Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1876, Page 10

SURANCT. Permanency of the National Board of Underwriters. Will It Sorvive Its Weakness?---8pec- ulations on the Subject. A Chapter on ife-Insuranco Management, How Rich Corporations Manage Their Fire' Insurance. ° Uankering for Englisk Companies Among New Tork Agents. Thit Proper Sort of Material for a Sneeessful Firee Insnrance Broker. Spectal Qorrespondence of The Tridune. New Yonk, Oct. 18.—Inqulrics are pouring into the city frotn all pomts of the country relative to the future of the National Board, nota few partics bave condescended to refer to the letter printed in Tug TRIBUNE of the 4th ss u prediction that the Board will soun dissolye, This was not the writer’s intention; but as the matier 1s of vast importance Lo the fraternity and the publie, it i3 worth a paragraph. There Is anun- dereurrent of fear among the large companies that the Buanl will diseolve, and belief- that it cannot be long delayed. At the samo timo there is another fear stronger than the other, that the dissolution of the orgunization will produce a worse state of things than the pres- vnt—a sort of out-of-the-Irying-pan-into-the-dlre wrrangementy which will bode mo good to the underwriting interest, But the malnstay of such an orgsnlzation 13 confldence, and that is radly lacking. Sald a promincnt clity member of the Natlonal Board to the writer a few days ngo, *You can hardly make & combination of a ozen companies’ upon any question that will . be faithfully adhered,. to. Why, #lr, this company recently agreed to - stand-u’ law-sult in common with sixtecn other com- panies, and before one sylluble of testimony lad Deen taken in the vase, seven of the companies privately compromised-and furniahed the party with funds to fight tho rest of us.”. TURY WAKT TO GO IF LBPT ALAXL. It i8 a well-authentfeated belfef that thege are a hinlf-dozen largo companies which would leave tho Bonrd to-morrow i€ assurcd that-no others would follow. Toshow how this is estimated hy the publle, some months agoa rumor went abroad that the Niagara had left the Board. It obtained quick credonce, nnd was overyiwhere believed on tho streot. The common opinfon was that the Germanias would follow, as there Is supposed to bo a rivalry, or.antagonlem, or both, between these Companies on account of thelr former relation as members of the Under- writers’ Agency. Aud, then, fn every oftico on Broadway, It was confidently predicted that if the Germania loft the Board tho Hauover would follow, and then the Continental, Hnmc‘ and so on ad infinitum. The rumor proved false, but 1t showed how ripe tho officers of companies were for oxpecting a'break. That Is precisely the condition of affairs to<lay, and at any mo- ment the withdrawal of a large compauy may precipitate_matters. Ruwmor has been” husy with the *‘Royal,” on account of that Com- nany's expulsion from tho National Bourd last month, but the Royal 18 still in line with re- spect to the tariffy and oceupies tho very anomalous position of heing out of thy Board and yet an observer of its rulcs and rates. company with The first lr&fiu ussctd in excess of §1,000,000 which secedes from the Board will seal its fatc, unleas fn the ux\cnnuma there should occur 1 very disastrous fire. o . THE CITY RATES STILL GOING DOWN. We would have suppoaed that o whole year of duwniard rates would have finally reached bot- tont, but there seomns no depth g0 low that the companies ennnot reach It. The dwelling-houss rites are simply preposterous. Flye-year poli- iy ave belng written in Enelish conpanfes at 40 cents, witn 101}2:.-\- ceut rebuto Lo the assured, ora tet rate of 30 centa. Many of tie compu- niea ure praying for u tirst-class” dwelling-houso bt “they want somobody else ateh the loss, The small locals who we Ditherto almost mouvopolized this class of vicks are foreed to follow the Euglish- oflices in the reduction, but the decline s as mnrked [ rates on merchandise as on dwell- ings, 'Thera 3 an *omnlbus " building risk pn Canal street on which the tarilf is §1,80, but there are plenty of coinpanles In b at 60 cents, Stewart’s up-town store Is ratzd st %1,35, but the price pald for a line of nearly $500,600 I8 less than 80 cents, Jobbing stocks on Chambare Reude, Duane, nud similar strects, rated t 70@ 40 cents, are writton in the very best local com- panics ut KGO0 conts. The remarkable cut Is upon a well known hotel. In 1872 {t paid §2.40, in 1874 £2.25, in 1875 8150, and recently a largo Jine was renewed at even 1 per cent, A broker who placed n risk last year at $1.25, hiearingthat o rival bad tuken {t at 85 conts, inade a written sltion 1o iake the lMno at 75 proy th cents, And these cuses might be indefinitely wuitipiied. It 18 2afo that, barring o fow risks, not one policy in fifty 13 renewed this yearat last year's rates, and this fs a poor sliowing, _fromthe fact, that Inst year there was a serlons reduction below therates of the previona scason. TMPROVEMENT IN LIFY. INSURANCE. Oue of the cartiest sym]\mms of an improved busiuess In the couutry ls the increasing num- ber of nrpllml lons for new policles reccived by the lending Iife companies. Al of thesg report a marked Improvement in thefr new business ns compared ‘with last, year. The Mutual aud Fgutable are dolng hearly double thicir lnst year's business for Eclptcmher and Qctober, and the New York Lifo veports o lurge increase. — The emaller offices mnlio the saue slgn, und 0 1t goes forward from one ,to another, llfin the satne struin. This i un- usual [u the Presidentinl clection year, and the improvenicnt 18 all tho more lcalthy, The Prestdent of one of the city life-Insurance com- r:mlu fnforins mo that thero has been a steady “incrcose of “Western buelucss for somo timo past, and that the relativa improvement ls much more murked in the Weet than in the Last, QOue general agoney located In Chicago sent forwand for 8eptember 104 upplicntions, ngainat thirty-scven for tha suno month Iast year.” The Mfe-insurance business has veally been ata low £bb tiCspite of the eflorts to prescrve ancAr— unees formore thun two years, und any bona fde Increase in the new ‘busioess must bo ac- repted as o very enconraging slum of thu ro- vival of trude and confidence. The story Is the same lu all quarters. H LIPE-INSURANCE AGENTS' COMPENAATION, There 15 something remurkable in tho inypres- slon which 1 wadé by the etatement of the vnormous commissions pald to agents. and soflgitors for securlug risks for 1ifo companies. It s uvery common thing {ndeed for genersl syents to receivo a commission of B3 and some- tunes40 por cent on the frst year's urcmluuur ’:u((l 10 o 15 per cent on Lhe subsequent yoars' . premtums, This compenaatlon varfes with the vompanicy, but the kargest dnd hest Rny B and 10 per ‘The demund upon th first year's premlum is fndecd 5o large thnt it is the real Cause why the lte companlea churge their prege ent premfume, Doubtlees $t s burd wark, aud Jew ' there be that make o suceess of . ctingg Tife Insurance; but there ure Swen no thls conwtey C whose rewu. Lar dncome from thelr life business equals the salary of Presfdent Ginnt, Awd there s no Juatance un record where u company, to et rid ol a fut cuntract mude With fts ageat, actually wvaid him 8125000 cash, wnd then guve him a ‘uew contract out of which ha nade o clear 510,000 per year. Thers arva mauy life-uzents sworking aolely on commiston whose Incoine runge from $10,000 to $20,000 per aunum, nud it i3 uot at ol anrrrulug LAt 50 many nen eu- ‘wage {n this busluess ufter all others bave (ulled tiem, althouh the inan who tries elther life or lire fusurance after hoe has fufled in every other “tine gonerally fulls in this, as it requires’ a spo- <les of talent, skill, and {ndustry whidh (s rare- 1y comblned fu an ordinary man.