Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1875, Page 14

What Dr. 14 THE CHICAGO TRIBONE: SUNDAY, AUGUST™ 15, “1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. ¢ THE UNIVERSITY. Statement of the Trustees Re- garding Dr. Moss, Controversies Which Have Tojured the Insti. tution. Burroughs Has Done for It, Criticism of the Administration of Dr, Moss, The Pelicy of Compromise and Concession Ended. Hopes Entertained of the Future of the University. Dr. Boone’s Reply to the Late President. STATEMENT OF THE TRUSTEES. 'WHY DE. MOS8 WAS REMOVED. o the Patrons and Friends of the Untversity ©f Chicago: The Trustees beg leave to prosent to the friends of the University the following statement : At » meeting of the Board held on the 18th of July the following preambls and resolutions were sdopted by a vote of 13 to 7, Dr. Burrooghs declining to vote: ‘WHEZRZAS, At the annual meeting of the Board last {oar s reorganizaion of the University waa effected, should charge of . fairs of the University, under ths title of Chanoetlor, adminis while the internal trution should be left o the Presidency, to which office the Rev, Dr.3oss was elected ; and, Wupkeas “This resnlt was reached after long and painful detiberation, as well as great concession an the part of many who had been Trustees of the University Irom ita origin, and who were avcrse to any change of administration, but who were mduced to yield their own judgment in deference to the plea that this ad- Justment would be universally satisfactory and would increase the cfficiency of the administration of the Eniverdty, and all parties including the newly-clected President and the Chancelfor, baving sccepted this ar- Tangement with mutual professions cf satisfaction and pledges of good faith and support ; and, WHERE4s, Within & few weeks after entering upon his duties, the President began to express diesatistac- tion with his errangement, and bas since lulored 1o disseminate such dissatisfaction, and st an adjourncd meeting on the Sth inst., after the members wuo had becn present at the annual meeting had_dispercd, and without zotiee of any intention to reopen questions which were supposod to be forever settled, expressed o the mall numberpnsc_nd' t entire distrust of the ex- ng organization ; an Wi Under this strong representation, s mo- tion way made and puabied 10 3y iuformal expression, abolishing the present organization and removing the Chanoellor from the charge of the, duties which had been assigned to him, and it being our conviction that barmony of wterests cannot Le obtained under the arrangements, for the reasons hereinbefcre stated; thorefore, with s view of securing bumony 20 effclency 1n the sdministration of the Universlty, Jiesolved, That the office of President of the Uni- versity of Chicago be, and is hereby, declared to be Yacant. The following was then also adopted : Resolved, That the entire sdministration of the Uni- ‘erxity, for the time being, be commutted to the Chan~ ‘callor, with instructions to report to this Board, at the earlioat practicable moment, plans for the future con- duct of tha University. At sn adjourned meeting on the 27th of Julr. after a full rehearing of the whole matter, not only as presented by merabers of the Board, but by communications from others, and after public sentiment had been fully reflected in the discus- nions of the presa, the Trustees reaffirmed their former action by an increased vote. seveuteen members Yoling afirmatively against thirteen in the negative, though four of those voting in the affirmstive at the first meeting were absent, making twenty-one Trustees who have voted for ths action. Three or four others, also, have written to express their concurrence, assuming tho facts set forth in the preamble to be true. At the meeting when the preamble and resolu- tions were intreduced, zs » substitate for the motion to remove Dr. Burronghs, Dr. Moss was present and spoke at length in his own defense, 2nd at botn meetings was represented by counsel of eminent ability. At peither meeting was final action taken tull after full deliberation and discussion, extending to some four or five hours. THK STRICTURES WHICH HAYX REEN MADE on this acticn by the preas, epsecially that of the denomination with which Dr. Moss is connected, and also by ministerizl associations and individ- uals of the same denomination, were, perhaps, 10 more than wers to be expected under the oir- cumstances. Coming so soon after Dr. Moss' sloction to the Preaidency, and at & ums when high hopes wers entertained by many for his sd- ministration, it is vot strauge that this action should be regarded bymany as abrupt sod even revolutionary. The toes thererore feel that o candid statement of the reasons which in- flueuced them to this step is due to the friends of the University. ‘The first and main claes of reasons is fully re- cited in the preamblo to the resolutions, and to ‘what is there set forth little need be added. All the essential facts of that preamble are facts of almost public notoriety, st least are well known to every member of the Board of Trustees, and to a large part of the friends of the University ; s that proof of them would be superfiuous, :;c: i the face of feebls attempts to deny o, Itis notoriously true that the Univarsity had long been HARASED AND INJURED BY GONTROVERSIES. Beginning 8o far back as 1863 with an attempt to set aside the Preaident, & small minonity of the M’mfl" m&? ul:car uix c{l seven, had persi y o policy of the majority, and kept alive discora and contention. T:J.red of the strife, and jed to_believe that his friends in tha Board desired it, Dr. Burroughe, in Decem- ber, 1878, resigned; mot, a8 has been al- leged, on_condition thst another place should be provided for him, but sabsolutely. The project of a Chancellorship originated not with him or his friends, but with bis opponents, and when proposed to him was declined, on the ground that those so long op- posed to him as President would be no more reconciled to him as Chancallor, and that har- mony could be gained onl‘i by his aysolute re- tirement. When finally the office was oreated, Dr. Barroughs obtained the consent of another, Toe pouiion acd i, pledes of Lis Joudsun e position, At Pl of og friends among the members to support that gen- tieman for Cbancellor ; and,up to the day of the annual meeting of last year, supposed that it was definitely settled that he would bave no farther official connection with the Univeruity. At that meeting, however, a differeat condition of Jaffuirs from what had been anticipated was found to exist. The timeof Dr. Burronghs' sep- aration from the University bsd been soything ot a period of progress and prosperity. It had alwaye been held out by thoss who sought hia retirement that pothing elss was needed to ‘canse an uoprecedented inflow of money and all kinds :tn ?:’;Pm“' On the contrary, . G WEATEVER HAD REEN DOXNE. Not & dollar bad been added to tho resources of the University, by subscription or donation ; the college year had closed aud the Faculty head left for their vacation with large balances of salary gppaid—s thing which had not happened before in years—there were loud complamnts of loose- Dess and disorder within the Umiversity ; in short everything seemed tending to coufusion and rum, sod » feeling almost of despair pre- vsiled gmong its friends. Under such circam- etanoos 1t ia carcely to be wondersd at thata B read feeling bad nsen in favor of recall- ing Dr. Burroughs to the Preadency, and that the majority of the Trustees wers ready to con- ‘summate that measure at that meeting. Omn the other band, Dr. Moss bad beeu invited to ad- dress the ltersry societies st Commencement with the view of bringing him forward s a can- didate for the Presidency. It was under these ‘sircamstances that the organization spoken of the presmble was effected, the minority