Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 1, 1874, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY , SEPTEMBER 1, 1874, b e e e e e e e e ] TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, BATRA OF BUNSCRIPTION l:AY'AIILH w ‘DV‘)I;'Q- 0 2,00 Auuida . S5O0 ! Sy it draft, oxproas, Pos Ofico ouder, or in rogintored lottars, L anr riaks TRIMS TU OITY SUBSCHINERS, Pally, doffvorod, Hundsy oxcopted 25 cants per wook. 3t selivered, Sunday Includnd, 30 sants yur weok. RIBUN Garuisr Madipon and Dearhorn TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. OOLEY'S THXATRE-Tanduiph atroot, between At M v o MIVIGKIR'S THIATRI- Maison steoat, betweon e b Aot "Shgin Adsinas *Thia Ttoa Light or, Thoikm of Dauger. GRAND_OPERA-IIOUSE—Clark stroet, opposita B s oty X Lebars Mtsstrols. MY OIF MUSIO—nlstod atroot, betweon Mad- A e itayigomous. of Tabert Aewado, “*Rip Van Winkio, AMRRIOAN MUBEUM-—Monro strost, betweon b0 ot Dioasbor, nduction.™ CIETY MEETINGS. A %, No. 003 A, It & A, M.—Regulae A P O sy ovanlg, 5 Tl o, 15 Jlosoaat., for bustnoss nnd rork ou o I O, degroo. Tus fratorsity co 0. ORANE. Berlys NTION, IR ICNIGHTS.—Stated Gonolave of A Oy N b H e hie Cruontayfared: o gt daiiock ol fhe Klypt, Iuntnoss i ek 20 I orabrofine K. 0, % Xi. T, . LOOKH, Ttocordor. S BUSINESS NOTI NEY, CORNER OF OLARK AND X a1a e gkt and besh ful a0 of tooth for 98, Hatistaction rivon or monoy refunded, PR LR L LR TA LR SR e P The Glivagy Tdtbune, Tuosday Morning, Septomber 1, 1874, Suppoas Vormont should return a Democratlc majority to-day. e ———— Mr. O'Hara did pledge himself bofore election to turn over ail the intorest on city doposita 3o the goneral fund, Probably he hss forgotton, Ald, Campboll statod the casa woll last night when he said that tho City Troasuror should not be allowed to pocket $100,000 & year merely bo- cauge ho is & good follow. Mr. D, B, Covert has boen appointed a mombor of tho Board of Education, in plac of W. H. King, resignod. Thopooplo will not soon forget Mr. King's solf-sacriticing snd efficiont labors in their behalf. Judgo Dickey has sgnalizod the boginning of nis carcor 38 Corporation Counsel by confirm- ing the position first taken by Tue Tninuxe god altervards supported by tho Mayor and City Attornoy, that tho cloction of & City-Hall prehitaes by tho Common Council is fnvalid. Evonif such olection were lega), it would bo ronderod nugatory by tha voto of the Mayor, which Lia novor, boen overruled by the Council. Tho new Admimatration organ in Now York is aunounced to commenco its tuno on the 14th of tha prasout mouth, or possibly on the 21st. It in statod that £500,000 bes beon subscribed and will be paid in 8s fast 28 wanted. What particu- lar faction it is to support (or pull down) is not stated. Wo shall boliove that somebody is so- rious in this matter when we sca the firs num- ‘borof the paper, and not befor o A gradusation of insuranco ratos by etroets, according to tho sizo of wator-mains lnid on thom, is anow devico. It will raise a howl among the 8 and Cineh fellows. Thoy will bo for getting up o procession, and prosonting themsolves at tho Council Chamber with thew ‘wrongs inseribod on banpers, aud paving-stones in thoir cost-tail pockets. A mob of property- holdors in this stylo wonld prosent a picturesquo appoarance, and be quito a8 now a remedy for tho wronge of rich mon a8 the rovision of insw ance rates, though perhaps not as effective, ‘Wo publish this morniug a lotter from the Hon. Josoph Medill proposing o plan for the protection of Chicogo agaiust fire. Io belioves that the insurance compnnies may oe- complish this by certain discriminations in undorwriting; and advises that no risks bo taken on baildings not provided with firo-proot roofs, or wooden structures not surrounded by a coat- mg of brick. Buch procautions as these would provent tho sproad of fires, aud insaro safoty sgainst conflagrations so far os s consistont with tho unfavorablo conditions presented in this city. Sults havo been instituted by tho Trustees of the Macoupin County bondholders against tho Judgos who in 1870 set asido tho tax proviously Tovied for the paymont of the Conrt-Hougo in- dobtodness, Tho complainants allogo that tho action of tho Court reduced the valus of the bonds held by them from par to 60 por cont ; and by subsoquont proceediugs of tha same bady thoy wero rondered abeolutely worthloss, Itis now the inteution of the bondholdors to proses cute all persons coucerned in the ropudiation- schomo, and to ascertain in tho courts of last rosort the responsibility of ofiicials for damages Infiictod by thelr malfoasanco. An intoresting dispatch from Bismarck, giving the latest information from the Black Hills ox- pedition, which has now returned to its storting point, Fe, Lincoln, is pubhshed elsowhore in this isoue. Our corrospoudont confirms tho ro- ports of the wonders developed in tho now country, which, ho says, appeara 10 be not only an Eldorado but & Paradiso, A8 to the dtecovery of gold in large quantitics, thora #eoms to bo little doubt. Thodoposits sro fairly xioh, This being the case, the Governmont can- not too soon recognize the fact that there are not troopa enough In the Northwest to give force to tho order of Gon. Bheridan, forbldding the invasion of the roservation, Aud as the Government will ba itaolf responsible in & measure for tho gold-fevor whiok 18 on the point of breaking out, ita plain duty is to mako immediate arrangementa for the safoty and in- domnification of the Indiang, who will inovitably e drivon from the ground. The Chleago produce markets wore steadior yostorday, with a fair businces in grain, Mess pork waa dull, and 133¢o per brl lower, closing ab $22.024@22.76 cash, nnd S17.124@17.16 meller the yoar, Lard was quiot and irrepular, st $16.13)/@16.25 por 100 Ibs cash, and Ooctabor. Oata woro quits activo, and Jdohighor, excopt for yeaterday's dellvery, olosing at U9}do soller Soptombor, Ryo wns quiet and steady at f6e. Borley was quiot and onsior, closing at 881¢@8Y0 for Boptember. Ilogs woro active and 10@160 highor. Salos at €5.26@8.25, Cattlo and alicop woro stendy and unohanged, Bume days ago we mnoticed tho aummary method of dealing with obnoxlous ofticials whioh hnd boon adopted by the white poople of tho Rod River country in Louisiana. It con- aistod meroly in calling o publio mooting, do- c¢laring the oftices yacant, and making a display of shot-guns and bowio-knives. To romatu in the country afior such an exprossion of pubtio opinion was oloarly doflance, and the gon- eral supposition was that the porsons condomned wonld scarcoly vouturo upon oo bold n course. Dut thoy did; aud from theso humblo altoreations tho torrible Coushatla nffair doveloped. 