Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TIATES OF BUNECRIPTION l;AYA“,-‘ w ‘BY"S','ED ¢ L 812,00 | Bundas, ] Bapadnatt::o SR ok 3 Partsar a yone at thd samo rato, . Toyrevony dolay and misinkos, bo aure and give Pott OB t& sddresn in foll, tucluding Hata and Counts, Rernitauicon suay bo niada olthor by dratt, expross, Post OMico ouder, of v registored lotloia, at ane risk, TENMS TO CITY BUDRCHIDENA, Tall, doliesi, tinday excontor % contr por wooke ! led, 4 g verode UG SRR COMPANYY Coruar Madisnn and Denrbo Tnioazo M- AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Haldtod atroot, batween Mad- fson And Monros. Kugagomant of Olivor Doud Byron. 4 Across tho Contluont.” MVICRKR'S THEATRE-Madlson streot, bolweon Dearborn and Ktato, Kngegemont of Rdwin Adams, 'he Moad 11 The Chicags Tribune, Friday Morning, August 28, 1874, THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE IN FORT WAYNE. Anumberof thaattachea of tho Pittaburg, Fort Wayuo & Obicsgo Ratlroad hovo complotad arrangements for runping au esrly Sunday traln frowm Ohicago to Fort Wayto for the delivery of tho Sundny faaue of Tus nspune dn Lo latter city and the intervening towae, fFhis train will loave the Madizon Strect Depot noxt Sunday morniug ot 16, with a paseengor-coach ot~ tached, for tho accommadation of thogo who deatro to aval themaolves of it. Tl stations ot which pavors will bo deliverod aro: IHobart, Valparaiso, Wauntab, Iawlot, Plymouth, Bourbon, Etua Green, Atwood, Warsaw, Kosclueko, Plerccton, Larwill, Columbls, and Fort Wayne. As the Iatter city ia 148 miles from Obd- <ago, this will botha most ambitious of ul the efforta toobtaln the Suuday popers in tho suburbs, Itis proper to say that the managemont of tlo Yittsburg, Fort Wagno & Ciileago Ratirond Lave oxtended apecial fncilittes for thin undertaling, and are entitied to the gratituda of tho peoplo along tho line of thelr road for thio reudiness with which thoy have entered inio tho project, It I expected that the newspaper-train will arrive in Fort Wayno ot 0:30,0d tho papers will Lo delivered by earriers, Now J’ume_;napu ang nro uot ungrateful. They have approved Prosident Grant, veto-mes~ sngo and all. ] Tho rumor about Bristow’s resigoation and MeCalloch's appaintment i again seoking aid aud comfort from the credulous, Tho story thet the Diack Hills Expedition 18 an sdvertisement of tha Northern Pacifie Rail- road is cansing somo indignation wmong tho religious papers. A fow months ago they wereinquiring whothor e was really & Welshman and not aligiblo to tho Presidency, and now a reporter speaks of him a8 « Sonatar Jones, a Nevada capitalist.” e sarmem e e Why Mr. Jo Ledlio is calle “Judgo" s o myatery to everybody who is sequainted with hls carcor. Ho nevor wag & Judge of a court, or 5t human nature, or of his owninsiguificancy, How eweot It must bo for the Republicans ln Ponnsylvania to hiear the condemuution of their party which has jesued from the Demociatic Couventlon in that State. Tho gravest article of it ia that whioh recites the reaponsibilits of tho patty for the present dopression of commer- cinl interest 1t the Oppo ould quit arraigning the Ropublican party, the iufirm old body would the gooner fall of its own woight. It now gatuers strongth to stand up overy tine it is arraigned; yot is uumistakably sufforing tho torments of 1ho damned, end banging on the ragged edgo of despair. It I8 o kind of vsgrant, moving on wheuaver it 18 kicked. Certain valuable pavers, eald to contain evi donce of corruption in the County Board, have Leen abstracted from the kecping of tho County Clerk., An bonost Board, undor theso eircum- stances, would firt of sl order an investigation of tho manner in which these papors disap- peared, nud thon advance to the subject-matter of the inquiry. Our Board has boen content with & very ditferent course. . et e Woe are beginning to nnderstand why the Com- mon Council bes so loug opposed an increnso of thoe water-supply. Buch an act, nob to put too flos & point on it, will be demaging to tho saloon-business ; and many of the Aldormen are saloon-keepors. Objections of this nnturo will be mot by running the additional supply through separate malns, which will bo tapped only for fire-plugs. —e, The Missouri Domooracy hins beon heard. Its oico is tho same which was latoly raised in Oblo, Indisus, sud Tennossee; and a vory nasty, thick voice it is. Itis a ery for the paymont of Vouds in greonbacks. The Convention denled tho right of tho Government to issue currency ; but held tbat, sinco tho wrong hnd boon commit- tod, it woula Lo wise to do a little cheating for tho boneflt of the poor Inboring man, Thia is 2alow & code of principles as & conveution of thieves could desire. Commissioner Clongh prints olsowhere in this paper an answer to the charges of his cnowmies in the Board of County Commissionera. Tho attompe of Mr. Ashton aud his confed- eratea in tho Board {o besmirch the repu- tation of the fow Commissionors whom the peoplo bellovo to Lo honest is contomptillo, aud will cortninly fail of ita purpose. The adoption of such tacties is a protty good indica- tion that tho men whom the publie believe to be dishonest are in distress. ESaa———— Tbat in & very protty gamo the Couuty Com- missioners are playing. It roquires, in ordor to proper exposition, o decoy, o wicked partner, snd a dupe; and in this case all the chiaructors are taken to perfoction by Mr. Periolst. Thon thero aro tho clumsy bystandors who spoll ovory- thing by ill-timed asmstance, aud tho oxperts wwho have put it on the ocards that everybody is to win oxcopt the houcal mon. The sportisa rare oue, to bo sure; bub it is nothing moro. Lot us bave an end, thon, of calling it an investl- gation of tho charges agninat tho firm of Durand 4 Co. The Chicego produce markeld woro generally etronger yosterdsy, under a good spoculative domaud, Mess pork was notivo, and 250 por brt higher, elosiug st $22.80@24.00 caslt, and $17.20 goller the year, Lard was in good domand, and 250 per 100 Ibw higher, olosing st $14,873(@16.00 cash, aud §11.87}¢ sellor the yoar, Moate woere quiat, closing at BJfo for shouldors, 133(@12}{c for short ¥ibs, 125¢@13%0 tor short clear, aud 1344@130 for uwoot-ploklod hams. Highwloos woromore active nud sirong, st 970 por gallon, Zuako frolghts wero dull end unchanged, at So for corn to Buffalo, Flour was quiot sud nominal, Wheat wau sotive and 3@20 higher, olosing