Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1875, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. WATES OF AUNSCRIPTION (PATARLRE TN ADYANCR), Partngo Frepald at dli O % 12,00 | Weakly, 1 07 600 g:’r:.ncnr‘l :Ug TYANTRD-tne Activs agent (n »ach town and village. ¢ mada with suoli, es, be rare and gire Post. Ofice sddreus ling Fate asd County. Remitanoesmay bemadeelther hy draft, exproas, Post« ©t.ceorder, of In regisiered letters, at vor risk, TEMMA TO CITY BUBECRINRNL, Daily, dellverad, Sunday excented, 23 oenta perweek. Dallg, delivered, Bunday included, Address THE TRIBUNE UOKPANY, Cornez Madison and Dearlioen.ste., Chicago, fll. T AMUSEMENTS, HOOLEY'S THEATRE-! O e asatte. Hogsa **0n liand." ADELPHITHEATRE-Dearborn street, sornor Mon- roe. Vancty Entartalament. 3 LUSTC— Halsted strent, batwasn Made A Sneser “Eagugomantof Hisverys Snatrole M'VICKKR'S TIEATRE-Sad) Dearborn and i ¥ Paniomime-Trou; Aolnh _arrest, batween t of John Thomptos. "BOCIETY MEETINGS. N10ATS1-Stated conglare of . tha alection of Trustess and pai of N CORTSTHIAN CHAPTER NO, £, L A, M, —Spo- i May 31, Wark oo the e 13 5 “BUSINESS NOTICES. 3 OMPLEXION OAN SURPASS IV nffifl-l’."flfl&“:fin Imparted by Lalrd’s Hicom of Yauth, Boid by all diuggisis, The Chicags Tribune, [ Monday Morning, May 31, 1975, Springfield, Mass., one of the oldest and bost-requlated of Nuw England cities, yester- day indulged in tho luxury of tha heaviest firo in hier history. About forty buildings, many of them business blocks, wera burned, and nt ona time there was an_excellent pros- poct of the complote destruction of the finest part of tho city. The loss is stated at $500,000, Among our dispatches this morning will bo touud an snnonncement of tho death, at Dan- ville, I, of Judge Jomnx Pransox, one of the oldest settlers of this State; and from Fort Vayre we lenrn of the death of the Hon. SoroxoN D, Bavnrss, an eminent member of tho Masonie fraternity, and a prominent citi- z:n of Forl Wayne. The presence in Chicago of n large number 62 the Bishopa of tho Methodist Episcopal Church supplied varions pulpita thronghout the city, and we have been at some pains to furnish our readers with abstracts of the ser- mons preached by the eminent dignitarios of {he Church. We also print sermons hy Prof. £xmo and tho Rev, O. W. Wznnte, both of moro than ordinary interest ; and a sketch of the Rov. Dr. Eccutston, Iowa's Episcopal Lishop-elec! Father Laxe, assistant-pastor of St. Ann's Church, New York, is nothing if not sensa- tionnl. e was suspended last winter by the Avchbishop for preaching n violent sermon agninst the public schools, and he Las now created another sonsation in Catholio circles by getting married and going to Ban Fran. cisco. Of course,in violating his vows of colibacy he hns loat the orthodox Hoaven; but he has gained another, or probably thinks +#0, which amounts to the same thing while it lasts, Specinl-Agont HaLg, who was deputed by the Treasury Department to make an oxam- ination of tho workings of the systom of cuntoms-revenuo collection at interior ports of ontry and delivery, hos submitted his ro- port, which coversan inveatigation occupying gix months, In his meandering among the one-horss Custom-Houses in tho West, tho Investigator obtained some statistics tending to disturb tho equanimity of various Survey- ora, Collactors, otc., whose principal dutios conslst in the conscientious drawing of tholr salaries, nnd the exponscs of whose oflices are so judiciously managed s to just about consume tho incomo from customs, Conso- qnently, it will be shown to tho satisfaction of Socretary BrisTow that a large number of these interior porta ean be abolished to advantage, But the investigntion and ahalishment should not bo confined to the West, There aro seaboard porta in New En. ginnd whoro the receipts aro not one-third of the exponses, ond which offer o fleld for retrenchment which the Secretary can work moat efectively, Lot Speclal-Agent Ilirx have a chauoe at (hese also, "The President hns kopt hia promise to no- tico the third-term nonsenso whenover any political body, anthorized to pronounce upon the subject, should render it proper for him tostate his position. The adoption of the anti-third-term rosolution by tho Pennsyl- vania Republioan State Convention furnished tho occasion for (he long-desivod exprasalon of Presldont Grant's views, and with all pos- sible promptness he hns addressed to Gon. ‘Winsre, the Chinirman of the Convention,a lettor ‘which forover banishos ths spoctre of Cmsar- ism, The substance of tho letter is that the President, having remained silont so long, now feels it hix duty to speak; that bo did not dealrs tho office in 1668, and that In tok- ing it he sacrificed a life position much more to his Hking; Lut, having been called to tho Prosidency, he accepted a second term chiefly becauso of the gratifioation which it afforded him to receive tho indorsement of the peoplo aftor having boon subjected to the vilest of porsonal sbuse and slander for fonr Yoars, 1o does not want a third term any more than he did the first term ; he ia not now, and naver has beon, a candidate for ro- ! than is usnal in such instances. onination, and he wou'd not acoept it un- lesu from an imporative sense of duty to the peoplo of tho United States,~n coulingenoy which, Lie fs fros Lo say, fs not likely to arise, The letter Is oharacteristic of tho Prosident— laconjo, pluin, and to the polnt. e has sald what he moaus, and sald it in torins so con. cise'that the wayfaring politiclan, though & fool, may comprehund. The Chicagn produce markets were irreg- ular on Baturduy, Mess pork was active, and sdvanced B0@B5e per brl, closing at $10.76 oush, and £20.00 for July. - Lard was in good dawsnd, and 25@300 per 100 ths higher, clos- fog at $14.30 cash, und $14.55 for July, Meats were qulet and firm, at 73c for whoul. ders, 1140 for short xibs, and 113c for short clears, 1lighwines wero qulet and easior, 8! $L14@L16 per gallon, Lake froights were ip better demand and steady, st 8jo fur corn to Duffalo, Flour wus very dull, Whent way active, and 8@8ja lower, closing % 80¢a cauli and Djo wellor June, Corn was #stive and 2)c lower, closing