Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1874, Page 4

TERMR OF THE TRIBUNE, H RATES OF SUDACRIPTION (FAYADLE IN Anvh;zz). 3 ity by m $3. Parte of o year atthe - 6 preven delay and mistakes, be sure and give ‘Posb Ofi ce addren in full, including State and County. Tomittaiicos Ty tie mado cithier by drat, oxpras, Post Ofhos ordor, or in registered lattors: ab our tieks : g TERMA TO CITT RUBBCTIDNENS, T, dolivored, Buriday exeepted i cents per weeks Datly, aeliverad, Hunday Includod, R conte or weols Address THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Uoathor Uhtoagn il . TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. QULRY'S THEATRE—Randoloh astrart, bolgien H A Groat Adelphl Compa l‘:‘l;‘i‘:y:ull?li:;{nfl:d V'Prllrflly.m "Afterncon and evoning. totwoon Mad- tod atese AGADEMY OF MUSIO—1l qimoan Mad: .‘:(?é"."'“"' onon, oD ol e aias, - Out Lrish Cousln.” i DING—Lakashare, faot of Adama OO P aseieht™ Alternooa and ovoning. SOGIETY MEETINGS, COSMOTOLITAN LOROE, No, X oy "t be prosent t] AR (.'-umanlu.gré'nflIflt‘ix::l’::;nd"-:lv\;"? ennferred, and o o B order of JOLLY BIRNRENS.675 5. eorome, c.of 1 4. L of PieAll i Snnini af thelr v 3 QOES TO M'CHESNET'S, COR- ae ST BRI T for tul sot best gum teath, enly 8. _Filliog, U half tho nsual ratos. #1070 41,000 1N BTOTKSE AND 0OLD ¥ 1,000 INVES 0 i mosth, - Sand TUIEGHE B0. iankors, 2 Wallat.. The Chicags Tribune, Wodnosday Morning, July 20, 1874, Tsaaceon, Stnaden, Anderson, and Relgnolds— tho talo wifl be continued in futuro-issuos of THE TRIDUNE. = Saginew lumber aod salt see notbing but min in tho Caradian Reciprocity Treaty. ir. Blaine may count on & protty majority in that district. ———— It overyhody told the trath this summer, Fhorn would bo no prevailing sonsation in tho news- papers. 1appy 18 that peoplo w)mso newspapors aro duil. Considor the placid oomont_:qugzt of English peoplo, how 1t grows. e ¥ pou e, Anothor clear ense of incendinrism was dis- covored yestordny. ‘This maltos thiros, . Evory ono of the houses fired was excessively insurod. ‘fho Nntional Donrd hias forgotton to mentionona of the reforms that is necosenry tos successful in- surance business in this city ; and that l?' the adontion of an intclligent syslem of mxih?r-_ writing. The bot-weathor st in Washington this ntonth is that Gen. Bristow doce nok rest casy in the Trensury Department, and bus applied for tho succession to Atty.-Gen. Williame. This ftem of nows tins dono most faithful servico to tho correspondonts, and atill it i wearing well. Only the public is becoming a littlo grogey. A epecial Grand Jury will probably be sum- moned to find indictments agalnst tho four mon now in custody for alleged incendinriem. If nothing is dono to produce & healthy shock in tho communily, some mad fook will succced in burning over forty or fifty acres, or in blowing up the entira Fire Deportmont. Standen had powder enough in his houss to lovel ono of the pyramids of Bgypt. Dr. Earll has not been forgatton. Jle is a modest, unambitious practitioner, asking no pub- Jic notice of his professional services. He would not have compluined at all if hohad been for- gotten like Boan, tho Alton Railway couductor. But distinction has been thrust upon Lim, A _jury has been impancled, and Lo will bo tried. And this is not.the full extent of his misfortunc. Tic is to be tried under the new eriminal codo, which provides that ordinary intelligence and ac- quaintance with current events shall not debar n way [rom jurs-service. A monaco to France that is not sufficiently weighed ia tho complication growing out of iko Carlist dopredations on the southern border. Spain oy slrendy protested against tho refuge granted to theso rayal pirates by the French au- thorities, Themnoxt step will bo o formal de- mand for ludemnity ; and, when it comes, there will bo power bobind it furniehod by tho English, German, and Rupnan Governments. Tho risk- ing of so much for the gratification of a pelty spite is bad policy, and especially imprudont in thio present condition of Frenoh affairs. The mombor of the IHinols Demoacratic Con- tral Committeo for tho Fiftconth District, Mr. Tdward Barrett, has wiitten to Mr. MeCo.wick in regard to the meeting called for the 27th inat. is language is plain. o is opposed to o Dem- ocratic Convention and’s Domocratio ticket, ITo believes that tho Indopendent party hns taken tho right view of every issuo but the sinancial, and that it wonld bo entirely right if it were in power. Mr. Barrott's intentions aro evidontly much hettor than hin lopie. o refuses to be prosont nt the meoting, nnd tenders hin resigna- tion, to tnka effect if & Democratic tiviet is put in the fleld, The juryin the Earll case wers nllowed to Aeparate and go home lagt night. There is but one othor instunce on racord in this country of the disporsion of & juiy in o murdor case duting tho progrees of the trial, It Is true that this Jury is selected on the presumption that intelli- gouce is a qualification for good sorvico rather thian n hinderanco to it ; but this fact does not carry with it tho conclusion that furymen may wufely be subjected to nny outside pressure that iy ha brought to beur upon them, A particu- lar objection to o hazardous an axpuriment jg that it may be un eifoctive argumant bofore the Buprame Court for the granting of a now trial to Earll, In case ho should be convicted, The Chicago produco markets wore goner- ally strong yesterday, with a fair businces doiug, Dless pork was loss active, and 40G80¢ higher, closing casler at #23.40 eollor Auguat, and $28.60 sellor Septomber, Lard wns more active, and advancad 25@30c por 100 1bs, closing sirong at $12.004.12,12)¢ cash or seller Auguxt, Meuts wore maderately active and firm, at 714@7%0 for thouldary, 0)5@10¢ for sliort ribs, 10@105c for short clear, and 12)¢c for eweet-pickiod hamn, Highwines were moderately sotive and lc bigher, at 070 per gallon. Lalo freights wore dntland weak, at 2%¢o for corn to Buifalo. Flour Was mora actlvoat former pricos, \Vheat was more activo aud a shado highor, closing at $1,08 cadh, 21053 eeller August, and $116@L16% for No, 2 Minnosota, Corn was more sctive and highor, closlng exeited at 08340 cash, and 61340 scller August, Oate woro more active and Atrongor, closing ot G0 cash (old), and 860 sollor August, Hyo was quiet and strong, wt 90@ D20, Barloy wae ore wollve, aud 2o Lighor, closing HICAGO "DAILY TRIBUNE: WEUNESDAY, JULY 99, 1874 at $1.00 cash or soller Beptombor. On Baturday ovening last thoro wore In stors in this oity 1,234,231 ' bu whent 1,651,003 bu cort; 45,440 bu onta; 4,168 bu ryoy xnd 8,781 bu barley. Hogs wero in sctivo demand and firm, with snlos at 80.60@7.00 . for