Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO -DALY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 28, 187 e ettt e et e e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, BATRA OF SUTACRIPTION (PATANLE It ADVANOT). Bondws R2.00 Py it R 200 Parts ot a yoar at the ssma rato, Tfl[\m\en{(lnlny aud mistakon, bo suro and giva Post ©f ce nddrets n full, lucluding Btato and County. Hemsttancon mny bo wnde elthor bydratt, vapross, Post Otico ordor, o in rexistered lottars, at aur rink. TLNAB TO OTLY RUNMCRINENR. k Patle, dolivored, Butdsy oscoptea % coute por wonks Baily, aolivorod, Suuday nolutod, 30 conts par wouk, Addioss THE TRIBUNE COMPARY, Corner Madisn Donrbornsta,, Ubleago, itl TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. RV IEATRE—Randoloh strent, hotwoon Olon Lerbatio. an Grent Adelpht Gompany. - Mine steolsy, Farco, and Vatioty. DEMY OF MUBSIO—Halstod stroot, batwoen, o Sy llmll[omontnl Johu Ditlon. meashiro Lasa¥ fad- ko DING—Lakashoro, foot of Adsms O oL Aarmuoh and ovauIz: VENTY-' .8T, BASE BALL GROUNDS— n'.'.:.‘n'?,‘.ffi&‘.fl.f‘\?ufi?lmmn nud Franklins for the bouotit of tho Homo of tho Friondloss. SOCIETY MEETINGS. ZNTION SIR KNIGITS, —A apeoial conclava of em%‘fllfi.’n..&&',‘}. o 1, eighta Temolnr, vl bo soning,. ot olplaok, 3 B otk o tha oridar of the Visiring Bir Knights courteuusly invited, " Ly ordor of tho })&6%& S . B, W, 3 . M.—Regular e Tl Nor ho Iratornity cor- 0. H. ORANE, Beo's. —— BUSINESS NOTICES. VERTISER IS UNRIVAL- e mea/am.. T T arehasors Dirdotory 3lono commond it to 1l buslaces mun, TS5 AND GOLD 910,70 1,000 INVESTED TN STOCKS AND GOLD ow York, onth. - Sond far PAEBUETE €05 Paskors, 3 Walln LAR LODGE, No. 808, A, T TN o ds (TuosdayYovoning Monrac-at., for buiness and work. dlally invited to mcet with us. The Chitage Teibune, Tuesday Morning, July 28, 1874, The companies that insured Staasden and An- dorson, the alleged incendinties, will probably join now in & genoral effort to stop oaroless un- dorwriting. ‘No mora of the Walker wiil caso until Sept. 21. Lovors of strong ment will miss the daily ro- ports of tho proceedings in court. A filo of Chiengo papers of recont date would be s mine to tho oxcollent Charles Reade. Iiis “admirors should oo ta it that he is placed in possossion of tho facts. in & suit instituted by the heirs of the lato | Btephon A. Douglas for the recovery of certain proporty said to have illegally alienated from them. The ground of action was that .the ex- ecutor of the ostato Liad ou fntorest in a ealo which was roado by him. The Court awarded the proporty sold to Robert and Stephon Doug- las, dobnrring the widow from participation be- oruso sho bad boen gulity of luches. Tho Penco Conforonce at Brussela opened yesterdny, and sat for an hour. Tho sessions are to be beld with closed doors. Recent files of the English papors aie noticeablo for tho unanimity of opinion which they express concerning the wisdom of Lord Derby's policy inregard to this Couference. It sooms to bo gonerally traated ns & menaco to the naval pow- o0, and much satisfaction i8 expressed that tho roproseutative sont by England will exercise morely the functions of an intelligent roportor. In Tne Tribune of Sunday thero was pub- lished a scrios of interviews with porsons con- cerned in the promotion of (he Citizens' Assool- ation. Inono of these thero woro some remarke derogatory to tho charnoter of Mr., Emery A, Brorrs, the Sectotary of the Associntion, which furnish us occasion to say that we bave good reason to beliove that this briliiant young lnwyer Dus, sinco ho jolaed the Good Templacs, some monthe since, made nmost commondable and thus far succeesful offort to reform those per- sount habite which alone have prevented bin: . from taking on exalted position in soclety and 1n the Stato, News from the Custer expodition to the Black 1%ills was recolved at the Army Headquarters in this city yestorday, At tho timo of writing, the expedition was 170 miles in a direct lino from Lincoln, and within about 12 miles of the Mon- tana boundury, It lind suffored no molestation from Indians. The country traversed is snid to be most beautiful, excellent for grazing and goneral farming. Bome scctions are described iu torms that aro really onthueiastic. Littlo ia eaid of the scieutifio results thus far roached, but this could hardly have boen expected fn a military roport sent by telegraph. ‘There is overy reason to oxoect that these will be en- tiroly satisfactor Mossra. Egan and Karls have been chosen by tho Common Couneil to superintend the con- struction of the naw Court-House and City-Hall, The County Commissionors have already olected Egan, and will doubtless agreo to Karls without o murmur. Thin fs & fair divide, ne far as It goes, between tho Irish nnd Gorman voters, It might o further, A school-connus, or some- tlung of the kind Jess ironical in its rolation to the principles luvolved, might Lo taken; and it would then bo aneasy thing for Germans and Irishmen to do the wholo work in exact propor- tion to the “clnims™ of tho two nationnlitios, “Theeo clnims, of courso, aro derived from the power of wicldiug tho brute vote, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton hos given to a uewspaper roporter somothing now in regard to tho cliargos ngainst BMr. Beocher, Sne says that Mr, Tilton made to bor awd Mg Bullurd, nbout & yoar before the \ood- Lull's publication, tho same statemont {n substance 88 ho has given to the publio; tbat on the eame mnight Mrs, Tilton confessed to Miss Susan B, Anthony her criminal rolations to Mr., Beceher; that Mr. Bam Witkeson, whoa fow dnys ngo ehatged Tilton with attempting black- mail, knew of the truth koveral yenrs sgo, and nseisted 1n securing concealment. Mrs. 8tanton deals roughly by Mr, Wilkeson, saying that his reasons for wishing to Lhush up the scandal were thut ho was o stockbolder in Plymouth Church, the Chrishan Union, aud thoe * Lifo of Chriat,” Perons to whom Mis, Stanton is known need not bo sisuted that hor character for vorsoity Is aliove reprosok The Chicago produce markots were rather slow yesterdny, excopt In corn, Moss pork was in moderate demund, and £€1.00 highor, olosing at 3,25 cosh, and §28,60 sollor Bep- tomber. Lard was quiot and steady, closing ot $11,75G: 11,80 cavh or soller