Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1875, Page 4

4 TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1875. e A ————————————————————— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATZS OF SUBSCRIPTION (FATARLE IX ADYANCE). Pautage trepnid nt this Ofices 237, 1 X03F, 1o, 1Y | Weskle f""?{,"}‘ 'd SIS Joxe on on 4 Smbashest. B Taris of a year at the sme rats, TANTRD-()an cetive fgont in oach town and villsge. Bperinl arrangemasta made with suoh. intan cuplos ant freo, ovent dolay aud mistakes, be rure and gire Poit addeess in Inl), Ineluding Mato and County. Siemd tances may bomeda eltharty dratt, oxprees, Post- Oh.coorder, or In registered lottors, alunr rlak, TERME TO CITY BUDECRIRENS, Datly, delirered, Eunday e=cepted, 23 venta por week. Uaily, daliverod, Bunday incinded, 31 cants par weok, THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, d Dearh TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ADPLDIIT TIRATRE=Doarhorn atroat, corner Mon- 00, Variets Enlortainment. Madlson strect, Potwocn agergent of N, Do Hoberis® o 1L M'VICRER'S THEATI Denborn and Ntate, Yantombme-Troupe, **Jacl DEMY OF MUSIO—italited rtraat,batmeen Made ‘"A“U.A,“I Moara Engagoment of Harerly's Minatrels. * Eva, s Tale of the Bayouns.” ‘—Randolnh _straet, hatween omont of Joh Thompeon, . HOOLEY'S THEA Ulark ana 42Satla, 7 Zyhes, theShowems TYENTY-THIND ehip gomaof b RTREPT GROUNDS—Champlons i1 bet Chi- cage Clabs, G st onn tha Luston and 0 callod at 3:45, and firm, closing at 31,18 cash, and $1,00 bid for September. Hogs wero active aud aver- oged 10c higher, solling at $0.50@7.40. Cat- tlo were in aetive demand aud wora firmer. Sheep were quiel e et Sincs the burning of tho Catholie Church at Holyake, Mass., it has boon remarked that Canndn has & Inw roquiring outward-swinging doors in all ehurchos, theatros, hialls, sehools, and other publie buildings, Thia law aflixes a largo fino for ity nou-ohservance, aud it has Dbeen rigidly enforced, It is cortainly worthy ofimitation, andwould frequontly save ife and 1imbs in caso of fire, or fulse alarms in public halls, which frequently produce as much of n panic. Church-architecture is gonorally lib- eral enough in its provision of windows, but exceedingly stingy as to doors, notswithatond- ing churches aro usunlly built at sufficient distance from every other building to admit of ogress on all sides. It in the duty of overy community to make and enforce careful pro. cantions ngainst the dostruction of huminn lifo, and the dreadful church disastors during the last fow yenrs teaches that it wonld bo well to requiro that thers shall be a certnin number of doors to every church, and that they shall open ontward, "EOCIETY MEETINGS. INTION, SIR_KNIGHTS.~Epaciat Cenolate of A omniders i o 1 Aoy 1ale {Tnesias) srone in, af the Asylum, 53 Aouroot.. 8t 8 o'elock, for wark o1 “!5 C.I;Jldll‘:lr. l‘.«'f:';"x" e Kuights courtoowsly da- 5 e o 0. « e 1i. 1. W, LOCKI. Rocorder, Tlhe Chicage Tibune, Tuesday Morning, June 8, 1875, A nowspaper contempt case has arigen in Texns, where tho editor of tho Galveston Netrs Iins been cited beforo Judge Mornmy, of the United States District Court, to answer for certnin comments apon tho Judge's decis- jon in the casc of n thentricnl manager fined for viclntion of the Civil-Rights law. Elgin peoplo in the aggregato ave an honest people. This is plainly shown by tho action of the City Council in the matter of milk- measurcment, whersby numerous aud divers lactenl establishments were found to bave been somewhat in error in estimativg the ceapneity of the cnnsin which the fluid is transported Irom the dairy to Chiengo retail. e, Why ttere should have been this dis- crepaney in this, of all sensous, when tho rpringr have been full to tho brim, and the other clements 5o anspicious, is @ problem which only the milkman enn solv There was not a word #nid in the Common Conncil Izat night about the Contempt Case. The Aldermen, having had a taste of judicial retribution, were in no humor (o provoke s furthor test of Judgn Wrurrass' righteous wrath, Ald, Hwonera relioved his pent-up feclings by a flash of foolishness on the subject of building » Court-Ifouso on the West Bide, the real purpose being, presumably, to * work np " a presstve which shall hwrry forwand the architvet business snd get some fat contracts nwavded before o new Council is clocted. Nobody will ba de. ceived by Tionern's bogns rosolutions. Tho taz-pnyers do not sharo the intense anxiety for Court-Tlouso construction jobs which at present pervades the average Alder. manic breast, & —— It {5 cheerful newn that theroe iaa fair pros- pact for n cessation of tho troubles @1 the Tonngylvania conl rogions, and o resumption of worl, But what n comment upon the practico of stril:es this long and costly war nJords ! Thore have beon nearly six months of idlenegs, during which thonsands of peo- ple have been suffering for the want of food and clothing, millions of capital have Jeen practically wasted, and the worst passions of tho human racoe aroused to outrage and Lloodshed. And mnow, nfter all this, the miners will have to resume work, if a¢ all, at the prices offered thom last January. The atatomont i3 mads that, in tho Schuylkill region alons, the loss from tho suspension of all mining operatious for five mouths is $10,- 000,009, one-half of which must be borne by the laborers. IIow many such experionces must the world bave beforo laborers come to Arenlization of tho fact that capitalists can better afford to bear their proportion of tho lossea incident to suspension of work, and hold out longer, than Iaborers ? Until they do, we presumo that the follies, and losses, end outrages, and suflerings of the long strilee in the Penusylvania coal.regions will bave to bo sustained from time to time, An account of a singular duel comes from Cuba. Dr. Araesyox Sionzr Curtis, of New York, was visiting in Havana bis friond Sar- vapor CorTieaL, & well-to-do tobneco mer chant whom hoe had known intimately for years, and who had been Lis bosom friend in New York, Conrnean had a pretty wife, and became jeslous. Ho mado up his mind that criminal relations had been establishoed be- tween his gyest and his wife, but gave no sign of his suspicions. The first Intimation Dr. Cunris bad of the husband'y jealonsy was veceived i tho dend of night, when