Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATES OF AUDRORIFTION (PATADLE TH ADVANOR). X N X AR Hwmvotraa R A g xit Parta rato, To pre y sud be sare and give Post 08 caaddrosy in full, Incinding State and Connty. Remiltances ray bo mads eltlior bydrart, ospross, Post Offios cidor, or 1n registored Jetters. at onr Hsk, TERMA TO CITY BUDBCAIDERS, Dally, dellverad, unday grcentad 2 cente per weok, Daily, dolivored, Buoday Included, 30 conts por wook. THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, dison aud Doarborn-sts., Ubloago, Il TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, AT R0 Halstad atrost hotwesn Mad. A O o by ok Dialdnts of 50 s0- called Bpiritual Manifostationa. YL TIATRE~Randoloh sireot, hotwnen BT R R strelsy, Farco, and Varioty. , faot of Adsma Bk anmoh A5d avonings BXPOBITION BUILDIN streat, ' Pacis by Moonllat “BUSINESS N 210 TO 81,000 INVESTED IN BTOCKS AND Gorn ith., Bond 1t riieniars. TUM- The Chicags Teibuane, Mondsy Morning, August 3; 1874 Thia {8 tho dull soason in religion, the Adver- sary laving goso on o vacation. Witness the stall attondanco at the churchos yosterday. e There has boen more than enough whining sbont the cormer, I half thot is chargod sgainat him s true, Mr. Bturgos haa mado & small fortuno at groat oxponso of reputation ; that iu tho wholo caso. Dr, W. W. Patten proached yestordsy on ** The Broad Church*; the Rov. C, D. Helmer ou #Tlye Monntaing”; and the Rov, U. D, Gulick on “#Tha Sabbath.” Abstracts of theso sermons aro printed In this issue of Tix TRIBDNE. Persons who did not rond Tie TRIBUNE yod- torday nced to ba informed that it contnined ab- atracta of roports by tho Board of Public Works, the Chicago School Board, and the Michigan Central Railroad Dircotors. All of theso wero of groat intorest, Thoy will probably be repro- ducod in tho other morning journala to-day. e Alettor giving o good idea of the political situation in Wisconsin will be found in anothor column, The race for tho Sonato betwoen Mir. Carpontor, ox-Gov. Washbum, sud the Hon. ‘Aloxandor Mitchell, is becoming intoresting. To tho conteatants it is something mare than inter- esting, Mr, Jonnings, of tho New York Times, scoms to Lave modified his opinion of tho Indopoudont pross sinco tho Presidentinl campaigu, Fo haa learned that it is utterly impossiblo to conduct a strict party organ and a good powspapor at tho samo time, Ho has choson the baolter part which ehall not bo taken away from lim. But ho will lose the Government printing. ——iem *The Massachusotis Domooracy havodecided to hold a Convontion, sud put d full ticket {n tho fiold, Tho platform will probably embraco & do- clorationin favor of & stringent liconso law in tho interest of temporance. Tho popular cur- xont in Massachusotts this year seema to bo sot- ting strongly in favor of prohibition, and Gov. Tatbot 18 almost assured of & united support by that oloment, —— A new oxperimeut in ratlway-managoment in this country was suggestod at & mooting in Sara- toga lnst woolt of officials copngoted with the great trunk-lines, It is the appolutment of o Commission to sottle, sll disputed polnts be- tween competing roads on an oquitablo basis. Dotaila of the arrangemant aro given in anothor column, The experiment will bo obsorved with minch intorest s an application in & now field of tho principle of arbitration ; but porsons who havo good opportunitios of judging aro not san- guine of ity success. The Dircctors’ report of the Michigan Contral Tailroad for the yenr ooding 1878-74 makes n gravifying showing as well to the people of Chi~ eagb os to the stockholdors in tho Company. Although the net earnings were loss than the provioua yoar by $204,743.29, there waa u con~ siderable incroase in business and & grest im- provemont of the rond-bed and rolling stock. No dividends will be declarod until January, the ‘enrnings belug applied to the oxtinguishment of tho florting debt; but a sufficiont compensation for this delay 18 found in tho roflection that it will place tho affairs of the Company on a solid ‘asis, and sssure its furure prosperity. The attompt to substitute moral suasion for corputal punishmont in thegovernment of pupils in the public schools of Chicago has beon entire- ly successful, The report of the Bchool Board dwolls upon this fact with par- donable complacency. Last year there ‘wore fower susponsions in proportion to the at~ tendunce than ever bofore. Nino schools, having an averagoe attondanco of 6,500, roport no suspon- slons and no corporal punisbment. 8ix schools, with an attoudauce of 4,500, roport ono suspen- slon cach. There ia np departmont in tho eity odministration which has more cloarly satablish- od its claims to the confidence of tho publio than tha 8chool Board. Even its mistakes havo boon honost. A comparison of the Ohicago school- syatem with that of any other clty in $ho coun- try would not put ua to shama, ————— A point woll taken in tho report of the Board of Publio Warks has roforonco to tho pooulinr operation of the building law in its relation to the wator-supply. The offcot of the law is to eucournge small gottloments in tho outskirts of the oity, snd thue to force a goperal ex- toneion of wator-pipes. Bo groat is the de- mand from this source on the funds in possession of the Board that vory little remains for the improvement of tho wator-sys- tem in the thickly-populated distriots, Whon ib 18 considered that tho city-limits include much ground that was held simply for speculativo pur- posos, and would not Lave beon ocsupled for yoars if the oporation of the fire-ordinnnce had extended over it, the forco of tho Doard's argu- mont will bo appreciated, bt slow on Saturdey, but very steady aftor tha ex- cltomonts of the provious dpy. Mess pork was quiet, but advanced 603 per brl, cloaing st $28.75 caab, and §24,00 soller Beptemnber, Lard wns quist and 06 por 100 Iba higher, olosing at §10.25 cash, and $18.50 soller Boptombor. Aloats wero quiot and strouger, closing st 8 for ahouldars, 103§@103¢0 for ehort ribs, 103{@1030 for short oloar, and 13@18}go for awoot-plokled bums. * Highwiues wero moderately active and Atrong, st 08¢ por gallon, Lake froights were dull aud ateady, st 2)¢0 for corn to Buffalo, Fiour vaa quiat axid steady. Whoa was qulat aud a shade firmer, butclosod woslk, at §1.04 cash, and 810334 gollor tho month, Corn was active and ateady, but closod tame, at 013¢0 cash, and Blo soller the month., Onts wero activo and atrong, closing at 400 canb, and 87340 setlor August, Tye wan dull and lower at 700, Darley was quiotand etendier, clasing nt 81:02 onsh o sollor Soptombor. Hogs woro dulland onsy ; Anlos at $0.133@7.16 for skippors