Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1874, Page 2

RS R S THE CHICAGO DAILY TRINUNE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 16, 1874 LONDON'S SIGHTS. The * Season,” fro;n May to September. The Lavgtiam' Uotel: and:Its Servants =--Not a Representative Inn, Wesiminster ~ Abbey---The Memorial Temple=of Qur Race. fie New Parlfnment Buildings---One of the Most Splendid -Works of Modern: Architecture. Few Americans become enthusiasticover Lon~ don. Perbaps i; rains for a week after their ar- rival, and they eit at the window of a dull hotel aod'look out upon the gloomy strects with any- thipg but complimentary reflections. Or they como from Paris, brillisnt with sunghine or sparkling with fountains, end, when they are set down in Trafaigar Square, and eo Nelson's column, the lions st the base, and the marblo basin of the cascades below, all black with smoke and fog, they involuntarily shudder, sud pro- nonnce 1t MOEE LIEE A TOMB THAN A METROPOLIS. But London, in tbis respect, iz s true typo of tho rece of whith 1t is the ccatre,—repellaut to stranger, faitbfal to friezd. To ouo who makes himself familiar with its highways and byways, how quaint, original, and altogether de- lightfal, 1t reveals itself; Low surprising its re- sources, how peculiar its cherms. To one, above all, who inherits the speech of Shakspeare, the results of Hastings, Runoymede, sud Marston Moor;—there cannot be a more fascinayung field of esploration ttan this old, old city. To go eight-sceing therein, tho pleasantest tima is from May to September. During those ‘months, thechimate, somuch berated at home aud sbroad, is simply delicious. To bo sure, it often raing, but 1n & mild, deprecating way, ss if it would stop if you objected. And there 15 8 good deal of wist, but that Iays the dust and tcmpers the beat of the sun. The soft humidity of the atmosphere bas a kindly influence on eyes and lungs; yon miss the stimulus of American air, but you loose slso the burned-oat, exhausted feeling whuch here follows as a reaction. And, when the weather is really fine, thers is about it samething EARE, SATIEFYING, PERIECT. If tbis seems exaggerated, let oue look into Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspears, Milton, and the Robin-Hood Ballads, and ask himself ‘wheuce came those exquisite pictires of tue spring and summer time in which English literature sur- passes evory other. Nok from imagnation they wero paisted, but from, Nature 1seif; and of those great poets icis noticeable that all four, ather by birih or long residence, were Loa- donera. The English have shown great good senso in placing teer *season—tho snaual era of fash- jonsvfe amusemens and dissipation—in these montlis of lovely weather. If one desires to fit {rom concert aud dinner to orera, assembly, and Dall, atreyed in superfino broadeloth or dupha- nous robes, how much pieasanter to do soin days when existence is a blesung, when onomay 1iue bomo with uncovered head ac midoight, sud recover Irom the night's excefses by the sfter- noon's drive or rennion in ibe open mur, than, ke ourcelves in America, to dun full dress night after night in‘months when the pastage from the drawing-room to the caniage iy like that from the Equater to the North Pole. ; The American tourist, whom the lack of time or special opportunity does Lot perwiz to pepe- trato'the charmed circle of London scciety, tinds the city ityelf more than enough to occupy and interest him. Being an Ametican, there are ten ciauces 1o uno that he will take, us lus first rest- ing-place, THE LANGHAM HOTEL. Rising st what will scem to him, in spito of lis wetcs, au early hour, he will lock down ioto Portlad IFlace, and re- rall tho many uovels in which tuat Jocality has doue duty. He will watch the batclier, 2nd e baker, aud the milkman, make their rounds, and will temark panicularly a cow and o geat diiven to the door_and milked ; and of this Le will make 3 note - for tae benetis of bis courirymen. _As breskfast be wiil make ac- ‘quainrance with that fiuest form of animal food, the chop of Southdown mautfon. AL eibuer he will find a1l kis anticipations "of solid English beef and plam-pudding wholiy unrealized. ~The bill of fueis French; theie are ten courses, and al}, from fried sule to cream-mermgues, are ofa pronounced Gallic character. 'Ibe dignified waiter, when addressed, bows over the wiute napkin on bis left arm, but makes no reply; snd an obliging couutryman informs the inquirer that the servants speak only Fiench. Clearly the Langham Hotel 18 nota reprezentative one. Ho engages in & dispute with & young countrs- woman a8 to the large globes of purpls fruit hesped up in fron: Of them,—plums be calls them;—and an appeal is made to a fiying artend- autwitn *a fite-red cherubinne's foce.” ¢ Co tout des groseilles?” says the youug Amer- can in her ‘pleassnt voice, mindtul of ibat last explanation 2s to lauguage. ‘fbe wailer answers her gestures rather thun ~vords, in round, outragecus vowelg, iuat scem ioexpand to the full size of the diniog-room : *Them, miss? Them's gooseberries!” Tho stranger drewa lodg breath of sutistaction. Thix is Punch ilustrated—this, at laet, is London, Dut then there are 50 MANY LONDOSS, cach with euch & wealth of attizctions 2s may well ewbarress you un your firét setting ou to 5o tue sighte. ~There i the historic London, of cld memaria] buildings and localicies ; the stu- dent’s London, with the great South Kensington sud Brilsh Juseums, and National Gallery, ana £he Crystal Palace; Charles Lamb's Landon, of qusint little coffec-houscs aud irresistibie old bool-stalls; and modern, popolar London, with its bustliog thoroughfares aud rashiunable prome- vades, its brilliant theatres and uprorious music-halls, And beside, around, within them ail, the London of the poor,—the overcrowded centre of an jmperfect civilization,—Dickens’ London, in short,—which hides i dark alleys and swarms in unbealiby courts, and skuike under tho bridges and aroand the barges of the Thames. But do not you hesitate a nioment, O my compatriot! bht, Whether your time be long or short in the land, give its fitst hours to West- miuster Abbey, the_new Farlisment Duildings, the Tower, and St. Faul's, Do not go to 'WESTMINSTER ADBEY first at the hour of service. Whatever may be £aid of the grandeurof chorala or sermons there, nothinz is there 8o grand as silence. ** A man shall heartho most - eloquent sormon that was over presched if ho will go to tne repulchro of {ings," says oid Jeremy Taylor, and hero cer- tainly lie the Kings of the carth crowned with gold or laurel. Whocan describo Westminster Abbey? The ‘massiso Gothic towers of the western tront ; the great rose-window of the north transept, aud ths mangold of the soush ; the fine tracery and rich carving of tho stalls’ and pews, whero the dark oak flowers out. o the tolage of vallow sna maple, ivy, hop, and vine; the wonderfal of. Henry the Soventh, with its great Erass gates 8o curiously wrought ; with its Jofty arches, clustercd columns. and delicate spires 3 with its marvelous ro0f; whose sofid stone blos- eoms out iuto Tudor roses and the flour-de-lis, into- four-leaved clovers and poppies, which Lag above us in mud-air along o lofty aisle ; withits armorial bearings of Kuight sud Squire, ita sculptured angels uphfung escutcacous, and 15 marblo sembl: of Samt, Bishop, and Anostle, 1ooktug from iheir ehadowy niches,—all this Addison ang Irvizg saw and desenibed § but f:: 5 rthuiun things, gav‘e\'et rare and beantiful, X , nor ever did for of Westmineter Abbey. Tt