Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 2, 1875, Page 2

THE CINICAGO TRIBUNE: WIEDNESDATY. JUNE 2, 1277, titfea too small to exert any important Influ- #nen, and bence may be omitted from our furiber con= wierallon, WIEN WE APRAK OF ALCONOL, therefors, or of the effectn uf alcoliol, throw ghout {ha remainder of thia papsr, wa near. 1o dnelude all Bl blie Hqulds whether fermented or distilied. Until analyilesl aad organis chemistry had made sufclent yiogrees to ahiow the campusition of the more comtnon astitas of food and drink, ho efforta were msda to explain the apeckst or physlological action of aleohol on the buman systemn, ~ All liquids contain{ng it wera 1ty dy regarded as condial or aumulant, and capable of wipparting strength and lite, When' the chiom 0« alolegieal relivol of fuvestigators, with Biron Lio i ALILS head, doveloped the Tact that all alimentary enlstances wero capablo of being arranged fnto two clasnn, the nitrogenons and carbonacoous, thoy very naturaliy adopted the theoratical {dea that the former W en Into the systam were Appropratsd fo tnn b himnent of the tesues, while tha lafter wnftel with oxpeen by & apecies of compustion re: gt it tho developaent of animal et and carbonte acld gas, nud hence were familtarly atyled ‘* RESPIGATORY FOOD." Aleohol, bieing one of the purost of the carbonaceons clair, atil eejeclally rich in carbon And hydrogen, was stonce arelgned & pisce At the head of tuo it of Teapiratory fuoda and of supporers of amdmial heat. Wuen' faken duto the Living sxatem, 1t was nups pered to nnite raphily with the oxsgen recefved fhrangli the Inogs, evolving heal, and leavinyg an reuitanta carbomc acid gau and water: in this way 1a ey oned Loatiug sud alimulalug elfocis wora s+ sined, P e simpticity of the explanation, coupled with tha Nigh authoilty” of Lichig, canned it to b almost uni- yeonally accopted, although rea:iig on o prely thes aretical basta, witliont u single experimental fact for §ta support, It was hot loug, hower, before Dr, Proat, of Loudon, ancertatned by direct experimont that tha presenen of uleoliol 1 the hman aystem directly di- miniakal tho amount of earbonle’ acld gan cxiialed from the lunga, aiid coneienlly ther coud bo o cominetion or exydation of the akoliol by whick §t war converted Into earbonfe acld and water, Dr, Tervy nd otliern by exaniuation found:that sleoliol taken iy Jate farni (uto the stoniact, w3 Laken, p, willout g of composition and carriod with the bood {uto all thio org uim und structures of the body ; and that Lo preseuco conld be ensily detocted by’ tho praper chemica tests, - The ehtinfeo-phyatologhin howoser, il weining st aleobol, ing o bydro-carbon, ¢ neconcuily Lo need for mafutalusy femperatury ration, wuggertod thal the ur d nf s elementa genn gl bo Ruch us to reaudt fit forming /f or aldohyde fnatead of carbonic neld gas, MUl ruiatood the popune Lelll that ale ¢ driukn woro eible of inireastig both the raturo und trengths of the humat bods, Iu tho nthne, TIHE PROCESS OF LXTERIN venton, D, Boker, of Germany, by n well.derissd end carefnlly-vaeented eetien of experiments, proved thiat the preseucn of aicohol o he living aystem actue ally diminibed the sam total of eliminaiions of effete watter dafly, aud, consequently, that itw prescnco must Fetard thoro moltentur chatges Ly whien nutrltion, eerction, i climmnation axo effected, In 180 fho wrifer of this paper prosccuted on ex- {cnalvo merios of oxporiments to determine tho elfects of diffcrent svileies of food and drink A the temperaturs of tho Lody, and ou the smount of bonic ackd exereted from thy lnuge, 'Theso experi- ta proved couclusively that, during tho sctive yerind of digention after takiog’ any urdinary food, whetlir nitiogenout or earionaccous, the tenperas ture of {hio Loy fx alsrays lucreasod ; it after takiug aleobial i the formof elther fermented or distillod drinks, tho fersperature beging to fall within balf an Dour, und contiuies to decreato for from two fo thres liourd, The estent and duraton of the redustion of temporature wan in direet proportion to the amouut of ulcoliol takeu, 'The rowuts of inis serien ol expestments wers embodied 1 a paper read to tho Amirian Medieal Arsochution fn May, 1-61, [Sew Nowtd wistern dedical and. Srraieal Jowrnal for 1 w Aewrw later, the experimental rencarchies of 1. , Pertin, aud Durog proved conclunively th . whiets L4501 1o 1ho somach, %3 not onl Fel and careled with tho bivod {nto all the thesuen of tho body, but alao that it wos dan alcohol, unchanized chemteatly, from tho o wGn, aoil biddeys, The experuuents’ of Prout vt ‘tepedted und hils resula contirmed by Hine duir asd Douchardel, of Franco; W, A Hame d, mysclf, and’ others of 'ibis country, Buker were corefully repeated Austie, of England, anmd ffammond, My own fii_retérence to e effecti il heat bave baen repented and the ernlly couirmed by n lrge number of obseryers, wioin ary Div, Iilchiardsony Auntio, and Ham® wtide ‘Thoss of Lolicwaciud, fu_reforence 1o the elloie inthenof alechl, Live Leen oqally contivmed, ox- vopt the claim that the amount_etimizoted ts equal to the wholo quantity taken, lenen G PROPNSITIONS ntished sclentufe fa when taken diluted fn t A wpirits, {n rapldly changn, carried Inta (e blood, aid with ti fliid braughl n’contact with overy structure wud purt of the hunan body, Ne onu—Luat, While circulating in the blood, its - sruce retands thoxe molecular or atomie changes by wulzhuuteitfon, diefotegration, and eecrction are suafutainen, aud the plenotacna of 1ifo continued. Lhird t ity presence retardy the elimination of wnle 1anttor, inpalrs terve-aensibility, Teasens e T eacitability, sud Rowers the temiperature of tho 0 ol Fuerth—=Thst & part, at least, of the amount taken 14 finally_cimlnated, or thrinen out of tho syslem with thio exerotions, Without Laving undergons siy eppreciatlo chomical chunge, Thrwa Tacts ar an well catabliaied as any in tha dumistn of phyaiology, or i tho wholo feld of natural veleiice, And Ubes Joint with ul the cloatness ntid fozco «f o matheniatical demobstration b the con- cluslon that wicohol e IN NO SENSI ¥00D, neither funishing materiul for tha astcs, nor fuct for combnstion, 50 et generating elther nurviee oo muncular forct, Having thun deterniucd, cxjn menlully, hat uicoliol ts nefiber food nior o geuer of forcs i the liviug houy, the qieation reeurs, Vil uro #n youitive eftects when taken in tha ordisary suanner? 1 answer, stnply thoro of au ANSTHETIO AND OROANIC REDATIVE. Ltko efher and chloroform, §te presoura dimintalies the eouribility of the nervous vystem aud brain, theres by rendering tha Sndividual Jesw conncloun of all out. wirdwid esterior fmpresslona, Thi dimfnution of scuribility, or suaatliesia, {4 davelopod fu direct ratio to tho quanifiy of alcolot takou, aud may be veun i ail clugea frow slmple oxcinpiion from all fecling of uc, pan, aud foa of wolght, cxbibited by caso, aney, ilirity, ctc., 1o that 6f complete uncont it aud los of muscular power, 1t In this aixstlietic otfect of alooliol that 1as lod Lo 811 tha popu- == rrura aud contradictary uses, which havo provod = %emtructive to lunian Lcalth atd happiuess, 1t lins " boeu ono of thie noted yaradozos of human action iha thio sarao fndividual would resort to tho simo aleohllc drink to warm him in winter, to protoct iy fram the hest fn summer, fo' streugtien when' weak or weary, and to mootho and chuor _whon afllcted ~in body or miud, With tho fftia now beforo e, tho cxplana fon of all tiis @ apparent, The alcobiol does ol rellevo tho inlividual Srom'cold by fucreaniuie his temporature from Neab by cooling him: pr from weakuean and cxbaation by nouzibiug his from aitiction by fucreasing necve power: bt wzuply by diiniuishing the ronstbllity of bin morve strictiren, wud therey lewening bix conactuumens of linprcstalutis, whetbier from cold, oF heat, or wesrinens, or pain, 1! other wordw, the prerence of thu nleoliol L wut 1 uny degres lessened tho offects of the evils 4 which ko 18 exposed, but