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. 2 CRIMINAL RECORD. Acconnt of‘a Desperate Fight in the tndian Territory. Ouo of the Combatants Riddled by Ose Hundred and Three Bullets, The Jury in {he Monntain Meadow Massa® ere Caso Largely Mormon. Incidents of the Xursnit of the Yandalin Railvoad Mur- derors, THE VANDALIA RAILROAD OUTRAGE. Speeinl Drepateh o T'he Chicago Trivume, Tenne 1AvTe, Ind., July 22.—Tho proliminary sxnmination of Edmunds and Cochrane, charged with complicity in the munler of Milo Eanies, o ongincor, nt Long Uoint, ton days since. took piace to-day at Greonup. A epecial train was ran from Terro Ifatte to Greenup for the accommodation of witnesses and hows- raper men. The examination bogun at 1 o'clock 1. m, before Eaquire McCouha, Tho first im- portant witteees was Max Myerson, of 5t. Louis, traveling eient of Lhe Railway Advertising Com- pany. 1o wos standing on tho platioim be- tsieen tho bagiage aud emoking cars, When the 4inin etopped at Long Point he vaw Lvo mon run alotigz the north sido of tho track by tlio light of & toteh on the eugine, fle could sce their facos phinly. Mo identiies Edmunds 08 one of tus wicn, . Myerson was subjected to & sovers cross~ examination, but remained firm in bis ssser- tion. Ons witness uientitied tho hammer which was pieked up on the track nonr tho ecens of tho murder as ono be had seen in Edmunds’ grocery. A great mauy withe:ses wero examined for the btate, Lut thoir evideuco was nnimportant, Tlio defevra called tho prisonsre. Edmunda Lopt u email procery near the wator-tank at Long Powat, Ho soid he retired early ou the uight of the tragedy. Ilo was aroused by Iio could not remwember distinetly o got up and lookod out_of the When Lo ho went down to tank and was tbere when tue en- gtas _ brought back, e lielpod i Lody of Lawes from the eugine nud L tho car, Cochrano kaid ho had left wle” grocety bofore dack on the oveniug wurder. 1o kuow nothmg sbout the affair until the nexs morning. Coclraue proved that ho was a Cawey, 4 miles away, at 11 aclock, The murder was done st about 1: Foth pricotiors wero committed without bail. Ldmunds wos sery mueh atfeeted by tho decision o tho magistrate; laviug confidently rolied on a Coclirans was taken back wo Prairto 2 buth havo beon conlined since their nds wad taken to Efingham. The that they bo Lept apact. B noie what it wad. dour. Tho tran was standing these. loarued what hiad liapponed tho St Lonis Glode-Denacrut, Suiy2h Mr. Thomas E. Lonorgan, of tho American Dutective Service, arrived horce yestorday from udiann, where, in connection with his partoer, Gus Tiuel,ond Larry Hazen, of Cincinnati, bo hua been trecking the men engaged in the nt- temptod train robbeer at Long Deint and the murder of the Vawlalin cugineor, Milo Eamer. 100 ttory of thu pursut is one of almost roman- tie intorest, On the merning of Friday, July 9, Messrs, Lonergau aul Thic rescived a nofy from Mnj. Bimpson, Genoral Saperintendont of the Vau- dalis Bmlond, stating that tho expross train No. 5 bad Lesu attacked at Long I’oint Taok on tho preceding night, the epgineer killed, and 2n un- puceoss ful attompt mado to rob thio oxpross car. On arriving by tho fiest train at Greenup, 7 ey fiom Loug Polnt, tho dotechives lzrned tho facts of tho attempted robbery and murder elready. presented to the readers of this papor. The two men who gum(md on tho engioo, when it stopved at Long ‘vint to take water, wore long linen dnstars, and pointed their revolvers atthe bréast of the golitury cugineor, as they ordered’ him to ““ puil out.” " An tho sliots werd fired, the fireman, who bad Jumped from tho tendor, saw tho cngine . and tiis Adama Ixpross car move out from the balance of the train, and disappeur down tha read. After o fursait®f about » milo and o half down the track, tho cngino and exprees-car wero found, the engincer dead” in his cab, and tho exprese-car all safo avd sound, although perforated by three or more bullets, one of ¥ bad lodged in s beavy trank. fishowmuker, of thie 'Lerro Hante police, d already sirived when Lonergan, Thie!, an 1 got ttiers with o squad of his force, and ¢ an oxmmination of tho scene of thie rob- hiad prrested’ o man named T. El- Wy Edmuuls, who bad been living in tho iediate viemily, Bowo weeks rior, limunds bl rented & partially-finished elhauty near the thnk, oud lad en- gnged osteneibly in tho business of a aloon- Jicoper. I'rom the locntion of the ealoon in the wewla, nearly 4 miles from Casey aud remoto {rom any buthau bavitation, ic wan evidens that it conll reevive no patronage, and did not look 8 if the pluce had been pitchied on for that puf- yo-e. On the arrivil of the detectives, after o iubier oxaminatiou iuto tho facts, Edmunis waa ¢ wnitted to jail on a charge of murder n tho Alirt dogree, Lu the meantime three tratps, siio had boon walkiug thirongh te countrs, end hat boou wilenp on a platforin near the tank when No, 5 arrived thnt uight, were slvo contived. An ox- amination'of tho trawps sbowed that tbe{ wers unduubtedly imucent of any complicity with tho rolibery, bt thoir statcmonts served to throw roms Hght npon the aftuir, They bad beon agleep or tha platform prior to the spproach of tho train, nnd had been nwakened by its ctoipagrq ot tho tank, Almost imme- diately uftor they hoatd steps on the north sido of the truim, and, lvoking acrors, waw two men, wearing long linca coats aud soft dark but~ runuing rapidly besido the cars to wards the engine, Just beforo they reached the eagine one stumbled aud fell into w littlo ravine, into which tho water dripped from-the tank, and, pleking bimself up with a° profane exclamation, ran on towards tha engine, where, immediatoly nfterwards, volees and shots wero Loard, just bo- foro it disnppeared with the express car {nto tho watlimess, Ther statements wers coufiemod by that of 's passenger, Mr, MMyerson, who was etanding on-tha frout platform of tho smoklng- car at the timo, and who unhesmtatingly igen- titied Fdmuunds a8 ooe of the mou who pavsed Lim on thu way t0 tho cngiue, Bubsequont” investigations showoed that I4d- muuds kad boen establishied lu the saloon busi- nees—whiel wad too avidont a blind to leavo any donbt in tha minds of tho dotectives—by a man named Andrew Jnckaon Coclirano, s venidont of Caoey, 8 or 4 miles distant. Boveral suspicious cireumutane. s pointed towards Coclirane na ime yliceted in tho attempted robbery. 1io was ween on tho grounds duriug the afterncon and oven ing of tho murder. Far yeurs paet lio hay lois & notoriously bad character, and bo was entirely too iutelligent to iu- monoy 1 m ealoon whore thin loested with & view to any timate return, Cochrano was alao arrcated, wid, with Ldmands, was taken bofore Sqguire Cousliay, wud committed to jail on & cbarge of wnrder, Thera was woral doubt that Coolirane’s part in tho alfwr was to rewove the booty after the train bad been plandored, baving brought s wagon thore for that purpo Cochirano s mian of B good doul of intelligunce, as is also Hd- wunds, who comes from s highly respoctable funuly in Shelbyvillo, I, ' opinion is stroug that Coclirpnoe wua the chlof conspirator in the wudituted rovbery, ‘llio exagunation of the prisuncra wos not for Tucaday, thy 19th just., but wus then contlnued to the 2ud, I'wo of the four won kuown to be engaged jn tho afluir hud Leeu cavtured, and it was necos- nu{ 10 veourc tho balunce. Citizeow iu tesiny sd on honsbuck wero dispatetiud over the different roads lesding from the scoue of the tauruer, with instructions to go o eaoh direc tivu tu tho nearest railroad,—the distance