Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1874, Page 4

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NONS RESILVERED BY OWL- 81070 81,000 INVKSTED IN STOOKS AND GOLD . Sond for particalars, TUM- e e A e g ' Eb» Clhicage Teibune, Monday Morning, July 20, 1874. The smell of firo Is very strong yot. It is s tonoh 1n the nostrils of all Chicago. Envious newspapers in rival cities have boon aconstomed 0 my that Chicogo poople like bad smolla; but that fa a calnmny. Thoy don't. When the river Decame too strong, wo omptied it into tho Min- sissippi; and, now that this now smoll has be- came roally troublesome and dangerons, we shall find as quick ond effootive o Way to dispose of it. S—— De, Tiffany's removal from the Mothodist Ante-Mortem Elysium in Washington is alt ox- plained now. Mr. Newmsn has about done with hin tonr around the world, and thers is a loud «call for him to again becomopastor of tho Metro- politsn Clurch. Nowman is & much more im- portunate and trustworthy supplicator at the Throne of Grace—more usswarvingly Repub- Hoao in his potitions—thsn Dr. Tiftany; ‘henoe tho dosirs for a chango. —— The eecmona published in Tax Trmune this morning aro divided according aa thoy rolate to : ¢ho great firo or ta general topica. In the latter eatogory witl bo found a disconrso on * The True dosd of Christiavity,” by the Rev. L. J. Halsoy, of tha Prosbytorian Theological Beminary, and one antitled * A Plon of the Disciplos,” by tho Rew. G. G. Mullins ; also, an abtract of a wer- mon by the Rov. F. M. Ellis, of the Michigan Avenue Church, on * Tho Glory of God.” o R —— One of the preachors said yestorday that Chi- 80 nad been purified as by fire. He alluded, probably, to the swooping away of many dons “of vico In tho now-burnt district. Unfortunato- 1y, the keepers of such placcs havo not basn pu~ rifiod, They are ready to start in buslucss oo & Targer scale, and in moro ologant spartmonts, than before. All that Chicago has gainod by tho fire ia the material bonofit of & good riddauce to some acres of wooden houses, and a chastening {n apirit that promiees to produca good rosults. PR S The Indopondonts of MeDounough County, Iilinols, are not good politicians, Thoy wantod 10 make the Domocrats indorse their Springficld platform bofore allowing them to voto their tickot. The Democracy of Blaudinville Town- ohip thoreupon begought the Chairman of the. County Committeo to eall s soparato convention 0 nominate a local ticket, which he has done. Somo pooplo are not so squeamish about who votoa for thom s the McDonough County Indo- pondents. Sme—————— A prager-moeoting was held by the First Bap- tiat congrogation yosterdsy evening, atthe ruins of tho old church. It was the lsst service in that plsco. The oongregation will probebly choosa to rebuild much further south. In this event, thore will bo only the First Mothodist Church within easy walking dlstauce of the business quarter of tho' Bouth Side. Strangers at tho hotels must take Mothodist doctrino or none. Thero nover waa a better op- portunity for the beginning of some Libaral Christian work near tho centre of thoecity, A groat tabernaclo down town could be enaily filled evory Bunday morning by a popular proschier— sy Prof. Bwlog, or Robert Collyer, or fa better man than oither of them, if he can be found and induced to come here, [ Mr, A, G, Hesing thought our proposition that the Fire Departmont should be put in chargo of tho Board of Underwritors an astonishing bad *ides. On the hypothesis that all property isin- sarod more or loss, and that the insurance com- panloa sre pecuniarily interested fn every fire, wheoreas the Olty Government is not psouniarily iuterosted in any fire, except ono which con- sumes the City-Hall or tho Wator-Works, the ab- surdity of the plan per s¢ iu not immediately dis- corniblo, If the Fire Department had always boen in the charge of the Undorwriters, the proposi- tion to take 1t out of thoir hands and put it ua- dor the control of Bhoridan, Klokke, and Reno, “or any other throe porsons chosen by uni- versal sufirage, would be universally hooted down by the community, sud probably Mr. Hosing would bo ono of the hootera, e ‘Wo fear that the following paragraph from the Gairo (11L) Sun will incroase the ludicrous wrath of the Chicago Timas over it dlsmal falluro at giving an sdoquate report of tho late firo . TWE Omicauo Fme.~Yesterday morning's Chicsgo papars, Tax TuILUN, the Tiues, and tho Inter-Ocean, ‘buve long und Intaresting accountu of the great fire on Tucsday sfterncon osad night, The 2imies hus eighteon eolumns, after the sensational stylo; the “ander-Oocan six broad columus of solld matter and de~ meription ; but Tuk Tomunz distauces ts campotitors, 2t gives twenty-four columns, fll of facts and inter- eating incidonts, with a fuir map of tho burmed dis- trict. Itis by far tho beat account, and is an evidence of enterprito hardly o be expocted, ovon from tho groatost newspaper injthe West, Wo tip our hatin honor to THE TRIDUKK, As thero are likely to boa good many anch paragraphs going around among tho newspapers, sud as the weather ia exceedingly wavm, wo ad- vise she amployes of the 7%mes to keap out of the way of tho “editor aud propriotor,” eape- ohally if thoy balleve tn hydrophobia, Meanwhile the “ editor and propriotor” should continua to sbuse the Associated I'ross report which was mate up mainly from hia columna, The Ohlcago produce markets wers generally olow on Baturday, except in pork, aud stendier, Moss pork was aotive, and sdvancod 85a per brl, elosing at $20.25@20.80 cash or soller August, Laxd wea quiet and sloady, olosing at $11,35@ 118736 pex 100 1be oedh or sollor August. Meats wace quisd aad #haady, &b 7o Sor shouiders, 930 for ahort ribs, 95{@9j¢e for short cloar, and 11@ 120 for swect ploklod hsms. Highwines wore nominal nt 960 por gallon, Lako freights woro dull and wesk, at 8% for corn to Buffalo. Flonr was quiot and unchanged, Whoat waa dull aod 1340 lowor, closing at 31.113¢ onah, and &1.073¢ sollor August, Corn waa loss activo, and o shade firmor, closing ¢ 6340 cash, and 613¢c sollor August. Oata woro more -active, and firmor, eloalng b 500 ensh, 4730 sollor the month, and 8o sollor August, Ryo wea quiot, and 8@1‘1«: lowor, at 90, Barloy was quict and firmer, st $1.02@1.03 osah, and $1.00 sollor Soptombor. Hogs wers in notive domsnd and woro firm. Bales at $5.76@0.60, Cattle woro quiet sod nieady. Bheop unchangod. e———— Tharo