Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 4, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1874, : : WILLIAM GULLEN BRYANT. The Commemorative Festival. Address of the Rev. Robert Collyer. ‘While the politiciana woro Inat night in a vory excited condition s to tha results of tha local eontest, out litorary men wera aesemblod in tho Iadics’ ordinary of the Bhorman Ifonso, colos brating in fitting tributea tho oightieth sunivor- gory of tho birth of our nations! poet, William Cullon Bryant, Tho gathoring was chnracteristio of tho occasion, many ot tho loading men in lottors in this vicinity boing prosout. The colobration wes undor tho suspices of tho Chicago Literary Olub, Al though Mr. Dryant was provented from Bocopting tho invitation to bo presont, yot the culobration was mado intoroating by the presouco of big two Lrothors, Arthur and Jobn A, both soxagonatinns, and bearing strong regomblances In appeatance o tho patriarchal ook, Tho Ojub held a regular moeting in its room ab 8 o'cloclr, at whioh Prof. Mathows road an ablo papor on Do Quiney, At tho conclusion of ita business, the mombers cutered the lndies’ or- dinary, whore was sprond # sumptuous repost, as clagsio fn fts componont parts as was tho cinrac- far of tho banquoters. Tho Tov. Robort Collyer, Proaidout of the Club, occuplod thochair, Tohis right aat John 11 Bryaut, Drof. lln!.huwu,'nr. A Jobnson, Dr. Androws, and Dr. Horutio N, Powors, To his left woeo Arthur Bryant, Houry Greeno- moot and blond with thoso of timo, As you and Iandall of us may bo rosoiuto above all other things to make *duty well doue” the watohword of !illo an ho hns douo, then whethor ourn s the fino gold of gonius or ovly tho fron of n sturdy honesty and unconquernblo eadeavor, wo also shiall win the blesaing of thoso who know and love ua whon our day’s work deaws lo o closo, [Apph\uuu.] Tho Chafrmman thon road the following LETTER FROM W. O. DIYANT? Tostyw, Loxa Istaxp, N, Y., Oct, 7, DeanSin: Do plensed {0 express to tho Chicsgo Titorary Club my thatike for tho fattering nolica whieh thoy tako of my 80tk birthdny, and thelr kind guvilation o, bo brosout at fhio batiniet ou tho 34 of November, The lionor which they hiave dona mu fs onc to which, on looking back upon my past life, I feul that I 'havo no olafm, and su thereforo tho moro {ndebled to thole gonerosity, I cannot be Picacnt, but my good wislion il bo with the membors, Topa thiat they will find {ho banquot as pleasant, the conversation a8 entertalning, the wpeeches, If any, as cloquent, and tho vianda aa well flavored, na if tho members had mict o colobrato tho birtlidsy of nonia better man. Now T think of i, thero must hava hoen born o the tid of November a great many oxcollont persons, of bioth avsos, 10 Whuse virtiious. lives tho world s nnder great obligations, Wil 110t my frionds of tho Literary Club pass o the eredit of theao yoraous such aliaro of tho honors of their fes- {Ival an 1 aw not worthy of, and thus squaro tho nc- count. Tawm, afr, very truly yours, W, U, BRrANT. Tho Hov, Rolient CoLLyEx, Presiltent of the Chicago Literary Club, The letter was an mllofi:-npb, written in excoed- lugly noat and legible chnrnctors. It was ro- coived with applause, tingled with laughtor, bo- cauro of 4o oxpression iu it, “thiu aquara’ tho account,” The Chairman then introducod MR, ABTIUR URYANT to tho Club, sayiug that thiors was ono_thing to bo regrotted ae regards Mr. Bryant's career, and that was ihat ho did vol imitato his broth- ‘baum, Judge Daalittle, Dr, Burroughs, Chancol- lor of tho University; aud Dr, . V. Thomas. Amongst tho gonoral company woro: I, T. Brown, Elliott . Clarko, W. L&, Doggott, William AL B. ¥rencl, Eugeno J. Hall, Jumflhhn‘klnnd. K. Koohter, G, B. Lawreiio, 1f, D, Lioyd, J. E. Laookwood, A. J, McClurg, E. G. Mason, Willlam Matthews, W, ¥. Poole, J. G. Rogors, D. L. Bhorey, 1, M. Halo, H, Hteelo, J._ Roy Labertéon, C. G. Smifh, J. C. Patterson, L. J. Chamberlain, Thouws 5. Churd, Johu Willanson, F. B. Bmith, E. O. Brown, AL Wiudolt, xud the Bav. Dr. Roynolds. ‘The following was {ho carfe : Upystors on Half Shell, ) Bmoked Tongue, glaco, Bonou Turkoy with Jelly, Tobstor Bulsd. Qbicken Moyonaise, BoILED, Lags of Mutton, with Cayers, Corned Deef, Capon, with Oysters, ‘nOART. Baron of Baf, ‘Turkoy, Crauborry Ssuce, Lawb, Mint Ssuca, A ENTUEES, Fillet of Boef, aux Champiguons, Bweet Dreads, Pque, Tomato Sauce, Pigeous brotled, o Ia Maitre d'Hotel, b Chops broaded, au Potlt Pofs, Oyatora trivd in Crumbs, Oroom Frittors, Rum Batco, Chartreuso of Partridge. GAME, Partridgo, Gumo Sauce, Baddla of Veittaon, Jolly Batca, Quait on Toast, Spnnies o Cel o Obives, uce. e Gyrrant Joly. Ghow Cliow. ‘Warceateraliiro Sauce. Mixed Pickles, VEGETADLES, ‘Baked Mashed Polatoos, Baked Sweet Potatoos, Greeti Poas, Bwoot Corn, String Beaus, TASTHY. Plum Pudding, Brandy Sauce, Lomon Pie. MiucoPio, Chumyaguodally. Boasted Almonds, Assorted Cake, Blano Mange, DEEsERT, Tinean Seee Ragainee s neapple Ico. Radslns, Apples. K Alnonds, FE Poars, Filborts, Coftee, When tbo lagt item on tho monu had besn reached, tho Chairman roso and said : CGesTLENMKN : Wo meet to-night to celebrate b cighticth birthday of ong of tho most emi-~ nent nien in Amoties fn genius and character, . who is alko ouo of the most delicate-miuded aod ¢ modest mot in the world,~a man to whom adu- lation would bo something of ou affroat, Andso 8y wo undorstand this, wo shall not fail in our hittlo festival of praisc to touch ovor them with & roserve ns fine, and & spirit as true, as wa ghould feol if bo wero silting among ua and listoning to every word we shull suy. Noither shall we deceive ourselves about the nature of our gatheriug #o for as to lwagine that, 88 a club which would fain do sometbing toward the cultivation of lottors in our city and the Northwest, wocan udd & now lustra to the Jight in which Willism Cullen Bryant dwolls ag in's tabernncle. My paper esid this worning that the star which wo ses now in the day- timo near tho sun will pass by-and-byo across his diec a8 s dark epot. Apart and alono she borrows something of his glory, but, blended close with his ligit, sbe loses what scemod 10 bo hor own. This mnet bo our place, snd tho place of all such gathorings as this to-night, and wherevorin the futuromon of our quality come togothor for such o purpose. A man of genius holds in himaelf a light which Ton who look up to bim can ouly borraw, and 80 whon on those rare occasions, such as the contenary of Burns in'69, of Scott in'71, of Priogtley in this yoar, and now, when our groat follow-citizen has come to four scora yours, tho forco of & spirilual gravitation draws us within the ver circlo of thoir light aud firo, Any shin- ing of ours then cau be Lut as darkuess for the momeant against the hoart of thoir native glory, But all the same, this is n good thing to 3'0 when wo are diswn to it as wo must bo to- night by that genuino sdmiration of a groat poct which, n8 .Coleridgs suys, is a contmuous undoreurrant of fooling overywhere prosent, but only now and then culmiuatiug ns & goparato ox- citcment, W liave all