vary- ingg from 15 to 40 wiles,—thuroughly arouso the country, aud secure the orrest sud dotention of ull tusjicious characters who might bo cudesvenityg to make ther way through the vounlty, Telegraws woro also went to ull wilroad stations within 40 miles, to, eilar effeet, while tho couductors * of ul} passenger xud freight traius on the Vandaha wero wterviewad to usportaiu whether any wus- picivus porsons bad, got off st or wear tho sceno of thy tragedy immedistely preceding or suc- yncdnu;i it. Imuuediotely after ropoita com- weuced coming 1 from all directions of the ar. rest aud detoution of suspected parties st differ- <ut points, snd ooneideruble time was ccoupled fa examining tho iwou thus arrested. Awmong 10 parties arrostod Wore tivo mon at Pariy, 1L, wha proved to be citizena of Torro MHante, and in no way connocted with tho affair, and two at Tlervoy City, Ik, who woro nleo ontirels funo- cent. Whilo Lonefyran was engaged In ranning theso parties ont, Gus ‘Chiel madn another nnd moro thorough examination of tha seeno of the rob- Dery, with n viow of finding any clew which night have boen overlooked by the loeal affi- cotn who had exminined the ground on tho pre- vious day, Onoof thoresults of his investign- tion was tho discosery of a section hand em- ploved on the Long Point section, who bonrded with & farmer near the raliroad track, ® rhort cistanco from the placo wheo the robbers had etopped the engfne and cxe press ear. While ous in tho yard that nizht, ho heard tho engine whistle stop; saw the light, and heard threo shota flred. Thinking somathing was wrong, he started ont to ivveatigate. o waa dalsyed by considerablo troublo in opening n wide wagon gats, but pa ho camo on the rail- rond track, honrd retreating footstops, When hie arrived st tho engine, all wna quict and no- body in sight. Ho did not get into tho cab, and, thinking all right, ho went off home tobed. On Sunday morning Me. Iirgant, Terro Hnute agent of the Expross Company, to- athor with Dotectives Lonergan, 'Thiel, and Inzon, went up on A hand-car to the poiut dosig- nated by the section-innd, with a viow to tnding tho tracks of the gutity partics rud sny articles which {hey might havo thrown awayin their fhight. 'The resnlt wau the dircovery of moveral atecl manks and breast-platos, evidently left in the burry of retreat, and a dorr's foot knife. The footsteps of the men wero traced in tho woods to tha distanco of a milo and a quarter from the point whero ths expross car was left, but there alf traces disappearcd, aud tho search liad to bo abandonad, On tho same ovenipg the varty who Liad beon dispatched southward from Casey returned with tho roport of having obtained trsces of the rob- bers at two or threo different points, and that tho conrso of the iatter was mouthward toward tho Ohin, Letseen tho Wabosh and Emporass Itivers, Puraning parties were at once organtzed, and dispatched from Casey, Graenup, aud other points ou tho Vandalls, winte Detective Thiel went around by rall to the Ohio & Missiesippi Ntmlrond to dispatch parties northward from that line, in order to head the crimioals oft. Tha pursuit Insted n week. Every rond was ecourod, evory farm-houso vis. ited, aud overy inhabitant betweon the Ohio & Mississippl Railrond and the Vaudalia nolitled of tho personal appoarance of tho wmen wanted. Although the meun wore_ frequently heard from and accurately described, the purxuit has not thus far proved sauccewsful, although it was pughed into the inmoat recosses of the swamp and jungle of which that conntry is composed, NS R o2 ClmLERenS REOMNed, Aud 1Rttt b up which sconred the soudnin all diructions. Thoro ia no doubt that the men wanted are in thin jungle, and tleir escupe iy cousidesed im- poasiblo, Thus fav two only of the met angnged'in the ontrago have besn arrcated—but their convie- tian in considored certain before nug court of {umim—k‘.mmmdu and Coctrano. ~ Willimm Jridggoman, who was arrested by » posso of Torro Haute police, near Oakiown, was ro- leased, a it was dofinitely fonnd that he hnd no connection with tho affair, although his repnta- tiou in that county has for yoars been a had ono. ‘The prelimivary examination of L= dmuudn aud Cochrano tokes placo 1n Gircenup to- ny. THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW HMASSACRE. Deaven, Utah, July 22.—Leo's tmial for the Mouutain Meadow massacro began to-day. The court waa crowdod. The defenso skizmished on every point. The jarymon obtained aro as fol- lows; Josophus Wade, Gentilo, natiso, b0 yoars rosidont of the Torritory; J. C, Heister, tientilo, native, two youra residont; David Rogors, Mor- mon, uative, fourteen years; Isano Duftiu, Mor- mon, naturalized, ten yoars; J. P, Chideater, Mormon, native, twelve; J. C. Robison, Mormon, native, alghteon ; C. J. Arthar, Mornion, nativo, tiwrenty, son-in-law to Isignt, who gave tho order to fire on the emigranty, but has no opin~ ion ; Joseph Knight, Morton, native, tweaty ; ' Paal Prico, Mormon, native, 8ix; G. If. Jarvis, 3Mormon, naturalizca, fiitcon; Robert Ilow- borue, Mormon, naturalized, soventosa, A Cal- ifornia stopson of Urlo, who waa enguged in tho mnunnere, bas been on the grouud, Gut knowa nothing of it ; Jobn Drower, Gentilo, wative, ten. Californisn, Tho following wers chalionged and excused for causo: James' Gibson, Uentito; J. W, IHunt, Mormon; Witliam Thompson, Apostate ; lijah Llmore, Mormon ; Jactes Hiater, Gon- tilo ; John I, Haller, Clentilo; Honry Lialling, Geontile ; F, L. Horsingor, Gentilo, Tho defenan goes for tho Gontllo furors, but oasily passes Mormons. The jury will be se- cured to-day. Euch side hos forty-five per- emptory challenges. Blormons oxsmined as jurors mwear that they lived ten to sighteen yoars 1u tho rogion of the marsgero, yet navor heard it talked of, and had 1o opinions about it ‘Lhis. is the subjoct of much open comment and bitter fesiing. SaLT Laxr, July 22.—A jury hias been seonred at Boaver in the Les ease—~tight Jormons and four Gentiles, 103 BULLET-HOLES IN ONE BODY. Luecial Dispateh to T'he Chicago Pribune, 8r. Lou, July 22.—Intelligoucs of » most sauguinary hght at Ikin Bayou, in tho Cherokes Nation, about 12 milcs from Fort Bmlth, on the morning of tho 18th, has just been received here. Tho combataots bolonged to the rival political factions of Russ and Downing. Bylvestor King, Willlam Sauuders, and Joseph Cody were instautly killed. Al throo of them waro known sy dosperadoes, aud bad killed their mon. Joo Cody recoived tho contents’ of meveu double- barreled shot-guns loaded with buck-shot and blue-whistlers, completoly riddling his body, and waking. 103 ghastly wounds, Tho following -night tho contonding clans, couslutivg of thirty .men on_each mde, met agnin at tha wamo spot, and rapid firing was hoard, but.no definite par- " ticulurs ‘have been received, Thorein great ox- citement thranghout the entire Clhicrokqo najion, um‘ thero is every indication of twpondiog au- archy. WAYLAID AND RODGED, Spectal Diapetch to T'he Chicam Tribune. i _Jouer, Iil, July 22,—A young man named Kohoe, an cmploye of the Joliet lronand Steel Company,way waylaid sud robbed last night ou the West Side in au obsenro locality known aa Porter's alloy. Tho robibers wero throo young rutiang who lava boonm, at lemst partinly, raisod in this oity,—Jamus Kinuey, Jolin ‘McQuade, aud Edward Dugsu. They only suc- ‘coeded 10 socnring #1450 from their victuw, after nearly kitling him, James Kinnoy waa ar- rovted Iast might by the polico. MceQuado and Dugan are still” a¢ large. McQuado has served - ix mouths 1u tho County Jutl in this aty, Po- lice oflicars roport that tho pair, Dupan and McQundo, have gono to Chicago, although the City Marshal s welined to bellevo that they are yot'in Joliet, Kohoo w uuder the casoof Dr. Hlosmer, and 4i doing wetl. AN UNNATURAL COMPACT. Bpecial Disyateh ta The Chicago Tribune, Davexrowt, July 24.