to oxtra Philadolphia grades, Cattlo. wero In lght demand and unchaugoed, Bheop soaruo ab §3,00@5.00. WHAT CONSTITUTES HYPOORISY P The Sprlnglield Republican ohides Thr Criroaao Tnrmuye for maintaining that,. if Mr. Beschor in really guilty a8 charged, ho is & hypoorite. Bays tho Republican : ¥ Tieccher I8 not s hypocrite, Falling into temptation fanot hypocrisy, it issln, Boochor hua mevor in his preaching cxnlted his own virtucs or claimed to Linve any, Undoubtodly ho should have boen virtuous, and tho presumption woa that o was, but, it lio foll short. of ifs own standard and of that high mark to which bo thought to inapiro otber men, it was evidence of Bis frallty, not of deceit or hypocrisy, Thera 3s o dictum 8o caslly misunderstood aud so often misap« plied as tint a man should only yroach as ko can practico, If thls woro tho universal rule, we should forevar grovel. Ontho contrary, thore must be,on thero always Lina boen, a constant and slncers pronch~ ing of a Gospol better than tho very best of uscan practice. 1t 1 only by proaching Letter than wo prace tlco that wo sholl ovor practice better, The paragraph wo have quoted botraya oithor a total misconcoption of tho orimo chargod ngaingt Mr, Doecher or o want of wquulnmmo' with tho dictionary. Tho thiug chargod against Boocher i8 not fraiity, or tho lability to bo seduced, but doliberato seduction, followed: by ndultory of olghtoen manthe' duration, stapped anly by discovery, sud then supplomonted by lylug. Duging sll this timo Alr. Bocolor con~ tinued to preach and pray in Plymouth pulpit. Assuming these to bo faots (for that ia the' hypothesis of tho Kepublican's article), doos it or docu it not smount to hypocrisy? Webster dofines the word iypoerite {n this wise: Hyroonrre. A dissombler; ono who assumes o falso npposrance; . . . o falso protondor to virtuo or plety; one who aasumos an appoarsnce of pioty sud virtuo, Now, supposiog that 3Ir. Doecher, having ac- complisbed the soduction of his friond’s wife, preachos and prays in Plymouth pulpit on Sun- day and sin, in tbe maonor charged, on Mouday, and then prays In o public placo on Friday, snd slns, In tho manner charged, on Saturday, aud ro- poats this round for a porlod of eightoon monthe,—ig ho & bypoorito or not? Is ho “a false protendor to plety and virtuo,” or mot? Boar in mind, tho hypothosis is not that Boech- or *‘feli,” not that ho wos lod astroy, not that ho sibnod once, bub that ho led ruothor astray and einned continuousty until discovory madoe furthor sinning in thot quarter hnpossible. DBut, snya tho Republican, * Boochor has never in his proncling exalted his own virtues, or claimed to have any'l s ot the act of proaching i a Christion pulpit it- solf a claim to the possession of some virtuea? Is it not, at all avouts, a clulm to the porsession of virtues wholly incompatible with tha sart of crimo charged in this case ? If not, thon take on ax and knock all tho pulpits iuto kindling- wood. Ifthe Clristion profession, aud much moroe the Christian ministry, doos not con- stituto & clam {o the possession of cor- tain principlos—priuciples which may possi- Dly be devisted from in an unguarded momont, though nover without injury to the soul—thon is Christianity iuferior to Heathen philosophy, for the latter is full of loftier pro- copts and moxime, What olss is the Chirlstisn profession but a claimn that onc's life avd con- vergntion i8 wadoled afeer the life, sud tench- angs, and esamplo of Curist? Tho Borfugiield Republican has uover vroachod so strange adoo- trino—a cannot eall it arroliglon—Detoro. -Sush a codo Indicatos that tho hand at the belm of that usually discreet and well-balanced journal is unstendy, if not altogether absont. Thoro g another point in the Boochor cage whioh has not beon commented on as it deserves tobo, AMr, Docchier is now 01 years of nge, At tho time of committing tho alloged offenso Lo wng b3, or thereabouts. = Tho temptations which beect & man at that ago are suppased to be con- piderabiy less that those which onspare him at 25. Homlot dopicts the differenco botween those poriods, in bis uccusation of his mother, inworda not inapproprinte to Mr. Boocher : Yau canuat catl it lovo; forat your age, The hey-dsy in the blood fs tamo; it's humble, Aud waita upou the judgment. . . . Rebellious holl} If thou cans't mutino in 4 natron's bones, To flaming youth lot virtuo bo us wax Aud melt n her own flre: proclam no shstae When thie compulslve urdor givos tho charge, Sincs frost isell as nctively doths burn, Aud reason panders will, It Mr. Beecher Iy innocent of the deliberate and continuous crima alloged against him, but guilty of some lesser offenso which may come under the designation of *frailty,” it will be time onongh then to dotormine how far a Chris- tion ministor 53 years of sge Ia excueable for such on offonse. But neverlot it bo said that the offenso can bo repeated more or less fro- quently during eightosn months, by a porson ot~ oupying tho pulplt and the Theological Sominary, without hypacrisy, THE ALDERMANIC BRIBERY, The bribery proscoutions wil] possibly come to naught, simply because the exposura and broak- down followed 0 8oon after tho cloction of the architoots that tho stakobolder did not fed! war- ranted in paying over, and thomemborshavobeon assiduous in denying that thoy have any olim, Thue, on Monday pight, July 27, the Egsn and Karls combination ournod the money in the bands of the stekoholder by the election of the two architects; on Wednesday. morning Tng T'nimuNo oxposod the illogality of the whole procoeding, and paymont ovor wad arcostod until the City Attornoy could givo au _opinion, Poudivg this, Tire TrinuNe jnvitod the aiteation of the epocial Grand Jury to the bribery law. Atonco tho Aldormen grow virtuows, Thoy protooted they had not recelved a cent, and would not, and thoy were willlog fo swonr bee fore avy numbor of Grand Jurles that they had not handlod o dollar. AN of which 1s probably truo, becaugo thoir oloction of trchitects was void, and the investigation by the Graud Jury was imminens. Tho Aldormon osoaped be- Ing bribod by (ha want of leglity fu thiolr pro- ceoding, and thoy becamo virtuously indiguant Locauso thoy wora able to swear that uo ono had paid thom, What hus becotn of the money put up for tho bribg, wo do not know. Whothor it has boon paid back to tho subsoribors or not, is woro than wo can say, It may bo that, like tho stalko- lolder who hold 10,000 some yoar and o hialf ago topay for Aldermiuio logisiation and Lept the money, the stukeholdor in this case will pooket the Iunds. In 1873, thore was a wall apv.g the Aldormen for their monoyy in this ca, so long as