August, Moals wairo moderately uctivo and firm, at TH4@7%o for whouldots, 83¢e for slort ribs, 10@103¢o for nhort clear, and 12@12}e for sweot-pickled hnms, Highwines were quiet nnd stronger, at 06c yer gullon, Lako freighits wore dull aud wesk, I 5,423 1c for coru to Buffalo, Tlour was very quiot, and unchanged. Whoat was quict and s shado onsior, cloalng at $1.08){ cnsn, $1.053{@1.05)¢ wollor tho month, and $116 for ' No. 2 Miunosota. Corn wns lons active, and }@igo lower, closing firm al 6330 cash, nud 61}(@01040 woller Augnst. Onty wore quict and 3{@1o lower, oloping at 470 for old, 430 for now, and- 953c nolter August. Ryo was quiot and G¢ higher, at 000, Barloy was quictand firmor, alosing nt $1,05 cnsh or sellor Boptomber, Iogs in seant supply, and “sold at o ndvance. Bnles al $6.60@7.06. Catilo woro quiot and stoady, ~8heop dull and unchanged. Tho rosolutions 'adopted by ‘the National Bonrd of Undorwriters at tholr recont moating in Now York bave come to band, and aro pub- lished olsewhore, Thoy sre a rccommendation to tho Insurauce compnuies bolonging to tho Board to withdraw their Ohicago agonclos on Oct. 1, unloss cortain epecifiod reforms aro mado by tho oity authorities. Theso roform monsurea are the oxtending of the firo-limits to tho city- limits; tho paseago of a stringent building Iaw ; the comploto reorganization of tho Fite Dopart- mont; tho Incrense of wator fnollities ; tho cstablishment ‘of a Firo-Marshal's Bu- ronu, - oharged with ' investigation into the origin Zof fires, and power to punish incendia- rice; the possngo of o law which shall sccuro the gradust removal of the Jumber-yards and apeclal hozards to feolated Ioonlities, Every oue of these domands s rossonablo; Thoy aro pressed respectfully and yot with an oarnestnoss of language that leaves no room for doubt as to the sincority of tho Board, Tho cily cannot ufford to troat thom disdainfully, or to assumo that tho Jusuranco business bas any di- rect conncction with general philantbropy. Tho ineuranco businoss Is based on that cardinal motive in all political economy, an enlightoned selflsiners, Tho eame kind of a mentor should bo consulted by tho oity in Its dealings with tho compauies. THE PITTSBURG FLOOD. Tha brief. telegraphic announcoment in Tie Trivune of yesterdsy of heavy rains in and about Pittsburg gave no intimation of the fright~ ful disaster which is roported in detail this morn- ing. Pittaburg is situated -at the confluence of -the Monongahels and Alleghony Rivers, with steop hills. sll about it. Alleghany Clty is on the opposite shore of the Alleghony River, to the northwest of the city. The hill-sides are intorsccted at irrepular intorvals with rung .or gulches, which form nninral ‘chinnels for ,eny largo watorfall from above. The hoavy rains of .Sunday night filled theso galches, and tho' water Bwept, down the hills with resisttess ‘impotuosity, carrying death and desolation in’ its conrse, Tho area over which thia flood i8. said to have extendod is do- geribed o8 from 20 to 25 miles in diamotor, and sstonishmont i oxpressed that the torrents did not swoep down ovor tho entire oity. As it was, the damingo ‘dona was conflued mainly to the loss attractivo. suburbe: of Pitte- burg ond Allogheny City,- including Tem- porancoville’ and *one or * two ° otler neighboring ' boroughs. .- Tho devastated district | was fillod up with slaughter-honses, small mant- .. facturing cstablishments, and tho homes of the working olasses. Tho value of the property destroyed is not, theroforo, mo groatasif tho flood hod renched othor and richer sections of {he city. But this is insignificant as compared to tho loss of ifa. More- than 100 bodies have already boon recovered ; it is kuown that noarly 150 lives havo boen lost ; and it is bolioved with good reason that 200 men, women, and childron have perished. Verily, this I8 an age of flood, fire, and fury. Tho Pittsburg horror i ouo of a class over which we can only mourn, It seoms to bolong to the category of catastrophes which are called unavoidable. Whon such & atorm comos sud- denly upon & city, as did this, and Naturo pro- vides tho channels for a freo passage on its way of dostruction, there is nothing to be eaid that will atono for tho suffor- ings it brought with it, not oven in the way of pointing out protection for the future, The flood carriod ovorything beforo it, Itsforco was a8 groat, suddon, and impotuous as that of the Mill River Resorvoir when it broke away from its barriora. T'hero was o, running wway from it. It washod away iron bridges, piclked up houses and set them down in new places, foro up stones in tho streot to assist in the worlk of destruction, and oven over- turned atono walls which vainly endenvored to impedo its angry progross. Strong men woro helpless as childron, and women died from fright. Peoplo who had gone to church retnrned to find their homes swopt away, and might have gono baclt to church to thank God they Lad left those homes in time to save their lives, The scenca ond incidents related of this great trinl bave all tho varied and torriblo intor- est of pgreat struggles for life, and, in reading tho accounts that come to us wecan only rojoico thut thoe Uity of Pittsburg escapod. The theory of a water-spout or cloud-burat in advanced, not without plansibility, as the expla- nntion of the flood ; of this we epeuk in another articlo, But, whatover the fiunl oxplanation may Do, the disaator seems to have beon a Lind that cannot be averted by haman ekill or forethought, INCENDIARISM, The firo on North Clark streot yesterday morning scoms to lavo béon a clear case of incondinrism, The houso was one of thoso small framo buildings pormitted to be orected within tho old fire-limils after tho fire of 1871, and belongs to tho class subjeot to be taken down under the mnotice given by the Doard of Public Works., Nicholas Standon occupiea tho building, No, 219 North Clack stroet, as a retail hardware store. 