Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1874, Page 5

- ARKANSAS. The Spree nt Little Rock--Brooks vg. DBaxtor. & Eodel Judlelury-..Tho Stato ** Jumped "---I:cmlf» 2 fseenses, From Our Qun Correspondent. Wasnvazon, April 21, 1874, Thisis the situation in Arkansas: A Gov- ernor oleoted iu tho nemoof Grant, and sup- portod by Olsyton nnd atl his conquestadoros, ia found in duo timo to lean toward tho natlve in- terosts of his peoplo, and thoro is no way to dls- poro of him but by nn ontragoons performauco in thio Courts, at tho suggoestion of tho carpot- Lnggers. COURTS OF RUFFIANISM. . Tho worst part of tho carpot-bag Govornmont In Arkausas is the Courts. Thoe Judges are gon- stully juvonile xufMans, oronted at tho whim of Ehiolr chuma in tho Exccutive Dopartmont. As Mr. Wilshiro, tho prosont Mombor of Congross trom the Third Distriot of tho Btato, describes thom: *Tho Qourta have bocomo corrupt, the Judgos pimpa of political 1ascalitios, and the Stato {s rotton fu ita very bones.” Iie puts the quostion in this strong way: **Toput sn end to wuch tricks and judicinl scoundrolism iz more important that to sustain Baxtor or Brooks, 1s 1t to bo toleratod that o logal fraud, porched on tho Cirenit Oourt Benoh, shall make or unmake Qovernora of Biates? , If tho Presidont woro sued for the rocovery of his place by somo ono boforo the Oiroult Court of the United Btatos, or boforo a Judge of tho Suprome Court of the District of Columbia, would .Gen. Grant fool bound at onco to vacate the Whito House ?" ‘TO BTART AT THE FOLE. X When the State Constitution was put togethor, Quring the timo of the military occupation, pro- vislon was made for fivo Justices of the Supromo Bonch,—an ontrageons number, if we consider tho poverty of Arkansss, Tho Prosidont of tho Conventiop, one' Brown, romarked that ho did not care what it comt, but “ho wonld bo d—d it ho mustw't havo ono of tho Judgoships. Tho Ohlof-Juatico, Jack MClure, had boon & pupll st law with Willlam Zdungon, tho Domocratio Congrossmon from what is callod tho Ioop-l'ole Distriot of Ohio. Ho waa required by Olnyton, who approcinted his rough, unscrupulous foios, asud was himsolf defectivo i other quslities than gamo and am- bition. Itwould be hard to may that McQOlure mado the worst Judge Arkausna ovor hind, be- causo, in the old dnys, 1t was not uncommon for two Judgos to quarrel on tho Buuch, pass & chal- Jengo while the Court was in sossion, and thon ¢o back nmongst thoe pine-tracs and fire at ‘each othor; but McClure was moro indifferent to publio apponrance snd the somblance of jus- tico thau anyof theold slsve-halding Judges. Ho wont to prize-fights, spont parts of ovenings in concort-saloons at Littlo Rock, gave Tours fo draw-poker, and invariably advised to tho harsh- st courso in doaling with political opponents, after urging oxtramitios which Powell Olayton would uot concede. TIE BTATE CONSTITUTION, which I havo reforred to, was the ossence of in- justico in 1ts_conception, formation, and adop- tion. It was baaed upon tho idea that tho Btata must bo speedily got into the Union for the bon- slit of tho adventurers, who were ready to absorb 48 revonues, It assombled at Little Rock, Jan, 7, 1868, under tho provisions of an ack of Con- Emw completed the pravious July, Tho actof jongresa waa of itsolf an outrage, ss it do- borred overy Confodorate soldier and offlolat €rom rofimuiun, and left tho forme- tion o tho ~ Btate ~to tho nd- venturors and negroes chiofly. Gen. Ord syas then in command of Arkausas, and he noti~ flod tho peoplo that, in case of violonce or fraud, tho oloction would bo held over sgain, It was found that 41,000 votes wora cast out of 67,000 rogistered, and that sbout two to ono wore for ho Couvention, The first namo roturned as o Qelogato way that of John McCluro from Arkan- #as- County, on the opposite . side of the xiver from Littlo Rock, Tom Bowon, Prosident of the Convontion, was ro- turned from the. Fort Smith country, The family of Hodgos, which has cleared tha 'most money in tho Stato, appesred from Critten- don County, opposite Momphis. From Phillips Connty, Silets 'ia the Holons District, camo Joa Brooks, the presont Governor do facto, aud s very able negio proachor named Gray. The Bheriff of thlu Rock, Charles H. Oliver, was returncd as from Scott County, ju the moun- tains, Tho principal persous of past stand- ing In the Btato woro Cen, Robert B. @nntt and Hoory Rector. Joo Brooks oponod lue - Convention with yprayer, Dowen was clocted by 47 votes out of 51, and in thas proportion was the comploxion of tho constitutionn) body. Tho Constitntion was put beforo the ‘peoplo With no option but to Tatify it, aud was pronounced as confirmed In S80S, Yot us tum to the artiole on the Ju- dioinry : The Buprome Court was mede to consist of one Chief-Justice and five Justices, appointed vy ‘tho Governor and Sepate for eight yoars,—two of thom (fi)lng out at the half-term, %o 89 to provide for-thoe froshoning up of tho Bouch ovory four yours. Tha Judges of the in- Zerior Courts were to bo nominnted by the Goy- ernor overy six years, and the Goneral Assembly wras for tho future forbiddon to interfere with tho term of oflice. THE JUBTIORS. What kind of men wero to bo in judiclal posi- tions can bo inforred from MAlr. Wilsbire's deseriptions, The intention of tho Con- stitutional Convention was to imposo such a rigid Government on tho _State that, for at loast six.years, people would bo un-+ sblo to throw it off, and, mesntimo, the adven- turers oxpooted to bo able to line their purses, and possibly to 'menlnvizu themselvoa Aufli- cioutly to cnrry- the State snother time. The gix years Lave nearly oxpired. Tho Govern- ment of the carpet-bogger is mo moro Bocure than it was in 1868; but dosperate yemedios Linve bosn adopted with success in past times by the Clayton Governmont, .and the prosent id s repotition of that former gamo of bluff which Clayton played with the Ku-Klux, sonding out Cattorson and Upham, with bands of bush- wrhackers, to carry terror into distant countios. PLUNDED, Iuving obtained possossion of tha Btato, tho carpot-baggors procosded on miscollancous or- rands of plundor, They came into possesgion of i tho ol Innd-grants which had boon made bo- fora the War to build railronds, and, baving the oredit of tho Northorn monoy-market ab & Apeo- ulative timo, thoy hawked thoir bonds through Wall stroob, picked up” monioy by tho pushol, aud bogan reoklossly to spond it in fino residoncen, blocks of stores with iron fronts, wooden pavements, and borse-onrs, ‘The old re- pudiated bonds, out of which the Stato Lad been swindlod in tho time of Ambroso Sevior, wore discovered, bought up, and then voted into the sundod debt of the State ot tho instauce of the very man, Jos Brooks, who lhas lately beon fustlod into tho vossession of the Btato Houso, Two Sonators at Washe ington, Rico and McDonald, rotarded the extonelon of the land-grant of tho Cairg & Fulton Ratlroad, notil they could gat control nf the wtook, wheh thoy sold tho wholo thing out to Allen & Marquand, railroad bankers—n vory happy pmcoodln§ for tho Btate, sinco it bas resultod in tho complotion of the raliroad, but ot tho loss dinhoriout bocauso Bucoossfal in business handd, The sum of 07Mlfllw was di- vided smonget tho confodorstes. Then rail- yonda