Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1874, Page 7

Brothors! dry.dock, Hor wbout forty-oight hours, e, The repaire of dsmages recelved by the schr Rush DR o e e o b0 : —Tho wator in tho loug lovol, Port Colbourne, Welland Connl, Ja § feot Lolow the marl, o oweds ovor roactiod slnica tho bullding . of, o e, : : —Tlie scht Elfza Quiglanhad: n_port: of hor dnck- Toad of Bbingles waalicd_overhourd during bouvy woather on Lako Ontario, Tucday night, —Tlio prop Olty of Toledo rau aground ot Toledo Wedncaday morning, botween Tartlo Tsland and the red-can budy, Bhowas relcasod without damogo, aficr o short dolay, . o = \Whilo i acbe Onondga s towing past Dotroll Woducsday, tho forry-boat Topo attemplad _to cross o bows, whon a slight collialon oocurred, demeging stiyhtiy the atorn of tho schooner, . —Ou Friday night fast” tho schr J, I, Daloy fouled with thogehy Smith & Post, in tho Wallsnd Canal, sud ot o ib-toom. —Whilo tho stux Werions wan on hior downward trip Woduesday, whon botweon Rogers Oty sud Orawford s Quorry, o deck-ind, whoso ninme {8 unknown, was washed overboatd and drowned, ‘Tl body wes not rocosored, —Tho attention of vsssol-ownora ia fnviled totho followiig Gavorntment rogulation : * The navigation of evory atesmer shall bo nndor tho $mmodisto control and monogoment of firsi-class pilot, who shnll hnve a tleonso an auch, and overy sich plloteliall be lim Lo hia licgngo 4o'tho partioulsr euevico Lo whick o a -edaptod, " —¥'rlday, whilo tho_tug Coloman was towlng out of Tay Olty tho baryes Northorn Light and. lightor Bay “Olty, tho luttor airuck the Third streot bridgo, Tho 1Ughler woa doinyed n fow hours by thio accldant, X convontion of shipbulldurs couvencd st Buffalo on_Thuraday, 'Thoso presont fucludo: Tresident, John Grinth, Torismonth, N, 1L; Vico-Prosident, Willism ' Dateh, Chicago ; Secréary, Blophien Kirby, Detrolts Mesata, Pack, of Clovoland'; Keefo, Oawego; Tuardison, Port Huron § Wolfe, Milwaukeo ; 'Huneuls, Zamons, Uralg, ond Jobge Bullalo, Tl sibloct con: ‘midered Js s roviston of the rulea adopted by tiie Board of Lake Undervriters in 1660 for (Lo conatruction af stgam and aail vossolnon tho lakos, Thio - mooting hes revised aud amondea tho rales, tablug a standard vessol of 1,000 tona burdon sa 8 asin, Tho doliberations &ro 'to meot tho roquiro- nonts of {ho prosont doy regarding the capicity, oto., casentlal tos porfect craft, ont building-book Las also Veon amended soction oftr careful conguliation snd tio fullest intorchango of opinfons, and _oxcollent rules ‘havoe boen produced, sffecting tho Intoresta of bulld- ‘ord, updervriters, and ownoza, . Tho revisod rules will o published at on carly day for application to now eatols built th coming winter, Cant. Dorr'sideais hiat lako-bullt veasols shnll Lavo s class and charactor Tapected tho world over, o it whon on tho Lroad ‘acan they will bo rocognized a8 having o fair and J laim o tho considoration of sosconst undorwriters ol aa fnfand, Tho scctfons anionded aro as folloy TFramen, assistunt koelsons, ridor-keolsons, transome; Dilge-strakes, breasthooks, coiing, outside plank, iron slranpling, Doams apd fasteniugkeels, stanchilous, chaluplalés, contro-bourd, sastugn, Hinbers, rasats stepe, pumps, shifting-bonrds, Lulklieads, elc. TOTE FROM QUR MILWAUKEE: GDRRE‘SPDND- ENT. il injuriea oan bo Tepaired in Mruwavxee, Sopt. 10, 1874, o the Editor of The Chicapo Tribune: Sm: As you have publishod o lottor sssailing your Milwauleo corrospondont, porhaps you will pormit your Milwaukeo correspondent to defend” ‘himsolf. £t B Tho firat charge made againat the correspond- ont i, thot, in tho lotter publishod Sopt. 18, ¢ Ho Invariably sponks of the candlaates putfor- ward for tho Assombly ns Osrpenter men, snd pover onco as Ropublicans.” OF courso ho did: from Allauburgh to | tho lotter was on accomnt of * Carponter's cumpaign fn Milwaukeo,” not of the Ropublican campaign,—two matora ontiroly difforent, sa tho gentloman himsolt takos grost palns to show. Tho correspondent had nothing whatover to say mbout *the candldates put forward for tho Assembly.” His lottor was wholly aud olely & Toviow of the position of such onudidates as oro understood to bp * Carponter men.”. Why, then, does tho gontloman compisin that the candldates wore notepokon of na Ropublicas™ ? If the corrospondont had written o lottar resiew- ing the whole campaign,—nat tha gnt played in” tho campaign by the supposod Carpontor saction of tho campaignors alono,—the gontle~ man's angry criticiom might have buen in order. Noxt, tio gentloman saya: * Lot ma correot’ gomo of tho faolish blunders and misstatoments of your regular correspoudent in rogard to tho political ssatus of allalrs in thia city.” By way of doing this, he goos o to show i at the Onr: poutar pn\—tynrn:umn forth * Carponter mon'” for the Assombly,—whiche is what your, corro~ spondont sald,—and that .+ Your cortaspondeut takea it for granted that tho gamo will win.” Thero is not ono word in_your Milwaukea corro~ spondence_justifying such a statomont. . Your eorrospondont, with somo industry and pains- tking,—aithough pcrhupa. hio..ought not 1o say #o,—gathered n masg of information a8 to tho Curpontor candidates, or supposed Carponter candidates, in this city, and boiled jt down into the shapo of clnmx‘ simwlnr.v tho 1atest aspect of tho **Carponter” campaign in Milwaukeo, Tono placo did o take it for granted that the game would win. ‘After these proliminaries, tho gontlornr. sot~ tles down to businces, and writes & colamn £0 ox- plain that Mr. West ‘and Ar, Hngorman ara not Carponter men, and to show thab Carpentor has no chaueo of being elected; aud- ho mixes up Dbis opinfons, and Hopes, and foars, g0 inoxtricably with-his donunclation of your correspondent, that it is impossiblo imoet to-ley.hald of bir auywhero. It is enfi- ciont to answer that, whother tho tiwo gentlomon famed uro or aro not Corpenter moy, i8 kuown to nesthor your corrsspondont or his' aseailaut. They aro creditod with boing so; if your corre- spondont’s information was not accurato, and tho gontloman knew it, ho might have'writton Lalt-n-dozen lings to say so, In tho lotter pub- lishod in_to-dny's TnnONE, hio simply sots his information against jho informption of your cor= resm:mlnntz pives his own the preforance, and denounces that of your correspondont. 5 ‘In roply bo ail this, yonr correspondont thinks tho gentleman would succead bottor, if his gb- Joct is merely to corroct what ho consldors to ba 0 orror, in giving the correspondent the benodt of hig Bupfirfiu juformation, If ho wants, how- over, to satisfy somo secrot spite sgainst the correppondont, or to find an oxcuso for wriling sn editorial _nrticlo, ho wouid hayo boen move ieotivo had hio confined himeolt to those puc- poses, instead of mixing up one with tho other so that no ono knows procisely whatheisdriving at. Your corrospondent hng thia also to suy: In tho practico of bis oalling ho passed tho waok hat haa elapsod sinco the publication of the lot~ torot Bopt.13 nimoat w\mléy smong politiciang of all shades and stripes,—Cnrpenter Ropublic- ang, and the othor sort of -Republicaus, Domo- crats, and Roformors,—and, ol though nine ‘out of ten know ho had wsitten the lotfer com- laincd of, aod many oponly discussod it, not Eho olaimed that it wa any\bfng but & fair, {m- artial, and corroct prosontation of tha facta so Fflt a8 known. If !r\orfi are any furthor facts in tho posacselon of your unpafd corrospondont {hiat hre innccossible to your paid correspondent, sour paid correspondonit cordially ibvitos Lim to communicato thom. Ha can iusuro their publica- tion in_the Milwaukeo coms{)ond!uuu of Toe Trimose without writing s colutmu to abusa tho Ailwaukee paid correspondent of Tiue TRIDUNE for not having happened to hear of them. Ro- epecttally, T, —_— THE DANGEROUS BITE OF ANGERED ANl HALS, Zn the Editor of The Chicgo Trittine? 