1o wos fusured in varlous companies in the sum of $14,000 on hly atock of goods, fixtures, and building, Tho flre was discovered in time to extivguish it, Tho police and firemen who cutered the building discovered aléo tho proparations for its destruction, and theeo wore 0 extraordinary aud eo complate that wo have thought them worthy of u particular doserlption, nud to explaiu thom wo give s dlagram of tho promiscy us fouud by tho polico, On ono sido of tho store was & box of rags eaturated with koro- wone, and uenr it & box of vexln, from which was a lino of kerosonc-sonked rags to n pile of kind- ling-wood in tho ronr part of the store, tho wood alwo prepared with korosene, On the other sido of the storo was o stove londed with Kerosono vags and a ohargo of powder, and juside In tho stove was funnd o fighted candle ; a box of rosin way placed near by, and from tho stove was Iald o fuso to threo kogs of powder, “From the stove was nlso laid a lnoof rags, soaked with kero. sono, oxtending back to the plle of kindilng- wood, The proparations wero sufficiont to blow up o five-story wurchouso. Had It succoeded, no ono would ever have beou able to toll what caused tho firo, It 48 ovident that whoover made those proparations (ntouded (hat there should be no fafluro, In cneo tho lighted candlo failed to communicate with the rags and powder in tho stovo, and thua load to a genoral explosion, the firo glariod In the Lox on the othor side of the room wan oxpectod to communicato at first, by monns of tho lino of oiled rags, to the kindling wood; and back by the other lino of rnga lo the koga of powder. Fortunately, the firo was dia- -covered a8 soon as it blazed up, and’ hoforo it had timo to communicato with the meansof dostruotion. Standen liaa boon nrrestod, and, among tho many olrowmstances alleged ngalnst .|-him, it is olnlmed that tho amount of hia in- *suranco far oxceoded tho value of tho stock in store, and Lhat Lo sent Lis family away from the oity last wook. Ilis name is also conuooted with tho fliing of othor premisos ocoupiod by him. Wo do not proposo to disoués the guilt of Stasden now. . Ho 1 in tho hands of tholaw. What wo wish to call attontion to is the unqueationablo ovidoneo of incondinrism furnishod by tho ma- torinls sud thelr arrangemont In this storo. It ‘would biave'roquired but o fow minutes’ longer time to bavo placed tho canses of this firo boyond, all discovory. Tho buliding would havo been torn to pleces, and the wrock would have been ablaze. ‘ . s If anything moro than the Blaadon case wers noceseary to awaken tho olty authoritiea to the dangors of tho times, and to convict tho tnaur- ance companies of careloss undorwriting, it was furnished a fow hours lator by the discovery of snother sttompt at avson. This occurred in tho South Division. The faota aro irresistible, A fira broke out In & framo Louso on Portland ave- nuo, but It wne almost immodintoly subducd without tho aid of the Doportment. An 'ine spection of the promlscs ehowed | that a largo wax tapor had beon placed on a pilo of kindling-wood and paper, snd lofs to burn. Tho occupant of tho apart- ments was o man named Andorson. Ho had given tho koys of bis rooms to a family overhoad about an hour bofors tho discoveryof tho flamos, with tho explanation thnt his own wife and chil- dron'were away and ho was about.to begin his day's work at a distanco. 'Tho prosumption is that tho porson who Iit tho tall wax candlo bad roason to know thero would bo nobody in tlhie Andersoun part of the houss whon the kindling-. wood wae reached. It is hordly nocossary to add that Anderson was woll insured, and’ the famlly overhiead was not. it 4 Thus havo two attempts at arson beon discov- orodin & single moming. They tond to show. that,undor themystery which surroundatho origin’ of firés oceurring scomingly without cause, thero is oflen ncondiarism, and incondlariem of that, deliberato kind which provides for tho destruc: tion of all ordinary evidences by which it may bo establinhed. While it docs ‘not follow that, every unoxplainable caso of firo is duo to-arson, we hiavo the ovidonce ¢hat arson is o not uncom- mon crime, and that it furnishos a suflicient ox. plauntion of frcs which on any othor. hypotheats’ are unaccountable. In this case, whoover may bo found guilty of this deliberate preparation for tho firing and destruction of the building, should moot such condign punshment as will at lomst dotor others who may bo contemplating a liko crimo. : BOUTHERN POLITIOS, Tho nowspapors which are still busy in sup- pressing tho Rebellion and abolishing slavery ara in costasiosover the White Loagaos of tho Soutlh. Thoy use it as the old gontleman with a story about & guitn used bis foot. Mo wonld stsmp on the floor, etart tp, and say: “Eh, ob, what's that?—a gun? Woll, speaking of guna rominds me," oto, So tho truly loyal oditor writes *“Whito Loague,” looks at if, and shrioks in print: “ White Leaguo! Ab, traftors. Horo, holp!’ Save tho Ropublio] Stuff tho ballot- boxes agnin, back up the carpot-baggers, holp- tho rogues,—help them, or that drondful, dls- loyal Longue will destroy the glorious Union, tho Dblood-soaled groonbaok, and the ransomed col- orod brother, by actunlly establishing honest govornmont in the South!" It is n frightful prospeot, The. ehrioking journslists skotch it agalu and ogaln. Tho raw-hoad-and-bloody- bonos story has a fonrful fascination to them. They aro half-persuaded that thoy bellove what they wite. i We bave alrendy condomned tho iden of the ‘Whito Lengue. Race should bo the last consid- oration in politics, Moreover, the whites: are not strong enough, in tho worst-governed States, to right their wrongs alone, DBut we protest against tho dootrive so industriously tanght that these Leaguea have been formed with malico propense, without provocation, for tho sake of waltroating tho nogroos, and of doing by bullets what ballots eannot accomplish, The fact i that tho white Houtherners have borne insult ond outrage long end pationtly, Afufalfs mutan- dis, Chicago would have long sirico boen in | rovolt had sholad New Orloans' fate. Tho whites havo soun unutterable corruption among their rulers, and have beon howled down when they feobly protestod. Thoy have seen sworn election-returns changed, from hour to hour, to meot the news of Opposition gains in outlying parts of tho Btato, Thoy have scen a drunken Judge, Lacked by bayonets, put into power a .Govornor whom all Amerlea knows was never electod. Nogro insolenco has grown with white subjection, 'The dofent of the Civil-Righta bill at Washington was followed by a storm of vitu- poration by