conimon o cholco§ axtra at £7.15@7.26. , Oattlo, worp in fair dnmupxl and Sheop duil [l ——— Becretary Bristow has concluded arrangemonts” for tho placing of that partof tho 5 por cont loan romaining In tho Tressury. Tho bidders aro August Behmnont & Co., on bohalf of N., M. Rothechild & Song, of Londonj the Scligmans,. firm. “of London and Now York; and, tho First Na- tional Bruk, of Now York.,” Theso parties hhq $46,000,000 abeolutely, and are given ‘n sixe months' option on. tho romainder of !tho Toan. Thoy recoive }{ of 1 por oent commigsion and pay all oxpenses. It 'fs belioved there 'will be no trouble in loating the entiro $179,000,000° | before the oxpiration of six months, and this without cansing auy scrious disturbanco-in the money-markots.of the world.. Sccrotary Bris- tow's conduct of thia matter has been charabter- ized by the highest degroo of Lnsiness ability and tact, togothor with an evidont dosiro to denl fairly by all persona concerned. He do- serves the credit of having done a good thing in au tntelligent and conscloutious manner, Tarmera and othors who are disposed to com- plain nowndays must look up something besldos the through fralghts on grain, 'Hioro ia.what It costs to send a bushel of whoat from Chicago t_d Now York: * Steam from Chlcago to Bummal Elevating at Buffalo.. ... Tiail from Lulialo to Now ¥or 2%o Tt will better enablo the inquisitive to undor- atand how marvolously cheap this js to tell them that the Erio Caunl (olls on grain and boat are 8.2 conts; or moro than the lake freights all the way from Ohicago to Buffalo, Thoy will then bogin to comprehond that there is something bo- sides railway monopoly to gramble sbout. Tho freight to Liverpool is proportionatoly low. After paying 113¢ conts to get tho wheat to Now York, it costs 8 cents for handling ln that.city, and 63¢d, or about 14 conts, to transport it from ‘New York to Liverpool, This makes tho total cost from Chicago to Liverpool lcsa than 2835 cente. If grain in Livorpool holds ‘a fair prico, the proapect for the farmers this year seems o e all thoy can roasonably demand, Mr. Jamos G. Bayho, who has basn nominated Ly the Anti-Monopoly party for Congress In tlho’ Elghth Congrossional District of this Stato, hins written & letter replying to certaln questions as to his political views. e rofors gonorally to lig' past record; declares that Lo has -always sympathized with the poor and opprossed, and ddd’: " For this reason I oppoto tha National Bank system, belleving it . to.ba aystomatized robbery; am in favor of a currency issuod di- ractly from the Treasury, aud convertible into ‘bonds at tho option of ‘the holders at a low rate of interest.” Ifoalgo exprosses himsolf in favor of the improvement of Westorn rivers, canals,” and harbors, and especially tho Mississippl Rtivor, whenevor tho publio finances justify it, Tlo is also opposcd to salary-grabs, land-grabs, and all chartered monopolies. This is the sub- stanco of the lottor, which is as romarkable for what it doos not say as for what it saya. 'Who ZEighth District is composed of tho following coun- tlos, which in 1872 gave Grant the majorities atated: Tord, 757; Iroquols, 1,92i; Kankakoo, 1,856 ; Livingston, 1,222 ; Marshall, 885. Wood- ford County gave Crecloy 197 majority, leaving Grant's majority in tho district 5,153, Tho dis- triot is now reprosonted by @, L. Fort, Republi- can, but it is agitated on{the Farmers' quostion ; and, in 1873, iu tho cloction of local ofileers, it gavo 1,900 majority against tho Ropublicaus. With an able candidato, and one In whom the peoplo Liave confldence, the Opposition can elect a Congrossman in place of Mr. Fort. It is quostionable whother Mr. Bayno is tho mau for the oconsion, THE CITY-HALL JOB—A FAUX PAS, The Common Council hold r meeting on Mon- dny niglt, and had bofore them matters of ur- gent importance imporatively domanding im- maodiato action, such as tho ordinanco extending tho fire limits ; the question of remaving Hlogal woodon buildings ; the ropoal of all licenses to store oil and otherinflammable substances in largo quantitios within the city ; action upon two cloar casos of incendinriam; tho authorivation of a firo-patrol, oto, What did the Common Coun- cil do? Iardly had the minutes beon read bo- fore Ald. Iildroth moved that tho Council pro- ceed to the election of two architocts for the proposed now Court-Iouse and City-1Ialll And tho Common Council, iguoring all other quos- tions, and acting a8 it thoro hnd nover been o firo in Chicago, devoted the ontire evening to tho selection of “one Irikhmau" and “ouo Gorman ™ to act ns architocts for tho Court- Houso, and, ponding n question whether they eliould not clect o third architect, so ns to give the Scandinavinns a chanco, adjourned. ‘Wo are glnd to inform the Common Connell that they foolod away the time spent in olect- ing orchilcots to divido some 120,000 to §200,000 of tho public moncy. It will also bo gratifying to the publio to know that the Com- mon Council have no legal authority or control ovar tho plans, erection, or materials to bo used in tho erection of tho City-Hall. The suthority of the Common Council beging snd onds with making the appropriations. It has no more power ta appoint an architect or enginedy, or to propara & plan, thun it bes to lot a contract, On thia poine the City Chartor is conclusivo, Beo. 12, Chap. 6 (p. 432), of the City Charter, thus provides : 1t shall ho tho duty of said Board [of Public Works) 1o take wpectal cburgo and supcrintendence, subject to auck genorul ordinunces 18 Wiy be lawfully cetablished by the Common Cauncll, of all streets, ullsys, lines, or hiigliways I wald city, and of all waike aud eross-wabks W the wumo, and of all bridyges, docks, wharyes, pubitic Plnces, public Jandings, public grounds, and parks in waid city, aud of all markets, market-places, anid mars ket-houses, engino-houses, Liospitsly, armorius, and uly other public Luildinga in said city, belonging to tho city, excopt ehool-houses, and qf the erection of all nublic buldings; of all lamps and lights for the Hghte fug of the utrents, alleys, lanes, highways, bridges, 1arks, public places, snd pubitic bulldings of the eity, snd of the ercotion uud ropale of much lasmps and hghts ; of all works for the wwidenfng, deeponing, or dredgivg of thu Chicago River, or either of it branchss; of all sewern and the works pertaining thoroto; of thy Wator-Works of sald ity ; of atl publie improvenents heveasler to be contmenced by aaid city ; atad thoy shall perforus all the dutics by this net pree segibed, und such othor dulies su the Cotmmon Couct] way prescelbe by ordinance, i Horo la tho Jaw of the State taking from the Common Counell