at 02}o for June Rya was quiet and 1o lowor, at $1.03. Bare loy was quiot and firm, at $1.20@1,25 cash and 95@90¢ for September. It would, we think, bo unfair to suppose that the extromely small attendanco at the tempernnies mass-meoting in Farwell Hall yosterdny afternoon wns mainly duo {0 a lack of sympathy for the cause in Ghicago. Tho glorious woather, no doubt, had much mora to do with the pancity of numbers than tho general preferonce, na suggested by ono of the speakers, for beer-Lnlls as compared with tomperance meelings, al- though the cxistonco of such perverted tastes noed not bo contidered surprising, in casos whoro the beer s fresh and the tempernnco speechos are stale, On such n Sundsy s yesterday, when the forenoon hns beon passed in church, the afternoon brings a ramblo with the chil. dren through the parks, whero the blua sky and tho pure, free air aro in thom- solves n temperanco lecture, Rememboring this, the worthy reformers need not feel dis- cournged ; let them confer with Old Prob, next time, and pick out some Sunday which is not so attractive out of doors, in Chicngo has not been followed, as was expocted, by heavy shipmonts to tho East. This grain, it mustbe remembered, wns own- ed vory largely by persons outside of thia city, and owned by them in comparatively small lots. While the loss will bo no less in the aggregate, it is in thia case distributed among A much largor number of porsons On Friday acontract wns modo for freight on wheat from Chieago at 45 conts to Liverpool. Mou. treal quotes freights from that port at 8 shillings per quarter on wheat, 12} cents cur- roncy por bushel from Chicago to Moatreal, ond wheat afloat at 88 shillings per quar. tor to Liverpool, Taking these figures, thoy givo ns the value of wheat in Chicago $1.01} per bushel, aud, dedncting2} cents for storage nnd londing here, leave 99 cents (currency) per bushel o9 the shipping value, Yet wheat wns sold on Saturday ai §9 to 90 cents, show- ing a margin of 10 cents below what it may Yo laid down in Liverpool for. The question of freights is now a control. ling ono in the matter of forwarding wheat. ‘The Montrenl line is, of course, the cheaper, both 0 to internal and ocean freights, and, it some supposcd diflicnlties in the way of finan- cinl arrangements ot Montreal be romoved, there is no doubt that the bulk of ocenn freighta would take that direction. Thero ‘wora rome henvy purchases for shipment at the close of lnst week,and the gencral fecling seemed to be that the lowest prices had been touched, 1f this rhould prove trme, then farther purchases for shipment will follow this weok. A BOUTHERN EI.CI{X?G! RAILROAD BUILD- It will be romemberod’ that Mr. Tox Scorr hnd o bill before Congress at the last sossion asking Congress to indorse and pay tho in. torest on cortain bonds issued by Col Tost Scorr'’s Railwnoy Company, and to be paid over to 'foxt 8corr's Construction Company, at the rate of £40,000 per mile for aroad which is bifurcated for nearly a thousnud miles to the west, and then runs upon n single line from 1,500 to 1,800 miles to and along the const of Californin. Col. Scorr asked that the Government secure the in. terest on thesa bonds for forty years, and a great many people and newspopers ot the South and Southwest have said that Congross ought to pass such a bill, because thero ouglt to be a Southern roate to the Pacific, and private copital would not, of course, in- vost in such a work. But out in Oalifornin they have got aver the pauper-like business of building railronds by almk-giving, Levaxp Sranvorp, tho Pros- ident of the Contral Pacifis Railroad, has re- cently statod what that Company hias and is now doing in the way of rnilroad construc- tion. South from San Francizco thers have beon constructed one rond to Soledsd, 150 miles; another, the San Joaquin Valley Road, rung to Goshen, 238 milos from San Fran- cineo, where the Southern Pacific Roai tokes up the line, and is completed to Telinchape Posg,~—336 miles from San Fran. cisco. At this pass, and at Fernandino, thoro are large forces of men tunneling, snd whon they finish that work there will bon continuous route to Los Angeles, From Los Angeles it is to be pushed on to Fort Yuma, on the Colorado, and much of the work is dono, The distance from San Francisco to Fort Yuma is 730 miles. It Is expocted to bo complote in July, 1876, This will connect Arizona with San Franciseo. From the Cql. orado River to the Rio Grande, the road will oxtend through Southern Arizons and New Mexico, and ekirt tho Mexican Blates of Bonora and Chihuahua, There are two grants made by the Mexican Government,—one for o rollrond from the City of Mexico to the northern boundary in Chibuahua, ond the other from the port of Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, to the northorn boundary of Sonora. Doth of thesa ronds will be connected with the road to San Fronoisco, and the plan proposod is to take the trade of Mexico to 8an Franclaco, Hore, thon, we have a privata corporation which is already st work building a railrond from the ltio Grande through New Moxico, Arizona, and Bouthern Californin, with con. neotiony with Eastorn and Western Mexico, ‘This Company is building this rond withont osking any Government subsldies, and with- out the intervention of ony construction company, It haa several thousand men now at work on the varlous parta of tho route, ond the rosd will bo sotually built and fn oporation while Afr, Tox Scorr is banging round the lobbles at Washington begging Congress to indorso the bonds which his Rail. road Company proposos to pay over to him for building the road Undor the liberal grants of land made by Congress, rallroads bave been built south. westwardly from Bpringfield, Mo., and westwardly from Loulsiana and Toxas, far out in the dircctlon of Now Mexico, AN Col. Beorr and his friends have to do I8 to change thelr lines slightly and conunect with the road from 8an Fran. cisco to Texas, and thua - they will have all the advantages of the through route to the Pacific without the troulls and the cost of building the rond, and without em. borrassing the Govornment by having it in. dorso bonds that, wiihout such indorsement, aro not worth the cost of the paper on which they are printed. Corlainly, the Bouthern Btates do not want two rallroads to the Po. cile, through New Mexico, Arizons, and Californla. Toxas will be ready to unite her vailrond systam with this line from 8an Fran. cisoo, and 8o can New Orloons, Memphis, Little Roclk, aud St Louls. This road from Bun Frunclsco will, moreover, be a real rail. end 67fo for July, Oats were dull sud 1o dowes, dlodng ab 57} ecali and 55)e for July, road,—not o mere job to got snbaldies out of Congress, nor o earleh sonstruotion sompa. THE CHICAG!