wore commenced, generally on swindling priuciplos, from Holous to Little Loolr, from Little Ttock to Fort Smith, from Little Rock to Yine Bluft, and from Camden to tho Misslesippi ZRiver. Bo fast did the advonturers mako way rith the resources of the Btato that speodily the gns wasout of tho bag; the bonds had littls or no snlo on tho market; what bonds wero wold devolopad no work; &ud in 1872 the oredit of the Btato was golow thint Honry Page, StatoTronsurer, was baroly able to borrow muno{ln Now Yorkto meat tho Interost. Aeantime, the mutual groed of tha carpet-baggors had sot thom to devouring ench othor. ’ INTRIGUE, ‘When Clayton propared to descend from the @Governor's chair and tako his placo in tho United (3tatos Benate, he found that Lin Obief Justico, BicClure, apprehionded that his succossor would dosert tho earpot-baggors, his e0cees- gor was a Union ~oficor, though' a pative citizon of tho Htats, by tho namo of Johnson, & woll-momning nan of a Zoeble moral and moutal nature. Io did not possens tho vicos of tho adventurers, aud thoy were quick to presume that, with tlie vust pate ronage which the Constitution gave the Gov- ernor, Johnson would slowly mssume his placa camongst his noighbors and follow-cltizons, snd Jeave tho carpot-baggors out in the ocald. Clayton wah compolled to delay hin departuro for Washington nntil ohnson could ba bought or scared off, Burrounded these dosporato !mt\nnns, Jolnson t‘fid out of the seat of Lioutonaut-tiovornor fato tho unimportant ono of Socrotary of Btate. Theu Clayton's horde mado tho Govornor, ono Hndloy, of Miunesots,~a wealk, bankiupt impor- tation, who was frotted sll tho whilp in tho of- flao by tho autbraaks in Popo and Mississippt Qountios, and in othor parta of tho Biato. Tho 'opo County war nover —was put _ down, and - no whilo Baxtor i, and Brooks havo fllad Littlo Rock with sontries, woread of the audaclons mutineers of l'opo COunnty marching 1 with drum aud fife and fly- iug colotn, TROOKA REIECTED, The enrpot-baggora did not conso to fall out when Johinsou's moquicaconce allowed Clayton to como to tho Sonato, Olayton found that itioo, 1s_collongruo, n hrd-boadod, fudomitablo man, bad preparcd a oass of bribery and corruption against him in the Bonate. Clayton thon wont to work to haye Rico's Qoufodorate officials romoved by Prosident Grant, A bittor and unscrupulous contost fol- Jowod, and Grant acceded to Olaylon's roquest, and romovod Catferson, Winthrop, snd the other Fedoral officars who stood by ltice. Rics then declarod for Greoloy, and nominatod Joo Brooks for Goyernor. . Brooks waa a wild, fervid, apostate Trmhar. who forsakon tho Mothodlst pul- it for the spoils of offico, -Amongat, ho many ablo and ‘unsorupulons mon whom the North has sont 1nto the. Bouth during tho timo of reconstruction, fow have beon tho ogual of this man, Brooks, for alarming the white peopls and .mmmf onthusiasm amongst tho negroes. With largo, shnqu liead, and a poiverful frame,—overything of Mir- aboat - excopt.the loaruing, overything of the Towast carpot-baggor excopt Liypoorisy,—he out=: raged tho -malive poople of tho Biute whilo “boe terrificd thom. To presont bim for Governor on the mil tatform of Horuco Graeloy. wea ono of the wild impro-, priotics_in. the %onnnl anarchy of oarpot-bag- gory. The objsct of making the nomination was to 1nsuro the negro vote; over whioh Brooks had very Sntmmnl ocontrol.* To offsot this movoment, tho Olayton mon, plnylnf anothor dosporate game walked_right ovor into the ranks of the tebollion and plucked out Baxter, in ordor to dividethenativavote. Baxterappoaratohave had no partioular gharactor, oxcopt an easy, ambi- tious natute. Ho accoptod tho nomination, aud the campaign went on nll ovor. tho Biato with that oarnestnoss which might be expocted whon it was # lifo-strugglo- with' tho carpet-baggors, and the first prospoct of hope for tho natives.- At onge the Domooratio organs wero tamporod with, aud the Gaztle, tho old Biato popor, bogun whilo . Arkensss waa yob & Torritory, undortook. to. set up & Bourbon candldato - in the interost of Olayton. I was in Little Rock at this time, and thore I found Jack McOlure sotiug in the triplo capacity of Chlof-Justico, Btato Printor, andl propristor of the oficial Republioan organ. Ulayton had taken a.tosm, -and, with & lob' of ploked stumpors, imported from the North, he made tho tour of the northorn and wostorn counties. Rico, moantimo, at Littlo Rock, potfooting '~ and onorgiz- ivg his organization; and, thoso men had baon ongagod in any groat moral work, it would have boen a cheorful study in_human na- ture to havo followed them as, with laborious dovolion, they ponstrated overy portion of the Btato, and fought out the contost almost from men foman, Nobody doubta,that Brooka recoived the ma-~ jority of vates, snd should have been Govarnor remainod of ‘the Btate. Rico always alloged it. Clayton - and - his - Judgos now _ ad- mit ik But the United Btatos Bonator and many of the Btate offices woro contingont upon tho success of tho faotion in powor, and thoy manipulated tho ro- turns just as they pleasod, for thore was not even s somblanco of justice iu tho Btato Govern~ ment ; snd Baxter was inauguratod Governor, whilo an obsoure raliroad operator, of the name of Doraoy, was sont to Washington' with oredon- tials, to take Rico's aent, Nobody at Washington cared much sbont Askonens, ms 1t was far out of tho road, tmporfectly understood, and but threo or four mon in tho Sonate had over visited the place. The gonoral improssion was that an originally godless peoplo biad beon invad: ed by au equally godlosa sot of jaybawkers, snd that it was “ Pull Dick, pull Dovil.” 2 MOLURE TONTURES BAXTRR. Aftor Baxtor took the office, thore was no way for the Clayton faction to bold him incheck but to romind him that ho had beon illegally elected. MoCluro, that illustrious typo of & Ohiof- Justico, was tho party dologated to put this delicata suggestion into Baxtor's conscieuce, At the first sign of independent ac~ tion, McOluro worved notico on tho wretchod Governor. He had scarcly got warm in the of- fico whon McOluro dotooted him giviug commis- sions to’ membors of the Legislature whoso xlncnn woro apt to bo suppliod by Coneorvativos. IcClure immediately announced that, it the case ‘of Brooks ve, Daxtor could: be brought before him, ho would tumn Boxtor ont of tho Siato House; snd, hoar- ing this, Lrooke came forward and mado his aaco wilh MoClure, aud announced that, if the ourt would put him in legal posscesion, he would hold thie Capitol by force of arms, = Mr. ‘Wilshire states pointsat 1aw on this head. Tho Supremo Court had alresdy adjudged Beaxter's title to the oflico in deciding that tho udgment of tho Legislature was finsl For _an Assogiato udge to assuma. jurisdiction of this ruling was, as Nilabire says, “p judicial indoconoy mo more entitled to ro- spect than the deoision of Jamca IL. that ho had tho disponsing power.” . Clayton found that a flagrant act lke this, of turning out 8 Governor once counted in, in or- dor to put in a more convenient ono solemnly counted out, would make moro scandal through tho country than hie cared to suiler; seated in hig prominent sont at Washington. Baxter then proceeded toadministor as scomed proper to him. Ho trospaesed littlo by litele 11pon