who watched with intonse intorest the political campaign in North Csrolina, two yoars 8go, are bardly aware thata still more bitter conflics is now going on in that Btate. Tho Cuvil-Rights bill belng eno of the {ssucs beforo the poopla, tho oampaign 8 enlivened by frequont fights at tho public meotings. Ono of those serimmages took placo recently at Bosman’s Cross Ronds, in Bsmpeon County, which ia thua de- soribed by the Wilminglon Slar, s Republican papor: W) A disoussion botwoen the rival caudiates for Con- gress in this district took place a4 Deaman's Cross Ttoads, about ten miles from Olinton, Bampaon Co., on Thuraday last, at tho olose of which, we under. satand, a difiiculty occurred botwuon s white man and & colored man in rogard to the question of civil righta, Otlier colored mon interfored, whon & rogular pitched battle epsucd, In which the most of those on tho ground, both white and colored, participated, The ‘whites, batli Ropublicans and Consorvatives, arrayed themselved on ooe side, and the colored peopls on tho other, aud the woy the missiles wero projocted through tho air was a caution, Oue prominont whita Radical, a8 bo commenced selzing fonce-rails, ox- yokes, and othor such implomants -of warfare, and whirling them into the crowd of colored bollfgerents, shoutod at the top of his volce, * Civil rights, s it 7 'l givo you civil rights 17 4+ Tha colored troops fought nobly,” but thelr white allica having turned agoinst them, they werefinally offcctually repulsod, after having beon four timos driven from thoficld, No fire-arma were usod, and ‘mone of tho belligerents, wo learn, were scrioualy hurt, though soveral wers knocked down and considorably brulsed, Oonsidering that the wildest excitemont provadled during the progrees of the anelsc, t i3 wone dorful that no sorious dissster occurrod, Somo of thoss prescut at Beaman's Cross Tosds stated tusé a £ght was in progross at Avorasboro, Harinett Co,, when thay thoy loft thore tho day provious, at which point a discussion bad also taken place. ————— Mr. Wilkinson, who has been ono of the go~ botweons in the Boochor tcandal from it vory incaption, has een fit to communicata to one of the’Now York papora tha testimony given by him boforo the Invostigating Committes. In doing 80 he has broken faith with the Committes, and not advanced tho intercsts of snybody concerned, He makes grave acousations sgainst Alr. Tilton, such ne that he has been turning hie shame into profit— which we do not for a moment believe—and that he has boen acting with duplicity and irresoluteness throughout. Hin testimony sleo contains excorpts from a lotter to Bowen, written by Tillon but never sent, ‘in which tho substance of the Bowen scandal is giveninall its ludeousnosa of datall. Tilton's porsonsl chargo against Mr. Boechor is said to e, and we Leitave it s correctly stated, that fm- proper ovorturos wore made Mre, Tilton, The tostimony of Mr. Wilkinson, unsupported by his official indorsement of it, i8 un- trustwortby. Furthor common$ upon 1t would bo manifestly unfair and undignified, Its chief significanco . i3 that 1t makes moro certain whot was tolorably cortain bofore, viz. : the completo exposurs of every- thing that has been hiddon in connection with the scandal, Mr. Tilton's statoment is promised for to-night. It will bo full, and give his side of the case without roservation. It will bo the beginning of tlie ond. g THE SATURDAY NIGHT MEETING. The meeting on Saturdsy night gave oxpres- sion to tho almost universal sontiment of the people of Chicago respecting the measures requisite for tha propor protection of the city. Briefly, theso moauures aro: * 1, Lho destruction of the legal wooden build- ings now within the fire-limits as thoy existed in Qctober, 1871. 2. Tho dostruction of all wooden buildings within the fire-limits as fixed by the ordioance of 1872 which have boen illegally eroctod alnce that timo, 8. Tho oxtension of the flre-Umita to tha ter- ritorial boundarios, and tho prohibition of the romoval of woodon buildings from ouoe polnt to another within the city. 4. The construction of a wido avenue or boule- vard soparating the solid business part of tho city from the other distriots, if found to be prac- ticable. ! 6. The reorganization of the Fire Dopartment. A committeo of twenly-flvo citizons was ap- pointed to placo thoso requests bofora the AMayor, Common Counail, and the Board of Pub- Mo Works, The Committee will perform that duty to-day. It can bhardly be nocessary to commend the at- “tontlon of tho city officors to theso resolutions, Tho Gommon Council have the authority to ex~ tend the fire-limits, and this they can and ought to do at tho meoting to-night. The removal of the wooden buildings illogally erocted within the fire-limita is within tho scope of exeoutivo authority, restiog with the Board of Publio Worke and the Mayor. It remainsto beseen whether those oflicers have thonorve to perform their duty in the promises, or, rather, the norve to noglect it. Theo reformation of the Fire Departmont s a mattor of sorious poncern, The Comumnon Coun- cll have little orno control over that subject. The Fire Department of New York was in evon & worse condition whon the authorities of that city invited Geon, Shaler to take chargoe of it. This offlcer at onco bogun work, and it i now in s most thorough and officlent condition, Tho Fire Commigsionors, whilo they cangot legally abdioste, can invite some such mun, an educated englosor and ‘disciplinarian, to take charge of onr Fire Dopartmont ; thoy can prac- tically abdlcato in his favor, by giviog logal sanotlon and warrant toall his reforms. They can, it so disposod, have the work of reform be- gln now, and be in progress until such time as the necded logislation can be abtained. Have the Fire Commissionors the patriotism to lay down the patronags thoy control, and do somo- thing to mako.our Firo Departmont what it ought to ba? We have no doubt car euges and hoso aro deficient in number and quallty, ‘This defeot monoy can romedy at any momont, But, what is more neodod than, all, is an intolli- gont and oxporienced man to take our Fire Do« partment aud reorganize it from top to bottom ; to dicipline it, sud to pus 1t in good working ordor, Buch s man oan ba bad st onoe, it tho prosont Fire Commisaloners will walvo tholr oflicial supremaoy to tho extent of sllowing another man to do in thelr name whas they havo naliher the education, the esperience, mor the THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY ’) ‘onpacity, o do thomsclves. The exporiencad ofileor who 80 mucoeafully took chergo of and raformod the immonso Fire Dopartmont of Now York oay, wo have no doubt, bo induced to come hore and do $ho samo for us, Wo aro in lamontable ignoranco of what is nooded to make our Firo Dopartmont efffolont. A man who has taken the Now York Dopartmont, which was worse than our own, and by his exscutive cnorgy and ability mado it s modol of eficionoy, disolp- line, ana ordor, is just the man to invite hore to toll us juat what to do, how to do it, and then do it for ua. ENFORCE THE BUILDING-ORDINANCE. Bofors we construok sny more ordinances for tho prevontion of fire, #t will be woll fo provide for tho enforcoment of the ordinances already m oxistonce. It tho prossnt ordinancos cannot bo enforcod, it will bo useloss to provide others still more stringont. Thore are many provie lons m tho prosont firo-ordinance to which nobody pays the slightost attention. X% pro- scribos, for instanoo, tho thickness of tho walls for the buildings of varions dimonsions; tho number and charactor of the partitiona; the location of” posts and boame; the con- struction of Mansard roofs; tho construo- tlon of fluos, ole. Wo prosume that in wot omo in ton of tho buildings orocted do tho ownors tako pains to ascertain whother the roquirements’ of tho ordinance ars obsorved or not, or whetkor thore is any ordi- nanco. The Common Council wore content with passing the ordinance withont taking auy ateps {o provide for its enforcoment. They almply said: “It shall bo the duty of the Mayor, Board of Public Works, and Board of Yolice Commissioners to enforoe tho provisious of this chapter,” What is everybody's busincas isno- body's businces, and it I8 not probablo that the Mayor, or tho Board of Public Wozks, or tho Board of Police, have over given tho dotalls of the ordinanco tho alightest consideration. Had tho new buildings burned in the recont fire boon constructed striotly in conformity with tho fire~ ondinance,~tha Bt. Jomes' Hotel, for in- stanco,—wo aro inclined to think thas the fow that wero burned might havo oscapod. Now thoro aro just two things for the City Government to do, viz.:. 1. To amond the fire- ordinanco g0 a8 to make the fire-limits oooxten~ sive with tho eity-imits, and to xevise, with the advico of compotent builders, the ordinary ro- quiromonts fof sufoty in buildings constructed of combustible moterinls. 2. To provide for a systematic building inspoction, which shall com- pel evory bulldor to conform strictly to theso ro- quiroments. Thero should bo o emall corps of building inepociora astached to the Doard of Public Works. It might conaist of a Chiof and turce assistants, ono for each Division of the city. 'The Chiof should be sn exporionced build- or, compotont to decido upon any matter of dlsputs that smight aviss between the local juspectors sad tho bailders. Tho assistants ncod be ooly mon of ordinary judgmont, compo- tont to measuro walls, partitions, flaes, eto., and with sufticiont chsractor to yomist bribes. Such & ocorpa could bo orgunized st a maximum ex- pansie of 810,000 s year fo the eity, and it would be largo enonghi to cover the entire ground snd enforce absolute compliance with the provisions of the ordinance. The monoy paid out for ity support would bo seved ton times over, not only by tho provontion of great fires, bat by tho fall- ing-off in the number of emnll fires, and in less- encd rates of insurance. New York and Boston, and nearly overy other city in the country, is more caroful thun Chicago to offielally inspoat tho buildings in process of ercction, 80 88 to se- curo an cbaervance of tha building laws, We osn only do it by & strict and thorough system of buitding inepection, and such a systom ought to bo cstablished without delay. THE REBUILT PORTION OF CHIOAGO, The rospectability of the New Yark Journal of ommerce ia our apology for taking notice of an extraordinary artiole which appesred In that psper sinco tho firo of Tuceday lsst. Speaking of the robuilt portion of Ohicngo, the, Journal BaYE: From the dy that Chicago bugan to rebulld in the old tlimsy, frivolous atyle, her own papers have thun- dered hor doom in her eary, and provoked only moek- 1ing laughe from the crazy speculators of that city, If difforent in anything, thenow bulldings ave fraller than thoso thiey replace, having beon thrown upin great hoste and a¢ & mininium of expense, ach own- or waa willing to run lis huck, trustiug that ho would eacape boing burat out moru thau oucs,—a blind snd silly suporstition, which gocs fur to forfeit our sym- pathy for the men who fndulgo it, and somo of whom aro aguin ruined, Foriuustely, by a chauga of tho wind, the robullt ety sufered bLut Littlo thls time, Had the wind Dot sbified and fulled, tho Sinest part of new Chicogo would this day bo prostrate, for the famos mudo nothiug of the just-comploted structurcs which they reached, Enough hza boen soen of the poor quality of the uew bulldingw to rendor it certaln that, with n high wind i the right dircction, s fire would reduco them to sshied, ‘The buildings of tho new Chicagoare not flimsy nor frivolous for fire-defensive qualitios. Tloy will comparo favorably with those of the bost~ constructed portions of Now York. Thero may Lo o fow which do not come up to the stand- ard in somorespoote ; but, a8 a whole, the robuilt Ohicago, 8o faras the character of the houses is concerned, is as well fittod for rosisting firo as any other city in tho United States, In tho wine tor monchs immediately following the fire there were a fow buildings hastily put vp, but theso waro but few in number, and do not detract to any extent from tho general average of tho rebuilt oity in the matter of architectural sirength, durability, and oxcollence of material, The Journal is equally at fault in its informa- tion that tho sslvation of robwlt Ohicago was dus to o “change of wind.” The fact is, tho wind all through the fire of Tuesdsy remained in tho same quarter, and thoro waa no perceptl- Dble lull. The wind, instead of ehifting, drove tho fira from tho old portion of the city upon the nowly built; and it was tho superior con- struction of the bulldings In this latier portion that o resisted the flre and hold it in check that the firomen wero abla vory soon to subdue it altogothor. It was theso new'walls and iron cornices and strongly-bullt houses that