Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1875, Page 7

THE CHICACO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1875.—~TWELVE PAGES. o e e POLITICAL. Slirring Nofes of the Conncetlcut * Campaigu. An Able Spesch by the Hon, James @ Blaine, The Democracy Do Not Want Peace in the South, Disorder and Strifo Are Noosssary for Their Success. The Outlook for the Michigan Elections Next Mouday. Candidates for Bupremo and irouit Tudges, and Rogonts of tho Univorsity, Miscollancous Political Notes, CONNECTICUT, SPRTCT DY THIE 1ON, JAMES G. BLAINE. New [aves, Conn,, April 2.—Tho How, Jamea G. Dinino addresscd & largo Ropublican meoting in this city this ovening, Ile said that Domo- cratio papers wero fluding fault becauso tho Republicans in tho Northorn' States persisted in discussing tho lesucs which graw out of thio War and still remained unsottled, when at tho spamo timo it was up- doniable that the Demoeratic = party in tho Bouthern States in overy conuty and town- ship wero discussing thoso same issues from precisely the opposite point of yvisw, For tho Riepublicans to abandon thoso {ssues which in- volvo tho quostions of citizenghip, of freo suf- frage, and tho wupremacy of the Cobatitution with its amendments, would be to surrendor sod disbaud their organization boforo tho legitimato euds of the great strugglo nad boen fully ate tained, If he was pointed to oxprossions of DEMOCRATIO ACQUJESCENCE in these rosultn, he must receive”thom with cau- tlon, beoanse tho condition of tho South did not correspond to thass neanrancen of ncquiescenco. v this romark he wns not epcclally reforring to porsonal outrages,~elogantly termaed tho **Dloody-shirt " fssuo of the Democracy,—but to tunt goueral condition of inequality and op- pression under tho law whick provailed fn wo wnny of the Southern States. Nor had ho con- fldeuco in tho efforts or futention of the Demo- cratic paity to PACIFY AND HARMONIZE TIE SOUIH ontho bagis of submission to law and order. Look at tho courso of the Domocratic membera of tho 1Iouse of Represontatives in the sottle- mont of tho Louismus question. 'Tie tinal ree. vmmendation of tho Loulsiana Committeo—and it wus cortainly a very ablo Cominitteo, not roeh, or partisan, or projudiced—was 10 do tho things, iz, : Correot tho crrora of the Ropublican Enrol- ting Doard aud glve the Legislaturo in ity popu- Inr branel to the Domocrats, Becond, to recog- wizo Gov. Kellogg a6 the dojfacto Exocutive of lhe Biato, ns Vrosident Grant has wisely aud necessatily done, ‘This scomed to bo not only A YAIIL ADSUSTMENT, s but it was roally the only adjustmont practidabla ; auy othier woulldl have svolved wrong on the ont band or anarchy on tho othor. And yet overy Domocrat in tiio Honuo anve only Mr, Ktophons, of Ctoorgin, voted agninst poritting the subject to bo ovon intrcduced; voted against allowing the Committoo to report ~the adjust- ment; voted agaiust oven giviog Cougrees an opportunity tobring peace to that distracted Slate; voted to contiuue disordor ; voted toinvite a ropotition of the andactuus revolution of Hopt, 14 ; votod that discord might bold high carnival fu- that riot-riddon Stato, if ouly thereby tho prospect of & Demoeratio vietory could e on- hanced. And if to-day lnw and order have supromacy in Louislans, if to-day rovolution and auarchy aro kept out, you owo the rosult wholly to tho fact that the Republicans were onabiod tu outvoto the Domocruts iu the Iouse of liopro- acntatives, Nr. Blaino said hio bad nevar wought to play tho pait of an slarmiet, and had no possible do- Hiro to appoar seusational ; but ho venwured to By 10 tha pooplo of Connecticut thut it was s safo thing for this country not to put the Demo- cintic party in tho way of obtaining control of the National Gavernniont. Such & rosuls would Lo tho bogiuniog of A POLICY OF REACTION, of which no man could soo tho cud—a policy 8o violoat that undor tho impetus acuired from victory and the confidence growing out of power, 1t would rosh probably to” the wildnesa of o ountor-rovolution, overturning or sottiug auide, or at lonst unsotiling, taany of tho now aceupted snd most importaut pointa of public policy. Tho aim of tho Democratic party now isto cousolidato tho Bouth and then secure us much Northern support 88 may possibly be obtained. And it fan wost startiing fact that with tho elec- soral votes of tho former ulavo States thoy need but a fraction of the Northern vota to give thom the Government. Look atthe figures: with Culorado admutted, the total Lloctoral vato will Lo 063,—of which' 155 Zonstituto n majority, ‘Iie Bouthorn Biatos unitod can givo 138 votos, loaviug only 47 to Lo obtajued out of the 231 that belong to tho North. Tho thrco Btates of Now York, Conuectiout, and California can giva thioss torty-voven votos, uud JOur own prouperous Ktata is ‘ouo that is always Tound ou the it of thoso who wish to control tiie Government by this combination, And, if thls design coutd succeed, ft would oniy bo lis- tory roposting iteolf, Agatnst an overwholming mijotity of the Freo Stated in 1856 a nmafi fraction of them united with tho Houth, and wero quavled to fasten tho Duchauau dynesty upon the couutry, with il the uuuumbum& evily that followed, Are you in Conneoticut—{ sponk 1o you not s Republioans,and not as Domocrats— ut aro you as Counccticut men _ready and will- ing to have tho political strongth of your Btato used In AN DNTIOLY ALLIANCE, by which tho Governmont is to ba token from tiie men who fought for tho Union, and hand it over tothe control of thoso who fought to de- stroy the Union ? Lor to this comploxion will tho Tmpendivg ivsuo,como. Alr, Blajuo sald he roposod no falth fu any clal form of addltional coorciva logisiation by Congross, nor would ho adviso or con- sent to any iuterfprenco with an oxiets ing Btato Goverument, excopt uudoer tho exprogs torms of tho Constitution, and nuder an oxigeucy 80 prossing as to {uvolve tho Euuuo safoty. What is wauted {s, not moro law, ut o better publio opinion, and the only way to buing that about is for the Northern Btates to iold tho political power of tha country, tenn- clously sud unwaverlogly, in tho hands of thoss who beld the conutry togother in ita hour of ox- tremost peril, 1t lu'the belief of tho South that »ymall section of the North ean bo dotached, and this tonds continunlly to cousalidate tho Boutl on tho fesuc of caste and color, Let NORTUEUN FIBUNEDS bo ea conapleuous and as onduring {a panco as it was 1 war, and the South will weary of the von- toat and divido on othor issues. ‘I make thiy appeal to tho Nortl, said Mr. Blalue, not from uukindness or prejudico tuwards the South. Giod kuows I havo nelther towards that people. 1 would do all in my power to BXSTORE KINDLY VEELING, to recall prosperity, to build up her waste plsccs, and to maka avery acro, from tho Toto. mag to the Rio Grande, fertllo, and productive, £nd profitablo. I would havo évery man in_the Bouth as I would have overy man'lu the North foel that the Unlon was formed as the Conutitu-| Hou d 8, 0 estabiish justice, insure do- Dostic tranquillity, provide for the cowmon doe fouve. promote tlio general welfare, and socare lho'ylnuluulorIlbenytoululelvo- aud our poater- ity,"—and I would Liave avery voter roalize that it1s impousitle to exsggerntn the extent aud dmvorieuce of uls responuibility. When ile uswe nud suthorlty of the Union shall bo every- whore ruspected; when the majosty of the law 1aoverywhore rocogmizad | whon the righta of the humblest are everywhera conceded ; whon fresdom of wpoech s nowhore deuied § when ‘Wendell Pbillips and Oliver P, Morton cay Bpeak aafroolyin Georgis as Gordousud Lamar can dn Now Hawpshre; and when every man outitied to sullrage shall Lo freely nocorded the priviloge of voting, the necossity fur further ap- ml; to the loyalty of tha natiou will bave pavsed . The groat mass of the people in {| o ail partics, desire poice, sordinlie. seo i fosliug betwoen the North' and the Boutl, sod A1l wise statosmansbip should look to that'end, The Lemocratio leadors, auxious to Prove the roacnstruction pulioy of the Hopublicans a fegl. t lent their ald to Lring abont har- ::f:.’