the patronnge of tho oarget-baggary, natil finally it waa oloar that Arkoness wonld {novit- ably drift into the hauda of the original settlors, A genoral truco wns patchod up botweon Rico aund OClsyton, McClurs, and Brooks. Cattorson came in, ond the conspiracy Was 8o arranged at ail Jmlms that, 1n & momeut of time, & Circuit Judge by the namo of Whytock should give Brooks the right of ousier, and let bim take the oflica, - g 1t was donoas ‘ou have read. Brooks, who had onco run within ono vote of being a Notho- dist Bishop, ndvanced fo the Httlo, old, grav Stato-Housa on the brink of the river, and, with & posso_of greody office-huntera about' him; hustled Baxter out of the ofiice, und drove him into a hotel. Poor Johnson was fortunately out of the oflice of Becrotary of Btate, and the cons spirators broke open his safe, stole tho aeal of Arlansas, sud passod it ovor to Brooks, BEQUEL. ¥ To hayo submitted without some appearance of n fight wns boyond the course of human Lm\\n, sud Baxter appoaled to Cmsat, on the one and, to tho populnge on tho other, Tl it siands at the Prnaonb writing; Bowle- knives are uneasy in thoir sheaths ; six-shooters are pushed too and fro by nervous fingers, itch- (n.i to draw; flold-pleces, Inden with grape and Dullots, are ready to b dischargodinto the popu- laco, nino years aftor tho disbandment of the armiea of tho Rebellion, Nothing koops the forces nsunder but that namoloss howltation swakened by the inqury, “ Which is the just side 7" It is in the J;“M of any wrotoh, by firing a musket, to make civil warin the City of Littlo Rook. 3 ‘What is tho deduction from all this? That reconsfiuotion by carpot-bagging 18 very thin irrigation and vory conatant evaporation.” That tho organio forces of soclety will nover assimi- Into with & sot of now-comers without moral rights, whoue rulela a succossion of dissipationa and jobg. That, by tamporing with Siate Gov- orumonts in the interests of his favoritos, tha Presidont hos Bot an oxample to tho carpete baggars in overy Stato whish thoy have “!nmp- od " to maintain their position by fraud it thoy can, by forco if thoy muat, The time is at hand whon a Ropublican ma. jority in Congress will conse to exist, 1f Mr, Olsyton and lus frlends bave been unable in sovon yoars to mako Arkensas like them and their institutions, thoy must give it up, Por- baps, in seven years more, the poople of the Btato will arriyo at somo durablo concluaion, acting under. the stimulus of tholr own noods and wishes, Garu, T e e RAILROAD NEWS. BEPORTA ¥ILED, Tho Pittsburgh, Fort Weyne & Ohioago, Indi- snopolls & Vinesunes, and the Columbus, Obi- ongo & Indiana Contral Railroad Companies filod roports for 1878 with the Boorotary of Btato of Indiana on the 18th inet. in pursuance of the act paased by tho last Gonoral Asaembly. The following is an abutract of them: Plitsburgh, Fort Wayno & Chicago—Capltal stook pald np, ©8,814,285.71; oxponsos for land, construction oto., €57,808,285.71; fuuded dobt, 18,564,000; floating dobt, $1,422,062; amounts due from corporations, ete., $30,004,80; roceipts for transportation of passongors, oto., 89,619, 074,80 4> amount of froight carried, in tony,’ 2203644007 pald for ropairs, ©0,007,041,00{ divldends paid, 01.507,140, aistanco 'ran b Pas- senger traing, 1,728,104 milod ; froight, 6,880,700 milén ; othior ‘trains, 970,831 miten—totat, 7,879, 56 m:lm engine-lougos ownod, 26 ; shops, 0 .conducting " the retrest of 10,000 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL. 2, 1874 hundred, which, for any reason to tho contrary oxcopt its ‘‘rounduces,” might juat as woll ho 1uoroased to one bundred and ouo or any numbor above, or out down to nincty-nino orany numbor ‘bolow. Sucl's limitation {8 sltogothier unoritical and puerile, and i3 consoquontly misleading. Havlng been led to n connideration of thia sul act, lot us gather and nrrange acoording to thelr ralts and aflinitios the namos of THE GREAT WRITERS OF TIE WORLD, FOETS, englnos, 200; passengor-cars, 182} froight, S‘O%D(I.vlgnsn ch‘, 20, ! i hy O, , 0., or Pan-Handle Ratlrond—Axn- thorlzed capital tock, 015,000,000[ paid up oap- ital, 818,00,677.671 cost .of construction, oto,, 834,180,486 4 § onedos ©1,702,006.88 3 oars of all olasion, ©14,675,240.82; total funded debt, $24,804,824; tolal floating dobt, ®774,010.11; amount recaived for psnonger iransportation, ‘oto,, 84.477,800.84; amonnt recolved for froigh transportati un; 1,473,023 ; pnid_for ropalva, oto,, ©5,244,004.197 milon run nasongor | Turo: Gostho, y i :m{;m, gi;ld 4 -,fl;"f & m;‘lm;lszl T P 8 Bivia, Tsah, Exolll Seumia, Jobn, rains, + total, 4,817,721 onyine-housaoy ; - o, Danto, “Nibek 8 alops, 55 ongines, 1047 ‘pas 08 | o am Reond ! Sttion. el 04 ; “pasrongor-oars, oxprons, otoy 47 frolght, 1,001 § OhbooRO, 8. ndistiapolls & Ninconnos—Total rocolpts, 9263,784.14 ; tons of froight haulod, 77,483 ; op- erating oxpousos, $101,647,10, Nolthor thisroad nor tho 0., 0. & I. O, doolared dividends. ITEME, - The people of Bowling Green, Ind,, intend to bulld & branch road to connoot with the Balti- mors, Pittsburgh & Ohicago Railroad, a distance nfsfllhbnlan n:il“. kAt el L 4 ovoral of the ontorprising cltizens of Logans. [mxl Ind., have enterad Antg sn agroomont with ho Lagnnupufl, Orawfordaville & Soutlwestorn and tho Detroit, Eel River & Illinois Railroads - to the . offect that -the oltizons will complate the ix milos of unfinished track of the formor road, from Climer to that city, 1f both companios will locato and maintain thoir shops at Logansport. A Convontlon of Rallroad Purchasing Agente will ho bold at the Grand Pacifio Hotel, in this clty, on tho 17¢h of Juno. RAILROAD EARNINGH. Dramstio; Authar of tho Dook of Job, Machylus, Boplioclen, Enripides, Aristophanes, Plaitus, Blinks~ poaro, Bont Jonson, Cornallle, lacine, ‘Blollero, Cnlio- ron, Bahiller, Brown!ng, Narrativo: Ohaucer, Morria, Moral-Allogorical Lyrlo: Pindsr. Otitico-Lyricals Horace, Durns, Byron, Derauger, Heino, Hugo, Phiosophico-Lyrieat: Luorotiun, Wordsworth, Doscriptivo-Lyrio: Ovid, Oatullus, La Fontaitie, Bairioal Juvons, Pope, : ke WRITERS, Religloun Foundora: Mosos, Confuclus, Paul, Mo- ‘homet, Luther, o cbioglans i Auguniine, Athensaine, Tortullan, alvin, Chutchmon s Joremy Taylor, Dossuet, Fenslon, Religloun Thinkers: Thomaa Aquinas, St, Bernard, Pascal, Bpinoza, Btraues, Maurico,: Dovbtional s 4 Kempis' (7 nuthor of # Imitatio Ohris- Thilosophors: Piato, Arintotle, Dacon, Looko, Kant, Fichto, Bcholling, Hegel, Comto, Mill (J, 8,), Bpeucor. Doubtera: Humio, Voltalro, g Hyonsor, s iatoria; Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybh %F?xl:k.xu::nl\{:fl;n‘;i rf)‘;"ufo'x'f?s?ht‘mi }:{;fi‘fi;fifl agitus, Feoueat, lbbony Niobuhe, wroh woro 1874, €932,164; 1879, §1,180,700 ; i doerenso, 248,041, 'or 3135 porcont, ' H o e The oarnings of tho Toledo, Wabash & Weat- Zhilosoply of Itistory 1 Vico, laider, ern Tailway for iho firet wook in April wero: | Philosophdo Statosmen : Olcoro, Machiavelll, Burke, 1874, 8104,644 ; 1873, $08,790; {ncreaso, £0,048, [ Guizat. or 834 per oent. Jurlats—Phillosophical: Grotius, Bontham, Tho earnings of the Milwaukeo & Bt. Paul Mistorical : Bavigny, Tolitico-oconomical: Aduin Bmith, Pragmatio: Froukiin, Gritica of focioty (* Aoraliata™): Solomon, Rabo* Ials, Montatgne, Awift, Addison, Jobuson, Carlyle (Proplotlo), Bmoraon, {oraty Orltics : _Aulus Golius, Quinctllan, Seall- gor, Lossing, Sointe-Bouvo. Phiiology { Humboldt (Williaw), Bopp, Grimm, Oritica of tho Arta of Deajgn : Wincketmnnn, Ruse Rallwsy for the seccond weok in April wero: 1874, 9152,300; 1878, $124,870; incrossc, 827,430, or2d por cont. A CENTURY OF AUTHORS, The Grent Writers of the World. Richard Grant White {n the Galaxy for May. Iu “ Realmah " (ohap, xv.), Sir Arthur Holps makes Ellosmare say, What, dull! when you havo travolod over 80 fow minds, and Layo nob road tho hundred groat books of tho world—for thore have been at least s hundrod books writton by mon who wero not dull, snd whose works falfill the words of Samson whoo ho went down to Timuath to take s wife from amang tho Philie- tinos, snd found that which o said combined leonino ntmDFtll with swootuoss.” Thia bringa mo a roquoat from sn Intalligont correspondent thot I will point out to my roaders the 100 groat books of the world the prospoot of reading which shonld be'eo suro an antidota againet dullnoss. Bir Jotn Ellesmore's phrasessoms preoise, but ia roslly vaguo. Beforawo sot about finding out which are tho 100 grost books of tho world, we, must find out what it is that wo aro to look for. ‘What 18 8 book, a8 Ellosmore uses the word ? Is {t » volume containing, for example, all of Bhak-~ sponro's works, or all of Milton's poéms ? Buroly not. If wo could have all of Goothe's writings or of Bcott's in one volume, it would bo a book in s cortain sense ; and £0 1n & certain senao tho Bible is spoken of 8s & book, “a snored book,” although ¢ containa sixty-four distinet compositions, from the pens of about forty soveral writors, whoso work extend- od through aporiod of 1,600 yoara. Plainly, thore- foro, *'book * must here bo taken in tho sonse— tho proper senso—in which ‘¢ Wilholm Mefster," one work of Goothe's, is & book, and in which Goneals or Job is & book. Bnt the offect of this nocosssry limitation is to make Ellesmore’s ap- parontly simple_and elgnificant specch atmost mosningloss. For in that cage our tale of 100 grost booka would bo noarly made up by the chiof Biblical writers and somo haif a soore of othora. Wo should start with Genesis and Exo- dus, aud Ruth, and Job, and tho Pealms, and tho ‘Proyerbs, and Ecolosinstcs, and Ieninh, and Jore- mioh, and Ezoklel, and tho Epistlo to the Romans, and the two Corinthians, and the Ad:o- calypse. Homer would furnish us with tho Iliad and Odyesoy’; Zachsylus with fivo tragodios out of tho goven which have survivod of his soventy : Bophooles with five, perhnps eix, bo baving writ- ton more than ono hundred ; Etripides with six, to which & place could not be rofused ; and from the twonty comedies of Plautus wa should cer- tainly take five. Lesping to modern times, Bhakepears would furnish us with a losat ~ twalve dramss, nll unapproschod in their distinctive merit; Goothe with a8 many distinct works of almost equally conspicuous ex~ collenco; and Scott with half o dozon novels on- titlod to & place among the beat books of their kind in the world, Plainly, it was not thus that 8ir Arthur Helpa intended his contury of books to be made up. * Ho, wo moy be sure, had vaguoly in his mind {he Biblo ss ono book, “ghakspeare” aa one ofher book; but when he cam, for instanco, down to Btorne, ho would ro- Rord the **Bontimental Journoy” asone book and “'Tristyam Shandy” se anothor, while ho would pmbnh\{ loays Yorlok’s sermons out of tho question altogather ‘ss little fittad for doo- trine, for reproolf, for corroction, or even for in- struction in righteousncss. The only way in which the grand oircle of lit- erary eminonce fudicated by Ellesmera’s aposch. can bo filled up i8 by inquiring which are the one hundred great authors to whom the world is chiefly. indebted for instruction and do- light, That .may bo dono; and ms tho task Js a plonsant .-and puggestive one, Ihave undertaken- it-with some ciccumspeo- tion, protesting, ‘however," against the procrus- toan limitation of ‘the numbor of immortals ta exaotly ong bundred. - In making the seloction of theso.uames, originality, with which thero al- ways goes a certain atrength, has boon first con- sidored.: The writer who first tells the world a now truth, orteachos 'it amow faith, or who Jeads it Into & now train of thought or mode of action, or whio gives it 4 new delight, la the groat maa not only of his nFo, but for all timo. Noxt to originslity come styleand subject, which some- times ralso & man of intrinsio. socondary q ) into tho first rank.- Xenoplion, for examplo, would not'take a ‘pince “among the hundred by originality, by strength, or even by indlvidual oharm. But the Athenian moholar. was a born soldicr, fashioned in the womb to be a eaptain, and he happened to have the opportunity of rooks out of Poraia, whiol ho did succesafully in tho face of all the' armieabf the groat King; and Lo hns told tho story of this great military feat and stirring advehiture in o 6tylo 80 elegant, with & golf-revolation sosweet and slm{:ln, that the vory Doys forgive him for writing the Anabasis, and lovo him as they tofl with him over his daily purmmfl; He thieroforo takes his placo among ‘tho hundred, although if he had not been the Atbenian bee, and hod not voluntecred againat Artaxorxes, hig mero native force of mind wonld not have carried bis namo bayond his century. Ho Polybiug attains bis eminenco chiofly by hig opportunities, With thus much of caution and ot explanation, I introduco tho following list of ONE_IUNDRED GREAT WIITERS. 3 HERBEW, Mosos (a8 the suthor of Teaish, Gouosla and Exodus), Ezokiel, Autlor of the Bookof Job, Bt. Paul, n. Architacturs and Antiquarian Art : Viollet To Duc, Quantitative’ Belence : Gallloo, Nowton, Leibnitz, Dl’bootll“mboldl (Mnlndurxn . . Prose Fiction : Authorof * Ufan Nights,” Boc- caccio, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Ficlding, Le Bago, Walter Beolt,‘Georgo Hand, Tunckoray, Liawthorne, Goorgo o, Hontimontallst: Rousscau. Humoriata : Corvanios, Storne, Rishter, Dickens, By this list, which includes of courso all the names in the formor, and, I boliove, prescnts sll the great leaders of tho world'a thought and maators of literary art, wo 6oo thav the vumbor of tho groat writors of all timo ia not very much moro thun onohundred—ono hundred and thirty- nine,’ I would not, aping Usliph Omar, advise all othor books thun theirs to be burned; but it is, I fenr, true that all other books (sport from thoso on tho exact sclouces, which are hardly books) might be buraed to-morrow without seri- ous lops to mankind, ~ Cortainly no one who hag not a thorough knowledge of at loast ono of tho grontost of thoso groat writers, and 6 modorato scquaintance with belf o scoro, and some inkling of tho qjllrposu of a greator part of them, ahoul rogard his acquaintance with litorature with any du(gno of gatisfaction, Tho abacnoo of the namoy of Livy, Potrarch, Tasso, Ariosto, . Camoous, Blolloy, and Tonnyeon frotn this lst may bo noticod with surrx 50 by somo readers; but they ‘were intontionally omitted. INDIANA NORTHERN PRISON. Roport ot the Dircctors for 1873, Gyeciat Dipateh to Ths Chicago Tribune. LarorTe, Ind., April 26.