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

* ity Boston. Soid by drva 4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1874. .TERNMS OF THE TRIBUNE. I‘."Afl. or ‘IHM!URILT(X‘DN {PAYABLR 1N AD'AKUHJ- i1y, by L., S 12,00 | Sonday 82 T Weold STE00) Weaa 4 the Wamorate ‘and mistakos, be smre and give O & piidross dn ful, Inclidipg Stata and County, Hemittancos tnay bo made eithor by dratt, 0xpress, Of:ea order, or in registored Joile s, AL LUK Figk, FENALS XOCITY AUBCHIDKNS. T, delceria, Huioky sxchpiag 5 cotte per wook. iy, Qolivored, Bueday nelied, T conts bor wook, A gea voreds BunghERURING SONPANY, Corner Madiron and Desrborn. .« Uhleago, Il Post Pat GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Clark on'a Bl t o Snarman Hauso, Kolly & Le: HAHR nstrols, MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE—~Monroe sirest, botween Biato and Doarborn, 4o Goorala Minstrols and varlety performanes. HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randoloh street, between Clark and LaSallo. * Tha Sputagr | & ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Iialsted atrool, batwean AMad- won and Mouroo, Engngement of G, L. Fox's Panto- Satma-Troupo. ' Humply Dumpty.™ SUVIORKR'S THEATREMadison stroct, botweon DoArbbun an Stotbe HaskzoaaL of (e Kellogg Kax slivh Gpora-Troups, * Mignon.” HALSTEDSTREET OPKI USE-Cornge Hare rison and Halstod sticats, Ma y's Libornicon. ABE.BALLGROUNDS—Carner of Twenty-third snd e G botwoan tho W estorus, of Kookuks d tho Clitongo “SOCIETY MEETINGS, ATTENTION, Apolio Comuiar! _‘I‘ iday) aventn, ;isitid St Kuly! B0 IR KNIGHTS,~Spcclal Oonclava of i3y No, 1, K. Ty b tho Asylum, this au g ofelbol 107 rork oy €, 1. Ordor, rounaly fusited. - Bya 1 Sou ORI Gl Racordors CONUUMPTIVES — MANY oo & e AT AV I, Tl E 7 ony in favor of tho uso R o T og-Liver OIf amd Limo.t_Exberionse e e e ront. and » Diphtheria, and al sensos of thi g Sidnuaastuced only by A . LRI, Chone 4 (¥ komoratly. GAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS. 0! TIIE ‘oreased and conatautly fcreasing cost, wsad tn thio mnnufaeturo of oxtraet sanil ounds aro bolig thiuiri upon tiio hinckaty £ biiro, vauiila, bt bropared principally Frum Canyua foan, Phis nausonting substituto ooste thy manufacturer Ross than one-twontloth part as much 43 1ho gonulne van. Wtabesn, It cwo readlly bo detected by its fragrance. AL is usod principally by tabaccouists for lln([fll!llnfi!n\lfl et And s noves intuuded o bo Raci 88 8 JAvor- Ang lor the variuus compounda propred for tho human aclh; - etotkaopors who study thicte dntarosts will demand of Ahoir grocer strictly pure vanilla ouly, aad refuso to ac. eaptal an ndulieaiad compound, whioh way rendor o dualee a bottar profit, hlirantts extiact of vanllts i proparod froms selectod vanilla boans, and 1 warrauted apiiraly freo from Tonqua ‘or uther deluterious slances, 'All cooking oxtracts, such as lemon, ‘piaud, calury, ote., prapared at tho fabratary'of Joseplt \dburnott & Co., Boaton, can ba roliod upan for purity and ‘tvongul.” Yor upwand'of 13 vours thoy uve boen used by 10 Jending botols and tho Liost famllies thrughout tho iaitod Statos, and aro sold by all irsi-class grovors and lois. -"(Ifljzl Qhigage Teibune, Friday Moramg, Octobor 23, 1874. vanilla, roso, al- fhe olection trisls at Toronto bavo ihus far rosulted in the unseating of three membora of {Parllamont, two of whom were in tho interest of the roigniog Government, Under Canadinn usag, tho chargo of personal bribery not bov- ing been proveu agaiust tho aeensed, thoy aro iatill oligiblo na candidntesfor Porlisment should they ace At to run sgain. P The well-known Now York banking flrm of Houry Clows & Co., who woro 80 sorfously crip- plod by the panic of Iast your, havont lastiled oo application foran assigument of all thuir property ‘dor the beuefit of their ereditors. Tho Truateo named fn the petition is to bave full snd abso- Tute power in tho settloment of tho sffaiva of the firma. Bumors of failurcs among grain-men wore sprevalont in Wall streot yestorday, which, upon }anvestigation, werogencrally found to be ground- ess. Only ono firm is known to have suspended, ‘that belog tho grawn-house of W. H. Irving & "Co. Tho embarrassmonts of tho firm aro said to arise from tho failure of cortain Western whippers to cover thoir margins, Irving & Co. claim to be ennfdent that thoy will woathor the troublo und meet all their Habilities, Prof, Patton read his long dlssertation yestor- doyin tho matter of bis appeal In tho Swing case, and he was followed by Messra, Frome and Elifot on the part of Prof. Swing., Tho appel- Yoo—if Mr. Swivg can be called an appelioo— scemed to be represoutod by one man who didn't know snything sbout tho case, snd by an- cther who wos in full sympathy with the wppellant. It was a vory curious procceding, ‘not possible in any other than an ecclesinstical tribunal. Tho vote will probably bo taken to- dsy, and tho larger tho mojority in favor of Patton tho better, wo chould say. In tho presont wtato of the camse, tho moro supporters Prof. Patton hos in the Synod the lees sympathy Lo may expect from the public. The particulars of & frightful stosmbont oatastropho near Detroft will be found nmong ‘onr dispatches this mornivg. ¥t was an explo- #ion on the stoamor Drooklyn, of the Northern Tranaportation Line, by which thirteen porsons wera killed, flvo passongers and eight of tho arew, and eleven wounded, four passengers and seven of the crew. The Captain ox- ‘prosscs Limsclf ns utterly ot a losse to uodorstand how the explosion occurrod, but other eccounts go to show that the Brookiyn was racing with the steamer Cube. A moro sus- ‘picion of this will cemand the most searching investigation, and the Coptain should bo mxde *to answer why hio doca not know how the oxplo- ‘mion ocourred. It was his business to know, 'An explosion in these daye in slmost prima facie ovidence of carelessness,nnd it is time that care- losences of thia sort bo punished. . Acromewhat different sspectis put upon the hitch of securing Gen. Shaler from that ropro- wouted yesterday. Tho inferonce waa then given out that the Citizous', Association was not pro- parod to furnish the monoy neceasary to acoure Gon. Bbaler's services, This does not seem 10 bo tha trouble in any senso. It apponry, from statoments of gentlomen reprosonting the Asao- cistion, that thoy bave mot beon ablo do induca the Commisaionera to fuvite Gen. Shaler's co-operation o & man- ‘ner thnt would relievo him of embarrauu- Imeits, though this was promlsed. It would not do to bring him bore in an cquivoeal position ; auch s course would take all value away from e presence. It is said that thore will be yot another