Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY “I'RIBUNI: elppl, .» momber of Congress, In bls enlogy of | Oharlos Bumner, which it was my priviloge to | heat in tho Ilouse of Tepresontatives in Wash-~ mfiwn buv a fow weoks sincos ** Let tho South aud the North honcoforth know each oilior bate ter, and love onch other .more,” With bost wirhios, truly yours, Giuts B, Breuning, Drrnorr, Jch, Miy 20, 1874, WENRY WUBPHURIES, A lettor from 1otiry Humphrios, Esq,, of Bris- tol, Ling., was rond by Mr, Enetman, who eaid o wikhed (0 profaco tho ronding with somo ro- marks, DBlr, ilumphrios was n Jvrom(uunt wor- chant of it .city in_England, Dristol, celo- ‘brated:for the Orphans' Houses by Muller, and a8 tho rasidonco of the philanthropiats Onriton, Robort Ohariton, and Georgo ‘Thomas, the kwo lattor Quakers, aud membery aud Dirootors of tho Britlsh Anti-Slavery Socloty, Mr, Humph- rics was ocarly o groat Irlend of our country in the .groat Itobollion, when wa approclated filonds. Whon tho kuowledge of tho great Qhl- cago.{lro was Hont by telegraph to England, Mr. Humphvies was tho fist man to head o sub- seription, and rouso his follow-citizons ond get up a publio mecting, tho result of whicl was tho ralking of 11,000 sont to this cllxq in {ho timo of ity distress, whoro wo now bLold this rennfon, Ho fonrod the raport of that contrl- bution was mixed up with the reports in gone oral, and that the Bristol peaple never recoived an acknowledgmont for that noblo gift to Chi~ cugo. [v Dear Fniesn: I oan hardly suppogo a lottor from so unpublic & man as mysell will Lo of mitch valuoupou so imporiant an occasion as that to which your letter nnd papers refor, I om not & Robort Ohariton (ob! that o wero liv- ing); and-possoss not his bappy faculty of con- voying to tho minda of othors, eithar by pon or spoech, that love of liborty and sympathy with Luman suffering that was 4o deoply imbedded in hii vary oull. T Qasomot Tny. Slaim 86 thnt 2os finoment, genorosity, and zoal; that bright and ohoorful :Christianity which 8o _marvolously movod:bis pure spirit, and touched 80 power- fully and tendorly the sympathetio ofiord iu the hoarts of thoso by whom ho was surrounded. 1 zaunob hope for aught like this, but this I can ny, that not ovon ltobort Charlton in his ;hourt of-honrts conld fagl more deeply than mysolf tho Yebt of gratitude duo to those noblo men of your nuch-loved country for their sublime strugglo n bobnif .of the onslaved aznd down-trodden nogro. Nor could that good.and gront man, wero ho -now liviug, feel moro sincere delight than I do in tho unticipated guthoring on tho Uth of June of tho veterans of emaucipation {fresh as it woro from the field of victory! Ilove your country, andall its noblo aepirations; and most sluceroly do-Itrust that tho same moral forco that romoyed Lhe foul biot of slnvery from vour national escutchoon will suflico to stamp out ‘rom your midst suything that may atill violato tho nntionnl conscienco, DBoth your country and mino Liavo much to deblore,—mine, wbova all, tho crying sin of drunkeuness,—and it is only as our comuion Christionity cutors thoroughly into tho socidl fabrio that wo can hope as Auylo- xony Lo briug the infiuence of our ruco beno- tly to bear upon the ** wide, wido world.” vonr fnithiful friend, H. Hynanizs, Iiztizot, Lngland, May 23, 1874, 'he Convention then sdjowrned sino die. ‘1 he members.wore ontortained trom 4 until 6 in the leoture-room of ile ohurch by tho Anti- ory Indics of Obicago, aud spont tho timo very agreoably in fighting their battles over agnin, and gotting acquainted with the prosent genera- tion of reforms ¢ 1n tho ovenivg, the Hampton students gave n concert at tho Union Perk Ulurel, the procoeds going to pay tho expenses of the reunion, e JOEN P. HALE, The following paper ou the life of Joln T, Ialo, by Mr. Austin Willey, of Miuncsota, was rend Wednesday, but could not thou bo priuted : Reviving ogain tho reflections of tho great conflict with slavery in the United States on this continont, in its emly stoges, we canuot and would not overlook tho noble part acted in it by OUR FAVORITE FPHESIDENTIAL OANDIDATE, John ‘P, Hale, Ilis groat heart and cloquent lips arostill ; but no grave of patriot or hero would wa dacorate with sweeter or moro unfading fowera, Never did woary soldiors sbout a gladder wolcotao to a roinforcoment than wo gave when ho entored tho fietd. It was dark, That baughty dospotism bad grived coutrol of the National Govornment, and employed all its powers for its own cmolmmont, while the political, commercial, and rollgious forces of the country revoived in gemoral har- mony with 1ta accursed desigus. Tho obaee guious nation had been dragged into.a barbar- us war of conquost in ita behalf, and tho pro- teotion of torritory against it, conquered for:the yory purposo of its expausion was nearly hopo- Jess, “’l‘he whole head was sick, and the wholo heart faint." THE PERBECUTED FEW nhio bad tofled and sncrificed for ton yoars guingt slavory, had done a great worl upon tho Fublic mind, but, a8 yot, tho enthroued power of yranny was unbrolen, and hope for our country and its blooding victims tliokerod dimly. DUT A STAR NOW ROSE in tho East, with tho promise of appronching day, M, lale was elected .o Roproseutative to Cougross in ‘1843, by tho Demacratio party; bat, determmed not to yield to the aunox- ation of Texas, ho anticipated rejection for tho neunl .gocond :torm. Mr. Giddiugs remarked aftorwards -ihat, when Mr.-Halo first putered tho 1louso, ho noticed his firm, bold step, und said to himuelf, “Thero is & man tho gluveholdors cannot maungo,” aud go indeed it - proved. Ho took . decided ground with Mr. Adam for the right of patition, and, seizing tho right mowment of tho dabnte, he -movea the provions question, forcod & yon and nay vote, pave dodgors little chauce to escape, and won tho flzat victory over slavory. [To wne nominated for re-olection in 1844, hut Lieforo tho clection, in the spring of 1845, Mr, Lalk was olected, nnd tho party in Now Hawp- chire surrendored toaunexetion, Forthwith JE ADDUESSED A LRTTER % to tho paople of Now liampahiro,” saying that the mensure ey exciusively for.slavory, and it thoy derdred Lo.support it they must olcct nn- othor man. -11i8 purposs was fixed, Tho party londors mat, struok his namo from the ticket, aud supplicd the plnce with anothor, Bub n por. Lion of ‘the - party refused to submit, and stood by Mr, Ilalo. "The Liberty party olso sus- tained Lim, snd & florco coutost re- aulted in no election, This itsolf wny victory, Mr. Halo mnow ‘loft his .seat iu Congress, and went to the peaplo with such masterly effect that, in spite of .every possible’ offort agaiust him, b enomies only 108t eround and there was again uo clection. ~Aunothon trinl still had the some result, So intonse wus the intorost in Washington that o slave-holding mom- bor of Congress declnred ho hod forly ng good nogroos ay ever -hoed tobaceo, but le would ‘ruther sco overy ono_of them n corpso on hin pluntation than have Halosucceed, Tho avhole rountry—~friends sud foes of liborty—watched tho struggle with deap concorn. HENATOR, But Mr, Hale had boen elected in Dover to tho Togislature, Thoro Lo was choxan - Spaalker ; then, Ly gonarous union_of “\Whigs, Iale Domo- orats, and Liborty men, ho awvas choson Senator In Congress for a full term, Tt.way a triumph- it victory ! No ovent-#o importaut had occurred m tho history of the onuto. ‘I'ho whole Innd folt the olectric shook, It wus tho fist square, un- pquivoenl igsuo with slavery, at, tho ballot-box which had boen made: .and it was in Now Humpshire, the South Cavollon of the Borth, which elave-holders said wonld Yhent anythiug” It ront party chuing just whero thoy wore supnosed to eut, It-showed that thero was erty in.the paople, mnd that stronger thon party, Party leadors ull ovor tho Jud wero lh»mc{ ) whilo slaveliolders ware wmnuzed, .und anxiously toad in it.e fenrful fu- turo, Luk ‘TIE FRIENDS OF FREEDOMN wore inaplred with now courngo, They saw that it could be dono, A Stalo hand emmucipaiod itueif, und, under its gallant_obieftain, stood in tho Hues of the froo. It will over stand ay the wost honorable act in tho history of Now 1lamp- shiro,—that of all tho Stutes shio od tho coun- try's redemption. Wo van but listen again o