Bouthorn blacks and their allles agalnet Bouthorn whitea. Davenport, tho col- ored Chancery Olork of Vicksburg Connty, mado a speoch to a negro audioncs which loudly cheorod his passionnte declaration that the white raco must yield to the coming man, tho nogro, 1o named tho daughtera of tho first whito fami- leaof tho city, mnd conrsely predicted thoir future marriage with men of hisrace. Bimilar spoeches have beon mede in the Misaisalppl Log- felature. T. W. Onrdozo, Mieslssippi Btate Buperiutendent of Education, a colored carpet- bogger from Bouth Carolins, publishos in Fred Douglass' Era the statomont that it is “Dbotter that tho whole Btate of Tonnessoo should bo reduced to ashes " than that tho Clvil-Rights bill should fall, Buch violent languago has bgon the rulo, It is buk natural that the whitos, thus nttacked by tho biacks, should accopt the issue forcod upon them, The wholo troublo In Vicksburg, on gc- count of whick Gov, Davis haa asked for & garri- aon of United States traops, was the work of tho colored population, At loast, it sooms so, Aftor duo atlowanco hry been mado for the oxaggora- tions of both sidos, tho true story is apparently ubout 88 follows: Tho olty, with & valuation of £0,000,000, owes $1,000,000, Toxation i8 on« ormous, aud businoss fs orushéd under ik, Lost month, tho nogroes nominated a oty ticket. Ten of tho thirtecn nomineos are black, The white mau proposed for Mayor is under indictment for perjury and blackmailing, A tivket of white men waaat ouco proposed. Thon Davonport made the speoch alroady referred to, Tho oty was 1u commotion over it, but thero was no rioting, The pogro wmilitia patrolled the streots and ar- rostod all tho whitea. they. conld cateh, Thon, sndjnot till then, did the whites organizo, Tholr patrolu aro aoting with tho police, It 18 prodiot- ed that tho olootion of Aug, 4 will bo quioct, and that not twonty white mon will voto the nogro tickot, Whon such conditions oxiat, 8 * Whito Longuo " or something ke it s the almost in- ovilablo rosult. Yot It would hiave boon wiser for tho whites to have nominated a ticket composed of mon of both races, Thoy cannob crush dis- honesty alono. Thoy have not enough votos. Lot thom mako common cause with tho colored mon who havo wit onough to soo tho abyes Into which tho negro-riddon Btatos aro plunging. But i such men aro not to bo found, if tho hon- ost nogroea profor tooling to tholr raco rathor than to thoir chiaractors, then tho whole South may bo forcod into tho attitndo of the Mobile Reglsler, whon it says ¢ . Ttio poopls of Alabama havabeon rostating this lsstie for yoars, and now thoy have to duclde betwoon thrash- ing the negro party at the polls and solzing the rolns of Government, or sinking into (bo domestio hell of South Oarolina and Loulslans, Mutatis mutandis, wo apprehond that Now York and Maasschusetts would ot stop a hundredth part of & minuto to debato tho question, . CLOUD-BURSTS. Within the last fow years the broaking of \vMPr.-spm_lts,—(f that {s & propor neme for the phonomonon,—like that which dosolated a town in Novada last woek, hns boen frequontly no- ticod: Nor 'ia it confined to mountainona dis- tricts, A fow yonrs ago & water-apout, or the bprating of a cloud, caused very serious damago near the bridgo of tho Chicago & Northwoatorn Railway scross the Rock River, threo milos wost of Dizon; and a similar disaster also bofoll tho samo. rond A fow milos east of Dixon. Thoro is an sbundance of ovidonce in most parts of tho country tuat they have ocourred in all of fta pnst history, Especially is this truo. along tho line of the Paclfio’ Rail- way, Brond beds of stronms porfectly dry sro common in tho Black Hills and Rooky Mountain districts, which show plainly tho action of - torrible torzents not many years provions, Exporionced railway-men havo given it as thoir opmnlon thnt sufiicient allowanco i not mado in the construction of our ronds to lot off, tho wator in auch casos, A slmilar dissster ocaurred-in Southern Minnesota rocently, whoro fi_m;y conalderablo damage was-done, and s fow years ainco the Presidontof tho Michigan South- ern Railwey and many passcogors came mear | losing thelr lives, not far from Mishawaks, from tho same. cause. Beveral porsons in the ear noxt to thom wore drownod. _ Bomo yoara earlier, & portion of tho City of Donver, Ool., was submorged in the night-time by o flood coming down the valley of Chorry Orbok, of which tho inhabitonts had bad no provious warning. A clond had burst on tho sldoof the mountaln so far distant that no mign of its existenco could be discerned, and spilled {ts contents into tho upper valley of Cherry Orock. This oreck-had boen dry for many yoars—eo dry that ite bed had been sur- veyod snd laid off in town lots and built upon, constituting, indeed, one of . the most thickly- gottled parts'of Donvor. The flood struck the town shortly aftor midnight, and in an instant of timo swopt off overy vostigo of human habita- tion and handicraft in the old bed of the crock and ‘adjacont thoroto, destroying many lives and . laigo amount of ‘proporty, which was hurled into tho Bouth Platte, which Iattor stroam was raised soveral feet in a fow minutes. Probably nothing can be done to ward off the calnmitios that ofton result from ¢ cloud-bursts® ‘or wator-sponts, but they cortainly aro worthy of caroful study. Bomo rules may posat~ Lly be drawn from tho appearanca of tho clouds, by which people whoeo homes may bo located in valloys liable to inundation may bowarned in timo to rengh o placo of safety. The phenomenon of n clond-burst conaists of tho sudden, porhaps instantaneous, coundensation of a vast quantity of warm molsture in'the atmosphero by coming in contact with tho cold side of & mountain, or with n ourrent of cold air. Xt ia not improbablo that the awful dissstor at Pittsburg on Sun- day was identical in its natura with tho olond- bursta of Qolormlo, Arizons, and Nevada. THE FREEDMEN OF RUSSIA. A. committes of inquiry basbeen lnvestigating tho condition of the emancipated serfs of Rus- sin. Its conclusions are somowhat gloomy. Tho morality and the comfort of the pessants in the Northwest havo sensibly incronsed, but this holds truo of no othor part of the ccuntry. Nay, thero ia an oxcoption in tho Northwest. Tho inhabitants of the