Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1874, Page 8

WASHINGTON. Movements of Cabinot-Officers--~The Ponding Eleotions, A Talk with Garfleld.--His Recent Canvass. Work on the *Capitol---Condition of the South. Affairs in Virginia and North Car- olina. From Qur Oren Correspondent. WasitsNoTOS, Oct. 26, 1874, The Prosident camo lowmo day bofore yester- day, Liaving added anofher sumumer of abaontoe- {sm and distroes to this aflicted Capital-tows Yhat {s before it, with a short scssion of thrvo oonths, and tho desortion of thoe exoculive ofil cors in goneral, lns hecomon & matter of stavding anxiety. Now Yorl, in ovary social respect, in the Capital of the country under President Grant. NOVEIUNTH, M. Robeson ling heon absent fully six monthe, 1aying pipe in New Jersoy for his ofection to the Senato. Tho Secretary of War hiaa bocn Homo- what more steadfsat, having prospects for a Princedmporial of hia own, i dcar nophor, Honry Clews, has lost lia namo in » Inbyrinth of Sunncis) complieation. Tha.Attor- ney-Goneral, whoso residenso horo would finve proved a good invostment to the nation, dld not his presence facilitnto all mausner of moddliag in tho South, s boen genorally st his ofticoduring tho sutumn. Tho now Postinaster~ Gonéral, Jawell, took his noat with decision ; but 1t & looked upon an ruther unpromisiug for bls fame that tho first notable contract hn had to giva out was conferred upon thoe City of Hart- ford, whore ho residey. This was for postal en- wolopen ond wrappers, It was given to oma ‘Plimpton, » relinblo man, who was bucked np by Batterson, tho quarryman and monument-build- or. No doubl it wil bo woll done, but at the wagrifico of & vast amount of ruachineryand labor alrosdy cofectod in Neow York City, and also by tavoring Mr. Jewells townemsn with an estengion of time o got ready, I thivk too uch nolse it rade over fhese slight matteras but it ia not good for the roputation of n new Cahinot-oficer to divort business, immodiately on hia accession, to a lo- cality which might hetp olect kim to the United Btates Sonate. Tho Beoretary of the Treasury has fouud out tiat to reform the Treaaury I8 & good deal more work than Hercules nndertaok,—not being n work of main strength, but of * stick.” Btill, hokoops at hia post, which In half of diecipline, and the smployes are beiug rediced in nusmber. Admin- 1stration is apt tn he better ordered whon loast exciting, or, as Hugh Logare said to Gen, Le- bean, when reprosched withtha progsic character of the United Statea: ‘I tell him all happiness iid order are necessarily prossic.” This Cabinos hing no husinoss to ba nnduly con- gerned i elections; but peoplo note that it is wot & good Cabinet to bold the Siates Lionored im its seloction, Obto presonts Mr. Dolano with thitteen Jemocrats ont of twenty mewberr. Go. Belkunp must congratulate tho first Dom- asratio member elect from Town for many yeum. Kentucky is not prabably to honor Mr. lirietow with ono Republican out of her .len districts, Mr, Williama himself is all of Ropublican Ore- ®on, except Hipplo-Mitchioll. Naw York, for the present, stands twenly-three lizrllllllgmm ont e thirty-threo, to_encourngs Mr. Fish: but khere is the 5dof November crecping o, and noue kaow what in goess. Cooneclicnt, with n new Democratic Senutor, and ho a Bourbon, looks ominoualy at Mr. Jewell, who 14 said to by the best political orzanizec in the Csbinol, 1 waa told by Gov. Cirtin, ko preceded Jawoll nt tit. Peteraburg, thint Lo, Jewell, wias tha only managing politivisn Grant had aronnd bim, THE PENDING BLAUTIONS oxcite muels approhieusion, but. loss nmongst tha ¥xecutive Department, thau soongst thodo Congressmen Mot nlmuiy aeured of seatn in the naxt Conpress, and those Sanators whoss plnees are to be retlled, Certrin movemants on the part of the Exvoutive indicute s dusive to com- pleto hin parsonal arrungementy for hin frieuds wydar the Governmsnt. in cane ho wust resign the Government in 1377, as appears probuble. ~ [ refer to the attempi to il virious lfe-nppoiat~ suents, a8 In the army and nsvy, wilh the Vresi- dent's pemmonui ndbarente, by tempting their pregent holders to neeept various inntable Yionors. 'Thix Ie nppareutly the case iu the Quartormagter Generaley, whero Liufus Ingolls is weanding in wait to il the place of Gen. Meigy, if the lattor ean be induced to resign. The Gen- eral of the Army s also freely pormitted to avacuato the Capital and make his Lome in St. T.onin,—ovacuatiug alko & disposition’hio hus to vhallenge tue richt of tho Secretary of War, otherwize the T'resident, to moasure out osts, tirevnts, and transtors, $0 wil wanner of frvorite ofticers, THE THIZD TERY lad sppeared to be a live issue before the elee- tions in tho hesrt of the West. 1t had come torward with a certofu portentousuess,—thenioro alarming becauso of tho corresyonding aputhy wf a great numbor of people who should have Leen prompt fo declare themuelves ogivst it and particularly from tho neutralized, tie almosy liteless, condition of the political South, which s the cancer on the general growth, and all the raore disossed by tho alternations of quocks et 20 treat i, ‘Thera the native people, absorbed in w life-uad-desth strugglo to nnbiud them- wolves, soemed indiferant whother the topublican systern continued over tho Vorth, or Imperinlism usurped its placo. It in mot a littlo romackublo fhat ihe German voto lu the Weat, svlidly defecting from the Republican party, broke the spell of fuscusi- bility ; whilo, ut the #amo tinte, the now Gornisu slement in the South is begiuning to buunifest tho first fruits of n wealth scquired since the War, Tho (fermans in Churleston & found to hold the bulance of power, and (o bs the prosper- ons merchants in moat of the Coust States. This groat clemont of onr population, hitherto Ropub- lican, Lius become the ballast und _balunce in tho etrougent Ropublican districts of tho West, 1t i “sest qualified of any fo lesd tho epirié of thrift, which must be the main corrective after the timo of prodigal war und speculations. TALK WITH GARFIELD. Stopping in the Library of Congrosw, vester- . [ saw Gien, Garflold, newly arrived at the putal, eneral, you huve serambled through. Was itmuch of a tugalo 2™ ** Not #o groat a8 you might thiok, 'I'he oul- eido war on mo put no 2,800 votes behind the Btate ticket. That 1a the measuro of censure, T supposv. A good deal of tho war made on me waa vithout tha nssent of tha huart, The Demo- cratic candidato in Clovelund, himuelf succons ful, told me tn come up to that distelet aud_run, ifit wae ta bo gerlons in mive, But Ihad no doubt from the baginung, although tha conlis tion against me wis peculiar. The Indeponde ent Repullicn wan & good old Mathodist Presiding Eldor, who had “heon tweuty yesrs n_ my district. Thot old goni wont to his pooplo, and said: I expect yon to stand by me, brothzan!' Somo of them @id ; somo did not, I had the lawyers ugainst me. vho ate nainrally opposed toa mun of gencral reading, notther old lInwyor noc rich siont, cliwbing fute one of the pinaneles of polities, They nasurally regard tho offics of delegtte I hold to bo unurpadi, —cozoned, Between the prenchors and th Jaw- yors, I was cng, somewhat.” Dy thoy ruu you hiard on the pavoment bus- tnefi;_ & bueiness. Your lawyers atfuck we, through yoar fonbinesy, upon the vers thing thoy sre doiug al! tho tuno: teking fees, They want iy woat, and yer refuse mo the practice ot thait and “my profession. 1 expliln 8 pstent for & fea, I do not know the relations ¢ Fihat patent. 1 do sak, Worked as I am, thore i na titne botween wy wauts snd the public wents to 6lop to mske ne discriminations, The eonaaquence is, I am vharged, through a print | smilo at, of columns of offennes forsign to my uatare, with Indian frauds, aud all sorts of rastiera which are in the nature snd province of my denouncery, bub whicli, they kuow, aro not of e, My old friends in the distvict know ma too ol for'lying'. 