Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1874, Page 4

L) THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE : WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, % TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEY OF HURCITETION (PATAULE 1 ADVANOR) 1244 Toien ) Cfl.eo nddtess in full, fncluding State and Cunnts, * Romattnucen mny bo mo oithor bydralt, exprusy, Post Oiice o1dor, or 1n regintored lo'iois, At our Fisk, TLNSIA TO GIXY RUNSCIIINNS. Dailsy doliverod, Huuday escoptoa 2 coute per weck. Dalls, dolivered, Bunday leinded, It ¢onty por Wook, ¢ Midien THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner MAdinon and Dearkorm-ste,. Unleaga, TO.DAYS AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Hnlstod d"nl,hn’wflvfll Mad. eon and Monros, Iagagemont of the Lincard Combinm tion. Aftornoon, * Le Syhlax.” Evosing, ‘‘ Tho Now Magdalon HOOLRY’ TRATEE—Rantolph streot, Letwoon Olark ana Lasails, *''The Tanglod Obaln," Aftornoon and ovonlng, MVICRKIVS THEATRE~Madison® strool, hatween Dearborn and Sinto, Lngagenont ot Josoph Jolforson, ¢ Rip Van Winklo." GRAND OPERA-FIUUSK-OClark stroot, opposite Bhorman Mouse. Klly & Luon's Minatrels, ~ Altarnoon and sventug, EXTOSITION BUILUING~Lakoshare, foot of Adams atrant. The Thicags Tribune, Weodneaday Morning, Soptember 23, 1874 Tho passago of tho now fire ordinance by the Common Council ks dono much to rostoro pub- T'econfidonceo in respoct to tho future of Chicy- g0, ‘Onoof the Inguranco companios which bad withdrawn has nirendy returnod, and somae others will undoubtodiy do tho same. Probably all of the agencies now in tho city will romain, No sln- glo act of the prosont Common Council was 8o nocessary to the prosperity of the city as tho ono of Monday night. Elmer Washburn, formerly Suporintendent of Polico in Chivago, is tho favorite candidatafu ‘Washington for Ghief of tho Gavernmont Secrot Horvico, Ifo huns the coufidenco and support of Holicitor Wilson, aud has abotter vhancs of tho nomiuvation, parhapy, than any other man. Wo have aiready anid that Mr. Washburn is o fi6 peron for tho place. Ha was too honoest and uncompromisiug for Chleago 3 and will fail in Waehlngton, it ho fatls at oll, on nccount of the samo creditablo traits of charncter. ¢ Wondoll Puiliips bas been nvited to address _ the Co-oporative Cangreas in London, Ifo {3 a somoewhat distiuguished student of tho subject, and one who hues tha facility of speeeh and com- yomtion necessary to a succevoful presentation f his thoughts. We sincorcly rogret that be will nvo so meagre s roport to muko of co-op- orative undortakings in this country, where evarything seems peculinrly adapted to tho trial on an extonsive Gcale of all the principles iu- volved. New Orleans correspoudonts of the hartiean press in tho North have beon st some paius to miuropresout the noyotintions botwoon Ponn sud Kellogg iu respoct to tho Returning Donrd, They have said tbat tho Democrats demsnded threo oug of five members of the Bonrd, Our zeports are, and wo believo {nquiry wiil show them to be correct, ihat Lonu's proposition wns to have two Domocrats and two Hepublicans ap- pointed, theso four to choose tho fifth momber of tho Board, The fairucas of this arrangement Will commend itself to everybody. . PSS CtRe Mr, Tilton's second statomont has caused o ro- wvival of tho Beechor seandal, which i8 again en- gaging public atiention in Now Yol as if tho Plymouth Committes wero still in existonce and working laborjously not to discover anything. Tho Committeo was roally tho most sorious ob- stacle in tho way of an honest invostigation. By making & feint ab justico it decoivod many doubtiug consciences, and lont to tho wholo al- fair an appearance’of uncertainty and porplexi- ty which carnost soarching for the trath would quickly have dispelled. Compotition botwecn tho different lines of At- 1autic ateawers hay reduced the fare for stoorngo pussage to or fram Xuropo to $16. Unfortu- nately it happeus just at this timo that tho emi- gration from our shores {s in oxcess of the immi- gretion, 80 that tho low rato of passago is a3 ducewent in the wrong direction. For, while it might bo unwiso nt this junoture tourge nny peraons in Burope whoso situation is at all en- duralle to como to Americs, wo do not beliove thut foreigners alveady herein poor condition huvo anything Lottor to oxpee: in the old coun- try. All the cotton fuctories in Boltcy, Eog., which lately stopped on sccount of a atriko, bavo ro- sumod operations, and tho difficultios botwoon the workmen and owners wilt bo sottled vy srbi- tration. About 13,000 men woro ongged in this trike, Thoy could, of course, ill alford to be idle for any length of timo, even though thoy might thoreby socuro alightly incroasad wagos. Recourso to arbitration was for them tho most rational, a8 it wos tho most economical, mothod of obtaining justico, DisafTectod workmen olao- where moy profitably takoalesson frowm tholr Dbretliron in Bolton, It {a roported in Now York thut an attempt was latoly mado to asyassinato tho Captain-Gon- oral of Ouba, Tho report fs very likely truo. Concha's adwinistration bas been dlsastrous to the Spanish cause, It has been coatrolled in about equal mensure by cowardice and igno- sance; and hos dono more to sirongthen tho insurrcction thau nny. single agoncy. Tho course of Concha i regard to the finauces of tho island can senveoly bo called o policy. It has been rather o vaeilating aod trenchiorous use of expodients, irrespectivo of proporty-rights and {u contempt of cemmorelal weage, Iis confis. cationa have dircctly affectod the wealthy sup- porters of the Spanish rule, aud indiccetly it forelgnors engaged fu the Cuban tade. o tos benoflted nobody but tho insurgents, and thom only by the reaction following upon his ¢yrannical iguoranco, The Chicngo produce marketa waore compara- tively tamo yostorday., Mees porkt was quiot and vebirde firmer, closing ab §22.76 per brl cash, and B818.16@18,20 mollor the year, Lard wus quiet and o shado firmen, closiug ot §1476@ 16,00 per 100 Iha cash, and $11.05@11.70 sollor tho yoar. Monls were quict and weak nt 03(@ Byge for shouldore, 133{@14c for short middles, nnd 12%4@1%0 for swect-pickliod hams, Iigh- winos woro qulet and 20 higher, at#1.03 por gallow, Lake fralguta wora dull and easier, at Bo for whoat to Buffalo, TFlour waa quotsnd unchanged, Wheat was dull and & shado onslor, olosing wtrong at 81,00 cash, §L00) seller tho mouth, #ud Y5}fa Yor Octobor, Corn was sotive and 26 