Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1874, Page 2

r . 1HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1874 THE -TEMPERANCE WAR, Tho Chiongo Ladies Move in Force upon the Mayor's Office. They Ask ilis Honor to Veto tho Sun- day Ordinancos To Which He Replios that He ls Pledged to" Approve It govoral Poorly-Attended Temperance Meetings in the Oity Yentdrday. Reports, Favorable and Ofherwise, from wi Other Citles and Towns, IN CHICAGO. The friends of Temperance did comparativoly littlo yostordsy. An npplication Lo Mayor Colvin to induco bim to veto tho Sunday ordinanco was wnsuceessful, and tho temporance moetiug last unight was lurgo but siot epecially enthusiastic, —— i THEE APPEAL T0 THE MAYOR. A party of fivo Indios, ropreaonting tho Ex- scutive body of fifty, wero dotniled yostorday morning to wait upon Mayor Colvin and present Fahim . natitian _aeldne bim o, voto the or- dinauco passed Mondoy night. cortaining that tho Mayor was confined to his room by an ailliotion such a8 Job sufferad from whon his ox- porionca Liad progrossed to about the aums point, tha Iadios found thoir way to tho Shermat Houso aud sont up their cards. Aftor walting ten minutes or so, which time was spont in canvossing the best methods to moot tho- coming intorviow, and fixing in thelt minds the speeches they would mako, thoy wero somowhint discoucorted by recoiving an oflor toconto np tothe Mayor's privato nudicnce- room. Pussibly tho epeeches were lost on tho iy up, or tho embarrassing natura of thoir strand made thom fil at enso; at any rato whon thoy reached the Mayor's prosenco thoy weto IN A MEASURE DEMORALIZED and failed o shosw tho bold front and purpose which animated them. This was a tomporary weakness, however, which courtesy to the sex will rendily oxcuso, fot, alter being cordinlly re- coivod nud oach shrken by tho Dond and in- vited to bo seated, the Chalrman, Mrs. Wilco, drev fortli o paper, and witliout & word hendo it to Mr, Colvin, Tlio Mayor, who bad his head nontly done up'in o whito cloth which was indi-, dntive of mental or phywieal distress, ‘nccepted tho documiont, and, assuming tho privileges of au invalid; BEITLED DAUK IN T8 'EASY OHAIE, ond deliberately began its porugal, "Who ladies in the meanitimo drow u}) ilieir clinirs in & semi- circlo, aud purroiindad the leador of the Citizehs' party, and for a fow moments silonce profotind ousued, Tho paper which tho Alnyor read was »a follows: 3 TIE PETITION, W, tho undéralgned, o commitivs appolnted by the Iedics of the variows ‘churches of this olty, aro fus structed to waft upon your onar, aud to o upon you tho propriety and solemn duly of withloldiug Jour offiels! sauction from an ordinanco passed by the Uotnmon Gounell Mareh 10, 1874, entitied An ordin- ance amendiug Sec. 1, Chap, 50, and Beg, 3, Chap, 28, Tiev, City Ordinances,™ 4 Wo can, in this papier, only eall your attention to » fow of tho many weigh(y reasons why (Lis hot should nol bécome & law, 5 1. 1t breaks doin thie safeguards of fho old ordin- afice, whder which our city prospered so many years, ‘Wo submit st this s not been domanded " by the men and women whoso industry, intelligence, and purity linvo been tho foundation df 1o growll of our loved vity, In coufifmation of thia wo submit that | 19 mob wiifch lined our sireots and crowded the yiaks- ageway of our Uity Talt on tho night when sald or- Aianco wan passed, ineulting our most respectable indies, who bora a remonstrance of 16,000 of tho moth- cre, iives, and dsughtora agaiust thd repeal of tho 00d ordinance, azo not the men who boat nnderstand L cloments of our city’s gtowth, On the contrary, did they not mnifest4hnt tecklessness of the deuigns of elyilimation bo chnruBkeristio of malooh education? fifi- Xt doea 1ot manke n probibition of guiniug s cone Y 9thic liccuse, us wan dono under tho ordinauce ek BWhy s {he following condition oiitted bering? . Was it not n good port of tho con- 1Y W Aud that e, the saloou-keoper, will prohibit Al gaming, with o without butting, by means of shy cards, dowiuoes, dice; or ather avticlos of luck or eliancn,” Hero §8 o door thrown opon for an additional sid dougerous Induccment fof young moit to spend . fho Sabbath ih suloous, wileh, wo_submit, was not sonfemplsiod by wuny Who siipporied th People's Party. Wo féel that you will never approvaof it, 8 Tt provides. et be' il feeop closcd all Aours opning out upon nny strec from tho o or room whero auch llquors aro sold on Sun- day, and that all windows opening upon any wirect Trom such bar or room whero sich Hquors aro sold thall bo provided with bliuds, shatters, or curtaine on Sundays, soas Lo'obelruce tho viow ffom such streets o buidti foome,” It allures by its secrecy, Itsecks to avold publio -ppinion, & most powerful afid iu securing good order. ti sbuta out our polico, and rendors it jmpossivlo to siirb nnd control thoso evil passlotia and disturnonces Flifch ure produced by tho froo wss of intoXlcatiog rinks, 4, It permits a trafo on. tho Sablath, which s ulways fraughit With ovil, It increnscs the dauger tehfold by reason of the non-employment of our citi- o on it day, Mooy will go L6 taloons when 1t 18 greatly nceded in families, Why should not saloon- :Awrun_, couform to' our customs and prevent the anger \\'hm)' “ obetruet tho view "7 Tf the view s not fit to o seen fa 3t v fo bo? Ty this tho way o educato freo Amorlean citizens? Is this our bossted personal lit- Etty—to ldo bobiud doors, ond bliuds, oud shutters, aud ucreons on Sunday? The future hietorian of Chicago may havo some dif- flculty in Linrontzing this ordinanco with” tho spirit wo oxbibit {n olher matters, Wo awk thnt you veto tho ordinance—to preserve self-repect, or, ut leuat, thio appenrauce theroof, among Sunday knloou-visitors, 6. 1t 80ta at deflanco our Stato luwa and. vroposes o Licwnso that which §s theredn forbidden, Chicago is auder tho Stato lnw, which was sustained by our coutls, Wil you pefmit your responsibilitica to ba thus complicated 2 i e i It 8 coutrary to tho Jaw of overy Blateln the nion,” § 7. 1t 18 conlrary to the religlous conviction of every sect i thi city, and uf the spirit of Cheistianity, u unterpruted by il the followers of Ohrst, and of tia Tewish faith, Termit us, thon, wo think with confidence, to appeal to0 you by all of thiese conniderations, and i1 hebult of Anioricat _cltizensllp, ‘founded bn intelligonce and pitelty 3 of overy victi,of intemperance, aud in behnlf SE prosperons, Uappy Lotues, of good government, uud #hio honor of your administration, to provent the'con- nummation of an act which wili db eo_much lo destroy ind 60 littlo to bulld ap; aud whick will be uo destruc- ave o a pura loye to man and to God, Mre, ‘Thonias Wilce, Brs, O, 1L, Biackall, Mrs, W, W, Wirt, Mrs, I, T. Turbush, Mrs, F. A, Conwell, A TADICAL DIFFERENCE, By the time his eyo had followed down about balf the pages of the foregowng dooumout, an interjectionnl remark to the offect that he saw tley wero tempernuce womes foll from his lips. “Yes," rosponded & lndy, “‘ we hopo you wilt grant our payer.” ‘Tho Mayor (still reading)—Thoro; 1ago sbout the harm, aud ail that, I don't ugroo with you, Indies. I don't bolieve it wilt be botter 40 tloso the saloona, Hero the Yupur Toll in his lnp, and its reading as not agnin resumed. QU TO THE HOUROE. The ladios looked astonished and unpropared at this:outbreak, Aftor vonsidoring mentally whiat it would bu hest to de e of thom finally made bold to ask, ** Why no 4Woll, the fact is," responded the Mayor, I do not sco why you should come down 8o hard on tha poor saloon-koopors, 1f you want to gat this ovil remediod, you had beiler go to the fonrea—go to tho roprosoutatives in Congroms uyd potition thow." . *Yen, but we must make n hoginning, and we want the Mayor with us,” artfully roplicd u lndy. THE HOLEMN PLEDOE, 1t is of no use to ask me Lo voto that ordl- nance, Leannot doit. You know as woll as I that I waw olcoted