Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1874, Page 4

e e e e e oo it s et et e e e a CTHE CHICAGO DAILY TRYBUNE. WEDNESDAY: AVGUST 19, 18740 —*m TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. MATEA OF KUNSCRIPTION (’I"A'A'ILI ™ ADYANOE), Paily, Iy .$12,00)] Bunda 4 RO Hmevorade 11 KA 5:00 TArta ol & year at tho same rate, To prevent delsy and mistakes, be garo and wive Port 91 ce addres In (i, including State and Conntry Hewalttauces may bo made althor by deaft, exprass, Toat Obice oiden, e registerod Jnioie, at aur risk, TERMA TO CITY SULACTHIIEHA, Tativ, delivarcd, Sunday oceontod 35 conts per wook. ik, dohverud, Bunday inchudod, 20 conis per wusk. THE TRIBUNR COMPANY, 4., Uliioagoy 11l Adurees Coror Badison and Doarborn S ———— TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIORER'S THEATRE—Mndison streod. botwoon Donrborn snd Btate, ** Civilization." ACADRMY OF MUSIO—Halatod atroot, hotweon Mad- faon and Monroo, Kngagomont ot Bobumann's Transat- Aantio Novelty Compauy, ITOOTEY'S THRATRE—~Raudolph stroot, botwoon Clark and fiaSalla, ‘Yne Uroat adolphl Uompsny. Min- stralsy, Faroe, and Varloty, SOCIETY MEETINGS, RDFN OITY TODAN, No, W1, A, F. & A, M.— TRt of Gedon Gity Lol e horoby natiiod o usalac ol Letconam, Oental WS sl O o Aug, . ot T A s dmia Splurs. Drothren of slstor Lodgos d, ieatornallynvicod toattent, o " oy o B — e “EUSINESS NOTICES. A*COMPLETE STOOK OF THE VERY BREST ét -l 1d-glnssog, oo, b neles e of HENTETON, o 19 Stato-st, cornor Washington. P e The Chicags Teibune, Wodnosday Morning, August 19, 1874, Poor Mr, Hawley. Mo will not sit in the Forty-fourth Congress, The County Conven~ tone aiready hotd in bis district havo refused, with onorgy nlmost malicious, to inatruct dale~ gates in his favor. ——— L. U. Roavis has a call out for a Capitsl- moving conveation to bo held at Louisville woxtmontl. It ia o safo prediction that Mr. Raavis will hold all the officos in that conven- tion, and bo the audionce bosides. Attontion i directod to a call published olse- whero in thia paper for a Convention to consider tho formation of s National Sportsman’s Asso- ciation. Nisgara Falls is namod a8 tho placo of mooting, and Sopt. 9 ns the time, The objects of tho proposed Association aro snfliciently ex-~ plained in tho call. We can hoartily commond them to tho carnost consideration of gontlomen sportymon throughout the country. Wo print this morning & éard from Mr, Wash- Ington Hosing In soply to cortain published stato- monts {hat hio was no longer o candidate for the nomination for Congress by tho Opposition par- ty. Mr. Hesing ovows his purpose, it nominat- ad, to mako tho canvaes of the Third District, £nd takes the oceasion of this note to stato hig viowa upon certain publio queations. Bazaine's cacape was not horole. Ho scalod 1o boetling procipices and breasted no raging geas. Soma pleces of goldin tho honds of his guarda did what pereonnl valor would have at- tompted in vain. The prisoner walked out of doors and to tho boat which carriod jhim away with ns littlo trepidation as.would havo besot “im in eating™ good dinner. It wag all oleverly waunged, no doubt, but the manuer of it was v gar onough. Evon Rochofort did Detter. ——e————— Thero is some prospoct of fighting between the black and white people of Bouth Caroling, -and the white men of eorgis sro proparing to join in tho couflict. Too much clbsrity caunot bo extended to the whito mon of Bouth Caro- ling, £0 long =8 thoy stop short of bloodahed, except in self-dofonso; when thoy do otheriise, they will mnko a fatal mistake, and ono that will ationnto sympathy from thom faster than it can vo manufactured by any conduet of the hlacke. Ivis yek too soon to say thiat all the legal mosns of redrowe for the white men in Houth Carolina have boon oxbhausted, The murder of Mr. Nathan is not 8o bonorable « thing, oven whon viowed from the standpoint of o villuin, that wo should cxpact spurious por- petrators of the act to turn up in all parts of tho country ; yot such has been tho case. The man at Bluowington who haseatered tholast claim for recognition as the real murderor has been proved & swindlor two or threo times over, aud still he porsists. Wo noticed on Sunday morning that bis first story bad been utterly rejected by the New York polica; now ho has another sccount of himsolf, which will probably share tho same fato. If tho ruscal reolly wishos to bo hauged, ho can doubtless be accommodated by tho peo- yte of Bloomington after ho Las imposed upon thir patience u fow daga longor. In this morning's fssuo of Tux TRIBUNE ia printed o copy of tho call jssued by the Demo- eratic Stato Committeo for a Convention to be bold ut Soringfiold, Aug. 26, 1874; and also tbo eupplemontai call, signed by & numbor of othor atizons, formerly of tho Ropublican, Liberal, aind oblicr parties. Among the eignaturos will Lo found the names of distinguiskod and repre- gontativo Gormans residing in all paits of the Blate, who, ugon the broad lssue of a sound na-~ tionul ou raney and the socisl freodom of the sitizen, placo thomsolves in plain and direct hos- tility to tho Republican party, Lottors and other {nformation from all parts of Illinois show that tho Gormans as o body bave abandoued the Re- publican party, and are willing to unitoe with any pariy that favors placing the public credit upon 1 upecio basis, “The Charloy Ross oxcitoment has seizod the poopto of Odol, IH., whoro a child answoring in somo rowpoets to tho doseription of tho lost one bas been found in the keeping of a bard-looking gentloman from Philadalphis, Tnquiryhas beon mudo by telograph of Mr. Ross, and the opinion vow s that the child is not Charloy, but the man wiy Lo one of kis abductors. Iudeed, it scoms as 1f nothlng too sovore could be esid of the euspected man, He mny have stolon tha Ttove okild, or he may be distinguished for a thousand other crimes, and no virtues at all feis u littlo soon, however, to pass judgment upou him. ‘T'he dangor of confounding peronal with maral deformity in such casos {8 vory great. ‘Yo uglinoss of his featurcs and Ianguago is not certaln evidenco that the man in custody at Quell ever abducted anytbing more valuablo than Laudkerchiofs and overcoals, ‘Tlio Chicago produce markots wore woll at- L2l youtarday, with rathor moro doing. Moss pork was quiet and & shode firmer, closing at &2 75 eanh, and $10,00@10.05 soller the yoar. Lurd was in modorate domand, and flrm at £15.00 for Soptombor, nud 311,00 sollor tha year, Meyts woro quiet and frmor, ot B}@8o for shoulders, 11¥§@115gc for short ribs, 113@ 120 for short cloar, and 18}@183{c for eweot~ pickled hams, Highwines woroquict and atoady, at 970 per gallon, Lako froights were quot apd firm, ¢ 8o for orn 1o Bufialo, Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was mors sative, and 1o lower, closing at $1.01 eash and 070 sollor Boptomber, Corn was moro aotivo and 5¢o highor, olosing at 00 onal, sud G63§@0530 sol- lor Hoptembar. Onty woro losn active aud fgo Tighor, olosing at 770 cash, and B6%@3063(0 follor Reptombor. Ryo way in fair demand, and fieowe, closlog at 73@72!