® e e e e nien ; bat it will be a railrond built for busl- nesa purposcs, to supply the country with the moaus of transportation, and to baild up the commeroe, and trade, and population of the Pacific States. ¢ THE BOWENS OF BROORLYN. It seems to bo a peouliarity of the Bowex family of Brooklyn to say mora and still say lesa than most men are capable of who com- mit themselves to print. Words appenr to losa their uso, if not thelr meaning, when they come out of the mouths of the Bowrss, ‘We don't know that Bowen, Sr., ought to be made responsible for Bowew, Jr. ; but, if not, then the editor aud publishor of the Inde- pendent ought to send his scion off to Europo for & vacation, where ke may slop over with- out making a public nuisance of himself. It {8 not quite clear what has induced young Mr., Dowey to put his oar into the turgid stream which flows from the Brooklyn scandal ; but, whatever it was, it is very cortain that he hins failed to attain any purposs creditable to himself. Ha hasn't even contributed any- thing of interost to the gossipof the seandal, ‘Whatevora he knows is second-hand, and it does not appenr from his recent statement that he has even second-hand information that is worth communicating. Wo do not want any more mysteries or side-issues in this Brecuen scandal ; there are already enough, in the trial and out, to confuse the case bayond any rensonable hope of solution, And ns to Mr. Bgrones's business relations with Mr. Bowsy, any publio concern they might excite under othier circumstances is totally lost in the greater public intercst felt in the scandal itself, Considered in one sense, young Mr. Bowsx'sconversation places Mr. Beecnen in o rather mean position commercinlly, but this is not a commeroial question; if it were, the public would prob. ably wait to hear Mr. Dzzonen's side of the case before coming to any conclusion. Ithns becn ono of the mystorics what Mr, Bexcizr hns found to do with all the money he has soquired at tho rate of from §25,000 to $40,000 for a nnmber.of years; but, unless he chooses to explain, or it is bronght ont in some legitimate wny, even the most curions will have to admit that it ia none of their business, Unless young Mr. Bowex knows more than he could tell in nn interview of six or seven columns, he had Deiter retiro from the interviowing business, Mr, Bowey, 8r., will do well to snuff out this young man for the credit of tho family. His garrulity hasa't ovon the excuse of old ago, and his general- itica lack the brillisncy which make those of Bezenes and Ti.tox tolerable. As to the responsibility of the clder Bowrn, this is a different matter, He has been mys. teriously associntod with this scoudal from ity vory inception. He has never disavowed tho allegation that he is familiar with some im- poriant facts bearing upon it. Indoed, ho has, from time to time, either parsonnlly or by proxy, thrown out vague intimations that he **could an’ he wonld.” He has been at this gort of thing for yoars. The last stato. ment of his son's in the New York Times is but a repetition of this goneral policy of the older Dowew, Tho thing has gono on long onough; it haa bacome stale, flat, and uoprofitnble,—dreary beyond mcosure, BoweN had botter rosume his able puffa of the Northern Pacifio Ruilrond, and dovote his spare timo to elabo. rate notices of Herwwmmoud's decoctions, If his objoct has been to gain a reputation for knowing something he doesn’t know, he has ovarrenchod himself, There was a time when pedple generally enpposed that BowsN knew all about it; they have now just as generally coms to tho conclusion that Bowex doesn't know anything about it. Thereforo the sooner Bowry and his progeny can make up thoir minda to close their mounths and keop outof print, the more credit they will do themselves and the mors rolief they will afford the community, As tho Christian cditor and the Christinn publisher of a Christian newspapor, Mr, Hesny O, Bowmy has very peculine notions about Christian responsibility, If his igno- rance on the maticr of Mr, Bercuzr's person. ol morality is as Jonso ns we now suspect it to be, it was his iluty to como out and say so whon bo was first accredited with’the oracu- lor powers of the priest behind the curtain, and thenceforward romain a ~ore ‘‘looker-on in Vienna” 1If, on the other hand, he was possessed of personal knowledgo caleulated to throw light on the issue batwoen Brecaen and Tivzoy, it was his duty long ago to give it such candid and straightforward utterance as to command respect. Iis conduct, however, has been of akind to warrant Tuiox's denunclation of him in the minds of those who-believa Ar. Bezcnen fnnocont ; and hia occasional roap- penranco on the scens in propria persona, or as roprosented by one of his family, has be- come almost offensive, All the woild is tired of the dignity and importance that have been givon to Mr, Bowen's nothings, If he has anything- to’ say, let Lim say it now, or for- ever after hold his peace. And, at tho same time, we pray him {o muzzle the rest of his fomily, HAPFY FI71, Tt is gratifying to know that the Fijl Telands undor tholr new rogime of English domination are progrossing very favorably, and that the inhalitants thereof, who have horotofors devoted their timo mainly to sldughtering eaoh other and eating mission- aries, saflors, and such othor foreigners as fell in tholr way, aro taking kindly to the reforms of clvilization, and bid fair to become both usoful and ormamental mewbors of the hu- man family, and to experience a change of honrt asto their form of dlet and mode of lifo. English