vory woak, At 0830 amsb, snd D19{o setler Soptomber, 1 I Corn wag active, and }fo highor, closing at 87)o cnslh, and 66340 for Boptambor. Oats woro loun active, and 3¢@13go higher, oloslug at 4397c cash, and 803{a for Boplombor. Ryo was quict and atrong, at 76o. Barloy waa quiet and stendior, olosing at D2 cash, and 87c solior Boptembor. Tho hiog markat was firm for good to extra, but dull and lowor for olhor grades, Uattlo wero quiet and uuchanged. Bhoop were quiat, Tho Ctood gnnlnrllnqn of ch(cng_n are making | thowealves very uubappy by a discuseion of the ofticacy of prayer, Soma of the ewstors bo- lleve that tho firut busiaess of tho homo for un- fortunntes which they have undertaken to estab_ fleh showtd bo the feoding of tho hungry, the clothing of the naked, and tho healing of the aloky others would liko to bogin iu all with pray- er. Tho advocates of both policies are ecnmest and charitablo women. Porhapa thoy might flud a way out of (heir dificultios by covsidering how tho original Good Bamaritan worked when ho rolloved tho distressod strangor. To objeot to prayer aftor tho nocessitics of the inmates have beon relioved, provided they want it, would be an lliboral aa to insist upon it against thoir wishes, ‘Tho Singloton-Ledlie manifesto issuod yostor- dny ot Springfiold, In tho form of o protest againat tho platform ndopted by the Convention on Wednesday, would hardly be worthy of & notico wora it not for tho fact that tho Republic- an Inflationists aro attempting to give it a con- sequonce to whiel it fs not eutitled, Out of the | mouy hundreds of potsons attonding tho Con- ventlon, including men from every section, aud outof tho many thottsands of Demoornts Uving in tho vicinity of Springfleld, not a man could bb induced to attach his namo to the protest, savo Singloton, Ledlic, snd Atuinson. Tho doo- utnent s frot tha pen of Gon. Siugloton, is n nis peeuliar stylo, and marked by his peculiar logie. 1t may bo party policy for the Republic- guu to circulnte this docament as o sort of ap- peudix to Gon. Logaw’s financial spocches, but it will haidly convinco anybody not already con- { vinced, that the national dobt sboutd bo paid in depreciated paper. Tho most distinguished expositor of gastrono- my in this age nnd country, Prof. Blot, is doad. Ho waa descended from tho nation of cooks, and Defore coming to America was an sdvanced studont {u tho scionco which ho afterwards fliu- minated. Tho Professor was a good coolr and somotbing more, Ho was & goutloman, 8o ne- complisbed teacher, o Juminous writer, and & most becoming und' asiduous devourer of tho good things of this world. It would bo in- tolgsting to know whotbor his death wag hasteued by the peculisr nature of Lis avocn- tion; whether s too intimate ‘acquaintsuce with the trencherous ingredionts of dyspopsin undermived bis resolution and tho virtuo of his stomach; whether ho failod to heal himself, though ho hiad healed thousands of others; or whother he died from ehoer despair of catoring longer to his fastidious palate. When informa- tion on theso points has boen obtaiuel, it will be ensy to mako the deductions s to whether scien- tific cooking is profitable and soomly in the sight of Heaven ; and, if not, whethor educated cooks are desirablo wives for pious men. TWO CONVENTIONS, Two Convontions of the Democratic party were beld on Wodnesdey, and reached conclu- sions diamotricnlly opposed to gach other on tho only question of vitul public interest, The Olio Convention, with grost apparent uusnimity, passod rosotutions in favor of irredeomablo eur- rency, and demanding that the 520 bouds be paid in such cirrency. Tho Ilinois Convention, with Ibes unanimity but yot by o decided voto, passed resolutions in favor of specio paymonts, opposed to inflation, and demandiug that all the natiopal indebtedness shall Lo paid in coln, A more direct antagonism Dbotweon opposing par- ties caunot be found in the past history “of tho country. That such antagonism shou.i bo found in tho eflcial deliverances of the sume party s ono mordproof of tho topsy-turvy con- dition of American politica since the elavery issuo passod out of sight. Tho proceedings of thie Springficld Convention show distinctly that but for the infusion of o now eloment into the councils of the party,—an olomout whicls st! refuses to call itself Demo- cratie,—~tbe party in Ilinois would have gone tho wame way as the party in Olio—tho samo way tho party io iudiana bad proviously gono. ‘Tho frionds of an honest curronoy and honest payment of tho public debt in the Domocratio party may thank Gov, Palmer and Messrs. Hes- ing and Rastor that thelr ship did not go on the reef of ropadiation along with tho craft of 012 Bill Allen and Dau Voorhees ; and, if they come out with & majority in Novomber, of which there is at least an oyen chance, thoy may thank the same pilots for their eafoty. They have finally, after much tribulation, given to the peoploof Tllinois the only munly and square-toed declaration of truth that Las been prosented by say palitical organization; aud, whilo thils will not probubly draw many Republican votors from their alleginnce, it will enablo the Domo- crata and their allies to go futo the canvasa with aluerity and elan, and, when election comos, to poll their full vote, while tho other sido will find largo nesortment of blanks in the ballot-box whoun tho jewels are counted. ‘Thero is absoluto- 1y uothing to bring out the Republican vote thla yoar, excopt the fortuney of individual eandi- dates oud the leg-work of oftico-holders. Their platform is s gham, and n cownrdly sham. It suita noither inflationists nor the oppouents of inflacion, It I8 onoof those thiugs not worth tighting for, und hardly worth fighting against. Whatever persounl euthusiasm can bo scufiiod up, in tho Congrossiounl districts, in favor of such chiaps us 1wlbut, and Cannon, and MoNul- ta, ond tho vost, will count In the eloction, but us for any roal oarncstucss, basod upoh prinviple aud upon the desiro to promote & partioular poli- cy, such & forco and motive power 1 altogethor wunting, ; ‘Iha Opposition have something with which thoy can look honest folks utraight in tho eye, aud, it need bo, faco u fruwniug world; for, 8a Mr, W. R, Morrison wald, if beatou on such o platform, they would you be disgraced. This iy no small thing to say for tho Damoorstio party. Thoy have boen secustomed to take defeat and diggrace