~ But wheneyer u real reform commences fn life insurauce, it will strike at agents’ cominissious, HOW THE COMPANIES MANAGE TIIEIN PIE IN- BURANCE. All our city lfe compantes are ownera of Smuwense amounts of bondas aud wortgay very large proportion, probably ae much as ninctecu-twentieths, are upon fmproved city {.rupmy. and, us they require such property to he jusured, {no Nt companies are therefors 1hie heaviest hutders of fire-lnsurance {wl!clu; in ournldst, It is curlous to notlee how the; wansge this brauch of their loans, ‘Lho ol Autuud Life hus a pecullar systeia which, white It ks unquestionably &afs us to strictty local vompsules, is ridiculous us toagency companies, ‘The Matudd tixes the aggregato amount which $t wiil take as sceurdty from’ each tive-ingurance cumpauy, howne aud_ forelzn, dolvg bustacss Lgre. ‘Thus (6 suys, Wo will sceept from the > 1. rrs‘nnl and London £2,000,000, the Iome 1,500,000, etew, ote. When it has recelved polles amounting In the ngeregate to theso sums from cither Company, thero it atops, and on no con- alteration will aceept. nnother dolinr in that Cnulrnny Upon husiness principles thissecurl- iy mi zhtfio taken from vither Compnny safely for the snme umount itpon pmnm{ in this city, Brouklyn, or Jereey City, but the Mutual looks at the aggrerate of its policles regnrdless of the laratior af riske, ond says we will take no more, ‘The Equituble Company rofers Ita Lorrowers firat to ihe lanover, fecond the Amerlean, third o the Montauk, fourth to the Long Tsland, nod then ta its other insurance tennnts, and fnalsts that. they shall have a preference. ‘The other Companles have thelr own brokers, and turn the {nsurance upon wortgaged property over to them. There Is tavoritlsm everywlicre, and no- where more marked than in the disposition of large blocks of fnsurance. PAVORITES OF RICH CORPORATIONS, ‘The rich rallway, steamboat, and manufac. turing corporations of this mfitfwn of tha coun- try, which carry large lines of insurance, have thelr speclal pets, of course, Somecthnes thoy act very unjustly in this matter, Not long ago the President of one of the wealthier ratlvays caused his Treasurcr to =oliclt. proposals from varfous partica for insuring certain proper it wae o big thing, and the prembum was £20,000. Onc vompany's agent made n rid lounly tow bil,—by far the lowest offer, and could not gt the tlsk. It turned out afterward that the nforesaid President lisd simply obtaln- cd the fizures so ho coulit say to his own fuyar- ste, * Hera 18 the visk,go and placa it at this fig- ure.” Anothier rich corporation gave con- trol of its insurance to anear relative of the President, and it was demonstrated by one of the Dircetors that the conten wae paging 32,500 per year miore by cuployiug this man than It it was dono in ai an open market, There aro companica which control immenac linea through relutions with Directors and stockholders, Such n cose fa that of the tarner & Co. lusurance. This firm lins an fnsurance of llf‘flfli five mill- fons upon varjons muitls and warchouses, the whole of whicl {s handled by the Guardia In- surance Company, of which the lats W.T, Garner was g Director. THICK ON THE DELAWARL & NUDSON CANAL COMPANT, For many_vears tho insurance risks of the Detwware & Hudson Cannl Cnn_wnny had been faced i the City of Wilkesharre, Pa., By a well-known finn there, These risks were seattered all over d’enusylvanla, and when the Company leased the raflroad Jines known ms the "Albany & Susqlnulmmm, Renneclacr &. Baratoga, and Rutland & Troy Ronds, thelr insurance extended Into Now Yorl and Vermont. It was still controlled by the Wilkesbacre firm {n #pito of the repeated efforts of varlous New York City companicsnud brokers ‘to'obtain it. Every year when It rolled uround thero was o flerce competition for the nisk, and the inost mur!.lng offers of rates were made, but all in valn, The Peunaylvanis chaps wtiil coutlnued to hundle it, and evon obtuined. the risks upon eome Illinofs property at Grand Tow- er, owned by the same guntleman who control- led " the destinfes of the Delaware & Hudson Canal. Tinally, Inst summnicr, it wan suggested ona day tothe Dircctor of the Company that they were foolish to Insurg thelr property, and a short erleuintion was fuade and hnaded to im showinz how much it had cost the Comnpa- ny to fnsure for five yeurs, and how much would haye been saved by the Company taking its own sk, ‘The Dircetor caught ut the fdea ut once, and at the uext meeting of the Doard had 2 wpe- viat committes appointed to conslder the ques- tlon of insurance. This Qommitleo were plied with arpuments by purties unfricndly to the Wilkgsbarre firm, und the result was the Dela- warw& [Tudson Caual Company now does. f1s own lusurance, xceptingupon n fess coal break- cers and other property deetnvd specially hazard- oue, * ‘Thelr premiums are yow about 3%,000 por xear ogninst nearly $50,000 in former years. . INCIHEABING 1OSSEY, Tn g measure the permancucy of the National Board s contingent upon the companics, be- U ing frced from ecvery losses, A confla- gratfon Mo thnt of last Februw- ry in New York and tho recent conflagration In Louwisvilletloes not nffect any- thing wmore than momentarily, hecanse the sef nrate risks aro s0 well seattercd that nosingle compauy loses Iurfrly. St 1t 1 to be noted that tho aggregato losecs of o1l the companigs ura In oxcess ol these of last yveur, while the re- eoipts, owing to the reduetion Iu rates, have di- minished, ‘Yo Insses have poured in thickly upon the companies reccntly, and would un- donbtedly produee an fmpression upon mites wera {t not for the fact that there arv su man’ local companies here which do no-agency busl- ness that they are unaffected by large fires out of town, It ingtters nothing ‘to thiem if Louls- ville, Cleveland, Cincfonatl, and Chlcagoall are consumed. Thelr losses are next tonothing, and they o ou langhingly ot low rates, makin fun of Juglr less fortunate ucighbors. There (4 n wholesale drend umons the ageney eompanles Jest the noxt three months ghall scorch them serlougly n lre lossca. GONE TO ENGLAND I'OR_ 3 COMPANY. Tlerg arc very fow agents aud officers of vom- panics dolng business liere who liave not been at sy pcrlmf affeeted by u desire to represent an Engllah company’s American Interests, Many of fhem have gona to tho expenso of journeys 1o England, and the number who now relate thelr cxperionces of Low near they camd to aucceas |3 not emall, Just now tho object of Interest to sundry gentlemen Is the azency of the “ Guanl- fan? nFcl.andnn, recently made vacunt by the death of Mr. Carter, the former Resident Agent, There s o ‘gencral wish among mewmbers of the fraterisity that the Cnmpnu{} may put futo ructice the English idea of Civil-Service re- oria hy promoting the Acting Agent, Mr. Mosea Jmi’:h to tho real monugership, Bo this as it may, it 1s uuderatood thers aro two well- known New York lusurance men, who seeretly leit New York about three weeks ugo to further thefr applications fu person, and with some en- couragement ta believe that, If unenceessful fn secaring the