memons ,to. thoso olnquent lips, now in the grave, to seo tho nohie: nesd of bis poeitions and catoh. thelr inspiration, “JIE CLOBUA A HPEEQL in tho Loglulatur in 1840, thus: T trust bt apr action will Lo such g6 favorably fo comend Stsell Lo our . futuro rullections, o comiug senerations and to Gol, 1€ this great cvilof Slivury nut Lo sfayed, if tho seeds of i furthor exteusfon 1o he sown, dnd wo ure tovean Lho fruite, ax reap o Tust, my earueat prayor s thut, u that doy, my nnttvo Htate, Now Hampihire, suay wtand ercet ‘sl el God o witness thut sbo fs innocent of thauin, If Iho blaod of ugony muwtcontinuy to flove from thy wrrated bodies of thoso Leld 1 bondago, muy Now Hutapshiro be uncontaminated by the guilt, tilumphant -debato with Franliin Plerco, Br, Hulo snid § ted no muw's voto, 1o would bo very glad torcbive from the great narul contlict i€ sorio ono conld he fonud to take his place, o+ Blall Le tho strong- ot hope for il L owia aftor .l Wo tuko Lexas and convert the whold of it ite lave- Nolding laud 2 8hull wo cover It uil over with whipw and seirs, aud ehalis 2, Then ought the sturs wd, wtripes of our gulluit fag to- Lo stricken .out, and whips, fotters, scourges bo puiniod thero tuntoud, (Fbau qugkt Duuker UL snd Loxipgton to bo forgotton. Thon ought all tho ‘;fr t days of tho Rovolution fo bo effaced from momory and mowmo dny rodolout of slavery Lo mmade to take thelr placo, « . » . Tho mensire of my ambitlon will be full, If, when m; cartlily.carcor shiall ba finjshod, and my’ b\nl\:l are In Lounath thie aoll of New Hampshiro, ani when my wito nnd children shall repatr-to my graye to drop tho tear of nfiection to my niamory, they may resd on my tombatotio, “1o” who lies ‘benonth surrendorail oflice, vluw, sad powar rather than bow down to alavory,” That honor s hils, inoroarod n hundrod-fold by ¢ho gratitude and admirationef & froo paoplo.” IN CONGRLSA, . Mr. Hnlo took hisseat in Congross, ‘The gon= it hiad hoon going on in the Houso for soyaral "nm. and now it fa to bo opened jn_tho Ssunto. WVith no heart in sympathy, and tho florco lo{donu of alavery watohing their prey, dator- minod to cruel, porbaps nsanssinate, bin; slono, ealm, foarlogs, ganin!, ho banvs np his mighty truat,—the Loonidas of Lis conntry and its vic- tims. No sublimor position was lold at York- town or Qettysburg, [a firat @pocch wns on tho guilt and shamo of “tho Moxiean war, rorputrntcd ontiroly for the bone- fit of alavory. made & powerful improssion, and “was gomplimented for.ability ovou by his oncinlos. Soon lie mot the quostion .of the aunexatfon of Toxas with slavery, and uncovored in a mnsterly mannor the whole -schomo of unmitigated gullt for tho ascendancy -of slavery ovor the libortios of tho country. Ho was nusalled by tho votarios of opprossion, but withont effeet, DBoldly, gallantly ho oxposed the nsurpations of the slave-powor, lis liourty good humor and courtesy protecting hw:. Novor wag TIY POWER OF BELF-POSSESSION mora soverely triod Dy lusulting arroganco ; bub it nover failod him. % We oll romombor tho offer of Footo to ald in honging him on tho tallest treo if ho would go to ‘Mississippi, and Mr. 1lnle's offor in voturn of fair troatutent aud discussion if ho would yisls Now 1ampehire. Wae romember tho rogolutions of congratulntion to the Ropublic in Frauce, beforo the Sonato, which lie moved to amend by adding o commendation of tholr mens- ures for nbolishing their colonial ‘shwurx—bhe vole stauding—nnys, 24; yess, 1. Mr. Adams sid of bim + **Mr. 1talo, standiug alono in- tho, Bonato, oxercisos n moral influsuce over tho country whoso forco it is impossiblo to os- tunnto,” Tur Cuiorco Tnmuse maid: * Wo admire tho moral hero—the truo hero.of tho ninotaenth. contury, who, regavdiess of nll com- binations, duros to spoak tho truth, Clris- tinnity rojolces in his triumph,” TUE BLRVICE WIUCH HE BENDERED to- the cause of freodom in the Sennto was invaluablo. The nation gazod and rolt Lis power. ‘We remembor whon tho National ZEra was nsenfled by a mob in Washington, Mr. 1falo immediatoly brought in a bill to make tho District of Coluwmbin linblo for (lnmnginu by mobs, This touchad the quick and lod to n fong excited dobate, which stirred the wholo country by its rovelations of slavery, IIo sustnined himeolf agnivst the genoral” assault with consnmmate skill and power, But his efforts were not con- fined to the muttor . of slavory, We ramembor Lis porsistent offorts for tho - ADOLITION OF FLOUGING in the Navyns barbarism; and no measure of Just, bumane -statomauslip failed of his sup- port. Naver was his State honored by a miore usoful Sonntor. But his lobors wero not all thore. Te was called into many of tho States to addross tho \wuplo, who llu‘on%ud by thousands to honr him. Ve can bardly.avold soatching a sontence or two. In a speech in New York City Lio said ; 1 appeal most carnestly, most affcctionstely to tloso ~ who cntl thamsives disciples of tho Trinco of Peace. I nppeal to Obrls- Unns to awnkoand purgo themselves from (ho leaders of oppreasion, Iask thom toseo thut tho garmouts of their pricthood ora mot statued with the blood of slavery, When this s done tho work s douo, But 1t {8 not ko to-day, I am spoaking in a Christian city which duily baptizos this sin in all Uiat It has whioh §s sunctifled nnd holy. O, that thoy wonld awake! It 4 hopeless for ws to coutond against the wicked If thoy alwnys find o refuge Lobind tho sanctusty of the Churel," Buch wns his honest, faithful dealing, and so clear his porcoption of the conditious of true re- forni. Hoar bint in Boston : Tho remedy then {a with the people—hera it must Degin sud hero it will end, Inculeato right teluciples thore, Tbis Govornwent will bo what the peopla ace, . Tknow itisraid to bo nbsnrd to nttempt to apply Cliristinn morals fo matlonal .politics,” 1 am wiliug to Lo a “fanatic” on this aubject, It §8 a8 impossible for uatfonal an for individual character to Lo bullt-up on -any othr basis Lhnn tho laws of God’s moral universe, Wako up, then, and seo that, ap_individuals, you o what you can towards redecming the nation.” Every <oy fa big with oyeuts, It rumaltis for us, With tho Jighth of tho past shining upon s ; with the friends of freo institutions tho world over watching evory nlop of our progress, todetermino whether tho institutions our failiors Ieft us aro favorably or unfuyorably to af- fect the moral futerests ofian, . . . Shollthe futuro pilgrim, visiting tho places now voeal swith our ‘voices, find hore poronnisl springs of ‘freodom, or be wandering aniony tho monuments of n lburty that is dead, and a patriotimn that is departed 7 i Gladly would_wo liston furthor to the bugls notes of our departed champion, The Liborty party fixod its eyo on him to bonriits flag in “THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION of 1848, 1lie svcmod to represent its pricciples, and possoss the just qualitios it noeded, And, what was most essontinl, he was bofore the conntry, known beyoud & nossibility of mis- represontation. Wae hud loarncd the importanco of thig in provious oloctions, Our presses and sovoral conventions bind recommended his name, and womo papers had placod it at their head, I'io National Convention was enlled in Iuffalo, in‘August, 1847, and, shortly before, n privato meoting washeld in Boston, by gontlomon from woverul States, to which Mr. Halo was invited, We_ desired, by a froo, personal intorcourse, to learn miore partionlaxly and fully his views and inton- tions on tho whole subjoct, traukly saying we Lad referonce to our approaching convention,' ‘Wa found his principles and purposes our own, buthe praforred not to bo nominatod, as it would cmbarrass rather than aid him in the Sonnto. This wus probable, but the Conventlon insisted, with grent unanimity, in usivg his name, and be consented. Lho cnuso assumed new_ vigor, and ‘mado stendy progroys, strongthoned by his namo aud labors. Dut, in 1848, o largo portion of tho Domo- crtio party inNow York espooinlly, offoring to unite on ‘our principles with M. Van Buren a4 condidato, with Mr. Hnlo's full approbation, the offer was reluotantly nceopzod, und . HALE WITHDREW, “But in 1853 the pl\l’l{ ladly made him its candi- dato ngain nt Yittshurg, and gave him: soma 00,000 votes. Ho continued his faithtul lnbors ngoiust sluvery in tho