Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1874, Page 4

s TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TRAMS OF BURBCRIPTION l’l!l““-l m lDVAl::)-flg Datlg, by mal, () 18und g Rt by uait..... 81800 o0 pXit Paria of a year at th san0 rato. o provoat delay snd matakos, ho aure and give Post Of:conddressIn foll, fosluding tate snd County. mittances may bo uade eitlier bydratt, expross, Fod Officsordor, or in roghtored letters, st our risks TENMR £0 CITY SUDSCTIDLAS. Datly, deliverod, Handsy excopted 35 conte por wook, Daily, doltvored, Sunday included, 20 cants por waol Addross THI TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Coruor Madinon and Desrborn-sta., Ubleszo, Iile TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY O MUSIO—Halstod atroe hotween Nlfl' ! Job illon. His 1DING—Lakeshore, foot of Adams R foonlight."* Attornuon and ovouing. RX] atreoes O by SOCIETY MEETINGS. KNIGHUTS!-Stated conclave of O ymTe NS G, his (Ftoniny) Sron: d work on K. jng at 8 0'olnck, at Anylam, for b n l“n‘ll d work on B g g S L okt e ] BUSINESS NOTICES. DAMAGED MIRRORS RESILVERED BY OWI~ o a4 Dossbr 10 81,00 INVESTED 1N STOCKS AND G e Bond for paxticulars. TUN AT oL 0" Faors, 3 Walla.: Now York. The Chicage Teibune, Tuosday Morning, July 31, 1874. Tho Connoit had o busy thme of it Inst night. Ald. Cnmpboll waa there aud nowhero at one and the samo tim ] Bomo reading worth tho while will be found {n tho address of the Citizens' Committee to tho Common Council last night. Tho Conscript Fathors came down handeomely whon thoy honrd it. e ———— Mr. A. O. Hosing prosonted the Board of Trado petitlon for an extonsion of tho fire-limits to tho Council last night. Two years ngo, Mr. ‘Hosing—it s surprising that o man of 80 much Intelligencs 0s Mr, Mesing ghould have been ‘whero Lis was two years ago. e ———1 Reno, Klokke, Sheridan, and Ayars sont & communication to the Couucil last evening seking an appropriation of $328,000 for tho roorganization of the Firo Dopartment. How the Commissioners would like the fingering of that monoy. The city could afford fo divide it smong them, if they would tonder their rosignn- tions a8 a quid pro quo. P A rovolting and torribly fascinating crimginal coso is that of the boy Pomeroy, in South Bos- ton, who has confessed to cutting in pioces govoral small childron becauso he was impolled to it by somo unknown force. Heo simply Lad fo doir. Annccountof tho habits of the boy's mother during prognancy, which may bo inter- psting to physiologuuts, is given in the record of riminal nows this morning. One of the consoquencos of tho fire that will 1o generally regretted in the utter failuro of the attompt to raiso a fund for poor children's ex- oursions, Thero is too much reason to belleve that the firo has furnished & convonient protext for a rotreat to persons who simod at o reputa- tion for charity and yet woro unwilling to eam it by honest offort. Tue gontlomon who signed tho call for the meeting at which the poor chil- dren’s intercats were considered have virtually begged off from the fulfiliment of the obliga- tions thon assumed on a pleaof poverty. Nob onein ten of them loat a ponny by the fire, o e et Thore can no longor be anv doubt that the gov- erning power 1n this city is hoartily in nccord with the public sentimont oxpressed ab the meot~ ing of Baturday night. An ordinanco pnssed the Common Council last ovening making the fire ond city limits cooxtensive. This action was an- ticipated by the Board of Public Works at a ‘meeting in the afternoon, whon it was dotor- rined to yequire the immodiate removal of ol woodon buildings erected within the old fire- limits since tho fire of 1871, Now that the first movo in the right direction has beon made, wo ‘hope that there will be no rest until the end is reachoed. Tho reformation is but just bogun. The Hon. John M, Fraucls, late Ministor to Grecee, has undertaken the defense of ex-Gov. Bhopherd, and iu this bonovolent work he las omployed all tho massive onginery of the Troy Times. His zoalous, not to say Quixotie, deods of valor have drawn out an exprossion of grati- tude from Mr, Shepherd, in tho courso of which bho says: “It required a sacrifice to bo mnade to the Independent press, and it foll to my {fate” 8o tho Independ- ent prosy, after all, is sncrificed to by the pow- ors in Washington, The party leaders have boen telling us, aud trying to make thomselves beliove, thot thero wag nothing which they so littlo regarded as the journals outside of party influonces. Tho basting of Shopherd on the nltar of tho Indopendent press was s eight for gods and men, That was a eweet incense when his a4 ran in the firo, From our Europeau oxchanges we gather that tho stagnation of busincss ie general, the world over. A recent number of the Ecomomiste JFrancais entora into su cxamination of the cauacs of this stagnation in the several coun- trios. What it says of the causes producing Bur onn commerclal condition are eminently just. The writer in the Economistedoes not agree with those who attribute the stagnation of business mainly to the courss of Cougress on the our- enoy question. He shows that this stagnation i# o phenomenon not conflued to the United Btates, Xt exists in England, in France, In North and Bouth Germany. The cause must bo coox- tenaive with tho effect. TLocal conditions havo only & gecondary influence in depressing busi- ness, Tho wholo world it would seem is fooling ho offects of an extensive dostruction of capi- tal. Tho panic in this country has been ropeated in nearly overy country in Buropo; and the pres- ent commeroial siaguation is the consequonce, The Ohicago produce markots were slow you- terday, except pork, and breadstuifs wore easier, Mens pork was active, and $1.00 per brl higher, closing at! $21.20@21.25 cash or seller August. Lard was in botter demand, and o per per 100 s higher, closing at §11.87)¢@11,40 cash or soller August. Meats woro quiet and Jgo por Ib lhigher, at T3¢0 for shoulders, 03{@0%o for short xibs, 100 for short clonr, and 112¢(@120 for swoot plolled hams, Highwines were active and firm. at %o per gallon, TLake froights wero dull and woak, at 8@8%(o for corn {o Buffalo. Flour was dull and unchauged, Wheat was dull and ¥@1e lowar, closing wonk ot §1,10 cash, and $1.003¢ goller Auguat, and 81.16 for No, 2 Minnesota. Corn vas loss active, nud unchanged, closing st 62540 cash, and;013{o0 sollor Auguat, Oats wore in good domsnd, sod stronger) cloalng ab 5o THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1874, cashy, 483{a sollor tho month, and 363{o sollor August, Rye was quict, and 100 lowor, at 80c, Torloy was qulet and oasfer, at $1.00@1.003¢ cnalt, and £1.02@1.03 roller anlun;bun Hoga wero activo aud advanoed 100, Bnlos at 5,80 @0.00, Oattle and shoop ‘wore dull and weak, Thoro fs plonty of nowa from Cabn and Spain, but it Is evidently colored by tho romautio imag- uations of Spunish oficlals and Cuban bond- loldors ne to bo practically worthiess, TFor tlio novolty of tho thing, wo should like to Lavoe trustworthy advicosfrom the Onrlist war and tho insurroction. It is propostorous to bo told that the Onrlists aro ehooting one hos‘ago for overy homb thrown at Bilbao, and scaroely mors prob- nblo thnt the Spanish forcos in Cubo are muln- tnined by Amorlcans who bave lons upon the slnvos on the sugar plantations, and tuoreforo wish to provont tho succoss of the insurgonts ond the sbolition of slavery. Toroshina Mouemori, H. Q. J. M., Japanese Miniater of Forolgn Affairs, has written a lottor to bis Excollonoy J. A, Bingham, Envoy Extraor- dinary and Mistor Plenipotentiary of tho United Statos of Amarica, to say that the Japan- cse Government will take great satisfuction in moking known among its subjeots that on tho occaston of tho cuntonuinl anuiversary of Amert- can independonco thera will be opened in tho Unitod Statos an international exhibition. Io algo fiforma him that those who dosive to ex~ hibit Jnpanese productions, manufactures, eto., will rocetve from tho Government every assist- anco and convenienco for that purposo. A Noe tional Commission from Japan is to bo appointed to tuke charge of tho articlos to be sent ; aud that, in atl probability, & spocisl Commission will bo sont to co-oporate in the colobration of Amorlean indopondenco, and to demonstrate the friondehip of Japan for the United Blates. Japan moves. The Hon. Hugh McCullooh, eox-Socretary of the ’.l‘renury,'nngnged in what may be called an “opon™ conversation with a mows- papor roportor at Fort Wayne yosterday. Tho interviow is given in anothor column. BAr, MecCulloch’s views have bsen public property for many years past, yot s restatement of thom at this time is peculiarly rofreshing, and certainly worth the while. Public men are so apt at taking in o fresh stock of opinions aud castiug out the old, without giv- ing fair motico to thoir countrymen, tbat we camnot bo sure of anybody who doos ot go on tho record six times u yoar, Mr. McCulloch has struck out a lino that is in some rospecta now. e favors a return to spacic pay- mouts at tho carlicet day practicable. e does not, however, beliove that logislation to that end at tho presont time would bo expedient. He would havo the Government ‘“develop tho resources of tho country,” roproess speculation, and stimulate honest industry. In using this Innguage he would not Lo understood ns advo- cating a protectivo tariff. Tho kind of develop- ment” and “stimulation” which Mr, McCul- loch would like, {8 not very clear; we do not moan to bo ungoenerous in sug- gesting that it may comprohond, among othor blessings, s heavy subaidy to the Northorn Pacifio Railway. However this may bo, Mr, MecCualloch has cortainly mado n departure from his old record. Ho says that the timeto resume spocio payments was just at the closo of tho War, aud followa this up with the statement already noticed, that resumption at prosent is inoxpedient, The coherence of this argument s not apparent. THE REPUBLICAN ADDRESS, The Address of tho Ropublican Congressional Committoo to the people of the United States ia not a lively documont. It commences with o chaptor of ancient history, and not a vory on- tertaining ono at that, embracing a review of the pariod of Jackson, Voo Buron, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Piorce, snd Buchanan, Tho rescue of Martin Koszta and the war with Moxlco, are deseribed ns ‘“bullyiug” wonker Powers; the old Ostend Couferonca is repro- duced to show that there were dosigns on Cuba. It is claimod that it gives ** piquancy” to the story of tho Ostond affair to state that two of tho Ambassadors wore afterwards Rebels, but 1o mention is mude of the * piquant " fact that among the signers of this address is the namoe of at loast one of tho earliost and most conspicnons Rebels and Secesslonisty, Attontion iscalled to the fact that, during theso thirty years, European nations refused to rocog- nizo the right of their citizens to donationalize thomaeives, aud tho inforeuco is that tho Repub- lican party so frightoned the Powers of Europe that they abandoned that polioy. Hore istho Buggostion: Butafter seelng our pltiful army of 11,000 men mddenly swallen by volunteors to nearly o miilion, she (Great. Britaln) wisely concluded it was not worth while to fight anotlior war fn dofcnee of that principle, and by pesceful negotistion ko hos ro- pealod tho law slio g0 loug aud o obatinately held to Do irropeatublo, Germony hes followed that wiso ox- ample, o rathor kot the cxomplo, Boelglum, Swedon, Norway, and Denmark lisve dono the same, and now when tho Ropubllo geunts the boon of citfzousbip to ono of Irlsh, English, German, or Scandinaviun bizth, tho grant is recognized In the land of his nativity, Think how old Kaier William, and Queen Victoris, and oll tho other Kings and poteutates of LEurope, must have tromblod when our War waa over lost wo should invade thoir domiuions, and the algcrity with which they made the troaties recognizing tho doctrine of oxpatriation! It is & singular commont on this bit of childish gasoonado to stato that nenxly, it not all, theso treaties woro made with European Powers by Aundrew Johanson, and not by tho Ropublican party at all, The same address recalls the Dom- ocratio abandonmont of **54:40 or fight " in the case of tho Oregon boundary, and in tho mattor of tho northoast boundary, though we believe it was My, Wobstor who sottled the latter; it do- nounces the Domocratio party bocauso, spending only * from fifty to scventy-flve millions of dol- lars per annum,” it dared not levy & tax * exoopt on tho importation of a ‘foreign commodity, aod It alvays droaded to tax tho im- portation of' a forolgn commodity lost it might tdwillingly promote somo domos- tic {ndustyy,” Tho address truthfully contrasts this with the actionof the Nepublican party, which bravely lovies taxos that would not be tol~ erated in any country in Europe, and which has inoronsed tho owrrent exponsus of the Govern- ment fn time of peace from 800,000,000 or $75,000,000 & yoar to nearly €300,000,000, A large portion of tho addressis devoted to the early history of the Louisville & Portland Oanal; to the fact that thoro was, during that poriod of thirly yenrs, a small armyand an inexponsive wavy, It omits to montipn that tho money stolon by tho Credit-Mobilier socloty from the Government and the