ho was awakened out of a sound sleep by Conraeas, who had como to his bedside and woe slnpping hia face vigorously. Tho chorge of illicit intercourse was then made; Dr, Cuntis denfed it; hard words ensued; a challenge to mortal combat woa thero and then made by the tobacco morchant, and accepted by his guest. Tho following day they went alone in © carringe, dismissed the driver, choss their ground at twenty foet apart, and began firing and rdvancing toward each other. Dr, Cunrs waa the first to fall. Wonnded in the hip, and falnting from pain and the loss of blood, Le dropped to the ground. Bupposing Lim dead, his friend and host coolly relonded his pistol, placed it to hils own tomple, fired, and foll dead. Buch s the account of the affair given by Dr, Cuntis, who sarrondered him. aclf into cuatody, and ia now in tho hands of tho Havana authorities, "The Chicago produce ruarkets were Irrogu- lar youterday, the lending departments open- lug strongor and cloning weak. Moss pork way quiet, and closed 8%c per Wil lower, at §19.85 cash, nud $10.40@10.45 for July, Lard was quist and closed 15c per 100 tby lowor, ab §13.45 cash, and $18.50@18.55 for July. Meats were quict and easior ot 7je for shoulders, 1140 for short riby, and 114c for short clears, Highwines were inactive and nominal at #1.17per gallon, Lake freighty wero doll and easior, Flour was inactive and unchanged, Wheat was luss active and 1lo higher, but closed weak ot 9430 cash, gud Yo3e for July, Corn waa in felr demand ond 1o higher, but closed wenk at G730 casly, and 01 for July, Osts were in good demund, and advanced'20, but closed weak at Glje cash, and 87 o for July, Rye wos nomiual ot 98c oash, and 780 for August. Darley was quiot Clergymen are not usually considered good authority on gold, rs they kave so little to do with that or any other circulating medinm of intrinsio valuo ; but it must be conceded that the Rav. Samuet Hivuaw, who went out as n wissionary to the Sioux Indinus, talks like o man ofsthe world, and one who knows n thing or two whercof he talks, nibeit tho smne has referozce to procious motaln. Ho bas DLeon through the Black Hills country, and is confident that the stories of gold discoveries aro alt * d-d— ponsenso,” ag Duxpneary would say ; that, in short, the only nupgets ever brought from the Tills were somo nuggets carried thero for the purposeof being brought away by some guides nud scouts who saw o chance to make mouey by getting nup o gold cxcitement. ‘T'ho good missionary evidently desires to check the rush for that kind of treasuro which, when found, moths may cor- rupt and thioves can stenl, but which, not found, only hnrdens the human heart and leads to pordition. My ho succoed? THE CONTEXPT CASES. Judge Winntans yesterdny rondered judg- ment in the contempt cases, imposing o flue of £100 ench upon the Aldermen in contempt and the City Clerk, nnd a fine of $300 npon ench of the six counsel who advised tho Al- dermon {hat they could not be punished for contempt if they violated the injunction. 'The counsel thus fined are: T, Lywe Dicrey, ! Corporation Counsel; FrANK ADAvs, Assist- sut Corporation Counsel ; M. F. TvLer, ex- Corporation Counsel; W. C. Goupry, L. A. Srours, and Jaxes P, Roor, Tho opinion which accompanied this jndg- ment is published in TueTninoNe this morn- ing, and will ba read with goneral interest. It is n judicial roview of o 1antter of vital con- carn Lo every man in tho State of Illinols, It i8 a roview of the question how far the Courts nare to be respected in the oxerciso of powors vested in them for the protection of the rights, liberties, and property of citizons and of communities. The case in ono nspect is peculinr, It was somothing beyond tho mero violation of a judicial writ by tho persons agoinst whom it was divected; it presented the unusual instance of a number of attor- noys advising the enjoined parties that if they violated the injunction they could not La punished by the Court for contempt. Such advice is, to the credit of the Bar, not usual, and it is well that, when it is givon, the Courts should deal with it conspicnonsly, Judge WrLzaans' argument is nn ablo one, and its langusgo is calm, digoified, snd in good temper. 'The question Lefora him, ho said, was not whether the bill bad equity, or whother it had propor parties, or whether the fnotg therein set forth wers proporly or sufil- ciently stated, or whether tho Court might not have refused nu injunoction. The sole question was 89 to the power of the Court. After an olaborate definition of tho term jurisdiction," ns destiuguished from power, he held that tho chancery powors of the Court romninad intact, though the Court, if the queation of jurisdiction had been raised, might have refused to exerciso the power, He next discussed the question as to the legal chornctor of the Common Council, and Tiolds that in this partioular case its authority was purely miulsterial, In matters of that kind the Common Council was subjeat to the Courts, and tho Courts have the same power to control the Common Qouncil as thoy have to control the acts of natural persons. The Court roviows the various cases eited in the argumont, and fortifies his conclusions by frequent citntions from them, Coming down to tho case befora him, he states the wholo facts leading to the contempt. He quotes the opinion delivered to the Mayor on April 26 Dy the City Attornoy, advising that ofilcer of the Common Council that thoy were Lound to respect the injunction, and that it would subjeot thom to punishmont for con- tempt if they should violata it. Ife refors to the cautions and careful manner in which the Council actod at their meeting on that night, trenting tho process of the Court withrespeot, nud states that ho was impressed with the conviction that tho Council at that timo Lind no intontion to violate the writ. In tho mopntime, the Mayor had invited the advice of other altornoys, who, in writing, befora thoe meoting of tha Aldermon on May 3, had united in a written opinion that if the Council should dis. rogurd the Injunction they could not bo punished for contempt! Judge Wirntave wssumes that the Aldenen wore ignorant, to & groat extent, of tho provious facts In the casg, and wora Influenced, if not controlled, by thls written advice of the six atlornoys. Ho regards the nction of tho attorneys as vaatly moro culpable than that of the Alder- men. The atrornays wore aware of the faots under which the injunction wns fssued; wero awero that 1t was fssued after notico to the Corpora.on Counsel, and without objection on the part of Mr. Apa, the Assistant Cor. poration Counsal; wore aware that it was issued for ten days only, subject to o motion to dissolve at ony time, and that it wonld ex- pire by its own limitatlon within two days after tha advised violation of it was to take place. 