tho Aldorinou in the proseuco of the Qrand Jury douy all dalm, tho stakoholder hna o fair chiauco to hold It, at leaat until some ono can gstabllsl, judielally, & bottor right to 1t " than ho hoa, Wo think tho peoplo of Ohloago hava rozson . THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY; AUGUST 3, IR7A torejoloa, - In the firet place, the Court-House Jjob hne been, as Wilkeson mnid of Boochor's Litaof Ohrlat,” ' knooked highor than & kite." In the socond place, tho. Aldormon lave baon dotoated in gotting from §20,000 to 30,000 in monoy for acling dishonestly. Porhaps as many na twonty-fivo Aldormen woro ablo yeatorday, on thoir knooa at churoh, to give thanks’that thoy had boon suntched from tho gailt of bribory and escapod trial, conviction, and Imprisonment iu the Penitontiory I -Bo wholesomo and effica- clous has boon tho, vigilance in this case that, horonfter, in overy case where thoro 18 money put up o bribo tho Common Couneil, we Intond to exposo the fact and havo it attended to by tho Orand Jury. e s —— CORRUPTION IN I0WA, Over in lows, the ypeaple of the Dubuque District havo to oloct a succonsor to Mr. Donnnn, tho salary-grablior. Among tho candidates for tha Republican nomiuation is Mr, D, N. Cooloy, of Dubuque, Though he is likely to be nomi- natod, thera ls a strong opposition to him in his porty. Hqwna ono of Mr. Harlan's mon wyhon the Bocrotary had charge of Indian affairs, Tho Ropublican Natlonal Committed having appoalad to tho pooplo to sond honcet Ropublioaus to Congress if they can, but send Ropublicaus any- | how, ‘Mr. Cooloy was induced to offer himsolf ssa oandidate. The following lottor from him to tho cditor .of tho Indepondence Zulletin has boou oxtonsively publishied ¢ F1usT NATIONAL AN, © - ) Duiuqus, Tu,, Junot: 1! Dean Jupoxs T hwve been ln thoues ness, and know somothing of what your o in tho fire, even though you saved ek, Kov, dis e, - allow mo to send you $199, i Joan, to o paid in yrint Ing, ete,, at your own couvenlouce, 1€ perchutice I should bo tho nominco this fall I should want it in tickots, oo, No person will ever know a word of this; und I do it beeauso i occura to mo that Just ab thla fimo it will “como fiandy,” or bo useful n Luying new typo, ole, Xl in namo of Jomen AL Smith ; hut i not wanted a8 above £ will bo i advertising Hank, Yours, etc,, (Bignod) D, N. Coorey, Tho Bulletin frankly deolares that it will not support Cooley if Lie be nominnted. . The Clayton’ Journal doclares it bottor to bo dofented with a good man thap successful with a corrupt one. The Republicau State Convention of Towa a year 1go laid it down as o fundameutnl principle of political liberty that it is the **duty of every Ropublican to opposo the olection of bad mon wd incompotout officlals, whother thoy be can- didatos on our ticket or on avy other ticket,” snd tho puoplo of Towa propose to accopt avd sob on this ‘principla. , FIRE-INSURANCE BLATHER. Binco Standon and o fow others Lnve been fn- dided for having attemptod to firo thoir build- ingt in order to obtain the insurance on them, thors havo not boen wanting thoso who would traceall or noatly all tho fires from which Chi- | cago ina suffored to tho practico of insaranco.’ ‘Theso zentlomon (among thom are some incapa- ble city ofilcials) ssy now that Insurance and Fires i simply causo and effect, and that tho meb effective wny to guarantco tho city against conflagrations in tho future is to abolish inaurance altogathor. Thig is » mos oxtraordinary caso of binsty gen- oralization ma idiotlo conceit. It is an in~ siance of ‘tho familisr fatlooy that be- couss & gotd thing ia abusod it should thorefore bo Tone awsy with, A, B, aud © haove burncd down their honses to securo the fmsurazco on them, therefore abolish insurance, Dut there woracases of arson boforo there wore insuranco companies, and there would be arson it insurance companios wore abolished, The ‘doing awny witli insurance would not ao away with the crimo. Tirs ivauranco {a the vory bod-rock aud bottom dollar of nll businesa, Were Chicago® mer- chants and pmpnrty-nwnurg doprived of insurauce, thoy.could not mwev® & peg. It is & bold proposition, but It fs xovertholess o true ono, that ultimntoly our wiole commercisl prosperity resta ou Insurane. A business man's credit is mensured by his power to bor- .row, The credit of o municpal corporation iy moasurad by tho oxtent of tho loan or Jonna it is able to negotiate in the markots of tho world, n[%oy i8 borrowed aud bana aro made upon the securtty ot ronl or pasonnl property. Dut money cannot be borrowed on the seourity of perishable property, M loans are mado ou security which may peritt in a night. Therals uot & men in Chlcagq/who. on & block worth 8100,000, could ral® $10,000, if with tlo mortgoga scouring, thay, sum ho could nok sslzn au fnsurancedolicy as collaleral security. Ta tho lest inatan®, thorofors,” it is apparent that,all building bans oro negotiated on insur- auce policics, [nsurauce is the foundation of commorcial orolit, 38 credit is the Dbasis uf our wholo comumncial systom. Tako away theio- surance ¢onpanios: from Ohleago, aud our wmorclants vould bo compelled to buyin Eastern makets forcash, Tako nway the insuranco com- pooies and dospito all the woalth wo have hero amassed iz buildings, wo would not be able to competo with Milwaulkoe, Peorin, and Dubuque, 10 any pothing of 8t, Louis and Cinoiunati, Hav- ing no eecurity to give but that which acon- flagration might ewoop out of existenos in an hour, wecould obtain no eapltal, and, not boing able to obtaln capital, our Zeir Chicago would be left like s ship in the bed of & river from which tho waters wero drawn off. ‘Tho lifo-inrurenco companios of the conntry find thelr most profitable and safest investmonts in loans on improved roal estato, IVoro thero no firo insurauce, life-insurance companics would not lend money on such property. Nor would thoy bo in hwiry to iuveet in municipal bonds. For munieipal bonds thore i ultimatoly no gocurity excopt the improved proporty in citics, Withous firo insurance, iudoed, Hfe-u- surauco companios could not invest tha capital thoy recoive as preminma 80 o3 to onable them to pay maturing policios. Tho monoy at thewr command would bo made nnproduotive, and tholr businese would not pay. Thus, with fire Insur- unco, life fusuranco would go to tho wall. ‘Thers should bono puch thing aa overdn. surancowhora it can bo prevented. Bub thero are cases in whioh it {1 not practicable to prevent it. Tho vaiuo of a Louso or barn, of fxtures, of maobinery, of Immovable property genorally, can bo uscertatoed, and, onao asoortained, is not hiable to vary. Not so with the stonks of