out of tho same pill-box, but they Lave ouly got to tuke onme this tima fu any ovent. ‘Cho allios they hove scoured will stand by thom for tiua fight ot least, If they hod como short, by even & very littlo, of the platform they adopted, theso allios would have soattered to tho four winds, Tho latter have obtulued all that thoy aeked for, viz.t nn uncqulvoeal demand for honost monoy and fulr deuling with the nation's credltora; and now it I8 to by presumed thoy wilh work with earnostuess oud fidolity to re- storo tho Btute of Illinois to the position sho ought never 0 have forfoltod, as & Cowmons waslth baviug no boarmngs toward s dwlndling ' THE CHICAGO DAILY TKIBUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1874, currenoy, and no compromige to offer to ropu- diatora, THE SBTATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. On Wednosdoy lnat tho Iilinols Btate Board of Equalization mot at Spiliigfiold. Mr. Derlek- son, membor of tho Donrd from this county, offorod a rosolution to tho offact that sinco 40 por cont wag the averago rato of assessmont of proporty 88 raturnoed for 1874, the Committoo on Corporations aud the Commities on Railronds should bo justructed to bo governad by that por- contago in maling up thelr roport on tho aasess~ mont of capital stock and raliroad proporty. In n olear, conclso, and very logical argument Mr. Derickson showed tho justico of tho rerolution Lo proposed. Somo of tho statomonts mado by him aro sfartling. Mo has adduced facts which go Lo aliow thnt the Btato Boara is in some in- stancos at loast & hugo engino of Injustico; and that instend of belng s body to equallzo taxation it is nu institution designod to make tho burden of taxation weigh unequally on different persons in the community. Itis well-known that, wheroas tho Inw fixos a fair onsh valuation of property by Asgossors, thoro gontlemon pay no liced to the Inw. /Tho roal value of all tho taxablo proporty in the Btato of Illinols {4 $3,000,000,000 ; tho ay- seased valuo {s only $1,200,000,000,—a little over one-third, Individuale do not, na & rulo, pay taxes on ovor 40 por cont of tho real valuo of thoir proporty. Notso corporations ; sud that thoy are thus unjustly and iniouitously taxed is the fault of tho Board of Equalization. The law makos it the duty of tho Bonrd to assesa tho capital stock of corporations, and some of tho tangiblo property of rallroad companics. A cor- poration, sny, owns $100,000 of stock. The Coun- y Asgossor assensos it at £40,000, for tho reason that thatis the ratoat which bio asscases all other proporty. Tho caso comos before tho Board of Equalization at Springfiold, which claims that tuoro aro &60,000 worth of stock bolonging to tho corporation still untexed. ‘The §00,000 aro taxed again, In this cago tho proporty, becauso. it belongs to a corporation, is asscsaod at two- ond-n-Hhlf timoes ita value relatively to other property. In the case of railways especislly, this unjust and discriminatiug systom of taxation s boon resorted to. Cages have beon known in which, after the tangiblo property bolonging to thom had boon taxed, tho stock was taxod like- wiso, notwithstanding it might have boou owned by parties jn Holland or Belgium. And all this n the faco of a provigion in the Constitu- tion tbat every person or corporation shall contribute to tha support of tlio Govern- wment in proportion to tho amount of Lis orita vroperty. Individual membors of the Board have een oxpostulated with on this action of theirs und scknowledgo its injustice, Still, when thoy meot at Springfleld they forgok that this dis- crimination botween railrosds and corporations and private porsona ig both unconstitutional aud unjust. Itisiime that anend should bo put to such glaring wrong. Corporations and rail- rond companics are necemsary to the dovolopment of the whole State and to the well-being of tho community. There aro hundreds of eutorprisos from which all are benefited, but which can be carried on oply by corporalions, Tako tho railway and other corporations out of tho State, and what will boloft? The State Board of Equalization is not anxious probably to got rid of these institutions, and yot thoy aro doing all in thoir power to dis- courago them, to drive away all that can got away, and to provent others like them from coming to ug. Capital comes into a State muinly through corporations. To discourago corporations is to discourago tho influx of capltal ; and no botter way can bo imagined to discourago it than to tax it twico or thrico what it is worth. But this i8 nmot all. The action of the Board of Equalization in robbing the corporations of their duo ia immoral. Through them tho State sots an oxample of injustice to its citizons. It en- courages fraud, perjury, and dissimulation. It 18 socinily, politically, morally, and economically disorganizing, 1t ia time, thorefore, that such in- juatice should coase. BOME 3 "Tho remark of Commissionor Wall at tho con- foronce of city officials upon tho quostion of protecting tho eity against firo, that ho did not care for & breast-pin it Lo had not a shirt, was a very apt one, Wo do not want & Court-House until we bnve o city 8o protected that the Court- 1fouso will bo out of dangor, as well as the rest of tho city., If thoro s any money to epend, it should bo epont at such a time aa this for actunl nocessitios, not.for Juxuries. What thoso ne- counition aro 18 vory cleatly shown Dy the pro- ceedings of this conferonco. The determination of tho Undorwritera to withdraw thoir xisks and loavo tho city unineared if something is not dane to protect proporty, ns at last srouged the nuthoritios to action. Tho investigation shows that notwithstanding the destructive experieuces. of two of thelargest conflngrations on record, wo ore shll exposed to tho same fate, and aroe without any adoquate resources for proventing it. 