pro- posiog it and the majority, eptirely mn the epirit of coocession, acoepung it Lis. Moss and he were accordingly unanimously elscted invited h:ed th ‘meeting of the Board, where both expre: their scquiescence in the terms of the sgreemeot, and in fseling their faithfal support 1o it and to i i that if were sver hxoken the be his. Sevesal of ] those most active in the recent attempts to re- move Dr. Barroughs are also remembered to have assured him pablicly in that meetiog that, though they had opposed bim as President, he could thenceforth rely on their support. Strong expresaions of gratification and confidence were made by many, and soma ten thousand doilars were pledged on the spot to the funds of the University. Under such circumstancas. it seems nothing less than unacconutable that any one, especially one himself an active party to ail theso proceed- 1ngs, ehouid in a year afterwa:ds hold the lan- gusge, I do not suppose that one of all those who scted® in the matter sup- posed that he was bound by any compact ex- press or impleit.” What a large majority of the Trustees of the University did think on that subject has been declared in their recent scts. What enlightened and fur-minded men will think, in the light of these facts, we aro will- ing to trust, What the writer of the above sentence really thinks, i epite of himseif, is made evident by Liis own disclaimer, in another place of disloyal- ty, on the part of Dr. Moss, to what t’hs pream- ble calla a compromise. ¢ Dislosalty” to what did not exist need not be denied. ~ The simple truth ig that pot one of the twenty-seven men present at the annual meeting of last year, in- clnding Dr. Moss and the writer of the above, will deny that, by virtue of au agresment of some kind, by whatever name it may be called,— compromise, compact _arrangement. or auy Ot er,—the minority and Dr. Moss ganea an end— an end which, without entering ioto that agree- ment, they had not the shadow of a chance of aining, namely: Dr. Moss' election to the Prosdancy of the Umvarsity. Dut, tho end gaied, Dr. Moss and his friends forthwith find it couvenient, almost before the ink of the.record is dry, to deny that there was 8 consideration. True, the majonty thought there was, and on that understanding had made im- rtaut concessions. Trae, the minority aud r. Moss bad acted o8 if here were, and availing themeelves of it had elécted their man, and he had aceepted office under it ; but all the while ¢ not one of all who actel in the matter sup- posed he was bound by any compact, express or 1mphed !” : At least it is clear that THERE NEVER WAS ANY INTENTION on the part of Dr. Mcss and bis frieuds to be bound by any compromise or agroement, ‘* ex- press or implied.” Their Geaial of tho existence of any is proof enough of this, and if it wera not, their subsequent scts would be. Attempls to break up the arrangement were but the nat- ural sequel of atefusal to recozmzo its exist- ence. And here atteation is particularly called to tho statemout of the preamble, that these acts are not of recentorigio, Dr. Moss and hisfriends have sought to make them 80 appasr, aud have likewise claimed that thoy were the acts of men unfettered by any compromtses, aud plan- ning and acting 1n their best wisdom for the Uni- versity, They would have it believed that their purpose to break up tho organization grew out of the experience which the year bad afforded of 1ts inefliciency, and because somebody at the Enst had been hoard to speak unfavorably of it. The resson of the ueflicicocy Lias been variously at- tributed, sometimas to the shor:comings of the Cuancellor, aud_somatimes to what has been called the *‘donble-beadedness” of the orgau- ization. To all this, bowever, it 18 & suficient snewer that these attempts antedate all opporta- pity to test the eniciency of the organization. They begau, n_fact, almost immediately after Dr. Moss® election, and, within two mouths after beentered oo his duties, took the form of a di- rect avowal in a méetivg of the Trastees, as well a8 to people outside the Board, of his utter dis- trust of the organization, and his belief that Dr. Burroughs oaght at cuce to be separated from the University, several of lus friends, also, coin- ciding with this exprossion. So unexpected and astounding was this muwfestation of il-teoling at the time that Dr. DBurronghs inatant- 1y resigned, ond was culy induced o ro- call his resignation by the emgphatic expression of the Board, and iho representations made to bim by a committee which had been sent to him, that bis sdherence to it wowd result in the clos- ing of the University with tue current term. All this, it wall be seen, s ntterly destruciive of the theory that Dr. Mouss’ bostility to the organiza~ tion was the outgrowth of the experience of the year. It makes it evident that he brought his hostility with lmm iuto bis office, aud never in- tended Lo abide by the conditions of his electioo. If other evidenco of 'this were needed, s ovin statemeut, recently made, that he bad bhad the same opinton of Dr. Burroughs’ connection with the Univergjty for six years, would seem to be enough. The character of ‘- manly frankuess " has been claimed for these acts of Dr. Moss by his apologiats. We submit that tbe time for frankoess was when Dr. Moss’ election to the . Presidency was pending, and be and bLis frieods koew that it depended wholly on his acceptance of the terms of the compromise.. "o keep back the secret of his oppositiou to it then, and bring it forward after les end bad been gaiued, may pass for manly frankuess by some standards, but others will cail it by a aiffereut nume. Bat even if it wero £0 that these acts dated no further back than the Sth of July, the claim that these attempts to re..ove Dr. Burrosghs com- menced and grew out of evidences waich bad then accumulsted of the weliciency znd the evils of the double-headedness of the organiza- tion would find no foundation in the fac.s. As tonefficiency, tha final results of the year, as shown by the annual reports, are the best and suflicient answer. The report shows that the aonnosal interest on the debt las: year was fully paid; that moge snan $30,000 was gained towards the reduotion of the principal; that the large deficit in current expenses, compared with the regular income, was 80 far met by general coliec- tions that the montbly salaries god other bills were paid more promytly than ever before io e history of the University ; thst £30,000 of én- dowments were actuslly secured, snd others are in reasonable prospect ; that order, sys.em, and economy had beon introduced inwo the “business of the University, aud its interests representod in many conventions and churches, aud to many people indivniduaily throughout the BStates of Ilipows and = Wisconsin, and sll by one man, and he working withont salary or other expense to the University except & small allowance for traveliog expenses. Witn such a sbowing it is not didicalt to see how much can: dor there is in the charge of inefliciency. Much stress has been laid upon the injustice done to Dr. Moss by hus displacement. as it occurred to him or thoss who represent Lim to inquire just how his altempt to dispisce suother who was Jaboring thus gratuitonsly to build up the University over which he presided and from which he was drawiog a hberal palary, is ro- parded by those who can appreciate an appeal for justice? As to sll that has been said sbout doumble- headedness, we aliege that tho objection 8 whol- 1y one of the imagination, if not of pretense. TAE OFFICE OF * CHANCELLOR,” of which it 18 songht to make such & bugbear, is really. under the Constitution which the T'rus- tees adopted, Little or notlung morethan a finan- cial agency, and a3 such Dr. Burroughs sccepted it, with all its drudgery,and with no emolumenta. Dr. Moas bas been repeatedly called upon ia the meetings of the [ructees