11ad the Aldermen mado return that they liad thus acted, he would not hava fult disposed to impose auy punisbmont upon them; bat, they having made no such retur:, le could not aveid including them. While the advice of counsel was no legal oxouse, it might bo considered in mitigation of the punishment. ‘We have attempted no analysis of tho legal orgument of Judge WiLLiaue; justice to him requires ‘that his opinion should be read in full, 'The conclusions, howover, are such 88 public opinion will unquestionably ap- prove and sustuin, ‘The writ of injunction may be abused, but it s noverthiclesa & vitally valusble one to tho citizen, Itis Inavait varloty of casos the only protection the citizen has agninst irrep- arablo injury. It is infinitely bettor that it should be even grossiy abnsod at somo time or another than that its protection should ba destroyed and the citizen and whole commu- nities should be left without ft. Courts aro establishied for the adminisira- tion of justico and the protection of rights; to them tho people have a right to ap- penl for redress ngalnst commitied wrongs, nud for protection ngninst threntoned or imponding injuries, The writ of injunc. tion s ns fuvaluablo ns {s the writ of lalwas corpus, and enn bo ronounced with no less danger. ‘Tho value of tho writ, and of all other writs, ia in tho obedi- ence shich is yiclded to it. I overy wnn enfoined by judicinl process is ot liberty to obey or disobey it, then the writ censes to have any virtue, If every man is to con- stitute himself a special court of appeal snd decide upon the nuthority of the Court to issuo such a command, and then go on as if no such writ had been fssuod, then the writ censos to have any force; it bocomes, like all unrespected legal process, farcical and contdmptible, The Courts whoso procoss is thus disregarded and violated cense to have the respect of the publio, and fall into con- tempt ; and without Courta with nuthority to enforce their process wo conso to have any government save that of o mob, The injunction in this caso was a tempo- rary one, limited to ten days, and subjoct at auy tinw to o motion to dissolve ; when vio- Iated it bind but forty-cight hours of its term unexpired. Its violation was deliberate and systematically planned, It was committed under ciroumatances that left no question ns to the purpose to dofy and insult the Court. For cight days, on any ouo of which amo- tion to dissolvo might have been made, no action wos taken ; thon the injunction wns violated, and the violstors claimed that fhoy performed a meritorious act, They presonted the dircet issue whether any man was bound to rospeet & judicial writ, and thoy clnimod that ho wasnot, Thoy claimed that to vio- Into the injunction was not s punishablo of- fense. Thoy denied that a court of justico wos antitled to bave its process troated with conunon respeet, Prominent nmong tho parties to the do- liberate insult to tha Court, and the flagrant violation of tho writ of injunction, were six attorneys, Of their conduct there is hardly room for any differonce of opinion. They have all, it is presumed, in tho course of their business, applied to the Courts for in- junctions, and have obtained them. They have in this instance advertiscd to tho public that Courts are fastitutions ontitled to no deference ; not oven to tho courlesy and ro. spect usunl betwesn gontlomen, and that the judicial process known a8 a writ of injune- tion mny bo disregorded and violated with impunity. We question whether thero isn respectablo attorney in the United States who will justify their lotter of ndvico to tho Com- mon Council, or who will not uphold and commend Judge Winuiaas for punishing them, nnd vindieating the autbority and dig- nity of his Conrt. FREE BCHOOLS AT THE BOUTH, The nativo while populetion of the Sonth arg engerly looking forward to tho nscondency of the Democratic party in the Stato Govern- monts 88 ‘s meons of recouping thomselves for thoir losses occasioned by carpot-bag rule. DBaut the new regime is not likely to be of un. nlloyed blessings to the masses, and ona of the greatest dangers which it throatens is the sbolition of the frec.schiool systern, first in- troduced in the Southern States in a general and systematic manner by the Northern peo- plo aftor the War, 'Thero is abundant reason to beliove thnt tho new Stato Governments will deliberately abandon publie schools ns an institution of tho Btate, This wnsone of the first acta of tho Ganvawp Govermont in Ar- kansas, The Legislature cut off tho appro- priation for tha schools, which bad been about 250,000 s year, and the school-houses thronughout the Btata are to-day empty and closed. The profect for s now Coustitution in Alabamn conterplates an climination of the present organic provision thot onc-fifth of the State tax-levy shall be set apart for the aupport of the publio schools. In both theso States a poverty renson s given for the abandonment of the system, In Arknnsas, all tho taxes aro now paid In State scrip, which is bought up by the tax-payers at frum 35 to 40 cents on the dollar. The law prohibits the roissuo of this sorip, £o that it is in no scnse money in the honds of the Btato. The Stato hng, therofore, practieally no revenue, and will have nono until the obligations of the former Governmont havebeen disoharged, But it is worthy of notice that the public. achicol fund was the first to bo cut off, Bo in Alabama the Stato s in default of the pay- ment of {ntorest on its dobt, and haos boen for nearly thros years; the peoplo pro- fess o desire to resumo this payment, and the very first stop proposed to this ond ia to repenl tho constitutional provision giving one-fifth of tho Btata taxes to tho schools, This provision has heretofora yielded only about $1.20 to every child in the school pop- ulation, while Illinols, by general and local taxation, pnys probably $5 per child. This is cortainly littlo enough, and the school fund should suffer ouly in proportion to the nocessary reduction of taxos. The fact s, however, there ia no disposi- tion among the former slave-holding classes of the Bouth, whioh constituts tho controlling alement of the Domocratio parly there ot preaant, to sustain the froo sohiools. 