advicos show that the recoipts of rovenue of the colony from October to January exceeded the oxponditures, and that the happy Fijians have over §2,600 surplus In tholr treasury, and no defalcations up to date, The islands have also sent specimens of their products to tho Bydney Lxhibition which bave attracted a great denl of Interest. The agonts of the English Government are wlso making strenuous efforta to introduce peaco and order and to discipline the natives from murder, and none of tha agonts have boen cooked and eaten yet, which looks promising, as ngenta of this sort here- tofore hiave invariably beon eithor broiled or fricaseed, as & reward for their good inten- tiond. - The most encoursging symptom of civilization, however, and the aurest proof that the Fiji Tslanderd are part'and parcel of tho common human family, conslat in the fact that they have taken the measles from the English, and are having then just na success- fully as any * blarsted Britisher™ can have them. Al that {s necessary now to complete the Fijian’s happiness ix o serles of railroosd disastors, steamboat accidents, defalcations, fAinancial irregularities, sooial scaudals, Orodite Mobiliors, political jobberles, Loresy trialy, contempt cases, and the other pocitivae ovis donocs of civilization, Inaliftle time, withds. | termination and industry, be may hops to roputation from the civ- point ¢ oy ns ho haa herstofore from 10, andd (o praotice a little fnancial - ‘meily -7ith *l.e samo gracoful facility +.13 herefozo characterized his peculinr opurations. In tho parsuaneca of atory work, tho English Government 11t once lend a helping hand sud sup- .+ gontla savazu with emall politicians, ,i 5. paper canwicy, grasshoppors, illicit \ . dontists, Sanday lecturo socioties, his ndvooates, Mausard roofs, 4, haggage-sinnshors, stone- snd (he other blessings which nsbicn s enjoy, A gradual in. av mora “avor tend 19f theae - !4 to progress will soon mk i 8 happy and prospor- on hich has all these ad- va ' o theirve: . sximum, Your President is an expensive animal, and, for all that, so are your Seoretarics, who rovolve about him at home and, when ho travels, form tho tail of the national comet, Tho City of Boston has just discovered this foct, and is distressed on nccount of it. Among all the horrors she has had of lnte, nothing has agitated that three-hilled monici- pality so much as the horrid bill rendered by tho Rovere House for entertnining tho Presi- dont and his Secretarica pending the time thay went to Lexiugton and Concord to do the Contennial and sect up the Minute Man, and, judging from tho quantity and quality of the bill, the notional guests must have been moro set up than the Minute Mnn. Even Pavt Revene did not so alarm the villagers from Boston to Concord as the house namod for him has alarmod their descendants, And little wonder when the itoms of this bill aro examined | Tho Presi- dent and party had the liberty of the city, and the city, now being at liberty to pay the bill, finds that the Presidont’s board was §30 per day ; four days, $120, Robrsoy, JeweLy, Bancock, and Wirsoy consumed $10 ench per diem in enting nnd slecping, Dzraxo is an article of luxury. He must be an enormous eater, or tho proprictors charged for possible accidents, na it wos then expect. ed every day thot he might resign, for he is roted at tho comparatively high figurc of $18 per dny, This high-toned crowd consumed in four days $436.95 in wine nnd cigars, 812 in extra moals, and they tonsted their shinzat numorous §5 fives, Bapcock seems to have been more of a snccess with the wine-fixtures than the water-fixtures, for ome day, in a fit of pbsent-mindedness or some- thing worse, ho went of and left the water running, and tho water, with that total depravity always characteristio of it, flowod over the basins, irrigated tho flowors in tho carpet, went down through the cracka, and nover consed its ravages until it had done $100 worth of damage to tho frescoes on the parlor ceiling below; but this was the only water-bill presonted. ‘The littla items aro as appalling aa the largeones. Tho Pros- ident, unlike the elephant, doos not always take his trunk with him; so whon he arrivod ot tho depot that valuable receptacla of the Administration linon was handled by n giit- edged baggago-smasher, who took it.to the inn so tonderly and carcfully that the opera tion cost 83.25! What do the Grangers think of this discrimination in rates? Worso than thiot, whon the $3.26 trunk eventually landed in tho Prosidontin! room, a full-length portrait of somebody was hired to keep it company and wateh it, the rent of which was 350 and the insurance $17,—tho insurance being fixed, ‘wo presume, to provent tho visitors earrying away bits of the portrait na souvenirs, or to guarantee tho integrity of the gentleman in the gilt frame, provided the Presidentint quarters should grow more than ordinarily festivo, Thero wos one oconsion of this sort which fignres in tho bill sa follows: *To banquet to President Grant and party, $1,000.” Onthis sumptuous ocension, the floral adoruments amounted to $480, and the straw- berrics cost only £3,50 per quart, which isthe penalty of having your dishes christened in French and catalogued on satin; of eating your ronst beef and potatoos among tuberoses, ond ten-rosos, and the vari. ous exotic posies, which ore employed to beoutify the occasion, and are sup- posed to be emblomatio of the virtues of the guosts, It is rough on Boston, but then, if Doston will have Centennials, it must pay for them. If Boston will dance, the fiddler's bill must bo respected and honored. But as tho Prosidont has to come again, on the Bunker Hill Centonninl, will not that frugal and thrifty city arrange matters beforohand with tho inn whero tho comet is to putup? It shonld at least stipulate that Drrano's board shall not bo higher than that of the other Becretaries ; that somo economy shall bo prac. ticed in the handling of the Presidential trunk, or elso ho shall only bring a velise ; and that, it Barooox lenves the water run. ning again, he shall foot the bill himsel?, Hia poultion should not shiold him, A BPIRITUALISTIC WILL. An intorosting case is