'Wo aro not only without tho proper numbor and character of engiucs, not only without a properly organized dopartment, propor hydrants, proper fire-ordinances, aud propor apphances, but o have not evou wator enough, although wo bave s groat lake at our vory doors, The City Englncor states that the wator supply in nearly ono-half tho city is insuf- ficfent, the groat mujority of the streote being filled with long liues of 4-inch pipos, laid twenty yoars ogo. On tho Bouth Bide, northof Van Buron streot, excopt on Michigan avenue, tho supply is amplo ; but south of Van Buren, whero tho danger ig greatost, & d-inch pipe supplics tho hydrants, Marshal Bonner totifiod that, ut the July firo, * On Wabnsh avenue, south of Harri- son atroot, the ongined did not get all the water thoy needed, Tho pipo on that stroct was only 4 inchies down to within one block of ‘Pwelfth stroat, whero thoro was a G-iuch pipe. Tho 4- inch pipe was fed by an 8-luch pipe, which onded at Hanmlson streot, and tho 6G-mch was counocted with the 124neh pips at Twelfth streot.” On the Wost Bldo, south of Cwolfth stroet, the same deficit exists In nll tho small streots, and it was the City En- ginoor's opiulon if & fho should bresk ocut on thesoe smnll streots, it could not bo stopped from weeping over tho principal streets, The North Bido is even worso off thau tho othor divisions, as at no polut is thoro water enough when mora than threo enginos are at work, Buoh an alarming condition of things ns this ought to be sufllclont to arouse the authorition to do some- thing, it thero ia any gumption in thom, or any concern for tho Bafoty of the olty. 1t Is timo that tho biather about a now Court- Iouse stopped, at loast uutil the aity is inade ronsonably eafe from fire, The first and most proéuing want of thiv elty la water and a utrin,_ gout enforooment of the fire ordiuanes, Oua of those wants roquires monoy ; the othex doos not. Tho flrst will moot with tho Indorsemont of overy altizenj tha socond will bo opposed ouly by & mob of howling Commuulsts, or by & umall ~ minority of the poople living in the vory wards whioh aro continually throntoning the safoty of thoclty. Having obtained thoso two immediato nocosaitics, then lot tho datalls of tho oporationa of our Iiro Dopartmont bo fixod 5o thint it oan bo mado offectivo, Tho pooplo aro ready and willlug to make any snorifice for this purposo, and the Oommon Council noed not foar that they will not bo indorsed by an overwholming majority in dovoling ovory dollar to the work that tho city onn spara, W aro to-day relying upon s supply of wator to put out firen which was provided with reforonce to tho contingoncies of tho clty Just twenty yoars ago, whon it was not half 08 largo ns it fa now. Thia Is Jittlo loss than orim« inal recklossucss. The pooplo tuorofors will bear it witlwvory good graco if the Council shall drop all othor busiuess until this o scttled. Thoy don’t want to hear about’ Court-Houscs any longer, As Commissionor Wahl esys, thoy don't want a bronst-pln until they havo s shirt, THE 0SAGE LAND DECISION. Tho decision of United Statos Judgos Miller and Dillon in tho Osage land casa will commend itaolt to tho sonso of justice of tho peoplo of. tho United Btates, Fow casos ss important ag this bave ever como boforo the courta of this country. It was a cuse involving thotitlotos . tract of country fitty miles in a north and south diroction, and thirty miles in su enst and wost direction, containing 960,000 scres, On the one sido wero two rallway companies, on tho othor 80,000 people who Lisd gottled on thelands. Tho strugglo was an oxciting ono. It was a real caso of grasping monopolios versus the poople, The pooplo won, 1t is well that the law was on thoir elde, Had tho caso boon doctded in favor of tho ronds and against the sottlors, thoir case would be as bad ss, if not worse than, if they had suffored from loousts, or from fire, or from flood, or from famine, Thirty thousaud buman boings homoloss, houseloss, sont bog ging fnto tho world, is not a choorful picture to contomplate; aud yot, had tho case takon n dit- foront turn, tho wholosalo eviction of the ot~ tlors woald bavo reduoced 90,000 peoplo to a atato of dostitution, Tho railroad companies wors all the moro nuxious to obtaln posscssion of tho Isnds as thoy aro excoedingly rich and fortile. Thoy had boon tho choicost hunting-grounds of tho Osage tribo of Indinus, from whom thoy do- rived their nomo. To understaud Low busoless as thio claim of the railway companics to theso lands, it is sufliciont to take a glanco at the faols of tho case. Soveral extensive lanfl-gmnt* wore mado to Knnsas railway companies In the yonr 1863, Of the roads thus subaidizod by the Government, two were Inteudod to run to the Gulf of Moexico, Theso iwo roads were to run through tho Osnge Resor- vation. They were the Lenvenworth, Lawronce & Galvoston, and the Missouri, Kansas & Toxns Railroads, To cach of those roads Con- grosy grantod ton scctions of land to the mile on ench side of ita line, In thoact making tho grant it was oxprossly provided that all Jauds therotoforo resorved by act of Cougress for tho purposo of aiding any work of internal improve- mout, o for any other purpose whitsoovor, shiould bo exceptod from the grant. This was in 1863, while the Osage tribo still held possession of the lands lately in controversy, and throe yoora before tho Indians bad sold thom to the Ubited States. It wns not, of coarso, the in- tontion of the United Btatos to convey to tho Rallroad Companies what it hadalrcady sot apart a8 an Todion resorvation, Tho title was at tho time in Indians and-not in the United Btates. Tho lands wore excludod from the grant to tho ronds by tho cxpresy torma of tho resbricting olause of tho act making it. After thoy came into the hands of the Governmont in 1866, Con- gross, ‘by a resolution of both ouses, opened thiom to mettlors, Thousands availed thomselves of tho opportunity to find homes for themselves and thoir familics, and tho settlors wore not dis- turbed by the Companies until 1871, when tho ronda wero completed thraugh tho former rosor- vation. Then camo the tug of war between the two Railway Companics and thethousands of poor peoplo who had made thair homes on the Osage lands, ‘The Socretary of tho Interior took the wido of the roads, aud decided that the tract was included in thoir graut. The entrios madoe by tho sottlors at the Land Offics wore ordered can- coled, Suits of eofectinent wore brought against tho roaisting sottlors. Insomo instancos, the sottlers wore dofestod. Iu othors, thoy woro not. Tor four years tho Companica kept up the war, 'Ta put an ond to the controversy, the Soc~ retary of the Interior ordercd tho United Stetes District Attorney to instituto legal procoedings to dotermine in whom the title to tho lands was veated. 