Guardian, they may at least hope to ‘chuun the representation ol another Eughish office. TAREE-TDAR JLNCHANDISE NISER Prior to tho Boston flrs it was a very common thing to tssue fire-policies on merchandise for three years, for iwo or two and @ balf an- nual Dremfuwe, {u Boston itself this rulo npplled to ol classes of risks, and nYnnluz-mllls.dhcntrcs, woodiwarkers, and othery of the baser sorl of speclals, were frequently in- sured upon this basls for three vears by tle very best compnuics. ‘Tt was, in ahort, u Boston nul(on,\vhlrh in time was imitated iy Now York, and mezsurably s0 In other cities. Aftor the great fire at the Iub, this three-year rule for merchandise risks waus abnndoned, but rocently it hins begun to sprivg up ugaln, Euglish com- niesare taking three-year risks on the prom- mnul, stocks ut two and o hulf tlines the annunl premium, and it will not. be loug ere the lurgo Anierlean ml?.fmk' follow thein. There dsu Natlonal Board rule on tlis subject, but the companles managoe to plow around it by taklng the risks on a basis not prohiblted. ANECDOTE OF A POPULAR BROKEN, ‘The kind of trulning roquisito for a suceeasful fire-insurance ngent “or broker 18 onc of the {:mhleml of the husiness. ‘There seems to bou tud of traditiun handed down that when a man Tias tried and falled {n other nvocations, by may suceced In Insurauve, but this fallacy many a ncophyte pangs of pain Innumerable. One of the prerequisites (s undoubtedly dn un- limited & cheek," and this recalls an ancedote of ouu of the most successtul and popular brok- crs on the strect, ‘Twenty years azo he was a billcolluctor, and o more wevere and assliuous Sedumuer never dived. He wian espeelally noted for hls suceees In colleethne Uills frotn hard casee, nnd to send him fora Mlt was almost a aure way olsecuring payment, One cnse was remarksbics It was that of & wman who could never be found at his otlics or house In spite of the most faithini watching, Qur col- leetor, however, was notballled, One mornfng he galned access (0 n ncighbor's houee, and thought he raw (with the ald of an opera-iinss) his debtor s beds P'atlently he walted for him from early dawn untl 8, 9, und dnully 100'clock, when the skioping debtor mindo hls appearauce, The collector pounced upon him at uuce, ang, escorting hln down . town, got lix money! No wonder the peralstency acquired fn collects Ing doubtful billa makes him a popular and suc- cossful lsnrance broker, Blood will tell, and cheek Ls migzhitiee than blood for this husiness, Neaw. e —— The Great University at Cairo, Almost “the strangeat sight in Egy{n way at the mosquoe of El Azhan, Here {8"the oldest and lnrgest university in all the East, aud the number of students studying there at uny thue may bo counted by thousiands. It was alrcady onr lust day in Ciirp, sid wo wished to viait It, Fovmorty Chrlstians wers oxposed to jusult nd » guard was at loast udvisabjo If not . heceasary, but we In our visit found no reason to suppose that state of thiugs still to cxist, It tuok ‘uy nearly iwo lioursinan open carrfage uuder the seorching heat of the midday suu firet o gret u ticket of wimiselon awd then for a rullvu ollleer ta accompanyus, Wodrove througl Lo wholly native quariers of old Cairo, a alighting found our way through narrow alle 10 the mogque i he school was fu session, or Tmipht futher eay in recumbence, g { Bup poiedt alwags Is, for the studeats sleep, eat, aud study all on the same spot. Around the court of the fountaln were gallorles where, as well us upon the ground below, mattresses and beds were epread out; we entered und found ourselves tu the body “of the silliice, long and Jargg, with roof and valls ‘on both sides and capable of holding ot least 3,000 persons. It was su filled with studeuts thut it was with great dlliculty wo could muke vur way unons them without sometivies stepping upun them,” These studeuts lvoked Jiko ull the rest of the vatives, ias codt L‘g{mlvm Correspondance Sin Francdicn Chronicle, n et of holf-unked, dirty begrars, who wonld lordly be allowed 1o he acen fn our streats, Throughout the buflding they were cqusliy tlosely erowded together, ” Of ¢imrac therg were nw eeats, nathing but licre and there patehes of steaw inalthes some were layingaslecp atreteh- ed out at (811 Tengzth on the ifoor; others seated ceroaz-legged, reoling backward and forwand and repeating aloud the lessun Mm¥ seeincd to by committing to memory from the hook hefore them; others, seated in the smne manner, were teanscribing or ciphering. 1 took the book from two or three and Tooked at it without any oppo- sltion on thelr part: the books hore the [mpress ol age but of eareful use. The students ranged in wgo from boya of 15 years to mlddle-agred men, Uccaslonally we canis near treading on a apread-ont ou tho floor of thin, round cakes, ovidently for eale to the students, of swhom some here and there were eallng, but always alone. The clvilized pleasure of suclal nueuls 1 Judgo to be uuknown to them. e . A NICE CONSUL. How the United Stutes Wnrs Reprosenterd In Hinm, We printed, several weeks ngo, an nccaunt of somu high-handed proceedings by F. W, Part- tldge, the late American Consul st 8inm, iu vonucetion with the propused repreaentation of thatcountry In the Amerlean Centennfal Expo- sitton. The Siam Weekly Adcertiser (published at Bangkok) gives further specinmens of his tyrannleal conduct,—the tollowing befng an ex- trait. from its article on the enbject: Ilere In nunther fllustration of the character of F. W, Porteidee, the Tate United Statea.Conanl, An American had It hisemploy some Chinere hlack- stthe, These men were arreated .nnd terribly swhippedt by tho opium facmers, on the ground that -smugiled opinm was found in thele honse, This American prosecuted the oplam farmers for dam- nges dono El- amployes, - le-hud A written contract with these Chinese, ‘hut it had not been Gled at the Consulate, 'The Siamene objecled to paylng dam- ages, on the ground that the contract was not val. 1. A day was appolnted by the Consnt toexamine into the validity of the contract, In the moantlme a ramor came 1o.the Conanl of tAa? petition, and that this Amorican bad signed It. The Consul de- termined upon lus conrse atonce, A warrant wae issned for tho sereat of the Amerlenn, eharging him with the ** crime of l[lllllp and ‘abetting the Blumese to overthrow “him, * the United Siatcs Consul.'** On theday when the contracts were cxamined, jurt baforé the tefal, the Vice-Contul #ald to this man that he ** wonld pay for signing that petition.” The countracts - were pronounced \\'nrllnlm hy tho Consnl, the American was fined 2100 and $50 coats, andt flung into prison, his wife and child were driven out of (helr honso, and everything taken porsession of by the Conanl. And, ag If thiswerce not enongh to ‘appense thelr revende, ‘the Viee-Oonsul, followed by hile worthy henchimnn, entercd the cell ¢ the privoner, and demnnded of him the ‘book contatuing his con~ tracts with the Chinese, The prisouer, knowing that they wonld destroy the hook, refused to give itap. 