bae dlmindstied bia con welowknics of thelr exlatence, aud therehy fmpaired bis Judguent coucerutog tho degreo o thelr action g b 18 {u1hla property of alcoliol to prodiica fhat xense of care, huioyanes, utid exbilaration, arlslig from nod- :»‘mu duutnudon of uerve scusibility, that glves it m FASCIHATING AND DELUSIVE POWEN over the et ruve, which 1L hus wielded 80 ruln- oualy for centitries gone by, Jut whilu tho presence of wieoliol diinlufsbiea the weneitility of the nervous Blracture, it also retarda all the niolecular oy therehy disulturhing tho activity of uutnition, sccree thon, cllmination, snd the evolutiou of hoat, cunstitut- iugatrue onfauo wedative, When taken [n snill Guantitlen, repeated dally, the fudividusl usually tualy increared fu welght, not from {ucreased nutei- Ly but from retardiug tho waste aud rotaiulmg the uld utors longer fu thy Husues, Ly some (vesti- #atore this powdr o rotard atomio chuiiges, sud cun. foueatiy Ao vetatn thy old utows, bag been regurded aieyuivalent to nutrition, or tha actual serlmilation aul addition of bew atonw, 1t {8 on this Lasia that Dr. Humimond and & few otbees persiat fu represent- dng slelol e fudireet food, Tuo fallacy of such dm, and {ts tuischievoun tondeney, wiil ba fully rent by roference 40 cno of the platuest laws #overuing Lving aniual suatter, 'l Low b, that all the phenouiena of aninial e are usrociated with aud dopetndent ou olomls changes, shd that vach fudivide ual cell or uggregation of Lioplasn coustvuting an crianto atum, i s deteruuluate perlod ol yrowil, wrrity, an-d dissobution, 1lence, to introdure 1o the Atz vy iean any sgeut that will Fetszd atomle change, 11 equtivalout 10 retardiug the pheuoiuna of Mie, And 1f Ly retarding the atomte cisuges. cells or stauis ed {n the tissues lungor tlan ths vatural do- Fetion of thele activity, suck” rolention niay wereiss o bl und welght, Lt {1 1o wamo ratlo It embar- Furcp (b sthnulus with the presence of material Which u Conatuitly becoming iert Al tending vq tu: seutrution, Comnequently, the jodividual wuo thus Mcrvages hin buik and welght by taking Just unough o th wralior sl holfs deinke dufly 10 retird the pro- ¢e-ge Ul aecrenion and waste, fu 1hu satie propure toa dimiuishes bis activity, Liv power of eu. ¢, und Lls ability “{o realst the offects A cgents of overy kiud, Tuis s abundanily rated by the thousands of boer aud winw drink- ern Wh, $rot 40 to 25 f uje, were munculary ace 4ivo, catnabiuof suy Feasonable enduranes, with o welghit of 130 pounds, but who, after woderately re- tanltug atomie clauges sud retwdmug old atoun by toe dafly uke of wine or Loer, Lave acquired & welght of 2. poutils o twore, wud Liave LOAT TUELS MUSCULAB ACTIVITY 204 endurance 1 siich an estens tiat wy acllve e2er- 0 of sweuty mluutes would iake thuw putt o & beavy borse.” I4 s thie scdative ufieet of aleulol o (e orande of motesulsr chauges 1 tho tiice, Ts. taiutug waste and eifute matior that ought 4o fave bern prompily distintegeated aud tirown out, which ampadcs the vitad roperies, ubid predioposcs, br pro Juten tho wystem (0 yleld to 1morbid infuences vl any kind to which It may e exposd, And vapectlly doca thiv aedative elieet of aleanol o Ty urganic chabges, wheu tnalutalued Ly & moderats atiied uvw of the sptisle, favog oo degenera. o chiaugcn, which reqiilt is tuberaala aity dejosits du 1he Jungs, Uver, kid arercs uf | 0 &3 of uutrition aud waste, culy esvried more Lat cause gastriths aud'delirlum trowions fu 1ue exvensive diluker of distilledpitity, 1€ you ask for TUE PECIAL MUDUI OPKRANDT of alcohol, Low It produces its atiastistic und sedative ouct wueu taken jnto the buman systems, I auswer, Chiedy Ly its stroug affiuity for water aud albuwen, Tuy two last-vhumod substauces eziat in the blood and »li tho tissues of 1hy body, and for them alcobol Las « btiouy chumical alluity, " Heuce when it is proscut fu Lue Lluod it attracts the water (rom Luv Lloud corpuse cles, cattsiiig them 1o becomeniure or less corrugated, aud'luciued 10 adhers to Ouy suutliar 48 descrited by Dr, Nichardson, of Tendon, and_diminiabing the ca pacity of tha Blood ta aliory oxygen or bier gires run the alr i the langa § aud by s strang afinity for tho alhumen “of ino tlesies, 1 retards - the play of VLAl Affinjty betweeh that mubatance T tho olher ‘swuberate with. swhich T To in coutact, tharehy retarding the molecutar chauged B8 already descriled, The par: ng effect exerteld on tha vaso-mntor as well ar rroaro-apinal ucrvous atructures b which sonsibilliy is mypaired, i owing parily to tho dirat anmathetlc proportica of the alece T sl pari 6 the duminabed intereh oye of oxyea for carbonic ar in the procers of of ohiol shonld ho retained for T fength of timie {1 tha syatem by tho af nittes Jitat mentionad Ia very probiatle, 1ence tho late Dr. Aligtin may liave beon dorrect {n claimidg that it wan ot sll climinsted feom the siaten within any lrulted perfod of e, and yot lix vetention would afs ford na. proof that it wan either appropristed o foud or for the generation of farce, £ On tho contrary, THE CATALYTIC INFLULNCE of fta predoncd rotandd | Ir W3 acAn tha whole domatn of phgalology and pathology in eouna-tion with tho logival dediictlons from the experimental researchies by partion wilely separated by time, space, nactonality, and tangiage, wo whall be tarced to the conclusion that sicobol 18 found in any or fermentod snd diathided drinks, {n nelther smulatsng, atrenglbening, nov nourishiig to Lac human kyste: but smply atasibetle aml redative, Conseqiient 1t cannot Le ueed In health withont fnjurioas ettes proportioned (0 10 quantity used nand tho fre- quency of 14 repetition, 1ty applicabiiity e 8 remedy I tho trestment of disoiea 13 esteemely dtnuted wo much Ko it it night b wholly dispensed with without any Infury to the sleX, every intelligent phyalcdan belng uble to eupply lta place with other remedics uf equaty If not pgreater, value Ju the limite:d nnmber of cArey 1UIe pplicable, Such wo rogard as the Joat aud egiti- tnate verdict of fraa relenes,’ rezarding tha extects of aleototis deinks on man, We mikht emplfy thin paprr by the eltation of additional authoziticn ad {llustras tive frcts until 9t would 81l a volumo: but wa hav thought It more protitablo and_beiter tting the pires- et ocoason 10,mit I8 1o & conclse ad plaiy statement of the prescut stata of know.edgs on this fuporiaut subject, trailo DI, F\ T LEES, of Leeds, England, on being introduced, cx- pressed his groat ariistaction at boing present ut £0 impostng & demonstrat.on, Waatever olso might be eald, no part of tuo cuiso of Intemperance could Lo charged upon God, It was all the work of man. It wan tho curso not of God but of themeolves, It was their hopo m England that it they had absolute.y mado alt tho cauecs of tho unschief, thoy could ud ab- rolutaly destroy them, |Applause. 'hioy Wero strong us God, If they noala ol God's truzh lo work with, 11e wonkd nat ‘stand tuore 10 address then 1f he was not going to deliver himuelf of vomo thouglta that swere burdening Ly woul, If they did uot aet thenmeoives earncate Iy and traly to work, il their jrayiog and mect- g would bo 80 much hypcerisy, Yor one, when a mau stood up und a3l that tho eivil Iuw conid not topross intempornneo, ho boggud leava to teko strang isauo with him, [Applaise.j Tho Jaw perwiztod the tealic—tho law could pre- voutit, Iu LEoglawl, they must rememtor, tho Jawe wero uot tuade by tlo pouple. [Applause. | Iu America 1t was differant, la Eouland the tuagintiate granted tho Licenso : tha Governtmout tundo tho magistrato ; tho alisment made tho Governmeut; tho vulers—a lLanted nume bor—made tho latlivment. It was “ibe bouso that Jack Luut” [Lsughter aud cheers,] Dut tho Juwa wore mude by the Government in Lngand, amd ho wished lus auditors to understand that tho masses of tho people wero with tho peoplo be- fore huw in evers wovowent for humun reforul. [Gireat appinuse, ] In Ameiica, Lowever, tho peovle made tho Governmet, aud the wholo obluquy of the liquor-tzatio fell upono the electurs, [** ilear” aud great applause] Mo had hoara enougls about tho army, 1lo had beard much of sho enemy, but he wanted to koow the plan ot campuigu. [Applauee.] In Great Driain the tompotance peuplo uo louger asked whap porty o Paclianentary candidato belouged 10, but whetber he ~was in favor ot or agninet tho Permisivo bill. [Loud chooring.) 