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

‘TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. | ZENNG OF BUDECRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). 7y b3 12.00 | Bunday,, G | Wookds” Pariaot a yonrat the anme rate, Of oe nddscen n full, Including State nnd County, DMoo ouciely or i rogistered lotiors, st vur risk, TEUND 0 CITY WURCRINRE, . Taiir,deliverod, Bunday exconton 5 conte por weak. Liudly, aclivored, Sunday fnchudnd, 50 conts per wook. ‘Addross THE TISBUNK OOMPANY, Coruer Madtron and Dearborn-sta,. Ubloags, Til, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, LEY'S_THIEATRY—Tandoloh _sfront, bet g:}lgoanuyusnm iouagomont of Tony Pestops ¥a ~Troupo. ACADEMY OF MUSIC--1Tnlatod streot, hotwesn Mad- dson and Monros, Engagemont of tho Vokes Family, “foun & Yog. XPOSITION BUILDING-.Lakashoro, footof Adams ( WPPFE f0m thoso of formor yonrs. Thus the R | etrest. **Farls by Moonlight.¥ Atlornoon and evening. RNTY-THIRD-ST, DBASE DALL ONOUNDS— u."f'mmn.n.vn &amo botwoon tho Baltimores and Chi- gagos, The Thivage Tiibune, Mondsy Morning, July 13, 1874, Tho Iaity of Emanucl Episcopnl Church, in ‘Loulsville, Ky, at a meoting on Thursday night last, resolved to withdraw from the Protostant Episcopal Church, and connect thomselves with the Reformod Episcopal Church. The vote stood—ycns, 83; nays, 10, Dr. Cumming has, theretore, o foothold for his now Church in his formor diocon The Workingman's party of Iilinols, which might better bo described as the Workingman's party of Chicago, bas decided to cut looso from! the Farmors. This nction §8, in some ro~ epoots, ungratoful, for tho Farmors woro not muxious for o coalition with the Workingmon, snd nctually hesitated to admit tho delogation from Chicago to tho Springfield Convention. But tho Workingmen caro very much more about what they beliovo to be their rights than about any littlo mattor of gratitude. They com- plain that no concossions woromade tothem intho Bpringfield Convention, and that nothing moro 13 wanted of them than steady and industrious voting. Theso statemonts cannot easily bo gain- &ld, If the Farmors' party should come into power, it would not probably il the offices with “Workingmen ; and this, wo tako it, is tho par- tleular rock of offense to the Workingmon, some- what plainly pointod out. The litigntion conuected with tho Cairo & " Vinconnos Rellway discloson tho fact that Gon. Burngide becamo tho owner of all tho stock of that company, including that which had been subseribed for by the counties and towns along the line of thoroad, by purohaso, befors the contract made with Winslow & Wilson for the sonstruction of tho road was made. Tho stock ‘was purchased by Gen. Burnside fors nominal consideration, but in pursuanco of law, and the transfor was mado in o logel manmer, The only partios in intorest, therofore, who lLnve o right to complainsof tho contract with Winslow & Winslow, are posaibly the bondholders, who ‘have not made any complaint, Tho inferenco that the stockholdors wero defrauded by tho eontract is rebutted by tho fact that Gon, Burn« side bimsolf wns tho only stockholder. The zoad appears to have boen o losing vouturo all around—to Gen, Burnside, to Winslow & Wil- sen, ond to evorybody connected with the en- tasprise, Tod R, Caldwell, Governor of North Carolina, died July 11, at Lillsboro, N. C., of cholera mor- Bs-(’jfl 00 [ ot Triday's advanced pricos, solos making at 0 provent delay and mistakes, he suro snd eive Post Tiemittauces may bo mudo elthor by dratt, oxpross, Post tho month, Rya wau quiet and 20 bighor at 880, Barloy was activo nud slrong, closing at $1.10 sollor Soptember, Hogs wero In good domand $5.70@0.00. Onttlo woro quict and atoady. 8hoep wero inactive, only oue oar-load asriving ¢ tho Btock-Ynrds, Tho politieal outlook 1n Indiana Is protty clotly defined In s lottor publishod In another column, Tho writeris a staunch Tepublican, but his statomonts nro ¢olorod very littlo, if at all, by politieal projudices. 1o bolloves that the gonoral results of tho canvass aro depondont in largo monsuro upon issuos that are outsido of Btato politica. Though thoro will ho many local chaugos, the not returns wil] bo not vory far tomporanco rosolutions in tho Republican platform will drive away tho Germang in tho oltfes aud attract o oconelder- ablo country voto sgaln. The farmers will bo divided np botwoon tho Republicans and Democrats, though not without cortaln surpris- ing overturning of Court-Houeo rings and county baruncles of all kinds, This propheoy, our correspondent cautfously says, s baged on thosupposition that tho Temporanco party will not nominatoan oxclusivo tloket. If that should Vo dono, the Ropublicaus would almost cortainly bo smashed. At any rato, the Ropublicans aro safe to loso one Cougressman, nnd possibly threo, whilo tho chonces of their Lolding tha Btato Administration are not moro than even. ————— . — = ] Not by any moans a last chancoe, yot at the sametimo a vory good chance and ono that should pot bo sllowed to pass unimproved, is offered this morning to thoso porsons who wish to do somothing for tho poor childron of Chicago, A mooting {8 to bo held at 10 o'clock in the Re- public Life Insuranco Building for tho purpose of muking tho necesaary arrangements for poor childron’s oxoursions. Wo bave nodoubt that somothing will be done. Indeod, something muat bo done. The gontlemen who have signed tho call connot afford to let tho mattor drop without doing something. The question is not so much one of kind a8 of degreo. Wo confoss to s cortain fooling of satisfaction that tho men who aro pledged to furthor this undortaking Lavo the monns to oarry it on unassisted, and tho pride to provont total failuro in any ovont; but this is, aftor all, & low view to take, Without a generous and sympa- foss Limuolt & slinderor and rotire, If, aftor oll that ho hee #ald, ho in not prepared to B8y moro, ho s just what Dr, Bacon ceslled Nim, Afor Mr. Docolier bus +do- mandod an investigntion, 1t is no longor Mr, Tilton's private grlovanco which concerns the publio, Mr, Booohor ocouplos 80 oxaltod a pont- tion in tho ayes of the world that ho ling & claim upon tho fairost sort of hoariug. It s not in- oumbont upon him or sny man to disprove vaguo and anonymous asporsions that moy be mado upon his character. It s incumbont on Mr. Tilton, baving made thoso aspersions, to vorify hom in tho fullest mouso of tho word and on tho vory firat oceaslon that offora itaolf. 