folt this undercurrent 1 connection with our friend and teacher as wo wtood at our work, or sat in our homes, or went about the world and biossed tho giver with warme hoarts for his gift, It is but natursl thersfore that at such o timo ag this, when our thought of him rises and swells into o tender emotion, wlile wo watch him walting for tho angel who will presently whispor, * Fsiend, come up liglier," that wo should try to gather #omno gleam of the Lionor wecanuot givo in meot- ingas we do to-night nud paying s tribute of roverence, of loyalty, und of love to ouo who has brought s now glory to the American pame and dono 0 Tnuen to creato a now order of nobility in tho world, T'alking with & friend of miuc in New York ubout on o\'ntluu thoy gave him thero o fow weoks ago, Mr. Bryant said ; **I thiok a good deal of this lionor you aro plessed to hoap upon me 18 to bo credited to my great age, When o man kaops on living as long as L hovo mannged to live, any lit- tlo seivice ho may have rondered to his time bo- comos very much maguified, and tho years bocome n” podestal on which he stands and Icceives honors which do not bolongr_ raally to his moro intimate and essontisl qualities,” and, us 8 general rulo, I supposo thero is o grain of truth in the remark, It was to bo oxpocted, &lso, that of all tho men wo haye amang us Lo should have said this, becauso it is in exact bur- mony with tho modesty I have montionod ne ‘ono of the cardiual qualitics of his nature. Yot ft 18 mot so fruo of bim a8 it would bo of msuy others because tho things for which we honor and love him atand in o great degreo apart from tho quos- tion a4 to whether he is fourscoro or 40 yonrs old. Thoy soizo formal things oud principlos ; thay are not of the fashion of this world which bosses away ; thoy touch the unseon and oter- nel. And g0 while we do honor the white hoad, 1t 15 not that, I think, thoy roveronco most ; It is the mnoblo, manful lLifo which ho hag ‘welded all theso years into s pure and benutiful gonius, blending both togethor, so that you are not able to tell whoro the welding mark is to be found, It is_not an idol wo sre looking at, like that tho Prophoet saw, whoso head woa gold, whose brenst was brags, whoso logs were iron, und whose feot worg clay, It is aman from the crown of tho head to tho solo of the foor, clear-haadad, warw-heartod, sturdy, atrong, aud true. A man who, with gifts which might have lod him to stand apart in a gort of proud disdam from tho storu and awful su-ui;glua of our timo and coun- Sry, and makie himsolf o tabernacle on Lis mount ! transfiguration, where he could livo alone witls tho reors of {ho old ages, proforred rathor locome down and plungo into the turbid tides which riss aud swell about us sll, to brewst them with us, to guido us aud holp us, to take bii 8harc of the trouble and distay, and throngh b ull to Lenr tho voice we vannot hear, bidding us boof good courape, and 0 soud the pront Enu:u xlnggng through our hoorts, which lift us p to the broalters and tido us overall our fearu, Of the spacial qualitics of Willism Cullen yant's gonlus, I trunt othors will poak bight Who 'ato betlar fitted, for the ik than am. My heart e stiired a8, I ptand here to spoxk only of this Bhnpla, sincore manhood of the man who night ave fouud an oxenko in that gonius for steppin, asido from tho clear, mantul way ho has travolet all thoas yeats, and I am the more stirred be- DaUBG B0 IMAOY young won are aboat mo fn this elub who may also comg, n‘,m God, to » groat place, It can only aa great aa that to whioh our mastor has same, sanding thore where thelighta of atosnity or's oxomplo twonty or thirty yosrs ago. He lnad not como out Wost, where his gront soul would havo room to expaud; it could not do 8o to its fullest capamty over in tho crowded and confined Enstorn country. Arthur Bryant, upon rluluq; mel with a very warm roception. o #nid that it appoared he was expeoted to roprosent Willlam Cullon Bry- ant on tho ocenslon, 1o bolieved he had somo litorary taste, but ho know ho Lnd no litorary roputation. His haads wore moro familiar with tho ax and tho plow than with tho pon, aud ho had dono mora to clear the wildorness than educato the poople. He was un- able to mnke n sot speech, but he would talk to thom in lue own style about his brother, Mr. Bryont thou enterod on a long and interoating roviow of his brother's lifo, saying that bis enrliost recollections of him were listening to him with astonishment whon ho returned from wchool, declniming portions of his own pootical compositions. Mr. Bryant oreated gome amusement when he stated that ho attempted to imiiato his Lrother's oratory, In the course of tho roview, Mr, Bryant eaid that his brother first wroto after the utfl'la of Popo and Dryden, but ns soon as he became uchmod with Wordsworth ho abandoned bis oarly utylo. Ile Lins writton many picces anonymously, ono of which, on its appesrance in priot, croated a sopsation _in. tho lMtorary world of Now York, It was sn odo to Francos Wright, published in tho Evening Post many yoars ago, and it authorship was revenled only whon 1t becamo necessary to settlo a discussion, Ho (W. C. Bryant) has yot many unpuolished poems in his possession, about which ho will nob Bpesk, ar give information to auy one, The ro- tention of Lis montal and bedily vigor is due to tho practico of tempersnco through lifo, and partly it s horoditary. s an- costors wora all a long-lived peoplo. His father was s man of uncommon sirongth, although he did not live long; his graudathor, at 80 yesrs of age, uiod to sprivg into the saddlo with agility, and his grand- mothor, when sho went rding, was wont to BE“““ from the ground as ler spouso did. [Laughter,] 3ir, Bryaut concluded with an af- factionato tributo to the gonius of his brothor. Mr, Bryant produced a letter writton by his brotber Willinm at DBrookiield in April 4, 1809, in which he submitted for bis father's approvul a translation of tho fumous ninolecuth canto of the First Book of Virgil's Znoid, which ho entitled ** Doscription of n Storm,” 'Chis ¢ranslntion is & remarkablo efiort for a boy of wo tonder age, 1t is too long for production hero, but the membors of tho Club who rond it considored that, in the purity of its English, tho smoothness of its vorsifics- tion, and tho accuracy of its rondition, itcon- taiud all tho promiso " which has boon 8o nobly fulilled in the translations of the Iliad and tho Odyxgoy, the fruit of his ripe old age. JOUN A DRYANT followea, reciting features in his brother's life not touched upon by his brother Arthur, (In con~ cluding, ho said: My broller, ag i genorally known, early devolopad a tasto for pootical com- nosition. I bave seen verses writton by him on tho oceasion of the total aclipso of the sun in 1800, when Lo was 11 years old, and I havent home somo lines of his handwriting, written the #amo year, on the denth of a cousin. Iam told that at the ago of 10 ho wroto s paraphrase of the firat chaptor of Job in vorse. This was, I think, his flrst literary venturo, hig_grandfather, at whoso request it was done, giving Lim & mmepence when tho work was fin- awhed. It was not until his 14th year that ho bo- gan to oxhibit much gontus sud ekill 08 & vorai~ tier. Ilhave pooms of bis written about thut thme. But I shall weary you with these triflos, and will only gay further, that in private lifo I believe my brother has ever been ox- omplary, kind, genmerous, and just, Iis cereor a8 _a public man is known to you all, He is now drawing noar tho close of & long life spent, as I beliove, in caruest and persovering ondoavor to loave tho world bottor than ho found it. By the Way and the Gate thnt lead to tho untricd scones beyoud ; and, ns he has told us, without a drond or "a longing to dopatt, and In the warm light atreaming from the evening sun's bromd rin Ho Il-m\dl sud calmly waits till tho hinges turn for im, A lotter was hore read from Thornton M. Hinkle in bobalf of the Cinciunati Literary Club, oxpressing rogret ot being unable to send a roproaentalive to tho banquet. Dr. Hovatio N, Powars was then called upon by tho Chbarirman. He responded at considerablo Iongth in o benu(iful culogy, which is necessarily omitted this morning, Judgo Doolittle snd Dr, Thomas made short a{mechcs; o poemn by J% . Brown was road; tho thauke of the Club voted to the Mossrs, Bryaut for their attendsuce, aud the asgombly then soparated. Elis Eighticth EBirthday. New Yonk, Noy. 3.—To-day is the 80th birth- day suniversary of William Cullen Bryant, and will bo romembered by his nunierous frionds by tho bostowal of a vaso, valued at 8500, tobe laced 1n tho Moetropolitan duseum of Arts. 'lie vago roprosents tho lessons of Lis litorary, jaurnalistic, aud political lifo, CASUALTIES, A Mother annd Daughter Burned, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago T'ribune, Avros, IIl., Nov. 8., Virginia I'. aud Nancy Julia, wife snd daughter of Maj, M, B, Prickett, weroe fatally burned by the breaking of a coal- ol lamp at thoir rosidenco at Edwardsvillo Fetally last eovening nbout 7 o'clock. 'The lamp was accidontally knocked over aund broken by the doughtor. The mother attompted to subdue tho flames which ensued, ond, in doing so, her clothiug caught firé, and both were terribly burned about tho body and face. Tho daughter died at midnight, and the mother at b o'clock this morning. Mrs. Prickett was tho daughter of the Hon, E. AL West, Hor donughtor was 11 or 12 years of ago. The calam- ity is a fonrful one, and_sflicts a large circlo of retutives and frionds, It has cust o gloom over the ontire community at Edwardsville, and in this city has caused a feoliug of sorrow scarsly legs intonso, Expressions of sympathy fortho strioken rolatives are heard on overy sido., - Ralirond Divnster in Arkansase Tarrue Rook, Ak, Nov, 8.—ho wstern. bound pasgenger-train on the Momphis Ruilway was ditched at 1 o'clock this ovening st Ililly Lake, 8 ilos oast of thia city. ‘The kcomotive turned on its side, and tho tonder Lyitom-side up. ‘Phe baggage-car turned over m its side, Tho firat possenger-coach loft the mile, but did not turn over, Tho cugincor wagslightly, and tho firoman badly, sealded. Ono nan caught by the hand betweon tho tendor aud baggago-car and bad & miraculous escape, “ho passengors urelved from the acone of th disnstor thiy evenlng, Experiments 3 MM. Bort and Joylot, of Paris, having ox_ porimented largely with cabolio uoid, ausory that it 18 poworf] Polunu,llfl“"&’ liko stryoh_ nino on tho oxcitability of #10 spinal murrow lilka strychnine, 1t incroassl its wonslbility a; ‘ret, but it dimiuishon tu¢ sonsibility, or com- Eleta!y wbolishey it, whon tho convuluive stago as exhouated tho medulls ‘Tho phionomons ro- sulting from this acid argpronouncod to be quite similar to those producel auhlurarorm, chlora), ar, woorara, aud thoseotion of amotar nerve, THE EPISCOPALIANS, Final Adjournment of the General Convention. Important Measures Go Over to a Future Time. CHUNCH DIFFENENCES, Nzw Yonx, Nov, 8.—The Protestnut Eplscopal Goneral Convontlon is holding it closing mos- slon to-day. Tho Committeo on Canous roported yestorday an amondmont to Canon 4, with roforonce to tho differonces bolwoon ministors and thelr con- grogations, advocating tho establishment of Ioard of Roforence to considor such controvor~ 8y, empowored to rocommend torms of sottlo~ ment, and, it thoro was no hopo of a favorablo tormination, the ministor should be required to rolinquish bis connootion with tho church, ond tho Bishop sbould dissolvo tho conueotion be- twoon him aud bis congrogation ; and, if tho lattor rofused to comply with this order, thoy should not be allowed roprosontation iu the Diocesan Convention uutil, thoy lind re- tracted thoir rofusal. Im the discusalon, the Tov, Dr. Adams, of Wisconsin, offered an amend- mont that the roport bo recommitted to tho Com- witteo, with instructions to report Cauon 34, of 1882, The wholo subject was doforred till the next Gouoral Convontlon, as not more than one- third of the dolegates wero presont. EVENING BESSION. By requost of tho Houso of Dishops, 1t was rosolvod to higld the olosing oxorciscs of the Con- vention at half-post 7 o'olock this evenug. TOBTFONED, Tho report of tho Committco on Canons on Divorco was Isid ovor until tho noxt Gonoral Couvontion, ‘Tho Committes on Canons, to whom wos re- forrad the subject of posturein the communion Borvice, decliniod to take any action, and requost- ed to b discharged from tho further considora- tion of the subject, which was granted, The question of a Commission to eatablish nods in diocoses was adopted, 8y RECREANT BISHODS, Tho roport of tho Committeo on mensures to Lo taken on the abandonment of a church bya Bishop or by s Prosbyter was adopted. DEACONESHES, Tho Joint Committeo appointed to consider tho mattor ralativo to the order of Dercouesses roported that it was inoxpediont at present to logislate “liml tho subjact, and asked to bo dis- charged. Tho roport wau adoptod. BYNODH AND DIOCESES. The tollowing Committeo on Synods in Dio- cosos §s to be continued until the next General Convoution : U'he Itev. Dra, Cody, of New York ; Kidney, of Miunesota ; Paret, of Central Ponn~ syivania : Mosara, Forsyth, of Albauy ; Meigs, of New Jorscy ; and Redficld, of Vermont. CHANGE OF NAME, The report of the Commilteo on the canon in relution to changing the name of thia body by striking out in the clauses whore thoy occurred tho words * Houso of Clorical and Lay Dopu-~ ties,” aud insorting instead ** Houso of Dopu- tiea” Adopted. Ttccoss. 