Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1875, Page 10

THRE CHICAGO™ TRIBUN SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1876.~TWELVE TAGES, THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. Lecture by "Theodore Tilton af MeCormick’s Hall An Ovllerflowing Hounsze and Enthusias tic Reception, The Problem Was the Development of Clmracier, And Tts Solution Was in Every Man's Owa Hauds, Mr. Theodora Tilton muet havo felt prond Iast evening at the recoption which wan accorded him by the peoplo of Chicago at MeCormick Hall. He came liero tolectura on tho ** Problem of Life,” but his manner ehowed that ho had not expected snch an autpouring of poople— such o gonuing aud genecrons welcome. A JAMMED JOUSE Long Lefore the hour ret for the commencs- ment of the lecture, A o'clock, overy soal in Me- Cormick Iall wassold and tho standing roomes- bansted. Tha crowd was simply immenze, and it would be eafe to say that ovor {000 peraons srore within the wally and that over 1,000 more wero turoed away, unable (o gain admiseion. Peoplo crowiled tho hox-otice s carly ax balf- past G o'clock, anid by 7 thero was a perfect jam, and peraons wero in davger of bulug lojured in the crowd, In thia connoction it might b suggested to tho proprietors of tho hall, that they furnixh ketter facilities for tha ingress of w9 larzna nmmber of people by haviuz moro entrances open and more persons to colleet tickets, Lhiy would scem 4 necessity on Aucit cemnsicnd Bl last ovouning, when pickpocketa wero gtiven o grand ahow, and soveral rersons lowt their pursos, M, TILTGS ATPE upon tho atago alwlittle Lefors 8 o'clock, wo- companied by the Rev, Liobers Coliyer, whoiu- troduced bim to the awdience, Both gontlomen were receivod with hoarty applauss, Age deals lightly with Mr. Tilton, His appear~ ance is the rao 8y it was threo years ngo. s womplexion i# pale. Tho sharp-cul fontures are the samo, nud do not look care-worn, Hin mau- ner and stylo aro bullh casy, as of yore. s ©oyes are it and lustrons, and, when ho rat down on the sofa nt the back of the stage, ho oemed to rean the audienca enrefuily, as 1f to fathom their feclings towards him, The reutlo- wan was gullong quito severely from s coll Just ovening, which may bave uffeeted him to omo extent. 110 waw dresead in jlain blaci TUE INTRODCCTION. After the applauge had subsided. tho ltev. Nr. Coltyer ur.epyed forward aod introduced Mr. Tilton, o8 foilows : LADIER AND CGENTLEYEN: queated to introduce tlie lecturer of tho evening. and do it gladly for tho nake of old friendslup. {Applsuse.] 1bave broken bread with him in bis houso in years gono by, and o hus brokeu bread in my hou-e, sod wo' shall hikely keop on doing 8o_as long s wo bave bread to bicak. [Loud nnd vociferous applause.] My friend stood well und bravely in tho front in years gone by iu the Uglt for the abolitiou ot slavery, whon wo bad not cuough wuch brade frionds to gu around, nnd wo to make one £o 8 great wavs, G i Thia largo sudionco is in part a recognition of those servives, and whouevor he wants 1o como to us and talk cu any ** Problen: ot Lifo" wo aro roady to biear tum and take biod to bia woidy at 50 conts B head, rascrved seats 25 contd oxtra, ministers *dead-heads.” {Lavghter and ap- plausa.] 3R, TILTON'S RECEPTION, As soon a8 tho applanas had somowhat aub- sided; and Mr. Tiltou aroso aud welked to tho front,of the "l‘):' ho was greoied by o perfect outburst of enthnsiasui,—s geuuing ovativn,— which did not subsido for some momente, aud was repeated ovor anid over aga and geomed viatbly to affeet tho lecturer. Aftor a Lriof wait Mr. Tiiton commenced, and naid that of courso it was Lis first daty to ackoowledgo the privilege aud plensuro afforded him, aud to thank tho distinguished citizen tor introducing him to the audienco, and o thank tho puoplo for thns Kind grooting. Ho would lke to tay moro than thanks, But all ko could ray for this oversheiu- iug recoption, sud tho only responso ho could mako, was thauks,—tho thanks of L wholo heart,—but they were no index of what Lo really felt, 'Tho laat fimo bo was in Chicago THE CITY WAS T8 RUIN but to-dav it stooa transforimcd, gronter than it former aclf, Io marblo and brick. 1t showed I bovo beon re- that tho peoplo posssesed and oxorcived the art of living, aud he inovited to tholr consideration tho great Froblem of Lifo; tho overyday problew, whose burden wan borno and prizen woro sought, whoso fuuc- tions wore a mystery go little understood. 1ia thamo was an old one, buv ho supposed that every man who had had soms fair share of life ; who hed YELT ITA NURDDN § whobad stood at the altar of mar a; who bad leoked upon his children m tho ¢ who Liad buried his desd.—such o wan was often brought to & stand-atill £2 ask bimuelf what was tho fanction of the Yrotlem of Lifa. The Problem ot Lite had taxed tho wisdom of Solo- mon aud the patlenco of Jab. 2 110 then asked what was ifo 1n a popular senso. 1are wan o man piaced in a gurden in the midsummer of Lis existouco ; all way beauty suirounding bim. How much was ths world, aud how much of it coutd he ges of it for him- eoll? Uod pronounced this workl good wnen He madoit, and uo man had o rignt to call it otherwizo, The world was o great that no ono gould enumerate {ls greatuese, Ito drow & pic- tore of coantries and eaid, atattivg at Edon's gato, thore wero thoeo who bore tho victor's award, woile otbers tho rhephiord's crook, but sach followd thoe other to the grave. Iio enu- merated in part TAL VAST LESOULCES of tha osrth, oud thut elapping cxtendod from the Arctic to the Auturtic, stopping on the way to gather in the woahth of onch nation and jort ; then the grand templos of woruhip that wero soattered over tho slobe, and houses aud homes, Tike the tonts of the Arabu ou tho plaing, and mon [ivad togetlior In great catacombs, liko Cli- cago, which thoy call oitios, "The Divino haud hind flung down many bloss- fngs, and thore was a great deal ju thiy world 1t only every man bad it to himeelf. 1f ano looked at tho greatuess of tho world. how wmall wau mau, 'Furn s man ont and givo lim every foeil- ity, yeary throescors-aud-ten,—uye, funrscore,— disaipliue, aud opportunity wido ax the hurizon, mo‘:lvo. all ho way desiro for power. nud weakily, an HOW MUCI COULD JIF HOLD ? Buppoas bLls desire was_to bo landboldes, how much of this warld's surfacs could Lo olitain 7 1 bo biad & tasto for books, how nearly conld he <ontrol tho resourcod of nations, or Low many coutd be read in o lifotitho? Aud ir his dewro ‘was for weney, how much could ho hold? Lot fuw have all Lis hourt's deaire, ail bia soul would sak, aud how much would bo his ehare i thin . great world? Not more than & outh Americany red ant [n tho great foroet. Peruapa somo would anawer in Goidsmith's worda s Alau wants but Hitle bers below, Nor wanty that Liftle loug. Andubou, iu writivg of Paris, whiol is In iteell a world, ouly vaw tho white doors In - ita patls, and ju Loudon only tho gisy fowl, Themse wore . his only choices 1n the two citles. And this clolce was much lika our uwn ; each one tool: Lis own row, and 1t was ouly tue richoat, wisest, and strongest who won Dby mastering them- salves. THE IDEA OF THE FROBLEM OF LIFE, even in Chicsgo, was not tho atisinmont of wealth, power, lesruing, or ovon happinces. Ol'-l%)' thiv s the development of nun's chiaracter. The speaker thou kaid tliat there wero but few rich men u thia couutsy, Happosing tho probe Jem of Ifo wers fawe, how many Were famous? How many borongh- How many fappy? How X hat there wero Lut very fuw of ench, Carlyle savs thas everv oue could propure hup- ploess if he culy wout to the richt market, T'ho spekor thonght otherwise, Tho beggar snil that ttie bappy man was he who lind a s kirt, and when tho hubpy msn was found ho had no shirt. Bo it was; they fised vome end which wankind could not attaio. DEVELOPMENT OF CHANACTER, The Problem of Life was only tho develop- ment of wan'a character; it wad in Lis own keeping, but characior was oua Lhing aud fepu. tation another, Alludiug to the Rev. Ar, Cull. yer, the spesker uald he biad Loth character und Feputation. Hut there wero some men who put ‘palm 10 palm who were not vo fortunato as Mr, Collyer, thougs they followed the same calitpg.' ‘T greatsst charactor in history made himself 80 witbout reputation. Biazs might set aud from its again, ! risa sgain, but a star lost right firmswent couid uever rise Bauaxt cawmyared fawous chasacture, including Capt. Jack and' (Prof. Agassiz, Tnrpln and .