Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1874, Page 2

THE NEW TUNNEL, Celebration of the Completion of the Lake Portion. A Oool' Underground Trip to the Crib. Congratulatory: Speeches by ilie City Officers and: Contractors.. A: Sail on the Lale. All the oltizons particulatly intorested: in the new lake tunnel, commonly known as * tho great boro,” solacted yestordny ae' n propgr occasion on which to informnlly colobrato tlio comple- tlon of ‘the gront undortalting, The wonther was most unpleasantly torrid, but there was a grand mustor of invitad guostsat tho woukshop of the Wator-Works, at the appointod Lour—Lalf- past 10 o’clack in the morning, It was arranged Dy tho ongincors and contractora that tho party, which numbered about 160 persons, should pro- coed through the tunnel to the Ciib, by means of'mule-traing, and roturn to the city by tug- ‘boats provided for that purpose. TUE GUESTA, Tlio. following wore among tho more promf- nont persous who figured on the oconsion: Mayor Colvin, Commiissionors Thompson. snd. Prindiville, of tho Board of Public Works; the Messrs. Stoole, ogutractors; Mr. Jobn B. Mo- Mahon, of the firm of Stecle, McMaldn & Btoolo;. Ald, Cooy, Mooro, Foloy, Olarke, Whito, Jonns, 0'Brien, Biand, and Hildreth; Christian ‘Wabl; Philip A. Hoyne, Unlted States Commis- sionor; Col.J. O, Rankin, James Walsh, Thomas Hutchinson, Potor J. Hennessy, P. J. Towle, K. I Xlokke, Thomas Tilley, Jamea Montgomery; Aloxander Sullivan, Socretary of tho Bosrd of Public Works; Willinm Dryeon, onginacr of tho tunnol; E. 8. Chesurough, City Eugincer; Gon. John MoArthur, Postmaster; John MeArthur, Jv., Junes J, Egan, Jobn M. Armstrong, Jobm F.. Beanlan, E. M. Jobnson, booke keopor of the Board of Public Works; John 1. Mualler, nssistaut enginser; E. O, Olarke, ongineor of the lako end of the tunuel; C. 8. Bquires, Assistant Postmastor; Frodorick Buwith, John J. Fitzgibhon; F. II. Dailoy, ox- Secrotary of the Board of Public Works ; Jamea J. MoGrath, Tax Commisaloners Otto Peltzer, Duvid J. Grier, superintendent of tho whole work; Maurice MacMahon, foroman of the working parties; Philip Conley, St. Charles Hotel; Spencor Prlndiville, Jobu Sullivan, Will- lam Manchestor, James G. Avers, As- slgtont United Btatos Marshal DBird, J, Mursh, DMichacl Kooloy, Assistant Comptroller Jokn Farwoll, Archibald McVoagh, Duncan McVeagh, Aloxandor Bail, A, H, Butley, A, H, DBlagkall, Gen. J. O.Smith, of Galena; William Murray, New Orleans Custom-House ; Willim Cox, sub-contractor land end of tuune! ; Ldmund Walkor, sub-contractor lake ond; 8. D. Leland,- Matthow Latlim, iugh Richie; Charles Donnohy, City Assessor ; John Leovard, ugh McLaughlin, Joseph A, Engle, George Glugsbrooke, Aaton Kalk, O. J. Maurau, Otto Blubhm ; Mr, Moss, bnilder of the LaSallo straet tauuel ; Robert Konney, aud othors. "Tho visitors having all assemibled, A GRAND DIALCH was directed toward the tunnel-shaft, into which, 80 feet down, thoe subtorrancen ex- plorers were lowered ten by ten. Thero were dve mule tralue, aud each of thoso cmried thirty men, Johu E. Medahon was Captain of iho advanced guard; James Stecle piloted the necond buttallon; Ald. Tom Foloy tho third; Gon, MoArthur the fourth; aund Mayor Colvin Jed the rear guard to glory. v THROUUN 'THE TUNNEL, Thelr pathway was faintly illnminod by * the Jauterns dimly burnug® in the hands and in the caps of the miners and mule-drivers. The cuvalnde mnde o grand sinct, b mbonk 1l olclock, and proceeded at o _spanking pace, excopt whon drawn by s salkoy mule off e _track, beneath the ~ broad Dosom of Lake ll!cbl¥an flashing glorionsly in tho summer sun, full 60 fect above their heads. The air current, from the crib end, was very atrong, and tho tomporaturo, comparad with 'up{mr 2ir, beesme w0 low that conts wers buttoned to tho throat, aud sheomatic gontie- mien wished themsolyes’in the sanlight ouce more, 'I'ho offect of the dim lights on the gloom of tha long bore was very peculiar, sad gave some iden of Limbo. The laughter of the younger portion of tho party sounded, n that fiollow Place, lils the rovelry of demons, snd the lowost voica could Lo hoard, trumpet-toned, sevoral hundred yards away. Aftor the jouruay, which Insted fall twonty-five minutas, tho head of the column halted, and red lights in advanco proclaimed that TIE DESIRED GOAL had bheen renched. En passant, it may ba here romurked that overybody expressod unmalloyed dalight at the appearanco of the work, nat moro thax bwo vory trifling damp apots * belng visi- ‘olein the wholo oxtent. ‘This matter, andall tho subatantial dotails of tho work, hes been nlroady dealt with by Tux TrinoNe in its roport of the oponing of the tunnel a \wack ago, AT THE CRID, The hoisting apparatus was quickly lowered, and slowly the tiavelers wore bauled up from the submarive darkoess, aud found thomselves in company with thet noted amphibious pereon- age, & cousin to *‘tho man in the moon ™ per- huvk, M the man at thg crib Thore was not more than room enough in that very singular structure for the small army thas had gatliered there, but tho return to daylight aud warth was very agrocable to most of the company. The roporters of the evening papers | worked thioir rospeotiva.onds.of ‘tho tunnol mane * tully; and tho ory with thom was, '* Which of us will ‘gat; thraugh first?” flo proposed tholr . hoaltirwithia flbwing bumpar, wiich was.xepigly deasnad: . S 5 3R, MAGHNAUON. 3 ‘Thors wora_thion loud calls for ¢ MacMalion," which brought that well-known vetoran con- " traotor o lila foot. o hind been kept out of tha city by other work a good doal, but ho always kopt an ove to tho new tunnol, and was ns much interoatod there as wore-his parinors. After all, ho snid, It wna.au oasy thing, for tha contraotors to como dowuandisca Low lhu.ht?l wpra dolug, whothor_thoy made 17 foot one day and 18 tho woxt. Dut tho strong arma. that wiclded tho pick and spade, snd without whose muscle the, - work | conld’ nob have beon oarmed through at all, "should” ndt bo forgot- ton, ‘Chiorworkmen. of the. respectivo gangs desorved full oredit, and should always Do ro- membored. o did not. desire to speak in nny u?lrlt of clavnishness, but, as Capt, Steele Liad siluded to cotol and Irish verseors, ho thought it would bo no harm to stato that, although both worked; nobly, thie Ivlshman, Dave Guilor, fat through tho holo first, [Laugnteraud applauso.] In fact, ho never. knew of any hole, howovar Bmall, that an_Irishman could not got through ona pinch, [Renewed Iaughter.] Thewr bore wne a protty large ono, and he thonght it iag no. egotism: on his part to say that it was a good ono, It would, indoed, bo & monumont, such s woro to this day tho gront viaduote of Ttome, after long contaries had passed away, Ho was {1ruud of baing a Chicago. man, and re« gaedod tho city as the trucst roprosontative of Amorican ontorprise. 