Senate and on,the plnt~ form with unfultoring fidelity, contesting overy inch of usurped ground, until the cannon spoko, and the slaves wero froo. : IS LAST ADDRFSS IN MAINE wad in 1854, on tho 4th of Jiily, ot a grent colos bration in tho interior, boforo some 8,000 peaple, 1t wud ealled. by the “Daughtors of Freodom," an organization of auti-luvery women, Mr, Tiale's mpocch was of thrilling power. Politic cinns prosont snid it was usoless to rosist an longer, and tho State wns soon rucnnnlrunlcd{ r, ITalo wag threo times olected to the Sens ato, und closed lis public lite as Minlster to Bpain. Respocting THE CIARGES OF WIONG thero, it is enough now to'say that ho positively denied thom, and asked of ‘tho Govornmont u chance to disprove .thom, which was denied Lim. ile afiirmed that his hostilo scero- tary wus tho cnwsv of hiy troublo; and* the faults alloged woie contrmy to the whole currout of his puro right life. Wo will therefors hold his J oharactor in unytained houor and aduwi I PEIBON was larga and imposing, and n genial hoart was evor radiant ugmn Lis sountenance, No * joby" or dchomes of avarico approrehed hiw, Do right honesty porvaded his wholo char acter, Ho .ucornod _all iricks, sophistry, ilaftery, and proteuso, - relying over on tlio mightiness of truth, ‘This wns ono of his wnd up- oug-tried iration, nooded, and 80 was tho gallant Ialo, with p power with the un({:lo grantor than olther, who did moat, nmlin inltonly can toll, Grngpllug alono with that dosperato Lt'mnuy in tho Benato, with what joy, with what encourngemtont of ' faith must dMr. Halo linvo welcomod tho advent of Mr. Chuso te his sido, and, not long aftor, that of M, Bumnor| This firat throo mighty mon " carriod on tho conilict with triple power, through tho florce Xansns war, and tho ropeal of tho Missourl compromiso, converting tho plots of slavary into clootricily upon Ao loart of the country against it. iIow littlo did thoy or wo nullulnl\tfl_ soeing tho wholo North come on “double quick " to eur.stdo, and hoar thoe Procla- mation of Univarsal Iimancipation thundered from Whitworths and Paixhunsl * Aud sgain thoy sail, Alloluia t" -Lic notw, ns wo, saw the intorpretation of our mission. It was to propate thio.country tor the torriblo strugglo which convorted it, "We thauk Cod for.the hard, sublimo trust, sud that wo did 1t soou onough and well onough, It wasa part of tho one gront war, and we clmm for its anrly veterans p plage fu every procossion of its horoen, and nu oqual dosoration of their honored graves. Wa domand tus for John P, Halo. Wo fondly chorish his memory 3 his horoio deads shall not Lo forgotten in bis country's history, nor, his exmn]fiu fall to_insplro its patriotism and love of liborty, . Panco has its viotories,no loss re- nowned than war." In the luugusge of tho im- wmortal Sumner : .Bcliolarship, Iierature, jurlsprudence, art, may woar thair well-desorved Liotors 3 but.on onlorpise of gooduoss duserves, und will yet recolve, highor palm tluan those, ———r ABOLITION NEWSPAPERS. The following, which is a portion of Ar. Enst- man's papor on Bonjamin Lundy, giving.a lis- tory. of the succession of early Abolition papers in this country, wzs crowded out of Thursday's papor: * We wiil nowifollow:for;n timo TILE QUNRENT OF THE PIONEER'S LIFE. His first hnprossious in lostility to slavory wore formed .at Wheoling in_1808. Maving loarnod.his srade, he romoved to Mount Ploasant, whoro lio Lind visltod.and_formed acquaiutayces among tho friends. 1o proforrad goiug o Wheeling, whora ,Lio ;established himeolf in his trado, romaining two years, during which timo Lo married o noblo young womun of like spirit and prizelples of his own, by the name of Esthor Lowid, S}m wae_tho sister of Willinm Lowis, thon residing ot Mount Ploasant, sud who aftor- words .removed_-to Illinoly, aud -sottled nt Magnolin, .Putuam County, aund who died but & fow years ago, and now lios in .tho samo [Kriondw’ burying round, where thirty-five years ago the body.of ’i\anjnmh: Lundy wa# deposited. Whila residing here lie publtshed his flrst litorary articlo anonymously, in mnswor .to.a bachoelor against metrimony, Aftor marriage, ha romoved to St. Clairsvitle, 10 milos wost of Wheoling, and sot. up the business of & snddier. Ho bad nothing to begin with, but with udastry and prudence Lo accumulated a compotoaca of " £3,000. in-four years—uoviug .o lnppy, comfortable homo, with B bruo wifo and two loying children ; and his busingss prosperous and incrensing, A thousand to one of the world will eny, and especially tho sedate Mr. Worldly Wiseman -will "oenforco it : “\Why, Lundy, you .aro .doing -woll . enough, Keep .on in :this prudent, suro, happy way, of lifo,—Dbe not moved by strange fancios for the fo0d.of others,—or any wild vagaries about thoso niggers. 't monoy in your pocket!” ut tho plodgo made to his soul at Whoollng, to rometnber the poorest of tho poor, to remei- Lor those ip bouds, to_deliver them, hiold o speil “upon him; it was n constant question, ** Whut shell Ldo?" and 1E CONCLUDED HFE MUST ACT, if ho did not uoe quiteclearly what to do. There- fore,hogottogethor ufow frionds atSt. Clairville, overlooking tho dark land of .slayery, boyoud the Oliio, and they formod an Anti-Slavery ;socicty whicl thoy cullod the * Union 1lumane Socioty.” Tho world does move, for Chairman Dorickson i o atanding . momber in the Sociaty.in Chicago callod the Humaune Soclety—that might have como of tho Tifteenth Amond- ment, ‘This Lundy Humane Society wns formed in 1815, lLie being then 25 yoars of age. A public addioss writton by him “was s~ sued, .and rosultod in the formation of a large number aftor this pattern, 1t Lus.beon statod thnt 125 were organized from this movement. Qreoley eays the plan of which ‘the St. Cluirville Bociaty was tho seed, * Shore and simple s it was, 16 contained the gorm of tho entire Anti- Slavery movoment.” Soon aftor this .a wookly nowspapor was sturted ot Mount Ploasant . by Clmrl’::u (Osborne, ko nlso, I think, n Quaker. The namo, tho Philarithropist (who does not road its spinit aud Dhlj‘unyin it title?) printed at the town whoro Lundy’s wife came” from, and whero, Dorbrother nifd rolatives then residods and Luu-’ dy wasnvitd to contributo to its columns, which ho did mostly by eolcetions, finding tle sclesors, in his flvst oxperionce, safor, it not! mightier, than the pon. It was o successfal trial,’ «and friend Charlos fu a fow months wrote to! Triond Bonjamin to .take tho pon. o doubtod Lia ability, but .8aid . ho would try, and © tha second was nlio o successful trinl. Though living 10 miles off, LE WIOTE, BEGULARLY editorin] urticles for the . Philanthropist, and tho! pleasaul sensation , of upoing. ouesoll in _privt “that Byron kuow, somethiug like. that of bein ‘In tho looking-glass, was o, common oxperi-, ence of Lundy aftor this, ,Io was invited by Oshorno,to joiu bim in the office ; and ho made ealenlation fo close up his fiue husiness to do so, o dischurged some of Lis workmon, .and, to mulso the transition. moro rapldly und profitably, ‘e placed tho ooutents of his.shop on u tat-hoat to convey.thom to St. Louts, for pale, His ap- rentices worled at thoirtrade on tha bont, while En, with ruddor ov oar, .sleored the. craft.nu it floated down the ewryout of the . Ohip. Other distineuished men than Lincolu huye boen flat- bonumen, -Late in tho fall of 1810 UE ARRIVED AT ST. LOUIS, Tho discussion of tho Missourl . quostion wus thon in full, blust, ITo.was ready tor tho . cautost. 