'Tho dispatchos this moruing in rolotion to it are moagre, but sulli- cient Is told, Bix of thooounty ofiicials who ro- maluod at their posts aud attompted to maintaln thoir rights wero thrown into jail, aa wore also six of their negro supportors. ‘Thenco thoy wero takon by a company of tho loss violont spirits, who proposed to romovo thom for safoty, umil tho tme of tral, to Blrovoport. Whon about 35 milos from that city, tho cavalcade was overpowored, threo of tho prisoners wero killed ou tho spot, and throo moro wero dispatehod fn s moro conveuient place. Theso are tho faols us roported by tolograph, Without moro exact data it is impossible to judgo of tho caso as a whole. Wo know very well, however, that no confunction of circumstancos could have pro- vokod such & massacro aa that of Coushatts, Liont.-Gov. Autoino, of Loulsiana, ia now in this city. o gavo toa TRIBUNE roportor yeslor- doy hin viows of the political situation in tho Bouth, especially in relation to thie supposed an- tagontsm betweon tho black and white racos, Ho belioves that thero is no immodiato daugor of & “war”; thatif onadaca accur it will bo owing to tho inflnonce of the Whito Lieaguo, wuich tho Govarnor deseribos as being more Democratio than white, aud propared to disrogard all proju- dices of color whon palitical success ia invalvad, ‘Chis Loaguo, tha Gavernor mays, 18 vory turbu- lent in Louisiens, and will continue o, until it is proporly robuked by tho National Govornment ond tho popular sentiment of tho North, While wo do not boliove that the White Loagucrs, £ they aro suoh tecriblo fellows ns the Licutenant-Governor ropresonts, wouldstand in wholesomo awo of any * popular sontiment” ut tho North, or that outrages committed by such agonta can bo robuked by votitz formoroe graon- bocks aud tho vindication of Boss Bhepherd, yot tho nows this morning doea scem to domand soma oxpression of sympathy for the colored peo- ploof Louisiana, But beyond thisnothing can bo done. Tho Couehatta affair is bad enouglh, and criminal enough, certainly; but it is not onsy to sco how we at the North can bhelp eporadio | instances of lawlosauose in 3 8overeign Htato, If it wasnot allowablo to place Missourt undor martial law becauso of tho doflanco whick the Younger brothersand tho Jamos brothers badn to tho State autborities, neither can Louistann ruftians bo punished by tho strong arm extend- ing down from Washington, BUSINESS PROSPECTS, Tho fall in tho price o wheat, oqual to 20 pev cont within tho last fow weoka lLas caused not s littlo anxioty smong thoughtfnl men, Itiaa matter of o much importance to tho entire country that a further disoussion of its probabloe affecta upon our business intorests is in ordor, It s statod that tho wheat crop in Europo is so generally good that every nation will have enough for its own wauts, excopt Switzerland and Tngland. Of cowse, tho little Alpine Ropublic will draw its supplics from tho noighboring provinces in France and Gormany, loaving only Englend, for whose markets America will bave to competoe with the granaries of the Mediter~ ranoan, tho Beltic, and tho Black Beas. Tho sot- tling down of prices i, therefore, inovitable, and how low & figuro will bo reached within tho noxt year it srould be prasumption now to at- tempt to prediot. That must dopend upon the actual surplus that tho crop on both sides of the Atlantie will yiold, aud tho necossity pressing upon holders to soll, or, rather, their sbility to Liold over their surplus for a highor markot horeaftor, Though wheat is ono of our largest and most valuable staples, we havo ofher products to soll to foroign pations which will pay forall their producta whicli it is really necegsary for ua ta consume. Linst year Groat Britain and Ireland took from us 81,700,876 bushels of wheat and 29,384,758 bushols of corn. Now, if our whoat should bo driven entircly out of the Eoglish market, and eny onc-half of our corn, the loss in our oxports would ba about §5,000,000. Tho {rue course for our poople. to take, under tho circumstancos, would ba to buy that much less 1rom Europe. They cnly need to lesson thelr consumptioun of wine and silks to mako up tho deficioncy. Tho total valuo of our domestic products exported to foreign countries for the year onding June 80, 1879, was §575,227,017. Now, 1f $16,000,000 be deducted for the whoat wo should hizve to hold ovor if*none of it, and only Linlf a8 much corn aa lost yoar, be takon from us by Groat Britain, wo abiall still bavo $630,000,000 to pay for our interest and such articlos of no- cosslty ne wo mny be disposed to buy. Among the artioles of oxport last yesr tho valuo of our cotton was $227,243,000, and \ nddition to tho total sum sbove given §78,905,617 in coin and buillon wero sent abrosd, Tho Jeeson suggosted Dby tho decline in the prico of wheat is thnt our poople should continuo wo practico cconomy. Indeed thoy must do so nolens volens. Tho farmors,with the excaption of those whose whole dopendonce is upon thoe wheat crop, were soldom, If ovor, in a bottor condition to bear up ‘undor & poriod of low pricos for this staplo, For months provious tothe early wooks of tho presont Year eorn boro & very low prico. Lusrgo numbers of farmers hold it over for two yours, perhapa more, and whon the prics wont above G0 conts thoy began to sell, and now thoy hsve largo awmounty of ready cash to tide them over a sesson of dopression in tho prico of whont. Thore nre largo soctions in Wisconsin ang Towa, and os- pecially in Minnosots and Nobraska asud in Southwestern Dakota, whero low pricos for noar- ly the only staplo thoy export will hoar vory se~ $11.13%@11.16 ‘soller tho year, Moats were sotivo and ocasior, olomng at 8o for shoul- dors, 113@120 for short ribs, 12@13¥c for short cloar, and 113(@123¢0 for awoot-plokled hume, Highwines woro in good demand, and firmor, at 9730 por gallon, Lako trolghts woro more active aud unchanged, at So for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quiet and nominal, Whoat Was notive and wonk at Baturdsy's sange, closing a4 0850 cash or sellor Ootobar, Corn waa sotiva sad strouger, cloalay ab 670 oash, and 67)¢0 for voroly upou tho