—Christina Kichner and Hans Boluik bavo been engaged to bo married fortwo yoars, Behuk was a bricllayor ana Mies Lichuer was out working. Her brother and Tebiok formed a conspiracy apparontly to ruin her, and, to accomplish that, charged hor publicly with boing o tulof, Bho bad both arrested for slander last apring, when they rotractod. Dok refused to wmarry thoe girl, eayine be would not marry a thief, Blie thon bad” him arrested for seduving her, and hais now in jail, Laat night, Loweyor, Christina sttemptod to commit suicido. sud nearly uccoodod. glm still doclaros that he will kill herself, aud has made several at- temptd since. Great indiznation ia oxpremisd at her uunatural brother and lover. THE WADDY THOMPSON OASE, Mexvius, Tonn., July 22.—The case of Waddy 'l'l_xouzpwn Progresses slowly, snd is & com- plicated ong,iuvolving a partuorsbip in e businosy house, audau attewpi to ubtain goods by meaus of replovin bouds, together with charges of horeo-stealing, It is thought that several be- wides thoso indictod wilt Lo impheated, B, 4, Carroll, one of tho parties arrested jointly with Thowpson, having turned Biate's evidonce, and shiown conspiracy ou the part of Thompson and Aruott to obtain'gouds by mewnu of fraudulouts roplevin bondy, CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. New Yok, July 22.—The Coroner's jury in tho case of the South Bido Nsilroad diaster ronderod tlse following vendicy : Wo bieroby severvly cevstirathy Rajlrosd Compauy 1u not employing good sud competent pereoin or & suiliclont Buisber 10 operato the road safely, Also fu uot Lavivg approved brakes sttachod 0 “their cars, and in eltering thelr tiwe-tabla on a» pullic boliday; whio pulting se Gotora) Manuger over the road sn 'uczperienced man with power tu direct and coutrol Bupt. Bartou and Tradowsster Barr, aud we exouorsty Bupt, Uarlon sud ‘Uralumsster Larr frow all Viawe, IMFORTANY RECORDS MISSINQ. Avuany, N. Y., July 23.—Rumors are in circu- latlon here of the disappearauce of importaut records from tLe office of tbe Division and Resi- TIHE CHICAGO TRIBURNE: KFRIDAY, JULY dent Enginesra lastorn Disizion of tho CAnals, rolating apooially to somo of tha contracts of Mr. 1. D. Dentron, who is now fu conterupt for rofusing to produco his_books before the Canal Investigeting Commursioners, Bpecial Disvatch 1 1he Chicnoo Tribune, Fr. Wav July 22.—Tho ca%o of the negro Joroph Wall, indicted for the murdor of Morgan Cronkhoit, on the 2d of July, was called fn the Criminal Conrt to-day, and, on motion af the defendant’s counsel, ‘postponcd uutil the Beptember form of Court, ATTACKED BY ROUGHS, New You, July 23.—A Carbondalo (F'a.) din- pateh statos that on Monday night John Jor- dan, n rejected lovor of Miss Coyne, with some drunken roughs, attacked: tho coltago of her mothor. Mry. Coyno fired into tha crowd, fatal- Iy wounding Jordan, ‘Then handing the rovalser to her non, 1t was acoidentally divcharged, fatally wounding hor dauglter. ARREST OF FORGERS. Newang, N. J., July 22,—Jacob 8. Darber, of Worcester, and William Young, of Brooklyn, wore arresied hero to-day, oue having forged checks to the amount of #40,600, and tho other thres checks of #4,000° ench, with which thev had beon attempting to swindlo the German Na- twnal Lank and varnish mauufactuserd. TWEED'S CASE. Nrw Yong, July 22.—Notics of appesl by the people to thio general term of the Bupreme Court of tho Btato of Now Yorx from the decision of Jurtice Donohiue, in favor of Witliam M. Tweed, in the 306,000;000 eivil smit, was perved upon tho dofondaut's lawsors yestorday, aud duly a kuowledged by thom. AN OFFICER KILLED. . JacrgoxvILLE, Fla,, July 22—, (. Johnson, Deputy Collector of Iuternal Revenuo and a member of tho Florids Logislaturv, was shot dead Inst night 'at the $ill tousoe, about 10 miles from Fernandina, iy nssassivs aro nuknown, COTTOY EXCIANGE CONVENTION, Permanent Orgnnizntion—Rule Gove erning Iepresenition. QGreex Dutan, Winte ScLrntur Srnivas, Ve, July 22,—Tho second day's aession of the Na- tional Cotton Exchndge Convontion commonced this morning, Tho Committeo on Permanent Organization pregented & constitution and by-inws, onchurti-+ clo betng read and discussed riugly, and, after o gonmal diecussion, unnnimouely adopted. ‘The first articlo provides for orgauization, which is ‘to bo callod tho National Cotton Exthango of America. Tha second defines its objecta to promoto otficiency nud extend tho usefulness of local cotton exchanges; to securo their united aud harmonious co-oporation, and to obiain moro relinble and precise ctatoments with re- gaid to thoeztent and movemeuts of the crops. P'rovision by then mado for reular biennial meet- logs, avd for & Presidout, Vice-Freaidegt. and reven Directors, who will form the lifécutive Counen, and will act a8 a Doard of Gen- vral Muusgement, appoint a Becrotary, ‘reasuror, sud Au-istants, R4 thoy may deem nocossary, and will have power to lovy arsessmonts and disburae such sums as may Lo ralsed, but will not bo allowed to ineur ex- ponses not provided for by nescssments, all such asscrsments to bo pon constituent oxchauges in proportion to their reprosentation, this repre- Bontation to be according to the number of bales nandled, Exehasges handling 25,000 bales nre entitled to two delegntoy, and one additional delugste to overy 10,600 bales in excoss tharg- of. < ‘The next arlicla provides that the Lxoontive Council sball bave power to aid to tha Coustitu- tion suck pmendmonts as shall bo paksed by n vota of two-thirds of tha ropressututives of each Convontion, provided that said two-thirds shall vopresont a clear majority of the constitus et oschaugos. Thia articlo causod considerablo discursion, two other forms being presented aud rejected. Tho first provided that sololy a ma- jority should repreoiit two-thiras of tho = oxcheugos, bLut tho Now Orloaus party thougtit this would throw tho balance: of power into the hands of emall exchanges, and ntrongly opposed it. 'y proposed an nuoud- mens whoreby a majority shonld roprosant two- thirds of the dologaten, ~Thiu was just aw objec- tionable to the wmall oxchinnges, who maw that they would be swamped by tho number of dalegations from New Orloans, Savannah, Now York, ete,,—~nnd the arficlein the form given above ways presentad, and, being nccaptable toall pactiex, wus ndupted. ‘The by-laws wore adoptod without much com- ment. A rocees was talen, and in tho nftemoon ses- slon the «question of nominations wau'postponed until to-mortow morniog. "T'ho important wattor of Jocsting the National Exchange oftice was reforrod to a commilteo, to Teport to-morrow morning. RELIGIOUS NEWS. Dr. Shipman Yeclines the Fond dn Lnc Bishopric. Onhkosh Northcestern, July 19, It sooma difiicnlt for tho Kpiscopal Diocess of TFoud du Laoc to eloct & Bishop who will sccot the position. It was hopod that the second choiva would roenlt in thie elostion of a maa who would accopt thio position, but this morning, the Tev. Mr, Haff, of this city, Chalrmau of tho Standing Commitlea of tho Dlocesa, is in receipt of s 1ormal Jatter of declination, which rends as tollows : Cunwt Griuacy Rectony, Lesivaton, Ky, July 15, 1870, —The Itev, Measrs, g, Dafter, anit Acertd, and Messra, Suydams, lee, and fyockicay, Cononidlee— Dxan Burriues : Not unitl