1o told me porsonully that he encoun- tered Thowas 1. Bouton in "the debata in tho nowspapers, .Wo. all kuaw that hero Lundy did not conio out on tho winuing. side. Neithor wau ho moro suovessful in Lis bunivess adventure, ‘o stagnation of trndo.and tho loss of - about two yours' timo nearly used up the, nice littlo [ronsity liofiad accuniulutad ' ax » suddicr, aud o retitrnod howo to his wife at. Mount Llonsant ponuiloss, Now comes . in Mr. Wordly- Wiscman tgaln,. oud says, “Friond Lundy, thou should huve hesded my wiso ndvico, "Chou goest now thou hnst no money in thy poolkot,' Thut was not tho end.of the discourageniont. .Osborne had, gut tirad and discourngod .t tho Lifo of au.editor. Ifo hud sold Gig papor snd printing matorinl to ouo Llisha Butes, aud it Lnd #ono off to Tannessoo, ‘Tha bannarsign of the Phiianthropist was down, but a_more signilicant oue Was up, 3 *TIE EMANCIVATOR," which was jssucd in conjunction with . Elihn Tnbroo, W ull: know .want Emancipaior wenus, Unlosy this Ltle muceh belies its oherac- tor, wo must infor that this was the first . dis- tinclive Abolition nowspaper ever printed n this countey, porhups in tho world, and that way priuted in tho midst of the slave region, I have onco Koou u copy Of this,newspaper, Embreo did not livo loug, Lundy . contemplated follow- ing tho fortuno of thiy ;)u]mr,nu.lm had promised to Osboruo of tho. Philanthropist, Lut, as ho suyw, Latos' idon did not como up to his, he con cluded to comuenco..a distinct journal of his awn, Mo thon took wp his. pormnuent shodo Mount Ploasaut, tho howa of Lis wile,.aud thoto ho isauned the GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL ENANCIPATION in Junuary, 1821, Lho ZLenncssee Eman- cipator published hs prospecius . und the first . number . of the aper, 1o, for u timo, lud it printed at Btoubenyillo, 0., to which place ho travelod ou foot, and earried hiomo tho edition of Lis papor on his back, Thut wug going it a littlo strongor aud longer than strougest elemontn of pawer, The pooplo aw in him nn honost man, aud gustained Ellm, Anather sourno of his elfectivencss wan in the moral hasiy on which lio rostod liis canse. Tlo Lind u God in 1Mk work, and mndo, 1Tin fear tho firet promino of Lin logie, Ilo saw the fundumental work which must bo dono upon tho puozlln,‘nml uono but Chriglian powor at the bottom would do It~ When complimented by opponoents with & “good nudiouce of women pud childran,” “his roply was: *Give ma theso nud tho cnpse {5 safo.” Ilo underatopd substautial refoym, Ilis moral couvuge; Liy sneriflco of K”Ly und pluco for right, tolling tha veople of Now Hawpshiia that hio. could’ not #orva thom ‘fagaingt tho olear convictions of Aduty " his magnanimity and inflexible fidohty thropeh lovg ‘yoars of fiorco conflict and roe proachi: bis patriotivm and humonity ; Lis brile innt achiovomonts in the noblest of human one deavors, all_adorn his momory with wnfuding honow, _ITiu country .should” romomber lijm while Sootland vomombors Its Bruco, Liborated millions will yot hearof limas pnaof thelr genat doliverors, and their ehildron’s childron Will bing his fawe, ., INNo DRGREE do wo_alafe'the honors ding to bis coutroras, Wo somombor to-duy, with fratavual aifeotion, - o Chuso, n(zlldllhlxs, o Lonvitt, - sud s Bumner, hoso Amung that . a LBONO, _nngd others nmong the lylng, 'Bome wera abler mon than . he, und accomplishod more in boina dlroctions. - Pho , grans, Dolivorer ruisod up all thut diversity.of fustrumonts whish the work rogquired. ‘Ihe oxoentive and Judioint Cliaso, tho lonruod Beusfer Swmner, ,wore sauy of us editors who camo altpr him iu more rocont times, I think the mosl thut any of us Liave douo way to onrry tho papor of our weolly edition, as wo could get mouey enough - logether Lo ny h, to auroflicos from the pupor warohonse, I thiuk if Garrison did more than that it was bo- couo ho got more thau a woek's supply of monsy on hand ot o time, :Lundy was urgod'to take his puper to Tonnessoo, whiols ho did, and printed it o tho preaw ol bd boon sed by tho do- contod Llihu Embree, and continued it there for olght montby. e truveled. to and from the pluco, & distanco .of 800 .miles, bl of tho ‘way on foot, :tho othor part by water .on tho ~ chance boats . that ran on tho rivors, 111e horo learned to. ot ty[vu wml handle tho prowss, .and .part of tho timo" .printed & looal waokly papoer und an agrdoultursl monthly. This was tho . starting of hin pioncer worlk, which brivgs him down to about tho yoar:1822, Not much mob .violoneo Lind yot baen manifestod. Dut whilo lic was in Yonnogace, for, about throo yeuis, bo was sovoral Limes uul.juuz to i LUFFIAYLY USAGL for somothivg hio had published in his paper in' rogard Lo the crualtlos of sluvery, | n tho wintor of 1833 121, i I PIMSE ANTI-OLAVERY CONVENTION . for tho ubolition of aluyery . was lield in Plila- dolphla, Lundy atlonded it, muking tho,ontiro: Journoy, a dlstance of ;000 milos, on horsshaok,! ore ho first mot with .anti-slavory men from' north and east of the Alleghunios. ‘I'his journo) | mudo him resolvo fo move his paper to it mure, whigh ho suan reburned to exccnto, add I,’ o |, tho pmo, fune waklug Jooturing Loyxse , it Nopeh! L ‘railrond travel. 1o disapproved the project ns Carolina and Virglnin, and forming thero n Jarge numbor of Emaucipniion” Hoclatfes, I'ho firat number of Vol, 4 c} tho @eniys wns irsnod nt Daltimoro on tho 10ih of .Ootober, 1824, It hind boon printed as o monthly gomothing in tho ptyls of ihe colobratod Niles Regisler of that dny. It had_ mot with interruption, so thint bo had droppact ont sonio of ‘the montha, but be had uml‘.nea trom Juunary, 1821, forty- four mouthly numbory, ADOLI TION. PATERS, Thora s gomothiryz vory signifiaant about the nomes of thaso encly papura—iiest, Philan- lhrl:[l[al, b{ Osboruo ; socond, Emancipator, by Lmbreo; third, Genius of Universal Zmanqua- ton, by Lundy’; wnd foutlh, nine yaars utker, i 1830, the Liberator, by Qarrleon. 'Chose wore four trympots thab gnve po uncoriain sound, ‘Phero could ba no doubt s to the meaning aud objects of theso publications, Garrison's was: intonsified by that ovorlasting slave auction that ho kopt™ running ovar tho lend of tha: Liberator, on Froodom streot, insipzht of.tho Capital of tho natlon, The Philanthropiat, most Bloaso ttlo, s ngnin talisn by ikuoy af Gin- clunpt, .ond ,continucd by Dr. Bailoy. Tho! Emancipator was tnkon sgaln by Loavitt, Good-: doll, Alden, and others,.at New York .and Dos-; ton, Who G@enius of ° Universal Emanci- pation ran for eightoon yoars, unlil ity cditor diod, .and "~ ibon” wuas shortened to Genina of Liberly—(lo =~ save iypo)— and thus bocaine Weslern Citizon, ‘aud finalky slid Bo quictly into the weokly of the.noy grone Cmioaao Trinuxs that .none of its numiorous propriotors seewn to know .that it ever got in thoroe, oxcept Bodill. The Liberalor koptits flng flying, slave-mart and busy scone of ;amancipa- tion, nud all wuh‘thnkullu\\'dlgfilugnml‘fluqt or suwing, {ll, if thoy nro not tired, Wo gat tired for,thom, until slavery wont down, he lay that wont up in 1830, In tho garrot nl Doston, onlyeame down when the flag of American slavory struck, thirty-throe yonrs after, whipped put-at last by guupowder and printors’ fulk. —_——— WABASH AVENUE. Consideration of tho Froposcd RRnil- rond 'f'rack. /Tho Committce ou -Birasts and Alloys.of :the" BSouth Division, mot, yesterdsy .alternoon, to Loar tho petitionors-for tha ‘Wabash avonuo 1ail- rond track, Ald. Schimitz in tho chair. €oL. HOUGI 8aid ho belioved;the track would boneflt the ave- nuo 18 a business way. It had always beon.cus- tomary, whoro s majority-of tho proporty-owners hed potitionod for such a thing, to have it done. Over threc-quarters of tho proporty way ropre- gonted in the,potition, The only opposition wos from owners.of property on .State atraot, who foarad that thoir interos!s would suffor. Somo 16,000 foet out of 20,000 were roprented, which was & strong suowing, Heowwed o lob and n murblosfront opposito the Post-Oflico. Howard Priostly sald the great objeation mado was that tho streot would bo ruined for driving. This objection hio did not think yulid, for tho track would bring business, aud the stroot. would,bo widened. - MMr, ITough snid the horso-raflroad wonld bon- oflt tho,public ns woll as tho proporty, 'Whers was moro driving on Michigan avonue ‘than Wa- Lash now, and always would bo. Mora paopla travolod ou cars than in thoir bugglos, and Stato streot was alrondy so_crowdod thot fast time: could not bo made. Mr. Cobb had said that’ the Company .could not do business prop- erly for tho press of business. Ha be- ligved .that proporty-holders would consont to unrrowing tho sidowall flve foot. Tho Raflroad Company bad told him that they wisbed to put down tho track to facllitato their businoss. ’.l‘huK conld not run fast enough to accommodate the public. N, E. WALKER romarked that the petition appeared to,come frow tho Railroad Compony. . Mr. Btovens said an attompt wns mndo to gat up a new company, but, belng o failure, the mat- tor.was turnod over to the old one, Mr, 1lough said that it was arranged that