11 tho Amerivan peopla wond du the same thing, all woud bo sw&l. aud glorious victory would crown their effoits, [Greet aprlanso. ) THE KLY, 3, GLADSTONE, of Seotland, was called fur und resyouded briefly, Lut in a stylo thar showed Lim to Lo & must quent vsator, 1o swid taat Lus visit to Amori- ca Jisd impreesed him with tho gicatness of (Lo country 1 the prescut, aud the imweasarablo glory that awuited her tuture, £fo Lud traveled Lar aud wido tbrough tho greas tepublie, hud skirted Lor greatlskod, aduured her gizantic mountsin ranges, revewed n the flluwitably prosperiy of Ler oudloss piaies swilug In eternal plenty, bad weeu her ciios oud her towus in muojesile protusiou, but Lo concluded tLat ueither her freedom, nor her grandeur, uor bur prosporiy, nor her woisity, couid enduro until gho ad atricken down forever the saluon puwor i tho land, [Lrowendous choering. ] CREDENIIALY, The Committeo on Uredentials presented the foliuviug piotuco to tho reading of & furnndavle list o1 namses: 3 1 a3 vecond, Siato tem 1njerancs Orgaulzatious ; then riew, Conferouices, uid Bynoun, with uames of We'tiud many unsigned written statements fo tha efcet that the person ucelgnated $a 8 duly appointed o 5 but 0o credentials (o UBSE out sad stute. ments, 'We hove bad niaby Dawcs presented givag werely names of Post-Otlics aud Hate, It s ths juagment of this Commiitios that all not regularly appoiied bo rocordod a3 visitors, Tho report waa adopted. On motion, it was decided that a Committes on Resolutions—oue from each Stato and Lerritory roprescated—bo appointed by the rerpactive dris egations, tho snoouncement 10 bo waao &t tho evening meoting. TINANCE, lowing Commnitteo on Finance was ap- ¥ o Kev. D, C. Baveock, Pounsylvams; tbo ltov, W, C. Btool, Now York ;- Niss Laviua Guodoll, Wiscousin ; Mrs, M. MeLiellan Brown, Ohto; Mrs, Amands Lane, Massuchusotts ; Wili- iwn .o Wilkiws, Penusylvavi j the Rov. J, C, llm:‘zlnun. 1hiuois, Adjownod until 7:30 o'clock, — L EVENING SESSION. MIS SUSANNAIL EVANB, When tho customary devotloual oxerclaes wero disposed of, tho UVrosident introduced M Susannab Kvany, of Now Yorl, who addrossed tho wootmy in a vigorous and cloquent strain, Bho alludod to the immouse moral infliience that 1oukt bo exercised by tho dolegates to that Con- veution iu their various disuicts, 'Who large at- toudanco went to show that the temperance causo -wad udvanciug glottously, noe retro- giading hopelessty, as tho llquor cham- ptons would have the world believe, Thero was, howover, no denying tho fact ihat, to battle with the legiona of futemperanco, thosa who wore friends of wobriety should mako up their minds to ro right to thoroot of tho ovil, and laber to Kill that so that the branches might wither and not bo renowod, Bho aliuded to the liquor traflle, permitted by law, oncouraging and stimulating crimo aod leading to uutold mivery. Blo regardod it a8 o good omon for the cauee thas wotanns bad joined the reformiag ranks with wan, und way marcling along with hin to an im-. vorishable vietorv, {Loud applanse.]) In thus conneetion she alluded to tho words of God in reforence to Adam tu Patndimo—* 1t fs not good for mau to bo alone.” Ho God sont the woman {ato the G wrdan to comfurt Adam, and e now nent lier futo the tompersues movement to dnye drunkenness ous of tho word, [Applause.] ALymn wis gracefully sang, snd THE EY, A. N, OILLENT, of Baltimore, was lutioduced, Hu eatd that ho coulil hatdly dotlue whother Lis city was North ur dunth, Oue tulngsbe did know—DBakimore bad plenty of Southern whisky aud Northern beer, 'I'ho former producod florco, and tho oth- er etupid, brutality, but the tendeucy of Lot was tho ramo, But whilo thess twin demons oxiuted fu Baltimoro, there also ozisted thore u party bound to fight the unholy sllinsuce, aud conquer for temperauco and for the hight of God. Mir, Gilbert thon launched out upon oystars and gave somo description of dredging the bLeds, ‘They should also drodge out the esloouw, 1o alio apoks of the monuments in Laltiwore, and intimated that Clicago and shint villaya were parts uf each othar—or soon would ‘I;e, 1 bath coutinued to grow as thoy bad besn oing. e urged that the campaign ba proseontod with Boutbern fire and with' Nortbern porse- vorauga, by, Gllbert concladed by alluding to an ovent that hapiened i tue Holy Luud nesrly 4,000 yemis ugo—tho doatu of Jewuw Cunst. As out of that sacrilice the light of Heaven dawned npon the regeneratod earth, wo might thoy Lumbly hope that out of their lsbors, Luwevoer suall and uuworthy of ko glotlous w causs, tins) victary miglt come, aud the light of wubriety dawwn upon the peog! all lands, [Applause,] Tho Prosident then announced the followiug COMMITTEX ON BESOLUTIONS ; Tha Nev, D, I Raudsll, Masine; J. D, Odell. Now Hampshize; J. It Forest, Vormont; B, U , Massachusotis ; O, O, Barrow, Rhode Islapd; " the ltev. 1L J. Attell, Conuecticut; Mo, L. W. Butlor, Naw York; Ueorge 8., Page, Now Jensey; W, i, Witkins, Peaunyivania; {he Hou. W, AL Daufel, Maryiand: the Rev, J. L. Clark, Weat \'hgluh; 1. N. lawwey, North Curollun; Jobn T\ Htophons, Souths Caroling; J. O. Patton. Alabama; W, k. Pubor; Colorado Robort ‘Ihompeon, Califoruia; = the Hev. AL 1L Necly, Texss; Dr, J. Braden, Ten: uoasco; Iuchard Grogan, Kentucky; J, D, Camp, Kansan v, T L. Star the Hov, John fuasell, Miclizan ¢ thy Houghton, [llinois: Col. J," W, M Drown, Wisconsin ¢ tho co, Minncsola ; the Rar. Limery an nest introduced, amid dy 18 a talker, aud » good ono, Sue is not o pesticulator, but sho makes of Dnndes, Reotlan: ** Annis Lautie." I3ut her noso Is aquiline and exprosasive of grent deteraination. Amongz othior thingn ehe said that the resl temporascs reforn woutd come moeco when waman zot tho ballot. For herself, althongh kha had a high re=poct for nian, she did not helieve 4o hin superiority, Uea cause sho knuw it 1o bn & well-defined poncipla of tho law of Naturo that a streaw could not tivo higher than ita ronree. and tremendons {Ttonts of Isughter wiich waa thieo timos renewed.] Mra. Parker cancluded by give iz n recital of * how things wera roing on In the old countries, sil of which bas been pubhishied Aftor Aome vory oxcellent singinz by the Hutehinsons avd others, tho P'resident intro- MRS, WITTENMEYRR, Prortilent of the Wowan's National Tempersnce IHer confersion of faith was that shé was finmovally opposed to avery. uor-dealers wera in favor of, ey hiatod the crueadin Raciety of America, thing that the 1 and tha reverse, Sho adnured them, ance and prohibitton ; eho loved thom, was n crtma boluio the law, liecnso to ol 7 She dil not think that o law on tho statute-hook made wrong 1ight. The liconso aystem ourht td bo nbolished, that the women in the causo wors not halting Woimnon, nae held, wera more Christian than men, ‘Lhis stio could eanily prove. ‘Two-thirds of tho clurch-membirs were women. Uit wns because they wera weak-minded, said Nine-teuths of the intites of ben~ Was that because the; wera strong minded 7 [Tangliter and spiausa, Bhe concluded by advocating prayer and pers Hho waa haory by the wacwile. itentinrioy wera mou. of Clinton, Ta., was next introduced. 