'I'ho caso dragged along until tho 23d of this montty, wheu & final decree was entered, per- potually enjoining the Companics from sotting up any claim to thelands in controversy. The Railroad Companies bave to pay the cost of tho suit, Tt fs natural thnt there should be groat rojoic- jug over tho vietory by the 10,000 sottlons; that thora should bo ringing of bolls, and firing of cannon, and other domonstiations, . Y THE RIGHT TO BURN A NEIGHBOR'S PROP- ERTY. The principles applicable to tho injury of tho person or the proporty of one mun by auother out by law to be mado to apply to the burning of a building by the one adjoiving it. Thus, if A drives his team sud hoavy wugon recklossly againet tho carriago of B, and destroys it, ho (A) must pay all dsmagos. 1f the Captain of a vos- 8ol careloasly or designedly runs into and sinks auother, the owner or owners of tho vessol dolug tho injury must make good tho loge, In gonoral, & man ie responsiblo for whotover damage or loss his nots may causo to bis neighbor. This iy equally true when It is known with roasonable cortainty that those acts will in duo timo produco damage or loss to othors. If a mon owns & farm through whioh o atream” of water rups, ho bas no right to divert it from jta chonnel to tho injury of farms bolow Lim, or to dam it up totho injury of thoso above him. A man has no 1ight to crosto anuigance by which tho adjolning property is rondored loss valusble, 'To stato the principlo with these llustrationa is to win assent from all rondors. What right, then, has sny manto put up a woodon building noxt to a valuable brick storo ? Noithor natural right uor o strict lutorpretation of the low upplicablo to wimilar cascs gives nny such right, The chauces that t.o wooden bulld- ing will burn are much groator than that tho one of brick will bo copsumod, Tho rate of fn-~ surange on the briok i increased by ite prox- imity to a wooden structaro, To oxtend tho llustration, what right have ten or a thousand mon, whose tasto or whoso clreumstanocs induce them to bulld a large colloc- tlon of woodon tememonts, especlally in tho mouthwestern part of the clty, to thus oudanger the milliona of property n and noar its businoas contre? With the exporionce of our dwo grest fires, 8 is worse than folly—it | or rolioves him from rosponaibility. would bo a poeitivo crimo—for the City Govern- wmont to allow it. Waodon bulldings, wooks of dry, ecorching woather, and the southwost winds, nre tho most dangoious cnomies to the growth and substantinl prospority of Ollcago that can e concoived, InJranco, the privelplos we have illustratod aro applicd to fires as to all olye. Thore tho Inw allows no oxouso for the burning of one man's Liouse by that of his neighbor, Ilonce an owner ingros not only his own proporty but that of i nolghbors on each side of him., DBut so caro- fully are all bulldiugs construoted un- dor strict Govornmont suporvislon, both ns to the matorinlsa wused, tho plan, and everythingain relation to tho etruclure, that & fire soldom ocours, Honco the prics of inguring tho throo buildings iu far less thao tho cost of insuring & single building hero. Tho principle wo have illustrated, a8 well ag our bitter oxporionce, should allow no wavering wa to the extonsion of the fire lntis to the Loundarics of tho city, Wo havoe now by far too many wooden buildings for the safaty of tho city. Tobuild any moro cannot bo juatified on any princlple whatover. Lot tho Council atand firm and save the city from future destruction. ANN ELIZA’S DIVORCE BUIT. Thero aro vory fow people who will not heart~ ily rejolco that ono of tho wives of tho much- mairied Brigham Young bas sucd for o divorco, and bo still moro gratifiod it sho obtatns it, o8 woll as tho sum of $1,000 por month which she aske for tho support of hersel? and childron. If ho has nerlootad bor, as she says, after living with hior & wholo yoar; if bo has pursued o ys- tomatio courso of cruel and inbumay treatmeut towards hor, and flually deserted her, the old roprobato suould be mado o como down hand- gomoly, howevor mnch it may tax Lis income, or lowover tnuch the othor wives may howl at tho consoquont roduction of their rations aud pin-monoy. ‘The answor which ho makes to hor application is a singular instance of specinl plonding. ‘The ald gentloman vehomontly aflirms that ho was mnever married to Ann Eliza, aud that she bss never boon his wifo st auy time, bub ig the wifo of Jomes L, Deo, who is etill living, The acci- doutal fact of his cohabiting with and support- ing ber for a yoor i explained by tho fact thiat, under the doctrines of his Church, he hos tho right to coutiact colestial or plural marsiages with any of tho fomale mombors of his Church, and that he contracted one of theso with Avn Elizs, his only lawlul wifo monuwhilo being Mary Ann Angell, whom ho mairied at Kirtland, 0., in 1834 This is too small a holo to oreop out of. If bo marriod her in o celostial or plural way, thon ho sbould bo mado to support hor in s colestinl or plural way,—s viow which Ann Eliza scoms to sharo, na 91,000 por month would bo considered a celestial incomo by most women, Tho amount which sho olaims particulatly oxaeporates tho old gentloman. Ho swears that, to the best of his knowledge, all his property does not oxcaed in value tho sum of £600,000; that his income docs not exceed $6,000 por month ; and that he bas a fawmily of sixty-threo porsons dopendent upon him for support, Wo do not sco how this alters the caso It ho has only one wife, what bueinoes has hoto have a family of sixty-thros to support ? If ho has o family of sixty-throo on bis hands, who iy to Diame for it but himsclf ? Cortainly not Mary Ann Augell] Industrious as sho may have been, it 1a out of all human calculation to supposo thet sho has incronsed tho family to thiy uuprecedented sizo. Mo alone has ead- dled himself wilh this fomity. Ifo alono bias had the enjoymont of all these coles- tinl marringes, and now, bocsuso he hag renched an? ago when thoy dou't appear as they did, it ig no reason that ho should growl becausa he is expected to pay the pipor for Lis musie, If Aun Eliza waa colostial enough in 1808 to bo sup- ported by him, sho is colestial enough in 1874, It, 08 hio suys, she know hie was marriod to Mary Ann whon sho contractod the colestinl marriago with him, 8o did ho know i, and ho knew it whon bo coleatially married all the other thirty, forty, of fitty, or whatever number it may be. Strict justico roquiros that ho should support Mary Anu iu on enithly munnor and Aon iliza in o celestial