marshy lowlands show no signs of improvomeont, Buckle, who was the firet Englishman to formulate the influenco of tho physical aspacts of o country upon its in- labitants, would rejoicolin this as 8 proof of his thoories, Elsowhoro in Russia, o slight gain in comfort has mob beon sccompanied by any in- croased thoroughnosa of work or bottor method of living. In the North, thoTast, and the Contro, no material advanco can bo detocted, whilo tha standard of morality hos oither stood still or sunk, There is an enormous consumption of fiory liquors, oxcopt in tho South, All gathor- ings, political, social, judicial, oven religious, servo as protoxts for intoxication. Bo far is this carried that a criminal is apt to bo sentonced, in ‘ntonement for his fault, to troat his Judges to drinks! This lack of advance undor froedom has boen largely solzod upon by the whilom foes of omancipation. Tho attribute overy evil to tho docreo that struck thoe fottera from tho sorfs, Thoy aro partially right. No law can chango children into men inaday. When aman has been dwarfod by serfdom for many yoars, ho witl bo vory likely to fail to comprobend the bless- ings of freedom and to abuse thom, Thero are, howover, othor regsons, Climatio causos produca intomporance, The lack of edu- ontion degrades tho whole raco of poasauts. Tho standard of comfort bas boen lowered by con- turies of want. The ex-sorfs aro contont with little. No desirospurs thom on, Again, tho land Iaws practically prevent individuals from bocom- ing land-owners. Russla is organized Into com- ‘munes, Tho land has been transferred from the nobility to the communcs. Mauy evils rosult from this, The poasant bad one tyrant over him, Ifenow has huudreds of petly tyrants, Ho oan sequire no land in his own namo, no matter what price o may offer for it, unlogs two-thirds tho residents in his communo agroo to thosale, Tho rosult is that ecarcoly anysales have been mado, No peasant can leave biscome ‘mune unloss ho puys up his full sharo of the - domnity which the commune pays in yearly in- stallments to tho ox-owuors of ite lands, When ho canuot do thishe is atill bound to thogoil, The communal ofilces are largely sought, Their ocoupants grow mystoriously rich, Tho *sorv- ants of the poople ™ aro said to steal mora than the servants of tho selgnour onco did, Tho peasant's burdens aro cortainly heavier than bofore, Tho national taxes are nonrly all ground out of him. Of oneimpost, which yliolds tue Qoyornment 208,000,000 roubles (sbout $166,- by bis 000,000), onc-sixteonth falla upon the noble land-owners, Tho poasants pay 185,000,000, In many placos the rovonue of tho communal landa will not pay tho taxes on thom. Insomo ©8808, . tho tax Is four or fivo timos rs groat as the rovenuo, As the commune {8 responsible, ‘a8 awhole, for the payment of taxes, the moio woalthy ponsants decline to mse tholr money | produotively, lest thelr goods should bo soizod to malko up for the dofloits of tholr poorer noighbors, They ‘hide thair wonlth, The oclimate has ochanged for the worso in many localitles, boosuse tho forests havo boon rooklessly out down., Bur- roundod by such o complication of new ovils, it s not stranga that the ponsant sooks forgetfulnoss in drink. It is ovidont that the work of eman- cipation hng boon bunglingly done. Infaot, o Fronoh critio, writing in tho Journal des Econo-- misto, saya: *“What remains to bo dono’ is noithor less important nor less difficult ‘than what has boon done.” MACMAHON AND FRANCE, MacMahon has at Jnst soon that the TFronch pooplo cannot agres upon & form of gavernment, Noither “Republicans, Monarohists, nor Bonn- portists are in & mojority sufctontly strong to carry the country. But they. are numorous onough to quarrel incessantly, much to tho in- jury of unfortunate France, Frenoh politiciana nroall by thoonrs. It hns secmed tho whole time aa if the Prealdent of the Republic would o tho happlest of men if somebody could ba found to replnce him, Ho would willingly for- eako tho court for tho camp. In the court he is a fish out of water, In the camp he i at home. But the man to savo Franco and give hor a gov- ernment is not forthcoming, 'Mwltnhun 18 tired of waiting.] Hois boginning to lot Frenohmen foel that thoy have tried long onough to flnd a succos-~ sor, - Fronch politiclans, Orleanists, Bourbon- ists, Donapartists, Ropublicans, are aware that tho old soldior hos obsorved their fallure and their incompotonoy. Ho is satisfled now, slico facts havo oponed his oyes tothe real state of sifairs, that his own is the only govornment Tranco is ready to rocelve. Ho bas boon named the ruler of France for tlo Bpace of seven years, and ho has mado up bis mind, it wounld scom, that ho shall continuo to rule till. the time pro- goribed by the Inw catablishing the Septennate has olapsed, Mo is thereforo putting s quletus ongMonarchists, Bonapattists, and Ropublicans alike, The Marshal has tgen very friendly to Count de Chambord; but oven the Count, lato maonifesto claiming to be by Dirth has 1ncurred his displeasure. Indeed, tho Iottor of Do Ohambord camo woll-nigh producing o political crisis, and, making a worso mess of Fronoh politica than thoy aroat the present time. Wero it not for the belief now pravalent, that Mac)ahon hus the ability to hold all parties and factlons in tho country in checl, and that ho s fully dotormined to’ oxercise his ability in that direction, tho lotter of Honry V. would have been nttondod by some very sorious consequon- cos. not very friendly,- and thera -are mob wanting those who think that & coup d' elat 1s contomplated by tho Marshal-Prosident. The coup d'clat woirld coneist in the violont disgolu- tlon ef the Assembly. Buch a dissolution would bo illogal, but it is the gounoral impreselon that tha country would support tho President iait. Tho Union, which published De’ Chambord's manifosto, was_suspendod for fiftoon days, for, a8 it oxpresses it, oboylug the orders of.tho King,~—that is, of the man who calls himself Tonry V. If MacMahon should disgolva tho French As- gombly, sud claim tho right to rule France for 8ovon yoars, ho would probably be doing ono of 1lio fow acta that can bring poaco and prosperity to Franco. e séems to bo the only’ powor which & majority of the nation will oboy or noknowledge 