nuw love [ folt slie to anawar.in any positive way your letior of_tha Uth ult., infurming me af 1wy cluctivi aa Bisop vt the Dioocss of owd gu Fae, Fo the question of duly preseuted tur i this elécton, T huve giveu my mont careful con- maeration, not uualded, sa I trust, by te spirit of Gud, My conctusion b, tiat T ouglit to docline, Your young diocese, with ita goodly array of pare 1sbes, aud it vast opportuntics for miisslopsry cntors Jriwe—iidiite band ot sleray thoroughly unfied and n earnist, and s zcalous aud ofiiciunt Luity. Jfeases ms os ono of tho mot important aud c vo fivlde of labor witin the limits of the Awmerican Church, 1 decliue the eall with which I have been lionored, to this field of lubor, uot, If I kuuw my own hicart, from ony seltiah considerstion, but simply because the way to meoopting i seciws providontlally’ closed wpainst . mo, Tt la projur to ssy that, dlstrusting iy own Judg went [0 o inatter a0 tntimiately adocting myself, { bave subiitied to others—men in whom the Churel Lias coufidence—my remson for my doclintuy, and thoy, rithout sty uzception, have pivRouRcad that reavon valid, Permit me Lo 34d that T shall always feel tho deopeat Anterout i the welfarw of the bioceso of Fund du Lac, aud ahiall pray that your cholcs for is Eplacopate may fa)l npun sonie Ol huch Inore worthy of that b{“h hostor than myself, I am, dear Lrethryn, faithfally yourd i Cliriat. 3.8, BureMay, The effect of this letter will, in all probability, be the holdiug of a special convention vorfl soon, for anothor attempt ot the seloction of a Bishop, A mueting of the Btanding Comtmitiec hay been called for 'l‘nmdnz, the £7th, in this city, to de- termiue tho feasibility of calling u special cou- {"".f"{&" aud, if 8o, tho timo aud plave it sball 6 held, TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, Warden BcClsughry, Warden of thoe Iinols State Pemteutiary, woa yestgrday wmorning pro- sonted with a beautiful gold watch and chain by tho oftlicers and ewployes of that fustitution. A lady named Mrs. II. Colwoll tried to kill heruolf last night at Peoria by inhaling chlore- forni, Bha almnout succeeded, and, bui for the prompt aseistance of o physlolan, would have boen on the othor side, Iawily trouble led to tho cummission of tho rash sot. The French musical wooletien of New York contemplato holding & graud concert for the bonent of tho wulforors frowm floods iu France. Tummany Hall bas boen olfered 1rea for tho urposo. ‘lho French Committes of Ieliof ave 20,050 oo haud, which will bo lmmediatoly forwarded, The ladles of Milwaukes:gava a Centenulal open-air fote at Quontin's Park last nlght towards the Nativoal Ladios’ Centennial Fund, Au imwense numnber wero prosout. Matt Car- raulur delivered a spirited oration on tho Cen- enuial nud tho duty of Milwaukes aud Wiscone in iu the premises. The Bouksellers' Exobango aud Clearing- Houso in Now York brought togother s grent nuwbor of the trado fram il parts of the couu~ try, north, south, vast, and wgat, Lt has bean tho greatest oxpunition of $he book trade that Ling ovur been veou iu America, Phe Exchange will coutinue business through thia woek ouly, closiug on Baturdsy, At 3 union mectlug of the LaSalle Lij C(lusrds and tho LaSally voldiers of the lntu’\J‘l‘:'f held on Wednesday ovoning, & Committes of Arrangomeuts was appoiuted for the LaHalle Couuty Bouiers' Keunion, to be held m Lagalte about the last of Anfinmnrln of Beptsmber, Muny eminent army otiicors have promtsed to he present, aud an extendive rounion iy expocted. CASUALTIES. Fearfal Expluslm{ in a Paper. Mill nt Jowa City, Ia. Five Men Killed, Somo of the Dodios Being Blown Several Blocks, The Death of {he Wife of One and the Hother of Another Likely to Follow, Othor Accidonts Which Happened Yes- terday, HORRIDLE ACCIDENT. Towa Ciry, I, July 22.—At 9 o'clock this evening ono of the cooking-tanks in Closo & Bons' yapor-mill exploded, eausiug the oxplosion of four othors, and utterly destroyivg the atook- rooms and beatlug enginos, and more than lialt of tho mill. Thomon at work in tho destroyed rooms (five) wero killed. Cbi Ia, the firoman, Gilmero, foroman, and Smalor and Tiernoy, In- Lorers, Horman llechitel, & workman in tho flour snill noar by, had stepped Inte the papor mill but » momout lgforo, and was instant- ly killed. Tho bodies of Chi Ia, Doch- tel, and Gilmoro wore blown 500 feet ncroes the stroct and over tho hougos, and wero recovered. ‘fho bodies of Tierusy nnd Smalar wero cither lmried n the ruing or blown into the river. Tho mill was worth £250,000, and was turaing’ out G tons of brown paper, mbning twenty-fonr hours s day, with double sets of hands, ‘Tho two larce papor, -| stato of faots exist. machines aro injired, At this lour (10p. m.) gangs are at work by tho light of lantorns and firs clearing away the ruin, which prosents a ter- tibla appearaues, Qilmore's wilo, on tha ove of confinewent, is not uxpected to rally from the shock, and Bechitel’s mother is thought to be dy- g FATAL EXPLOSION. CiNciNXaTL O,, July 22.—A¢ Nowark, 0., to- night, n terrible accident oceurred, resultivg in tho serious and porbaps fatal huraing of a vum- ber of pereous. A test was to bemadoof a fire-oxtinguishor, and a bailding had becn erect- od by consent of tho City Couucll, which was to Do firod for the occasion, It was thoroughly satorated with ocoal, snd during the preparationa it prematurcly took firo. An _oxplosion omsued, torribly buruing D, C. Winegardner, Mayor; tho fon. J. Jones, Charies Hamilton, Btreat Commissioner, and a bridge-contractor from Tolade, aud some fiftoan or twonty other mou and boys. ~omse of thio Jatter, it fu thoaght, aso fatally burncd, RAILROAD COLLISION. Br. Loum, July 22—A collislon botweon a southern-bound freight and a northern-bound cattle train occeurred yesterday on the 8t. Louls, Iron Monntain & Southern Ilailway, botweon Yictory and Ilemalits statlon, in which both eugines wors Ladly smashed, demolishing oight stock and four fraight cats, and delaying noarly all the remaining catw, Nobody burt, but over fifty catele killed. SEVERE FALL. Speciat Dispaich to The Caicaas Iyibune, Brooxxuros, Iil., July 22.—Georze Clarko, 8 lawyer of Metamora, Woodford county, fell dewn tho Conrt-1louse steps Liero ta-dsy, and was vory soverely bruised and cut. REAPER AGGIDENT, Bpecial Dinpsteh 6 The Chicuga Tribine. Broomivatox, Iil, July 22—Qoorge Tox, 8 farmer of Towanda Township, was thrown from g sont while driving s roaper, and very dauger- ously cut about tna Jegu. FATALLY INJURED. 5 Spectal Dioatch to The Clacuao Tridune, Lasgrva, Mich,, July 22.~Mactin Mackham, & barkeman ot the Grand River Valloy Drunch Road, was fataliy injurel at Charlotte by catch- iug bis fuot in & ewitch-rog. STEAMER SUHK. Nw Onceaxs, July 22.—7Tho steamer W, J, Bebian, from Bhroveport for Now Orleans, sunk noar Shreveport to-day. Ihe Loat and cargo mil probably bo saved, DONALDSON'S BALLOON. Card from Manager Coup in IReply to Steincr's Statenents, To the Editor af ‘I'ne Chicaga Tribune : 8r. Louts, Mo, July 2l.