certuin powers previously posessad by it and placiug them Iu anindopend- ent Board, The jurisdiction of the Doard of Public Works is original, absolute, and exclusivo, The Common Council may ordor & public jme provement, and make an appropriation therefor, naud there it autbority ouds and the juriadic. tion of tho Board of Publio Works bogine, 'That Board, thenceforih, baa exclusive control, au- thority, Bnd suporintoniletico of tho proposed work. . It haa 6xoluaive authorlty to make a plan and to adopt it 1t has exelusive éuthority to Tt All contracts for mnterial, labior, aud constrio- ton i oporntas, aud must oporate, through’ ita own ofieerd, and caunot. eithier ho controlled or dirbctod by any perdou appointed for that pur- poso by the Mayor or Qommon Council, or by both, If the Clty-Hall (is to:bo ' orect- ed, {t must be-done under tho exclusive authority, control, and superintendones of tho Board of Public;Works. They 'must, lot' .all contncts In tho namo'of the aity, muat super- viso all.work, and upon thelr. cortificate alons can any contractor be paid for any wotk dons of matorlale furnished. Their anthority over 'tho managoment, control, and superiutondence of tho erection of publie buildings i precisely tho’ #amo as 1t I8 In the mattors of wator and sowor-" ago, and contracts rolating to the eamo. The olection of two nrchiteata to take 'charge of the ercction of this vartioular building is, therefore, beyond -the province of -the.Qommon Conneil! Ko auch ofticors. as architoctd are kndwn to tho chirtor; thore is no power to appoint them, nor to appropriste mouocy to pay them, nor'any duty for them to porform gaye that which fa by tho charter conferred oxcluslvely on the Board of Public Works, which duty that Board cannot renign nor delegato to others. The appointment of theso two architeols is simply an sttompt'to tako from (he Board ‘of Publio Worke powers and duties conforred upon thom: by the charter, and, oven if g0 dis< }mncd, that Board cannot consont to 'lm superseded by othor officials unkuown to tho 1aw and wholly irrosponsible to the law, .Any act by those architects, or cither of thom, in this mattor will be usurpation, restrainablo and pun-’ ishablo by law. Until tho Common Council has authority to ropeal the City Charter, the action of Monday night must bo troated as finllmnsl vold. These mon caunot act ss gunplgmaqtnl membors of the Board of Pnblic Worlts, nor can they perform any of ‘the duties of that Hoard without an illegal intrusion which tho Common Council cannot suthorize.. For tho .presont, therefore, the proposed Irish-German uqll\lllo}n for the building of the Court-Houss i Inclox'xtl- nently “busted,” and tho Aldermon and Connty Commignioners who bave ‘strivon for it ‘solin- dofatigably must mourn & lovo'a labor.loat. THE OHRISTIAN ADVOCATE HEARD, FEOM; The Chicago Almanse, whon properly com- pilod, will contain a marginal note on tho pago of ovory nltornate. month womething like this: * Look out for something foolish in. the North western Chrishan Advdcate.”. .This trutlital shoot is shocked by the Bunday morning hoivs- paper-train, and in the fulluess of-ita griof oo “tho subject of Babbath desecration it inveigba even against Sunday camp-moeating trains,” For s ministor to advocate: Sunday: camp-mocting traing and ‘then discountonsnce Bundny mows- papors, it eays, Is to take a **misconstruablo position.” . : ‘Wa thinl it Is the Advocale itaelf that takes a misconstrunble position, for it hias tho temority and importinoncs to Ak the Rev. Mr. Mitcholl and the Rov. Ar. Bartlott to omt {the 20th cliap- ter of Exodus from thoir Bible readings; olse Tre TriouNE will bo offended with those worthy pastors! And then comes ‘the conclusive, the crushing, the triumphant exclamation: “ Logic’ 1s Inexorable, but, happily for tho world, though sad for slnners, eo also is God's law inexorable."” Tho conclusian, of course, is that God's law is committed against nowspaper-trains on tho firat dny of the woek, and that' that lsw is to be found in the 20th chaptor of Exodus, ‘ The editor of tho Advocale is an ignoramus— else ho would know, what the educatod men of tho Christian Church know and fully admit, thnt tho 20th chaptor of Exodus huano relation or roforence whatever to the Ohristian Sundsy— that it is n Jowish ordinanco, roferring to s diffor- ent day, and binding only on_the Jows, ropudi- atod by Christ and tho Apostle Paul. Porliaps.| tho oditor of tho Aduvocae doos mot want to know theso things ; but, on the hypothssis that he ia moro iguorant than. malevolent, wo. invite hia aitontionto Prof. foasoy's oxhnustive troatise on the Bunday question—s work written by an orthodox divine for orthedox readors, ombracing the ontire litorature of tho subjoct from the Apostolic days to the prosent time—a work, wo may add, not by any means **misconstruable.” After oxnmining this work wo think that ho may perhaps allow the Bunday camp-meeting trains to run. Whother ho will’allow the newspaper« train to run s really not important. A NEW CRIMINAL CODE. In view of a irial or investigation which Is now attracting goneral ationtion, we proposo that tho criminel Inw bo modified in accofdance. with the following principles of enlightenod jurisprudence: ' Whovever & citizen of the United Btatos sball bo indicted for & crime or misdomesnor, he shnll on his trisl bo allowed the following privie logea: £ 1. Hlo ehall choose his own Judge or Judges, 2. Tle shall choose his own jury, 8. o shall appoint threo or fonr of the ablost Iawyers in the country to defend him. 4. Ho shall appoint no man as bis Judgo who stiall not bave hoen, for a long series.of years, bis porsonal friend. : 6. Mo shalt appoint no ono to alt on his jury who eball not for at loast ten years have Leen hia ardent admirer, 6. No porson who shall not be pacunlarily in. terestod in the acquital of the prisonor shall be qualified to proside or sit at hia trial as Judge. 7. Whenover o person shall be accused of any erimo pumishiable by law, and It shall be known that thore ls & witness whoso evidence would be vory dumagiug to him, eaid witness shall not be summoned, 8. Tho complainant wno shall charge any man with a erime punighable by law shall not bo rop- vesented eithor in parson or by counsel at the trial, 9. Buch complalosnt shall be required to con- firm his evidenco in onch and every particular with an oath, 10, Tha dofendant shail not be anked to state anything undar oath ; but his atatomont shall Lo taken as if verified by oath, audshall be bo- lioved au if Bworn to, 11. In caye the sworn atatement of the proso. cutor is at varianca with the unsworn tatoment of tho alleged crimina), tho prosncutor's evidence shall bo rejected, and that of the accused txken as the truth. 