1 bols not propared to do so now, wo shall doubt whatlior 1o can over do so, and Mr. Bocokor will bo ontitled to an Lionorablo noquittal, JAY QOULD TULNS UP AGAIN, Thoro is somo vory plain talk in Presidont ‘Watnon's afidavit in tho eago of Jobn 0. Angoll vs. tho Erfe Ratlway Company. After answor~ ing the particular allogations of tho plaintim, ho 8ays ho is informod and bolioves that tho only intorest which sald Angoll has in the Erie Rail way Company cotislets inn fow slinres trang- forred to bim by ono of thio brokers or agonty of Jay Gould; that satd Angoll is roputed to bo without peouniary moans or rosponsibility, and thint lio ling Lotetoforo allowed his name to bo used in logel proseodings by seid Jay Gould and one James Flek, Jr,, now docensod; that ho ia not o bona fide holder of either stock or bonds of tho Erio Raltway, but is the tool and soorot agent of Jay Gould and others in a con- epirioyMto dopross the markot value of tho Company's stook, by litigation and othorwigo, for their porsopal gain. * And finally, doponont saya that tho general plans of 8aid Joy Gould and hias ©o-conspiratora are, ag doponent bollaves, substantlally sot forth in tho concludiug portion of enid Angell's afidavit, thelr object belng—by falso rumor, unjustand unfounded logal procoedings, tho corruption of employes of the Company, and the omployment of willing tools—so to embarass and annoy the enid Company and its stockholders as to enablo thom to again socuro tho eontrol of tho Com- pany againgt tho wish of the bona flde stook- holdors of the Company, and to tho destruction ©OF tho eredit of every Amerlcan railway whose atock or Recurities aro, as Is tho onso with thoso of tho Erio Railway Company, cbiefly owhod by thettopopular support, nothing substantially good will bo accompllsbed. The Poor Childron’s Ix- carsion Funa neods tho dollars of porsons in moderate circumstances moro than tho'checks of merchant princes; and tho persons in modorate circumetances will be richor and happler all summer long for having contributed to the en- Joymont of tho littlo mon and womon with whom fortune has dealt so hardly, Ono dollar will aend a dozen childron fora day into tho puro country air. The man who onnnot’ afford o dollar for such an objeot may considor himself fairly ontitled to sond his children on tho first excurslon, I8 MR. 'ON A SLANDERER ? Though there has been no authoritative stato- mont concerning tho investigation of tha Booch- er case by a committes of Plymouth Chureh, it is roported in New York that Mr, Tilton bus do- clined to gay any mors than Le has nlready said. The roagons assigned for this oxtraordinary rote Ieenco nre (1) that Mr. Tilton has no desiro to injure Mr. Boechor, and only wanted to justify ‘himself, whicb e uluke ho has done; and (03} tuat Mr. Tilton beliives tho presont investigation to bo exparte, an(l refuses to toatify bofore a committeo of Mr, Boecher’s ohoosing. Thoss bus, Tho ofico of Governor now devolves upon Liout.-Gov. Curtis H. Brogden. Gov. Caldwell was, wo beliove, & native of North Car- oling, and a Unionist during tho,War. He was sloctod Lieutenaut-Govorvor, with Hotden, in 26808, and becsme Governor on' Holden's re- moval by impoachment, in March, 1871. 1In Au- gus, 1872, tho nacessities of tho political cam- peign xequired s Republican mnjority to bo found in North Carolins, and Gov, Cald- well, aided by o Fedoeral Bupervisor, found J—lurking in the swamps of tho Nouso River. A mojority of somo 2,000 votes was declared for Caldwell, Brogden, and thoir associates on tho Republican Stata tickot, and the Unfon was saved, Gov, Caldwoll was ever, in public life, = bitter partisan, and in politics an active loader. In the present State canvass (not involving the office of Bovernor) ho has chafed at the Civil Rights bill, and, becauso of it, kept silenco as much as posable. Tho unoxpired balance of the torm, which now dovolves on Gov. Brogden, will end In January, 1877. — Perbaps the most significant of yestordsy's mermons was that of the Rov, Dr. Bwazoy, who advanced the astounding theory (for theso days of appenls to the God of ecolesiastical trisls) that tho wvirtuous heathen will bo eaved. Thia 8 no doubt a ter- rible dootrine, but wo suspoct that most of the unoducated Prosbytorian lay- men in thig city have unconsciously Lield it for a long time. It was o about Sabellinnism, Whon Patton thunderod against Swing, and told tho slumboring world what Sebolllanism was, half the good Presbytorians in Ohicago confessod, in the rotirement of thoir own familios, that they Lad boon Babellians from early infancy, snd hoped to dio in the same fuith, Buch may bo the rosult of Dr. Swazey's prosecution—for, of courss, ho will bo prosccuted—on no- count of his sonmsible and heterodox notions sbout tho virtuous hoathen. Tho Bov. Isanc Errctt, of the Christian Churob, talked to bis congrogation yosterday in o plain, practieal fashion sbont tho idea and scopo of the Christfan life, Ho dofined the onds of church organization to bo, firaf, tho disclpline of thae . dividusl; second, the dolng of Christ's we gy, Ara, Van Cott, who has done much tounr gy and resettlo woman's “aphere” in the 3* gipoq- ist Churoh, gave & homoly, eha&muci',ng oxpe- xionoe to hor sudience. Bho showed y, qaneing 1n 1ts true Jight, a8 tho most faw’,4ing givor- alon of the ohildron of Bolial, Tho Ohleago produce mark . worg generally atrongor in tone on Baturd’ g, but with loos hus- incey doing. Moss POrR ywpy guiet and o per il higher, olosivg af | g1g.9u@18.95 oash or soller Avguab, Lard gag very quict, and 100 por 1001bs higher, oy 10 a1 811,05@11873 cash or sqller AUBUSK. “Alr,uig were modoratoly notive, aud asbiade frme i, 1 4 49¢@63¢0 for shoulders, 95 @Vxotorehort rily ;g1 or ghort olnr, and 103¢ @110 for swrsopy Jlekled hams, Highwines wera quiot and fim, “op o100 por gallon, Loko frolghtatered: ) gng oanlor, atdo asked for corn to Dultalo. gyour was quiot and unchanged. Whoat was goiivo, and 1o highr, closing &b SLUY © 4on, 8110)¢ sellor August, nud B110 0r No.