people oqualed in tho ag- grogate tho wholo cost of the Mexioan War, including the purehisse of Now Mexico and Cal- Ifornls. Tho Fugitive Slave law of 1850 i slso disoussod, sy & repronch to the thiriy yoars of low taxos, and this, too, despite tho fact that among tho signers of the addross aro some por- sona who volunteored to oxconto that act. Among tho nohiovemonts claimed for the Ro- publican party is that tho rates of postago to ail parts of the world (oxcept Franco) hnve boon roduced, *The presont rates of Amerienn post- age wore fixed bofora the War; tho rates of postago in Buropenn and other countrics liave boen reducod by tho Govorumonts of thoso countries, and with this reduction tho Republi- con party has about as muoh to do as it bad with the arrival and departure of tho Inst comet, Among thie itoms claimed for the Ropublican party {s tho incrensa of population since 18003 tho addition of 80,000 miles of railway minco 1801; tho Pacifio Rallway, including, of course, tho Crodit Mobillor ; and that in 1861 the nation owod but aixty millions of dollars, and sold ita bonds at 984 conts (gold) on the ovo of a re- bollion ; and now, in 1874, nine yoars after tho War, the samo bonds are worth $1,10 (ourrenoy) ; and this, tho addroes suye, shows that in the thirtoon yonra aince 1861 tho Governmont has “advancod ite crodit througout the monoy markots of the world fully 33 por cent™! Tho object of all this review of the natlonal bistory is to show the people that the only sal- ‘vatlon of tho country is to eloct nothing but le- publicaus to Congross this fall. The addross promiges that, if his be done, the Republican party will rogulate rallrond freights without legislation, aud do something for the currency 88 soon as thoy can agroo upon a policy. It will etrike the rendor ns a signifionnt fact that the pame of the [Prosident is montioned but once in tho address, and that ho is not indorsed or commonded in tho faintost manner. Mo is s muoh ignorod as is Audrow Johnson. Tho nddress it~ solt s an nnti-Grant Ropublican appesl to tho people to ra-elect tho salary-grabbera of tho 1ast Congross ; and, to induco the people to do this, tho nddress asks the votors to consider tho Fugitive Slave law, the Koszta cago, tho north- unst boundary, the Rebellion, and the Adminis- tration of James K. Polk, THE FOURTH ILLINOIS DISTRICT. The Fourth Congrossional District of Iilinols, composed of the Counties of Kane, DeKalb, McHenry, Boono, and Winnobago, will soon be in o turmoil. Preparations are making for call- ing tha Ropublican Congressional Convention, and the ovent is looked for withanxioty by many. Fora long time a Ropublican nomiuation in this district has been equivalent to an election, but it is not so regarded now. Four yeats ngo Btoughton nearly defoatod Farnsworth, and two years sinco Hutlout, . though olocted by a large majority, chn thank his fortane that ho ranin o Presidential campaign, also his ialo ot large majorities would have been sensibly curtailed. This district being thickly sottled bas a largo number of office-liolders. From long-continued success thoy have become a phalanx, almoat in- vulnerable in the primaries, snd when working in harmony csu haudle all the noisy aud looso clemonts in politics—tho class that can always turn ont toa caucus and con furnish delegates trained to oboy commonds. The oftico-holders will use thelr influence to sccnre the renomi~ nation of Gen.Hurlbut,and they calenlate by tho uso of ol war-crios to lend the farmingcom- munity into support of tho regular nominece. Gen, Hurlbut aud his frionds are confident that with tho seal of the rogular nomination thoy cau curry the district. It is stated, however, that, should Turlbut bo renominated, tho frionds of Gon. Farnsworth, irrospective of party or provious coudition of gervitude, will nsk him to become a candidato upon a simple platform of his public record and woll-known views upon uastional affairs. It ie slloged that all tho charges ho Imd at the door of the Ropublican party two years slnce have ‘beon proved true ; and their amplo justification, and his efficiency as & parliamontarian, and his courage and roadiness os 4 debater, which made bim, perhaps, tho most ofiicient mémber on the floor of the Forty-second Congress, are now racolled with admiration by many who voted for Hurlbut two yoars ago. Ilo hos in every township active and enterprising friends who azo quietly counting up thelr forces, proparad, if doemod best, for & campaign that will make & more lively time than the Fourth Dustrict has ovor scen bofore. Should & hearty co-operation of tho oloments of the opposition bo offected, it would be pretty certaln to sweep the district. The past wook or 80 hasdevoloped yot another candidate,—to Hou. C. W. Marsh, of DoKalb,— who, it i said, will entor the lists for o regular nomination agalost Gon. Hurlbut, Mr, M., as a Stato Bouator, sorved with credit to his dis- trict and honor to himeelf, Ho is & man of good practical senee, littlo or no rhotorical display, but of good bearing. o has achleved position and woalth by his inventivo tatent, is a practical agriculturist, and has & numerons following of friends, He can carry DoKalb County, and make MoHonry at least doubtful: aud it is re- ported thut sovoral Kane Coumnty politicians have takon a contract to doliver its delegation to him provided ho can securo two othior countios. Winnebugo County has been restloss for yoars, and it is impossiblo to tell what its choice will bo, Meanwhile, s oumber of local candidates have holsted @ piratical flag, expecting to rocoive future coneidorntion from shomeosver may bo the victor. The real contest will iu all probability be botwoen Hurlbut, Marab, and Farnsworth. Bafety In a lurgo city from small or great fires must begin in tho construction of the buildings, It i to this point that tho ordinsncos of tho citlos of tho O1d World are directed, and no one thinks of violating thom. Talko s su example the way building is cone in Paris, where ime can rosido for months and scaveoly hotr un alurm of fire, much loss seo a conflagration, 1t tho ownor of alob detorminzs to improve it, ho makos lis plans, or hrs hin archicoct, ng hero, mako thom for him, 1o must then submit thom, with spocifications, to the praper dopart ment of the Goyornmont, If thu locaton of any flue, or any of the matorials proposed to bo used, or any doficit In auy part of the plan, would ba likely to cawis a fivo, an ordor is made to change the plan or tho ma- toriald 8o ns to insuro the greatest possiblo safe- ty. Then, aa tho building progroescs, o Govern sent Inspoctor viuits it conatantly, with spoaifi- cations {u hand, and no “glighting” on the part of owners or contractors ia toloratsd for a moment, These regulations have been in force for genorations. Kings, Emporors, and the Ro- publio slike coforco them, Ience, whon tho Commune hold Paris for weoks, nobody foared they would burn it down, The lttloe thoy did burn they wore obligod to saturate with petroe lonm botoro thoy oould effeot thely purpose, and then tho tire wont out. Wiion & fire oooura thore, both owner and tenw anb arohold $o wstrioh nooountsbility for dame ngos. Thoy must show that thoy aro not direot- Iy or indiroctly rosponsible for it. Morcover, tho ownor is liablo to parties on oither sido of him i¢ they aro damaged by firo originnting on his promises, Ionco oach owner Insuros nob only s own building, but the ono on onch side of him. This is no groat hardship, for tho cost of {nsuranco whoro suoch care is exorcised in tho constraotion of buildiugs is meroly & nominal suni. Wo nre quita suro there s more eapital rop- resanted and morobustnoss dono fu Insuranco in o singlo block on LaSnlle stroot than in all Parls. ‘Thera was probably more loss in this eity last Tuocsday than Paris has suffored by firea (not started by the Commune or by mobs) in tho prosent century, Ienco our past and futuro groat fires—and it is impossible for us as tho olty is now bullt to escapoe sovoral of them—must bo charged to our own rockless folly, With tho oxeoption of the wooden buildings and shinnties oroctod contrary to law sinco tho groat firo of 1871, Chicago must tako the chances on tho immonso number of firc-traps now in the clty; but thero will nover bo o better time to bogin to bulld on the Paris plan than tho prosont. Gradually the olty wonld thon approach s condition of compnrative enfoty. In tho meantime, it should do tho bost it canto guard agmnst futuro groat fires, MMuko tho fire-limits tho boundary of the city; establish a brond avenue around the main ‘business geotion ; make water condulits from the river ou cithor side for half a mile; reorganize eud atrongthon the Fire Department ; in fuct, do overything that con be dono to put out tho fires whoro they aro suro to ocour; but lot us profit by the experiencoe of Europoan ¢itics, and build in the future so that in a generation or two Chi- cago will boas sccure ogaivst firoas Paris, Rome, Borlia, or Vienna, THE IHDTHEHMAL&%BOEY OF INTEMPER- Tho igothermal theory of intemperance was first solontificnlly defined by the Massrchusotts Board of Hoalth in its roport for 1871, Its Chair- man, the well-known Dy, Bowditch, of Boston, contributed to that roport a papor in supportof this theorowm ¢ Intemporanco provalls tho world over, but it a vory raroat the aquator, Tho tondency iucrcases sccord- ing to Iatitudo, becoming moro froquent, and more Drutal and disstrous fn its offccts on man and so- cdoty, a8 wo npproach the northern rogions, By collating correspondonco from many points, Dr. Bowditeh came to the conclubion that man would driuk something alcoholio; that a curo for his inclination to drink could not be found ; and that the bost prevention consisted in tho supply of baer, alo, and light wine, to the oxclusion of liquor, properly so-called. We bisve commonded this theory, from timo to time, a8 ono which was supported by mouy facts, and which was o noeded instanco of sciontifio treatmant of & sub- ject that has dofled religious and political con- trol. % Certain woll-meaning advocates of tho State's enacting an Eloventh Comwaudment, **Thou shalt not drink,"” have found in the details wo gove on Sunday of tomperance-reform in Swoden and in the recently reported fact of growing mn- toxication in Japan crushing argumonts againat tho isothermnl theory. * Sweden,” they eay, “is north of the lino of 50 dog. monn sn- nual temperature, which, according to this thoory, matks tho soutbern limit of the zono of drunkonness; yet SBweden is throwing off tho vice. Japon is eouth of that line; yot Japan is acquiring it. The idesis therofore nonsense.” The objectors are too confident. Tho framors of tho isothermal theory did not consider it s thoe statement of o grinding, inevitable fact, which, as the Baltimora American puts it, ¢ doomod Swoden to otornal drunkouness.” They rogarded it as tho statement of a tendoney, which might be modifled by raco, education, logislation, and othor cuuscs. Dr. Bowditeh, in summing up his essay, says : Intomperanco & modifled by race o . Races may bo cducated to evil by bad laws or by tho fntro- duction of bud lubits, . . A ruce, whon ft emi- grotas, carzlos its Lubits with i, oud, for otimeat least, thoso biabits may overrido all climatfo law, These, and otker, qualifications, all of thom fally oxpressed by Dr. Dowditch himsell, servo to oxplain tho exceptions to lisrule. Take tho two ousos already cited, Sweden and Japan. Drunkenness hus decreased in tho former undor rogulating, not prolubiting, laws, undor careful moasures to secure purity in liquor, under n higher tone of public opinionon the question of drink, All thoso ageucios for the supprosaion of tho vico are mentioned by Dr. Bowditch., ‘Tho story about intemperance in Japau rosolves itselt into the fact that English and American sailors havo beon ropeatedly arrosted in Yokohama for crazy drunkonnoss, Tho final sentence of our last quotation from the Board of Hoalth's ro- port explains this excoption to tho rule, That rulo is not, by the way, that thero s no drunk- enness bolow the isothermal line of 50 dog. and oternal drunkonness sbove it. It is that this vieo is moro common above than below, and that the farther from the equator a man lives the more likely he is to drinlk to oxcoss, We hiave beon thus particular in meoting the objections to the isothormal theory, drawn from Swedon and Japan, bocause that theory forms, a8 wo liave sald, almost the only sttempt as sci- cntific trontmont of & subject which belongs wholly to scienco and not at all to religion or polities,—as the word *polities” s used now, o man who bas not studied that theory is com. petent to holp framo o liquor law, yot weo doubt whother one out of a hundred of tho legislators who have lately been busy in making such lows hos over hoard of the isothermal tho- ory of intemperanco, The adjective would prob- ably floor Lialf of them at tho ontsot. S ——— AMERICANS MARRIED ABROAD, A rocont decision mado by a Fronch Court, tho Tyibunel do la Seino, holds that marringes sol- emnizod at the rosidonco of o foreign Minister, residont in France, aro not marringes at all. By a flction of mternntionnl law, the residenco of an Ambaesador or Alinistor is considered for core tain purposes part of tho territory of the coun- try ho ropresonts. It hos been somotimes