Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 27, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO PAILY TRIBUNE : TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1874 imbitlon of mean mon, and a corrapt b which, 1€ Alr, Aloxsnder s elected lupflm‘:\l;l'sk:':: |'i't€ toutrol of lllu)mfl)’ in this district In given to Gen, ll)ullox-, 1o uso for lifs own benefit or that of is mins lonn, —In tho Tonth Massachnsotts Distrlet, the Domocratn dacline to foin tho Seelys movement, and hnve nominnted Honry C. 11ill, of Garduor, for Congross, But the movemant to oloct Prof. Julius IL Seclyo goes on with appnrently-grow- Ing strangth. Among the,campaign argumonts, it i atated that Alvah Crocker patd 7,000 for hilslnst clection to Congress, In 1872, and thut Chnrlos A. Stovons pays, this yoar, ovon moro than that sum. —Charlos I, Sandera (Ropublican) withdraws ss nenudidato for Congroms, in Arknnsaw, aud roquests that GQuuter (Domocrat) havo all the votos, —The Albany Evening Journal imn't scared nt all, but {4 tells Ropublicans in Now York that **The loss of a sluglo district may carry with it tho control of the next Congress.” Also, tha Buffalo Commercial Advertiser iu't seared atall, but, in order “to srouso tho Topublicans to s full raalization,” oto,, it snys : Dear In mind that ono Congressman lost from this Stato might poaribly turn tho sealo in the Demacrucy’s favor in the Lowor Louso! —1Wo Liave #oon this somowhere boforn: STATE Eedton of: Union, Sewsseirers iy’ L b 107 Dran Bin 2 1 deriro to call your attention to tho hore rible seenes of violenca and bloodabed trauspiring thranghout tho Soutl, and suggest that you givo thent 88 greal prominence us possibio in your paper from thia thue uxtil after tue dlection, ‘Titosas J, Draoy, Chalrman, —Tho *““crusndo” In 2 mighty conveniont thing to have in the Republican finuuu\mm, Juet now, £o covur up the real cuuso of tho Into dorent of tint prity, It waen't crus-ade theb did it. It was railrond oid, and Credit Mobilior aud, aud Sanborn aid, aud back-pay ald to Congressmon, and Do Golger atd, aud Jay Cooke aid, and car- pot-baxgor wid, and aid of rascals of overy do- Heri| ‘Theso ara tho aids that did tho busi~ ness.~Sandusky (Orio) Journal. —Samuol 8. Cox, in his spcoch acconting o ro- nomivation at tho hands of hin Domoeratic friends in the Sixth Now York District, quiatly romarked: My votos against the salary bill and the return of tho money degradod mo from my proper position on committees and in tho Houso. 1 trust that theso who enjoyed my dis- comfliture and rendored my lust Bossion, 8o~ cinily and personally, uncomforiable, becauso of tho salary billa, huve had o pleasant tine among their coustluenis, Most of them reman al Lome to gild the calm curront of domestic bhun” —Soriously, though, things are so much mixod,—so wany Dumoerats will vote for Dix, aud ko many Republicans for Tildon, and so muy of Loth portiea dow't care, sud will not vote at n]l,—thal sny man who makes o guess will risk lus reputation for savity.~New York letler. —The Ttica Observer declarca that thero fa no lovo lost_Letween Congressman Roborts and Benator Conkiing, Tho Utica Zerald roeplies with u eertiticate from J. Mather Jones that he “ never heard Mr, Roborts oxpress any hostility to Seuator Conkling,” —Porhaps at no provious period in our history have therebeen so many isgivings amongst thoughtful and patriotic meu as to the succoss and permanoncy of our institutions as nt present, Discord exista tiroughout the land betweon tha peoplo and tholr rulers, Thon it cannot bo die- fzaised that thero is o decline in _publis morals, aud that jobbery, corruption, and robbery, pre~ nide over tho oyor tho mmuc[(ml goverunents of most of our ¢itica and largo towns. Co-day n muan pays ahmost or quite as much iv the form of taxes for the privilego of living in his own house in ono of our cities 18 bo (id twouty years ago in rent for living in & similar ono which bolonged to suother, und the vaddest fontura of this ead business is, that theso ovils grow as_time pro~ nlumdn .upon it8 onward cowse,—Philedelphia Press, —~— MISCELLANEOUS. Congressman Willard, of Vormont, proposes to 10 journslism, Rowe, fathor of the nhdncted ohild, fs mon‘uliy and physically. —Tho e e oxpenditure of tho HMarvard Club, tius yonr, in £3,500, Willwar 13, Allikon, Senator from iowa, and Gov. Byveridge, ot 1Hinois, uro nutives of Harri- won Township, Lorvy Connty, O.; snd Gav. Eon irien, of Indinna, 18 o native of the adjoin- ing township of Nowton, in Muskivguin Couuty. “Lisey nro all farmers’ Kous, —Alexanaer 1. Hawilton, tho defanlting Tronsurer of Jorsoy City, bns roturned, ou iiven limself np to tho authoritics, Ho ab- weonded last Fobruary with €80,000, aud has been ut Hintumoras, Europe, und Californin, “Livigg ut Jusy of an outcast and roving life, ho has returned, Ho wes tleeeed out of £20,000 by n_“gnhh botween Corpus Christi and Browns- villo. Tho New York correspondent of the Boston Jourual suys : ** Aunvedtigation in regard to manufseturing and business” matters shows that the winter outlouvk for therluboriug class in New Yorlk 18 very unpromiving, Ono-third of tho un- +killed laborers in Now York sre idie. A popu- lstion of 90,00 mre really in want. They huve iud no eaployment for s1x mouths, aud nono is 1xpecled till 8priug, at soonest, —Thoe Asso.sors of Providenco, R, I., have completed their lubors, and flud thac the city's valuation 1ucludes $81,040,800 real ostato and £42,642,600 peisuual, making an aggrepate val- tation of ¥123,682,800. The lst of individusts eud eorporniions taxed for 50,000 worth of prop- crty und upwards foots up 460, Three ara taxed orwore than 1,000,000 cach, snd ton others &500,000 aud over, ‘Thireo men were riding in a lumber wagon rear Fort Dodge, Iu., Just Friday, One was car- rangagun in o carcless way, when asudden Jolof the wagon discharged it, teating off his uwu Land, and sLootmg out the oyes and carry- ing uway part of the faco of tho youngest nan i the gronp, ‘Tho latter lingered some time, ulToring drendfully, and mnking piteous appealy [ Ly comraces to kill him and put him out of L mise yo —Wilu"ogs are the most dangerons gamo in tho Virginia mouutaing, Chey ure found 1 herds ol five fo twelve, sud the sight of 8 human be- isg is tho only signal for attack they require, "} av intrader has thon nothiug lott bim but to catrun them or clinb @ treo and wait for thom t) leave, —At the Inter-Stato Oratorical Contest, {0 bo Dald mn the University at Yown City tho Gth of r-ext month, two Iowa colleges, nfter shoip con- veta besween their brightest students aud best ceators, have decided upon being representod in (10 greater coutest of oratory by gitls. The Ftuto Agricultural Collogo sends a8 1ts chiampron {izs Kata Tuppor, of Dea Moiues—nnd Corneil t!ollego, Mount Vernon, sends Miss Mauttio Clin- ton, —Washington goseip hna it that Admiral Por- tar's lundseimo mausion bids tuir to-bo ablaze vitl the brilfiaut hight of honoymoons this win- ter, ns the pieans nunouncing the marriago of L two gons with Southers hoirenses aro walted s ou the wings «f nutumnal winds, and Dame Jzumor contldentinlly informs us that Dy Lize e hus Lrouglit to lior toct distinguished Now York journalist, with all his monoy, enterprisa, horeck, and soup philanthropy. Miss Porter is conspicuons for” her finoly molded figure aund axquisite tasle in drossing, and Ler very graco- tul daverug. ~T'ho mechanical powor of vegotnblos i ro- zolviug counidersblo attention just uow, A syunsh oxperiniented with at tho Agricultural College in Amberst, Masg,, i8 now struggling mccm.!unr againet a weight of 4,000 pounds, [ Pelhinm 18 u birch trea growing out of o ludga of vocks. Tho troo is abimt 2 feeb in dinmetor wnd noarly 30 feot in hoight, Ouno