.:‘ =ty on the cantrary, tho outliern 1ead- ara of that party hiave RULLENLY RRFUSED THEIN CO-0PERATION, and tho Northern leaders, with {ll.concoaled de- light, bava roally mado this rofuasi tho basis of an arraignmont and donunciation of the Itopub. liean _polioy. It {4 to-day tho evident juteroat and denire of the Republican patty to have pence, and it I8 quito cortain that the Demo- erata think that disordor leads to their ndyantage, Moroover, um{‘mnuowhlchlhu Ropublicann desire {s hasod on right, and justice, and patriotism,and will necesynrily be pormanout, whild the policy of the Democtats is oup of reaction if not of rev- olution, leadlng inavitably to fresh troubles of which no man ¢an seo tho end. . (ilm the peoplo of Connecticut, can the peaple of {ho nation, hesitato botweenjtho fssucs thus presentod 2+ —— MICHIGAN. THE ELECTION OUTLOOK. Michigan holds annual Stato elections,—choos- Ing Cougrossmen, and Btats, Legislative, and County officors, in tho aliumn of cach oven soar; and a Bupreme-Court Judge, two Rogonts of the Stato University, and Township officers, in tho spring of each odd year, Acoordingly, on Monday noxt (April 5), that Btato will elect two Asgociato Justices of the Buprome Court (oune for the full torm of cight years, and tha othor for Sonator Chrlstiancy's unexpired term of aix and o half yoars,) and two Ilegenta of tho Uni- voraity., Tho tawnships will chooa thelr officors attho samo limo; and the regular scxonnial oloction of Judges of tho Circuit Courts will lso tako plago in tha twenty-ono dintricts of the Btato, upon that day. DUT TWO STATE TICKETS sre In tho fleld, —the Republican and Domooratic. ‘The Probibitionista originally mado » full list of nominations ; but most of their candidates ro- fusod to stand, and their 8tato Committee inal- ly poblished & formal address withdrawing their ticket wholly. The 2,000 or 3,000 members of that party will undoubtedly support the Repub- liean candidates; while a Btate Convention of 4 Ttoformers,” which waa held at Lansing in Fo bruary, but was attended by lees thau scoro of porsons, formally adopted the Democratic nominations, 'Fho proront Chiof Justice, Ben- jnmiu F, Graves, of Battlo Croek, liaa boen nom- inated by both parties, and will be re-clocted without opposition. 1o Is a Ropublican {n poli- tics, and has been upon tho Bupreme Bench of tho Btate for elght yeara. Ho in an excellent Jawyor, & man of studlous babits and of pure life, and a thoroughly upright and Impartial magietrate, The laws of Aichigan provide that aach of the Associato Justices of tho Supremo Court ehall act as Chilof Justico duting tho last two of his eight yoare' term, and Mr. Graves is thus a candidato bofore the poaplo for tha Asan- ciato Justiceablp meroly, For the Chnstiancy vacancy on tho Bupremo Beonch, the contestants are Isano Maruton, of Bay Oity, Republican, and Lymen D, Norris, of Grand Itapids, Democrat, B, MATETON is o young man, uot yet 85 yoars of ago, an Irish- man by birth, thoroughly solf.mmado, s bard stu- dont, nnd the possessor of faculties which it ig no oxaggeration to term brillfant, Although a Ropublican, he was electod Prosecuting Attor- noy of Bay Oounty in 1868, whon tho Democrats wero 1n power, sud mado Attornoy of Bay City by n unanimous vote when the City Government was Domocratic, In 1873 ho was choseo for tho Loglelaturo without opposition, and in 1874 he woa appotnted by the Governor Attornoy Gen- eral of the Htate, vico Byron D, Dall, resigned. In this last important position alr, Marston showed conclusively that his powers wers solld, and not prococlous. Tho flles of that offico woro crowded with businosn, sadly noglocted and in wrotched condition. Ho swopt them ¢loar dunng bhia short term, and by his vigor and akill placed mauy thousands of dollars in tho Btate ‘'ressury a8 tho proceods of long-disputed claims, Nutur- nily hehns = hoat of enthusiastio frionds, who aro making stioug offorts in Lis bebalf, ~ Tho Domocratio cawdidate, 3t NORRIH, in & man of good natursl abilities, liberal euucatlon and tho induiglog of hterdr tostos, which wealth and lelvura have socuro: for him, In bis osrly )ifo Lo was prominont in 8t. Louls politics as a lawyer and s journalist. 1o wne one of tho attornoja i the Dred Soott caso, and was nlso active tu that oxciting strug- glo in Missourt which followod the detérminn- tion of tho Slave-Power to punish Thomas H. Donton for Lis indopendence, Mr. Norris han resided in NMichigan since 1854, moat of tho timo at Ypsilantl, but latterly at Grand Raplds. e s alwars beeu one of theintluontial Democrnts of tuut Btate, sud wos in 1862 tho unsuccessful caudidato of his party for Judge of the Fourth Circuit, and ropresented Washtonaw County in the Constitutious! Convention of 1807 and tho Stato Bouato of 1864, Ilia record fs that of ‘an nactive and oarnost partisau, and of a ressonably succeasful lawyer., ‘I'hio rotiring membora of TILE BOALD OF REGENTS of the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, aro Thoway D. CHibert, of Grand Rapids, and Hiram A. Bart, of Marquotte, Doth of those gentlemon aro liepublicaus, but neithor of thom would ac- copt 8 renomination, ‘Tho Republican State Convention selected as thelr succcasors two of the alumni of tho inatitution, Gen. Iyron M, Cutehaon, of Manisteo, one of the loadlug law- Yers of tho westurn shoro of tho Btato, aud tho lon. Bamuol B, Walker, o banker at 8l Johns, aud ono of the Clinton County Ropresentatives in the Iouso now in soasion at Lansing, Both theso geutlomien cau pomt to smplo qualitlea- tious, and nre unexcoptionable candidates in all roupocts, The Democratic nomineca aro Potor White, tho Marquotto bavker and the present Btate Beuator from the Upper Poninsula, and Bamuel 1", Douglas, anc of tho voteran lawyers of tho Dotroit Bar, Thoy alao are gentlemen of unguestionad peraonal fitnoss for tfiu Rogency. TIE JUDICIAL CONTERTS IN TIIE CIRCUITS are oxcoedingly confused in choraster; but the prosent situation in oach of them may bo sum- med up as follows ; Hirst—Judgo Doulol L. Pratt, of Hillsdalo, hias boen ronomiuated by the Ropublicaus; aud the Demoorats liave placed no candidato in the flold agajust bim, Second—Judge Menry I, Caolidge, of Niles, b Loen ronomfuntod by the Ropublioans, and will probbly bo re-alected, although the district fz closo. Fie Democratlo candidato is Franklin Muzzy, algo of Niles, Third—This district I8 Democratio; aud tho contest Is o tmangular ouo, botween F, W, II, Chambors, Repubiican; . J. Roilly, regular Domoorat; and Lovi “"‘“’J" 8 Dewocrat put up by the Liboruls aad adopted by s People's movemont,—nll boing resldouts of Dietroit, le- ault uncertalo. Fourth—Judgg Alexander D. Crane, of Dox- ter, has boeu ronomiuated Ly tho Ropubllcans, The Demooratio caudidato is Goorgo M, Hunt- ington, of Mason,~a member of the prosent State Benate,—aud ha will probably be eleotad, Fifth—In this Circuit, Judgo Goorgo Wood. ruff, of Marshall, {8 running for ro-olection ag an Indopendont candidate, Tho Republican nominca Is Pllip T. Van Zell, of