chironicled in the Jast volume of the Maine Reports, which grew out of contesting a will, This will had been mnde by alady who was & strong beliover in Spintunlism, and presumably undor spirit- ualistio influences when she madoit. The case Involved the quoestion whethor Spiritual- ian 18 an inenns dolusion in ita legal aspect, ard the decision of the Court was in the nog- ative, The will wns admitted toprobate, and sutained by the Buprems Court on an appeal, M, G., the maker of the will, was the tspical mother-in-law. She hsd an only dinghter who married a young lawyer named Topinsoy, for whom the mother conceived & hearty aversion. Bhe was fully per. swded that Ropixson waa undor the con- sant inflnenco of a malignant spirit, and tolieved Lim to be possessed of the power of ontrolling the thoughts and oconduct of her {augliter ovon whon ho was not present, It vas in this way that she accounted for the dsngroement between herself and daughtor dter the latter's marriago. It fa hardly noces- wary that Spiritualism should bo brought in 10 explnin why a wife should yiold rather to er affection ond respect for her Lhusband dionto o filial love for her mother, when ihere are differonces botween o husband and als mother-in-law, But this was the way in which Mrs, G. chose to look atit. Whenshe sawe to moke hor will, she declared that she 2id it under the direct advice of hordo- ceased husband, who dictated it from the spirt-world. She accordingly tled op hor estate (amounting to some £30,000) in s trustos, gave her danghter only a amall annuity, and out off her son-in.law from ¢the control of adollar of her prop- erty.® There wasa singular conformity be- tween the splritualistio advice of the de- censed Mr, G, and tho natural propensities of the mother-in-law. Mra. Rosinsox contested the will on the ground that her mothor waa not of sound mind at the time che mada it ‘The strongeat evidenos submitted of this was Chad Mrs, @ had seid alis nuds the will lo “fi&Uj‘!“!: MONDAY. MAY 31, o e e e et e e e e ey 1876. this manner under the ndvics of her deceased husband, It was then a question whether Spiritunlism was nn insano delnsion, The Probate Court held that it was not, and“in- structed the jury that thoy must treat the supposed advico given by the de- consod husband na if it woro ad- vico given by living relatives and frionds, and docide from tho evidonca before thom whother she was unduly influonced by this advice or not. The jury thought not. Tho instructions of tho Probate Judge wero sustained by the Supremo Judgos unani- monsly, This is a very clear judicinl recognition of Bpiritunlism as a religion, or form of baliof, which overy man aud woman Lns a perfect right to indulge, It strikea ono rather strangely at first, In view of the fact that all of us partake more or less of the Ancestral ‘Worship of the Chinese, nud would ba moro apt to bo influenced by the advice and wishes of deconsed frionds, if we could ascertain thom, than by the same persona in a living atate. But this, wo prestime, wns a question for the jury to detormina; and tho Court meroly docided that a beliof in Bpiritualism is not in itself an insnne delusion of n nature to invalidato a will made under ita influence, Thore is something in this; for, if the do- ceasod Mr. G. had advised his wife to moke o will in favor of her ron-in-law, we bave a strong notion that the instincts of the mothor-in-law would have provailed agninst bim, Inthot case, Spirituslivm would not bave exerted nn nundue influonce, The view taken by the Maine Court is not any strangor, at all ovonts, thau that of the Now York Court which sustained the will of the old miser who left o fortuno to the Boclety for the Provention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. The will was conteated by his rolatives on tha ground that the deceased was & be- liever in the transmigration of souls, and was fully persunded that he wonld bo metamor- phosed into a dog or eat. It was very nat- ural, under these circumstances, that ho should desire nll dogs and cats to be well cared for, and that ho should devoto his for- tune to that cause in the possibility that ho might share tho beneflt of it. His relatives thought ihis an insane delusion; but the |- Court thought not, and held that the de. censed hind 28 much right to believe iy the Pythagorean faith as in any other, 8o with Spiritualism, The Bupremo Court of Illinois, in a caso between the Supervisors of tbe Town of Ottawn, LaSnlle County, and certain citizons, declded that what was known as the act of the Legislature of Feb. 18, 1857, entitled, ¢ An act anthorizing cortnin cities, counties, incorpornted towns and townships, to sub. acribo to the stock of certain railronds,” was not n law of this State, it having nover pnssed tho Legislatura ns required by the Constitu- tion, This declsion wns rendered in 1878, During the winter just closed, the Court in a caso from Kane County, under tho same act, reafirmed tho opiuion in the case from Ottaws, nnd again held that, as the bill ncver became a law, it conferred no poweras; and therefora the bonds issued by the municipal corporations were not meroly voidable, bnt shuolutely void for want of power or suthority to issuo them, and that no subsequont act or recognition of their validity could so far give validity to them as to estop the tnx-payers from denying their legality. Tho bonds involved in both theso cnses were township bonds voted to the Ottawna, Oswego & Fox River Valloy Rail- rond. Tho wholo amount of municipal bonds issued to that Company wes §450,000, We do not know whother any of the other il ronds in this State were chartered under the nct of 1857, or that bonds were issued on the supposed authority of that mct, It s sup- posed that tho bill, failiog to pass, was surreptitiously delivered to the enrolling and engrossing olerls, and that in the haste of the closing houra of the session was signed by the officers of both Iouses and approved by the Governor. Cortalnly, tho records of at lonst ono Iouse contais no montion of the pasangs of such a bill. Wo believe that none of the towns which issued bonds to this road undor that law have paid any interest theraon