1 am hore again, aud I woau to e both belligereut wnd independont na [ choosa, Thero peemn to bs a demund for Indopenitent Congrepaen, L shall bo one.” * Do you think, General, that Dawen will ba evicesded by a Democrxt 7 _%'Yon; 1am told po. I think aclose Congrons Ismd: *That, fraukly, is none of yoir THIS CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE. MONDAY. e S i NOVEMBER 2, 1874. I8 all the bottor. I lhiave nevor beon an advocato :)‘f dloso party-government undor o big msjor- " M DI the Protectlonlats in your distriob run you this yoar with unf malevolenco P “Not 5o much., The manufaclurora around Youngatown soemed fo dislito mo more for op= posing Inflation thun ligh Protection, Pi tectlon iy helow thelr ilesives now, 'Ihoy want o enrrenoy at flood-tido for a somoewhat walor- lopged Dratuction,” Giargieli's a giteh aviril, with rosorved indig- uatlons, Ils [# no businoss-man fn his own in- totest; and that putk such & man a8 e fn por- }mtunl temptation, whioh ho doos not suspeet. t in ot tincommon to roo & man of political affaira_vory adaquate to the nublic’s husiness, but: not minte ouough for the aggrandizoment of Lix privato forlune, No trio public man s over nich, exvept by fnlieritance, Disraell atel Addtson married tholr cakes snd beor; CGludatono dorived his; Pitt loft hin dehts to his obuntry, and expired of bittor boer. Whoro ara they all # A putlishar onco nsked me to write up tho Tlomea of Cireat Mon; aud 1t wns easy to say that the texes had hores,—vide Simen Cemeran, —and tho birds of tho alr had noats; but tho veal, inbotn pnblio man was generaily correled toa mortgago. AYER AR A CANDIDATE. I asked o Massacuusotts man zo-day if Mool wood Hoar would permit hia mitcerssor to losd tho Republican Long-Tom with pills, and bealn ltjhn district, 8o to speak, upon civilization. Satd 3 * Yos. Hoav ia & good enough eritic of a tucan neighbor, but he wounld vote for Casper Manser it lio got the nomination.” Said I * You surprisomo. What i the dif- fcronee, thep, befween & good South Carolinian voting for MeDufllo or Hayno, and a good Mas- uachusotta man voting for Aver 2" Said ho : **Ouly u difovence of nostrums. In cither caso you save tho organization at the ox- pense of the conatitution,"” DICK PATONY, Hiuce Richard Whittington, Lord-Mayor of London, in whose existonca I would nevor bave bellaved but for sceing tho stones where ho rested himuelf on Highgate Hill,—what could resiet tho eilent evidonos of thoso ntuncs ?— thoro hias boon nothing equal to the calnstroplio of Richard 0. Parsous, Liko Whittington, he bud oy many livos as aeal. Paraons alwnys looked to me lilio a Toyal Bon- gal dry-goody cfork‘ ‘Thero wero unbural sLripos to his clothes, Evorgtnlug tittad him, except oflico. Ilo waa a aristocrat,~—I hope ndcon- tumncious type-aettor will make this an uris- tocrat: Articlos Levo their duo indefinitoneos, Diol wann sui genoris. Although n grand conduis- iadoro lobbyist, henever forgot his shirt-bosom, o romindod mo of Artemna Ward's pheaomenon, whore Artemus ronvarked : * lle had bub oue tonth, znd vel this glfted man playad on tho buys-dram ! Bul L is gone, IIo hus follomed (haso, If Wardou and Stuckers will oniy write his life 8 {ll, iapurtisl history will ba still unimpar- tial. WORK ON THE CAPITOL. ‘I'he last Congreas gave the sum of $200,000 to grado tho easl frout of tho Capltol, and oran- ment, fo somo sakatuntial aud ponnauent way, the wholo luudsuapo of Capitol Hill. This work is, in its way, 3 lu‘;}e undertaking; and it is now i1: that dosperate dogroo of vigor which indi- catou the spoedy nineting of Congreas, and a de- siro to Davo somcthing dono boforo they e~ semble, I'his Capitol-building fa'n fit model for one to atudy all the history of hin country. Its mlow progress toward an oternal incompletoncss should bo taken up by the patient politicsl stn- dont as = type of tho best human Rociety, Wo aronover dona. 1t is nlways golug on. Wa wall round it, aud aploot coigug of vantage to nesafl s it roforma all ita own dofocts, but still defontd ara ascribed Lo it, ou which nien tinker. A holplesa and besutiul thing, it ofton risea to its trnost propottions, snd fecls the haod of en- torprise moat vigoronusly, in snch extrome aifhie- tious ay war, fire, and Capitol-moving, And evory day, looling to its interest as 5 thing of art. and utility, the Capitol custs a shndow of censuro upon somo oversight of the past or soie wucertainty of tho foture. “Tho work now going on was all provided for eighty years ago,—louger than men's throe- seorc-and-ter. ‘Tho Sirst architect, a. szeneibhle but overriden Frenchman, showed that the site of the edifive had tvo profiles, nud that it was et an the ridgn of oue of thom. The Capilol waui put up by ¢ivil Commission- ens, alimly informed on nnything but pairotism§ and thay geuorally despincd arusis arouud them wlmhcoduld not get any votey. Alr. Iallet re- marked : + Gentlemen, you are making the front of my huilding foco up a bill. Tha ground will awailow it up to the appronches. Nove it over to this cost, or put il bebwe en the éwo crests, and grade hoth dovm.” 5 "Phey stole hik pluns, ke hureditary politicians, aud disebnrgedd him, But, uffer sixty years, the architects have dis- covered thosq pinus. Atter waiting » loug timo for a good chunce, thoy make their point, Little by litle thoy ke it. Flrst, they huve iwo aquares_of bulldinge, which etcrosched upon o edifice, xud supplied gin and hoarding to gonerations of Congressmon romoved, This costs ubout 8600,000. ‘Thow, by driblets of £20,000 or 340,000 & yeny, the approachoa to the “hiuder” protile, the lick sido, nzo torraced. Then, ndmonished by the torracing, the Scnators, ot al., dvige sooe streu:-pradivg. Scuatons, vou nust kuow, genarslly dircet the urt-mattors around the ()n{liml. oven to_the publie printivg, which they unly relinquistied two or threo yenrs ngo o tho Houss, ‘Tho wtracts were gended, and the old squares taken i, 5t uvery great cost. It was at thin period, when overyibing that hud bean done seotad 4o Do u yezl improve= saent, thut the thinking, tastetul folis made their game on the fulse profile, 18 paswed right throngh Congresa, in tho hestu of the ond of the sesoion ; and, ssd as tho admission muat bo, wany of these eloventh-honr votes aro of botter inapiratiou than _projects * nibbled to death by (smires,” as Bob Schenck onco suid. 'Che evo of tho groat commandor, whether in arms or #1t, eaplos and avails himself of tho immediato opportuity. Tt was July when Cougrous gave the $200,000. Four working months had puesed. The archi- tect of the Cupitol, a mau ofteu denounced here, ecnuso of his modesty, and compared to Mr Mullotz, who hus none, aruoged, in the uppro- priation, to give the work to Jundscape-netiste,— notavly Fred Law Olmatend, s man of u good deal of petive, if amatowr, independence, who is arcused of putting the Humanlties into tho Kridiron charity aud “‘slommicky” Boglish of the New York “Nativn, that most iraseibly-liu- morous of polinical guideboards, The ANation reminds mo of n very docided guideboard, witha liead aud fsce up the arin, ance planted fu a villngo called Queruloustown, Iteaid: “To Perfociion, 1milo!" aud poloted betweon two roads, wp iuto an old field. Tuo boys had novar fouud any perfection in {hat tield ; 8o thoy planted tho guidehonrd to Jook definitely up & certain very muddy road, on which tho lonely traveler zot but a shiort distance when he cried * Euough!” groped baok aguin, and found vory gooil foed, dvink, smithe' aliop, efo., at the Forky, Mornt: When wiso enongh to vead the Aation, never mind its advico! Gono further, buc stop at the Forks! ‘I'fis summ of £50,000 hns heen oxponded eutting off the ptain Eaet of th Capilol, 50 as to lift the building_out of tho ground, In this worls, onough dirk hos beon obiained to grads ol muny acren of Capitol Mul, toward the desolnis flats ot the south. The best troes have boen bodily dugz ont _and traneplanted,—some