Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1874, Page 2

HENRY J. WHITEHOUSE. Peaceful Death of the Voner- able Bishop. Closing Scenes of a Lifo of In- cessant Religious Labor, . Sketch of JWis Early Life---Ilis Ministerial Services at the East, His Election as Bishop of This .a State-~Work in This i Diocese. Oontroversies with His Prashytors--— The Oracraft and Cheney Oages. His Toils in Behalf of the Cathedral ---Canons and Choristers, Causes of the Difficulties in Which He Was Entangled. His Great Mental Ahility—--Aoquaiqt- anes with Canonical Law. A Warm Friend and an Unfiluching Op- ponent. r Meeting of the Standing Committee. HIS MENTAL TRATITS, 1 The venerable Bishop was o man of no ordi- unary ability. The powers which he showed in his New York pastorato in earlier years, and which caused him to bo sought as Bishop of Miohigan, and afterwards of Illinols, wore widenod and riponed by tho ‘advancing years. # Ago did not witber bim, nor custom atale his infinito varioty.,” Tho special knowledge of the churchman waa supplementod. in him by the ae- guircments of the man of the world. With him, general and special enltare wont hand in band. Tho classical stiainments of his younger days romaitied over green with him, But bis most oxtensive acquirements Jayin tho DUT 118 MOST EXTENSIVE ACQUIKEMENTS fayin the domain of church history and theology. To hire the Fathera and tho Schoolmen wore fawilinr friends. Thore was no ccclesiastical point ‘which was mot. kmown to him; no branch of cononical law of tho Episcopsl or tho oman Church that was'not athis finger's ends. Nover was this rare knowledge moro fully + tegtod than in tho Chenoy trial, whero ho and %ho loarmed conmsol for tha prosecution, Mr. Judd, sstoniehed the opposition by their inti- mata nequaintanco with & subjcot with which fow churchmen even are thoroughly familiar, 138 NOME-LIFE was happy and serono. Ho lived as bo- came n_Bishop, indulging nelther in nmpt{ osten:ation nor & falso hiwnnlity. He lived well, enjoying tho comforts of iife, which wore made for tho use of man. HIs was a Liospitabloboard, wuere frionds woro always welcome, and whoro {hoy loved to lineer. Though & hard worlor, eparing Limsel? in ncth(ug aud knowing little sout, ho took that caro of himself which enabled him to discharge hia manifold dutios at an ago. whon moat mon are mustored out of tho Service. TICE TROUDLES IN 11§ DIOCESE, Tu view of theso acquiromnonts, of hia genoral ability, his untirivg dovotion to the duties of- s high oflice, and of & manner which, with his intimates at least, was gontle, charming, and high-bred, it may seom strange to somo thnt his cpiscopal career shoulld have boen distracted by warfaro; that dissatisfaction should for a long tine have provailed i bis diocese, and that one «l tho great church trialsof modorn days should lwve fuvolved him, and one of Lis diocosnns. It may secm strange thut the twoprominent leedora of tho recent dissent fromtho Epiecopal Church, Bishop Cummiue and Dr. Chenoy, shonld bnyg Deen ut oue time subject to hiy juriediction and iuvolved in contlicts with bim, But thecauvoof thego troubles—and this iasnid i no disparagiug souse—Ilay not with tho Bishop of Mlinoiw Wmyell, Ho wos a man of unyield- ing firmness—obstinacy his enomies eallad 1f, and if porsistence in what o doemed right bo obstinaey, the word is applicable. e made up his mind to a certain conrso, not on any finpulso of the momont, hut beeaure he had studied fully tho law of the subjeot, and bo knew that ho was yight. o had no tasto for compromisos ; with ‘i thore wan Lut one right and one wroug, and when he lind dotermined on his conrso, ko fol- 1owed it unflinchingly to & nucoossful ond—for 1te was nlmost invariubly succosefal. * 1o had an-|: iron, u terrible porsistonce, whinh ‘e oppo- pents riged at, und yob wera compolied to yield to. 1le put down opposition, suppressed rovolt, and becamo nt last, alter yoars of contost, what he determined to bo whan ho begau, the sctual Bishop of Illinoia. 18 BPISCOPAT, PRIDE, Tad he beon & litle more pacifieatory, ho might bave.lived a_quicler life, and vot it was nat in him to yield & bair’s breadth whore tho Church was involyed. Of tho rights of Honry J. Whitehouso, he thought com{mrnnvoly Jitdlo} of thoso of the Bishop of illiuois, ho thonght a great denl, and he would not abate & jut or a tittlo of them, He Dbolioved in ~ the _opiscopule; he was prond of it; he know ita righta and fws dutios, and ho strove fuithfully, oven if wot always wisoly, to defond sud per~ farw thent. 1o aid not intand to bo & nominal Bishop, differing in name only from the pricsts who surrounded him, thoe mock head of his clergy, ITo was thoir brother, but alsa thelr Di- vinoly-ordained suporior, postor, and guide,— Jegitimate succesdor of oter. TIIF LONG RIOKNESS OF DISHOT CHASE, & tha absouce of tho newly-elected Bishop (rom the geona of his future labors, hnd uuduufitadly had their influonen in tho Dicceso of Tltinaly, They hud weakenod the prarogativen of the Bishop, and fontorud B #pivit of unduo indopendonce amon, ihe clergy. A sort of veligious domoctacy hufi ‘boun crestnd hore which was at varianco with the law of tho Church, ¥ THE NDW BISHOP found - things sndly out of joint. The feoling created by ‘his protractod ahwonce was fostored by his Inwfnl, but not always wiko, attompts at reformation, o had not wishiod the place—no porson aver sald hid ** Nolo ZIpiscopari ) mora sincorelv but, having aecopted tho powition, ha mennt to_fllk i, Hotdid so, tak- ing what bo kuew to be his own, and honco the wurfare, Others might bave accomplished the samo work without a tithe of thd difleulty ha miot with, but ia was not a man te persuado, and to win by loving Iinduoss. Oboy him firat, and he wan the kindest of men. Run conuter to him, —that was, to the Clnrel,—and o was the slrict- ort of men, #o far a8 the luterests of the Ohurch wore involved. It is doubtful whothor ho had any perabnal animogity to thoso with whom he huid conflicte, They wors to him porsons ware ring ngaingt that Church which ho had solemnly pledged himself to defend. . 'fho ecousations which were made in other yoarw, the onmiies which followed him for so Tong, but which are now at rust, were gumpen- wated for by hin siucaro convietion that ho wan intho vight,—the “Mens 5ibi conscia reeli,"—and by the warm ana dovotad friondship which ho enjoyud, To have been so muoh adwived, so much loved, ho must huye been somethiug moro than tho prosecutor, tho © llinols Inquisitor,” which his opponents eallad him, In private lifo, ho was & charming companion ; tho doforonce hie oxroted was willingly paid by thosa who wore nd- mitted to shuro of his ripe kno\vlod;io and his agrocablo convessation, He had traveled muoh, ho knew many me, and ho fuscinntod many by s conversutiun at homo than by his orutory in tha pulpit. AR AN OATOR. Whita nia porsoral influence was such that thuso who loved bun praised lus sormoun withe _pronounced {8 not an innovation, *ha had a relapso, und bogaa sinking 8o rapidly b moasure, and,, which provea - thelr nhmnrltyé | wont gindly o hear thom, yot the falxar verdio must En thiat thoy cannot be awardod high rank, lin luvolated soutencos were tho tortor of ro- porsers, who wara too- ofton unatle- to-muke n waustnctory monning out of them. 1lin slylo was ofton clumsy and ontanglod ; it secmod ny if hastrovo to hide lis meaning, rather Lhau sob it forth plainly, Yot his huponing prexonco and his striking delivory ofien made wmunds for tho!, dofeots of tho discourae, : 1t fa nsking too mucl, however, to requiro. ofitior Dishiops or Prosbytor 10 bo both a good pul- pit orator. sud a fino oxecutive ofticor, Lho Bish- op wad not the formor, but ho wan tho Iatter. Faithfal in visitations, earnest in exbiortation, an encouragor of all good wotks, educational