highor, olosing at Bdo cash, BD}dc sellor tha month, and 81¥0 for Ociobor, Oats wore lons active and 124ohighar, olosing at 6igo - cash, Bbdo sollor the mouth, sud 1340 for Ovto- Lor, Ryo was quict and stondy b 01@013de, Barley waa ‘quict and ecaslor, closing at $1.07 far Buptombor, and $1.01)@1.02 for Octobor. On Baturday. evening last thoro was in store in this olty 018,929 bu whont, 837,401 bu corn, 251,814 bu oals, 16,204 bu ryo, and 80,091 bu bar- loy, IHoga wuio falrly nctlve nud unohangod ; sales nt §6,25@7.25 for common to chioleo, Cat- to wore dull and 2(@J¢o lowor. Sheop ruled steady. THAT COURT-HOUSE AGAIN. ‘The Gro-ordiuance queation boving boon dofi- nitoly soltled, tho Court-Iouso businoss bias Deon agaln Bprung upou the Common Counail, this timo by Ald. Foloy, and in & very fm- portunatoway, If he can't have A whole loaf, o will tako half a one, Iis order provides that if tho city and county oanuot agrea with tho Bonrd of Pubitic Works na to tho orootion of n Court-Houso to covor the wholo square, thon the Board of Publio Works sball proceed forth- with to soloct an nrehitoct who uhall propare tho plaus aud build & City-Hall on tho west hal? of the squaro. Tho first proposal is bad enongh, but tho second, although only balt as large, i twico ns bad. ANl fho argumonts which lio agninst tho fitsb apply with miill grenlor forco to the Aocoud., As thero 8 no ono outside of tho - Council Clambor and tho architects who want o City- Tall; aa tha ity bas o mouoy to spate for it a8 tho people are pnwilling to pay forit; os tho city authoritics aro not sufformg for roorm; ay, in fact, thore 16 no reasou why such a building should bo erected aud evory reaeon why it should not Lo, it i aifilenls to dotormiuo what motive is nctuating Ald, Foley, unlosa it bo that tho Aldor- man thinks {6 wonld {mprovo tho bnsiness of bitliards to havo a City-Iull across tho way, and would secure tho patronage of the City Govern- mont, with all that that implies. As tho publio, flowover, are not lutereated suliciontly in the Alderman's tables to spend $2,000,000 or S0,000,000 to kop thom going, this does mot coustitnto auy valid roason for tho orection of a City-Lall. Whon the pooplo. got Ltho soworage of tho clty porfocted, when thoy aro provided with an amplo quantity of water for protection against firo, whon the ime provements for which an nctual nocosafty oxisty are consummatod, itmay bo that thay will feel lilto sponding a fow millions on the Courl-Houso Square, and romoving the unsightly rubbish which now lics in front of tho Alderman's bill- invd-ball, Until that time, however, ho should posscas his goul in pationce, *‘nurso” his build- ing mauis, and “pockot " his ordivances, When tha peoplo want a whole Court-Tlouso or half a Colist-Houso, thoy will mako their wants known witiout any prompting from Ald. Foloy or “any other man At preacut thoy dow't want any- thing of tho kind, which should be & gentle hint to tho Alderman to" keop silent on the Court- Houso businoss. THE TRIAL OF ANDERSON. To-lny will begin the trial of the man Aaron Anderson in the Criminal Court on tha charga of araon, Tho prisoner is a Swede, who spoaks En. wlish very well. Hols o marriod mon aud Las sovoral childron. Hels & carpenter by trade, and at tho time of this occurrouce worked dur- ing thoday at Cornell, o distanca of two sud o blf miles from his residenco, No. 217 Portland avenuo. To reach his worl ho hiad to lenve Lome at an carly hour, o ocoupied the lower story of tho houso, and another family lived up-staira. THho houso was a wooden bullding resting on paosts, the first floor baving aemall olevation abovo thio ground, At tho timo of thia alleged incon- Qinriem bis family was away, and 1t was hie practice wheu golug to work in the moruing to loava the kop of s premises with the woman who lived up-atairs, Ou this partieulic mornfng bo Teft st an sarly hour, leaviug the koy ns usual., After ho had boon gano two Liowrs, tho womnn ecoupying tho upper story percoived smoke aud asmoll of burning wood, and, muking on oxamination, found that a hole had been burned through the lower floor. 8ho selzad a basin of wator and ox- tingulshod tho firo. By a furthor examination of tho promisce, it was discovered thut a candlo of unusual size, such 88 aro used in Catholie churehes and on fostivals, bad been lighted, and that tho firohad boon caused by this lighted candle. Xt further appeated that an auger holo Lind been bored through a placo of pino board, aud one oud of the candie had been insorted fu tho holo, thus meking tho board serve ns n can- dleatick. Around tho base of the ecandlo wore shavings, chips, and papor ; aud in tho seraps of paper was o lettor or pait of a lot- tor from Mrs. Auderson to hor hLusband. It wae ovident that whoover hnd set the fire ox- pocted that the candlo would bura down to tho shavings and papor, and thas produce a flre that would commuficato to tho houso, and, nt the same time, destroy the evidenco of incondinrism. Thre candlo, howover, was too long, and the tlamo Wwas too near thoe floor ovorhead ; and iho result wod o promoturo digcovory. All theso cironm- stances pointod to Audoruon, but they reeoived additional forco from tho discovory thatthe improvited candlostick fits oxnetly a board {n Anderson's worksbop from which it hiad boon sawed; the auger holo fe of o mizo corrosponding with such a tool iu the eamo shop, and tho shy- ings ovidently camo from tho samo place, To get undor tho house tho person who set this fira brd to «awl or move in a stooping posi- tion, sud tho hat and the . back of Auderson’s cont woro found marked with the dust and cobwebs peculisr ta such o place, and which liad seemingly beon rubbod off the under- sida of tho floor aud foiaty, This all took place nday or two after the enso of atteinptod incon- diarism on the North Bide, hd soon afier tho livo of July 14, when public fooling wan consid- erably oxcited ; aud this oiroumstanco gavo greater nignificance to tho faot that Avdorson Diad o libora! fusurance on his property. 