\Hll:m. n';ld nnmeroutd Others, and held ml‘ ench bad & character. Iut ©a one conld compare thoir ropntaticne, The @ititance besween pride and humility conid not be measured, as il op- poving elovionts ho D IX THE MIMAN HFART. Man wero tanght to kec k, ¥et avoid, pleas- ure: toshun pan, set bear ity togive their pas. #lons plax, set enrb’themn ; arwal to bo prepared to meet death al Inat. Tho average pood charactr In Amesican so- clety incladed the cardinal viri nes. Tho lecturor defined fortitudo, andd oxptai:ned by brave ex- amplen in history. Ho noxt to 0i up moral cour- aue. o asked who was brave enough to call a spnido n epado, or who was bra v enongh to say that tho &patem of trial by j 6y was o (krco. Ha took tinthitalaesa noxt aad held that lying w3 alwost fubarent in our uatn. s, but that hu- manity had still the enpacity of tolling tho truth, even nnder the most tryjug * vircumatances, o then defined magnanimity, ~ When tho blow stune and burnel, then was the fimo to given kind answer, which turus nway w 1ath, The las of an eyo for an eve, and a tsot b for a tooth, w08 not yet sbaiished, for hero a m an foraave an infury At the cosg of his repitaticn. Tho temo Probieru of Lite was to dovelop tha eardinal viv- tuon, and LIVI: ACCORDING TO THFE GOLDS RELE. Tha speskor dil nhot believain the decay of the virtue of tho present from that of tho past, but thonglit that moroe virtnos which oxisted in past ages had been forgotten iu thin, and it would bo well if thoy wera rosurrectod and emu- Iated. Tho Greeks celebrated their victories by haufires, but onrs are celebrated in mazbie and granito. The mechanics wore honest as n class, bt he thought that thers wero ssme Togues Among then. Ilo argned that business was not cerrectly managed in this country ; thai eredit was toy freo sl ionesty too ecarce ; that men «ul huwiness on unjuat and unstablo priveiplen. Tl thaaghl that the crodit svatem onght not to b enttrely abolislied, as it carriod with it faith between man and wan, but s stricter regasd for integrity ought to be regnired. WALL BTREET wan compared by the Ircturer to o plees vwlvere mon were toseed on tho horos of a Lutl, mnd tarn Iy tho c'aws and teeth of & bear. Hu beld that comoting grain was a ctime, though not 20 looked upon: but he had never ncard of a corner In vittue, The remedy, ho argus wad ln o higher xtandwiy; of personal characier evorywhere, aumil at tho ramo utme to incunt- catas into the riving generation o higher estsour for tho cardinal virtitns 3 to teach them lessons of truo heroism, and to mako them bettor and wisor, and ho thonght this procoss lay in a great moasnre with the parents, who should teach their children obedience, and rospoct for all thas wan great and good. “I'10 feeturer abwo rpoke briefly on ths woman question, nnd held that socie:y vhould exact tho wawmo parity fiom mea that men did of women, aud then s preat und wuuld bo gained towards solviny tho problem of life, 1o held that thero was {oa much wentimentality in tho pulpit, and that tho humbling virtues slionld ho rohardanod, and thua man vould live a highor aud batler life. Tlo lecturor clused amid loud applause, with which hio was also freauently interruptod during Lis lecture. —ee———. THE PACIFIC COAST A Poor Mining Ln the feer of the Milllonatres of fornin, nud $ias n Larger fucome than Any Otlier Americnn. New Yo MIDAS, bis pick vigorol s . paid @4 o day. To-day o has a lurger income than any other single individual in America, and if bis wealth continued to nccimulate ay it has for the Dast twa yoars, his fortuns sl rival that of the Tichest Robschild. Mr. Mackoy 1 tho head of the great winming tirm of Flood & O'Brien, of this city, whoso gigantic operations and graud aguro- gatlon of cuptial recently swamped the Banic of Californis, and burled” Sharom, Ralston, and Jones from their sinnncial pedostal. ‘Tho mom. bers of the flrm a1e Johu Mackey, James C, Flood, Wilham B. O'Brien, and Col, Jamer G, Fair. Mr, Mackov is the financial head, Flood aud O'Drien attend to thn interests of the firm in Californua, and Col. Yair is working supern- tendont of the mineain Virginia Cite. Tho latter embrace tho famous Courolddstad Virginis, the richost mine over diecavered in Novads, now tutning out FL.56G0,000 a nonth 3 tho Califurnia, adjowing it, with oven & larger hody of vre: ihe Halo and Norerose, licst and Lelehior, Gouldand Gurry, Hierra, Novada, Mextean. aud, tinally, the famous Savaco, which in years gone by bea turned out its milliony. Tlesides, they own & #eoro of small nices, any one of which may st any time turn up a bonauza, Of thoentire business and profitsfof the irm, Mr. Mackey hos o thieo-fifths intereat. ‘Tho firm owpa (6,000 shures of Conrolidated Vir- ginis etock, on which Lhoy declars » monthly dwvitlend of €10 o shars. ~Mnckoy's share of this is &JUG,000 a month, Of wWtock in tho Cabfornin miue they own GONMN wharex, The fist mouthly " dividend of $10 iw to bo duclared in Novomber, and this will add to Mr. Maokoy's incomo 360,000 n month. Tho othor mines that the firm control pay no dividends, but they yiold n Inrgo revouuo to tho firm in waya more indiract. Tor instance, tho firm owa all the wood used i their working, both for tuel and for timbering, and thoy sell it to tho Companies at anim- monso prolit. The Bavage, Halo & Norcross, ond Gould & Curry alt crush moro or less oro, aud this 1 dono in the firm's milla at acort of @14 & ton, The yicld of silvor hoing sicarcely ouough to pay tho coet of both iminivg anud crushiug, assonsmonts aro lovied to mekoup tho doticiency. 'Tho firm's tncome from this source, and from erushing the oro of the Cone solidated Virgivia, which 14 also dono in their own mwilly, is_ostinated at ¥350,000 n month, of which put Mr. Mackoy down for ¥30,000, Add to this tho prospeotive profits of tho Ne- vada Baulk, which bas juat oponed with s cash capital of $5.000,000, ana which is the ex- clusiva property of tho firm, and then you masy figure out the income of Mr. Mackey. The Lauk of California pald for years 18 per cent on their 85,000,000 eapita), ‘Tho profits of the now bavk eatnat Lo less. Ibisamounts to 9,000,000, or #75,000 w montl, of which Mr. Mackoy'a share will be 45,000, To sum up thom, Mackoy will havo for the next voar from his mimng and bul- hon jutercsts alone tha colosnal incomo of $831,« (U0 & month, or at the rato of noarly 810,000,010 8 year. This doos not inclndo_the (ncomo of iy vast wealth iu real estate. For tho past year La has boen makiog large iuvestmonts in tho vory hoart of the city, Whole blocks of the most valuablo roal estato in Han Trancisco huvo been purchased, and the incomo from thede caunot well b estimated, but it must be enor- mou, Mer. an; i Mackoy i# tho mont rotiring und modest, of of Californin's nulliounairas, He lives in nia, but his family spond most of their time in this eity, 1o dresess plaivly, and might Lo supposed to bn a well-to-do furmer—nothing more, Atready tho politicians of Neovads aro moving to mako Lim Seuator Joncs' wuccessor in Washington, 1f ho wants tho place, ho can undoubtadly buv 1t for mach fces onoy than Jones paid, for Novada politicians ara poor and bunyry, sud witl soll out cheap, or M'ICl(B_V'lI partuors, J. C. Flood Ia tho most importaut, “With O’Brien, Flood used to keep o Nttlo groggory In apsomo ntreot, in i city, hey dud uot clode the establisbment until 1467, TLey mado somn monay at tho buxineus, end ine vesled it with Mackey in tho purchaso of the frouud that I8 n er: of tho Cousolidated Vir- Fivin wine, Flood and O'Brien are Irishmen, ey aro whrewd and sharp In busincss, gener- oun 1o their triends, aud unrelenting to their en- emied, Loy took up a poverty-strickes uowse purer man last wpring,—a 1onn who bad douo tbem boraw littlo turn while in tuo whisky busi- Fueaa, and in thrvo dava mado him worth 275,- mi "tm tho othor hand, Sharon, and Hulston, l;,n 4 ho - Lauk of California, which had offended them, they crnsbed out 1 threo woelis, and they would have kopt the baok down but for flaleton's death and the opular outerv auniut lem. Flood recantly ouglt 28,000,000 worlh of rea) cetute, and said bimsel{ Jjuat bofore the new bunk oponod tuat bo had 21,000,000 lout o call wt 1 per cout a monih, His wealth 13 sccond crly to that nt Mackey, Co!, Falr it tho ouly 1aan of bank edncativg 4 shio tirm. He bos long bea, 5 tendont, snd is worth ilu(&mfi‘(fi_‘"m“ wuporin - — e HYMENEAL, Special Dispatch fo The Chicage Tribuny, Bostox, Oct. 22.