by 80,000 cltizous, snd I guve " plnd?’u to them that 1 would sustaln this mons- ure. L must do it." “But you do not boliavo it is right 2" My doar madam, theroaro ton thousand thinge in this city that aro nob right." +* But that does not alter tha justico of this.” T nin not 50 suve about that ; may be it daos, and muy bo il does not, st any rato 1'am pledgod toit. Yon ought to avo gono to Bond, He way n nomiuco of your purty, aud was i office sovoral waoks, ond, If he wanted to, conld have had such an ordinance, All the newspapers in Chilongo wers against mo, 1was tobe the nomince of the Republican party, but thoy went hack on me, ) am sutisflod that Medill was” sorry that ho bad lutorfered withs the enloans,” THE BOBAL HIDE. ¢ Rut, a8 8 moral Christian wan, do you not Shink ic is au awful- shume to Chicago,” aud do ou not think it your duly to close the ealoons ou Lo Lord's duy ‘The Mayor declined to be considered as & Christinn man, “ I havo promised to support the mensuro, and I will do 1t," wald his llonor, Wwith o Jucksaninn compression of the lips, ** I will sign the bill, ft wonld do no good any wuy to grant your roquest, ‘Unlko o ouso In polut § it that pas- wonld be Just 1ko trylog to suppress & bilo,—it I ourd it ih ono pluuul! bxgonka gf:c in onother, I bollove the best thing -that osn ba dono Is to malo thon closo’ the lIront doory and wintdows § you eantiot do mord than thls, and this will bo o gront rcliof in summor Umd to thoso golng to church, .It was a shamo to have thom open, ‘I'his wngnnrded exprossion agnin aroused tho drooping splrits of tho Iadios.who roturnad to tho tasl of presonting the moral sido of the subject. Bovoral inatancos of drunken husbauds woro narratad, and sons who could got whisky on tho Habbath dag. . NUTTERING 1. Tho presontation of the points wat rathor con- fused, as the Jadies had boon met by politicel qnestlons tipon which thoy wero not ‘mu(ud. whila the Mayor stondily {ghored Bny othbr as- peot of the case, Al last a.lady bolhought hor of that skilltul potion, flattery and olf-itorost, and thus instilled it into the oty oMclal's car: * Mayor Colvin, o not yor want vor{y good, truo woman in this city to oleotioneer for you noxt yoar " "I'his wns a now fontire in tho chso t but, aftor Infiting his brows, and probablyfenstitig 1p tho votos, the Mayor ropled that lio uclioved not. Onco moro tho ndios looked praysrful, and tho Mayor again Innchod fnto the polltieal tide, Hlo thought that thers Wwae moro whisky sold whon Madill closed the saloons Sundsy than sin¢o, 'Thio dritg stores, which sell the poorest liquor in town, wore alwhys open, sud poople bought it by tho bottle and drank it by the nart, whore.thoy used o talko only a singlo nip ofore. r NELIOTON. Porociving tuat ho was iheorrigible, the ladies sont in final shot askine him It ho did_ not bes Hovo it was bk roliglous daty lo help them ; to which ho replied With a bland smile thnt that wan o question it Wwould tako a long Lime toarguo, and the Indies acoordingly. withdrew. ——— THAT ROW MONDAY NIGHT. It will bo remembered that Tucsday, the Rev. Arthnr Edwards oalled upon Bupt. Rohm, Gud LI Llu- ARG w poibunel fileed ef Ll *had stated that Capt. Buckioy sald that the In. dios ind 1o right to coma to the Common Conn- cil, 'I'ic using of this langungo Copt, Buckloy denietl, Yesterday the **frioud,” who is J, B, MeMullen, of No. 106 Washington streot, visited Mr, Rehm, and snid HE UEARD CATT. BUOKLEY utter tho words objectod .to, nnd that ho wvan willng to mnke afidavit to the fact, Capt. Buokloy still donles having weed thom, and ns- sorts thnt Mr. MeMullen must bave mistaken somobody olse for him. Bupt. Robm disclaims auy responsibility for the insults of tho mobj Lo sont Capt. Buckley to tho Council Olinmber with twenty policomen to proservo order, and it wos proserved as well as it possibly could bo done. ARTHUR EDWARDS' PROTEST. The follosing lotter from the Rev, Arthur Ed- wards is i relation to this samo subject: o the Ediloraf The Ohiéaga Tribiine s - B The ledivs who retired from tho Council Chamber lawt. Monday silght wera compolied to run a fithy gauntlot 2,000 feet lung, and to ouduro o tido of abuse thiat would make Billingseata shndder, Tho daily pupers huvo clenrly ainied thio ontrago fn plain termns, und the record 1 o buriug disgrace to Chlongo authorities, Tho besotting mobextended slong Admia slrent, through the lower hall, up th long stufrs, and throujzlt the upper ball, closd up to the doors of tho Glinmbor, Whenover n’lady began b or exlt tho mob Julied 14 oxecration 40 latiguago too foul for rope- titlen, 5 ‘Fho crowd of cutthroats aid this, Imt who 18 ro- usiblo for ls permission ? 1 chnrgo this responsl- bty upon Supl. ~Relm, Gt Buskley, and theft perlinps unsillirg subordinates on duly there, AL o'clock on Monday nflornoon I bacorled pniall committes of ladies to police headquarters, who naked af Supt. Relim, tirst, resorved ents in tho Gouncll Chamber 3 ond, second, o email polico escort for tho largo coming lady comittce, To tho first request Mr, Tobm_replied fhot o hud mo withority over the Chambor, though nobody doubts that u'zan socure scats for fifty dlstinguietied men ;. and, to tho second roquest, that 116 kad 710 authority 10 dotall men for tho suygested duty, i ¥rom tho polico regulations T extract: Sec, 3, ro- Iatiug to Suporintendont's duty, aays : S All officern of tio Dopartment slinll bo sibjoct to tho orders ond Buporvlsion of tho General Superiue tendont, and shall yerform auch dulles 0a he may as- slgn (hem, Hoc, 6 of tho samo chapter says: 4 1o [tho Superintendent] alill linvo power to direct tomporurily any or all of tho potico force to auy place withifu iho city whero thoir uérvices may bo deomed necessary,” Tarther, the then Superinteident, when 20,000 téorkingmen besleged tlio Gouncll, foutd onthority to clear 110 outire building and adjacent airvols; whilo, in thia case, » howling mob, too Viclous to worl; werd ullowed to"ocoupy tho buflding, sud, in a whirlwind of flth, to jostle, uxcerate, aud ausult 150 of the purost Indies in Chicngd, Stll furiher, T chargo tliat Capt. Duckiey openly avo thie cus fo tho mob, dhat Lo sudibly declared uat tho Iadies had no pusfiess at the Obainber, Tho acenrato Captain denes this charge, but lio or Lig friends can obtain nu aidavit from 3, B, Modullon, 105 Washinglou atrcet, which will show both that the Captain offended ugihst good ordor and Lns o treach- crous memory, Furlher lestimony will siow that the polica exctianged jokes with tho crowd, sud so in- tihated that ~fol_insult to lodles was tho order witliin four fect of Chbicago’s leglalative lall, Supt, Rebm s, o me, denied hig aue thority audl physical power to control tho mob, I re. ply that he woirld not to-morrow night allow o crowd of loafers to o insult o thealro sudivnce retlring from MeVicker's, and that he dfd clear tho balls wheu lo, Iater in tlio'ovoning, saw fit to do 60, I claim that fivo men aud Capt. Buckloy's star (provided tho latter wero worn by a willing ofticer ot ‘committed to_ tlie crowd as aminist the Indics) might havo kept. tho Lnlla clear, Tndced, 1o whola suimun of polico beads uarlers wua tf doprecation of thoady cltizens!visit and petition, a1 clearly waw at o'olock oii Mondoy ‘Wiion Rafferty kilis a policoman, the polica ssk for protection; but, when law and order ke policemen safer, Bridgeport roughs suirge up to the Councll_and arv nllowed by the polico_to {nsult tho purcst and the weakeat of citixens, who, buing denied a prior roquest for protection, throw themselyes upon (ho tender merey of Relih and Buckley.. Jucob Telm mny havo been convenioutly 1 b, whico Lo was fnvieible, bt Bucitey, under Hosings oye, govo @ Loyoto (o dis- order, " ‘s forowsrnid, niid with & prior request for safoty, tho polico of Obifengo i responsiblo. for thnt outrage upon Chicago wives snd miathers which tho police hud the pawer aud suthorlty—but, also, hot tho decency—to