Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1875, Page 7

Py ee ee THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. MONDAY, MACH 15, 1875. THE COURTS. The Town of Lake va. Hequem- bourg. Judso Drummond Decides that the Contract Is Valid. Sudguients and New Sults, LAKE, ‘THE NEQUEMNOUNG CONTRACT SUSTAINED, Judge Drummond has beon engaged tho past threo dayo in hoaring tho caso of the ‘Town of Lake vs, Charles Hequombourg, which waa bo- gun a fow months ago, to compol Hequembourg to account for cortain work he bad dono in Iay- ing wator-vipes for tho town, to restrain him from farther proscouting his work, and for fur- ther reliof. The opinion was ronderol Saturday moruing, and is given in full, a fallore fe 1< tho fiist question presented in this case te that o fran wuetber or eek ore was fraud fu. We, making, oftiscontract, ‘Te rule te welleettled that fraud ts hover to be presimed, Proof of fraud 1a seldom or nevsr dirert ar postlyo, It may be fntorred, howaver, fiom circurostaneea developed in the cage,—circum~ #tancen which lead tho mind ta the conclusion that there ties been fraud, Tdonol propore to discuss the anaee cf facta offered in evidence, Ican only say that T flo not sce from the evidouce that there was any fraud Practiced, ‘There fe NO EVIDENCE OFYERED from which Lean nay that the ‘Trustees of the town have heen guilty of any frand, The mola ereumetanea relied npon as proof of fraud fe the high price which, it {s alleged, wan paid for tho work. Asto the price, we are forced to Judge somewhat from subsoqnent ovents ; it in diMcult to form a definito opinion upou this from the standpoint of the 6th of February, 1311, tho date of the coutract, ‘The low prices of iron, ete., that followed the making of tho contract, and the ecsson being favorable, may make the prico ecm to Le high, Lut, placing oure selves in tho position of the parties on the Oth of Feb- ruary, 1871, while the price agree to bo pald wan Protatly a high price, yor it was not ao Ligh aa to in- dicate any fraud, ‘There belug no fraud, the next question in, Had the Town of Lake the power or AUTHORITY TO MAKE Tis CONTRACT ? The Town of Like was In oxlatenco as a corporation at the timo tho act in relation to corporations in gene eral was passed, and Tean have no doubt the slsty- eighth eoction of the uluth article, tobe found on page 240 of the statutes of 1874, operated on tho tawn, That section is, “Any city ‘or incorporated town oF village may, $f ‘it abull ro determine by ordinance, adopt the provisions of thie article without adopting tho whole of this sect, and, whon { shall so adopt {his article, It stall havo the right to take alt proceedings rovided for, and have the Lenoft of all the provis- Jona thercof, Now, as to the adoption of this article since by ordi- nance, it fs ealil thot this act provided that the various Provisious of thin law aloud bo adopted + that the corporation shoutd be created by « yote of the peop’, and that, Inaonseh aa tht proviaton existed, thercture ‘wheu this section declared that any city or any Jucor- porated town or village minut adopt Art, 9 by ordinance, 1) meant that it was an ordinsuce to be on- Seted tn prmannen of voleot the people, T think that eon bardly be fuforred from this liv, Tf it hind Deen the intention of the Leniviatura that that pro- Yitiou mould be adopted orly by a voter thu people, tt cortainly would havo so stated, This was « law that operated ubon towns orleting at the timo it wan passed, aud, when it declared (het this ninth article migut be adopted Ly ordinance, it ineroly nicant thut it howld Le adopted by sich declaration of the town authoritlcs a8 Indicated tha will of the cor: paralion itaclf, sn. detetmluation tu mako ita part of tho existing provisions of law operating upon tho towa, ‘TUE NUXT QUESTION - fewhether thofown lad the rgut to make thiv cons tract by oxteling Jaw independent of ths net of the 15th of Apel, Ni, ‘Tho law under which it f6 claimed that this contract was inadw provided that the core porate suthorities of cities and villages were clothed wilh the power to mike focal improvements by spociat asscenment or by special taxation, oF both, on contiguous property, o¢ general taxation, or ollicrwise, as thoy auall by ordl- Banco prescribe. . Now, theta nilght have beon possihly—althangh 1 gun not prepared fo nay thero would be—buit possibiy there might have been sonre question In relation to the + authority conferred by tia statnto aa to thu construc. Mou of these water-worke, had it not Lean for tia law of 1814. “The ket of tho 15th of Anril, 1473, wan a, special act authorizing cities and incor) owns and villages iu the Btate to provide for a supply of watorfor the purpoecs of tire protection, aud for tho uses of tho inhabitants, ‘That law containcd yarlous provisions connected with tho supply of tho water; ud the qitcetion in whether that law repeated by Its termn the Trevions law whieh wae in force, ts language 1a uudonbtedly general: All citica, lus erated towns, or villages Bro authoriz:d aud siall havo power to provide sunply of water,” and then fellows thta prov: “ That all contracte for tho crection or coustrnction of any such works ehall be let to tho lowest rospontivlo Didder upon not Icea thau throo works’ no- fico of tho terms sud conditons upon which tho contract is to to let having Leen given ky publication," cts, Now, there is uo repealin, clause tu Chis law, of prior lawn; aud the rats univers ally app‘lcable to such caaca {s' thot if tho prior law cst stand conelzteutly wiih tha piovistona of tuo cub goquent law it shall renisiu nae ved tury that Seiko éwo laws can Lo perndtod to stand, tl. Wall bedoacy They ehali bs no c-mstrued hy the Court, Now, Cagreo that af the pros ictous of the subsoquont Jaw ore necesmarily cud abcolutcly repuznant. to the Trlor Iam, end s0 juconstotout t Gucited togsther, both revisining. vi rt subsoquent law rust Uo coustrucd ax revoaling the prior law ¢ bat it lé only when those contitions oxlct. ‘ow, here I think there aro various condivioss cons fajucd fa the Jaw cf April, 18%, nut cone tafued fn tho prior law, eid they aro of autca a character au to indivate that the two lawe may etaud frgether, bur the ono dacs nat necessustly utaolttely ropeal the cther, nud 1t tn tuo duty of the Court 0 cohetrio them cu stunting tugetlier if {t cou bo doug, Then, that belug 30, what fe the cflect of this act nf tho 17th cf March, 1874, upou te law in forco pilot to April, 1873, Tt is eudetuutially A LEGIALATIVE CONATRUCTION of tho priorlaw fu fur em thin {6 concerned concedes the existenco of ths right in towna lagen to supply theinselves with watar, uudur tue Niuth article of tho law which baa Yen teferred to, Wb je true that tt ts sat to bo prospective ia Mts operation, That whenover tha’ ourrorute authorities of any elty, town, or village alall provide by ordiuauce for laying a water eupply to be paid for by wapectsl arecesinent to ba mado under the pro- Misioua of Article nine, of the act of the Geueral Aeseni- bly entitled, &c,,” therefore making a epecal refer~ ence to Arifele nine, ‘Now, suppose that {s prospective in one sctue, ‘The eoutract was mode with reference (0 a law subsequent Jy to bu parsed, wo understood by the parties: and, when she low { passod on we find ft, {t must clearly. muppored to fuclude with” itm perm tion the contract that was mada in this case, £ think, tinder the generat law, when, by the terme of'the contract iteelf, it was clearly within the contemplation of the parties that, untll this law of 1874 was paged, as I underatand, and as {tis said, no bonds could be’ issued to comply with this contract. Now, it would be sticking 1p the back to aay that theas Jawa'did not operate upon this contract, and upon the Properly and property-owacra fh thia ‘town, so a to authorize tho tsuus cf tho