Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 4, 1874, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY KING CARROT IN CAROLINA. The Oollege --- Nullification’s " Alma-Mater. How It Governcd---A. Lesson from Dend Walls, From Our Otn Correspandent, CoLuam, 8, 0, Oct, 20, The melancholy comody of * Lo Rol Carrot,” whero the looss music of Offonbnoh and tho Grookish dialognio of Sardou wero put at onca to tho ilmstration and the flagellation of their poriod, contained, anong others, two suggestivo Beonea: First, n tho Hall of Avmors, where the profil~ gnto yonng King, sesuming o make tho ofiigles of his oncestry smoko nud drink, ia carsed by thiem aloud in chorus, Again, whoro Pompoil, restorod in its opulonco and crowd, slnks pud- denty from the atago, and nothing romaing bub soma ruius upon o wasto of Inndscapo, to which the chorus nddresses o tondor olergy. 1t was with somo ramombranco of thoso acenos that I stood, in tho autnmn of - this yoar, 1874, ab tho GATRWAY OF TIT: COLLEGE of South Carolina, in the Clty of Colmmbin, and boheld, in tho inclosed equare, tho stago of ono of tho sweotest and most grotosquo comedios to which music and gentiment might be written. Tho greatness snd mistako of tho mosy brittiant Btato in tho South were organized about this Collego. 1loro tho arising—indoed, the arison—Commonwonlth placed {ta opinion and culturo in trustooship, snd nursed {ts Gov- ernors and statesmen, For balf-a-contury, tho Profossors, Vititors, and Alumni of this Collogo preseribod tio politics of tho Stato, and of much of tho United States as woll. Rindicalism in thonght and inquiry, publicism in its latest acopo and freodom, morals and philosophical law, wero hero not loss distinguishing, howover limited tha arcns, than at Ilarvard or Edinburg, Over- wholmed by n socinl deluge, unoxpected and vio- lont, but not illogical, any moro than tho Revo- Intion in France, which hna boon sttributed to Toyalty oxtending protection to a Ttepublio, tho College of South Carolina is to-day a Negro University, As if the geniusof the placo bad appeared upon tho walls, and, with hor wand, called from the earth leok, turnip, and carrot, to arise and govern, tho Colloge-yard fills up with Afrlcan ladg and girls, o few whito faces intor- mixod; and tbo State continues o theso, by Leglolaturos overshelmiugly African, tho lboral Bubsldy which, to tho grass figuro of a million or moro, & lato Caucasian dynasty gavos Facuity sud pupilage wholly whito. TOTAL ECLIPSE. Tho rovolution of the War may bo atudied at this spot in its radical entiroty ; and o porfect is tho transformation of man, so porfect tho antiquity of tho scono, that all mercly current criticiem is superficial, and the mind attains a reach and prospect afforded only whoro pootry and history enlarge each othor, TIHE BCENE is Acadorio. A brick wall nnd coniral gatoway, in a shady stroct of the width, uniform in Colum- bis, of 100 feot, lead tho eyo to a plazn shaded with oak-treea, snd on threo sidos bordored with dwellings and balls, gonerally of brick, ofton wine-clad and orupmented with flower-beds ; and In tho_contro iy a Collogo-monument of pious record. Tho vistn of the streot, lead- ing to theso gronnds, is closed Dby tho Publio Hall—tho ' scono of tho Commencementy and Exhibitions,—which _ro- gombles, in its Corin thian columns and portico the Clurch of the Madelaine, in Paris. Noar ot hand is tho Stato Capitol building —n granite odific of more protonsions than tho onginal Capitol at Wasbington, whoso elaborato wiugs it antedates in design, The monolithic columus, hewn from the fine native quarries of Caroliun, still roposo upon tho grass, snd other moesive blacks lie over the commons, whilo the structure i just hnbitable under its roof of blackoned ‘Planks, yet gorgeons in chambors enrpoted and furnishicd by tho plundor of tho poople. There tho Btato Treasurer ia & obrow megro, cdueated in Scotland; the Governor is an Ilobraic nativo, oducated at this Collogo; the chief military officer is a negro of the local name of Uayne; the Licntonant-Governor is an fmported megro; tho Controllor iu o resignod rogular-nrmy officer, of tho class stigmatized ns “ carpot-baggers "5 tho Attorney-Goneral con- ducted most of thoe Adjutant-General’s work for tha Confederate nrmy; the Supremo Court is composed of n Ilebrow, a visiting negro, snd s Noriborn immigrant, Alassachusetts aud Penn- gylvanin furnish the organizing mind af tho now Btate. It was perhaps inevitablo that the Collego should follow its almsgivers into tho Af- vican camp. Yot, boforo that State-Tlouso aroe the portraits, 1n marble reliove, of Hayne and McDuflio, Tho iron monument in tho State-Ilouso yard, of a palmotta tree, colored to naturo, is to commom- orato tho soldiery killed in the pursuit of Texas from Mexico. Negro convicts, guarded by ne- groes with muskets, work to complots the edifico 1 which, it was belioved, tho permanont Goy- ornmont of the Blave Ropublic would make ite Capitol. Tho roal Government, thongh nostili- tios bave now consod uearly ton years, is afforded by thoso two companics of rogular troops on tho platenu of the Collego and Cnpitol, who aro inspected avory worning, and whosoe ofticors, though apart from politics, aro upon slight social terms with 1130 old part of the popaluce. Irom tho hoights of tho Coliege, the graon Valley of tho Congnreo, whoso springs arein tho Appalachian Motntnins, is unfolded to tho eye, with its distant boundary of blue nidge. From the other sido, tha cannon- ors of Sherman, late n the War, directed thoir shells upon the city first in tho Now World, per- ‘haps, to honor Columbus in its name, Tepublican lifo, moving with the rapidity of the will, even when aflixed io Slavery, has epanned centuries of ordinary movoment in tho history of this town. It was the fivet deliborate- y-planned Capital, Sinto or National, after the Hm'c\\\nmwré War; snd the groat uatlva saldier of that War, Bumtor, lived in this vicinity until pullitication becnmo tho policy of the State, or until jess than thirty yoars from the outbronk of tho \War of Socession, Hore, 120 miles from tho const, and procisely tho samo numbor of yenrs fram the Luglieh settiomont of tho State, tho Legislature wns convencd the yoar after Wash- jngion's inauguration, aud & Canatitution was forthwith debated nnd issued hero, which, with unimportant amenduionts, lasted a8 long 8y Blavery. The year after Washington City was accupied by John Adams and hia buresu ofiicers, THE COLLEGE Sy o of Bouth Caroline was eudowed, to give digaity aund seholarship to the Cnd'nilnl town, thon soatod in tho foresta : snd £08,000—n0 mean sum in thoso days—waa appropriated for thoso voner- ablo buiidings which we still behold. Ionce- forward the Collego wne tho intolicctual invig- orator of the State,—boaring that rolation to the Capitol which the College of (he Propaganda hours to the Papal Throne, and oatablished bo- nonth its eaves, A cwenmatantial jesnitry solocted its Proei- dents and Profossors, not tho aflinity of the native people ; for who could have prmflclml for this virgin hehool that the sccidents of wind and flood would bring to its throshold, us Calyin was Yrought to Goneva, the pupil of the TFrench Rovolution and the disciplo of Prioutley, Thomaa Coaper ? Ho arrived at Columbin in the yoar 1819, eloven yeara boforo the suceess of Nullifieation, of which ho was tho powerful procoptor. After tho puceoss of his uitra doctrines of Provinecial Boverelgnty, ho revised tho statutesof the Stats, Aud it may bo aftirmed that tho poculiar local doctrines of South Carolina, which appoared ta deutroy in time its wider loyalty to the Fedoral Btato, wore ns much begotten from tho Imnmn of independonce in tho highost realna of thought and challenge, as from any moaner sonsltivouuss %0 tho perils of Siavery. It is true that, aftor yoars of conflict, an acarhity and_ restlessnca rolated to” Slavery ‘do- velopod as atandard traits of tho Carolina_char- sctor, T'his was Calhouniem,—n tlnuf collatoral and mubsequont to tho school of thought nt South, Carolina_ Colloge, whero the generous formont of mind grow out of tha procapta af men wiio wero grown up st the outbreak of the Fronch Revolution, coorER was 35 yoars of agowhen hosnilod from TEngland, —having witnossed years of tha rapressivo pol- foy of his nativa country toward tho mulltude wfl!uh wympathized with tho enfranchiso- ment of France, Ifis residenco uoar Pricat- loy, in Yennsylvanis, was ombittered by n{rm for libel_ under the Hedition law; and, having sufforod the loss of a Biato Judgoship for strong temper, he cume to -Caratinn with a momory a8 well as u polioy, Huth tho groat Fational partios wore obuoXxiows 1o bin, Ko ‘had dofonded Duane, Jefforaon's mont colobrated Jonrnalist, an barristor, and had boon bimsolt condomned by tle arbitrary Judge Onaso ; and ogain, dishonored by bis political allles, snld ss follows: *1 have influence with no party. I have willingly nnd doliberatoly fucnrrod the dendly batrod of the most violesit and thorough- Rolug of my own." Tho man without 8 party, like tho man with- aut a country, plues for ono; and Bouth Caro- ling scewme to hava boen paentiarly hospitablo to that olnas of Englisl, Irish, and Northorn Tadicnls whoso Hopublicanism outran the Ho- publio. IMFRIMIA, At the closo of the Rovolution, nothing fro- tlous waa romarked of this Stato, It was rock- onad s Fedoralists' Stato, fndecd, and tho two groat_Piucknoys woro successively mentioned with John Adama for Prosident. ‘Tho Virginla and Kentucky resolutions of = State Rights bronght no reeponse from this loyal Stato, aud its public men woro g0 averse to Jofforson that tho voto of tho Stata was cast for Burr, rather- in-law of Josoph Allston, Thoro was one Pinck- noy, bowover, of the socond gonoration, who_adhored to Jefforsom,—Goy. Chnrlen Pinckuey. Ilis son, graduating at this Collega of Bouth Carolina,.become the propriotor of tho Charleston_ Mercury; bis daughter married Robort Y. Haypo, the Iaw-siudont of Langdon Cheoves, who was oneof tho paronts of Dis- union, Yo himself opposed tho original Mis- sourl Compromise. But the ewo brothers Pinoknoy—elder eonslng of Charlos Pincknoy—woro Federalists, with Rutledgo, William 8mith, and Robert Goodloo Ifarpor. Al those mon were in time weoded ous of publio lifo by tho tising powor of Bouth Car- olina_Collego and tha doctrines taught thero. “Iie Colloge wau mado o part of the Stato,—tho Bonrds of 1'nsteos nnd the Logislature rigor. ously supervisiug tho political opiniona put for- ward ; end, in turn, the offspring of those opin- ions bocame politiciana and ‘I'ruatcos themsolves, and again held tho autbority of both will and tradition over tho onrriculum. In po Stais are the names of londers of op~ posito opinion more provokingly confounded than in South Carolivn. The explanations I hayo mado of tho nou-identity betwsen the two older Pincknoys and the junior mny be repeated of tho Smiths and IInrpers. William Harper, who graduated at the Collegs in 1808, was the ‘!Jrillci[l)nl Jjuristof Nullification, Willinm Smith, nited Statea Sountor for twwelve years, wna nlso o Nullifior, unlike his namesake, althongh driven from the Stato by unavailing porsonal opposition to Calhoun. GEOGRAPHIOAL, POLITICS, Tho sito of this Collogo {8 n partieniar point of ovidenco ns to its influohce upon the political status of the Blate, The oculturo and refino- mont of South Carohna—that which propared for tho Rovolutionary con- tost, and had_ the moritimo instinots of nationnlity—lived wholly in tho lower couutry, along the coasts, whore Fronch, English, and Holland Protostants, and Scoteh shippers, im- bibed tho goneral ewilization of constwiso so- cloty, froely communicated with the othor Col- ouigs, oud went their children to the bost achools of Europe. ‘Tho upper parts of the Provinco, in- Libited by Indians, and ovorrunwith buffalo and gamo, had beon firat penetrated by tradors and cowherds of & vagaboud sort, and aftorwards by Scoteh-Irish settlors, amongst whom were tho Calliouns, Pickeneos, aud Butlers, Duriug tho Ttevolution, tho gonst-parta woro subjugated; but tho bighlands wero possessed by wvartisan Dbands, which, aitimatoly, co-operating with Gou, Giroeno, broko up tho Dritish posts, and won s wide reputation for courago and military cntorpriso. Such man_were not disposed to nc- cede, aftor tho War, to an aristocratic domina- tion. Whilo tho constwise peoplo supported Washington and Adams, the loveling idess of Jofferson wero responded to by tho upland opulaco, which lind menntimo greatly in- creased, and actually outnumbered tho lowland planters. Wholly difforent from these English and Huguenot pooplo, brod to horseback, to forny snd feud, rough and nggressive, aud ac- customod to littlo other govarnmont than what hins sinco borne the name of Ku-Kiuxism, tho Uppor Carolinlans domandod the Capital to bo sot_moarer tho contro -of the Slato and tho lowlandors Lastenod to suggest a College to ne- compnny it. 'They wished to spacinlizo the in- telligenao of tho lower and uppor people befora oxtonding the reprosentation to a groat, erudo class. Wo bave not, in this generation, beon so rospectful to lonm\n‘?. ¥ Johu Rutledge and Tom Drayton woro the con- ceivors of tho College. Lho lesding Trustees wero Drayton, C. C. Pincknoy, 1. . do Snus- suro (Washingtow's firat Diroctor of tho Nint), Jobn Chostuut, Col. Thomas Taylor, aud Col. Wade Hampton, Tho Inst two, residents of tho oung Cupital-Gity, contractod ‘for the Colloge- {\uildmgu, and placed thom on tho spot. Both thoso men lie buriod close to te Alma Mator they provided for tho posterity of the Statn. April 28, 1804, the ‘Irustecs met to oluct & Fac- ulty. Nothing sectional animated thoir choico, but in that eelection, Insensibly, the institution took an orifi'mu\ bias for ¥Free Trade in econ- omics, and the Jeffersonian ideas of limited soy- oreignty. MAXEY AND THE UAMMONDS. Jonathan Mnxey, proviously President of Brown Univorsity,—where Wn;lnnrl, in subgo- quent years, lectured for Froe Trado,—and also President of Union Colloge, where he succooded Jonathan Edwards,—was called to the hend of tho institution, 1o was a graduato of Drown. With him were associated Llisha Hammoud, o young Dartmouth graduate, pedagoguing in tho Btato, and Haaford, a graduate of Yale, 1t took but a goneration to mako this man of Now Bedford the father of a son, who, above all othors, was the inimediate psront of tho War for Disunion,—Jamer 1I. Hammond. Ho it was who invented tho term * mudsill,” and tho chal that ** Cotton is King," and gsld that “The South can raise, equip, snd maintain in tho flold, a Jarger army than any Power on oarth can sond ageipst lior.” Part of this was truno; but that man was the son of 'a mudsill, His fathor matried in that part of Coroling which hos produced she whole malcontent influenco of tho State,—tho Western contro,—und died in 1829, at Columbin. Ono of his sons translated Jomi- ni just beforo the War, for the military instruc- tion of tho Carolinians; the elder marriod Miss Fitzaimmons, a connection of tho Lamptons, and their home, on tho Savannah Iuver, was tho meoting-place of tho latest Secossionists. Sen- ator Hanymond was s graduato of tha Collego, an Aido of Gons. Hayno and Hamilton in tho at- tompted war of Nullification, und, while Gov- ernor, ho wrote to the Dritish Abolitionist, Clarkson (1845): 1 indorse, without roservo, the much-nbused sentimout of Qov. McDuflin, that *Slavory is tha comer-stone of our republican ediflen’s while I repudiate, 88 ridiculously absurd, that mugch- lauded, but nowherc-accredited, dogms of Alr. Jafferson, that * All men aro born equal.’” 