prevent, A8 & Witiess to the firat vielt to Tolm, aud o tho instilts put upou tho ladies, iud under the lmpulso of 1ot indignstion remaining after two dnys of reliection, Imako thia protest and cliaryo, Mr. Retim bus nl- Tendy heard it from my lps, Heavon suyo us, when wo wont room at our Olty Iall, fron bohig & pure woman or o workinguio, “Lifoves and cuithroals may, howover, press tnmo- festod clono up fo the bosoma of o City Futliers. Awrnun Epwauns, OrtioAdo, March 18, 2874, 1Y LADIES THEMSELVES, Blnce tho Indies who visited the City Hall Mon- day night are the ouos who are tho most con- corned in this matter, and who bave tho mosb right to complaiu if 'thoy ave beon wronged, the Jollowlg communication, whorain thoy pro: sont thelr thanks to Capt. Buckloy, may bo tukon s ondlug the controvorsy, 8o fi:x'ns ho and his subordinates are concorned : Cirzoauo, March 18, 1874, At a called meoling of the Commitico of Ladies ap- paintod to present the Women's Tumporanco Petition 10 the Muyor sud Qummon Gouncil on_ thio aventog of thig 10th innt., the followlug resolution was adopted's ¥ Regotved, “Lhat wa presont our thanks fo Cupt. Thuckley and s smull polico forco under his com- inand, and to atlior ofileers and_gentlomen prosout at the time, for courtesies and protection sffurded tho Indties Iu'the liall and ite Immodiato vicInity ; alko to tho proas, for s ublo and kiud roports of our meet- dugs and niovenents aud dofeuso of our causo,” On bohulf of the Committee, Mosks Ssumit, Ohafrman, Dwyen, Witge, g FI LEVOTIONAL EXERCISES, AT TUE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHL A vory intorosting prager-moeting in_nid of tho temperanco causo was hold In the First Con- gregational Ohurch vestorday evening, Tho bady of the church was filled with earnest par- ticipant in the evaniug's oxorelsos, The mooting was conduoted by W, 3, W, COLE, who #poko and prayed very feolingly In sid of tho temporanve couse, and oupocinlly of tho movement &t prosent In progress. Ifo aleo rend ‘n fow verses from iho Beripturos, in which wos related the essting out of out of dovila and their taking possession of the hord of swine. The leader then read & lottor Whivhh he bhad recsived from B woman in Edinburgh whose - Lusband, just = ro- leanod from the inssno asylum, hLug como to Chicawo, obtained worlk, and was in s tale way ta do well Lotk semporally awd aplrituslly, AN ARMY OFFIOER rolated Ins exporionce 08 & drunkard, and the mopns of graco, but Lis vomurks wore ahmost in- audible, a0 that but a word horo and thero could be cnught by which the souso could bo J;lnnnnd‘ o thought that though Gon, Shorldau had fought many o hard battle, ko had a tougher fighit bofora hint than any ho Lad yot eugagad i, and that was the straggle with “whisky,” The spoenkot askod tho prayers of tho congrogation in Lig wid o the utrugglo againet the pin of In- temperatico, . A MATLIOAD BIAN deseriboed the Incldonts of hiw conversion somo s yanrs ngo, wlich happonod fn a Haloon on Madison streat, whioro ho iwed to walt for a pass- ing car and %ilf tmo by taking & drink or two, On the nlght of his coivorslony ho snw some- thing In the qluuu; 1t was tho bplvit of Gad, and ho ssked tho bat-keopor what ho would take for tho drinlg, Tumblor and all, The bnr-lmnl»ar told him 16 would cosl 40 conts, Llto spoukor thought byor the mattor, romembored that for 40 oents ha onld by n baofstoak, but finally ho dashed the qlnw 0 tho'floor and shnttored it to plocos. ITo then walked throo mlilos to a prayor-meotin, to bo prayed for, and, aftor a struggle And much prayer, ho obtainod a complota mastory ovor his pasilon for atimulating drink, OTHER EXERCIBES. Thé mooting thon eang the hymn boglnning Thora s fountain Mllod with ilosd, ; Deawn from Emmonitol's voins, Aftor sovoral moroeprayors and spocches, ono of whilch was flwn by o mav who had » pro- Tound faith in the eficacy of o glads of ‘wino and the ruling of majoritios, the moating olosed with tho elnglng of tha Doxology and tho pronuncia- ton of the benodiotion, i OTHER MEETINGS, Tho Indios of the Third Lresbyterian Church Tteld their rogular wéokly meoling 1n tho parlors of tho chuvoh yosterday aftornoon, Tho business trausactod was of & local charactor, oxcept that it was decided to offor tho uao of thefr church for tho purposo of liolding the Union Prayer- Mootings of tho West Division. Drayor mootings wora also hold in the Tomple Dapiist Chureh and soveral othors, but nolhing of ‘goneral intorest was aaid or dono, FUTURH GATHEIINGS, 'y A committoes, consisting of Prof. [Bwlig, tho Rova. G, D, Melmer, O, L. Thompson, 8, Mo- Cheanoy, T. W. Goodspeed, and Dr. Folton, ap- roiutea to arrange for & bnmrcrmmo inoss meot- hg,moL {n tho Mothodlat Minfutors*Roonis yostors dny aftornoon, and after somo dissusston, ngroed ihat tho mnsd mootin aliould bo hold in the main audlonce-toom of the Mothodist Ohurch Tlock, Monday aftornoon. Amntoug the sponkors golooted for tha oceasion, ench Lo ocenpy only ton_inibatos, are Bishop Foloy, the Rev. Dr. Ryder, Blshop Whitehouso, tho Rtev, It, W, Pat- torsony D. 1., the Rev. L. 1. Ohambetlain, and the Rav. 8. BeChesnay, A ninss-mocting of ladion intorested in the causo of Tompotaica will bo beld 4% 8 p. m. to- day at tho First Mothodist Ohurch, bt s s " ELSEWHERE, ILLINOIA, AT BPRINGFILLD. L Sprectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, BraiNarieLy, Ill., March 18,—Tho tomperance cruende began in enrnest horo to-day. About & dozon dovoted Christian Isdiva woro out and vislted fitet tho Leland House bat, whets thoy talked with the proptiotor, urging him to closu Lis traflic. Next thoy visited Lanaban's aaloon, whero early all the bon ton go to got their tod- dien, Thoy wore admitted without objection, and spont somo timo in convetsation, 'Ihey woro kindly treated, but mndo ho conquests, A curivus and valgar h\mng followed aftor thom as thoy mado Lhofr rounds. 'L'o-day's moventent is tho'initinl stop of & more formidable one, “I'ho courso ndopted I8 o ronson with tho salooh- keopors. A mooting for prayer fh behalf of the cnuse was hold nt the Becond Proabytorian Chureh this aftertioon. AT FAIRBULY. Special Dispatel to T'he Chicdqo Tribine, Tamuupy, 1ll, dorch 18.—A very largo tom- perance meoting was held hero Inst evening. Bpeoches wero made by all of tho clotgyhen of tho town. Tho spcoches wore received with great applaugo, atid the indicatiohs hro that this vicinity will Hoon s6e an aclive orusade against iutemperaheo. : sTEhLING, Spectal Dispateh to The Chtedgo Tribune, StEnting, 11k, Maroh 18.—Tho wit ou tho #a- loons continucs. A No-Licenso Mayor was oloct- od, Tho entiro city is bolug couvassad by lndios with fwo potitions for the women to sign : ono ia to the nnluun-kunrnm. to stop selling; and the other to the Couneil, not to graut liconses. Tho men nro pledging monoy. by thousands to proyo- citto tho liquor-sellors. "Tho tomperaice-people of this city beliove in forcs, and not prayer, to suppross the trafle. Livoly times are ahond, AT DANVILLE, Snecial Pispateh to T'he Chicago Tribune, DanviLLe, Iil., Mareh 18,—T'hio crubade sgainst the knloous was continued this miormng ae 10 o'clack, by & Bqund of eleven ladios_visiting tho saloon of Motrls Milcholl, topiited 6 bo tho ardest den in tho city, whora prayors, exhorta- tions and singing of hymus wero indulized i for on hourand & Lalf, In their talk wath Mitoholl; ho quoted o pnskago of Scriptufs in justificitioh of his business, but' was sgon forced to acknowledgo Lis quotation inapplicable, Mo pledgo ~ was _ posned around, and signed by a number of bystauders, but Mitéloll rafused. From Mitchell's they wont to Guroty & Brothers', where much the eame programme was carried out, with apparently like. result. Thoy thon visitod tho drug store of Diefiliug & Brothor, who teadily signed the piedge, Thid i tho first drug stors visited, aud somse little ouriosity was manifested as to what courso would bo_ pursued by tho