bonds to ray for wcontract which had been previously made under the authorily of the Niuth article, ‘Thon, that being so, tt is con- eoded that, without bis law of April 15, 1874, the town suthorities, by 8 vote of two-tLirds, could’ dispense with tho notico which is required otherwise, and which is required abavlutely Ly the act of April 18, 1873, THESE Ane TUF Views Jnow cutertain of thia case, ¥ think this contract woe a valld contract, I think thora waa no fraud in it to vitiste it, but L wish to prosorve somo pawer over the ouse and over facta which may subsequently ba do voloped. I will {hercforo not diaiales tlie origiual bill but I will refer the civo to tho Master under tlie cross bill, with specific derections to roport, ‘Tho counsel may drew up at order to that effect requiring the Master to report tho amount of profits the-o parties Lave mado under thts contract amuug other things, Itds always necossary In cases of tile kind thet core dain facta should be broucht out, These parties are Aguorant; they are not actentifi men; the wero uol familiar with all” the facts connecte ‘with the coustruction of this work, and it waa highly proper, J think, that {t should be referrod 1o one #LO besuppoued to know lo « certainty any particu, lar fact, as, for instance, to the tosting, It te not une waual, in contracts of this kin, that it be reforred to Particular person to test whether the work done te suflclent for tho purposes, naming them, Thal ts bot uncammon, Ido uct consider this at ail different rum that. For instance, it 4a stated that the worl ta bo done under the supervision of certain porsous ap- polnted by the town trustees, ‘That ts all pro} Usuol, 1 do not think that, as mow advised, this goos Dut of the operation of that rule, Now, as to the report bf he Lisater aa to the amount of pipe Iald, 1 vo not tnilerstind that tha contract speciiles the particular pinout of pire that was to be lald, aacopt it Limite ue aunuunt leas than whiel It canuot ‘be lald, but what Brer is above that fa, ea 1 understand, without limit, azil {f {thas been actually Lal Ido wot see why (he town 1s not responsible under the contract, —_+— MINOR MATTERS, pivoncys, Ltlzrbeth Ryan filed s bill for divorce againut hor husband Michael Ryan, complaining that he sbuses bor eo shamefolly, and bests her so un- mrereiealye Ha sho oan longer endure it, She 40 sake fora slloo of his property, No. 350 Milwaukeo avenue, es UNITED BTATES COURTS, J. A. Van Hersom bogan » suit for €2,500 Walnat the Globe Insurance Company, . ‘The Tow: Tor Gig 5 ber IN BRIEY, je no! cera bgninst Charles M.Sinith, > ut for 61,000 ‘The Craue Brothers Manufacturing Compan Meo brought sult for a tke anion sabia Amasa FE. and N. O. Swift and G. P, Wright. Elyzaboth Keofe commenced a sult in troupass eae William Buckingban, laying damages at James Ayars, Jr., sued th Vader writave for © Chicago Board of C.M, Vierce began a sult to re trom Yi, 0, Huot and A. #. Comphinges #251000 Heary A. Savyer began » suit in zeplerin ' againet the Chicago, Rock Jeland & Pacifio Nall. road Company to recover forty tons of Galena bullion, vatued at $7,600. emourT count, Edwin Lee Brown commencod a anit in at~ tachment against John B, Koight, to recover 110.65 sant Voake also began a suit of lia nature agaloat Sanford W. Kellogg, I. C. Chaso, and lenry A, Mayo, clatroing #4,786.13. EK J. Knott aued the Traders’ Insurance Company for $5,000, Goorge Rocd commenced a suit In case agaivat Thomas O'Connor, claiming 25,000 damages for boing slandered. A capins wan insuad, CRIMINAL count. August Klaproth, charged with Jarceny sa bailoo, was brought up on a writ of habe corpus, and, after hoaring the teatimony of the prosecuting witness, the Court concluded there Wau no case agaivet the prisoner, and ordered his discharge. William Kelley, charged with the larceny of some cunhions, was brought befote the Court, and bis sentence suspended, In cassof Miank E. Spooner, and Theo- dore I, Fosney jointly indicted for committing a. nulzance, by blasting rocka near a public high- ‘way, § motion to quaeh was entered avd argued at length by the counsel for the prisoners. ‘'he motion was takon undor advisemoat, ‘The Grand Jury modo ite first roport, handing in fifty-threo indictments, four of them being against Wilbur I. Storey, of tho Zimes. Tho remainder wore classified as follows: Larcony, 29; burglary, 13; assault, 2; slot, 1}; robbory, 2, and 1 againat the body-snatcher, or grayo- robber, George Williams, BH CALn Jupox Bropaerr—to 220, Jonaz JaAmzson—59, 69, 61, 63 to 73, 76, 70, 703g, 70 to 82, ioe Moonr—283/, 2334, 56, Jupar Rooens—1689, 235 to 252, Junoe Bootu—176 to 195, Jupar Tree—133 to 146. ODOM aid Scernton Coumt—Conrisston! Ite WY, Rigdon ys, Emil Dietzach, $:2,04,—F, B, Marshall va, Le Loy Doud, $1,710,64,—Jos cue ya, Jacob Ragor and John Htagor, $! Supor Gazr— {Vitton, Assignee, ve, Jobn Eny- der and G, E. A. Huschiek, $ib0.2!,—-Same vs. ‘. Bunchick, $/,2.7.35.—Bame ve, G. E. Buschick, $587.29, —0, B, King va, R, L, Bond, $1,! Jupar JaMEsoN—Frank Sturges ve, Jamos ‘Turner, $485,25.—Charla DB, Hosmer va, Ht. L, Austin, Exec tor of E, D, Terry, Hi Junax Dunss—D, F. Duckloy ve, -Willlstn_D, and Charles A. Kerfoot, W. A. alaygald, and Jolin Scaver ; verdict, $500, and motton for uaw trial. ASSYKLAN DISCOVERIES, Lecture by the Itev. Dr. Kohler, The following in the Interesting lecturo on the recent Arsyrian discoveries of Georgo Smith dclivorod before the Sunday Afternoon Lecture Bocioty last week by tha Rev. Dr. Kohler: You all have, no doubt, read in the papora of the oxcavations lately mado among tho ruins of tho ancioutcities of Nineveh and Babylonia; fow, however, I suppose, bavo sulllciontly watched tho progress of those explorations to bo aware of thotr important valuo in tracing tho history of cur race, 1 may, therefore, right at the outsot, claim your intercat for a diacovory which ranks among tho preatost achioyoments of our wonder-working age. By tls, of courao, I do not mean the digging dono with the az ard tho shovol in youder mounds of Mecsopo- tamia, but the deciphering of tho Assyrian in- scriptions aud tho subsequont rocoyory of lout trensures of a most aucient culsure, All groat diecoyorios, made on tbe progressive march of history, dorivo their importance ies from what thoy immediatoly bring to light than from the chancea they offer for wideomg man's horizon, and enlarging his scope. Nelther the Eldorado suppoeed to bo datected by the Bpan- inrds, nor tho new continent added to the map of our globe, nor tho vast territorios unlocked for overcrowded Europes, won Columbus immortal fame. Tho {noxbaustiblo blessing of tho discov- ery of America was, that, white putting man in tho possosslon of both homispherae, ft mado him master of the whole globe, and, in making tho wide ocean o bridge to connect the most distant lands, it bronght, so to speak, the far off hoaven withiu tho granp of bis calculations, Likewise tho Copernican discovory of tho oarth's being a mers planet movivg around tho sun, unvolled the yisla of the suy for a Keplor, Gali- leo, Newton, and the Horschola, to percoivo in- numerablo worlds beaming with Light in ime measurabie distances. Or when geology un- folded the authentic records of creation, as given fathe substrata of tho earth itself, each of which represcuis an opoch counting millions of yeare in tho development of onr planot, the way was cleared up for Darwin to Ond fa the scale of beinga the law of gradual orolution, and thus to Iny tho cornor-stone of a new eclenco and a now philosophy, prompting much higher ylows of tho universe and sublimor ideas of its Creator than tho old ove. Now, among thoso great modorn revolations tho discovery of Agsynan ood Babylonian Ntcraturo and art falrly bids fora conspicuous place, as it offors Indeod A ONUAT snesIXo LINK in the