¢o. Lrloy way activo and wenk, closiug ut 83 for' Soptember, On Baturdny ovening Inst- thero waa in storo in thin olty 020,001 bu whent, 563,607 bu corn, 172,000 bu oats, 24,952 bu ryo, and 24,010 bu barloy. Hogs wero lower, tho decline averaging 10c. Bolos at @6.60@8.06. Cattlo wero quiot and woak for common, but flrmer for choico. Bheop doolined 250, —— A Now York journal devoted to the intorosts of tho Cathollo Church has published what pur- porta tobe correspondenco bobwoon Admiral Polo, lato Spanish Ministor to tho United Btates, and Uils Home Governmont, in respeot to a vory doll- oate nogotiation with Germany. The subatanco of it {s that Gormany had sagreed to aid 8pain aa ngoinst tho Cerlists in consideration of a lien upon tho Tsland of Porto Rico, and Admiral Polo waa roquostod toascortain the viewsof tho United Statos on tho proposed transfor of propriotorship i tho leland. Tho Admiral is Baid to hayoro- fused his good offices, and to havo rosigned forthwith. Tho whole story nocde authentics- tton,~—ucods it 8o much that spoculation on the frota slloged would boidle. The United States would donbtless be vory unwilling to allow tho cossion of any American soil by & weak despot to o strong ono, If tho question should ever aomo up for sorions conaideration, tho potency of the Gorman voto might bo domonstrated to the satisfaction of tho curious. Tho now Conatitution recently drafted by tho Convontion called for that purpeso in Obio was submitted to o voto of the peoplo yesterdsy. All tho roturna thus far recoivod indicato that it was rofooted by & small majority. Bosidos tho main ipetrument, threo propositions woro sub- mittod to bo.voted on soparatoly, the object of this plan being, of courso, o allow an opportu- ity of rojecting thom without endangering tho wholo work of tho Convention. Thoso. threo propoeltions rolated to minority ropresoutation, the grantiog of rallrond-aid bouds by loeal gov- ornmonts, and the licansing of the liquor-trafile. It is a condition to tho approval of tho acparate propositions that tho Constitution shall bo adopted. To vate for any ono of thom, thore: foro, and against the Constitution, is solf-stuiti- fication ; yot it appeara thiat this waa oxnotly tho courso that recommeudod itsolt o tho intelligont freomon of tho baok counties, So tho liconse ‘proposition is casried by o vory bigmajorily, and the Constitution is probably defeatod. Tho fate of iho Constitution will be gonerally regretted by thougbtfnl mon in Obio. Tho one so- rions objection to it appears “to bo that tho Convention was composed mainly of lawyers, and for this renson attached undue importance to tho Judiciary articlo and to the parts of other soctlons which rolated to practios in the conrts. Tho work of the Con- vention in this respect was axceedingly woll done, and tho final failure of it all bofore tho paoplo ia due mora to & want of vulgar appeal to proju- dices than to any absenco of consciontious mo- tives. The Convention held two very long sossions, Bofore jta labora woro finished tho people bogan to suspect that 8o much could not bo dono without s good denl of mischicf, and tho rosnlt has beon tho rejection of itall on gonoral prinoiples. It is doubtful if tho pooplo will not now bo entisflod with amendments of tho old Constitution, TILTON AND BEEOHER. These two men, who bhaye beou known fo the intellectual world for a long time, have, during e Jast threo months, boen thrown into counter~ poige, and in that position have boon exhibited to the world in almost every concelvablo attitude. Afr. Boccher precoded Mr. Tilton by & score of yoars., When Tilton was bomn, Beecher was lonving college ; whon Tilton was married in 1855, Beochor had attained celobrity as s writer, prencher, theologian, and editor. Mr. Tilton had by this time won distinetion ns = man of letters and a8 a journalist ; but ‘so wide was the differ- encoin ago that, when Theodore and Elizaboth woro united in marriage, tho ofliciating minister was justitied in addressing them as his childran, who had grown up under his o5o and under his ministorinl care, Mr. Boochor was precocions, As a scholar and o preacher ho soon won distnction. When bo went to Dicoklyn, Theodore Tilton was & boy, ‘but ho oxhibitod o dogreo of prococity that was ‘equal to that of his more advanced friend. Beecher waa colobrated no loss o8 an aditor than ag a preacher ; and the maturing youth in tho oftico was fast attaiing an equpl excollienco, oveon though unknown. Tn time the boy bocame the mon; his wae the active mind that sent forth, weok aftor. wook, tho stlrring appesla which rousod the long dormant anti-slavery dontimont of the nation. The great editor was ‘pushed on by his nutivivg and as yet, unknown assistant, until both editor and paper had takon the front rank in tho grest religious crusade against Slavery, and had a famo aa widesproad a8 tho English tongue, Tilton, o8 an assistant, bad wou o reputation for Boechor aud tho Inde- pendent, both of whom ho hnd forced far in ad- vance of anything thoy ad anticipated. In timo, Boechor, full of editorinl lonors, surrondored the papor, and tho roal editor, who hatl carnod for it its roputation, was adinitted to tho Lonors aswell a6 tho omoluments of Lia Inbor. Thonco- forth thoro was s rivalry betweon tho two mon, —nuknown perhaps to either, but nevertheless a rivalry that was to know uo onding, and which has gone ou uutil ono now “sits on the ragged edgo of romorse and despair,” and tho othor stands Lefore his once-adwmiring countrymen thé pitiablo and ruined viclim of domestio sorrow sod desolation. The Independent got along without the name of Mr. Boechor, and, for the flrst timo, perhaps, thore cropt into Mr, Becchor’s mind the thought that this man Tilton bad shown tho world that a Bocahior was not essential to all tho purposoes of creation. Ou