho policoman sud thio victim—and tho symputhy of theso peoplo would bo unaccountably transforred to O'Meara, The avorago uncducated Irshman dotests a club and gt buttons. 'ho intelligent, educated Irishunan sympathiscs with the miirdored officor, iu ovory case nlmost,—tho excoption being whore #aid Irishman is animated by a false pub- tic plrit, and is o profesor of tho art of doma- gogism, ' Iho Irish peoplo are provorbially im- pressionablio, ‘Thoy are swayed by their sympae thios rathor than by their reason, as n general thiug. 'Phoy aro not a cruel, treacherous peo- plo;. but they nro florco, nnd, whon thotr passions aro thoroughly ' aroused, aro often prono to blood-thirstiness. Thoy admiro physical cournge, sud have an almost barbarous adoration for anything that approaches tho horoic, Tho Irish, nino limes out of ten, will forgive thorash hand for tho sulke of the wurm hoart. ‘Cho lutter quality thoy nccord to Christopher Inforty, Ho was, in his wild way, charitable and, for this, and becauso thoy boliovo ho was peraccuted by tho polics, tho rough laborors canie to love him. In the falso glaro of his nllegod wrongs, thoy eaw nob tho hideousness of hig guilt. Thus thoy made bimo populat idol. 1Tis dauvtloss death still furthor awolt their feoling of misdireetod chivalry; and, all these things tukon iuto consideras tion, it s bardly wouderful that Houth Halsted stroob was thronged at noon yesterday, whon the funeral procession moved from Fathor O'Neill's chureh toward the Norilsweotern Dopot, on Kivgio ntroot. Whoro was earcoly room to movo on tho sidewalis, and the door-stops and tho windows woro donse- 1y crowdod by mon and women. Thore was not, nowover, tho slightost approach to disorder. Al was quiet oven to golemnity, Proceding thocortego of the murderer marched o Bohemian faneral-train, with draped colory, mufiled drums, and . brass-band playing the * Dend March.” Tho hond of this column way at first mistuken for tho brick-yards demoustra- tion, which was about n quartor of a mile in, the rear. DBoth bodies mado quite a formidable arrny, and moved nt & gaod steady paca. T'ho crowd was at ite gront- Gut strongth whon Diadison stroat was rouched, and from that point to tho dopot thore wae Dardly auy pussibility of moving nround. When the funordl-train was at length reached, tho cofiined-body was taken from tho ghostly hearso_and placed on bonrd an oxpress car, thero it had tho compavy of soveral other mortals, whose accounts on this earth bad beon recently closed. Nearly all tho othor cofling wero cased iu deal boxos, bub Rafforly’s sloue conspicious in its polisied_lid and handsomo mountings, * Christophor Rufiorty, died Fob. 27, 1874, ngred 95, was tho viguificaut iukcrip- tio on the fid. 1t told tho wholo story of his nome, crimo, 2ud punisbmont, Tulscloss and 'cold, thera oy within that cofin the victim of tho combiued dovils of ignorauco and intomperanco. Hud RafTerty boon eduented Tie might not have beeu s spasmodio drinkor, 1ind ko not **drank of the fire-waler,” O'Mears might bo still living and his own doys might linve beon Jong wnd happy I the Jand.” * Wiion sober lio was u good felluw—whon drunk a ruf- fian,” wag tho vordiet of thoso who kuew him o8k, io dopot contained somo 3,000 persons bofore the trun started for tho cometery. ‘Lhero were very many lnglhly respeetablo peoplo thero, bub (he lnboring olass predominated. ‘There was nob {ue sign of & singlo drop of liquor in auy ono. Tho “orowd was not turbulont, aud thoso to whom tho Toporters spoko’ woro oivil. Somo of them denounced the tono of tho press rather soverely, but uncknowledged thot Wue ‘vz had dove Rufforly Justice, so