manner. e ——1) THE BLAOK HILLS. The Black Ifills lia at the junction of Wyoming and Dakota, northwest of Nobraska. Gon, Cus- tor's expedition loft tha Norchern Pacific at its prosont wostern terminus, TFort Abrabam Lin- colu (marked Fort Clark in tho maps), on the Missourl. It marched up the Valley of the Littlo Missouri sud then took a gouersl southerly course to the Bk Ilills. Thess hllls, wur- roundod 88 they are by the **Bad Londs,” yet in- closo within their rogged, xocky, jagged peaks of solid granite” & scrios of rich valleys, watered by abundsut apringe, crowded thiok with flowars Litherto born to blusk unzeen, and stocked with bear, elk, aud deer. Tho floral Juxurianco soems to bo romarkablo, Gen, Forayth's diary is full of descriptions of it. o writes: *Wild flow- ors abound in overy direction, and our horses wado knee-doop amopg them. , . The whole valley is carpetod with flowers. . . The vaub quantity of flowors trowds out tho grase- os and grozing is only fuir” The country has hitherto boen unkoown. Different oxploring partles havo slkirted its edges, but Geou, Custer was tho first to examine it thoroughly. The en- ginoers who accompanied him have mapped the wholo country. Ho bas discoverod a good wag- on routo connecting tho rich lend Ipside the Hills with tho plains, Access would thus be comparativoly ensy for woitlors. A fow days journoy by wagon from Fort Lincolu would tako thom $o their future homes, Gon, Fomsyth sume up bnis views of thoso Lomes in theso words: *The econery im beautiful, grass splondid, water fino, snd climato dolight- ful; I hopo to sco tho dsy when thoro will bo any number of brave sottlors and fine farms thore.* Tho eoll isrioh, Thero is plenty of timber and building-stone, Tho oli- mate 18 equuble. ‘the summers re nob ex- tromoly hot, ‘Thero are uno signs of froshots along sho banka of tho ptreamw, so thab the snow-fall is probably very light and the winter very mild, Even in the dry season thore is plenty of rain, Grugs fs abundant and nutri- tious, Wild fruits thrive well. The dangor from Indiasug s not great, provided sottlors go in woll-armed partios, At tho samo tlmo, It Is to bo remembered that tho Indisus have & title, gunranteod by treaty, to tha whole seotion, Un« 11} that titlo {8 extinguished, white men have no right to sottlo there, Gon, Bhoridan Las no- cordingly directed the military authoritles In Minnesota to stop all'expeditions to the Black ills whioh hve nob been authorized by the Booretury of tho Inlerlor, A Soorotary more trammoled by law and ussge than Mr, Deleno would not dream of granting permits for tho in- vanion of sn Indian reservation by gold-bunters, nad it 1s not wabl_hh tlsb even his can be pere susded to a courne 0 contrary to common Pru- donco and justico. Eagor ploneors would bo wino to walt until thoe country has beon thrown opon to sottloment by not of Gongrosaj but this 11 too much to oxpeot. Forthe present, thorogard of individusls for their own skin and bonos may koop all meddlosomo whito mon at &, safo dis- tanco from ¢ho raging Sloux and their reported tronsurc-gronnds; but if ever it shall becomo & tolorably eafe uudertaking othorwiso, thera will cortainly bo no lack of adventurous spirits to risk the displessure of Mr. Delano and his sub- ordinates. Wo bave purposoly sabstnined, so far, from mentioning gold as ono of the attractions of the rogion. Wo boliovo thatitis the lagtand tho feast of thom, The hosty search of tho two practical miners who were with tho expedition dotectod rich diggings of gold in tho castern raugo of tho Black Hills, Of the country near Harnoy's Penk, Gon, Forayth says: *‘Tho very roots of tho grass would pan b couts to the pan,” As yot, howover, thore ia mo proof that the preclous motals oxist in largo quantitics. Thore may bo n number of *placers” and nothing clso. In that evont, a rsh of minors would ro- sult in the begrary of most of thom. Gold- socking pnys very poor rolurns ad a general rilo. It almost inovitably domoralizes its vo- tarla. . Callfornia hias novor recovered from the rocklossness of the * argonputs of 40." Whensa nowspapor indulges in ecstacies over ‘'a belt of good thirty miles wide,” and thon names, in an artfully artloss way, s firm which undertakes to convoy miners to tho laud of promise at low ratos, it i8 a very fair inferonco that tho ecatacy is furnishod at 80 much per line. Itis sate to #ny that whon the Indian titlo to the Black Hilla hos beon oxtinguishied, and tho tido of sottlo- mont haa flowed over tho country, the farmer and thoe stock-1aisor can find more wealth, meny, tites over, in the valleys ond on tho uplands than tho miner can dig out of the barren hill- sido. Thoro Is no doubt that gold exlata thoro, Thorois grave doubt whothor it will pay to’ dig it Bosldes, what do wo want of gold when wo havo o ourronoy so much bottor ? The *idesl homo™ of Halil Schorif Pasha Ias been broken up by a lady, his wifo, who was intelloctunlly and spiritually bls superior. There i8 no record of hor having proved her superiority by nn attachmont ta any «piritual guide, for the Park hag an udhappy mothod of extorminating {utruders of this kind with s conveniout bow- string or scimetar. After ho has applied one of theso influcncos, il tho Invostigating Commit- toes nnd Busan B. Authony stories n the world oro usoloss to put the hord back on tho intruder's shountders. The troublaiscanaed maroly by addiug ta his harom the most beautiful and accomplished Iady in Turkestan. Blio wos the nicco of tho Khedive of Egypt, aud, though sho had re- coived an European oducation, it was discovorod that, with alf hor oxtra priviloges, sho was con- gorting with an inferior porson, 8ho therofore roturned to tho Louso of hor distinguished father, and invoked the oid cf hor powerful rela~ tives. Halil Bcherif boing & trie Mussulman, lost no timo in vain regrots. Ho probably ut- tered a few unintolligiblo maledictions, consign- ing hor body to tho caro of the fusolout English- men with whom sho had associated, aud, sallsiog out to the market-place, ordated an axtra dozen wives to supply the place of thio superlor being who had abandoned him. Your Turk is tho true philosophor, after all, Somo of hismothods aro admirablo, espacially his reticenco before nowe- pupor roporters, whon pumped on tho subject of his domestic tronblos. It is not surprisiog that the bowatring protective apparatus is genorally denounced s heathen