in th” - ° Pl MENOXIAL TEMTLE OF OTR RAC) the recorded cutmiuation of the An?la-s:xxon type. . What we have been and what we are, what yre love and what we bate, and_the bost that w0 bave done, is thero told a8 no Home nor Maeame. Ia7 conld tell it, nor any sonalist, howeves it ed. “he many tombu of great Addorirals docaes 2 nation poverful on the keas. Not less eapablo oust it bave beew in military exploits, 5 winoes tho graves of warfors whoso various battle. flelds encirclo the globe, from Palestine to the Zuyder Zee, from India to Quebce. Bat, beside the efigy of mailed Crusader and modern soldier, who sro these with brond, magistersl brows and majestic micn; whose inecriptions de- clure that - they vindicated the rights of nations s0d of man, maintsined the sanctity of Law ? Bist, Chnchem, Manstield, Canning, Wilberforce, —%a8 pot-this'a nation of jurists a4 well as ot waxriors, Science hias ita representatives in the simple mouuments*of Newtod and: Humpbrey Davy, and a host of learned physicians aud an- uquaries, The statues of Nemble, . Garrick, Siddons; Oldfield, and more, BLow not oniy ‘that this nation loved the theatre, but also that it was not ashamed to proclaim thnt fondness iu high places_and to lonor its votaries. Ono is siruck” by fhe many mionumonts erected by husband to beloved wile, brother to sister, kindred to kindred. Sepulchral . atones-are nov-always relisble, but it is- smpossi- Dlo.to maa tho circuit of thus, inclosure and not conclude that there is o-people’who set much by tho ties of Llood and- domesiic’ adection. The megniticent memorinls of King aua Quesn, Earl and- Baron, with titles and heruldic. blazoury proudly displayed, prove the love of casic, the ide” of birth; but near them way bo ob- WHAT YOU WILL NEVED: $EB at St. Denis, nor e L-curial, nor tso great Ca- thedral wheie the Doges lio in siate,—thq name of tho Lumble mechabie who gove the steam- engine to Labor; of 2 simplo egaver whose life-long exertions were to perpotuste the famo of otisers;. of a faichful actress **wlose voice was freo from bleunsh as ber fame.” Furtuer, you come npon the tomb of a mau who wiote ihe ono geat entive agaiust tio Lmitans, * oy which "—says the meeipuon—"ha phicked tho mask from ptous hypoermy and plontifody es posed tha villainy of rcbels;” uud owporite stands tue bust of that greav Lurican-and rebel who glorified - with his sublme iwazinstion his _whole soct and time. That they stsnd bere so near to the Loyalty which the one opposed and the other rovercd, does not this show that this poople kas udded to its valor and ingenwity the supremo virtue of political tolerance ? B Lastly, the old Abbey declares this to bo a na- tion with a great literature,—for by tlus time you etand in the Poct’s Cotner, and Saakspesre, Mulzon, Thackeray, Dickens, and Bulwer-Lytton, look kindly down upou you, With grave or wil- ing eyes, = Giaudly thess ligures preacis umor- talty. You cannot feel them dead. For Hawmlet vet lives, aud Juliet, and Col. Newcome, and Lit- tle Noll, whom you bave wauy times seeu aio ; und how cau theso, their creators, scew otber then alive ? Shaksprare’s monwment is pecu- hiarly happy. o leans agams: s piliar, an easy, graceful fiure, his feet ligbtly crossed, his head upon bis hand, while from the other depends o feroll with the well-kuown lmes beginping ¢ +The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, thio eolemn temples,” Viken ho wrote that, did le Jook with the cluirvoyauce of genius into the future. and sce the solewn temple of the Abbey in which he should stsnd, the gorzoous Palace of Westmmnster near at havd, and the great Vic~ toria Tower which should rise above them both ? Amoining in Westmiustor will TEACH ONE MOBE OF MISTOLT, and of that wonderful influcuce wiich weo call “ Raco,” than days and mights of study aud muny pouderous tomes. What ambitious Luglshmau can enter there and ot recall Goldsmituand Dr. Jolinson eaying to each otber, smidst these rec ords of the great deperted, ** Perliaps our namos also shall onoday be mivgled with thers”; T'he American, latest branch of the Anglo-Bazon tree, caunot ccho those words. But, as he sisnds upoi the tureshold, Lo lovks acroes the Asiantic to whero Hawthoie stards waving los wagic wand, and Winthrop's serious cyex and Bryants Homeric figure loom out from the ccesn-mist ; aud he eays, as be looks back Lis farewell to these acluevements of his race in Britain: ** Lo be coniinned—over the sea.” h Come out iuto the suusbine, and walk ose block east, and, standing ou Westuunster Britge, look sonthward at tlus maguilicent pile, vhich, scarcely a stone'’s throw from the Abbey, rises from the rivers edge. It is doubifal if there 18 in all the 1cst of Eurore anything so tine ia modern aichuiecture, aud somo of us, acousod of belouging to an iirevereut generation, thini that the ancients would have to look aroand s good deal to mateh it. Tlusis the Palace of Westminser, or the W PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. : The Lustory of their coustruction is a3 in- Suructive 10 tho suanger as it is ereditablo 1o the _pation. At 3 time whon Chicago is ou tha point of expending mllions m tbe erection of public buildings, it seems that our municipality might receive both ipspiration and admuration fiom tao record of this nadertaking, in whose ezccu- tion legisiators, citv_authontics, architects, and coutractors, equally appear 10 Lave couipro- Lended tbat tho creation of a great editice, calculnted 1o command admiration thiough cen- turies, waa hkely to be more to thcir advantage as itizens than the furthesunce of wny personal ends or the acqusition of any number of dol- isis. In 1831 o fire destroyed the two Liouses of Parlisment. The old Louses bad for mauy vears been regarded as very inadequate Lo tho needs of the mewbers sud the diguity of the nation. Promptly upon tho openivg of Parlia- ment, o commities, selected with especial reference to their ability and knowledge of thie sabject; was appomted to consider und roport upon pluny, The Comuittee reposted ina fow months thereafter, in & series of carefully-pre- Fared resolutious, in which they announced tuat the design for tho new building shiould bo opencd to general competisicn; that the style should be either Gothic or Elhzabethan; that the plans +hould be offered four montus from date. 1hey requested the Sovereign to appoint five Commis- siobers 10 select the three pians mos: worthy of attention, and present the same to both Houses of Purhament, stating the grounds of such choice. Out of nincty-seven plams, the Com- mittee selected and reporied to the Houro of Cowmons for adoption that of MR, CHARLES BAREY (afterwards made o Baronet in acknowledgment of tlie univerral satistaction of the nasion with s work). Certain' alterations vere determined upon by the Commissioneis sud arcbitect in council before the fiual acceptance of the de- signs. A Commission, including the nrchitect, way then appointed to vimt ood examive the various etone:quarries Of the Kingdom; they recommonded,” finally, tho eione of Bolsover Moor, aud the bmd magnesiau liestoue of Anston, in Yorkshire, for the exterior, and Aberdeen grauite for the river- wall. The first etono was Inid 1840, and in 1847 tho Houre of Pecrs was used for the first timo ; in 1353 the Houxe of Com- mous was finished, and in 1869 tue whole build- ing, with the excepuon of a small poruon ot the west frout, was complete. ‘The Committee on Interior Decoration, having examned tho or- namentation of the chief public butidings of the Continant, ended