14, Nothing damaging to thadefendant in a crimiual proscoution shall be allowed to bo mude publio, 13, The Judgos in euch a prosecution shall look for all tho ovidonce obtainuble agniust the complalnant, and shall, by all moans in their power, seok to break down bis character for veracity. 14, They sha!l inquiro minutely into tho past lifo of ‘wuch complainaut, and if they find anye thing sgaiust him, however insignitioant, thoy shall rojoot his ovidonce and mequit tho no- cusod. . *16. 8ald Judgen shall, moreovor, immadistely .mako sald complafnant himaelt the dofondant, and shall adjudge bim guilty of slandor and perjury. 16, The trial of any oitizen accused of a eriminal offonso sliall be carriod on with closod doore. ¥ We do not concode that these principles aro conducivo to the ends of justico. But, sinco they aro the. principles on which ominent Inwyors likte Blioarman and Tracy bave found it proper to conduot s certatn trinl, wo are compelled to rogard them as tho 1last, and thoroforo the higheatl, phaso in tho evolution of law. A NEW PHASE OF THE TERRELL MURDER ; CASE, = Some slx months ago, a8 our readora will ro- membor, Mrs. Torroll, wifo of a Kontuoky jour- nalist, Col.'W. G. Terrell, Instituted an nction of divorce ngainat hor husband. One of her counsol was Mr. Hatry Myors, of Covington, Ky. One moruing, aftor having taken cortain doposi- tlons in tho case, Mr. Myors, counsel for Mrs, Torroll, returncd to his offico to review it 'Bome of thio queations put by Myers to Torroll on’his examination wore not at all to the liking of tho latter. Ho ropaired to Myora' of- flco after his oxamiuation, and, it is said, with & view of provoking a qunzrel, ordered the lawyor, in a bullying man- ner, not to sek him any sneh questions in fu- ture 8 he had put to him in that morning's ox- amination. With this command Mr. Myors Intimatod his detormination not to comply. High words onsued. Myors ordored Torroll out *of his offico, Torroll rofused. Myors arose as Jif intonding to put him out. Terroell theroupon pulled out a pistol, fired at, and killed Myora. Torroll was arrosted and lodged in jail, - His friends wore very anxious ho should be sdmitted to bail. Judge Porkins, who had juriadiction of tho cago, it was belloved, would not allow this, A change of vonue was thoroforo taken, and mattors wero R0 arranged that the cage should bo transferred to Judgo P. U. Major's jurisdiotion. Terrell's counsel atarted in senrch of Major aftor the change of venuo was granted. Thoy found him ‘as Honderson, Ky. -Ho grantod a writ of habeas corpus, which, by law, he was obliged to do, and went all tho way to Boone to try it. It was urged by the Cinclnnati Enquirer that he onghtto have made the writ returnable boforo somo other judicial tribunal, since he knew that his prejudgment waa rolied on. Instoad of this, howover, tho ‘Enqutrer 8aya ho camo to- Covington, spont two days in company with Terroll's counsol ; wont to DBurlington . with them; thero assoclated with ':hum, frolicked with them, and had a “good timo genorally " with thom. Theo press began to snnounce that Terrell would bo bailod ow that Major lind tho bailing of liim. The ‘'motion was made to ball him. - And ho was bailed: The Enquirer romarked that the Judge took no timo to roflect npon the evidenco and arguments ; that ho docided tho motion inatant- ly, without thought, unfairly, unjustly; that tho judgment was prodetormined ; that it overlooked tho most important picoo of testimony; that Judgo Major forgot his duty and his dignity when he condeaconded to epond his time in con- vivial pursuits with the attorneys for the acensed. These strictures of tho Enquirer, aud othora of.a like nature on the legal procoodings at Bur- lington, and oapecially on the conduct of the pre- siding Judgo, wore not relished by Mr. Major. ‘Whorcupon ho diapatohed, on the afternoon of tho 24th, Gen. George B. Hodge to John A, Cockerill, editor of that paper, with anoto re- viewing tho criticismes made upon his judiclal action, and demanding that the objectionablo matter bo recallod in a5 publio a maoner as 1t was mado. Hodge was anthorized by Judge Major to reccive any communication the En- quirer man might have to mako in reply. Ar, Cockerill answored that tho articles .in his poper wore written in pgood falth upon roliable information; that its colnmna woro at Major's service if ho folt that injustico bad been done him ; and, if it wore shown that ho was misinformed, tho Enguirer wonld bo happy to sot him right. Mr. Hodge did not thini that this would be satisfactory to Judgo Major, who replicd on the same day to Mr. Cool- orill that ho would enter into no controversy on the truth’ or falschood of tho oharges made agaloat him, and that he again” demandoed o ro- traction. Mr. Cockorill rofused, Hodgo then drow from his pocket anothernots addrossed to the editor of tho Enguirer, which ho bad beon fnstructed to deliver onlyin case an immodiste roply was not vouchsafed to Major's sccond opistlo, 'This Bfr. Cookerill do- clinodtorecoive. Mr. Hodge thoreupontold Cook~ erill that it was o challenge! Mr. Iodge put ‘baok the note Into his pockot and retreated, not- vory well satisfied with his nogotiations. Tho editor of the Jinquirer still maintains his yosi- Hon. Ho doos not accopt the challenge. What ‘position Mr. Major Is in now we do not.know. ‘Wo trust Mr. Cockorill will stind by his posi- tlon, As for Judge Major, if he lived in Il nois he would bo impoached and removed from office, within thirty days after the meotingof the Logislature, for sendiug a challenge to fighc 4 duol, 1 A NEW RULING IN ADMIRALTY LAW, Judge Ondwalader, of Philadolphin, ha given an fmportant declsion in tho cass of Brady vs, Anierican Steamship Compauy. Brady was o passengor on tho stenmship Pennsylvania from Liverpool to Philadelphin. At a moment of groat dangor the officors seemed incompotent. ‘They banded over the control of tho vessel to Brady, who was & sailor by profasalon, and had, wo bolleve, beon commander of a vessnl wrocked at sor, He oxtricated tho Pennsylvanin from tho dangdru which surrounded hor, and bronght hor safely into port. Tho American Btonmship Company sont him a check for 31,000, flo ro- turned it and demanded salvage, The demnnd waa refused and ho bogan suit, The defenso made a polnt on his having retnined com- mand of the vessel after the dangor .was over, to tho oxclusion of the regular ofticors. The vate of the pnssongors, asking him to do #o, could glve no validity to the usurpation. Judge Oadwatador Iaid down the rulo that, when a pass songer promotes tho safety of the vossel carry- Ing bim by an extraordinary