—Tho wmariage of M, Lo Chambellan Do Hegermsun Leudeycbroye, Charge d'Affsires do Denmurk aux Etay Uni<: to Mre. Chiarles Moulton, took place yosterday afternoon at Christ Church, Cambridpe, Tig charmingly arrayed in o lavender-satin ery wlsborately trimmed witl lace. Showas giveu away by her brother, Alexandoer Gireen. Ough, the warriago ceremony belug solemnized by tho Rev. Dr, Fay, assisted by Dr. Blone, of Bt, Jobu's Memorisl. 'Ihe altar ¥as nicely dec- oratod with flowers aud plants, aud pressnted a bsudsome appearages, The musical part of tho iltes coumied of Mendelsschu's * Wedding Mareh," and tuo * Bridai March " from * Loben- griw Thechurch was diled with paopte, RAILROAD NEWS. Jay Gould ;;-ilxl\‘t:ll 7(» Do Enple neering the New Enstern Line, He Wants a Throuzh Road from New York to Ban Franoisco. The Combination 1o Pul Up Rates, THE ERIE & CHICAGO. The Istest rumor is that Mr. Jay Gould hia+ Toen tho princlpal instrament iy bringiog sbont tho formation of tho new line from New York to Chieago. It is o woll-known fact that for somo time pnst it bas been uis ambition to controla through line from New Yorlk to 8an Franciaco. Somo timo azo Mr. Gould obtamed control of to Union Pacitic Railroad, aml since then he hay qaictly obtainod eontrol of maveral connne- tionn leading from Omaha custward. ke now lioldd tho Nt Louiw, Kansaa City & Northern and Knueas Pacitic Roads, which gives hum a throngh lino from Saun Fravcisco to 8t. Louts, Durivg the Iret two weeks, it is said, ho hus also obtained control of the Chicsgo & Nortowestern. which gives Iumn asotber lino from Franciseo o Chicaco. ‘Therafoie, all bo needed to carry out his objeet wuw (o get control of & lina from Chieago and St Louis to Now York, and thin he has obtained by forming au_allianco with the Daluimore & Oluo Raitroad. It a well known that Gould hae n largo Interost Aull s the Eraand Atlantie & Great Weateru Railroads, and theso lines cons ueet with the Baltinora & Oblo for Chicago and St. Lonis vis tho Chicago Division of the Dalti- moro & Uhio, aud the Obio & Missiesippi, ¥ has lately como into tho possession of the Bail more & Ohio. : ivorything points Lo the correctness of this rumor,” The Union i'acil 4 Iatoly graatly dis- criminated in favor of tho Chicago & Northwoat- arn Railrosd, which 1a belisved to bo dono by oiders from tho genoral headquartora, Thoap- pointment ofsMr. Hitelicock na Cienaral Agont of tho new lino 18 anothot straw which shows whicl way tho wind blows. 3[r, Hitchcock knows all about tho passengor rrafiic from Owabs to Chi- cago, and has made the Chicago, Burliugton & Quuwncy Railroad tho favorite passenger routo from that placa to this city. 1t #ooms, therc- fore, that his experienco fs dasiroed to forco thn passonger trallic trom the Hurlington to the Northwestern. It s also rumored that the prin- cival objeet of Mr, Pullman's present visit to tho Eaet §3 for tho purposo of maling arrsngemonts to run through eteepers from Neow Yorl sud San Francisco both via Chicago and §b, Lows. Ar. Gould's movemonta have undonbtedly Dreon tho principal cayso of Slegsts. Vandorbilt aud Seott's activity in trying to get control of all_tho Western — counections they could, aoxd they cherished tho idea that, by gopdlivg up all the independent councetfons 1o Bt. Lovis_and Chicago they conld_ spoil s gatae. Mr. Vauderbilt was contident ho bad hin cut off when ho obtained control of tho ilicin- man Central, and Mr. Seott undoubtedly thought hie had blocked bis way to St. Lowls by getling Liold of the fndirunpolis & St. Lovis and Vanda- lin iues. Dut they torgot that the Daltimore & Obiv sl lines to” Chicago and St. Loyis, or if thoy d)d thiuk of It they did not believo that Mr. Gurrett would make s cumpact with Gould, Abyhor, they wero mistaken, ‘Ahey wore futi- ous at twst, but tinally, when thoy looked the matter spaare in the face, thoy fouud that Gar- rett had oaly donu what they wonld have done under the mame circcumsiauces. They there- foro ¢ame {0 tho conclusion to work 1n iarmony with Glould’s live. ‘The name: of tho new hne from Chicaro to New York vin tho Daltimore & Ohto and Lris Uatiroads hay Leou changed frowm Atlastic Chitago to Etie & Chicago Knilrond, 1t will positively begin running ou the st of Noven- er, whether the Clevoland, Columbuy, Cinein- nati & Indianagolin Raitrosd draws aut of tho combination or not. 'Lhoroe will bo two through traiuy daily, sue at 9 o'clock 8, ., and ono ot 5:15 p. m.~ Mr. Pulhiman liag releoted his best wleoping and Inatel cara to run on this line, aud Mr. {litcheock, tho now Goueral Ageat, will try bard to mako this ono of tho beat passonger- routes to tho Ewst. ADVANCE IN PASSENGER AHD FREIGHT RATES, 1= Speetal Diopictah to 2'he Chteago Tridune. Nuw Youxk, Oct. 22—At n mootiug of Goneral Parsenger Acouts held in Chicago o short time ago, the fotlowing echodnle of rates was agrocd upon : From Now York to Chicago, £32; to Ci cinuath, 320 ; to St. Louis, 227 ; to lansas Ci £08 ; to Galveston, 38, This advance will tako cffoct va Nov. 1. Altbough tho rates have boon no higher thau this siizee 1870, there aro rumors of a stil} further advanco, bud agonts ssy that tho report 18 not worthy of crodonce, and know ~ of no probablo circumstances which would make extortion pomsible. ‘fhey #ay thoy do not wish to make tuo combination more odioud in tho eyea of the public, but that after & ruluous competition it only asks an op- portuaity to recuperato. Tho new time-tabls will go {nto offect Nov. 21. Tho Iromdonts of tho threo trunk lives havo ordered a temiporary advanco in firat-olnas frolphta : §1.50 to Chtoago, Ontbo Lithof Uctober s new schedule wag lasued announcing an wdvauce on Lastward- bound froights. ~ This wus tuo work of tho Agonts of tho New York Coutral, Pounsylvania, and Lrie Roads, aud was ludorsed by the Agonts of tho Lake Shors & Michigsn — Southorn, Michigan Contral, Pittaburg, Fort Wayuo & Chicago, the ., A, & St. Louis Compames, Fourth.class Iroights from Clucago to New York aro ad- vanced to 40 conta per 100, an iucreass of 10 couta; to Doatan, 45 conts ; Battimore, #5 centa; Pliladolplia, 35 couts. Grown in buik from Cuicago to Now York romaiun ut the ol rates,— 80 cents por HX); to Baltimore ar Philadelphia, cents; Bostan, 45 cents, Herotofore tloue wos classol a8 fourth class froight. It 18 now classed by iteelf, and carried from Chicago to How York at 80 centsa barral, an advance of 2 conts over thae sumwmor ratea: Boston, YU ceuts ; Baltintore and Philadelptus, 70 ceuts, roighits on bijk meats has been raised 10 cents on tho hundred. As 500u 8 navigation closos further ndvauces in froight may Lo oxpected, Agsnes say what whilo firat-class froights from Ohicigo may reach $1 por bundrod duriug tho wiutor, they are of opinlen Lhut froights will rato loss, aud do not expeet to soo westward bound froights ndvanced boyond 73 centy per hundred. No sdvauco will be made befors the middle of November, RAILROAD DECISION, Kpexlal Correponcence of T'he Chicago T'ribune., Des Moixes, In, Oct, 21,—fn 1872 the Legis- Inturo of lowa poised a law compelling all rail- roads in this Htate couvnccting with roads outsido tno Hiale to mako thelr tranufers within the 6tate. 