chain of ovolutiou of tho human mind- For isitnot long since silently admitted by thicking mou that the chasm gaplog betiveen the Bushman and s Bbhakepeare and Humboldt, or betwoen a Fejeo Islander aud Moses and Arlatotlo, 1a too wide to be filled up by the few thonuand years brought forth by Biblical chro, nology? Of course, fow pooplo are inclined to give up the firm position of good old orthodoxy for a mere “perhaps” and ** probably" offered by scientific inquiry. Hence most people fall to bo convinced, when tha remnanta of fosuila found in the layers of the earth proved man to hava cooxieted with tho mammoth and mastodon, aud everelice 200,000 cr 900,000 years fought tho struggle for existence. Indeed, all those bunting-caves, snd pilo-dwellings, and an- clent mounds, found replete with speci- mons of man’s handicraft oa both hem- ispheres, give no exxct accounts, as rogards their ago, toconvince mon of Jazy habits of thinking. Nor does the dim and scanty knowl- edge transmitted to us by sacred and classical writers, concerning a remoter pant, abed light enough upon the road of groping and atruggling mankind in its tufancy, lisppily, then, Clampollion, the genial do- cipherer of the bieroglyphics, discovered shakey to unlock EQYPTIAN ANTIQUITY, 80 long biddon, and to traco the history of cly- ization thousands of yeary beyond the suppowed food, By continued roscarches, evidences wore brought fo lle of lighly-advancod state of culture tha Egyptians enjoyed more than 2,500 years before Abrabat trodon thesoll of Canaan, ‘sa still oxtuting monuments of yondor time wit- head. Butas when light 1s brought to shine through asimall crevice Into a spacious hall, dark from all aldes, it merely brightens up the room in that one direction, leaving th othor portions in» mora contrasting darko so it wasinour case. To Errpt, honcofarth, evory bistoriso turned for Egypt was do- clared to be the paront and the invontress of all arte and sciences, Only a fow weeks apo I heard Bayard Taylor, in a moat interesting lecture en Exypt, express bimuclf in thig aye “From Enypt," he eatd, *Aloves drew all bla wisdom; there he borrowed his lawa, and even the holy mystery of the yrent 1 Am Who I Am? was im. pattod to him by Egyptian prisats.” Yet Bayard ‘Laylor failed to account for an institution ‘like the Sabbath, standing almost in tho centre of the Mosalo laws, while the Egyptian wook con- sisted of ten days instead of woven, nor for other very essontial differences in the rites aud forms of temple-worship and prtzatiiond, Beaidos, Bayard Taylor seemed to eo unaware of she fact, ascertained by modern critics beyond all doubt, thas the Mosalc laws could not have been written before the propheta with their sublime monotheism bad, after inany hundceds of yoara struggle, prevailed over the idolatrous people of {uraol, However this may be, Egyptian civilization, ahining forth like au oavis out of ® barren wil- dorneas, far from explaining the remote past, offers merely & puzzlo mora to bistcrisue, No tluglo atar moves unlesa influenced by soother oue ; bor iy growth manifested anywhore except by the Interchange of forces working upon cach other, Hence Egypt points to another centre of cultnre, actiog aud reactiog upon ite own, Really, ber earliest monumants wupeak of con- querod uations in the north of Asia, bringing fine Worke of metal as tributes, ‘Hor motals, her horsoa, wagons bear their very names the stamp of a Bemitlo culture. Iler art, at ite vory beginning, shows » perfectlon which, instead of progresuing, degen- erated into stiff and stereotype forms. All thie, taken together with the language and the phyaiog~ pomy of the Eqyplians, both botraylogamisture of African and Avian poople, tends to acoumu- late pros’ of the asistenes of a patialty rivele ang wi ypt in culture and antiquity. The, with the bolp of the Assysiag osuree, bas now been found aod the veil lifted from thp vory dawn of culture. But, before giving you the reaults of these studies, let me firat abow you MOW THLSE INVALUADLE DISCOVERIES wnouguT anouT. At the close of the last century the attentizn of sobolacs was directed towards a curious kin‘ of inscriptions found on the ruins of Persupelis, the old Porsian capital, Bite I bolievo, by Blink travolers. ‘Lhe {real breozo of tho ava, with the aspect of its unsteady waves, scons ever to induce peoplo to new undertakings end explorations. At Jast, Nicbubr, tho German historian, copied theso inscriptions. But nobody knew what to make of theso curious igus, which looked neither like our el- baoet, nor like the Egyptian, the Chinose, aud Vrexicaa ploture-writings, but consisted of strokes in the shape of wodges, combined in various forms to ropresout somo kind of lotters. Finally the uoromitting efforts of » Gorman Profossor namod Grotefend, who devoted a life's study to their deciphoring, was crowned with a success which acstired to him ths houor of bo- ing to these cuneiform inscriptions what Cham- Pollion wae to tho Ilioroglyphics. His, task was even more difficult than Champollion’s, as tho Jattor had a Greek inscription st bis command, helping him to find out the names of Cleopatra and Peolemy, which ho uscd as « clew for his further researches, while Grotofond, without any clow, pried into those elgns, until after many yeas labor ho arrived at tho track of tho royal names of Xerxes and Darius. But bis faina was soon eclipsed by the genius of an En- gligh acholar, whore namo you aro undoubtedly Acquainted with, 3Mfaj. Henry Hawlinson. Being employed io tho service of the British army in the Last, he succocded in first roading and traas- Inting the famous Inecriptions of Darius and Artaxerxes on tho tablo-work of Belhistin in Persia, while other scholars extsblished a acian- tallo mothod of the old Parefan Janguage. ‘Thus far, however, only half of the task was ac- complished, as tho inscriptions, presenting bo- aides the Persian two other ones of an entirely differont character, offered now problems to solve, Still the work was easier, since the Persian could be nsed asa key to decipher tho othera. Again Grotofend sounded the koy-note in recognizing the one a4 an Assyrian toncription and trying a rudimontary eolutlon. But Rawlin- son carried off tho laurel, offoring a tolerable roading, nod wasecon followed by Dr. Oppett, a Jowish-Gorman savant at Paris, who provented a ingthod aud # gramwmar, Ta the tnoautime, while scholars pondored over thoee dry readings, ‘TNE MINE OF ASSYRIAN TREASUBES, long looked after under the sand of Mesopota- mia, was opeacd by Botta, « Fronch Cousul. Grappliog with many dificultios, Jaid in bis way both by the superstition of the Arabs, wholooked upon thoao mounds as tombs of holy mon, aud by tricks of urkish officers, he at last broke tho death-spoll of the doomed city of Nineveh. And lol there ho etood in tho midst of a ruinod paince, whose gor- goous chambors, with their marvels of art cover- ing in ftagmonte tho floor, with their magniticent bas-roliofs on tho walls, and their winged bulla and fionsof giganua size gazing st bim asif they welcomed tho light, fillod his noul with both. admiration and aie. You may imagine it to havo beon no casy work for him to move thoso recious jonds on treca and rafie along tha nphrates and sbip them: home to the Lotyro, Yet it waadono, Lut soon England followed to tako tha lion's share, Austin Honory Layard, the British statosman, soon after having met on bis travel in the East the French Consul at his succosaful oxcavations at Chorsabad, in 1842, planned tho scheme Jor other investigations. Io 1845, bo commenced oxcavations at Nimroud, s village close by Mossul, and his repeatou success made the British Musoum tho focus of Assyrian studies. Herodotus tellaa story he losrned from the Assyrians, of the vast treasures of King Bar- danapalus, which, though concealed