* pinnosota, Qorn was active and 1o RIgHOr | Gloging at G130 oash, and 0Olo meller AUBT 4, Osts wore in good demand, and @10 B aa, alonng aé 47%0 oashy aud ¢3¢0 nelioe reagons are contralictory, It Mr, Tilton entor- {nins ono of them, ho cannot consistontly entor- tain the other, Eut neither of them is sutticiont to justify him in remaining sitont longer, 3. If Mr. Tlton's bhesitation to infuro Mr, Becchor's charactor had been overpowering, ho would have sald nothing. If his dosireis to defond bhimsolf fully, he has not ssid onough, What Mr, T{lton bas said already s stifliciont to {njuro N, Beechor's charactor, if allowed to reat whero it j8; but it is not sufficiont to defend his own reputation, if his prosent statement is au- thoritatively questioned, and he refudes 1o toll Jjust what Beocher's slleged offonse agaimst him really is. If Mr. Beocher and Plymouth Church had kept silent undor his asporsions,’it wonld hiave been genorous, aud perbaps pre,per enoug! e for Mr. Tilton to say no more. Bu, the mow gnt Mr, Beochior or Plymouth Chureh demandr .q gn invostigation, it becamo Mr. '(ilron's dr Aty to Limeolf and tho public to toll g}l ho knes ghous tho caso, and to produco bis proofs if Lo hag any. Mr. Tilton can 1o 10’ ager pload ai¥esive not to injuro Mr, Beechior a8 g motive for withholds | ing tho facts, now that theso facts have been do- mauded by Mr, Boec! sor and by & committeo of Plymouth Church. Such reticonce at this timo, 8o far from belug regarded as gonorous, will bo looked upon a8 bt sse, malictous, aud dowardly, if, Indeod, it bo st construod as a confession on his pmrt that . he really bos slandered Mr. Beechor, 9. Tt wou',d havo boen wiser and nobler in Mr, Beecbor to. domand thnt tho chargos agamst him should bes nvoutigated by o comfutteo of his on- ¢emiod, 1/ ho has any, Tather than ssk the priv- ilego 0f noming his jury, But this mistako on Mr. Deechor's pavt caunot oxcuse Mr, 'Lilton for rofusting to tostify beforo such a cammitteo after it s berp appolutsd. In his lettor to Dr. Da- con, Mr, Tilton aflizmod that ho Lad twice made & dew’ and upon tho church to investigeto, nud, on ¥,oth oceasions, had oxprossod his willing- 1 sa to appenr and: give his tostimony. He also ¥ald Dr. Bacon that ho was stlll ready to do mo. Binco tho pubhication of his lettor, and when It wes intimated to hit that My, Blearman (tho Clork of Plymouth Church) bad pronounced it a forgory, Lo ogain said that tho lottor should be produced whonever Ar, Bocchor domandod ft. Mr. Beechor hna called forits pro- duction by agking the appointmont of m inves- tigating committes. Plymouth Church. hos bo- gun an investigation by appointing tho Commit~ too. Mr, Tilton g, therefors, pledged by his own word, A8 woll as bis own honor, towsiep for- ward and make outhis cose. If the -investiga- tion proves. to bo ex parte, and the /Committea suppressos or distorts any of t'ao evidonco ‘brought bofora it, 3r. Tilton bna tbe privilege of an appeal. Ho can go boforp the courts it bo shall have beon liboled or his charactor injurod. ¥o can a';ways apposl to the publie, which musé be tho ‘Anal tribuusl in this ease whatever prolimina ¢y stops mny be taken, and will thero find & ‘fury unprojudiced and ready to take tho evidonc o at just what it is worth, The organization of the prosont inves- tigating committeo, thorefore, can in no scnse excuso Mr, Tilton from tos! dfying, Tho fact i, that tho mgutery in the Tilton Bocoher scandsl {s both monotououn and sus- pleious. Lat us have the truth, and the wholo truth, in tho matter, or 1t us hoar nothing more abotib §h, Mx, TOton miiss sgaak now, or cone non-residonts of tho United States.” The question of most concorn to the public ot largo Is whother tho AttornupGenoral of Now Yors, whom Mr. Augell aska to Pproscouto Lis suit 23 o publio action in tho name of the peoplo, will mako Limself the ally of Jay Gould it tho premises. Tho Now York Tribunc seoms to think that ho ought to do so0. At this dlstance, tho roasous why he should cannot bo dlecorned. & statement attached to Mr, Watson’s afiidavit, signod by two railway auditors who Lave boen called in to mako a epeoial report upon tho se- counts nod proporty of the Erie Company, men- tions the oxistenco of & “ reclamation fund’ amounting to §8,300,463,61 mmong tho Com- pony's aesots. 'This is supposed to bo tho monoy puid back by Gould after he was dispos- #ossod of the Presidency of thoroad. It Gould was recoiviug o largo a salary as Prosident that ho could save this amount in threeor four yoars, no wonder ho would liko to bo Prosidont agam. e re— . ‘WISCONSIN RAILWAYS. . ‘The peoplo of Wisconsin, through their Logls- Inture, hinvo, if tho officers of the rallway come peuies say true, inflicted on tlwy slockholders and bondholdors of the ronds of tho Btato & griovons wrong. There are yomo,who question whother tho representation s of tho raliway com- Dunies aro correct, whe'a thoy allege that tho Potter law so roduces yatos and fares that thoy csn nojther deolaro 7_ny dividenda nor pay tho in- terost on thoir ¥,onded debt. If we sssume, bowover, that #'nofr represontations aro true, it 18 ovident , {hat the poople of Wisconsin bava dome, g grest wrong to tho com- punios, aq, at tho ssmo time, un act very injurio g to themselves. They have in effoct DUt ¥ 0 hands into the tills of tho companios, 80/, {alon 8o much monoy out of thom. Thoy F.ave compelled, and aro compelling, them to carry froight and passengers gratis, or at a loss. They aro forcing them to do certain sorvices for tho public without compensution. Thoy are taking proporty from the companies, and giving notbing in retarn for what they are taking. In- deed, if the allegations of the companies can be rolied on, and the poople of Wisconsin persist in thoir courso towards them, it is only a question of timo whon they wilt bo hopelossly bankrupt, HNow thero is nothing sonatural, when ono i ingured by auotbor, as to retaliate, and it noed gorpriso no one if tho railway companies should show & disposition to retaliato on tho 1oople of Wisconsin for thelr rocent legislation. ‘Ubofpeoplo have embarraseod thorailway compa- 13ies, why should not the railwaycompanies em- Ionrraas tho pooplo? It Iu in the power of tho «tompauies to do so. Itis in their powerto puta utop to all travel and trafile on railways in the ‘3tato; and, if thoy should omit to do this, bocauso stoppiog the movoment of thoir trains might Tbo construcd as an- abandonmont of tholr wharters, It is still in their power to put un end to all comfortable, and convenient, rind rapid transit ovor their respoctive roads. It i rumored, with how much of o foundation we ltow nof, that the companiea contemplato ro- tnlinting in this way or in some othor on the peo- 1olo, We hope thore is no ground for thoe report. By all meang, lot paseion, and fecling of overy dosoription, be kopt out of tho controvorsy. Tho more bad blood thero is ongendered, tho longer will it take for tho companios and the people to ind o solution to thoe question, and tho loss satiefactory will the solution bo when found, Tho question {s n businces ques- tlon, It 8 a question botweon the producors and the carriors of tho movable proporty of the Btato, It should thorefore bo sot« tled as o bualness questionin in a buslucss way. Tho Loglslaturo of Wisconsin, it tho companies’ roprosentations aro true, has mado & mlatake; sud, if it hes, it must, in the imterests of the peoplo thomsolves, rootify it. It tho companies will abstain