8o far from being willing to mako any sacrifice to maintain the system, there ia a veory decided tendanoy to abandon it altogether. The dis- favor among these classes is n relio of the former condition of slavery, when thero was no more thought of oducating negroes than mules, and whon the poor aud ignorant whites were loft to the care of themselves in this ryegard, It waa tho ocustom among tho slaveholding arigtocracy befora the War for each family to keop o governcss or tutor for the small childron, to gend the danghters to the foshionable boarding-schools in New York, and their sons to the Now England colleges. The “poor white trash” werae loft to got tholr achooling a8 best they could, which re. sulted In uot eouding the children to school atall, 'Thae yesult was, that the political and soclal power at the Bouth was entirely con- centrated fn the hands of the slaveholders, and when the War came they had tho negroes to raise their cropa for thom, and the peor whites to do their fighting, while they monopolized the offices and wore tha shoulder-straps. Thera {4 & disposition on the part of theso classos to renssert the old- timo caste. 'Yhey do not confess to a desiro to ru-enslave tho blacks, and probably will not attempt to doprivo them of their political liberlies and privilegos for some timo ot lenst; bLut thoy do doaire to assuma and rotain all the suporior political and social power that a small num. ber of educated persons can oxert ao tyran. nieally over a larger number of illiterate per. RONS, Tt will bB sufcldal for the South, nnder the load of the old aristocracy aud by the power of the Democratio party, tonbandou the froe- school syatom, 'The condition of things now is vory differont from tha condition beforo the War, The despised raco at tho South is now in possession of its frocdont nnd the ballat,— two olements which wera altogether Incking in the former condition, and a combination which, under continued ignorance and grow- ing projudices, may yet prove disasirous. The purpose of tho aristoeratic whites nat the Houth, in depriving the negroos of thoonly system under which they ean nequire tho ridiments of an educntion, is utterly selfish, They say that their opposition to the education of the Dblacks is beeauso (1) education is demoralizing to black Inbor, and (2) tho blacks, ny soon na they loarn‘to rend, write, and ciplier, want an ofice. In othor words, they desire to work the negrocs ns thoy worl their inules, and monopolize nll the offices thomsolves, But in thus dopriving the bincks of an edu. eation they will also starve the minds of the millions of poor whites, for whose future cle- vation in the soclal and materinl scalo freo schools nro fust as necccessary ns to the blacks, To koep the children of 4,000,000 of blacks in illitoracy, thoy must also keep tha children of 0,000,000 of whites in eqnal ig- norance, for they are a1 poor and wenble to hire school-teachers and provide schools as the colorod peoplo. 1t #s too Into to reinstate this policy. The colored people hava bind a taste of froedom, o smack at cducation, and a large morsol of polities, and they will not bo casily persunded to givo up eithor, It is in tho intorost of tho Bouthern people that they should bo taught to use their now privileges intolligently. Ta keep them in n degraded state of ignoranco, with .the snapicion and lntred incident to iguoranco, will be to gustain on eloment that will constantly threaten tho peace and welfaro of every community. Thore will no longer o tho ovorseer's whip and the bloodhound to rostrain the ovil propensities of n people who oro kept in a condition of brutal ignorance and otherwise tronted like animnla. Thero will always bo danger of a war of races so long 0s this lino of trontmont is deliborately sustainod ; nnd instead of progress there will bo retrogeation ot the South, politicsl and social, for which the solfish interests of o fow men will searcely atono, OIVIL-RIGHTS AND UNCIVIL, WRONGS. Tho wayfaring maiden in Coffeo County, Georgin, now plods ou her way without fear, Btray negross who meet hor take to the woods with broathless rapidity, Nowhere is unprotected woman moro sccure from innult or harm, It was not always thus, Nor was the number of the colored population always the same na it is now. A fow short daya ago it contsined one vigorous nogro who hng now gone to Hoavenor elsowhere. Opin- fons mny differ as to his prosent residence, but it s certainly not Coffee County, or, in- deed, nny part of tho South. Tho waener of his toking off was singular, oven for the South, 1Its suddenness prevented his know- ing anything aboul it, but thefacts of the caao have been praserved by the records of Tolfair Court. A maiden of Coffeo County was go- ing home, the other day, when a coffec-col- ored person, mentioncd in tho reports as an * jgnorant negro,"” stepped up to hor and sald he supposed tho Oivil-Rights bill qualified him to nct as her escort. It was this rash supposition that indirectly sont bim to he—, tho remaining lettors aro supplied In different ways by his and hor friends, Sho said noth- ing and ho did nothing excopt walk by hier sido to her homo, The ombarrassing silence was broken nt the paternal gate, whare the murderous malden askaed hor volunteor cscort to * tako n chair on tho pinzza.,” He took a chair and sho took aim. First, however, sho wont into tho house and roturned with an adornment in the shape of a double- barrolod shot-gun. The nogro did not hear the pit-a-pat of her returning feot. It is doubtful whether he hoard tho report of the gun, for ita dischargo and tho romoval of his head were coineident. It might have been doubted whether a man who walked into such o trap had any brains, but the appearance of tho piazza afler the shot was a conclusive an- swor to this donbt. It was bedewoed with brains, The girl swopt theso up neatly, told bor father, who had been brought to tho apot by the report of the gun, to bury what sho had loft of her unconth