far as his oxccution and tho aflor-oczuriences went, They complnmcd bitterly of cortain other papors, which, they said, had beon chiotly suppotted by the Irish clement in this city, “They enid they did not want nuything but the truth” about tho whofo matter, and more 1o that offcct, “'ho Drothors Tracoy, Con_and Jak, Jokn D, Tully, Mr, Toilly, Nr, Htoidy, and other mon wall Lnown aroind the brick-yards saw that overy- thing was proporly conducted, and mannged tho funoral-train i & vory creditnblo mauner, Thero wero wovon cars dovoted to tho frionds of Rufferty alone. ‘Ilo train loft for Calvary at 1 o'clock precise- ly. A collection for tho unforlunsle fawily of {ho haplews criminal wus taken up on board, by tho ocitizens alroudy 'I"»"'“d' und & vory huudsonso amount was rafsod, “for Coitio genorokity was wido-awalo on that oceasion; and tho ;igl.\t of tho wrotchiod old fathor of Rufferly was/ a sufl- cient reminder to {he charitable. The train renchod tho burlal placo at ten minutes pust 3 o'dlock, and the hnd*’ of Christophor Railerty, tho unfortunto, the bloody, aud tho Lruye, wak lowered into tho bosom of Lhat dust to which his own hns returned, ‘Tho tears of tho rugged mon aud of sympatbotio womon dropped upon ihe collin-lid with the earth, = whoso dull oraat mur 3¢o por b ghor than lust veek, Thy ny. oo quaily af tho (S_l’l.-}mmn o ng: 0 ool O N om, BX@TH0; extes, B0, No e Ianuhi worlly of noto. " lea of sound procluimed tho lnst of tho man-slayer, "Pho durk soil was shioveled thick and fnst upon the body, and it was stamped upon above tho corpae, 80 that the body-suntchor might ot ply Tiis ghnatly enllivg, Who green sod, ont from tho 1rosh sward of the promature spring, was 1nid npon tho humble mound, and tho monrners kneit around it in brief prayor for tho eterunl wolfaro of tho soul of him whosocrimo had beon torriblo and whoso oxpintion hed beon great, Torhaps nbove thut lowly grave, tho Angel of Moroy inspirod many o young Loort to forego forovor tho awful fompiations of tho bowl —for whut lesson could Lo more power- ful than that just road in, Calvary Comctory: “An oye for nu oye, & footh for a tooth, & Jife for's hifo™ ? ‘I'no Jaw of Tlinols had fultliled the ediot of tho Beripture, and full justico had been done. “Thoroforo, scoing that the Inw i aatisfied, and that the Llood of Rafurty hun condoned for thub of 0'Mearn, it muy not be innppropriata to apply o words of Beott Lo the vharactor sud doow of Christophor Ratlorly : ——Ttooted stood, fn manhooid's hour, “Tho weeds of vive, without thiir flowor, Tiut sihll tlosoll {1 whiels it grow, Trud it beon tamed, whou lie was new, Ifud yiower und vigor to briny forth “Tho hardlor frults of virtiious worth, Tootl an bb wan, 11 net snd mind, e Jeft no bolder hvart bebind, SUICIDE. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Quinoy, IIl, March 1,—The Coroner, ausialod by the puhum ling boon ongngod to-duy in dinge ging tho river for the body of young woman who Is “Imoud to hnvo drowned herself Inst night. Fhis morning a pockot-book, mmuft, shawl and bonnet woro discovered on ono of {iho whavfbonts, and from papors found 1n the poolu= ot-hook, the articlos wore {dontifled as belongin, to n young womnn who passed by the name of Addlo Thompson, Bhe cama to Quincy on tho 16th of January, and rogistorad ab ono of the hoteln an Maggie Olinton, from Jefferson Oity. 8ho was nbout 20 years of nge, and not of good roputntiott, — M’KINNEY, TEX. A New CourtskHousces=thor Improve= monty, Correspondence of Tl Chieano Tribune, MaKinngy, 'Lox., Iob, 26,~Thoe County Court of thiy (Collin) county yostorday made nt order to bulld s Court-Houso' nt this placo (to bo paid for in onsh), 102 by 08 foot, Mausard stylo, iron cornico, stone trimming, brick work,fand s Droprinted 1ot to ozcaod B08,000 Tor tho work. ‘I'ho Court ordorod tho nrchltect, Wheolock, to advertiso for nmynmlu in Tur CuicAuo Trim- vng, Bt Louls Republican and Xnnens Oity Tinics, Pinus and spocifiewtions of tho work to bo on exhibition In twonty days, at the Clork's oftice at this ]flncu. ond ot tho nrchitcot's oflico at Bhormnn. 