tho other hand, Tilton was up among the atars. Ile was young, and bad already won & most enviablo roputution, Ho was recognizod ovorywhoro throughout the land as amoug the foromost of tho mon of lotters; he wae in tho recoipt of o largo snlary; ho was sought after by all clasees of wocioty, and gifted with o mind that lost nono of its froshness and vigor becauso of the draughts upon it, Tilton was iu the hoy- day of youth, with a most brilliant future bofore him, whilo Beocher, alroady counting his graud- children, was passing onward to the climacterio, The ono hiad just bogun the necont of the ladder, but with a grasp and step that gavo promiso of guccess, 'Tho othor was taut roaching the top, whonce the descont would soon have to begin, Thua the two porsons stood in thelr relations to ono anvther, whon arose tho stonn that was to wreok them Loth, Theodore Tilton hod marrled & wife who kLad, 88 & momber of Plymouth Church, worahiged Lior God and her pnator at the same timo. Mr. Boochor waa not thus ombarrassod, Tilton had established wifo and childron in & homo that Iins been ploturod as a vory bower of lovo, pootry, song, pence, &nd hnppincss, Into this Lomo had boen born children, between whom and their wother the poet father divided his liopos, ambitions, and dolighta, To pay for this lomo, ho dovoted four montha of labor every yoar leoturicg. For four years ho left home, wifo, childron, and all, to go tho woary round, to gathor dollara to make that home s freo oo Upon his roturn from ono.of thoso midwintor travols, tho wifo was troubled § in timo sho ro- voalod that, long bofore, bor dovotion to bor paetor and his importunity had resulted in thoir joint sin; and, having rovoaled thls, firat ob- faining & promise that no violonco should bo visitod upon lor docoivor, sho ‘loft the house, subjoct to bor husband's reeall. Tiying to closo his oyea to tho blight that had fallon upon all o hold denr in lfo, this man donied 7ier guilt, catled hor baok, and tried to make the old home what it.once had boen. . ‘Whilo this strugglo was going on; whilo this mau's beart was bloeding; whilo hio was endeav- oring by hard labor to edit two papers that ho might bo botter able to provide for hisflock, Mr., Boocher was advlsing that wite to leavo bim, and wag 1aboring to hiave him dismissed from his employmont and loft without the meaus of sup- pork. Whon Tilton was informed by hls em- ployer that Boecher bhad dovounced him for im- morality, ho wrota that note telliug Deechor to leavo Plymouth Church. “This was tho.doclara~ tion of war. That night Doocher felt tunt ho Liad the powor of a giant, and proceedod to use it. That night he porsuaded Bowen to dismiss Tiiton from all his employment. The triumph wos a short ono, Within twenty-four hours of Tilton's dismisenl, Boochor was himsol? on bis knoos, ‘dictating messsgos of apology aund kindnoss, prayors for mercy and forgivenoss, to tho man whom, two nights bofore, o had de- nouncod to Bowen as a dorauged madman given ovor to freo-loveism, From that first day of January, 1871, to tho prosont time, Theodore Tilton bhas struggled with all mannor.of violesitude ; hna been reduced to pecuniary want and sufforing ; has permitted himsolf to bo treated lke a dog by Boeoher, by Bowon, by the Woodhulle, by overy man and woman, by every Bohomian stipendiary of Plym- outh Oburch and its followers; and all this humiliation to save thio name of the mother of his littlo girls. How has he beenrequited? Tho woman who confossed sho loved her pastor in 1868 so intensely aa to betray bor husband, even whilo frantically protosting that buman languago was too poor to expross hor affection,—this wom- an, in 1874, when that husband was forced to n doath-struggle with his onomy, again botrasyed him, and, under tho shelter of the man sho had proclaimed to be her seducer, donounced hor busband 58 » liar and o forger. This is the record of thess twomen. They are both objects of pity. Tiy aro both wreoked. Noither can again {ill the measurs of creditable distinetion bo Les filled in tho past. Booolor has orushod Tiltdn, but in his fall Tilton has unvelled & deformity in Beccher which Boccher's statoment, even if true, does not disguise, A theory has been sdvanced by Mr. Boecher and his frionds that it was Tilton's euvy which led him to desteoy his own home fn order 6 drag Beecher down. This is revolting and inconceivable. But has not Becchor confessed that he was instrumental in depriving Tilton of his means of support, after Tilton's wife had confosaed thatebe had boon soduced by Beecher? Tako thom aa they stand beforo tho world to- dsy,—Tilton having suffored four yoars of un- spoakable agony to Bparo his wifo's roputation, and Boecher having striven during that timo to drive Tilton to want,—and who can hesitate where to placo tho laurel; who can doubt whero tbo tnumph i8 as betwoen the two; whocan question winchis thonoblor, Beecheor or Tilton ? “The rolations we have traced all romsin the same whether Mr. Beecher was Mrs. Tilton'sse- ducer or not; for Tilton belioved him to be, on his wifo's confeasion, and Beocher know that he wasa charged with it. B . MORE TAXES, The famous - *Town - Boards” of North Chi- eago, South Chioago; and West Chicago have bogun again, They have hold meetings, aund have discovered that theso ** towns " ara largely in debt. Theso dobts consist of town orders, issyed by tho Town Boards for oxtra ealsrios voted to the soveral town officors. Thus, last yoar 810,000 whre voted to tho Collector of South Oliicago, who Lolds tho town ordors for that sum yot. So of all the other towns and officors; orders have beon issued, but thorois 1o money to psy them. The rosult is now an agprogato smount of outstanding town orders, ronching, with this yoar's extraordinary salaries, to probably $150,000. It is now proposed to levy a tax to pay theso debts. If we mistake “not, tho town meotings hold last April votod largo sums of monoy to bo raised by taxation. Tho law on this subject, however, hns sbollshed the town meeting aa.a tax-levy- ing concern. Tho township law provides, section third, what town meotingamay do, and in tho things specifiedaro tho following: (8) To diroct taxation forralsing monoy for town roads ; to dofend tho town in lawsuits ; for buildiug and repalring bridges. (5) To extorminate Can- n thisties. (0) For planting trees, (1) To rogulate fonces. (8) Totake up mstray cattlo, (9) To malntain pounds. (10) To provide Pound- masters. (11) To