and peculiar sor- vloe, which ho {a not bound to rondor, ho is en- titled to salvage. At this point in the decision, Mr. Drady's heart doubtless ewelled with thoughta of what he would do with the fortuno that the Company was to be obliged to pay him, But, pursued the unsympathotio Judge, when such a paesongor aftorwards assumos and oxer- claos an illegithnato authority over the vossol, ho may loso his salvago altogother, or ho may havo it materially roduced, Thoso principles, applied to tho caso bofore tho court, showed that Drady's fortuno would have been made If ho had let woll onough alone, As he, lke othor men, was mialed into takiag a position which ho was not entitled to hold, he must pay tho ponalty. Judgment for 84,000 was givon him. 1t foos and costs do,not swallow up threo-fourths of it, ho has made monoy by hia sult, But it must bo an unplessant reflection that Lo pays for onjoying . an empty bonor fora fow daya by losing the fortunoof a life- timo. It lseald that howould havo boon awsrded at lonst €100,000 had ‘hls good conduoct been withoit mitigating ciroumatances. ‘Thedeclsions nnlogs overmlod, will form an important preco- dent in admiralty Inw. 4 THE CENTENNIAL, We havo receivod Oircular No,- 62 of the United Btates Centonnial Qommission. It con- talng o list of the mombors and alternate mom- bors of tho Commissaion, in which we flad just ono mnn of national ropatstion—Gen, Josoph ' R. Hawloy—and fivo of somo local note. Tho othera might 88 woll ba John Doe and Richard Too for all the guarantee thoir unknown namos give. Tho ** Contonninl Board of Financo®* has a good Preaident,—William Walsh, the Episco- pal Indian Commssionor who exposed tho con- duct of tho Tndiau Ring and of Dolao. Tho Bonrd of Financo contains within itsolf, how- over, & Board of Directors, twenty-five .sirang. ‘We shonld bo glad to'know how responsibility for tho monoy that will be stolenia to bo brought home to anybody. Tho *Commiasion™ syatem’ of dividing and so annulling reaponaibility! has boen carried to a fine art hore.: Ciroulsr. No. 62 contalng rules for -oxhibitors ‘It also contalos various attompts tomnakelt appear that' the Govornment {s running this show procisoly as Franco did the Exposition of 1862, and ‘Austria did tho Woeltausstellung of 1878, ~ Thia Is a do- liborato equivocation ; but then, as the frieuds. of tho Centennisl have alroady shown s in thoir, baflled raids on the Treasury, men will do many’ thinga for monoy. At tho next sossion of Con- gross Con. Hawloy will doubtloss beat his bronst andlose his temper mgain over the ro- fusal tobleed tho Trensury, and tue Philsdel- phia lobbylsts, malo and fomalo, will' donbtloss again storm tho Capitol, and Pig-Iron Kolley will again try to show why tho Government that al- ready taxos the people for the bonefit- of his constituonts ehould tax the peoplo again’ for tho beneflt of somothing as uscless as the rotting factorics and closod furnacos that now disfigure Ponnsylvania and adorn. the faot that o high tarift fostora unlcalthy production’only to slnughtu; It in the ord. All this will hap- pen, and wo shall seo whather or not Congrosa can rosist the tomptation to be gonerous with' other people's monoy, : T The bost contennial eelebration yet proposod is the schemo of Mr. W. B. Ward, to which wo bavo already givon currenoy, Ho would haye individusls and municipalitios erect or endow some memorial of past, or aid to futare, great- ness in. memory of tho complotion.of ‘our firat contury. This is & most admirable ides. It would be well for enorgetic mon in each lu‘cl‘my to tako thomatter up andtry to have tlie monoy from that place that will bo wholly or' parily ‘wosted 8t Philadelphin used in providing some pormanont home advaniago,—a fountamn, n statuo, a charity,. bost of all, a library, large, woll-chosen, aud froo. 5 Corraboration of the interview on the Boacher scandal eaid to have boon hold by a roporter of the Brooklyn Argus with Mrs. Stanton. is fur- _ninhed this morning by the special _uon-upn\ndont of Tue Tnsuxe at Donvor. e has scen Col. Anthony, abrother of Miss Anthony, and hoard from him the story told by Mrs, Stsnton {o the srooklyn roporter. . Por contra, it Is stated in the dispatchos from Now York that Mrs. Tilton pronounces the intorviow uttorly falso, Mr. Tilton waa arreated yosterday on a civil suit for libel. The complainant is one Gaynor, an attacko of the Argus. Tho suspiclon is that ho has boon instigated to the courso by Mr. Til- ton, who wishes to have the caso brouglt before & tribunal which will have the po'wur to abmpel tho attondance of witnessos and tho production of papers. Whother this inforence is_aorroct or not, remains to be seon. Qayoor's ground of ac~ tion is not kmown. —— * A firo in Livorpool. yesterdny destroyed the landivg-stages at tho Princo's Dock. Those stages ave in the River Mersoy. The dock itaelf in entiroly inolosed by warchouses. If the firo hed been among them, as tho first dispatohos soomed to indicato, tho loss would have boen very great. : Tho loss of life by the flood in Pittsburg. ia now cstimated at 160, and the losa of property at $5,000,000. Nobody was to blame. = It was what the expross companies call “an sot of God." Binco Douglas Jorrold wroto his pathetio % 8tory of o Foathor,” it has beon tho fashion to sketoly tho fortunes of tho inanimato objects which circulate rapidly from- hand to hand amoug men, Wby is it that no ono has yot writ- ten the story of a ‘greenback? It would be full of intoreating contrasts, Lt -Imagino the green paper préesod upon tho on. graved plates and thon ‘quiveriug ‘under the metoorio signature of Gen, Spinuer. The obloug product of rags and lamp-black is now—monoey. An almighty Congress hng roduced the almighty dollar to this, Tho bit of paper goos futo the Treasury vaults, that whispor to It of the tima when thoy bold gold, It is paid out, in a huge bundte of its follows, toa contractor who haa besn furnishing shoddy to our army, then lying before Vicksburg., Plucked out of the bundloand placed in his pocket-bool, it travols to the front, whith- or hio goos to sco 6 Gouoral who is bis sllent and sinful partner. A battlo bogins. Our troopu aro ranted. The scarod contractor waves his money in hig fingers, offoring it all for a chance to ride to snfoty. The Confoderato cavalry dash down upon him. 1o is caught, stripped,.snd sout to tho roar. Tho partienlar greonback s dropped on the battlefield, Toro groans, robbors of the dead, and monotonons moral reflections on tho horrora of war may bo fusorted ju great pro- fagion. A wounded may, clutehing tho ground in bis last agony, unconsciously pioks up tho bill, His stiffoned flngors closo upon it in the