'l’;xa Vico-Courui aburcd him in the foulest of langeaze, and fually struck him, then put hand- cufls ‘nnkhhll', and with'a plstol marched him-about Tangkok. X Tt onr worthy Consul eseaved: to-shine In an- ather role,—chat of **Pont{fex Maximus.” Not cnlydid e claim control over the property. ib- orty, and life of Americans in scenlar nGaire, i he claimed the nuthority fo arbitraty in apiritunl things, An Amcrican physician of Slam, wishing to marry. went to the Consal and arked him if hie-wonld tome to the reaidence of the hride’s mother on thoe eve of the weddlug, and in this manuer give civii sanction to the marringe. Such had Leen the custom of former United States Comsnly, aud siso the cusiom of-the Consula of eome other untionalities, The Conanl rofnsed, saving the parties must be marrled in his ofice, and by him. 'To this the partles conseuted, fnnocently supposing that they conld havo & rell- glous ceremony al the bride’s mother's. Almfir pirty of guesis were invited, -But thoy had reck- oned without their hoat, Bride and groom -went down to the Consulate, The Consul nked them it they had u ring; they replied Ne, Conunl answered, **Yon cannot be married with. out a ring." The pariles were comuclled to reiirm home for a rhy, and rotorn 1o the Consnlate, hioping that the ceremony wonld nuw erforined withont any moro irouble, But they had reckoned without thelr host again, When thu'cersmony was abont to begin, the Consul asked them 1f they intended to have n religlous ceromony attho brido's In the eveningi thay replled yes. Tha Conanl replied ** he wonld not “permit It tliey undertooid anything of the kind, ho wonid ar- rost them and the clcrlamm: performing the cere- mony.* And before he would procesd with the ceremany he made the groom promise e wonld not have'n relizlons marriago at home. The Amer- Teaue, incensed at such usurpntions, addreased a note to the Consul axking hint ** why he forbade w religtous ceremony.* Hls reply srus in hurmony with the deed, Tfe sid that ‘Americans had*no right to ask tlm nuy guestions, nor criticiea hijs actions, ** It wan un [nsult to his Consular digni- ty'l todoro, . Coneerning tho whirky businces, the facts are hrlefly theso: The Conwil sells Lo Rlamere, Chi- meec, 0r whosoever will buy, licens ho rizht to sell Nquare, snd while | business they are under the protection of the American Government, Tha TUnited States thua ‘heromes tho guardion ot )iquor-gellers in Blom, The Ameriean, however degeaded he wight ve, could nut but feol romn sanse of shomno Loece the flage of his country nuallm;‘nwr many whisky-boats and rumeshops luSlam. Thie money was pocketed by the Consul. He tonk adyantaga of a fla: treaty to curich himaelf, rob the Slaineso of theis revonne, und the King of hissnbjects. Right and docency were trampled underfaot: dollars, — dollars wery his thoughts by day and his decam by night. ———— THE MICHIGAN CAPITOL, Special Dispatch Lo The Tribune. LANSIKG, Mlch,, Oct. 20.—~Tho walls of the new Capitol ure now entircly completod, except tho dono. The bas-reliet on the main pediment of tho bullding hus.the appearancs of a croup of atatuary, the tigures ara so prominent from the face of tho wall. The roof {5 -nearly completoad wver the north and aouth wings, nnd good rro;:- ress has heen made in tho heating contract, Only three botlers will be set this scason; the other threo noxt spring. The stone for the pore ticos ts mostly cut, completely Mling up the yard with colutnng, capitals, Dascs, and cntab- atures, Large fag-stoues, some welgblug ten to fifteen_tons, are now helug cut for the en- trance. The Building Commissfoners are so ‘well pleased with the construeifon of the edifive that thoy will give the presont contmctors a contract for a stone fenco around the grounds, which oceupies n space of ten acres. Quite o quantity of marble tlle for the floars has boen Tejected, and wHl not Dhe used. ‘I'ha roof 13 t'umipnscd of corrugated sheet-iron, covered by five inchea of cuncreto and shecting, witha tin covering, and supported by {ron trusses. Thero is an iron clstern in cach wing with a capacity of forty-five hurrels, and one in tha ceutre huilding which wili hald 180 barrels. The skylights are ready for the plate-class, threo by twelve feet, It Is expected 1o have the heating contract so far completed that steam will be let on in shout a month. There aro yetto bo titted 18,000 Huear fect of pipe in tho dome and wings. Thu veotilators, It ia cstimuted, will change tho air (1 the wheie ediflcs onco in twenty minutes, The heavy fron ribs for the domg are belng pleced fu position, and the ni- son work will ‘continue ns long s the weather is favorable, o g— TO A KIND HOSTESS. Dear Dame, lpenull an lmmbls bard, Whom freakiuh Fortune, hearied Liard, Sl holds In lowly state, [l starred, u rhythmic line Tatry express his high regard ¥or thee ard thine, Liko us the trecs and fowers of earth, ‘That wilting drop at Winter's doarth, From cheerful win receive new birth, 50 (o my hcart The love-shine of thy hnfl){ henrth . f A Tife Lapart. Where can be found the faithless chilid Wha syould forget the face that dmiled umother-love, and care begniled With kimlldv grace! Nor cap T Jose the countenaice il OFf thy dear face, Ani should in coming daya bo bent Above e clouds of disconteut, . V1) think of moments happily spent = n days gouo hy, Until the gloomy shodes are rent. And fitting iy, When Urie aud tronbls aro no mare, When, ull my earthly siugiug o'er, * Vibrough tho pale Uwp)‘lxul'll -roar..’ " ud far boyon Land sately, atill [n HCII!D!"I Tore. I'lIkold thee fond, Now, poets nrlvllq:d AR aeCTe, | brophesy thy futiirs years— Fuldillog what fu bope: ap mr‘:’— brigh : i 8 bright As radlunt vislo, such that cheers g 'Thg dreanier's sight, At elog ettt hou may wrinkle withor 3 Thou \rm? by r'hlldnn‘: chlldrgn.r ‘:onlll. At Lifo' 3 Moy all the happlirese of youthu HHows Live o'cr agaln. And when thy forohead, falr and bland, 13 touched by Death's cold, pallid ha; Whioa, Iageing slow, the f!fl'?'ry|-una“‘ . o h May thon s plece in Lovo's own I:urn'f 3 lave noubly won. Marcols TavLor e —— e CHICKEN.SHOW, Speciat Dispaich to The Tridune. Des Moixns, Ja., Oct, 20.~The Central Iowa Poultry Exhibition witl be held at Murahailtown, Dee, 13, 13, and 14, Cash to thy amount of $300, slx silver cups, sud diplomus, are ‘ogred 4s preuiiuws, W in the REBEL CLAIM; Some of Those Rejected by the Southern-Claims Commis- sion, And Which Would Undoubtedly Be Paid if the Demoorats Should . @et into Power. Rebel Guards at Andsrsonville -Swear to Their Loyally ; to the Union. Rent-Plaims for Battlo. FieldsweAn Interesting + Comhination of Treaxon nwd Perjury. From Qur (ien (vrvcspondent, WasitiNgroN, D, C., Ocl. 17.—The records of the clalms rejocted - by the Southorn Claima Committee furnish atartiing proofof attempted corruption and fraud. The proofs relating to loyalty, in ahont every case, ure altogether weak and uneatisfuctory. The answers to questions upon this subdect are generally evasive and oguivoeal. The mest unhlushing clnlm.of loy- alty to the Union cause is maintained by per- sans who served tje Confederacy from the he- ginning:of the Wye to its end, THE RRCOKD. Out of the many thousandsiof cases,'T select o few as an Iluateation of the character of clalns which the Sonthern Domocrats conld not avold paying, if they once obtatned pussession of the Government: J. M. Tlanagan, of Atheng, Ala., wants £200 “for S0 pounds of havon, although be took the outh of nllegiance to the Bouthern Confederzcey, and reapeeted his onth throughont the War. One frequent plan of the oll Rebels to draw money from the Treasury i3 to Induce some younger members of the family to lay clatin to the entire property, agelnst whose loyalty little could besald on account of their teuder yoars at the time the War broke out. Urlah IHardeman, of Athens, Alu,, wants 150 for a claybank mare. 1lardeman was a boy of 10when be alleges the Unlon army took bis harke, TOTES FOR SECESSION. Silas Hudspeth, of Athens, Ala., wants $2,000 for corn, and hay, and’ bedding, and s mule, Yet he voted for the ratification of the Ordl- nance of Seeesslon, not under dureas; und all hisacts wern inconslstent with loyal adhicrenceto Lhe wiuee of the Unlon, J. C. MeCloskey, of Dry Creek, Alo., claims §200 for o mule. 1o afded the Rcimln through- out the War by working in a saltpetrs cave making gunpowder, and took the outh of alle- glanee to the Confederacy. Jolm Wright, of Scottsbovough, Ala, wants, for smuo mules aud three yearling steers, 100, e went his son to the Rebel army, and fur- nlabed hita with clothing, firc-nrs, and sup- les, ¥ Saral Cos, of Teuton, Atk, daims 31,700 for corn, wheat, and pork, Yet she swore * that she could nat say that lier husband’s. ll.