of ita roots ties forced its way under a hugo moss of rock, reighing, according to the estimuio, fully 40 toun, and has detuched it from tho muin rock, so tlut abont an lnch intervenoy, —Judge Mokieiman, of Washington, Pa., whilo boldiug &_torm of the United Siien Cireuit Court in Philadelphin, lst wook, pronounosd a suling in contradiction to what b hovotofors boen covsidered sottled law, Tho cnso wes n auit brought by the diawer of a chock for &100, winel had been raised L0 $2,100 by tho draweo, to_recover from. the bawk $2,000 hinproporly nid, Judge deKonnan ohurged tho jury that it oy hoheved from tho teatimony and Trom an inspoction of tha choalt that thére was nothing unusual in it n})]mnmnco. nothing which wuu;fi havo boen sufliclont to put & estoful person upon bis gunrd, then thoy should find for tho defond- antd; if olliorwiae, their verdict should La for tho plaintifa, The paying-tellora of woveral bisuka having teatifled that thoro was nothing fu ibo appoaranco of the chock, a8 raieed, to oxcite um!uehm, tho jury rondered o verdict for tho i e OIL FREIGHTS, Prreavenenia, Pa, Oct. 26, —The ropregenta- tives of the teanit railvond Luew, afier the dig- <1 ot the chjsction ta tho new ofl raton, dos tiab puy redustion was Jn:actlounie, and shat tho privcipls of oqual thiraugh rates from a1 localitias upon which the presont tavimt was haood was the only oue which could bs main- 41 ad with or witlious Agreement among them- halvah, CRIME. A Rother in Andersonville, Ind, Murders Her Soue The Wretched Woman Then Comueils Suicides More About tho Safe-Burglary in ‘Washington, Evidence of Harvington’s Responsibily for the Affair. ‘Tho Anderson ) Klorror—A Young Man Murdered by X Mother and ¥rothors Anderson, Ind., (Oct. 2y Correspondenea of the Cine clnaati Guzctte, Bave tho shooting of tho Iate lnmented Tom Btillwell, no ovent hins oceurred iu thiy county for mauy youra which has cronted such intouso oxcitement a8 the discovery of murdered Maw- son on Wednosday lnst. Inthe Iattor part of July last, Mrs. Maweon began talking & great donl sbout hier youngest son, Albort, or * hor Abby,"” a8 sho styled him, Lven whon no inquiries wore mado by tho neighbors s to his whereabouts, sho volunteered un oxplans- tion of his absonce, Bomotimes sho repre- sonted Lim 88 laving gove to Cleveland, sometimes to England, and again to California. Occasionnlly eho offored for ssto somo articlo formerly belonging to ber son. A suit of clothes, nonrly new, was taken back to the mer- chant of whom thoy woro purchased, and sold for n el sum, A ring aod some otber littlo triukets woro likowiso sold. Theso sales were always accompanted with gome kind of & story. Albort couldn’t tuke them with lim, or ho ,lid lofe them for Lier to gell, or she Lad to rawso money and desired to eell what Albert would nover ueed. b rofused Lo sloop alone, and be- foro Mr, Xnull &n tennut of hors) cama on to the farm rhe passed hor vights with tho neighbors when 10 ouae could bo fouud to stuy with Lor in the farm-house, A fesw weoks Intor sho report- ed tho denth of “ ALby," decluing that some ono, probubly the Lums (neigkborw), had killed Dim, sbd that be would yob bo found in Lom Buntl’s woods, or ot bor own farm, or in tho Whito River. Auout ten days ngo she mot ono William Fasset, a tenmstor, formerly in bor em- ploy, and, after reconnting hier sou's virties, nud compluving of Ler loneless without Lim, slo suid sho know the Luins b killed han and buried bis body, in Smith'’s woods, or in a teel, and that ho would be found in o fow dags, * jua us sure a8 Lam looking in your face, Wiliam Yasser." Litelo attention, however, was paid to theso remarks, but it was remarked by all tho neigh- bors that ** Aunt Nauey " looked baggavd and was torribly worried about something. On Suu- day morning last slie asked Mis, Knull to go with bor aud seec what a flno stock woll stiv bud, Partially removing tho boards which covered it, sho stirrad tho water with & polo, saying as slio didwo: “Foo how clour the water is” Early the next Tuesday morving, almost Lotoro duy- light, she nroxo irom ber bed, hurriedly dressod Lersolf, and loft tho house. In twu orthres minutos sho returncd and awoko the fumily by exclaiming, ** The Lains have illea up my stock well with stones and boords; thoy have hilled Albert aud thrown his bodv in the welll” Oun oxumivation, Mr, Kvull diecovered that the weil lind been filled with rocks nud dirt, and that on tho top buurds drops of blood wore dirtinctly vigiblo, A trail, whero somo hoavy body bad heou dragged nerors the adjoining fieid, wus alio d atnetly visible, with blood-maiks ou a pilo of rails, and stil otbers on & roek pile over which tho trail passed. Mr. Kuall noliced also that a terrible stench hovered over the well, Surpecting that tbe body of some dord eaimal hiad been thrown iuto the well, bo began throw- ing out the stonos, when Mrs. Mawson stopped him. She suid she did not wunc the well exam- ined until ber son Thomas was sent for, Sho feared somo ouo hiad been murdered and thrown inthere, and it might bo Albort, At thye Mr, Inull ceazed work, but Mlrs, M. scemed muro resttosd thun usual, often exclaiming, ** Albort s dead, nid may Lo Lis body 14 i tho Well 1 In order toinve tho mystery clenved up, Mra, XKnull urgoed her husband to clean out the woll in the moruing (Weduesday), sud arraugemounts were accordingly made with Isnae Hoppad, Mrs, Muweon's son-in-luw, todoso, Tho work was commenced early, but thoy hud gone dows only G foct when the sickening sight of two_putrid, swollen, uptuined buman feet mot their gaze. Without examimmng farther, the Coroner wus immediately sent for, and news of the dizcovery conveyed to Mrs. Liawsou. Sho numediately broke iuto n fit of weeping and declured it wan * Ler Abby,” On the anival of the Coroner, with 200 or 300 speetators from Anderson, the work of clesuing tho wall was resumed, and the decsying remaimy gathered up in a sheet and placed 1o a rude box near ay haud, Lho eight was horrible, and sick- cning Leyoud deseription, Tho body was nmdoe with~ thie” cxception of a shirt, and the flesh fell from ibo boncs nt the toucl. The froniteath wero knocked out, the lower Juw broken, and the right side of tho Lond mashed in. A halter was fastened wbout the neek, While the budy was belng tuken from the well, Mrs, Mawson wulked to tho houre, evidently sunermg intense an- guish, As aspectator appioached the houso, she nsked, *is tho person kuown 7 thou, vithout wailing for an answor, sho cou- tinued, *“if it is Albert, he ean bo identified by Jiis sight wrlst baving onco been dislocated.” Sho nlso desenbod a pair of rubber elastics, nsnd for Looping up his shirt- bleeves. On exumination it was found that the right hand had been cub off, but the siump showed marks of having been formerly lujurml. 