of them 1ifty years oll, 'The romnainder of the mounwy is spent couducting drivea through this park, loweriug gan aud wator pipes, tuking out old wpring-fed fish-poole, and pluclag murble seats nround tho ediflco, with flights of Btopn and bits of torraco, like tho work below the Mull in Ceutral Yark, ‘I'wo fountsing of bronze sad evorgroen will cont 14,000 oach, LUK BOUTI. Immedintely artar President Grant's re- olectivg, Tl wiiter of thiu passed through u lurgn part of cthe Sonth, w0 secortuin the reat logul needs of the pe white aud Llack, with $1o object of Inyiog Lhew berors thy victorious Nortti, North Caroliua was thon Hopublicau Arkonyay, tha gume: Alabats, deoldedly flepub- lican; Tozas, firnly hold by Davis for the Radicali; Wot Virginia, Grant-Demooratic | Yirginis, anti-Greeloy: Louisiana, only lesn wnarchicsl than now ; Florids, Stupiblican, but of littla conseqnence eithor way; aud Georgit, now i hor white ruiment, as shie remains, Ku-Iluxism had upent lselty the negroes wore contout and nopetul; loose railrond-buildiug had shout come Lo an oud; and politieal nassious wero contined 1o editors, place-teekers, nuemplnyod whites, and asatzaptions Dugrooy, In two yenra theea has been no great improvo- meng,—ruther roaction, If Horaze Greuley were alive to look and speak 28 when (len, Urauts opnouent hoforo tlie puople, he vould mnrur at tho slow, searcoly-obsuryuble prog- zeet oF the bulk of men under the stimulus of polition] freedom and sudden equulity, Ie wonld wronder if tha axpression of tho hutun hoart and tho occupation of the huwan haud wero bo resvond, ws ko long believed, (o ths ens cowragoment of libarty, upd if tho two races wore ever to he vespectful and frusiiul with each othor, Newthor wace fu thy Mouth fultllly thn reasonnbls idoas of Northern men. Tle wiiitos inyo forgotton to War, bus nol. i(4 pn- altien; thy blacks have forgotton Blavery, but yol ita vioss, All political seorgaulvation haw hoen altended with onormuud prolitigacy, Mutorinl outisy lu the Suuth has boob geuerally unprofis- ablo, Norlhown investors, lave boen disap- pomted. Tho untoryrise of tha native producers #ooms t0 avail vory little to bnild theu: up, snd mako thom independent of the monoy-lendor. In soma of tho towns, & re: to stimulation hua produced some sliowy blocks of shops ; tho oponing of soveral now rmiliays has provided comtyort, has gresly divorted trado from domo- Ha tn dinlant pointa; tho spirit of fnquity has not boan ubrond to rosult in that statomnnsbip which should ndviso the sommonality ; no Coul- morelal Conventionn are biold ; universsl politica Is tha subject of nll jowrnalism und conversation, and,all over tho Bouth, theissueof Givil Righta do- aiden alortions ot the present timo, Upon this fesuo, North Carolina, hne fllvon nenrly hor whole whito vote agaimt tho Ropublican party, and evory district is to bo ropresented by & Cou- sorvative jn tho noxt Congroes,—ono lonosomo nogro only going forwsrd, from the Halifax Diu- Srict, VINGINIA POLITICS. Virginla and Georgla aro tho two Btates which havo sbowu eomo of the nisdom of moderation, and, remanded to thelr whito mon, are dealing with such 1ealities aa roally concern both races. Thio black voto in Virgin(a is divided, and, with wino troatmont from tho whites, will divide moro awd moro, 60 a8 Lo obviate tho curss of raco. lineain government, The whites have built good schoolliouses for the Vaeks; the blacks u;u Rgouorally less rapacious of offico than olne~ wharo, The great hutdon of Virglnia ta hor debt. Yo handlo it honorably, i tho pationt task of ill- ropnid atztosmanship, o submit to taxation on account of it, ia tho citlzons' encrifics. It was not scquired, liko tho debta of tho othor Sonthorn States, by umm;{'m insues of bonds aftor tho War, but by publio enterprisce, too tardily pros- ecutod, and their accumulating intorost, = After tho War, theso ontorprises wero surrendered to corporattons, and generally comploted, but the obligations of them remniu ||Pnn tho State ; aud moantimo & contet of Jocalities has usurped the wholo area of Virginia politics, luspired by tho rolations of theso rafiroad-systems to the prin- cipal toswns. 'mcnmand. Staunton, and Norfolk ropresent tho thros divisions of Virginia politics, or rathor Rictimond sgainst Staunton and Norfolk, Tichmona, as tho Capital aud chief city, be- liolds with rogret her rallrond-communications tupped, and hor trade led off_to Baltimoro and Now York, by now ronds from Danville to Lynch- burg, and from Staunton to Doltimore; while, meantime, the flery Gen. Mahone draws thoe cot- ton away from hor mills and vesscls by his Ten- nesseo & Norfolle line, Tho Chosapoake & Ohlo Toad is endeavoring to maintain tho system of clinging to freight in bulk, to draw it to the Capilal-town; but thnt rond is bardly master of ity fucompletod fortunos, nnd, if it werg, ita propriotorstlp s in' the North, Dal- timore {8 tho Comumercial Capital of all that bon pass throngh to tho Valley of Virginin oud Piedmont. New York, by Aahone’s lino, tuko tho producty of tho cosst through Nor- folk. Staunton, for its population,is the most flourishing of Virginia towns sinta tho War, Richmond is rebuilded, neut aud well, but s un- able to grasp the foriuue that inovitablo public improvomunts aro drawlng to richer centres, Consoquently, thero is a party in tho State ap- pflronl‘] opposed to railroads, unlesa they will Dbutld up cortsiu towne. The presa is lesa an ox- poucnt of the Commonwcalth than of its municipalitien. And the public men aro often ab outs, even iu tho samo party, becnnso of thelr rival vollrosd - affilistions. Mahouo snd Dradley break tho peace, dov, Walker, rotnining the estcem of tho common- alty, is disliked by Mabono and many of the loaders. But thero is a quietly-returning proa- peritys the bulk of socioly is acttled ; the Stato Governor has kopt bis pledges and robuked olnas-logistation, Negro-suflrage has boen of no injury to Virginia, because her whits men nre wisor, and hor negrocs more moderato, than etsowhors, In this State, as genorally in the South, Texns oxcontod, immigration has amonni~ ed to littloe. Tho people born on $ho soil aro Jeft 1o ndminister its affairs, What Northernars and Tinglish bave settlod in the Stato have genorally reinforced the prejudices of tho white natives. NOUTH CAROLINA RI'CONLTIUCTION, ‘When I came to Wilmington, tho largest town in North Carollna, I sought ont tho prosent snd reo-aloctedl Congressman, Mr. Waddall, and the representative business-man. Tx0ept in overwheiming nogro constltucnoies, such as Holifax and Wilmington Citv, the peoplo of North Cnrolina nrc satishod, moderately pros- crous, and at concord, Chnatlotte is flourish FrE s Tatoigh 6 bandnotos. and ordarly s News hern has declined; Wilmington has grown, and is Tiopoful. Tho corpet-baggors and rats wro legitimately chargenble with soveral millions of new deht heaped upon this State. Ths Bourbons, when in power, were o illiberal that the people re- bukod them with defeat. The State is now fun condition of equipoiso,—the Conservatives hav- inyg the noxt. Logialature and the next Congross- men,—the Republicans havig the Ixecutive and Judieinry. Garir, i s MISCELLANEQUS, ‘Witen a person has to stand up in a Paris horse-car, no fare is collocted by tho driver. ~—Iho Lioutenant-Governor of Massachusettn has fixed Thursday, Nov, 26, as the aunnual ‘Inankspiving-Day. —Tho Joston Times sayn that tho rotail trado of that city is now the beat it bay been during tho yenr. —Tho Toston Qlobe has this: ‘“No Lallots ,éuuxlinu without the giguature of J. C. Ayer & o s —T'ho salary of %40,000 per sonum paid to President Jewett, of the Erie Railroad, is the largent paid to nuy rallroad official in tho United Btates, —The Oregon Tiegislature has adopted o memorlal to Congross, ssking to have tho Stute roimbureed to 1o oxtont of $400,000 for tho ex- ponse of reising troops in 1861, —Jamios H. Caustev, tho long-time lobby- agent for thd Fronch apolistion claims, at Waah-~ ington, it dead, aged 87, —Whiting Griswold, prominent in Maesa- chusetts politics, diod ot Groonfeld, 1ast Wednes- day, 1le was o leader of the ‘' conlition " thut mudn’_ Boutwell Governor aud Sumucr Senator, In 1851, —Dr, Danlel I’. Bissell, formerly Canal Com- missionor and Presidont of tho New York Stato Mledical Socioty, died at bis residenco in Utica, N. Y., on Thursday morning, ngod 72 youra, —A man rocontly from New Orleans informs tho Pravidouce Press that, just berore lio left to como Noxtb, o was shownn #ino estate in a ot desirabla part of the city, und told that ho conld havo tho uso of itifhe would pay the taxed. ~—A Maconspaper tolls of a curious superstition which provails smong the colored people tn thut nection. 