—In reply to Mr, Btoiner's card of July 20, I would eay I bave very littlo timo to dovote to matters outalde of my logitimato sud vory important managerial affairs; but thoro aro cortain facts in con- nection with the Into disastrous asconsion of tho brave and chivalrous Donaldson which I feol it jucumbeut upon mysell Lo acquaint the publio with, 1 must say that iv is with & beavy heart and ead misgivings con- -cerning tho fate of Prof. Donaldson and lis un- fortunate companion, the young and promising Grimwood, that I wiite, and wose it not s recog- nized fact that wo owo dutics to the liviug as well a8 the dead, I would permit the ofticions Steiner to pass unnoticed. Had onr company beon the inventors of balloons and engaged in making exporiments, tho results of which would probably eotall pecuniary profit, and with thly object wololy in vlew permitted that unfortusate asconsion, wo should undonbt- edly feol that wo morited publio consure, DBut this was not tho case, nor did'any similar Prof. Donaldson waa ro- garded Ly the entiro civillzed world as an ox- perioncod and capablo acronaut, aud as such wan employed, as explainod i 10y Iast card, as a distivct foaturo of our entortainment. Permit me to stato, by way of parenthosis, tliat in this roply I am compelled to write from memory, as my last Tinuxg Los been taken from my room. In arranglug for bis asconsions Prof. Donald- +| #on was sllowad tha greatost latitude. No ono counected with the mansgomont sought- to or evou droamed of interfering with or dictating to Lim iu a field that was universally regardod as poculinrly lus own, and oo iu wiioh ho wa re- gardod as master, I shonid as soon have thiought of assuming to give instructions to the Captaln of a ateawor plying your besutiful lakio, on wliose boat my name waw entorod as s pas- souger, as direcling Prof. Donsldson in rogard g0 lla ‘suconsions. “In refutation of toiuors’ charga tliat Donaldson purchased and individual- ly paid for covers for his basket, I refer to the bl of the Goodyear HNubber Corpany, Nos. 105 and 107 Madison atroet, BMr, Ueorga Clapp agent, who will certify that this bill was paid by thoe Trossurer ot our Compauy, Another fact to bo considered In conneotion with this statement of Steluer's lu, that tho subject of rubber covors waa not mentioned botween Don- aldson and Hurd uatil after tha covers wore paid for, Inthis convereation Mr, Hurd suggestod thas niloloth covers would bave bottor served the purpose, Mr, Bleiner is defled to _prove the coutrary by any competony witnews, This bill of the rubber compauy, q-ld and roceipted for, is, of courss, correct, aud theroforo conclusive evi- donce of tbe falsity of {ne chargo, 1t wall require but little space to dispose of the charges sgatust Mr. Hurd, 1o occupies n posle tion at the lioad of commorcial wmou in New York, baving boen for yoars managing partuer iu tho wholessle saddlery and luather house of Hurg, Miller & Co., 530 Droadway, o firm which enjoysd tho entire confidence of the publio, Evory charactaristio of our goucern contradicty Steiuor's deolaration thiat wa refased to purcliase the necossary outfit for Donaldson, Economy ia not atudied in our mansgemens. In faot, other showmeun Linvorepuatedly complalued of our ex- travagance in payiug grorms, canvasmen, aud other employes at least $§ por month wore than auy other party engsged in business similar to our own in Amorica, Tho sawe may bo said in rogard to our porformers, troasurors, etc., ex- cept that their sajaries sre incrosded sy thefr morits * mavifest themsolvos, Our -bookw cowpared with thoso of any other con- cery, will prove my assertion, as mada abiove. Hteiner's asgurtion that he iy & friend of Don- aldeon fs uot supported by bis statements to Tue Taisuxs. I would ask Mr, Bleinor if ho gver uaw a balloou covorod with canvas. The Tnsin object s certainly to obtain material s light and thln aa possible; cauvas coveriug would ouly render tho bLalloon nuneccessarily lieavy, and has uever boeu used, I believe. In rogard to_ratches, which Stoiuor “slloges wero put on Donaldson's balloon, Prof. Lozardo states that soams, properly wowed aud carefully g, 1876, vAThinhiad, will mort offectually provant tho ne- cnxo of gan, and no datgor will bo approhendad, notlror question T fool Iln‘mllml to put is, Did Mr, Stemer una a sitk Dalloon in maling bis ascennions during which ho crorsod tho ihke, or & “oalico bag "2 Acconding to Bteinor's own Alateinent'as por hin eard, 1o balloon could liave withotood tho gate of Ssturdsy nght” 1f thus fa Lila opiuion, and it must by 8o accoptes why atlompt to attach to us odinm for (he 1 fortunato rewnlt? T0 Mr. Btewer know tho Dounldson ballovn wan not eafe, why did ho ot inform o, the manaer, of that fact, snd pro- tent mgainet the probable loss of two valnable liven 2° Had 1 deeamnd thera was dangor Dwould nut have pormilted tho asrousion, As beforo niated, Prof, Lonaldson hnd ontiro cantrol of the construction, rep g, and infla- w ol his balloons, Bupposo Mz, Htotner was engaged to mako nacensiona ot s fair or fetn, would lis expect tho manager to bo rosponsitite for the good coudition of his balloon 7~ Would e ascond In a dangorona balloon 7 ‘Iho natural inforouce 1s tnat Lo would not, Prof, Lozando, who assisted Prof. Tionaldeon in the (raphic ox- veriments And with Donaldson constructed a nambor of Lulloons, saya the matorial used lu Donaldson's balloon was _atronger than tho silk gonerally usod, Tlo farthier mays than in building the Graphic balloon they selocted, out of ovcr fortySamplos, the mnterlal nand in the construction of the very balloon In which Yrof, Donalilkon madae bin lant ascourion,—tho vory ouo which has causod tnia conlroversy—theoe of which wo now hiave on hsud) ready (nx lumpiog tion by tho yublic aud professional neronauts. Tho balloon fu which Mr: Thomas mado his as- censjon was inflated and bofore tho publie for oxsnination during the entire day, hud Thomas was tnatructed to fuyito the piblic, through the city panors, to minnutoly oxaming its condition, but in tho press and confusion of other businass matters, this.was forjotten, B AR to ths question of stronath between eilk and colfon, the iablic ia as capabla of deciding ns Mr, Bteinor or myself, many of them bottar than I, as I do not profess’ to understand euch mattors, oxcopt 80 far as I am ipformed DLy wther capable and oxperlonced aeronants, bavihg givon tho muhject more thought since the uu- fortunate nscousion than in sl my previous life, In regard to Prof. Donaldson's having made moro asconsiond than any other acronaut, I should have moditicd my oxprossion by saying, - &inco ho lins baen engaged in the profession, and Stetnor does not and caunot deny that ho line carriod moro pnssengors than any othor nerousut, and that his- voysges' wero real arcenalons, not mado by the balloon boing wafoly obained to mother earth by “a windlass, as, tho reading public well know, the Government balloous wors in trips of obssrvation duting thelate War, and ay also wero the balloons during {he Franco-Pruss sian war, I do not claio Lo possess knowlodgo, cither selentific or practical, it regard to batloon ing, slthough having made two nscensions with Yrof. Doualdson, It Mr, Stoiner assumos to culightou the world on Lhe vexed quostions in rogayd lo balloon ascensions, will Lo kindly tutorm un: Doen it requirh sciouce to throw out ballast, or opon a valve? Verbaps selenco may sncceod in discovering curronts of aur, but, so far, even that hns boen o failuro, if T am correctly informed. Dubtlcss, upon thls point slone, Gen, Myer and bis assisitants in tho Bigual Sorvice Dopartment would make the beet. soronauts, ‘Lhoss points o will loavo for settio- ment by other scientiets, Prof, Lozardo, oud all other nerousuts whom wo havo consulted, coneur in the docision in rogard to tho strength or capacity of resisting the elemouta that a balloon, once {n tho sir or one oapablo of raining itself, is sate onough pro- vidod thio uso of tho vaivo {s undaratood. somo. oven contending that a paper balloon 18 strong onough m a dry atmonphure, Mr, Steluer's atttomy s to