since the decision in 1873, Tho most unfortunate aud uncertain apocies of property s man could own hitherlo has beon the umbrells, and the miafortunsand uncortainty of it bave grown out of the fact thas, sloco thoum~ brolia was invented, no one has Lad avy idoa that the statutes could Lave any practical appli- eatinn to the roturn of it when loaned, or the punishment of tho thief whan captured, Honce thore baa beon & goneral disregard of Moum avd Tuum with respect to this useful article., Even very good people havo slolon vory good umbrel- 1as wihout being awaro that they were violat- iog any law, human or divine, and without a sin- glo qualm of conscience, Even ths unfortunate owner, whio 80 much ae expected that his ume brells would be returned, has by common consont always boon mado a butt of laughter and target of universal derision, Why this shonld have been o Ligs never bocn axpialned, Why a per- #on abould not have & right of proporty in sn umbrella just a8 cloarly dofined as his tight ma conl-scuttle or a flour-barrol is unjotelligiblo, ex- cept upon the broad grounds taat psoplo have by & sort of common consent racognized Lommun- ism in its broadest eonse as applied to nwmbrol. lag, which, by the way, is the ouly point Com. munlem has ever galued. At last, however, tho Law haa come to tho reliof of the umbre le-own- ors, The umbrelia can be owned. It fa proper- tv. Itoan bo loaned, bus must be returned. It can bo stolen, but tho thiof can be punished, It can be bequeatlied, It can be loft to a aburl ble asylum, or Landed down a8 an hoirloom. It ia a0 eotity, a 10ality, & fixod fact, A mancan acquire » Litla to it by puichiage as hedveaton pleco of real outate. A recont declsion of an Eoglsli Court la to thiy effect, and will strike toizor to the hearta of rocklsss Lorrowora and unscrupuloua thieves. Iu thiscass, the loan of the uwbrella on a raloy day was proven. The borrower afterward pald about one-thlid of its alleged value on accouut, IHa admitted having borrowed an old worn-out umbrells from tho plaintiff, and lost it, but clalmed that the owner, on being told of the logs, sald: * Never miud; it was nos up to much.” To “save a bother," part of the olalm was pald and the Oourt made Lum pay the rest. Good. In the news columns of Tux TRIBUNR yoater- day & parsgraph appesred to the effoct that Col, AuTuoNY's phiysician deapalrad ot his recovery, Though he bsa been improving rapidly and Bosma to be galviug strongth daily, he must utill encountor the danger of e secondary bleeding, which may take place as late as the twentioth day. A very interosting commualcation on this subject {s publisued in & rocent number of tho Kauuas City Times. It la from a physician who hias carofully watched the casa (rom the first, aod who bas had » largs exporience in the treatment of guushot wounds, Ho expiains, in the first place, that the pistole shot which brought Col. AxTmoNy low severed the sab-clavian artery o thothird part. This ar- tory is two fuches bolow the upper border of the collar-boue, roofed over by muscles aud covored by various tissues, with no undarlylng bone, It 18 in closs proximily to importaut nerves and blood-vessats, fojury to which would be as faial o8 Liseding from the artery ltself. Thare ls no ploce whate ke ailary sas de sclupraased bee tmeen the wound and the heart. Asa malter of fact, the Mesding was stopped at firet by the use of styptics. Bince thon a clut has formed which temporarily closos the woxnd, ‘This will proba- bly slongh off on or befors the twentiath day, and doath will anaus. Henoporus and Xenornox toll astory of the all of Babylon, which {s perhaps familiar to the roader. Al the timo that Orrus was besieging tho clty, it was anuounced to him that, whena mule fosled, the city would [all, The foaling of 2 mulo waa covaidered an impossibility. Ou tlis occasion, the mule, as everybody knows, did foal, aud the army of Cynus was lot into tho city by treachicry. The sllusion to the fosling of & mule ocours in Egyotian history, and wns proba- biy one of those wide-sproad myths which, ss DBantxo-Gourp sbows, are conatantly turning up in differeut foimn at varions pointa in history, and {u different localities. Tho latest iucldent which calls up tho Babylonian legoud fu the sud- don death in Paris of AL p' Aontanac D= Duch, tho last doscendant of the famous CAPTAL DE. Bucn. Thero was in the family, as in hundreda of others of Europe, a prophecy of the jmmor~ tality of the raco, In thoe Dz Duon family, as in that of MacoeTu, tho ptopleoy was considerod to mean, nothing eles, It was bhaonded down jn s couplet thua translatod ¢ ‘When & ho:so and a mule are one, Tuen the tast sirc's race is run, Unfortunately for the De Bocn family, the Di- rectora of tho Gardon of Acclimatlon recently bred a mule which could not be distingnished from a Lorse, The murvel was slown to tho last of the line, and, whon ho realized the situation, lha fell dead upon the spot, The case is inter- osting am an historical as well as psychologloal study. Bome little time azo moation wasmade of trouble betweon the Rev. Miss Orvatria Brown and tho conkregation of the Unitarian Churoh of Bridgeport, Conn., of which she was paator, Her advaoced viows wers not relishod by somo of the congregation, and the {nterchange of un- friendly 10marks betwson paatorcas and peoplo ‘becamo & source of nowspaper-comment. Biuco that time, Misa Browy, or Mrs, WiLLis, a8 sho .sliould ba tormod, was appointed to preach nntil Julv, whew one of the congregation obtained an injunction forbiddivg ber to prasch, Tho trial of the case was satill ponding, when the Trustcos of tho church called & meating of the congregation to serionsly consult upon their future courso. Whoa the congregation met, the coneultation was carziod on by Mrs, WiLts from tho puipit, Among othor things, sho al- luded to the congrepation by eaylug *‘she folt as Pavt did when fighting with wild boasts at Epheaus.” Mayor P, T. Banntar was in church ; Lut this assaolt upon his meuagerie was probe ably too’ mitch for him, for he withdrew. Tho fight (s now trauslerred to the oawspapors, Mrs, WiLL1s snd hor opponeats eddressing tho public throuch tho press, and & high