to say if there had been the slighteet intrusion within his sphere or interference witia hus work, bat has alleged none, and his fricnds have pubhcly borue testimony to Dr. Burroughs’ constant and earnest support of Dr. Moss as long as be supposed that the latter and his friends were acting in good faith, All such aots, however, were lost upon Dr. Moss and his sapportcrs. The opposition, man- ested from the outset, as we Lave beon, was followed by & series of simiar acts extending through the year, whichneed not be enumearated, and which we do not care to characterize. It 18 sutficient to say of them that they were alike of- fensive in spinit, and embarrassing to the busi- ness of the University, aimed not only against the Chancellor, bat often apainst members, ofti- oers, and committees of tue Buaid, Towards the Finauce Committee especially, whosa duties were onerous and whose services cou!d scarcely be overestimated, the aititude of the President was specially hostile, to sach an exter?, indeed, s to make the transaction of bumness, accord- in(; to the rules of the Board, 1mpossible, Finally, this pereistent opposition reached A FITTING CULMINATION in the direct attempt to remove the Chan- cellor at the meeiing of the Trustees on the 8th of July. It wonid bs an error to Bupposs, as has been pretended by certain of those concerned in i, that that at- tempt was either accidental or sudden. On the con 5 it i8 known to have been long contem- plated. More than throe months before, it was iven out in New York as & certainty that Dr, urroughs was to be removed at the next angual meeting of the Board. As early as the month of May negotiations were had—if not by Dr. Moss personally, by those most in his contidence— with members of the National Centennial Com- mussion in New York, that that body should iend ite help to the opposition by refusing sid to the iversity, except on condition ¢f Dr. Bur- roughs’ entife soparation from it. At the mezet- ing of the Sth of July, & Trustoe was found with an elaborate paper, previously prepared, open- ing with the solemn declaration that, in the opinion of the wrier, “the time had come for Dr. Burroughs' final separation fiom the Tnivensity.” 2nd coing on to lay down s plan of proceeding without s Chaucellor. This paper bad been concocted in & sub-committoe of the Executuve Committee, appointed on a motion of Dr. iloss. for a purpose entirely re- mote, but which found it convenient and suita- bie to advise the full Board, which had not ap- pointed them, nor agked their advice, what onght %0 be doas about Dr. Burroughs' further connso- tion with the University! That responsibility may rest where it should, however, it must bs remembered that this matter was introduced in- to tbe meeiing of the Board by no other than Dr. Moss bimself. Atalate hourof the eveniog, after some of the oldest members of the Board had retired, Dr. Moss reminded the Trusteos that they were sbout to disperse with the most important matter untouched, and proceaded to represent, in very strong expressions, his dis- trust of Dr. Burroughs, that Le was **looked upon with suspicion by the Baptist denomina- tion,” and, in ehort, that success was Thopeless, except on condition of his removal. Theg it was that the paper referred to, and other agencies, ready and in waitiog, came to the front, A motion was made that Dr. Burronghs be requested to resign, which was variously modified, antil it assumed tho form of amotion to remove him from duty, bt Lo retain him as an Lonorary and unealaried officer. For this motion eight mem- bers, including Dr. Moas, wore foucd ready to vote. A committee was then appointed to pre- paro & plan of doiog business-when this action should be confirmed, aa_it was expected to be at an adjourned meeting five days later. Tato the meeting of thia Committee Dr. Moss, though Dot & memoer of it, fonod his way, against tha protest of a member, and proffered the contribu- tion of npaper on the methods of procedure when the deposition of the Chancellor should be consummated. < N In suddenly arrosting these proccedings, 88 they did, by summanly vacating ths Presidency, tho Trustess find_themselves called upon £o an- gwer thres principal objestions. Exception ia taken to their action s an actof favoritism toward Dr. Burroughs, as involving the sacrifice to the Univeraity of the superior abilijies of Dr. Moss, and 28 disregarding tho vested rights of & particular religious denomination. AS TO THE CHARGE OF FAVORITIS, the Trustces would bLope mever to be slow to rocoguize the services of Dr. Burroughs to the University. If it is true, as the Trustees have receutly been reminded, ** that the Unmiversity of Chicago i3 an educatioual intarest of the very first class,” **ir its importance has become na- tional,” 8o that the REast, the West, and the Soutly bave common interest in it, it is proper {0 be remeuberod that this great interest owes it inception wholly to the foresight, and 1t8 rise to importance largely to the labors and sacrifices of one man ; and the Trastees coufoss that they cannot appreciate the ressoning that concludea that, thereforo, the ** time has fully come ™ for that man to be 8sparated from it. At the same time they disclaim anything like personal favor- itism in this matter. It is even not essy to see what personal fuvor it is to Dr. Burroughs to be retained in lus present position. In his case, at least, there .is no lucracive office at stake, At all events, the Trustces claim that in this mat- ter they Lave foltowed the cauon which bas been lsid down for them by a recent writ~ er, who nssumes to be an suthority on the duties of Tiustees, namely, that * the members of the Board are put in their place, not to pro- tect or kull either one man or snother, butto plan and act in their best wisdom for the Uni- versity.” 8o the Trustees claim to have piaoned and acted. It is admitted that their best wisdom may not be the best there is,—may not be a8 100d a8 that of the writer above quoted, or the mivority. Nevertheless, it is the best which more thao tweoty old busiuess men of Chicazo and the Northwest bad to mive to the eubject. That 18 not true which the same wnter says, that shese gentlemen, *‘in the preamble on which they base their action, recoznize no other point at issue eave the one persoual to Dr. Bur- roughs.” That preamble does recognize what is necessary to the * harmony” and_* efiiciency " of tho Universits. And these business men de- clara it as their judgment tbat, when Dr. Moss raized an 188ue which made it impossible for him aud Dr. Burroughs together to servo the Univer- sity, the barmouy and elliziency of the Univer- sity required that he should be the one to retire. And this brings us to THE EECOND POINT OF EXCEPTIONS. the loss to the University ot the Ligh svilities of Dr. Moss. On this subject the preamble is silent, as the Trustees wouid now choose to be, and would be, but that the matier is thrust upon them by thesress which is laid upon this point, by tiem who seek to excite prejudice against them. Men who have not been within a thousand miles of the University durtng Dr. Moss’ Presidency, and who really know nothing whatever about it, have yet taken it upon themselyes—admon- ishing others meanwhile of the sin of srtiganship—to annouuce to the world that Dr. 0s8_*bas discharged pvery dnty of President and Professor witu marked tidelity and ability, and bas given the sure promise of becoming widely recognized as one of the most accom- plished and succeesful educators and ad- minisirators jnthe land.” Itis thus made neces- sary for the Trustees to say that the ad- ministration of the ioternal affairs of the Umiversity doring the last yesr has not been to them a matter of entire inattention or indifference. Soms of them by persoral vis- itation, others from reliable sources of informa- tion, have sought, 88 in duty bound, to