people. But thoir orops aro &0 abundant that oven at low prices thoy will not suffer unloss the markets of the world continuo deprassed for o number of yoars, In the moan- outto syatom. Dat as tho farmors bave the romody for this wrong in thoir own haudo, thoy havo nobody to blamo but themselves it It {a not ap- plied, et ——e TAX SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS, Tho State Boord of Eijunlization ts now in gos- sion st Bpringfleld. The whole sum 6T Stato taxon to bo lovied and collected in 1874, fuclud- ing sohool-tax, Iy two and a half millions of dollara. Tho cash valuo of the taxablo proporty in tho Btate Is, in round numbors, $3,000,000,000, ol which the Asgessors linve roturncd 81,100,- 000,000. The assessod valuo of the property, thorofore, is but 87 per cont of tho wholo. Bix- ty-threoe por cant i lost in tho assossmount. Wo assume, though wo have not tho exnck figures to pravo thio assumption, that tho poraonal propor- ty ot found ot all has o cash value of 9760, 000,000; and thnt the porsonal proporty found is agacaucd, in gross, at 40 por cont of its actual valuo. Tho averago assossod valuo of tho lands sud lats fu porhaps 60 por cont of the real valua, This s tho rosult of & wecond trial to asoss ail tho renl and personnl proporty of the peoplo of tho Btate **so that overy porson and corporne tion shall bo taxed sccording to his, her, or ita proporty ! Nr. Dorlokson, who has devoted tho lnst yoar to o caroful oxawmiuation of the local assosa- monta in varioun conntios, and compared them with nctnal solos, in a spocch publishod in this papor on the 27th, gave tho range of nssoss- ments in varlous countios, showing that the as- sessod value is in tho proportion of 25 to 60 per cent of tha actual valuo. But his rosoarchius wont furthor, and disclosed that, in overy county, lands wero assosgod with ntter disrogard of the taw, and that, whilo somo tracts of land are ro- turned st tho cash valuo, others in the snmo township and county are roturned at 70, 60, 50, and even at 20 por cant of the prico at which time thoy will donbtloss vary thoir orops to mult the altered condition of affairs, As acorollary to tho above, tho injustico of making the farmor pay double pricos on hin pur~ ohases turongh o awindling tarift, while tho prteo of hin priucipal ataple is dopressod, 14 sulliciont- 1y apparont, The mero atateont of tho faos ls a sullciont argumeat agalush gur iniquitous rev. thoy hava boon actually sold within o year, Here, then, wo havo a string of outragos that aro in- soparable from tho system of taxation by valua~ tion, Look at tho liet : 1. One-fourth of tho entire taxablo property of the Statois nover found at all, snd pays no tox s 2. A largo proportion of the porsoual prop- orly of tho Stato I8 reported at various rates by countios,~theso ratos rauging from 20 to 60 per cont of tho roal yaluo. 8. As betweon individuals residing in the same county, tho same inoquality oxists, one man's proposty being nssossed at 20 por cont and his neighbor'y at 100 por cont of 1ta actual value. 4. Tho samo results aro obtained in tho valus- tion of real estato (oxcopt that nono of this es- capes ausossmont), tho average in countles rang- ing from 25 to 60 por cont of tho actual valuo; and as botween individuals some porsons bolng asgensed 20 por cont and othors 160 por cont of the sctual valuo of thoir proporty. This ia the uystom of taxation in tho Btate of Illinols at the closo of tho first contury of American inde- pendance, 1. Nor doog the injustico and inoquality end hero. A company organized to carry on a planing-mily Liag & capital stock of 8260,000; this sum of ‘monoy is investod in lunds, buildings, tools, sud matorials ; its property, roal and porsonal, is ag- posuod like othor proporty, at 60 por cont of its cash valuo, or abt 150,000, Under tho law, this company 15 nssessed on §260,000 capital stock, loss $1560,000 tangiblo property, and then on tho tangiblo property also, making 100 per cout on all ita property, Without tho land, buildings, tools, and materials, it would have no property : yot, belng s corporation, its property is nsscssed at 100 por cont, whon all the other property in tho county is assessed at not over 40 to 60 por cent its real value. Wo Liave, thon, cortain property compulsorily swacssod ot 100 per cont of its roal value, while ono-fourth of tho whole taxable property iz not nssessod at all; and the remain- dier i assessod ak proportions ranging from. 20 to 60 per cont. Tho Stato Board of Equal- ization, though appointed to rovieo tho nsgessments * o that evory porson and corpo- ration shalt pay o tax in propartion to the ‘value of bis, hor, or its proporty,” ia prohibited by law frow incrensing the totnl asscesmont of $1,100,- 000,000 whon the Board oflicially kuows the no- tual valuo §s $3,000,000,000 ; and at the samo time. is compolled by law to assess tho property of corporations at 100 per cent of its valuo, when it is notorious that the othor proporty in tho Stato s not assossed at ovor G0 por cont of its vatue. ‘Tho only remody that the State Board of | Equalization can legally adopt is that proposed by Mr. Derickson: assuming that tho total va'tus of ol taxablo property is $8,000,000,000, end deducting therofrom a sum for property not fo'nnd, they can find the proportion which the nctual assessment of $1,100,000,000 boars to tho ro.mainder, aud declaro that porcontago to ba tho &e tual percontago of real value to be placed on all kinda of property to bo taxed by tho State. 