8in: The caso of Charles Iaako, who died on Saturday, in consequonce of the bito of a non- rabid cat, throws some light upon an ill-undor- stood subject. Thoro i8 no doubt that many spocies of animals and roptiles, when under omotions of anger, secroto & polsonous fluid ab tho moment, which, being conveyod by tho teoth to tho mucous membrane of tho objoct of dis- lleuanro, couees tho disosso called hydropho- a. Charles Haake undertook to punish an appar- ontly docito cat, ‘The suimal, angorod by tho rough troatmont of tho Loy, turned sud Dit him, Emotions of all kinds are accompanicd by cortain offects, and tho offects of avgry emotion mny bo of & most droadfut kind, Tho'milk of & Tothor in & it of pssion bas beon known to ill hor child. Tho cat that bit poor Charloy llanke was not rabid, but the intonsity of ita momontary anger genorated o fhuid as dundly o tho pojson of rabid aulmals. Yours respoct- fully, H1ProCRATES. Cuioaao, Sopt, 17, 1 - The DPnugor of Wet Confs From the London dfedical Record, Peoplo who prefor weting tho wintor's stors of conl to lay t[:o dust on puttivg it in thelr cols 1y, o not, wo bolteve geuorilly know that they oro isying up for tbomsolves o store of gore throats aud other ovils consoquont upon tho prace tico. Dutb wo it in gald to ho. Evon the fire-damp which excapes from coal mines arigos from the low decomposition of coal at tomporaturos but 1ittlo above that :f tho atmoaphere, but under sugmonted promure. By wolting » mass of fxashly-broken conl and putéing it in & warm ool 1ar, tlio masy it hivated to wuch o dogreo that car- ‘Durcted and salphureted hydrogen are given off for long periody of timo aud purvado tho whole house. Ths linbility of wot coal to mischovious rosults oudor such Circnmataticos may bo sppres ciated from the cirounsstanco that thore are sov- oral fustancos on record of spontancous combue- tion of wet coal when stowed into $he bunkers or tholda of vessels, Aud from this onuso, doubt~ [oks, many missing coal voesols havo porished. { THE BEECHER CASE. ' Préss-Comments. on- Tflfdn"s : Statement. Tho “Nation” and tho* (!’unfirogationnl- ist" on Beecher's Duty o Proso- cate Moulton.” An :English View of the Scandal. B Comments on Tilton’'s Statos, o 3, ¢ ment. N A BTRIO? LIGAL INVERTIGATION IMPERATIVELY NECESSANY ¥OR THE . VINDIGATION OF MB. BEEONER," ; ' rom the New York Trivune, " Tholong story now, givon to the public by Thaodoro Tilfon 1 probably tho moat intorosting chaptor thus far contributod to tho history of ho geandsl. In elearngas of statomont and full- uess of dotail it leayea nothing to be dosired, It; 18 arranged with great skill, and exprossd with & cortain bittor modorstion which cannot fail prodiies an offect upon tho average roader. Tho queation to-dny, howover, s not whothor ‘Theadoro Tilton prosonts himeolt In any bettor’ light than boforo, but whothor ho has suo- .000d0d In oversholming Mr. Bocohor. Tho sorions pasts of his siatsment wo’ fonndin ouo or two'of tho oxtracta from letters of Mre; Mordo, and ono Iong lettor from Mrw. Tilton to ‘hor husbond, writfon while ‘he was at the Wost in Novombor,1870. ‘At first sight thicso do koom to-Involve' an scknowledgment ‘of the worst that has boon' obarged; and it will o hard to find any other .explanstion ‘of thom eatisfactory to unprejudiced porsons ‘of plain common sonse. With the marvolous nchiovo- ments, however, in tho way.of ‘oxplaunation that hiave boen nccomplished on both sidea-ffesh in mind, wo should bé: xash to conclude that Ar. Beoclier and his frionds will no}“sccount for them at Joast aa woll as thoy did for tho apology, and far botter. than Tilton sccounts for tho,us, s mado of Mr. Bowen's Woodstoclk lotter. Thoo will toll us that in"thd mouths of wild sontis montalists Jiko Nlre. Tilton “words loso their patdral meaning, and thors Is fothung i her painful and almost incoheront lottor: which ¢an~ not bo reconciled with hor own account of at in- nocaot infatnation: with the Plymouth - prosohor -snd tho romorse which ml|uwmf it. - This we nay {8 tho pasatble anawoer of-Alr, Beechet'a frienday but thas a cold and \m:{mplthufiu world will bo gontent witli {t.wo cortafnly do not baliovo. ‘F'ha accond notable point in Mr. Tilton's ment ia the roply ho makes to the chargoe, ‘upon which the Plymouth’' Committos Iaid 8o much ‘stross, thot hia original acousation against Afr. Booeliar-was nothing moro than improper- soliol< tatton. Ho shows from the rocords of Plymouth Ohurch itgolf in the matter of the abortive Woat . inquiry -which. was queuchod Inst yesr, tlist bo mado-tho: charge of ‘driminal fntlmacy".as. carly -a8 August, 1870, Of courso -this proves nothing ; but1t leaves tho Committeo ina very unpleagnnt predicament, and terribly impairs tho ;\u 0" of tlml.r‘ BWooping: and - emphatio: -vor- Gt o' g g E5oE % 4 s * What, then, is the reault of this latost, ahd lob i hopo last, of tho statoments? * We tan only: zopaat what o havo said o maoy fimes beforo, that & surlot Jogal investigation :ia imporatively nocdssary for the viudication of Mr. Beooher, if o 18 over to bo vindicatod at all. 1Lr. Tilton has ‘alrondy bogun & uit which ought o scoomplish a final’ soitloment of tho.caso oneway.or the other, and 3r. Bacchor must moat that suit with slaority, Happily.ib is brought in a form which throwa tho main issuo at oncs into court, and if it is prossod in good faith and fortified with tho samo line of proof which Tilton puts forward in his piatomont to-day, it'will yesult .in the utter ruin of one of tho two Enrfioa. Thore '{a-too 'much roason to foar that thero haa hoen not only & vast amount of lying and porjury In this csso, but| on infamons, & shooking conspiracy. - Tho Churgh Committeo certaivly failed to get at the “bottom facts.” Lot usBoe if tho couris will bo ailowed todoit, | ] WaY DUODLD: NOT' DOTI -PARTIES WAIT LEQAL DEOISION P”. . . . From the New York Herald, Now, this is our matement, Having rond sll tho statomonts of tha other statosmon, ia it not timo to stato - that any further statomonts aro a “bore 2 Wa think g0, Tho public, from the facts protentod, has beon ablo to form & gonoral idoa of tho case, and tho dotails of tho privato lifo of tho romautio poople’ of Plymoath Churoh, tholr ontcomings and their inwardness, havo ceased to ' bo interestivg.” . ;- . The pewspapors,. too, Lavo other duties to porform than thoso whioh .coneorn Mr. Boschier and his wild companions. There are::murders - in' Montans, nies .in ‘Louisiana, crim, con. in_Conngoticut, nrson: in Arizona ‘and outrages'in Ohlo, Wo cannot confino oursclvos to a siuglo "crimo in Brooklyn. | Much-ag we reapect that crime and those orimi- Dals, othor sins and othor sinnors have claims upon us whiol wa ara (o daty bound to consider. ThE questions of Mr.