becoma advised of the real workiug of the new adminis- tration from which so much was expected. The conolasion to whicl they have reluotantly been forced 18 that Dr. Moss' maaner of discharging his duties as not been marked by distinguished * fidelity " or * ability.” Lhey find, on the con- trary, that the work of his c¢'rs4-room has not rison above bare mediocrity: wuat he bas faled to impress students and visitors at the Universi- ty, that the chief college ofticer offered s perfect model of geotlemanly bearing and refinement ; that lack o1 discipline, to an oxtent that was ab- ‘solutely disastrous, was widely recognized by both professors aud students; that thero was the absence of tnat measure of mutual confi- dence aud sceord between the President and his asgociates necessary to enlist the full co-opera- tion of the latter in the government and general work of the collere, and in sbort that the one and entbusisam which constitute one of the chief elements of suocess in college work have been utterly wanting in the Univereity under Dr. Mose” administration. In lus intercourse with Trustees and otii>.8 conuectsd with the manage- ment the President has been littlo more bavpy. Doubtless it may have been his misfortune t0, fad in the Boards of Control snd other official” relations men whose presence there was an In- cumbrance, at least in s judezmont, but 1l would not commonly be counted wise for him in the first few months of his service to tell them 0. Ineghort, the measure of wisdom. knowl- edge of men, and acrurate estimate of himself aud his own resources, which the President brought to lus dnties, seem sufllciently il'ustrat- ed by the mapner in which he rushed iato his ofticial act of atlempting to ovetthrow an asso- ciate officer. No one clauned orfelt that the ev- idences of untitness, precedin;; this last act, were {atal to all hopo of Dr. Moss' ultimats success. All wouid have clamed for nim time to correct mistakes and learn the wav of :his duty more perfectly. Wo deny emphatically that anybody wos **watching for a pretext™ to displace him. Wa do not believe that his removal had ever been desired or thoughs of by one member of the Board notil hia own experiment at removal pre- cipitated the event. ON THE QUESTION OF DENOMINATIONAL RIGHTS of control, the exprassions which we hear are remarkable. Formal notice is served on tue Baptist denominatiou by a newspaper which as- sumes to be their organ in the Northwest, that the Trustees of the University * contemplate the sacrifice of all the vested rights of the do- nomination in this 1ustitution,” aod that the ma-~ Jjority have Zemphatically declared that * in the ‘management of the institution the denomina- tion has no voice and no rights.” Now, when it is copeidered thatthe Baptist “denomination " has never claimed a voice in the mavagement of the University, thal that de- Domination is not an orgahized body for man- agement of any kind, what measure of candor there js fv such llnFulgc is apperent. In poli- tica, such an eppesl to unreasoning prejudice would pass for demagogism. Its purpose is palpable,—fo nvenfa personal deleat by erraying the Baytist people apains. members of the Board and the University. It is not tha first in- stance,in the history of tLe University in which personal ambition, defeated in its attempt to role, hes sought to ruin, and the time bas beer: when maoly rebukes of suoh purposes have been uttered by the journal from which these extracts are taken, The ‘*voica™ of the Baptist denomination and the guardians of its rights in the manage- ment of the University, no one knows botter . pi z}::nTlhe‘mflm; olt; tl:liu uperm are the Bap- 6t Truate2s who bold their in the Board, subject to that obligation. B TUNDER BUCH APPALLING THREATS of the loss of the patrouage of the entirs Baptist denomination, however, it is reassuring to the Trustees to remember that two or three newspapers, the private’ concerns of their edit- ors or publishers. do not constitate tha Baptist denomioatian, nor hold the conscience or heart of the denomination in their keoping. We aro reminded of this by expressions received duria this agitation from Baptist men. ministers an: laymen of as bigh standing as any 1o the North- weat, accompanied, too, by proffers of substan- tial a1d as well as assurances of approval. It is \.'t!:-a mnunlru::x:‘f t]a retlect l:h.l: mbuu the long ¥ ggle in which the majoric; of the Board have been involved, lhe; have been supported by every Baptist clergyman but ons in the Board, and by a large Puty of the ablest and moat prominent of the laymen of tne city and of the Northwest; and they have felt that, sustained by such pillars of that denomiuation as Roe, and Joalyn, and Clark, and Jones, and Thomas, who bave passed -away, for their counsets, aad gthers of equal influence, who still live to enconrage and aid them. tha Board need not foar to lose the confidence and the support of the denomination in tho great work of the University. _ Another consideration ig the fact that no can- did man in the Baptist denomination will ever insinuate a charge, that every right secured to the Baptist denomination by he charter has not been sacredly respected by the Trustess. ‘Thus much of the details of the facts in this matter, and of Lhe ressons which have inflnenced the Trustees, seomed necessary in order that the friends of the University might uuderstand the Teal centre of reaponaibility for the breaking up of what might otherwise have provad a perma- nent and harmonious settlement of University affairs. In view of all we believe that it will be con- ceded tnat THE CONCLUSION EXPRESSED IN THE PREAMBLE was the only one to which the majaricy could bave arrived. The policy of securing barmony by concession and compromise had fatled. The Presidet. of the University was plainly allied with & small miconity of the Trustees in a per~ sistont determination to thwart the plans, in which, not the majority oaly, but the whole Board had been agreed, tiil his influenee had bred disagreement. He, with not s year of ex- perience in college management, and almost & stranger in Chicago, and s minority composed almost entirely of new members, who had very little knowledze of the affairaand had borne & very small part of the burdens of the Universi- ty, claimed a wisdom superior to the united Jjudgment of the whole Board. expressed within a year, and s right to dictats to the majonity what policy should govern. In the crisis thus thrust upon them, three courses were open to the Trustess—to admit the claim of Dr Moss and his supporters and quietly pass the control of the University to less than s third of it legal governors, to take the middle course, rofuse to displace Dr. Burroughs, but leave Dr. Moss to go on with-his opposition and thus repeat the discord aud contentions of for- mer years, or to assert,as they did, the right and ducy of the msjority of the Trustees to direct ita government and conserve its interests with whatover consequences Lo any ona,aud eapecially to any urnsted sod paid officer, who assumed to place himeelf in tho way of this fundamental principle 2 all free institations. In choosing this aiternative, we ask the friends and patrona of the University to believe that we bave acted not in baste,but deliberately, in no spuit of pas- sion or vindictivenees, but in vindication of the stability and integrity of the government of the University, and in the interests of future har- mouy and order, _In this statement it haa seemed better, for ob- vions reasons, to desiguate_certain actos in these proceedings asethe minority, rather than by their names.” We wish it to be distiuatly un- derstood, however, that in_this use of the term we do dot include all who finally voted with the minority. Most of the acts ascrived 1o the wminority were really the acts of a very few men. Dy far the most of the thirtaen members who