Charlotte; and tho Democratic, Charloa X, Thomas, of Batile Croek. The district ia strongly Ropublican, but thero is dsoger that the Woodruff * bolt* will defeat Alr. Vau Zoll Sizth—Judge J, B..Teft, of Pontiac, hag boou nomiosted lbg the Ttepublicans ; but tho proba- bilitien are that bo will be defeated by ex-Con. rossman A, O. Butdwin, also of Pautiao, the omoeratic caudidato, . Seventh-—-Judgo Joslah Turner, of Owogso, l‘ll)ul.vlu:ln. hay beon nominatod by both part Zighth—Judgo 1., 8, Lovall, of Iouls, has boon nomiuated by tho Ropublicans, aud will be re~ clagted over” Joel Crausou, of 8t. Johns, the Democratio candldato, ANinth—This dlstrict is strongly Ropubllican,. but & bittor local fight In in progross botweon Dwight May, nomluated by the Kalamazoo Couuty Ilopublicaus, and Goorgo W, -Lawton, tiomiuatod by the Van Buren County Republlos and. The result will bo tho oloction of 'J, L. Hawes, of Kalamazoo,” Domocrat, ydge W, 8, Tounaut, of East Bagi- ‘;:'l'; xn Republ will bo ro-elacted witlious op- position, Zlgventh—This dlatrict conaista of the Mack. fnww region. Judge David Goodwin, of Dewroit, & Domocrat, Is running asan [ndopeudent caudi= date for re-election, against Jumos J. Brown of chebnnxni. the nominee of a regular Demoaratio convention, Heeult uncertain. Twelfth—W, D. Williams, of Marquette, a a_mm:ntbwul be olected without opposition in hin (tho Upper Longnauls) Gireult, Thirleenth~Thia district includes the Grand Traverse rogion, Two Republican caudidatos aro {u the fleldhwlthnul regular wotlon of au; kind.—Rafus Ifatch and Georgo F, Griawold, both af Uyaverse Oity,—with the chauces fu favorof tha former, who i supported by the press unsuimously, Fourtenth—Judge A. H, Giddings, of Ne- wu(o‘,bu baen zenomioated by e IRopubhe- m::“; ut thero Lo formidable * bolt " against which will groatly aid, the polished by s ud msy elecl Domocratie candidate, it. A. Montgomery, of Big Rapida. Fifteenth and Sizteenth—~Judges B, W. Kelght- Toy, of Countantine, and E, V. Horrln, of Port ilaron, both Republicans, will bo re-olacted with- wut opporition in these Uircuite. b‘ermlccnlh—.)ud%u Itirney Hoyt Lsa beon re. nominated by tho lopablicans, and will probably ba re-olootod aver Jamey Mitler, Democrat. Botl aro from Urand Rapids, Lighteenth and Nineteenth—Judges Souford M. Greon, of Ty City, Democrat, anid IL, 3T Wheeler, of Ludlngton, Republican, will ho re-olectod withont op) onftion. Tientieth—Judgo b, J, Arnold has heen re- nominated by llxntflcpllbllcann. and thera will bo n closo contest hotweon him and P, J, Littla- Johw, Democrat, Both gentlemon are citizenn of Allegan, . Tieenty-flyst—Thin Circuit has been organized at tho prosent legislativa scssion. 1t in strongly Topublican, and tho only candidate in tha fiald a8 yet is Ilenry fart, of Midland, a member of thio presont Btato Ilotss of Represontativos, TOWNSIHI OPFICERS. The conntios of Miclugan have, for tho last fow yonrs, elected Buporintondonts of Hehiooly at at thieso npring eloctlons ; and nominations for this position wero duly made this_year Ly both partios iu tho more thickiy-settied ~portions of tho Btato. But the Lnginlnlurn han recently abollshed tha offico, and all such nominationy hava thercforo lapacd. The towna will, how- avor, bo callod upon to elect ona Township Superintendent of Hchools nud ona Hchool 1n- speotor for terms of ono year each, instend of two Behool Iuspectors for terms of two yeara enct, an boratofora, »Tho old Township Boards of threo Ilighway Commiesionors (unrvln%lhmn years, havo alao just beon sbolished, and henco- forth one Mighway Commissioner) will be clocted anoually in cach towa, Tho local contests are thls year olarscterized by more party feoling than usual, owing to the fact that the Doard of Bupervisors now chosen will bo callod upon:to reapportion the Rapro- imnjnlh-u Districts under tho Siato census of 874, Tho campaign in Michigan has not been a domonstrativo ono, aud thero bave boen no pub- lie meotings hold and no stump-specehos made by oither party. Btill, there has beon conaldera- blo quict work done by both organizations, snd TILE REPUBLICANS BXPECT TO CAURY THE BTATE for lIr. Marston by o much better majority than was given to Gov. Bagley laat fall. The constitutional amendment striking the anti-liconse clause from tho State Constitution, which the Leginlaturo votod to submit to the poople, cannot bo acted upon untit the sutumn clection of 1876, under tho present coustruction of tho laws regulatiog this matter, LANSING NOMINATIONS, Spectal Dupateh to The Chicago Tribune, Laxaixo, Mich., April, 2.—~Increased tazation glves our municipal election next Tuesday moro than nsual jnterest. Tho Democrats have re- nominated tho city ticket that was run last spring, except Treasurer: Daniel W. Buck for ayor, Charlea Carpenter for Clerk, Dr, Will- inm 1aye for Asscasor, and — Rowley for Trensurer, Tho Hepublicsns have nominated E. 1L Davis for Meyor, F. M. Howe for Cletk, N, I, Toues for Asacssor, and Lowls Loomis for Troasuror. ARAND TAVEN, Spectal Dispateh to 2'he Chicaco Tribune. Graxp Havex, Mich., April2.—-At the Ropub- hican Convention ta-night the following_cendl- datos woro nominstod: Mavor. J, A, Loggat, tho present incnmbont; Treasurer, Goorgo Stickney: Recorder and Justice, Lomoyn C, Bmith: Marshal, Orson Vaudorliort; fchool Buperinteudent, Alphous Hardy ; School Inspect- or, Henry T. Roso; Supervisors, D. J. Voss, Kinar, and Brower; achool oficers samo aa nom- innted by the Domocrats. ‘Flio ticket is & strong one, GRAND RAPIDS, Special Dispateh to The Chi Trivune. GRAxD Rarps, Mich., April ‘I'ho Demo- crats nominated tho Hon. J, W. Ilansom for !lnfnr to-day; ox-Mayor Randali for Treasurer ; J. J, Lovy for Clork ; *Philip Kusterer for Con- trollor; Ebonozer Anderson (or Director of the Poor, and John T. Hulmes for Judgo of tho Su- pertor Court. 'Chiero scoma no donbt of the elec- tion of tha ontiro Republican ticket, or of tho bulkz of the Hopublican ward tickets. —_— MISCELLANEQUS. JINNEATOLIS. Spectal Dispateh o The Chicaco Trivune. Br. Pavn, Mion,, April 2.—~The Mioneapolis Ropublican City Convention to-dsy nominated Capt. 0. C, Merriman, s Domocrat, for Mayor, and renominated O, AL Laraway for Troasuror, Merriman’s nomination resulted in some excitod speaches, in which war and anti-war issues wero roviewed, which were roplied to by tho present Domocratio Mayor, Wilson. Bubsequently tho daclination of Morriman was prodonted, and tho Oonyontion adjourned to Monday to seo what the Democrats will do at thoir Couventlon. MADISON, Wis! Bpectat Dirpaleh to Tne Chicaan Tribune, Mapisoy, Wis., Aprit 2.—The Democrats had their ward caucusos lust ovening and made sotne vrq unflt nomnations for Aldormen and Super- visors. RIODE ISLAND NOMINATIONS. Proviyce, R, I, April 2—Rowland Hazard and Uanlel E. Dpy have sccopted the nomina- tions for Governor and Licutonant-Governor, respectively, by the Prohibitionists. ‘TOLEDO. Tocxpo, O., April 2.