mer- chonta, A meovchant may have to-dny $100,000 worth of stock, In four months it muy hove dwindled to oue-fourth of thus, It is impossible to insure the stook that & businoss man carriea 80 that it shiall not at timos ba ovar-fosured, It may bo urged that s man's oredit or a elty's would not bavlmpnh"ml even 1f thore were no such thing as fira insurauce, It moy bo duld that In thut case ho could borrow as well, only he would have to pay a higher rato of interest on socount of tho groator risk, Thore is some force fu this argument, But, then, he would bo paying a highor rate of {nuurauco In the form of {utereat all tho game, excopt thab in case of loss Lo aloohiol affects tho blood vory littio. upon the norves. It has no construotive force, THammond, diminishing under worly, notwithstauding ho food he oould recover mothing, We adviso those who aro rantlog sgajnst tho insurance compenios to boar in mind that' thoso institutions; aro thelr grentost bonofactors ; that to doaway with them In Chicngo, or to impair thoir oporations, would bo to do away with or mpair the cradit,of ovéry man who orvng o dollar's worth of proporty in tho clty, nad of the oity itsolt. ‘Wo liad hottor take tho insurance companios and an ocenslonal casosuch as that of Standen, thanloso {ho Insuranco ‘companlos, a hindrod timos over. Insnrance is lablo to abuso ; but if ovorything that is lable to abuso in this world woro to bo abalishod, thero would bo absolutely nothing left but an ompty vold. The proposition’ that Chicago “sliould do fta own insurance is simply absurd. Obicago hes not -the capital to do lt, Norlins London or Paris enpital onough to insuro thomsolves. Tho fire of 1871 bne said tho Jast word on tho advantages of homo in- Burance—viz.,, 74§ per cont avorago paymont in cngo of loss, : BOME ADVICE TO HYDE PARK, Hydo Park I8 s vory eutorprising village, which onjoys tho luxury of heing & part of Clicage without payiug eny city tuxes, It contains tho most altractivo parts of our boulovards aud poris, has gas-works, will soon Lave & regular wator supply, and is growing raplaly in favor and population, It now Ls an-opportunity to give itsolf a pormanent prospority by doing ot an oarly day what Ghicngo haa dono only recontly and ottor a dostly oxporienco. Tho corporation of Hydd rark sliould_declaro unmistalably that 130 mora woodon buildings shall bo, erected of *cested within its limits. By dolug this at once, tha choracier of Iydo Pmk as tho wost .desirable porifon of * suburban - Ohis cago will ko dofivitely fixed for all timo: Progorty will thon "Dhave & bhigher and moro stablo valuo, Absoluto protection will bo provided sgainst great firca. Tho senso of so- cutity wilt atiract poople to live thero. . Thera will be no dasger that speculators in’ cheap lots shall build up largo distriets with firo-traps, and tho southem portion of our ¢ty will always maintain in {lo futura the proforence which e beoh given it In-the past for residenco purposes. Tho immedinte and inperative probibition of frame buildings in IIyde Park cannot be con-~ atrued aa o hirdship on tho poor. Hydo Pak inclndos {hat! territory lying south of Thirty~ niuth stroot Jud cast of Stato stroot, ranning a8 for soutd as tho necossitics of Chicago for residoncos wil roqniro within thonext twenty-five youre, It indudos both Droxel and South Park boulavards, tio two South Parks, tho boulovards and pvenues danneoting them; and'the extension of Chicago's inest rosidonce strocts. It is not likoly that ary vory poor mon will scolc Hyda Park proportyat ita prosont prices. They will stall have the Fown of Lalko, lyiug west of Stato streot, ‘whurn‘ property is much cheaper, sod whoro tho mow modest settlemonts have alrendy attained a lnrgo population.. As a rule, anyhody who can affort to buy or 0Wn Propsriy in Hydo Park can afford to bulld of brick if thoy «np afford to buill at all. Dut tho grostest noces- sity for tho pribibition of “woudon bnildings in Iyde Park iz n ordor to shub out the wooden bulldings which will ba moved i that direotion by the scop a8 thoy aro forood omb sido tho oitylimits. The people who are building up hd improving handsome places withio the bowndarics of Hyde Parix shouid bs protected agalast this menace ta thair: prop- orty. Thotwoboulovards and tho extension of Michiganavenua will, ina few yests, bo lined with elkgant snd costly rosidences, and it will bean outrage if theso residences are to bo consautrythroatenod on all sidea by tinder-boxes getup on wooeden plns, Tho difforonco in cost botweon a brick houss and 8 framo hiouse of the samo sizo is probably not moro than 10 por cont at the prosout time, Tvon this difference is gonorally sot off by the exponso usually put oo o frame houso which is spared in buildiog of briclk, Whon a man builds of wood, ho ususlly foels the nocossity of orna- mentation, and ho attaches bay-windows, Gotlio projoctions, elaborato cornicos, oto,, Which are’ dispensed with in building of brick. And, aftor tho wooden bouso ja comploted with all those furbelows, the cost of keoping it in food ropair iy 80 much larger then that attached to a brlck houso, that the investment in the long runis likely to bo groator than if a briok house had ‘boon orooted, To prolibit the erection or looa~ tion of wooden houses within tho limite of Hyde Park will, thorofore, bo & hardship to nobody,’ but a-great boneft to all property-owners, aud & sure protection against futuro disastor. If tho suthorities of Hydo Park will pasa an ordinance to this' offect at once, it will do more toward building up handsonio residencos and maintain- ing the value of tharoal estato in that locality than any other monsuro that could bo devised, No other suburban noighborhood will ever again be in & position to dlapute with Hyde Park tha claim of having tho choleest residenco property of Obieago. * Dr. Bammond's address on assuming the Pres- idonoy of the New York Nourologioal Boclety was on tho offocts of alcohol upon the norvous syatom, Tho Nation of last Thuraday gives a re- sume of his arguments, most of which wercsus- tained by notusl oxporiments. Ho holioves that 1t works but it is valuablo as & ‘consorvative. This iden, by the way, opons & graceful path of rotreat for persons who havo strenuously donied thut thia® subtle stimutont is & food. According to Dr. s man who finds his weight the pressuro of hard cats all tho can digest, can stop the waato by taking a littlo aleohol. With its aid ho can o tho same work on the same amount of food, Bt it he keops in perfoct heslth without the stimulant, bis 'use of it will produco resulty snalogous to: thoso of over-oating, In-othor words, alaohol'holps digestion. If