conferonce botweon tho Commiesionors and the Citizens' Committe, bot the prospoct ot a satlufactory settloment ia certaiuly not good. In case of & failuro to agreo, it is likely ohanged at 8%¢e for whent to Buffalo. Ilour was quict and caplor. Whent was moro notivo and B0 lower, slosing at 80c cash or gellor tho month, aud 871¢e for Decombor. Corn waa a littlo more activo, and 34@9f0 lower, closing at 7% cash, and 09}¢o for Novembor. Oats werodull and 3o lowor, closiug at 487¢o sellor tho month, and 460 for Novambor. Rya was quiot and onsler at 83 @823fo. Darley was activo and itregularly stronger, closing at 81.17@1.18 caals, and S1.08}¢ @1.07 for Novembor. ITogs woro more nctive and ruled firm at o trifing advanco In good to oholco. Sales at B4.76@0.40, COattlo and shoop wero moro activo at unchanged prices. ‘Wo doubt whether tho most sanguine of the ‘memorialista ngolust Dr. Seymour's confirmation actunlly oxpected tho result of the vote in tho Gonoral Convention ycstorday., Notwithstand- ing tho florca contest indicatod by the continued werot sosslons, it waa very gonorally bolloved that Dr. Soymour would be confirmed, oven thiongh by a small majority, Bisiop of Iilinols. 8o Iio would havo boen, it seams, by the count of tho Individunl votos, ‘The votoby dlocosos, Low= over, rosultodna follows: Olerical (41 diogeses) —19 for, 10 ngainst, 12 dividod,—tho latter counted againgt him ; lay (40 diocoses)—18 for, 18 ogaiust, and 0 divided. Tho final voto was mainly influenced, it is eaid, by the opposition of Bishop Cox, of Westorn Now York, and Dr. Buell. Tho wholo issue was that of Ritunlism. Tho conservative Churchmon conld scarcoly havo provailod ogaiust tho High-Chiurduman, loaving tho Ritualistio ofement out of tho ques- tiun. Tha rosult will bo likely to causo sorious Qlssousion,—much movo, in fact, than if Lo bad beon confirmed, In tho Jatter caso, tho proceeding would have boon ususl; as 1t ig, tho proceodinug is unusual, Considerablo sympaty is folt in Now York, snd will bo folt gonorally throughout tho country, becauso Dr. Seymour wos refused o hoaring in his own be- balf. Such o decision s undomocratic and uu+ Amotican, even if it bo clerical and lspiscopalian. Dr. Seymour told the literal trath when ho said that hie bad novor sought tho honor,aud it would only Lavo been fair to hear what ho lind to say in regard to tho charges against him., The con- fidont oxpression, howover, of the beliof that ho will Do ro-clected in Ilivois, and then confirmed by the Bishops oud Standing Commiticos, must be taken with an allowance. Ho certainly cannot be re-clectod unless ho ean cloar his skirts of every remnant of Tutualism; oven if tho clergy should voto for him, the lalty would refuso to sanction it. In apy coso the action of- the Convention is like- 1y to cause groat commation in this State, nud it may royive tho difforencos in the Episcopal Chureh throughout the country with a bittoruoss bhitherto unknowa. MR, CAULFIELD AS A LAWYER. Tho Chicago Times, which is runuing * Far- woll and Caulfield " as its Congresslonal tickot, declares that Mr, Coulficld ia & botter Iawyor than Mr. Siduoy Smith, his oppouent. This is cortainly vory uncomplimontary to Mr. Smith, in tho light of rccont ovents, We aro forcod to conclude, from his conduct of the caso which he & now prosecuting againgt Mr, Farwell, in bo- helf of Alr. Maber, that Mr. Caulfleld is not o very good lawyer. ‘T'o say, theroforo, that ho is s botler lnwyor than Mr. Smith is peculiarly « rough " on tho lnttor, Tho reasons wo have for thinking dr. Caul- fold an inferior lawyer aro theso: o is proso- cuting a suit sgainst Ar. Farwell for the recov- ory of apiccoof land (or its value) which bis cliont says was decdod to Farwoll in trust to sceuro & noto given for s gambling debt. The dofouse i, that tho lsad was deoded in feo, in payment of cortain dobts not con- tiacted in this way, but including onmo noto for $500 which was givon for & bot on an election in which Mr, Maler lost and Mz, Farwell won, Prior to tho ealling of tho caso & numbor of depositions wero takon which bave beon pub- lishod, tho purport of which was to show thet Mr. Farwell and Mr, Malier were in tho habit of gambling for mouoy very frequently about tho timo of the lsnd tronsaction, Botn parties to the yuit boing competent witnesses if called, all that was nocessary to ensblo Mr. Oaulfleld to wake out his cago waa to call Mr, Maher and got evidenco from him that this land was doeded in trust to sccure o debt cantractod ot one or more of theso habitusl gambling seances. It would tlen havo dovolved upon tho dofense to over- turn this ovidence in order to defeat tho caso which Mr, Caulfield hed made out ; and, in the ordinary run of things, Mr, Farwell would havo boon the first witnesu called for his own defonse. But Mr, Caulfleld reversed tho order of things. The day before tho trial bogan ho gave notico of an intention to smend his Dbill. The morning of the trinl, and presumably after conaultation with his client, Lo announced that ho could not make an affidavit to meet tho facts neeessary to amend the bill, The caso was then called, and tho very flrat witacas Afr. Caulfiald summonced was Alr.. Farwell, tho dofendant, whom lio thoreby made his own witness. Of courso, Mr, Farwell's ovidonce was according to his version of tho story, and diamotrically op~ posod to that of Mr. Caulfiold’s client, Mr. Caulfleld then callod Mlr. Mahor, whoso ovidenco was just tho opposito of Mr. Farwell'a; but, as My, Caulfield is bound by his own witness, can- ot impoach his ovidence, and can only ovor- turn it by the most overwhelming tostimony thet bis witness waa mistaken, it looks as though Mr, Caulfiold had fooled nway his casn. o deliboratoly placed tho defendant in & posi- tion to destroy his cliont's case, in opposition to oll estnblished practice, and then oxpressod sur- priso that Mr, Farwoll did pot admit the allegn- tions which ho (Farwoll) wes oontestingl We gubmit that Mr. Smith must be a very poor Inwyer, Indeed, If boisa worsoone than Mr. Caultleld Las stiown himselt in this instance. R ——— The gory authoresa of “Aurora Floyd” and similar hoir-raising contributions to light ltora- turo figures at prosont in 8 littlo mystory, whioh will porhaps be givon to the public bobwoen yol- low covors, garnishod and ombollished with san- guinary dotails by that agreeablo child of fancy, Itas currcutly roported that Ler hoart beats in sympathy with that of s Mr. Moxwoll, s Floot streot publisher, whto must bo a perticularly fo- raclous porson to find compsnionship in such a $hat the Citizons' Committee will preparo a atato- mant of the entiro case, including all the cor~ yospondence. e The