1le-would not dotain thom longor, but wonld give thom the following toast : "I;Buo calthof tha workiug parties.” [Loud cheors, Mr. J]. K. Thompson, of ‘the Doard of Publio ‘Works, .was-naxt_aslled upon, aud wade somo very Lrlof romarks, in which Do exprossod bim- solf fully sntistiod, with the result of the great undortaking, He called upon Gen. J. 0. Smith, of Galoun, to Bpeak on the occaston. GEN, 8MUTI sald that, bofng a.stranger, bo could uot do less then follow lhudguod oxamplo sot by the gontle- mon.wha procoded htm, by muking a vory briof spocoh. Tho work that day comploted “was o noblo ncbisvement, and’ was woll worthy of tho population. of the groatest city of the North- west, He hind seon much of Amorics, but no- whare did he romomber hawing oon such an in- depoudent, pusiiug spirit as among the citizens of Chicago. Why was this? Bocause not alouo the best blood of Amorica came lero, but, also, tho bost blood of Rurope. It was no plavo for sluggards, and the world know it, to idlors kopt away trom Chicago as a& rale, or, if thay did coma-ta tha city, thoy soon fouud tiat the atmosphere was not congoninl to their habits, [To looked upon ovory triumph of genius i this country as an American victory,—as a locy to the groat lnud in which they all Lud fixu their bomes, and ho hoped that, in the fu- turo, s in the past, Chicngo would remain tho Dbaunor city of the continent, [Loud npfllnso. “Alter very-brief speoches by Gen, MoArthur, Col. Rankiu, Phil Hoyno, aud othoers, the party adfourned to the outor walls of the building proparatory to embarking on tho tug-boats, Tug **onw” wanLs look liko fortifications, and are solid enough to resiat oven mightior surgos than those of Lake Michigen in their wintor wrath, Tho woaden portion of tha concern {8 very rickety indeed, and cousiderable wonder {8 expressed by strang- era that it bad not been hlown down before tius time. Tho new *orib" bears a resemblauco to Fort Sumter, minus.the guue, berare the robell~ dou, It rises sheor out of tho water, andisas . steep a8 sumid-occon rock Trom the pa race Chicago can bo obsorved stretchivg far along tho shore, but, after all, thore is nothing pictur- eaque in our lnko views, oxcept, indeed, thae glo- rioys oxpunyo of tho bright wators. GOING HOME, Those of tho excursioniats who were anxious to get homne ombarked on ¢he tug Priudiville st 8 o'clock, while tha remainder, more thzn balf, got on board the Jolm 8. Diake, sud had o glovious seil arouud the fiehing-bods. Meusrs. Squlera, lloyue, Avers, and: Gon. MoArthur at- tended £o tho voeal department 3 and fne wonge wero also sung by Mewsrs. Walah, Grier, Den- nehy, Fitzgibbon, snd others, At 4 o'clock tho boat steored into. Chicago, and got on & fresh curgo of stimulauts aud oigars, after which ssil was made for Eyauston, the way back _mnd forth being enlivened by sundry voeal and in- strumohtal oxorcizes. Muyor CéMivin aud most of the prominent city oflicars stood b{ tho party to the Yns( moment. Fortanately all got baclk to.the city beforo the thunder-storm broke laat ovening. Iverybodv agreed in. saying that a mote harmauiads, jolly, splondid calebration wag pever held in Obleago, or for full fifty miles nvonnd it. fhus ended the christoning of the lake part of the now tuunel, DINED, Tho party wers given » dinner ab the St ©harles in the evening, tho contrnctors footing tho bill. Allbhad good appetites, and rolished Phil Conley's excallent provender. Whan satia- ted the campogne was brought in, and spoeches were mada by Mayor Colviy, Ger. McArthur, and others,botweon drinks. ‘The remarks of the gentlomen wero solely 1n refernca to the groat~ ness of Chicago and her improvements, aud tho glorious faturo which is opeuing up to the city. —_— St. Lonis Fireworks, From the Alton (IU.) Telearanh, July. 0, On Saturday mght and Sunday fully 50,000 strangors loft St, Louis all declaving, with vin- gulnr unavimity, that the fireworks on Saturday wero tho greatest farce of the contury. From the awme yaner. Somo 1,400 trustful but deluded Altonians went to St. Louis on Baturday evening to sce tio firoworks, Thoy wors all ralsed in tho country, woro gmleloss sud innocsut, Thoy plaged implicit confidence in the truth o tho programmo published in the St, Louis papers, and thought that tho resson thev had boon born into thie world was sim&)}y to bave a chiauco of Boeing the pyrotechvical display from tho greav bridge, Theso ** ionoconts abrosd havo re- turned to the bosoms of thelr anxious families, Their experience reminds us of & story: # Father," said a boy who had tickled & mulo's hind log, **will Tovor be pretty again?* *No, my son, yow'll never be protty agnin, dut yn_ufi know ablamed sight more™ Our excursionisia kuew 6 good deal moro whon thoy got buok than when they stiarted, . , . The wonderful prao. gramme had proviously been porused with admi looked as if sufforing from '* the caisson dis- euso,” which provailsin all innuels, and thelr brethorn of the morning journals looked like reswrectod mummics, L'he Mayor mopped his sumi-bald forehend with o bugo Landkerchicf § Phil Hoyne buffed like a porpolse; half tho com- pany sneezod, tho other half coughed, and then wanimously resolved that it wau DIE TO TAKE A DRINK." "Tliis portion of the duy's Dusiness was excol- Jently well attended to. In an ante-room of tho nsulated institution a plentiful lunchéon was wread, aud thero was a plenty of ‘¢ washing down " nccommodations in the way of ohams pogno, brandy, whisky, and lemonade. Al i boving beén disposed of, Gen, Me- Arthur moved that Mayor Colvin open the pro- 5 cm.;huguuud act as Ohairman, which was rati- tlod. THE MAYOR #aid that, in oocaslons of that kind, ho wos not tho man fo trespass npon thoso present with many words, They had all witnessed n great fent of ougineoring—a feat that, withont an empty egotlsm, Chicago might wall be proud of. Ho, for one,wng proud to be tho Chiof Lxecntive af the gront city at o timo so propitious, Thoy bad boforo built one lake tunnel, ~Now they hod two, snd soon, when the other tunnel to the West Stdo was aom{uolud, they would Le ablo to ly cvory mection of tho city, In & \":\I\’rp yynnm. ?, porhaps, thoy might roquire yet mnothor * tunnol, cspoclally for ° tho Bouth Division, and, with that, they could sup- ply 1,000,000 of poople. Ho _congratulated his Prlands, Jamos Staolo, his brothor, and Johu Macs Mabon on their triumph, Lhe work could not huvo beon more succonsfully hundled, Lo was proud of such engiuocors us Bryson and Clarko, und their assistants, Ho had not words sufil- cient to espross lus feolings of respect for tho Buperintendont, Mr,David J, Grior, and thuee ‘who nided his labors, Thorefore, lio would con- clude by propostug the health of the contructors, tha ougine ors, and Buperintondent of the grent work, (Loud applause, amid which the toast wus doge full justice to.] COSIMIBHIONER PRINDIVILLE was noxt catled for, and dellvered a vory sonei- Dlo address, iu which e recountod tho “history ¢ tho Chicago Wator-Works, and gave full vadit to sl the emptoyes of tho Board of I'ublio Workn, au well 8g to tho contractors, for thoir pluck aud enorgy, Ho botioved that thora was no ctty in the American Union whick could now compote with Ohlunlgu In the way of unprl]mg ure watcr Lo tho inhabitents, Tho tunnel buile surlng this goneration would last forages,toattest tho enterprito of the a(i'o and tho publie spirit of Chicago. [Applause.] e concluded by calllug apau Capt. Juines Btoclo, of tho contracting flem, JAMES BTEVLE. Mr. Steele eaid that hio bad nover beon on- dowed with oratorical ability, but folt thankful for tho oall mado upon him,” He deservad no credit for bta share in tho businoss, for It was & matter of doliars and euts with bim; but he ‘could not pass by his two aseiatants, Mr, Ennly, ' who was o Huam{mnn,nnhcuuh Ti8 nawmo sound- ¢d Kilioruian, and Mr, Grier, who was Irish, ol+ though his nawmo smacked of tho thistle, T'llny ration, and thie crowd “waited with baited brenth fora displny such as Lad uevor befora baon Beon 1n Lenven above or on earth beueath.. At length 8:30 o'clock camo, and‘ the “grand illumioation of tha ontire_bridge " burst upon our enraptured vision, It was truly maguifl- cont, and, by means of a blazo kiudled ov tho bowof the Andy, was made distlnctly visiblo to thoso on bonrd, We dou't think any ona clee waw it, “*The battory canuonade,” which fol- lowed, was equally fine, but suy sble-bodied da;\'. with & bunch ot fire-crackers’ tied to his tail, could beat it. The * mammoth bust of Washiug- ton"” would have hoen a success had anytling but the *' bust” been vimble, ** Tho firmamont with royolving suns, satellites, and meteors in gorgoous colors,” was't visible to tho naked oyo, but & good opera-glass broughu outb its beautics to advantage. Tho ropresontation of the *grand engincering oveut of 1874 was saved from {nvisibillty by tho thougbtfuluess