-Bosoher's guilt, of Mr. ‘Tilton's sufforings, of Mr., Monlton's veracity, of *Miaa- Anthony's virtus, ‘of tho eanity of tho Plymouth Cluzeh Committao, aro importast, but other men have siunod, and it is possible. that othors havd' lod, thongh probably not to such an nx\anhu\\y.ex\um. As Alr. Tilton, if Do bas beon wrongad, bas_on opportanity of ob- taining somo rodross in the. courts o which ho bas appealod, and s tho frionda of Mr. Boechor, if ha 14 innacent, can prove it botter in. cour than In the nowspapors (for, uufortunately, we cannot compol tbo statesmon to awear to what thoy asg), why sioutd ot both pastios walt or o logal docigion? et b W V}ESTS UNDER THE GAMA DIBADVANTAQES." From the New York Z'imas. Tho vile mixturo of apite, insinuation, and postiness which formed tho main portion of Moulton'’s statomont 1 cousiderably diluted boro, but the-statement rosts ‘under tho: samo- disadvantagos a8 that of tho mutil friend,” in presonting no new ovidenoe which can bo ro- ceived on tho nusupported tostimony of tho wits .nose offering it. ‘Lilton-can claim the benefit of o natural foeling of compassion in which Moulton bag no sisre. For, aftor ul.l,hnplrt from the question of who was fo blame, “'Tyas o #nd momont that which found bim when his housohold + gods lay scat- -tored round him,” - Ho ' had, morcover, 8 ‘mothor-In-law with an. extraordinary talont."for inveotive, and an adopted daughter Who liatened at koyLoles, aud lay awako o' nighta to concoot seandalous storios about bim, The presenco of amiddlo-sged and disoroet housekaoper could not sareou the unfortunata man from vile faceu- ention, and oven an jutolleotual tote a toto with Susan B, Anthony assumed 1mpropor sspocts 10 ‘’his censorious entica. £ o Yot thongh it is possible to pity Tilton, who can accept his course as the honost, manly, and gonorous ono that ho wishod to paint 1t7 Altogothar, BMr. Tillon's caurga af actlon hea boon like his *glowing rhotorio,” oqually incn- pablo of appealing eithor to the understanding or the sympathies of ordinary men. ** ANSOLUTELY NQTHING NEW," e l"m‘m fi"" Aew l;:rk Wnfld.{ » n tho way of dooumon! roofs, elthor of ik original ohargo against Mr. Yocohir or ot o own iunocenca of the chargo of blackmalling Mr. Boecher, Tilton gives us absolutely.nothing now or to tho purpose. 1t is the samo old: story. which bea alroady siokened tho publio, of nngolio beastliness ond saint-like pollution. Tilton’s own homo and heart, a8 elaborately deploted by Limsalf, can only bo dosoribed as a gort of Bax- tor's Haint's Rest nman{; tho slums of Daxtor Bireet, . . . 1f omo Ald nob rend theso thinge printed over this wrelohod crenture's own nams in a nowspapor, it wonld be s Jibol on humanity to auppase suy mortal capabla of inventing or of ytiering thom, But thoro thoy are, d with them are coupled scorea of othor unconsclous revolatlons of o moral naturo so absolutely gmfirunod that in the intercst of publio doconoy tho man really ought to bo removed from among his fellow- mon and segrogated in somo eanitary instity., tion, precieoly 5a_tho authorities in woll-rogu- lated countrics forbid perdons afllicted with Joathssomo and visibly horriblo digoases from slt- ting about in publio pinces oven for tho purpose of woliciting afuns far.thels supporé. “3tR, DREOUER'S POSITION BRENS UTFADLY HOPE- L84, From the New York Graphio, . B, Tiltow’s roply to Bovchior sud the ropart of tho fuvestigating Committeo is complate iy ovory partioutar, It coutains facta aud _praotu swhich would havo hoon laid boforo the Invostis gating Committoo had thab body dasirod them, Tt shows tho uttor grauudleasnoss of tho chargo hat the ncousation’ was prompted by Tilton's loss of placo and fortuno, by tho fuol that it was wado bofore b plece sud fortuno woro lodb uud whilo ho was in rocolpt of s fncoma ot uearly $14,000 » yoar, It shows that, instend 02 tha arigis na} ohargs boing s simple fu) \m\\rlut\' odd Beaclis ors part, aud growing nndor hisjodulgonoo toan acouttion of orjmioality, tho crimival chargo wus wade three yoard ag0, sud an fivestigation oD A .. 'THE CHICAG . fnrlédu and, was domanded in tho obu: orod by Mr, Boeohor, and tho record of it was n[run 8d. : The -dooumontary proofs of Mra, 1Tilton's opnfession aro exnliolt snough to ratisfy thio'most Incredulons minds, and tho, lottets of hor mothor throw a strango gluro of colorod linll‘f over tho dark affair. 'Lhoy make it clear that, 1nstond of Docolior advising a .divorco, o8 ho silys hodid, sud for which hie fan oxporlenced unitttorable tormouts, Lo did his boat to provont & soparation, to the d)ugupk of_tho,iotler, who “waos bent on playlug tha mother-in-law in an oa- tablishmont of hor’own, wilh Mr, Boechor for hor “doar'son,' ~Aud 8o nt-overy.turn of tho .| ‘pnth throughthta tangle, tho obatruatlons put rl\mow 10 tho way by Bacoher and hia friends 0 ogvor hia tracka and throw the public off tha beat aro swopt asido, and the wholo rond i# mada plain s daylight. *To rdad the papor 1a ta' fasl o foreo of ‘moral conviotion, - And no ono oan roud It witliout. rocoguizing (o absouco of it torness and rovongo, and the,tono of manly sor- sow that rung t\:roufil_x 1t all, ., Thila paper concludeh tho llteraturo of the sub- Joot. -Ita Utorary prosentation to tho supromo gourt of tho poopla hias_boon suporb. . No.sim= Hlar lcaso waa ovar sot forth with such polishod t . now drops into the court, whero the ovidenco wl\l ;bo'eifted and woighed by logal standards, It may, th promaturo to sum up _tho cano to-dky. Bul. as i, now stands, Mr. Boochor's spositfon scoms nltcfl{ hopeloss. . . . o Boorms_to bo loft sittlng on tho rngfind odge of anxioty and dospalr, indecd, with nothing boforo ‘him but disgraco and rain. 'Tho focling of pily ‘risod unbidden at (o thought of suel a crisis to auchi a career, *, % 1} BIDDLRS DITERLY TIE BEPORT OF THE INVESTI- L _GATING, COMMTTEE, . * From thé Sprinofleld (.|Ia:l.)1]l’l)lublimn. Tho siatoment, of Thoodore Tilton, .which wo g, rivals {n importance any . mado “on his side of tho caso sinco hig origiial” allogation, It derives weight bathi from the now matter submitted and from tho pimplo sbitlig ont again of tho evonts pro- clscly " {n’tHo ordor, in which'thoy happonod. With theso two rododrcea,’ Tilton makes & dan- goraua broach in Beoolier's ptatemont, ‘aud rid- ittes Lo tho church: Without bolng as yot sat- iafled of Bocahior's guilt, wo'do eny, and wo shall 1180 fn this opinion tho Indorsomont of ol fair- ‘mindod men, that neithor his atatomont nor the Toport of his Committoo affords at this moment any tolorable sheltar for his roputation, much 1osa any dofongo against tho charges imputed to -0 tho vory Srat importnnce, of eoure, 18 the confossion and. tho casly ufiwollcitod snd un- foruod tostimony of Mre. Tilton, ., . ... Thoro i8. 