1o what tho Borrd may, some men will pry taxes «m 160 por cont valuation, othors on 100, and. "ochers on 50and avon on 25 per cent valuation. | ©Cho Board is helpleas to romedy this evil, which 14 inoradicable oxcopt by tho overthrow of tho viliolo systom. DBub it can remedy tho othor and glaring evil which taxes intangiblo property at 100 por cent, leaving tho tangible proporty to be taxed at 40 por cont. That glaring inconsstoncy, that open and confossed violation of the Con- atitution, the Board can romedy, and wa trust will do 8o, Tho Board of Fqualization, g aftor tho goneral oxposure already. made by BMr. Dorickson of the working of tho vale untion wystom, and tho detalled oxposure which hn can make whaen called upon, must Do entisCied that the prosont syatem of taxation is Tadically dofectivo, can never be fairly oxccuted, 18 & suare: aud o dolusion, a robbery of oue man and an ¢ romption of another. It can sorve the Btato wit h great benofit if it will roport thoso faots to tho Logislature, and recommend that. body to put inoperation the othor systom of taxation provided by the Constitution, and re~ lievo the, pooplo of the prosont Hovenue eodo, with {ts premiums for perjury, orime, extortion, injuatic 0, wasto, and inoquality, Tho daily press v slowly but very suroly taking the placo of tho weokly paper devoted to spr cial dopartments of morals and oculture, by troat! ng ovorything as nows, Forsoma timo the roligi ouns weoitlios havo beon beaton in their own flold. On Sunday and Monday mornings, for inst. smee, Tus Cizcaco ‘TumnuNe prints more snd freshor roliglous futolligonce than all the roli gions papers in Chleago combined,’ The pri ating of fao lni{le copica of all the cosro- 8p andonca in the Beocher-Tilton case by tho Nt we York Graphio was nuother Instance of o dorprivo in o now diroction, Tho same paper I ot winter, upon $he morning after ‘the fliut 1 exformance of Yerdl's new opera of * Alda,” 1 ainted all tho principal numbors of it in mualeal 1" sotation, and hasnow done the samo for Vassour's mew Opes boufte, ¢ La Timbale d' Argent,) which wns brought out for the first timo in this’ country lnst Thursday by the Aimeo Troupo, It thus furnishos tho rondor not only & dogorip- tion of the scono and crltioal roviow of tho por- formance, but the musio itself. At this rato of progress, it will not ba long bofore the musiosl weakllos will b superftuons. VOTING BY WHOLESALE. Tho toketa printed for tho full olections re- somblo directorics for tho State, county, and townshlp in which thoy are elroulatod. 1o Towa, ovory votor can cast & ballot contalning n dozen names, boeldes thoso of the township nominees. In Michigan, tho tickots have twonty-two namoa. In Indlans, thoy Iiavo bwenty-pino. Thin syatom of voting by wholosalo is opon to somo gravo objections. It 18 fmpousiblo for any man to mn- form himsolf aufficiently about so many nomi- necs. Homust dofor to the opinlons of tho mob, that is, the Convontion that nominsted them, This nocossity la the groat causo of party tyranny. Tho voter porforco abandons the ox- orclso of his own judgmont, and bocomos a tool in tho bands of the “men inside politica.” Again, tho system of wholosalo voting dostroys rosponsibility. Whon an official blunder is dotocted, iho Govornor throws tho blame on tho Cabinot which the eloc- tion has forcod - mpon him, and the Intter oither accopts it in silonco, conscious that tho sharo falling upon cach member will bo in- finitesimal, or else bandios words with the Gov- ornor, until the disputo ripens into ’u unsoemly squabble. Theoro is no ono porson to whom the poople cat eny: **Somobody is roaponsible for this, and thon art thomsn.” It is a matter of no meou importance that this state of things should bo romediod. Somothing liko it allowed tho Tammany Ring to rob for years. Rosponsi- bility and power must go togother, No men can justly bo held sccountable for the acts of sub- ordinates whom ho did not appoint. To fix ro- sponsibility, and to obviato the nocosatty of vot- ing for » multitude of unknown persons on the Btrongth of a party nomination, it might be woll to have many offiviala who axo now clected by the pouple heroafier appointed by their imme- dioto superiors, Tho number of officors rendor- od nocossary by our complox systom of governs monta within govornmenta] 1s so great that some chaugo sooms almost essontial, It would be, in o messuro, a roturn fo old customs. An recontly as 1820, Seorotaries of Btato, Attorney-Gonorals, Stato Treagurers, oto., weore almost invariably either clocted by the Logisiature or appointed by tho Governor, In Muine, Now Hampshirs, Maryland, Obio, and Tiinois, theso two mothods of choice wero com- binod. Tho Executive Cabinet wes partly ap- pointed by the Governor, partly elocted by the Logislature, In New York,, Virginis, North Carolina, Bouth Carolina, Goorgia, Mississippi, nod Indians, the Logiaiaturo oloctod all Uabinet officers. This waa also the rulo, in 1820, in Massachusetts, but it was aftorwards so changed that that Btato, like Vormont, Ponnsylvania, Dolaware, Louislans, Kentucky, and Tonnessae, gnavo its Governor the appointing power. In tho last half-contury, s rovolution has boen wrought. Office after office has boen made elective, uutil now tho pooplo ars clamoring for tho right to vote for their own Postmasters, The abuso of potronage has no doubt had much to do with this, Tho reaotion against it might go too far. "It is well worth cousidoration, however, whother the Governor of o State sbould not have the power which the Prosident onjoya of choosing his own officis! ndvisors, by and with the consont of one branch of tho law-msking body. Then, it anything goes wrong, the Excontivo ia rosponsible, He cannot dodgo that fact, Now, if a Becrotary of 8tato or o Stato Troasurer proves grossly incompetent, nothing enn bo dons, If Richardson bad been olected instosd of appolnted Socrotary of the Treasury, ho would bo disgracing us in that position to-day, DBut Grant waa ro- spongible for him, and populsr clamor forcod Graut futo buying his resignation with & minor Judgeship. A Govornor elocted|for « short torm, not over twoyears at tho farthest, and cudowed with tho powor of seloctiug his own Cabinet, would feol diractly responsiblo for the wholo executivo manngement of tho State. Heo would realizo that his future lay in his own hands, and that his orrors and thoso of his sub- ordinates would bo sternly laid up agaivst bim, 1o would theraforo chooso good men and would watch thom closely. It is truo that sho magni- tudo of such power would render it liablo to grave abusa in the hands of a bad man, but the consciousnoss of this fact would produco groator caro in choosing good men. This samo system could bo carried into effect in lower sota of officos. It might be espocially applicable in Inrgo citios. e CIVIL-SERVIOE REFORM. Dorman B. Eaton, of the Civil-Sorvice Oom. ‘mission, is a person of groat faith, Ho belioves in Gen, Grant's anxioty for Civil-Borvice Reform, The Springield (Mass,) Republican had ro- marked, editorially, that Mr. Enton and his sssocinten would bo thrilled to learn that the Prosidont bad sald ho wag * going on with Civil- Sorvico Roform, and that examinations for pro- motion wero etill an overyday affair in tho De- partments.” Mr. Eaton roplies that bois not thrilted at all by tho information