from all noed- loss aggrovating moasuros, tho day of rectlflea- tlon will not bo postponed any longor thun the {aots can bo mado to appear, ‘Tho poople of Wisconsin cannot do without tho railways, and it may bo doubted whether thoy can afford to ouforce the Pottor law in the long run. The lsw has already dono much to divert capital from the Btate, It will do muoh more, It may oven prevent the buliding of anothor milo of nlh‘oml‘_ln the Btato. Tha the Pottor Iaw must bo wodifled, then, iu evident, Tho railrouds will notv causo it to be THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 13, 1874 from exnsporating tho peoplo. The companios may bo ablo to renson the poople fnto rodrossing thor wrongs, ‘Thoy oannot drivo thom to do so. THE ETATE LIQUOR LAW. On tho 14th day of July, 187, Thomas Addia wont to n ssloon in Mattoon, Colos County, In thin Btato, owned by Maurleo Emory, and ob- tainod » drink of whisky. Durlng tho aftornoon Lo drank soveral timos at Emory's, and at other saloons, and becamo vory drunk, Ho rofused to bolod home, and hung round tho saloons until aftor dark, Tho noxt morning his mangled ro- maing woro found on a ralirond-track, tho train baviug passod over him, Ifo was a plasteror by trado, and with hin onrnlugs supported a wifo ond throa childvren, Tho widow brought suit against Emory and two othor saloon-soapors, under tho law of 1872, for baving contributed to toprivo hor of her “mosns of sappott,” and in Qctobor, 1878, slio racovered a verdiot against Tinory for ©2,000, ‘Tho caso was apponled to tho Suprome Court, and that Court has alirmod {ho vordict, and the law undor which it waa given, Tho Court hold that the vordict wag fully sustained by tho ovideuco; tho liquor gold bimwas the primnry cause of hisdeath: and tho avidenco was that by his donth tho wife was doprived of horonly mesus of support, Tho opluion, which was delivored by Judgo Boott, seoms to havo been unsuimous, and thus con- cludos ¢ = s vihio doliberatoly mells that which ho knows will intlomo tho panclons, deprivo the party of the control of bls judgiaeut, and xender Lim for tho timo Leing incapablo of exerelsing propor car for personal safely or that of lfs property, must Lo prepared for thio con- soquencos that may follow. Ono risk {ncldental to the traflio is that by tho statuto hio ia made responaiblo for all tho injuries such poraoms may infict. But thera can bo but one recovery for an injury dono under this slatute, A recovery und sntlafaction by a party injured sxalust oue would eonstituto su offectual Lar to any Tecovery ugaiuat auother who, in faot, moy havo cone tributed to eauso the Intoxication of tho porson who committod the injury, . ‘Tho party Injured may olect to proceed reverally or Jointly ngainat tho persona who causa tho futozication, But lio can have but one katisfaction for ou injury, ANOTHER RAILWAY LAWSDIT, The Supromo Court of Ilhnois, in the declsions of tho various cages arislng_undor tho revenuo Inws of this Btata, flnumm\!hnt it wae lawful for the Btate to provide for the tnxation of the oap- ital atack of raflway aud other corporations up- on such valuo a8 may bo placed thercon, over uud above tho value of the tnagible proporty of such corporation. Whilo this question was ponding in the State Comrts injunctlons wera obtained from the United States Distriot Court of Southern Illinois restralning the coliection of tho tax on tho capital stock of sevoral railway companios, and the Attorney-General of Titinols, after tho declslon of the Blate Supremo Court, moved to dissolve theso lojunctions, In the argument on this motion, Mr. Honry Crawford, for the railways, made o statement showing how tho Blate Doard of Equalization ag- sessed ‘raflropd properly in excess of like property held by individuals,. Yo Gallatin County, 801 seros of land, uolmproved, owned by railrosd corporations, woro taxed on a valuation of 32 an nere, while tho improved farm-lands ndjoining were valued nt $0.25, In Edger County, 148 acrog of land ownod by rajle roads wero valued st 821 an acre, while Jand held by individusls was asscesed at §14.69. In Vormilion County, railroad land was as- sossed at,$60 an acre, and private laud at $19.49 per acre. Jn Champaign County, railrond tand was agecasod at £48, and lands of individuals at $20.03 por acro, In MoLean County, town lots owned by railroads wore nssessed atan averngo of $1,62¢ cach, and lots held by othors at 8524 oach, Taking tho Stato ot large, tho gemoral sverago nssessed valuo of land ownod by indl- vidaals i3 817 an acre—$8 for unimproved, and 821 for improved; but the right-of-way land hotd by railways without improvoments is as- sossod at an averago of §438an acro—a discrimina~ -tion equal to an advance of 184 por cent. In the asgorsment of town lots owned by rallronds in the State, tho averago asscssment is 81,047 ench ; while tho average of other lots, inoluding Cook County, {8 $360 eachi. 1¢ tho asecsament ganer- ally wag in proportlon to that on railway lands, tho: rosult would bo extraordinary, as may bo soon, Wholo number of acres in Siato, Total valuation of Jand: Averuge per Acro. .. ‘Averogo of railway lunds per acr 8 Vuluo of whole, af raliway uverage. ..., 1,648,619,434 In the same way, if tho town lots mn the Stute woro asgessod at tho snme average valuo as yafl- roud lots, the total valuation would bo $760,807,- 208; inetend of £483,707,823, a8 af presont. The railronds own 1-842 part of -the land of the Btnto, nnd aro taxed 1-§ of all tho Iand and lot taxoa of tho Stata. $ 04,230,088 V. 843,416,007 17 The excoss of assessmont for 1873 over 1672 Torsonal property, uilroudn, Tologruphi Tho incroaso on railway property was 433 por cont—that on private proporty beiag 136 per cont. 0f the railway s in Ilinols there aroonly soven which pay dividends to stockbolders. Thoy are npseasod at 865,084,782, Tho forty-two non- dividend-paying railways aro nsscesed at £68,209,607, Tho soven paying rellroadsare taxed on §29,470,053 capital stock, and tho forty-iwo non-payiug roads on §35,141,017 capital stock, ‘The Supromo Court of the Btato, in mgintala~ ing the legality of tho proccodings of the Board of Bqualization, declined to cousider the justica oroquity of tho ssscssments mode by that Doard, TFinding that they wero mndo undor au~ thority of law, the Court rofused to interfore. *Wo shall soon lnow whother tho Courts of the Unitod Statos tako & difforont view of tho mat- ter. 1tis proper to add that Mr, Orawford, in hie argumont, confines himself mainly to points not embraced in the decivion of the Snprome Court of Illinois, holding that, na to all mattars oaud thinga not disoussed or cousiderod in that declelon, tho