3 I'ho resolutions of thanks to the Rev.Dr. Craik, presiding ofiicor of tho Convention, and the Rov. Dr, Perry, Becrotary, woroadoptod, A me#ago was fead from tho Ilouso of Bisliops statimg that thoy didnet concur in the resolution from tho Honse of Doputics, appointing & joint committee for the formation of synods in dio~ ©0808. PRAYER-DOOK 18 ITALIAN. Auother messagae concurred in the appoint- ment of & joiut committoo to_proparo an edition of tho Italian prayer-book, oto. On motion of the Rov. Dr. DeKovon, the Rev. Dr. Stander and Prof, I Nash woro appointed & committen on behalf of this Houno, The Rov. Dr. Craile returnod thauks on bsbalf of himsclf and assistants for tho rosolution of thauks, GLOSING PROCEEDIXGS, Acommittea was thou appointed towait on tho Iouse of_ Dishops aud nform them that the Houso of Doputies had finished the business be- fore them, and wora ready for any action from the !thmm of Bishops with rogard to adjourn- ment. A message was roceived from tho House of Bishops recommending tho appointmoent of a committon to take stops for th sppointment-of 8 Joint Commission to reviso tho constitution of the Church, aud report a plan for tho construc- tion aud direction of the Commiasion, ‘Not gonourred in, by a voto of 48 to 45, TFIRES. At Jefferson, Tex, Jerrensoy, Tox., Nov. 8.—A fire Inst night consumed the block éceupled by J. O. Kalster & Co., Bigler & Walker, and F. A. Joachim. Tho 1os8 i oatimated at $60,000; iusurance, 840,000, Lo firo is supposed to have beou eausod by an incoudiary, Bnaggage-Car Burned, Dexven, Col., Nov. 2.—0ne day lnst woek the baggage-car of a weslward-bound passonger train on the Kaveas Pacific Railroad took firo st Monotony, and was entirely consumed, togother with forty-ona trunks, eto., belonging to _the pnssengers, who, on reaching Donvor, wero bag- gugoless, Tho railway company 18 paying lossce. At Donnison, 0, Special Dispateh to I'he Chicauo Tribune, ‘DENNIgON, 0., Nov. 8.—The residence of J. . Burrott, Superintendent of the Pittsburg, Oin- cinnati & St. Louis Railrond, was dostroyed by fire this morning., Loss, 312,000 ; no insurauce. Forest Fires, Special Dispatch to A'he Chicags Tribune, MARIETTA, O., Nov, 8.—Terriflc fircs are rag- ing in soveral parts of this county and ou the hills of West Virginin scross tho Ohio River. ‘This oity is obgcured in nlmost darkness by the smoke, Much damego i8 being done. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago T'ribune, Axzon, 0., Nov. 8.—A firo haa beon raging in Copley Swamp, 8 milos west of Aliron, for throo days. Tho principal destruction Lias boon timbor and fonces, Holp hus been sont out from the city, Tho firo ting afternoon ix said to be under gontrol, Tho city has been onveloped in a thick cloud of stnoke nll day, Spectal Disputchto The Chicago Tribune, InoNTON, 0., Nov, 8.—Tho smoke in the city 16 8 donso a8 a heavy fog, Tho fires In tho sur- rouuding country are still burning. The Cutho- lic Church at Pino Grovo Furnuce is roported burned to-dsy, but the roport lacks conflrmation. Tho hangs at the Etna Furnace are fighting the firo to-dny. Largo tracts havo been burned ovn:‘, somo0 farmers loslng s largo amouut of srain, y Cisowxary, 0., Nov. 8.—River-mon roport that, cu tho banks of the Olio River, from Iron- ton to Marietta, o distauce of 100 miles, the for- cuty sre on firy, The emoke is so donso on_tho Obie River a8 to malo nnvfflmon imposaibla. Ths fire in the foreats in Fairfiold County aro still raging fiorcoly. Tho fires in the swamps at Aron rago foarfully, Hurricnue at Mamtiton, Wis. Hamdlton, Wi, (Oct, 20} Corresvondence of the Lo Crosse Jepublican, Yonterday =bout § o'clock the northorn purt of our town wau visited by ono of tho most torri- Dlo hurricanos that hag ever Loon witnessed in this portion of the county. The aftornoon way warm and plonsant. I'he wind was blowing from tho southesst until, ahout 8 o'clock, 1t com- wmonced thundering in the wost. It conld Lo plainly soen that thora was a storm coming [rom tho southwest, Tho roaring was continuous, Rain soon bogan to full In torronts for ten or fiftoon mwutes, The focus of tho hwrricane pussed over the farm of Andrew McLldowny, doing little damage, savo toaring down fences, 1t thon swooped down on tho farm of Ti, Os- horno, loveling his hoy and straw stacks with tho ground, 1t thon atruck his houso, bursting opou the door, and camo vory near taking out tho ond of his house. Hie summor-kitolion was blown off from jts foundation, After ralsing tho * dickons" goucrally with his looso proporty, it passed on to the farin of REdward Walker, whoro it unroofod hi fino barn which s 40x75 toot, Mr, Walkor iad & shed ruuning at right anglos with bis barn, 21x50 feet, 17 foot posts, which wus filted with grain ut tho timo, If shod wais blown wll to plecos, breaking tho tin- bor snd lumber xo that it iu a total loss, Vogive you somo ides of tho force of the wind, I'will tato thut tho shihglos wero parted from tho roof of hia hop-hause and the huilding was oth- orwino unharmed. It blow s four-horso MeCor- mick roaper soveral rods, and then tipped it oyor on the sfokle-bur, with the drivo-whaeol stauding up b feet Irom tho gronud, You must romomber thut a four-horo McCormick roaper welghu sovoral huudred pounds, and prosonts but o small surfaco for tho wind to aot on, Farthor up tho vallay, » thrashing-machine, owned by P, Wiilinmaon, was blown bottom sido up, It wan s torriblo blow, but, ss good luck would havo it, thorn was no one hurt, nor any utack Idilod or injurad, Mr, Walkor in finiehing up ono of the finest brick housos in the connty. The Btorm Kin did considerable drningo to il Itis onnmllnfi Mr, Walkor's loss will bo about $1,000. Ar. Osborne's will bo considorablo, CRIME. The Wanshington §afe-Rurgliary Casc, COLUMBUS ALEXANDER'S TESTIMONY. Wasursarox, Nov. 8,—Tho trial of the alleged anto burglars, Harrington, Willinms, and Whito- loy, wae rosumed to-day. Columbus Alexander took tho atand, and way cross-oxamined by Mr, Davidge. Tho witnoss said that his rolations with Harrington during tho investigation wore quite friondly, and had no oceasion to bo othor- wige. The witnoss was strongly improssed with tho beliof that the booka producod by J. O. Evaus wore not the origiual books kopt by Evang, and he still thought so, Thero wore momo books which the Committeo nover ob- tained, especially thoss rolating to tho rosl es- tato pool, in which Evans and soveral others were ongaged. Tuo intorview with Butler and tho witnons, 8t tho honso of tho wit- noss, might have' occipled ~five ‘minutes, Butlor is the samo man who has bheen on tho witness-stand undor tho name of Hayes, Butlor represented to the witnoss that the original books of Evans had not beon boforo tho Committeo, and that ho had a friend who could produce them, Tha witnoss declined to pay for any tostimony, but did agrae to pay for any exponse iu brivging the books to the city, na he thought that would be no more than right. Ho did not ask Butler for his name or address. Tho witnoss thought Butlor was connocted with tho Butler family of his noquaintance in this oity, and did not ask him wharo ha lived, Tha witnoss supposed that the books woro to be do- livored nt his houso, The wilncsa was euro hia #hird tntorviow with Butler took place between tho 20th sud 230 of April. Butlor brought o man with him and asked the witnoea to *take a good look at him,” ag ho wag the man who would bring the books, After tho two men had ono tho witness oame to tho conclusion that soma * joh” was being put up on him, oud ha told partion at big houso that #omo ras- cality was goiug on. Tho witnees thought thoy wora going to trump up o etory that Aloxandor had offered a big sum for evidencoe againet the Board of Public Works, Hodid not notify Evans to look out for his books, for e kad no interost iu Evans. Alotzgar and Jim Croggan called at the hottso of tho wituess, aud told nim thero was 2 plot againat him, Thoy bad lesrned this from. Zitrath, by lottor. Tho wituess did not honr any bell at big'houso on the night of tho burglary, aud hies made caroful huhu y.of all in the Liouso, oud no ono board the bell. The wilnosa thinks it was providential that thoy did not get awaken- od, a8 it might have beon worso for somo of the nrtioipants if thoy had, Tho witacss told Maj. ichards abont the rascality aflont, and the Major snid that all the police wore under tha control of Harrington, Ho nlgo told Lawyer Christy. The witness got suspicious of Harrington afler tho third intorview with Butler, BLUFORD WILEON, Solicitor of tho Tronsury, testifiod as to his in- vestigation of tho matter na far s tho Troasury was interested in it. Witness obtained from Mr. Orton copios of telograms bearing upon tho caso. Q.