old time i being enjoyed all round, A telling caricature upon provalent church- difiiculttos was perpotrated by tho congrogation of scolored Baptiat church in New Orloans, The preachior of tho chureh, one Moony, re- signed, and the Couucil elected ono Bowix his succasgor, The followlng Bunday, Moopy te- pented bin basty re ation, and insisted apon preaching. The dificulty betweon tho two pas- tors 1nstantly sprend to the congregation, Two partlos wera formed, and ariot enaued. en aod women wore ojuelly riulent in tbo conflict, and the arrival of tho police alons put s atop to thoflght. Whlto congregations may amile at this ‘unasomly mothod of ovnducting & olurck-cons travorsy, but, after all, Iy it &0 very mach lena dignified than some of tho many aqguablies bo- tween partise, which the nedsyap:rd are cuu- stantly recordtng ? o —— ‘The explosion in Boston oa the evening of May 20 gava the New York Graphic an opportu- nity to eliow ita onlerprise, which it dld by pub- lishing in {ts noxt lesue mn extrs with s cut of tho sceno, The oxplosion ocourred at 7 o'clock. At 8 o'cleck, the speclal urtist visitod tho scans and mado s rongh sketch, which he malled at once to the ofico in Now York, At 9 o'clock next morning, the artiata of the Graphio com- menced work upon it; aud, by 1 o'clook, the tiain for Boston took out 3,000 extrs copias of the paper. Th!s was gonuine eaterprlue, and deserves recoguition, ——— Lo mrmers suffering from the incursions of the grassbiopper we commend the dovice of Farmer Joux NicmarpsoN, of Oswego, Neb. Tho "hoppors mado away with four or five acres of corn, sand wore goiug straight for his whest- flolds. Caloulsting by obscrvation the exact spot where they would halt for tha night, Bir, Ricnanpsox mado a winrow of bay right aoross bhia fleld in frout of tho army. When the ‘hop- pors roached it, abous sundown, thoy took up thoir quarters for bis night, and then the farmer aplied his torch, with the gratifying ro- ault that the aholo army was burued Into a for- tilizer In comparatively fow minutes, ——— Jomx Kren, the artist, whoto death was an- nounced in our loat fasus in a dispatch from Mn- nich, is undonbtediy Joun Apax Kresy, ons of tho most eminent of the German paintors. flo waa born at Nuromborg in 1792, and palnted much in Italy and Hungary, and enjoyed almont as much roputation for his skiil as an ongraver asbedid for bis muccoss oo canvess. His sube jeota wero malvly taken from everyday lifo, al- though he was very succoselul in military and battle scenss, ———— FOLITICAL KOTES The Admlnlatration will throw Bonater nrcNe ceR overboard uulesa he cau offor a satisfactory explanation of the testimony concerning his sloction lately publishied. Lieu defend ls drowt. The New Albany Ledger-Standard is" inspired to say that * Tromas A. IIzNDRIORS was ralsed up byan All-Wise Providence to meat the exl- goucles of the timda." Most of unare ralsed up in the same way, Mr. Hanzax atill holds property in Bft, Ploas- ant, In,; returns there regulurly to vote at the fall eleatione; aud has always olaimod and 10~ garded that villago as hin restdence, Ho {s now at home—looking after hls vogetable gardon, Nobraska s troubled by s politioal ring of some dimensions, which forms aboul the Blate Capital whenover thero is sy prospect of logis- lation, It is aald that the ring lu controlling the procsediuge of the Coustitutiousl Conventioa, The Nebrasks Constitution-makers, who pro- pose 1o elact United Btates Senators by m direct vote of the peoplo, ara sdvised by mauy eminent snthoritioa to wait until the Fedorsl Conutitu- tlon can be smendod In such a way aa to aliow the proceeding. . A proposition to restars the whipplag-poat I North Caroline s well supported. At firs, thly form of puuishmout would be usad for tho bene- fit of lagy men; eveniually, no doubs, it wonld be employed to corroct bolsterous nogroos who should vote the Republican ticket, The manszors of & strawberry fostlval st Atouison, Kan., nanmod Scuator INGALLS and Judge MonToX as the contestanits fors gold- headed cane, to be pressntod to ** the moat pop- ular gontloman.” Inoaris’ frionds withdrow his nane, whereupon the 8t. Joseph Gazlls feels froa to expreas the oplnion that INoALLS saw the bandwriting on the wall, aud virtually admitted that ho was guilty of cbioanory and deoelt in ascuring his election. Pansoy Brownzow Las addressod an open lot- tor to Gen. D, 1. Hrrw in 7efersace to an anilcle published by tho lattor at the time of the Meck- lonburg Centoonisl. The Parson ssys that the Gonersl's article could only bave proceeded from the pen of & wan who Is hell-born sud Lell-bound.” And, indesd, the Qeneral doos scom to have grossly slsudered such Northoru Luaders as Bumwxs, Brawrox, Bxwako, Camuy, sad Mxios, Every sensibla Repubdlioan will roject and die- spprove the squuilzation-of-bonoty plank ln the Peunayivaals platform. Tus brulos of Wo party ——— do not belleve in anything of that king, Tha Puiladoiphia Press pula tho troth wey) when jy says: ** It would hiave aliown mere dis strength to have omltted sltug: thor ieap equalization-of-bounts ary. Tho politiciang tatg tho eoldior too noar their own lavel if they think ks is to bo swayed by stch talk an this, Thy men who fonght for 818 & month whon the poj tlalany wore dodging the draft aro not biindod by avy such tianeparent nonsenwo," Notwithstandiog all that has been writtan about the Now ITampehire ou'rage, tho aouutry coditora on tbo Ropublican aido sceni to have o 1don of tho oxtent aud nature of tho wrongs . flicted, and the Domocratio editors Iu the bact. woody aro pretty sure that nobody lins been burt, ‘Tha confusion arisos from the publicity given ty tho witielo oftho New Hampehire Constitution, which expreealy providea that all batlots cont fop abbreviated or incomplate names ehall bo couyt. od a5 blank, This really hes notling to do wity the discuseion. The question fs, whether thyy QGovernor and Councll bad suy right to throy out retutns properly made, Tho situation in Now Hampshirs {s {Lo enme 88 if the Boary of Canvassers In Cook Counly shonld bave ex. cluded auy numnbor of ballots east for Citantry U, FanwsLn st tho lset clection, on tho grouuds