tho Republican affords him. o bolioves that tho Prosidont is golug on with Clvil-Sorvice Reform, and thatho is carnestly in favor of it, Ho scoms to think, even, that oxaminations for,promotion in tho Civil Bor~ vioo aroon evorydny altair, Andthieis tho reason why the snnouncoment of tho Springlield Re- publican does not turill him, Its eriticlem, how- ovor, doos, A thrill of sadnoss runs through him, ho tolls us, whon ho seca an ablo and influ- ontial journal, instead of wivongthoning tho great causo, embarrassing ite friends and sup- porters and raising a shout of exultation in the camp of its enomios, Mr, Eaton bolleves in tho Prosidont's sincority, Not the Prealdont but Congross atands in the way of reform, according to Mr. Eaton, Tho greatest poril to the good causo s fn tho fact that “approprintions will be mnoedod moxt wintor What that moans noods no explanation, Whether or not QGen. Grsnt I8 a8 ocager for Clyil-Borvico Roform as Mr, Eaton thinka ho is, may bo open to roagonablo doubt. Not &g, how- over, that Qongross Is in ite way, and has been oll along. Mr. Eaton goes back farther, howov- or, a8 indeod be is fully warranted to do, and snys, in his roply to the Republican, ns ha hod already said clsowhore, that it ia publio opmlon which is to biame for tho indifforence or the an- tagonismn of Cougress to the improvoment of our Olvil Borvica, Undor a domooratlo form of governmont, the pooplo aro always, to & vory grent extent, to bo blamed for tho action of thelr reprosentativos, Were they to fosist on tho elootion to placos of Hrust and rosponsibility of only good mon, thioy would bave ltilo ocoasion to complain of tholr courso; snd tha$ thoy sloot othor then good et i thelr own faulk Oaly, ae Mx, Raton sags in tho want of a sternor public opinfon which Congresn will rogard is thoro any dangor. Mr. Enton catrios hia defonso of Gon. Grant to tha oxtont of oxculpating bim forhld appointment in tho caso of the Boston Collectorship, contrary to tho Clvil-Sorvico rules, Tho rulos wero not ap- plied in Bouton, bocauso of the hostility of Con- gross and the waut of constaut support in tho prosa. Juat horo, it sooms to us, Mr, Enton goos & littlo too far in defonsoof the Presidont, What- over olgo may bo snid of Gon, Grant, it can-~ not bo donfed that ho hay & will of bis own. ‘Whora ho fa rontly hil oarnest, Lo caren littlo for publio opinfon or for the press. When once ho Las fully made up hils mind, and hns no object to gain from tho popular vote, bo is aa rosoluto 88 Gon. Jackson, That in the mattor of Clvil- BorvicoTteform ho has shown o disposition to dis- regard tho rules roported by the Commisalon and approved by himself, would go to show that it Is not eo much the lack of support aa indifferonce that hag causod him not to adhero to thom, Cougross may boar o part of tho blame, Itis not just to charge it with the whole. Wao aro glad to notico that nolthor M. Eaton nor the Commission 8 anything daunted by the opposition that hos boon mado thus far to tho causa of roform. Mr. Eaton i3 full of hopa for tho futuro, Groat good, ho clnims, has beon dono alrondy, The most dificult stage in tho matter Lias boon passod. Cortain it ia that, while a great doal mors might havo beon dono than hag beon dono, the frionds of Civil-Sorvico Reform hovo nothing to gain for thoir causo by repro- sonting it as alroady dofeatod. Their efforts should be dlrected rathor towazds croatinga pub- lio opinon in {ta favor serong enough to compol candidates for offico to pledgo themselves to its support. This has not yet boon done, and, until it shall bo dono, thore is little hops of accom- plishing much. "The Now Orloans Times of the 24th inst. tells very intorosting but pathotis story of the lifo of an orango-planter named Landman, Thirty yoars ago, ho camo into possossfon, s a squat~ tor, of tho Ialand of Chenloro on the Gulf coast. Mo was at that timo vory young and full of ontorpriss. By hard labor, yoar after yoar, ho auccooded in raising one of the lnrgost and {incat orango orcbards in Louisians, although ho worked alone for yosra. Aftor a timo, ho mariied and took lus wifo to the island, and for yoars thoy enjoyed eno of the happiest of homes. Childron wore born to thom, and their work was remunorativo, so that they lald up a handsomo sum. Then sicknesa came, and ouo by ouno all tho family died, until the father was latt alouo aguin, Brooding upon his troublos, he fancivd thet tho spirits of the dead sroro about him, and soon ho becamo an ardent Dbelievor in Spirltuslism. At this point, somo groody land-speculators discovered that he had no valid titlo to bis land, and sot about in the courts to disposdcss tho old man of his island- home, Ho would not rotain counsol, but reled upon tue epirita to holp him managoe hin case. ©Of courso, thero could bo bub ono isuuo to the case. Thero was practically no dofonsa at all, His spirit-frionds did not bolp him. He lost his homo whero ho had lived for thirty years, and whore his wifo and children were buried. Whon tho Judge sunounced his finding and decreo, tho poor old man arose in court and his aclo reply was: “Plesso your Ionor, thero ia no rodress for mo in oarthly courts ; I thorefora appeal my caugo to tho highor court of the third hoavons.” This is an spponl which cannot and will not be Bet ngide. s compensation will como, —_— Agrioulturists and middlomen whoss pros- pects aro blighted by tha grasshopper incursion may be consoled with tho refloction that tho crowded ficld of litoraturo is atill open to them. Mr, Josoph Gwyer, of Sydonbam, Iing., potato- sellor by trado, bas broken out alf over in lyric verse. Ho has inscribod poems to all sorts of distinguished porsons, and yoceived compli~ montary lattors from tho Marquis of Lorno, tho Empross Eugonio, sad the prosont Lord Mnyor, which bo exhibits with pride on his business card, with tho agroeablo an- nouncoment that * a sack of tho best potatoes cnn be forwarded to any part of London or sub- urbs diroct from tho farm, Prices on applica- tion," Coutious persons who would associato tho quality of lr, Gwyer's vogetablea with that of his muse will pause beforo ordering, aftor a perusal of his great work **The Wrook of the Northfleot. Horo is a verse : o lifted i up by bis air, Helped higher with overy caro. “Fhin subjoct 18 too mucki to write, Tho thoughiaof which v'ercomes mo quite, Ho rallies from tho nervous prostration {n- duced by ocontemplating o dreadful