in sybter- rancan vaults, wero carried off by thioves, who dug holes in the ground to reach them, when no- body auspected anything of the kind. Lavard white uoburying thie King's paiaco, failed to flud these tressures, they laving been pluodered py Poislan and Macodoniau conquerors long ago, bathe carriad off most valuable trophics of a much noblerconquest. What an amazing beauty and porfoction of art indieplayed in these ruins of walls, depicting huuting scenca, battles, and religious ceremo- nios, with o fascinating vividness of oxprosaion In all their dotails. Tocre the King is secon riding on bis ‘brilliant chariot, followed by his armor- bearora, in the company of bie sons, buntiog wild bulla and lions, of whom soma aro pierced with arrows, while otbors lie prostrate undor tho wheels of bisrunping chariot. All these sconos aro portrayed on freacoos, with an accuracy of dosign anda reality of life that is really sur- rising, Otber tablets show Assyrians attack- Er the enemy with bows and aspaars, bosioging cities with battering-rame aud movable towors, and, having taken them by assault, leading tho inhabitans away as captives, while their loaders are either huog or flayed alive, or, if pardoned, havo thoir eyes plerced with # spoar at tho King's band, ‘Yot aside from these oruelties, which passed such an impressive judgment through the mouth Of the divine seers of Isracl, we wondor at these works of art, which far surpass those of Egypt io enuine beauty avd faithfulnoss to oature, foreover, looking on their woapoae and tools, on those fragments of ivory baskets, of bronze thrones and torra-cotta figuros, on the ornaments in architecture or in dross and jewolry, as shown on tholr pictures, we feal bound to racognize tho Atsyriaus AB TNE ANOLENT MASTEDS OF FINE ARTS, By their produote, or rather by coptes mado of them by Persian and Lydian Imitators, the then slumbering genius of the Helles was srouscd, which aftorwards inspired a Phidias and Praxi- teley with thelr cbivel, and even # Homer, Hesiod, aod Pindar with thoir songs to create overlasting models of beauty. Indeed. if his- tory hins furrotten to record the Indebtedaoss of the Greeks to Assyria, Greok mythology bas not, asChelron the Centaur, who taught Achilles, Vorsous, aud many othor Greck horoes, every art and acionce, ia suroly a slight reminteceuce of tho Aesyrian genll, who woro tha shapo af winged Dulles with boman beads, Likewise we must look to Aanyria for models furojshed by the bands of Phenoclans for the Temple built by Solomon, and oven for the eauipmont of tho whole sanctuary, avon to the Cherabim. It wan in beholdiag those imposin; figures of winged Nona, with human and eagios’ heads, called chorubs, on the gates of the Baby- tonfan and Assyrian palaces, that the Prophot Ezekiel felt inspired in hia visions of the heay- enly throne, moved by tho same wheols, on~ dowed with hoade and wings like those seen ou Assyrian plotarcsa, On Assyrian mooumonts you can discern thoso same inetrumenta played, upon by David and othor pealmists to accompa ny their undylng aonga of boly inspiration, Yotall theso works of would have re~ mained dumb, and Anayria’s past would atiil be obrouded i darknesa, had not Divine Wank Providence pointed man's eyo, search. ing after kuowledge, to a ‘number of olay tablets, inwcribed on both with euneiform letters, which proved to bo pothing less than the royal library of Bardanape alus, containing historical and abronological, astronomical, and private records, prayers and Songs, pooms and magio formulas, jotters and contracts, yes, grammars .and dictionaries. Jencetorts hie startling rorelavos aaared 9 othor, until two yeard ago George Smit! London, detected ee ‘THY LEGEND OF THE y1a0D, resenting a much alder form than that of the Bible. With the agsivtance offered by tho Lon- ‘don Daily Telearapn, vations wate resumed by George Smith, who succeeded In making now discovorios.. He added more than 3,000 frage ments of clay tablets to the old ones, and found, besides, msny joteresting atticles, sa, for in- stance, w fragment of a maxuiticant crystal throne, and & groatly wrought fork, an article unkcown to European civilization’ until the eleventh ocoatury of our ers, And, havin, scarcely taken the new work of George Smit! desenbing his journey aod hie discoveries at hand, wo receive through the last namber of the London Athenoum the welcome, yet not unex- ated, nows of his having found the legend of tos bultaing of the Towor of Babe! on those tab- 8 too, Having thus far ehortly royiewed tho way these explorations were ma: je, I will past on, Pointing out to you in a few broad outlines the rovelationa brougt about by this most modora and most promising science through the labors of a fow English and French sobolars, Twenty yeara ago all the source of {uformation about Assyrian and Babylonian history was confined to & fow names mentioned In Holy Writ, and s fow stories told from hearsay by Greek authors, From tho time of the foundation of tho Bavy- fonlan Empire, ald by Nimrod, “the mighty Lunter,” aod tho first rulers of Nineveh, Ninus and Bemirainis, both kingdoms for a long tme were lout bight of, Of & sudden Assyria ‘sppears at the ‘northern horizon of "the Hiugdom of upon her people like a bird Up plece aftor ploce, then entang! ling Judea in her vetwork, but this tim: moot the vengeance Of God, who smitten Asvyria's army, while staud- ing af gatow of Jerusatem, byan angel of Pestilence. Finally we hear the prophet'a tri- Umph over her downfall at the attack of the Babyloniaus, whose rise betokens rain to Judea, and whose fal! bringa her resurrect from these facta, ably vamen of th uccesslye Kinga are given io » coufuslon apt to lex soy one tyyibg to bring them iptoauharaionlous Bamaris uacin, Of prey, anid eating Nor dons the Greed siterature furnieh wm nore than fapiow, | Thanks, then, to revovered records of tho Aa- syrian conquerors theweclver, wo gai ANEW SKsluuT i into the pollefon tr 8 Of those potty king- domgand natronalitios nettied along the lore of the Mediterranean Sea. Wo seo them pressed togethor, as if by grinding millsitonos, by the two large empires of Egypt inthe South, and of Asayria in the North, wno vio and etragrto with ‘oach other for tho dominion of the world. Out of a large number of Iittio kingdoms, present ing ag many ruin of a scattered oll ompire, the Kingdom of Assyria riecs above Uabylonia, its val, in the fourteenth ceuturr, befuro our era, groming llko an avalanche, white it pushes ite conquenta onward to force all those natious atand- in ‘Ts its down under its irresintible poor, taking advantage of Jigypt's tomporary ox- haustion, ‘Thus among tha number of Kinga defeated and compolied ta pay Jargo tribute to Assyria wollnd Abab of Inracl, rnfforing sovera venalties for bis defensive alliance with [azael, Xing of Aram. and aftert elu. the nun of Numnshi, regarded by the Aeayrians as bolouging tothe house of Omri. Wo discern the great povier in the North interfering with tho politica of Bamaria, aoon imposing ® King upon hor, soov doposing hin. until Bhaltnaneser complotos her doom by besieging bor capital, and argon, scarcely meutioned in the ible, leads Ifosoa, hor King, with 30,000 inhabitants, away an cap- tives. Thou comes Judea's turn. Azatial and Abaz, tho latter boating on Assyrian inecriptions the fuller name of Jeloahaz, are recorded as tributaries to Tiglath Pilesor, and we may pre- sume tho idolatry of Alisz to have atood in near relation to bis sympathy with Assyria, which causcd his escape for tho time. But Sargon's following campalgns, atvancing along the rea- shoro as far.down as Philistia, inspired Egypt with fear, while thoy entranped Judes into dan- perous temptations of Jeaving toward the ons and tho othor power, against which Isaiah's warning vuice fa lifted. Indeed, the