—TIs thero a rule ia tolograph offices to al- low heads of Dagumnunt.n to examino dispatchos sont by their subordinates, where tho cost of the dispatches aro charged to the Dopartmonts ? A.—1 hava no positive knowlodge of such a rule, but such was my undorstanding, aud on that bypothesis I mado application to Mr. Orton, and ho stated to mo that tho practice waa to al-. low copios of Govornment telograms to bo taken, aud he furnished them. ‘Tho romainder of tho sesaion to the recess was ocenpied in an argnmoent a8 to whether Mrs, Hayos bo allowed £o tostify. After the recees tho Judge docided that Mre. Hayos could not testify. averal experts from the Dopartments testitied =4 to tho gonuinene.3 of Whitoloy's signature to o tologram. Adjourned. Not Guilty. Special Dispatch to 7'he Chicago Tribuna. Wincpesrer, I, Nov. 8,—Iu tho Circuit Court to-dny the jury in tho case of Lowls Mat- tox for the murdor of hig father, returned with & verdict of not guilty. Exccution in ¥arrison County, Mis- wouri. 8r. Lous, Mo., Nov. 8.—Joseph P. Hamilton, aged 21, who murdored E. V. Hallock, of Mor- cor County, about throo yonrs ago, was hanged at Botbany, Harrison County, this State, last Triday, 1amilion mado a confession s fow days Lofore his axecution. Murder and Suicide. BosroN, Nov. 3.—At Norwood to-day Georgo Dunbam killed his wifo and then cut his own throat, An Attompt to Kill A, 3, Comstock. From the New York Tribune, Nov, 2. Anthony J, Comstock, an ageut of the Now York Society for the Suppression of Vico, and also an agent of the United Btates Government for preventing tho tronsmission of obscono mat- ter through tho mails, was asasulted and dan- gerously wounded in Nowarlk, N. J,, on Saturday night, by Charles Conroy, of No. 818 West Fourth streot, Brooklyn, E. D. whom he lod arrested on the charge of having in his posscesion moncy-lotters obtained fraud- ulently. Soveral compluints have boen made agninet Conroy, who Lad beon ope- rativg in soveral places in New Jorsey, Staten Island, and_Long Island, and these had been referred to Mir. Comstock for invostiga- tion. IIe hus been on tho track of Couroy for o long time, and finally succeedod in tracing him to Newark, whoro ho arrosted Lim on a dofluite clirgo ; aud, nccompaniod by Ar. Hopwood, & clork in tho I o»b-ofl}na at Newurls, took his pris- onor in & currisge to tho Nowark Jail. Mr. Com- stock, on arriving at tho Jail, alighted, aud, waa stooping to open the carriaga door, when Conroy suddonly drow dirk with & blado a'bout 3 inchos long und stabbed bim in the hoad, inilicting a slight scalp wound. 0 blow was ustantly ro- ponted, the dirk this timo cutling a fear- ful gnsh in Comstock's face, extend- ing from the tomplo’ to tho chm, und laying tho flesh complotely open to the bouo. “Your of tho facial arterios were sovored. With the blood spurting from his wound, Com- stocl: soized tho prisoner, with nssistauce from Mr. Hopwood, and, prosonting n rovolvor, throat- enad to phoot Lim if ho rosisted. Tho guard soon camo to thoir assistanco, and Conrny was locked up. Mr. Comutocks wound was then drensed, but so bunglingly thist the flow of blood bad not stopped when he arrived ot his resi- dence in Brooklyn. s clothos woro saturaced with blood. " Il was_at ouco sttended by Dr. Hutehinson, who did not succeed in stopping tho flow of blood wntil two hours after his urrival, Mr, Comatoolc was doing very woll last night, and Dr, Budington suid thero was nodoubt about his recovery, tho only daugor being from tho possiblo sotting iu of orysipolas., His wound is Bo severo that hia physicians will not permit him to converso, and ho can scarcely speak above a whispor. Mo says that notwithétanding tho provocation offered ho iu glad that ho did not ghoot Conroy. Whilo Conroy was in the carriage ho tried to whaedlo Mr, Comstock into letting bim off, Ho kissod Mr, Comstack's hands and resorted to the most abject flnttery to secure that end. After tho atinck his conduct was changod, and Lo cursiod and roviled Lis captor. Conroy is do- scribod as o largo, heavy man, with throo fingors of oneof Lis hauds ampututod. He was committed by United Statos Commissionor Whitohead bofora tho asuault to answor on Thursday, Ho has boon arrestad before at tho instanco of Mr, Comstock, Tho latter has sovoral times beon assgultod by thoso whoso nefarious busincss he Lag brokenup. About a month sgo ho was as+ snultod in City-Fiall Squaro, but, belug & man of groat utrausgtn, ho had tbe advantago of his atgullant and put him into tho handy of tho police, Ho holds sevoral charges agninst Conroy for the transmission of obacone litoraturo, which will bo duly prosented. Alr, Liopwood will profor chargea l.smmm Couroy to-day for assanlé with iutant to Lill, Tho ngsault upon Mr. Comstock has arousod intongo Indignation among the Olinton Avenua Cougrepational Ohurch, of Brooklyn, of which ho was n member. Tho Itov. Dr. Budington announcod the outrago from his pulpit yosters duy morning, and dotailed the ciroumstances of 1t to tho mulo membors of the congrogation, who mot in the locture-room a4 hia raquest aftor tho closo of hia sorvicos. Dr. Budington spoko in torms of highost praiso of Mr, Cowmstock's cournge and succans In his warfaro on vilo litera- tura§ and was followod by My, Honry W. Blocum, who, in & short and Vigorous speceh, do- picted the magnitudo of the ovil sgainst which i(r, Qomstock 14 contendlug, ~ and tho duty of all decent mon to sustain hiw, The sponker Lud givon bim a fow paltry dollars, but ho needod more than that,—thonioral support of every sright-ineaning and right-thinking man in the community who would enve his obildren and thoso of his nolghbors from pollution and de- struction, After remarka by othor mombors of tho congrogation, n comumltico, conaluting of the Rov. Dr. Budingion, den, I1. W, Slocum, and Mogsra, Elwall, Libby, and 1nll, was appointed to draft reuolutions uxprnanlng the sympathy of the Church and Booloty with Mr, Comstock, and to doviso means for fncrensad and cerlatu finan- oial_support of tho Booloty of which Mr. Com- stock i the agent. ON COMING DOWN IN A PARACHUTE, George