1t may soften our projudices Lo note that tha gon of n Now-Engiander was the most violent of tho Carolinisna, **Ho was tho_best-informed and boldest mun we had,” said Mr. Biobels to me, *aod would have boen a great man but for his'nncontrollablo nppetites.” During tho War Lo diod, Blustor was over. The vonerablo Maxey, wearing his kneo- breoches, hooted by tho desperatoly-bad Caro- lininn boys, sweot and long-suffering, and in concord with the State, thongh once summoncd by the Trustees to resign, died in 1820; and it is his monument which stands on the Campuo, cov- ered with a long Latin inscription, TIE VERY FINST 8TUDENT to enter the Collego, and Fndunm from it, wos Willinm Harper,—''tho Eldon of tho Stato,” ho is called,—but no Disunionist was moro rabid, and Lo elaimed that Calboun was not 8o early as himself in_favor of Nullifieation, Ho, too, was tho son of & strangor, ono of John Wesloy’s Dritish itinorants, sont by Wesloy himsclt to Amerion, with Coko, Atforbury, and Dra- zlor. 'fhis man was tho " only Judge on the Bench of Appeals who non-concurred in tho opinion of Judges Johnson and O'Neal), that thio aalh of Stuta uupromacy over the United States was uncoustitutional and void, This was Just after Nullitlention. The Lydrophobine pop- ulnce, oxcited by tholr politicians, soon aflor- wards swept the Court of Appenls out of exist~ once. o read in those College-annals of ITookor, of Connecticnt ; of Grogg, Whoeo son lios buried in the Columbin Cometery, a Confedorato General ; of Irigh Blackburn, of ‘I'tinity Colloge, nnd John Browu, who wont to school with Androw Jack- goo, and fought under Bumter, nnd lics in tho Dresbytorinn churchyard ; of Lardnor Yauusom, who survoyod tho State's Loundary-lino, and founded tha Geological Burvoy of Carolina and Now Yorl ; of Isano W. Stuart, who road law with “Toucoy, in Connecticut; of Catholie Wallace,who Ellhliulmll the Stuthern Revicw, snd Robert W, ibbes, who edited tho Sonth Carolinian and the documentary history of the State; and many other P'rofousors who worked at tho roots of this Palmetto. In 1809, while tha Colloge wase still at tho Lreast of the Btate, JOHN CALDWELL, CALIIOUN, nowly-olocted to the Legislature, was made ono of tho Trustaes, 1fo wan at this Lime 27 years of ago, # graduato of Yalo and of the Litchfleld Taw-School, ono of tho aclons of Donogal, wheuce bis graudfather had salled for Ponusyl- vaula whilo his father was a yoarlng, Moving, ‘with the Proteatant-Irisl mrt{uualty. from placo to place undor the Bluo Ridge rauge, the Cal- houns came to Abbovillo, hundrods of milos from their first eettiement in Penusylvania, and at this village, in a log-house built by one of the Hamiltons, the greatest Provincial rep- utstion fu the Houlh was hegun, He used to stond barchoadod befors his olllgo, tnlking his ratiocinations into the oam of dlors; and, whon bo oamo to Columbis, and bokold a orude Colloge, with two or throo soore of atudonts, the onrnfln.nltf was inviting _to maka for himaelf & yoluntary P'rofessorship. He did, for yonrs, forlito, work upon those undor- raduates,—now for good, now for ovil, Talk- ' was il forto, rensont ng n dolight, partiou- Iarly with n llstenor, No Dbloodauckor ovor fantonod upon a juvemilo intelloct lko this lugubriously-sincore man, Governmont was hig oyator, Ilo mnde politics prodestinerian, In ofiice, ho was confidont and liboral; In dofeat, ho ~wasm a rossonlvg moon in oclipso, tingoiug ~ tho whalo aronoa with thochill and flfoker of s solar constitution- alism, o romomborod and transformed the light that did not shine for him, Asyot ho was in no oclipse, and ono of tho Uolloge-lade was McDuflle. MoDufflo, » poor xat, waa a protogo of ono of Callioun's unclor. ilo and Hayno, with oy, Hamilton, and with Oalhoun for' the Mufihlnlo, rafsod the outor riot, while the Colloge within waa the newspapor, tho lyconm-leotiro, tho toxt-book, and the fooder of sedition, Lot me close this lottor with what ITugh Swin. ton Logare, one of the fow graduaten of this Col- logo wlhio novor forgot the wholo country, wrote to another gradunto : LEGAI ON OALIOUN. . Writing to the Lon. A. Huger, in 1894, Logars anys of Cnlhonn : *Nullifieation {s, with him, it sooms, what the Irench call an idle fize,—a monomania ; in short, ho is, quoad hoo, stark mad, just as Inyno 18, nud porhaps ono or tvo mora of tholr leadors. Tt {s really lamontablata think that Calhoun's ‘pre-ominent abilitios as & politician have been so wnmllygnlnanl(nd. Thero {s nobody to bo com- pared with bim in tho managomont of men and affairy ; in moro discussion, ho is not equal to abstor, whoso gonius, bosides, has n beant; and ologance that the athor is quito dostituto of. 1 have no hositation in unylnE. hotwovar, that ho 1a by far the fitiost man in the country for the Drosidontial Chinir, and that, ovon now, 1 have no doubt porwer would oure him of his motaphysical dolusions, ns it did once baforo.” GATIG THE VICTORIA COLONY. Scientific Farming nnd Stock=Radning on o Lorge Scnle in Kanans—kmprove ing the Ifrocds of Cattle and Sheep— Educnted Colonintne. Fyom the New York Tribune, Qloorge Grant, who has boon for the pnst two yoars improving and colonizing a large tract of laud in Kougas upon the Kaneas Pacific Railroad, is now sojourning in thia city, and his account of tho improvemonts and successes of Vietoria Col- ony is vory Intorosting. ir. Grant saya that ho was altractod to this soction of Kansse whilo makiog a tour through the United States in 1872, Tho soil was found to be rich and daep, and the bultalo grass, Instead of growing In patchos with n wasto of sand intervemng, waa hero continuons, The entiro snrfaco resombled o thick crop of enrly hair; Evorything that Naturo oould furnish to mako this section atiractive as a grazing country seomed to abound. Mr. Grant Purchasod a Iargo tract and dotormined to settlo tho country wilh a class of mon who, by roasson of oducation, would farn Innd seientifically, and male Victoria Colony the homo of cultivation and rofinemeut, Now, only two yours nfter Mr, Grant's first vinit, many farms have boon bought by porsons who would bardly bave gono into business if thoy had remained at homo. The population of Victorin ia ostimated at about 160 persons, Among the geutlomon who have set- tlod thore are the Hon, Waltor Maxwell, son of Lord Herries, of Evringham Park, Yorkshire, England; the son of Charles Gunther, a brother of ox-Mayor Gunther, of this city ; and Walter A. Shiclds, the hoir to tho Shiclds catato, All thio sottlors ao of on oqually good olass, form- ing & nuclous for others’ from Tiastorn cities and towns, Mr, Grant js also no- gotintinf with tho Land Department of tho Kansns Uncific Railway Company to buy the ro- mminder of their lsnds'in_the adjoining town- ships in Ellis County. This will oxtend his pos- sesslons ovor 900 Bquare miles, and Mr. Grant will then own in foe simnplo 288,000 acres of land in ono body. Ho intends to place upon this tract coloniats like thoge who have Alroady sot~ tled upon the torritory included in Victoria. A station two stories high bns been buily at Victoris, and tlig building is used as the hend- quartora of the colony. The building is bailt of Inmestono that is quarried in abundanco In the noighborhood, The station is surmonnted by o cupola, and a covered verandn oxtends around jt. This buitding suewers many purposes. It is the railway station, and also the lotel, store, aud poat-ofico of the colony, The largest inclosure or corral i8 on tho wost sido of the station. This contninasovontoon acres. It is inolosed by & barrod fonce, with strong poats about 8 foot,apart. Tho earth hus boen banked up to a lovel with tho top of the fonce, aud the slope has been thickly sodded. A line of sheds extend around this inclosure as s protection to the flocks in evore weathor. Tho inclosure ia di- vided into soparnto compartments, and the di forent flocks onn b taken care of, and by its o shoplord, williont i sy wiy intorforing with tho others. Other tracts in differont eec- tions of Victorin have boon inclosed by stone walls six foot bigh, tho topsof which are’covered by broad, flat, overhanging stones that protect the flocks not only from tho storms, but also from dogs and wolves, This eheltor porhaps might not bo necessary through sovoro weather for 850 doys in the year. Sovernl largo housos of stone, with extensive out-buildings, have boen orectod by othor settlors, Blr. Maxwell aud Mr. Qunther have aleo inclosed corrals with high stono walls for thoir flocks. . Tho wholo colony presonts a thriving and attractivo appoaranco. Mr. Grant bns o flock of Colorado merino shoop numbering 6,684, Ho bas imported 81 Cotawold, Tincoln, Uxford Down, and Leicostor owes, and 59 rams of the anmo broods, from tho Dest English tlocks, ninking tatal of 6,724 sheop. 