'The design was reully to make Councll Biuffa the . tef- winus of the Unfon [acifio Railroa Tho Companics counocting thiore complied with tho law, excout the Kunsas City, Bt. Joscph & Cooncil Blutrs. This Company contracted with tho Union I'ecific to hanl & baggapge-car and sleoper for Unpion Pacific passengors scross tho bridge to Omahn, whero Uuion Facitic card ware run alougsido uud transferred. ‘I'ha citizoun of Council Blufly applied for an jufunce tlon to rostrain this, which was granted by the Pottawattamie County District Court. ‘Chie case was uppeslod to the Buprome Coars, and yoater~ day that Conre set neide the injunction,—Judge Buck dissensing from ho majoriey opiuon, ELECTION OF OFFICERS, Suerfal Dispaleh tr The Chicagn Tridbune, INpiaxarorts, Oct. 22,—Fhe following oficora of tho Indianapoliv, Bloomtield & Evausvilte Narrow-(tauge Nailroad Company wero olocted to-dsy : Juson N, Conley, of Bloomtield, Pres deut ; W. W. Curry, of Indiauapolis, Vice-Drosi- dent ; B. C. Wilhamu. of Bloowfleld, Secretary ; Wiltiam Mason, of Bleowmtiold, F'reasurer, RIGHT OF WAY, * OxAns, Neb., Oct. #2.—The Sapreme Courd of Towa has docided that the Kauess City & 5t Joo Kood bove u might to ‘rau their cars into Omabs, which they have been doing for twa yeurs, 1buw sotting aside the snjunction sued out by Couneil Biulls' people Lo provent their duiug 80, RAILROAD FOREGLOBURE.: Special Correspendence of The Crlzava Tribuns, Dis Moixes, Ja., Ock. 21.—Yeaterday aftog- noon & decree was wade for tho foreclosurs 11 sato of tho Centzal lsiiroad of Iows, for tho benutiy of the bondholdera. This i the third road which s bocn ordered to be sold at shis term of Cours. e e THE NEW MICHIGAN CAPITOL, Epdsial Dupateh o The Cnreavo Frivur Tixstsa, Mich., Qet, 22.—The progres on tho Bow Capitol bas boen eatisfactory 80 far ic the Superinteudent, tkough the cormice is detsyed, \ 1 will hardly be complotod thia season, on ne- ount of tho stoao receivad not being the de- end gize. The iron trueses for tho roof are noy thrown arrozs the north and aonth wings, sehich ix tienrly all that will Lo dono ou tha roof tins weason, ‘The zakles and walli of who attle oud doma il Lo Iy complated abut the It of Jniy, 1876. Tun windows of the baremont and “lirst alory aro being clowed, 8o that workmen can bo employed in lathity dur- ing the winter; also, n few wtome-cuttors will be omployed to prepare cut stone, #o 88 Lo ro- sume work early in tho apring, though work on tho walin will ba continued till tho frost re- quires it to bo stopped. 'Tho attic-walla are comploted (o the window-cann, and, withont thoe gablo-wall above it, pregent n eqnatty appears An tha DBnilding Commissioners’ report ot be vut L) the sk of Jannary, itisnot poesibie to givo noy figures at pravent. Lo P A CONTESTED WILL, sinte Mefore tho TWests Yi) Surrogate— heater € ‘Thirteen Vors York Heratd, Oct, 21 A preliminary heatng in regard to the con- tested witl of the late Inrac M. Sinzer eamo off in the Surrogate's Court a White Plaing, West- chester County, yesterday., The testator was tho inventor of n labor-saving maching which besra 48 name, and yielded him such & ravenue &s to enablo him to leavo an estate valued at $13.100.000, Tho testator was married to his firet wife, Cathierine Binger, about the year 1830, DBy her ho had two children, who still muvive, and for whom lie hny to somo oxtent provided. In 1840 ho procured a divorce from Cathorine, on tho grouud of adultery, 1o than, it rocms, remnr- ried and hved with his second wife und (88 eho clnims) present widowy, AMary Ann Binger, also known ag Mary Aon Foster. Dy hor the testator hud ten children, eight of whom are still living, and to the Juttor ho bequeathis about £2,000,000. No provision, howsver, 14 windo in tho will for their mothier, who, _it is undorstood, was also divorced from tho {estator. Deceased wont to Coland in 1361, und. as in ulated, com- menced relations with the residuary legatco nundor the will, Issbolla Eugena Singor. wha ia ugver entioned 1n tho will oxcept ag tho wila of tho testator. Sinca the yeor lnst nagiod de- censod had lived itk this lady, by whom bo had pix children, who ara still lving. The tes- tator i {ho will recognizes only theso latior as hig legitimato children aud their mothor uy hig wifo. e leaves hor o life interent in hin En- ghish esmato estimated at 4,000,000, Logether with four-sixticths of tho residus of his estato in America, amonuting to about £0.000,u00. Mrs, Mary Aon Singer, who is represented as’ tho nghttul widow of the decensed, claimn that tho logacics given in thn will to ilrs. Isabella Luge- nie. Hinger aro_ uugatory and void, bacausa tha Iatter was not his luwfui wifo and thereforo notb entitlod to dower, 'Tho couuscl in the cako aro es-Judgo John K. Porter, with Charles O'Conor a8 advigory counsel, roprosenting Mew, Inabelln lugonia Ringer ; Reuban W. Van Pelt, of Yonk- ore, for Mra. Mary Ann Singer ; and J. C. Corter, of Now Yurk, for Davil Hawley, of Yonkers, Hole wirviving excentor, the other nanied ln the will having since died. Itinay horo be stated that Mra. Mary Ann Singor, who claims to be the rightful widow of the testator, e the ouly one who ot prasent objects to tho wilt buing admit- ted to probate, tho clzims of the nuniorons legu- teon baving been amicubly adjusted. Tho fol- lowing is a copy of tho ubjection filed by counsol for tho contestant ; Mary Ann Singer, alao known on Mary Ann Fester, Liereby objecta ta thio probat of the iatenment altegod o bo tho Jart will and testsmendof Isanc Mlerritt ayger, decerwed, and wpecitics the following grounda objection thereto, vamely @ w—'That tho euid fuxtrament wan not Tegally, and properly exrcuted. “That tho sald 1saae Merritt Slurer was not il ot thio timie of Its execution, Tuird—That tho s Lsanc Mcrritt Slnger was under reatraint and nubject to undus juthicuce st the thno of ity oxveution, Tonrth—"That Teabells Eugonls Singer. who, fn said Instrament, innamed aod designated an the wife of tho sand Innac Merrite Singer, ia uot, snd nover was, his Tawful wifc, £1/th—Tiat Adam Mortimer Singer, Winnaretta Eugeuie Sloger, Washington Merritt Grant Sluger, Parin Kngeno Sluger, Iaabella Blanche Hinger, aud Frauldin Morzo Slguer, numed _jn sald Juetriment as tha children of thowatd Iraao Merritt Singor by his wifo Inabolls Engenta Singer, aro not tho legilimato childeeas of ‘the aakd Tuana Serritt Singer, Steth—That its contestaut wad the fawful vife of thio eald Tuaae Merritt Smgor ot fho timo of hisdes ceaso, audd I a Lawful widow; oud an sucly is selred of o dower vight fu the roal estato and eutitled to her gimx ju tho personal estate of the said Isaae Merritt nger, SerentheThat tho rald atrument was executed In fraud of the rights of this rontestant, and by mesnd o trand, restraing, und undu mtineneo sl I Jgnorateo and under intsapprelicnsion of 1l lvgal status of tho afurcsald legateos, ‘s following i n synopsis of tho will After dirgeting the poyment of bis just dobls and funerat uzponsce, tho teatator bequeatlied to his wifs, Tasbella Engena Binger, all tho Lousebold furniture, wsetul and ornantental, heds, bedding, siverwara and sitver plate, statues, parior and crockery, pictures, boaks, horses, harness, agcs, and all things perfalniug to the same, which might bo in Lits possersiun, or kept for Lls uss and owneg by Dim ot tho tlnu of hin decease, for hur ol and separ- ate ure, boneilt, and Leliof forever, Mo also bo- qticathn to bin wifo any houto or domictle, with tho land aud appurtenauces thersunto belonging, which at tho thna of i death o might own or ocoupy an & rendenco or home for himself and famifly—sho to hava und hold the samo during lier nstural life, nnd _imutediately sfter hier death ho givos and deyiack the satue o ber cifld, or cbildren, by Lim Legotten, then liviug, to bo divided equally between them, ‘Tha fourth clauro tays, T boqueath to cach of the following-named persous, they being my_children, born of ber whose matdeu name was Maris Maley, and direct my sald exeeutors to pay them o8 foliows: To iy won Willlam A, Binger, by “the aaid Marin Haley, thie e of $5,(007 to my daughter, Lillisn C. Sivgor, Uy tho #3id Marla Haley, tho aun_of $1,000, for et 8010 andt separato nae, beuent, and bohonf furaver, freo trom tho debta, Intarference, or control of any hus- band elio muy marey," Clausy five provides for a diviston of all tho testa- tor's real and Fernonal estate into sixty oqual parts or portians for onvenlenco of distribtion, And to fndlc ¢ato the proportion af tho same ho gives (o cach, To his wife, Isabulla Lugenis Siugor, ho boqueathu four of'sald Parls oF postions of said. ewtate—llo porsohal cotate—tor her nols mud Acparato use forcver, {ree from tho debts, intorference, or control (as ho also mokes tho forimture und ' other property given ber by the wil) of auy bushaud - sho may inarcy after © bis decenot and the real ostato to bo lield by her during Ler natural lifo, und at hier death to rovort to kor clifld or childzen by bitn Legottety to bo divided equally butwveen thewn % mora than odv, the bequests mada to tho wifo of tha tentator belug given to lier {nstead und in lieu of all dowur or thirds and righit of dower that sho might otherwise Lo lu tho estate, ‘o Adam Mortimer Hinger, hin son by his wite, Isa- eila Eugeuia Bluger, he licquoathe nix of sald parts or portions for hiv sule aud separato uso, ‘To Lis Usngh- ter, Wionarotts Engenia Binger, of ‘tho samo lasuc, fiva of sald parts or fortiona for hor solo use, Tu Washington Morritt Singer, hia son, of tho same iasie, aiz of wald parts or portioos, To Paris Eugeuo Bluper, Lla 801, of the sato fssuc, aix parts, o Ira- Uells Blancho Siuger, Lis daughter, of the same is- suc, tive parts. o Frankliy Mores Singer, Lin son, of the same fasuc, 612 parls Thn tioxt clause reads: 1 deviso and bequesth to each of tho foliowiug nated persons, whom fn this my will I call by the surnamo of Hinger, they belug miy ctifidron borm of Mary Mcdlonigal, of tho City of Asn Francisco, in the Btais of Caliturnis, and who is com- monly callod by tie eurname of Mathewa, e follown ; To 1y daughler, Ruts Merrist Blager (éalled Mathe ens), by tho maid Mary MeGonignl, two of tho said yarta or portions of my ctats for lrer solo aud separe ate uso foraver, Ta my daughter Clarn Snger (called Mathews), by the sald “Mary McGonigal, two porta or portious of 10y estate. ‘o my daughter Mlorence Adelaide Ninger (called Mathows), by the said Mary UcGonlgal, tvo, parta or portlaue'ol my evate. iy my daughter Morgarct Alexandrin Bloger (called Mathews), by the sald Mary McGonigal, twn parts or yortiond of my catate, Tomy aon Charles Alvxander inger (vallod Mathows) by the said Mary Mctiondyl, twoyarta or partions of my eatate, To iy daughter Alce, whow 1 hero call Allca’ Singor, whu i ty daughter, bomn of Mary ¥, Walton, of the Clty of Now Yors, which Sary E."Walton s ‘commonly callad by the surname of Merritt, and the sald Allce having Leen somatimes called Alice Merrit, two of safid pazis fur Lior wola and weparate usn forever.” In the noxt clauso o sayw: *Ta cach of the follow- ing persons whom 1 call iia thin my will, and who hiare alwaya been known Ly tho surnawie of Siuger, they he iug wy children, burn of bor who s now known sa Mary Ann Foster, of the City of Now York, 1 give, de- viw, and beq; a4 follows: To my uon Tease Ati- gustus Bluger, by the sald Mary Avn Foater, 1wa of 1ho safd patia or portions of my estate, for his wolo a0 separatd use, beuofit, aud behoof forever, 1do not give my daughter, Vicletts Thercaa Blngor, by the safd Mary Anu Foeter, and who s now the wifs of Willism . Procior, sty portion of my estate, for the rearon that t0FOUAD 1y Sppoloment Ber seid BieDsmiL ubtaiued biw eitustion and futerest (4 the Siuger Mans ufsctiriyg Company, which and haa thus acquired a fortune pisces oy vald duuglter above tho ecessily of stance ixom e, 1 give and devive snd be. queath to my s, Johu Albert hinger, by tho satd Mary Ans Foller, two of the said pazta of postions of iy estate,' o’ Lia daughter Fanny Elizabeth Sioger, by tbe #sma mother, and wlo (s now the wifo of Willlém B, Archer, o gi¥es oue part of the estata; to his son Jase er Emmeit Sluger, Ly the aswo wother, ane pari{ to tary OliYo 5inger, by tio same uiother, and who 4 now the wife of Sturges Whitlock, one part; to Julis Ann Sfuger, by the same mother, one part; 10 Caro- line Virgwia bitigen, by the wame wmother, two paris. g S e INDICTED FOR LIBEL, Bemyoneey, LL, Oct. 22.—The Hon, Fred- erick (Geliering, local representative in the Qeu- eral Assowbly, and sditor of tho Fres P'ress, ' German, Wes to-day iudicted by tbe Crand Juey for lbel in publisbing an article groealy screonsl and Bbelonw fowards County Tressurer Perkiug aud the city editor of the State Journal, The anticlo grow out of a political controversy, ARCTIC EXPLORATION, Views of D Hayes on the Res sulis of the Pandora’s Voyuge. Franklin’s 8ad Faless<The Theory of the xistence of an Open Polar Sea. Prospects of the English Expedition, w Yourk, Oct. Uh—T0 the Editor of the fievald: ‘The P'andora hny made o very gallant dash fata the Aretic rens, NELVILLE DAY, . Up to tho time of reaching Melville Day all gocima to iave been plain railiog with the Pan- dorn. Melville Bay in the grent terror of Arctic navigators. The winda, eurrents, and tho enor- mous dinchargo of icebergs from the Greenlaud glaciera block it up to such an oxtent that nvi- gAtion 18 nlwaya dangerous and somotimed tm- possible, The bay In ftself 13 but n broad eurvo oftho Gresnland const, exteudiug in a northe weeto:ly directiou from a littlo above Upernavik, fnlat, 73 dog. to Capo York, In Iat. 76 dog, Dut this bay has como to bo regarded ne comprising tho whole of Baflins Day 1ying to the wostward, In which quastor there is o alow, ciraular move- ment of the wators, enused by the northorly get of tho curront on tho COreenland sido and n eoutherly eat on the American eldo, tho rosult boing that great Lodiea of fco are Lold there, constructing what is known ns **The Middlo Tee,” on Melvilto Bay Pack. To the northward of this the son s gon- orally freo up to Smith Sound, and nlso to tho weatward into Loncaslor Sound, Wosterly winds driva this y:ack upon the Greonland const, whilo easterly wiuda drive it in tho opposite divection and [eave the const free. 'Chio navigator watchos his chances, and muat bold iu ono direction or tho othor, for If onco caught in tho * pack " hin ship ia liable to be ernshed a8 an oggsholi in the: hand, ‘The I’andora, with good judgmoent, scems to bave Lold well to tho wosl sud run tho gauntiot without difticulty. DBy pursuing tho kamo course, sfter s Aucoesaion of westouly gales, 1 onoo passed, under eail, through Mei- villo Bay in forty-otght houre, and agnin i ftty- five, without oncounterivg much ice. Tho opon rea abovo this bay ia knowiras the ** North Water," in which lie the Carey 1slands, and to which point the coures of tho Pandora was fdentical with that of tle Alort aud Discovery, uudoer Capt. Narey, anil tho same ansthat of Sir Johu Franklin and of all the discovory and senrch-oxpoditions of recent times, Thenee, howevor, tho conrso of tho Alert and Discovery wan duo norih to Sinith Sound, nu the track of Dafily, io 16185 Ross, in 1815; Inglefiold, in 1852 Kare, in_ 1853y Hoyes, in 18605 Jisll, in 1872; and in which diroction tho north- ornmost known laud has_been discovered, and whers liea tho ** Open Polar Sea” which Kano frat discovered, which I subsequontly raw and traced still further north to lutitudo 82 degreen, —that is, to within 480 imles of tho Polo,—which Italt wttorward renched, as I boheyo, in tho eteamer Polaris, and