'he elpstics wero on the arms, and auswered to Mrg, Muwwon's desceription oxactly, Whon tuken to see the body, sho said it wag * Lior Abby," but showed ltlo feoting. At the inquest, Dr. J. C. Cullan, after oxamin- iy the body, testilted that decomposition wos far advancod, tho rosult of long exposure to the water; that the wounds upon tbe head wers caused by two powotful blows with the pola of an ax or somethiug similar, boforo tho body bnd been thrown into the well; and that the ropo abunt tho neck had done no injury, but was ovidontly used simply to diug tho body to the woll, Tho mother, after enlarging upon tho virtues of Ler kon nnd‘the pleasunt manver in whicl they lived, stated that o bud lefe homo on the 17:h of Jduly Inet to avoid nrrest for basturdy by Miss I3mmis Lain 3 that the girl aud hor puronts ad threatened Lim with. provecution it he did not murry ber, aud In consequenco sho had pro- vided him with £148,50 with which to pot awny from thow, Whon Lo left he pald ho should offer the pirl $25 to compramire the mattor, but if sho rofured, ho would go to his bLrothor Thomne' in Henry County, aud that eho (his mothor) should Lol tho fulls tht ko Lad o to Clevoluud, or Natchez, or to hie father's folks in England ; thut he wns Inst soen at Luiu’s that meht, and she bolieved they had killed hiw. Bho did not remember whother “Thomas waa ut homo that nixht or not, but ¢he \vfim coptain hor sou-u-law aud daughtor wore thero, Jewwe Lain, tho father of Emmn, saya that M1, Mawson and her £on were constantiy quut- roling, und that tho Intter had often suid o bim that ho could not livo st home, Lhat on the evening of his disappearance he camo to hin (Lnin's) gote, told L dauglter ¥inma that ho was_goiug fo stay in town that night, us his mothor hnd rofused to allow him to romaw ut home, Aftorward, whon his fmmily wers i hed, he (Lain) heard o pistol shot toward Nawwon's houso, and supposed Albere had yottrned hurae from town aftak biy faverite bovsa Turk, Albert hed never beon intimato with bw daughter, nor Bad pny ono thieateued him or biicd tu forco him to marry Buuna. Mo bad Lened the report thot Blrs, M. was ciroulating, aud nd thought of prosoenting hoe for ehadet M, Lun aud iflmmn. corroborata:t Mr, Tinin's slatoments, Mry, Diewnon was tocen In charge by tho Bheriff soon after the discovery of tha body on Woduesduy, und confined in thio Stiliwall Ilouse, ler sou Thotes wer arrestod nt 2 o'clock Thurs- duy morning at his rosidenco in Luray, Honry County, 1o mnde sowo show of resistunco, threstening to whoot if thoy did not leavo hin liouss, Tho officors armed nevoral of tho ctizons und surrounded tho house, whon Mawson, opon- ing the door to apeak to ono of his neighbors, was selzod und handenffold, Boiug asked whoro the trunk of clothing wns sont to him by his mother, ho pointed out an old Luuk Elled with ragd. Further sonrel discovered anoiher ono, which contuined pants and vost corresponding to thoso which Mra. Muwson says Albort wore mway, Thomss admitted that theso wore Albort's olothes, Praviously, he had stated to womio of b nolghbora that Albort hiad gono to Logland, and for this roason hls mothor had dis- tnlmlusd him and glven him (Thomas) the praparlys Being brouglis lo this plsce, Thiomas " roy presiding. ‘Iho Judge admonisbed the fus w8 alao conidned in tho Stillwell Touso. Both mothor and son showed grent nveision to belug loft nlona, Mra, M. tricd {o ot ono of ths sorvaut girls to sloep with her, but without avail. Thomas wrapped the bod-tlotlios {ightly around his head. Doth sought pormission Lo burn their lamps dwing the night, which wag grantad them. William Albert Mawsen wns tho youngest clild of his mother, and, judging from his pho- Loraph, was a fair-looking, manly young follow, Tho noighbors eny **ho was tho Dest ong of tho lot," and nltogethior too good for o Mawson, No ong oo to erodit the mother's stoiles nifecting hor son’s and Bimmn Laln'scharactors, 8o (ar ns Imown tho gis] fs modest and vory pradent, Im- mn aud Albort wero friends, but the lallor paid her no particular attontions, sud she thought nothing of his ubsenco. Albort wau 17 yoars old in tho spring. Only oug ronson for young Mawson's murdor hay as yot beon agsigned, 1t Iy quite woll eatab- itshed thnt his nothor dooded him the homo- slond, and thus disinherited Thowas, who had ulwayy bors an uneuviablo ropuintion. This doubtless oxarparatod not only Lhomas, but his siator, Mra, lloppas, aud hor husband, aud by them the plan of putting Albert out of tho wu! was dovikod and oxeeutod, I'ho peoplo general- ly scom to bo of the opinion timt Mra. Mawson did not ald in taking the lifo of lior youngoest Loy, but was provailed npon by Thomas to be- como n silent partuer, Thore {8 really nothing upou whick to baso such an hypothoesls save tho nawral lovo o mothor munt, entertain for lor child, rud the fact thut Mre. Mawnson horeelf hns };El)fl; fustiumental in brivging the mucder to it El‘hu fact that tho body when found way cled m notking but o sbire and slesve elustics, and that tho wounds are contined to the right side of tho hend, s jnduced every one to Lellovo thnt kg waa struck while m bed " sleoping on his loft sido, Spots of blood on tho wails of his sloop- ing-room wtrongtben this thoory, AMis. Mawson snays thoro spols wero mado by the family ulpll- ting upon tho wall last winter whon thoy hud tho * epizootic,” but unfortunately for hor state~ ment tho bloud staibs and phlegm spots do uot rexomblo each other. The Mawson farm Los been known as “ mr- dorous_ground " for muny years, Light yoma since Milton Whito wes hung sl Anderson_for killmg o man named Ioppas, tho husband of Mra. Navon's oldes. daughter. The ciimo was cowmnmitted a fow feot from the spot where young Mawsou fs suppored to have reecived his doath- blows. ‘Tho srseafrus club with wineh_ Hoppas waa struck, I8 slill kept in this place. It 1s waid that Mrs, Mawson's husband confossed on hiy dentb-bed, komo threo years simco, that White was st the guilty party, White wainwuined Ins innocenca to tho lnst, Eight montis ago Mrs, Mawson's youngost dnughter killed ber illogitimate ofspring uear {hio snne farm-house. Sho left it for duad, but after the doparturae of its unnatural mother for Emu #till unkuown, the child’s crics wore hoard v A puaser-by, who took care of it until the lit- tle thing die l:iizm Lours lator, Muwson bim- self is snid to have dicd too suddenly for n naturul death. Two children by Ler tirst hus- band nro also thought to bave been niurdered for no other renson than that ebe hud them too fust. Many other similur ramors are afloat, ut thoy soem 1o ba without sutlicient foundation to bear ropenting at this time. {48 Lias Loon stated by telegraph, the Coro- ne’s Jury found that Albert Muwsob waw mur- dured by his mothor and lin Lrother Thomus. THE MOTHER COMMITS BUICIIE. crat Ispadeli to The Chicaga Frabime, AspERsos, Iud,, Oct, 20.—Nanoy Mawson, tho woman who has been contined in the jail in tlus city on thu'cbarge of boing an zecomplice i dbo mutdor of her kon Albory, whoso remning were found in an old well on her furm Wednesduy lust, committed suicido last night by taling poson, 'The kind of poirun iy not kudwn, but s supposed to bo areme or sirychnine, She way takon from tho jml to lier homo Saturday for the purpuse of getting soms clothing, aud is mupposed to bive bronght the poisou from humo, uud to hinve taken it about 4 o’clock in theevening. She died abont 1 1n the morning. A Coronor’s jury is now Lolding an inquest, unda poat-mortem oxamination it being wade, ‘The stomuel will he sout to Cincinnuti to bo nnalyzed betore the Jury can give s (rue verdict, “Jano Ilavpor, & doughtor of tho decoased, who was artestod Suturday, but afterwurds reloased, is now nt Lomo yuite sick. Mrs, Mavwon died without throwing any lighl upon the mystery in iho way of a confession. Tho Washington Sufc=TFurglnry Coscs Spectal Dispateh to The Clicayo . rivune, Wasnisaroy, D, 0., Oct. 26.