—The Democrata to-dny nominated Dr. W. W, Jonos, tho prosent in cuwmbens, for Mayor, AN ENTERPRISING CORRESPONDENT. A Gentieman Who Manufactures $is Own Nows. Cineinnati Enqutrer, 1t i our aim to sccuro enterprising corrasponds outs. Porseveranco ia also a desirablo quality in & gathorer of nows. Wo havo found a jewel in Mr. D. L. Lovo, who i manufacturing items at West Point, Miss. o aporociates tho value of news, and undorstands that if it {sa't at hand it must bo made. Wo print this morning & plece of correspondence from thia gontloman which convinces ua that lie has the germs of gening i him. e had writton us two or threo lotters, which were not moved into our eolumns, owing to thoir lack of spicinoss, and’freshnoss, and ltorary tone, DButhois s porsevering fol- low. o was not discouraged by our failure to rocognizo his talent. Ho was dotermined to writo somothing that could be printed in tha col- nmoy of the Enquirer, Bo he killed an oditor, wends us an account of it, and plaiutively and ploadingly adds in & postscript: * 1 hope tiis Wil prove an ltem for you." Aftor Frank Walworth, the Saratoga youth, had invitod g father around to & Now York hotol to be shot, aud had killed him, sud had sont tne dwpatch to s rolative, *Ishot father this mornlug," it was believed that the climax of epigiammatic coolnoss in that profes elou hnd boon ronched. But when Mr, Love, tho editor of the Weat L'oint (Miss.) Cilizen, kills Col. Middlston, editor of tho Times, In thik samo placo, aud straightway sends to the Enguirer au Reeurato accounof th alr, with tho hopo that {t will prove ‘“an item,” nud with the consolsto- r{ asgurauca that ho rocolyoa the Enquirer roge ularly, Frsuk Walworth wust go to tha foot. Wo dosiro to adviue our editorial brotbran that %o have engagod Br, Lovo as a traveling corre- #poudout. Wo sro determined to have soma Bowd, Thorenks of the profossion may be th nod out, but thore ia 8o much compotition that wa muat bo ontorprising, ML, D, 1. LOVE, OF TUR WRST POINT (A88.) CiTI- ZEN, KILLY THE EDIFOR OF TUE TIMLN, Ypecial Correapondence uirer, Wesr loiNt, Mins, Alarch 20, 1875.—On Thuraday, the 18th wust., an articlo appearod in the Times atating that tho ditor of tho Citizen Liad climbed & pole to look st the ladiss of a the- atrical troupe wakjug their toilets. ‘The Qitizen hiad appeared first the samo day, giviug a local joko-on tho Tines man becansa tha troups gave the Outisen complimentary tickets aud gave the Zymes pone, 'I'ha Ciliasw la stroygly Democrat~ loand the Times is Republican, lwmmodistely after reading tho articls in the Z%mes, Love weut on tho atreet to mest Col. Middleton, kuooked him down, aad beat him, Tho parties wore vepa- zated, and armod thomselvee. followlug The Thureday, Love—bhaviug L of Col. Mid- dleton’s” dencuncing Llm on tho street aa coward, thief, sud lar, sud further, that his pper had appesred a 'day abead of thno with hese sovore articlos in it—mot Col. Midaleton on the utreet and demanded s rotrsotion. Col. biddleton refused to mske it, drew his revoly aud said,, * Now, shoot whenever you ploss Love drew & Derringer, both firod Inatantly. Love then drew a'ravoiver and continued to tire (ol AL, stauding bofore him with cocked platol) uutil Col. AL, foli, shot fatally through the head, Love aurrendared to the authoritios, was tried Hadical Justics afjthe Poace, and bonnd to Circuit Court o J,000 boud, Khe sffalr was non-polltical aud purely peruonal. - X, 3n. CackentLy I send you hurrisdly the facta in the late unfortu afwr io which [ kiled Col. Lewis A. Middleton, Hope it will prove au tora for you, It got Enquirer rogularly now. Yours truly, D. L. Lovs. ————— Goy, Bagley, of Michizs, hes appointed Syl voster B, Mords, of Grend Havau, Agont of the Btate Ageucy for the Care of Juvenie Offendery. ART, New Pictures at the Exposition 'S Bulldfs Walker's Painting of the Battlo of Lookout Mountain, Anclent and Modern Jerusalem. + The apring exbibition of picturos at tho Ex- position Buitding will open in » fow days with an oxcollont sud various collection of pictures, Frominent among those ara three of eapecial fu- toreet, Tho firet i3 8 large war-picturo Ly Mr. Walker, THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT ¥0UKTAIN, 1t belongs to Gen. Hooker, and han ounly been oxhibited previously ju two cities, Now Yotk and Cincionath, T'o thosa who look upon sizo as the chief morit in tho pleturo, it may Lo asserted that it is very large. That, however, is by no moaus Its onlyor ita principal merit. It is & picturo full of lifo and intoresl. Iu the distanco looma up Lookout Monuntain, with & bank of clouds rosting on its sids about balf way up, hiding from view tho robol forces. Thoy are murky heralds of dissster to the troops: - that thoy possibly conceal, but from whom thoy also bhide tho advancing enomy, Toward the right, apparontly alarmed, 8 lins of the Houthern troops sro endeavouring to escapo, but the majority are still belng mlsled by falso demonstrations. The troops who havo boen commlasioned ta make the flank movoment can be secn in tho distance, whilo overy Listorio sud geographical detail bas boen mokt carofully presorvad. ‘Fhero i nono of the earnage of bat- tlo, howover. Thors aro burutingsbells, explod- ing mines, doad horpes, but none of the welter- ing horrora of a day after a battlo. It is on ta victory, @ad the whola spirit of tha picture convoeys that ides. The foroground is devoled to the wmoeting of Maj.-Gen. Hooker, better kuown, perhaps, ss fighting Joo Hoolier, and Maj. Reynolds, who, having brought up tho re- erve, lias just saluted his saperior oticer, and u awaiting ordors. These are tho principal fig- ureg iu the foreground, which, however, {8 filled with n_muititnde of men ond horses, Dohind Gen, Hooker, who is mounted on = white horse, are iy etaff, Among tho wounted ofiicers are Gen, Butterflold, Col. J, 1. Fesscuden, Col. Le Due, Capt. IL W. Perkins, Maj. W.\Lawrence, Capt. K. H. Hall, Liout.” P, A. Obvor, Liout, 8. W, Taylor, and Lieut. . C. Wharton, whilo 1 the rear of these i lis escort of oavalry, bearing the Hag of the ‘Twelflth Army Carps, with tho Division alandards, "I'bo officers specitiod are all in fac- simile thslr phvalognomics having beon sindied in dotail aud from nsture a8 well as tho other fentures of the groal picture, Tho resovre cm;rl who filll up tho foreground, ond who are ovidently standing at eace after their march, are diawn with s truth in the minor detnils that tust interest any one who Luew any- thiug of camp life during the war. As they como up they aro variously sccontrod. Ono wan has possessed bimuoil of a demijohn, another i3 carrying & pail, and o third bas ovi- dontly possessod bimuelf of u stray Log in addition to his haversack, The troops In tho immodiate mrnfimnnd are ouly vimble from the walst up, somothing of an infringement upon tho usual method adopted, but giving o life-liko offcet to the men fn blue, Ono bas his faco turned toward tho spectator and s exmmining Lin ritle, A second ouo, of tho bard-featured kivd, gring na ho balf looke around: bird looks back (o sos what hin companion is doing. Other taces are slown, cither fully or w somo other viow, each differing as widely In oxproa- slon a6 such & concourso naturally would, Thero is great character and vivacity in'all the mon's figurea. If thero seerns to bo a fault anywhero it is porbiaps in tho drawing of the borsos, The artist hos ovidently uot studied tho equine face and figuro with the attention ho haa bestowed upon tho human. Among the geograhical points aro Raccoou ranga in thedistauce, Lookout Valley, through which run the Nashvilla and Chatta- noopn roads, Tyndall's aud Stwith's hills, with leeser olavations. In front of these winds Look- out Crook, which, turnlug sharply at Tyndall's Hill, owptles into the Toanessea ltiver, forming a featuro of tho pictura on tho left side. It 15 detined by a line of brueh, along which may Lo seen tho Fedoral shirmish-line, Tho wide valley in front I8 ocoupied by the reecrve troops already mentionod. Tho artillery fill up the foreground on tho right. Every detail of the dav's battla {a fully earriod out, andithe epoctator will probably gatlier s much more correct im- pression not only of the fact of thero