bring reproath upon 1, taken in eonnection with his_ adinismon that no tinlloon evuld bave withetood the' storm of "Thurslay pight, indicates that ie was oxcoedingly austuus (o Ax the respanaibility of dissster upon thismavagement, P'rof, Lozardo tnforms mo that Mr. Bteiner mado himaelf obnoxious by interfer- ing with tho Graphic balloons, and whon called” upon Lo accouut for his atntomenta rofused to subslantiatc tnem. Idepend not alone ugion Irvof. Jozavdo'’s statomout in regard to thisof- tleons conduet of Mr. Bteinar, Tolegrams ro- .ceived by mo from New York to-duy, from rosponeible parties whoms namem ro- for to Buppress, wunless Mr, Steinor compols mo- to umse them, inform me that Steinor, the voritable Bteinor who has ussnined (o say so much concerning Prof, Done aldson’s Jast naconsion, did cause the bunfiuf of tho first Graphte bailoan through hin incapacity ; and'that ho was tha flrst to circulato tho report that the balloon was rotten, & subterfuge rosort- ol tobybim to conceal his own incapacity. One of theas dispatchos from New York says: “Yon can eafoly say the man is n liarand quaci,'” I fusthor oharge Mr, Btoibor with hav- ing made to Mr. Sullivaw, of tho Evening Jour- nal, ono ataterent, and subsequontly denying it to Col. J. D, Ualdwin, It tho editors of ‘Lux Trinuse, or any frionds of Prof, Doualdson, wish to sce the orizinaly of the telograms reforred toiv this lotter, they are in my poseossion, sud_ may bo rasd by sy par- ties interested, aud I hold myself reaponsible for tho atetemonts heremn contajucd. ‘" W. C. Cour, Manager Barnum's Hippodromae, FROM TIE NORTH OF MICHIOAN, Specyut Dispateh tn T'he Chicaso Iribune, GraNp Rarips, Mich., July 22.—Reports have beon curront hore that Doualdson, the acrooaut, biad bosn scen or hind mado ks appearanco fn tho ,northeru part of tho State at ‘I'raverse City, Pe- toskey aud other points. Tho city editor of tho Daity E“{RI‘ has spont tho past five days in that country, Maokinaw, and on Grand and Littlo®| T'raverse Baya and the contiguous shores. The mont diligont suquiries both of thoys on shore and of nll vessels, wnil and sleam, ho could Lall elicited tho nformation that neither Lie nor his balloon had becn sson in that sectiqn, or any pottion of an outfiy that might Liave beon his, which undoubtedly sets at reat all rumors ns to Dounldson’s “appoarauce in Nortincro Michigan or his being found thore, Ian't it.posuiblo Doualdson was carried clear over thia Biato and tho lakes into the wilds of Canada, north and east of Georglan DBay 2. THE WEATHER. | Wasmrartox, D. 0,, July 22.—For the Upper Lake rogion. Upper Missisaippi and Lower Missouri Valleys, rising or stationary baromoter, north to wost winds, clear or partly cloudy, and slightly coolor weatlior than on Thuraday. LOCAL OBYERVATION. Tie,_[fiar. Thr|Hlu] 0:53 », 1, 29,79. TI)-_.. Cloudy +21 Cloudy. 'atr, 108 L't rain {Falr, 10:18 . i Falr, H-dymum thermomoter, 8J; minimum thermome- 2 63, QENERAL OLSZRLVATIONS. Cit13as0, July 23—-10:18 p, m, Wand, (ko Wealhers "50|N. E., freah. | ..., | Cloar, asfoaiil, . 3, W, gentle. ... ' W Resilo 18, T4, ' Station, bar, Uhr| 29,78 . 448, gentle, 2918 688."W., gentl LETTING INDIANS HAVE WHISKY, Yanxroy, D. I\, July 22.~An importsnt de. cision bas jnst been mado by the Buprems Court of tho Terntory on the Indlan question. Une der g law of the Congross of 1804, partiea wora lisble to punishment for solling lqudr to Indie aua whether on or off reservation. The com- pilers of the United Hiates Btatutes, ia Bec, 3,130 changed the languaga 50 as to make it doubtful whether tho law imposad liability any~ where except on Indlan resorvations, Judge Bhanuon, in ths United Hiates District Court, ou & labeas corpus, having held parcies lisble for gluog whisky to su Indisu: sway from & rey- orvation, aupesl was taken $o t{n Bupreme Court, which unsnimously afiirmed Lis declaion. WANTED Y0 DIE, Omanmary, 0., July 23, —August Hasler, », saloon-keeper, attompted to commit suicide over the grave of Lis wifo, {u the Carthago Boad Cemstery, this eveniug. lie firod two bullots into hils left side, but neftlier perforsted a vital point. aud it {s thouglt be will'recover. Fiusu- cial troubles aro said to bs tho cause. —_—————— ATTEMPTED ROBBERY. A bold attempt was mado by two raffiana to rob Joseph Finegold, a Randolph street car-con- duotor, laat night at 0;30 0'clock. He was walk- ing along Blizabeth atroat. between Lake and Randolph, wlen attacked, sud was knocked down and sevoroly cut about the head sud face, The thioves did uot obtaln auy plundor, They escapod arrest, THE BAKER SCANDAL. How It Ts Regarded in Paris, Freneh Yiews as to {ho Treaiment of Un married Women Who Travel Unattended, New York World, PAnts, July f.—Tnit too much to say that “*all tho world " is talking of the ohargemads agalont Col. Valentina Daker by Miss Dickinson? I think not. The English papors nre full of it, tho I'rench papers devote wholo columns to the mubijcet, and havo already begun to diacnss it in leadora which, perhaps undeservodly, combino nntruction with amusement fn almost equal proportions, And as for othor reglons, I do not tako in tho Siberian Messenger, or tho North and South Iole Gaztlle, lmt, it 1 had thess sheota Iying on my table, I'should L quite pro- pared to find them doiog-full justics to the all- avsorbing topie. And what i3 all the fusa about ? A mansnd a woman flnd thenisolves alone in o itway- earringe, and thay begin to tatk. Tho; man resently triea to kias tho woran, and ehe rosista theatlempt. Ifo goey on to take furthor frocdoms. minl she opens the carriage-door, Jumps on the steps, and stands there; at tho smminent porll of hor Jifo, unsll tho train reaches tho atation, where shio s rescied and her asanilant is takon into custody, It is noth- 1ng out of ‘the commou way,—these’ things havo happened but too often,—aud yet it ia. vory much, For tho man is o Colonol, and addi- tion to that he liolda a very high adtministrative position as Alleraliots, is, in fact, & gontleraan,— ona o ‘wociety's gentlomen, If not oxactly one of ‘naturo's,—~and tbe woman is & Jady. One of er rolativos is & porson of standing in tho law § atiotter liolds- something worth haviug in' the Chureli. Good socioty in shocked ; and tho world’s sympatliotic swouder is a kind of imphed compliment to the dolicacy of gociety's fealings, ‘and, in nomne sort, a testimony to the unimpeach- ablo proprioty of 'its ordinaty boliavior. A bun- dred pursoes are stulon evory day, and no ono but ‘tha suflerors cares tonote the loea; but, suppose a Bishop woro to turn_pickpockot, the post and tolograph would maice it famous in both'hermi- sphores in less than four and twonty bours, Dut whal to my miud i« still more atrikiug than the awakonoed curiosity of tho newspapera is tho awakenod curiosity of their readers. Tho two things sro_not always cause aud offcet, Hora Io Taris, for inatanco, thoy have for nine days been talking of nothing olso and, with their greator freedom of mannors, tho subjoct {8 ofton montioned at dinner-tables and 1b drawing-rooms, inetoud of. being—88 oue fools sure it would be in England—resorved for tho smoking-room nlone, 'T'wico have I boen out to dinnor slnco tho affair beeamo known, avd oach timo wo havo *‘talked Col. Iaker" all through tho meal. It came on with tho fluh, and it remained with na till long after the dos- Rort, for wotook it away into the drawing-room, and when finally lieard of; two departing contro- yersialiats woro bearing its uow somowhat fatiguing burdon down-stairs into tho streot. “Tug-tncident in looked upon