those who had devotod their timo and labor toward obtalning signatures to the potition should re- csive compensation not fo oxceed $1,000, This was all the mouney agreed upon. Mr. BE. Walker said ho signed the romon- strance, boing unfortunato enough to own a lit- tlo properl{ on Wabash avenue. Tho rasson of his opposition was, that the project was eutircly in tho interost of tho prosent Company. —Tho only basis unon which the ordinnuce should pass .was that tho franchise should be given to an in- ‘dopendons corporution, probibited from turning it over to the old ono, “The citizeus, by tho pro- posed arrangomont, would be robbed of compotis tion, which alone could regulate a corporation., 1t was only granting.anowleaso of life to the old Company. o ingisted that the wholo thing was promature, Tho Company would pay for cightcop feot of paving in the contro of the stroot, but wonld not put the track down until: thestreet was,ropaved, This could not b done this your. An ordinauce must be pussad by (ho city firat, Ho could not seo why the property- -owners should do tho work beforo the Company did anythivg. It "it would bo two yoars boforo the track could be Iaid, why not postpone tha passago of the ordinanco ? The {:umien was started Inst winter by gontle- men wlho did not own ono foot on the” avenue. “In justico to romonstrauts, opportunity should be [:ivuu to the propnrtfi-mmum to soo what offect +tha improvemontof thestreet would have on busi~ ness hofore the last resourcoe of n strot-car track sliould-bo apvealed to, TheSouth Side required moro thau one streot for other than steam aud liorse reilroads, = Twico tho numbor of cars could bo put on State street that thero wero yov, #0 long a8 cars wore kept moving. For several yonry Btate street would suflico for all street- an injury to tho public as well a8 proporty- oWnors, IR, NUTTER opposed the ordinanco as & privato individual, first, becanso the horse railrozd wonld not bo of any bonefit to the avouuo, * It was o gront quos- tion whother a korso railroad was & henefit. ‘Lo comparisons of North Clark aud Wolls strects; T.nko and Washington with Madiron and Ran- dolphstreotsshiowed couclugively that it wns moro $hun quostionable. As a citizoy, the moro ques- tion af throwing into thoe Lands of ono corpora- tion the control of the passonger trafMo of the Bouth Division wns ono \hich stould engross the attention of the Committeo. Ald, Cooy faid that it was well known that a neyw compuny could muko no profit, Mr. Ruttor replicd that who tho time camo for a rallrond on Wabash avenuo ho aud othor prop- orty-ownors would be willing to puy o henvy Los for the control of this froncliso, for a compoting line, 'L'lio old Company was _sooking to porpotunta its chartor by thiy branch line, and nothing more. The wrong dono by thom in throwiug this powor into the hands of one gor- poration could never bo justified. MR, T, TECK claimed to show by pago 206 of tho city ordi- uances, that property-ownors on Wabush ave- nuo had, during the past twolve yoars, aoquired vosted rights that tho "Com- mittoo and Council could not take awny, his ordinanco, whioh Lo read, was passed Noy, 10, 1863, "This barred thls Company and other compauies forovor. This wasau irropealablo act, in bl flliulml. Col, LHough ridiculed Mr. Poci’sIny. UL, GAROL GAYILS said that batwoon Lake and 'Mvonty-second stroet thoro wns 20,740 fook on both sfdes. Botweon' 16,000 and 16,000 woro in favor of tho railwny, Of the Lnlanco sorao was ot represented on tho remouatranco, tho owners belug nbroad ;' #omo was awned by chiurches. Thore could not be 5,000 fect, thorefore, on (ho remoustrance. 1o re- groltod the attompls made to projudice tho Com- mitteo by tho ery of mouopoly. Aftor further discussion pro and con, the Com-, motteo adjournod to (ake the matter under ad- vieomont itntil Friduy aftornoon, whon tho dis- cusaion witl be resumed. —_— ACCIDENT. What strango, unreasoned impulao takes By devlons ways our wuless feot, ‘tho unimagined doom to met7 For still the futal thunder bruaky rom skloa tat proiias peacs, W go, Bearco o'en o {rivial orrand bont, And hood not, and thastroko i« dont SATURDAY.. JUNE 13, NUNCUPATIVE WILLS, The €ase of James Harrington and Gihors ¥8, Mary Stoess Opinion by Mr. Justice Mo. Allister. ‘Construction of ‘the Words “Last Siok- ngss.* The Will Worthless. Speotal Corrcapondence of The Chicago Tribune, Mouxr VEnxox, Juuo 8, 1674, Dy tho.courlesy of R, A. D. Wilbanks, Clerk of tho Supromo Court for thls Grand Division, I pm -onablod to forward the full:toxt of the apinion, of tho Court (whigh I8 unanimous) in TIE NUNCUZATIVE WILL CASE of James Hnniugtan ot ol ¥, Mary Steos .and Twwbert {Ball, sdmiulstrator of:tho eatato of H. M Hartlngton, decoaged, error to Ldwards.County, | ‘Thio opinfon is by Mr, Justice MoAtlistor, 1t was' filod {o-day, ang Ip as follow.: I'his was p billin aquity. by the.noxt,of kin of’ Tlonry I, Harrington, doceased, ito contest tho validity.of.a nuncupative will in“favor of Movy -Btoos, alloged to have boen mado by do- .consod in the thmo of his last slokuess, It lad boen roduced to writing, and | togetlior with tho attosting ontle, presonted to tho P'robats Court, whoro it was admitted to pro- bato, and lotters tostamentary issucd to Robort Dell, who, yith Mary Hieou, was made dofond- -ut, and noth filed aoswors, Issuo:laving beon formed, by agreomont of parties .a Jury was ‘woived, and-the caso hioard by the Oourt on dop- osition of witnessca anqt cortificatos of gaths pro- \souted by the Probate.Court. Tho Coutt bolow, fluding in favor of the validity of the will, dis- missed complainnnt's bill, and thoy bring the caso liere by wnit of error. Tho bill was framed upon the theory that the alloged will was not aundo in conformity with tho Imw,—thpt it was wbtained by undue-influance, and thare was roally no intention on the part of the doceased to mako tho will set up. TIE DECRASED v was about 82 yonrs ,of ago,—~n morchant doing businoys at tho City of Mount Curmel,—way possoesod of a personnl estato worth +from 810,- 000 to $16,000; & man of good ordinary abilitics ond education. 1t sppoars Lie lnd boon married, nd bad several ohildron, all of whom, includiug Lig wifo, bnd dlod, o bonrded, and made it Lis hiomo, ut the houso of his mothor-in-law, in Mount Carmel, ARY BTEES, to whom it is olaimed ha the alloged will, was sistor of his doceascd. Wifo, was a wowan about 33 yoars of ago, aud Itved in her mothor's family. “Thoro was & mar- riugo ongagomont botween Harrington and Mary Blcoy, Ly uinter-iu-law, aud both wore mombors of thio Mothodist Epikcopal Church, Harring- ton had beon much out of health for gomo threo months and a lalf before Lis death, Ho was' affccted with pulmonnry consumption. Aftor Laviug been confined to Lis houso for somo two months, from this disense, lo 80 far improved as.to bo out and go to his store, some two wouké beforo his doatl y which occuired Nov. 13, 1869, sut le was taken worse, and conflned,-not ouly but to his bed. About 9 o'olock of the oyvoning of tho 11th of November, 1879, which was Woducsday, not being under any spacinl appro- Lonsion of approachiug death, he requosted Mary Stces to have " TIE LV, MR. TUGIEY, & Mr. Ridgoway, aud a Mrs. ‘Luylor gent for, in ordor that thoy might sing aud pray, and he talk with thom. Tho Rov. dr. Hugley was miuister, Ridgoway o elass-leader, nud Mre. Taylor & momber of thoe Moethodist Church to which the deceased and Mary Stees.belonged. About 10 o'olack the partio.sout for caimo, Tho religious cxorcises contomplatod wore had in tho reom ocoupicd by deconsod ; thon all but Hughoy and Ridgowsy lott tho room. Thesa lattor shut the door, which hpd uniformly been kopt opon excopt on oceasions when Bwoaping was doue in the adjoining room. It was now about miduight, aud'whilo there, as is claimed, TILE FOLLOWING YORDS wore spoken and published, and -they sro (he words reduced to writing aud presented to the Drobate Court: Bo it known that we, tho underslgned, we resont on the 11th day of November, 1864 mtethl rmdz’ucu of Henry H, Hurringlon, now’ deceised, in tho City of Mount Carmel, Couuty of Wabash, and Btate of Tili- nols, who was theniu” bi lnst sickness, ono of ns— Mr,’ Hughoy—raid fo Mr. Iurringlon, “Do ‘you rowmembor Wwhal you sald to mo in the sfter- noon