by that recommendation of fresco, which gavo €0 meat an impetus, not to that att onl7, bnc to the wholo department of water-colors in England. ‘The galient fentures of the edifice are the grand River-Front, nithits pavod terrace and squaroe twin towers of the ceatre and wiugs ; the Ciock-Tower on the noith ; the Central Tower, with its beautifal spiro and <pen lantcrn on the west; and tho great Victoria Tower on the soutl- west. The wing and ceutre towers swell into bugs,separated by hexagonal butLresses terminat- iny in open-work pincacles witn giltvanes, Iu- sido tho pinnacies tho roofs are sieep, and or- namented 8t the abgles aud sammit with tlaborate lsce-work uf iron, waich gives to the massive - stucture a wonder- ful lightoess and exquisitenoes of finish nhereit melis inio tho atmusphere. The carv~ iug is everywhere Listorical, cspecially the rich baud separating the wiudows of tho principal and second floors, contawing tho Royal Arms of Eugland in every reign from William I to Vie- toria; on the north ficut aro those trom the Heptarehy to the Conquest. The roofs of the, euure buildiog are of iron frammg, with cover- ing-plutes of iron, galvamzed o protoct from rust, aud the wholo_exterior is completely fire- proof. Tho lofiy Clock-Tower, with the open lantern and beautiful spire, has tho largest dial in the world. It bears the lurge bell, called from its piedecessor Bur Tom of Wesiminster.” Tbe dial is illuminated at night, andis @ pleasant wight a3 y0u cross the bridye atter dark. It is sot_daily by electric communication from Green- wich Obkervetory,sand it is amusing to sce euch, gentloman draw ous hus waeh for comparison or regulation when the omnibus passes at noon. s the crowning glory of tho whole edificeis ‘'THE GREAT VICTOBIA TOWEL.” You stand at the broad portal aud look up the sigautic archwsy, with its colossallionx, past the Patron-Saiuts and Suvereigns iu their niches, past tho delicatearcades aud suceessivo tiers of windows with carven candpics aud balconies, until the eye reaches the betilemented parapet and rest upon tho airy pinnacies, 1o tuke tight to the top of the tall Hug-stad ; and by this time ou fuol like a pigmy at the foot of an Alp. It 18 not quite true, however, that you cau sce all this from the portal. Siauding 0 closo, the vision fails haii-way up, and falls back weary, liko oue who has climbed t03 far snd fast: but the impression of grandeur is even greazer when 8o cear. Seldom does arclutectare produce so poweriul an ewmotion of sublimi The interior of the Palace 15 a” little world -in itself. Itcoutaius the House of I’eers, MHouse of Common, tho great Westmivster Hall, whero L thundared bis impeachmeut of Hastings (which is all that was left of the old strycture by the fire, excopt St. Stopheu's Crypr, mow a handsomo chapel), 8. Stephew's Hall, with L. brauies, lobbes, and refreshmeat-rooms for the convenieuce of members, and the residence of the Sergeant-at-Arme, Lubrariay, and Speaker of tho House. The House of Lords w—unless that of Russia surpasses it—the . _3MOST MAGNIFIGENT LEGISATIVE CHAMBER in Europe. Comparcd with its sowbro stateli- neas, that of Franco looks new oveato parvenu- ism, and that of Lialy inmgniicant. The splendid thrope, the massise beams and gilt-pondantsiof the roof, the rich paucling and wrought brass, with tho statues, and ewblems, and painted windows, require hours to examine and describe. The. House of Commons 18 more plnwlfi but quite es”sppropristely decorated. The; firiest ornaments of tho whols interior are the frescoes. the subjects drawn from evory ers of English histors. Tho most remarkableis Maclise's im- mcnse ~ “Tnterview Detween Wellington and Blacher Aficr the, Dattle of Waterion.”, The' victory is_won; the two Commanders meet for the first-time- after the result- and-exchange = tarewell greeting.on the field. Iothe Duko's- irou features, weary and-war-worn, i the iflex< ible linenments of the grzzly Pruksian, there is 7o exultation; but, in the taces of botl, in the long, sient bhund-clasp, what a reco; nition of tho struggle ' and its suc! Tho reek of the palnting i in excellent keeping, but tho whole story is told iu tuese two. figures. Whoover' bas fought a uard day's fight, on aoy’ Lattle-fleld. ‘with or withoat swords, will know what this pictiiro menns. By the timo you bave' thoronghly seen e Palace, tho lampa'will begin to gleam out of tho £ o'cleck twitight, vou will call o Hangon and nido homeward, and on the way the musty air witl kindly weiglit your tired evelids : you will fall asleap, and dieim yourself an'spimated edi- tion of Mrs, Markbant's History of Encland. Cuarres Laxpon. g L T CHILDREN’S RIGHTS VS, PARENTAL EM- PIRICISAL. To the Editor of The Clacago Tridune ; Sm: Among tho numerous reformatory or- ganizations waich to-day-exist in this country, from those aiming at tho social and political ele- vation of woman, ou the oue hand; to thoee, on iha other, endeavoring to smeliorato tho condi- tion of our domesticaied avimely, Iknow of none baving the laudable, and po less nocessary, ob- ject ot proteciing the 1ights of children from the ignorance, carclessncse, or intcutional cruelty of their purents or guardians. That they ave sub- ject to numerous and grievous wrongs, WIICH SHOULD BE REDREESED, must be appacent to every obgerviog tlecting mind. The prees daily entertain the public with ac- counts of the trightful effects of Laby-farming in this and o:ber countries; of the bLardships euduzed by young children working io fuctorics, mines, ctc. ; of ihie lamentable depravity of the unforiunates rearcd im the gutiers aud alleys of our large cities; of the untold number of bewgs destroyed before birth, who should bLave been born in the- image and likencss: of Gud; aye, and the numvericas illegally ushered into ex- istence but to be ostracieed by theis felloyw- beings for no tault of theirs, aud who afierwards, perbaps in tne depth of shair suguish, may ex- claim with Job, * Let the day perish wherein 1 was born." Lerrible as aro these ills, they are amoug thio loast iv the dire cataloguo which are continually mtlicted on 1man's wenk and defenso- Iess offspring. Tuousunds of buman beings— ¥L¥, AND MILLIONS— are annually robbed of thew natural birtbright: » sound mind in a sound Lody, and, 1n the same wholesalo manner, are cousigued to a premature grave, through the iustrumcutality of pareutal jsuorance aud thoughitlessuess coucesniug those Juws® which presida over the embryological de- velopreut and thio health and longevity of off- spring. Bu, a8 facts sposk moro emplatically and udmistakably Lhan words, permit me to ad- duce, from the recurda of tuis city and else- where, substantiatory evidence which must con- viuce ihe most tkeptical, and, perhape, astouud not a few. Without alluding to idiocy, imbecility, sod predisposition o disesse, iusanity, erimg, oud otber imperfections 1w childien,—whicn, iu a rieat meusure, re the direct results of parental ewpiticism,—1 shall contine myself to the FULIGHTFUL MORTALITY OF CHILDREN. M. Flourens, a celebrated Fiench savant, esti- mated, from physclogical data, that the normal duration of o human lite is 100 years: vet, oul: oue person in 10,000 attains thut age, while 3i per cent die previously to thewr 5th yoar, and less than balf of thoso born live a quarter of a contury. In citics the death-rate is aven groater than tiis. Thus, in Chicago, during the threo months ending with June last, the total mortality was 1,531, of whick 870, or cou- siderably mcro than one-balf, were auder 5 yems of asge! Aund