as- very marked trait of Eoglish manners,” satd my host on the last occasion, _**'The discussion Is a no less markod trait of Fronch manners,” was my roply. TWo were aix at iabio} ot tha ladics were Fronch, but thero was an. Luglishman prosent, and he- :was facod by a rkopticsl I'ronchman, Tha Iattor icould not ba bronght to beliove in tho claimy to isympathy of Miss Dickinson, pronounced ** Mees Dickeonwonn,” Why did Miss Dickeancoan, bs- {ing unmarricd, rde by horself in a railway car- Iriago, aud, abovo all, why did she allow horaulf |to ba drawn into conversation by the firat stran- ger she hnappened to meet? *“Thoe Colonel is Imaraily innocent,” crics_our skoptic, after thus ‘brietly stating tho unfathomable mystery of tho ‘1ady’s condnet, and he focks around the table ns thongh defying any one to contradict him, “What he ienns to say,” observes our host, who Incth a8 & good-natared moderator for thio whols ausembly, * {a that in Franco a youug unmarried woman who- complaius of any inanit offered to her when shio appearod in “public without an -escort in already judged, Thero (s but ouo question to ask, why wasshe alone? Andasit is impossible ts answer it to lLer ndvantage ‘thoro fa nothing mnore to Bay.” _ * It in abomitra- ibley"* eaya-the Englinhman. ~ It is just,” ery all |tho Freuchiwomen ina broath. **Cowme, come,” .Baya tho Fronchwau to his acqualntance from itife otlier side of tho Stialt, **lot us be reasona~ Lle bofore overything, You find yourself inn railway enrriago.” “1find myself iu a railwa) carringe,” saya the otler, fallowing bim, thougl in execrable I'rench, »o as to mako #nro of miss- ln§ no point of the argmmontativo problom. «Yon have opposito to you n jeune meen.” 1 Tave oppesita to mo a young lady,” says the othi- er, not without emphasis on tho last words, “Nobody 1is with the jeune mees, boither ‘father, vor mother, nor brothor,—not 8o much as 8 poor relation three tlmes: romoved.” ‘*Buppose sho hasn't got & poor relation?™ asks the islander, with gonerons indig- nation, “My frlond” answers tho otber :solemnly, *sho must hire one. Ijut lot mo soo0; whoro was 17 or, rathor, whero wero you? You wera opposits to thsg‘mnfl niees, and tho feune mees is nlone. You falk to her, aa a matter of courte; sle answers 3 well, what doos that mesn?” “ Cest jusle," observes the Fronch- ‘womm agaln, ‘‘Not a bit of it,” eays tho En- ‘glishman, Tt stop; I mean what if she does talk to mo—what {hon? Am [ justifiod in pro- tonding to mintake her charncter and in olTering hor & doliborato insuit?” *It is a dolicate ofnt," says the Frenchman. *Ileave it to tho adies," * And the ladies decide in your favor,” roplies the hoatess guickly, ** What! are we to ba placed on the samo footing na the men? Aro onr young women to travel with no more olrcumspection than a commorcial traveler or a gendarme?” It is droll,” says anothor of * tho. ladies, ‘It 18 avsurd,” says the third, *Itis American,” says the first ono. ‘The Englishman exbibits the doop disguat of o combaiant who lins boen doserted by his nataral allies; but for all that ho makea o despprate at- tempt to rotrievo s fortuncs. **Then I am to understand that whenever I moot & lady in pub- lic without a rmtoclor Lmay offer hor any im- pertinence [ ploase ?” * Not any lady,” suswors one of the I‘renchiwomen, wilh some disdain. Her countryman looks at Lor, and thera 4 clontly this exprossion: in his glance: ** Do not bo augry with him; he {sa simple child of naturo and he'moans no barm.” “ You don't undor- stand ono another,” says tho bost, ** Thers’s all’ the difference In the world between tha freedom allowed to the Frouch married womau and thoro- straint Imposod upon the French unmarried girl. In France & woman bafore hor marriage lives in » far more porfoct secluslon than anythiog you hear of smong the Turks, Itis more Evorruct, because it s moral; it s a weclnsion that affecty the mind, m4 woll aa hor movemouts in society aud in the world, It is so perfoct tuat what Liay just happened in England could not, undsr any concaivablo circumsatances, have Lhappened hore. A young lady {4 taken to tho rallway station by hier rolations, put into a traln to make a tolera- bly long journoy, sud thore left to hor own do- vicos and to'chance, In fact, tho survelilance of Ler famiy over Ler ends almost at the vor, point at which it ought to Login, That coul no more happen hoeze than any other thing totally, one ml%m say uonatrously, ot veri- auco with the labits of the ontire Twpla. ubllo per- Imsgine an Empross. glving a forwauce on & tight-rope, and ;fou AYO BOIIO~ thing lke & parallel absurdity, When it dooa hsppon fn any othor country, Fronch opinion, a4 yon see, immodiately decldes sgainst tho woman.* ¢ know that wn{l euaugh,” says tho Driton, * bt what I waut to show is tuat it' uoreasonaple. It waa imprudont, porkaps, in°the lady to bave nnythmli tossy to a stranges bue it was nothivg woiso; if sho had- bocn ma riod, now, it would Lsve been quite a differont affair. ¢ What do you mean 7" cry the Irench- 1wan and the ladios ‘with one voico. “Why, & warried woman, of course, can't-be too'circam- spect; sha ought not to sddress suy ono, or ‘suffor any one to addross lior, uvless La comes qualified by a proper introductlon; sho has hor hu-hwd'n cuarsoter to think of and hor chil- dren,’ * Ab, the husband who owos lier,” obe gorves one of tho French women, cvldmtli dwellltg on somo recolleotion of the ol rumor tbsb Englishruen Luy tholr wives; “well, m look after lLer if ho pleases, but for my pard I think a mnmfid wom- an ought to bo trusted to look after horaelf ; ‘shio’ {8 not & cblld.™ *\What {s warrisge, after all,” says the Englishman, with some warmtl, *shat it whould makefsuch a differencein & wom- su's claim 1o rewpect 7* ¢ It's no greas thing, pertinps,* angwery the Frenchman, ' but after il we have not sbolished it as yet, and we might a8 well abolieh it at onoe if we brought up our Eirls as you geem to recommend.” * Why?" W, ll':lcmu, uobady would masgry them; that's sll," 1 leavo the nwmm siloncod, but noy convinsed ; slien: uge Lo ia ono aganst a whole: gowpany,] 'The ladies seem to considor thet it 0 much duty of all yOung women: ta place themselves Leyoud the risk of undos fresdom on the part of men thay tho Colonel is to bs excused if nob ap~ lasuded. It is the busioess of men to tske reedomu; it Is the business of watchful parents 10 #eo that thay are not taken, and the last iy so much more important aud imporative of the two that thoss who suffar by the meglect of it ato not deserving of tho slightest compassion. ‘Lhe Caloasl is not to be blased, b swply acted attar ghe fanhlon of hia kind: as woll loavae ti tloor 6f tho bird-cago open, and then blame the caL for aating tho bird, Tio Frouchman tnkoes such the samo viow; had thore been a mar anothor mattor, Any one who had ‘pro. shmed on tho slight encouragomont mho might have offered him, the oxchinnga of s fow civilitics of ordinary conversalion, would havo Lpen a fool a8 woll a# & bruto, aud he oughy to hiave boon soverely punishad in each eapacity, Thero mny coma & time whon the Frontinnan himsolf will marry, When it does come, ho ml] oxpect to have his future wifo as jealoudly guarded from her fulure lovor as shio I8 guarded from all tuo rest of tho world, e will pay his addrassea to hor through tho notarics, and when they liave given the mignal LLAt tho monetary affairs on both sides are fu good: ordor, then, and not tiil thoo, will ho venturo to breathos word of love. *Il ia droll, if you like, but It [q comma cs,” I hdar him paying io tho thoroughly bowlilderad ialandor as thay both tako their leave, I thought It *‘droll,” too, and that s why I wrote this lotter, ———— ¥ WHISKY FRAUDS, AVERY, Bpeetal Dispatch to The Chicago Trfune, Wasmsaroxn, D. C,, vuly 22.