keen-sivted rophot proved ®& wiso atatesman, when jargon tampled Ashdid, the neighbor and ally of Judab, under his feot, Yor rophetand King of Judah hoped. And when ho atirring news camo of Sargon's having bocn murdered sn his palace, and of Merodach Dal- adan, tho Babylonian King's having shaken off tho yoke cf Assyria, Isaiah folt inapired to prophesy # me of overlasting peace and Leppl- ness. But a few yours elapsed, until Seunn- cherib iinposed again his yoke upon all the uae tions, fettered bofore by his fatuer to Avssrin's throne, Hezaiiah, then, had to pay the penalty for closing av allianco with Egypt and Pullistia, and, “inclosodin his fortress of Jerusalem like a caged bird," ho was forced to give away lils daughters, his eunuchs, and large treasures ay a price for lls hfo and hiv much-reduced King dom. Seooch, King of Egypt, too, nas, after do- feat ofthe army ho scat for tho assistance of Philistia, compolled to pay tributes to Ansyria, Btill tho helping band of God way’ not missing, a3 tho triumphant march of Senna- eherib was checked by ‘Tithaka, tho King of Ethiopia, and most probably also by yisgues, arising from the routo through tho Arabian wilderness which efterwarda causot the com- piaint of Asarhaddon, when he resumed his father's catmpalgos. Aasurbauial, tho Sardan- apalus of the Grecks, at last succesded ju aub- dujog Egypt, and in surrounding Auyria with tho mont brilliant fame and splendor, But, whou cloelug bla unequalod carcer, bo loft an exhaust- ed and decaying Kingdom bobind, soou 3 bo overthrown by Bubylouis., But there wo perceive with awe the wondorful ways of Providenco, whiols, by tho samo kind of fostinct that makos the ant provide fod for the coming winter, prevails upou nations also to treaanio up in duo time THE RIVE FAVITS OF THEIR MENTAL CULTURE, as ifthoy would anticipate their approaching ate. Assurbanibal, like the laut Kings of Judal, collected all tho literary productions of bis coun- try, aud saved them for futuro agcs, His own records, wherein he boasts of having by Lis con- qucats recovorod tho imago of thegoidess Nana, carriod off by the Kinga of Elam:to Sbusnau, their capital, 1305 years bofare, betraya bis zeal for tha proscrvatioa of the sutique monuments of Mexopotamia, which are in our days mada to toll such a wondrous tale of tho paat, Yor theseioscriptions found in tho record- chamber of King Sardanapalus do not merely present us a history of Assyria reaching upto the nimoteonth century, but contain originals athored, and copies with trans'ations causad to Eo made by him of records, mado thirty sud forty centuries bofore the Christiou Era. when Meso- potamla was ruled by Chaldean Kinga, having thelr residouce in the City of Ur, at tho shore of tho Caspian Sea, where Abraham stattod from on his way to Haian and Canaan. Theeo oider documents presout a much older form of cunolform letters, which bear tracos of pict- ure-writiog like the Hieroglyphics, and at tha samo time alzo a difforant language which, by its monosyllatio character, shows aflinities with the Chines and Hungarian languagos bolongioz to the so-called Luranian stock. This language Was udod by pricsts as a holy ono in prayers apd songs, or in thoir magic formulas applied for casting out or protecting azainat evil apirite, It must have been the language of tho people liv- ing thore before the sons of Cush conquered the land, Dut, whilo they could not witiwtand the force of the warriors, thoy provailod upon them to adopt their far superior culture, For not ouly bad thoy iovonted tho art of writing, but also oxact mesaurenionts of time and of measure and weight, which they forced upoh the. whole civilized mankind. ‘hoy had tem- ples built to the sun, moon, and stars, and at the samo time observatorica for their astrouomers to watch the starry heaven and to fix the timo of years and months by the moat accurate caloulatfony, so that the Chaldean pricats could preacut on astronomical tablot of 900 years to Aloxauder tho Great, ‘They liad divided the month into four diviaions of navon days, each of which was named after snothor of thelr planotary gode, and itis to them that wa owe tho namos of our week days. Evon tho Boventh day, as dovoted to reat and namod after their suprome god, bas been fouud with them. Thelr year consisted of twolve months, bearing namos according to the passage of tha sun through tha twelve signs of tho Zodiac, and woro adjusted to the solar year by occasional intorcalations, The suu-dial and tho astrolabo, too, are their invention, Timo docs not allow me to enlarge upon charactorizing their ad- vancod state of culture, manifested by thelr skr!l of using metals and thoir husbandry, for which thoy made tho eame extonsive uso of irrigation an thoir rivals did in Egypt. What intereste us moat ia the vaat Ntcraturo thoy produced and the rolizious forma they be- queathed to poatatity, ‘To Muatrato this, I mill only dwall upon the famous series of twelve tab- Jet, of which THE FLOOD LroEND forms a patt. ‘Twelvo adventures are relatod thero, most probably in connection with tho pas- go of tho sun through tha twelve gua of tho Zodiac, of & hero, whose name is read in tha Chaldoan form Tadulbar, meauing “the firebrand," soother word forthe sun. Jlis doeds romiud attogether of the twelve labors of Horcules and af Samson, the Jowish Hercules, Ho is ropresentoed as a mighty, giant and a conquoror of many citioy, killing Nona aud monuters. Having triumphod over all his enomies, he falls victim to a woman, whosa love turns, like that of Dolilah or Deianira, into hatred and ours But * Firebrand’s love is the Goddeas of love borsolf, named Ishtar, tho Hobrow Aatarte. Iaving ofterod to marry him but to meot his rofusal, sho bosps mivfortano upon miafortune on him. His wive counsel and interpreter of draams, Heabani, whom he bed taken, Uke Josopb, from a dark, perilous cave to his court, was taken from his aldo, and at last adigosse befel him, too, from which nobody could cure him, oxcept tho wise Hawiaadrs, who had ezcapod the flood, and lived oa the fale of the blessed. To him hoe thon journeyed along, panalny country enwrapped in dark clouds, whore glauta stood, like Atlas, guarding the rising auo, * their crown at the Ixt- tico of Heaven, thelr feet under hell.” Trav- orsing this, ho arrived st a garden, lke the Western Land of the Hoeroules legend, full of troos glittering with gold and juwely, ¢ to mect Hnsieadra, the may who had vived the flood, From him ho learns of the flood, told much in the same way ible. Hanisadra, too, offered a sacritlc fot", who bed made him build a whip to a ife thoreiu, Fis and how ho wi: of the gods, 1; the lifo-givin, water, and mado him bathe in the Jake, whon ‘+ hig dissase in the water to beauty turned.” Having reached bis home again, he Taments the less of hts friond Heaban!, wuo finds No rest in the grave, and iy finally, like Henoch of tho Biblo, transferred into Heaven by the ald of Hoa, the god of the ocean and infoinal re- filguss alter having offered tho following prayor t turn me, he says to bis own ghost, from hell the ind of doom Trom the house of the departed, the scat of the god, of From the house within which there is no exit, Frou thy place wherein thay long for light, But Ught 46 never secn, iu darkuoss they dwol . ‘The pace riers dust is their nourishment, and thoir inud, To the place of seers 1 will enter, Where they are wearlug crowns, who, from days of OU, Tuled the esrih, tro winks the gods “Aas! (of Moaven), aud Uel (ot Wu) have giveu renowned uaiwer, ‘rom peren- earl A place where water is abundant drawu nial springs, ‘To tha place of scere I will cuter, ‘To the place of bards and great men, othe place of “interpretera of thie wisdom of the cea Thus cud thoes seraarkable Jogends. | But their vane tien not Jn the direction of eon- firming, hut of