'lox, This is o cash job, as I said before, Our county doos not owe a cont on onrth, and now hay in tho Treasury £22,000 cash unapproprintod, Ono of the flnest morchant flourlng mills in the State iy boiug buill horo, our nnudsome | churches aro also comploto and boing built, A sehool-house, costing §7,600, waa rocontly built. 1ho country is rapidly sottllig up, and prospor- ity and good fcoling sbound. Bechanics and working-men can find cash omploymont licro. ‘T'ho bealth and climato of this seotion cannot bo surpassed on the globe, and a now-comer moots with n warm and choorful solcome. SUNDAY’S NEWS. Local. Adnm_Brown, pline Barrom, tho Tremont Flouso jowelry-robbor, rocolved his sentonce— wovon years in the Ponitontiary—-nt the hands of Judge Moore nst Haturdny. Thomns Contes, Who plondod gullty to tho manslrughtor of For- guson, wns sonténced to ton yours' jmprison- mont, —F'ho engos against the quack doctors cbarged with gendiug obsceno matior through tho muls wore disposed of in the United Btatos Cironit on Snturdsy. Fines wore imposed na follows : Dr. Bigolow, $6005 Mr, Horton, §100; Dr, Phillips, &900; and Dra, Monroo, Jordeu, and Sbipp, 100 onch. —Tho will of Rafferty, who was hung at Wau- Kkegan Inst Friday, exprosses s dosiro that bis body, as found at death, bodolivered to his rola- tives, without uy post-mortom oxamination or disscclion _ bis roel “and porsonnl proporty fa loft to kls fathor and mothor; thonks arc ro- turned to bis counsol and frionds, aud_ forgive- noys is asked of sll whom ho may bave injured. —~T'ho Lrial of Sorg. Hood bofore tho Board of Police, on tho charge of unlawiully filling out & warrant for tho arrest of Chris Xnflorty,—in ouulsting to sorve which Policoman O'Mearn was Killod,—was rosumed on Baturdey. Testimony was takon to show that 1t was tho custom of po- lico offlcors to fill out and werve warrants signod in blank; and the caso was continuod until to-day, The National Capital, Bon Butlor lind the audacily-to pass o potition around nmong the Massachusotts dalegation Sat- urday, asking tho Presidont to appoint ex-Col- loctor Russcll to ba Minister to Vencziela. The fun was not relished by his colleagues, ~Tho United States Buprema Court will con- vone to-day, after ita recoss of soveral weols. Ceief-Justico Waito will bo sworn in ‘Tucsday or Wednesday, afior tho largo numboer of opinions ara dolivored. He will, however, meeb the Jus- tices of tho Buprome Court in the robing-room ooy, and praceed with thomn iuto tho chams ora., ~ Mr. Favwell, of Illinois, hos introduced a potition in the House from Prof. Xdward Pow~ oy, praying to Linve 1ho probability of producing raintall” by tho use of artitlory tested. The pe- titionor ropresents tiat, if the commonly ac- coptod theory that rama can bo bronght on by bagis established upon winch to found a systom for tho provention of sovere droughts with thoir consoquoncus of short orups, and thio doatruc- tion of forcsts by fires, ‘The potition wont to tho Committee on Agrictlture, ‘The Farmers. A convontion of the Farmors’ Aseociation of the Ninetcenth Congressionsl District mot in Fuirfiold, LI, on Friduy, Ono dologato was presont from each county, It was tated by Mr, Toster, in_calling tho meating to order, that its Pirpose was tho offccting of & Cougrossional organization. Yhore were threo quoestions to bo coungidered by the Convention: Shall wo run & Tarmers’ ticket in this district this coming full ? 