'I'hin fu the chaln of circumstances in which the prisoner finde himself involved. Tho de- founo, whicti is in the handa of ublo counsol whio are autisfiod of Lis iunocenco, sota ous with entabiirhing tho provions good charactor of the wan, o prosanty tho evidonco of all his om- ployers in this oity and in othor parts of tho country from the time of his awmival in tho country to the duto of thla transmo- tlon, ull giving assurance of Lis un- imponchinble charactor for fntogrity and fne dustry, IIe claims that ho lort homo that morning a8 usual; that ho know noshing or thio Placing of the candle whore it waw foundj thnt 1t waa possible for any othor person to entor hin shop, 8aw tho bonrd, use e sugoer to mako the hale, tako tho ahnvings, eto., snd placo them whero thoy woro found ; that it was also possl- ble for any pordon to cutor ¢ rooms by tho window, aud, € tu ucarch of paper, auch person could piok up his wite's lottor and tear it, sud a6 with the shavings, While he esunot poing out or in apy way wuggost any person who would da thiy, nor imagina the motive for suol an aat, 0xvept an & waulon afford tu maka & fire, hio proteats his own innoconco in an -afiidavit. Whilo he cannot dispute nuy of the ofvoum- stancen, nor disprove them, nor nccount in any way for thom, ha donlos any knowledgo of thom In any form whatevor, ITig counsol will sook to provo that n candlo burning, a4 this ono bumed, wuat iave caten s way through tho floor in much loas thno than bwo hours, sud they will adduce othor tacts tonding to prove an allbl._' The valuo of a good charnctor han novorhad n strouger tost than it witl have in this cage. It s offerod ay arobuttal to olreumstancen which, in tho nbeonca of such good character, would bo univorastly accopted s conolusive of gruilt, CARPENTER'S OAMPAIGN, It Sonator Carpontor were not handioapped with u long-cared nowspapor—wo rofor to the Milwaukeo Sentinol~his vrospocts of winuing tho raco would be somawhat more flattoring than they seom to bo. Wo havo allowed two or thireo correspondonts in Wisconsin, whoso anxloty to s0v0 tho Ilopublican party oxcoods our own, to eay thelrsay fnour columns, We havo taken paing, howover, to disclalm for oursolves any ro- sponsibility for thoir uttorancos, and also to ox~ press tho opinfon that Mr, Carpontor is not tho worst Ilopublican Sonator going, although fow, vorhaps, ean claim a moro damegod reputation for tnoshort timo ho s boen fu publie lite. ‘Tho long-onred nowspaper above wentioued, re- ferring to tho lottors of thowo corresponidonts, nnd dogeribiug ouno of thew patrticulmly as * an ald familine correspaudant,” procoeds to say: Ti Trinune: beraldy him [Carponter] s & canille dato ono dny, demands tho noxt day that ho ehould des cliuous {ho only means of vecuring tho wicces of the Tarty, and then tho day following declares that bo ay 10 frlends wistover n the party. If not, bow doss bis being @ candidate usuro tho defoat of tha parly? What Is tha causo of ths stuw-born zeal of itk Tuine UNE In tho fuforest of a party it hun labored for yeirs todeatroy? If Carponter'a beinga caudiidote n detrls montal to the Ropubllosn party, why doss Ttk Tip- UNE regrot 187 Wo have exprossly declaved, as the Sentinel well knows, that we love. no “interest in tho party ™ in thoe senso that that phrase Is used and commonly undorstood; aud, consiequently, no new-born zel forit. On tho contrary, wo think that when u ,party is hopelessly bostriddon by uuch riders ns Carpontor, who are thomselvos saddled by such nowspapors as tha Sealinel, it bad bottor take timoe to lie down and roll over. It will got rid of & part of its load by that monns, and will bo that muoh bottor accontered for the next race. A NEW LINE OF DEFENSE FOR BEECIER. ‘While tho Becchier-Tilton scandut has rovoaled some private conduct which borders hard upon tho ineradiblo, it hay given us sumo rovelations of pubilio opinion which come just 88 near puss- ing ull credulity., Tho only explauation wo can find for the atiitudo of cortain New York public journals is the anciont josnitieal one, of mn esotoric and su oxoteric sot of opinions,—tle former ta ba belloved, tho latter to bo spoken, But wo do not seo how tho attitude of Serib- ner's Monthly tor Qctober cau bo explained on any othor thoory ban Ihat of frony, Tho cditorial asticlo on *Mr. Becohar's Case™ was writton, of courso, bofora r. Tilton gavo the finlshing touchos to that * caso,” but it way written aftor Mr, Moultow I caso had beeu stated, gud it boging by spoaking of tho scandal a8 ‘““recontly and forever oxploded! ‘Thero uover wag any probability in it.” Tho writer thon proceods to arguo that **The iden that Mr, Boecher, who carried o pure name through life, shonld, aftor having lived to be noarly €0 yoars of age, renred s family, sud boon subjooted to tho most tromondous drafts upon his vitality, Lave gouo out of Lia wry to sednes an innocont mombor of bis own flock, is eimply pro- posteroua™! To supposo tho suthoi of that argumont sorious, is to concludo that Lo has not roud o line of the statomonts, or o lino of crimival history, from King David to ''the strongest man of thoe Christian pulpit,” or from Caiu to Prof. Webater, whoso attorney began his dofonse with this “propostorons™ ples. Tho quostion at insuo is tho one whicl: is so flippantly (or irovically) bogged by thoe cditor of the monthly—Mr, Beecher's * purily.” As to the argument drawn from s age, in the fivat place, Lo moy sot havo beon quito 60 when Lo bogan this sort of thing; in tho sccond pluce, it his “memory for dates™ s as bad ag o say® it s, tho iusurancs companion are war- ronted in buing as uncortain about his agoe as they uro (nad ho is) sbout bis physioal stamina and montal eguilibrivm; and in tha third place, wa do not balieve tho oditor of Seribner will ! mamtaiv thets man hes ouly to prove himsolf three-scoro yoars cf age in order to prove tbat lio ia proof ayaiust o *largo gonerosily ™ or o “ paroxyamal klea,” Miatorieal or contempovary roforencos undor this hoad would ba ecruel to boll: * Mr. Beoshor's caso ™ and its supporters, and we forbear. Wo pags over in tho same for~ boaring epirit the argumont drawn from bis ability—or ratuor Inubility—to “rear a fumily " undor the ciroumstances. To say the trath, it Is this link in tho choin of the editor's logic " which first awakened tho suspiclon that, ho is trying his hand in tho art of irony, But it our msgivings wors aroused as to the serionaness of tho writer, how could they fail to bo conflrmod by o rostatoment In Lhis form: “*Thero navor was nny probability in it, rogarded putely from a physiological point of view 2 If the oath of about six rospectablo ladics and gontlomon shall have any woight with o Jury, it ‘maey appoar oue of theso days that Mr, Boocher rogarded it impurely * from a physiologieal point of view."” ‘Than wo have & reltorstion with o slight variation: It is strango that thoso throo clvoumstunces—(1) Mr, Boocher's ago, (3) his relations