arrosted the progress of thoilames, which wero precipitat- ed upon thew with all tho forco of tho south~ west wind, boaring the heat and cluders of forty meros of burnivg territory, Thero wore some clogant and ecostly buildings in tho new distriot thut went down, but they were thoss on the border moroly, Thouo fow went down, but befora dolug so hold the fire long enough in cheok to ongble tho Flre Department $o obtain anutrol aud finally to master it, 1t {s sufflolont to eay of the newly-built Obi. esgo that there l¢ uo dangor of & five origlnnt- {ng in that distriot over oxtonding, A firc may ocour, and & costly ouo, but there ia not as muck danger of its oxtondiog, with or withous wind, s there s of o like fire undor llke circumatan- cos In Now York. It iatrue wo Lavo nottho perfectly-organizod Fire Deparimons that oxlsts 1u Now York ; but we hive, in the now Ohloago, a0 abundsuce of water, wide streeta in whick to opartte, s & leige proporilon of the buildings JULY 20, 1874, providod with the nm'dy moans of self-defonso ! thiey ara boya ; if ttioy wish to pasa for mon, lob agninst firo from without, and for tho extin- gulshmont of firos occurring within, The eamo paper says that tho *flremen ds- sortod tholr engines booause * tho firo began to soorch thom,” which is no$ true, mor istho other assortion, that *“throwing away thros ca- gines at tho hoight of tho dangor was perfootly oharaoteriatio of the Ohlcage firomon." The fact Is that thore, was but ono ongine abandoned, and that only when an ofl-factory exploded, covering the ongino and tho flromen and all the adfolniog bulldings with boiling and blasing oll, The abandonmont of that engine undor such ciroumstanoes can hardly bo charged to cow- ardico. ‘We admit that our Fire Dopartment wanty & roorgunization, and noeds to be removed from clty politics, To do this in full legal form will roquire Stato logistation, which eannot be had bofore January next. In the meantimo, what is done in tho matter of roformstion must bo dono by the unanimous and voluntary consent of tho prosent managomont, which must continue in loga! control until displaced by law. Tho Jour-~ nal of Commerce concludes hy soving: Obicago a loved and sdmired all ovor tho Unfon— thio more when sbe suffors and shows that sho is strong. In proportlon ma she hes hearty friends, she imust expect to bo leotured for pormitting the beanti- fal clty to stand in imminent perl of total deatruotion at overy high wind, through tho gross incompotenco of firomen and ho haato and folly of builders, Yor all this Chicago s not only grateful, but we think will ovinco that gratituda in the zeal ond encrgy with which she will sddrces heraolf to correct the glaring errors of tho past. DBo- foro anothor jasue of this paper, the Olty Gov- ornmont will Liave takon the impoctaut step of prohiviting the orection of another wooden building in the city. This is somothing. It will in afow yoars work such a roform thatthe present frame bulldings willrapidiy dissppear, to mako room for moro substantial dwollings, workshops, and stores, Sho will also reorganizo her Polico and Firo Dopartmonts, separating them from politics, and making them equal to, it not botter than, the like dopartmonts in any othor city of the United States. THE COLLEGE REGATTA, Tho regatts wos not an nnmixed muccess. The two postponements wero annoying and ex- ponsivo to tho groat crowds that had gathored at Baratoga, and ospecially to those of tho visit- ora who had neither the time nor tho money for more than & sniglo day'a plessuring. Thoe so- noyanco esused by tho unexpected delay was in- orcased by the suspicion that it was nob abso- Tutely unavoidsble. Amorican audioncoscan on- Quro with good grace any disappolnimont that i honestly brought about, but thoy cannot for- give \trickory or sharp desling. They ave doubly injured when they, are overreached, ~firut, by boing cheated, and mext, by an impu- tation mpon their sagacity. That thers {s just ground for entertaining suspicion in rogard to the sacond postpounoment of the race is $00 op- parent. Men who have 'lived In Saratogs, and aro scoustomed to tho weathior of the placs, warned tho Colleze Committon that & o'clock in tho afterncon was an- unfortunately to hour, Bubuequent eventa fully verified the prodictions § and, ovon if this had not boen the caso, it is evident onough that an entira day's time should not hisve boou risked on tho chancos of tho even= ing. Wedo not beliove that the managers of the regatta mado any corrupt agreement, nor is it at all likoly that the hotel-keepars had much opportunity. to influouce their decision; but thore are many porsons who do believe that the second postponement—and peshape tho first— ‘was part of a deliberato schome to ewindlo the visitors for tho bonoflt of the townspoople. Al will admit that the postponomonts were unfor- tunste, and in thomeelves provonted the eom- pleto succoss of tho rogatta. Another and greator mishap coourred in the raco. Betwoon tho miloand half-mile flags thora wag s foul. Whether Yalo ran inte Hurvard, or Harvard ran into Yalo, will probably nover be Xknown. Tho judgos decided aftorward that Harvard could pot ho allowed a foul on Yale on account of the rule which provides that * evary boat shall stand by its own accidents incarred during the raco”; snd that Yale conld mot be allowed o foul on Horvard becsusa tho former had departed from its own water, and crossed 1ts competitar's. Yale dropped out of the raco, and Harverd camo in third. We do no$ place ‘much stress on the statomont of Capt. Cook, of the Yale crew, to the Associated Pross ogent. By his- own socount, he wag hallooing sud taunting his opponents, and labor- ing uader jutenge excitoment when tha foul took place. Heis not o trustworthy witoess on his own behalf. Capt. Dana, of tho Harvard crew, will doubiless make up just as protly a story from his standpoint; and tho one explanation will balance the othor. Another claim of foul is mado by tho crow of Wesleyan Collego, which camo in second, against that of Columbia, which carried off the first bonors; butit is generally Qlsatlowod, All ‘tho ~sccounts that havo como. to hand agreo in nothing so rmuch a8 in concediog that Columbia won the race by strong pulling ond pluck, Thero wag no special divine work about it. Tho Yale men are the most disappointod at the rosult, and tho least roady to yiold honor where it is due. With a suporciliousncss that was poaitivoly