voted with them, being comparatively new mem- bers, acted, with such light as they bad, with noue but the best mo:ives ; and among them we reengnizo Ligh-minded gentlemen, and fast and liberal friends of the Universisy. - FINALLY, the Trustees beg to asswe the friends of the University that tne issues of this controversy wilt not ba atlowed Lo overshadow the great per- manent interests of the institution. There is nothing inm the withdrawal of oue mao, especially one whose = services to ‘the Umversity have been no more important, that need to salarm those that have reslly at heart its interests. The vacant Presi- dency will be filled without unnecessary delay ; the organization made atso much paios s yeer ago will be maintained. The Faculty will be 1o their places at the regular time for the work of the next ocollegiate year; and the Trustees will faithtully endeavor not only to preserve all that the University has gunuiy in the past, but to secure the means of {uture progress and 6Xpan- sion until it equals the expeciations of iis friouds. sud takes raok among institutions of bigher education, wortby of Chicago aud the Northweat. NonuaN T. GASSETTE, . W. F. CooLnivox, L. D. BooxE, J. F. BoSFIELD, Troxas HoyNE, CuarLes J. HoLr, Comnmittee of the Trustees. Approved by the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the University, at a regular meeting Leld 1n Chicago, Aug. 18, 1875. ¥ L. D. Booxz, Clhairman. D. B. CHENEY, Secretary. —_———— DR. BOONE SPEAKS. HE REFLIES TO PRESIDENT MOBS. To ths Editor of The Chicago Tribuna: Crrcaco, Ang. 14.—The Baptist papers, under the manipulation of the members of the minority of the Board of Trustebs of the Univeraity, hav- ing written the interest of the denomination in that ipstitution to deatl, it is but fsir that they should soon announce the time of the funeral, for “ it beginneth to stink.” Just now, upon the eve of our centennial anniversary, our ministers and papers are prondly clsiming the influence which the Baptista exerted in the formation of our Democratic Government, an hundred years ago, and justly so. Butitis sad to see them, in the next senience, giving the contradiction to that proug cialm, by showipg conclusively that, how- ever much merit their ancestors may be en- titled to for thoir advocacy of tha principle that “the majority should rule,” their de- cendants have so greatly descended from that theory of government, aud aro now a8 vigorously advocatiug just the coutrary theo- 1y, and are actuslly clauning, with apparent sin- cerity, that it is the duty of majoriues to yieid aod resign—** to step down and out”—in fayor of mivorities. Oh, consistenoy (traly), thou are a jowel.” Bcarcely a month passes daring which ihese ministers do uot read, or cause to be read, to their churches their covenant which provides that they shall avoid a contentious spurit, and in matters of business shall cheerfully yield to and be governed by the will of the \nn{onl.v. “hey also teach the doctrine of loyalty to gov- ernment &3 & civil and Christian duty, and yet we have in our Board Baptist ministers and Iaymen, who are writing and speaking daily, in private aud iu public, against the actions of the Board of which they are members; who write for their Baptist journals all over the country; who meet zod address assemblages of Baptist ministers, aod urge upon them the passage of contemuato- ry resolutions; who travel over the country from town to town, and from church to church, for the purpose of . MANUFACTURING PUBLIC SENTIMENT against the action of the Board of which they are members, and then with their own banda write expressions of that soutimeunt, for the pur- pose of influencing others ; writing letters to the Young Men’s Alumni of the institution (of which they are the povernois), exciting tbhem to re- belilon against the acts of the Bosrd sad to the expression of that rebellion or opposition by resolutions of condemuation. Singuiar, too, that these things should be done by at least one wholias not been a member of the Board for three months, or & citizen of the States but sbout & year. Isitnot passing strange that good men can't gee that there are certain proprieties in life that they would do well to observe ? ‘What good the Baptist papors expect to ac- comphsh by killing off the httie wnterest the aenomination has heretofore manifested in tue University I cannot see, aud yet oue would think that the very vitality of the denomination de- pended upon the entire exunction of the last vestige of interest ic haod in that institution, Oune 18 utterly amazed to see how every disconr- ageracnt is exaggerated and overy encouragement depreciated and belittled by thoss who pretend to be the friends of the University. My atten- tention has just been directed to s remarkable instance of this kind in an article in a recent number of tho National Baptist: of Philadel- plus (o recent(y edited by Dr. Moss), This arti- cle seems to be intended a8 a review of my let~ ter 1o Dr. Bright, in which I trfed to say all the encouraging things I could consistently with the tru:h, in relation to the past and future of the Uaiversity. Aud if Ieay tho writer of this re- view seems to have exhausted facts and imagina- tion for the purpose of disparaging sll that has been done and _all that is to be hoped for in rela- tion to the institution, I shall say but what is ap- arent to every one who has read that articie. We are told of the great prosperity of Roches- ter Univerxity (God bless ber, I wish it had been even greater 1) but I don’t think she will thank the writer of that article for his attempt to mis- lead and deceive the pablic in order to make the University of Chicago appear THE MORE UNIMPORTANT BY THE COMPARISON. 8he will not thauk him for conveying the ides that she had mors to contend with than we had, ot .thet she commenced about the same time. She would say, It is true that in the great State of New York, we had to contend with Hamilton ; but we took a large patt of her facalty aod stn- deunts, which gave us the advantage of many Jears, while the Univereity of Chicago, in the then comparatively new and poor State, had the rivalry of her spinted_sister, Shurtieff College, which, by the way, will not fesl complimented by the suggeation that the University no oppo- méo‘n. VASSAR, a private institotiop fouuded and endowed main- 1y, if not wholly, by one man. Of the Norih- western University, of which I am proud, sod probably known sa much as the writer of that article, of 1ts successful Iand specalation, of its £100.000 grsuozs,- (he beaness af the lats amis- ble Christian, Mrs. Garrett. And most of alf that, it has had po ‘*‘dovil of discord” to con- tend with all its life.” 1 would not say s word in disparagement of any of our sister inatitutions, but when untrutha are stated, or false impres- sions intentionally made, for tbe purpose of dis- paraging the institution which has so loog had my love, and whatever of money and time I could give it, I sm sure I shall be exanzed for correcting them, and undoiog whatever of mis-. chuet is intended by the writer. And then as if in despair of mischievous results desired by the misstatement and misdrawing of facts, the writer concludes to try his hand at RIDIOULY OR WITTICISM. Heartbis, and seeif you don’t think it dignified | and effective for an eaitorial in a religious paper, and oo s subject of the weighty importance of & ir‘en educationa! interest! Alluding to the plist clergy of Philadelphis, he says: *Forty or filty gentlemen, whose height averages 5 feet 103§ inches, and whose aggregate height is seversl rods, one of whom satands 6 feet 103§ incnes, snother of whom weighs 205 pounds, some of whom wear steel-boived globes, while oot a few are buld-headed—are these to be set at naught ?” How dignified, how argumertative, how becoming an editor of a grest religious jouroal witn the high-sounding