Chicago produco markets wero stoadier yosterday, though far from being strong, Moass pork was moderately active, and umobanged, olosing st $10.00@10.26 cash, and $10.65@16.60 weltor tha year, Lard was quiet and stoady, at §12.8754@12,00 por 100 1bs cash, and 81L15@ 11,20 mellor tho year, Ments were quiet aud firmer at 8o for shoulders, 93¢0 for ahort ribs, snd 113¢@115{0 for swost pioklod hams, Highe winos were quiot and unchangod, st §73§@0%0 pev gallon Lake frolghts weso dull snd use ghoutish disposition. Alr, Mlaxwell was married in 1848 to m sistor of Mr. Richard Brinsloy Knowles. Not long sgo, Mrs. Maxwell aban- donod bher Lusband—wbich, it ia plain, wos not & very sstouishing procceding—and thon & paragraph {appoared ststing that Mise Draddon nnd Mr, Mazwell had beon married. This parograph was [nstantly oontradioted by Mr. Kuowlos fo tho newspapers. Thon Mre, Muxwoll died suddenly in Dublin, and tho public prioked up 1ts oars, for mattors were becomlng iutorestiog. Theroupon Mr, Maxwell had his tura st contradiotion, and issued » olrcular l atating, with the complimonts of Mr, and Mrs, Maxwell, thai they wecs in no way reaponaibly for tho maliclous nnnoungoment of tho lndy's donth, It s supposed that tho Mrs. Maxwoll hioro montioned Is tho ei-devant Miss Braddon. THE NEW OITY OHARTER. In the dlscunslons as to tho oxpedioncy of adopting & now charter fos tho City of Chleago, —tho genora) charter provided by the Logisla- turo for the govornment of all citios,—tho objee~ tion hias been that sovoral eaving and protectivo clauscs of tho old charter agalust threntoned abuscs would be repoaled. Ona of the most Im- portant of thess Is tho clanso of the old chartor restraming tho Common Counell u tho oxtension of the francbises of tho lorso-rallway compa- nica. It will bo romembored that tho chartor of thoso horsa-rallway companics dates In Febru- ary, 185D, and rups for twonty-fivo yoars, expir- ing in Fobruary, 1884, Hubsoquently the come pauies obtaincd from tho Logislature an exton- alon of thelr chartor for nincty-nive yoars, The Supremo Court of tha Stato, howover, deelded, somo yours lator, that this Iattor act morely ex- tondod tho oxistenco of tho corporation for the torm of niuo yosrs, tho oxtonslon not carryiog with 1t any of tho franchisos obtalned from tho city for the oxolusivo uso of tho streots, oto. Tho oxtonslon or ronowsl of theso franchisos must bo obtained from tho Common Council. In 1807, the chartor of this city was smonded by the addition theroto of tho following re- siralning soction: Tho Common Council shall bave power « + + 1o ntliorize the uso of atreots and alloya in aid city by rallroad companies, or cily raflwoy companics, for tho piirpose of Iaging iracks and ruuning cars thercon : Proviied, however, pormissfon or authority shall not be giveu, mor shall auy such graut or permiesion alresdy given bo cxtended, inless by voto of at loast threc-fourths of al) tho Aldermon clectod, such votes to bo onterad by syesand 1noes on the rocords of te Counctl, And provided further, thatno grant, con- sout, contract, or pormission horetoforo given or ade, or beroafter o bo mado or given, shall u any a0 Lo estended until within ono year of the expira~ tion of such grant, consent, contract, or permilsalon ¢ And provided furtlier, thotin cazo of a velo by the Mayor, auy such grant or permisslon shall recoivo tho voteu of tureo-fourthis of all the Aldormen clocted, to tako offect a5 an ack of law of tho corporation, Tho quostion which hns srisen, snd which s now under counslderation by tho Citizons' Asso- ciation, 18, whether the adoption of tho gonoral act of incorporation would ropoal thia important soction of the prosont charter, Tho charter of tho horse-railway companics oxpires in Febru- ary, 1634, and by this scction of tho ity chartor 1o oxtension of tho franchises can bo given by tlie Common Council untit aftor Fobrunry, 1883, nor can it bo mado without the concurront votea of threo-fourtus of all tho Aldermon olocted. It is important that thia restriction bo rotained, or elso tho railway companies may at suy time pur- chagoor otherwise obtain a renowal of their leaso of the streots for twonty yoars more, Tho now or gencral charter provides on this sub- ek : Tho Counclt éhall havo power . , to permit, reg- wilate, or prohibit the locallug, construeting, or laylng o track of any horse-railroad fu auy streot, alley or pb- Je placo; but such permisalonsbail not bo for a longer time than twonty yeard, ‘The Clty Councll . . ehinlt have no powor to grant thevsoof, or tha right to lay dovm, any rallrond tracks in any streot of tho city to any steam or horso-railrond company except upon a potition of tho owners of tho 1and ropresenting moro than one-lialf of tho frontage of tho atrect, or #omuch thereof aa i sought to, bo used for roflrond purposes. Horo, thon, aro theprovieions in tho old as woll 88 tho proposed now charter, Tho rostraining clausoes of tho act of 1867 havo no equivalents in tho proposed now chartor, Would tho adop- tion of tho now ehurtor ropeal or suporsedo tho provisions of the old ove on this subjoot? We.| thinl this question is squarcly anawored in tho nogativo, beesuse in tho proposed now charter thera is the following saving soction : All courts in this Stato shall tako judiclal notico of tho existenco of all villagos and citics orgunized under tudayet, aud of the chango of tho organization of auy fown or city from s original organtzation to fis or- ‘ganization under thln act ; and, from tho time of Buch organization or chango of orgsaization, tho provisions of this net shatl o applicablo to such clties and vil~ Tages, and all 13ys 10 contlict therowith sball no longor Lo applicablo. Bt all L or parts of Lywa not incon- slstont witl the proviaions of this act shall contlnuo in foreo and spplicable to auy such clty or village tuo samo a8 §¢ such chango of orgsnlzation Liad not taken placo. Tho goneral act of incorporation docs not re- peal tho oxisting charters, excopt fo thoextent that its provisions are inconsistent witls the old charters. On all matters in tho old chartera where the new ono s silent, the provisions of the former romain in force. There does not scom to us to bo snything inconsistent in tho provisions of thie now charter on the subject of horso-railways with the provisions of tho old charter, The mew chertor provides that any grant or oxtonsion of grant of franchise shall not oxtond boyond twenty years, and that no track shinll be laid without tho consent of the owners of proporty fronting on the street, Theso aro additional restrictions in no way inconsistent with those of 1807, and, if the new charter be adopted, will be now restriotions