ill-bred, Cspe. Cook virtually mado tho assumption that Yale would have como in firat if tho ncoidonc had not occurrod; and then, with shocking bad manners, and in considerablo heat, ko challenged Huarvard to another trisl on Monday, This action can only be pardoned to the silliness snd pnssion of youth, If tho Yalo crow is dissatisfled with its position, and beliavos that it falled of succees by accideat, the proper thing to do is to cballenge Columbia, Evon this would be & boylsh thing to do. Tho dofianco to Harvard indicates nothing o sarely a8 ill-feeling. Wo ¢hink It wiil bo generally admitted that the regattn this yoar has not beon the grand suoccess which overybody looked for. Baratogs was too much for it in tho firet place; and tho partici. pants conapired togothoc to sepoll in a great mensnre what good there wau loft, A genoral and good-natured commont on the reco and the dlaputes is thet they were thoroughly boyish, Professlonal oarsmon foul asewall a8 colloge crows, and thoy aro much bottor maunorod afterward. Thoy do not blubber ovor a dofeat. They do not betray tholr smarts by & demand: for » uew trinl on the spot. Tho collogo orows, oithor bocause thoy are elumsy or ill-disposed, foul much moro froquently tban the profos. slonale, Wo thiuk i¢ls witbin bounde to say thiat tho majority of races botweon colloge eyows have ended in rows, And this is true of tho racen betwoon Yals and Harvara alone as woll an of thointorcolloginto rogattus of the laat threo yonrs, What the public want, and what tho college alumnl eupoclelly want, is that thore should be au end of this podly wrangllng, It hoys will ba boys, bt I be nnderciood that thom act like mon, Tho publlc doos not earo to look on at boys’ play, RAILROADS IN WIBCONSIN AND ELSE~ WHERE, Oalamitios ofton fall most Lioavily upon thoso least ablo to boar thom. Tho rallway condlic illustraton this. Who are tho sufforers by It? Not tho speculators who “ware intended to bo burt, They ara tooabrewd iolold sccuritios which any political majority can render doubttul, The blow falls upon the workingmen, They aro disehiarged by thousands bocauso the compenics can no longor employ thom. Harssscd with costly logislation ata tms whon all businoss iy doprossed aud earninge aro correspondingly light, the companies are forced lo reduce expensos. This can most readlly be domo by Aiminkhing tliolr forco and stopping all improvements. Within the past month, single Olicago com- pany has boen compelled to discharge ovor 2,000 mon, the majority of woom woro mochauios, Tho other companios bave lkewiso out down, No Westsrn railway Is this yoar buying steol ralls. Asa rosult, sll the rolling- mills, oxcopt thoss doing 8 littlo ro-xoll- ing of old iron, sre standing fdle, while nosrly every furnsco is out of blast, Cor-manufsc- torios and Jocomotiva-worls are in tho eame tor- pid stato. Ordors for now equipmont have beon recalled, and it 18 & dopressing taot that englues and cars can now bo bought at the works for the prico the material cost. The Union Depot pro- Jooted for tho Wost Side, whick had progrossod 80 far that articlea of asgocintion wore drawn up snd signed by the Alton, 8t. Paul, Michigan Contral, Burlington, and Northwostern Com- panies, i now practically abaudoned, ana, ift o law laid down in Wisconsmn ig suatninod, the componios will doubtless adhero to thelr bollef, that the presont inforior ‘structures are quito good enough for thoso who make such lawa. Lot it become known in monoy-centros that investments intho West aro dependont upon tho will of the popular assomblics, and no capitalists will bo so deluded as toplaco their monoy at the mercy of politiclans, We have Leon shown & letter received by ono of our oiti- zons from s New York bankor, the agent of for- eignors who have investod some $830,000,000 in Westorn railway eccnrities. Tho rocont Wis- consin decision atrikos him thus: If thot fs United States law, tho couatry wili aurely find out tho evil of it when it 1s too late, Repudistion 18 bad endugh, but to be robbod on tho ahallow pro- touse of such a clanso in the Stato Constitution i something far warse, and 80 It will bo held, not onty sbroad, but slso by every European bapker in thls couniry, Bince October, 1870, tho coupond on somo ,000,000 of ratirasd bouds Lova been left unpaid, and tho loss fatls vory hard on Europs; but 1o single caso will be thought to compure with tho efforts of the ‘Winconstn Loglalatura to rob tho innoceut stock and bond bolders, Wo hear much of extortions, ctz,, but why, If thoy oxiat, does not tha law attack thoso ubnses instead of cemmnitiing wholssals conflscatlon 7 Farm- ors muy say what thoy plosse ; if they support poll. tiefans who apanly 2dvocote whet common sensa must toll them 1s indquitous and ungust, they maka them- selves reapousdblo for their dolngs, and will find out 1o bad cansequencos & surcly aa therois 4 sun in the Lieavans. Bupposo tho chcoper rajes domanded zre se- oured, what ia 1@!&0|y to fallow? ‘The companics will not furnish Sret-class sccommodations for domandod prove as unprofitable as it is afirmod they would, then all improvemont would cense. No now enterprige would bo started to competo {for o losing trade, nor would thoss existing ba able to improve their property, however much they might desire to do so. Tho public would look in vain for spacious dopots, additional steel rail, and suporb equipmont. Tho supply and maintenance of #heso give omploymont to hosta of workingmen. Btagnsto this indastry, and all the manufactories, Jocomotive and car works, axle, spring, and wheel foundries, and thohuondred other entorprises oreated by and de- pendent upon tho prospority of railwaye, arocoz- respondingly erippled. Tho moment they stop worlt tho ery will be heard from thousands of ‘humble households throughout theland. ‘Thore is one singular fact tobe stated concorn- ing the political phago of tho fight in Wisconsln, Tho Ropublican presascom to bo evenmore voho- ment In pushing tho railroads to oxtremitiea than tho]Reform nowspapers, Itisstrangothey cannot soo thos the Biate Government will promptly do whatever it can find Republican suthority for, and honeo will acquire all the advsutago that is to be gained from thio railrosd sorimmage ; for it will thus b cnabled to go baforo the poople and sy, ** Wo did all theeo things; thoso follows on tho other eide merely did tho bellowing while wo nohioved the victory.” It tho Ropublican pross can convince