08 tholr leader. Under such olr- cumstancos, Lo has at'least one undoubted titlo to govern. =i ROME AND GERMANY, ‘The German Oatholics have held & meetiog in Mnyonco, and lssued a pronunclsmento not in all things favorablo to the Germsn Emnlre; Bismarck bss read it, snd his foars that his Fronch enomies have .found an ally in Ger- many aro confirmed, if they needed conflrma- tion. Tho Catholica assembled at Mayence have raised tho standard of rebollion agaiuat the principlos of ‘thio Gorman Conatitution, . While this domonstration was going on .at May- enco, tho Popo wna exhibiting himself at Romo from a window of his palsce to tho crowd who domunded his blessing, tolling them ho was a prisoner, and exprossing tho hope that he would yet be free. At tho some timo or thoreabouts,- the Catholiclem of tho Bavarian Chambors was breaking oul in speechos foreboding dinsolution to the Eme pire. It is not probablo that tho uttorancoes of a fow Oatholics nssombled at Mayence, of an aged pricat at Romo, ond of a fow Bavarian rop- resontatives, can sbake tho Gorman Empire or add very much to the discomfort of Blsmarcl, Germany has undertakon to nationalize tho Catholio Church within its boundaries. It is not likely that it will succeed, since even Ger- man Oatholics do not caro for a peouliarly Gor- man religion. DBut whother it succeods or not in It offorts in this direotion, it should bo pre- pared to accept tho consequences of its attempb, It should not oxpoct that whon Oatholics meet at Mayonce or the German Dishops at Fulds, thoy should break forth into acclamations over tho ecolosiastical ‘logiaiation of the Roichstag, or, aftor tho example of Lord Russoll,” soud n mossage of sympathy to the Emperor in bis contest with Rome. Catholis clergymon sud Catholio laymon will not bo likely to pnss reso lutions npproving of the imprisonment of Aroh- bishop Ledoobowski or the cxpatriation of the Josuite. And yot this is, it seoms,” prooisely what tho Gorman prees anticipatos. Tho throe facts abovo referred to aro intor- proted by gomo as tho foreboding of another Thirty Yoars' War, Alrendy tho old battle-flags aro soon waving. DBy the ominous light of rocont ovonts may bo observed tho contending armies of 260 yoars ago that dosolated Germany and ‘mado hor ono of the pooroat natlons i the world, From Tarls oud Rome, tho hoadquar- tors of Clormany’s euomy, orders, We nro told, aro fesued. Richollou and Fathor Jodoph aro roplaced now by Fallonx, Dupautoup, and Bookx, Ifow far the lines of tho onemy oxiond into Jormany is not known; but there aro thoso who clalm to bo couvinced that tho flrst battlos aro to bo fought in South Germany. The work of Fianeo Ia being done by Gorman Catholics, It is dono in o mounor all the more injurious to Germany, as the; enomics aro those of lior own housohold, Qormany is growing un- ooy, Bhe kuows that Franco la* proparing for tho noxt great confllet, Bho knows, too, that tho enthusiaym for tho Emplro is, if anything, ou tho wano, Sho must pick the bone with Rome sud France at tho samo time, It looks ea if she tho righttul King of . Franco,: The Asscmbly and MaoMalion sre, &oon find a chianco to do #o, Should COath- ollo Bavarla dosort hor in hor hour of nood—n not probable contingonoy—she nood not bo sur- prised. Bho has sosm pormocution ; she will reap disaffoction, porbaps dislovalty. Coggla's comet Ling loft ug, and is now eomo 80 dogrees south-from tho sun, 1Its tail is now visiblo to dwallers In tho Bouthorn omispiiero, and n' anothor day or two tho nuclous will flash fnto tho yiow of obsorvors in Australia and Bouth America, Wo flnd the ' following In & Iato issue of tho London Zimes, wriiten by Goorgo M. Benbroke, tho Astronomor at Rtugby, England. It will bo observed thot his deduc- tions are almost oxactly in nccord with thoso al- rondy published in Tae Triouxe, made by our “ homo talent "1 . Tho nuclous, or bright' point of tho comot, gavoa sontinuous spectrum, or ight of al colors, Tho fan- shiapod vart precoding tho muclous gavo also n faint continuous epootrum crossod by thron bright bands, showing tho prosence of light of threo differont colors only, .From the faint part praceding the fan thoro “was n spectrum of threo bands only'; and in thespeo. trum of the tafl, now some fivo millions of miles long, the samo bands appeared, togothor wWith & faint con tinuoua spectrum, The intorprotation of theso results is briofly thia: A continuous spectrum shows tho prosonco of cithor a solfd, liquid, or gas at high presse ure, 80 thonuclous consists of one of these three, most probably, of a molid—whethor a solid ball ors {hick olustor of small bodion doea not appear, but the Iattor i moro probable. The, falnt continuons spoo- trum of the fan shows a constitution similar to that of tho nuéléus, and ft'f probably a more diffused cluster of small bodies, but tho bright bands from it show the prosonco of n gas; ond {hoy ore simllar to tho bands found in the spectrum of an in- candeacent gua consisling of earbon and Lydrogen; such a8 tho biuo baso of & gaa flamo ; 8o thoro 18 ovi- donce here of o hydro-carbon in & gascons state mixed ‘with theso small bodies forming tho fon, Tho banda only from the part precoding the fan show tho pres- ence of thia gas oxlending beyond the olid particles, The spoctrum of the tail is evidenco of its gascous nn- turo, but it aleo contalue cortain quantity of solid particlos suflictent to give the falnt continuous apeo- trum, Of Iate years it hee boen shown that cortain comots and cluaters of meteorites, such as givo us Ahoso showors of August and Novembor, travel on tho same paths through space, and it is highly probable hint some of the large comets mentloned by the an- clentn are now ropresonted by flocka of metaoritos ; and now wo have anotlier cluo to tho constitution of comefs,~namaly, that they ote oluators of metoorites surrounded by o hydro-carbon gas. Ifow this gas ob- tains ita luminosity it is difMoult to say, but it scoms posslble that & gaa necd not alwaya bo heated, in our ordinary sonse, in order to ronder it Juminous, THE CROPS, . '1teports from Varlous Quarters. . Special Dispatch to The Chicago Iribune, Jaorsonvizre, IWL, July 27.