1o has nleo 500 eattlo in good condition, and 12 imported bulls of high podigrec. Ia oneof Mr, Grant's stono corrals 5,000 shoop can bo shol- tored, and s house for the shophords is built in conncetion with that inclosure. Labor is ob- tained at foir pricoe. Laborers receivo $1.50 a day, or, whou hired on long jobs, 830 to £40 a ‘month sud * find themsglves." Ar. Grant bolieves in improving the broods of his cattle and shoep, and his business in this city 18 partly connectod with shipplug valuable imported sguck to Victorie. Ho has now ins |+ stablo in this city & lhnmughbrnd etallion, Flod- den, which comes from a loug lino of oup win- nord, Light puro Bhort-horn bully, selected from the noted horda in England, aud four Angus polled bulls, coal black aud finely propor- tioned, have beon imported and aont to Victoria, Many Of tho hords arcacross betwoon Bhorte horn and Oberokee, making almost as fine look- iug atock as thorougbred, Mr. Grant proboses to alternate botweon tho Angus polled aud Short- horn, and a8 his herd incroasos tho poorest aro to be cnlled and sont to morket. In this way tho stock will bo under constant improvement, and the market will ba !lfl:pllad with & good olass of beef. Not only are the flocks oxpectod to yield 2 large revenue in wool, but also tho avuual in- ox-mln{u'u in lambs will bo & constant source of profit. Though tho stook business promised to bo Inrge, yot agrieultural operations on an exten- eive scalo huve been begun. Tho roault of tho agricultursl operations of the colony cannot be fairly estimatod this season on account of tho mvu@gflu of the grasshoppors. Mr. Grant snys thint tho grasshionpers did not destroy tho buffa- lo grnos, and the grazing was not impairod by the visit of thoso pests. ' Thoy lit on l{:la Hrass, but whether it was so thiok that thoy wade no improasion, or whothor the gragshoppers do not food npon buffalo grags, Mr, Grant could not suy. ‘Tho soll is rich, and tho indications aro that heavy crops may be raised upon tho eutire tract, . Improved mothods of ngricultura are em« ployad with saving of time and Iabor, ‘I'he oxen aro not yokad, but seomed to work much bottor under & collar, liko that usod for horsos, A considerablostream that never bocomas dry Tuny through the tract. At the station a largo well hos been dug, and o tank las been buitt thoro, luto which wator Is forcad by machinery, ‘Phis tank haa a capacity of 50,000 gallons, From this tank the water is supplied to the bath in whiich tho sheop are washod. Some of the shoop that como from Wisconsin wero afllicted with #eabs, The buth was dovised to curo tho flocks of this disase, that otherwiso might spread do- structivoly, Thoro ure three boilers holding 950 gallons each, and in those tho wator s heated for thobath. Tho solution fu which the shaop aro washed 14 made by adding tobacco aud aulphur, iu proportiona of iwenty pounds of tho former and five pounds of tho lattor to 100 gallons of wator, Mr, Grant does not add the three pounds of arsonlo uscd by some, ns hio doon not beliove that it incroases tho oficieucy af tho solntion. Tho bath holds 4,000 gallona of this solution. In the funor part is a raisod plat. form, upon which tho shoop can climb, aud stand and drip, the solution running off their bodies _and flowing back into the bath, Tha method of washing is to drive the sheep np o path, which gradually narrows, until only one #heep follows another in line, ~Huddeuly thoy drop into tho buth, plunging n all ovor, and tho golution reaches overy part, They n[g rlly foltow one another, and in o day and o nlf 5,850 shaop woro dipped, and tho arraugements are to bo mado moro perfeot Btill. Mr, Grant proposes to viglt somo of the farms in this section whera fino stook is bred, and, wharaver he can, in lig oplulon, parchase an shimsl whose bigh podigroo will Inoresze the valuo of his other stook. He will ship such stock to Viotorhs, Tho landthat he holds ho will soll to thoso porsons who will sdvanco the bost intereats of the commnnity in Viotoria. Ohurch- o, schools, and olhnndunm‘(u of onlightoned and oduoatod communitios will soon bo in opera- tlon In Victoria. Mr, Grant doclares that in the colony in Victorla young mon of oulturo and oducatign will find a flo)g of usofulnoss which thoy would not_attain in tho cities and towns which aro their homes. 'Thoir monoy would horo yiold a good interost, and they would bo surronuded by a community whoso culturo and rofinemont would make tha suoloty congontal. LOCAL MISCELLANY. FRITH-BILLINGS. The social ovent of yestorlay was tho mor- riage of Mr, Thomas T. Frith to Miss Zolln, tho lovely and mccomplished daughtor of Alr. and Mrs. 3. M. Blllings, of 193 Calumet avonus. The marringo coromouy waa tho over boautiful and Impressive one of the Eplacopal sorvice, aud waa witnossod by an. immonse throng of their frionds as Christ Roformod Epiacopsl Ohurch, nt tho corner of Michignn svenue aud Twonty- fourtn atroot. Tho ofllcinting olergyman was the Rt.-Rev. Bishop Obarles L. Ohenoy. At the hour of 6p.m. the frionds of tho beirothed couple began to sasomblo, and weroe ushered to tholr scats by Messrs. W. D. Cooper, H. Messongor, and J. Camevon. By 7 o'clock the masslvo church was doneoly packed by the frionds of tho contracting partles, and at that hour tha arganist, Me. G, C. Knop- fol, signified tho nppronch of the bridal party by playing the * Tannhauser NMarch,” by Wag- nor, tho folding-doors in tho front of the buiki- ing woro thrown wido opon, and the oagor spec- tators turned thoir faces in that dircction.f | Tho bridal party woro proceded by Miss Mamie Rico nnd Misa Mamie Tuoker, of Kookuk, who wore received at the door by Messrs, Cooper and Mossenger, and ushered to seats in front of tho altar. ‘Tho ushera then returned and recolved tha bridal party in tha following order: Mrs. Billings, tho mother of the, brido, on the arm of Mr, Camoron, Followlng thom was the bridesmaid, Miss Nannio Billings, on the arm of Br, Richard 0. Oliphant, tho grooms- man, and noxt camo tho contro of attraction, tho bride, traugcondent i hor lovoliness, lean- ing blushingly on tho arm of hor fathor. In this order thoy descended tho brond contro aisle of tha church and approached tho altar, whero thoy were mot by the ominout divino and tho expactant groom, who appraached from tho sido door loading from tho chancel. Upon reachiny the altar, the blushing maidon was surrondere to hor choson and nccopted lover; the brides- maid—tho sister of the bride, Miss Nannio— atopping to the loft of Lior sister, and tho grooms- man—Mr, Otiphant—to tho right of the groom, with tho fathior of the bride—Nr. Billings—to tho loft and roar of bis daughter, tho romninder of the pacty occupymng the - soats immediately in front of tho altar, The bride, wuo is a blonde, wan dreased in an oxquisite white sk, box-plaited bohiud, plain dingonal folds in front, with walst trimmed to correspond. ‘Tho bndad veil, which reached to tha edgo of tho long train of the bridnl robo, was fastened to tho hair with orange-blosgoms, from which & traiting wreath of theso bridal flowers wag carried down tho entire longth of ono sido. TIn hor hiaund sho eavriod tho usual bridal bouquet, and wore no ornamouty. B Migs Nannle Billings, tho bridesmald, {s n miss acarcely 14 vears of ago, and iu hor girlish beauty sho rivalod hor statoly sistor, the bride. Sho was drossed in a delicate pluk-tinted silk, trimmed with piaiting, with Paris muslin over- ekirt with natural flowors; the dress cut shart ht"m slird, bocoming & miss just entoring her **toons,” Nr. DBillings gluvo the brido nway, aud aftor tho officinting clorgyman had pronounced the finn! words thnt mado tho youthful couple mun and wifo, and bad_bestowed upon the nowly- wodded pair bis blossing. tho groom gave bis arm to tho bride, and, followed by their friends, tho bappy pair loft the chnrch, while the organ poeled forth tho *Wedding March™ by Mon- dolssohn, At the residenco of the bride's rocoived tho congratulations of friends, Conspicwous nmong Miss Fapnio Willinms, 8 brig cious little lady from North Carolina; also the accomplished aunt of the brido, Ms. Bil-, lings, of Keokuk. The gurlnrn woro beautifully and tastofully decoratod by Alr. Shophord, the florist. The walls, paintings, mirrorg, and chan- deliovs were festooned aud draped with rare whitejlowers,—camollias, tuboroses, ete.,—graco- fully entwined with smilax. Tho prosents to tho bride wers numerous and costly, Among thom wore noticed u beautiful snd chnate set of cameo jowelry, the gift of the groom; o ailver cake-basket, from Mr, and Mrs, Diggs, of New_York; a silvor cake-baskot, from = Miss _DMnggio Custis; A card- recoiver, from Miss Mamio Tucker, of Keokulk » copy of Burns' * Cottor's Saturday Night " from Miss Mumio Kilbowns, of Keokulk; s toilot sot from Mies Mamio Rice, of Keokuk; a full set of napkin-rings from Mr. Duncan, of Dubuquo ; » card-rocoiver from 3r. Oliphant; a cologne-atand from Mr. J. B, Dillinga; n toilot gt from Mr. Camoron ; & suporb statio orn- ment from Miss Ada Norria; and a beautiful Fronch clock from anothor frisnd. The mother's prosent to Ler daughtor was a band- some sot of furnituro, and last, but not lonst, was tho fnther's present, consisting of a doed for four Chicago lots. ‘The supper waa sumptuons and_elegant in ita avery dotail, and was propared by Mr. 4. Wright, of the Palmor Houso rostaurant, who also hnd beautifully decorated the dimnfi-mnm with flow- ors and fostoons of amilax. At thehour of 10 o'olock the guesta ratired, and tho social ovent —next to tho Honors-Grant wedding—of tho geason, thus far, was over, aronts thoy thoir invited them _ wat ht, vicya- —_— GENERAL NEWS. Tho alarm from Box 365 at 9:45 yesterday mormng was causod by tho burning out of a ohimnoy at No, 227 Johuson strect. A slight firo in a shed in rear of Skinner's Hotel, corner of Caval and Mndison streots, caused the alarm from Box 321 last evening. Such mombors of tho prosont wicked and adul- torous genoration as sook n sign inecribed " Surloin Stake " will find it on Madison siroet, near Wood, Tug Trinune noticed the non-recoption yester- doy, for tho first time iu sevoral weoks, of the lettor boginuing, **Lot mo toll you what I know about,” oto., sud signod * Many Votors.” The temporature yostorday, s obsorved by Munaggo; optician, under I'ng Trisuxe Building, was in the shade, at 7 a. ., 40 deg. Fahr.; 10 8. m., 49; 13 m., 65; 3 p. m,, 60; G p. m., 66; aod 8 pom, The regular weokly moeting of the Board of Health will iake place 'Uhuraday nfterncon, It was deferred from Tuosday aftornoon to this datu to give tho membors the wholo day for elec- tioncerlug purposes, Tho portial burning of a frame cottage at No. 414 Burnsido streot, owned by Alexander Stew- act and ocoupiod by H. Dogardus, caused the alarm from Box 125 at 416 yosterdsy moralng. Tosa, #8400 ; insurunce, $300. Tho iire is sup- posed to havo boon sob by an incondiary. Bt. Bridget's Fnir and Festival continues in St. Bridgot's Hall until Baturdsy night, snd is well patronized and proving an immonse suc- cons, ‘Lho fanoy and rofrosbment tables aro most nitractive, Tho fuir la in tho intorest of oducation, and we hope it will prove a grand Buccess, Someo excitemont waa croated yestorday aftor- noon by the discovery of o dead body packed in o barrel, and sddressod totho Aun Arbor Uni- Versity, via tho Amorican Express Company, snd intended for disseoting purposes, The corpse was in tho railrond office at the Central Dopot. CObiof Datective Dixon had it convoyed to tho Morgue, and notificd the Coroner, The city proper does not monopolize enter- prido, nt Jonst in 60 fur as tho saloons aro con- oerncd. One up on Ogdon avenue paya tho wator-tax on a hydrant for the froe acconmmodn- tion of its rural patrous’ teams, and has just put up » gigautio Fairbauk's sealo whero they may woigh their loads, ‘Lo platform is outsido, but the indicstor has been placed in the bur-room, and & oustomer oan hurdly oxpect to hava his welghing doue gratis without * takin' suthin'.” A timid gontleman on Centro avonuoe ha, after wooks of thought, dovised wmothods to make of iy wholo houso & putont, solf-nctiug, burglar- snnounemg machino, On going to bod ho puts empty tin-pans on tho windows, so that thoy shall fall with s thundor-sound whonever the window is pushod up ; thon ho locks tho doors and lonn tho back-logs of chalis against thow, which are to bo previpitated to the floor with u crash shonld any one open the door; theu ho strows the floor with stiff lm\\‘upnrurfl which oracklo boneatl the mopt stealthy trewd ; last, ho places the log of his bedstend agninst the bed- yoom door. Having devised ull “thoso procan- tions, hio went to sloop calmly last night, loaviug bis bodroota window up for air, and & snols thiof ropahyadin with » pole, snd carried away hin NOVEMBER 4, 187 panta and vost, whorein wore his pooket-book aud watch, . ¢ THE ALUMXI ARBOCIATION. The Bxocntive Committeo of tho Alumnl Ao. aociation of the Oliengo University hold & meat- {og i Mr. Peck's office, Lakosido Bullding, yes- torday morning. M. Mabio presidod, and thoro woro prosont Mossrs, Goodapood, Bonfleld, Pack, Eghort, Whoolor, and Shephord, On motion, Mr. Egbort wan olocted Secrotary of the Committeo. P A committoo covalsting of Mossra. Goodspood and Jonfloid wan appolnied to have printed a ciroular embodying the rosolutiona adoptod at tho gonoral mooting of tho Association, and o dotailod lish of tho subseriptions mado at that tima; and aldo to propara an appeal to bo sont to thoso of the alumni who have not yet con- tributed, nuking thow to subscribo to tho en- dnfimast funt, or G i ‘Tho Committoo thon adjourncd, subject to the asil of tho Chalrman. e " g ——— ANNOUNCEMENTS, Tho Chicsgo Photographio Association msjoo this avening st 8 o'clock, at No. 158 Stato stroct. Tho monthly meoting of the Board of Man- agors of tho Ifome for the Friendless will be bold at tho Homo at 10 o'clock a. m, to-day, Thore will bo a prayor mooting at the Third Prosbyterinn Chinrch this evening at 734 o'clock, All are cordinlly invited to those Wednosdsy ovoning prayer-mootings. Thoro will bo & moeting of the Chicago Col- logo of Phnrmacy on ‘Lhursday nfternoon at 8 o'clook. A full attondance in desired, as busi- ;ums of importanco wili como before the meot- ng. The Hannibal Zouaves liold their monthly moeting this ovoning in their rendozyous, on Clark stroat, north of Harrlson, Thoy invito ail Young; colored mon binving sn intorest ia millitis mattors to enroll, Business of importance comes bofore them. The Prosbytorian ministorial &lrnya\‘-mcnflng in McOormlok's Blook will bo hold to-day at 2 . m., instend of 33¢ p. m., 08 stated in sone of the papora. Al the resbytoriau pnstors snd Pro- Ieusors in the Sominary aro carnestly requosted to attond. Monday and ‘Tuesdoy nvenlnfiu, Graco Groen- wood and Mra. Barah Fishor Ames will given novel nnd intoresting ontertalnment at MoCor- mick's Hall,—one which lns mot with eingutar favor at tho East, and will doubtless meet with an oqually warm_ welcomo hora. It consists of readings, imporsonntions, otc., admirably so- lected, and no loss admirably given. These two Indios nre so well known, the one as u writor, and tho other as seulptor and ronder, that it is needloss to go through the form of introducing thom to the publio, —— CRIMINAL RECORD. CIMMINAL CODRT. Judge Booth—No bueiness transncted yester- day. JUSTICE COURTS. Judtice Boyden—Ieabolla Miller, arrested for disorderly conduct ; continued till to-day in bail of $100.