tho peoplo that Gov. Taylor is in doad earnest, aud iz doing s good thing, thoy (the peopls) will naturally conclude that it is best to koop him snd his friends in power and not run the risk of s change. On tho othor hand, there is » pretty strong foeling intho citica and towns of the State that tho Potter law has overdons the businces; that it was hasty and immature, sod is likely to do more harm than goodin the long run. But, while both political partiea ara florcaly earrying on the war, this fooling reinaing latent and ean find no expression. The Ropublican party might secure this vote by & more conssrvative tonain their public uitarances without losing auy considerablo fraction of their own proper atrength, but they do not scem to acknowlodgo the oxistonce of any such voto or fecling in the Btata, NOTES ON THE CANVASS, ‘Thae politioal Bfate Qonventiona ocalled at this timo are ; Dale, Jul Party, Placs, Prolfbiiion, Indiunspolls Tepublican. Geurgotown, Guinervative. Moutgomory Probibition, Lonsiug, Reform. * Topekn, Hopublioan, 'Now Orleans, Refornt, Lanaing, opublican, Harrlsburg, Couseryative, Nusvillo, Democratic, N Douocratie, . Duniocratie, Democratlo, Ropublican, Ropublican, Republlean. Col Topublicus, Minvesola, Indopendent, 8t, Paul, wvads, opuhiican, * Winnemacas, ‘Tho Democratio Btato Central Gommittos of Iilinols moets at Obicago, July 20, to detarmine turthor aotion, —Au Iudependont Roform Conventlon in oalled ot Indlanapolis, Aug. 12, to fill & vacauoy on tha Btate ticket, vice Noyca B, White (for Bocretary of Biata), withdrawn, The Indianapolis News nuggests that this Convention, while monding ths tioket, may profitably mend the platform. —Tho North Caroline, Kentucky, and Tennes- geo eloctions, all an Aug, @, aro next in order, North Carolioa elacts eight Congressmen, a Leg- islature, Judgos, elo.; also, by gonoral tioket, a Buporintendont of Publio Iustructlon, Kon- tuoly oleots Judicial aud County oftfoers; alkos by genoral tioket, a Qlerk of the Court of Ap- penls, Tonnessco cloots only County ofloers. Bous Kentucky and Tennoasea elect tholr Qone grossmon n Novembor, whon Tonuessso aluo eloots Governor aud Legislature, ~/Fhe Wilmiogton (N. C.) &tar, looking over {an proupaots of peading Comgresalosial alesiions seoond-rate componsation, Bhould the ratea. in the Houth, atrives at conolusions which we put n tabular form, an follows ¢ 43 cONuRERs, AATH COXGRESR, Lep, Opp. Qiap, Opv. Dolawa 1 . . 1 Maryland. 2 [ “ [ vi [3 [y 7 1 2 " 8 I 5 4 5 P 5 " H [ - ] 2 % i 1 [ 3 [ 3 [ 1 [ 1 [ . + 2 e - [] 2 . 4 3 9 Kentucky. 10 G 10 Totala. “ n n b t now vacant, (?{i&(‘&'i ot clestn Oongrossmen fn November, noxt year; all otbior Blatos aliuve named eloct this yosr.] ~In all the Houthern States the Civil Rights question excites bad blood; snd in North Caro- lina and Tonnoesco, whata tho Ropubliean party has had o vory considorablo white elemont, and whoro tho local campaign is now most active, Republican moaetings invariably brosk up im a row. InVicksburg, Miss,, thoro is & municipa eanvaes in progros, The Vieksburg papors apork of tho “ nightly assomblage of armod negroes,” and the Vioksburg Herald says s Tho Pickaburper roforrod yestorday to ihe remark of & negro woinan on the strost, to the effect, that, ““if our men will clean out tho Domocrata, we can take cara of tha while women 1* This {s no fsolated or idle romark, for within the last forty~ight houra & nogro man has, fu_ tho prestncn of witnesden, given utterance to the following attroclous sontimont: * We do not depend upou thu negro men, Whtlo they aro fightiug the while mon on thestrocts, the negro women will settie tho white ‘womeon sud childron st home{” ** + The world has Known, porhaps, atnong tho whitorace, sad in civilized Iands, no horrors like those of what Las been fitly called the “Tolgn of Terror.” Again, wo sy, fore- warned is farearuied. ~—All tho sorvile-to-Grant pspera in the North have publiehed that *ox-Chiof-ustice Loch- rano, of Goorgls, doclares for tho third term.” They omit tomtato tuat Lochrane was Gov. Bullook's Chief Justice, and they do not quoto from his lottor, It appears that the notorious Bam Burd, Postmastor of Atlanta, Ga., Las con- stituted bimsolf and others a Grant Club, to which Lochrans writos: As I bellove tho objoct of the olub has significance in fovoring Presidest Grant for a third term, I sm ‘with you, and all othors who desire to Lring about thin reauft. In two catopnigus 1 bsve been for him, and u o third T will hava gresiar zoal and enthus azm, ‘While Lochrano says $his of tho third term, he farther on gives bin reasons, eaying particularly of tho Civil Rights bill: 1 This land woitld bocome a deeert bofore the featuren of that bfll will bo recognized or_soquieaced in, Tho biood of the poople §a hottor than thoir braius, and come what may ju_copsequence, Sumnor's logacy will o logacy of tears to his felends, - It is fmpouslble to enforca any Iaw agaiust the dotormiustion of men, wotnon, and childron, axd to_make obedience to it by bayouols woulit bo o'make s desort of tho South, . , + Delioving President Grant to be opposed to inflicting thls outraga upen the Houth, and fealing aasured o Bis strength snd statesmonahip, and uggroeing with Dim on the financial aitustion and on the disposition which liaw warked his coursa in the recognition of Btate rights, I fosl s yast futorest in his re-alectlon, Gen. Bowoll, whoso namo indicates New En. glend origin, snd who was one of the fow *lead- ing minda™ in the Kollogg Legislatnra of Louis- inns, has croated a hubbub in the Kollogg camp. Tho Now Orleans Picayune says : Tho Goneral s, in some oue of hls mumerous apeeches, eniitted most herutionl dootrive, which has uuturally aroused grost {ndiguation among tho sable brothren, Ho dared to suggest the palicy of elocting to public oflice persous wlhio could resd snd write, giv- ing his own experianco of tho embasrasawents on comsultiees, whero, ua it froquontly happsaed in thu st Leglalatare, there were members who could not sign thuir names to roports, ' The culightened sayer- eigna of the Sixth District properly resontod Gom, Bewoll's aristocratio pretensions, and 0d to cull 1u the polics to suppress his altampt to disturb thd hurmony of the party, The Htlo colored sistoamsn who ails a8 Seustor from this District oven weat so far s to mpugn the integrily of the General, where- upon thst gentloman Winted the posalility that he would havo to sdminister to him