a scono, howaver, and continues : *Tls Jife or doath, exll Andrew now, Oif with your coit und throw below, ST can't, said Groon 3 “You must,” ho cried, But no ;' ou androw ha ralied, The 8hah was the recipient of a complimen~ tary lyric, but falled to acknowlodge it. s iitoravy tasto is, a8 every ono knows, far below what it ought to bo. i Gen. W. 8. Inncock oxporionces how diffiouls it is to sloteh o rumor once it has got into the rounds of the nowspaper press. The General wag at Norristown, Pa,, somo six weoks ago, aud tho Iferald (s Republican paper of that placo) an- nouuced that— Whilo in conversation with somo of our citizens he in. tluwted that Lo was an splrant for the bighest political houors, and thnt bl huno would be oered us candie datofor tho Proidency in the nost cupaign, Hostated that thore would bo a number of candidaten brought forward, but Riero werw certaln considerutions which hig thought outitled Lita to party favor, The noxt week's Norristown Zerald took it all back, with spologies for an unwarranted and un~ tratbful publication, and was * pormittod to say that Con, Hancock is not o esndidato for the Prosidency.”” The Genornl was at lsst nccounts consting along in the vicluity of Mount Desort Island, Me., on the lookout for squalls and hav- ing a good time, What must bo lus surpriso, on coming nshore at somo place, to resd in curront digpatches of tho Associated Pross : WasiniaTow, Aug, 37.~The Norristown (Pa,) Herald noys tbut Gen. W, 8. Huncock speut soveral daya o weak in visiting his friends in Norristown aud ita wicinity, and that whila in convorsation with somo of our cltizons, Lo intimated, etc,, vtc, And " 1ast week” wasn't & very good wook for nowa at Waalington, either. s el Nowport fashionablos had a genuins caso of kidnappiug a fow doys ago which has afforded topicu for ball-room conversation ever sinvo, and 1may have oduced remarks ontiroly indopondont of tho woathar, tha heat, tho lost fashionable acandal, agd Mrs, Siythe's last triumph u cos- tumory, 'The child stolon was o littlo 9-year old white girl who had coma to Nowport from Livor- ol, N. B., to soll trivkets. An Indian squaw told tho child’s history, Five years sgo, tho baby's mothor baving died, tho fathor handed hier over to thosquaw toadapt. Sbo had become the ward of tho beggrly tribo, and was considorod ono of them. Whilo playing on tho boaoh sho was no- contod by a stranger, takon into the Indian tont, bor rags ohanged for haudsome olothos bought by her abductor, aud thon sho was lod away, sud no mora seon, Information wad glven to tho police by the boart-broken fonter-mothor, And now Nowport ia divided, ITalf tho placo thinka tho atrangor was tho child's father, and that s fow voars honco tho little walf will bo s Nowport bolla; the othor half maintaing that tho Charlio Toss osuo hiad gomething to do withit., What that somothiug i, it will keop tho rare intoliccta ot the young weu and womon of fashioa busy to digoover for the rost of tho season, ———— Praotical jokora nover dosorve the sympathy of senaible pooplo when thoir own potards hoisk thom skywards, Thoreforo, Noble Martin, of Bt. Joo, aud » Ohicago friend desorvo the ridi- culo that followa tho falling of an ambltious offors to malke anothor porgon ridioulous, This worthy palr doclded to hoax the son of the Bormer joker, whe was reluming $o Bi Josoph from Chiongo with a pookotful of money, tho oquivalont of certain applos and ponchos raised on the Michigan side. YoungMartin ias known to bo & vory timid Ind, When Lis fntolli- gont parent and friend intercopted him in n dark placo nnd played tho park of foot-pads morely to aco what ho would do, thoy Woro aatonished, nnt to say disconoerted, to oo Lim draw a rovolvor and fivo diractly at thom. o nvold tho consequenco of thoir silly Joko, Lhoy were compolld to hide in & deop nnd odor- oun ditoh. It doon not alwaya do to play tricks, with timid peoplo, They somotlmes display what ia kuown su the conrago of deapair. ——— Thioro is at lonat one blosalng in boing an un- oduoatod worldng mon for which that class can- not bo too grateful. An English gavant has shown that they nover have tho hay fover, Ho flude that this Interesting discase Is pooutiar to the oducated classes, aud more common in propor- tion to tho wproad of mental cultura and tho in- touslly of intolloctual occupation, His oxperi- monts lond him to the conclusion that the diy- ‘aaso 4 duo to the pollen of flowering plants; but why this pollen should get into tho educated nose in proferonce to the ignorant one ho doos not explain, If his theorics bo truo, itls ap- palling to think of tho catarrhal poseibilitios in- volved in onr pubtic sohosl systom and tho nzanl ruin Jurking in book-atores, —— i Cloveland hea followod in the walko of Chicago and Cinclunatt by sbolishing the Sunday liquor 1aw, which bas been in forco for two yours. Tho ordinance repenting thoe Iaw was passed in the Couucil on tho 25th inst., 13 Demoorats voting for the reposl and 18 Republicaua againstit. Both tho Leader and Herald donounce tho re- ponl sa an outrage. Tho former says: Tho mifortuno is pot final. 1t will hoa lerson whiich cortafn woll-moaning peoplo of Clovoland hiyo needed to rouse thown to s souso of thoir duties, It fi of no connoquenco that the majority of Glavoland voter nro tomporato and lzw-abiding men 20 long as 1oy atay away from tho_cancuses and clechions, and crit tho butmers to Al the Ceuncil Chwmber witls urcolls and Russolls and O'Nellioys, When n elty Hko Clovelsnd has, as the Cliafrmnn of an fmportant Councll committes, 8 man wio has 40 be arreated and cagod twico within'a woek fur riolous druukonness in A public sircol, it s ovident that s voters have negloctod thelr duty, ki Gon. 8tiorman has proved imuelf to ba & very poor musical critlo. Gilmore’s Band recontly woronadod him ot Niagara Falls, and, during the soroundo, ho turned to » friond and romarked : *t Our victorios at tho Bouth would have been completo if theso men bad boen thoro to provide tho musie.” The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser cruclly calls attontion to tho fack chiat Gilmore and his bond wero in tho Bouth, and provided Gon, Banks with music just before tho disas- trous compnign on Rod River. If theso men, therefore, Lod provided Gon. Shormsn with tausic, it is doplorable to thiuk wlat a comploto digagter his march to the soa might have beon. ‘Tho following advortisemont recently