of fraude n tho Twoalieth Ward, The Cooli County Convaesers, though polttienl opponents of Mr, FARWELL, rorased to asaume such s responeibility, Thoir duties were ministerinl, and eozorcised a3 such. Thoy de. clared tho result & it was roportad to thom by the judges of clection. Tho Now Hampubire Qovoruor nod Councll shonld have dons thg samo by tho returns furwarded to thom from the Beveral couniies. A remedy back of this, for apy wrong that has boon doue, can be sap. plied by the Logislaturo concerned, which istag solo Judgo of tho qualifications of ks members, PERSONAL, Cminres H. Fonp, of Naw York, an old Chl. cagoan, is at the Palmer Iouse, Lmon Huxr, grandeon of the colebrated ag. thor of that uame, has blowa his brains outro« cantly. The Milwankes Whisky Ring have smplored Bex Berren to asslat Marr CARPENTER (n thoir dofenge, Tho Wostorn papers ars all wondering what Berounxn wants with & room ia tho Now Yorz Tribune building. ‘Why does not Don Canvos take the Grestan tbrone and quit murderiug Spanis:da? Ho'll ba at home among Landiis, The Rov. Lamp Coruizn loft Liverpool for Now York by tha Abvasinis on the 224, and bag probably arrived by thin time, " Raocheater, Minn., farmars thus mnap their fin. geérs st popular mamaa: * Kash pade for littls kaivos not mourn to daze old.” Waslingtoo [alanghing ab * Old Probabilitles.” Ho predictod, o uanal, flue woather tho othor day, and a sharp froet eccurrod. Arrxanpgn PErovooy, a deaf muto of Dune des, has saved forty-sevon peranns from drowns ing, Tias sctiops apeak for thomaelven, ‘Tho Boston papers are boginning to discuss tho subjoct of capital pnumhment fnriously, Peorhaps Judge Lyyon will pay the Prezn. Cipcinnats nearly lost its ehanco for a Car dinal the o'her day. Archbiehop Poncrit wes thrown out of a buygy and waa soveraly hurl, Tho Lexington Cantennlal Colebratio:n Come mitlee have presanted Wioumano 11, Dawa, Jr., with a silvor madal In rocoguition of Lly sorvices as orator on that veeasion, It is ainenlir that in connoction with we settling of the Custom-Touse founilatioos, no- body has discovered that MurierTr was culo- brated for runniug a thing Into the gronnd, Tho Tomana have mado a discovesy, 1t faa portrait of Rarnacs at 20, paintod by himaelt. It ia not as brillinat as the picture of another bnt mora modern ourioaity, painted by himselfes B, F. ALrex. Tnrxor W. Panx, of Bonnington, Vt., Is worth ©17,000,000. Thls information is wiven fur tha benallt of thoso gentlemen who are alwaya bor- rowing & quarter without remembering tho cire cumatance, TxNNysoN's drams, “ Queon Mary,™ relatos to the reign of thot excellont matron whom hiatory hss immaztalized as ** Bloody.” It won't draw now, Atrned; Ourrer Doun Bynox has rulnol Ahie senrational in tuls country, Hia physiciana bleod tha Pope four times a year, not for a ceromony but to keep bis health good. Iis physicians are thus engaged i ane other conapiracy againet Bissarog, ‘The Prince bx Orocar drove s fonur-in-hand of jackasaos on the Bola de Buulogne recently. It was s prettv Cenont thing to do, but nobody notlcod it, boosnso, doubtlass, it was purely s fanlly affalr. Inso't it quite spproprinte that, after ruining the Court-Honsa in Chicago. Mr, MuoLizrz shouid betake himsclf to Drooklyn? There he s waking stoel raile, nagging and swea¥iug as usual, snd keoplog out of the way. Amid a7l the diamonda and patrician beautles of a Royal dra slng-room. rocently,the most con- spcuous being in the throng was a young Ause tralian girl of 17, who wore na fowel but herowa wncotaparablo boauty, Blio Is a Miea ANNtE Grar. In 1801 s Dostonlan passed a worthless five. dollar bill upon the Bouton BMusonm. He has since lived in London, ang, ila morals baviog mendod, bie sent n gonuine bill to 3ir, Brarcn- rorp, mausger of the Mussum, explulning the ‘whols mattor. A Moutreal lawyer quoted m decision in the Dxronzs oate the other dav, whereupon Judgs Monprar eald i **Don't, for Uod's eake, quote from thst case here, It's a disgraca to New York,” which shows that a city is judged by ths company It keepy. ‘The tales ono hears of gambling (n Monaco, where an American recently lost 150,000, & Russian Princess 1,500,000, and other peopla similar eums, slionld induce our talented follow- citizans of the Mixe MoDowarp order to miil for that blessed apat without delay. Gronom Fasnois Traty s violatlog lile pledge to the couutry, e bargained that, if the nows- papera would leave him alone, ho would ralire to & vogetabla diet and bs heard from no moro. Now comes he ayain, mors Ineane tlan ever, aaking for a Presidentlal nomination. The Bt, Louls Times sugmosts that Mr Cnanves Pobz play Samason inthe Custom. House building, It would be choaper than a Congres slonal invostigation ; but Mr, Por I4 worth por- wonally 50 mauy scoros of Custom-Flouses that it would uot be as sconomical s it ssema. ‘'ho New York Graphio thinks it mugnlar tha Excnson's Minstrels should bave injured Is- ronr'a business in Chilcago, Boah! Chicagonns are abovo ths affoctstion of professing to admire what is not futelligible to them, and what ts noe snited to thelr tastes. That is what damaged Tustont's business, In reply to Bowzx's muggestive hint at 8 scandal in Dr, Lzonanp Bacon's family, shat gentleman iuvites In the Independent s subscnp: tiou to present & copy of * Arprxrox's Uyclo- pedis ® to & deserving misslonary, To this Towrs repliea with cash, and rocommends his readors to thosame. What nest, Dr, Bacon? Rarex WaLDO EMeusox says OaunvLz wads good friend to thi country during the War, sod Liss 8 provision in bis will which proves it. It will not bo known until after bis death. Mr EuErsoN s now in his 73d year, and should L¢ above the rashuoss of youth in dofoudiug b trisuds. Eueyrm Gusy, of Shsffeld, Conn., was only® bired girlat tho timaof tho Bubiller disaster, bat tho desth of Mry. Lupaway males her tL¢ posseaior of $50,000, and the yonth of tbe uoighborhood malntain that they simays &id thiok that when ehe was properly fxed up sbé was Jout tha prettisat gisl Lo that seocion of it sountry. g Ex-Senstor Osnrxxras, (o dofonse of hiess- tou n defouding the Whisky Ring, aaye tlat b coualders himaslt boaud o underiake sy cebd