impound stray animaly, (12) To conntruct wolla, (13) Rogulato the doposit of night-goil, Beo. 4 of tho sot, however, do- olares that, in all towns which Mo within lucor- porated citios, tho town meotings shall not ox- orcleo any of tho powers dosigbated in oithor of the paragraphs abovo enumorated, and adds 1 But all moneya vecesaary to ba ralsed io suvh tawns for town oxpousos, shall bs ascertained by tho County Board, aud tho Couuty Clerk shall extond tho amount #0 ascerisiuod upon tuo Oolleotor's books of such town, ‘Che Town Board, thorefors, hasno power to order the County Clerk or Town Colleotor, or anybody else, to extend town taxea on any book, The County Borrd alone osn give dircc- tions to extond taxes, and tho County Doard can glve orders to oxtend taxes to pay only such salariss as are fixed by the County Board itsolf. In the good old Euglish comedy, ** A Game of Bpeculation,” Sir Affablo Hawk, the horo, ie rep- resontod as paying off his creditors by calling thom together and domanding of them frosh loans wherowithsl to make money enough to pay them, According to the London Economist, the Btato of Vonozuela has for a long timo con- duoted its fluances upon tho same ingenlous plan. Indood, it bas repeated tho operation so froquently thas its ueguon are bogluning to discover that fte gamo of spoculation sy Le- oomo & moustrous fraud, which moans ultimato snd spoody ropudiation, It 1s not Jong ago that tho Btute compromised with (ts creditors for wong ‘ovorduo intorost, Tho torms’ were disgunting £0 tLow, wui livdson's chotco, thoso or mnothing, was tho only - thing opon to them, Now, whon thls compro- miso I to bo ratified, tho Biata upsots it alto- gothor, It claims that nothlug can snvo itsolf or its creditors but the construction of a railroad from Coraccas to tho connt. This improvoment will cosst £3,000,000, and tho amount must bo furnishod by the long-sufforing bondholdors be- foro thoy ean regover o ponny of the ontatanding interost. Thia s tho eublime of jmpudonco, but tho game fa up. Tho creditora rofuse to risk an~ othior dollar, and nothing but ropudiation can follow. —ey THE SALARY-GRABBERS, The Ropubiloan pross is just now joyfally publishing such paragraphs as this: . ‘The quiotus put upon tho palary-grabbers appesra to liave betn univorsal. Two instancos are rocorded of thalr ronomination,—one, a Democrat in Ponunylva- nin, and anothor, & Republican in Minncsota, A..II, ‘Dunnall, who was nominated nnder the strongest pro- {eat from prominent members of tho party, Yooplo who believe this are vory ignorant or vory forgotful. Besidoa salary-grabbors of tho Garfleld stripo,—~mon who dodged behind pre- toxt aftor protoxt until public indignation falrly kioked them into roturning thelr ptundor,—s number of out-and-cut grabbers, who voted for the pack-pay and pockoted it without ado, Lave beon ronominated, Bosides tho ** Domocrat in Ponnsylvania " (Randall) alluded to in tho ox- tract, o North Carolina Domooratic grabber, Al- frod M. Waddoll, has been ronominated and ro-oloctod, The Ropublican catalogue 18 o longar one. Charlos Hays, of Alabama; Josiah T, Walls, of Florida; Richard L Whitoly, of Qoorgla; Juy, Uale, Byphor and Choster B. Darrell, of Lounisiana ; Mark H. Dunnoll, of Min- nesota; and Clinton L. Cobb, of North Caroling, all of whom aro Republicans and salary-grabbors, hiave boen rgnominated. Cobb hasboen soundly defeated by the people, who ovidontly do not ro- gard tho back-pay ateal with that leniency that displays itsolf in all Republican Conventions, The Pennsylvania Republicans havo alroady ro- nominated Loonard Myers, Willlam D. Kolloy, Alfred O, Harmer, and James 8. Nogley, Tho other salary-grabbors of that Stato aro only wait- ing for tho convontions in their respactive dis- tricta. In Vormont, Luke P. Poland has found tho back-pay, the Oredit-Mobilior whitowash, snd the pross-gag law, only & foather-woight. " Ilo was renominsted on tho first ballot. In Virgin- in, Jomes H, Platt, Jr, is agaln put forwardi This ia & cholce array of salary-grahborsto bo ro- nominated by o party of purity and economy, that shuddored so with horror at tho dreadful deed. Fortunately, ronomination is not ro-clac~ tion, The Republican party proposos, but the pooplo disposes, Wo conld wish that the poople would disposa of theao mon who aro tainted with Vack-pay so thoroughly that not one of them, Ropublican ar Domoaratie, would ever come to . the surfaco of our politics again. THE BEECHER CASE IN 10839, 1t {a woll, when wo jmagine that any of our actions have the slighteat importance, to refor oursolvea to the past and look iInto the future, 2nd to menaurs the weight of current events by those immonso standards of time and distance. Tho oporation {8 not a very gratifylng ono to poople of: large sclf-importance, ss it reduces them to infinifosimal atoms ; but it is noverthe- lous hoalthy, and tends to croato in one & serono and philosophical view of affairs, which is nover likely to bo disturbed by anything fato may have in store. Thero is just now an excellont op- portunity for practiclng a little montal and moral discipline of this mort, which all well-rogulatod porsons will undoubt~ odly improve, A Gorman ostronomer has computed. thst {t will bo just 8,005 yoars before Coggin's comet will get round this way again,—a torm of absence which ought to hoavo induced this distiogrished visitor to have mado s longer stay. Prof. Colbert has improved upon the Berliner's computation by showing that the date of tho poribolion passage—whatover that is—will bo at 55 minutcs and 47,8 scconds af- tor 2 o'alosk on themorning of July 0, in the sonr 10839, Should it not arrivo exactly on timo, it is cheeringto know that tho computers will bo safely out of the reach of any hostilo criticism in Tus Cutcaco TninoNe of that date, whilo thoy have tho still furthor advantage that mo ono on the globo at presont will bo up that morning to seo it they aro right. Thero I8 & groat deal of safo- ty in the computation, The one prominent ovent of the world just 10w i8 thoe Boachor scandal, It is tho topic of convarsation on overy railrond train and steam- boat, in eyery hotel and boarding-school, and at ovory firesido. Ol men and womon, sud childron in short olothes, pesnut-peddiers and millionsires, plug-uglica and mothors in Ierael, aro discussing this question, with all that it im- plica. Dylng women fravtically beg thelr physi- ciong’ to kocp them' up long enough to geo Moulten's accond