tlie without in- cludwg s large number of promature and still- orn Luths. Iu New York City, dwivg the soven years preceding 1870, the mortality was 105,785, of which 15,150 weie under 15, acd 43,322 less thian 5 yeans of age. According to theuuanimeus testimony of med- 1cal writers, thw appalling mortality is dua chiofly to tho waot of knowledge on part of paralts concerning correet principles of dress, exercite, alimentation, and ventilation, To illus irate with what certainty and dispatch ignorance can deprive cluldien of bealth aud lite, I wail cite'ar mnstance or two: Xora long period dur- ivg the last contury, the death-rats in the work- housee of Englana wera 23 in every 24 infauts under thoage of 1year. Improvements in tho svélem of management, Lowever, subsequently reduced- this remarsable mortality five-sixths. At the Dublin_ Lying-in Hospitnl, 2.944 out of 17,650 cilaron bora. ar sbout 1 in 6, died within TWO WEEES AFTER DIDTH. By meens of better ventilation, principally, that death-1ate was afterwards reduced to about 1 in 210! Agnin, during the tirst three years after the opening of the Orphan Asylum at Albany, N. Y., from a average of £0 cuilien nearly 40 died, whilo from 4 to 6 were coustantly on the sick List. Bur, in consequence of bhygienic improve- ments, “The norsery was soon vacated, . . . and, for more than two years, no case of sick- nees or death took placo.” That intelligence has the same modifywng influence an the death- rae in citics as in institutions, statistics prove, Dunng the last century, our general knowl- and- re- edze ond application of the laws of life _rapidly improved, and in & cor- epondiug ~ degreo has the death- rate decreased. From 1730 to 1749, in London, 74.5 per cent of the inhabitants died be- fore the ape of 5; from 1790 to 1809, the rate decreased to 41.3 per cent, and, trom 1850 to 1867, 1t was reduced to less than 30 per cent. ‘I'hat tho excersive mortality of chiliren can- not bo attributed solely to )gnorance or to un- controllable netural causes, is manites Dr. Harrig, Chief of the Bureau of Vital Statistics,” snys TiE TRIDUNE of tho Ath inst., *states that thero are about 34,000 pirths aunnallyin New York City, of which 26,000 only are psoperly ac- counted “for or taken care of i coniormity with egel regulations. Of these, 2,600 ato illegitimate, and 2,500 more are sbandoned or got ria of 1n the sime way. The illegirimate children are usually put out to board with irresponsible per- soms, whose business it is to_dispose of tho m- fanis £o as to prevcot all future trouble to parents.,” Aro not these facts A NOLTIFYING COMMENTARY upon thevaunted civibization of this age? Yet we contimue to educate cur young men and women in all depariments of kuowledge, with one remarkable cxception, Tarentage, and that the most important of them nll. The laws gov- erning the reproduction of etcck are everywhere carclully 1nvestigated, and sesociations formed for extending sach informeotion. Witness tho consequence! Whilo premature death and great Jongeyity, genius and idiocy, moiality and fmmorality, in mian, aro but the result of a chance obedience or discbedience to natural Jaws; vet (Lo qualities of our Doxters and Goldsmith Maids, of cur prize-catilo cnd pigs, crenut. More thap 50 per cent of maukind die Letore reaching maturity; vet. of our improved breeds of domesticated animals, only 5 or 6 per cent. Indeed, 05 brecders of wine, men may be termed kcientiets ; au parcuts, the grossest of empirics. Verily, it has been well said that Bioney is everythivg, and man—nathi T. Lawnencs Mices, ML D. Crnicaco, Aug. 12, 1674, A Living Automaton. The Paris correspoudent of the Baltimore Ga- zelte. writes; ** A curious plenomenon can be witnessed in the Naint Antoine Hospital. A young mau, 8 emger in a cofe concert, was wounded during tbe warin the head by a ball which struck his skull obliquely over tbe left eur, cariving away 6 inciies of tho -bove and cx- posing tho brain. Ho was relieved, butat the cost of paralysis of his right sido; this was cured in lime, and be was enaoled to resume his usual mode of life, Some weeks a0 his nerv- ous gystem becamo €0 deranged that bo was admitied into the hospital. s attack of the nerves lasts about thirly . hours, during which timo ho is a liviog automaton: be ia uncouscions of gurrounding circum- stances and ioseneiblo to all pain. Place bim on bis foet, Le walks; seat bim in & chair, puza pen between his fingere, Le disrlays the want to write, and seeks for ik aud paper: - supply him witha cigmictte pager, Lo wili rearch for tobacco, aud will make tue most pecfect cigarettes, He executes tho movements without any signs of cousciousness or impatience: remove the arti- cles twenty times from him, Le displays no arger, bot quietly recommences his work, He cau be made to aibg £ome of bis songs when he i® enpplied with o pair of white glaves, atd 8 uewapaper for a sheet of mnsic. ' Ho-has & mon- omsaia. for. thett, for he pockets everyihing he canfay bold - of, but shows no-'signs of being: fiilx:o,:xtenwe when the articles are taken from THAT HOSPITAL LOT: Commissioner Jones Explains His Connection with the Matter: ‘And Denjes 3N Knowledge (hat Corrupt . Infiences-. Were Brought to Bear, He Is Satisfied with His. Action, Be- lieving It to Have Been for the Best Interests of the County. To TR PupLic: -Recoguizing the right of overy taxpayer and citizen to call in question the acts of their public servants, I think it prover that I should explain to you my connec- tion with the purchase of the grounds for a Lospital for Codk Conuty. The Commitiee on Tlospital for the year 1873 consisted of Thomas Lonergan, John' Herting; and John Jones; the Committes on Public_Serviee, Jobu Crawford, Jobn Hertivg, and John Jones. The subject matter of purchasing s lot for a hospital site was referred- to those two- commuttees, making.a joint' Committes; Tbhis Joint Committee made the following roport, Aug. 18, 1873, (page 79 of tho proceedings of tho County Board) : Yroposals for Hopital mnds : 1. :&I.m\\'. Rawso! pormflwwux street and Western avelue, 5 acres, $40,000. 2. Cushing & Bullings, corner Van Buren street and Western avetiue, 32 acres, $155,000. 2 3, P, ¥. Baldwin, corner ~Harrson and Wood Tweltih strect, $1£0,000, 5. T. L. Miller, Taroop streot, south of Van Buren, 500, corner Van Buren and Wood streots, cres, $75,000, W, &. Johuston, corner Western and:-Alilwiukeo avenues, 10 acres, $60,000. 8 Doyd & Wisner, corner Jackson'and Lincoln etreez, 3 acres, $37,000. 9. A corner Lake street and Californis svenue, 5 acre 0,000, ‘D, Witlizmé, corner Throop and- Eightoenth 0 acres, £120,000, fdwin Dean, Lincoln and Polk streets, 4 acres, 4, Joseph B. Loose, Taylor strect and San Francis- o avenue, 10 scres, $60,000. 18, E. W. Rigdon, Woud and Sixtcenth streets, 40 acres, §65,000. ; 14.'W. J. Onuhan, Chicago and Californis avenues, 5 ucres, ,000. 15. Heury E, Marble, Chicago and California ave- hucs, & acres, §20,900. 16, Wiliam B, Snowhook, Fullerton and Milwaukee avedues, 5 acres, $30,000. 17. ¥. C. Vieriing, Sixteenth strect, near Centre av- enug, §—. 5 18, Samuel J, Walker, Aehland avenus and Eight- eenth atrect, § teres, $45.060 ; Ashlind svenus and Lighteenth etreet, 11 acres, $35,000 ; Polk and Ruckwell shieets, 5 acres, §37,500 ; Polk and Yockwell streete, 5 acres, $25,000. 