or otlierwise, ho porsovered _thoroin to the end,. heeding no Inbor, giving lavishly of hia faoblo atrength, until nh-iwt. 1un Inbora over aud his work done, ho folded bis hands and woa at rost. 14 onEED, ! One of. the moat singular misconceptions un- dor which he sufTored was in rolation to .v'i..ous matters. The l]llqhuel kuow no soot within tho Holy QOatholio Chiuroh, whoroof ho was n mem- bor. Ho was neithor High Church, Low Ohurch, nor Broad Church, — Ho acknowledged no sucli torms. To bim thoro wak but tho Episcopal Chureh, 8 body govorned by cortaln woll-uudorstood laws and well-dofined ueages. Within tho covers of the Prayer-Book and tho oanontenl Inw woro contsined tho lawe which were to govorn him. Ilo wuover overatopped them. And yot, whilo there was nono who over followed tho law moro rigidly, uo yno could have boon moro porsistently denounced for extrave- gant 1igh Churchism and Rilualism, After all, thero was nnlhhlfi ritualistio about him,~—not 1 tho #ongo which tho word is now mado to con- voy. Ioloved the ritos and ceremonics of tho Churoh, and 'strove to have them enrried out, for thoy woro part of ita usages. "But ho was a8 far removed from “boll and mass and candle” as " Lo was from tho unadorned sorvices of an indopendont meoting-house. o hiad no sympathy with 8t. Albans, and none with thoso who sought to. strap the Church of those’ forms which bad come down from tho days of Cranuer and Ridloy. Whito-robed chotistors aro not ritualistio. In- toning may be unpleasant, but it is not opposed to lhng]n»v of tho Ohurch,” Bowlng whon the name of the Second Person of tho Trinity is The love of the Bishop for his cathodtal wng nob sign of Ritualism, It was plain to his mind that a Bishop should havo a cathedral church, and he spont his own money froely to have ono. . It ro- mains hig legroy to the diocese e ruled go long. . RUT, A FOR RITUALINM, he had nono of {t. Ie robuked hia aub. ordinates, who scemed to lean that wny quite &g voveroly s ho did Lhe . Low Chureh Clhionoy, who went too far tho other way, Ha followed the Seripturo method of. admonish-~ ing tho offendar in privato, and if thab did not necomplinh tho purposa ho resorted to the law, This ho did in the Choney caso, aud tho courts hayo thus far sustained him, Hia. position may not bave boon the politlo, but it was tho logal one. 3 During tho earlfer years of hot antagoniem oliarges wore made agalnst him in regard to tho OLD TRINITY GHUNOH LOT, i wluelh was donsted by Dr. Docrs, and on which . it was proposod to ornct s ontho- dral and s Bishop's residence. [Thoy were made in papors and in pamphlots, but ho troated them with disdainful silonce, deoming it bononth bim to answor chargos whioh his lifo refuted. - andthey have passed futo oblivion. Attncks upon him as n man bo did not beod; when as- soited a4 & Bishop ho responded, as J’udge Law- rouce oan tostify. 118 OWN TRIALS. Ho was_not only troubled by these roligions discords, bul aleo the diffionltics growing out of tho poverty of tho diocoso. Lhe salary promised himwas alivaya bohind hand, aud, though solomn- ly voted by overy succoeding Diocessn Conveon- tion, wasnever pmd. Ho did not need tho money ; he expouded on chureh purposes .far more than it amounted to, but it wns not proper that the Bishop shoula fail torecoive what lind been voted . him, It was o slight on the ofico, and that touched biw nearly.. Ho wus uuablo. to obtain tho money required for educational purposes and for the salary of his presbyters. The latior were notoriously poorly paid outside of Chicago, and that grioved him. "It wounded bis pride to seo tho straits to which oburches were bronght, and not meroly his pride,—his lovo for the Qurch itgelf. Thero was no avarice in his composition, but ho belieyed it tbe dutv of ovory church imom- ber to contribute plentifully of his substance in ordor that tho church cstablishment might bo mnl&nnluud in that houor sud dignity which wnr,a ita duo. out TEST IX PRACE. But allthese things are pust now. moif and the strife are over. 1Tis ]D"F yoara of pastoral labor are at anoud. Fullof years, aboundiag iv good fruits, he has beon romovad from the diocoso which hind grown to love him s from tho Houso of Bishops, whaero Lo wnil ln. leader and & gutdo ¢ from tho circld of friouds, by whomn he was hLonored and cherishiod, to tlio company of Mend, and Chase, aud Jlopkins, and Dhis Muetrious collengues and predecossors. . Ho Lian boon transiatod from tho Church Militant to tho Church Triumphant ; from the battlo aud. weariness of carth to thio ponca oternal— B Tax sifio criminc, pax sluo turbine, pax sino rixa; , et Inboribus, a¢ quo tumultibus anchora x| iy THE DEAD BISHOP. v The Rt. Rev. Honry "Joun Whitchouso, Bishop of the Diocosa of Illnois, diad at his res- 1dencs, No. 445 West Washington stroot, at 9 o'clock yestorday morning, o passed quietly and poacefully away, after an illness of but five days, and his sudden demise will bo doplored not only by his lmmediate friends, but tho Episcopa!l Church generally—by High as woll as Low Churchmaen, since all admired lus wonder- ful intelleotual abilitios, if their views regarding many points did notaccord with his, Holabordd with charactoristio zoslonsness nutil the lnst, and his death isattributed to overwork. The The tor- ‘carcs of his own dioceso, onerous ‘enough for threo or four ordiuary men, would seem to bave given him somo loisuro for othor flolds, since lio had nasumed tho direction of the affalrs of the Wiscousin Episcopate, whick is till with- ont a head, e roturned thence lnst weok, after proaching forty-ono sormons in twenty-one dnys, and attonding to other matters during the brief iutorvals botwoon appolntmenty. IS DEATIL Wodnesday afternoon ho visited ¢ho.law-offico | of his son, Willinm ‘I, Whitohouso, Buq., n Aslitand Dlock, and when about returning home ho fainted iu his conpe. This way tho first ovidonco of failing, Upon renching his residenco he recovored, and took tea with his family os usunl, appoaring to be in good hoaltu and epirits. Later in the ovening, howover, that o physician was eont for. Lhursday, moru- g ho improved somewhat, sud way calm, com- posed, and conscious. Ilo continued in this con- dition until Fridny, whon a snddon chungo took placo, and his recovory was considered doubtful, To himself seomed approhensive, but remarko that ho thought ho'would bo sparad. . Haturday morning ho fainted ngain ; this was attiibuted to an eftusion on tho Lrain, He be- came worso rapidly, and it was balioved that he could live but a fow hours. 1o rallied again lo- ward duslk, aud alept during the nirhl, Bunday, morning his conditicn was oritical, though sowe hopo was still ontortained by tho phy- slons that he would survive, Ho improved & littlo ns the dny sdvanced, remaining thus until 6 o’clooi in the evaning, when ha agaln began smking, and scomed to ronlize that tho oud was noar. o roquestod the members of his family to como to I badeido, and whon they had gathered around him ho paid he was perfectly hwi)y' autl then bado cach ouo good-by, Subsequently, In 1esponse to a qies. tion Ly Dr. Kelly, ho indicated by o_pregsnio of tho hand that he wishot to parinko of tho Ancramont, It was ndwinistored to him by Dr, Kelly, Canon Kuowles assisting, and the fam- ily participating. From this on the Bishop was _calm and resigped, and ho died s0 quiotly that 1t wus diflicult to tell when tha soul loft tho body, s conntenanco rotnined it lifo-1lke aspact, 1o prrcoptible chango hnving takon place, aud hix distressod ohildron wora not sntisfied that ho was not atill broathing until tho mirror convinced thom' that respiration bad cenned, S . EARLY HISTORY, Bishop Whitohouse was horn of English pa- rontagb, in the City of Now York, August, 1803, Ho antorad Columbin Collope whon unfy 14 yoars of ago, aud gradunted with hionora in 1821, oon thereaftor ho beeamo a student i the Gen cral ‘Cheological Seninury, snd comploted his course in 1824, whon ho was ordainod Dencon by Bishop Oraes of Now Yark, The following {enr lie was admitiod to the pristhood, Bishup Whito, of Penunylvania, ofifoisting nt the core~ mouies. e spant tho noxt threo: yoars of hig hto a8 Nootor of n church in eading, Pn. Thonco ho wea ealled to tho Rectorship of Kt. Lulo's Uhurch, Roonostor, N, Y., now tho largost and most prosperous parish in Westorn New York, He romained thora toy fifteen yoars, when ho took charga of &t. ‘Thomas' Chuicl, Hroads way, Now York City, Thin ehurch was destroyod by firo_durlng s miniktry, and was robinlt tf{ruuuh lus oxertions, on tho samomtes tls " Qouncil “and displny. 