moment of death. A prowlor cuts it out of his dead hand. A doctor, searching for the wounded, detects the thief in (he act and finos him tho amount of the bill, which ho appropriaton to his own uso. A fow days afterwards & contagious . discaso atlacks Lim' iu the hospital. Ho dios, bonuoathing hia offects to hfs botrothed, 1fora can coma o skotch of a lavely lioroine, Bouthern typo of beauty, loved by stalwart slaves, who have eworn to stay by her in heor loneliness and dofond * yonng miss- us " from harm, ‘They do so—until tho Fedoral army i near enongh to makae Might safo, Tovo- 1y heroina rocolvon affocts of doad dootor ; pross- o# each articlo to hior ruby (or coral) lips ; kiscos the greenback with espocial forvor, reflecting that shie can now buy a now paragol ; inbiales ine foction from it ; and dles with as much pathos ns Littlo Noll. Thq,doath must, howovor, be rapid, in order that the bill may flutter to the floor aud bo at once pickud up by Pompey, tho faith- ful slave, who I8 thus rewarded for his slugle dovotion to his - young mistress, TPompey disappoars ere morning with tho grean- back, Aftor an interval of some yoars, dure ing ‘which the bill seos various phasss of Bouthern }ife, runs the blockado, in eaptured at #ea, and brought to tho North, it reappoars a8 a .yote-porsuader in the Bouth Carolina Logisia~ ture. Once tnured to this work, it plays a prom= inont part in Washington. Itattends the Credit- Mobilior inveatigation, hid in the pockot of the ‘“slatesman " {4 has hribed, and hoars that or- namont of our ountry declaro that he i utterly. innocent, and that the euddon swelling of his bank account at tho time whon Oredit-Mobilior dividends weie declared was caused by gonerous | donalions from unknown but loving frionds, Ile aftorwards given tho bill to the tomporanco causa (thoorusade being vory stronginbis distriet), It 1s paid out for crueado printing, and {s noxt lald on w'counter in_ paymont for whisky. It falls Into tho bands of & communist who makos a wild spooch on the tyranny of capital and the injus- tioo of Interost. that night, and tho noxtday lenda tho bill to s fellow-workingman at 10 por ‘eont'a month. It vibratos botwoon hovols sud palecos, botween innoconce and vico. It helps pay a anlary-grabber. It is waved In tho sacrod atmosplioro of tho Senate-Chambor by an elo- quent orator, ‘who' descants upon its blood- soaled benuties and calls for tho issuo of millions lika unto it. It tolls the atory in 1950, nnil closen it by enying . ** In 1900, I was presented at tho Treasury countor, but tho clerk said that g0 ‘many millions like ‘me bLnd beon printed that the country never could pay thom off, and that.tho wiso men of the land had thoreforo de- croed that gold should not Lo usad, but that afl the paper issuod should bo kopt in circulation, and'sliould bo based on the faith of the nation. Thon my owner said he had takon me somo yoars boforo for a bad-dobt, and had boen trying - evor rinco to get rid of mo, but' nobody, would givo bim the smallest thing formo. *'Woll, yes,' mald tho clork, ‘the faot is that the billa Lavo beon—ropudiated. 8ad, vory, but a nocensity.’ .80 my country haa robbed mo, quoth my mas- ter. And that is tho renson whymy presont poascssor, who i8 & collootor of worthloss odds: and-onds, has a Fronch assignat, and & Confod- erate shinplaater, aud a Continental bill on this pago of his album that holds'me.” - e e FIERY LESSONS. To the Kditor of The Chicago T'ribune; 8in: Bince the fire of -July 14 the miles of wooden buildings strotching to thosouth and the ‘wost Litive given us a focling of insecurity aud davgor,—a fecling which wo cannot subdie, and “m danger which ¥ g % CANNOT AT PRESENT DE REMOVED. ; A largo portion of thoso buildings bolong to industrious, prudont men (althongh their pru- donge in building or buying woodon buildings 'might now bo quostioned), who havo partly, paid for thoir property, and are saving sll they ean, and'aro paying as fast as they can for thoir homes; arid we doubt very much it thoso hold- ing the Indumbrances of thoso lots would bo willing to givo more timo for paymenta to epable’ this clasa:to tear,down their buildings and build of brick. Wo doubt vory much,. it the_time of poymont was oxtonded, If thoy would bo willing .to incur so'much additional expongo.. Tho ides that tho city can oblige them to make the chango from wood to brick. is propostorous, uoless tho city proposes to furnish the monoy necessary for the work ; whioh, of course, it cannot do. The romaindor of - the old buwildings will “ have to stand until snother ouormous confla- gration shall coma to wipe them out. One thing tho city can do, and that is, provont the oraction of any more wooden buildings within:ita limits, A man who ia about to build a reasonably-sized house can s woll construct it of brick as of wood, If brick is more expensive, he ean build smallor houso ; bottor be somewhat cramped for room than run tho risk of bolug burnt out. The roofs of theso buildings should be firo- proof. Thoy ought to be constructed of tiles, slato, tin, iron, or somo othor subsiance that will not burn, It is porfoct monsonsc to build tha wallg fire-proof, and thon construct tho roof of auch an infiammablo substance as tar, especially whon, it is welll known, tho buildings in tho Groat Fire of 1871 cnugh‘ flre from tho roof. If wo have fire-proof buildings, the roofa will have to ba fire-proof too. $ ‘We aro always on the look-out for cheap Iabor, and, in order to havo cheap labor, it is necessary to have cheap modea of living; choap labor and ‘Thigh rates of living . o ARE INCOMPATIBLE. Thacost of tho nocossarios of life must bear Romo proportion to the amount of wages pnid for Jabor. Anbeonomical, industrious man, who is enrning but little,, objoots to pay a good slice of his wages for rent, and, whon ho can help himself, Lo will not do it; noither will ha bo any mora li'kcly to do it if tenemont-houses are built of brick. Hao objeots to pnyingrent; and, in ordor tosavo ront and own a little somothing ‘himself, ho loases a lot, on which he places a building. ITomay havo to move when his losso oxpires; congequently it is constructad of wood. ‘T'ho dosire of ownership i8 grest in human be- ings ; every man lilics to possese somothing, and, It it 14 not possiblo to own anything olso, ho becomen tho possessor of a dog, fo the dotri- ment of his neighbor, who i froquontly kopt awako all night by tho howling of the unmannor- Iy cur. Men of menns, who are able to hold their property, froquently profor to leaso thoir lotg inutond of selling thom, us the leaso will pay all expenses, and, in kcoplnfi thoir lots in a growing clty like this, thoy reap the