—Jobn J. Bennott, arrested on & war- Tant for Intcony ; continued till to-day in bast of $200.—Cathorine Robiukon, arrested on & war- rant for disordorly conduct ; out on special bail i)l to-day in $200.—Michacl Quirk, srrested for larcony ; continued till to-morrow in bail of £300.—James Enright, arrested for burglary ; hold to tho Criminal Court in bail of $100.—1, T, Tarbox, arrested for burglary ; continued till to-day in bnil of §100. 2 Justice Seully—Josoph Smith, arrosted on a warrant for tho larceny of a wateh belouging to Jobu Schmidt, 133 Auguates etrect; held to the Criminal Coutt in bail of §600.—3. Frickeon, arrosted for robbery: continued till to-day in bail of &700.—Martin I[lannigan, .arrested for the Iarcony of & watch belonging to M. Koil, 21 Wost Madison street; hold to the Criminal Court in bail of $700,—Jumes McMoon, nrestod on same charge; hold to the Criminal Court in Dail of ¥300.—James Stovens, hold to the Crim. inal Court in bail of 2700.—Micnnel Moss, rosted for tho larcony of a horse and buggy be- longing to John Tunnigon ; continued till to-day in bail of $700. Juslice Kanfmann—No offendors bofore the North ide Poffce Counrt yestorday. RoBUERY. Tho thioves havo perpetrated two successful and protty heavy rabbories lately. On Monday night they ontored the fur manufactory of Au- gust Knestner, on tho third floor of No. 86 Btate stroat, by gotting down the scuttlo, which they reached {rom sn adjoining building. Four mink colinrs, 125 mink sking, aud a lob of bons woro stolen, Tho police suthorities woro notiticd, but, up to Inst midnight, noclew had been ob- taitiod of the burglars, Saturday afternoon Jnst snoalk-thicyes entored the residonce of Poter Schuttler, corner of Ab- ordeon and Adame stroots, sud stole clothing and jewelry aggregating o value of 81,800. One fino 8haw], valued rt $500, was mnong the stolen goods. The rnlico havo not boo, a8 yet, able to catch the guilty parties. ARBESTS, Fred Leok, Hobor Holloy, Thomas Jefferson, Georgo Johngon, and Heunry 1. Johuson, all col- ored mon, wore arrested yestorday afternoon on tho charge of fraudulent veting in repoating their ballota in’the Third Ward. They were Tocked up in tha Armory. s ————— SUBURBAN NEWS, HYDE PARK. The Trustees mot Mondsy ovening, a full DBoard being prosent. A roquest from the Cap- tnin of Police that tha hosc-carta ehould bo un- dor the control of his department, and that the forco bo incronsed, was referred. The con- tractors for the Park Front breakwator were al- lowed an oatimnte of 38,000 ‘fho Water Superintondant reported that his test of the wator-works was entirely satisfac~ tory, and that the Hoiley enginos hnd supplied tho 8,000,000 gallons por diem, s callod for by tho coniract, Tho final payment of 37,000, tho Lalance hold till the works were accepted, was thon ordored. ‘I'he mattorof liconses atill remnina nndacidod. Mesnwhile, certain of tho saloon-keopers sre m:y”c_hmg high and low for siguaturca for their otilions, "o Itov, Fathor Flansgan mado mn oxhibit Sunday, of the financial condition of the Cath- olic Churen hero, showing it not only to be on- tirely frao from dobt, but with monoy in thoe trontury,—~an uncommon stato of affairs in churches. ——————— _ THE COURTS. Lees than & year has clapsod since Mrs, Phabo B, Wintormeyer intrusted herself and threo small childron to the cars of Julius M. Wintermeyer, and even that short time has beon far too long. Bhe states that she brought Nr, Wintormoyer about $1,500, but that he, disro- garding his vows, lofi hor & fow days ago, and has sinca uttorly rofused to support hor. Not only this, but ho has oxpressly forbidden any tradosmon to supply hor and lor family with tho mnecessarios of life at his ox- pongo. Sho thinks ho is in vory comfortable gircumstances, a8 ho {8 a bookkeeper in tho Northwostern Planing Milla at a salary of 32,000 o year, owne a half interest in o vessol. on tho lakey, & farm in Wisconsin, a largo drug store at No, 884 Indiana stroet, and monoy in bank or invested, Yo add to ker trouble, Mrs. Wintormoyor has also thrown on hor shoulders tho care of an adopted child of his. Not being able to worl, nor to roalize anything from what monoy of her own sho has, sho asku that the defondaut mny bo compellnd to disclose par- theularly tho charnctor aud smount of his prop- orty, and that whe may havo s Auitabla portion thoroof set aside for horaelf and ehiltron, ; UNITED BEATES COUNTA, e Attantlo & Dacillo Totograph Company be- gnn & suib ogaingt Sorollo Yowrson, D, . Hale, gnd 1L, D. Colvin, claiming §2,000, SUPENIOR COURT IN LRIEF Thomay Dounhue commonced a suit in tres- paga againet Goorgo J. Shormau, lovying dam- nges 8t 510,000, GIRCUIT COURT, L. 8, Swoozoy bogan s suit in roplevin against E. 8, Jonos, M, Bradloy, H, B, Galpin, and Jumes Van Fleet to rocover an engine and somo shafting valued at 1,000, Tups GAne—171, 175, Vi 175 i upak GARY—] ) 178 ) 176, 177, 179, 180, 183, 163, 184, 180 ta 104" - Jopuk JasesoN—Call to 165, Junak Roakns—No enll Lill further notico. Jupun 'nee—Will call from 230 to 800, axcopt 282 and Y0, on Judge Booth's calender. JUDGEMNTH, Cinovir Count—Conrrssions—Harrison O, Jones ve, Qhusles A, Xinlo and W. N, Drunuer, $1,025, < e . Prince & Co.’'s Organg, Fine orgnus with aix stops for $145, warrauted firal= class in tone and fnish, Monoy refuuded if not wate isfactory. Rood's Tanplo of Musio, 03 Van Duten ook Bottled Mineral Wators for Tamilics by Buck & Bayper, makers of the ' Mars Gologpa THE CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION. Report of the Executive Com. mittee. Summary of the Work Accomplished by the Committee. M'tbnngnlnr monthly mosting of the Citi- zona' Ansociation, hold at thoir rooms, Iast ovon- fog, B. P. Dorlckuan, Vics-Prosidont, In the chalr, and Mr. J..0, Amblor actiug na Sacrotary, the following report wna presanted ; 1b“l‘hl fllllen:; A:ém:ln"alr of Chicayo: “Clio Exncutive Committee, befors proosed dptafled ACOURE of Procending Tonred b ek ular monthly roport, desira to oxpreas tholr gratoful #onso of tho marked publio appreclation of thelr por vices, manifented 1n & varlety of ways and of datly oo- currence, Buch manifeatations aro thin Aonres of groat oncouragoment to thom in the prosceution of lktors whiich are at least arduoun, aud, without suoh ncoure agement, might be_considored’ onoroun, Thoy winl aino o afludo vory bilotly to the contiuned prosperity of flio Awocitlon, ne reflceted In 118 ducroanod mombos. ship, its_sound foancial condition, sud tho widening scopo of fts usefulness, During the motth tiat has pamnod hero i boen, mo_ceamation of activity inlin usinens ongageincats, and the Committas biva een in nesaion noarly every day of the four weeks which constitutothio period covored by his roport, OIANGERA, Wo have to forraslly