—No ofticlal In. formation haa Leon rocsived hare as to the work of"the 8t, Lonia (irand Jury, but private ad. vices from thero rumor that Chiof-Clork M. M. Avory,” of tho Tronsury, ia among the indicted. Thero s ab all cvonta littlo doubt that Avery will cither im. modiatoly rosign his position or be tempararily suspondad. ‘Thero are a numbor of applicanta for hia plase. Avery oxpecta to immodistely procaod to Bt, Lonis, ant claime to be ablo to provo hie inoocence, snd that there isn cons spiracy agafust him, AT PEKIN. Bpecial Dispatch o The Chicaao Tridune, Psxan, I, July 22.—This mornlog a Govorn. ment dotectivo stirrod up quito & Dbreezo, which may blow over. Doforo Thilip Bortach's saloon Lio saw the stamp iutact on a boer-keg which had boon tapped on the eido. Bortech claima thay the omlsnion was temporary and - nnintentional, and that tho stamp would "bave been cancoled beforo returniug tho keg to the browery, Tho matter is yot unaottled, and occanions more com- mont thsn tho burned browery or tho seizure of yc.tunllx. Tho ofticors claim to have a cloar caso againg the Distilling Company of Pekin. Aoro devo! opents azo oxpocted. WISCONSIN, Bpecial Disvalch to The Chicano Tribuns. Biuwauxer, Wis, July 22.—August Borgen. thall, John Bellitz, Johu Taft, Charles Burback, aod John B, Reynolds, the parties indictod Lo~ fote the Grand Jury at Oshkosh yosterday, wore torday hold in €6,600 bail esch bofore- United Btates Commissioner Bloodgood of this city, —_— MILITARY ITEMS, Col. . L. Kilbura, Assistant Commissary- QGenoral of Hubaistance, Las boan ordered to this city as Chiof Commissary of the Military Division of the Missouri. sary-General of ‘Bubaistenco, is ordersd to duty at the purchasing depot at Boston, Mass, Capt. C. B. Pcorodo, Comimissary of Sabaist. ence, lina beon ordercd to report in person to tho Commissary-Goneral of Subsistouco nt Washington, (] Capt. Tully McCron, tirat Artillory, has baon rolieved fram duty an Deputy 'Governor of the Soldiers’ Ifomo in Waslungton, aud orderad to join Lis battery. Leave of nbsouco for six months Lian been granted Liont, ¥rod Schwatka, Third Cavalry, Lirat Lieut. C. I'. Losho, Lighth Infantry, hay nccopled an appointmont of M l{nr i the Bgyp- tisu army, and sailed from New York on Hatute day Iaat, on routo to his new Llold of duty, —_— A BLOOMINGTON EXCURSION. Special Diepatoh to The Chicano Tribune. Brooaxarox, Ill.,, July 22.—A good deal ot axcitomont and'no lttlo mdignation js folt here, caueed py the Chicago & Alton golting up oo ex- cursion from Bloomington to 8t. Louls in oppo. sition to ono contemplated by the Methodimts of Bloomington aver tho Contral Road, Although tho Chicago & Alton peoplo disclalm any cn- deavor on thelr part to interforo mth tha Aloth. odiste’ plans, and state that it ta simply a quos: tion of rivalry betweon the roads, the practical rouult of the competition will bo loas to a worthy claes of peoplo who imagine that thoy desorva better troatinent by tho Alton Road andita ofticers. —_—— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Loxpoxy, Juoly 22,—Thero I8 no changs in the position of tho steamship Altotsfard, which wont ashore in Cummoe’'s Day, Wales. The agents ghink sho will float off at tho next high tido, Liverrooy, July 22.—Lightera have beon aent to tho steamship Abbotatord to tako off her cargo. Tho forward compartmont is full of water, but tho others are tight, ‘There aro atil hopes of saving tho vossol. ¥ &unnmwu. July 23.—The steamehips Sean. diyavinn, from Daltimore, sud Bomerset, from Now York, Liave arrived. —— WISCONSIN DENTISTS, Bpectal Lispatch to The Chicago Triduns, Mmwavrke, Wie, July 22.—The aunual som slon of tho Wisconsin Btato Dontal Associstion closod to-day, nfter elcoling officers as follows: Dr, R, G. Wells, of 8parta, President ; Dr, J. 0, Tukes, of Racine, First Vico 'rosident; Dr. Al bort Gollidsy, of Vatortown, Hocond. Vice Fresk- dout ; Dr, A, T. Moore, of LaCrodo, Secul-m Dr. 8. 0. Judd, of Beloit, Troasurer. I'ho ni meoting will bo bold in this city. —_— Now Yoric Timos Stock-8100,000 08 fored for T'vn of tho One Mundred Shares, Netwo York Sun, A snit involying tho ponsennion of ane siiare of tho Now York T'imes stock, held by tbe eatata of thio late Jamou B. Taylor, came up befors 8urre- gate Hutching in. the Burrogate Court on Fris day, Nr, Edward H, ‘racy, oxecutor of the estato, made nfiidavits showing that by the death of Mr, ‘Uaylor ton; shares of the Zime Btook fall to Taholrs. Thas thiesa shares s +vory valuablo if thoy can bs sold togethor, but that thoir valus would bo greatly diminished it theyshould be disposed of todifferent parties, Me. T'racy further certifted that aboud a yoar ngo, Mr. George Joues of tho Now York 7¥mes mado sn allegod contrnct with the widow of Jamos ‘I'nylor, by which aho agroca to sell him one of iluo ton Bhares for 812,000, 2,000 to bo pall down; and ths rost to pald in moathly I staliments of 260, Mr. Traoy Lield that Mre ‘Laylar, whio 18 the ozecutrix, was induced & make this bargain through her pecuniary noces- sitios, ond that tho contract s {uvalid” for twe O s Pirst, that, ne the steck was not in het nossession, she liad no pawer to make any trans for; and socondly, that she made tho salo oo cmlh. which no executor is empowered to do. Mr, ‘Tracy aflirmed that ho hias already in his of« fico & cortiflod ohock offoring $160,000 for thoten shbares If thoy can be sold together, It Mr, Jones puccoods in holalog posseseion of the ahare in dispute, the othor nine, it is asserted, will Le hiardly worth £40,000, and the catate would lose a4 lesst $50,000. My, Jonos, it is aaid, desires to obtain tha share for which Lio bargained with the widow, a4 ite purchase would insure Lira the ma Jority luterestin tho paper, s Le already conr trols tifty abarea of the stuck, 4 §ca Smnll Bitls.?? 8t, Louts Hepublican, They came into one of the Justices' officeatt Eot married, Lo & gaunt aud hilarious snd horny uded busbandman, ubo & bjushiug aud_plu] lavs, ovidently fresh from tho dairy, He wa }stllmmu in bis happiness'and not afrald to shot t ‘' We've come to git married, we liavs, an’ yot can't plico us mpy too quick| Thore eho iaf shio's & screammor! * Hor namo's Jonuy Smith aud mine s Bul Hopking, Wo're 1:10 ' to sottle down an’ hayo a rattlin’ family of boys, by golis; nud nawo 'om all after me| Marry us quick, au’ then come an’ seo us in a year or two, snd then. Ba them cirousipostors say, you'lisge amasil Bills. Tho Justice' placed the blumhing bride sod boistarous groom ia position sud Lurried through the covemony, though scarcoly fast encugh ff the jmpatient countryman. Thoe ceremony oou~ cluded, the Istter pulied a 25 dollar bill from Lig ‘uc\ml, flang b down aud fairly shouted : “Whoop! I'm the bappiest man in ¢, Lok it it in » durned big piace| Thora's tho atampe. Xecp 'em all; it's worth the money! An' if yoo over come out in the country uear our plase, Jou Jon ntop in an ' seo amail Bills{* ‘Tho brida blashed woro then e and the coaple started off for their hotel, but the IIIFK! uan could scarcely contain himself, oven on the pldowslk. Asthoy disappeared around the cornel tho man gave & leap sad cut & pigeon wulfi while the wind brought the hllarious uhout baci sgain: ~"Whoop ! Boo wmsll Bits 1" rled lady in tho caso that wonld have beon quitg . Liout.-Col. 1L T\, Clark, Assistant Commig.