—~The snfc-bur~ glary trinl was procoedod with to-day. Chief of Police Richnrds' oxaminution was concluded. His tostimony was very ctoar and dircet in dem- onstruting Iurrington’s connection with the conspiracy, but nothing now to the public was doveloped, It is reported thut the Ring, which eppoars to bo still n power hore, aro_dotormined fo lmve Richurds removed lecauso of tostimony mgninst them, but is not _ belioved that thoy succeed. It is alko siated that after tho tri iy concluded, Mr, Riddlo will take steps to i vestigate Marshal Sharpe’s conduct in summon- g o8 talesman only the friends and ereatures of the Hing, Exuctly what sort of u proceeding ho will institute for tuis purposo does nub yet ap- peur. [0 the Associated Fre WasuiNaTos, ¢, Oct. buiginry caso was resumed to-d , Judye umn 1ot to rend any newspaper durim the trigl. They must not tulkenp o nowspaporat all. Thoy must not allow any one to put mto their hands any printed oF Written paper, Maj. Richurds, Chief of Police, was recalled and oxumined by Mr, Riddle, Ho mwmd that Humington vomarked, nfior the urrest of the burglar, that the transnctions.thet nigint had not impheated Colnmbuy Alexander, sua ho desired that in giving the matler out to the papers nuo mention showld bo made of Lho amest ar Aloxander's house, but that they should bo informod that the arrest took placo in tho worthwost part of tho cily. When the roportors cniled thoy wore directod to Harrington for information. Harvington told witness he would Light up his olllca ou tho night of the 22d to protect it. Cross-exaniined by Davidge: When Tarring- ton told hum avout the mtended burglary, witnosy romarked, “Alexandor s in this thing,™ 1o did not rocoliect that Harrmgion repliod, Noj that ean't be, for no mun would have books doliverca to bitw in that manuer.” When ho mot Harrington at Harrington's honso, on the 234, he rommked to bim that probubly thore was nothing inat, und intimated ihat it was o soll. The Lurglars acted very boldly, as though they bolonged on tho premisos. 'Llie explosion did not Lying any one to_the spol, Iarmugton told witness that Lo liad, as prosecuting attornoy, a line of argu- nony to pursie in regard to this burglmy, and degited witness to act under g dircetions so {lint his ehiaiu of _ovidenco might bo comploto if tho catio cume holoro the coucts, Witnesu sworo that he would havo arrested tho burglars while at work in the ofitce If Hurriugton had not ob- Jected. His netion nbout srresting or in failing 1o urrost was governod entively by Mr. Haning- ton, William ¥. Leo, policeman, testifled thnt o was diracted’ by Maj, Richards to aid in watehing tho oflico of tho Distriet Attor- noy, and was placod in a position to watch tho rour of tho oflico, Hurrmgton and Tomn Bhep~ erd ecamo around once, and Harnngton cold wit. ness that some one wak goiug to break apoen hix ofiice, and he wauntod witness to ‘*pipe them oft.”” Harrivglon ehanzed tho position of wit- nesy, Maj. Juchards camo around, and asked witness why he did not rommin Whove bo hud beon posted, and witness replied that he hud chunged his position by dircetion of Hurrington, Othicr tostimony of au unimporiant oharactor was given, and tho Court adjon:ned, Tho LLody=Suntehir, had. Sneafal Dispateh to ‘Tie Chicago Tribune, Brysious, Ind, Oct, 25,—Ti0 stolon corpso which wan recuvered yosterday was buried again ta-day, the poople attonding on masse, It was ono of the most affecting funeraly ovor witnessod hore, Who ogcitomont rung bigh, and hundreds of peoplo are stending around upon tho ntrocts disenpring the aubject, It hus Loon necortained thut the wroteh ‘now in jail is & profossional body-snateher, and Lan been ongoged in the bus- inogs i1 this nolghbortwod for severel wooks, A Mr, Keleb, a facaior, lving in Jounings County, who hauled tho corpsa Irom this placo to lare donburg for shipment, aud who {uan seknowl- edyod accomylics, wagarra: to.l to-dny,a1d bionght inon the 9:40 tunin to-nlght, Lo was meb ot tho depot by hundreds of excited citizons, but no violonco wnn attompted, though the fecling s fully ns strong ngainst him as the protoshionnl, on weoount of hi engaging in tha business right at homo, as it woro, No violonco hus boon at- tompted oo oithier so far, but mauy pooplo fool that tho punishmont prosoribed by law is inade- quato Lo meat this cose, and s I}n_donu. ', aud somothing may yot Casont Seymonr, T'ho Joliet Firo-Tugs, Speciul Lisvateh to 1:e Chicaun Tridtine, Joraer, Oct, 20.—T'ho lon. Judgo McKiobarta hing insned o voulro for o spovis! Grand Jury to take into cousideration the casoy of the young fire-bugs, of which & full atstoment was glven In Buuday's Tninune, Young Johnson, who was arrested by Detovtive MoAuley at 061 Wesh Magd- I#on atroot in Chlunfio, will arrive haro to-night, It Is known that e Ins mado u full confension of hnving, with tho sid of 11i,—who Ia now in Jail,—cnusod the burning of a large amount of property In thia clty during tho last six montha. Tho ostlinate of tho properly deatroyed foots up gomao 230,000, With tho fooling™ that oxists amony tho citizens of this city at presont, nothing bt o Imnviw imprigoument will gatisfy them, should tho parties bo found guilty, Arrost in 8t. Lonisof the Woman Who Drugged and Robbed Mra, Clark A, N City. Special Diwputeh to The Chieago Trivune, 8, Lowms, Oct. 20.—Madamo Garduor, tha woman nccugod of an attompt to murder Mrw, Olark A, Minor, of No, 16 Union avenuo, Chica- go, wnA stroated {his morning at the Bouthorn Tiotol, aud taken by Dotoctive Bimmons to Chi- capo on the night oxpross, Bho admits the chargo of having glven ilio narcotic to tho wifo and child, nvd to tho robbery of the jewolry nud monoy. Sho was firat discovered by Dotectivo Tracy, of this city, in buying o Chicago papor, and the description ausworad Lo that given by the Chicago dotoctive. Bho was watched, and found to bo rogiutored at tho Bouthorn as Mrs, John Willlms, of New York City. Detoctivo Simmonn, of Chicago, nr- rived this attornoon, aud, identifying her, sho wans hmmedintely arrosted, Sho tells o romantio tnlo. 8ho says that she was raised in Allendalo, Tniefax Connty, Vo, and that whon she was anout 18 years old, whon lving with hor grand- mother and cousin, Clavk A, Minor, the husband of tho womni to whom sho administorad the norcotic, destroyed the grandmothor's home by firo and outrugeil the cousin, who was about the enmo ago a8 borseif: that she married twico hore, her firet husband dylng o month aftor her mwrioge with him, and that Lior socond lusband turned out to Lo a diksolute gconndrel ; that sho trav- clod muett, and wan two weoks ago umrlasod to nurko n ek woman, On gomg to the hotso she found that tho propriator wad no other than the man who had destroyed bLer grandmothor's home, and that, though sho botrayed the fact to him, she nurtured nrevonga which eho thought to appeads in the act of stealing tho jowelry,” Sha protosiy that sbe only usoed the narcotic ny n hielp to tha robbery, and not with tho intention of de- stroying lite, Whon captured she had bought thokoty for Alobile. Murder in Arkansase TarrLe Rock, Ark, Oct. 20.—A colored man named George Wasghington was found dead in Ly eabin, murdered, 5 milos nbove this city last evening, IIis bead had been crushed with o spade. Tho Coroucr to-dny held an inquest over tho body, and tho jury roturned a verdict that tho deed was committed by anothor colored mun nemed Pollund, who was arrested and lodged m jutl. A Passenger Train Assailed. Special Dispatch to The Chicans Tribune, * Oxana, Oot. 20.—A passenger from Now York, William L.Soule,publishes a statemont that tho oxpress train on tho Chicago, Burlinglon & Quincy Raillrond which left Bunlington Satur- day evening, coming west, was aseailed between New London aud Mouut DPlogesut, anbout 8 o'eloclk, by o vellgy of stones, which smashed threo Pullnan coacflwindows. A pistol was also fired into tho passongor car. No passengers wore injured. Verdict in the Lepine Trinl at Fort Gurey. 87, Pavn, Minn, Oct. 26.—Tho Fort Garry apeelal to tho Press gives tho conclusionof tho Topine trial. Aftor the charge of Judgo Wood, which was unmistikubly agaiust Lopine, the Jury to-night returaed a vordict of guilty, with o recommendation to merev. ‘e charge wus, “yecenrory to tho murder of Scott by Riol's Govornment, in 1870.” 1Crime 1n Kentuelkys Toumsving, Ky, Oct. 26.