beuofita of the rise in property. Bometimes two families will lensan lot to- gother ; ono will build ou the front of the lot, while the other will placaits shanty on the roar. Theeo partios will build a habitation cnch for 8100 or 160, on a lot loased for from 250 to 200 & yoar. This lonso, divided, will amount to $25 .or $80 s yoar. Ilore wo have cheap lubor. Their housos cost o little that thoy can afford to work choap. DBut 18 IT QUEAP LATOR ? -That Iabor which is purchased at the sxpense of keeping a whole oity in nervous alarm, aud occa- uimmll( satarting o fire which dostroys millions of dollars’ worth of property, does not strike us as boing vory cheap. : T'ho boller way would bo to afford them facili- tioa for llving in & cheap, safo looality, whero they would. ¢ndanger no ono, aud whore they would huvo a chanve to he nore thrifty and pros- * perous, Thoro aro suburban towns whero a lot can bo banght for tho kame prico that one cau ba lensed in tho city ; aud, with threo yéars' time for paymont, n8 is usuully given ‘in Chicago, three lots .could ba purchased for the same as would be paid for a lease for tho ssme poriod, Give a man a prospoect of bettering hiscondition ; givo him tho feeling that ho owus n littla roal vutato, if it is but 25 by 100 feet, and i will ho apt to mako n better man of him ; it will inspire .him with solf-renpoct,—n souss of his own im- it you pleand ; it will mke bim mora Hous, more cconomical. Ilo bhas succocd- od in guinlug = Lttle; hie will make ay effort to guin niore, - Thero nro, ohataater than no groater destroyors of human NPLITP BOCIETIES - . and Lindred institutions. After the flre of 1871 thoy wera adire necossity ; and such wn oxtreme nocossity had such an institution Lecome that sny person who had snifored by tho firv folt no'loss of wolf-respect from uo- copting rotiof, It was much the sumo, lust win- tor, sl the coming winter will mako th Roliof Socloty again & neconsity. This iv to be-dopre- cated,” Thoro is something wrong somewhore whon persons, unless thoy are sick or unusuully ‘unfortunato, are obliged” to nsk for chnrily,— somothing wrong either in thommolves or thase in authonty over thomn, Mon and women thore aro who would profor to dio of starvation rather than ask for roliof, ‘Ihose 510 the onos most do- sorving of help; thoso nro tho oncs who will help thumselvou, I they buvo but the ‘ghost of achanco to do it, 1'ho Itelief Huoloty “eviucod some knowledge of humsn uature whon it sont out visitors to hunt wp such persons, Thoss who can make their weuts known ure not thoso who suffer; for, i a bunovolont community like this, those who are really uunflly will bave ‘thewr mosb linmadinto wants supplied. 2 "o quostion is froquontly sskod: Why will tho poor peraist in crowding togothor iulargo citios, aud living in souulor and Impurity # T ANBWER 18 UBVIOUS 3 They fa with firo 1 thouo who aro’ not in n condit }x‘glp thomaolves will havo to bo protocied ?Il:)l(!‘\. e ravages in orderio fnsuro tho puteotion ouliora. Who will boar tho oxpenro? Iiche Auawors, who ? A caso in polnt eame undor. ::tu!m‘!‘fif:"‘-urd « A fow months minco, & hpy d 0o radirond ranning on' Kinz. straoty by o train yasklug ovor him. - 11in four(h ul; Id WRY h;)rn ou tho day hio was burded, and hig widow wan loft in deatitute circumatances, with four children, the oldoyt only T yoars of age; tho youngest & new-horn infaut. Some of tho Jind imlgbbm in that vicluity futorosted themmelven n lor vmwx boufiht tho lumbor to put up small dwelling, lessod o lob on which to placa_it, and hired s earpontor to byild 1. Yeu torday the lumbor was on tho spot, and now an ordinanco has boon pnanod vrohibiting woodon bulldings within tho oity limits, Tha ordinanca is & good oun‘ wo An:‘glul It passod 3 notwithe atanding, it will bo bard in soms curos, an io this ono ; but wo eannot holp thinking that our rarke roada might have somo othor way of gotting into the city, wnoroby paoplo's lives would not bo in 80 mtich dangor, and s family of childvon not ro oftan _bo lott fathorless or mothorless, and turnod over to tho charity of othova, 1t hoa beon suggestod that wo are in DANGER OF FIRE FROM THE S'ANRS that fly from the stonmi-onginos ns they ey through our oity. It such i tho caso, has not our City Coundil as much right to prevent an engine with flro in {¢ from ontoring our city as to prevont tho ereotion of woodon bu(l(l(ugsg Thn sailroads havo froo aceess to tha olty at preso ¢ withont roatrictions, Ias Chicngo no rights which railtond-corporations are bound fo 1e- 8peat ? *If Chicago is built firo-proof, and 18 in no dangor from tho atonm-engine, onght not the :lfi‘ncm-anulnn to rotaliato by accommodating ago If tho railroads could bo porsuaded, by an kind of Togio, 0 run. traing on a1l tlio yonds londing into tho oity, for & ditance of 80 milar, for tho accomodation of working men aud wo~ mon,—run thom to suit the hours of work and tho slondor purses of theso clasges, —Bii= burban towns would epring up 88 it - by - ‘mngio. The remson thesa poople stay in tho city, and live in such close, unhoalthy, crowded communition, ia mainly be- cause the railroad-faro ia so bigh thoy cannot pay it out of tholr daily wagos ; but roduco it ta sult thoir means, and the raflronds woukl' have such an abundanco of pnskengors that thoso clioap trains would pay na woll s tho streot-car does, whilo the city . WOULD BF. MORE. AROURE from dangors which now threatonit, Tire and disoaso would not find such casy- proy, while the class called dangerons would bo on the decroase, a8 nothing conduces 8o much towards ele- vating mankind 88 matorial comforts in tho shapo of good homos, whoro tho occupants can hiave pure air, good wator, and s spot of ground on which to enltivato small: frulls, vogotables and flowors, No one knowsuntil theyhave ti it how rich & roturn a small ploco of ground wilt yield; nor how muchoan bo raised on 25 by 100 foet. With sach towns aud facllities for tho working classes springing up sround us, the Uommune would have nothing on which to feed ; it has but littlo now to thrive an in freo America, and, . with such provisions for the. in- dustrious, it would have still losa,s and must, for tho want of sustenance, die n natural doath, Ponce to its nshos! As it:isab presont, wo may expect that its mombors will ‘make another atformpt next winter, whicl soason now promisos to bo ono of tho lardeat winters thirough which we have yet passed. THERE 18 RELIGION 4n noat, clean, wiolosome surronndings ; tho very spirit of Chrlatianity brenthies in tho pure air which plays around ‘n nont cottage with a woll-kept garden. -Thoft, murder, nud all of the catnlogiio of low and bratal pussions, find no placo