throwing new light on, t Liblieal legends. Both ol Firebrand’ * al * Hagisadra’s ork" are often mentioned on the inscriptions, and aeom to point to the samo ark, on whizit Osiris, the Egyptian god (Henitt), rides whila doscondiog into the nother world, where hell and Heaven mect. Bat while the ark of Noah is stills mere chest, the ark of tho Chale deau legend is a regular ship, Jaunchad into tho fea and navigated by boatmen. The god who told Hasinadra to build » ship, 19 Hen, the god of tho ocoan, tho exo who calmed tho anger of Bol, tha prince of the gods, and prevailed upen him not to deatroy meu any more by a deluyo, thero lunying been during six days and waven nights rain which awept away all lifo from earth, ‘The whole flood legond, howaver, is MERELY AN EPInuveE, innorted into the grand epopee of “Firebrand.” Lut Firebrand, tho ruler of Babylon, with her four cities united foto one, turna out to be Nim- rod, a4 thia reading of the name Izdubar js made robable by Smith and others, Yot the same bas een found on inecriptions to bare been wore shiped ag a god and addressed iu prayers. In- deed, he is described in our poum aa coming along with tho limbs of a god on his body; tis shape is divine, “his work in bnmen. ' Nor cau wo help nuggeating the same to have bee the original type of ail tho Bamsons anit the Hercules, whion bebolding tho large figuro of Nimrod vn n statue, taken from tho gate of the palace at Chorsabad, showing a gigantic shapo of aman strangling a young lion with bis one arm, whilo holdiog x club or boomerang in tho ather. Thoro ja slo meutiou mado in this moss peem of the various amoure of Inhtar, the Aneyrian Venus, whose charms ‘ Fircbrand” despised. Of theee, her marriage with the uufortunate Tammuz, “ whore loss country after country is mourning, "in of evpecial intorest, ae it ls the same whom Ezekiel found the idolatrous woman socping for. (cliap. vill.; ¥. 14), aud whoue loss waa Jamented in the samo way by Ishtar, as was Adonis in Phenicisn mythology by Venus, and Osiris by the Egyptian goddesa Init, an seen in another remarkable iece, Seperibing the desceut of Ishtar into tha land of tha dead in tho search of ler lost be- loved. From the deecripzion of the nether world, in this and the other picca I montioned ahovo, it appears that the notions concerning Heaven and hell belong to the remotest antiqui- ty, and, I think, it is not too bold to sasert that thoy were forwarded in on unknown time by Chatdoan priests to Egypt and to India, where wo find them ia common with many other religi- ous belicfa and rites peculiar to tho Chaldeans, ‘ais may account also for the striking similarity observed by rcholars between the Hindco legend of tho flood, and tho Chaldean account. In tho samo way attention has been catled to a large number of coincidences in the belief in spirits and their evil influences in the tree of life aud the water of life, iu exorciutms by the use of sicna and racred numbers, found between the ofd Chaldean religion and moro or cua that of alt tha others, TO MENTION ANOTHER INSTANCE, wo find tho infant-life of almost all groat heroes surrounded by ono and tho astno Deautiful legend, shownig the protectins hand of Meaven held over their precious life. Egypt has her Osiria, Romo her Romulus, Greece her Iterculea and Porsous, Persia her Cyrus, Judainm its Moses, Buddhism ita Buddba, aud Christianity ite Jesus, all saved ju somo way from dangers threatening thele infant life. To learn their original, or, at least, » rtory anterior to all of them, wo must turn to Chalden, to hear Sarzon, the foundar of tho carly City of Akad, telling his atory iu a poem reading 28 follows: Lam argon, the mighty King of Akkad, aim born of a mortal mother, yet uot her bueband, but a god, an tay father, When being delivered of me my mother placed me on the Putting me in an ark of rushes, coated with bitu- men, Onwards the river carried me to mect Akl, the gar- ener, Te made me bls eon, and, reaching my seventh year, I from a gardener became a King. Novertbess, I am far from bolleving people to have merely copied from each other for 10,000 or 20,000 years. ‘There is a fluo story told of King Midas, who turned everytiung to gold while touching it, Thisis the nature of true genius. Though drawing all their knowledgo, art, and aclouce frown others, the Grocks atampod what- ever they undertook to cops with the seal of their genius, and it turned into beauty. The propheta, the poets, aud the wise men of Ieracl, too, derived a gaod deal of what they know from hoathen nations, even tho form of Hebrew po- otry having been proved to bo of old Chaldean ongin; but thoy throw ali the wisdom gathered from othors into the crucible of their mind, and it came forth All pervaded with the spirit of Loli- non, sud shining with the awo-inapiriug majesty of divino truth. ‘Tero is ono CURIOUS LITTLE DISCOVERY which Tcannot rofrain from mentioning tastly. Smuall droages of clay with cither a human head and a lion's body ora lynx's head and human body wore found in small cavitios at the threshold of tho ontrances within the royal palaces of Ninoveh, besides elabs of gypsum iu- scribed with prayers and magic formulan, osten- sibly for tho purpceo of protecting the abodes of the King, while the principal doorways woro guarded by cherubs, tho gonii_in tho shape of winged bulls aud lions, asthe Egyptian were by spbynxos, There, thon, tho same houschold goda or Teranbim wo mot with, which, as you will romomber from the Bible, Iscbol stole from hor fatuer for the purpose of transforring them to her new home, or the Penstes which Avaeas carried along from old Troy to Rome. Ly thie peculiar old custom wocaunot help being in- prossod with a grand and touching loason. Looking over the largo ground mau has trod on over since the carly Chaldeans pitched their tents in tho centro of Ania, where they lived, to- gethor with the old Chinese, to settle. perhaps ton thousand yoars bofore our ora, at tho sora of tho Caspian Gulf, up to this day, how many nations do we behold carrying along their sacred household rominlscences to keop up the. connection between remote past and distant futuro! Yot they move onwards, esch nation andeach ap improving upon the other, Can wo fail to recognize in all this the guiding hand ofa Supreme Vowor watching over the destinies of mankind, and never allowing one of thoir doar and sacred truths to be entirely loat ? Acos boquesthing to each other the inhoritancos of tho past, and nations transmitting, while dying, their productions aud traditions to others rising in their stead, keop up that mighty, ever-growing stream we call progress, which, indced, shows meroly an everlasting reform, Chins, sinve she hos built a se between herself and tho other woild, stood ntl, and, ia turning only backwards, became a pillar of salt, Ono nation's Hebendeuoe upon the other is the lifo-blood of our civilization, over keoping it fresh whilo making it over circulate. Our civ- ilizstion is no moro Christisn than {t is Jowieh, but merely and wholly human, as it boars traces and scods of many statoa of culture, of mavy natioualitics and ideas. And as tho march of history, following the course of tho aun, gocs westward, America is destined to be the bulwark of civilization in fature aves, when her diverno nationalities will Lave malted into one uoble and vigorous atock of maukind. Butto spread ber branches bigh up into the heavens of the future, she wust strike deep roots into the soil of the aut. To cordon inte full growth, she must bo mbuod with the blossinga of manifuld culture. Our childreu must be taught to undertaud and to appreciate the great lesgons of histury up to ita vory dawn, iu order that, wheo tbo aun sete in the Old World, thoy may behold its faco shine ing in full brightness upon this shore of the At- lautic, intereyting arating