upon the power of the Common Council. If wo bo right in this view of the cago, then the Common Councll cannot exteud or renes tho franchise of tho horso-railwaya untit Within tho year ending February 1884; and thatat that timo the city will beina condition to ro- now ita oxclusive control of thoatreots, and, If so disposed, to purchase tho cars, tracks, and Liorsos, or tolonso tho roads upon such rentals as may Lo considered just, or to have them managed for the bonofit of those who use them] st such xates of faro as will cover the working expenses. PHOF, PATTON AND THE SYNOD, The scons now transpiring at the Firat Prosby- torian Church in thls city can hardly bo rogarded a8 au odifying spectacle cithor to gods or mon, T'he Bynod of Minois North is there in session, and gesuming to try a8 o culprit s mon who is universally esteomed und beloved, and who is one tirely beyond thelr jurisdiction. It 1s only.by s violent effort of tho imagination that an accused parly is supposed to be presont. ‘Thoughtfu poople must therefors look upon the proceed- ings thero taling placo as a dismal travesty of o judicia! investigation, and o ccuel buslosquo of roligion. If it bo tho object of the Byuod to purgo tho Ohurchof Prof. Bwing and allhls dread- fal heresios, that objoct Is slready accomplished by his own voluntary act. 'Tho labors of theso roverond gentlomen aro theroforo ,suporfiuouy and nugatory. But it their objeot bo to disgrace and destroy Prof. Bwing by thu arraigning and solomuly condomniug bis shadow, thalr purpose {4 ps unwortly ay thelr efforts will bo futite, Weo do not protoud to divine the motive of this strange procceding. DBut thore is corlainly danger that, in the estimation of tho gonoral puble, tho actors in this trial will incur » hoav- jor woight of odium than they will be able to impose upon tho imaginary prisoner they hava arraignod at tholr bur, It 18 entirely certain thas tholr presont courso is dolng far moro damagoe to thelr Church, and to tho causo of veligion es. pocially, than s hulf-dozon heroiica could do fu u lifotimo, Chiof among those ecclosiastionl surgeons who aro proposiug to cut off what thoy regard us s dlaossod lmba limby, Lowovox, which is niready oud 6f~ds Krof. Pattons Helé shs outining magloian who Los evoled this modimval scote tolife, But for him tho nnscemly strife wonld novor bave beeu bogun, But for him, sven whou once baguu, It wonld hinvo Isnguirhod and died long ago, ‘Tho publio aro weary ot it. ‘They aro, indood, disgustoa with It Bolong asit aimod torid the Church of one whom aertaiu porsons regarded as unfaithful to tho ductrincs of that Chureh, thore might have besn somo oxouse far keoping wp the fight. Dut thot ox- cugo no longor oxiste. Tho casus belll I8 ro- moved. Why, thon,should the war go ou, and why shoiild this pamfal travesty of a judicial tital bo onactod ? Bocanso Prof. Patton deolares him- ‘solf, and is adjudgou by his supportors to be, an | ‘ageriovod party. Thisclaim, wo think, s denfod by tho law of the Church as It has already beon oxpounded on the trial, aud doviod by common sonso. The prosceutor on one day declared that ho was 1ot sggrioved by any notion of his Prog- bytory but by tho lnv of ks Church, which, o8 ho inslsted, mado him a slanderer. Whon It was shown that the luw forbado that ho should bo regardod as o slanderer unloss bo should be do~ clarod such by oxpross vote of his Prosbytery, Lo thon, on the next day, insisted that ho was aggriaved by his Presbytory, Wo fall to discoy- or how this can be ir any gense intended by tho law. But suppose {t wore trmo, a8 be clmms, Is that o reason why Lo should resolve to porpetunte o quarrel whose portonts of disaster to bia Church, which Iio claims to love with such an unspenkable affoction, grow darkor and mors fonrful with each day’s continuance of it? Is thint 5 rosson why bis alloged griovances should bo rightad ot the expense, porliaps, of ronding in plecea the Chureh to which bo s g0, ardently devotod? And s this tho Chtistinnity that so loudly veunts ita orthodoxy? Whon tho saints fall to quarreling, aven o scoular journal miy take up their discorded vocation mnd bogin to pronch s gospel, not of quarzelsomo and pugna- cious orthodoxy, but of pesco and brotherhood. J0Y AS A RAILWAY-MAN- AQER, It is ramored that M. J. T, Joy, Presidont of tho Michigan Central Ruilrond, i8 nbout to re- sign his position. For somo tino tho Michigan Contral bas not paid its rogular dividonds. Lntely it has paid no dividenda atall. This has, naturally, been very discouraging to tho atock- holders. The Michigan Contral stock is nova ‘Wall streot foot-bali, Itis an investment stock, owned, for tho mioat part, in Now England, by partics of small means,~clergsmon, farmors, professional men, widows, rotirod merchants, ote. Theso persons have felt tho stoppsgo of tholr dividends as no smell inconveulence. Knowing littio of tho real causos which havo oporated to cub them off, they lLave, vory likely, though vory wrongly, attributed thom to mismanagoment, 10 any one who knows Mr. Joy, or who is at alt acquainted with his really extraordinsry guslifications s a ratlway manager, Lis charactor and abilitios are sufficient proof that tho stockholdars of tho road could find no nblor, more experienced, ot moro congciontious agant thanho. 1tis not impossiblo, however, that Mr. Joy's viows of whot is bést for tho fu- torosta of tho stockhioldors may be different from their own ou tho samo subject. Ho is an oxport. ‘Thoy aro not oxports. IIo bps o largo railway oxperionoo, Thoy havo not, Mo may bhave thought it wiso for the road and forits owners to suffor a temporaty iuconveieuco in ordor to ultimatoly reap o greater benofit. They, living in Now England, away from the Lne of their rond, unacquainted with the motives of Lis no- tion, could not underatand is course. Houco diseatiefaction ou their part, andkenco Alr. Joy's rasignation, i€ Lo doosreally resign. Thu tomporary stopping of dividends to tho stockholders of tho Aichigan Contral Railroad was compolled by circumstances over which Mr. Joy bad no control. While the Michigan South- orm, tho Ycrt Wayno, und othor railroads, wero oxtending (heir lines and doing all in their powor to control tho railway patrouage of a largo ox- tont af tercitory, tho Michigan Central hod no option but either to yiold the fleld to them or to contest 3 with them by aiding in tho constrac- tion of feeders to tho main ling ; and also by spending the monoy whick wowd have gome to tho stockholders as dividends on steel rails and otber permancnt improvemonts. Mr, Joy's courso in sdoptng tho Intter altornativo will bo approved by all railway oxports; in fact, by all business mon, Had ho