—The anvual report ,of tho Directors of tho Northern Prigon for 1878 shows that institution to bo 'in a vm"‘y healthy ocondition, phyeically, morally, and financislly, Tho total rocelpts for tho yoar, from all sources, wero 802,905,28, and the expenditures, §5,127.90; lonving & surplus of $9,837.93. The total numbor of prisoners at tho cloda of tha yoar was 868, Of theso, 207 are confinod for crimoa against prop- orty,~—220 of them for grand larceny ; and 71 for orimos against persons,—38 of them for marder. Twonty-two wore sontenced for one year onch, 160 for two years, 68 for throo years, and 25 for 1ifo. Thero woro 7 undor 16 yoars of age, G5 ovor 15 and undor 30, snd 107 ovor 20 snd under 25, Ono s ovor 76. T'wo hundred and seventy-five onn road and writo, 63 can road only, and SL oan neithoer write nor read, Two hnndred and sixtoon are single, 128 married, and 24 widowors. Thoro have been but two deatls during the year, and ono of theso was from violouce. Beventy- soven of the prisoners woro farmots, 70 labor- ors, 2 Iasyers, 1 o saloon-koepor, and only 1 & cooper. Thoro is_neither a dootor nor a clorgy- man in the list. Twelve were railroad-men, 4 tolograph _oporators, and 2 travoliug agonts. Hoventy-fivo are natives of Indians, 70 of Ohio, 385 of Now York, 31 of Kontucky, 23 'of Gormany, and 19 of Ircland. . —_— LOCAL ITEMS. 1t bohooves those who havo valuable dogs to keep them muzzled or locked up, as officors were gont out this morning with polsoned ment and instructions to destroy all canines found in tho strovts, The little son of James Bantp, who was re- ported in thego columns yestorday a8 lost, was found nbout 11 o'clock last night in the privy- vault, doad, Theo little follow was only 18 montbs old. The Coroncr hus boon notitled. . About 7 o'dlock yesterdsy morning Officer O'Brion fouuds woman lying in an alley, noar the corner of State and Ninotoonth atreots, with hor loft log broken. 8he waa taken to tho Hoa- pital, whoro almgnvo the namo of Annie Taylor, and statod that sbe rocoived the accidont by fall~ iog off tho sidowalk when drunk, .. .., Early_yostordsy morning, Offcer Steelo ar- roated Cliarles Soott and Robort Thompson for stoaling s truak full of clothing, bolongiog to Bridgot Hunt, a domostio i the bosding-houso 130 Wost Madison _stract, Tho front door was carolosaly left opon, and at 2 o’clock in tho morn- ing thosd followa_sneaked up to tho third fioor, aud woro golug off it thelr phuador whes ar- rosted. At 8:90 last evening fire was discoverod in the two-story frame building, No. 53 North Ada streot, A still alarm wes given to Engine No. 13, and the flames wera quiokly oxtinguished. The building was owned by 8. 8, Hayes and oc- oupied b{ John Dates as a rosidonco, The total loes is about §150 ; fully covered by insurance. MUCH ADO ADOTT NOTIING, Mr, Goorgo Millikon awakens this morning to fiud himeolf famous. He was the oocasion yos+ torday of a great den! of conoern and anxioty to a grost’ many worthy people, Policemon dressed Ilr o cltizons' clothes and wont mystoriously about the city; night-roportors bought hacks. and rode all . over tho West Bide; knowing peoplo had their eusplcions varified, and every one was oxcited, but at u Inte hour last ovening all was oleared up. Mr, Milli- David, Bt, John (of the Apoca- | ken waa found, andhas not been murdered of Boloman, m““fi!‘y'fl-u). 5 all, but was woll :\;x'lz:r:z;fi; - . A I L3, Qontuctus, *Arabisn Nighte," Authior ivll’alme‘t;’ MooV, N, Nason, Omaia; L A. v i ilson, as)] on . H. fler, New York ; Homo, O ritoptazes, 3.0, ltons, Burlington; T, B, Bwith, Now "",L‘fl’: . s Tiato, o }[.’l]{t];; gi,,gfi";"{?“"’ Ban F;‘;MMOL;BA' H, Herodotus, istotlo, o, lolphia. . . . remont House— Pinder, Thucydides, G. A Billings, Qlovoland ; B, 0. Wright, Men- Fachyius, Demcethiones, dotaj E. B, Ward, Dotrolt; L, F. Browno, Sonk :ml:' m"umlr' ahal Donver; H, Curtis, Boston; W. H. Crano, vides, sl Now York L. . Bahford, Dos Moinos, . . - Plautus, ovia, herman Fouse—! . Hazelto aburgh ; Lucrati + Horac 0. L. Apploton, Now York; T, W. Gulld, Bos: Cuaar, Catuliua, fong 3. "W, Dramoly, Dottoit; J. L Wosson ) Oicero, Juyeusl, .\ B ‘Woroonter, Mass.; U. H, Fitoh, Worcostor; B, Virgll, o Tucltua, E. " Gorsatt, %mgou 8 S, o York. Dute, Muchiavell, Simlth, Madison s the Hoh, 7. &. Millor, Onislin} sceaielly Pl I 1. ‘%\m“a‘., ok Toland, 15 Juvfs“ gttgwn: Corvantes + Culderon, lan; W. W. Moore, Des Moinga; F. L. Cou- e r" INGI:‘!:L!-! > vomtg‘ Now York. _,_,'., & ¥ ucer, olinson, Hptutes; divbon, " 4 ! | ¥ An Encountor with n Mati ‘Shak, 1inc. a.f,‘r‘.'u?.‘.’f“" B entin, At Portsmoutl, N. H., on the arrival of a train Bucon, Turns, 4 .| of cars over the Eastorn Rallroad, Thursdny b, Booit,’ - | aftarmoon, & man Jumnod off and d:flmg}o‘d ot J L/ S another standing thoro that ho pay the " ho e fifi‘fi'fl,flh’ owm?l:?nfawmgghls %\‘rgn"nd “ufin oath. 1 't owe you any was the roply Jore A vans Ahiel, Bovar ww You boforos’ el you . pag, it Goldsinith, Tusiin, ' quick, or Il make you," id b et Fielding, Goorga Elfot, wan, brandishing - & xiami;fr, avory_chum- GERMAN, & or ol ‘Whiol was ol wit] owdor “N‘M“ns-fllw,"uumrxnnt. Alosind and ball. The gontloman threatencd, nml;lug at G H.‘::I"}':l'fl: Aaaudor; onco that the nasailant was fnssno or * in Lgu Tamens Bop, el borrors,” instead of trying to run away or knodk Grotius, Grimin, the maniac down, elthor of which oporations doothio, Hegol, might have reaulted futally, roplieds *Woll, I Belilllor, Nobuhr, ¢ bavew't gob the monoy about mo, but I know Winckelmann, "m?é::‘““: wlufi'n I ;lnl ‘gn]tllt‘ fld: it you llkla to go d\v{)n.\ uo & Lo wo'll moke it all right,”” The ploased debt-col- 'lil\llmgr;;in Toland,” {;:‘l'\"“:“" lector thereupon quietly fonm‘vml Lis guido to 4 5 the polico. etation, a distance of about halt & Frol ‘x‘x‘m e milo, and way lookod up by the oflioors. on! e Calr —Tho little girl, M t 0 loft | yot boen heard from, though s most vigorons Hoarch has been mude, The dam at Rookford, two miles north of that place, was drnpiand with a goluo to-day, without favorablo results, Al hopo of fluding Lo has boen iven up. Comte, Tascal, ‘;fl‘lhll 1ot the names are arranged acoording to nationality aud thne, aud ¢ is llmited by the purcly srbitrary snd capricious uumber, ouo WASHINGTON. (Continned from the First Page. despondonoy in Washington the day bofore Uon. Grant vetosd the Bonate Qurrency bill, Yeostorday morning I was at Wiliard's Iotol whon I asw David A, Wolls_como in. T wantod 1o hero Bomo nows on the plano of bualness and not of }mlltics and Thkuow that ho bad juet are rived from Now York. *iow la it ‘sald I, gontod by his elde at tho bronkfast-tablo, 1Tt Jooks a8 if tho Dovil was suro of the coun- try. Horo Is a majority of tho Honato, backed up, as T hoar, by the Waat and Bouth ganerally, disearding tho first Eflnolplns of flnauco, aud, niue yoars after the War 8 over, putting hend about to ses’ again In infinito pa- per. Hootionaliem Beoms to bo as sirong &8 over, and tho }mopln willtally disoard tho faot that all tho ponaltios of fluctustion are at Iast to _bonssossed npon thomsolves,” “Do you hoar that tho theory of greonbsc- ru‘md.lntlou is probably to be rovived this fall? “ Yos, Yield an inch on this subjeot, and the, flood-gates ato carriod awsy. Not anly that, but Communism and Bocinlism ara lying back of in- flation, I rocoive from tholr. obsouro nuthors most of .tho tracts . and