and the spiritual cbwractor of his oul- ture, and (8) his nccuser’s condonation ‘of tho offonso—bad not oponed tho oyes of tho public o tho facts.” Biuce those words wore writton, the acousor has * opened tho oyos of tho publia” vory wido to the fact, amouys other oqually *bottom facts,” of tho condoun- tlon, “Theo spivitual character of Mr, Bacohior's culturo™ s wanifostly anothor ironical thruat, although tho words *his rolations™ are somo- what confuying tathe thought, Can it mean the Boechor family ? If thavbo the rolorenen, it s unv fortunnto uniess it is ironieal, And that it iy ironieal, aud tho whole nrticle ironieal, is furthor confltmed by somo etatoments that follow, in which tho writor announces that *it s all over now" (with two law-sults {n prospect), and that “none but a fonl bolioves that Mr. Beechor eyor had orjminal couversation with tho wenk woman"; and that *tho peoplo and tho press hiave done that for which thoy ought to go down on their kncos to Mr. Boooher”; and that, “ap My, Booolor can forgive, it bocomoa the offending publio to bo sllont ™ (on thoir kneou), and that it 1a w1l ¥ an ottack on eminont purity bofore wineh 1t writhod in condowunation,” Theu wo hayo donunciation of **tho lavge aggregato of clar. gymen (‘foals’) who do not utand by My, BDoechor,” and a ‘‘congratulation” of My, Boaohor on his “reliot trom the fnoubus,” and 6t *tba Cluistien Ghorol b Jarge, and Piym. outti Church in partieular, on Mr. Docohor's rostoration to public confidouce” Tho * atnos- phoro” ia congratulatod ' that it fs pere ngaln," and * tho wind thatits nasty burdons m . Mroppod into tho coss-pool.™ ** All nowspapors, nows. dealers, nows-boys, the l.Y‘nltedSlntou madl, Post- maslers, and Postmintresses,” sbaro in thuss “oongratulations,"—~the magazing Do- Ing for enle, wo suspoct, 88 800N o8 Tilton's atatomont was. '*And, finally,” tho writer congratulatos tho fathors, mothors, and nursos of ihis damuable scanlal that tholr hands avo now loft froo to Iabor without diver- slou or hindorauce * for the olavation and enfran- chisomont of woman' "1 If auy further proof Is wanting of tho saresstic drift of this othorwlso inoxplicablo Ianguage, it may bo foundinits concluding saredbm. The “nurses™ of the oanse of womau's enfranclifacmont aro & pot horror of the edltor ot Seribner'a Monthly, snd not without resson wo admit. But can b be possiblo that ho bny delivorately perpotratod (to uso suothor piirago of his) sly kuavery upon * M. Boochor's case™ fu order to have his littlo roveugo upon tho whols voman’s movowont ? o soyst “Wenronot Afr, Bocolor's chwmplon,” aud Mr. Boochor mny bo thankful that o 18 uok, COHURCH CONGRESSES, Ths forthcoming Convantion of tho Protestant Eplucopal Clarel, which will bo bold in Now York on the 6ih of Octgber, and which wilt bo uttoudod by 50 Bishops and over 300 clorgy and laymen from all parts of this country, bids fair to be tho most notable gatboring of this denomi- nation which Lins yet takeu placo, not alono from tho genoral importance of the work on ita pro- gramnio, but also becauso thoro I8 overy probe- bility that s direot issuo may bo made betweon tho clorgy and tho Bishopa which may rosult in sschis, The proapect of this in &0 imwineut that the Rituallstie quostions which bave hioroto- faro agitatod High aud Low Chitrch sre alreudy ragarded ns of secondary importance iu compari- gon with hie new quostion, which fuvolves a collision botwoeen tho progrossive and consorva- tivo vloments of tho Church. Thin quostion, which ovorshadows all othors, is that of Church Congroases, and its history Is substantially as Tollows It oppoars that some timo sinco the Rev. Dr. Washburne, an cminont Episcopslisn clorgy- may, duriug o visit to England becamo {m- pressed with tho hoportanco of Cliurch Con- gressoy, which aro held thero periodically for digcussion of seculur muttors Maving o bearing upon the prospority of tho Church. Aftor his rofurn ho advocated the system in a pamphlot, which was widoly distributed, and which resulted in o mooting ¢ Now Haven in May last, at which about fitty clergymen from the diocoses of Now York, Rbodo Island, Connoeticut, and Mnssnchusotts wore present, Tho systom of Chburch Congrossos was broached nt this moot- ing, und ull prosent wore found to be in favor of iL, During the noxt two months tho views of the olergy in goneral woro totighs, and 80 many expressod thomselves favorably that it was thought best to oo s call for a Ghureh Congres to be hald fn Now York at the sama time a8 tho meeting of tho Convention, Thus 1ar all had gone smooth- ly, but the mafority of the Cougress wishod to bLiave the sympathy of tho Bishops, and espocially tha sanction of tho Dishop of tho diacese, to give thoir gessionssomo digpity and show of authority. Louters ware accordingly addressed to somo of tho prominent Dishops, asking them to take cor- tain positions in the forthcoming Cougross. AMuch to tho ustonishment of tho managers tho first lotter came from Bishop Coxo, of the Dio- ou0 of Westorn New York, notouly poremptorily declining tho position of Vien-President, but ox~ pressing bis vory decided disapprobation of tha whole schemo, This was followed by = lottor fram Disuop Potter, who lad been invited to wt aa Prosidont, also declining tho position and oxpressing divapprabation af this uow daparturo by tho clergy. Bishop Pot~ tor's luttor wa » long one, and in it Lo wot forth vary explicitly bla reasons for mot upproving their schemo. Ho opposed it, dlvst, upon the ground that bo had not boen consulted in the proliminary procoodinga; socond, that the ma- jouity of tho Bishopa and many of the clorgy disapproved of it; *thivd, that the snuual Diow casau Convention of Biukops, olergy, and laluy, the local Convontions of the clorgy, and the I'ri- onnial Goneral Convention, with its ITouso of Bishops and ite House of Olerieal and Lay Doputies, woero sulicient » for all purpases of dlsousslon in tho Cliurol; and fourth, that if the Congress 1ero Lold it would only hindor tho work of the Con- vention. Tlo clorgy, howaver, aro not divmayed at this position of Bishop Pottor or the othor Bishops, Tuoy olaim that the Congross Lag nothing to do with logislation, has no ofticial authority, and theréfore cannot interforo with tho Couveution, und that Lis refussl to preside cannot and will not provont thém from mooting, Dr. Rylance, in an intorview, oxprossed ulmso)? vory forcibly, and a8 bo is ono of tho priwe movers for tho Congross sud wea far a time sotifed in