statomont. Ministors proach about it. Beecher bats with ragygod edgos will bo the fall style, Bocioty is in & wild whirl, and cannot eat or sleop until this matter is sottled. Meanwhilo gossip hos s carle blanche, aud toa~ pots novor heard such storics beforo. Now, when the hond-light of Coggin's comot comos blaziug down tho wmorthorn sky again, over Lincoln Park, oun the morning of July -0, 10389, at tlro rafo of 188.4 miles o minuto, not to mention tho logarithms of ec- centrioity and distauco, whore will the Boocher caso bo? Durled beyond all hopo of resurrec- tion, and with it thousands of other scaudals yot tocomo. On that morning, the comot will not look upon & human being who has ever hoard of Heury Ward Boocher, of Theodoro Tilton or Mra, Tilton, of Tonry O. Bowen, of Moulton, or ot Plymouth Church. All will have boen burled out of ight for thousands of yours, Ilappy pos- terity! Not ono actor in tho drams which is #b oxciting now will bo known then, The drama itsolt will novor binyo boen hoard of. This wo can appreciate more fully by refarring to the past, Tt was only8,62¢ yearsago that Josoph nad his littlo eplsode with Mra. Potiphar, at which time sho made hor famous proposal to him and Jopt his cont-talls for s sonvenlr. Compared with tho distance of timo botwoen the presont and the return of the comot, this opisode may bo called rocont, and yot how much do wa in reality kuow about {t? Yot the hero of that cacapado ocoupled & much bighor position than Boochor.” Wo know nothing of what transpirod after tho flight,~—not oven whethier Mrs, P, offored to tako neodlo apd throad and robuild what sho had shattored, Iow unsatisfoctory s overgthing connoctod with tho relationd of tho sweet singor of Tsraol to Mra. Uriah, and yot it only inpponed 2,880 yoars ago. Not n word can wo aucortain of David's renl foolings in tho case. Did ko, too, hang ou the ragged cdgo of romoraosnd despalr ? DIA Mrs, Urigh own up to Uriah, and then con« traglet ft? Did David mako a statoment and ac- ouse Uriah of blackmailing bim? Whooan toll? And yet theus ovents woro comparativoly recont, moasurod Dy tho laparitluma with which Hia su- (ronomers havo boon running tho comot to onrth; and, were thoy nob contalned in the Good BDook, wo novor should have honrd of thom atsll. Coming down to profanc Diatory, wo gropa still more blindly in the mists, Homitnmis, only 2,055 years ngo, got Into sovoral scandals, with all that thoy Imply, and yet whio knowa anything about thom? - Who ean prove thoro evor was such & woman? Boautifal Holon of Troy eloped with Paris only 8,874 yoars ago, and yot who would dare to go into couriand mako afildavit o that offcct? How much would wo give to know whothor Paris humbled himgclt botoro Monolaus s ho dld bo- fors his Juplter, and ownmed wup that- Monolaua swould have boon & botter man in his placathan ho had boon? And yob to-day wo know not whothor thoso partiea aver llved at all. It was only 1,040 yoosra ago that Maro Antony wont on his oxonraion down the Nilo with tho- swarthy daughtor of Ptoleny, and thon sbandon- ed hor to tho oconsolstions of the asp. What Listorian haa ever given us sl tho dotalls of that’ romarkable journoy with any degreo of cortaln. ty? What Bgyptian orito can toll us whothor Antony had the hypochondria that day, or whothor Oloopatra assured him hor iil-health. waa not duo to hor sin and it digcovery ?. In viow of thoso facts, and the difficnlty of ngcortaining nnything whatover that bapponed » thousand or two thousand yonrs ago, and refioct- ing that it will be nonrly 0,000 yoars boforo Ooggln's comot makoa ita return trip, we should learn the losson of humility, and pationco, and doronity, Wo should more than ever coneldor that it docanot pay to got oxcitod, or to loso sloop nnd forogo meals, moroly becanse Mr. Boochor may bo banging upon s ragged edge. Whon tho. comet comos agaln wo slall bo all gona. Woshall havo finiahod up 6,091 yoars of otarnity, and boswiftly rounding tho corner of the govonth thousand, and shall be older than the world fa now. On that morning of July 9, 10839, #ome onterprising De. Sohllemana will bo uo- earthing tho ramains of a city, about tho corner of Madison and Clark etreots, and turning on oyatar-cans, hoop-akirts, and old hats, as tro- phioa of that mythologioal paat when Chiongo racelvad Lord Dufterin and County Commis- sioners woro not like Cmsar’s wifo, and peoplo waro loalng sleep booauso Moulton is so alow. Daea it pay.? CO-EDUCATION IN ENGLAND, ° The .rocont unsuccessful attompt to prevail upon the University of London to grant degrecs to tho women who attond its olassca has called publio attontion, hora as woll a4 thoro, to the stccossful trial of tho co-education of the soxos in that great institution of learning, In the bo- liof that our oducators can: draw very usoful lessons from tho facts of co-odacation fa En- gland, a8 oxemphified in the Univorsity of London and in Giston College, Cambridge, we submit & pkoloton sketoh of tho systom pursued in esch. Tu 1869, Parliament so modified tho Univorsity charter that its privileges could, in the option of the powers that woro, bo conferred upon women ns well a8 men. Tho Ladies' Education- ol Association of London, with which most of tho leading English women, Emily Faithfall, Lydla Becker, Millicont Fawcott, eto., aro idontified, at onco seized upon this chance. It provided rooms, in which Henry Motloy, Profes- sor of English Literature, and G. O. Foster, Professor of Physics, gave loctures to such womon as choge to attoud. Tho second sesalon continued from Oactobor, 1809, fo April, 1870, Coursos of twonty-four lectures woro given in Latin, English, and Fronch litorature, expori- mental physics, and geomotry. Instruction in practical chemistry was aleo givon. All the taacliors wero Professors In the Univorsity, Tho fominine clégses now moet in the Universlty rooms, though not, a3 a gonoral rule, at the time whon the male studenta attend. Lecturos ars given in tho ovening for women who are busy during thoday. Litorature, history, and medicine aro the favorito studios. The comparatively small olasses in mathomatics and solence are sup- posed to bo due to tho superior attractionsin heso branches offered by tho South Konsington Museum, About 800 women, all told, are en- rolled ns students, Thero have been nocom- plaints of discourtesy or of immorality. Both facts aro porhaps partially explainable by the ngo of tho fominino studonts, who aro for the most part