'Thoy carry abont their porsons o bag known as "I!.of:no‘s Jaok," containing u fow roots and o vial filled with somo decoction, If arroalod for thelt, they beliove that by diop. ping the bag on the floor thoy will ezcape punish. mont, ~—A lively lad swang with so much energy in a ian ¥raocisco plonsure gorden that ho throw himsoli futo n conscrvatory 80 feet distant, cut an artory in his arm, ruined soveral hundrod dol- lars' worth of rare plants, and frightened tha women into & pauic. ~—The 8t, Louis T¥mes contalun an snuounce- mont which reads like somo logeond of the Lthine or slory of the Black Forent, At the wedding of Herr Lonis Grunefelder and Traulein Louiso Noibort, daughter of John Neibort, & butohor on Chontesu avenuo, thero wero consumed 700 (1) baottles of Forstar Kioabing and Champagune, — 3. Konporulk, n distinguished Russjan ad- ‘vocuto, was revontly engaged for tho dofense of seversl awurdorers, but was do horrifled by the dotails o tho erime that, when called upon to plead, he gave hig olients np and said, * Lot jus- tea bo doue,” -—~\¢hun Charlos Chaffin rotired from tho Hol- Aen (Mass,) Postmastership, forty yeara ago, ho loft 2 balanee of $20 dus im from tho Dopurt- went at Washington, Fo uovor called for the monay, and now, after s genoration has possed away, he bas juss recelved tho monoy per checlt from Wuahington,—Springreld Unioi, ~—A man in Pitehburg, Mass., devolopod n fine strategio talont tho other day, He wae paving a hask-faru, when ha dropped throo bankebille, and tho wind whisked thom swirtly away, Aftor unoyailing search for an hour, a bright 1den #truck himi, He folded a pieco of ‘mpnr and lll'l)fljlml it whero tha bille foll, followed ils #light, xnd, wher it reptad, thero he found alvo bis monoy —~Autl ow old Coturabln is in danger, A clars of yonug Jadies have hammored for admiasion at the callezu-door for tho Iast thrao exumina. tiong, und have. rencwoa their npplicutiony t1 fall, " They meun husinss, tao, these young la dies, and threntan to apply to the Bupreme Cours for a mandamus should they again be returnd, A correspondant of the 'J.‘ortiuny Directory in- forms 1a {hat * Womon are a dogree higher in tho seuls of hoing then men.” - ** Tho npright torm, with head plroed urect on tho sbouldors,” Do eaye “has nlways been rvogarded na the great ontward sign of superiority between man. kind and tho lower animals. Now it I8 certain that. woman's head s naturally more erect, more_dircetly wpright in position then that of man' Canviasing In th pominion, #vom the New York St The Dominjon politiciuun aro imitatiug in & dlatent and foeblo sort of way Sscor Robeaon's otyls of canvassing, The Lody Flead, o Govs ermnpnt rovenue outter, hus boen used for the purpons of influosncing elsationy by fmg:om and costly ropalra, At Bt. ‘Johw, N. 3., tho vessol was rotiitod at consldorablo expenso, the work boing judiclonsly distributed among a numbor of politicians uud tradors, 10 supplion of Inm- bor, machinery, and labor woro_alniost auough tobuild » now cutter, Tho Lady load then nailod for IIal{fax, whore sha was ngaln roflttad, tho notr bollor was repaired, and various oxpon- elve ndditlons woro made. Tha wholo expondi- turo amonnted to about £28,000. It s bolloved that two or thres wenk Government candidaten woro much strengthoned by tho répairs, ——————— CHICAGO & SOUTH ATLANTIC. Exnnination of the Line Near Crown Points ATRIP DOWN THE ROAD. Talf-a-dozen distinguiehod gontlomen con- slderably interostod in tho projected line of rail- rond botweon Chicago and Oharleaton, B, O,, loft on the Pan-Handle tvain st 8 o’clock Batarday morulug, for the burpose of {napocting tho work that has -already hoen dmmo in the vicinity of Codar Lako, Lako Connly, Ind. Tho party con- salstod of Gov. Magoflin, of Kentucky ; tho Ion. Witham 8. Haymond, of Indinna; Jobn W, Musson, of Now York ; and Robort Rao, Lyman Dridges, and tho Rov, W. T, Bloward, of Minots, Whilo on Yo traiu the following information in rogard to tho propoeed entorpriso was glorned : TILE ONICAGO & ROUTH ATLANTIC Tailrond in chinrtorod to bo built bobwoon Chicago aod Charleston, B, 0,, In an air ljne. Thoso intorested {n the profect hold a convons tion at tha Palmor Houso in this eily Oct. 0, 1873, and 800 delogates wore presont, reprae sonting tho States of Illinois, Indiana, Kep- tucky, Tonnossco, Georgis, and the Carolinns. Resolutions woie thou passed Indorsing the moyoment, Sim:e then tho worl on tho rond bas beeu pusbed rapidly. Excopt in Kontucky, surveys have boen mnde aud tho routo locatod. 1In tho east nod eonth of the mountaiug $1,000,000 bas heen subseribed to tho rrojuu!. North of tho Ohto Xiver 34,000,000 hiay boon subscribed, while south of tho Oblo Ttivor, and north of Cumberland Gap, 2,000,000 hins been plodged, The ofticors of the road aro ag follows: ‘Che Ion. W, 8. Haymond, mombor of Congross elact rom Colfnx's district, Presi- dont; tho Hon, 0. G, Mommaenger, ox-Socrotas of tho Coufederato Troanury, Firat Vice-Presf dent; Col. Jamos'H. Stoward, of Delphi, Ind., Second Viee-Presidont: the Hon, Thomss L, Jones, of Kentucky, Third Vico-Prosident; nnd Robort Rae, of Ohicago, Fourth Vico-Prosidont. A IATIIER BINGULAB OINCUMBTANCE couneoted with the enterprize 18 this: The Company is 0 conatructed thag tho Vice-Presi- donty nro oxocutive oflicers n their own States, Bevon S:ntcn are roprescntod in the noration, and these Vico-Presidents aro ox-ofleio Directors of the Confederated Chicago & Bouth Atlantic Roilwny Compauy. These Directors overy two yoars eloct a Frepidont. The Prosident and Dirogtors, acting 38 & unit, will arrange through ratos, mako treatios and allinoces with otbor roads. ‘Thoy aleo will settlo mattors of gencral or {nter-Stato commorco. TLocal trafiic and com- merco in reserved to tho Vieo-Prosidents of the esveral Btaten thomeolves, and thor local Bourd of Directors for sottlemont. Tho road in' ons State is not liable for @bt of the Linain any other State. The lensing of the road, or its franchises, or any part thoredf, or consolidations with other roads, is expressly probibited without o consent of the consolidatod company, thus boing n choek tofraud. Watered stock 18also pro- hibited. The road has been in oporation for ovor a yenr, and no difforences of opinfon or minunderstandings have arison betwoen the ofticera, overythiug working harmoniously. T'ho road is constructing at botls ends,” ¥From Charleston 73 miles aro undor contract at a cost of 31,800,230, 'Tho cost of magonry, grading, and bridging_from Spantanburg to Asbvillo is $407,546. From Chotwood to Careysvillo, 30 miles, 9 kave been graded. From Wolf Creok :’u'gall‘;illo. 45 miles, 2¢ hava been graded and ridged. P'r;om Chicago, the tight-of-way has boen obtained from Archor aveuuo “snd Thir- tennch street, having a river front of more than 1nule. Through Lake Townehip tho road in ready for ties and iron. The contract hns been let o Davls & Co., of Chicago, for bridging, rading, and ties from Englewood to Dyer. Two Eunnwl men aro on this portion of the work, and it will be finlzhed s soon a8 the weather pormits. As soon an tho right-of-wav can bo ob- tainod to como 131 Wabaak avonne with