thought that & porson married ab the Ambassa- dar's housio was, in contomplation of law, mar- sried in tho Ambaseador’s country. It isnot un- usual for Amerlcans marrying abroad, and mar- ryiug forelgners, to havo tho coromony celo~ brated at tho residenco of tho ' Amerlean Minister, -To thosd who kavo boon wmar- ricd in this way, to Fronch oitizens ot lonat, tho decislon abovo roferred to will appoar not & littlo utartling. Tho Frouch Court holds that an Ambnssador's residence is to bo consid. ored the toyritory of the Stato hie ropresents only in respoct to dipiomatio scts, Its oxira-terrl- torlality doos not extond to olvil aots affooting the citizens of the countyy to which tho Ambas- sador i ncoredited. A marriage contracted nta Minioter's resldonce botween & French woman nsd & forelgner hna no exlstenco, on account of tho incompotenoy of the forelgn oflicisl who nolemnized i, Tho Aotion of oxtra-territorlality 1a oonfloed to the Minfater lumself, to his fame ily, and tho agonts apnointod by his own Gov- ornment, In Fronoh juriuprudenco the privi- logo doos not oxtond to persons of tho samo nationality ns tho Jinister, but withont auy diplomatic charncter, and only at— tachod to his sorvico, Much lows can it be ox- tondod to porsons of n difforont nationality. Tho Ambnsendor himself and thoso attached to tho Embassy might cousidor it foreign tortitory, and draw up docwmnonts thoro which would affect them only an if drawn up in their own country, but documenta drawn thore for any other per- on aro without clvil efect. In viow of this declalon wo ndvise sl our Ameriean frionds who biavo married Fronch wives or husbands ot our Ministor's residence in Paris to hinve the coromony porformed ovor again in thils country, losttho Tribuneldela Seine or somo othor tribunal shiould bavo the hnrd-heartednoss to inform them that tholr wodding-duy 18 in the futuro, BOUTH UAROLINA. Thomns J. Robortson, United Stator Bonator from South Caroliva, hns, in & rocont futerview with a roporter of the Chnrleston News and Courier, told what ho know of tho fooling of tho Presldent and of Congross, and in the North genorally, concorning aifaira in South Caroliua. Tho account ho has given is, on the whole, a vory Batisfactory one; such that it nffords ground to liopo that the roign of corruption in the Palmotto 8tate is drawing to a close, Mo told the full truth whon he eaid thas tho sontiment in the North is in favor of the homest poople of tho South and against tho corrupt Governmontof the Southern States, especitlly of Alsbams, Lou- isiana, Arkaneaa, aud Bouth Carolina. We are glad to boar from Mr, Robertson that ovon the Prositdent is disgusted with the mavner in which things havo been managed, and that, s far a8 in him lics, ho inlsta that the Republican party in Bouth Carolina shall purify itself, and that ho would rather sco tho Btste Government pass into the hands of tho Domooratio party than continue undor the corrupt control which had reducod it to its present despicablo plight. Senator Robortson eaid aleo that Congross was, it possible, moro sore abont the cor- ruption oxisting in the States of Lou- iglaun and South Caorclinn than the President. o accounted for tho snubbing of the south Carolins Tax-Payers’ Committee, last spring, by tho fact that, on the very day tho Com- mittoo called on bim, the President had boen shown a copy of Gen. Gary’s speech in the Con- vention, and that e was, on account of ik in & gruft humor. ‘This fooling of tho Prosident and of Congress, to which Sonator Robertson tosti- flos, 03 woll as the sentiment of tho Northern poaple, and the course of Repubtican papors like thie Now York Zimes and even Larper's Weekly, in condemning the corruptionist party in South Corolinn, aro all hopeful signs that abrightor day is about to dawn for that unfortunate State. ——— ALBERT GRANT, # Albert Grant, Liberal-Conservative momber of Parlinment from Kiddorminster, has been un-~ gontod for corrupt practioes in securing his clec- tion,” B8o tho cable eaid, a day or two since. The careor of this man points a morsl—to the disadvantage of Amorica. He is enormously wealthy, Thoe men who have bought from bim shares in countloss moonshine schemes aro not wealthy. His fortune i an apt exemplification of Proudlon's famous and foolish saving, “ Property is robbery,” By fowsting shem se- curities on the market, by propping up with his namo citics that wero laid out on paper, und railronds that locked tho first tie, and mines that piok Lo nevor touched, and morcantilo compa- nics thet traded in gullibility instoad of morehan- diso, and manufacturing companies that mouu- foctured bad cortificates of indobteduess ine stond of good wares,—In’ short, by duping his follow-mon, Albert Grant built up s colossal fortune. Ho sorved Mnmmop and got his re- word. When the Liboral Minlstry wont out, Gladstono osercised the Premier's privilego of eeattoring titles among his frionds. Gront. be- camo Bir Albert Grant, Bart. By this time ho Lind mecured his clection to Parlisment from Kidderminstor. Al Kidderminster makes car- pots. 'Ehio wily Buronet, with an eye to this fact, aunonnced that he was about to build a spacious mausion, which would be carpoted throughont with tho fabrics of Kiddorminster., Thon Lo as- sured each manufacturer, in sceret, that ho would sacuroe tho valuable job of furnishing the needed carpets, Tho result was that every mauufacturer votod for him and did all hie could to induce his men to do likowise. Our ex- changes give mno partioulars of corruption fur- thor than this, but it is probable that this orna- ment of Dritlsh snob-ocracy did more or loss direct vote-buying., So far, his caroor finds ‘many parallels in America, Animmonse fortune, corruptly got and spont, bringa him honor and publio position. From this point, howover, the parallel fails, On complaint of vorruption, ho loses his seat. What rich rogme on this side of the Atlantio would lose his Cougressional seatin this way? Lot Hippol-Miichell, and Patterson, nud the wholo tribo of carpot-baggers, answor- The difforonco is accounted for, in u great moas- ure, by the fact that investigation of briboery s mattor in Eogland of judicial, and in Amorica of logislative, investigation, Our plan worked almost a8 badly there as it does here, So our wiser brothron abandoned it. Had wonot bet- tor do likowlse? Bam Wilkeson's last appearsnco in publio (boforo his recent apposrsuce a8 & witnoss in tho Beechor Investigation) was in an interview yith & newspaper roporter on the subject of Northern Pacific Rarlrond bonds. Samuel was one of the high officiuls of the Northern Pacifio entorpriso, and he asaired tho inquisitivo nows- paper