acted otherwise, ho would havo mado & great mistako, and jeopar- dized the intorests of the dissatisfled stook- Liolders themeelves beyond repair, How much Mr: Joy had tho interosts of tho road ot Leart is demonstrated by tho dotermined fight he made aguinst tho Daltimore & Ohio Railrond. Wo think that here Mr. Joy mado a mistake, He should not have pormitted-his rond to antagonize tho law of tho Btate. He must have known that in the ond ho would havo boen worsted in the attompt. The act was unjustifisbla ; but it ehowa at loast that Mr. Joy was doterminod to spare no effort to guard tko intorests of tho road and of tho ownora of its gtock, If Mr. Joy actually resigns, the Michi- gan Contral will lose much more than ho can possibly Jose, Ile has ronched su age at which 1mon usually take ropose, if they over take it. o {s a man of ripe onlture and solid losrning, of fino literary and social tastes. Mo has earnod & rostful and groon old sge, aud whilo thoro iy probobly ten yoars of hurd work in bim yot, it Lo chooses to worl, there is o longer and more onjoyable time boforo him if ho ceases to bo the managor of the Michigan Contral and its im- menso notworlk of afiliated railiays. AN OUTEAGEOUB ASSAULT. The racout wedding of Miss Honoro und Lieut.- ColL. Grant hns beon mnde tho snbject of & most mallcious, vituverstivo, and disgracoful attack Ly 5 nowapapor of this city which was loug sgo ostracised from decent circlos and placed under a soolal ban, The wedding, tho brido and groom, tho parouts, aud the rolatives of both families, and all tho eurroundings and accoessorles of tho ovent, aro alike made the targot of this joornnl- iatio Aalay. . i ‘Phore are weddings undoubtedly whick are appropriate subjeots for public eritictem. Pooplo who offensivoly thrust thelr weddlogs upon the publio aud court public notorloty, and then ad- vortiso them by disgustiug snobbery und vulgar~ ity, cannot complain if it 1s followed by eharp publio oriticium. 'hey lnvite that eriticlem by the publle oxbibition thoy mako, If the Grant- Honoro wodding *had heen one of this class, no oxcoptions coutd have boon taken to any decont journalistio criticism of it. Dut it wau not, No effort was ynsde at publicity. Tho wedding, which might have boon celobrated, for instunce, at tho Palmor House or some othor equally publio placo In tha city, was held out of thecity ata MR, JAMES romote and sscludod residence. Tho st of guosts was smsll aud conflned to the »rolatives and lmmedinto friends of tho family, and thero (s nothing to shiow that all propor respect nnd decorum, Tho display itaolf wnu unostoutatlous, oxcept in tho matcer of floral decorations, aud in thia direotion os- tontation 1a alwaya in good tasto and boautiful. The ware which graced tho tablo was family silver, and the menu did not differ in sny par~ tleular from those which have boon sorved ab scotos of woddings fn thia city. Tho gifts, out sldo of thosa made by the family, can- not bo compared in uumber and rich- nesa with ihoso which kave boou munde on two or threo similar ocossions in Chi- cago. Tho wedding coromony iteelf was ‘brief, plain, and simplo, and aftertho ceremony tho bridal pair loft tho city for tholr tour, and uot n handful of people in this great city kuow suything about it 41l it was over. Although tho gon of tho Prosident was the groom on this oo- caslon, the wedding was virtually a private affalr, covdnetod In porfect good tasto, and fn the most decorous maunor. Ad compared with the Grant-Sartoris or the Titch-Bhorman wed- dings, io fact, it wae thoroughly unpretentious, Theso wero quast Stato affairs, whilo this was s private tamily alfalr. 1t le, thorefors, slmply outrngoous that whou the families of tho wedded pair Lave sought by evory moans in their power to avold an offonsive publicity, and have only strivau to make tho coromony haoautitul and gracaful, thoy should bo singled out personally for vile and cowardly as- soult by tho manager of this papor. Tho fact that ho has boon excluded from sooloty doea not constitnto a sufliclont reasion for such maleious and cowardly conduot, Although tho motive Is apparent onough, although it Is woll known that tho animus of this man is revenge ngainst soce- ty at Ingo sud not against tho Honoro family in particulor, and although tho partics thus at- tacked can suffor no injury In the oatimation of respeatabla poople, the motive is nono the less Qespleable, MIKE M'DONALD'S ESCAPE. Wo have recoived tho followwng note from Stato's Attornoy Reod: OFIICE OF STATE'S ATTONEY, Ciizcaao, Oct, 22, 1874, 10 the Edltor of The Chfeago Trilbun Sin: In an editoriat in this morning's TAIDONT, en- titlec like McDonaid's Escapo," you nsk, * Does tho Grand Jury, or Mr, Reed, dony that McDonald come mitted an assault upon McGarry? Why, then, were these iwo notorious rmiliaus not indicted for tho as- ssult committad by thom in the prosence of twenly witnesges2” Tho completo answer to thoso questions 19, that {n tho Btate of Tilinols tho Grand Jury havono Jurldiction or rizht to ind an ndictment for aseault, ‘or assault and bnttery, Thia has been tholaw in thia Stato over slnce the deciston of the Suproms Court tu tho easo of Carpenter v, Tho Pooplo, 4 Scammon, pago 197, On pego 199 tho Snupremo Court sy : * Theso 1wo offcnsos (meaning assault, and ossault and bate tery)sro not punishablo by Indlctment wnder our lows ; exclusivo Jurisdiction ovor them is exprossly conferred on Juslices of tho Peaca,” By tho Roviaed Statutes of 1874, original jurlsdiction is oxpresaly con- ferred upon Justices of tho Pesce in cases of amsault, and assanlt and battery.—Scc, 331, page 405, Thia is not the law i mwoat of the States. Yours, otes, Citantzs 1, REED, State's Attorncy, Wo prosume that Mr. Reod's citation cor- rect, but wo bavo a further romark to make. Tt appears that we aro liviog undor s code of Inr or practice which provides no penalty for an aseault with a pistol unless the prosccution can show afirmatively that the pistol was loaded,— thiat it woa Joadod with ball a4 woll na powdor,— that it was enpped, and that tho whole apparatus was positively and certalnly oxplosive and dendly. Tha threats of tho porson holding tho piatol go for nothing in tho way of eatablishing tunt tho pistol was londed. Whon he draws and ¢ocks it and aima it at the head of another ‘person, and proctaima tho intontion to blow his brains out, all that goes for mothing if oue of his pals gets possession of the wospon and has Hme to run off and draw tho cartridgo. Wo hisvo to say that this is most singular predicamont for a civilized com- munity to bo in, and that tho rulo of law or practico which euables would-bs murderers to go unpunisbed under suoh