—A suvecial to the Courier-Journal gives an account of & bloody outrage in Stolby County on Saturday night last. A band of mashed men visitod & religions meet- ing that wpight, but did no violonco beyond lultivg soveral parties as thoy came out of the clurch., Afterwards thoy went to tho louso of Thomas Ford, white, whera they whipped throo negroes, nud threatenod Mr, Uord with the eame treatment unless Lo dis- cherged the nogroes employed by bim, From TFord’s tho party wont to tho houso of n negro named Barrington, and called for nm to come outside. When he refused to do so, thov flred into the hiouso, ono ball striking & dunghter of Baveington, 16 youra old, who was sleepiug on tho floor, putting ont hor cyo sand Lurying iself in ber shouldor. Two of tho band then broke tho door, aud after eursing Darriugton, rode off. At Inst accounts the wounded girl way still liv- iz, but in o precorious condition. It ig probuble that Goy. Leslio will take Inuediato stops to capture and bring to justico tuo murderous wratehos, LoutsvinLe, Ky., Oct. 26.—A special to the Courier veports a tatal shooting ailray botweon two woll-known etizens in Myer County, Kou- tucky. Dr. W. A, Eustland and Frederick Nor-~ ris hwve farmns adjolning, aud this morning s party of surveyors wero at worl fixing tho bou dary-Jiue, nbout which thore has boen n long dit puto. Norris and Lastland met while tho sur- vovors wora at wark and engaged in a disputo, which finally onded in blows. Eestland struck Norris with a syitch, and both partios dmw‘i)!u» tols. Eastiand was shot five timos, and died soon aftor. Norris way twice wounded. A Hozus Philanthropist in Trouble. Prrrspunc, Oct. 26.—Dr, William Parker, of Connellaville, Pa,, was srrastod to-duy at Con- vellsville by Mr. Isanc Myers, Spocial Awont of {ho Post-Oflico Dapartment, and imprisonod hero on o charge of using tho Unitod States Post- Ofico establishment for tho purpose of defrauding certain porsons in London, England, out of . sums of money. Hig neliemo was to write to wealthy pooplo in Enplend, tolling thom that their relatives wero heve in {udigent circumstances, and that ho cither had or way taking cure of them, nud re- questing monoy for the services, Eight letters hinvo boon interceptod, one of which is sigued ““Mr. Hosth, membor of the British Parlia- mont," and another sigeed “Walier D. Wal- ton," Murdered and Robbed, Xeata, 0., Oct. 26,—Himon Woll, u man aged 48 yenvs, was found by tho rondside Sunday morning, 8 milea from Byron, with a piatol-shob in the templo. Ho wag unconscious and died Sunday ovoning. Hiu gold watch and pockot- ook swere gone, and it s supposed ho was klled Dy u sbrangor, in whose company ho was soen before dark. o was from Porro Haute, Ind, Want Erightoned the PRysonzors, A Miswicalppi paper rolutes that, wheu tho ro- sult of tho lueal eloction in Corintl, that State, way made Luown, the Demootats woro lmost wild with joy ovor their victory: Lonfires wero Jighied in'tho atrcets, and the boom of eannon mude tho Inlls roverberate for miles around. When tho rovalry wnsat its hight, tho wast- bound train on the Aomphia & Charleston Railrond approsched, and the glare from bontires und sound of tho guus inspired all on the tran with tho {doa that n torriblo sight and conflagr~ tiou woro progresuing, 'I'ho traln wis sluckenod to u suail paco, while the conductor with his fan- torn walked on ahoad, und whon the cars reachod the depot it was found that evory passonger who had tho tomenty to approach’ tho town, lad sprawled himeolf upon the floor of tho cars, in tho Imru of thiy nuBAEiI)g tho bullots aud grapo shot of the supposed bolligoronty X 3 Dr, Lunier, Iuspeotor-General of the TFrench Lunacy Dopartmont, vays tho Iritish Medical dowrnal, bus recently publivhed tho rosults he ling obtnined Irow eareful study of all the stu- tistienl documeonts ho haa heon ablo to collet on mmuui; in Franco dunng tho years from 1660 (o 1872, Moy arvived st tho conclusion thab although during that trylag period for Lrench- men from 18,000 to 14,000 cases of montsl dla- caso wers rogistered, you tho nimbor of patients confined i privato Junatio neylums was mucl below the average, A similar fiot was obsorvod in 1848, which, takion i conncotion with tho stato of things observed by Dr. Lunior, wonld make it appear thut Yu)\llcal or_social crises, inatead of, us ia genorally Imagined, augmontivg %hx? nl‘:.mb“ of “{ueauo porsons, really dimine shoy — A distingulehod ofergyman, Dr. ITawes, used | “to uny that hiv stylo of Ymncllhlg way moulded by tho ¢riticlsin of Dr, Emmons on a siuglo ser- won, Dr. Huwes read & JRnar to his tutor ox« uberant with rhotorio, ' Jool," sald tho Hn:r, T kopb sohool onco. Whon I punlshed the wl I always utripped the loaves off (he rod"— witg eu linegionty rod thirough the fingers, WASHINGTON. The Supreme Court Refuse to Advance the Granger Cases, Vice-President Wilson Suubbed by . the President Slow Sale of the New 6 Per Cont Bonds, * Proposed Reduction of Force in the Bureau of Printing. Sneeial Dispateh to The Chieano Tridune, ‘Wasiminaroy, D. O., Oct. 20.—Tho threatoned dischargo of employod of the Bureau of Engrav- ing nnd Priutiog has beon postponad till tho ne- sombling of Congress. About onc-baif of tha wholo numbor to go could be divcharged on tho 16t prox., but it s bolioved that, if thay aro con- tinued ono month, Congreas will como to the rosoue in on way or other. TITE FIVE-PER-OENTE. Bearcoly n weok has olapsed since the an- nouncemont was made with a flourish of trum- pols by Administration organs that tho negotiations of our & por cont bonds by the now European Syndicate wero progressing very favorably and sabistactorily, nud that the Treasury Dopartmont had ndvices indicating that the Syndieate vould, prior to the oxpiration of the timg allowed. Fob. 1 next, sig- nify its purpose and rondiness to subscribo for tlie remeinder of the bonds of the above charac- ter. Now it Is given out that thoro is no immne- dinte prospect of negohwnting tho remainder of the mnow loan, but it is edded that tho Secretary of the “T'reasury is, however, hope- fut that it whli ultimately be s Succosatul aa can be desived, His urrangoments with the present Hyndicato, by which 846,000,000 6-por-conts woro subseribed at the most rensonablo Pricos ob- toined for our Governmont bonds, is spoken of astho ouly nct of real publio lmportunco thut hes been performed by the now Becrotury, from whom so much was promised, [0 the Aawciuted Prese) TEXAN APPOINTMENTS, ‘WasuixNaros, Oct, 26.—The Secrotary of tha Tronsury to-dny appomted Gon. I. G. Shiolds Collector of Oustoms at tho port of Galvestod. Ho was formorly a momber of Congross from Alabama, was & Uniou man dunng the War, und ropresented tho country un Minister nt ong of the South American Ropublics. o elso ap- pointed idge Paschal Coltector of Customs atb Corpus Chrigtie, Tax. He is n son of Judge Paschal, And also Wesley Ogden, Collector of Customs at Indianola, 1Io way lately Judge of the Bupremo Court in Woxas, Col. Hayhos, tho Collector at Brownsville, iu to borotamed, Gou, Malloy is sppointed Collector of Intorual Hovonue fortho Jofforson District. o wont to Texps during the late War from one of tho North- western Stutes, Robert I, Campbell is mado Collector of Internal Rovenue for the Western District, o i8 an old citizen. Tho other two districta have been consohduted, Sadler rotiring, and Bk, Clur_rotaining tho oflice of Collector. ‘I'hus all the Treasury officors, except one Col- foctor of Qustoms nud oue Collector of Intornal Rovenue, in Pexas have boon removed. Nono of the above-nataed appointees applied for the plnces, They nre reprosonted to b men of ox- lu]olll.gub private churacler and good busivess bita, The President to-day appointed Thomas I, Seanlon Tostnaster at llouston, Tex., vico J. E. Whittlesey, susponded uuder the Temure-of- Ofico act, and C. B, Sabiis, Postiastor at Gal- veston, ‘Yox., vico