of Capt. Eads in Jighting a cigar, which Iluminated tho budge uln{;nuuy. “+ Do rallrond phantom, — o flory train of cars passing the wholo length of tho bridge, precedod by tho Guddoss of Liborty,” did not come off,but an agroeable substitute was furnished by Mayor Brown, who saved thls dis- lay from failuro by taking a Iautern and Joad- {1"“ ablind mule from ghoro to shoro, Aftor this performance came silence aud darkness. T'he bridre was shrouded in gloom. Aftor walt- 1ng an honr or more, with uo prospeet of addi- tional dovelopments, the excurslonists becamo woary with the brillisucy of the display aud de- cided on retutnlvg home. From'the St Louis Globe, 1f a Chicngo man had been In chargo ot tho pyratechnio 513 pliy of Saturday nlght, wo might bo disposed to Indulge m some unfilendly criti- clsm; but, as tho thing was conducted uudoer tho superintendonco of a committeo of emivent and infinential barnacles of Bt, Louls, we sre con- straiued to limit oursclves 1o the observation that It was & baso fraud, and a sturnndouu cheat. When all tho eminont and influgntial burnaclos aro gatherod to their fathors, Bt, Louls will have a chance. —_—— Menurogard, Cen, @, P, T, Beauregard hes vecoived the ap- ointment of Chiof Engineer of the Argontine Ropublic, with & salary af §20,000 in gold per auuum, aud ho will sail for Houth Ameriea with- in a fow days. Mo will have charge of tho de- fonsive works, sud will also suporintond the ox- plorations of tho Llata River. — Gen, Sherman Offers to Roturn Iils Washangton Bouse (o Ity Donors. Gen, Bhorman has beon living in the rosidonce purohased for Gen, Grant at Washington, snd ropurohasod by sono of his porsonal friends for him on Prosidont Graut's elootlon, aving de- oided to leave Washingion, and the houee having baen presonted to him a8 ‘'a home, Le ai onca wroto a lotter to Seurolary Iish, who was one of tho donors, tendering & roturn of the houso through bim to the friends who Lad preseuted 1t to hiny, giving vory frankly his rousons for -tak- i tfiu‘i( wl‘x‘mu.’flnnrncuy Fish ropliod that, thev oquk not racolvo 1t ; that it was prasonied'] to him z.!‘r the benotlL of himsolf snd hvml y, and thnt 1 Lo did not'ocenpy it au 8 rosidauco tho racoeds of 1t helonged to his family. Gon. herman will therofore soll his prosont residence it "an opportunity offora; 1t not it will bo ronted. —_— THE COURILS, Miscollaneous Nusincss Tranangtod Yontordny. Judgo Gnry was engaged yosterdny aftornoon In hearing & haboas' corpus case, Tho ‘potition waa filad Juno 25, by Edward P, Farrar agalnet Horaco Burton and Mary Farrar, to recover Tlors Farrar. Potilionor oharges that abous aix yoar ago ho obtalned o divorco from his wifo Mary on tho ground of adultery. Binco thon he has Iind the'caro of his obild Flors, now about 8 yonrsold. Oa the 20d of June last Mra, Far- vat, he ouarges, took Flora from tho Bkinner Bohool, and bag sooroted hor whora ho canuot find hor, In this she was alded by Horaco Bur- ton, ‘The ovidenco showad that tho child was taken aboub 11 o'clock Tuosday, Juno 23, to Burton's houeo, whoro Mrs. Farrar was living as housc- keeper for Burton,. Flora stayod thero that day, and the noxt day Darton, who was about to visit huls farm in McHeury County, took Mrs, Farrar and hor daughtor with him. There ho lofe them Thursdny morniug, ond, as ke statos, Lns mot seon_ tho ohild sinco, The fathor went to bis house nosday, the day tho . ohild was takom, but was shu¥ out of tho house, M, Farrsr slayod & weok on tho farm, or out of tho city, and then roturn- ed without the child. Tho dofonso {uslstod that a8 tho writ was not served until the 25th on the’ respondents, and ag also the potitionar had not shown that Burton or Mrs, Farrar had thoe ebild later than the 23d, thoy wora not bound to an- swar tho writ, as the ovidonco must po conflned to whothor the dofendauts bad tho control of tho cbild at tho momont tho writ was sorved, and tho potitionor could not use the writ as & bill of dis- covery to compol rospondeats to show what they had ever dono n the premises. Judge Gary, howover, thought thie was vory tranapar- ont ond lame, and intimated that, it tho ro- spondonts did not show what they had dono with Flors, e would issup an attpchmeut for contompt. The potitioner, the Judgo ramarked, bad sbown that the rospondents bnd tho child only & short timo bofore tho jssuanco of tho writ, aud it was not likely that thoy would turn lor out suddonly into the stroat. “The defend- ants then suddenly found that thelr witnessos wero unaccountably absont, and tho matter was adjourned until this morning. n the crops-oxamination of Burton, it \‘ru ascertained that Lis wita lived in Waukegan, shd that Mra. Farrar was his housokeopor. Oguusol for potitionor offored to prove that Mra, Farrar was acting a8 wifa do facto of Buarton in absenco of tho wifo de_jure, but tue Judgo excluded tho tostimony, aeclining, as hao 8aid, to go wto any doandal that might exist. It is somewhat curious that Mrs, Farrar ro- coutly filed & bill for divorea it the Clrenit Uourt against hor husbaud, on the ground of desertion, thus utterly tgnoring the divorco granted in the Buperior Qourt about six yoars ago, which sho Bays was obtainod by fraud. Farrar, it ia ald, ling married agnin, and, 1f ¥o, there may be somo intoresting dovelopments on the trinl, Mra. Facrar will tell hor version of tho matier as to Plora’s whorenbouts this morning, BILL FOR APEQIFI0 PERFONMANCE, William L. Butler filed a bill yesterday againat Esthor Butler and tho boirs of Jocob Butler, do- cowsod, for a spooitio performance. Complaivant saye that in January lnst ho contracted to buy s lot, 60 by 124 foot, on Forest avenua, paying thorefor 32,600, and sssuming an inocumbrauce for 32,500 moro. Butlor died in Apnil, before glving the deed, and the bill is therefore fited to compel tho heirg to carry out tho agrosment. UNITED STATES COUBTS. R, E. Jenkine, Assignce of Van Velzor & Ful- ler, filed a bill agaiost Daviol Fuller to st aside su alleged ferudulent convoyanco of tho enst 20 faet of Lot 25, Block 64 In the Original Town of Chieago. Tho property was couvoyed by Fullor on tho Ist of Dacembor, 1873, by Fuller to his brother David for the conslderation of £10,000, nnd was done, a8 is cLaimed, in contenplation of insalvency. BANKRUPTOY ITEME, In tho matter of tho Frankliu Bank, an order Por the examination of Fraunk Hublett was made, A dividend meoting wue orderad for August 10 i the cawo of J, D. Kinkead ot al, SUPERIOR COURT IN IRIEF, Kimbark & Co. began a suit for 81,600 againat Gordon 8. Boach, b E. @. Hall, Willlam Dlalr, and 8, D, Kimbark pried Witlinm ‘Thomson aud Arnold Luelman for 1,000, S George Lehman and Samuol Billlngs, for the wsa of 4. Q. Duulovy, commenced an action against 8. A, Lovy, clainiug 510,000, W, H. Shaw aod H. B, Shuw sued J, A, Grig- wold for 1,000, . i . Furlin Q, Ball bogan a sult for $2,600 against W. Y. Dauials. QIROUIT COUNT, Alico A. Condit commencod n trespasa sult againat Ellis Bonnott, claimiug 10,000 damages for essault sud battery and trospues, A caplas was alsa igsued. Solouon Tield also sued Bou- nott for o like amount ns damages for falso fm- prisoument Donnis F. MeCarthy began a sult in roplovia agamst tho Fourth National Bank and Iiarria to recover 450 barrols of spring whent flour, worth $2,700. " Louis A, Hatliowsy begin o suit Io trespaes against Willinm Wilson to recaver 310,000 dam- agos caused by defoudaut’s ** wrongfully, wil- fully, and unjustly " debauching and carnally koowing hia (plaintiff's) wife. obn ~ Van _bozan au action in gitachment againgt the Frofuport Ironand Lumber Com- pany to recover ¥1,528.20. Bridget Forde sued Cecilis Lynch for §1,000, . Tunao Groongboum filed a bill nguipst James M. Walker, J. C. Ellis, and the Mismssippi Valloy & Western Railway Company. to compel a sale of thirty bouds of the Cowpany. Com- lainant