ciroumstnces is most absurd. Whena man draws a pistol o snother in & throatoning mauner and with threateniog languago, the presumption in fact ia that the wosnpon is loaded, Tho presumption should be the snme in law, leaving the prisoner to ovor- throw it if ho can by proviug that it was not lozded. THE MAN WITHOUT A LIFE, Edward E. Halo took a fctitious character, #“The man withoubt s country,” aud handled it &0 succosafully that e persuaded & grost aum- bor of persons that the man hed really lived. ‘Tho Hon, Charles Hays, of Alabama, took o real man, Willism A. Lipscomb, of Marongo County! Alobama, eleugbtered him in the columas of tho Hartford Courant, sud porsuaded tho Republio- an porty that the man had really died, Now there can bo fow earthly pleasures comparsblo to thot of rending your own obitusry. Youdis- cover for the first timo that the world has con- cealod s smiling love for you beneath s frowning faco. If tho obitnary-writer happens to bo acquainted with you or your cousin, you read with joy of your unexcoptionablo character, your remerkable ability, and your poeition as tho hope of your country and perhaps of the world at tho timo of your, alas,too early decease. Phoro must bo & cortain grim joy, oo, in having ' fooled tho universe, or that portion of it which roads the Awerican papers, People think you srodead. You kuow you are alive. You have perpetratod a praction joke by proxy. It may bo that Hays meant to roward Lipscomb (who waa ono of tho delegutes who nomiuated Hays for Congress) by glving him those pleasuroes, and that ho thorofore provided him with s firat-class faneral notice. A man thus bereft of his life does not care, howover, to stay dosd long. If tho world does not know he isstill alive, the croam of tho jest is loat. Ho iy anxious to claim the standiug given him by his death-noticos, Thig clnim ravely umounts to much, but the tect of bis continued existenco iy osuatly reudily rocoguizod. His unpaid bills aro at once vont to himsolf inotoad of to Lis supposed oxecutor; and that s about wll the difforence it malkes, But tho luckless Lipscomb hus had great dinil- culty in rocovering hislife. Tho Ropublican prea, Luving found his death afruitful editorial toplu, is oaturally indignant at bLis ill-tisned resurroction, aud rofusca to recognize the un- palatablo fact, Shall tho columuy of writing in which the unismed Xu-Klux have prancoed in black snd whits over Tipacomb'a mangled remsing bo lost? Bhall the or- der to '“Give the sconos of vialenco aud Dbloodshed trauspiring throughout = the South ay great promineuce #a possible in your peper from this time until aftor the clection" bo nogatived aimply bacauss tha acoues fallod to “trauspiro "? Torbid it! Lipscomb liviug is worthless in comparison to Lipscomb dead and sorved up with the propor garnishment of manks, torches, knives, blood, and midnight murder.. 8o Lipscomb {8 ruthlassly kopt withont hia life. Diivon to despalr, Lo fighta fir with firo hy using tho nowspapars to combat the newspapers. 1o publishies this nots ¢ Ragrarzs, Marenga Co, Als, Sopl, 26, 1674, hewy goieita did nos vonduod themidlies with | ot piy Ditau Brut My slintion baving bees called by yom, v about tho 1st of this month, that X lnd boen mur- dored nenr Chootaw Corner, T deslre to gy that there 1ot the alightest foundation fixt such repart, I tinvo not Leen oven assaulted, orkind any unkind word spoken to mo, At tlo time of my reported murdor* I was alck st my Teslilencs, 12 milen from tho placo wh ero! 1 was loeateds Yours roapectfully, WitLiad ¢ A, LIPACOMD. .11, Clarke, Solfciior Marengo Cot 1nty, The averago man would bo con vinced by this that Lipscomb still lives, Not scs tho oxtraordl- nory oreatures who oam s liveliio od by grinding politionl orgaus. Tho Inter-Ocean has kopt on murdoring Lipscomb ovor since. Tho New York Republio hns stuck 8o many kntve 8 into him that ho now appoara in thet paper bristling with points like o porcupine, We aro I n constant an- tlctpation of & cartoon In Harpei™'s Weekly por- traying Lis woful fate. Last of all comes tho Washington Republio, s wmonth)ly magazino whiol is fond of Bon Butlor and sliocked at the Boutl. In its November number we find, in a highly anthiontio Jist of about n th ousand South- ern outragos, this mournful ilatelll gendo Afe. W, A, Lipscomb, of Marengo Ccwunty, o most ox- omplary clllzen and o Ropublies.n without roproiel, was recontly found on the roadef de, nuar faresidencs, “ridillod with bullets.” Mr, Lf peoomb was & dolegato fu tho Convontion which ronom nated tho Ifon, Charlea ays for re-vlection to Congron 1 from the Fourth Dls- trict of this State, The ftom comes from Ald bams, under dato of Sept. 8, or threo weokn eari jer than Lipscomb's statoment that Lo was gliva, It is published s moonth after that statemeoet, Io might as woll abandon the contest, The Republican party is bound tokeep him doad. Lo must be contoat to oxfat as * tho man withe wt n Jife," THE FAMINE IN NEBRASKA. Doath from starvation,— for the nctual wani of food,—within olghteou 1 1ours’ travel of Chica~ 20, aod in tho hoart of the grain-growing region ot tho countiy, is somotht ug that should attrack tho atiention of tho puwblic. Gen. Ord, come manding tho Department ¢.£ the Platto, and who is personally coguizunt of tho facts, addrossed tho Board of Trado yesterday, tolling in plain and direct torms the sad sf ory of tho destitution in Westorn Nobraske cauged by tho ravages of tho grasshoppers. From tho reports of his of- ficors on the ground and anwong theso poople, he L reliable information a8 to the sctunl condi- tlon of affaira. Ho atates that soveral cases of actual death of children havo already takon place, Fathers huve boen compolled to abandon thoir familica and seok work and food. In omo houso tho corpse of n child wus found thal had portshed for want of food, and moar 1t tho motlier prostrato and dying from the same canso, Ho states that in Boone, Grooloy, Sherman, Hownrd, Buffulo, and all tho other counties 50 miles west of the Missonrl River, two-thirds of the poople are destitute of all the necossa- ries of lile. Thoy have meither clothing uor shoes ; and food {8 impossible to got. Tho fol- Iowing gentlemen woro appointed & committea to tako stops for the rolief of Chose poor people : Mesara. George Armour, L. Z. Leiter, Georgo C. Walker, Jobn L. Hancack, C. M. Henderuon, John B, Drako, N. XK. Fairbank, Edson Koith, W. M. Egan, and C. G. Couloy. Theso pooplo want, in the first place, flour, menl, pork, or bacon for food; they want shoes, sbawls, blankets, conts, pantaloons, and stock- inga. Anappeal of this kind comlng from 7,000 mon, women, aud children, without food orcloth- ing, oxporiencing, through