thoro, Thoy floo from thoso abodes of industrinl thritt fo tho low, crowded deus of Iarga citie, whoro a breath of puro air is naver inbaled, and where tho wholo systom is poisoncd by tho impurition of tholocality, fitting both men and wonion for deeds of darkest dye.” Againwa reiterato, mako it possible for thom to live in “henlthior and botter localitics. Which of our railronds will first come to tho roscue? Which of them will sot the exampla, and furnish facili- tios for traveling_at low rates toand from onr suburban towns? Who control the roads, tha oity, or tho Logislatnre, or both? Itis to the ad- vanlago of all to participate in this mattor, It is to the advantago of tho railronds to establisl this a8 & groat commercial contre ; to provent our misfortunen from resulting in trade and commorco leaving us, and sooling & more cone enial placo, whero such disnstersas havo over- akon ug are guardod againat aud nover allowod to ocour. Tho City Fathers, whose duty it is to guard well tho intorest of Chicago, cannot aid it any moro matorially than by giving some attention ta thia matter ; and the Logislature, which grauta tho railronds their chartors, cannot afford to nnqluoh any moans of lessening tho injuries and adding to the bonefits of the groat Meiropolis of the Wost. Mua. M. D. Wysioor. —— A Wonderful 0il Well. ‘The Titusville (Ponn.) Herald thus deseribes & wonderful oil well tha€ baa jnst hoon eponcd: *’Cho road leading to the Purker weil from Potrolin is in_moderatoly good condition, aud noon after leaving Contral Point tho travelor ob- sorves tho words ‘no amoking pormitted here* in conspicuous placos. After nhout two and a Dbalf miles ride tho top of o hill is reachad, whoroe a lond, ronring noiso i distinctly hoard, and oighty rods fartiior on brings us in_wight of the well, A douse fog or mist onvelopes tha derriok, engine-house, and tanks, while fully*ona thousnnd ~ persons aro thoro guzing on the woundor of Armstrong County. The derrick has conanicuously placed unou it, in largo lesters, ‘Boss Woll," and ¢Creswoll City.’ “'Fhoro are two 250-barrel tanks full of oil; also two 1,200-barrel tanks, one of which 1y full. Threo dams, one bolow iho other, cateh the drippings ; nnd the rivulet beyond, wo ara told, for 10 miles of a circuitous route to tha Alleghony Rivor, 1n covered with oil. Thore ara two -inch pipos'counacted with tho woll, ono of which is shut completely off, and out of the othex flows & stondy stream of oil with immonuo force. There is no percoptible intermission in the tlow, and as 1t gnebes into ona of tho 1,200-barrol tanks the foam and spray envelop thoe whole surrounding atmosphere ip a donse miat. “A truatworthy gaugor informed us that ba had ganged the woll thrae timos since the streauy wasa turnod into tho 1,200-barrel tank, and he found it doing 1,760 barrels, and ho estimatod the lenkago 0 be at loast 50 barrols por day. Ha further etated that,-in his opinion, the wull atarted off out of tho two 2-inch piposat thorata of 2,500 barrels per day. Hoalro clainod thut, although this was almost incredible, he belioved thot if the full strenm wag turned ou now it would do at least 2,000 barrols, *Tho well is claimed to bo tho Iargest over struck in tho lower region. A farmer walked up -to us and offered to goll his adjoining farm of *100 acres for £100,000, which ton duys ago, for farming purposes, would not have brought $1,000, !Flm survoyors aro ut work laying out Creswell City, *Tho P'arker well stands 234 mils due engt of tho most castorn well on the faurth sand devel- opment, and about 237 miles east of Votrolin. Tho numbhor of wells drilling on the belt east of the most easterly wellon the MeGarvey farm are six, namely: two on tho Snow farm, ona.on the Steol farm, the Guahford woll, 1,000 foet. deep § the Crawford well, 300 foot deop, and tho Pron= tice well, 1,450 feat deep. Tho Inttoris hulf a mtle duo west of the Parkor woll, and in duo naxt wook. —_——— 2Zen fFutior’s Antograph Framed, In Now Orleans, soon aftor the War, Lraw In & drwwing-room, one duy, an olaboratoly-fraued lotlor, of which, tho _ourtaing buing drawn, L could read only tho signature, whicl, to my ns~ tonishmont, was that of Gen. Batlor, ** Whatis that 2" I asked of tho young gontloweman I way viviting. * Oh, that's my Qiploma, my cor= titieato of good charactor from Gen. Dutler ;™ and, taking it down from tho wall, sho pormitted mo to read it, tolling mo at the ene timo i history. It goems that the yonne lady hatl bhoen vory sotive in aiding eaptured G n odornten fo escape from Now Orloaus, and for thin st other almilar offonsos sho wag arrostod sevoral Limes. A goutloman who knew Qen, Butler peraonally hnd intorested himwoll iu behalf of her and ®omo of hor frionds, aud, upon making an ap= poal for tholr dischirgo, vecolved this porsonsl nota from tho commanding Goneral, in which he doclared his willingness to dischargo all the othe org, * Dut that black-oyed Miss I ho wroto, ‘*Boema to mo an incorrigiblo little dovil whow oven prieon fare won't tamo." Tho rmmp Indy had framod the note, aud sho chorimios it yet, doubtleas.—2ygleston in Attantic Monthiy, otttk A Recont French Docision, Tho Tribunol do la Soiuo, a Fronch coart, ling rocently made a docigion which will huve u slar- thug oilout i tgmo quartors. Tt In {0 tho effect that marriages solomnizod ub tho rosidoncs of a live by isbor, and the lnbor by which they live is performuid in tho lurgo cities; nud, ag long s eltios malke no provision for thom ol where, thoy will crowd in citios, to the grout det- rimont of ull olusses, Laust sumwmor the cholara commonued [n 1 loeslity whore housos, and lots, and ronts, were clisap, but whoro thore was nof & supply of good wator. Tho rvhulu city wus on- drugored by that choap lounlity ; awd, to pro~ toct tho inbinbitants trom thut droaded sconrgo, water-pipes wore luid, aud tho viotumizod neighs borhood supplied with ake-wator, whon the oholera waa arreated, and tho oity saved from lts raveges, ‘I'be poor had to be protected from chiolora for tho safoty of otherss aud just 8o it foreign Miniutor, rosident in_France, aro not marringes at all, An Ambassudor’y house iy, for diplomatio purposes, cousidered n purt of tha country ho reprosunta, That it s vo for civil aots fu denfod by tho docision in question, Mar~ riagos solomnized at such residonoes aro not, uoe cotding to this, to bo considered as having oos curred in a foroign country, and aro, therefor not recognized undor the laws of Irance. I will bo wive, therafors, for Awmoricans who have boen married at the Ameriean Logation in to have their marringos logalized, in Franen it thoy inteud remaining thero, or iu this country on their votura,