adviso the Associntion that a chango hias taken placo in our mombership by the elcc- tion of E. O, Larned, Eaq., asjono of atho Execu- tiva Commiticc, fo' Gl 'tho vacancy catised by tho restymation of Col. O, G. Hammond, whote abscuce from tho oity prevouted him from con” tnuing his councetion with us in this capacity, I, succeasor, Mr, Larned, 1s known {o il preacnt frobisg bly, elther personally or by reputation, Thero hav Teen changes made, also, in the comporition of two of the Ward Committees by’ tho appointment of Mossrs, 1, 8, McCormiok and Itobert Olark fu_the Twentioth, aud of fr. Julius Nosenthal in the Third Ward, Our rolations with the standing committecs of tho Annociation have boen so closely majntained, und onr laowlodgo of Ibetr action o intimate, that 'wo havo deenied st unnacensary to call npon thom for detailed written roports on the mass of buriness which was ro- forred to them at tha outsot of ouir orgunization, and which has been supplemonted from timo to tine by the Toforonco of curront affaira, We have been led to this courso partly from moiives of policy, and partly for tho yonron that the unfinished conditiom of tho ‘bunficss in many Snatances wonld rendor a formal ro- port very iucomylete, and._conssquontly unsatisfacio- Ty, Builice it to say that as soon as tho interosts of tho Associntion require, or tho ciroum- ntances of cono wnrrant, we shall Iy before you all tho Information that' can posaibly be re- quirad Telative to all maiters now in onr_charge, In respeot to the Financo Commlites, we will stute, howe ovor, that they havo beon netivoly’and succossfully ene gaged in tho proscontion of thetr Important dutios, ind ‘that tho respouno of tho membors (o tholt calls for subscriptions 8 cminently atlafuctory, At tho date of our Iust roporl, there hnd recontly boon called to our attention Avveral' matiors of principal fme portance, which hiave, altbiough not to tho exclusion of others, malnly ocoupled our dollberationa, TIE WATEI-TEST, Tho wator-test of Oct, 0, under the supervision of the Bpecial Commltteo, of which the Hun, John W, McGenniss ia Chialrman, was tho aubject of n report publisiied Oct, 16, and waa of vast importanca in Ils res sults, us {tserved to_convince our city authorfiins of tho ||ucennlti of Immudiate action in the dircction of incronsing tho water-supply, whichi had heretofors been considerod smple. A8 ouo of its consequences, the whole system of water-pipes in that part of the dis- trict in’ queation which Jies mouth™ of tho river ia mow in procees of reconstruction, aud, ns far as onr endeavors can bo rendercd perviceablo, they have been put in chargo of n specixl committen, of which Mr, McGonniss {3 n_meraber, and whoss Intest report indicates thnt the Board of Publio Works are using their utmost efforts to put’ down 8nch plpes whore nceded, and that no furthier appropriation of monay can be profitably used this winter for the purpoues indicated, nor can the process of laying pipes ‘materlally or Lonoficially expedited at presout, TAXATION. The preliminary roport of tho Committce on Taxa- Hon has bron the subject of discusslon ot acveral of our meelings, and wo bavo called to the ald of our de- Iiborations 1o advic of several gentlomon swhoso fu- tinate knowledge of tho subject and its bearings have heen of very material aid to us in furnisbing uforma- tlon on this wonderfully intricate and complox mat- ter, Our last nction was to refer tho wholo subject back to that Committee, with fustructions to furnish us wih a profect or plu for getting rid of townsiitp organization in this cotinty, and with further suggen- tions on tho general subject of taxation, This will probably engroes onr attention at sn early date of tha current month, NICIPAL REORGANIZATION, Jenn tooth wanh, vouch for its valne, How fr the breath perfumed by its aroma | Mo A Girl Accidentnlly XKilled by Hexr ik Mother, ) the ST, Joseph (3f0.) Herald. Noar THumholdt, & ton on Hho Alchen & Nobraskn Ratlroad, lved a-widow woman and hor daughtor. Bomo dnys sinco, A man who claimod to havo jumt arrived fromn Kansaa mop- pod at the houno, and duriug his visit made {n. aulting propositions to tho girl. The motor boing eslled ordered him to leave tho howse, which be refuscd to do. Bho thon armed Lore gelf with a pisto), and endeavorod to frighton him by pointing it at him. I1e, howover, refwed to withdraw, Bho thoronpon fired two shots, which passed nnder o chnir, Ho still rofused to comply with tho domands of the women, iatin, Ina jocose mannor that ha thought aho dd no mean to hurt auy ono, ‘The girl just thouatop- god up to hor mothor, And remarkod that atn had ottor put the pistol up, or somo ono woild be ghat, at the samo timo desiting the man towithe draw., Thowoman again rainod tho pistd, but boforo =ho could pull the trigger, Vhich would undoubtedly havo sent tho bullot hoad- ing towards his body, hor dnughtor cauglt the barrol in hor hand. Unfortunataly, tho wiapon wns furnighed with vory fiue aprings, aid ro- aulrnd but tho gontlost totich on the triggr ta lischargo it. The woman's fingor was oy tha triggor at the timo the girl oaught hold of it and by aowo accident the pisto] was discharged; tha ball ontoring the girl’s breast, aud, pasing through her body, killed her immediatoly. Tua man was arrostod for using lndecent andjoly torous langungo; bnt what furthor will ba lone in tho cago our informant could not suy. ke s A i ~A ponny loat of broad, baked in 1801, vhen |{hon WaH & guluea a busbol, was recontly edib~ ited in England, tho ownor bolioving it to betho oldost braad in tho world. 1 —— DEATHS, PUTNAM—The faueral of &, K. Tat m laco a1 a'clook ta-d flie o TonBomer No ik 9K Lyt teom b lato rosldonoo, No 144 thariao Elizaboth, bolovod wifo of fobn 1n0ss the rosldonce, 43 Ohl LSBT e Qinepar, ol tng 850 fnvitod to attond. 0o+ LTieads ot ‘tho fmily DYBALI—Nov. 3, Alby ! s0n o 5, W and Khto D aoJa oall sougost Homniga tken o okl Crubly Mich., Nove b. ANN—Nov, 3418 . m., of congostiun of tho I éy’?:“?:f‘lgt%"“:“g""r{?m " Thorias and. Josouies noral oevicos at e vard, woac Laagioy ar., Weunosdar, Moy g e oo plVANS-On Tucslay worning ab 19 o, m.. Bon B r3. L. D, Kvaos,” agod 14 yoars 'ad 1 5 unial sorelon at hor rosidonce, 5 Larrabooat! et RILEY~On Nov, 2, of congostl Than Bt 1L n“figr’?’,fil;f o:d tlon of the lungs, Thrman atieral from day TOLIoEL iy et gy e Pl - BUTTOLPH-At Hays City, Kan., on the 2o . il!ngr}lhc‘gllg:lnllflr won of Jabn V! and Sary 4. Buttiph, 17 Ose ) pape 3 SARMARY ,vngl‘:lynd"h‘:lg,l T Thlirenc Gorkm, foungeatehildof . K. anil 317 Krmib, wked § matma SPECIAL NOTICES. SR s Centaur Liniment sllay pala, subduo swollings, ca burns, and will curs rheumatim, spavin, and any fesh, bons or muste silment. The Whita Wrapper lsbr family use, tho Yollow Wrappor taor Prico 50 conta: large bottles 81. Children Cry for Castorin,~Pleasant to takea perfectsubstituta for Oastor Ol, but more efcaclousa KiliAepes anfmals. SE' THORSE'S LUXURERM Foft THE IAIR, A now snd porfect Deodorizd Cocoanut Ol Cempound, having NO EQUAL IN ELk GANUR: rondoring tho Halr soft and glossy; promots ita growth and besuty, and romoves Dandruff, Nb Tho subject of municipsl reorgauization is ons which wu approached with tho utmost care, and avallod tha services of tho best counsol wo could command, amog whom wo may uamo the Hon, Joscph Medill, wWhawo return from abrond was swaited for the pur: pose and whose great experlonca {n municipal affairs carried with his expresscd views the woight inovitably conrequent thoreon, After maturo consideratios, carriéd on at our meetings from day to day for a pe- riod of two weoks, it was Unat.mously resolved, on Oct, a1, “that the proper proceediigs bo forthwith ‘taken ta effect the incorporation of tho Clty of Chicago under, tho General-Tncorporation