in this more enlightoned country. S S « Thore i8 in England vno spot where pauper- ism is unknown. It ie csllod Baltaire, and is gituated near the Town of Bradford, in York- ghite. In this model village thero are 5,000 familios living in stone houses built upon the most improved ganitary principles, with sohools for the children aud chapols for all tho different denorninations ropresentod among thom. Thero are no opensewers nor stinking alloys in Saltaire, no iguorancs, no idlences. Tho inhabitauts work m tho enormous woolon milis of Sir Titus Salt, tho beneficont genius of the county. The town took its' nsme from bhim. Ho is s mon of humblo extraction, the inventor of tho fabric called slpacs, the totelary saint of 5,000 homes. Many years ngo hig rare bus- inags sagacity and vast weatth and influcnce pro- cured him tho recognition of bis sovercign and o was mado a Baronot. Since that time ho has progented tha Gity of Bradford with s town-hall. and exponded an incalculablo amount of moncy in charity, Ho bas latoly boon accorded a ravo Tionor, that of seeing a statue erccted to him- self. This wss placed opposite tho town-hall at Brudford, and with many coromonics unveiled by tho Duko of Dovonshire, Thus sometimos tho peaceful pursuits of commerca raise the ben- efactor of hisrace to & Jevel with tho succoss- ful warrlor. i —_—— Porhaps nothing moro eingular has been de- voloped in the Charlio Ross ubduction caso, now a mattor of national intercst, than the offer to fiud him through supernatural agency. The be- liover in this means of graco is no loss cole~ brated a personage than Prof. Aloxaudor Hor- wanu, tho expouent of modorn necromancy, tho producer of full-grown rabbits from thimblos, and creator of gold fishes, with water and globos to match, from pockot-handkerchiofs or il hats, Ho hos offered to fiud tho missing boy, assuming all tho exponsos of the un- dertaking, apd aslking only tho permission of the polico authoritics, He has writton to Ar. Ross, asking to be intrusted with the duty, and promising to produce his missing child with the aid of o medium. Alr, Ross gives no answer, which adds to the public distrust concorning his connoctiou with tho ifair, 'The respectability of the Professor is o guarantes ngalnat unfairness, and Lis anxiety to vindicato s conviotion of tho rostity of supornatural old scoms to furnisha guficlont motive for making thooffer, Porlaps Hermann's voluntoering may have tho offect of disclosing tha whoreabouts of the littlo wan- dosor. The gullty aro proverhiully foasful of the gupernatural, P R Cinelnnati docs mot soom to be s placa to which hopoless invalids should retiro for final digsolution, Ouly a fow duys ago tho County ‘Undertalker solzod o body from tho Morguo, cof- flued nud drossed it, and rofused to deliver it to tho deconsed man's Bon until the Jatter had pald bim $40 for taking cnro of it, And now comes an old lady who threatons ta auo a doctor for tho viscora of herdaughter. The doctor treatod the pationt, and agter her doath mado an exsnuna- tion of the body. lie called tho mother ln to inspoct tho digsccted corpse and vindicate his theory of the dlscase, This was hard, but when ho coolly tool posscaion of the intostines and proceeded to carry them away, tho old lady’s indignation know no bounds. Sho olains that hor daughter’s body, and all the members theroof, boloag to herself, and pro- posas to make young Sawbones dolivor them up without dolay, It this sort ot thing continues, dying Olncinnatinna will bo compollod to cross the Olifo River au o prolimnary to the passago scroay that other stroam kuown varionsly as the Jordan or the Biyx, —————— Tho sedate and gloomy City of Edinburg has olorical scandal, too. The wile of & goutleman norving his conntry aa the Colanel of a Britlsh regimont in Indis eugaged tho morvices of & yauthtul clorgyman of tho Freo Churoh as tutor to hor eldest sou. It appears that the gossipsol Ldinburg woro arousod by observing that tho tator and tno lady wore gradually moving tholr lodgluge closss togethies, Livery time elther of them moved, it appeared as though they a'm»d ata coriain polnt of convorgonos. DBoloro this was ronchod, tho gossips discovored that the rovoroud gentloman and the wifo of tho absont wartior had oloped, They mado diractly for the Unitod Htatos, and thero can be no doubt that thoy will sottle in this country. The young man s & misslonary, NOTES AND OPINION. In the Ropublican Cougressional Gonvention of tho Eighth Obio Distiiot, Aug. 25, vbjuction was mado to s resolution denouncing the aalary- grab, hocausa ** tho Ropublicand of another dis- triot had nominated Geon. Garfield, who would b compromisad by tbet resolution.” Tha resoh- tlon was toned down €0 a4 to mean nothiug and ‘compromiso nobody. —It is remarkod upon that the action of the Ponnsylvania Ropublican Convontion in lyvoring Graut, and declsring for Hartrauft, for nexs Presidont, 4 poouliarly ungraclous, becauso, gays a writor in the Pittsburg Gazctle: Wiio was it that olecled Mr, Hastranft Governor Wan it not tho popularity of Presideut Graut that pulied theough tho Btate ticket 1 18127 Did not the gentlemon wno eugiicorod the Stalo Conveniion on Weiueaday fast knuw thot the people wors detormtned at thit Uuio to put them doww, und would thoy Lave not douo ko Liud it not been & Presidontial yoar 7 1t la very eary ot thia thne for thero syme individuals to #lup President Grant aud pul¥ up their mun Friday, but they cun thank Grant for pulling (hem througls and puiting thom whoro thoy nra ta-ilay, 'Thoy msy yot, belore the N 30t betara the Novenior alsotion, place tha ast siraw —John Martin, of Topeka, a faithful workar 1u tho causo of the Republican purty, ond pore mitted to sign himuolt * Chairmon of the Dom- ocoratic State Executive Communttee,” does nob support tho suti-Republicau wovewent fn Kane 08, Of courdo not, —In Towa the Auti-Monopoly movoment was & # Domooratio nchome to capture Ropublican voters.” 