appoared in & New York papor: Triod to loarn, but give it up, Wl soll piano, atool, cover, and 'bymn-book for $150, A fow dullars cash, Address *Old Biach," Herald offico. Thero {8 a dogros of houesty in this briof and pathetio sunouncement, which is vory re- markable, to uny tho least. What av amount of excrucistingly bad musis the world might bo spared, if numerous others were equally honest | NOTES AND OPINION. The Ninoteonth Iilinols District is the firat to fllita quota with thros Congrossions! candi- datos, viz.: Bamuol 8. Marsball, Domaerat, for re-olection ; Willimn B. Anderson, Indepeudont Reform ; Green B, Raum, Ropublican. —Tho only Congressional Distriot loft to the Topublicans, in North Oarolins, votod as fol- lows : 187, Hyman, black, 1872, 118,176 | ‘Thowmas, Rep, 20,073 Tount, white, 11,144 | Kitehon, Da 1,027 (Hyman la a bluck wun, tho regular Ropublican nomineo; Blount (white) fe an anti-Clyil-Rights Ro- publican, supported by the Opposition.] —Congrossman Lansing (sslarg-grabbor), of Now York, has bosn diopped by the Republies sng, and Willlam £ Bakor, of Constantia, Os- wogo County, nominated in his place. —@en. G. C. Dibrell is tho Domocratic nom- inao for Congress in tho Third Tennossoe Dis- triok. The Coaveutton &t MoMiunville, Aug, 27, ndoted the following : Reaolved, That this Convention has heard with or- zor und alirm of the outragus perpetrated by masked auen in Gibson and Trousdule Countics ; thet wo do~ nouncoe tho perpotrators of the c¢rime as the moat dangerous onowlea of the pooplo of the South, sud traftors to the State of Tennesaco, who ara doing thelr worat to involve us in a chain of ovils which can only rosult in the deatruction of all our lbertios by & mili- tary despotien, —In the Anti-Monopoly Courrossional Con- vention for the Second Towa District, at Maquo- Kotu, Aug. 27, Sountor Murphy, of Daveuport, s roportad to huve made a vory scathing and do- nunciatory spoech against the Ropublican party, aeraiguing it for overy grade and quality of cor- ruption, finally roforring to Honry Ward Boech- or a8 tho great Christian statesman of tho Ro- publican purty, ~Charles F. Daveuport, of Brattloboro, Vt., doctined to bo tho Opposition candidate for Con- grass in Poloud's district, saying 1 bavo no ambltions which prompt me to aopiro to ‘mernborsbip in body Wiitch, us 4 whole, roprosrts tho monopolists and corruptiouluts of thu country ; which, 28 now coustitutod, bus uoithor tha ability wor tho disposition to givo'to & plundored snd’ tex- ‘burdened people an Lioucst currency, ia honest rov- enua nystoin, and, sbovo all, an houcit elvil servica, —Col. Jack Brown, of Amorious, a Georgia Domocrat of 1872 who “couldn’c cat crow,” is thin yoar the Repubiicau nowminas for Congress in tno Third Georgis Distrit, Tho Georgis pa- pors say: “'Ihis showa that Brown was 8o straight on the Grooloy quostion that he bend over."” —Congressman James O. Frooman (TRopublie~ an), of tho Fifth Georgla Distriot, declines ro- alaction, nud requests to be be lot alone in tha cauvass, 110 is a native Goorgian, o whito man, and hasno stomacs for tho Civil-Rights bill, and no dosire to romain in Congrosu, —Iu tho Savannab (Gu.) District the Ropublic- ong oro hopelosely od_and go into the fold with two candidntos for Congrosa, —Judgo W, J. Haralson, whom tho Montgow- ory Advertizer charactorizes 88 tho ablost man of tho Ropublican party in North Alabama, Lng publishied o latter saying tuaf, ua that party iy Tledgad to tho pastngo and onforcement of tho Civil-Rights bill, ho can go with it no longor, but must act with thio Domocrats und Consorvatives, 1o says: Y cautiot support this measuze in any political or- gaufzatlon, oF loud mysolf to 3ts support n suy eense of tho word, Thia {8 (e asue, In it i3 luyolved tho Fuln or prospority of both racea in tho South, If the Vil fa fnally passed it will requiro a stauding ariny to auforcoit, ~Who dood not doslra o uyald such & cas Lunity? What suno man will willingly yote for thia polioy, knowing its cousequouces? —Tho Lown Slate Press says that *1t s propos- o thnt cho vacauoy on the Auti-Monopoly State tiokot, causod by the declination af M, Barues, bo filled bytho Hon. M. J. Rohlfs, of Scoth County. A bottor soloction could not b mads. Mr, R, now holds tho honorablo end respousible position of Btato Troasurer of tho groat County of s)cott.“unl lias ovory qualication tor the Ligh- or plnco. i indepondedant peoplo [of Indiaus] have {nfinito troublo with thoir tickot, Part of the time their candidates won't stand the nomina- tion, and agalu tho constituents wou't accopt tho candjdatos, In tho Ninth Distrlot u formal Con- vention solected Mr, Arohibuld Johuson for thoe Houahla Qougrossman, but the rank gud filo icked out ot tha traces aftor ko was nominatod, and tho Contral Committes oustod him from the tiokot, aud put on Mr. U. Bowlay, of Montgom~ ary County. Ilo is tho oaudidato’ thia woak, but thioro in 10 knowing who will bo noxt weok,—Jn~ dianapolis Journal, —We don't porceivo what use thoreisfora Dermooratio patty 1n Ponnsylvania, whon thoro ia no differonce of political bolief, and vory iittlo of polioy, botwoon thoso who calt themssives Doimocrats fu that State and tho Hopublicay party, Uho Domocratio, ag well a8 tha Ropublice au party of Pounusylvanin, favois & high pro- tootivo tariff, opposss A Ciovermmont ourrency, and jolns handy with tho Republicans in alos evory leadiug lssuo. ‘Thers ls no party in Poyn- sylvauia that intercaty ltwel? in bolmlf of the great paople, Hath hava becoma gubjected to oapital and power, and both work in barmony in tho sarvive uf combinations whoso {utorests aro dinmotrically agaiust thoso of the paople, In all calonlatious for tha syocoss of the Demg- ratio principlos Ponnsylvanis ought to bo left out of” tho count, a9 tho aucoows of the Demo- oratla party in that Blate would be no viotory for D atio principlon, nor 1o galn 1 - :.ngg;“‘m;nflw% g8in fox the pap: ' FOREIGN. Correspondence Between Great Britain and Spain Re- garding the Vir- ginius, A Posiponement of (ho Caso Asked Until the Unlted States Is Neard, Mount Etna’ Again in a State of " Eruption. OCEANICA, 8ax Fnaxoisco, Cal., Aug. 81.