in regurd fo i'nur terporal mattera?” \Mr, Hagrington suid, 1 do." 3ie, Mugthey then astd Alr, Hurrington that the tis was jassed for buv- dug bty tomporal maftera sottled o that way (meaning that it was 100 lato for im ~to get murried) ‘und that lio would Letter wake u will. Lhen the otlivr of us— William B, Ridgeway—suld to Mr, Harrington that it he would tell us, s witnesses, what disposition ho wanted to mako of liis property, that we could teatify 1o thot faot iu the Lrobute Court, aud that 1t would ! ouswer ug well aw u writton will, 'Then Mr, Harring.' ton enld, “Tintended to marry Mary Sices. Tine arryngement wo mude beforo I was taken eick, and we ore prevented from consummating it by my sick- mess, ‘It has Leen my intontion all the whilo thut she should Lve everything Ibuve, real aud persomal, hud that ls my Wil wow,” Mr, Hughey then sald to Alr. Harrington (referring to what Mr, Harrington biod just aafd ;¢ 'Mhls is your last will and testament, fundy 1y our peotenc e witnssea? ? Mr, Harsing: ton replled, “ Yes," Mr, Hurringlon then pausod o min- uite,—sceming to be fn & study,~when ho safd: My life-insuranco poliey—$5,000—1 waut to go to her withi out geing through i courss of sdministration,” The lmcuoh:i; ara the ouly words pronounced Dy thio decoused, which Huglioy and Qtidgewny, the witnosses. cnused to be reduced to writing, and presented ‘to the Probate Court; and thoy aro reliad upon by sounsel for dofondunts in er- ror, as sufliciout o ostablish the will, Whon a bill is filed updor tho statute, to con. tost tho validity of a will, whethor nuucupative or writton, the complninabts aro not bound, in theo first instanco, to establish negatives ; but tho burden of Kr'no“” upon-the proponent of thowill to outablish it; whioh, especially in tho cass of o nuncupativo will, must Lo doue by clenr and sat- Isfactory ovidonco in respeqt to overy 1pnniculur roquired by the law. _*This s requislte n con- .sidoration of the facilities with which frauds in solting.up nuncupative wills avo obviously at- tandod,~[acilitios which absolntely roquira to bo counterneted by courty insisting on the strictept roofy totho “factn’ of such wills,” Bir John Nioholl, in Loman v, Boneall. 1 Addame, 889," . ON THE UEALING BELOW, < ahore the burden of proof was upon.the propo- nont, ilughoy wau not callod us- o witnows; Ridgoway was, but Lio doos nobstnte tho dislogua oand wordy of dogoasad, or the substanco of themn, a8 thoy wero reduced .to writing by him ond Hughoy, and presented to tho Probate Court. 1t in true tho cortilionto of .the oath of 1inghoy and Ridgaway, mado at the time of the probato, was inwvoduced, whicly, by the statule, Is .mado’ evi- douce, snd to.have such weight, the statute suys, ‘‘au the jury shall think it may desorve.' 5 ‘Uhis onath, n8 wa huve soen, purported to st ont the.vory words spokon by.the doceased, and the raupective witnessos, and the fair implication iy that it guve tho whole of them. Yo this axtent, and this anlr should it bo rogarded as evi- dence 3 nud this sooms to bo ooncedod by the oounsol for dofendants in orror, ‘o hold othar- -wise would Le to unneccessarily increase tho fuoilitios for fraud in sotting up nuncupative wills, by romoving all vostrnints upon .the . wit- nessos, T'his view narrows the caso down .to .comprohensiblo limits ;, and, aftor $ ADYLITING TO SOME CIMGUMNSTANCEG .nob yet fuily brought out, wo .will consider-the uestion whather, .under !:{m eircumstancos, the o ul\lm should prononnce in favor-or.agatust this W “That laya ifos flsaksut fabrlo low,— Lang day of dear domoatio poace, “Lova into oloser uniou grow, "Wlia power kuowledgo.mudu otir known, Aud evor, us the years fncrosse, Homa olenror holght of wisdom won, ,ll\m} m[-hm_‘uenl of Jm:::n llrnw.ul planned 'o holy pluce or ¢! 0 lan O murvaL of ho idnight Bur,—~ All things that counterchango oir days With varjud. light of tol) aud easo,— Laborlons jfiyu, and cares that }’l'"" Constraint of dity, swaots of praise § One atop, and over lovonnd light, “hiugd bopod snd things schievad, the all Wa uro and woro Lo bo, will fall ‘Tho jouvaless, uuremembariug night, —London Spectutor, —Qon. Butler ny bought & henaclat an tho nand blufl of I'roviegton, Uape Cod, If be should be .turned out af itho Balom distriot ho oun then fall buok on tho Uxk county aud xun as: & uauilidate:for the Qape, 3 gy ‘I'ho firat of theso elrcumstances s, that tho do- acased wus not improssed with the probability of approsching duntb, Tho .night of tho 11t of ovember, when tho ullufind words were spolcon, was Wedneedny night. Uho deconsod diod Sat- urday morning, Ridgoway was asked this quos-, tlon: *What, If any, wors Harrington's .appro- honslons of the immodinte or remoto approach affhis donth, on \leuuudn(v, and Thursday nights mrecoding s, donth 2 Wituesasaid; %I don't Jnaw thatid onn toll, but I thought from.his con- vorsution on Wodnesdny night that he did not. expeot to die soon, I don't recofloct thore was: unything t\'mlulflrul\ to mako mo.think thoro was -any difterenco in Ll mind and momory on Thurs-i duy ulght from that of Wodnaulay night. Ho was woakor in body.” Dut .this wituass after- wardu answored moro fully, _Ho snid: ‘o ‘Inngunge he nsed, from whioh I inforred that ho did not expeot to die soon, waw, I asked him Liow ho fult; he said ho folt protty well, and, if it was not for his shortuoss of broath, ho would got slong, Aud thon,from tho romnrk ho mudo, when My, Hnghoy sskod him_about his temporul ailptis, ho.sald it was Lis - intontlon to wmarsy | .uve all his proporty, I?y. to the house, Mnyy Stoos ;.tho_orranggmont hind .been , mado | ofdre ho.was takey ul&:. and Lis sfoknoss hnd qrnvuntud it. From thoso romarhg, I thought he did uot expeat.to (io soon, I’ thoughit lio lind .hopas that hoe nilgl il,gnh well, Idop't Iix[uk he bau _any idon that Lo would die In'a day or two, 9c an soon o8, lio did." Thia was the Lostimony I o witnoss whosp faslings wera',avidontly in avor of tho upponont of tho will, ‘and tho in- Aorgnoo ho drow would bo in ncaordgnco with common oxpgrioncs ; for' it is ymptior of vor: common obsoryation, List ‘porsony nMicted with itho mlow-prepd dlsenso, pulmppsry consupmy- tion, soldom losp their hopes of recovory until the 'vory hand of denth ,‘u upgp thom. And 1t might Lo pooulintly mnatural for Jim—a yaux}lg -man—under an epgagoment of nnnhgm andhis aflanced his constant atlend- ut, Sloln was thore that Wednoaday night, and liis tostimony sather Londatlo mppport that of Rldgoway, Nacy Bloes waited vuwtl him night Bnd day.” tov testimony,was admitted without \bjectign, and shp Bays .mu,mfi,cu coniliot with whiat of Rildgowny, bitt, shows that..deconsod was 1nb)e Lo gatup himaclf, with the uid,of uue por-| #on, sometimes yequiring two. . . TIF BECOND CINGUMTANGE Jto swhich we would advert, aud which s judis- {mmhl y-ahosvny I, that decensed was kopt all tho | Jtime groatly UNDES-THE INFLUTNOR OF-MORPIINE, -tho natursl offect of which wounldbe to cb-opoer- . .ato with:the doceptive natyrs of his disenso,,and .adil n soxt, o dreamy vigor-to his illusive hopos 10f rocovery; weuld .bo likely do :beclougd “hip intollect, nud Linva a tendanoy to impair his conaciouanens of tho claims of kindred by, blood, and propare his mind {o,be molded to tho wishos) of those about him. By jistoning -the poriods! of giving the powerful druy, these offecis,might, Jrow time.to timo, . ho grontly, enbnnced, [THE TIIM OINCUNSTANTIAL ABEECT -involves sovorat.frots, Mary Htees, who was bia! principnl attondant, and administering his ‘modicine, which wae morphine, was not o young, .inexperionced &m,-bm. Wns & woman mnonrly 88 yenrs of ngo. Tho raquest made on Wodnosdny \ovening to call \in the Rov. dr. Ilughey, Mr, ‘Ridgowny, oud Bire,"Taylor, was mado o hor, Bho says: - Harry wanted me to seud for them; ho swauted to soe aud talk to them; -ho -anid ho wonld 'lko to have somo 'one, oud bave thom'sing and pray’ with him, Jhoyanted to.talk to them, ,anyway, During Monday, [Tyasdny, and -Wednosduy, precoding arriugton's donth, Mr. Hughoy visited Lim onco o day, excopt Wodnesday ho was thero -twice. -Idid did not bear -Mr. Harrington, dur- iug chneadnly night, any anything about mak- ing his will. ‘I will sow iho witbjeot-mattor 10f this suit was mude on -that night after 13 10'clock.” Bhio does not say that.sho nover talked with' Mr.Hughey about doceascd .mnking his -will. ~When the .spiritunl .exercines occurred, Mary Bteos and othiors wore present jn the room; whon conclitded, .l these othor porsons thore, including Mary 8teos, with one accord, Joft the iroum to Hugliey and Ridgoway. 