tho digestion isin good ordor, thero i1 no ueed of the medi- cino. Modicine takon without need fs worso than useloss; it 18 hurtful, This is Dr. Hame mond's applioation : It is impossiblo to preserlbe @ priord tho amount oach sick porson noods, A glags of wine may bo too littlo for one, too muoh for anothor, Weare not Hving in & state of pature. Barrow, anxioty, the pursuit of wenlth or honor, aro conatantly wesrlng us cut,’ Whon a gluss of wive or beor will provent this unplons- .ant process, {6 18 right to take It It is not sottiug » bad oxemple. It fs sottiog & good ane,—a modorato uso of things that, so usod, do good, A mau {s not calléd upon to Linston bia own death for tho ake of hoing hiy brother’s keoper. **Why should ho shorten hia 1ifo for the purposo of sftording an example toa man who probably would not heed it, and who, it ho did, is of less valuo than bimself to soolo- ty?" Prohibitory laws cannot dvproomo tho in stinotive love of ntimulants and sodatives, This iustingt may, howover, be regulated. Dr, Hawme ‘mond's plan of regulation {s as followa ¢ Ay opinton i, ilwt the beat way to da this {s by dise uhuzmx:m logialstion {n favor of winos aid pialf bovorsgos and agalnst spirituous lquors, 1 would ‘make §t aificult fo got whisky, T would provido that ‘what wau sold shiould bo pure, and at tho same timo X would make i¢.caay {o prooura, light wines and boor, Ana X would likowine offer evory encourngement lo the growti of the vine and the hop, Experioncs hoea aliown that totnl prolubition, whilo falling fon great oxtont i practics, Wrives men and women to oplum and Indinu homp, substsncon still more dostructive to mind and body than alcohol, * . Wo pointed out, in our last Hunday's issue, tha dangor of promoting the intemporato uso of oplum by logislating sgainat aleohol. Dr. Ham- moud’s words aro s strong {ndorsoment of our srgument. Aftor ho had spoken, Dr. Loute, Dr. Willard Parkor, Dr J. C. Poters, and Dr: Aymer, all of whom are,well-known phyaiciaus, dobatod bis dootrinos, Thoy all agroed with his main conolusions, The weight of toatimony in favor of promoting- the uso of lght wine, ale, and boor, In order to check the demand for flory liquor, {ncreases from day to day, We moy hopo to‘seo oma logislative rocoguition of the dootrine ore Tong. | i REFORM IN AREANSAS, ‘Thonowa from Arkangnsischeoring, Itelhows o promive of heslthful reform in the State Gov- ornmont, ond tho provention for the future ot tho robbories and frauds that have boon commit~ todin all tho reconstructod Btates. The Con- vention eleotod to framo a State Constitution s compoaed of cighty-nino delegates, all of whom excopt twolve bavo had o rosidenco in tho Btate of moro than ton yoars, mavy of them for thirty or forty yoara, There are in tho Conven- tlon thirty-sevon farmors, thirty-two lswyors, olght doctors, three ministors, two morchants, snd six occupations not stated, These men all havo o permanent intorost in the Btate, and pro- pose to mako o Constitution to scours and pro- toct the pooplo. against the Loglalaturo aud agninst dishonesty gonorally. Under the pres- out carpot-bag Constitutlon, the Governor is Tittlo short of being Diotator. Ho appolnta noar- 1y all tho local ofcers of ovory rank in tho Btate, Tho ofices have beon multipied until thoy have become *unendurably opprossive. Liko tho grasshoppers in parts of Minnesots, thoy consume all the country produces, Tuo Ppropositions airoedy rdopted by tho Convontion include: 1, Tho removal of all the present in- oumbenta of all officoa by the eclection of suo- cessora; 2. Tho abolition of s very largo num- ber of ofiices; 8. Tlio cousolidation into slugle offices of tho duties now divided in many cascs belween moveral officos; 4. Tho repesl of all feos ‘and porquisites, and the substitution of fixed ealarion ; 6. The romodeling of tho: Logis- | Inturo by tho_eloction of Sountors in singlo dis- triots, snd the election of Roprosontatives, go " far as possible, " in single diatricta, Bpeclal logislation is prollbited; the Bu- prome Court is roduced to thres Judges; and various othor roforms are to bo made. The Govornor will be stripped of the extraordinary powers now posscesed by him, and tho Btate genorally will bave & Conetitution somowhat in =~~nxdance with tho spirit of the ago, BPANIbx ARFATRE. ; . Ex-King Amndous of Spain has bewu- *intar- viewed ® on tho condition of nilsirs in tuat country. ~ After professing himself “to pe in tho dark as to the attitudo of partios there, he pro- ceoded to throw considerable light on Spanish politice. Amudens was two years King of Bpain. Theso tho Prince would have tho world under- stand wero years of honor, not yoars of happi- news. Wrotched is tho hond that wears a orown. So Amadeus thinks ; and hia boliof is founded on exporionce, The causs of Amndous' unhap- piness was that he knew perfectly well that the majority in the Cortes which alocted him to power was o small one, and that it would not bo ablo to reaist tho pressuro of the other parties, Ho oxplainod that parties in Spaln wore dif- ferout from- those in anmy other country.” Spanish partioa Lave absolutoely nothing in com- mon. What ia to bocome “of tho ‘country now, or whero {t iz to find n leader, is morae than the ox-King flnds himself in a condtion to eay. Sorrano cannot load the army or tho Admin- istration. Neithor can Bapasta. Zorilla bay too many and tno powerful onomios, Espartoro s o fosal. - Pavia bas po followors. Concha i8 no moro, Morionos, Campos, Blancos, aud Lama aro mero youths, The Carlists, Amadous says, aro bottor orgavized.snd better led than tho' rogular froops, Intho pourso of & fow yoars, ho thought, Spain would bo entiroly in the hands and under tho control of the Osrlists, Tho interference of & foreign powor alone could provent this xesuit, This is ail the mors prob- oblo, aeit would soem that the Spanish Republio lias alrondy lost ita opportunity. 