'I'his, howaevor, was cortainly not ' THE CHICAGU DATLY TTRIBUNE: TURSDAY, AUGUST I, 1874 Mw&‘%“hq on Titth avonuo. In 1861 howai cloota 2 i 5 ASHIGTART DIBNOY OF TLLINOTS, Biahiop Chaeso Leing at that timo in charge of -this Liplsvopute.-- Beveral -voars provious, whon Bishop Wincelouso wos only 31 years of ago, hio, Tind beon olected to the Bishoprio ,of: Michigany but deelined to aceopt. 1 von aftor bis consndra- uon a8 nn’ nuxilingy to Bishop Chasd; o wniy :gomewhat” ditident, aml nearly a voar olaosed beforo ba eruto Wost sud assuttiod tho respondl- bilities of his dxalted pusition, : A few months aftor ‘his arvival, his suporior divd. Bishop ‘Whitenouso succasded to tho Episcopnte, and faithtully discharged tho dutics until his doath, - . TOB OAUSE OF N8 DECEASK, 88 statod, was ovorwork, which ocugendored con= geatlon or paralyais of tho brain. ~Ho {nhorited 8 vigoroun constitution, and this ovavlod him to orform. an amount of montal labor. that waa ruly marvolous, Ono of his hahiovomonts was tha > proaching of ' tonty difforont sormons In elght days, tho majority of thom cxtomporaucous offorts, riding night and dnyif nocossary to roach a placo whoro ho wag oxpeotad. . 1o wns an 8o~ complishod olassical scholar, and familiar with Fronob, Gorman, and Italinn, and woll vorsed in medioino aud_other scionces, - In canon- ical Iaw and tho jurisprudonco of the Church it is doubtful " if ho had n oor in this country, Ho was a rocognized leador in the councila’of the Chvroh, and, lmlug within three of tho sonlority, it was beliavo that his endurauco wonld . scoure for him the: Prosidonoy of the Houso of Bisbops, Ho hnd an oxtousivo acquainiance abroad, and was the intimato friend of. Bishop Wilberforco, of Lin- gland, When in London in 1807 ho preached tho opening sermon at Lamboth, tho palace ot tho Archbishop of Oanterbury, in tho prosonce of 200 Bishops, who cotposed tho Pau-Anglican Hip abilitios attrabtod cousiderablo at- tontion and X v OXFORD GOKFERRED UPON IIn{ the dogreo of . D.,—sn unsnal honor to be be- stowed upon au-Amorican. At that'timo Lo was s D.D., consequent upor .his graduntion at Columbis,. and an LL. D, acoordod. by.tho samo {ostitution on account of his culture’and loarn~ ing. _In addition ho recelved tho dogroo of D. 0. L. from Cambridge University. R 1118 GREATEST WORK s waa porhaps the catablithment ‘of the cathedral system of churchos in’ this country. - He commonced hia. labors to thia ond npon his _ olection ' to the Episcopato, ~ and, doxpite much “opposition in:-thy Gounclle, carriad it forward radually, and thero, aro now some ton or twelve cathedralsin varions parts of the country,—one foralmost ovory Epia- coputa Seo. I'his ‘subjeot was ono of tho flrst which on- grossed his attontion upon his arrivalin Chicago. THE PRIMARY INTENTION d was to looato cathedral on tho lot whoro Trin- ity Churoh subgaquontty stood. That, howovor, failod; and the thon srall chapol at tho cornor of Wasbington and P’ooria strects wns .aftor- wards used for this purpose; * It was onlarged and docorated at tho expouse of the Biuhiop, and, uudor his poreonal suporvielon, has be- come intornally ono of the most bLenutiful oburch odificos in the oity,. In- accordance with Disidons of tho dignitv of tho Episcopato, ko appointed Canovs and rural Derus, i u TIFGE MEASURES . met with objootions on the ‘part. of Churoh poople, who stigmatized thom s unnocoseary— a8 nnfitted for & poor dioceso like Illinois, and aa dictated on hia part simply by n.dosire for pomp tho easo, and, while theas changos .did not from thevery nature of things produce the good results which the Bishop expeoted from them, still thore is no doubt that the ofloiency of tho Cathodral Ohurch was greatly increasod by tho appoiut- ment as Canons of Lho able mon who arc.con- nocted with it, & great mauy of whom were from time to Lime Tomoved to tha charge of churches in tliis city or elsowhoro. . Tho Interest whiol tho Bishop tool in. ONUROH EDUCATIONAL MATTERS was always profound, and was shown by hls do- vation to tho colloga’ at Robln's Nost, of ‘which Dr. Chaso had chargo, and also tho parochial acliool conuccted with th der his goneral chstgo, grow Lo bo ono of the most flouri»hln% of ita kind in the city, Bishop Whitohouso would tolorate “- | NO LATITUDINAIAN TENDENCIES, and any violations of the canous of the Church woro suro to bo followed by the arrmignment of tha offender before an acclesiantionl council. Ho was so implacablo i this raspect that ho was always at war with somo rector, and_this fagt contributed much toward makiog his Bishopric an_.unsuccessful oro. Harmony has nol pre- vailed in the diocens for many vears. His firat troublo was with tho : i : TUE REV. MR, CRACROFT, of the Ohio Dioceso, who took charge of an Episcopal Church at Gnlesburg, in this Stato. Thia became o clear violation of tho canons whon, aftor tho expiration of six’ months, ‘tho. .Rector neglected to sond his lotters of dismission from the Ohio Diocoso to Bishiop Whitchouso for recoguition, Tho conduct of Mr. Cracraft was. revayated b{‘ his preaching in tho :"m\'ch "ot the Rov. Edward Hoacher: Congrogational) without his canonicals, and the Bishop remonstrated with him, Ho replied that ho owea no allegisnco to the Binhop of Tltinols, but was responsible to Bishop Mellvain, - of Olio, Bishop Whitehouso acqumnted tho Inttor with the facts, and Mr. Cracraft waa tried, and sequitted, but subasquently united twith'the Congregationnlists, This controversy lnsted a long time, aud Frnvokcd almost’ as much dis- cussion a4 the Clienoy matter of 8 more rocont date. Tt will bo romembered that the BEY. CIHAILES EDWAND.OIENEY, Tector of Christ Churchin this city, neglected to use the words '‘regonoration” and ‘“regon- orate” wherover they occurred in the Hecrawont of Infant Baptism, and for this altoration in tho Baok of Common Prayer he was nrraigned bo- fore an ccclesinationl court at the instenco of tho Bishop. ILis trial began on the 230 of July, 1808, ond, after pro- gressing two days, the proceedings woro interrupted by nu’injunction granted by Judge Jomeson upon the application of tho at- tornoys of Mr. Cheney. By tba decision of tho Court the Oouncil whs onjoined from further sction, aud the trinl cumo’ to & sud~ den but " tomporary couclusion. ‘An ‘ap- poal was ' taken to the Supremo court, and ;tho &I‘I(‘Rnlont of tha inferior tribunal was'rovergod, Tho Ecelosiastical Council again convoned, and, after a protractod ‘aossion, found Mr, Chouey guilly, and sontenced him to depo- gition from tho ministry unless he ‘apolo- ¢ized to the Dishop and promised to uso the (to bim) objoctionablo words. Ho rofused to da so, and * tho verdict was certified to by tha- Bidhop, and hoeamo irrovocable. Bubssqueytly procoadings wore commenced in tho elvil conrls or tha redovery of the Christ Chureh proporty, and thdt suis is now ponding. lts statne will not bo affected by tho donth of Bishop White- houso, but, in' caso of an adverso decision, tho mazter of appeal will peat with his successor, Drior to the clection of the Rov, Goorze