Pullman cars, work will be commonced at Eu- lewood. * 'fhe contsact for the roid from yor to tho Kankakes River, viw Lowell, hus heen lot, and 20 miles are nol ready for iro. Clifford & Sons, lato contractors of tho Bulti- moro & Ohio Road, havo taken tho contract to oaticello, and 35 miles I8 tq bo ready for irou this wintor. A good portion of the road fram Monticollo ta Dolphi is under way and partly comploted, Bridgos ovor tho Wabash and 'Lip- Kcuflntw Tivers have to bo buil on this section, This gives a continnous line of road from Chi- cago for a distanco of 105 miles to Dolphi, Ind, One-half of this is compleldd, making threo castern aud thron westorn connections, Tho rosd is almost wholly out of dobt, hav- ing ovly to pay kuch bills g8 acerne fram week lo week, No bonds have been issued, and nono will bo, to any greater oxtent fhan_ $10,000 nmile in ilivols and Indiann. Bouds ara not to b wegotiated aé less than 90 vents on the dollar, paysble in gold with ox changa on Liverpool, Every effort will ba made to build this rowd without bonding it. On arriving at CROWN POINT, 42 wiles southenst, the excursionista wore mab by Mosers, Z. Sommers aud M. A, I, . Carriagos had heon provided and the Uistiue- guisbed visitoss woro a onco drivon o Lowoll, 12 miles southweat, it had heou av- tolpated that tho oitizews would bo ad- dressed in rogard to tho audortaking, but this part of the programme was omitted for want of time. Diunor having been dove justico to, the excursionisty re-cntered the carriage pre- poratory toa S0-milo drive over uncomforta- bly rough roads, and on a very cold afternoon, CEDAR LARE, @miles distant, wus tho objoctive point, and it wus rocohed in about ou lour and a qunrter, Qrading along tho edge of this et of wator is in prograes, and on au cminonce overlooking ~the eito of the dopat that is to ba a halt was racdo, Tho view wai entrancing, and tho Kentucky Governor grow vory onthusinstic. Tho lnkois about 3 milos loug and1 in width, tho wator being cloar a5 crvstal. Thousands of ducks, princi- nlll{ mallard nod tenl, floated on ity nurfaco, whilo immeusa flocls of tho sinmo- birds woro o Dbo aeen bigh in oir. A largo flock of wild swang waa noticed m the northeast cornor, and many of theso birds woie nlso acen migrating southiward. ‘Tho Juko hias an averago dopih of abou 10 feot, and ity waters contain fish of all spacics. On learning that the mills at Lowellworo fod by this lako, Cov. Magoflin slluded to the ntilizors oy barbsriaus, and ot blossed barbarians by apy moans, ‘Tho ofilcors propose to huve tho road completed to this point early noxt spring, and, in arder that Chicogo citizons may havo fho bonofit of the beautiful locality for summer-restdences, iutead 1unning Pullmen cars hourly that far, A ramor aléo provails that » fashionablo hotel is to bo crected thero at an carly dute. Boforo loaving, the shoet of water was clristened Lalte Calypso by tho vialtora. Fiom hore tho new rcad wns followed, as closoly a8 practicable, for about 20 miles, the ox- cursionisty Yn!lmg througl the Villago of §t. Johus, nud, loaving tho raad at Dyor,” finishied thoir carriage drive at Sherryvillo, a station 6 mulos north of Crown Point, AN INFORYAL MEETING .. waa hold bero while waiting for the train. Gor. Magollin being called on, stated that the South Atlantic Road had a Presidont who wondd giva dignity aud character to the whola route, Thoy knew this from what ho had already accomplinb ed. Tho speaker yeterved to tho road an o groat congeutrating link that would bind the peoplo of tho Northwent and Southoust togethor, T'hin link would cotomand tho attontion of tha coun- try nt Jarge, the interostod pacplo being depeud- out upon vich other for tho interchange of thotr products, 'fho Rev. W, B, Btoward acknowlndged that the oxperioucos of the day had been to him a series of very pleziant snrprises, onpocially tho mag- nificent agricultural country tbrough which thoy lind pussod, tho thrift of ‘tho farmeis, and the Village of Lowell, a promising town of (00 in- hebitants, He wee nlso delighted with Codar Tinke, which way destinod to bocome a populur summeor-resort, The amonnt of work that had hoon doug on tho road was beyond his expeota- tiowun, and incronsed huy faith in Luo spoedy com- plotiun of the entorpsise, 2 Nr, Robert Iae had not much to add. He would state, howover, that the impravoments appeared to be of the mout subatential charac. tor., ‘Twonty miley of sciontific gradng and durablo bridres, through o rich ngricultuial district, with straighi linow and slight grade, gove promisa that” that portlon of the road wauld ba fruitful and productive, It was very zratifying that what hnd boon dona way paid for, auid tie road wau ontirely out of debs, Proaident ITayward wos oxplaininghow tho hiar- hors on the ssuboard woitld bo utilized by the I[_)ua- ple of tho Houth aud West by monns of this link, when the express-train was announced, and the axoursionista atartod on tho return tnip, rozoh- ing tho city in saloty sliortly before 0 o'clook, LOCAL MISCELLANY. UNITED HEBREW RELIEY. A spocial meoting of tho United Iebrow Rolief Asuoclation of Caicago was hold yestors doy nftornoon at Standard Hstl, corner of Mich- igan avenuo snd Thirteonth atreot. Tho objoct of the meoting waa to conaldor tho rocommendn- tlons made by tho outgolng Lxecutive Board in thelr annual roport, which wan us follows : First—Tokdng measures for uxtending tho mamber- slipof tho Amoclation boyond the limita presoribed by Arl, 1 of tholr Conntitution, Svcand—The publication of thelr subseription-linta, Ihird—Tho nm:e{;\llmn of tho offer of rooms in the bullding of the Ohicugo Reliof sud Aid Hocloly, p l"'llur'm—-'l'n adviso the omploymont of & Buperine endent, + Fifth~Tto hospltal question, Tho aftondanco was Iargo, and thio mooting waa collad to order by thelr Prestdout, Afr. Nathon Eiscndrath, who addressod them, At tho closo of Mr. Liseudrath’s addrcss, on motion, Lho call of tho roll was dispevsed with. ‘I'ho Secretacy, . Adier, thon road the minnten of tho preceding macting, which were approvad. Tho next business tu order wnas that for which tho mootiug was called, and tho first recom- mandation of the outgoiag Exoccutive Board, fu regard to extenuing tho mowbership of tho Assactation I)urm tho limits prescribed by tholr constitution, was taken up. The discuesion over thia quostion was very long and snirited, roveral taking part thoruin, Finally, it boing plainly vistble thas no conelusions could'bo reached on that rocommondntion, on motion of Mr, G. 8nydaoker it was reforrod to a committes of five to bo appoiniad by tho Chnir, who shall roport in four weels from yeatorday. 'ho gccond racommondation, fn regard to tha publication of thoir subscriplion-lists, was eavried, Tho third and fourth wero roforred to tho Ex- aoutive Board. The filth recommondation was thnt concerning tha robuilding of their hospital, and, next to the tirab_rccommendation, was_tho most important question to bo considerad. It croated, ltko the flrst, a long ond_auimated contest, and finally Mr. B, Loowenthal offercd the following rosolu= tion, which waa carriod : Jesolved, That this Assoclation necopt the offer of $15,000 made by the Clicago Rolief and Ald Bocloly for'the robufldiug of our hospital upon tho tormia pro- pased by thent, and subject to the condition that this Assoctatfon bavo the right o roturn tho $15,000 o the Obleago Ralet rnd Al Soclly at te optlon, and thaty upou such return, all elaims or llena thoy may have pon tho Hospital shail caase, This finialied thoe business beforo the Ascocla- tion, and thoy adjonrned. s GENERAL NEWS. Tho Rev, Edward Sullivan will give “A True History of the Eight Drys’ Socrot Sossion of the Goneral Convention " thia evening in Trinity Chapel at 7:30 o'clock. Jobn Martin, » man 52 yeats of age, died eud- donly at his home, No. 81 Htowart avenue, at 6 a'cluck yesterday morning, from gome unknown vatural couse. Deceased lesves & wife and five clrildren. Coroner Stepliens was notified. Aslight fira ocenrr ed at No. 445 West Twelfth sircot at 10 o'clock yesterdsy morning from gome uuknown ceusc. 