act, und that 31, . Tuley L. B, Boonior, and L, Z _Lelter bo a committco to take wuch action n the premiacs as shiall bo nocessary, How woll theso gentlenien hinve fulfilled the prelimie nury part of thefr task can bo judged from fho fact that ou lust ovening wa presenied o the Maydr and filed witls tho Gity Clerk » potition, signed by 15,079 Jegal voters, for the purposs nained, Wo uro cou- vinced that If but ive daya’ more tfne had been nl- lowed that the number of potitionors could have ~beon awelled to 20,000, oroveu 25,000, This project will now lava to awalb the legitimato course of oveuts, which wa sl watch closely and oxpedite in every way conaistent with the law, BMOKE CONBUMPTION, At the request of citlzons, wo havo appointed & special committee, consbuting of Carlile Mason, Gon. J. H. Ledlie, and Prof. M, Delafontaine, o osumino and toport tpon a plan or Aystont for the consumption of amoko in eomo inoxpensive way adaptod to ganeral use in the city, AMIROELLANEOUS, 1t 45 dmpractieablo to dotail the whole of the miscal- lancous business which s been brought to our alten- ton, but among othor ftems thero was ona i which wa togk partieulnr interost, namely, a memorial of tha Firat Rogiment Illinol State Guards, whicl waa re- Terred by us to a spacinl committee, who mado o care- ful and critical inspection of fhe rogimont, and whose roport, adopted by us, und published in the papors of Nov. 1, wa commend o your perusal, GEN, BUALER, Tho emplosment of Gen, Shaler by the Doard of Elro Commisloners as Cotsulling Eaglncer, for_tho purpose of reorgunizing and discipliniug 'the Fira Department, hae engaged our eauest siten- tion, ond ' has been fho subject of protracted negatiations with the Fira Commissioners, which wero attended with somo ombarrassments of a logal mature, requiring great earo and delib- oration fn tlieir treatment ; aud, slthough wo havo been cliarged with undue reticonca 38 to tho progress of thicse negotlations, wo ara woll mstisfled that auny other course than that we hiave pursued would bave added to the ombarransments bintod af, Wo nre now in a position o inform the Association that the serv- ices of Gon, Shaler hiave beon secured to tho city, and that our President, Mr. acVeegh, 18 now in'Now Sork, and hua concluded the arrangoiucats with Gon, alor, Tq the publio press wo aro indebled for many and continued favors, sud wo return to them our hearty thonka for tholr courtesy and Xindnoss, and wo alio express our acknowledgments to tho_Ifon. Thomas ioyne, aud Meagrs. Ionry W, King, Jotiu 5, Drake, snd H. B, Hurd, for valuable orvices, By order of tha Executiva Commitico of th Citizens' Association, J, 0. Asuren, Qlork. ‘Tho roport was adopted and ordored published, wheroupon the meoting adjourued. —_— Weston & Co.’s Horse Market, at 188 East Washington Street. Whero to buy a horse when yon want it, or where to #ell it when you have it ana dow't waut it, la of great interest to those who want to dispose or buy, Tho best cliauco to becomo satisfied s to potronize tho above-namod hiouse, which at its sale at 10 a, m, every Tuesdsy and Fridey meots tho doslres of all, The thorough kmowledge of thelr business as well as tho enorgy of the proprictors, togotlicr with thelr romarkn- bly well arraugod place of busiuess, maken it the best placo for couatry ar elty peoplo to briug thelr stock of orsca, carringod, and harucsues, or ko call there whon they want anything in that line, —_— Couvict Labor, As will boseen by tho advortisemont In snother column, tho Ponltentlary Qommissioners aro asking for bids for'theIabor of from fifty to seventy-fiv con- victs, adapted to neariy all kinds of labor, An op- portunity is hers offcred o porsons dosirous of eugsg- ing jn anufecturing which thoy esunot afford to noglect, The Iabor offerod iz good, and the discipline of the Penitentiary excollont, uo that the work of the won i always kept up to o satisfactory standard, The exparionca of those now emnploylng couviot Iabor at Jollet has boen such ma to Induce othors ko ongago in 80 profitablo and safo a husin e e Economire These Hard Times---One Dollar a Wook. Make your own clothing, Tho Wilson Bnuttls Sow- fug-Machine will aave its cout fu ono season. The cbildron or servouts can uso it, Instructions glveu at your Louso freo of cliarge, 1t will euru from $3 to$5 B day for man or woman who way wish to do sawing, olthor {u familles or manufacturing, Worranted for five years, ‘Tho best lu tho workl, Tiecolved the bigh- cat award at Vienus. ¥ron $10 to$15 cheaper than all others. Bolid on eayy monthly jayinents ab du7 dlate aireet, and in 8ll of the principsl citios fn the United Btates, WiLsoX BE¥ING-MAOUINK Ua,, Manufacturers, Oloveland, O, —_———— Important to Travelora. When you visit or lesve tho City of New York, ssve carrlugo-hiro, anil stop at tho Grand Union Hotel, op- posite the Grand Contral Depol, It hus ovar 350 ele- gantly-furnishied ronms, and 4 fitted up at an oxpenso af over §900,000, Europesu plan. - — No Complimentary Btatue 16 voedsd for the man who gava Hosoont Lo the watld, Miltiona of teokl, preserved from degay, by this peer- TURE'SGREATEST AND BEST NUTRITIVE HAL DRESSING. Scllsatsight. Prico, 50cents, Whols salo by VAN SOHAACK, STEVENSON & REID. Sdi by all Druggists and Notlon Dealors, ~ ATCTION SALES, By GEO. P. GORE & CO., 68 & 70 Wabash-av. 360 Sample, with 800 Cases Duplicales, OF OUSTOM-MADE BOOTS AND SHOES, ‘Will bo sold at Auction, by Catalogue, on ‘YWednesday, Nov. 4, at 9 1-2 a. m, GI0. P. GORE & CO,, 55 and 7 Wabash'sv. AT ATOTION, On Thursday, Nov, 6, at 9 1-2 o'olock, LuEEF entiro houschold furniture of two first-class dwolle Parlor, Library, Chamber, and Kitochen Furniture, D:?z‘]?rdrobna, Book Cnses, Parlor and Office 8. Bhow Cnses, Carpets, and Stoves. 175 Rolis Floor Oil Gloth, GEO, P, GORE & 00., Auctioneers. TEURSDAY, NOV. 5, REGULAR TIIURSDAY'S SALK OF Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, and Clothing. WWo sliall ofor full lino of Men's aud Doa® Orercoata ullr, Caxts, Pants, Jackols, Vosts, and CArdigand, ~ Alen Plaeo Gasas, Wosloas, Haslor, ‘adorior, Hate i Gips, ox Govornmiont, Olothing, in Rood order and regular sisss, by tho packago. "Notiaus, While Goods, Drars Geods, Hemburgs, Line aus, o G0 P GoRte G & aad 10 Wabllar. By ELISON, POMEROY & CO. SATLE AT STORBE, 963 WABASH.AV Stock and fixtures of & GROCERY STORE. TIURSPAY MORNING, SOV, b, at 10 o'clock, the o tice stock of a family grocery store, horss, wagon, safe, acales, offiog ralling, eic., c1o. KLISON, POMEROY & CO.. Auctioneers. Our Regular Furniture Sale Fridey Morning, Nov, 6, at 8 1-2 o’olook, Tho lagost stack of Now and_Second-Fland Furnlture at Auctiag th fhe cltys Alea a Inrgo stoak of Genaral Sarcliacdlse, 1tatohuns, Hammers, Ciisels, Planes, &0., ™, POSE] 0., Auet] A KLISOR, FOMEROY &'CO., Auctlaotors, e “By WiL A, BUPTERS & CO., AT SALBSROONS, g RADY MADISON.BT, RNITURY:, GATBLTS, BTOXES, Jitves, of { Lo oA 3 ERY, IN OPEN 'LOT! SIS AND ITARNESS, & ING AT 10 ey G00DS, WOOLENS, AND CLOTHING. '}l‘ll}l&unq\" MORNING AT #4§ O'OLODK. REQULAT SATURDAY SALE USEHOLD GOOY PIANOS, AND O, ual’ARlAlll AND C] A LARGE VAl ARD ALY son GO0DS, NOOTS, B DRY GOEBAY MOMHING L LR hanoz i VAT UsT 5 ", '+ By At X o THURSDAY, Nor. b st i lenc st = SPECIAL AUCTION SALE For Gity and Gowmiry Bayers, Honvare, ‘Camin o ORK AUGTION AND' Ci At Sladlsuments _An we have constanily of tow aind. kel Liousoly ol gell o allon s, Uik ockt > SEivel thio madivo onti of Uho Siatiisdn Mo ting to over &%, 0. thoity aay bovss in 1, rogw artontlon [s eallod ta one Futnaoe (Dast Totol Range ana Teator, 10 Malr Mattier- ‘Bodding, 49, in ahort c¥aesthing noodod B, TO0NY & Autione om S By SIREL & HARIRISON. SFECT. ATOTION S, 3 " ; 'fi."i?“‘fl‘ elsomd, SN a5 RSN prtent), ot ua, Pillowa, any housa,