{lllpfl“lh‘.l aud licr own were with the canse of ‘the Unlon untll the end of the Rebelllon,” ANDERSONYILLE DEAT-LINE SINTRIES P'ROFESY LOYALTY TO THEUNION, It will causs o ehudder In many Northern Lomes to learn that the sentinels” who sfood yuaard al the dead-line ut Audersonyille, Suulsbury, und Libby Prisone, can find persons to come for- ward now and meear o their loyalty, as n condt- tlon to the paymont of claims ugainst the United Ktatea ‘Ireasury. The_records of thy rejected cases of the Southern Clafing Commls- slun shiow many tnstances of this kind, Joseph Alston, of Georgln, demands $1,070 of the Government for mules, corn, bucon, and foddor. T1o admits himself that ho ¢ntercd tho Confodorato zorvices was on constant duty at An- dersonyille, in chuwrgo of Unlon prisonors vonfined there. Yob hio rweara that Lis sympnthies were alwaya with the Unlon, Ho brings 1nen to gwoar that lhy uever loard anybody donbt his loyalty to the Union, The Conunlesloners say: “*Heo neeepted the situstion,und romained In the gerv- fecof tho Rebellion eoutentedly for monthe, yuaydiug the accuread Andersonviils prixon-pen, which was incousiatent with loralty to the (lov~ orument of the United States. We reject the claim," Jacleon Bush, of Georgln, wants $1,200 fora stallion, and brood-mare, nod harness, Ho had five kous fu the Rebel army, TEBEY, ARCHIVES REVELL & TRAITOR, Joln Danlel, of Georgla, wivhes £787.50 for salt, 'Tho ltebel archives at Washington shovw that, during the War, he was appointed by Mr. Memminger, the Rebel Secretw of the Treasury, clerk . the Rebel Custom- Housge “at Savanoul; and that, In the yegrs 1663 and 16863, he was engaged In supplylug the Rebel grmy with heof,” Hls re- ceipts tharefor to the Coninlasary Departmiont of the Kghel Governent iro now” fu the Rebel Archive-Office. Yet Mr, Daulel elulms conslst- ent Joyalty to the Unlon cause. Itenbien Garlund, of Georgia, claims 81,000 for mules and hacon. 1le contributed to rulsea Confederate company, aud invested in Confed- erte honds. He protends loyalty to the Unlon during the War. Martha Holloway, of Georgla, wants $1,000 for mules, alrap, um‘ flour. She sent five sons to the Rebel uriny fleld, und says she was loyal, but never suid uoything about 1t. Lewls Kragler, of Goorgla, demands $760 for sirup sud some mules. He I|1Illll:€lull|1|l|\'dct for the Rebels durlug the War,—decluriug that, it ho “must do anything for the Confedarscy, e would rathor work than tight for it.” ANOTILR ANDEUSONVILLE PATRIOT AND DEAD- LINE DNIONIST: James May, of Georgly, ands 81,770 for Norses, mules, and corn. He wus a privafle Rebel eoldler, and aeeed ar guerd for” lnlon {zrlwnm at dndersonyille. He'pretentls to have heen too young to liave had oplifons us to the Cnlon or Recesalon; but. the Commissloners do- clara that * Il was old enough o serve us guard over Unlon prisoners at Andersonville, eead to have ahot aome af them, {1 thero® was au) need Lo, during the War; hut Lo e not old enough yot, even with the aid of a guardlan, to establis his loyuliy.” Patictice Pringle, of Georgla, clnims $312.50 {exactly 50 ecnts) for one horse und 6O pounds of hacon. 8he wus on funovent widow, who symputblzed with the Unton at lirat, but “went with the South after Secession, wud wanied it to whip.” 8o guvs sho “wanted the Ttebols to whip, becauss sho thought theae Yankees wers wrobg, augd had no busfuess meddlliog in the afluirs of thy people of Geargia, or botheriug thelr propertys would wot have “:lune unything for the Yankecs under uny cireuinstances, but «id all ngainet Lhem when “they wers here, be- wausy shg hated them, und did” not want then around,” This {8 her own testimony, Uoarge Atkinson, of North Carollus, wants 81,000 for 3,000 xoluulm! shuicks, somechickens ol tirkeys, tkinson ofticlated ns u hrave llUll:l:- ward, and held Unfon prlsoners fu bis custody. Mr. Balley, of Virginka, clafins 600 for fence- rals, b8ps, swevt-patatoes, and_fudder, He ‘was a favmee, fifteen miles froin Richmond, and three miles from Cold-Hurhor battle-ticld, throughout the War; was never mwlesied or thralsued by tha Jtebels. Thero appeared an old negroservant to swear that ho belloved Balley was loynl to the Union, because 4 Ae told hing &0 @ week ugo, whea he usked i to be o witness," UENT CLAIMS FOR UNION BATTLE-FIELDS, My, Blaino hus been attacked for having mude the assumption that the Rehels would bring fn n blll for the use of the Jaud upon which tho latties of the Unfon were fought. This sug. gestlon of Mr. Blalue's was not a fancy strake. shnflar cloima have been made; scorea of thom can be found thmu%l‘mut the volumes of rec- ords of tho Southern Clayms Commission. Wit~ ness this one; # Unlted States to Dr. Bigelow, of Fairfaz Coun- ty, Va.—Far rout of claimant lmu{n Juh"’lu’ 1864, tu Hept, 20, 1885 (tnmhlm)},n{ 2073 acres of land, with & lurge hurn and other buildings, used by the Unitod Btates as & vmall-pox hospital), 1,420, 84, Dr. Bigelow, It scems, has beun able to calen. late his claim for rent to the nicety of 33 cents! The Comtalssion rejected thia clahin hecavse It decided that rent Is not embraced 1n the term Hetorea and supplics' (us used ln the act of March 3, l!fll?. ut SHII[JOMS the Confederate Congress shall decree that rent shall de embruced in the term * stores aud nurpl(cn " in that aet, o sbwl] deelare that such cluling shall bo pald fn o new art, what would prevent then the pay- ment Lo Dr, Digelow ol $1,423.83 for the use of the land upon which the United Stutcs badl its small-pox haspltal for the aoldiers; or what shall provent payment to the owner of the Ap- pomattox battle-fleldl It Is nut a very violent ussumption, s therelntives of (ou, Lee bimsclt have had a claim before this very Commlsslon, in which lllo{ attempted to proye thelr constant loyalty to the United Statcs Government throuizbout the War, Muny Lills have alreaily been introduced to provide for the payuent of just such clalns as that of Dr. Bigelow, or of &u owner of the Appomattox battie-fiedd. Hero ONF BUCH BILL! Representative Riddie (Detmocratic), of Tenne essee, distingulsned himsclf, during ¢ last scs- slvauliCongress, by lutroduclug o sweeplng aud all-comprehenatve Southern-fiebel-clatms bill, of which the following 11 a copy: A Wil directing compensation to be nliowed for the wer and occupation of property by the United £tatea army during the late War, De t enacted by the Senate and Hovwee of Lepre- sentatives of the United States of Ameriea,in Cone grees gazvembled, That the Seeretary of War be, and he {s herehy, atitharized to allow