drug-mon. ‘his aftornoon calle were miade upon the ssloous of F. Brady and T, I(avanmlfih, but the dbors iwerd found locked, and ~ the Hmprlumm gone. The drug stors of Jones Brothors was thon vie- itad, but, as o lndy-clerk was the only one in tho store, o prayer was offercd; and tho ladies de- ported. Aloxandar Moore's snloon was next fa- vorad witls o visit of noatly two hours’ duration; but_his Hiberninn heart remmined- obdurate againsl all proyors and oxhortntions. Noxtiu ordor camne the liquor and billiard-saloon of Huuk Johngon, who; immadiately upon their en~ trance, Jocked'the door, thereby excluding the largo crowd which brd beon in attendance thus far.. No prayers weta offored up, tho lndies con= touting thomsclves with huving & plain, oarnest convorsntion with him, poiuting out to him the groat wrong ho was doiug {o mankiud by bis present business, and the disgrace which would Do _bfought upon his wifo and children” by tho _continuance of the snmo. o plonded, ns hLave all the bal- anco, that it was the only iay thoy had to Muppott thetselves and familids, Altor continu- inj¢ tho conversntion for about three-quarters of anbour, the Iladiés rotired to renew thoir visits {o-morrow. As on their preyious visits, thoy wore treated wilh tiniform kindness and roanect by the saloou-kecpors and by-standers, aud i no caso have they beon refused admiitauce into a saloon, AT 08WEGO, Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago Tribune, Oswea, I, March 18.—Lho nuvnlt{ ot the crusnding busindss hiwing worn off, it _begins to Initguish. ‘he praying force, which, during its most popular scason, numbored nbous bwenty wouls, Lits beon reducod to five. The homp du- Ues of tending thu babies and builiug the kettlo, whicli, bince tho first inception of tha crusnde have davolved upon the Lusbands, aut beon cheorfully porformed by them, bhave be- come wenrisome sinco tho approach of spring, with Dbalmy aira to woo them to moro manly ceoupntions. Tho xle still makes 1te appenranco duily o tho stroots, nud tho rom- nant of the band havonot yot lost faith, al- ulDllF].l four weeks of prayer havo. availed nothing, Ulho tmain reliatios now fs upon tho rosult of ihe municipal oleotion, which will take plnce {n o fow woels, Btrenuous offorts aro olng mado to eleet & no-liconso Board, TROTONE, Correspondenca of The Chicdgo Tribune, Peotoxk, Will Co., TIL, Murel 17.—Youtorday, | proy for the first time siuco the founding of tho town, this placo was ublo to vote {tsolf cloar of the whisky-trafie, Tho ladles hold a Iarge ncating during tho elootion, From tiio rayer-mceting committoes were sont out to lubor with doubtful voters. Othior delogations oceuplod tho store-stops nonr the polls, to on- courugo those who wero doing the work, Whon tho rosnlt was known, tho chursh-bells rang triumplisut peals, aud fu the evening a large and excited meoting %nlhemll in_the Alntllod}at Ohburch—the Rtov. W, F. Woad - prosiding—to praiso Gad und tako steps to follow up our vie- ory. Addresaos woro mado by the Chuirman, by Uio oy, Mr. Drow, und by’ Mossre, Collins, Cowon, Wuidon, Dradshaw, and othors. The pledge was circulnted aud lflmly signed. I'ho mooting_roluctanily broko up, .with the bolls apaln doclaring our liberty from aloobiol. Btirring temporance sermons were delivered In 11 the cliurches last Sabbuth, nnd the Iadics to- ny aro porfoctiug tholr organization, Tive thousand “dollars will probably by pledged to back up the now Trustecs. —— OHIO. AT ULEVELAND, OLrvErAND, O., Maroh 18,.—Youterday, a com- mitico of adios from the Woman's Temperance Loaguo visitod the rostaurant of J, M. Riohards & Co, Thay wero courteously rocorvod. After {iftoey minntos a}‘mnt In prayor and singing, Mr, Tichards was askod to algsi the pledgo, bitt do- ®lined to do so, He assured them, however, that bin rooms would bo nt their disposal whaiievor thoy chaowo to call, To-day a Com- ittee of fiftoon Indles visited anumber of the n1uul[£m1 saloons in dliforont parts of the clty, neluding thoso fu tho Woddel and Kennurd llousod, Iu euch saloon prayor and singing ox- orcings wore hold, - attracting’ larga orowds of epcotators, Tho Indies were in overy iuntance rouolved with lindnoss aud rospeoty but noue of the saloon-keopors niguod tho plodge. Tho lady roporter for tho Fross sayst “ho Joaguo hay adopted, and will put [uto operation, n plan of work which slnll bo a8 thorough and “doop as it i come prohonslye pud strong, . The ladips aro stoadily going forward tho worle. *thoy.” huve, undertukon, . dopendin; uok 80 muoh upon the oxcitoment ond enthusi- agm, 18 upon tholr comploto npprociation of the ucogssity and ftuportatioo of $ho great roform, The plan will rohch all olnasos,—mnnutnoturora and workingmon a6 woll a8 trades-pooplo, and other oitizons. The Iadivs aro propariug for work all ovor the city,” AT DAYTON, L DAvrox, O., March 18.—Notwithatanding tho raln tho orusndors ek to the saloons all day, vislting nlnrqn numbor, but Induciug no mani- fost improsslon, Tndlick, Uho proscgutor of Mrs, Thombs; invitu(l hor band into s bar-room and troatod thom with djatinguishied considora- tion, It is enid that ho gushed repontantly. Good trontmont at all tho snloons is repotted. No prospocts of a conquest yobi § AT DENNISON. - Smectal Ditpatch to The Chicano Tribuns, : DENRtsox, O, March 18.—'swu more ealoona surrondored to-dny, and_thosnlo of lquor i forbidden In anotlior by tho owbor of the build: iumk ‘This tnnkes soven saloons for throo duys work, g o MICHIGAN. AT WAYNE, . Spectal Dipaleh to Tie Chicagn Trivuné, Qnikp RAvtos, Micli,, March 18.—Ono of our .olttzons returtiltg to-dny from the toyn of Wayno, onstorn part of this Stato, tells of dus- tardly cutm{mn committed thero by partica in tho enloon {nterest ot ahimals nnd propotty bo- longlug to leading temperanes mon, ‘thoy gir- dlod tho. fruit tross of Dr, Alexandor; peoled tho skin oft from ono log of his Lest Lorso, cru- elly loaving tho poor bonst alive ‘] shot othors of hid crontures, and broke in his te-deain. Thoy also shot an lmportod metiho buck bolouglig Lo Goorge Bwift, Buq,, formerly momber ol thio Logislnture, and girdlod noarly all tho treos in bis fruit orohnrd, AT BT, JOSEPIL, Sneeltl Disvatch to Theé Chicads Tribtine, B, Josryi, Micl, March 18.—The tehiperdnca Orusndé was iuaugtrated in this placo to-day, An advanoo party of Indics reprosouting somo of tho flrst - familios, opeued tho cam- ign ~ nboitt” 3 o'clock Dy by visle he tho aaloon And billiard Ll kopt by Joh ‘Y’"‘l"“fl" 1'Ilm nflézn urged ’l‘l’lfll h": ivn up tho business, aud sy o pladgo, but thioy failod to obtain'Lin signntura, g’mfiw' was offorad, followed by » Lymu, and tho party loft, Thoy next enlied on Thomaw Walker, in tho ‘basoment of tho Hoyt House, but reccived no encouragoment there. Tho party thoh nad- jourved for the day. To-morrow tlio laties will coutinuo tho crusade With an incronsed forco, ——— % INDIANA. AT FonT WAThE. Sycial Dispdtch to The Chicdgo Tribund, Tonr WAysE, Ind, March 13.—The (om{mr«- anee excitomont is hmrcnnlnfi. A latge mooting of busiucss mon was hold this aftornoon, tho Hon. John Hoigh presiding, A commitieo was appointed to draft 4 form of obgatilzation, and n gmnd mnss-tomporance-meeting wes called for Friday night to pledge flunhoiul aid to thie women In thelt oiforts, AT JREFERSONVILLE. -JRFFENSONVILLE, Ind., March 18.—To-night Goorgo W. Bain, of Kettuoky, tho grokt tom- eratico otator, lecburos st Mozart Hall, this city, 0 ah finmoniko nudictico, Hia mahdor of oly- quends in susthining tho crusadérs in thoir movement will inspiro thoimt with renowed couraga. ! oy Ry PENNSYLVANIA, AT PITTBDURGI, S Special Disnatch to The Chicago Tribune, Pitranuitast, March 18.