vonio of thut whole- nowe discipline which i regarded us ceecntial in lncul- cating s propar reupeot foryand due approciation ofy thie villuo of the siato-pencil and the spoiling-book, At thda ntimution o detachment of the palice foll upan iho Genoral and bore him away. —1'hs faubful Posimostors who nominated Congressman Pratt, in Lown, tho otler day, re- fused to stultify their act by language condemn~ ing the Covgrossionsl sslary-grab, it was an oversight that' the mover of such & resolution wes nok expolled. But how came ho thore at all? ~The Rock Island Union (Republican) says the Cougressmen who run for ro-slection, this year, in tho Weat at ledst, ¥ill be incontinently emashod. Wa quota: Tho bugbesr of Democracy no longer frightons the maseod, aud they no lougar four that s vole syainat & Ropublican nomince s a vote in il intercats of treuson. The art of platform-makiug has attained to such porfootion that there ia no woll-detinod issue on principles, sud voters bogin to ook to nien for tho en~ forceinont of measures, 1t {4 in vain that party organs endoayor to smooth the ‘troubled tido,—in vain tliat party whips are cracked, Tho people aro vory much 1u carnest in their delermination o huve new mmon, —The Waterloo (Ia.) Heporter, s Ropublican papor, abhorring the party mauagement which forces Congrossmen on tho party for ro-olection, says soveral of them, in Tows, will got tha worsh of it, and conclndea : But a defeat, although to bo regretted, may not be tho worst thing that can bappen 1o tho party, and o fow leanony iu that diroction will teach aspiring or de- aigning men that the peopla have uome rights which ovan Congressional candidates ought to rospect, —The Nordisk Falkeblad, the loading Soandi- navian paper of Minuesots, says : Thie true indication nowis that the Secsndinavians, a3 hontat peoplo, will bolt 1f Mr, Dunnell or uny othor salary-grobber {a ronominated, and the only woy to savo tho Scandinavian votes for the Republican party 18 to ropndinte all salary-grabbera and other disroputi. bls mombers of the pursy and enter upoa & Dow puth of truo reform, honcsty,and-virtue, . . o the Republican party ia bout on committing sujuide this Tall by dovonriug it8 oW polsoiious oxerouionts it way not Lopo that tho Scandinavian vote this year, ta auslly, will como s an antidoto to its rovous, This trlok s tao stalo to take now, aud tho Sosndinsvians o hoartily tired of the sawe, - —Lloyd Lowndos, Jr., accldentally a_ Ropub- tican Congressman of Alaryland, coucludey tuat 1o won't yun for re-eloction. ~—The timos domand that ali salary-grabbors, ot whatevor political ereed, bo sent to the back- ground. Honesty snd economy domand that tbey bo made an examplo of ; while all ourho of national greatnoss in the futire domand that thoy roceive the brand of puhlio disapproval. By only ruch & course will stardy honeaty drive out imbeollity and corruptivn, and the grand ex- periment whioh was startod on American_soil oarly 100 years ag0 prove % succoss,—St. Paul Fioneer. —There is astrong gupuhr domand for new men in Congross, who havo not been wading in tho mire of salary-grabs,. Credit Mobilier, and kindred steals, Bunborn eontracts, oto, Tho men who douounced and_yoted agalnut the esl- ary-grab as a robbory, and thou quistly pocketed the swag, made » moro discroditable record than the Butlors, who indulged in no Pockemittian oulogies of & virtue they did not possess. ‘Iho utroam canuot bepurer than its source. During the past_sossion of Congross the olements ai- tractod shither by tho scent of tho spoils wore kept at bay by tho stroug foreo of ?x“bun indig- nation, formed aad orystallized by the exposuros .made by tho independent pross. Bat the old lowvon is etill there. Tho corrupters sull throng tho lobbles, aud the men whoss garmonts reok with the foul odors of the Forty-socoud Congross stll await opportunity to bo” corrupted auew. ‘Pho burglar whom vigilant police surveillance foraos to s honest 18 no less & thief, Ho ia still the samo burgiar, though bho fold his Lends voroms his branst and assumo = look of fnmo- couco. The Cougressman who plunged hawd- loog into rascally schemes, not droaming of ox- poutirs, bas not changed his nature. Kepeatod BXposiro hina taught Ifim caution but not honor. Tho evil brood ehonld be cast out, and in their stead should be placed men possessing old- fashioned idoas of honor and publio duty. The Ml;lln aro ripo for tho chango,~Alemphis Ava- cho, : —Ar, Dlaino is easlly the boatakatoronthinice to bo fouud in coutomporary American politics, e {6 ot onco suillful and graceful, prudent, sud ;}Adm(%un".‘ It ll:l an imlt,r'n‘nm pleasure to watoh im,—, oan. ~Marshall Jewell's politioal rocord daten back to ‘m?‘sl.—‘ Tound #ix ynms.‘ It néll (bcau:l:'lhuul;u B tho sonior in sarvice of most of ut's coun- wolors, who aro usunlly ploked up from the wilds of New Jorsoy or tho probate courts of Msasa- chiasetts, sud who aro #o little known that their nAmou aro »_novolty till their doeds intumous.~ Utioa Observer ——————— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, New Youx, July 10.—Arrived steamera City of cl.uwm-i Adflatlohund Egypt, from Liverpool; France from London, i Hov’mm;vwl:l. Jullz “}u.—swsmnhlp Kermaon, from Now York, arrived, QuesneTows, July 10.—~Beamship INlinols, from Philadolphia, araved. Movyix, July 10.—Bteamship Biale of Vir inis, frow New York, arrivads BEECHER-TILTON, Mr. Wilkingon’s Testimony Be- fore the Committee of Inquiry. - Ho Makes Serious Reflections upon !lr. Tilton’s Characters Alleging that Tilton Offered a Com- promisa for Moneg, The Tripartite Argument. as Originally Drawn and as Signed. Nogotlations Between Bowen, Beecher, and Tilton, Letter of Tilton to Bowen---The Whals Scandal Revealed. 4 Real Natare of Tilton’s Acousation Against Mr, Boocher, Snectal Dirpateh to The Chisage Teibune, New Youx, July 19.