considorably older, than the averago scbiolar ot Vassar, Thore has beon no charity in this attomph at co-education., The fominine gcholars poy their own way, a8 ths men do. Somo of thom bave taken high bonors. Tho first prizo in political economy has been twico awarded fo a womanj tho first prize In law onco. Girton Coliege was founded, we bolieve, in 1809. An association composed malnly of women manages it. A bosrding-houso was pro- vided noar Gambridge, Professors in the Uni- vorsity dolivored lecturca. Bome aid was glven to indigont scholars, but in gonoral tho wstruoc- lon was not marked with charity. Tho Collogo is now located in permanont buildings of its own. Its graduatos are admitted to the regular exam- {uations of the University, although as yot thoy do not reccive degroes. They have acquitted themsclves with honmor, Tho managers of the institution look forward hopetully to tho timo. whon Girton shall be as thoroughly & part of the ‘Univorsity as Gaing, or Trinity, or Josus Collegos, X0 NoW. 2 Three conclusions may, perbaps, be drawn from tho facts horo cited. First, iIf women wish co-cducntion, they must got it by their own of- forts. In both theso cases, nagwlntianu of wom- on havo succeoded in providing firat-class in- struction for otbor women. Had it not been for thom, tho chances would have boon unim- proved. Tho beliovors n the ** emancipation of women" from the uarrowing and belittleing training now provided for thom—and thore aro muny thousands of auchporaons, ovor and above tho beltevers in woman-suffrage—will do woll to Iny this fact to heart. Tho firat thing necdfnl in this countryis tho formation in ol our largoe cities of leaguos lke tho Womon's Educational Association of Boston. Whou power hes been thus orgonized, it will moon be felt. Seec- ond, it {5 not necessary to provide groat nllu.unbln ondowments in or- dor to induco women to avail thomselvos of opportunition for thoough traine ing. They will pay for a good articlo of instruce tion. QGlve them board aud rooms and tition at ronsonablo fatos, and students will appear, Third, tho most practicablo methiod of gotting the good nud shuuning iho evil of co-education seows to be to provide a homo for fominine stn- donts in 8 Univorsity town, where lecturos esn bo givon thom by tho University Professors, and whoro the University collections can be thrown opon $o thom, When this has boen dons, the granting of dogrees by the Univorsity is buts fuestion of timo, Thelr College should be one of & oluster which together make up tue Univer- #ity. Tho absence of any preparatory schoo and the enforcomont of a rigorous standard of sdmisgion would koep away sully chita whoso {n- diseretions might ruin tho entorprise. < Tho soholarg could pursuo the same studics as their brotbers did, under the samo Instructors, bub tho alass-rooma comid bo distinot, sn $hoy aro in the collogon collocted into the English Uni- voraitten. Tho examinations would bs common to both soxes. Women and nien, who had hnd proctaoly the same advantages, wonld thon meet and strive for tho mastery. ‘The just complaint .that womon are doprived of tho advantsges of tho gront oduoational ondowments of {the past would thus be obvlated. It Vassar Colloge, minus ita proparatory schwool, and tho nowly- founded Sophis Bmith Colloge at’ Northampton, - Maan, oould bo transforred to Cambridgo and Now Haven, and could havo the labors of their prosont Professors supplemonted by thoso of tho Prolfessors of Harvard and Yalo, tho main ad- vantagos of co-oducation would bo realized at onca, Thoso advantages do not consiat in the supposod refiniog influonce of the sandwiching of boys and girls upon the bonches of a lecture~ room, but in the freo use by olther sex of thaup- plisncos of loarning with which tho gencrosity of conturios has endowed our groat Universitios. e _OQUE. COUNTY HOSPITAL. Thoro aro two ways of building a hospital, It may be run up five or six storics high, aud then loft to sonk in contaglon from evory pationt it sholters until it recks with dlsoseo, and kills in- stoad of curcs § or it may bo builtliko & cluator ot barraocks, at o titho of tho cost, and bo ronowed ovory fow yonrs beforo any part of it” becomen a centre of postilonco. In 'Now ‘York City the proprioty of tearing down ono or two massivo old hospitals, in order 0 obvinto thoir contaglous ifufluonce, has boen sorioualy discussed. Tho modical profession of the oity scoms to bo genoralty in favor of i, bus tho npparent wasto of money invof¥ed has 5o far moro than countorbalanced tho ovident waasto of life. In Leipsio, tho barrack- systom has been adoptod with tho lape plost rosults. Duoring the Franco-Ger man war 60,000 Fronchmen wers confined nearLolpsie. When they weore sent home and the barracks bullt for them woro aboub to bo torn down, 1t was suggestod by prominont phy~ alciang that they should be changed Into s hos- pital. ' This wae dono, Aftor belvg proporly fumigatod and otherwiso closused, thoy wero openod 8g slok~wards. Tho patients in .tho Lospitals within tho ity woro transforred to thom, Tho ratlo of mortality among the sk has sinoo greatly docreased. Tho main advantagos of the barrack-system are, in brie?, thege: It is by far the cheaper, for although more 1and is needed, the cosh of tho ‘buildings ia but a trile. Two thin brick walls, ono story high, strotching along 400 oz 50D fect, are all that is nooded to accommodate s groat number of patients, Itis by fax tho healthior. When one ward has beon*used aa long as safoly pormits, % can boe knocked to plocea in a few days. Tho wood-work of tho floor and roof can thon be used ms fuol The bricks, after lying in tho open air for some timo, can bo again built into a wall. Ifit is thought advisable, movable pavilions of iron, much sa ore to bo used in the construction of the CQentennial Exposition building, can be arranged 8 glok-warda. Aftor a cortain timo they can be xoadily roplaced by now pavilions, bo thoroughly disinfected, and thon be used again. To the non-medical mind there sooms to bo slight chanco of comparison botween s constantly-ronowoed hospital, open to fresh air on overy sldo, and an ovorlasting one, with narrow courts that must bo filled with polluted air, and with walls, floors, and collinge saturatod with tho sacds of disonse and dooth. Chicago physicians will do wall to press this mattor upon the considoration of the County Commissioners. Itis something that neods to be decidod before we spend bun