B, Cwiniina a8 Assistant Bishop of Kentncky, he wus reotor of Lrinity Church on Chicago, aud during s reaidonco horo was not in tho bost of terms with the Dishop. Not very long after his eall lo Kenluoky ho bucamo iu- volved 11 ccclosiastical “troubles in this diocesa, aud expreased himaelf concorning thoin yubllulv. in a mannor which groatly irritated lishop Whitehouso, whe considered tho conras of Dr. Cumming an insawan of tho rights ‘and prorogatives of the mebnp of Hlinols. The final rosult of thiswas ‘st avon Dr, Cymming’ roturn to this city for. . viait, and {n attempting to preach vitkin its confinoy, tho Bishop ront him o letter raquesting bitn not to do auything af tho kind, on the filounfl of his unwarrantable intorferonce with the religlous affaira of a di- ocoso swith which ho was no longor conncatad, ! I BUCULASION, S An attompt to predies tho offect of tha death of Tlishop Whitehwuso ugon the diccass would at this timo, of course, Lo futllo, Thoro has been mneh discussion recontly ahout dividing tho State into threo Bplacopatod, with Bisliopn nt COhicaga, Laoria, aud Hpninglield, and it is probe ablo lat tho 'nuxt Geueral Gonvention will mako such & division, Tho Diocexan Con- veution, which weots in September, imay, howover, cleot his snocessor, ‘who wonld bo Bishop of 1linois until tho segrogation, and on- tilled ‘to selact hia placo of restdonco, Tho ouly person whose nume hna yot heon mentioned in conncation with the Dishoprie {8 Bishop Clark- son, of Nobraska, a gonileman of loarning, who is woll qualifled to dischurga the duties of the position, o now holds the position of Mission- Ay Bishop, . 5 i AQOTION OF THE EE%NDI‘NG OOMMIT- i Tho Standing Committos' of {he Eplacopal Diocero of Ilhnols, acting an_ecoleniantical an- thority, hold mosting last nigut at tho rou- donee of My, H. G, Ravnoy, No. 008 Indiana avenne, for the purposa of making proliminary arrangoments rolative to tho obsoquies of the Into Bishop Whitchouso, Lhe Rev. Dr. Laoke oceupled. the chalr, and thero wore in attond- ancotheRov.J, I, Walker, G, R. Chittendon, the o, T, B, Utls, Canon Knowles, sud Blr, Ran- noy, who officiated as Beoratary. T'ho tullowing notice relutive to THE ELEUIION OF A NEW BIANO) was Issuod by the Committee L To the Rector, Warden, and Vestey of —— Parlsh ; Biuco tho rogular notlees ealling togolhur the an- mtal Convontion Livo gono forth, i groat calamlty hag fallon upon the divceso, in the doath of it Rovereud 0 Cathedral, which, un- Bishop As it tn for tho good and iooaka that 1t ahonld not long Lo lo tho Btanding Committos, - acting an scrioatnatiosl mie thorlty, carsiostly recommend that the cloction of & Dinhon bo oarrled futa offect at theamnual Convention of thin diocona to ba hold in B8, Peter and-Paui’s Oatho- dral, Bopt, 16, 1974, This uotico fn fssnod o order that'nll clerl: al iay delegates may ho prepared to tukn part In thin fmportant action, {Signed Uy nlt meahers of tho Standing Committee.) TUB FUNERAL SERVICES, Tt was deternuned that -be funorn) sorvices ahould be hold at tho Ciheiral at 2:30 o'cluck noxt Thursduy afternoon, ‘Tho Rov. Canon Knowles was appoloted Mas- tor of Coromonios, Tho Rt, Rav. Bishop Whipplo, of Minnesots, ‘was unanimously choson to dolivor tho funora! _diacourse, ‘Iio pall-boarors, somposod ontiroly of nlurqy- .men, wore roquestod to appoar in aurplice, stol and purplo scarf, All other clorgymon woro_r . quosted to appear In suiplice aud etols. Tol- lowibg are the clorgymen clioson to act ag i PALL-DEARERS : Dra. Ohaso, Corbott, Sullivan, Drosnor, Tocke, Bonodlet, aud Morrigon; tho Rove. J. I Walker, F, M., Gmmi& F. Iotalor, John. DBonson, G. O, Bireot, nud Potor Arvodson. MEETING TO-DAY. The following notico was also isanad ; 'Tho clergy and laity of tho Diocose of Lilinols ato re- quiosted to et at tho Onthodral s moraing, Ag. 11, 0t 10 0'clo:k, to lnke anch actlon 4k may be proper In'conyldoration of tho daath of the Biahop, G 7 Rov, Enwanp BuLiivax, Tov, Cranzox Tockw, Tov, J, F. Watkkn, Gronok I, CiITTENDRN, A, O, CATKINS, 4 1L, C. Ranner, - Stundiug Committoo, Tho Committes then adjourned. COUNTY ASSESSMENTS. Additional Returns Made to tho State Aunditor. Spectal Disnatch to The Chicago Tribune, I Sruvarienp, I, Aug.’ 10.—Tho following counties havo reportod assossments slnce my-last roport : (’"“"’"" of the t withouta head, Ghampaigu, E“x’mflcllus 1873, ! $22,341,500 1,484,188 , BOT 3L QHART8N0 8,161,870 10,456,464 [;;li A5, 450 20,458,507 [I0,00 1,083,716 A BINGULAR MEMORIALIST. What ¢ Littlo Ohips? Rad to Say to the.Duchoss of Edinburg. In tho London Zimea of tha 19th uitimo is the followling 1 :#Yeatordsy o man having tho nppoarance of an artisan, and who repreaented himssif to bo » shipwright, residivg at Uxbridgo, mado hin way to Windsor Uastle, and firat accosted ono of tha sentries, informing him thut Lo desired to forward o lottor (0 tho Duchexs of Tdinburg, Ho wasroforred to the officer of the gunrd, ani thonce to the commanding oflicer at the bar- racks, who sont “him to the borongh magistrato. Finally ho found himeelf with' Mr. Hayes, the Ohiot Snrotin(und\mt of Police, who, aftor list- ottiug to lus talo, conaldered that Lo was ono of those oceentric persons who are froquently en- | doavoring to obtain_interviows with mombers of tho Royal family, advised him. to retmn to Us- Dridgo, and kindly paid his fare. It appoared that:tho mau was apxious to piesent the follow- {ng loiter to tho Duchoss of Edinbnrg, rolut. inz to the conrt-martial on Admiral Randolpl, who was honorably nequitted on Satarday: ‘o Hor Royal Highnoss Mario, Duchess of Edin- burg: - Illustrious Lady—Muyhap you will pac- don an humble slupwright, who this day dares +| ealt vour attention to a court-martial-being lold at Plymouth daring tho lust two days on & gon- orous, vircomspoot, and distingnisbod Admiral, in -whioh suother 'gallant youug oflicer, Capt. Adeano, ox-Galntea and Narcissus, {8 tmplieated. In tho yenr 18G9 tho Russian corvetto—if I ro- ‘member distinetly—~Dommitz Donskoy, wont on shore, and was compelled to put iuto Simon's Bay, disabled. "At ‘that. time Cowmodore Ran- dofim unshipped ber guns and stores, whiol wore storod in Hor Majusty's doskyard, while "sho was drawn up on the patent slip, amid ex- treme difficulty and danger, for examination and repair, at tho sole rlek of tho aforcsald oficor, who doclared to tho Rtussian Captain that, should sho becomo :n. wreck, he. would replacs lier to your great fathor with another ship. Ilumnble ‘as I am; having traveled, sorved, and safforad, I am tho man known aa ‘Little Chips,' who wag orderad to ‘jump nup on hor sido and sco iwhat slio is made’ of.” Sho was Lhon thorounrhly re. pairad, aud -lunached with more diftioulty than sl was drawn up, though ‘the ship bars sunp-, pod agaln and again as carrgts,. To oudenvor to rmtum aa ides of tho risk attachod tothat aunch, auothoer Britlsh shipwight, your humblo sorvant, with six strongeat men of the Russian ‘erow, brought two screws under her forefoot, whilo tho rost of hor men rushod fore and art her decks In order to shako her, whilo othors used a balk of timbor as a ram on her how. 'Tho position in which Adniral Randolph is now placed mudt bo my saltent spology for thus dar- iug. to nddross you s the daughtor of All the Russias, avd through you, I trust, my boloved sovereigh lady, I have the honor, &c., Peter Gribbin, ox-Woolwich and Portwmouth Dack- yards and ships Pearl avd Barrosss, Addrews, if requirod, Poter Gribbin, boat-builder, puste otlics, Windsor."" —_— NEW JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISES. . Special Dispatel to The Chieago 17 idune, Quixcy, I, Aug. 10.~Negouations are in progreea for the establishment of a new. daily ‘Damocratic paper. in this city, It is rumoryd that ox-Senator Riokardson iy to have the odi- torial managemont of tho ocoboorn, and that® Gon. Bingloton is to furninh tha.capital for the enterprige. 