Augustus Snin’s Experlence, S0 ‘muny Indles and gentlomon havo mado **caplive™ nnd * froe” balloon neconta within tho Iast fow yoars, thasit would ulmp}{ bo an oct of importinonco on my part to describo minutoly the phonomena of au agcont from tho noighborhood of London, how you do notat firat apposr to bo risiug, but stationary, whilo tho oartl, on tho other hiand, scoma to bo sink- ing beneath you; how,—if thoro aro auy clouds in your part of {ho sky,—whon you havoe pasgod through tho lowormost banks of vapor, and look down on the flocoy, floating muases bononth you, you oxperience s momaen- tary foolg of prido,—shoor asinine pride; or Low, humfi frao from clouds, you look down and 800 stretching around you the great groon oarth, and, immediately below, London, diminished to tho nize of & model in a musonm,—8t. Paul’s gooming no Dbigger than a pon, and the Monu- mont looking no longer than a piu, ‘whilo tho smoka of London secing stationary ovor it—n thin, sleazy blue blanket in two strips, ono for tho Middlesox and ono for tho Surroy sido, and cut procisoly to the shapo of the city and sub-~ urbs, through the whole running the glinting river, liko a koin of qurickeflvor. I must mon- tion that my view of the wondrous panoramn around and beneath was Romie~ what impeded by the fact that wo wore top-iamperod by & quantity of toy-balloons, mero intlated Ifnen bags, fasbionoed as lons, dragous, fish, and other proposterous forms, and all amblnzoned with thio cognizance of tho Sym- posium,* Thoso wretchod 1ittlo trifles wora in- direatly tho cnuso of our uudoing. 'Lhe aero- nout bad instructionn to cut thio wind-bags adrift when he saconded a short distanco, in ovdor that they might amuso the gobe-mouches of Bramp- ton and “tho Fulliam Road, ond scatter advor- tisoments of the Symposium dar and wide, Thus tho little old mav, during the flrst fiva minutes of his nscont, lhnd been so busy with his pockot-knifo 1ouuiug theso ridiculous im- pedimenta, that he had forgotten & procaution vory necessary to our safoty. Whila the balloon s on the ground it iy customary to closo the neck of tho machine by means of a ‘handkerchief tied in o slip-kuot, in ordor to pra- vont the admixture of the hoavy lowor etratum of atmosphoric air with the moro buoyaut onr- burotted bydrogon insido tho balloon. Dircctly tha balloon nsconds, the prudont acronsut slips off the handkerchiof. Our acronaut, busiod with bis trumipory wind-bags, did no such thing. Tho auoistant may havo beon unaware that tho thing ought to be done, Ho criod out gleofully that wo liad rison to tho altitude of 1 milo—that wo wore just over Falbam Ohurch, aud that wo wore about to cross the Thamos, Just thon I heard a sharp, crackling roport, precisoly liko that of & muskxot-shot, above my hoad. 'Tho balloon had burst, It could searcely, under tho eircum- stances, have dono any thing but burat, The gas in tho machine had bocomo rarofiod, and had rapidly expanded. It gould not encape from abovo, tho valve was closed ; it could not escape from bolow, tho nock was closed. So it went to smash, justas au fuflatod and afr-tight bag of paper goes to smash botweon ho palms of a school-boy's Lands.t Bo wa foll, a8 a stonae falls, half a mile. When wo ascondod, it had appearod to mo that the ourth waa sinking bonoath us, Now tho globe— flolds, housos, Iamp-posts, chimney-pots—seom- ed to bo roshing up to us with literally incon- coivablo rapidity. There was in particular one _tall church-stoople, which, by the colerity of its approach, appowred to Lo borribly anxious that I should ba impaled on ita apox. It could not havo been Fulham Church ; but, whatovor or wherever was tho cdifice, it waa thora rushing up atme; and X declare that the grotesqueness of tho position of impalomont—all legs and wings, like n cock~ chafor—distinetly and visibly occurrod to me. I doclaro, eiso, sans phraves, that thoro arose bofors ma mo' * pauciawn” of my early lifo, or of my by-gouo gcts nond doeds, s such pano- ramas ara dad to havo arisen boforo the eyes of porsons_rescued at tho very last instant from hunging or drowning. YotI do plainly and liton‘}‘? romomber goveral things} that T heard a voico cry, with an oath, * Lot gol” and *Cut! cut!” and that a kuifo was thrust into my hand; and it scomed afterward that the assistuut and I bad pitched out all the ballust in the balloon,—bags aud all,—and that T had out wwny tho grapnol or anchor from the side of tho eor. That 1 bhad done go wus plain from two of my fingers boiug jagged noross by the knife. Wiat becamo of the grapnol we never know ; but, if it had follon in 8 Dopulous strost, it would in'sll probability have kilied somebody. Tho heavy bags of ballast, too, must hiave fallen like stones. ‘T'he finel thing I romombor during our descont was droll enmough. Juet bofors tho balloon loft the ' Pro d'Orssy, my doar, kind brothor had fhrown' over my shoulders, a light palotot, observing, with @ lsugh, thet might feel 1t rathor cold * uv there.” Idonned this garment =8 wo ascoudod, aud I remember saying ag wo came thundering down, * Charley's coat will bo torn to ribbous,” So much for pauorawmic of- focts when tho jaws of death geem to bo yawn- ing forus. To" the posscssion of what is ordi- narily tormed ** prossuco of mind™ on tho oc- casion I diadninfully decliue to lay claim. What 1did in the muttor of tho gropuel and tho bal- laet wna done mechanieally and wellnigh uncon- sciously; and I waa desperately and mortally terrified. A fow dsys after the accident I mot tho acronaut’s assistaut, aud lnd the curiosity :‘:l lsound him a8 to my domesnor during tho “8ir,” ho vory candidly roplied, “you kept your mouth wide open, and you were as blue as your breeches.” I had boen clad at _the timo iu light summor asttire, ** And you " I continued. “Wolt out of it," quoth the acronaut's assist- ant, who was seowmingly o philosophor; and so wont lis way. v Mennwhile—the term is wellnigh inappro- Erinl.o, sinve thore was scarcely sy * while” to 0 ** moan "—the soronant, who looked like a sailor, bad not lost Lis prosenco of mind, and Lad not beon idlo, Ho snw at a glance, this brave little old man~although he had boen for« gotful in tho mattor of the slip-knotted hend- Korchiof—whorein our single chanco of safoly 1sy. Lo jumped up into tho shrouda of tho balloon, cut the cords which attachied the neck of the machiuo to tho hoop, snd away to the very top of tho netting flow tho whole of the ex- bausted silke body of tho sausage. Thon it formed a cupols of tho approved umbrella attorn—il formed @ parachute! It stendled nstantly. “Thera was no collapss, sud down wo camo swiftly, but caslly in s slanting diroction, alighting among the cabbages in a markot-gardon, fulhinm Fields, T'ho car struck. tho elastic oarth with violenco, and rebounded, clearing a hodgo, a distauce of somo twonty feot, Thon tho silk, and tho net- ting, and tho Loop, and tho car itselt foll atop of ua among the cabhinges, Wo woro drnfigm] forth from tho Tuing of tho sausago, only to be hustiod and robbed of all the money in our pockots by » rufllanly crow of working markot-gardevers ; snd tho proprictor of the light cart, who cousonted to drive me from Fullinm to Konsington Goro, demanded & guinoa ns kis fare, ou tho ground that ** balloons didn't fall overy day.” Ho was far from complimontary, too, about tho mccidont lgolt, rommarking ironically that this * wos enm of carryln’ up o ot of dogs and monkeys.” This tugonuous but merconary 'Eemnn bad mistakon our wind-bag dragons and fishos swaling through tho sir, when wo asconded, for living animals, I will omit any account of the congratalationn which were indulged in on our roturn to Gore Tlouse ; yot I cannot concludo this papor withe out noting a progoant but somewhat strongly- worded yomark made by che little old aoronaut, While avorybody was grasping bis hands, and nying him woll-desorved complimouts on his ntrepidity, lio suddenly drow on ouo side, folded his arms, and nmrulylu?uh'cd, *VWho the — will 3ay noto thatyou can't come dowon in a para~ chule?