21 % [ Tho El Paso (1il.) Journal publishes a series of 1llustrations of tho Boocher-Tilton case, made up exclusively from the ordinary adver- tising cuts of & country mowspaper. Ars. ‘Til- ton uppears to advantago in a shdemakor's shop trying on o pair of goitera, Tho coquettish air of tho lady porforming this necossary duty, us shown in tho cut, is highly suggestive, A den- tlut's advertisoment roprosents Tilton gnashing Lis teeth whon Le first learned of his wife's Infl- delity and Beccher’s perfidy, Twanty-fourmolats and inclsors aro shown in mostadinived disorder, A tobacconist's card, roprescnting an Indian with & handful of tobaceo in one hand und the pipe of penco in tho othor, stands for aloulton, tho Penco Commissioner. A trisngular dovice liepded ** Vinogar Bittors,” with something in. the centro which may be a money-bag or a drog- glst's mortar,’ roprosonts tho Tripartite agroc- mont. A conl-dealer’s offering, & two.whoeled cart upset and .epilling its contents sround, ghows how tho various loopors of tho seorot are now “unloading.” - The Elgin Watch Compony’s advertisomont, * the yace of time-keopers,” rep- yesonts all aorts of watohes, olocky, diale, hour- glassog, ota., running b foot-race, with tho Elgin pedestrian ahoad, exkibits tho noble effortsof tho Now York reportors to get the nows of tho nf- fair, A patout corn-planter with s man mount- ed on the keat ropresents M., Beochor engaged in agricuitural pursuite at Peokskill, whilo cuts of borsos, Bwino, aud chickous acourately ex- bibit somo of tho blooded stock on his farm. The ouly thing perbaps open to objection is an {llustration of Mr. Tilton’s bod-room on the oo~ casion whoen bo wont suddonly up-atairsand found his wifa aud Mr, Beechior thero, Tils conalsts of & turniture-donlor's stock, ** Ar, B.," the Journal gays, ** hoa just gone bobind tho loungo out of sight to ‘flueh Lis faco,’ and Mg, Lilton has goua to tha door to lot Thoodore in, who ls now hammering on the door-panelund yelling through tho koy-holas. ‘Tesy, Lib, apon this hore door or I'll buat in tho paual,’ " Tha couception is evidently derived from John Phonix's illustrated San Diego Herald, butis much better than imitations ususlly are. The art-regources of & wookly newspapor are ovident~ Iy greator than thoy wore in Phuwuix's day, It ia & remarknblo coincidonco thatwhile Amor- ica s haviug the Beeoher-Tillon poandal, Gormany should bo edifled by an eutirely similar ono,— the Kapff-Straub affair. Kapfl, like Deeohor, is & olorgymun of & very Ligh roputation, Hois s membor of the Lvangolical Oburoh, LikeBoooh- or, ho Is acoused of having seduced ono of tho fetnalo mambers of his flock, and of baving ru- 1uod her by tuking advautago of the confidentinl relation in which be stood to hor ay pastor. In both wmatancos the viotim was & marrled woman, There aro thoso who bollove Kapft guilty, and thon thore are those who, like Halliday, would not bellove go even it an angol from Honvon woro to tostity toit. A Vionua jou mal publizhes s communication findlng fault with the coursa of tho promccuting attoinoy, Stointieil, who has takon tho part of tho pastor, aud {8 en- deavoring to cover up the mattor, The weim- an alloged to have been soduced fs in an insane asylum, having becomo montally dison sod aftor the affalr. Tha seandal s oxciting #ime interost ovon in this country, and s Goriin- Amerienan writos to o Now York paper to any that the noople of Btuttgart, whoro Kapft llvesi, do not boliove tho atory of his guilt at all. K.apfr, howover, bns, liko Beocher, ordored an Inve atiga« tion, * Whothor the paraliol oxtonds auy fa riher, wo are not Informed. e NOTES AND OPINION. Trom the Congrossional Committeo's ad¢ Lress s If you chiorih tho deods of tho recont paw:, und would ot fea thom undone () IF you resy dot tho proseit and would nat dlugraco {0); ‘or #f ya n livo 0pa of tho futuro, and wonld realizo that hopo (7), we 115g6 yau to senit Ropublicant and not Demow rats to {he noxt Congress, - Joun A, Loaax, . 2, CHaNDLEn, BN CAMENON, ToWELL OLATION, , of al, ently mortifiod to notico that fn s stricts tho outlook for Rep ublican Buccoss s quite poor, bacauso of the mi nner in which portiona of the party lave s ultitled thomualvos with raspaat to the éalaty-gra b quen- tion,—Pitlaburg Commerelal. ~The triumph of tho Ropublican part:7 In the onsuing campnign will dopend in uo smisll deo- groo upon thie men who aro brought out as cou- didatos in tho vetious Congressional ¢lwtriota. + «_» Muchhas boon eaid, and not without good resson, about tho pecossity of eilovating tho slandard of political sction, and purifying tho politioal atmosnhora g0 foul with tkho odor of organized corruption and shamoles's abuses of power and trusk, The romedy s n Erunt oxtent In tho hands of tho poopl:s, Thoy iavo now tho opportunity fo hurl f115m placo sud power the mon ssho have abused tiio confi- donca reposed in thom, and proved th swsclves uuflt to ba mtrusted with the mansy; owent of publio affairs.—Buffalo Brpress, —The Blade's opposition to Con gressman Bhorwood iy based upon ktill atrongor: grounds, Tt opporos him bocause Lo troats tho Govorn- mont oflices which oustom bas placed ¢ his dis- posal oy his private proporty, to_ bu sold for servicos in paoking cuucuses in his behodt— Toledo Blade, —Wa ara Dumber of ~—Congressman Hawloy's officoliolds rs, Foder- al pensioners, and_ferry-favored fr.louds are clniining that'the Dhion is no longer a Ropub lican paper bocause it doos not suppor:t Johu B. Hawloy for ropomination, If tho bcist of Ro- ublicanism is blind foalty to tho peitsonal for- uwes of mon who sook to perpetuate their pow- or, & powor which ia used to the projucdico of the pnozl:llo who giveit, thon the Union fe. not a Ro- publican pupor.—Rock Island (ZL) Ut ion, —Tho oflicobioldors Liave gone 1o th e oxponse aud trouble of calling o OCougressiona) Conveu- tion to put yoe Caonon on their ticket; for Con- gress, What foolishuess] ‘The handitul of poli- ticians who work thie wires of that olc1 machine vominated him months ago, and the voters in the party aro &8 uttorly poweriess to provont it | 2 thioy would bo to atop the wind fron3 blowig. —Champaign (i) Union, 3 ~—Thoro will'be moro bolting amon%: cans in Iown on Congreesional candidates this yoar thau ovor before. . . . Tho b.lunders of our party leaders, tho venality of me n pulling Emy wites, the shamolees corruption ¢3f men in igh ,slma, tho moxplicable manintor oflice, and tho almost daily vocord of dofaultin g ollivials Lfthorio bright dud sbining Hehts in £ o party— all theso bava nombined to shake pu blio confi- douce, and on OVEIY uead ¢n lnogon ftho hold of yparty-tios, aud !mrvin(i to croato iu ¢ha ulxhllo n\lnlflm indefinate yet thorough dis. trust in su taera party shibboleihs as & remedy f Or the ovils ploying upou tho body politio, And usido from alt this, you may find inovery .towns hip almost, men who have been Ropublicans oveir sinco the varty wes born; men without blemisk: t as Repub- licans and citizens, who nover pack d a caucus, packetod o bribe, oF failed in a squiro, Atand-up tight for the supromacy of Repudlicax) principles, Who, to-day, oould ot bo chsen to ropresunt their townsbips in a county conviation, aud thoy aro astracised because 16y ato stralght" men who refuso to bend tloir neckss when solf- coustituted **leaders ™ oradk the patiy-whip., Os- tracisod because ihey bokove that tl:ie sucoess of thoRepublican prinoiples is moroim, portant than tho buildig up of & *ring" or the prosorvation of a *glate” for tho army of plare~--hunters that babituslly control paity-wires an¢i dictato its ‘naminations.