1t {s suggostod that merchants and all othors dolog business dowa-town stop opoerations at 8 a'clook, in order that thoy thomaelves, 26 woll ay their employos, may have nn opportunlty o vote, Itia toa often tho case that persons be- longing to the class above montioned do not ronch their voting places until near 6 o'clock, and then she crowd nt tho polls is such that thoy are ueablo to cast thoir ballots. When the reault of tho election displeases thom, thoy lay the blame anyswhoro oxcept on their own nogligence. James MeCormiok etepped out of his boarding- house on Canal street, between Lako and Ran- dolph, luat evening, aud was mat by thres men, ons of whom osked bim for s chiew of tobacco, 1o drow a largo plug from bLis pockat, and they holped themaolvas to bal€ of it. Ho romonstrate od, and, whilo one of the trio pleced an arm avound his neck, tho othors robbed him of 87, Hoe followed the pacty up a short distauce, and unally called Ofticer” O'Connor, who arrested Thomas Lynch, and booked him on the charge of robbery, McCormick was held as a witness, Augnut Deckatroem wau gazing intently ata anp-post on West Tiske street, ubout 7 o'clock 1ast oveniog, and strained his optics to discern the namo of the thoroughfsre, when Maggio , Maloney stepped up and onluted him, **1 guess L've saw yon beforo?™ intorrogaled the woman, *ell, dot might pe so,” snid Gus, “Yobiste pwme of dot sivect,” +* Ob, thav's Luko streob; but como nlong wid me.” And the foolish Tou: ton wenk with hor to a vilo nbode at No. 58 Weol Linka stroct, whero Moggo blatnoyed him ont of £20, lio tiay; and aiso broke bis watch-chiia in on endoavor “fo tako his ticker uway." Ho suoueed dsgplo of the theft of tho wonoy. and then sought cousolntion in tho bosom of Olficer Blood, who arrestod the woman and locked hor up in Madison Street Station. The complainant was hold a8 & witness. ‘Che alarm from Box 68, at 3 o'clock yestorday morning, was caused by tho discoveryof fire in a shed on tho corner of Archer avenue and Wellnce strect. The Joss was trifling. Tizrie Napolcon and Hattio Johnson, two col- ored disropitables, becamo onguged in 8 quarrel at No, 12 Van Juren streot, yostorday moraing, whon tha former finished it by stabbing the lat- terin tho left nym with s butchor-knife. The injured one was taken to tho County Hospital, and tho ntabber was lockod up in tho Annory, ‘The Chieago Athonwum offers an unusnally attractive progrummo o the public in its anuual meeting, which will be held tbis evoning in the First Methodist Church, coruer of Warhington and Clark streat. It includes a lecturo by iiss Yrances I, Willard, The report of the work of tho Socioty during the pant year, and_addresses by tho Ttovs. Robest Collyer, Dr. H. N. Powors, C. W, Wendto, sud others, A grocer vamed Leidloff, at Na. 76 Clybourn avenue, is missing. aud, a8 ho had a largo sum of money in his posscssion when ha loft his store to go to South Water sireet, Suturday orning, it i8 feared that ho hias beon foully dealt Wit ot 7 yours of ago, 6 feot in holght, has rown bair, black eyes, heavy brawn whiskers, nnd_woro o short brown coat, dark pants, and binck hat. Ho left his stors in o dark brown wagon, to which was attached a heavy whito horso. TIIF; SUSDAY LUCTURE ROCIETT. A good audience gathored st the Grand Opersa~ Tiouge, last night, to henr Praf. Nathon Shop- ard's Jocture on # Phyaical Ploty.” Mr. Murry ofson presided. Thelecturo was witty, caustic, and able, Condoneation would do it iujuatice, 1t wos froquently interrupted by laugbtor and applause. g Tha succoeding lectures of tho couree will ho given in tho attetnoon, The Rev. Hobert Coll- yer epeaks nost Sunday, st 8 p.m., on “Tho ‘Human Life of Washtngton.” HOTEL ARRIVALS, Grand_Pacifle Hotel—Dr. Georga B, Groff, Omalia s 8. G, Bigolow, Now York; W, R, Steclo, Wyoming; R. 1. Cablo, Rock Island; J. T. Tenming, Monchester. N. H.; B, L, Javvis, ‘Washiogton ; O, L. Homunodiea, Now York. . . « Palmer House—P. F. Rose, ¥. I. Behr, London: L. J. Bornard, Buffalo; Willlam T, Nast, Now York; George J. Slopheue, T Angus, Montroal; 8. Rich, Washington; W. L. Tish, Dufferin, Maunitobag 8 L, . Carvell, Mamtoba; R, I3 Thompson, U, B. A ———— [OWA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL AS. SOCIATION. Des Moryes, Ia., Oot, 81.-—A large moeking of prominont cnpitalists and agriouliurists of the State conyened in Des Molues on Saturday, for the purpose of organizing a joint-stock com- puny 0 purchaso and prepure suitable grounds for Lhe accommodation of tho Iowa Stalo Fair. Articles of incorporation wero made and adopted, The Ausovintion was yamed tho Yowa Agriouliur- ol and Mochonical Association, 'Phe capital atock infixed at $38,000. Tho following wero olecied oflicera for the Assonintion: Prestdent, M. W. Itobiugon, of Lotk Couunty; Vico-Pros- idont, D, M, Flinn, Dallas Coounty ; V'reasurer, 7. 11! Given, Dos Moinos City; Secrotary, As J, Lyon, Drilay Comnty. No dueision waa 1ondo’in rogard to the fionlldn, but it is under- wtood that they will locatel near the city. It in the purpore of the Association to bring tho fiato Feir permanentty to Dos Moines, snd to prowote the interests of gricultnre, bortiouls turs, muchuvivs and fino arts in this biate. Many of tho stockholdors sro smong {he largest farners and hoavicst capitalists in Towa, prish e e i Haiues Dros’, Pianos. Prices exceetingly Tessouabie, Warranted first~clan n quality, Tarius, 10 cush § Ualance, $15 monthly, Ioud's"Verplo of Music, U3 Van Buren strest, Vfitto an Alabastor. Dy uruehing tho teeth regularly with Sozodont, they mos bo preserved nnsuliiod, tros from tartar, and White =8 alabaster, long after the hair lins faded and ‘wrinkles Liavo furrowad the cheeke, bt ottt A Rtich Church, From orney's Letter in the Philadelphia Presy, ‘The salaries of twenty-oight prelates of the Lstobliied Churol of Lngland amount to £102,900 0 yoar, or uearly €800,000; but to this you must ndd 238,000 for as many deans. The annuel patronngo attached to theso trenty-oight diocesou is, valuod ab £001,165. The patronnge includo eanonn yosident, archdoacons, and othior ¢lorical snuggorion. Tha valuo of tho real oatato of tho Entablished Churth of England mav bo ostimated from ita ravenuo, wiich at its lowest rabe 15 .£7,000,000, or 35,000,000 annually, ‘The Lstablished Church of Beatland s['reub)‘tmhn) owns 1.250 churchos, educatea 140,000 ucholars, and ralres annually £140,000 smmually for home o ey S il ety v hanols, costin, havo beon endowed and oractoq 8 $00N000, ha TILRON VERSUS BERCHER, — Judgo Nellson Denios Mr, Becchier’s Applicaty for o 111l of Particulars =038 Ikcasons for tho Decivion, From the New York Sun, Oct, 1, Tu the Oity Court of Brooklyn yesterday Judgo Nailson doniod tho application of Mr. Boscher's counsol that Mr. Tilton bo required to furnish a bill of partioulats in tho following declsion : Tl complaint chargea that tho dafendent co; {he wrougful acts stated, * on or abont tha mfi'fifl"g‘: October, 1808, and on_ divers othier days and times f- fer {hat'day, and befora tho commoncoment of this nc. tion, nt_tlic houno of tho dofondant, 121 Columbia atrect, City of Tiraoklyn, sud nt tho howsa of the plaine 441, 174 Livingston wiract, in snid city. An auswer denying the ciarges has been put in, spd tho fsstio of facts thua Jolued noticed for trial. Auapplication i uow mado for an order requlring the Lt to deliver ta the defendant’s attornoys a otateticut i writing of tho times and places ut which Lo expacts and fniends to prove that - tho defendant committed nnd confessed nn{ stich acta, Ao o, tho placcs whero tho pululill moy expect or Intend to provoe that (b rots were comumitted, the come 'laint 1s pecilo, thio houeos and etrecls arodesignated. lioinformation s on that polnt soughit by tho appiica: ilon has beon fully