United Statos Court fa not bound by proaodont or comlty to follow that adjudica- tion. DISRALLI ON THE ERGLISH. CHUROH, Disraoll has boen reviowing the condition of Euglish aifairs, and giving an inkling as to the prinolples on which the Conservatives intond to run that big muchino, the British Empiro, whilo they remain in powor. The occasion on which ho enunciatod his viows wos a banquot glvon by tho Mastor and Wardons of thoMerchant Taflors’ Company on his admisslon to It &g an lonorary member. The oharmiug orator bosstod that England hiad solved threo gront questions,— that it had combined roligious equality with & National Ohurch ; malntulneg the authority of monarohioal and aristooratio fnstitutions with & large dislibution of politicsl power among tho pooplo; and made a froe exohnoge ropoalod any tho soouer by aggravatlng tho poo- plo, Buch a moasuro ns tho Yotter law will oventually deatroy ftself, It is to be hopod that {hio companies will 300 this, and wiiely abateln of commodities oconslatont with tho exist- ence of & prosporous, becauso untaxed, nae tive industry, In what nense it oan be satd that Tngluod hea woltled the fitvd $wo of these quea- tions, whon thoy have only just boon ralsad, and aro now boing oxtenslvely discunacd in England, it is vory ditlloult to noo. A bottor wny to put it would bo to say that Lngland, in days vory dif- foront from thoso, drifted into s Nattonal Church oand an arlstooracy withh oxtraordinary privilugos : that that church and aristocracy have outlived their usoftlness, and that it is timo thoy went whore a greal meny othor things, sorviceabls in thoir time, but now out of dato, iave gono bo- foro thom, That & National Cuurch and porfact raligious aquallty aro compatiblo s a paradox. Perfoct religlous equality roquires that ome chureh should bo to tho oyoof tho law just what sll othors avo, molther more mor loss, and this - eauallty caunob oxist whero ono of tho ohurclies rocolves suppatt {rom publio taxes aud tho title of National, and & recognition graated to no othor, Tho now Prime Ministor would havo the poo- ple of England boliovo that there i no founda- tlon for the rumor that the Church of England isindangor. This is on o par with tho reat of tho groat statesman’s nfter-dinner spooch, Tho Church of England, 88 a Stato inutitution, is in dangor. Auy ono who has watched the tidal- wavo of modern opinion and popular will, knows that it must bronk ovor tho Established Church of England as it did over that of Ircland, and aweop it Into the samo guif. Tho finger of Timo is on tho English Establisbed Church; and Englaud’s statosmen would do bete ter to proparo for its dlsostablishmont tan to bo uttoring prophocies of its porpetuily. Doth justice and polioy demand that it sloutd go down. Therols gomothing oxcoeding rich in the patronago of Eungland's ecclesiastical insti~ tutione by thiseon of Tsrnol, which, a8 if ho wora ite Popo,~and, in fact, ho is not far from balug 80,—he snys are full of life, ** excited, and ovon enthusiastio,” Even tho Ritualism in the Church hodoos not much objectto, He tells tho good Clristiens of England that thoy need not bo alarmod at the existoncs of parties in their Cburch ; that thoro wore parties ovon in the Oburch of Jorusalom; and that thore will bo partios a8 long a8 man's naturo iy whut it is, Ritunlism ha justitios, becauso * thers aro minds that find no ndequate spiritust oxposition excopt in coromony ;" and tho Broad Church ho defonds, bocause, “oven within the hallowed inclosure of tho occlosinatioal precinot, freo thought will bacome resintless, and will pross its inquiries," Evidontly Disracli can take an importial viaw of tho partis in tho Church of England, and of their conttiets, It is 8ad thing that 1t is nooes- sary to be a Jow or & heathen to do this. Mr, James Parton bns mado an unfortunato oxbibition of his weakness. David said in his boste that all mon wore llars; Mr. Parton ag- sertod in Harper's that roportors at any rate de- sorved tho nsmo. Mr. Parton had not the ex- ouso of the King of Ieracl; his was a doliborato libel, and he hiae not yet recanted. Tho occasion of his assault was au exeoution at Morristown, N. Y. Tho Shenft bungled the job, aud the ro- vortors did not hesltate to say so. M. Parton hoard the Bhorifi's story, which wns probably not moro unbissed than thoso of & goore of roportors, intorviowed a loosl roporter of Morristown, and then fulminated. In addition to throwing Qiscrodit on tho reporters’ narratives, My, Parton acoused thom of tho wildost dobauckery. A roporter of the Now York Zridune coutradioted him in tho oolumns of that paper over his own slgoaturo, and now r. Parton rushos madly at the whole fratornity and dononnces thom. Tho Tribune comes to the roscue, pointing out tho peculiar choractoristic of Mr. Parton, which disqualifics him for criticem—an obstinate opposition to that which does not agree with his first impressions; in ghort, montal dishonesty. This dofect in Mr. Parton’s composition is & vulgar ono, and tho roadiness with which ho 1n- dorses & vulgar suporstition is not less lamontablo, There is too much bighly- colored roporting dono for the Amertoan press, but this genoral donunoiation of the whole systom, like wholosale condemnation of any kiud, betrays an ignoronce and moral ‘woaknoss pitiable in & writer of Mr, Partan’a ra- putation, and will dumage his inluence instead of strengthouing it. S Immutablo Providonce is arraigned by a Louisville manon the clargs of pique, This Bngo writes to tho Cinclunati Commercial com- pluining that tho drought prevailing throughout the country is duo to the practical athoism of the times, Tho enlyromedy for this distress thatho, 88 an export, can recommeond to his follows, is * ropentapce and public confessicn of the honor due to God.” In vain tho Commercial erguos that the rain-fall follows a law of avorages ; that itis grontor in some countries thon others, The sage of Cincinoatl repudiates the eoditorial bo- couse {*tho atheistic argumont underles it.” It was the * practical atheism® of tho timos that destroyed Chicego in 1871, oxpressed in in- fivlont tinder-boxes, blaspheming wood-piles, and & disorganized Firs Dopartment, Our ro- pentaaco bas not beon very sincero, but it malkes fair showiog, “Lado," tho corrospondont, will have mnome of it. Caon we not have & trinl of prayer versus powder, and onco more como to the resoue of Mr, Powers ? Let him got Lis approprintion, and salternatoly with Laio bombard the gates of Hoaven with gunpowder wnd litsntes. The “alkali rogion™ on the Pa- cifio Railroad would boa convenient place for tosting the two methods. Aud, to com- plots the gratificstion the