1f it gous started, which is doubtfal, tho papor will, of coutse, bacowme the orgau of tho ropudiating wing of the Domocratio party. “Tho firat numbor of & Gorman cvouing daily, to-bo called tho Weslern ZFress, will ba {ssued to-morrow, - This paper is_ to serve a8 the organ of Mayor Reariok, nnd bas beon atartod in oppogition to the Quincy Z'ribune, tho organ papor which did :oot plny suoh tunes as plensed tho Mayor's oars. Tho Whig hag ro- contly hed somo slashing. articles lu criticlsm of the Mayor and tho city authorities, and some of thous the Tribune hind tho audacity to repub- lish for tho bonetit of its Gorman roaders, Tho Mayor nccordingly succeeded in intoresting sovoral moneyed mon in tho J)ro]uui. af o now papor, which is to bo oporated as his® epecinl organ, - 1is Honor aléo hias aspirations for the Stats Honnto, which Lis orguu is, of course, ex- pocted to support, e P el i Caricatures of tho FroncheGerman war. . Tondon Correspondancenf the New York T'ribune, A remarkable: colloction of catieaturos of the Froneh and Gorman war of 1870 is on salo by Nr. Bain, the bookkoopor in the Haymarkor, {1t {8 the fourth of the kiud, and will "bo the labt.. The mutorials for u fifth could uat, probably, he- ot togotlsor, This comprings, fiently, sevon vol- umes, impoerial folio, coutaining about 1,600 onri-- caturo prints, mostly colored, fesned during tho war and tho Conttutine. T'he prinis have boon mounted and clasmfied. Theroaro 230 relating to tho outbrenk of tho war, the subjects of which aro Napoleon IIL and the Emprosa, to- gothor with Ohvier, Behneider, Pulikao, Lohauf, nd othor domentles, a8 Ryshofort wonld' sny, "Then come tWo voliunos on the kloge, picturos of its military and evary-dny lifo, f:mo&purtrnuu.‘nf Trochu, Gambottn, Thicrs, eto.; three on the Commune, with broadeides, carloatures of the Progaiany, portraits of the Commumists, ple- tures of the destruction of the Tuilleries and otnor buildings; aud thon one velume of (ar- man earicaturos. Noxt we have L'Felipse, in ¢ .vols,, royal folio, with all the uul»prnumd num- bora; Le Grelot, with 00 coloved flluetrationn; Zasigict et Lo Sele, with 793 Kladderadatsch, 1860 to 18731 Lo Pore Duchene; noomploty ok of Rochotort's Lanterne, In 8 vols,, and of La Cloche, its unoqual unceorror, in 7 vola,; and fiunlly o number of less raro, but yaluablo bools, valating to tho sioge and the Commune, In all, thevo aro 30 vols,, uniform in hialf rod moroaco, Thin colleotion I sald to bo not lewa Ml thau the othor three, of which I wpoke sbove, ono;of ‘which is It tho posacsslon of Trinco Timnarol tho soognd is fn tho British Munoum, the (hird in tho library of ono of tho wenlthiost noblomon in Tnglaud, from which it is not likely to omorgo, Tno fourth ought to bo seoured for Amerion, aul I montion it fu tho hope that romu ono of tho groat Iibraries will buy it, or that to some ono of them aomo pubhc-apiritod oiizon may bo glad to prusout so ruro and inestimablo a catloction, ——— s“heodorng? Phaobe Cary wrote of Mra. Tilton Iua poom outitlod ** Thoodora™s “All hez froo, fmpulatva acting Tu to chiarniiog, 50 Alutrcting— Lovers think hor mmdo, I kuow, Quly for a play-follow, Goral 1ips, couceallng pearls, Huth shio, ‘twixt dark rolls of curls; And ner wordy, dropped soft aud slowly, Buews LAl ruvistivg, bulf boly, " - CITY TAKES..' - Summary of the Arguments for Opposers. Objections to the ‘Legality of Bill 300, If Amendatory of: tho Revenue Law, It 13 Defective in Forn If Independent, It Is Defective in Substance; Minor Objections to Affidavits; Etc. A Deccislon Bxpected To-Day. The argumonts n-tho city tax-caces at the County Court will come to an end to-day, and Judgo Wallnco will doubtloss give his opinion: This. application for judgment is made undor the authority of a lnw passed’ on“the iGth day of April, 1878, and known 8s; - niry 800, It provides authority in Incérporated ofties for the lovy of sevon differont kinds of taxos, for tho appolntment or an’ Assessor and Collector, and for the issuo of warrauts for tho collootion of taxes, ' Tt also provides, inlts fifteonth saction, thattho Gity Colloctor, within such times as the. Cily Council may by erdinance provido, shiall make & report to -the gonoral 'oficed of tho couuty authorized by the Gonoral Rov: ento laws of tho State to soll lands for Biato and county tnxes, of tho taxes aud spocial asscssmonts which tho City-Oollector bas boon uuable to colleet. In its sixtoeath scotion 1t ro- quires that this gonoral oflloor shall obtain judg- mont {n the same manner as is provided. for ob- taining judgmonts for unpaid ' Btate and county taxes, and to proocod in tho same mannor to sell - the land a8 upon such general taxes. In obtain- | ing tho judrmont and making salo. tho officer i to bo govorned by the General Rovenue law of tho Btate, oxcept when otherwiso provided in this statuto, . E & - 1t is providod farther that there shall bo but ono ulo in any one year for auy gonoral taxos or specinl assonsmonts’ lovied by ‘authority of such city, which palo may be st thosame or a dilferent timo from that for Stato and county taxes, as tuo City Couneil may by ordinance or resolution pro- vide. Tho report of tho City Colloctor to tho County Colleotor, mado in_the munnor required by thls statute, accompauied Ly tho quth Ia la bo prima facie oevidonco that all the forms and roquiromonts of tho law in relation to muking tho roport and retuan have boon complied with, and that tho taxes and speocial sesessmonts mon- Lionod 1n the roport are dus and unpmd, Tie roport i8 raquired to give a briof description of thio natura of tho weveral warrants, TIIERE 18.NO- OTUER PROVISION 3 in this bill for. the: government of the County Collector, —that is, the County Treasurer,—or for tho authority of the-Court, the form-of the Judgmont, the form of tho notice, auy otbor than that which is givon in tho Govoral evenuo law of the Btate. It provides ncom,lnutu systom, in conformity with, tho desigo of tho Constitn- tion, by which tho warrunta for- the collection of taxes for all purposcs, excopt such as aro dosig- noted in this act porbaps, shall' bo returned to the Ouuuty Colloctor: batoro tho 10th day of March ; and in Boe, 178 ot seq, it requires that: all ‘speeial ussessmonts of every natars shall' be. returned to -that oflicer by the 10th day of. Narch In_ oy year, and if _tho Btate and county taxes have not beoen paid by that Limo, ke shull cutor upon the warrant for the collection of thoso. taxes . avery uqncin! a8 sossment, and, in fact, every othor lovy that may bo mude upon tho land. é If tho State and county taxes have been paid, the oflicer is required to muke a.demasnd. upon the owner of the land for-any speciul’ sssosb- mont orsubsequont levy,. or to give him :notice through thomail. - v 3 ‘The following sectiona provide for his roport: to & court; and appliention for judgment for, all these taxos and special assessmouts which .havo been returnad to him, and give Lo him suthority to recoive all taxen and specinl assossments dowa to the niomeut of sale, and roquire the : EXTINGUISUMENT OF THE LIEN | upon the property upon the poyment to him of theso taxos nud avacssmonts at any time boforo the ealo is actually made.. ‘Lhoy also requira that, in case a porson shall poy noy tax or spocial auyosamont to the County.Colledtor, ‘upon his receipt 21l other special ausesymonts lovied upon the land shall by designated. So that it appears by the General Revenue law, no ono's land can bo sold _for any of the special lovies without Lis having had an opportuunity to pay the special ag- Aussment. ir b ORJECTIONS. 