admiror, and wont off to milk the cow and perform other pastoral dutics snited to her gontle nature. The matter was brought up before Telfair Court, but, after some discusaion, tlte Bench and tho Bar unanimously agreed that thers was no use in doing snything about it. Ceorgia’s fafr daughtors must not be inter- fored with in tho dlachargoof thoir rights and gune and admirors, I.natured porsons protond to find o clow to the unanimity of the agreement in the roport which gaived ground that this partioular doughtor was then ad- vanoing on the Court, armed with the identi- eal doublo-barreled shot-gun. This waa two wocks ago. On tho intervoning Bundsys, her father's pinzza, usunlly crowded with suitors ntsuch times, has beon baro and desolate. The young men of Coffeo County could stand getting the ** mitton,” but abject to getting a ponnd or so of buckshiot instead. SFALL WE HAVE A WENTWORTH PARK P The Hyde Park Sun is a little paper, but, like most littlo bodies, it is very sensible, and one of its moat sensiblo articles is in the nature of an appeal to the Ifon. Jonx Wext- worti, which we wish both to indorse and to ewmphasize, It appears that Mr, Wentwontn Liad sent to this little paper o communieation informing the publio that popular indigna. tion was arising becauso the Western Boule- vard, which oventually ia to connect the Bouth Park with Douglns Park, s not com. plete, and throstaning to teat the logality of ezpending any more money upon the park proper until this Wostern Boulovard is ex. tendod, All this trouble may be averted in n very simple way by Mr. WenrworTzt himsolf, who can ot ono and the same time allay the popular indiguation, remove the necessity of any litigation, aud immortalize himselt and hond his name down to & much Iater posteri. ty than he can hiope to do by the purchase of blooded bulls aud fancy ducks and hens, The Sun informs us that Mr, Wextwontn owna 80 acres of land'within the city.limits, s extonded in tho south § of southwest § of Sec, 81, T, 89, It. 18, Theso 80 acres havoa frontage of 1,820 feet, or o quarter of a wmile, on tho Western Boulovard, This property is about midway between the Douglas Park in the West Division and the parks in the BoutlfDivislon. Itia a long and wearisome drive betwoen theso parks. The boulovard, with ol the beautifying that can be bestowed upon it, will be o very monotonous road, It pasees through s droary, uninviting section of the oity, It bas to cross the Chicago, Daavills & Vincennes, the Obloago & Alton, the Chieago, Burlington & Quinoy Railroads, and branches to tho Btock.-Ynrds. Tlfo canal and the odoriferous exiremity of the South Diranch, with its slonghs and mud-holes, in. tersect it. It caunot avold Archer nvenus. Numerous docks and slips skirt, it it im- pinges upon the DBridowell grounds, and the whole Drighton scction must bo traversed, which ia mot n thing cf beauty nor a joy forever. Now, nll this drenriness and monotony may be relieved by the laying out of n nice little eighty-ncro patl nbont midway in this long drive, which would bo very nesrly in the controof Mir, Wexrwontn's eighty ncres, Bat this park will never bo laid ont unless the grouud ia donated. Thero is no better ground for the purposo than these eighty eeres, and thoro i3 no botter man to donate ground than the Hon. Jonx WnyTwonTi; 1o muan who could do it more gracefully ; no man who can better affordit, or whose donatlon vould be roceived by the peoplo of Cook County with more de- light and approcintion, Wecan hardly donbt that My, Wesrwontir will make tho donation when the rensons for doing it are properly presented to him; inpoint of fact, we havo nodoubt that Mr. Wextwontt has already rovolved the subject in his head and henrt, and tha lieart is on the verge of saying to the liend, “ Do it.” Driofly, the ronsons are theso : Mr, Wenr. wonta {3 1o longor in tho heyday of youth, He is golting advanced in age, and caunot count upon staying with us many years Jong- er. Hois naturnlly looking forward to the timo when lio must take his doparture for a brighter aud a better world, whera earthly possessions rroof no account, and of course must bo contemplating seriously tho disposi- tion ho shall make of his vast treasurcs on earth, so that thoy may bo productiva of the greatest good to the greatest mumber. Bfr. Wentwontnt hns not a large family, and so his hoirs can uffor no injustica by tho dona- tlon which be is undoubtedly considering at thia timo. His possessions aro so large and valuablo that this little gift to tho city and county will never bo missed. Agnin, ns Mr. Wexrwontr revolves the question in his mind, boundonbtodly reealls the fact that Cook County has done n grest deal for him, that his money has been mande liero, and that its people have never placed any obstaclos in his financial path, but, on the other hnnd, have always dono overything to enhanco his property and make his schomes feasiblo. o im, thereforo, in. debted to tho poople of Cook County for his wonlth and his honors, and undoubtedly renl- izos that debt, nnd will discharge it with lib- eral-mindedness. * o probably also remom. bers that Mr, Dovaras, his old-timo colleague and rival, has immortalized himself, and that his name is attoched to the Wost Side Park, and reflocta Liow pleasant it will bo to have thoso cighty neres forever known as * Wont- worth Park,” and how millions yet to como, s they traverse its loafy wells, and reclino under its noble trees, and feed tho swans on its protty ponds, will rise up and call him Dlessed. As ho continues hiz rofloctions, he will also seo that thora are but ome or two mon in tho city who can afford to do the handsomo thing for the people who have dono so much for thom, Ouly ono or two people have boon so abun. dantly blessod, and have such peculiar in- ducoments to be generous and public-spirited. Tt is Lut a little thing for Mr. Wrnrwonrir, Lut it will be a groat thing for the county and city, nnd he ean richly afford to band over the titlo to tho Commissionets by cconomizing up- on a fow Devons, Alderneys, and Bramabpoo. tras, Whataronfow bulls, bucks, ducks, cocks, or pen-fowls, moro or less, compared with the multitudinous blessings, in the prescnt and fature, which will grow out of his proposed doontion? Tne Cmioaco Tniuns baving stated o.fow of the reasons—which have probably ocourred to