which Caoty, Nares and Muriham will, L am aquatly contident. navigate, TUE COURKE UF TIE PANDORA. T'rom Carey Isiand tho courso of ihe Pandora wio s Jittlo to the south of west, and inta Lan- carter Suund, directly on the track of Frauklia : thien into Burrow Btruit. on Lo Beechy Ialaud, which lies nt the entranca to Wellington Chan- nel. aud whero Fraukim passcd the winter of 1846-'48, and whoto three of his party lio buried. Whelr graves woro firut discovered i 1330, lut here all traces of the missing oxpedition wore lost until 1853, when Ur. Rae, traveling over- land from tho northern part of [ludsow’s Bay, in & northwestorly direstion, foll in with a party of Esquimanx, in swhose posesssion he found numerou rolics, and learned of thy dostruction of tha cutire party, - TRANRLIN'S VATE. But lio was utterly unablo to locate the posi- tion of their misfortuno or to learn of tho caugo thereof, furthor than that n small body of mon, diugging one boat, reached Montrenl Island, at the mouth of liack's or Great Fish River, whore, in tho sholter of tho boat, thoy all lay down and died, though, na Lo learned Trom tlio natives, not uutil somo of then hiad resorted to tho terris blo altornative of canvibalism. tlers the mattor roated untll Capt. MoClintock, in the steamer Fox, in 1858, approachied tho locality from tho north. Capt. Young, Commander of tho Pan- dora, was with McClintook ou this voyase, After u soarch of tou ynars, tho locality of Franklin's ships was fixed ‘within cortain limity, aud nil that McClintock aud Young bad to do was to push south from Barrow Biraita by ship as far a8 possible, and, thiore wintoring, to sonrcl 1n the upring for traccs. Thrco routos woro opan to them. In the firet place, thoy might'fo down Prince Rogent's Inlot. 'To the westward of thia iulot lies the Iargo fsland of North SBomersot, Then comes_Poel Sound, then Prince of Walea' Land, thon McClintock's Chunnel, discovered by Capt. Young whilo on & sledgo-journey fn the n{:nnu of 1850, MeClintock went down I'rinco Hegout Inlot, whero Parry and Iloss had provi- ouely gono, and wora fioally brought up by the ico in Bolloit Strait, which separates Nomerset Iatand from Boothin Ponicsula, the northorn- most point of the mainlund of tho Amer~ ican Contivent, This 18 in Iatilude 72 dege. Thonca to the mouth lios King William's Land—au islasd over a hundrod milos long, near the northern extremity of swhich Fravkliu's ahips wore bosot sud fioally frozon faut in tho thick-ribboed ice, after having come through Peel Sound in Heptombor, 18iG—which fact was doterminod by McClintook and Young duriog their sledgo journoys in 18591, for, in vigiting that islund, a large Leap of etones or cairn was discavered by them, and underit a rucord, carofully secured 1n a bottle, which told, in n faw brief words, what the world was 20 long {usearch of. An this story.wns to the offect that Fravklin had, after wintoring on Boechy Iuland ond frymg to reach Beohring Straita in tho direotion of {ho Polo, where tho opon sen wny supposed to lio, gono south towsrd the Ameri- can coast, in the Liope of following its courae to- ward the Pacifio Ocoan, whon the ships were un- lorlmmel{‘ besot. It further states that Bir Jobn Franklin himsolf diod long bofore tho final catastropho. ere i tho record : 3 TOE PRANKLIN EECOBD. Arin 25, 1848,—I1, M. ships Erebus_snd Terror are deeorted on tho 324 April, 6 lcaguea N, N, W, of baving been besct wince Uitk September, 180, The ofticors tud crown, consisting of 103 rouls, nnder tho command of Capt,'F, It M, Crozicr, landed hera in lat, 69 deg. 17 miu, 4 aec, N,y lougituds 08 deg, 41 min. W. 8if John Frankiin died on the 11th June, 3WAT, and the totallosa by death in tho oxpedition hay been, to this date, vine oificers and hiftoen men, (Signod) ¥, L, M, Cnoaizen, Captan and Eenlor Officer, JAMES FITZIAMER, Captaiu H, M, shio Erebus, ‘This rocord was, howover, written on tho mar- gin of a papoer which lind neatly a year bofora been placed there while all was well, and which runs as tollowa : ¥ 28T11 o Mar, HH7,—11, A, ships xrobus and Ter- or wintered i the ice i1 iat, 70 deg. 05 min. N., lon, 08 deg, %5 min, W. Havibg wintered (o Ixi6-7 st Beecliy Island, in Jat, 74 deg, 43 min, 23 sea, No,, I 91 deg. 59 min, 13 uec, W., uftor having asceid Mngton Chuunel to deg. sud returned by the west ¥ide of Cornwallls Island, Hir Jokn Frabklin commanding tho cxpedition. Al well,” Tarty cousiat- ing of two oflicers aud aix men loft tho ehips ou Afon- day, 24th May, 1847, Gu. Gors, Lieutenant, Cuantes ¥, Dea Yorvx, Mate, VURTHER DELICK OF FRANKLLY. In this main pact of the document thera is su crror of date, as shiown by the subdoquaent rece ord previously quoted, wherotn it is atated that tho Erebus ‘and Torror wintered at Deechy Island in 1846-"7, The carract dato of that wine tering at Beechy Iuland was 1845-'0, After teaving the ships mud depositing the record wo know nothiug moro of tho wadly un- fortuuato pariy, exvopt the trages 2lready aliuded to, brought by Dr. Ttge. und & boat. mouuted on rupncrd found by MeCllntock, drawn up on a Jow poiat of land, wilh two skeletons in 14 and two rides loaning agaiuet its side. . "Lhiw I8 uil Lhut wes ever foaund, except a few relics discovered by our countrymau, the late Capt, Hall, who seut scveral years in the soarch. Ho tound no additloual recorde, but he became eatistied, from information received through tho vutives, of the oxach locality of all the books, papers, aud dooumenta relating to the expodi- tion. Thesa wore reported mu belug burisd by the rotreating party in a:stouo caitn on the soutbwest coast of King Willam's Laud, and tho locality, 1t was thought, coula be rescbed. To obtain these records would be an importavt achievement, aud would cloar up all mystery coucorning this fll-starred oxpedilion. Al reward for their secovery was offered by the lato Luady Fraukhu, whoss “lndefatigubly zeal and dl‘vlo!wu 90 long kept thu search in activo ope- rwtion, And start on {o-morrow for Lack's Fish River, TRE PANDODA'M MIASION, It was maiuly, au I understand, tosecurothess records bt tho Zerald, Ludy Frankliu, aud Capt. Youug jointly fitted out tho Puudora, whose course wo bave traced to Barrow Biraits, Jusiead of followivg the course of Cspt. Mc. Clintock down Prince Hegent Ilet, the Pandora emtlod down Foel Round, The cablo dispatel staten that, when on the weast side of P'rince of Walow' Land. they i <" bl Hhere 1 sber b Turiher inakn the shanlid be std: § tint the P for, and not from, King Wilkiam's Land, Rogietts 1eland, mentioned m tho <ispated, 48 n Peel Hound, nenrly oprositn Delloit Straitw, again mentioned, and Loyond which they eonld not rnn to auy conwiderahle distancd becauso of the hoavy pack ico. luto this *pack" Bir John Franklin panatrated In 1816, and pucereded in reaching within [0 miles of Victoria Strait, which bad been previously pavigated with boats, and which. if onee reached, would donbtless hava led the way to the [ and the aecomplishment of thie lang-rouelit-tar Nothwost Pasasie, CAPT, YOUNO'H CUlasE ‘Thoro i« no donbt that Capt, Youug did wwiso! in not entoring this “pack.” Tha sate of Frank- tin would liave boon his it all human jrobsbility, "T'hero wau nothing loft for him, thereforn, bit to genreh with sled) WL g ami- - Binco tho distance from ki m's Land was too great 1o admit of any chanee of Iy tho former mothod without wintering on th and sledging, ®#o far as 1t appeses, vot being down in the plans ~it wan, no doubt, tho pars of wisdom, seamanship, and rafoty toadopt the latter alternative. Lut wicdom, seamansbip, and safety aro not mattors for whichmen hava nstal- 1y been famous in connection with Arctic naviga- tion. Do Haven was ealled the ** Mud Yankeo ™ for his rockless disregard of hin alip's bows, and recalessness 18 hardly less the char- acteristic of a corsnir than of an Arctio voyager, Ieneo it 1« that the Pandora brings us no resulta further than the reeord of o hold and gpirited