'Then the Dubuque Herald showed, by tho rocord, thal ox-Ropublicans are mauaging the Anti-Monovoly movement. Now all the Ree publican papers pine up that tho * Democrats are being gobbled by sore-head Ropublicans,” nnlll want to kuow if Demoorats will consent to it ~—Colorado eleots » Dologato in Congress, Tuosday, Bopt. 8. Candidates: Thomay M, Pat- terson, Domoeratl; Honry P, U, Bromwell, Ro- publican 3 Albaert G. Boane, ludapendeut. —In the abgonce of Eolitical Hiate Convon- tlons in Wiscousin, this year, tho action of Cou- greasional Convontions wil be more notablo than usual, Tho Milwaukeo News says of tho calls issued by tho Opposition Committees iu the soveral districts: Great credit is dua the gentlemen who fsaued thess calls, thut they buve drawn no parly lines, that thoy sre 1ot animated by a partisan. apirit, aud'sut they Davo mado possible anothor houess unfon of oll oppos nouts of iepublican usurpation, corruplion, aud proflizacy, 1ike tho union thut swopt Wiscousin't tho Btato clection of 1873, Thoe aame spirit of Lurmony, unloy, patriolln, knd tuswlsbness which procirod that vietory will |.rocuce on sifil more splondid and declslva ta o Congrausionul and Leglalativo soctions —1ho Lieavenworth Commercial (D.W. Hons- ton) is now Iudopondout, and tbo Ledvenworti Ztimes (D. R. Aothony) boastfully sunouucos it~ self to bo “Tho Only Republican paper in Leavenworth.” —Tho Indisuapolia Journal ssys: About. thoso timos look out fo e i o the, BOUML Shont. < tha wor o Hirare 13 neccasusy that Ll Domocratlo Leart whould bo Bol Blowa it that way at our Oliver's Load- quartors ? —In the Beoond Indiana District tho Ropublice ans are supporting for Conpress a Democras who i8 for unlimited greenback inflation, sgainsk a hard-money Democrat, the regular nominoco of his party. —The Republicana of the Third West Virginia District waive & nomination, and will support John Hall, indopendent Dewoorat. In tho Sece ond West Virginia District, the Domocrata haw ing pominated Charles J. Faulknor, the candi~ datea opposod to him aro Aloxaudor R. Botolas, Waitman T. Willey, snd J. Morrison Ilagans, —1In tho throo Congressional Diutriots of East Tennosgoo tho Ropublican party is divided en Congrossionn} candidates as followa: 1. C. Horck, Jacob 3, whamburg‘g,- 2 8, Willium B, Btokes, ‘Willlam Grutchileld, *Present Ropresoutatives in Congress, Tho factions are headod, respectivoly, by May- nard sud Brownlow. —The name of old Ben Wade s being can- vassed a8 su independont candidute for Con- gross in Gorflold’s district. Tho Genoral 18 foeling rathor ead.-+Cleveland Plaindealer. —Gen. Butler will soon Do obliged to take Lis coat off and look aftor tho chiauces of hiaro- alaction in the Sixth District. A formidablo op- position has dovoloped 1teolf, and Gon. William Cogswell is tho chosen champion of thoge who do not propowo to sccopt tho present situntion.— Boston Journal, —The New York ZTribune says of the State convass that * the Liberals fu tlus city aro of posod_to o coalition with the Domocrats. ' We aro glad to hear it. As tho Domacrats are op- osed to s ** coalition ” with the Liborals of Now glurk City or any other placo, or with any one olso anywhere, all theso Now York Liborals, who aro supposed to be Jobn Ooobrano and his crowd, havo to do is to go their way and borrow no trouble about the Doamocrats.—Rochester (N, Y.) Union. —Macomb City rogisters about 630 voters, and Blnodinville about 400—say 1,000 votes. It is Bafe to say thera are not fifteon Indepoudents in tho City of Macomb, and thero are not iwonty~ five in the whole towuship of Blaudinville. For- ty-fivo aut of 1,000 s, indeed, bilious! And vet somo of theso follows uro foolish emough to “domand au_nuncouditional surronder of tho Democracy.” Whow! What nonseus I—2Macomb (lll‘}'Eugw. —Political forbearance has almost ceased to bo a virtuo in Sonth Oaroling, and the Republican pocty thero must either mako good nomiaations or oxpect to bo politically ostracised. Thioving under tho guise of Ropublicaniam will not do.— Washinglon Ohronicle. '—Tho carpet-bag revel is about over. The rookoning is coming, and is not far off, either. Whaon it doos coma—iwoll, we have an idea that this timo is about as healthy a timo as the car« pot-baggors will ever find to got out of the Btates thoy have to cursed—8t. Louis Republic- an. —The Civil Rights bill, with its invasion of soolal distinctionn and ita invocations to civil contlict, sits liko a nightmuro on thoe Republican party. ‘Thero is no autlook in the currency ques- tion, with one-lalf of wbo party orying for fresh {ssues of irvedeomablo paper and the othor m- wisting on vesumption, ~‘Lle transportation Issne it & fuiluro and Civil Borvico is o fraud. deanondonoy of the situation the shadow of -the thied torw 18 votting down on the party.—Harris- burg Patriot, —Palting into consideration tho fact that the Ropublican party managod tho wholo business of reconstruction, With the control of the Execu~ tivo and both branchos of Cougress, it 1 rathor difiicnlt to understand what share any other po- litical orgauization could have had in tho mat- ter, Cortainly, tho present condition of tho South lsone of tho most horrbla exampios of politiosl corruption, trickery, malics, and folly ever exhibited, and tho oo who Lave beon in uny dogreo guilty of brinping about such a scono af misory show commoudabln ennnlnfé in trying to throw the blamo on to other suoulders.—Jn- dianapolis Sentinel. ~The Forty-socond Oongress was the most Dbase and vonal body that ever assemblod upou the contivent, and” will pass luto history in- ornsted in intamy, withony a single redeeming trait. Aud yet tho vory mon who had the mosd to do in covering the Farty-socond Congress with fuoxprossible lufsmy_sre, or will be, can- didates for ro-gloctian ta the Forty-fourib, and it thoy aro re-alocted with s partisan mujority at their buoks, to do their bidding sud carry out their dosigna, then iv will not bo safo for auy man to profesd honosty or take exception to highway robbery, Lven the Spartan rule °5 “gtenl all yon can, but bide what you steal,’ will bo (rampled uuder foot, aud open robbery bocome the fashion.—Pitisburg (Pa.) Posl, —Ropublioan campaign Orators ought to ex~ Jlain Lo tho poople how it 18 that the defieioucy Llllu aro always inrv«r tho year aftor Congroes has rotrenchoad*" for offect upon the fall Cop- greastonl alections than nftor the ' off " pi ol yoar, Ia it ouly 8 slrauge colucidenco ¥ ———— THE FENIANS, New Yong, Aug. 27,~The tulrtesnth annnal couvention of the Feniau Brotherhood, which glmnad on Tuosday, wad rosumed yeatorday. ora thau 100 delogates were prosent, includ- ing some of tho most promiust Ronlans in the Uuited Statos, Tho ob‘{not of the counvention i8 to seok & closo unlon botwosn the Penians of this country and those of Irslaud, The convention ‘will be in session nutil Baturday maaty