Mr. WxNTwonTH~—~Why ho should some time announce himsolf great public benefactor, cheorfully tendors its columns to him for the publication of any little communication ke may desire to make to the public with refcrence to the benefao. tion, That very remarkable book, * Gen. Snzn- aax's Momoirs,” contains some information ns to the manner in which San Franciaco ob- tained ita name which we do not romomber to havo seen in print before, In the summer of 1818, Gon. Bmenmyaw, then an artillery Lioutenant,was stationed in Californin, and, in recalling rominisconcas of thoso days, he im- ports tho information of which wo have spokon. While ot Bonicis, on Carquinez Straits, ho beeamo acquainted with Dr, Sgar- rLE, an Ilinoisan, who published tho Califor- nian, which afterwards became tho Aita Cal- {fornia of to-day. This Dr. Beurwr, fore- socing the growth of a great city somewhere on the' Boy of San Francisco, selected site on Carquinoz Biraits and lald out a olty which was oalled Francisco, in honor of the wifo of Gon, Varrrso. At this timo, the namo of the town near the mouth of the bay was Yerba Buena, Bome of the prowinent mon of the latter place, foresooing that Francisea might bo & rival, and that thore was sometling in a name, inducod tho Coun- oil to change the name from Yerba Bucna to San Franoisco, Dr. Vatneso was very much Inconsed at the adoption of a name so closoly resembling Francisca, and in turn changed tho name of his town to Benicia, which was Mrs, Varreso's othor namo, and San Franols- co and Benicia the two places remain to this dny, Gen. SurnMa¥enys: * That Benicia bos the best natural site for a commercial city I am satisfied ; and, had half the money and half tho labor sinco bestowed upon Ban Franclsco been oxpended at Benicia, we ghould hava at this day & city of palaces on the Carquinez Btraita.” e — On the 1st of next month, o new poatal treaty will comeinto foroo betwaen the United Btatoa and nearly all tho countries of Enrope, Therentter, a gingle postoge will carry a lettor woighing 16 grains, or a littlo more than halt an ounce. ‘The adoption of the motricsystem of woights in international postal matters will probably lead soon to ite sdoption for do. mestio letters, It would emack of barbarlsm to koep on using two different sots of wolghts, We trust, too, that this will result in the sim. plifioation of tho whole eystem, not only of weights, but of mensures. It may be that the people will be unwilling to give up the old names of mile, rod, foot, inch, pound, ounce, etc., but why should not the jnuch be the tenth part of o foot, and the ounce a tonth of a pound, and so on? The change would beone of great valus, and ita completion can ba ouly a question of time, It has been recommended by & num- ber of suthorities, among them Prof, Nxw- 7oy, of Yale, and tho National Acadomy of Solonces, Congress has legalized it, ond action towards its formal adoption is hoped for at the nextsession. 'The eaving to the poople in postage would bo G per cent, or §6 on overy $100, This would propably result in a gain, instead of a loss, to the Fost-Office Depurtment, for a reduction in the rates hios slways caueod, hithorto, a moro than pro- portionate incrense in the gross receipls, For pure, unmitigated bosh, nud frank, e sophisticated stupidity, commendus to a 8t. Louis paper on thoe subject of Chiengo, ero is n snmple from tho Jepudlican » ‘Tho Indian 4a an obatruction, wherover Lists, Just now ho happens (o obatruct certain channels of enter~ vriso fu the Norttiwest, and heuco the lutercata of Chi- csgo demand hin semoval, 1t I8 therofora proposcd to tnova him from tho Northwedt to the Houtliwest ; to Aake Wim ont of tho way of Chicogn anil aet bhn down i1 tho way of B, Touls, Chicago has alwoys recogulzed anally in the Indisn Torritory e agalnst ¢, Loula; consequently overy influnce Chieago conld bring to bear has nlways becn directed apalnst tha opening of {lint Territory, Tho Northweetorn deiegations in Cone grems finvo nlweays beon solidly oppoeod to tho Okla. oo meastire, bocatiss they #aw in it o remaval of s0mo of the obalactes o tho growih and yronperily of 8t, Louls, aud bocausa (Ley regard every removal of suchan obstacle tntha Mghtof a View to Chicago, Thia i3 & part of tho general polley of rivalry, We sball next oxpect to liear that the so- quittal of the Guikwar of Barods of high crimes and inisdemennors, and bis subsequont removal by the Britlsh Government notwith. standing, was a direct blow nimed at St. Louis by Chicago, which has unquestionahly subgidized Her Mnjesty's Government fo ro- move the Esst Indinug to the Southwest to make room for Chicago’s growing trado in that diraction, to tho great injustice and prospective downlfall of tho city at the other end of the bridge.* Wo yesterdny published the offloial state- ment of the oflicers of the Conl-Heavers' As. sociation, defending the policy of that or- ganization in the prosent strike. We pub- lighed this defense, and in order that it might Linvo all the force possible, made no comment therson. Wo now propose to sny that the only vital point in controversy has mot been met by the strikers, If it bo truc, sa is claimed, that thoso men cannot work at loss than from $£5 to §7 for wheelors and shovel- ers, and the employors will not pay that price, why do thoso coal-henvers intorfore with other men who offer their labor at the prices the employers dvo willing to pay? We havo no objoction to the coal-lieavers getting whatever wages they can for their labor; wo do not seck to underrate it ; but when tho omployers declare that thoy cannot pay $7 por day, and peremptorily refuso todoso; oud when there aro hundreds of mon willing and anxious to work at tho $3 to 84 per dny offered them, by what right does the Union say that these other mon sball not work, and by what right are they maltreated and driven from tho conl-yards? That is the only point made by Tax Trmosz againat tho conl-heav- ors, and that ia the point which has not been suswered. At tho Magonia bananet in New York City, Wednosday night, Gen. fosren respondod to tho tonst, *Tho Btato.” Bpeaking of tho varlons coutributions New York has mado to the higheat departments of human activity, ho said : To uafonce, sha loa given s Futrox cud s Morsi; 1o art, o PALIXE, 8_BrinerapT, and s Cavneu; o poctry snd song, BTN, s Monnis, and