given. As 1o tho supposed ennfes~ slous tho complaiut iz silcot, aud property so, Under our psatem of plenilinga tho fucls ‘ore to Lot forth, not the ovidenco of thozofacts, This distinction must bo obacrved s it fa oxpresely enjoltied by tho Code; ‘hes been enforced by an unbrokeis chaln of decisions. ‘When, therefore, the plaintiff’s cavo is stated in tho complaiut, tho ciaim or wrong being one of which tho Jaw takea cognlzance, tho ploador is not allowed to add averinents disclosiug the oral proof by which be ex- pecis or intends to supyort or eatablish his cana on tho irfal, it 1t 15 alhiown by uffidavils that the plaintifr, who could not have alleged fn bis complaint that such con- feasions had boen made, aud might have been prudont- Iy roflcent an tho subjuct, has stated in 8 uewspaper sicla ik et praot oxlsted.. Tu slow of that the do. fondant’a counsel clainis that the plalntiff should bo required to stato when and whora thiese confesslons, it any, wero mndo, Tho quostion {8 not rimply whotlier ¢ woutld bo well' for the defendant to huvo that addie tional informatlon, but whother ho Court has the powor to mako such a requisition, I am satisfod that 10 1av0 nok tho power, It would bp o dangorous in novatlon, an_anomaly In practice, if every defeudant who learnd that thero may be an attempt to prove ad- ‘issions, could, by motion before the court, compel further disclosures, o far as Xam odvised, such an ordar has never becn granted, Tle unly ermalniog ground of thoappilation laas o the times whon the plafulil expects and intonds to Frove that thoacts took plico, « Tho complajnt has it thus: *On or abaut the 10tl dxy of October, 1883, snd on divors othier doys and timea after that day,” ke, Thatisgood and correct pleading. Cuitty gives that form for this sction, and in o nolo, it i3 nald, *tho jojury may bs stated to have leon committed on divers days sud times,” e, (2 Chitty T, $43), Dut if any queation could L ralacd iy vespect to that form tho defendant should Lavoappted Lo have tho camplaint mads moro dofinite and certain, Tna case of this precies naturo (Lo complaint did uot specify the ploces, not ovent the connty, and Judgs Teynolds, at Spectil Torm, granted such ah application Loloro unawer, That ia this practice prescrlbed by tho e, Under the common-Inw system of plosdlng, eane- clally where the common courls sees used, . defonds 20t miight have buen taken by aurprico sa to the mate tare {otiching which hio biad the right fo be Juformed, and £oma remedial practico for the sultor’s protaclion w23 nocessary. _ Coutts of equily, I the exorcise of iuherent powass, luaugarated a practics of the natura now {nyoked, and under legiimate directions the conrts of law acquire thoright to_ordor a_diucovery and juspection of paper, but with speclul lmitations (14 and 15 Viol,, 0, 99, kea , Wigram on Diacovery, 19; 4 Jtov, Bt,, Sth ¢, 293), and to require bills of partic: ulars in corlain cison, éspeclolly s to tho ftemn - of an account, (Code, sec. 188,) The clnborats brief, hand- ol in by the fearned counsel for tha dofendant, hus o Iargo calluction of cases in which siich nower ias been cxerclaed, with interesting analogios and. {llustrations. Dut none'of tho cases apply to tho legal question inc volved, In hia treatiss on “Practice,” Mr, Sherman easss 4 An a general rule, a bill of partionlars will not oo Qored 1 an action for a toit, (Sea Pyile ve. Stophen, & Meen, & W., 813; Stanpard vs, Ulilihorne, 3 Blug,, N, 0., 823} Sociling Vs, Chonnels, § Dowl, ‘P, O. 015 “Thus it vAill not bo ordered fn on _action ' for injurics causing doath (urphy va, Kipp, 1 Duer, 669}, nor usu- ally fnany action for personal injurics, (Semblo Derry va Lioyd, 1 Chit, Rep,, 720, per Dest, 3.) Llifs learnéd Writer proceads to slate tho roason why such bills ars not granted in an action for a fort, to- Wit that the causs of action must, aimost nlways ap- poar with aufticiont distinctness in tho complatut ta onablo tlie defoudant to preparo his defense, sud ro- fers o 4 Cowen Jt, 54, wheroa bill of particulors wan orderad fn an_action for {ho conversion of pertonal property #as avolding great detall in (he pleading,” and to & Dowl, P. O, A, and # Lxoh, 695, to the polnt that, in actions of tort, the sppiication 'ehould bo sc- companied with sn atidavit thut tho detendant doca ol knnw what the plaiutifl it eulng for, Tise last proposition accords with soversl It fnwhich it lina been held that such bl will not be f nished if the defendunt already has, o from the n ture of the cas must havo, th bast or fullest, kuow edgaof tho fact, Tudoed, (here are many oxceptions (T, W,, 336: 6, B, N, 8,, 6i8; 8 Howe, Pr, 5, 493), und, 8"'to tho general teory, & lalo Joarncd and prudent Judge Lne eald: “The faw bas always cousidered acred tho rights of both partics to keop secret tholr proparations and msans of attack and de. fenso,” (L Abb,, Pr. N, 8,, 268). ‘A Indicating tho fheory that tho right of dlacovery at 1w hss boedi regarded a8 matter proper for legisla~ tivo dircction rathor than for such diroction as the Cout in tho oxerclae of ita supposed fnherent povwers might fu each caso_chooro {0 grant, our stetutes, s g iscovery st weapect to bottlog aud eaaiing @I S, 920), and dllegal brokerago (2 It. 8, 070), ustie rious transactions (3 1. 8. T9), and in_respect to attor— (1 I, §. 478, 470), infgbt Wwell bo referred to, 53 rules of pravtice must bo gonoral, not changed materlolly {o conform to partlcular cases, & plafntilt may so shape I casu aa to meet. vxigencios, 88 where Withesses are hostilo and rofuso fo discloss thie facta untsl compolled to do 80 on tho trlal, But, as T hovo ald, the question i as fo hie power of tho Court, a power tobo exorcised with special veference 4o the system of practico eatablished by the Legislature. Tho Codo in creating o new syatetn of procouurs lisg prescelbed the manner {y which p cuie of sction shiall be stated in the complaint. and how a pleadlog, f defective, may bo perfected. 1t gives foa dofendant not satiofied with the framo ar terms of tha complaint, remedles mrich moro full and adequato than lyen under tho old aystom, o may move Lo bave ho complaint made more ‘definito and certain, aud whero tho claitn can ba ftoraized may also have & bill of particulars. Toall this the Codoadds tho right to osniine the adversary on oath bafore trial, and even ut the trial, But tho Gods allowe a bill of particulars of tho claim, 1f the wrcng bo the converalon of peraoual property, tho cnumeration or deacription of it would bo as to the yresticulars of tho claim, Lut an action of thisparticular wings, liko that for assault sud battery, is sulliciently stated nud doveribed In tho gonoral allegation neces warlly confafned {n tho complajnt, Extrancous fuci- dents thers may be, cohancing ot dlminidling the grievancs, but nothing further could bo wald 1o o the cinim Stoelf, When wo nro tresting of vialma in To- spect o property, of contracls, or sccounts, 8 dilfor- out Tulo applies, Tn thin caso flic right to movo that the complaint bo tmado mors deflnito und certuin has beon waived. In scveral cases fhe courts havo Leld that such walver was o confession that tho ploaciug was suficient, Such motlon was » shnplo and o appropriate reme edy, and this application cannot bo accoptod, though inteiaded o6 o aubstitute, But the question i not of mtich moment to the d fendant, us the inforiation (o which hio conld bave been entitled may yet Lo obtatued by examinjng tho platnlfif before the trial, 1 think that tlio practico cutablished by the Codo suould bo followed, us thus, nud only (s, can cer— tajnty and consistency bo obiafoed; snd that o ut- temyt by tho Goure {0 evadu that practice, nud enbstic tute atlior madlca of procedure, would bo uhwiay, if nol reprehensiblo, “Tho appifcatiou {s dunfed, but without costs, J, Nerusox, J, 0, 0, D SUNDAY’S NIIWS. Local. At the mesting of the Board of Gounty Com- lesiouers Buturday alteravon, the ropert of the