wall The Death of Sir Charles Lycile Louton Timea, Feb, 21, Last eyoniny Dr. Mardwicka, the Coroner for Contra} Biddivees, held an inquost at No, 73 Harley streat, Cayondish Square, respecting the doath of Sir Charles Lyetl, aged 77, which was accelerated by a fali down siairy, ‘The Coroner's ollicor, Mr, U, Stevenson, stated that the jury would not bo ablo to view the body, the cofin being soldered down, Addrousing Dr, Clarke, the Corover sald thera was a report that the deceased fell down xtalre, and that death was nocolorated by the accidont, He could not sce why an inquest should wot be held on a rich man us woll a3 @ poor ous, It would be nothing loss than s groat scane dal on the Coroner's Courtif heallowed this cazo to pas ‘The best thing they could do was to adjourn the cass for » short timo, and have tha collin opoued, as it was highly important the jury should see th: dy. The Corovor's ofticer then left ta fetch av undertaker to opon the voftu, ‘The Coronor sald that to wavo tine thay might take the ovidence and soe the body aftorward, Dr. Andrew Clarke, F. i. O, physician to the London Howpital, living (0, 16 Cavendish Square, stated that ho liad beon called in to see Gir Churtos some tima ayo, aud during the au- tumu inonths, Ho wae then suffering from disorder of tho brain, On or about tha 9th of December, in coming down ataira, the de- coased wlipped and fell, Ilo was called in woon afterward, Bud found that tho decoased was suffering from @ severo contusion over the right ove, and aslight dislocation of the left thumb. Mo requested the family to wend for Sir James Vaget and Dr. Oassidy, which was done. Wi iu compauy with those medical am tho decessod from tima to tnne. Bigns of yor- tigo gradually increasod, and the doveasod fell into 8 soun-couscious uiate. A mouth or three wookw ago tho deceased bal s noizuiy of epilep- wy, The cause of death was from mowugiti, with ao effuslon of serum on tho brain, accolor ated by the fal! down atsirs, James butler, wald boas gn the 9b of 4, the Devewabor, Jast, returning home tbetweon 6 6 o'clock, ho and A waa informed by tho maid that Sir Ghaclea had fallen down stirs, Ho found the deceagod sitting in @ chair having bruise on the forohoad. Io helped him to bed. Miss Mary Aun Lrell, sisterof tha de- Ceased, atated that recontly his sight got wore; on the Sh of Decombor last she Hoard bim cry out, and raw ho had falion down about ten atono stop. Ly the Coroner—Sho could not bay that tho death ot tho deceased .was accoler- ated by hits falling dawa statis; the staira tora rather Mr, W. Z. Morgan, Jr, of the Jirm of Moi & Co, funoral furnishera, No. 6 man Creat Portland street, hero uuscrewed thn outer collin, which wan of ‘potixhod vals, bearing the following iuscription: * Carles Lyell, Baronet, died 2ud Fetruary, 1875, aged 77 yoare."” Ho afterward forced open tite teaten hid a little way 50 as to eundle the jury Loreen part of the faco of tho deceased. ‘tha Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a vertict that the do- ceanod expire: from taeniugitia with an effusion of Rerun on the braiu, accelerated bya tall down atairs.” TILE PROTECTION PLAN, Moth Side of the Controversy, MN. BNUPELDT ON THE PNOTESTION L1Y% INKUR- ANCY COMPANY, To the Kilitor af The Chteago Tritune : Cuteauo, March 12—If str. Shufeldt, who wrote you yesterday on tho Protection Life In- surance, knows of any gross frauds conrected with that ** syatem" of Itfo insurance, why docs ‘he not at onca exposo thom, and not wait for an invitation to doit, iu order to affect pending Jogislation ? Buch an exposition would bo val- uable to the public at any time, and would tend to put people ou their guard against imposition, We are so much imposed upon from every sido that we ought to welcome every effort mado AMUSEMENTS, ADELPHI THEATRE, MONDAY, MAROCE 165. Twelve Entirely Now Stars! KR UIARRY GORT, HARRY PAGK, JOTN SISTERS, CHARLIE No Wh THE LILLIAN HOWARD, “MONTE PRE ALD, TARO Y MONTOR, LITTLE RIFLE; Or, THE WHITE SPIRIT OF THE PAWNEES, Produced with n ener how mechanleal effects, DoW Dropert ney etadl ary to ine aca Howard tute & Petiect representations pt 2a cereus MISS ALIOR PLACIDE ashing Chaclie, the Heout...CHATLES Re EMMETT Anta powerful 1 the t¢ PRICES “Bethe Sie, Loo, Oren rieatre in the we sich -McVIOKER’S THEATRE. LAST WERK of the Distiogalshed Actress, MRS. ROUSBY, ‘Who will appear on Monday and Tresday as ROSALIND, In Shakepearo's Comedy of AS YOU LIKE IT PATURDAY, ND OPERA-HOUSE, to enable us to aco things ay they are, Tha inference of Mr. Shufeldt’s note secma tobe armed at the Protection Lifo Insurance Company, of this city, which haa for its sup- portera somo of our mont respectable and hon- orable citizens. ‘Lat Company has not shrunts from any investigation or discussion of tha eyne tem" on which it doce businesa. If it commits any frauds in doing its business, then oll good citizens will thonk Mr. Sbufelst for expoxin; them, and among the most thankful will be the really respectable people wlio aro connected with tba Company sa mauagers, or as thoge insured nit. It the legislation now pending at Spriogfleld in desixzned to slut out any legitimate busiices from the State, it may be vory foolish, an a great doal of legistation ts. and ould be opposed an tho true ground of ita folly. Should it be the occasion of attacking another syatem of lemiti- fate Uissiners recognized as such by our onn jaws Now the “system” may be regarded as a fraud itself; aud thatla what tho opponenta of tho system would like to hava Interred. And tho “ayatem" may be correct and honest, and tho {frauds may be only such as ara connected with it, If this ia so, then it is like auy other busi- hess, and:no woreo: and the frauds should bo disconnected fromit. If Mr Schufeldt will aid in this he willdo a good service to his fellow meu, Is mutual protection in life ineurance neces- sarily afraud? We know thore isa Perpotual antagoulan Letween stuck companies, or combi- nations to make monuy out of any kind of busi- uns, and the oppusite wsstem of co-operation, protection, or miiual lisvility. And we have had, aud continue to have, mutual insurance companies, both on life and fire, which have al- ways been subject to hard competition from the stock compauies who miske monoy oul of tis business, If s life inauranco company can tnake money by insuring 5,000 lives at x ceriain rate, and pay the expenven of advertising, afiice, and officers, why cannot the #ame 5,000 savo money by mutually insuring themselves? If tt iu found that from the foes collected from these 6,000 ingurod, that only one-fifth js actually expended inpaying tho death losses, four-fifths go to keep up the expense of running the wystem and pay- ing dividends, thon may it not be infe red that legitimate tnsurance isso expensive that it very properly invites protection? Ig the system & vad onc that aims to have tife insuranco at cost, Kelly & Leo's Pauows ‘Minstrel Burlesquo Opera Troupe, FUN! YO-NIGHT! FUN! A LIGHTNING oT P NOVELT BELLES OF THE BITCHEN Introducing a barlerqua on the Opera il TIAVATOMN. AGADEMY OF “MUSIC, Return of tugland's Groatest Character Comedian, J.T TOOL: MONDAY, Marcls 15, will be produced the beautifut drama, DEARER THAN LIFE! ‘And the Dickonsotilan sketel, THE DODG: Two of AF, TUOLE'S areatost persnations, HOOLEY'S THEATRE, A Ca Bana GRAD EGAN HITT, BENEFIT OF A F.SNELL—I GLORIOUS PLAYA) ‘The Leanti(nl eomedy, TIME TRIES ALL! ‘Tho amasine cranadletta, n Alarming Snacri: Tocanctute with (iy route PTIEL ASS wvarss, i wl tire Comy Toenday evening: St enday evening: 5; HENRY DUNBAIL; Ul A DAU OENTRAL HALL, Northeast corner Twenty-sccond-et, and Wabash-av, “SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SEA, RILPATHI UK, aalek: the auspice Son ae Senta ae tanectalty, STIIALS. FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS, Miniag and Manufacturing Company, Late Webster & Marks aud Thos, Webster CHATTANOOGA, TENN. any more than the buying of goods at cost is necessaiily ono that bas ‘gross frauds" con- nected with it? Here are somo points on which Mr. Shufeldt will do the public some servico by explaining. Let us know why it is that inwuring lives at tive tines the cout is no fraud, while in acombination to get that insuranco at a cost isa fraud? ‘TNE PROTECTION PLAN OF LIFE, INSURANCE, To the Editor of The Cateayo Tribune: Cicaso, March 13.