16 ‘' escapo . from ' this confossion. Til ton did not force [¢," for it was writton from Ohio.” It loaves Beochor, BO .far nd wo can 800, no pogaibla cseape., ‘Mg, Tilton now' perjucca borrolf ‘for him, a8, wo foar, he doos himsolf for himgolf,”” Tho Btako la groat. Tho public aro ‘bocoming oalloused totho _onormity of the fall, but think fof a momont, who was Boooher? . Tho .groat prosoher of tho ago,. apostlo at onco of :Christlan and of lvil liborty, destined tostand wit Lincoln, Chego, Boward, aud tho groat statosmon and_ eoldiors .of tho, emancipation opoch, ‘What wondor = that tho woman now sac- xifices tho'rost of her oul to savo him, what wondor that Tilton condoned and forgave? ‘What"man . of soneibility would not have stood botwedn thin' man" and’ the public discovery of his ‘golity passion, to the vory vergeof humnn endurancos & vergo that is eoon ronchied whon ‘magnanimity and forgivonces ara ropaid with in- eratitudo and troachory z - The poxt Blol.nt In_ importance ig tho substan- tiation " of tho fact that tho original chavgo against ‘Boocker, sa well ‘ag tho confossion of ‘Mrs, Tilton, was of aduitery.. Tho Investigating Committoo in thoir roport make. s groat Lundla of Tilton's equivocsl story that lits wifo had only boon approached. Condomning Tilton becouso ha liad not sald his own soul to savo Boeoher, thoy condoma him with still greator violonco for - his pnu{ oquivocation to gavo his wifo, and yob “from this fifiuivmaflfln arguo_ that therd was no crimo ¢ sil. Tilton citea from tho rocords of Plymonth Oharch tho tostimony of Mrs. Brad- Bhaw that “criminal fntimacy” was what bo charged ngainst Boochor, a3 carly as Aug. 8, 1870, within thirty days attor "his wifo’s coufes- sion. -Tho Committon of Investigation woro ridiculonaly ignorant of, or clso willfully ignored, thia gonmva proof of the fsllaoy of more than half their roport, This mattor has boon groatly megnifled-in importance by the Committes, and has beon accoptod by Raymond and other Beoch- or partisnng.as_snfiiclont proot of a conspiracy. ‘Tiiton's attompt to shisld his wifo was perfoctly invocont, ana his ovorthrow of tho allogation of his acousers is uttor, comploto, and humilinting, 1t has & real importanco, moroover, 88 Showinj to what poor matorial tho Plymouth Churc) Comimitteo were reduced in order to mako out a eapo for their pastor Their relianco upon the tentimony of Bossio and of Mrs. - Morso ovincea tho samo povorty of resources. Tho testimony of thoso unforlunato’ and acarcely rosponsiblo porsons i not ‘to bs boliovod o moment, whea thoy ara consclons thnt it (8 belog taken. ' Thoy are only capablo of trath in unguardod momonts. Tilton's oxaminntion of tho posaibility of bis having been influenced by buslncas considorn- tiops. in golog-to Bocoher on'the 30th of Do- camber is anothor damagiug susonlt on Beoolior's theory of defense. . . . The tono of the wholo statement is oroditable to 'Tilton, and compares very favorably with eithor Moulton's or Boccher's statomonts in this respoot. We presume - that -tho pavtisana of Beecher will affoct groat distross ovar tho lifting of tho veil from tho discord of Boecher’s howo, bat tho wholu affair is- a talo"of: tho woes of wives, and Alrs, Beocher cortainly suffors tho Joasteof thiem ¢ tho handa of "Mra, Tilton. Whon it is a littlo clonror* that Mr. Boacher has ot undons Mra, Tilton, may we visit a proper indignation on Tilton- for his resortiug even to thia extromity of warfaro. ~As for Mr. Bocohor bimaelt, tho rofuga of libal suits against his ac- cusors cannot long avail him, If wo mistako not, his ellenco for tho rest of his vacation will givo him a vory cold” world whon Lo comos baok to it. Wo aronot suro sbat thiy coldnoss may not by that timo bo transmuted futo bittor re- prosch and mud indignation. {4 WALL O PROOJS TOO STHONG 70 DX BROKEN © TEROUGH, b Trom the Phuladelphis Inquirer,. Tilton's'statomont is less dofeusivo than of- fousive; only a loss torrible arroigomont than ‘Filton's original statemont. It is concolvad and wrought out o a conclusion in & curlously calm, deliborate, nud dispsssionate spirit; and, whilo its argumont is in ‘itscl?: always conspicuously slrqug,—ns Mr, Montton's somotimes was not,— it ig albo strongly supportad and vorifiod by 1acts, lottors, dates, and circumstances, . Tho paper Js.oumalativo in its ovidonces of Mr, Bacohor's alloged guilt, as Moullon's was, .upd, it it dogs not prova it, it goes far in that dircction. If Mr. Beccher is tho- viotim of tho baso conupiracy which ke declaros him3elf to bo, it must bo confossod that ho js_grontly to bo Bluod, for abont him his anomies bavo apparently uilded a wall of proofs too strong to bo broken - through, t0o high to bo ovorleapo Wo confront this sclf-ovident truth with pro- .found rograt, Wo hiad hopod that, though oir- cumstaucos apposrod g0 strong ogainnt A, Booohar, ho might broak through thom all, and prove to tho world that for forty yoams hus given him honor and truo love, that ho was not a guilty, but s soroly-porsccated men. But Wo do_noi olearly seo the way for him out of this web of evidenoe, which ia tanglod about hisfoot, ond most of whick, and worst of which, ho hay Limaplf propared,—knotting, guarling,aod twist- ing it all about him, Hiis dofongo scomod like truth, oven whilo much of it soomod specious ; but this new state- mont of Tilton proves omo of it to bo not true, and us with perplexing doubts as to the .truth of most of It. Wo tako tho verdict of Mr, Bocohor's friends found against Lilton, and ro~ copt him a absolutely unworthy of holiof whon unaupported; but_that svailu nothing, for ho Uringy, ‘to prove his story true, thuk support which compoels our doubt, not of his statemont, ‘but of Mr. Beochor's dotenso. £ ’ Wo, in common with. the great body of our brotlion. of tho pross, have diligently, con- selenttously sought to savo Ny, Docchor and the Ohristian ‘world trom the reproach that would resnlt from the production of irrefutablo ovi- donces of guilt, " But tho truth is botter than any man’s faumie, and tho truth and Mr. Booch- flr‘s ‘{nuomneo do not soom heroinio go hand 1 and. '* 4 QREAT OUTHAGE AGAINST PUDLIO DEOENOY." From the Phitudelplas 4 elearavh,: ‘Tho dooumont which Tilton publisbed yoster- day s as ohnractoriatic of him iu its longth au in Its" rnotorio and its rovelations of the pitiful flabbinoss of his moral naturo, Taking this atatemont at Mr, Tiltan’s own valuation, how- over, it cortaluly rotuforces, o s great dagroc, hls arlyfual indictmont of Mr, Booolior, Tiltou skill- fally and lfl{lnrnh‘ly offoctunlly disposes of the nhn)‘mm o egaiuet himsolf by Mr. BocoLor and his frionds of unfriondlinoss and bluokinails ing; ho domollshos tho etrongest portions of tha Churol Committoo's ropart 3 ho ropeats his original charged of criminality agalnst Ale, Taochor, and rolnforcos thouo chiargos with doous mentary ovidenco, whiok, whila it’is baraly poy- aiblo may not mean what ho contonds LKM it doos, cortainly boar vory hard upon Alr, Decelior, and apparoutly hos but ono intorprotation. 