7 2 5 It is objected to the application for. judgment, a8 at prosont made for city taxes, and all spocinl asses-monts, that Luo special assosy- meuts mado prior to the 10th duy of March, 1874, have boon roturaad to the County Freas- *|-urer, and included 1n the warrunt ' for - Biato aud county taxes, and that the owners have . un- til the ealo of the land under that warcant, wlioh will tuke place at least a montl later than the presont spplication would authorizo, for the poyment of ‘such special assosemounts, aud that there-is nothing in Bill 300 to authorizo-the in- clusion of any such special ssessmonts in the prosent applieation, e i TIE FIRBT ATTAOK, 7 howaver, ia made wpon the law itecll. Itis 2 provision for the collection of revenue for the City'of - Clucago, and for tho gale of land for taxes and special assorsments for munioipal purposes, and which In its title_contains no montion of spacial asscasments, aud therofore ia 28 to thom void undoer tho new Constitution, 1t requires the City Colloctor. to make a roport of taxes and special assessments, and requires the County Collostor to proceed by the gonoral Iaw in rolution. to tho rovenuo, without giving any dotmls, in suob manner that it is olaimed that it cau only have effect ¢ ) AB AN AMENDMENT ;. - 3 or ravisjon of s portion of the general Revenuo Iuw, und aa aucly it s claimed that it can havo no effoot bacause of tho provision of the, Constitu- tion that no Inw shull bo rovined or amonded by reforenca to its titlo only, buv the lnw rovised or soulion amonded ghall bo iusorted in full i n the naw ok, : 3 . TaE gount soma days ago expressed great doubt as to the nbility of the Colicctor to furnish such juforma- tion to tho Conrt aud'ta tho Clerk of the Court w4 would authorizo 1t to rondor judgmont undor g bill (800) in couformity with the require- menty of the goneral Rovebue law, Tor iu- “stance, bill SU0 doon not provida, for “any roport of tho nnmes of tho awners 'or the things for- which tho taxes. or . pe- sosaments may bo dug, or the valuation of tho proporty, Tho gonoral Rovonuo lnw males this notico an essontial part of the judgmont, and roquests thelr insertion in the precopt for the sale of tho laud, “1f this aot is vot coustrued ns amondaiory to the goneral Revenue law, and -as cither abrogating that requiroment or as includ- W that not within its provisons by relativn ng an amondmant to it, so that the City Collector is roquivad to veport all of thowo facts or to roturn his warnaut to the geueral oilice, . UE I8 IMVOSSIDLE for the Connky T'ropsuror to mako the roLmrt which is required by the general law, and absu- Intely imponsible for the Court to dotermine or find thoun faots, which bave Loen, in mumorous cusios, hield to. be abnolutely cssoutinl lo the powel Lo soll land. for taxod under such v law. b s m‘fi:lud that this nob contains nothing by which tho enyo gan.bo Lrought bofore the Court_ at all, ~oxcapt as It cowmes .88 1an amondment to : the - gouoral . Rovenno hwl and o8 an amoendmont it s vord, bacauso it Is no insorled in its propor. place iu that provision, so that suy eltizen can undorstand what is the law of tho Biato; that it {s uat by our new Constitn. tion to bo lelt to astuto lawyery to discover what tho luw is hy oaveful comparison and aoute ro- wearch and application uf priuciplod of construe- tion of tho dovided casos; but that the now Conetitutionin that roquiroment, that the seotion umended sliall bo insoitod ju the body of the new net in prooise form, sa it [ amonded and re-ouncted, requires that every one of the sso- tlons of the old Ilevenuo law, if thoy aro to be #v amonded, uro to contain the ohanges that aro | mulla nocossary by -bill 800, to adapt them to Its purposes ; and 8hall be printed complote, so that overy oflicor and citlzon may know pro- civoly bng duty under it, IETURN OF JIOOKB, By the genoral Reveuue law, tho tax-books are to be veturned to the County Collector by tho 10th day of DMarch, with tho war- raut attacled. Upon sho tax-bouks tho Town Collector has beon requested .to noto tho-paymont of taxes, atowing by whom' thoy 89 paid and tho day of such pagment against oach lot. The County Uollcotor thon has author- ity to colloct all taxes that appear by thom not to linvo oo paid; to cilluck tnxes upon enclh lot agninat which a blanke appours; and ha haa tho same suthority for tha collaction of tnxos “ond nwsensnenty “that the Town Collastor had, o way lovy ou goods and ohnttels, knd mako' demand m the wune manner thut tho ortglinl oflicor might havo done. ! A BPECIAL ASSPSIMENTS, and all subroquent. lovies, aro atio to he rotnrnod 1o im in tho Bamo manner,—that in, tho warrant itecl!, contnlmng tho llst of lands aud tho amount hargod upon oach, and the namos of tho' oftigars. If the gouoral taxos ehall havo boon' pafd, ho 1s roquired to®givo notich tb tho ownor of tho land to any tho spooial nsmcssmont, It thoy have not boen™ pald,. he may annex the amount {o the gonoral warrant, and, in tho ovent tunt the owner pays any lovy upor the pieco of land, ho.la bound to noto npon the upon the receipt uvnr{ other lavy tlint ia charged upon the land for which ho has a warrant in fus bands, o was mndo rosponsible upon his bond for the amount of theso warrants wElnh Lo in ro- quired elther to collact from the Town Colloctor or from the ownor of tha proportly, or by sals of the laud, and every individual intercsted n tho Iand is uthorized to pay to him tho nmonnt of tho tax or nsycssment, with such costs na may hinve aceruod upon tho land at any timo to tho moniont of the salo. . EFFECT OF BICL 800, . Buch i the goneral rovenue system, Bl 300 dlvorees city taxes and assesaments wholly from this system. It is argued by tho counsel for the objectors, and s admitted by the counsel for the city, thiat tha-power-to receive city taxes and ase sossmonts s, by this. bill, wholly taken nway from the Connty Tronaurer. The warrants for city taxoe and speoial assonsments are, o far s thoy may be; included “iu - the application for Judgment under that bill, rotained in tho hands of tho City Collector, aud all collections are res quired to bo mado bghlm down to tho day of falo, and, until the sale, the Oity Treasurer is roquired to attond to nll payments for bonds purchasod ab tho_snlo, Tho County Tronsuror iA not author- ized to roceive a dollar. Tho Oty Colloctor {8 mado rosponsible to tho pnrchasors for all monoeys paid upon those warrants st any time before eale. If. by any mistako .the landa are .8old after thoe taxes or nasossmonis have. boen paid, uo porson can discliargo this lien by pay- mont to any othor person than the City Collector. 1T, THEREFORE, OPSRATES as an amondment, an entiro chango, aa far a8 city taxes and nssossments aro concornol, of tho Rovonue law as in'forco Lhrouighont thoStute. By ita titlo, Bill 800 oxtenda only to corporate oities of tho State, and, therofore, in Cook Coun- tv* it doos, not apply to spocial nssess- monta of any corporation outside of the City: of . Chicago, oxcopt, perhaps, tho Qity of Evanaton, if it has ndopted tho city chdrtor, so a8 to bocome fn fact an incorporated city. - It loaves tho Rovenuo Jaw in forco as it otiginally stood, excopt that it changes some dozon or moro sections so As to nccommodata them to tho provisfons of this bill, and it is claim- ed that it is a comploto amendmont of such scc- tlons divorcing tho city taxes and assossmonts from the otlior taxos and assessmonts of this State, providing- tho city shall choose to adopt ita provisions, or ehall” not procood a8 by tho torms of Sec. 24 it is nuthorized to do, to corti ita taxen to the County Clerk, in accordance with the general law of the Stato. Hence ench an . amondment, under the provisions of the Consti- tution, is clalmod to bo wholly vold. + _ THE DETAILS OF THR APPLICATION furjnd;:mont havo raiged the objeotion that tho afidavit of delinquency, whigh Genoral Rovonuo law raquirea to ba made, isin. this caso @0 do- foctive