being such bottlo, but also of its varions incidents, thun from all tho histories aver published. It is o pleturo that will bojioteresting to adults, and that evory child ought to mee au a portion of his national education, 1t will also serve au o leason in art, especially if ho i taught to notice nll the lesser dotailvf tho picture,—the mud-splashed horses and blsukets of tho soldiers, the dilfer- enco ju thelr ‘attitude and bearing, and all the mony littlo objeots of interest thata close in- spection will revoal, Of an onhm;{ difforent typo, but no less in- terosting, aro Solons’ two groat pictures of ANCIENT AND MODENN JERUSALEA, The firat, **Jorusalom in hor Grandeur,” may ba callod an bistorical ideal, Its many places of futorest bovo beoun veritled by the wtudy of ovorything bearing upon tho subject; still the artist bas go thoroughly imbued thoes descri tions with tho spirit of life aud truth, ouo feels bow completely his inagination must have beon imbuod with Lis subject, unti), instead of merg dry dotail, glorious’ Jerusalon, s Cily of Palaces," rises boforo us, full of lifo. Iia prin- cipal features are the ‘Lemplo, which rives from tho top of Mouut Moriah just beyoud tho Valley of Jehosaphnt, In this' the artiat followed out Desu'Btanloy's conception of the great Tom- plo, Ilers aro to bo seon ity various courts, oug within anothor, with tho gates of admission and the altar of sactifice, To the right is tho milita- castle of Antonis, with & shadaw falling upon fi Just boyond is the immenso amphithestre, whila noarer aro tho race-courses, tho theatro, and other buildings of note. On tho loft ara towers and palaces of Ophel, whilo boyond ia | Mount Zion. On this noliht may bo scen the superb marble palace of Horod, and_also the towors ppicns, Phasolls, and Mariaune. Winding through the Valley Johosaphat is tho brook kidron, and in the iinmediato foroground is to bo soon tho Bavior entoring the city with his disciples and attondants, riding upon s colt tho foal of an ass” Noar the hoad of the auimal stands the boloved disciple. Sproading their garments befors him are some of the pooplo. A wothor eits in the way holding her mmn ud Jooklog pleadingly up with & Leart of faith. Many are coming to meet bim with palm-branchos, - Others arslooking on with various oxpressious of wonder, cutlosity, or en- thusiasm, A womau's figure draped in’ Jastern elogance {a half-neated on tho ground, Cbildron are belug hurried on by their paronts. All in ex~ citemment and antioipation, while beyond, tlooded by tho morning sunlight, lies the city in fis su- plorh architectural beauty, in the height of its lory. . Tarning toward the second picture ono fesls at once ax if » minorchord had been struck. At first you acarcaly realizo why, but at last tho artist's idos dawns upon you. It i lata in the dsy ; the sun is law in the Lorizon, and, as you 1 toward tho Went, deep, heavy shadows slant toward you, Jorusalom in her Grandour was without » shadow ; Jorusalem iu her Decay in wad with them, ~lut changed as everyihing i, #ad a4 the second viow seems, still tho Intorest awakened is as great as in tho Tho goo- raphiosl features aro the ame., Aouut orish sad Mount Zlon aro still visiblo, and still tho valley through which the brook Xidron flaws occuptes the foreground. A fow of the old ntouss wark whore ouce tho city's wall was placed, butthe beantiful templa ia no moro, aud, rising tn ita piace, is the Mosque of Omar, whence rives the Aohsmmedan's cry to Allah. In the midat of the city rlses tho Church of tha Holy Bepulchre, covering that olc- yatiouwhichinthe other picturs wasmeroly a bare hill, » Golgoths. Zion has ceased ta be covered with l\lgofl- pataccs, bus 14 still the abiding place of tho Jaws. Moslem mosquos, minarots, and dwellings, fill up the othor portions, sud the whols b atill lying in the shedow as markediy a3 iu tho former 14 risos in tho sunhight. Tho froup in the foreground is also widely difereut, There are the subjects of the Bultan and tho Araba of the desars, * A party of Euglish tourists questionlog thelr guide, A Tusk bas spread his rug, turued bila back on the city and suwokos his nargilo or chibouque t oase. Two Arabs are chafloring abowt sometbing, The wholo at- mosphere of the picture is altored, but is full of interest. It would requiro hours of study ta onter into the detall of thom, Tha firet {4 finlsh- ed with an acouracy of architoctural drawing which g)luu tho paioter nearur on tho plane of the old artists who regardod architoctur as bo- ing the companion of paiuting, a fact too little recognized by mous modery pasinterd, ‘I'ho fig- ures in both pictures are Huished with fluencea which might place them almost ou the catalogus of miuiatures, but tha original groupings lose uo0e of their effect fromthin cauvs, uud aro ayou wore advantageouwsly viowed from a distanco, as thon one gotu tho elect of the eatire plojure Btill, & closo reruting rovesls new beautien, In additlon to these is A LAROK COLLECTION of hoth oil and water olora, from varipus artista known to fame, as well as some who aro making 1apld strides towards it. Homa of theso are of toudor aud exquisite feelivg, caviare to the many but » source of intenso eatisfaction to the faw. Fspeclally will thia bo the caa with tho wator-colors, but there aro many gema xmong them worthy the critical study and cxamination of the cultured smateur and the connolseaur. Among the ofl pmintings, Da Hane, Kensott, and othera are rerresouted. The collaction i large, and In n preat part meritorious, aud well worthy 8 visit from all who love arl for its own #ake, or who still wander in tho darkness whioh soarcely diatinguishes tho frame from tho plcture atill have the laudablo desiro to grow lu Lnowledge, -— FIRES, BELVIDERE, ILL Spscial Corremvandence of The Chicags Tribune, Brrvipene. 1IL, Aptil 1,—Shortly after 12 o'clock last night & fire was discoverad in tho resrend of A. O. Willisms' drog-store by Mr, Bovwloy, who was eloopiug in tho storo adjain- ing, and who waa aroused by the barking of his dog. But a fow momonts elapsed after the firat alarm was giveo bofora the store was complotely enveoloped in flames, aud, a3 the wind was high at the time, the destructiou of overy bullding in tho immediato vielnity scemed inevilable, The flamen spread rapidly, and It soon became core tain that the atore occupied by Pitta & Dowley, Jawolers, could not be saved, and thelr goods wero removed eaily, consequently thelr loes will bo light. The buildivg wes ownod by Mr. Dement, and is a complete ruln, From thin building the tlamen communicated to the storo standing north of it, and occulnlnd by Dr. Terwilliger as a v.lmf-utom. At this junc- ture, it secmod impossible for human efort to stay the advancing flames, and the crowd, wild with excitement, commenced the romoval of the Fnudn which were haudled in 50 rouglia mannor Lt the etock, which was a large and tlue ono, sppears ta bo nearly ruined. “Through almost superliumaa cxartions, the building was saved, althiough mach injured, While this was going on, anotlier party were working, with the energy of despair, on the block south of Williama' drug-store, to drive back the fire-tiend, whicl was guawiog through the beavy walls of tho bulidiog owned and occupied by J. M, Glaesner s a dry-goods and elothiug house. Tho most of tha goods from thiw storo woro romoved before tho fire was got under control, and moro or less damaged. 