1t cortainly presonts the oaso of Mr, Bocchor in sugh & manuor that i6 will bo a great outraga sgainst publlo doconoy if that individual doos not go duta rotiroment, and ospootully if ha daee 0t top attempting to figura o o ‘winlster of thie Gospel until his unoconce is cstablished bo« yond cavil by tho only means by which it now but wea smoth- génlng .shotorie na this hns Loen,’ dlga uttatly tho roport of tho Invostigating Com- | 0 DAILY TRIBUNE: 'TUNSDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘29, 1874 posnibly can bo eatablished—a trial fn & oivit’ court. Tho éNatlon’ and tho & Congregns tionalist ¥ on Moulton’s Statomont, DEROIEN ** MUST ASSUME TIIE OFFENBIVE." - From the Nation, 1t 16 propor Lo mny of tho statomont [Moulton's] fn tho meautfine, howover, that, though damag- ing to Moulton bimself:In o higlist doprae, 1t unquestionably contaiis onough “of now matter, and onough corroboration of ol motior, {0 ron dor the raport of tho Committeo exonorating Mr. ooohor tncomplete, and to rendor somo furthor procass of vindication abuolutoly nocossary. To muia assumo the offensive beforo somé difforent- natituted tribunal, and wo would earnostly 1 i pud his frionds against tho nu!lpuamon that'tho oagor, credulous naflfcotion of, Plymouth Church can savo bis” ohardotor. It is woll as far 88 ghos, but {t goos only a very littlo way. *AUUT TNEDIATELY TIIND BOIT AUATNST MOUL- TON, From the Springfleld (Mass.) Republican, Tho Congregationalisl, tho londing nowspaper of the denomination whoso namo it bours, ro- [nil\ln tho Zepublican's articlo of Bondsy on " Mr, Beochior’a First D\fl{,"—-\mluflng thnt ho ‘must immediatoly bring sult againat Moulton, or Davo bia failuro. *regarded 0 and con- stantly growing portion of thoe pub io 28 8 con- fosslon of anm."——nud adds: *‘Thore {8 groat Torco in tho position hora takon,. In fack, wa gearcoly roo how any friends of Mr. Boocher oan. fail to roach tho same conclusion,” No msn in this country, the Congregatioanlist justly. adds, #eonld como bofors o court of justico with a falrer.chnnco of wecuring a completo vindieation g al falso charges or deoply-lald conspiza~ cies." An Ebglish View of tho XBeccher Casc, From the London Saturday Roviaw, Terlinpa tho most oxtmordlnnrv pact of the affalr is tho singular relations which appear: to havo oxisted botwaon Br, Boocolior and various pordonn conmootod with what ta called ** tho seandal.” Tt wason the 27th Docombor, 1870, that Mr. Tiltou sont Mr. Boocher s card, oalling upon him, for ronsons which he wos sssumed to know, but which the writer forbaro_to state, to withidraw from the pulpit and_quit Brooklyn ns s roallonco ; and it seoms to havo beon {mmodi~ ntoly aflor thin that Mr. Booohor gavo tho_nd- vieo which ho soon aftorwnrds rogretted, - It is scarcoly possiblo to imagino & moro Sorious chargo ngainst o miniater of roligion than thab which Tilton made against Boocher, and which wag supported by o confession purporting to bo written by his wife, Either the ohargo. in_truo, or Tilton and Bouiton aro,a pair of infamous scoundrols. . Yet Mir. Doccher, aftor lis first it of avger, whon ho sooms to havo thought of mtmm\ng tho nggrosaive towarda his nssnilant, is full of Christian forgivencss. Aftor “the chargo was mato Lo aud Tilton continuad to moot, shake hands, and to talk ‘‘in a friondly woy,' and Doocher even visited at Tilton's honso, Mr, Moulton atood over him with a pis- tol and compelled him to surreudor Alrs. Tilton's rotraction of hor confosalon, and waa continually bloading bim, na ho now saya, for hush-monoy for 'Wilton. Yot all this timo” Moulton is treatod ns his dearest friend, doaror if possiblo than Tilton, for whom ha i ready to eacrifloo himselt. Moulton {8 “the friond whom Gad sont mo,". ond whose *‘hand tied up tho storm that was rondy to burst upon our heads.” So the pastor writos to the wifo of his sccuger; yot *‘the gtorm,” Lo now assorts, wag nothing but s throat to publish an infamous falsohood. - Is it not, ho neks, au intimation of God's.intont of moroy that thrao unhappy oronturcs such aa Elizabotli, /Thoodoro, and himeelf should have such » com- mon friend a8 Moultor 2 ** Ob, that X could put in grolden lotters my deep sonso of your faithful, oarhost, undying fdolity —your disintorostod friondsbip,” Novortheless Aloulton is nowacousod of participation in a wicked conspiracy. _Agnia, honnys of Theodoro, tho msn who (if wo s~ sumo bis hmocun:%’) hod mnligned” bim in tho most horriblo way, that, if b roconciliation is to toke placo,” ““Thoodora will have thio hardost taek, but has ho not 'ptovm! bimsolf capablo of tho noblest thiuge?'* o wondora ~whothor Elizabath knowa **how generously T. has carried himaelf towards me.” He meots his slanderor in tho ontg, and romarks with sorvilo gratitudo, **Ho was kind ; at thoend ho told mo 10 go on with my workwithout tho lonst anxioty ingo far 28 his feolings oud scklons woro tho accasions of apprehongion.” It may scem to somo almost an cxaggaration of Christian meok- noss to thank s man for his kindnoes in rofrain. ing from publishing on sbomidablo calumuy. but Mr. Boecher’s gratitude kuows no bounds. 1Io mortgages his houso and paya ovor $7,000 to Moutton for Tilton's benoflt, and praisos Titton for' his . ‘‘goncraus impulses,”” though ho admits thnat his * strong theatric . nn turo " mado it impossiblo roly upon him. . Thus tho trivinl incidont of san acousation of adultory loft this hinopy family ns aTeotionato and united ag over. Tilton and bis wifo lived togothor as boforo, snd the charitable pastor ‘whoss charactor had beon assailod oxprosses his {:rn{oun\l sonso of tho %uum'aalty with which he g boon trontod, and 8 williug to moko any pacrillco in volurn for the imputations hoaped upon bim, This s cortafulys puzzling snd mya- torious situation, but Mr. Becchor's offer to ro- tire from his church 98 » concession to tho In- vontor of what ho ““‘if“ to bo & wicked libel is most bowildering of all. Many o msn boforo now bas succumbed to tha terror of o falso chargo, and .bribed his accusor. But Ar. Dacchor appoars not ouly ta have paid for silence, but to have assumed his own guilt in his intorconrse with his porsecutors. On his own construction of the maitor, the moral cowardics’ which hio bias displsyed in cooniving at tho vil- lainy'of which ho was lLimsolf tho immodiate victim {8 almost nnn‘;rcnt an offence against so- cioty a8 tho persona) tnisconduct with whioh Lo 18 charged. ———— DOMINION OF CANADA. The Dominion Parlinmont Further Prorogued-Various Othor Xtoms. Special Dispateh to The Chleaan Trivune. OrTAwa, Bopt, 21.~Tho Dominjon Parliament is further prorogued {ll Oct. 80. Obief Justico Wood ia scting as administrator of the Manitobs Qovernment while tho Licu- tonant-Govarnor is tomporarily absent attonding to the Qu Aholle nogotiations, Roports recoived represont actlvity in tho work of conatructing tha Pacific Ballway and Tolo- graphio line, . Wator in tha Gronvilla Cannl fs very low. In Quoboo tho salo of lots in tho timber limits averaged €8 por mile. . ‘he Governmont s sont a Commissioner to inquire into tho roported suforing of tho Anti- costi settlora. ‘Ihe potition against the return of the Ion. Dr. Cuwbortand Tupper, of Cumborland, N. 8.. luix[bnun \rnhdsmwn. B oNTREAL, Sopt, 21.—Tho employes of tha Grund Trunit Railway lave mnuu‘n‘mfl‘ the lato Buporintendent, Mr. Brydgos, with o beautiful caslob containing betwoen 57,000 sod $8,000, mado up of 81 contributions, Watenronn, Ont., Bopt. 21.—Ninoty-five thousand pounds of cheeso wero shipped from Ligso to London, Enp&h\m\, on Saturday. ‘Porionto, Ont., Rapb, 21.