8he rpoke in the usual stiain, bue with a good deal of feel ing, sud was partientarly severs on the liceusa Bho attacked the whole saloon fro- tornity in yehemont terms, and indorsed Ches- terlicid’s descrintion of a saloou-keoper—**An Mry. Foster drew somo vervy offecitiyg | ictures of intemnornoce, nnd conclndod by urguig everybody to work and prny for tho cansc. ‘The Presidant avnounced that 8140 bad been After benedietion the Couvontion adjourned until 0 o'clock this wormng, ‘Yo-niglit tha Convention will be addressed by e« Iathiop, of Michiguns Mg, Johnston, of New York; Miks Frauces E. Willard, IIf the Rov, Dr. Cuyler, —_— RAILROAD NiZWS. THE DALTIMORE & OHIO, An effort 1y being mado by the euomies of the Baltimore & Olfo Ruilrond to fnduce the Com- mon Council to take eomo aciion agaiust this road compelling them to tako up tho track inthe rear of tho Extubition buildimng on which they are at presont landing thetr pasacngory, hecanro it 19 eituated on city droperty, that by such action tho Daltimore peoplo witl bo having no othor placa artmt in slaughter.” It {8 bohaved greatly ombarzasned, on which to laund their fmpresdion i eutirely erronoous, tho rear of tho Exposition building hins nat beon laid by tho Baltimaro & Ohio, aud 1w not claimed It was laid by tho Iiliuols Central Ttallroad, avor which the Dahimore & Olilo entery thiscity. Auy actiou taken must bo takon againat tho tormer and not tho lastor Company. Should tho road bo compelled to tako up this track, it would aleo have to tolke up the track next to1t, which was lnid down sbortly after tho fire, aod over which both the Iilinols Central aud Ohicago & Burlington Railroads bave been ruumng over ‘Fuo Commion Council could not oider ono of the tiacks to be takea up without taking tho eamo action in rogard to tho other ono, Thero aro now four large trunk linea ontering tho city at that pomt, and by taking u iracss thoy swould bo #o crowdod as to the tiaflic of all thoso lines, all fveldo tho & Jograph polos and ars iu the way of nobody, and croas 0o strcots; thera s, thore- fore, nut tho least reason whby thoy alionid bo tukon up ut prosent., Besides this, tho Illinois Contral Rallrond says it Las o right to use tho ground 1inside of the telograph poles, having recaived pormisston to do r0 shorily attor the firo, suy attempt to force thom off in the courts, be- Loving thas they can beat tho city, CHICAGO, CLINTON & WESTENN, Srecrat Dinpaleh (o The (*hicago Tribune, Towa City, In., June 1.—Mr, Hinckloy, who, a long timo ago, undortook to build the Chicago, Clinton & Western Itailroad, scomy now to show wigns of earucst worl, noiwithstandivg a ma- Jurity of tho Board of Directors a wlule since, #0 far o8 they could by iesolution, rescinded their contract with him. from Choton {his way, notwithstanding the officlal boads of the Board here have formally protested againgt Mr, Hinckloy's doing anything moro with the project, in view of their rocent otlicial nction. Yot it is undorstood that po furthier logal obstruction wil be thiown in hia ong: aw tho raila continuo to be lmd duan, bat whou this stops the work of construce twn will at ouco ba placed in other hunds for ‘L'acso tracks aro “Chov will contest He ia laviog iron SPRINGFIELD & NORTHWESTERN. Special Lispateh to The Chicuga Iridune, 8raxayieLp, I, June 1.—A meeting of the stockholders of the Gpringfield & Northwostern Rallrond was Liold at the Leland Hotel to-day. Tho following Ditectors wero eolected: John Williams, Jobn W. Buun, Jobn T, Stuart, and George Partield, Sprngliold; John Tico, Ken- nedy Kincald, and Cornetius Rourke, 3lenard ; Muson, and D. J. Waggouer, of Fulton, The rollowing ofticers woie olected: Btuurt: Bocrorary, A. Oron. Tugh Fultarton Bresideat, Jobi ‘ dorif; Trousurer, Goorge Fastleld. SCOTT VS. GARRETT. Wasuroroy, D, 0., June 1,—To-day the New York mails wero translerred at West Philndelphia from tho Bultimore & Ohlo caru to tho Pennsyl- vanis Raeilrond cara withous dolay, Col. Beott Lias offorodd 1f the mails aro sent by the Baltimore & Potomaoc Itailroad to_carry thom on a limited oxpress, aud thos expodito the transportation of tha through mails ove hour, The Postmaster- Qencral sens a lotter to Mr. Garrott, in which ha sayss 1t the trunafer at \est Puiladelphia from your cars caunot bi good il requlie mo to accept Mr. THE VERMONT CENTRAL, New Youx, June 1,—The questlon as to the validity of the cloction of twu Boards of Di- toctars of tho Ceuntral Vermont Rauresd Com- pauy haa boou submittod to the consideratlon of Judges Redtleld und Paivo, of Boston, and other eminent counsel, aud, after s full examlination of all tus facts sud papots, they havo given an staniog” the action of tho d thio ealo of tho stook of the Com- leaviug thom tho legully-constituted Board claborate opinion, THE MACKINAW &'MARQUETTE, Speetul Dispaten to T'he Chicaas Trivuna, Laxsina, Mich,, June 1,—The Board of Con- trol of Swamp Lands to-day awarded the oon- tract for tho ‘buildiog of the Maockinaw & Mar- quette Itallioad o the Murquette & Banlt Bt. Marle Railioad Company, granting sixtoen nec- tious of laud to tuo wile aud exewption fiom tazation for mixieen yoary, DESTITUTION IN KENTUCKY. LoumsvitLe, Ky, June 1.—leports of grest destitution come from the mountain counties in Kontucky, A lotter from tho Master of the Grauge In Britt County says the peoplo ars suf- forlug for the very necossarlos of lifo, and that i ald is not given mauy will die of starvation. Tho crops have failed for three muasons In suc- ceaston, Cattlo are dyiog, to givo thew, 'lhe w subycription amouy tho aud there is no food Titor meka for & geueral Vatrous of Kentucky, —— A BOSTON ORGAN. T'he Chicago Tridune, Dew organ bullt by E, sud G, Q. Hoak & IHastinge for Unity Cuurch was shown this sfternoon st th ihe bu"ldalll.k' n& EAve por(mh tly Jiko the organ w| w i &u& ol org 38 buraud n Bpecial Dispateh to Bostoy, June 1.—Th 8 manufsctory of satisfaotion.” 1t FOREIQN. Lord Detby on tho Subject of In- toirveiition fn Cuban Af- falrs, The Berlin Gagatte Corroots the British Prémier in Certdin Statemonts, Tho Fronch Committeo of Thirty Modifies the Public Powers Bill, Mar Blionld Not Be Declared Withont the Consent of {lts Chambers, GREAT BRITAIN, LORD DEURY ON CUBAX AFFATRS. Loxpox, Juno 2-—-5:10 &, m.—A deputation from tho Anti-Slavery Socloty, compiling 8ir T4 Hazloy, T, Taglor, Corhott Peaso, Kiunainl, ard Errelyn Astloy, all membors of Parlisment, yose torday ovonitg prosented s momorialto Lord Derby urging on the Govornmiont the duty of taking decivive steps Ly way of friondly madiation to bring about an equitable terminas tion of the war In Cuba and the aboliten of thd slave trade, Mr. Ashloy said, as tho United States had rolinquishad tho idoa of atnexing Cuba, its good ortices might bo telied upon to aupport thia movement, Othars of the delega- tion callod attention to tho atrdvitios ia the coolio trafie. Lord Dorby replied that tho Govornment bad 00 1ight to 1nterfera in tho coollo question, An assertion mado by the memorialists that the Cupnn swar wan fast culininating in favor of tho tnk Bpaln wonld viow any proposal cof modiation favorably, &he would doubfless snswer: * Wo must first fluish the Carliste, thon wo abiall.have all our forcos dikposaole for m fresh war in Cubs" “At the ssme time," contioued Lord Dorby, * tho Britixh Uovernment would bo voty glad to avml itselt of Aoy vrospect that wae offered for putting an end to tho oxisting s ate of thingsin Cuos, The omancipation of tho alnves would, no doubt, bo soouor or lator mccomplished, Tha slaves | Ownors aro awaro of this, aud are only fichting for a continuance of tho vresont systom.” Ha bolteved thut ‘omancluacion could ot be accome plishol by 1taclf, but must form part of s comploto schomo for the pacification of {he Islond, Tho yraseat time, thorators, was nut favorablo for Engilsh ntoiferonco, e baligved tho United Htates hisd no deeira to_annex Cuba, but, nt tho ssmp time, the American Govern- mont and peoplo would roceive any a:tompt of Lnglaod to'intetfare betnwoen Spain and Coba with coneldearablo suspicion, and bo apt to pus & WIOUg construction upo! ——— FRANCE, THE PUBLIO TOWENS DILL. Pants, Juna 1,—The Com nittos of Thirty com- ploted thoir oxamination of the Publio Powars bill, aud aroed to roport in favor of its passage with amendments, the most important of which aro as follows : That an extraoidinary convoca- tion of the Chambers may bo demauded during prorogation by s third of the membera of eacn Ilouso, instead of Lalf, an originslly provided. | That war cannot bo declared by tho Executive without tha nusont of the Cuambera, ‘I'ho firet ameudment fs opposed by the Gov- ernuont, i GERMANY. DEIDY TAHEN T0 TABK, Brnuty, Juab 1.