1t iw impoasible to ascertain tho full amount of loss nt presont, but it will probably reach nearly Tho two stores burned, sud tha two which wero damaged, wero two stories n height, of brick, and substantially built, Mr. Glassuer's losa ill range from 600 to 21,000, aud is cov- ered by insurance. Mr. Willlama Joet hia eutire #tock, which was insured for §2000. Dr. Wil- liameon bad bis olice in the store, and lost Lis desk and all its contents, W, W. Waod loat bis entire law-lbrary and mauy valusble papers ; Lis_iusuranco of €600 on the library will not rra\mbly cover hnlf his lots. The law- Ibrary of the Hon, J. 8. Iiildrup was removed to the American Houso, and was but littlo damsged. Dr. Terwilligor's loss is heavy, but cannot be estimated st present. While the goods were belug removed from his store, the tafo was rollad out of doors, and. the door of it, not being locked, was broken from the inges, and the mones-drawer taken, containing §100 in carrency. This is the third timo within tweuty senrs tliat this portion of our town hus bean ro- duced to ashes, Had it not boea for the rain tho day provious, and the froquent showets through the mebt, tho logs of property would probavy havo been far greator. AT MT. STERLING, ILL. Aneclat Diepateh to The Chicago Tribune, AT, Brenue, 1L, April 2—A fire broke oat inthis placo sbout 1 o'clock this morning, sud four buildings were destroyed, togother with their stocks of merchandise, before the flames could be subdued. The firo originated in tho millinory storo of Miss Black, consuming tho building and ontire stock of goods. Loss cov- cred by insuranco. Next the flames oxtended to tho store-room of Johnson Loper, con- suming bis bulldiog and goods. Loas §5,000; no inaursuco. The firo noxt com- muuicated with a building cceopied by a Grange store, though all tho goods of valuo were romoved beforo tho buildiag bumed, When the next building on thio cast taok fire the apread of the flames was suppresscd by tosring down on ndjoming house ou the east. Tho tire in nupgnun(! to have originated from the covlk-stove 1n tho millinery stora. Loss 20,000, AT FAIRGURY ILL, Svectal Dupateh to I'he Chicwa Tribune, Fawnuny, TN, April 2.—At about D o'clock Inst evening a firo broko out hero in tho two- story [frame carringe aud blackemith shop of McDonald & McKenzle, which yesulted in tho total destruction of tha buildmg. A great por- tion of tho stock and tools wero saved. Loas on building, £1,800; stock and tools, €510, In- wirance a8 follows: Building, Firomans Fund of Calfforoia, £200; North Amorica, &300. Stock aud tools, Undorwritorw’, #G00; Phemx, £500, ‘Tho fro originated in & paint-elop in tho second story, Cause not yot kuown. AT DANVILLE, ILL. Speetal Diapatens o The Chteago Tribune, Dasviiiy, 1N, April 2.—Tho fire alarm was soundod this morulug at 2 o'clock, but bofore the | Firo Dopartment renched the fire a small frame tonement house belonging to Dr, Lemon was entiroly consumed, No insnranco ; loss £400, IN CHICAGO, Tho alarm from Box 8¢ at 10:25 o'clock las night was occasioned by a slight tiro at No. 612 Wabash avenuo, CASUALTIES, BURNED TO DEATH. 8r. Lows, April 2.—The houee of Bylvanus Keller, in Jasper County, Mo., was blown down duriog the storm of tho night of the S0tk ult., and Keller and his wife sod five clildron were buried in tho ruins. Kellor was fastened to the earth by o hoeavy beam. The ruine took fire, and for a timo It seomod that all would bo burned alivo; but, by a superhuman effort, Keller re- loased himeolf and redcuod his family, oxcepting ouo girl, 7 years old, whoso lead had been crushod by the falling of tho Louso, and whoso romaing wero badly burned. PERISHED FROM HUNGER. 8t. Lows, April 2.—Saturday last & party of men huntlng in Nesa County, Kan., 75 miles southwest of Fort Hays, found the desd bodies of taros mon {n & roofleas cabln, It is supposed thoy took refuga thero during the savers snow- storm in Javuary last, aud porisbed from cold aud hunger, A yoko of oxon aud a wagon were fouud near by, which probably bolonged to the mon. BOILER EXPLOSION. Sveetal Dispateh to The Chisnaa Tridtine, Broouixatow, I, April 2.—By the explosion of & portable boilor at Padus, McLean County, at 10 », m, to-aay, Hoger Dingham, who was foeding throsher oporated by the boiler, was killed justantly, and bis brothior Charlos recelved injurica from which ho may die, Denjomin Coule was torribly scalded and may nat recover, Tho boiler wau st old ouo, formorly used at the eity-well, Bloomingiou. CAUGHT IN_MACHINERY. Brecial Diopaten w The Chwave Tridune. Broominatos, Ill, April .—VFrauk Bohafer, s Loy employed at the clir-factory, was saverely fujured to-day by boing caught in the machinery, Oue sum way badiy manglod, pimir A Ludicroy ishap, A voung lady whoIatoly appearcd at anamateur musleal outortaivment at Washington walked down to the footlights with (ko graco of & queen nd tho ease of s professional, Sha wurbled the first stanza liko & Nilswon, T'he scoompaulst struck up the wtorlude, and of vourso thiy wus the timo whon the fair siuger should raiue hor “lsce kerchlof ™ to bLer face. With a regal curve of tho left armn ehio did o, hor eyes fixed ou thoe adwmirtug sudiouce, wheu, horribile diotu, & most delicately-constructed eilk wtocking displayed itself in wavy folds, t woows that hLer mald in her excitement had placed » stocking in tho plce where the other artlcla ought to be, and heuceher Judleroua wistake, Bhe &tood tranutlzed, rescmbling an auctionser of hosiory at bankrupt sule. The audience roared. ‘Tha buttous How, aud utalware meu grauped their sides 1u foarful agony, Fash- lonable ladies forgos their propriety, snd just scroaobed, Of ocourso the best thing under the circurostancas for Mlle, Blank to do was to faiut. Bue didit as well as Clara Morris ocould, Up rushed Benator t he solzed apitenorof water and sounsed the prostrato form of thn un~ fortanato ulnFur. Tois bad the desired eftoct, aud Ao it would on nn(y fomalo whon ler $500 drets wan ruined. With s whizzing souud ahs 1eft tho platform ; the entartaloment was ended ; tho fair singor Lina takon horsolf to A nunnery, 2nd of the futaof tho mald history s silont. FOREIGN. GERMANY, ARLLATS OF CATHOLIC CLERGY. Loxnox, April 2.—A dispatel from Berlin to tha Fost reports that eighty acoleninstics are 1m- prisoued in I'osen alone. 1t is rumored that tho Goveromont Lias arrosted & Papal delegate, who hae been secrotly administering tho Arclibishop- tic of Posen since the arrest of the incumbent. SPANISI DEYANDS, . Lospow, Aptll 2.—Tho Culogne (azetls states thiat Bpain bag made a formal demand on Prussia fo virtus of tho extradition treaty with that country, for tho arrest of Don Alphonso, and it in maid’'that tho Vruselan authorities Lave, in consoruonce, received fnatructions to arrest the Prince if Le outors Prussian torritory, and hold him until the grounds of Spain's claims are exe aminod. Benrsy, April 2,—It is stated that Spain has repeatedly roquested Gormany to bumbard Sear. suz for thio Gustav outrage, but Gortneny ban ra- fueed to do so, because, in the caso of a bom- bardment, innocent persons would suffer, ——— AUSTRIA. PERSONAL ITEMS, Viexxa, April 2.—Joln Jay, the late Minister of tho United States to Auslria, has loft for Liomo. Trigate, April 2.—The monument to Maxi- milian was 1sugurated on Wednesday. Tho Lmperor Fraucls Joseph arrived liere ta- day ou bia way to Italy. lio was recelved with groat enthusinsm. e GCREAT BRITAIN, EMIOBATION, Loxpoy, April 2.—The steamship Sarmatian, for Portiaud, took 25 sgricultural laborera for Cavada. It Ia estimated that tho funeral of John Mar- tin, the brother-in-law of Joun Mitchel, at Nowry, waa sttonded by 20,000 persons. —e RUSSIA, MINIATER TO £1IE UNITED STATES. Loxnoy, April 2.