Tinancoe Committae, ixing tho tax-levy for 1675, ‘as adopted, The fotal estimata i 41,315,250, ‘I'he 'Town Board of Houth Chicago met Sutur- dny afternoou, when the Clork, Josaph Gruens lut, gove notice of an intenlion to prosccute Hupervisor Shank for malfeayance in oftlco. ‘Iho caso in bankruptoy of tho, Unitod States Mortgugo Company apainst Jounthsn Young Hestamon was resumed in tho United Btatos Cir- cmt Court, before Judge Blodgett, Baturday worning, upon two motfons,—one by complaine ant, fora rulo to show cause why the ropondent should not submit a Nt of his creditora und in- debtednees, and thn othor, by respondont, to aitriko from tho filea the smended petition of the complainant, on the ground that the Unitedl Htates Dlortgage Company did not constituto ane-fourth i valne and one-third in nunbor of (e oroditors, Wirt Dextor, Eeq., apprared for the complainant, and Judge Vrumbuil und Mr, ayer for tha respondent,” After wgumonts by counsel, the ersu wid taken under advigement, Rotigions. In the Episcopu! Goneral Convention Satnr- day tha teport of the Commitlos on Canony, No. 18, on o wemorial from 800 cletgymon of the Church, praying for an altestion of tho rubrics in (he oflica for infant baptism, was takon up. Tho resolutions reported by the Comnmitteo proposad thut thoro bo addod, 8 & rubrio, at the ond of (ha oflico_for infant baptism, tho follow- | ing worda: *'Tho misistor may, at discrotion, omiz the exhortation preceding the Lord's Iryyer in (ho above ollice, and, in placo of thanksgiving, substituto ‘“the Collect for Yavor-ovey this rabrie, bowover, not to bo coontrucd e juplying any change In the doo- trine of tho Olwuroh: and authurizs the Secre~ fmry of tho IHouse of Doputles to causo tho pro« posed rmbries to be mado known to the a8 roquired by tho constitution and cnnog‘:fi‘m Tuo subject of Daptismal regoncration was called up, wnd briofly disouased. After a motion folny tho mublect on tha tabla was lost, {ba meunuro way dofeated, i B Eorelgn, disputeh from Houg Kong says the I adsices from Pekin and Yoddo Rnrn::ltnapl::fl?: patiro, The genoral bolief §s that war will be avolded, Tho Jupuneso Government has ipti- muted that Chineao residonia 1n Japan will pok bo molested if war iy declarad, Prosfdont Graut hiny ecut, n congratnlatorynote to tho Empuror of Ruesia in responss o alotor announciug iho mairings of tho Grand Dn'a Viadimer Aloxandrowitch'and Duchoss of Mock- lenburg-Seliworin, Miscelluncous, 2 Tho Coronor's Jury, at Detrolt, investiga o causn of tha boilee oxplocion” oy pout o8 propoller Brooklyn, chiarges tho Captain, the Hocond Eogincer, and othors with the disaster. Thoy fonnd that tho safoty-vaive lad bosn tapi- pered with and that the bont was racing at tha time, TForest fires still continue to rago in Contral ©Ohio and Iudiana, dong immenso damago. Tho trial of tho safe-hurglary conspiracy at Washington is continuing slowly. In tho groat trotting match at San Fraucisso Saturdny, botweon Occidont and Fullorton, tha former won, Dest time, 2:18. Baturdny closed the baac-ball senson, The Boatony still ratain tho ochampionship. ——— i VESSELS PASSED PORT HURON. ROT UKo, Qct, 31.—DowN—Prans St, Lauts, PAIL Blieridau, Havaun and consorh, Ontonagon ety D. 3. Wilion nnd conuort ;' achrs_Nasss, Tuomes Mott, A, Mont Blanc, John Dredin, o~ 7b CIY of Temont, o 3 frcaly soeathor, pud cloudy. Ponr HomoN, Mich, ] ] - Props Wohons o‘lmeh! Qct, 3l—~Evouing.~Down. Ur—Schirs Fanny Can ik ch-:mnbrll,nmuP. Joy, onnall rig, nahora at Tal Fall, i e Spectal nndoh Pony HEiioN, Hichy Nov: G ae peops Mo chant, Plymonth, Gordon Camphell, Cantsto, Donton, Al aiid_consort echen Prince” Alfsed, Magellaa Masailion, Rod Wing, Alice D, Noreis, Tuomas Hows nd, Ur—rons City of Concord, Attantic, 8t. Jaseph, e s ‘WiNp—West, Weather fino, —Jones kuows o young masn : much fron for Lis consy mtinn“?gn’&“;au:::n: Lold a compass in his hand without affecting the needle, Bome young ladies with considorabla u:trficflon about thom do not affoct tho noodla atall, DEATHS, VAN SOHAACR ~Florre V7 Cornollus A Jails Loise Van bamacs: S04 b SRl R At oy 851 Prairio ava. . T m"mt'\’ovi G R s e B rs 5! Contaur Linimenta - alisy pain, subdus swellings, hea burns, and will cars rhewmatism, #pavin, and sy flosh, bons er musels ailmeat. The Whits Wrapper is for KT famly e, tho Yellow Wespper e for Price 51 cents; largs bottles 81. “Clitldren Cry for Cretorln,—Flcannt & takos. nerfoct subatituto for Uastor O], but more elicscious in um\ll“nx the stomash and havwals. oo AUCTION SALES, By GEO. P, GORE & €O, 888 70 Wabasheav. SPLENDID DRY GOODS SALE. FINEST OF THE SEASON. TURSDAY, Nov. 8, nt ¢ oiclnckn. ms i addi anr eleqant iag of DRESE GOODE T Hle E’.’fl;fif“&t’ s olfaes: chmpeoia.clitly Ches donion'e FINEERRNGIT SUSPENDEI, il ‘eaneclal pes aaimals, 203 Do ENDEERS, to whlsh especlal at- tasition Is [nvited, as ovory lot. s tn' bo s0ld; And entutry meroliants and busers genorally wil find it (o thoir inter- 322 bo o s cstly, 18 tho ealo of thoss Goods taken < Will also soll ‘an clegant lian of Gonts* Cardians. Seatls, Gloves, Mullers, Shirts, Underwzar, sad Gonoral Furnishing Gonds. Also, speciel e3lo of Gloves, fo Ladies', Boys', and ‘Youth's woar. Featiors, Homers, Mnps. (ite ang Copm Rt oty Mo Lo oo St ORISR on Goods,' fo Dpmasilablo voens D o uo-ob Eauoy Cdlerée Koit Goodr, Woonlons, Pla 00 3 Bk ey ne RO A, o, dlar Salo of Thgrain Carpok Rular Salo of Tngrata Carnots, GEGRGE P. GORE. & 0., ‘63and 70 Wabasb-dr, 350 Sannres, wilh 600 Cases Dnplicaes, OF OUSTOM-MADE BOOTS AND SHOES, ‘Will bo sold at Auction, by Catalozun, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 9 1-2 a. m, THEURSDAY, NQV. 5, REGULAR THURSDAY'S SALE OF Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, and Clothing. Wo shall offer a full lino of Men's and Boys' Ovorcoitay also, Sulta, Coats, P'ants, Jacknts, Vests, ami Cardigms, Alo, Pliso Goods, Woblons, Rokors, Undorwoar, Esta and Caps, de. 5 G&vmxmnmcln\hlnn. 1n good orderand regular sirs, 7 the packare, X . Wi s, 39 Goods, Hamb N . ot Whlte Goodey Dy Gaoder lzmbargn, T &8'and 70 Wabad AW AT OTION, On Thursday, Nov, 6, at 9 1-2 o'slock, The entire bousehold fncnlturo of two firstclses dwile fl“i‘nx'lm', Library, Chamber, and Xitchen Furniture, Wardrobes, Boolk-cases, Parlor and Ofica é’“’“’ Show-cases, Carpets, ard toves. Y L75 Rolls Floor Oil-Clot) by N, X POSTTIVELY THE LAST SALE AT ATCTION, FINE GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, Tinu fiold Chalne, Fiae Lockats, Dlumonds, Jawelr, at our store, B and 85 Raudolohiat., MINDAY, NOV. 2, at 10 0'CLOCK, 130 Jast. chance to parchaso from this bankrupt stick, 88 141 whole must pasitivoly bo closod out Monday mune o5, Nov, 3, at 10 o'slock, ELISON, POMEROY & CO., Auotiongen. e SRR By WAL A, BUFTERS & GO, AT SALRSHDSHS.‘.W!‘ EAB“}' hADXSOH-ET. GOODS, BNOTS, SUOLS, HATS AND FORS, oy TUBSDAY MORNING AT 0% O'CLOOK. s, HTOVES, N OPEN LOTY, D TARNESS, TR TUTR, 04 SDAY” MORNING AT 10 O'CLOBR, WEDN! TTDRY GODDA, WODLENS, AND OLOTHING TUURSDAY AORNING AT 9% 0'QLOGK. BANICRPE "‘r‘?;‘-?(‘shv 11ATS, OAPS, GLOVESCAND FURS, “Just rocaleed frum Now York, to ba NG ROVS e AT 0 0rOLOCE, M8 WO, VELL, WILLIAMS & C)., 254 and ‘.‘a)d__il}ihun-u. Wines, Liquors, and Oigars, BILLIARD-TABLES AND BAR-FIXTURES. MONDAY af 0 c'elock, st the snotlon room. af 2OCRORPANR M o, i aud 29 Nadion, Sh oonrisiry th ontiro st of B dealar. cassistig of Ttive o farolan wines, Fronch and Caltforuis branties. IRotoe o i s itors, oordial, eto,, ole. AT, fanoy ‘oo the puine e, PATENDSY superior d-pockes mablo: ablow lanios oo, e tion, oftos 0o At tha ame billard-iables: Birotun, and doniestio Glgsre, nany i¢o brauds, Bl 31 o WE SHALL NELT On Tuesday, Nov, 3, at 10 s, m, e entira contents, conslstiog of Aine Brmasols Qunots, 1. 0. Parlor Bult, Masblo-tap Chambor Sally, Dulag ondd Eitolon Furaitute, Also evorythlng portaimlagle & iv-olaeo Lawndsz, Salo punitivo aud withousssearn, ) R, 1L, MORRISON, Anokonar,