—~The Oficlal Gazelle, com- meating npon the Earl of Derby's siatement in tio Bntish House of Lords yestardas, admits that the incronso of tho French army oadres cro- ated & cortaln amount of uneasloess, which was not attendod, however, with warhke resolves or dehiberation {n Germany, ~Tho tdea of request- in.i Franca to rednca her forces, or discontinue militaty organizativns, was nover entortaluod or 1n any way mentionod. —_— SPAIN, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Loxpox, Jufle 1.—T'wo hundrad houses have beon deatroyod by firo at Catioal, Spain. —— THE WEATHE] ‘Wasmxatox, D, 0., Juoe 'T¥-For the Lake roglon, falllog baromotar. warmier, cloudy woathe er, henvy raine, and frosh southeast to northeaat winds, followed, on the Upper Lakes, by rising barowmelar. northwost winds, coldor, foggy, aud clearing weatlar. MISCELLANEOUS, Hoecral Dimateh to Lhe t'hicaan Tribune, Rookronp, I, June 1.—1his region was viritod this aftarnoon by the beaviest iam-storm ocowrring in mauy yoars, The ram fall fn tor- reuts, flooding the sticots, roads, and crecks. Accompanying the rain wera heavy thuudor crashes, vivid lightning, and large quantitioa of bail. Some of tho Liail-stones wero 2 inches in cireumferouco, Tho darknsss was k0 grost dure mmtue henvy part ot_tho storm that this gas Lad tobolitin stores and busipess houses, Tho in- dications are. that tho rain oxtouded over a large broedti of country, ‘Caluraiu will do great good, o8 it was much naeded, Special Damiseh to I'he Chieaao Tyibune, SenrxarnLp, L, June 1.~A severa atorm of wind aud raln passed over this city about 1 o'clock to-day, Many teees wore blown down, but oo other damago was doneno faras reported. Srecal Lupateh to The Chitcago Iyibune, oMiNoToN, I, Juns fL.—A hoavy wind- atoim caused some cousteroation this afternoou. It swont over the city with groat violence, but noemod to expend ita “greator fury furthor west than this, The tinroof of Pucnix Hall way owled up ltice papor, but holdiug on by ona adwn it did wot come down, Sigus, chimneys, awnings, and ornawmental woud-work, sulered serlausly, Sneeial Disnalch to The Chicaco Tribune, @Garexa, Juno 1,—Tno weatlior has buen cool aincs yeatorday, with froquout ahowers, and s prospect of contiauod ram, Pt Y IMPORTANT LAND CASE. Epeolal Dispateh to The Chicapo Trivune, Omaua, June L.—Judge Miller, of the United Btates Bupreme Court, hece, holding United Btates Circuit Court, decided an important caso to-day. Tho land giauts of the Burlington & Missouri {n Nobrasks and tho Union Pacifia cowpanied iu Nobrasks, Twue Durlington Dlidsonri ~— lag solectod 1,200,000 aores in tne northern portion of the Btate, awsy from its line. Tho Covornment now soeks to vold five patents already issued to the company forthin land. Judge Mitler holda thot tho come paay i8 not confined to tho 30-mile limit, where, a8 in thid oako, the Iands i the limit had boen proviously occapied, Tho oase grios up, ———— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Loxpo¥, Juuo 1.—The stcamships China, from Doaton ; Balilo and Helvotis, from New York, bave arrived out, New Yonx, June 1.—Steamships arrived— Pommeranis, from Iamburg; lerelre, from Havra{ the Quoen, from Liverpool ; sud Mass, mim Rotte: Jnm. s i 54 OXDON, Juue 1.—~Bteamal eopla_and Qder, from New York, and Bcn‘:flmwh:, !r:m blontreal, have arrived out. 8ay Fnancisco, Juns bama. SAGINAW COMMERCIAL EXHIBIY. Special Disvatch to Ihe Chicago Tidune, EAsT BAa1NAW, Mich., Juuo 1,—The total ship- monta from the Baginaw River for the season to June1 aro as follows 1 Lumber, feet, 06,752,001 ; Iatn, ploces, 4,333,200 shingles, 18,067,000 ; salt, barrels, 80,778 Llhval. 410,035 ‘o Jum- ber shipmeuts fall short of those for the corre- sponding porlod of 1574 nearly 60,000,000 feot, —_— OBITUARY, Bostox, Juns 1.—Judge Mellen, formerly Chief Juatics of. Masaachuselts, dlad last night, CixoiNyATy, June 1.—The [on, Bellamy 8torer, ex~Judge of the Buperior Court, a member of Congruss about MMJ and widely kuown throughe out the country, died to-night, sged ¥9, —_— THE BREWERS, Cinowwaty, O, Juns 1,~The National Brew- ers’ Congress will commence its sevsion to-mor- 10w st Lureks Hall, snd continue for thres days, Qum & number of dolegates have slready ar- rved, . TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, Under the inalructlons of the Judge, the fury in tho suit of 3r. Herber, on trial in New York, ta recovs: #49,000 from Gen. Butler, sald to bo dua for .. gs! nervices, gave & verdich for the Qeneral. Tho eloction of Oouncilmes in the naw Bisth —Bailed, tho Paoifi Muil tosmor Alaskn for long Koug 1is Yous ard of Terro [Iaute vestorday resulted in the choicn of G ¥, Cotkerly, Demoarat, ard W. J. G'over, Nepublicsn. The City Conneil standa— Domocrats, 61 Héapublicans, 6 with a Domocrate fo Magor with the caating voto, The Cintinhati folnt Committas appointed to nolteit pubxeriptionn to ald 1 Lninkng & musio hatl and rendor availablo tho mumticent donse tion of Nenban R, 8pringor, Esq.. mado ita lirat ranort (o-da onficiig tlial Ofédon 21,000 Subirariptions liad been recelved. Othnr sminll ntimha not yet roported will probably swell the amount to §34,000, * SPORTING NEWS, THE TURF, TRE CAMOBIDOE CITY RACES. Sneciat Disvatch o the Chicags fhibririd, Caxnnivor Cray, Ind,, June 1.—A Jarge crowd wae in dttondance to«day on thé opening of the sixth aunual epring mecoting.of the Cambridge City Trotting I'ark Asrocintion, and a fina fleld of blooded-horses entéred, Tho tirot was a Jyéar-old running raco for n prominm of 8300, for whiclt thera wero thred onttiok, ng followa: Arratriug, Mainsall, arid Bay Filly§ paola ran two t6 ono in favor of Arramud sgaiuat tho tield, though bets wora small, Thd favorito won by two stiatebt Loats in 1:453¢ aud 1:45%, and ia ownod by Al fanluns, of Chicagos Day Filly wis distauced, the fecond money going 1o Mainsall, "Tliers woto ton entrios for the socond race, n 2:40 trot, for $1,000 promium, snd soven started, o8 follows: Band Hill, James I, Kitly, Riclmond, Florence, Frank Reeves, and Lcho, At the end of tha firat two hoats, won by Kitty; s hoavy rain foll, loaving tle track i bad condltion ; but the aport was continued, under tho muddy diffculties, Keho scotlug tho third inanrgents was nt foant promature, {le did not ! it i ik and fourth heats, Tho oxcltament was now ab tho Lighost piteh, tho odds boing fraely given in favor of Echo, Sand Hill won tho fifth hoat, thus narrowing the contost to Echo, Kitty, and Sand Hill, tho balauce gotng ta tho Atable, Band 1111l rcored tho sixth and goventh, tmining tho tables on thé poold, and taking first money fn 264lg, 2:35, and 2:631¢, second monoy going ~ to Iutty, and “‘tbird 1o Icho. Baud il is owned by J, W. Crawford, of Au- gunts, Ga., Kitty by James Wilson, of Itushville, i and Echio by L, P. Tizduoll, of Paru, ‘Lho closing raco wasa 2:37 trot for $1,000 promum, with seven eutrios ahd six atarters, which was won by Gen. Grant, owned by Stavens & Dro., of Port, in the bout thres ont of flye,— in 201, 2:49, ana 243)¢; socond monsy to Lidy Byron, TILE GRAND IIAVEN NACES. Spectal Dispatels lo rhe Chicaoo Tribine, Goatn HaveN, Mich, Juse 1.—Notwithe standing tho throatoniug, ratny woathor, a largs number of pooplo wgre 1 ationdance at the firet day's races in tho epring meoting of the Trotuug Association, which, though not opouing auspt= clously, proved successfat. 'oot seliing was vory Yight, aud tho wiuners fu bolh races wors favore ltes from tho start. Tha pools wove tho livolis.