—The very heavy thunder-storm laat night ended the long-con- tinued drouglit, and- insured thoe safety of the corn crop. Tho chinch-bugs had done somo damago; but the rain has drowned thom out, and corn prospects ‘sre oxcollent, The crop 'will probiably yleld 50 to 60 bushals to tho acre, 5 Speetas Digpateh to The.Chicago T'ridune, . LaSarye, I, July 27.—An intelligent farmor of the southern part of LaBallo Township says that unloss coplous rains visit tho southern part of LoSalle County thia week corn in that rogion will not amount to more ‘than halt a crop, and that potutoes will prove an almost total failure. N%firnnpwt of raiu has yet appoatod. atarta, Nob., July 27.—Additlonal reports from all soctions’ of the Btate rolativo tothe gragsho) gum ara yory discouraging. In Dawson Couiity thoro will not bo snough corn raised for goed, " Tho corn, boan, and potato crops of tho Pawnoee Indlans were totatly destroyod, Without -addifional aid from the Govornment thoy cannob but suffer most soverely. The grasshopnors will ronch the river by Thursday, clearingevorytning. - Spectal {D{svatch to The Clacago Tribusie, EANgAREE, 1N, Jx_tl{ 21.~Kaukakoo County is in a-doplorable condition. No rain has visited us for wooks, and vegetation is literally burning up. Tho flelds are as brown as in Indian surmmer, Corn isrollinig and turning yollow. Alroady onc- Lalf. of the crop has beon hopelessly ruined, and out a fow days aro loft in which to inaure tho re- maindor. n ast throo days two fires aind Within tho past threo ds two fl have:-beon startod in flelds adjoining the rail- roads by sparks from passing locomotives. On Baturdny laat, tho thermomoter atood at 103 de- ‘groos in the shade; o hot wind swept over tho country, withoring vegotation liko a blast from a furnnce. ‘Traly, our prospects, 8o fair six weoks 8o, are now disheartening. b “The Cotton Crop in South Carolinn. Onanrestoy, 8. 0., July 27.—Tlie cottoncater- illars have mado their appearauco iu force in rangeburg County, iu the interior of this Stato, ag woll as on the const, Unfavorablo' weather nod tho Iatoness of “tho orop make plantors ap- -prebousive that tho worm will do serious harm. .. OBITUARY. ‘The Hon. George W.Morris. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. GmyaN, Ill.; July 37.—The Hon. George W. Morris, ;of Onargn, formorly of Cook County, and one of the wealthleat mon in this section, died suddenly at Soncea, Ean,, to-day, Commodore Thompson Darngh Shaw, PrivAveremta, July 37,—Commodoro Thomp- gon Daragh Bhaw, a rotired oflicor of the navy, died youterday at Germantown, agod 75 yoars. Anselm Rothschild, VieNnNA, July 27.—Anselm Rothschild died to- By. —_— AMUSEMENTS. TOOLEY'S THEATRE. The audience at Hooloy's Theatro last ovening rominded one of the palmier days of tho logiti- mate comedy in this charming house, or of the not lesa notablo succoss of tho Adelphi during tho past season, Inasmuch ns overy night of the new variety combination under Mr. Grover's ‘managemont i & Jadios’ night, the sight of so ‘mauy of tho other sox was not & surprige. NMr, Grover, while ho Las boon driven to orgauize o company in hasto, has displayed that fortility in oxpedients whiol rouders him so formid- able an opponent among managers, Tho samo ingenuity which. drove tho cham- plons of the East from Ohicago routoed and l]na{:nndnnt hins collactod tho mate- rinls of difforont phasos of tho drams, aud ju- diciously blonded thain into one ontertainmont of o very enjoyable doacription, It iy nob sur- orising “that his name a8 o managor should gunrantoo an overflowing houso on an oponing night, but it ia surprieing that the porformance, ‘with such littlo timo for organization, should be 60 sgroenblo, As stated Buuday, Mr, Grover has combined for ono evening's ontertainment the most attractivo fontures of nogro-minstrelsy and variety business, and hus added to thom a strong olemont in o farce by a comedian of great popularlty—Mr, O. B, Bishop. Tho minstrol foature of tho ontertainmant consista of tha ordiuary first paxt, with Cartor, Surridge, Caurtwright, Wilson, and Kayna in comio and pathetio dittles. Thon como Wayno aud Lovaly THE COUNCIL. Egon and Karls Elaoted Court-House Architeots, The Hatter Forced Throush in the « Tace of All Oppesition, —_— Miscellancous Business Transacted. ‘The Council mot in Yogular session ovoning, Prosident Dixon in the chiir. Aftor tho rocelpt of & communication from thio Mayor relntive to tho domands of tho Na- tional Board of Undorwritors, glven elsowhero, tho rogular routine was taken up. . BINEET-EXTENSIONS, ETC, Ordors woro passed for an ordinnnce for opon- ing Park avenuo from Btanton avenuo to Cali- fornia avenue; also to flll and pave Madison siroot from Wobstor avonue to Oalfornin av- onuo. - % : An ordinanco granting tho right to lay & streot railway on North avonuo, ffom Milwaukeo ave- nuo to tho city limits, was reforred to tho Come mitteo on Railtonds. Tie Board of Publlc Worka raported that, be~ foro nsower can be Iald on Ashland avenuo, fill~ ing will Liave to dono at » cost of $27,000. UEALING INJUBIES, Tho Finance Committeo roported, rocommend. ing tho paymont of $2,000 to Guatay Schult, for damagos rocelved by him In falling from an un- gunrded sidowall on Dearborn stroet. The re- port waa coneurred in, 3 RATLROAD MATTERS. Tho Committes on_Railroads reported, recom- monding that the Corporation &mnsul nspist Brnpurl.y-uwnum olong the line of the Chicago, anvillo & Vinconnes Railroadin obtaining dam- agos sustainod by tho right of way. Con- ourred in, : Tho samo Committeo roported recommending that permission bo grantod to run afiroless on- g{luu from tho Grent Enstorn_Reilway track ta the Gorman burying-ground, Laid over, ‘The same Committce roporied that the Coun- cil has no power to campol stroot-railway compa. nios to pay liconse for cats, Concurred in. yesterdny BTREET NUMBERS, 4 An_ordinanco was passed suthorizing the Bourd of Public Works to changostrost numbera when in thoir judgomontit bocomes nocessnry. THE INDIANA STREET RAILROAD, Majority and minority roports from the Com- mitteo on Btreats. and Alleys, Wost Division, worae recolved, on the subject of the stroot-rail- waoy track on Wost Indiana stroet, tho lnnfom rocommending that permission bo granted, uni{ tho miuority advorsely thoroto. Both reports wero laid over. & ta COURT-TIOUBE ARCHITECTS. Ald. Hildroth moved that the Council procosd to olect two Court-Houss nrchitocts, All. Lynch movod that three be electod. Ald. Sidwell moved to indefinitely postpone action in tho mattor. Tho motion was lost, the only afirmativo votos boing thoso of Ald. ?