'Lhey closod the 1dooraftar the otborsleft, If Harrhigton, under .tho approliension. of approaching death, had sont for Hughaeyaud Ridgewny for the purpose, or with tho jutention of, making a will, would bo <ot thon havo introduced the subject? 1f it had {besu the purposo of Hughey and lud‘{;u;\'ny to have him do #o, would they not have done just ‘muthoy did? fo was silent, and thoy prossod it upou s attention. + ‘These ciroumstances, with what theaa two pare tics stateps Linving thero -trauspired, :lead the mind irresistibly to TIE CONCLUSION -that hio lind no provious iutontion of making n will, but thiet thoy were determined e \Bliould, and that it should be in favor .0f ‘their slstor in tho church, Mary Stecs; Jthot .tho interview with him -nlone, for .that purposo, wus by :pro-arrangement, and of which Mary Btaos w8 woll -nwato, -Sho kuew ‘whon the words wera spoken, for sho tostified -that tho will was made aftor.12 o'clock {hatb night, Ior mind was fixed upon . tho .subject, for sho told Mary Reinhart tho noxt ovoning that Harrington had mado bis will the . mght before; that be did not sign it, but would noxt morning. ‘Thus the evidenao shows the further circunt~ ?tnllcen that on Thursday morning Ridgowny, in uct, PREPARED A WRITTEN WILL, whioh -ho subsaguontly destroyed. ‘Ilo says it was tho same a8 tho vorbal one; that ho wont to rond it to Harrington, and have him sign it, if corrceb; ‘‘but ho wns so muoh weaker than 1 expecled to find hiim, that I enid nothing to him about it.” Jlhis -could not huvo been tho truo ronson. It must have boon dome otber. Ridgo- way was thoro -froquontly, and thinka he stayed .8l tho night of Thursday,” T.ot us hear from tho .witnegsos, Mary Stecs eays: “I gave his modicine to him altogother during tho :last ten daysof his sicknoss .on one, two nights— Tuesday and Thursday ulghis—hnmm his death, I did not think ho had lost his mind and meniory at.any time durlug hia slokness, Bometimas, when ho was under the influcnce’ of morphino, 1 thought lie appoared a little foolish ; but whon I spolta to him Lo always know what I said, L salways thought ho had his mind and momory as 00d as at any timo. Ho was able to got out of is bed the two Inat days of his sickuoss, with 1ho holp of one persou,—eometimas it took two, During the two lnst drys of his sicknoss, I wns with him all the time through the dry, sud in and ont through the night. I would luy down, vocensionally, to tako a nap. Hotalked rationally all tho time for tho last two days. «He never spoke unlezs Lo was spokon to,.or unless he.asked for somothing.” Lhis would soem to bo a natur- al ploture of u patient : in the lattor stages of tho slow-paced disenso, pulmonary consumption, with faoulties perfoctly clear, oxcopt so far as affected by morphine, TUDOLPM K. BTEES, o brothor of proponent, Mary Stees, says: 4T was with him moro during the last_two days. ‘The condition of his mind, as far as I knoyw, was all right. Idid not discover anything wrong nboutit, When spoken (o, he always unsworo:d rationally, = Ho hed not o groat deal of physical strongth ; e was not very strapg ; he was nblo -to-turn himself in bed; whon lie winted to got up out of bed, ho bad to bo helped n good doal,” Now, Ridgeway, as appoars from the evidencs, was & profossional druggist, nud is preswmned to know, at loast as much ss ordjnnry peoplo, s ti:) the eoffect of morpluno. o _had stayod wit] Harrington two nights during the Inst woelt of his sicknoss, ono of which was Wednesday, and o thinks the other wns Thursday night. Mo therefors must huyve known that 1nrrington was kopt under tho influenco of ‘morphine, and-: that hio hind_to bo spolten to in order to_arouso him. Whon, undor theso facts, ho nesigns Harving- ton's nppearing ro mugh weakor as, the , reason for not olfering to read the written will to him, Which was, as bo suys, precigoly like tho alloged nuncupation, wo are inclined to think ,tho real reason was his own consoiousncss that Harring- ton hind not intonded to muke such a will, and to rond it to him would bo to thwart what might ogll:larwxno be plausibly set up as o nuncupative will, Again; it appoars Harrington had BEUULAR LEGAL ADVISERS noar at band, If ho was pousosscd . of 6 cone seious dosive of making a will, would it not, whon wo cousider the magnitudo of hia ostato, havo boon batural for him—u man of good ordi- nary abilitios , and odycation ;, & morchant—to hnvo oculled in one.of, those logal advisors for the purposo ? But ho did not ; aud, when one of thoin paid him a friondly visit on Friday, evop- ing,.nothiug was said to him on the.subject, ale though docensod was perfoptly rational whon roused from the offcots of morphine, Trom all the circumstances in ovidenco horo, thoe mind s led irrosistibly to <THE CONCLUNION that Tenty . Harrington, at tho of tho ulloged nuuoupstion, was nov im- pragsed with the ~.probability of iy death; that hie was still ingpired witl, and oling- dvg.to, tho illusive hiopo of yet recovering, and consummuting his macriago engngoment with Mavy Btoos. 1o Lind ovidontly doclurod that ex- pootation to lughoy, tho wflornoon precoding the midnight intorviow ; for at that intoryiow,it was Hughoy's flvst attompt to dispol that hojio whioh seomed to be the chief obustavle to his got- «ting him to make -a-will. Iugley, nddressing hiny, said: % Do you remembor what you sni o 'me in’ tho uftornoou, in rogard to your tom- poral mattors?” Ilarrington wulds ™ I do," tHugheylthen suid #¢that tho time wns pnssed for timo ‘|- haviug his temporal mattors sottled in thut WAy ; that It was too luto for him to get mal thut he would -botter make o will,” It iy ovidont that this effort to satisfy:hLim that -it was too lute to marry Mary Stacs didnot quita sticcoed ; for Tidgowny tostitios - that on that very ocongion, he still daclared his oxpectation of marrying hor, and tha! is -the renson why ho -coneluded that Harrington did not oxpect to die soon, -but did expoot-to ge s woll, Wo Liave boon oalled upon-in this ease, to glve & construction to the last wordy ¥ * LAHT B10KNESS " in tho statuto, Tho coungol for plaintiffs jn or- ror inint that tho construction given by Oliancols Jlor Kout, {u Princo-v, ‘Huzolton el al, 20John- son, G0, {8 tho true one; “A'hat the Ohaucellor’s viows aro sob forth -with .a foros of |~nnunnlu{; whioh ought to katisly tho judivial miud of their «oorravtnens, Thore Jt'was “hold-that a nunenpa. tive will is not good yuless mndo by tho tostator Iu extremis, or when ayortryken by sudden and violont siokngss, and-has 110t thno or opportun- ity to mako a written will. T'ho counsel for defendant in orror m‘{;n that tho dootring of that cuse iy pot auyporced by the Luglish authoritios, and-to srpport that position they oito, amongat othors, tho ‘caso of Jolmson va, Ulausoogl, 2 Alp,, N. N, 214, lwhore tha Court guvo anablo aud'critioal rovieay of the wuthorl- rriod, an tlon rolled upon by the (Ohangallorin Prinoo v, Hazolton, M‘l’d d m}::r.l'gu following a8 tho rulo mosb consonaut with thoso nuthorition: It a porson, {n his ‘Inst slckness,—that sicknosy of whicli \.In.nulaun uantly.dies,—impressed 1oith, (fg «probabilily .of pproaalnn‘y «eath, feliboralo mnkes his will, in confornity 1o tho statule, wo do not feol authorizod to sy that it will ba in- ynlid, hocause, ip polnt of fact, o had time and ortinity 1p refuooit: wr!;iflg.“~ 5 0w, although, this Tu “‘lill‘u twu; tllllnk lhg proper _pne, .facs nob niro, thyb . deconsod should have boon in ox| u‘x’x‘:ll‘n 80 nuhlo dobnr the opportunity of making.s writton will, yob it does requiro that ho sliould have boon ¥ improksed Withtho probsbility of.appronchipg denth” THE HUNDEN OF PHOOF was upon the proponant. 