drodsof thonsands ot dollars on our Connty Hos~ pital. Binco wo are to pay so much, we wanttho best article for our monoy. Puttiugupa building that will kill instoad of ouring our sick would bo 00 costly & folly. Wo have boon made to pay ©145,000 for a hospital sito which was offered to us for moro than a yoar at $180,000 ; but wo aro almost tempted to promise that we shall grumble no more about this outrage if tho County Commissioncrs, will partly atonoe for it by listening to tho advice of tho bost modical mon concorning. the kind of hospital to bo erooted. There is no longer any difference of opinion among well-luformed modical men on this sabject, Chicago muet have » '*barrack” or * pavilion™ hoapital, wheroby wo may at once 8avo life and money. The groat nnknown Continout of Afrlos—for the modest Stanloy has not lald bare all itd secreta—continuos to attract sclontific attention, Winle the Herald and London Telegraph are preparing another.exploring party iuto its centre, Fronch aclentists are meditating & movemont from another point, Tho lattor ia & puroly geo- graphical movement, whose immediato objoctive point is Algeria. Tho design is to connect onco more the Moditerrancan with tho inland seas of that groat district by roopening the natural chanpels which once conneoted thom. Tho ifnland ses which onco existed dried up Into & sslt resorvolr aftor the influx of water had bean out off, and in all prob- ability the cessation of ovaporation changad tha character of the climato to what it is, Engi- neers pronounce tho ronowal of the connection quite foasible with an iosignificant outlay. A channel but 13 miles long is required, ata cost of sbout $3,000,000, This outlay, in exchango for the fortilization of an enormons district, is uot extravagaut, and botli the French and Alge- rian Govornmonts are propared to take stops in the matter. There is to sciontista & fascination about improving tho world’s physical goograpby nol surpassed by Btates In changiog its political divisions, — Tho case of the claimaut, Arthur Orton, having beon satisfactorily dispoved of, nothing remains but to qulet Dr. Konealy, his counsol. This, while & very necessary measuro, is not casy ol socomplishmont, " Dr. Keunesly ls, according to bis own statement, a much-abused man. Not having boon able to socure the circulation of this idoa through the modium of exlating publi- cations, it scemed good to Dr. Kenealy to pub- lish & papor of his own, wherowith to enlighten the groat English publio as to tho ill-troatment bo had reccived in tho conduct of the Tichborno cage and the trial of the claimaut for porjury. Ho called his paper tho Englishman, which, ss it is libolous, ocowardly, and untruthfal, was an insult to every man in tho island. Tho attacks made upon the logal profesgion cansod & meoting of tho Bonchors of Gray's Inn for tho purpose of inquiring into tho caso, The lsaue of thelr inquirios was s docla- lon to disbonoh the offundor. A threat was at- taohod to their resolutions to the effoct that the continued publication of tho Znglishman would roault in its publishor'y expulslon from tho Bar alio, In this cada all the advantages aceruing to Dr, Kenoaly from tho uotoriety ho gained in the late trial would be wastod, in & profosalonal Heugo. s e It is all nookense. There ia no oarthly neces- slty for prepatring commouts upon the polioy of Germany with regard to Frauce, or Spaiv, or the .West Indies, or Alanitoba, or any othor geo- graphioal point or district, Minlstor Banoroft bas returned from Borlin, aud bas givon his yiows to w Herald reporter, Thoy are, hslofly, that Minfator DBancroft is n hard worker, that Emporor Willlam hing preseutsd Ministor Dan-’ aroft with o lifo-alzod portralt of his imporiod solf, that Germauy has no sggrossive views, and that, aftor au abronce of soven yonts snd two months, Minjuter Bancratt in glad to roturn to | bis homo. ‘Lhiin fu ué it should be, and fs of fm= mante impartans, taken altgothor,—ospoolally to Ministor Banoroft, . ey NOTES AND 0PINION. That thore will bo no lack of candidntes— “rogular tlokots"—ab the Novembor olection in Tilinols, presont Indications abundantly shaw. ‘fhoro aro now.threo Biata tickets nominated and two Btato Convontlons callod, In tho Con= grosslonal Districts (outsldo of Chicago) tho Republicans have nominated or called convon~ tions In twalve; tho Indepondent Roformors in twolye; tho Domocrata in poven; and the Pro« Libitloniste in ona. Also, in the Yegislative Distriots, of which thore aro fifty-ono, the Re- publicans bavo taken action (as above) fn fif« toon; tho Indopondent Roformers in thirteen ; the Domocrats funine; and tho Prolibitionlsts inono. Only in a faw locallties does thare ap-~ poar to bo any sentimont or promise to combina tho entiro anti-Ropublican voto; and, olsewhero, in the placo of suoch scntimont, thera appoars to bo mtonse joslousy lost somohody bo ** gob- e ~Tho Champalgn Times, which started ont with tho Indepondent Reformors, kins now ceasod to ;:; with thom, ond says: i new sdtom gyt en s avdlitr Amerfcan polilfcs thot will bo corlain fo work grost harm, arrayiug one clars sgalnst ll others, and tho pooplo of tha country againet the towna, Buch bolng 1ho cano, sl Domocrata and otliern who canniot support the prosent Administration, aud wha vant low taxes and good money, lhnuldxmmcdlnulfi orgunize npots ca) an open baels, nccosslble to all and aj ) Lhat tolr {riAnda 1 town B SoUALY ey Bente Wit em, ~In Champaign County (heavily Republican) ths Indepondeat Reform movement cuta into the Ropublican vote; but i the neighboring County of Sholby (heavily Domoeratic), it euts into the Domoaratic voto. The Sholbyville Independent says The queation 18 froquently asked, W o worlk I tio old Dorocraile, parfy 1 Xhece are oo tainly many good reasous, or there would bu no ooca~ nion {o aak auch 5 quosifon of tho men thint have hero tofore mate Domocracy invincibla ju Bhelby County. Xt i1 coriain that their course fs not prompiod by the belief in tho fncorroctne:s of true Democralic princi~ ples, but on account of the dishoncaty sud tha waut of intogrity that characterizes the leadors and groat men Hing bavo austmiod (o leadurabip of th A our lzat woek B Witer ting otber thloves, | oo oeor ey mra ~—Now that Congressman John B, Hawley (Ro publican) hna been laid out eold mn tho Rock Juland district, some ono bas asked, * Would Gon, Hendorson sccopt 7 Would s duck swim | Tho Pooria Transcript auswors : Ho would run his