—The Atormuhip Mikado Lrought no 1nail from Honoluly, but thote iu nowa to Aug, 10, ‘Tho Kiug prorogucd the Assombly on tho 8t of Auguet. o congratulnted tho mombers on tho introduotiou of bills to aid the canstruction of tolegraph llnes and tho oncouragomont of stonm pavigation with forelgn countrlos. Heo #poko strongly fn favor of recipraclty troatios, particularly favoring ono with the Unltod Btatos, oud anid that no effort on hia part will bo want- ing to soouro so deairablo s rosult, Tho Kivg hss appointed 8. G. Wilder and J, U. Kowainni spocial Commissioners to collect snd forward to the Philadolphin Tntornations] Lxbibition, objects illustrative of tho arts, manufactures, and products of tho soll of tho Hawafine Kingdom, ‘'he British war-ship Bcont was oxpoctod to re rivo with a party to obsarva tho transit of Vonus e Bty (Now Bouth Wales) orni he Siducy (New Bouth Wales) Morn ald says that the rumor that lho)!lolm\m‘"flnez Sun Francisco has boon suspended wag without foundation, The Molbourne Argus comploing that tho mail gorvico on the lino {8 vory inefi- clent ; that Californin datos aro constsntly an~ ticipated by vossols via Suoz ; and that, na for a8 Melbourno is concorned, tho California sorvico is usioless, T'wenty-five moro bodios wora recovered from the wrock of the British Admira), and tho portion of tho cargo saved was brought to Melbourno. ‘I'ho discovory-ship Chllengo has finlahed the sonudings for # cablo Lotween Sydnoy and Welle ington, in Now Zealsnd. ————— GREAT BRITAIN. Loxpoy, Aug. 81.~Additiousl correspondence botween the British Governmont and its repre- sentative at Madrid, concerning the Virginius outrngo is published. Mr. MacDouell, Britlsh Charge d'Affaires, writes to Lord Dorby, July 9, that tho Spsnish Govornment appeals to Ene gland to defor prossing a eottloment of hor claims on account of negotiations pending with tho United Statcs. Spain will be bampored in denling with tho latfor power if tho American Govornmont iu ablo to cito as a procedont tha paymont of indomuity to Buglaud. Lord Derby roplied, July 17, demauding that o sottlomout bs mado by a fixed ond uot too distant date. Ar, MacDonell tolographs to Lord Dorby, Aug. 17, that Senor Ulloa, the Spanish Ministor of Fore oign Aftairs, agrecs that the indomnity shall be sottlod immediatoly under cortain rescrvations, ey CUBA., New York, Aug. 81.—Cubana lore have ine formatiou that,shortly befora tho battloof Igvara, Bpanish Captain of regulars loft tho city, take ing with him twwo companies of voluntcors, moste Jy privates, and pnssed over to the Cuban nrmy, When tho Cuban troops wore approsching tha city tho wholo rogular Spanish force was ordered oub to opposo their sdvance. An ambuscade was lald by the Cubnus, into which the whole Spanish _column, which is stated to have nam- Vored 2,000 mon, foll, snd wera oither oub to pitcos or found safuty in tlight. ‘Tho Cuban army captured » quantity of arms in Santa Espiritu, and iucronsed its own numbera by enlisting 500 woll-armed mon, Ilavaxa, Cuba, Aug, 81,—Dookoray has been brought from Puorto Principo to Fort Cabaus, in this city, whero he will remain ustil sent ta Spain, ——— ITALY, Roaw, Aug. 81.—~Mount Etna haa boen Inn state of oruption since Baturday, snd stroatns of lava arn pouring from throo crators. Several rogiments have boon sont to Sleily, be cause of an werense of brigandnge and goners lnwlessuesy, Court martinls huve boon emiabe lished for tho prompt punishment of offendern. ks Sia SPAIN. Mannrp, Aug. 81,—Tha Oarlists made two de- termined sseaults oo Puycords to-day, but with. out effoct. Dotk sttacks weroe ropulsed, snd the Dboslogers in their rago sot fire to and dostroyed houscs outsida tho walls, THE INDIANS. Murder ot a Surxveying Party ta Kansnv, Svecinl Dispatch to The Chicaaa Tridune, LeaveNwontn, Aug. 8l.—Startling news of Indinu doprodutions bavo just beon rocvived. A, B. Webster telographs from Dodgo City thut Capt. Throshor's survoying party arrived thera last night, Sixof his men were attacked by In~ dlany on thoe evening of Aug, 29, whilo in camp on Crooited Croelk, and tho entire party killed. Tha namea of tho killed aro O, . Short, Truman Short, James Sbaw and son, John Kuallor, an | Henyy Jones. 'Tho familios and rolatiyes of tha murdered men rosido in this city and Lawrenco, It is bolioved the Ohovonnes and Liowas com- mitted the murders. Much noxloty is falt for {ho safoty of othor survoying partios south of Dodge Olty, WALL STREET, Advance in Erie and Onnwce Spectal Dispateh to 7'he Chicaao Tribune, New Yonx, Aug. 81,—The chiof topic of inter- est in Wall stroct to-day was the sudden ard marked advance in Erie. Tho closing prices of aturday wero 913¢, but tho stock opened to-duy at 83, quickly advancod to 8336, and, after sinl- ing to 823¢, roso to 84, Varlous theories aro forwnrd 08 o tho enuse, It wos rumored, how- aver, that dispatches recontly recoived from A. O, Gray, one of tho Eric Dircotors, whoio mission in Burope ig to_ obtain money for tka rond, were favoiablo, and that thore would be no difticulty in raislug money on thoe cousolidateidl wortgnge bonds, Tho L)mnnt adninistration cf Erio is snid to mooc with general favor, and for aovoral doys it has been uuderstood that tho lsrgo amonut of {nterost duo to-day was alrosdy in bank, and would be promptly pm{ OBITUARY. Judgo Bazil ¥inrrison, Aycd 104 Yeurg and 6 Months. Special Dispateh to T'he Chicags Tribune, Sonooronarr, Mich, Aug. 81,.—Judge Bazil Harrison, of Pralric-Ronde, the first white mau that sottiod here, the firét Judge of Kalamazoo County, and the original eharacter of Coopor's * Boo-Hunter," died Bunday, Aug.19, 4 o'olook p, m., at tho ago of 104 yoars and 8 months, Ile hnd no disonee, but had worn tho thread of life complotely out, and passed poncofully to rest. Ifo had alwaya been & dovout Christish, and for over soventy yoars & membor of tho Mothodlat Churah, Ho sottlod on the farm whore bo diod forty-soven yonra ago, taking his dood from the United Btaten, iy funosal will take placs on Tuosday ab 2 o'clock p. m, it e OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. PrmAprumins, Aug. 81—The Aworican Lina steamship Indiuna, from Liverpool, hss arrivod, DoutoN, Aug, 81,~Arrivod—Btesner Samarls, from Liverpool, Tavenvoown, Aug, 81,—~The steamships City of DBrassols, Coltic, Europa, and Pomuerania, from Now York, and Illinols, from Pluladolphis, have arrived out. New Yok, Aug, 01,~-Arrivod—Steamships Minnosots, from Liverpool; Odor, from Bro< men, New Yonx, Aug. 81—Arrivod—Stoamor Sohite lor, from Lamburg, LIBEL 8ulT, Yo Aug. 81.~Tx-Gov, Horbert, of Lo}fxm-nn?nz'n bgfimn. l‘lhnl suit nguiunt tho Wa'r'ld oc&mpmy. Ing damagos in the sum o 5 4 Aits Probabla