this city, the following oxtract from his opinions will bo intoresting hore : o suld that thora wse atlll o luaveu of ol tradition fntho Episcopsl Church which it waa very hard to oradicato, It waa tho struggle betwoen old fogylsm on ouo bund and 4 advanced Hueral apirth on o othor, Thero wero omo who opposed overything tbat was uew sluply because it was new, and progress . tho enlightenment of 1he #go Was consldersd noxt door to rank horeay, Tho Chiurch Congross wus mesut to go fust tho othior way, It was not monut to confllct with nuy of the doctrines or the rules of thy Clurch, bub to dixuuss mattors of ye Import to all of un, Instead of advaneing, Wo ara rotrograding, aud the backward movemant wo are making {8 hurting our influynce aud powes 68 & Chueeh, Yuarly wo loso gronnd, ad why ? Bocauso wo donot keopup tothe times, What wo want §a to fntorcat men dn_ thelr dally thoughta, The subjest, for insfauce, which Wa propuse to discuns W the proper rlatfou of fabor aud cApitsl, 1t {5 one of Ligh fuport o uli mon, and ouo which a Obureh ltke ours ¢hould takon staud upon, As for istiop Pottr’s lottor, X tako ¢ that, while beiug sn lionost and upright mau, tho Blshop dislikes progrosa, Ho s ofrald of Junovations on tho old system, Tho grounds ho takes in his lotter aco wntoaable, and X win suru ko will bocomo convinced of ft bofors long, )t what It Do (4 decidod fu his pocitfon thut you cannot mest in his dlocose Witisout by purminston o do not need Dr, Patter's pormission, and will o without i¢. 16 mistakes our position, Wo do not weat a n part of the Epfsoopal Cliurch, but as o budy of privato gontlemen, whu with to diaouss a mattor of groat fimportuuco ta oursolvey, o can no More pro- vont our doing thut thun e can forbld a private ‘meeting i ot own hausas, Wodo not hold ourselves anseuablo to hu for onr sotion, 50 fur as tho Church Cougress ia coneorned,” Pho distnclination of tho Blshops to innova- tion {8 probably Dot tho only ground of their op- position to the Cougress, Buch a gathering wakos auother Whool within o wheol, whish may ovontually grow iuto a very offoctive working power, and, by mopns of ity caucusos, hring strong infuensos to boar upon that past of churoh logislation which i now in the province ot tho Bishops. Although tho objosta of the Congrosa may bo uupolitionl, aud tha elorgy may |* ulmyply use it for purposos of agraomant aud union, the Dishops ovidontly seo fu it sn sgonoy which may yut influence votes, doolde olootions, datgraiue loglulation, end treush upon thoir prorogatives. As the Congrens will moot, howover, slda by sido with the Con- vontton, tha latter must nocosenrily takoe cog- nizauce of it, aud, from the vory omphatic man- norin which somo of the Blshops bave alrcedy oxpressed thomsolves, we mny look forward to tho prospoots of & «coltision Letwoon Congross. mon and Anti-Congresymen with s largo dogree of gortainty, Californin ins beon supplying tho country with prodiuion for somo time, but shio is far from bo- ing oxbiaustod yot. No sooner daos ono pho~ nomonou arouso spurlous {mitations than sho nobly’gnos to work to find snother, The lnat I8 2 boy suffering from bydrophobia with the hydro- phobla symptoms propor loft out, Last wintor ha couglit a wild cat it o trap, and pussy in gront diggast gave blm & bite which made him squeal. Ilo was subsoquontly soizod with cramps, which threatoned to terminate Lia oxlutonce, but recovering from them Lo wis sotzed with certaiu foliuo peoulfsritios, cater- wauling witt tho euorgy of n nocturnal cavalior, seratehing and spitting with all the onergy and offect of & genuino puss. At othor timos ho would go back to the kitton porlod of foliug ox- Istenco, aroh his Lack, dauco on il fours, play withs corks, snd pure with unexampled dalight, Chon enmo anothor and Brooklyn-baby-tavm paroxysm. Ilo would inslst upon destroying all infauts. Givo him an infaut, or two, or adozen, be Aaid, just to sco bim claw them to pieces, Again, hiy mind would carry him to Missouri or Kentucky, and ho would domaud full-grown hu- man beings to tear to pieces. Mo drank wator whonever it was offered to ki, and never fonned at tha mouth as an ordinary bydrophobio pationt wouid hiavo dono, Iis caso attractod the attention of tho neighboring phyesicians, who, for want of a botter namo, called his disenso rabiou felina. ——— Prronts snxious to rear healthy children, and philosophiors dosirous of perpetuating tho race, not {o speak of roal-eatate ownors, boudholders, and corporations who have mortgaged the fataro, will unifo in tho hope that thare are not many such Institutions In the United Statos as the Kings County Bn. DLy-Farm in tho Iwpiro Siate, In a Tocent investigation into affairs at this prosper- ous nursory it way found that a larger percoul- 830 of iunoconts was consignod to thoe tomb than iy usually rogarded as bocomiug or nocoxsnry. Ono witucss tostitied that thero woro at emn time thirty-threo infants in the ward, which number was roduced to ton in iwo mouths by death ; whilo n second swora that, out-of thirty- #ix obildron, thirty-throo bad died, ndding that sho did not thiuk tho nursery could bo botrer at- tonded to. From one point of view wo are ln. olined to agreo with Lior. If, ns is gonornlly sup- posed, & baby-farm is o Aystomatizod mothod of killing intrnding infants, nobady can complain tat tha Directors of this institution have boon romigs, Would it not be botter to show a littlo candor aud particularity by deuominstiug tho district King Horod's County 7 L S Thoe crusaders of Rochoster, N. Y., bave a gravo roaponsibility, Thoy have omitted tho couversion of tho Sunday-ichool childron, and now ono of thom has deliborately committod su- lefde with whisky, without golug through the preliminatios of futoxication or fim-foms. The youthful toper was but §years old. Risingat an uvusnally carly hour ono morning he pro- ccoded to mix for himsolf su # eye-oponor,” ac- cording to tho maonnors and custows of the cowutry. Ho mixed nbout half a teacupfal of whisky with sugar and water, and finding tho of- fects somewhat troublesome Iy down, Ho wag soized with apasms and died from intomporance, This little incident could ba neatly elaborated for a Sauday-school tract, or, botter yot, substitutod for tho hideous essaya on intomporance now being pub- lishod in juvenile magazines, with hair-raismg ougravings of delirium tremens. Yor furthor partionlars rolativo to tho Intfor, soo ewanys by a. clergyman in a New York juvenilo magazine, AR R SRR The atiases will have to Lo *ravised again. JMout Blance i no longer the monsreb of the Lu- ropuat mountains, Ho must bow his ¢ bald and awful head * boforo Mount Eiburz on the North- orn or Buropean sido of the Caucasirn water- shed. The holght of Moat Blaue i varioubly os- timated at from 15,732 to 16,784 feot, but his ri- wval Mount Elburg, which has just been ascondod by somo mombors of the Euglish Alpiue Club, is found to bo 18,636 feat high. In sbape, the mountain i6 deseribod as o Gattoncd dome liko an inverted tonanp, oud although it huy all tho FOREIGN. Attempt to Check the Emigra- tion of Mennonitos. End of ho Great Strike at Bol- tou, Bng. ) The Whole Matter to Bo Set- tled by Arbitration. Wendell Phillips to Address the Co- operative Congress in Londan, Only a Few Danes Expelled from Schleswig-Holstein, Russin Strongly Opposed to DBis- marek’s Danish Proposition. RUSSIA. 