states that in July, 1872, be.loaned the Eolundnnl. the Railway GQompany, $15,000, tak- ing tno uctos, seourad by §0,000 of bonds, as soourity. Walker and Ellis wore appointed Trusteos. The notes buve loog since matured, but the Trusteos desite nn order of Court before thoy feel suthorized. to soli the bouds, and for this complainant asks. Miller, Watson & Co. sued William A. Ewing for §1,200. TIT COUNTY COURT, Claime against the following ostales wero al- lowed : Willinm A. TPorter, #561,48; August Practorious, €350; E. D. Braughal, $289,10 ; Frank B, Kooblor, $3,800; Gustay Max von Bobliebon, §110.05 3 B. W. Grifiln, $1,650, sa por #tipulation on fllo, In the matter of tho oatats of Danial Coltins, rant of administrauon was lesued to Mary Cole Ens. undor an approved bond of 82,000, T'he appraisoment of tho estate of Edward P. Braughal was approved, In tho matter of tho ostate of Roso E. Walsh ot al., minors, lonvo was grauted to borraw £8,000 for throe vears, the interest not to excood 10 por cent por annum, and the commission 2) per cent, Thomas J, Edwarde was nppointed guardian of Eilzaveth Murray, o minor, uader an ap- proved bond of 25,700, In tho matter of tho ostato of Aloxander B. Williame, on potition of Kate 5, Wells, oune of tho dovisces, oltation to Doter K. Wostfall, exocutor, to show cuuse why e should ot dis- tributo mousys Iu his hauds, roturnable July 16, at 2 p.m, flrlnnt of admlnistration was isaned to Thomny Gordon as administrator of the estate of William “ully, undor au approvad bond of $4,000. The will of Emma Morgentnaw was admlitted o probate, and ordered that lotters of admiuix- tration be issucd, with the willannexed, to Louis Morgenthaw, on his filivg his boud for €20,000, witl suroty. Ius the nintter of the estate of Chloo D. Brad- Toy, hor will was proven, and lottors teatament~ ary wore issued to William 1L and Goorge M. Bradloy, and excoutor’s bond in $12,000 and in- voutory was approvod, TUE CALL. Juvoe Roaens—-014, 018, (23 to 635, Junoe Booru—202 to 810, Junae Heaton—Ausists Judge Dooth, Junor Gany—188, 190, 108, 197, 108, 190, 201 o 2ud, Jubae Monruy—83, 81} to 110, excopt 98, Jueux Bunns—Assists Judgo Gary, JUDOMENTH, ER10% CoUnT=—CONEREAIONI v eitio s, Ezuboth Hiu, - $i04.00—tarey Dyruo vs, Edward Tress, $1,50.20.~Charles Follunu= Dog et al, Ve, J, F, Bluclale and W, 8, Proudfoot, $503, Jupue Gany—Jjosoph K, Mossvi, Warnor Propsio- tary Medicine Company, $70.8,—A, T, Ewlng va, Saiwel J, Walker, $743,00,—Edward ‘Kelioo va. F, Ly Gowau aud G, W, Driokett, $1,400,00,—Couk Gount; Nutional Bank' ve, A, Tuylor, James Aiken, and I 2,007, Tort .73, Upaa Muiviir—Jomes M, Nell va, James Fitnt and Frauk Howell, $215.45, OunoniT COUNT—IUBOE NoarRt—] Toter Jacobson ~A, SoArinie, oTA, B, Vot ce, v, Thoimus AloArthur, o « N, Yan A v Tiavi Kiwe, $150,00, Jupak Booti—Frauk B, Orr ot al, va, Josoph X, ous and Joasph Rold, §3,400,43.~8, J, Jonss va, J, 3, Qennor; verdict, §17. . ..THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNEéDAY, JULY 8, 1874, RELIGIOUS. Oontinuation of the Xra DBrown Trial, An Effort to Qust tho Present Board of Trustees. ‘Bunday-School Meeting. THE IRA BROWN TRIAL, Tho Committss appolnted to try Mr. Ira Brown, of the Ada Btroet Mathodlat Ohureh, on tho chargos proforrod againas him by tho pastor, tho Rov. Mr. Dandy, rosumed its sittings last ovoutng, Dr. Folton 1n tho chalr, A lotter was rocolvod from Mr, Freoman, & membor of the Committoo, to the efteot that it would bo fmpos- pibte for him tosorvo any longor, and it was agrood by both sides to go on without him until tho Chsirman could Al tho vacanoy. lrayor was offerod by the Rav. Mr, Youkor, MR, BAMUEL, BROWN was oxamined further concorning the amounts ‘paid by the defondaut toward the support of the chuzch, Nothing now wos olicited excopt that the witnoss resigned his T'tustecship booause of tho defendant's trifling with contractors, sond- ing them to witnoas for money when he knew thoro wau none to give them. OARRYING THAT DEBT. Mr. J. L. Fulton testified how Brothor Drown romisod to **earry” s cortaln sum 1o cnse the I'rustecs could not rafne b, Doncon John Doran_gave testimony to the samo offagt. Drothor Brown had told him ha wad going to carry the church dobt uutl the Booiaty waa ablo to pay It. Mr. Joel Cravon testifiod that tho Booloty would not hava begun the finiahing of tho audionce-raom but for the promiso of Ira Drown to carry thom through, Robort Branston stated that it was gonerally undorstood that Brother Brown would mako up oll doflciencies. TIX OREDITORS, d Mr. M. Harris, of tho firm of Harels & Gordon, carpentars, tostified to doing somo worlc on tho churob, Irs Brown promising to ba- como responsible for paymont, Ira failed to do anything of shio sort, and witness throatovod to fi“‘i‘: ‘I'xlzn, whion lio sald Lo had monoy suough to ng. Josoph Weat teatifiod to sslling the church onrpot, Mr. Brown sgreeing to J;ny the bill, amounting to #1,400, which he didu't pay, but compollod witngss o trot avound for to or throo months bofors he coutd gt the mouey, Tobert Burton, the chureh janitor, teatified that Drothor Brown had him got tho storm-doors fixed, agroeing to pay for the work and matorial. 0 ltov. Mr. Dandy testifiod that Brother Brown J\rom\ud to ]yu.y for the storm-doors, but didn't do {t, Mr, Daudy paid it out of his awn pockot., Tho man who did the work had to bave tho money to pay for his wifo's funeral. ir, Bronso, counsol for the dofondant, object- cod Lo the latter part of tho toatimony, and it was struck out. Samuel Brown, rocalled, testifiod to !mvlna honrd Ira promise contractors that they shoul Yo paid by denication day. Thoy were not paid, oud Ira confessed that ho wantod to worry tuem, and put them off ko that Lo could force thom to tnlm ‘somo of bis roal catate In paymont of tho debts, MALICIOUS AND VINDIOTIVE SPIRIT. Undor chargo second,—** Olierishing and ex- Tibiting a malicious and vindletive wpisit,"—Dr. Daudy was oalled to testify. Ho statcd thaf Brottior Brown had shown # dotermination and !iflrll to ombarrasa! the church in its financlul Btringency, and that ho neglected and rofusod to offar any {xelp toward gnglng tho somi-annual Intorest on tlie church debt, so that, to pravent foraclosure, tho wituess hiad-to plodge his por- sonal crodit. The Committos ndjournod unth 8 o'clook this ovening, ———— THE OHURCH IN COURT. Yeaterday morulug I\ C. Garlaud, formerly onp of the Trustecsdf the church, and one of the presontera of tha charged against tho Rev. W, O. Dandy, filed & petition bofore Judgo Far- well, sitting in the Crimtnsl Oourt, asking for a writ of quo watranto againet the presont Board of Trusteon. Tho rolator claims that ab tho oloction hold last April bo was ll]ofinlly defoatod 88 & momber of tho Board; that the pastor, the Roy, Mr. Daudy, controlled the election by in- troducing women and othor illegal voters, and B0 managed to dofeat the relator and suoure tho election of o Board whose members are virtually plodged to sustain their pastor in the prosent unpleassutness botween bimeolf and cortain members of his flock. Judgo Farwoell took the petition under advise- ment, but will probably give his decision to- orrow, ——— SUNDAY.SOHOOL TRIENNIAL MEET. ING. The Bunday-school missionaries and Socre- taries of the Biblo and Publication Bociety, accompnnied by thoir wives, psssed through tho city yestorday, ou their way to their triennial meeting at Genova Lake, the Baptist Church, through thelr pastor, the Rev. J, D. Patis, having extended s gonorous jo- vitation to tho missionarica. For iho Inst two months Mr. Thearlo, assisted by Dr. C, R, Blaokell, Dopositary of the Society in this city, also well-known a4 a Sabbath-school man, has boen working the affair up, and tho party loft yesterday afternoon by the 8:30 tram. 