reasonahte cam\mmnflun to 41l citizens of the United States for the wsa and ucenpation of their property by the United States armiy, or auy part thercof, diring the Jate Clvi War, In the same manuer and unier the sine regnlations as compensation Is now ale lowed for Quartermaster atntek used by sald nrmy @ Provided, fianerer, That the nfiklavit of the elafm. ant, mipported by the competont testimany of any reputabie eltizen, rhall be sufiiclont proof to ca+ Lablish tho fact of the nac an:d accupation of anch wroperly by mahd army, But It is not the intention of thissctto limit the parties to the amount of Ixmut htrein specified, but other and additlonal estimony may he taken to establieh the fact of the uso pnd otcusmmn and the rental value of the vroperty occuvled. ‘The nost casunl rcmllnq of this bill discloscs its cxtrayagant (ntent. WAl citizens of the United States’ who may present clalms for nm{wfly of ony Lind used or destroyed by the nfon urme‘ eould collect them from the 'I'rens- ury 1€ the Il sliould become n law. The clti- zeus of auy village or hamlet fu the South could, under its nrovislons, agrce to sustaln cach other's clalms$ and the Government would he- cotne llable for the amount, no matter what the antecedents of tho elalinants might have been. SHOOTING UNION BOLDIGNS, . J. IL Bowles, of Virginla, clniine $1,035 for bacon, butter, aud clothiug, o swore that he considered himsetf o Unlon man throughout the War; yet it was proved, by s own testimony, that, ata fight at lls own store, botween his uephew and some Unlon soldler, ke assisted in ahooting a Union soldler. There was, howevey, tb$ usital proof as to Lis loyajty. Jobu Davis, of Richmond, 18 a naturalired Englishman, and claims 3,800 for groceries, fobaceo, and a canal-boat, e did u hrisk Uuginess durlug the War for the Rebels iu transporting blockade-stores up James River, He brings proof of loyalty to the Unlon Govern- ment, Witliam Lowe, of Virgluia, claims $1,000 for waod and fence-rails, He voted for the Ordi- nanee of Becession, nnd worked as a ship-car- nter oo tha Rebel monitor Merrimaes had ]wn‘wm In tho Rebel army; clalmed to be oyal. Jocl Mann, of Culpepper, Vo, claims $1,000 for hay, wood, and forage-stores. Ile clalmed to he foyal; but it was proved that hesmuggled lotters,"and posstbly quinioe, for the Rebets, from Maryland to Virginla. SItB BELIRVED THR UNION WOULD DEGRADE NER, Mrs. Shepard, of Vieginla, wauts #2,600 for wood for eamp-purposcs, and fodder. Bhe ¢luimed to bo loval, yot declared that she * be- Tieved that the property of all residenta of_Reb- el territory would ba coscated if the North sutcceded, ond that the persons of such rosi- deuts woulill not be safo; and that, consequent- 1y, she could notsympathize with & cauge the nuccexs of which, sho thought, would degrade and fropoverish her.”? Wilttum R. Alexander, of Alabama, 15 A sam- ple Rebel Undonlst. Ife does'not lay elalm for tha rent of ground for a hospltal or "battle-fleld, but wants $1,000 for 32,000 pounds of Hut-cot- ton for hospital-purposes. He claimed to be loyals hut, fortunately, in the Robel archives tho following letter was found, which wns proved to have been written by this same W R. Alexander: Dicxsox, Alt, Ang, 1, 1861—Stn: I hava heard that tho War Dopartment was searce of nems, and 1 havo takun it upon myeclf 10 Jook np all the old muskets I ean nmI) and T now send themw (o y ond I hope thay uill 2412 mony @ Yankee, 1have had one aueket Nxed to my notion, which I send with the othem for a madel. All hero nre ds- lighted with our victory, both white and black. Yours reapectfully, Wi I ALRXANDER. P, 8,—I rond these guna, ten In number, to tho Oninauce Department, Richmond, Va. W, R, A, To the Hon. 1., I Wanser, Ordnance Departs ment, C. 8. A., Rictmond, Va, The purchase of the Rebel archives was a good fnvestment, It wus the wisest nct of Boutwell's ndministration. These archives have saved milljons tu the Treasury., F.B.W. e e— THE GESERAL LAND-OFFICE. Annnal Report of Comunlasloner Willlams, ‘Wasnixarox, D. C., Oct. 15.—~The Hon, J, A. Willtatnaon, Comulssfoner of the General Lund Office, hua furniahed tho Bccretary of the Inte- rioru symopsla of hix forthcoming nunual re- port, of which the following are the maln poluts of foteress: Tho cash recelpts of the office dur- ing tho flscal ycar onded June 80 uggregated 81,747,915, Tihe totel number of * ueres of vublle Jands disposed of durlug the year wus lib 1y of which 2875010 nerés were absorbed by homestcad entries: 607,085 ncres were obtained by entrles under the Timber Cul- ture Inws 1,008,000 acres were upproyed to va- rlous States naswamp-lands; 1,17 acres wore certificd to raflroads uider Innd crants of Cone sress, and 540,603 acres wero dlsposed of by o dinary cash salea. The total disposnls were 5150035 acred less than than thoso uf the preced- Inge years 81,600,317 acrea wers surveyed during the flscal yeor, and 680,234,004 aeres had been Prevlmwly surveyed, yet leaving to be surveyul n the landr, Btates, nid Territories of the Untte o Btutes, 1,18,065,244 aeres. The Cumiplssioner coneuns [n the opinton of s pradecessor, thot the public domaln west, of ih werldisn and cast of he Sierra Ne- vads Monntulns should not be surveved fu minate subdivisions acvording to the prescut systom, excent only the small portions which are susceptilie of ciltivation without artlficial {rrigation. Ae furthermore recommends, fn regurd fo this portion of the conntry, that bur- ren lauids should be thrown open to purchase in truets of unlimited size, 08 they are worthless without Irrization, which eaunot profifably e undertaken for stnull wress of 160 grres cach. e Hkewlse renewa the recommendution of Commilssioner ~ Burdeste, that us tho only practicable means of pre- ecrving the forests and country from waste and destruction, the (overnment tlmber lands should be trunsforred to private ownership by Immediately surveylue and offering them for sulo in unlimlted. quantitios, at uot less than properly uppralsod valustions. Cowmnmissioner Villlatzon ~also recominends the cougolidation of the Pre«imption and Howmeatead laws futo one genvral homestead syatem, und urges tho correction of certuin ervorsin the compllution of the Rovieed Statutes, aud suggests Jegislution authorlzliyr. tho bureuu to dlspose of its publi- catlous, such a3 tho Centenulul Mup and the Centenulal Atlus, at prices which will cover thefr cost and meet the continuous heavy de- uands tor them, which have now to be ulimost Invariably refused. e — 2 THE PATENT OFFICE, Wasmixaroy, Oct. 19,—~From Comuwlssioner Ducil’s annual statement of the operutions of the Putent-Oltice, It appears thut It fs moro thun sclf-sustumiug, The wmount of moucy re- ceived on applicativn for patenta on irade- marks, deslgus, relssuvs, extensions, caveats, disclaimers, oud _appeals, from Oct. 1, 18, to Bept. I, 18T, wus $710,110. Thezo was also rocolved for coplas of spealfieas tlous und other napers, 855,284, aud from other sburces—{ncluding subseriptions to the Oghwal Uazelte~$31, 208 nuking the {atal receipts 3789, 097, The totwl expendifiures on account of the Patent Ofiee during the same perlod was £001,- 85, the principal itens belng $407,820 for uluties, 64,151 Tor contlgent e lx-nw:n. und $64,033 for plwlu'.inu!xlu;; back lesues, 22,408 upplications recelved for patents, uud }!»flll patents lssued duslng the year, besldes 4,014 patents allowed, but not iseued for want ol the final fee; also, 1,057 trude-tunarks and 400 Tabels reglatercuy, und 2,043 cav filed during :'luzt uamu perlod. Only two patents were ex- ented. ———— THE ROSE HAS BLOOMED. ‘The roes hiaa bloomed, It petata ahed, 'l‘he’r e entombed,, With frugrance’ fied. x Dellghtiul sende iho heart was Alling, hen Bumimer's op'nlag rose, s falr, With blusbing brow came fatutly trilllug Deliclous perfumes an the air. How swoet to dream, n Summer-hoyrs, - *3id branches green,. Ur rosy howurs, . Opby thu pcbbled braoklet lingerlog, The lovely dream {eat a close, And, with the dearest memorios mingling, ‘Cowun Lhe 50} frugrsute of the ros. ‘Though short thy reigu, Must lovely guecn!’