a Sragxr; to tho_Uhurch, o Deronn, s OitariN, and a Nocri 1o thio Denich, a LvinasTon, s WALWORTst, sud o JAY: 1u the 178, s GUEELEY, & RATMOND, 8 HiNNKTT, Sd a WkED, This sentiment snbstastinlly apreared in the Now York ZTribune’s report, with the single change of the laat namo fram ** Wrzp to **Rem,” At tuls, tho ecstacles of rival editora know no bonnds. Mr. Rt wus apparontly convictod of falseliood ,and conceit, and a ceitain kind of pot- tinoss of spirit uttorly uuworthy s man of yonso, It ia due to Mr. Ruio to eay that ho not ouly re- futed tho chargo completoly, and establinhed tho ‘blamo upou the phonographer, bat ho did eoinn. gracoful and becomiug mauner, falrly eatning as high » complimont a8 woa paid to Mr. Wiup at tho banquet. Mr, Remn took the badinaga elic- ited by tho phonoprapior's blundor 1 auch ox- callent spirit that ho even commended to tho publio ay *taclevor parady ™ the followlug Jjeu dlesprit: TIE YOUNG E£DITOR; OB, ON THT TOWED, TAbunaBon-Whitchaw tou bis fist increased ) 8at on bix spire uj on n ulyit of feast, Wh 81x storles neaver to thoruot, o saiw a #dovil ¥ cllmbing with & proaf, ‘Tlio hours wore on § at luat tho dovil ¥ cyme Wills | nuling breask, pearied brow, nnd facoadame ; To wiom Dou-Whitwlaw: *Qulck, thine errand teach.” To whom tho “deyll”s #'Tus El [neted's spexh, Wiicreln aruong the sotis of Gathan funes Som iz or sevon JO1rnAlisty ore Hsmo. 1 Aud 1 wine Kiers? Nay, DEVOT seant th 2t u, tho * dovll ¥ anewercd, * buk ot Nor am I wtire yours [s the name I see, Unloss, fudeed, you 388 with s We,' “ Thou,” quotts Bon-Whitelaw, I tous novero, * Lasve me that proof sud waik oif on thioe car,™ Dut, whew nexs murning's Fribunc il appoar, Ho fouud tho names of Journallxty faingd heat, And, Dun-Whitelaw's name slions ‘mld tho roat, 8hora 'mtd them liken brigit pactioulsr star, And, atrange tosay, thay apolled It with aa 1t, i ianclbien Tho Clvll Class of tho Prusslan Ordor of Morit wae {ostituted in Moy, 1842, by King Fueoenics WitLiax IV, Io the original torms of tha foundakion, the priviloges of the Order woro conflued to *persons througliout Europo who hove won for tbomeelves s namo eithar in tho arts or the scloucos.” It nppeura tust the restriction to Furope lias beon removed, for tha telograph rocently sunounced that ir. BanonorT and Mr. Loxapsrrow bave boon decorated with the Order. The New York Eveniny Poaslpives an {ntereating sketoh ot the oarly hitory of tho Ordor, Avrexaxpen YoN ITuatnorLprwas tho flrat Chaocollor. Among tho carly mowmbors wero Merreanion, Liszr, Hrnsourr, 3acavray, Ropxnr Drowwn, Famapay, Auaco, INanes, Hororg, Rueoxeur, Tizex, Jacon Gniu, Qavws, Honerwuxe, Auirox:, Tuoaas Moonk, sud Mawzoxt, Tbo laab mawed rofused to wmecopt the Order at fltat, as heing coutrary to his political principlen; but ho was overparsuaded by IloawopT. UiaxD, the sturdy Republican, porslsted to tla last in s declination; and an Interesting cor- rospondonce on the aubject passed botwoen hitn and Husmorpr, which the Post rocommends to tho caroful perussl of Loxarzirow oad Dax- OROFT, The last contribution of cur Lome-bard, Afr. 1, K. O, Fouursr, to tha oity pross, s eutitled s 4 Lifo’s Not 8o Bright as Youth Ilath Painiod It," and tho openiug atanza runa thus ¢ Talk a0t ta moof life What can Life bestow, save grist and woe To lcsthie tho farring strifo, Duspite the gains iia (nuinphe abiow, Must ever bu the lupulte strung Of heatta ou whicl cach cowurd wyong Hath foro'd tho cold aud dead courlurion, “That ever, save (o rajubow’d soul of youtl, 1o thought of gen'rons deed fil-thued tutrusion, *Tia elways (hua our teackers time aud truth 60 wternly aliow, that ilfa {8 uot &0 Lright aé youth'hath yatnted it j oly, no ! ‘The true Inwardness which inupived {his touching protost sgalnat Lfe's fllusions fa not known ; but if thia wero tho real condition of the bard on Saturdsy, whot must bave beon bis viowa of lite's wiualons ou finding himself mulctad in the s of 8100 yesterday, by Judgo Wiswaxs, forcontompt? Truly may bo now say in angulsh of spirit; < Lire's Not Se Bright as Youths Hath Painted It. Oh! no'"— not for Jox, Dofonders of the faith onco delivered to the Saluts aro not wanting fo Mexlvo. Tha Holy Cathollo raliglou zelgus triumpbant thers, and the Free bosons are correspondingly depressed and dlscoursged. Lato files of Mexican nows- papers brug information that a company of plouy baadity havo sacked and burned tho Vil- inge of Laucitaro, Btate of Guererro, Thoy made tha attack, shoutiug ** Viva la Religlon)” Thoe same batilg-ory; with the addhtional forvid iuvocation, **Dosth to Megona!” has heon talsod {o Slosloa by & company of A= teen outhusissts, who recently raided o Tawu ot La Novls, fu the uawe of God and the Virgin Many, and carriod awsy cight bosuea sod some arms. The Church docs not. of coures, axsiah or spprove these wild outbreaks ol fausti- olsny, and aannch ba held vesponaible They are only worth mentioning aas u':.w ;:::.' opmont of wicked invention, sad ane that neody to bo most carolully watchied. '*Pralso Qod, your monsy or your life," or, “Coma to uy,'\ noondny-meoting, and pass over your pura would bo & modifiention of tho Moxican farmuls adapted to this climate, but for which the Ppaophs aro soarcaly yot prepared, —— Onrs s not the only langusge whosa yeform i mooted. Garman, whicls i protty nestly pho- sotio nlrondy, ja to ho made completely so by Trussian statuto: and Prof, Rawxen, of Eriag. gon, I8 at work, under order of tho Goverumont, in oliminating superfluous “b's,* and doing what other small things may bo needed. Whey hio Lina framed Lis rules, thoy will bo adapted 1n the pubilo schools, and all toxt-books wilt bo pay in tho new orthographic uniform. And thers will bo nothlag loft for the other Btates of Gor. many but to follow Prussia’s losd once mors, An oqueliy-valuabls jmprovement wonld Lo ty digcard the antiquated Gotbic lotter fn whick Qerman books and newapapers are printed, ang to substitute tho besutiful Roman letter which ty now usod by all oivilized nations excopt Gor many, The service rendercd by carrior-pigoomt dur. ing the Franco-Pruselan war to bolesguied Purls hsa deoldod tho Fronch Governmout to koep & numbor of thoss valuabls birdain the various fortrosacs of the country. An instancy of the strongth of thoir home. chment and foculty of memory is shorn in an anecdoto