man that the bouds of the road were as good aftor the paulo as thoy were buforo, Tho truth of iy statoment could not bo gainsayed, Lecauso it loft the publioc uninformed whether the Londys woro worth anything bofore the panio, Btill it was not & valuable maying of Samuol’s, though perhaps equelly welghty and interosting with his oelobratod pamphlet entitled, “A Na- tional Debt a Nationel Blessing,” which was put forlh some yeard ago under tho auspices of Jay Cooke. Wo suspect that Bam’s testimony before the Boecher Iuvoutigating Committoo is not worth o cont more thun the two othor effusions by which ho has distinguished bimeolf. In short, if we owned a Northorn Pscific bond we would not trade it on oven torms for tho testimony, RO —— Dr. J. W. Hoyt, President of the Wisconsin Academy of Scloncos, Arts, and Lottors, has just publishod & paper on tho **Raquisites to o Reform of tho Civil Sorviee," which will be con- pldored & rathor valuablo contribution to the litorature of that very important subject. Mr. Moyt conslders the requisitos to a thorough re- foxm of the Olvil Borvice of the country to be: 1 A judiclous and faithtul applioation of quale ifieation toats in caso of sl offioos filled by ap- pointment, 2. Making tho tonuro of all ofices requiring #pocinl proparation and considerablo experiouce condltionnl, not on party aflliations, but on do- monstrated ability and fidolity, 8. Tho adoption of somo equitablo systom of promotions aud of otlior rowards, whore practio- able, 4. Anlncresso in tho logal or constitutional torm of many offices, 6. Tha rosdjustment of salarios on tho basls of equity and public poliey, 6. A chiango in tho mothod of electing porsons to ofilco 80 ns to diminish the power of the caucus and guarantao the Ltruo soveroignty of tho people, 7. 'Tho {nfiiction of summary punishment upon all who are found guilty of corruption in scour- ing or of malfeasance in offico, 8, Tho adoption and the enforcomont of moasures, by tho community, Btato, and nation, caloulated to Incrense tho intelligenco and. to strongthon aud refino the moral sounse of tho noople. Thoro i n nection of tho. Iowa codo which Ia likely to croato & formont among lquor-doalers and rallwey compnnios. It probibits the pro- miscuous importation of intoxicating liquors in tho following threatoning manner : 80, 1,653, If any ratlwoy conductor, freight-agent, expressman, dopot-mnster, or othor peraun fn the employmenfor in sny manner conncclod with any rullwny corporation, or nny toamster, alage-driver, or common carrlor of any kind, or sny porson professing to nct na ngent for any other Derson or porsons, whether within or without {his Stato, or any othor fudividuul of whatover calling, shall briug within this State, for any othor person or rorsonk, any intoxicating Hquor, without first having een furnistiod with a copy of tlio cortifleatu nuthoriz= iy such poraon or porsons to sell sich intoxicating liquors, certiied by somo Justico of the Peaco correct, BUCh porson or poraons mo offemd~ ing shall bo deemed gulliy of & misdemeanor, ond shall, upon conviction thercof, forfelt and pay a fino for tho first oftense of $20, or bo lm'prhonmflll the County Jull thirty duys ; for tho socoud and eacl sube soquent offenso shinil forfolt and pay o fiuo of $30, or bo Inuprisoned in the County Jail nincty days. This provision of the law wout into effeot two years ago, but nover has beon enforced. Now it ia roported tho aitention of tho orusaders Las beon called to it, and they are disposed to mnke trouble. The Milwaukeo & 8t. Paul Railroad Company arosaid to have boen the firat to take tho slarm, and are belioved to linve lo- structed their agents not to ship tho atuff into Iowa. Recontly the froight-agonts in this city have boon nsking for counsel, and have boon advised that the shippors must procuro the re- quired cortiticato, and that thon the companios will be released from liability. In ordor to avold Mtigation and annoyanco at a time whon tho railways have their hands full, it is probnble thoy muny soon require shippors to displny cer- tificatos authorizing tho consignoes to receive shipmonts of liquors, . ——— NOTES AND OPINION. The Rigin Advocats says of the Congrosalonal canvass in tho Fourth Llinois District : ‘The Aurors Deacon is worryhlfi‘llnfl over the poesi- Dility of Gen, John F, Faruswortli bolug put forward by (to Indopondents ns thoir candidato for Cangress., Well it may, for if Jobn I, over gets on tho stumpafter Stevo Huribut, the pooplo will neo the most political fun ::?l(nwn\l 'for muny years in this Congresalonal trict, ~—Tho Rock Island Union puts the queation in this way: % ‘Why should the Interests of the [Repnblican] party ‘e put in jeopurdy for the gratitication of Mr, {fuwley und bie liitle Rock Jsland ring? Aro thoy and theix privato interesta of moro accannt than the intoresta of the people of this district? Are the personal motives of u scoro or two of self-{nterested men to bo allowed o outwelgh tho views aud feclings of tho 140,000 peoplo of thia district 7 Are these five populons coun- t1o oened Ly o Congressman and a fow persoual ro- tafners {n Rock Tsland 2 16 & man of suspected rocord 10 bo folated on_ tliem another time simply bocaso ho finds it moro profitablo o bua Congressimnan ot Wasli- ington thau s iawser ut ook Tulund ? —1In tho Ninotcenth Iltinois (Som Marshall’s) Congressional Distriet it is oxpected the race will narrow down to Richard W. Townshoud, regular Democrat, and Willism B. Anderson (Iate Democrat), Indopondent Reform ; and that the Republicans—well, nobody scoms to caro ‘much, in that district, what the Ropublicans do. —The Indopendent movement, and the do- mand for “new men in Congress,” aro strong in Toxas, and are giving old Democratio leudors mueh concern. Tho Gnlveston News asks, “Well, why not?" and says: Tho oly liopo for ruritsing the administration of publio uffsivs 4 to arouse the rural population {n tho Norlb, tho West, and some portions of the South to o detormiuation to crush out the porniclous cluss that, by monipulating parly muchiuery, have in offect dise franchised tho best citizensblp, und made tho virtue and fntelligenco of tho country conspicuous matnly by thelr absence from Govornment, —The Memphis Avalanche says: Wo want tho Tittlobat Titmouss breed politically ox- termiunted, and, in thelr plice, men noted for some- thing else than druwing thelr psy and rurthoring the gchemos of rascally rings, —In Tonnesaco an unusual ntorest centres in tho County olections, Aug. , and the general Stato canvass, for tho November eleotion, is in nbeyance. Of tho lutter the Nashville Banner (Consorvative) says : The selection of ablo