~—Mrs. Dlorrison's Grand Opora-louse, the best in tho Dominion, opens to-night under the patronaze of the Govornor-Genoral and tho Gountoss Dufforin, ——— - FAST RUNNING ON RAILROADS. o the Editor of The Chicagn, Tvibuna : i Bm: In Tus Tuwong of Sopt. 13 you copy from tho Poughkeopsio ZFagle an account of “‘Fhio fastost timo ovor mado on tho Hudsor River Railroad,"—making 70 milos (as-by tho Taitrond-gaide) in 1 hour and 20 minutos aotual Junning timo.” This 1a good timo, but I think that in 1868, o train was run from Albany to Now York-in 9 hours a0d 40 minutos,—144 milon— making sovon full stops, ‘ho fadt uronted con- sidarable excitomont at thio time, und was widaly publishod. One incident I romembor in conneo- ion will the performance was:' An engiueor, whosa run was betweon Now York nnd Poughs Joopsle, claiming that hio conld mako tho run of 98 milos in an hour, and hiv offor to bob $500 on tho rosult, if tho oilicors of tho road would ullow him {0 mako the triul, which was not dono. But wo havo & bottor Tocord on somo’ of onr Weatern roads; for, in 1803, n run was made from Jenosvills, Wis,, to Chicego, » distanco of 01 nilos, in 1" hour’ and Y0 minutes, Whicl, I think, was published In Tug Toimuse at tho timo, T mighy namo o numbor of other fast ruus of whichi I'havo tho rocord, wore it not for taking up too wmuch valuablo spaco in Tum UHIUNE, M of n Brivish Millions ntre, From the Arcadian, * Mr. Albert Grant, tho douor of Lelcoater Aquare, is hnving built o mansion_which prom fuen to bo tho finent in London. It iu situated In Iligh streot, Konsington, sud tho bulldhu}u aud ground covor an avos of moro thau 4 acron. ‘Tho honso it I tho reuaissanco stylo, aud has a frontago of 200 feot, Somo idoa may 1o formod of tho oxtent of the work from tha ot llmt,dm(nt; tho past o years, 650 meu have bosn daily employed. Lho total cost will oxe qead a willlon storlivg, When cowplotad, tho house will contain a grand hall and stmrcaso In whita maible, a ploture-gallury. and threo d(nlufi rooms en suite, & hall-raom 83 foot long, o threo storlos of bedroowms, ronchod by stoats elovators The New Hlou -] increase “of $40,000, not: nxl.nm‘ ‘RAILROAD NEWS., - Consultation ‘of the Managers of thio ' ‘Unton Pacific and tue " Yowa Lines, Proéru;s of the Ballimare & Qhio . Extension. Miscellnneous Items, . ... THE UNION PACIFIO. Prosident Blduoy Dillon and Jay Gould, of tho Union Dacific Ralilroad, . accompanicd by @on. G, M, Dodge, Council Bluffs ; Gen. Colton, Ban Franolsco ; ‘Thoma J, Bhorldan, Now York ; 0. K. -Mooro, Elizaboth ; snd G. P. Morrlson, Now York, orrivod at tho Grand Paoiflo Hotol gestorday, This.distinguistied party is oo a tor of Inepdation over the Union.snd Contral Paclfic Railronds, sud will go as far as San Frauclaco, whero thoy will ramaln sevoral days. »' THE MAIN ORIECT of thoir journoy ia to facilitate traffle ovor thess roads; by: increasing tho speod of tho trans, whioh now-ran at the rato of 16 milos an hour. Inatoad of making s connection with the Union Paciflo Transter at Qouncil Bluffs, it js proposed to run a through car from Chicago, abolishing thia teanafor, ae a¢ prosony condugted.’ It s ox- poctod that, by the proposed_incroaso in npoed, a day will bo eaved batwoon Ohicago snd Ogdon. * TOE MANAGERS OF TIE IOWA POOL LINES— tho' Ohioago & Northwestorn, - Ohicngo, Burllogton & Quinoy, _ond : Obleago . & TRock - Island. v Roilropds—~nnd Mr, “H. O. Wicker, Now York Agont of tho pool lines, hiold & mooting -1ast” ovening at the Grand Paclito Hotel with Messrs, Jay Gould and Sidnoy Dillon, for tlo purpose of bringing tho diflioult in rogard . to ‘tho prorating .of : throug frolgta ito & final "acttlomont. will bo romombored® that lasc winter: tho threo I lines rofusod - to ship freights 0 o Francieco via tho Union Pacific Raltroad unloss that lino wonld prorate with them. Alr. Vining, tho General Frafght Agent of tho Union Paciflo, rofused to comply, sl subsequontly made srrangomonts with tho Qhicago & Alton Rinilroad to carry tho Oaliforaia through fraights vin Koarnoy. - Evor sinco thero Uas been quar- reling botwasa thogo various linak, snd number- 1088 mootings have boen hold witbiout avail, At ‘proaent Mr. Vining 18 giving about it the buai- nees to tho Alton, and tho other balf to tho pool- ors. Dub tho pooters are not satisficd with those torma, They want all tho buinosa or nono, aud theroforo tho -mooting last cwening —was hold. What conclusion was reached could not bo loarned, but 1t is ‘hardly possildo that ony flual nction waa taken, as Mr. Bmith, of iho Alton, ia out of town. o will, howevar, bo kack this morning. An cffort will slao be'mado to aboliith all out- sido commission ofiices at Ban Franoieco, and have tickota sold only at the office of the Contral Paciflo Rallroad, ON THEIN WAY b to California these gentlomon will also stop st tho blorra Novada AMountaing, noar Truckeo, and look at tho prospects of tho now tunngl latoly projoctod by Mr. Iunting- ton, Prosidont of thio Contral Pasifio Railroad. This tunnel will' bo sevoral milcs loug, and will cost £2,000,000, and will preciude the necossity ‘which oxista at prosont of making a stoop sscent of moro than 1,000 foot on n vory diflicult part of tho rond. - Whon this shall bo comploted, tho snow-sheds whick now form so importamt a fontura In tho oquipmont of tho road will bo no Jougor nocessary. Boveral thousnnd tons ‘of stoel rails havo baon sont to the lino of the rosd to ropiaco tho iron as fast na thoy aro worn. . FINANOES OF TIE ROAD. The Directors of tho Union Pacific Railrond. ‘havo jusy iesued s pronuncismonto, snnouncing fo thio bondholdors the great succoss and ap- proaching closo of tho funding opoerations of tuo CQompany, -They atso congratulate the halders. ‘of tho incoms bonds, who. havo oxchanged tho samo, an the steady appreciation in tho mackot value of the:new sinking-fund ‘havo advancodd por cont sinco tho 24 inst 43 Thoso bonds ara constantly growing In favor, with invostars, and it would s2om should oventually take a bighor rank on the Btock Exchange than tho incomo, om, Tho sinking-fand_bonds are s morignge ugon tho road, equipment, and franchifes of tho Unfon Pacliic Tailfoad Compaty aftee tho frst-morlgago bonda aid 110 Goverument lon, which alono 1a susiiciont soourit to givo, the bonds' s Ligh standing, o tho! prompt peymont of intorest and principal; but a nddition tlioy' aro & second mortgage upon e immonso land-geant of . thio-Company. ~Thio lani~ raat bomas, whicl form & lat Yo upon tio lands, avo boen roduced from $10,400,000 to nearly $3,000,+ 000, nnd tho Land Dopariraont hus in noles and’ cash about $3,700,00, which, ot tho presout market pricc, would votiro $3:000,000' moro of the bonds, reducing thio: fotal to £,000,000. Tho Land Dey bought and canceled nearly §600,000 Lond-grant bonds aloco Jan, 1, which is s very raphl reduction in tho Bondod dobt, It will ba aoen, tharefore, that tho tmo amplro in itself, Tho Company, up to Aug. 1, disposod of 1.03018k norr fof $4.116,00%uh, avizano o acres, Tho Diroctors, 1n making this communication to the holders of tho Company'a soouritics, fecl Lound to ex~ }-rw tlolr conviction that thora is & great future bo- fora their cnferpriso, Tho tradlo roturns aro very on~ ocouraging, the not earninga for July hiaving shown an fhotanding tho_gonoral do~ preseion of b 048, Tho Company has offocted a now arangomont in regard to its oosl-mipply, Whoreby fucl 13 obtained st a much lowor coat than formerly, Tho oxtra oxponsca for filling up trestio-work, which have Loen charged to operating oxpenses, aroabout over, and fn otlior woys tho oxpensea of tho road will bo ro- ducod from this timo forward, —— THE BALTIMORE & OHIO. The Chicago extonsion of tho Daltimore & Obio Railroad will bo finished in o fow days, and will be formally oponed by tho 1st of November, provided the trouble with tho Michigan Contral Railroad is settled by that time. Tho lattor rond i objecting to tho Daltimoro & Obio crossing its track at Loko Station, and Lias mado applicstion for an injunction. 