A, . Ifall, susponded. Post- nmster-General Jowell sayn these two suspondod Postwnatara ara tho ouly oflicers in Loxas uuder his Department ngaiust whom vublic opinion soems to rovolt, and that no other changes aro now contowplated by bim in that State. TMEVENUE APPOINTIMENTS, John Gordan Loe has been_appointed Gauger of the fevonth District of Inthana; Jolin Vin Note, Storekeoper of the Third District of Ohio ; Jotn A, Bmrie, Storokeaper of tho Fourth Dis~ trict of Indians, TUE GRANOER CASES, The Suprome Court to-day dealed the motion toadvance the Granger cases. ‘Ihis_doctsion will put over tho flisk cnso a8 fur oy Mavch or Aprit next. VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON was liore to-tny, and ealled at tho White Houso, bue did uot soe the _Presidout, a8 the latlor wes busy at tho time, Ar. Wilson loft to-night for the North, PROGRESS IN TURREY. The Reforms That Have Changed the Face of EIxlunuivn,. From the New York Times, TRecont accounts from Coustauilnopl con- voyed by the Vienna Frce Iress, say that the Sultau in council—for tho Subiime Porto g now got & Council of Siate—is about to establish tho succession of tho throne in tho eldest sons of tha padishaks, This in auother of thoso chavpes by which the Osmanlis have been tryiug to ‘adjust thomselves to the march ot tho wmilitury governments about {bom, and hold thoir” magoiticont seat on the Bos- phorus, In their elforts to this ond tho "Turks, in a gave, quict havo proved themselves to bo more sffective r formera than the fiery Lranks, or nny other peo- plo, whilo their Sultans, wisely recognizing tho need and spirit of the nge, Lave shown thoir wroat superiority over tho othor crowned lieads of Luropo. For while the Boirbons, the Haps- burge, tho Hohenzollerns, tho Guolphs, and the reat have boon augrily struggling Lo keep things on the old fuotiugs, the Khaus tor the lust sov- euty years have boon the vory foremost in carry~ ing out, often with a high and Lloudy baud, all aorts of_roforms in their monarchy. "They scom resolved to falsify tho proverb that Turkey in Touropo iy but an ** oneampnient of Orientals on the wrong sido of tho stiright. These Lurks (who nover assumo the namo of Turk, since in tho Xast it significs rabbar) first camo across tho Dardavelles, about 600 years ago, swarming sud sottling ue Adrinnoplo, which thoy made their capital. A contury lutor, dlo- hammed 1L stormed tho lust fortrews of the Greok Emporor, ontered the city over the doad body- of Coustuntive Datvologons (1158), and turnod Constantinople into Istamboul. “In athor hundred years from that duto, tho Turkish Empiro of Solyman tho Mugnilleent was ac ity lLigheot and broadost, welnding somo forty oya- lots or provinees, with ruling Dushes, and four othors which wero tributary, TFrow the time of Amiath gm) tho ‘Lurks made no more con- quedts ; but ‘they maluteined ahmost per- potul war on and around thy Danube, agningt Austrinug, Toles, Tun- guriwns, aud Russinus, coping alko with the Venotians ne tea, To the fancy of all Buropoans ab hat tire, tho rogion of the Datmbe and fos- phorus was the laud of sdventurous horolem aud romuntio war, and all Princes and men of obiv- alry vogurdod o campanign against the Ottomsns uy tho groat duty or glory of thoir lives. Tho Eastorn Quesiion” was thon far moro oxclting and pooticul than it has boon in our duy, thou ofi it can utill hold out, on occavion, wouia of the gravost menucos and porilous chanees of modern warfare, us ovorybody is aware, At last the seieuce of tho Wost told docisively in the strug- glo, when artillory practico begau to roplaco the prowess of the cavalry onsois with Junce snd seitnetar; and, at the closo of tha saventoonth contury, tho Troaty of Carlowitz (1685) doprived the Turks of flungary and Travsylvania, and othorwise showod that tholr viotorious days weroe at an ond, With Lho eightconth contury grew the spocial controvorsy uf tha Lurky with tho Ruswians, thoso somi-Tartars of tho Northwest, who then took up tha rolo of overraunern, which tho Ot~ tomuus could no longor pluy, From tho days of Dotor tho Groat, the Czars kopt their eyes on Copstuntinople, When Cuthoripu II had seized tho Criman, bor people dug up from some of tho ruius of the a;lucu tho etone of u brolien arche way boaring the inscription, ©F'hiy iy tho zond to Coustantmople,” ‘Lhis tool Lor faney grout- ly, and eho doularod thero wan un omou in it \Whon, in 1787, sho met tho Fpotor Josoph ou tho Black Sogm, tho pair discussed tho partition of Tutkey, Poland havivg alvondy boon parti- tioned, *“ But who ia to huve Constantiuople #" #aoid tho Gorman, gravely, Catherino, smiling, put the quostion by—a quostion her grandsou, 1cholao, tried to answor fn 1855 whon ho wont for what ho called * the kay of his ouso.” Ab tho closo of tho eightoonth contury the Tarkish Sultana began to soo that they conld no longer afford to stund aloot from tho madern progreas of things, and Sellm IIT. undortaok to roform and conform, begluning with wine-arink- ing. 1o oncosaid that, If ho wore to chango his roligion, he would bo s Uatholio, soeing that all the beat winod came fram Oatholio countries, Dut his st stop wad not the only diftioulty, Whlen he bagsn to rogulsto tha army afier the Eutopsan miodals, Lie Junlzaries protsatad vio- luntl{l, and, for the roat, tho ulomas doclared that lio was abont to turn Islam upside down. o result was, that ho wes murdored in hiy lmh\:o. in 1807, and bis brothor Mustapha, who ind holpod to got rid of him, took his placo, T'hon camo anothor brother, Mahmoud, who put Mustaphin and Mustaphin's young-son to denth, and beeamo Bultan in turn, Thua rulor was now the only living sclon of the line of Osman, snd soon Loenmo one of the sterucsk and most sin- gular roformors of his ago. Mnhmoud hogan his work in 1808, ldnp"nf L3 numler of Wostern convenionces, n{ulng at his meals, using a knifo and fork, and drinking wino and braudy ko a good Christinn. Ha lind to contend agaiust & nambor of enomlos, Crorny Uoorgo roro ngaiust him in Horyls, as did All Pusha in Albanin, 5 mun whoso picture hnngs furover in tho portrait gallory of * Childe Iar~ old,” while Mohomet All begnn his porsistont work of dragging Eyrypt from *hor anciont moor- Ings, Thon camo thio rebollion of the Hellenes, with Dotznris, Norman, Mavrocordato, and tho modern * Greak-fire" 'of Cnunriy, renowned in ho wbip-fighting of the Zgeon and the lyria vorse of Victor Ilugo. Meantime tha womst enewlos of Mabmoud monnced him in Conatan- tuoplo itsolf. These woro tho Janizaries, who would not havo tho army roform, but would bave tho Sultan's hend, it possiblo, He thou (1800) resolved to gat rid of his Prvtorians, and whou 80,000 of thiem marched mutlnously into the troots, ho ordered out 50,000 woll-instructad soldiors, with n park of artillory, covered tho walls with an_appropriato exhortation from tho Korau, and ordered & goneral atlnck upon tho robels,Before night-fal tho astomshied City of Constantiiople saw 10,000 of thom lying dead in tho streots and squares, nnd tho rest sentored itke chaft bofaro tho wind. Tho ordorof Janiza- rion that had oxisted for G0D yeurs was at an ond, aud the gront reformer breathed o Mttlo moro Iruoty, thoungh his satisfaction wad soon dimin- ishied by tho naval battlo of Navarino, in 1827, and the destruction of his fleet by the English, Froncl, and Russiane. After this “untoward ovent,” as the Dulke of Wollington tormod it, camo the loss of Groeco, by liberution, though it was, in_truth, rathera gmn for tho Sultan, mneo it relioved him from a world of trouble, and lofe bim loss obstructed in hip roforms. Ho bogan with Constantinople, making & number of changes. Ilo had the army of prowling dogs caught up from tho streows and slaughterod, Now York neyor saw such a batfue, Ho ordored all