—Schichken, the Rusaisn Diplomatic Agent in servico, bas baen appofuted AMioister of Ruasia to the U Secial Enjoymcents and Other News Stemn, Speetal Correspondence of 1'he Chicagn Tribune, KASEAKEE, April 2.—We know thst apring has cowe, becouse Htreet Commigsioner Knight is goiug through tho aunual job of **house-clean- ingin tho etreets,” Tho rosds Lave thawed out vary gradaally this spring, aud bat very little tu- terruption In travel has boen oxperienced. Tho fco passed out of the river last Sunday, after » mild and inoffeneive fashion, and once more tho enthusisatic disciple of Izaah Walton cast bis seductive bait into the rippling waters, Under these circumstances, and with tho thormometer going down at tho ratoof & Emmd ouf coal per diem, ono mny ressonably ope that within the couree of another month wa will ba in thio full enjoymont of apting overcosts and parasols. HOCIAL ENIOTMENTS. 1t still rages at the rate of two n week. Tho spelling mabia, of course, is meant. Un Moo duy evoniug, at tho Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Wiltlam Kenags, wife of "the former County Clerk, earried off the prize for superior deftness jn tho use of lettts and syliables, On Thuredsy oveming, at the ‘Daptist Chareh, a ‘class of 1adi confronted & class of gentlomon, and, alter a comparatively ehort period, succumbed to the superior agility of thoir masculine opponents ju the exercige of their orthographical attainments, The way that band of inuocents clinched over the trisyllables, aud scrambled around and over the polyeylisbles, wad 8 perrect terror to thoso less proficient in that kiud of gymoastics, and tho natural result was tho discomtituro of the gentler speliiste, This does not sonnd semarkably gallant, it must be coufessed ; but the gentiemen are so thoroughly couvineed that they could never duplicate the performance that they are disposed 10 maxe the most of the victory. Tparuday oveniug, the 8t anotber match takes placo st tho Firet dlothodist Episcopal Chureh, The ** Rending " by the Ladies' Literary As- sociation lat Tucsday eveniug wns o pleassut affair, The attondance was creditable, and the programmo was of an entertsining character. No announcement hna set been mado for the next reading.” . A concert was glven at Kuecht's Hall Wodnes- day evening, under the direction of Amos Colo, a promusing’ young musician, which was quita novol na woll s enjoyadlo. Mr. Colo Lsudles the violin with great dextenity, and will undoubt- edly mnko his mark i the musical world at no distant day. Two negro burlesques, entitled * The Skidinnre Guards"™ aud ** Fleury-tloury,” sud somo good pieces from a woll-drillod orehes- tra. added zest to the programme, The following avnouncomonts ars mado : Monday evening, at Waunell’s Hall, the Lnoch Arden Combiation, in ** Zoe, tle Octoroon.' ‘I'nesdny avoniug, a social party at the rosidonce of T\ M. Kelley, for the benefit of the First Methodist Episcopal Chorch. —‘Ihursday evon- 1wg, the Episcopal * sociable " at 'I'ru Huling's, BUNDEY JOTTINGH® 1L Bafley & Co, (1. It. Mckiinney), proprie- tors of the lingood-ofl will, havo loaued about 5,000 bubels of flax-¢esd this eeason, The farm- ore nra evidently atistied of the profitableness of that crop. Tho Young Men's Dramatis Association have in preparation **The Uolden Farmer,” and a lim‘y farce, for presentation in a short time, llurnrd Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F., donatos §25 to the rossliopner suilerors, g \'ounglhad Swannell has boen taken into partnorship with hik father in an_oxtonsive dry gooda business, Frod is rogardod as one of our most promising young citizona. Amr now they aro talking away at tho Bour- bounals street-railway projest sgain., Au early commeoncement of tho work in promised, Piko & Trownsoll, who do tho leading Jewelry business in this city and {n Tuacols, aro clusing up thelr interosts in tho lattarplaco, mu!;lrllury to ombarking in the wholcealo jewelry busiuess in Cbicago, They sre geutlomon of jutegrity and moans, and will add materially to Chicago’s comutercial intarests, Maplo sap docsn't *' give down™ yot, Tho following officors wero elected at tho late parish meeting of the Epluco‘)ll Bocloty : Will- iam Blbloy, Br., apd Emory Cubb were clectod Wardens, aud W. G. Bwaunoll, O, Kuight, I, C. Ciarke, J, . Dorry, E. Hotehkiss, 1. I, Dab- cock, Willlam Gelino, and H. O. Todd, Yestry- men, Circult Court opens Tucadsy, the Oth, with a docket of 169 commou law, slxty-three chaucery, and aeveral criminal cases. LEFTERS FItOM TIE PEOPLE, OANCLR, Cricaao, April 1,—Tv the Menilers of the Philosophical Society, Chicago, Jil.: By a kind wvitation from one af your mombors (Dr. Ab- bott) I was presont and board the lecture upon eaucer by Dr, Andrews, and, &3 the subjeot treat~ ed seomed tome to bo loft somewhiat vague, L take the privilege of avawering through the col- uwns of Lug Tutnusm, as I love full snd froo luvestigation and interchauge of thought in order to arrive at tho causcs, whys, aud whoro- foros of all effects, as much as possible. If my momory serves me rightly, the Doctor stated that cancors ware more prevaleut iu ligh lutitudes, near tho sea-shore, and stated i1t way no doubt owing to tho ealt water, but did not utato why or Liow tho saly water producod the of« fect. Ho also stated that caucer Is lucurable, which [ for ous do not accept. All no dounbt admit that csuver, scrofuls, white swelling, sud many other allments which mske an appoarauce ou tho surface, sre tho direct result of wpuri- tleaiu tho blood, 1f vancer should foliow & bruiss, tho brulsa arrested the clroulation, and impure blood must be the result. You may bruias tho apple ; you obstruct tho circulation, aud & dry or wet rot will fotlow, 1f cancers are more provalent near the sea.coast, there must Lo & causo, snd I now propose to give my phis losoply for tue sanie, It we dissolve a little ealt in water, sud vub the solution ou the surface, tho sodiment therein will form a gloss or paste, thereby closivg the pores and thus dlsturbing tho secretions to sowme dograe. Tho air near tho 84a contains moro sediment, which impedcs the circulation (the same a8 the solution meutioned), Lausivy, Mich,, ate waking preparations for the y:‘enm 'sum:ou s work mu“ )Ponl'] alnce hreakiy; ground in 1678, henco the blood becomes Impuro, and’ cancer. mny bo tho reault, and more provalont in high Iatitudes, becausa perspiration i loss freo, Lence the myatem does not throw off tho offato matter ps froely. Thongh I am not ono of those quack cancer doctors tha Doctor spoka of, yet I affirm_cancers can ba cured, unless of Lao long atanding. Thoe Doctor atatod that the oancor might bo out or burnt out whero it firat made itaappearanco, but the soeds had boen nown elsewliaro, and hence conld not Lo oured. Letus seo. ‘Tho cancar cantiot exisy without fomething to feod it, a8 no offoct can bo produced without fta corrosponding csuse, Tha yoleano becotnes oxtinet whon (he combuntible material in the cruat of tho earth which cauned itia burutont; thefires in onr sloves go out nhen the fuol is exhausted, Now, octor, lot us remove tho fusl that foodd the concer, aud, lke tho voleano, It must ceaso to exlst. Cancers belog produced, fed. and sustained by the inpurition in the blood, 1t in #afo to conclude that the cancor cannot ex- ist when thoso fmpuritles nro removed, Lenco do ot eut the cancer away with tha knife aud caustic, but purify tho blood and thoroby re- move the fual, and the cancer fscured. I know of no botter blood-puriflor than to breathe plon- ty of pure, fresh air, though tho vapor-bath may Lo & mora speedy way of purlfsing the blood. 