—The practical ovi- douco of tho Indied' movoment ih vislthig the Mayors of Plitebiitgh and Allégheny, asking them to ouforeo tho law in regard to Bundny Tiquor-gelliug, bns_beon illustrated within tho ut o duv, Lust evonilg Doty Masor ollio isatod an order ealling upon all POLICE OFFICENS TO REPONT VIOLATIONS of the law whotsver thoy came tindot their knowlodge, and a néu-conformaiico thoroto would bo sufticient - reasun for thoir discharge, This ofternoon Acting-Mayor MoMahtots ad. dresged thd day police, and informed them that thoy must 8co to, the enforcemont of thid Siin- duy law both in - regard to lquor and clgat gelling, and that if 1t aaro found thoy did ot comply wih to ordoe 455 would be im- mediately discharged, ond precinded from ever again ocoupying positiols on tho polico force. The law fu rogard to OLORING AT MIDE1IONT ho atyo drdored enforcod. " 'Whi cvonlng, to the night policd, hé in petion dolivéred the samo ordor. o To-nioriow aftornoon auothor large mnut_in& will bo lield in Dr, Biiers' First Cumberlaii Piebbyteriiu Chirfel, in this city: Yestorday nfioi’uv’ml o dolégation that éalled ou Dopiity-Miyor Barler, of thio Soisth §ido, ask- 1uig him to I8SUE AN ORDER TO THE POLICE enforcing tho Stunday liquor Iaw, were_attacked by & mob, biit nobody was hurt, though soveral missilos woro thrawi.' The Deputy ptomised to co-ofjetato, AT PRILADELTHIA. Special Dispateh to e Chicano Tribune, Prruabeseisa, March 18.—f'wo Inrgely-at- toiod prayok-tabeliigs woto huld this aftcruoon, 1ndér the nnsfi)iunu of tho women's temiperance bands. Excoflont addicages wore delivered by Dr. Ellzabotls J, Frencl, Bdwin H: Contes, ad otuors, Tho_United Peosbyterian Churoh, on Dainbridge -étreet, below Twoltth, was crowdod to excost to-night by nu_audicuce’ almost wholly coniposed of the *worliug cladses, to hear the Hon: Edward G. Lo ldoture on the evils of in- toniperance, Tho gentloman’s remarks wero listoued to with marled attention, aiid wore db- cidudly productivo of good results, as tho mud- ;nn(.y of thoso presont tool thp pledga befora eaving tho churclt, AT WILKESBAnRE, Spectal Disputch {o The Chicago Tribune. WiLKESUARLE, Pa., March 18,—The emporanco excltoiuent bogun'Liove to-day, A prosivg baud of thirtaon Indies visited novatal of tho sgloons, aud wore courtoously recoived oxcopt at ono Gormun galoon, where a boisterous snd disre- speotful crowd freely Fntwniznd the bar during tho wholo servico, Although tho opening day {8 not considerod @ succons, the lndics will oot tiuue the attack on the 700 rum shops new opoir. ——— NEW YORK. AT DUFFALO. Special Disputch to The Chicano Tridune, BurraLo, Mureh 18,—A committea of the Ladios' Tumperance Union waited on the Board of Lxciso Commisslonors Lo-duy, with u roquost that all the liquor-snloons’ liconses bo revoked. The Comumissioners snswered that thoy now h coutrol of the saluons, and their condition woul Lo much woreo if tho liconses wore abolished, Tho interview is not likaly to result in auy change of system, . MINNESOTA. Suit of Warchousemen Against the Southern Minnesota Ruailvond—Ikcs turn of an Alleged Dofuulter, S;lr:ial Dispateh to Phe Chicago Tribune. 8. Paus, Min,, March 18.—Tho owners of about forty warchouses on the Bouthern Minne- sota Nailrond um[zlo{ml attorneys to»dr:ir' to bring suit agninst Recelver Blellrath and his hondsmon. Thoy claim G conts & hundred on all tho grain they havo shippod sinco bis appoiut- moiit, that bolng the rebato nllowed kaston, who ' roproxonts the Necoiver's Ring, od he dld Alompson's Ring undor tho old manngement. Tho aggrogato umonnt clafmod it extimatod at ‘not loss than $60,000, nor nioro thun $100,000, The warchousomen have rafsed siliclent monoy, and exprots a detormiuntion to follow the mattor in courb nutil discriminations aro stopped on thnt rond. With thoir complaints coma many others from the poople along tho lin, and a roport that Judge Dillon will bo potitionos to yomove Mellrdth from his Recolvorship. Goorge W, Auslin, lato rosidont Direotor of the Normal Schookat Mankato, who was roported a do- Taultor Just wintor, returned his week from In- inna, and paid alf doficionvlos, "MORTUARY. Burinl of Col. Hyatt O, ftnnsom, at Jokfersonvilli, Dnd. JerrengonviLLy, Ind, March 18,—Tho last #nd ritos woro puid to the remains of tho lnto Col. Hyatt O, Ronsom, of tho Uniiod Sfates army, at the Bplscopal Ohuroh, In this olty ‘to- dey, ‘'ho Rov. R, 'Lottou offiamted, Tho sor- vives wero solomn and {mproselve, snd the uttondance large, including. s nwmbor of army oflieers, 'Tho pallsboarers, in imiform, * wero Liout.-Col, J. A, Likin, Deputy Quarierimastor- Gouernl of the SBoutli; Col, MoClure, Assistany Paymastor-Gonoral; Maj, 8long, Burgeon Uillied Bintow m.iE” G “Kiloeh, Aot Commissary-Goneral;” Ms). Ruchoster, Pay- master, United Btatos armyy Oapte. Custor, Loo, and Bavrett, ‘ho.coftiu was wrapped in the Amorican flug and decorated | with beautiful wreaths. e A DETERMINED SUICIDE, Snecial Disnateh to The Chicago Tribune, Dupuque, Ia,, March 18.—Tho woman unnfml Yeroy, of Holiovus, who bouglib b pistol with tho Mtont of committing sujolde, and a coffin in whioh toba burled, as statod Ina dlepateh to T'ug TRIDUNE, On l\fondny. niado. tho nttempt to Lill Liorsolf lust night by shootiug with a pistol, The ball passed, it 18 allogad, betioen lior hienrt and loft lung, it such n thing bo posslblo, with- out causing death, and sho wag olivo at last no- counts, tor hoartloss t(luuin(nr who apponry 10 huva boon tho causo of thls cnlamity, lott hor pacamour at Olinton, and got back to Lor almost Gond ‘mothor this moruing, 4 e SPRINGFIELD, The Last'End of the Legisla- ture Coming in Sight. Some Attention to Business on the Pm of Both Houses, A Btrong Wareclionse Lobby Working for an Increase of Stor~ .ago Rates, Good Reasons fof Supposing that Money Is'Being Used to That End. Comionl. Porformanet i the Senate Over the Shawneetown Ditoh. RAILROADS AND WAREHOURES, Spectal Dispateito The Chicago Tttbure, AMENDING THE WAREIOUSE LAW. [ Bemvarieny, I, March 18,—Tho spacial ordor rolating to the Warohouso law, was scarce- 1y ealled by tho Prosldent of tiie Scnate boforo Whiting moved to indofiuitely postpono, He sold (it wos nltondy detormined that outsldo ‘measuros eliould ot bo thrust, upon the Sennto, It was lnto in - tho scesion, and an adjourn- mont would soon bo reached: Were it necossary to legislnto for warehousos at all, thoro wero othor subjects relating thoroto, which should firok dlalin Kttonitioft. Inbtend of futimidating the Sennto by a demand for this bill, tho ware- housoman ot firsl tb oboy thb presont Inw, rathor than act in completo contempt of its ro- quiroments, . Mt Honry tHidorded thd.viows of thé Dutend County Senator, TIHE BENATE TEFUSED TO POSTPONE: INDEFINITELY, Whiting moved to send it to tho Committeo on Agriculture, with_iustructions for an amond- therit to compel eatehil wolgliing, and to puish the uee of npdulflunt recoipts, 'Lhis, too, was lost—yeas 11, nays 1. The previous quostion had been laid over by Cummings, which Whiting declared was no great surprigo a8 thoro wis Glfi% 000 in tho hllfi Ben- sntion,] Whiting doblred ko debato tio Lill, but, of courso, the geg wus to bo applied to n bill like hiy. g It went forward to a third rending by tho voto of 10 to 18, ak followh: TEAS, Braoks; Tk, Thottipeon, g"my.l ;‘l:flmul-:l gnlf", unilsige yualds, otts, g, " Badford," Wartbi Dow, Btarne, ‘Willldnigon, Ilincholilfo, Steole, Youngblood—19, Iundley, ks, Burke, Jncolis; Btrong, Castie, Hellyy Wun Tertell, Tatlesson, itlig; Qrech, Bliephr, Wikivz—19, Henry, Br. Jowett and Mr. Goudy aro hore, and the Dill may possibly go through, It is worth far more than $160,000—Alr. Whiting's cstlniaté—to tho wateliouses, THE BILL IN e mbuse, Tha House Committee on Inland Commerce intrqduced a copy of tho bill pouding in the Son- ato, iricrensing the ratos of storage in ware- houses, THE RAILROAD TAW; Tho Ioitso passed the bill amending the Tali- road . law so that schedules horeaftor made by the Commisbioners shall bo prima facio evidenco of reasouable maximum ratos, psisi eiin, REVISING THE STATUTES. Spectal Dispateh la The Chitags L'¥tbine, REVISION 1§ TIE #0Us) 2 SeiNérieio, Ill, Maroh 18.