1f wo Iput out a tickot, where and whon shanll-wo hold the nominating Congreasional Convention ? What shall Lo the basis of representation ? Carmi was choson n8 the place for the noxt meoting. ‘Tho popular voto of 188 was at firat takon g thio busis of roprosontation, and it was agroed to llow ouo delegato for every G500 votors. But tho voto by which this basis was adopted was reconsidered, ud, aftor considorablo discussion, tho Convontion decided upon » sysiom of ropro sontation, ns follows: Ono delogata for ench county orguization of cither club or Granga ; one for every 200 ‘mombors of tho club, and for each fractional part thercof not loss than 100 5 and Granges whero tho mombors do ot belong to clubs aro to bo representod on the same bosis, This gave satisfaction, and harmony and good- fooling wn ngain rostored. Tho Convontion concluded its Iabots Suturday mornivg, and the following call was issued : Farmerse® Nominating Convention for the Nineleenth Conigressional Uiatrict. A_Convention will bo hiold ot _Carmy, Whito County, on Wednesday, tho 13th doy of August next, for the urpose of nominating s canilidato for Represontative n Congress from tno Ninctenth District, Each county hiaving a farmors’ orgontzation ehall bo entitled to one delogat, and one aduitional for cach 200 mem- Lers or fractiounl part theceof above 100 of {lio Purm- era’ Club oF Orungers not membors of the club, The Qelegates preseut will cast the entlro poll of {lielr re- spective countles, ‘Tho credentials of tho delegatos from each county must bo accompunied by the certill- cafo of the Presidont and Becretury of the Yresldont and Secretary of the Assoclation or Council, showing tho nmubor of membors of the Club, and suth Grau~ gers a8 re not metmbers of the Club {n cach connty, W. I, Fowler, Chalrmau; A, J. Dritlon, Seorotar} 2. 1t, Moss, d, Laud, 3, B, Siark, Tsanc Smith, A, M. Sieriuau, Nathan Crows, M, J, Jones, Commitfeo, Logal. . Tho Rov. R. L. Bornitz, Becrotary of the Amorican Biblo Union, of Now York, bns bronght Buit against tho St. Louis Demoorat for libol, claiming 350,000 dumages. Ho wns snid by the Lemocrat to lnyve hnd improper rolations with oue of the boardors iu tho Plantors’ House in St. Louis. “Buoz, ex-Presidont of Sants Domingo, was arrosted in Now York on Saturdny on tho com- phint of Davis Haleh, & wonithy residont of Conuccticut, who briugs nction on a chargo of couspiring aguinst his lifo, liborty, ~snd property. Hatch alloges that he sequired Dossession of an immengo salt mine in Banto Domingo from tho Spanish authoritics, and that 1o wus tuddonly nrrested and chargod’ with bo- in s{‘mpnzhy with tho Cubral faction ; sont to rigon, kopt thore fivo months, brought before a rum-hond court-martinl, summarily tricd, and sontonced to donth, lo ‘was thon pardoncd by Daoz, and his mino _coun fiscated. 'The complnint Tevites o story of frightiul corruption, fraud, and villainy, Bail was fixed at $25,000. . Forelgn, Connt Borrano has been doclered Prosident of tho SpavishRepublic, aud Gon. Zabala, the Ministor of War, is appoiuted Presidont of the Council of Ministors. ~~he trial of the Tichborne clalmant, on the chiargo of perjury, which bas Jastod 180 days, resulted Sutwidey morning in bis conviction on all eharges, and ho was gontenced o fourteen yoars' pouul servitudo, State Legiulnturos, Tho Legltluture of Iowa has passed a conour- ront resolution ugrocing to adjourn sine