1t would Lo~ well for "us ‘all if wo could keep our bLlood pure by taking plonty of excreisa fu the pure alr, for impuro blood generatea direare, and if wa conld erp 1D & proper circulation by a bealthy condition of the recrotions by having the ayatom radiato out- ward iustead of inward, nud thus keep up o proper equilibrinm botween the positive and unegative forces of tha mystam, our aches and paing would bo fow and far botweon, aud man- kind would march along to a much more healthy <condition aud an iucroased jongovity, 1 am no physicia, but hosring tho Doctor on tho subject caused mo to refloct and philosopbize, and 1 ar- rived at the above conclusions by reason and philosophiy. Tue members who heard Dr. An- drows on this subject, as well as all others, will tako tho fdcas contained in this articlo for what they are worth, A A. Nok. LIFE INGUBANCE, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Cmcaao, April 2.—T would like o say a few words to your correspondont H, Conceding that life insuranco is altogether too oxpensivo, it {s well to look at the causes which lave operated to produce thia result. While i¢ ina fact that large commissions are paid to the sgonts, the figures ho has presentod aro alto- gethor too far from the mark, It is doubtful if any first-clasa company pays over 40 per cent, and thon only as & *flat " brokerage on firat pro- miuin (no commission on renowals), and whora renewals aro paid few companies givo mora than 80 and 71§ por cent, and tho great bulk of thom even lees than that, But, whatever the commission paid, the question arises, WLy do they pay it? ~ Tho answer i patent. Thoy pay it to got the business ; and hero agein another question, Why docs the mare ket demand such high figures? Thero aro soveral causes, among which ia competition, but the chief ons, and tho one I wish particu- larly to natice, is the reluctanco of tho masses to avail thomeolves of this great protection. The peopls who most need life-insurance will not purchase it,—they say thoy do not nocd it. This Las been tho state of public feoling on this subject for yoars; and if it has_been, in 8 mensure, “altorod for tho botter, the public aro solely indebted to tho raud army of leclurers (agents), who ave goruonnlly wrought tho chango; and It they have, for thus opening tho eyos of the insurod to their own interest, reccived some- thivg for their services, they have received but their just due. Tho busioess of a life-agent do- mauds & capacity not mot with {n overy line of business; and no class of mon, aa a rule, work bLarder than be, or Las half thegopposition to osercomo; and if, In somo Individual cases, his commismions amount to a princely income, it is bocause his labora Liave becn horcalean and un- remitting. _Aund uow Icomo back again to com- petition, Bocause the successful life-agent is a - “rara avie," he has been in great and ever-in- creasiug demand ; and in the strugglo which has hoen going ou for years betwean companios to reap tho harvest of Lis groat odacational al ities his cash valuo lins beon constantly on tha rise, until it bas reached tho prosent fgures; and if tho public think they aro tao bigh, thoy havo ooly themaolves to thank, whoso depth of ignorance has heon o great, and porversity vo large, that ouly tho best aoglors and most pae tient waitors could mduce them to do thelr duty. Why not complain of the enormous pay givon to i‘aur acceskful ** preacbors,” whose ualarien avo outstripped tho bounds of reuson, but havo only oboyed the same law of snpply and dormand ? Their offorts to rave the soul are but s chaff in the wind compared to thosa of the life-ngont to #ave the bodied of tho wives and chikdren of the vast army of solflsh Lusbonds and fathers, An to the ** marble and platesglaes oftices,” lite- insurance Lo but followed tha faulty oxample of theage, which scoma to domand that every placo of bLusiness, from & bar-room to a hotel, an ‘*abattoir " to & banking-louse, shall be fnr- nished with palatial magnlticence,—* only this, aud nothiug wore." I can fully indor¢o I1. fu hlssuggostions how to cheapen the article, but would remark that not overyiting which Ia correct in principlo will carTy the samo Eequence iuto fta appiteation. Thore fs so much Lumau nature Iying around Toosa that thosa schemes (which have ofton beon tried) usually redound to tho advantrge of tho “enginoer"—only. 134A0 QANNETT. TiE AR StoNoFOLY. Ta the Editr of The Chicaaw Tribune: Cuicaao, April 2.—~Amongst the many glaring monopolies that cxist in tho city the gus com- panlos rank pro-ominent. Tho exorbitaut chargo they oxact from consumers! precludy nine-tenths of the population from enjoying the luxnry of a gaq fot intheir homes, and materially augment tho chanco of tire from the uuo of that daugerous and disagreeabls substituto, kero- veno oil. In a city liho this, gas should be luid in avery stroot, and I boliove there aro fow citse zens who would not burn it if it wero furnished at & rossonablo raie. I wonder how our ropre- sontatives sbould hositate a momont In granting permission to a competing company which of- fers to mupply the samo quality for about ouo- half of the present extortionate price, and so Dlace i within the reack of tho most humble. 1t {4 & standing disgracu that Chleago, 80 pros- porous and progressive, and 8o omulative of other largor citios, should Liave the one-half of lier citizous gropiug along to thelr bomos on tho dark winter ovenlngs over muddy crosuings aud broak-nock sidowalks, when, by a little henlthy cowpetition, we could Lavo uoarly 6,000 oxtra lamps, snd that, too, without extra taxatlon, T'his rddition would almost light us to tho lim- its. Two companies have offored to supply thin useful commodity as ropresented asbove, and wait tho vordict of tho city fathers, viz,: the Gay Consumore’ Company and a compauy from Pittsburg, Not boing Iutercstod {n oithor com- pauy, I would veunture the opinion rhat the former deserves some littlo coosidoration, from the fact thot tho sharchold. ers nre composed of fellow-townsmon, aud, being a local convern, would koop the work ene tiroly within the city, thus glving omploymont to hundreds of our laboring classes, which ot the present tima ls a dosideratum urgont boyoud question, T'he Counei, fv doluying action ou this important mattor, If not standing in thofr own light, are cartainly stauding in tho light of their coustituonly, I writs with the bo‘ro that some parsou ablo to deal with tho queation will atep, orward aud agitato the matter tll the Aldormen’ graut tho nocousary order to utrike at the root of the presont gigantic fraud, Might our ** Qit. izeun' Association " uot take up this subject and vontilato ftu Hitlo ? Thele influenco would go far to further &0 praiveworthy s scheme, H. BrrvENEON. "FINANCIAL, . SETTLING UP, Wanniyatoy, D, O., Aprll 2.—The Washlngton City Baviugs Bauk, which failed eightoen montbs #go, to-clay paid sn_ additionsl 15 per cent, make ing in all 76 por cent. Its assate, it is though will pay tho full amount of {ta deposits, g —— i SPRING NAVIGATION. Bannusxy, O,, April 2.—The steamor Golden Esglo arzived hore yestordsy from FPut-in Bay, bowg the Hret arrival of tho season. Blio ens couutered cousiderablo heavy tloating ice, Shn soturned to the [slauds to-dsy, aud will make regulur tripy horoaftcl -—— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Loxnow, Apii} 9.—Steanwhips Herriman, from New York, oud Nova Bootls, from Baltimore, out. hl&:\'f {‘lem. April 3.—Arrived, steamer Nocksr, frow Bremeu, s ‘T'ha contractons on the now Cq itol bullding at L