. ‘Thou It still romaiu D men'ry greens ¥or Summer's lovellest vislon, feeting L lelhx:-urnl il‘rrmu:‘u‘outhlnl love, . eavo hiearis with sw o A "Pa cheplsh alil \_\‘ht’vfa‘rty we mt‘f."k"““ et st all thal’s falt From ‘:fnhtl ed, & And treea stand bare, Once mors with Sowera tho busbes teeming, The waters purllng in the atream, . wsfi'fil' IEIT"] wlr,.irlumwdun’nllux. b o Lrightly fu Cucavo, Octe 1 T “Thers were A Mlser ut‘:};\'u Mlpaelf ta Doatle inors Aerican. Dr, Thomas 4 Mutihuty died In Brown's Ho- tel on Wedueaday eventug, of genoral . debility, superinduced by staryation; Abuut one yewr ugo Mapahau wis wdinitfed tothe Clureh Houg a5 4 pauper, bls clothiug®belug toru and so0 lint It hud to be taken from him, dirty elothlng was precfons to Manahun, Th in the lintne of the vest were packnges of maoney, | which were handed to the supposed pauper, wiho, Inatead of o grateful acknowledgment, charged the employe of the institution who de- Myered him the money with having rohbed him of a sum which lte sald was mizsing from one of the packages, ‘The moncy wna found. It was afterward discovered that Manshan owed lurge sumn of money to buaridlug-house-keepers, it being hits castorn to romain at one a short time, nnd leavo withont |)uyhui his Dllls, - Recently Manahan made Brown’s Jlotel, In North High street, his home, but had donfed himsell nowr- Ishment. Dr. Houelr, who was called after the miger lind Lreathed bis Inst, gave it os his oplu- fun that Manalinn had been suffering from gen- erl debility, The sum of $2,600.2%; was found smong the inlser's effeeta, prisdncsmis s AE— THE CENTENNIAL, Tho Number of Visitors. From the opening day, May 10, down lo aud including Saturday, Oct. 14, 5,723,448 paving visitors attended the Exposition. Theso returns avo for 136 axhibition days, as follows: May (nineteon days).. 178,080 Jdune (twenty-six dayi 5, 040 July. (twaniy.uix days) 618,518 August (twenty-seven days)... 1108, 684 betmmher (twenty-six uays), 240, )1 Uck 2 1o 14 (twelvedays). 071,008 Total npaying visitors for 136 doys....5, The nun-paying admiralons for the same time, Including exiibitors, uttendnnta, 3 waorkmen, laborers, ofticers, cte., were, 1,302,620 ..7,085,077 Total admissions 190 daya........ The number of visitors to the Viennn Exbibl- tiou, which was open for 180 days, wasas fol- OWR ! Total paying ndmisalons, . 3,409,022 Tolal nan-paying.admiesio <aenlh 247,878 Agngregato admissions of all kind... 6, 740, 500 From these figuras it will be seen that the pay ing ndmisslons to the Centennlal Exhibitlon for 136 days exceceded the whole number to the one at Vienna auring 156 dx\"u by 2,220,830 The nv- o dnaly nwmber of visitars to the Centennjal in May was 10,346; In June, 20,5563 in_July, 24,- 4813 tn Auguat, $3,655; fn September, 81,915 and in Getobir (to the 14th), 50,067, In its pecnnlary resuits thy Centennlol already largoly excecds thase of any exlibltion yet beld, 'Thi greatest retarnwas nt the London Exhibition of 1851, viz.: £2,121,610; the next at Paris, in 1867, when 1t wos 82,103,077, The reeelpts for gute-money Oct. H, were 82,680,604.76. TRODADLE IROPOBTION OF FOREIGN EXNIBITS DISIOSED OF, Over hull of oll tho guods exhibited in the forelgn sections of the Exposition have been sold, ond it s improbable that more than one- third of ali such cxhibits will remutn to be taken hiome. Ouly o small portion af the Mexlean dis- play has been disposed of, as it 18 maluly Blus- trative of the mineral wealth of the country, Holland wilt take littlg hotue excopt the repre- sentations of liev publle works. American rep- resentntives of Swiss Urma have purchused nearly all of the Bwiss exbibits. France will taky back the nost of. her exhibits, Nat morg than ouc-third ot the Helglan display will be restipped across the Attnitie. The exhibit- ors [rom (ireat Britaln and Ireland lave found o murket for the greater portlon of {hefr wares, Brazil " will present one-lalt of her display—the ~ (Gov- ernmental exhibit—to public nstitutions of this cauntry, and will exchange tho remainder for sclentfile apparatus of domestic manufac- ture, Maly's art sales have been trifilug, but the sales of her exhiblts in the Main Building hava been gntisfectory, The entire agricultural, piscatorial, und mineilogieal exhibit of Sweden has heen presented to thie Smithsonian Institute, and tho remninder of licr display has been ul- most dlepoted of., Canada sold nothing excopt Jabout 5,000 worth of furs, About 15 per cent of the German exhibits will remain nosold, while one-third of the Austrian displny will be taken home, Ruseln has sald nbout one-half of her gouds, aud Bpoin a somowhat less propor- tlon. Turkey hns sold little except her miats und carpots, ~ Only u small part of the Ezyptian iapluy wus purclused. Probably two-thirda of the Japanese goods will b left in this country. One-third of the Chineso oods will refmnin un- sold, Theas estimates do not Iticlude Instances whore donatfons were made to the Pennsylvania Muecum by exhibltors, or where purchases of speciul articles were mado hy that institution. CHAPLAIN M'CABE'S DREAM. Yo tae Liditor of The T'riduna, Cg1oaco, Oct. 39.—Chaplain McCabo mnde one of the best. speeches that were dellvered Uefore the lute . Methudist Conference {n this city. Inthe couree of his remarks ho very good-humoredly Lit off tho prevalout tendency among parsons in general, and Rock River Mothodist parsons fu particular, to pass long- winded resolurlous abont little matters of de- nominationnl difference, when they might em. ploy thefr timo fn preaching the Gospet of fillflll. nud the grand privciples of morality. e salid: Lmust tell yom of & dream 1 had not long sluce, Iwaslylne in bed one night, tossing nnl turning, and unable romehow to zel nto & yvod_sound sleep, Ilhnd heen pitending a good many Confer- encey sbout that time [luughlerk anil you know that s nut tho easlert, kind ‘of woik oo can do. Wetl, I dosed of at Jost, uud iy my dreum I seemed to hesr Hmmmull: e commingling volces of Secretarics runlus vit endless resolutions, Sometimes [ could dlstingulsh a ponderous 11Aercas, riaing high above the murmur, and occasionally thers would come the words **mtsslons, " **chnrch exe tenafon,” . *Freedman," **tobaceo: and then, after o long, lm‘xf preomble nnd hundreds of Iz'harrjulu.l heard & tremeudous TAerefore, Re salead, . And I'sald, **Suraly, something fa golng b be dong now, " and, uun[lnuhur on {u the satv lie of reflection, T was rominded of what Blshow Ames #ald once. e wafd: *Wo haye been in the Book of Resolutions Jong enough, Tet us get Into the buuk of the Acts of the Apostlee,” [Applanse, 1 dreamivd on, and by aud by 1 fonnd mgeelf flflb writing out resolutions, and they ran thiy: Wikt vs The rum tragln of the uation never was Th RIvat, Bever ko defant, ol er so corrupting, e