| et and most changeablo io tho pacing iaco, which wos tho most exciting of alt. Whe ran placed the track lu a fine condition, and tho racos wont off well, Tho judges wero . B, Kelsey, Carlea 13, Wyman, and J. delntyre, Tho fieet race, for {ha throc-minute class, was wou by Frankin three straight hoats, in 2i40), 233, aud 246, with Charloy socond, both of Grand Laven: Mambrino third, There wore eight outrios, and seven started ; Bay Dick aud Esnex wero arawu, Tho nccond raco, 2:44, was won in throo straight hoats by Johuny Troublo, u 244, 2:44, ol 2:!6,‘£. with Minole Maxtield second, wud Tully Cusbing third, Thore wore mix entrics; Uufi Wilile was drawn in tho thurd hent, The third race, for | acerd, open to all, five oo~ tored and four siartod, Four besis were trotted, Tho deeiding oua will bo trottod to-morrow. Boy Bob won thn first and fourth, Snow Flake tho second, and Jim Graves tho third, The runuing race and Bodine's trot against ttme Lave becn postvouad tu ‘Lhursday. Pools eolling 18 improving and brisk at tho Cutlor Jlouse to-n glit, tho interost being contorod 1n the 2:00 clagn to-moirow. Grasdsile 18 tho firat and Movely the aecoad choico. THE KANBAS CITY RACES. Speetal Diwputeh o The Chicuao Tribune, Kassas Oiry, Mo, June 1.—The summer season of races opened at tho Exposition grounds to-day, wilh a falr stteudsuce. 'Tho aue-milo raco tor & 000 purso, boat three out of fivo, was won by the bav miallion Qeorgo D, Iuco; time, 1:52l¢, 1:84, and 1:5434. Tho track was tathor heavy trom the late rains, Lut haa now dried off, aud tho balaucs of the racos will be more interesting. PHOSILCT FARK RAORS. New Yonx, Juse 1.—Tno opening day of tha epriug meeting at the Froapect I'aik Fair~ QGrouuds Association was tairly attouded, aud tha sport excollent. Tho purso for the 2:45 cla«s way won by Nottio Buslow ; Maud second, Eilia Deans third. " Timo—2:2u3¢, ' 2:25k¢, 2803, 219037, Muud won the first Lisat and raco for the 230 clags, Bianche scoond, Jubiles Lambost third, ‘Time—2:2035, 2:85, 225, 2:25){., Bluuche won the sacoud heat, ———— MISCELLANEOUS, 100N SHOOTING. The entbuaiasm of pigeon-poppers was demon« stratod yosterday by tho fact that notwitLstand- ing a drenching shawer which occurrod abont evory tifioon minutes & party of the Kennleott Bhooting-Club wont to Doxtor Park, and gonteste od for tho Olub prizo, it wasa day in which shooting was rendored rather Inconvenient. Rain-water dons not agreo with gunpowder, and most of tho pigeons came near escaping on this account. The shooters wero compeliod to koop umbrollxs over tholr hoads, woile tha nthern employed thomeelves by sitting upon tha pow- derto keep it dry. Mr. E.O. Dow won the prize, but his success will not ucder tha cireum- stances be cousidered a falr critorlon of hisy ekill, It can Lo vlaimod by the others thnt their poxder was wat, or that ihe fellow holdivg tha umbrella over thom white they shot did not huld {uir, or thut Mr. Dow waa tho only mau fortunata 8acugh to stiikie upon. 16 wiuutes of sunsbina, ho pigoaus are tha ooly oues who caunos come plain of tho condition of tho ammunition, avd thoy woro notuing loth to take advausage of s damp cactridgy, snd dy off to the woods again if the woather was & littlo stormy for forest AMOsalCDIs, ANNOUNCENENTS, The first chawplonaing gamo batween {he Musuals of New Yoik aud tho Chicaios takes p'llltéokthll aftesnoon, It will bo called at 8:45 o'clack. A trotting watinoe will take place at Dextor Park Thuredsy alterncon, Taero nhil be classen for 2:30, 2:40 and 2:50, Tho outries will be found i the advertising oatumns. TUR BARGY CLUB, The Obicago Barge Oluo wet laat evening in this Garduer House, President Hugh T. Dirch in thie chair, Becrotary Hamliton raported that tha Lboat-house had been comploted and finld for. Proparationa for the launching of their new bargo wero then entered into, Tue svent will tako place Thursday, the 10tk inst., az 5 o'clock in the afterncon. ‘Tha i{enwood, Deatborn, and Farragut Oluba will be out on review on tnat oo- caslon. ‘The bust-biouso will be suitably decora~ ted, » lunch will be served up to members of the Club sud their ftlends, and thers wili ba QLLer preparatious to wsks the affalr a8 happy as posdilie, he uniform selocted is & white flannel abirt trimied with two slades of biue, and & cap sumiar to that now in in the Naval Academy 8t Annapolis. Ou motiou of Mr. Tall it was resolyed to pur- chase anow siz-osred barge from Baglay for 8225, and additlonal o amounting to '#55, Balloting for fifteen ne wbors then eusued, aud the Club adjourne: 3 y —— A Eilttle Embarrassment (n the Way of Jis Murringe, Sheiby (Ky.) Courant, The following comes from Chestnnt Grove A young Grauger hud got his Powons's cousent, and sey abous making Arrangements for the hap~ 'y event, Delug opposed to middiemon in mat- ora general, matnimonial especislly, by put hia £rade card in his pocket aud weut’sty Louiariie to make hls purchaaes. Awmong otbet dbiors bo 1aid Jo & full stook of buggy whips as ono of the eusoutinly to & weil-regulated buuneliold. As ho ueared Loms, oa his roury, o met one of hus umghbors, who wantod to know what uss be preposed to make of so many whips, “To sbrash the first man that attempin to toase me about my ayproscoing warrisge,” was the surly responee, * Vory wall* rapiled tho focuisr ueightor, * you bad a8 well begin with s, “Tue challengo was socentad, and, getting out in Alie road, they reinataiod tho ubsolate mauuer of setihing dilforences by * cutting jaokets. Up- fortuostety the young Oranger's adversa: Y way 84 ox-maxoner, and'handled the whip with suok warvelouy .uilxq that the weddiug Liad to be pat Off two woeks, to sllow tho inlended grootn's bLide to hval up, 1o Las set atl tha wool off -thras sheepskina and cousumed 7 squara fest ol court-ulaxter ; but o thiuke he cas’ stand (¢ ALMOST A MURDER. Desperate Plstol Combat in o Bagnlo, A Virginian Will Lose His Right Arm for Folly's Sake, A shooting affeay scenrrod fast midulght which noarly cost Lwo mon thalr lives, sud 1h a don of infamy trhich 1l Is hopod will’ now be eloand ahd il thio fiartién prosecitod: 'The place reforrod tola ostonalbly & cfgar store nt No. 170 Wobt | Madinon stroct, kapt Ly Carrie Uske, aliny Bimop- .now, sud the wedding is announcod poaluvely place to-day. o take son, Lut Is in reality A HOUSE OF ILL-FAE, end hisa boon tho objrct of police survelllanco for somo tinls. A youug and well-drossed man, who glvos his bnmo as Bamue! B, Floyd, from Lyuohburg, Va., arrived in the cliy rocontly, and Inst bight wenb mto 416 resort of the woman Dyke, whom ho formorly Jmow. in Laltimoro. ~ According to tho statement of Davo Ansell, a well-known mock auctionecr, who {4 tho uther parly to tho affrav, Pioyd and tho \mfimn Wore tntoxieated, and eittitg wma room adjoiniug tho eigar mtore, in company with Lena White, snocber disroputublo coniected with the place. Ansoll lias Leow in the Lubit of HANGING AROUT TUE DA0N1O in aplto of o receut xrrest and wainings, and i on torms of iutimacy withi the woman Dyke. Last night, sbout 13 o'clock, ho iusisted on putting Allss Dyke to bod, dud wont o 1ar na to put tho conch in ordor and Grow her shors off, u tho menniimo sho ‘sras in the ombraces of Floyd, sud whon Ansoli was about to unbus- ton ber dress the foimer objected to tho pro- ceeding, and, Ausoll snys, eirnck alhim. The Wwontan tried to bold Litm back, out he drew a awall rovolvor, and. sayiug hLe wou'd fix Anwell, fired at him, Tho latter dodged down to the toor in froot of tho womuu and the ball missod L, FLOTD PIRED AGAIN, and missed, and then Ansell, who Lad beon dodging about for sn 1nstant, drow a revolver earcying s lirge bullet auvd | lot fy &t bLis " antagonist. Tho skirmish was lively oad exciing for a (lms, both men standing their ground and friug rocks lessly aud rouaidiens of atuer lives. The women £t altor tho hrut sliot, and up to 1:30 thia s, 1, had not beon tound. ANSELL'S FINST BI(OT MIGSED t htsmark aud went through tho fhin pattition wall aud ont #t tho roar ond of the house. Floyd sent auottier ball into the ceiling just as Aosoll sout & bullot erashlug into tus righ trom, AboY4 tba eloow, which caused him to full upon Dis baok. - Ausoll eesing bis antagonlst down, sod thiukisg, vo