~The House passed Senato bill rovising the law relating tb Clorhks of Ooutts, and House bills for the pro- tection of lotel aud boarding-houso keopers, and providing ample meins of ogross from pub- lic buildings, Bonate Lill revising tho laws fix rolation to the Bupreni6 Coiirt passed the Hotiso, which dis- poses of the cobwolidition movoinent fof tho present. " ¥ "Tho bill fizitig tho Stato Treksurci’s bond at £1,000,000 was oxdered to third reading in the Houso. . AMENDING THE ROAD LAW, The Hoigo paesed tivo amondments td the Ttoad Inw, one reqiiring the owner of Jand on both sides of a publio highway to got the ap- proval of tho Hizhway Commigsionér béforo conntritotiig a catilé-way uirder tho highway ; tho action providing a jury of sis, initend of twolvo, to atgess damages it the cobsttuction of ronds, g ATPEALS; 2 "lio House passed bill to incronso the num- her of appeals to the Buptenis Couft from tho Sovonth Cirenit, inclading Will and Grundy Countios, by clunging the May torims to Jutic, contrary to the Coustitution. 5 CLASSIFYING COUNTIES, z The Mouso passed the following County Olagsi- fleation bill ¢ . Tuat for tho purposo of fixing tho focs snd com- pensation of county and fownship oflicers In this Stae, the soveral countles {igrein uro, boroby divided into three classes; nccording to population, us ascer- faliied by the Fedural couisiis of tho yoat 1810, \whicls clagecs shall Lo kuown asthe firat, sccond, an: third; au follows ¢ Qoriutios containing a population of not: exteoding 20,000 inhubitants, to wit : the Counties of Aloxuidor, Boud; Boone, Browy, Calliatn, Curroll, Gans, Clark, Cloy, Olivton, Cruwford, Cumboriand, DoWitt, Doug~ Liv, 'Dilago, Lidwirds, Efinghum, Fayolté, Ford, Frinidly, Gallati, Grundy, Lumilton, Murdin, Hen' erwott, Jickson, dasyer, Jbileraon, Jetsey, Jolnson, Houdull, Lawretico, Mufslinll, Masol, Maead, Menard, Mercer, Monroe, Moultrio, Porry, Pintt, Popo, Pulaski, Putuanm, . Richlind, alize, Soliuylor, Scot rky Unon, Wubnel, Washington, Wayne, iyhite, Wiilinm’ son, and Woodfoed, alill belong fo, snd be known s, coniities of tho first cluns, Counties contuiuing o population of over 20,000 and uot exeeodlriy 70,000, to. wits Adams, Dureau, Chiampatgn, Curlsi ot Colos, Delalty 1dgus, Fuiton, Greoun, Huneod Leiry, Iebnuols JoDnvicss, Kane, Kaulakee, Ko, Lako, I48allo, Lgo, Livingston, Lo uu, Mucon, Macoupiu; Madison, Morlou, McDondugh, {iotiouty, Blekinn, Montgomory, Motqibe Ogier 1o Thu, Pili, Randolph, Nock Isluad, Sangaion, Shelby, Bty Olnir, Blephouson, Tazowoll, Vermnilion, Warrei: Whiteside, Will, and Wiimubago, shall beloug to and Yo kuown na cotinties of tho second cluss, Counties contafuing & populntion _exceedin 70,000 fuhabitants, ta wik s the county of Couk, shul Deloug to und bo Jnown as counties of the third cluss, UNION AGIUGULTURAL FAIRS, Tho TNevislon Committeo of tho Honato, through Mr, llefuoldll._l‘opur!cd zn smondmont to the House bill relating to Stato zud County Agrleultural Societics, #0 ns to luclude, in tho usual approprintions, nll union fairs compoked of two or moro countics. Couuty and Unjon Bonrds oro to bo elected in accordando with tho rulos proscribed by the Stafe Board, and’ must report to tho Stnto Board nunually. 'County nnd Uunion Boelotles must pay out an promiums 2800, boforo thoy are entitled to 'auy appropriation from the Stnto, THE COUNTY COURT TILL took ou a fow amondments xolating to ntimbor of terms and times n!‘hohllu%mrm, oud was ordorbd to & third reading in tho Senuto, ¥ —— MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. Spectal Disnatels to The Chicago Tribune, BIAWNERTOWN DITCILWATER, Bruiyartery, IlL, March 18.—The Bendte wastod tho dny discusaing the outragoous claim for filllng the Shewneotown ditch, Nothing of intorast transpired until Yorls acoused tho Shaw- neotown pooplo of boing thieves and robburs, when Youngblood, who is Bhawnostown's Sona- tor, roplied that if the gontleman meant what he said it wos falso, and the geullemon knew it, Vorls answored, *'Ihat's s lio. ‘Youngblood roitorated his statomont, Yoris roplied, *That's an omphatio lle, and the gentleman {8 o llar.” .. I'ho Presidont Lommered so vigorously that Youugblood could not reapond, but the eall to arder had no cffest on Vorly, who stalked around tho Souato’ like an enraged girafto, ¢ Yistona of futola for two and coffoo for ono. troubled timid Bcunlul‘». and thie unpsrlismentary and. ungen- tlomunly procecdings produced songatfon. On Btrong's motion, the offanslve words wore re- corded In the Journal, A voto being talken on tho ill, It recoived only 10 votou to 10 agninst, und was thorofore lost, 'The debnte so #luur- alized tha Sonato that it adjournod soon ‘afior 4 o'aloals, v . CUBPORATION COUNBHL. .'Cha ‘House, for wpng of somothing to do, pauded a blll to allow a Uorporation * Gouusel to live n tho aounty ploys lum,, DEAD. Tho Houso rofured o paas & bill fot an ack to mako litigation moro axponsivo, and to supply county nawspnpors with advert/somonts, PENITENTIARY INVESTIOATION. -Mr, Orondorff presentod n rosolutlon asling why the Jolnt Bpocial Committeo appointod in Junuary to investigato oruolty in tho Deniton- tary had nover roported, The Houso refuscd to suspend tho rules, B outsido tho ofty which om- Tho Houso tofumd s tae ol inti od to paka a bill approprinting 500 to tho widow of llu?lhw. Nohu&‘l‘n!\pl‘lurcng who wont to Europo to attend tho Prlson Cont ress on bobalf of tho Stato, aud diod soon attor is roturn. 5 RECONBIDERATION MADE RARY, Tho Presidont of tho Bounte gave totico that, nsthoond of tho sosion vwns npyproaching, ho wonld hortattor hold that- s totion to roconsid- or was tho pmpnrtfi of nny ono and could bo aotod ob ab otive, (fotdfore ths rilifig of tho Chnir Iias boén that 4 motioch entared to recone afler Is the peollar porsonal proporty -of tho porson making stieh motion for two days, GAB WonKg, - Cullorton Uinving ploved that the Bonate bilt allowing Ohicago to ostablish and_ malntain gase work bo ordored to & third rending, Wicker pitohed intd tho bill, but the motlon pravailod, A BIANE tor TE LADLES, Tho Houso dissolved enrly In the aftornoon, mombera lenving In' giiads to follow tho crus dnderd arohnd town. If the ladiés twould only pray this Leglutatito out of oxistonsa bofora tha end of the wobk, they would save tho Statod’ largo athotit of mohdy aud the fisoplo from mueh drinccessary logislation, Bub it's past piaylng for, HURRICANE. Cairo Yesterday Visited by a Great Wind and Raln Storm, Houses Blown Down and Unroofed, and + Chimneys Promiscuously Distributed. Many Buildings Flooded and Much Damige Done, Speetal Dispateh to The Chicano Tribune. Oamioy 111, March 18.—A torribte’ burricans sbricks thin éity bhis mormiug at 10 minutas to 4 o'clock, which threntencd foir o moment the destinction of the city, with the lives of tho pooplo. Vestordny was uncotnfortably warm, aifd iwhilo 1t waa clonr the most of tho day, tho air wag leayy, The borometor bogan in- the ovening to ‘sink rapidly. The signal observer amidinted aboit 7 p. m. that o storm was approdching, nad this news was generally cirou- Inted. Aboiit dark, sionmbonts at the wharf mado proparations for £ by putting oit’ oxttd eables, 4nd, onorally onling lliro Svas 1ore oF lob nshuiiions mfimnffl - dll ovot tha city, it tho hoiits alipped by i the mfim iras neatly olear, Nihe, ton, dloven ‘glock passod and qur pooply rollred 'to rest, many of them doubtless rogarding. “‘oLD Prois " As fi nuiiLve, biak abotit hnlanst Bo'uldek tioy wore dwakenod {rtm plensant dtenths by a low rtimbling &ound, (ndlcntlufi tho approrch of iho promistd hurrls enua, ‘Llio clouds wero, of an iuky blacktess, the hr]hluhii: florco and tho thundor fenrful, Tho tothitlo catdo fror thie douth o southcast, aud 8poat itd forco in oun tremondotts blnst thiat HBIDOK EVEIY BUILDING A8 an enrthqnako would, but loft inita pathvay nnmerous momeittocs of its visit. Housos were