'Tho Baltimbro & Ollo, in its new oxtension, crosses sbout fitteon Qifferont roads, and thus far haa had no troublo with any of them oxcept the ane mentloned above, Tha Michigan Contral wants to cotpel tho Daltimora & Ohio to cross it lino through a tunnel or over a viaduet, which would entail an oxpense upon the new lino of about $100,000. 1t is claimod by the managors of tho Baltimoro & Ohio thnt tho Michigan Contral Is making all this trouble boosuso thoy do not wanin rval Jino, smd that by golng to law thoy enloulate to Loop them out for a year or go longer. Tho now road is ontiroly complate oxcopt tho filling up of threo gapa of 19, 6, and 4 miles ench, Hrnl which will bo finished by tho 6th af Octobor, Tho new dopot at tho foot of Bouth Wator stroot is comploted to tho roof, which is pow putting on, It ian vory substantial brick building. s S ‘MISOELLANEOUS, FIXING TIE RATES. A mooting of tho managors of tho loading Wisconsln railronds was hold yostordey at tho ofico of the Oliongo & Northwestern Railroad “for the purpose of making arraugements for uniform ratos to competing pointa. Thero woro pregent: Alexandor Mitcholl, Preuidont; Johu 0. Gault, General Mauagor; 8. 8, Morrill, As- wlatant Goneral Managor's and O. I, Brott, G- eral Freight Agont of tho Milwaukoo & 8t. Paul Toilroad; _Albert Koop, President; II I Torler, Goucral Managor; Marvin Hughitt, Coneral Huperintoudent; aud Q. 0. Whooler, Goneral Frolght Agont of.. tho Chicago & Northweatorn Nanilroad, and J. J. Phitips, Prosidont of tho Wost Wisconsin Rail- road. ‘Tho moeting adjourned without having finishod tho worlk for which it was called. To mako evon rates to compoting points nuder tho Potter Iaw ia not an ensy mattor, a8 tho law has graded tho roads in sovoral classes, and mado varloua ratos for oack class, 'Tho Ohicago & Northwestorn, for oxample, bolonging to tho first olaws, cannot charge s high ratos to the samo pointa ay tho West Wiscousin, whioh be- longs to tho second class. I0WA EASTERN DIAILROAD. Correapondencs of The Chicago P'ribune. MoGneoon, In., Bopt, 20.~This woek tho Dis- trict Court of Olayton County will have undor conelderation & vory important question, myojv- ing & large amount of pra[mrlé. who Iows Eantorn (narrow-gaugo) Raitrond Compauy fs - solvent. ~ Tho amount of the fim-murlfngo ‘bonds fa about §200,000, Mochunic's lious have ‘been Nlod agalust sald road for £50,000, Tho uestion_undor disputo la tho priority of lion, ©ho boudhiolders clalm thut, o thoir bohs worp isaucd aud negotlatad bofora tho construetion of the road commenced, thol llone aro paranioynt, Ou tho othor and, tho holdora of tho mochauic's lous maintain thaf, gs tho materinl wout into ‘bonds, whicl, | LINGARDS! Langa, i dotse, owing to tho valuable scourity bo- | ud insule. | riment Lus | - fa not-very distans whon-the sinking-fund bonde will | becoma n Grst llop upon tho Inds of o Company, an | 74, ha 55 per acre, and still had on lhond 11,044,316 amount, Tho %o the Bupromo CONBOLIDATION, Trng ITAUTE, Ind., Sopt. 31.—The Parls & Torre Hnnto, the Paris & Doontur, and tho Poorin, Atlantio & Decntar Tinlironds have boon cousolidated into ona.road, undor the Presidency of 1L, G. Honry, and making n lino of 180 milea Hotwoon Torr Haute and Pooris, tho Inat rall upon which will bo Iaid within thirty dayn. i NEW KENTUCRY TARUFF, o Tho Iilinols Contra Raiiroad and {ho Southorn uostion will [fl'flhlbly bo takon urt of tho Biate, - SLEEPING OOACHES, ___ Vi MICH, CENT. 0, V/. & ERIERY'S Pullman Through Paface Steeping Coach # Gropn Lino liava Issued a now tarift to all pointa in Kontucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Tonnes- #eo, South Chrolina, Georgln, and Flotlda.: Tho now ratos are somoswhat lowor than tho old ones, and wont into effoct yesterday, —e. —The fathor of Clarlie Ross, tho kidnappod Philadolphla boy. writea to Mr. Hall, of Y}un. nington, Vt., wiho adopted the waif recently ploked up ip that town on suspicion that he waa Oharllo, ex; rn!slng groat satiafaction at Mr. Ifall'a cara for the boy, and thot bis wifo, though 8ho has sovon children of hor own, would not objoct to adopting this ono. ** Wo hinve not got Obarlie yot,” eaya Mr. Iloss, **and aro boginning to fool doubtful It wo over will got him homo agaln living." AMUSEMENTS. THE KELLOGG ENGLISH OPERA, MR. 0. D, 1RES has the_honor ta Announocs thet, un- dorhis direction, the Locond soaton of GRAND OPERA IN ENGLISH, With tho famous American prima doana, MI88 OLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, At fts hoad, will bo Inaagurated at MoVickor's Thoatrs on MONDAY, Ool: 5, tho company camprising in addi. lon to Ml Holloga, tho following disunguishad Stars of_Iiuglish Opora: "TRAINIIC VAN, ZANDT, W18, SEGUIN, GUIR, aod WILLIADM OASTLE, st FULL OHORUS ARD GRAND OROHESTRA, Mr. A, Prodigam, Musial Diroctor, sopts i oomumeaos on WWou leoctor, ~ Saloof o od ‘odnesday morning, Sept. 8J. repnrtoiro, soalo of pricos, and b0 DUURBoN 15 G0%s Bundey's papors . Lariculsrs wil " WCORMIOR'S MUSIO HALL. THEO. THOMAS’ UNRIVALED OONCERTS, 5 OIAND INAUGURAL OONOKRT—Mondsy oventor, Elimh- POPULAR CONOERT — Tussdsy avening, § ég-’ci‘%in BERTHOVEN NIGHT-Wednesday eventng, GRAND MATINER-Woduesdsy aftornoon, e <oftcarls Mr. Thomas will futroduco for the tho now Amorican Prima Donna, MISS EMMA fiest ORANOIT, o atvanson. MoClurg & Co.'s, No. 117 ¢ ovoniug concort: Admission, 13 ro- Korvad snat, main floor, 50 conts, and baloony oxtra. Tickst for”matineo oaly $1, INDLUDING WENERVED Dosriptive programmo at muate atora. SRR B BIERIToN, Mansgors, M'VIOKER'S THEATRE, Dadison-at., between State aud Dearborn. Romembor this is the LnA!.:“ ‘uvll:rEK but one of the emi- ot o Joseph Jefforso: aud tho thostro will bo OROWDED, NIGHTLY to wit- noss his maslorly emuclishmont of Washington Lrving's of ‘Thoraloro, aocuro your soats, Wich you o gaten chiargs six days in advauoey Coino os tha entiro pisy. Doors opon at 5; curtainrl ally at8o'clock, HOOLEY'S THEATRE, The Successful Comedy Company will appoar this weok in & OIANGE OF PROGRAMME. Berlbo's Ovo-no comadys A Tangled Chain! Will D> givon ovory svening, oxcept Saturdsy: alsoon Woilnadafy sat Sitindey atidrucnus, Tho casy l.l.,eluuu. i Fawihorno; Mrs. Willlacis, and Aliss Ofliocds Baturday Evoning, OTEELLO. AUADEMY OF MUSIC, Tts conlng wook tho Acmo of Dramotla Porfoction, the famous.and utoqualod, e o erten, Lt Sh8 A amcadr Alatinae o i Horico. BHLINY, Shd 1ho NEW LINGARD SKRTGH: GRAND OPERA HOUSE, ‘Olikad, opposite Stiorman Hougo. FRED AIMB..cm.. .« Manager f the GRM OF MIN. 