experimonts sronld afford, lot the contestants wall to ond from tho placo, 80 that & rospite {kom thelr clamors of three wonths atlenst viould bo guaranteed & wenry publio, Lot 90yndall bo referce, and sottle this quostion for- anor, —_— Tho blaze of firoworks which Capt. Judy did not display at the opening of the Bt, Louis bridgo hes brokon out among tho people, Tho #quibs whick were to have Uluminsted that marvel of englucering ekill aro bolug launched at tho unfortunatoe contractor in all tho nows- papors of the Wost; the local pross huw attached {iro-craokord to his coat-tails, and pyroteshnical paragranhs startlo the soador of tho 8t. Louis pupers in evory item. But, worse than all this, tho Colebration Committoo huve rofused to pay Capt. Judy the sum agroed upon, on the ground that ho friled to fulfill his contrack. This isvory lard, The poor.man did not supposo 80 many strangors would bo in 8t. Lous that day, nud maeraly caloulatad to please the slecpy rosidants of tho oity, positivoly ausured that thoy wouldn't deteot the fraud unloss some busy-body told them alout it, At any rato, it ho didn't muke the placo light cnough for thom, they have made it too hot for him, and tho poor man vainly rushos to Ohicago for rolief, I Capt, Judy is roully & wobl blanket.on pyrotechules, o s weloome to como horo noxt Fourth j but we have no use for him just uow. ——— The unattainablo has & wondorfal faacination for poor humanity, From the days of Icarus to thoso of Dounldson, the Fatos Lave frownoed upon the during sdventurer who has tried to navigate tho tonuous alr, Tho clumsy gas-bag 18 tho only compromise that Nature has condo- uconded to accopt botweon wings and shanks, and ovory now attompt to encronch upon tho coutract 8o has mndo sooms doomed to dikaster. The solid Driton sceme wmore dotlant of Na- tueo's ordors than any othor explorer. Only & dsy or two 8go o professor of Hlying attomnted an onsy doscent froin & balloon with a pair of home-mndo winge. Tho rope which supported him was out at tho glven sigual, and the descont was mado, 16 will never bo ropeated by that ad- vonturer { it was too xapld for comfort, and killed bim inefantly, The hope of the would ia in Dar num. Othor poople must confino thoir winged advonturos to tho mystorious independonce of drosmland, or tho angolio anticipntions foundod on oliromos and ntoel ongravings, so long ak lonst a8 the Tearlan Gulf rotains its namo in legend- ary loro, — e An opinon of tho valtto of patriotism has ro- contly beon given by a Yrench jury, Zimmor- man, an Almatian, murdored o Government for- ostor in his natlve provines; but, foaring tho congoquencas, disappoared ovor tho bordor aud boeamo a Frenchman, Iore he fraquency bonstad of his shrowdnoss in escaping punishe mont, until tho Gorman authorities, hontiug of 1t, profarredan fndictmont againgt him iu form, and brought bim to trinl. 3. Malstro, Preuidont of Lo Asslzo Court, fuund himsolt in a painful ponition, Tho prisonor was evidently guilty; hut Lo was ovidently & good Fronchman, for ho hind desorted Alsnco for France. Ifo ncoordingly Tott the muttor Lo tho jury, ntter carefully im- prossing upon thom the herolsm of tho prinonor in loathing the Germnn, and tho smail deunrts of iy viotim ns the morvant of & forelgn Govorn~ monut, Of courns Zimmorman oscuped with o light punishment. el e e The discovery of tho blood-stainod night-shirt of tho murderod Nathau bebind & dumb-waiter In his houso, years aftor the murder of the own~ er, i w rayping satiro on tho vaunted intolligonco of tho stipondiary detectivo. Itwapponranco wns nltogetlor dua to an nccidont, A gang of worke men, engagod in domolishing tho house, happen- od to Hooit, and gave it to the polico. On boing handed to tho authonties, the oraoular wisdom thereof declared that it was uncless as a clewto tho mystorious murder. With tho Now York Yolico Board in robollious disorder, tho finding of the gurmont iy o notable coincidenco, Our polico affuirs, especially tho dotectivo (so- enlled) branch of tho sorvics, aro bud enough, Wa can sge now that they might boe worse, — A fow days ngo Dr. N. R. 8mith, of Baltimoro, criticised Dr. Hammond’s nervons theory of hy- drophobia by saying that if tho disento wero communicated through the ‘modlum of the verves tho dovelopment of the disense would bo instantancons, Dr. Hammondreplies that lock- Juw, a norvous disenso, the result of injury to n nerve, i8 not instantly consequont upon the in- jury. Dr. Bmith avors thet immedinte cautery is 0 suro proventive of hydrophobla, Dr, Ham- mond seys : ¢ Mr. Youatt, who trusted to cuus- tio a8 a provontive, himself contracted hydro- ghobm. and killed himeclf to aveid the painful onth-boforo bim,” Thus doctora diffor and pa- tlonts dio, Bubone cure suggested by Dr. Bmith hins not boen gaingaid, to-wit: the killing, of all dogs and othor usoless and exponsive parasitos, ek ol NOTES OF THE CANVASS. Of tho Illinofs country press wo now count somo sixty papors supporting the Indopoudent Tieforn ticket, oud thoro is another largoe cluss of papers whose sentimonts nro not unlike thoso of tho AledaZianuer, which we quote, viz.t Au yet we hiuvo toon 1o better platforin in this State than “that adopted ot Npringlleld by the Inde- poudents, on June 10, and_ wo uxpect 1o givo it our support, Unless thero ‘sliould be o fur Dotter ouo put forth, Thoro aro kono parts of tho platform wo can ot budoreo, buttho mojority of tho principlos lald down wo can, Tho tuancial plank fs ;}nufl. B0 far as it goes ; hut it doca nat go fur cuough, In fact, both the ftapublican and_Iudependent Conventions do not suit tho adlierents of cither side. It I8 reported thut tho straight Dumocrats will call a Convention and adopt listd-mouy planks, and either malio 4o nomiuces or elfo indorss thoso mado by the Independonts, Such & thing muy oome to paws, but wa generaily have found it waw more urged sud revommended by tho rank Rt~ publicaus thau by the Democruts, ‘Tl main cloction of two Stato oticurs does not amount to muck, but the claction of Qongrossmen aud Stuto Leglelutors thlg fall does ; und overy honorabls effort slould Lo put forth to clect an opposition Congresn aud Legislaturo, Men roally anxious for roforin cunnot aiford to quarrel over two Blato ofticers, and pay no attentlon to tho men who meko our laws and spend our monoy, Wo expect tho Indepondents to bo generally successtul, —The Lowrouce Standard eays the politicnl elomont in Kansas, opposed {0 & longer loase of power to tho Republican party are nmow woll compactod ponding o State Convention at To- peks, Aug. 5, and aada Wo repeat bolow tho names of fho Independent Press of whio Btate, with tho additions