lowii down, roofs wora u{:]inod walls thrown dotn, atld chimnoga and Elioke-bhoks ivero dis- tribiited i efidléss cufision: 'Iliv raiu pouted down lko n flood, dud grent damaga was done by water, oupucially to.unroofed buildings. . K0 1.083 OF Livx hs b diadovored, but, tho Josd of i ropoity. Is viltiousls ostimitod 'at trom m,nuo{'o $26,000, Jalh Anitrlrih, dedler in cloblifitg; was tho lionvies losots e roof of his placo wnd torn off and hils atook greatly damaged, whioh, with e re- glal;xflnug to the house, must probably foot up THE DAMAGE DONE. - Tho roof of Tiouls Horbort's haloon, B phtt of tho roof of Darclay Brothors' drg store, a part of the roof of W: I. Gilbart's residence, nlno the roof'of Leo Klobs' bakery, and » part of tho roof of the Bt. Chitrles Hotal,” the toof of a Lulluliig bolohging fo Paul Sehull, the overturiiing in the water ol?)rubnbly half u dozon light framos, atd small housa on Sixth stroovt, two frames on Four- Leenth streot, and ono or two other frames, the throwing down of -u riok wall for 8. Waiters, and numborloss othor like atdidents, comptise the @xtont of tho damape from wind, . THE LOUS FROM \WATER is, howevor, greater than from the wind. No domnge was dotie to steainois, neithor do we honr of any damnge in tho surrounding country. Who rain fall fo nbowt four hpurs, and tho ra- mainder of tho day hias been quiet. Among oth- ora that como in for a share of damagoe was tho " DAILY AND WEEKLY ‘‘SON" OFFICE, which is located in Autrim's building, Every- thing in the ecstablishment was drenched in water, but an oxtra wae issied this afternoon, and the Sun will be all right to-morrow. Thgugls standing, a8 it wero, ou o narroy neol of land, Cairo has never bofore boon vikited by such a storm, KK\! the Associaled Press,] QOA1no, 1L, March 18, —Tolograms from points adjncoif m&mn no dowage from the storm this morning, indicating that its aven wnsquito nar- Tow. o heard of eight houses unroofed or soriotialy dnmni:ed in thiy oity, on which the loss will avorage 100 to 3200 odeh, oxcopt that of Jolin Autrim, clothier, whoso loss on buflding snd atook is cstimated 'at from £2,000 to $4,000. Wharf-bont propriotors and those in charge of the stonmors in port acted on a hint from tho United States Blfiuul Ofico here, that the local obeervitions Ihdicated a stoim, and took the precaution to make evorything extra socure, It 18 probubly owing to this fuok that no dambsge was dono to shipplug, EFLOODS: Overflow of Svuthern Rivors, Monruoasny, Alg., Maroh 18,—Tho Alabama Tivor hes overilowod its bouks in many places, und all tho orecks aud sireams ate groatly swollon. 'l'tavol to Mobilo it stopped by ranson of the washos on the rallroad track and damago to somo of the bridgos. No trains went out to- day on tha road to Atlanta, and trnivg to Bufauls will not run for o dui' ortwo, The freshot is too catly to njuro tho planters, aa vory little of the crops Linh a4 yot'béou planted. i, Mareh 18, hs officors of iho steamor Iil Allen gy tho St, Francis River i risiig rapldly from au averflow in the vicinity of Now Madrid, All the lowor plantations in the violnity of tho mouth of that rivor aro undor wulor ; nleo those at Walnut Bend. ‘'he river hare has fallon two inohes. Waenther sultry,with beavy rain and thunder-storm this afternoon, g e iy An Exciting Rowing-tlatch, From the Lvansvitle (Ind,) Journal, A young man of thi vity, being at an up-river town u fow duyy ago, tool u skift to'row to the noxt town down stream. About the tinto he putb oug hie noticed a man und womao iu o sillar boot on tho opposita sido of tho Obio, tho mau tulhug with n.l\ bis might down stream. Tho Lvauaville youth did not want to bo beaten by o mun who bad a logd while ha had an empty skift, 50 ho bout himself to his woyk with groat enorgy. Tow as hovd as ho might, tha oursman on the othor sfde kept aliond of bim, until tho young mun made up s mind that thore was something wrong with the curzont, and he triad to cross, ’J.'hE« soomed to givo additional enorgy to the othor onrsman, whoso * fentherod- oar™ was pliod witl suoh s will that bo gaiued sonaibly, and our Eynusyilior droppod baols, but still kept tho auple in eight, foe , Aftor hulf a dny's row the singla oarsman ‘stoppod at o town, rested, and did such business ay En found, and took tho next stenmor for Lome. On the way down the stemmer was' hailed, and the couple from the BKI got aboard. Tho young mun, after a short timo, approached ho chnmplon onrsman and romarked : * Woll, yon beat mo, didn't you ; but I tried hard to gel hoad.” - w'hunderation! " exclaimod the man, ¥ was that you o pullin® aftor us, I tho't it wan Lizo'd dad, an' I Jost b fn with all my might, but it's no use now ¢ wo's married for good now, stranger, au’ I wouldn't row that hard oven of the old mau was to heavo {n sight.” .. e Fominine Rovoeuge, A flnmlnr (In.) youth pald his attentions to two youung Iadigs and proposod mnmu“o ta boih, ‘T'hoy. found out about it, invited hit to the bougo of ono of them’and askell him'to take a seat botwoon thom, which ho dul, vitting down fna tub of water over whioh a coveriug hnd boon njooly sproad, -Thon thoy politoly requoste «ed him not (o bo in a Lurry to go, but hewont, POLITICAL, Farmers’ Convention In the Elghth Illinois Congressional Dis= tricts 5 Tho Platform of the Deoatur Convens ~tion Fully Indorseds Anti-Monopolats’ canv_ofitlon In the Twalflh Congressloal Dlotriot, ) War Dculnrcli on All :Speelnl -Privilegos: The Twellih dongresstonnl Distriot, Spectul Dispaleh to The Chicago Lrtbune, JTaonsoxviuLe, Ill, Mnrolt 18,—The followlng sro tho. resolutions adoptéd by tho Antie Monopoly Convontion of the ‘D'welfth Congres- slonal Distrel, huld fn this clty yostorday: WWiteneag, Tho grent practical poiltical fssun of for day) 10t only before this country, but bofare tito whola civilined "worid, In tho inaiic, ot ugaiet chpital oF svenith 18 such, but agatnet afl unjust monopolica of whatovor wort ! aud % Wittineb, Xho wholo clvilized world fa already organizsd or "combined, 1t ohb forrh o nnother, with mofo ot lesm of widom aud discrotion, on tho ous or tho other ido of this _quoation of motlopolios, we desiro {o thtow our bauner to tho brcata o tho sido of tho shil-monopolistd, That o iy fiot b miaunderatood, we therefors doclare - ouraciyea in favor of all fust_nd equal, oll fair and Lioucat, neounitiiatiolis of wealtl, of ubfto useftlucss aiid proveu, by all prager etliods of fudlistey and ukill, by all peraous and ussociations of men whatever, Sevand—Wa beliove thut all men havo the inberoni rigitt (b b twiink tliey plodno with (ir owh, whehover wid Whiokover ity pIeane to ack in Becopditits with the publio wealy and in 10 cuse whatover I which thoy do 1ot plesno o to act; and that, in our own_country, {n this matior, the peoplo themsolvee, and not individuals or corgorations, uro tadethe solo Aual Judges, I'hird—Wo bicttovd that the highest well-bestig of the Tepuibliu and of the race tequireh thintall hjust did dime propet aotion, gitlter of individnals, or of corpords tiohy, or of ofllcstn or adininistritors of tho law, stionld b pnreiaed by o yroccksss and youiticaof liw 84 the @arliest practicablo siomenty hud, ationld this noeded reform, liko ail _gthar refgrme. involvo trane slent Tosses aud fuconvonfouces to Individunls or cvan to corporations or wholo commuitles of men,’ tho. res spousiiiily {8 not ovrs, but rsta wholly Hpoh netd of injuntice nirendy perE:[mlcll; and wo decisre thaty. in wlititing ticso ovi b, (ha Feal, fundamtntal pHncipias of tho comuion law, applied witliodt projudico, ard {ho shigot-anchor of Ouk Lopes, . fi\:!Arllx—\Yn dunoutics many of the protonded npplie catlous of the cothmoi law ns tnjist ud, tilegud] while the seal, origlhdl prisctpies of the law oro just and equnl, In. this rcapect, the prineiples davolved fn ‘this gréat, world-wide adti- monbpoly struggle, thvolviig all ‘raced of nfony hra prociacly amalogous i priticiple