1v. ‘Hency B. Marble, Polk, Loomis, snd Lafiin streets, 1) acres, $160,000. Proposals marked 3, 4, 4 19,7 were, in the esti- mation of your Committee, dcemed the most suitable for the purpotes intended.” After s careful {nvestiga- tion, your Commitiee have come to the uninimous conclition of recommending the purchare of the ot at tho corner of Ashisnd avenue aud Twelltn street, marked No. 4, and esjecially sfuce the parties offering the rame wiil accept thercfor the sum’ of §158,750 in county Londs, ut yar. Respectfully submitted, Tu0MA» LOSENGAN, Jous HEnrise, Joux Joxrs, Jous Crswrorp, Jolut-Committee, Commisefoner Harrison moved to ly the report on the table temporartly. Motion lost by the foowing )t cas—Bogus, Galloway, Harrls, Harrison, Roclle—s. Nays—Ashiton, Clough, Crawford, Jlerting, Jones, Louergau, Palumnan, Russell, Miller—9, The report was then concurred in by the following Y e Ashtan, Crawtond, Hesting, Jones, Taneryis, Pablman, Roclle, Russell, Miller—9, Nays—Bogue, Clongh, 'Gallowey, Harrls, Harrison, Singer—0. MY REASONS FOR YOTING for J. T. Matthews & Co.'s lot, marked ‘4" in Ccmmittee's report, were : Firet, it nas ssid to contain about 10 acres, fronting east on Ashland avenue, a beantiful thoroughfare, with & south front on Twelfth street, which is 150 feet wide at that point. Ashland avenuo baving (or is soon to have) water-main, sewer-main, aud gas- main, which are all essential to a well-regulated hoepital. My second reason was that Mr. Matthews bad agreed to take £138,750 in connty bonds at par, ruomiog twenty yems. This o me was quite on ilem, botieving &s I do that the county will be better able to pay this debt in iwenty years, than it would to pay 190,000 in cash, which wes the condition of 2Ir. Baldwin's property, marked ** 3" in thorepart. Third, the Medical Bonrd spoke highly of the property andlocation, and recommended its purchas While the Matthews property was under distussion, Com- missioner Bogue asked Commiesioner Harrison if the plats of that property were recorded. Commissioner Harrison answered that Le thought not. This was before the voto was taken. ln a day oriwo afterwards the papers criticised the action of the Board in purchasing_tlis property, becanso it was 8 number of lots with streets and alleys running through it, instead of one lut of 10 acres, as I supposed. 'The Medical Board also eent & commurication to the Board recommend- ing the purchase of the Baldwin lot. Immedi- ately I called on Mr. Waller, on Washington street, a veal estato dealer, to secertain whether it was & fact that this property was recorded. Ho assured mo thav it was, and thst the streets could pot be vacated; wupon which I asked Lim to-give me- s dia- gram of the mrcots and alleys. Ho at once called upon his draughtsmsn to draw the disgiam. I went the next day and got it, and cariled it fo Mr, Thompson, member of the Board of Public Woiks trom the West Division, and asked if thosa streets could be vacated, pointing Lim to the two streets that run north and south, e said that they could not if thera was any objection ; that it wes A DIFFICDLT MATTER TO CLOSE BTREETS when onco recorded, I then determined to move a reconsideration ac the next meeting. I, baviug voted in the mnjority, was cutitled Lo mako such mation, nccording to the printed procecdings of the Doard : MoxDAY, Aug. 25, 1673,—Commissioner Jones moved {0 recousider the action of the Board in réltion to the Iocation of the County Hospital. lotioy tustained by the following vote : Yeus—Bogue, Clough, Galloway, Harrison, Jones, Pabimian, Singer, AilierZ-e, Nays—Asbton, Crawford, Harris, Harting, Loner- gan, Lioelle, Rusgell—7. Commistloner Crewford moved that the matfer of site for hospital be recommiticd to the Commiltee, and that they Lave power to locate the eaid hospital in any suftable pluce in the county. Motion sustuined. TIHUS ENXDED THE MATTER ‘with Mr. Matthews so far as tho Board was con- corned. The uext news we beard was thut Mr.. Matthews had commenced » Euit agamst - the stroet, and if we can’t get that I'sm for the Su’an:r'm ~1n:§‘. cither of them. I’ don't carp which. I would ratber have the Baldwin prop- erty, novorthelegs.” This was on'or abput the 23d or 24th of ADril. ; i 3R DALDY.1¥ WITHDREW HIS LOTS on the 2Lat April. I told Commussioner ‘Oraw- ford” that I thougbt we Lad better have a blank in the report, for bo might put lis uhtil the middla of My, wlhien I heard that the Tialdwin propeity weild ba offered to tha county ag8in-ne 800w g6, the-papers could-be-made-and- signed betweon Mr, Baldwin and the gentlemen 1575, * On amiving at the Commi s rooms, I found in the box a communiestion from Wr H:'W: Cusbmsn, offering $o tae'conuty'the- ‘Baldwin lots, upon thae condition that they act at.once npon the subject. I aftached’ his prop- position to the report, and. hearing that the Re- form-School Land bad somo friends in the Board, I prepared a preamble aud resoluiions to offer as a substitute for any motion or resolution that might be offered for sny otner’ pieco of property. Ishowed: my- eubstitute to Commis- tioners Bogue, Clough,-and Looergan, beloro the Board assembled, and told them my inten- tion. Seo the procesdings of the Board of May 18, 1874, pages #3 and 4. TIE LAST REPORT. The Joint Commjttee on Hospital and Putlic Service submitted the following : Your Joint Comumitice on Hospital and Public Serv- ice, to wham were referred sundry propositions aud communications, topether with formes report ro- i committed, baving had the same under sdvisement, beg leave 10 Teport that we bave received propositions for the following described latds, and af the prices an- nexed: (1) 8. E. corner Central Park avenue and Harrison street, 10 acres, $35,000. &) Blocks 9 dd 1o1n Aseescor's Subdiision E. x; S. T. 89, K. 14, 5 acres, $160,0 ) Biock 5. Assessor’s Subdivisiap, KNV X Bec, 19,-T, 39, L, 14, 10 acres, $125,020, (4) Certain fota in Biock 9, Shetlieid’s Addition, (es- timated) 3 acres, $24,000, (5) Wrightwodd's Sec, 6, S. E. 1/ B, W. ¥ R, 14, Lot 1, 10 sicres, $20,000, * Wrightwood's See, 6, S.E. 3 6. W. i, R, 14, both of ate e, 20 acres, £38,000. (6) Block' 5, Canal Trustces’ Subdivision, E. 3¢ Sec, 20,7, 40, B, 14, 20 acres; 200,000, or lalf of xame, with {mprovements, wure:-, suu,nwb. i (T) S 3 Biock 42, Canal Trustees' Sul on, Sec. (8) ‘Ase Sudivision, Sec, 19, T. 39, R. 14, 10 - acren ; $100,000. (9)'Block' 13, N. E, % See. 19, T. 39; R. 14, 10 acres ; $75,000, Block 19, N. E. X Sec. 19, T. 39, R.14, 10 5,000, Block 4, Aseessors’ Subdivision, See. . 14, 10 acres, % of L. 3 S. Eu X 8 E. X Sec. 13,T. 5,000, » R, 137 865,000, (11) Also the proposition of W, L W. Cashman, the prezent owuer of the premises formerly kuown as the Basldwin Blocks, being Blocks 1 and 2 of David ' Cod- wise's Subdivision of the E. 74 52-100 acres” of tho W, of the'S. B, X Sec, 18, T, 39, K. 14, 12 60-160 acres ; §45,000, which'is herewith submitted., postession: of tho Joint Committer, which have been’ recelved since thelr former’ repoct; and whilo your °Jolut Commitice do mot ’desire to recommetd the purchuse of any of tho above tracts reported, or agy one of thosu heretofore ruported, yet tuey do feel called upon, from all the informution tiey bave obtained while having the matter under consid- eration, tourge upon the Doard to take such immo- diate action ‘3e the caso sequires. Your Commitieo would further stato that the differeRt membera of the Committee bave conflictig views as to cheapness and location, and ‘from which difference of opinion it is impossitle for the Joint Committes to make 3 unani- mous report ; We therefore report back td the Board the various propositious, communications, etc., with- out reconsmendution, and ack for further ilstructions, or to ve discharged from