doubt, Lo was lullad, ran out at the front door just s Oilicer Julin Roed camo running up, “and oxclalming, 1 did the shooting I gave bimus.f up, o was . TAREN TO TNE STATION closo by, aud then sont out with an officer to find tho frightoned svile doves, Fluyd wasremoved (o tho atation snd his wound dressed by City-Physiclan Dunno, o bones were shattored Dadly, and the Lall lodged i tho arm,. Ii s quita Fn‘ublhln that the. Lmb will have to bo awputated. the injured man rofusod to givo auy accouut of tho aftzny, eaying 1t was worda to Lave it publislied thau 0 be shot. 1t is due Otticor Hoed to sa7 that bo was at TUE BOENE OF THE A¥PRAY in a momout aftor the firat shots wero fred, but 0o Inty tu prevant the tlght. Apsell 18 a young man whoss assoolations havo been biad, aud, despite tho warnings of bis iriouds aud otticers, has lounged ahout tha dive of Carrio Dyke, and on.deivorod to assist that Earflon iu ber afforts to put on & garb of wirtue y waking falso atatomants iv the public printa iu regard to her caaraoter aud that of the placo shie keeps. Bome youug man lstely fired a shot wantouly in tho roum whore tho shuoting occurrod Jast night. ‘fhere aro othier aimilar ra. Borts to tuau inoicated on tho pusho thorvugh- fures, and they slould bo brokeu up. i "BURIED ALIVE, A Strange and Shocking Scnsation tn New New Orlgans D n, day 20, On Thureday evening we published the follow- ing as ‘the ptatoment made by U, H. Boggs on xlunneadny evening in ¢he Cential Polico Sta- on ¢ M (0, 11, Deggs) wan in ono of the comoteries (which Bodid not say), uud his attention was attracted toa funoral cortege inade up of & wagon fullowed by threo or four women, ‘This driver of te wagon liftod out & cotlin, and was about dejositing 1t in tho hols pro- pared for it, when the accitpwnt of the cofilu kicked off tho Ui und crlod, % For God's asko do not bury mo va “The driver plcked up a brick, snd crying, Yon T b o103 0 DAY o mnl i Sonpet " » ot stuaned of khied hiia, aud e barial went onr "k Tue utatoment came Lo us second-baad, and inquury elicited the fact that Begus of Lis own knowledge koow nothing of tho mattoy, aud that hmmu-cnwns wezo basod ou tho uay-u0 of third parties, 4 T'he police toolk tho mntter very coolly, and did nai seom to think 16 word working up, avd tie wuole thing was genoraily lovked upon as “a good thivg by Bogga,” It I provable tisut tho atatomont of Boggs was all tho “iufurmation the police had uf the ulfalr, but othor rumors 1 conuaciion with it roached our roporter, and thiuking it well worthy, not- withatanding tho assorcious of the knowing ques aroutd the pul ce aiation that [t was **u good tinug Ly Bogys." sud “a first-class hoax,” Lo started on AN TNVESTIOATION, determined to il it tu the bottom, and Gud the fuundation for euca a starthng ropurt, Uur 1éportar traced the rumors to tliolr source, and stop hy stop tollowed up tho claw they gavo, aud by degroes developed facts that would bo 1noredible were thoy ot vo woll subatintiated oy the testimony of imzny compatont wituessuy, On Tuosday, Blay 25, Goorge Hanks, a colored youth 19 yeais of age, a native of.Teunessce. died in tho Bmall-pox Hospital, of umall-pox, The propor certilioate of burial wes glven, aud on tho avening of May 26, tho cotin contuining the body of Goorge Bauka wab placed in charity wagon No. 1, driven by James Conuors, to bo conveyed to ‘‘ithe Potfter's FichL” Locust Grave, sitaated on Bixth street, bowwoen Locust aud Frerer. Qu tho occurrences on tha way to the com- €etory wo do 1ot proj:0so to comment, and sunply giva the ptatement of witncsses, "the anty conclusion which theso statements load to is that Gaurye Banks, whon ho loft the hoapital, was not dead, but was fu a cowatogo condition, and that be wau kuowiagly ¢ BURIED ALIVE, Molinds Bmith stutes: I waa In a nelghbor's streol, between Fireh muil doc- barity wagon, No. 1, etopped, and I tbought it Lad braken down. A Inoud callad e out Into the utraot to seé. I went clons up 10 tha wagou, and tuore I saw two cofins—oue for a baly, the othsr for a grown porscu. ‘The cofin for tha grown potson was opon, the lid belng parcly off. [ saw distinctly (he mau ou tua ionide of tho cofin moviug Lis hand, trylug to puah off tho NHd. The driver saok the cushion off Lis veas and pot it og the njan's face, sod sat on his beed.” o thia pouitioy ho sull sat oo him while ho was golnk & squisro, and, betweon Secoud sad Third streota lie ato ped agulu and took a hammor and tried to mail fowu tbe lid. Lere the driver iouk the baby's cotlin aud put ic on top the-man's fect, and thon sat’ o0 him again. ‘The driver, whon [ flrat want up to the wagon, Inan_ angry tone, satd: ** What do you want #” and I aaig, **I want to see,” lie answerod, ** (iet away fram nore, boforo X klap ou in the mouth," I'said, * You are carryinga iva man to che giaveyard," He then drave oy, I tollowed tho wagou to tho graveyard, but wo were not aliowed to go in, Tbe driverisaall wlite mav, and wora & whiie bat i Lad a red face, aud 1 have seon Lim oftou pasalng the door; I would kuow him if I saw bim, blary Thompaon, liviug ou Locust stroot, next door to the abovo,ntatcs: I was patting my wasned olothes ou tho liue, on Wednasuay, sbout 4:30 p. 1., aud I noticed tho cbanty wagou No. 1 atandl D the stieet, iu front of .y house. 1 wont out fo see the eauso, and when I got up to o cart | saw 3 man 10 tho. coflin, with ks foat up, trylug. wgun vp. Tue mau thon ralsod s pripe, pus out bis Lands, and tried 10 ged np out of tho cottin, but the driver pushod Lim down back into ths coftin with great foree, aud put the baby's coftiu, which was iu tha ourt, too, ©n top of bim, and kst oo bis head. I tollowed the nagon, telling lum I wanted to Bes what ho (1he drivar) was goiug to do with $80 man fu the cofiu. X told the driver TUE MAN WAS ALTYE, surely allve; but ha would not say auything to we, but diaye on faat, [ am positive that tho nau put up his hands and_{feet, but be was too weak to ajt tialght, I am coitain of this, for Luaw 1 plainly. ‘The mau had brokou the hid opeu, 801t louked. 'The drivor I saw put bis illow ur cashion un the man, aud thon st town ust whero his bead wau. Hose Johnson, resiiug on Locuat strest, bo- tweou tesond and F'lird streets, muces tho fol- lowlog sistemout: I maw the charny wakon atop jusk in froat of our gate, I saw twa cof» flug I tne wagon; one was that of u ohifd, aud = tho othortuatof man. Tho ld of tho Jurge = cofin wan off. Tho delver of tho wa baes and put it on again, | 1t slid o o up. Al unw tha rum of the man i rained. Tho drivor took o pill ne un ey ety and Dlaced 1& in Uio corlln and ant o o 1 dlen Buros, reriding st the kame pin, riaed: o iy was tok ol o e ‘s ring, and the drivor put a prliaw o smollier i, P 0 T qug enderson - Burch, same renldoncs what they toll yon to bo trua; I sy |;,",",",“" a6 & sl onilin and & Iarto coflin by iy galtT® Twent to the wagon, ahd tho thiver oran fo avar. T followcd it (o tho praveyam rol 8 not #ion to Aeo tho body Luried, ~ 1ty st lnfl :ili:u many peoplo around thero, wity and kon oy A, 14 lio ey Androw Jnckson, who camo in jua Darch had given bis atateniond, on m-ju.g' e tiouod, said: 1 live bobween Fuue nud et streets, ‘Lhe chanty wagon stapped 1 frant of my Liomso, I hioard o uolso in tho way Linda Smitt 180 out. 1 iontd tho driver pet: Lier, o sou want (o catch tho mmnalppors Whitt do vou waut#” Sho raid, v 1y atraid of tho emallpoc Tiio' drivery," theeatonod bor 1 did not hear what o wa 0. 13 Lknow, from bls tono, Lo threatancd hup: Tds not know tho wumber of tho wagon, bug jt Hag drawn by & gray loreo, Mis, Loumn Weber, realding at the entner of Locuat aud Third surocts, atated s T heard thep y man was boing buried shve, and 1 went, 1, the comotery and sooke in Garman to thg rrare digzer. "I do ol Rhow bis namo; lio Vg g awmall man, Iasked bim abodt tho man bein, bu:lod alivo. 