— Waterloo (Ja.) Oowr ier. —It is 2 notorious fact that his [ Uongrossman Pratt's] nomination was socured by his owa per- soual solicitation, by the efforts of' Postmastors and othor Fedoral oflicohioldors, find by tricle ory, gagging, nod packing in tho Clonvontion. . « + What shall wo do thon? Wo apawer, sup- porl a good man as an independen | candidate.—~ Cresco (Ia.P Times., " —Wa stil boliove Qongressmaru Pratt should bo held smonablo to the bar of the) bighor court, thio voters of tho Fourth District, both for tho nob ho himeolf proncuuces infnioons, sud for the systematic and successful offorts of his de- ondonts to procura his nomination by omploy- bg all tho power and influcuce of! patronsge not responsible to the pooplo to sub/ert & froe ox- pression of their wishes. The (md lg nat yot.— Afitchell County (la,) News. —Wa don't wunt any back-pay {n ours, It is no use to cry roform and still sond cho grma politien! shystors to Congress.— Willmar (Minn.) Republican, —It sbould bo borno in’ mind that just at this time the Ropublican party of th e Socond Minue- sotu [Congressman Strait's] Dintrict is not in s condition to boar much trilling with.—@leacos (dinn.) Register, —Wonder if there will be_a singlo naluy- grabbor gont baok to Oongress ?—Goshen (Ind.) Democrat. * —And there, too, is tho fcrward pay;” evory momber from Michigan took it. 1tlua part of tho grab, and s equatly obuoxioun to tho poople. 1t cortalnly was just as_roprishonsible for a now membor to tako the grab as it was for an old ‘member to tako it who had npposed tho bill from firat to last.—Lansing (Alich.) Journal. —Composcd mainly of Federal ofiicoholdors, lobbyists, wiro-pullors, little watd polllicians, and corver-grocery loafors, this brouch of the Ttadical party does not conisidor that tho pooplo havoe any rights in the prowisos. 1ts mombors maintain_that, for the oflicoholdors, whother voual and corrupt or not, tho Govoromont was creatod and ite rovonuo collected, and that it thoy atoal it is none of tha business of the tax- payers.—Oshkosh (Wis.) Times. —Thero are now only two parties in this coun- try,—tho robbors and the rppbbed, Most of thoso in Congross ara'rabbers, and tho peaplo—thotax- payors—aro the robbed. 'I'ho pooplo proposo to stop this robbery by putting in positions of trust thoso who have nov yet boun contaminated with tho ill-gatton galna of tte monopolists, That's what this Indopendent Refoymmoyement means, ~2Maltoon (1it.) Commercial. . —The timo_has como whon tho pooplaaro proposing to bring somo ¢ F thoir publio sorvants to judgment, . . . Tho swlodlos that Lavo boon going on In Washington have knocked the partisnn seatos off of tln eyes of some of the nrty followors, Thoy do.not propose to bo'led By tho noso any longer. ‘Lhe duy for indopend= ont aotion has “arrived, agid we Zoal rojolcod.— DBurlington (la.) Gazelte. —Mako roform withn tho Kur!y, thoy ey, and koop tho party in power—tho eumo party that has caused, or bas not prevented, the plundor- ings, 4f { has ntrodvcod the dobauohorios, what roason i8 thoro to hopo that it will reform thom ?— Portland (Me.) Argus. —On tho eve of evory -elevtion the sconndrols wha Liavo beon oppressin'y tho Southern States get up ¢ cry about tho <Eulms:ou cominitted by Republi- the mon whom they wfe wronging, Thoyeu- deavor to excuso their own Villainy by maligoing tho oharactor of their vivthns, Thelr Northora nllioy take up and re-oohy) the slendory,.—Indian~ apolis Sentinel. d —If ten yonrs of unobstruoted Ropublican rulg, in tino of peaco, ryvo not gerved to seoure to “milllons of nogroos, tho rights of locono- tion,” thoy bave at loast boon sulliciontly fruit- ful i “Rings," fraucs, defulcations, broken arty pledges, usurpatio u»l and the Mbe, ilad Pbe majority In Congron givou loss attentlon to tarlff robbery, Oredit Mcibilier, incroaso of thoir own pavy, ropudiation, nid pross-muzzling, thero woulfi huve boon smplo timo found to have long ago placod the nogro in full possossion of every natural and political rig ht.—Eikhorn ( Wis,) Lib- eral. ! —That party had corgtrol over every dopart. mont of (l;m }(’Jnmm.g:t; 1t had the ghlm‘ Exooutivo; j¢ had uuarly two-thirds of bath ouses of Congross, and it has just aojourned & slx monthy' sesslon of Congross, without en- forolug the Fourtoontks Ao wont with appro- printe Joglslation, wisihout reforming the cur- roney, nnfl \mhoul ol llpfluhlfi trausportation to tho producer. The poopio will bo groaly oulpa- blo under tho olroumut suces If thoy agulu intruat thio solution of those i roblows te the Republican arty, Ifithas domcwstrated suything in tho st fow yoars, It It {ts own lucapacity to refortn iteoll, and to afford t30 people any roliof from the griovous burdens «)f whioh thoy complain.— Madison ( Wis.) Demo orat, ] ~—Wo hiavo hitherto . tetorrod to tho attitudo of tho roligious proas ¢ I:}xwtlug politiosl sotion, Itlnunrxonnly donow selug tho Republioan pare iy, The Northwesta.rn Advocato, & Methodist publivation, sald xaoo) iyt '*We guesd te gods g ——————————— intand to deatroy tha Ropublican party, since tho gods havo evidontly made it more mad than evor.” Agaln, its oditor sayst **Porsanally, in this Illinols cloction, we shall vato ayainat the Flnuam and overy candidate npon it, In the ighit of prosont Information we commend Lili= nois Ropublicans to utter dofeat,”— Kxchangs, ~Thno Byracuse Standard, a Ropnblican papar, wants to know: *Tu this a Ropublic?” Not ex- aotly, This {8 & pooplo of forty millions eugaged in domonetrating tho fact rhat it cau oxlat with an Ereoutivo who knows nothing of statosman= ship andspends bis time loltoring about a fashions ablo watering-placo; & Legislatura that is madeup in mnjpflt{‘q morconartes and bribo-takors; & Judiciary that lina been deliliorately packed to mako and unmake decisious in the interest of groat corporations and an elective conatituoucy that, by nct of a Ropublicau Congross and Itopube lienn Logisldtures, cmbracos more denso jgnor- auco and dopravity thau any othor body politla on the faco of tho oarth. *Fhis in" an oxpori= mont—hag boon an oxporiment.over since March 4, 1861.—Rochester (N. X.) Union. WISCONSIN STATE PRINTING. ids for the Next Contract, Special Disnatch to The Chicago Tribune, MabrsoN, Aug, 1.