pamphlets on thls subjoot, _ although you nover seo. thom for salo. Buttho working people, I have roason to believe, are supplied with this sort of ronding mattor constantly. A good deal of it ia Tather fallacious, but written with vigorsud 8o duotivoness, Tho last pnmphlot I received wns by ono Oampboll,—of Indiaus, I beliove,—and ho arguod that to pay interost was to accodo to o tyrannical and grinding despotism, Now, such incondinry books only affoct mon of capital whon thoy soo that Congross ia almost uqunllfY looso on voutad rights, of whioki monoy is an_import- aut part. Iow can a_morchant toll’ what pre- minm 'to sot jupon his purchasing gold it the volume of curroncy I8 shiftod to meot a political uecessity evory fow months? e must enlarge te margin, nod_tax it upon the ultimato con- sumer. Even then his risk is dangorous. Why, it 18 8 common thing, nowadsys, to hoar mon eay that tho Republic is o failuro, since univorsal suffrage hns procoeded to violato the stability of valuos. Assvon as you make men fool that pop- ular liberty can give no Aecurity for proporty, the lovo of tho Ropublio is dono.” ] PAT. Mr, Wolla furthor sald thnt we were in many kinds of danger; that tho impotus glvon to tho Domocratic party by the mis- taken of the Administration throatoned to land -in tho White House somo reactionary intolorable to tho bettor class of Domoorats themeolves. Ho thought Gon. Dix could bo olected Govornor of New York again, and_that the Domocratio party woutd nominato a Mr. Gazono '(?), of Buffalo. Dix was opposed by thoe Custom-Honse, In Conncotiont the Domocrats might have sont Gidoon Wolles to tho Bonate, woro he not so old. ‘The conteat would now bo botwosn Eaton, old- Iino Democrat with s bad War rocord, and Baruum, of Bridgepors, Protoction Domoceat. ' It was aftor this rathor saddening kind of talk that the voto-mossago camoe in to purify the air, ive stability to the times, and scattor ‘the mor- id thoughts whioh besot us in perlods of doubt and skepticism. Morton was chopfallon. Lugm looked like s raging -barn-yard lion, JBome snid that Grant'a veto would make John Prosidont of thoso air United Btates. -Happy would wo Le with g0 muoh gallant oulturo atthe apex of things ! Blashing would be that Adminlstration, if, a8 In the Boriptures, the dumb hLigh-priost o! dostiny should write on the ballot-box : 4 Ho shall bo named Jobn I Tor he fout Into the late War. ¢ OlICAGO PAVEMENT-JODERS, Ollcago bins beon more prominontly brought forward in the investigation into the sffaira of tlio Diatrict of Columbia than probably auy other city. Tho testimony, which also affacted o Mem- bor of Congress-elect, aud auother . Membor in Congress, sbowing that cach had some influende in having a cortain pattorn of wnud-{xnvamunb adopted, affocted Olicago mon nnd intorests. This was to have beon expeoted. For, whon you make s public annvuncomont that $6,000,000 is to be spent by law in any ono place for stroot~ improvement, & part of tho pavemont thoreof to be of wood, Chicngo mon are boundto be in carliost. In this instanco thero were two kinds of Chicago men, Twoof thom had a process for hardening wood, snd thoy employed a third a8 a lobbyist, to go on aud Sooure contracts. Whon you sond a man liko this, bo will goner- ally go on a frolie with your money, draw on you stendily, writo you the most ravishing lottors as to his immodiate prospeats, and finally got up a dummy which shall viotimize himsel?, whilo he, monntimo, b viotimized you, . It ep- ponrs that the Chicago lobbyist in- this crao pald the prosent Momber of Congross from tha Oleveland Distriot, who was thoo Marshal of tho Buprome Court, 815,000 for bis influ- ence. The pavement was tried, and thrown out a8 not fit for much, until Mr, Farwell, ono of your Mombers of Congress, camo on snd hdd tho rosiduo of tho muterial wied. Then tha lobbyiat aforosald sottled with.his principal for §72,000 in notes. He olnims that ho paid amount to & porson mnamed - land, who has moantime flown, I ro- ‘membor & porson_answering to the description of Kirtland, which your Chicago lobbyist gives. He waa always a myntorious man to me, He stopped at the Arlington Ifotel, drove two fine hortics, and always looked at o, whn I drew nonr, as if.he wantod to turn tho cornor. I pro- sume that oll that time, whon the Ohicago plot-- tors wero putting up that job, thoy bad boen made aware of my relations with readers in their awn city; for, until' the prosent time, I nover besrd of the name of DoGolyer, or, McClal- loud, ‘or Chittenden, or Kirtland. Xtappoars that, but for Mr. O. B. Farwoll, the DeGolyer avoment pooplo would_Lave gona from Wasl- ngton _bankrnpt, unable to impose upon our Boss. During thoe progross of the worl in theso stroots, there Lave been over 1,000 contraots dven out. Most of the work has been dono by Philadolphinus, and poitios from tho socondary citiea of Now York, iike Byracuso aud Albany, and by Western aontractors, Acros of human naturo have beon plowed up in this investiga- tion; but, boyond '» good denl of fascinating mystory, T don't seo that anything hos been sliown, oxcopt that mankind rushed in hero to swindle tho rustica of tho Diatrict of Columbia, and wont home with a horso-floa in thoir ears, The dead bodies of coutractors and invostigat- ors aro to be found all over the battle-fleld, and # Judge” Wilson s burying them. THE LODDY BOATTERED, I mot John Welckor, tho noted restanratour, on the stroct yosterdsy, aud ssked him what bo could tell me about now artioles of food, sud fine ugzling dinuers, to interest lzeuplo at o die- anco, \\Ir;ho lived far from mountaiu-mutton and capvas-buolkd. ar o . “Ohl” paid John, * don't mention the sub- Eut. It {8 o vory discouragivg wintor to me, a8t winter tho Uredit Mobilior struok tho city, and goared tho lobby of Congress so much think bardly n publio man would come to cat. Now, a dozen {nvestigations, and tho genoral lue and ory, bavo given Congrons such o scaro that, be- youd feeding quiet couples and sete, I am doing noxt to nothing." Wolcker ia n guiloloss fort of a man, appotiz- Ing to look upon, liko ono of Rubens'1arge red Dbabios, Ho has built & Suo_property hore, ado- quate to tha sltuntion, and, just as he bogan to fool hopeful about it, the lobby mot with the above reverscs, SaldI: - 2 # Well, John, it ia s grost donl bottor for you, and for a1l tho interasts horo, if our socioty bor comes rospoctable and 'roliablo, Intoad of meking us depond upon opporiune jobbers, who throw away much uncortain money, inflato im" prospoots, and then give two or threo years ack-sot. You cook woll enough, and make such an inviting thing of it that you can Lotter af- ford to entertain fashionnble folks, like Dol- 1monico, than to rely chioily on the Jobby.” He looked down a minute, and then up sgein vory cheorfully, and said: ; ! Well, T don't kuow but you ore right." £ CAPITOLINL GIN-MILLS. * Mr. Banderson, who keeps on Capitol 1Iill, has no resson to complain, Lowaver; for he feods in the tough old way, with negro cooks, and kaops [y gurfinnuu ‘bar-room, oponed & month ugo, nesr the Houso wing, opposite Gon. Butlor's now houso, and next door to the old brick whore ‘Thed. Stevons lived and died, Sunderaon’s placo in eallod “The Congrossion- 81," and is roally o handsome modern ostablish- ment,—four satories