'wo days are to be dovotod to an instituto, ono day to ' conference of ths miusionariey and Becretarios with rogard to their work, and thon they will apeud as mueh time as thoy ¢an ot joy- ing the boating, fishing, and othor attractions of thiv lovoliest of resorts. Dr. 0. R. Blackall, with his wite and dnughter, left for tho Luke Inst weok. The Rev. E. B, Edmunis, Stato Bunday-school Missionary for Wiscousin, i st~ rondy on the ground perfecting arrangoments, Iu the g‘ lg' that loft the city yestorday woro tho Rev, Frod G. Thearle and "Mra, Thearlo ; Dencon J. Kenower snd Mra, Kenower, of Huat- ington, Ind.; Charlos Rhonds, Stato Bunduy- gchool Mirsionary for Obio, and’ Mrs. Rlonds ; Dr. G. J. Jolmson, of 8t, Louls, District Becro- tary for the Southwost, and Miss Johnson ; the Rov. A, It. Nowton, of Genesao, Agaut for Northorn Illinols ; the Rev. E. A. Russell, State Missionary for Indiana, There aroalso oxpected the Itev. B, Griflith, D, D., of Philadeiphia, the Soorotary of the Socloty ; Dr. Warren Randolph, Philadelphia, National Bunday-solool Socratary ;' the Rov. M, I Lamb, State Sunday-school M{s- slounry for Iows, aud wife ; the Nlov. Gaorgo W. Proscott, Btato ‘Buuday-school Missionary for Mipnesota ; and the Itey, Lyman Palmor, of that State ; tho Rev. 1\ ML, Colwoll, of Missouri, As- wistant Distriot Baorotary for the Bouthwost{ and thio Rev. O. T, Spinuing, State Sunday-sohool Missionary for Michigan, Sevoral others, from Wisoonsin and Illinols, will avail themuolvey of this opportunity to.minglo study sud recroation, el b, MISCELLANEOUS. TIHE PIONEER SUNDAY-801L0QL ASSQCIATION. Special Dispatch to The Chicaga Lyibune, Garzsnung, Tit., July 7.—The’ School Prin- clpals’ Convention adjourned to meet with the fittioth annual mooting of the Plonocer Mission- ary Sunday-S8chool Assoclation, Doncon O, Leach, Jr., firat intraduced the Rev, Mr. Ensign, who spoka'at some lougth. ‘This was followe by s roverend from Phitadelpbin, During this disoourso it was stated that in tho fifty yoars that the Associasion has beon orgauized, 61,000 Sunduy-sobools have boon organ- izod, 2,600,000 cldron brought into tho sohools, 400,000 tewchiers Frnn\xmd, $2,100,000 spout, and $400,000 warth of books_given away, Y'hio Rov. Johu all, of New York City, delver- ed tho addrous of tuo ovening, 'Ihe addross wag anable roview of the work of the Association, Many intoresting jnstavees were cited to prove the usefulucss of the work, aud withal it wasono of tho most intoroscing discourses delivered in this oity for spmo time. —_— ‘Thoe Origin of Omnihuses. According to an articlo in Land and Water, omuibuses trace back as far s 1603, in which your Louis XIV, suthorized & tuo of carrosses a cing sous for the special benellt of the nnddlo clossed, A gompany wss forthwith formed for working the now ‘systom, with the Dukedo Roapes aud other pects at its Lead, andin a short tino seven ompibusses started, ouch coustructod to hold eight peopls, The terms of the concos- slon to ‘the company provided that thoy should run st tixed bours, wholher full or nn?!ty to and from differont quarters of the olty, for tha bonefit of the infirm_and thoso en- gagod in lawsmis, as woll as for al) wha could not afford to hire a garriage. Butb before very long +thie now conveyances were divorted from thoir orlginal purposo, and bocama oxtremaly fashions avle, ‘e Grund Mouarque traveled in one to . Qernaln, aud bis oxawple boing followed by the ariutooracy generally, the eclass for whade bouollt thoy had been introduced wora completo~ ly excluded, This fashionable whim appea Lowgyer, to liave lssted only & shord time, fol Tawed by tho fallure of the comriany, owing to tho subsequont rofueal of tho puarer classes to vatronizo the' now vohiclo, Nnthing more was soon of omnlbuaes In ‘the Fronch Oapital until 1827, whon they wore again introdnced by s loading banker, who made a largoe fortuno out of the epoculation. Tt wad nov until two yoars oftor this dato that thoy made thelr first nla onr- anoe in London strects, whon Mr, Shillibeer startod §wo running batwoon the Dank and the westorn extromity of tho New road. Tleso ponderous vohicles earriod twonty-two pas- songors insldo, tho faro bolug ono shitling for the antiro dintanco. But in somo respacta thoy appenr to have bgen groatly suporior to the modorn omnibua, The firsé conduclors woro Aons of gentlemen, which can searcoly bio said of thoir succossors, and the periodicals were pro- vided gratis by the proprictora for passcugors to road on route, —— THE TUSCUMBIA KILLING. Particulars of tho Shouting of Georgo ¥o Long by Congressman Sloss for maving Traduced Mis Danghtors Tuactmbia (A1a.) letter Of June 38 {o Momnhu Appeal, Moro_than & year ago Goarga T, Long, of this placo, bogan to evinco a show of affection for ivy Bloss, the youtbful and atlractive daughtor of tho presont member of Congross from this dinurict. Whon Mr. Slosa dincovered the factshe objectod Lo any intorcourso whatever botweon his doughtor and tho yonng gentleman. Tho lubter wau deoply inconsed, and accustomod to denounce tho fathor and aseort unworthy acts on the pnrt of tho daughbtor. Hix languogs was sich, and hls assortions wore so commonly kuown, that the protty girl bad withdrawn from socioty and lod & life of perfect seclusion. Meau- whllotho fathor was iu Washington, I camo hiome I'riday aftorpoon, aud licard the wholo story f.om his family and friends, Long was advisod to Joave Tuecumbis, and enid to-day, Just bofors ho was shet, whilo sitting in front of Aydlott's Hotol, “ that ho nover expested to spoud ariothor Sabbath in ‘Tuscumbia” IHe nevor will, Rising from his soat ho wont into tho bar- room, drank a glnss of ale, and _srunterad along lotsuroly down tho sidowalk, Mo turuod to_tho right, snd was going toward his horao, tho voty {natant thut Lis touched Liw hat and bowed to o friond appronching Llm, & gun was fired from tho socond-story window of Warron's storo, on tho opposite side of the stroct, aud Loug foll, two buckehot penotrating his body, ong ‘)lu!ulug through bLis nock, but fmling to touch the artory, and a fourth entering the skull Just bohind tho loft oar, 1fa foll, blosdiug pro- fusoly, Evon now a broad, blackened mark of blood oxtonds across the brick sidewalk, and staiv tho sand in tho guttor, Long was soon romoved to his homo, and Dr, Abornathy, and other surgeona sont for, but their skill can avall nothing, o young man is surely dylug, He #nid just now that he thought ho was khot by young Warron, a nopheyy of Col. Sloss, but sluce it was Col, Bloss himsolf, it was *all right.” Nothing could justify Lone's nssaults upon gw girl’s honor, and "no ono condemns Col. 1084, The mnnnor of lilling ia pgenorally disap- rovod. I Lioard it commonly emd that, if tho lood had boen dono the day” Col. Bloss roschad Lliomo, there would havoboen never n question ay to the propriety of hi» conduct. Ho had tho porfeet right, it iy argued, and properly, to ro- gard the mon & savage wild bonst who traduced Ina dauglter, and, if Lo killed Lobg s soon ps bio was sntiaflod thio girl had boon nasnilod by tho breath of slundor, there is an ond toit. In any ovont Slosaneed novor fear & jurv, ons of its members haviug a daughter, If Sioss had talcan the gun into tho street and goue thiough the form of tolling Long t6 * defoud * himuelf, there would never Liave boon even the form of a trial, DBut we can't roason about o mattor of this sort, Ha who wrange a woman's famo desorves death, 2ad that'a the proper. verdict of juries and of mankind, Mr, Loug was ofton told that he should leave Tuscumbis bofore Bloss came bome, He hiad a¢ longth agieed to go awny, aud in this he confossed his guilt sod ndmitto the ¥mpriuly of Col. Blogs' conduot. Long was wholly fourless, aud it was only bocause urged to do g0 by his friends, of whom he has many hore, that he had consented to loave Tuscumbin, ~1ils ftbor and kindred aro excollont people, and it is ouly said of the young man #ud 