title of National Baptist ! But I will not do the present editor of shat journal the injustice to suppose that he is responsible for anything counscted with that article except the unwisdom of giving it place as an editorial iu the r-nar, which in all conscience is bad enough ; it looks and sounds much mora like the spurit and taste of an editor of former years. But while wedonot hold theeditor of the Nation- al Baptist responsible for that sditorial, we must admit that In educational matters he is suthority of rae character, and we accept, reverently, the suggestion that we onght to know more be- fore we undertake **to write for the public.” For the purpose of informing the editor more correctly of the circumstances and trials under which the University of Chicago was brought into !u;mq:1 and also that he may know better thau he probably aoes now TO WHOM WE ARE INDEBTED * for what has been obtained, I make the follow- iny extract from the JUusiraled Chicago, pub- lisbed several yesrs ago, and therefore not for this emergency. The following ia the extract: The University owes ita origin at the time it was started to the liberal donstion of Mr. Douglas, but even that grant would not have Leen sufficient had it not been for tlie perseverance, tha courage, and un- flagging zeal of Dr. Burroughs. He was from the first, as he coutinued to be for many years, the of the enterprise, His was n zeal that knew no rest; his was acoursge that never samitted a defeat, but gained frexh vigor from every adverse circumstance ; and bis Wa a perseverance that, when they stood still, led bim on to ultumate success, ' Hardly had the corner-stone been luid when the country was awept with fnancial disaster, the men who had promised of their means to butld the University lost all they had. Timeand again did fuilure atare the Trustees in the face tuat the most e grew deapairing. Dr. Burroughs, bowaver, never yielded. Faliure ouly incited him to Dew efforte, and success,with all its grateful triumphs, tiaé been the result of his labors, He secured the original grant of land ; he Ravethe first dollr cou- trbuted to the bullding fund; he tsught the first cluss of pupils collected beneath ita roof, and 10 him more than to sny other person 1s the country indebted for 1he successful establishment of this University, and for ths erection of this enduring and mugaificent edidce. o If the same writer were now TO CONIINUE THIS HISTORY, he would tell of the embarrsssments which re- sulted from the War,—the number of the stu- dents who volunteered in defense of their coun- try ; the location of Camp Douglas on the ad- joining lands ; the destruction of our fences; and sl the other disadvantages that for four years resulted from this cause.—and then he Would tell of the great fire of 1871, of tha epizo- otic, and the second meat fire of 1874, and of the lnancial pante of 1873 ; and then, I fancy. von and all the rost of the Baptist editors wouid have s justerides of the ingratitude and injus- tice of your course with reference to tne great and good Burrouglis whom you are now assaling with epithets that wowd DISGRACE AN INCESDIARY. And now I must ask again, what our ministers and editors _expect to accomplisn by the oourse they have tuken. If they do indeed mean what they eay, that the Buptist denomination has (and will) givea up the Uaiversity ; that they will close their pulpiis, their columns, and thewr purses toits appeals ; and that they will have an entire divorce from it, then let them say go, once for all, and then stop calling hard names and indulging in esbuse, then the Board will know what to do. If we must seek for other lovers, let uado if, but **let us have peace.” Dou't’ continne to charge us with a want of virtue, and fidelity to our vows ; but admit that vou uuwisoly strack the first fatal blow, that the * devil of jealousy and discord ” took pos- gesgio of you, and that in a fit of mistaken strenth you ungenerously at- tempted to eject the old father from the old homestead to make a more satisfactory place Jcr tho mew comer, and that the chu!dron with filial fondness rallied to the sup- port of the father and ejected the ingenious usarper from the coveted home. Avnd then if you bhave aoy idea of futare reconciliation, don’t hazard the probability of effecting it by coatinuiug to call hard names, and by trying to tdeel:.w_y the character of her whom you profess o_love. 1 had hoped I was done, but just s T closed the above my atteotion was called to the note of Dr. Moss, in your paper this moming, to which 1 must give a passiny notice, which 1888 follows : “ LAY ON MACDUFF,”" AND DO NOT HOLD UNTIL Y0U BAY **ENOUGH.” Dr. Moss, in an article over his own siguature (which is nght, and just hike s Kentuckisn), published in your paper this morning, seeks to conviot me of inconastency. With what justice and success that effort is made, mus’ be decided by thosa who feel inter- ested enough in the matter to read and consider the facts with business men. No reply would be necessary. They would underatand how, under the compromise arrangement to whioch I alluded in my lotter to Dr. Bright, L could con- sistently sign the letter of notification which Dr. Moss copies into bis lgtter of this moraing. It wonld be very stravge if, after agreeing upon & compromivo for the purpose of securiog a united Board, w suould not be able to say as much as we did eay in our lotter to Dr. Moss. Ido not like to accuse the Doctor of *“*special pleading.” But when it is known that ha #as here at the ume of his election, and knew all about the facts and made a speech to the Board after the elec. tion, and that his letter of notification was seat to lim at his own request, to give him an oppor- tunity to reply publicly to it, it will seem a littlo - strapge that he should now seek to take advautage of it to accuse. Suppose in that note I had eaid, I and otbers bave consented to your electlon, as s comprom- ise, and have thereby secured an unanimous vote for yourself for President, and for Dr. Burroughs for Chancellor, buc after all we are not unanimoas. This would be an incousistency. As much as to say we have made a compromise Which 18 no compromise. I eaid in my letter, +i1oe bad acted in good faith, but that Dr. Mosa and his friends had not.” Now, where is the coutradiotion ? If Dr. Moss bad been my first choice thar; wnuld!ba a;) pecessity «;l }:y yield- ing my preference for the ose of effecting a comprynmize; bat that nuP flng she case, and having agreed to the compromise, I could and aid say in the letter to Dr. Moas in good faith, that his election was unanimous, and that *we have faith In the future of the University, and that in you we have found s man under whose Presidency we may hope to make great advances towards che realization of the purvoses of ita founders, the establishment of & great university of learning in this centrs of the civ- ilization of the Northwest.” = And now I have only to say in addition that no one regrets more than I do the failure of tho “ hope " expressed in the sbove sentence. Very respectfally, D. Boosx. THE WEATHER. ‘Wismmerox, D. 0., Aug. 14.—For the lake region, increasing cloudiness and higher tem- perature, with east to south winds and falling barometer during the day, followed by local rains. LOCAL OBSERVATION. UHICAGQ, Ang, 14 Time,_[Bar.|Thr[[w__Wind. | Ram W-ther, 6:538., o, 20,84, i1, 49/8., gentla........... Clear, 11:18s, m., 29,78 2:00 p. m, 29.80! EEREH 8§ g1 e By 20,76 1008 A T3l 76,8, theah Maximom thermometer, 80; minimum, 6, GENEBAL OBSERVATIONS, Carauco, Aug. 1i—Midnight. Wand, i lan Weather, Clear, “02\Cloudy, Pair, Leavenw'th| EXHEY 9. 76| av.nl 129,83 12971 Marquette, Milwaukes, | Omaba..... | 1,8., freah.... |. Yaokico.... 81|N. W.,gentlel.. Rainfall -Alpens, .01; Parther Poini, Can., 1.20; +| bave picied the best grains. SOUTH CHICAGO.® excased himself on the ground that he . § . 