1Mo saul tho' drlvor ‘o a o) fauby nian, And_no donbt did it ail ann joko: that tho man was dead enough to he Ditried! and that o bad a doctor's certuticato that lio wag endl, Willlam Marrigon atdtes: T first matr tho enty nt.tho wravoyard call:d Locust Urove, The wagon drove mn tho yard, aud, a8 [ had hieary they woro burying w "iivo man, I won in, yo. withstanding thoey tried to put mo out. I'wony 1p closo to tho golin 1 the gravoyard, A 'yon, men thore asted ne Lo luok in tho cofiy, auj moved tho lid and looked at lim. Tho conty w04 on a atrotelior. "o man wan il biesy ing, and thoro was a cobble-stono ou b wom, e, His toes were twltehing and lis brenyt moviog. ‘The man wan naked, L saw all (g plaibly, Just an Laco that treo now, Thero way A big erowd runnmgg aftor the wagon, Wonien aud hoya living roun! thore. Willio Jackwon, aped 14, saya: T firat raw tho wagon 1n frone ‘of my Louwo, on Locast, neag Tt streot, Ienw tho man m the codin Tairy tholid off tho coflin ho was fnwad put Loty hacds outsida tho cofiiu snd try to o up, | was closo to lum, not 6 fost off, and ewy the man's faco. It was thin, aud hus fingers wera thin too.. Tho drlver pot the fid down ngam quickly, and puaned tho man back inte tho cottin, and then put a baby's cotin which was g the vuiou on top tho maw, and thon st dowy on bun. The mau then grusnod in the cofliy, [ followod the cart to tho grave-yard, Lut they would not lot me v, Lo crowd “following thy lwn;(l(in was musily womon and boys,—about §Go u all, AT TO0UST GROYR CEMETERY, Toairing to tho Locunt GGro e C-meters, on Sixth strosr, between Fiorot aud Lucunt, ([0 ree porter woon arrived at the Iately-mado grave of Uourgo Banks, 1t wns simply o boap of mud. clods, umnarked and fresh, Thoeo who hiad wit- nessod the burtal roadily pointed ouc tha spot, aud told how bo was carried in, Tio earth soont it sull bora the marke of tho npade 1 smoohing it off, aud bod bogun to crack from tho sui’y -raya, John Brinkmaoyer, & yonth 14 years of ags, rov siding on Washington screot, near Maguolia, etated : I woun the fnwnynrd befaro the wan was buijort,—~I mean the mau that was burled slive,~I saw him move. Ho moved hia toes, The man moved,~it . may bave boon the lifling Jfromtue oart, but he, mpved, and moved big toos. Ilofl boforo be was buried. Thero wara a number of othor peisons who statod that, hennng a man waa beiug bucked alive, thoy wen! to the cematory, but wero pushed back and ro- fused admittance, Boliwariz, the sexton of the cometery, stated, on being intetviewed: T'ha mou was doad, I boried lum, ‘The cotlin bad fallon to pleces from the joltiog _of tho cart. The lid of tua collin was off, The lid was divided loto two picces, The driver of tho wagon, in.anving in the nail, had driven it ia the outslde, and the hd foll off, Idonot kuow what lapponed be- tore ho got to the cometory. I did not seo & stono piaced on the breast of tho. dead man, Jun is s mau suited for his posiion, and, of course, ho is Dot very gooid-hoarted aud tondor. It is customary *o admit porsons to woe bodica buriod, bus on this day wo kept everybody oat becauso thore was so much excitoment, Our raportar lald the above partuiocnlars bee foro Delootivo Dovoreanx, and that o:licer, with an sssidmty deunrvluE of comwmendation, promptly fustituted & search after (onnors, and evontually succossed in tiudivg bim at the City Wark House, whore the corp.ration wagous sro kept. Connors,’ before beiug placed under arrost, acknowlodgod that he had drawn wagon No. 1 to to Locust Grovo Comotery Wodnosday ovoning at 4:40 o'clock, with the last remuine of George Banks and a oovlored child that tie had taken feum the Bmall-Pox Howpital, but desed iu toto tha: tho man_ was alivo or that ho bad -8topped on tho way. Ho stawad further that bo thought that the poople 1o that netghborhood did. ot hke him, and futouded stating that ha had buried the mun alivo, but, uirango to eay, ha . could not cito au fustanco whore hie Liad ovor had any trouvlo, or evon a misunderstanting, wita sny person that resides 1u thut locali.y, or that was prosent whion this benuious crimo was par- potruted. Ho was placed under nrrest anc Joscorted to tho UCentral Htatlon, whero ho was Jocked up ai 6 o'clock fast avenlng, ——— ‘The Waoar Strongth of tho Gorman Londwehr. Tho military contributor of the Cologno Ga- zetts ways that in tho ovent of a now war with Lrance a mueh larger force of laudwenr will ba availsble for servico in the field thau waa tho caso ig 1470, when tho total strenglh of “tho laudwehr froops (bus ompioyed did not oxceod that of two-and-n-baif corps d'armeo, ‘Lho mavable landwenr battalions can, under the nmew organization, Lo partly attached: to tho divislons nnd brigadea of the regular army, while the tourth field battal- lous will be uvuilublo for rosorve and coawmisa- riat duty. Tuoose 148 batialions, which are ouly to ba callod out in case of war or mouilization, will cousiat of 2,604 ofliogrs aud Irom 118,050 to 148,200 mou, with 0,000 Lorsow, thus raising the total foree of Gorman army whon on a war footiug to 1,032 battalions, 746 of whicl, under the new incroasod cetablishmout of 29 batia fur encli of Lho 22 corpa d'armoo, would bo avalle able for service in the fiold, ‘The arullory equy ment of the fourtn teld battahons is “ulready provided; 300 tield-battorlos aad 5 rosarve bal- torios aro set apars for them, which woald aliow 14 batter.as, or U6 guns. for cach corps. 'lhe writer aida thas I¢ 18 very prooable that (ho landwelir attillery will ba Iargoly fncrcased. As to tao yeatly conthigent, tuae” of the Gornsn army is smialler tban thoss of the Ruswiun snd Lioach aruued. According to the lust retuny, based on ‘the oeispe of 1871, the nuwmler . youug wen of U0 ou tho hsts was 602,000, Of thia number, 96,000 bad beon, by wlatake, eutersd twico over, 42,000 Led owmigrated or lad otherwise locomo uu- ‘availablo, 14,230 woro qualifiod ‘o8 oue you's sérvico msu (ficln]nhvt;u( 210 woro ** morslly disqualified,” 35600 weie *'totnlly uafit for rer- vice." 6,000 “uot sullleicatly iy for scrvice,” 202,000 * not sutleioutly davelopod phiysically,” 10,604: wera exompted for family and oibcr reasous, und 400 wore in prison or uulor tal ‘Lue orlglual number of 603,000 men was thus re- ducod 1o 76,000, to which wero added 90,000 men who for varous roasous had uot juined 1o Buvloun years, maliug & total of 166,C00 men. [ these. Bowovar, the nuwmbay astually taren i LD into tho saivice was only 145,650 — for thoarwy aud 2,504 for tho aniy, —— - ——e Lottor fram the Qlulwmant, The Claiman{ bas writton a Jotter to Mr. Guildford Unstow, dated April_ 30, iy whioh ko wara: Elonyo wend my kiud luve to. wite und cluldren, aud advisa ber om 1o accaunt to at- tompt to cowte such » louz journay just to ses me shat up in & cage for twenty minutes. I would fain noi polinte tho fair namos of my fricuda b{l moutiouiug them ih an epiatle of thud kind, 8o thutefore, 88 vou kuow to whom I wish tovend, seud my kind regurds. Lieayo take it for granted, and couvey them, a8 also my kiud remembrances to tue fenantry and othors in your weighborbood. + . . "I have suf- fored very wuch, both meotally aud bodily,* from tho sovera cold of thiy plage snd tho insuflicienoy of - fuud, I bave luet 10 leas than 148 pavuds iu thireon moyths aud too daya ; snd, although [ have applied to both tuo medical otlicer aud the Governor, ! have uot 4 yoi been able L0 get 10re nourishing food oF modiclog to slop or alleviute this rapid consump- tivn Lwmin. 1 eaw (he Director yostendsy, and saliod hux o bave ing romoved, Pleass giv my sincere tuanky 40 tho public for espousing wy csuso (n the Laudxoma manuer thoy have. Lfecl suro Brtish publio w.i nevar rest contonted while au funocent mun lies cas: in Jud to pasd b8 Jifo smong folons, Give my king love tomy cinldron. “God knows whottier 1 sball ever sea them ugam or not. [ doubt it, it I am lett horo much lauger. 0 goud-by, my ever-kind and sin- corw drisnd, Wity tu tuy courfu, and tell bim to look after bl xod-chuld, now that lie 1 rovbod of lua facber, Uive my kiud Jove, aud sccopt tho sswe frow yours truly, *Jloaxn (Taoxuas Casrno).”