the further cousideration of the subject. Ad of which is reajectfully submitted. JoB Joy Jowx Hearixa, Joint Commities of Hospital uini Public Survice, an amendment: Resolred, Thut the purchase of the Fremisesoffered to'this Board for a hospital site,by J. F. Matthews & Co., situuted on the corner of Asblund avenue ana Twelfih sirect, be completed, and that the former action of this Board, of the 181k of August, A. D. 1873, in pur- chwtiug said premisee, be, and ‘the eame s, hereby covfiriued and ratified, and that the County Attorney be directed to examine the eite, prepare and to secure the necessary titie iereto, and, upau complction there- of, the County Treasurer fssus and deliver the amount of said purebiuse in bonds of the caunty, s beretofors provided. Comutissioner Jones eubmitted the followingas s substitute for the wholo matter : ‘WHERELS, 1t is believed that the premises known as tho Baldwin Blocks ure tho best for the purposes in- tended, and can be bad for 3 reasonublo “price, there~ forobe it Aesolred, That the proposizion of tho present owner, V. H. W, Cushman, be sccepled, and that the County> Attorney s bereby instructed to examine and tako the proger iitle to paid remises, and, when completed, to notify the Treasurer of the same, who shall thercupen issue and deiiver the bonds of Cook County to said Cuebman, or order, for the amount of said purchase, exclumve of pccrucd interest, and that they seport thelr actéon in the premiscs t this Board. Adopied by the following vote: Yens=Boguc, Busse, Clough, Iiarris, Herting, John- son, Jones, Lonergan, Boelle—3, Nays—Athton—1. Couimaiesioner Jones moved a reccnsideration of the sole just taken regarding the purchase of groupds for” Hogpital, nsd_moved to 1y the motion cn the table. Motion sustained, THE CHARGE OF BRIBERY. Hero again it will bo scen that the bonds are taken in the place of cash, and that we have twenty years to pay for-the pruperty. Now, eo far a3 bribery is concerBed, I know nothing about it. No person ever offered me s bribe, nor suy insiuation looking in that direction. Every act of mine in tho Board bas been 1m my judgment for tho best interest of the tax-payors and citizens of Cook County. This I believo is truo of every Commiseioner. ‘The county is Dow the owncr of 1214 acres of the most beauti- ful and best Igcated buspital site thut there is 1n the county. 1 am satisfied with my trankac- tions in the hospital lot matter, and am in Liopes that time will vind cate and ratify my judgment in these undertakings. JOHN JONES. G g o TiE. COURTS. Xtecord of Business Transacted Yes- terday. DON'T Go. Barrent YanBuren flled a petition in the Cir- cuit Court asking for a writ of ne exeat against Ferd H. Geutech and Benjamin U. Jacob. Com- plainant states thet in September last be sold to tho defendants s drug-store, contents, and fixtures, in Lewont, for £5,370, Of this amount 2,685 was paid in cash, and notes given for the remainder. ‘The defoudants took possession, and since then have been engaged in selling tho stock, mostly for cash. They have noglected and refused to give any security for the notes,and have lately been making strenuous efforts to dispose of the whole business for $2,900. Complainant has mado repeated endeavors to have a scttle- ment, but upsuccessfully. As the defendants bave made pumerous threats of leaving tho Stato if they can sell their store, and as they are irresponsible, the complainant fears hio may lose bis store and gonds, and also fail to recover any- thing on’ the notes. He thereforo zsked for a ne o3eat to prevent the defendants leaving the State, which was granied under & boud for £3,000. . BANKRUPTCY ITEMS. R. r£. Jevkins was eppointed ‘provisional As- signeo of the estato of Jobn W. Siely. G. W. Campbell was appointed Assignee in the matter of Leon Goldsmith, in ploce of A, P. Rapp, who was removed. ‘L'he proceedings agninst Morris Alpiner were ordered to be dismissed. The proceedings against P. H. Heffron were county, to’compel it to take the Achlaud avenue aid Twelfth streot Iots. Gpon bearing this, the Comuittee thought they would await the result of tho st above mentivned. The real cetace men and the doctors began all along the line to uige the Joiut Comuiitice to purchase other lots.” Our auswer to them was tbat we must wait until the Matthews suit was settied. Thoy all xaid that Matthews had no suit agaivét the county ; that the Board by its rules had reserved the ‘right o 1econsider its action urti £wo businees meetings bad passed by, Be- coming satisficd that the county was not liable, after cousulting with Attorney Rouutreo aud otbkers, they concluded that they would move in tho matte; o Iinvited the Commutiea to meot me scmeo_time sbout the middle of March I think. (You will see that for 1§74 the Committee had beon changed. Tho Hospital Committec at this time consists of John Joues, Jobn Ilerting, snd Jobn Crawford; the Com: mittee on Tullic Service, Jobn Ciawferd, Johu Joues, and Jobn Hertiug, and theeo two com= mittees wero a Joint Committes on Hospital Grounds for1874) The Committes ... INVITED THE DOCTOES to be with them'at this meetnz. Somchow or other this mecting ‘failed to mako connection with'the doctors. The subject of hospital was talked over in the Commitice and out of the Committee by the doctors, real-estate men, and others. Abou: the st of April I said o the Committeo that I wanted tbis Lospital matter seted; that I was tired of 1t. We agreed to malke. our report. I said to Commiesioper Crawford that I thougbt ho bad better make out the report, a3 there was a dufcrence of opuion 88 Lo prica and location. so'he agrecd to make the Teport, and went into Col. Niles' offico to get all the papers npon hospital matters to make Up'the report from. He camo inio the commiltee-room wilh the bundle of papers, and eaidthat’ Mr. Baldwin had " sithdravn bis ot again SaidT, “Isthateo?’ If-ho.puts it in agaia we will fasten it. Mako the reportany. dismisred at petitioner's coats. A discharge was issued to Jokn Larin. In the matter of A. B. Van Cott & Co.. the Asmgnoe filed -n report, stiting that the backrupts’ property was in o very irregular and ill-essorted condition, and that much of it ‘was unsalavle. It wes inventoried at £350,235.38 by the bankrupts, but in bis opinion was only worth, including paiutings and fixtures, $21,994.17. He also anked an. immediate sale, a8 the store, 124 state street, where the bankrmpts’ stock was, is reuting for $6,000 o year. An order was entered by stipulation sllowing the Assignoe to advertiso for bids untii the 25th inst, SUPERIOR COURT IN DRIEF. Dane, Westlnko & Covert began & smit in attachment azainst David Hough for $1,835.2. S. I. Russell commenced a suit for $2,000 against S. Gardner aod 9. B. Gardner. 2. D. Fay eucd Frederick Hassold and Charles Trapp for $2,000. XKetlogz & Johnson sued John Norcutt, Issac Frazer, and Hugh Maher for $1,000, August Held began an action in trespass againit Frank Guadries, laying damages at ¥. G. Whitooy sued Chatles Fend: for $1,000. Dr. Mary Fights, From the Washinaton Republican. Dr. Mary E. Walker returoed to tho city last night in the 11:50 train from her recent bootless trid to Philadelphia in connection with the Ross abduction case, On siepping from the plat- form rhe Leard two men who were standing by ‘make some humorous of insulting remark about ber, 'aud’at once procceded to rebuke themin the most approved 'style with her umbrells. ‘This, of course, did pot_exacuy suit them, but rather than retaliate in kind they retreated. The conductor eoon- went to- tho rexcuc, and snc- bid fn agatn. Tho subject Liers remaimied quiot he had ‘soid to. The rcport “had. been made - out and was .in_tue Commitice's" box.. Tho DBoard met Afonday, 1 Tho ‘above-are’ all the propositions mow in the | Comnussioner Johnson submitied the following ‘a8 | SPORTING; NEWS, Review of theN Events of tho Week: “O'Leary Will Try It Again. " THE TURF. “TEOTTING WoDE) prolific af wonderful trattigg performances. : In- pace alargernumberof astonishing atcurrancos than could be found by scarching the annals of ‘all previops turf ‘events.