of tho past fow weoke: Lawrence Standurd, Luwrenco Zribung, Atchison Patriof, Topola £2¢cord, Lenvouwortl A ppeal, Ottawa Jourital, Pavla Republicyn, Osknlooss Stekle and Sheuf, Fort Scott Pioneer, Neodeahn Iirce Press, Junction City Tribune, Council Grove Demoerat, Bur lington Voice of the People, Emporia Ledier, Wynn= donte HHerald, Gotumbus Junirnut, Spring 14 Proress, Gornot Jourial, Border Sentiner, ulepcndent Kansiut, Jewstl, County Dramond, Dells Piain Lemocrat, Leay~ anwortls Frie Press, Atchison Courier, Kansas Spirit; twenty-five papers fn ull. Bix of tlie number wuro Domocratic, and tho balance were Rupublican, —Republican Gongressmon very gonerally pos- sess the mechanical power to work out thoir own ronominations (if dosivad); but thia yosr Ropub- Tican nominations are not equivalent to elections, oven in districts that euvu tho largest majorities two years ago. The Waterloo ((Lowa) Reporter, Ttepublican to tho core, tolls how tho renomiun~ tion business is mavaged in that Congressional district, viz.: In Butler County there are aix Poatmasters on’ tho list of dolegates to the Mason Clty Convention, aud ou or two Fostmusters from Floyd County were pros- ant to lielp fix the delegation iu Tratt’s inforent, - In Drewer Connty, a¢ the couvention to soloct delo- gates to Mason City, only ¥oven of the fourteen town- uhipy were roprosonted, dud eoveral of fhoso by Poste masters nod thelr frieuds, Of the sixteen delegates fivo are Postmusters, and the Convontiou was manipu- Iated and controlled eutirely by this elusy of otlicialy, Iu Corro Gordo County the delegutes wero choson by primary eloctlon, and the Ceutral Commitice, by s trick, subinitted the proposition {n euch a way tuat tho people virtually bad 10 voice in choosing the delo- gutes, The result way that, out of some 1,200 or 1,300 Voten In £ho county, only about 135 voto wore cust, Tnoko tireo counties will huve 12 votes {n the Con- ventlon, anx they are il clalmed for Peatt. It i8 very aasy to tco hov thoy wera secured, : Congressman Prati’s muojority on the Grant tioket two yoara ago, was 11,041, % —Congrossman Dunncil's renomination comes off to-morrow, at Owatonna, Minu. 'The Bt Paul Press (lopublican Stufo papor) lamenta the *‘sheor maduoss™ of forcing Dunuoll on the ticket, and tells us what will come of it, viz.: Last fall tho Ropublican mnjority for Governor in thut distriol was 3,074—a falling off of sowe 0,660 inco tho preceding Prostdentinl campuign, A chunge of 1,069 of the Yotos poliod lust fall” would defoat Alr, Duunoll, aud 1,000 does not probably represent s fifth part of tho Republican votes that Lis nominution will tterly disgust wnd ropol, —The "peoplo aro told that, although the Tarmers' R(o\'ument is strong in this part of tho State, yot in the contral aud northern portions ) guuum is all ont,” and all that sort of thing. In the Press of & fow weoks sinco wo spolis of tho very swull numboer of Republican votas roprouented by our full and onthusinetio delegation to tho Stato Conveation. Tho Carlin- vilto Demoerat (formerly s stroug Republionn pupor) coples n portlon of our article, aud sayy the samo condition of alfairs oxisted in Macou- pin. And the samo is true of wany othor scc- tions of tho Btats, Tho party hus bocomo o party of politicians,—tho peoplo Lave scen tho nocessity for a chango, and sro rapidly forming u powerful party of tho pooplo.~—Fairfleld (1iL) reas, —The guorrilla warfare that the Journal said tha farmers wore carcying on against the Ropub- lican purty s o succoss. “Thoy hiuve almost com- pletuly demoralized the party of great moral idens—the party that builds up and protects monopolies.—Matloon (Iil.) Commercial, —Lust year wus our Nrat effort ; a failure then might have boon expected and oasily lived down, but g fuiluro now wonld show such a weakoning of tho caugo, such an inditfordneo to the grou intoroats that underlio onr emancipation from the moneyod rulers, whothor as bankers, manu- factugors, or other logalizad extortionisty, us to bo folt throughont tho State, aud from whioh It wight tako us yoats o Te0ovor.—galen (Jlh.) Ad~ vocale. —1Ihe indications polnt still moro strongly to an indopandont political movoment in thi dis- triet this tall, Lot it como ; it can do no harm, but will purify the political atmosphere which hay bocowo protty corrupt, us all wust ackuowl- edge.~Rockjord (1iL,) Journal, —Iudopondent coumf- tiokots aro bolnq nom- inated by the peoplo all over tho State, Things do not by any means look oy If there’ wasa fallura on tha part of tho Indopondonts. Tho peopla tuking part in this now {ert.y neod not be alarmod at the Domocratio and Republican news- papors, howovor much they may ery failure, Lot evoryan voto ag ho talks and bolleves, and all wi)l bo woll.—Bloomington (FIL) Anti-dono- polist, Y ! —Alon avo ronouncing this old-timo slavery, sud, out of puronocessity and the inovitabloe laws of unturo, the new party io born, Itis composod principally of farmors, and tho cause of this s obvious, Tho vory life of the favmor wili ox. laln it. His is thomost indepondent of all lives, iTo noed oringe to nobody for fuvors, aud as a consequonct ho will not long enduro the on- croachinonts of any spoclos of slavory, Ie wishes to live, 6o, think, act, and vote acoording {0 his own senev of right, and not ot the diota- tlon of any man or budy of men, No further ex- g&nuulvn 14 neoeseary than thla,—Geneses (lil.) (Y AMORY VS, AMORY, A llistory of tho Case Judges Davly and Drummond Have Beon learing, Mg, Amory Olaims a Dower Toe terest in Half-o-Million o7 Proporty, The Defense Assert that She Nover Wag Amory's Wife. And She Charges a Now Yorl Lawyer with Fraud. Numerous Roputetions Involvod, Tha cano of Angolina Amory ngainat Samuel B. Amory and John Amory, which has boon on heariug boforo Judges Drummond and Davls for tho Jast threo days, prosonts some remarkablo poculiaritiens and complications, and may bo sad to tnvolve 600,000 and & woman’s character. 