dustruvtives phd saliiniad WirkRS Aw O hunidred thousand yaung mic: :&l}“mnh 1his gate uf death into Hb:l!n"!"t\'l:ll"rmllm WWasseys, The lunan Cathy hurch stands cusml I novy union, unwliitiog (o S tho right ul"lhe o sl au Wiknzan, The porpo f th LETCE Wi 1 IPAFORE 1A et pAN, TE mosaliie s etructlon of gur aystatit ot publlc Iairuations an WIEKEAR, Fur Ay Fewsuns ail that s pecious, the ar Irdapires st hy 2000 years of Tiod dud Wemyiced, Thia b we, Methodist preactievs, the heredi- tary ‘foos ‘of evory 'wroms, mnil cliampl right, wilt g muurrnlnll- and preach though the Judzment fires wero abiout to kindle on the ‘world, a3d & thougli thine was to end with vur Hves, And Teaw in my dream that they were passod unanimonsly, {Appluuse, ] The above Is appropriste enough, fn view of the excecdlugly Toullsh resalutions passed. by tlie Couferunce ogalust Sundsy tralus, Bunduy newspapers, and Sundny travel on the street- cnry. * ¥ T REPUBLICANISM. k! ever young, b eVeE new; From bloud of martyr-leroes upirung, 1t never fades §n lovely hae, Where Finp'rors tread in haughty power, _Healde thedr paths, beneath thelr feet, Still surings tho God-protected fower, And amiles their veigeful oyes to greet. Relptnblltulnln? 'r;u. I;e'lr‘ old; s "1 hongh centurics aincs ite ol 'l'hfw wilh husy sands I:lah t‘l!?du." 1t blooma stil] freah In Freedoiw's bosrer. rlstocrats may onyit frown— Oppresaive lords, they scowl In valng + The people's hope, when trampled down, Keaews Jta life and streogth szolu, Republicanlam! it never dies) Then call (¢ mllhnrannng sor old, In every clime beneath the skiea, Ite leaves and flaw'rs shall yet unfold, ‘The P'tinco may tread upan it bloon, Tho Tyrant cruwh ite growing stewn; “Twill only sucd a rich perfume, And grow agatn to outlive themn A DK ———— Proposed Talegraph Across Africs, ZLandan Iron, It {s proposed Lo carryu wire tothe Cape across the African Uontinent. Thore fs at pres- ent lelcrflpmu communicatlon fron Alexandria to Khartoum, a distance of 1,100 miles, ani sur veys have already been made for its continuance toUoadokoro. From Khartown to Delagoa Hay, where the Bouth African lines terminal vorghward, 18 ooly about 2,000,—shurt. ee then existing " liuca on the thres other Contiueuts. Ths routs would lead under the Victorla Nyussa und Tanganyike Lakes, aud thencu down the 8hire and Zambes| Rivers to the sea, where ‘a short ocean Nne wolld vouncct It with Delagoa Bay or Port Na« tal, A brauch would go Trum UJijf to Zanai- ar. Of tho 1,500 miles or 8o of acrisl Une it is lllfi:- gested that much might be erected without tha expeuso of poles, by takiug adventege ef the trees over thickly-wooded tructs, which are fre- quent in troplesl Afrlcs. The difilculty would be to keep the natives from utlllzing the wire fu regions where lron I8 scarce und valuable, but his might be eot over, The uudertaking, §f 1t could be etabilshed mud kept by working urder, would be exceedingly lucrative, and would In nuny ways aid in openiug up Afrla 10 com. werce sud civillzatlou. dorine the pust, 186 days of *the Centennial, 1o | O "PPICAHOB, | IN FROM O3E T0 TWENTY HINUTgS, READY REL; Cures the Worst Paing i - NOT ONE Hoyp After Rending this Advertiso; Any One Suffor wmm;z‘e:t RADWAY's READY RELIEF IBA Gure for Every B It was.the First and ig the Only Pain Remedy That ixstantly stops the nios {ndainmationt, iy Citgen mfn“.:fi?l‘.f.’s"fi e, Lungt, SLOMBCH, Howeld, O Giier i LCE i 113 rurgacy iy Heid Uhownatte, Ded-rfdden, g Ko matter how violent or rxcernciat), Neuralgle, of prostrated with diveas | g tho pa, 1 rnied, \ , ey Auusf'““‘ RADWAYS RRADY R Afford Instant Eagp, Inflammation of the X tion of the Bladder, Iqéltllxnn':x’nsn'unn of thy Bowels, Mumps, Oongeation or uu. Lungs, Boro Throat, «Difbou; Broathing, Pnlpl_tnl(op.m; the Heart, Hyaterig,, ' Oroup, Diphthoria, Catarh, Infuonaa, Hoadache, Toothache, Nouralmn, Rhoumatism, Colq Chills, Ague Chills, Olillblains, end Frost g, Tho application of tha Nteady Iells 1 10 th Bacrm whiere tha pain or dIcuIly caist wil SRobAS, Twenty droj e AL Mo, e of e Wi I rensery, o f RADWAYY th them, 5 “ v Privent slekican oF haina thini drang sy it il tier tlian Froncli lrandy or Bitfers e a stingisn, FEVER and AGUER Infiamms, - it Fever and Ague eured fc o reluealal WReHE In the world. thar o clea leautd hat witl e fever s awite, and all other inaiarious, il iy yollow and otuce fevors (nided I"“;l:dt?li ey nl'knl‘ld v°8 I 7y Y - gieic adwasa Liead” Lelle, £inty cenia pr DR. RADWAY'S REGULATIRG PILLS Terfectly tavtetem, olegantly costed v ach, "Liver, Howels, Kidnuys, Wieder 414 of the e ri. Warranted to effecta itise vare, Burely vegoiahle, cuntatnia no T A deloterious Obcrve i follawiag symptoms resulin trom ness of the Dlood la ive the Kwinaglh, Nauswa, Heartbars, Fulinew of Welght (o dhe stomi: wr Blutterings o the Mt of the Browaeh, Swimming of the Head, Jurried and Difieals 1|mthln|fil’1uuemm at_the Heart, Choknz or suf+ fucating Benwution Whon In 8 Lying Pretir. Dinacs of Vis 18 or Welrs before the Slzhw Fever and un, Duts or Dl 'ain [a the lHead, Deficlener of Pupnirathos, Vel lowucasof thi Skin and Eyes, Palns In the Slde, Chest, fiml‘" und Budden Fluses of Tlent, Burslug la ta i doses af RADWAY'S PILLS il frve the st Lo o b L ey el diroraerer e s Centa v box. . Kol by Drugzists. Ovarian Tamor Of ten years' growth oured- by DR, RADWAY'S REMEDIE Llinve bad an Ovarian Tumar o the Overisd and Joweln for Tea ¥ AN Avuog, Der. a7, Iy othurs inay be henenied, T i Thuve had an Ovarlan Tur eln Tor Tei yearw, | | el 1 Plrce without any beuefit. 1L was 'lhll(, thiat 'L could nat haya I 4 hent of e fudtced e et iadvars li 1, Sk el Saftt b ein, hut ol alee 1 purchusnd sfx botties of the Resvlsent, lb'ulmxun‘n: 1ha Pills, und twa bottlos of tho dellef. 1 used l’fy’ withoug kity appureut hegott, I determined to perss very, b used twelva mure bottled of tho T \ulvumylk of the ftelfef, und two buxes of the Pills Befors U 4 Weroyuna § liad lost twenty=nve pounds T 1 calitinged L e the nedicine nutll | wis T ere 1 wims, cuitlrety cird, 1 touk tho medlctae bt &54 wiouths and during thut tine lost ‘u""-‘“'{p;lh ¢l Tiul) 1100k thres dozen botties of tho Jiewlye bostiea Heilef, nadalx boxesof the Pills, of gratitadt J toel y well, and iy heari i ull 0, o i udfor thisheln by e PATLCY Wiy el and your wandertul weifein, ! 0 BEY brayor i fwt 1i iy be us mouch of 8 bicals fwotlicrs a1t lisa besn 10 uio- ¢ s akes thio sbove corilficate, ‘:'-r:é'fi."r""."xfi;'l": S Eired Yo ta send uwdicins (8 une, 1573, The medle 5% Ber by of e, with the auafi:l;.zn J{emflfi?‘t‘";{!"’ ithoot & qualitention, CHEES chenia, A fin" C‘:,fl flc«lu.lk B iy o ly carrect., wli bolivva her sadeuiell ey p, e D 7 =2 :fi inew above sated were you, 1 imay sey that prrect wih I oD L, Anz ‘Arbur. M! This may ceriidy that. Mrs. Bilbius, who niakes and ) u:fiwhbl SRS, DR. RADWAY'S SarsaparillianResolven, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFLED, Serofels For (ke cure of all Chroulc Dlresset, W syphititie, Mereditary or _Lonulllunss" weated In the Lunge or Stomar! et Bones, Plesh or Nerves, “’"'“’.'l u|=‘ Sollds and Vitiatlog the Fiuidi. 3 ellingl Chrontc Ithoumattsm, Scrofuls, Ty Bl luckiug Dr: ¢ et pils, Walcd Pkl it o it s, Tlo Lolorsa i i Cny sxin gnd Ulp Discasct, fin: "amnlnleau. 01 yer L chitta, DR, BADWAY & 00, 32 Wams, B 1 ul upaumptl B PP BRCwA - Read *Falso and True” s F Beny tHar-a (o RADWAY & & Wi, RS fronasilon worth will by weni Yous