no fault of their own, thoe horrors of famine, cortainly will not be un- ‘hoodod in tbis vast city. Wo trust that no pains will be spared to sood tho rellef without dolay, ‘and in quontities suflicient to save life and pro- tect these people from the combined sufforiugs of the winter and of gaunt, cruel famino, A STORY OF CHARLES SUMNER. The November number of Serivner has an ar- ticlo on Sonator Suwner's pictures und ougrav- ings, which conteing a story that deserves o widor cireulation than s mugazino can command, Over the dining-room mantel of the Washing- ton houso hung Tintoretto's “Miracle of St. Moark” It I8 supposed to bo tho atudy from which Tintorstto painted tho groat picturo which s ut Vouice. The wifo of & Maseachusetts Congressman onco said : “That paiuting made Oharles Sumuer Senator!” Tho snying was notas wild hyperbole as it seoma. Tho speoch which mnde Sumner's political fortunes was that on * Onr Ymmediato Anti-Slavery Du~ tios," which ho dolivered at Fancuil Hall, Nov. 6,1850. By it, ho placad himsolf at the kead of the Auti-Blavery party, cutting looso from the politicn! ties betweon himeolf and the blue blood of Boston. Massachusetts ropud him with tho Scnatorship, Judge Jiy'called this speech “ipio groatest offort of the kind in the En- glish language.,” Its gist lay iu thoso words: »Thore is a legend of the Church still living on the admired canvas of a Vanotian artlat, that St. Mark, desconding from tho akies with head- long fury into the publiesquare, broko tho mun- acloa of & slave in the presence of the very J'udge who had decreed his fate. This is known s ¢ The Miraclo of tho Slave,’ and grandly bas et tlumined the ‘scono ! Should Mussachusotts horoatter, in au ovil hour, be desecrated by any +such docroo, may the good Evangelist ouce more doscond with valiant aym to break tho mauacle of the slave.” Bumner bud scon and studied fiho painting during his life in Burope. Ho made “his rocollection of it the crowning point of his wpoech, His description was quated everywhore, It awokes popular enthusicems that gave him place and power, ‘The day after tho speocch, somo ono sont hun sn ongraving of the plcturo. Whon Drooks' cowardly blow sont him sbrosd for tho socond time, ho bought in Paris the study by ‘Lintorotto, which huug till the sale of his houschold effects over bis dining-room mantol. His will gaveit to Joshua B. Smith, the colored mombar ol the Mugsachupotts Logislatare who did so mnch to ‘inve the rosolotion of ceusuro rescinded, and wiho was gont by Massachusetis to earry the slad newsto (be Sonstor. It i8 mow in Mr. fimith's possossion. Heo may woll prizeit as a “plvture with a history. e e 1t is only requiste for & young man with curly hair, black and sbiny, mustache of thename hue, and pleasing addross to exert a fair amount of ook to puss off Tor a distinnished poraanuge ul our fashiounble watoriog-places, Witness tho cureer of Josoph Dutes, waiter, and formor in- wate of tho Penllentiory. Mr. Joseph Bates met ab Newport a relired ship-chandlor namod Dyroe, with hulf a million. 3. Byrne had thres duughtore, the yougest, of coutso, & lovely helug, the idol of sn udmiring cirelo of iriends. Mr. Joo Dates was Angustus Boolman, who owned half the ‘Town of Flushing und soveral thousiund lots in varlons parts of New York and Brooklyn, uot to mentiona bauk uecount of huu- drods of thousands, Alr. Byroe sllowed an intl- 100y to spring up botweon hiv youngest and Au- guatus Bookma, alias Joo Bates, waitor, aud ex- Penltentiary-bird, lont him wonvy, auvd oucouraged Lim botore the truth dawnod upon him. When it did he warnod Lis daughter, Dub the maidon was incrodulaus. Bhe conseuted to & privato murriage with Augnstus, which took place ot Willlameburg, tha Rov. William Reaper officiating, Tho girt roturned to hior parent, but tho marriage conld uot long remuin concosled. A suit for divorce hes beon brought ou the ground of fraud. It appears Lt dir. Bates buil hived a friond from tho restaurant to play puwvon for him, sud that the glrl wos doubly develvad by tho sconndrel. It ts probablo thas she will ail {0 Liar snlt, aa the laws of the Btato do uob require the solomnlzation of & marzlageby 8 clotgyman, ‘It is littio lows than wondorrul that thule bi-ropedtod swiodle auvuld weudl bthr 6 many oxposures. But thero {a no resisting the charms of a glosny Load and dyed musiacho a¥ Nowport, Bympathy with tho lovaly vietim muut glva placy to tha lews ngrecable fosling of pity. The Indiorous spectacle of n man looking for himeolf and sufforing tho keonest chagrin nt fails ing to Nind bimaolf, was exhibited on tho Unlon Pacifio Retirond not long ngo. An Eastorns bound emigrant tralu atopped at Rock Orook Stallon for Lronkfast. Ono emigrant strayed away, and the firat seotlon of tho train started withont hins.. Ho reachod tho sccond on timo and managod to get nway. Ilis fifonds in the firat section minked bim, and woro geized with a drend that bo hnd beon killed, Tho conductor tolegraphed to the second section to Yook for him, and bring him or bis body to Laramia. The passengors turned .out readdy to afd in tho soorch. Foromost among them, and displaging & terriblo anxlety, was tho man for whom they wero looking. Hohunted for tho misslog emlgrant with a zeal which could only be accounted for by the fact—unknown to him—that ho was looking for himself. During tho whola day and following night the soarch was continaed, tho unconscious cauro of it snflering deenly to think that he had beon loat. Wion he reached Laramie tho idea never occurred to hig friends, and tho railroad omployes might stili by looking for the missing emigrant, when one bright Individual atartled tho crowd with tho re~ ‘mark that our bero had beon looking for hime solf aud hod fatled to flud himeolf. ———— At s recent Domarratio ratificaticn-mooting In Virgwia City, Nev., Lol for the pusposo of ro- Joicing over the nominations made for the State ticket, Kendall, tholts Congrossmon from tho Blate, was lovitod to *‘sfand in™ with them, which 8 the Novada form of, speech for party, afifintion. Kendall consentod, and *etood in ™ by riddling tho Demacratio platfarm to piccas, plank by plank, and annibilating the sominaes ©ono after tho other, until at last the oxcitomont grow 8o intenso that the meeting was broken up in sgrand row. If Mr. Kondall's idoa of ** stand.' ing in" could only bo applicd to tho Republican’ party, that is, it somo Ropublican could Bo found with honeaty and courage enough o got up » mooting and_indulgo fn somo plain talk, it would do a worldof good. The party neods' some one to **stand in” with it {n the Kondslt fasblon. —_—— NOTES AND OPINION. Of eixty-threa Congressmen