8r. Furensnone, Sopt. 22.—Tho Russian Govornmont,’on nccount of tho extonsive omi- geatlon of Meunouites, proposes Lo exempt mein- bors of that sect from sctual military sorvice, but to biold them liable to duty 28 hospital at- tondaots, The Mounoniten of the Volga district Wil probably acoept theso conditions. —_————e GREAT BRITAIN, Loxpox, Sopt. 22.—~Work {s rosumed In tho Bolton wills, ponding arbitration. A sottloment i8 oxpocted about tho ond of Octobor, ‘Tho Co-oporative Doard has rosolved to Invite Wendoll Pbillips to sddrens the annual Co-opor- atlve Congross in Loudon. Loxnoy, Bopt, 22.—The Noweastlo Chamber of Commoreo havaadopted resolutions coudomu- | ing the Canadian Nociprooity Tronty us projudi- clal to Britishrindustry. Holland, Couservative, i8 returnod to Parlia- ment from Midhurat. Arnold, propriotor of the Loudon Feho, will caniout Northampton in tho Liberal iusorout. e GERWANY, Drnury, Sept. 22—1ho National Gazelle eays that whilo the expulsion of Danes from Schles- wig was o logal measure, it was only adopted in a fow Isolated casos. Tho Gazclle pays the reln- vi(uns_“ Letween Cermany aud Deumark aro riondly. Paus, Sopt. 82.—Fronch nowspapers publish 8t. Patorabueg advicos confimming tho ropors of Binmarck's ovorbures to King Christian, of Den- mark, lookinz to lhe incorporation of toab country in tho Getman Confedoration. ‘Tl corre- spondents wny Iussin i greatly irvitated at the attampt, aud will nover permit Gormany to hold tha key of tho Baltio 8ea. "I'ho same papors say that tho opposition of TNussia to tho Gorman puliey i Spaiu‘is duo to this cauto, Corrxnaaey, Sept, 22,—Tho Post positively denfen that Uanos have been ejocied from Sobileawig-Holutan, — WMEXICO. Crry or Mexico, Sept. 16, via HAvana, Bopt. 22,—'{'ho resignation of Gen, Bonarides, Minis~ tor to Germouy, in consequeuce of ill-health, Bas boon scceptod. The Military Collegs Association colobrated its saniversary on the Gtk .iuet, comwmomorating also tho battles of Moliuo dol Rey and Chapalte- pec. The Prosidont, Cabmet othor distinguished porsons pasticipated in proceediugs Tho Apacho Indisna hove latoly committed trequent ravages on tho Northern frontier, and soluiors arp lv pursuit of thom. : AMigtor-of-War dojiah Lad roceived o telo- gram from the Licutonusnt in command of tho Fodoral tronps n¢ Do Arrogus, in tha Stata of Guorroro, aaying that twonty soldiers Lad ro- volted, and, with o civil Judgo ab vheir head, usd nttacked him, bt ware ropulcd aud dise persed with a loss of six killed, two woundad, and ono_prisoner. The Lisntensnt lost two ~killed and six wounded. Alejish also received a telegram from tho Governor of Guerroro stating that o Yodoral force hiad committed sovoral ausassioations to- day at Dos Arrogas. Two Commiusioners wero among thalr viotims. Mejish ordered the com. mander at Chilpaucingo to proceed with all disposablo foroe to Dos Arrogas, il 1 FRANOE, Panrs, Bept. 22.—Tho elections to fll the va- cancles in tho Natlonal Agsombly havo bosn or~ dered for Oct. 18, Alpiuo characteristics of snow-flolds, ico-lakes, aud glaciors, it can bo climbed without much dif- flenlty by experionced mountaineers, Mr. Grove, one of tho climbors, says: * Tho Penninos * from Mout Blano aro nothing comparad to the ongt chain seon from Elburz, Tho Csucasisn groups are finor and tho peaks sharper,” Some ourious' dovelopments wera brought to light In the recont invaxtigation of the Kings County (N.Y.) Almshouse. The grave-digger testifled that decensed paupers sre buried in pits 13 feet squars and 10 to 12 feot deop, 260 boing buried in omoh pit. It takes about four montls to fill a pit, and thon tho paupors are covered with earth about u foot deep. Thero aro two facts in this tostimo- ny whicl will strike the reador: Firat, tho re- mackablo mortality. Thoro must bo somothing radically rotton in tho managoment of » hiospital whora two of tho inmates dio every day. Sco- ond, tho violation of tho ordinary deconcles of lifo, whioh only onco more {llustrates the poot's vorso: Tiattlo his bonos over thio stones, Tt ouly a puuper whom nobody owns, b salsudhiociiona iy NOTES AND OPINION. There ta said to bo s purpose in tho Ninth District to bring out Cal Ames Q. Babeoclk, of Caaton, Fulton Oounty, as tho candidate for Cougress in opposition to Richard H. Whiting (Republican), of Peoria, —Tho Jersey County Demooral does not rbadily fall fu to tho support of Soott Wike, for Con- groes, In tho Eloventh Diatrict, sud says tho trentmont of Congrossmon Kuapp (of Jorsey County), aftor ho had boon fairly nominated on tho firt ballo, in the Domacratio Conven- tion, was *tlo most disgraceful thing we over witnessed,” ~The Alblon (Edwards County) Journal tranuters it slloglance from tho Indopondont Toform to tho Republican party, "ho Whitehall (Greouo County) Regisier ctsuges from Indo- pondent Reform to Domoeratic, Tho Farmers' Tnion, of Lawroncovillo, Lawronco County, drops {ta namo and ita Indopoudont Reform poli- tics, sud bocomes the Democratie lerald, s Democratic paper. —The prosout status of the politiesl fiald, in Tilinols, may bo shoywn in figures, as follows ; JI‘;D. fv;d. Bnln. Pmle. Stata ticket, ., Qunpressional,.. 