- Déginnjug-at Cleve- lani, the trotters wero ‘*cut- loose” for the first timo. this seagon, ond that meeling was signalized by some of the finest sport ever witnessed.. DBaffalo followed mext, and fornished three itherto unparalleled achievements—those of Goldsmith ‘Maid in 2:16}4; of Bed Claud in 2:19, and of the 6 year old maro Fleaty. Golddust in -2:20. These were the chief events in the most.successful meeting over held in Buffalo. But it remained for Rochester to carry off’ the bhonora.- [t was tho inaugural meoting of a new track and a new asgociation, and the prestige gained- adds one- more to the list of great trotting centres. Here it was that Goldsmith Maid beat her Buflalo time three-quartors of & second, making a mile ‘in 2:143{, * Then Mambrino Gift, a Western borse,-trotted in 2:20, beating Smuggler's time sat Buffalo, and making the fastest stallion time on record. ‘The groat surpre of all was yet to come. This was the 2:20 race, in which Red Cloud, Gloster, Heury, Camors, Seusstion, Ga- zelle, and St.' James' were entered—tne finest ficld eyer gatbered togetber inone raco. Red Cloud was & strong lavorita with the betting men, his performances at Buffalo making im as oue of the invincioles. ‘These caiculations wero complotely upset by the great horia Gloster, the biggust trotter in the world, * now _eight years old, and standing 173/ bands high. He trotted the fasteatdwo, three, and four beats on record. The first was a dead beat between Red GCloud and Gloster in 2:18, while the second, third, and fourth heats wore made, respectively, in 2:1737, 2:17, and 2119, T8 far garpasses aoy time ever made by Gold- south Maid in consecutive heats, and euritles Gloster to rank a King of the Trotting Turf, as he has not only beaten Dexter's fastest. record, but hay’ shown a combination of speed aud ent durance heretafore unegualed by any horse. The grand chain of trotting events ends this week at Springfeld, Mass., where all the fest ones will congrezaté, and where some exciting events may be expected. THE FASTEST RUNNING TIME for one mile on record was made ut Saratogs, last Friday, by Alr. Belmont’s Gray Plauet, in & raco against time. The mile was tun in 1:4214, beating, by 8 quarter of a wecond, the fastest wile recorded, that of Alsmi, 1:123f, at Saratoga, July 17, 1872, We are not informed whether Gray Planet carried tho prescrived weight for ago, but presume -be ¢jd. In case hus weight was' lesa than that required by rule, the horso would not've entitleu to the credit of the fastest mile on record. TIE PACES AT MENDOTA begin Tueeday, to continia four days. The track is uew, and the Association recently orgau- ized, and po effort will be ypared to give the en- terprise a first-class send-off. From the high claraeter sud pranding of the officers of the rociation, iv wiil be safo to predict a well-con~ ducted and highly successful mécting. THE SARATOGA BACES. BARATOGA, Aug. 15.—The weather ia benutifal, and the actendance at the races is very large. The track 18 1n excelieut condition. The first race was for & pursé of 3500, dis- tance 13 miles. Eight horses started—Madge, Lizzio Lucss, Fadlaueen, Ids Wells, Sallie Wat- son, Saracen, Piccolo, and Governess. Madge was the favorite. Lizzie Lucas took the léad at the start, and kepl it to the tbree quarter pole, when Yiccolo went to the front aud. won tho race by a length, Lizzie Lucas sccoud, and Fadladeen third. Time, 1:56. The recond raco wasfor a purso of $600, distance 13/ miles. Tlhere weie only three starters,—Catesby, Gal- way, and B. F. Garver. The race seemed to be between Galwayand Carver untd the home- stretch was reached. when Catesby shot ahead and won by three lengthe, Galway coming in sec- gz;)d_,, eix lengths in front of Carver. Time, 10737 The third race wss a hurdle-raco, 2 miles, overeigut burdles. Tho starters were Georgo West, Mary Clark, Daylight, and Vesuvins. West led afmost from the starr, and won tho rece by two lengths, Daslignt and Mary Clark coming in side by eide. Tume, 3:55}; BASE BALL. THE CEAMPIONSHIP RECORD has undergone no materisl change diring the weel, the only games played being those between the Philadelpnias and }Imfyrds. The Jlutuals still stand third on the List, and tho White Stockiugs fourth. The following is a revised end corrected tablo of the games played forthe championehip, up to date: ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Frankline and Garnets play their first match for the Northwestern championship Tues- day, at the grounds corner of State and Twenty-~ third sirects. The Frauklins aud Athletics play at the same place Thursday. A mateh game of base ball is arranged between tho Kennicott and Gun Clubs, 4 THE WIUTE STOCKINGS AT PEORIA. Special Dispatch to I'he Chicago Tribune. Promia, Iii., Aug. 15.—The White Stockings, of yourcity, plaved an exhibition game here to- day with the Peoriae, of this city. The score stood 87 fo'7 1 favor of the White Stockings. On Monday there is a matc arranged between the Socials and White Stockings, both of your city, which will draw cat a large crowd. —_— THE TRIGGER. LOCAL NOTES. The tournament just closed at Dexter Park was the most successful ever held in America, both in tho attendance from all parts of the country, and in the average rate of the shooting. The Gun Club felicitato themselves upon the fact that five prizes in the tournament-were cap- tured by their members—two by Mr. Wilcox, nod ong each by Messrs. Edwards, Tarrill, and Stagg. The Keonicotts were ecarcely so for- tunate, but they, too, have reason to be proud of their record. A special mecting of the Gun Club will be beld Tuesday ovenmz noxt at Lalf-past 6 o'clock, at No. 43 South Clara street. —_— PEDESTRIANISM. i O'LEADY WILL TRY AGAIN. Some time ago 3ir. D. O'Leary, an amatour pedestrian of Chicago, successfully accomnlish- ed the attempt to walk 100 miles in” fwen- ty-four comsccutive hours.. He is mow con- fident that he - can make 105.- miles within twenty-four hours, and has wagered $1,000 that he will do it, against a similar snm ventured by a Ar. Cernoou the chances of bis failure. Frank Agoew is the sfakeholder, and Ald. Tom Foley, Maj. Moore, Jobn B. Rocle, Capt. D. F. Gloazon, and J. E. Tansey have con- eented toact as judges. Mr. O'Leary will be- gin tho atiempt at 9 o'clock on_the moming of the 213t inst., ab thé West Side Rink. o AQUATIC. THE' BROVN-EADLER MATCH. Hiurax, N. 8, Aug. 15.—A dispatch from Sadler, the Engleh champion sculler, announces his acceptance of Brown's challenge. The race will tako plice io October, ou™ the River Bans, at Coleratae; Ireland, Value of the Watermelon Crop, The watermelon crop is getling to be an ag cultaral featuro of some impartaace in Georgia The returus in tho Tax-Leceiver’s oflice. show that thiere are 1,201 ncres devoted to tus cultiva- tion of this fruil n Richmoud County alone, Al- ceeded in convincing tho irate littlo doctor that sbe was decidedly wrong in thus takiog the law iuto her own .bands, and that it might be the wa¥. Iwill gofor the Hicks lot on Twelfih mcans of getting her into trouble, lowing 460 melon to the acre,—a very low esti- i The past:four weeks:haye hecn remarkably. doed, - there hava been crowded into thia short- ‘molon-cre como of Ri E50,000, Tt nuny aiee ;33:1°';’[,",~!