1 dnrofn!lon of his worth that ho hag beon a village-fuler for somo months. An idler will talk too much, and, if Le habitually airs bis cloguonco in front of the curuer-grocory, there i8 often doath and damuation in very invocent words thot bubble up from fountaius of whisky. Long may dlo withia the hour in whioh ho was shot, and within which this is most hurriedly wiitton, and ho may survive ono or £wo, or evon threo days, No vi(al organ is touched, but die bo must. Buch wounds iu such wenther must prove futal. Col. Sloss I8 in charge of the Buoriff, and one of his Deputies occupios the xoom from which ho firod upou Lnnfi; Desporate deeds have distiuguished the spot whersat Loog foll, DBayless dMorton, even there, on the setf-same sidewalk, shot Mr. Henderson ; & nogro was killed on the sama idontical spot, and & man was stabbed to deatl 100 yards away, and tho bloody koifp of the assnssin was foun hard by, ‘I'bose were Incidents of the devilish period of mfernal * reconstruction,” and it Is ouly eingular that Long foll on this fatal spot. GENERAL NEWS ITERS. Tho new Boston directory contalns 127,560 names, —Cliiof-Justico Waito aud wifo propose to pass the mouth of Alfinut at Nowpart, —Muws Maria Mitchol, Profonsor of Astronomy at Vassar College, is montioned for the position of Superintondent of Bohvoly in Cawmbridge, and b sy, ~A Hartford, Conn., philanthropiat hns given 500 straw hats to be distributod ameng the poor, ~—In nineteon counties in South Caroling, dur- ing tho Jm“ your, 92,239 acres of Inud have been sold for uupaid taxos, and 948,971 acres huve boen forfeitod to the Siato, —~Maj. Thowas McCreary, of Boaver, Pa., has no sort of aveision for tho hymouiol obinin. On Inst Wodnosday ovoning he lod his fifsh bride to tho nltar. On’ that occasion Mrs. Auno Ikort was tho bappy one. —Cauads papors state that the Ion. Goorge Brown, ecditor of tho Toronto Globe, 1 to have o baronotey conferred upou him by tho Queen ot Eugland, *in rocognition of bis valusble ser- vices nt {Vashington in bebnlf of the rosiprocity onty.” —The Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Provi- denco, Lave bsou awarded & contract, auunting to 655,000, for the copsiruction of fifty firet~ class ongives for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Tho works will be placed on full work~ ing tiwe, with a fall comploment of bands, —donday morning tho Cambrip fron Company atarted a double turn in their works, This gives omploymont to fully 1,000 mon in sddition to those niroady at work., We buil this ag au omon of bettor timoes in the noar futurs and con- rratulate tha Compavy upon the demand for their produetions suit Liog enablod them to thus inmenso thur working capucity.—~Johnstown (2a.) Voica, July 3 —3irs, Dr. Cuylor tme rosiened the Prosi- denvy of the Ladiew' Dross-licform Club in Brovklyn, which iu vaid to be in a sate of du- cline, "It used to moot in Dr, Cuyler's study, bue that gentloman now waeuts the 1oom for other prrposos, and thoy inve adjonrnad for the sumwmor, * The ab{nus of the Club was a crusade agningt high hools, fulso bair, and othor and grestor mystories of the femalo toilotto, Wicked men smilod, aud the elub was blighted. The Lutest Plague of Egypts The groat miraclo in E;(vpt, writos & oorro- spoudent of of tho Loudon Z'nes, is how a Gov- ernmont which is obliged to puy 8o muoh for its woney, and which is the common prey of adven- turers, pooulatora and spaculators, foroign and domoitiv, expased to plunder, spolintion, and ox- tortion, contrives to koop atluat. Thore is not au articlo sold to the Khodive orhis poople, from o piutos_steam-ongine, which does not viold tribnte. Wo raad a good doaiof the word * baok- ‘shioosh ™ in sl books and writings about Egypt, but wodo not know how often Ibfiltha echoof tho utterance from Europo, In no other country in tho world doos a travelor af rank expeot to bo lodged, boarded, snd earried about gratis by tho ruter. Mero it is tho rulo, If the Eavumor of an Indian Province, with which Egype bas got no more to do than with Kawmschatks, arrives at Buoz, on lia way to Oalro or Alox- andits, ho hag a specinl train put at bis dis- poual whon asked for; if ho wishes to ‘slay in Cairo hehins & house assigned to him, oarriagos and horuos, & Btalf of sorvants, and bis tablo sproad with every luxury, Doos ho want to go up the Nilo, ha gets one of $he Vicoroy's stoam- ors to tow his diabesh. Many people come hero who expoct thoir Consnls to ask wuch favors as of right, never roflooting au the wholosome ox- amplo sst In other countries, aud moro especially in ouy awn, whoro even groutnoss allied to Roy- alty iu ocoasionally obliged to tako care of it- ol In private upartmeuts and puy for its own broughants. The extent to which such s system can he puslied must bo witnessed to bo oretitod. For- tunately, some Cousuls-Gaouaral roulst unroason- ablo dowands -aud draw propor distinations, otherwiso there would bo but htilo exaggeration in the skotoh on the stugo of a Vicoroy's guost who refors bis washerwoman for the paymeut of hor bill to tho Minlster of Financo, and pays for & box of pills by an order ou the Minfstor of the Intesior, ~ PENNSYLVANIA, The Approaching. Political State Conventions. The Oandidatos for the Various Qffices, Plans of Buildings Adopted By the Centennial Board. Sptetal Correspondence of The Chieano Trivune, 5 PRIADELRLLA, July O, 1874, A considorablo amount of Intorest in being mnnifostod throughout tho Btate as to the result of the Nomiuating Convontions to bo held in Harrisburg and Pittshurg in s few wooks, Tho Ropublican Btate Central Committes, which Iatoly met at Murrlsburg, fixed on the 10th ot August a8 tho date on which to make thelr nom- ivations,—ozaatly sevon daya bofare the Domo- cratlo Convention meots for a similar purpose, The principal nominations to be made a0 Licutenaut-Governor, two Judgesof the Supromo Court, & Seorelary of Intornal Affairs, snd an Auditor-Goveral, FOR LILUTENANT-GOVERNOB, M. Hell Stauton, Prosident of the Board of Edu- cation, and momber of the lato Constitutional Convontion, in aertata of the Republicsn nomi- netion, Tho Philadolphia delegation will vota uvanimously for bim, and a thorough canvass of tho Btate baashown that his prospecta are excol- lent, INs principal oppouenta aro Judge Olme stoad, of Potter, and the Hon, John Flaunigan, of Greens Cownty. Mr. Olmatend wna for mix yoara a Btato Sonstor, and sorved for s fow montbs as Judgo in Bucks County. Mr. Flanni« gan sorved in tho Benate for one or two torms, FOR TUE AUPREMS DENOH, according to tho new Constitution, two Judges will bo elected,—one by, tho Ropublicans and ono by tue Democrats, Judgo Paxson s & promi- uont Republican candidste for tho position, ‘Tl city detogation, hoaded by Bill Mann, will give lum thel ontlre support. He will bo op- F{uaufl by Judge Butlor, of West Chester ; Judge etchum, of Luzerne ; and tho Hon. Whllam 1. Armstiong, of Wilismeport. It is confidently negorted tiat Judge Butfor will bo stronuously supported b{ tho delogates from the western portion of the Btate,who are williug to concedo to this city the Licutonant-Governorship, but stato that they must and will bave the nomination for the Suprome Bonch. Should tins assertion prove dorreot, Judge Paxson mnay wsuffer a meo- oud dofeat &t the Eandu of the western mon, ' who do not at all seom to favor bim, In the Demoeratio Con- vestion, Judgo Ludlow, of our Common Pleas Court, 'will probably*'securo the nomination ; though tho Hon, Georgo M. Dullas, of Pinlas dalphia; Judge Woodward, of Berka; ir. Ross, of Buoke; Mr, Olark, of Iudinon; and Mr. Eflxkny, of Yonnugo, are out in opposition to FOR HEORRTARY OF INTERNAL AFFAINS, . D. Digham, late of tho Pittsburg Com- mercial; Col, R, B, Benth, Suryoyor-General; and Benjamin Howitt, of Blair County, will bo tho prominent candidates in the Republican Couvoution, with .the prospects In favor of Beath ; whilst the Demoorats will nomivato Mr. Hartley, who unsuccessfully compoted with Hurrison Allen for the Audstor-Goneralship o tow years sgo. FOR AUDITOR-OENERAL, Harrlson Allon, who is the present incumbent, has no opposition, snd will be re-elected, The Conteunjal Board of Finance, after wast- ing upwards of twolvo montbs aud $50,000 in examining and recoiving a uumber of olaborate aud expengive plans, have at longth agreed upon plins snd contracts for the proposed build- iuga. 1o tho selection of tle plans, the Board ‘were gulded eutirely by one desire, of choosing ouly such 28 could be erccted in Pmnur time sud at a roasonalile exponse, Tho plice of Vanx sud Radford wore accardingly discarded, and more modilied ones takon into covsideration. Aftor much study and careful thought, tho plaus of uf Mr: Sehwarzmanu for the permanent or Mo« morial " building, and thoso of Alr. Pettis for the ‘main exhibition bwlding, wore adopted. The former plan poovides for & TEBMANENT, VIRE-PLOOF, GRANITE DUILDING, 388 feet In longtl, 192 fook in width, 55 feey in hoight, with Loight of domo 125 feot, The pro- posed edifice will be in the modorn reuaissanco style, having & main entrance gomposed of three arched doorways, which open into a reception- hall, Beyoud this 18 the main hall, over which the dome will be locatod. In the rear of this 18 a corridor, on the other sido of which are a sorios of smaller rooms inteuded for offices, eto. Ou ench sido of tho main hall arg throo halls, in- teuded for picture-galieries, The entirs build- ing will "be a0 arranged that tho mix halls and main ball can be converted into oue room. Om each of the four corners of the bullding will bo erectod & Landsome pavillon, aud the open spaca fronting beuweon the ontrance and the pas vilious will be a series of tastofully-arranged gardous, Ou the whote, the proposod building wilt present s really handsome appenranco, THE MAIN EXMIDITION BUILDING, cnvorlnf; 18 nacres, will be construcied of iron, which, it is lhauyht, can be easily disposad of ut the conclusion of the Exposition, The building will bo 1,688 foot in length, 464 foot in width, with five pavilions m the conitro, the cuntral pa~ vilion boiug of greater altitude than the othiots, to nad to the appearsnco of the structure. Tho four pavilions will have a epan of 120 by 100 fect, and the centra one will bo 120 feot square. Throe wings, or gallorles, will extond on each side from thess pavilions,—the contial #pan boing 120 fect in width, and the two others 100 foct ench. Each gallery will be 600 feet iu longth, The leight to tho top of the column will be 45 feot; to the ridgo of the central pa- vilion, 70 feet § and the eide-gallories, 65 foot. TIE CONTRACTR for erecting both buildings Lave boon awarded to Richatd~ J. Dobbius, a woll-known building. contractor in this city. The contracts are: 923,605 for Mourorial buildlug ; 81,076,000 for mait building, The sppropristion for tho Me- worial buildiug amountod to 81,500,000, and, nccording to Mr. Dobbiny' bid, & Intgo murgin is loft, with which the Bood inte nds eulargiug tho structuro, insorting leating-appaintus, and ofecting terraco and othor orpamental work about the builling, Eitig, —e The * 0l Coclieye? Lutters T the Riitor of the New York Triduna: Sin: Gew. Butler, In his apesch in the House of Topresontutivos, dofonding tho Sanhorn cone tracts, alluded to a lettor written by the Hon, Charles Fostor, of Olio, to the undorsigned, in which tho writor rofors fo Gon. Butlor by a pot nume which the Alagssohusotts mewmbor " seoms fo have acceptod with promptuesy nud in a splrit of jooularity thut lends one to beliove that aftor all'the torm waa rathor pleasing than otherwiee, Mg, Butlor clnimed to quoto from a copy of this lottar, and said it was neadod * Pioked up in the gtroots of Brooklyn," Toshow that this * pick- ing m tho streots " thoory lagks the elemonts of truth and plansibllity, 1 neod only say that the lettor in question is nowin my pos- wossion, and has boen all the time sinco I tirst roceived it, with tho oxasption of & vory short timo, whon {t was In tho hunds of a gontloman who cortainly tnpvor was suspoctod of ‘ontortain- ing any {riondly foolings for * Sanboru's attor- noy.” Some one olso 11 the oftice of the goutlo: mon roferred to must have mado tho copy and sonb it to Butlor, I will not stop to characterize the motlsods omploged ta get bofora Congrosa tho contouts of a privato lettor, written lo frioudly intimaoy, but T ineloso the lotter of Mr, Foutor for publication, 8o that the qubllu may Boo tho full oxteot of his offending. Yours,oto,, BuookLyx, July 1, 1874, J, V. Hanay, LETTER OF CONGRESSMAN FOSTEM. My Dean IAnwaN : Your much estecmed favor of tho 24th is at hand, In the dlnuhlraa of cartaln duties imposed nlmn mo by the Ways and Monns Committao, I discovorod the existonce of tho Bauboru oon- tracts. Upon working up thoe hintory of the logislation uudor which the consracts wore mado, I vaw at o glanco that tho whalo thing was con- coived in iniquity ; aud forthwith I dotermined to gu to the bottom of ft, I offored the firat rosolutlon direeting coplos of coutracts, eto,, o bo trausmitted to tho llouse. About this time I learned through tho of . the in- diotment in Drooklyn, of the gontlomon conuocted with this matter at tho 'Premsury abt once bogan to seck a moditloation, sud Aually, eftor two waoks' do- Iy, doolined to furnish full mformation, I was again authorized by uy Committes to offer au- other resoiution, calliig for full iutomut[onl shis attor rasolution [ ko framed s to cover al correspondence and orders, as well as copies of conttacts, In slort, I intended to biave it reach overy transaction in detail go faras the Trons- uty Dopartmont was concarned, To this, Butlor objectod—oue objection boing fatal, Ho (1) seomod (o feel that he had placod himsolf fu an awkward predicament, and desired mo to offor it sgain before Mondwy (when I, could pass 1t npdor Bflnmnulnn?. To this I namonted, an Agraod to pormlt him to make a speech, to which unl‘h Woodford and myself woro to ronly, To mydiaguat, when 1 offered it, Butlorsimply withdrow his objection, aund oxprogaad the hona that tho Houso would pass the - rosolution, }iuw, I n‘alhlnh that thin was wukind fo “Old Cockove,” Itlost the Gonoral and myself the cppmlnnltiy of oxprosalng our virtwous indignps. tlon over this mattor, and boalde T knownhuurd Liayo had some goad hita at Busler, : ? 1 am also authorized to roport a bill to repaal tho law undor whick thesa contracts were mads.- I am waiting for soma (acts in rulation to opera~ tionw of the law, sud think now I will roport 1% noxt week, $ Banborn's frionds oall on mo dnily with propos sitions of modifieations of hiw contracts, l1!! offors now to go on at 25 per cent, * My inyeatigations, 8o far, load _mo to concluda that the Qovernmont can't sfford to obtain money in this_way, and in tho kiudred ways in rolation to collootions of customa. I think tha wholo thing o disgraco, and slthongh they havo tho sagction of $imo, I' hopo to see such lawa wiped out, would like to know Tonney, If hecomeg hore, toll him o hunt mo up. Your friena, O. Fosren, THE GREAT PIGEON ROOST. Forty-Cight Squnrc Milos of Michis gun Qovered by Feathors=Tho Grente cst Gnthering Ever Known—fow the Birdw Aro Caught and Killods - Frankfort, Mich, (.Iu;g :\z).”.cnmupmhmc of the New ‘ork: World, Tho doseription of tho tunny flstory fo Mis- trol's Calondar, thrilling and_ploturosque a It In, would not_Eranscond” tha dosoription of the great pigeon roost of 1874 in this 1él]m:zh) couns .. noene ir novel to an Eastern visicor, aod an account of Lt, though falling far bolow replity, will bo rocoived almost with incredulity by an Enstern roador, Tho number of the bird{ this apring has exceoded even anything recordod inthe traditions of Lunters and oldost inhab- itante. 