18 7. P Logiolative,.. w3 Goity vueve s W, “Light of theso atand for the combined Opposition, Altor this woak it will praotically remam with Qoo County alouo to complote the st of Con~ grossional nod local nomivations to be made in tuo State, —8ponking of salary-grabs, Samuel 8, Mar. shbll, fn bis spocoh I this city, lust weol, sl ludod in torms of dorision ta **cortain thuld Coungressmon who wora driven by the olamor ot tho proge to return thoir back-bay,” Tho audi- once understood at onco thnt this brick was simod directly at the hoad of Col. John 2L, Orabs, but wondered shy Marshall should thug deliboratoly striko ono of his own politieal Louso. hold, It waa gencrally pronouncod ‘‘tha most unkindost out of al}," and will, we doubt not, by 8o oonsidored by Ool, Oreba and his friouds,— M, Vernon (41L) Free Fress. e b ol S MUSICIANS' JUDILEE, Nmw Yony, Bopt, 22, —Professional musiocians who oumn to thla country fu IN7, 183, and 1849 propose holdhye » grand jublloo to celu. Drate tho twenty-ffth annivoranry of thelr ese oale troia twonarehioal dospotism, Tho excitement over the approaching eles- tions for Council-Cionoral in Corsies causcs much disorder. Tho autlorities Lave boon obliged to intervene to provons collisions be- {ween the supporters ot Princo Napolcon and 3, Dietri, the opposition Bonapartiat candidate. i CUBA. Nxw Yonx, Sopt. 22.—A Havana lotter states that an altompt wes mude a fow nights ago to shoot Capt.-Gen. Concha while at his szmmor- rosidenca, His voluntaer guard is suspected, Tho uame letter alsd statos that Gon. Garcls was coptured by oue Spanish ofticor while awajt. ing conferance with another for the adjustmant of soma disputed point, e s AN SPAIN. Loxooy, Bept. 23--5:80 s. m.—A dispatch from Carliss sourcea douies the iruih of tho ro- vort that Don Curlog hag boen recognized by four branches of the Bourbon family as the heir prosumptive to the tirone of France. Mapnw, Sept. 22.—Gen, Lazerna has reviotu- alod Pawpeluns, P SWITZERLAND, Benyg, 8ept, 22.~The Amorican dolegates to tho Intornational Postal Congresa have arrived. LAKE DISASTERS., The Schooner E. I’. Ryersce Coltides with the Bahama and [y Suuk—The Baork Monarch Reported Ashoro, Special ispatch to Tha Clicago Tridurie, Borraro, N. Y., Soph 22,—Tho schoonor E, P. Ryarseo, loaded with paviog-stone for Clovoland, was sunk yesterday morning st 5 o'clock, about 7 miles above Dunkirk, by & colllsion with tho schoonor Babamna. Tho vossel sunk with- in sn bour, The crew were taken on board tho DBabams and brought back to DBufialo, Tho Babmma's bowsprit was split aud hor bobstays goue, Sho had on board 100 tons of coal for Chicago. Tha Ryer- seo wo valuod at §6,000, and inwured for $,000, ‘Tho bark Movarch, coal-jadon, from Clovelsnd to Portage City, was mpartadnby tolograph to- duy ashore and sunk at Detour. Asaiatanco is to go to hor from Dotroit, NO BURIED TREASURE FOUND. Special Dusvateh 1o 2ho Chicago Tridune, Bavrue Curek, Mich., Bopt, 22.—T'ho excits- mont I rogard t0 tho supposod burled troasura in woll in Emmeut Towualip, swhich has been inoreusing for the past two weeks, ended to-day, MoArdill has hud six mou ab work enlarging tiie oxcuvation to 10 Ceot diamoter, ‘fa-duy bottom way roached without fluding any trossure, aud tho woll abandoned. Various rimors nto afloas in rogerd to MeArdill's motive in making tho soarch, AMany think ho wag tho viotim of sonio splrituul medium or fortune-taller, and that the Ivttor bo protendaed to teoeivo was only s bliud, Ho certainly expeoted to find troasuro, as hie oue ployed two mom to guard tho woll overy might do b ey THE CIVIL-SERVICE RULES. Wasmixaroy, Sopt, 22.—Thae followlng ordor bag Just baen prouiulgated ¢ ‘ Exocutive (rder No, . It appears ln(ma, et ad Wsnington aua attlio Gity of New 'Tork, thut furthor oxtonelos of thy Clvil-Sorvico rulea will ‘promote the elliclenoy of thy Jubilo sorvico, Tt de ordored st s ulse bo, sid Loy aro hersby, extonded o the sovsrul Faderal ottice ! tio Tattar clfy and the suatoniu dalelot of Douony and that proper tacssures Ordur huto bitests (Bigned) VB Onake, Aua, 31,1874, e A MYSTERY SOLVED, Sporial itenateh (o Lhie Clacane Lribune, yroN, In, Bopt. 2h—The mys- ufl"“’?.’;' ur\l:u' Mahony 5 murdor e buan polved, 'Tho iang withoss hatare tha Corenor's 4 that ho waa killed by oavy which oot s tapheh 1 g ook Fiiday avata ing, he having gone undas tho cas bo got oud of tho ralu, Thoe Cornor'a timrfm-n rol vordictto the afToot that i‘l‘z]mfl)‘ van n?ut:ll;’l:?!“u: g(;mlh by Hu:‘uinm, nn;l nlullrnrhh‘,d the railrond ompany and fts employen from al Wame, fuct, Malony brou,;} 4 o ey it on his own death, i ’THE NORTHWESTERN STATES, News Ntemin Telegraphod Ohicnro Tribunes N fvodat D wwa waa' raceived at Danvillo Monday svon- ing that Gon, Charles Black, who Lux hen’n n:g- aunly {ll for four wooks at tho rosidsnc of his fathor-n-fom, the Lon, 0. T, Griggn, at Wils miugton, Dol., was rapidly failing and could nos rocover, Hls diseaso iy affection of tho Junge, aud aooms to have devaluped {tsolf within n fow wooks. Iilu paronts started for bis bodside yos~ mdny morning. —''ho store “of Charles Dallon, of Gonova, burned on Monday night. Thostock was mostly doutroyed, but the building. lioavy stons ono, was bat littla Injured. Losa, $7,000 to 8,000. No asuranco. 5 —Morriy Nouatsdt, for the Inst twonty-six Yyoara a prominont oltizen of LaSolle, and uni~ vorsally osteomed, died on Monday of pnou- mouia, aftar an illnosa of eight doys' duration. Ho was about 63 yenrn of age. —The Stato Convontion of vetorans af tho Mex- fean War will moot in Bloomington to-day, aud wilk continuoe two days, unloss businoss is sooucr concluded, —Tho Illinois Wesloyan Univeraity, at Bloom- ington, oponed ity fall torm yostordny with noarly twico a8 many ptudents o8 ovor assomblod on oponlng-day. * This givos ovideuco of n largely tucroasod attondance throughous tho year. 'Iho 1aw dopartigont also opons up with fall olasios, and promisos to grow largely during tho turm, —Dyonidopt Rdwards, of tho State Normal School, bos boon chosen by tho Board of Educs f,‘”:x' of thio Town of Normal as Chiirman of thas o0dy. < —Tho colored people of Champaign snd Ur- bann Liold & large and enthuaiuatio colobration Yestordny in Liotior of the Fiftoonth Awendmont. Thoy bogan at midnight with the firing of guug and'murtial musie, Intho aftornoon the gu Plorce, of tha Congrazational. aud tho Rev. J. . D. Payne, of the Colorad Methodiut Church, of Chompaign, ud the Rav. Dayis, of Blovme ingtou, made addresses In the City Park. Tho autondaucs camprised the whole colored popula= tion of bath cities, including & car-load from Mattoon. to The INDIANAL An oxciting chaso took thc at tho depot in Goshion on Monday uight, prisoner from Do~ Kalb County, in charge of an ofiicer from Water= 100, fumpod from tha oars whilo in motion, an narrowly escaped boiug killed by bowng thrown down non ombankmout. Tho prisonor, whosa feot wore orusmented