high, I think,—mausarded, noat, with largo plate-gluss windows, aud_avou aixty rooms, richly furnished,—some for lodg- ing; othora for dlnnor:rmlum othiors, again, for mere conforences, under tho oyo of Congross, ovor' s buttlo of wino, The ohiuf door, which s high aud wide, like a gort of national welcomo, admits without intorposition futo tho large bar- room, where tho mivrors riso to the ceiling, and tho walls are corniced and wainacoted to tho Lop with walout and %Ilt. Tho old historlo chaps who uscd to assomblo in tho littlo ouphoard of tho Holo-in-the-\Wall, should thoy come out of thelr graves at proseut and go into Bandorson's, wonld think they wera ln the Capitol itwolf, Hore fmimhy 00, botwpon 12and4 o'elock, 4 perpetunl ittlo funcral-procesgion on foot dribbling over from the Capitol ; and, If you ara walt acqualnt= od hgre, cap recognizo the' drunkerd in sll atages, bogluning with tho son of some Mambor of Uongress, who la frosh in tho oity, pnd han- .dlos his glaus awkwardly, and _onding with tho old_‘Cougrassiondl ‘worvitor or Mowber withi o fmhmd countousnce, as if Nature Lad sot him o0 caloulating tho number of drinks he had taken in forty years, have boen worth voundad Not and what thoy would added togother und com- oulv theso, but laro sud royal-looking mon swing In, like doors that turn o1i golden hinges, and toucl: nothing but a quart bottlo of Mumm, and novor drink- at another's oxponso. From tho higheat gontloman in the Innd, to whom Europo is an evory-yosr affair, and who lns suppod with Princes, “down to tho most poraovering inkriguer who fins his cluteh on this Capital, and to whom its glorles are in- visiblo ne ho drives his ‘buggy over tho stroots, porsiatent for Mammon aa & bill-colleotor, the cortogo moves botwixt ompire and tho bottla, Not far from * Tho Congrossional,” in w old, Tofty, sintely row of housos, built hero bofors 1800, i tho plain algn, * Congress Hall,” Within aro two of-thoso negro onterers who have for yoars kopt lodgings snd tablo-d'hoto for tho most respoctablo classos. Aftor the oxton- slonof the Capital grounds, thay oconcluded to opon n placo on Napital Hill, But I am told Lhat the gorgeous bouvet noar by haa beon thoir digcouragement, . Nearost tho Bonato sido of tho Capltol Ia an-~ other rnshurun]tj known for many yonrs as *'Whitnoy's,” Boforo tho grounds wero en- argad, hiitnoy’s wne almost as conapicuons as 0 Unk ol, nhndlngfibnt a fow pacos from iho front stopa of tho Benato, on the brow of tno hill. It was a hotel, rostaurant, and bar, and for yoars_Stmon Camoron glmrtoml thore, whilo noxt door roslded Judgo Yoland, Hountor Footo ; and, at ono timo, tho wlolo Supromo Bonok, ‘under John Marshall, lived on this block., ‘Whitnoy bad boon a bar-keoper in Baltimore, and married tho widow who omployed him. Bolog a tomporato, responsible young mon, he wna genoral favorito, and his business grow so woll that he was induced to purohase o large loco offrnund justin the roar of his place, olog told that his own promises would be dostroyod by ot of Congrons, and that ho wonld then posacss the mout conveniont aud accossible spot for & Capitoliuo rendezvous, “A singular fatnlity attonded this porformance. Boing an uncducated man, and sl the mora proud of what he did possces for that ling, Whitnoy bogan to fool tho voxations of debt aftor pnylng for his ground, Ho takon ‘all his monoy to make tho in- vostmont, and, when tradesmon presonted thelr bills for groceries, provisions, Mquors, and such small mattors, ho hod not tho spirit to put them off and oxplain the situation, He bogan to think he had undortaken too much, and this sot him to moping and brooding, until ho absolutoly had softoning of the brain, which for several years hag rotired him to tho Asylum. But the lot which was his porsopal ruin has bacome valunble, and may prove to his children. tho beat act ho aould have porformod. GATH. "FOREIGN: GREAT BRITAIN. TLonox, April 21.—Tho sccountants appointed to invostigato tho booksof tho Erlo Rallway Company will sail for New York Wedneaday. Tho Grand Duke Alexis i3 tho only member of | tho Imporial family who will accompany tho Czar on his visit to England. * —_— GERMANY. Bervay, April 26.—The Emporor William In' orson closed the sogsion of the Roichstag yos- erday with & formal spoech of no general im- portanco, —_— SPAIN. Mabmro, April 20.—A rumor is current that tho Carliufs Linvo nskod Sorrauo for amnosty. —_——— TURKEY. LonpoN, April 26.—Advices from Constanti- nople ore to the affeat that the Suez Cannl diffl- culty has beon sattlod by M. Do Lossops’ accept- noce of the tonnago ratos presoribod by tho International Commission. —— SPAIN. Loxnon, April 27—b a, m,—Bonor Oastolar has writton a letter in whigh he declares himself in favor of & Fodoral Republio for Spain, CRIME Escapo of a Prisoner from Julle Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago Tribune, LAGDANGE, ind., April 26.—A prisoner namod Johneon, who has boen confined in the County Jail for larcony at this place, escaped last night. A friond visited him o fow days ago, nnd 1t is suppoued ho furnished Johnson with tools to ao- complish bis escapo. Sontonco ot an 01 Villain--Lace Rob= borye CLEVELAND, O., April 26.—The old man named Lytton White, 63 yoars of age, srrostod for on- ticing littlo childron into his candy snd trinkot shop near a public school, and instructing thom in overy vulgarity of speech and practioo imagina- Dble, has boon sentenced to ono year in tho Work-House, and fined 8300 and costs. His victims are said to bo counted by scores. Bovon thousand dollara’ worth of Iacos aro re- yorted stolon from tho storo of Leslio & Young. 0 clow to the porpetrators. Murder ot o Prize«Fight. NEew Youx, April 20.—Dennis Cummins_and Patriok Curtis mot at tho Morris & Essox Rail- rond yard to-day, with & number of friends, -for thio purpose of fighting a duel .to sottle an old grudgo, but when the timo camo for thom to tako thoir positions Curtis rofused to fight, John Lemas stopped forward and interfored in Qurtis' behalf, whon Cummins drow a rovolver and shiot Lomaa aver the right oyo, in- flicting & fatal wound. Cumming and Curtis wore arroated. Burglary in Oleveland, 0. Oreveranp, O,, April 26.—The residence of M. 0. Younglovo, [n this city, was_ontored by burglars on Baturday night, and 81,000 worth of jowalry, Iaces, and other valuables tolon. Attempted -Suicide—Arrest of o Swine t dlere Larayerrs, Ind, April 28.—A prostitute named Muris Hunt attompted euicido last night 1u tho station-houss, by swallowing chloroform and ammonis, A physiclan snd a bottlo of sweet oil saved her life, howovor. & unknown man was arrested this morning, reprosonting himselt as H. O. Hudfi‘na agent tor Howo'a Oixous, snd bound over in the sum of $2,000 to anewer to the Oriminal Court, Hois slleged tohave played tho same gamo at two or threo othor. places, making contracts, issuing froo tiokots, oto. T. R.Toole, pross agent of the show, caught him at it hore, and causod his arrost, CASUALTIES, Wallked Overbonrd While Asleepe speetal Disvateh o The Chicaga® Zribune, GanpexN I8LaND, April 26.