dash. Dut to lind what was szought for required a different courso of action, In or- dor to necomplish auything vow in that direction it i8, a1 bellove, ab-olutely ensential that n wintor should bo passed thero, As for wintering thero now, 1t is 1o great hardebly, further than it deprives ono of the socloty of friendn, and tho oxcitoments of the groat world, Jut it 16 healthy, and hus its peculiar charma; and us foy spring travel, no matter bow cold it uy bo, thero iy 1o pattiealar nak or discomfort attending it, further than what 1alls to the lot of & soldior an an ordinary catnpaign. It does not seom, Ay fn el to bo regralted, that wo know anything moro sbout the fato of Sir John Frankhn than wo did bafora; nor haw anything appareutly boen added to the googiaphy or seienco of the oxtensivo rogion travorsed, Of coursn I do not koo auything about Capt. Young's iostructions; but, siveo I beliove that nothing furthor can ho found out covering the ronantic history of tho Erabus_and Torroc without minuto goaren with slodgas, T mist con- feus my regrot that wiile thevo the Pandora was not put into a safe wintor harbor Hept, 7 (tho dato of lier tnrning back), and every foot of the conkt of King William's Land earefully scarched for whnt thoy wont after and for information of o sciontitle character, which wo all 50 mneh d siro fron thay tumodinto vicinity of thd nug- netic I'olo. In 1817, Capt, Scorsby reached Inti- tudo 81 deg. 50 min, i the Spitzbergon Hon, fizdiog ovorything open beforo lim, and o had 1o doubt thas ho might Iinva sailed on to tho North Polo, but his was a whale ship, #nd duty to Ins omployors roquired that ko should roturn south, sluco’in that ses he discovered no whalen, Aud thus it has ovor boon with _espoditions to tho North, Tuey have all turnod back short of thewr main object, or been destroyed an the effort for its accomplwliment. THE FRORIECTH OF THE ESGLISH AITICR, T.ot us Liopo that tho samo fate may ot bo in atoro for tho Eoglish plupa Alert and Discovery, oven although we may regret that thoy do not carry tho Awmorican flug into » quarter whero Ameriosue only havo ponetrated, ‘Lheir chances soem to me to bo cXeeplionally poad, And of tuis wo find ovideuce in tho fact that compara- tivoly littlo 1co was ancountorod in auy part of Ballin Bay by tho Paudors. Thia is due to tho great provalonco of northorly winds during tho {u“ sprivg aud winter. Ono resuit of this has con oronght closo Lomo to us in the great danger encounforod i the navigation of the North Atlantie by renson of the numerons ico- hergs liyiug off the Hanks and iu latitudes whore they bave woldom or mnover apposred bo fore. ‘flhicso enormous mosses nre, ay s well kuown, o product of the Greonland glaciers, and, being formed of snow upou ths laud, arn fresh, sontetimes rising two and thres hundved feet sbove tho surfaco of the kea, althouzly kaven times doopor beneath, Fhey presout broad sur- faces, not unlrequently of & quarior oc half a wile to the wind, and aro driven sunedily south whon tho mnd prevails long from the north, thas clearing tho watess, Tho ileld-iece followa the samo direction, aud heuce il may bo inforred that, as tho North Atloutic has boen unusually crowded with ico whilo Baflln Bay is freo, a liko open _condition will prevail beyond in Smith Hound and the adjacent wators. Aud [ still bo- lieve, a4 L uiways havo bolioved hinco iy fiae voyage theroto, that in Lho vicioity of tho Lolo (hero Is au open, navigablo oa in the suminer; that it way Do reachod by abip ar bont by way of Smith Souud, and that the North Polo is within the reach of auy nation that will think it worth whilo to spend monoy enough to got to it., Ro- spectfully yours, 1gaao I HAves, I0WA VOMAN'S STATE TEMPERANCE UNION. Speciat Correspomlence of Wi Chicans Tribune, Drs Morxea, Ia,, Ocs. 21.~The temporasnce cause iu thin Slato has bean takeu up by o now baud of workors, who wilt labor iu & now fleld, uod scek to aavanca the cause by ap- posls to tho moral ° senuibilities, and by nrousiog the Church to n groater renlization of hor responeibility in this matter, The Woman's State Temporance Union has boen in #eguion Lore soveral davs, and cloked I1s labora thiy morning. Tho meotivg was characterized by great earncstuces and solf-sacrificlng zoal. The following resolutious wore adopted : Resolred, 1, That' we recommend the faithfnl ob- nervanee by afl our socletles of tho national concort of proser overy Thumiay ot d . m: and oa the promiise i Lo the prayer of falth, wa uxk Clhirirlians everywhore to uvite thele prayers with ours for tho suppreasion of tho Sniquitous tradiic in ardent spirits, 2. That, through the kuowledgo gafned by our past experienco, we doplors tho use of alcoholle Wing of the vommunion table, and desire all ministers and church- ofticent W considur the fearful reapousibility fn {hug sproading s anare for some, and that niluistors foar- lesaly proclaim the whole Gospel, of which e consider temporancy a part, 3, ‘That, becauss wo feel tho power of tho pre educator, wo reconmend our socluties to reqgrest local editors ta devote nomo spaco fi thelr papers to the cauns of temperancs, aud givo it their influcnce s and thiat thu fricnda of this movement give tholr suppor to the Woman's Temperance Union sud Zns Morniny, Dot organs of temperauco, 4. 'Thnt, a8 tho young aro fho hopo of our country, and theit Nirst impresslony uro rocoived from par- ents aud_feaclors, wo recommond that especial attentlon b jriven 1o tho thorough tralufng of chil- dren in the principlea of temperanco and prohibition, aur the foriuation of Juvonite socletivs, 5, ‘hat wo memoriallzo our Natiouai Conventlon in fegard to the Womau's Temperance Work Lelag repro- scnted at (bo Conlennfal, 6, That, in view of the \'tmflerfill providences of o, by Which Hu koo to ho calliug the wonien uf our lanid to unwonted methodn af work in Iia vine- yurd, wacoriially recognive the efliclent nld to the temperance work by othor organizations for the pros molion of the great relorm of the day, und we hid T heacty goeed i tels otforts Wheh witt hois ua o treo uuT fatnt L the eurso of intemperance. 7. ‘That wo ) clieve {hat drinking habits should be ‘made o disqualification for holdiug vfiices of trust aud Yower, 'L'ho following ofticors were elected for the en- sning year: Prendent—Xirs, E, A, Wheeler, 0f Cedir Ruplds, Vice-'restdents—VFiret Tnntrice, Misa Olaza Hartla Becond, Mrs, Peaseloy; Third, Mrs, E, I, Oldor Fourtl, M 3 Flfil, Mre, 3, E. toni Bisth, Mrs, Buwen: Heveutl, Mre, Dt Eighth, Mrs, Moore; Ninth, Brs, Ceroline A, Gugs a, qaburrapondiing Secretary—rs, Alarich, Cedar Tap- de. rding Secvetary—Mrs, Bpringer, Ananiosa, Treasurer—rv, A, C, W, Bioero, Muscatiue, i 'l;bo next mootiug of the Union will be held at uton, e s HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, Atiny quadroped eitayed A By Bt to sl whure niyutic Rymboly, eivcling round, Aarked ont tha coure of tine, The helght is galnad, tho goal sttained, ‘When, mark his trembhug fears ! A luud report—a borrid din Awuully btd shudderivg cars) At ancolin deems his hour has como; o nees in vivions rizo Ench slulub eake, tach purloined cruiab, Like ghoulx beiore bis eyen, Wih gulity speed, with boafing beatt, Danp tions that beight be togar " Houkit ut tho cartl's remotest depthie, Aulueer was heard of more, gitadidiii o i I0WA PRESBYTERIANS, Specigl Dispateh to The Chieggn Lribune, Dayesrons, I, Oct, 22.—1T'ho annual meating of the Presbyterian Bynod of Jowa Bouth, coin- prising some ffty counties of this State, con- venodin (bia city last evemng, with dome 200 dajegates presout. The follvwiug- oflicers woro clected for the cusaing {rnx Modeotator, the Rov. 8. M., Omoond, D. D.; Stated Clerk, the Rev. W, G. Craiy, D.1 l'ermanent Clerk, the Rev. D. H, Qappan; Temporury Clarks, the Rove. T, L. Bexton snd £. 