—The only oftfeisl copy of any evidonce bofare tho Boechor Committes which bas besn made publis sppoared in the Herald this morning, from Mr. Samuel Wilkin- son. It appenrod without the consent of tho Committes. Wilkinson s given to surroptitiona publications. It was he who caused the publle cation of tho tripartite treaty hotweon Boocher, "Tilton, and Bowen, in whiah thoy agroed to keap tho scandal secret. Wilkineon is & partner in ho firm of Ford & Co., publishors of Boocher's paper, the Ohristlan Union, and naturale ly appesrs antagonistic to Bowon aud Til- ton, In hia {estimony he bluntly acousca Tilton of blackmailing Beocher, and declures Bim to have boen actusted throughout by mer- cenary motives. His statement bofore ths Commuttos is as follows, in full : TOK TESTIMONY. *‘In the Iast wook of Masch, 1873, Theodore Tiltou came to my office in Now York and took out of his pocket & worn press-proof of a lotter, which, ho #aid, he purposed to publish In tho woxt fesuo of Lis paper, the Goldon Age, unloss Hopry Ward Boscher did him justics. He hsud- od it to mo to read. Ho said that he came to mo bocause I had an intorest in ite publicstion, through my property in tho Ohristian Usion nowspapor, of which Mr. Beechor was oditor, and, througli my partnership in the houso which published his books, and becanse I waa & come mion friend of himself and Mr. Boschor.” Ar. Wilkinson bore submittod s copy of Til- ton's famoun letter to Bowen on his dismisaal from the editorship of tho Independent, in which Bowen's chargos sgainst Mr. Boochor nre roitem ated, Thia waa published in tha carly pmt of 1873, and was really tho beginning of the soanw dol. Atter clting this, Wilkinson gosson: “X was shocked at tho MIBCHIXYOUSNESS OF IIX MATTRR e threatened to publish, and remonstratod with Lim sgainstits publication. A disoussion en~ soed, onhis part passionate snd poisy, Ha complained first that Henry O, Bowen had, with~ out cause, dismissed him from the editorship of the Independent and the Brooklyn Union, and ruined him in fame, prospects, sad ostate ; that hehsd crowned this wrong by rofusing to psy him s largo debt for editorial servicea of whioh he was in pressing nood, compolling him tobring suit to colleot the amount. His next complaint wag that Mr, Boechor had not helped him in his troubles, Ho said that he waslving orushed on the eidowalk in Hrookiyh undor the mis- fortunes, of lomng his positions on tro papera s0d the incomes derived from them, with tho sccompanying loss of publio respeot and confidence,—n loss, in & word, of the entire “stored-up capital of his life-carcer, and that Mr. B ecchor, who hnd such power that with his little fingar ko could have lified him up and rotnstated bim, saw him 1IN 1118 AGONY AND BUIN, and paesed by in aileuco and indifferenoo on the other side of the way. Rising into dramstio rage, tramping my room from corneor to_coruer, and spesking with intonso passion, bo daclared, *I will have revengo oa him. I will pursue Lim into his grave.’ 4Tt was oloor to me that what Mr, Tilton wanted 'waa monoy, snd that his purpose in coming to ‘ma Was o raise money.” [Owmitting furthar de- tails of the interviow, Mr. Wilkingon continuued. ] + Ho loft my offico calm aud happy at the proi- pect of tho arrangomont I oull.ilmxz that should immodiately givo him in hand, without the de- Iays of & contest atlaw, the money Mr. Bowon owed him, and that- would restore hiu old rela-~ tions to Mr. Beocher and Mr. Bowen, sud pro- curo for him rostorativo and flattering mention in the oditorial columps of the Independent, and causo to be ineorted editorially in tho Christian Tnion such handsome notico of hia newspapor ;ymrpfise wa should o4 once gratify end protit im. THE TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT. “\7has is somewhat wellknown as tho tripartito agroemont came from tho negotiation intimated aftor this interviow. Befdre it was drafted, bub after its_torms were sottlod, Mr. Bowon agrecd to pay Mr, Tilton forthwith tho amoout of unpaid salary for which he had brought suit. He_ likewiso promised $o publish & card 1o tho Independent, over his own siguature, thut should ropair, as fully ss it conld, tho injury done to Mr. Tilton by dismissing him from that psper. Ou tho night of tho 2d of April, 1872, when the. tripartito ngroomont was ready for signsture, Mr, Lilton waa ina happy frame of mind, In conversation bo especially overflowod with love aud admiration Booohierwards, 7This tripartite nfraemanl, T in- tendod to bo an estoppol to two of the particsto it, and a concordat all around,” THS OBIOINAL AGREEMENT. Mr. Wilkinson hore gives tho text of the original agroomont, which differy matorially from the one finalty :'lsned. DBoweu, in tho original, was to have doclared that ha know Sothing dorogatory to_Doeatior's re‘fm(n(un s » clo What ha did eny was that bo koow mo_resson why he could not shako hauds with Boechor. e was to disavowr the charges in ths Tiltoo letter aliuded to, and declaro &em unfounded in fuct, He onlyagrood finally, in tho signed troaty, to withdraw and nover repeat tho charge. ‘The following is tho original section which Tilton wea to agroo to: ], Thoodore Tilton, raturning of my froo wik toaman whom I iavo revered andloved as a fathier, thus rencw and CONFIRM MY PAITH IN DEECHER as & grandly good and generous man, I, too, disavow osch and allof the imputatiove aud charges in the said aonoxed lottor, repoatud and contained; and any snd all othor imputatious on his charsoter and conduct, which hava bean said to come from me, I vow and covenant never to ropeat or renow,” ‘What ho finally signed was an sgreement nob to repeat Bowon’s chargos again to snybody. Wilkinson, resuming, saya: - “MThis paper was read st s moesing of four tiemon, of whom 3lr, Tilton was ons, at wy ouse in Brookiyn, He waa miore than aatisfiod with tho paragraph eonceroing himsolt—he was charmod wish it, He said ho could con soioutiously and hoartily subsoribo hig name to.evory word of it, Ho eaid e would sign it twolve times over, if that would induce Mr, Bowon to sigu it onco, in biy engoerness, ho took up thu pen to sigo, but he was reatrained hlo(hn suggestion of & whie inflnontial party to the conforence, that M3, DOWEN MIGNT DE Lu#s WILLING to wign the papor, it M. Tilton shonid sign i fivat, sud 14 waa carried away withouk Ar. Til- ton's signatuto, “In & tull and kind conversation bstwesn ma un and & mau. " and Mr, Tilton, atter tho meetivg on the ulgut of April 3 broko up, heroplied to & cloar-out quos- tion that I pus to him, that the only wrong Ar, ochor hed ever doue him, en 1o sodrose impropor lauguage to his wife, snd for that he hz}d n his fln an amplo sud satistsctory written apology. 4 repoatod to him tho mention of graver lnjury, told me by other pasony whose_information waa alleged $o be dertved, ix part, dircetly from himuolf, aud, In fact, 8t second nand from tho oconfossion of his wif ‘With graat apirit be denisd the truth of both thure statementt, Ho called my Informavt sl wsoond band, & vexuaily --u.i emaniss,