‘u,“,‘:"'3!u o8 carried amay from Savanmats week 16,000 melons for the New l‘::k 06 day mlth’f‘ BUTLER AS A pog, Two *Sonnets on Character» bér“for Essex. JONN" OaLVLY.: - - When angry zealots bodst of Caliin’ rus- Or ot bia mem’ mmnnf'flm'h:.hd rey. 6 8peak—and they consptry casontza bls nages Say that hie clothes in 100 austy “The ascred doctrine of the Chrte S nathe shares the pii “his g ¢ :nd stands unmoved 1 P Biall spocks Like thess forbi e (e dly W:‘he brightest’ en Europe, waking from Shiook o he inctbun of Pipalyiesct (2% Helvetia, Holland, Britain, angwer - Notw And frorh oudr own broad-iand the ike e % ot o g, PENX. -, Fearleas of.ecarn, of bouds, The teu Franty w Of thought ind conscience, such d B ;x:lc&n;l_‘:bb&?km;n seeking weaith or fage: And if with them gray, mingled pe." ¥ “T7us lovo to mhun, rasparens For mn-h of error may 1ndulgeicy 03 fnercyn etrand fo the Weaters Wios e statesmun comes, and "next) & Tacing the savage by bis “&flil‘fhhh& Reary a'fair howo for Lave aml Liberty, Faith, Juw tice, Peace, its s Pratecting b % OB, sttame to'man !~ Alone this Buls efangs~ —Demacratic Review for October, 1841: -~ sl e UL FOREIGN MARKET it ot M h o of Mg arkes for 3 months” bilis -16 por coat Leiow the Bunk are woenetlh bl suall salos a0d uncusaged prices ; cousat; aged pr i for on account, Ui ; “dss, MY e et A5 mew 53, 043¢, Sew Yor Gy 26 0% 53 401 S Yozt Crog o Livenroor, Aug. 15.—Cotton i midduing upfind, $5@32;d ; mg%“;;-?“ o, i Saled, 10,000 Luucst specnlilioniag s 200 1,000 bales; Amurican 0,200 buzes, { osury Breadstusfs—Dall, ZLard—ls 6. Redined petrilow 9%@1L —_— MEV/ ‘YORK PRODUCE HMARKEY," NEW Youk, Aug. 15— i boten§ oo Splad, Cprr¥ Qul g, 3 17 e A\c'let receipis, lfilmg ;. gross,’ m“‘h:a. ul losed easy ; 2 i 15 fl'_-c'-"m-w%‘f A 15 2132815 111 20 5 = SUSL.75 5 exira o, 7207 L Lows, 35,509,235, _ Kyetour dud o Cornineal iru uf 3473425, Wuear pts, 25,000 bit; NO. § Aluwiuges, in ' 3 No.3 Lsi@GL4 5 Dew ambe 5 wudte Western, t store, $1.35, Ksadud Bariey nomunal.” Malt dud dhd : ol G fulr demigad ; Teceipts, 52500 3 Wostern 1 “?&l: Bise; pigh mized wud yellow Westers, tlushycr wiite WeaierD, Yo)e. Uats heavy zew mized Westerd, § Hax—Unchanged. Hors—Finu, GBoCELLE—CoTeo -unchanged. - Gugar: g e v e B Molusses aull and unchanged, Hucs uncuangg, PETROLEUN—Steady ; crude, 5c; rebuea e, | ULFEST Quiet AL 354 (@i L 4 Ets—¥irm ; Veestern, 1ij, ee10e YUOVISIONo—Furk dwil; Liéw nives,§2]) TeCel e, o, Lu) Tdte do, ouggie, fi?mu s e, ;ufi:s. gum:uuqn[a mfl% - m; longciear, 1{@Le Lagtprie ges S oy @ it ez, , BUTIER—Firm; TWestern, 20@20c L CHEESE—SIead} 5 CONuUL 1. prime; 108 VinlekrQuet and unieranged at gD, Merass — AManuiactured —copger - yomioaly sy eheatuing, 0ole; 0go: Like heavy ut Ihaidye, Y1 wrou—Scowa quies and steady ot S50,V Awertcan qull ot =l —_— ILLINCIS & WICHIGAN CAUAL. Brwereory, L., Au; SinvED—Mornizg Ligit, Otuawd, 550’ bu corn ; Tiiounna - Sedut; -dlie bendes, 6,500 it corn ; “Tuduelry,” Moreis, 4. corn ; Contest, Aforrs, 4,500 ou cory §-lvncus, Locks 1ort, 59 bu corn; 300 LI Gate, 400 brls flour.' - | BHIDGEPOKT, ' A, 15~ p. . —CLEAYED_Mapy Leat, Joiet, 59,97 Tt Tawber; Mercaddt,” Disie, 1t e m fles 5 Oulaua, ofords, 4 ¢ Jouet, Ortawa, 85,065 1t “{utabe 5 1 130" saio- gles : Hovert tlounes, Ouawa, 83 w ufiver; Lududiry, AMorris, 85 m lumier | Jeunie, LaSilie; 85508 1Tl ber ; G. L. Bootl, Utlaws, 54,03 ¢ lrtives, MARRIAGES. CTOGKRUE T n oy 8 T BT s A it 5 B G L oGpeods £~ Buston ad Fiyiwouta (Mass.) pipers pieasa copy. . DEATHS, ® :IN—Aug. 15, Solomon Fouly,. wa of e U weexs. " ot; ¥unday moraing —On tho morning of the I5th fart., Charey V. F.ana fos A7 Wilss, VILSOX Joe, romaigiog twia son, uf aged 1 year, 4 rioutns, aad 33 du Funeral at 175 Vayton street, bundsy, at 20 p. m. SCHW ARTZ—At Ocenomowoc, Wis., Adg. 13,0t diph- thena, Lily, ‘only chiid 01 Cusries 2ad Alacy Souwartds- gou T y0ns; Notico oz fanera! in Mondax's paper. MAYNARD—AT Ka daughter of Heary C. moatus aad 3 days. FOLEY—Aug. 14, John Patrick, infant son of Willism* and Anle Foivy, aged I montus, 4 Funeral by carfizgua at 11 o clock to-day, from 371 Cath- anine atreer. g 2 Wis., Aug. 15, Maod, fafsat @ Helta i Migosrd, seed 4 Frivuds ar6 invited t. LOST AND FOUNRD. Bunnmmzab—xufismn REWARD WILLBE paid t any ono retarming the asticlos takon frommy E-mlL‘. o9 ’ME‘ALB .lnun‘s-w.\::. No qne;n;mr m“ Communicate with me eitner in persua ur by ledter atd ‘West Randolph-st. W. W. BAKER [ISTRAY OR STOLI AUG. 15, 1511, A BOB-TAIL surrel horse, abont 153 bands bigh, sod very old, A Liberal sewaxd will bt pzid for rotara Lake-ot. Uaras, 163 404 7,0 West Lako-s BrUW: & [PYUSD-AN OVERCOAT ONWES 3 Uiaet caa have same by proving prupacly aod payizg tor advert{ezment. Address 265 West Monroe-st. [JOUND-TWO ESTHAY HORSES ON AUG. “ono black, the otasr eorrel, 'Iha wnar can bive 3210 by appiying sU179 West ighteonti-st. 057 ORt STOLEN—ON FRIDAY EVENING, THE ih inst., a smail black-nad-tan dog, with s scarca Bis snouider, from 3lrn. (. BROUILLER, Any permm roturaing the same 1o 95 Kive Islazd.ar., or ginag- mler- wmation where bo cad be toand, will be well rewardod. OST-ON THE LTI OF JUCY, AT THE GREAT b naclor chalr baiougiz e S8 e uij‘l‘lrm plifl h;n.mh:wnuum aaved. - 315 reward State: s ©ST—ON MONDAY, A HORSE AND WAGON, Corner of LaScilo'and Lakests: o bay horse, whita pose, luny, black tail, short-cut maze, one sparla oo g OR TUESDAY MORY- un’zu;kA h_cladcd:‘hull;; LIGHT MEO RINO, (4 ou the North or South § . Tho hndfl!\llufl-fl‘? agrea favor by loaving it au 4 Pock-oomrt, ____— a la pocketbook, cotal s of L a0d Hintynes of velng b6 the awner, Koo to 5 Ve Washingtun-et. OST-ON TRE 1o 10y addruss, usolul to 0o o but Llo OwDET. dp. L. B. rovardod by ‘a8t OST-AUG. 11 VR and receivo reward. NTH INST., fimfi’@i 455 g s retad for tho retura LUKY, No. 123 West Kandulph-st. abl. warded by addressing. FPACIFID OST—AUG. P. BETWEEN THE PA .T) Hotel aud the curner of Fifth-av. and .\hn‘flwb-_;:fi aladies” cluster risg. The finder yill 0 i value by learing san0 at 23 South 05T FULLY ADDEESSED receip's, ehdeks also X Ed; ::;: ashu LS';chhnd. o u:c:'gwan- bat owa ez ‘Iwenty-second-at. ddreesbitwentysecublale 10 BEWARD-BAY NOBSE, VOB uartar crick on foro nigh foot, scat 00 845 1LAIAN, 210 South Waterst. wro. B & LAST, 1y SOUTH 0N, A i it Ue m!nrkodunxuidgd‘l‘u-éugl;;’:d ta:ning a simall amoat of CLrEREY, KO 3 125 of yalae to owner oniv. Fiader pleaso e 0 117 and 119 Ko tai OST—-AUG. 4, 4 abesred behind, Easy 2 AT 000, A WWHITE ESQUIMAUL Tray 01l b0 paid for Bl rords oaday- . Tac atat 131 Souta F of ‘b U, saperianm Cnlergo. L STUSED-FLIBAY, MK E s Sl L., 2 2 estnu 2y 2 51?2’ £ i b pald for hex setara w FERFRS” o €rax0,00 Thursday Iast, a palr of croam oolor” ot by, yollow gair,aad harasi BT ¢ Do et Ay “": s, dhich 20702 T e ox 12 g 5 of tho ey gron oy chiet st QTRAVED—FROM CORNER O 3 2 Walshar, Lake View " hattor CARBIED mate,—and we bave s. total product of 450,04, One-half of this smmenso number is consumed inthe North. ~At15 cents apiece the annual HE_G] Wilo - CA :L;lllmhflvgl ]h'ei'{x fi";l’! 4#:&"’,:1‘21;:‘ i o it o e Fa5 0 15 808 158 Michigaa-ar. -OSCAL ) BY the ey, NasLo—Unclisngea'; cline, §5.50@5,50; horsetn ‘ nomiail. TN ' 5= (=g | Ki= Al ! ! S AV E T ] GG T A Bt B B AL < AT Lt - Ot PR 1T P B