4 appears, ag alleged in tho bill of complaing that fn 1839 ANOLLINA STETSON, now Angolion Amory, tho complainant, in Porbe land, Me,, married o eailor nemed Wiltiam A, Willinma, In 1841, Williams shippod from Bostou as Socoud Mate on the Louvroe, bound for tho East Indios and back, A fow months aftor, Mra, Willinma rocolved & lotter from lor husband, stating that bo wag about toleavo the ship on which horthen waa for an English vesyol, The Louvre roturned in August, 1842, with tho report that WILLIAMS JIAD DESERTED IUIS VESSET, at Bingapore, shipped on board ap English sohoower, and hed boon lost in the Ohina Sea shortly aftorwnrd. Bince thon tho wifo had not been ublo to gein any intelligonco of hor missing hunm:ml, oxcopt o confirmation of the provious roporis. n 1845, Mrs, Williams moved to New York, beoame acquainted with JAMES AMORY, & and on tho 12th of March, ltllu, marriod him, 8ho lived with him, rocognized by his family as his wifo, until 1856, when slio Hoparated from him on tho Emnnfl' as ble claimy, of his adultory with Mary . Hoaddon, ono of tho logatees in s will, A8 A PIOQF OF THE FACT that sho was tho legal wife of Jumos Amory, compluinent states that at tho timo of her mar- ringe thore way pouding in the Suprome Court of "Now York n partition suit botweon the helrs of tho ostate of Jamos Amory's fathor, In this -wuit & .dooroo was cn- tored in 1851, showing smong other things that complainant was the wite of James Amory, and outitlod to an inchoate right of dower in hig lends, and subsequontly in siumorons casos sho uckuowlodged deeds with him when sho sold this property. In 1856, Ballie Wilson died, leaviug complainaut some property, and Jamos Amory then testified, when her will waa proved, that Angolina was his wifo, ON I OTHER JIAND, In July, 1857, ra. Amory commenced a suit ix the Superior Gourt of New York to got a divoreo o vinonlo from her husband on tho ground of wdultery. Tho logality of her marriago, of course, camo up among other questions, Amory filod n oross-bill charging complainant with adultory, and the cago was reforred ton referoe, It was ulso agreod thav if the roferce should find that tho marringe was illegal sud void, and that Amory bad a prioy husband living, presumptively ot loast, that the quostions as the iutidolity of tha parties should uot bo ine quirad into, Tho refores found for tho dofend~ ant, nnd TUE GUIT WAS DIGMISSED, Mrs, Amnrg clnims that this dooreo was entors ed through the fraud and colfusion of lLer coun- sol, Chauncoy Shaffor, Shocharges that Shaffer wag in combinaiion with Amory, that Lo rocoiv- ed monoy from him, and that ho also allowed tho timo in which an appeal might fo taken ta 0 by, xupmnautinfi ‘moaunwhilo to Mrs. Amory i1at thoro was no limit (o tho perlod in which an appeal might bo bLod, In102an appeal was tikton, but dismigeed on thejabove ground; and iv 1860 n motion to vacato tho decree ard opau’ tho caso for o new trial wus also donied, In August, 1868, JAMES AMONY DIED in Fond du Lac, Wis., leaving about 260,000 per sopal property, ®40.000 inlwnd in Wisconsin, $10,000 in land in Mpssnchusetts, sud $1U0,0u8 of ronl ostato in nnd about New York. Complaiue ant charges that tho greater pact of this proper- ty was that given to him on tho partition suit, ox other property purchased with the proceeds of ity saud in which she had besn deoreod to have anane choato right of dower. Amory at his desth LEFT A WILL “ which gave Mary E, Headdon & life estato in a house eud lot in Brooklyn, and ao_ennuity of £600 o yoar. It also gavo Martha A. Devooa like louso and lot, and an annuity of 3260, and the bulic of the remainder of the estate was given to the defondants, his brothors, who were also mude oxecntor, 7 1In 1869 Mrs, Amorv, having hoard of the will, put in on appoaranco, aud TOOK AN APPEAL from the order of tho County Court previouely modo which admitted tho will' to probuta. She allegod thnt Amory was not, at the timo of mpling this will, of sound mind; that tho will was not regularly acknowlodged, and, Iastly, that the dofondants oxorted an undue influenco over him. 'T'he defoudants pleaded that sho bad no intorast in tho prococdings, and produced tho record of the decres in New York, which ad- judped lier not to be the wifo of Amory. The Cirenit Court overruled the dofeneo, and ‘an ap- ponl was takon to tlse Suprome Court, whero tho }udgmunt was roversod, and tho appenl ordored to bo dismissed on tho ground that tho record and judgment iv the action for & divorce wora flual and conclusive as ayaiust tho complsinant in respect to tho intorest in the subjoct mattor of tho appeal, BY REAKON OF THIS COMFLATNANT ABSERT3 she Lus boan doprived of horrights in contesting the will on its morits, and sho claims but for the interposition of this docroo sho would have hoon able to prove hor case iu all respocts, Iu the triel n}' tho divorce caso, she claims Amory fraudulently rotainod Sheffer as hor lawycr, o that ho should, winle ostensibly scting for Lor, ba renlly working in his futerest. In pursuauce of this thoreforance was had, and Mary Holdon, a sister of complamant, by n docoption i regard to the time n lottor was received, was induc-d to tostify that complainant had roceived u lattor Zrom her former husband, Willinme, in 1848, TIE LAWS OF MASSACHUBSEITS AND NEW X( eny that tho absenco of o husband for five yoa ‘without any intotligence being recoived of him raisos & prosumption that ho is doad. Thin wag ouo of tho poiuts rolied on by Mrs. Amory, and lionco the importanco of showing that sho had not reoolved any nowa of her husbaund siuce Maroh, 1841, Aftor the decreo had boon drawn Chauncoy Shafter, It 18 oharged, fraudulently, with & view of provonting any rehonring of tho case, insortod & olaudo in tha dratt of tho docros that a motion had becn .nade to opon tho cause for further proof, aud that it was deuied; and aléo another clinss, slating tuat the Judgment was enterod in fuvor of tho defondaut ou the merlts, when, n8 she charges, no such motion had been made, nor way #uch tho caso au to the merits, THE DECHEE B0 INTERLINED AND AMENDED was talen to Julge Hoffmuv, and by him nlgun(h on tho reprosontation that it was all right, ani wna aftorwards recorded. As an additioual ob- Jootion to the validily of tho docrec in tho divorce ocmso, Brs. Awmory ol that tho Buperior Court of New York, whore the cnse was triod, 18 a court of limitod jurisdictio having no jurlediction over nou-rosidents, that tho only deoreo it could ronder, if for t defondnnt, was & simple diumissal of tho bill aud, thorofore, that the averments ss to the morits, or speolfieally aa to the legality of the marriago woro void, - FINALLY, Mrs, Amovy says she is desirous of instituting legal procondings to recover hor sara of Lol husband's property, but that the dofendnuts, = .whom she sues in tliefr privato capsoity, andalig as oxecutors of tho will of Jamos Amory, do olara that thoy will appaxe Lier by introdusing fa ovidouco tbadeorcs in the divoroo suit, and the !udsmnnt in tho Buprema Court of Wisconsin hat they aléo allege that Amory was of souu mind whon Lo muado his will, end thatsh las no sight to auy of his properly, Bhe therofore asks ° an iujunctlon tg dofondunts from intorposi he dooreo or judgmont as & dofense, au also that she may hnve a decree dovlaring that sho ts she lawful widow of James Amery, {mmnt the ' i | i 1 ¥