die March 11, —'I'ho Mississippi Logielaturo has bogun the coneidoration of u bill to rogulate railrond faros. I'ho design of tho billis to roduce faros from 133¢ fo 4 couts & mile. Miscellnncoun, Tt s roported, on whit scems lo bo good w thority, that the Convention of Railroad Eny neors at Cloyoland lust woel decided not to en- gogo in & gonoral sbiilke, —Tho Grand Jury in Ban Franclsco Lavo ro- ported that, aftor Lio most careful oxamination, they cau find nothing In the conduct of Mayor Otis and Yreasuror lobart that desorves oven tho mildest consure, The Tronsurer wis E.;ullty of a lechnical violation of the law, but nol even this fault oan bo charged agninst tho Mayor, —T'hore i4 nothing now to report concorning tho Women's Tomporance Crusade, In tho Wost the movemont {s minking somo progrons, but in the Iinot the advantngo scems to romain with the nnleI-kofi}mru. io Lowls' namo as a great temporanco roformer drow au_audiouco in Now York, Saturday evouing, that only half filled Ansocintion Haull, and this i & faic ‘mdieation of tho succoss that hiis oforts In that section of tho country meot witli, —Disputehos recolved trom uppor lako ports indicato au unnsual oatly oponiig of navigation, At Murquetto micd Whitofish Poiut the ico is 14 to 24 inches thiok lu the hurbors, but vory litlo caunonading is found correct, thore will bo a. aru ontly e, I W50 luss thun € 1 outside. In 8ault Bto Mario Rivar it is 20 Incl thick. Tho oldost inhabliant there n!llcnlflL:l.l onarly bronk, Tho fco at Mnckinno Hiraits is lightor than for many years, boing only 10 to 14 inchen thisk, A weol of warm wontlior wonld robably cloar tho siraits, 'Choro in vory Mitle ice il Linko ITuron, and that is quito thin) —_— LOCAL ITENS, /7, 2o ntoro of Ar. Colien, merchant-tailor, at. No. 2'34 Blato ntroot, was ontored vy burglars Inat might. A mombor of Jmmot's polico forco #nw the roar door of tho placo open and was. aboutto.soarch fortho thioves, when nman walkad out with 5 packngo of elothing in Lis arms, and attompted to mako way with thom. 110 was pursued, ated tho clothing, yalued at $350, wos recovorod, /b thiof cecaped. "o alarm o fir from Box No. 846 ab 6 o'cloole Iust ovoning wis cawtsed by tho explosion of o, korosone lamp #1 the Lwo-story frame building at No. 185 Wout Dol streot, Tho promisen arg owned by Charles Quiun, nnd ouunglnu by Dot ricl Ford s a ealoon and_bosrdiug-houso,” Tha. building was not dnmneged, but Ford sustaing & loss of about §60. No insuranco, g — MARRLAGES, B Wiwowoulbsliein o A T TE P ET L y TORT_VATIH—_Tob, 35, a1 09 Abordson-st.. b T e B e hmnes G and ra. Miusour] Yaton, o \Wasilgton, D, O DEATHS. DAPARTIZ-AL 78, m., March1, at tho rosfs t s fathor, Willlam B, hpn:l’:.l Ed:nr, ;nrlfllun!i'lmzflgi aged 3 yoara sud 7 months, I"anoral March 3, atd pe m, . Kanknkeo papors plonso copy, KNOTT—Suddonly, at Elgin, 1., on Fridny afternoon, , oot Trum osldunica to-morrow (Fusedar) at . MEDICAL, B St UV UPU S Hfl U’SEH@LQ' Why Will You Sufler 2 To all porsons sulloring from Rhoumatism, Noo. rolgin, Cramps in tho Limba or Slomncl, Tl lous Colie, Paln in tho:, Iack, Bawels, or Stdo, wo! ub wauld ez, Tz Housea| HOLD PANACEA and FAN= 1Y LANIMENT is of all] i toral uso, 1t has cured tho abose complaints fn’ honsanis of casos. Thero - isno mistako about kb, Try 2 u | it Soldbyall Druzgicts. AUCTION SALES, By GRO. P, GOl & CO., 08 & 70 Wabnsh-av, EXTENSIVE SALE OF DRY GOODS ? ON TUESDAY, MARCI 3y AT 9% A My ANOTIHHR Blegant Liuo of Fing LINEN GOODS ] Tn Ladies’ and G , Tablo Damask, = Naykius, Doylion, b par e Dgmeshy doals “Riso, 5n unusually fino display of Embrofderies, Tnsoe* tlons, iid;tlnf-. Rtuillings, ¥rillings, Ladies' Liuon