tho ofticial Ormanlia to sit ot meals, aud use kuivos aod forks—allowing tho wlemas to sit crosg-leggod and eat from their flugium. sinco tho Koran had no mention of forks, Ifo had his portrait taken, in spito of the Oriental dislilre of all shapes, images, and piotures, Ho ostablished & school of anntemy, aud had dead bodies dis- sected, to the seandel and borror of all plous Mussulmans, Ho went furthor, and ordered, in 1831, a Turkish newsvaper for Coustautiuoplo, edited by a Turco-Frauk—an astounding httle shoot enlled the Taakvimi Veekai, or Toller of Eyonts. Tho Turks ojaculstod Allab ‘and Bis- millal, and hold off of first, but ju a weelt thoy wera calling for the Taakvimi at all the coffeo- houses, Many other reforms accompanied theso, Mabmond nssertime, like a trio king of men, that tho mnss of o people should riways bo lod and $iught by thoso more intoligout thoa thour HO.VeH, Mahmoud died in 1889, and was succoeded by Dk twonty-nret child, Abdut Medjid, nged 17, o mild sud” sowewbat saturnine youth, who con- tinyed to carry out the Tanzimal or roform of big grapdfather and father, 1lis roign is renowo- ed for thn Hatte-Cherif of Gulliane—the grand do well 0 Juurn, st s 1uny Ty, alno learn that tho Orientnly, instend of o g stupld and sluggish, are quicker thau thom- solves, Witness tho changrs in Japan, nluo, whoro, a8 in Turkoy, the tulora aud men of ine tollizanco aro the qmml radical roformers of the age, Tous, in thls country, it Is intoresting to notico that :ho Turkinh Governmont fs singuiar- 1y domooratle, T'he Sultaus have nll Loow sons of aommon womon~—Circasslan, 8yrian, or Goor- glan—and the Mmlstors, Pashns, and Viziors of tha Emvire hnve heon, s n plonurul rila, takan from tho miw of tha poople, nnd choson for thair fitnoss and alilitios, From this, Ao, the gront Wostorns will hinve somothing to loari. But 1t is not unlikoly that in somo thinus the Sultang wlill imitato ‘tho royal fasblong of tha Wast, Thoy mny look for Princessas, instoad of importing possant maidons from the Caucasuy, nnd thus bo led to abolikh tho viclous Inetitution of the zenana. In 1869 tho bonutiful Emprons of tho Feringees and hor bovy of bonutios illu- minuted tho waters and palaces of tho Boe- Ivhunm with their presonce, nnd this visit must invo givon tho young sony of Abdul Modjid and Abilu | Assiz somo notions of Quaculy digzuity and tho open graco and splondor of s ¥uro- poan Conrt conu\mrml with tho dull obsourity of the harem. Constantinoplo may yot havo ity Funpress, as of old, Tho aldest son and heir apparont of Abdul Assiz is Youssouf Izod Doen, o youth of 17, who, mutead of buing kept in vo- quogteation, hag ot tho nctlvo training of o sole dier, nud i now the Air-alai, or Colonol, of oua of the Niznm regimonts, ‘Lhis young man may demand and obtain tho haudof ‘n F'rincoss, sinco thoro nre somo ladias wha would probnbly dara the vonture. Aldul Assiz hes two othor souw, named Mohemot Sulim, born in 1866, Abdul Med- jid, born in 1868, aud o danghtor, Salilo, Upto the yrunem yoar, Mehemet Murad, the cldest son of tho lata Abdul dedfid, way looked on ag tho herr-apparent, Buk the’ propesed law of succosyion would set lumaod his Lrothers auldo for thelr consin Youssouf, the Colouol, XIf Mohomot, now 31 yonrs oid, rosombles bin wenk and sickly . father, Lio 1a probably unfit to control the destinics of Turkev mits stato of transition ; and it i gonorally belioved that tho u?r order of successton will ot him nsido, and sleuro the throno for & mora onurgotic Princo, Binco the abovo waa writton comos via Yionna toe intolligence that Abdul Asniz, instend of bo- ginning tho wnow order of succossion with his own son, tha Mir-Alni, has boen induced, under foroign 'persuusion, Lo rocognizo hi uopliow, Mehomet Murad, as the bolr apparent. Abdul’s next greot teasuro atiould be a reform iu the ** harem," an Orinntal Lot-bed of dobilits, from which his family hos suffored, and ho himsglf Is apparently suffering at presont, sinco it~ hag been anuounced that hiy health is in & fooble condition. Ho must abolish tho harem, or tha baromn will abolish the race of Osman. Looking for Charlic Ross, 7o the St, Paul Poneer, Oue of our morchants stovpod out of b placa of busiuosy tho othor day in Brainerd into the warchouse to got o customer o picco of pork, ‘When he dodged back into the store with hig ment bo discovered tho customer occupying an unusually awkward relation to fiis monoy-drawor, and yolled out, *‘Isay, what aro you doing around thore ?" The cites_kind of dug out from behind that counter, aud, s ho assumed tho propor location fora customer to occupy in an- othor man's Htore,—on tho south sidoof tho counter,—ho stammered out, ** Ob, I was just— ahom !~I went around thoro to—~ahom f—way just—T thought—Iwas just looking around thero roform bill of tho maunwn{. propared by Red- gehid J'asha aud other ministers of Mubmoud, o schiemo of reconstruction pumn[iz all claswos and eroods on an aquality boforo the Jaw, and abolisli- ing n swarm of abuses in every brauch of admin- intration, Tho whole wns modoled after the French ideas of Louils Philippe’s Goverument, Iu 1861, after s quiet reforming reign of twenty- two yoors, Abdul Meujid _died, agod 39, leaving soven sons aud two daughtors, aud moking way for hig brothor, tho presont soversign, Abdut Aemz, the thirty-second Sultan of his lino,wus brought to tho throuo from “scclusion,” or what 18 translated **tho cage" by Westorn writors, who genorally, for Liatoria offact, haye takon the must pieturesyue moantng of the Turk- ish word, as 1ntho case of Bujnzot nud othors, "ho now rulor had lived a very quiot lifo, nud stored his mind with the knowlodge of things in goneral, being at thie same timo an amateur agii- aulturist, like the Bnglish Princo Albort, Hoalso recognized the necessity of waking his Oriontals a8 much liko Westerns s possible, and wus ausisted, or ruthor guided, In bis views by bistwo ublo Ministors, Aati Pasha and Omer Pashis, mon whoso aoath in 1871 wns & gront loss to their conntry. Ho and they orderod the conflseation of the Blosque property i 1865, securing at the same timo about 80 per ceut of the proceeds of tho salo to tho ulomas and the other religionists, who, uevertheloss, doclared thst tho sun of Telun was now set forover. In 1867 Abdul Assiz ageravated their dejection by traveling nway to tho Wost, where ho visited his pood sister the Queen of Eugland and the Bm- peror of Yrance, aftor which ho entored the City of Vicunn—more succosstul in this tban AMo- hammed 1V., who tried to gat into it in 16, auainst the wishes of John Sobieski, Tho Su tan way everywhore received with o grand wol come, and ke carried homo with bim a number of now 1doas. Ono of theso was u Couuncil of Stato to replace the sleopy Divan of other days. Thia Council is now composed of forty membors, twenty-soven of whom aro Mussulmans, tho rost betng Groeks, Catholics, Jews, Armonians, and Druses—an example of wiso toleration imitated by 1o other monarch in the world. At the samo time, Daud Pasha, 8 Catholie, was mado alinister ol Lublie Works, aud Nassi Pasha, anotbor Cath- olie, appointed Govarnor of ihe Lebanon. In thQ. tho first ** Red Book " was publishiod by the Governmont, oxplaining thae entire Crotan ques- tion for the general benefit. Among tho most important of theso changos must Lo reckonod that of the succeseion, men- tionod atioya, ‘This will toud to provent any of the palace tragedies which Luve wonkeued the monarchy in many ways, One upon a time, that prisclplo of tanistry,” as it was eallod in tho West, waslogical onougl, since it meant the choice of tho worthiest, the airong swords- man of tho family, boest fitted to lold his place and that of his nation lu the rough business of tho world, Among tho Turks, thero was no thonghtof Lreking tho sacred Iino of Ogman, but it was nocossary thiat tho ablest manof that family should stand firat, the woallings being put nsido for tho genernl good. Tho Sultans wero necordingly in tho habit of caging or liil- ing thewr troublesome brolhors, sustained by the Koran, which says that anarchy is worso “than oxaention, and that the Bultan sbould be os much like God ag poesiblo—that is, without o r1- val, This wun also justitied in tho Knnunnama, or Codo of tho Monarehy, and, asa goneral rulo, a corountion was nccompauied by strangulation, managed by tho Janizorics. Mahmoud, fathor of Abdul Medjid—to go na furthor back than 1807—had hiy brotlier, Mustapba, and Mustapha's littlo gon, put to death. 