(dw’ull, Btone, Clark, Schaffuer, Oorcoran, and onny, Ald. Schinffner moved that fivo architects ba oleotod, g Ald, Cullerton insiatod that tho proper courss wad to voto on concurronce in tho report of the Committeo on Public Buildings, which recom- monds tho election of two arcliitects. mma. Btout moved that the roport bo placed on o. £ Ald. Cullorton moved to conour in the roport. . Al Titzgerald moved to emond Ly olecting throo architects. 'Chis was ruled out'of order. Ald.’ 8chaffnor hoped tho report would bo Elnc_ud on fllo, aud that tho subject matter would o postponed. Nohody bnd gny monoy to pay ordinary taxes. No iInterest would suffor by postponement, axcepting that of a fow architects, and the property immedintoly surrounding the Oourt-Houeo Bquare, QGive the peopla a chance to recover fromn thoir prostration, Aid. Righardson said tho same spoech was mado lagt Monday night, and ‘it would be s pity to linvo It made tivico for nothing. Ald. Hildroth said, for Akl Schaffner'’s come fort, that it would be threo or four years bofora the robuilding of the Court-House would draw away any trado from tho Pacific Hotel. The Ecnplo domanded that tho £000,000 of Court= [ouse money should ba exponded. ; Ald. Campbell inquired if the chiof of the Peo- in thoir inimitablo songs and daucos, The va- riaty foaturc commences with o Swedish canta- trica of no vory groat morit, Nicolo Norton, tho julg’;:lez', 18 an oxcollent fanturo, and daserves 8 good montiou. Buutord and Moultan, tho musioal molos, aro well known, and where kuown must _bo admired. Tho oporatio skotoh, *'A ‘Corrible Fix,” iy at onco legitimnto and bur- leaque, and gives Miss Wron and Jumos Ootling an excellent opportumtg. Billy Courtwright hna boon o favorite in this city ovor since ho ar- rived, and deserves the position he holds in the public favor. Iis skotch of ** My Only Friond" we_have takon occaslon -to ‘motico before, and briofly rofor to it ad an oxcullont, athotio pices of negro-minstreley, Mlss Jennio g[orgm complates tho varloty porformanco, Tle performpnco concludos with Bishop's rol- IiukluF farco of * Wantod—1,000 Young Mtli- ners, which will ever bo assoolatod with Lish- op's plump figuro and rathor woll-dovoloped limbs, The bill 18 s good ono, but will bo changod 'hursday to mako room for moro noy- eltion, i —_— A STOCK RAID IN WYOMING. al Diapateh to The Chicaga Tribune. Ouf;fi' Nub.’July a7,—QGan, Ord Jhas a tole- vam that the Tndiang yostorduy run oft sovouty fiornnu from the ranga o short distance wost of Medioino Bow, Wyoming, War parties of Oloy- annos and Arrapahoos bnvo boon sgon noar Rayw- lins, Nothing bas boen hoard of Capt, Wessols, who went aftor tuo Iudinue that attacked the muinore at Bominolo, plo's party Was not gotting 4 por cont on that monaoy, Ald. Hildroth hoped ba wes, and moved the provious Tlosn!an. ‘Tho motion to place the report on filo was lnst by & voto of 11 to 21, as follows : Yeas—Warren, Sldwoll, Stone, T, F, Datley, Clark, Wiite, Quirk, Stout, Sthatfmer, Cannon, Murphy, Lyuch, Corcoran, Jonis—18, “Nays—Richardion, Foloy, Coo, Fitzgorald, Schmitz, Roldy, Mclory, Onllerton, M. B, Buatley, ilildroth, O'Brien, Woodman, Kelioe, Miner, leatl:, Campball Clovelasd, Eckliardt, Malir, Leagachor, Mr, Presidanl ‘The report ot the Committeo was conourrod The Clnir appointed Ald. Rildreth, Caunon, and Schimitz o8 tellory, Nomiuations wero_made o4 follows: By Ald. M. B, Dailey, P.J, Egan; by Ald, fitzgerald, I T, Gey; by Ald. Stono, W. H, Wilcox; by Ald. Hildroth, Thomas Tilley: by Ald. Schaff- ner, Theodore Karls; by Ald. Hoath, W. W. Boyinglon ; by Ald, Woodman, O, L. Whoolock ; by Ald, Jonas, Mr, York, Ald, Camipbell callad attontion to the fact tha no Seandinavian had boon nominated, It waa moved and carriod that tho first batlos bo an informal one, It resulted as follows ‘Wholo number of votes cast..... MR RCE R SR TREER 1 e wl Tho Chairman announcod that Mr. Egan was oleated. s Ald, Oullorton, Woodman, and Campbelt vohomently protested that thig ruling was incor- ‘roct, 08 poth architects must Lo choson by tho aame ballot. Attontion was called to the foct that in soveral cnses einglo bnllots woro cast. Thoy insisted that theso sigle baliots wore not logal, . ild- Campbell moved to declare the ballot void, and reguiro two separato nmnes on cach ‘batlot. Ald, Schaffuor insisted that the single batlots must bo th out as illogal, “Iho Chair ruled that single ballois wore logal. Ald. Campboll deuonnced such a ruling as a frand and an outingo, and showed how tho singlo ballot could work in this way. Ald. Woodmau hoped that Egan's frionds would aceept an honorable plan, und declare tho voto just taken intormal, ‘I'he motiva to declaro tho ballot void was car- ried. The queation then nrose as to whother single ballots could Lo raceived, Ald, Woadman moved that no ballot be ro- cotved unloss it contaiuod two dilforent namos, Tho motion provaitod, T'he firt logal ballot was thon {aken, as fol- lown: ‘Whole number of votes cast, Necessury 10 8 cl Karl X ol Egan woro duly oleoted. +Ald. Belintfuer moved that the Council proceed to the elaction of & third architect, and nominut- ed W, W. Boyington, Ald, Hildroth moved to lny this motion on the The motiou provailud, with the following Warren, Ttaldy, EcOlory, Iildroth, O'Drion, Bufloy, Kehoe, Whito, Hoath, Quirk, Oloveland, 1&1: im“('u“ mrl;uuuz, Longachr,' Caunuaen, Murphy, ¥, Preefdent—18, Nays—lioharduon, Foloy, Coss, Fitzgerald, Sidwell, Btong, Schuitz, Oulierton, M. 1, Bafloy, Olark, Wood uan, Sttnor, Clmpboll, Kebuituss, Lyl Corcora, onh— “T'ho Uouneil then adjournod, LIBEL AND RETRACTION, B, Joseew, Mo, July 27.—Tho @azelte, of this aity, publlshed an artiole yosterday grossly libeling 0. B. Wilkinson, Collootor of Internul Tovenue of this distriot, " Witkinson immediato- ly callod on Mra. Amanda Corhy, {)roprlntrosn of t{m paper, informod bor thaf tho articlo waa falsa In overy patticular, and demanded an un- qualifiod retraction, or he would bring an action for libal, ~ A votnplote rolruotion in to-worrow's. Qazelle 18 vromwed- =