—To-doy was the luit fixad for blds for doing: the Btate printing for-two yoars from Jao. 1, 1875, whon tho contract with tho State Journal propriotora, who have done tho work as the lowest bidders for tho last oight onra, oxpiros. Bids were oponod at noon by ocratary Dayle and Treasurer Kuchn, who, with Attornoy-Goneral 8loan, are the Btate Prfntlug Commiselonors. Thero wero four bids offering to do the work at a discount from the maximum pricos fixed by law, aa follows: Atwoad & Culver, Klate Journal, Madison, 20 por cout; Damocrat Company, Madison, 2234 por cent; O, L, Bholes, Milwaukeo, 231¢ per cont: B. B. Bolens, Juncau, Dodge Couaty, 85, per cant. Theso bids wora ooly for composition, press- ‘work, and binding, not including paper, as bors~ toforo; as, uuder tha naw law, l{,(a ravided thas the Stato shall furnish all its own papor, which greatly diminiahes the chances for profl by the printer, The legal moximum is 0 cents ¥ur thousand for plain, composition, aod $1.20 lor rulo aud figure work; 60 conts per token for press work, and various proportionate priccs for binding. Mr. Tolons, who is the lowost bidder, is tho publishor of the Wisconsin Granger and the lje Caunty Dem~ ocral. Iils estimated by those” well informed on State printing that it will involve a loss of somo thousands of dollars to do tho work under this bid. 7The noxt lowest biddor is Mr. C. L. Bholes, lately conneoted with the Milwaunkeo News, o Htsto Printer many yvears ago, ile clalma the coutrnot on the erouud that biy bid is tho ouly one strictly according to law, in that his bondsmen alone_have justified under onth that thoy are worth £5,000, tho guaranteo roquired, in sddition to $1,000 doposit, for tho recoption of tho bid, Tho bondsmon on all the other bida wero duly cortifiod to bo worth that sum, which wag all that was roquired in the advertiemont for bids, Tho award was deferred, in the absenco of the Attornoy-General, till Tucsday. It in understood Mr. Bholes proposes to maintuin hia right to tha contract, ovenif he has to sppeal to tho courts. RELIGIOUS, Negre Camp=Mecting in Indinnn, Spectal Disnatch 0 The Chicago Tribune. ‘Wiscnesren, Ind,, Aug. 2,—The negro campe mnotlng whicli bas been going on for over & weok ab Bnow Mill, b miles south of Winchester, was nttended to-doy by o orowd of peoplo, who wero brought to the ground by-exoursion trains on the Cincinnatl, Richmond & Ft. Wayno Rail~ rond. Over 1,000 nogroes participated, snd sor- mons wero doliverad by tho dusky orators. Tvorything passed off very ploasantly. Church Corner Stono Latd. Spectul Dirvateh to The Chicago Trfbune, Urren 8anpusiy, O., Aug. 3,—Tno second ate tempt of luying the corner stone of the naw Catliolic Ohurch was complotod to-day, the frst attempt having beon spoiled by the weather, aud o large concourse of people wore iu attond- auce. Lt Riow. Futher Loury, of Tolodo, ot~ Great Sunday=School Conventlon in » Now 'Yorf, "snpoINT, Chatuaqua Lake, N. Y., v B thougls tho hioavy rains on Fridey sad BhieAdZ bavo delayed operations somowhat, but an extra forco of Iaborers will be put on to-morrow. Tho Park of Palestine ia finished. It Is 800 foet lml‘% and about 125 wido, reprosenting an aros of G by 150, Dr, Wytho, of Meadville, bas had chargo of this part of the work. T'ho Bunday-school and Biblieal musoum wag erccted yestorday. It 18 in chargo of H, H. Otls, of Buffalo, and John Middlotown, of New York. The inauguration servicos will take placo Wednesday morping, when Dr. Vincent, Alre, Jeonie F, Willeng, and Bishop Janos will spoak, John B. Gough will lecture on_ Friday oa_*The Toos Wo Fight.” T, DeWitt Talmage, of Brook- lyn, will preach Wednesday, A“{r' 12, Bermons woro proachod to-dsy by Dr. Vincont, of New Yorlk, Dr, Verrine, of Michigan, and Dr: {¥bitnoy, of New Jorsey. A Bunday-school sgssion “was held in the largo taborneclo under tho direction ot Lewis Miller, Esq. AScrmon in Favor of Liquor Licenses. Cisc1sNaTI, Aug. 2—The Rev, O, 8. Bayton, ox-Chaplain_of Congross, and pastor of tho Viuoe Street Cnngragnuuuul' Chureh, proacliod to- day atrongly fagoring the license system for the liquor trado, Ho said bo had seen oll phnsos and exaniined all argumonts in the temporauce movement, which wora mostly unsound; that temporanco people would bave, at last, to re- nrfi-uu tho subject from & mew standpoint. Ho bolievod thaf tho Iato phasos of the movemont indicated that thoy aimed- at liquor-sollers in- ‘stead of the Intemperate mon who wers tho fountains of tho trade. 1t was like trying to dip & river dry at the mouth. 3 Embury Parkk Onmp=Meeting, Darron, 0., Aug, 2.—It is catimated that 10,000 people wore at the Embury Park camp- meoting, near Dayton, to-dsy. Everythingon whools within s adius of 25 milea was moving all day until lato to-night. The sorvicos Instod about twelvo hours, iucluding intermis- sions for menls. A numbor of addrosses in En- glish and Gorman wero deliverod. The meeting closes next Friday. FIRES. At Now Orlonns, LK- p Nrw Onreavns, Ls, Aug. 2.~A squara small houses boundod by Minto, Moral, Spalo, and Urqubart streots, burood to-night, Losa, $16,000; insucanco, 5,000, it o S HIGHIGAN FINANCES, Speciat Dispateh to The Chicagn und, ‘LANtflp;la. Mich., Aug. 1.~Tho following ia the statamont of tho Stato Tronsury for the month of July : Tialanco on hand Juno 30, 1874.., Tteculpts, * lonaskat 1 T 1,148,482.03 Theo Btate dobt, . 1, 1874, waa g8 follows : INTEARST-DRARING DEET, Sault Canal bouds, O, duo July 1, 1879...8 61,000.00 Storiewa Joun ords, s, and Juiy 1, 1875, 105,000.00 Twomiliion loan bonds, 0s, dus Jsn. 1, 1 1618, ouc eossucaess 7,000.00 Ditto, due Fan. 3, 16 000, War-Bounty loan b 3800, NONCIN Adjusted bonds, Jan, 1, 18( W%"r-l)ouulylon'u ‘bond, Jau, 1, 53,000 part-paud Five-Ailiton ‘loan e luatablo ot $578.57 por $1,000, - Total bonded debt.. oo S e NEW'JAIL IN JEFFERSON COU‘E;I;V, wis. Correavondence of The Chicaao Tridune. Warentowy, Wis, July 81,—Yostorday after- noon the Board of Suporvisors of Jefferson County hold a_spccial session st tho Court- Houss, in the Villsge of Jefforson, for tho pur- paee of adopting o plan and completing arrango- ments for buildlug a now jall, in placa of tho ono recontly destroyed by firo, After somo disouss glon, the Board soleoted, in the maiu, the plon repared by Mr, Batz, an architeot of Chiougo, Bnc ‘combined with is_ono or two foatures cons tainod in the plan of Kinney & Tuoker, of Chiok~ ‘go, The buildlng coutract was swardod to Charles Stoppenbach, of Jefforson, who s to comploto the utructure for §13, 900. with the ma- torial on hand tbrown in. Tho work ls o bo dono as 00D as practicable, There axo now only throe prisoners conflned in this county, snd, if crime does not matorially jnoreado, the proposed jail will bo amply subiclent in aize for many Jours. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Yot Ly Stasmabips Wisconaln and ar, trom Now York, . v