1o went furthor, aud ordered four of his brother's sulianus to bo atrangled in their cashmero abawls, to provent any future tronble with his possible nephows. This was tho prologue of hia rerolute and re forming reign, which onded in 1839, Binco that timo tha closor intimacy of the Vorto with the other Courts of Buropo has tonded to soften, us well as to securo, tho conditiony of the Turkish Monnrehy, rud neither Abdul Medjid nor Abdul Angiz found it necessury to bow-string any near rolutions on coming to the throne. Turkoy, with its aron or 1,900,000 squaro miles, 1 n country woll worth 1otorming, Of courso, & good deal of that ground isin n wil- dormess condition, and Egypt, Ronmenia, Sore via, and Moutenegro aro virtually independout, But it is #t1ll an Imporial boritage and **a grent fact.” Nichols I, told Mottornich in 1831 that it wos s *‘sick man,"—a kind of Tartar mota~ phor which ho scomad to love, for ho used it again nearly a quarter of a century Inter. Many weroe of his opiuion, snd many aro so still, I'hey argua that there is somotlung in Islamism which mukes it unflt to shura tho Luropean progross of soctely. No doubt the simplo Uni- taviunism of the Turks, o like thut of the Jews, 1u ropulsive to the Trinitarinus of the Woat, who, uu tho same timo loving ull the geuial traditions of wmwong drink, caunot like tho morals of o tomporanco society which thoso Orlontals carry slong with thom, But time romoves many dificulties, and may diminish thoso nlso. At the wamo time it will bo admitted that the Turks are roally a fing ouple, of tho Caucasisn order, & munly aud tonest raco, a8 wo aro asaured by those who koow thom. It will bo onough to stato that Lord Byron doclared them a much batter poaple (han bis own Grocka. The Turks are en!:onmlly tolorunt in 1-el|f.loun mattors, looking with gravo contampt on {he squabblivgs and 1ituahsms of tho Grooks, Cathiolics, and Arinenians of tho Bast, And, Indend, 1t is from this toloration on thoir part hut wo can eatlnate thoir prospect of holding their supremncy on tho Bosplorus, Without it, tholr eatso woiild Lo a desporato ono, T'ho 44,000,000 of Turkieh subjeots ‘include Ottomnns, Grooks, Armeninn, Selavonlang, Jows, Koumpna, Tar- tars, Avabs, Kurds, Turkomsus, and Drusos, with theiy differing roligions soots—things which hiuvo atways beon tho niost irntablo aud disus- trous olomonty of hnwan socioty, Dut tho Lurky bayo loarnod how to menego them, Ens gland has but one discordant or dillicult soot to reguialo—the Iilah Cothioliv,—aud is kopt in coutinnal ot water by tho samo, With tho Bultan's many seotarians to manago, that civilized nation would pruhbl{ go mud out~ rlght, The calmer Oriontala of the Bospliorous aré otherwlss minded, and in thls u;ui are foaching & lesson Wosterns woul to—ahem |—I thought maybe littie Charlic osy was in under the counter, like " —— 'The tloosnc Tunnel. It {a now certain that the Ifoosac Tunnel and its approaches ennvot Lo made roady for an H opmuufi " by Noy, 1. ‘fliers ig o delay nbhout ouo of the weat-cud bridges, which will' not bo put up ad specified, and koneo the whole work is hindored. No arrangementa bavo yet beon mudo for the formal running of the tirat trmn mruugh tho mountain, & mattor which will bo docided by tho Governor and Council, with the advico of tha Board of Corporntors. Tho tunnel nrchln§ con- tract has finally been awarded o Barnoy N, Far« ron, of Greontietd, and will be begun at'once. It ‘will probably take about a yoar tu complete the worlt, Al the brick will be mado at tho bricks yard wost of tho tunnel. —_— Lighining-¥ods Stolen. A cool sud dming robbory was commited in Bonton Tuesday afternoon by a man who drove upinawagon to the Public Library Buildmg, and, mounting to the roof of the extension, on which ‘workmon woro busily engaged, borrowed & ham- mer aud o chisel, with which Lo doliberately pro- egoded to Tomouyo the copper lghtning-rods from the building. In this work ho was onguged for soveral hours, no one snspecting but that ho wag activg undor orders from tho proper nuikority. After loading his wagon ho drova nway, and the aity will have to put up uow lightning-rods. Experionced Among Liwless Charncs ters, There is a_belligarent persons in London who wants somobody to tread ou tho tuil of Lia cout. Ho thus ndvertises in tha Zimes: ** Yo Landad Proprietors aud Others—A gentloman, nged 33, desives an_appolutment in somo disturbed dis- trict in Irofand, Iolds now two Colonial ap- pointments of value, but would prefer to romain 1u Groab Brituln, 1fas had fiftcon years' oxpo« rienco amoug lawless characiers. lleferences aud geouricy can bo given. Address, ete.” —A CGeneseo County man, says tho Dotroit Free Press, who wantod to o out on tho train Yonterdny, but_missed it, wolked up and down tho dopot in o hikh stato of excitoment, borating Damsoll and ovory one etso, ' 1 know just what my wifo will say!™ he exclaimod, as he wallted up and down. * Whou that train ' gits thar and #lie don't 8eo o, sho'll mit right up and jump over chairs, and smash erockery, and swoar that I'm off ou nuother drunk!” —A poor vagrant was sbout belng condemned to tmprisonment for thut o had no *visible menug of support.” Wikiblo!" cried tho as- tomshed defondant, a8 ko pulled from his pock- oty o goction of moldy snusago und a Lard old, crust of bread: * Wisiblo! Judge, alw's them wisible?"” 10ES, Cured. SOHENCK'S PULMOXNIC SIRUP, SOHENCI'S SEA-WKED TONIO, SGHENCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS, Aro the only medicinos that will curo Pulmonary Cone aumption. Irequontly modicines that will stopa cough will oocar slon tho denth of tho pationt ; they logk up the lser, stop tho clrcalation of tho blood, homorrhage fullows, and fu fact, thoy cloic tho sotfon of tho vary urgans that causod tho cought, Livor Complatnt and Dyapopsia aro tho cauos of two- thitda tho'cants o Coniuptiva,” Many porsons come plifn of o Wl pain in fho xS, constipation, Sostod tonguo,. pain in 'tho shoulder.Mado, foellngs of drowsl- B, wid estlssnusar i food islug neavlly bn tho tom: ach, accompanted with acidity and belehing up of wiad. T Blons uaually oriiiiato frum & disordorod aondition of tho stamach or a torpid lisor, Pursons o ailactod, if oy take onu ar 1w loary colds, and f 1o couzl bu theso easos ba auddoniy ohecked, will tind tho stomach and lirer ologged, remaiuing torpid and funutive, and alinost befura thoy aro awara thi lungs aro & s o horor, anl Wloerated, L0 reaIL of wikol 1y doath. ‘Bohioack's Putinoulc Sirop ls an axpectarant which oot notcunialn wolum or aiytaing oxloulatod fo'aiook & only, S Wand Tanlo dimalvan the food, rat e ulues of tho wtomacl, alds Glgestioa; snd ks OO dpputite. Waion 1ho buwols are epstlve, skin salloty, or the symp- taue ioesiss of & Willuus tendoney, Sehuaokls deako Pills are required. “Pauso modiclued aro propnred anly by i1, SUIERCR & SOY, N, 15, corer Sixth and A And afo for suly b ] Talladelphia. LACE G 00DS, A Special Importation! FIELD, LEITER & CO. 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