38 nog :e ::Jil::g_bnz doer; which explanstion Wa3 welf Col. Bowen regaled himself With angihep It i . | Bpeech on the fature of this ** indes Is Visited by the Hon. W, D. | meechsa the foaceot ifleh g i Eelley. they were going to buy no more iron from, En gland. 2 ME. 8. . KERFOOT followed with a shor: speech, in which he deni, thero was aoy jeatousy oxlsting on the poied the mother city foward Sonth Chicago, . Bo ool nothing in the way of the advancemen| ook sabarb, and thought Col. Bowen's energy typical of that which bad made Chicago. This closea the speaches, and the minri the party made for the cara to retara to the & llr.“lielley, the resortem. and eeveral gy gentlemen, returned by Col ' oo 5y Bowen's ; steay THE TELEGRAPH LINES, More Specmintions About the Pres Pposed Consolidation — Ad: Rates. yases iy New Yorg, Aug. 14.—It is now stated that the weeting ot the Board of Directors of ths West. ern Union Telegraph Company, on Wednesday, was simply held to take action in regand to 1y arrival and icterment of tho remains of 3z, Mumford, Vice-President and Searetary of tue Company. The remains were expectad to irzivg from Europe yesterday, : The Graphic of yesterday publishes an inten vio7 with & gentleman® who has an insids ao. quaintance with all the negotiationa in regard o the rumored consolidation of the Weatern Uniog and Attantic & Pacific telegraph companies, particularly 28 far as the Atlantic & Pacific ig concerned, and concludes that the Boarda of Dj. rectors of the two companies may agree togo into a pooling arrangoment, bat no aitempt will be made to lease thie Atlastic & Pacitic to other companies, to guarantes ita stock,or to p~hasa its wires. Thero ara too mawv difficultias ip the way. ‘Ine 510ckhaldars Wil uovar COD#GE L0 1y, because tlhiey have a *“ good thing” now. The Tribune, concerning the Western Union reports, eays that fiuancial men do not think the intarest of the Weatern Unioo lizely £ be pro- moted by advertising that 1t stands ready to bay up every rival, when rivalry becomos wraabls- some. Certainly it is not to the interest of the public that rivalry should cease. The active competition of the Atlsntio & Pacific lie has thus far been a source of great beuefit 1o tha public, sincait has largely reduced tha rates and lmproved the secrvice between the leading ses board cities. If the direct cable should ba sase cesafully finished, the advantage tothe paths would be vastly greater. 'The public incerest da« mands strenuous oppasition to the proposed coo- solidation, and we suspect the real interest of the Western Uniou demands it alsa. The Western Uniou and Atlantic & Pacifis Telegraph Companies have decided to advaace the tariil rates between Boston and Washiagton and New Yori aod Albaoy about 25 per oenk ‘The Companies claim .that the present rates are ;n: low. The advance goes iato effect on Mope y. He Tells the Story of Its Ooming Grandeur, Brief Addresses by Other Gentlemen, An excursion to Bonth Chicago was organized yesterday afternoon to give the Hon. W. D, Kel- Iey, of Pennsylvania, a view of the embryo roll- ing-mills sud the other large manufsoturing es- tablishments which in tbe [ar-off future are to make this suburb the greatest industrial centra of the world. Col. Bowen planned sod carried oat the excursion, charterinz a special train over the Michigan Sounthern for the purpose. As no charge was made for transit, quite an intercsting party of Iadies and gentle- men took advantags of the Colonel's methodical eccentricity to enjoy & few hours in the couatry, to say nothing of the minor sttraction of an oration by tbe pig-iron man from Pennsylvania. TIE JOURNEY ¥ROM CHICAGO was rather lively. Col. Bowen interested him- selt in everybody's comfort except his own. Not the least remarkable of his efforts to entertain his guests was an elo- quent though riogular address on the glorics of the Credit-Mobilier, and the sterling honesty and Christian virtnes of Schuyler Colfax, ‘Whenever the gallant founder of South Chicago gave himself a rest, which. aathose who know hiz peculiarities can imagine, was mot often, Mr. Kelley begmled the feeting moments with extracts from his speeches, to the great bewilderment of thosa who prefer the golden doliar to the uncertain greea- back, Mlr. Kelley waxed eloquent at times, and managed to command astention, notwithrtanding tne Colouel’s repeated iuterrnptions. which tne Honorable gentleman bore with the patience of & practiced debater and the driver of & first-class boboy. There was one thiug about tho man of “ pig-iron ™ which was promineutls brooght ont. He seems to bo thorougbly impressed with his oratorical atiainmeunts, and caopot for the Iife of bim, evea in reply to the most trivial question, drop the tragic roll of the *r” and the meas- ured cadence of the platform speaker. Wers it not for this peculianty and an opparently settled conviction that everybody 18 in the same fover of excitement as he is over protection and epecie resumption, Mr Kelley would be a delightful conversatioualist and traveling companion to an eldecly lady of quiet babits. . Assoon as South Chicago was reached Col Bowen put Mr. Kelley and the reporters intoa carriage, and drove them to THX DIFFERENT POINTS OF INTEREST, the other mempers of the party enjoyiog them- geives meanwhile as best they coul Ar. Kelley appeared very much strack with the prog- ress of the snburb, and prased his far-sighted disinterestedness in helpiug the appropriation for improving the Calumet Biver through Con- Rrees, Tha cars were then rebosrded, and the whols party procaeded to the site of the Joseph A- Brown Steel and Iron Company's rolling-mills. After a brief inspection of tho corner-stons, whioh had been boarded round to prevent its removal, COL. BOWEN mounted the platform and held forth. He had the permission of the President of the Company, hesaid. to state a few facts for their ear and recollection. About_ the 1st of May, it was thought advisable and wige to cat down the trees that occupied that eround, to build a railroad- track, bring stone from Joliet, and lamber from Manistee. aud contract for enormous machinery for the construction of = four-train rolling-mill. ‘The work had been going forward from that time to the present, =and- they saw the marvelous progress which bad been made. Two miles and a half of railroad had beeo built, FINA ClAL. a DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO. Paxts, France, Aag. 14.—Drexel, Hayes & Cov have redeemed $100,000 of Duncan, Sherman & Co.'a letters of credit. Thesa letters arxiw daily from all parta of the Continent. i New York Sun, Aug, 13 Judge Shipman, Assignee of the bankrupl firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co,, complated hi examination into the affairs of the house yess terdsy. aod gave ont an exhibit of their condh tion for publication. It will be sean that thq difference between the liabilities and the assets is §2,759,383.04, and thia on the favorables risy of their assets most natarally taken by & house iz trouple. But experience has shown that the tendency is to over-estimate what msy be tarmed coujectugalassets. Taking the fignres faroished in the exbibit of Judge Shipman as s basia fou calculation, the firm will be cnabled topsy sbout. 40 cents op tha doltar; but old bankers consider the payment of 10 er cent less an unexpectadly Rood showing for the suspended bankers. 750 feet of navigable dockage and slipe bad been | following is the exlubit : dug, aud a large number of cargoes had been LIARTLITIRS, landed. On the 5ti of July, 8,000 persons as- | Biils payable—partly socured.$191,472.07 sembled to join in the corner-stone ceremonies [ Less estimsted valus of securi- of "this institntion, which was to bs devoted to nfi{,h,fl';. e, MTI-UI' fi.grlli the employment of capital and labor. and the | p o'\ mm"—““m”‘”""""-fl .’,l utilizaton of the producs of the Northwest. this work was, in 8 great measure, atyibntable to his euergetic exertions for Dus to forelgn correspond- ents, subject 10 adjustmant. 