told by » Fronoh papor: A plgeon taken from g balloon which fell into the havda of the Ger- mans during $homlege of Paris was sont by Princo Fnepkrior CHARLES to his mothor ss progent. A short time ago tho falthful bird es. capod from its captivity, and returnoed to its law. ful ownor In Parls. —_— Tho Drooklyn Fagle is sn occaslonal oracle on nocial, roligious, and political topica. Referring to the intention of the Prosbytorians to cole. brate the Centonnial in Brooklyn, the Faqls saya: ""All Domooratic-Ropublicans aro not Preshytoriana by any means, but all Preaby. torinus are essontially Democratic-Republioann by tho vory necessitles of tho oporation of tha principlos and ordor of admlnlatration inherent in ond marking that body of religious thought.” This is not true in any adequato monse. The Eetablishod Church of Beotland—mothier of all thio Prosbyterian churchoain the United Btates— in esgontially arlatocratio. POLITIOAL NOTES Corro Gordon Willisma will not troublo Beck about the Kentucky Benstorship, nor dispute the entrance to Heaven with the Augel Gabriel. Bonator Dawes thinks tho PresiCont's lotter will do more harm thsn good, o tavught iaet soar thatit was the corract thing to talio tha stump in favor of Gen. Butler. Your average Domocratio politician docen't otop arguing when ho has tho Liall s!l to himselt, Witoces tho long Mat of speaking anpointmenty publivbed in the Bourbon organs of Hentucky. Georgo C. Gorham, late Becrotary of tho Bev. ato, has positively dedlined a fepullican nom- ination for Governor of Califorpls. Ho says ke would not sccopt it * undor any circumstances.” Tho Probibitionlsts of MawsacLucetts still cling t0 ox-Guv, Talbot as thelr ouls candidate for Qovernor. Itlstobo hopod thit ex-Gov. ‘Talbot will cliug as oxclusively to tho Irobibl- tionists, Gov. Chamborlaln, of South Carolina, it {s un- dorstood, ia bidding bigh for the Vice-Prosidency. Ho will conront to stand np with Bluino, or Wil son, or brislow ; aod might even alter his viows on tho third-term question if an cmeigency should arise. . Tho Bpringfleld Republican ssserts that tho platform of tho Ropublican party in Olio is too vaguo and equivocal ; but it will be Rrroatly ear- prised If the Domocratic Convention ia ofeally explicit. “ It will requiro more of Intelligout conviciion and moral courane than v.o bave boos in the habit of looking for In that guarter,” say¥ the Republican. Alr. Jefferson Davis will probably sccept tho Presidency of & Toxan colloge, haviug boen gnarantoed a uslary of 84,000 a yoar nxd o stafl of six Professors. TLo oxpeonses of tho instito- tlon will bo met by some sort of “premium” plan, tho workings of which are not underatood at the North. Mr. Davis la pot exzotly the type of man to inatruot youth, either by procept of exampla. . Among tbs ** montioned " Democrats in Ponn- sglvania are thros newspapor med i Barr, of Pltteburg ; Stouger, of Chambemburg; and Davis, of Doylestown. Dut tbo last-tamed gentleman, at least, can bo counted out fo ad- vauce. Il bns said i bia paper within a fort- nighit that Protoction {s **a delusion auvd » tparo.” Thoy don't nominato that surt of men for Governor in Pooneytvanin. Reverdy Johnson hasbeen writing o long letier on the Preaident's lattar, but sava nuthwy wore iwportant than shis: “I thivk it may, with per- fect jusice, Lo waid, that, if the Convention wlilob framed the Constitutlon hsd snticipated tho encrmoun sxteat of ths official patronage which In timo would nocossarily be vested In the President, thoy would bave laited the oficinl torm to six or aight yeats, sud Lave rsndored the incumbout inoligible.” The Now Hampehirs Sonate la uob yot argan- ized, but thore appoars at present to be no reaton why all tho diblcultiea of tho caso should uat ba adjusted at an early day, Tho coureo of the Ttepublican Hovators la scording in nok gen- orally approved. . Dottor counsels 0w provail with thom. DBoth partles bave reforred tho quoations in dispute to tho Buperlor Court, and it is underatood that both will abide by tha award of that tribupal, In the meantime, no clootion of Governor will be mads,—the Democsate hav- Ing rogolved, if neasesary, to resort to dlibuster- log to prevent any such proseoding. The foliosing blt of blograply ts given in the Bouton corcoapondence of the Martford Cou- ranly ‘ Mr, Lewis . Fishee, whom tho Domo- crata are talking of nominating for Goveanor iu Miunesots, is & brothor of Prof. George . Fisher, of Yalo Collogo, Mr. Lowis Fisher wos tormerly » printer in Boston, and was for & con- sidorable timo omployed in the mall dopartmont of tha Advertiser, Ho weot West Lo sook his fartuna ovor twanty-ono years agoj stopped ab ©t, Lous one winter, bocauss he coulda't got up the river; atarted for Bt. Paul io the apring, and took & placo on the Pioneer nawspapor, of which he at leogth becsme oditor, and is now engaged on tho consolidated Pionser-Press"” Gen, Dreckinridge was » ware friend of Hor- aco Grocloy during tha latter yearsof the philoso- pler's lifo. On ono occaslon, speaking to the Ron. Holstor Clymor of his obligations to Mr. Gioeloy, Qon. Drackinridge aalds * Aftor tho Iato unfortunato waz between the Northern sud Boutliorn scotious of the United Btates, you know 1 waa compotied 10 floo for my ssfoty. Wuileln Parls, checrloss, friendless, homeless, and with- out s country, I recolved s lotter from Horace Greoloy. It was filled with the moat tender ox- presaions of regard and sympathy, sod arged me to return to mv home, *Come back,’ b wroto; +go to your own buloved Kentuoky) sid lave- atoring the shsttored fortunes of 1he Bouth snd your country; snd I will be responulblo for your Waloty, and azaure your immanity from moleata~ ton or syxout) Now & aubmit to you, Mr Clymer, could I have dons othorwise thsn call apon Horace Qresley, or ahall I ever ccass to 18- gpect avd cherixh him The “Harvard examinatlons for womsn' Liave bacn oconduoted in wolemn form at Cam- bridge, this year, with eight candidates for the colloge cortificate, threo of whown wore smoDg tha saven of last year. ‘TLat is to ssy, in three yents this exsmination-ust has succecded In catehing twelye lone wemen who aro willlag to Do catochlsod and spprobated by $he hundred Professors and tutors (more or less) that do do= strugtios Harvard. This le an aversge of Tous woman ia & year,—while 1he avezage ol