™ 'Tho mannor of putting tho query was irroverent, but the mnatter thercof was cogent. Throc-and-twonty years aftor tho avons I Lave narrated, I find wyself forcibly imbued with tho conviotion that it 14 possible to descond in safoty from any height by moaus of a parachuto, but that thoro aro tou thousaud chances to ono againgt the man who tries the vonture nun‘lviu‘i to toll the tale, And please to romoembor that hiad no intontion of coming down in a parachuto. 1 contracted to come down in a sauengo balloon ; but 1will do tho inventor tho justico to men- tion that he nover asked mo for my sharo of the oxpouton,—{eorge Augustus Sala, s Lelgravia, o gardon-restaurant from whicli tho uscont hod boen made, 34 wos ab Gorw 1fouse, and conductod by Aloxis Boyor, + 1 do 1ot know whether it can bo called ou any but an Irish prineiple s comeldenco ; but it 1s stil} ourlos 10 romornbor (hut bout fon yoars aftorward I was on the vergo of loslug my lifo in consoquenco of an cels dont wlozaly analogous {0 that which mudo sn end of 1ho saueayo batiooit. 1 was on baard tho Groat East- otu, on bor frut trial-trip from Loug Reach o Yort funnol bocoming uncomfortablato the passengers, But oithor thoro waa no_mafoly-valve 1o this oxtoenn oylindar, or tho nginger In chargo of it Lisd omitted o keep it opon, Am it wae, substituting steam for fins, the dianstor of the usage ' was re.onncted, Tho water In tho jacket bocamo honted, atenm was gonerated, tho vapor rapldly expsnded, thers was 1o eseapo for ity tho cylinder "burat, and thirteen men woro acalited fo death or horribly mutliated, My atato- room was Dlown to ploces by tha force of the explo- slou, and two minutos beforo that oxplosfon took leca T hnd beon down to my Lertl dn quest of & book, DRESS GOODS, AEAYT Reierons DRESS 6 Taking advantage of the re- centdepressionof the New York ‘Wholesale Dry Goods Trade, J. B. SHAY, 84 & 86 State-st., Have purchased at an immense reduction from prices early in the season, several UNUSUAL bargains, a few of which are ag follows: AXI-Wool Euworess Cloths 40c, former price 65¢ Al-Wool Exmpress Cloths 50c,former price 766 Castmerss, 40 ‘iehes. wile, $1.00, former e $1.25, All-Wool Seraes 50, former price 75c. Kamgern Sevges 40, former price 656 ° Camels Hair Serges 60 and 756, former rics 906 and $100, Horings 50 and 78e, former price 75 & $1. These goods being so much belo_w in price those offered earlier in the season, have com- pelled the reduction of our whole stock to correspondingly I_v._)E_prices. st A s e i A Domand for Over 8700,000 Internnis Xeovenuo Taxes on Distilied Spirita. From the Dubuque Telegraph, Nov, 3. The United Bintos l}avurnmunt gooma to think that our woll-off follow-citizon Joo Rhomberg ling moro of this world's goods that o ought to Lavo, and that tho Government thinks aliould be banded over to it In the shape of futeinal-rove- nuo tnxes ; and o tho Government lins mado & demand on Mr, Rhomborg to band over t it tho sum of ovor 8700,000, Wo don't think this de- mand will be complied with vory cheerfuily, for, apatt from tho indisposition to do so, $700,000— swmall o8 tho sun may be in the cyos of tho Goy- ornment—In o Iarge sum in Dubuque, "Tho foundation for this domand is this : Dur- Ing tho Jwriml botwoon Beptombor, 1865, and Mny, 1867, thoro woro niuetosn nsscssmonts mado on Mr. Rhomborg for spirits manufactured by bim at hiu distillery horo it Dubuque, Nono of thoao assessments wore paid, as tho Govoroe mont alleges, nud thoy aggrogato over §700,000. Thoso nusossments wore made by the Commis- slonor of lutornal Rovouuo, and the papers to onforco them wore brought Loro on Friday lnat by Gen, Hedrick, Supervisor of Iutornal Reve- nito, and placed in tho hauds of Gon. Trumbull forsorvice. Tho domsnd for the paymont of this monoy was mado on Mr. Rliomberg on Fri- day night.. Ho hias ten days in which to comply with this demand before any further stops nro takon by the Govornment to cuforce it, At tho oud of that timo, unloss tho domand is complicd with, it becomos tho duty of the Collector horo, Gen. Trumbull, to mako & [nv'y‘ This is the revival of & claim by tho Govorn- ment sgainst Mr, Rhomberg which was gener~ ally understood to have been given up or sottlod in some way. It ia quito likely that the onforco- mont of it will be rosisted, for Ar, Rhomborg is not tho mau to yield oven' to the Governmont if it bo in tho wrong. This, of courso, is 8 quostion betwoen the Govorument aud Mr. Rhomberg, and which can bo sottled only by ascortaining the facts in tho caso and applying to thom tho Intornal Rovenna laws, Tho sympathics of this community aro with Mr, Rhomborg, butits judgment will be that the right will provail, MORE OF 1T, FURTILER PARTICULATS, _Mr, Rhomberg hos reason to bolieve this ro- vival of an nbaudoned claim agatost him isa picco of political spito, because at the Iato cloc- ion Mr, Rhomborg rofusod to use biy influcnco for Mr. Granger for Congress, Thero is no moro renson now than thero haa beon for soma yoars founded on fact or law to rovive this clnim againat lim, and he can seo no other ron- fon than that ho refused to bo mado a tool of to effcet tho clection to Congross of & Republican n tuts district, Yo also alleges that a person onco 10 his cmploy and an attornoy of this city, both of whom ho names, have attomptod at various timea to blackmail Lim, and that, failing to doso, this employe hes now given informa« tion on which the claim mado against him by tho Government s foundod. Theso are the allega- tions of Mr. Rhomberg, and they aro given as coming from him. A A e e ALL GRADES AND PRIOES. A Woman’s Drewms. The Hartford sCmm.) Times of Oct, 20 pub- 1ishies tho following : * A young woman in this city, Mrs. Margarot (lloran) Ryan, drosmod, about two months ago, that a little brothoer of hors uvxn§ In Clonfanlough, Kings County, Ire- land, had just beon run away with by a horso which ho was riding, and tbat his log had been badly crushed. A lottor was subsoquently ro- ceived from Clonfanlough, which contirmed the young woman's droam 1 ovory particular—tme Inoluded—the scono being procizoly as sho had described it a8 shown in her dream.” On Sunday night last, Oct. 26, Mrs, Ryan hud anothor and vory vivid dream, in which sho scomed to sit by tho bedside of 'her littlo brother above mentfoned, who waa dying ; taking by the hand thoso proaent in the room, and bidding them farewell, ho scomed to pass awny. Tho sloopor distinetly saw tho boy's aunt enter the room, and hoard lior ask anxiously of thoso about tho bed : ‘And is ho dead ?