Sots, Collars, Culln, &g, Ladles' aud Gonts' Underwear, Gonts' Furnlshing Goods, 1Tnta and Oaps, Overshicts, Cotton and Woolen Ilu‘s‘lur], Fino Black Alpacas, Gloves, Blaukots, Plated, oadt, Gliats, iabrollan Window Stadon e, 50, B «'cluck, clal offering of 21 o Venotisn, nid Ioutoh Gsrhets: by tho Tol = 7 Gataluguoroady Sucsey ot GLO. P, GOilt & CO., 68 and 90 Wabuah-av, OPENING OF OUR Spring Auction Sales end Top. Buggles, vand T Watons, e, on IUESDAY, Marchd, at10a, m. agord of iork for actuatadrvieo, as ral aa Lo ook aty will flud us prepared, for thom, GEOL"P. GORI's 00,, Auctloncecs, 63 and 70 Waliash-av, From and After March 1, ALL OUR SALES OF BOOTS AND SHOES Wil be by Catalogne, and FULL and COMPLETE tn att lings, WEDNUSDAY, March 4, wo shall ulior an s sortmont tiint, Iu oxtont and varloty, wo hnvo novor sur: passed, and dbriog <ho veznon 00 goud mamutagtusor of oois and hnea will go wneencessniod, GEOQ, P, GORE & CO,, figul‘!cn:wn; By WL A. BUYTERS & CO., AUCTIONEELS, NO. ADISON-ST., (Boiween Doarborn aud tlark.) SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO REAL ESTATE SALES. Buggies, Plactons, Hamess, &., WEDNESDAY, at 10 'olock, at 108 Madison-st. DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, & __ THURSDAY, ot 10 weluck, at 103 Madisonat, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, On SATURDAY, at 93 o'clock, at 18 Madisonat, ' PEREI&P‘Q@RY SALE Unimproved Properly 1IN THE West and South Divisions, On Monday Morning, March 9, 1874,. SALE COMMENOING AT 10 0'CLOCK, 1t At 168 Madison:st., tho fol- A ntad Tn Rockwalls Babuistion 1 others tho remedy you!, BY CATALOGUE. o Tand] e singto and doubloseateds tingly and Doublo ot Lot b, 1] 3 0% 1.;«{'“ 44l front, on Owasca-st., belng tho north 3. o A ot 8, Blovk 3. 9 foot, snuth front, ‘on Jacksun-st., betng south 3§ of o 11, Blook 2. 99 fout, north (raut; on Adoms-st., bolug the north § ot Tavii sosk ™ 7 99 oo, wost front, scuthomst coror Stato and Fifty-first- ts,, 161 foat deop to 2e-fout alle, 9 ool "cant Routhiwost. corne Wabash-ov, and iy M o gyt ot b, b Bty feot deopy to 20-fout 4l Thio abavo proporty whll bosoid In lots of £ foot, with. 0 n tha vrivilego of wholo of onch tract, “Corms \eill by mada kngwn befora tho dav of salo. WM, A. BUITERS & CO Auctipno By BLISON, POMEROY & CO. Bankrupt Sale, AT ATTCTION. Engine i Dollo d entive fixinees of 8 BRIOK YAID, "slttnteit batwoon Julin aud O Noilate, fruntivg on' Budtiniton bliv, On Mondy, Mareh 2, at 2 p. m,, Qonsfeting of 1 Engine and Bollor, § Briok Machinos and ; also Sheds, Trucks, Carts, Baddles, o., &o. o Helok Wagons, tho Uiliso Tullding, tron Safs an urnituro, and Tonso of Promiues. A ool clisucs Uro Ay o v e brsinioss. Bold dor ul W iy Erg it by ordor g INGN POMIROY & U Tuosday Morning, March .3. 25018 o'ulou—l; Spoctal Sale of & latio assortmont of GENERAT: MEROHANDISE, NEW & SECOND- HAND FURNITURE, CARPETS, ETC, Onoaplondld now Piano, full, ronud cornors; n larga Tot of Qhiromas, Ghiambor and Parlor Furniture, Cariots, Diciug.room Faraitire, Hodding, Orookory, Plitodwars, aad Gonerl Morelinudlse: ofo.. ELISON, POMEROY & €0.. Auatlonco .. Stnad B andoly BY HODGES & € Real Jtatate Auotionovrs aud Comminfon Merohants, AMarblo Front Auotion Huots, 633 West Laka-sts NO. 688 FULTON-ST., AT AUCOTION, On Monday, March 2, at10 a, m., Wouilh sall tho ontieu gontunta, consistiug of Fuglh Jiody Meuwsole, -y, wl Lagratn Carpute besuiif Parior Fuenitito, Staol Kngravigs, Matblo-top T Ghanber, Dininiz,’ und Khoon® Parnituce, Grooko Glusswars, Cutlory, Plated Ware, &6, &0, Thy : ok Salo ok ive nifis, 50 Withdu rdaorves | 16 10 RURAEOR, Auove,