—The above-mentioned mothod of transacting the business of life in. suranco was conceived in #in and born {n {niqui- ty. Ibis a fraud from beginuing toond; s fraud on the public, on tho policy-holders, and onthe City of Chicago, Ostensibly holding out to its patrons @ provision sgainst death, by mutual contributions, the Company only ucting an the collector and distributor of tha lowes, at tho nomiual expense of doing tha work, it has boon turned intoan engine of extortion anda vast machine for putting money into the pockets of its organizers ond cnginecra, The do- tails of tho method by which this ro- ault is achieved ore too numerous for & newspaper article, but an idea may bo given of such parts of the plan as will fuduco policy-holders and pollcy-takers to thinls twico before thoy pay. any mouoy into this macl~ strom. Policy-holders undoratand that when a death occurs the lors is assessed upon all of them equally, which ia fust and equitable, But whats delusion! ‘Take the losses for a month, say €50,000. Now suppore the Company has 12,500 policy-holders, which would roquire an auscusment of €feach, Do thoy make an aa- Besument of thid amount? Not o bit of it. They pretend that they bavo only 8,000 pollcy- holders, and mako tho assossmont €0,25 each, and then collect that amount from the whole 12,500, and realize $75,000 instead of #50,C00, Bnet profit of €25,000 per month, or £00,006 per year, Can tho pollcy-boldor telt, or doca he know how many meinbers are subject to assess. mont? Is theres single man holding » prateo- tion. policy who knows how many policies the Company has out? If ho doas uot, then ho ix in.a fair way to be swindled, ‘This ie ouly one item of the mannor in which thia business is conducted. An investigation of the books and affairs of tho Compauy would probably disclose an Interesting wtate of facta on Other points, Vorezample: the kind of riska taken, tho percentage of deaths, tho singular names givon to common disoasos to nvaid’ tho appearance of [uauring consumptiyes, otc, It ia not particularly astonishing that the State of New York should refuso to adinit this style of lifo insurance within her borders. in tho intorest of thin publio fraud, a bill tas boon introduced ia the Illinois Legisiatura designed to oxclude from this Stato the companies of those States which daoline to admit the protect- iva systom of Inoiv to their territory. If in- clined tonsea slang plrase and characterize thia presumption as tt devorves, it woulu not be ailicult to Gnd a word—chook, Quo, A. Suvretpr, Jr. =o Indian Vengeance, Reese River Keveille, Bob 19 a Shoxone Indian, who for several years has worked at edayolis forJimmy Thomas, of Reoso Rivor Valley. {fo iv a steady boy, good to work, yota true Indian, Lob had two broth- ora, Who, a short time aluce, inysteriously to tho Indian mind, sickened aud died. In some wey there two Indians bad been mized un with» Soshoue squaw, and tho report provailed that she bad bewitched Bob's brothers so that they lad died, Bob cats to town tho other day, aud upon his return passed & Bhouhous conipo. dia, Moccasin, another Shoshone, mot Bob and told bim that the squaw was they in camp, and advigod bim to kill bor. Bob dismotnted from hia horse, which Moccasin hold, and, fuding tho squaw, he beat hor to death with stones, and tuon burned her body, Tho squaw had borno = & bad character, having two half-breed chil- dren, and it may be that this fact ia somo meas~ ure justified, in the Indian's mind, the killing, for to their credit, be it of tho whito man the Indians were chaate, pur inbing, even to death, all lapos from virtue. Bhoitf Kmory, when theas facts cama to hia kuowlodgo, arrested Bob aud coniinod him in the county wfore the advent id, be roof of thu tilting ntirely upon Indian toxtimony, which Id misuible under the iaw, Dob was yester- tat liberty, Tho Iudlans gonerally think jail. But an the di that he has douo wrong. A Danbury (Conn,) photographer promises to revolutionize the busjucas by the introduction of & gas which reudors tho sitter uncousclous dur- ing the taking of the picture, jusued cards snnowueln Me han already “Photography in all let kon without NOT. STOGKHOLDERS' MEETING ‘The annual meeting of the stocktoldure of the West ite eee seat daeaay bake ast tors, o eo dialte Cais cago, Ga 7 Mareb si fs LUNES Betivicey, Incorvorated under a charter granted by the State ot Capital, 8500,, in 6,000 shares of $k + With pwr ta inervase to #1, 0, UN. Kier’ call not to exaoed $24 vor abare, informed for the purpose of acquiring ag the estatitaied basiness and works af ks, well: known amas Wott Works, situated at Chattanocga, Tenn, established in 145i, tor building every description ih wnteal, anil Engineering rejuleeinonta tho parpose of porchaalog ur leasing mlavral aid erecting warks theroun. aulistantially erected on abont five acres which {s freoli Works ad, all of altgtble post m qi tiwater, in tho cuntre Mle-track "with all tht n00¢a, been most sucecasfully carriod o2 by or, arein full operation, and enmprise eaulipned Foundry, counected with the hoa by a uarrow-gauge track, ami contain one Lt th Patent Goar Wheel Moulding Ma- ine Shop, the largest in the outire South, th the bi niost modern improved Lather, Planers. Uoring Bill ‘The Pattern Shop (a fitted up with all tho necessary Tuola and Machinery for making Patterns. ‘The large Blacksmith and Uoller Sopa azo fully equip: ped. ‘Tha atock on hand ts of recont purchar working condition, ‘Thery is ine 5 of Sentt's * iy Incroetiag popuies cr lee ting oumbine to iaéress tha demand for usshiacey oh a ree so tranaterred to th c ‘i The Works wi 6 tranaferred to the new a fall'working condition, with ell Honeilelal conteacter and will fretade tho wholo cf the lant and Unildiags thetente fogother with the modern and ealuable Plant, Afachlnoey, Hogs, Biding, abd good wil ‘ho contract prica of the Warks to the Company will Pith ~ inaae ind 870,00) in 700 ort inary fully paid up. timate on wiich tite sur is based fs from a caro. fully made valuation of freehold teat, balldlaus, “Pie ohinorys plant, pattorns, tittures, siding, and xo wilt, ‘Tho Directors aad adicers of this Company will be ap- polnted at the iret meoting of tho atocklalders, of whicu due notice will bo iron, rospectua eopy uf enerter and forms of applications for shares may he pricurod from the Nreretary (peo tele), ak tha atticos: he Company, at the Works. Each appileation for saree tuust be accompanied by « payment of Bid por share on application, Bhould no allotment be made, tho deposit will bore turned without deduction, Utero" follows the Charter, which ts very full tn Ite grat of Manufacturing and Mintug franchises.| OPINION OF COUNSEL UPON VALIDITY OF CHARTER. (Corr CuarraNooga, Tonn., Jan. 19, 1575, Tuostan Wevernt diet We'barerg nie the atten sombanzing cupy ot Foundry and Machine ing Company,” with « viow to secortain ite validity, &e., and Lave caine tthe coxclusiun that tho ehartar was Feqularly obtained and fs logal, Undnr it the Company or Uarpar lzoand int ost their mone or othe Whe powers euninerated in sal ut with the Constitution of the Unit tu uf Tennesseas and thuy will be i tn the Courts of the country ta law and {n equity. iM) (Shaner Wier GENE a -TRRWILITT. 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