1L Cuouivgbam g ‘I'reasurer, the Rev, W. (1 Craig. Ottumwa wus chuseu w4 tho next place of meouog, ‘Lhe Byuod will coutinug fu session till Alouday, SPORTING, BASE-BALL, THE CHICAOOY AT BOSTON, Svecial Disvatel o Che Clicagn Tribu; Bosruy, Oct, 22, The Chieag m..u“,lfl'm,, wont for tho ted toskings this afteroon oy g Hoston grounda, but thoy did ot Inst, o tha sovenths lunfng_thoy played o slarp, e minod.gamo in tho flold, whilo thelr Lutting 1 ord tood nt 1410 7 safa lita 1o tholr fayor® " fact {hioy puniehed Rpalding 50 badiy my (o der:it oxpedient for him o glyo way to May " in tho Gttt Inning. T tho sixth g, s #eare ot £ o U ngainst the Toatanw, thy Loilt elub rallied ot the bat, earning @ and petier 4 runs. Iu tho weventh thoy ciineliod lll. :‘332, 7 runs on Rome freo, hoavy batt carned only 1, ¥ batting. thougl they e Yons, GoouNR—StuTeAL, Nrw Yons, Oct, 22.—Base-bs Mo sank, o-bull: Bt Lous, 4 S THE TRIGGER, CALITONNIA WIPLE-RIOOTING TOURXAMRYY, 8as Frasetoeo, Cak, Oct, 22 " 22—The nieut of this Calitornia Rifl A\ulm‘hl?nn‘(;);;‘c’:e: this morning ot the Presidio range, Trelys totmn of #ix eaob, oro ontored, bnsides 23y ]1" dividunl enteice. 'Uho firat muntely v open g mnemiiers of tho Cahforin Rifle Associayion, commissioned ofiicers of thio Unitod Riates Argy nnd tembers of tho Natlonal Guurd, s distage; of 200 yarda. Tha second mintch in for the K 1‘ locg challeligo cup. opon to wombers f National, Guned aud oflicars of th pnie® Htatos Arny ond Navy. Tho thitg et walt bo tho Presio * shoit-range mage open only to oulisted mon qf 714' States Army, atntioucd nt posta if the Lt - To-morvow thete will bo n lang.rany matcl at 1,000 yards, open to all comers, nndm contost botuwesit tho ' tonmn from commaamee. & the National Guards, for o silver challongo tro phy. The best merkamau in this mateh wii 't: awardod n golid wedal by Gov. Pachoco In' par 2\‘1;:30:)‘. ho aggregate valuo of the prizay gy t the mateh tha wosther was favorable, wi 110 oxcontion of & pretty «tiff hreozs :JA:E‘T{" rauge. ‘Iho nttentance wan good.- Tho disten H way 200 vards, United’ Statos Sprinzilold rije two sizhiling and soven wcaring shots, gioas; possiblo score 35. There weio 102 contegtagty, o two Lighost acoren ware 0 oac, T sromic: off Lo the tho fivet prizo wan won by 4 paih - tho wecoud by two, Tho third prize way wnt by a score of 20, Ten competitors scoral 93 ol and shot off for tho rowatuluy Givo prizes Of forty-clght contostants for tho Kellog Chl. lengo Cup, distancn G600 vords, fiva ahots, grost est possiblo ueoro 25, twonty aoven scared the requisito 15 points to admit” thewm to the seo. ond #tage of tha matel, which was detorred until to-morrow morning, after whish tho match between twolvo teams of tho National Guar will. bo abot. BOGARDT:, Dreaton, T, Oct. 22.—Capt. Bozardus, tk champlon marksman, shot two matelios hezo yer, terday. In the first mutob bie kilied 19 oat of 19 birde, two traps being xprunz s oocea, 40 yardy apart, In the aecond mateh he killod 17 ont of 18 birds, doing his own londing. Tho Capain wuys this is tho best shootiug he over did, e THE TURF. TUR BALTINOKE HACES. Martivon, Md., Oct. (115 was tha fourth nud Ingt day of the races at limlico. Thest. tendanco wax Iarger than on any previous g, ‘I'lio ruce for the Brockenridge Stako for 3-year- olds, 2 miles, wns won by Atistides. Time, 2:33, Tue sccond race was n boudicap for $259, 13 miley, and was won by Madge, Time, 2: Tho hnudicep race, 11 miloy, Dllndgo, wot 1) Qzark socoud, Mowes Primroso minly 0, 1. ha Breckonrldgo Stako. 2 milos was won by mleu.o‘\{'lutur socoud, Tom Ochiltrea thind 0, B33 . "'no cumpenaation-purse. milo Lioats, was won by Rhodnmanthus. Areturus socoud, Dig Sandy third. Timo, Y0¥ s 14407, ‘T'ho steeple chase, 2!4 miles, a3 won by Di- nv‘ulo. Eoronat second, Dendhoad third. Time, (1Y 7 Al tho pools sold last night on tho Bracken ridgo stakos wero declared off, becauco it wat not announced that Oelultree, winner of the Dixio stakes, would be roquired to cany 5 rounds extra. 'Fbo question thon arose whesher andalite, winner of tho Dixio stakes, and alx ‘ tho Breckenridgo atakes last your, carred the§ pounds ponalty required 10 the latter race, and, 08 it is almost certain nho did not, Mr. Sauford ownor of Brigand, who rau second to’ Vandal for tlio Brockenridgo staken last year, ta-day pu iu & ¢laim for tho purso, RACES AT RLYRIA, O. Spectar Divpaich to I'a Chicaus Tribune, L1vn1a, O., Oct, 22,—A large crowd was in st tendanco at tho third doy’s races of the Elyris Driving Association. Tho sixth hest of yesiar day's raco was to-day won by Colddust in 231 Kimborly uecond and Moxloy third. The 23 race, two in theee, wos won by Dilly Weaver n two atraight heatay timo, 2:07 and 2:61%, Georgs second nnd Maggie Sharp third, The frec-for- oll raco was won by Lanra Williams in three atraight Loats, in 2:45, 2:46, and 2:41}, Golddus second, and Kimborly thin . ——— TENNESSEE SPORTSMEN, CONVENTION AT NUMPHI. Mesenis, Taon., Oct. A numbar- of sportsmon and fino kennels of Lnnting dogt from Couada and tho East arrived to-day tosl tend tho ansual meoling of tho Teaestw Bporteman's Association, which bogins foodsy next, and continuos during the weok, A Jargo dologation from Chicago nud tho Westorn Siaiet iy oxpectod to-mOFrow. — he 'Trathin] Filots Vackavnrg Herald, "Tho passenger,, who was xoing down ke tig river for tho firut time In his lifo, sccured per- wisnlon to climb up besido the pilot, 5 grim o gravback who never told s lie in his life. “3Mauy alligators in tho river?” inquired the atranger, aftar a look nround. e * Not 4o many pow, sinco they got ehootit’ "o for their hides and {allor,” was the repls. + Unod to bo lots, eh #" s " + 1 don't want to'teld you ahout e, etravger, rnpll‘ml tho pilot, aighii hoavily. - Wby 2" +'Causo you'd think I yin' to you spd that's sumthin' I nover do. [ kinclioat at kee . drink whisky, or chaw poor terbacker, but1esd lie." 3 “iThon thoro used to bo lots of 'em?" inquked tho passcoyer. 1 n ‘m mnlzt afrald to tell vo. mister, bat Iy: counted 'leven hundred sflvgaters to le '?w from Vicksburg cl'ar dowu to Urll‘l.lnla G Wad Wears ago, afore s shot was ever fr cm.! ‘Woll, I don't donbt it," repliod tho atrangst, nd I'vo conuted 3,649 of 'em on oue ul“lL " continitad the pliot, It lookis big 10147 but & Goyerumont wurveyor was nhosrd, 8o cbocked ’em aff as I callod out.” ‘1 haveu't llho Iat:‘ut doullu. of it, engor, ag he hoaved a sigh. bt wiad o' that stranger, Bomo !t‘l:s would think I was n liar, wheu I telliog #olomn trath, This wsed to be & mr): i alligators, and they woro 80 thick tlat the s of tho boat killed an average of forty- the l:lll;l‘!"‘ an g * 1a that 80 ?" f & or! T ured toalmost True ns gospel, mist e e thayd waa worry for the cussed brutes, I fut g'onamont Tike & buman being. o iy lots of 'em, au I eaid, aud we burt 8 pile s Jtnin who alius carried ! I sallod with one Ca) fuitaeny to throw over ¥ thoueand bottlos of tho wounded onos! " e naye live, o did. I 'rue a4 you live on't ovor 100 ..%um Soacls @ ki, th5utl-cum‘ Aud tho allygaters got to Know the :uxt‘ ){n = and to know Capt. Tom, and they'd & et and rub their tails agin tho boat au i ““’thn‘ look u{xdnu_l,l try to smila ! **They wonuld ¢ L Hul‘;’mn ;'mu.. utranger, And fluflbflé’:\;‘: grouuded on a bar, with an afimmuun boat ¥4, Uehind, the allygsters gat ored arol ere" under ber wtern, and humped bot dcnfi‘ Lar by 8 grand push | it looks liko » b but Lnovar toid llo yet, and1 wwyersblj wanldn't Mo for all tho mouey yo d this boat.” i l‘{i};;m wl:u patoful pause, aod after AW the pilot continaod: erondd *Qur injines giu out T i allvgators took a tow-ling up ptream tod ;r:nkumuy. - W ' “{:fiywnhlen the newa got slong uu‘ tml'm o Capt, 'Lom was dead, ol:u‘::;y .':lyl,flu‘:er ‘2 Sle [t ear with blac| Y 2?“‘:5'.,‘}‘35. o lota ot ‘em pmedfens? diod 1" k3 or lofc tho pilot-hous m:zl::)? :;::nfo didn't doubt the ststem the old msn Hfl"lnhmu 2 o m‘:;dufim'u maka's las of m!uug‘m. don't 'rpect 13 once, and & sud baulod us e d ' & by & good mother, au £ \ .'.’f,‘éi“«é' l‘th{u {ruth i€ uis bost doosu’t cent.”