982,119.83 Secured Ly pladge of real es- the last five years. The projectors Of | tafoe..ieciueoiierinceso.. 187,702.00= 77436708 the undertakiog' had s devoted prayers | Cashler'vand oariided clecis, for their long life. happiness. and prosponty. | pand certideates of deposis.. Col, Bowen then invited Mr. Erown to siand up | DU to deposliors on aceount for the visitors t0 see a novle man who had been eetiazee in the iton business for three centuries [laugh- | Total lishiliies... tar]—that was through his grandfather, his fath- er, and himself. [Reuewed laughter]. It was a prond .ung to have a man like him to’ tell En- Cash on hand, gold and currency. Loans secured, of wnich it is estimated gland we aid not require any more of her irou, | pbecollected ... ... o.on. . e sen but would make our own at thoso mills. B Socelvatia, of Wil it b mttted i . THE HON. W. D. KELLEY Bills discounted, of which it 1s estimated ‘was then introduced, and delivored & short ad- will ba collected. ... ... cenesreenanes SRR dress. He felt very proud, ha declarad, of bav- | Open accouns, of which it is estimated will e ing taken au bumbie part in paviog the way for | _Dbecollected........creeeriens cune --..... 52,6040 what he had seen that afternoon. It was five ds, estimated at present mar- 2 or six years since hus friend Bowen came to him e T in Wasbiagton with s bundlo of plans, aod ia- | *uifasied st ascker vaioe, over and sbove troduced the Calumet River to his notice, which 71,0801 was & pioe river, bat the water had great difti- &,548 calty in getting out to‘ba lake, becaure thera provir:] was s bar there. [Laughter]. Tt seemed tobe Personal estates 3 rather an inland stream, but Col. Bawen, witl | W, Butler Duncan—House and hia wonderfal energy, demonstrated o bl that | furnltare, aad emndry per with elight aid from the Goverumeut immensa | Jo0% o, Teul Bropecty, bl . advantages could be dorived, and the lake com- || Taied a¥ marke ® o oo | merce—soon Lo be connected with the commerca | Francs H. "G 0ase and of the world in & general way, asit was now 1 per- partially—would be_benefited by giving it & bafe Dharbor in its approach 1u time of & storm to the great city of Chicago. Hae promised to do what he could, and the result was furniture, snd sundry pee. before them. Where thers were only three or | sonal and real moperty, esti~ four shantics, 4,000 people now dwelt in a town mated st market valus to be with roads hard and smotl, and easy means of seseseisnrereesnes 34,000.08 communication near the Yanks of the Calumet— T30 a stream to be noted 10 the future commerce of T the conutry. From. something dropped amoog the company, he inferred there had been some- thing of JZALOUSY ON THE PART OF CHICAGO toward this place. As well might a parent bo jealons of his infant child sa Chicago ‘TURNER BROTHERS. / New Yomx, Aug..4.—The creditors o baoking fum of Turmer Bros., who reintly failed, have electod Jobn Castree, the Preidend of taia place. [Applause.] Whatever of | of the Irving National Bauk, trustee, md sp- wealth, prosperity, fature growth, aod | pointed s committee toactin concert. Claims development there wero ~ hera | amountiog to $225,000 were ropresentedas would redound to that most wonderful city of | meeting. IS the world, Chicago. o spoke of Chicago as i the most wonderful city of the world. He only FIRES. remembered it personally from the early part of 1660; he koew its story from 1833, when two AT DUBUQUE. humble buildings marked the eite of the fature Bpectal Dispateh (o The Chivace Tribung city, When Le bebeld ita palstal residences, ita blocks, Btores, and business houses, be ren over the history of the world to see if his memory bad in store aoything comgmhle 10 its progress and 1ts present condition, buthe labored ia vain. FEach timo he came to it it- was a fresh marvel; and yer its greatest wouder was :u men;l.\nh— ergy, !.tl;’elr turgcut. tgmxl- un- iring Industry: it was these and oot the loca~ tion that mads Chicago. Tho location was mach, | EroseT, destruction. Tho properey Is lumed. buat t:eess rutin_hrces lay !&e:e lo:g before Chmgo was begun. oy walted for the coming of the AN IMPORTANT CORRECTION. - i il ar, I, Aug. 14~To wy dis) ti he bad with Ab: P e e e Lincoln, ‘3 yesterday, announcing the burning of the il which they compared the men of the East the men of the West as they appeared in Con- | burn residence, a few lines are added tohe effect"that Mre. Malburn perished in the's. gress. The good President said thers was 3 This statement is 83 nafortunate as it is sk Dunuque, Ia., Ang: 15.—A fire broke o thig morning at 12:15 fn Becker & Keckavoifipg metal, and hide warehonse on Towa: streefgul . ting the premises and damaging the propeyaf Mvers, Tice & Co.; tobscco manufadgars, Glab & Morgan, aiso James Cusbing, g dealer. The flamesate stili raging, aod thyten’ a g aod patural reason for exe pecting » little more from the West- | in that it baa caused great ancoysnce LW em men than was found in the Eastern | famuly and theiwr nnmerous friends abrosd, :! ones. *“They were s, good deal like corn. In the East you have planted eorn. You have se- lected the best ears, and dnrm;[tho long winter i on plant them, and your product goes a little West. 'Thers they Bmk the best ears of the year's growth, and, aving traveled westwatd with our progress, A have come out hard, white sweet corn.” It was | o'clock. Loes, sbout $1.000. Fally insd. tbe youth, the men of energy, men who were | All the contents wece saved, Urigin of thet discontented with limited circumstances, that | not known. £ moved West, and their c&udrfi: mtz;ad West A% TBLEDE # again aod again, unl 8 e corn ) we found them after s while hard and ToLxpo, Aug. 14.—A thrce-story brick_bg_ flinty, fall of vital energy and _Ii!o—gmpowex. Ing ou Water street, mear Adams, occupief’ He thought Chicago illnstrated the of Mr. | Woodruff & Son, founders; C. J. Matlis3 Lincoln’s proposition. raifings and moldings, and J. Fagely, cign€. * manufactarers, was d by fire thisye: LOOK AT 60UTH OHICAGO.. - ing., Loas sbout $10,000. ‘Partly insured. AT COLDWATER. MICH. Spectat Lupaten to The Chicace Tribune, 1 CoLpwarex, Mich., Aug. 14.—George M= son’s house, in the Firet Ward, was peari$~ stroyed by firo this morzing, betwean 2 a8 His eye wandered thitberward, and he thought of the future, and he beheld avenues s hundred —the last one they had crossed was One-hun- dred-and-sixth street—he saw them lined with the humble home of the workmgaan, whose chil- dren were to be the capitalists, the scholars, the men of science, or the wives of such, in the future ; be besred the wuter's edge, and he beheld' piles of material changing hands fn the course of commercs; snd he did not think it would be more than a third of a century before this would have resuited. Mr. Kelley then praised the iron-works, and in that connec- tioo alluded to and in & measure explained hia title of ** Pig-Iron” Kelley. He then branched off s little on hua protection hobby, snd con- cluded by directiog attention to South Chicago 28 an illostration of the achievments one ener- getic, industrions man could ssoomplish, Mr. Josoph H. Dvown wad then called Zaz. He IN CHICAGO. A slight fire occurred st No. 120 South 8 street, yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. i The alarm from Box 175 st 5:50 o'closk} evening was caused by the discovery of U three-story frame buildiog, No. 250 Ellis tny owned by G. A. Freer, and occupied by X+ Freer as & dwelling. Losa, 9100. A defg}- flue was tho cause of the fize. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. © Bosrow, Aug. 14.—Arrived, steamer. Thgy - from Liverpool, Uog Nxw Yooz, Ang. I4.—Arrived, a2 | Adristis and Wyoming, from Liverpoak