'R T QU PRIVIPIAS SBopt, 21, 167, ey & ton's Yamms s, St gt B T e ;"’5‘:\“’1\?1"2‘" THONE ® nteodoln the vt sz et ory: = Eitopian akorvt, O "D Scholeratt, o ey, “WOODIN SHOLS, Trank and Low ‘Choruscs, and Salos. ta. a i Qallina, th nd Baturday ruatinecs, M1 ing, First il FRPG Snpiits, o HOES, Naw Bings, Tivory ovoning and Wodngsd MARTINE'S - ancing Academy. . SOUTH SIDE, % WILL OPEN Saturday, Sept. 2G. AllJato faskionablo aud legitimato dances aystomatl- cally tavgh 1 hiave onlargod and improvod the South Bido Acadenmy 20 thiat {t i vaatly superlor to any in tha Statas, whethor in polat of sizo, eloganco and completons 1iave aluo Improved tho Woest Sldo Acad ARRIVAL AND DEPARTIR espted, * Sunds s Bnday LE 600 o 4 MICHIGAN CENTRAL & GREAT WESTE| b Al RN RAILROADY FKantss Oity and Den IKasas Gty 1 Itasas Gty Eixpreas e Mjlwenkoe, G 1 Mijlwaukeg, O Point, P Milwaakee, 8 Depot oot af Lakest. and footas aficé, ! Tairo & Nov Culiro & New Orloans I Dhoria & Kok Its {a) G CHICAGD, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD. oy RAILROAD TIME TABLE, £ 0F TRAINS. RXPLANATION OF REPERRNCE MARKA, — 1 Sats AR o t, foot of Lak, feket office, U1 Cla nd b Canalat,, coruer 99 o7 Neentysacond-st, b itheast theast comer of” Handalph, 8007, m. i F000 p. |+ G20, e CHICARO & ALTON RALANAD. ' Oheage, Kamaar €Nl and Demver Short Line, vla_ Loutets ana, Jio., and Chicago, Sprinf Through L1 i i ot Sapet ok e et g Tleket Offces ¢ 4t Depoty and 153 Nandotphst st CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & Sf. PAUL RAILY/AY, Dnion Depot, corner Madison and Canal - Tiekat 1)) oy Glarieate oiposte Shgeaion Hosres st Dot Arrioe, Leire, i 1 3:00 8, . M1):091, wa, it B, Pral & M o : Day lhxprems. *9:32 8, m. {*4:60 b, mm, airle du QloriBorn lawe, Mal [*5:00 p, m.|® 7:80p. m, a olis, Niglit Fapresa. t 9:30p. .11 6:45 8, 0 LLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD. 7o f, 131 Randolph-t,, near flhvl:.“v‘u“‘a‘ Sheaw, Dabuquo & Sloux Oif Dubugus & Blouz Olly 1. ilman Passongoi @) Ruas o Ohampaign on Satn: Sivtoonthonl,y" o, 19 Ciar sttt af - Eakest,, Tndlanaao, and Cani aod Siatcentlogihe, Ticket oficas, e Grand Facife Hotel and 6 depols. Aurota Passonge: Aurors Passsaror (85I Dubuqne & BlouxOity ¥av.. l'lulfluLNiflht Tixp, for Om L] g Laavouworth, oufson & 8t, Josoph Rxp...v..| HO: Downer’s Grovo Accommodstion) owner's Urove Accommadation) Downor's Grovo Accommodation] “Ex, Bundaye, * Gild p. . FEx. Baturaay, JLx. Mondsy CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD. Sehet aihces, i, (Shermansfouse), an . ek A B e intntr cnd af the ot O aPaolflo Past Lino, a Dibuuae Ly & ‘aubuguo Nigut 2, aQsaha Night xnross, @ kyoeport & Dubnaub K . aFreeport & Dubugue Kxvross. . & Aliiwaokes Mail, Miwaukoo Hxpro: o] W " SBebotEamer of Cuot and Kasia-ste. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD, 4, corner of VunBuren and Shermanur, Tickst Dewst, cornee 0F VG rund Tactto iotele i Qmabs, Leavon'th&Atohle Peru Accommodation,... Nluht Expeus E: EDUCATIONAL, §T. JOEN'S SCHOOL. Poarding and doy-sshool for soung ladios and chlldrea, Tov. Thoodoro Irviog, LL. D., Rector, No. 9l West Thirty-second-st., New York. Tho young ladios and children recolved into the family will live in the atmos sphere and undor tho qulotinfluonocs of a Christian homo, The numbor is limited to fifteon. Recopenon Woednas. day, Sopt, 23, For circular or iuformation, apply to the Ruotor, No. 31 Weat Thirty-socond-st. . LAKE FOREST ACADEMY, d Boardtog Schiool, whioro Hoya and Young Mo A anan far Colfouo wud. obintn A& thorough Kuglish Ednexiiin Hlon, #0b rloneh wia Tulign, &isbpor o s Wil bogia Sopt, 0., For S {sfi“lgmwjxfl:ir{‘m‘li;:“: aidrss w0 rinoipal, ALBIIWF B RO SWEARAT 1088, Prostdont, Tha Rav. "he Hon, WUJA‘A"? ARTHUR MITOHELL, Vico-Proeldont. ALLEN'S ACADEMY, SARY, PREPARATORY, snd AOA: -?é‘/fn"rmgwsr;‘ KPLENDIDLY onul oo e CXWo ALER) Tl by Embrach,' DEMIC D, for boya of &l cadeimy, 5o that for Tasnily, Ohurch, or Private Olub Parties, both will be COLLEGE OF LAW, found thaomparably olegant, rechoreh ta. UNIoN FOTLLES . AR S EDWINMANIING, | Of the Unisaraityof b, '°38% 313, the Nertbmotiers Gab —_— N A | Femlly. Duiiyhosteaotio. Aoy D and damed It FIRST CONGREGATI'L OHUROH, | Baaiifs i prisvad . s, bomion aad 413 Corner Ana and Washington-sta. Myors, “haltion, 0L O ¥, , B> DINBLOW, 8oy, GRAND CONCERT, At Tirat Qongrogational Ohurch, cor. Ann snd Washiug. Loyt o THRsAny, SEvoning, Sopis 2 Bt orclook. M UCRRNGE ROPY. Sraamat.” 00 T SRACY Kot 8BS ELLA A. WHITK, Contralto. L 1LY, Tont ar, ¥, OAQE: BEHGSTRIN, Rass, or eatalogues, &o, Telouno thatlatag, Ohi — Teline i, Ghidhge e | — CHEGARAY INST. TUTE, MADAMR D'UHERVILLY, Princip. '.\ 5 x"?." ;_m and 1829 Sproco- lUsh, b, tia, -af, oardiors aod iy Seoes for, ‘young Ladios and Miss % 5 1ol V¢ thio languas of tho fams Wil rappon Boptombor L, . PRO £ Tickgtm, 80cta, such, Sorfalo at thy churoh aad d¢ Lgoit At RICE & THOMPSON's Art Emporinm, 29 Wabash. av. BRAUN'S FAMOUS AUTOTVLKS of Paris, com. ing all tho Drawlugs, Paintings, Irosooo and Modern Statuary of 811 tlio Art allorios (o “T'his collootion s unrirs Antiqus Europe, (ho world . Alno, it a0 on SaEAblIon ‘i hie countrgs tHo Autatopes ot SO OF tho bosuHril Livasslom whion B atisbtod 20 mucth attontlon in ‘\'flmflfl.‘ux e A CARD, W, LAWLOR, for the pust fou < TARNIA T GUTDIES T Afse e ibarats oon, hiag opunad tho vow BILLIARD' PA - sestion it B VAR HOUSK, Whoro \ffil;‘n’x’x'h‘."n{:,'-'; H 10 moot his [rjonds for the fut 1) L R S Jauntiog O Paris louss, 114 snd Il’n Woat. Ison~ Cluesical Eagliah, 0N ERER EXHIBITION! | =2 Vino-st., Phila l{‘fln}l “Tgem of M DR. VAN NORMAN’S Teanch, and Gorman family sy schioo S e o e o ooy jonteal Park, Now York, will sommonco | :M““?.’i"u Sl;u.A'.'i, {874, 1or llullmr\l'nAlg‘rfllt‘%tfi ;A'A TOR A FEW DAYS ONLY! LLSD5 8 Bint Bizerfratste, Now York, LOGAN SQUARE SEMINARY. wl . Day-8ahool for ladliss, ity 1 R T e L e s o' PINDRLI Principsls, Frazrwvard School, No, 21 Sixtoeuthest, lication. Oleoulars oa DU AVe B, WATTIRS, A, M., Mastor. MRS. WM. G. BRYAN'S 0ARDING SCIOOL FOR YOUNG LADILS, s ohan ohmeenodces Hoptomuoe oiosq bepiom Yew Aptil, 1671, e Boptomber atavls, METHODIST OHUROH BLOOK, ‘Cornor Olark and Wasllugton‘ate, Wi Fl D ) Brersit oot wncad 11l givo his Popular Dramatio Reoltals Thursday SEvonfag, Sapte S, - Hluetul '-'exlf,unm By Joula alk, Admission, ‘Tiokets at ‘Doors open conts, o door. Ap MADAME 0. do SILVA & MRS, ALEX. BRADFORDIS Cormotly Mrs, Opdin Loy wbtal Ko ronoin aid iornan’ Hoardiug-Bohool for Young Ladios znd Uhil. ron, 17 Weat Ihirty-eighth-st,, N, roopons Sopt. tion may g inadla porazianliy of by Lotieras o BULKLEV'S BOARDING AND DAY. B T T A R G 1 roopon Nept., 16, at7,_Cuminougo at'B. WINDOW GLAS! Colansey Glass Mannf’e Co. 40 North Third-at,, Philadelphin, Pa., Are now making, and have on hand the Lar- gont and bost susortment of WINDOW GLASS. Orders prompily filled nt LOW PRIOHES, OQur Glass s BUPEINIOR TO OTHER BRANDS, *Packod lio Frenoh,” of High Polish and Light Color, Itin believed EQUAL TO FRENCH, o a o MY ingand' Liay-Solivol for youniz GOUND BOJLOTATSIIT, NO CURLE! NO PAY 1 Maybo ousuted, povsonslly or by S AIL Sheomlo o Hetvors disoasos. 187 Washiugton-at, 1% LLE, TARDIVEL, W. FORTY-SIXTI-ST., o Toupous bior Fronob, ¥ auliabe st Goripan Bos nclios aud childven, Sept. dost, romgotfal, manly domeanar, Acvonrcrns M ARSI Bonjawin Mason, Box No, 851, Yonkom, MEDIOAL, Dr. Kean, 300 BOUTTI CLARIG-ST OHICAGO, frop.af o B SRR Wi A1 Giros O B0 AT, i e ek Baisdaye from 10 . DR. A. G. OLIN, Pio longest, onkaged and moat auo- sestul vigsiolan in the alty in tho wpocisl treatment of 1} Uhronio, Norvous, and bpoolal Disoaes, Dllnm;‘h& e T e A oL, e rvatteo: ot ‘s distanco trontad by matl, AND AT LOWER PRICES, Also, manufaoture Wino, Portor, and Min« | & tho gonsizuotipn of tho read, tholr lions uro pas- avel Dottles, Flaske, Violy, and Fruit Jora, | dacay, uucvous MA)JII}H)U lll‘lfl'flflllklll. Al nos, o . Liss fuuivd & slmpls aolf-ouro, which tas uawii r 1 Igh ainady, 1 o to b low-sn 3 TV A N Yo