d in, [t 1o our nord liimited Awerican strigsfo {t behlf of o sfiglo raco, Iint wo hopo to terninnte this ‘imwnl strigilo fur gur kighte, and tlin riglits of vtz follows, wholly by Lol nd peadoful heans, Fifth—Wa decluro oursolves; fherefore, oposd to nll wnequal amd unjust monopollus, of wintover sort, whethee by fudividuala or by corporaliviin} whother by privato greed or public frunclilse; whotho? of ollice, powor, or Wealth, obtaiticd, or hold, or, used, or admintatored contrary fo tho public froal} whetler Sl altemptod mouotiolite rolata o ot o caplial Wiicter thoy origliate With confblucd ¢lasa rinis ol Isborers ar eapilaffste, or of caucuses of ofiicesechers, or of protended numibistiutors df Justico through ous courty nnd laws; whelher they rolato to raflroads, oF Lanks, o tarliTy, of nny othor ilkrest, eitliv puibiie orprlvato, Vo' nbjiiro ull suck njust closs-togislas tion andl_class-ndministration, of whatovor surt; dhd Wo invoko all tho combincd reavtirces of - both tho common aud tho atututa Law to forover put on eod to b ot thix Continent, : < Str(d—Motiopoly by individilbls, obtatiied b en. groming (e by making tcorburs i1 o morkol, ua i s ilow called, kuys Mr, Webster), is on offoute prohibe ited by Jnw, 'Hut o tan lina by hatural Hight tho ex cluistv powor of yendiug his own prodiice or mbritie facturea; and to retuin thab oxclusivo right fa not & monapoly, in the meaning of tholaw. Wa bolieve thal {hie, a8 611 a8 all othéf fuudanicntel principlos of the common liw, should bo rigorously ndininisteredl aug, onforcod aguinst ull monopoties uf whntsoover cort, Saventhi—Whilo wp admil tha absolulo nocesslty snd extremo utility of out rafiraid aid other corporations, and whills wé aealro to deal with them only ol ferl of eiual $ustico and falrness, wo cautiof but coutem.* pinte with peculiar solivityudo tho riss of n power g tho Ropulblo thnt, aceordisg to Bk, Frank Giftiort und othior glatisticland; ins recelved {n groutw moro land {rout tho Tieylille, Losido thele righta of wa, Uisn thero i bt tho sl Now Eugiand Biutos, with Now Yorls, Pounsylvania, Now Jorsoy, Ohio, Indlus, tud Liiingls combined; that hns recolved somo $20,000,000 of money yoted o8 & frco gift from thia Statd nloue, bealduek Fighth bf Woy, end ublold- losses in_stdcke, subncriptionn peid, aid mudidored, or suk, or Tost 4 powar capablo of alihiost fiistantaitcoun conibiiat ond cooperation under tho unserupulous loaders slilp of Boaio two of threo mon: o power alrcady . cupablo of buylug. whole_States aud Leglslaturos; o power that, notwillstanding all ita puvile giftn aud fratchises, already takos tho ground ehad it holds no othier obligation to tio publle thisw simply to make 88 mueh ‘woly out of tho peoplo ‘as it ey and _ that ft resist to tho mttermost sl lnwa cumpelling o recogniifon of auy ofher obli- gation. Wo contemplate with peeuliar ularin tho riss of suclh n power over us, and with peculinr disgust its unlawfil aud propostoroha elalms § hnd e call oty ouf legialators anil adminlstrators of our courln of Inw tu ennct and onforco aich Jawa ne shall compol this ghgantlo power to submit fo thu real common faW of tho race, and hold and uee ils frauchlsos for ‘the ‘publts goodi er ofherwea wo cald upon thom {0 reeign their bublic oflices, nud give place Yo oters who il o it ; andy ualess sty i facl doue, wa do ot bellovo that {ho lborties of the Contds nent or of the 1aca can bo prosorved. . Iighth—\Witenkas, This Republic has been tiled woll-nigh destroyed ndor tho doluslon of the fatal dggmua, Priuciples and ot men,—onco undet tho lead of @ fuction of violenco autl blood, aud now agaiu wne der the rottonncss und corruption of veuul mouopo. Hew, caticus-wirepullers, aud ollice-seoliorv, acutterod throughout all dur vilinftes ahd towhs; in projocting 0..¢ xeforin wo duclato oursclves for both- principla i thew, atul, Ot of nll, for inon of unquoatiuucd dnid wighoKlidfable Integity, firuiness, putily, aid ability, i tlio wholo record ofthefe s lives, 10 sor Ject, admifister, and apply our principlds for s in our clinlf, Stich men wo propor all antecedot party oran fo remand oll thers, of 1inty catiouses, conventions, and presscq uheld and indlbrsed, bud specdily us poseible, to privato Jife, We iuslst on'clean bnuds and clear beads llvat - of ‘ull, aud on_just princlples 48 fast a8 w0 ean got at them, Nuntli—We commmit oll the dotalls and partionin methods of thu grent, wotld-wide reform to tho dallbs eration and aro of the men whom we slall 8o cloct, Teatth—That, as roun a8 mny bo dusirablo, we wiil it caudidaté in the flold to ropresent our principics in this district, Eleventh—That coplos of theso resolutions bo far- nidfied to tho pipers of this Congressionnt District, Sl aiso of Oleago und St. Louie, for publication, 0 to seleat irreapectivo of tions or uflilialidiiy, and whatever patty, or by Lowavey Farmors’ Oongressimial Convention of tho Eigie District of Ilinois, .. Special Duspatel to The Chiean Lribune, ‘Famnuny, Livingston Co., Tli,, Maroh 18, —Tha Convention o eailad to order by W. A. 3oloy, lien, tho Vice-President of tho Illinois Biate Furmors' Associstion for the Eighth Distriot, Jamos G, Bayne, of Woodford Counity, was thoy ohosen permanont Uresident, and 11, B, Durbam, o('l{nn’mkuu way ohosoh Booretary, Tho following Committoo on Cradentinla were thon appointed: I, D, Whittemore, Kankakeo AL . Dintick, Iroquols : T, O, Allen, Livingston; Jumes (Pipor, Woudford ; A, M. Hanlong, Ford, "Who Committes raportod fall dolegations from oll tho countics iu_Lho lef;mnuh}unl Distriot, ox¢opt Marshinll' County, who’ were not repre- sented, A cotnitteo wore than lq:Yulntml upon resolutions,—Iroyuois, A. 1. Aloxaudor; Livings- ton, W, Moloighun; Kunlukeo, IL. & oo ; Tord, W. Noel: Woodford, James Pipor,—who ru\mrted ag follows: ‘Tant wo indorse and ro- afilrm’ tho prluul?luu oy sot forth by tho State Turmors’ Asuovlntion, hold at Docatur, Dossme bor, 1878, and xeport tho followlng additional 1. . Regoived, Thut wa bollove that the policy of cantrols ing 1ho curvoncy Is detrimontal to the intorost of {he Intoring cluuses of the United Blutos, and tho luwaof flllmfl‘y ::ll dentand regulato the amount of ourrencyj orofo o llraulvl:l, ‘That we demand tho ropeal of tho National Banking law, and the substitution of a. logal-tendar curroncy disgotly from tho Ratiownl Trotairy, dutur- chaugetblo ot tho option of the holder with * Govera- ment bondu bearlug u rato of intorest not exceediog 960100 For cout por anunm, Jlesolved, That thelr practice of elooting to O ongrest and tho logislative budics men thut “are diructly ‘peouniurlly intorosted i Notionul Dauks or of it upi- ciea of business privatoly fs uneound policy, sud tiat 1t meots witls our unqualified condemuatios, esolved, That the vxisting WNallway Law of this State Sl ol ol SST07C0N Bkl (HOrGNgLlY tested beforo the courls, . - - Jiesolved, “Phat wo domand of Congress tho repeal of. the unjust Jaw that \.‘rnveuu forulgu vuasols frow com. yoting 1y our own lake and coastywise trado. Zcsolved, That the Rovenuo Liws of tho Stats shall Do 80 amehied thas all bou-Hide ludebleducss on pore ‘sonal proporty sliail be deducted, “I'ha resolutious wero adopted. . ‘I'ho Conventlon thon uppoluted the following Central Congressional Commitico: Livingston County~I, H, Btitt, Maraliall County—W, Nool, - + - Ford Qouuty—\Willimm Coopor, Iroquois Coanty—F, B: Boach, - Woodford Gounty—Potor. Vanoo,: . - Although tho Couvontion was not as Iargo as was oxpoctod, yob tho work ncoomplished wes groat, mld the Tosuits which must uuturally one guo wiil tond to furthor, unite and strengthon the Farmots' Movement, . . The Siccossor 1o Sumier, Boetox, Marah 18,—Tho countest’for Benator Bumnar's eugeogsor is narrowing, 'Ihe prneipal cundidatos uro now concoded to bo Duwos, lA)llmm, t!lmu;.‘ li:ll B%nku. "lt in ltlu‘au ul‘x)t tlllfi owmoorats, who have votod oub of 230 wi unite ou s Liberal Bopublioan, . - c o