representatives to Congresa should not bo undorvalued; but even with the bust nort of & Congressionnl delegution, aud a United Stntes Sountor of the firat water, we question If our Stato would delvo wo mitch benoflt durlug tho nost ivo years us from a really first-class, working, comon- benso, practical Leislaturs, Tho uvailable brains at our command {8 wanted more urgeutly now in the Logislaturo than anywhero clse, . . . Presidentisl poseibilftics fn 1870 ire not as urgently demunding dis- tussion now us Stato fnancial reslities u 1874, —There is obsorved in Loulsiaus a disposition among the colored masses to be no longor ofiicored, in politics, by whito men, —In Alnbama the delogates to the Republican Stato Convention (Aug. 20) are apportioned geographically go that the nogro countics may bo outvoted in making up the ticket. This picco of jugglery is morely for the spoils, aud it in hoped to avoid & row by conceding cvery- thing in the platform that the colored men may demand, Nevertholoss, the Alabama Stale Journal (Republican) finds room for a communi- cation saying : Firat, thut tho possags by tho United States Scnato of thu.Gvll Rights bill huy wrought u chango in Als- boms_volitics, which {8 of fearful fmport to the Alae Bama Republicans, Second, that itis folly to expect patriotie and uusciflsl Ropublicans to remnin in tho fervico of o party which proposes to coeres or force thy iutermixture of the racen i Alabnrs, s that bill wonld do, ¥inully, that the averthrow of tho Ropubli- can party §n Alabaiaa I8 cettain, unless that party, in it Stato Convention, u_Augnut mext, distinctly cor- reets the error sud rovorses tho judgmont of tho late Conventlon of colored wmen ut Montgomery, —Tho Atlants (Ga.) Herald says : Tho South haa never mado o fight that will compare fu fury and stubboruness to the wirugalo sho wilt make on the Civil Rights bill, , o « Thero ure fow poli- tictans who will not bow to the coming of u_violent or unlversal populer storm, If tho Houth, from Mury- laud to Texus, spenk out iu firm nnd absoluto romot- stranco to the bill, sud then supplementy this work b electiny full Domooratic delegates to Congress this fall, and defesting every cundidste who avouches himelf the champlon of civil rizhits, or by slleuco tolerated such s susplcion, in our opiufon the bill will be do- feated by the preseut Congress whun it reassembles, —A Washington lotler in the Mobilo Kegister sayst With eivil I'Ifxmu and genoral smnesty the two Housen huve piuyod sce-suw, The Sousto pussed Civil Rights bill und sends it over to thy House, whers 1t pit out of the sy by thods who qirofess $0 . bo ita frivnds, and tha Mouxa sends v General Amnoaty bill to tho Bonate to bu similurly dlsposed of, tho ob- Jjocts belug to votuin the negro vote, aud to coucllinto hoso who' fuvor reconciliution and peuce botwoca tho North and the South by this xe;{m..ms Jugglery, Tho gnno 148 ittlo too {ransparent, Lowever; in” vulgur nce, it 10 400 thin,? The negroes, who might avo Lichs contentod with their presout rights," hud ihey not bon promised larger Mbortics, azo uow com- ])lu{lmlu and rebellfons, while nll decent epublicans uro disgusted at tho polioy which keaps alivo the om- burs of lato for tho purposo of proacribing a fow lundred citizens, " ¢ C i —Durlny tho “ast hours” of Congress ono bill wos l'ul{thnfl through which wos discraditablo Dboth to the vigilance und tothe tnate of nombors of Congress. 1t was a bill nuthoriziug Vinulo Toam to make a statue of Adwiral Furrugat, It Was o plain plovo of lobbylug,—Delroit Post. ‘—'The following-nemed mambors of the prog- out Congrss huvo what moy bo called » rocord, Thoy votod on tho 20th ot Juno, 1808, for por- mull{orllv inutructing tho Committon of \A ays and Moshs to roport a bill lovying o tax of *not Jows than 10 per cont™ on’'tho intercst of United States bonds, recorded themselves in favor of tho Sulary-Grab fu Maroh, 1878, and wero stondy wupporter of inllation throughout the lato sog. ulon, Tho unmod of Domuuxata are in dalicss Georna Al, Adams, Ky, Tionjamin ¥, Butfer, Mase, Lodoriok I, Butles, Twun Charlea 4, Rudredge, Wis, Jotin A, Lng:m. e S::vy;u‘:tl 5, Il‘:ln!,mllll. Pl. Samuel andatl, Pena, John ¥, 0, Blanks, Tnd, Witllam Willlams, tnd, The following nro additional namos of &ono now in Congrors who voted for the Repudiution rogolution in 1808, but who avo uot resusdod &g voting for tho Balary Steal: Stevenson Areher, Md, Jamea I, lleck, Ry, ol Cobus 3 Thomas W. Ferry, Mich, Witham 8, Holman, Tnd, Willinm Lawrouce, Ollo, Willlam Loughridge, Towa, William I, Nibluck, Ind, Godlove 8, Orth, Ind, Willam Windom, Minn, | » This fecond lot wore alse Inflationidts to & man, Can tho publio trensurs, the public crodi, or private proporty, bo rogarded as sccurs with the abovo-named ninetosn in Congrons all at the sumo tiwe —New York Tribune. TERRIBLE SHIPWRECKS. Tho Fatnl Collision in tho Sen of Maxe mora—260 Lives Lost Particulars of this disnstor, of which we have already heard brioily by telograph, are given in the ZLavant Herald of tho 24th of Juno: * The Azizioh Company's steamer Kars, Oapt. Con- atantt, which loft Constantinoplo on Friday af- ternoon with passengora and merchandiso for Balonice, was rin into and sunk shortly after midnight, in tho sos of Marmors, by the incom- Ing Biyphian atosmor Behora, Capt. Lova. Tho sinking of the vousol hins beon attonded with the losg of fully 260 lives. Tho Kora had sbout 800 passougors aud orow on board, and of theso only thirty-soven are known to bo eaved, Oapt. Coustanti Cephalia and all the officors on the sunken vossel have perished, but we hove obtainod tho following por- tioulars, which wo bhavo renson to inlmvu aro substantinlly accurnte, Tho Egyptinn stopm- or Bohora, Cupf. Antonio Lova, was on its way from Alexandrin to tho Bospliorus, whon, at about 1 o'clock on Saturday, whilo somo 2 miles on the other sido of tlie Jaland of Mar- mors, the lookout obsorved the light of an out- ward-bound vosel bearing down upon tho Bo- Lora. Oapt. Leva at once took mensures to avoid collision, but tho Kara is ropresented to have ‘been manocuvred 8o unskillfully as to have been placed athwart the bows of the Behora, nod al- though the luttor’s nuglncs ware rovorsod, o col- lision beeamo inovitable,—tho Kors was cut in two amidships as if by a filgnmlo hatchet, and sunkin ton mioutes. Tho Kara was s large old steamor, and the DBohera one of tho fincst iron stenmers of the Khodivio mail fleet, Tho Egyptian vessel dison-~ g“fiad herself speedily from tho sinking Xars, and sont boats to pick up & bumber of peoplo who wora flontiug about on barrols, spars, aud snch lilie. A fow alsorenchad tho Bohora in ono of tho