* and ‘heard hor thon utter a IN GREAT VARIETY- BLAOK AND COLORED-OHHAPY We call attention to our large stock of TRIMMED Goods, land, Tho portion of onoof the funncls passivg twirough tho ludies’ saloon was enclreled Ly s thin cuslug of irom, called “stoatejacket, end which wabflwflh oold water to posvent the head of tho the Latest Styles, cheap and elegant, POPULARPRLCES, 241 WEST MADISON-ST. WEBSTERS. piercing whrick, and saw Lor fall on boing told that all was ovor. Withs that tho sleoper hersell uttered a loud shrick, which awakencd her. Bhe found hoisolf cut of bed and atanding on the floor in the middlo of the room, and holding on to n chair, The truth or orror of this dream ro- mmns yot to bo ascortoined. Wa shall roport tho result whatever it proves to bo. Mrs. Kyan in firmly convinced that it is true.” —_—— A City Almost Orphaned, From the Terre Haute (Ind.) Journal. A narrow ogcapo from what would bave been a real calamity to thoe city occurred Monday oven- ing, uo less” than the iuvolviug of tho lives of the Mayor and the City Councll. It has thus far been kopt quiot, and troatedas little joke. Tha gentlomen woro ingido the now 6-foot sower, making an examination of it as A commitioe of tho wholo, all being presont, wo undorstand, ox- copt Mr, Hoyward. Each held a lighted candlo, aud they had progreased from the river to Scce ond stroet, whon suddenly the intetior of the sowor was filled with stosm. It produced soma inconveuience, and all got out a8 soon as possi- blo. Tho fact Les sinco baen found that the Dlow-off pipe of tho hominy mill passes under tho sower, aud that it hupponed to be tho timo for closing of worlk in tho mill for tho day, and tho engincer, not knowing they wero thero, had started to Iet out tho stoam. But as ho did 80 ho found somo trifling obstyuction was in tho valve, and 80 ha let down the lover uatil he could at~ tond to it, and did not lot out tho steam until somo time aftorward, whon the Mayor and Councilmen were out. Tho deluging of the sower with hot steam, at 100 ‘pounds prossure, {from thogo threo big boilers, would have killed any membor of tha party almost istantly, and beforo thay could have suoceeded in gotting out of tho placo, Their cacapo seoms providential. e G e Insurrection in Senegnl. The Brussels papor, L¢ Nord, publishes a lot- tor written from 8t. Loule, Sonogal, in_which it is atated that ** Our colony, which for moro than {four yoars has cujoyed completo tranquility, has just been surprisod by very serious evonts, The {amous ngitator, Let Dior) whose influence over the Mohammedan |mpulazlon is onormous, has takon tho fleld. Tho total under his control aro estimated at 10,000 men. Lo Cayor has already beon militarily occupied by him. Ho in- Bfiimuuch torror that all tho Moors, women, childron, and old men, have flod from thoir villngos, and bavo sought our protection at tho ports noar 8t. Louis, ‘Thiore are many wounded among them, Our Governor, Col. Valiero, whoso health has boon for some timo greatly affected, is making pru‘pnrntionn prior_to commencing a campaign against Lat Dior. Unfortunatoly, tho forcos at lug disponal at this moment aro not sufliciont to enable him to crush tho robels. Aid has been requosted from Fravce, 8t. Leuis, from its instlar position, is socure against a coup de¢ main, but tho inland road by Dukar and Gorco i8 alrondy cut by tho enomy, and those establishmonts, helu(i') inadoquately garrisoned, are threatenod. Lot Dior 16 sid to have uumor- ous cavalry, and tho Moora aro flisterate horse- mou. REMOVAL. REMOVAL We shall move, on MONDAY, Nov. 9, to 124 State-stgu [ R LSS ‘Where we shall open an elegrant exmum = stock of LACES and EMBR&I_— FURNISHING GOODS, E(.Ls_- IERY, GLOVES, &o., &rc. Duir- ing the present week we shag offer everything in our stock xfi greatly reduced prices in order e e B o S R S tonlakerobmior our Sroshutonls, JA8, B FOSTER & €0, State-st,, under Palmer House, “HEATING Churches, Schools, Houses, &c., A SPECLALTY! BLISS & W.ALLS, B2 LAWENT,, C11ICAGO, “‘lL.'-a i NTON I , for Tard, 8o oo iraied JOYRTON, St Dl Oron Stoves, ltegisters, Ventl A Liquor-Seller's Defonse. Tho San Fraucisco Ala says: ** A man tried in Toulumuo;Couuty, Colifornis, lately for solliug wiue to thé Judians, sought to ogcape punisi- mout on the limu“d that tho liquid lo sold ag wine syay renily s mixture of water, vinoger, aud sugar, Ho failed to prove this averment; but o called attoution to the fact that on A previous occasion he had boou tried for solling whisky, which proved, on examination, to bo water, vine- gar, and cayotno peppor, So it scoms to bo a erima to sell the genulna articlo, and uo crimo to sell & fraudulont tmitation. A man proves that hoe bus baon guilty of a grenter olfenso o escapo pusnishment for o smallor ono.” Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, for the Cure of Consumption, Coughs, & and Colds, Thia groat virtuo of thia modiolno is that it ripens tha ‘uattor aud throws 1t out of tha systow, purifies tho blood, and thua offocta a curo, Hchonck's Sea Wead Touto, for tho our of Dyspopsia, Iudlgestion, ota. The Tonla pro- ducos a hoalthy aotion of tho stomach, creating on appo- tito, formlng chyle, and ourlng the most obatinato casos of indigoation, Bchonak's Mandrake Pills, for tha cura of Livor Gawplaiat, eto, Theso Pills aru altarative, snd produco & hoaltby action of tho liver, without tho loast dangor, ax they ase froa from caloma), aud yot mora o, oxclous in restaring a hoalthy aotion af tho lvor, Thoss reniodlon ro a cortaln oure for Consumption, ea the Pul- monle Byrup ripona the suattor and purliles the blood, Tho Mandrako Pills act upon the Yivor, eroato » hoafthy bilo, aud romove ull dluoasox of the livor, ofton a causn of Consumption, Tho Hos Weod Tanio gives tono sud strongth to tha atemach, makes goad digestion, oad on. ablos tho argans o forn kood blood; and thus creatos & hualthy oirculation of hoalsly blood, The combiuod so- 4on of thoso modiolaos, as thus oxplatasd, will cure ovory oas0 of Causumsptlon, if takon in Lo, and tho uso of tho wodisios porsoverd in, D, Sclionck Is profosstonsily at hfs princlpal offics, corner Blxth and Archests., Phila- delphi, avery Mouday, whare all Jettoss for advios mush b addrossed, ~ TRUSSES, &a, : COMMON-SENSH TRUSS. i Jnitad Bfates Qoverninent as the best pAoptod byt Ubies St 5e oand of Alodioul Oftoars Srgaieud i aceurdincewith &2’ Aab ot Uotgrets, sb- e MENCE, K. BATNER, Surgoon-Genoral U, 8. BT A R S ——. that POSITIVICLY QUILES ICUPUSH MANUFAGTURED BY BARTLETT, BUTMAN & PARKER 80 Stato-st., Chicago. Kinds, Suuportors, Shoul ‘ljh:‘k l’;l;»’lkj"x!:xl, (T My HE s H Ty 1 Risnatkotars eatabliatied fn 1846, Oites ' Ohloago wabi ysars,