eleot, anly one tool the salary-grab, Do you mind that, salary- erabbors [ —Tho Toledo Commercial (Republican) shows that Garfleld's vote is tho smallest over polled for n Republican candidate in the Ashtabuls Dis- trict, and that the combined voto of Garfield aud Turlbut (tho latter belug Indopendent Repub. lican) falls 2,000 short of the averago snd 5,000 shiort of tao full Republican strongth. The Corne mercial then savs ¢ Thls {5 uok 4o complete triumpl for the Chairman of {hie Committcs o Appropristions as his' mors ear- ‘nest advocates wish o Lolfove, and {ts cost {0 tho Btatu tickot 1a ot to be overlookod. The Commercial then shows that Charles TFostor's re-clection, by 162 majority, in the San- dusky District, I a victory suatched from bel- lots that gave, on the same day, 1,218 majority for the Democratic Stato ticket, It msybo doubied if anothor district in the United Slates will sliow o similar result, thi year, in favor of o Iopublican Congressman; aud this result, tha Commercial says, is— Dus to two chief causes: (1) Mr. Foster's Imown chiaracler for integrity, ability, and Adelity to pubile trust: aud (3) ia induntey aud bolduess in forrating out and exposing ofticlal delinquencios, in the face of oppoaillon from Butler and other valeran politicians. ‘o jrummpt sud genorous support glven to Lifin by his cousljtuents, undur tha cireumstauces, becomes & mat~ for of uutionial coucern, ~{ndicatiug, s it does, latont istuo lu the people sufficient to sustaln public’ sgents T tho falthal aiichnrgs of duty, Mr. Roster will o Dack to Cougress greatly sirongthoned in heart and i woral pawer for future sorvice. —Tho Datroit Tribune (Republican) estimates tho probabilities of Congrossional elections, and comes to totals of 148 RNepublicans and 144 Demoerats in the noxt House. And the Trtb- une docsn't concede its own (Detrolt) distriot, aither. ~Willlam D. Kelley, addressing his Philadal~ ‘plia cohorts, enys: 1t fa u mistako lo suppose that tha causes that avers whelmed the Ropublicouy of Ohlo aud Indiaus will operate fu thia State, They arv uot lu uperation heze. Tiso Thivd-Term question bung liko s dripping cloud ovor our friends ju both these States. But our wky is clear of that ovil omen. Our Stato Convention, truote thio traditfous of the country aud the convictlonw of the peoplo, mado an emphalie declaration against » "Lhivd Torm. —In Lencaster Conuty, Pa., a flerce wrangle over the Republican nominations, iuvolviog clinrges of frand, bas resulted in suits agalust cortain persons ** for conspiring to defraud Dr. P.J. Rocbuck out of Lis nomination for tha State Sonate,” and other swmits * for violating tho primery-olection laws. Tho Hurisburg Patriot soys: uis whamuéful bistory of contest fully demoustrates that the Ropublicans of Lcncaster County can no longer hold o delegute eloction that is mot steeped iu frand ond forgery. Anotber incident is the ind/gnans return of the clicck for $500 of the Hom. A Herr Sinith, the kepublican_candidato for Congress, The Clusirman of the Comuittee lud assessod him for £1,500 for i shiare of 1ho campalgn exyensed. Smitls vatoly tried to compromise for ouo-third of the amount, %o must pay up the full asscsament of bo droppied fraun the Mlst, according to the rules which liave beon sdopted by tho Republican office-brokers of Taveaster Conuty, ‘Cho partisan necoslty _for large sums a4 aro anuually assessed In Lancaster County, with » Republican majority of 4,000 or 5,00, 1 not Very apparent. —Joln Quiney Adams declives & nomination to the Massachusetts Senate, vecuuse— e proposterous length fo whicl the scssfons of the Leglalotuira have boct spun out of lato years reudera It fmposaiblo for me to uttend then withiout oglocting wthur moro fmporiant and sgrecable dutied. —The closest districts in Congressional eleo- tions, a4 yot,ara: The Thirtoenth Indisna, eleot~ ing John 1L, Bakor (Rtepublican) by 61 majonty, and the Third fows, electing L. L. Ainsworth (Domocrat) by 63 mojority. Those diatriots gove Republican mojorities of 2,000 each In 1872, —Tho Olinton Age (Judgo Mhayor) bids adiew o the Anti-Monapoly movement in Iowa, It thinks a Domocratic ticket would have got BU,.WIJ more votes in the State, carrying the threo river districts, if not others, for Congross. The dgs says: . Wo Inliovh thiat overy person of Republiean anteco- dentw, who yoted thn Anti-Monopoly ticket i thly Stato'on Tue voted tho i way had tho tcket beon mnoeratle,” —~Fho Now York Kepublic hus discovered why the Administration party .was dofeated in Ohiv and Indisua, It was becauso soms wesk-Eueed Topnblionu newspapers acknowlodged tuat thera ‘wad somothing wroug aliout the Cradit Dobilior, atil tho salary-steal, and thio Nauborn contracts., The Republids ides i, thud, If tho organe would koap up & constunt' moisy tuno in favor of (Grantism, they could drown the protouts of tho opnosition.—Utict Glwerzer. " Phese figuros [election-returns] mean that the peopla do not indorse Credit obilier, bsck-pay stealy, Sanboru contraaly, Sayno's mototy frauds, the Washington Riug robberics, Shepherd’s nominution, tho earpat-bag rulo and the corrup- tione which Luve bean encoutaged at the South. orany of Lo scundaly which have contributed Soward makiug tho Govornmant iufamous iy the oyon of wit oioetand intolligout citizens, Tl it the meaniug of tho eleotions which November will anly rondor wore striking aud sppareut. mm\blfimnidm iv made tomosn Grantiam, tue Quys of tho party which earried tho Nation Hrough the Way are wumbered 5 if Grantism ls thrown off, aud un ors of refoim instituted within tha party, it will bo able to retain coutrot of the Governmeut for years to camo.—Llenser Neaow. —The Hepublicans fail to nndonstand tow ¢ is that thelr outrage-Lowl huy this year evoked 110 popular zesponss or sywipzthy. The reasuu is, ‘howover, vory piain, Fhe extmvagauce, frand, and corrnpition af tho Lopublicsn party— ity vedit Mubilings, ite sulurv-grabs, ita toedi- ous attacks upen the press, its Juyne frauda, its Hanboen ostortions—ory ont 5o londly in its con- omution ws lo drown the phriaks of the v shire,"—2elroit Fron, Dress. —Tho poopla of Ohio nud Indiana, and otber Northern Biates say they will hive 3o more of thin Ructlzat . 'Tho erv of Souther outrages, manfuetted {6 oxdee wnd (urnislied ugau wi roqnived_oncasiong, can bo longer blind thely oyed tud obenre hoir judgout, They wra tirad of this, Thoy mean” lo weo io it that the oxiroucies of dosperat leadora and iucompotent Tauntics wud etornod haters, shalifoo longer carry thelr clections ; aud that the resources and egers ies of the couniry shall bo again unfesisrel ud the groat l}u’;dnn ot th:k 0] h:l:: i ?l', Rtiadtad . Soipht M«Hfl% baad