that it is no complisnce with the Genoral Revenuo law, This objection ' is substantialiy admitted by tho counsol for tho city, but it is claimed that another aftidavit should bo substi- tuted, or that no afidavit at all nceda to bo mada; that the law s so smonded that, aa to oity tnxas and nsgessmeonts, tho afidavit may be dispensed with. ; i d IT 18 ONIECTED 24 that tho entire report {a insuflicient under tho Rovenunolaw of the State to confor upon the Court Juriadiction to try the cause; that it does not Btato tho names of tho ownors, tho amounts of the valuation of tho lands, and does mnot’ definitoly etato the year for which theso tases or agsossmonts are olaimed, sud tuat, nuder Dill 800, thoro is no power loft to tha OQounty-Ool-- lector to make ench'a statoment, or to mafke any report which would bo suflicient under the gon- eral rovenuo law, s 54 To tho Oty Collector's roport to tho County Collector it in objected that tho first afidavit mado, which, by Bill 800, in roquired to we- company the repoit, was wholly insnfliciont. od on the firet day of tho term. i Tho B o § 2 SECOND AFFIDAVIT states that tho facts recited in the roport profixed to tho lists presentod nro trus as thoretn stated avd set ' forth, and that report recites'thas the | City Collaator raccived o warrat for tho tuxos, spocial nesessments, and water-ronts for the yoar 1873, dated Jan, 81, 1874, aud s0 doscribos ~ movon different warrants for -gaven - differeut . years, - from 1867 to the present, desoribing each a3 & warrant dated on a partioular day for the collection of tho taxes, apocinl assessments, and wator-ronts for tho yoar designatod. Tho lflflutad caption to the lists found on each page through tho entire thirteon volumes is-tho same, while at ‘tho head: of onch prgo In a desioription of tho nssessmonts. and tho date of their confirmation, but no othor “dato of tho warrants, and no other doscription of the warrants whatovor than that given in'the roport prefixed, which doscrives sovon warrauts for'the colloction of taxes, special nescsumonta and water-astcaamonts in bulk. ANOTHER ODJEGTION. Tt Is objectod that upon this report it appoars that judgment should be ronderod for the do- fondunts, and that tho warrants as shown by this ropork - are wholly vojd. ,I'hose insued under’ the old “chartds were reguired bo {ssued for . cach - mpeoial nsgossment soparately and !ié’nud “by -the City Clerk, sud tho Mayor and nmy{m\lur, whils thoso issued for, taxes woro issued by the. Tax- Commissioner, ‘and wero required to bo signed by the Tax-Commissioner, Mayor, and Coup- troller, snd . conntersigued only by the blty Clerk,. - for the purposa of attesting the otber signatures with tho city ooal ; that tho warrants were ¢ distinct, if issuod ac- cording to law, as oxccutigna: \xé)m\ differont judgments of difforeut courts, but if the. .war- rants wore issued, as stated in this roport, for taxen, asecsamonte, and water-routs - altogolhier it was totally void. ! It is also objcotod that tho statement of the warrant for tho tax of the year 1878 describes it to bo & warrant for the taxes for the year onding | May 1, 1873, and for the special asscssmonts of .| the yoar 1873, somo of which, in the ro- tico of_npplication for judgment, “are desdribod 25 mAde 1n the year 1871, But, innsmuch as theso taxes aro taxes for tho yonr ending on the firat day of May, 1873, tho law of July 1, 1873, ia applicable only to the tax of that your thon curront, which was tho yoar 1873, to the end, or Jan. 1, 1874, or which, if tho flscal yoar ended May 1, 1873, to the end, or May 1, 1874, and that this statuto_conld not applyat all to thoso gonoral taxes, and that those taxos mentioned in that report wore in fack tayos for 1872, which could be collected only undoi tho gonoral rovenue law of the State, oie . IN DRIBE, this DIl 800, a8 Hllustrated by the Llundora of the city oficors, it thoy are in faet blundors, and by the facts that thoy have stated, if thoy aro truo, and this dotermination of tho Court, ns ovidenced by a _large number of decisionn writton hy Judge Drocsio, that this roturn is absolutely concluaive upon ull partica in the proceeding, and cannot be in any mannor contradicted,—tho ofiicer may bo sued for & falso roturn, but his® roturns ecan~ a0t bo lm{enchud in the samo procooding, it thin raport ia in faot true ; 1f not, thr bill, jua illustrated by tho binnders of thie ofilcors, showa conclusively that it is an aitempt to break up the ontire revenue systom of tho Btato, designod by tho now Coustitution and elaborated by tho goneral Iawn, and to restoro all of the avils that existed prior to the ‘now Constitution, ovading }mly the checks that wora ostablished by that AW, . TOE ADVERTIAEMENT, s To the advertisemont an ndo it is objected, that it requiros the Inclusion not only of city the genoral Rovouue Inw, were required to be in- cludod’ with tho-Siate and county taxes, And which’ conld only 'bo’ tcluded with them, and whioh évery porsou under them hind tho right to l)ny. up fo ‘tho timo of the ealo of the ands for Btute and “county taxos; that it does mnob denlgnate them apart from tho city taxes, but includos them e masso ns taxas and aesesaments for the yonrs named and givos them no notleo by which any porson, aithor tho fudividual owniny Mmlnmf’nr hiy noighbor, if his neighbor wonld give him notice; that the application ia not for sproinl assosse mients upon which tho judgmont would bo en- tirely void, but is for city taxos, whioh could ba Drought {u undor this bifl 300, It 1@aluo objeoted thint 1n dosignating tho timo of walo it fixos a dif- foront doy from the salo for Btato and connty taxon, whilo tho maudato of the statute is ox- lrlle!t that the malo shull Lo wade for |.inunml axon and spoolal assonsmonts levied by tho elt on the same day {u the year, and thut thoro shafl babutono esle for genoral taxos and sweoil and thnt tho “no bettor ‘b -h\khui' . This was confossed, and that aflidavit wos amend-. assosaments of tho clty, which may bo at ho @amo or o differont tima from the anlo for Btalo and Qounty taxes, as the Common Gouncll may by ordinance or resolution provido; Common Qouncil have mado na ordinneo autharizing n salo on suy difforont day; that thoto Ia no anthority of tho 1w to koll for thewn tuxas and wpotinl asnosumonts ab any timo dilToront from-that whioh may o flxad tor tho snlo for Hiale aud county taxes for the Inst years and that up to tho time of thot salo, by tho gencral Revenuo law of this Btate ovory poraon i tho county intorasted in Iand has tho right to go (o the County Treasuror's oftlco, aud thora to pay evory tax and spocial assessmont which may bo ehargod upon his land, and olear it from lability for taxes for tho lnst yoar, or atk any rata so cloar it that thera onn bo no loss until Lo has hnd an opportunity in the coming yonr to obinln a recoipt which nEull “bie a discharge absolute from avory lon, el sk Siaire il i FRIEDLANDER’S WIIEAT-MONOPOLY, ¥ts Insldo Workings, To the Editor af the San Francisco Chronicle : B Tho timo hes ot longth como whon light may bo lotin ontho scoret workings of the Friedinndor wheat-monopoly, miora ertialin {tg oxuctions, mora romarkable for ita hardiliood, and finfshied in its arrangementa than any forw , of eppression which has ever cursed nny country in thewo times, As theso mon resort to tho press to inalat on tholr fair donling, lot us look at what tl ? hiave dono for the farmor, how they did 1%, oud what thoy are coking todo. Wo shall thon, doubtlcss, approoiata tho givor and tho gift, and 8eo whothor tholr prosont wordy ontronties will decoivo us iuto hugging the chains which wa havo noatly reloasod oursslvea fram. Jsanc Friodiander, thoe head and front, hos had all the powor of capital horotoforo, onablin it him tograsp from tho farmorall but g bare ving, Thia monoy force hna proventod othora. from in tur{urlug with his plans, which ho had iaid thuy 3 Holhag tho country north nnd south, onst and weat, divided Into sections, In ench’ seation ia placed & b\l{ur,wlmso dutios consiat in entaugliag the farmer in overy way possible, charging bim oxcossive intorost on money loanod, furnish- ing encks at enormous prices, and making hing pay a doublo coat for storngo. ' The huyor%fl, {n many cases, storokeoper for bis section, and If his natural greed was not Iargo onough, ho ia quickiystimulated from lxuvul(smrtam, and plodgs od in ‘sl cases to follow Friedlandor's diroctions implicitly. It foroign murkets advanco, or soermn Jlikely to adyence, be will temporaril; stop buying all *over tho country, whilo hig agonts in overy way in thelr Ppower misload the farmor aa ‘to tho valuo of his produce.’ Notes hold by the agonts, duo ono day aftor dato, are then presontod; store bills aro prasonted, and by tho timo Friodlandor. ia roady to buy thoy aro, through the grosseat mis roprescotations, compoelled to sell. When tha country is oleanod, up goos wheat, and thisgrent monopoliat, ‘‘who carries tho bag and boars what is put thoreln,” Isughs in his aloovo at tiia mischiof ho haw wrongit. TRoadors may wonder how this can bo borne; }’;‘u};‘ ;x;agn b{“ltmr’th“mivi‘i‘mdh“dfl“ 0+ n, having tho priviloge guaranteod thiom thnt thoy sislinok bb. Iutofiorsd with by lis placing any other buyers in their reapectiva districts, have in mnn{ cnses socurod tho shi flng privileges of thelr sections by either buy- u or ronting grants commanding a lnrge extent of rivor frontage whero wheat {8 raised. Mon who linve this oxtra “hola on grain aro Friod. landor's most influontial agonts. Wheat in ‘| theso soctions, nnless sold ~ whon wauted, {3 allowed o ncoumulate in vast quantitios until foar of raloe, or of over gotting transportation, hag induced tho farmor to moot the markat got up for lim. If tho farmer from one of tho op= gm!ue\! sections comes down to tha city to ol is grain, his coming is noted, The commission= mon, ascertaining on whose landing tho grain lios, rofuse to buy, or to offor. s less prico thun tho, coutrollor, who, if It should be bought awny from him, thoy kuow will place all impodimenty in the way of shipping posmblo. If tho farmor -sliould go to Friedlander, that poifactly posted friend of the farmer says, *‘Go to Mossrs, So sud So, they are my agents up thoro, and thoy will buy your grain.” The farmer, fually, tiil not knowing how.complotoly the sratem is work- od, n:mrgn hnmnlund uuung.lzus nis whont to the ‘country buyer, who, probal confidently tells him, *Thoro, £ told You 80 © kuow you coul g your- grain to tha city,” Probably not, Mr. Buyor! "Nor could you, it overything waa fixed up sgainst you in tho same sbapo, Theso aro facts, the agenta can be named, and tho systom of business, os befora dowcribod, Lins beon carried on for yorms. . Railronding camo in a8 & means of transportas tion ip the grain trado, woukening tho rivet -monopolics, and was hailod as a rolief by the farmora of such parts of tho conntry as were ta be bouvefited, _This was a now olomont tobe cons troliod, and most .offcctunlly it has been dono. Arraugemonts wore made by which, in considorae tion of not contlicting with each othor's carsyin, intorosts, .cortain of Friedlander's agonts en‘oulfi roceive a direct advantago ovor others in ships ping by ruil and itu cost. Aud 1now those men ask the farmers of Califors nis to egnin place themselves in their power. Wo say,we will not doit. We tell these ope proesors, Nol Yo take my honse when yon do take tha prop That doth suistain my house; you take my ilfo ‘Whien you da take the means whereby I live, Yon havo had control long enough of tho rail« roads of the State, its river transportation, tha ‘sack " interast, tho froight intorest, the unlling intorost, and the monoy intorost. You hava ‘usad thomall unsparingly againat us, aud, if yon have not mudo ouough, wo think it is tine sou had. We know to-day, impovarished ws wo aro, that, had wo not sufficient freightaxo alrendy socured to provent another cursed 1872 stonl, yon would force us to bid £35 instead of £4 for overy ton of grain to be saved from yous elutchos. Gentlomon of the whoat ring, wo will helponr~ solves now. We know your supports are rapidly failing'you. You caunot restors to us what we biave lost by you, but you shall not rob us of onr chanco of improving our position, Your libur~ ality to yourselves. gentlemen, was tao oxcessive to bo of long duration—‘*‘limo_wus the braing wore oud the man was dead, and thero an oud V— bzt you want even to pick our bones, o J. G. GAnpsrn, Goneral Agont Calitornin State Grango. Bax Foaxorsco, July 23, 18M, _— MISCELLANEOUS. A Bollavillo (I11.) hormit has sold his farm for $3,000 in gold,” refusing grevubacks, ns Lo had no faith in them, —A_ Mr, Douglan, of Now York, is ranortod to have founded in Lufnyotte Collego, at Laston, Pa.,;'a chnir of “Chriscian Latin and Greok," objocting to tho tonching of the clussics from the works of such beathons as Virgil and Homor. —Contral Toxns haa a population {00,000 ; Northern and Enstern Toxas, 400,000 and Wosts orn Toxns, which in cut off from tho other por- tious of tho Stata by tho awitt rolling Colorado, hias 200,000, —Tho Atlrens (Ga.) correspondent of tho Auguae tn Chronicle and Sentinel suys that Gen, Toomby and Gov. Josopb E. Brown, who have boedn por~ sonally slienated for several yenrs, mot, shoolk bauds, and agrood, without either demanding ox roquirlug an explanation or rotraxt, to forset tho past. ~—Nover go ont hunting with a Thomns County man. Mr. J. M, Chaatain tried it tho other day, and s cured. IIo was sitting on hig bannchos watohing for tnrkeys whon onoof his compane fons mustoole him for a turkey and firod at hini, ‘'he wounds aro very painfal, but not dangerony, Cliastain can’t undorstand {t. ITo says b uover gobbled but twice.—Savannah News, . —Col, D, W. Dushyhead, a dolegato to Warlte ington from tho Oliorokies Nation, whilo stauding oitho rear platform of u ear en routo to Washe ingtonpon the Olito & Missinsippi Ratlrond, drope ped a package containing 88,000 from his pockot noar Olement, Iil, At Carlylo he hired 1hio see. tion boys to taka him back” on a hand-ear, nad fonnd hia monoy on the Leack all right. —A Itndieal seloolmaator named John Traoy made sono insulting romatks sbont tho winta 1adica of Lawronce, and was_badly boeaten by Mr. Tom Deunis, Aftor might a munber of tho young mon called at Thraoy's boacding-house to mrkhcut him fo leava the noighborhood. 1o did not leayo, but want bofore au eflicer, mword that bhis lifo was in danger, seut the afidavit to the Governor, and asked for protectinn, The youg [{ Lot vy, — Vicksbury (Miss, taxon, but . of spoolal asgossmonts, which, under-| ‘?;un g otk i cottsey.— Viekabury (Hiass) erald, " E + A Protege of the Prince of Wales, A Nopunoo (Oun) corrounondatl of hs L Oroano (Wis,) Repueblican says: * This morui Iu o wall, I noticed tho quick, wiry, spriy stop'of*an Indian, who was loading his pony he pasand, Ho' was of the old Mohawk {ribo, who hold & reservation at Mill Polut, near thia pleco. When the I'riuco of Walen visited this town ho wished to sco sumo wild Indiuns of hia ronlm, Young Orouhyntoks was prowented la him, Tho Princo was plonsed, tool tho young subjeot for his protego, placod him av Oxford for govoral years, and sottled upon Lim an annuity for hiw mainfoyauce, Albort's philunthropio vx~ puriment trinmpbod, s ward resurned, mar- riod a chiof 'a daughter, enterod a cavoer as mers ohant; bacamo bankrupt, loavimge ereditors wnd purtnors §4,000 behind, and built the most stiowy residenco in Napanoo, ITa was eivilizo His card stands horos *Dr, Oroubyatoka, M. D., Phywewn, Burgeon, and Accousheur, Duudag stroot, Navuaneo, Outario,’”