lege off togetit, Accept? s would secopt anything political, aven if Iis had to take 1t from B nest of yellow-fackats, —Now is tha time of year for this item to iy sround tn the Ropublican skillet : Tho Now York doalers in arms report a brisk dos mand for guns aad other frc-arins from tue Soutk, Onoletiarsegss = % crgsatet e “VWo are all arming and organizing In ‘Whito League,” b ekl ‘Tho sasortion of thoso loagues that thoy are posce- £ulin purposa is datly contradicted. Tn o worls of the White League of Loutniann, the timo for reason= ing with the blacks has passed, and decisivo measurcs muat be adopted, ptod, —While every Ropublican orator in Maineis bawling the cry, * Vote for Diugloy and save the Amorican coasting trade,” Mr. Diugley being tho party's caudidate for Governor of Malue, tho Buftalo Commercial Advertiser (Re- fubllcnn goes o puroly local issuo in tho elece ion of Governor of New York, and says : ‘Tuey {the Opnoeition] would havae the voters thinlk that in preparing tholr ballots for Btato ofiicera theg‘mhhl governed by their feollugs in refercnce to tho Congrossionat incrésse-of-salary bill, tho rovelo~ tions of Credit-Mobilior corruption, tho Sanborn contracts, aud the Louistana alcetion frauds. Ordie nary men fail {0 voa liow thefo outsida lssuoy affoct tho cloction of » Governor of Now York. . ~—The coming politieal contest In this Btate will bo ono of momoutous intorest. A protligate Kaminigtration sits upon & bankrupt ‘Froatery, and talks glibly of equandering maay millions upon tho cousiruction of now transportation routen; it holds prostrate provinces at the South firmly under the hands of iguorant blacka and dissolute whites; tho whilo foraing & epurious tonder upon the country, inflating its volumo, atimalating _fovorisk Bpoculation, opprossing moat industrios in order that it may **protect” a fayored fow, and in this way compols the peo- plo to Yxfl many millions of tributo to its favor- ites, while the Govorument reccives but a fow bundreds of thousands, Undor such a system, of courae, business s bocomo stnguont, and tha poople everywhate aro inquiring what’ romedg thoy can apply. There is, firat, the indireot ef« foct of emphatio rebuke. The defeat of the sup- portors of the Admiuistration at the eloctions this fall throughout tho country would serve as a salutsry worning, Theso spendthrifts and charlatans fear nothing 80 much aa the losy of offico. Thoy Laugh to scorn, 2 dull slmuletons, overy Dopublican who sinceroly discourses of principlo. Dut wheo thoy sco power pansivg awuy from them thoy haston fo saem to correct tho abuges they have fostored. If for no other reason than this, therefore, the Ropublican party oupht to bo_defeated in every Stato it fall. ‘Those Republicana best consult tho intorests of the country who contributo to tho defeat of their party now; for, ot lemst, thoir party managers may profit by the losson, oven if no other per~ manent bonofit ensucs.—4lbany Argus. —It is & singular fact that the feader of the inflation revolt which is being attempted in Il- linois against the call of the regular Democratia Committoe is tho Hon, Joo Lodlie, Chiairman of the 0'Conor and Adams Campaign Commtice im 1872, 0'Conor and Adsmns nro both hard-monoy men, bit this Mr. Ledlio, who succecded in fming only about 8,000 votes for Lis tickot in ho groat State of Illinois in 1872, now propores to oalla Couvontion: in opposition lo tho regular Convention of the patty, and lead off in fuvor of inflation, He did not prove mneh of a leador then, aud ho will prove loss of n one now, In one thing, however, ho is consistont, o wag working for the Republican party then, sad by {8 now. The soonor ho and Voorhoes, Itichard« .gon, Singloton & Co. join tho Lapublicans, tho bettor it will be for the Democracy. Ou the Cur- rency question theyagrco with that party, and they ought to Linvo tho grace to opouly foin if, and conso to call thomsolves roprescntatives of tho only puro Dowocracy.~Portiand () Argus. —E‘Tho Pooria Democrat is a peculior sheot. It denonucos thoe Stata Democratio Comrmits too pocause that Committee desires a Conven. tion that will proclaim for hard monoy, and it denouuces tio Richardeon foolish fellows bee causa they desivo a Conveution that will pro- olaim agaiust hard moucy. It eannok bo pleased, It is a littlo of » good many things, and uot much of lu;ltlnug. Itiuand it 18 not: 1t jenot and it jg. T'hls niomont you &eo it at the mouth gf tho ‘hard-mouoy hole going in, aud the next sce 1t at the mouthof the safi-menoy hole going in. This moment you may observe it coming out of tho hard-moiiey bolo, and the next outof tho solt- mongy hole; and then 1t becomes confused fn its miotions and seeme to bo going ‘And coming out of and into both of tho sume holes i the sawmo timo.— Cairo (IUl.) Bullelin. * RAILROAD NEWS. RETRENCHING. The Chicago & Northweatorn Railrond, not be- ing ablo to carry on large improvemonts ut pres- ent, has decidod to reduco the working forca and tho hours of labor in its various shops, A¢ thu Clucaga shopa only about two-thirds of tho usual number of mechanics sre emplovod ab prosont. At the shops at Olinton, lowa, thoy are working now only five days In tho weok. In the Winona and Bt. Poter shiops the timo hins also beon cat down from &ix to five duys por Weok. In tho mouth of day, tha Company cmploved 12,247 mochauics, while in tho month of July only 9,079 wore employed, which mukes & dig< charge af 2,508 men in lews than twe ‘mounthe. The Campauy will lay uo_moro stool rails, nor mgke any improvewmonta of auy kind, until the 1awa ahould be &o chiuged that thoro is a chanco for tho road to enrn what it considors & fuir in« torost on tho inveated capital. ITENH. The QGeneral Ticket wud Passengor Agentd hold their rogulsr monthly moeting ynutenlur altornoon Al fim oftlco of tho Chicago & Ruek Toland Railroad, lloyond the comparison of ghevt-ratos nothing was doue, “'ho rogular sunuat convontion of the Qenoral Tioket and 1’n~uun(i-)ur Agonte' Ausooiation of thie Uuited tatoa will bo hold at Now York City o tho 18th of Boptembor. THLE 10\A COMBUIBBIONENS BIBE TO EXPLAIN, Seninawenn, I, Aug. 18.—The Railrond Commisiouors of lowa havo writton & lotior 1o tho Illnols Commissioners, oxplaining tho ocs oasjon of their absoueo from the Convention at Dubuque, Thoy gavo as a reason prossing busis nows engngomonts, assert their sympathy with tho objects of the conforonco, und way thab tLog will bo presout st tho next meoting. i