Kars' boats; and in all thirty-soven of the nesongors of tho ill-fated vessel wero ssved. ho climnoy of the Kars was knooked down by the foreo of the colliaion, and, in falling, killoil tho chiof officor; tho ongines, too, kept in mo- tion until the vessel sanlk, and this rondorad the attempts to Bave tife moro difficult. The maon ad gone down, but tho eon was calm, and had the ougines been stopped wmord of tho passongers would probably have bsen rosened, 'ho accounts are somewhat conflicting s to the number lost, The books of tho Azizich Company show that 162 passengors took tickots at tho oflice, but some sny that an equal number, othors sny much less, others ‘many morg, camo o board at tho Inst momont, and paid thoir passage-money on board. Among theso weore & number of women; there mio known, also, to havo beon fiftaon or sixteen chil- dren on board ; nud tho crow and stokors of tho yessel numbered about forty. What is certain is, that of all on board not quito forty sur- vived. ‘Tho passongers woro noatly nl{douk Ilmauenuors. consisting for the most part of Roumeliote dav-laborors, Turks aund Grocks, who, aftor working in Constantinople during tho winter, wore returuing to their homes for tho harvest, also some Grook and Russian pilgrims on their way to Mount Athos, and some emall deulers, traders, and sarafy, bound for Salonica, Volo, Larisss, and othier places, ‘The_only malo first-class passongor was & urkish Major pro- coeding with his fomily to enter upon tho datics of o military appolutment g had received at Salonfen, Nomrly all tho women perished. Tho K bad & cous siderablo sum in money-groups¥on board, and thoso and hor morchandise were insured in tho Lyons sud Uirondo Compnnics for an aggrogato wim_of about 8,000 francs (£8,200 scorling). The Behera herself sustained some damage by tho collision. A rumor iy curront that & Turk- ish vessol, which was closo by at the time of tho collision, 'sayod somo thirty or forty of the Kurs' passongers, but we cannot at present trace thig repozt to any definite source, and nothing seow4 to bo known of it at tho agencies boro. ''ho oflicers of tho Boliora atato most positively thit the Kars was showing no side-lights when tho collision ocourred.” Loss of tho Xron Ship British Admirnl —Seventy-nine Persons Drowned. Nows was some duys since publishod of n tor- rible ship disastor resulting In tho loss of soven- ty-nine liven, which occurred at King's Islanl early on the moruing of the 23d of May. ‘Llio Motbourne Argus of the 7th of June gives the following particulurs; * Tho ship British Ad- mirg], bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, loit tho former port_on the 23d of Fobruary, ard, aftor & long and todions passage of oighty- nino duys, arrivod in Bass® Btraits. All went well until oo early hour on tho 23d ult., whon the mau on tho torecastlo sang out, ¢ Bronkers abond.” Tho ship was undor sail at the timo, and tho weather was vory stormy. All hands wero orderod on deck, and a command given by tho first_ofllcer to make moro wnii; but boforo this could be done the ship strack on oue of tho nu- morous reefs which ekirt King’s Island, a sbors distance from tho sceno of the wrack of thell- fated Notherby. 8ho bumped once or twico nud then began to sottle down, and in o short timo gho was at the moroy of tho waves. The wcn mado clean breaches over Ler, and it was not long beforo the vessol went to pieces. Outof the ecighty-oight wsouls on board, only niuo reached tho shoro, which was distant avbout 6 miles. Awong those who perighicd wore Capt., Taylor, tho First, Second, und TFourth Officors, and William Nicholson, s ton of the lato Hon, William Nicholson, Thosurvive ors, aftor undorgoing two days' privation and cold, wero discovered by somo scalers on tho ioland, and woro hospitably tronted. Tho shin's papers camo ashoro in the Captain's box and Wera uaved, but thore was ot o sign of tho ves- sal two deys after the wrock, ‘'ho hine survivors arrived in Melbourne in tho kotoh Knngaroo, nnd woro taken to tho Sailors’ Homo, where thoy will bo looked after for tho present, ‘Cho Dritish Admiral was 8 new iron_ sbip; of 1,761 tous rug- iutor, and this was her first vogago, Hor carso consistod principally of railway iron, apirits, and gnlt. Largo quantitios of tho goods aro atrewn along the boack.” —_——— A Plucky Young American, From the Melbourns (Australia) Arqus. An mstanco of most determinod courage in arresting & burglar was shown at an esrly hour on Sunday morning, by Jowoph Wright Adam- gon, son :of Thomsh Adumson, {ho American Cougul, living in Iotham street, East Mol- bourne, Shortly after 4 o'clook on Sunduy mormng, younyg Adsmeon was awakened by hhenring #omo porson_moving in his_bed-room, Ho got up und soized tho mtruder, who proved tobo &, colorod man numed Thomas Wobb, an Amerloan, from Now Yori City, who camo out a8 cools in the Ameican siip A, M. Miuoth. A sharp struggle took placo, and young Adamson Wi Ditows down the stairs to tho tirat audint, Nothing dsunted, however, bo again soized tho burglar, and was' thrown {o the bottom of tho ftairs, 'Tho burglar then yan toward tho back . door, but. iu the darknoss mistook tho way, acd camo back ogain, whon young Adumeon sgait solzod Lim, aud this timo ot him down, unid held bim till his fathor camo to his nssistauco. Arope wns procured, and the man was tied to the bunistors till a Constable wa found, to whort Lo was givon in chinrge, Tho burglar was cob- vioted on Fridsy, May 1, ‘The pluck shown by young Adamson, whio is ouly about 18 yoans of age, in attacking nu antagonist so suporior in strongth_and wolght, is worthy of tho highost commendution. —— ng Slavery, A1, D. Contay's London Letter in the Cincinnati Com~ mercial., cial, I have alroady informed you of the arrango- ment which thoy lave mado for malking slavery a systomatio fadturo of tho now government to Do establishod on tho wout const of Africa. Lok it not bo thought thut thore is anythiug balf way in tho matter, The Goverument Was Crosi-ex= amined on tho subject last night, and uttored some fine rontimonts, but it gave 10 promiso of auy tntontion to alter its plans, Tho ugly faot romalug that the slave-trado} roally goes on in tho Wost of Africa undor tho samo flag which is engagod L inpprossing it on tho cast side, The L'antoes and Lfio Asbuntoos have reoponed thetr trado, and tho elave-market is undor tho shadow of Cape Const Castle, tho British headquarters, ‘The !;rmuh Judgo at tho Custlo fu Assessor for tho native papulation, and oue of his ocoups- tions is to return fugitive slavea, It a nowly- urohinsed rlave rung away, tho Inglish Judge ni.‘m to tho master B warrant foy [is apprehen~ ony