—Tho Captain of the sl oner St. Lawrenco reporta that whilo on the way down Lnke Ontario, off Niagars, ona of- his enilors, named Jacob Riol, foll ovorboard and way drowned. ''ho mau was & somnsmbulist, and -it is suppused hio walkod overbourd while asleop. Run Over nnd Killed, * . JerrERsoNVILLE, Ind,, April 25,—John Davls, roulding neur Otltico, Glark County, Ind., on tho ling of tho"Obio & Minsisaippi Rallroad, was found by his two daughters, who wero roturning ‘homo from ohurch last night, in a horribly man- glod condition, Bath logs and hands woro out oft, part of the head gono, sud could not bo found, tha Bonst torn out into frittora, and scatters ' along tho track some distanco,’ Tno jury ro- turned a vordiot of donth by being rau over by o train, the decoased bolng intoxicated. JRun Over and Killed, §7, Lows, Mo, April 26,—Lvorett Babbitt, supposed from papors found on his person to bo from Masunchusotts, waa run over and killed by o train on the Missouri Pacific Railrond yontorday aftorncon at Kirkwood, fifty miles wout of thia olty. Train Off tho Track. LoutsviuLe, Ky., April 20,—A passongor train on tho Bhiort Lino ran oft last night by & mis- plagod switch. Whether loft opou by accident or design {8 unknown, No damaga was done. . "Ehroe Porsons Drowned, Havrrax, April 26, —Willlam Brunt and his nous, agod 12 and 9, whilo flshing on the Iuke youtorday, foll through tho leeand wore drowned, THE ARIKANSAS TROUBLE, Army, Ammunition, and Provisions Shippoed to Siroolks from Sts Louis. 8r, Lous, Mo., April 20,—Tho Times asports that 2,000 Springtiold ritles, 13, 000 rounds of ammunition and soveral cases of piatols have boon ehippod from_horo - in socret manner for thoe uso of Drooks' foroes ut Littlo Rook alnco tho difiloulties brole out” thera s alsa, it {a anid that five oar-loads of proviglous favo beon shippod to tho ssmo partled. 5 S TAXATION 1 PENNSYLVANIA Tarusenona, Pa,, April 26,—Gov, Hartrantt has signed ho Ttovonuo bill, imposing unev '?»tam of taxation upon all corporations of the t ate, invinding # (ax of § eonts por ton upon all ocoal compunics, 84, 8lso, & tax upon divideuds, tormor could conquor tho Inttor. THE PULPIT. {Continued from tho Aecond Pago.] waa not 0o much to frighten mon to a tlon as .to show thom ain m nll .?fifim’; and polnt out its Inovitablo couscquoncos, as to shiow In alrongost colors what n doudly poison mn‘fi hina intli‘lu nnrluro. ek v ho question often occurred to him, * Wi i the Ay of sslvation® Ty wanustnt Auu:fis nor at the judgment, but, according to the word, now waa {ho day, Tho aim of tho Goupel wag to mako Luman lifo bottor blv mgunormngthn soul from corruption and foulness, sna load- ing it baok to purity and to God. It was the proudost alm evor concoivod of. 'Thoro was nothing to bo ashamed of, surely, in this aspook of the Gospal. The socond point was, What were tho means and woro thoy adoquate # Horo tho Gospel pro~ vided means thlt%ul nover beon ‘dreamod of boforo, 'Tho ond way not sought by it alono, Thora Lad boon men [n all ages who tiad endeav~ orad to solye the problom and rajse humanity ta Honven, but the difforonco betwoen the moans rovided by tho Gospol and thoso born of human longings, unnesisted by the Divine powor, could now bo soon. Tho comparison Iny betwoon human morality and_the Gospol of Ohrls tianity, Could morality” elovato sud save mon ~ botter than Christisnity ? History, ho thought, mado -a nogativo roply. Tho fault to bo found with sll systoms of morality was that thoy did not oxplain how men could be impolled to virtuo. Tho phllusmflv of Plato was slmply B{mmllmlvn Inthis rogard, Vicoand virtue woro dofined by it, and ita theories of human nce .ton woro mouy of them admirablo, but thoy woro utterly boyond human reach. ' Thoy wore rocnguizablo by the mind, but mon canid not life thomolvos up to thom. 'Morality conld dofina virtno and vico, but it could not oxplain how tha ‘The modern systems wero no olearer. Utlllc tarinnism wns nothing but selflehness, and ute torly unworthy of mankind. It appoated sololy to solf-interest. . 'l stronm could not rige high« or than its fountain, If the naturo wore sellah, would not tho lifo bo selflsh alxo ? In view of what mnrnlh'y lind sought to ace complish, and in tho face of ita history, it mush be confesaed that man was not able by his un- aidod moral power to obtain salvation” or work out his own freedom from sin, Evon where nid« od by tho latw's rostrictions, thio ties of altoction, the forco of {\IMIB uplnluu( man was helps less bofore thoso sins of tho honrt and imagination that corrapt the un< converfed woul. It was to fulfilf what the Iaw could not nccomplish that God song HiaBon into the world. It was to sccompliskt ‘what philosophy and morality could -not thaf Chriet was sont. Whot was the good nows of the Gospol ho presched? That n way Bad hoon found whereby men might bo saved, Was thoro anything in this glorious resolution ‘of which man ncod bo ashamed? This salvation wast freo to all, not confined Lo a fow. \Whauo< -{ ovor called npon - tho namo of tho TLord should bo savod. This Gospel provided adequato menus. It might fail to reach thousands, but thoso whom 1t remched woro snved. ———— OBITUARY. The Rev. 0, Eastman, New Yonx, April 20.—Tha Rev. O. Eastman, Honorary Sscrotery of tho Amorican Tract Soe cloty, died Fridsy. Ho was born in Amborst, Mas., in 1700, Dolos € Wileys Correspondence of The Chicayo Tribune. TansiNa, Micln, April 24,—Delos O. Wiley diod to-day in the Tusane Asylum at Kalamnzoo, whoro hio was taken nourly a yoor ago, liopoleasly ineane. Ho was a prominent lawyor of thia Stato, and resided in thia city. po it b A OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. 8Aw FRANCISCO, April 26.—The stormer Gronae ds, from Panama, arrived this morning. W Yorx, April 20,—Arrived—stoamers Do~ naus, from Bromen; Castilin, from Glasgow. LiverrooL, April 20.—Steamships Holsatla, from New. York, and Iilinois, from Philadelphin, arrived out. DRESS GOODS. Madison & Peoria-sts. CARSON, PIRIE 'Will open, on their Cheap Dress. - Goods Tables, this morning, W GREATIST BARGATRS Ever offered in Spring Dress: Goods, A full line of choice, New Shades, in. most excellent; and really serviceable fabrics,: at exactly half theirvalue. The: prices of the goods referred to are 25 AND 30 CENTS PER YARD, IT PAYS 70 TRADE ON THE WEST SIDE! Madison- & Peoria-sts. LINEN GOODS. Extra Fine LINEN GOODS. Heavy Concession in Priees. ‘We shall continue, on Monday, April 27, our snles of Special Bar-' gaing in ILanens, and mention, as among our most desirable, Extra Fine D, K, T. Linens, Extra Fine T, Oloths and Napkins, Extra Fine Linen Sheeting, Extra, Fine Pillow & Shirting Linens, And, a8 BSPHOIALLY OHEAP, TFine 10-4 Scotch Sheeting at $1,10, Aud Fine 10-4 Barnsley at $1.35, To which we invite attention. FIELD, LEITER & (0 State and Washington-sts. MEDICINAL - ‘We ate now Mannfaoturing, and it oan bo prooured ; Grocers Everywhero, RACAHOUT ‘des Arabes, MWhich Is pronoutcod by sompalont uducs superior o any yot oiforad the public, eltlor by furafin ur oriastlo man< Dacturora. ltacuhout Is composid o1 tha Lot nutritive and costariag subietas T8l Droakast bor. SREER A CESON i otsi LIRS Al Lol e sirabio for NEICYOUS bouplo, oF thoso niiiated with K ut s % idior W AICIIE (- 10,8 and taka uo othory your grocor cau got It i ba wl W.BAKER & 0O,,Dorchester, Mass. ESTABLISHED 1780, Maunfacturors of tho colobrated Daker's Uliocalnte, Cocony aml Nromn Prepuras vlouy, aud fuest Vunllla Chovolate.