with shnokles, was bruised and had an arm brolten. The conviet, who was nontoncod to moveral yoars in fhe Stato Prison for relleving poopla of thoir pockotbooke, was fotlowod soon nffer by tho Sherift and s crowd of citizony, nnd capturad.;. ~{Ionry Folsom, & farmer, was thrown trom & buggy, st Ltickmoud, by tho runuing away of tho toam, and tho bonas of hig whoulder dislo- cated, aud intarnal injurics of a serious naturs Inuuiu(e}fl. = ~—A Grangers' Harvost-Home picnic is to bo held at Richmond on the 26tk hsak It will be the grandest affair over witnoused in Eastern Indiapa. Georgo W. Biowatt, Teutdoit of Lo eorge W. Btowart, resident of Lo Suour fc twonty yoars, died “‘l‘l Wadnouday st Owahs, g\rl hiy way to Colorado with his son. He had taken a soparato roum for tho night. Not answering & -cafl i the morniug, tho door was burst apony whon he was found expiring, as way decidod by Oumabn plysicians, from apoplexy. Tho body was returnod to LoSuour and buried on Sunday, Dbut is to be taken up to-morrow for a Poste mottom oxamination by Dra, Stawart and Hand of Bt. Paul. I anpoars that, within the lagh yoar, Mr. Stawart nas insured his lifo as followa : Chirter Oak, 899,000; Northwestorn, 320,000 Lautable, 816,000; Ublversal, £10,000s Mutual Bunelit, $10,000; Continental, Hartford, $5,0005 Yacurity, $6,000; St. Loujs Lite, §10,000 ; Novth Amorican, $1,000: sod Minnesota Afutual, $1,000. Total, $97,000, In nll casea = sirict medical oxamination resaliod in clsssing tho risk as fisnt-class. Ho applied for further fue sursuce also through Mianoapolis agencics, and in one instauce to ths company gdirect, bub without success, probably an account of tho largo amouut Lo wes already carrying. About two months sgo ho applied for s 810,000 yolicy in the tna, whon o passed under lostructions of the Company the most thorough examination possible, aud was agaiu rated firat class, but the Company ro- fused tho risk on acconnt of the amount bio was cm—ylni. inyolving an expeuss for vearly pre- miung boyond bis sppareut moans. The sovoral Kun iciaus horo who havo soparatoly exsmined for insuranco, one of whom has boon tamile fat with Lim for twanty years, ara confidant that Lo did not dio of apoploxy or any organio dive easo. The uuspicion is that bo was partly in- sane, sud sccured o Iasgo {nsuratico for tho bone ofit of his fsmily with the deliborato purpose of committing suicido. —It Ia roportod and bolloved that a bargain has beon coucludod by which the Minucsots South~ orn Railroad, with tho Wolls & Llankato Branch, uow constructing, is to be transferred to tho Mile waukee & St. Paul Company, Buch a trauster will, it ia thought, operats injariously to tho &t. Paul, 08 tho interests of the Milwaukeo Com- pany will operato to turn the traflio of tho Wollx 5: ankato Road enstward. which elso would naturally como ovar tha Sioux City Rocd to St aul, ~Tha Minnesota Btato Agrioultaral Associa- tion and Driving Park Socioty announco theiz uflion raco meoting for Oct. 18, 14, aud 135, Twenty-threo hundred dollars are offered in soven trotting and two running puraca, ‘WIBCONBIN, A young man namod Nathaulel Roof, was ao- cidontully’ shot, near Madison, and instsutly killed, by a young man namod Briggs, wih ‘whom ho bad bden out squirrel_hunting. They liad returned from hunting, and when near tho barn of Briggs’ father young Root banded tho gun to his companion with both barrels cocked. Driggs placed tho gun scroos his arm, tarmed urauud to speak to i fathor, who stood mesr, whor the gun wont off, shooting Root through tho beart, Ho died instantly. —VYesterday forenoon & " man, named Jobm Schmidt, died of delirium tromens at the Coun- ty Jail, at Milwaukee, Bchmidt was brought ln fiondny ovoning for thoft of serap-iron from tho St, Paul 'way Company. —First-LioutenantJ, B, dloore,of tha revenne- cutter Audy Jobuson, now at Milwaukee, weci- doutally eliot » marine, nained Bloran, yostordsy forenoon. Moran wag under the influonco of liquor, and had croated s disturbauco on board tho cutter, He was orderod to bo placed in irons, ‘but resisted to sueh a dogroa that Liout. Mooro drow a rovolver to intimidato him, but during the moles the weapon was discharged, tho ball passing through Moore's sloova aud into tho shouldor of Moran, Tho latter, though not seriously injurod, was moved 0 tho hospital for trontmont. Iowa, William Hampliroys, whila ofling tho mastors whool of & threshing maching horss-power, yustorday, oar lowa City, got his baud eaugbt in tho cogs sud taken off at tho knuckles, AUCHICAN, Ton mifea of fire-afarm telograph sad alarm boxes at couvenicut intervals, 410 10 be put upin Gravd Rapids this tall. Othor improvemonts by way of proteotion from fira are very extensive. A mammoth roseryoir, coveriug saveral acres, I8 bolng built at the susstus of tho hill cast of the dlfi‘l‘ho Cironit Coart convened in Borrion yestorday, Juage Coolidyo on the Benoh. Thero wwero 108 caves ou tho calendar, 12 crimiusl cases, 1 iseup of luw, 78 of fact, and 12 chaucory casos, ‘Tho Court iy oxpectod to remain in seasion this torin two wooks at Joast, oo, Tho proliminary examinstion of James Ward for the killing of Ohurles Brrian takes plsco to worraw beforo Esquiro Marshali, of Xouis. Lhe tostiniony is strong agoinst him. —Daniol Doylo, n Jaborlng man, Jumpod from a traln at Plattsburg, vestordsy morning, Tho cary run over and crusbed him to dosth. —Tho Leoper of a bawdy houso at Spriog- fiold was bound, ‘;n;,'gea, end robbed of » large ln.lz‘l‘m' of J;I” (‘l{yml ‘i‘;‘;’ own room by thres maakod men Mouday uight. —Tho anniversary of tho Emancipation Proo- lamation was celobrated at Dayton I‘oulflrduy by tho colorod poople with suuch polat. A proges. slou of the dilforont nociotios, aftor parading tho priveipal stroots, proceeded to Cdgar's Grave, whera & sumptuous dinner was propaved. Boy- oral distingulsbod spoakors, among thom tho on, Lowis B, Guuokel, Republiosn ocandldata for Cougrass in tho Fourth Ohio Distriot, ade drossod tho peoplo, LATE LOCAL ITENMS, Jageph Tltcomb and John Conway ware buried benontl a masa of earih whioh caved In youtor day aftornoon while they wore excavating for tha foundations of & bulldg on Hiate stroos, near lsrrigon. Tha formor had his log broken, sud the lattor csonpod unbiurt, Mlohaol MoQuudo, the saloon-keepor who was 80 dangerously stabbiod by Jamos Siraln, nlgtb bafore faut, showod Bomo algus of improvaeinont lnay evaning but was stitl na &r:mwnu oo dition, ‘Lhiuro I8 & poutlbitity of bis revovery,