'Thp prpof not only falla to show that Ilnrrhigton was improusod with tho probability -of -appronching doath, but the cloar propondorance of it i# thnt he was not 8p jmprossoid, 8p that, §f o ;wore .iuglined to fllllo\v the 'ml_{ug ]n -Johuwncuuvu. Qlaepcock , fu proforoucp fo that of Prince vu. Tiazolton, this sllegod nuncupation cunnot bo upheld. -Bosides .that objoction, it is oxtremely doublful, from tlio cireumstancos siure ‘rmmt_flpfjhlu gaso, {7 Hayr[ngion ligd suy delibe ornto infontion of making n testamontnry dispo- sition of hisostato 3, tho animus testandi is nos ratlsfactorily ostablished, 1o expectod yot to recovor and marry, ‘Lhe fulfillment of that ox ‘octation was tho disposition of bis fomporal afMairs, and-tho only disposition ho really intgud« od to mnko, Ilo was thon a partner In i moronn- tilo concern ; tho -businoss wos going on ny usual, e discovored no anxioty about, and .gavo no dircctions s to closing, it. IIe bad a nthor, brothers,.and sigters, with whom it is concoded ho was on friendly -tosme, ‘They woro nouoe of them present, and o made no montion of thom, Ioro, thon,.In T BURSTANGE OF THFE WHOLE OABE ¢ Tho decoused is undor no,approbonsion of ap- ,pronch_lnt( death, but animated with an actual, though fllusive, hopa of recovery. o has formed no othor plan in respoct-of. his dufy stownrdy Mary.Bloos excopt to perform - his inar. sriage-oputract, with h?r. Mo has voluntarily ute torod.po. singlo, word Iudicating s doliborate p rmln of making a will. Butit s songht to cstab- sk this alloged nuncnpation wholly-in faver of Mary Btoes .upon & inere .monosyllublo ut- tered on tho :occasjon -of the midnight .in- terview, .while ,deconsed .wos undor the ine flueuce of morphiug, such monosyliablo bolng oxtorted, as it wero, by a quostion ‘urgdd upon “him by -Hughey, 'his .spiritual adviser, in the presence only of Ridgeway, :a clnas-leader. of his ohurch ; aud this alleged nun- .wupation being reduced to writing the -noxt _morning by Iti (Ifiewn , and he visiting " decensed on Thuradny and sitting up with him on I'hurs- dny night, nover daroed to offer it to deceased -to rend and sign, although thoe lattor suryived for twoduys aud two nights, with as_good o . tesla Jlnnu‘lnry capagity, s ho Liod (he night of ihe in- crviow. The vogatio tertinm-je not established, - Tha dcocased did not call upon Hughey and : Ridgo- way to witnoss his words: but on | tho, copirary 4oy anllod upon bim to mako a will, nud to ldt thom bo witnosses, This is not in complinuce with tho statute, To sustain this as n valld nuncupation wounld .bo, to dony the right of, evory man to njake o de« liborate dieposition of lig own lxrqpony; to ig- nore animiportant requisito of tho statutes, as well ns tho sotllod principles of the Court. The deereo of the Court ‘below is roversed, and.a decroo will bo entorod in thia Court do- . claring the,alleged nnncupation invalid o8 nawill, \But no casts will bo taxed agninst Rtobort Bell, tho administrator. ¥ e R THE |EIGHTH GONGR.ESSIDNAL . DISTRICTamm :FREW VS, FORT. To the Filtor of The Chicago Tribune : - Bin: Your correspondont, -‘*Occaslona),” writing from Gilian undor dato, of the 9th inst., - labors ostensibly to -forward ;tho. claims of Mr, ‘Alexander to.a sant In Congress,—ronllyto creato .afoud between the frionds of Frew and Fort, respectively. I find no fault with his oulogy on Trow,and Alexandor ; but his offort to set Frow +up by kuogking: Fort down iy & gratuity not war< ranted by facts, much less indorsed by Mr., Frew - himselr, 1t is true that Mr. Frow did offor the regolus tions, and they are nll tho more oredit to him by -being offerod at that time; . but tho atatement of your corrospondont, that, *‘whilo .Frew wag -fighting manfully for the poople, Fort was vot ing millions of monoy into the hands of the mo- nopolists,” and that tho resolutions wera #kicked out b{ such mon ag Fort,” but that they “gtill livo to blosy Frow, aud rise upin judgmont ogoainst Fort,"—js ot truo, for the following resons: Fort nover voted *millions,” or mills to tha monopolists, unlogs It was in the way of grante ing chartors, in which ho was warmly secondod, .in that railroad-ors, by the gentleman from Ford, Fort nover ‘‘kicked™ tho resolutions out of tho House, for he was nob o membor of the Houso j but \in the Senoto, whilo o, member, .8t homo among hia coustituents, in Conyrosy,—everywhero,—ha is rocognized 08 & .good, truo maon, and olosely idontified, by spoech and_ vote, with tho Isboring and producing clagses. I know nothing of BMr. Tort's jutentions xcflpnctln(inr,oupminntlan, bub I do kuow thnt, outsido of ofilac-secking sore- ‘heads, ho is fully indorsed by the peoplo, of tho distrigt, I furthor kuow that * Occasional,” orx **uny other mau,” will,not succoed, in croating oumity between Frow and Yort; and, lastly, .prodiat that, bo oither of these, or nn{ gooil man, ,nominated by the Ropublicans, ho will be electod. Esoutn DisTBIOT, — e o 46 Mlle. Fenico? or ¢ Drs. Foenixed?? Lrom a New York paper. Mllo. Foce, tho handsoma woman for whom the Grand Duke Coustantino of Russin robbed Bis motlier of hor dinmonds, is oredited to the Ubited Statos, and yet sho i an Euvglishwoman, born at Brighton, thily yoara.ago, Hhe first mado hor appearauco in’ Pariv, cight youra ogo, .undor tho ' name of Clara Seyors, und attracted considorablo attoution, both by her bozuty aud Jgracoful janners, In tho ‘samo yenr sho was 1utroducod at the Court of tho Tuilerics, and,n fow dnys afterward married & gontloman of Philade]phia, with whow shelived only two days, . Bhe went to Bloneca, whore she soou, beeamo tho Lelle, and, for u yearand a balf,remuined the most interesting lady in thoplace. At thattime o (man nawed Count Vou Arnim camo thero, sud, Lolioving that sbe lind boen proviously divorced from hor former husband, uayried her. Thoy lived happily together for soveral yeurs, until Vau Aruim was trausforrod to Bt, Potorsburg, where Lo fouud out that the former bushaud of i bhandsomo wife was still alive, and, in order {o eseapo tho dISfimcn whichhoe was,afraid would await him, ho fed to Amoricp, His wife, how- oyey, romained in Russin, and, by her beauty, attracted numorous adwmirers, Among thoin wyad the fioung Grand Duke Constantiue, whe, nding bunsell unable to gratify tho oxtraya- gant proponsitics of iy ,inamorata, stole his mothor's diswonds, aud, ‘gt tha pawnbroker- uhln;p turned thom futo money at one-hull their valuo, 3 . From the Philadelphin Bulletin, Tho young woman who figures boforo .tho world.in this disgracoful aifair us “ A" aud ¢ Miss Feonix,” "is a Philadelphinn, woll kuown to a vory large cirele, nupuulnhy of the opposito o, in this city, Her carcer has -boon oue of continual profligacy for a dozen or moro years past, during which timo sha hns, boop -twice uyre ried, bor first_husband dying suddonly it Wos Yirglpin, aud her socond, « young New Yorkor, whose name {6 appours sho . still wonrs, lmvhui marriod hor in Pariy, and sltorwards sspurated from her, ** Mre. Foonix " Is tho duughter of & formor most ominout clorgymap of this city, now deceased. ———— ‘The Louisvillo Cannl,) Trrom the Londaeslle Courier-Journal, Jupe 11, At Gon. Weitzol's oftico, on Jotforson straat, \hatwoon Eloveuth and Lwolith, .yestorduy, was wilpessod-the finale of -the Louisvills :Cannd question, whioh for.#o long a thue oluimed tho attontion of.tho United Stutes Congross, aud at< [ tractod mueh of -thoe publio jntorest throughout the country, At 1 “o'clook p. ., tho hour ap- poipted for the meoting qf the Goveruwent ;ollicors angd the Canal Company, Mosuts. Joshun Bpoed, President; Smith 8peod, Superintondont, and J, I, Rhoror and J, W. Bounlug, Diveotord of - tho. Gaunl Company, - rapaired 4o tho oftico, and without any formality Gen, "Weitzel, at« tonded by hLis adsistunts, rceeipted to thom for the canal on tho .parto of the United Biates +«Govorument, Undor the provision of tho bill fixing: tho timo for tho dolivery, tho tolls woro roducad ot l1d ©0'cloolt last night from tho Company's rates to 10 centy flyur ton-on hnll mensurepmont, gud 5 cents per,tan on all othor monsnrements. Qop. Weltzel still retaiys tho gopergl direotion of tho cunal, and juunodiatoly:afior its dolivery 0 tho Governmont 1suod an_ordor, undor ai= thority from tho Heorotary of ‘War,” minking tha followjug towporazy: upopintmonts: Capt, M. 1. Adums in spogial oh ‘t;“ of the caunl; Buper- intondont, Phil, J, Behott. The, Chyrlos Bodmnnn, was, the fieyt stoapor to ontgy, thio ganal for ,prw o through tho Jogks undor the (tovornmout gatos, and startod op her doyn-riyor {rjp 44,6 winyten ptierd o'look Hus wornlvg,