'Tho miraculous light of quails that fell - by tho camp of the Israelltes, s day's Journey on this wido,. and & day's journsy ‘on the otber sido, and two cubits high upon the faco of. tho oarth, ia a8 nothing to the * Botsoy River noufinf.“ Imagine, if ému can, a tract of land - about 16 miles long and 8 wid ), Whore every bough is occupled by a dozen uosts and a hune dred birds, whera the air whirra from dawn till dark with coascless wings goiug sad coming, whore tho flights that sottlo cover square acros with a living carpot, swhore from 250 to 400 men bave for six_weoks or moro bean engaged in tiapping and killwg wichout caseation ar lat, and yot not mado tho numbors appreciably loss ; imagino 80 square milos of pigeons, and that la the aceno, As the old birds loave or arode. stroyed by millions, millions of young anes take the wing, and almost_daily aimies of roinforces monts fly northward from f{ar-away Kontucky and Missourl, the beat of whoao wings and whosa countloss numbers obscure the sky and omit a hollow roar ae if a toruedo or thunder-slorm Wero approaching, Thero are threo rogular “flights” a day~—iwa *tom-flighta™ aud one * hen-flight,” At early dawn tho malo birds sot out yiug to the eass and north to scok a broakfast of” seods and bers rios, ton, twenty, or filty milea away, and by @ or hinlf-past G the eky is blaok with tho dapart- ing birds, Thoy tower up 1n grent armies to s considorable hoight, each shoet of birds—sheok i8 the word that bost doecribos thom—wavering a moment like tho noedle of tha compass when disturbod, then taking flight in tho appoiuted direction with & ‘wusmmity and ovenuess of speed that would make one bolieve that ~ovory bird was avimated by the sama fmpulse ot tho same Iuwtant. An hour later not a bird I to be scon, but towards 8 a'clock tho ruali of the roturningarmiesis biosrd. Squadron aitor squadron arrivay, cleaving the al with unwearied wings sad unfulling songe, flute Ierinf, whoellug, snd desconding, oach division ovor lts own district, each bitd avor tho nest of it faithful mate. As “tom™ after “tom” ro« turns to take his trigk sk tho domestio holm, *“hon " after *‘hon" risos upward, and thq armies of the Amazans go out to the enst and north, Towards 9 o'clock the sceno is iuda soribable, It is a very atmospliers of wings, oarth and forest have beon couvorted into foathe ora, aud the oye gazes down vistas of pigoons ta far horizous of squab pies and salmis de lourtes . sauvages. Motropolitan readors will imsgine & tract of wooaland twica the width of Manhatian Iuland and twico as loug as from the Batiery to Harlem River, birds mr‘wiug in flock of a hune ared thousand, birds doparting in fights as nie merous, a very Brondway of lim eir, extonding over a wholo county. By aud by tho aut fomals sulfraglst departs, aud thio meek males remain jne cubating with a faithfuluess and smousbility ta domostic disoiptine that wonld delight the sterns ost untoathiered sistor, In the middle of the aftorncon tho **hens" return and tho '*toms™ depart to mako an ovouing of it, returning bes fore or about sunset. Lo late birds, who stay out Lill dusk, having spparently the latoh-key to their soveral nests, soum bothered when ro- tarmnog, and fly very low, sweeping aloug the ground until theoy gec their bearings, Then ba- gine such & slaughtor as marked the coup d'atat, Poles and clubs aro the weapons, and at every sweop & dozou birds, brained, crinpled, or maimed, tumblo to tle carth.’ Bearooly loss simple aud efliciont is the practice of raking tbom down at mght with poles from the lower branehbes of trecs whore they roost. Lot it ba said that the birds ofton set:le so thickly thab boughs as large in cirenmforence as a man's thigh are broken off by the weight, and thot the new audtender shoats aro blasted by the incume beut mass. The foxes, and, laterin the year, the biogs, fatten on the uugathored hocatombs that are loft dead or to die fu the grasy, ‘I'he shot-gua and tho noet are the prinoipa) woapons affeoted by the bhunters, The beach of Orytal Lake, whero the waters were lowerod Inst year, affording o shoot of Jovol saud sowmo 25 mules round and moarly balf a milo wide, 1s thicily dotted with the stunds of tho hunters —small buts of pine-boughs in which the huntor slte with bis guus. At tinios polos ara placed for roosts without and decoys employed to induce the_birdy, liko Dilla, to come and be killed, & roking discharge swesping them from the poles litorally by dozeus. But when thick flights ara of rogular ogourreuce, there is notbiug to do but to blazo away aud pick up the doad, The veta do more wholesale oxecution, but requlire a larger eapital. Jtound a woodland spting, whero the birds will stoop to drink, the mmooth grouud is abundautly spread with corn mingled with salt, the water of tho spriug bolng slso salled with 5 Nberal band. TFor several days tho birds that go thithor 1n sosroh of food aro ‘allowed to fako their i) and carry home the good nows, At lash, growing bold by habit* they como not singla #pies, buc in’ battalionn, and settle down to “work " the ground systomatically, They ads vance en echelon, with thi advantags, that boing blessod with wings the rearward companies, ay tuey find corn scarco, fly over the Leuds of the front compauios and Sottlo upon unoccupiod ground, in turn to become sgain the rear guard, You ay Lavo notioed how pigeons feed, goth. oring & grain to this side and s grain o tiat and advaacing all tho whilo. "Tho rogularity aud ras pidity of this sucnessive ight and settling ro. mind one of an expert dealer *throwin monto.” It is, in the Ianguuge of tho cards a!lxlnrl;;or,l * one over, one undur, oue, two, thres,” all tho tims, Whou, therefore, this ealted gronnd becomen the regular resort of flights of virua 4,000 or 5,000 stiong the woodisud free-lunclh system fs * abolishied, and tho birds are made to * pny with thoir persons,” as the Frouch would say,” The nets susponded on stakes round the gruuud 810 struck, thoro 8 a hurrled ana thundorous roar of wiugy as thoso most happy fly off, and the earth 18 covered with a carpot of dark blue, Thae not sustles and undulatos with the offorts of the {mprisoned birds to escape, Then the trappor comes ont and rolonses them ono by ono. It ha in trapping for markot he wrings thelr nooks, and they ure barroled aud oarted away, If it isine tonded to soll thom slive thay ave placed in coops aud shipped, or stored i burns sud houses, ‘Tho biggest cutch of the vonr has boeu BUO birds, though 1t 18 of rocord that one trappesd secure nenrfif 1,300 st ono strilke. This probably would hsve been oxceoded by Mr, Fisher a fow days aga when ho struok into a fight so thick that the birds ralsed pots, atakos, aud all, breakivg tha meshes and flying off by hundreds. Bome idea of the ostont of tha operations mng bo formed whon it ls sald that provably 1,000 bushals each of alt and corn have boon nacd in proparing the foad-beds this woason, Tho New York Biate Hawrlsxufln’a Assoclation hna taken 40,000 or 46,v 000 live birds trom Frankfort, and Fisher & Bond, aliveand dead, ad many of moro, wnlau fof small dealors and individual huntors, it s ime possible to aay Low many barrels and coops thoy soud away weokly, — Garibalal, Blgnor Da Tivoll, the roador of the Italian langungo at Ozford, writen to tha London Times, inolosing tho followiug extract from a privata lottor of June 13, in reference to Garlualdi'a hoaltlis *“Qen, Garibaldi i so nnwoll s not to bo able to hald tha pou in hia band or move hia arol, Ho caunot by kunselt bring food to his mouth—indeod, he cannot move at all. He now receives no oue exvept his most iutimate frionas,” ————— ~Qon. Do Clssy, Macalion's Prime Minister, 18 doscribod ae & man with “ a low, plaiutive voloe,” 1t may bo imBortunt. iu the counactlon, to romomber that De Qlssy bas busled lunf wlves,—LDrookiyn Argus.